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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, j Published Every Tuesday. At CAMDEN, S. C.} ux Til AM 11AM A ALEXANDER.: SUBSCRIPTION HATES. (In Adi-once.) Oua Year $2 <0 fciix ?onlhn 1 3?> ???????_ 1 D i. I. H. ALEXANDER, J3enta,l Surgeon, COLUMBIA, S. C. 9 | Office over w. D. Love's store. l>r Alexander will make a professional visit to Cumdcn about the oth of March. ' Nov20tf DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE..1 DENTIST, GRADUATE OF THE BALTIMORE 0OLLE JE UK DENTAL Sl'KGEICY. OFFICE?DEK. \LI> HOUSE. Entrance on liroaiStreet Dr. A. W. BiKXEl, HVVIM; LOCATED IN CAMDEN*. S. c.. Cri ERS i' HIS Pit ?FR3SK)N >.L SERVICES TO | TIIC l'BOPLB OF THIS TLACE I AND VICISITT. | Office. next il jor 10 t hat of Trial I j Ju 'lice I)e'nss. liecll-.'im Wm. D. TRANTHAM, Attorney at Law, CAMDFN, S. C. '! fj^y-OfiSce over tSie store of Mr. S. U*i!.sm?i, irt tli<? building of Robt. , Man, Esq. Entrance on Broad [ street. ; t May 24-ly. j I J. D. DUNLAP, j< TllIAL JUSTICE, i I B.tOAD STREET, ' CAMDEN, SO. CA. , p-ii_ Kusiuoss entrusted to bis can < wi!i receive prompt attention | a j uim-T I I J. T. HAT, < ATTORNEY AT LAW j < AND j J Trial Jusliee i Office over store of Messrs. Bauni Bros. Special attention given to the collection of cialm.-. J JTW. depass, J ATTORNEY AT 'LAW * >XD 'c Trial Justice. r ButarH of .ill s:.?J; p o n.>t!y t.aiiejta I. \V L. PePASS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, * CAMDEN. S. C. I . rWill practlc.* la all tbc" State and Federal I CNitt. J&a&tr T. ii. (. LAKKK, , ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMDEN, S. C. Oit're?That formerly occupied by (/apt. J. V. 1 DaVifl, JalivStt k J. D. KENNEDY. P. II. KELSON , KENNEDY & NELSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, j; camden, s. c. 1 l OJlce formelj occupied by Judge J. B. Kershaw. uuvtliu FREDERICK J. HAY, , Architect and Builder, CAMDEN, fc\ C., ^ Will furnish plans and estimates for all 1 k.nds of build'ngs. Contracts taken at | i . moderate figures, and promptly and carefully attended to. Orders left at i lie c?jil?is 0 ul: sal office aiil receive immcdiute attention. March ltf I JOHN C. WOLfaT, PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, AND SIGN PAINTER, i Taper Hanger ty uLazier, CAMDEN, S. C. Fppt23.12in lie Sure to Stop at the Latham House, ti^IDEX, S. f. (Tuans:est Board, im.r i>ay.) mn.p accommodations. TuMcs ?npwith I he )?cil the Market* afford. Kv?rv attention jiai'l t<? ilif comfort of (iucsl>. ?-ir y ergons flopping at list- Lnihnin will lie conveyed lo and from the > -? r ? ?l.1'imi.iiiii r. without ?II'j>ni iruiM vuiu^v, ....... ..r , lie..vy baggage, Will l?e conveyed to and ? from any purl of ibe town, not above !>? Kalb slice:, at - "? cents. ftyT Connected with the hcuse is u first clu^s I5ar, which i? located sepmatcly from rt!i?? house, and orderly kept. IgaJ^Conveyntires supplied to guests on liberal terms, either for city or country use. jnnS-ly S. 15 LATIIA.M, Proprietor. DeKalfo House, - HY A. S. RODG EKS. Most Centrally Located Hotel I in Town 'Forms ><\5 I)ay. Commercial Travelers will have every Attention pa to tl t r co fort, and be fui nishcl with .: \ M I'LL KOO.MS at tli House; and persons visiting Camden will fin I it n quiet and pleasant home Special rales ma le lor parlies trav ling together, and for those who wish to ? ay a Jm week orni'.: e. u^r In connection with the house i - a fint*chss LIVEKV STABLE, where horses " on 1 vehicles enn be had at all tim s for town or country use, at the most reasonable rarcs. Conveyances to uiul from the depot at over/irtiW? d?4.liu VOLUME XXXVI. THE FIRST KISS. I kissed her hand: her laughing face With dimpling smiles was running over, As home we started, to retrace Our pathway pact the late mown clover. I The graiu was nodding o'er the land. The wild l>ce gave a drowsy humming ; Though summer held its bounteous hand. The autuiun days were surely coming. "All. Kale, how fair?how sweet!" I said, ' If 1 might kiss the lips hereafter V" She only shook her little lu an: Her lips were running o'er with hi lighter. She turned away, h?r face halt hid: Her henu, ami not her lips, forbid it. My arm around her waist I slid. And then?I did.' I really did it .' Alt mo * lit ft rtr,!ur/? nf thflt Lis?. Like l'uc first rapture of the mortiing: l'he world was filled with instant blir-s, As if a newer day were dawning, sin? on. oli, bird ! with son? divine. And welcome Love, the latest eonier? For Kate has promised to hi- mine When autumn lakes the place of summer. JESSICA LELAND'S DECISION. I ''Must it he, then, that our happy, ! tappy summer is to cud thus?" Jessica Loland looked up into the ;low;ng. handsome face bending eagerly tver Iter; hut her lover stw no satisfucory answer in her sad but resolute face, fie turned away wit!) an imp atient go*ure. but the gentle touch of her hand >u I is arnt jpstr.-.iiied him. 4,It would not he right, Genrdic, to ; ic you down in your mautiood to a , jurden which it is best that I should rear alniu\ My afil-ction for my uiuhcr will make my confinement by Iter n her sick bed less irks- me ; hut you lave not grown to love her all your hie is I have done, and you would be aiiiost totally deprived of my society [ he doctor says it may a case rcjuitiDg constant .nursing for years, while mother attack may take her from me j it any moment*" "Then who could ! ? so fitting a com- | 'oner in this great affliction as oue who i oves you with his whole heart ? You : ieed not fear that I shuulci grow wear)'. I )nc look at your face would pay for jour* of waiting ! Try me?the (Jor1 >ns arc a loyal race. It was a matter ?f pride witli us a'l tliat from thef'ouudng of the fainiy we have not the record f oue men ber who was recreant to a rust or false to a lady love." Jessica looked at him a.-ain, thinking vhat a noble fuc<* it was. The eyes so lark in their blue as to be taken lor alack ?tl obroa 1 fuieht ad?the straight. Mculy penciled brows?the el-ur tut :p.?, just shadow* d by si silken mu?ache?for G?ordie was b..rtly twent), ilthough f*et six tail, an ! o.as-ivo in 'T< portion to bis height. ilut tIt uuh cr Ileal t pl? ad* d RMo'iglv lor him tshc >rs'stctited iti lo r r?Tusa'. ' I shall never many, (1 onl c. You oust forget mo. You ore too young ?o grieve long." Say that if I wait?ten?twenty ttai"3?no matter how long, and Couit :?j you?you will reward uie for my patient Sdc*ity " ' No! That would bs binding you t*i toe, ncrhajs for your whole life It tvould be too M-lfi.-h. Good bye." Sin* i ... .... i>uru< u iv "Jessica! Love ! do not part frooi uie ' w coldly L"t me* take with me tii" j memory of one kiss, that I may feci in i uiy heart that you arc not iuuiffcrcut to ' hip, though so cruel !" .Jessica hcsitat-d then she put up her i pure lips, iminnui ing, "O, no! not ltuc! ! You will *cc it in its true light j 'otneuuie," as (Jeurdie caught her to his j breast iti a lingering, pissiouatc cj.? j brace. The girl could lYel that every fibre ! ii his strong Iratnc (juiveied with em <- ! 'ion, and it was with groat difficulty I that she could refrain herself from cry* ing out : "Stay. Geordie, I love you! 1 low you!"' I>ut in her intense sjbnrgali'Ui of! sell she wept silent and in another ino- ; moot she was alone, her lips thrilling i to t!i" ev? r-to-be-rcuauii ered pressure j of her lover's first, and r las! bis farewell kiv. When the cau^e for self control existed mi iong?-r, the girl ga\e way. With a long, low cry. site threw herself prone j upon tha floor, and moaned "() ny darling! my dailing! ifyou only knew how every throb ol my h ait made an - j surer to \our appeal; but I could not * . .. ....i i" ICt )'oU I t saunivvu. Time wore on unhecde1. Then the \ repeater on the mantel strnek the hour, i and Jessica rt-iin-uiboi? ?! that she li.nl duties to aliejiJ to. Sin* hastened to ; her ro"Ui and wa-hel the traces of tears liom h. r lace, tin n sh'- went lo her mothe r, \vh**se men able illness, earned by a sudden stroke of pualysis. had caused her t > refnso the younjj 1 >ver, whose devotion t-* her through the summer had made her hie a l?au'i'ul idol. Her drulin*; widowed parent should never be u* fleeted for a comparative tlin*n>li her healt should break iii the purlin*:. Jlut she w.js made of more ctiduii::? ina'uial than tint. In llie ciliu face which hunt over her itiv >J I, ami sumol eel the hair I'ioiii hi r i< ire head w.ill sued a tender touch. there was a look of jcacc. She )i id fought a battle with h?'i>tlf, ami won. "(in, LydiJ. for a walk " siiil s!ie to tin' nurse. "1 will t!ik?' your place." Th 'i she sfo.ip 'J ijuwn ami kissed hi r in tiers In i load, and n.iiriiiiired s< iutender w* ud*, which \v?:e answered hy the wistful eyes, though the lips were spec chle.-s. Thus her life wore on for s vc:al years, duiiuo which there was little han<*e in the oatiunt. N< ver an impatient look (f wold iii idiow that Jt'Rhicit weaned of tho cLurgc. Alter a CA* [ time speech was regained, although imperfectly. "Still, it was a great corniest, for she could understand her meaning; and once again inotloT and child held sweet communion together. About a year after Geordic's depar| turc, an English paper cauic containing the marriage notice of G. Duncan Gordon, with an account of the f-eliviii-s attending the wcuding. Jessica's 1 ip-i parted in a sad suiile, us she read. '"I was right after all. nolhstanding lie is a Gordon. I knew 11- a. i *..~ ir coui'I II' l UC :n man a iiutuiu u? nan i tor weary years. Dear Geordic ! may lie be happy!" thus rtin the thoughts in her mind. She did not blamo him. and could put the sweet memory of his love away, end to dwtll upon him. was to her as though of some dear on<; at rest beneath the daisies. It was nearly live years after her mother's lirst seizure that another occurred, and after a few days of uncouM-i.wsncss the gentle suilerer was released, and Jes-iea was alone. Every day during tloi summer her slight figure might have beeu found, r.t the sunset's glorifying hour, kn cling hy her uiotlnr's grave, over trh!eh her 1'avorit! flowers had been p'anted. It was lute in October. One evening, I ?s she returned to her houic from In r loving pi'giimage, she saw a form coming to meet her. which seemed to have been conjured fionj the pa>t. She could not mistake the free swinging stop ? the iratik, >tiil boyish smile, with which he d her. For a moment Lor heart throbbed ! wildly, then sank in her b^sun like lejKj. Why had he come todistuili her placid life ? lie put out bis hand. '-I heard of your lose. Jc-si"n, and. though faraway at the time, I am here. Have you no word n! welcome lor me ? \ oil have tv> idea how my hea-t aeheil I' r you in y'jur sorrowful loneliness." Jessie gave hiiu a cold little hand, and -aid mechanically: "You are very kind; but how c-?uld you laave your wiIV to come to see me ?" Geordie's eyes opened wide. "Wife ! are you dreaming, or am I ? I have no lady-love but nutu:c since the girl J loved ri fused ine. I have been such a wander that my own land does not own uic."' The poor li' tie heart that had IVlt so benumbed and sorrowful was well nigh bursting with the sudden flood of happ.nc>s which pouted in upon it at Gfordie's words. 11' r face was a stu ly in the transferultioK nltnttifptl i? IVrini n fit model of a mourning Niobe to a brightih"8* like the ui 'r?ing. (jeordie und'-wtiKiJ it, and dnwing (he slender arm within his own. tl.cy walked on together. His tone was very tender as he said: * 1 >0 y<?u remember wl at I said about waiting Tor you ? Ah ! the little unbeliever'" but the clinging firinne-s with which ho imprisoned her arm took the edge from his words. "How di \ou g'ttlic inf 1 mm ion that I w.i*matried '( I 'i J n't 1 '.ell you a (lot don never forgot 7" "I received a paper cv nfaining, as 1 ih ugl.t, your weddiug u dice " ' So you mistook iny cousin for me! and I sent the paper! What a blander! i might have thought (hat you knew but little of my relatives; but it ncv. i eiitcicd my head that (irahauio and tieoidie lmd the same initials. Well, it's all right now. Were it not for those sablembes. 1 should imagine those five years to he a dreaut. You haven't grow u a day older. As the bright, tender eyes studied htr faco with the expressions remembered so well, and which she had never thought to meet again, Jessica s lips begun to qnivcr. Tln-y had hy this time reached the porch of her li >u.*e; and (.lei rdic drew tier within its sacred shelter and kis-ud away her tears. ' My own Jessica/' he's.iid, softlv .'lay 11 dc my privilege uuui mts n?i>fmth tn soothe your sorrows ami share yourj ys. I shall he like a miser of society of which i liavn heen deprive 1 -o loot'. Vou must make up your mini! to adopt aiiotl.i r fcl a low. Yielding t > her lover's urgent s.liii t it ions, Jessica ci nsentvil to be niarrh ?! ; to him as sv-oii as s-lio c- ul?i complete a few simple preparations. The o'luii oi l pa tor who liinl hap- ) tii.? <l her pronounced the weJJiii- hi ? I 'die'ion. Nt-'l I s:>y that the faitliful daughter 1 i !i . .1,.,:... ..( ; M) IIIIiliKU ?IIV uuin- * i u\ i uvm v ?? I inn t hut alter a few y. ar.s of wedded i tiff. It r husband and childimi r!so up :t : ?l CU .l lit r bit HSedi' A Man Without C urioaity A stranger walkcJ into, the office this 11.01 itinjx. and, pei'in into the d"or el our sanctum. lixcd his eyts on the buhl -put mi our bead and .said : "Kurly piety", ch ' It's an awful sad bij;lit to see a yoiuiji man luld-lleaded." ' Very sad," we r- plied, pushing our pencil vigorously and without up Ir in th'1 writiiio of ;t heavy hadei on I he (ioiupuralive Influence <f Kifle-Teams oil .Modern t.'ivi! za'ion." on which we were cnuuoed :it ?he time. "Ves," ret unit d the visitor, "thoujili sa I, it's no disgrace. A bald head, sr, is a sioii of brain power; you never see ubahMiadcJ fool. \\ h^, look it my head I lie reti.ovt d i is hit. and his head was as hare ol I air as a steam boiler. ' A LaltMieatletl man wa? sunt to tnc insane asyluui from this e uiinry lust month." we said, tlr- ppiu^ our eyes uoaiii on the writino belbre us. ' Well, theie's exeeptiotii to evrry rule," ho replied. /[DEN, S. C., FEBRUAR' ! Then lie pot up and wiit into the I composing rooiu, and looked over a coui- ' posiior's shoulder at a pieje of copy, "Strangers not allowed to rend copy!" .sung out the foreman from the other end of the room. "Oh, I didn't want to read the copy ; j don't even care for the original," au- ' I swered the persistent stranger, "t was 1 only trying to compute how many of these types it would take to uianufac- j turc an account of a first-cla.-s horserace.'' Then he went over to the stone and ! picked up a stickful of t\pc that the I devil had set down for a moment. "Look out! this ain't a bakery!" cried ' tbo devil. "Who said it was ?" "Well, yon wen* trying to make !pi,' " answered the devil. "Well, that's all right. T don't he- 1 iieve in going into a place and making themselves perfectly at home It 1 was j a. carpenter, lor instance, and had a kit of tools, I wouldn't want people to be coming fooling around atid (dicing off I their fingers with my chisels', or anything of that sort." While lie was saying the above words he had his hands on the cylinder of the prooff press, and was pushing it backward and forward, making a uoise : which was plunging * * Tlie Compnraiivc ! Influence of lliflle-tcunn on Modern Civilization'' into a hopeless muddle. Writing was out of the question while the fiend was present; so we abandoned ' rhc heavy leader, and, straightening up our chair, looked him square in the ? ve, and said : "Yes, it's a had idea for people to foul with things they don't uudcr-taod. Why, only two days ago, a stranger eauie in here and picked up one of our ! Catling guns. OF course lie didn't know it was loaded; and the county gave dc- : cent burial to such fragments of liiui ns ! the devil managed to pick up around the office. Here, boy. show this gentleman one of the Catlings!" "The devil rolled furwar 1 a large iron ' cylind r, used for a mould for casting rollers for the press, and our visitor commenced backing toward the door, say- J ing as he went: c t ' >io, thank ye; if there is one thing, 1 now, that [ do pride myself on, it is that there ain't a particle of cariosity ' in my composition. Beside?, I know all about Catling guns; the second cousin of the man who makes Gat ling puns had a mother who used to do my washing." He backed out of the office, and : staited off after the manner of u man; who is in a hurry. But "The comparative Influence of Rifle T'lams on Modern Civilization," looked at in the light of a literary efftrt, was a total wreck,: and will never in living print gla-id'-n the eyes of an admiring world. It's in 1 the wa*tc-baski t.?Austin (X?/ .) J!c t i fCCt. Homo Life of the Ancients. It was a dismal, rainy day in December. Socrates, who had no umbrella, and in lad didn't have time to live until thclirst one was made, stood on the front slept of his house, drawing Irs cloak around him, before venturing down the street. From the opposite side of tlie stree t his friend Tlieruieiies, passing by, familiarly hailed bim as "Soc," and shouted : ' lilustcry this morning." ' Yes," replied the philosopher, it's cold." " I Icy ?" suddenly shot the voicfc of Xantippc from a second-st"ry window, bey? what's that?" ' I said,"exclaimed Socrates, promptly throwing up his guard ami backing prudently into the doorway; ! say it's scold." ' Said what ?" was the sharp rejoinder ; "vou say that again, and say it slow."' ' It's cold," repeated the philosopher; ' it's scold; its cold; its scold as ice, 1 i said." There was a moment's silence, duting i which Xantippc appcitrcd to bo buried in profound thought, while the great disciple of Aiiaxr;:orasoce ip;<--l t ho pain f'tl interval by girdmg up his loins and i tucking Ids trowsers in the tops of bis ? - i ....i.: it... a--,f?... o i !*"(> .1, illMI uur I IMI |>UMU I'or a lively run. I'riseutly there came 1 from I lie window * "Vou liold on there a minute, youn^ man, till I coinc down. I want to toe, you a minute before you on down town.'' There was a fierce, rapid dapping of Attie sandals upon ihe wet pavement, he wild rmh of a cloaked li^ure through the peiiinir rain, and leu minutes laler ; Socrates was explaining to I'lain and ' Xi iiojiIioii that lie had cha-cd a street , oar all the way from the I'eirnic oat . ! and was clear out ofhrea'h.? //oir/.vye. . How to G*'t to Sleep. I The Philndclpdiu J'ms says that if , any man wlit diaw breath ijuickly at.d j | deeply 11.r thu space of ihree minutes 1 j i.r le*s, he will thereby lose acute sensibility to pain so that he can endure a ' j minor surgical operation without ineoii- | i venienee. J lie editor ol the New \ ork j M oi ftf sayK he has tried I lie above and | found it doesn't work. Well here's a thino that will work, aud it is related to j 1 the above experiment. It any one is, troubled with sleeplessness, let him fasten his attention on his hreathin^. and fix Ids eyes, as it were on the stream ol bre.ilh as it enters ami leiveshi" iios- ] t r i N. Of course, he is lyiiu i" bed, with hi- oys closed, so that this process is imaginary. If lie eonti"iies to waleh his br-aihim; in ibis way l'??r 'line iiiwint? s, he will full into a div unless and rcIrcshinu sleep. \\ e have tried this and , know it to be effective.? Motion i'utt, Y 5, 1878. The Stinging Tree. Though tic tropical scrubs of Queens*: land arc very luxuriant and beautiful. I tbey arc not without their dangerous! drawbacks, for there is one plant grow- j mg in tlum that is really deadly in i'sh effects?that is to say, deadly in theji same way that one would apply the! < term to fire, 03, if a certain proportion 1< of any one's body is burnt by the sling- i in? tree, death will be the result. !t s would be as safe to pa4s through fires as i to fall into one of these trees. Tiny t arc found growing from two or three I inches high to ten and fifteen feet; in j i the edd ones the stein is whitish, and ; I rod berries usually plow ou the top. It r emits a peculiar and disagreeable smell. ( but is best known by its leaf, which is! I nearly round, and having a point at the' ( top, is japped all round the cdpe, like i t the nettle. Ail the leaves are large?j \ some larger than a saucer. t "Sometimes/' says a traveller, "while shooting turkeys in the scrubs I have 1 entirely forgotten the stinging tree, till! t warned of its close proximity by its 11 suiell, and have then found myself in aj i little forest of them. I was only once j t slung, and that very lightly. Its effects i g are curious; it leaves no mark, but the I pain is maddening, and for montbs af- a tcrward, the part when touched is ten- j dor, in rainy weather, or wheu it pets i wet in washing, etc. 1 have seen a uian. i who treats ordinary pain lightly, roll on i the ground in agony, after being stung, a and I have known a horse so completely i mad, after getting into a grove of the 1 trees, that he ru.-hfd open-mouthed at j ? very one who np| reached him. ana had to be blmt in the scrub. Dogs, when \ stung, will ru-h about, whining, pite- i oiislv, 1? ting pieces from the affected ! part. The small slinging trees, a few : { inches high, arc asd ingeroua as any, j being so hard to see and seriously iui-j1 periling one's ankles. This scrub is J' u-u illv* fouud growing among the palm |s tre.'s." _ I j A Word to tho Brides. I'lease let an old married woman say I a few words to those among your young ' l.idv readers who arc newly married or contemplating marriage. N'otv, girls probably you all look for- ' ward to a life of happiness with the ,? husband of your choice, hut it will de- ; pond upon your actions, in a great nicas- | urc, how much happiness you have, ' 1'robably you are caressed and petted uovr, but you must not depend upon 1 that for your contentment; better 1 far find your joy in showing your love ' for your family and neighbors in deeds j of kindness, than in waiting for others : to do good to you. Your husband, ' probably, is engaged in business which 1 occupies his mind and attention so lie ' may n >t wish to fondle you at all times. I lint do nof be afraid that a kind word 1 or a helping hand will ever coine amiss ' to him, and every kiss or kind word in ! time of trouble, wi 1 make you sccin 1 nearer to him. Above ail else, do not ' let unkind or cross words ever pass v?t*r 1 tips; make it a rule to let little differ-j encos between you r-st until such a |' time as you aie b -tb in a go >d humor, j and my word for it. th<> elephant you!'1 thought you saw, will only he a mouse :1 and not worth sp'liking of. An Irish lady was talking to the writer just b;? ! fire lo r own marriage; and her wotds, I tl ough houndy, were full of good ad- ' \ici\?huiidshe: 'Faith, Jjizzit an'la if vi r old mou gi's mad, ji>t ye kape I your own mouth shut, and by uiy word s he'll not quarrel much an'no one to i quarrel wid; and when he is after being < good Matured he will love ye the better t for it." Try it, reader, and if it does < not work a charm, both to love and keep t it, let uie know, and we will try to find ' some other rule to help you. Tho Crowning Show. j1 According to the cot respondent of a j' M'Hitreal paper, a competitive display ,' <>f beautiful women is one of the novel-11 ties proposed for the 1'aris exposition of \1 next summer. 'i'iie idea is said to havej originated at M sdiid. and the Spanish j | now.-p'ipers are already uiging all wo-1 men ?h siring to exhibit to send in th irj photographs at once, in order that a ;, iotinni.vi >n of impartial judg s may so-' iect suitable r> pies, ntatives of Span- ' ish beauty At Taris it is proposed to j offer sixty?'fre grand priz>s in go'd. tliirty-one sreond prizes in silver, one hundred ace> sslts, and two hundred di- J plomas of honorable mention. Each; ixhihitis to h>> judged by her profile J is will as her full aspect; and grace of figure, sweetness of expression and dig- j tilty of carriage are all to l>? taken into ' oni-i Ination To crown all there is to ( be awarded one supteme prize of honor, | .!i-i>i..rni,hiii>' it- recipient as the most j hcuuilul woman in the worid. and on- J litliug in r to a triumphant procession through I lie streets of Paris, seated on t golden clinriot drawn by sixteen Andalusia n steeds, at undid bv tlic sixty next beautiful women on white palfreys 11' our memory serve? us, there j i is upon record only one previous eon- i test of this character. We allude to 1 the eomp'-tilixe exhibition of female hriiuty hold in the neighborhood ol Mount Ida, and decided in lavor of*j Venus by ono Paris, a shepherd,! who had the fool's link at the same , lime to he the solitary spectator and sole judge of award. The international coin, plications which resulted from his decision do not augur well for the show next summer?provided there will be such a show, which wc rather doubt.? A'. )". Siiu. Tim hi is the only real foundation for I friendship; in nil hut truth there is a | principle of decay aud dissimulation. i NUMBER 30 Mercury and the Woodman?A Fable. A man felling a tree on the hank of a river, by chance let his axe slip from his hand. It dropped into the water and sank to the bottom. In {treat distress at ihc loss of his tool, hesank down m the bank and grieved bitterly. Mer. ury nppmred and asked him what was the matter, lfaviug heard the man's story, Mercury dived to the bottom of 1 river aud bringing up a golden axe lie idered it to him. The woodman rinsed to take it, saying it was not his. < Mercury dived a second time and i irought up a silver one. This the man I ilso refused, saying that, too, was none I >1 his. He dived a third time and jrought up the axe the uian lost. Ihis j lie poor 111au took with great joy auil ? hank fulness. Mercury was so pleased 1 frith his honesty, that he gave him the i ither two in the bargain. * The woodman told this adventure to lis mates, and one of tlieni set off for ' he river ami let his axe fail ioou pur. ' io?.e. lie tlicu bewail to lament his loss t n a loud voice. Mercury appeared as I icfore, and demanded the cause of his < ;ricf. After hearing the man's account, I ie dived and brought up a golden axi " ind asked hiui if that was his. Trans* 1 lorled by the thought of tiic precious nctal, the fellow eagerly answered thai t was. and greedily attempted tosnatef t. The god, detecting his falsehood I uid imp ud'-'iM-c, not only dcclim d to give ' t to him, hut refused to let hiui have ! lis own again. Thus it is seen that I 'reed punishes itself. I Their High Nosee. He wore sheep-skin mittens, hal his | <ants in his boots, and he covered his , lorses with oid pieces of rag carpet, and \ into rod a hardware store uud asked h >ok at a hlieot iron stove. He was . ihown several patterns, one after the , ither, but none seemed exactly to suit , lis ideas. j ' I have shown you every style of ] rtnrlnf J.ifn /.? u-lt.i l.f nu Ii.miui in v... .? .v. Detroit," said the dealer as they stood i before the last one. ' Yes, I s'posc so, but none o' them , juite (ills the bill," was the dubious an- , ;wcr. ; ' Why not ? Aren't they big enough -all enough, handsome euough, or what , s tho trouble ?" -Waal, i ll tell you/' slowly replieo lie would bo customer. ''The eld wonan she takes a story paper, and her lead is chuck full of such names as Kvmg-litie, Kmilena, Maud, Arabella ind Riverbed i. Tho gals they read Shakespeare, and they arc all the while alking about Hamlet, Claudius, I'ctru hio, Houico, and so on. I'm lindei postin' up on astronomy myself, and I'm ill tho time thinkin' about Venus, Mars Saturn and Jupiter* Now, you haven't jot a stove in the lot wi?h a more romantic name than 'Ajax,' and just imigino folks like us sittin' around a stove villi a plug name like that!" lie thought he'd look further, and aic unhitched his team he called out: ' Wli'ioa, now. Lady Kstella?.stand 1 iround there, Othello !"?Detroit Frei 1 FW | A Terrible Family Feud. There has for over forty years been a jitter feud between the families of Ilill ; in,I l'vnns in (in rand COuntV. Kv. It * "" " " J ' ?J ' -- ] jegan with a quarrel about tlie owner- ] tliip of a slave, aud a fatal fight. The , :ontrovcrsy thereafter led to frequent ; ?ncountcrs, but it was not until 1819 ( hat another lito was lost. The murder- ] it in this iustuncu tied from the State, mil the two families set up an open warfare. They lived 011 adjoining farms which for several ensuing years were ieft uncultivated, the controversy dc- : nar.ding exclusive attentio.i. In 1830 parties ol Hills and Evanses met in . Lancaster, on an election day, and bad > i desperate tight. One Evans wag tilled, and three Hills were wounded with bullets. The next engagement , was iu 1832. A Hill moved his household by way of a laue through Evans's | land, under an armed escort of his rclativs. They were tired upon from a , barn, from which they drove out a party ' >1 their enemies. The light ing with pistols and knives lasted an hour, and live lives were lo>i. A public meeting { was held to put a stop to tiio feud, but I til t Hurts to pacily the belligorcntsfailed, i Duly six months later an Evans was as- \ -asHtiatcU. i no nmruercr was mcu. ; IJii the way to the court a party of Mil's * ivcre waylaid by Kvnuses, and in the < light two tuorc men were killed. At i lionry Clay's fuiier.il two of the enemies [i re J at each other, hut without hitting. In 18(51 two Hills were murdered one I night in their house. The last serious t Unlit was in 18(57. Now the families | ire at peace. I A Flirt. The most audacious flirts (to use the mistaken language of the world,) are invariably wouien of remarkably affectionate dispositions. They long iuex- : prcssibly for a suitable mate; they desire marriage, but they have an honora- 1 blc pride which will nut permit thorn to 1 take a partner of whom they cannot be justly proud. Ileuee, when a suitor makes his appearance before the flirt, she welcomes him with double kindness; lirst. because she is affectionate, and his protfep d love brings out his side of" her t character; and next, because ho may be I the fairy I'rinee, for whom she has waited With that hope deferred which [ uiaketh (lie heartsick, i'hen, when j she finds out that she has misjudged his character, she discards hiui, and people call her a "flirt.'' Is that juitf ADVERTISING KATES. Time. 1 in. \ col. I eel. 1 c ol. I week, Si 00 So 00 SO 00 $10 00 l " 170 7 00 12 20 2O0O 3 " 2 00 0 00 10 20 24 00 I " f 3IHJ 10 00 IH 0<> 27 00 0 ?? 3 0o 1170 20 00 ::i 00 j ' 4 00 12 0O 22 70 34 UO 7 " 4 00 13 25 21 70 37 00 4 ?? 0 00 14 00 20 00 40 00 3 in os G 00 17 00 32 00 00 00 4 7 60 10 00 29 50 09 00 G " 8 00 24 00 48 00 84 CO 9 " 9 00 30 00 09 00 195 00 12 ? 10 20 30 00 G8 00 120 00 Transient advertisements must be acoomanled with the cash v> insure insertion. A New Use for Straw. While in the northern part of Iowa recently, a case came to our notice of a new use of straw, which if ar<nlic<l here may be of vast service to wheat growers. An intelligent farmer there tried the experiment of spreading it out on his wheat land after tha grain had been -own, thinking that the growing stalk would find its way through, and that during the drouth of .July and Augm', which almost iu variably occurs, it would ict as a mulch and bo beneficial to bis crop. In this lie was not mistaken, for the average on that ten acres was forty bushels to the acre, while on the sane kind of land adjoining, with the same >ccd sown and as carefully put in, the. viclJ was but twenty two bushels to the icre. The iucrea.sc wus thus ncariy double, while the straw was in excels cut condition to turn under tiiis fait, ind a double benefit secured. The only objection we ?ce to the plan a that the winds of spring blow the straw iulo heaps ar.d otherwise disai angc it, hut this might ba remedied >y appiyi,Jn it after tlie wheat has come ip. A temporary check would doubtess be given to the stalk, but it would won come through and grow the mora rigorously afterward. Go Made a Mistake. A Michigan farmer, named Hair! ? ^ ? * t ias liaii so many adventures with bcugars that he never dares to gj to niarktt, u Detroit, without having a gun behind liiui in his wagon. Si on afior daylig! t a>t Tuesday he saw something on the highway that looked hkua horse blanket ind while he was getting out of the wagon to pick it up u man confronted liiin and ctied out: 'I was waiting lor pou to come along." Without delay (he . autiuus farmer si* zed his gun and fired i charge of bird .shot almost in the face if the enemy, who retreated iu great dis- ?odor. screaming and yelling. 'l'he farmer drove on very complacently, thinking he would have a good story for ihc ? ~ ? aoys at the tavern, but discovered a few yards down the road u broken wagon loaded with poultry, 'flic man whom lie had stuffed with bird shot was not a robber, but a small farmer who bad lost his horse blanket and gone back to look For it. The repentant mark?mau went back and tried to comfort his unfortunate fellow-traveler, and found him siting on a log and counting the wounds, ionic thirty or more. A Wife Poisoner Convicted by bis Little Child. By the side of Bowman in the court bouse sat a fair-faced little girl, hardly live years olJ, and ever and anon she woul l rub her cheek against his, and be would stoop his head till his bearded ?? S* shock pressed hers, she gazing iuto his jyes with all a child's love and trust, ind he into hcr's with all a father's fond devotion. It was aot for effect. 'or the lirst day Bowman Was arrested he sat in hi.-} lap the outre time. fondling him the same way. And yet that shild's lips were tho first to cry poison ind murder against her father. Kliz i Jane is her name. She was sitting in the kitchen door a few minutes aftir lier mother died, and a little negro girl ivas putting on her shoes when Mis; Martha Cole and Miss Elizabeth Cohb passed iu. As ladies generally iuquire, when in the house of death, Miss Cobb remarked to Miss Cole, '*1 should so uuch like to know Mrs. Bowman's la-t words." "I'll Ml you," said Kliz j? 'Mammy told father she was pisencd in ;hat drink of liquor lie give her this m irning, that's what she said."?liriInHc (A'. (*.) CorrapoHtknce. Snobs. An excellent definition of "snobbery'* s given by an English paper. The mob is the child of arislocratical socie:ies; perched on the step of the long adder, he respects the man on the round above him, and despises the man jn the slop below, without inquiring what they arc worth, solely ou accouut it' their positions; in his inucrmost heart he finds it natural to kiss the b-^ots if the first, aud to kick the second. Can ;-ou imagine a more degrading position * .\evaua uog seems 10 dc maue ot stcruer stuff" than other American virs. Lately one fell down a ninety-tire root shaft, struck with emphasis on hard rock, lived sistoeu days without food or j Rater, was taken out after that time, 1 tnd immediately ran down and totally iestroyed a rat that presumed too much >n appearances and approached rather ;oo near the sickly looking animjd. A Reflection.?It should be remembered every loathsome inmate of penitentiaries and State prisons was once a icntle, inoffensive, prattling child, and that every criminal who has "exp:ated his crimes upon the gallows," was once pressed to a mother's heart, and drew his life giving nourishment from iier bosom. Lad moral training and debasing examples transform endearing offspring iuto ferocious men, who shock humanity by the foulness of their guilt and the monsrous audacity of their crimes. The man who does nothing don.t amount to much. It makes but little difference whether he is a millionaire or a pauper. lie is only a stagnant pool, without even energy enough to start a ripple. He diffuses a moral miasma over everything around him. Ho something don't stand on the corners gaping with your hinds in your pockets like an idiot. The world was made to work in, and if you till your hearts with good ^ugcls, the bad spirits will keep out because thero is qo rootq for thorn*