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Special rates made for parlies traveling together, and for those who wish to stay a week dr more. faT I" connection with the house is a first-class LIVERY STABLE, where horses and vehicles can he had at all times for town or country use, at the most reasonable rales. Conveyances to and from the depot at every train. dec18li Candy, Candym f BOXES assorted Candy for sale l>v BAD St huoy^ Jlast aal? by \ VOLUME XXXVI. GONE AWAY. I know a quiet country town. By which a river falls and (lows: And in the dell and on the down. The yellow sunlight glints and glows. 1 know a square gray house of stone, 1 never think oflml I sigh. Beyond whose garden, smoothly mown, The rushing engines shriek and fly. I know a chosen chamber there, A fairy figure used to grace; I know an eastern window, where >Vns wont to watch a fairy face. I thread the narrow winding street, 1 linger in the lonely lane. Which once were trod by fairy feet, That will not trend their path again. I love that quiet country tow n; It is to me a sacred place; And as I wander up and down. Those vanished steps I seem to trace. And still the hours serenely pas-, And still the busy riycr Hows; And si ill among tbc shining grass The yellow sunlight gliu:3 und glows. And there the house is, square and gray. And there the new mown meadows lieShe used to gaze on day by day, In faith, and dreamy reverie. Yes, all is there?except the face. That little window gapes forlorn; And on me, as I haunt the place. The morning sunshiles in scorn. WAS SHE IN EARNEST? BY CASSAXIiltA A'. T1IORND1KE. "Site abhors widowers!" declared Hot Kingsley, puffing away at his 'meerschaum" and catching a faint dimpso of his friend through the dense :louds of smoke that roKcd upward owurd the ceiling. Edward Farnsworth looked gloomy, tut his countenance brightened a tuoncnt later, as he said? She knows nothing of my former * 1?? <%n,? IrtM Hni* " inmate, UHICN JUU umv ...... "Never spoke about you to her," he icknowledged frnn kly. "'lhcn I shall not inform her of that ittlc event in my past history, until afcr I have won her," answered Ed, letnng back in bis chair and gazing drcamiy out of the window, while the fair brm in white tulle, with blue eyed for? tet-me-nots tangled amid her wavy rcsses, whom he had met at a party the tvening before, hovered before hiiu in magi nation. **** **** '-Hush h-h !" whimpered Minnie Kiogs"j, listening attentively, as she sat in ler friend's room at the h -tel. "I beicve I heard my brother's * o:c? in the ie*t room; what Can lie be doing in here, I wonder ? After ten minutes of profound sierce. Miss Kingsley turned a very rosy, ndignant face towards Miss t'arlfon. ' Who ever heard of such a thing ! Win me,' indeed ! He'll find out his nistake," she exclaimed, a saucy smile rhasing away theftewn which a moment before haa cloudeu her hiow ; and she ec untcd what she had heard to her .1.1 l I illi,. with whom she planned i conspiracy, saying, as she rose to no, 'I'll wrife y<?u all about it, Lib" And ben good by- were sai i. and tin y parted. "1 aui sorry you were not at tlio party last evening .Met." said Minnie, as they I ;atbcrcd around the breakfast table the next morning. "See many of ybur olJ acquaintances there ?" lie asked, indifferently. "Oh, scores! And?" Here the violet eyps dropped, until the long brown lashes swept her cheek. "'And' what? he inquired, impatiently. "And?why?Mr. Farnsworth was there; 1 e sat quite near rue; and?he's eery fine bokiug, isn't he ? And again the snowy lids lull beneath her brother's gaze. "Is he?" laughed* Met. "I am glad you think so; your fancy is so peculiar that I was afraid wo should have an old maid on our hands some day." "Say a crabbed old bachelor, and you would be nearer the mark," retorted bis ?istor. "Thauks," smiled Mr. Kingsley, looking at her complacently, as she pouted utcr her coffee. 4 Such love!}' curly hair," soliloquized Minnie. Thanks to the barber," answered Met. maliciously, congratulating him* Keif that Ed was not within hearing distunce. She looked at him disdainfully. 44All the barbers in creation could lint put a 'kink' into your straight locks," she replied. ' Well, his hair is r d, any way." persisted Met knowing that opposition would make her only the more deeply interested. UA beautiful auburn," declared Minnie. ' And such whiskers!" Certainly," assented lie; a del wale tnousc color." 'For shame! How can y.ui talk so about < no whom you profess to love as a brother," said his sister reprovingly. 'For all that, I don't think lie's handsome," lie answered honestly. ' Very fortunate that everybody is not of the same opinion. <>r I suppose you would be the only living uian who could boast of good looks." 4 I make no pretentions," acknowledged Met, uso don't let us quarrel about the fellow, he isn't worth it;" and the young man very coolly lighted his cigar and departed, wondering if Minnie was really as much in earnest as she appeared to Lc. Mr. Faiii.-worth became a frequent' visitor at the Kingsloy mansion, and was treated so cordially, that his hopes roso very high, and lie made up his miud before every cull, to ask the all iupor CA tant question; but when tbc time arrived, bis courage failed, and tbc words remained unspoken. ' lie is perfectly charming!" declared Miss Kingsley, oue evening after be bad left. . "Tbc mnst awkward, uninteresting fellow in existence," answered Met, indifferently. "He is considerably more interesting than you. and I hop? he'll propose be- j fore l"ng." "So do I," responded Met, fervently. "I will give consent, and blessings, too, ( if lie will only marry you, and take you ! out of tbc house; llieu I can have your j nice front room, it's much larger and j pleasauter than mine, you know." Minnie left the room indignantly, vouchsafing no reply. Met dropped into bis friends office the j following day, saluting bun with a smart j slap on the shoulder, as be exclaimed? I "Farnsworth, I congratulate you !" ] "Why, what about?" asked this gentleman. turning so suddenly that his sleeve hit the inkstand, upsetiiug it and blotting the manuscript he had been preparing. "What about ? Why, Minnie thinks you arc perfection personified, and almost took my head off not long since, J Iiomik/i T coin vnnr Imir ?ns red.'1 I Mr. Farnsworth blushed. He was very fcnsitivc ill regard to liis auburn i hair, and the idea of'Mct'a calling his j sister's attention to its color wounded i and offended him. "Slio calls you charming, interesting, and by every endearing epithet express-; ed in Webster's I'nubridzed, contitii.mi j Met, "and was only wishing last night j you would hurry up and propose." ' I will! I will!" cried lid, springing I to his feet and pacing the room excited- j ly. "She is the sweetest, prettiest, and I most sensible little girl lit the world," he murmured. "But. old boy, it is a pity to deceivo her so, as she still thinks you arc a bachelor; and just imagine how horrified she will be when you introduce1 those three young daughters and noble j son of yours at the weddiDg," suggested ; Mr" Kingslcy. "Suppose I should tell her; what then?" asked the unfortunate lover, suddenly pausing in his rapid walk. "If she loves you truly, as i tiavo : every reason to believe she does, she ! would overcome her antipathy to wid- ! owers, and accept, you any way," an- ! swered Met. "Hut I am afraid she would not, and j a refusal would?" "Cause you to commit suicide," laugh- | ed the mercenary, tantalizing Met, if< j he bade his friend good-day, and passed i out of the door. A telegram came to Mr. Earns vcrtli j that afternoon, announcing the death of I his mother, aud demanding his immediate presence, so he must postpone his interview with Minnie until some other time. **** +#?* "A letter for Minnie !" criod sister Elsie, bouuding into the room one afternoon, and tossiug the missile upon the table. "Ed's wiitjting," he annocneed, as his sisti r cati.e forward to take it. It was a very long letter, and before she had read the iirsl page down, she arose hastily and left the room. And i Met im aginod that her eyes wcro full of tears, but be was not certain. "I have been married before," it saiJ, "hut I feared to acquuint you with the fact, lest you might dislike me, as )ou expressed an aversion to widowers." A dainty little letter was posttKi mat night, but as to its import, or the contents of Edward's epistle, Met could gain no satisfactory information. One morning Minnie found an exquisite bouquet resting at her plate, in the midst of which nestled a tiny note, from which a beautiful ring rolled out when she unfolded it, and f ill at her 'feet. lie called fur his answer during the day, arid she declared,? I tried hard not to like you, but 8omo bow 1 couldn't help it." And so Met wus right after all in saying that Mr. Famsworth Ixing a widower would make no difference in her affection for hiui ; which the wedding that speedily followed, proved. A Bad Man. As Si was coming up town from the Atlanta and Uichard Air-lino depot in Viekshurg, he indulged n a little song all to himself. Two other negroes passec by. and one of them shouted : fin up yer onder lip, ole man, and stop el it racket!' 'Who yer talk in tcr V said Si, stopping short and turning around. 'Tnlkin to you ! who you tink I'm talk in' to, you old Guinea rooster, you V 'Ver don't know mc. do yer?' said Si. I don't kcor who yon i<; you ain't no giaud army ob the 'public, nohow!' 'Look hyer, I'm do most discountgrous nigger iii ilisi At Lint y city, and I'll jist take dis hyar head and hut yer in'cr do Ibrcpart of OliiLstmas week, I will!' ' You'so a da ' du^t then Si took a run w ith head bvnt down, and two minutes there was j a sick nigger in tho mud, wanting noth! ing under heaven but a doctor. And j as Si went on, lie remarked over his !shoulder: J 4I'm n bad nigger; alius wus; was ' bad Tore de war; bad all in do war, bad : aiter de war, and I'm do louden' buttiu' I nigger you ncber read 'bout in l>ooks j wid de Kales all out an' de kivcr till j loat L. MDEN, S. C., JANUAR" .I.aws Passed. An Act Jo amend ilie laws relating to juries and jurors. Section 1. Be it ntac/eil by (ho Sonate and 11 oti5o of llcprescntatives of (lie I [ State of S'-uth Carolina, now nirt and j ' silling in General Assembly, and by the j ! authority ol the same : That the Hoard j of County Commissioners for the county j of Orangeburg shall prepare a new jury j list for the said county as soon as practicable after the passage of thin Act: j and that grand and petit jurors shall j i be drawn from the li.-t so prepared, t<- 11 serve at the next ensuing session of the j Courts of General Sessions and Com-1 mon Pleas for said county; and that 11 the grand and petit jurors si drawn J j shall be taken and held to ho the law- ! fui jurors for the courts aforesaid in , like manner as if the said iist had been ; ; .prepared during the month of Janua- i ry last. I Section 2. That whenever the jury n ic.? nnni.to cVirili hr dostrovod bv ! i Ijai? ui uvwunvj .. - ^ | _ fire or other casualty, or wheifbvcr it | shall be held by any court of competent 1 i jurisdiction that tlie jury lisi ui' any t county has been unlawfully prepared to ] as to render void the drawing of jurors ij therefrom, it shall be the duty of the j 1 Hoard of Jury Commissioners of tlie ! i county to prepare a special jury list lor ' I the said county forthwith, in the manner now prescribed by law, front which \ < special list grand and petit jurors shall j i bo. drawn for the Courts of Ceucial i Sessions and Couiu.ou Picas for such ( county until the annuai jury list thai! ! i have been prepared for such county j | during the mouth of January next ' i thereafter. ' i Section 3. That all arts or parts of < acts inconsistent with this act he, and < the same are hereby, repealed ! Approved December 2U, 1877. Jo'nt Resolution to require the Secretary of State to ascertain and report at the next session what lands have | been purchased for the State under j the Land Commission, and in what | counties, the prices pr.d. whether , the State has received titles *nd to | which, and what disposition has been made of said lands; Jit it rewhtd by the Senate nnd , House of Representatives of the State | of South Carolina, now met aud sitting | io General Assembly, and by theau- , thority of the same, That the Sec- , rotary of State he, and he is hereby , required to ascertain and report at the present session what lands have been purchased lor the State under the Land Couitnssion, and in what counties, the prices paid, whether the State has received titles, and to which, and what disposition has been made of said lands. Approved December 20, 1877. Conkling, the silver-tongued orator I from New York and the leader of tho j anti-Hayes party in the Senate, and j Senator liordon hud a very sharp little j fight in the Senate recently. They : called each other hard names and would j have fought it out according to the j code of honor had not the venerable j Hamlin linui Maine and a couple of other friends interfered. Hordon ought ! to have shot the sneak. We ure g.'tting strong enough to talk as we please and another cowhiding alicr tnc sumncr-IJrooks pattern would do the whole j country good. WIicu old Mart. Gary goes to take l'uitcrson's place we may look for !iome consternation among the Radical Senators. Gary will make them I move around lively?All'cvillc MoUum. Short Shrift in France. In France the unfortunate criminals under sentence of death never know the ; time fixed f<>r their execution until the moment arrives; indeed, as a prisoner . capitally condemned usually appeals as a matter of course to the Cour tie Gas* Ration against his sentence, they must often ho uncertain to the last whether the sentence will be carried out. The order for the execution is only suit to the prison the evening before it is to take place, and the criminal is not informed of it till the fatal morning nri rives. At the time of oar visit to this j prison, n correspondent wiites, there happened to he two unfortunate inmates of the condeuiued cells. The next evening hut one,an order came down from intneinr re.nitir.?' tlie | I ill? mm i.->i j vi inv lvr. f , ono and directing the execution of the other. At daybreak on the following morning the wretched man was roused from sleep and informed that his appeal had been rejected, and tie must prepare i for death, aud in eighteen minutes, as we wore informed, from the moment he awoke his head hud fallen beneath the j guillotine. Timo. | Tn all actions which a man performs, 1 some part of his life passes. We die I whilo doing that for which alono our j sliding life was granted Nay, though i wo do nothing, time keeps his constant! pace and flies us fast in idleness as in employment. Whether no piay, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour of vice is as long as an hour of virtue, Hut the difference between good and badnetion.s is infinite, (food not ions, though they diminish our time here' as well as had actions, yet they lay up for us a j happiness in eternity; and will recompense what they take away by a plentiful return at last. Win 11 we trade with virtue, we do but buy pleasure at the expense of time. So it is not so much a consuming of time as an exchange. As a man sows his coru, lie is/Fntont to wait u while, that be may, ut tbo harvest rceoivs with advantage. ' J M Y 1, 1878. Solemnity and Dignity Versus Wit and Wisdom. We liavc lung notice") a tendency on tlie part of the American people to a sort of undiscriuiinnting specialism.? The current notion is that the man 0/ serious mental processes must necossalily be on owl, and, conversely, that the person of humorous proclivities must be incapable of solemn thought. But, bless your sood soul, it is the easiest thing in the world to be profound. Gravity is the normal expression of the human countenr.uce, and the symbol of solemnity is the animal that has the longest cars. We see no reason whv an argument should iose force be cause it happens to he garnished with fin illustration that appeals to the risibilities. Ar.il we cannot comprehend why athesio should be judged preferiblc to an epigram where bo'h tend to the fame conclusion, or each leads to the sauic conviction in the tniud of the i reader. For example, why should we lay, "The energies of the Republican party have been exhausted in an effort lo elevate the negro race to a position bat nature never intended it to occupy," when both the humor of the sub. ject and the logic of the sentiment would be more aptly fitted by the.observation that Radicalism had tircu itself out in die arduous task of holding the nigger up by the tdil as it were? In either, rase the impression produced upon the Uiind of the reader is that the deration , >ril.c negro was forced, unnatural and j iruel alike to all parties concerned.- Huf | iln? m,1 inn!v fdiioiims stvlo would iui-i ~ "" 1 " - J ply that titcri! was nothing ridiculous id the attitude occupird by the negro in politics; wheruw in factruu may ran. tack the annuls of the human race in rain for such another travesty upon the science ol goverumont as it lias afforded. irculling ton J W. An Editor's Sanctum. A few mornings ago, ju?t after we; had swept up aud made our bed look as ! plump as a soda bi-cuit, we were surprised at hearing a modest rap at the lour. Callers seldom rap?th?y usually kick. When we answered the stunmous wo found two ladies awaiting entrance. They told us they'd always had a curiosity to see how an editor's sanctum looked and begged the privilege of entering and looking 'round. They spent the next half hour in extravagant praise of our furniture, etc, '-How spotlessly clean lie keeps his Brussels carpet?it looks as fresh and bright as if it had just conic from the loom," said one; and tllp other chimed in with ''Yes, and do look how sweetly that bed is made up. Those pillows look like snow heaps and the symmetrical plumpness of iho bed is somewhat wonderful." And thus they went on, now bestowing the most extravagant laudations upon our statuary and oil paintings, and then going into Testacies over the diamond studded chandelier. Titer looked with admiration upon our gold-mounted spittoons and wondered where we got the enchanted soap wi'h which our towel had b??cn ?' > mi c.:.t? it.r'..L-iv1 tliflir Wasill'U. 1 liuj lanijr ni?- nv?? appreciation of our beautiful laco curtains and stared iu inuto admiration before our gold-framed full-length mirror. ' Is this indeed un editor's quarters, or are we in a fairy-land ?" cue of them gasped, and the other, sinking on the luxurious sofa, sobbed, ''I don't know ? I am bewildered by the magnificence around inc." Ilcighu! The above, alas, is merely a fable. It is true that we were called upon by two ladits, but ye cods ! what a spectacle met their gaze. When they entered we crawled under the bed among the old boots and sardine cans and remained there till they left. Their derisive laughter still rinits in our ears. Their sarcastic remarks still lacerate our bosom.?/'/ ait/.Hit (Ay.) Patriot. The Violiu. In the ease of violinists, their virtuosity is n it altogether the result of finger dexterity and pure technical skill as with piano players. The violin is an instrument which has almost human caprices, and has. so to speak, svnipathe-tie relations with the mood of the performer. The smallest discomfort, the slightest disturbance of the spirits, a breath of emotion, finds in it an immediate echo; and such may be the case because (.lie violin; pressed close to the breast, participate in the beatings of the heart This however is only the ca?o with artist* who really have a heart in the breast which docs beat, and above all, a soul. The more prosy, the more heartless a violin | layer is, so much the umrc regular will his execution be. and he can reckon on the obedienco of his fiddlchow at any hour and in every place; hut this much belauded certainty of execution is only the result of spiritual mediocrity, and the greatest masters were those whose faculties of playing not uufrer|ucnt!y depended on outward and in war J influences. 1 have never heard any one play hotter than Pagan ini, and 1 can say the same of J'lrust. He is perhaps the greatest violinist of our day, and resembles Paganini as much in failing as in genius. His absence this winter is much regretted. Savori was a very poor substitute, yet we heard him with pleasure, since ho was horn In ("Senna, and as a child in his native city may have met Paganiui. People have said that he was a pupil of the latter. No, Paganini never had a pupil, since the best part of what lie knew?that which is the highest in art ?can neither be taught nor learned.? Ileinrich llcir.c (1811.) The papers of Kentucky arc urging the ro-establishment of the whipping NUMBER 25 What is Trouble? A company of Southern ladies were assembled in a lady's parlor, when the conversation turned upon the subject of earthly affliction. Each had her story of peculiar trie! and bereavement to re* late, except one pale, sad-looking woman, whose lustreless eye and dejected air, showed she was a prey to the deepest melnr.choly. Suddenly arousing herself, she said in a hollow voice? 'Not one of you know what trouble is.' 'Will you please, Mrs. Grey/ said tbe kind voice of a lady. who well knew her story, 'tell the ladies what you call trouble ?' 'I will if you desire it/ she replied, 'for I have seen it. My parents possessed a competence, and my girlhood was surrounded by all the comforts of life. I seldom knew an ungratified wish, and was always gay and lighthearted. I married at nineteen one I loved more thau ail the world beside. Our home was retired, but the sun never shone on a lovelier one or a happier household. Years rolled on peacefully. Five children sat around cur table, and a little curly head still nestled in my bosom. 'Ouc uight tjbout suodown one of those black storms came on which arc so common to our Southcrti climate. For many hours the rain poured down incessantly. Morning dawned, but still the element raged. The whole Savannah seemed ntloat. The little stream near our dwelling becaino a raging tor? rent. Before we were aware of it our! house was surrounded by water. I managed v ith my tube to reach a little j elevated spot, on which a S.w widespreading trees were standing, whose douse foliage afforded some protection,: vt hilo my husband and sons strove to save ft bat tl.ey could of cur property. At last a fearful surge swept away my hus-1 band, and lie never rose again. Indies, j no one ever loved a husband more, but | that was not trouble. Presently, my sons saw their danger, j and then the struggle for life became! the only consideration. They were as' brave, loving boys as ever blessed a mo? j titer's In art, and I watched their of-j forts to escape with such agony as only j mothers can feel. They were so far off I could not speak to them, but I eould ! see them closing nearer and nearer to j each other, as their little island grew smaller and smaller. The sullen river raged around the huge trees; dead brooches, upturned trunks, wrecks of houses, drowning cattic, masses of rubbish, all went floating past us. My boys waved their hands to use, and (lieu pointed upward. I I knew it was a farewell signal, end you i mothers can iu.agiuo my anguish. I saw them all perish and disappear, and | yet?that was not trouble, j 'I hugged tny babe close to my heart, I and when the water rose to uty feet, I climbed into the low branches of the tree, and so kept retiring before it till on all-powcrfui Hand stayed the waves that they should come no further. I was saved. All my earthly possessions were swipt away, and all uiy earthly hopes were blighted?yet that was not trouble. 'My babe was all I had left on earth. I labored night and day to support him and mvsi'lf. and sought, to train him in iho light way; lut as lie grew older, evil companions won him away from home. He ceased to care for Lis uio ther's counsels; lie would sneer at her entreaties and agonizing prayers. lie left u.v humble roof that he might be unrestrained in the pursuit of evil; and at last, ouc night when heated by wine, lie took the life of a fellow being, and ended his own upon the scaffold. My Heavenly father had filled my cup of sorrow before; now it ran over. Tbia was trouble, ladies, such an I h|pc his mercy will save you from experiencing/ There was not u dry eye among her listeners, and the warmest sympathy was expressed for the bereaved mother, whose sad history hud taught them such a lesson. Golden Leaves. She was searching over the golden i leaves which the frosts of October had , detached from the stiffened twigs. Her ! auburn hair took on the glint of gold ' as the bright sun streamed dowu over chimney and roof and tree top, and the f..n<t.>r lines around her mouth deepened as she whispered: '0, guldeu leaves, your life is ty pical of?' At that moment her mother conic to the gate, sleeves rolled up. and her big red hands hiding the view of the back yard. 'Pairing over them leaves again, ar' ye ?' she exclaimed, us she caught sight of the sentimental maiden. 'Well, now you trot in here, and wash out, the rest of them colored clothes, or I'll paw you, I will.' 'Yea, mother dear; but these golden?' 'Trot, I say ! Good bur soap is the golJencst thing in market, and a washboard costs more inoucy than all the yalicr leaves on the street. And the gentle maidcu trotted. A story is told of a shrewish Scotch woman who tried to wcau her husband from tlio public house by employing her brother to act the part of a ghost, and frighten John on his way houie. Why are you?' said (ho gndeman. cs the apparition rose up before him from behind a bush. 'I am auld Nick,' was the reply. 'Gome awn', man/ s'jj , John, nothing daunted; 'gic's of your hand, I'm married The man who couldu't^^^^^^H to bvd ic the i --me* irrwhwmmmm ADVERTISING R * iES. . Time. 1 in. J col. 5 cel. 1 en*. 1 week, $1 00 $5'no $9 00 2 " 17/) 7-60 12 00 IHfn 3. f? 2 50 I 9 -15 00 T\ 00 4 ? 8 25' * 10 00 " 19 00 " rriijo. 5 ? 4 00 12 00 20 00 30 HO 0 " 4 75 13 00 2'2 00 , 33 00 7 " 5 50 14 00 25 00 30 00 8 ' 0 25 15 00 80 CO 40 00 3 mos 7 00 16 00 85 00 60 0J 4 " 7 75 21 00 40 00 60 00 6 " 8 00 28 00 45 00 80 00 'J " 8 75 35 00 60 00 100 00 12 44 9 50 40 00 75 00 120 00 C2T- Transient advertisements rustl>e uccouipanleU with the cash to Insure i:.^?ruou. Qu?8fcionable Dtet. Egyptian women owe much of their beauty, 'tis said, to a dish ony-ting of beetles. A traveler in Egypt sao- a number of Circassian and Georgian ; male slaves sitting en shore, where they > ! had just landed front a ship. They were pale, thin, rough skinned, tawny haired, unkempt, in ccarse-t .- ('ire. :?iiu were in pursuit of fit-ai. IE- expressed his disappointment loan Egyptian drag- ? oman stauding near, who, with a grace. * ful waive of his hand, replied. "Oh, JSffendi, could you sco these womeu three months hence )*''U would t y that tbo prophet had fitted tlicni lcr heaven. Jjk Good mashed beetles and peocronsynV f i shall uiakc I hern plump; the daily Lath shall give their skins the huc-s of ercsmy milk and their joiuts the suppleness and g. gtace of the gazelle. Willi new health their eyes shall sparklo with ntirlh and be bedewed with tenderncs1, the ioso shall bloom on their che*ks aod the gold shall gild their tresses. (jo'J is great I'' And he might hare added, "mashed beetles nre tits Jpolit et the ^ hareui traders." Does this incident of* Per a suggestion to ambitious American belles ?" The Sleeping Child. Tlicrc arc seasons peculiarly sweet and soothing. There scums Fomct'.ing holy ir. the air of the lighted chnmh* c wherein no sound is l card but the rote breath of the sleeping infant. T f-nlat such times as if brought nearer to the Divine presence, r.tui with every care and I my thought pat Ik red i ito-ilemv, almost serin as though admitted to the i company of the angels who hoop their appointed wa'rh around the li:? ?: child, one desire only filling inj soul?that A my children may grow nod walk in the 'J way of iighteouMiess. At such n*oments, ton. bow clearly is pen eiveJ and acknowledged the claim of the Creator over the young creature He hath formed. lie hath breathed into it the bre..th of life, and made it a living soul, and hath fl given it Jo a mother's keeping. .She JB bows herself before Ilim and receives from His hand this pearl of great price, when the Lord makes up His jewels to be required of her again. Trust Her. Confidence-is everything between man nod wife, and a woman vviio loves ? desires to bo trusted. She would not bo glad when he is sad. She would not be ignorant of his troubles or nc'si -tlcs. Anything is better to her an t ? be ~ ?"w"~ shut out from the innermo-t orsli?; life of one who should be hers, s- .be is uil his. Women generally nro nvirsa to keeping things to themselves, and a husband is often overdosed with con ftdonee, but many really sffuc'ionMo men lead, us far as their wives arc cone rr.ee*, a double life. [Of that which i Vnk is not domestic they think light to say nothing. Some grievous troubo may be upon them?drer.J of r.:i!uro, certainly of loss; remorse fi r some tipstake lias been plunged ihe.n into . * xiety?and tlicy make no of save by a change of manner, v. iiich the women who arc ignorant that hey havo any care. incomprehenfii/.e. The wife would gladly be sympathetic; when she knows nothing of her leigo lord's trouble, all her intuitous cannot J i i #? ?i.? ? KCv|J IICI I I "111 Jl , IN- IU I It tUlil lU.^IUU V that it is u pcrsoual inntter?that she is no longer loved, or that he loves some To-Morrow. ? v ? To-morrow may never come to us. y a We do not live in to-morrow. We can- J|H not 6nd it in any title deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate and great ships on tlio sea does not own a single minute of to-morrow. It is a mysterious possibility not yet boru. It * lies glittering under the seal of midnight, behind the veil of glittering con- I stcllations. I Enjoy the present, whatever ii may \ be, and not be solicitous for ?ho future; ; for if you take your lbotlVoni the present standing, and thrust it ] I'.ur.l io to-morrow's event, you are in a i?wth>s.s condition. It is like refusing to qifneh your present thirst by fearing you will want to drink the next day. If tomorrow you should want, your sorrcw would couio lime enough, though you do not hasten it. Let your trouble tar- -? ry till its own day comes. Enjoy Liessings this day, if God scuds them, ai d the evils of today bear patiently snd sweetly, for this day is ours. We a.a the dead id' yesterday, aud not yet boru to-morrow. Ho Struck tho Wrontf Man. 'Sco what feet!' exclaimed a dapper little Chicago dandy, as be poiuted to the tremendous pedal extremities of on overgrown but honest looking country youth who happened to be passing at the time. 'Oh-ho-lio 1' laughed a crowd of b:o- 0 tlier 'sty Irs.' 'I sweali, though,' continued the !ii :t speaker,'if I don't belicto fell. > wanhs twice as lawdgo a i.vit as L do.' . ., 4 l 'Yes,' quietly sa:d the youlhlul coun- 1 jtryiuan, as ho turned bad mound in J his course, 'and twice as large a li.it,