DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NORALIT!, EDUCATION AND TO TM ENERAL INTURT @F THE UOUNTRY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1880. VOL. X.--NO, 10. IN T E OLOUDS. NT VAnIr V. SNAW. In a downward arch of the clouds, That was rocked on the billowy air, A ailver-white star lay alone Like an innocent little one there. Like a glorious soul that is free, It lay In its beauty of white Asleep in its cradle of clouds' That was rocked on the bosom of night,. Like a snowy-robed infant asleep, Or a soul of the glorious dead, In state lay the glimmering star, All alone on its cradle-like boa. Thin curtains of misty-like blue Trimmed in white, filmy cloud lace, Woro drawn from the cradle aside, Where a zephyr just held them in place, Then slow, as the picture dissolved A White arm reached out in the blue, And a beautiful fancy was mine As my eyes grewa dim with lhe dew. I thought, when our Father shall find U silent In death's chilly Bleep, With strange smiling eyes looking tip To where tie white clouds away and weep, He will look oiv our folly and sin Tired children, who will not awake-. And pardon with pitying tears, For our Innocent babyhood's rake. And with souls grown s~tless as then,4 With the laces of mis or our shroude, He will take tip His poor, weary babes, And rock us to sleep In the clouda. A FATAL INHERITANCE. BY LEIGH L. BROOKNER. "Is this artist's blouse becoming to me ?" asked Drusilla Sterling of her Cousin Lucrece. " What matter whether a garment be comes you or not? Your attitudes are always graceful and fascinating. If it were for this alone it would be worth while to be the daughter of a dancer. I wonder what Maxwell St. Ives would say if he knew that?" Drusilla's anger was at white leat but so great was her self-control that to an ordinary observer she would have seemed perfectly calm. Her voice was unusually smoolh and low as she replied to Lucrece's scornful speech : " Thank you for your compliment though it is not by any means new for me to be told that I am graceful.' As for St. Ives knowing the story of my parentage, I mean to tell him as soon as occasion demands; at present he is too little interested in me or my affairs to care about the story." Poor Lu felt that her thrust had been without effect. It was rarely she al lowed herself to be so bitter, but surely she had occasion. Here was this squint eyed, pale-faced, ill-born and ill-bred creature, who, by some elfish witchery, had won Lucerce's handsome lover from her. From the first moment Roy Sebert heard Drusilla's voice he had been ready to follow her through the world. Only two months from England, and already so unfortunate as to have caused an affi anced lover to be unfaithful to his vows ! It was rumored that a young curate on the other side of the water had com mitted suicide for her sake. When her cousin left the room Dru silla sat down before the pier-glass and looked at herself steadily, sadly. "My fate follows me. I am doomed to make trouble wvherever I go. Lu is jealous, and, therefore, unjust. I have never, by the slightest conscious act, tried to win her lover. Yet Roy is hand some, and the temp~tation hasbenvr strong sometimes."benvr It was a source of deep humiliation to Drusilla that her mother had been an actress, and, when she remembered her cousin's taunt, she resolved to try and make her more unhappy. "I will deny myself the pleasure of .being amiable to Roy Sobert no longer. If Cousin Lu, with those lovely dark eyes of hers, cannot enchain a lover, we will see what the daughter of a dancer caln (do 1 She lifted a small green-velvet shade from the toilet table andl placed it over her eyes. An intense and unremitting devotion to philosophical studies had made her nearly blind. Certainly, her eyes were not pleasant to look at, and she said, " I certainly wish to shock no one by my hideousness." Perhaps she was also aware that the dark velvet shade would make her forehead the fairer by contrast. She was tall and well deve oped, not at all the sort of woman one would take to be a coquette. This was what her female friends called her, but the gentlemen without exception denied it. "She is simply a lovable woman, and wins our interest without effort," said her gentleman~ admirers. " She isso artful as to conceal art," said the bitter and unloved of her own sex. One day, aa she sat talking to Max well St. Ives the door openediand little 5-year-old Illoy said, "Mr. Devine is come." Maxwell's lip curled, and he remarked : " I did not know this was public-.recep taon day. I will call again. " Pray be seated, Mr. St. Ives. I - have something to say to you when my joung friend is gone. Fred is priv gh, and comes at any time ; you hnrme with your presence more rare ly.' The caller had for excrse a pair of Drusilla's white kid gloves, that she had left in the villereadig-room. She took them with thnks for his thought-. fulness, and as she talked twisted them carelessly in her hands. Fred was Pained by this seemingly trival inoident. He was romantic an d not a little supersti Stilons,-for between the p alms of the gloves he had placed a dainty blue violet, say ing to himnself, I will let this blossom be the symbol of my' fate. If she places it at her throat or in her hair, if it in any wa reevs attention or gives pleasure, I shall hope. As she tossed the gloves aside the flower fell broken and un noticed at her feet. Ah, how different i09ur dream from the reality. nt - the first violet of the year, as it was the first love of his life ! As he arose to go she said: "If you will please take me by the hand I will accompany you to the head of the stairs. I want to scold you a little for something I have heard. With this dreadful shade that I am obliged to wear I cannot fand my way without stumbling. Wii,you excuse me for the merest moment, Mr. St. Ives ?" Now, it was not really necessary for Drusilla to be led about in a house where she was perfectly familiar, but she wished to influence Fred, and knew of no way more certain. How her soft, magnetio hand thrilled him. Why, her lightest touch was like a caress. She talked very earnestly to him about his growing fondness for cards and wine. Said she had heard such rumors, but would not believe them. Would lie promise that the gossip should be. without foundation? He would prom ise anything. He would reform ! Ro-entering the parlor, she remarked to Maxwell: 'My college boys are so much to me like brothers, I can reprove and admonish them in truly orthodox style without their resenting it. They need some one to scold them a little sometimes." Maxwell said, in his abrupt, argu mentative way: "Fred Devine does not consider himself merely a boy friend; he thinks himself a man and comes a wooing." Tho color crept into Drusilla's pale face : " Hush, Maxwell St. Ives, I will not believe it. My own regard for this lad is' so different. I want him to re gard me as a friend ; I want him to look up to me, and come to me for counsel and sympathy; I want his esteem; in short, I -want earnest, res)ectful, beautiful friendship, instead of fickle, passionate, fatal love !" She was much excited. All the con trol she had shown vhen Lu taunted her was swept away. She had suffered so much through love that she could bear no mention of what had darkened her whole life. " Whenever and wherever I try to es tablish a friendship, it is shortly trans formed into reckless and despairing love." All that she said was received in utter silence. Surely he was not man but marble. All this was such deep -grief to her, and he did not care. Any other man would have expressed some sympathy; not so this impassive Northerner, who, cynical and bitter, thought it a fine bit of acting. He had been drawn toward her at first, but an anonymous letter had told him to " beware of Drusilla Ster in g," that she was an actress by birth, and by education, and utterly without heart. From that time he had been on his guard. " Pardon my emotion," she said, after a moment's pause. " Pardon me also if I go on to say more of myself. "I want you to know if there is any sufficient reason in the past why my present should be so full of passion and pain!i You have before now accused me of being a coquette ! Upon my honor I do not mean to be. What I do I cannot help. It is a deep and sad fatality. Let me tell y<.u the story of my birth that you may judge for yourself how I camne to inherit my birthright of sorrow. " My father was an English artist and mnarrie a woman who made her living by singing and dancing at the theaters. She was as dleceitful as she was beauti Ful. My old nurse Jeanette has often told me how mother would say to her : ' The Englishman is an ogre.' But to him she would say: 'You are grand like the gods.' She won him, not be cause she loved him, but because he was supposed to be wealthy. He loved her with his imagination rather than with his heart. He was very suscepti ble to beauty and gracefulness, and both were her's to a remarkable degree. The fact that she was married did not p~re vent men loving her. She died when I was but three days old, and father anid Teanette brought me to England. "From my tenth year I have been con scious of possessing my mother's fatal fault of fascination. Thiere is nothing I so much deplore, for I have my father's honest En~glishi heart, and wouh'l win love only where I could return it. Until the last few months I have never known what that word meant. You are still si lent. I have lost your esteem b~y con fessing my mother's profession. Oh, Maxwell St. Ives, I trusted you ! Are you not still my friend ?" In hmer earnestness she laid1 both her little caressing hands over both of his. All his reserve and skepticism were swept away. He pressed her hands like rose loaves in his own, and an swered: " For life-for death !" Before they parted they were b)etrothed lovers. Drusilla had some misgivings, and said : " Can you go to your proud mother and tell her that you have espoused the daughter of a dancer ?" " Drusilla Sterling, I can say any thing to anybody. If only you are true to me there is no obstacle to our union that I will not easily overcome. I have g'ven myself to you, body and soul, and (*dhelp him who comes betwveen us ! she felt her heart grow cold as he spoke. Was this love also to prove uin happy ? O, it was too sad that in this first glad hour of betrothal ther e shouldl be a shadow of impending rjvil. She loved him so!i It was cruel that she dould not be free from foret odings. At the moment of farewell she sob)bed as if her heart were breaking, and he hatd scarcely reached his hionae wvhen a note followed him, sa* " MAXWE~LL . fvfa : As I Jove you I must never -e yo, -gi- I ..ou only bring you unhappiness. It is my sad fate. Forget me and farewell. "Yours, with love and regret, ' DusILLA STERLING." It was hardly the kind of etter to send a man the world's width from his heart's desire ! No possible combination of words could have been more certain to bring him to her side. No pleading, no tenderness, could have been more potent than this deeply-despondent dismissal. What would he not venture for her af fection ! Other men might love her they must love her if they but entered her presence-but as for Drusilla her, self, she should be so sheltered by his devotion so hedged about by his atten tions and tenderness that she could love no one else. He would not visit her to- morrow nor for many days. He would wait until her mood had changed and she was sub dued by a desire to see him. He had some power over her that he knew. But his own will was weakest. He must see her. He must hold her in his arms, if only for a moment. It was evening, two weeks from his last visit. That very afternoon Roy Sebert had returned from a fishing excursion, and at 8 o'clock he found Drusilla alone in the brilliantly lighted parlor. Never had lie seen her so well dressed, she was careless about her attire in general. m1ie had put on her one rich dress, a myrtle green silk, bought, I think, to match her emerald ring and necklace, Drusilla had persuaded herself that Max well would visit her that evening. Oh, could she but have known on what a fatal errand, she would never have let Roy lift her hanil to examine the quaint device on her ring. Before she could prevent it, Roy hat pressed her -hand to is lips. She snatched it 'angrily away and at that instant the words flashed through her brain, " God help him who comes between us." At Drusilla's command Roy instantly left the room. He had been gone but a moment when she heard the report of a pistol, and, fearing she knew not what, she rushed into the hall only to find her worst fears confirmed. Roy Sebert I y there upon the floor in a last agony, the blood issuing from a wound in his heart. Swift as Drusilla had been Lucrece was there before her. She was down upon her knees trying to stanch the blood. Her face was distorted with hor ror and grief. She was still as death until she found her efforts vain, and when her lover fell a lifeless burden from her arms, such a shriek echoed through the house as could never be for gotten by those who heard it. Father and mother knew in that instant that their beloved only daughter was a hope less maniac. Glaring wildly around, her glance fell upon Drusilla, and, re garding her cousin as the murderer of her lover, she sprang toward her with isane fury. It required the united strength of Mr. Sterling and his farm hand to loosen her hold of Drusilla's throat! 0 what anight of horrorwasithat! Drusilla lying between life and death, Lucrece raving of her lover, and accus ing Drusilla as his murderer. Only one person knew the truth of the affair ; that was John Miller, the hired man. Ho had been to the village, and, on his return, he saw Maxwell St. Ives standing by the gate, looking toward the house. The man glanced up to find what attracted his attention, and there, plain as day, saw Roy Sebert kiss Drusill a's hand. The net instant Max well went rapidly up the walk, entered the house without announcement, and, almost immedilately afterward, retracedl his steps, mounted his horse, and rode rapily away. All this was elicited the following day at the Coronier's inquest, andl the fact that Maxwell St. Ives was missing was all that was needed to confirm the ver (lict, au(t free Drusulla irom any sus picion of direct complicity in the mur decr. Yet when, after weeks of illness, she came back to reason and life, she felt that she could no longer remain under her uncle's roof. " I must live by myself," she said, sadly ; "I b~rinig sorrow and death into every household I enter." So it was planned that a cottage should be0 bought, and Jeanette should be0 sent for as companion andl servant. I was visiting a friend in the country who told me the story. She said to me, one afternoon when we were out driving, " Would you like to call on, Drusilla Sterling? there is the cottage." It was a beautiful place. There were English roses trained about the low porch. A woman in French cap met us at the doer and conducted us into the room where her mistresa sat reading. A stately woman, wearing a black dress andl a small black cap, that, with its cor onet outline marked by' tiny pearls, looked like a small royal crown. The eyes were clear and dark, but infinitely sad. Of late years Jeanette had read to her mistress 'until Drusilla's over taxed eyes had, b~y rest and carefulness, become as bright as in youth. Her mouth was large, but curved and sweet. She was so grateful to us for coming ; she admitted that her life was lonely at times. When my friend said, "I have told Miss Brook ner your story, and she gives you her love and sympathy," she reached 1her ight hand out to me. I can never forget thie clasp of those soft, caressing fingers. By-and-by she was led to talk of the past and of Maxwell St. Ives. A man answering to the advertised descrip tion of him had died of yellow fever in Newv Orleans one year after that sum mfer- night tragedy. TrF. elimbing of Mt. Blanc by F. J. Campbell, a b~liud mian, was8 a piece of blind folly. SOUTHERN NEWS. Hinds is the most populous county in Mississippi. There are nine cotton seed oil mills in Mississippi. The cattle drive of Texas this year will reach 400,000. The State Treasury of Texas contains nearly $1,000,000. Jasper county, Ala., voted to repeal the prohibition law. Western Texas is fast being turned into pastures with barbed wire. Beaufort cotitnty, S. C.,has 2,438 white and 27,752 colored inhabitants. The State oflices at Little Rock are still heated with blazing pine knots. There are 2,170 members of the An cient Order of United Workmen in Ten nessee. The new public school building at Little Rock will be heated with hot water pipes. A gentleman has recently settled at New Smyrna, Fli., with twenty-two hives of bees, brought from Ohio. Preparations are being made to light the Eagle and Phonix Mills at Colum bus, Ga., with the electric light. Of 122 Greenback newspapers in the United States only sixteen are published south of the Ohio river. S. H. Cox, of Oglethorpe county, Ga., i presented the Rev. Mr. Ivey with a plantation worth $4,000. There is but one member of the forty of the last Georgia Senate returned to the present Legislature. There are fourteen thousand six hun dred and fifty-two more females than males in South Carolina. The Pratt coal and coke company, live miles from Birmingham, Ala.,. are get ting out 600 tons of coal per day. The Commissioner of Immigration of Florida thinks that 18,000 people 1 ave immigrated to that State within two years. An elegant new steamer is being built to run un the line between New York, Port Royal, Fernandinia and Jackson ville, Fla. In Nicholas county, V. Va., James Austin, aged thirteen, and George Mas tin, aged sixteen, killed during a week's hunt, four (leer. N(otiec hats been given that a hill will be introduced mnto the next, Legislaturea to increase the liquor license of Telfair count y, Ga., to $5,000. The shipments of cattle and sheep from South western Virginia arc now so heavy that it is with (dificulty that cars can be procured for their transportation. I Thela machinery for a Clement Attach- 1 muent has been received andl put in posi- r tion at Mt. Pleasant, Gadsden counity, I Fla. It took three ears to carry the ma- 1. chinery to that place. A sale of $20,000 in Tennessee bonds a was made in Nashville at forty-six cents 1 onl the dollar, a heavy adIvance on the I rates which have ruled for some time r palst. t One thousand feet of tubimg for the s artesian well has arrivedl in Little Rock, andl work wiill be ait once resumed in pre paring the well for further boring. TIhe ~ directors believe that a large voliune of . water will be obtainied.t A man in Madison county, Tex., gath- ~ ered on his farm 1,000 b~ushlels of pecans andl sold them in San Antonio for $3.40r per buslhel. .Just $25 covered the ex penses of gathering and marketing, so lbe realizedl a profit of $3,400 on the crop. In Augusta, Ga., a velocipede tourna mnent for the small boys & I." w'' ery1 year, the merchants of thme city contribu ting the prizes, which consist of knives. balls andl other articles best suited to boys' fancy. There will be jive colored men in the Tennessee Legislature, three from Shelby, one from Tipton and one from Davidson county. T. A. Sykes, the colored menm ber from Davidson, was a member of the North Carolina Legislature. Thme Capitol Commissioners appointed by thm' Georgia Legislature to look into the validity of thme title of the city of Atlanta to the City. Hall lot, which was deeded some time ago to the atrte for the site of the State capitol, have helki a meeting and dlecidedl to accept the City .dl lot. At lu'~las, TFex., Maj. Penn baptized thirteen coniicts, 01(1 men andl women, nmidd(le-agedl andl yoiung people, in the. river. Long before the hour arrived for the immersion the townm commnencedl pour -iver on either side was a mass of hu nanity. His meetings are the events of he season. The hotel-keepers of New Orleans, vho have decided to employ white girls is waiters, say they have no trouble in ecuring them, and say that respectable amilies apply almost daily for places or their daughters. The girls like the vork and give satisfastion, both to em )loyers and their guests. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says that n1 the list of applicants for legislative Lppointments in Georgia are found the iames of leading lawyers-men of years' tanding at the bar. This shows that lie legal imsiness of that State must )c at a very low ebb, and as a rile is not emunerative. Three crazy persons. two negro women Lmd a white man, all of Newnan, Ga., )assed through Macon Thursday, on their vay to the asylum at Miliedgeville. singular to say, all three went crazy hrough jealousy. The negro women on iccount of the infidelity of their liis )ands, and the white man fron the same in the part of his wife. The Knoxville City Council now has >ending before it an ordinance providing hat manufaictories hereafter established i Knoxville with a capital of $5,000 or nore shall be relieved of taxation for ifteen years. Atlanta, Chattanooga and >ther Southern cities long ago adopted his policy, and now have their reward n extensive and paying manufactories of various kinds. Judge William Cothran was on his Vay to Lexington, Miss., to hold Circuit Jourt, when he was suddenly taken sick t Winona and died in a few hours. He vas seventy-five years old, and had been Jircuit Judge six years before the war. Ele was elected by the people since the var and was removed by Governor Nies. He was appointed in 1876 by Ltovernor Stone for six years. The New Orleans Picayiune has some er will probably settle on the lands. Deliville (Trex..) Times : W. E. Crump, iear his plantationi on the Brazos river, ut week (discovered an alligator on the e' k, some (distanice from the water. On iuing ump qjuite close it rearedl up to at ack him, when he dhextrously thirew a tronig rope over its head, anid wheeling is hmorsec rode quickly off. Trhe alliga or followed so rapidly that it were fully hundred yardls before lie suceeed~ in igh tning the rope around~ his neck. A f er a desperate struggle Mr. Crump sue ceded in (draigging lh prize honme, where e dispatched it at his leisure. It ieasured over ten feet. Ho0w Tooth-Brushes Are Made. Although the tooth-brush is not a i very complicated article, no small de gree of skill is required in its manufact ire. In the first place, care must he ixercised in the selection of bone from vhich the handle is to be made. For :k'is purpose the thigh bone of an ox is sband instead of boiling these with tho joints on-thme method commonly in vogue-thesie joints are sawed off pre vous to the boiling process. The in 3reused heat necessary in the former miethiod renders the bone unfit for the purpose of, the brush manufacturer. On arriving at the factory the bones ire first sawed into the requiredl length md thickness for brush-handles. They ire next turned with a model in a simi lar manner to that employed in the m ifacture of shoe-lasts. Then comes polishing process, which is done mneans of a sort of revolving chu &.n ingeniously-contrived machine takes the pieces and deftly punct holes for tihe b)ristles while -rooves are aut in the top by saws. how being ready for the bristles, they are intro :luced to the department for this work. rBirls are usually employed for this b~ranch of the business. After putting in the bristles, they are backed with sealing wvax to fasten them securely in place anid to fill up the grooves. All that renmainus to be (done is to brand~ the brushes and pack them for market PITH AND POINT. AND now Lady Godiva is said to be a myth-a bare falsehood, as it were. Acrons should be watched closely on election day. They are professional re peaters. SoxE one inquires: "Where have all the ladies' belts gone?" Gone to waist long ago. IF a mulo had as many legs as a cock roach this country wouldn't be so thickly )OPulated. Ti bobtailed horse spends his whole existence in lamenting his lack of ter minal facilities. A COMPOSITOR who cannot agree with his wife says he must have taken her out of the wrong font. WnY is the discovery of the North pole like an illicit whisky manufactory? Be cause it's a secret still. IT requires but a short time for a young lady out shopping to learn all the countorsigns of the dry-goods trade. "I CANNOT think," aya Dick, "What makos my ank los grew so thick." "You do not recollect," says Harry, "How great a calf they have to carry." TiHE Eye says it was a Bloomington man who hit the nail on the head, but he mourned the loss of a thumb by the transaction. Faom Adam they took a ribbone to make fair woman. Fair woman has been made up with ribbon ever since. Bloomington Eyc. PHYsicIAN now say that the telephone is injuriou- ao the ear. We presume it's the sti a of listening and hearing nothiug thI does the harm. ONE of t o first requisitions received from a newly-appointed railway station agent was: "Send me a gallon of red oil for the danger lanterns." IN Texas there is a township called Gin, and in it a town called Brandy, and the name of the postoffice is Rummy. No State could ask for anything better. A VERY disagreeable old gentleman dies. A nephew, charged with the duty of preparing his epitaph, suggests : "Dee ly regretted by all who never jJohn?" said opposite the yes," said y freckled, i. dew has com said in his softest she yawned, "'ve hear adieu for some time. l the next evening. Times says the fish in L have been so -long with out we 4 when it began to rain, for the first , e in six weeks they were seen running about with umbrelias over their heads. A YOUNG woman in Denver flung heN self into a cistern, but she was fished out. A local paragrapher advised her as followi.4: " Cis turn from your evil ways.'' But he won't joke that way when it comes ciswern. A PoET asks : " When I am dead and lowly haid. .. ...And clods fall heavy from the spade, who'll think of me?' Don't worry. Tailors andl shoemakers have retentive memories, and you'll not be forgotten. -Norristown Herald. FATE of a jilted butcher . Hie tried in drink to drown his caros, An d there found no relief ; But dally grew more wo-begone You never sausage grief. At last his weary soul found rest, His sorrowvs now are o'er ; No tickle muaid now troubles hinm P'ork reacher, ho's no more. ONE Sunday night wve were sitting out in the moonlight, unusually silent, al most.sad. Sudd(enly some one-a po etie-looking man, with a gentle, lovely face-said, in a low tone, " Did you ever think of the beautiful lesson the stars teach us ?" We gave a vague, ap preciative nmurmur, but some soulless clod said, "No; what is it?" "How to wink," he answered, with a sad, sweet voice. Simple Language In Sermons. In add~ressing the multitude, simplic ity of language is always highly desir able, there being the danger of the un learned attaching very different (and sometimes very awkward) meanings to the grand and uncommon words which even careful clergymen may be betrayed into using in the pulpit. One of those, when in his study and in the act of com posing a sermon, made use of the term " ostentatious man." Throwing down his pen, he wished to satisfy himself, ere he proceeded, as to whether a great portion of his congregation might corn preheond the meaning of the said term, and adop~ted the following method of p~roof. Ringing the bell, his footman appeared1, andl was thus addressed by his master : " What do you conceive to be implied by an ostentatious man ?" " An ostenitatious man, sir ?" said Thomas. " Why, sir, I should say a perfect en-. tieman." "Ve 1oo,' said the Vicar. " d ''"El German el glish by19o every word mI oedit' under stand. A ladininher effort to explain what oet she wanted, adwyshe waa t. mentioned that she ate lier beef ocoed rare. " Rare ?" he repeated1. "Rare ? Vat ish dat? 0, yes; I know. R-a-r-n--very aneldm."