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MISCET iTiANY Mnsonry. LV A LABT. A Mason's lifo is um- that's free, (Not the lito tho' ot' mortar ami bricks.) But out of nights enjoying a spree. And playing astounding tricks; While thu shes at home waiting, Ne'er dreaming it all a dodge, But thinking tho sad belating ls caused liv "work at tin- lodge!" Where they meet upon tho level, T<> part upon the square, And raise the very devil While congregated there. If a bachelor chap in his courting days Grows weary of being tied. Both day and .?eeo. almost always Bv bis" fair dulcinea's side, Thc" easiest way tu escape awhile, And in fact, some calls to dodge. Is to seek tho aid of a Mason friend, And join a Masonic lodge. The women don't like Masons Don't believe in them the least From the Tyler at the entrance To the fellow in tin- East. Lodge meetings are Inti cover To hide some larking dodge - Look out when unites and hivers Have "business tit the lodge!" Now, whate'er thc Mason's secret Be their fetish goat or rani: Be their Order good or evil, Worth a blessing or a-psalm Let them keep in snug and cosy, Let them worship, (in a horn, ) Let them be sedate and prosy; But as sure as they are born, We'll yet meet them on "the level," Ano ere we part bo "square," For at some lodge-held revel The women will be there. Then woe betide thc sinner Who "spread it" in thc East: Fear will make him rather thinner. Though be may bo fat -thc beast! And ail their grand regalia Skin aprons, scarfs and jewels We'l: seize upon as plunder; For women all ain't fools. Though they don't meet on a level, Ami part upon the square. Still they can raise the If they get a chance that's fair. THE PAINTER'S WIFE. , CONCLUDED. ""When that clock strikes twelve, i Cyrilla Thornhurst, you will havel lived your life." He spoke with the quiet, unhesi? tating conviction of tone of one who j sees before a foregone conclusion, from which it is impossible that lie , cati swerve iu the slightest degree. "What have I done to deserve so terrible a fate at your hands?" burst out Cyrilla. "You have wrecked tue happiness of my life," said tho Italian, "wreck? ed it utterly ?md irretrievably. That ? I might have forgiven you; but I j have promised my friend the mun- j darin-for state reasons, which it would be a breach of confidence in me to reveal-to kill j on, to kill your husband, and to kill your child. it is sufficient to state that your lives' are required by the great dog star, whose hierophant 1 am. Ask me no j further. The initiated would under? stand me tit once: for there is a i transcendentalism in these matters which is as the language of Fi-Fo- j Furn to those whose eyes have been ? anointed with grease from the Great j Bear. Your time in this world is j reduced to ten minutes and five j seconds." With the putting away of the ? poignard fora time, ('vrilla bad taken her eyes oil" the Italian, and now sat with her chin sunk on ber breast, and her hands tighly clasped, brooding over what she had just heard. To kill her husband and child! That would be a thousand times worse than | death to herself. Theodore might come any minute now-come step ping jauntily in through the French j window, to be sprung upon by this ; madman, and stabbed before her j eyes. "If only I could steady mv ' mind to think," she kept repeating I to herself. What was it she had heard and read about the peculiarities of I mad people? If she could only bring j it to mind! The Italian was watching her j narrowly from under his bent brows. Suddenly, with that abruptness which j marked all his movements, he got j up, and striding to the easel, Hung j back the sheet with which it was j covered. He started at sight of the | picture; but next moment his poign- ; ard was out, and the canvass stabbed | through in a dozen places. "Out! | out! cursed likeness of a false-hearted fiend!" he exclaimed. "Oh, that a . soul so vile should lie in a lins): so j sweet!" If she could only bring; it to mind! All at once something seemed to , catch her breath, and she pressed lier hand to her heart for a moment, j while a strange expression crept over : her face, which subsided presently into one of her.sweetest smiles. Then ! she half rose iront her easy chair, and turned her large soft eyes full on the young Italian. "Pielrio mi"." she said; and there was a world ol' meaning in her way of saying those two little words. The dark frown vanished like a cloud from the face of the young Italian, and the light of passion faded from bis eyes when he heard himself addressed thus; and he turned <>n Cyrilla ti look balf-bewildered, li.ilf .suspicious, ami felt with ono hand for the haft of his poignard. She was standing with lier bea?' a little on one side, smiling at bun; and while be was looking, lier rosy hps whispered "Come!" and as if it vtere a command impossible for bim to disobej', he came towards ber timidly, cautiously and suspiciously, but toll step by step nearer. As sin sank Viek in the easy chair, still with the sanvt fixed smile on her luce, lier finger pouted io a low footstool ! across the floor; he seated himself on ! it close to her chair. Again the same ', strange expression swept over her 1 face as the sleeve of his coat touched her dress as she sat; but the smile was back again next moment, and her voice took au accent as low and j tender as that of any love-lorn Juliet ? when she next spoke to him. "You naughty, naughty boy!" she j sa'd, and she pinched his ear play ? fully as slie spoke; "I vow, you nearly ! frightened me to death, creeping iuto the room in that stealthy way, for all tin' world like the villain in a nielo-drama. How wa:- ? io know it was you thai was behind the curtain? And then, when I did see you. I declare you gave my nerves quite a shock. I had heard such strange i stories about your being mad. and all ! that, you know, so that my fright 1 can hardly be wondered at. My pom' i Pietro, w hatyou must have suffer? cl !" Every nerve and fibre in th;1 Italian's body seemed to thrill under 1 the influence of those; loving words and that angelic smile, but his eves were still full of bewilderment, and \ his lips moved inaudibly for several moments before he spoke. "Why do you pity me?" he said at last. 1 "How can you be glad to see me, ; when you know that I am here tc ( take your life?" j Cyrilla sighed. "Can you md ! understand, my Pietro," she said, I "that when life has become a burden, j it does not seem such a very difficult ? thing,- to quit it?" ' "Your life a burden!" he said in? credulously. "In this pretty nest, and mated with the husband ol your choice, your life ought to bc very precious to you, Cyrilla. " .'Tlie opinion of the world!" saic Cyrilla. with a mournful ring in hei voice. ".l^ there not such a thing. Pietro, as being wedded to a mat with whom you have nothing in con? fidence. You have read 'Locksley Hall.' and you know what I mean without my saying more. Once I had a treasure within my grasp, bul not knowing its value, I threw il carelessly away. Do you think thai life to such a one can be of niue: value?" She turned away ber face, auc buried it in her handkerchief, l'as tiui fell on hi- knees before her "('villa, Cyrilla! say that you lov< me," ho cried. One of her hand: was lyiug carelessly on ber lap: in siezetl it. aud covered it with pas sionate kisses. Sh?, did not repuis? him; sin' only said gently: "Yo; mu&t not do that; yon know that yoi* have .-owe.I to kill me. "Xo. no!" he cried passionately, starting to his feel. "You shall no die! I will intercede for you wit! the mandarin. The dog star bimsel shall hear your st ory, and pity you Some other life shall be sacrificed ii place of yours: you shall live. To gether, we will quit this hateful Eng land; together, in my own sunn; clime, in Italv tue beautiful, w will-" The clock on the mantel-piec chimed midnight. "There sounds tin' knell of in, doom!" said Cyrilla, with a mournfu smile. "It is the signal that summons yo to a new life-to a life of love, ail' freedom, and happiness!" said tb Italian. "It tells me too," he added "that I have other work left to ai complish." He laid a finger light! on her shoulder. "The man wb calls you wife, the child who oak you mother, they must die!" Cyrilla's eyes confronted those i the madman steadily; not the quiv( of a nerve betrayed the feelings ; work within hoy. Fastini began to move towards ti door of the dressing room; Cyril' caught him by the button and bel him. He turned on her in an i staut, a wild devil of fury glaring O? of his eyes. "Do you-dare-to s? -that you care the least in the wor about either of those two?" ! snarled ont. He lind grasped ii firmly by the shoulder with oi hand; his other hand was behii her, and she felt the sharp point the poignard prick through h dressing robe into her flesh, ns asked the question. .'Care for either of them!'" t. claimed Cyrilla, with a contemptuo laugh. "Why should I care ! them. Pietro uti".' It is not that, is tiii>, as regards the child, I not think-nay, I am sure-tba could not love you so well as I now, if I knew that you were; gui >>i shedding the blood of that in: cont ; and lie. at least, is innocent." "No blood, Cyrilla," he whisper' "only the pillow." ..No!" said Cyrilla loftily. "'I man I love must be above a dustan deed like that. To be the ninnie ol' a smiling babe. Faugh! lon t. go. Signor Fastini," she adi coldly, .-tipping from before Iii "Tin" child is asleep in yonder ro< When you have killed him, co back and kill mc, if you don't w to see the unutterable contempt \\ which I should then look upon yo She pointed to the open door of dressing room as -!,.. spoke. ? drawn up to her ful: neignt, sta steadily into the lunatic's eyes, quailed nuder that fixed, stern g? he wavered; he whispered someth to himself; and then, with the ail a beateu bound, he slunk up Cyrilla, and taking her hand huml he lifted it to his lips, and kissc twice. "Your pardon, Cyrilla," he s "for having misunderstood 3 ailinn ju lilian iiinwmi im MLMIIM I-I un < mn The chilli truly is beneath ?ny notice. Let him live." "Spoken like my own Pietro," said Cyrilla, thawing; suddenly into a very May-day of Love and sun? shine. ''You wer1 only jesting with nie, I know." "But he-the mau who has caused you so much misery-your husband; , you \\ ill i\ot intercede for him," said Pietro, gloomily. "He-he above all men-must die." "So be it," said Cyrilla, with alit ' tie shrug: of supreme indifference. Ten minutes past twelve! Theodore could not be long now. How her ears strained, how her "heart beat, at tin1- slightest sound from without! Il he were to come now, he could hardly escape with life, unless she. Cyrilla, ! were, to sacrifice her own life in thc 1 endeavor to save his. She was quite ! prepared to do that, she said to lier : self. "lint pray tell me," she rostwic? ; aloud, "what plan you intend ti i adopt for carrying out your scheme of vengeance." "As soon as I hear his footsteps. ] shall hide behind those curtains,' said the madman. "As he step? across the threshold, I shall rusl forth, and strike him dead with mj poignard. "' "A pretty scheme-a very pretty scheme!'" said Cyrilla, encouragingly "But I think I know one still better one that will avoid all bloodshed which is objectionable in a lady": room." "Tell it me,"' said thc Italian, ea gerly. "When he comes in," said Cyrilla "lie will ask for a cup of co?ee-h< always does. Into his coffee I wil put a few drops out of a certain via which 1 have in my dressing room, He drinks the coffee, and, rive mi mites later, he is a dead man!" "Good! good!" said tho madman rubbing his hands gleefully. "Am then, when he is dead. I will eur of his head and carry it to my friend, thc mandarin, and he will give m< his magie ring-his cat's-cye ring that is worth a king's ransom : and wi will sail across the seas, you and 3 together; and you will bc mine, m;. own, forever! Suv. shall it not b? so?*' "It shall, my Pietro!" answerei" Cyrilla, boldly". "Ah! you don* know how much I shall love you But we have no time to lose: Thorn hurst will be hero presently, aud must hide von at once."' "Yes, v?s! behind ila; curtains!' said Fastiui, eagerly. "No. not behind the curtains,9 said Cyrilla, "because the tirsr thin;. Thorn hurst ' will do after coming ii will be to draw back thc curtains anc fasten the windows. Let me consi der; where will be the best place tr hidi you?" She paused, and. wit! berringer on ber lips, looked roam the room, as it in search of a hiding place. Fastini was holding her othe: hand, and pressing it now and aimil to his lips. "I have it!'" she said, at last. "No thing could be better. You slial hide yourself in this old ehest;'' ant she, ran across the room, laughing gaily, rind dragging the Italian af te her, and Hung open the lid of the oh carved chest. "It might have bee: put here on purpose," she said, sti] laughing. "See-you will have plent; of room; and there will be this ad vantage in biding herc-you will b able, yourself unseen, to witness th whole of my little drama, from ht ginning to end-from your privat box, you know. (A little pun that is it not? I really wou't let you kis my baud any more.) You must jus _ +1.,-. M.t"...- ,1-*. ~ .....,,.4.A" , ?ito^ tue uu o^eu an^i.i, ." vjU.vi.ie. ?. an inch-not more; and present? yon will see Thornhnrst come ste} ping in through one of these wit dows. You will see him kiss me-fi the last time, you know, and so yo will not bo angry. Thou he will g round and fasten the windows; the be will yawn and stretch himself; an then he will seat himself in his cai chair, and ask for Ids meersehau and a cnn of coffee. But you ?nu not stir till you see his eyes close ar his bead droop back on the thai And now. sir7 to your hiding-plac If yon lore me, don't delay, f* Thornhnrst may be lu re any m nient. No, not a single kiss uu1 but as many as you like afterward Why can't you tie those lanky lim of yours into a knot? A little low?, please. So-that is better." She was just lowering tile lid of ti ehest gently over him, when he stru it up suddenly with his arm. "(' ri Ila," he .said, "something whispc to nie that my friend, the mandari would like me to do this deed mvse Perhaps the dog-star"" "Hush!" exclaimed Cyrilla. with start. "The king of the pertains coming this way. I hear his foi steps. Hide-hule!' She tried press the lid down on him as s spoke; but Ins suspicious, ever on t alert, were roused in an instant, a with all his strength he strove keep himself from being shut in, b his strength was of little avail in t nnnfintl *.Killi lia *1.- t pOoiLlO&j ju n mi n nu iiii'n iv(i.->, v lilla Hung herself bodily on to 1 chest, and, in spite of the madlin* efforts, little by little, inch by in': the lid came down upon him, power to struggle against it deere ing in proportion the closer it- si him in. Suddenly he changed his positii and, before he could recover hims* the lid had shut him in complete and the same instant the iron stn in the body of the chest shot through a slit in the lid. The mo? ment she saw it, Cyriila's instinct pointed out to her the only method by which Fastini could be retained a prisoner, for her bodily strength v as all but exhausted. The iron bar that should have passed through the hide in the staple, and have kept the chest j fast shut, was broken away, amt eil j that Cyrilla could now do was to push I ber thumb through the staple, ami 1 use it as the bar had been used. The footstepsou the gravel outside ! were coming nearer: and presently ; Theodore Thornhurst , segar in mouth and with a merrier twinkle than usual . in bis eye. stepped in through one (.1 Hie French windows. Not one moment too soon. "Saved ! saved!" cried Cyrilla, as her eyes me: ; those of her husband, and then sin i sank fainting by tho side of tho chest i Tlie painter was a cautious man a well asa brave one; be heard strang) I noises [proceeding from tl io iulcrio ; of the chest, and at the moment o ; releasing Cyrilla's poor bruise? . thumb, he slipped his pocket kuif( into ita place. Then lifting his wif? ; in his arms, he carried her int' another room, and summoned tin servants to her assistance. Arme? with a revolver, In.- then went back t the chest and lifted up the lid; bu Fastini was half suffocated by tki time, and was dragged out by Thorn hurst more dead than alive. Ultimately the Italian was re-con signed to the place from which h had escaped;but a long time passe? before thc painter's wife recovero? thoroughly from the effects of tba J terrible hour. 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The Queens Deligli is intered to the afflicted as a sure reined for those diseases arising from an impur condition of tho blood, lt has t* direc and specific action upon that ?luid, tm consequently renders the blood pure. 1 is said, on high authority, that ..man n sooner begins to live thau he begins t die, and that tie characteristics of th living organism arc ceaseless change an ceaseless waste." It is obvious, therefore to every reflecting mind, that unless th blood is pure, in supplying the waste ti. sues with material, it must be the cause < innumerable ills and constitutional disoj ders, such as Scrofula, Rheumatism, Hi pat tc His. miers.. Consumption, In ii arum r lions, Fevers, ?tc. Life and health is on! t" bc maintained hythe circulation of pur arterial blond. 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H i.- extensively used all tin- various firms of primary a secondary syphilitic alf. ?tions; also, scrofulous, hepatic and cutaneous diseas in which its usc is followed by the 111' successful results." its properties as a remedy wert: first t reduced to the notice of the profession Dr. Thos. Young simons, of South Caroli as early as 182S, ?is a valuable alterative uiedy in syphilitic affections, and others quiring nseof mercurv. Dr. Simons'sta meats have l em endorsed ?nd extent by Dr. A. Lopez, of Mobile, and Dr. H. Frost, of Charleston. From thereporti its favor, there seems no reason to do the efficacy ot ;:.is medicine ?ti Second syphilis, "Scrofula, Cutaneous Diseas Chronic Hepatic Affections aim other ci plaints benefited bj alterative medici: for -ah- wholesale and retail bv FISHER A HEIX?TSH, ii. c 27 In 'iiggssts, Columbia.S. t Fresh Crackers! TEST RECEI \'1D: 6 bids, fresh SODA BISCUIT. 2 bbls. GINGER SNAPS. 2 .' 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