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EATING CROW.
AMUSING ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TERM.
CHAPTER I.
Near the camp of the old Pennsylvania
Bucktail Regiment, in Virginia, early in the
war, lived an old, aristocratic, exclusive and
pompous Virginian, in true baronial style.
His mansion, of very old age, was made of
imported brick, his chimneys were tall and
massive, and the rooms were tall and pleasant.
The chief attraction of the old place,
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the mansion. Large trees gave luxuriant
shade, and the underbrush in portions of the
grounds afforded shelter for rabbits and other
small game. There were walks and orchards
and arbors, and the whole bore such an air of
general peacefulness and repose, that it was
no wonder the wild Bucktails were charmed
with the prospect, and anxious t? penetrate
into a spot which gave such promise of enjoyment.
The Bucktails were not the most tractable
soldiers. They came from the stepping-off
place?the wilderness of Pennsylvania?Mckean,
Potter, Forest and Tioga counties; and
they obtained their name, which clung to
them during the entire war, through a fancy
of Colouel Kane, a brother of the Arctic explorer,
who became their commander. Ho
recruited the regiment in the early days of
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the news of the fall of Sumter,) from the
back-woodsmen, who were famous marksmen.
They were all deer hunters, and, as a designation,
each man was furnished with the tail of
a buck by Colonel Kane, and when they
inarched from Camp Curtin with the bucktails
in their caps it was a novel sight. Colonel
Charles J. Biddle, of Philadelphia, was
made the Colonel, and Colonel Kane the
Lieutenant-Colonel?both men noted for their
short, attenuated forms. Neither was more
than five feet high, and their combined weight
was less than two hundred and twenty pounds.
It may readily be guessed that these soldiers
had little respect for Virginia aristocracy,
and the tent-poles had hardly got settled
in the ground before a noted raider named?
well, Smith?shouldered his deer-killer and
started out on a little expedition. He was a
Sergeant of immense size, named the "Big
Sergeant" He made a straight march for
the old Virginian's manor. Now, the old
gentleman had a good many pets about the
grounds, and among them a tame crow which
he valued very highly. He also had tame
rabbits, doves, etc, The Sergeant climbed
the stone wall, and dropped himself and his
gun inside of the grounds. The first thing
his eye struck was the tame crow, who unconcernedly
flew near him,.and alighted on a
limb and began to caw at him. The Sergeant
put his rifle to his shoulder and banged
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ground. The soldier reloaded his gun, leaned
it against the wall, and went to get his
game.
Instantly there came running from the
house, in a high state of excitement, the old
Virginian, ana when he saw that his pet crow
had been killed his rage had no bounds. He
rushed for the Sergeant's gun, and swearing
that he wouldn't have given the crow for the
whole Yankee army, vowed that he would
blow the soldier's brains out With this he
brought the piece to a cock, and glanced
along the barrel. The Sergeant begged for
his life, and the Virginian swore he would
take it.
The Virginian finally thought of a compromise,
and with a look half between amazement
and rage, told the Sergeant that he must eat
that raw crow. In vain the other protested ;
The Virginian insisted on the price of his adversary's
life. So the Sergeant pulled out the
feathers and hepan to cap and eat.
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"How do you like crow ?" hissed the Virginian
through his teeth.
The only answer the other gave was to beg
to be let off. He was sorry he had shot the
crow; didn't know that it was a tame one,
and he wouldn't do such a thing again. Finally
the old man took the gun from his
shoulder and told the Sergeant he needn't
eat any more. His heart full of joy, the soldier
threw the crow upon the ground, and
said:
"Well, I ken eat crow, but I don't like it."
The story might stop here, if it was only to
show the origin of the phrase, but the rest of
it is the best.
CHAPTER II.
The old Virginian, after surveying his dead
pet for an instant, in a sorrowful manner, returned
the gun and started for his mansion.
The other quickly brought his piece to his
nVi/Mil/lor on/1 r?o 11 o/l Anf
"Hold on there, Mister."
"What do yon want ?" asked the other, as
he turned and beheld a bead drawn on him.
"I'd like to have you eat the rest of this
crow."
The old man turned and swore, and tore
about in a frantic manner, saying he'd be d-d
if he would, and that he didn't want any of
the young man's jokes. The cocking of the
gun, and the assurance on the part of the soldier
that he would surely put a ball through
the old man's shoulder unless he complied
with the demand, induced the Virginian to
retrace his steps. "Now," said the Sergeant,
"I want you to eat the rest of that crow, and
no nonsense."
A punch of the rifle on the shoulder of
the old man roused him to a quick sense of
his position, and picking up the crow, he endeavored
to bite it He grew pale, the perspiration
stood upon his face, he trembled like
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and it seemed a physical impossibility for
him to touch the crow. The Sergeant compelled
him to take a bite, and it was the only
one he did take, for his breakfast came up so
rapidly to protest against crow that the soldier
relented and told him to "git" and never to
trouble a Bucktail again.
Here would seem to be another proper
place to end the story, but there is still another
chapter.
CHAPTER III.
The next day, the old Virginian, smarting
under the indignities he had suffered, in not
only having his pet crow killed, but being
compelled to eat a portion of it, went to the
headquarters of the Bucktails and made complaint
against the big Sergeant. The Colonel
at once sent an Orderly for Sergeant Smith,
rightly supposing that he must be the person
referred to. He obeyed the summons at once.
He Dushed the door of the tent aside and en
tered. Snapping his heels together, and standing
in the position of "attention," he brought
his right hand quicky to the visor of his military
cap, and gave the customary salute to
his Colonel.
"Sergeant," said his commander very gravely,
"Do you know that man ?" pointing to the
old Virginian.
"Yes, sir, promptly answered the other.
"How did you become acquainted with
him, Sergeant?"
"We dined together yesterday, sir," promptly
answered the culprit.
The roar of laughter which followed this
reply need not be described, nor the manner
in which the old Virginian joined. The Sergeant
was sent back to his quarters, and the
interview between the old aristocrat and the
Colonel was eoded by an invitation to the
latter to dine the next day at the old mansion.
iSf A Parisian lady called on her milliner
the other day to take up the character of a
servant. The respectable appearance of the
latter was beyond questioning. "But is she
honest ?" asked the lady. "I am not so certain
about that," replied the milliner; "I
have sent her to you with my bill a dozen or
so times, and she has never given me the
money."
I&? "What is the reason your wife and you
always disagree?" asked one Irishman of
another. "Because we are both of one mind;
she wants to be master, and so do I."
j^grtcultntal Department.
From the Rur.il Carolinian.
THE CREDIT SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECTS.
You have in your August number, on page
603, an article headed: "The Bane and the
Antidote." What your friend from Canton,
Miss., says is applicable to the whole State of
Mississippi and most of the cotton-raising
States. The agricultural papers of the South
abound in similar complaints.
All writers on the subject agree that the
cause of all this trouble is the credit system,
as carried on, but they fail to give the true
remedy. How can people expect to be prosnornna
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and wear out a crop before it is grown?
Here is the bottom of our troubles. It is our
laws inaugurated since the war, by our wise
Solons, by which only the credit-giving merchant
is protected. Our laws encourage the
credit system, whereas, it ought to be the reverse.
We all know that during the war a spirit
of speculation developed itself in our people.
This spirit ought to be checked at once by
passing laws, which make it a legal offense to
pledge any produce before nature and art
have made it a marketable article.
The laws throughout the South protecting
the merchants for furnished supplies, have
transformed most of our so-called merchants
into pawn-brokers of the worst kind. Southern
people, insist on your law-makers having
all these bad laws revoked, and you will see
in less than three years that there will be
enough provisions raised in the South to supply
our wants and more, and the present credit
system will be broken at once.
That enough corn and small grains can be
raised here is 110 question at all. Did we not
do it during the war and feed large bodies of
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The effects of the present credit system are
really fearful. To see this in its most alarming
aspect, we have to go to the County Recorder
s offices, and there see how many
farms have passed from the farmers into the
hands of so-called merchants and speculators.
Then go and see what this gentry does with
the acquired farm, and you will soon find out
that the white man who owned it is gradually
persuaded off* from his old home with his family,
and replaced by negroes; because it is
easier, as they say, to trade with the negro?
he is easier managed.
If the present system is carried on for ten
years, more than three-fourths of the land
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merchants, and a system of feudalism inaugurated
worse than that which the middle
ages of Europe ever saw it.
Now, ye law-makers of our Sunny South,
did you look into these things during the last
four or five years, and will you give us a radical
remedy, or force us to emigration, and to
leave this, the finest of all countries, to the
pawn-broker merchants, and their serfs, the
negroes ?
The present credit system is nothing less
than a high-handed game of gambling. It is
selling and using what does not yet exist. Go
and see now the accounts of most of the farmers
with the merchants, and you will find
that the incurred indebtedness at this date is,
by far more than the best cotton c.vop at good
prices will bring.
The remedies mentioned by you in the
above-recited article, are no doubt very good ;
but they do not cover the whole ground, and
will be of benefit to a few only, simply because
the smallest class of farmers read the
agricultural papers and follow their good
teachings. The fact is, most of our farmers
get their information over the counters of
their merchants, and this is taken, as it seems,
with more faith than the gospel.
Pine Stump.
Summit, Pike county, Miss.
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A NEW WAY TO PREVENT GRAPE ROT.
That distinguished Pomologist, Dr. A. P.
Wylie, of Chester, S. C., writes to the Reporter
of that town, the following communication,
which we are sure, will interest, and which
may profit grape growers:
I wish to call the attention of the public to
a remedy which, although not at all fully tested,
promises to be of immense importance to
the public. In the year of 1871,1 desired to
impregnate the Herberaont Grape, also the
Bland Madeira and Foreign, No. 1, a very
large October grape, with the pollen from
Peter Wylie, No. 1, so as to produce a Hybrid
or cross progeny. Knowing that both the
Herberaont, Bland and Madeira Hybrid No.
1, would surely nearly all rot as they had been
invariably doing in that locality, I concluded
to keep the hybridized bunches covered with
paper bags, putting a small pinch of sulphur
in each bag and keeping the bags on from the
time they bloomed until they ripened; to my
surprise not a berry rotted, when every other
bunch on those vines rotted, leaving scarcely
a berry.
When Mr. Ravenel, of Aiken, visited me
in the fall of 1871,1 called his attention to
the remarkable fact. Although the experiment
had been tried only on a very small
scale, still I determined to give it a further
trial this summer. Unfortunately I was absent
from home until the latter part of June,
so that I got but a few put on before the 1st
of July. I am satisfied that it will more certainly
succeed when put on at the earliest period.
I ordered from Howlet Brothers, 204
Fulton street, New York, 2000 bags from
eight to ten inches long, and about six wide;
a few blue ones, but mostly white. I have
put on over a thousand bags, after either
blowing the bunch over with a sulphur bellows,
or dropping a small quantity of sulphur
into each bag, then drawing the bags over the
bunches and pinning them with one or two
small pins around the stem, so as to keep out
rain, birds and insects. So far the experiment
is entirely successful, not a rotten berry to be
seen, except on one viDe, which was rotting
badly at the time they were put on.
The plan is simple and cheap ; half grown
children can easily do it, and one person
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couia put on luuu easily a oay. jtius are
much more convenient than paste. By cultivating
grapes on elevated beds or ridges twenty
feet apart, with deep water furrows between
the rows to secure drainage, using the sulphur
bellows when they first start in leaf, and applying
bags at the time of blooming in conjunction
with the soil and modes adopted by
good cultivators, I believe that there is a hope
for the foreign grape to succeed without glass.
There is no danger of rain wetting off the
bags which Howlet can supply.
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Fence Posts.?The following experience
on the mooted question whether fence posts
will last longer when set in the same position
in which they grew, or vice versa, is given by
a writer: Some twenty-three or four years
since I set a fence, inclosing house and dooryard?a
rail and bauister fence. The posts
were sawed from good-sized, first-growth chestnut
loss. To saw them tapering, one-half of
them must be sawed to set in the ground, top
down, and the other half bottom down. The
posts were set promiscuously, and to this day
there has been no distinguishable difference
in their lasting quality, unless it be where
some of them had more sap on them than
others, and these gave out first without regard
to which end was set down.
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A Cure for Ear-ache.?There is hardly
any ache to which children are subject so
bad to bear and difficult to cure as the earache.
But there is a remedy never known to
fail. Take a bit of cotton batting, put on it
a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie !
it, dip in sweet oil and insert it in the ear.
Put a flannel badge over the head to keep it
warm. It will give immediate relief.?Household.
Toothache.?Pulverized alum and common
salt put on a piece of cotton into a hollow
tooth will shut up its aching so quick
that you will want to thank us for telling
you.
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SHAVING A MILLIONAIRE.
Everybody who lives in New Jersey will
recollect Billy Gibbons, the millionaire. He
was an eccentric man, and numerous stories
are told of his freaks. Here is one of them:
It seems that Billy, while in a country village,
in which he owned some property,
stepped into a barber's shop to get shaved.
The shop was full of customers, and the old
gentleman quietly waited for his turn.
A customer who was under the barber's
hands when the old gentleman came in, asked
the "knight of the razor," in an undertone, if
he knew who that was ; and, on receiving a
negative answer, he informed him in a whisper,
it was "Old Billy Gibbons, the richest
man in the State."
"Gad," said the barber, "I'll charge him
for his shave."
Accordingly, after the old man had the opI
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upon asking the price, to be told "seventy-five
cents."
j "Seventy-five cents," said he, quietly; "isn't
i that rather a high price ?"
"It's my price," said he of the lather brush,
independently, "and as this is the only barber's
shop in the place, them as come into it,
must pay what I ask."
To the old man this was evidently a knock
down argument, so he drew three quarters of
a dollar from his pocket, paid them over to
the barber, and left the shop.
A short time after this he was in close conversation
with the landlord of a tavern hard
by, and the topic of the conversation was
"barbershops."
"Why is it," said lie, "there's only one barber's
shop in town? There seems to be nearly
enough work for two."
"Well, there used to be two," said the landlord,
"till last winter, when this new man
came up from the city and opened a new shop,
and as everything in it was fresh and new,
folks sort of deserted Bill Harlington's shop,
which had been going on for nigh fourteen
years."
"But did this Bill do good work? Didn't
he shave well, and?cheap."
"Well as for that," said the landlord. "Bill
did his work well enough, but his shop wasn't
on the main street like the new one, and didn't
have so many pictures and handsome curtains
and folks got in the way of thinking the new
chap was more scientific and brought more
city fashion with him, though to tell the
truth," said the landlord, striking a chin sown
with a beard resembling screen wire, "I never
want a lighter touch or a keener razor than
Bill Harlington's."
"City fashions?eh ?" growled the old man.
"So the new man's city fashions shut up the
other barber's shoD?"
"Well, not exactly," said the landlord,
"though things never did seem to go well with
Bill after the new shop opened; first, one of
his little children died of fever; then his wife
was sick a long time, and Bill had a big bill to
Eay at the doctor's ; then as a last misfortune
is shop was burned down one night, tools,
brushes, furniture and all, and no insurance."
"Well," said the old man, pettishly, "why
don't he start again ?"
"Start again!" said the communicative landlord
; "why bless your soul, he hasn't got anything
to start with."
"H?m?ra! Where does this man live?"
asked the old man.
He was directed, and ere long was in conversation
with the unfortunate tonsor, who
corroborated the landlord's story.
"Why, don't you take a new shop ?" said
the old man ; there's a new one in the block
right opposite the other barber's shop."
"What," said the other, "you must be crazy.
Why, that block belongs to old Billy Gibbons
; he'd never let one of those stores for a
barber shop; they are a mighty sight too good;
besides that, I haven't got twenty dollars in
the world to fit it up with."
You don't know old Billy Gibbons as well
as I do," said the other. "Now listen. If
you can have that shop all fitted up, rent free
what will you work in it for by the month ?
What is the least you can live on ?"
The proposition somewhat startled the unfortunate
hair-dresser, who finally found words
to stammer out that twelve or "fifteen dollars
per month would be about enough.
"Pshaw!" said the old man, "that won't do.
Now listen to me?I'll give you that store,
rent free, one year, and engage your services
six months, all on these conditions: You are
to shave and cut hair for everybody that applies
to you, and take no pay, just charge it
all to me, and for your services I'll pay you
twenty dollars a month, payable in advancepay
to commence now," continued he placing
two ten dollar notes 011 the table before the astonished
barber, who, it is almost unnecessary
to state, accepted the proposition, and who
was still more surprised to learn that it was
Billy Gibbous himself that had hired him.
In a few days the inhabitants of that village
were astonished by the appearance of a
splendid new barber's shop, far surpassing the
other in elegance of appointments, and in
which, with new mugs, soaps, razors and perfumes,
stood a barber and assistant ready to
do duty on the heads and beards of the people.
Over the door was inscribed, "WILLIAM
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I sing Saloon."
The people were not long in ascertaining or
slow in availing themselves of the privileges of
this establishment, and it is not to be wondered
that it was crowded and the other deserted.
The other held out some weeks suspecting
this free shaving?for Bill kept his secret
well?was but a dodge to entice customers
away, who would soon be charged as usual,
but when at the end of six weeks he found
Billy working away as usual, charging not a
cent for his labor, and having money to spend,
in the bargain, he came to the conclusion that
he must have drawn a prize in the lottery, or
stumbled upon a gold mine, and was keeping
barber's shop for fun, so he closed the shop in
despair and left the place.
Meanwhile, "Bill Harrington" kept on busy
as a bee, and one fine morning his employer
stepped in, and without a word sat down and
was shaved; on rising from his seat he asked
to see the score for the six mouths past.
The barber exhibited it, and after a careful
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calculation tne oia man saiu :
"Plenty of customers, eh ?"
"Lot's of 'em" said the barber; "never did
such a business in my life ?"
"Well, replied Money Bugs, "you have kept
the account well. I see I've paid you one
hundred and twenty dollars for your services?
all right?and there are three hundred and
thirty charged for shaving all that applied;
now, this furniture cost one hundred and eight
dollars; balance due you one hundred and
two dollars. Here it is. Now you own this
furniture, and are to have this shop rent free
six months longer; after to-day you are to
charge the regular price for work, for your
pay from me stops to-day."
This, ofcourse, the barber gladly assented to.
"But," said the old man, on leaving, "take
care you never cheat a man by charging ten i
ten times the usual price for a shave; for it
may be another "old Billy Gibbons."
Grant's Organ on the Louisville Failure.?The
N. Y. Times, of Thursday, says : i
"Mr. O'Conor's positive refusal to bo the can- j
didate of the Louisville Convention has seriously
modified the probable active influence
of the movement on the Presidential canvass.
Had he accepted, and, with Mr. Adams, been
represented in each State by an electoral ticket,
he might have drawn a considerable
"straight-out vote." But it is not likely that
any one else who can be selected will do so.1
It is very difficult to organize a minority, every
member of which knows the minority is a
hopeless one for a national contest. To this
task, Mr. O'Conor would have lent the assistance
of a national reputation, and, had he
taken an active part in the canvass, of brilliant
and original abilities. These are not;
likely to be found elsewhere, and a movement j
for a third party may be regarded as having j
come to an end." I
luring the fahhath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAN.
THE CLEANSING BLOOI).
A visitor among the poor was one day
climbing the broken staircase which led to a
garret in one of the worst parts of London,
when his attention was arrested by a man of
peculiarly serious and repulsive countenance,
who stood upon the landing-place, leaning
with folded arms against the wall. There was
somethiug about the man's appearance which
made the visitor shudder, and his first impulse
was to go bhck. He made an effort, however,
to get into conversation with him, and told j
him that he came there with the desire to do
rum good ana to see mm nappy, ana that the
book he held in his hand contained the secret
of all happiness. The ruffian shook him off
as if he had been a viper, and bade him begone
with his nonsense, or he would kick him
down stairs. While the visitor was endeavoring
with gentleness and patience to argue
the point with hiin, he was startled by hearing
a feeble voice, which appeared to come
from behind one of the broken doors that
opened upon the landing, saying: "Does your
book tell of the blood which cleanseth from
all sin?" For the moment the visitor was
too absorbed in the case of the hardened sinner
before him to answer the inquiry, and it
was repeated in urgent and thrilling tones :
"Tell me, oh ! tell me does your book tell of
the blood that cleanseth from all sin?"
The visitor pushed open the door, and entered
the room. It was a wretched place
wholly destitute of furniture except a
three-legged stool, and a bundle of straw in
a corner, upon which was stretched the wasted
limbs of an aged woman. When the visitor
entered, she raised herself upon one elbow,
fixed her eyes eagerly upon him, and
repeated her former question: "Does your
book tell of the blood which cleanseth from
all sin?" He sat down upon the stool beside
her, and inquired : "My poor frrend, what do
irrvti innrtf a It n a itt fli a f nl ao norttk
yuu naut tu xviiuh \ji hil uiuuu twai v/icauocbu
from all sin ?" There was something fearful
in the energy of her voice and manner as she
replied: "What do I want to know of it!
Mau, I am dying; I am going to stand naked
before God. I have been a wicked woman, a
very wicked woman, all my life. I shall
have to answer for everything I have done;"
and she groaned bitterly as the thought of a
lifetime's iniquity seemed to cross her soul.
"But once," she continued, "once, years ago,
I came by the door of a church, and I went
in, I don't know what for; I was soon out
again; but one word I heard there I have
never forgot. It was something about blood
that cleanseth from all sin. Oh! if I could
hear of it now! Tell me, tell me, if there is
anything about that blood in your book!"
The visitor answered by opening his Bible and
reading the 1st chapter of the First Epistle
of John. The poor creature seemed to devour
the words, and when he paused she exclaimed:
"Read more, read more." He read the 2nd
chapter?a slight noise made him look round ;
the savage ruffian had followed him into his
mother's room, and, and though his face was
partly turned away, the visitor could perceive
tears rolling down his cheeks. The visitor
read the 3d, 4th, and 5th chapters before he
could get his poor listener to consent that he
should stop, and then she would not let him
go till he promised to come again the noxt
day. He never from that time missed a day
reading to her until she died six weeks afterward
; and very blessed was it too see how,
almost from the first, she seemed to find peace
by believiug in Jesus. Every day the son
followed the visitor into his mother's room,
and listened in silence but not in indifference.
On the day of her funeral, he beckoned him
to one side, as they were filling up the grave,
and said: "Sir, I have been thinking that
there is nothing I should so much like as to
spend the rest of ray life in telling others of
the blood which cleanseth from all sin."
Thus the great truth of free pardon through
the blood of Christ sinks into the soul and
saves it. Thus grasped, when all else is gone,
it has power to sustain the drowning spirit,
and lift it up above the floods that are going
over it. Thus it breaks the heart of stone,
which nothing else could touch, and turns the
abandoned persecutor into the zealous teacher
of Christianity.
SABBATH IN SCOTLAND.
The intensity of the religious feelings of
the people of Scotland, as well as the honesty
of its expression, is well illustrated by the
following incident, which is strictly true. A
young American, who afterwards became a
distinguished member of the Senate of the
United States, after graduating at an Ameri
/~1 - 1 1 A. \ 1_ A_ A .. -
can ^onege, was sent oy nis parenis ior a
year to the University of Edinburgh. Like
other young men sojourning in that interesting
city, he took lodgings?which simply
means that he hired a suite of rooms in a private
house, and had his meals provided by the
landlady. She was an excellent woman, and
he was a good specimen of the young American,
so the two got on most harmoniously together.
But by-and-by he began to see a
shade of trouble on the old lady's countenance.
Day by day it grew darker and
deeper. He could not help observing this,
and was quite at a loss to account for it.
Sometimes he thought she might be in want
of means; perhaps she was behindhand with
her rent, and the landlord pressing her for
the money. His first thought was to offer her
means to meet any such difficulty, but knowing
the spirit of independence possessed by
the Scotch people, he hesitated to do so. But
finally, one Sabbath morning, as he was eating
his breakfast, the Old lady came into the
room. If she had looked sad before, she was
ten-fold more so to-day. He was fairly alarmed
as she came in. Springing up from his
chair, he said : "My dear madam, what is the
matter? If the want of money troubles you,
ray purse is at your service, and I beg you
will avail yourself of it."
"No, it is not mouey matters that ails me;
it is the commandment, sir. You ken as well
as me that the commandment says, 'Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' Not
only are we to do it, and our sons, and our
daughters, our men servants and maid servants,
and our cattle, but the stranger that is
within our gate, and I am implicated in your
guilt if you do not keep it holy. I do not
think you mean to break the Sabbath, but
these young men from college come to see you
on the Lord's day, and keep you from church,
as well as lead you into conversation that is
not profitable or proper on the Sabbath."
"What would you have me to do?" was the
young man's immediate inquiry.
"Go to the house of God."
"Where do you go?"
"0, you would not like ray man ; he is one
Thomas McCrie; but would like Mr. so and
so," and here she went over a list of ministers
who preached the truth. But her young
guest seized his hat, and insisted on going
then and their with his hostess to the oldfashioned
church, where the guest, Dr. McCrie,
(the biographer of Knox,) held forth to
an attentive audience. He could not help
admiring the genius of the preacher, and du?Irir?
V?in nfn .? i ?. T? A ! ., U i. ..ryk VlP O + tpnrlprl VllO
iiug ilia olujt in juuiuuuigii uv u?vuvivu ...w |
ministry with the utmost regularity. The
dark cloud disappeared from the old lady's
face, and they ever after continued the best
of friends.
B?" "Christians! It is your duty not only
to be good, but to shine; and of all the lights
which you kindle on the face joy will reach
farthest out at sea, where troubled mariners
are seeking the shore. Even in your deepest
grief, rejoice in God. As waves phosphoresce, ;
let joys flash from the swing of the sorrows ,
of.your soul."
I?* When in the midst of fears, in the sight
of dangers, and in the dread of destruction,
it is our business to cease from self-confidence, '
attend to the voice of God, rely upon his 1
promises, hope in his mercy, and quietly wait '
for his great deliverance. i
(TOiMtt'a gfpattmcnt.
SPARE MOMENTS.
A lean, awkward boy came one morning
to the door of the Principal of a celebrated
school, and asked to see him. The servant
eyed his mean clothing, and thinking he looked
more like a beggar than any tiling else,
told him to go around to the kitchen. The
boy did as he was bidden, and soon appeared
at the back door.
"You want a breakfast, more like," said
the servant girl, "and I can give you that
without troubling him."
"Thank you," said the boy; "I should have
no objection to a bite, but I should like to see
Mr. , if he can see me."
"Some old clothes, may be you want, remarked
the servant, again eyeing the boy's
patched clothing. "I gues9 ho has none to
spare; he gives away a sight," and without
minding the boy's request, she went away
about her work.
"Can I see Mr. ?" again asked the boy,
after finishing the bread and butter.
"Well, he is in the library; if he must be
disturbed, he must, but he does like to be
alone sometimes," said the girl in a peevish
tone. She thought it very foolish to admit
such an ill-looking fellow into her master's
presence. However, she wiped her hands and
bade him follow. Opening the library door,
she snid :
"Here's somebody, sir, who is dreadful anxious
to see you, and so I let him in."
I don't know how the boy introduced himself,
or how he opened business, but I know
that after talking awhile, the Principal put
aside the volume he was studying and took
up some Greek books and began to examine
the new comer. The examination lasted
some time. Every question which the Principal
asked the boy was answered readily.
"Upon my word," exclaimed the Principal,
"you certainly do well," looking at the boy
from head to foot over his spectacles.
"Why, my boy, where did you pick up so
much ?"
"In my spare moments," answered the boy.
Here he was; poor, hard working, with but
few opportunities for schooling, yet almost
fitted for college by simply improving his
"spare moments." Truly are not spare moments
the "gold dust of time?" How precious
they should be. Look and see. This
boy can tell you how very much can be laid up
by improving them, and there are many other
boys, I am afraid, in jail, in the house of correction,
in the forecastle of a whale ship, in
the tippling shop, who if you would ask them
when they they began their sinful courses,
might answer: "In my spare moments."
"In my spare moments I gambled for marbles.
In my spare moments I began to smoke
and drink. It was in my spare momenta
that I gathered wicked associates."
Oh ! be careful how you spend your spare
moments. Temptation always hunts you out
in seasons like these. When you are not busy
he gets into your heart, if he possibly can in
such gaps. There he hides himself, planning
all sort3 of mischief. Take care of your
spare moments.
+. ?
THE FIRE-LIGHT STUDENT.
TCoarltr half a /?on+nrrr arm in fchfl nnnnftf
of G , in one of the Southern States, lived
a poor but pious widow, whose eldest son
was then about fifteen years of age. His
mother's home was in the country on a small
tarm, and as he was his widowed mother's
sole reliance at that time, his life seemed destined
to be that of a farmer. But from childhood
he had thirsted for knowledge, and had
eagerly sought for it wherever and whenever
opportunity had offered. About that time a
district school was established in his neighborhood
and kept open for several years. He
attended this regularly in winter, but when
spring came, he as regularly returned to his
mother's farm, and dilligently from sunrise to
sunset, he toiled through spring and summer
and until the close of autumn, and then, when
all the grain was gathered in and the crops
sown for the coming year, the farmer-student
returned to his studies at the neighborhood
school.
He was as diligent in study as he had been
on the farm; but his mother could not furnish
him the means for studying at night, and
in his craving for knowledge, the boy found
? i i ,1 l _ mi
tne oia saying true: "wnere ineres a win
there's a wayfor a neighboring forest furnished
him with a substitute for the lamp his
mother was unable to provide. And afterwards,
when he became a great man, she, with
a mother's fondness, loved to tell how, till a
late hour in the night, during the winter, she
was accustomed to see the fire-light from her
son's room shining under the door that separated
her apartment from his; for he was accustomed
to study lying upon the floor before
a light-wood fire.
Passing over the remaining years of youth
and manhood, we find the farmer-student in
maturer life, one of the most prominent lawyers
in the land, and on account of his wisdom
and integrity, his fellow-citizens elected
him Governor of his native State. But in
his prosperity, he did not forget his early
home nor those who still dwelt there. And
among other generous acts, he placed at a
school far better than any he himself had ever
attended, his younger and only brother; nor
did he cease from his kind efforts till the
young man had finished his college course,
and was likewise established in his profession.
He has lived to see this same brother a brave
and gallant General in the Confederate
armies, and afterwards Governor, also, of his
native State, elected, too, by such a vast majority
as no Governor of the State had ever
received before. .These, under Providence,
are some of the results of the perseverance of
the noble boy, whose only lamp was the winter
evening's fire.?Christian Observer.
A Sermon on 'Push.'?When cousin Will
was at home for vacation, the boys always
expected plenty of fun. The last frolic before
he went back to his studies was a long
tramp after hazelnuts.
As they were hurrying along in high glee,
they came upon a discouraged-looking man
and a discouraged-looking cart.
Thr cart was standing full of apples before
an orchard. The man was trying to pull it
up hill to his own house. The boys did not
wait to be invited, but ran to help with a good
will. "Push, push!" was the cry.
The man brightened up; the cart trundled
along as fast as rheumatism would do it, and
in five minutes they all stood panting at the
top of the hill.
"Obliged to ye," said the man; "you just
wait a minute," and hurried iuto the house,
while two or three pink-aproned children
peeped out of the door.
"Now, boys," said cousin Will, ''this is a
small thing; but I wish we could all take a
motto out of it, and keep it for life, 'Push !'
it is just the word for a grand, clear morning
like this ; it is just the word for strong arms
and young hearts ; it is just the word for a
world that is as full of work as this is. If
anybody is in trouble, and you see it, don't
stand back ; push ! If there's anything good
doing in any place where you happen to be,
push ! If there's any work going on in the
Sunday school, push! Don't drag back, I
beg of you. You'll do one or the other.
Whenever there's a kind thing, a Christian
thing, a happy thing, a pleasant thing, whether
it is your own or not, whether it Is at home
or in the town, at church or at school, just
help with all your might; push !"
At that minute the farmer came out again
with a dish of his wife's best doughnuts, and
a dish of his own best apples; and that was
an end of the little sermon.?Southern Presbyterian.
? ? -<?
S&* "What time is it, my dear ?" asked a
wife of her husband, whom she suspected of
being drunk, but who was doing his best to
look sober. "Well, darling, I can't tell, 1
'cause you see, there are two hands on ray .
watch, and each points to a different figure,
and I don't know which to be believe." 1
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J. II. ADAMS
"THE OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE"
TO ITS NUMEROUS FRIENDS, Greeting.
We are now receiving our new Stock of Spring
and Summer Goods, just purchased in the northern
cities by Col. McCorkle, who, this season, in
exercising bis usual consideration as to the wants
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including a superb line of READY-MADE
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wo DEFY COMPETITION.
JOHN H. ADAMS.
April 25 17 tf
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WITHOUT REGARD TO COST.
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TO COST, as our stock is entirely too
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We respectfully announce to the public that
our Stock of Goods is now more complete than it
has been for years, consisting of
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
MEN'S AND LADIES' HATS, LOOTS AND
SHOES, NOTIONS, CROCKERY AND HARDWARE.
Special attention is called to our STOCK OF
CLOTHING, which is now
MORE COMPLETE THAN EVER.
ADICKES & BLACK.
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COLUMBIA, S O.
THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient
to all the Public Offices and Business
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State House Square, lias been recently re-opened
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ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to
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Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation
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W. E. ROSE, Proprietor.
September 12 87' tf
METALIC BURIAL CASES AND GASKETS.
I HAVE just received a full supply of FISK'S
METALIC BURIAL CASES, of all sizes.
Also a few of those beautiful full glass BURIAL
CASKETS, surpassing in beauty anything of the
kind ever offered here. J. E. SMITH, Agent.
WOOD COFFINS, of any quality, made to
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March 14 11 ly
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MEMPHIS, TENN.
Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland.
ASSETS, $1,100,000.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS President.
Glen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board.
J. D. KENNEDY, State Agent.
W. B. SADLER, Yorkville, Special Agent.
June 27 28 ly
PALMETTO ORPHAN HOME.
AN EARNEST APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.
Dear Friends and Countrymen?Having been
entrusted with the benevolent work of providing
a home for the Orphans, and other equally unfortunate
children or South Carolina, we thus make
an earnest appeal for help in this great work.
The Palmetto Orphan Home was organized last
April, and is now progressing with encouraging
prospects.
The Board of Trustees have adopted a Constitution
and By-Laws which define the nature, design
and mode of operation of this Institution. Its direct
management is to be by a local board consisting
of nine persons, in the city of Columbia, which
Board is to bo subject to the direction of a general
Board consisting of two persons, from each
county in the State, which is to be called to meet
annually in Columbia, at such places as the local
Board may appoint.
In thechoice of persons to act on these Boards
and of the officers ofthe Institution, no partiality
is to be allowed on account of the religious sect to
which persons belong; but all appointments are ? ' ^
to be made on the broad principles of humanity
and charity.
rue uonsuiunon aoes not nraii me ages at wmcn
the children shall be received ; but leaves that at
the discretion of the Board, who are to decide
from the nature of each case as described in the
application.
The Board are desirous of purchasing suitable
and valuable property .now for saleat low figures,
for the location of the Home. We are, therefore,
confident that our appeal to the generous people
of South Carolina will at once bring many liberal
donations and pledges to effect the permanent establishment
of the Palmetto Orphan Home, which
will be the best monument to the memory of our
dead we could possibly rear in our State.
The Board have appointed Tilman R. Gaines.
General Agent to organize Aid-Committees ana
to raise funds for the Home. And the Board will
take pleasure in acknowledging all amounts paid
to him or sent directly to us at Columbia. Donations
may be made in money, provisions, clothing
and anything that can be made useful.
All applications for entering children must be
made to the Board, Address,
Dr. J. W. PARKER, Chm'n,
Columbia, S. C.
Bv order of the Board of Trustees.
J. B Ezell, Secretary.
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