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f ? ? ? * The Beaufort Republican. % ^____^^?______?____? ?-? ? AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. # VOL. m. NO. 47. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1873. {fSWRtftt ? mil ' 1 - ? i ii I M III ?i? NEW SPRING GOODS, j Jas. C. BAILIE &BRO., Kespectfvllt ask your attes tiou to the following DESIRABLE GOODS of. fered by them for sale: english and american floor oil cloths. 34 feet wide, end of the beet quality of goods manufactured. Do you want a real good Oil Cloth T If so, como now and get the Tory best. Oil Cloths cut any size and laid promptly. A full line of cheap FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from CO:, a yard up. Table cloths all widths and colors. carpets. Brussels, three-ply and Ingrain Carpets of neif dosigns. A full stock of low-priced carpets from] 30c. s yard up. Carpets measured for, mads and laid with diapatehj lace curtains. French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisites." Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from S3.60 a pair and upwards. cornices and bands. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gill Cornices, with or without centres. Curtain Bands, Pina and Loops. Cornices cut and mads to fit windows and put up. WTVniUV KMATVR*. 1,000 Window Shades in all the new tints of color. Beautiful Gold Band Shades, 11.60, with all trim. ^ tnlngs. Beautiful Shades 20c. each. Store Window Shades any color and any size. Window Shades squared and put up promptly. Walnut and painted wood Shades. RUGS AND DOOR MATS. New and beautiful Rugs. Door Mats, from SOc. up to the best English Cocoa, that wear three years. 100 sets Table Mats, assorted. MATTINGS. New Matting, Plain and Fancy, in all the different Widths made. Mattings laid with dispatch. WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS. ' 3,000 Bolls Wall Papers and Borders In new patterns, in gold, panels, ball, oaks, marbles, chintzes, kc., in every variety of colors?beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung If desired. . HAIR CLOTHS /" * In all widths required ior Upholstering. Buttons, Gimps and Tacks for same. CURTAIN DAMASKS. Plain and Striped French Terryt for Curtains- anfl Upholstering purposes. Gimps, Frintte, Tassels, Loops and Bnttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains and Lambraquina mads and put up. PIANO AND TABLE COVERS. English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano TsbleCovers. ? embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers. Plain and cold band Flocked Piano Corera.' German Fringed Table Cover*. CRVMD CLOTHS AND DRUGGET*. New pattern* in any size or vridth wanted. To all of which we aak your attention. All work done well and in season, by James G. Bailie & Brothers, AUGUSTA, OA. arl-17-lv. H. M. Stuart, M. D., Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, Beaufort, S. C. DEALKH IS DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, FA MIL Y MEDICINES, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, ST A TI ONER Y, PERF UMER Y, BRUSHES, dc., dc., de. Together with many other article* too numerous to mention. All of which will be sold at (he lowest price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully compounded. fob.ll. PIERCE L. WIGGIN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Solicitor Second Circuit. Beaufort, S. C. JERRY SAVAGE & CO., Wheelwrights & Carpenters. Cart*, Wagons and Carriages repaired In the best manner at low prices. All kinds of jobbing promptly attended to. MAGNOLIA St., BEAUFORT, S. C. J. K. Goethe, M. D. Dr. Goethe offers his professional services to the pnblio. He may be found at his residence, (Jam? Hill, near Ynrnsrille, Beaufort Co., S. O. jan.l-ly. A. S. HITCHCOCK, ATTORNEY AND CGIJN3EL0R AT lit, BOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT. Bli.VlFORT, 8. C. Pec.l-yr. YEJIASSEE Eating Saloon, AT THE P. It. & S. & C. It. R. JUNCTION. The traveling public will here find pood meals on the arrival of trains. Also accommodations for man aud beast, near tue depot. 33. T. SSriLEIie, YEMASSEE, S. C. Nov.21-ly. W. H. CALVERT, practical Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker. DEALER IN Japanned and Stamped Tin Wares. Constantly on band, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves. terms cash. Thankful for past favors, and hoping by strict attention to- business in the future to merit your kind favor. \V. H. CALVERT. Baj SU, between 8th and 9th Sts., BEAUFORT, S. C. Apl.S-ly. CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. mehfcVly E. H. JACKSOX. Redeem Your Lands. The Acta of Congress and the Regulation* of the Treaaury Department in regard to the Redemption of Land* now in the poeaesalon of the United State, by reaaon of the Direct Tax Commlaalooer* aaiea oas be had at UOa oOoe. Price tea eeata. By net! If* teeaeeati. I PAUL BRODIE, A R CHITEOT BEAU FORT,S.C. Drawings of Models prepared for Patent Offlci Studies for special purposes, made at short not!c? Boi 31, P. O. decl-ly William Gurney COTTON FACTOR AMD Commission Merchant NO. 102 EAST BAY AND NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Particular attention given to the sale of and ship ment of Sea Island and Upland Cotton. Libera advances made ou consignment*. dec7-ly^ JOHN BRODIE, Contractor & House Builder Jobbing Punctually Attended To. OFFICE) Corner Bay and Ninth Street, BEAUFORT, S. U. docl-tf PORT ROVAL SAW & PLANING MILL Beaufort, S. C. D. C. WILSON & CO., MANUFACTURERS OT AND DEALERS IN Mow Pine Tiler and Mer AND **" CYPRESS SHINGLES, ALSO, Builders & Contractors Plaster Lathes, ALL KINDS OR JOB SAWING Promptly Dout. Flooring and Ceiling Boards Alwayi on Hand. Orders for Lumber snd Timber by the carg promptly filled. Terms Cash. D. C. WILSON & CO. aortt-ly THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST! P. M. WHITMAN, Watchmaker and Engraver Mayo's Building, Bay Street. Will give hi* personal attention to the repairing o WATCHES, CLUCKS and JEWELRY. Ornaments and plain Eugraviug done at abort notice. Geutlemen hating fine Watches can teat them a thia establishment by one of HOWARD k C0.1 tOOO REGULATpRS. Having added to my stock one of J. BLI88 A CO.1 line Transit Instrument*, I am now prepared to fur niab Beaufort time to the fraction of a second. Alfred Williams, TRIAL JUSTICE Crofutfs Building, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. N. B.?Court will be held every Friday at Brie Church, St. Helena Island. incli26-ly A. MARK, BOOTMAKER Bay Street, Beaufort, S. C. Hatiug opened a shop upon Bay Street, I am pr? pared to do first-class work. nich20-ly_ A. MARK. PURE W AT EE Guaranteed by the use of the AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL Now being put down in this County. Tbey are Olioap and IDnratolo And give universal satisfaction. Pure Water can b introduced into any house by the AMERICA! DRIVEN WELL m a few hours. Apply to M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to E. Gr. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent. fel?;7-gm S. MAYO, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C., HARDWARE, Liquors, Segars and Tobacco Net Yarns, Fish Lines <Sc Cordage, Grlass, Paints and Oils White Lead and Turpentine. 8pedal attention given to mixing Paint*, an Glaea cut to order of any size. febll M. POLLITZEH, Cotton Factor Commission Merchant BEAUFORT, S. C. epti The Savannah Independent, A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Established on the chxzp cash plan, at the low rat of only ON P nOLLAR A YPAR: Addreu, INDEPENDENT, P. O. Boa 86?. Savannah, Qa. W. G. CAPERS, Upholsterer and Repairer. Old Furniture put la rood order, Picture rrame made. Mattreaeee etuffed at the ehorteet notice. Corner Bajr and Xlnth Mmth ftftlMv Twilight. When through the paling sunset tints 9 The evening-star swings clear and white, I listen o'er the hills for her Who brings to me my one delight. [ Down the far western slope she comes, All slow and nun-like, draped in gray ; Her thoughtful brow, her steadfast eyes, Press back !: u crowding cares of day. More calm than hopeless winter's clonds ; More sad than autumn's gray cold haze ; But full of strength as angels' eyes, She rolls the stone from buried days. t She lays her fingers on mine eyeB, And breathes her magic in mine ear, And then I see, or seem to see? And know not if I dream or hear. But all the dear lost shadows pass ; Their eyes reproach me that I stay ; 'i Like dying winds at fall of night, Their voices win my soul away. The sunshine of the fair dead days Gleams faintly through their misty hair, And the pale, awful smile of death ; Replaces that they loved to wear. The scents, the hues, of vanished springs, The sun-bright blooms of summer-time, And autumn's fullness live again, And sparkles hoar December's rime. The fields wave greenly Gown the slope, And children chase the lambs at play, And, shouting, count the daisy cups Among the shining ricks of hay. ' And eyes of love light all the earth, Dike some intensest glance of God, And youth and faith, and hope and truth, And all the pleasant ways we trod, l'hey live ! they live ! One little hour Renews the joys of perished years : The wordless, slow processions pass, i And leave me to my silent tears. ' . JAKE'S LUCK. "Whatever will Mr. Squimps say? Oh, girls, to think of it?poor washedout Amanda Liza?with her check aprons and faded calicoes?to think of her turning out an heiress ! Whew! it takes my breath away. What'll Jake do now, I wonder ? Miss Jenny Smith was an acknowledged leader in the Squimps academy. * She had maintained her rotund person and round good-natured face in spite of sour bread and scant rations. We ft . thin and starveling girls looked up to her as a star of the first magnitude. We clustered rodnd her in high conclave, as she sat on a desk in the schoolroom during the absenoe of our worthy preceptor. " Oh, she'll never think of Jake again," cried a sharp-faced girl in the ) corner. "I'll bet she will," rejoined Miss i Smith, slapping her hand energetically i on her old grammer. Miss Smith had t " big brothers," which may partly ac3 count for the vim with which she was wont to express herself. "But oh, don't I wish it was me ! To think that Amanda Liza, that I used to lend my old collars too?" "Young ladies, Miss Bimm I" cried I a-warning voice; whereat Jenny, with 1 more haste than dignity, abandoned her I lofty position, and there was a general p I stampede for seats, as Miss Bimm, the head teacher, came sailing in, followed j by Mr. Squimps, the principal, black, f tall, and solemn as the shadow of a I lamp-post. Now for stricter rules, k longer lectures on propriety, and a general surveillance founded "on certain recent occurrences." What would Mr. Squimps say ? Ay, to be sure that was always a question of importance, and Mr. Squimps always said a good deal. Here was an especial theme for his eloquence ; foi >. this case of poor Amanda Liza, who had been his bond-slave for ten years, cuffed and cornered, making no sign, and ) at last turning out to have relations of H her own and a heap of money, and leaving his establishment "for good and all" in his absence, was a leetle too ranch for human nature, as he declared. For Mr. Squimps did not disdain to i rlnonntwl In fnmilior m ?1 Inn 11 i n 1 i um u '' L UVOVCUU W A141X4A&41M WilVi^utwuuiuu once in a while as a relief from the high mental strain of too much Latin and lexicon. ? Mr. Squimps should have been a public speaker?so his wife declared, so 3 all his friends affirmed?only the trouble was he would never have known when to stop. Once given a little rope, a small vexation, an accidental jarring of his arrangements, and Mr. Squimps - flowed out into limitless rivers of rhetoric. He argued his point down to the last whittle, wound up speedily, touched up his side whisaers, looked round for applause, turned ever his wristbands, and, berfore you knew it, began again. This was a splendid opening, this of Amanda Liza's?a girl whom he had ' taken out of " pure " charity when her folks died of fever, a girl whom he had educated, brought np in his very family, and?and?and? Mr. Squimps felt himself possessed on this occasion of all the stock in trade necessary for an d orator. " And Mr. Squimps like a father to her, too!" cried Mrs. Squimps, elevating her shriveled little hands. Mrs. Squimps was a small wrinkled lady, rustling about of an afternoon in a stiff voluminous silk, so little, so shriveled, she seemed to rattle in it as ? sue waiaea, uks n wunereu seruei iu 11 walnut-shell. She had had the benefit of Mr. Squimps's eloquence the greater pare of her life, and was much like a worn-out text?thin and thu^ed and faded. The good lady was humbly aware of ? her deficiencies. A mere bit of auartz, she did not attempt to shine even in her husband's refulgence. All" real authority in her department was delegated to Miss Bimm, who carried things with arf air, taught the " higher branches," and took the lead. Mrs. Squimps merely took the kitchen, eminently fitter, as her husband declared, for that department, which was the foundation of all others. The foundation, prepared under Mrs. Squimp's ( supervision, was not very substantial. But elegance was the aim, gentility the law, at the academy, as Mr. Squimps observed, and no one asked twioe foz the same dish. An army of hungry 1 girls, he remarked pHvately to Mrs. I Squimps, would devour all before them unless properly restrained. Under this < aspect sour bread and. chill pancakes I were judicious. i Amanda Liza, the girl about whom ( we were all just now in a furor, had as- I sisted Mrs. Squimps and the maids in ' the kitchen of a morning, likewise of an 1 evening; between these she generally ( sandwiched the thin "hour of study, 1 which was denominated her "educa- 1 tion." She was a slim, drooping eyed I little thing, who never spoke up forher- 1 self; and if Jake hadn't spoken up for ' her once in a while, I thinlc she would scarcely have held her own even under 1 Mrs. Squimps's motherly care. 1 " Old Jake," as we called him, was a black-eyed, ragged lad of eighteen, the 1 factotum of the school, general fag, boot-black, and boy-of-all-work te the 1 establishment, with an occasional elevation to coachman. Jake was subject 1 to a state of chronic outbreak, restive, ! forgetful of ruleB, and "dreadful sas- 1 sy," the maids declared. But Jake had 1 his ideal, and that ideal wass Miss Man- 1 dy Liza. Her pale, patient face, her : sftft, quiet voice, were potent with him. ' The ffirl was reallv ooorer than Jake. 1 lower in the scale, and with no appa rent chance of rising from her bondage; but Bhe recited with the young ladies, < and it was Jake's high ambition to help i her through with her chores and get her ' into class. Jake's guardianship of the 1 girl was an accepted fact in the school i and the village round about. No boy dared play any tricks on Amanda Liza. 1 " Jest wait till I get my luck, an1 I'll 1 teach you I" was duke's admonition, ac- ' coihpanied by a clinching of his sturdy tlBt that ably seconded the argument. | The girl took it all very quietly in her gentle way, and seemed to have a kindly regard for Jake?mending his , coat occasionally, or darning his stock- < ings?a thing Jake gallantly declared " she shouldn't do never agin; he wouldn't have no ladies iVaitin' on him." , Ladies ! The girls used to nudge each other and smile ; but for all that they < ' were very good to Amanda Liza, whose faded dress and meek ways set her apart from the noisy youthfulttess of the rest of us. We never begrudged i tho extra polish which Jake, iu his capacity of boot-black, bestowed upon her i shoes ; and we did not laugh when those , same shoes made their appearance one day adorned with a resplendent pair of steel buckles, which were afterwards discovered to have been abstracted from the coachman's rig, in which Jake occasionally did duty, and to which, I am sorry to add, he was ignominiously obliged to restore them. Occasionally, on some rare holiday, we girls had the privilege of a drive out into the country, when the Squimpses' superannuated sorrel, covered with an ' elaborate netting to conceal its deficiencies, and pricking up its tasseled ears with quite a show of spirit, would set off on a brisk trot, animated, no doubt, by the prospect of a grassy nibble along the road. Gay times were those. Jake was at his jolliest, and we all?old Dobbin included?forgot our " short commons" and long lectures, and grew hilarious together. Even poor Amanda ; Liza, quietly stowed away in the back seat, brightened up in the sunlight, and was meekly merry. Once I remember old Dobbin cantered along so briskly ' that he upset the whole party on a mossy bit of rising ground, and, whisk1 ing his tail facetiously, quietly betook Vimself to pasture, while we picked ourselves up as be6t we could. " We might have had worse luck," said Jake, as he plucked Amanda Liza j out of the heap, and shook her out, and , wiped the dust from her black apron, leaving the rest of the party to look . after themselves, which we did, scolding and laughing by turns, and giving, Suite by accident, the front seat, beside ake, t<" \manda Liza the rest of the way. Ah ! the twilight that summer evening was warm and mellow, the fields were gilded, the meadows fragrant, and i we heard a refrain of the grand eternal poem on the jolting seat of the old , wagon, though Jake was silent the rest of the way, looking furtively now and then at the girl beside him, and being uery attentive to old Dobbin. Poor I Juke ! Amanda. Liza had shot up clean out of liis reach since then, and what we wanted to know was whether the girl would remember him now in her days of her elevation. A wealthy uncle, a Rplendid home, and money on her own account?ah! 110 wonder he had not seen Amnndn since. "They touched her off like a skyrocket, and she vanished," suid Jake, ruefully. Had she vanished for good ? Their poetical justice was a myth, and Amanda's patched shoes and faded dresses were not more worthless than she. We waited. We watched the windows furtively. We pricked up our ears at every ring of the door-bell, but weeks passed, and the golden coach-and-six in which our Cinderella was to arrive did not rattle up the drive at the Squimps academy. I think we had almost given it up, and Amanda Liza's baso forgetfulness and ingratitude were becoming an old story, when one day at noon Jake came rushing in among us, hot and shining, and holding between his thumb and forefinger a dainty billet. He looked 1 liko an embodied "hurrah" at that mo1 ment. But, to tell the truth, Juke could not quite make out the writing, for with all his "opportunities," as our worthy prin1 cipal designated his vicinage to wisdom and learning in the capacity of shoeblack, the lad was unable to decipher manuscript?"hadn't the patience," he declared. Jenny Smith read the letter for him amidst general applause. Justice and righteousness had triumphed, it apEeared, and Amanda Liza had proved erself a "regular brick," as Jenny, with brimming eyes, observed, handing back the precious scrap of paper to Jake, who ? if in V*io eorrrrcxr\ llQnrl. UttrCiUUjr ninppcu iv m mo ? i kerchief. The letter contained a brief invitation to the lad, urging him to come i and see his old friend?a day was appointed for the visit, and the street and i n umber ^rhere she was to be found were i written out in a round, school-girl hand. A fashionable and wealthy quarter of the city, where Jake was not likely to til be very familiar. "( Jtake set himself to work without loss Sq if time at blackening his boots, albeit the appointed day was somewhere about * week ahead. But it would take a deal if filing, he explained confidentially, to ;et ready, and he hadn't much to fix * with. Jake's normal condition was not F. that of a dandy, certainly. He could to\ snly, as a general thing, be lured by the prospect of a drive to " red himself ^ iid," as Mrs. Squims said. To be rag- ani ajed and let alone was his heaven. But las this time he rose to the greatness of the am ao(?sion?he brushed and scoured, >,,, washed out his sole white Bhirt, dusted , and straightened his battered old hat, ind mended his trowsers. Re Deeplv interested in Jake's fortunes, to we watched the proceedings. toe "But Jake," said Jenny Smith one mi lay, "what are you to do for a coat ?" nei Unhappy suggestion I Jake looked aghast. He hadn't thought of that, for Clertainly he couldn't make his appear- nu ince in that overgrown coachman's rig in which he was wont to illustrate the wa .MA tiAaKAdlAkllifw Ata fllO VrtO/1 1 n f IIUUUC1U1UU1 tco^cuvauiuvj V/U VIAU AVUU. And he had nothing else. No necessity lift tiad ever before developed itself for any th( thing save shirt sleeves and a woolen J0' jacket. MM An awful pause came over our deliborations for Jake. Miss Smith whistled, ind finally suggested her water-proof? j? we all were ready to fling ours at his ^ feet?but Jake couldn't go muflled like bu in Indian brigand. He shook his head; P?^ Night closed without any solution of the difficulty, but we trusted that some- ?? bow the lad's quiok wit would find a way out of it, thj The next morning, however, a new ^ sensation turned us from the contemplation of Jake's disasters. The house ^ had been robbed. We were all terribly scared, and Mr. Squimps was in a fever aU{ of declamation and wrath. His coat, jn his best-beloved blue-black rioat? in gp( which he was wont to dignify trustee meetings, ornament his pew of a Sun- ' day, and pay visits of state to his pa- ^ trone?his coat had been stolen ! His ? coat, a man so devoted to the interests of education that he scarcely had time to go to the tailor's ; to think that an ungrateful, inappreciative, idle world should have permitted him to be robbed! hi! He raved, he stormed, he threatened ap vengeance, he lectured us on the degeneracy of the times, and forgot our Latin. Vague forebodings of% lurking assassins, masked robbers, * and frequent e" skirmishes into the wardrobe and dor- "( mitories about this time kept us all in Tl: " ' 1 * -i -11 ?M a nervous nurry, 10 ine exclusion ui an j" thought of Jake. But late one twilight pe afternoon, as we sat huddled in the ov windows of the long school room wait- tai iug the supper-bell, we saw him issue on from the outhouse. Oh, horror ! Oh, foi apparition of terror ! For with its tails ov nearly touching the ground, its long- ap sleeves overlapping his hands, Jake tai wore, without a doubt, the missing coat, tit boldly marching in his stolen finerv or down toward the road in sight of us all. rej In sight of sharper eyes .too, it an seemed, for not far from the house Mr. th Squimps himself pounced upon him. co; Poor, kind, light-hearted Jake ! We held our breath that day and the next, da for Jake had been marched off to prison, and Mr. Squimps's eloquence and moral- 8? ity were in full flow. He said a longer wt. grace than ever at dinner, and we were all glad when, hungrily eyeing the scanty board, we heard the visitors' bell J1! summon him to the parlor. I think we were in better appetite than usual that day, and left little behind us for our JJP Mentor as we filed up stairs toward the school-room. Passing the parlor door ev there rushed out upon us a little figure P? in a trailing silk dress and a bonnetful *P of nodding French flowers. It was 3U Amanda Liza. "r " Oh, girls 1" she cried, hysterically, J30 bewildered with an apparent desire to embrace the whole troop. "Poor Jake!" 113 toll m^/1 onlflm n rnoo PIl 1111. KJ\ [Uiiii J/ra, van nuu uvtvu.u, *www with dignity, and closed the parlor-door l)a upon their further conference. We ^ heard him make this consoling remark: " I always knew he'd come to no good !" It seemed that Amanda had learned 1 of Jake's mishap through some stray jkj newspaper, where the well-known name of the virtuous and vengeful Squimps 118 had met her eye. She comprehended po the situation, and came to the academy th to plead for her old friend. ur We waited the news of Jake's fate BQ breathlessly, nodding and whispering among ourselves. For there would be Wt a trial or something terrible, of oourse, fo we hardly knew what. Mr. Squimps th was away all the afternoon, the classes ar wi.ro demoralized, and we stood idly ex gazing out of the window at four o'clock, w< when a carriage came up the drive. To in our amazement Jake sat on the box, t\v elate and erect. He sprang down, and pi: opened the door with a flourish, and ati out stepped Mr. Squimps. sh " The girl pleaded so hard that I at; i j?ii i l >> D?;/] UT1 IIHVU (ltCUUtU I1UI/ tu |;iUOCV/Ubv, aniu ux Mr. Squimps ; and if a splendid new m coat fresh from the tailor's and a plump tw silken purse of unknown manufacture hi had anything to do with this decision we were not informed of it. nr " And I'm going to live with Miss ci Mandy Liza forever !" cried Jack, when di he came among us, his face lit with m a glory as if he was departing for at heaven. ci Would Amanda Liza dress him in a or blue coat and brass buttons, and make O him her coachman at good wages? Ah, what a rise for poor Jack ! Amanda Liza was his saint, his ange!, the hem whose garment he touched reverently. There was ho commonplace eLement re about such love as this, and Jack would be content to let down her cairiage " steps and look after her ponies all the n< days of his life, we thought. And ca that was the last we saw 01 aim at tue 8f Squimpses.' n( But years after, when I was traveling w in Australia with my husband, Mr. d< Smith and myself were invited to the ly ranch ot oue of the magistrates there, m whose broad estates covered miles of T mountain and meadow, and who owned It almost i'te.'ally " the cattle upon a c( thousand 1 ills." In the lady of the si mansion, a delicate and dainty person- ir age, I ret o jnized with a cry of surprise c< and deligh., my old school-mate, Amanda jt Liza; bat I did not know the portly ai dignitary upon whoee arm she hong on' li I heard her laughing whisper? )h, Jake, don't you remember old uimps's?" p G A Carious Story. a' J^ys the Sandy Hill Herald: Lent i# Harris died at Patten's Mills, in this ra, on the 11th inst., at the advanced p 3 of seventy-six years. He was born i lived here^ll his life, and for the t fifteen years had been an invalid, g| 1 during all that time was nursed by h i wife. Mr. Harris was the second ii sband to this lady. Her first was v. William Rider, who was well known * many of our older citizens, and he, ^ i, for fifteen years preceding his de- y Be, was an invalid, and in like manr was cared for night and day by his . fe?the present Mrs. Harris; so that " ' thirty years of her life she has y rsed the sick night and day, winter 3 ?? ? ? T1J..- liin nnvltr /latra i summer* xtiuci^ m uto canj u?^o, 3 a "hard case," but a very trifling lident changed the whole course of his ti 5. One day witnessing a baptism in a ? Half-wav Brook, when he was a g ling man, he scoffed at the ceremony, d 3 said it was "all a humbug." A Q end corrected him, and told him it 8 practiced as long as Christianity ex- f ed, and had the best scriptural au- d )rity besides. He was incredulous, a t cutting off a willow twig with his g eket-knife, remarked? a 'I'll plant this sapling in the sand, t the island yonder, and if it grows, d >n will I believe in baptism; if it don't, p ;n it's all a humbug." The branch was anxiously watched by _ ?scoffer, day by day, ana to his as- ? lishment it did grow, and Anally be- _ ne a vigorous tree. Rider was as ^ od as his word. He was converted, 8 i to show his sincerity was baptized the same stream, and at the identical 8 at where the above incident occurred. 8 few years later he entered the minis- _ \ and was an^ effective worker in the od cause. * ^ o A Summer Slide ftoitn Hill. c 1 Any one desirous of sliding down c ,1 in the summer time, says a Minne- p olis paper, may gratify that desire a the falls by a scoot down the apron. 11 >w nicely it can be done was illustratby a couple of tourists, without any juide," and also by their driver, p lese gentlemen were much interested v all they saw about the falls, and es- j cially in the torrent of water shooting r ~ " ? 1 (Tl? ?U. , er St. Anuiony s Desi apruu. iu uu- j n a better view they ventured out up- 1 the dam extending from the platrm. About an inch of water runs er this dam, shoots down the ron with great velocity for the dis- , ice of 150 feet, until it strikes the { aber-bed running out level ior twenty ( thirty feet, and then dashes into a ' jular whirlpool that froths and foams long the rocks. Unfortunately for e tourists the- coffer-dam was thickly ated with a green, slimy substance, iking one of the most slippery fonntions imaginable; and in less time ' an it takes to tell it, their " feet were ne," and a couple of dark streaks 1 sro yisible as they went down the 1 my apron like a special telegram, t lectators feared they would be dashed ton the rocks and instantly killed, it, luckily, they managed to stop j emselves on the timber-bed before j oken of, and were promptly rescued. f ley were sorry-looking subjects, hower, covered as they were by the de- < sit wiped up from the dam and , ron, and were " wearing of the green" the fullest sense of the word. Their j iver subsequently attempted to re- j ver an estry liat- from the dam, and , iking apron-strings, he, too, indulged | an unexpected trip down the inclined ane, was fished up, sponged, and the rties started for St. Paul, feeling that . J t il 1 Wa8 not guuu iur iucui uo oo uud, ( Home-Made llorse-Powers. i The cheapest and best way to make a i >rse-power for dairy and other light ^ e, is to put a light dmm on a center i >st, high enough to have the belt clear ' e horse's head. Attach a sweep ten i twelve feet long to the center post, ' that the track in which the horse ( ilks will be from twenty to twenty- , ur feet in diameter, if possible. Let e track be soft ground. The whole rangementmay be made of white pine, cept the sweep, which should be hard >od. Let the drum be about ten feet i diameter, and six inches face. Use a o-inch rubber belt. Muke a small , illey from four inches to a foot in diaeter, according as you want fust or 1 rw motion. If you want the motion ill faster, gear up with a second belt id set of pulleys. The direction of otion may be changed by a quarter i rist in the same belt, or by passing the i st belt over idler pallevB. This arrangement will be almost liseleBS, while the clatter and jar of a rcular platform would be enough to ive a nervous or sensitive person alost crazy. Besides, it is much cosier id safer to teach a liorse to follow a rcular path than to keep his balance i a revolving platform.?Cor. Country entieman. Charming. Mr. John B. Lewis, one of the most liable citizens of Allensville, and pronator of a hotel at that place, wit;ssed a few days ago the following ise of snake charming : He heard a [nirrel chattering in an unusual man?r, and crept stealthily to the place, here he saw a squirrel running up and jwu a tree. A large black snake was ing at the root of the tree with its I outh open, but perfectly motionless. [ he sqnirrel would run to the top of le tree each time, and each time in >ming down would come nearer the lake, until it deliberately put its head ito the snake's mouth, and the snake immenoed swollowing it. At this incture Mr. Lewis killed the snake ad set the souirrel at liberty.?flowng Qrtm (A/.) Democrat, / Items of Interest. The petition of Frank Walworth for a ardon has already been handed to the rovemor. A Wisconsin horse andertook to ran way with a reaping machine, and lost oth hind legs in the attempt. A correspondent of a Baltimore paper roposea that the spaoe recently burnt ver in that city be set apart for a pubc garden. We paint oar lives in fresco. The sft and fnsile plaster of the moment ardens under every stroke of the brash lto eternal rock. A Chicago editor heard once the rords "Sister thou was mild and lover," sung at the funeral of an old lady rno was known to have been a perfect ixen. A prominent lawyer of Albany, in fillig out a check for $60 to pay a gas bill . 3r the last quarter, wrote on a check as dIIowb: "Half for gas and half for raud." A committee of tne Virginia x,auo? ional Association have voted that while rithmetic is of large practical value to iris, algebra is not of much use in their aily life, nor is it indispensable as disipline. An old lady on a steamboat observed nro men pumping up water to wash the eck, and the captain being near, she sked him as follows : " Well, ciptain, ot a well on board, eh ?" " Yes, ma'm, 1 ways carry one," said the polite capain. " Well, +hat's clever; I always islike this nasty river water, especialy in dog days." The cry of a short crop of hay was irematnre. In some parte of Massahusetts tile crop is a little less than last ear, but in Maine, New Hampshire and Termont, and in Western Massachu etts, the crop will exceed that of last ear. There is also a large crop in Canda. Last summer gave the roots a firm tand, and a wet May this year gave the [rasa a good start. Mr. Prank Buckland thus describes lis last curiosity: " It consists of an Srster, the shells of which are tightly asped around the neck of a mouse. L'he head is inside the shell, therefore I annot examine it. The oyster, which s a pure native, was probably lying in . larder with the shells open, when the aouse put his head in to eat the meat >f the oyster, and was immediately lipped by it." As an illustration of how near popu ar new styles 01 lauies huwb ICOOllil/lO ery old styles, the New York Shoe and father Chronicle gives the following epresentations of shoes worn in Engand, during the reign of William the Third: American Inventions. The cotton gin, without which the nachine spihner and the power loom rould be helpless, is American. The k>wer shuttle, which permits an unimited enlargement of the breadth of he web, is American. The planing nachine is American. Navigation by iteum is American. The mower and eaper are American. The rotary printng-presses are American. The hot-air engine is American. The sewing-machine is American. The machine manu'actnre of wool-cards is American. The whole India-rubber industry is American. The band saw originated, we beicve, in America. The machine manufacture of horse shoes is American. The , innd-blast, of which the large capacities are yet to be developed, is American. The gauge lathe is American. The only successful coraposingnachine for printers is American. The jrain elevator is American. Tne artificial manufacture of ice was originully nvcnted by Professor A. S. Twining, in American. The electro-magnet was nvented, aud immediately after its indention was first practically applied in :runsmitting telegraphic signals, by Professor Joseph Henry, an American. Hie telegraphic instrument introduced i few years later into "public use, which has since obtained universal acceptance, was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, * ' Unatnt i Tntimfil nf in Ainericuu. ?..? ~? Chcmittry. Do Not Scold. Parents are apt to forget that children dread reproof, and frequently scold them unnecessarily. What matter if all their daily behavior is not quite pleasant or perfect, if they show improvement and progress? Sow good seed, anxious parent, cultivate with care, but wait patiently for harvest, if you wish good fruit. Suppose a child does not sit as straight as a ramrod at table; suppose a cup or tumbler does slip tli rough its little finger, the food below deluged, the goblet smashed, and the table-cloth ruined?do not look cross, and break out with reproof of what was unintended as if it were a willful wrong. Did you never let a glass slip through your fingers ? Instead of sending the child away in anger, or with threatening words, why not be as generous as to a guest, to whom you would kindly say, " It is of no consequence." It is generally wise to take little noticeof mishaps or bad behavior at the time, and even to divert attention ~*n them at the instant. Afterward, at some appropriate i;~? Aram Hi. Miiirl'u attention to the U1UC| Ulan vtiv w impropriety, fault, or lack of suitable eare, and point out kindly the remedy What hi Would do. ? Agaong the innumerable stories told about the Shah is one to this effect : According to the Koran, his Majesty is forbiadep to tread on any other soil than that trodden by Mussulmans. To remedy this little drawback, the Shah has ingeni- . . ously placed a lining of earth of bisown country between the soles of his boots. This probably aoconnts for the dnst which is kicked up wherever he goes? just as the anantity of diamonds he wears results in hi* constantly making such a shine 1 J.;.. * f A