THE BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE. BT r. L. STANTOX. I thank Qod for this good, green earth, For every fair and pleasant bower, That smiles upon the uiodest birth Of evory dew-bespangled flower. 1 I thank God for these little birds, < That soar aloft on joyous wing ; I More eloquent than human words, | And sweeter, are the songs they sing. I thank Hiin for the little stream, / < That murmurs softly as it flows, ( ( And trembles 'neath the golden beam That on its crystal surface glows. * I thank Him for thf.gontlo breeze, That comes from o'er the lillied Lea, And wantons with the nodding trees I Whose gracious branches shelter mo I ( I thank Him fbr the lovely face j Of Nature,?for works of art, I 1 And these, and all, hare each a place c Within my sad, forsaken heart. f ?. And though of every hops bereft? Though lost to all I loved the best, I feel that there is something left ' When 1 can fly to Nature's breast 1 Ah ! mine has been a lonely lot? f And full of thorns my path appears } The world I loved linn loved mc nol, Though I lmve stained its dust with tears. I If I havo ne'er deserved its love,* t Then, with a heart all love and riven, c I lift these streaming eyes abovo And humbly ask to bo forgiven. o AN APOLOGY FOB FLIRTATION. I "Ah I woman are fickle !" you tell me, '( "Well, yes?if by fickle yeu mean a A trifle less fake than you men are, llut greatly more true than we seem." ^ "Hut women arc cruel?so cruel ! a They flatter aud coax for awhile, ? Then tread on the hearts that we give them, t And deal us a blow with a smile." J t "AVc arc cruel, it may bo, but cruel . In a million of charming ways ; So sorry at times to have hurt yeu, So kind on the gloomiest days. c t "But you men !?you calculate nicely t How near you may go, and how for, And never one moment you soften, Nor j.ity the hopes that you mar. j "And when you at last arc successful, And the flowor floats down to your feet, i Its colors are no more so perfect, J Aw.lts perfume is no more so sweet. * . 1 "You leave it to lieson the roadside, (First trampling it down in the dust,) And fancy that such is your right here, To break and to outrage our trust. ii "Vou think us so wonk, till wc sting you, ( And give you at lust your deserts ; . And then turn you around in your ange^ And vow that all women are flirts. "Believe me, that if you would let us Be honest and true, as we arc, (Not striving to conquer us always), The world would be tetter by far." t ? - i Transparent Crust.?Take ouc pound ( butter, the yolk of one egg; wash the but- i tcr dry and then melt it iu a vessel, set in ] another vessel of Loiling water, stirriug ( gently till the while to prevent oiling.? I Take off the salty scum from the top, and 1 when almost oohl heat up tho hutter, little 1 by little, with tho egg, which should be i previously whipped light. When all is thoroughly mixed work in the flour, roll it out twice, sprinkling lightly with flour before folding it up ; let it 6tand folded five minutes in a cold place and cut out for i tartlets or tarts; if a tartlet cutter should be used, let it be dry and floured before i using it, to prevent the paste frotn sticking, i Hake boforo filling the tartlets, which are for immediate, use, and brush over with ] beaten egg while hot. The paste which is < left should be kept in a cool place. < Kkf.pinu Hoses in TJf,oom.?As soon ' as they have formed their first flowers in ! the open ground, pinch off the end of the first shoot, aud as soon as the roso is fully ' opened, pick it off. No rose should be left to fade upon the bush, as when so left it oxhausfs the plant in tho formation of seed. As the plants grow, pinch back the ends of the shoots when they have grown six inches, and rub out all puny shoots, thus keeping the plants in a rounded open bush form.? If strong shoots alone are left to grow, they will soon control the strength or the plant, auJ the flowers will be few anil often of imperfect form. Should the season be hot and dry, a muleb of fine, fresh grass or sawdust, or moss from the woods, should bo placed all over the soil, three inches deep, and at night watered thoroughly, not sprinkled. but wet like a day's rain. The Hybrid Pcrpctuals or Noisettes require this pruning or pinching back more promptly than the Teas, Bengals or Bourbons.?E. R. Elliott ia Country Gentleman. ? . _ ?- . Yik.v.va Bread.?The following is the recipe by which the eelebrrted Vienna bread w is made that became so famous on the 4'cntennial grounds for its dcliciousncss as to command four prices; indeed, to sell fur far more than i' was worth : Sift in a tin ' pan four pounds of flour, bank it up against : the sides, pour in one quart of milk and : water, and mix into it enough flour to form ' a thin batter, then quickly and lightly add ! one pint of milk in which is dissolved one ' ouuee of salt and one and three-quarter ounces of yeast; leave the remainder of the flour against the sides of the pan ; cover the part with a cloth and set it in a place free from draught for thrcc-ounrters of an hour; % then mix in the rest of the flour until the dough will leave the bottom and sides of the pen, and let it stand two and a-half hours, finally, divide the mass into onepound pieces, to be cut in turn into twelve parts each. This gives squaro pieces aboutj throe and a half inches thick, each corner of which is taken up and folded over the coutrc, and tlieu the eases are turned over : on a dough-board to rise for half an hour, when they are put into a hot oven and baked in ten minutes. A coquette, according to Snodgrass, is a rose-bush, from which each young beau plucks a lear, find the thorns arc left for the husband ? ? - ??H?l A STRANGE DIVORCE. A Tragic Story and Its SjngJlar Termination. A reporter yesterday met, a gentleman from Jopliu who gavo him the particulars i }f one of the most remarkable divoroe entes of which we have ever heard. The following is the story : A lady sued for a divorce in Joplin recently, and when it come up the startling ' lovelopuienta of which ws writo wore i wrought to light, aud upon their etrongth , ,hcy wore granted. ( In 18G3 the lady, then a young and , inndsonie maiden, a resident of Slope . Jounty, southwest Missouri, married a ( vorthy young man to whom she had long ; )ceu engaged. Their union was a happy ( >ne, and as both had been reared in tho viiinity and were beloved and respected by , dl, they received the kiudost benisons of all , vho knew them. . 4. j Hut tho war was raging around them, k, iny each of the contending nrmioe. A draft vas about to be made, and the young hus>and, a month after his marriage, coucludcd o take advantage of tho government's libiral offers and enlist, rather than ruu the isk of being forced into its ranks without my emolument save the moagro pay of a >rivate. So he voluntarily enlisted and bemwO'n private in tho ranks of tho Union irmy. His courage and intelligence soon gained ho respect of his officers and fellow-men, ind in several hard-fought battles h# distiujuished himsolf to such au extont that his iuuio was forwarded to the department teadquartcrs in Sfe Louis, and in a short imc returned emblazoned in a second lieuenaut's commission. Tho regiment w.n then stationed in northirn Arkausas, and at this opportuuo moneut, when he was so near to all he held Icar (for a sou was born to him ^n his abcncc), he could not resist the temptation o obtain a short leave of abscnco and visit lis wife and child. This boon was easily obtained, and with lis commission in his pocket he mounted lis horse and started for home. At length he well-remembered landmarks came to riew. He was close to home. A few hundred yards of tho leafy forest, tud ho would bo in tho opening where ho :ould see smoke from the cot that contained lis treasures. How he would surprise them ! How his wife would cry for joy ! If I.!. L_? La - J I t 1 J ' now ins origm-eycu dudc wouia "Halt!" came a fierce order, in stentorian ! ones from the brush that surrounded the oad. Ere he could rein in his horse in ( )bodicuco to the dread summons he was, as f by magic, surrounded by twenty to thirty heavily-armed men, whom his practiced eye ;old him were the most unrelenting foes that the uniform he wore ever hail. Ilis heart sauk within him, brave as he was, for he knew thcro was no mercy iu the breast of a bushwhacker, for such they were. A few questions were put to him by the leader of the baud, but they were more ^r form's sake than anything else. His uniform was a mute answer for all they wjshed to know, while from his pockets. Which were rapidly turned inside out, was the ] commission drawn forth, which made theui 1 more eager for his blood. I The leader of the baud was a man near ' his own age, and to him ho appealed and ? tlcmanded that bo be treated as a prisoner 1 of war. His request was treated with dc- 1 rision, and in a moment more his legs wero ' piuioncd and an ominous rope with a noose ( at its end dangled from the limb of an ad- s jaccut tree. Again lie appealed to his in- ' human captors, and implored them to let ^ him sec his wife and child but for a moment ' before lie died. Hut even as he supplicated ' the lender nut the fetal loon nrnnnd hia ' r?- ----- -?r neck, gave a signal with his hand, and the j unfortunate man was swung off into etcrni- 1 ty with a prayer for his widowed wife and 1 orphaned child upon his lips. The next day the corpse was dicovcrcd swaying in the wind by a passing soldier, who, stopping at the next house, (which happened to he the home of the officer,) 1 told the woman that there was a man hang- ' ing dead a short distance down the road, 1 and it was better, perhaps, ho should receive ' a Christian burial. This was no* unfrcf|uent news iu that locality, and nearly all 1 the men being in the army the sad work of ' interring the dead and caring for the wouu- 1 ded devolved upon the lone women. And 1 faithfully and tenderly was it done, too, for ' they knew not but their own loved ones ! were being cared for in a similar manficr 1 I'll* #ifT iii itnttin ilicf-mf Ssffifn 1 So the woman procured help of others of 1 her sex who lived in the neighborhood, and together they proceeded on their sad mission. As they approached the corpse n < strange foreboding passed through the mind , af the woman who led them, for there was | something familiar in the suspended form, . even in the midst of its unnatural surround- , ings. The blood rushed back to her heart | as she ncared it. Suddenly the breeze ( swayed it around, and?oh, horror! in its ( distorted features she beheld the lineaments of her idolized husband, the father of her child, and she swooned away in a dead faint ' upon the ground at the feet of him who in ! life was her all. Ten years bail passed. And though time 1 had healed the wounds in her heart, the ' love for him who had been tbe husband of { her youth was still faithful. Her child bad ' become a youth, and needed the item, re- ' straining hand and experienced counsel of a father. She, too, a weak, lone woman, 1 was tired of fighting the battle of life, and 1 yielded to the supplications of a man who 1 bore a good character. They were married1, and their lives blended into a happy, even ' tenor of connubial existence. Ho treated < her kindly and affectionately, was a father i to her son, and an honest, iodostrious i brpd-Vrinner for them all. 6be loved and inspected hiui, and her futuro seemed to her full recompense for the weary past. Ono day ^oot long since?ah ! it was an evil day?an old acquaintance visited him. Ttyjy had in the years agone been warm fY tends, for they had fought together under the banners of the Sunny South, and oft had shared the eajoveblanketas partisans? jres. gui(f ilias^{fthacketv, if you likg.; High* glndjfhey wcro to uioet, and the husband received him cordially for odd times' sak difficult a task us for an editor to undertake to print a paper to ploaso ftll his readers. A widow once said to her daughter, 'when you nrc my age, it will bo time Jnough to dream of a husband." "Yes, mama," replied the thoughtless beauty, "for x second timo." Not a Maiuiyi.no GlBL.-^They were seated together, side by side, . . T OWNS 10 IN J> Attorney at Law, UNI ON . II., S. C, March 2 8 tf Green and Dry Hides. IWII.T. pay tlio highest price for any numbe of Green or J)ry Hides. JOS. STRAUSS. Jan. 25 4 (f. r?l business j-on can engage In.K H.\ I $ '> to $20 per day made by an JLJHAkJ JL worker of eitlier sex, right i their own localities. Pnrticn tars an I samples worth $5 free. Improve you spare lime at this business. Address Stisso & Co., Portland, Maine. M Arch 15 11 ff. VEGETINE WItL CUBE RHEUMATISM. Vflgttl&e vs. Electricity. ? Ma ft. R MnfAKftMk?*' Jb^^sr&is^ssaesasrt h*v? been subjected to Rbkuiutuii all my Ufa, Waa attacked with it three year* aato. and nflarlai great blood purifier. 1 had also suffered dreadfully from a Nasal Catarrh for seven otMfhlnan. After . * taking the flmt bottle of Vegetiae I notioed a great) change lor the l>etler. The constant pais and oaavtaeae that I had over rnjr eyes for years disappeared and the discharge of tnuoua from the head ceaeod. My appetite got better, and strength seemed to cook T with every dose of medicine. Too ranch cannot M said in Jtefaror, and 1 always take pleaanre In reoommendlhg it tdmy friends Who may bo aufferinir I from any disease ax the blood, for 1 feet Satisfied if they try it they are sure of a core. I am, very respectfully yours, a. n. ivoi Mftiucvr WmU? u Union Tolegrmpb Offlc c,Urbau*,0? Verdict for Vegeti no, VEGETINE WiLL CURE RHEUMATISM/ l Columbus, O., Feb. 14,1877. if n. II. R. StxvkMs ; . l)oar Sir?I wish to inform you what Vtftiln* has dons for ruy family. Eighteen months ago mr dau_v" ) tor had a wverv attack of Rhenmntism, and a m awlio bad used the Vegetine advised her to toy it, , aho did so with perfect success, for after using a few botoieeef theliecame entirely cored. I am myself at?be the*wot time using tho Vegetine for Rheumatism with good success. My other daughter has alacf . .*r .used the \egotlnofor Catarrh and KervonsDebUiiyf cees, and I honestly believe that tho Veeet tne ia tho best medicine for the above-named diseases that f. ?no h vf? rnii.m nye*. nmibvatb^^ VECETINE. f A Family Medicine. 1 t _ _ Cincinnati, Obio, April II, V87l. mr. h. r. rtkvkns: ** ?s Dear Sir?I have been troubled nnd suffered a great deal Irum CatarTh. I havo tried many remedies | ) they did not cure me, and bene tiled me but a very , little, and. doar sir, hy using your medicine called I Vegetine I havo been cured. My niece was eaNt .. entirely of Rheumatism by uskigyour medicine, v eg* I etino, ho she ia abio to attenu *o hw.at?y? chool. She feels very thankful for .uu, tnedMisa, .for she Iibh l>een a a runt sufferer from Rheumatism. 1 would u)' to ono and all. Try tile Vegetine for such complaints ; a tew bottles will corn you. a I With respect. Yours truly, I I DAVID ARNKt, , ELIZABETH ARNRT, his wife, I * 186 Hayonvillo Street, JESSIE CORT. his nioco. Everett Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Arnot in a largo real estate owner, a wealthy man. un old resident, and well known in Cincinnati. Rheumatism is a Disease of the Blood. blood from its diseased condition to a healthy circulation. One bottle of Vegotine will giro reiinf; but, . to effect a permanent cure, it muat be taken regular- i 1 ly, and may take several tatties, especially in oeaea " w ol long standing. Try it, and your verdict win be the , same as that of thousands before you, who say, " I never fonnd so much relief as from the use of VF.O2 KTINR," which is composed exclusively of barks, roots and herbs. FOREIGNREPORTS. DAWSON A BAXTER, Prescription Druggists, Chicago, Big. j Ykoetine is highly spoken of by all who hare tried J JOSEPH WILLAIU), 1 Druggist Bad Chnmilt, * Chicago, Ilia. Ball a great deal of VEGKTINE, and it gtvas good s Btiafaction in all cues. 2 T. P. SMITH A OO., Dispensing Pharmacists, ) Uhioago, Ills.. Vegatine sails flrst-rato, giros good satisfaction and is * good medicine. I YEGETINE . Prepared by . \ XI. ML STEVENS, Boston, taftg. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. 1 newT' 5 FURNITURE STORE ? r ?BY? - J. B. PORTER I UNION O. H., y It 1(4 II L'PON the ItAIIiKOAO. \ S T T AVISO opened a Furniture Store in the XT town of Union, I propose to keep on linml ft good supply of all kinds of Furnituro of tho | VERY BEST MAKE, c find will sell at the lowest prices, possible, j FOlt CASH. i. I will ftlso order nny kind of Furniture not - found in nty stoc k. MATTRESSES MADE at the shortest Notice, at the lowest price aud of the best materials. FURNITURE REPAIRED. I will repair, varnish, anil otherwise improve nil ' kinds of Furniture entrusted to me, at the low est living prices. Cain-seated chairs reseated I ns good ns new. c ALL I ASK IS A FAIR TRIAL, s J. It. rOKTKH. y Feb 15 7 8m Greenville and Columbia R. R. CHANGE or SCHEDULE. ? Passenger Trains run daily, Sundnys except, ed, connecting with Night Trains on South Cnr(* olina Railroad up and down. On and after '3 MONDAY, May 29th, tho following will be tbo schedule: rpv. . . Leave Columbia at..1. .". 7.4o a nv j Leave Alston 9.30 a in Leave Newberry 10.50 a nt ^ Leave Cokesbury 2.17 p nr j Leave Helton 4.0Q j>u* ' Arrive at Greenville 5.35 p hr r 1 now.N. Leave Greenville at 8.05 a in1 Leave Helton 9.55 a in' ? Leave Cokesbury 11.38 a in' f? Leave New berry 2.10 p m* (j Leave Alston 1.20 p m Arrive nt Columbia 5.55 p ito ANDERSON liRANCII AND RLUK RIDGE * "DIVISION. now v. vp. Leave Walhalla....0.15 n m Arrive 7.15 p m Leave Perryville...7.00 a m Arrive 0.40 p m Leave Pendleton...7.50 a in Arrive 0.00 p in Leave Anderson...8.50 a in Arrive 5.00 p in Arrive at Helton...'.*. 10 a iii Leave 4.00 p m. THOMAS DODAMEAD, General Superintendent. IJarf.z Norton, Ji!., General Ticket Agent. June 0, 1876. 28 tf (% a week in your own town. ?"> Ontfit free. No risk. Header, if yot? V/ want a business at which persons of either sex can make great pay nil - the time they work, write for ,particulars to II. - IIai.i.ktt ti Co., Portland, Maine. y March 1 "> 11 tf. ,1 Paints and Oils, r "|")AINT Hrtislves, for sale at x JL . 11. F. RAWLS & CO'8. No. 1, East Union. July 20 2ft * tf