Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Administrator's Notices,.$6 00 Notices of-Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, ko............$9 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal terms. 7= S?b. o-i^v Hart**) W.Jriotr ?. . I i ?-:o:? MAURI ACE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not exceeding one Square, inserted without tjhargei' . - :0: Terms Cash in dvance.r&z Browning' & Browning, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ORAXGEBURG C. II., So. in. MAIiCOtM I. ^Bbowhino. A. F. Browjmno. nov 4r* .. .ted \t g[ , A??iSTOS B. E.NOWLT0N (Formerly ot iae New York Bar.) | ATTOittNEY . AND COUNSELLOR : AT LA W, OHiXGEnVRG, S. C. ; July ft?' ?_ tf i i v i. \ i i . ? ? ? ? i !:. Residence I? Fork of FUllsto, ALL' hU^lINESS ENTRUSTED v*ill be prontptly-and carefully nltended to. july2E >.;i fcV 1y _ DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE, . SU UG KON DENTIST, tJradaate' Iftaltlniore College Dental Surgery. OFFICE M \.lt.KET.-ST. OVER STGIIE OF I ?'x_ METALLIC CASES. THE UNDERSIGNED HAS ON HAND all of the various Sizes of the above Cbbcs, which can bo furnished immediately on ap plication. Also manufactures WOOD COFFINS as usual, and at the shortest notice. Apply to H. RIGGS, mar 5?6m Carriage Manufacturer. HEEDER ? DA^IS, COTTON FACTORS AR? General L'o?imlwtiori w^^snf^ Adger's Wharf, CHARLESTON, S. C. OsWEI.L RkEDER. ZltftMKRM.t* DAVIS oct 16 6m T. F. Bbodik. !l. R. Huduins , H. C. HtmuiKs. BRODIE <fc CO. COTTON FACTORS A?n COMMISSION MERCHANTS. north atlantic wharf, UllARESToN, S. C. Liberal Advances nnulc on Consignment. liKrca to Andrew Simonds, Esq., Pres i 1st National Bank, Charleston, S. C. may 21 ' wee tf WASHINGTON HOUSE BY Mrs. M, W. Stratton, CORNER GERVAIS h AKSEMJJI.v STREETS COLUMBIA, 8. C. CouTcfjlettt to the Greenville and Charleston Railroads and the Business portion of the City. Bete of Transient Board?Two Dollars per Day. Regular Boarders received at Reasonablo ate*. <*lf if Mass Meeting in Charleston. At a tnnss meeting heia in Charles tou last week, at ? which five or six thousand persouS were present, Gen. n'.jjsos, ?Jkd^cLiiclcmi ?od Gtu. R R. El iot; were lite principal speaker*. Jud^c Melton mule an extended m ? ecn, be^inuipg with the history of thiur SWte during and since the wur, and u vindication of his reasons for becoming a, -Republican. He declaimed any feel ing tif' hostility to that vast majority ot the . Whits, peoplo ot' the State who differed with him in polities, and p-iid a high tribute to the worth and character of the people of hin native State, lie believed that the reasou the colored men had becu compelled to turn to the car pet bugger for leadership and advice was because the native South Carolinians had refused to lead them. The colored people, in their iguorauce and incxper ieuce, had to have white mcu to lead them ; there was a demand foi white men, and, as id always the case, that demand found its supply. He had uo words of opprobnuni'for honest lleprib liuans coming to the South, but for those'men who had come with their shrunken carpet-bags, intending ouly tu swindle a 1 utune fur.themselves out. of this State' aiid then return to their uative'North, he had the most utter con tempt. The result of carpet-baggistu had been that the State was bunk rup' iu funds, in resources aud iu credit, and was left standing before the civilized world a burning disgrace to Hcpublieau Institution?. There was uo use tuinoiu? w?>i(ls about tho matter, tttid the Mate .hitti Ict-h i uu clear into the ground by uu bounded ?od unprecedented rascalities The white men from the north caiue driwu here, tuok charge pi' aii.mn and iopud the colored men docile, obedient and auxious to discharge their new :|..'i,s id^Hti^n^in in an Km,,,* :,?d etcdttublo tuunuer. Among diem eauie his ?sieemed friend, Mr Kennen T Olli lins-i>, iiis other highly r.-spocted friend, ii>e lion. D. T. Corbiu, und ULany others whom it wa.- uuut'c-sa.ity to uioeuou One oi thnafcmen was now the Bolters oan.uidi.ie for Governor, und he liad one ot te-o little retnnvks to make ahuut him. lie came down here iu JSu-. landed t It a U lor I and etlguged iu tin: occupation o] a it liool lnasl'er - that wan very laudable thus fur. aud if ho had stuck to teaching school he would probably not have had to say these tilings against 'him. But he only pursued that pro fession until recoiistruetiou cuttle,' when he was elected a representative iu the General Assembly. At thuC time the ? oi .red people had no idea ol bribery and corrupti<?0, and, but to.- the teach ings ; hey mioii received, they would s:ili ?>. ouro aud utieoirupii-d. ou. bribery wiih brought to them, uud llioy were hardly to bo blamed for beginning it. i he Stute then hud a bank, ol the bills I ot which a large amount-had been issued before the war. Those bills were bought up in 18*17 und 1808 by a few sharp men, and one of the find statutes enacted in this State by the new Legislature was an act to issue bonds to redeem those bills. That act was passed through the Legislatur? by means of bribery. He would not name the bribers, but he had already mentioned thctu, and they still u-:i l'~ ?j2 Ch?riws?wti County* isext his esteemed friend, Mr. Reuben Tomlins in, was elected auditor, and iu lStiS, while he wits auditor, a bill was passed creating the sinking fund and sinking fund com mission. The direct object of that bill was to cmtble the Greenville Railroad King to obtain for themselves, for a met o song, the shares of stock of the Grccnvillo und Columbia Railroad then owned by the State, aud he charged directly that bill was passod by means of bribery, and that Tomlinsoti was con nected with the passing of that bill, and was a prominent member of that Kin.; In thut transaction he prostituted his office, betrayed his trust, debauched the Legislature, and pilfered the property ol the State In carrying out the conspir acy he gpb James L. Orr, v. ho th n had the confidence of the white peoploof'the up-couuty, to induce thorn to sell then shun-.- iu the Greenville Koad for a mute pittance, und for that service James L. Oir was well icwarded. The King got possession of the road, and the company was reorganized. A Kennsyl vatiiu man was in ado ^ its president, auotner Pennsylvania man was made vh-o prwidont, aud Reuben Toniliuson j was made the treasurer, at a salary of throe thousand dollars a yoar. lie was at one nud the same time treasurer of the Greenville Road at three thouMtid dol lars per annum, auditor of the Stato at twenty-five hundred dollars, and member of the'Legislature at about.004 thousand dollars. It was said that about that time ToiuliuBOD bud gone to Corbin aud told him that there was a terrible lot of steal ing going on around him, and bethought he bad better resign, and that Corbin had saidj ''Yc, Reuben, you had better get out of that Scott is a thief, Parker is a thief, Neugle is a thief, Cardozo is a thief, they all are thieves. You had better slide out, old boy, and get nway." Rut if they bad discovered all that why did they not staud up and denounce the frauds us they were bound by their oaths as a senator and a representative of the people to do. Just nbout that time another little'job was sprang, by which the right to mino tho whole phosphate deposits of this State w'aa giveu to a private corporation forthepiti ul royalty of one dollar per ton. Tomlinson was a member nod Corbin was a member of thud cuuspiraoy. It required fifty thous and dollars to get that bill through tho Legislature, bcoauso it was a swindle, aud Touilin&ou aud Corbiu wure tho men who put it through. TheoGov. Scott vetoed the bill. Tomlinson up to that moment had been the friend and spokesman ot the Goveruor, but that day they bad a tailing out, and they never have been friends since. Lt re quired 875.U00 more to pass the bill over tho Governor's veto, and be charged that Tom I in.?011 Was engaged in that. 110 charged that when the sena tors relused to trust the promises of ? uture payment made- to them by the man who was employed lo lobby through tue oLiiuie, Reuben ToiuliosoD eau.e forward and pledged his personal faith and credit that the brib.s should be puid them. That, he said, he .-tod ready to [.rove. licjtbeu Tom'yt -oii whenever and wherever he ehoimo to meet it. Jle also - charged that whon he leit the office of the State auditor he left, firs$j ,to ,a'ic charge of the Green ville and Columbia Railroad Ring, and, secondly, to put up the phosphate job, and thai hi: yot for his BCrvicos 810,U?O worth ot phosphate stock and the trc;s urerahip of the company, ol -..hieb D. T. t 01 bin was the president and ultot n Judge Melton closed with an appeal to the audience in support ol the tegular ciudidutus, and Sheriff MaoLey, ufter another interlude by the bund, introduced General Moses as the nominee of the regular Republican party, ct South Caro linn for their next Governor. .Mr. M sus was received with a pprfeat ovation of cluers, and made a spirited and .'fteetive speech, lie repeated the pledges of the regular Republican party und promised their faithful fulfiltiient in tho event of his election, and he then proceeded to make an answer to the char ges which had been brought against him. lie said that if he wore there as intlivi dual he would not open' his -lips in explanation or denial, but as the cand date of the Republican parly, hebolieV ed it a duty which he owedto the party and the penp'e to meet and rofuto thos t charges* lie said, fi at, (but although ho had bcc'i connected with tho staro Govnrnmantulnn.. JRSS* h'n h_d US'.er been in such a position as to have con t rol of one dollar of its finances. Those finances were managed by regularly con stituted boards?the tina-iioal bitrd, the land commission board, the sinking fund commissioner. His name was to : be lbuud umtiug none of them! and he do clnred, upeu bis responsibility and hon. or as a tnau, that there had never during his official lifo boon an occasion when one dollar of tho State money had to pass through bis haods, dircotly or in directly. For many months, however, ali tho little dogs-in the party, Tray, Rlaucho and Sweetheart' bad been bar king at him, and on l hat? du a little pi per iu Chuilcstou bad propounded a ter riblo string of questions for him to an swer that evening. He \v.?uld not bhriuk from answering at I those questions, and he challenged that paper to search the record for themselves aud usecrtain it his answer was in the least degree false or etpuiyocal. He then read from tho Charleston Republican the lir.-t ipuestion which was as follows; In tho Bret place, wo d?.sirc to ask tho gentlojaun if,he will mike affidavit to tho denial he/published in the Columbia papers a few ofaya since, in refutation in ' general of the.ubarges urged against him, and which article was copied ia tho CbarleBton press. E?i^^^^Hfl uients will not do. What th? people want is proof, fend not proof wm ques tionable sources. xaVi He said he agreed with tha'editor of the paper that what tho poaftit Wn?M was proof, and proof from ^?%&fitiopa* ble souiocs, but it was the first citric ho had ever heard of .* parson arraigned upon any charge being aaked to tuftke-au affidavit that ho was not guilty It was not his duty to prove a negjitivoi bat what the people wanted : au<Jt? what ho demanded was the affidavits of; those who brought tho charges. The second question, which; ho also read to tho audience, was as follows: Secosdiy. Will thu goinl?mun c* plain, and furnish by proof^ his inno ! cence of tho following, in reference to the Roberts A rtus Comj apy and the American Metalic Ammunition Com pany ? It is charged that, ^in the oaso of the Huberts Arms Company, though the company received but ?2500, tho accouut was made out against the State for ?44,250. Tho contract, which was for tho alteration of fii*" ? thousand Springfield rifles to breech-loaders, was made uu tho part of the Statu of South Carolina by F. J. Moses. Jr., a* adju tant and inspector-general. .Thousands upon thousands^ ol dollars more wore spirited from the State in thes? arms transactions, all of which\*ppear Clearly chargeable to P. J. Moses, and, perhaps, R. K. Scott." -? In reply to this ohargo hVsaid that when it was first made iu the report ol tho joint special ft aan -v. a I in v c,.;t tg.it i ng committee he had rtaen to his place in the Assembly and madcitis defence. He had then demanded that the Assembly should if they believed him guilty, take immediate steps; to investigate his coo duct. That defeuco* had .'been at the time published in the Charleston daily papers, uud even thoy had done him tho justice to say that tho ohargo so far a s he was couoerncd had been eleare d awa\ The writer of tho commit tec's report ! a 1 after .vard admit led {tie jaumo thing in t >e Uo?crui ^9^i^x}r;J?.^Ji^i0_(^ procce d:d wiih a repetition of tho explanations which he made last winter, which were to the effect that he had bceu ordered by the Governor to make contracts for t loa.'turuationof 10,200guns: that he had absolutely nothing to do with the tru'is aciion except to make the coutracts, the financial agent being Qirected to pay the bills: that he coutructed lor the alterua of 2000 at ?7 each, and lor 5000 at u ne dollars cuoh ; that the sum total of all thu contracts which he made for the State wai ?123,000, that the amouut charged ou the financial agent's books on those accouuts was $209,000, but that hu ha J uo moreconuectjou with or ruspon ? sibility for those payments than any pri vate citizen, and that tho vouchers, con tracts a lid proofs of those assert ions Were ou file both iu the treasurer's office aud the adjutant general's olficc, where any citizen of the State had a right to go and examine them, aud lest the truth of his assertions '1 he next question was tu follows : Thirdly. We want to know some thing about that ?11,000 on the armed lorce question. Will Mr. Moses explain this 't\\ ill he tell the people that it was a dralt cashed by certain parties, (we know who,) furccrtuiu sejvijos rendered? No (lodging of this. Let it bring into dis.epute whom it may, give U9 the tacts ; backed by incontrovertible proof. The people demand it ! They have a right to know. In reply to this ho said that tho opin ion seemed to he current that the armed force fund hail something to do with the military purposes, but the fact was that nobody had anythiug to do with the ' drafts upon that fund but the Governor. As to the eleven thousaud dollars of the armed force f und which were charged to him between November, 1871, and dune, 1872, it had nothing to do with any transaction during that period, and was not paid out out at that time. That money was paid to hin for legitimate military expenses aud fui tho use of the adjutant-general's department in the summer of 1871, fully one year ago. The Governor at that time gave him two warrants upon the Slate treasury, one for five thousand dollars, and the other for six thousand dollars, but there wus uo money iu the treasury to p iy the warrants and they had to he dis counted. They were accordingly dis counted, and last winter, whon thore was money iu tho treasury, the parties whu held them brought them forward, and they were paid, so that they were charucd on the treasury books as though they had been paid oat at that time and to 'him. For all those facts the proofs were on file in the treasurer's and adjutaot general's office, aud the*' were snob proofs as ? public officer had a right to offer. , (If those proofs were not sufficient, he could1 ooly aay that no citizen of the State was safo from the eliurges of malicious of envious persona. In reply to the oh arg* of iasuingfraud ulcnt pay cer tificates, he foil back upon the report of Treasurer Parker, and de elaro that that document would prore conclusively that the charge was untrue and he took occasions publicly to brand the men who made it as an infamous Hare. Jlo also demanded thorn to pro dues the coideuco upon which their as sert ions were based and show to tho peo ple of South Carolina weather be had ! been. issuing frrudlent pay certificate, or wether Iiis adcusers had been lying. Ho stood before the people conscious of the immense responsibility, dovolving upon the position he occupied*. He acknowl 1 edge that tho party ho represented had i been guilty of errors in, the past but ho pod that .it would redeem thorn in the future. Ho solemnly affirmed the earnestness of his party in saying that the government of South Carolina must I and should be purified. There was an ! opportunity afforded all men for repen tance, and there never had been a grander opportunity for the repentance of his party over past errors. He in vited the white people of the State to come forward and lend their aid in re storing general prosperity, and promised that, should he bo elected, bo would lend a ready ear to every aiau who might ap ply for protection of right or redress of wrong. His party did not wish to rob the white people of their rights they desired rather to protect them in the en joyment thereof. They wished to fill up the chasm which had been riven between the white mm and the black, not with dead men's bouse, but by burying with in it every division of sentiment, so that the two races could clasp their hands above it and march forward for the good of the State. Many persons had assail ed him and filled the air with ha rsh sayings to his injury, but he could raise hia right hand to heaven and affirm that should he cutor tho gubernatorial chair it would be without cherishing ouo spark of resentment in his bosom. He conclu ded by making a strong appeal to the Democrats to come forward and assist in rescuriug the State from ruin, but decla red that wether they responded or not, bis party were determined that their rights should tint be tmpared in any de gree, and be pledged himself to tbut effect. ?c<) >im ? nic At'ed'/J What Is It? Some say, in its embryotic State it denoted kinship to tho marsupial order. Some say, it belonged to the ophidian reptiles. Some say, it was a pachyderm that propagated the droll thing. Others say it was extruded from the Womb of an old vertebrate of the biped species. It certainly does not bcloug to the Cetacea, it has not tail enough It is not of the owl family, it has not head enough. What is it? Zoology, ichthy ology, and all the other ologics fail to establish its exact identity. What it is and what kind of an animal gave birth to it nobody knows. Hut it is something. Wh..t ;< ? That's the quoolbu. Solve it if yon cm. Gentlemen you've all failed. Its very easy to tell what it is. Its an '?'ulco," a perspective "idee" tk.t may be'll be an idea by the ides yet to corao. Yes it's an "idee"?a grand, glorious and jnngnainhnous "ideo" to elevate a little Station sownewhero on the South Carolina Kail lload (forgot \\ts name, think though it commences with a 1J) out of mud sluices and cypress ponds. An ?'idee" to rob Oraogeburg of ber* well earned laurels?laurels whioh she bus won by the enterprise go-ahead triumph, public spirit, and large hearted ness of her merchants and other citizens. An "idee" to tux her for the benefit of this little out-of-the-way station; to force her to open a road nud build btidgos at tho expense of her own citizens; to divert trade from her merchants ; to forco her citizens to dig in mud and water for no benefit to themselves. An "idee" for this littlo one-horse affair to play the tune and for the citircDR of Oraogeburg to pay the piper. What arrogance. Presumption I Surely, this little side pocket is trying to pot on airs. Maybe it's got a tire engine, who knows? Maybe it's aspiring to have a ohureb stesple. Should it ket>j> on as it's begun/ no il?iilfcjWtftn^l will have a barberBb?sp\ "Hof*?w#? 008 11 stop there soae-of these days, e? they all can see the elephant. ;>!, [a -. 'A Keep quiet little non-descript (forgot your name) children must hear and not bo heard. Don't be whining around us, you *re 'none of our off-spring, andTWe ain't going to givo you any nourishment. Take a bottle and quill if you c:<.n't do any better. Majba yoa^ better move over ou the Port Royal rail road?per haps you d do better there. Suppose you go over and see. Don't boddcr us. 8H00 FLY. ii Boyhood ol'Galilco. .? a There Was oooe a man named Galileo, who lovod tbe state, and found out much that was now and et range in tho skies; and it was he who first made it known that the earth moved. He was bora in Italy three hundred years ago. He Was a poor boy. With bis knife he made ships and men out of wood,?od he would melt lead sod run it into molds Ur* be bad made. He had euch; skill that ho could mend the toys whieh tbe boys would break, and they would biiog there to htm, that bo might make them whole and sound. When they would whip their tops, be would stand by and think what it was that made tbe top? rooro. He wished to come at the truth of all things he saw. But'the doer friends in' his home on tbe banks of tho Arno were poor, and though they bad hopes for the boy whom all tongues praised, thoy knew it would cost too much to s:-nd him to a good school away from homo. So he was kept home for a time, and taught there. His part - its at first thought H would be a good thing if their son would learn to buy and sell, so that his gains would raise them up onoo more. But as the boy still l?ved his books they said "Let him go on with them ; we will try to sood him to a great school as soon as we can." His father raised somo funds and sent him to Pisa, where a great school for young men was kept. It was hoped the boy would learn to be a doctor, and know tho use of drags, and the Way to bind up wounds and to cure the sick. But the boy did not like to be tied down to books that told of drugs, aud the way to make sick folks well. It seemed to him like going round and round in a ring, as a mill horsedocs. They were as wise as any in that day, bat he could seo they were blind g aides at the best. One day he Was in the grand church in Pisa, where he saw tho great lamp swing as it hung from the roof by a cord. From this he found out how things swing to and fro, and he gave to the world the law of the pendulum, by which clock work is niado to go right. When Galileo was forty-five years old ho was in Venice, aud he heard there that a man in a Dutch towu had mado a tube with a piece of gloss in each end, which, when Yaised to tho eye, mado things look larger. He went to work at once, aud made a tube of lead and put in each end a piece of glass, such as you have seen in a pair ot specs. With this tnh?. tho thirvrr. it -^hicb hi seemed to be throe timcs^as large as before. By means of this tube, which we call a telescope, tho face of the moon w?r scon to be made up of hills and vales, and plains, liko our own earth. Jupiter was seen to have four littlo moons. Venus looked liko a moon with herns, and from this fact she was known to bo like a bail. And new stars wore seen in tho sky. ?. Galileo Galileo?for that was his name in full?was oue of the greatest men that have overlived. ? Young Folk* Afoot. Somebody having applied to an editor for a method by which be might cure his daughter of bor partiality for y ouug gen? tlemen is kindly informed that there are several methods of reform. One way is to skin tho youug person; another is to put her into a woll and drop a few loads of gravel or her head another is to bind her ankles to an anvil and opset ber oat cf % boat. !???-?-.-? q??? A littlo boy three years old gave s reason for bis infant brothers good be* havior as follows; "Baby doesn't cry tears because he doesn't drink any water aud he can't ory milk!" day when they left trie scttcwl-hon** to gether? ^S??yJ he w*l MV.* book he has, ancTfie has so He promised tobfing ?Carolin?, to-mor row. I merer ooaM finish it, beosttte I didn't get the B?gs*fila/' "O^j yes* bee t?rjrija?? ^bWOI,*^^? promises 1" saidWill, dryly. ?And he said he would gft nx? a ticA et to the MwJwalNft J^W? ?* to his father?he,aoaeof the manages*. There's some arrangaseent by wfclsA they girfctfcketrto noertain nnteber of boys. Wasa't it kin* of hunT" Martin was a stranger ? la a strange place, with little money .to, tm?nd' and Ed. Dayton's pleasant words and obli ging offrrs had made a strong icprcasion upon a mind naturally sensitive and grateful. - "O, oertaioly,, farj kind of him/' saidWill, who knew,JWftj*..well the nature of Ed. Dayton's promises, lmt would not prejudice a stranger against a u sohoolmaj^. ? >r j?r ???xt ,'So diflecent from John Frits Adam/ continued Martin: "I wanted toosaAV * kineoo's Siberia,' and I kueW that fee had it, and I "did venture to ask him to lend to me this week: and all he said We* he couldn't promise. It's the first time I ever asked a favor of any one in this school," said Martin proudly; "? guess It will the last/' "It's not like John to be stingy," said Will, and then the boy started. The next m?tnlng Ed. Dayton forgotten to bring "Carolina," and then Martin, two days after ventured to rd mine him of his promise, he said that the book was his sister's and that she did not like to lend her books. g , :a Seeing the state of the case, Martin said nothing about the library ticket' of which he heard1 nothing more, to hit very great disappoimtment for he dearly loved books. He was going b^m^Friday ^night, feeling rather tired, homesick and lone* some, when John Fritz Adam O^sM running ffter him with a book in hu hand- "Here's Atkinson," he said, out of breath. "I couldn't promise It ?& other day because I didn't know whether father wanted tosend it away to braodoa or not, and it was lent to my cousin, but it came home last night, so it's at your service and keep it as long as you like. "O, thd?k you?" said Martin, bright ening and regretting his hasty4?d|(toen* of John then tbo hoys parted and. pres ently said Martin I'm sure you aje very good; and joined by Ed, Dayton. "I think Fritx Adam is a regular moan fellow sa d Ed. "I just asked Biifl this morning to look out some. re&aoOBrsi for me iu somo books t know he has at home and he wouldn't promise to.s^o jt% because he euid he thought his father wanted b ira this evening. I'd like to see the timo when I couldu't promise to ob lige a friend." "And I'd like to see the timo when you'd keep your promise, thought Mar tin. ' If people always keep their prom* ises, they are generally rather caroful bow they make engagements. It don't cost an v one mnch to nwrniiA ??h* ?????s? performs." ^^^^^^^^ ^mnMmMQ^mmm ? ? Sad?A Misunderstanding.?A person is responsible for this story: "Poor Jones died whilo you were away last summer. In all my oxperienco I never saw so disconsolate and grief-broken s creature as poor little Mm. Jones. It wo* very sudden, you know. I went to the house as soon as I heard of it; I offered my sympathy, but her sorrow wasuncon troll able. In such oases I think it bist that tho mourner should be left a!one> eo I prepared to depart. ** ?I will leave yon, poor hol erred or**/ said ,1 with this injunction: "Pray? that God will vouchsafe His com forter; that he will oaableyonto peroeive the promised bow in the?-' " 'Oh rector she burst in; bow can yon think of snob a thing? It's too? too premature, I'm sure! "And," continued the old gentleman, checking the off rein and wheeling away from the gate, after some cogitation t fanoied that I discovered that the beats I was talking about awd the bean she was thinking about Wasn't Ute wire kind of bow at alt." Happy is the child who suffered to fee; and content to be what God meant it tj be a child while ehiMheoi lasts':