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IFTESEWARNIGS AEE UEM ED, SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED, TUTT,S PaS are especially adapted to such cases,one dose effects suchachange of feeling as to astonish the sugergr. They Increase the Appetite, and cause thtj body to Take on Flesh. thus the syste.-is nourtalhed.and by th -i rTon1c Action on the Digestive Organk. lgular tools are pro duced Price :25 cents. 33 Murray St., N.Y. TUTT'S HAIR DYE, GRAY HAl RorWAnsKxas changed to afGtssy B.Acx by a single application of this Dyz. It. imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously. Sold by lrutgits, or sent by express on receipt of I1. Offlce, 35 Murray St., New York. LIr.'TTS IAN'AL of Valuable information and I (WI'lecetiku !m maled FRE on application.l TTOMACH CLECHATED R 5 .4 STOMIACHS ITTER r!y a t! . Zh- rvire . - noverwhebl arr.Iv of testi.nonv. c ..r ivr. tomac; and bowc.s ti I i S :erally. ~ . CROCKERY -AND GL ASSWARE. A ncS 5 so rent oif CROCKERY ar'd GLASWA. RE .jet reeived and for sale by W. T. 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The business is so easy to learn, andi. our in-trtitonls ar'e so simple and plain, that any one cain mnahe great profits frm the v'ery start. No one can ftii who is willing to work. Women are as suc'cessftul as mecn. Boys and girls can earn large sumas M:my have male at t he busi ness over one hiundred dollars in a single week. Nothing like it ever known betore. All who enigaie arc surprised at the ease and rapidity with which thiey are able to make money. You can engage in this busi ess5 (laring your so:,re time at great profit. You do not have to invest capital in it. We take all the risk. Those who need ready muoney, should write to us t once. All fur uuiae free. Addl(ress True & Co., Augusta, I lainie. Oct. 11. 4-1y. IALONZO REESE, SiIATING AND HAIR~ DRESSING SALOON, Plain Street next duor to Dr, Geiger's Office, COLUMBIA. 8. C. Room newly fitted and furnished, and gen ;leiTe'n attended to with celerity, after the .orappred-a se. o. r2, '->tfr. Pottru. IT ,AY NOT BE. It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field; Nor ours to bear on summer eves The reader's song among the sheaves. Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's gre:t thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatso'er is willed is dore. And ours the grateful service, whence Comes day by day the recompense; The hnpe, the trust, the purpose stayed, The fountain and the noon-day shade. [J. G. Whittier. [Wr.iTTEN FOR TuE NEwnERRY HiERALD.1 REFINED GOLD. -0 BY DUDLEY HOPE. -0 CHAPTERL 1. 'Well, Edith I we are nearly home, and I have my dinghter at last, free from school.' 'Yes, father; butalthough I am so glad to be with you, yet my beart reverts very lovingly to the happy hours spent over my Looks, an1d with my dear instructors and pupils. Such busy, peaceful days! I almost dread for them to end.' 'But, Edith, you can be just as eful and happy in ministering L, your old father and little bro. Aher. Herbert is four years old "ow, and during the three years .hat your mother has been in Paradise, lie has only known old Winni&s care. True, no one could iave nursed him more tenderly; )ut I wish you to superintend his ,raining now, and Maumer will -eliove you from any care about lonsekeeping.' The train neared the station, ind Edith's heart bounded lightly it sight df her father's thorough >red horses in the pboton, in Nhich was held up her little bro her ; his pearly comploxion and .olden curls showing fair against iaumer's ebony visage. She was attired as always in a straight ilack skirt and long white apron, a xvhite handkerchief crossed around lelr neck, while a plaided one of -ed and yellow was twisted deftly rognd her head. They were soon whirled home. ?hrough the windows, lamplight md the ruddy glow of pine-knots a the open fireplace, streamed as mwelcome. How natural it seem ~d to Editb to gaze upon the famn ly portraits, the massive furni ,ure-but old Maumer interrupt ~d. 'Come, to supper, chile, you must be most starved.' Edith imiled as the formidable array KIaumer had spread for her. 'Mau rncr, I see you think I have my school girl weakness for fried -hicken yet.' 'Yes, honey, old M4aumer sat aside dat fancy cook wid her Frenchifled ways to night;' glancing with satisfaction itth light rolls, golden butter, lucent prves, crisp doughnuts and fragrant tea. Edith was not long to be left without a sense of her new-ly ac guiired dignity. Next morning her stately Aunt Catherine drove up) in style. Everything about her was immaculate, and she scanned her niece with that criti eizing gaze which always seemed to freeze Edith. 'I have come to make arrangements for your do but, which will take place with my daughter Marian's, on the first of next month. I see that you are ignorant of the finer points of dress, so I will take that respon. sibilit y off your hands ; but I hope that you are capable of polish, anid will lose that beaming aiir of enjoyment, as if everything were so tre'sh and new to you.' Edit b thught n"t nling so' well.t( clculatetd ,o check 'uch enthusiasm1 as her aunt's presece. Tihe latter went on :'I am relieved that you have not a bad figure.' (Scant tribute to the beauty of Edith's litbe, graceful form!) 'You are to wear white gauze puffed over white silk, festooned with ily-of-the-val Iey sprays; and your miothier's pearls. You and Matrian will .be dressed precisely alike.' lijdith's mind cotnjnred up a via inn of her cousin, annt, all&. angular; eyes, complexion and hair having the same tinge of dead yellow ; and inwardly hoped that Marion had improved, being her se'f devoid of that petty seiish ness which delights in outshining others. But on the appointed night no greater ioil to her own freshness could have been found than poor, unrvivacio-us Marian presented. Edith's draperies clung lovingly around her supple form, and seemed endowed with a por tion of her own natural grace; her eyes were liquid and shining like stars; h r rounded tapering ;irms were almost as white as the pearls upon them ; and from the soft lace about her neck, her head arose in dainty pose like a flower upon its stalk. IIer cheeks glowed with health ; gleaning teeth and abundant lustrous hair indicated fulluess of vitality ; and others did not find obnoxions the beaming look which met A,urlt. Catherini's disallproval. H1er list of daices was quickly lilled with names. As she glided over the floor, en joying the exhil:iration of rnov ment to the fine music, she was only checked by the wish that Marian mnight have half the part. ners who petitioied her. 01bAPTEIZ 11. Edith's first ball was only a prelhdo t many ontertainmnents of a- similar nat ure. The daugh ter of Dr. Morton was sought overywhere. The happy giri never dreamed that her father's long established wealth had anything to do with this homage ; nor did her eager suitors suspect them se!ves sufficiently to closely ana lyze their own motives, but were content to bask in her sweet pres ence. Balls, lawn-parties, moon light-sails on the river, horseback rid--s, invitations to concert and theatre, beautiful bouquets, the last song or periodical-flolowe d each other in rapid succession. Edith's nature was permeated by the sunshiuc of it all, her heart full of kindness for such warm friends. But her dream had a rude awakening. Her father left. her quite well, with his usual good morning kiss and playful badin age, for his daily round among his patients. A terrible wind-storm suddenly came up. He sought refuge in an old building. The rafters were blown upon bim. An hour afterward lie wvas extricated by passers by and carried home dead. 'Friends pressed officious round' Edith, but her faithful heart clung to her father in a passion of gr-ief. However,youth and reason(which would thus have been God's grace) would have re-asserted their power ; had not this misfo tune seemed a signal to bring on a flock of other's, whose dark wings flapped about the girl's head like ravens, shutting out the sun light. W hen Dr. Morton's affairs were investigated, it was diseover-ed that, weighed down by grief at the loss of his wife, and absorbed in his profession, he bad trans furred business matters into the care of' his brother, whom he1 trusted implicitly, who resided in a city at some distance. Sad to relate, this brother proved a scoundrel. Let us charitably sup pose that .he was not always so, but that like Judas, the money proved the touchstone, which re vealed the weakness of his nature, and that he succumbed to the temptation of having the wealth in his power. He recklessly sqnandered most of this, and then went away, nobody knew where he could not be traced. CAAPTER III. Edith felt bewildered at first, and could searcely take in the fact that her fairy monney had turned to withered leaves -t hat Cinderella's godmiot her was gone, ais weil as equipage, line dresses, jewelry, and all her parapher nalia. She had nothing which she could call her own but the old homestead ; and even that her uncle, under a power of at torney, had mortgaged. Now was the time when thme sympathy of friends would have been a solace. But aLais! Edith h-al to learn hir's itte lesson that no response comes when we need it IWost. Averted looks. cold consmonpiaces, Just enough show of kindness to -vince the lack of soul in it-were her daily portion. She knew she was the subject of curious comment, of wondering where she would go and what she would do-without a finger lifted to help in adjusting her burden. What a sad contrast to a few weeks ago, was Edith in her plain black robes, with dark rings un. der her eyes caused by anxiety and want of sleep. Wearily she pillowed her aching head on the sofa. Old Maumer came respect fully forward and gently said: 'Honey, look to Jesus-lie will help you.' 'Oh, Maumer!'-and the poor girl's voice was choked with sobs as she felt. her uir-castles tumble about her,and tried vainiv to peer into the dreaded future. A littlo hand was salipped softly into hers, and herbert's childish voice asked with wondering sym patliv, sister, what makes you crv?' 'B: cause. H rbert,' whe exclaim C(, 'I da not know how I will get our daily bread.' -Vhy, sister l I know that every day I say to the Lord, Give us this day our daily bread, and He sends it.' Edith caught up and kissed the little innocent, his words sinking into her heart. With a look of resolve, she said, 'yes, I will (to all I can, and God will help me.' lier first determination was to relinquish the homestead, -ud af ter extinguishing the mortgage debt, from the residue of the sale to purchase an inexpensive cot tage, suited to their change in cir eurr.stances. She had to make herself deaf to old Maumer's exclamations of her ror or entreaty, which made her task yet harder. That evening she went sorrowfully over the old place, whose every featare was imprinted on her mind and heart, like the face of a friend. Around her clustered many sacred memories of her parernLs, mingled with childish reminiscen ces. How often when a tiny child she used to sit under that large oak watching the chattering blue jays which the negroes super. stitiously thought went every Friday to report in lower regions all the falsehoods they had heard mortals tell. She bade a mute farewell to all around her ; the tall magnolia tr-ee with its glossy, dark green leaves and large creamy flowers, burden ing the air with sweetness; the old fashioned arbor on which bloomed in their- turn the fragrant, golden cups of the yellow jessa mine, the white honeysuckle, the purple maidens-bower, the orange trumpet-vine, and the feathery leaves of the Indian-creeper with its velvety crimson star-iover-s. She wandered siowly down the long flagged walk, with its two rows of tall white virgin-lilies, looking like angel sentinels in the moonlight. She strengthened her heart not ,to pine after the dear old home, to put 'I must' before -1 wish.' With head bowed upon the gate, she did not hear approaching footsteps, until a soft, 'good even ing, Miss Edith,' roused her-. A flush passed over her pale featuries. It was Hugh Wilson, a true gen tleman, of noble life, and the only man who had ever kindled a warmer feelinig than friendship in Edith's heart. 'Miss Edith, I have not dared to show the sympathy which overpowers me-you have been so cruelly cold in your man ner,' Her finely c-hisseled lips wore a bitter expression as she said, 'why do you not pass by on the other side ? lhke the rest ?' 'A hi, I know,' he said, with con cenitrated scorn in his voice, 'hiow th~at craven Cleve-land piersecuted you with attentions in hopes to better h is own miserable fortunes -and has now showed his true colors. 1 would like to administer justice to him! But you will not surely visit the faults of such wretches upon the heads of those who love you ? I want you to be my queen-to rule over my life and home, Edith ! say that you will come to me soon !' echo in her own heart. but she steeled herself and resisted the hand which would have drawn her towards him. With beight. ened color, she rapidly exclaimed. 'you ask me from pity ! 'No! asq God is my hearer. no !' he replied. -My greatest earthly happiness would be to call you wife. The world is empty to me without you. But Edith's pride still asserted itself; and she would not yield, though he pleaded fervently. As he walked away, -the passionate vi brations of his voice stil upon the air-the penetrating odor of the lilies smote upon ber senses; and ever, to the end of her life, did their perfune instantly and vividly recall that hour and its sensations. CHAPTER J V. Ensconced in their simple little cottage in a neighboring town, Edith realized more keenly the change in her life, but her braVe spirit bore her resolute!v through discouragemcnts. She tried to close the book of her past, and concentrate her forces on'a pres ent of effnrt. Her artistic gifts camle tO her aid, and she toiled Crly ano late, in every interval of re0powO from llisoneil c eale, to rtpruo,cv in draw%ings or Oc can. vas the poetical iiages with which her hrain teemed. For several years she led this busy life of constant striving towinody her finest conceptions, renouncing luxuries and cultivating sim plicity. And fortune rewarded her industry and perseverance, without which her genius would have been little worth.. She now felt no anxiety about being able to gratify the simple wants of Herbert and herself. She was contented and seemingly cheer ful. As to happiness, she would not question her heart; though in its depths she well knew there was one image concealed which she would faithfally guard among all life's chaoges. Meanwhile, Hugh Wilson had been a restless traveller through the world. He had left his home on the morning subsequent to, the interview recorded here, and had heard nothing more of Edith. But although he enjoyed the pleasures which sprang up in hi path in a sort of outward fashion, there was an under current of heartache all the time. At last, he could no longer endure the re curring combat of' bopes, fears and imaginings. He started home ward. On a certain afternoon in the samte town where, unknown to him:, Edith resided, Hugh paul ed at a book-seller's window, ar rested by a painting there. T1he arched gateway represernted seem ed .trangely familiar to him, over which twined the clear eut leaves of' the ivy in rich luxuriance. Within tho inolosure were almost perfectly rep)resen)ted clusters of tall white lilies. Underneath was written: "Fair lilies of eternal peaee, Whose odors haunt my dreams." Hugh abruptly turned and in quired if the book-seller knew the artist. 'Yes, bet- works are in great demand. I often see her pass, closely veiled, with her little brother, but she will not know many people, although much sought after.' It seemed ages to Hugh (though really only a short while) before he stood in Edith's presence-the same Edith, except that site had been moulded by ex perience and discipline into a no. bIer, sweeter creature than in her early prosperity. His heart throb bed so tumultuouslv that he could scarcely control himself to speak calmly. 'Miss Edith, p)ardon me fotr my abruptness, but waiting is torture to me. Have you tasted enoug&h of independer.ce? You arte now, as always, the one wo man in the world to me ! IHas any other come betweenus Y' En couraged by something he saw in her shy, yet radiant face, his strong arms gently encircled her trembling form, and her pressed upon her downcast eyelids their first kiss of love. A man never attains true great. ness by' being perfectly satisfied with the result of each day's worki -.- it is dne. MiscdIanans. I er NICODEMUS DODGE. ir -- bu BY .M.ARK 'rW.IN. ey When I was :t boy in a printing' * Sul office in Missouri, a loose-jointed. .u in lon--1legged. two-headed, jeans tad, countrified cub of about 16 a louuged in one day, and without . removing his hands from the depths of his trousers pockets, Qr bo taking off his fiaded ruin o?-& siouc hat, whose broken -bi hung limp and 'ragged about i eas like a bug eaten eabbage!f. stared indiffreutlV aroundihen leaned his hip against thle ditoA v table, crossed his mighty brogans, aimed at a distant flv from a ere sp vive in bis upper tet b, laid hirr low, tn-d said, with composare: 'Whar's the bUsS.' I am t he boss,' said the editor. fullowing, this curious bit of arebi tecture wonlderingly along up to its elock face withl his eye. t tir, 'Don't want anyhody to learn the bhusiness-'tain't likely ?' -Weil, I don't know. Would you like to learn it?' Pap's so ; pa, lie can't run wre no mo'. so I want to git a show somers if I can, 'taint no diffunce what. I am strong and bearty, and I don't turn ij,y b k on no kind of work, hard nur soft.' -Do you think you would lke to learn the printing business ! 'Well, I don't re'ly k'yer a darn what I do learn, so's I get a wI chance fur to make my way. I'd de just as soon learn print a's any- b< thing.' 'Can you read?' sk 'Yes-middlin'.' 'Write ?' cc 'Well, I've seed people could lay er over me thar.' Fi -Cipher?' 'Not good enough to keep store, I don't reckoL ; but as far as twelve-times-twelve I aic-t no T1 slouch. 'Tother side of that is what gits me.' 'Where is your home?' 'I'm f'm old Shelby.' er 'What's your father's religious t denomination ?' 'Him ? Oh, he's a blacksmith.' '.No, no-1 don't mean his.trade. What's his religious denomina tion ?' a 'Oh, didn't understand you befo'. t He's a freemason.' 'What no-you don't get my s meaning yet. What 1. mean is, does he belong to any church'?'. in 'Now you're talking! Couldn't make out whbat you was tryini' to co git through yo' head no nay. Belong to a church ? Why, boss, to he's been the pizenist kind of a I Free-will Biaptis' for forty year. There ain't any pizener' ones'n' what lhe is. If they said any Ir diffrunt, they wouldn't say it whar I wuz-r,ot much they wouldn't.' s 'What is your religion ?' t 'W ell . boss, yo uve ki d 'g o H me, thar-.' 'Whbat is your name ?' t en 'Nicodemus D)odge.' 'I think maybe you'll do, Nico demus. We'll give you a trial, anyway.' 'All right.'b 'When would you like to be gin ?'t 'No.. S9o, within ten m'nutes after we had first glimpsed this nondescrip, SC - tr he wvas one of us, and with his o coat off and hard at it. . Beyond the end of mu- estab ti lishmen6t which was furthest fr-om o tu the street was a deserted garden, pathless, and thickly growun with the bloomy andl villainous 'jimp son' weed and its common friend, it the stately sunflower. In the midist of this mnouirnful spot was a decayed and aLged little 'frame' house with but one room, one window, arnd no eeiling; it had bcen a smoke-house za generationi before, Nic'odemus was given thst lonely and ghastly den as a bed- w chamber. . The village smarti es recognized at a treasure in Nicodemus right away-a butt to play jokes on.' It was easy to see that he was se inconceir ably green and confiding. to George Jones had the honor of sjp na pervrar inl thbe firaL joke on him; C e gave him n cigar with a fire acker in it and winked to the )wd to come; the thing exploded esently and swept away .the Ik of Nicodemus' -yebrows andi" clashes. 1ie simply said : '1 consider these kinWofseeg rs dangersome,' andAeemed to %pCet nothing. next even. he wayhtid VeTge and poured >ucket of ice water over him. One day whi'n .Nieodemus wa swimming,'om McElroy 'tied i clothei, -Nicodeinus made a nfire of Tom's by way of retal :ion. A, third joke was played upon Codemus a day or two later-hi ilked up the middle aisle of the lage church Sunday night, with staring hand-bill pinned be een his shoulders. The joker Lnt the remainder of the night, er church, in the 'cellar of a -rted house, and Nicodemus L on the cellar door,.till toward eakfast time to make sure. that e prisoner remombered that any noise wa*'-made, rough amerit would be the conse Cice. The cellar had two feet stuant water in it, and was ttomed with six inebes of mud Before a very long time h d ipsUd, the village smarties began fecl an uncomfbriable co,. iousness of not having made i Iy sining success out.of tbr 1n:rts on the simpleton from d .Melby.' Experimenters grew 4ree and chary. Now" tho - ung doetur came to the resWie icre was a delight and applana - ien he proposed to scare Nico. inus to death, and explained. w he was going to do it. He ,d a noble new skeleton-the.. eletou of the late and only locil lebrity, Jimmy Finn, the village unkard-a grisly piece of prop ty which he bbrght of Jimmy nn himself, at uction, for $50 der great' competition, when Mnly lay very sick in the tan rd a fortnight before his death. ic fifty dollars had gone grompt for whisky, and-bad c nsidera r hurried up the change of own ship in the skeletons. The doe. r would put Jimmy Finn's eleton in Nicodemus' bed. This was 'done-about 10.30 in e evening. About Nicodemusls ual bedtiie,. midnight, the vil ge jokers- came creeping steal ily through the 'jimpson' wees d sunflowers towards the lonely' ime den. They -reached the ndow and peeped in. There sa6 e long-legged pauper on his bed, a very short shirt, and nothing re. He was dangling his legs utentedly back and forth, and 2eezing the music of 'Camp-~ a n Races' out of a paper over d .omb which ho was-pressing -' ainst his month ; by him lay a w jewsharp, a new top, a solid dia-rubber ball, a handful of inted mar bles, five pounds of ore' candy, and a well-gnawed Lo of ginger-bread as big and as ick as a volume of sheet music, 3 had sold the skeleton toa iveling quack for $3, and was joying the result. Ed. Cox, .who killed Robt. A[ n in A tlanta, has to feed, har es and take care of 60 mules in e convict camp. This is per. ps the lightest job in the canips,' I1 it is by no means a soft one. 1. Cox was a convict lessee him If, whein lhe fell into his present ouble, and had the management a number of them. His transi rm from boss to convict, wdas one the most fitful freaks of for. ne we have ever known. So much are we the slaves of e world that wo -sometimes hes Lte to do an action whichi is om pted by the heart, fearful at it may be mistaken by others r folly. Irresolution is~ a fatal habit ; it not vicious in itself, but it leads vice, ereepingv uoo its victima th a fatality the penalty of sieb many a fine heart has pai& the scaffold. Soerates said that there are to iences which every man ought learn-first, the science of eech, and second the more -difi I. one of silence -