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VOLUME XXXIV
JTflE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
AN
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~ SOUTH CAROLINA
LAND AGENCY.
THE undersigned otfers his services as
GENERAL LAND AGENT; having established
communication with persons of all classes
who may he induced to buy land in South
Carolina. It is of great importance that the
peculiar attractions offered by our section, to
those wishing to settle upon their otrn lands, be
brought into notice. This can only be done
by making it a specialty.
The class of immigrants most needed among
us, (all others, of ' otuse, are welcome.) is the
one who brings with himenoughto buy?even
in a small way?a certain quantity of our land;
(theonly capital which we have left.) This
Is easily done, by such a one, us one-fourth the
estimated value paid down, will give him a
?4 1 * 1
title, and possession; wuu IB rev ui mur, iiiiu
even five years, to pay the balance.
This class of settlers, native or immigrant,
must be dealt with personally -must be convinced
that this country,with all its advantages
does exist, and is within his reach. Once
satisfied on this point, the rest is easy. They
know nothing of our country, heretofore closed
to the outside world, and it has to be told
to them.
The object of the AGENCY is to do this: to
apptoach the man?wheresoever he may be?
who has the means, and induce him by statements.
MADE IN SUCH A WA1 TH AT HE IS
OBLIGED TO PUT FAITH IN'THEM to invest
in our land.
This will give the land a commercial value,
and bring the best class of settlers.
Persons wishing to dispose of lands should
first have them surveyed, and laid off in farms
of from fifty to one hundred anil fifty acres.?
Nothing can be done, under the plan proposed,
with bodies of laud in block. The thing
to be sold must be offered in lots to suit the
purchaser.
All business in this connection will receive
strict attention from the undersigned.
EDWARD M. BOYKIN.
Camden, S. C. February 19, 1873.
References.?Gen. Jns. Chcsnut, Col. W
M'Shannon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw, Capt T. H.
Clarke, Maj. John M. DeSaussure, Gen. John
D. Kennedy, Camden, S. C Col. L. J. Patterson,
Liberty Hill, Gov. John L. Manning
Clarendon. 8. C
FHES11
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ID^TJO-S
AND
MEDICINES.
Our store and j.mtents bavin? been de* '
tsroyed by the la.e fire, we have opened with
an ENTIRELY NEW STOCK of
Drugs and Medicines,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty,
&c. &c. &c.
One Door above Mrs. Crosby's,
Where we hope to sec our old friends and
customeis.
HOUUNOX A DIUVLAP.
January 19.
PALL AND WINTER
MILLINERY
?AND?
I^aney Goods.
MRS. T. B. WALKER has opened at her
establishment ou Broad Street, a handsome
assortment of
Millinery and Fancy Goods,
Of the latest styles, selected with great
care, to suit the tastes of her customers and
the public generally
The Ladies are respectfully invited to call
examine her stock of
,m Hats, Sash and Neck Ribbons.
Together with every article to befound in
i well supplied Millinery establishment.
October 2#.
Sugar:
50 bbls. different kinds. For sale by
? BAl'M BRO S.
CIGARS 2
Finest FIVE CENT CIGARS,
Qigare of all brands and prices,
Choice Chewing aud Smoking Tobacco.
KIRKLET A OAKLAND.
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PRINCE AMONG
THE FARM
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Just the Stove to satisfy, in every par
ties needed for excellent service, is made
-A-IsTlT IF^IsTC
Come and look at it. Find ou\
neighbors are
Every one fully warranted to work w<
at any time, at my Store. For Sale
Camden, September 17.
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THE GREAT SOUTHERN
Dry Goods House,
FURCH60TT, BENEDICT &Co.
275 King Street, (hairiest oil S ('
THE CHEAPEST
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
OTT. HT.OTHS.
CARPETS,
MATTINGS,
RUGS, Etc.,
THIS K1DK OF \EU VOICK.
For prices, see local.
September 8. t>
Siuali Profits,
AND
QUICK SALES,
IS OUR MOTTO
THOSE who don't believe it, call and examine
our Goods ami (lie prices at which
we are selling.
KIKKLEY & GARLAND.
Gins* and Crockery Ware.
A large ami well-selected stock of sew and
BEArnnL CLASS AN 1) 0 KOt'KKKY NY A It E,
Just received and for sale ('lli'. \l', hy
KIKKLEY & OAKLAND.
June 1 tf
100 kegs Nails, of all sizes. For .-ale
| by BAUM BRU'S.
EVEIIY TII1NO
T(? BE FOUND IN A
First Class Grocery Store,
CAN BE HAD AT THE
VERY LOWEST PRICES,
AT
KIRKLEY d GAKIiAYD N
m
CAMDEN, SOUTH:e
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COOK STOVES.
IER COOK.
j
tieular. It lias all tho valuable fpiali-:
to last a lon^ time, and is not sold at j
PRICE.
t the price, unci who of your
using them.
dl, and you can get any plate for tliem j
GEO. ALDEN. |
Hampden Sidney College.!
The next session of IIAMI'UEN SIDNEV
will begin September 3d, 1S74.
FACULTY.
Rev. J. M. I*. Atkinson, 1). D., President j
and Professor of Moral Science.
L. L. lltu.i.ai?.\y, A. M., Professor of Natural
Science.
Wai.tkis P.i.mr, A M., Professor of Latin
and Instructor in Gorman.
1'kl. Kk.mikk, A. M , Professor of Mathematics.
Anotsux Horn:, A. M., Professor of Greek
and Instructor in French.
IIAMI'JiKN" SIIiNEV OOEEKOE is siren- i
led in Prince Edward county, Va., within a
row hundred yards ol' I'nion Theological Semi- j
nary, and seven mile- from Karinville, on the j
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad.
In this institution the curriculum is retained;
instruction is comprehensive and ti.or- (
uugli, and ii" student is advanced to alloth< r
idass without a searching examination.
Expenses are moderate, and, from the retired
location of the College, temptation- to
extravagance are few.
Provision has been made for the establish
ment of a "MESS llALL," which, to those
availing themselves of its advantages, a ill
materially lessen the expenses of board.
Catalogues can be o itained on application
to the undersigned
ItEV. J. M. P. ATKINSON,
President Hampden Sidney College,
Prince Edward County, Va
August l-I ly.
SHOE SHOP,
lJIvVK IVA1,.
nOSKIXS WILLIAMS hep leave to inform
fheirJpHtrons an?l the public generilly,
that they have removed their Shop to
the building on LeKulb street, one door Knst
of the LeKulb House, where they arc prepared
to execute all work in their line with
neatness and dispatch, and upon as reasonable
terms as the same can he done at any
other place in South Carolina.
LAN I Kb 11 OS KINS.
('ATTAIN WILLIAMS.
September 21. 3ni.
To
The Moblcy IMace, on the West side of the
Wateree Kivcr, seven miles front Camden and
one from Chesnut's Ferry, on the Winn.tboro'
road, having about foiiror five hundred acres
of cleared land, under good fence, with good
Dwelling House containing six rooms, (Sin
House and Screw, and all necessary Out
Buildings. Possession given oil the first of
.laiiuarv. Applv to
KF.KSII AW \ WOHK.MAN, Agents.
September 11. tf
BAGGING AND TIES,
10,00(1 yards l>A(?(jJ.\<i,
30,000 lbs. T1KS. For sale by
Aug. 20. BAUM BU()'?S.
It u Belting.
1,000 feet W'BBKH BKI/HM}.
Fur sale by BAt M liRO'S.
UiKCiiitK, I5iscuit h!
30 bbls. Biscuits. For salu by
BAl'M BK0U
CAROLINA, THUr
speech
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GEN. J. P>. KERSHAW,
lleforo the Conservative State Convention,
on the 8th of October, 1874.
Gentlemen \>f the Convention : I have
this day witnessed proceedings which hil I
uiy heart with pleasure; proceedings which, |
from their perfect harmony and concentrated
action, surpass every work of the
kind in the recent annals of the State?
an assemblage composed of one of the
most gallant and impulsive people upon
the face of the earth, at a time and in a
place which testifies to a degree of ruin
and depredation unparalleled in the history
of the world, meeting hero as you
have this day done, and calmly and Je
iiberately recording decision after deci.
sion. arraying themselves solidly and with
unanimity upon the only lino that is left
lor the safety of the land. This. I say, is
a momentous epoch in the history of the
country. I feel inexpressibly pleased at
this unanimity. 1 feel that the'.Irent Huler
over the destinies of nations has laid
His hand upon the perpetrators of these
acts of fraud and rascality which have
ruined and disgraced tho State of South
Carolina, to hurl them from their places
of power, and place in their stead uien
who. from their honesty, integrity and
moneyed interest, are entitled to a voice
in her affairs. ' icel at this moment a degree
of hope a. 1 confidence in the future,
which has not inspired me for many a
long day. 1 feel that in your action today
you have been Divinely directed to
the ouiy single avenue of escape from the
accumulated evils which surround us. I
feel that while we may in this action have
ignored and sacrificed many of the brighthones
that we have cherished, trc hun
adoptcJ that which is the only wise, practical,
political a,ttl safe course. If gentlemon,
you cunv home with you the
earnest determination to work 011 this
single platform upon which we have arrayed
ourselves, the plank, as it were,
thrown to the shipwrecked mariner by
the hand of a kind benefactor, and work
with confidence and energy, victory must
ami shall crown our efforts. 1 have long
believed that there is but one way to meet
the difficulties that surround us. 1 have
considered that the one way to win once
more an influence up u the destinies of
our beloved mother State, is to bring
about the co operation with u.i of another
portion of the community, in whose hands
the destinies of the State have so long
been placed. We have, by stickling for
absolute right and control rather than a
practical and sufficient participation in
the management of the State, kept in power
tlte Yuwlal horut whc luive ruined and
desolated the State of South Carolina.?
We have assisted in erecting that platform,
in the support of which many of
them have sold their very souls. You
have now arrayed yourselves upon a plat-1
form which it seems that some kind I'rovi- j
donee has drifted within your reach. I
beg that you will understand me in the J
position which 1 assume 1 have heon
accused of being an advocate of political'
amalgamation. 1 charge the accusation
rather to ignorance than design. 1 stand
Here as iiriu ior too muti ny mm
in?4 of in\ race, and all that is illustrious
ami worthy of being cherished, as the
most iiiijiractical pretended statesman in
South Csruliaa. [Applause.] My pro.
position is simply this: That circumstances
over which we have had no control
having forced South Carolina into the
position which site now occupies, where
tlie two races composing her people are
vested with equal rights and privileges,
and our race being in the minority, that
it cannot fail to he the opinion of any
right-minded man that we should adapt
ourselves to the circumstances in which
we are placed, and sagaciously endeavor
to attract the confidence of the honest and
well meaning colored people to assist us
i in restoring good government to the State
of South Carolina. 1 have laid down, it:
a letter which ha- been published, that we
should offer lot lie colored people of S. t'aroI
lina an equal and just rharc in the political
offices in the gilt of the people of the
State. Hut I Leg you to understand,
i gentlemen, ilia! while 1 believe that to
be tlic part of v.':s;b?n? and justice, while
L think any< nurse would be unwise,
i mad and suit- as it has proved in the
past, I am tiic last man to advocate amalgamation
upon his or any other basis.?
[ Yuu perceive at once that if you adopt
the policy I advocated, you exclude from
oflice ali corrupt office-seekers who have
played the parts of demagogues to secure
the votes of the colored people, and there
would be uo motive for an ambitious man
to seek to make an impression elsewhere.
The greatest curse in this country is corrupt
balloting, and in no way can you
preserve the purity of the ballot box but
by shutting the door against the evil influences
open to corrupt aspirants for
positions of powi-r and money; of tempting
the ignoiant through bribes and bv working
upon their prejudices to thrust themselves
forward into the highest places.?
i You should maintain such an organization
' as you have this day put in motion, and
have fair dealing to characterize every
movement which you .1 y make, and stand
tirmly and truly upon the three emphatic
essentials of an holiest and potent platform.
1 have through tiio kindness of the
Mcophi of South Carolina become a candidate
for the office of their representative
in Congress. 1 I'el that I cannot justify
the kind partiality which has placed me in
this position; that I cannot come up to
. the expectations which they may have
concerning inc. Hut. gentlemen, if elected.
1 will do my whole duty. I shall do
all in my power to represent truly the
people who have placed me in that position,
and with them to co-operate in
( promoting tlio best interests of the whole
tSDAY, OCTOBER i
people of the State of South Carolina.?
[Applauso.] We have had, as you know,
no voice in the councils of the nation, and
if we had. as things have gone during the t
past few years, we could hope to influence ^
hut little the measures that have taken
place. But the day has passed when the s
persecution of the Southern people was '
considered a characteristic of party fealty, ii
and used as political capital to keep theui t
from having a voice in the alTairs of the
nation. 1 think that the United States [
has arrived at a crisis when a reaction has '
set in, in favor of a just administration of '
power by the chief government, without a
reference to section, locality or past histo- (
ry, and, however the bitterness of the past ,
r : ;,lf? '
may lur a uuu; uijct-i au> ?tu?in miv v?^. T
public matter, yet there is a ground swell *
of public feeling which is moving on to- i
wards harmony and good government, so i
far as they depend upon the administra- (
tion at Washington. The Northern sentiment
that the South is still lurking in ; "
rebellion is. 1 feel, not yet dissipated, hut i '
if I should find that I could do nothing 'I
more. T could denounce the statement as i i
the vilest of libels, and, as the represcnta- |
tivc of the people of South Carolina, I
shall make the denial with all the vigor 1
possess; and I have always believed that ic
the solid, substantial statement of a man
of honor carries a conviction with it, be- j
fore which the slanderous imputations of} j
the base-minded flee affrighted [Applause.]
If there is such a sentiment of)
manhood in the breast of the great soldier | t
at Washington, as I believe to exist. I f
shall appeal to it. T trust that if I should s
ever prove faithless to the confidence imposed
in me that you will consign uic to I (
the deep damnation that belongs to the i '
man who betrays his country. I feel, after , r
this manifestation of confidence, I might, t
even say of affectionate regard, which you j
and other representative bodies in South i
Carolina have manifested for myself per-, j
sonally?I feel that that manifestation tcr. j '
thousand times more than repays me for i
all that I have suffered and endured in j
thought or in other respects in the past, ,
or all that could be heaped upon mc in
the future, hut I feel the conviction, and 1
it has never deceived me so far, that I s
will live through all this mourning and i |
corruption. The day will couie when I |
hope to sec the representative people of
South Carolina. issetnbled iu this very hall
to rejoice rather than to redress evils.r?
Let us point to the maxim on the stand, i
ard of South Carolina, ''While wo breathe !
wc will hope.'' [Prolonged applause.]
Tiie New Jersey Forest Fires.?
The soil in some sections of New Jersey
after the forest fires, a correspondent
writes us, is literally baked. I have kick- j
ed it up with my boot to tbc depth of a
foot, as one does upon the seashore, and
found it as thin as a-hes and as dry as I
gunpowder. Near llauimonton much of j
the vegetation turned black, and the grape3
were cooked. Streams that have never
been known to fail show their dry and
seamed bottoms and a few sparse blades
<?f grass springing up in the hollows.
The fire has burned over the harvest
fields, sending men fleeing in terror, and,
1 am convinced, iu more than one easo has
destroyed human life. Only a few miles
from Durkevillc a man stood within his j
saw-mill, a large buildintr. viewing tlio
warping structure, when, before ho suspected
it, he found it was on fire in several
places. He had no more than time to (
escape, when the whole thing was like '
tinder. Near llnuinionton a school house
was only saved by starting back-fires.
When Hilly Tompkins, near Kgg Harbor
city, was awakened a few night3 ago j
by something rattling upon the roof, he I
lay still and listened a moment, then he }
! shook his wife. "Wake up. .Jane, the j
rain has come at last: thank tho Lord ! j
! Open your cars and listen."
Hut it seemed to him that it was un!
usually light for a rainy night, and with t
some migivings he drew on his trousers
and went to the window. 11 is next proceeding
was to give a Comanche war
, whoop that brought his wile to her feet, j
The woods were ablaze, and the flames
i were coining steadily down upon them.?
The clearing which surrounded the house
made it look as if it would escape; but, ;
hastily gathering a number of valuables,
! they moved to a point beyond all peril,
i where they remained until daylight, when
! they returned end found that, with the '
exception of a little sehorching, the old J
home was none the worse.
The fires that occurred near Matinahaw- j
kin were caused by the'carelessness of tire i
brush burners* Some days later the loco- |
motive on the Farmingdalc and Freehold |
road started the fiauies, and it was only I
I by the most determined and united efforts
that the former place was saved. The
! tire then began working its way in the 1
i direction of Ocean drove, and the providential
interception of a stream of water
was all that saved that place from being
I swept out of existence. The burning of
peat near Poplar caused 11,000 acres of
timber to be consumed. This place, by
j the way, has been burned over in whole
or in part every season for the last ten
years. The fires have been raging for two
weeks near Ivig Hai'* -r. where the land
is n?>t very valuable. great many acres
of cranberries have been destroyed in At- I
| luntic and Burlington counties, besides!
^ a number of dwelling houses and mills. j
iii, 1874.
Southern Folly.
It would be difficult to name a spot on
he face of the earth where the demand
or political wisdom, ordinary common
etise, average sagacity, or the ability to
ook a mili; or two outside of one's circle,
Hid a week or two beyond tho present
noment, is in greater excess of the sup>ly,
than in the sunny half of the T:nited
States. The South is given over to folly,
fiphraim is joined to his idols. The situition
in Louisiana offers ample proof of
lie short-sightedness of our Southern
'riends, who are stupidly making themclves
our enemies. Our telcg^hic collinns,
yesterday and this morrf!i?g, suffi:iently
indicate the situation and substauiatc
this compliment, to the Southern
gentlemen who arc accredited as our alios.
The condition presents several phases,
I'ho martial "reformers," in the Louisiana
nstancc, arc calling themselves a "White
.eague." They might as well call them-'
i ..
uvea u uuptmv ui ?% i
>r a Hottentot League, or a Uiped I .cogue,
is a White League ; for the war in Louisana
is not one of whites against blacks,
ut of whites against whites. That is one
act to bo prominently placed alongside of
he declaration in the Republican platbrni
that the Southern States have been
splendidly reconstructed by the Rcpubli:an
party, and that peaceful civil society
las been restored in the Southern Statos.
The character of the peaceful civil society
hat has been restored, is evident from the
awlcssness which is denounced in the
proclamation and manifestoes of the AntiKclloggites,
and in the lawlessness with
which those protestants attack the usurping
Government. Just here it is worth
while to say to our friends down in that
iropical land, that they apparently can not
lllow the idea to enter heads or hearts
that lawlessness can best he stopped by
law and not by lawlessness. This is an.,
jtlier fact to make a note of. The usurpations,
violations of law, political outrages,
which arc named in Mr. Penn's proclamation
to the people of Louisiana and the
country, arc not painted in stronger colors
in the proclamations of these short-sighted
violators of the law who seek to enforce
the law by breaking law, than] in the
speech of a leading Republican Senator in
tho last, session of Congress. Senator Carpenter,
of the Committee to investigate
the affairs of Louisiana, had pictured the
condition in that State, speaking in the
Senate and to the country He had portrayed
the usurpation, the lawlessness, the
overwhelming disregard for public order
and lawful government, which make
up the history of Louisiana for the hist
few years in terms not less emphatic than
those employed by Mr. l'enn, ' LieutenantGovernor"
of Louisiana We admit tho
outrages, but we denounce the methods
of remedy. If the (ju^stion were based
upon the low ground of policy, it would
bo true that the Louisiana idiots, when
they arm themselves in this cause, are
arming against themselves. They are
only deferring the day of good govern,
mcnt. The Hold of battle lor them is the
ballot-box there and in the nation. Let
the misguided New Orlcanists tell the
?l,? .iKmif flu. tlim.Ts tlinv
arc compelled to endure; but their excessive
readiness to jump to arms in time of
peace, is their formidable fuc. Their road
to peace and good government lies through
the success of the Democratic party. Lot
not their folly make them the enemies of
their friends.? Ciiicintutti Kuquinr.
A Touttii Stoiiv.?< hie of the strangest
stories of the day, and tlio most novel
phase <>f the grasshopper (juestion tuac
has yet presented itself, comes to us from
Phillips county. About a year ago, a family
from Georgia, of German descent,
named Hoomershine, located near the west,
ern line of Phillips county. The oldest
daughter, aged about eighteen, was addicted
to the Southern habit of clay-eating.
She usually obtained the clay from the
road side, where it resembled the clay in
the South, of which the natives are so
fond. Early this summer, the grasshoppers
settled down in that region, and soon
began depositing their eggs in the gardens,
fields, and by the roadside. The
Hoomershine girl went on with her clayeating.
as usual, with no unsual c*fleet. un-1
til a short time ago. when she began complaining
of an uneasy feeling in her into- '
rior, and commenced gradually swelling,
like one with the dropsy. The symptoms
increased, and a change began to take
place in her appetite. She no longer had
a last" for elay, but seemed to hanker af
ter the blades of corn, leaves of trees, dog-!
fennel, and other weeds ; and she said she '
irci|uciitly felt as 1! she could take wings ;
and fly away . Dr. Le Due, of Phillips
burg, was sent for, who said that he had
never before met with a case of the kind
in his practice, or read of one in the books.
He decided thit sl.e must be laboring
1
NUMBER 7.
under some hallucination of the aiind.?
Things went on thus until recently, when
one day the grasshoppers commenced rising
and taking their flight. The girl
looked nt them for awhile, when, unable
to restrain herself longer, she rushed out
of the house, flapped her arms, as if they
were wings, roso about ten feet in the air,
and then fell to the ground dead. Dr. Lc
Due made a pout mortem examination,
which revealed the wonderful fact that
her insides were literally swarming with
full-grown grasshoppers The theory is,
thnt she ale of the clay in which the insects
had deposited eggs; they were
hatched out inside of her; her appetite
partook of theirs; and when the time came
for the grasshoppers to ungrate, instinet
directed those inside of her to do the saute.
An immense concourse of people attended
the girl's funeral. Dr. I<o Due has preserved
a jar of the grasshoppers, which he
intends depositing in the Smithsonian In.
stitule at Washington, and in the various
medical museums throughout the country.
Kansas Chief.
Mark Twain's jumping frog has been
out done by a huge specimen of its kind
in this city. Persons in the habit of walking
along Charles street kuow Snow's
apothecary store with its numerous gold
fish, which, with a monster frog, two
alligators, and a turtle, formed what seemed
to be a harmonious family. But appearances
in this case, as in many others,
were deceptive. The huge frog, whoso
swollen figure was so conspicuous at the
side of the tauk towards the window, was
a most voracious monster, devouring other
frogs, as well as making a dainty meal of
the delicate gold fish. A few days ago,
oueoHhe alligators, eleven inches long, was
missing, and after search had been mado
everywhere else, it occurred to the owner of
the tank to examine the inside of the frog,
though it hardly seemed reasonable to suppose
that he hud swallowed the alligator.
But on opening his mouth it was clear
that this was the case, and by putting the
ft .1 i.K_ I 1.. il L J.I. - .
iin^ui uuwu nit; iruy a curuac, cue uuujr ul v
the alligator, somewhat softened, but not
decomposed, was brought up from the unbounded
i toaiach of the huge croaker.?
We are glad to be able to state, for the
satisfaction of mothers with small children
living in the neighborhood, that the frog is
to bo sent away.?lioslon Glolc.
"Take it out as You Did Before."
?A certain quasi-commercial "gent,"
traveling in tho north of England, stopped
at a commercial house. He ordered dinner,
and enjoyed himself after the usual
manner of the craft?the "pint of port"
not benig omitted. When he was about
to depart lie called up mine host, and
! gravely informed him that lie was very
sorry ho had no money to pay the bill, but
that, if allowed to leave in peace, he would
one day return and square up. Now, the
landlord had been victimized in this way
before, and was irate. He said that ho
would take it out of his customer by kicking
hiui down the steps of the hotel, aud
lie did so.
Some time afterward, to the landlord's
intense astonishment, the "commercial"
reappeared. lie waspolito and forgiving;
he bore no malice, lie said, and he should
' be glad if mine host would favor him cn
this improved occasion with his company
| dinner. The victualler was taken aback j
he felt that on the provious occasion ho
i had been harsh and had misjudged his
| customer, and with profuse apologies lie
I consented to dine with the man he had
I before so violently ejected from the house.
The 'commercial' ordered a capital dinner,
a bottle or so of the best wine in the cellar,
and it was altogether a remarkably pleas;
ant party of two. Polities were discussed,
trade ventilated, and all went on merrily
till the good things were exhausted. Then
I the diDnor-giver rose, and in the coolest
! manner possible, addressed the landlord
as follows: *
''I have very much enjoyed this enter
tuintnent; but as to the bill, I am afraid
I you will have to take that out as you did
, before 1"
From ono of Bccchcr's sermons: "When
| temptations fly through tho community,
they often take the best fruits that hang /
upon the bough of the household, the
sweet-hearted, the sympathetic, the impulsive,
the beauteous; and when temptation
h;i6 shaken off from the bough, it is
the little surly, sour, worthless crab that,
is not ripe. The men not overthrown
by temptation are often those who are
censorious. They are often the critics
of those that do fall. They arc hard men;
they are men that are cold, and that it
trives one the chills to shake hands with;
they are men that never feel the swell of
reverberating passions themselves. They
are men that go rock-ribbed and stonyhearted
along through life, and talk about
those who give way to their feelings and
go to destruction. They never gave way
to their feelings, that's sure."