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Re C ORDE R.
tton & McCracken.
AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1882.
YOL. II. NO. 3.
busck, fire INSURANCE
Il’OR OP THE
HOUSE
Art-. & York SU,
ON A SOLID BASIS.
IN
.LG HOUSE.
>MYSER,
Aiken, S. 0.),
he and cottage for the
Iders in the beautiful Til>
ea? the city of Augusta,
Ith splendid drives and
feet cars within three
ches very convenient to
|o is neitly and comfort-
pvorything nocessary for
llmlis well ventilated and
|rel dailv. Terms mnd-
L 8MY8E&, Sand Hills,
HOTEL,
dnson & Son.
GEORG-1 A.
i
[erchandise,
•ET, AIKEN, S. C.
house!
KTON, S. C.
Intel is eituated on Kinf^
Itail business street, and
Jademy of Music. TLA
lo new management had
Jed and refurnished, and
|i!a well kept table and
l^per day, according to
i Charleston Hotel Trana
ry guests to and from
ALFORD. Manaeer.
The undersigned would call attentw to then
facilities for
Insuring- IProperty
Against fire in companies of unsurpassed rcpu
ation and at fair rates. In case of losses oc
curring, their friends placing business in their
hands can rely on their personal attention to
their interests in settlement of claims.
They ask a call from property owners before
placing their insurance elsewhere.
Terms as low as any reliable, first-class
companies.
E. J. C. WOOD,
SIBERIA OTT.
Fire Insurance!
London Assurance Corporation. Chartered
1720. Assets, *15,886,110.96.
North British and Mercantile. Chartered
1809. Assets, *2,011,661.00.
Phoenix, of Hartford, Conn. Chartered 1853.
Assets, $2,826,875.00.
Hanover, of Now York. Chartered 1852.
Assets, $2,561,141.00.
Germania, of New York. Chartered 1859-
Assets, $2,471,061.00.
CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Agent,
AIKEN, S. C.
D. 8. Henderson. E. F. Henderson-
H enderson bros..
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C.
Will practice in the State and United State*
courts for South Carolina.
Prompt attentiou given to collections.
Tp W. NORRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, .» '
Aiken,
South Carolina,
Will practice in all the Courta of this State,
O,
C. JORDAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
!$2.50 per da 1 '
Aiken,
South Carolina.
p A. EMANUEL,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. O.
Will practice in &U the State and United
States Courts. Special attention paid to collec
tions and investments of money.
JAMES ALDRICH,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C.
The Spirit Ideal.
[Posthumous poem attributed to Edgar A.
Poe. I his poem was not published nntfl
many years after Mr. Poe’s death. It is
written in the style of his “Raven,” which
fact will be readily recognized by all admir
ers of his poetry.]
From the throne of life eternal,
From the home of love supernal,
Where angel feet make music over all the
starry floor,
Mortals, I have come to meet you,
Come with words of peace to greet you,
And to tell you of the glory that is mine for
evermore.
Once before I found a mortal
Waiting at the heavenly portal—
Waiting but to catch some echo from that
ever opening door,
Then I seized his quickened being,
And through all his inward seeming,
Caused my burning inspiration in a fiery
flood to pour.
Now I come more meekly human,
With the weak lips of a woman
Touched with fire from off the altar, not
with burning as of yore,
But in holy love ascending,
Mith her chastened being blending,
I would fill your souls with music from the
bright celestial shore.
As ono heart yearns for another.
As a child turns to its mother,
From the golden gates of glory turn I to
the earth once more,
Y here I drained the cup of sadness,
Where my sou! was stung to madness.
And life's bitter burning billows swept my
burdened being o’er.
Here the harpies and the ravens,
Human vampires, sordid cravens,
Preyed upon my soul and substance till I
writhed with anguish sore.
Life and I seemed then mismnted,
For I felt accursed and fated.
Like a restless, wrathful spirit wandering on
the Stygian shore.
Tortured by a nameless yearning,
Like a frost-lire freezing, burning,
Did the purple pulsing life-tide through its
fevered channels pour.
Till the “golden bowl,” life’s token—
Into shining shreds was broken,
And my chafed and chafing spirit leaped from
out its prison door.
But while living, striving, dying,
Never did my soul cease crying,
“Ye who guide the fates and furies, give, oh!
give me, I implore!
From the myriad hosts of nations,
From the countless constellations,
Ono pure spirit that can love me—one that I,
too, can adore !”
Through this fervent aspiration,
Found my fainting soul salvation,
For from out i^j v 0Yckened fire-crypts did my
quicC^Aed spirit soar;
And my beautiful idea
Not too saintly to I
I the solemn service. The responses
were duly in;t<le, nnd it was done. f
“ Embrace your wife, my son,” said
Mrs. Arden, with a vain attempt at
cheerfulness.
“ Wife !” cried theyoung man, draw
ing himself up to hisYull height, with
a Hash in his eyes. “ I have no wife.
This young lady understands the terms
of our bargain. 1 have made her Mrs.
Max Arden—to that you could compel,
me, mother—but no woman shall l*e
wife in more than name to me wHbm
I have not loved and choseii—ay, and
wooed on my bended knees, Is pay
horse saddled, Stevens? I return to
town to-night. In the future, at- in
the past, our paths lie separate.
*****
Scene—the heart of the Black moun
tains. Time—September, when they
are at their loveliest. Dramatis per
sonae—for one, a tall young man, with
a wide-awake pushed hack from his
good-looking, sunburnt face, a gun
over his shoulder, hut little thought of
shooting in his mind. He was peering
through the houghs at what? Only a
girl whom he had once seen in town,
and of late watched many times from
his leafy covert, feeling^ as Olivia says,
her “ perfections with an invisible and
subtle stealth to creep in at his eyes.’*
She sat on the other side of the
mountain brook, busily sketching; and
as he watched, her sketch-book fell
into the little stream.
In a second he had sprung after ft,
fished it out, and was presenting it
with a low bow, saying: “May I not
claim acquaintance by virtue of this
happy chance and our last meeting?”
“ Our last meeting!” The young
lady shrank from him in Undisguised
terror.
“ Good heaven, Miss Harding! bow-
have I alarmed you ? Do I look like a
tramp in my shooting-clothes? In
deed I am respectable. My name is
Arden—Max Arden. I had the honor
of an introduction at Mrs. Montfort’s
reception, hist winter.”
A sigh of relief, then hesitatingly:
“ Oh, yes, 1 remember you quite
well, Mr. Arden; but I—I—you must
excuse me—I have heard of you s%ce
then, and I—I—”
“ You have heard of me; nothing to
my credit, I fear,” he said, slowly,
after waiting in vain for her to finish,
“ and you wish to decline knowing me.
Is it not so? Well, I must submi^to
your decision, bitterly as I regret It.”
Then he lifted his hat and left her. '
Row which of his wild doings 1 ad
come to those dainty ears and brought
this blow upon him? for blow it was.
He was surprised to find how seve^i a
one. For, after all, what did he kn-»w
of her? And yet, jvith unreason:
intensity, he lonl^^^Jopk into
Instantly it lay in her hand.
“ Oh, no! I was only jesting. 1
cannot take it.”
“You must. You named your
price and I agreed, so the bargain is
concluded. It is an heirloom, as you
supposed; and 1 rejoice to see it in
your possession. 1 always meant”—
losing his bead a little as he gazed at
her ttower-like face—“to give it to the
girl 1 loved; but now—”
“Well, now?” sue echoed, softly,
with averted face.
“Row, I may never tell my love,
because ”—With an effort—“ I am a
married man.”
“ Mr. Arden!”—angrily — “because
of that foolisli sketch you think that
I— You say this as a warning—”
“ A warning to myself, perhaps.”
“As if you needed any!”
“ You are right. I am past that.”
He buried his face in his hands.
There was a long silence. Then the
girl said, in an altered voice:
The rain has stopped ; I think I
will go.”
* * * *
Max Arden stood on the dark ve
randa of the Mountain house listening
to strains of music from the ballroom,
and watching the dancers dancing in
time for queen among them moved the
girl he loved. How more than fair
she looked in her white evening dress.
Presently she seemed laughingly to
dismiss her little court, and came out
alone upon the veranda. Max stepped
forward. He had to apologize for
startling her, but he was afraid she
was sick, he said, as he had not seen
her for so long.
1 Only a week,” she answered, cheer
fully. “It is my mother who was ill;
but she has recovered now, thank you
So we are going to-morrow.”
“ Going where ?” with an eagerness
he could not repress,
" Why should I tell you, Mr. Arden ?'
With cold surprise,
“ That I may follow you. By what
right ? Because I love you.”
“ So soon ?”—incredulously.
“ Ay; * even so quickly one may
catch the plague,’” he quoted, with
a bitter laugh. “ And the pursuit of
happiness is one of the unalienable
rights of man, you know-.”
“ But when man fancies his happi
ness to be a woman and she does not like
pursuit, has she no unalienable
rights?” merrily.
“ Do not jest with me.”
She was silent for a moment. Then,
in soft, vibrating tones:
“Ro, I cannot jest. I have some
thing serious to say to you, Mr. Arden.
I, too, am married, and, alas ! to a hus
band who casts me off. Hush, and
listen. I was persuaded into a hasty
partly by love of his mother,
in ' ‘
LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
A <,lfin<-cnt tlie Uellrs of Early Agros.
Undoubtedly there is much idle talk
about the wonderful extravagance of
ladies of the present day, their pursuit
of constantly changing styles, and the
luxuries demanded by those who can,
or think they can, afford the expense.
One would be led to suppose, in the
absence of knowledge to the contrary,
that these were things of nn^dern
growth. But just look at the “ style”
they used to put on in early ages, and
tueir enormous extravagance.
We are told that the ladies of Lesbos
slept on roses whose perfume had been
artificially heightened. And in those
times court maidens powdered their
hair with gold.
Marc Antony’s daughter did not
change her dress half a dozen times a
day, as do the Saratoga graces, but she
made the lampreys in her fish-pond
w r ear earrings.
The dresses of Lollia Paulina, the
rival of Aggripina, were valued at
$2,604,480. This did not include her
jewels* She wore at one supper $1,562,-
500 worth of jewels, aud it was a plain
citizen’s supper. The luxury of Pop-
paea, beloved by Rero, was equal to
that of Lollia.
The women of the Roman empire in
dulged in all sorts of luxuries and ex
cesses, and these weie revived under
Rapoleon I. in France. Madame Tal-
lien bathed herself in a wash of straw
berries and raspberries, and had her
self rubbed down with sponges dipped
in milk and perfumes.
Ovid says that in his day girls were
taught to smile gracefully.
The beauties of ancient times were
just as vain as modern belles, and spent
the greater part of the day at their
toilet. The use of cosmetics was uni
versal among them. Aspasia and
Cleopatra (models of female beauty,
it is said) both used an abundance of
paint, and each wrote a treatise on cos
metics. Cleopatra used boar’s grease
to keep her hair from falling out.
Roman ladies were so careful of their
complexions that to protect them they
wore masks. The Athenian women
of antiquity were very studious of
their attitudes and actions, and thought
a hurried and sudden step a certain
sign of rusticity.
We have certain styles of beauty
nowadays j so had the Greeks They
went wild over the “ideal chin”—-
neither sharp nor blunt, but gently Un
dulating in its outline, and losing ik
self gradually and almost insensibly in
the fullness of the neck. The union of
the two eyebrows was esteemed by the
Romans as a beauty. It is said they
admired the air of dignity it gives to
the face.
An Albanian belle of the day pre-
They are made more effective by being
welted with a cord or fold of bias silk.
Rew basques are single-breasted.
When ornamental bust drapery is added
it takes the form of a long guimpe, or
a short plastron, either square or oval,
and made very full by gathers and
folds.
Corded silks outnumber satins in im
ported dresses. These are to make a
long, slender overdress, with skirts of
rich 1 irocaded silks that have the figures
of plush or velvet thrown up on a
corded silk surface.
Students' caps of velvet with a soft
crown, a shirred band, a large bow in
front, and a bird’s wing on the leftside,
are worn by young ladies, and are
chosen to match the color of the
costume with which they are worn.
Silk squares for the neck are doubled
and pointed low in front, and the open
space filled in with two frills of lace.
Sky blue, crushed strawberry and
crevette squares are usee, with the
edges scalloped or trimmed with lace
or hemstitched.
Velvet round hats with high, square
crowns and straight brims in sailor
shape, are becoming to youthful faces.
They have two wide bands of velvet
folded around the crown, and a dagger
or arrow of gilt, bronze or silver is
thrust in the band.
Last year’s dresses may be easily
brought into style by arranging a
panier draped sash of satin surah on
the edge of the basque. The plaits of
last year’s basques are taken out and
the seams are sewed up and bound to
the edges. A surplice drapery of
surah over the bosom is added, and the
sleeves are trimmed to match, with a
puff at the top, if the wearer is slender;
a plaited scarf at the wrist if she bo
stout. The large buttons of last year
are replaced by small round ones, the
old buttonholes being concealed either
by making the dress lap the other way,
or if that cannot well be done, by in
serting a pointed vest or a plastron.
Fashion authorities say that a great
many plastrons or vests are to be worn,
some embroidered, some plain, some
plaited; these may be either of the
dress material, or with band of similar
ribbon, which is more frequent, of the
fabric used for trimming.
How to Become a Contortionist.
The St. Louis Chronicle says : Jesse,
one of the three “Les Encaoyables”
brothers, now playing at Pope's with
the Kiralfys, was interrogated last
night as to the system of training
through which a man must go in order
to do a first-class contortion act. The
reader will no doubt be surprised to
hear that no rubbing of the joints with
buzzard’s grease or .sleepinu bctweei
•Eggs as Food.
Eggs, at average prices, are among
■the cheapest and most nutritious arti
cles of diet. Like milk, an egg is a
complete food in itself, containing
everything necessary for the develop
ment of a perfect animal, as is mani
fest from the fact that a chick ia
formed from it. It seems a mystery
how muscles, bones, feathers and every
thing that a chicken requires for its
perfect development are made from the
yolk and white of an egg; but such is
the fact, and it shows how complete a
food an egg is. It is is also easily di
gested if not damaged in cooking. In
deed, there is no more concentrated and
nourishing food than eggs. The albu
men, oil and saline matter, are, as in
milk, in the right proportion for sus
taining animal life. Two or three
boiled eggs, with the addition of a
slice or" two of toast, will make a
breakfast sufficient for a man, and
good enough for a king.
According to Dr. Eift*anl_fimith, in
his treatise on “Food,” an egg'Xfiigh-
ing an ounce and three-quarters cTRl 5 ^
tains 120 grains of carbon, and seven
teen and three-quarters grains of ni
trogen, or 15.25 per cent, of carbon
and two per cent, of nitrogen. The
value of one pound of eggs, as food for
sustaining the active forces of the body,
is to the value of one pound of lean
beef, as 1584 to 900. As a flesh pro
ducer, one pound of eggs is about equal
to one pound of beef.*'
A hen may be considered to con
sume one bushel of corn yearly, and
to lay ten dozen or fifteen pounds of
eggs. That is to say that three and
one-tenth pounds of chemistry corn
will produce, when fed to a hen, five-
sixths of a pound of eggs, but five-
sixths of a pound of pork requires
about five pounds of corn for its pro
duction. Taking into account the nu
triment in each and the comparative
prices of the two on an average, the
pork is about three times as costly a
food as the eggs, while it is certainly
ess healthful.—Journal of Chemistry.
A Singular Delusion.
A remarkable case of prolonged vol
untary fasting has occurred at Mon
treal. Canada. A young man named
Charles Fallon, a bookkeeper in a large
produce house there, took it into his
head th;it he was commanded by God
to abstain from taking food. Vne ap
peals of his mother and sisters were
unavailing, and he would listen to no
remonstrance either of the family phy
sician or the pastor of the church. He
was moral in character and exemplary^
in conduct. His family are in
fortable circumstances. Dr. W. (