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AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
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VOL. m. NO. 47. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1873. {fSWRtftt ?
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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
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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.
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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.;..
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