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j TO A TlRED\*OTHKR?
A little elbow leaps upon $our knee,
Your tJKed knee tbat'iwsw so much to bear.
A child's d^reyOsmNf looking lovingly
Frofift unaerneatlffttbatob of-tangled hair;
Perhaps you do not hieed-ty* velvet touch
Of warm, rooistfl ngets holdingyours so tight;
You do not prise this blessing overmuch ;
You almost ar*tob'tired to pray to-night.
I But it is blessed nees! A year ago,
I did not see It as I do to-day.
We are so dull and thankless, and too slow
? To catch* thesnnsbine, till it slips away.
And now it seems surpassing strange to me
That, while I wore the badge of motherhood,
1 did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little oht)4>bat brought tneonly good.
And if, soma night when you sit down to rest,
J You miss'the elbovd from your tired knee,
tk<? roatroa*: mirlrheAd from off your breast,
I TheHaping^tengue that chattered constantly; I
" If from your own thedimpled hand had slipped, |
And ne'er<would nestle in your palm amain,
If the white.feet into the grave baa tipped,
I could hotblameyou for yourbeartache then.
I wonder iio thartnothers ever fret
rMHtUiUle children clinging to thai; gown! r
Or that the footprints when the day* are wet
Are ever black enough to make a frown.
If I could find a little muddy boot
Or cap or jacket on my cba'mber floor;
If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot.
And hear it patter in my home once more.
If I could mend a broken cart to-day.
To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky?
There is no woman in God's world con Id*say
She was more blissfully content than I.
But, oh 1 the dainty pillow pext iny own
Is never rumpled with a shining head.
My singing birdling from its nest has flown:
The little boy I used to kiss is dead !
f he f totD ieUer.
A HARD SITUATION.
* A STORY TOIA* AT SEA.
A dead calm on the equator. The sea
moved in long, unruffled, oily-looking
swells, in which our almost motionless
ship was reflected with a fidelity that was
startling. I looked over the quarter rail
to see my own anxious, unshaven face
staring back at me from the rail of a reversed
ship. Occasionally the vessel gave
a lethargic,8ort of roll, which caused the
reef points to fall with successive gentle
"p-l-l-a-p-s" against the wrinkling surface
of the canvas.
A stone's throw distant the leathery,
dorsal fln of an immense shark was slowly
-^"1 oioouincr thfl smooth exoanse in extended,
concentric circles, as though its owner was
/ in no particular hurry to leave our vicinity.
Just before I turned away a gigantic
devil-fish, full twenty feet in length,
shaped not unlike a boys' knife, but having
wing-like side tins and a long, tapering
tail, drifted under the quarter a couple
of feet below the surface.
The heat from the tropic sun, beating
down on the glassy sea from the cloudless
sky, wasalmost intolerable. The spanker
had been lowered, and the courses, brailed
up, were hangingin their brails to prevent
the wear and chafe consequent upon the
wearisome "slat" of canvas which followed
every roll of the ship; so there was no
shade whatever.
The pitch in the deck seams fairly sizzled,
and the touch of the deck or top of
the afterhouse would nearly blister the
baremttn. But the heat itself, the exasperating
calm, and the probability of its
COHflliwiin^r fjin? 1?nimfiTtnrjjifci |||d .
ibeee were in themselves or little rhwnenT
as compared with the gravity of odr situation
in other respects.
The Doris was a small, swift-sailing,
Clyde-built iron ship, on her home-bound
passage to London from Calcutta, where I
I had joined her in the capacity of second
* officer. We had touched at Cape Town
to replace a couple of men who were washed
overboard auringa fearful gale in the
Bay of Bengal, but before we pasoed the
island of St. Helena both of the recruits
were stricken-down with a sort of malignant
typhoid, whose origin might possibly
be traced to the after affects of the poisonous
Cape brandy, or "Cape smoke," as it
is called by the Boers and Kroomen, in
which the two sailors had freely indulged
during their brief stay ashore.
They jlied within three hours of each
other. Then uaprain matcner, who imu
been assiduous in his attentions to them,
was attacked by the malady, and at the
i- same time two more of the crew took to
their berths, placing: a pretty heavy responsibility
on Mr. Farr, the first officer,
and myself, for the ship carried but ten
before the mast, and there was no knowing
where the disease might stop.
Two days before the Doris entered the
belt of equatorial calms the sick sailors died,
and two more were stricken down?one
of them being a bright-faced young fellow
of sixteen, belonging in Scituate, Mass.
As he and myself were the only two New
Englanders in the ship, I had taken a
natural fancy to him.
On the morning when my story begins,
Captain Thatcher died?a few moments of
partial consciousness succeeding the delirium
of fever.
"Thank God, I have neither wife nor
child to leaye behind," he said, with a
faint smile, as Mr. Farr and myself stood
by his berth receiving his last brief orders.
Then, as his white lips murmured, "Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit," the soul left its
tenement of clay.
The young seaman, Charlie F., was next
to pass away, holding my hand in his to
the last as he whispered a message for his
widowed mother;^ and before his eyes
closed in death a Norwegian sailor in the
berth beneath had breathed his last*, leav-.
ing four men out of a crew of ten?a\pok,
steward, Mr. Farr, who at once assumed
command, and myself, who was thus suddenly
and unexpectedly promoted to the
first officer's position. The extreme heat
necessitated an immediate burial. The
duty of stitching up the dead in their canvas
shroud was performed, after which all
were laid on the after cabin grating and
covered with the union jack.
The old man-o'-war'sman to whom, as
the ship's sailmaker, this last sad service
had been assigned, was a character in his
way. I can see him now, as, with his
coarse shirt thrown open in front, displaying
a ship under full sail emblazoned on
his brawny chest, and sleeves rolled above
the elbow joints of his muscular arms,
which were a maze of tattooing, he beckoned
me to the main deck.
"If you please, sir," he said, in a low yet
matter-of-fact tone, as he indicated the
outlines of the motionless forms beneath
the flag, "Iv'e stitched a hextra ten pound
of h'old iron to the 'eels of hev'r.v one on
account of them," indicating by a significant
gesture two dorsal fins a short distance
from the ship.
"Very well, Bob," I said, repressing a
slight shudder; "call the meu aft."
'The cook and steward were summoned,
and as Farr, bareheaded, came irom me
cabin, with open prayer-book in his hand,
the grating was lifted to the rail.
"We therefore commit his body to the
deep." At the solemn words I drew the
flag from the three shrouded bodies,
and the inboard end of the grating was
lifted arm high; a sullen, simultaneous
plunge, and the waters had closed over
our companions till the sea gives up its
dead.
The forecastle was fumigated with tar,
while the bedding and blankets belonging
to the deceased were thrown overboard,
and we could only hope that the progress
of the fell disease was ?tayed. The four
remaining men seemed fairly well, while
none of the rest of us felt any premonitory
symptoms of illness.
There was some relief fgr our heated
brains after the sun had dipped its fiery
face under the western rim of the ocean,
which, I jould almost fancy, hissed as the
orb, like a ball of molten flame, sank
beneath Its surface. Yet aloft or below
not a br^pth of air was apparent,,,end we
fairly gaspetLfor breath at times, so stifling
was the atmosphere. Added to our discomfort
was an intense thirst, which the
luke warm water from the iron tanfc 'tween
decks poly seemed to aggravate.
"It'sh pretty hard situation,, Jir.?that
is, Captain Farr," I remarked, ir^ a somewhat
despondent tone, as we were together
on the quarter after supperjin an intense
silence only broken by tfre creaking
of the yard parralls, the "plap," of reef
points, and the gaode of the water about
the rudd,ec, as tMSfup occasionally settled
in the lopg. swdiftA "Four menfSwith such
help as the (toOK.. and steward-* can give,
from tlrfie ttmmh, Ife a mighty snail criew
for an eight hundred ton ship, with a forty
or fifty days* voyage-before us, <^en if the
calm breaks within a Week," T*went on,
as Mr. Farr, who seemed in deep thought,
did not immediately reply; "anil, as I say,
it's a hard situation." <
"I've been in a harder one"' was the
rather dry answer. Fof'Mr. Farr, on
w hose grave, birbnaed features the strange
experiences of yearly thirty years of active
seaiife had lefUtatr imprint, was naturallv
reticent of sDeech. and used as few
words as possible.
"It was In the summer of 1856," hesaid,
abruptly, as he turned away from the rail
and seated himself on the edge of the after
house, directly* facing me as I stood leaning
against the wheel. "I had passed the
admiralty board at London, receiving a
second mate's certificate. Our regulations
in these respects are better than yours in
America. A 'passed' second mate is presumed
to be competent to take charge of
the vessel he ships aboard of in any extreme
emergency.
"I shipped in an English bark called
the Thorn wald ; a lump of a bark she was,
too, being eleven hundred and fifty tons,
bound for Shanghai with general cargo.
"The crew were a bad lot. Don't ever
remember a much worse. Made up of 'all
sorts'?Dutch, Irish, Swedes, Spanish,
Italians, one Yankee, and four Malays or
Lascars, whichever?you've a mind to call
them.
"There was trouble from the start out.
Mr. Luff, the mate, was a surly fellow. It
was a word and a blow?the blow first.
Captain Geary upheld him in it, too,
(hough, of course, he himself didn't use
open violence.
"Now I wasacomparatively young man,
and, though it's 1 who say it, 1 don't back
down easy to any one. I knew my duty,
too. And-with it I knew that by English
laws I wasn't justified in treating men
harshly without good and sufficient reason,
even if I'd been minded to do it. In
Yankee ships, though, I find a brutal
officer can bang men about at his will, and
your American laws either can't or won't
bother him, except in very extreme cases.
"Well, Captain Geary and the mate
both got down on me for being afraid?so
they said?to 'discipline'the crew. And
between them and theciew themselves I
had a hot berth.
"We had bad weather in the chanuel for
a couple of weeks, with head winds constant.
That didn't help things at all.
a n/l liv tho titrio wo woro-n hundred miles
or so the westward of the mouth of the
Bay of Biscay, the ship pretty well deserved
the name the Yankee chap Dan
called her, a 'bear-garden afloat,'
"It was Sunday evening in the dog
watch. I was in my stateroom for a moment,
and heard a scrimmage on the main
deck. Then the mate sung out blue murder,
and I knew what was tfp.
_ "Of course my duty was plain enough.
^i^raysein^l'got'^cap&^af from the
rack outside the cabin door, and, as you
Yankees say,'sailed in.' But the mate
was down and done for before either the
captain or myself got on deck.
Captain Geary had a revolver, and fired
twice before it was knocked from his hand.
I did not see the rest. The Malays had
their knives lashed to staves they had
whittled out of dunnage wood. I laid
about me right and left, and I fancy I
made a headache or two before they drove
me to the rail?the four of 'em. To dodge
a jab from a spear knife, I jumped on the
rail, my foot slipped, and over I went!
"The ship was going free?say five knots,
in a smooth sea. When I got the water out
of my eyes, I just faintly heard some one
singout "Overboard!" as I swung into
the ship's wake. Yankee Dan was at the
wheel, and I suppose I owe my life to him.
No one else would have cut loose one of
the patent buoys at the stern, pulled the
trigger to set the match alight, and flung
it over.
"I saw the blue flicker, and struck out
for it; got my head and shoulders through
the buoy, and was all right. But the ship
was swallowed up in darkness. I listened
all I knew, hoping to hear the creak of
yards swinging and blocks rattling, but,
bless you, I might have known better.
The mutineers had something else to
think of.
"Well, it was a tremendous long night.
Lucky for me it was midsummer, and the
water not over cold, so 1 was not badly
chilled. But if you were ever like placed,
you may know I didn't feel over cheerful.
The chances of being picked up under
such circumstances by a passing ship seem
small enough when you call to mind the
size of the Atlantic, and how one may sail
for days without sighting a ship, even in
the vicinity of the oceau highways, between
frequented ports.
"But about noon the next day I made
out a sail, square rig, standing towards
me from the nor'ard. Just at sundown
she was almost in hail. I could see she
was foreign built. Her bows sheathed
up lor'ard, the paint was worn off her
sides, which were fearfully battered and
bruised, and I decided she was an Arctic
whaler, full to the hatches, and home
bound. !
"1 sung out lustily as the ship neared
me, but not a soul was in sight, either
aloft, looking over the rail, or on the t'gall*nt
forecastle. The w.ind was light, and
as .she was moviug slow I let go of the
life-preserver and swam to meet her. I
caught hold of the main chain-plates and
climbed up over the sides.
"Fveseen some strange sights, like all
seafaring men. But this got ahead of
most of them. Lying on the hatch, side
by side, were five dead bodies, with a
tarpaulin covering their faces and the
upper part of their*persons. Five men,
who looked more like living skeletons than
anything else, were crawling, hardly walking,
about the deck. One of them stared
at tneras I sprang down, and then uttered
| a sort of stifled yell, as though I had been
| a ghost, while the others huddled together
j in evident fear.
; ^ "A tall man, emaciated beyond any
miug i ever sitw iu my ine, came out 01
the cabin and approached me.
"' J/ewdieu/' he muttered ; and then, in
tolerable Knglish, asked me who I was
and how I came on board, which a few
words sufficed to explain.
"The others crowded about me. Their
story was something extraordinary, but
as it is a matter of record you will know it
to be true. The ship was the Diane?a
French whaler owned in La Teste. Two
years cruising in and about Davis's Straits
and the Artie Seas had filled every cask,
and they sailed for home.
"Then scurvy and dysentery set in.
Thirty-five men (the Diane carried fifty
all told) lay in the forecastle; some sick
unto death, and the rest scarcely able to
lift a finger. Five had died, including
every officer, within the past week, and
lay as I saw them awaiting burial. Not
one of the six who were about knew anything
whatever of navigation.
"As soon as it was known I could navigate
the ship to port, I thought the poor
creatures would go frantic with joy. La
Teste was within a week's sail, by changing
their course, but the way they were
steering would have taken the ship far out
to the southward.
i
"Well, to make a long story short, I
helped them bury their dead, and finally
brought the ship with her crew of sick
and dying into port.
"The owners rewarded me generously,
and the gratitude of the poor fellows to
whose aid I was so providentially sent, is
something pleasant to remember to day.
And that is what I meant by telling you I
had been in a harder p.ace than this," said
Mr. Farr, rising and holding up his wetted
forefinger, if perchance some slight
current of air might be felt.
"Indeed you have!" was my hearty response.
"What became of the Thornwald
?" I continued after a short pause.
"That," replied Captain Farr, gravely,
"is one of the many mysteries ot tne cieep
which will never be solved in this world.
She was never heard of afterwards.
"As for the Doris, the calm lasted three
days, but the epidemic had run its course.
And on the fourth day we spoke a steamer,
from which we obtained five men and
a boatswain, with whose assistance we
brought the ship safely to London. But
it was an experience I shall never forget.
, For tlie Yorkville Enquirer.
REMINISCENCES OP WESTERN YORK.
The Wylie family numbers among its
members some.of the oldest and most respectable
citizensrof Western York. The
four surviving members are Mr. John
Wylie, Mrs. Lucinda Seahorn and Misses
Polly and Betsy Wylie. They, with the
IateThomasG., William and Dixon Wylie,
also Mrs. Peggy Bigham, were known to
the writer from his earliest recollection,
and to them he to this day accords that respect
that their Christian lives have so
justly merited.
All of them were consistent members of
the A. R. Presbyterian Church, and lived
exemplary lives. Mrs. Bigham was left a
widow by the death of her husband, Mr.
Jimmie Bigham, while her oldest sons,
Theodoreand Hemphill, were very young.
Among the duties devolving upon her in
her widowhood was the preservation, of
the family altar. Not unmindful of the
fact that she was to provide for their spiritual
as well as their earthly wants, she
presented them with her prayers at a
throne 01 grace reguiariy, nigni anu morning,
with that faith and zeal that makes
the Christian's life a reality. Her prayers
were answered. By the time either of
those boys could plow they could take
their Bibles and psalm books and conduct
the family worship without embarrassment
or trepidation that often makes good
works unavailable.
The writer always felt that He who has
promised to be a father to the fatherless
and a husband to the widow, was present
on thosp solemn occasons. Like shocks of
corn fully ripe, this good woman, together
with her Christian influences that marked
their exemplary lives, has passed to
that promised rest beyond the grave.
Hemphill Bigham, (the younger of the
two oldest brothers) had scarcely attained
his majority when the war came on and
he was elected a lieutenant in Co. B,
12th S. C. Regiment. He was killed in the
battle of Second Manassas, (if I am not
mistaken). The bullet that killed him removed
one of York county's brightest
young men from time to eternity. Thus
we see the obedient child ; the dutiful son ;
the God-fearing youth and the brave soldier,
give up his noble life in the darkest
hour of his country's peril. He died that
it might live. With Hemphill Bigham
the writer has taken many a tilt in debating
societies, and Lai ways found in him
an .opDnnent, sroilliy. 4C- nojzist&eL,.- With^.
electric speed and mathematical precision^,
he could summon his'thoughts and with
powerful force use them in his arguments.
No one is more fully aware of the fact
than is the writer, that the piou9 training
of these two young men (as weli as many
others we expect to mention) is largely
due to the teaching of the venerable Dr.
Ross, who was the faithful shepherd of
the flock of which their parents were honored
useful members. The writer remembers
seeing Dr. R08S perform the solemn
rites of baptism upon some of the younger
members of the Bigham family ; and lam
fully satisfied that the pledges made by
these parents, that they would pray with
and for their children and teach them to
pray, was kept faithfully to the end of their
lives.
After her husband's death, Mrs. Bigham
brought her children to church at Sharon,
regularly, as usual, and none were better
equipped for the catechetical examination
than they were. Dr. Ross generally attended
to this work in person. Sometimes
one of the elders would perform it. Mrs.
Peggy Bigham's life would be a fair standard
by which to estimate the noble virtues
of her brothers and sisters, both living and
dead. The Wylie family numbers among
its connection (by marriage or descent)
some of the best families of Chester and
Fairfield counties. Among them we
might mention the Moffatts, Strongs,
McDills, Bighams and others. Mr. John
Wylie is the father of Dr. S. M. Wylie, of
Chester county, and also of Mr. W. Brown
Wylie, Clerk of Court elect for York county.
Mrs.ll. K. Seahorn, Miss Polly Wylie
and Miss Betsy Wylie live at Hickory
Grove, and are among the oldest and most
respectable Christian people of that community.
Their mother died during the
war, at an advanced age, and was huried
in the family burying ground at Sharon
church, where, with other deceased members
of her family, her body awaits the
morning of the resurrection.
Blood will tell. We find among the
families of those whose names we have
mentioned in this chapter of reminiscences,
sons and daughters who still live to
perpetuate the noble virtues of their honored
ancestors. New affinities by matrimonial
contracts have brought about a relationship
of the present generation with
the Whisonants, McDills, Castles, Seahorns,
Hopes, Cains and others.
Mr. Jimmie Bigham died with that
most dreaded of all diseases, quinsy. The
idea of a man in comparatively good
health dvimr from mere suffocation, ena
ables the reader to imagine better than we
can describe its terror.
Jlr. Thomas G. Wylie bought and settled
upon the present site of the town of
Hickory Grove fully fifty years ago, where
he began business as a merchant and farmer.
He died a few year ago. He married
Miss Emily Strong, a daughter of Mr.
Christie Strong, of Chester district. This
excellent woman and her husband were
only for a short time separated by death.
"None knew lier but to love her,
None named her but to praise."
We feel called upon to write up the history
of the families in Western York, and
shall proceed to do so as we collect such
data as might interest the readers. Our
object is to remember the virtues and forget
the faults of those of whom we shall
speak ; and we hope our readers will generously
pardon any mistakes or errors
we commit, and receive our articles in the
same spirit in which we write them.
.1. r.. s.
"Drink to Make You Wokk."?"I
drink to make me work," said a young
man. To which an old man replied:
"That's right: thee drink and it will
make thee work. Hearken to me a
moment, and I'll tell thee something that
may do thee good.
"I was once a prosperous farmer. I had
a good, loving wife, and two as fine lads as
ever the sun shone on. We had a comfortable
home, and lived happily together.
But we used to drink ale to make us work.
Those two lads I have laid in drunkards'
graves. My wifc died broken-hearted, and
she now lies by her two sons. I am seventy-two
years of age. Had it r. t been
for drink, 1 might now have been an independentgentlemen
; but I used to drink
to make me work ; and, mark, it makes
me work now. At seventy years of age,
I am obliged to work for my daily bread.
Drink and it will make you work."
^UorrUanrous grading.
UNCLE ABE'S LECTURE.
A VERBATIM REPORT OF AX ADDRESS
DELIVERED IX AX ALABAMA CUVRC1I.
"Frens and bredren, ladies and gemmen:
I cums afore you to-night to pint
out de way of de truL Sum folks is called
to preach'and glorify ae Lord, and sun* is
called to lecture and glorify de cullud nation,
and I is dat man. We am de chosen
people of de Lord, and I will tell you fore
why and show you how dat thing stands.
Wall, now you pintedly knows as how de
good book dun say 'Dera de Lord luv he
chasteneth.' Now ain't dat proof, case
ain't He dun chastened us, and ain't we
dun sarved our time under de white folk ? |
Den again de good bofck says, 'Dem lie
luvs He will deliver,' and fore de Lord
ain't He done got us free?glory, hallelujah
!"
Here the darkey audience became much
excited, and cries of ?il>at'8 truf, brudder,"
"Bress de. LoiwVetc., etc., were
heard. The old" man'mopped off his face
with his gaudy colored bandanna and
continued: ..... u"Yes,
my bredreh and sisters, you is
dun sot free, and I is gwine now fur to
show you as how you must duct and have
yoursefs so dak you will bezamplesto de
whole world. In de fust place, I says,
carry a high head and stiff neck, case you
isde chosen people, and let de white folks
know as how you is as good as dey, if your
skin is sorter dark and your hair kinky.
Right here I brings in annudder proof?
and dat's de way a lecture man makes his
pint. Ain't it de aim of de white women?now-a-days
fur to make dar ha? kink, and
case it don't kink natural don't dey have
to screw it up in papers and harpins, and
iron it too? I tell you, my frens, de time
ain't fur off when Inspects tc see our chilluns
cut all de shineoffende white nation,
and I hopes as how you will 'member dat
de Bible says as how 'you must 'turn good
for evil.' But time is pressus, as I hearn
a gemman say, and I is got anudder pint
to lay afore this cultivated audience.
"There is one charge which is brung up
agin our race which ispintedly wrong, and
datisdis. When we picks up de things
what de Lord lays in our paths, de white
folks say we steals. Now, bredren, when
I de good Lord provides dese things for you,
you ain't in no wise stealing, 'case you is
A? n.../,n f r\f HAliI' KfA\ir <
yarillllg llH'lii i>y uc owrni ui ui
Ain't He dun say so? Now, mind you, I
ain't tell you tor to break open de doors
and de locks, but I says when dey is laid
right afore you, pick 'em up. Den, agen,
when you is Jibin' with Mass Bob I ain't
'viseyou for to go to Mass John's and kill 1
his hogs, 'case what's the use when Mass
Bob has got hogs, and you is working for 1
dem same hogs? Derefore, bredren, I
says be upright and jest, and don't steal
from nobody, but jes take what de Lord
provides for His people.
"Dere is anudder matter we is noted
for?beating our wives. Now dare de 1
scriptur cumsin agin. De good book says:
'Husbands, keep your wives in submission.'
And how is you gwine to do dat
thing? Why, beat'em, to be sure,'case
they needs it. I see dem gals a nudging I
each other and tossing der heads, but I |
curai here to tell de truff widout fear of
man or woman, and wid de Lord's help
I is gwine to do it, too. Yes, gemmen, 1
we is de kings of the yearth, and we must 1
rule de women, 'easeiif we dofi't rule dem 1
; dey Jr mighty app tcftjule us. Den, agin, ]
|_nu> \h and we is got to '
ikeep pretty Htforp tOKec^deyearthsafted.<f1
'Ben, agin, if you gijo a woman ^Ftrrff
she is more an app \o take an eli. So I J
'vises you all to do ydur duty and keep de
women in hand. j
"Now, sisters, I ain't in no wise 'posed '
to you when you don't try to get 'yond
yourself, so 1 will close dis here lecture by 1
wishing you all good luck, and 'vising 1
you to devote your time, your eddication '
and your accomplishments to us gemmen, '
case, as I said afore, we arede kings of de ]
yearth, and you cantbu'st that fac' if your
tongues are longer and your heads pretty *
strong. I 'specs I dun made you sorter 1
mad, but fac's must be spoken, an, as I <
told you afore, de salt got to be rather
sharp to keep this yearth s&Hed, add it
don't do in no wise to let the women think i
dey fs nowhar nigh the equals of we gem- i
men, case dey is monstrous easy to spile, 1
and if dey gets de upper hand dey is more
'an app to keep it. I speaks from 'spe- <
rience, and 'sperience, my frens, bredren 1
and sisters, is a good teacher, case if any <
of you had my Eliza Jane for your wife i
you cold tell den why I 'vises you to rule i
de women' in de 'ginning, case, 'fore de i
Lord, when dey get de start you had just i
as well try to "move a mountain as to rule i
a woman what y6b is 'lowed to get sot in i
her ways." <
a tramp'sTmlosophy,
In the hip pocket of an old vagrant was i
a memorandum hook full of his own I
writing with a pencil, and some of his |
philosophy is good enough to be preserv- <
ed. His first paragraph reads:
"Drinking bad whiskey because it is of- |
fered free is like getting in the way of i
bullets purchased by an enemy." i
A second reads : I
"Honesty is the best policy, but some
folks are satisfied with the second best. It <
is hard to be honest on an empty i
stomach." <
"A dry plank under a rain-roof shed is
better than a feather bed in jail, and one ]
isn't annoyed by the jailor bringing in I
a square breakfast."
A fourth says:
"Pay as you go. Jf you havn't anything
to pay with don't go. If you are
forced to go", record every indebtedness
and let your heirs settle the bill."
The fifth explains:
"We should have charity for all. When
winter winds blow cold and drear, we
vags should pity the poor fellows in India
who are having retf-hot weather."
A sixth recorded:
"Politeness costs nothing, but it is not <
expected that you will wake a man up at
midnight to ask permission to go through
his hen-house. It is more courteous to let
him enjoy his needed repose." <
The seventh and last noted down is as
follows:
"When you pick up an apple-core do
not find fault because it is not the apple
itself, hut be satisfied with the grade of descent.
Do not be ashamed of your occupation.
We cannot all be lords, nor can we
all be vagrants. As I cannot be a lord, I
should not lament beinga vagrant. Butbe
truthful and out-spoken?that is, tell them
you are a Chicago fire sufferer. Keep reasonable
hours, or some other vag will get
your plank first. Be hopeful, cheerful,
and good-natured. Growling won't cure
a sore heel."
DO DREAMS LAST LONG ?
This interesting question has been recently
discussed in Germany, among others
by Dr. F. Seholz, who has given some
striking examples from his own experience
and observation. It is very certain,
however, that the majority of dreams are
only of momentary duration, though extended
occasionally to the length of a
minute. In proof of this Dr. Scholz tells
the following story from hisexperience :
After excessive bodily fatigue and a day
of mental strain, of a not disagreeable
kind, I betook myself to bed after I had
wound up my watch and placed it on the
night table. Then I lay down beside a
burning lamp. Soon I found myself on
the high sea on board a well-known ship.
I was again young, and stood on the lookout.
I heard the roar of the water, and
golden clouds floated around me. How ;
long I so stood I did not know, but it
seemed a very long time. Then the scene
changed. I was in the country, and my
long dead parents came to greet me; they '
took me to church, where the loud organ
sounded. I -was delighted, but at the
same time wondered to see my wife and
children there. The priest mounted the
pulpit and preached, hut I could not understand
what he said, for the sound of
the organ, which continued to play. I
took my son by the hand, with him ascended
the church tower?but again the
scene was changed. Instead of being near
my son I stood near an early known but
long dead officer?J ought to explain that |
I was an army surgeon during the manoeuvres.
I was wondering why the major
looked so young, when quite close in my
ears an unexpected cannon sounded. Terrified,
I was hurrying off, when 1 woke
up, and noticed that the supposed cannon
shot had its cause in the opening of the
bedroom door through some one entering.
It was as I had lived through an eternity
in my dream, but when I?looked at my
watch I saw that since I had fallen asleep
not more than one minute had elapsed?
a much shorter time than it takes to relate
the occurrence.
RICH M^N'S SONS.
A wealthy broker of New York began,
life as a farm-hand in New ?3efflfey;" Htn
had the craving natural to a poor boy for
fine clothes, a splendid house, luxury of
every kind. To acquire these, he worked
hard with brain and body.
As he rose ir^life, he was thrown in contact
with educated men, great financiers,
rulers of commerce, artists, teachers, scientific
men. His own intellect, strengthened
by its work, was bold and broad enough
to appreciate them all.
By the time he was fifty, he cared little
for the physical luxuries which his money
could buy for him. His pursuits, apart
from his business, were noble and elevating?those
which belong to a many-sided,
enlightened American, who keeps abreast
of his time in its great movements.
His son, on the contrary, was born in
the lap of riches. Luxuries, the lack of |
which urged his father to incessant activity,
were as familiar to him as the air and
daily sunshine. Fine clothes, rich food,
amusements of all kinds, gaveiiim little
pleasure; they were matters of course.
He knew no life of which they were not
a part. He did not work at school or at
college. Why should he? Other men
worked to make a place for themselves in
the world. His place was already made
for him. He needed no more millions
than his father could give him.
He had literally nothing to do but to
amuse himself.
Now, there is but a limited number of
amusements in the world, and after a certain
time the senses, the nerves, the whole
body, grow jaded with each of them.
By the time this young man had reached
the age of twenty-five, he was as sated
with pleasure as a gray-haired debauchee.
Cards, wine, sport, travel, bored him ; his
physical strength was exhausted ; his
mind, though still immature, was almost
imbecile. When a sudden attack of illness
carried him out of this world, nobody
in it was sorry; himself, perhaps least of
all.
The story of this rich man and his son
has been repeated countless times in the
lives of our rich men.
The "gilded youth" of our great cities
grow weary of balls, of steam yachts, of
even the theatres, gambling and drink.
Their jaded appetites crave stronger diet.
In the great centres of riches and folly
some of them crowd in the small hours of
the morning to dens unknown to the police,
to see brutal combats between prizefighters.
At a recent fight between a wonan
and a dcig, the ring was surrounded
?y wen wnrtlTmi 11 ions.
' The only deal sensation I have enjoyed
'or yefitfH, said one of this class lately,
was iff China last July, when I saw the
ixecutioner /chop off five heads in an
lour." /
At heart, these lads are made of as good,
nanly stuff as others. They are victims
lo the popular idea that the sole use
)f mo6ey is amusement. Even when
veignted by huge fortune, as Napoleon
Bonjop&rte once wrote to his marshal,
'Sorely, we should endeavor to do someMing;
to say that we have lived ; to leave
iome impress of our lives upon the sands
of Time."
/"1 . ?? urn,m,?o nuto OKamWI Innb- In
UiJKLiS VV xvi 11 l>i l_i u1uo oiiuuiu iwu vv
their handwriting, for it may serve them
it some future crisis better than shorthand
or the type-writer.
There is a lady clerk in the Department
of the Interior, Mrs'. Avery by name, who
has a snug and easy place of sixteen hundred
dollars a year, chiefly on account of
the extraordinary excellence of her penmanship.
It is she who is selected to copy
the letters of the Department which are
regarded as of the greatest consequence,
such, for example, as are to receive the attention
of the President, who frequently
compliments Mrs. Avery'sadmirable penmanship.
No doubt her handwriting is neat and
elegant, because, when she was learning
the art, she took pains; and no doubt other
girls could do as well, by taking the same
course.
Considering the advantage it is to many
girls to write a good hand, it is strange that
more of them do not try to acquire this
accomplishment. Of late years our schoolgirls
and school-boys do a great deal more
writing than they did formerly. Much is
done i n school now by way of dictation,
and in many schools the pupils have pencil
or pen in hand almost half the time.
But it would not be true to say that the
girls of to-day write more legibly and neatly
than their mothers did. It would be
well if they paid far more attention to this
matter than they do. But they should
make a serious study of it,?acquire the
habit of taking the best posture; learn to
use the muscles to advantage; so that they
may not easily become tired; and then
practise, as one who intends to become a
professional musician practises.
When a piece of writing gets worse and
worse, page after page, it is because the
writer did the work with ohly one end of
the muscular system of the arm, instead of
employing the whole of its exquisite and
harmonious machinery.
Mrs. Avery, it is said, writes as easily as
she does legibly. She writesas well at the
end of her day's work as at the beginning,
and her lingers never ache.
Be Thohough.?It pays to do well that
which should be done, and little duties
unperformed are liable at times to result
in great danu ,e. A letter carrier in one
of our large cities a few montns ago iounu
on reaching the post-office, after a long
round of delivery, a letter in his bag that
he had overlooked. It would have taken
him half an hour to return and deliver it.
He was very tired and hungry. . The letter
was an ordinary unimportant-looking missive.
lie put it in his pocket and delivered
it on the first round the next day.
What consequence followed? For want
of that letter a great firm failed to meet
their engagements, their notes had gone
to protest, and a mill closed, and hundreds
of poor workingmen thrown out of employment.
The letter carrier himself was
discharged for his oversight and neglect.
His family suffered during the winter for
many of the necessaries of life, but his
loss was of small account compared to the
enormous amount of misery caused by his
single failure in duty.?[Evening Telegram.
B^ Two small boys, walking behind an
Italian who wore rings in his ears, were
overheard discussing the subject as follows:
"Just see," said one, "he has earrings."
"Yes. I wonder how a man came to wear
earrings?" said the other. Silence prevailed
for a moment, when the first boy
solemnly observed: "Maybe his father
and mother put them on him when he
was such a little child that they didn't
know whether he was a boy or a girl."
This explanation seemed to greatly relieve
and satisfy both the little fellows.
GEN. HARRISON AND THE SOUTH.
A correspondent of the New York Trij
bune (Republican) writing from Indianapolis,
Indiana, the home of the President
elect, under date of the 10th instant, says:
The President-elect continues to receive
many letters from people in the South expressing
solicitude regarding his probable
policy toward that section, and there is
reason for believing that the problem is
being given more consideration by Gen.
Harrison at this time than the selection
of a Cabinet, or anything else relating to
the new administration. He is disposed
to encourage the letter writing, because he
desires all the information bearing upon
the subject that can be made useful to him.
He has replied to many of the pertinent
inquiries, notably one that came from
Col. J. W. Jefferson, a planter near Memphis,
who commanded a Michigan regiment
in the war. Col. Jefferson wrote to
the President-elect asking him to indicate,
as far as he thought proper, his probable
policy toward the South. In replying to
the letter Gen Harrison said:
"I am glad to know that the result of
Ltye electigp < brought satisfaction to an
aimy cOmrkde living in the Sooth. I notice
what you say about the'situation
there, and assure you that I appreciate its ,
gravity and have the most sincere desire
to he well-informed both as to men and ,
affairs in the South. I do most sincerely
desire to promote the general good of our
whole people, without reference to State
lines, and i shall be glad to have the friendly
advice and co-operation of the lawabiding
and conservative people in all the ,
States." ,
While the letter indicates the intentions ,
of the President-elect as plainly as he feels
that it is proper for him to make them
known at the present time, it is known that .
he has talked more freely to his intimate j
friends. The information comes from high
authority, it may be stated for the reassu- i
ranee of uneasy Southerners, that it is the
determination of the President-elect to .
pursue a course that will convince them i
that, in trying to solve a perplexing prob- i
lem, which manifestly must be solved in
some way, it is his purpose to be kindly
and friendly. It will be his endeavor to <
avoid the obnoxious methods of previous ]
Administrations, which tried to bring (
about the desired change, but failed. The
carpet-bagger will not be made as prominent
as the representative of the Admin- <
istration as in previous years. A more ac- ;
ceptable class of men is available, and they <
are better prepared, by reason of superior <
intelligence and such force of character as ]
commands esteem, to carry out the pur- 1
poses of the Administration. Inthespir- j
it of the New South, it is believed, will be '
found the means of accomplishing the de- s
imnHi. rlncirnrl w.anlt The mpn a'hn ftPP c
developing the New South will he chosen
to develop friendlierand more intimate relations
between the two sections of the
country, and necessarily they will do it
by changing the conditions that are now
so obnoxious. More definite information
than this regarding the policy of the new
Administration in dealing with the Southern
question cannot be obtained, but this
is believed to be entirely reliable.
HONOR'S GRIP.
The wise educator early places the
young where they shall feel the restraining
grip of honof. Fifteen or twenty years ago
the Secretary of the Navy extended one
year the practice-cruise of the naval cadets
to the coast of France. He also ordered
that on the arrival of the ship at Cherbourg,
the "middies." should be permitted
to visit Paris. The commandant'of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis disapproved
of the visit, as he feared the young gentlemen
would get into mischief, and spend
their money foolishly. The youngsters
put themselves on their honor, that they
might prove to their commander the
groundlessness of his fears.
On the arrival of the practice-ship at the
French naval port, they despatched three
of their number to Paris, to make arrangements
for the visit of bne hundred
and twenty-nine young Americans.
The voyage had been a stormy one, and
for the last eight days scarcely anything
had been cooked owing to the tremendous
seas. The appetites of these vigorous
young fellows who were sent ahead were
therefore keen. At each of the stations
on the railway where refreshments could
be purchased, the cadets astonished the
guards and porters by orderingthree chickens
with bread and grapes.
The Frenchmen's astonishment was increased
when they heard an order given
at each station to provide one hundred '
and twenty-six chickens for their fellows !
who were to come the next day.
"Three hundred and seventy-eightchick'ens,
with bread and grapes at discretion!
What appetites these Americans have!" 1
exclaimed the delighted restaurant-keep- 1
ers. s
But they were more astonished that not J
a bottle of wine was ordered. The young- 1
sters were on their honor, and as drinking !
and smoking were against regulations, not 1
one of them drank a glass of wine or smok- 1
ed a cigar while in Paris; 5
They visited the tomb of Napoleon at '
the Invalides, where they arrived just be- J
fore the gates were opened. Standing at
the entrance, as on dress parade, when the 1
gates swung open, they fell into ranks and !
stepped off as if marchingin review. The 1
delighted sentries presented arms, and an I
official, who saw their entrance, ordered !
rooms not open to ordinary visitors to be
shown to "the military gentlemen." i
While crossing the court, they met an '
old, hobbling, mutilated veteran. Instant- 1
ly the boys halted, wheeled to a "front
face," and lifted theircapsas he passed before
them. <
"Each one has the air of a prince," said i
the officer who guided them. <
When the middies left Paris, the Mayor '
wrote to their commander, Capt. Hudson, 1
that, on hearing of their proposed visit, <
he had detailed an extra force of police to I
watch the young officers. He had, how- I
ever, great pleasure in reporting that not i
one instance of disturbance or infraction <
of the laws had occurred. <
The young Americans made a most fav- i
orable impression on the citizens of Paris, i
showing that they had acted on Burns's i
advice: <
"Hut whore ye foel your honor grip,
Lot that ayo he your border."
Wonders of Surgery.?Medicine has
made a wonderful advance within acentury.
The books of a prominent Vermont
doctor, recorded from 177J3 to 1790 a total of
four thousand two hundred and seventyone
visits, in which he administered one
thousand six hundred and thirty doses of <
physic. It is estimated also that he drew
from his patients during the same period 1
about a hogshead full of blood! Nor was
the only fault of the medical practice of 1
that time one of excess. In the multitudes I
of cases the physic was the reverse of i
? a J ~ -t m L !n d r\ /> J r*Ck 1
wnai was uceueu. xma uutiui o pmvciw
was not exceptional. The change since '
that time amounts to a revolution. i
The advance in surgery has been still J
greater. The power of anaesthetics to ren- '
der operations painless, and the power
of disinfectants to preventallsuppuration, <
have enabled experts to secure marvel- i
lous results.
A few years ago the most skillful surgeons
shrank from all operations that in- '
volved the opening of the abdomen. Now ]
the abdomen is freely and safely opened ;
for a difficult operation. SaysSir William <
Stokes in the Lancet, in view of what has i
already been done in experiments on ani- <
mals and in disease of chest in man, "It; i
is no wild flight of fancy to anticipate the <
time when a diseased lung may be found <
amenable to operative treatment."
He makes a similar remark in reference
to the brain, kidneys, liver, and spleen. ]
"It is not unreasonable to hope that re- <
gions hitherto barely touched by the ope- i
rator may eventually become laminar
ground for the exercise of his art."
In former articles we have given some
account of surgical skill in restoring severed
fingers; in transplanting skin and
bone from animal to man, to repair loss
on the part of the latter; in filling up large
wounds with sponge, which speedily becomes
organized.
Some time ago, in Paris, it being impossible
to bring together the partsof a severed
tendon in a young man's finger, the
physician freshly cut the ends, and inserted
a piece of tendon from a young dog,
and sewed the ends together. The operation
was wholly successful. We see, from
the papers, that a similar operation has
just been performed in this country.
A Peculiar wedding-pee.-a clergyman,
now settled in New York, once
married a couple, who at once started
for Europe. The bridegroom was a man
of wealth, and before he presented himself
before the bridal altar, he placed a one
hundred dollar greenback in his vest pocket
to give the parson for the marriagefee,
and did pay it to him, as he supposed.
While crossing theoc^an, he discovered,
greatly to his astonishment, the'bill'-h* the
pocket where he placed It, and cotild -ae*
count for its presence there only on the
theory that he must have another bill of a
different denomination, which he had donated
to the clergyman by mistake.
On getting back to this country, he determined
to solve the mystery and waited
upon the reverend gentleman, who did
not recognize him, and inquired if, on a
certain date, he did not marry a certain
couple. The clergyman remembered the
occasion perfectly.
"I know I am about to ask an impertinent
question," said the visitor, "but I
should like to be informed what fee you
received for performing the ceremony ?"
The clergyman recognized the man as
the one he married, and said that he
would, of course, gratify him since he was
jo anxious to know. "I received," he
then went on to say, "a very small quantity
of fine chewing tobacco, folded in a
very small piece of paper."
Tho only thing remaining to be done
was to apologize for the curious blunder,
laugh heartily, and make the one hundred
iollar deposit good.
Another Three C's Scheme.?The
Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier writes to that paper unlerdateof
Friday, 16th: A meetingof the
lirectors of the Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens Railroad was held to-day at
which Col. R. A. Johnson, general raaniger
of the Three C's road, was present.
The session lasted four hours. Col Johnjon
addressed the directors at length in
lupport of a proposition to consolidate the
ocal road with the Three C's. His offer
was in effect that, if the balance sheets of
;he Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
were all right, he would take the road,
inite it with the Three C's, assuming all
jutstanding obligations, and build thecorajined
road from Black's .to Columbia be"ore
completing the Black's and Augusta
ine to the latter city. He thought that he
:ould have a train running from Black's to
Columbia in time for the movement of
he next crop.
After discussing the proposition the board
inally referred the proposition to the
inance committee, which is composed of
President H. C. Moseley, Vice President
Et. S. Desportes and Secretary and Treasjrer,
C. J. Iredell. From the known opinons
of the gentleman as to the advisabilty
of retaining the Columbia, Newberry /
md Laurens in the hands of its present
>wner?5 ft IS Ddffevetf that th&r- aotion.
wiP-be averse to the consolidation.
Borrowed Troubles.?I think it was.
Sidney Smith who recommended taking
'short views" as a safeguard against needess
worry ; and one far wiser than he has
laid: "Take, therefore, no thought for the
norrow, for the morrow shall take thought
or the things of itself. Sufficient unto the
lay is the evil thereof."
There are no troubles that wear upon the
emper, that sap the foundations of all
jeaceand comfort, as do borrowed troubles;
>ecause there is no provision made in the
liviDe economy for help to bear them. We
lave no promise that strength will be giv;n
to sustain us under the weight of imagnary
burdens. Real trials, bravely and
jatiently borne, are moral tonics,strengthening
and purifying in their influence,
ifting the soul to higher levels and broad;r
outlooks. But it is only by receiving
hem as they come, one day at a time,
md taking no thought for those of the
norrow, that they will yield us the full
measure of good with which they are
raught.?[Faith Harper.
How to Break off Bad Habits.?
Understand the reason, and all reasons,
vhy the habit is injurious. Study the
lubject until there is no lingering doubt in
pour mind. Avoid the places, the persons,
hat lead to the temptation. Frequent the
places, associate with the persons, indulge
n the thoughts that lead away from
:eraptation. Keep busy ; idleness is the
itrength of bad habits. Do not give up the
struggle when you have broken your resolution
once, twice, a thousand times,
rhat only shows how much need there is
for you to strive. When you have broken
pour resolution, just think the matter over,
ind endeavor to understand why it was
you failed, so that yqu may guard against
Che occurrence of the same circumstances.
Do not think it an easy thing you have uniertaken.
It is folly to expect to break
jff a habit in a day which may have been
gathering strength for years.
aSTA woman will take ^he smallest
Irawer in her bureau for her own private
use, and will store in it dainty fragments
of ribbon and scraps of lace, foamy ruffles,
velvet things for the neck, bundles of old
love-letters, pieces of jewelry, handker- chiefs,
fans, things that no man knows
the names of, all sorts of fresh-looking,
bright little articles that you couldn't catilogue
in a column, and at any time she
can go to that drawer and pick out any
one of them she wants without disturbing
anything else. Whereas a man having
the biggest, deepest, and widest drawer
assigned to him, will put into it a couple
of socks, a collar-box, an old necktie,
two handkerchiefs, a pipe and a pair of
braces, and can't shut the drawer without
leaving more ends of things sticking,out
than there are things in it.?[Times.
Universal Suffrage in Rhoi>e Island.?At
Providence, Rhode Island, on
last Friday, the governor, secretary of
State and attorney-general officially counted
the votes cast last April on what is
known as the Bourn amendment to the
Constitution.
This amendment is !No. 7, and enfranchises
every male citizen of the United
States of the acre of 21 years who has had
his residence and home in llhode Island
Tor two years, and in the town or city in .
which he may offer to vote six months
next preceding the time of voting. It
ibolishes the property qualification for
voting for general officers. The vote was:
Approve, 20,008; reject, 12,192; majority
liver three-fifths of the total vote necessary
for its adoption, 711.
jte?*The ordinances of public or social
worship are only the means of being religious,
not the essence of religion itself.
Having renewed our strength by waiting
nn the Lord, we must go forward, by attending
with increasing diligence to the
duties of our several stations and prepar- |
ing to resist temptations, which often assault
us after special seasons of divine consolation.?[Bunyan.
tSr The best reason yet advanced for
having Monday washing-day, the next A
day after Sunday, is because cleanliness is
next to godliness.
j