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ET " 1 tm* tj . ?? ^ >,?>?,,, - ?*? ?^' ? '' ? ? ' Pbopbotos. -* ??> ? *? ? ?*? 1 wmf CAMDEN, S. C., WEI>gE6PA ?'?-?> ? ? r *? ??/. , Outt Ji* *twT i ncivc uiuoas.) n ? V . J" T : one night on ^-j . house?as plain m tb ^ ^ J? toA*?<x,"U< <37 'f**1* * hd with m man 0?Ga*'-- ? to drop on the rail, _ ilktuaftiil, * . t droreby with the midnight mail. it tin patent*. flteam rceerrSd. for thore came a ' thud.' Jim fireman, there in the cab with him, ' stared in the iaoe of Jim,. ' * * And says, 'What now?' N - Saye Jim, ?What uou 1 ? ju?t ran over a man?that'* how !' ? - ** ? " ' The fireman stared at Jim. They ran ' Back, but they never fourid house or man,? Nary a ihadn* tflthta i mil4 K Jim ton.v^pide bat he tried to smile? Then oahe tore ? * : ? Ten miles or more, In qniokor time than he'd made aforf~ Would you believe it!?the vary Act night Up roe# that house in the moonlight white; ? Outcomes the ohap and drops as before. ? Dowft goes the-brakes, and the rest enoore? ;*? And so,-4n faot, Each night that act Oooorred, till folks sw?re Jim was craohed. Humph! Le^me see ; it's a now, moot, That I met 11b, eaat, and sa]***} 0ow's your HF - ghoet ?' **rr fGone,' says Jim; * and meia, ft's plain - fghoet don t trouble mf again) ;SSf ' I thought 1 shook That 0net vben.X took* J. on an Eastern ?| HuH Ktok ^ What should I meet the ?nt trip out, ,5ut that sra^hou^JhsJ^lsJkM tffcfeti And that self 'Well,' says I, \l ? guasa ?*&.? v--n-: -' < v iy? toe to step this yer tofUshnasa.' Bol<jh>wtoe<osi<ifciiJ: " *V m i !x-but fhar imu a man I in tha*h?Mkd-* 2fow,T call that meannees Y 'w That's all Jim ?aald. ?" A. " -Beit Habte. ? -tilWflftlH8 THB cow<A*I>' ? " Will ytm bear that, Edward ?" R' The '^oung man to whom lhia wan f*i. addressed stood facing aDstiier person about hill own age, on whose flashed eountenanoe waft an expression of angry <Lefianoe. The name of the petson was Logan. A third prfiy, also a young man, had asked the question, jost given,Hn a tone of surprise and regret. Before there was time for a response, Logan said sharply, and in a voioeiof . > stinging contempt? You are a poor, mean ooward, Ed ward Wilson I I repeat the words ; and It there is a particle of manhood F ' about you " ' - Logan passed for an instant, bnt ? quickly added : * " You will resent the insult." Why did he pause ? His words had . aroused a feeling in the breast of Wil eon.that instantly betrayed itself in his V word " oqpard," in that in -?*. . atarit,of time, wo\jUl navs More fittingly /tpplfetf to James Logan. But, as quickly as the flaah leaves the oloud, [tiioklj frfSed-the indignant light I the eyes of Edward Wilson. What 9 struggle agitated him for the <1 i * h#ve been fast friends, James, >n, oalmly. " Bnt, *ven if not ao, I will not atrike yon/' on*re afraid." ^ not deny it. l have always 1 to de WM>ng."( , Oant and hvpo4*ay I" said v ecrntem ptitfinsty. M You^"inow me better tharv that, James Uogan ; and I am sorry thatpin | your resentment of an imagined wrong, L yon should so far forget what is Just to ny oharaoter aa to charge updta me p anoh mean vices. I reject the Implied a - alWtation aa false." There was an honest indignation ia f the manner of Wlleon, that tp did not i ? attempt to repress. " ?k> yon taibne a liar ?si on. ing^a about to alap the Otr in the face** ^ The ayes of Wilson qnailed was the smallest qnirer of a perceptible^ From some ?msw tlf corns* of Logan -wrffeotfeecutsik la ving aWPT he assailed his with words of deeper insult, thas to saprnke aa assault motion as if b otflar in the f was not to, be driven from ia whiqljhc bad intrenched , *k>lsft*s *>n him wMoaa I "trt SB the him down V of WUeon. " jr ? nor *h-y ^ shook his Jieacl ft coward!" ex ipefciently; and ^ direction . V he on with his for several minutes. How< much he Buffered in thsf iiMle ipaoe of time we wOl not attempt to describe. The straggle with his indignat im pulses had been very severe. He was1 no ooward in heart. What was right and humane he was every ready to do,; even at the risk to himself of both physical and mental suffering. Clearly conscious was he of this, let the con sciousness did not and oonld not pro tect his feelings from the onjost and stinging charge of bowaidloe so angrily brought against him. In spite of his better reasiir, he felt humiliated; and there were moments when he half re gretted the forbearance that saved the j insolent Logan from punishment. They were but moments of weakness ; in the strength of s manly character he was quickly himself sgain. The oooaaion of thw misunderstand-1 ing is briefly told. Wilson made one of a little pleasure party for a neigh boring village, that was spending an afternoon in a shady retreat on the banks of a mill stream. There were three or four young men and half a dozen maidens ; and, as it happens on such occasions, sqflp rivalries ware ex cited among the former. These should only have added piquancy to the merry internoUMe of all parties, and would hav?, none so, had not the impatient it of Logan carried him a >d feeling and a gen _ tl don, jet in no ward Wilson made a remark of Logan that irritated him burned instantly on replied with words of so cutting, that all nothing less than a as his anawer to thjfc a blow was his He restrained the ~ more courage ? then turned off and marbh ed slowly away. His flushed and then paling face, his' quivering lips snd unsteady eyes, left on the min<ifi of all who witnessed the acene an imnrearion somewhat unfavor able. Partaking of the indignant ex citement of the moment, many of these present looked for the instant punish ment for his unjustifiable insult. When, therefore, they saw Wilson turn awaj without* even ? defiant answer; and heard the low, sneeringlv uttered word, " Coward I" from the ups of Logan, they felt that there was a craven spirit about the young man. A. coward we Instinctively despise; and jet, how slow weare to elevate that higher moral oourage which enables a man to brave unjust Judgment, rather than to do what he thinks to be wrong, above the mere brute instinot whioh, in the mo ment of excitement, forgets all phjsioal consequences. Am Edward Wilson walked awaj from his companions he felt that he was re garded as a coward. This was for him a bitter trial, and the more so, beoause there was one in that little group of startled mai^sns for whose generous re gard he would have sacrificed all but honor. It was, perhaps, half an hour after Mil* fmpUaMnt occurrence, that Logan, whose heart still horned with an unfor giving .apirit, encountered Wilson nn aer circumstance* that left liim free to repeat his insulting language, without disturbing the rest of the partj, who were amnsing themselves at some dis tanoe, and beyond the range of observa tion. He did not succeed in obtaining a personal enoonnter, as he had de sired. Edward Wilson had been for somo time sitting alone with his unhappy thoughts, when he was aroused bj sud den ones of alarm, the tone of which told his heart too plainly thai some im minent danger impended. HpriiiRmR to his feet he ian in the direction of theories, and quickly saw the oause of ejwlkmsnk Reoent heavy rains had swollen the mountain stream, the tur bid waters of whioh ware sweeping down with great Telocity. Two young gferls, who had been amusing themselves ? som#*dis|anoe above in a boat that was attached to the ahore by a long rope, had, through some accident, got ?.??** fastening loose, and were now gliding down, far out in the current, wfih a fesrhAly increasing Speed, to ward ttie breast of a mllldam some hun dreds of yard* below, from whioh the water was thundering down a height ef over twenty /est. Pale wifit terror, the poor voung creatures wen stretching out fhsfr head*, toward their oom pant? ob the shore, and uttering heart rending sries for SMOOC. I * fasten t action was neoeeaary, or all would be leek The Doeition ot the young girls had been discovered while they were yet some distance above, and g to be another boat cm danger of kflW oacri?l over the dam, a^oSldjey one venture out hi thm boat, IMMd% inevitable, that none of then dated to etteount* the hasard. ,*?w ?gd wringing thai* haada. and now urging-these a shve their companions, stood maidens of the p?%?B the Wilao? dashed through _ springing into the boat, cried is losi/*" J-*0?*? ' Take an oar; or all Bat, instead of this, Logea stepped book s pace or two from the boat, while lUoMBMwle with IMS. Not shore, an the moment __ iruia. high, on selfish purpose, ha dsahed the boat oat into the current, and,bend ing to the oars, took a direotion at an enple with the other boat, toward the point where the water was sweeping oyer the dam. At every stroke the light skiff sprang forward a down feet, and eearoely half a minnte elapeed ere Wil son was beside the other boat. Both were now within twenty yards of the fall, and the water was nnsrfns them down with a Telocity that a strong rower, with every advantage on his side, could scarcely hare contended egainst successfully. To transfer the frightened girls from one boat to the | other, in the few moments of time left ere the down-sweeping oarrent would beer their frail vessel to the edge of the daai, and still to retain an advantage,* was, for Wilson, impossible. To let his own host go and manage theirs he saw to bo equally impossible. A>ry #f despair reached the ycung man's ears as the oqgs dropped from his grasp into the water. It waa evident to the spectators of the fearful scene that' that he had lost his presence of n and that now all was over. Not so, 1 ever. In the next moment he sprung into the water, which, nesl breast of the dam, was not m<m th*n two feet deep. As ha did ao. he the other boat, and bracing firmly against the rafting ourrenfc held i it poised a few yards froes the psont where the foam-ereatod waters JeaAd into the whirlpool b?low. At tit* same instant his own boa* shot like an arrow over the dam. He had gained/how ettts but a small 'advantage. It quired Ms utmost atrength to keep the. dr*wing JXqn^7'OTn^-r^!'at ? had been EftSfaN , , ^ ,,L , onee did such a thought enl heart. v - "'Lie down olose to the bottom,^tie said, in a quiok, hoarse voice. The terror-stricken girls obeyed the injunction instantly. And now, with a coolness that was wonderful under all circumstances, Wilson moved the boat several yards > away from the nearest shore, until he reaehed a point where he knew the water below the dam to be more ex panded and free from rooks. Then throwing his bodv suddenly against the boat, and running . along until he was within a few feet of the dam, he sprang into it and passed over with it. A moment or two the light vessel, as it shot out into the air, stood poised, and then went plunging down. The fearful plunge was made in Bafety. The boat atruok the seething waters below, and glanced out from the whirlpool, bearing its living freight un injured. "Whioh was the. ooward?" The words reached the earn of Logan, as he gathered with the rest of the company, around Wilson and the pale, trembling girls he had so heroically ssved. Fair lips asked the question. One maiden had spoken to anothor, and in a louder voice than was intended. " Not Edward Wilson," said Logan, as he stepped forward and grasped the hand of him he had so wronged and in salted. 41 Not Kdward Wilson ! He is the noblest and the bravest I" Wilson made an effort to reply. Bnt he was for some moments too much ex cited and exhausted to speak. At last, he said,? '* I only did what was right. May I ever have oourage for that while I live." Afterward he remarked, when alone with Logan : " It required a far greater exercise of oourage to forbear when you provoked and insulted me in the Sreeenoe of those who expected retalia on, than it did to risk my life at the milldam." There is a moral heroism that few can appreciate. And it will ususlly be found, that the morally brave man is nuiokeet to lose the sense of personal danger when others are in peril. Ffwxltnc at Waahinrtea Parties. A Wanhinflfton correspondent of the Independent *ay? ; At 12 o'olook the doors of the supper-room are opened, and then the jam description. Ton may take toot ohoiee to be poshed or to pn*h. ana Jn either case to see plates of oysters, salads and creams, with threatening spoon* *>d forks brist ling through tjid-air, , tfing by jonr nose, or swimming down or back. I was nersr son that we were* not cirtt iaed people till I oontemplated my* ooftapatriot* in the Wa*lnptfton supper room of a " festival ooossion." There I hare seen dignitaries who the public hare enough 'to eat at dome, toward a supper tahU as a oan do to hi* feast} and laBles aa 'Meboate." with pikd-up plates oi piohlas, salads, fruits sns creams, oramm|ng at ? rate that would make a perf edkTkaiithy woman sick abM for a week. ^ _JS5 t "he was dis " time-he dren and 6m)rt8 vO ^0t tw w ,4 ? . _ ? K Night MM OB land found them in the itiwft tired?oh, haw* .tired I and hungry. They wwe directed John's chaffs^ The light Vas| through the cfpen door, and in ( on 4 wooden beofcfc, the lflQU~ ?~ down with her crying babe. "She gath ered it close to ?MTbesom,*ead several times, when she thought no <od? pew her, she slyly kissed its tear* away and whispered to itJfiUft a mother's faith that baby would oompr?hund and be oomforted*. It was Very late and very doubtful if lodgings ooald be obtained at that hour. The ohaig#?.#t a hotel for a sin gle night would career the exgense of a room for this little'Jamilv for an entire week. Two gentlemen had called in to witness the open&ons of the Guild an howr before, and +bee? terfl volunteered-] ! sp'-great and rich as this, and ad place where I cau lay my head." When she 1 grew oalmer and understood what was being done for her she'burst into tears, beooming hysterical and saying, "For give me. I was aore distressed for baby's sake, not mine." True woman to the last. Surrounded by strangers, drooping from fatigue and hunger, she forgot all else but baby. Captured and Abandoned Property Fund. In response to a resolution of inquiry, the Secretary of the U. 8. Treasury transmitted to the House of Represen tatives a statement in regard totne cap tured and abandoned property fund, containing the following information : The total amount of money covered into the Treasury as the proceeds of the sales of oapturea and abandoned property, consisting almost entirely of ootton, was $20,910,666. Of this amount there have been paid to olaimants, under awards of the Court of Otaims, $6,800, 468; under judgments of the United States Oirout for New York, $27,029, and under awards by the Secretary of the Treasury undeT the act of May, 18, 1872, $97,734. The fund has also been diminishxl by 25,000 expenses of collec tion, leaving s balaaoe in the Treasury of $14,410,479. There remsins unpaid judgments of ttie Court of Claims amounting to $1,884,011. Oldest Fortification In America. The Spaninh fort of San Jnan de PinoB, now called Fort Marion, at St. Anguatine, Fla., is the oldest fortifloa tion on the Western continent still used sh a plane of defense. It covers about an acre of ground, and would aooom modate a garrison of 1,000 men, with 100 guns. It was begun in 1630 and oompleted in 1756, the Indians being oorapelled to d6 the labor of building. Over the entranoe is the Spanish ooat of armn and tha name of the then Gov ernor. the shief engineer of the works, and the date of the completion of the fort. In 1836 a dnngeon was discovered by the oaring of a wall from above, and iu it were two iron oages just large enough to admit the body of a man, and each contained a human skeleton. Who the victims were there is no tradi tion to tell. In one of tha dungeons Oseeola was okained, previous to hin removal to Fori Moultrie. The fort is ow Karrinonod by an old sergeant. I? The Eptsoatle Attacking Men. Tha Des Moines (Iowa) RegUtor re rts thst a singular and fatal disease, many of its symptoms not unlika the episootio that was so severe among horses last year, is now prevailing in the vicinity of Hartford, Warren Oonnty, that State. Tha parson attacked, it says, has fe*s*, exeeesive nasal din charge, violefkt- soughing, and oold sx tr?miti?*. Several death* have already occurred, and there la a' of families afflicted, with viofOM*. wWletha " >le to find ftbl* to find aar fcaca. for the disease or toe nidctable alarm If fUt, lias are preparing toroov* ?**? until the epid?m1cipSU?Cg^ | Gt hitter r to to many] coadttkm in I of a great aijjr. Be' dipt I he ootild find & nonibhnofi of' r, and lived on the imMfood, midst of hts wretchedness a res l?U formed that ifsvwr B% wore possessed of flMuenongh, he would build a reeting-plabe for those who were aa poor end friendless es be wh then. he w^Twiooessfal in bu&tees, and hr> did not forget his youtfiful purpose* I The result was the establishment ? few years sg*?f "TheStreamers' Bhst,"in Pearl -dtreet^. !few York. In this re > treat those who find themselves and-1 ' denly without employment and desti tuts Of Mopmj will rewire a weleome, I | and thCTnmmediste wants be relieved.1 [?wo substantial meals are furnished reach day, warm batji-rooms are a service %of applicants, and clean* i fortablo bods are supplied- Wa is done gratuitously twistolLreek, all the arrangements enoouri^e peracbal nestness and a sense of selfrrespeet. In the "Beet" there is akwarm and oheer i fol sitting-room* where are oonvenieooes for writing, books, ana newspapers. A-fter an early breakfast, those- who de sire jo find employment stamina the rifttftrtlsement* in the morningpapers, and hasten to make early ^pphcation... Bush ia the work of one man for the homeless in Kfw York city. ? m?eplar Gsfegfc f* the Laet st^e. ? water in - The MfXiioal Journal, London, states that in oases pf whoop ing oouglfYn the list stage, that is,*fter the third week?he >as had one oanoe M 1 L. _ 4 1Z .J J* oi ui6 ButmgQii nqtna imnvonii pui #$* gallon of water in sn open^^ savx- &?d ?' containing ' " ? in abating and after three or four data terminating the malady, as to establish, beyond doubt, the value of this mode of in- I haling ammonia as a therapeutio agent I in tranqnilizing the nervous system in I the whooping oongh. Not to be Sold. Bishop George would never have his I portrait taken. " If I were to," said I he, " I would be engraved aed hnng in I some good brother's parlor, and by-and-1 by the good brother would fail In buni-1 ness or die, and his effects would be put up for publio sale, and the voluble I auctioneer would oome across me in a Eile of household trumpery, and, as hel eld me suspended by thumb and fore finger, he would crv, 1 Now, gentle man, here's your ohanoe 1 your only chancel perhAps your last ohanoe to buy a bishop 1 Hew much am I bid for a bishop f Twelve and a half cents for a bishop t?Only a York shilling for a Methodist bishop! Do 1 hear any more? Going I g-o-i-ngl gone I Only twelve and a half cents ?dog cheap? for a Methodist bishop I' " A Definition of ah Editor. An editor iz a male being whose biz ness iz to naviaate a nnze paper. He writes editorials, grinds out poetry, in sert* deths and wedding", sorts out manuskripts, keeps a waste basket, blows np the "devil," steals matter, fltes other people's battles, sells hiz pa per for a aoller and 50 oents a year, takes white beans and apple saas for pay, when he can get it, raizes a large family, works 19 hours out ov every 24, knows no Sunday, gits * damned hi everybody, and onoe in a while whipt bi sumboddy, lives poor, dies middle aged and often broken-hearted, leaves no money, iz rewarded for a life ov toil with a short but free obituary puff in the nnze paper*. Exchanges please oopy. ___ Striped Spring Silks. Even stripes of white with a color are chosen for summer silks. A pretty fashion cf making these is to have one I deep bias shirred flounoe around the skirt, or else two narrower ones. Let the over-skirt have a sharp-pointed apron of two sloped breadths, with a seam down the middle, on which .are four bows of bias silk; its three draped full bsek breadths are square on the sides, and the whole is edged by a bias raffle, heeded by a band ctr duster of upturned folds. The baeoue is nracfc longer in front than behind, fa trimmed with fringe or a ruffle, m the eost sleeves have euflfc with a bias scarf tied around them. If edicts collar and ruff of the silk. A N*w Aeawntr?A very powerful agencv is brought to bear against the sale ol liquor inOhio in a business way. Binoe the movement against the liquor setters btfan, th? receipt* of many of the -wMMiks grtMM' have fallen off; aaJthteta the sxplaaatic instsnees families who an movement: their ? W-*g9t-132 ,of a oountry. Hbi' irtd6h laftplioe V* Mr is. e**erytking oeadauntil he gets L _ to make a basil* in the five newspapers and a ,i CWIfor^lll killed himself ia Legislature wouldn't ? j his nama. i The Pfcrsians'say of noisy,-trnreason able HOtT^Fhear the sound of-the nulUfcma, butlaaa.no meaL? ?-wt . Unoooked cabbaae or bgid- slaw is than oooked** it is hard fe> be ThaGh of Monterey, hare sown thfitJtar ton thousand acres of A is all np and looMng finely, - A father in Wisconsin offered his boy fl*w dollars to tsSre-* dose of oaator oil, and then got a counterfeit bill off on the boj^k^T^ York brides am introducing the - ?Condon fashion of wearing bonnets at wie ceremony when it is performed in church. ? We trust that in their ardor to have things exactly right theloeal politicians will nevgr, never forget their beloved oountary." ? ^ . Napiaa a barber will shave, cut hair, oomb, DjTish, black your boottfand give you a dlgar?and call it square - for ^R^Oents. ? \ jj ^ ~"The; letters and journal* of Lord Maoaulay ace in the hands of -Lady Hoi- $ land and Mr. Trevelyan" with,* view to frablioafcioa. ^ ?* It is stated that Captain Williams, * " *" ? Warner Mian- * Jfaaflingtea-'. traded ' ? * Louis Croesus, the late Jm. H. Lucas, father-in-law of Senator Ha ger, left'g7,000,000?rthis in addition to 82,000,000 which he gave his sons dur ing his lifetime. The reason an urchin gave for being late at scncol was, that the boy in the next hous<* was going to have adrer.sing dowu with a bed-cord, and he wanted to hear him howl. ' " Where did you learn wisdom ?" in quired Diogenes of a man esteemed wise. "From the blind, who always try their path with a stick before they venture to tregjjkon it 1" Rev. Gent: "Bntyou really can have no serious reason to wish to be parted from your wife." Rustic: " Well, no sir. I like my wife well enough, but you see she don't please mother." Little Rock, Ark., appears to ho a little the hardest looality in the United States. One of the papers of that city has fifteen proclamations from tho Governor offering rewards for murder ers. Mr. William Trotter, of Taylor Conn ty, Kentucky, has fallen heir to half a million dollars, bequeathed by an aunt in England. Before his good luck overtook him he used to bo Old Bill Trotter. Rev. Seth A. Clark, an itinerant preaoher of Kansas, carries his church with him. Itconsipts of a canvas capa ble of covering seven hundred persons, and is transported on a wagon drawn by two mules. . Lester Wallack objects to paint and oosmetics, as actresses use em, and savs every time he has to catch a faint ing lady, or embraoe a mother, swoet heart or sister, he makes up his mind to the ruin of a ooat. It was a brilliant Fond du Lac bojf who, seeing a dog with a muzzle on for the first time, exolaimed: "Mamma, mamma, I bet five oants tho dogs are Soing to wear hoop skirts; there goes a og with one on his nose." It in rumored in London and Paris that the Prinoe Imperial will eater France immediacy on attaining majority, whieh is at hand, there no ground on which his admission to* the oountry eould be denied. One of the library servants don club, bsing out of fnn^, one nignt and wrote notes on stamped papar to prominent about the city, requesting ^ signing the name of the tr< got over j??0, and, subsequ ydars ia Jkil. ng lady has the letlftfe _ our Tl. %ngra