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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1876. No. 9. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED~ EVERY WED-NESDAY MORlNING, it Newberry, S. C. BY THOSt Ft GRENEKURt Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.50) per JInnurn, Invariably in Advance. r;27 The paper is stopped at the expiration of ,.me for which it is paid. 7 The X mark denotes expiration of sub scription. AFTER THE BALL. BY L. H. HOOPSR. I sit beside my midnight fare, The ball room roses in my hair; Without the raia is falfling fast, And strange s:orm voices fill the air My feet are wearr- of the dance, The revels whirl within my brain, And something deep within my breast Throbs with a ceaseless pulse of pain. Yes9, 1 have placked the Dead Sea fruit, And savored long- its rind of gold; Its ashy -core now frets my lip, Its dust is falling from my hold; And though I struggle to forget, And though may heart be triply steeled, I cannot banish from my brain A vision of a battle field. A vision of that solemn hour, iVhen won and ended is the fight, And when upon the awfal scene Look down the tender eyes of night; While pillowed on his prostrate horse, And pale beneath his raven hair, The old smile new upon his lips, The man I loved lies lifeless there. gage in shooting matches, and it was upon one of these occasions that Sam Long, the hunter already mentioned, h ppened to be pres ent. Long was a quiet, modest fellow, who lived with his wife and child in a small cabin .in their neighborhood, and who made hunting his constant occupation. He never appeared at the store save to exchange skins, and was favor ably known for his sobriety and honesty. Upon the occasion just re ferred to, when Sam Long chanced to come w h i I e the desperadoes were engaged in one of their shoot ing matches, they wished him to take part in the sport. He hesita ted at first, but finally, not wishing to incur the ill will of the ruffians, consented. His skill with the rifle was known to be something remark able, and the desperadoes were rot greatly surprised when'be defeated them all save the captain of the band. This man had not engaged in the sport, but when Long had vanquished all others, he came for ward with the assurance of an easy victory. The shots were made, and, to the surprise of all, Long gained the day. The rage of the leader of the ruf fians knew no bounds at thus be ing defeated in the presence of his followers, and, although refraining from any violence on the spot, he intimated darkly to the hunter that he would "yet get even with him." Long paid iEtle attention to the threat, and soon afterwards return ed to his cabin. At just dask, some days later, Sam was lying on the floor of his cabin playing with his child, while bis wife was getting supper. The wife, busy with her cooking asked Long to go to an adjacent spring ind bring some water, a request which he promptly complied with, leaving his gun in the house, a omewhat unusual course with him. Ee had reached the spring and was just stooping to fill the pail which he 3arried when he was borne down by a sudden attack from behind, bound securely, and dragged some yards .nto the. woods. When he rec.ogniz ad his assailants he knew what to ex :ect. He had fallen into the hands >f the Reddett gang, and the lead-] sr was about to "get even with Long was stripped and bound ~o a tree by order of the captain. L. supply of hickory switches was2 >btained, and then the captain took I >ne of them and began the whip- e >ing, annoneing with an oath that 10 man could beat him or his men I t shooting and stay in the coun- t ~ry.. The sufferings of the victim were errible. The flesh was cut from his i >ack in strips by the blows, and < yhen the leader of the ruffians i iad gratified his rage, others of i ~he band continued the punishment. 1 3ut one man among the number t ~howed any mercy, and his asser- 1 ions that Long had been punished 1 mough were received with deris- i on. Fnally the hunter fainted under c bhe pain, and the ruffians, having t ~atisfied their grudge, departed, I eaving the object of their spite i till bound to the tree. I In this position he was found by t is wife, who had become alarmed a or his safety, and who, searching i: ~or him, had been attracted to the a ~pot by-a faint moaning. She assist ~d him to reach the cabin, which e did with difficulty, and then nurs- t 4 him to recovery. It was weeks f >efore he was well enough to move 1 sout. C Scarcely had-Long recovered from C ts wounds when his cabin was founid 1 leserted, and members of the Red lett band thinking he had fled ~ rom the country, boasted openly of th1at they had done. At the same imne they became bolder than ever n the commission of crime, always I mting or traveling together in aIr ~ompany between twenty and thiri ~y, and defying attack from any uarter. One day as they were engaged on hunt, a member of thec band be. ~ame separated from the rest in the a ~xcitemaent of the chase. -He was ound lying dead,shot in the left eye. i few days later, one of the ruffians, 'iding alone, was killed. Again he bullet was found to have enter- t ~d the left eye, but no trace of the t iame could be discovered. A week or two passed, and another of t1 desperadoes was shot, the same tex rible accuracy being exhibited in shot in the left eye, proving all th shots to be from the same source The robbers became alarmed an( kept always together in their raids but there was no escaping the deat which seemed always to be lurkin, near them. One after another fel until ten men had died, each on pierced in the left eye. The wood: were scoured by the terrified mei ia vain. On one occasion when C member of the band was killed the shot had been heard, and once C gaunt fellow was- seen runninc through the woods, but pursuit fail ed-to overtake him. Accustome" to face danger as the despera loe: were, and possessed as they were o brutal courage, they trembled be fore this myst rious danger. I could not be faced, and it could no be averted. The result was, that some of th( band deserted and fled the region 'here remained only the captair and four of the more resolute o is followers. These five huntei %nd made their raids together foi ome time without harm. Among the five was the man who had endeav :red to save Long at the time of th whipping from so severe a torture This man one morning, ventured oul n the woods without his comrades Ele was walking slowly along, look ng for game, when the brown bar :el of a rifle projecting from a basl >eside him checked his course, a al, lank figure rose from the bush Lnd the startled man recognized :am Long, the hunter. Long rais )d the rifle, then lowered it. "You're the man who said a good ord for me, an' you may go, bad Ls vou are. I won't take your mis rable life. Go !" The man needed no second invi ation to go. He hurried to the amp and told his story. The cap ain and the other three men started )ut in pursuit of Long, and but wo men accompanied Dick Reddett vhen he returned. The third man 1ad fallen, shot in the left eye, and to search of the underbrush reveal ad the hunter. The next day another man was tilled in camp, and again the hunter ~scaped. On the next day the two 'emaining men fled the country, eaving the fierce Reddett alone. Phe leader of the desperadoes dared tot remain where he was. He knew e was the man whom Long sought ,bove all others. Concealing himself until night, te mounted hus horse and fled for he nearest point on the Arkansas -iver where it would be possible to ake passage on a steamboat. Two ays later he reached a small land ng in the woods on the bank of thbe iver, where the steamer stopped for assengers when there were any to ake. He learned from the occu ant of the cabin in the neighbor. ood that the boat would be down a the afternoon, and so, having ut up the signal to secure a landing f the boat, established himself on hie bank and waited. He deemed imself safe from pursuit, and ook no precautions. Throwing .imself on the ground, he slept un i late in the day, when he was wakened by the sound of the boat a the distance. She would round point in a moment or two, and he vaited expectantly.. As suddenly as though risen from he ground, a sank figure stood be. >re him, and the muzzle of a rifle eered into his face. -The terrified ~esperado had no difficulty in re ognizing the man as the one he had 2jured. With the rifle held stead y upon the face of tae startled teddett, Long hissed out: "i've got you ! You whipped me -whipped me like a dog ! I swore 'd kill you before I called myself man again, and )Im going to do ;! yve cleaned out your band, ndl now it's your turn ! Oh I've got ou! The ruoian in abject fear pleaded >r his life, groveling at the feet of Le hunter. He clung to his words s" adrowning man clings to straws. ~he boat wa very near. Should she :mnd the noint in time he would e saved. Already the smokestacks showed irough the brush, when the hun er pressed the trigger, the sharp re otang . out, and A Reddett fell dead, e shot to the brain through the left eye. Long slipped away in the i woods, and when the boat stopped e in response to the signal, they found a dead man but no one else. I Harrison county was rid forever of the worst gang of raffians in the i Southwest. r "An' that, stranger," said the old 1 man in the Dallal; hotel, "is a true 3 story of the way Sam Long settled accounts with the blackguards." t st5eHaIeous. [From the Lutheran Visitor.] WORLDLY PLEASURE. NMBER IV. SCHUTZENFESTS, THEATRES, DANCING. Can anything less objectionable be said of the schutzenfesten "and such like" amusements in which so many participate? It is high time for this question to be discus sed; and if such carnivals as these are consistent with our babtismal vows it.ought to be acknowledged and proclainied from the pulpits; so that, notwithstanding there be a resurrection, we may all "eat and drink" and be merry. Multitudes of church-members seek for pleasure in theatres. The I spirit of christianity must be against this. If there is a place more favor able than any others it must be the theatre, fer the exercise of the "lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life." Surely these phrases have startling significance. We dread to pause and meditate up on them, lest we attract their scorch ing applicability. But, here, in connection with the fascinations of. the stage, sanctioned by society by the many wise men after the flesh-by the many mighty-by the many noble--here, in the theatre, we are compelled to witness the ex emplification of these dark sentences. After the three hours cold, petrified forgetfulness of God, when our guardian Spirit has returned to us with its gentle chidings, we are compelled to acknowledge that the opera box is the symbol of the lust of the flesh--that the opera-glass is the symbol of the lust of the eye -and that the opera-hat, with its gaudy accompaniments, is the sym bol of the pride of life. Only one hundred years after the death of St. John, Tertullian, in a treatise entitled, De Spectaculis, [concern ing shows] wrote against theatrical amusements, as unbecoming the followers of Christ. This shows,how nearly up to the times of the apos ties,worldly pleasures were specifi cally denounced ; and in what sense the ancient fathers understood the passages which I have quoted fr0m the word of God. Are we followers of Christ ? We can never follow him into a theatre. The idea is abhor rent. Actors and actresses are of the world. The world belongs to them, and all who are of the 1 world have a right to receive pleas ure from their representations ; but the joys which "favorites of the heavenly king" may speak abroad do not come from sucl- sources I could go on subjecting human conduct to this test, beyond the limit usually allowed to articles of this kind; but what I have written Iis enoug-h to establish the undevi ating divergence of the directions taken by the "works of the flesh" and the "fruit of the Spirit." They are as irreconcilable as the opposite poles of galvanism. Whatever the positive attracts, must be repelled ~ by the negative pole; and no per version nor compromise of laws can, in the least, diminish the an Lagonism. But I have to consider one more source of worldly pleas ure ; for the challenging inquiry comes up; is it not written, "that there is a time to mourn and a time to dance?" T h e amusement of I dancing, then, is what I have to an alyze; and I set out by asserting ~ that no one who claims Lo be a ser vant of Jesus -Christ can indulge in what is now signified by the word a dancing, without obscuring that I light which should so shine before men, that they may be able to re cognize him as one who keeps him- c self "unspotted from the world." The etymology of the word dance, of Holy Writ, which the votaries of this pleasure would set up by the above question. eThe word which the Hebrews employed to sig nify those movements of the body, indicative of religious joy, and fre quently employed for public and domestic entertainment, does not make its appearance in modern languages. The Greek, orchesis, orchester, choreios, and the Latin, chorea, conveyed the meaning, namely, that these movements were accompanied with instrumental ma sic and singing. Under the forms of orchestre, chorus and choir, we re tain these words in our language, so far as they express instrumental music and singing; because these arts are essentially the same now as they were in the remotest ages; but that which David did "before the ark of the Lord" has been so changed-so corrupted from its an tiquated simplicity and purity, that it required a new word, and that word has been supplied by the lan guages which grew out of the mi' gration of the Goths and Vandals -the German, the French, the Ital ian and the Spanish. These gave the word, dance, and the other spe cific names for the countless varia tions continually occurring. There never was a dance-there never was a waltz, nor a cotillion, nor a polka, nor a quadrille, nor any "such like," from the days of Miriam down to the times of Constantine. In these leapings of the .ancient oriental people, there was no mingling of the sexes. The Bible cannot be quoted in support of the pro priety of what is represented by the word dance. If there is a time to mourn, there is a time to leap for joy. Jom ARMT. HAPPY HusnNs.-It is a man's own fault if he is unhappy with his wife, in nine cases out of ten. It is a very exceptionable woman who will,not be all she can to an atten ive husband, and a more exception al one, who will not be very disa greeable if she finds herself wilfully neglected. It would be very easy to hate a man who having bound a. woman to him, makes no effort to render her happy ; hard not to love one who was constant and tender, and when a woman loves she always tries to please. The great men of the world have often been wretched in their domestic re ation, while mean and common ~nen have been exceedingly happy. The reason is very plain. Absorb A in themselves, those who desire he world's applause were careless f the little world at home ; while ~hose who had none of its egotism strove to keep the hearts that were ~heir own and were happy in their enderness. No woman will love a man the better for being renowned md prominent. Though he be the irst among men, she will only be >rouder not fonder ; and if she ose him through this renown, as s often the case, she will not even >e proud. But give her love ap >reciation, kindne,ss, and there is io sacrifice she would not make for is content and comfort. The man vho loves her well is her bero antd 1er king. No less a hero to her, bough he is not one to any other; io less a king, though his only king lo is her heart and boime. An absurd performance was the .ecent experiment of a ball on kates with rollers, at Brighton, sgand. The movements of the katers proved to be utterly in rompatible with the musical re tuirements at a dance. Lovers should be careful how they t in the country, for potatoes Lave eyes, corn has ears and bean s)talk A bill to establish the whipping >ost for wife beaters has been in rodu.ced in the California Legisla ure. A quarrel with a friend is like an 6ching tooth-you should at once tave it out. A.certain degree of fear produ es the same effect as rashness. Indecision keeps the door ajar; mt denision shuts and bolts it. CHILD LIFE ON A FARM. It was May. The tender new leaves, just unfolding, gave all the woods a misty, hazy look; the apple trees were in full bloom, the whole air was sweet with flower fragrance and trembling with bird songs, and this old earth seemed like fairy land. Mr. Kendall and his little boy, Teddy, were working down on the meadow. Teddy was riding horse for his father to plow. His legs were so short that they stuck out each side nearly straight, and once, going under an apple tree, the low branches brushed himoff. When Teddy was first promoted to riding horse to! plow, he felt it a great honor and privilege, but the charm of novelty had long since fled, and "riding horse" became as stupid as any other work you're obliged to do. This morning he would much have preferred carting manure with Ralph and Aaron to jogging up and down, up and down, on old Kate's back. But boys on a farm have to work, and girls, too. This bright May morning when everything said: "Come out doors and play," when she wanted to go for wild flowers, Millie had to stay in and wash dish es, make beds, run up stairs and down on errands all the forenoon, because her mother vas cleaning house. But she and Teddy both had famous appetites for the corn beef and bag pudding at dinner time, and perhaps enjoyed the afternoon's play all the better for the morning's work. After dinner they went down into the meadow, Tip and Ty both following them, like little dogs. Sometimes they let the children carry them, but usually they prefer red scampering along on their own responsibility, hiding in the grass, and pouncing out at each other, turning somersaults, pranc ing along sidewise with high arch ed backs, and bel1 ving generally in a way that often appeared to very much shock their dignified mo ther, old Blackie. There is no better playfellow in summer than a brook. You can have no end of fan with a brook. To <;ay Teddy said: "Let's go down to the brook and see what the freshet did." The spring freshet often altered the course of the brook, changed its banks, and made it almost a new stream. Mill i e pushed and squeezed through a thick fringe of pussy willows on the brook's bank. "Oh, Teddy," she cried, "what do you think? Here's an island, a real true island !" The brook had divided into two parts, enclosing quite a piece of land. "What a jolly place to play Rob inson Crusoe !" said Teddy. "But how can we get over there ?" asked Millie, gazing ruefully at the stream which flowed between them and this promised land. "If we try to jump it, we shall tumble into the water. It's too wide to jump." Teddy looked puzzled for a mo ment ; then his face brightened with an idea. "I'll tell you. Here's the way." He bent down one of the supple young willows.' It reached over to the island. Standing onit,and hold ing by a branch above he slid safely across, at the same time enjoying a delightful teeter on the bending bough. Then Millie tried the new-fashion ed bridge. All went well till she jumped off on the other side, when up~ snapped the willow, catching Milie's skirts, and suspending her in the air about a foot above the ground. Here was a nice situation. Ted-] dy couldnt have reached the bi'anch to pull it down, even if he had not been laughing so hard. There was nothing for it but that he must leap the brook, splashing into the] water on the other side, come over on the branch again, to release the dangling Millie. "Did it tear my dress much ?" sked Millie, when once more on earth.4 "Not much. I guess Aunt 01 ive'll mend it for you." "No Ivye got to do it myself now," said Millie, twisting her neck to look anxiously at the gaping rent. Tip and Ty had to be brought over next. "There !" said Teddy, warm and red with his exertions, as he landed the last cat, "here we are, all the inhabitants. Now, this is our coun try. We discovered it. We can do anything we're a mind to here." It was agreed that Millie being more familiar with the book, should be Robinson Crusoe, Teddy, Man Friday, and the kittens llamas. The llamas, however, were not a success. They would climb trees, and they wouldn't have burdens tied to their backs, so finally they were allowed to be the wild animals peculiar to this island A thick clump of willow bushes, into which Teddy and Millie could just squeeze themselves by cutting out some of the branches, was the cave. The island was mostly covered with sand, its chief natural pro. ducts being.willow bushes, a little thin wiry grass, and coltsfoot. As Aunt Olive used coltsfoot for cough medicine, Millie and Teddy were confirmed in their opinion that this was one of the most remarkable. islands ever discovered. It was to be c alle d "Kendall's island," a f t e r the- discoverers. They would bring corn and beans down there, and plant a garden. "Then," said Millie, who was of a hopeful turn of mind, "we can sell all we raise to father. I know he'll buy it, 'cause he promised to give us ten cents for every hundred squash bugs we'd kill this summer, and of course he'd be gladder to have us raise things ourselves. We'll get real rich, Teddy." "Yes," said Teddy, "perhaps we shall have $2 apiece by fall. What shall you do with your money ?" "I shall buy a microscope," re sponded Millie, promptly. Ever since she had somewhere read of the wonders revealed by micrcscopes, her ambition had been to pos sess one. To look into the tun known worlds hid in water drops what delight that must be! "Pooh, I shan't !" said Teddy. "I shall buy a sheep from father. 1 Then I shall liave wool and lambs to sell, and before long money enough to by afarm of my own.1 You can come and live in my house4 if you want to." "I'd rather live with father and mother; but I'll come a visiting, and bring the microscope, too." ] [Christian Union. I A citizen of this burg isin misery I about his hat. The other day he hung it on a hook just back of a ~ closet door which opens back against the hook. His wife had oc casion to rummage around in the - closet after he hung up his hat. As t often as she pushed that door back,e just os often would it fly shut, leav- i ing her alone with darkness. Vex- I ed at last with the persistent contra e riness of the thing, she threw her a weight against it, and was rewarded '] by seeing the door go clear back and E remain back, just as she wanted it. t But when the husband, a day or two i later, went to that hook for his hat, t what a sight it was to be sure. t Flatter than a drink of ice water i on a Christmas morning, m or e a wrinkles in it than a wash-board, e und as far removed from any hope g :>f future usefulness as a Keokuk it bank. His wife bought a hat rack fi the next day, and now when he goes 'l into the house she meets him in the t; liall and points out to him the folly v >f going up two flights of stairs il mnd hanging his hat behind a door r ~n the attic.-Ex. "Now my little boys and girls," o said a teacher, "I want you to be ih very still-so that you can hear a c >in drop." In a moment all was n silent, when a little boy cried 'out. 0 'Let her drop !"1 5 True liberty consists in the privi ege of enjoying oifr o*wn rights, 10t in the destruction of the rights t >f others.n Purchase not friends by gifts; f4 when thou ceasest to give such will s lease to love. f Woman proposes and man gits fi rmp and1 gis this wear. t ADVERTISINC RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per sqaare--one inch-for first insertion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements teuper cent on above. Notices of meetings, obituiries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special notices in local column 15 cents per line, Advertisements not markedwith the num - ber of insertions will be kept In till forbid and 6harged accordingly. Speia contracts ma&e with large adver tisers, with MieWa deMucuons on above rates Done with Neatness and Dispatch Terms Cash. A LITTLE OUTCAST* Poor Bob! it seemed to him that morning as though he wasmi every body's way. His mother had sent him out of the wo04-house because he annoyed her by hammering the toy cart he was making, going in bo the corner of the Yard he stretched himself under a tree, and kicking the turf with his heel pon lered over his many Iroubles. g~other said there was no peace for inybody if he was in hearing, but -.ertainly -there was no peae*e for him ifywhere about home. He.has slip ped into the parlor after dinner, mndwas having a good chat with ffxs. Somers, -and she was telling Him of three wouderful black and - Pvhite spotted:pup'pies at her house, vvhen Jennie came in and -asked im what he was imposing on Mrs. 3omers for. He wasnt imposing; M[rs. Somers said so. -But Jennie. nade him leave, the. room without - Learning how the littlest and:' pret diest spotted puppy got out of the