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, .-rftYyr^tai i ir * - UJ? EDUCED. WHITE taxsi |IIED. ALSO iilings. Horlbock's Alley LON, s. c. ID 1846* ELD’S. Richland Ave., CTY 'raotieea in the State and United State* Couita for South Carolina. w. QUITMAN DAVIS, ArronNEY at Law, Aiken, S. C. ER i of OAKE -oods. iFlarored and _Cur e < to the public. Idics. V/eddinf? am* " short notice. Sugar fcl. Cutter, Lard anf Groceries, togothei fFlonr in the market. nfectioner, ts IN IKIES,| id Cigars, )KRS, Etc, f- - RENTZ~ Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Special attention given to collections. J. W. DCVORE, Aiken C. H. j. c. fiUKPrAnn, Edgetield C. II. S UETPARD & DkVORE, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. JJAWKIN3 K. JENKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rock Hill, York County, S. O., Will practice in all the courts of this State. Spcciil attention given to collections. JAMES E. DAVIST ATTORNEY AT LAW, Barnwell, C. H., S.,0. J^MIL LUDEKENS, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C., Will practice in all the courts of this State. All business transacted with promptness. c IROFT & DUNLAP, Attorneys at Law Aiken, 8. 0. OA., late the most fastidi- st-claes Shampooing, BATHS. J. A. WRIGHT, Boot and Shoe Maker, North Side Park Avenue, Aiken, S. C. SHOf. Jing purchased Mr. her shop, would Ve- j mage of the citiA|u« d Shampooing oj:e- j YCE, ' , AIKEN, 3. U I fancy-formed Lenore. ’Mid the purging seas she found me, With the billows breaking round mo, And my saddened sinking spirit in her arms of love upbore. Like a lone one weak and weary, Wandering in the midnight dreary, On her sinless, saintly bosom, brought me to the heavenly shore. Like the breath of blossoms blending, Like the prayers of saints ascending, Like the rainbow’s seven-lined glory blend our souls forevermore. Earthly love and lust enslaved me, But divinost love hath saved me, And I know now first and only how to love and to adore. Oh my mortal friends and brothers, We are each and all another’s! And the soul that gives most freely from its treasure hath the more. Would you lose your life you find it; And in giving love, you bind it, Like an amulet of safety to your heart forev. ermore. MARRIED IN HASTE. DR. JOHN H. BURNET r DENTIST. [ — omci AT— GRANITEVIL.LE, Aiken County, P.C DR. B. H. TEAGUE, DEHSTTIST. — OFFICE ON — Richland Avenno AIKEN. 8. G. DR. J. RYERSON SMITH. DEISTTIST. OFFICE AT WILLISTON, S. a Will attend calls in the country. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Also Houses and Rooms to Rent. — APPLY TO- II. SMITH, Main Street. AIKKN. S. O 'JADE GEORGIA CHEMICAL WORKS. Manufacturers of All Kinds of Fertilizers. V. 0. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. The best of material used, and any stylo of boot or shoe made to order. CHARLES W. HENSON. Saloon iindRestauraiif. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Piiila- ! delphia aud Cincinnati Btef. 125 Broad Street. Augusta, Ga. Over P. G‘ Bubgm A Co. j “ I demand this, because I consider marriage with such a girl as I know Violet Du Ilayne to be, the only' hope left of reclaiming you from a life of dissipation. On no other condition will I advance the large sum for which you ask. In spite of all that has passed, your still affectionate mother, “ Eugenia Auden.” The written page looked as hard and unchanging to Max’s fancy <is its au thor. There was that bill which Hardy had indorsed for him falling due within three days. It would be total ruin to poor Hardy if it was not met. That must not be. He had drawn Hardy into this scrape, and he must see him harmless, at all risks to himself. Max strode up and down the room, biting his long, fair mustache. Marriage ! lie had never seen his mother’s ward. She had arrived at Arden after the estrangement between mother and son; but, at all events, there was no one else he wanted to marry. "What a lovely face was that girl’s he had met at Mrs. Montfort’s reception ! She had made him feel like echoing Geraint’s, “There, by God’s grace, stands the one maid for me !” “ Pshaw 1” shrugging his broad shoulders. “ A man could not be in love with a girl he had talked to for one evening, whose very name he had failed to hear ?” What use in reflecting? There was but one course open to him to save Hardy’s honor and his own. He sat down, and dashed off in heavy black letters: “ Mother : You are using the power given you by my father’s will—as you have always done—tyrannically. But I have no alternative—I accept your conditions on these terms : First, that the young lady be told that I am marrying as myf only means of obtaiu- ney which is a matfer tome. Secondly, that lake place tomorrow ill run down to Arden oek train. You can !an waiting in the grand who can unite the Your son, “Max Arden.” There nel»er was a gloomier wedding. A heavy falJof snow had impeded the "the early winter twilight ailing when Max Arden great, dim room by the eilfxl bride. man hurriedly repeated ing a sum of mj of life and deat the marriage afternoon. I on the 3 o*«j have a clergy: drawing-ro« uw happy pair a Aonce. tin train, so was alread sDknI in side of The hii inquire reasufr^wU^ft, fretful gaze tnat had followed him as he turned away Patter ! patter 1 Big drops broke in upon liis meditations. A true pelting, blinding, mountain storm was coming up. Arden hastened to take refuge in a small cave he knew of. Was it kind chance or irony of fate? The cive was occupied. A sketch-book, an umbrella, a slim serge-clad figure pre sented themselves to his view. He began to retrace his steps. “ Don’t go away,” said the fair oc cupant, hastily. “ I would not force my company upon you,” he returned, stiffly. “ Pray, pray, don’t let me drive you out into this pouring rain,” she en treated ; “ you are punishing me severely for my late rudeness. I was so surprised and frightened then—I—I scarcely knew what I said.” She put out her hand to detain him. Like a Hash Arden’s mind went back to the last time soft fingers had lain in his—on that strange bridal day. “If you grant me shelter, it is equiva lent to accepting my friendship,” he said, allowing himself to be drawn into the cave and seating himself so as to shield her from the rain which now be gan to beat in. “ Now, you might almost as well be outside as do that,” said the girl, re proachfully. “What a deluge it is!” peering out over his shoulder. The damp air heightened her color and sent little rings of golden brown hair curling madly over her pretty forehead, her violet eyes shone, and her face—it was the fairest that e’er the sun shone on. Max Arden thought so as he an swered dreamily : t could last forty days!” 1 good conscience you must have!” gayly; “now, I should be too afraid of being drowned with the rest of the sinners.” “ Miss Harding—” “ Who told you my name was iliss Harding?” “ My guide, Luke Smith. He claims to know everything.” “ He certainly seems to know a great deal.” “ I am camping out near here, and seeing you so constantly, naturally in quired about you. It is a lonely spot to see a lady.” “ I am staying at the Mountain house, six miles from here,” she explained. “ I drive over every morning to sketch this lovely glen, and the carriage comes for me again at 4 o’clock. I should be going to meet it now but for the rain.” “Blessedrain !” murmured Max. The young lady frowned .and ap peared to regret tiie momentary inti macy into which she had been drawn. There was a few minutes silence w’hile she turned over the contents of her portfolio. Once more nature favored Max. The wind blew a loose sketch to his feet, which he looked at in amazement. “ Why, it’s me !” lie cried, exultant and ungrammatical, “and a capital likeness, too.” “ You—you are quite mistaken in— in any conclusions you may draw,” stammered Miss Harding, blushing, and clothed with shame as with a gar ment. “You need not imagine I sketched you because—that is—you are not to think—anything.” “I don’t. My mind is entirely vacant except for a strong desire to possess my portrait. You probably do not prize it very highly.” “ I do not prize it at all.” “ And I would give—even unto the half of my kingdom for it.” “Would you give that ring which looks like aa heirloom Y' w r hich she uau educateci me 10 ieel Besides, I met him accidentally in so ciety, and fancied I could—like him. Max, take your arm away. Believe me, I w r as not told by what means he was forced into marriage ! What! kneeling to me, Max ? Suppose some one should come. Do get up.” “ Not till you forgive me. “ Well, in that ease”—with pretended reluctance—“ I had better forgive you at once.” * * * * It is not five years since Max mar ried in haste, but he has not yet re pented at leisure—nor has his wife. Character of Our Population. According to the latest census bulle tin there are in the United States, or were in 1880, when the census was taken, of colored inhabitants 6,632,549, and of foreign born 6,679,945. These figures do not show, however, the com parative strength of these elements of our population. The children of colored parents were enumerated as colored, while the children of foreign born parents were taken as native white in habitants. Based upon the census of 1870 the following estimate has been made of the national characteristics of our population: 1880. American white 30,453,545 Foreign born 6,073,945 Both parents foreign 5,001,139 One parent foreign 1,388,604 Colored 6,632,549 Total 50,155,783 By this calculation, sixty-one per cent, of the whole population is native white, thirteen per cent, is foreign born, ten per cent, represent children of both foreign parents, three per cent, have one foreign parent, and thirteen pei cent, is oft he colored race. Of the foreign born population, 2,772,169 came from Great Britain and Ireland. Other countries have contributed as follows: Germany 1,966,742 Mexico.... Ireland 1,854,571 Denmark.. Sweden 194,337 Holland... Norway 181,729 I Poland.... France 106,971 | Italy China 104,541 Austria.... Switzerland. 88,621 Russia Bihemia.... 85,361 Greenland, Gibralter, Malta and Japan together have about 1,000 chil dren in tins country. No country on the globe lias so strangely composite a population as this.—Albany Aryus. 68,399 64,196 58,090 48,557 44,2:50 38,663 35,722 Life in Mexico. A tourist in Mexico says that in the house of a wealthy native everybody is astir before sunrise. A servant comes to your room to ask if you will have coffee or chocolate there, or will go the dining-room for it. You must not be offended if the host is off to his business without seeing you, for at 10 o’clock he will return and greet you ceremoniously enough. The break fast, which is the chief meal of the day, is then served in courses. Fruit is eaten first, soup often follows, then meat, after that eggs, and finally frijoles, the national dish. This last is a dark read bean, cooked with lard, seasoned highly with red pepper, and is served in a soup plate aud eaten with a spoon. It is very palatable, and foreigners generally become as fond of it as the natives. Wine is always on the table, and everybody concludes by smoking a cigarette, the ladies not ex cepted. Coffee and chocolate are served again .n the afternoon, and at lip. m. there is a light supper, consisting prin cipally of tomales, which is corn meal mush mixed with a force meat of chicken or beef, highly seasoned with red pepper and onions, all nicely rolled in a clean corn shuck tied and put in a pot and boiled untif done, and served in the shuck hot. She is, as a rule, gayly coifed with seed pearls and coins, and enveloped in a black serge pelisse. She uses paint on her face profusely, and her taste runs to cherry lips and cheeks and jet black eyebrows strongly drawn. An Alban ian bride discards paint for a while, and if wealthy wears a suit something like this: Hose-colored under robes, with an over-robe of dark green velvet, the idea being taken from a rosebud half folded in its leaves. Tims arrayed, the girl of handsome features is said to look really bewitching. The Tartars despise prominent nasal appendages, and the woman who has the smallest nose is esteemed the most charming, hut to outside barbarians she is a perfect fright. The women of Spiti, in India, wear tunics and trousers of woolen stuff, with large boots, partly of leather, partly of blanket, which come up to the knee, ami which they are fond of taking off at any time. In order to get greater warmth they often put a quantity of Hour into these boots. Their taste in regard to ornaments runs much to all sorts of rings, in cluding nose-rings. A typical woman in the interior of Africa is thus described: “ Her skin was leathery, coarse and wrinkled; her figure was tottering and knock-kiieed; her thin hair hung in greasy locks; on her wrists and ankles she had almost an arsenal of metal links of iron, brass and copper, strong enough to bind a prisoner in his cell. About her neck were hanging chains of iron, strips of leather, strings of wooden balls, and heaven know^ what lumber more.” Fiutliioii Notes. A great-deal of red will be worn by little people. Street costumes are either very gay or very sober. The fishwife’s poke is the novelty for little girls’ wear. Arabi red is the newest and liveliest shade of this color. Tan-colored, long-wristed loose gloves are the first favorites of fashion. Flush artificial flowers and leaves are striking, elegant novelties in millinery. Plush is as frequently used for child ren’s dressy wraps as for larger people. Little girls wear pelisses similar to those of their mothers and older sis ters. Little girls’ dresses are even more quaint and picturesque than in sum mer. Fashionable women wear laced shoes, but the button boot is by no means dis carded. Combinations of materials in con trasting colors appear in Paris imported costumes. A skirt of bright plaid worn with a jacket of imperial blue makes a very at tractive costume. Jersey waists in new forms will be worn by little children, and to a limited extent by ladies. English walking hats are trimmed with birds and bows of velvet and have long streamers of ribbon at the back. The clematis of the East is taking the place of the wistaria, holding its bloom longer <md being more hardy. Close toques and English hats, that have been worn for driving allsummer abroad, are now heralded in New York. Copper shades with electric blue; strawberry red with rille green, and brown with green, are the contrasts of color favored for autumn toilets. Castellated edges make a tasteful finish for basques and skirt-front breadths of cloth and cashmere dresses. genuine ease and proficiency Yrna be acquired only by long practice. Mr. Jesse, who is now in his twenty-eighth year, has had twenty- two years’ practice, having been apprenticed to John Wilson, a well- known circus man of California, at the age of six years. At the time he began to learn he was only an ordinary boy, not at all remarkable either for strength or agility. When the four years of the apprenticeship had expired he was pro nounced a fair contortionist and offered a good salary by Wilson. At this time he was able to do “ easy kicking.” and by continuing the exercise has been able to acquire astonishing powers. The contortionist, he says, is never al lowed to do any heavy lifting or jump ing, because such exercise contracts and stiffens the joints. “ To be able to tickle your ear with your toe,” said he, “you have only to take about two hours’ practice daily for four or five years, and it is best to begin early.” The boy who begins to learn is put through every exercise that will make the joints limber w'ith- out creating muscle. One of the first things he is made to do is to take the foot in hand, lift it up, and pull the leg toward the body. When this has been done daily for ten years he be comes a fair contortionist, and to sv ceed after the business is learned a man must keep sober. Whisky and beer stiffen the joints. It is also held to be a bad idea to eat pea nuts and other indigestible food. In the.thircl act of the “ Black Crook,” where the three performers named appear, most of what is done is called “ easy kicking”—that is, kicking ever heads. “Hard kicking” consists in throwing the leg along the back, and otherwise putting the joints to an un natural strain. While the gyrations and contortions of this act are fairly be wildering to the spectator, they are not difficult to the actors, though the work is very exhausting in its nature. The ease and grace which characterize their movements are the result of years of training, and cannot be acquired in a short time with the aid of any balm or ointment known. “ Bill Nyc” Accepts a Foslmasterslup. Among recent commissions issued by Acting Postmaster-General Hat ton is one to “Bill Nye,” lately appointed postmaster at Laramie City, W. T. Nye is the editor of a paper called the Daily Boomerang. In ac ceptin': the nomination he says : To My Dear General : I have received the news by telegraph of my nomination and confirmation as post master at Laramie, and wish to extend my thanks for the same. I have or dered an entirely new set of boxes and postotlice outfit, including new corru gated cuspidores for use of clerks. I look upon the appointment myself as a triumph of eternal truth over error and wrong. It is one of the epochs, as I may say, in the nation’s onward march toward political purity and per fection. I don’t know when I have noticed any stride in the aflhirs of state which so thoroughly impressed mo with its wisdom. Now that we are co workers in the same department, I trust that you will not feel shy or backward in consulting me at any 'time relative to matters concerning postof- fiee department affairs. Be perfectly frank with me, and feel perfectly free 1 just to bring anything of that kind rigid to me. Do not feel reluctant be cause I may appear at times cold and reserved. Perhaps you think I do not ! know the difference between a general ! delivery window and a three-em quad, but that is a mistake. My general in formation is far beyond those of my years. With profoundest regards, I remain sincerely yours, Bill Nyb, P. M. an 'bccaSioftn srp young Fallon would tako no nourish ment. There was no insanity about him, neither did he meditate suicide. In answer to all entreaties he said that God would tell him when to eat again. Three weeks passed and still Fallon lingered. Then Dr. How ard, an expert in insanity, was called in and he said the man was sane and that force should be used. Dr. King ston would not sanction this course. The patient was so emaciated that he (the doctor) doubted whether his stomach ever could retain food enough to nourish his hotly again, and force might kill him instead of doing him any good. Meanwhile the Bev. Canon Baldwin, whose Bible class Fallon had attended, was doing all in his power to induce the young man to eat. “ Have you a revelation from God that I am to eat?” was the answer of Fallon. This non plussed the reverend gentleman, who, however, enlisted the prayers of Chris tians for him. Finally, on the twenty- third day of the fast, Fallon remarked to his mother that he thought he would eat something. Dr. Kingston then provided such food as he believed the emaciated body could stand, and Fal lon was soon on a fair way to re covery. Meerschaums From Potatoes. If what the Agricultural Gazette of Vienna gravely states is true, Ireland may potentially possess a gigantic for tune in her ability to raise innumer able potatoes. That paper says that the humble but indispensable tuber may be transformed into meerschaum pip?s of the first quality and lik^aiise'' into any article now m^dej^Tvory by subjection totlie following treatment: Having been careffdly peeled and suf fered extraction of its “eyes,” the po tato is boiled steadily for thirty-six hours in a mixture of sulphuric acid and water, after which it must be squeezed in a press until every drop of natural or acquired moisture is ex tracted from it. The residuum of this simple process is declared to be a hard block of a delicate, creamy white hue, every whit as suitable to the manufac ture of ornamental and artistically ex ecuted pipe-heads as the finest clay, and unsurpassed as a material for brush and umbrella handles, billiard balls, fans and chessmen. Who could have supposed that the dying race of elephants were destined to be cheered by the thought that they were leaving behind them such a cheap and prolific substitute ? A Remarkable Burglar. Mary Morris, a petite fourteen-year- old girl, with a remarkably sweet face, which seemed to beam with childlike innocence, was sentenced at Chicago to two years in the house of correc tion, she having pleaded guilty to four teen indictments for burglary and lar ceny. The judge remarked that it was one*of the most astounding cases of which he had ever heard. This girl is the most remarkable burglar of mod ern times. For the past two years she has plied her vocation, committing in numerable daring burglaries by night and well nigh filling the house of her parents with dress goods, jewelry, dia monds and articles valued in all at $10,- 000. A large part of the plunder had been disposed of, the revenue supplying the entire family wants. Eight hun- dred indictments could have been found. The story of her crimes and escapades would fill a ponderous vol- umo. Her mother, Helen Morris, was sentenced to three and a half years ill the penitentiary' as an accessory.