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P. BEARD, ?? ?588 rf . . i |kv? . _ ; =5?? ilL_ L ??*??? ^ ~~^ ? ?" f / TEBMS ?$2.00 mb ijfxr*, m adtahqb.* 7 >' CAMDEN, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22^ 187*. ~ M NO. 29. ?? \ TMJROUGH Tttit BROKEN rATH. J ' Owen Vautrhan. *he eon of ft fiibe ho hifiast his life in his o*l liu der the aw of friends niown up -* JE. * r they traveled One day, after I, e handsome . i, with kindly for allhe met, walked from the elation to Hi*. V*04han't oaHage, and there pat his arms abont the slight figure of the little woman and held her to hie turf, while she sobbed oat alond in the strength and weakness of her jof over ha* eon returned. 1 had left Germany Owen this appointment of eeoond master at the grammar sehool in Vioes ter.one Of the first, if not the very first, in England. Proudly Owen told his mother and sister this, as he piotnred glowingly the easeful, restful life they ahwld lead with him. Then fell the cloud, darkening at onoe his loving an [tioipations. The mother would not J leave her oottagft on the beaoh. 1 "I'm tot> old a tree to bear such mov Owen, dear lad," she said. " It Would kill s?e to be set in a new home kowL X'd rather tarry where vour father otter place would ever be ) Owen.l^ned at first s busy but almost addened life at Vioester, too deeply itnftotfa to make many friends ; but at past ha found in Dr. Hope's household la sweeter companionship than he had everdxspmed of. ?1. Hope, always cordial, was doubly aa to Owen, on whose young strength aftd power he had learned to lean in many ways. Mrs. Hope, doubting noth ing <*t the young man's antecedents, because he had been reoommended by these Who stood high on the world's ladder, encouraged his visits and made pleeaant to him, with that subtle, tact which some ladies possess eminently ; and Alice, their only greeted him always with her ?smile, flushing brightly when ard his step upon the pavement comrt, na jipe daily watohed for ?lina. ) saw his eyes glad$ H no one saw his ?U mat hers ; for < - :the oottasre on ffinadf of his early poverty ; so ?kerirom her own frankly la and pleasure in her old __ name. It was Ohristmas Eve, and Owen was to <fine at the sohool-house. He enter ed the long, warm room just aa Alioe, with her hands full of flowers, came in from the greenhouse. While they lingered together srranging the flowers, she wooed him on to talk of what she felt he loved, and knowing that home would be near his heart this Ohristmas time, asked him of his mother and ' Bister. The oolor mounted slowly to Owen's brow at the mention of the names of those he loved, and at the same moment the words of one of the doctor's guests struok upon his quiok, keen esr: " Mnoh as I want a tutor in my sebool. I could not engage Leelie, bo oanso he cannot have been brought up ? gentleman. His father, I hear, was a Tillage tradesman. But what looks partioulsrly bad is that he does not tell me the fact himself. In many ways he would undoubtedly suit the post. He is gentlemanly-looking, speaks well, besides haying testimonials of the high est das*. Still, there is thst insuper able objection." " Insuperable," muttered the doctor, assenting. " I would not entertain the idea. What do you think, Vaughan ?" " If," said Owen, taking a long time to peel an atom of walnut, and looking down upon it rery intently, "if his words and sets, ss well as his appear ance, aro those of a gentleman, I cannot see what difference is left for his birth to Atake. One can but look and act and speak as a gentleman, let one's birth be the nobles tin the land ; and if we miss none of these things in each other,what need have we to question farther?" u Ton apeak warmly, Vaughan. In 0?y piece vou evidently would engage this son of a village shopkeeper to help to eduoate noblemen and gentlemen's soni." Z ruondo not of tan queetion ?aoh on our birth and early Hie," naid Ow?, " and 0o not often volunteer to talk of it unquestioned. Then will it nerer be that we may judge men by what we And then?re?p?ot or deepiea them?not according to the rank thej bear, hat according to the part they aet r' f i - -i '' " Better in theory than in practice, Vaujrhan." said Dr. Hope. litbtlT ?'Stfil, my objeotion i? tEe want) of trnthfeteeee at ?Uriing." " Many ot our higheet familiee," said AUoe. hare been fowded by one man who naa risen from the people, and they are proud to traee beck toMMh aa beoauae we are hie ooft should we eooiAjrimfor 5'j** ? JKjT." 'i .(fl Mid Owen, , 1'e faoe, while Mthiiif if * giving him a welcome always in your bouse, and bad then discovered his history?should you blame him for his silenoe ?" \ <"" '* Blame him !" echoed the doctor, hotly. "I should turn my back upon him promptly, I assure you, were he the finest scholar in England." Slowly and darkly the oolor rose in Owen's face. " Tnat is the general opinion, I suppose," he said ; and Alioe was not the only one who notioed the tone of pain in his voice. - "What should vou do yourself, Mr. Vaughan ?"- asked Mrs. Hope, merrily. " Come, next to the doctor himself, you are the one most likely to be plaoea in suoh a position." ? " I think," said Owen, quietly, "that I should merely care what the man himself might be. It would signify as little to me what his father had been as what his son would be years and years afterward." " Wait until some one imposes upon you," returned the doctor ; "* he would not like it, would he, Alioe ?" he added, laughing up at her as she rose to follow her mother. Eagerly Owen waited for her anwser. "I do not think a really low-born man oould succeed in such an impos ture, papa," she carelessly said, "even if he tried." The mirth had all died out of Owen's eyes when he joined Alioe again, and her shy, kind words oould not bring it book ; neither did their memory bring a tender smile to his lips when he re called them afterward. He performed his old tasks just as he had performed them always. As the spring oame on Alice drooped and pined so sadly that they said she needed the sea air, and they begged her to acoept the invitation of an old school friend who had lately married and gone from her home in Scotland to stay with , her husband's relations on the Welsh coast. " It is to Llanvriar I am going, Mr. Vaughan," said Alioe, a little wearily, as she told Owen of her approaching departure, while he stood steadily be fore her looking into hear pale face. " Papa sajrs he thinks I shall be close ?r home. Msy I take anything * them anything I can do r* *r ha told bar, w * - - *?" le 4&ee was at Llanvriar there was a ooncert given by the patrons of the Ferfybsnk school. One of the singers, a pretty, grave-looking girl of about twenty, struck Alioe particu larly. " It almost seems to me as if I had seen her before," she said to Mrs. Gwynne, her host; " and yet I know I have not I have not even seen any one very like her ; and yet somettfpg in her eyes, I think, seems famililt to me. Who is she ? " "She is supposed to be rather a pe culiar girl," was the answer ; " yet no one knows why, unless to be good and helpful to one's mother is peouliar. Perhaps they think so in Ferrybank, for it isn't a very common failing there. She has a brother, though, who is pe ouliar really ; a specimen of that rare wild-plant genius, a specimen no one would expect to find drifted into a wretched fisher cabin on our shore. He was one of my unole's proteges. I wish Sir Bnlkley were at home now so that you might ask about him. My uncle is so proud to rehearse his career. T believe he is doing excellent now in England, and I suppose he deserves it, for he studied like any old don yon like to mention, Miss Hope." " Did he ?" asked Alioe, but little in terested. " Please to tell me what is this girl's name ?" " Duddgha Vanghan. Hei mother is a washerwoman, and lives in one of those desolate oabins on the shore, in the very midst of the fish odors: a lasting disgrace, I think? though I dare not say so to Sir Bulkley ?to the son, who lives in abundance himself, and leaves his mother and sia ter to earn their own livelihood in-suoh a hole. You can see the cottage from our windows. I will show it to you ; snob a poor plaoe it is." " What ?" The word oame from Alioe in a whis per, and seeing she was anxious to hear, Mr. Owjnne told her his version of Owen's story ; while the words orept in to her ioy heart, and the mnsio to whioh she had oome to listen died no heard. That Owen should have been her truest friend for all two years?her nearest and first friend, she repeated to herself, the flush of anger and mor-| tifloation rushing into her face at the thought?only to give her this pain at last I " I think I will go OTer just onoe and see his mother," she said to herself over and orer again during her stay at LlanvrUor; but a strange new feeling of shame, whioh she blushed to reoogmae, prevented her. Alioe had be*u back at home a weak or mors when Owen Vaughan earns voluntarily onoe more to the oohool hove*. Dr. and Mrs. Hops -were both out, and Alio? eat alone. The familiar step, for whieh she had so often listen ed, was oloee behind her now, yet she never tamed. How eouid she tarn .whil* that light?half of sagsr, but half of pansionato affect,ion hnrned in bet eyes? He set beside her, grave and gentle as of old, but there wee a new M?e in his voioe when he told her the her; bat theee words Am mm were ?t tered from his heart, and their truth and earnestness were like the truth Mid earnestness of prayer. " I here determined many time* that I would never utter theee word* to you, Alioe," he said. " I here itnig Sled long end hard against tempta?lc~, ut it has mastered me at last. Before you went away, looking so frail, I al moat broke my resolution. But when you oame back, still looking weak and ill, and when I found you oold and strange to me, I said, ' I will listen to nothing now but my own heart. I will tell her the story ox my early life, and j then how fervently I hare loved her: and must love her always. I will tell her both these things, and leave my fate in her hands." Alioe, I reed my answer in your face. You disdain this love of mine. Tou send me from you, and it will be hard to trust or hope inj any one again. Wait; do not say it 1 vet. I thought I had prepared myself, but the darkness falls so suddenly." But Alioe did say it. She tula him ahe disdained the love he offered; and told him so in oold and scornful words whioh were to oome back to her after* ward with the orushing weight with whioh they fell upon his heart. And he watched the voung, fresh lips from whioh the cruel words were falling, as if he were struggling to awake from some desolate dream. "Tou tell me this story of your child hood, Mr. Vaughan," she ended, with ohilling slowness, "because you guess that I heard it before I re It is as unnecessary to tell it to me at all now, aa it is unnecessary to tell me of the imagined love that W*a built up on deoeit. The shadows, darkening his eves as he turned them slowly from hers, fright ened her, and sh e dared not gianoe at him as he sat in that de^tftly silenpe> his ohest heaving with violent emotion. " If you Were capable of suoh love es you speak of," she wentonwith emphasis in his long silence, your own mother ana sister be in poverty while yon are living us as a gentleman f" " Hush t" he said slowly, as he roee^ with a suppressed passion in his steefr fsst eyes. " Tou have aaid enough kill my hope ; more than you will os to reeall in th$ years to oome. ~ rare sweet moments Save I ev ed that you would aoeept m; for me that you oan them." The spring sunshine still streamed through the old window, but it touched the white brave faoe no longer. The slow step died below upon the pave ment, and as eaoh echo fell heavily on Alioe's heart she longed to ory aloud. " If I had been prepared, she sigh ed wearily, "or if I had really been what he has thought me, I should have ?have said it differently." "I think, mother." she whispered that evening, when her mother won dered at her wan faoe, *' it would do me good to go back to Llanvriar for a little time. I promised to do so if I could. Will you let me go at onoe ?" So the next morning Alioe went. A little of the old oolor had oome baok to Alioe's oheek, and a little of the old lightness to her step, before she had been many days at Llanvriar. But she knew it was not the sea air only whioh had brought them back. Sir Bulkley ftwynne was at home now, and on the i very first evening of her arrival she had heard Owen's story from him. Think ing over it, Alioe felt a great ohange had oome overall her thoughts of Owen. " It strikes me, Miss Hope," remark J ed Mr. Gwynne, ooming up to her at this window one day, "tnat you are not to leave Llanvriar without seeing a storm at sea. You say you hav.e never seen one in your life. " Never," answered Alioe, shudder ing unconsciously. " Well, I think my unole's prognostic I of this evening is likely to be verified ; he always dreads this south-west wind. I I am going across to Ferrybank to see how things are looking, for the gale in creases fast, and threatens to be vio lent." Down upon the shore at Ferrybank a breathless, eager crowd had gathered leaning hard against the wind, anc blinded by the spray whioh dashed in showers to the wild shore. Oasing out into the darkness whioh hid the huncrr ?ea, thev waited while the wide doom of the life-boat house were' unlocked and the great boat wheeled down to brave the storm. Amid all the mightier sound* Sir Bnlkley Gwynnee's voioe rose dear and sharp, a* watching the trained crew take down their life belts, he counted them rapidly. "One is miiming -Hughe* I Where is Hughes ?'* No one had Hera Hughes, but half a hundred roioee oalled hit name now. " Hii place moat be supplied," the flouire shontod, sharply and distinctly.' ?? We dare not delat one second." A young man, who had been prompt in his help, came into th? light of the lamp which Sir Bulkley hell " X am ready. Sir Bnlkley; let me go. Ton know that an oar is no new. toy to me. If yon refose me 1 shall take eat my father'* boat, Ldeten I Oould I *tay upon the shore here while the drowning plead for help ? In the rocket's light 7saw the life-boat frem the brig p?t out, and X know it oould not pdll through such a sea as this. Let me go, Mr, Bnlkley." As he spoka, the Baronet, raising the lamp which he*Was placing in thebotf, saw in '4s faoe the steady bnW whlen t-m ft plain in Us tow 40M i this af^I have yo?-think ' Ave ?? and softly, QUMt of their upon them , u if their her,, Alice from which je home, the morning when " te tell of the |eal night. I to tell yon -- - V* he said, and sadness of wea a painful . Vaughan, of I so much, Miss at his mother's yesterday or the ohmteered to take i boat, begged for it, he handled his i2 and waa untir for the reeoued. and ready, they said ; you would un r^Whether it teo hard, or in sometMHL 6 Med to land I helped to his mother's soon forgert her doctors talk of and they aay he Whe khad , ?iand fro Alice listened to the Toioes heraa she was pulled aorosa, for all were taking of the storm, and all spoke Owen's name. When she readied the opposite shore, she walked on rapidly among the spars of the lost Tesecu and orer the dismal line of drifted seaweed, to that cottage on the beach, in which stae knew that Owen lay. For a moment she felt she mast be mistaken, because no crowd had gathered here, bat one glance around showed her a group of people whispering together at a short distance, and unoonscioualy thanking them in her heart for the silent respect thus shown, she knocked softly at the half closed door. " I am an old friend of Mr. Vaugh an's," said Alioe, very softly, as she I looked appealingly into. the face of Owen's sister, ?? May I see him ?" " My brother is very, very ill," she whispered, every word uttered in keen est pain. 11 Do you think you had better see him ?" "Yes, O yes, if I may," replied Alioe, her roioe most earnest and entreating. | The end was very, very near. Alioe saw that, even in her first yearning gaaa. , " Owen I" she cried. But she oould say no other word, and only fell upon her knees heside the bed, and looked at him with all her heart surging in her eyes. '|Alioe, onoe more together," he whispered ; and the look npon hit face was one of perfect peaoe, no agony, and no regret. '?Together at the end. The distanoe that lay between us, dear, is all traveled now." Kneeling there in the presenoe of the reek Leveller, and looking back upon er^Ufe and his, Alioe felt how Blight 44 been this distance of Which he ipoke. yet how imno^rihle in it new. The barrier which had atood be tween them when she felt herself above him had been raised by her own hand, she owned, with a sobbing pain at her heart Now, with that wonaerfnl glory on hie faoe, he stood immeasurably abort* her ; and this barrier was from the hand of God. And still she oould not speak to him one word; only her eyes, so foil of love and pain and penitenoe told all. His two kind friends were with him at the end. Old Dr. Hope, who had <mly the day before reoeived the short Mad letter in whieh Owen told his story and resigned his appointment in the grammar school, was in time to toll him, with dim syes, how he had eome hlinelf on purpose to t*mpt him beok to the pise* he had filled so well; and Bir Bulkier Chrynne was ftlMte too. walking quietly in the outer room, and muttering that tho sunshine on the The mfm upon th? pillow, bright with unutterable happiness, read the yearn ing lore upon those faces gathered in silent room, and feed it in that liKht whirh made all ole.r r, through the open doorway, soothing mnrmar of th* eee^ bsbbi the unreached heaven. The only shadow as the bright spring noon vu the hashed shadow of the outapread wings. ? CallftraU Sea Lions. The sea lions, which congregate by thousands upon the elifii of the Oah fornia ooast, end bsrk and howl sad shriek end roar in the oavss sad upon the sleep sunny slopes are but little disturbed,and one can ususlly spproaeh them within twenty or thirty yards. It is an extraordinarily interesting sight to see theee marine saensters, many of them bigger than an ox, st play in the surf, and to wateh the supurb skill with which they know how to control their own motions when * hugh ware seizee them, and seems likely to dash them to pieces against the roeu. They love.to lie in the sun upon the bare and warm rocks; and here they sleep, crowded together, and laying upon each other in inextricable oonfusion- The bigger the animal, the greater his ambition ap pears to be to climb to the highest sum mit ; and when a huge, slimy beest has with infinite squirming attained a soli tary peak, he does not tire of raising his shasp-pointod, maggot-like head, and oomplaoently locking about him. They| are a rough set of brutee?rank bullies, I should say; for I have watched them repeatedly, as a big fellow shouldered his wax among his fellows, reared his huge front to intimidate some leeser seal which had scoured a favorite spot, and first with howls, and if this did not suffice, with teeth and main force pelled the weaker from his lodgment. The smaller'sea lions, st least those which hare left their mothers, appear to have no rights whioh any one' is bound-to respect They get out of the way with an ftbject promptness whioh proves that they live In terror of the stronger members of the community ; but they do not give up their plaoes without harsh oomplainte and piteous irnw Plastered sgainst the rooks, and with their ttthe and apparently boneless conformed to the rude and sharp they are a wonderful, but not a sight. *At a Utile huge maggeta, s upon blanoe. at a distance head, the rocks then it is a dosen or half aliundred great Ma Hooi at play in the very midst and fiercest part of the boiling surge, so oompletety masters of the situation that they allow themselves to be oarried within a foot or two of the rooks, and at the last snd imminent moment, with an adroit twist of their bodies, avoid the shook, and diving, re-appear beyond the breaker. A l^oftj City. Potosi, in Bolivia, 8. A., is the high est city in the world, being at an ele vation of 13",350 feet, considerably above the level of the summits of many of the* Alpine mountain giants, and only 360 feet below the topmost peak of the ioy Jangfran itself. This is a tolerably lofty altitude for a eity ; but then Potosi is the metropolis of the riohest silver mines in the world, which are worked in the neighboring Oerra (Sierra, or high ridge) ae Potosi, at an altitude of 16,000 feet above the sea level, r. great er height than the top of Mount Blanc ; so that the abundance of the preoioun metals, we may suppose, compensates the 30,000 inhabitants (about half of whom are of the native raoes) for th* rarity of the air, the rapid alterations of olimate, which presents the charac teristics of the four seasons every twen ty-four hours, and the jrugged ban en - ness of the surrounding districts. Fierce Wind, The nignal station on the top of Mount Washington reported a north west gale blowing at the rate of 140 miles an hour?as shown by the anemo meter?and a temperature of 18 degrees below zero. This is probably the high est force ever attained by the wind in New England. A gale 60 or 70 miles an hour will often blew down trees. In the hurrioanes of the tropics a foroe of 100, even J10 miles an hour is not un common. No human being oould stand before sueh a gale. The people in the ohained-down hut contrive to examine the anemometer without emerging? else they would be swept off bodily aiyl hurled down Taekerman's Ravine. The roar of suoh a mountain gale is terrible beyond words. A Mrnin,?According to the Cin cinnati f/osette, Mr. S. A. Boll of Plain fleld, Ohio, baa found under an aneient, mon quantity of fragments of bones , of yo ... ? children, with th* tooth, of a rodent anUul whieh had been need as a neok omasaeat. These relic* were . fonnd iif a large bed of coal and aahei, rtndioatin* that the lira had covered a spaoe of twenty-Ave feel in diameleff. It is supposed thai the children sren the victims of some bloody ??nrlflglal rite. The mound under whieh the flilies were buried wss of medium else, and ite materials had been transported from mitrom jumnw pesina. I tews of Interest, The actual expense of cremation is about fa. The best security?purse -onal re sponsibility. The hard times out West have made many people lose ground. It doesn't follow that Rome was built in a night because it was not built in a day. The only State of the Union ruled orer by a special Providence?Rhode The St. Louis Journal says that one ef its exohanges has an intermittent mailing clerk. To cure a batchelor's aches?carry to the paitent, eleven yards of silk,with a woman in it. A man who travels barefoot around his bed-room, often finds himself on the wrong tack" It it wasn't for the Acheenese and the Temperanoe war the entire world would now be at peace. To what well-known-New "5terk firm do the youthful boot-polishers in the park belong ??Bawl k Black. . It is said that when Jonah saw the whale getting ready to swallow him, he looked " down in the month."; An Irish lover remarked that is a great pleasure to be alone, especially when your " swateheart is wid ye." It is a bad sign when a fair girl asks you to hold a skein of wool?she evi dently wishes to slip through your fln Anything Midas touched was turned to gold. In these dsys, touch a man with gold, and he'll turn into any thing. Out of the total population of 3ft,- * 000,000, the French oensus shows a to tal of 13,000,000 who oan neither read nor write. ' A Wisconsin paper says of Sumner: " He was a great statesman, and if he borrowed a dollar he didn't forget to retain it." We have heard of but one old woman who kissed her oow, but there are theusands of young ones who have kiss ed great calves. . * Tv they can't crusade at Dubuque. An $ ordinanoe of that oity provides that tliare shall be no singing ox loud talk ing in" ' : on aooount of nice That sNs a sansible old chap in 1 In a recent trial in Baltimore it was shown that patent medicine men get almanac oertifloates of the wonderful virtues of their medicines for fifty cents per head. Dlinois has extended to married wo men every right but fchat of suffrage. Thej can keep their own earnings, and transact business with their husbands as With strangers. The Wisconsin newspapers report that birds-eve and curly maple logs are shipped from Green Bay to New York, to be manufactured: into veneerings for walls, to take the plaoe of paper hang ings. Miss Cousins tells s St. Louis Timt* reporter that the way to put down the saloons is for all young ladies to resolve never to reoeive attentions f'om any young man whose breath is tainted with alooholio perfumes. A man who beheld an accident at Virginia,Nev., whereby another person lost his leg, was so shocked lhat his black hair turned gray on the spot, and he grew so faint as to remain for some time in a helpless condition. Temperance has been triumphant in Lookport, New York, formerly a profit able locality for rum sellers. The peo ple have not only stopped drinking, bnt voted that there shall be no more licen ses. The New York Editorial Associa tion sheets at Lookport this season. A lady in Lake City, Florida, has grown in her garden a genuine cork, tree thirty feet high, the bark on whioh is sufficiently thiok to make bottle corks. There is also in the same gar- " den a genuine black pepper hash, whioh yields regularly a full crop of . the berries. Texes is rapidly reoovering credit ? since the overthrow of the carpet bag Administration. * Qov. Cook advises every person who holds a just claim for money against Texas that it is worth ? every dollar it calls 4or, and if he will only hold it one hundred days he will' < scot his money. ? ?*. .? The North Adams transcript tells of * a young lady there Who was troubled with a sore tongue and* consulted a physician, who at onoe pronounced it a case of sunburn. The voluble lady was ohagrined, and there were evident and immediate symptoms tfenriPthe tongue waa growing worse. ?unshinl of the season o# an zbdianapolis a love letter thus : the dish it square, the next State fair. 4 /fog, the dram ahall y, and we'll fo dancing all the wtf. pUy, aa Answer \S.