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4; ,"i, , J.yy ' ~ e ' *i" , ; '< 1 R ~,, " .1 .1 ' r ia r 1 , vo . V. PICKENS, S. C THRRTAV .9CTB Free. I what does It mean to be free? reedom. a tangible object that we can, all Q*1PJbIlIII j I~ by mind. lld and defined? reel Is"t 1a terma whose limit and rulo 55*ee been 5x4 by schedule, or school? S a i1rth been traced iu the annals of Or iaolidfnu boon taken by plummet or Freodom of self, or freedom of land, #ieans rowth of the spirit-the power to ex The koo*Cedg of needs in life here on earth Ands llylg of these by a standard o ~o l iR to tbrQw off the freightago of Tbo it 1oT tryban when it appears, ugMtartlng en form or strange to the 7o welooane it frankly in name of the right. ,To be free is to stand at the center of being . and pray That our own' Inner lives be attuned In a way That th chords of oonsciousness answer and thrill To t. tQ b lf thInfaite band and the In --Ella Dare. ADVENTURES OF A LOIT EREIt. Leonco da Nordun was a delightful fellow. He was 25 years old, had a beautiful black b6hrd, elegantly trim med, a coat cut in the latest style, an income of 15,000 francs, a law licen tiato's diploma in a drawer, plenty of wit, much self-assurance, a good heart and an honorable name. Having nothing to do, he was good for nothing. And how could he amuse himselfP When a man is poor, the ef forts necessary to him, his humble dis couragoments and joys, his disappoint ed hopes, are occupation enough for his mind. But it is quito otherwise to the man who lacks nothing. Agreea ble lodgings, excellent meals, rides in the Bois and a box at the opera, are all a aain -ant, but they are not very entiefying. To begin over again every moruing, and turn the same mill all 4 tiay every day, ma- . pretty poor life. So thought Leonce, as he tapped the pavement with his heels in a mol ancholy fashion. Chance, however, gave him an idea, and rescued him from his heaviest mo notony--that of living by himself. He found the unexpected, which is even more difficult to discover than the real. He was mechanically following the 4 long arcades of the Rue do Rivoll, one day, when he heard two full, joyous, amusing voices. He saw before him two rotund, solid men, with happy faces. From the conversation, he soon learned that they were provin cials. Happy mon! How they did en joy themselves, and everything and everybody! And what plans they were making! For that day, the mor row, the next day, and the day after that. They did not hope to have time to see and do everything, but they were going to try. An idea flashed into Loonce's mind like lightning. "I do not know what to do," he thought; "I will do just what these men do. Perhaps it will be interesting, I will follow them all day, and will be the voluntary slave of two men who do not suspect their rlower." Leonce did as he proposed, and at the end of the day he was surpried to find that ho had really enjoyed him self. He had soon in the very Paris where ho had been born a. host of things of whose existence he had never dreamed. The day having proved one of the most agreeable in his life, Loonce re solved to repeat the same method of procedure as often as possible. Every morning about 9 o'clock he went to lounge In the Rue do Rivoli, and as soon as he saw a provincial of attract ive appearance he gave the direction of his life for that dlay ibto his hands. We must noknowledge that Leonco soon preferred the ladles to the gen * tiomen; because, to be isure, the lady brought him more amusement than the gentleman. The woman Is Immensely superior In imagination; her caprices * have infinite variety, the onexpeeted -has a larger part in her existence; she must see everything, and nothing fa tigues her; she is enterprising, Ingen ious, curious; In short, she ls a wo man. Leonce, then, preferred for his pur pose families In which there were wo. men. One morning he had good fortune at the very outset, lie was a man about 60 years old, square built, rubicund, and wrapped in an ample cloak; on his airm leaned a woman of 50, tall .and thin, with a remnant of beauty. "M. Dulaurier," said she, with not the least caution not to be heard by the passers, "we can truly say that w< have a beautiful sight before us." "You are right a thousand times, Mmne. Dulaurlor! But there are thc girls far in advance of us!" "Louise! Louisette!" called Mine. Dulaurior; and two young women, who preceded their father and mothel b~y afew steps, stopped and waited. Louise was evidently older than hei wister Louisotto. She was tall and im. posing, like her mother; she loved linen of dazsllng whitoness laid ln or dor in great oaken presses. She was woman of strong mind. Loulsette, on the other hand, wai slender, fair and naturally eleg ant though she wore an Ill-made dress, She had small feet, and her long, slen. dor hands soughtt the green ribbous o her hat with a gesture instinctIvely cc -quettish, which did not escape Leone'i all-seeing Parisian eye. Hie thoughi her charming, but awkward, and ha began to follow the four with a specia attention. About 10'0*e1ook they all edtered s cafe for breakfast, and Leonce took u seat at the table near so as to faca Louisette. In a few moments he risk. ed a glance at the young lady, who dk not turn away her eyes. Ho r,ttengpb. ed still isore, and threw .ll the mnag, notism possible Into his eyes; but thu time the girl blushed slightly, leahed to speak tohr mother, and did not Altok t t#e strAngers tool the cars for St. Cloud, still followed by Leonoee -t After aft hour's walk -thuhth long alleys of the park, undeor a soorching sun, they began to fe, grreatly fatIged. and L..n.o hear maianme u)iia:UrIer exclai: "I won der If wo shall novbr ebmo to a drop of water! I atu so tired I am ready to drop!" 1'his was Loonce's opportunity, and ho went straight to Madame Dulaurier, hat in hand. "Madame." said he, "I should never forgive mysolf if I did not come to your aid. I know this park thorough ; and I can show you the fobntaiu of bainte - Mario, renowned through the country." "A thousand thanks, sir," said Ma dam Dulaurier, surprised and ch-trmed by the young mau's grace of ranner. He ollered to show them the way to the fountain, and with much gayety and kindly feling they sot out to gether. Louise and Louisotto walked a little in advance of their parents and Lu once. "Do you not think," said Louise, "that this gentletnan resembles won derfully the one that was in the res taurant with us?" "Why certainly not!" replied Lou isotte. "All Parisians look alike." But she blushed as she spoke. When they reached the fountain they were already acquainted.' and wore mutually pleased. They would soon be friends if circumstances fa vored. "Oh! father," said Louise, "instead of returning to that tiresome Paris, let us stay hero till evening." "Till ovuning? My dear, it is lux. possible. .Wo do not know the ways, and we have no Vlace to dino." "If that is all, ' Leonce hastened to say, "I am subject to your orders. I can take you across to Ci:amuart, whore I know oi a pretty restaurant, with arbors, flowers and fountains, where we can dine oven better than in Paris. It nmay be that my society is not agree able to you, but yours, sir, and that of these ladies is so much to my taste that I should be very sorry to leave you." Mine. Dulauier, more and more charmed at Loonce's manners, replied instantly: "I accept on my own authority, at the risk of encroaching on my hus band's rights." "I must at least, then, introduce myself to you in a more regular man ner. I am the Viscount Loonco de Verdun." "And I. sir," said M. Dulaurier,. 'am Adolpho Dulaurier, old notary; these are my wife and our daughters." In an hour they wore seated in the arbor promised by Leonco, and were altogether friends. Luonco had ac cepted with warm gratitude an invita tion from Madame Dulaurier to visit them at their Flemish village home. "Do you not think," whispered Lou iso to Louisette, "that father and mother became friends very easily and quickly with this stranger?" "Wby no," replied Louisotto; "it is perfectly natural." Two months later Leonce alighted at the railway station, Donia and M. Dulaurier offered his hand in welcome. He now had time to appreciate M. Du laurier's unaffected kindliness, and strange to say the provincial.' who had seemed to him slightly ridiculous in Paris, seen at home appeared to the young man as he really was-simple, natural, sympathetic and gentle. Leonco was received with the most demonstrative joy by Mme. Dulaurier, with a cordial salutation by Louise, with an odd little smile by Louisette. It was nearly 7 o'clock, and M. Du laurier rose, saying: "Since Van der Voldo is not in yet, let him run after his partridges, and lot us dine without him." The repast was a real French din nor, with all the mreats, poultry and game possible, an enormous quantity of beer, and all the wines one could think of. After dinner, which was prolonged quite into the evening, M. D ulaurior, in consideration of his guest's fatigue, conducted him to his room at once. Leonce set himself to opening his trunks and portmnanteaux. At length he drew from a portfolio a letter daint fly folded and perfumed, and began to read aloud, as follows: "I love you Louise! Sweet and charm ing as you are, who would not love y ou? It is for this reason that I left Paria; it was to tell you this. For two months I have thought only of you, and of the happy day when I traveled with you, the day that determined my life. Oh, Louise! Louise! if you only loved me!" "It is very good," said Lconco to himself. "I never expressed a note more suitably. Now the question is how to convey it to that lady. The simplest wvay is the best, of course. 'I'll put it uinder the door into har room. But where is her room? Thi'aa, is the question." He then began to smoke a civar, at tentive, however, to every soundt in the house. He had not long to wait, he soon heard light steps in the passage, tho rustle of a robe; lhe rosoi quckly and opened his door with the greatest caution, just in time to see Louisotte's delicate tiguro enter a room on the left at the end of the gallory. Our hero allowed a few moments to elapse, and then, stepping like a cat, vlsi ted the door through which Louis ette had disappeared and adroitly slipped under the door the letter li had propa red. "Good!" ho thought; "my letter will be the first thing she sees in the morniug." Then ho wont to- bed, humming a tune, and slept the sleep of the just. At 7 the next morning ho was awak ened by a very lively sensation in lisi arm, as if it.had been tightly grasped by Iron pincers. Stand ing by his bed and holding his arm was a sort of gli ant, fully six feot t all, with the frars: of Polypemius, only this Cyclopp naed two littl rond eyes, which wers flashing fire; ad ho bad a lond, hoarse, guatturalj voice. YaGe up,o Prsian!" lhe said, "I am "Very well," id( Leonco, half asleep and eou ly sttenofihat But the other lifted hIm by the arm, like a feather, and sent him in the mid dle of the room. "What does this mean?" crIed Le once. "This means that I am going to ont your throat, Parisian!" "But what for?" "No explauations!" howled (he gi ant. "Yes; but-.." "No explanations! dress yoursel and follow mel" Van der Velde, seizing L -once bj the arm, dragged him after hih dowt a retired stairway to a deserted street At the end of a few second he knock ed at the door of a house and entered with Leonce sti'l in tow. Leonce found himself in the pros once of four nen, wito wore int roduc ed to him, two as his own witnesses and two as those of Van der Vulde and who were all acquainted with th cause of the duel, as Van der Veld explained. "But," objected Loonco, "men d not fight thus without a motiv.-" "Ah-ha, Parisian! Perhaps, then you are a-" Leonce was brave enough, and dk not allow Van der Voldo to finish hi sentence. "1 follow you, sir," he said quickly At the en of a few moments' wali they came to a little grove. Ono o the four witnesses carried the swords The four witnessos choso a spot, and se the giant and the young man in thei: places. Loonce was a very pretty fencer, ani parried the first blows very successful ly, even scratching his adversary' hand. The Cyclops, furious at his wound falling upon Leonce with the force e a wild bull, pierced the young man' arm through and slightly woundet him in the breast. Horribly pale, Le once fell to the earth. Van der Veldo rushed to his side. and examined his hurt with anguish " Maladroit that I aim!" ho cried, iu a trembling tont; --1 meant only ti touch his arm, and his breast is wound edl" Loonco hold out his hand. "Why the devil. then, did you writ love letters to my wife?" cried Vat dor Velde, ''Anl what a silly actiou to throw the hitter into her roou! picked it up IIIys:f," ''What!'' nurmunred Leonc+r. ''Lou iso your wife! You the hmsband of r girl 17! Well. sir, I con.aPratulate you your wife is the prettiestblonde I evoi saw." "Blondo! Poor boy; he doesn' know what he is sayiig. My wifu i quito dark. She is 2$ years old, too Ho Is confoundtin, her with his vistor Louisette, who is :,Ito..;t!th ir too fair.' "Your sister, sir! But ay letter wa for her. I saw her go into that room and-" "Indeed! Another mistake of mine My sister did follow mny wile to he room to bid her good night, and re mained there but a few moni"uts." "Then, sir, you are not the prott girl's husband! I can forgive you m wound." Leonco had lost much blood, and h faintod, When consciousness returned Mot siour and Madam Pulauriur were bus iod in caring for him, Van dur Vold was weeping at the foot of his bed an Louisettu .was watching him with pale and anxious face. "Alh!" murmured poor Van do Voldo, "to think that I should hay supposed--but itwas not my wife." "No explanations!" said Leonce, ox tending his sound hand to the giani "No explanations[ 1" And this is what a man gains b running after the country folks; hi finds a wife, which Is the best fortun I can wish you. Tulips. As in the caso of hyacinths, the sir gle varieties of those force earlier an better than the double ones, Tulip require the sameo soil and treatment a hyacinths, only that several reel should be potted together in one sma pot in order to form a good group. R( man hyacinths are valuable on ai count of their earliness, as they can, potted in September or August. La easily had in flower in November. The are useful for decorative purposes po'ted or planted pretty thickly, bi beliag scentless, and otherwise inferkc to *he common hyacinth, they are so dom grown after the latter comes ir Both snow drops and crocuses force eal ly and freely, and should be pette thickly in pots or paens in about fota inches of sod, and forced very) gonti as soon as rootod,under the same treal ment as hyacinths before petting. Trho make an effective display in a co< house between Christmas and Apri during which poeriod they may be ha in flower by introducing batches fret the cool frame every ten days or so, 'Thoe polyanthius narcissus of differeti sorts have always been favorites fe forcing, but of late the daffodil sectio has become popular for this purposi and very hand some pot plants the make; and the beauti fuil N. bulboc< dium, or small hoop petticoat dafl'od is one of the best. it does better In pol than out doors, as a rule, and standi a good while in perfection. '[here at no neater subjects for pot culture, an those who grow it once will grow It a ways. The small bulbs shoul d be po ted early in the aut.umn--say August c September-kept cool till rected, an thou forced into flowver in gentle hea The whole of the daffodils force in th way. N. Ilorsfioldi is one of the bei large-flowered sorts for the purposoe It flowers very freely, does net gro tall, and Is one of the very best of il class. The large-flowered single ~ maximus is also good; so is the con mon double diaffodlil; and the littlo ? nanus makes almost as neat a spec men as N. bulbocodium. 'The larg kinds must have pots from six to eli 'nches in size, and the small varietli wiJs succeed well in four to five-inc oecs, and in any common soil that light and sandy. All are extreme] easy to force, and the bulbs are con parativoly cheap.--London Fiehd. An absolutely exact straight-edge< more than thirty-six inches is~ a wond< of mechanism. One of six feet was n< recently believed possible, aithoug several had been made on diffeorez plans of weblike and truss construa tion. It has been claim. 4 howeve: that almuo.t absolute exactness has boe secured by a straight-edg~e twelve fei long. Th'ie apphlance looks like a arched truass, the highest spring of it arch being only twenty Inches In lengt.h of twelve foot. GOOO.1M. The Ilusband's Costly Expertenee With H is Wile's Darting PutSDng "nog.es," "It makes t veInsin my forehead f swell, bid mY hat suddonly grows too t small for me'" said a well-known club man the other day, "to think of a little t pet brute that resides where I am stop I ping at preunt-in-faot. he belongs to t my wife.. I little thou ht, when the dog-hawker, who has beefsteaks tied = - to his legs to allure dog*, stopped me t on Broadway and suggested that -I I should buy the fawn-colored post, that I he had designs on my peace of mind. t i Otherwise I should have strangled c him. In a weak moment I went home and told my wife I had soon such a " pretty pug-I thought the dog pretty 4 then. From that-moment I had no t rest; she wanted hit at once. I tried I to dodge the issuu, but to no good. P Every day I came up-town my wife = would throw her arms around my neck -I have boon married three years and I c know what that means, and whisper, f 'Darling, has the than sold that pretty , puget? No? Then, Charley, dear, t won t you buy him for me? The c Griggs have a pug, and it makes me s sick to think I havon't got one, too.' i I bought that pug, and we have had . fleas over since. I "For two weeks my wife kept me 1 awake at nights asking me how I liked i this nanie and that name for her pot. t r She went through every book in the s library in search of an inspiration. It I was no use. Thou she teased me for 1 - names. I suggo;tud 'K:apitanos An. t titratikas,' and she laug;hed at me; I mentionod 'Stuf'eyioguamon.' and she t got mad. I thou retired from the i christening racket, and she settled on Googles. Theo were other Googleses In the dog world, so our pug is now known as Lanjan's Googles, and great. 1 noss has thus been thrust upon me. , Such is fame. "From the first Googlos was all there. He had asimany points as Wall i L street in a month. Ills color was the thing until my wife gave him a bath, apd then the paint washed of, This nearly broke her hoart, and I have had s to engage the man who swindled me to come twice a week and touch Goo gles up. The man says: 'Yur can bet t yer sweet life I am the boss fakir in I t America.' The Gooelus lay too much by the fi'e, and the gtue softened and f his tall uncurled and stuck straight t out like a pointor's, The hair-dresser ' has to come and crimup it every morn. ,lg, My wife would sigh and say: '0, Charley, do look at him now, the little t I darling; took at his beautiful eyes; see r how they express his love for me.' I agreed with her; 1rather thought they glittered, espe.ially the left one. I| was right. Gaglos full off the stoop I one night. and when he was rescued empty was one socket. A little boy s who was-passing handed me something he had picked up in the street; ho said it was -a diamond breastpiu.' It turn ed out to be Googlus' glass eye. The e love my wife had seen was in reality a d pinch of phosphorus, L "Googles then know that he had boon discovered as a fraud, and no r longer dissembled. His good manners o at once took wing. lie deserted the parlor and his good mistress for Tron ton sausages and the cook. His tastes were low and he sought the festivities of the realms of the taasement. When y he had stutrod himself out with good e cheer until he could hardly waddle ho a would go and look at himself in the s burnished convex boiler to elongate his r figure. le is up to all sorts of games, s and for a small dog can purloin more ' meat from the butcher's and hide it on e his person than a melancholy Dane. r a His thirst is of thte best order, too; he is a terror on then hocitups in the do. q Scanters, a "One night Googles was decidedly 1 groggy, and in a beastly frame of .. Smind, lie had been insiting it several days, and was 'off his feod.' lHe had been' offred saddle of muutton and o roasted Currituck widgeon for dinner, 'all to no good. Hie began to see things, 1 tand as I passed him on my way out he rbit my leg and went whooping off. When I reached the olub some one. said, 'Charley Lanjan's got 'cm bad; I .he's gointg around with a pearl neck d lae on his leg; ho is working th eDuko I r racket.' I heard the remark anid, look ,ing down. found a full set of false teeth I -sticking in my trousers. They were I Googrles', ,"My wife came home one day and said that there was to be a dog-show,I and that she had entered Googles, and wanted mue to lix up a pedigroo right straight oi,~ I did i.I copied most I of it out of Burke's Peerage, adopting r only the Christian names. It took bet. tcr than any pedigree I over hoard of, and Googles won the pr!". But my wife made onemnies of seventeen oi !:-,r ,most intimate ladyfriends, all of whom have been trying to buy or steal Goo- I Sglos ever since. S"New that Googles has become a o winner he has put on more frills than d a doisen virgin queens. IIe smashes -things, chews things, bites things. (10 s troys things, and steals things. Ho r gets sick, and the famly physician has to be called in. lie has the canker, < and when he gets well of it ho starts in son the mange. He gets bettei and has tto ride in the park. Ne recovers, and * ho gobbles everythsing he sees. Just run your eye over this paper," oontin, gled Mr. Lanjan, "and see what Goo glshas cost during the month." -GOOoraS' EXPENSE ACCOUJNT. 8 sofa-cushilora at $15 each.. ..... 45i.0J -1% dozen table napkins at $24 per dor. 36.00 -' 4 day shirts....................... 20.00 Ir 2 nIght--shIrts..............,........00 t 1 unmbrella'-stand, smashed........... ' 10 ( m ew glasse0yo....................25 bearskin hearthirug ......... .o70.0 h4 neghbots' cats at 50 cents each.... 2.00 is For perpetuating color (BIl,theofakir) 20.00 1 y5 pundt Trenton sausage at 18 cts m c 11 naprime steak at 25cents 2.94 2tohbrushes..................... 80 1 doll's house furniture............. 7.50 Siundry brle-a-brac.................3.rO c New bonnt for Mrs. L...........4.00 < New mitt for Mrs. L.............. .00O r New shoes for Mrs. I..............1000 t 1 kItchen kor bent on Googles.....: 00 bs Life insurice for Googles.......... 9.00 Total........................8362.8 "Yes, @362.68. Now don't ask me to buy any more dogs, because I am gemn out of the business." -Forest 5t and Bfream. a A curiosity at Rockford, Ill., is a young nogress with a luxuriant growth of auburn ringlets. Washington Dudes. He was handling some mysterious ittle parcels at the toilet counter of a ashionable drug store. "I'll, twouble 'ou to send It to my quarters, if you lon't mind. You'll send it early P Ah, hanks, awfully!" Then with a few anguld strides ho carried himself to he door and strolled down the street, hrowing his heavy horn-handled oano Ight across his path at every ='p, hen dexterously jerking it away just a time to lot himself by. "Vanilla cream," said the Star man, ossing a nickel on the marble in front if the soda fountain. The druggist ooked amused as he drew the water and stood smiling at the scribe as he lisposed of it. "What is it?" asked he scribe. "A dude," was the reply. "0, I thought it was something the uatter with the water," and the Star nan finished his glass frood of an aw ul suspicion. "Io's one of 'em." "Ahl" "What do you think he buys? You ouidn't guess." Then he went over nd whispered in the Star man's car. "What!" "Rouge. Yes, rouge, for the chooks md lips, and face powder, too, and he rears corsets," replied ,the druggist, a a hoarse whisper. Then he pro ieeded to let out some astonishing so srets. "There are lots of them in this ity, more than anywhere I have over teon, and I've stood in drug stores in nost of the largo cities. We soll more osmetios to men here than to Womon. 7omparatively few women in Wash ngton paint and most of them have rotty good complexions. It's the men. rhey buy all the fancy French pow lers and paints, color their cheeks and ips and pencil their brows. I could tand at the door a few minutes with rou and point out any number who do il this, and you can see for yourself, f you take the trouble to notice, that hey all wear corsets, You didn't know ha P Pshawi it's a common thing mong those fellows, who don't have Inything to do but fix themselves up to leaso silly girls." "But what kind of follows are theyP" sked the scribe, becoming interested n the new discovery. "They are mostly young men whose athors have mado some money and lion died and left them to spond it. L'hon there are the-." Here his voice ank to a whisper. "Do you mean to say-?" exclaimed he scribe. "No, no" I wouldn't tell anybody for he world, ' broke in the druggist. "I mly imply it;imply it-that's the word. )f course, it's only the young ones. .ono of the men who have seen service would do such a thing. But you know iomo of these young follows who are Dn duty here and spend their time in ladies' society get very effeminate. I suppose if we should have a war they would got over it-or resign. Don't mention it, please-," Then the drug gist became more confidential. "But they do use lote of powder," and then lo laughed at his own joke. "Yes," he continued, "it is sad to ice how men use cosmetics. They scom o care more about looking pretty than ichool girls do. Why, even the girls ;hemselves got ashamed of It and do laro they are disgusted and will do )end upon long walks, cold water, and lannel for their complexions, and will top using powder of any kind. 'Thoro mre lots of them who nover use a bit, nd there's where they are sensible, 'ho best thing for the complexion is xerciso and flannel underwear. Flan el stimulates the skin, briings about healthy action of the blood, 'which is suential for delicacy and clearncss of int. Frequently those who have the est compilexion bother about it most.'" -WIashington Star. -*A Bat That Cost .$12. Lieutenant Farnan, of the Southern ~olico Dilstrict. has a ,picklodl loather ringed bat. He didn't buy it, but lie ays the bat cost him a considerablo uim, amid ho intends to keep it. Iis tory Is as follows: "Ono of my little >oys, who sleeps ini a room next to nine, called me about 12 o'clock one might and said somotinmg had struck im on the head, and! I saw a bat fly ng arouiid the roomi. I closed the ront, shutters, and,t.aking a bed-spread struck at the bat. I didn't hit him. struck again several timios and didin't ret himi. T'hen my boy said: TPapa, mavo you got him? I could havo caiught din imiyselIf in this time,' Then I got nad, andl I slung the spread around at he bat aigain, but insteadi of hitting in I knocked overy ornament, off the nantlepicce and broke the globes on lhe chandelier.- Th'on I was madder han befoi-e, and 1 tried to fall on the 'at as lhe camc near the floor, and I cil over a chair aied broke that. All *i. timo my wifn ,vas sayinig, 'loin, >p)on the shut ters amnd lot the hat out, and don't ;uar the hoiso dlown,' Th'lat nde mue 0till wvor.te, andu ma:k ing a des' >erato plunge I got th spre'~ad over aim and floored him. T1heo hat squeal id, and I was afrai to put m,y) bi andi indeor thie spread and take him out. inally, I get my wife to bring me an >ld buckskin glove, and I got haimi out mnd held him In a bucket of water un II I drowned him. Reckoning danm iges, I mu pposo that bat cost me about p12, and I intend to hold on to It until omo fool is willing to take it oft' mmy mamnd, at cost. "- Halli~more Amcrican. Bishop Turner, a prominent colored loorgian, urges the young men of his ace to Meek homes on the government ands of the west Instead of clinging to lie eastern cities and en gaging in oc upations too often servile. Says the ishop: "You mlighlt tuko the bright ast young man In Georgia and lot himi ome out of Harvard or Yale with a iploma as lai'go as a bedi-shioet, but fler he has blacked boots for three nonths at a hotel his manhood la gone or life." TIhore is still much debate as to the itent to which iron and stoel should to str.dned when testing for manufac uro into boilers, girdera, bolts, etc., >ut a sort of general agreement has muon arrived at that the test stress anught not to be less than one-third or noro than one-half of the ultimate at:ength of the materil.t CASTLE GARDEN. rho Proposed Rutniner Garden on the Battery. The elevated railroads in Now York 2ot only make the upper part of the 3ity easily accessible from the lower, ut they as easily bring up-town down own. This is so pleasantly and con voniently donO by the now aerial pas ;age that the 'Timcs suggests that the )ld pleasuro resort at tih. Battery may 3o again turned to good account, and f not the prime of State street-the "glory of Smlitifield"-yet that the nusical attractions of the Battery for hu up-town resident may be restored, 1'ho Bargo Oflice, as a depository of ill personal baggago arriving from &urope, is to bo discontinued, and a lugo hall will be available for somo lopular purposle; and why not, says .ho shrewd journal, for great popular 3onceorts? Why not a marino summer arden? And the elderly New-York rs who recall Jullien's concerts at lastlo Garden and tho summer night > >era at Castle Garden will echo, "Why not?" 'rhe sauntorer along the broad and )rderly walks of the Battery to-day as but to Pause and loan upon the railing above the water, onjoying the )retty spectaclu and br+athinug tho coan air, and to :sk himself, as he onsidors Castle Garden, what could aO pleasanter, onil a August evening hun the moon is full, than to sit upon ts outer wall and to watch the lovely conery in the coolness, and listen to ho well-modulated orchestra within? ientral Park is charming, and to sit under the trees and listun to the band is delightful. '1'le Casino is t gay mullmer resort, anud in the city squares the occasional music is most velcomle. But if Romeo and Juliet emerging into tie evening air anywher about Twein tieth streot, slhouli weigh1 the various solicitations for a plieaiit ovening at n reasonable price and at an easy ac oessiblo spot, would thov not find the concert in the refreshing air of the bay more alluring than any rival? 'hey would be wise if, deciding for Lite Battery, they should avoid the old prosers who remember those Jullien concerts, and that opera, and the great concerts of Jenny Lind. That old buildingo halunts the memory of the proser as tWo attic of Beranger filled all tihe poet's rearward musing with pathetic mulsic. If the young puoplo. are not very wary, the prosor will be gin to tell them the story of thatovening when betwoen the parts of the concert in which for the first time Jullien play ed the "Katydid Waltz." he was taken across the Battery to State street, and into the house that was the latest oc cupied of all that line row facing the bay, each with a lofty triangular bal cony, and there for at moment tasted the festive hospitality of a day which was already past in that old-fashioned street, but which was never kinder or heartier than in Its latest surviving drawing-room. Of the thousands na tivo and foreign-born who daily pass along the broad curving Battery walk upon old State street, how many know that it was the -solectest street of resi denco in the New York of sixty and seventy years ago? llow many of them, also, remember that in Castlo Garden Jenny Liud sang for the last time in America? In both concerts she sang "Casta 1. va." Who sings "Casta )iva" at a cont. rt now? Bayard Taylor wrote the last son , the 'Farewell to America;" Otto Gold smith, who was to be her husband, composed the music. When she came on to sing it, Jenny Lind carried a bo quet of white roses, with a Maltose cross of red rosebuds in thoe center. Take care, Monsieur Romeo, aind you, Mademoisello Juliet, or tihe incorri giblo proser will ho protesting that ho soint tihose p)rocious flowvers; and should Lie say it, whoi( could aut.horitatively gainsay It? Who, Indeed, but some lther old1 proser, whose memory has l'allen into dIecrepituduo, and wino mum bles and mnaunders about Malib)ran. It was a smaller NewI York to whichb Jenny Lind sang, amnd StefYanono aind Biosio and Trulli and lionedetti. Tihey all warbled in yonder garden, whonre other birds sing no0w. Th'lomas hnad not corpio then,, nor waved tiheonchant ed baton which has op)enedl to us a new realm of music. Buit Jullien playeod pretty waltzes anmd tunoful overtures, andl patted andI pulTed and panlhted as heotdirecteod, andI thint sank into his alhair with a diroll air of exhaustion at theO endl. "s,'twasR a galrret, >o It knoewn to an,'' ss Father Prout mnakes Berangur sing. It was tIhe (lay of smnailer thnings. But bow pleasant they were! It was a smaller New Yorig lBut ask thet old proser, if you cainnot esoapo him, wIho was young then, whethner it was not juito as good a Now York as the roar ng Babe lof to-day. BesIdes tIne ocean air and the~ moon 11)0n thu water, Romneo and Juliet can readily sco that the summner-evening 3oncerts at tine Battery would hayo a ittle setting of tradition, a backgrounnd f thno music of othner days.' And as Lhoy enrich thneir enjoynmnt of to-dlay wvithn that pecnsivo cohno of yesterday,i ?ossibly Juliet wvill adnmonishn Romeo Lo beware lost whnexnkisly hnas be yomo yesterday, annd lho talks of tine music he renmenmbers, ho too, like theo yId gentloman whonm tIhe Easy Chnair a'arns thomn to avoid, should beceme a >roser. - George W illiam CJurtis, M - ~'Lrs Mfagazine. Wanr o* nnh Cigaret. Cigaret smoking (says a Now York Japer) has become suchn a general inisanco thnat small signs have been printed and are kept for sale, which readl: ''No smoking allowed in this >flice." A man whno sells these says: "The greatest donmand for them como from bainks. Tihe younng men who make dIepjosits and carry mnessaves ror business f1irms are mostly all addfic ted to the viieJ of smloking cigarets. l'hore is something about the smuell of burning paper and poor tobacco that lasexcessively annoyimng to somn nmneni. [t is almost poison to thnem, and I fournd thnat when I began prinnting those cardsi they had a ready sale. Now nearly overy bank, lawyer's oflice, and rail road ofnlco has oneo of thnemn l>r'omlinont ly displayed. If I counld hayo patented the ides, I might b)ave madio a fortune1 out of it." some of the A -The Newberry ,peA > for vale.. --There will be no 1 tit I " this year. s -*Spartanburg is ejoicing,o 1e 'k f newatreetrlaspo. ta ;s -Edward Hatfield, of Sumter, 1a1/ hle middlefinger by. a otton gin. -The ga nig.o(tbe q!' ey allroaf compe 9 12th. -Mahem ee 1Vrd of sour.C lina, committed sicd a f uit auhdree with a pisto). -A fire occurred in Hamburg ope ;he morning of the 19th-which destroy. :d five buildings, - Since September 1, two tbous.s4 dine hundred hales of cotton l>,ev ,een sold in Lancaster. -The Asheville & Spartanburg t. -oad will be completed to AsbevlIl"by he middle of December. -Mrs. Mary Smith, an aged asd -epected lady of Sumter, has 52 grand hil'dron and 46 great grand-children. -An extra term of the Court of Dommon Pleas will be held in Lancas or on the first Monday in November, -There are five families in Lancas .er county, living in twenty yards of .ach other, with only two to the fam ly. -The Marion county fair will not o held until November 18 and 19. L'he success of the exhibition is cer. aiin. -An accidental fire destroyed the :ottou gin, press and engine of Mr. W. D. lIindt, of Sumter. Loss about B2,000. --Cyrus Jenkins and Will Campbell two colored raftsmen, were drowned n Wadmalaw river during a gale on afonday. -A brass band has been organized At Spartanburg. The instrumente cost four hundred dollars, and have been p)aid for. -The Highland Park Hotel, at Aiken, will open for the fall and win ter season of 1885-6 on Tuesday, No vember 3. -llorse-trading is forbidden by the Yorkville town council, and police patrol the lots to prevent violations of the ordinance. -Senator Butler has gone to New York to see his family depart on their trip to Europe. They expect to sail on the 22d inst. -Mr. D. T. Grice has withdrawu from the Edgeflold Chronicle, having transferred his interest in the same to Mr. T. 0. Hutson. -A new postoffice hn~ been estab lished in Edgefleld county at the reai donce of Senator Callison, to be called Callison Postoffice. -A new street railway; Is projo.d, in Charleston, to run throag n street, from Calhoun to BroAd terti' nating at the west end of Broad: -The young ladies of the Metbodlst church at Spartanturg have organized a society to furnish the new church with pulpit furniture, carpets, etc. -In a drunken negro frolic in Aiken county, Milledgo Weathersbee was stabbed in several places and had onc aru nearly severed from his body. - Mr. Robert It. Thompson, of Lan master county, was found dead in - his bed on October 7. He had died of heart disease during the preceding night. --C. F. Carter, of Carter's Postotee, Dolletona county, was handlIng care. lessly an "unloaded" pistol one day last week, and shot himself through the handi. -A son of Mr. Charles Smiley, o Colleton county, was throWar frotn a horse on October 11 and badly bruised. Some of his teeth were knocked out, and( his face badly cut and bruised. -A man who was put in the guard house at Lancaster the other night got thirsty before morning, and .cut nut with his pocket knife through a heart-pine plank two by twelve inches.' -The hand of the seven-year-.old son of J. B3. Cushaman, Aiken county, got caught ini a cotton gin and was so terribly crushed that it was found nec sasary to *amputate the arm three incheos below the elbow. -Hon. W. J. Talbert claims that he aan, at the proper time, fully exonerate himself Iroor any complictf in the ate terrible crime at EdgeMeld with which his name has been connected, md asks a suspension of(public opInion luntil that time arrives. -A little (daughter of Mr. F~ H. Iludlgins, of Greenville county, fell rrom a pile of cotton some days. age ra struck her head on the ground rioiently. She was seized with fits shortly afterwards, and had nine fits >efore they could be stopped. -Mr. Johni Rhode, of Round 0, D~olietona county, lost his dwelling rouse, kitchen and smoke-house by [ire on Sunday, October 11. The fire 3anghrt from the kitchen while Mr. Ithode and family were at church, and they only got back to their premises in time to save some bedding. -1Mr. Isham E. Watson, of Marion counity, lost his dwelling ai.ud contents b'y fire one night last week. HIe and his wife were sound asleep and only awoke in, 1mne to get out -of the house with a very few articles of clothing. Thue origiu of the fire is unknown. Mr. Watson was Insured for about *1,000. Burned to ieath,, and Restred to Lift. I know of a man near Maxey's, Ga.., who for tenr om twelve years was almost a solid sore from head to foot. For three years, his appearance being so horribly repulsive, he refused to let any one see huim. The disease after eating hi fiesh, commeinQcd on lis skult bones. Hes tried all doctors and medicines without benefit and no one thought he could peesi bly recover. At last he began the use et BS. 1. 10., and after usaing six bottles, his mores were all healed and he was a sound nan. Heo looks just like a man who had been burned to death and thea restored $s lif The best men of tie county kmo hs ease, and several doctors anid merlu rave spoken oitas a mhost wonderful case. JOHN RAWFRD, * A a