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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. WEDNESDAY MORNaG, AUGUST 16, 1876 IS PUBLISHED At Newberry, S. C. BY TH09* Fe G1RENEKERt Edtor and rmpretor. Tnmmss g4 per UulM ~Tbe~l stpper at the expirstion of 07 b) mark desotW empihaflon of sub -WK&T KHALLWG WRA]P TR THBABY IS? ST- Wor JUT ARCON.. WhM ,awe vnqpthe baby m? Sftsn Immuse and velvet4~ooUg Showiest l1enWilot half white eaou&,, jme1 ft~tinevn no fairy canspn *0t~1w WMa &e baby in? 8ot~~cocainaycover his bed D eTwSais h6es of the sky and the rose, Tjjts of anl bUdS ttat in Xay-Moms Un whe"i'heoo of slisp dropshbis bead; He must have sometg more heavenly in WW pW,sle wrap the babylun?. ~ci~thatfingmr havemwoves will do; 106i oth6e hearit weave love'ever anew LdW, Ily,L tbe rigkt thread to spin: Love we li 6yn TIE . NIK OF TIMD -0 Nettie Armitage had seemed s< frivolous; they had,-each in turn come in and interrupted the Doc tor when he was telling her suc fairy-like tales of recent discoveriec in science she had shrugged hei shoulders at them till the situatioi struck her ridiculously, and ther she had laughed with the mer riest of them and pouted at th< Doctor. But now, as he wai going, she slipped her hand in hi arm and sauntered down the lawr with him. The night was s night in June, when, if ever nights are perfect; the air wai laden with the breath of honey suckle and mock-orange; thE winds that curled around them seemed to come from distant landi f everlasting bloom, so sweel they were; and the stars 'hung their lamps through the clear dark close above the thick tree tops. She fancied that tight that Life was too delicious a thing tc be indulged in freely, and she murmured something of the fancy with half a laugh. "There are times when we all feel that life is more than we deserve,", he an. wered. "To-morrow - it may be. Shall I feel the same my elf to-morrow, or will fate-" She laughed uneasily. "You mustn't ask me riddles," she ried. "At eleven o'clock to-morrow, leu," he said, lifting his hat. "At eleven to-morrow." And she went back to the house, wish ing it were eleven to-morrow now; ind then, in-. a gay-freak, as she heard the hall clock strike, she ran down the hall and set the bands forward an' hour. 'Bing him the quicker," she whisered cring him the quicker," and went back to the'otheris. They! were. talking of 4he 1ag idz burushes-that grew by.Lend a sheet.of water in the Ieighboring woods; and she was iagerto hear the detail wPf the direction there, for The shared the popuar frenzy raging just thei for bulrushes, and thought of al] hiings'sbe shodld like some great bunches of the soft brown velvety things in the vases to-morrow. "1 believe, if I rose early," she said, "I could.be there and back before eleven o'clock." "Why eleven ?" said Mallory lazily. "Oh, I have an engagement al thathour-," shie replied, bending her head a, little, thait he mighi not see the color creeping up. "I am -at yoaueervioe," -he said "Willtyou oome. along, Nettie ?' she-asked. - "At five- o'clock in the morning and on foot ? Not a step. Thai hour in the afternoon, behind e pair of bays, would suit me very well." Vary Young thought i1 would suit him too. "Very well, Mr -Mallory. 1 you ill come at eight o'clock to morrow, I shall have my bulrus1iet and be back in good season." "We'll not fail," said Mallory "And to that end, I1 assure thim company that it is the witching hour of night, whe~n the sweetes sound the ear can hear is the slam ming of the big house door;" an with that they all departed. As eight o'clock in the morning came, Miss Alice, with her sheari hanging at her side, and her ha tied on, was 1ookIng up and dow' the road impatiently. She quit forgot her freak with the old clocd the night before. "It is a vera indecorous way to serve me," shi cried. "Ten~minutes past eight And I shall not wait another me ment. I will have my bulrushes Mallory or no Mallory. And if am a little late, I don't care ; i will seem as'though a body wer not so very anxious ; and I don' know - I'm afraid - I'm reall; afraid I was gushing last night and I do so despise a gusher ! An' he may only want-may only wan to engage me to scatch with oli Miss Stecres the night she take ether for that operation !" Ani thereat the little body was off fo Lender's Lake, with preciou small idea of the exact where abouts of that pretty sheet of' wa ter. "I've a tongue in my heac I suppose," said she. As Miss Alice continued, he idea gre still less. She feare oshe would lose her way, and nol be back at all, she wished she had waited for Mallory; but she plod ded on after her best senses of lo cality, tore her gown with briers, lost- her voil and broke her para. sol, came near breaking her ankle, and at eleven o'clock by her watch sat down aud cried-hot, bitten by flies, tired out, and lost. When she had finished crying, she looked up, and there, glisten ing double through her tears, lay Lender's Lake, blue as asapphire, in the hollow of the hills. Her 'courage came back at once. -If she could not k6ep her appoint. ment, she could show by the bul. rushes that she had intended to. She forgot fatigue, and was off for the edge of the-lake, not so easily reached, after all, and with a tri. umphant handfal oi the brown velvet wands and of great blue flaga, was presently hotneward bound, lving found the highway, and staying only to ask at the door of a little hut for a cup of water. Nobody answered her rap; thm door was open-she pushed it wider and peeped in, but started back at the sound of a groan, and a quick sharp sob, a perfect storm of sobs. A moment Miss Alice - hesitated ; but she was no coward where pain was concerned; she took heart of grace and walked in, and -found the,brown old berry woman with her .little boy, her grandchild, bleeding to death 'in her arms. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I never knew you lived here. What is the matter? Row did he do it ?" "With the axe I -with the axe I just now I" cried the woman. "And I can'% stop it, and I'm alone, and I can't leavo im, -and he'll die oh, he'll die!" "Oh, no, no I" said Alice. "What have you done ? Only cold vater.? Let me see. Lay him down. , Get a towel"-for she remembered still her school lessons in physiology. And, before the womaw knew what had happened, Alice had rigged a tourniquet with the handle of a hair brush, and was checking, in some degree, the flo'v .of blood with which the boy's vitality was ebbing. "Now don't let it slip, and I'll ran and find the doctor, if I drop. Perhaps some team will overtake me. Don't despair, the child shall not die I" and she kiss ed the brown old woman, and plunged out, eager' as though it were her own little brother. "I know just where the doctor is," she called back. She knew nothing of the kind; she only knewv where.he had been: "She's gone to Lender's Lake with Mr. Mallory." Aunt Huldah had said, looking up*and down the road, with a vague idea that her looking would excuse the culprit "f5 bu Irushes, I heard them say.' The doctor's ejaeulation would have horrified Aunt Huldah if she had heard it; but bidding. her goodmorning, he had turned about determined to have nothing more to do with Miss Alice Traiesdell. And then a sort of rage had flash ed up and swept over him, and he vowed to himself that he would reduce the little rebel, and sprang into his chaise and urged his horse to a run. And that was the way it chanced that, less than ten min utes after Alice left-the hut, she saw something rolling up the high' way enveloped in as thick a cloud as ever an ancient god traveled n; and he saw a little object fly. ing down to meet him, curls and ribbons streaming behind, dishev. eled to the last degree, and with Sonly breath enough left to say as Lhe leaped from the chaise, "Don'i stop!i He's dying ! Back there -the hut!I" Dr. Fowle did stop, long enougi to take the little body and lift hei into the chaise, and spring up be side her. "Who's dying!" said he sternly-"M.allory ?" "Mallory!" gasped Alice, ir amazement, "and if it was," she said, the old spirit uppermost, al soon as she could speak again foi her scalded lungs and throat "what would you do ?" ,"Let him die I" exclaimed the doctor. "It would be nothing to me i d. yomi, she ad, touching th< horse with the whip herself. "But you would be indictable at com mon law." "Nothing to you! What do you mean, then? Who's dying ?" "Not Mr. Mallory-to my know ledge; that is, I haven't seen him to-day. A child here in the woods." The doctor urged the horse-him self, bending forward, his gaze fixed before him, and not uttering another syllable. "Aren't you ever going to speak to me again ?" said Alice at last. "I meant to be back at eleven O'clock." He turned and saw the tears ready to gush, and as they gazed perhaps they extinguished the flame of his wrath. Somehow he never knew how any more than Alice did-the next moment..the reins were under his feet, his arms were about her, and the tears were. being crowded back by kisses. "Aren't you glad I put the clock forward? Aren't you glad I came out here for buirushes ?" whisper. ed Alice, as they suddenly drew up at the little but. "Oh, God bless you doctor, and God bless her ?" cried the voice of the old woman from. within. "He's alive yet, and you've come in the very nick of time?" HOW THE BANKER LOST U ISDAUGUTER. A . London correspondent fur nishes the following readable sto ry: A very good self is related of a wealthy banker here, who is very good-natured, but inclined to be a trifle fast in iis views of life. He had a fariite clerk, a young muan about twenty-oue, remarkably handsome, modest and highly in tellectual. Ferthese qualities he was liked by every one, and the banker did not esespa the feeling of good will He was as poorras -his salary, and had no connec tions to push his after-fortunes, and so, like most: English clerks, he would rise to a hundred and twenty pounds a year, to go on for eight years, at ten pounds a .year rise, and marry when he got. two hundred pounds a year, henceforth to vegetate for the rest of his life. The banker, on Sunday after noons, when no one was expected, would occasionally ask the young man to visit his family at his su burban villa, as the conversation of the yong man was so correct and so clever it could not but be of advantage to his children. This was a mistake, evidently, but it was a good natured error, and we can only wish, all of us, that there were many more committed. I have' not mentioned that there was a beautiful daughter of nino teen, but that may always be understood in any English family that has known wedded life long enough. But there were, of co%rse, no attentions on the part of the young mnan, other than extremely delicate, reserved, and proper. The youth, in spite of the two or three days' invitation to the bank er's seat, to breathe the fresh air and clear his lungs of London smoke, was evidently very 1ll, and though he declared himself well and robust, the banker shook his head. "I cannot make out what is the matter with my young clerk," said the banker .to a confrere who was in the back offico with'-him after the youtb had just brought in some papers. "Well, you are rather green, I sould say, for a man of your time of life and experience," said banker number two. "Don't you see what's the matter ? - He is in love." "In love ! bab! He is' modesty and propriety itself." "I tell you it is a fact,'and 'kith a rich old fellow's daughter, who would no more think of having him for a son-in-law than you would." "Oh! the haughty old fool; my Sclerk is as good as his <daughter, and be hanged to him. Thank you for the hint." As sooan as baner- nnmber two had disappeared, the clerk was called in. "So, sir, you are in love, and pining away for the object of your affection; that's yonr secret, is it? Why did you not tell me before, sir ?" The youth was silent. "Well, my boy, I piy you; but tI give you a bit of advice.. If the daughter is fair, she is worth running a risk for. Look here I there are ?500, and two months' leave of absence. Ran away with the girl. Bah I don't look .so stupid. I did the same thing be fore you, and it has not hurt me." The clerk fell upon his marrow bones, and was upon the point of making .a clean, breast of it when the old gentleman rose and left precipitately, to avoid a ee The young man considered and acted, and the consequence was that the next. day week there was no daughter at the-dinner table of the banker at the country house. The house was in con sternation, and search for her was made in all directions. A note was, however, found on her dressing-table, conveying the cus tomary prayer, and one enclosed from theyoung clerk, stating that, believing the banker had meant to give him a hint with regard to his daughter, and was not able to give his public consect owing to appearande, he had acted on his suggestions, and that, ere his father-in4aw received the letter, he (the clerk) would be his son-in law. The pill was a bitter one, nd -thejoke a terrible one against him, and the city men are very jverse to a joke against them, so It was hushed up, -and has only get to the ears of the purveyors -of scindal an. d to your corres pondenq, who records it as a trait of London, life. DON'T . Don't insult a poor man. His muscles may be well developed. Don't color mzeerschaams for a living. It is simply dying by inches. Don't throw dust in your teach er's eyes. It will injure the pupil. Don't worry about the ice crop. Keep cool, and you will have enough. Don't boast of your pedigree. Many a fool has had a wise ances tor. Don't buy a coach to please your wife. Better. make her a little suf SDon't write long obituaries. Save some of your kind words for those iiving. .Don't publish your acts of chari ty. The Lord will keep the ac oount sti-aight. Don't mourn over grievances. Bide your time and real sorrow will come. ~D~On't put on airs in your new clothes. Remember your tailor is suffering.. Don't be too sentimental. A dead heart properly cooked will make a savory meal. Don't ask your pastor to pray without notes. flow else can he pay his provision bill? Don't linger where 'your love lies dreaming.' Wake her up and tell her to get breakfast. Don't put off subscribing for this paper. Send in your name with out further delay. Women need exercise in more ways than riding or walking, even; they reqdire to use their hands and arms, to throw out their chests, to put the whole body in motion. No health lift, no gym nastic is half so good for this pur pose as making beds, and sweep ing, dusting and arranging rooms. Then there is something peculiar ly agreeable in the thought that an intelligent -hand touches and smooths sheets and pillows, evens everything off nicely, removes with care dust from vases, bottles, books, and secret nooks and cor nrs, leaves the toilet apparatus in order, and takes away whatever is unsightly. The time required is very little, indeed, when the work is done with regularity, and the satisfaction.is immense. [Jennie June. A MAN OF PARTS. F 1EW OF THE STORIES TEAT WILL BE TOLD SEFORE THE CAMFAIGN Is OVER. "What do voa think of the ticket," asked Mr. Magruder, in the boarding house, last night. "Toler'ble," said Mr. Maguffin, "toler'ble. Down in the custom house this morning I saw a clerk behind the counter trying to stave )f a otof fellows who wanted-to oet their invoices verified. I asked him what he thought of it and he stopped work at once." "Thick of it ?" he said. "It's a blazer; it will draw like a house %-fire." "Think Gov. Hayes will be a re rormer?" "Reformer! I don't know any 'hing about that, but just look at is war record. I 'Was in the regi nent that served under Hayes it Shiloh. The Governor was a irandishin' his sword and urging is boys on, when along came a bullet and knocked off his right irm. He just shifted his sword to is left hand, had a tourniquet put )n the stump 'of his right arm, %nd thon plunged into the fight %gaih. Good ticket? I should say 5o1" Over in the appraiser's office I round the enterprising young man that used to put the figures in Dharley Lawrence's invoices. I %sked him what he thought of the ticket. "Thiink of it? It's a roarer." "Believe the Governor will pitch in -for reform ?" "I do't know what he will pitch in fork but will you just cast our-eye 'on his war record? I was in a regiment that served un er him at AitieUm. The Gov Drnor was brandishin' his sword d shouting to the boys to get in, when along came a ballet and naked off his left arm. He just shifted the sword over to his right hnd, ad a hasty tourniquet put on the stump of his left arm, nd then bolted into the fight igain. Draw? He'll draw like a bast furnace I" Happening in at the post office asked one of th6 boys who were 'ast ii' the~ mails, how the ticket struck him. "it'll sweep the country I" "Do you suppose Hayes will re orm the government?" "Hey ? I didn't catch that," and the young man put his hand up to his ear. I repeated the question. "Oh, yes ; reform. Well, now, I really can't !say whether he'll be a reformer or not ; but will you ust let your eye rest on his war record for a moment? I was in a regiment that served under him at Gettysburg. The Governor was brandisin' his sword and hollerin' to the boys to let 'emselves loose, when along came a bullet and car ried away his right leg. The Gov ernor stopped just long enough to have his leg coopered up, and then he drove into the battle again. Good ticket? The country was cryin' for it !" Then I dropped in at one of the Uhited States, court rooms, ujp stairs, and asked one of the officials what he thought of the ticket. ?tA boon to the country, sir, a sweet boon." "Think he'll root out the cor ruption that defiles thie service ?" "JOst how much rooting he'll do I am unable to state ; but may I invite you to consider for a mo ment his war record ? I was in a regiment that served under Hayes in the Wilderness. The Governor was brandishin' his sword and call ing on the boys to rush forward, when along came a bullet and lop ped off his left leg. The Governor didn't even get off his horse. He just tied a waist belt around the leg and went ahead again. Will the people vote for him? My frieed, they'll have to enlarge the ballot boxes." In a room across the hall I met a United States Marshal making out a bill for extra charges. I asked him about th'e-teket. "Magnificent I" he said, "mag. nificent I" "Think the Governor is likely to reform the administration ?" "w,m really, I hadn't given the reform question much considera tion ; but let me ask you to look at his war record. I was in a regi. ment that served under him at Cold Harbor. The Governor was brandishin' his sword add whoop in' the boys forward, when along came a shell and struck him square on the breast. It burst inside of him and tore him into fine hash. We raked him into a rubber blan ket, and were carrying him to the bivouac of the dead, but the Gov ernor wouldn't have it. He jump.. ed out of the blanket 'and sprung on his horse and went forward, brandishin' his sword. Will he be elected ? Just you wait and see I" Anatomically speaking, Mr. Ma gruder, the Governor is, or was, a man of .parts; much so; but I don't believe they can get. him to gether in time for 'lec;ion. (N. Y. Sun. A TIGHT SQUEEZE. On the-corner of Market and El. Dorado streets, Stockton, Cal., is a vacant lot, sometimes used to store agribultural machinery upon. Nearest the El Dorado side stands a new-fangled hay. press, designed to be worked by hand, an. which has a series of long levers on the side, like the spokes of an exagge rated wheel, by which it is opera ted. The other night, early in the evening, an immigrant, without means to get lodgings, spied this press and concluded it would fur nish a safe and economical retreat for. the night. Accordingly he crept in through the small door, shutting it after him, and curled himself up in a self-satisfactory posture and went to sleep, to dream, perhaps, of picking up golden. nuggets upon the'treets of the El Dorido. Above his head, shutting out of view the cheerless sky, was the "follower," .hich, when the machine is operated, do scends slowly hut- powerfuly- in side the press, and compresses the hay in a compact bale. - About eleven o'clock a couple of~ young men,. sadly naeeding exer cise, on their way home, passed by the press, and noting the inviting levers standing out in the dark like appealing arms, concluded to run the- machine round -a -few times, just for a lark. They did' so. There was a sound of subdued tumult insidle-a smothered impre cation and a piercmng yell in qui*k succession. As soon as the twain could recover from their surprise; they opened the door 'through which the' hala is y.oj.ected, and, by the light of a hasty match, dis covered the flattest-looking imhmi grant who ever left the banks of the Missouri in quest of adventure in the Pacific wilds. .He was considerably flatter than the traditional boarding house pancake, and was compressed in smaller' compass than a can of des sicated vegetables., The "follow er" was hastily drawn up, and the stranger doubled up and pulled out. The. result proved that' he was more scared than hurt, and the amateur agriculturists. gave him half a dollar to secure a more safe and comfortable dormitory. Limmss &a Fr.owEs.-A Ger man florist related the other day in a high state of irritation his troubles in this way: "I have so much drouble with the ladies when dey come to buy mine rose. Dey wants him hardy, dey wants him doubles, dey wants him moondly, dey wants him fragrand, dey wants him nice goler, dey wants him ebery dings in one rose. I hopes I am not what you calls one uncallant manig but* have some dimes to say to datEladies, Madam, I never often sees dat ladies dat.was beautiful, dat was rich, dat was good temper, dat was young, dat was clever, dat was perfection in one ladies. I sees her mueh not." Anonymous letters are the ille gitimate children of mental vaga bonds.- - If men would set good exam pies, they might hatch better hab its. Experiences are more necessary to some personia than to others. ADVERTISINC RATES6 Advertisements inserted at the rat of $1 .00 per square-one inch-forAfuisertiol and 75t. for each subsequent InUertIOn. DOGWOe column advertisements teuper cent on Above. Notices of meetings, obftuxries and tribuo a of respect, same rates-per square a ordinay advetsements. Special notices In local column 15 eWn.s perline, Advrsmf ad mau"ewiththenfBuml ber of inmedmn will-be kept 4ftlI M frbid and chaqged accordhWgy. Sp~1alconracs adeI~fk hipadver flseis, withUberal4sudrnao rate JW_ "iww, Done with Neatness and Dispatch Terms Oash. TO RESTORE DROWNING PERSONS. 1. Lose no time. Carry out these direcetions on thespt 2. Remove tbi~ froth and m:5-kMs from the mouth andinosrflk~ 3. Hold the body, -for. a few se onds only, with the head hanging down, so that the %ter* may 1-an out of the langs andwippe 4. Loosen all' tight.,aricl: o clothing about the neck anebe. 5. -See that -the -tongue is:pulWe forward if. it *falls back iito thid' throat. -ty takinighold otilti with a handkerchietit will not s!io,. .6. Iftthe.bre&thighm caft4 or nearly so, it amustbesius~ by pressure of th -thest wittr*'h;e hands, in imit4tion of tho'naiWO-4. breAthing; ferile~l~te air .1rop the .1ungs,-=~d4Howx1ng-' to re-ewter and expand- than-by. the elasticty t. the -ribs . member that thi's i's the MsMn portant step of. - To do it,reodily0sly th1*4*msn on his bmck,. with a ceshion, pil-. "The roast beef just rem.ovsiL'~ uP;1~, mntn thA nneldinrP'