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With both an extra copy of the Magazine for 188', and the "Golden Gilt," or the large steel-en graving, "Tired Out," to the person getting 1er Larger Clubs Greater Indacement! Address, pot-sd 806 Chestnut St., Phila,delphia, Pa. 0Specimn set gratis, if writte for, SONG TO TIE SEA. "Let the wave-song of Beauty be sung to the sea, Like the curve to her bosom its rhythm shall be. As she Ilings her white arms with a passionate plea, On the death of the shore-that nc feeling can free. "Sweep over us sea-born the swell of thy sway, For the songs that we sing are the per fume of play. And the resonant breezes, like music astray, Are wafting our spirits forever away. And earth in its languor half closes its eye ; For hours are but cloud-drifts that silently fly, And love is a vision, and life is a lie.', MAY AND SEPTEMBER. --0 In a well furnished apartment in one of the houses in Bloo.ningdale street, there sat, on the morning I speak of, three persons. One was a man whose smooth brow and un faded locks told nothing of age; second was a lady who might once have possessed great beauty, but on whom consmnption was making hasty and unmistakable ravages. The third was a girl of eighteen or nineteen, whose likeness to each, as well as her evident devotion to theirwants,. proclaimed her their daughter. , Kate Ashcroft was not beautiful, in the common acceptance of the word. She had fine expres sive eyes and a sweet mouth, but evet these did not entitle her to be called a beauty. The highest charm of her face was a sweet and lovely expression, speaking of in ward peace .and gentle, kindly thoughts. Mr. Ashcroft had long been an in. valid. When still in the prime of life, paralysis had done its work upon his frame, bringing all the ap pearance of old age to his noble igure, while his face was still youth ful. Mrs. Ashcroft had watched beside him faithfully and devotedly until consumption had touched her with its chilling fingers, and laid ber upon a bed of pain and di-tress. rhus it fell to the daughter to nurse both invalids; and she did it with a devotion that made the task tight. She was the light of their yes--the only being whom they ould.not cheerfully give up, in the prospect.of death. What would she do when they were gone, was a question tLat weighed upon their minds most beavily. They had no relatives near enough to take an interest in bhe child; and the few friends they possessed were in foreign lands. Judge, then, how desolate was the path that seemed to be before the dlaughter they loved so well. It is added, too, to their anxiety, that they ~must leave her penniless. Sickness had melted away their resources until the little that was Left would hardly, Mr. Ashcroft thought, pay the expenses of the double funeral which must inevita bly follow their long and lingering illness. "Do not grieve so, dearest father," Kate had been saying: "I shall surely be provided for. I can work as well as any others. The little I shall want, I can earn." -Her father gazed at her with tearful eyes. "Poor Child !" he exclaimed; 'how little you know of the world. Howt will you, who have known so little of the trials of life, be able to stem the rude torrent of' adfersity? Hlow will you bear upj against the terrible burden of poverty? Will these little hands be strong enough to earn your daily bread? -Youk who have never been trained to work, who have never borne the weight of crushing sor row. 0. merciful Father! Bring her into the fold, and make her thine especial care !" Tears hot and bitter impeded his utterance. It was long ere Kate could soothe him into anything like composure. Mute and still was the mother's grief, yet as deep as that of her husband. All the terrors of a desolgte, lqnely lifo foj Kate gprose before her; yet she conqiuered all traoe of emotion. It was but the prelude of grae; suf. fering, for that night saw her in the shadow of the dark valley. The breaking of a blood vessel was the consequience of her surppressed emotion, and before morning the weary spirit was released from the suffering body. "There sat the shadow feared of nian." More rapidly than ever Mr. Ash. proft was failing. The death ol his wife was his own death blow. From the moment of her departure he ceased to speak, and Jay wrap. pod in grief. It was pitiful indeed to see oor Kate. She went frma the room to look upon her mother's i lifeless remains, and back again, I to try to speak comfort to the poor a mute sufferer, Scarce a day inter- c vened before he, too, was summoned f away. S "0h, fur one word-one look of t recognition !' sighed the poor girl e who hur.g over him. Alas, it was not granted her. Slowly the pulse i ceased beating, and then stopped forever. Kate was, indeed, doubly s orphaned. Kind neighbors tried to bring a comfort to the bereaved girl; but f she could not bear the words. She shrank from them as if touched to h the very quick; and her well-mean- t ing comforters at length left her to l herself. When all was over, Kate r was told that she must leave the I house. It was wanted for a richer s tenant. She had not a single dol lar. Her furniture was taken away i and sold to pay reut. All the little \ ornaments of the room, so dear to y her because they were the gifts of her parents on successive birthdays, u went with the rest; and in the after- s noon of the third day from the I funeral of both her pare..ts, Kate walked out of the gate and entered t a small cottage, poor, mean and s old, the only shelter she could af- ft ford to rest in. The next week saw her out in the o pursuit of employment-something f -anything that would. bring her food enough to support life and s strength. No foolish pride in Kate's ti heart held her back from the search V after the means of living. Teaching a -that resource of almost every girl left to herself-was not includ ed in her catalogue of labor. Kate s was intelligent and well taught; but of the regular routine of learn- o ing she was ignorant. Of useful information she had a fund. It was imparted to her from childhood by a her father and mother; but neither I of her parents was willing to spare her from home, and therefore her n school knowledge was not extensive 1. She had learned book-keeping, how- ti ever. of her own father, who was i once a successful merchant, before the hand of disease had touched e alike his person and his fortune. And her first thought was that she w might obtain some situation in which she could make this knowl edge count to her for bread. ni She entered several stores, mod- a estly offering her services as book- h keeper or cashier; but all those situ- 6 ations were already filled. Next the milliner's shops were tried- h then the dressmaker's rooms-shops fi and rooms which, in better days, a her mother ):ad most generously f patronized, but which now seemed f to have no room for Kate. Her s last effort was at a depot for ready 1) made linen. The shopman knew it her, and allowed her to carry off I some work without the usual deposit W o its worth in money. She was glad of even this scanty means; y and half an hour aUter she left the '9 shop she was seated in the one habita. a ble room of her little cottage, sew- a ing diligently upon a garment- c the first of her haif dozen.s Kate was a rapid and skillful seam- a stress; and, as her small house re quired but little time to put it in b order, and her frugal meal still less b time to prepare, she was rejoiced to find that she could complete them* all in a single week. She was toh be paid a half dollar each; and shea carried them back, and recei ,ed the' money the next Saturday evening Y with a feeling of satisfaction that s no one ever experiences unless : it is earned. Every week she l now earned sufficient for he expenses; and, very soon, she was d trusted with finer and more expen sive work, until at last she could " readily command from six to eightS dollars. She (lid this until latc in the winter, constantly carrying bundles of work, and enjoy the airs and exercise it brought her, with out a thought of degradation in so doing.s True, she was sometimes passed without recognition by some who 1 had known her under other circumi stances; but Kate's cheerful and in dependent spirit was far above all this. She looked as serene under the neglect as if the recognitiona were ever so cordial; and so oftenh shamed the proud ones, who could not deny that in her simple mourn- q ing garb there was an elegance and propriety to which they neveryts attained. Even her package of work did not t ake from her the un-l mistakable lady-like appearance in separable from her; for she carried 2 it with an ease and grace so rare that it seemed almost t,he badge of Y superior gentilty. The lovely op- 'E pression, which we have called her highest charm, still illuminated her v face; and they who looked at Kate r once were apt to linger in theim in- f terested gaze as long as politeness n permitted. She was returning from carrying c back some work one slippery day C when, just as she had shut her own t little gate, she slipped upon the ice 5 and fell, breaking her ankle and se. e verely wrenching her left arm. She tried to move and rise, but it was t impossible. She uttered a little n mourn of real pain, and then fainted. a She might have lain a full half hour h thne whan a gantlaeian discovered i er and alighted from his chaise. le raised her to a sitting posture, nd the pain of being removed re alled her senses. She shrank rom his touch for an instant, but oon recovered from her momen ary embarrassment, and gratefully xpressed her thanks. "Whither shall I carry you, my ear young lady?" he asked, kindly. -This is my home, sir," she an wered, producing the house key. The gentleman unlocked the door, nd Kate strove to rise, but again ainted with the pain. The stran er carried her in and deposited er gently upon the wide, comfor able couch which had served as a ed ever since she removed. He adily found some water, which e sprink!ed upon her face, and he revived. I am a surgeon," said he, smil ig; "an old, gray-haired surgeon. Vill you permit me to examine our injuries?' There was such a fatherly man er about him that Kate could but ubmit to holding out her arm and >ot for his inspection. "You have hurt yourself more ian I thought, young lady," he %id, in a tone so cheerful that Kate it as if she had found a friend. But it will be all right soon, if rtly you will have a littie courage >r a short time." '"Oh, I have plenty of that," an wered Kate; "but I lack the forti ide to endure long-continued pain. Vill it be long, sir?'' she asked, nxiously. "Not if you have good nursing." "Ah, that is out of the question. r.'' "Why so? Have you no mother r sister?" Kate's eves filled with tears. "I have neither," she said, after pause in which she was weeping itterly. "No friend who can be with you ow while I mend this broken mb?" he asked, while looking at ie small white arm bared for his ispection. "I have no friend," she murmur 31. It was a short sentence, but it 'ent to Ir. Broderick's heart. "No friends! Poor young lady !" But before he could say a word iore Kate had hushed her emotions wakened by his questions and was er own calm, collected self again.. he bore the setting of her ankle ke a hero, and submitted to have er arm violently pulled without inching. Then she sat upright nd looked this new helper in the ice. He was a man of apparently )rty years of age; tall, and not lender; with large, benevolent rown eyes, and a few white streaks i his dark, abundant hair; a gentle ian in the broadest sense of the 'ord, as scholar, and a good sur eon. Kate's simple, straighfor ard mind had divined what he as, and her eyes took in the details, s well as the mueaning,of his face; face so entirely good that a little bild might read it. Her heart in inctively told her that here, at ny rate, was a man who would ever deceive. She had heard of him-heard how eloved and trusted lie had been in is native city-a neighboring one here he had always practiced ad heard of more than one noble aid grand deed lhe had performed. he had learned, also, that in his ounger years he had been sorely mitten with disappointment-had id all his hopes of a happy domestic fe upon a broken shrine, and had eheld them waste away into utter ecay. All these things rushed to her memory when he told her his name. he remembered, too, that her fa 1er had desired to call him in hen her mother was ill, but that me had opposed it. Her motuer as always so afraid of expenses hich she knew would not avail to ive her life, and she wanted so iuch to leave something for Kate hen she should have passed away. oor woman ! could she have known Kate's present situation, there ould have been one pang more in er dying hour. "I shall ride over to see how you re to-morrow," he said, kindly, as e went out. "You must be as uiet as possible, but I will lend on my cane, so if you want to me and lock me out, you can do And Kate did rise and go to the oor with him, despite the grotesque ess of hopping on one foot. "Now go back to your sofa, and ou may read a little; but remember, o work till I see you." She obeyed him willingly, for she -as weary, and was, moreover, jar ad by her fall. Toward night she all asleep and did not wake until morning. She was unable to go bout much, even with the doctor's ane; but, fortunately, a little girl ,me in on an errand, and Kate egged her to get mother's permis ion to stay with her until she Duld be able to walk about. Through little Jenny's exertions, 1e room assumed its usual neat ess. At noon the doctor made his ppearance. Kate was sitting up er foot in a cushioned chair. it 'ad doing walt, Dr. RBr ,k s%d and she would need no other atten dance. "But I shall call occasionally," lie added, -so that you shall not be too careless." The next week he asked her to ride with him. She needed air, ho said; and, as it was always his pre scription for convalescents, she must not object. Into his amply. robed sleigh, therefore, he lifted her taking Jenny also; and the next hour found them stopping at the doctor's own home. "My mother will be happy to see you, Miss Asheroft." he said. "She is greatly interested in my patients, espeially when they are as lonely as yourself.' And he carried her in his arms to an apartment, half office, half sitting room, where a sweet faceed woman welcomed her with kindly warmth to a seat beside the cheer ful wood fire. The windows were full of the rarest plants, the walls were almost covered. Splendid roses and lilies were in bloom, geraniums and fuchsias were abun dant, and the purple scented violets were the sweetest Kate had ever seen. "They are Arthur's favorites, above all flowers," remarked Mrs. Broderick, as Kate eagerly took the cluster she gave her; "and I think they must be your favorites, too, by the way you looked at them." They were indeed very. dear to Kate, as they were the last flowers her mother held in her hands; and she told her new friends why she loved them so well. -She is a little darling, Arthur !" exclaimed Mrs. Broderick, when the doctor returned from taking Kate home. "I am going to send for her to stav a month with me. Do you think she will come?" The doctor laughed. "Not unless you tell her that you want her to sew for you, mother. She was hardly willing to call here, or even to ride with me. If she is 'innocent as a dove,' she is also as 'wise as a serpent,' and will not be beguiled into anything that will compromise her character." "I like her better for that, Arthur. Very well; tell her I want a seam stress for several weeks, and will give extra prices for work. But don't you go to falling in love with her, Arthur." "Why not?" "Because I shall get no work done if you are hanging about the room." "You are a dear, cross, good mo ther. What do you suppose I want to fall in love for, when I have you? Besides, you are such a proud old lady that I should not dare to fall deeply in love with a sewing girl." "Don't, Arthur. . You make me feel faint. Remember, I was a sewing girl, and I married a richer man than you are.' "Come, come mother. I shall have to correct you or put a mis tress over you. How would you like that, little mother?" '-Hold your tongue, Arty, and to morrow see that you go early after my sewing girl,' Dr. Ar-thur patted his mother's cheek and kissed her fondly. "I am going now," he said. And truly he told Kate such a piteous tale of his mother's disap pointment in losing her seamstress that gratitude to him prompted her to go. A month of happiness it was to Kate-so petted and caressed, so carefully tended, and finally, so be loved by mother and son. "I don't know," said Mrs. Roder icJc, reflectively. "It's a serious thing to marry a wife only half your age, Arty.'' "Nonsense, mother. I have made a bargain with this little girl. I have promised to give her ten years of my forty, and that makes a fair average of thirty years each. It will be a happy match, dear mother. Don't break it up with any of your objections." And it was and is a happy match for both. TilE KILKENNY CAT STORY. The etory has been so long cur rent that it has become a proverb, "As quarrelsome as the Kilkenny cats," two of the cats in which city are asserted to have fought so long and so furiously that naught was found of them but two tails. The cor-rect version -of this saying is thi--: During the rebellion which oc cnrred in,1reland in 1798, Kilkenny was garrisoned by a regiment of Hessian soldiers, whose custom it was to tie together in one of their barrack rooms two cats by their respective tails, and then throw them faice to face across a line gen erally used for drying clothes. The cats naturally became infuriated, and scratched each other in the abdomen until death ensued to one or both of them. The officers wore made acquainted with the barba. ro.is acts of cruelty and resolved to put an end to them. For this pur ro an ofBor was ordered to :n. spect each barrack room daily and report its state. The soldiers, de termined not to lose '.he daily tor ture of the cats, generally employed one of their comrades to watch the approach of the officer. On one occasion he neglected his duty and the officer was heard ascending the stairs while the cats were under going their customary torture. One of the troopers seized a sword from the arm rack and with a single blow divided the tails of the cats. The cats escaped through the open windows of the room, which wus entered instantly afterward by the officer, who inquired what was the cause of the bleeding cats' tails being suspended on the line and was told in reply that "two cats had been fighting in the room; that it was found impossible to separate them and they fought so desperately that they had devoured each other, with the exception of their two tails." FRON RCANDOM RECOLLEC TEONS OF A LONG LIFE. (To be published by Subscription.) BY EDWIN J. SCOTT. OLD GRANYB. From the Palmetto Yeoman. The British had a fort at Granby in the Revolution, and Mr. Cayce's house that still stands there shows a hole in the northern end made by a small cannon ball when the fort was besieged and I believe captur ed by the Americans towards the close of the war. The town being at the head of navigation on the Congaree, with a ferry on the road leading from the up country to Charleston, and broad tracts of rich lands extending many miles below, was a place of considerable business. A number of its mer chants made fortunes and lived in good style. Many of their families were well educated and formed a circle of refined society that was both moral and elevated. Among them were the Bells, the Seibelses, the Hanes, the Fridays, and others whose descendants go to make up the population of Columbia and its vicinity. But when the State Capitol, the South Carolina College and the ses sions of the Supreme Court were established in Columbia, Granby began to decline. It had always be unhealthy. The capital and en terprise of the Columbia merchants, in time, drew trade from the place and after the removal of the county seat to Lexington, C. H. it became a deserted village, so that in 1882 but two or three stores remained, those of Muller & Senn and Pou and Seibels being all that I recol lect. When I first collected taxes there in 1825, Gen. Henry Arthur, Wolf H ane, hon of Nicholas Hane, a rosy old gentleman, owner of the ferry, Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, Friday Arthur and Janies Cayce, who kept a public house, a mill and a blacksmith and cari-lage-maker' shop were the most prominent relics of Granby's former prosperity. The court house, being of large size and good materials, was bought by the Presbyterian congregation in Columbia, taken down and re built, with alterations, on the site of their present church, where it served as a place of worship for about twenty years; then it was sold to Mr. Niernsee, who removed it across Lady street and converted it into a dwelling, which is now the residence of Mr. J.H. Kinard. Thus, after serving as a temple for the administration of -justice and the worship of God, it now bears the sacred character of the peaceful home. .And here I will repeat an anec dote related by John Caldwell, Esq., in 1826, which may be called A TALE OF A SHIRT. On a bright sunny morning in May, 1806, a gay party of young folks, both male and female, assem bled at the residence of Alexander Bell, Sr., in Granby, to take an excursion on horseback songe ten miles up the river to the ferry on Saluda then known as Kennerly's, just above which James Kennerly, Esq., resided, his dwelling, a roomy. rambling country house, being on the east side of the river, so close to it that a heavy body dropped from one of the windows would fall into the water. Among the gentlemen present were John Cald well, of Newberry, and John May rant of Sumter, both then in college; and it was arranged that they, with two of the girls, should spend the night at Kennerly's while the rest of the cavalcade, after all had enjoyed themselves boating and fishing in the river, were to return to Granby at the close of the day. The two Collegians were rivals for the favor of one of the young ladies who remained behind when the others returned. They were dressed in the tip of the prevailing fashion, but Mayrant rejoiced in the display of a magnificent ruffled shirt got up in better style and finer material than usual. so that it excited the applause an admiration of the fair sex, and, as Caldwell thought. gave Iisowner an advan. ADVERTISING lATES. Advertisemens inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertior, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertior. Double column advertisements ten per cen*, on above. Notices of meetings, obituarles and tributcs of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special Notices In Local column 15 cert per line. Advertisements not marked with the anzs ber of insertions wll be kept in dl forbid and charged accordng. Special contracts made with large adver tisers, with liberal.deduction above rat*s JOB PRI"TI. DONE WITH NEATNESs AND DISPATCu TERMS CASH. tage that he was not otherwise en titled to. At bed time they were put into the same room with sever al other young men who had called to see the Granby belles, and Mav rant, to save his shirt from being rumpled, pulled it off and hung it cn a chair. This was observed by Caldwell, who resolved to put it out of the way. Accordingly, at the dead of night when all the others were asleep, instigated by the demon of mischeif, and deem ing all fair in love as well as in war and politics, he arose stealthily, and wrapping the object of his hate and jealousy round a brick. threw it from one of the windows as far as he could into the river. Next morning, when Mayrant arose, his shirt was missing, and after a thoroug andh fruitless search, he was forced to button up his vest and coat, and-leaving an apology to the family and the ladies for his sudden departure-to order his horse and take the road back to Co lumbia, leaving Caldwell in posses sion of the field. Whet-er he ever suspected his rival o' any agency in the mysteri ous disappearance of the garment, was not known, but Caldwell said twenty years afterwards, that he could never muster up the courage to tell Mayrant what had become of his shirt. LINCOLN TO & BORROWER. An old letter from Abraham Lin coin to a "shiftless" brother has been made public. The strong common sense of it makes it good reading for everybody, especially for those like him to whom it was addressed in such a firm, yet kindly tone: Dear Johnston: Your request for $80 I do not think it best to co~mply with just now. At the var ious times when I have helped you a little you have said to me, "We can get along very well nlow,'' but in a short Lime I find you in the same difficulty again. Now this can only happen by some defect in your conduct. What the defect is I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler. I doubt whether, since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's work in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselesly wasting your time is the whole difficulty, and it is vastly im portant to you, and still more to your children, that you should break this habit. It is more im. portant to them, because they have longer to live and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it easier than -they can get out after they are in. You are now in need of some ready money, and what I propose. is that you shall go to work, "tooth and nail." for somebody who will give you money for it. Let father and your boys have charge of things at home-perpare for a crop and make a crop-and von go to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you owe, that you can get. And to secure you a fair reward for your labcr I now promise you that every dol lar you will, between now and the first of May, get for your labor, either in money or on your own in debtedness, I will give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at $1A a month, from me you will get $10 more, making $20 a month, for your work. In this I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the leaded mines, or gold mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home-in Coles County. Now, if you will do this you will soon be out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a hab it that will keep you from getting in debt again. But if I should now clear you, next year you will be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in heaven for $70 or $80. Then you value your place in .heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I made you, get the $70 or $80 with four or five months' work. You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the land, and if you don't pay the mon ey back, you will deliver possession. Nonsense ! If you cannot now live with land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not now mean to be unkind to you. On the con trary, if you will but follow my ad vice you will find it worth more than eighty times $80 to you. Affectionately, your brother. A. LINCOLN. kAboston man has portraits of his family painted on his china. The cotton mills of South Caroli na employ 4,500 persons, and the value of the product is placed at $6,000,000. They have counted 319 sorts of insects that eat the leaves or bore into the trunks of trees in Cer4ral psrk, New York City,