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VOL. XV. PICKENS, S. C,, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 18 Patience. Have patienc". heartl That were no rose t- were not first a ole bud. How conos the day? Not with the noon, sti o'orhead, Hut slowl stealing up tho east, in fain1 Havo patience, heartlwhit so thine own 1i dawning good. Have patience, hoartl Book not at morn to make the day as brigh noon. Force not the b,id, before its time to bi rose. How slowly, when we watoh the sky, the light grows: And yet, for all, indeed, the sun goes dc too soon. Have pationoo, heart! For rain will comoj thino own self knows I -tear-dlro, Book not to . ..,e clouds before tho spent their rain, Or else across the sky the clouds may o aan. Havo pa no, grieving hearti for good a oomo'o all. 1Have pationoo, heartl What though no kisses fall upon thy ti And love holds not its rose to thee, nor da fair? Mourn not: perhaps thy love needs heavi purer air. Oh, heartl bo sure 'twill wait for thee in ] . adiso. -Amy E. Blanchard, in Harper's Wool BILL'S CHILD. 'No one 4 knew where the c came from, or even its name. One day a.sloop freighted with br was unloading up town, and a band dock was tossing bricks, two by t% to another man on the dock. All o sudden a wee little chap, not more th 2 years old, came toddling along, 1 right in the way, and was knockedo by the flying bricks. Bill Forstor, who was handling . load, was a rough mar.. It had i boonexactly his fault that the child I boon itnooked down, still he felt v< sorry for it. The little follow's hi was badly cut, and he was stunn lie war" g.rt -cl into the -cabin of sloop, and there lay quito motionlc The Captain of the sloop sent to police station, and the surgeon car 4 The child was ca-ofully examin The surgeon said the case might b serious one and that the little boy I bettor be taken to the hospital. Fors had a sister, who worked in a laund and at once he sent for her. Mc Forster hurried down to the who took the child in her lap, and listet breathlessly to what the surgeon an The cabin of the brick sloop was I a hand.somAe place to look at. It i dirty and slovenly, hot and clo Molly Forster set about making it ti, Sho opened the little windows of cabin, and kept off the crowd v were swarming in the narrow quartc She fanned the child,laid it on a con pillow, having first spread her ch apron overit, and bathed the poor bab head, trying to stanch the flow of bhi trom the wound. "if," said the s goon, ''you could keep the child p fectly quiet for a while it would bo for the bettor. I am afraid to jolt I in the r ' alanco. Maybe he will co to before long. It is rather coolor h on the river than in the hot wards o hospital. Can you take charge of I until I come back? I will see you t evening." Molly had already torn her handkerchief and bandaged child's head. Now she followed surgeon's dircctions. The doctor y a hunnnc man, for when ho left ho 1 a half dollar into Molly's hand and t, her to buy som ice to cool the wi she was using on the bandages. Molly Forster fanned and fani that little sufferer, and bathed its ho and was tender with the child. Ab, sunset the surgeon came again just then the child OpoenOd his eyes. 'Well, that.'s ai good sign.'" said d1octo1. "Now hadni' t you better vertise him silcoi no 01n0 'has conic himP? Somebody wvill claim him suppose. I can arrange for you to k< him if you wantI to.'' Although the accident wvas repor ini two b)rief lines in all the nowspapt and notwithstanding the efYorts of police to 10l(d tihe parenits of the chi no one ever came for It. All thiat ni Molly Forster iiursed the chil. c * sional ly Bill would push his hard-hib and woeathor-beaten face into the ca i idow and look wistfully at tihe Iil child. Ho never wvont to sleep t night, but kept walking up and do the eleek. At dlaybreak lie said Molly in a hoarse whisper: "Mo take that kid to your room. It's to be (lone." Bill Forstor, who wvas a man of 4( have said was rough. 1 (10 not ki 4how it happens, but handling bri scomns to make p)001)1 coarse and ra or brutal. Bill would take net o one glass of whisky, but as many as could d(rinik. Mixing with a crow( men wvorso than lie was who froque od rumshops, lie was much given lighting, and his lace wvas as often not disligured wvith a black eye or a lip. Bill earned about a dollar an quarter a day, andi when the week u'- ho never haid a penny left. Perhi It Ji.l had not been a little dlrowsy stupid that morning from too mi liquor the (lay b)eforo when the Ii chap got in the way lie (Biill) wo have been more careful hiow lie Li his bricks. The week after Molly had ts. charge of the childl Bill resisted temptation to go on a spree aind his sister a dollar and a half .1' was the first time for years that hlie over saved a cent. 'rho week al -that Bill did even bettor. There ~Molly working as hard as she couh tire wash board or the ironing bed earning 70. cents a day, andl feeding child. 'flint shamed Biill. It hap 0(1 that the little boy's short frock been sained with blood. MollyI carefully' wvashied it, but stid thoug~ht lhe saw stains on it ant worried him sick. Next week, when lie saw his sis who was waiting on the wharf for with the little fellow in his arms, said, "See hero, Molly, its kindi of bi on you, having to food1 this little fell, Broad and milk anti potatoos c< j'nioy, and nursing him takos; a, lots of your time. Any ways, a dir ing of that kid would be juist ruinai to you. Hi-o's at dollar and a hall his keep, and heore's a dollar bush and bpay calico or something and mi a froek for that child, rndnimid burn th8 one lie's got on, and n time I ges him let im~ be look nprtuo. Won't ennuP' "It's mighty good of you, Bill-and just you wait. I'll rig him out. Ho ilsn't a bit of trouble. W hon I'm at woLk I tako him to the 'laundry, and day he's a real pot there. I used to be test afraid he was kind of dazed-but don't you bother, Bill, he's all right, for he o's takes to playing now. He's only quiet on account of his natural sweetness all real good children's that way-and t as I love him, just as if he was my own a baby." Onthe next trip up the North River 1y- Bill Forster pondered a great (teal over wn the child. The fact is, the child, wheth or he was awake or asleep, was never for a moment out of Bill's mind, lio low had never thought much about any , thing before, and it was hard work for him to think at il, Maybe becauso >me for more than one-half of life his brain Luet had been muddled by liquor he had Dover sot it % orking. As the empty sloop floated up the broad river, slow. r ly moving with .the tide, Bill sat in the shado of the flap ping jib and argued 1s with himself, and the general conclu m's sions ho arrived at wore by no means flattering to himself. are- "Th beginning and the ending pf dy. this hero is rum. I've wasted nigh on to 25 years of my life. Why hasnt the boom of that mainsail knocked the stupid brains out of me before thibP ild \Vhat have I got to show for 40 year of life? Just these here ragged ane brick ik soiled clothes I stands in. Came near on murdering a child, did you, you good rot for-nothing boastP? Didn't have no ' bettor sense nor that? A hording with drunken sailors, you big blackguard, yot and not knowing nothing better? Just fitton to toss bricks from on aid oif a vOr sloop. That's the best you kin do. the You took a drink this r'lcrning, and ot you fool sharp sot for another just this and lossed minute. You can't got it be 3ry cause you are on the river where grog lad shops ain't floating round. Ain't you od. mnan enough to go to HIaverstraw and the no matter what happens say Bill For ,s ster, don't you take another drink no tho matter if another follow does stand uo. treat? There's lots of things that kid ad. wants. There's a whip,likewiso a pair 3 a of shoes, and when \Vintor comes ilan iad nol J>otticoats and wool socks, likewise ter Christmas >resents. Now, you loafer r, of a Bill 1' orster, every time you see jy the bottom of a glass ain't you guz rf, zling down something that little shav i(d or wants? Maybe it's just like you,you id, white-livered purp; you'll be letting mot your sister be a takiqg of the victuals vas out of her own mouth so as to food 'cm so. to thlat child, and it was ne as shoved Liy. the kid on her. Maybe you'll be hunt the ing around for more babies to knock rho over with bricks 'you good-for-nothing rs. lounging Portuguee."1 rso Whoa Bill h:i't called himself a Port man uguose he had poured the last drop y from his private vial of wrath on his >od own head. Bill helped to load the ur- sloop witi Orick at iavorstraw, and or- although it was a hot, sultry day and all the work was heavy, he never took a Jim drink. The other hands might come me back, smacking their lips and banter oro ing him, but lie stood hrm. I ''No use, boys," said Bill. "I did ili the business for that baby-and onco is his enough. I have got to take 'kccr of up him. It stands to reason. None of the you is family men like me. I kin stand the as much running as the best of you, vas but don't you try and rub it in too nit steep! I hain't the reputation of being old sweet-tompered, and mebbo I kin teach ter some of you manners." It must be stated that there really iod was no necessity for Bill's excited ad, words, for the hands on the sloop seem ut cd to take in the situation at once, and n rather respected the way Bill assumed his self-im posed duties. the Down the river Bill was thin king ad- what name the 6hild oughit to have. for Should it bo George Washington, Ulys ses Grant, or -Moses? lHe knew all tiho aop names of the steamboats going up to Aloany, and to call the child "'Albany'' ted or "'Vibbard'" was suggested to him. rs, At last he made up his mind that Molly the shiouldl have the naming of the child. Id, ''She's got most rights to hinm, any ht ways.'" Th'on lie felt kind of mclain .. choly with the idea that soimebod y od might come later and claim the child. bin Bill had never read a story book ini his *tlo life, so iio romance of a rich father atnd hat mother coming in a carriage to doemand their lost baby pro5einted itself to his to imaginat.ion. ly, Bill became parsimnoniouis, andi that otvwok saved almost every cent of htis wvages. lie begrudged himself even ,1the tob)acco lie chowed. lie only kent ow suilcient money for his most meagre Dks waiits. lHe never took a dIrink and de thi- clined being treated. T1o Molly he gave uily his money. lie Sure enough, tihe little 'boy, when of Bill next saw him, had on a now frock, at- and with what pride Molly exhibited to him to her brother! as "lIe just looks like a daisy, Molly. out Isn't lhe pretty! Kind of sleepy, ain't I a lie, Molly?P" vas "He does sleep a good deal, but dabout babies! But, Bill, wvhat's this ich pile of money for? I ain't spent all Ltle you gave mnc yet. I dlon't wvant it and uil the chiild don t. His cost for keop is wso little. It's mighty good of you, Bill; aind nowv and thon you can give him a te bit of clothes. As you say, when Win.. he ter comes the poor iitljo iamb wvill want othicker things, and( they cost mocro ha moiney. Here, I ain't goiing to take adthis, dep~riv.inig youi of your ha:rdbairned m.(t wages'"--and Mloily made a motion as vias If to return the hiandful of silver. I at "'lIut, Moll, juist hiohl hard a miniutc. id, lie mayn't, want, it now. Supposin' the work was slack and I didni' t earn noth en- ig- You have got to koop) the caish iad for the time the boy grows. lio's got mad to go to school, and has got, to look as Bill 11uco as any other boy. Hie's to 1)0 lied lint dliented-kniow somiething more nor handling bricks. Doin't h'o (10 a lot cf Ir loing, Molly?'' Inquired lBill anx iO"Old don't you keep worrying abott ary lim. Ho'a been playing over so sweet. >st Maybe lie's one of thiet' children whamt v:t s talks late in life, and they, so I hear yuJ tell, is always the smartest in the long s-run. Fact is, Bill, I have a surpriseo on1 for you. Ho never said( a word before or osray. I wvas afraid myself lie wvas "s, -lind of dumb." ike Bill averted hmis face aitd then looke 1 ou0L out on the wvator,~ for the brother ati( ext aister were talking on the dock. lg'But--butt, to-day, Bill lie said 'mud.. der' 80 sweot, and1( then ho said It over and over a(0in, and hold out his pretty little moutI1 to be kissed. Oh, BIll, his s8nss is coming back to him, slow,iut, Are;" and Molly cuddled the slooping child closer to her breast. Bill kept right on in the good way ho had planned for himsolf, ad never swerved a hair's breadth. Mtllv was his savings bank. Brother and sister contributed to the child's support. In a month Bill was richer than ho had over boon in his life.. Thou ho insisted that Molly should rent a better room. The one sh lived ini, ho said, looked out oil a dingy, dreary hack yard. "Standis to roason," said hill, "that a baby should see horses and trucks and things a-moving about in the sreeta. It makes 'em lively." "Little Bill"-so they called him (Molly insisting that her brother's name should serve for the child)--inm proved. but too slowly for big Bill. yho police surgeon was called in, Bill Forster insisting on paying him a foe. The Opinion the toctor gave was a guarded one. "Thero is manifest im provemclt-not, perhaps, as rapid as Ishould wish. You are a capital niurso, ma'am, and I am sure your kindness and attention will help the child. He will coni round, I believe." The cool weather came, and with lowering tempoeratures the doctor hoped the child would gain strength. The ciCatrico on the, head had tlulte healed. Slowly the little boy seomed to acquiro now words. Molly wondered at them at tines, and thought that she had taught thmn to the child; but then again the little fellow's adopted mother was startld by words she lelt quite certain the child had picked up somewhere else. Ttose new words came to the child at first vaguely. lie would ro pe:at thom over and over again, at first 1hesitatingly. then givitt;g themn a sliglt cmphasis, as if to lix them on his mnind sonething liko a little bird thatt" I'ipus the first fain t tteno it has heartl. The child was mi:e awake now. This eban''e deligtiited Molly. It never was fretful. ''he child would :y quiet, with its blue eyes wide open for hours, withiout a whinper. So it went on for another week or two. Bill, who was always comin and going. when he left New York for a trip up the river, was happy, for the child was bettering fast, so ,o believ ed. It was ain October evoning wlien, as thw briek slool was belinI broight ip to the vaarf, Bill saw g?olly leaning agaiist one oi tie bii Wooaie:t :o;ss of the doci. 1I1l1 was bu<y itii the hawser, but at once he saw that, his sister did not -have the c.iild in her arims; miore tlhiai that. she was crying. Bill chked down hiisgrit-f--he seem ed to know at once wvhat had happcn ed. One last hope there was. laybo it was so cool that Molly ha.l been afraid to bring the child with her. - ):11," .3 i. M%111y., O'bbiui;, , "lt poo' little fellow has gone to-to heav en. It was last night. lie called to mo ai sail: 'Good-night, mud-der; good-nlight, farl-der---iow 1 am oi n1t waiin i garldn-good-gotodightlt Oh, Bill, lie ha never spokeun so long a string of words before-then lie play ed fqr a lolment with a ring on my fin ger, and then h.a added. 'God bless far-der and Imitl-d-r, and then he look ed so lovingly at m, an.1 around the room as if searchiing for you-and thou he died-so quiet! Bill! Bili! don't you.taku oil so! It was an accident, and Gad and his litte child have no fault to find with vou." nags It-steadt of'Ciosets. In closets which are not provided with drawversq and wardrobes where diresses may' be hung or laid awvay from till danlger from dust or crowdhing, bags which wvill c'omlplotehy envelope the dlressi and prlotect delicate fabrics are a necessity. Such bags must be long enough to hol a dtress-skirt without folding. aind wide enocuirh to give room to all kinds of frills anur flounces. Any kind of material will answer, but inus lini or. pit 8is most oIften uisedl. Cut one side of the bag three inches longer than the other; seam together, bind aroundi( tiho top), work four button-holes across the longest side, which buttons down on the other like a flap. The bot,tom of tIle bag now becomes the top), scam it across again, and in the casmng so mlade run a flat, narrow stick; at each uppor)0 corner sow tape loops by wvhich to hiaiio thec bago Oil two hooks in the closet. T'o ide tapes, sewedl near* the casi0 pin the dress.. skirt by tho band anT also tho waist, by which oven part of it will least muss the trimming. After the dIross Is care fully pinned in plago, pull dowil tile bug ovcr it and button tho flap across the bottomi. Bags for the various smiall articles In kitchien and1( wash-rooyu, which need keeping together, shiouldl be made of soime dark, strong material, and of a plaini, square shiape, and furnished with curtain rimgs Sewedl arotund the top) to run the diraw string ini. Suchx bags are useful rOeeptacles for clothes-pins, small11 clothes-lines, strings, and the hiundired and oinO things which must be kep)t in somei pla1co where they can be found in a hurry. Jiags for the store-room and for hold ing buindlhes and scr'aps nmst be of strong stufif. Th'lo former of firm, close ly-woven liiieii, sewed ini a turned semni, iAnd( provitded with tapes for ty ing up, several imiches bol aw the top, so they mauy be turned over and tied closely, elfectually preventing the en traiice of anyi) unidesirable object, ani mate or othxerwise..-MArs. L. A. France, in (Good lJouisekeepiny. Thiioo I"rigidl Facts. 1. Every man knows botter what he waiits to buty and( sell thlan his govern-. mnt caii possibly know for 1im. He will buy and soil to the best advantage if left free to buy and sell as ho choos es. 2. Every one who buys Bolls at theO amiei time. His purchase is really an exchange. T1hxe muon oy lie pays for the goods whlich he huy1)s Is really an order given to the seller for other goods. 'h'lo moro1( bJuying, tIle more selling. 3. As regard.s dealings between in hanbitaints of the samo street, tile same village, the same town, the same coun try, ho one thinks of disputing these truiths. But thety are just as true as regards dealings betweoen inhabitanta, 'of (iffcreint countries-7 'I I 1Farrc,. TRAIN TALK, "If you writo storios for the pavor," said a Rtook Y'and R-tilway freight conductor, "let me tell you a true one that came under my observation last winter out near Des Moines when I was runnIng on the Iowa division. This is no railroa.l yarn, but a fact. I saw- it with my own eyes. One day we wore running along and I was in the engine. As wo began to cross a bridge we looked ahead anl there was a Ittle girl about six years old clam bering over. the timbers. She had some school books in her hand, and was evidently on her way home from school. The engineer whistled, when sh turned her f:tco toward ust. I'll never forgot that face as long as I live. It was just as white as the snow on the ice In the crock thirty or forty foot be low her. But she didn't scream, nor try to jump. nori do nothing. She just looked at us with a steady glare as if she'd stop ttue train with her eyes that we were unable to do with our brakes. At first vo were all so broko up we hadn't any idea what to do, and I bo lievo we'd of stood there like posts if she hadn't suddenly stretched out her little aus toward us in a mute appoal for help. Well, sir, that broke the charm. and we all started up wildly. I swung way out as far as I could, holding by ono hand, and with the other muotioning her to got down down between to timbers. Would you believe it? That little thing fol lowed my directions as if she'd boon a man. And she took her time to it, too, and climbo(l lown as deliberately as if sho'd been at home. She was none too quick, though, for her little brown hood, with a red ribbon flutter ing from it, had no soon'er disappeared betweon-tho timbers than we thunder ed over her. 'Lot her out, Bill,' I shouted to the engineer, 'let, her out lively, or that little thing will never be able to stick down there till we get over the bridge. Tturn her loose!' "So Bill he lot her out, but she'd no sooner reached the bank than I jump od off aid went heels over head in a snow bank. I got back to the bridge r as soon as I could, and waited for our long train to got by. Don't mind toll- , in' ye that as I stood there I did som - - thing I never did afor--yos, sir, I - stood there and prayed that that littlo i one might be ablo to stick it omit till I a could got to her. But I guess my o prayors are no good, for when the 9 train was by I rushed out on the ! bridgc, over timbers by the dozen, ex- t pectng every minute to see that little ro'd ribbon. Bnt It never showed up. 5 Tears began to fill my eyes so that I e could hardly suo the crosspiecos-I have a little girl of my own, you know -but on and on I went, and no brown hood or rod ribbon could I find. Thon, I turnd 1ima tQukL,d to th.e ie below, and thoro she was. Yes, she had fall en thirty or forty feet through the bridgre. "low I got down to her I don't know, but I got thure. 1 lilted her up in my arms. Her eyes wore closed, but she opened them, looked at mo a second, and said: " 'How did you get down here?' "This guestion would have mado m laugh if [ had felt sure she wasn't hurt, but as it was I hurried up the bank and to the caboose. She said she wasn't hurt much, but I know she t couldn't toll, and we started for the I next station, t " 'I'm going home, ain't 1P' she in. quired, after we had fixed her up in our bunk. "I told/ her 'yes,' knowin' that muin ute that we wore going right by her hionse. 1 was in such a hurry to get to ai sumrgeoni that 1 thought. it right0to deceive hecr. Pretty sooni she wegnt off to sleep, and she looked so deathly lying there that all of us wvent to wip in' our eyes like women. "'Bu>ys,' says 1, 'if she never wakes I uip i'l1 quit the road. I never want to see tanat bridge agin.' ''And you have quit the road?"'t "N'o, i'm at tihe old business. She got well, and all the spring used to watch for my train as she would for her papa coming home freom work. We nevel passed her house unless she was out waving that little brown hood at u3 anid makin g that rod ribbon dlance. Our engineer used to whistle for her regularly, and she got so she could tell that whIstle as far as she could hoar it. Once in a while, when not in a hurry, we'd stop our train andic have ia talk with her. She said she loved us atll, oven the old engine, but she has never set her foot on thmo track since that daiy she fell t,hrough the bridge. This is a true story, and the little girl's name Is Lily. '-Ohi cago Ikerald. Jay G,uta't WValtooat. A young friend of George Gould was dining with the family. Conversation turned onl tricks, and the young friend said ho could t-ake off a man's vestI without removing hIs -coat. lie ex plained that f'ent, which consists of working the vest down the arms by gradually coaixin g tIme sho ulders through the armhlolos. TIhen the vest can be removed by slip pIng it off uin deor tihe coat sleeves. Dcx tori ty and p)atience are required. Tholi young mnan was positive ho was the only one pros ent who could( do it. Mr. G;ould listen o.d to theio xplanation andl said( that any man could do It, and that lie could do it on the s pot. 'The caller was zeal ously anxious to bet his modes05tjio against an equal sum to be put -up by the millionaire; but the latter advised him not to bet any more than a big apple. as lie would be sure to loso it. Mr. Gould thoreupon 'rocoeded to per form the elusive act de first took off l,Is coat. "Hold( 0on, sir," said the young nmin, "that 18 not permitted; it is barred." ' "I understand that," replied the I banker: "I'll put on the coat again. * i'm only getting ready." T7hon ho took off his vost and at once p)ut on his coat, and succeo(dod it with C putting on his vest outsIde of his e.t.tt "I'mn at your service now," he quiet- C ly said. C The young man lest an apIple, but ' gained a verification of tihe importanit 2 truth that there is more than one way r of doing a thing. In lis own stylef there is no greater lover of quiot funj than Jay Gould.--rookLyn JEagle.t 5 HUMILIATED COWBOYS. rho Lesson That Was Taught Thom by an Unobtrusqive Tenderfoot. There havo boon a nreat many sto. rios told of the rcckess daring and tbandon of the cowboy. He is an American production, and at tlesound )f the word cowboy the mind reverts o some western locality whoro law ad order aro unknown, and are sup Alied by a rude sot of conventionalities, ,ho non-observanco of which moans riolonco without process of trial. The ypical cowboy must be foarless, ready o shoot at a moment's warning, wild n his make-up and language, and ready to perpetrate a joke on a "ton lorfoot" at any time. But there is often con'siderable brag ,adocia in the cowboy, and a good illus ration of this fact was told a Sentinel -oportor by a station agent, who had Ived in the west for many years and ad boon in t,he employ of various rail roads in localities where cowboys were iumerous. "I have soon a good many dtring leeds performed and coarse jokes por otrated by cowboys," said the agent, "but I will toll you of a little incident where the wind was taken out of three owboys by a determined, fearless 'tenderfoot. It happened only last pring. I was then station agent and olograph operator for the Northern acilio Railroad company at a place iear the Montana line. It was not nuch of a place, as it consisted only >f a depot, a house or two, and a sa eon. "One morning a traveling man ar ived at the depot by stage from up iorth somewhere. Ho had a imall ample-case and sachel. He was be ow medium height and rather slight, mit was very neatly dressed and wore i silk hat. He was traveling for a Jow York jewelry house. g-Io was ibout an hour early for the train east, ind he opened his grip on the pllat orm, took out a brush, and dusted his lothing and shoes. He then drew out n old newspaper, leaned up against he side of the depot with one foot pro acted in front of the other, and began oading. "Meanwhile, however, throe cow oys had sauntered up to the depot. hoy all eyed him closely and watched is operations. When ho began read ng they huddled together and talked ,while in an nndertone. Presently ono f them-a big six-footer--left the roup and began to saunter carelessly bout the platform with his head in ho air inspecting the posters on the uilding and the cornice. When he ot around whore the traveling man tood, ho lifted his big brogan and lanted it firmly on the jewelry man's oot. No apology was made. Tho raveling man merely looked up, drow us foot back a moment, then placed it aek whore it was. The cowboy pass d back to the other two. They all huckled and joined in the low-toned onversation. "Soon the cowboy started out again n a similar round, gapiug at the roof. Vhen he reached the traveling man ho ried to bring down his coarse boot on he extended foot. The traveling man erked his foot back suddenly, and the >rogan came down with a thump on he platform. Another conference and huckling followed. Finally the cow oy set out on the third round. Just ,s he was about to raise his foot to laut it on that of the traveling man, he latter looked up quickly and said: " 'See here, there is my foot, and it's oing to stay there. You step on it, you want to, but I want to tell you hat before you can.get off of it I will ill you.' "Such a volley staggered the cow 03y. lIe looked at the foot, anxd then t the smtall p)ossessor, and linaihy oved oil without stepping on it. An thor consultation followed. ''The traveling man calmly read his apor a few minutes, and then took rom his sachol three alppios. lie look d at them a moment, and suddenly btrewv thenm a few foet into the air and hen quickly drew a revolver, lired three shots, splitting each applo into a 'Jozen pieces before they reached the ~roun d. lie replaced the cartr'idges n the empty chambcers of the o volver', ud( returnedl it to his pocket. "The cowboys witnessed the net without saying a word(, and( soon, conm plotely cowed, turned and left the de )ot. 'The traveling man to1(1 mo after ~hoy left that he would have killed the bree of thenm had thoe fellow stepped n his foot agauin, and I thiink he would, is lhe was quick as lightning, lIe hen showed mie a medal he car'riedi, vhxich ho won as being thle msost rapid md one of the best shots in New York. ['ho story simply illustrates that there s sometimes a great deal of fictitious ralor and dlaring about theocowboy."' ifilwaukec Sntinaef. Paris As Tou flalth. In health, Paris is on a ievoi with a mtndred other places. It has inothtino >f its own to ilTer. Its cl'4Oatt p)re onts a fA r avoratro of the qu'aiis a.nd ault of co cntral Con tinentaul weather; he air is drier and more vivifying tihan hat of England; extremos10 of heat and :old ar'o sotmetimos felt, but they are onfrequent; strotng winds tare r'are; antd bough fogs have becomtte sotmewhat ac :limatizedfof late years, the air is on ho whole fairly bright anid pleasant. hut the Same atmtosphoroe may be foutnd iost everywhere along the samoear lId1 of latitude. The sanitary conidi ions are good; the sewerage is excel eat; the water is abundant and puiro, mnd the precauttiotns against infectioun in 11 its forms are minute andi well ap 'lied. The material coniditions of life re. however, groinitg so much alike n all large towtns that we are living 'vorywhoro under mnore and more sinm lar influences, and it tmay bo said with ut much inexactness th at, so far as litreopo eI concerned, what used to be ailed ospeci ally a healthy or uin btoalthy lace Is T>ecoming dlihlleul[t to find. EIp . omics come and go In Par'is as thtoy .o In ether centres of popullation, but boy are seldotm traceable to local auses, andl ususally tassumo a general haractor. Butt all those qualities are sorely negative; they imply tihe ab anco of octins, nsot the presence of scommon datiens; Paris p)ossesses no ositive advatntages in climate or onlth, and Entgiisht 1)001)1 will nsot be ampted to live in it for [reasons of (hat ar--h F/c1orlnmgInhu 1vicnn Grant's Love 'or Horses. When ho first entered the Wit House as President of tho Unite States ho owned over a hundred hea of horses, which he kept at his fart near St. Louis. The foreman of th stables in which the horses were kel was Albert Hawkins, who is no, coachman for Piesident Clevelanc Albert says General Grant was an c> collont judge of horsellesh. It was diflicult matter to deceivo him in horso trade, because ho was familia with all tho points that are consdere in examining them. li0 could look it to a horse's mouth and tell his exmc ago within a few months. lie alwa3 insisted that his horses should never 1 ill-used, either in or out of the stabhl They wcro given the best kn'd of foot furnished with large eomfortablo stall and regularly exercised. Any ina who was known to ill-treat or mtisn one of his horses was immediately di missed. The General took a fancy I Albert because ho was always kind an gentle in dealing with the stock undt his charge. After the General becan President lie sold many of his horsi in St. Louis, and directed Albert I como on to Washington and assun control of the I)residential stables. The General s favorite horses wet Cincinnati, Egypt. and Jeff Davis. Ti former was as gentin as a lamb, and 11 know and obeyed the General at a times and under all cireumstance, Cincinnati was a good saddle horse. i addition to being a first-class horso i harness. The General could ride hi to any point in the city, jump off It back, and leave him standing unhitch od for any length of time. No mtattt how long the General remained awat when he returned Cincinnati was the waiting for him. 11 did not pay an attention to circus parades, and wa not to be frightened by noise and con lusion on the street. When the Geni al directed him to stand and wait ft him, Cincinnati would not bud ge ti the General had mounted him. 'Dot ing the General's second term in tli Wi te House arraigetments were nati for an equestrian statue representiii General Grant 1nuunted on his favorit war horse, Cincinnati. Every day f~ nearly a month the General would g down to the stable, have the bridal ai saddle put on Cincinnati, and off I would go to meet the sculptor. 0 several occasions Albert accompanit him to a beautitul spot in the vicinit of the Soldiers' honle, where the can was tnade, and General Grant. frequent ly visited the presidential stables, wer into the stalls, and talt:ed to his horse just as though they were hutna beings and were capable of understatm ing every word he said to them. '1'h Jeff Davis horse was a terrible kickt and biter, and the'stable hands wel afraid to go near his stall. His fei had to be passed in to him through a adjoining stall. ''he General, howeve had comiplete control over him, and h could enter his stall, handle hin as I desired, and, in f:ut, do anything I wanted with 1:1 . 0 d Jefl knew h voice, for as soon as th- General ento ed the stabie lie wonld tlirow back IF cars and move around restlessly in 11 stall until the General showed hit some attention. On set eral uceasionl the stable hands tried to deceivu Je by imitating the Geteral's voice, but a soon as he disbovere.l the deception ht made his heels play a lively tine o the side of the stall.--iioslon lcra.d. The >Iet. Wa:. Oft. A few days aro, after a couple c esteemedl citizetns, w ho are clo,se nil' hors, had airranigetl to piass am fe.w da:y withm theirt faiilies ait at Ilake itt Oak land county, one of temi i'.leredt wager a box of ei;;ars t hat lie wotib catch thle lrglestL lish. ITe wag,er wa promtily ta I:ketn. and' iet(L day otte . the gent letieni put ini ant appea.:rancie a a lishi stand ont the mar~ ke t atnd said tL the doler:e "1Liave yoti got a firishpickere woi rhiing about fifteen: poundsti?"' "Wellci, I wanttt .1 on to 1-n htitm onl he anid shipi himt to ine at 1 -t'. I pro pose0 to ctch himi ott a boiok out thlere.' *Vety well, sir. I tink ll ship l-b twVo toget her.'' '"The twoP"' other est.eemtted rait--n) wa:s her o ao hourt ago, andtm botught on e noiiihtin; twentty pouniids. It wti taie iU5 it, to pa;ck the two in tIhe samtie box!'" Thle lishi were imid for, butt i be t w ats dhe c!a red oIY. --1Lctr o~ it r 1'ress. A three-year ('hi boyt it LouisvilbI promiUses to) be glry-hte'ai ld lefE,- i~e reaches hiis t een s. Thei, ch i hl ha :s at tracted muchel attetion)t firom tIe iteigh of the k ind be fote. Phy siei antt smt that, even ini famtilies where turntin gray durinig youth is hiereidit ary, tie have tiot kniiown of a ease whiere th peculiarity wa ~s XI exhih;ted ini onte s young. The boy is ai healthy anid live ly little fellow, and Itis patriarebalii Iconi dIitioni does not scotu to atnnov Itimti it the least. Thev mortal remains of tIe fau ithfut Esther anid Iter kinismin I, A\lord ecai rest ini a little shitneu ( at ib uu mula i, Per sia. T1hey ate covered eacht by a wood on ark, on wh ieli ae th small pieces oi pap)er like labels, covered with Iliebrev, chiaracters. Thte' ate plaicedl there h) thle lichbrew pilIgim<n. All ar utnd tter stmall domloie somhe liftyV feet highi. 'Thu build intg is of red bricks, thie w,'all muchel patched by itmud; lith blu dotn is of tiles. TIhioso loinbs ar e bteh sacredi by the liebrons iti Persia, :imt thousands mat ke ilgri inages aonniuallv Th'ioughi th( lawvs of p)ropri(ty are s, rigorotisly strict in Mlexico thait at getn tlemnatintay tnot rido in tho samiine.ca rige with htis lady to whtom lie is be trothodt, yet most desperate flirtation Pra opon11ly idutged itn to ain exitrem which would put to blush, Newv Yorl Chicago, or San Frantcisco. Fol low in a sontorita upi andhmc'I dow te)1 prome t and staring initntly in her face is a aceptedl motdo of c.omptlim1et, tati fying to the recliientt, bitt frauigh wit <I anger to the adorer if shoe hapi mait have other devoted~ wains, amd It nc u frequently hiapp' that dlsl at ~osuit, she bei:t re.ominently tht b hocan ho- i greatest numi har of such ncr. THE ItAWS OF THE ITATp. Some of the Latest Sayings annA Doings la South Carolina. -Daily freight trains are now run n on the Blue Ridge Railroad. Q -qhicken cholera prevails to a con t siderable extent in York county. v -0. T. Culbreath's life was insured I. for $2,000 in favor of his children. -Greenville and Polzer have been a placed in telephonic communication. S --The annual fair of the Pledmont Fair Association is only two weeks off. -The Newberry County Fair will t be held on the 28th, 29th and 30th in i stant. o -There were three deaths in Camden during the month of September-all I, colored. " -New buildings are going up rapid. ly in Charleston and old ones being O improved. -M. A. Waldrop, of Greenville, ex d itibits a stalk of cotton with 143 ma. sr tured bolls. o --The residence of Mr. Jerome C. s Miller, of York, was burnt by an acci ,o dental lire. i -Capt. 11. F. Edwards, of Darling ton, was found dead in his bed on last a Friday morning. 0 -Road-workers in some parts of Abbeville county are excused on ac count of headache. of -The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina will meet at Lox ington on the 23rd inst. -A sturgeon weighing 100 pounds - jumped into a boat crossing Sand-Bar r Ferry and was captured. . -Spartanburg banquets the Green L) wood, Laurens and Spartanburg Rail y road men on the 13th inst. -The State Baptist Convention will meet at New berry on Thursday before the third Sutinday in November. -lobert L. Connor, son of Mr. L. ). Connor, of Cokesbury, was killed in a railroad accident in Arkansas. u -A protracted meeting at the Bap tist church in Wiliiamston has attracted a much interest and worked great good. r" - J. A. Attaway, of the Red Bank section of Edgefield county, claims to l have discovered a coal deposit on his U planation. -A young man of Abbeville county gave a cow and calf, a shotgun, a sow and seven pigs and six dollars in cash for a hound. t -The next term of Court for Edge field county will convene on the second n Monlay in November. Judge Ilud sonl will preside. u -A wild turkey gobbler runs with r a drove of tame turkeys in Orange o burg during the day, but at night goes d into the swamp. n -Sarah Scott, a colored woman, ' died suddenly on a steamboat in Charleston as she was on her way to u St. llelena Island. c -The good will, material, etc., of the Rock lill Jcrald is offered for sale by Francis W. Williams, assignee of J. M. Ivy & Co. -The Associate Reformed Synod of a the South was in session several days i in Due West. The next session will s be held at Bethany, Miss. o -John Benson, convicted of killing ni another colored man in Lanrens and reconmelnied to mercy, has been son tenccd to be hanged November 20. -Capt. 11. F. Edwards, of Palmetto, f Darlington county, was found dead In h:lis, edl on the morning of the 80th ut. lie wvas perfectly well the night before. - -Williaim .J. Cunningham was tried > last week in the Lancaster Court for I tihe murder of Robert Bowers at the SiIaile gold uminle on May 12, last and I alcquitted. -WV. G. SmnithI, of' Anderson county, from one-sixteenth of an acre expects to make about 100 pounds of good tobacco,, which at 25 cents a p)ound would( be worth $25. -The farmers of Easterni Kershaaw, where the choleira has been killing out so many hogs recently, arme thoeroulghly disgusted with hog raising and are anxious to sell out their entir'e stock. -In A bbeville county, a few days ago, a colored1 woman living several miiles from thme village, wvho has been 1somlewhlat n,otor'ious for her immorali ties, was visited anid whipped by the "'regulators.' -Thle new Catholic church at Abbe ville will be0 dedicated on the four'th Sunday in this monith with appropriate ceremnom,es. Work onl the new Meth odist church in tIle same town is pro 1gressing rapidly. -Thell gin-hlouse of McDaniel & Brooks, at Modoc, Edgefleld county, -was accidenitally burned o" the 26th nit., together wIth 25 bale,, of cotton beloniging to farmers in the vicinity. Loss abo ut $2,000; 110 isurance. -It is said that Mr. O'Shields, a wvell known farmer in Spartanburg, hains beeni warned to leave the county after' he gathers his cr'op, the chargo being that he warned the sheriff ofth apprachof he atelyncldhig party. I-George U). Wadley, Superintend cut of Construction of the Georgia Centiral Railroad System, will comn mnuce work on the Savannah Valley R~ailroad1 imumediately, and expects to comp)lete it hiside of eleven months. -There are thirty-seven practlsing Sphysicians in Newberry county, oneoof .whom is a colored maln, Dr. Z. W. SMcMorr'is, who graduated In 1883 at Meharry School of Medicina~ of the Central Tennessee Colleg'e, Nashville. --There was a heavy freshet in' 'Lynchue's River, in the eastern part of alKershaw county, last week, caused by -recent rainis. The low lands were - flooded and( the damage to the corn - anid cotton plant(ed along that stream s was very great. S-The old Star Fort, at Cambridg' in Edgefleld, the Aidvert eer says, stili remains as a monument to the memorf' aof those who shed their blood for liberty in the great war with Our Smother country. The trench which General Green had dug in trying ter Sundermine the fort is still open, gad the marks of the pick, made ter i . century ago, are distinctly seets. The . trench is 200 yards long, 4 f9t Wide and 6 feet deep.