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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XIII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1877. No. 10. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WED\ESDAY MORNING, At '_tewberiW, S. C. BY THOS, F. ORHNHKR, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.5o per ain uum, Invariably in Advance. ~The paper is stopped at thae expiration of time for which it is paid. The }4 mark denotes expiration of sub scription. SONG. To dream, and then to sleep Until the morn return; An hour of watch to keep, A little lamp to burn. To weave but make no end, To sing and lose the song, Where busy footsteps we-,d Amon, the world's gay throng. To know that day is here, To see that spring has gone, And summer's death is near And still the hours roll on. We fail, we fade, we die, Yet once 'twixt death and birth To know Love's kiss, Love's sigh, Is light of heaven on earth. My God! thy sun is sweet, If, ere the twilight come, Love walk with sacred feet Across our naked room. -Hlarper's Magazine. BY fJ1 C P ;T TN earth he trod, for his sake. Bul you came with your simpering doll's face and baby ways, and I was for gotten. He loved me well enougb before. There; I have said my say, and shall speak no more-ex cept this: I have had a vision of the coining time, and Walter Var den is to die before a week passes.' She turned and darted into the lighthouse unheeding the plaintive call of Nellie, and the Young wife turned away with a deadly sickness at her heart. Sarah Belton had a strange reputation along that shore. Few could be found who did not believe that she was gifted beyond common mortals with the power to look into the future and delve out its secrets. Some said she inherit ed the gift from her gypsy mother; but be that as it may, Nellie re spected this power in her. She knew that it was foolish ; but wo man is, after all, weak and credu lous in regard to signs and warn ings ; and it was with a heavy heart that she went down the long street of the village to the pleasant little home which Walter had given her. A week passed,- and the haunting fear still followed and made her wretched. Twice she met Sarah Belton, and each time she raised a warning finger, and went by with out speaking a word ; but with that omnious look upon her dark face. Two weeks later and it was time for the coming of the Floating Feather, and every day for hours, Nellie stood upon the beach and looked out across the broad expanse of water for the coming of her hus band ; and Sarah Belton, up in the lighthouse tower, looked down upon her and delighted in her grief. "Aye, watch and wait, watch and wait, you little simpleton. He will ome ; but only as I say, the water dripping from his drowned locks." And Nellie heard the voice, and went away, for she could not see the white sails of her husband's schooner coming up from the west. The sun set in a threatening bank of clouds, and old salts shook their heads, and muttered a fear that some craft would lay her bones upon that store before many hours had assaThe evening was sul~ try and oppressive, and about ninE o'clock the wind began to come in ftful gusts, increasing in -violencE as the night wore on. At twelve a fearful gale was blowing, such an one as the oldest s&ilor in the pori could not boast of seeing, and Nel lie Varden was pacing up and dowr the floor of her house, wringing he1 hands and moaning in agony, when the door was thrown open, and Sa rah Belton ran in, her black haij floating back in the wind. "Come," she cried, wildly. "ThE tempest I have invoked is here and the hour of his doom is nigh.' "Silence, miserable woman!" cried Nellie, throwing out her hand in a sublime gesture. "A wife's prayen~ are stronger than yours, and m3~ husband will be saved."~ "Come and see," screamed the mad woman-for mad she inus have been-" 'the sea and the waves roaring!' Ha, ha, ha! 'and th< deep gives up its dead.'" They ran out together- in tha wild night, and down among th< crowds of frightened people on th< beach. It was a hard port to mak< in a storm, especially when coming from the west. ~Upon both sides five hundred yards from shore,: sunken reef extended, over whici the breakers dashed in wild con fusion. As they gazed, the distan flash at sea announced the comin; of some craft dashing down to he: "She is coming-she is coming. cried Sarah Belton. "It is th Floating Feather coming to he doom." "Throw the witch into the lake, growled a rough 'longshoreman "What does she want here& Ligh up the fires, boys. If i; is Walte1 he knows where we light them in; storm.' Three times they tried to ligh the great heap of combustible mal ter, and as many times the win< scattered the fire. Then it ignited and the flame went roaring up t the summit of the tall pile too bat to aid the doomed schooner, fo soon as the. flame ascended, the heard the loud crash, and kne' tat as on the reef; and i: ten minutes the Floating Feather was a wreck, torn to pieces by the power of the surf, and her people at the mercy of the waves. Walter Varden, as they saw by the light of the great fire, was standing at the wheel, and as the schooner broke up he disappeared in the wild yeast churned up by the breakers. "I told you," hissed the venge ful woman in the ear of the wife. "He is gone." A dark form drifted in on the crest of a giant wave, and a brave i sailor. with a rope about his waist, dashed into the surf. A moment of desperate struggle, and the gal lant man, with the floating form in 'his grasp, was dragged ashore ; and what a shout went up when they saw the face of Walter Varden, safe but powerless from the struggle which had robbed his sinews of their strength. A moment more (and Nellie was by his side, sobbing out her joy. In one of the grated rooms of the State Asylum for lunatics Sa rah Belton sits, waiting ever for the coming of the Floating Feather across the lake, which is alwa3 s be fore her eyes. BILKINS' REFRIGERATOR. } A CURIOUS AUCTION EXPERIENCE. There is a little unpleasantness in the Bilkins family, caused by a recent purchase. A neighboring family, who were about to leave the city, decided to sell off their things at auction, and Mrs. Bilkins; having heard of the merits of their new refrigerator, concluded to become the possessor of that article. She had heard, too, how some of these women carry on at auc tions, and couldn't think of doing the bidding herself, so she gave Bilkins his instructions, and com missioned him to make the pur chase. Bilkins had never been to an auction himself, and didn't take kindly to the propoeition at first. "Oh, all you've got to do is to ,go down and bid on it, and gect it. 'A baby could do that," she re mark ed, very sarcastically. "All right-all right ; I'll go," he replied, "anything to keep peace in the family. What am I to give for it?" "It's worth forty dollars, but you'll get it for a song." Hie departed. Upon arriving at the house he fouind them selling carpets in the third story. T be refrigerator was in the cellar, and they wvould have to sell as they went down. It was hard, but he stood it like a man. Have that refrigrerator he must. He looked on in silence as they sold the articles in each room, but bid on nothing. The men shoved him around, the women looked daggers ; all the dusty carpets and other r4lbbish were deposited in his vicinity, and he was looked upon, it seemed, by all as a fraud. He took it all, stood the crowd ing, was always on the outside, and finally the cellar was reached. He was back in one corner of the cellar, jammed in between two barrels, when the auctioneer cried: "How much for this refrigera tor ?" That was the magic word. It was impossible to see it from where he was, but as a squeaking female voice said "T wo dollars," he velled: "Ten ?" h iectowd looked curiously in hisdirctin,and1 now the squeak resounded again with "Eleven." "Fifteen !"' he replied, and all became interested. The female bidder had been helped on to a chair, ~and she screamed "Sixteen !" right at him. B3ilkins didn't see what made the crowd laugh, and didn't care ; he drew his red silk handkerchief across his face, and yelled back : "T wenty !" I"T wen ty-two !" "Thirty !" r"Thirty-one!" and she flourish edhe parasol around her bead. "Forty ! And)I'll have it if it acoi a thousand dollars !" yelled .tilkins, thoroughly aroused, and the perspiration streaming down his face. This discouraged the female, and after "dwelling" a short time it was knocked down to him at forty dollars. His w ife had said it was worth 1 that, and he was glad to be done at any price. He settled with the cashier, and as he was pas-sing out heard the auctioneer cry out some thing about another "first-class re frigerator." He had not heard of but the one, and did not want an other, so he left and went down town. r Upon reaching home in the evening, he noticed a decided cloud t on Mrs. B.'s horizon, and upon asking how she liked the refrige rator, she promptly replied : "Bilkins, you're a fool !" "Why, what's the matter?" 1 "Matter ? why, any man who N will go and give forty dollars for N a woodbox " "Woodbox ?" and he looked N thunderstruck-"Who bought any t woodbox ?" I "Who ? why you !" and leading t him out into the yard she showed a him. a square wooden box, lined c with zinc, which had probably t been used as a refrigerator some t time in the last century, and which I had been sent up with his receipt- 3 ed bill. And now he sleeps with an up- E town friend, and spends his time 1 in using strong language about I auctions. l LET THIE MAN OuT.-The late Rev. Dr. Wightman, one night sitting l later than usual, sunk in the pro fundities of a great folio tome, im- I agined he heard a sound in the kitchen inconsistent with the quiet- I ude and security of a mouse, and so, taking his candle, he proceeded to investigate the cause. His foot i being heard in the lobby, the house keeper began with all earnestness to cover the fire, as if preparing for bed. "Ye're up late to-night, Mary." "I'm jist rakin' the fire, sir, and gaun to bed." "That's right, Mary ; I like time os hours." On his way back to the study he passed the coal closet,~and turningi the key, took it with him. Next< morning, at an early hour, there was a rap at his bedroom door, and a request for the key, to put a fire 'Ye're too soon up, Mary ; go back to your bed yet." Half an hour later there was an other knock, and a similar request, in order to prepare for breakfast. "I don't want breakfast so soon, Mary; go back to your bed." Another half hour, and another knock, with an entreaty for the key, as it was washing day. This was enough. He arose and handed out the key, saying: "Go and let the man out." Mary's sweetheart had been im prisoned all night in the coal closet, as the preacher shrewdly suspected, where, Pyramis and Thisbe-like, they had breathed their love through the keyhole. WIFE, MIsTREss AND "LADY."--Who marries for love, takes a wife ; who marries for fortune, takes a mis tress ; who marries for position, takes a lady. You are loved by your wife, regarded by your mis tress, and tolerated by your lady. You have a wife for yourself, a mis tress for your house and friends, a lady for the woiEld and society. Your wife will agree with you, your mistress will rule you, your lady manage you. Your wife will take care of your household, your mis tress of your house, your lady of appearances. If you are sick, your wife will nurse you, your mistress will visit you, your lady will inquire after your health. You take a walk with your wife, a ride with your mistress, and go to a party with your lady. Your wife will share your grief, your mistress your mon Iey, your lady your debts. If you die, your wife will weep, your mis tress will lament, and your lady 'wear mourning. Which will you have ? A distant relatior,t-Your Ant Ipodes wOMIETHPn ABOUT BOYS The worst thing a parent can d( o do to a boy is to pamper him . boy can be fed to death ani ursed to death. He can be killei >y motherly kindness and fatherl2 uardiariship. Boys are only young nimals with minds ; or with wha ill one day be minds.. The mos ,ssential part of a bo>y is his stom :ch. ThWnext important member )f his organism are his legs. Good trong, sturdy legs, and a stomacl ,ble to digest anything in the way )f food, and any amount of it nakes an equation for boyhood )o not, then, keep your boy in the iouse, doting father, but give hin bat, a ball, a sled, a pair of skates rifle, anything he needs for out ioor amusement, and send him oul loors. Go with him yourself, i: )ossible. Skate with him, shoot ith him, race with him, be a boy ith him now, that he may be a man ith you bye-and-bye. How often ye have seen birds scold and push heir fledglings out of the nest ompelling them thus to rely on hemselves. How they will fluttei ,round with them. and make an oc asional shoot int8 the upper air o encourage the little things t< ry their wings, by showing then low easily it can be done. Car rou not be as wise as they ? Shal he dumb things beat you at the ame of parentage ? Keep you: )oy out of doors, father. Let hin ningle with other boys. It will d< im good to be buffeted and abuse< little by his playmates. I vill teach him to stand up fo: is rights and give him confiderc( n himself. It will make him cau ions and wary and self-reliant. A loll boy is a fraud on nature. A )oy is like a whip lash-he is no vorth a cent if he hasn't got thE nap in him somewhere. What i t that made you succeed in life LEnd how was it developed in you tou weren't pampered much wher boy, eh_? Well, be as wise t< ror son as your father was to his live him a chance to be vigorou end plucky. Start him right. ". vrite unto you, young men, becausi Tou are strong. "---Gde Rule. A. Gr.km BREAFAST.-There is no hing in which the sad and simpl knizen of the far west so delight s in astonishing the tenderly em rald emigrant. Fifteen of thes vistful beings, fresh from the go! ;eous civilization of the east, flui ;ered into a Virginia City restar rant the other day for a breakfasi WNile they were studying the hi] f fare a melancholy Virginia citi sen walked in and measured ther with a glance. The opportunit; was too delicious to resist. He sa Sown and loudly remaaked, "Wail r, how long does a man have t sit here before you come to take hi order ?" T1-e ambling waiter shriel d, "All right, Mr. Terry ; what'. you have, Mr. Terry ?" The pensiv Terry instantly ordered, in a ton of thunder,the following picturesqu dishes : "Baked horn-toad, tw broiled lizzards on toast, with ta: antula sauce ; stewed rattlesnakc on the side." That waiter was ai quainted with the ways of Virgini City, and, without even a quiver < an eyelash, observed to the Chines menials in the kitchen : "Ba-ake horned to-a-d ; two broi-1-ed lizard on to-a ast, tran-u-tula sauce ; stew ed rattlesnake on the si-i de ! FC Mr. Terry-ver-r-ry nice and we done !" Mr. Terry's real breakfas privately ordered, presently aj peared, and every individual em grant choked himself and got pai in his spine with looking over hi: shoulder in the vain effort to se the remarkable dishes which ti ingenious Terry was calmly enjo; A female Josh Billings has sui denly and unconsciously develope herself in Cincinnati. She remove from Pittsburgh to that city, an after becoming domesticated wrol to her friends at home as follows "Sinsinnaty is a nise plais anu but tha keep a good many geef here. I doant see them in the i time, but I herr them at nite in al drekshuns." Houw to signal a bark-Pull don5 tail. E ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. > One hundred years ago, there were no disputes about the impo liteness of street car drivers. l One hundred years ago, people did not enjoy the inestimable plea sure of growling about gas bills. One hundred years ago, a young lady did not lose caste by getting her hands wet in dish-water, or rubbing the skin off her knuckles on a wash-board. One hundred years ago, the phy sician who could not draw every form of disease from the system by tapping a vein in the arm, was not much of a doctor. One hundred years ago, farmers did not cut their legs off with mow ing machines. One hundred years ago, mothers did not worry over disordered sew ing machines. One hundred years ago, our fa thers did not light their pipes with matches, but carried fire in their pockets in the shape of a piece of punk, a piece of steel and flint. One hundred years ago, a public officer or other citizen could not steal enough to make the act re spectable and insure the actor a i prominent position in the "first L circles." L One hundred years ago, the con dition of the weather on the 1st day of January was not telegraphed all over the continent on the eve i ning of December 31st. > Oehundred years ago, people I did not worry about rapid transit t and cheap transportation, but threw e their bags of grain across the backs of their horses, and uncomplaining - ly "went to mill." One hundred years ago, every young man was not an applicant b for a position as clerk or book a keeper. 3 One hundred years ago, time and tide waited for nobody, and now ? nobody waits for time or tide. i One hundred years ago, men did > not commit suicide by going up in .balloons and coming down without 3 them. 3 GOOD LivisG AN DYsPEPSIA. Good living is said to cause dys pepsia ; but the most healthy peo - pl I have ever known have been Samong those who have lived well 3 who ate freely several times a day - of the most raitritious food. By some it is said that tobacco, snuff, tea, coffee, butter, and even bread cause this complaint ; but whoever - -ill make inquiries on this subject throughout the community will find 1 that it is seldom true -In fact dyspepsia prevails, ac-' 1 coriing to my experience, altogeth er the most among the temperate t and careful-among those who are careful as regards what they eat and drink, and the labor they put s upon the stomach, but exceedingly -careless how much labor they put upon that more delicate organ, the e brain. Such people often eat no e thing but by the advice of the doc e tor, or some treatise on dyspepsia, or by weight ; nor drink anything -that is not certainly harmless ; they s chew every mouthful until they are -confident, on mature reflection, that a it cannot hurt the stomach. f Why, then are they dyspeptics i e Because, with all their carefulness, d they pay no attention to the excite s ment of the brain. They continue r- to write two or three sermons or r essays every week, besides reading 1 a volume or two, with magazines, b, reviews, newspapers, etc., and at >- tending to much other business i- calculated to excite the mind. To n me it is not strange that such per s sons have nervous and stomachic :e affections. The constant excite .e ment of the brain sends an excess ~-of blood to the head, and therefore other organs are weakened, and morbid sensibility is produced, I- which renders the stomach liable d to derangement from very slight d causes. e Two rural constituents were talk :ing of the new member of the legis f, lature from their county. One of ;e them asked: "Is he talented ?" .a "Well," said the other, "I should 11 say he might set a house on fire by rubbing his nose against the door post." A ru of luck-Winning a race. LET US BE MORE SOCIAL. In order to increase the sum of human happiness, we should culti vate kind and fraternal feelings with one another. A true life con sists in something else than simply accumulating property. We do not and cannot "live by bread alone." A writer discourses on this subject most beautifully as follows: "The sole object and aim of too many individuals seems to be to get gain, "grab all," let the conse quences be what they may to oth ers. The desire to accumulate wealth, regardless of the comfort and social happiness of our neigh bors, and the interchange of friend ly sentiment, should be ignored. On the other hand, we should so live and act that the generous im pulses of our own hearts would prompt us to extend the hand of fellowship to all of our neighbors, and, looking them squarely in the eye, feel that glorious inward con sciousness that we had never wronged them in thought; word or show. Then, too, let little deeds of love be done ; let the principles of the golden rule be exemplified in daily lives; let us be more social, and cultivate our convivial quali ties by frequent -interchanges of friendly greetings at social gather ings ; let no aristocracy be acknow ledged save that of the intellect ; let us make them what they should be by cherishing a love for the beautiful, so that "Blessings may attend us forever; - And whatever we may pray for or do, May our lives be one grand endeavor Zb type the pure, the good and the true!" A CaLEss MoARcH.-The king of Burmah understands that Rus sia is about to invade England ; in consequence, he is putting his new mud forts in order. He has pur chased three new Krupp field guns, and with these feels himself im pregnable. He has already tried some of these guns on his unsus pecting subjects, and finds that the ordnance answers all expectations. His majesty personally observed the exhilarating effects of shell and grape and canister on a village three-quarters of a mile distan from the firing point. The villag a skipped nimbly about, to the eat delight of their sovereign 1o who soon set their village ania e. Rock ets w'ere also tried with surprising effect, especially as ne suddenly burst and killed a leading palace functionary who was engaged in deftly training the missile. His majesty was so incensed at this that he ordered a few shots to be fired into the shipping in Irawaddy river, which flows past his capital of Mandalay. Two native craft were observed to sink before the whole of the vessels could cut and slip. His Burmese majesty is con fident that with his Krupp guns he may safely defy any such puny for eign power as Britain. On the strength of this opinion his majes ty has united his sacred person to three more wives, and there is a "sound of revelry" in Mandalay. LATE MARRIAGE.-It is to be de plored that our young people are reluctant to marry because they cannot at once set up expensive or stylish housekeeping. Late marri ages are becoming so largely char acteristic of social life on these false and selfish grounds of social econo my, that society as a whole and re ligious life in particular, are serious ly damaged. If a manhas gained a position that enables him to mar ry with ordinary prudence, let him marry, and let not the prudence be pressed too hard; young love, if true and godly,- will make early struggle wholesome and joyous. If he has found a woman who will make him happy, let him take her to a modest home, the loving wife of his youth. His life and his for tunes will be better for it. Boy (explaining bis geography lesson to his little sister\-"You see, sis, the inhabitants of South Africa don't need any clothes to keep them warm, because they're Hottentots. But the.-Coolies are a different kind of folks, and so are the Chili people. Don't you see ? A man cannot expect half a loaf whn he loafs all the time. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at tbemste of 41.00 per square--one inch-forfirstinsertion, arnd 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double colamn advertisements tenper cent on above Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribtw( a of respect, same rates per square as'ordinay~ advertisements. Special notices in local column 15 cents per line, Advertisem^'nts notr marked w't?b the num ber of inserin' w;1 he kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special cornt'-cs m"c? a ith lsrs;e advets tisers, with liberal deduct ;(;us on above rates JOD Pfazx'ii it Done with Neatness and Dispatch Terms Cash. THOUSANDS OF AFFIDAVITS Many having used "patent" and prepared medicines and failed in finding the -relief promised, are thereby prejudiced against all medi cines. Is this right? Would you condemn all physicians because one failed in giving the relief promised? Some go to California in search of gold, and after working hard for months and finding none, return home and say there is no gold there. Does that prove it? Many suffering with Catarrh and pulmonary affec tions have used the worthless pre parations that crowd the market, and in their disappointment -say there is no cure for catarrh. Does that prove it? Does it not rather prove that they have failed to 'em ploy the proper remedy? -There are- thousands of people in the Uni ted States who can make an affda . vit that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery have effected their entire cure. Many had lost all sense of s meall for mnths and piecesC of