The Newberry herald. (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, October 13, 1880, Image 1

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THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, o Al New0erry, S. C. BY THOS. F. 6REUNKER, - Editor alProPrietsr.q o Termss2ooperinnnijA Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News,tAgricu Ipvariably in Advance. The pstperiesi itpe at th exiato oifo time for which it and oprietCr. :-v The X mark denotes expiratip Of SUb Vol. XV1. DNESDAY moRNING, OCTOBER cription. .MIisceUaneous. DR. S. F. FANT, Wholesale and Retail DRIGGIS T , NiEWBERRY, S. C., Offers Imported and Indigenous Drugs. Staple and Rare Chemicals. Foreign and Domestic Medical Prepara tions. Fine 7ssdntial Oils and Select Powders. New Pharmaceutical &emedie?. Special attention is called to the follo% - ing Standard Preparations: FANT'S Liver Regulator. FANT'S Elixir of Calisaya with Pyrophos phate of Iron. FANT'S Compound Fluid Extract of Buchu FANT'S Compound Extract of Queen' light and Sarsaparilla, with lodid ei.P'otassium. FANT'Sbo'thiig Syrup. FANT'S EQence of Jamaica Ginger. AN'S Ague Cure-well known to every one .in the County, having been thoroughly tested in fever and ague. FANTS Cologne. Guratine and Iron Bitters-the great Blood Purifier. Sole Agent for Swift's Syphilitic Specific, the Great Eliminator of all Impurities of the Blood. The care for Scrofula: Rheuma tism, Neuralgia and all Nervous Aftections. Buckeye Pile Ointment, a specific for Piles. I also offer the largest assortment of Lamps, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, and Toilet Articles, of ev ery description, at the very lowest prices. Call and examine for yourselves. Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours of the day and night. Mar. 31, 14-tf. H. H. P. IF YOU GET SICK From Biliousness and call a physician, nine cases out of ten he will give you the same prescription as Unless he gives yon CALOX&L. Many con atitutions cannot stand Calomel, and it is generally considered injurious to the phy sical system. There is NO CALOMEL -IN HI.'S HEPATIC FANC[A, And if taken in time will save you the ex pease of a physi-ian and his prescription. Sep. 15, 34-1y. NEWBERRY, S, C. TuRRR COURSES of Instruction: CLAS * SICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL and -SELECT. Also a PREPARATORY DEPARTXENT presenting the very best opportunities for thorough preparation for college. Special advantages afforded to those de sirin topuse an English Course. ba.Iprivate familes, Ineluding fuel, Ngt iirihelrOoom an&washuing, $12 per mouth. Taition, $30 to $56 per session of 10 Next session begins WEDN~ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1880. For partica ars adHdre NDs Pesdet Aug. 11, 33-2m. NEW HOTEL. This commodious edifice, situated on MAIN STREET, NEWBERRY, S. C., and known as the BLEASE HOTEL, is now open, and invites the people one and * all to call and know what can be done at all hours, to wit: ArA Extra Good Breakfast, Dinner, or Supper', for TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Forty or fifty regular boarders will be taken at proportionately low rates. Th e convenience of location, excellent spring water, well furnished table, etc., commend this house to every one. Oct. 16, 42-tf. NOTICE. Application will be made to the General Assembly of South Carolina, at its next Session, for a Charter re-incorporating the Presbytery of South Garolina. Aug. 18, 34-Snm. G. W. ABNE Y, ATTOR1HY -AT-mLAW, OfiesOVerBooser'8 Store, Xower'dBuilding Will practiee in the Courts of Edgeleld and Newberry. All business entrusted to me will be promptlr attended to. Sep. 15, 38-t. JUST RECEIVED! 400 Half Rolls Bagging. 700 IdIs. Arrow Ties. -BY J. N. MARTIN & CO. Aug. 18, S4-f ALONZO REESE, SHAVING AND lAIB DEECSSING SAL-OON Plain Street next door to Dr, Geiger's Office, COLUM~BIA, S. C. Roomi newly fitted and furnished, ad rge tlemen attended to with celerity', 47trth maio. anproved styles. No.2,4tf .Wisce1aneous. A New Lot of Nice BUGIE, PUTONS CARRIAGES, Just received at J. Taylor's Uepository, Below M. Foot & Son's, on opposite side. Call and look at them. For sale by TAYLOR & CLINE. Sep. 15, 88 --4m. PROSPECTUS. To be published by subscription, a vol nine of short POEMS AND SKETCHES, -BY "MfAGGIE," The well known and Popular Correspon dent of "TuE NzwzaiaR HEALD. The Volume will comprise from 100 to 150 pages, and, not to exceed in price $1.00. Subscribers' namea will be received by THOMAS F. GRENEKER, Editor "New- I berry Herald," Newberiy, S. C., or WHIT TET & SHEPPERSON, Publishers, Rich mond, Va. Sep. 22, 39-tf. New Store! New Stock! Having erected a new and commodious Store on the site of our Old Stand, our fa cilities for conducting the Foreign and Do miestic Fruit trade are now unsurpassed in the Southern Country. The attention of our friends, and dealers generally, is called to this fact, and also to our fresh supplies arriving to-day. 100 barrels Northern APPLES. 50 boxes Messina Lemons. 25 barrels and half barrels Pears. 15 pkgs. Delaware and Concord Grapes. 200 barrels E. Rose Potatoes. 25 Barrels Onions. 100 barrels Northern Cabbages. Peaches and Grapes fresh every morning by Express. C. BART & CO., 55, 57 and 59 Market Street, Sep. 22, 39-4in Charleston, S. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Elmina C. Maffett, Plaintiff, against Laura A. Halfacre, Emma Eckburg, Jose phine Sligh, Romeo Halfacre, Henrietta (otherwise called Nettie) Halfacre, Ida Maffett, Louisa Taylor, Henry Wicker and Catharine Morehead, Defendants. Summons. For Relief. (Complaint Served.) To the Defendants: Laura A. Halfacre, Emma Eckburg, Josephine Sligh, Henri etta Haltacre, Romeo Halfacre, Ida Maf fCtt, Louisa Taylor, Henry Wicker and Catharine Morehead. You ar. herby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office at Newberry Cot,rt House, South Groiina, within twenty days after the ser vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such service ; and if you fail to answer the com plaint within the time aforesaid, the plain tiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Ne wberry, Sept. 2th, A. D. 1880. SUBER & CALDWELL, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the Defendants: Romeo Halfaere, Hen rietta Halfacre, Louisa Taylor, Henry| Wicker and Catharine Morehead i Take notice that the summons in this ac.| tion, of which the foregoing is a copy, and also the complaiut, were filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Newberry County, at Newberry Court House, in the County of Newberry, in the State of South Carolina, on the twenty. second day of September, A. D. 1880. ~SUBER & CALD WELL, Plaintiff's Attorneys. New berry C. H., S. C., Sep. 22nd, 1880. 40-6t. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. 1N COMMON PLEAS. Francis Bobb, PI'ff., vs. Win. P. Harmon, et al, Def'ts. By order herein passed on the 20th day of Sept., 1880, all the creditors of John Hair, dec'd., are required to render and es tablish their demands according to law be fore me on or before the -20th day of Octo ber ext. SILAS JOHNSTONE. Sep. 20, 1880-39.-4t. Master N. C. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. IN PROBATE COURT. John Win. Folk, as Adm'r., etc., of L. E. Folk, dec'd., Plaintiff, vs. Louisa A. Folk, et al., Defendants. By order herein passed on the 20th day of Sept., 1880, all the creditors of Levi E. Folk, dec'd., are required to render and es tablish their demands, according t,o law, before mc, on or before the 20th day of October, 1880. J. B. FE LLERS, s. P'. N. c. Sep. 22, 29-41 NOTICE. SEED RYE AND BARLEY! FOR SALE BY! . N. MA RTIN & CO. Sep. 15, 88-tf AGENTS WANEDfor the Best Book to sell. THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE. SPLEDD STEEL EN~GRAYING [2 z In. 2REt eer Sscrber. Agnt ar 3k enrBinlPuiblishing Co., lowch t [Established 1847-1 4 AUSTON DiNNER il9USR. Passencera on both the up and down trains have the usual time for DINNE1Rat Alston, the junction of the G. & C. R. R., and the S. U. & C. R. R. Fare well prepared, and the charge yea onable. MRS. V. A. ELKINS. t. 9, 41-tf~. tCoL. THE DAUGHTER'S KISS. "I have brought your dinner, father," The blacksmith's daughter said, As she took from her arms a kettle And lifted its shining lid. "There's not any pie or pudding, So I will give you this," And upon his toil-worn forehead She left a childish kiss. The blacksmith tore off his apron And dined in happy mood, Wondering much at the savor Hid in his humble food, While all about him were visions Full of prophetic bliss; But he never thoughtiof the magic In his little daughter's kiss. Marie, the Pauper, -0 BY F. DUPONT. -0 During the 'Reign of Terror' ii France there were many deeds o daring performed, even by wo men, and many noble examples o affection exhibited. The very streetsof Paris wer( deluged with human blood, bu near the guillotine it ran in gush ing torrents. One dariz morning an unusua number of the aristocracy ha< been marched forth, and count less heads: rolled from the block A gaping multitude stood by and with shouts -ent the air a the aristocracy were thus butch ered. - Among theiassombled multitudi that dreary morning, were t% females. One of them was plainl3 clad, while a cloak was throwr around her, with which she kep her features nearly concealed. But a close observation woul< betray the fact that the womai had been weeping. Her eyes were inflamed an< red, and she gazed eagerly upoi the platform, while a shudde passed . over her frame as eacl shock of the glittering knife se vered the head from the body a some one who had been unfortu nate enough to fall under the bai of the leaders. The face of the woman wa very beautiful, and she was youn, -eertainly not more than sixteei or eighteen years of age. The other female was quit different in character. Her fac was fair, but there was a brazei expression about it. She was eia in -rags, and as each head fell sh would dance, and in various way express her delight, and then e2 claim : 'There falls another aristocra who refused me charity when humbly sued to him ?' Each expression of the kin would create a laugh from thos who heard her. But any though ful person must wonder how on so young could have become e depraved. The fist female watched thi creature for a few moments, an then, pressing her way to b~ side, she laid her hand upon tb shoulder of the wretch, and whis pered : 'Would you like to become ric at once ?' The female in rags turned abot with a look of surprise, burst int a loud laugh, and replied : 'Of course I would.' 'Follow me, and you shall be.' 'Enough. Lead on.' It was with considerable difl culty that the females extricate themselves from the crowd; bi they did so at length, and the the first female asked of tt other: 'What shall I call you ?' 'Obh! I'm called Pauper Marit 'You live by begging?' 'Yes; 'out what's your namn and what.do you want?' 'My name is Marie, the same your own. 'Are you an aristocrat ?' 'lt does not matter. If y< know where we can find a roo lead me to it, and you shall ha' gold.'* The pauper led the way into narrow and filthy street, and the down into a cellar, and into a daa and filthy room. The other female could not b feel a sickening sensation creer over her, but she recoverd herself After contemplating for a time the apartment and what it con. tained, she asked: 'Are yon well known in-Paris? 'Yes. Everybody knows Mario the Pauper.' 'Are you known toRobespierre! If to, I want to make a bargain with you.' 'I am. What do you want?' 'You see my clothing is better than your own, and I wish to ex change with you. I want you to consent to remain here, and not to show yourself at. all for a short time, or until I come to you again. As recompense for aiding me I will give you a thousand francs, and when I come back I will give you a thousand more. As security for my return take this ring.' The lady drew a diamond ring from her finger and gave it to the pauper. Then she banded her her purse containing gold. The girl appeared a little puz E zled, and asked : 'Well, what are you going to do f with my dress?' '1 want to put it on and go o where I first met you.' 'Oh, I understand now. You want to see the chopping go on, and you are afraid you will be 1 taken for an aristocrat if you wear I that dress. You want to repro. sent me.' 'Yes, I want to look as near like you as possible.' 3 'Well, that won't be very diffi - cult. Your hair and eyes, and even .your mouth, is like mine. 3 Your face is too white, though. > But you can alter that with a lit tie dirt.' They changed dresses, and soon the young, rich and noble Marie de Nantes was clad in the rags of Marie, the Pauper of Paris. The history of Marie de Nantes was a sad one. Her father and two brothers had fallen victims to the remorseless fiends of the Rev r olution, and a third and last bro. I ther had been seized. But of his - fate she was ignorant, although f she expected that it would be similar to that of her other rela. 3 tives. He had been torn from her side but a few hours before. s After the exchange had been s made the pauper looked on the ' stocklingless and shoeless feet and ankles of the lady, and said : e 'That will never do. Your feet e are too white and delicate. Let me arrange matters.' 3 In a few moments Marie was e prepared and in the filth and rage s she emerged into the street. Sbe now took her course back toward the guillotine and at length a' reached the square where the I bloody work was still gigon. Gradually she forced her way d through the crowd, and nearei e and nearer she came to the scaf ~-fold. 0 She even forced a laugh at sev. 0 eral remarks she heard arount her, but those laughs sounde< 8 strangely. d She now stood within a few r feet of the platform. e S3he swept it with her eyes. 3- Her brother was not there. The cry was now raised : 'Hert h comes another batch.' Her heart fluttered violently it and she felt a faintness come ove 0 her as she heard the tramp of thi doomed men approaching. The crowd opened as the boda of men passed. Marie gazed among them. i- A low cry escaped her. d Her brother was there. it But he w alked proudly and fear n lessly forward, and ascended th e very steps which led to the blochi Up to this time the st:-ength o poor Marie had failed her and sh -'was unable to put her resolve int execution. 8, But now a sister's love swelle up in ~her breast, and she reco1 tiered hier strength. She sprang forward, burstin through the line of guards and ra anp the steps. re -Grasping her brother by th hand, she cried : a 'What does this mean ? It is oi mn ly the aristocracy that are to die -k 'A way woman I' exclaimed oim of the executioners. nte 'No. I will not away until yo tell me why my brother is here, and thus bound. 'Your brother?' was the echo. 'Yes, this is my brother.' 'Well, who are you?' I am Marie. Don't you know me?' 'The Pauper ?' 'Ay !' 'But this is not your brother ?' 'It is. Ask him-ask him!' Young Antonio de Nantes had turned a scornful gaze upon the maiden, but a light passed at once across his face, and be murmured: 'Oh, my sister !' 'is. this your brother?' asked Robespierre of the supposed pau per, advancing near her. 'It is.' 'But his name is down differ entlv.' 'Then you are mistaken. He is my brother. Ask him.' 'Does Marie speak the truth ?' asked Robespierre. 'She does, was the brother's re ply. 'And you are not De Nantes?' 'I tell you I am her brother.' 'Why did you not tell us this before ?' 'I attempted to speak, but was silenced.' 'But you might have declared yourself.' 'You would not have believad me.' 'But your dress?' 'It belongs to an aristocrat. Perhaps to him for whom I was mistaken.' Robespierre advanced close to young Nantes and gazed earnest ly into his face. Then he ap proached Marie, and looked stead ily into her eyes for a short time. It % as a moment of trial for the poor girl. She trembled in spite of her efforts to be calm. She al most felt that she was lost, when the human fiend, whose word was law, turned and said: 'Release the man.' The chains were instantly re moved and Antonio de Nantes walked down from the scaffold, followed by his sister, while the shouts of those around rent the air, for they supposed it was a commoner who had thus been saved. The young man worked his way through the crowd as rapidly as possible, leading Marie. They had scarcely escaped it, before the pooi girl, fainted, from the intensity of her feelings. The brother scarcely knew what to do but a hand was laid on his arm, and a voice said : 'Bring her to my room again. She will be safe there.' The brother conveyed her to the apartment of the pauper, and asked of her: 'Have you seen the female be fore?' 'Yes, I know all about it,' re turned the pauper. 'She borrowed my clothes to save her lover. She Ihas done it and I am glad.' Before the noble sister returned to consciousness, the brother had learned all. When she did so they both sought secure quarters, after re warding the beggar-girl as had been promised. 'Do you think Robespierre was really decided ?' tasked Marie de ~ Nantes. 'I1 think not,' returned the brother. 'Then why did ho order your release ?' 'He saw your plan. He ad mired your courage. Could a fiend have done les?' 'Perhaps this was;the case. But Sif so it was a deed of mercy, and the only one that man ever did.' ~''You are right.'. Antonio de Nantes was not Sagain arrested, and lived happily with that .sist.er, who had so nobly Speriled her own life to save him -bty representing the 'Pauper of Paris.' It cost as more to be miserable than would make us pefectly ehappy. - There is an heroic innocence, as .well as an heroic courage. A soul-stirring incident-tread ne ngn the point. of a tack. idlanttmus. GARFIELD'S HATRED OF THE SOUTH. There is no man in the country who hates the Southern people as Garfield does; his hatred borders on the savage. What consideration could the Southern people expect from such a man? And what in fluence would he have in restoring peace and good will between the sections and in building up and ad vancing the prosperity of a common country ? The following extracts from some of his speeches in Con gress show the malignity of the man: In discusting the Confiscation'Act,! Mr. Garfield took the ground that the Confederates were in the same cate gory with the Tories of the Revolu tion-; that their lands and personal estates ought to be confiscated and par celed out among the Federal soldiers. These were his words: "Confiscate their estates, both per sonal and real, for life and forever. The war began by proclamation. WE CAN HOLD THE INSURGENT STATES IN MILITARY SUBJEC TION FOR HALF A CENTURY IF NEED BE. I WANT TO SEE IN ALL THOSE STATES THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AND SUF FERED FOR THE TRUTH, TIL' LING THE FIELDS ON WHICH THEY PITCHED THEIR TENTS. (Globe, 1st Sess. 38th Cong., p. 405.) In his remarks on one of the recon struction measures, Mr. Garfield said: "If the gentlemen who report this bill will put in a section, that all who participated in the rebellion shall be FOREVER excluded from the right of elective franchise, then I will say the proposition will be just, and one we can stand upon as a matter of principle. Anything is just which excludes from privilege and power ALL those in famous men who participated in re bellion." Subsequently, the same bill being be fore the House, Mr. Garfield asked that the previous question be voted down, that be might move the following amendment: "All persons who voluntarily ad hered .to the late insurrection, giving aid and comfort to the so-called South. er Confederacy, are FOREVER ex eluded froi bolding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States.'" Read thc following .cold-bloodcd declarations deliberately uttered on the floor of the House: "It is clearly the right of the vic torious government to INDICT, TRY, CONVICT, AND HANG EVERY TRAITOR IN THE SOUTH for their bloody con spiracy against the Republic. * * * I believe, sir, the time has come when we must lay the heavy hand of mili tary authority upon these rebel com munities and hold them in its grasp. * * * * * * "I give my support to this miltary bill. it is severe. IT WAS WRIT TEN WITH A STEEL PEN MADE OUT OF A BAYONET, and bayonets have done us good service hitherto. ALL I ASK is THAT CONGRESS SHALL PLACE CIVIL GOVERNMENTS BEFORE THESE PEOPLE OF THE REBEL STATES, AND A CORDON OF BAYONETS BEHIND T HE M." See Cong. Globe, ld Ses sion, 39th Congress, pp., 1103, 1104. On the ~18th of February, 18637, nearly two years after the close of the war, the same bill being under discus sion, Mr. Garfield made another ex hibition of his malignity towards the people of the South. Speaking in a tone of exhultation and with a smile of triumph, like a cowardly depsot with his iron heel upon the neck of his victim, this advocate of imperialism uttered the following language : - "Mr. SPEAKER. This bill starts out by laying hands on the rebel govern ments and taking the very breath of life out of them. In the next place it puts the bayonet at the breast of every rebel in the South. In the next place it leaves in the hands of Con gress utterly and absolutely the work of reconstruction.- Gentlemen here, when they have the power of a thun derbolt, in their hands, are afraid of themselves, and stagger like infants under the weight of a power they know not how to use. If I were afraid of this Congress, afraid of my shadow, afraid of myself, I would die claim against this bill, and I would do it as distinguished gentlemen around .I ne (mn,,ing his timid Republican as sociates) have done, and do declaim against it. They have spoken veh'em ently-they have spoken sepulebrally -against it, but they have not done us the favor to quote a line or the proof of a single word from th bill it self that it does any of the horrible things they tell us of. They tell us it is universal amnesty, AND THERE IS NOT A LINE IN THE BILL THAT WILL MAINTAIN THE CHARGE.'" (lbid, p. 1320.) Hancock is a man of destiny. In 1868 Garfield brought a bill into Con gress to drop the junior Major Gen eral. That was Hancock. It passed both Houses of Congress and was signed by th*e President. Before it could be carried into effect, Geo. H. Thomas, t the senior Major-General died, and Hancock going up one grade was no longer the junior Major-General and so the law could not reach him. Then the Republicans, still led by Garfield, passed an act reducing the Major C t Generals to three. This was signed by the President, but before it could be carried into effect Meade died, and the Major-Generals were reduced to three by God Almighty. Finally, a law was passed authorizing the President to drop one of the Major-Generals. Before it could be carried out, and Hancock dropped,Halleck died and Hancock be coming the senior Major-General, he could not be dropped. The man who survived all these attempts to retire him canot be retired. The man who led them-Garfield-will, as a fitting consummation of his act, fall a victim to his intended victim. Hancock will be elected President. Garfield will be retired. ]Louisville Courier Journal. HE HAD "BUGGERS."-The pri mary class in anatomy, physiology and hygiene had a new scholar, and the teacher had forgotten to post him as to what answer he should give when the question came around to him. The head was the subject under discussion that day, and the teacher began with the members of the class who had been present on previous occasions. 'What have you in your head ?' she said to Johnny Jones. 'Brains, Miss,' replied Johnny quite correctly. 'And you?' she said to Tommy Bro,wn. 'Muscles and nerves,' answered Tommy Brown. 'And you, Jimmie Jackson ?' 'Bones and teeth and tongue,' came the reply. 'And you?' she said, this time turning to the new scholar who was very much unsettled at be ing caught sticking a wicked look. ing thorn into his nearest neigh bor, 'and you, littlo boy, what have you in your head ?' 'Buggers !' he sung out, scratch ing that organ and looking as if he deserved a reward of merit. (Steubenville Herald. A WEsTERN WITNEs.-Conduc tor Hleaton is one of the best boys on the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Road, and is also one of the sharpest. It is not very often a man gets ahead of him as Pat Powers, of Holt coun ty, has probably found out. Hea ton was at Oregon a few days since on some trial connected with the railroad company. Powers is an attorney, was cross examining Heaton and asked him if he would not naturally t.estify in favor of the railrc,ad company. 'No,' replied Heaton. 'You would testify for the rail road rather than lose your posi tion, wouldn't you ?' 'No,' said Heaton. 'You'd like to be an angel, wouldn't you ?' sneered Powers. 'No.' 'Why not ?' 'Becau~se,' was the ready answer. 'tIn afraid the Lord would set me up as a guardian angel over some red headed lawyer from Holt county and I couldn't stand that.' The more we help others to bear their burdens the lighter our own will be. Love is like honesty-much~ talked about but little understood. In English politics, a man stands for a sat;- here he runs for one. AN OYSTER YARN. A New York correspondent to be Philadelphia Press tells the ollowing amusing story: I never found anything but ouce iere in excess of my expectation r even approaching them, and hat was t he New York oysters. bad then jitst come on from Cal fornia, where oysters are very mall and unimportant, not to say nsignifivarit, aid I had often eat ,hundred tLere at a time, and ad always felt that I could eat iore if I had them. So, when I ,rrived at the Metropolitan hotel ardered my dinner to be served 3 my room, and told the waiter. o bring with my dinner a strong up of coffee and a hundred raw ysters. He looked at ine a mo. ient, and then said : "Did I understand you to say a undred oysters?" "Yes," I answered; "raw, on the Alf shell, with vinegar; no lemons; ad as soon as you can, for I am ery hungry." "Ahem! Miss, did you want a undred?" "Yes, I do. What are yoa wait ig for? Must I pay for them in dvance? I wan t nice large one.s" "No, no, miss. All rigit, you hall have them," and he went out. continuned my writing and orgot all about my dinner till he :nocked and came in with my din ier on a tray, but no oysters." "How is this ?" said I; "There ,re no oysters." 'Dey's comin', miss, dey's ;omin'," and the door opened and n filed three more waiters, each vith a big tray of oysters on the, )alf shell. I was staggered but >nly for a moment for I saw the vaiters were grinning so I calmly. lirected them to place one tray >n a chair, one on the washstand Lud one on the bed. and said: "They are very small aren't ,hey ?" "Oh! no, miss, de bery largest ve'se got." "Very well," said I; "you can ro. If I want any more I'll ring." When they got out into the hall ne said to the other: "Fore heaven, Jo, if she eats all ,hem oysters she's a dead woman." I did not feel hungry any longer; drank my coffee and looked at he oysters, every one of them s big as my hand, and they all iecmed looking at me with their 3orrible white faces and -out of ~heir one diabolical eye, until I ~ould not have eaten one any miore than I could have carved up live baby. They jeered at me 3nd seemed to dare me to attack hem. Our California oysters re small and with no more indi ridual character about them than rains of rice, but these detestable 3reatures where instinct with evil Lntentions, and I dare not swol low one for fear of the disturb ince lie might raise in my interior, so I set about getting rid -of them, for I was never going to give up beaten before those waiters. I bung a dress over the keyhole after I locked the door, and just :>utside my window found a tin waterspout that had a small hole in it. I carefully enlarged it, and Lhen slid every one of those beast iy creatures down one by one one hundred and two of them1 they all the time eyeing me with that cold, pasty look of malignity. When the last one was out of sight I.stopped trembling and finished my dir ner in peace, and then rang for the waiters. You should have seen their faces ? One of the wait ers asked if I would have some more. May he never know the internal pang he inflicted upon me ; but I replied calmly ; "Not now. I think too many at once might be hurtful."' Power unsubjected to tbe con trol of virtue is a poor guardian of civil liberty. He who makes an idol of his interest, will make a martyr of his integrity. I have seen many women drown their honor in a river of dismonds. The man who .grambles with dice wil lea.rn the folly ero he die.