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. I MKIi - ?? . w* - . K .U * *? c.i :> .or fc , - - ? 8 . " ii XTt - j .rbtfr if j ?? - ? !! rr , .jivV b+r*. ?' " "?~ "? - - ? ^iMly. s?', ? " " ? FRANK P. BEARD, jpqpjOB *xn> PionvoB. it ? h! ? i. ? DEVOTED. TO THE jpnflBpW-OP KERSHAW OOUNTT. TERMS :?92.00 rii ANltac, n* adt./lnc*. ? . n y* * - 5 ? VOL.1. - -?? T ' T CAMDEN, ? S. C., ^FEMESDAY, JULY 1, 1874. ? : T^fc NO. 39. The Sands of . ^ " O, Utnr, go oall the cattle home, And call the oattle home, And ceil the oattle home, Acroee the eadde of Dee." The western wind wee wild end dark with foem, And ell alone weut ehe. The weetern tide orept np Along the send, And o'er end o'er the send. And roand end round the send, As far art eye could eee, The rolling mint oame down end hid the land And never home came ehe. Oh! ia it weed, or fiah, or floating hair, A trees of goldfo hair, A drowned maiden's hair, Above tho nets at sea ? Wm ever aalmon jet that ahone ao fair, Among the atakes at Dee ? , .? v, a They rowed her m acroee the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the eea : But a till the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, AcroBB the Bande of Dee. ?"* * ? '1 IN THE HOSPITAL. A low-roofed room, in a quiet house, in a quiet country town near the bor der* of South Wales. Two ladies pres ent. Mrs. Vaughan, the elder of the two, took up the paper and read aloud'for the seoond time? "On the 15th inst., at Malta, by the chaplain of the regiment, John Wal ters, captain in Her Majesty's Fifty third Foot, to Amy Kerr Donaldson, only child of Philip Donaldson, of Kerr Manor, Dumfriesshire, and 16Belgrave square, London." " Edith," she said at last, V it as fool ish to take it in that way. I thought you had more spirit, I did indeed." .* There was no answer?nothing but the long, quivering sobs ; .audii she spoke again, rather unoowfortably this time. . "Iam half sorry I showed it to you ; but I didn't think yon would have oared so much. And, really, to go on believing in a man who has forgotten all, about you, and I don't believe ever really loved " ?? Oh, Bets, don't, don't I" broke in a childish, imploring voioe, half Strang! in sobs " X cannot beu, ft, , QhJ Jy fhtertwined fingers which supported It. . J , , " These violent, childish eoon quiet themselves," the widow said to herself, as she went away, dosing the door behind her ; and slie was When, a oouple of hours later, she re turned to the room, Eolith's grief waa Suite quiet. The girl was lying in a ead faint on the floor, the newspaper still olenched in her small, soft hand. Edith and Mrs. Yaughan were sis-( ters-in-law, the latter havtn#- .married Qarrett Yaughan, the girl's elder brother,-half a doaen years back ; Imt her husband was dead now, and Edith, who had lived with him ainoe her parents' death, oontinhed to /Jive on with his widow. Jack Walters, oaptain in the Fifty third Foot, paid them a visit, ^ He had known Beatrice Yaughan be fore her marriage, when she waaa gay young London beauty and he a beard leas ensign; and in those days there had been talk of a flirtation between the dark-eyed Miss Tfelawnsy and gay Jack Waiters. Bat it had oetne to nothing ia the end, BeatHoe making a much better match by marrying young Dctetor Yaughan, the fashionable physi cian of St. Gnrthold's-oo-Bea. , It was so easy to Edith to k>*e those about her, that it was littl# wonder that Jack Walters soon made himself mas ter of the tender little heart, so * recti and unstained in its virginal simpl but when one day, Mrs. Yaughan out he took an opportunity of telli Edith that she haa woo him so entire.^ that he eould have no seat or happiness till she hsd promised to be his wife, the little girl eould hard]/ believe him, and raised a pair of such wondering, forget me-not ?*yss to her tall lover's faoe that he almostsmiled aa>fh*said : TT ? yon, and yon I tor me." Ivthe news aa| s gone by rht to her : Hi neck lace of her pretty 1 lady's neck, poured wonderfulj oy and \ very naturally, an ?? of *y?ftpeth$..'tais howyi F.iilinpr, however, that she ought nc Yaughan (who had ill-health W^iy.-n told's as for a And so these young lsvsm y rated, and, for a tim ?hi months they ren went anfrlly ^ tkree wests tinoe Edith - ok whdt she t - " girVhkhAr ?_ ' epistle a* tbtre ; for hsg last letter had told hint ^ rSra^'n.-^ ^ and she would haive written again Ao reproach hi in had?not Mr*. Vaughan toid her that men hated to be soolded for not writing. It ?u nrvttn they waited Week after week, tn vain that Edith-wrote a?ain. They heaflsd incidentally of balls and Raiatiaa at Malta, later of Lieutenant Wsiters't ? long-looked for promotion, ana. (later still of the. regiment being ordered to Corf a ; but no word oame from the fickle lover himself; nor was there anv itroier'xnention of him tin, barely act months after his departure, Mrs. Vaughan ease into the sitting room one day with an open newspsper An her Mad, and oalling the now pale and saddened girl to her aide, first told her gently thai she was. the bearer of bad news, and then read her the para graph already qhoted. Edith Vanghan did not recover from her fainting fit for many hours, and when oonsoiousaees did return, the doo tor who had been called in gave strict injunctions that no agitating topic shorn? bo alluded to in her presenoe. The poor ohild seemed complexly crushed, and lay quite still and sflenr, submitting to ail Mrs. Vaughan's care and petting with the mute impassive neaa of a statue., And when on the following day, Mrs, Vaughan said to hei* : ** Edith, dear, I sm going to take you away. I>? you think, if Preston packs your things, you will be able to travel to-morrow t" n? - She only answered, ^ Yes, Beta." It came to pass that when Mrs. Vaughan, congratulating Edith on the improved appetite and spirits her resi dence in London had given her, pro posed returning home again, she was met by an unexpected obstacle. She, indeed, might go ; but Edith ^iad set her heart on remaining and beooming one of the sisters in the modest little House of Moray over which a new-found friend held wise and gentle sway. Mrs. Vaughan let net stay. It was a year of great events and greater trorrtne. The Crimean war had broken oot,ju?d alrealyjthe 017 waxed loud that4*edeatb-rwrof soldiers was mounting to a fearful pitch for want of common,- care and woman nurses. Cholera and fever were lying low those the sword had spared. Then uprose to supply-Ahia want?Florenoe Night ingale. At thn bead of her little band of nurses, -she threw herself into the ' 1 and, etimnlstsrt by * _ kndlour of her 'sisters. Now,'one el these four was Edith Vanghan, ?l>1iad been intended to take only vuawtt of middle age and 6x perienoe hi Sickness; but Edith pleaded so hard and AMaifigh to be allowed to accompany* them, that at last the Sapenor yielded. And bo the young girl set to work bravely,?and had already won many a blessing from rain-wrong man, many a word or pfaiae from busy surgeons, for her gentiey patjpnt helpfulness, whan one day, beigy Aptyed to assist in ban daging a wounded offioer just brought in, she shrank back from the bed, aa white as death and half fainting ; for in the gh*aUj? unconscious man, whose mutilated arm the doctor waa holding, aha recognized the oause of all her sorrow anal exile?Jack Walters. M Not dangerous," said the sargeon, examining the wounded arm. ** Oh, dear, no l??b?t nasty hurts, teo< The lad haa.been lying in one ef those wretched tents outside the eamp for three days ; and so, in addition to his arm, haa got a touch of fever, which we muat look to. A brave lad, too, poor fellow 1 and will be miaaed in the regi ment when?hallo I nurse, your hsnds are shaking again. Aren't you all right yetiiiiii^iiiiM ? a " I thought you said the wounda weae not dangerous," Edith faltered, her lips whiter than ever. " No, not the wounds, but fever might be dangerous; aad suybow, what oould a man with his sword-arm crushed d<f fn irwgttfentr? Now, look here, nurse, 1 leave him in your eharge for to-night. Thrt^j is nothing to do bnt keep him oool, change the bandagea if required, and give him a drink now and then ; bnt I won't have you leave hia for anyone else, no matter who catll 1 yon ; and (oat ait still, and keep yoWr heart, child* we can't afford to nave you get aiek." * ' Edith only aaw, she only notioed one thing?/ank. Poor Jack 1 lying thefft with Ma 2 bonny faoe all InUIte 4R drawn, wfth a (treat cnt ou hfa'head from which the blood ooaed slowly, dotting toother the browr* en r 1 g which loeka in d large tear gathering in each fell on the olinehed brown hi lay so helples&lj on the coarse let. r "Poor Jack! poor Jack 1* mttti the little thing, pitifully ; and J-' I suppose she had forgotten ~ for one of the tell-tale da her eyes as it glittered on wrist, she stooped and kissed ?cry quickly and gently. No know whether there wis that kiss, gebtle as it aroused some nerve in Jsek's but it most certainly woke him the psaeefnl sleep Edith's gentte i trations had procured him ; and _ she raised her head, Jack's eyes W open and his'volos, rery feeble, but _ old voioe still, said, wonderingly? Edith r ? - tl Poor little Edith t She oould haye sunken to the ground, in her embarses ment,at being so discovered; but she tried to forget that the eyes regarding her were those of her ex-lover?tried to forgef that she herself was anything but the] hospital curse at Scutfcn, and answered, in soft, steady tonee-^ ?' Hush ! you must not talk, or you win make yourself worse. You are very ill." ? 1 " 111 1" Jack repeated, more wonder ingly still; and if ill, be yet gave satis factory proof of his strength not being quite gone, by putting out his hand an) drawing Edith, despite her reluctance close to him?"111! why, I must be mad, raving mad; or?Edith, is thdb you*; My God ! it can't be fancy." ? " No, no ; it is Edith," the girl said, soothingly. " Don't look ao troubled Jack, or I mast go away. The. dootof said yoa were to he kept quiet." , ^ He did not pay the least attention to her worts* but lay holding her fast, and gasping for breath ; but when she was nilent, he aaid, quickly?"Go on. Speak to me again, or I can't believe it ?uph? 1 turn, Edith knelt down, and raised his head on her arm, begged him. in her soft, cooing tones not to excite himself. She was there to nurse him and ?only that. It was her pvofeaaion and he must try to get well soon for sake of?all who loved hint. ?ovl& not Bay wife s Bake.") you a ni mora . anna 1 and out hero I waa not for thia you gave me " Gave you up 1 Oh, Jack So far had Edith got, when she mo ollected his feeble state, and srid no more; but Jack heard the half-uttered protest, and felt the passionate throb bing of the heart against whioh his aehuig head rested. He waa a jealous and quick-tempered man : but pain is a wonderful subduer, and Jack had had ptins of mind as well as bod, the p.:** ?ear. He made up 1 now to fcnbw whether there e naa naa e any . , W cure for the former, or none. "Edith," he said, "stoop your fsos lower. Let me look at you. It it y?2&a* yon know me, Jack ?" "Aye, even in this place and that dreaa. There are none like you, little one. Oh, Edith, when you'oeaaed to love me,why were you not frank enough to write and tell me so ? Why did you let me go on writing and writing, and never aet^ me a word of answei ? Do you know that if the war had not broken out I would have risked my oomtniasion to see you again, and end my misery of ^suspense ? Love, did yon never think thst I suffered? It was cruel. " I don't know what you mean, Taok," the girl answered, her innooent eyes wide open with a wonder even he oould not misinterpret. "I was hever cruel, or ?eased to love you?how ootild I ??and I wrote to you long after your letters Ceased. Jack, you know I did." "Edith, is that true?" She only lookad at him, but the mute I reproach was touohiny in its ohildliks dignity.' His hot fingers tried to here, as he begged her pardon, and added?-"But, Edith, forgir* me for I not understanding. I am very #eak in 'my head just new ; but I love you?eo de%rl.v ?yon witt be psMentwith nsl tfUL jou not? If you, too. lore me tU.il), then you ue mine still; and why," ; 'drawlrig her closer to him, "do von aftrtnk away MidflpeBk so ooldl r ?" nma oora? m ^r?tx rif*ai, nni uuv^pvr* nifltonV' ppeninf? of her crnrl heart wound wan too much, and the tear* rnshed oat fast and free as she aaawer ?? ?r%e??aar^" can I be yoUn still? Jan. don | now; hat,Brink of y<WMftT * . My wile I" For one moment W Walter*.looeed Ida at ha* MtSM?ata? to IPMBH ...Jii? For with the ftoflielomrifeeg of edihe terrible black ol<m t of error suddenly molting nwwy, *>.Uh bed qnito hmksa down end wae kiKCUn* a* hi* w,*&s&?uxn~k. mm hie strength was ebbing andhefonn.l it haWS* the fa** his in tto old 4y?M-H1i? oawad toieohety here, and t can't talk 1 yon m I cursad treachery hm, a Sfi}SlS? ET KS se* fldithT ' ^ fthe tried to answer ?'T?r,M trig the )ey to Mr Mes spoke first S*' Th?n Ui?* mo ?&()? UtlSi iittA ?rWVT [*?&*?* *~^utMSr - ? And Edith put her fresh lips to his, -and kissed him with * prompt obedience which vi| promising for her married life; after wnioh J acx went to aleep so itably, that yon ? ?? tttaiu are ng as well *a-ww*Ieniftg kisses, d^h began to reooglrize the kind of the dootor in providing that ^screen. Had he done otherwise, I fear Kb* pveoeding scene might have rather astonished the other nurses and patients. e ? 4, ? * Jack and Edith had not long to .wait for an explanation of the cruel error which baa nearly blighted their two | lives; for on the following day the | English mail came in, bringing news of Mrs. Tsughan's death ; as also a letter ! written to her .by that lady when dying, and in whioh she oonfessed, with much penitence, that it was she who had woven the plot to part the two young loveA. " I oared for Jack before ever I mar ried yoar brother," she wrote, " and I thought he cared for me; but he was so poor, and I hated poverty? so I threw him over for Garrett Vaughan. And afterwards, wben Jaok came back to find xae a widow, and I thought I could afford to indulge my heart and be hap py, you stepped in. I think a devil possessed me ; for when I stopped that long letter of yours to him?telling him of what day you would be in England ?I had no aim beyond giving him a temporary disappointment. It was only when his angry note came, and I aaw how little it needed to make a breach, that I resolved to go on. I never thought ol winning hin^ again. I only wished to punish him for leav ing me ; and in a lesser degree yon for taking him. That totter you gave me td post I burnt, and, so I did the sec ond r besides intercepting all that came from him. Ton wsre so simple, Edith, yon would trust in me so implicitly, that it was mere child's plsy to ontwit yon? and if I had not really thought yon might easily make a better match, i should have pitied you. Bnt onoe started, i couldn't leave off; and the idea of the advertisement came to me ***" an inspiration. I actually saw one ' ting the marriage ef a Captain in the FiftaHSfthpart ol whioh, uwuu ?iiB|iuuofy was nt ?u ouu , *91 TOOT long Buffering surprised and shocked me. I sWear to jou my life sin oe has been one long remorse; and jet, though 1 felt you would meet him when you wrote me you were go ing to Seo^NCit and though I would sot a ay anothjfeprord 4a prevent you, I oould not^Kttfess whet I had done while I lived. - I spa dying now, nd I aek 70m to forgive me?if not a* onoe, later, when you end he are happy to gether. Ton will hare nothing to wait for now, for all I have ifr-youra.* "Poor, poor BeU ! * w*s aU Edith said df rpproval, **M she fblded up the letter, together with a brief note from the family surgeon at St. GurthoRT*, Baying that Mr?Vaughan " 1 a atfwt * pi red, after a sHWt but ^ and wh^n Jack would have thing harsher, sfc4 but her r his mouth, and sahL" Oh, Jack, ft BememW she is dead ; and we sre happy no% Let us try and forgive ?Ju kissed the tyrannous fingers; but not being aa ffentle as hie little love would not give the desired promise, only by ana by'he grumbled out? "Nothing to wait lor ! I suppose we must wait till my arm Is healed, arid my confounded legs are strong enough to carry me to ehuroh." ? And ?o they did : bnt the legs got strong wonderfully Boon : for it Wan not throe weeks from that day bfefo|6 peo ple in 9t Gurthold's were reading the a<feount of a strictly private wedding in the English ohapel at Boutari, and lock ing forward to the return oJ*oMn~ Va?|iutfsajster and her husbfta* to tile old hoffci in High street. ? - ym # Hanstroket. ^ The season is now near at hand when divers" people will iw volunteering in formation aa to how. tunafcrok* may be avoided. Bome of the idea* expressed are quite amnsing, if nut useful, as ffiTneww^^^a * S3 of a case of sunatroke??rrHfce* by the himself. >.After suMring a lopg and having to a considerable dP-i ray. He the A Penalj trial* Barn. The .Pennsylvania Darn is a synonym for capacity, convenience, and coono aay, and tb?VMSig|ngfr disproportionate sire of aonie of them to the small num ber of acre* which suffice to fill them is a proof of the fertility of the soil, as well as the skill of the farmers who cul tivate it The following is, I fear, *n unsatisfactory description of a barn built by Mr. 8. N. Rowland, a farmer of Vincent, Chester County : The main barn is 74 feet long by 60 feet wide, and 24 feet high from 'floor to plate, with a basement underneath of 9 feet. There are two drive-ways side by side upon the main floor, one raised sever* feet abcrve the level of the other, so that when the bay is filled from, one drive-way the whole of the floor isfllled from the other, and the bsy upon the other side. Thus the space which is usually appropriated tor a drive floor, and so lost, is utilized and made to hold a quantity of hay seven feet in thick ness. Beneath the upper drive floor are the grain bins, places for chaff, and funnels, by which hay or straw is pass ed to the stables below. There is a wing attached to the barn 62 feet long bv 32 feet wide, afcd 16 feet high to the plates, with a 10-foot basement beneath for cattle. The front of this basement is supported upon posts set upon stones, and is dpen to the barnyard, making a fine shelter for oattle ana oover for ma nure. The wing is divided into two mows, each 23 feet wide and 32 feet long, and a drive-way 16 feet wide be tween them. One or these mows com municatee with the main barn, and id msed to hold the straw from the thrash ing-machine. The thrashing is done upon the upper floor of the main barn ; the straw is then pitched over the beam into this mow in the wing, while the clean grain is run down into the bins, and the chaff into the chaff-room be neath the floor. A eovered bridge-way leads t<i the upper floor in the main barn, and beneath this bridge-way is the cart-house and store-room for tools. Adjoining the cart-house there is a root oellar, with doorway into the feed en tries in the basement, and over the root oellar is the granary, 28 feet long by 18 feet wide. The barn is built upon a hillside, with a slope of eight feet in fifty; the front drive-way rises 2j feet, ana, by reason of the slope of the mud, it is brought up to the level of therefore, from the npper main b?m floor into the wing is pitched down, and not up, saving a great deal ,of labor. At the east end of the main barn the floor joists project sufficiently to form the foundation for a oorn crib. At the end of the wing is a sheep-house, 24 feet long. The whole range of build ings is therefore 164 feet long, and fur nish per fact protection to the yards and the farm-house from the north and weat winds. Cattle Md Piers Eat Fish. The Bangor Whig and Cottrlar gives a description of the smelt fisheries at Winterport, Me., which oomifiSn6e abont Mfe 1st of November, and termi ni ate about the middle of Maroh. An idea of the extent of the bnainesa may be formed from thdlact that the Katah din has taken in one trip thirty-five tbns of smelts, or something more than 1,000,000 filhea. There are 300 ox 400 men employed altogether in this work, and thfe seaaon it haa been very profita ble. The price haa ranged from fifteen W> twenty oente per pound, Mid single neta have returned the owners in some instances upward of $800. The total quantity taken this winter will reach several hundred tone, bringing in a handsome revenue of more than $20, 000 for this buMheas of #inter falling on the Penobscot. Xjfrget|uantltfes of tom-ood are taken Ih Che nets, the larg est of which are sent to "New York, and the rest sold to farm art to feed swifts, or ftft Manure.-dOwing to the high price of grain, farmers oome from hdistance to get these fi?h for their hegs, thus saving other food for their cattle, though some of the latter wilf eit the fish raw find frozen, and *he?p ar? *akV to like metn i n this ?y. A number of primitive eettl?sfits nave grown up in )a?ction with#ieae fisheries, ancF at. ?ettU)^"' an* "hauling* time the >iver S5*everal bnstliug and Ua^rjMne wi ers at ju*k wVlBr nets. hi- n*ok in and clinging to not hav? Facts and Fancies. \ I * Daring destroys, genius elevstes, good sense preserves and perfects. . Don't lat water wash off rich soil and deteriorate the fertility of the lsnd. The young ladj that everybody wants and yet nobody wants?JIiB(9)fortune. Look out for the best aspects of a man as yoa do for the views in country. ? *? Contentment, which protects its ? taries from baseness, is better tha opulence, which exposes its owners disdain. . The reflection of the son from the ooucv*vo botiom ofa Milk-can came near oanaiflf a disastrous conflagration aft Palmyra, Wis. A boy in Burlington, says the llawk Eye, wants to bet a dollar and. a half that he wears his mothers slipper on his jaoket mare hours per day than she wears it on her foot. A Frenoh Canadian, unable to sneak a word of English, was married aft Ottawa last week to a girl who couldn't speak a word of French. They antici pate unspeakable happiness. The editor of a religious paper says, 1 " In ordinary cases the bent doctor you can have is the mother or grandmother, who has piloted through the rocks of infantile disease a whole family." A Duluth paper says one of the streams running into Lake Superior from the north is called Temperance river, because it is the only one of the tributaries of the l&ke that has no bar at its mouth. Some thief entered the sleeping apartment of a young lady in Louis ville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, and cut off and carried awaj the long braid of her "rich dark-brown hair" on the right side. It is not a pleasant bit of information to impart, but we have it from a reli able naturalist that mosouitoes are to be larger and more blood-thirsly than ever, owing to the moirt spring. Up with your canopies. - In Myrap, Allamakee county, Iowa, a little q^ild named Haslip fell in a well reoently. Its mother, hearing its cries, workea her way to tne bottom of the well, caught the ohild's clothing in her teeth, ana olimbed with it to the top. A Hartford ow keeps agenda. toy his kitchen door, and wheney tramp oomes about and begs for% ner, he is requested to earn it by ging four feet square in the garden, but the tramp invariably refuses to pay this Brioe. ' ^ They tell of a hen that floated down the raging tide of Mill River in a barrel, setting on nineteen eRgs. She attended striotlT to business during the flood, fi nally brought up in a friendly harbor, and has sinoe left her barrel with nine teen ohiekens aft her heels. ~ A lady who reoently died in a town near Bangor expressed great fear, be fore ber death, that her bodv would be exhumed and diaaeoted by the doofcors, and ahe left $60 to pay a man for watoh ing her grave every xughft for a month after she was buried. The provisions of her bequest w<re carried onft, and every night the faithful watchman may be seen at hie post. top. xw >y Can Ton Afford It t Can yon afford to work lftrd all day, and read, study, or oonrt the vagaries ; of aooiety all night, ^hus wasting yonr ?itality, exhausting your nervous sys tem, and bringing on premature di#? ease, dfeoaj and old kge ? 10 Can you afford to eat hastily, and then rash to study or business, with drawing the nervous energy from the digestive system to the brain and muffles, and thus induoing dyspepsia, in afeit years si moat, to soourge and haunt and make you assemble, for years onto life 7 ? Can you afford to live on rioh or highly-seasoned food, eat champagne suppers, because an artificial appetite i# nas gratified, rendering dyspepsia, goat, apoplexy, in the middle of life, "almost a oertaiuty ? u- . ^ Can you afford to ?ommitsnieldo through Ike indnlgenoe of apfwtite and passion, adopting the fool's motto, ??A short Ufe and a merry one?" ? Oan^you afford |o indulgKis Hr Sn^pJjading rapidly country, and , that he i many, and inieed ih a sl4hia