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Jnsfc let me see VBb Lula. I'll make you the burden of my praisea. I'll paint you as a little god on wheels. I'll extol you to the skies, till you present yourself to her mind as a hero of romance. Yonng girls are very suscepti ble to that sort of thing, Stephen. Just say the word, and I’ll open the campaign at once.” *• She won’t have me, Val,” Stephen sa d but he was obviously wavering, ano h s cousin came down with several other reassuring arguments which won him over. “If I really thought she would marry me,” he said at ]a*t, “I might ask her. Bat I swear, Val, I’d sooner walk up to a cannon’s mouth than have a woman say No’ to me.” “Follow my advice,” Val answered, con fid ntly “I’m an old stager, St^) hen. For the present, just vnu go back to town, and tell Uncle Harvey that you have concluded to take the contract off rnyhstdi. By Jove! You’re a brick, Stephen. You’ll save me from penury, my dear fellow, for I swear I wouldn’t marry Miss Welwyn under any consideration, though I ha/e no doubt she is an angel.” “ You will po down to Redner right away then?” Stephen inquired, when they were parting. “ To morrow,”" Val replied, and he kept his word. ’' The next day at noon he found him- prlf in the little library at Welwyn Woods, chatting with his hostess and one of the prettiest girls he had ever seen. Val was a connoisseur iu beauty, tco. “Your uncle told us,” Mrs. Welwyn observed, cordially, “ that your Cousin Stephen mipht be down with you. I am sorrv he couldn’t come.'’ “ He hopes to get away after awhile,” Val replied. “At present he is so en tangle.! iu engagements that he hasn't a mome it’s leisure. I never saw such vitality as his. He is perfectly indefati gable, though I know there isn’t an other man in town so much sought after.” “iTseems strange,” Mrs. Welwyn re marked, ‘ that ho should neves have married.” “ He is not easily charmed,” Val said, wi’*h n liiugli and a suggestive look at 3;is Lulu." “ The woman who wins him ji have a great triumph.” There were the entering wedges, Val nata to himr.elf, and he deliberately laid iu ambr.sh for occasions to drive them deeper in. It was not a disagreeable task, he found, for Mits Lula was a charming listener; and there was something so novel in it that it wes more diverting even than flirtation. He did a groat many things on Stephen’s account which he woolin’t have dared to do on his own. It was quite delightful, indeed, to ramble through Welwyn Woods with each a companion, for he felt so much at taw in her society, having already set her apart ia his mind as Stephen’s wife. And there was a peculiar charm in tho I long aitemnens on tho like, when he j looked so per-is 1 ently at the fair feci' under r. bioud Leghorn, and reflected | that this was to be his cousin. So the days went gliding by, and Mi^e j Lulu was courted, ?s Val said, ‘’by! g r. xy.” He had kept Lia promise to j t- phen, ponring into her earsthemest j glowing accounts of his merits, the m »st piquant recital of bis doings, the ! meet win' iug reviews of his wit. Miss Lulu listened spparently in j wide eyed wonder, and Val wrots at last for Stephen to co ae do^n to R?dner. Of course it was understood that | after that he was to leave his cousin in 1 full possession cf the field, but some how he was not at all pleased when Ste phen made tho very reasonable sug gestion that he should go away from Welwyn Woods altogether. In short, he went back to town in a veryunamia- ble mood. Everything was exceeding’” dull jnst then, and Val was like a fish out of “ Stephen does not profess" to thing of the kind.” he said, hastily. “You know yourself that he is the soul of modesty. I am speaking of him as 1 know he is, from long acquaintance with his character. From my heart I honor him, Miss Welwyn, and, as your best friend, might urge you to regard his suit with favor.” “ Your cousin has an ardent cham pion, Mr. Thorne,’ she said, with the same frigid calmness; “ but it is quite impossible for mo to marry him. In the first place I do not love him; and, in the fecond, I would not marry any mt»n who sought mo as his wife only as a means to securing a fortune to his friend. Your cousin’s conduct is most magnanimous so far as you are con cerned, Mr. Th rae; but I must decline ths honor he would cenfer on me.” “ Upon my soul, Mhs Welwyn,” Val said, eagerly, “Stejhrxi would not h ive lent himself to such a scheme if he had not oarsd foryou. Nothing could have induced him.” Then, seeing the scornful smile that played about her lips, his own love leaped beyond all barriers of restraint, and he cried: “You would not make that tell against me, too? I love you 1 Hear me I I refused to accede to my uncle’s proposition, though he threatened to disinherit me if I would not marry you. I refused ; but Stephen had seen you. He knew you as l did not, and he offered to take my place. Then I came here, and without intending it, I learned to love—to worship you. For Heaven’s take, believe me I What do I care for the money ? It is you I want! If you will not marry Stephen, will you marry me ? My happiness depends upon it, for I love you with my whole soul.” She trembled from head to foot, but she evaded his touch, and said, with studied indifference: ‘ I am sorry, Mr. Thorne, but I can not accept all you say on faith. Confess yourself; it dees seem as though the money were behind the persistent pur suit of my hand. Luckily, some of my friends lad htard of your uncle’s sin gular exactions. 1 appreciate the honor his preference does me ; but I must decline it. There is no necessity, however, of your suffering in con sequence. Yon have done your part, and your uncle must know that you can’t marry mo against my will.” Val stood before her with a pale, im- pa-sicned face. “ Yt u do me a great wrong,” he said, hoarse ly. “ I love you as truly as ever a man loved in the whole wide world. 1 swear it I You must believe me, for this is God’s truth. Tell me—is there any way?—there mast be a way in which I can prove it to you.” bhe paused a moment There was somethrng in his voice and mannei which thrust conviction upon her, and her whole attitude changed. She turned toward him with sadden im petuosity. “ Yes," she cried, “ I mil believe you, Mr. Thorne, if—if yoa are willing to renounce your uncle’s iortune for my sake.” •• I will do it gladly,” he answered, seizing her hand aud covering it wi v h kisses. “My darling, my saeet little darling I” “Bat are you willing, Mr. Thorne,” she asked, in a voice that trembled in tpite cf her efforts to control it, “are jou willing to formally make over to your eoosiu your share of your uncle’s money ? There is pea and paper. I will marry you only upon condition that ^ yon Mgu »ucU a contract ” Val had seized the pen while she I spoke. In a few moments he had written 1 and signed this : “ I, Valentine Thorne, do hereby 1 formally renounce all claim upon the estate, real or personal, of my ‘uncle, Harry Thome, and do make over, un conditionally, to my cousin, Stephen R. Thorne, any bequest or inheritance that taking, but it was safely accomplished. None of the man’s hurts were danger ous, and after a long rest and a hearty meal or two, he was pronounced fit to continne his jonrney and report himself at the muster.” Barbarities of Modern War. • The history of boinbarding town* affords an instance of actual deteriora tion in the usages of modern warfare. Regular or simple bombardment, that is, of a town indiscriminately and not merely of its fortresses, has now become the established practice. Yet what did Vat tel say in the middle of the last century? “At present we generally content ourselves with battering the ramparts and defenses of a place. To destroy a town with bombs and red- hoi balls is an extremity to which we do r.c» proceed without cogent reasons.” Wbat said Vatiban still earlier? “The fire must be directed simply at the de fenses and batteries of a place * * * and not against the houses.” Then let us remember the English bombardment of Copenhagen in IS 1 )?, when the cathedral and three hundred houses were destroyed ; the German bombard ment of Strasburg m 1870, where rifled mortars were used for the first time, and the famous library and picture gallery destroyed; and the Ger man bombardment of Paris, about which, strangely enough, even the military conscience of the Germans was struck, so that in the highest circles doubts about the propriety of such a proceed ing at one time prevailed from a moral noint of view. With respect again to sacred or public buildings, warfare tends to become increasingly destruct ive. It was the rule iu Greek warfare to spare sacred buildings; and the Romans frequently spared sacred and other buildings, as Marcellus, for in stance, at Syracuse. Yet when the French ravaged the Palatinate in 1689, they not only set fire to the cathedrals, but sacked the tombs of the ancient emperors at Spiers. Frederick II. destroyed the fiuest buildings at Dres den aud Prague. In 1814 the English forces destroyed the capitol at Wash ington, the President’s house, aud other public buildings ; and in 1815 the Prussian general, Blusher, was with difficulty restrained from blowing up the bridge of Jena at Paris and the pillar of Austerlitz. There is always the excuse of reprisals or accident. Yet Vattel had said (in language but which repeated the languaze of Polybius aud Cicero) : “We ought to spare those edifices which do honor to human society, and do not contribute to the enemy's strength, such as temples, tombs, public buildings and all works of remarkable beauty.’' —G%.-» Neman’s Magazine. A Wonderful Fortress. Fortress Monroe, Va., is the largest single fortification in the world It has already coat over §3,000,000 of money. The water battery is consid ered to be one of the finest pieces of miliary construction in tho world. Colonel Lodor, the instructor of the military school, has invented aid per fected some astonishing appliances that, when he shall have guns, will be of immense value in handling them. In one of the casements inside the fort is his office. He can sit in it and, with an electric apnliance, cause every gun ia the fott to be fired simultaneously. He has perfected another set of instru ments by which the exact distance of a ship from the shore may be accurately determined, the velocity and direction cf tho wind, the consequent deflection of the ball, and the precise point at which the ball will strike the shio. The guns are fired by electricity.—I/i- dustrial South. Nantucket has a girl pilot only sev enteen years old. Knows all the buoys in the soand, you can bet. twenty-six to ti e Jewish, while twenty- seven are dissenters of various shades. The revision of Lather’s Bible, begun in 186C, has just been finished. Of the thirty original members of the revision committee but fourteen live to see the revision completed. The work is now to be printed and submitted to the university faculties, for critioism. It will probably be ready for the public iu about two years. Gaqibliug at Lcng Branch. Gambling is the great Long Branch diversion this year, says Oiara Belle, in oue of her letters, and women are bakiner a hand in. They don’t go to the club houses, of course, bat they play poker in their own rooms. This is too bad. No woman can lose six cents in one pot without losing her temper, and some day, when a pretty one drops a whole dollar on a single band there’ll be frightful bloodshed. Betting has become common among the bctcei* sex. It is positively shame ful to see two gentle creatures got to arguing r.s to whether the lace on “that lady’s dresa ovar there” is thread or imitation, aud then bet the ice-cream on it. I was stakeholder yesterday, for example, in an affair of two dollars in amount. The question at issue was whether Miss H. could milk a cow. She said it, was easy enough, and her opponent said it wasn’t. We rode a mile back into the country and coaxed a farmer into letung the experiment be tried on a mild eyed cud-ohewer of his stock. Miss H. wore a bright blue diess of satine, out in tke Watteau style, and all ovex terrific Japanese figures. Perhaps that dazed the cow, aud was the reason why she wouldn’t “ h’ist,” nor “ stan’ still, dum ye,” nor “give doA-n,” nor do any of the other proper things that she was com manded by her owner to do. Miss H. couldn’t make it work at all for awhile, and the first spurt of milk, coming quite unexpectedly while the aim was averted, took her right in the eyes. But finally, after much torture for the Least and amusement for the spectators, tho stipulated quart cup was filled. A Novel Suggestion. The Cleveland Leader publishes a column editorial article advocating the employment of bees as aids to the police iu suppressing disorder in oities, The Leader says: AU that is necessary to be done is for the police to keep on hand a supply of bee-hives filled with the mo-t stingy kind of bees. It may ba difficult to feed them on flowers, but that ought to be overcome. Sugar, honey and molas ses are good substitutes fer flowers. In case of a riot all a policeman needs to do is to take three or four hives in a wagon and drive in the midst of a mob and damp his hives, and then beat a precipitate retreat. In comparison to these hives of bees, all the military, Gatling gnus or armed pflioe would be as nothing in point of efficiency in scat tering a mob and sending them all howling to their homes I Men can face revolvers, cannons, guns and all other implements of warfare, but they will run before a swarm of vindictive bees I Bees ooet nothing, comparatively, and besides no lives will be lost. If the Pittsburg police had only twenty hives of bees during o great riot of ’77. and turned them icoie, the streets would immediately have become as quiet as a Sabbath morning I The Suez Canal. The Suez canal is eighty-five miles long, 327 feet wide at the top, seventy- two feet at the bottom and twenty six feet deep. The total coat was Si7,000,- 000; the toll charges are two dollars per ton for merchandise and two dol lars per head for uassenger^ and the total receipts for 1831 were 810.200,000. Street, AIKEN, & O ; GEORGIA CHEMICAL WORKS. Manafacturera of All Kinds of Fertilizers. M. a STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga, D. S. HrcfDEBsojf. E. P. Hendkbsoh- H E NDERSON BROS., Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. C. Will practice in the State and United StaUl courts for South Carolina. Prompt attention given to collections. p A. EMANUEL, Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. O. Will practice in all the State and United States Court*. Special attention paid to collec- lions and investments of money. 1 ' W " " — . — i i. ■ —■ — i JAMES ALDRICH. Attorney at Law, Aikfn, 8. G. Practices in tho State and United Statet Couits for South Carolina. w. QUITMAN DAVIS, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit, Special attention given to oolleotions. J. W. D6VORK, Aiken C. H J. a SHEPPARD, Edgefield C. H. S UEFPARD & DeVORE, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice iu the State and United Statea Courts for South Carolina. F W. NORRIS. . Attounet at Law, Aiken, 3. C.. Will practi'’* in all the Courts of this State H AWKINS K. JENKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rock Hill, York County, S. C., Will practice in all the courte of this State. Special attention given to collections. JAMES E. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Barnwell, C. H., 8..G. pJUL LUDEKENS, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C., Will practice in all the courts of this State. AH business transacted with promptness. c ROFT & DUNLAP, Attorneys at Law Aiken, 8. 0. i)R, JOHNE BURNET! DENTIST. ’ — Q7TXCK AT— * -• GRANTTKVUiLE. Aiken County, 8. C DR. B. hTtEAGUE, ZDEISTETST. — OmCK ON — Richland Avenue AIKEN, a G DB. J. RYlRSON SMITH, DENTIST. OFFICE AT WILLISTON, A O. Will attend calls in the conntrv. Rates, $2 and $2.50 per day. H. F. WARNEKE, Baker and Confectioner, AND DEALERS IN GROCERIES, Tobacco and Cigars, TOYS. FIREWORKS, Etc. A-IKEIV. - - S. C. R S. AGNEW, • Trial Justice and Notary Public, Aiken, S. C. Deeds and other legal documents written with neatness and dispatch. BANSLEY&RENTZ AT THE AUGUSTA, GA., Are prepared to accommodate the most fastidi ous with a first-class Share, Hair Cut or Shampooing, HOT AND COLD BATHS. SHOE. Tho undersigned, having purchased Mr. Rcii'z'h interest in his barber shop, would re spectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens of Aiken. Shavine, Hair Cu ting and Shampooing exe cuted at reasonable prices. J. R. BOYCE, AT RESTZ'S OLD STAND, AIKEN, 8. C —DEALER IN STAPLE AND FANCY STAPLE AND FANCY STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, GLASS, CHINA, CIGARS AND TOBACCO, Laurens Street, • • • AIKEN, S. C, (CINCINNATI TYPE FOUNDRY, 201 VIeb Street. C. WELLS. Treat The type on which this paper Is p-inte ) i» from tho Mure fo miry, —Ed. Dry Goods, Notions,Wlosiei -Boots, Shoes, Clothing. The undersigned would respectfully inform the merchafita of Aiken county that their FW and Winter Stock is now being received, and in price and assortment is unequaled by any tKU has ever been brought to this market. A special feature of oulr business is the establishment ofA Wholesale Boot, Shoe and Hat House Entirely distinct from oar Dry Goods, Notions and other de) ■tments. In our new store will ba found the largest and beet-selected stocks of Boots and Haty,Be have ever had, and we feel sat isfied that it will be to the interest of purchasers to inspect yK goods before buying elsewhere. E JFt & Ac M i 286 AND 288 BROAD STREET. IOXJS, AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. WATCHES, DIAMONDS.; JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, SPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES, WATCHES, CLOCKS, and JEWELRY of every description repaired. All work warranted. Agent for the Best Spectacle made. 782 BROAD STREET, UNDER CEVIRAL HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. WM. S O H W E I <3-E K. T . PRICES REUUCED. ROBT. D. WHITE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS! PLANS FURNISHED. ALSO Iron Railings. 107 Meeting St., cor. Horlbeck’a Alley CHARLESTON* S. C. NEW GOODS. I keep constantly on hand a full stock of OCERI Comprising all that Is called for by an epicure. Quality and quantity guaranteed. By the quantity and for caah. I will eell for the Lowest Possible Prices I Give me a call before yon go to Augusta. W. TTJItlXBTJllJL.. James h. cadsden, T0NS0RIAL ARTIST. No. 90 HaeJi street, near King stree' )Sign Telephone Pole and Hand), Charhtton. P. 0. Shaving executed by electricity^ OPERA HOUSE CARDER BEN NIESZ, Proprietor. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Philadelphia and Cincinnati Beer. BroadaftdEllis Sts., Augusta,Ga. ESTABLISHED 1846. S. PI T. FIELD’S, Cor. Laifrens St. and Richland Ave., VARIETY mo), com AND GROCER AU kinds of I3READ, CLAJKIE Csxnned GS-oocLs. Tbew Nectar, tne Finest Flavored and Pur«' Leaf (Tea ever offered to the publie. Lacge variety of Candies. Wedding am* Party Cakes supplied at short notice, ougar Coffee, Rice, Grits, Meal, Sinter, Lard aar every variety of Family Grooeria^ together with the fljnfftt brand, of Flour in the market SEAL ESTATE FOB SALE. Also Rouses and Rooms to Rent. —Amr to— All 1 4