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BY FORD & McCRACKEX. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, TU [DAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1889. Hotels and Boarding Houses. | Professional Advertisements. BUSCH HOUSE! AIKEN, 8. C. HENRY BUSCH, Propnetor. JtA TES $2.00 PER DA Special Ratcn by Hie Week. BuncIi House Transfer Carries Passengers for Busch House FBEK. tyOrders for Passengers and Bng- S kge left at the Busch House or at H. useh A Co.’s Store, will receive Trmt»t attontion. D. S. Hendeksss. E. P. Hbkdeksok. Henderson Brothel’s, Attorneys at Law, Aikkx, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. James Aldeu-h vValtkb Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Baw, Aiken, H. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for Soutli Carolina. PARK Opposite tie Fasseipr Station. A. M. TAFT, Proprietor. WEST VIEW. Near Hioiii.ani) Park Hotel,. czz Corner York Street and Colleton Avenue. Comfortable and well furnished Booms and table supplied with the best. Terms reasonable. Mrs. N. E. SENN. PBIVATE BOAED. Boarders will be most comfortably accommodated at Mrs. Perctval’s, Vork Street; or the house will be let foathe season, thoroughly furnished. THU HOTEL! Augusta, - - Georgia. BEST $2.00 HOUSE IN THE SOUTH. Headquarters for Commercial Men, neutrally located nearR. R. Crossing. JDOOLITTLE, Proprietor, John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Raw. Will practice in the Counties of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell. Haviland Stevenson, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Special attention given to Collec tion. 0. C. JORDAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AIKEN, S. C. Dr. Z. A. Smith 1 PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSE, . . - s. C. £3TOffice near Depot. PROF. P. M. WHITMAN, Scientific Optician ! 710 Broad St., [Up-Stairs] Opposite the Monument, AUGUSTA, - GA. T ESTS the eyes for Presbyopia (old sight). Myopia (near siglit), Hy peropia (far sigiit), Diplophf (double sight), Anesometropia (unequal re fraction of the two eyes). Muscular and Accommodative Asthenopia fweak siglit), Simple, Compound and Mixed Astigmation, and supplies the proper glasses, scientifically correct. Te secure an engagement do so by letter. Consultation and advice free. Office hours 9 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. Capital paid in, - - ^JW>0,000• (ai'Wt, Conn'. *11*0, next End Hotel, Lony Branch^. N. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston. S. C PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Cneck to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 o0. Wright s Hotel! S. L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., COLUMBIA, - - S. C. T ABLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. One of the most comfortable hotels in the South. Rates • easonuble. Aiken County Loan and Savings zb-A-Hstik: r _ - - - fT'' N •" - < Does a General Banking and Collec tion Business. Savings Department. Interest Allowed on Deposits on Most Liberal Terms. W. W. Woolsey, President. W. M. Hutson, Vice-President. J. W. Ashhurst, Cashier. DIRECTORS. W. W. Woolsey, H. H. Hall, H. F. Warneke, H. B. Burckhalter, W. M. Hutson, J. W. Ashhurst, C. H. Phiuizy, G. W. Williams, jr. R.L. COURTNEY DEALER IN liLJ Jim PORK AND SAUSAGES, The Best Western Beet kept con stantly on hand. LAURENS STREET, Next door to KLATTE’S BUTCHERING. FREE MEATS CONSTANTLY . ON HAND. , Western meat for the Win ter season k specialty. Sausages will also be kept on hand. Shop adjoining Warneke’s. F. E. SOMMER. iV HENS ST., \iken, s. C. A In the Lying-In Room. BETHLEHEM OAT FOOD Is recommended by all physicians as the mosj di gestible as well as nutri tious diet for the invalid. A Farm for $500. A SMALL FARM FOR SALE! Situated 1 mile from Aiken, on the Edgefield Road. A small House and Rarn thereon. For particulars address, P. O. BOX 135, Aiken, S. C. Tornaio, Cyclone and Windstorm POLICIES! ISSUED BY HUTSON k CO., Agents, I N PHCENIX INS. 00- of Brooklyn. ASSETS, - - - *.'>.000,000. On Frame Buildings: 1 year, 30 Cents on *100.00; 3 years, OOCentson *100.00; five years, 90 Cents on *100.00. Briek Buildings; 1 year 20 Cents oji * 1 (X) 00; 3 years, JO Cents on *103.00; five years, (itl cent*, on *100.00. For Policy, apply to H UTSON & CO. Clyde’s New Yorl and Florida STEAMSHIP LINES. W. I*. Cljde «X: Co., Gen. Agents. o-j Broadway, 12 South Wharves. New York. Philadelphia. T. G. EGER, Traffic Manager, No. 35 Broadway, New York. WM. A COURTENAY, Sup’t., Charleston S. C. Bv WASHINGTON HIVING. f In the early time of the province of . New York, while it groaned under the } tyranny of the English governor, Lord Cornbury, who carried his cruelties to wards the Dutch inhabitants so far as to allow no dominie, or schoolmaster, to officiate in their language, without his special license; about this time, there lived in the jolly little old city of the Manhattoes, a kind motherly dame, known by the name of Dame Heyliger. She was the widow of a Dutch sea cap tain, who died suddenly of a fever, in consequence of working too hard, and eating too heartily, at tiie time when all the inhabitants turned out in a panic, to fortify the place against the invasion of a small French privateer. He left her with very little money, and one infant son, the only survivor of several children. The good woman had need of much management to make both ends meet and keep up a decent appearance. How ever, as her husband lutu fallen a victim to his zeal for the public safety, it was universally agreeu that “something ought to be done for the widow;” and on the hoi>es of this “something” she lived tolerably for some years; in the meantime, everybody pitied and spoke well of her; and that helped along. She lived in a small house, in a small street, called Garden street, very proba bly from a garden which may have flourished there some time or other. As her necessities every year grew greater, and the talk of the public about doing “something for her” grew less, she had to cast about for some mode of doing something for herself, by way of helping ‘out her slender means, and maintaining her independence, of which she was somewhat tenacious. Living in a mercantile town, she had caught something of the spirit, and de termined to venture a little in the great lottery of commerce. On a sudden. ry therefore, to the great surprise of the street, there appeared at her window a grand array of gingerbread kings and queens, with their arms stuck akimbo, alter the invariable royal manner. There were also several broken tumblers, some filled with sugar phuns, some with mar bles; there were, moreover, cakes of various kinds, and barley sugar, and Holland dolls, and wooden horses, with here and there gilt covered pi re books, and now and then a skein ot thread, or a dangling pound of candies. At the door of the house sat the good old dame’s cat, a decent demure looking personage, that seemed to scan everybody that passed, to criticise their dross, and now and then to stretch her neck, and look out with sudden curiosity, to eeo what was going on at the other end of. the street; but if by chance any idle vaga bond dog came by, and offered to be uncivil — hoity-toity! — how she would bristle up, and growl, and spit, and strike out her paws! she was as indignant as ever was an ancient and ugly spinster, on the approach of some graceless prof ligate. But though the good woman had to come down to these humble means of subsistence, yet she still kept up a feel ing of family Rvide. bavin# d from the V’anderspiegeis, ot Amsterdam; and she had the family arms painted and framed, and hung over her mantelpiece. She was, in truth, much respected ny all the poorer people of the place; her house was quite a resort of the old wives of the neighborhood; they would drop in there of a winter’s afternoon, as she sat knitting on one side of her fireplace, her cat purring on the other, and the tea ket tle singing before it; and they would gossip with her until late in the evening. There was always an arm chair for Peter de Groodt. sometimes called Long Peter, and sometimes Peter Longlegs, the clerk and sexton of the little Lutheran church, who was her great crony, and indeed the oracle of her fireside. Nay, the dominie himself did not disdain, now and then, to step in, converse about the state of her mind, and take a glass of her special good cherry brandy. Indeed, he never failed to call on New Year's day, and wish her a happy New Year; and the good dame, who was a little vain on some points, always piqued herself on giving him as large a cake as any one in town. I have said that she had one son. He was the child of her old age; but could hardly be called the comfort—for, of all unlucky urchins, Dolph Heyliger was the most mischievous. Not that the whipster was really vicious; he was only full of fun and frolic, and had that daring, gamesome spirit, which is extolled in a rich man's child, but execrated in a poor man's. He was continually getting into scrapes: his mother was incessantly harassed with complaints of some wag gish pranks which he had played off; bills were sent in for windows that he had broken; in a word, ho had not reached his fourteenth year before lie was pronounced by the neighborhood to be a “wicked dog, the wickedest dog in the street!” Nay, one old gentleman, in a claret colored coat, with a thin red face and ferret eyes, went so far as to assure Dame Heyliger, that her son would, one day or other, come to the gallows! Yet, notwithstanding all this, the poor old soul loved her boy. It seemed as though she loved him the better, the worse he bchqved; and that ho grew more in her favor, the more he grew out of favor with the world. Mothers are foolish, fond hearted beings; there’s no reasoning them out of their dotage; and, indeed, this jxior woman's child was all that was left to love her in this world— so we must not think it hard that she turned a deaf ear to her good friends, who sought to prove to her that Dolph would come to a halter. To do the varlet justice, too, he was strongly attached to his parent. He would hot willingly have given her pain on any account; and when he had been doing wrong, it was but for him to catch his poor mother’s eye fixed wistfully and sorrowfully upon him, to fill bis heart with bitterness and contrition. But he was a heedless youngster, and could not, for the life of him, resist any new temp tation to fun and mischief. Though quick at his learning, whenever he could bo brought to apply himself, vet he was al ways prone to Le led away by idle com pany, and would play truant to hunt after birds’ nests, to rob orchards, or to swim in tire Hudson. In this way he grew up, a tall, lubberly boy; and Ids mother began to be greatly perplexed what to do with l.im, < r how to put him in a way do for iriiuself; for he hud acquired such un unlucky reputation that no one seemed willing to employ him. Many were the consultations that she held with J'eter tie Grtxtdi. ti e t lerk ami sexton, who was her prime counselor. Peter was as much perplexed as herself, for he had no great opinion of the boy, and thought he would never come to good. He 1 at one time advised her to send him to sea—a piece of ad rice only i f ;iven in the most desperate eases; but! )ame Heyliger would not listen to such i an idea; she could tliink of letting Dolph § o out of her sight. She was sitting one ay kniting by her fireside, in great per- i plexity. when the sexton entered with an ' air of unusual vivacity and briskness. He had just come from a funeral. It i had been that of a boy of Dolpb’s yean, ; who had been apprentice to a famous German doctor, and had died of a con sumption. It U true, there had been a whisper that the deceased Ixad been brought to his end by being made the subject of the doctors experiments, on which be was apt to trv the effects of a SOLD I1Y ALL mU'CrtlSTd AND <ilM- CKU>. KUAXHISJORDAN .. SONS. Manufacturers, 209 X. THIRD STRKKT. I’ll IA DKLPH I A FOR SALK BY COURTNEY 6l CO., T Aiken, S. C. HYGEIIM! A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ! Tobacco an Aid to Hkai.tii . V New Tobacco, manufactured by Tims. C. Williams ft Co , Rich mond, Virginia, under a formula pre pared by Prof. J. W. Mallet, of the University of Virgiuiti, anti-maiaiiai, anti-dyspeptic, a good nervine and an excellent chew. T^v it. No humbug. For sale by annealers. 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Peter de Groodt, as I said before, en tered the house of Dame Heyliger with unusual ahuxity. He was full of a bright idea that had ’popped into his head at the funeral, and over which lie had chuckled as he shoveled the earth into the grave of the doctor's disciple. It had occurred to him, that, as the situation of the deceased was vacant at the doctor’s, it would be the very place for Dolph. The boy had parts, and could pound a pestle and run an errand with any boy in the town—and what more was wanted in a student? The suggestion of the sage Peter was a vision of glory to the mother. She al ready saw Dolph, in her mind’s eye, with a cane at his nose, a knocker at liis door, and an JL D. at the end of liis name— one of the established dignitaries of the town. The matter, once undertaken, was soon effected; the sexton had some influence with the doctor, thev having had much dealing together in the way of their sep arate professions; and tile very next morning he called and conducted the urchin, clad in liis Sunday clothes, to undergo the inspection of Dr. Karl Lodo- vick Kninperhausen. They found the doctor seated in an elbow chair, in one corner of his study or laboratory, with a large volume in Ger man print, before him. He was a short, fat man, with a dark, square face, ren dered more dark by a black velvet cap. He had a little, knobbed nose, not un like the ace of spades, with a pair of spectacles gleaming on each side of his dusky countenance, like a couple of bow windows. Dolph felt struck with awe, on enter ing into the presence of this learned man; and gazed about him with boyish wonder at the furniture of this cham ber of knowledge, which appeared to him almost as the den of a magician. In the center stood a claw footed table, with pestle and mortar, phials and galli pots, and a pair of small, burnished scales. At one end was a heavy clothes press, turned into a receptacle lor drugs and compounds, against which hung the doctor’s hat and cloak and gold headed cane, and on the top grinned a human skull. Along the mantelpiece were glass vessels, in which were snakes and lizards, and a human foetus preserved in spirits. A closet, the doors or which were taken off, contained three whole shelves of books, and some, too, of mighty folio din’fusions—a collection the like of which Dolph had never before beheld. As, however, the library c’id not take up the whole of the closet, the doctors thrifty housekeeper had occupied the rest with pots of pickles and preserves, and had bung about the room, among awful implements of the healing art, strings of red pepper and corpulent cu cumbers, carefully preserved for seed. Peter de Groodt and his protege were received witlj great gravity and stateli ness by the doctor, who was a very wise, dignified little mac, and never smiled. He surveyed Dolph from head to foot, above and under, and through his specta cles; and the poor lad’s heart quailed as these great glasses glared on him like two full moons. The doctor heard all ,t Peter,dejaioo^ had inj of ine youthful candidate, and then, wetting his thumb with the end of his tongue, he began deliberately to turn over page after page of the great tiack volume before him. At length, after many hums and haws, and strokings of the chin, and all that hesitation and de liberation with which a wise man pro ceeds to do what he intended to do from the very first, the doctor agreed to take the lad as u disciple; to give him bed, : vv»^* • I ^ PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. ing of Dolph’s pestle, 3wsy buzzing of the su >r would take his seat in an- icr when he had nothing else expected visitors, and. arrayed morning gown and velvet cap, ore over the contents of some lume. It Is true that the regular or, perhaps, _ summer flies, now and then lull the little man ■lumber; but then his spectacles ways wide awake and studiously the book. .re was another personage in the however, to whom Dolph was to pay allegiance. Though a , and a man of such great dignity ■rtance, yet the doctor was, like cither wise men, subject to petti- ■vernment. He was completely the sway of his housekeeper; "a busy, fretting housewife, in a round, quilted, German cap, with at the i‘aist. pro- nomc ed) had accompanied him in his variois migrations from Germany to En^jyad, and from England to the prorince; managing his establishment and Limself too; ruling him, it is true, with a gentle hand, but carrying a high hand with all the world beside. How she had acquired such ascendency I do not pretend to say. People, it is true, did talk; but have not people been prone to talk ever since the world began? Who can jtell how women generally contrive to the upper hand? A husband, it is true; may now and then be master in his awn house; but whoever knew a bachelor that was not managed by his house keeper? Indeed, Frau Ilsy’s power was not con fined to the doctor’s household. She was one of those prying gossips that know every one’s business better than they do theniselves; and whose all seeing eyes, and all telling tongues, are terrors throughout a neighborhood. Nothing of any moment transpired in ing. the world of scandal of this little burg, but it was known to Frau Ilsy. She had her crew of cronies, that were perpetu ally hurrying to her little parlor with some precious bit of news; nay, she would sometimes discuss o whole volume of secret history as she held the street door ajar and gossiped with one of these garrulous crorues in the very teeth of a December blast. Between the doctor and the house keeper it may easily be supposed that Dolph had a busy life of it. As Frau Ilsy kept the keys, and literally ruled the roast, it was starvation to offend her, though he found the study of her temper more perplexing even than that of medi cine. When not busy in the laboratory she kept him running hither and tliither on her errands; and on Sundays he was obliged to accompany her to and from church, and carry her Bible. Many a time has the poor varlet stood shivering and blowing his fingers, or holding his frostbitten nose, in the church yard, while Ilsy and her cronies were huddled together, wagging their heads and tear- so.ue unlucky character to pieces, all his advantages, however, e very slow progress in his _ was no fault of Die doctor’s, , for he took unwearied pains lad, keeping him close to the d moi-tar, or on the trot about th phials and pill boxes; and.if ed in his industry, which he apt to do, theoloctor Would if he aver. ispi tie retainedfhe fondness for sport and mischief that had marked his childhood; the Imbit, indeed, had hia ye; years and thwarted an ained con- strengthened with force from being strained. He daily grew more and more (intractable, and loet favor in the eyes both of the doctor and the housekeeper. In the meantime the doctor went on waxing wealthy and renowned. He was famous for his skill in managing cases not laid down in the books. He had cured several old women and young girls of witchcraft; a terrible complaint, nearly as prevalent in the province in those days as hydrophobia is at present. He had even restored one strappm country girl to perfect health who >ne so far gone i os to vomit crooked ed p needles; which is considered a de ins and esperate T/.e doctor agreed to take the lad as a disciple. board and clothing, and to instruct him in the healing art; in return for which he was to have his services until his twenty-first year. Behold, then, our hero all at once transformed from an unlucky urchin, running wild about the streets, to a stu dent of medicine, diligently pounding a pestle under the auspices of the learned Dr. Karl It was old mother, idea of her boy’s being brought up worthy of his ancestors, and anticipated me day when ' o would be able to hold up his head with the lawyer that lived in the large house opposite; or, perad- venture, with the dominie lumself. D:\ Knipperhausen was a native of the Falatinato cf Germany, from whence la company with many of his country men he had taken refuge in England on account of religious persecution. He was ouo cf nearly 3,000 Palatines who came over from England in 1710 under the protection of Governor Hunter. W hero the doctor had studied, how lie he hud acquired liis medical knowledge, and where he had received his diploma, it is hard at present to say, for nobody knew at the time; yet it is certain that his profound skill and abstruse knowl edge v ere the talk and wonder of the common people far and near. His practice was totally different from that of any other physician, conoLting * in mysterious compounds known only to himself, in the preparing and adminis tering of which, it was said, he always consulted the stars. So high an opinion was entertained of his skill, particularly by the German and Dutch inhabitants, that they always resorted to him in des perate cases, lie was one of those in fallible doctors that are always effecting sudden and surprising cures when the patient has been given up by all the reg ular physicians; unless, as is shrewdly observed, the case has been left too long before it was put into their hands. The doctor's library was the talk and marvel of the neighborhood, I might almost say of the entire burg. The good people looked with reverence at a man that had read three whole shelves full of books, and some of them, too, as large as a family Bible. There were manv disputes among the members of the little Lu theran church as to wliich was the wiser man. the doctor or the dominie. Borne af his admirers even went so far as to say that he knew more than the governor himself—in a word, it was thought that there was no end to his knowledge! No sooner was Dolph received into the lector’s family than ne was put in posses sion of the lodging of his predecessor. It was a garret room of a steep roofed Dutch house, where the rain patted on the shingles and the lightning gleamed and the wind piped through the crannies in stormy weather, and where whole troops yt hungry rats, like Don Cossacks, gal loped about in defiance of traps and ratsbane. He was soon up to his ears in medical studies, being employed morning, noon and night in rolling pills, filtering tinc tures or pounding the nestle and mortar in one corner of tlx* stage of the malady. It was whispered, also, that he was possessed of the art of preparing love powders, and many ap- f ilications had no in consequence from ove sick patients of both sexes. But all these cases formed the mysterious part of his practice, in v. hich, according to the cant phrase, “secrecy and honor might be depended on.” Dolph, there fore, was obliged to turn out of the study whenever such consultations oc curred, though it is said he learned more of the secrets of the art at the keyhole than by all the rest of his studies put to gether. As the doctor increased in wealth he began to extend his possessions and to look forward, like other great men, to the time when he should retire to the re pose of a country seat. For this purpose ne had purchased a farm, or, as the Dutch settlers called it, a bowerie, a few miles from town. It had been the resi dence of a wealthy family, that liad re turned some time since to Holland. A large mansion house stood in the center of u, very much out of repair, and which, in consequence ot certain reports, had re ceived the appellation of the Haunted House. Either from these reports, or from its actual dreariness, the doctor had found it impossible to get a tenant; and, that the place might not fall to ruin be fore he could reside in it himself, he had placed a country boor, with his family, in one wing, with the privilege of cultivating the farm on shares. The doctor now felt all the dignity of a Landholder rising within him. He had a little of the German pride of territory in his composition, and almost looked upon himself as owner of a principality. He began to complain of the fatigue of business, and was fond of riding out “to look at his estate.” His little exjieditions to his lands were attended with a bustle and parade tliat created a sensation throughout the neighborhood. His wall eyed horse stood, stamping and wlusking off the flies, for a full hour before the house. Then the doctor’s saddle bags would be brought out and adjusted; then, after a little while, his cloak would be rolled up and strapped to the saddle; tl en his umbrella would be buckled to the coat; while, in the meantime, a group of ragged boys, that observant class of beings, would gather before the door. At length the doctor would issue forth, in a pair of jack boots that reached above Ids knees, and a cocked hat flapped down in front. As be was a short, fat man be took some time to mount into the saddle; and when there, he took some time to have the saddle and stirrups properly adjusted, enjoying the wonder and ad miration of the urchin crowd. Even af ter he had set off, he would pause in the middle of the street, or trot back two or ihree times to give some parting orders, winch were answered by the housekeeper from the door, or Dolph from the study, or the black cook from the cellar, or the chambermaid from the garret window; ar d there were generally some last words bawled after him just as he was turning the corner. Tne whole neighborhood would be aroused by this pomp and circumstance. The cobbler would leave his last, the barber would thrust out his frizzed head, with a comb sticking in it, a knot would collect at the grocers door, and the word would be buzzed from one end of the street to the other, “The doctor’s riding out to his country seat!” These were golden moments for Dolph. No sooner was the doctor out of sight than pestle and mortar were abandoned, the laboratory was left to take care of itself, and the student was off on some madcap frolic. indeed, it must be confessed, the youngster, as He grew up, seemed in a lair way to fulfill the prediction of the old claret colored gentleman. He was the ringleader of all holiday sports and mid night gambols, ready for all kinds of mischievous pranks and harebrained ad ventures. There is nothing so troublesome as a hero on a small scale, or, rather, a hero in a small town. Dolph soon became the abhorrence of all drowsy, housekeeping old citizens, who liated noise and had no relish for waggery. The good dames, too, considered iiim as little better than a reprobate, gathered their daughters under their wings whenever h# ap proached, and pointed him out as a warn ing to their sons. No one seemed to hold him in much regard, excepting the wild etriplings of the place, who were capti vated by his open hearted, daring man ners, and the negroes, who always look upon every idle, do-nothing youngster as a kind of gentleman. Even the good Peter do Groodt, who had considered himself a kind of patron of the lad, be gan to despair of him and would shake nis head dubiously as he listened to a long complaint from the housekeeper, and sipped a glass of her raspberry brandy. Still' his mother was not to be wearied out of her affection by all the wayward ness of her boy, nor disheartened by the stories of his misdeeds with which her good friends were continually regaling her. She had, it is true, very little of the pleasure wliich rich people enjoy, in always hearing their children praised; but she considered all this ill will as a kind of persecution which he suffered, and she liked lum the better on that ac count. She saw him growing up a fine,- tall, good looking youngster, and she looked at liim with the secret pride of a mother’s heart. It was her great desire that Dolph should appear like a gentle man, and all the money she could save went towards helping out his pocket and his wardrobe. Sue would look out of the window after him as ho sallied forth in his best array, and her heart would yearn with delight; and once, when Peter de Groodt, struck with the youngster’s gal lant appearance on a bright Sunday morning, observed, “Well, after all, Dolph does grow a comely fellow!” the tear of pride started into the mother’s eye. “Ah, neighbor! neighbor!” ex claimed she, “they may say what they K ’ e; poor Dolph will yet hold up his wuli the best of them.” Dolph Heyliger had now nearly at tained his one-and-twentieth year, and the term of his medical studies was just expiring, yet it must be confessed that he knew little more of the profes sion than when he first entered the doc tor’s doors. This, however, could not be from want of quickness of parts, for he showed amazing aptness in mastering other branches of knowledge, which he could only have studied at intervals. He was, for instance, a sure marksman, and won all the geese and turkeys at Christ mas holidays. Ho was a bold rider; he was famous for leaping and wrestling; he played tolerably on the fiddle; could swim like a fish; and was the best hand in the whole place at fives or ninepins. All these accomplislunents, however, rocured him no favor in the eyes of the octor, who grew more ahd more crabbed •nd intolerant the nearer the term of ap prenticeship approached. Frau Ilsy, too, was forever finding some occasion to raise a windy tempest about his eaw * " c&Au< him about the as she approached, was to Dolph like the ringing of the promoter’s bell, that gives nouce of a theatrical thunder storm. Nothing but the Infinite good humor of the heedless youngster enabled him to bear all this domestic tyranny without open rebellion. It was evident that the doctor and his housekeeper were prepar ing to beat the poor youth out of the nest the moment his term should have expired; a shorthand mode wliich the doctor had of providing for useless dis ciples. Indeed, the little man had been ren dered more than usually irritable lately in consequence of various cares and vex ations wliich liis country estate had brought upon him. The doctor had been repeatedly annoyed by the rumors and tales wliich prevailed concerning the old mansion, and found it difficult to prevail even upon the countryman and his fam ily to remain there rent free. Every time he rode out to the farm ho was teased by some fresh complaint of strange noises and tearful sights with which the ter ants were disturbed at night, and the doctor would come home fretting and fuming, and vent his spleen upon the whole household. It was in deed a sore grievance, that affected him both in prids and purse. He was threat ened with an absolute loss of the profits of his property; and then, what a blow to his territorial consequence to be the landlord of a haunted house! It was observed, however, that with all his vexation the doctor never proposed to sleep in the house himself; nay, he could never be prevailed upon to remain in the premises after dark, but made the best or his way for town as soon as the bats began to flit about in the twilight. The fact was, the doctor had a secret be lief in ghosts, having passed the early part of his life in a country where they particularly abound; and indeed the story went that when a boy he had once seen the devil upon the Hartz mounta.ns in Germany. At length the doctor's vexations on this head were brought to a crisis. One morning, as he sat dozing over a volume in his study, he was suddenly started from his slumbers by the bustling in of the housekeeper. “Here’s a fine to do!” cried she as she entered the room. “Hera’s Claus Hop- r come in, bag pnd baggage, from the arm, and swears lie’ll have nothing more to do with it. The whole family have been frightened out of their wits; for there’s such racketing and rummaging about the old house that they can't sleep quiet in their beds!” “Donner und blitzen!" cried the doctor impatiently; “will they never have done chattering about that house? What a was eagerly accepted, termined that he should mount guard s: soon hot;*! "nis patience was exhausted by these continual vexations about his estate. The stubborn refusal of Claus Hopper seemed to him like flat rebellion; ! his temper suddenly boiled over, and Claus was glad to make a rapid retreat to escape scalding. When the bumpkin got to the house keeper's room, he found Peter de Groodt and several other true believers ready to receive him. Here he indemnified himself for the restraint ho had suffered in the study, and opened a budget of stories about the haunted house that astonished all liis hearers. The housekeeper be lieved them all, if it was only to spite the doctor for having received her intel ligence so uneourteously. Peter de Groodt matched them with many a wonderful legend of tho times of the Dutch dynasty, and of the devil’s step ping stones; and of the pirate that was hanged at Gibbet Island, and continued to swing there at night long after the gallows was taken down; and of the ghost of the unfortunate Governor Leis- Fer, who was lianged for treason, which haunted tho old fort and the government house. The gossiping knot dispersed, each charged with direful intelligence. The sexton disburdened himself at a vestry meeting tliat was held that very day, and the black cook forsook her kitchen, and spent half the day at the street pump, that gossiping place of ser vants, dealing forth tho news to all that came for water. In a little time the whole town was in a buzz with tales about the haunted house. Some said that Claus Hopper had seen tho devil, while others hinted that the house was hauuted by the ghosts of some of the patients whom the doctor had physicked out of the world, and that was the reason why ho did not venture to live in it himself. All this put the little doctor in a ter rible fume. He threatened vengeance on any one who should affect the value of his property by exciting popular pre judices. He complained loudly of thus ueing in a manner dispossessed of lii^ territories by mere bugbears; but he secretly determined to have the house exorcised by tho dominie. Great was his relief, therefore, when, in tho midst of liis perplexities, Dolph stepped for ward and undertook to garrison the haunted house. !i^e youngster had been listening to all the stories of Claus Hop per and Peter de Groodt; he was fond of adventure, he loved the marvelous, and his imagination liad become quite ex cited by these tales of wonder. Besides, he liad led such an uncomfortable life at the doctor’s, being subjected to the in tolerable thralldom of early hours, that he was delighted at tho prospect of having a house to himself, even though it should be a haunted one. His offer and it was dc- should mount gua that very night. His only stipulation was, tliat tho enterprise should be kept secret from his mother; for he knew the r>oor soul would not sleep a wink if she knew that her son was waging war with the powers of darkness. When night came on, he set out on this perilous expedition. The old black cook, his only friend in the household, had provided him with a little mess for supper, and a rushlight; and sho tied round his neck an amulet, given her by an African conjurer, as a charm against evil spirits. Dolph was escorted on his way by the doctor and Peter de Groodt, who had agreed to accompany him to the house and to see him safe lodged. as very r '*uP J which surrounded the mansion. The sexton led tho way with a lantern. As they walked along the avenue of acacias, the fitful light, catching from bush to bush, and tree to tree, often startled the doughty Peter, and made him fall back upon his followers; and tho doctor grabbed still closer hold of Dolph’s arm, observing that the ground was very slippery and uneven. At one tims they were nearly put to a total rout by a bat which came flitting about the lantern; and the notes of the insects from the trees, and the frogs from a neighboring pond; formed a most drowsy and doleful concert. The front door of the mansion opened with a grating sound, that made the doctor turn pale. They entered a toler ably large hall, such as is common in American country houses, and which serves as a sitting room in warm weather. From lienee thsy went up a wide stair case, that groaned and creaked as they trod, every step making its particular nete, like the key of a harpischord. Tliis led to another hall on the second story, from whence they entered the room where Dolph was to sleep. It was large and scantily furnished; the shutters were closed, but as they were much broken there was no want of a circulation of air. It appeared to have l>een that sacred chamber known among Dutch housewives by the name of “the best bedroom,” which is the best furnished room in the house, but in which scarce anybody is ever permitted to sleep. Its splendor, however, was all at an end. There were a few broken articles of furniture about the room, and in the center stood a heavy deal table and a large arm chair, both of which bad the look of being coeval with the mansion. The fireplace was wide, and had been faced with Dutch tiles, representing Scripture stories; but some of them had fallen out of their places, and lay shattered about the hearth. The sexton had lit the rush light; and the doctor, looking fearfully about the room, was just exhorting Dolph to he of good cheer, and to pluck up a stout heart, when a noise in the chimney, like voices pack of ieiols, to let a few rats and mice frighten them out of good quarters!” * “Nay, nay,” said the housekeeper, wagging her head knowingly, and piqued at having a good ghost story doubted, “there’s more in it than rats and mice. All tho neiglAorhood talks about the house, and then such sights have been seen in it! Peter de Groodt tells me that the family that sold you the house and went to Holland dropped several sfrange hints about it, and said ‘they wished you joy of your bargain;’ and you know vourself there’s no getting any family to live in it.” “Peter de Groodt’s a ninny—an old woman,” said the doctor peevishly. “I’ll warrant he’s been filling these people's heads full of stories. It's iust like his nonsense about tho ghost that haunted the church belfry as an excuse for not ringing the bell that cold night when Harmanus Brinkerhoff’s house was on fire. Bend Claus to me.” Claus Hopper now made his appear ance—a simple country lout, full of awe at finding hunself in fhe very study of Dr. Knipperliausen, and too much em barrassed to enter into much detail of the matters that had caused his alarm. He stood twirling his hat in one hand, resting sometimes on one leg, some times on the other, looking occa sionally at the doctor, and now and then stealing a fearful glance at the death’s head that seemed ogling him from the top of the clothes press. The doctor tried every means to per suade him to return to the farm, nut all in vain; he maintained a dogged determination on the subject; and at the close of every argument or solicitation, would make the same brief, inflexible reply, “Ich kan nicht, myn heer.” The doctor was a “little pot, and tumbling and struggling, struck a sudden name into the sexton. He took to his heels with the lantern; the doctor followed hard after him; the stairs groaned and creaked as they hurried down, increasing their agitation and speed by its noises. The front door slammed after them; and Dolph heard them scrabbling down the avenue, till the sound of their feet was lost in the distance. That he did not join in this precipitate retreat, might have been owing to his possessing a little more courage than his companions, or perhaps that he had caught a glimpse of the cause of their dismay, in a nest of chimney swallows, that came down into the lire place. Being now left to himself, he secured the front door by a strong holt and bar; and having seen "that the other entrances were fastened, he returned to his desolate chamber. Having made his supper from the basket which the good old cook had provided, ho locked the chamber door and retired to rest on a mattress in one corner. The night was cairn and still; and nothing broke upon the profound ? uiet but the lonely chirping of a cricket rom the chimney of a distant chawlicr. The rushlight, which stood in the center of the deal table, shed a feeble yellow ray, dimly illumining the chamber, mid making uncouth shapes and shadows on the walls, from the clothes wliich Dolph had thrown aver a chair. With all hja boldness of heart, there was sometliing subduing in this desolate scene; and he felt his spirits flag within him as be lay on his hard bed and gazed about the room. Ho was turning over in his mind his idle habits, his doubtful prospects, and now and then heaving a heavy sigh, as he thought on his poor old mother; for there is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind. By and by, he thought he heard a sound as if some one was walking l>elow stairs. He listened, and distinctly heard a step on the great stair case. It ap proached solemnly and slowly, tramp— tramp—tramp! It was evidently the tread of some heavy parsonage; and yet how could he have got into the house without making a noise? He had examined all the fastenings, and was certain that ©very entrance was secure. Still the steps advanced, tramp—tramp—tramp! It was evident that the person a ing could not be a robber—the step was too loud and deliberate; a robber would either be stealthy or precipitate. And now the footsteps had ascended the stair- ruse; they were slowly advancing along the passage, resounding through the silent and empty apartments. The very cricket had ceased its melancholy note, and nothing interrupted their awful dis tinctness. The door, which had been locked on the inside, slowly i as if self moved. The footsteps the room; but no one was to be seen. They passed slowly and audibly across it, tramp—tramp—tramp 1 but whatever made tho sound was invisi^. Dolph rubbed his eyes and stared "-out him; he could see to every part of the dlrnlr lighted chamber; all was vacant; yet still he heard those mysterious footsteps, solemnly walking about the cluunber. Thev ceased, and all was dead silence. There was something more appalling in this invisible visitation than there would have been in anything that addressed it self to the eyesight. It was awfully vague and indefinite. He felt his heart beat against his ribs; a cold sweat broke out upon his forehead; lie lay for some time in a state of violent agitation; noth ing, however, occurred to increase his alarm. His light gradually burnt down into the socket, and he fell nalocp. When he awoke it was broad daylight; the sun was peering through the cracks of the window shutters, and the birds were merrily singing about the house. The bright, cheeiy day soon put to flight all the terrors of the preceding night Dolph laughed, or rather tried to laugh, at ell that had passed, and endeavored to per suade lumself that it was a mere freak of the imagination, conjured up by the stories he had heard; but he was a little I mzzled to find the door of his room ocked on the Inside, notwithstanding that he had positively seen it swing open as the footsteps had entered. He re turned to town in a state of considerable perplexity; but he determined to say notliing on the subject, until his doubts were either confirmed or removed by another night’s watching. His silence was a grievous disappointment to the gossips who had gathered at tke doctor’s mansion. They had prepared their minds to hear direful tales; and they wsre al most in a rage at being assured that he had nothing to relate. ITO BE CONTINUED,] dispatch from Marion, Illinois, What threatens to prove a se- A says: rious race war has broken out in thin oily, A few weeks ago the firm of F. M. Westbrook Sons, tobacco pack ers, imported a number of colored men to work in their factory, claim ing that there are no white men capa ble of performing the work of atem- ming and stripping. This action greatly enraged a number of white workmen, and they sent notices to the colored men warning them to leave the town within ten days or re ceive summary punishment. Threats were also made to burn the factory and the homes of the imported labor ers. But little attention was paid to the threats, and Saturday night a lot of men went to the home of Login Collins, a colored boss, and fired five shots into the house. Collins pro cured a revolver and returned the fire, but no one was hurt on either side. _ DAO—nf-d that has occtipl during Mrs. Cleveland's Term as mis tress of the white house lias been. “Will the bustle go? M This question seems likely to give may to another, equally as interesting, “Will the (’ collete dress go?” Mrs. Harrison i! opposed to the decollete dress. Her i ill' milliner insists that she shall wear one at the inauguration ball, and Mrs. Morton is understood to have taken sides with the miiltner, but at last ac counts Mrs. Harrison declined to re linquish the high-necked dress. A deadlock was thus brought about be tween Mrs. Harrison aud her milliner and the world of fashion will wait with a good deal of interest for It to be broken. Senator Daniels presented a peti tion on the 5th inst., from t he farmers of Virginia, calling attention of Con gress to the great depression existing among the farmers of the country, as shown in the decline in the value of farms and staple farm products, and expressing the belief that tills condi tion of things is ail caused by under valuation of silver, which has fostered tiie competition of India and her low- priced labor with the United slates in the great markets of tiie world, “that silver be restored to its time- honored place at a co-equal measure of value with gold. A dispatch from Canajoharie. N. Y., says that the following information has been received regarding au acci dent at Pine lake: Twenty-four teams were engaged in drawing logs across tiie ice, regarding the safety of which no fears liad been felt. It gave uny. however, after seven drivers and teams reached the shore, and the >e- maining drivers and horses broke through the ice and sank out of sight, none of the bodies have yet been re covered. A certain painter was bragging of his wonderful command of color to a friend one day. His friend did not seem to take it quite all in. “Why,” exclaimed the painter, “do you know there are but three painters in the world, sir, who understand color?” “And who are they?” at last asked the friend. “Why, sir, 1 am one, and — and—and—aud—aud—I forget the names of the other two.” The New York Herald, not content ; witli its New York and Paris editions, l bus begun the publication of a penny ; daily in London. Tiie new paner has ! started nut with a boom and bids fair | to achieve an enviable success. This 1 daring move has struck consternation among the London publishers, who ! fear that the pushing yankee paper 1 will ruin their business or force them to modern enterprising newspaper work. Tiie planters in North Georgia who raise grain and provlsous, cultivate small (arms, and live near thriving towns which hold one or more indus tries, are doing well. The condi tion in all the cotton area of South Georgia is not at ail good. The credit system lias swamped the planter, and tenant and landlord are in bad con dition. “My little son, three years of age, wa- terribly afflicted with scrofaia. ! His head was entirely covered with scrofulous sores, and his body#bowed many marks of the disease. A few bottles of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cured him.”—W. J. Beckett, Hymen, Ind. Customer—Hereds something In my chicken salad, waiter, that looks a deal like feathen. Waiter—Dat cahn’t be pogs’oie, sab. “Why not!” “Kase calves don 1 hab no feathen.” “Marriage,” says a cynic, “t» like putting your hand Into a bag contain ing ninety-nine snakes and one You may get the eel, but the et are against yoq.”