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lewis >i. grist, proprietor.! %v. Jndejjendent Jfamilij Jtacspaper: (jfor the promotion 4 the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Jnterests of the ^outh. |TERMS'?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. "VOL. 36. YOBKVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, JTJ^E 11, 189Q. ISTO. 24. f Copvri ght, by J. J published SYNOPSIS. Prklude.?During an Indian light in the West, Capt. Hull, of the United States Regular army is killed. Before his death a large suosof money?about $3,000, the pay of soldiers who, while on field duty, missed the paymaster?was placed in his charge. While dying, be hands the package to Lawrence Hayne, a young officer whose father had been a dear friend of Capt. Hull's. Hayne has, by boyish irreverence for superior officers, ma/to an on?m 17 nf Punt, ltavner. anoth ; er officer engaged in the campaign. It also develops that Sergts. Clancy and Gower have lost considerable money by gambling, part of the missing cash belonging to others. They are in bad odor accordingly. Chapter 1.?The scene is a Pullman car on its way to Warrener, near which village is situated Fort Warrener. Among the passengers on the car are Mrs. Rayner, wife of Capt. Rayner; Miss Travers, her sister (who is engaged to marry Steven Van Antwerp, a rich New Yorker, who has shown a queer aversion to travel in the West), and a young man whose evident desire to avoid conversation or acquaintance has piqued the curiosity of the women. Before the train reaches Warrener it takes aboard some badly frozen cavalrymen, who are being sent to the fort. The mysterious young man does much to alleviate the sufferings of the frozen men on the way to Warrener. Chapter 2.?The ladies are greeted at Warrener by Capt. Rayner and other officers. It develops that the mysterious young man is Mr. Hayne, who had been gromoted to a first lieutenancy in Capt. ayner's company. Capt. Rayner shows that he Still reels a decided dislike for the young officer. Chapter 3.?Lieut. Hayne proves a disturbing element among the officers at Fort Warrener. A scandal has been attached to his name in the past, and those who side with him are forced by the peculiarities of the case to side against Capt. Rayner. The two men have been sworn enemies for five years. The commandant of the post receives Lieut. Hayne kindly and decides to give a dinner in his honor. In fact, most of the cavalry treat him well, while the infantry (his own regiment) do n(>t. It tranbs that the trouble connected with Ene's name was a courtmartial, which convicted him of a serious ott'ense, principally on Capt. Rayner's evidence. This ruling, was reversed by higher authorities. Some of Hayne's old comrades make advances, which are repelled. Hayne takes up his quarters in a house at some distance from the other officers' quarters. Chapter 4.?Capt. Rayner's wife gets angry because of the colonel's courtesy /.omn id flk'l'llprl into w iiavuo, aiiu i>iio vaiu^ ?v v?. . ? Hayne and anti-Hayne factions. An evening gathering at Capt. Rayner's house, where the matter is discussed, is broken up by cries of "lire" from outside. Chapter 5.?The fire is in a house occupied by Private Clancy (who was a sergeant during the Indian fight mentioned in the prelude) and his wife, who is a laundress. Lieut. Hayne rescues Clancy and his little daughter from the fiames, and also saves a bundle of bank notes of large denomination, which Mrs. Clancy eagerly clutches and apparently considers of greater importance than the lives of her husband and child. Hayne himself is badly burned, and Miss Traveis evinces great interest- in the young officer for whom her sister and brother-in-law show so much dislike. Chapter6.?'Clancy is in the hospital, and bis wife, for the first time, acts tenderly toward him, watching him night -_j j?_ wi anu uay. >\ ucu viiuitjr 10 >uu? Lieutenant Hayne was the man who saved him, he is greatly agitated, and his wife fiercely forbids any one to talk to him. Capt. Rayner's wife shows a strange interest in "the welfare of Clancy and wife. Hayne refuses to accept advances made "by old comrades unless they express belief in his innocence of the charges of which he was convicted. This would be practically a declaration that they believed Capt. Rayner to be a perjurer, or at least mistaken. They decide to side with Capt. Rayner. -Chapter 7.?Miss Travers asks her sister, Mrs. Rayner, why she shows so much interest ih the Clancys, and declares her belief in Lieut. Hayne's innocence of the charge, which proves to have been that of theft. They quarrel. It develops that Miss Travers does not love her fiance, Van Antwerp, but has been persuaded into promising to marry him by his mother, and her sister. Chapter 8.?This chapter deals largely with the social disturbances caused by the Hayne affair. Clancy, while drunk, appears at Hayne's quarters and piteously begs to see "the lieutenant. Chapter 1).?Miss Travers writes a letter to her fiance, Van Antwerp, telling him that she does not love him and that A WAIaoua KOK fnAtvi Koi? no uau ucuci 1 cicaoc uci iiuuj nvi vui ise. Miss Travers accidentally overhears a conversation between her sister and Mrs. Clancy, in which the former urges the latterto watch Clancy, and on no account let him see Lieut. Hayne. Miss Travers is convinced that the man knows something about Hayne's case which Mr. Hayne ought to know. Chaitkr 10.?Miss Travers accidentally meets Lieut. Hayne at the house of A~mutual friend. During a conversation it is shown that the charge against Hayne was that he appropriated the money handed him by the dying Capt. Hull. Hayne's -statement is that he rigidly guarded the package intrusted to him that day ; but that, when he opened it, it contained only waste paper. Chapter 11.?Hayne has recovered from the injuries received at the Clancy fire and returns to duty. That night Clancy turns up at Hayne's quarters with another request to see him, and Hayne decides to talk to the man. Mrs. Clancy turns up and declares that her husband is drunk and has been beating her. Capt. Rayner, evidently anxious to prevent an interview between Clancy and Havne, orders the former under arrest. Ilayne is convinced that Clancy knows something which might help to clear his (Hayne's) name. CHAPTER XI?CON TIN uki>. That night there was a disturbance in the garrison. Just after 10 o'clock, and while the sentries were calling oil the hour, a woman's shrieks and cries were heard over behind the quarters of Company Band close to the cottage occupied by Lieut. Ilayne. The officers of the guard ran to the spot with several men, ' and found Private Clancy struggling and swearing in the grasp of two or three soldiers, while Mrs. Clancy vug {mnlnri'nnr fliom tr\ lof liim crr\?. J was wild like again; it was drink; he had the horrors, and was batin' her whileshe was tryin' to get him home. An*.? Clancy's appearance bore out her words, lie was wild and drunken, but he swore he meant no harm; he struggled hard for freedom; lie vowed he only wanted to see the lieutenant at his quarters; and Mr. Haync, lamp in hand, had come upon the scene and was striving to quiet the woman, who only screamed and protested the louder. At his quiet order the soldiers released Clancy, and the man stood patient and subordinate. "Did you want 16 6ee me, Clancy?" asked Mr. Ilayne. "Ask-in* yer pardon sir, I did," began ; the man, unsteadily, and evidently strug- j gling with the fumes of the liquor he had ' been drinking; but before he could speak again, Mrs. Clancy's shrieks rang out on the still air: "Oh, for the love of God, howld him, some o' ye's! He'll kill him! He's mad, ' I say! Shure 'tis I that know him best. 1 Oh, blessed Vargin, save us! Don't let him loose, Misther Foster!" she screamed j to the officer of the guard, who at that J moment appeared on the full run. "What's the trouble?" he asked, breathlessly. "Clancy seems to have beeu drinking, and wants to talk with me about something, Mr. Foster," said Hayne, quietly. "He belongs to my company, and I will be responsible that he goes home. It is really Mrs. Clancy that is making ali the trouble." 4. j "Oh, for the love of God, hear Inm, j now, whin the man was tearin' the lisir : o' me this minute! Oh, howld him, m&d V Charles King, U. S. A. )unraven Ranch," "The Colonel's er," "Marion's Faith," Etc. 3. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and by special arrangement with them.] Shure 'tis Capt. Rayner wud niver let hiru go.'* "What's the matter, Mrs. Clancy?" spoke a quick, stern %*oice, and Rayner, with face white asa sheet, suddenly stood in their midst. "Oh, God L>e praised, it's here ye are, captin! Shure it's Clancy, sir, dlirunk, sir, aud runnin' round the garrison, and batin' ine, sir." "Take him to the guard house, Mr. Foster," was the stern, 6udden order. "V.A 3 31 ^ ""i>Ot il wuru, V/iiUlUjr, iia cue mau suuid to speak. "Off with him, and if ho gives you any trouble, send for me.' And as the poor fellow was led away, silence fell upon the group. Mrs. Clancy began a wail of mingled relief and misery, which the captain ordered her to cease and go home. More men came j hurrying to the spot, and presently the j officer of the day. "It is all right now," : said Rayner to the latter. "One of my men?Clancy?was out here drunk and raising a row. I have sent him to the guard house. Go back to your quarters, men. Come, captain, will you walk over home with me?" "Was Mr. Hayne here when the row occurred?" asked the cavalryman, looki ing as though he wanted to hear some! thing from the young officer who stood a silent witness, j "I don't know," replied Rayner. "It : makes no difference, captain. It is not 1 a case of witnesses. I shan't prefer I charges against the man. Cornel" And i he drew him hastily away, Hayne stood watching them as they j disappeared beyond the glimmer of his j lamp. Then a hand was placed on his | arm: "Did you notice Capt. Rayner's face? j his lips? He was ashen as death." "Corno in here with me," was the re; ply; and, turning, Hayne led the post | surgeon into the house CHAPTER XIL j | The little forage cap teas raised with courteous grace. Tljere was an unusual scene at the . matinee the following morning. When I J.-apt. Kay relieved Capt. Gregg as officer of the day, and the two were visiting j the guard house and turning over prisi oners, they came upon the last name on I the list?Clancy?and Gregg turned to I his regimental comrade and said: "No charges are preferred against i Clancy, at least none as yet, Capt. Ray; j but his coiupany commander requests i that he be held here until he can talk ! over his case with the colonel." "What's he in for?" demanded Capt. ; Ray. i "Getting drunk and raising a row and ! beating his wife," answered Gregg, i whereat there was a titter among the ' soldiers. i "I never sthruck a \\?juian in me life. ! sir," said poor Clancy. "Silence, Clancy 1" ordered the sergeant of the guard. "No, I'm blessed if I believe that part , of it, Claucy, drunk or no drunk," said ! the new officer of the day. "Take charge of him for the present, sergeant." And away they went to the office. Capt. ltayner was in conversation | with the commanding officer as they entered, and the colonel was saying: "It is not the proper way to handle the case, captain. If he has been guilty of drunkenness and disorderly conduct he should be brought to trial at once." "I admit that, sir; but the case is pei culiar. It was Mrs. Clancy that made I all the noise. I feel sure that after he I is perfectly sober I can give him such a I talking to as will put a stop to this trouble." 'Very well, sir. I am willing to let company commanders experiment at least once or twice on their theories, so you can try the scheme; but we of the ?th have had some years of experience with the Clancys, and were not a little amussd when they turned up again in j our midst as accredited members of your , company." "Then, as 1 understand you, colonel, ! Clancy is not to be brought to trial for i this affair." suddenly spoke the post sur| geon. Everybody looked up In surprise. | "Pills" was the last tnan, ordinarily, to take a hand in the "shop talk" at the I morning meetings. ! "No, doctor. Flis captain thinks it unnecessary to prefer charges." "So do 1, sir; and, as I saw the man both before and after his confinement last night, I do not think it was necessarv to confine liim." "The officer of the day says there was great disorder." said the colonel, in surprise. 'Ay, sir, so there was; and the thing j reminds me of the stories they used to tell on the New York police. It looked to me as though all the row was raised by Mrs. Clancy, as Cupt. Itayner suvs; but the man was arrested. That being j the case I would ask the captain for I ?MIUl njTTiVlllV VUtUOU UU ISlUtJil'U V/?lVIlt> , to the guard house." Iiavner again was pale as death. He glared at the doctor in amaze and inj credulity, while all the officers noted his | agitation and were silent in surprise. It ; was the colonel that came to the rescue. "Capt. Rayner had abundant reason, doctor. It was after taps, though onl; just after, and, whether causing the trouble or not, the man is the responsible party, not the woman. The captain was right in causing his arrest." Rayner looked up gratefully. "1 submit to your decision, sir," said the surgeon, "and I apologize for anything I may have asked that was beyond my province. Now I wish to ask a question for my own guidance." "Go ou, doctor." "In case an enlisted man of this command desire to see an officer of his company?or any other officer, for that matter?is it a violation of any military regulation for him to goto his quarters for that purpose?" Again was Rayner fearfully white and aged looking. Ilis lips moved as though he would interrupt: but discipline prevailed. "No, doctor, and yet we have certain customs of service to prevent the men ' going at all manner of hours and on frivolous errands. A soldier asks his first sergeant's permission first, and if denied by him, and he have what he considers good reason, he can report the whole case." 1 "But suppose a man is not on company duty, must lie hunt up his first sergeant and ask permission to go and see some officer with whom he has business?" "Well, hardly, in that case." "That's all, sir." And the doctor subsided. Among all the officers, as the meeting adjourned, the question was, "What do you suppose 'Pills* was driving at?" There were two or three who knew. Capt Rayner went first to his quarters, where he had a few moments' hurried consultation with his wife; then they left the house together; he to have a low toned and very stern talk to rather than with the abashed Clancy, who listened, cap in hand and with hanging head; she to visit the sick child of Mrs. Flanigan, of Company K, whoso quarters adjoined those to which the Clancys had recently been assigned. When that Hibernian culprit returned to his roof tree, released from durance vile, he was surprised to receive a kindly and sympathetic welcome from his captain's wife, who with her own hand had mixed him some comforting drink and was planning with Mrs. Clancy for their greater comfort "If Clancy will only promise to quit entirely 1" interjected the partner of his joys and sorrows. Later that day, when the doctor had a little talk with Clancy, the ex-dragoon declared he was going to reform for all he was worth. He was only a distress to everybody when he drank. "All right, Clancy. And when you are perfectly yourself, you can come and see Lieut. Ilayne as soon as you like." "Loot'nant Hayne is it, sir? Shuro I'd be beggin' his pardon for the vexation I gave him last night." "But you have something you wanted to speak with him about. You said so last night, Clancy," said the doctor, looking him squarely in the eye. "Shure I was dhrunk, sir. I didn't mane it," ho answered; but he shrank and cowered. The doctor turned and left him. "If it's only when he's drunk that conscience pricks him and the truth will out, then we must have him drunk again," quoth this unprincipled practitioner. That same afternoon Miss Tracers found that it headache was the result of confinement to an atmosphere somewhat heavily charged with electricity. Mrs. Rayner seemed to bristle every time she approached her sister. Possibly it was the heart, more than the head, that , ached, but in either case she needed relief from the exposed position she had occupied ever since Kate's return from the Clancys'in the morning. She had been too long under fire, and was wearied. Even the cheery visits of the garrison gallants had proved of little avail, for Mrs. Rayner was in very ill temper, and made snappish remarks to them which two of them resented and speedily took themselves oil. Later Miss Travers went to her room and wrote a letter, and then the sunset gun shook the window, and twilight settled down upon the still frozen earth. She bathed her heated forehead and flushed cheeks, threw a warm cloak over her shoulders, and came 6lowly down the stairs. Mrs. Rayner met her at the parlor door. "Kate, I am going for a walk and shall stop and see Mrs. Waldron." "Quite an unnecessary piece of inforation. I saw him as well as you. He has just gone there." Miss Travers flushed hot with indignation. "I have seen no one; and if you mean that Mr. Hayne has pone to Maj. Waldron's, I shall not." "No; I'd meet him on the walk; it would only be a trifle more public." "You have no right to accuse me of the faintest expectation of meeting him anywhere. I repeat, I had not thought of such a thing." "You might just as well do it. You cannot make your antagonism to my husband much more pointed than you have already. And as for meeting Mr. Hayne, the only advice I presume to give now is that for your own sake you keep your blushes under better control than you did the last time you met?that I know of." And, with this triumphant insult as a parting shot, Mrs. Rayner wheeled and marched off through the -1 panur. What was a girl to do? Nellie Travers was not of the crying kind, and was denied a vast amount of comfort in consequence. She stood a few moments quivering under the lash of injustice and insult to which she had been subjected. She longed for a breath of pure fresh air; but there would be no enjoyment even in that now. She needed sympathy and help if ever a girl did, but where was she to find it? The women who most attracted her and who would have warmly welcomed her at any time?the women whom she would eagerly have gone to in her trouble?were practically denied to her. Mrs. Rayuer in her quarrel had declared war against the cavalry, and Mrs. Stannard and Mrs. Ray,who had shown a disposition to welcome Nellie warmly, were no longer callers at the house. Mrs. Waldron, who was kind and motherly to the girl and loved to have her with her,was so embarrassed by Mrs. Rayner's determined snubs that she hardly knew how to treat the matter. She would no longer visit Mrs. Rayner informally, as had been her custom, yet she wanted the girl to como to her. If she went, Miss Travers well knew that on her return to the house she would be received by a volley of sarcasms about her preference for the society of people who were the avowed enemies of her benefactors. If she remained in the house, it was to become in person the target for her sister's undeserved sneers and censure. The situation was becoming simply unbearable. Twice she began and twice she tore to fragments the letter for which Mr. Van Antwerp was daily imploring, and this evening she onco more turned and slowly sought her room, threw off her wraps, and took up her writing desk. It was not yet dark. There was still light enough for her purpose, if she went close to the window. Every nerve was tingling with the sense of wrong and ignominy; every throb of her heart but intensified tho longing for relief from the tliralldom of her position. She saw only ono path to lead her from such crushing dependence. There was his last letter, received only that day, urging, imploring her to leave Warrener forthwith. Mrs. Rayner had declared to him her readiness to bring her east provided she would fix an early date for the wedding. Was it not a future many a girl might envy? Was ho not tender, faithful, patient,devoted as man could be? Had ho not social position and competence? Was he not high bred, courteous, refined, a gentleman in all his acts and words? Why could she not love him and be content? There on tho desk la}' a little scrap of noto paper; there lay her pen; a dozen words only were necessary. Ono moment 6he gazed longingly, wistfully, at the far away, darkening heights of the Rockies, watching tho hist rose tinted gleams 011 the snowy peaks; then with sudden impulse she seized her pen and drew the portfolio to the window seat. As she did so, a soldierly figure came briskly down the walk; a pale, clear cut faco glanced up at her casement; a quick light of recognition and pleasuro Hashed in his eyes; the little forage cap was raised with courteous grace, though the step never slackened, and Mis3 Travels felt that her cheek, too, was Hushing again, as Mr. Ilayne strode rapidly by. Khe stood there another moment, and then?it had grown too dark to write. When Mrs. Iiayner, after calling twice from tho bottom of the stairs, finally went up into her room and impatiently pushed open the door, all was darkness except the glimmer from the hearth: "Nellie, where are you?" "Here," answered Miss Travel's, start ing up from the sofa. "I think 1 must have been asleep." "Your head is hot as fire," said her sister, laying her firm white hand upon the burning forehead. "I suppose you are going to bo downright ill, by way of diversion. Just understand one thing, Nellie, tluu doctor does not come into my house.' "What doctor??not that I want one," asked Miss Travers, wearily. "Dr. Pease, the post surgeon, I mean. Of course you have heard how ho is mixing himself in my husband's affairs and making trouble with various people." "I have heard nothing, Kate." "I don't wonder your friends are ashamed to tell you. Things have come to a pretty pass, when officers are going around holding private rrcetings with enlisted men!" "I hardly know the doctor at all, Kate, and can't imagine what affairs of your husband's ho can interfere with." "It was he that put up Clancy to making the disturbance at Haync's last night and getting into the guard house, and tried to prove that he had a right to go there and that the captain had no right to arrest him." "Was Clancy trying to see Mr. Ilayne?" asked Miss Travers, quickjy. "How should I know?" said her sister, pettishly. "He was drunk, and probI ablv didn't know what he was doing." "And Capt. Rayner arrested him for? for trying to see Mr. Ilayne?" "Capt. Rayner arrested him for being drunk and creating a disturbance, as it was his duty to arrest any soldier under such circumstances," replied her sister, with majestic wrath, "and I will not tolerate it that j-oii should criticise his conduct." "I have made no criticism, Kate. I have simply made inquiry; but I have learned what no one else could have made me believe." "Nellie Travers, bo careful what y<_ i say, or what you insinuate. What do you mean?" "I mean, Kate, that it is my belief that there is something at the bottom of those stories of Clancy's strange talk when in the hospital. I believe he thinks he knows something which would turn all suspicion from Mr. Hayne to a totally different man. I believe that, for reasons which I cannot fathom, you are determined Mr. Hayne shall not see him or hear of it. It was you that sent Capt. Rayner over there last night. Mrs. Clancy came here at tattoo, and, from the time she left, you were at the front door or window. You were the first to hear her cries and came running In to tell the captain to go at once. Kate, why did you stand there listening from the time she loft the kitchen unless you expected to hear just what happened over there behind the company barracks?" Mrs. Rayner would give no answer. Anger, rage, retaliation, all in turn were pictured on her furious face, but died away before the calm and unconquerable gaze in her sister's syes. For the first time in her life Kate Rayner realized that her "baby Nell" had the stronger will of the two. For one instant she contemplated vengeance. A torrent of invective leaped readily to her lips. "Outrage," "ingrate," "insult,'' were the first three distinguishable epithets applied to her sister or her sister's words; then, "Seo if Mr. Van Antwerp will tolerate such conduct. I'll write this very day," was the impotent threat that followed; and finally, utterly defeated, thoroughly convinced that she was powerless against her sister's reckless lovo of "fair play at any price," she felt that her wrath was giving way to dismay, and turned and fled, lest Nellie should see the flag of surrender on her paling cheeks. [TO UK CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.] A MAN IN SKIRTS. "I, anions others, was standing on tlin uwIrm-olL- rioor r?lil 111011 TIPtiB^ Jones's store, and saw a queer lot^1 ing object coming down the street. It was a man somewhat above the ordinary height, with a long, snow white beard, and a pair of white mustaches that nearly completed the covering of bis face." "Well." "He wore a woman's old-fashioned fly bonnet, which flopped over his face and concealed his head, giving him the appearance of one of those pictures of patriarchs that you see in Sunday-school books." "Why did he wear it" ? "Hold on. That is not all. He had on a calico frock that reached to the ankles, cut in the old-fashioned body and skirt style, which made him look still more like a patriarch. The strings of his apron hung down behind just like those of a country woman in her every day dress of twenty years ago. As he came striding down the street, the legs of his heavy boots exposed at every stride, he was about the greenest specimen of humanity I ever struck. There was a mob at his heels and everybody stared at him as he passed, and it looked as if John Robinson's circus was passing down the street in grand parade and all East Macon had turned out to see the elephants." "Who was he?" uIIis name is Roberts, and he was born and still lives in Jones county. For some reason that I do not know he has worn female attire all his life, or at least since he was ten years old, as I was informed. He has papers issued by the State authorities granting him permission to wear women's clothes, and for that reason the local authorities never interfere with him. He had been otF somewhere and was returning to his home when he passed through East Macon.?[Atlanta Constitution. "The most interesting case that I ever had," said a female lawyer, "was an action for damages, against the S. V. & R. R. R., in which my client, a middle-aged man, sued to recover for injuries sustained in a collision on the company's road. The poor fellow was terribly maimed, having completely lost the use of his lower limbs, besides being otherwise pretty badly damaged. We were awarded a verdict of fifty thousand dollars in the lower court, but the company, corporation-like, took an appeal. I fought that ease steadily for three years, and was finally rewarded by seeing the money paid into the hands of my client." "What became of him?" was asked. "()," replied the sharp female legal luminary, "I took into consideration his helpless condition, and married him."?[Figaro. Fik'i v Ykaks Aoo.?The banks in the t'nited States resumed specie payment. The first patent was granted to (ioodyear for vulcanized India rub HIT One thousand reformed drunkards marched in procession at the first anniversary of the Washingion society. The Sirus and (ireat Western, the first ocean steamships, entered New York harbor on their return trip Xo. J. Joseph A. Adams, for the first time made use of the idea now embodied in tin* art of electrotyping by reproducing from wood "cuts." The population of the United States was only 17,<l!)7, R'o. The census cost the government . ??:{:{,427. ? ? + A xtup'it v ok Fa IjSk Tkkth.? A Roman doctor has discovered in many of the skulls indifferent Etruscan tombs, as well as those deposited in the various museums, interesting specimens of ancient dentistry work and artificial teeth. The false teeth were in most cases carved from those of some large animal, and in many instances were fastened to the natural ones by gold bands. The skulls examined date as far back as six centuries before Christ, which proves that dentistry is not a modern art. iUiscrUancous gtalimj. 4t DOES FAKMINJ PAY ? THERE JS GOOD M&fEY IN DOWNRIGHT HARVf WORK. It is those men Who have most distinguished themselves in their respective callings, who are held up as examples to those who would follow. And whether virtue, knowledge, skill or money be the standard of excellence, it is too often the goal, and not the path that leads to it, that is pointed out. Successful lawyers, doctors, farmers or merchants, do not often acquire their success through luck or accident. Nor is there any mystery in the path over which they have traveled. Ask them for their secret, and with one and all it is the siime old story: "Hard, ceaseless, persevering work.'^ There are a great many successfljil men in York county, among them not a few farmers, and, strange as it may seem, an examination of the facts in the case will show, with very few exceptions, that those who have attained to the greatest degree of prominence and usefulness, are those who have had most to contend with and the fewest advantages for a starL It is the "iamn?*s Itli whom we are now dealing, and a case in point is that of Mr. John Nichols. Though a very quiet "attend-to-his-own-business" kind of a man, Mr. Nichols is one of the best known farmers in York county. He is known principally as a large cotton raiser who makes considerable money and generally holds his crop for the highest market price. He is among the largest land holders, and probably has more money invested in securities than any other farmer in the county. But Mr. Nichols has not strmbled over any roses while making for himself this position. Though already somewhat familiar with his career, a reporter visited him at his home recently to get such additional information as would serve the purpose of this article, and found the old gentleman hard at work hoeing corn with his one arm. He lost his other arm in a cotton gin Anltr n fmi* troorc nrr/~\ aV/UUiciib vnij a ig? jtaio ugv/i Mr. Nichols began his career with absolutely no capital except health and strength and a determination to accomplish something. "1 did go to school a little," he says "after I had grown up. But it was too late to learn anything then, because I had too many other things to think about. I learned the letters, and that was as far as I got." Mr. Nichols's father was poor, and broke himself up completely by trying to better his condition by moving to Georgia. "After he came back," continued Mr. Nichols, "when I was about nineteen years old, I saw I was no use to him or myself either, so I ran away and hired out as an overseer for $125 a year. I saved almost all I made, and after live years I bought a farm of 288 acres for $300, married and went to work. At this point Mrs. Nichols took up the story. Mrs. Nichols was a Miss West. She is a bright, intelligent old lady, with a good common school education, a hard worker like her husband, and has borne a full share in all that has been accomplished. "We had two horses, and there was nobody to work them but John. He .......1.1 +l,o fiol/1 n UU1U Ulivi; UUU Ul ilium u; uiv iivivi as sooti as it was light enough to see in the morning and work him until dinner time. I always had dinner ready and the other horse fed, and as soon as John got his dinner, he took the fresh horse and went to the field again, and worked as long as he could see." "Well," continued Mr. Nichols, "I worked that land for four or five years, and made such crops that all the neighbors thought I had the best farm in the country. I sold it to Mr. Frank Brown for fourteen hundred dollars, and, mind you, I only gave ?.'100 for it." Mr. Nichols was then worth some five or six thousand dollars. He has continued to work hard, economize closely and pick up a good bargain in land when he saw the opportunity, until his present affluent condition is the result. He raises from seventylive to a hundred bales of cotton each year, and is now holding over seventy bales for the top of the market. His motto is, "hard work and plenty of it; long rows and more of them." He thoroughly believes in Jiome-macie manures, anu aunougn lie buys a considerable quantity of commercial fertilizers for his croppers, for himself he uses one ton on 80 acres of cotton. "I never sold a bushel of cotton seed in my life," he says, "except for planting. Pine straw makes good manure, too. Rake it up in piles in the winter and put it in along with other manure when you first open the furrow in tlie spring." Mr. Nichols raises all his corn, meat, wheat, oats, etc. lie would not think of trying to buy these things, and make any profit on his cotton. He says the only advice he can give those who wish to succeed at farming is to "work, and to work hard." This is what he has done all his life, and besides this he has brought up several sons who are thoroughly fitted to commence where he will leave off. NOTES FROM YORK COUNTY. To the Editors of the Cotton Plant : As I have seen but little in The Cotton Plant, in regard to. the alliances in York county, 1 will drop the brethren a few lines. In the first place, the order in York county is well organized, having a sub-alliance in every neighborhood in the county. A large majority of the farmers in the county are members of the order. We have in our county alliance resolved to use no other covering for our cotton this year except standard cotton bagging." And we have carried the war into Africa by resolving to patronize no ginner or merchant 1 1 4*#% M J.,*,. WHO USCS Or KtJUps nil Miif juic iWf;ging. This may seem harsh and dictatorial, hilt our merchants know that the farmers are making a hard tight against heavy odds. They could help us and ought to do it, for they get their support directly from us. If they will not do it from a sense of justice, then we must force them to it from a feeling of self-interest. This is our only remedy. It is no use to appeal to sentiment with men whose only object in life is to accumulate money. These can only he reached through their pockets That is the only vulnerable spot in their nature. The India Hook alliance, of which I am a member, is patronizing the State Exchange. We began to send in orders almost as soon as the Exchange was open for business. We are all well pleased with the goods we get, both as to price and quality. We are a small body of less than thirty men, mostly small farmers. Those who did not have the money to buy for cash borrowed it. We have determined not to buy goods at time prices any more, if we can possibly help it. We established the Exchange for our protection, and we argue that in order to give it the capacity to protect us, it must have patronage. To get the advantage of cut rates in the wholesale markets the Exchange must be a large buyer. In order to become a large buyer, it must have the patronage of the order in the State. What the little India Hook alliance has done and is doing, all the alliances can do, if they so will. The alliances of York county are not endorsing the March convention, because as alliances we had nothing to do with it. The farmers of York county are almost unanimous in their determination to support the action of the March convention, platform, Tillman and all, but deem it exceedingly unwise and impolitic for the alliance as an organization to have anything to do with politics. The alliance was not mentioned but once in the March convention. Senator J. J. Dargan, of Sumter, in a speech in opposition to nominations, remarked that he was a good alliance man. With that exception, the order was not mentioned in the convention. If the sub-alliances continue to pass resolutions endorsing the March convention and Mr. Tillman for governor, they will make the impression upon the outside world that the alliance is a political organization. The alliance was organized for the protection of the farmers from every kind of oppression, political or otherwise, and as free and independent citizens we have the right to use our votes to elect men to office who are in sympathy with us. But we can do this without dragging the alliance into politics. Already men are sneakinir into the order to use it for political preferment. And just as sure as we begin to discuss political questions in our organized capacity, and as an organization declare ourselves for individuals for office, just sis surely will the order be prostituted from the high aims and purposes we hsive in view. When different men are seeking our votes it will be quite an easy matter for alliance men to tell which they ought to vote for. I trust the sub-alliances will call a halt and that no more of them will pass and publish political resolutions. W. IT. Edwards, Secretary. Iiock Hill, May 20. ADDRESS Delivered at the close of a debate by the students of Rethesda school, on the evening of May 30, by their teacher, W. N. Elder.?Furnished for publication by request. Ladies, Gentlemen, Patrons and Pupils: According to promise, I will endeavor to entertain you for a short while, on the duty we owe to ourselves. Our duty to ourselves comprises four particulars: Self-government, self-preservation, self-support and self-improvement. The first three of these I propose noticing briefly and of passing on to the fourth, which I think most suitable and appropriate to discuss on the present occasion. With regard to self-government, I remark that man consists in the rational and moral. When under the influence of passions, appetites, desires and propensities, he is enslaved. Moderation in all things constitutes self-government. This is the doctrine of the apostle Paul, for he tells us: "He, who striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." As to the second duty we owe to ourselves?self preservation?it restrains us from doing violence to ourselves and binds us to repel it when offered by others. Our health, to be in a state of preservation, requires a moderate use of meat, drink, medicine, labor and recreation, and he who transcends the limits of moderation in these particulars is thus far a suicide. The third duty to ourselves is self support, which is to be sought, not as the manner of some is in cheating, swindling and defrauding, trying to take the advantage of their fellowmen in every way possible, but by s\nr*iwritw? ^/im/i 15nr> /if 1 nirif 1 irmti? JJ? w"1" "* business, pursuing it with vigor and energy, practicing honesty, industry and frugality. I might here point out some profession or occupation, in which it would be best to engage, but deeming it the better policy for a man to exercise his own judgment and discretion in selecting his vocation, I pass on to the fourth and last duty we owe to ourselves, self improvement. 1st. The body is to be improved in health, strength and activity. 2nd. The mind is to be improved in knowledge, virtue and piety, which united form the health of the soul. In discharging this duty I am afraid we are lamentably unfaithful. "Who of us engages in the acquisition of knowledge with that zeal and devotion proportioned to our time and opportunities? Do we not prefer spending our leisure hours in some trifling amusement to reading useful books, or attending associations, ^AMtvtA/1 tvinn+nl 1 Ohfl IU1111CU 1U1 Jiiv;iiLtn juij/nnvuKJii ?ti\t taking part in the exercises in which they engage? Our debating society here is an apt illustration. We have asked and insisted that the young men of the neighborhood unite with us, take part in our debates, and thus improve their minds; but so far we have failed to get any one outside of the school to take any part only as a listener. But when a game of base ball is arranged for, all are ready and willing to take part. Even many of our older men, eitl r take a hand or witness the game with great interest. I do not wish to be understood as opposing the game, in toto, for I consider it good holiday exercise, and exercise is essential to health ; but J do oppose it and all other amusements being carried to an excess, as is often the case, to the neglect of duty and the improvement of the mind. And again, do we not prefer the light and trashy novel to the solid historical work, yea, to our very Bible. Much has been said and written 011 the subject of novel reading, both for and against it, as if the field were extensive and worthy of our attention ; but what benefit can accrue to either body or mind from that Hood of fiction which has inundated the world ? T care not how grand, graphic and glowing the descriptions they contain, falsehood is indellibly stamped on every page, and Tckel is there written by the hand on the wall, warning every one that real knowledge, virtue and piety are strangers there. Vet the frail caskets heaven has given us to contain the priceless jewels, alike divinely *?ti + tfimniiiurflwi UKMlMVfll, ill*: ? wi 11 wut uiiiniiin^ fcl'v midnight lain]) in poring overthe.se flimsy volumes, while the mind, for want of real nourishment, languishes and both soul and body become an unmanageable wreck. The labor of the novelist is an imposition, a fraud, a snare, and shall we voluntarily enter the noose? Next our minds are to he improved in virtue, of which I could furnish j you almost as many definitions as there are writers on morals, but 1 j will only state that virtue is the opposite of vice, hence it is the duty of him or her, who would improve themind in virtue to avoid all vicious habits and practices, do good, seek peace and preserve it. The virtue which we should prize and to the perfect cultivation of which we should aspire, does not consist in that superior military prowess which constituted the sumnuim bonum of human excellence in the days of antiquity, when .Home, the eternal city, was at the zenith of her glory; when literature and the fine arts'were in the highest state of cultivation; when the terror of her arms was as paralyzing to her enemies as the production of her geniuses and artists were admirable and astonishing; when her architecture was taken as a model of the most cultivated style; when the triumphs of her invincible armies were sung by native bards never surpassed in epic verse, and recorded by historians whose style is both enviable and worthy of imitation; when wealth flowed* in upon her from every part of her extensive dominion and her citizens were reveling in all the luxuries of the East; then we say the highest claim which any of her citizens could prefer, as meriting the chief honors of state, was a breast deformed by many a scar, or a wreath, the reward of victory in a gladiatorial contest. Such were the virtues and such were the morals of this refined and polished nation. The ostracism of the Greeks is another opposite example of ancient virtue. By this base, unjust, yet in their estimation virtuous and* highly politic law, every individual who ' had signalized himself by rendering some particular service to his country was banished. The virtue which we should cultivate is a detestation of every principle or action which is founded upon or does not proceed from moral rectitude; or in any way has a tendency to counteract its operations. In addition to this, we should cherish a love for those who Socrates like, subdue every vicious passion, rise superior.to all the allurements of time and sense and place their affections upon the never-fading beauties, the transcendent glories and sweet attractive charms of the moral world. Minds, adorned with such virtue as this, can turn in upon themselves and contemplate their own operations with emotions of ineffable delight. The soft and gentle whispering of an approving conscience, an emanation from the divine mind, Heav en's witness residing in the human breast, steal upon the soul of their possessors like the descending dews of heaven. Happy, thrice nappy, are they who upon retiring within themselves can exorcise every tempter from their hearts. Destitute of this ornament the human mind is the habitation of darkness, impervious to the rays of divine light which emanate from the "abodes of more than mortal freedom." With it the finast sense of honor is that which is most subservient to interest. Here human depravity is seen in its most appalling form. Here we see its degrading effects without the aid or testimony of revelation. To him, who is not governed by moral principles, the language of Juvenal applies with all its native force: "He cares not what way he gains, so gain is his." The more such a man discourses about equity and justice and is called a justiciary, the greater becomes his iniquity, for he is then the head of all injustice. How lost and lamentable is the condition of such a man. None but the good, we are told by rhetoricians, can be truly eloquent. It is true a man may tickle the fancy and please the ear by his oratorical tropes, his well-timed flourishes and flowing periods; but without moral worth he can never touch the secret snrings which regulate the passions, nor awaken those feelings which melt the heart into the graceful tears of sympathy at the recital of the tale of woe. Young, who carries his readers through a profusion of sweets without surfeit or even satiety, and who. experienced the enjoyment which flows from a virtuous mind, thus beautifully portrays its universal triumphs : "The soul refined Is most inclined To every moral excellence ; All vice is dull, A knaye's a fool, And virtue is the child of sense. "The virtuous mind Nor wave, nor wind, Nor civil rage, nor tyrant's frown, The shaken hall Nor planet's fall From its firm basis can dethrone." Lastly, we are to improve our minds in piety, which primarily signifies the highest degree of respect and reverence to God, and secondarily filial duty. God has given us all things richly to enjoy; and will any of us he so ungrateful as to withhold from him that love, that fear, that faith and that worship which are so pre-eminently his due? Jlut the ingredient of the health of the soul of which we are speaking we said was filial, including the duties of children to parents. These are obedience to their authority and deference to their opinions, followed in due time by a grateful return for the benefits received in childhood and early life. Nature here goes on the credit system. Parents lay out a fund of care in the education and support of their children when they are incapable of providing for themselves, and this is to be repaid with interest when the parents'become children again. How fond the hopes, how anxious the hearts, how poignant the fears and how keenly alive the sensibilities of parents who send their children to school, and will a pupil of this or any other school be so destitute of tbe feelings of humanity as to disappoint these hopes, crush these hearts, render infinitely more painful these fears and so wound these sensibilities as to cause the sufferer to long for relief in death ? And now my young friends present, both pupils .and others, I ask you to look around, ponder and tb ink how soon the destinies, both of church and state are to devolve on you. Are you preparing yourselves for this emergency ? If not I beseech you to apply yourselves diligently to the acquisition of useful knowledge, so that you may be fitted and prepared to discharge these duties in a profitable and becoming manner. In this you will not only be performing an incumbent duty, but you will cause the hearts of your parents to rejoice and enable them, like the mother of the Grachii, when asked, "where are your jewels?" to point with pride to you and say, "there are my jewels, I ask for no others." I thank you for your attention, hoping you have been entertained and may be benefitted by my remarks. Ox Determining Acoustic Qualities.?Why is it that our men of science, with all their marvelous achievements in various fields, savs the Ileal Estate Record and Guide, have never yet discovered the secret of determining in advance whether the acoustic properties of any building intended to bold large audiences, will or will not be good? A recent writer, referring to this matter, says that "we have never discovered the principles applicable to the proportions of a great hall, by which the voice is spread and conveyed evenly and in the most perfect manner to all parts. After tbe building is completed it is, confessedly and notoriously, a matter of accident, and a question to be solved by experiment, whether it is 'good for sound.' Futherniore, when the acoustic quality is not satisfactory, it is often not easy to explain why or to devise means to correct it. Here is a field for discovery that has not yet been worked out, nor do we see any rational attempt to solve the problem. Can it be that it is insolvable? Or is it that tbe properties of sound are still only imperfectly understood?' flfejT What is practical in education depends on what is needed. Then? is is 110 apparent connection between tbe learning of a geological professor and the duties of a post office detective. Rut recently a mail bag was robbed in the far West, and stones were put in to make up the weight. [ Clumsy as was the trick, it was not discovered until tbe bag was hundreds of miles away. The stones were shown to a mineralogist, who readily recognized them as peculiar, and announced the only place 011 the line where they could be found. Investigation proved that bv a water tank where the train had stopped + fMunntvmn of wnrlr u'lm I l? U V I I 1 I 1(11 I Il/tl ?l V1V (IV VT?W were made to confess the crime. 46T "Why don't you run a paper like that ?" said a merchant to a publisher, throwing down a blanket sheet city daily. "Why don't you run a store like that?" said the publisher of the country sheet as he turned the paper over and pointed to a full page advertisement that brought the city publisher $2f>0 an issue. Just then the country publisher presented a monthly bill for $ ">, and the merchant began to talk of economizing by cutting down his advertisement and stopping his paper, fie did both, and the sheriff is now doing his advertising for him. MANNERS FOR BOYS. Poor fellows ! How they get lec- ' tured and scolded and snubbed, and how continual is the rubbing and polishing and drilling which every member of the family feels at liberty to administer. No wonder their opposition is ! aroused and they begin to feel that every man's hand is against them ; after all, if they were only, in a quiet way informed of what was expected of them, and their manliness appealed to, they would readily enough fall into line. So thought "Auntie M," as she pointed out the following rules lor a little twelve-year-old nephew, who was the "light of her eyes," if not always the joy of her heart, for though a good natured, amiable boy, in the main, he would offend the "proprieties" frequently. First come manners for the street. 1 Hat lifted in saying "good by," or 1 "how do you do ?" Hat lifted when offering a seat in a 1 car, .or on acknowledging a fiivor. Keep step with any one you walk j with. J Always precede a lady upstairs, ' and ask her if you may precede her, in passing through a crowd or public ' place. Hat off the moment you enter a ] street door, and when you step in a nrivnfp hall nr nfflw. Let a lady pass first, always, unless she asks you to precede her. ; In the parlor stand until every lady in the room is seated, also older people. Rise if a lady comes in after you are seated, and stand until she takes a seat. Look people straight in the face : when speaking or being spoken to. i Let ladies pass through a door first, standing asiae for them. In the dining room take your seat after ladies and elders. Never play with knife, fork or ( spoon. Do not take your napkin in : a bunch in your hand. Eat as fast or slow as others, and finish the course when they do. Rise when the ladies leave the ; room and stand till they are out. If all go out together, gentlemen 1 stand by the door till ladies pass. Special rules for the mouth are that all noise in eating and smacking of the lips should be avoided. 1 Cover the mouth with hand or napkin when obliged to remove anything from it. Use your handkerchief unobtrusively always. I)o not look toward a bedroom ' door when passing. Always knock ut any private room door. These rules are imperative. There are many other little points which add to the grace of a gentleman, but to break any of these is almost unpardonable. "Did you make up all these rules, auntie?" said Roy, as a copy, neatly printed by a type-writer, was placed in his hands. "Make them up? No. These are just the common rules of society that every gentleman observes. You will not find your father failing in one of them." "Well, but he is a man !" said the boy deprecatingly. "And do you not wish to be a manly boy ?" Roy said nothing; but it was noticed that the rules were placed very carefully in his drawer. Some months have since passed, and auntie has had the pleasure of hearing repeatedly the remark: "What a manly, thoughtful little nephew you have," as one and another observed his polite and careful attention to others. Perhaps there are some other boys who would like to cut out these rules and read them over now and then, keeping or getting some good friend to keep a record of their success or shortcomings in the observance, al ways remembering that the mothers, sisters and aunties are the "ladies" to whom these attentions should be shown, and not merely the guests and strangers.?[Yonkers Gazette. WHIPPING A PRINCE. Osborne, Isle of Wight, is Queen Victoria's seaside residence. Many years ago, when the prince of Wales was a lad, he was one day playing on the beach, when he spied a basket of fish. Thirsting for fun, he overturned the basket and sent the fish sprawling into the water. The young owner?a boy about the prince's age?soon returned, and, enraged at the loss of the day's toils, attacked the perpetrator, giving him a vigorous beating; whereupon his royal highness flew angrily to the castle. "Know ye lad, who ye've been laying hands on?" asked a fisherman, approaching: "it's nane other than the heir to the throne." 1 Consternation filled the mind of the boy and all his family?still more when, in the evening'a summons i came from the queen to that youth to present himself at Osborne castle. The little fellow started with trem- 1 bling, thinking over all the fireside tales that his child ears had heard of chains and "dungeon keeps," tortures and the axe?cheerful musings to accompany his slow, reluctant J steps up the avenue to the castle. Ilis agitated little brain was trying 1 " - - - 1- ~ to inline a speecn ui ueieuse; uui, when lie was ushered into the royal presence, every word deserted his lips, and he could not lift his eyes from the floor. "Are you the boy that dared whip 1 my son, the prince of Wales ?" asked ; the queen, sternly. i "I be, y'r maj'sty," he replied, trembling in every limb; "and I beg 1 y'r pardon, y'r majesty." < "You don't even try to evade the ' truth," said the queen. "What provoked you to do it?" "They?they?" the boy hesitated, still trembling, "they was my father's fish, y'r maj'sty. Didn't know 'twas ] his royal highness." "Ah, I begin to understand." Then turning to the prince, she asked: 1 "What did you do to his fish ?" j "Wanted to see if they'd swim," \ said the heir apparent, examining the figures on the carpet; "so I tip- ] ped the basket a little." J The queen turned to the fish boy \ n.wl do5,1 . 1 auu rHUV.t "You are a brave lad for defending j your father's possessions. Of such 1 mettle may my army be made! Here 1 is a guinea for your fish, and next ( time the prince, in his eagerness for j knowledge, overturns your basket, 4 give him another whipping, and you f shall have two guineas from his J purse." ( A lighter-hearted boy never went f out of castle gates, and alight-hearted 1 father was ever after loyal to Eng- ( land's justice-loving queen. I low N uk els ax d pennies a he ^ Made.?The copper used in the man- ( ufacture of pennies is of the very best t quality. The metal is shipped in ^ bulk from the mines to the factories a of Merchant & Co., Connecticut. t There it is rolled and stamped out in , circles of the requisite size. These ' circles are perfectly plain, with the s exception of the rolled or milled edge, f At this stage the pieces intended for x pennies are as bright as gold pieces, j while those intended for nickles re- s semble highly polished silver. In this condition they are delivered to the mints. Of course, it is absolutely 1 necessary that all the pieces should ^ be of uniform size and weight. The r transfer from the factory to the mint s is made, and the number of pieces in c a package is reckoned by its weight, t To find out how many small coins \ the amount of nickel and copper con- j traded for at present will make, inul- \ tiply the number of pounds of copper 1 by 100 and the number of pounds of t mckle by 70. This calculation will t show that the metal now about to be a made up into coin will make about t fc>,000 nickels and 100,000 pennies. One hundred pennies, therefore, weigh exactly one pound. When these pieces reach the mint they are subjected to the finishing process, which consists in stamping them with the proper denomination, lettering and characters seen on the coins when they reach the public. To accomplish this great pressure is needed, as the pieces are not heated again after leaving the factory. The amount of impression required is simply enormous, considering the size of the pieces. The copper pennies require a pressure of ten tons avoirdupois, while with the nickel pieces it is necessary to put on a pressure of from twelve to fifteen tons. THE MISDIRECTED LETTER. Rev. Bulkley, of Colchester, Conn., was famous in his day as a casuist and saj*e counselor. A church in his . neighborhood had fallen into unhappy divisions and contentions, which they were unable to adjust among themselves. Thev deputed one of their number to the venerable Bulkley for his advice, with a request that he would send it to them in writing. The matters were taken into serious consideration, and the advice, with much deliberation, committed to writiner. It so happened that Mr. Bulkley had a farm in an extreme part of the town upon which he intrusted a tenant. In superscribing the two letters, the one for the church was directed to the tenant, and the one for the tenant to the church. The churcli was convened to hear the advice which was to settle all their disputes. The moderator read as follows: "You will see to the repair of the fences, that they will be built high and strong; and you will take special care of the old black bull." This mystic advice puzzled the church at first; but an interpreter among the more discerning ones was soon found, who said: "Brethren, it is the very advice we most need. Direction to repair the fences is to admonish us to take good heed in the admission and government of our members; we must guard the church by our Master's laws, and keep out strange cattle from the fold. And we must in a particular manner set a watchful guard over the devil, the old black bull, who has done so much hurt of late." All perceived the wisdom and fitness of Mr. Bulkley's advice, and resolved to be governed thereby. The consequence was that all the animosities subsided, and harmony was reofAnorl +a fKo lnno?.offli/>+Ar1 nhnvnh rjtvucvi ivy mi/ ivyii^'aiuivi^u vuuivii* Choosing a Sweetheart.? Choose your sweetheart carefully, wisely and tenderly, my dear girls, says a writer in the Ladies' Home Journal. Remember he is to be more than even this to you some day?he is to be your husband, for surely you are not one of the girls that have a sweetheart here, and one there, and give a little love to this one, and a little love to that one, until when the real one appears the perfect bloom is gone from the peach and she cannot return to him what he offers her. You girls k?ow very quickly when a man means more than ordinary friendship to you. You have an instinct that tells you that this big, good-looking fellow has come sweethearting, and that it is the time for you to study him a little bit. Think out if his temper and yours are certain to agree well together; think out if his tastes and yours are alike, or if they can grow to be so; for you know, little woman, if you want to be happy in your married life you must learn the great and wonderful virtue of adaptability. You must choose your sweetheart as you do a new gown, so that he will wear well; but you want him for longer than a winter; he must last through the long summer days and the winter ones, and before you put your hand in his and tell him you are willing to fight the battle of life together, think it all over well and remember that you are not choosing yoour sweetheart for a day or a year, but for all through your life ana please God, if you love each other enough for after death. Worked Out His Own Cure.? An Anglo-Indian officer of the Bengal artillery relates an anecdote of one of those soldiers who in military phrase are known as malingers, but whom common people would call shirks. A gunner, named Ichabod Crabb, went to see the hospital authorities on the subject of a strange affection of the back, which compelled him to walk somewhat in the shape of the capital C. "I ain't in no great pain," lie said, " 'cept when I tries to stand herect, an, then my back seems to break clean in two. I couldn't stand up, not if my life depended on it." As there was heavy gun drillings going on at this time, Dr. Tritton formed his own opinion of the case, and determined to let the man work out his own cure. He ordered Crabb's breakfast to be placed on a high cupboard in the wall, to reach which the patient would have to stand erect. At dinner-time the cook reported Crabb's breakfast to be untouched. "Put his dinner in the same place," commanded Dr. Tritton, and the treatment was continued throughout the day. The next morning, when the doc tor called to see his patient, he found that his prescription had been efficacious. Crabb had eaten his supper tnd breakfast, and declared himself tit for duty. "Cupboard Crabb," as lie was afterwards called, confessed that he had tried to deceive the "old ioctor," but had found himself beaten. BefF Some industrious hunter is attempting to discover the origin of the term "<). K." Seba Smith asserted that President Jackson marked his State papers with those letters as a signification of his endorsement. It is said also that they were used by John Jacob Astor as initials of what le supposed was the correct spelling. The letters were used by Old Keokuk, he peaceful chief of the Sacs ana Foxes. When he sold Iowa to the foverment he signed the deed with lis initials, (). K. He was the first lerson to use the letters on a paper o show that it was all right. Still mother explanation is that in early 'olonial days a very excellent brand if tobacco came from the then French own of Aux' 'ayes, in Santa Dominjo. In course of time any good tolacco came to be known as Aux .'ayes tobacco, and finally the word :anie to be corrupted^ into the two etters whose sound it resembles, to lenote anything of superior quality. How one New Yorker Got tirir.?A frentleman in this citv has i relative in New York city who is >ver 80 years of age, a retired merhant and very wealthy. In a letter vritten by him to his Galveston relitive a short time ago he gives some ixcellent advice to any man, but es>ecially to young men, as follows: 'The grand secret of my life and my uecess is that I made myself so useid that my employer could not do vithout mie and made me a partner 11 a successful business, and 1 never pent my income, hence my wealth." Is marriage a failure? Well, lardly! John Paulsuk, a Hungarian, vho lives at Milenville, Pa., was in leed of just $82, but had nothing to ell except a $80 cow. He Stated his ase to a cattle buyer, who hinted hat if John would part with his vife as well as the cow, he would dank down the required sum. John vas 'greeable, told nis wife to put on ler best calico dress, received his $82, nul with joy depicted in every feaure, climbed up on the fence and vatched cow, wife and purchaser