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1 A 7 VLV._PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMER518. v o t. X V .N O.~man Carpe Diem, I will be merry in my self-deceiving; Lenvo me to dreams,though bitter be the wak nig, 4'knowv- know the danger in the distance, The clouds that gather now will soon be break ing. ill be happy. thougl the far horiron e-dark with clouds, whilo lightnings flas tir warning; iltwill I love the suminer sunshino better +teluonber more the brightness of the morn ing. Do,rgsds-grow less perfect in their beauty DBecause their.n1etals fall and fade to-morrow Shall I not slle and sing to-day, forgetting, Though stpiles may turn to bitterest tears o sorrow? Lot mno bo happy, life is hard and gloomy: Its dweotest pleasures grudgingly are given So stern, .at kindest, that we needs must eher ish Each brief reminder of our ruined heavon. -llelen H awthorne, in The Cottage Hearti Beyond These Voices. Dead ldve, I leave thee in the morning gra Shunning the heavens, wan and misty sillo; Not o'en its brighter coming can beguile My lingering woe. Love turns to thee alwa .n passiomatohunger. Memory will notstra From thee and ill thy radiunt loveliness. Wilt thou not waken to one last caress That 1 may canso my sorrow to bowray? Farewell, farewell, unhcoded here I yearn From thoughts of eartia my vision to estrange God doth not heed I Mann mocks at my despair And tiower-filled hands teupt me away to turn Yet blindly weoping I can never change Love guards thy tomb and bids me worshii there. -G. B. Ilurgin in Detroit Free Pres: SMITI'S WIFE. "Mrs. Smith, I am astonished a you." Now, this was not by any means an assertion sui.generis. In fact, accord ing to his own statement, John Smiti was "astonished" at his wife at leas once a day on an average. Mrs. Smith was used to it. 'She was a tall, slight woman, scarce ly more than a child in years, witi shining brown hair, large dark eyes and cheeks that had been as pink a. sea-shells in the days of her happy maiden life. They were wvhite ani - wasted now-a circumstance that migh perhaps be o;sily accounted for by the little babe on her lap and the 2-year old elf who was tottering about the room in aimless pursuit of kittens, sun beams, and other baby delights. "Things are all at sixes and sevens wont on Mr. Smith, tying his crava before the mirror and viciously twist ing it into a knot. "Coal wasted, but ter throwvn into the soap-grease jar q dish-towels taken for stove-cloths, ant my third-bost pants sold to a deal or in tinware for a funnel and two pie plattersl I never heard anything s outrageous in lmy life." "But, my dear," meekly interposec the mtuch-enduring wife, '"we needec the tinware, and you had not worn th garments for a year. They wero ful of moths." "There it is again," said Mr. Smith "The moths would never have got int 'em if you had taken proper precau tions. I never heard of a moth in m mother's time. And now you are act ually asking permission to visit you brother up the Hudson." "I have not been away from homc before since we were married, John,' piteously pleaded Mrs. Smith. "I fee almost worn out, and I think th change would do me good." "And what is to become of mel' sonorously demanded the husband. Mrs. John Smith thought of th day's masonic excursion last week, the troUt-fishing expedition into the Cats kills a fortnight since, the races a oJeroie Park, and the drives to Higl Bridge with Parker, Botts, and Frisbe in an open barouche, all within thl month. But she said nothing except ''It doi't cost much to go, John And ll only stay away a week. D) let me go! The doctor says the fresi air' inigh t Leip batby along wvith hi teeth, andi ilLi Johnny is droopin, this hot weather.' "W~eil,"' said Mir. Smith, a:s ungra ciouisly as po'ssiblhe, ''1 suppose you'l have to go. F"ivo tdoilars at least will cost me, and altogether our ox penises are' rinotus this year. See hov Goorgiana ITrotter' mar.atgos for hei husband. I (loln't suppose it c'*tu them half to live that it does us. might have marrietd Georgiana TIrottoi once. I almost wish I had." It was on Mrs. Smith's lips to tutter "So do0 1!" itt she looked at the lit tie children and was silent. ''Yes,'' wont on Mr. Smith; "'I sup. pose you must go. Only, for pity'i sake, dlon't get into the haibit of rmn running all the time. I needn't somu up an-'thing from the butcher's, I sup. poseP I shall dine down-town, anc there'll be enough left on the coli knuckle of yesterday's ham for you!' Mrs. Smith abstainoed fronm remind ing her husband that ho had himsel breakfastod on .the remains of the ham She only sighetd and was silent. "It's his way,J' sihe thoughit. "Hl moans well enough. And I suppost all men are so. Only I wish lie har kissed moe good-by!" Womian nature all over! She count do without her dinner contented, eat leg a crust of bread in steadl, but he heart yearned hungrily for the omlttr caress, the ignor-ed word of tenderness Poor Mrs. John Smith! How thu strong-mindod of her sex would havi pitied and despised her! No light! no lire! It was drear enough on that chIi August evening as Mr. Smith screwed the ni ght-ko' Into the latch and groped lis way ii the hall. lie sat down in the bay-wir dow and stared about the vacant room There was his wife's work-basket 01 the table, her littleoreeking-chair stand ing vacant besido it, while Johnny' forgotten rattle lay on the floor cles by. "It's douced lonely," muttercd hr Smith, with something of a shner ", hopo onny on't stayln. Aoen as h lightd loh i jiar aut wybified awvay a guilty senseo a his owi shortcomings came upon hir.. "It must have been rather a stuph life for her hero, poor little thing!' thought ho. "I mIght have omi home early to keep her comupany g reat many.Aimes when I dida t. Shu bad to sew a great deal for the chil dren. I wish I had bought hec a sow Ing machine when she asked for it All isoni used to bring up fruits ant tlowers for hIs wife every ovening. wonder I nowotI thought of it for Jenny And, now I come to reflect upon thi matter, Jenny has grown thin an~ ali otj)t." , He moved his chair uneasily and omitted a thread of blue, spicy smoke from his lips very much as if he were not enjoying it particularly. "I suppose they are at Bilberry farm by this time," said he to himself. "I suppose the younkers are in bed and Jenny is sitting out on the piazza, list ening to the whippoorwills. I've almost a mind to go out there to-morrow even ing, and take some poaches and ba nanas and things. It would be a pleas ant surprise for Jenny, and--hello! r What's that! A ring at the boll?" Flinging his cigar into the unused grate, John Smith shuffled along to the door in his slippers. "Oh-a telogram! Now, I wonder who should telegraph to me!" "Well," said the shivering and rain drenched messenger, "'p'raps you'd better open it and see. Anyway, I've no call to hang around hero no long er!" And off he went, while Mr. Smith carried his buff envelope back to the parlor light and somewhat nervously tore it open. CowDny, Aug. - -To JOHN SMITH: Railroad accident. tour wife is killect and your child dangerously hurt. Conic by the next train. JAnILD MEnJCDITH, M. D. Again and again Mr. Smith's be wildered eyes roved over the contents of this appalling missive bufor ho could fully comprehend its deadly meanig. "Dead! Killed!" lie muttered to him self. "Mi Jenny killed by a railroad accident!' And then, catching a railway guide from the book-shelf, he whirled over - its loaves with trembling hand. The next train did not leave the terminus under an hour andi a half! To him the time seemed almost like eternity. How could he endure this awful agony of soul for an hour and a halfP "Perhaps they are Incorrect," he muttered to himself, wiping the beads of cold sweat from his brow. "People can't always judge exactly in such a moment of dismay.' Perhaps she is only badly hurt, and I can nurse her through it after all. My Jenny! my loving, patient, swoot-oyed wife!" A strong sob rose up in his throat as if it wouid strangle him. "No, no, she is killed!" he gasped, as his oyo fell once more on the telegram. "Dead! and I never can speak to her again or tell her what a cruel, exacting brute I have been! God knows I didn't mean it, and now it's too late to make any i amends. Why didn't the children go too? How can I bring them up with out Jenny?" His head drooped low on his quiver in' hands; a low, spasmodic groan I burst from his pale lips. An hour i and a halt before he could go to Jenny; 3 half an hour then, before lie could I look upon her dead face; for Cowdroy was an insignificant way station some eight or ten miles up the road. "If I could only live my life over - again!" ho cried aloud to the bare walls, while tight in his arms he clasp - ed Jenny's little work-baskot, with its strips of unfinished hemming-all that was left to him of the fair, departed presence. "If I could only speak to her just onco, and ask her forgiveness for a thousand things. But, no-it is 3 too late-too late. And--" He stopped abruptly. The sound of a hack driving hastily up to the door, the reiterated jerk of the bell-wire roused him once more into reluctant action. "John! dear John!" "Jenny, my wife!" Ile stood, pale and stupefied, staring at her as if she were actually a ghost returned from the regions of space and unreality. "There has been a terrible railroad accident!" said Jenny, her voice falter ing, as she laid the baby on a sofa and Itook little Johnny lovingly on her lap --"a few miles beyond owdroy. Three or four people were killed, but, thank God, we escaped unhurt. Of course, I took the first train back that I could, for I knew you would hoar of it and be uneasy. And only to think, dear, there was a poor mother killed, with her little babe In her arms, and her name was the same as mine--'Mrs. John Smith.' " He pointed one trembling finger to the toelogram, which lay open on the table. Mrs. Smith read it with dilated eyes and pale face. "Oh! m,y love, wvhat a fright you have had!"' she exclaimed. "And only I to reileot, it might have been me!" -'But It Is net. Oh! thank heaven, my own darling wife, it is not!" gasp -ed the husband, holding his recovered treasure close to his heart. "And I have yet time to live my life over again!" And from that hour John Smith was a changed man. Tio Jenny it seemed almost like millennium, but Mrs. Goor giana Tirotter turned up her nose and said: "John Smith must be In his dotage, spending all his time and money in carriages to the p ark, extra help, and i fine clothes for that palo-faced wife of his. John Smith always was a fool!" --New York Daily News. Leg Bieforo Wicket. Very young ladies, who enjoyed the douabtful privilege of having schoolboy brothers, were sometimes permitted or compelled to join in the ir games of cricket. So long as they reveled In the short skirts of Infancy the experi ment was fairly successful, but the crinoline of maturer years interposed an Impoenetrable screen between the ball and the wickets, to the exaspera tion and despair of the bowler. Gal lantry no less than decorum forbade the perpetual verdict of "leg before," which, in strict justice, should often have cut short the fair cricketer's in ning. This seriously interfered with the success of feminine cricket, and occasionally-...such Ia the frank brutal ity of boyliood--..wlth harmonious re lations bet Ween the players. With the decline ef this special branch of sport the qnestion has really lost itsi practical interea. But it ise to be fear ed that the dIfficulty, so far as it sur vive., must remain insuperable until a regenerate Europe shall rise to the Idea of that "bifurcation of nether garmenture" in the opposite sex which was the dream of a fair reformer across the Atlantic.--London Bociety. - a d ni , a iqs...s -r ...t A OURIOUS CALCULATION. The End of the World Figured Out, and the Period Fixed at 1899. The follow=ng singular and very cu rius calculation, by which the ap- 1 proaching end of the world is deter mined, has never before boon made a known to the public, writes a Water loo, Kan., correspondent of the Louis- t ville Courier-Journal, and may be of g very great interest to those who have been studying the prophecies, or watching the progress of human events. tE Believe the results or not, as we may, c nevertheless hore are the figures, which e any reader can verify for himself. If 0* these results are here correctly fore- a told, then the startling fact stares us in the face that the world is within e fifteen years of its close. In the fall of 1899 the final winding up is to take 0 place. Hero are the calculations. Let the reader carefully examine them: f To begin. There are several impor-t tant prophetic periods made known in the scriptures, and various dates, as well as significant numbers, such as the great period of 2,300 years men tioned by Daniel, the period of 1,290 years, and the period of 1,335 years. t Besides these there are in the book cf b Revelation other periods and signifi- a cant numbers, such as the 1,200 years; b the period of the woman's sojourn in the wilderness, 1,000 years the period of Satan's being bound, and 666 the ? number of beasts. Enoch's age (365 t years), who prophesied of the second i advent among the antediluvian sinners, it is also beyond all question a symbolic number. Perhaps, like the 865 days which 0 complete one revolution of the earth around the sun, making one year, so h his 865 years may be symbolic of the great prophetic periods known fs "days, one grand revolution of which is to complete one of time's great yoars and finish earth's career. "Seven" is also one of the significant numbers of scripture, and a "week of seven," or 7 O times 7, still more so. The student of scripture will readily recall frequent instances of this significant figure 7, and especially the more important one of 7 times 7, or 49-the number of final completion, the finishing of all mys teries, the winding up of earth's afl'airs. Very well. Now, take these figures, t add them together, and see what you si get: 2,300 years, Dan's groat period for the cleansing of the sanctuary. 1,290 years, measuring the continu ance of the "abomination of desola tion." tl 1,835 years, the period of "blessed ness" to the saints. if 1,260 years, the duration of the wo man's sojourn in the wilderness. g 1,000 years, the binding of Satan. 666 years, the number of the 'boast" who is to go into perdition. 365 years, the symbolic age of Enoch, d the great prophet of the advent. 49 years, the number of final complo- d tion. Total 8,265 years. Now remember that before all the r catastrophes denounced on mankind as the divine judgments against sin there were usually periods of "waiting" be- t' fore the judgment fell, so as to afford opportunity of repentance and escape, and these periods multiples of 40, as, for example, before the flood, 120 years; beforo the conquest of Canaan. 40 years; and before the fall of Nine veh, 40 days, denounced by the pro phet Jonah. Now add together 120 years of Noah's warning before the f flood came, 40 years of Israel's warn- t ing before judgmont fell on the guilty t Canaanites, 31 years that the witnesses t laid unburied preparatory to resurree- C tioni, andi three years during which the I owner of the vineyard came seeking fruit and finding none, at the expira- I tion of which pecriod the fig tree was to be cut dowu, and you have 166j as the 1 sumi. Now, to apply these mystic nr.mnbers t and learn their signifleance, imagineo' your life divided into The four pieriods I of childhood, youth, manhood, aind old C age, so as to get it in its complleteness. C Take your age in years, leaving oil ( months andl days, add it to itself three times (one for each of those four periods), add to it the mystic number 8,6 tesunm of the great p)rophetiec periods) in order to ascertain the full sum of time's revolutions, and divide the amount of four (the number of universalhty, because those calculations apply equally to every human being), subtract from the quotient the other " mytcnumber 16 (periods of warn ing given to man before the execution ~ of final doom), and from the remainder deduct the number of years you have lived in this sublunary world, and you get the number 1,899g. t Now it mnt*'ris not what age you t take, that of the little cild or the oldt man, the result is the same, to omini ous 1,899j always remains as t'he one fatal period when every human life is to close. But the one year in which every human career is to terminate and every life close must be the final year, the winding up,' the conclusion of all sublunary things, the year of ~ doom. A singular confirmation of this cal-h culation is to be found in tho tact that, according to an dld Jewish tradition, the world was created in the fall of thed year, of which the 01(d feast of trum-. pets, occurring in October, was sup. C, posed to be tho memorial. And it would be natural to suppose that it would be very approp)riate for it to r4 closo its career on the completion of one of its annual revolutions; in othea words, in the fail of the year. And so this remarkable calculati' plainly in dicaten. The throe-fourtn.. singulIarly ~ points out that fact. Hence, if these conclusions are not erroneous, we have ' the startling prophecy before us that when earth reaches one of her great d milestones on the highway of time ind October, 1899, a mighty hand will be ' ili upon hier and she will stop. Let P the world look out for 1899. d An ancient burying ground was ro cently unoethed in Paris while dig. h ging a tronche in the Rue Salando. The collins of stone and plaster found there have been traced to the seventh, eighth ~ and ninth centuries. Thecy pointed to the east and had crosses inscribed on a circle, symbolical of eter nity, uind other emblems of Christian-: ity. Th'le coffins were found filled with dirt.. their covers having given way. h TIE TUSCAItORAS. H The story of the Tuscaroras is a checkered one. They were adopted into the Iroquois in 1712. They came w from North Carolina in 1708, where they had 15 towns and 1,500 warriors. t Their existence there was the same as B all other tribes, the same old story-- 01 encroachments by the whites, who robbed them of their lands, and when 'di resistance followed long and bloody m border wars ensued. They burnt one a Lawson, the surveyor general of North Carolina, who had marked some of their territory into lots for settlers. They captured the German Baron do Graffenried, but released him after five f weeks on his promise that he would ti occupy none of their lands without .1 their consent. In 1713 invaders of their T territory captured 800 Tuscaroras in a fort on the Neuso river. These were i killed and sold as slaves into South h Carolina. The remnant migrated to Now York as others had previously h done. Previous to this Tuscaroras, on a the 22 of September, 1711, had killed a 180 Whites on Albemarle sound. In the war of the Revolution most of t the Iroquois adhered to the English, I but many of the Tuscaroras and Onoidas F were friendly to the colonists. When - Gen. Sullivan and Col. Gansevoort 1 made their destructive campaign a- i gainst the Indians on the route to the lower Mohawk castle they were treated j with every mark of friendship and hos- a pitality in passing through the Tusca- a rora and Oneida castles. These officers had been ordered to spare the Tusca- m roras and Oneidas. Such poi,Ions of these tribes as had been English allies t escaped in canoes on Oneida lake, tc thence down the Oswego river, and lc coasted along Lake Ontario to the Brit- it ish garrison at Fort Niagara. In 1780 li the 'uscaroras camped on a mile square i given them by the Senecas, which is a p part of their present reservation. The w Holland company subsequently gave w them two square miles, of which in hi 1804 they added by purchase 4,329 p, acres, making the total of their reser- tr vation 6,249 acres. The United States W government paid for the purchase $13,- bi 722, being part of the trust funds hold to by the United States on final adjust- hi mont of the claims of the Tuscaroras hi upon North Carolina. Thus the Tus- m caroras commenced their settlement in to the town of Lewiston 17 years previous Sj to the advent of the Holland Land con- m pany and. 19 or 20 years before the pl commencement of settlements there by I whites. The Tuscaroras were thus the w pioneer settlers in this region, and the w most kindly relations have existed be- le tweon then and the whites ever since. n1 In the war of 1812 the Tuscaroras were it the allies of the Americans against the t( English. 'fEho Mount Pleasant family, of whom l John is now the chief of the Tusca- w roras, have a prominent history in the c, border wars of the old time. His grand- o father was a "big Indian," having been a a captain in the British army, and at 1, one time commandant of Fort Niagara. c His son John was the father of the pres- v ont chief. He was 68 years old in 1849, r and has left records of his early exuo- a rienceo in this region. He states there ti were no crows in the Niagara region b until after the war of 1812. Doer were p not plenty, and the wolves haunted a them, driving them into the lake, and r< waiting until they. wearied with swim- ri ming, came on sho:-e and were caught h and devoured. Whien the wolves wero hunted out doer became plenty. Bears n were plenty in some localities, and fl panthers were occasionally killed hero- 1i abouts. Bittern's white owls, and flocks of swan were seen about Niagara falls and on thte islands atnd in the marshes. Wild cranberries abounded, and1( thtere were a greait numtbor of beaver damis. Salmon threce feet long were. often aken in Eighteen Mlile creek, nemar Lockport, and below thme falls 'of thted Oak orchard. T1hte "'woods ate lull"' of j Ind(iant stories and romnctes thtrough out all thtis regioni of Niagara county. IiThe lands hereabouit belontged to the origintial 1HollandL purch~lase. VTo first h wvhite child born on thte great H olland t purchase was on the I tht of ,Juno, . 1801- "'a fine boy,"' as the re'cords state. lie was subse<ittly C'oh. lleurty I B. Ransom, of Clarence. it October, il 1798, which was before the Ilollanid land t purchase, Onl thte presentt site of lluifa-T lo, there woro butt eight huildings, all l log houses, of which Asa lIansom oc ecupied one. Ho subsequenttly retmovedl to Pine grove, and was thte father of the 0 ''line boy.'' As late as 180)6 thtero wyore hti only 19 dwevllings in Buffalo. -llJansomu ville ( N. Y. ) Co. Troy JJiudyct. The Un lucky Opal. p) ''The prejudlico agalinst opals miayth be dying out, but a great mtatny peoplo ~it still hold to the belief that, they bring bad luck," said a jeweler the otherb day. "'I could tell yout of a little inci- t dent that occurred here that may make P1 you wonder whether some people don not manage to get themselves born three cnturies too late. A man came ti here wvith a ring thtat had a beautiful ii opal m.L in it, antd tol moe to take ott thte atone and( hot htimi SCO somel other at gem to put in its p)lace. I asked him I if lie was going to got rid of the opal ai altogether, and lie said lie was gig to destroy it. I was rather surprised,1I andc said: p) "'Don't (do that; I'll givo' you $50 ei for it.' It ''li dleclared that lho ridn't wvant of nmonoy for it; that it had brocght hima lb nothing but bad luck sinco hto bought rt it; that lie hatd failed in business aindr lost two of his children, and all, ofl course, on account of a little picce of stone. I went over to that bench and took the opal out of its setting, and while looking at the ring I laid theM gom on the bench beside mue. As qu ickli as a flash that man picked up a h amn- tht mor that was lying amtong the tools & and( hit the stone a wha.ck that smash- c 0(1 it into a thousand pieces. Th'iore at was nothing left. Thion Ito said is 'There!' in a satisfied mannor. It's lo too bad, for the op)ai is one of thte prot- tAt tiest, gemls in the world."'~--New York P1 Sun. deC TIhe largest aple tree int the Uited lb States is growinig at Cheshire, Conn. cC It is 60 feet high, spreadls 100 feet, and P' yields from 75 to 110 bushels of ap- se ples per year on alterniate sides of the g& tree. 01 soi The Confederate Capital. Contrary to the common belief, there as no lack of provisions or delicacies Richmond at any time during the ar, but the prices measured by al god dollars were simply stupondous. do not remember that there was any tual suffering among the people, al ough food and drink wore of course onomically dealt with. I recollect so that there was a bread riot of so rgo proportions as to call for the in.. rvention of the military, 'i the wo ven, black and white, who were the ief participants, were of the lowest ass, and were instigated not by want > much as pure deviltry. It is a curious fact that what are call I the lower classes fared bettor, as far provisions wore concerned, than the tieeholders or wealthier citizens. The ilarles of the office holders, both con idorate and state, were grossly inade aato to provide for their families, and to wealthier citizens at the outset of te war had invested, almost without ceeption, all their available means in io 8 per cent bonds of the confederate overnmont. Those who owned slaves, y hiring them out obtained large re irns, for labor was in great demand; at the trouble was that the confeder to authorities conscripted all able odied negroes as drivers of mule iams, laborers on the fortifications, tc., just as they conscripted able-bod d whites for service in the field, -and io hire given to the masters was but a the of what could have boen procured open market. Talk about Washington being a city boarding-houses and restaurants, by it was not a circumstance to the nfederate capital. Nearly every ouse, and especially of limited moans, as filled with lodgers, and nearly rery other house was an eating-house. he poorer whites and blacks made oney hand over fist by cooking pro sions and selling them from stands n the streets and at the depots to the age swarms of hungry people who ere constantly coming and going. he population proper of Richmond as not a fourth of the vast crowd at daily and nightly congre Ited within its corporate limits. It as the Mecca of the confederacy, and to pilgrimages made thereto were mnatant in their coming. Officers and ldiers, Jewish merchants, "ex aipts," blockade-runners, refugees om Maryland and West Virginia and om counties of the State hold by the derals poured in a nteady stream into io lap of the city, and the people of ic city made their living, and, indeed, may be said in many instances wax i fat, in feeding and lodging the hun ry horde. The home guards, organized to do md the capital, comprised all the flicials in the confederate and state apartments, and no man was exempt rho was able to fire a rifle from be ind a breastwork. These held no rills, Gi- marched in a body, with egular order, to the breastworks when be alarm bell in the capitol square aug forth the warning peal of the pproach of the enemy - so many trokes, I think.--Murray in fashing 'n Ikpublican. Money Better Than Titles. Yes, it is money that commands re poet in this country, speaking goner ,lly, writes a New X ork corres pondenti Vo really care scarcely anything foi listinction of birth. Tho worship of oreign aristocracy prostrates few of s. Noblemen tourists command at ontion from only an insignificant por. ion of New York. The hotels are full f titled traviers, and they are not uinted much. "The sallow man leaning against the ost," I heard a hotel clerk cay to uost, ''is tile Marquis do Monciar, whi( as crossed the Atlantic to be the rench consul at Quebec. Thoii man alking with hini is the Viscount de 'huLry, oni a trip around the world. [o is a Paris notable. Theli Spaniard ver yonder, in tihe center of a group f his countrymen, is the Marquis de astelfuerte. The chap who just asked 20 to send a package to his rooni was ,ord Hlenry Paulet, of England." Trho recipient of this information was ot deeply im)pressedi. Ho scarcely >IIowO(d with his glance the directions idicatod, and did not deign a com-~ lent on the aecumiulation) of aristo racy. ".Do you see the red-headed follow tting on the sofa?" said the clerk. lie was a bell boy in this hotel ten ears ago. lHe went west, pitched in-* >cattle ranching, and has alread~ ade his illion." Now the hearer was alert. His ears Dolled to quiver with the reception of he words, and his eyeballs thircateiied q uit their sockets to get a closer iow of the self-enriched ind(ividIual. ''Can't you manage to introduce sof h asked eagerly. An hour lator saw hing still deeply absorbed in con ersation with the red-haired man, rhile o d(ot, btless could' t have identi ed one of the noblemen who had been oinlted ouit. In 1874 Clarenco A. P'ortley, who ad( lately graduated( fromi West Point, arried Miss Maggie Alexander, auglhter of Dr. Alexander, a Now ork millionaire. When the wedding wremony was over heo handed lisa son -lawv an onvolopo containing $100,000 go'erntmenlt bonds. "'Th ank you,'' iplied the g ratilied son-in -law; and ten Ito aske d,""llut as we are going way would it not be better that you iould1 keep the money till we return ?" I'll do to,"' answered the delighted tiher -in -law, and his half-choked ords5, "God bless you, amy cbildrenl" ore lost amonig the clatter of the do Irting carriage and thle naledictory iouts. Not long ago Mr. Alexander ied without a will, and no mention as made of the $100,000, thioughY his ropecrty was left to hisa daughter. A lendly suit has now beer instituted to itermino the ownership of the $100, X), the wife wanting her husband to avo the mlonov. A lBoston statistician says that $1 will uy as much of the necessaries of life >..day as $1.50 In 1875, $1.32 In 1856, I cents in 1846, and $1. 19 in 1825. In ther words the purchasing power of 1 is 19 per cent greater than It was in 355. A dollar will buy more to-day ian in most previous periods in the latory of the nation. THE NEWS 0 THE STAt . Somo of the Latest Sayings and Doings South Carolina. --The Marion county fair will bt held this week. -The Methodists of Fort Mill are building a parsonage. -An epidemic of matrimony is sweeping over Spartanburg. -The now Presbyterian church at Wedgeflold was dedicated on Sunday before last. -The survivors of the Palmetto., Sharpshooters are arranging for a ro unn next year. -The heavy rains last week did - considerablo damage to the Zotton in the Piedmont section. -A kennel for the breeding and training of pointer and setter dogs has been established on a farm near Rock Hill. -Geo. E. Watson, s'on of Mr. I. H. Watson, of Marion, dropped dead at his home in Mifledgeville, Ga., re -The Colleton Baptist Sunday School Convention will be held at Bethlehem church on 'riday, Novem ber 13. -Jonathan Gary, of Edgefleld coun ty, was robbed of $255 while in the crowd around the circus ticket wagon oil Monday. -Some unknown per-son fatally shot one of. Mr. Benjamin Sielgrove's horses in his stable at Gilbert Hollow on Friday nlight. -After four trials in the courts at Abbeville, it has finally been decided that, the goose is not a <donmestic animal under the statute. ---The town of Laiicaster was raided on Saturday night by a party of street lainp slashers, sign changers, house rockers, step ulovers, etc. -'I'hirty-three pcrsonls atre now con indcl in Ldgefield. jail charged with being mphliated in the Culbreath murder. They will apply for bail this week. -Sam and Gus Seawright, two boys of Abbeville cotunty, have averaged two hitndred polids of cotton each every tivorable <hiy since the picking season comnncneCd. --Chas. Ghanlt adl Bella Jackson colored, of Colleton, acting husband ind1 wife, anarreled about another woman, when Ghant's wife stabbed and killed him. -Representative L. P. Jones, of E.dg'ield, who has been livig near that iow n1 for somle yelrs, has reimoved to Ridge 1pring, havinfg sold his planl tation and residence to John II. 1ol lingsworth. -Mr. J. C. Whitten, steward of the Andersoni connt y poor house, has made this year ISO gal ons of sorghumn mo lasses from a siiull piece of land. This will be tuore than enough to supply the paupers. -Bet wcen liirt n1il forty thou san dollars are 111( Woflord College from pnbscriptions to the "Celtennial Endowment Fund," and on bonds given to the "Endowment. Fund of Wofflrd College." -A colored boy in Lancaster ran a race on foot against another on anl old poor horse. The little chap who ven lured to pit his speed agai.ist the hor.<e's Was overtaken in tlie race, run over and fittally injured. -Mr. James Lalgroome, of Edgefleld counl y, has a fiirm valted at $12,000 on which lie malkes about on hundrcd hales of' cottLon every year, besides anl. abundan(111ce of small1 graini and corn, - and1( rai.ses the f1inest stock in (lie county. --A hierd o1 ti ne Jersev cnttle, sey eral head of pure Anugoraa goats, Berk shire hogs, etc., will be sold at public sa1le mi [LancaLste on i November 20. They wer-e thle prioperty of thle late D)r. .Josephi 1. Foster-, a l>reeder of fin10 stock. -T'1rust wor-thy13 illforinatiiion indicates thiat the cotton crop of Newberry countyv will lbe about (lie same as it was lost year. Thle corn crop hss beeni excel lent, ai1n1 especially3 in (lie hottomt lands along thle Saluda and Bush IRivers. -- -The expenlses of (lie recent terma of Court at Lancast.er woe $1.070.35. Theli whole expenlses of Court to the county(3 fo thie presenlt year, for grand( and pet it, jurors, State's wvitnesses, b)ailifl's and1 meals fur'nishied jurors while engaged ini trying cases, have been1 $2,858.35i. --Mr. B. D). Springs, of Fort Mill, Yoi-k cotunty, realized thIrtv-nIne l)ound(s of tint firom 100 p)oundls of seed cotto)n 0f the Peterk-in variety. Messrs. .J. 11. Allen and W. .J. Itawl ison planted thle same1( v'ariety and( (lie yield waLs tortyV-one pounds(l of lint to the hiundired piouds of seed cotton. --W~lhe prosp1ectinig for phosphate onl thle Cariier huds, New Itoad, RI. O., Col leton coun ty, onoe day not long since, Charles Campbell, soni of Col, A. L. Camipbell , ki lIed iree riatIle snakes fand a wvater rattle.' The irattIe snakes averaged four- and a hatlf feet, fand had( from elceni to thiiirteon rat tles each. -A Presb)yter-ian church was organ ized in Mount Carmel, A bbeville coiln ty, Onl Moniday, October 19, consist ing of thirty members. The followingi officers wvere elected, admllitted ani insAtal led: Elders--J. WV. Morrahl, C. A. White, IR. F. Morris. D)eacons -A. If. McAllister-, J. .J. White, P. L. Mc Ce!vy. -David A. Long, of NorthI Care lina, whvlo nmarried Miss Alico Ev'ams, otf Rock h ilt, on March 12, 1885, and was arrested1 ten days afterwards upon a char-gc of biganmy, has beeni tried in (lie York Court and ac(tiitted1-it being p)rov'en t hat his mnarriage to Mary Ann ufovis in North Carolina in 1876 wvas illegal. -Iin Lancaster county(3, 0110 night last week, CharlIio Johnlson, a whlite - lad about sixteen years of ago, and John11 Williamsa, a colored boy, wore going to a corn-shucking together, wvhen, in a playful mood, John drewv a p)istoi from his po)ot(~p senited It, andu, to his agnshg explosioni followed, and Willia~ to tIle grounld mortally WGt Johlnson say's lie "didn't know I 1ondel " ow a Great Military History Was Written. One day early in 1823 he wont for a alk with Lord Langdale, one of his timato friends, over some fields which o now covered by the mansions of algravia. The conversation turned i Southey's recently published narra 'o of the Peninsular war. Lord Lang. do was greatly struck by Napior's ro arks on the events of the struggle id the characters of the principal act 's. Suddenly ho asked him what ho as thinking of doing. "Do you can," replied Napier, "whore am I >ing to dine?" "No," said Lord angdalc; "what aro you thinking of irning to as an occupation?" Then urged him to turn to literature. ho article on Jomini proved that he >uld write. lie must not waste his fo in more amusement. Why should D not write a history of the war him UtP On returning homo Napier told is wife what Lord Langdale had said, d added that he himself felt doubtful hother he was clover enough to write roporly such a book as a history of io war. But she, believing firmly in -r husband, encouraged him to try. or several nights ho lay awake think g over the matter. At ljtst his scru os were overcome by the thought at he might be able at least to vindi to the calunniatod momory of .ooro; and he resolved to make the tempt. Those of his acquaintances ho did not really know him were sur 'ised to hear of his intention, and re arked that being comparatively a .ung man, lie was presumptuous to uink that he could write such a his ry. Having formed his resolve ho st no time in proceedinn to execute First of all, he calTed upon the uke of Wellington and asked him for to loan of his papers. The Duke re led that he had himself thought of riting a plain, didactic history of the ar, which should be published after s death. Till then it would be im )ssible to make known the whole uth without giving pain to many orthy olliceors, whose only fault had ion dullness. For these reasons ho Id Napior that he could not lend him s private papers; but lie intrusted Im with a number of important docu outs, and gave him authority to ob in from the Quartermiaster-General, r George Murray, all his orders of ovemonts. Of his own accord he omised to answer any questions as to atters of fact which Napier might ish to ask him in the course of his ork. Murray, however, refused to t Napier have the orders of move outs, stating that he reserved them r a history which lie himself intended write. After taking those preliii ary stops Napier went to Paris to col ct materials for the French side. Ile alked about the streets, exploring the ntents of the bookstalls, and bought very book that seemed likely to be of ny use to him. lie also wont regular ' to the Depot do Ia Guerre and made opious extracts fron the documents rhich wore stored on its shelves. On -turning to England lie took up his bode for a time at Strathilieldsaye for to purpose of consulting the Duke. [arshal Soult, with wlhoi whon in aris lie had struck up an cetuaint nce, lent hii valuable papers; ne cor" ispondied withl Marsh-al Jordain, an1d icoived information from olliecrs who ad served on the stall of Ney and lassena. lie also collected an im tense mass of letters and journals oi British ullicers.-The National tvieW. Among the various triie's of Asia one are so ahl or wvell driessed as t he ramenians, says the Gil:sgow Jicra/d. o thiem belongs chiel ly th mii terechan ise of >r'ecs stonies, wivch d tiey ex t>rt to Constanti i iople. The Armniaian irl whose nmarriage is to be described .ad(0 doieate fl owers of ce lestial bluno in ted all ovecr her neck and( b)reast; r eyebrows wverie dye~d black, andi the ps of her lingers anmd nails of ai bright -ange. She worei oni e,ach hand v'alu >lo rings set wvitiih)preciouis stones, id1 roumnd her neck a sin g oif very 10 turqujioises; her skirt was one of e fi nest speun silk, lher jatcket anad ousers of cashmelure of a biighat color. ho priest andI his deacon arrived, the tter bringriing a baW cotinn lhe cordotal garmien ts, in whlichi tIhe icst arrayed hiimself, plamciing a miter nmamented with precious stonos on S head, and a collar of metal, on hiich the twoelvo apostles woero repre nitedl in bas-relief, round his neck. lie bog an by blessing at sort, of tenm >rary atr ini then mitddle (of thme room; e mother of the bride took her by time md, and t, leadlinag hier forwia rd, she >wedi at the feet, of her future haus.. mdmc to show that, she ack nowledged am as lord and master. Thle pieCst, ainlig thecir1 hands(1 in each ot her, prao nLhncedi a prayer amid then drewci their adis together ent ii they touchied t hreo noes, whiil o iitih his iighit hanid lit ado a motion as if blessinIig them. A cond timo their handuts were joined, d( thme bridegrooImwas aske: "WuVill u bo her husband?"' '"1 will,'' he sworedI, raising at thme sami ti me the ii of the bridoe, in token that sho was uw his, and letting it fall again. Thu iest theii took two wreaths of flow s, ornamiented ith I a quantity of nginig gold thiroeads, froma thle hmands tIme deacon, put thiem on the heads the miarried couple, changinig them re times fromi one head to the other, pontinug each time, ''1 ute you and ud vou one to anothem -~ live in ace." Writing onm the subjoet of edelweiss, .Buridoge, of the Trinity College >tanical G ardenis, D)ubl in, pinits (out it the plhant Is eiasily growvn in En-. shi gartdens fromi seedI. It is sown iii mnmonm gardeii earth in a coldh frame, d whemi large enough each lit the plant pieced ini a small pot in a imixturo of unmy earth and 01(d liimo rubbish; or s plants, lhe says, are eqmualhy well 3asedl by a nichoe in a sunny rock garn n, providedl a supply of their favorite ao rubbish or ohtIiumortar be alTordedi 01m. Comnrary to tIme generally re Ived opinmioni, the (edel weiss is really a ant of extrenmoly easy culture from eds as here directed, andt, further, od fresh seedse of it are quito readlily tainable from the usual sources of nd supply.