The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 28, 1877, Image 4

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From AvjjM'jii's Journal. API?FIT10TM. , ??- ? i j:n3L CHAPTER I. "Phil, dear old fellow, how glad I 3in to see you again!" "And I to see you, Bertie!" . ,, r The two brothers clasped hands in that streuuous grasp which, with Anglo-Saxon men, expresses so much, and.gazed into each other's faces with eyes that were . slightly misted. Five years had passed since they last saw each other, and many are the changes which can be wrought during that length of time on human faces, as well as in human lives. Col? onel Philip Thurston, of the Egyptian army, had grown many-shades darter, and somewhat older in appearance, since, like Childe Harold, he bade his native land good-night, and soiled away to? the climes of the sun ; while Bertie Egerton, whom he left a gay stripling, with the world all before him?a world ready enough to show its most attractive side to one so sunny- in nature, so charming in manner, so liberally endowed with the Sood things of fortune?had undergone a eeper change. The bright boy whom Thurston well remembered, had vanished forever, and left in his place a man with a somewhat worn and almost reckless ex {iression on his handsome face, when the ight of cordial gladness died out of it. Of this change, Thurston, however, was too wise to speak.' The brothers had met on the deck of an ocean-steamer, and there were a hundred things to say? questions to ask and answer?whjle they entered a carriage and were driven to Egerton's hotel. It was not until after dinner that anything like confidential conversation took place. Then, as they were smoking together, with the summer twilight dying away over the city ruofs and spires, Egerton said, in a studiedly careless voice: "If you had delayed your coming a little longer, Phil, you would not have found me on this side of the Atlantic. I had made all (my arrange? ments to go abroad when'f received yoar letter." . . "Indeed!" said Thurston. "Where did you think of going?" "Oh, I don't know," replied the other, indifferently. "To Europe for the sum? mer, I suppose. In the autumn I meant to turn eastward, and pay you a visit. Egypt must be a pleasant country to live in, I think. If I pitched my tent there we might have a comfortable time?you could drill, and march, and counter? march, to your heart's content, while I - reclined under a palm-tree, or floated on the Nile." "So that is vour idea of life hi Egypt, is it ?" said Thurston^ with a laugh. AIt is a good enough country for me?a sol? dier by nature and profession, with no fortune beside my sword?but it would not suit you. The novelty of everything might amuse you for a time, but I should be sorry for you to think of pitching your tent there permanently." "As well there as anywhere else," said Egerton, with a shadow of gloom falling over his face. "Novelty is what I want. I am.tired to death of the life I know?I might forget myself, perhaps, in one that I dtoV* know. I have felt lately as if I should like to escape- from ? the tumult and fret of modern civilization, to the ancient and unchangeable East." Thurston took his* cigar from his lips, and knocked the feathery ashes off against the ledge of the open window by which they sat, before he said: "There is not a great deal of the un? changeable East to be found in Egypt now?unless you go to Thebes, which is not at the present time a cheerful place of residence, whatever it may have been three thousand years ago. Cairo, under the new regime, has quite as much 'tumult and tret' in it as any city of Eu - rope. But this disgust of modern civili? zation is altogether new with you ?what has caused it ?" "Satiety, I suppose," Egerton replied, looking at the young moon as it hung, a golden boat, in the pearly sky. "I be? lieve there is no doubt but that if a man were restricted to a diet of ortolans and champagne, he would tire of them after a while. For five years I have run through every form of social dissipation, and been sufficiently courted and amused. But it has palled at last. I am tired of the frivolity that has made the sum of my life 1 I am sick of dancing and flirt? ing, of clubs and.drawing; rooms.. .If,I do not go away and turn idler or savage for a time, I think I shall blow out my brains 1" He had forgotten himself, and in the last sentence there was so much passion? ate earnestness?on the outlines of the . handsome face such a deepening reckless? ness?that Thurston was fairly startled. Yet what could he say ? ^The malady was plain enough, but it must needs be a skillful physician who can minister to a mind or spirit deceased. So, for a min? ute, there was silence. Carriages were rolling below, pedestrians passing, lamps gleaming through the deepening dusk; a child's laugh floated up together with a red balloon; some distance down the street a band of musicians were playing. On this medley of sound Thurston's voice broke. "If the necessity for change of scene is so urgent," he said, with a tolerably suc? cessful attempt at lightness of tone, "you must not let me detain yon in America. So long as I am with you, it does not matter where my furlough is spent. After I have transacted a little necessary business, I am ready to accompany you to Paris or Stamboul." "Nay, I am not quite so selfish a dog as that," said Egerton, with a smile?but Thurston noticed that his lip trembled under the silky-brown mustache. "It ought to be enough for me to be with you," he went on, "without dragging you over the ocean again, when you have just made a long journey to see your home and your friends. You'U be patient with me, I know. I'm not quite myself in all respects, but with regard to you"?and his hand fell on his brother's shoulder ?"I have not changed one iota." "Do you think I doubt that?" asked Thurston. "Do you think I could doubt it nnder any circumstances ? We have not been like ordinary brothers, Bertie, at any period of our lives?you know that as well as I do. Thank Qod, no bit? terness has ever come between us?nor ever will, I think I Of course, I saw, as soon as I looked at your face, that some change had passed over you ; but you must understand that I do not ask the cause of it. Go or stay, speak or be silent, without fear of misconception from me." Egerton pushed back his chair abrupt? ly and rose. "God bless you, Phil!" he said, huskily ?and walked away into the dusky dim? ness of the unlighted room. Thurston did not follow him, and more than a mi nute passed in silence, broken only "by the noises from the street. Egerton paced once or twice the length of the apartment; then, without returning, he said: "If I hesitate to tell yon the reason of the change which yon find in me, it is only because a man naturally dislikes to brand himself as a fool. Yet you must hear it sooner or later?from others if not from me?and the story is simple and common-place enough. Yon know that I have always had a very susceptible dis? position witn regard to Jwomen. I have fallen in and out of love dozens of'times, and a year ago I should, for that very reason, have esteemed-myself the least likely subject for one of those insane pas? sions that now and then wreck men's lives. In fact, I was accustomed to say that no woman had ever made a deep im? pression upon me, and I did not believe that any ever would." "You once wrote me something equiv? alent to that," said Thurston, more to fill j the pause which came just here than for any other reason; "I remember yousaid, a propos of some desperate- lover, 'I can hot imagine why a man should suffer the loss of one woman to come like a shadow between him and the sun, when there are multitudes on every side as fair, as wise, as witty, as she. There is no such thing as nonpareil excellence. Thank Heaven, the world is a "rose-bud garden of girls,** and he is a fool who, losing one rose-bud, does not pluck another!'" "Ah!" said Egerton, "it was / who was a fool to talk so lightly of things beyond my comprehension ! 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound'?but I have been wounded since then. The shadow of one woman has indeed come between me and the sun, and I would not tell you, if I could, what darkness has fallen over my life. I met Agatha Loring more than a year ago, and from the first mo? ment I saw her I loved her. Do you know what the word means, Phil ? Very likely not I never knew what it meant until I met her: but, compared to what I felt for her, every feeling that I had ever known fox any other woman was like water unto wine ten times told. I was warned from the first that she was a cruel coquette, and would throw a man's heart away: like a useless toy when she was done with it; but such warnings were less to me than the idlest wind. To be with her was sufficient; to hear her voice, to touch her hand, to look into her eyes ?such eyes, Phil I I have never seen any others of the same tint; and as for ex? pression?sometimes I think that they nave no tint, that they are all expression. But"?with an impatient accent?"I must not maunder like this. The end came as it had been foretold. When I grew too earnest to amuse her any longer, she turned to ice and bade me go. I wearied her, she said, coldly ; she had nothing to give me ,* she fancied that I had understood that flirtation was only?* flirtation; if I had made a mistake it was not her fault. And so all ended !? Well, no doubt you think me weak to suffer such a woman to rob life of all savor for me. But most women who play this game are bunglers more or less, while Agatha Loring is an expert. When she is done with a man, he is fit for nothing but to go to the devil as fast as may be." "Ana do you think such a woman worth going" to the devil for?" asked Thurston, with indignation. "Why can you not put her out of your heart through scorn? Great Heaven! if I loved her better than my life, and she showed her? self in such colors, it would be enough. I should thrust her aside, and go my way as if she did not exist" "Your theories would fall away like cobwebs if Agatha Loring once, laid her spell on you," said Egerton. "I know I am a fool, but she is a sorceress. No ordinary woman could fill a man's life with the consciousness of her and the need of her, and then wreck it as she does. When she sent me away, I was like a wretch hurled in one moment out of heaven into hell! I do not under? stand yet how I failed to blow out my brains, unless it was that I shrank from being the subject of a three days' talk. I did not even think of you, Phil?con? sider that!" "My poor boy!" said Thurston. In? voluntarily he rose and put his arm across the young man's shoulders in their old, ? boyish fashion. More he could not say. His heart was hot as he thought of the woman who had wrought such work through cruelty or caprice, but he knew that to speak of her as she deserved would for the present avail nothing. Egerton, on his part, was touched by this sympathy. "You are exactly what you always were, Phil," he said, grate? fully. "Dear old fellow! it would be a dark, day, indeed, when any estrange? ment came.between us?but we need not speak of such a thing; it will never be. And you must not think that I mean to bore you with my folly. I have told my story and I am done. Now let us discuss your plans'.: Where do you mean to go ? All our relations are eager to see you, and welcome you to their hospitable roofs. (That's the correct phrase, I be? lieve.) People are amazingly hospitable, you know, when they are only called upon to appreciate success. I have press? ing invitations for you from all uncles, and aunts, and cousins to the tenth de? gree." "Not one of whom I care to meet," said Thurston. "Apart from my desire to see you. I have chiefly come to America to recruit my health?which is a little enervated by five years In Egypt ?and to attend to some business con? cerning which there is no haste. There? fore, in order to accomplish the first two objects, I propose that we shall turn our faces toward the old home of our boy? hood. Let us go to Beechwood. I should like to ride through the woods and fish in the river again. I used to think, in the East, that one whiff of the pine-odors would be- better than the fragrance of Araby the Blest." "I have not been there for years," said Egerton. "My agent attends to the busi? ness. The plantation is rented out, you know, but the house is unoccupied, and if you desire we can go there. All places are alike to me. We will go to-morrow, if you like." So they started the next day, for Thurston perceived more and more clear? ly that his brother's case' was one de? manding prompt treatment of some kind. The Beechwood idea had come to him like an inspiration, and as an inspiration he acted upon it. To take Egerton away from all associations which intensified his pain, to break the chain of later habit, and recall the fresh, simple pleas? ures of earlier years, was what he wished to do, and he felt sanguine that the re? sult would be all that he desired. This impression lasted for a few days after they had taken up their abode at Beechwood?one of those old Southern houses around which, even when desert? ed, still seems to linger the charm of the hospitable existence they once enshrined ?but it did not last more than a few days. It was soon apparent that Eger? ton's malady was beyond the reach of such remedies as this. As Thurston watched him, he realized how deeply the poisoned shaft had struck. The spring of all joyousness and hope seemed broken with the young man. He exerted him? self to appear cheerful, he made an effort to feign interest in the old pursuits, but his brother's eyes?rendered by affection almost as keen as those of a woman's? saw through the pretense readily, saw the deadly indifference, the apathy born of pain, the recklessness that at times was almost fierce. Nevertheless, he still hoped that this acute stage of the disease might pass, and convalescence set in. But days length? ened into weeks; and, after a month had elapsed, he acknowledged to himself that such an expectation was fruitless. In? deed, Egerton had of late seemed to grow worse instead of better. He was at times intensely irritable, and again depressed beyond all power of concealment. He had also become fond of solitude, and, wandering off into the woods, taking long rides, or floating in a skiff on the river, would spend hours alone, without any occupation. Thurston uttered no remon? strance, but he observed closely, and. having drawn his conclusions, formed them into a resolution. The time for expressing this came one evening when the July twilight had faded into night, and still Egerton, who had gone out on the river, did not re? turn. Thurston, having waited for him vainly, took his solitary supper, and then, in the fragrant semi-darkness, paced the lawn, at the foot of which the river ran. It was nine o'clock before he heard the welcome sound of oars, and then a boat grated against the bank. He walked to I ward the landing-place, and, as Egerton sprang on shore, said, quietly: 1 "You are late, Bertie?what detained you so long?" "Nothing in particular," answered Bertie, carelessly. "1 saw no reason for coming back. How warm it is! One gets a slight breeze on the river?which is more than onegets here." - * - "You"will find supper waiting. I took mine some time ago." "Supper?bah ! Who can eat in such a temperature as this ?"?he put his hand to hi3 throat, and loosened impatiently the collar round which no cravat was tied?"I shall not go through the form to-night." "Light a cigar, then, and join me in my promenade., I have one or two things to say." To this Egerton made no demur. The cigar was lighted, and, as they walked back and forth over the grassy slope, Thurston said: "I sec plainly that this life does not suit you. Despite all your efforts, you are restless and wretched; therefore, as I proposed to come, let me propose to go. There is nothing to detain us here. I am ready to start to-morrow, to go any? where you like." "You are very kind, Phil," replied Egerton, after a moment's pause, "and you have borne with my moods better than I deserve; but, when you talk of starting to go anywhere I like, you make a mistake. There is nowhere I like. This place does not suit me, but I do not know any other which would suit me bet? ter. The fault is in myself, not in my surroundings. But I have felt for some time past," he went on, "that I am no fit companion for any one in my present condition. I decided this evening that, instead of troubling you any longer, I will go away'by myself..somewhere?I don't care where?and see if I cannot summon manhood enough to end this in? sane folly. In such a struggle a man is sometimes best alone." "I have been thinking of that," said Thurston, gravely, "but the question is? can I trust you alone ?" "I think so," i\ swered the other. "I am past the staQe of blowing out my brains?if that is what you mean. Give me a month, Phil, and by that time I hope that I shall be able to bear myself more like a man." As he looked at. his brother, the star? light was bright enough for Thurston to see the reckless misery on the face that usually concealed this pain, in a meas? ure at least, under a mask. At that sight, something rose up in his throat, and almost choked him. It was fully a minute before he could control himself sufficiently to speak as he desired. "You must do exactly as you wish without reference to me," he said. "I told you that some time ago. Where do you think of going?abroad ?" "Yes," Egerton replied. "I am sick of America. When you have finished your business, you can meet me in Paris. Then, after we leave spent a month or two rambling about, I will go with you to Egypt." And so it was settled. [to be continued.]. Two- Stories* A Massachusetts gentleman, just re? turned from over the Canadian border, tells us these stories. He was in the ho? tel general accommodation room when two veterans of the hotel bar, laying schemes for a drink, began to tell stories to each other for bis benefit: "These are awful hard times," said one. "I never saw such times before, except when I was in Ohio, an' then I was hard Eut to it to git along. Nothin' to do. I ad a yoke of steers, but they wan't earnin' nothin'. But I lived right on the road the Western immigrants went; over every day. So I dug a hole in thrt road at the foot o' the hill, near my house, turned a livin' spring o' water into it, and made a good mud hole. Well, when the immigrants came along, every day there would be one or more teams git stuck in my mud hole, an' they would see my steers standin' out doin' nothin', an' they would send up and git me to come an' help 'em out; an' I alwuz got as much as $5 a litt. Well, I kep' that mud hole right up in good repair till I made $25,000 out of it, an' then I sold if out for $3,000, an' moved up here." Story number two was the other Mun chausen's companion-piece for the yoke of steers: "When I was a choppin'?I could chop some you know?au' folks used to ask me how much I could do in a day. 'Have you ever tried it?' says they. 'No, nev? er,' says I, 'never but once, an' that wan't really a try.' You see, jest to "show 'em what I could do, I got up one winter mornin' afore light an ground up my ax sharp, oh, jest as sharp, an' went into the woods. An' I chopped like sixty till about three o'clock in the a'ternoon, when I thought it was as nuch as I could pile afore sundown, an' I went tc pilin'. Well, when I had it all piled up it meas? ured twenty-seven cords. An' then I knew somethin' was wrong, for I knew at the rate I had been choppin' it oughter be more. So I went back an' begun lookin' 'round to ?r-ae what the trouble was. An' there, right at the fust tree I cut in the mornin' was nay ax head. You see the thing was loose an' slipped off, au' I had been choppin' all day with the bare handle." How General ?fackson Hade Him Pay. The keeper of a certain boarding house, when Andrew Jackson was Presi? dent, waited on him, one day, and com Elained that a Tennesseean, who had een appointed by him to a clerkship in one of the departments, would not pay a board bill. "Get his note," said old Hickory, "for the full amount, interest included, paya? ble in sixty day3, and bring it to me." "That will be of no use," replied the boarding-house keeper, "for he never pays his notes." '"'Do as I tell you, s.*r," said Jackson, as he turned away. The next day the boarding-house keep? er reappeared at the White House, and handed the note to the President. He took it, read it, wrote "Andrew Jackson" across the back, in his well-known auto? graph, and handed it back, saying: "Take that to the Bank of Metropolis, and tell them from me that, at its matu? rity, it will be paid by either the drawer or the indorser. They will discount it for you." A few days nfterward the man who had given the note met his creditor, and tauntingly said "Well, I don't suppose you have been able to negotiate my paper?" " Yes," replied the boarding-house keeper, "I had no trouble in getting it discounted at legal rates of interest." "Who in thunder is willing to discount my notes?" asked the Tennesseean. "The Bank of the Metropolis discount? ed the one you gave me, upon the assu? rance that if you did not pay it the in dorser would." "But who would indorse my note ?" "General Jackson. And he sent word to the bank that if you did not pay the note he would." It isj hardly necessary to add that the note was promptly paid by the maker.? Hartford Cburant. Legal Biblical Ignorance.?Du? ring the trial of the celebrated Leaven worth baby case, in which two women claimed the same child, one of the law? yers, in the course of his remarks, pointed to the painting of Solomon ordering the child to be severed in halves and divided between the two women. His scriptural knowledge being small, he alluded to Pilate instead of Solomon. The oppo? sing counsel, supposing he knew all about it, instantly jumped to his feet, and called him a foo!. and said that the order was by Casar and not Pilate. After a heated discussion they agreed to leave it to the Judge. His Honor decided that both the attorneys were talking upon a subject foreign to their knowledge, and pointing to the painting, said it was in? tended to represent Herod, and not Pilate or Caesar. The lawyers considered the matter settled, and proceeded with the case.?Kansas Champion. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. From au Occasional Correspondent. What is to be seen at Gilmore's Gar? den? Music. Honey is sweet, and in ancient times it was highly esteemed. Virgil called it "donum caeleste." Derao critus recommended it to all who would live. On one occasion a man was pre? sented to the Emperor Augustus, who asked him how it was that he obtained such an old age. He answered, "Tutus mellc extra eleo." As honey is strength? ening to the body and sweet to the taste, so is music strengthening to the soul and sweet to the ear. What a beautiful song is "Good Night," which runs: " 'Tis time to go," I said, and you? You kissed me twice upon the cheek; Now tell me, love, do droams come true? Most archly did my darling speak: "Why some come true and some do not; Dreams like this do, I quite believe;" And then she kissed me twice, and got Her waist entangled in my sleeve. And the beautiful ballad: When we are parted let me lie In some fond corner of thy heart, Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody; Forgotten by the world beside, Cherished by one and one alone, For some loned memory of its own, So let me in thy heart abide. Yes, such are the fancies which crowd one's mind while he listens to the beauti? ful music at Gilmore's Garden. As a summer resort Gilmore's is now the favorite place. It is now open for the season, and is far more attractive than heretofore. It is completely transformed and re-arranged throughout the entire building, (the old hippodrome.) The walks are more spacious, affording ample room for the immense crowd which at? tends every evening to enjoy the superb music of Gilmore's Military Band. This garden is truly the only respectable sum? mer retreat in the city, except the Park. Without doubt it is the most magnificent place of public entertainment in the world. The decorations are all new, and of the richest designs, consisting of na? tional flags and coat of arms of each State in the Union, surrounded by stars and stripes. Thousands of different col? ored lights are arched across the dome, and lovtly fountains of cold water dash? ing their spray hither and thither, and fine statuary, and an enormous stage in the centre, iastily adorn the Garden. Everything is gotten up on an exten? sive and elaborate plan. No time has been spared in gathering together the most expensive plants, tr?es, flowers and shrubs that could be found in all parts of the world. The statuary and fountains are scattered among the soft palms and rarest exotics. The "Grand Cascade," with its mountain of falling waters, adds ^brilliancy to the charming scene, w^re ^millions of vari-colored lights and calci? ums illuminate the enchanting spectacle of unexampled beauty, and bring out all the glories of a grand panorama. Gilmore's great Military Band, which has been proclaimed the finest in this country, has been making extraordinary efforts, through a tedious series of rehear? sals, in preparing their "repctairs" for this season which, from the difficulty and variety of the music to be produced, cannot fail to win the appreciation and approval of all lovers of music. It is Mr. Gilmore's intention to attend the ap? proaching Paris Exposition with the en? tire band, where they hope to be able to carry away the first prize as the repre? sentative band of America. The fol? lowing will give your readers some faint conception of the extent of this military organization: The favorite soloists are Mr. Arbuckle, Cornet; E. A. Lefebre, Saraphone; F. Letsch, Trambone, and Qureph Ellcr, Oboe; Signor de Carlo, Piccolo; Kare Kegel, Clarionet; B. U. Bent, Cornet, and Signor Ciccone, Clari? onet. All of the above are the best solo performers in the profession. Besides the soloes we have the quartet of flutes, quartet of oboes, quartet of Saraphones, quartet of cornets, quartet of French horns, quartet of trambones, quartet of bassoons, quartet of tubas. No other organization, it is said, is able to perform such a variety of music. The Venetian Prima Dona, Signorima Elisa Galerabreti, appears in charming songs, also other distinguished artists. The Weber Piano is used by Gilmore. EIGHT TO SEVEN. P. S.?I must not neglect to state that the new piece composed by Signor Brig noli (who married Miss McCullough, of S. C.) has been well received. I judge it is more admired on account of its name than for any superior musical tal? ent displayed in its composition. Now that the Russians will cross the Danube, of course such a piece of music, whether melodious or not, would be attractive to the majority of visitors to Gilmore's Gar? den The composition of music is an entirely new role for Mr. Brignoli; how? ever, we are glad of the success that this piece has met with. He is d good tenor singer, which nobody can deny, but not a good composer, we fear. E. to S. ? A young girl from the country, be? ing on a visit to a Quaker, was prevailed on to accompany him to the meeting. It happened to be a silent one, none of the brethren being moved to utter a syllable. When the Quaker left the meeting-house, with his young friend, he asked: "How didst thou like the meeting ?" To which she pettishly replied: "Like it! Why, I can see no sense in it?to go and sit for whole hours together without speaking a word. It is enough to kill Satau him himself!" "Yes, my dear," rejoined the Quaker; "that is just what we want." ? A lady of a certain age, very well preserved, too, is having her hair combed by her maid, a chit of 17, who, after the manner of ladies' maids, is praising her mistress's beauty extravagantly. "Well, Minette," says her mistress, with a satis? fied glance at the mirror, "what would you give to be as handsome as I am ?" "Oh!" replies the handmaiden, with a simper, "what would you give to be as young as I am?" The betting is 1,000 to 1, and no takers, that that lady's maid will not grow gray in the service of that particular mistress.?Paris Paper. ? "You couldn't," shouted our irre? pressible, as a bachelor visitor finished a eulogium on cremation by an expressed wish that rather than be "coffined, crib? bed, confined," he might become the sub? ject of a Hindoo suttee?"you couldn't ; you haven't got any wife!" "That's no matter," growled the Colonel as he beat a hasty retreat (the Colonel is also not connubial,) "that's no matter; plenty of men would be glad to lend me theirs for the occasion." The Colonel has no card for our suburban kettle-drum next week. ?Boston Daily Advertiser. ? Not many women are blacksmiths, we learn from the Worcester Press, "but most of them cau shoo a hen." FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Manures. We call especial attention of our farmer readers to tbe second paragraph under our caption in another column?Chips. We have simplified this selection from Prof. Ville's little book by reducing his "Hectares" to acres, and his "Kilo? grammes" to pounds. It will be the im? mediate conclusion of most of our readers that this is very heavy manuring, and costs to much for lands that are not worth in market half the price of the manure to be annually applied. This may be so, perhaps is so, but then each farmer can reduce the quantity recom? mended of each ingredieut to suit the capacity of his soil. There is one idea in his formula that does not exactly agree with our expe? rience. Prof Ville suggests a cheaper manure for barley than for wheat, and tbe same for oats and rye that he does for Barley. Our experience is that land can be stimulated by commercial fertili? zers or by manures to such an extent as to make the wheat crop overdo itself, and therefore fail to remunerate by producing a greater proportion of straw than grain, and no such result has everoccurred with us in manuring barley. The heavier manuring the better the barley crop. We once saw 56 bushels of wheat taken from a single acre in Fairfield County. We never have grown over 35 bushels on a single acre. We have frequently grown 50 bushels of barley on an acre, and have averaged over 25 per acre on ten acres. And similar treatment of similar land would not yield us an average of over 16 bushels of wheat. Our experience, too, with oats and rye would not suggest that they and barley should be treated exactly alike or be classified together as Professor Ville sug? gests. We have known seventy bushels of oats grown upon a single acre in Ab? beville County, and we have even found that on manured upland oats will pro? portion to the manure applied. Land so manured that it would produce fifteen bushels of wheat, would, under the same circumstances, produce about twenty bushels of barley or over forty bushels of oats. As to rye, we scarcely know what to say. Every farmer knows that "rye will grow as high as the fence that encloses it," be the land rich or poor; but wheth? er the application of caustic fertilizers would increase the yield in equal propor? tion to the increase in other grains, we are unable to say. We once sowed one third of an acre, that had been heavily cow penned, in rye, and harvested nine bushels of excellent grain.. The same land under the same circumstances would have produced probably eighteen bushels of barley, twenty bushels of oats and as much wheat as rye. We give these in? stances of our experience, and venture our judgment upon the comparative re? sults of the same land in different grain crops, so as to advise our readers, that however perfect agricultural chemistry may be in fermentating a perfect manure for nuy crop, there is much behind these simple prescriptions that must be reck? oned in the calculation before the results can be anticipated with unerring certain? ty. The preparation and productive capacity of the soil, the climate and sea? sons, the time of attack upon the crop by dry or wet, hot or cold weather, and per? haps other hidden influences wrapt up in the arcana of Nature, are all influences or contingencies that must be considered; so that whether the farmer be Paul or Appolos, he must patiently await results that will be beyond his power to control. Any farmer, however, who understands the capacity of his farm, and its adapted ness to grow any kind of grain, can with these formulas in his hand prepare a ma? nure that will, under ordinary circuir. star es, warrant his anticipating an abundant harvest of grain. We need not tell them that if the farmers combine together and purchase in bulk, the acid phosphate of lime can be bought in Charleston at about one and a quarter cents per pound. The two in? gredients, nitrate of potassa and sulphate of ammonia, arc abundantly supplied for all red lands by a liberal application of cotton seed. The sulphate of lime is plaster of Paris, and is worth about half as much as the acid phosphate of lime. Gray lands will need an additional quan? tity of potash, which is cheap, or can iu a great degree be supplied by a liberal use of ashes. If we were called Upon to suggest a manure for small grains anywhere in the cotton belt, we would answer thus, basing our reply upon our experience compared with the thoughts advanced by Prof. Ville: Wheat?On all red lands that needed manuring, acid phosphate, 800 lbs.; cotton seed, 40 bushels, or 1,000 or 1,200 lbs., and a sprinkling of 100 or 150 lbs. of plaster of Paris applied broadcast in latter part of February, just after the grain had been harrowed with a two horse harrow. Oats?200 lbs. acid phos Ehate, 20 bushels of cotton seed, ana per aps no plaster. On gray or sandy lands we would mix in 100 lbs. of potash per acre for the wheat. We don't think any application of commercial'fertilizers or cotton seed ou worn lands would be re? munerative to barley and rye, because the rye would not produce enough bushels of grain to warrant the application, and because the barley does not seem to yield so well upon any lands fertilized with these commercial manures, as it does when made rich by cow-penning or sheep hurdliug. On fresh lands we would not apply either of these manures so heavily, simply because the increased yield would not warraut the expenditure. There is a certain capacity in all lands, beyond which a superabundance of manure can? not carry the product the first or any single year, but wheu the farmer knows this capacity from experience he should manure up to it, and gradually increase it by anually cularging the amount of manure applied. This, we take it, is scientific farming, and that is the kiud and only kind we now need in this country. We want reason, thought, brains, applied to the daily experiences of the farm, and until we get this there can be but little hope of material progress in our system of farming. And there is no branch of ag? riculture to which more thought can and should be applied than the one of which we are now treating?the making and ap? plication of plant food in just such quan? tities as will increase the capacity of the soil at the same time that it increases the annual product.?Notes and Courier. Horse Statistics.?The number of horses in the various countries of the European continent/ and in the United States of America has been estimated as follows: In Russia, 16,160,000; the Uni? ted States, 9,504,200; Germany, 3,352, 281; Great Britain, 2,790,851; France, 2,742,738; Austria-Hungary, 3,569,438, (of which 2,179,811 belong to Hungary); Italy, 657,541; Norway and Sweden, 655,549; Spain, 382,009; Denmark, 216, 570; Belgium, 282,163; Holland, 260, 056; Switzerland, 100,930; Greece, 98, 938; and Portugal, 79,716. Of mules there are found 1,626 in Germany, 303, 775 in France, 14,935 in Austria-Hunga? ry, 203,866 in Italy, and the large num? ber of 6,655,472 in Spain. The Future of Agriculture.? The American farm life on a small to a medium scale is now no doubt giving more permanent comfort, ease and con? tentment to its industrious votaries than all the showy occupatious of the country, including those of all the villages, towns and cities. The agricultural interests of the United States for profit and comfort has a bright future unexcelled by any portion of the globe.?Southern Farmer. ? "You seem to walk more erect than usual, my friend." "Yes; I have been straightened by circumstances." 0, George! What a Damsel. She was young and fair, and a tear glistened in her eye as she laid her curly head ou his shoulder and exclaimed: "0, George! I think if I found you did not love me I should die." "My darling," he answered, passing his hand gently around her dimpled chin, "I will always love you. Do you think I would marry you if I did not feel sure of it. In a few days at the altar I shall vow to love you all my life, and I will keep my vow." A lovely kind of beatific happiness played for a moment like sunshine on her lips, and then she whispered : "0, George! I like to hear you talk like that; you have been so good to me. You -have given mc a diamond locket, and a gold watch and chain, and rings that an angel might wear outside her gloves and not be ashamed, aud if I thought that one day you'd be sorry you'd given me all these nice things and want them back again I should break my heart!" He held her gently against his manly breast, and answered with a quavering voice: "0, my own darling!'there is nothing on earth that could happen that would make me repent giving you a few tokens of my love, or make mc want them back again." She sprang from his anus like a joyous deer, she shook hack her sunny curls, and with a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex? claimed : "0, George! you have taken a load from my heart. I've come to say that I can't marry you after all, because live seen somebody I like better, and. I thought you'd want your presents back again." _ An Americaii Dish. An amusing story is told, of which it is averred that no less a personage than the late George Peabody, the celebrated American banker, was the hero. It ap? pears that Mr. Peabody had invited three Englishmen to meet two Americans at diuner, and on this occasion, having re? ceived as a gift ten cars of green corn, determined to renew the recollections of his youth, astonish his English and please his American guests by having it served up in the well-known American 3tyle. Accordingly, at a proper time, plates of butter and salt were placed before each guest, and the banker, with some? thing of an air of mystery, announced that ne was now about to treat his guests to a well-known and delicious American dish of food, cooked in the American manner. It would be no novelty to his American guests, but the Englishmen must watch how it was disposed of by them, and follow their example and man? ner in disposing of it. Then, at a signal, entered a stately servant bearing a large covered dish, which he deposited solemn? ly before Mr. Peabody.' In a moment more, in obedience to the banker's nod, he whisked off the cover, and there, be? fore the astonished guests, was displayed a pile of ten boiled corncobs! The banker gazed for an instant in mute horror and dismay, and then found voice to demand an explanation, which was finally reached when the cook was summoned?a fellow who had never be? fore seen an ear of Indian corn in his life. He replied that he had followed his master's direction to "strip off all the outside before boiling," which he had done most faithfully, not only husks, as was intended, but grains also, so that the banker had only what is, in America, the mute evidence of the feast to indicate what were his good intentions to his guests._? VEGETINE Strikes at tho root of disease by purifying the blood, restoring tho liver and kidneys to healthy action, invigorating the nervous system. Vegetine Is not n vile, nauseous compound, which simply purges the bowels, but a safe, pleasant remedy wliich is sure to purify the blood, a?xl thereby restore the health. Vegetine l? now prescribed in cases of Scrofulaaiul other diseases gf the blood, by many of th< best phy Vielau*, owing to its great success iucuring at diseases of this nature. Vegetine Dees not deceive invalids into fals? hopes by purging and creating a lictitious appetite, but assists natura in clearing and purifying tho wlmle system, leading the patient gradually to perfect health. Vegetine Was looked upon as an experiment for sonio time hysoniu of our best physicians, but those most incredulous iu regard to its merit aro now its most ardent friends and supporters. Vegetine Says a Boston physician, "has no equal as bl?od puriiicr. Hearing of its many wonderful cures, after nil otber remedies had tailed, I vis? ited the laboratory and convinced nysclf of its genuine merit. It is prepared frombarks, roots ami herbs, each of which is highly dTeetive, and th-v are compounded in such a mmucr as to produce astonishing results." Vegetine Is acknowledged and recommended by physi? cian* and apothecaries to be tho best puriiicr and cleanser of tho blood yet disiovercd, aud thousands speak iu its praise who havo been restored to health. PROOF. WHAT IS NEEDED. Boston, Fcb 13,1S7I. ?:r. ir.rt. Stevens : I tear Sir?.About one year slnco ! found myself ii a feeble condition from geioral debility. '?"KGKTlXJ? was strongly rccomnended to mo : a friend who had been much benefited by its ?!>i>. 1 procured the article, and after using sev ?ral bottles, was restored to heath aud discon limed its use. 1 feel quite confUent that there, i- no medicine superior to it for thjsc complaints tor which it is especially prepand, and would cheerfully recommend it to thosi who feel that they need something to rcstoro tlcm to perfect uealih. Respectfully youis, V.L. PITTINGILL. I'irm of S. M. Pettingiii & (Jo., 10 Safest., Boston. ClXClNNATIfNov. 20, 1872. Mr. ir. R. Stkvens : Dear Sir?The two bottles of 'VEGETINE fur dslicd mo by your agent, my wife has used with treat benclit. For a long time she has beei troubled with dizziness and costiveness; thcio troubles aro now entirely removed by tho use)f VEGETINE. .She was also troubled with Dyspepsia and General Debility, and has been geatly benefited. THOS. GILMORE, 229?/, Walnut street. FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN. Natick, Moss, Juno 1, 1872. .Mr. II. It. Stevens : Dear Sir?Through tho adviceand earnest per? suasion of Ucv. E. S. Best, of fiis place, I have Mm taking VEGETINE fo.' Dyspepsia, of ? hich 1 have suffered for years 1 have used only two bottle; aud already feol myself a n man. Respectfrily, Da. J W. CARTER. Bepost from a Practical Ohemist and Apothecary. Boston. Jan. 1, 1874. Dear Sir?This Is to certify hut I havo sold at retail E5M6 dozon (1852 bottle) of your VEGE? TINE sinco April 12,1870, andean truly say that it has given the best satisfacton of any remedy fur the complaints for which :t is recommended that I evor sold. Scarcely n iay passes without some of my customers tcstifyng to its merits on themselves or their friends. '. am perfectly cog? nizant of several cases of Scrofulous Tumors being cured by VEGETINE alono in this vicin? ity. Very respectfully yotrs, AI GILMAtf, 4G8 Broadway. To H. R. Stevens, Esq. Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Atlanta and CharlottQ?ir Line R.R Atlanta, G.\., June 1Q, 7877. GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta.-1.00 p in Arrive at Gainesville. 6.24 p m " " New Holland. 6.20 p m " " Lula.C'-W p m " " Helton (Supper).7.00 p m " " ML Airy.7.50 p m " " Tocooa. 8.21 P ru " " Greenville.11.18 pm " " Spnrtnnburg..12.52 n m " " Charlotte.4.12 a m " " Charlotte (Rnilrondi Junction... 4.20a m GOING WLST. Leave Charlotte (Railroad) Junction. 7.00 p m Leave Charlotte.r.7.10 p m Arrive at Spartanhurg.1.10.42 p m " " Greenville.11.30 am " " Toccoa.3.47 a m " " Mt. Airy. 4.28 a m " " Lula.S.OS a m " " New Holland.-.. 5.13 a m " " Gainesville.5.48 a m " " Iluford (Breakfast).6.33 a m " " Atlanta. 8.45 a m G. J. rOREATRE, General Manager. H Flour, Flour. EADQUAKTEES for Choice Flour is at A. B. TOWEJRS. ? It is related of Thomas H. Beaton that a gentleman, whose guest he was, went up to his room the morning after he had made a speech, taking a news? paper containing a very laudatory notice ofhisremaks. "Have you read it, sir? Does it do justice to the subject?'' asked the host. "I know all about it, sir," re? plied Benton, with great dignity, "I wrote it all myself." ? "Ah," he said, "another circus in town; I see the white tent in the dis? tance." He was short sighted, however, and it proved to be nothing but a fash? ionable young man wearing one of the present style of collars. ? "Some confounded idiot has put that pen where I can't find it!" growled a man the other day, as he searched about the desk. "Ah, urn, yes! I thought so !' he exclaimed in a lower key, as he took the article from behind his ear. Mothers will grow weary and sigh over the responsibility that Baby places upou them, but they have the high privilege of shaping a character for usefulness. The exercist of patience and the preser? vation of Baby's health by the proper use of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup will give them great present comfort and prospec? tive happiness. 25 cents per bottle. TUT"PS_PILLS A Noted Divine says They are worth their w?ight in gold. read what he says: Dr. Tutt:?Dear Sir: For ten years I have been .'i martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Piles. Lost spring1 your mils were recommended to mc; I used tnem (but with little faith). I am now a well man, have good appetite, digestion perfect, regular stools, piles gone, and I have gained forty pounds solid flesh. They arc worth their weight in gold. Rev. R. L. SIMPSON^ Louisville, Ky. Dr. Tutt has been en? gaged in the practice of medicine thirty years, and for a lonp time was demon, strator of anatomy in the Medical College of Geor? gia, hence persons using his Fills have the guaran? tee that they arc prepared on scientific principles, and arc free from all quackery. He has snccccdcd in combining in them the heretofore . antagonistic qualities of a strengthen tngipttrgative, andapur. ijytngtonic. Their first apparent ef? fect is to increase the ap? petite by causing the food to properly assimilate. Thus the system is nour? ished, and by their tonic action on the digestive or? gans, regular and healthy evacuations are produced. The rapidity with which persons take on flesh, while under the influence of these pills, of itself in? dicates their adaptability to nourish the body, and hence their efficacy m cur? ing nervous debility, mel? ancholy, dyspepsia, wast? ing of the muscles, slug? gishness of the liver, chronic constipation, ana imparting health and strength to the system. Sold everywhere. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York. tutt's pills CUBS SICK HEAD? ACHE. t?tpspills CURE DYSPEPSIA. t?tpspills CUBE CONSTIPATION t?tpspills CUBE PILES. t?tpspills CUBE PEVEB AND AGUE. t?tpspills CUBE BILIOUS COLIC t?tpspills CUBE KIDNEY COM? PLAINT. t?tpspills CUBE TOBPID LIVES triumph of science. ' Gray Hair can be changed to a. glossy black by a single application of Dr.Tirrr's Hair Dye. It acts like magic, and is warranted as harmless as water. Price $1.00. Office 35 Murray St,, N. Y. What is Queen's Delight? Read the Answer It Is a plant that.grows in the South, and is spe? cially adapted to the cure of diseases of that climate. ' nature's own remedy, Entering at once into the blood, expelling all scrof? ulous, syphilitic, and rheumatic affections. Alone, it it a searching alterative, but when combined with Snrsaparilla, Yellow Dock, and other herbs, it forms Dr. Tutt's Sarsapar?la and Queen's Delight, The most powerful blood purifier known to medical science for the cure of old ulcers, diseased joints, foul discharges from the ears and nostrils, abscesses, skin diseases, dropsy, kidney complaint, evil effects of secret practices, disordered liver and spleen. Its use strengthens the nervous system, imparts a fair com? plexion, and builds up the body with. HEALTHY, SOLID FLESH. As an antidote to syphilitic poison it is strongly recommended. Hundreds of cases of the worst type have been radically cured by it. Being purely veg? etable its continued use will do no harm. The best tune to take it is during the summer and fall; and instead of debility, headache, fever and ague, you will enjoy robust health. Sold by all dragjrists. Price, $1.00. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York. TO THE WORKING CLASS.-Wc arc now prc pa red to furnish all classes with constant employ? ment at home, the whole of the time, or for Uieir snare moments. Business new, light and profita? ble. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50c to $5 pcf evening, and a proportional sum by devoting their whole time to the business. Boys and gilrs earn nearly as much as men. That all who see this notice may send their address nnd test the bus? iness we make this unparalleled offer: To such as ?arc not well satisfied we will send one dollar to nay 'for the trouble of writing. Full particulars, sam? ples worth several dollars to commence work on, and a copy of Homo and' Fireside, one of the largest ana best Illustrated Publications, all sent free by mail. Reader, if you want permanent, profitable work, address, GE0BGK Stixsox&Co., Portland, Maine. 49?1G AMERICA AHEAD ON SPOOL COTTON. CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, 187G. E XTRACT from the Official Report of | the Judges on WILLIM ANTIC New Six Cord Soft Finish Spool Cotton, Who awarded the Willimantic Co. a Medal of Merit anil Diploma of Honor: "Superiority of Production; Economy of Production ; Excellence of Material; Varie? ty of Colors of Threads; Excellence of Ma? chinery and Appliances; Originality and Completeness of System." Forsalo, wholesale and retail by J. R. Read & Co., Shaw & Johnston. Jagcr Broth? ers, A. Illing, W. Uirerhardt, Langlcy Bros' Shirt Manufactory, Wheeler & Wilson Sew? ing Machine Co., Charleston, S. C. At wholesale, bv Johnston, Crews & Co., Crane, Bovlston & Co., Edwin Bates & Co. April 10,1877 40 3m %Sr Without Patterns. ^SHAFTING PULLEYS AND HANGERS ThRUNEOUALLEDJA&^ IURBINE WATER WHEEL, 7000 in use. Address, POOLE & HUNT, SEND FOR CIRCULARS. BALTIMORE. md. 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These delinquents require medicine, combining the pr?pTties or a stomachie, an alterative, a purga? tive, a tonic, and sedative to bring them back to their duty! and all these elements, in their purest and most effective forms, are -united in TAR RANT'S EFFERVESCENT SELTZER.-APERI? ENT, the great Saline Remedy for Indigestion, and its concomitant consequences. Sold by alt druggists._ <t?KK C (Jir77aWeek to Agents. $10Outfitfrce. jpOrj h fl)/ /P. O.VTCKEBY, Augusta,Maine. <t>10 a day at home. Agents wanted. Outfit and V1* terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine Drunkard Stop! C. C. BEERS, M. P., (formerly of Boston) bas a harmless cure for INTEMPERANCE, which-can be given without the knowledge of tbe patient. Also, one for the OPIUM HABIT. Permanent cures guaranteed in both. Send stamp for evidence. Ask druggists for It. Address _BEERS & CO., Birmingham, Conn. f)C EXTRA FINE MIXED CARDS, with name, &\S 10 cts., post paid. L. JONES A CO., Nas san, N. Y._V $K tn ion Pcr day at home. 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Charleston, March 13,1877. On and after this date, the Regular Day Passen? ger Train will run as follows, Sundays excepted: Leave Columbia at.....................8 40 a m Arrive at Charleston at....A 20 p id Leave Charleston at.?._.9 00 a m Arrive at Columbia at..-5 00 pm night express accommodation train. Leave Columbia at...........A.7 00 p ro Arrive at Charleston at.~fi 60 a m Leave Charleston at........9 15 p m Arrive at Columbia at.....8 15 a iu Camden trains will run through to Columbia on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays: Leave Columbia at.? 1 45 p in Arrive at Columbia.11 50 a m Up Columbia Night Traiu connects closely with the Greenville ami Columbia Railroad. S. S. SOLOMONS, Superintendent. Greenville and Columbia Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Passenger Trains run dally, Sunday excepted, connecting with Night Trains on South Carolina Railroad up and down. On and after Wednesday. March 14, the following will be the Schedule: UP. Leave Columbia at.. 8 45 a m . 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AN'L) those who carry on business are compelled to have money. That is oiir situation at present. Therefore, we earnestly call upon all parties indebted to us to pay at once and SAVE COST. Prompt payment is a great source of friendship, and it is our - desire to remain friendly with our customers, if they come forward promptly and pay us what they owe. Money we are obliged to have. We offer an inducement of onecent per pound for Cotton over market value to those indebted to us, and wish to settle their Ac? counts. Wc have on hand a large stock of GBOOEBIES! Flour, Bacon, Shoulders, Hams, Coffee, Sugar,. Molasses. ALSO, Boots, Shoes, Leather, Saddles, Hats, Caps, Dry. Goods, Tobacco, Cigars, Wines. Liquors, Iron. Steel, And all Farming Implements. Any person or pcrsois purchasing Goods will benefit themselves by calling and exam? ining our stock before purchasing elsewhere. We bny for Cash and sell for cash only: therefore, wc arc enabled to sell cheaper. Call and judge for yourselves, and be convinced of this fact. McGKATH & BYBUM, Mechanics' Bow.