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j lewis m. grist, proprietor, j Jnbcptniient Jfamilj ftetospaper: Jfor % ^promotion of % political, facial, ^griralteral anb Commercial Interests of % j5ant?. |terms--$2.50 a tear, in advance. VOL. 28. YOEKYILLE, S. O., THUESDAY. APRIL 13, 1882. ' NO. 15. Ike t0tg icllrr. MADGE'S COUSIN. Madge was sitting ujkii the hearth-rug pulling to pieces a white camelia, and excusing herself to her kind old guardian, by saying it i was "only Jack's." "My dear," said Mr. Selwyn, walking up j and down and stroking bis beard in perplexity, j "I want to talk to you about Jack." "Oh ! please, not now, Papa Selwyn !" She called him Papa Selwyn, when she meant to be | coaxing, and that was nearly always. "But, my dear, that is all nonsense. I must talk about Jack some tine. Yesterday it was, 4Oh ! please don't?my head is aching ;' and the day before, 'Oh ! please don't?I want to go out with Gerty.' Come, let us face the affair." And sitting in the easy chair behind her hattock, he drew up on his knees the hand that held the broken flower and proceeded to lecture his unmanageable charge on the endless subject of "Jack's." "Do, Mr. Selwyn," laughed Madge, after ne had been making out that even Jack's awkwardness came from an overplus of good nature ; "do throw him at Gerty's head as you do at mine, and I shall make him over to her, and they will be happy for life:" Gerty was Mr. Selwyn's own daughter, and at the mention of her name a strange expression crossed his face which Madge could not read. "Throw him at Gerty's head!?what words you use, child !" he exclaimed; his annoyance for a moment escaping his control. "I wish you had half of Gertrude's good sense. You fancy Jack thinks of her?is that it ? He is the soul of honor, and so far as depends upon him, your father's word will be kept." ?. "Oh ! Papa Selwyn, don't be vexed with me; I am so sorry V" and her face was hidden on his large rough hands in a burst of sorrow, quite childish in its passing intensity. "Cheer up, my darling girl," he said ; "you make a mistake?that's all. Why, one of these days you will forget Papa Selwyn altogether, when you fall in love with your cousin." "That I won't!" cried Madge, with all the strength of her warm heart. All her life, even so far back as her childhood, she had dreaded the fate that bound her to marry her cousin. When Jack Hawkesbury came upon the scene and stayed on visits at the house, she disliked aud ridiculed him without mere}'. Another, one like fair-haired Gertrude, for instance, might have accepted the inevitable and been happy, but Madge's active and independent nature made her run against fat.ft And now there was only one month left before her twenty-first birth-day and the betrothal. Often she told Gertrude she wished he would go home and stay there ; and Gertrude would only laugh, with a deeper tinge of color on her fair face. The girls went out but little, an arrangement against which Madge often rebelled, believing it was in some way conne cted with the safe management of the marriage with her cousin. But there were two pleasures in prospect now, an afternoon's boating with" Jack and a friend of his and Gertrude, and a party that the Ponsonby-Joneses were going to have, to which the Seiwyn family were sure to be invited. First came boating. Ah! that ever memorable day?how many yeara it would take to make Madge forget it! There were four in the boat that passed, with the measured beat and ripple of Jack's pair of sculls, along by the reedy shadows and green wooded banks of the upper Thames. The two girls shared the cushioned seats at the stern, their white woolen shawls guarding them from the chill of the autumn wind. Gertrude was watching the shores and the ripples, thinking in her quiet, easy-going way. Madge, bright in the excitement, was talking?not with Jack, but with the (lark-bearded, travel-bronzed wan, who was resting from his turn at the sculls. He was charmed with the way she chatted and listened to his tales of half the world with a refreshing absence of self-consciousness. What would he have said if he had known the thought that strove for entrace into her heart ? Oh ! if Jack?awkward, blundering, good-natured Jack?could be changed into this stranger that she called timidly Mr. Fitzallan, and Jack and her guardian had greeted at the house as Herbert! At last there was a pause in the talk. She gave a deep sigh, prompted by a sad longing to do right, a vague fear, a first suspicion of the change that was coming over her imi>etuous head. "Are you cold, Madge?" asked Jack, pulling away and bending to his strong stroke. "Keep your shawl well about your shoulders. And, my dear girl, look to yoxir steering. You have been sending the boat into curves like a corkscrew?only I didn't want to stop your tete-a-tete." Poor Cousin Jack! She drew the white shawl closely around her. chilled not by the wind but by a sudden pang of remorse, the foundation of which was very small, but enough to trouble her peace. ~ What need to tell the inner history of \ Madge's life during the next few weeks? More and more she longed for freedom. Fitzallan was staying in the neighborhood and was frequently at the house, and in the thousand little incidents of every-day life she knew he cared for her and honest Jack grew yet more distasteful in her sight. In due time came the second promised pleasure. The family that distinguished the name of Jones by the prefix of Ponsoffby gave their party. Madge was in her glory that night. One looker-on called her charming; another, the mother of fair daughters, admitted her expression was charming, but voted her fea- ! tures plain. Mrs. Ponsonby-Joues, weighed i down with bright-colored silk and jewelry, { said in her finest tone that Mrs. Selwyn's | ward would be quite femme iV esprit. Madge ; had no lack of society, but she kept a place in j her conversation for Jack Hawkesbury, and ; her love of mischief was gratified to the full j by his making of it what lie called "a hawible muddle." But the trivial triumphs and pleasures of the night were long fogotten by j Madge before she lost reinebrance of a scene ; that passed in the conservatory, where the I music was hushed by heavy curtains, and there was only the soft light of a few dim lamps among the masses of blossoms and dark green leaves. She had lost the flower from her hair?one of her favorite camelias?as she i said, "with a darling bud" and Fitzallan had j promised, with Ponsonby-Jones' permission, I to get her another, with a darling bud, too. ; She had placed his gift in her hair, and she , sat near the dewy grass, saying it was cool there and she would rest. Fitzallan stood at ; a little distance, pen-knife in hand still, j swinging carelessly the fan-like leaf of a; dwarf palm. "If this were nearer, I could fan you," he ' said. "Thank you; I am rather tired than hot."! Never in her life before had Madge been so j serious or so troubled as she was now, in the soft light among the cool plants, within sound ! of the half hushed music. "Will you do me a favor V" she inquired,! raising the gray eyes that shone for a moment j with liquid brightness. "You have only to name it?I am at your -V service." His manner, unromantic to a studied degree, made her feel all the more safe in taking heart to speak, while she give him at the same time in generous measure that; most precious offering to which every noble-hearted man entitles himself?a woman's respect. "I have seemed very happy to-night, Mr. I Fitzallan," she began in a quiet, low tone,! the torn leaf trembling in her hand and the ! color dying out of her face, "but I am in great trouble." "Indeed ! I am sorry to hear it." He drew ' a little nearer, listening attentively and help-1 ing her now and again by a word of encour- j agement. Her story was a simple one. She was to be i married next month to her cousin, Mr. Hawkesbury. She had dreaded it all her life, but it was her fate. And then taking courage from the resj>ectful and almost paternal demeanor of her listener, she made a frank confession that she disliked her cousin just be I cause she was forced to marry him; and to | tliis she added such a childlike entreaty not to i be thought "too bad," that it must have re| quired more than ordinary self-control for ! Fitzallan not to say something that would have led the scene to become a tender one, but this he seemed determined to avoid, anil so, in her simple way, was the sadly perplexed girl who was pouring out her heart's trouble to him. "Will you speak for me to Mr. Selwyn," she said, "as you are an old friend of his ? I cannot reason as men do, but I want you to try if there is any way of release for me. Pray forgive me if I am wrong in asking your interference,"?here came a burst of tears that must have tried the listener sorely?"and I myself have so often spoken to Mr. Selwyn and it is of no use. He always said my father's will must be carried out; anu oh ! how I wish I could do it." "It must be done, if possible," Fitzallan said. "But it would not be your father's will to mar the happiness of your life or to put you in bondage." "Oh ! if Mr. Selwyn would only speak like that," said the girl sadly. "Well, I shall have a talk with him," said Fitzallan, "and do my best for your happiness, ' though I would besorry to injure Hakwesbury's * prospects, i^et us go uacn. how ; meie is <? new piece beginning. That is one of Ruben- < stein's, is it not ? I need not say that you , have done me a favor in granting me your con- J fidence ?" With that he drew aside the heavy curtains 1 and they returned to the dazzling light and be- i wildering music and movement of the ball- ; room. 1 After that night Madge waited in anxiety to hear the result of Fitzallan's parley with her guardian. Three days passed and a note came from him, only a few words, saying that he had succeeded at least so far as to win a ' promise that the matter should be considered. * But Madge saw little good coming of Mr. Sel- ( wyn's "considering" what seemed to be deci- ded irrevocable long ago. ' At last it was the eve of her birthday, tomorrow would be the dreaded day, and that , very morning Mr. Selwyn had said to her ' gravely, but tenderly : j "My child, it has been the work of many ^ years for ine to see the fulfillment of your fa- ^ ther's last wish. He was my best and dearest friend and his life was a sad one. At least his dying will must be done. But I promise you happiness ; I do indeed." But beyond that day Madge was unable to bear her heart's burden. "I must tell him ev- 1 erything," she thought. In the afternoon < twilight, some time after Mr. Selwyn had re- t turned home, she found him asleep in his arm- ( chair in the dark dining-room. But little , daylight came in between the red curtains, and it was only the glow of the fire that showed ( her- liis white hair and long beard. She knelt 1 beside him, as she often did for a talk when he i was in that chair, and she woke him by steal- j ing her hand into his. i "Who is it?Gerty ? No, Madge?my little Madge, that is to be so patriarchal to-morrow ?" 1 "Papa Selwyn,'.' she began, not giving him ( time to joke any more lest she might not be s able to disclose all her troubles, "I want to t tell you something, and you won't be angry, s will you, n matter what it is ?" , He took ler face between his hands, and the fire hashed up and showed him how earnest it was. ( "I am q itesure," he said, "nothing can 1 make me ; lything but as deeply in love with f my second daughter as a poor old fellow like > me can be. Why, child, I am under a cloud all day because to-morrow?so soon as to-mor- j row?I can be Papa Selwyn no more, and , Madge will be thinking of nobody but her cou- * sin." c uVn inz-looH oi'iofl "VfoHcro t "you will be Papa Selwyn always?always; and I don't care for my cousin a bit." But her guardian shook his head gravely. "My dear, you will marry your cousin." The firelight had died down low, and Madge had courage enough to blurt out with an effort the few words: "I can't; marry Jack, because I Ought to love my husband, and I can never care enough for him. Oh, if I must be engaged to him tomorrow"?here there was a great sob?"Mr. Fitzallan is very good and kind, and I don't want to hurt him?but?but?he must go away." Iler head sank upon his knees with the great effort of that request. "My poor child," he said, "I know your secret. Bravely said, my little Madge, my bonny girl! You have had the truth out, and done nobly. You are worthy of the man that is to have you, and that is saying a good deal." Then raising her head gently he bade her listen, for he was going to tell a secret in return for hers. "When she heard it she waited with wide, wondering eyes while he told it a second time, for she could not believe in her joy. "As you know, Madge," he began, "most people in this world have more cousins than one." And then he went on to explain to her that Herbert Fitzallan was a very distant cousin, and it was to him her father wished her to be married. Fitzallan's father had been the companion of his labors, and Herbert himself had been loved by the dying man as a son, for Herbert was twenty when little Madge was an orphaned baby of four. "You ask what about Jack, then ?" said the old man. "That was my clever trick upon you, Madge. I never said you were to marry Jack. I told you of your father's wish. I brought Jack here, the only cousin you knew, and I praised his good qualities?which are fine enough, I can tell you, and appreciated by a young lady not far from here. I knew that wayward heart of yours, and I knew that a woman should not marry a man without real love and a great store of it, too. So I left my darling open to the idea that Jack was to be the lucky fellow and she did what I and all sensible folks expected?almost hated Jack and her doom. Then I took care that the man you was meant for?who, my dear, has the best and truest heart in the world?should come in the way just at the right time and show an interest in you. So, have I not succeeded and made mv Mndcre choose her fath- \ er\s choice with her own free heart and will ? ' As for Fitzallan, he is all impatience for to- 1 morrow, and he would have told you the J secret at that ball the other night, when he i says he was put to a desperate trial, but he ( had promised me never to disclose it until we were quite sure of success. "Well, are you happy now, Madge?" "My dear, good second father! IIow can I ( love you enough ?" was all she could say when t she felt his arm around her in that moment of ; fulfilled desires, and his lips pressed to her ( forehead in fatherly affection, now that this , long solicitude was at an end and his hard task well done. That very night, Madge scarcely able to re- 1 alize her joy, was betrothed to Herbert Fitzal- 1 lan, who, when the secret was disclosed, would ( not wait another hour. i "Have 1 not waited years ?" he said. "All my time abroad 1 was waiting, and then I ( came back and found my Madge more than 1 ever I had dared to hope." < But Madge in her new freedom did not for- ] get poor Jack. Indeed, she was almost in trouble about her unkindness to him when she . heard that he had only been playing a part, 1 bearing ali her teasing, and being purposely 1 ungracious whenever she grew kind. But ] Gertrude consoled her effectually on that score < bv telliner another secret after her kiss of con- < gnit illation. "Jack was indeed doing his best to carry out the plan," she said, "and he was often grieved ' about you ; but, dear Madge, you must con- ' gratulate us now?not me, but us. Jack and ' I made it up between us months ago, and we ( had many a quiet laugh about you." So Madge herself accepted the ring, and wore her golden fetters by her own free will after all ; nor was there ever a happier or more j willing captive. As for Fitzallan, if he were not another Arthur, as the girl's fancy had 1 prompted her to call him, he was blameless as i the Prince of the "Idyls," and far more blest; , and if he reigned over no realm, he was at least king of one brave and tender heart?a kingdom wide enough to satisfy his desires, ( and a prize which time proved to Ik* well worth ! his years of waiting. ! IgtoUattcousi Reading.; L Communicated.] 1 FERTILIZERS IN ROCK HILL. 3 A CA RD FROM THE WARDENS O V THE ODORIFEROUS SUBJECT OF CONTENTION. ( ' i Rock IIill, S. 0., April 1. 1 Editor of the Enquirer : Will you al- 1 low us the use of your columns to reply to an 1 editorial in the Rock IIill Herald of March 30, 1 1882, styled "Some Remarks 011 the Guano i Question," in which the proprietor of the Her- < aid is trying very hard to make the people of ! the county believe that the Town Council of Rock IIill is forcing the railroad to remove 3 the depot away from the town, and that as a 1 natural consequence they (the Council) are ! retarding and injuring the material prosperity ' of the town V There is not one word of truth j in such an assertion. There is no trouble be- 1 tween this Council and the authorities of the 1 C. C. & A. .Railroad; for the matter of guano, 1 or as to where the merchants of Rock Hill 1 shall store their guano, has never been men- t tioned by the railroad to the Town Council. 1 11 the 13th of February, 011 account of complaints made to them, the Council passed an ordinance requiring the Railroad Company to ?lour fli? nrncQinrr nn flip at.rPfit.S in town with in five minutes after the arrival of the trains; md on account of which the Council received the following letter from the President of the Railroad: ^ Columbia, February 27, 1882. J. R. Allen*, Intendant, Rock Hill, S. C. : 1 Dear Sir : Your ordinance of February 13th, 1 '82, forbidding the C. C. & A. R. R. to stop a 1 train across the street for longer time than t ,lve minutes, has been received by me. While g [ doubt the power of your town to enforce the , irdinance, I do not desire to oppose your wish- * 3s. Rut it is impossible to obey your orders ? md retain the depot in your town, as the time e fou allow is not sufficient to load or unload r freight. If the ordinance is to remain in this \ form, fixing so short a time, I beg you to noti- s :y me at once, that I may remove the depof and . ill offices to a point outside your limits. Very j] respectfully and truly yours, ' A. C. Haskell. I Now this letter refers to the time, (five min- a ites) as being too short, and as to whether the t irdinance of the town, of February 13tli, was I ;o remain in its original form or not; and not 1; me word is mentioned about guano, or as to h vhere it was to be stored?whether in town or 1' )ut of it. The President had a right to com- t >lain, if the Council, by its ordinance, did not o illow the railroad time to transact its business; t md on the Gtli of March, at the regular meet- t ng of the Council, the above letter was sub- t nitted by the Intendant, when the ordinance ? eferred to in Col. Haskell's lettter was amend- e id by allowing the railroad to stop the trains F icross the streets for ten minutes, and after a ;hat time to keep one street open so that per10ns and teams might pass. The Intendant e vas instructed to notify Colonel Haskell, the a President of the road, as to the modification r if the ordinance, and to say to him if the time 1 iow allowed was not sufficient, for him to in- a !orm the Council what time, in his judgment, o vas necessary, and it should be granted. z This action of the Council was entirely sat- u sfactory to the Railroad authorities, and the s rown Council of Rock Hill have never heard p me word of complaint from the Railroad from r hat time, March Gth, to the present. We t lave no idea that the President of the Rail- u oad has any intention now of removing the c lepot from Rock Hill ; certainly not from f mytliing the Council lias done, for Council c iromptly removed his cause of complaint, g riiere is no trouble or unpleasantness between t he Town Council ana tlie rtauroaa, tne Jtieraia o ,0 the contrary notwithstanding. c At the election, in January of this year, for t' Atendant and "Wardens for Rock Hill, the is;ue was squarely and distinctly raised, and b here was no other, as to whether the guano t ihould be stored within the corporate limits of v *ock Hill or not, and the Herald knows it, for d t has been writing and commenting on the a Town Council and guano question in every is- I (ue since the election, and it is remarkably fr itrange that it never, before March 30th, un- e lertook to say there was no such issue raised, d :t was guano, or anti-guano, and this was a nade the bone of contention at the election, y jecause many of the citizens had petitioned o he former Town Council, December 12,1881, a ,o pass an ordinance prohibiting the storage of b juano in town, and that Council passed an or- y linance making it unlawful for any one to n itore guano in town after the 1st of May, 1882. t So at the election in January last, those di- t ectly interested in the sale of guano put for- t vard and supported a ticket, which, if elected, p vas to repeal the ordinance, and allow guano t ;o remain in town. Remember, citizens had t jetitioned, December 12, 1881, to have it re- c noved. The anti-guano ticket was elected, p md the Rock Hill Herald is still not happy be- ii :ause it could not have things just ax it might t lircct, and instead of its acquiescing in the re- I iult of the election, like a spoiled boy at school, Re Herald grumbles and keeps agitating an f ssue that was settled by the vote of the peo- v >le, viz. : thafc guano must go out of town, p tYnd it is going after the first of May, and the j Herald might just as well accept the inevita- j fie at once and lie done with it; for this 0 ["own Council will not repeal the guano ordi" e lance and establish the precedent of setting 8 iside the result of an election by petition. c Die will of the majority, expressed by the bal- p ot, is, and should be, decisive of any question, s md when so expressed, it should be obeyed by p til?at least until another election, which, in 0 )ur judgment, is the only way to correct the { ivil, if there be one. j It is wrong in the Rock Ilill Herald to en- I ;ourage resistance to the law of the town by ./-..it ;.i iimIIii writni nr in > it icnmmititad Sllirit ,viiuuu(uij " l* uih.hh.w...mvm ~f 1 ind vexed because it cannot control every )ne in its very dictatorial way, by writing * :o the railroad authorities and trying to get j ;liein to cooperate with two or three cot- jj ;on merchants to employ counsel and resist i ;he guano ordinance in tlie Courts. Nice pre- a jedent to be established by those claiming to je the Solons of Iiock Hill! Three of our ? mtton merchants say that they are satisfied kvith the action of Council, especially as the s Council had extended the time to the 1st of a May. c By refusing to erect or build a large flour- J; ng mill and other huge enterprises, and for v pure spite trying to injure the Council by ] publishing it abroad that the council was ' irit'mrr flip ilpiinf frrmr t.nwn bv surit.jit.imr \ U1' '"b w,,v "vfww vv"" 7 o :he guano question, their pet theme at a meet- ; ing of the directors of the cotton factory, be- J, jause three of those merchants and soreheads s ju the election are directors; these subterfuges 1 were employed solely with a view to force the a Council to do just as the Hock Hill Herald (1 would have us do, but we did not. * The Council claim the right to think tand ict for themselves, and as such members of e rown Council we intend to discharge our duty c faithfully, without reward or the hope of re- 1 ward. We are conscientious in what we do, fl md if we fail to please some because we don't c ihoose to adopt their mode of thought, we cannot help it. Our citizens have the right to j jay whether they like the smell of guano or t not: and when they say it makes their homes r uncomfortable and unhealthy, they are entitled to as much protection, and their rights protected as much so, as the person is who is unwilling to remove guano, because its removal will not suit his convenience. At our town election last year, the result [)f the election of a dry ticket completely changed the business of some of the citizens af Rock Ilill, and they submitted to the law cf the town. No petitions from them, and no calling on corporations, railroads and factories and grist mills to help them resist the mthority of the town. They accepted the inevitable, and we see no reason why the Rock Hill Herald should not. And in conclusion, we wish to say that the railroad has the right, and it is not questioned, co bring and unload guano at their depot, in Rock Ilill, at any season of the year, and the rown Council will undertake to look after the juano after the railroad has parted company svith it, and see that it is removed beyond the imits of the town. We imagine that it is of ittle consequence to,stl?6 railroad as to what lAonmes nf flip cr?;nit*.#rf?fir-iAs safe delivery by ;he company and the' amount of freight has )een paid. John C. Witiiersfoon, T. C.' Beckiiam, Jno. W. Fewell, R. J. Hagins, Wardens of Bock Hill, S. C. ANOTHER VOICE ON THE SAME STTBJECT. Editor of the Enquirer: We notice vith peculiar amusement, an editorial in the lock Hill Herald of March 30th. The quesion of which it treats has ]been the one that ; ins agitated the minds of the people of our ittle town ever since the last municipal elecion. We are free to say that the course purued by the guano dealers has been a strangey inconsistent and very absurd one. The or- J linance passed and published by the newly , lected council, prohibiting the storing if com- , nercial fertilizers within the incorporate lim- i ts, after the 1st day of April, 1882, was con- j idered by the dealers in that article a very leavy blow to their interests and that of the arming interest of the surrounding country. 1 n view of this fact, as urged by the dealers , ,nd their willing victims, who were induced to ? ake this absurd view of the question, a very ] engthy petition was gotten up by one of the < urgest dealers in fertilizers?one who prides 1 limself upon his composition as being fault- J ess and most irresistibly persuasive. The peition was circulated, handled by one and all j f the dealers ; thus being able, as they thought, 1 o secure the signatures of those upon whom < hey could exert an ir.duence. The peti- 1 ion was numerously signed by men and boys, J vhite and colored, the result of the combined . fforts of the dealers, and that famous petition ; resented to the Council for their consider- 1 ,tion. ' The Council did, after some unsuccessful \ fforts, twice in council assembled, at last , gree. by a vote, to extend the time for the 1 emoval of ammoniated fertilizers until the < st day of May; and yet our guano friends j re not happy, and nothing but a repeal of the j rdinance will satisfy these law-abiding citi- j ens. l learn mar a memoer ol tne council, j ipon hearing it rumored upon the streets that ' uch a numerously-signed petition would be 5 resented to that honorable body, asking the epeal of the petition, concluded to vote for j he repeal of the said obnoxious ordinance; 1 ut when he heard the petition read in coun- < il, he "sickened," because the petition set < orth so many absurdities that he could not { ast his vote for the repeal-, based upon that ( roundless petition. Now that conclusion on j he part of the councilman hurt the pride of ? ur orthodox getter up of such elegant arti- 1 les in the interest and for the edification of ? he community. < We will now come to the latest efforts made j y the dealers to cany their point, as we no- ? iced in the editorial above referred to. First? ^ re were threatened with the removal of the t epot beyond the limits of the town ; down i bout Smith's Turnout, or "Robertson's Old . 7 j 'ield,"we suppose. Any how, such an arbi- ^ rary people couldn't have a depot nor any oth- '] r railroad facilities, for the trains would go 1 ashing by as though there was no town, but 1 howling wilderness, through which they i* rented to pass as rapidly as possible. Sec- * nd?that Col. Ivy and A. B. Fewell had t bandoned the idea of erecting a steam mill ; j ecause, if the depot were taken away the mill 1 rould not pay, as they expected to erect the 3ill quite close to the depot, thus to enjoy all lie facilities necessary to its successful operaion. Third?that the Rock Hill cotton fac- ( ory company had intended increasing its ca- * acity but no use now. We would be out in he woods?no depot. These pretexts?for < hey are mere pretexts?strike us as being c haracteristic of those used in securing the 1 assage of the Act of the Legislature prohibting the sale of intoxicating liquors within J he incorporate limits of the town of Rock ' iin. ; We now ask, in all candor, are not these t oolish reasons thus advanced ??the most t itterly absurd with which this community | las ever been favored since the town was j neorporated ? We learn that some of these j mportunate, persistent advocates of the repeal ( if the above-mentioned town ordinance have f ven gone so fur, in their feelings of utter de- 1 pair that they can't any longer rule or even j oiitrol so small a town, as to offer to sell their | urge and valuable town property, even at a acrilice, and retire. "0 tempore! 0 mores /" i )id we ever think to see such times come up- < m us, who have enjoyed absolute control, and he natural, consequential death of our power s absolutely intolerable. "Shall such things ie and overcome us like a summer cloud V" j Sympathize it. 1 CoxFrDEXCE ix Self.?Rely on yourself ; ' ake it for granted that you can accomplish 1 our plans. Never say "I can't!" they are ( gnoble words. He who does not feel within j limself the power to conquer fate is not a man ) u the true sense of the word. Of course it is . misfortune for him, since he can never be 1 ,ny benefit to himself or anybody else. Heav- 1 n help the woman who marries him ! Somelody says, "Oh, I don't like these self-con- 1 eited folks!" My friend, self conceit and < elf conlidence are two qualities as different j is light and darkness; and though the self i onceited person may not be the most agreea- t ile of companions, we infinitely prefer him to s he creeping, cringing, craven-spirited fellow i in tmifAttttnu/ltf on nmnrrrnnnv onrl \irIia i V IIU ID IICVCl icauj tvi uKV/iuvtgvjuvj^ uuu u uv, ? ike ITriit Keep, spends his time trying to be 'unible." The man who says "I will do it!" ] vho says it from his heart and means it, too, < vho bends his whole energy to the work, al- j nost always accompliced it; and then people 1 all him lucky and successful, and all that 1 ort of thing, when, in fact, his luck has been < nought about by his own perserving efforts j md by his confidence in himself. Fortune i letests cowardice; and the man who will not >e conquered by trifles is her prime favorite. ] Perfumes.?It is discovered that perfumes xert a healthy influence on the atmosphere, 1 diverting, its oxygen into ozone. Cherry, 1 aurel, clover, lavender, mint, juniper, fennel t md bergamot develop the largest quantity of t zone. Flowers without perfume do not de- 1 relop it, but the flowers of narcissus, migno- 1 lette, heliotrope, and lily of the valley develop t in close vessels. Odorous flowers, cultiva- 1 ed in marshy places, would be valuable in pu- f ifving the air. 1 EGYPT AND ITS PEOPLE. c Gen. R. E. Colston, late of the general staff 1 of the Egyptian army, delivered an interesting J lecture before a recent meeting of the American l Geographical Society, in New York, upon g "Modern Egypt and its People," in the course 1 of which he said : j In consequence of successive conquests and the introduction of female slaves from all countries, there is no nation where blood is so i mixed as in Egypt. Of the five and a half ? millions of people in Egypt proper, four and a c lialf are Fellaheen Mussulmans, and another i half million of Copts, (Christians) ; but the 'S two are tlie same stock, being descendants of c the Pharaonic Egyptians, and are the authoc- t thonal race of the land. But ascending the i Nile the population becomes darker. Above c the first cataract are the Nubians, and in the 'i Soudan, negro blood begins to predominate, to '< which elements must be added 90,000 Circas- .1 sians, Jews, Syrians, Armenians, 40,000 Turks, about 100,000 Europeans, and in the deserts t 300.000 Bedouins of nearly pure Arab blood. '3 Monammed Ali, who exercised so powerful an ? influence upon Egypt, organized his army with t French officers and began many civil as weD S as military reforms. Ismael Pacha, the de- i posed Khedive, despite the abuse lavished upon t him, was superior as a ruler and man to three- c fourths of the European rulers. His son, the t present Khedive, has less ability, and is a mere f figurehead, the Consols and Commissioners i having virtual control. Tfle ex-Khedive and c his sons are well educated for Orientals, speak- t ing French fluently, and are quite European F in their habits and modes of living, except as a regards the harem. i The Egyptian army of late years has varied i from 15,000 to 30,000 men. It is recruited by c a totally arbitrary and irregular system of con- t scription. But the soldiers are the most quiet s and orderly in the world. They possess all the d best qualities of soldiers save one?the fight- c ing quality, During six years'service in the F Egyptian army, I never knew a case of insub- t ordination or insolence from a soldier towards k the Americans or Europeans in the service, h The only jealousy toward foreign officers was e on the part of the Turkish or Circasian ele- v ment, which monopolized most of the highest P jjrades. t When the financial difficuties culminated in ? 1878, the English and French controllers or- t lered a great reduction of the army and the 8 iischajge of all the foreign officers, which left 8 two elements?the native, or fellah, and the f rurco-Circassian. Now a new rallying cry Jj bas been raised?"Egypt for the Egyptians, d out with the Turks and Circassians; out with ? the foreign controllers." Arabi-Bey, the lead- ' 3r of the movement is only a colonel, but all P the native regiments are under his influence. l! He surrounded the Assembly of Notables with ? (lis troops, and dictated tneir course, ana in " the Cabinet formed February 5 he is Minister v if War. Englanu and France, eager to force 31 the payment of the coupons of an iniquitous n iebt to their bondholders, announce their pur- a pose to support the Khedive (their puppet) igainst all internal opposition, while Arabi- 3 Bey declares that if driven to extremities, lie ivill inaugurate the uHoly War," unfurl the 0 itandard of the Prophet and summon the Be- e iouins of the deserts to drive the Christians c lut of Egypt. Such is the present "Egyptian P jrisis." From 1868 to 1878 there was about & 3fty American officers in the Khedive's army, " )f whom eleven died in service or soon after f .eaving it. American officers werq preferred ay the Khedive, because European officers were u ikely to be recalled by their governments in a he event of political complications, and our ? four years' war has given us great prestige. 15 Those who had worn the blue and gray were ibout equal in number. The most prominent n svere Generals Mott, Sibley. Loring andBtone, c who held the rank of Paclias (generals), aud 1 Reynolds, Dye, Field, Long, Prout, Lachett, Ward, Purdy and Mason, who ranked as Beys ir colonels. Some were assigned to duty as o jngineer, ordnance and bureau officers, and ii ithers, among whom I was, were engaged in b listant explorations in the interior of Africa, t; Marriages are always arranged by the fami- ? ies of the parties, and the bridegroom, except ? imong the lowest classes, never beholds the "ace of liis bride until after marriage. He ? fives the bride a stipulated dower, retaining n >ne-third to be paid in the contingency of a v livorce, which is always considered probable. 0 iler marriage portion is absolutely hers, aud 1( the takes it back in case of separation. A 3' veek or even two or three is often spent in ; ? he complicated marriage proceedings, which f] nclude long processions through the streets. ? Women occupy an inferior position, and there " s no such thing as social intercourse of the P ,wo sexes. The Koran is a complete code of " aws. The testimony of an unbeliever avails J'1 lothing in a court of law against that of a a Mussulman. Hence, the murderer of Colonel 3omeraoff, a Russian, has never been hung, a md it will be the same thing with the m urder- " us of Dr. Parsons, the American missionary, ^ mless the government sends a squadron to a irove that the life of a Christain is as sacred * is that of a Mussulman. Jc li WATER IN NEW ORLEANS. E The city of New Orleans is built at a point >n the Mississippi river where it curves like a s< jigantic horseshoe. The city is about one r< mndred miles from the Gulf and is built on p, iwamp grounds. It is in perpetual danger 0 >f overflow, both from the river and Lake Pont- jr ihartrnin, which is ten miles distant from the a, Mississippi. The levees?pronounced levys?protect the :ity from inundation from the river, and these ire two rows of piles driven into the ground p ilong the river bank; the first row of piling is y, i few feet out from shore and are cut off, say \ ;wo feet, above the highest known water mark; 8i ;lie other row of piling is placed sixteen or h twenty feet farther out in the stream; these ^ ire driven much lower than the others ; heavy e: umbers extend from the inside to the outside 4, piling laid at an angle of about thirty-six de- 3] ?rees, and on these planks of yellow pine are ^ jecurely fastened with an intervening space of tl ;wo inches between each row of planks; the n planks are laid parallel with the river, and the ij force of the current is, of course, broken by 0 ;his contriuance; a few feet inside all this is 0 i perpendicular abutment formed also of plank. \ jpiked against piles driven in the ground ana 21 against this the earth is packed securely. tl The river being higher during the rainy f< jeason than the city the entire drainage of c Sew Orleans is from the Mississippi river to a Lake Pontchartrain. All the wash suds, tl dtclien and chamber slops are carried by sur- v face drainage tluough the streets into the tl four or five drainage canals that flow into the i] ake named, which is about four feet below tl /he level of the Mississippi. In order to carry & )ff so much refuse water the gutters are about t< ;wo feet wide and are frequently thirty inches 0 n depth, measuring from the top of the curb. s< rhese deep gutters cross all the stieets running a lortli and south, and where they cross the p itreets are covered with iron flagging. u As the Mississippi is the muddiest river in 0 ;he United States, and is unfit for drinking U >r cooking purjajses during six months of the r ^ear each house in the city has one or more t? mmense tanks in the yard for the purpose of securing rainwater; if the house is a threejtoried one the tank is a three-storied concern d ilso, and, being usually ten feet in diameter, ji ;liey hold an immense amount of water. b While the last census shows that eighty-six a ;>er cent, of the acreage of Louisiana is water, h >r, in other words, for every tillable acre of w jround there are six of water, yet it is an un- ^ listorical fact that for purposes of ablution " ess water is used in New Orleans than in any n >ther American city. Possibly there are a ? score of houses in the city supplied with bath tl ooms, but I doubt it. si "You appear to be very busy," I said to the g; jroprietor of one of the two public bath-houses tl n the city a day or two ago. fc "Yes, sir; but hat's because the city is h illed with Northern people, come here 011 al jusiness and to see the mrdigras; they bathe tl ;wo or three times a week such weather as al ;his, while the native New Orleans man don't re jathe that often in six months," was the in- w 'ormation the proprietor gave me. pi The i>eople of New Orleans are divided into tl four classes, or rather nationalities?French, to Spaniards, Italians and "Niggers." The u; French, Spaniards and Italians are clannish ; J >ach speaks his own language and. as the ltd ans and Spaniards don't care to leam an; anguage but their own, and they, keep mor ilosely to themselves than, the French, win nix and mapry with the "Yankees,?' as the; itill call them, whether he be a decendant o Bnglish, Irish, Scotch or German parents.?hiladelphia Press. North and South Before and Aftei [ he War.?In thosedays there were no bloat ;d bondholders. We had not even risen toth lignity of the insurance agent. Capital wa eally timid; and for the most part, was repre lented in the South, as far as the East wa :oncerned, by the peddler, the colporteur am he vender of lightning rods. These, wb nade themselves familiar with Southern thoi >ughfares only, were impressed by the man iers of our swaggering hero; they stoo* liir. linllkMnrf rifona ntniiQfli luaaucu UCIUIO mo UUlljriug , intj nvivuwuuv" )y his vulgarity ; being for the most part un rersed in the ways of the world, except that o rade, they were bound to fall into mistakes tfot unnaturally, therefore, they mistook th Southern swashbuckler for the Southern gen leman and carried home a daguerreotype o Southern life taken from their adventure vhich as we may conjecture, were rarely o ;he nicest. The South on its part got its viev >f the North from the wandering middlemei vho were best known to it; and thus amutua nisconception sprang into existence?takinj ts ideas and examples, not from the bette: lasses of society but from the worst. Tin ruth is, that behind these people, the gooi teople of the North and South lived, move< ind had their being ; in the one section, rely ng upon personal thrift and industry to builc ip fortunes ; in the other section, victims t< ircumstances rather than design, accumula ing debts as they accumulated slaves. I an ure that I am not mistaken in this; and in leed, events are verifying it. After years o: ontention and war, the obstructive forces ari assing, away, and what do we see ? Why, ir he South looking northward we see a race lindred to ourselves, a little less effusive, bul lardly less genial, already disciplined anc quipped to struggle against the windsand th< yaves. In the North, looking southward, th< hilosophic observer sees, not a huddle of lazi tarbarians, composed in large part of murder re and gamblers, but a great body of Chris ian men and women, who have had a hart truggle with fate and fortune, but who hav< tood against the elements with a fortitude hat contradicts the characteristics formerly mputed to them ; he sees the master of yester ay the toiler of to-day ; he sees the mistress ftlie mansion, still a gentlewoman in the ruest sense, striving and saving, patching iecing and pinching to make both ends meet e sees, in short, a people, born to the luxury f a rich soil and a warm climate, and inurec o nothing except the privations of disastrous far and unexpected poverty, throwing them elves bravely into the exigencies of real life owhere indolent and idle; no where demor lized ; everywhere cheerful, active and sober, It is not of these, hoWever, that I sbal peak in these pages. The homely story ol heir ups and downs will pass into the humoi f the future. I wish to introduce here a low> r order to talk \he comicalities and whimsi alities of Southern life, embodied in the ex loits of the "howling racoon of the monn ains" and the musings of the epic hero who. escribing himself, said : "I am a fighter from litter Creek ; I'm a wolf and this is my night 0 howl. I've three rows of front teeth, and ary tooth alike. The folks on Bitter Creel re bad ; the higher up you go the wuss thej re ; and I'm from the headwaters." This type j the offspring of a class, and as humor itself prings from the nether side of nature he musl eeds play a considerable part in the veracious hronicle of Southern life.?The Century fen Ipril. ? m Destruction of American Forests.?Ie ur own country we have gone to the forests 1 a kind of a freebooter style, cutting and urning more than we could cut, acting foi he most part as though all the while in ? rolic or fight, until now at length after a cem ury of this sort of work, we are waking up tc he fact that our once boundless woods are isappearing, and that we are likely to suffei o little loss thereby. But it is only the few rho seem now to have an adequate sense ol ur condition as effected by the threatened >ss of the trees. In a recent publication isued by authority of one of our Western States )r the express purpose of attracting settlers rom European countries, the statistics of its reat lumber production are elaborately set >rth, accompanied by the assurance that the resent enormous consumption of trees foi lis purpose may be continued ten or fifteen ears longer before the forests will be destroyi. The cool unconcern in regard, to the fume shown in this is very noticeable. "After s, the deluge." A corresponding feeling, lough working on a much smaller scale, is sen in an advertisement, and of a class often ppearing in our older States. "Brace up, roung Man. You have lived on your parents >ng enough. Buy this farm, cut off the wood', aul it to market, get your money for it and ay for the farm. The owner estimates that lere will be 500 cords of market wood.'1 ind so all over the country, on the large sale and on the small, the axe is laid at the jots of the trees and our forests are disapearing. It is estimated that 8,000,000 acres f forest land are cleared every year, and that i the ten years previous to 1876 12,000,00( cres were burned over simply to clear the md.?Harper's Magazine. ^ * Circus Management.?Since I860 the imrovement in circuses has been great. In tlial ear Lewis B. Lent, proprietor of the New rork circus, which exhibited on Fourteenth treet, commenced traveling by rail. Things ave changed greatly since Lent's circus trair ras whirled through the country. Big circus3 nowadays require three trains aggregating 5 cars. Besides, from three to five advertiing cars precede them, the first by four or five reeks. Until late years wagons were used foi (lis purpose, but these were not fast or mag rflcent enough. The catapult and electric ght are late additions. The employes are fed n the irround. bv the circus managers, and nly the principal performers go to~ a hotel, inhere forty horses used to be the limit, from dO to 300 were employed before the circus took tie rail. One tent this year will be 450 by 20C jet in dimensions. The expenses of a big cirus amount to $3,500 a day. The largesl mount taken in, in a single day, is $14,000? lie receipts of a show at Pittsburg, Pennsylania, last season. It is often the case that tiree performances are given in a single day? i the morning, afternoon and eveuing. And lie sideshows are a great deal larger than the nrlier circuses. The advertising has grown o be the biggest part of the show. The size f the first bill was 30 by 40 inches and now ome of them are 50 times as large. There re not us many shows as there wer e years ago. tut 17 of consequence will start out this year 'hile during the war there were 40, with only ne half of the country to exhibit in. The irger ones have swallowed the smaller. Evey circus manager seems bound to see how exjnsive a herd of elephants he can collect. A Pkkachek's Misiiap.?A singular accient befell a Scottish clergyman while preachlg in a non conformist chapel at Shephard's ush on Sunday last. He had a vigorous style, nd showed himself zealously fervent in driving ome to his interested hearers the solemn rords and moral of his text. Hands and eyes 'ere both brought into play in enforcing the winged words" of the portly preacher, and ow and again he would lean his whole weight pon the reading stand, gazing intently into ie faces of his auditors to deepen the impres on of his counsels. While he was once thus azing the audience were startled by seeing le reading stand topple over the platform, illowed headlong by the energetic preacher imself. Many rushed to his assistance, but, [though the frill was one of al>out seven feet, le minister quickly regained his footing, and t once returned to his place at the restored sailing stand. Before resuming the awkardly interrupted discourse, however, the readier remarked, with a quaint "pawkiness" lat "those who leaned upon the Master would 3 better sustained than he had while leaning pon the reading stand of his servant.?London Telegraph. r STORIES OP BURGLARS. y A gang of four men once robbed the house e of a railway ticket agent, and the next morn0 ing bought their tickets of him with the money y they had taken from him the night before. f In spite of the fact that the children of a - member of the New York legislature were awake nearly all night talking altout the Fourth of July, three burglars drilled a hole a in his safe and carried away $5,000 in $100 bills which he was accused of having received e as a bribe for his vote, but which he did not 8 dare deposit or invest less he should excite h suspicion. s Another time three men, who had success1 fully robbed a house and were going out with 0 their plunder, heard an alarm clock go off .. and two vistors get up and dress themselves for a sporting expedition. The burglars hid 1 in the parlor and the sportsmen let themselves 1 out without knowing that the house had been plundered. They found out all about it, howf ever, and learned that the police had suspecti. ed them of the robbery and insisted on arreste ing them. On another occasion when burgf_ lars were all ready to leave a house they were f astounded at seeing a form in white pass s back and forth in the hall, which finally disf appeared from view. They lost no time in v getting out of the house. It was only a daughi ter of the family who was in the habit of walk1 ing in her sleep. ^ A thief was robbing a church one day, and nn tlio TJIWo o carmnn wliir>h tho f>lprorv f lUUilU VIA WAAV A/AU1V KUVllUVU ttkivu ?uw v.vg; B man had left there in order to make sure of 1 his not leaving it at home. When he was 1 already to begin his preaching he discovered, . to his amazement, that the sermon was gone. ? 1 He set the choir to singing and went home after ) it, but of course could not find it, and had to . come back and turn his services into a prayer i meeting. A. bachelor uncle who was expected to give f his niece something nice for a wedding present, ? failed to send it along. He was plentifully , i denounced for his stinginess, until a note was received announcing that the burglars had t made a raid on him the night before and taken I away the jewelry and silverware he had bought. > A burglar laughed so that he came near be5 traying himself, on hearing a mother tell her j little boy to say his prayers, be a good boy and . always look up to God. (The mother had re. cently appeared in a fine sealskin coat, which I the neighbors were told was a present from ? her husband.) "But," said the boy, "you > will loose by looking up." "Never," said the j mother. "Yes you do, too," said the boy, . "for if I'd been looking up the other day some j other boy would have found that pocketbook > and you wouldn't have had that sealskin j sack." Before morning the sealskin went off with the balance of the plunder. ' ? ? [ Ancient Englishmen.?The earliest race 1 of men who peopled England, says Grant Allen } in Knowledge, were the black fellows of the " palaeolithic orolderstone age. They were low 5 browed, fierce-jawed, crouching creatures, in" ferior even to the existing Australians, and j were all swept away in the last glacial epoch. | Long after the glacier of the ice age had clear? ed off the face of the country, a second race : occupied Britain, some of whose descendants almost undoubtedly exist there at the present day. These were the neolithic, or later stone " age men, who have been identified, with, greac probability, as a branch of the spine isolated Basque or Eustrarian race which now 1 lives among the valleys of the Western Pyre: nees and the Austrias Mountains. Our know1 ledge of them is mainly derived from their : tombs or barrows?great heaps of earth which r they piled up above the bodies of their dead ' chief tains. From these have been taken their skeletons, their weapons, their domestic uten: sils, and their ornaments. ' In stature, the neolithic men were short and thick-set, not often exceeding five feet four inches. In complexion, they were probably white, but swarthy, like the darkest Italians t and Spaniards, or even the Moors, their skulls i were very long and narrow; and they form I the best distinhuishing mark of the race, as ' well as the best test of its survival at the presi ent day. The neoliths were unacquainted with the use of metal, but they employed weapons and implements of stone, not rudely ? chipped, like those of the older stone age, but r carefully ground and polished. They made r pottery, too, and wove cloth ; they domestiE cated pigs and cattle; and they cultivated i coarse cereals in the little plots which they cleared out of the forest with their stone i hatchets or tomakawks. In general culture, i they were about at the same level as the more i advanced Polynesian tribes, when they first ; came into contact with European civilization. i The barrows which they raised oveT their ' chiefiains were long and rather narrow, not i round, like those of the later Celtic conquer ors. They appear to have lived for the most part in little stockaded villages, each occupy' ing a small clearing in the river valleys, and , ruled over by a single cliief; and the harrows i usually cap the summit of the boundaiy hills which overlook the little dales. Inside them are long-chambered galleries of large, rought hewn stones, and when these primitive erec, tions are laid bare by the dacay or removal of I the barrow, they form the so called "Druidical monuments" of old-fashioned antiquaries, ' a few of which are Celtic, but the greater part > Eustrarian. j Adam Atwarter's Adventures.?Al, most an age ago, abode at Andover, Adam ; Atwarter. Avocation, artist. Able and ac| complished, active and ambitious, all admired > Adam. An adept at almost anything, Adam also acted as an assistant at an academy affording aid at arithmetic, algebra, astronomy, and so forth. Adam's affluent Aunt Almira also .* abode in Andover, and although austere and \ arbitrary, and an aristocrat, appreciated Ad( am's astonishing achievements and abundantly administered aid, assigning an annual allow( ance. Achsah Ashley, anxious and aimless, artful and audacious, attended academy, and \ after awhile attempted attracting and allur' ing Adam, appearing awfully affectionate, as* auming affectionate attitudes, and, altogeth. er, acting abominably. Adam, already afflanced, avoided all Acbsah's advances and although annoyed assiduously, attended ac[ customed avocation. Again and again AchI sah attempted alienating Adam's affections. Adam, always affable and amiable, adverse | at avenging an affront, and axiously avoid. ing an altercation, asked an absence, and | about autumn abruptly absconded. Arriving at Australia after awhile, Adam attempted flcrrimiltnrfi. Also acted as an attorney, ami ' I cably adjusting all annoyauces and anim osities among Australians. Achsah, ascertaining about Adam's absence actually ate arsenic and ' .awaited angel's apparel. Anon acute ague [ and {isthma attacked, and almost annihilated | Adam. Anxious Australians attended and ( administered alleviations and anodynes. Alas! | Alas! athletic Adam ! An alien and alone, | altered and aged amazingly, appetite abating, abject, actually asking alms and anxious about 1 affianced Aunt Almira. Adam's asjXKjt aj>, peared alarming. After awhile American at, mospbere alluring, an accommodating Australian accompanied Adam across Asia, across 1 the Atlantic, arriving about April at Andover, at Aunt Almira's abode, attenuated and almost an apparation. _ } Sound and Color.?Sounds produce in certain individuals the impression of color, j The curious phenomenon, which was first dei1 scribed by Nussbaumer in 1873, has recently j been made the subject of systematic study by Herren Bleulen and Lehmann, of Zutich. They find that the colors associated with difi ferent notes differ with the individuals, being i' as a rule light for high notes and dark for low j notes. Chords either cause the colors which j correspond to their notes to appear to the mind ! side by side or give a mixture of those colors. The same note in different keys changes in i color and to many persons different colors ai>pear when the same piece is played by different instruments. Noises, as well as musical notes, are accompanied by colors, varying with the intensity ana pitcn or tnesouna. ui ;>uo mmviduals examined, one-eighth were "colorhearers." Four persons perceived sound as result of sensations of light and color. A broad quietly burning gas flame led to the perception i of a sound formed of ic and a light vowel like e; but when the flame flickered the sound became that of I. These cases can generally l>e explained by an association of sounds with colors by the individual minds, and the phenomenon is largely hereditary. yT