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? ? ? Gazette ? ? ?*?? ? ? ? ? ???? ' p ii ' FRANK PBEABD, Publisher" BEJU8TAND FEAR NOT. _!?. 1 VOL. XI. CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1884. TWO DCLL/RS A YtAR. NO. 1". Her*tjaw fcette. THE PEOPLE'8 PAPER. POBLMBK0 AT CAMDEW, I, O. FRANK P. BEARD. Publisher To Correspondent*. All communication* for thl* paper should befte* ?ompanlcd Ujr the muAe of tho aatbor, not n?ce? sarlly fur publication, but u an evidence of goof faith ?u the par?. of the writer. Wrltootily on one - *1d* of the p?i>or. Be particularly carofu 1 In girl of names and date* to ha?*o the letter* plain and dis tinct. * AN ANGEL SIDE. The hngo, rough trtono from out tho mine, ? Unsightly and Unfair, Has veins of purest metal litd Bmioutb tho t>urfacu there. Few rock* so baro but to 1 heir height Some tiuy ni *y plant oUurs. And round tho i eak ho oosolato Tho tea bird sits and tings. BoUevo me, too, that rugged soul/ Beneath their rudeneas hide Much that iu beautiful and good ? "We've all our au<;vl side." ? Boston Pott. Joe Sinudd's Experience. Very ninny flights of stairs had to be climbed ? rickety, dirty, old, rot-eaten -stairs tlicy wero? before a visitor could rcqch the uppermost floor (there wore no . elevators in those days), in the furthest and smallest room of which Joe Smudd, tho cobbler, lived, toiled and rejoiced. Joe wo h a hard worker, vet while on his seat hammering out strips of leather to proper tenuity and solidity, or in ?tre tcuing scams, or in other employment of his craft he was never at a loss for a tune to whistio or a vorsc to sing; and, although ho sought not work ? nover went out of his little room in search of it?ho was seldom without a half or whole dozen broken-down feet coverings to repair. n Of courso they were neighbors who entromzod .Too Smudd, and for reasons int were good in themselves. Thcv wero : his obliging disposition, low prices, good work and promptness, aud added to theso, a song sung in a voice as clear f>. and as sweet as thut of a silver-tongued ? canary. ' a Joo Smudd was, so his neighbors said, a 'splendid singer." aud it pleased him to hoar thorn praise his cobbler work and his voice? not that ho thought, him self a better mechanic than hundreds who doiwndcd on thoir awl for a living and making what fortune favored them - with last. ' "Of course Joe Smudd waa not a pun ster. Ho despised playing on words. Ho was simply a sole-mender, and a sweeter and better singer than he know. It was, perhaps, well that ho was not wise in this last particular. ?l,t? just now, work was slack, and Christmas was at hand. To Joo Smudd tho first fact was un usual. v As ho sat on his bench and pondered and sang, he wondered what had hap pened? -why it was he had no shoes to patch up, no boots to hoel and toe, nor odd jobs to do with welting and upper and quarter, in-sole and out-sole. I Joo Smudd was not discouraged. Not ho. He only wondered, tlint was all. I Well, he rather liked it, for it gnvo him the opportunity ho had long been seek ing, to study tho words of a soug he had heard a few weeks beforo whittled and i sung by eomo unknown person? a queor, I little old man with green goggles mounted on his nose, nnd who, as Tie hazily and huskily voiced the notes, looked steadily into Joes kindly face, and vehemently Btruck the flagging with his stall in time to the rise aud fall of the notes. And now, as Joe ran his eyes over the printed words and sang the time correct Iv and sweetly, he bethought him of the littlo old man with his comical action, and laughed. ' a low, round, good-natured chuckle that wcllod up from Joo Sinudd's ' throat when ho recalled tho action and tan t air* 6 l? 8l,)gcr' with his imPor> When he had finished the last lino of tho Bong ho murmured: 41 Well, that's a nice tune anyhow, and , mo ftln,0Ht ,M Rood as the air. la like that old gentleman whom I first hcardBing it to listen to mo, and toll mo whether it a all right." Hardly had Joe Smudd uttered theeo words when, to his great surprise, the , lamp by which lie had read tho lines of ' tho song began gradually to grow dim .y: mer, nnd thon, with a spurt, go out, leav ?' him in total darkness. ' Whew!" cried Joe. "That's funny? S?2iy 1 ft? la,rnl)- 11 ncvor did so bo v foro} and I doclaro I thought an it went out I eaw tho old gout leman with gogglos on his nose and his big stick in standing there boforo mo I" Did yon, nowl" a v6ieo, to Joe's groat coiistornntion, cried. ? Well, what i' ^<1, Joo Smudd? j Ha t ha! Don't t]ieros A tloor to your worn, a window to look out of, and a falP ? ^ which tho smoke from your littlo stove may Ascend to tho air? 21a I Smudd, you don't Syjgy ,?k?v d? ???. when A ' ln tGli yo? what, Joe, it a Christmas, and you'vo a grand voice, Jl0w ??uch money havo you savc<i rr u 11 tiiis time Inst year? Toll mo that, Joe Smudd. Homl I want to know ft. D'ye hear?" # i ? ol<* gontjeman, at tho Oloso of his oration, struck tho baro floor thrra or four tlmro. with l.l? bl? rnnc, m if desirous of giving Vloublo aud treble emphasis to his words. Joe Smudd, by this time, had forgot ten ho was talking to an intruder, and that too. inthodnrk. ' With ? ohcerful laugh He answored : ?' Iv0 ^,8t ,nR<1? thread-ends L* 338*, m I'TO waxod happy and ham SSEeLJ?!* R.g00d ilv,n?- '"Olvidliig an SSfr !!#n! p,Dt? now Sfrly ? ' 1 and t00cl lt Bmudd !?? almost screamed tho old man; "and that's all V; yeu ve4ono with that volco of youfrst" V* whrtie Vy* dono? wouding and T 1 18 T no^> customers' shoos. And I d?l)o plonsed to heol and solo yours whenover you want them fixed, and I wont chnrgo you over much. Always open for a lob." "**! I'shaw! Boo-oo!" cried tho visitor, in most extraordinary fashion, raising his voioo to a scream that ox wondorful amount of contempt Smudd |^nH " Oo,no wi,h mr)> Joe " You," replied tho cobbler. " Whv ' ? U.H? Hk0, fu7? tho wind Is whistling and dancing round thp corners of the streets, nnd driving the 5 ?nd blinding Cti" ?"<? ??>?"?? pooplo? Kvel" yniiml tho olil man, as if in n fury. "And you want to ?Shi?h?!!2 b hit of a room! tomo with mo, Joe, D'ye hear? Come!" nnAw{h" w'" Ho tri d to demur to summon up a liSKL but, vJ w?f ,of no use. joe Smudd found himself rising from his sont, mun it, itoc n ou<>ht "to havo a A j f Wain* a bo* of .natohoa ho struck ??HTC ono. It ignited, and flared up (he mil lionth part of a second ? just long enough for him to see what appeared to bo a pair of goggles of immense size and a head covered with a shaggy cap, and when ho had lighted a second match, which also iustantly ceased to burn, he thought ho f>crceived, raised high over his heud, a mgo stick ? very much like the ono he had seen iu tho hands of tho littlo man t when he first heard tho air of the song j he had sung onlv that it appeared moro like n giant's staft than a walking cane. And now, do what Joe Smudd would, ond ho labored persistently and desj)er- I ately, tho locofocqs would not ignite, or, if they did, would sputter a little, flare up. and then darkness followed. | ? "Well, muttered Joe, "I never saw tho liko of it before. It's funny." ?? "Yes, it is ? very," said., the queer visitor, sarcastically. "Now, when you have burned all your mntchcs, aud can fiud no other excuse, you'll perhaps com ply with my request." "Hut," cried Joe, with a little show of indignation, "I can't go into the street, iu the midst of a snowstorm, with tho wind biting and whistling around one's ears, and without ray hat and coat and boots ? can I?" Tho irascible visitor laughed shrilly and pounded the floor with his staff. When he had arrived at the conclusion that he hud laughed enough, tho littlo man said ; "Joe Smudd, you aro a fool, an idiot, a donkey, a goney, an ass! But you have a voice." "Why, what have I done?" demanded Joo. "Hal lml Why, vou'vo been talking about your coat and hat and boots," was the answer. "And, heboid ! you have them all on you, and ? why, Joo Smudd, you're dressed like a gentleman 1" "I?" queried the now bewildered cob bler. "To be sure ? to be sure you arc. I never saw a gentleman better dressed. Why, man, whero were you going beforo took tho liberty of entering this olegau studio? To visit some grand lady, doubt less, and entrance her with your voice 1 lia! ha! Joe Smudd, you are a hypocrito ? yes a hypocrito, sir I" "I ? I?" persist od tho cobbler. "You're mistaken. I'm not dressed. IIow could I be? I have just left oil work ? that is, a minute ago ? that I might learn that sweet, song of yours. " "Well, never mind, Joo Smudd," re plied his visitor; "I won't argue further with you about dress. You're all right. Take my arm and assist mo Xo the bottom of your terriblo breakneck Btairs, and there we'll find a carriage awaiting us." Joo, feeling it would uc moro comfort able for him to sing his new song alone, gladly assented to the invitation to con duct the sarcastic intruder to the street, at once otlered him his support. It was not an easy task to descend Tho crooked fight* in the dark with a stranger hanging heavily on an arm of tho guile less mender of shoes. But the cordwainer, being accustomed to every turn, succcedod without acci dent in getting to the lower hall. When they had reached tho sidewalk tho carriage was there, drawn up in front of the door. To it wore attached four splendid horses, their hides glossy and black ns night. There was a coachman and footman in brilliant and costly livery standing near tho open door of the vehi cle, prepared to hand them to the soft and warm seats within tho cosy body thereof. Joe shrank ba#k when tho little man, in an cxhuherant manner, waving his stick in the fashion tho conductor of an orchestra swings his baton, invited him to precede him in tho carriage. "Can't do it, sir," said Joo Smudd, more determinedly than he had been at any time during tho interview. "Look 1 I'm not dressed.'' "Hah! I say you arc. Soc, thoro's the gas light, ond hero." and the .ittlc man ran to tho carriage and took out of it a mirror ? "look at yourself, and if you aro not attired like a prince I'll ? I'll cat you! Hal ha!" Joo looked, as invited. v Ho started back, overwhelmed with amazement. "Could it ho him!" he mentally cried. "Is that me, Joo Smudd? Why, I'm splendidly dressed, and mv faco is shaved? and? and ? " ho added, as he drow from a small pocket in his trousers, to which was attached a costly chain, a largo gold watch 1 While doing this ho saw something glitter and scintillate in tho light. Ho looked again, and on one of his fingers was a magnificent diamond ring. "Well, I novorl" ho exclaimed. "When, Vvhoro did I got thoso things ? and how?" "By your voico," answered tho littlo man, throwing his stick fifty foot in tho air and fairly catching it on tho end of his noao as it foil. "Now, Signor Smud diol Hal ha! That's- good I From Joo Smudd to Ouleoppo Smuddio. Pray, signor, enter. Beauty, wealth, popu larity await you in tho palace of tho muses? -tho homo Of cultivated harmony in east Fourteenth street. Hal ha I Allons, signor I" Joo foltnimsolf pulling up and swell ing with his importance. llo had not, so ho thought, boon moro than comfortably acatad in tho carriago, when ho found himsoll' standing helpnd tho footlights of tho stage of a vast theatre. Beforo him wero thousands of faces. Thero wero cagor, expectant faces everywhere, and noar. as leader of tho orchestra, swinging in tho air his big stick, was the queer littlo man who had insisted upon his honoring tho occasion. And as no stood in tho vast presence, choer upon ehoor greeted the cobbler. Itrnuginhls ears like a mighty storm of sound. Then thoro camo at tho end of It * tremendous crash of music. Big drum and littlo drum, buglonnd trumpet, clarionot and serpont, ond fifty other in struments sent forth ono mighty and harmonious voioo. When tho instrumental part had been brought to a close, ' thero was a dead silence. Ho still was it that Joe Smudd, alias Oulsenjio Smuddio, could hear tho ticking of Ins watch, tho beating of his heart ! "Sing! Ring, Signor Smuddio; D'ye hear!" screamed tho littlo man, rising and throwing hi* stick with a furious gesture upward until it struck the ceiling, and whleti on falling hit the bald pato of the big drummer, causing that much in jured gentleman to howl with pain. Joo opened his mouth as if to sing, and. notwithstanding the audience again applauded moro doloriously thnn on his advent, never a won! or note could he got out of his throat. Thero ho stood, ns if transfixod, with his month wide open t Tho peoplo in tno parquette and boxc& and galleries, porcolving this, began to stamp; and then to hiss and groan. As this bid effect on the vocal organ of tho nnfortutato Joo, thoy commenced .hto-Ing ?l Milling egg.. rotton <???,?? and decayed cabbages at him, and taese little attentions wcro followed by howl ing and screaming and tearing up of the seats and tho tiring of all kinds of missiles at tho little conductor who had brought him to this pass, and who, it was evident, was wild with augur aud indignation. Tho marked disapprobation of tho audience grow in intensity. Pandemo nium scorned to have drifted from its anchorage into the house, and through it all, because he could not help himself or get out of the way, stood the now pitiably besmeared mender of boots and shoes. Then camo a fearful explosion, uml Joe Smudd found hims.lf shot into the nir and g?i>ig swift as a cannon hall ? but whither/ W * * * * * * "Joo! Joe!" cried a soft voice, "wak" up! What is the matter? You're tumb ling about and groaning at an awful rate." " What !" exclaimed the cobbler, as he leaped from the lloor to his feet ? " am I here? IIow came 1 in ihis room? Oh, what a relief! Where's my yold watch, my diamond finger-ring, and those splen did clothes? Lord, how they frightened me, and I couldn't sing a bit for them!'' lt Are you era/.)', Joe?" ask tho soft voice and in a sweeter tone than at first. "Crazy?" repeated the cord waiter. "Tell me, Kitty ? am I Joe Smudd, tho cobbler, or Siguor Smuddio, tho singer?" The person addressed as Klttv ? a fair, pleasant-faced girl of eighteen or twenty years ? laughed in a low, silvery voice as she answered : "Mad usn March hare! Joe, you ought to be looked up in an asylum for the demented, with the other sane people that are put therein." " So it wa$ a dream," Jcc continued. "It was just awful, Kitty, and I'm glad I'm safely out of it. What was that roar aud crash I licajd ?" " Why, you upset the stove ? you fell over it," Kitty answered. "Oh, Joe, if there had been lire in it, we'd have had a fearful time of it this awful wintei night ? and to morrow Christmas day, you know!" Joe looked at the young girl and said, in a low, hurried way: "Kitty, I have an ides. I want a beau tiful, kind, good Christmas present. l)o you know what I want, what I must havo to-morrow, Kitty? You see, I am so awfully lonely up here. Do you know I am?" The girl blushed and smiled and hast ened to change the conversation. "Tell me your dream," she said. Joe seized Miss Kitty's hanr1 On drawing her to him, he made her scat herself by his side, and then, quietly en circling her waist with his good right arm, proceeded in a straightforward way to recount the history of his adventures in that most wonderful country pf coun tries ? Dreamland. "What a curious experience, to be sure," remarked Kitty, when he had brought to a close his narrative. "Yes," Joo answered drawing Miss Kitty yet closer to him; "and it all comes of my loneliness. Mow, Kitty, I've been begging you for ever so long to take my name ? .Smudd it is ? and you've held off. Iley ? what say you to night? See, the storm's over, and there's a parson on the next block whose shoes I mend," "it's so sudden, Joe," said Kitty, de murely. "Not for a Christmas box, is it?" Kitty laughed. | "Well, here's" yours, Joe." As she spoke she gave the cobbler a smart stroke with her hand on the right ear, which, of course, he received good naturedly. Love made the cordwaincr eloquent, and it was not long? ho cunningly point ing out to the girl his extreme loneliness, and what might happen if he should havo another mch dream? before she con sented. It was yet early that Christmas eve. It might be said that before she was wholly conscious of her conduct the de mure but pitying Kitty found herself en dowed to wear, for better or for worso, with the name of Smudd. In the presence of the Rovorond Mr. Snoodson, who was indebted to Joe for sundry soles? -of leather ? tho name trans formation was mado. When Kitty's surpriso had a llttlo subsided, sho whispered to her Bene dict : "Joe, am I awake or asleep?" "Nover widor," ho answered. "And you'll be no longer lonely?" "Not a bit of it," ho returned, and with that ho gave her a kiss that almost deprived hor of her breath, so ardent was it. "We'll call it square, parson," Joo added, when ho had succeeded ingottlng his Hps away from those of Mrs. Kittv Smudd. "Very well," responded tho minister, with a laugh. ?? When Joo and Kitty returned to tho tonement ho was again astounded. Ills apartment, had, during his absence, been lighted up, a Christmas tree, set in a box, in it, and on its branches con tributions of customers and neighbors, and lots of moful gifts. Among other thirlgs "too numerous to mention," as the auctioneers say* was a gold watch, and as much like tho timcpieco ho saw In his dream as ono twin can look liko another. And there were also nico things for Kitty. Her eyes sparkled when sho saw them. "Kitty, am I awake?" ho asked, doubtingly. "Tell me for once." . "Nover wider," was tho cheerful re ply. Then the friends of tho happy pair, without pretension of any kind, but loaded with lots of good things in tho way of eatables and drinkables, flocked in, and presently , (hey ovorsproad the wholo floor, and- didn't they havo a jolly time of It, dancing and singing? And of the gathering, no one danced better or more gracefully than tho pleasant faced bride, or sang sweeter or more delightfully than the good-natured groom. ? ? + * . * 4 Now all this happened this Christmas evo ono year ago, and would you l>elievo it, although there are three of them now? including the olive branch ? Joe and Kitty's honeymoon is not ended, and folks say it never will he, which ia cu rious. If at times tho cobbler exhibits a little petulenco of temper, as the best men sometimes will, Kitty addresses him as Signor (luiseppo Hmuddio. That re stores him to good humor, and his rooms?he has more than ono now, and they are oil tho first story ?are instantly filled with tho sweeest of sweet airs, for Joo Smudd, really and truly, has a magnificent vocal organ. The now lord mnyor of London de clines to take out his state carriages and Uveris* on Sunday, bccause it would give work to hit servants, and he wishes them (o IliM ? d?y o( io?t. !& Midlife. HUMOROUS SKETCHES. Near Enough. A Michigan girl told her young man that bIig would never marry him until he was worth $100,000. Bo he started out with a brave heart to m?ke it. "How are you getting on, George?" Bhe asked, at the expiration of a fow months. ."Well," George said, hopefully, "I have saved up $22." The girl dropped her eyelashes and blushingly remarked : "I reckon that's near enough, George." 44Tl?nt'* I'lkougti ? Mland Down!" In a contest over a will a certain wit ness was giving his evidence as to the disposition of the testator. " Was he a good-natured man?" asked the attorney. " Not altogether." "Was he cross, then?" " Well, yes, rather, in placcs. "Was h<> very cross?" " Considerably." " IIow cross was he? Give us an ex ample of his disposition." "Well, sir. lie was that cross that when he called up the cows at milking time it mailc ? ><" ruiik sour." "That's enough ! Stand down !" ? Merchant- Traveler. itllNtnken Identity. A farmer, living a few miles from Alls tin, ivbo.se wife was troubled witli an ucbing tootb, decided to come in town witb her for tbe purpose of having it ex tracted, The pair took a t-eat in tbe cars, and soon after tbc train started tbo farmer walked forward into tbc smoking car, telling bis wife be would be back di rectly. "While ber husband was absent the conductor came leisurely along, ticket punch in band, and approaching the old lady, rcachrd over for her ticket, whereupon the victim of tbo toothache j opened her mouth and taught him, say- i ing: | "You needn't mind giving me chloro form, doctor; just pull it right out, any how. r can stand it, and when John comes back he'll settle with ycr." ? Sw ings. Rule* (or the Limekiln Club. Judge Cliewso arose to ask for infor mation. IIo wanted to know how strong the fraternal ties of such a club could bo considered. How far was he obligated? " Brother Cliewso," replied the presi dent, " I will read de follerin' fur your benefit: "1. All meet lieali on terms of equal ity, but do member who blacks stoves | an' saws wood am not 'spccted to be so familiar as to ask de barber aimin' $17 per week to lend him his toof-pick. "2. If you find a bruddcr in distress, aid him. Par am no porticklcr objcc sliun to takin' a mortgage on his stove in case ho wants to borroy fo' dollars in cash, but give him a luetic show bofo' fo'closin\ "tf. Excuse a brudder's faults as fur as you kin, but arter ho has sjiit on your butes about three times you kin conclude : dat lie aches to be licked. "4, Speak well of each odder; avoid wrangles an1 slander.; be ready to give Sood advice ; encourage sobriety ana in ustry, but (loan' let a man kick ver dog simply because he sits on de stool nex' you in Paradise llall." ? Dctivit Free ! Press. Saved Himself by Cutting OH a I.imb. ' If thoro was anything Father Boggles | really delighted in, it was to spin a yarn ; about the sharpness of his boy Tom. " All," said Boggles one day, as bo had fairly fixed his auditor, "'l'om is the most romarkablo boy over set your eyes on. Ho's like his old dad; you can no more sarcumvent him than you can catch a weesel asleep. You recollect' that choice apple-tree by tbo hedge? Wed, I forbid Tom toucliin' those apples; but ho would get 'ein in spite of me, One day I caught tbo young scapegraco up in the troo stuflin' his pockots with tho fruit, and I determined this timo to i punish him for it. "'Thomas, my son,' says I, 'como down.' I thought I'd bo a sort of per suasivo, bo it would fotch him ; but ho smelt a rat and didn't budgo an inch. " ' I can't, dad,' says he, ' theso apples aro in tho way.' "'Tom,' 1 continued, sternly, 'como down this minit', or I'll cmt down tho treo, and lot yor fall.' " You seo my poor limbs wouldn't per mit my sbinnin' after tho boy. " ? Oh, no, you won't, dad,' says Tom. ' Only think how you'd mourn if you couldn't sell tho apples.' "That was too much to havo my own boy accuse mo of such parsimony. Bo what does I do but get an ax, and out away at tho bottom of tho tree. " 'Tom? Thomas,' I cricd, as the treo was about half out off. ' will you como down now, and save yourself f' "?Never mind, dad,' tuki ho, 'I'm all right. "It was no tiBol I couldn't bring 1dm down that way. So I chopped away at tho treo till it began to sway, and fell to tho (/round." "What I and crushed your own hoy?" ejaculated his horrified llstenors. "Not by a long chalk," said old Bog gles, winking knowingly. " You couldn't get ovor Tom in any such way. What had ho dono but crawled out on a limb; and while I was choppln' at tho bottom o' the treo ho had l>eon cutting off tho limb with bis jack-knife, and wnen the treo fell ho was ntill up thoro on tho limb I" Rtip?*rt>N H?qn??t. "Come hithor. Beryl." Rtuyvesant Nutwood spoke in kindly tones to his daughter, and yet tho girl noticed, or imagined that she did, a slight tremor in his voice, but, thinking it was duo to tho involuntary loosening of his falso teeth, gave tho matter no further attontion. Slio crossed tho room to whoro her father was sitting in his great arm chair hesido tho window. Beryl had grown up on her father's farm almost without society, but, not, with out education, for every year she hod at tended tho seminary at Aoornvlllo, and in her eighteenth year had graduated with all tho honors and a perealo dress. And then she had gone back to the farm again, but somehow her lifo there wis not as satisfactory as before. Thoro woro times when Heryl felt a sense of onnui mixed with an indefinite feeling of rest lcssnos* that, would cause her to wander aimlessly around tho place in a rovorio until recalled to tho things of this world by stepping on hot ankle. But though she strovo to conceal, overr from herself, the real canso of this feeling, her heart would ever and anon give a great throb a* she thought of Itupert Hollingsworth, who was now a struggling lawyer in a fWWern town. There had been no Worde i of lore between them, but on the day Rupert graduated thoy had met for the last time, and, standiug beneath the shado of a grand old oak that guarded tho en trance to tho colletre campus, RupeH had taKcn beryl's linnd in his anu saiu to her, while his dark brown eyes seemed look ing into her very soul: "You will not forgot me entirely, Miss Stuyvesant?" "I shall never forget you, "she replied, with grave earnestness, "as long as I live." He had once stepped on her toes. When Beryl hud crossed tho room her father motioucd her to a seat by his side, and as she cuddled up cosily on a has sock and. placiug ner arms upon her kuees. looked up in his face witn a won dering expression in her great blue eyes, Stuyvesant Nutwood felt a great thrill of sorrow in ,t\v3 knowledge that one day this beautiful g'rl, with all her wealth of lovo and baudoline, would leave him for ever. "I have recei-od a letter from Rupert llollingsworth, Beryl," he said. The girl gave a sudden start, and a wave of crimson swept over the pure, sweet face, but she did not speak. "Can you not guess," he continued, "what the purport of hi.-, letter i? Beryl could no longer look in her father's face. She knew full well why Rupert llollingsworth had written. lie had gone away only two years be fore, in all the vigAr of his glad man hood, and his splendid talentB had gained for him success where others had failed. And now, crowned with the laurel wreath of victory, he had written to her father for permission to urge his suit with her. She knew all this full well, ami yet when her father asked her the nuestion to which her heart had alroaay given answer, she did not reply. "You could never guess, little one," said Stuyvesant Nutwood, a merry twinkle in his eyes, "why Rupert has written. Do you think you could?" A deeper blush overspread tho pretty face. "But I will tell you," lie continued, "becauso you two were at college to gether. Still, perhaps I had better be silent" ? mid again the laughing light came into her father's eyes. "Tell me, papa," whispered Beryl, no longer able to conceal her eagerness, "wliy lie has written."" "He wants something," was the reply. "Can you not truess what it is?" Every liber of Beryl's being is throb bing with expectancy now. The sun luw passed from sight, and great bands of rosy light that stream up from below tho horizon's rim cast a strange halo over the silent earth. Beryl feels the solemn in fluences of tho twilight hour, but 110 word conies from her lips. "Can you not guess," repeats her father, "what Rupert llollingsworth desires?" For an instant she does not reply. To answer the question in the affirmative would seem bold and forward, and yet can she deny, even to herself, a knowl edge of what Rupert desires? 80 she simply says to her father: "Tell me what I10 wants." Bending tender^,' over his d*inglitcr, Stuyvesant Nutwood whispers with in finite pathos in her car: "Twenty-five dollars to get homo with." ? Chicago Tribune. A (jinnt Python. A chorus of discord tint scrciims from the throats of half u hundred parrots greeted a New Yoik Situ reporter who walked into t lie bird dealer's rooms in Roosevelt street. When he had become accustomed to the rasping sounds sufli ciently to hear, the proprietoc said: "I will show you the largest snake in cantlvity. Snakes in shows are usually disappointing to the boy who has read the cheerful tales of anacondas that swal low nothing smaller than a cow, but here is a sensation in snakes." Ho unlocked the hasp on a heavy box two and a half by four feet large and a foot deep,, and raised tho cover. There was the snako in what sailors might call two Flemish coils, ono on toj> of the other, covering nearly the whole of tlip bottom of the box. As the light shone into tho box tho snake raised its head, which was as large as a man's open hand, and movod it about uneasily, while a black forked tongue darted out toward the spectators. Its body was black, mottled with white and olivo greon spots. The little, round black eyes seemed to look stoadily into the oycB of tho keeper and tho re porter at tho samo time, and nothing could withdraw tlioir gaze till tho lid was shut down. "It is thirty feet long, and eigliteon inches 'n circumferenco in its largest part;" sa d the proprietor. " It was cap tured abok t eighty miles back of Cal cutta. It is a genuine python. Wo havo another ono of the Ramo kind nbout eighteen feet long, that is probably the sccond largest in the country. Tho largest one could kill and swallow a man. It could kill a horse." "How are these fellows captured?" "By small mesh nets. Tho natives spread a largo net over any that they find coiled up. Tho snake at onco jumps around in frantic efforts to escape, and bccomcs tangled up in the not. It is then bound with cords and bands and carried to tho sea, and sold to somo ship captain '' " Wlmt Is tho market price of python ?" "From $25 to $50 for tho ordinary museum snako. That smaller ono will bring $!&(), but the big ono will sell fer $500. I am going to Houth Amorica soon to get some of tho vat or snakes. They aro said to measure from fifty to seventy-five foot in length. Nono has ever been captured. Facts for Married Folk*. At the request of many of our readers, says thchiffw York Journal , tho following order of weddings Is published : At tho end of tlio first yenr? Cotton wwl fikeond year-- Paper wedding. Third year? leather wedding. Fifth year? Wooden wedding. Bovenih year? Woolon wedding. Tenth year? Tin wending. Tweif.hyoar ? Hllk and Kino Linen wrd dinir. Fifteenth year? Ciysta! wedoing. Twentieth year? -China wtduing. Twenty fifth year? Silver woddlng. 'lhirti th year? Pf art wedding. Fc rtietli year? Ruby weddimr. Fiftieth yiar ? Ool .en wedding. Beventy-flfth year? Diamond wedding Brown university id named for Nich olas Brown, a graduate, who madomor.ey and endowod it largely; Harvard, for John Harvard, who, in 1088, left it three hundred books, and about four thousand dollars, Howdoin college, for Coventor Howdoin, of Maino; William*, for Colonel Kphraim William*, a soldier of tho old French war; Dartmouth, for 1x>rd Dart mouth, who was president of tho first board of truatcm, and subscribed hand Yale, fot Klihn Yale, its MUX- .? A Chinese Quack Doctor. A quack medicine-dealer was offering to a crowd nostrums for every complaint, says a corrospoudeut in a letter from Hong Kong. This gentleman whose stork in trade consisted of a few bottles, had a number of diagrams purporting to represent tho course of illnesses in the human body. As n matter of fact, tliev wero absolute nonsense, but I he good Chinese who stood with open mouths | around him' and listened with wonder t<> i all he said knew 110 better, so that for all practical purposes his pictures wero good 1 enough. Curiously enough, however, he I was most elo pient upon a medicine which I have since found has just made its appearance in England under a patented name ? namely, Menthol, lie declared it would cure a 1 nervous diseases if rubbed into the skin. Our chemists and druggists now advertise it as an antidote to neuralgia; so that, after all, the Chinese quack doctor was not such a rogue as he looked. The price of his I drugs was high, lie had nothing under i two-pence, which it- a large sum among j the peasants in China. But he sold t great numbers of packets and did a roar ing trade for hours. 1 had present l\ an opportunity of seeing how little difference existed between him and the recognized professors of Chinese medicine, being taken by the learned Dr. Hitler to a native hospital. Here, seated on three little stools at three tables, sat the ?'faculty" waiting for patients. The indigent crowd as it came in selected its own physician and went to lu in. Then ensued a species of treatment I which was about as curious as .can well bo imagined. The Chinese have a theory that there is a different ltulse in every limb. They also hold that all complaints arc connected with either lire, air or water. And they place im mense faith in the benefit to be derived from puncturing any affected part with a long needle. So it came about that when a man entered and consulted one of the "faculty" about a pain in his leg --probably rheumatic in its nature? the learned man, after glaring at him for some time through an enormous pair of goggles, proceeded to fct.l for his "ankle pulse," which when found to his satisfaction indicated some very won derful facts. The man was suffering, he remarked, from "tire" in the leg, and must bo punctured; saying which ho stirred up tho limb with a long nee dle, till I, who looked on only, felt posi tively ill. This operation completed, he produced a tiny plaster, probably an inch aud a half square, and giving it to the man told him to put it on the leir at night. The patient, who seemed to have perfect confidence in the doctor, hobbled off, and the turn of the next victim then came, lie had a pain in the head, prob ably having smoked too much opium or drank too much samtschu. The doctor was quite equal to the occasion. He seized his victim by the head, and taking a small iron rod proceeded to rub his neck till lie made an abrasion at least an inch square. Then he rubbed at another spot, and yet another, till the skin wns off in three places. This was all. The patient was told to go. lie, too, was suffering front "lire." Yet there was 110 sound '>f a murmur. The operator evi dently >vas considered a very clever per son Inside the hospi al the wards seemed to be in excellent condition. The patients there miuht have gone to a European hospital had they so chosen; but they preferred the doctoring of their own j eople, who, from all 1 heard, are cer tainly very clever at putting fractures or dislocations right. I went into the pharmacy and found 1lie medicines wero nearly all vegetable ? one, the rind of oranges, being in great request. But everything sedir.ed harmless enough ; and if the patients die I should say they are killed by the disease and not by the doc tors, which is more than can be averred of every I.nglish hospital. One thing I noted, however, and it was that t lie notions of anatomy were very vague at this place of In aling, for all the diagrams I saw were woefully wrong, and could not have existed an hour had the Chinese surgeons ever examined a dead subject. Christians in Shetland. Shot landers do not speak of Christmas ns mucli as of Yulo. Nay, more, if you wcro asking n native why Yulo is kept as a holiday, the dunces are that his reply would contain no reference whatever to the nativity. He would simply say, it "had ayo been kept by the oukl folk" ? meaning his forefathers. Bo that ns it may, Yule is in Shetland the great holi day of tho year, or at. least was so when I was a boy. H^t Yule was not the 35th of December by the modern calendar, but the Oth of January; for in the "melan choly islcB of the furthest Thulo" time wos always reckoned according to the "old style." We wcro always, therefore, twelvo days behind tho rest of the civil ized world. All that, however, is now passing away, thanks to steamboats and electric telegraphs, and newspapers and fenernl intercourse with the South; and dare say Yulo, the dear Yulo I remem ber so well, will ore long be knowh and spoken of only as a tradition, for, alto gether, life in those islands is now very difToront from what it was sotno fifty or sixty years ago. ? O/utmlwre Journal, Throw up Yonr Chin. Tho wholo secret of standing and walking orcct consists in keeping the chin well away from your breast. This throws tho head upward and backward, and tho shoulders will naturally settle backward and in their true pssition. Thoso who "stoop in walking generally look downward. The proper way is to look straight ahead, upon the same level with your eves, or if you are inclined to stoop, until that, tendency is overcome, look rather above than below the lev?l. Mountaineers ore said to bo "its straight as an arrow," and the reason is because thoy are obliged to look upward ho much. It Is simply impossible to stoop in walking if you will heed and practice this rule. You will notice that nil round shouldered persons earn' the chin near tho breast and pointed downward. Christmas Celebrations. Tho festival of the birth of Christ was celebrated by different communities of the early Christians at vnriotw periods of tho year, and it was not un il the fourth century that the present season was defi nitely fixed upon. This is said lo have been the act of Julius I., Pope of Rome, A. I). There can lie no doubt that tho end of December does not rep resent tho true anniversary, and there is reason to believe that the celebration was transferred from the Inst month of tho Jowish yenr, when the birth was known to have taken place, to tho last month of the Christian year. ? Antiquary. Tho general understanding is l hat a pa tient is not out of danger until the doc tor h*? been discharged. ? Picayune, *\ACTS FOR TIIE CURIOUS. The word from which "Voney" is do- ' rived, literally mentis "delight." j Stirrups were not known by the an- i cunts. Warriors mounted their horses } ! by the aid of a projection ou their spears. The old eg* brazen musical instrument is t lie my mhal ' which has been in use 340 \ears. Xcnopliou bays that it was m vent cd by Cvbele. The Orccks computed time by the ' Olympiads, which began 770 H. C. The i computation of time by centuries was ' tirst adopted iti France. A farmer in Stokes county. X. C\, got j into a frenzy over his short crops this i season, and cursed heaven and earth. I While he was cursing he was suddenly j paralyzed. j A sparrow flew against a man as he ! was briskly rounding the corner of an j old wall in Louisville, Ky. The bird's bill entered the corner of the man'p eye. destroying the sight. The horse that .1. Wilkes Booth rode after he assassinated President Lincoln is in the possession of a Mrs. Furlong, of J Westmoreland county, Virginia. Tlio I animal i* twenty live years of age. The distribution of cakes and wine at j a wedding is a remnant of the old cus- j toni of sending the remnants of the pre vious Sunday's communion to the newly \ wedded pair, that they might share their j lirst sacrament with their family and most intimate friends. The United States government owes 1 W. II. Yanderbilt $47,0ri0,000 in four I per cents, and sends linn a draft tor his $1,882,000 annual interest in quarterly payments of $470,500, which is $21-1.8-1 per hour, or $3..' >8 in every one of his sleeping or waking minutes. Two fanners, one from Oxfordshire and the other from Wiltshire, recently engaged in a contest i:i pitching in tho harvest Held. One pitched twenty acres two roods and seven rods, the other over nineteen acres. The average of an ordi- | nary laborer's pitch is seven acres. It takes fully a year and a half to con vert tobacco into snutT, and it goes I through very elaborate preparations. I Like beer, it is allowed to ferment so as j to be thoroughly pickled, and is kept in this condition for at least six months. It is then subjected to a steam tempera ture of 2-10 degrees, after which itjs ground. Near the mouth of the Little Chey- ' etine river, in Dakota, is a rock with I curious indentations. It is twelve feet long by seven or eight wide, and rises above the surface of the ground about eighteen inches. Its edges are angular, its surface flat, and it shows little effect of ice action. It appears to be magne ton limestone, and its whiteness makes it a conspicuous object. On the surface are several deep and perfect footprints, as though made by ihe left moecasined i foot of a woman or hoy. It is known to I the Indians as a religious rock, and they I worship it. Children's Chatter. " My fathe r has something oil his house that your father ain't got," said a little boy to his companion. " What is it ?" ho earnestly asked. " A mortgage." ? Marathon Jin/tjn'nd cnt. Little (ieorge was questioned the other day about his big sister's beau. ? ' 1 low old is ti" ?" " 1 don't know." " Well, i- he young ?" "I think so. fo. he hasn't any hair on his head !" ? Co'iritr. Little lJenny was looking out of the window the other day when a man went by with a saw horse over his shoulder. " What do you rail that ?" he queried, lie was given the information ho desired, with the question: "Lid you never see. one before /" "Oh. yes," wusthe reply, "I saw a man put a log of wood across one tho other day, and then he fiddled it." ? JP?ton Ihtd'jd. Master Fred. Fenton f< 11 from the top most limb of an apple tree. lie was picked up and ennied to the house in an insensible condition. After watching at his bedside through many weary hours his mother perceived signs of returning consciousness. Leaning over him she asked him if there was anything she could do for him, now that he was beginning to feel better. Should she bathe his forehead ? Should she fan him or change his pillow? Was there anything he wanted? Languidly opening his eyes and look ing at her, tie little sullcrcr said: "Yes, mamma: 1 want a pair of pants with a pocket behind." lie got them. ? Philadelphia C'ull. A Queer Russian Boat. A novel Hussian boat is a peculiar form of boat similar to the catamaran. It consists of two independent hulls, in the center of each of which is an open ing in which the traveler thrusts his feet. When standing he propels himself by the aid of a long two-bladed paddle, and regulate - the distance between the two boats by manipulating the ropes which lead from each bow to the middle of the paddle. When tired he brings the boats alongside one another, places the cross bars in position, elevates his umbrella for a sail, and thus skims swiftly over the water. Drinking Healths. The drinking of healths originated during the Danish occupation of I'ritain. The Danes fr< qucotly stabbed Knglish men while In the act of drinking, and it finally became necessary for tho Knglish, in view of (lie constant repetition of tins j dastardly mode of as?n-> -inat ion, to enter j into compact to be mutual pledges of s<*- I entity for each other's health and proser | vation. Hence the custom of pledging | and drinking healths that has been ruin ing health and fortune down to the ] present time. A 'tutMnnn. The number of persons killed by wild animals and snakes in India in 1MN2 wax 22,125, against 21,427 in the previous yonr, and of cattle, 4(1,707, against I t, | fl(W. Of the human beings destroyed, I 2,(10(1 were killed by wild animals, and I I 19,510 by snakes. Of the deaths occa J | sioned by the attacks of wild animal-*, i 805 were caused by tigers, 27Hby wolves. 207 by leopards, i!50 by jackals, and 202 by alligators; IF, 501 wild animals and 822,421 snakes were destroyed, for I ' which the government paid rewards J amounting to 141,058 rupeos. A century ago out 1,000,000 out of 27,0(10,000 souls forming the population of Franco could read and wnlto. Mow ?duration is universal. .1// :? ." '? ?? v. 1 1 I I rp i . 1 HE vjrA^ETTE Job Printing Offxcb Is wKTi'tu i>rej?:\ml thau ?">y other office In tOWM, to execute In the most attractive stylos every doorfrr . tlou of Joi> P rtmlnj. such an Pamphlet*, [<mM^ V.. IMll Ilcads, LeltiT and Not* Headt, l^xw Britfi, *' P<?ter?, v^irouW*, Hand Bill*, Wt Vla'dlugfivd AddrvsaCVd*, 1'us.uoj Cards. Label! Aw Work Joun l? llrouie, Hwl, Blue aua Black. The rubllc must romembov that fho beet ta always the che.tiXHt. We do work at Charleston l'rlees, au? ? J entire sitUfa^.ou t\> our patrons. M'o keep constantly on hand the lnrgeet stojll of i*?l>or# Mul Cants In town. PUMPKIN PIES. Gentle stranger. Ut mo a?W, Di I you over stop to bask Id tlio atmosphere of cook.ing, When a miidoti fair is looking, Askancely from tho depths Of hor limpid, azure eyes ? Assho shoves in tho big oven Thuso delicious pumpkin pica f Ah, what ocsta ies appealing, As aromas gently steal. ng, Fornicate tho rural kitchen Whoso conducts hold o fair witch Is, Fascinating, dainty, rare, To mtoxicited eyas ! 'Tis tl o maiden, flour lad on, Manipulator of tho j los. Pumpkin ]>ics ! What memories rlao Even to tho sunny skies, As ho opens to your oyes Tno b g oven *ko did shevo In Thoso deli< ious pumpkin pies. Golden orbs of luscious glory 1 Never ha It o w >rl,l a story Fa rer to tho heart of man, Ay! to t.' arts of mortal clan. Than the ma niscript in yel'ow Hot andtoothso no 'math your eyes. An I 1 'aiu w<>u d long to spell, oh, Worldly b'.iss ? in pumpkin p'03. Quarter, half, tho w! o'o, oh, give it 1 1 could dwell in b'lss and live It In an horr -u li as tli s, Ah. forever it lore, 1 w s ? Sitting in th<- plea ant kitchen Wh isc con tines hold a fair witch in, Fasciis '.ling, dainty, rare, Abkanccly glancing from hor eyos, At me, over pumpkin pies. ? II. 8. Killer, in Detroit Free Press. ITXCiEXT PARAGRAPHS, A llouri.-hinu: genius ? Tho writing-mas ter. The dog has queer uiste m matters of dress. He wears his punta in his mouth. "Overcome by gus" is tho head lino on a daily paper. We knew those tre mendous gas uills v ould kill somebody sooner or later. ? liott ui Bulletin* When asked what she had for dinner, she repli< d "cold tongue." And he judged, by her manner, that there would of it left for supper. ? Chicago S*h$ , For the noblest man that lives there still remains a conflict," sighed tho phi losphcr, as lie rol'cd up his s'eevos pre paratory to carving a board ing-houso chicken. They thought they heard burglars in the house la^t wee!:, and in going down stairs to invest igate. Bibbs said to his wife : ??You go lirst ; it's a mean man that would shoot a woman." ? Loa'.on Biuhjct. A Yanke; has invented ft now pro cess for hi>t:iig bootg_iind shoes. If ho can last a ten yea I hat they w ill last t ? j < iring half sol'n branch otlice in t "Oh, will ho Middlctown's sw of alarm, w hen s ing bears on t "No," said her he is muz/led ; she said, with don't mind crij't. ONLY ONE. Kaid tho rol her, '* No fan.i'y jewels ? noneP' ".one,' a tl a fearless a yf "hut one ? A carbuncle- tho etiiag a tortuno c.mtj Mm 'tis w h secured and cannot bo lost.'1 '? Quick! hmrl mo the ?ewel, or oisu yi.u Shall die,' Pa d the rol her, with fiercely fa hhig eye. _ " t can't,'' wii 1 1 he W.d , wall smiling repose ? "Tho cnrhunc.es las.? on in-' hustand's wis.'." ? Thi. Juil'jc. "I have a strong following," icmarkod the burglar, as he shot down tho alloy just ahead of a detective, two policemen, a constable, and a doy.cu stray citizens, "and 1 think if 1 can get out of town ahead of my ticket I'm all right in the country." And so he was, for he ran into a barbed wire fence at the corpora tion limit and they counted him in. ? Jlawkvytf TflE KDlTOn AND HIS DAUGIITBR. Unto hor pa, wi'h fuco serene, Said olio of Uoi ha n's fairest daughters: " W hat do: s t hits old oxj ro. slon mean? This 1 casting bri ad ujjoii tho waters?' " Her father, with a soft, < airs'?, lb-ph'd, w,th earnestness .-urprlslng: " My dear, 'tis i otlnnn more nor less 'I han most judicious advertising." ? Xew York Journal. A Jockey's Trick. Nowadays ft good hnndicnpper will handicap horses so closely that an ounce will tell fit tho finish; and it is an old saying thnt n race horso could bo bo handicapped that a donkey could bent it. Taking, liowevcr, two horses of oqual merit, and both lit and well ridden, seven pounds will make about a length difference. This has been tried and demonst rated. Well, seeing all this, tho "trick" was worked in this way : Tho horse had bofn , beaten a head the day before by a horso that was going to run in thin particular race, and the weights were vory similar, as there had been no penalty for winning. The jockey weighed all right, and the wily owner walked down with hf to the starting | ost. and left thohorso ti.'">, and then walked back to the winning post. After the horses passed tho jtos' tho eourso look a sweep right uwny to , the back of the stand. The. home in question won, but evidently ho nnimfti was full of running, or else t io jockey couldn't pull hin> up, as he swept round ns if he was going to run the race O 'er again. Hut. the owner wns wnitt ig, quite accidentally, of course, just where he [Milled up. Tho owner stoppod up and slipped a weight into the jockey*# top boot I He had taken it out the start and quietly put It in Ills ..ockot *. d carried it round to the finish. It mi^k have been a ten pound weight lor , 1 an/ one knew. - - Cincinnati fotuptiret lleats. '?Father," said tho youngest, sporting member of the family, "there ain t n.. 'h i n* can beat Maud B., Is they?" "Oh, yes," rc| lied Mr. W'igglesw> rtV "What?" I "A tramp," replied Mr. Wlgr>hsworth, j with ii li?ht and airy touch of humor I "A train p beats everything md eoy? body." "I kno\V one thing he don't beat,' r& marked Mrs. Wigglesworth. "W1 at's that/" queried her husha d, iu mild surprise. , "A carpet," returned Mrs. Wlflgl*# | worth; "you can't ever got ft tYftmp ? beat a cn\r\w\.'-*tiu?kland Cot&ier. . I .*??.! I - Tho Alnska seal hunter* have killed ovor 00,000 Animals during th? ymwfcl mm*.