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VOLUME XXXVI.
i
-IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."
[Tin- following beautiful ami touching
lines were read 1-y our distinguished towns*
innn. Col. Wm. >1. Shannon, oti( the occasion
of the late Penny Heading at the residence
of Mr. II. llautn. It is to be regretted
that their author is unknown.]
With heavy head bent on her yielding
hand,
And half flushed cheek bathed in a fervid
light,
With restless lips and most unquiet eyes,
A maiden sits nnd looks out on the night.
The darkness presses close against the pane,
Anil silence lieth on the elm tree old.
Through whose branches steal the whitefaced
moon
In fitful gleams, as tko' 'twere over bold.
She hears the wind upon the pavement fall,
And lifts her head as if to listen there;
Then wearily she taps against the pane,
And folds more closely the ripples of her
hair.
She sings unto herself an idle strain.
And through its music all her thoughts arc
seen;
For all the burden of the song she sings
Is -Oh, my God, it might have been !"
Alas I That words like these should have
I lie [?vn Cl
To crush the roses of her early youth,
That on her altar of remembrance sleeps.
Some hope dismantled of its love und
truth?
That mid the shadows of her memory lies
Some grave moss-covered where she loves
to lean,
And sadly sings unto the form therein,
'It might have been, Oh, God, it might
have been!"
"We all have in our hearts some hidden
place?
Some secret chamber, where a cold corse
lies
The draping of whose couch we dress anew.
Each day. beneath the j ale glare of its
eyes :
We go from its still presence to the sun.
To seek the pathways where it once was
seen,
Klin tho IhobLimr of our
B
hearts
With this wild cry "Oh Qod.' it might
have been !"
"We mourn in secret o'er some buried love
In the far past, whence love docs not return.
And strive to find among its ashes gray,
Scnic lineering spark that yet may live
and burn;
And when we see the vainness of our task
We tlee away fur from the hopeless scene,
And folding close our garments o'er our
hearts?
Cry to the winds "Oh God 1 it might have
been!"
"Where'er we go in sunsight or in shade,
We mourn some jewel which the heart has
missed,
Some brow we touched in days long gono
bySome
lips whose freshness and first dew we
kissed;
We shut out from cur eyes the happy light.
Of sunbeams dancing on tbc hillside preen
And lil e the tnaiuen ope thetn on the night
And cry, like her, "Oh God, it might liuve
been 1"
BILL AND THE WIDOW.
' Wife," taid JOJ. Wilbur one morn-j
ing, as lie sat stirring h i coffee with oce 1
hand and holding the plum eakonn his
knee with the other, and looking across
the table into the bright eyes of his lit
1 J !-l. . A.?
t!o wife, "wonldn t ir ue a goou jukc i<>
get bachelor bill Smiley lo take Widow
Watson to barn urn's show next week ?"
"Vou can't do it, Ed ; lie won't ask
her, lie's awful shy. Why. he came by
here the other niorriin^ when I was
hanging out the clothes, and he looked
over the fence and spoke, but when I
shook out a night-gown he blushed like
a girl and went away."
"I think I can manage it." said Ed.;
"bat I'll have to lie just a little but,
then, it wouldn't bo much harm 'under
the circumstances, for I know she likes
him, and he don't dislike her. but just
as you say, he's so shy. I'll just go over
to his place to borrow some bags of him,
and if I don't bag him before I come
back, don't kiss nie for a week to CuUio,
Nell."
So saying, Ed. started, and whilt be 1
is mowing the fields, wc will take a look
at billy Smiley.
lie was rather a good looking fellow,
though bis hair nnd whiskers showed
some gray hair, and he bad got in a sot
of false tooth, but every one said be
was a good old soul, and so lie was. He
has as good a hundred acre farm as any
in Norwich", and a new house and every
tiling comfortable, cad if he wanted a
wife many a girl would have jumped
at the cliauec, like a rooster on a grasshopper.
but bill was so bashful?always was
?and when Susan Nicrry Dome, wnom j
lie wan to sweet. on, though lie never i
said boo to her, got married to old ;
Watson, lie just drew lii.s head i?. like a !
unicJ turtle into his .shell, and there was
no getting him out again, though since
she had been a widow he pa?d more at*
tcntion to hi* clothes. and bad been
at the church that the fair widow atten1
dud. 1
liut hero comes Kd. Wilbur.
' Good morning, Mr. Smiley."
, ' Good morning, Mr. Wilbur; what's
the news your way?"
''Oh. nothing particular that I know |
of," said Kd., '"only Barn urn's show,
that everybody is talking about, and j
ever} body and his gal arc going to. I
was over to old Soekridcr's last night I
and sec his son Gu? ha3 got a new j
buggy, and was scrubbing up bis lowness,
and lie's got that white faced colt
of his as slick as a seal, f understand
ho thinks of taking Widow Walson to
the show. He has been hanging
around there9 good deal of late, hut I'd
just like to cut him I would. Susan
is a nice little woman, ar.d dc*euui,
a better mail than that young pup of a J
fellow, though I would not blame her
! much if she tabs him. for she must Lc
drcadsomc, and then she has to let her
farm out on shares, and it isn't half
I worked, and uoupc else eccuistohuve the
(
spunk to speak to her. My jingo. if I
was a single man, I'd show you a trick
or two."
So say in ir, Ed. borrowed some bags
and started around tbe corner of the
barn, wlierc be bad left Mill sweeping
and put his car to a knot hole and lis'
' 1?~ i tin bnnhidiir bad a
Il'lll'll, I\IK>"IU_, . nv
habit of talking to himself when anything
worried him.
"Confound that young Sockridcr!"
said Bill; "what business has he there,
I'd like to know? Got a new buggy,
has he! Well, so have I, and new
harness, too, and his horse can't get J
sight of mine, and T declare I've half a
mind to?yes, I will ! I'll go this very
n'ght and nsic her to go to the show !
with uic. I'll show Ed. Wilbur that I i
ain't such a calf as he thinks I am. if I j
did let old Watson get the best of mc
in the first place !"
Ed. could scarcely help laughing outright;
but he hastily bitched the hags
on his shoulder, and with a low chuckle
at his success, started home to tell the
news to Nelly; and about five o'clock
that evening they saw Bill go by with
his horse and "buggy, on his way to the
widow's. lie jogged along quietly,
thinking of the old singing school davsand
what a pretty girl Susan was then,
and wondering inwardly if he would
have more courage to talk up to her?
until at a distance of about a mile from
the house, he came to a bridge, he pave
a tremendous sneeze and blew his teeth
out of his mouth and clear over the
dashboard; and striking on the plank,
they relied over the side of - the bridge
and dropped into four feet of water.
Words cannot d? justice to poor Hill
or paint the expression of his face ns he
eat there completely dumbfounded at
his piece of ill-luck. After a while he
stepped out of his bugiry, aud getting
down on.his hands and knees and looked
over info the wafer. Yes, there they
were, at the bottom, with a crowd of little
fishes rubbing their noses against
them, and If til wished to good ties that
his nose was as close for one second.
His beautiful teeth had cost him so
much, and, the show coming on and no
time to get another set?and the widow
and young Sockridcr.
Well, he must try and get thorn somehow,
and no time to be lost, for somo
one might come along and ask hiui what
he was fooling around there for. He
had no notion of spoiling his clothes by
wading inwith them on; and, besides, if
be did. be could not go to the widow's
that night, so he took a look up and down {
the mad, to sec that no one was in sight, i
and then quickly undressed himself, laying
his clothes in the buggy to keep
them clean. Then he rati around tiie
bank and waded into tbc almost icy Cold
water, but bis tcctb didu't chatter in bis
hea J?he only wished they could. Quietly
lie waded along so as uot to stir the mud
up, and when he got to the right spot
he dropped under the water and came
out with his teeth in his mouth. Hut
hark ! What noise is that.? A wagon,
and a dog barking with ail his might,
and his horse is starting.
"Whoa ! whoa ! Stop vou brute, you,
stop!"
Hut s'op he would not, but went off at
a spanking pace, with the unforunate (
bachelor after him. Hill was certainly
in a capital running costume, but though
lie strained every nerve he could not ,
touch the buggy or reach tlie linos that
were dragging on the ground. After a .
while his plug hat shook off the scat, '
and the hind wheel went over it, making j
it as flat as a pancake. Hill snatched it
as he ran. and after jamming his fist into 1
it, stuck it, all dusty and dimpled on bis j
head. And now he ijaiv the widow's
house on the top of the hill, and what, oh
what will lie do? Then his coat fell out
and lie slipped it on. and then making a
desperate spurt he clutched the back of
the s?ai and scrambled in, and pulling
the buffalo robe over bis legs, stuffed
the other things beneath. Now the horso
happened to be one be got from Squire
Moore, and be got it from the widow
and the animal took it into bis bead to |
stop at bur ?3tc, which Hill had no
power to prevent, ho vr.is too busy
buttoning bis coat up to tns tbii) to j
think of much else.
The widow beard the rattling of the
wheels and looked out, and seeing that it
was Smiley and that he didn't offer to get
i.h/? went nut to see what he wanted.
and there she stood chatting, with her;
white arms on the top oftlie puic, u>ij
her liicc towards him, while the chills
ran down his shirtless back clear to his I
bare fret beneath the buffalo robe, and
the water from his hair and the dust
fri#rn hi. hat had combined to make
souic nice little stress of uiud that
came tricklinp down his f'jee.
She asked him to come in. No, lie
was in a hurry, he said. She did not
offer to po. He did not ask her to pick
up Ins loir,* for him, because be did not
know what excuse to uiaue for not doinp
so himself. Then he looked down ttic
road behind him ami saw a white-faced
horse eomiiip, and at onco surmised it
was that of (ius Sockrider ! lie resolved
to do or die. and hurriedly told his errand.
The widow would ho deliphtcd
to po-ofcourse she would. !>ut. wouldn't
lie come in ? No, he was in a hurry, he
said: nud he would po on to Green's
place.
"Oh," said the widow, "you'ro pomp
to Green's, are you ? Why, I'm poiup
there myself to pet. one of the pirls to
help me quilt to-morrow. .lust wait a
second while I prt my bonnet and shawl,
and I'll ride with you " And away she
skipped,
"What a scrap*," said Kill, and ho
hastily clutched his pants from between
his feet, and wrippled into them, when a
liplit wapon drawn by the while-faced
horse, driven by a boy, cuiuo alonp and
3AMDEN, S. C., APRIL 1
stopped beside liirn. The bov belj up a
pair of boois in one hand and a pair of
socks in the other, and just as the widow
reached the gate again, he said
"Here's your boots and socks, Mr.
Smiley, that you left on the bridge when
you were in there swimming."
"You're mistaken," said Bill; "they
are not mine."
"Why," said the boy. "ain't you the
tnan that had the race after the horse,
just now ?''
"No, sir, I am not. You had better
go on about your businrsw."
hill sighed at the loss of his Sunday
boots, and turning to the widow, said *
[ "Just pick up those lines, will you,
please ? This hrute of a horse is always
switching them out of my hands."
The widow complied , ho pulled one
corner of the robe cautiously down as
she got in.
"What a lovely evening." she said ;
"and so warm I don't think wo want
the robe over us, do we ?"
j You sec she had on a nice new dress
I an J a pair of new gaiters, and she wanted
to show them.
"Oh, my," said Bill, earnestly, "you'll
find it chilly riding, and I wouldn't
have you catch cold for the world."
She seemed pleased at this tender
i care for her health, and eontcnted herself
with sticking one of her little feet
out. As she did so a long silk ueck-tie
showed over the end of the boot.
"What is that, Mr. Smiley?a necktie?"
"yes," said he; "T bought it the
other day, I must have left it in the
buggy. Never mind it."
Then they went on quite a distance,
! he holding her hand in his, and won- j
I during what he should do when they
j got to Green's; and she wondered why '
; he did not say something nipc to her as
i well as squeeze her had. why Mis coat j
| was buttoned up so tightly on such a
I warm evening, and what made his 1'acc '
! and hat so uirty. until they were going!
j down a little hill and one of the traces!
I come unhitched, and they had to stop.
'Oh, murder !' exclaimed Bill 'what
next ?'
!a moOor Mr Sniilnv
U Hill* 13 I IIU UiU) kvi ? au _/?. ^j ,
said the widow, with a start, which
I came very near jerking the robe off his
knees.
! 'One of the traces is off,' answered
! he.
'Well, why don't you get out and put
; it on again ?'
I 'I can't,' said Bill. 'I've got?that
j is, I?I haven't got?oh. dear, I'm so
j sick ! What shall I do ?'
'Why, Willie.' said she. tenderly,
'what is the matter ? Do tell me !'
She gave his hand a little sqneeze,
| and looked into his pale face; she
i thought he was going to faint, so alio
! got oat her smelling-bottle with her left
hand, and pulling the stopper out with
her tc^th stuck it to his nose.
Bill was just taking in breath for a
mighty sigh, and the pungent odor
made hint throw back his head so fur
that he lost his balance, and went over
tjie lpw back buggy.
The little woman gave a low scream
as bis bare lVet flew past her head, and
covering her face with her hands, gave
way to tears or smiles?it is hard to tell
which. Bill was up in a moment, and,
leaning over the back of tbo seat, was
humbly apologizing and explaining,
when, Kd. Wilbur nnd his wife and
baby drove up behind nnd stopped.
l'oor Bill felt that be would rather
have been shot than had Kd. Wilbur
catch him in such a scrape, but there
was no help for it now. so he called Kd.
to him and whispered in his car. Kd.
was likely to burst with suppressed
laughter, but he beckoned hiu wife to
draw up, and, after saying something to
her, he helped the widow out of Kill's
buggy, and into his, and the two women
went on, leaving the men behind.
Kill lost no time in arranging his
toilet us well as he could, and then with
great persuasion Kd. got him to go |
home with him, and Hunting up slippers
and socks, and getting him washed and
combed, had him quite presentable
when tbo ladies arrived.
1 need not tell you how the story was
alt wnuued out of bashful Kill, and how
they all laughed ns they sat around the
tea-table that night ; hut will conclude
by saying that they all went to the show
together, and Kill had no fear of (lus
Sock rider now.
Primary Klcctious.
It seems to he generally conceded
that the plan of primary elections will
be adopted to nominate candidates in
lho various counties for local officers
ar.d members ol the Legislature. The
recommendation of the State executive
Committee to that effect has been generally
confirmed bv county conventions
' " i ?? ?...i ;?
where these nouics nave mci, auu .. ...
, highly probablo that ethers will fa 1S
info lin? at an early day. The system
| of'priuiary elections doty not nped much
argument to holster its advantages over
I the f>lati of nominating conventions,
J which arc almost invariably productive
j of dissatisfaction. The wire-pullers
and <iHiec-seekers aro mostly favorable
to the convention system, because it
affords them an opportunity to manipulate
lite nominations, and to form cntnbiiiati.itifc
anionjx delegates to control
the scleetions of candidates. Kven j
where this is not done, the delegates j
perform their work hurriedly, and in 1
| order to get through with the duties
imposed upon them, tho choice of candidates
is made dependent upon them,
: the choice of candidates is made depen-j
dent upon tin? stubbornness of partial
friends, who protract the ballotings
until the delegates succumb to their
wishes. lu this manner, whero bar
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pains and manipulations arc not iti
vopu", tlie voice of tlio people is stifled,
and candidates arc cliosen who arc not
acceptable to the voters. This method
of se'cctinp nominees has proven ineffectual
atid distasteful wherever it lias
been tried, and is not in accord with
Democratic principles, which profess to
rely upon the people for power ar.d sustenance.
None of these objections can be urped
apninst primary elections, where the
voters arc called upon to exercise their
riplit to name the candidates for officers
without the intervention of third parties.
In our judgment, the people arc fully
competent to express their preference,
dirccily. and if proper time is allowed
between the determination to hold primary
elections and tho date thereof,
there is no danper whatever that uu
worthy, incompetent or unpopular man
will be chosop. The masses arc sometime*
deceived by the plausible demeanor
of candidates, who are alwa}'s on
their best behavior during a campaign,
but give them ample time to judge of
the merits and capabilities of those who
are seeking their favor, and such
mistakes are seldom made. The primary
election invariably selects the
most popular ticket, when conducted
fairly and honestly, and there is no excuse
for permitting the contrary to be
done. After a most satisfactory experience
with this plan of nominating
candidates, we would earnestly advise
the Democracy to settle upon this mode
irif/iuiit ili Iny in every county, and arrange
the details for holding the primary
election, which should he delayed
to the latest period in the campaign,
consistent with the proper adjustment
of possible contingencies. The importance
of deciding upon the plan at an
early day will readily be admitted, for
;? unfrlr.a llm minftu ?f f K/% nOlintn nnd
the candiiatas, and takes away from
the demagogue every opportunity for
producing dissension and divi>ion in
our ranks, as he has no personal grievance
in the matter on which to hiugc
his complaints.
The advantages of delay in holding
the primary election arc numerous and
palpable. It gives the voter* the fullest
means of ascertaing the fitness and
qualifications of candidates. It prevents
any one from obtaining superior opportunities
over the humblest competitor to
gain a decision in his favor. It affords
a full, free and fair expression of pnblic
sentiment, and ascertains the will oft he
people in the most unmistakablo manner.
It convinces weak and unpopular
candidates of the true estimation in
which they are held by the voters, and
satisfies them thit running for office is
not their vocation, which frequently
does away with a noisy and pestilent
politician in the community. It has a
tendency to thin out the list of candidates
with surprising rapidity, and i
when the final contest for the nomination
is reached, only the stronger, and
most acceptable men will remain in the
field. These are some of the reasons
for postponing the primary election until
a remote period in the campaign, i
but there is one more which commends
itself particularly to the counties pos- i
sewing large Democratic majorities, i
It is that delay leaves no doom far inilcr i
pendent candidates, who are always the
outgrowth of dissatisfaction with the I
nominations, and who are never willing
to encounter the nominees of the i
people. IJy combinations and caucuses '
with tho Radical loaders, these aspirants >
arc induced to proclaim tlic-ir so-oallcd I
independence of party ties, and if time I
is not allowed them to form such com- '
Ideations, their game is effectually i
blocked, and they are driven from the j
field iugloriously or sink into tho cm- I
braces of their Radical associates. t
The details for working tho primary *
election system are of vital importauec <
to its success. Tho Stafe Executive I
Committee will consider these details i
at the approaching meeting, aud will t
doubtless make specific recommcnda- <
tions for the guidance and information I
of tho several counties whose plans are i
not yet perfected. In the meantime, |
we append a summary of the mode I
agreed upon in I-airfield County, which 1
wo lind in the last issue of the Winns- s
bnro ,\'loi and Herald: "At some i
time before the general election, the i
County committee will order an election 1
to nominate candidates, to be held at I
each club. Three managers are ap- i
pointed, one I>y tho Executive Com- <
mittcc, one bf the cltjb itself, and one i
by the iVcsidcr.t, thi? scouring a di- 1
versity of interests in the board. On <
(ho day appointed the pulls win be <
opened in each club from 12 to -1 o'clock I
when each member, pledging himself to i
abide by the nomination, votes directly
for his choice for every oliicc to be
filled. No candidate shall be voted i
for who does not pledge himself to i
abide by the nomination. The votes
arc counted at each club, and the result
is aggregate d by tlio Executive) t'ommittec.
Those who rcccivo n majority
of the votes cast arc declared candidates
When no one has received a majority,
the two highest on the list for eacli office
will de voted for by the clubs on the list
for each office will he voted for by the
clubs on the following Saturday, and
whichever of the two receives a majority
ic declared the candidate. There is
no chance for swapping off or log-rolling.
Whoever really has a support of a majority
of the members of the party becomes
the nominee. If any one fails,
it is because he cannot command a majority.
No new man can he sprung upon
the people. They will know for weeks
ahead nil the possible candidates, and
chu deliberately make their selection.
This gives every candidal an e<]ual
showing, and the defeated aspirants can
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only grieve that they had not enough
votes to put thcui in. No unfairness
can be jystly charged."
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He Swore for Her. J
The laws of the State of Virginia i
prohibit marriage unless the parties arc <
of lawful age, or by the consent of the
parents. |
John N?, a well-to-do farmer in the (
valley of Virginia, was blessed with
every comfort except that important
desideratum?a wife. John cast his |
eyes around, but unsuccc'sfully, until
they fell upon the form cf a certain
Hetty, daughter of John Jones, one of 1
the prettiest gills iu the country. After 1
a courtship of six weeks, John was t
rendered happy by the consent of the t
fair iSetty. i
The next day, John with a friend, |
went to town to get the necessary docu- |
incnts, with the forms of procuring \
which lie was most lamentably iguor- <
ant. Being directed to the clerk's of- <
fieo, John with a good deal of hesitation
informed the urbane Mr. Brown that )
he was going to get married to Betty
Jones, and wanted to know what he
must do to compass that desirable consummation.
Mr. Brown, with a bland
smile, informed him after being satis- .
ficd that no legal impediment prevented
the ceremony, he would for the sum '
and consideration of 83 grant him the
license. John, much relieved, handed j
out the necessary funds.
'Allow uie," said Brown, 'to ask
you a few questions. You arc 21 years j
of ace, I suppose, Mr N?1"
'Yfs,' said John.
i
'l)o you solemnly swear that t?ctty :
Jones, spinster, is of lawful age (made 1
and enacted by the Legislature of Yir- (
gin in) to take thp marriage vow ?"
What's that ?' said John.
Mr. B. repeated. 1
'Well/ said John. 'I want to get
married, but I joined the church at the
last revival, and I wouldn't swear for a
hundred dollars.' '
'Then, sir. you cannot get married.'
'Can't get married ! Good gracious, 1
Mr. Clerk, they'll turn me out of church 1
if I swear ! Don't refuse me, Mr. (
Clerk, for heaven's sake. I'll give you
810 if you wiil let me off from swearing.'
'Can't do it Mr. N .' f
'Hold on Mr. Clerk, I'll swear ! 1 i
wouldn't give up Betty tor a dozen (
churches. I'll swear: 'May I be d?d \
if she ain't IS years old'?give me the
license.' t
After the clerk bursted a few buttons <
off his vest, lie granted the license. t
Running: a Muck. t
Every one has a notion of what this
horrid "an amuk" frenzy means, but we
fancy Major McNair is right when be} j
says that probabably few persons arc
aware of the extent to which the prac- 1
tice which has come to be called "run- '
ning a muck" really obtains. The a
Malay is of an extremely nervous temperament,
and it is a common thing to
see a man "whose will is under the "
influence of those ho meets, and who
seems hound to imitate every gesticnla- "
i iL.? I- Tt,n e
Lion or movement umu ia uiauc> xuv
nervous excitement reaches its climax f
in the "amok." Knjah Mansur, ono of "
the son? of Vusuf. the preseot ruler of
I'erak, during a strange tit of excitement,
drow his kris and rushed off,
striking right and left, killing six and
severely wounding two persons, and t!
finally making his escape into the jun- ?
trie. He was only twenty years old. c
Jn occasions of this kind, tho ' amok" C
may be the cause of death or severe in- s
jury to twenty or thirty people, before t!
Itc is literally hunted down and de- c
itroyed like a mad dog. The Malay, s
ipeaking of amok, says "My eyes got ti
dark, and I ran on." Major McNair c
:ivcs a terrible description of the scene I
vhen the cry of "amok ! amok !" is ?
aised, and the police turn out (for the It
jbjrct is now to take the man alive, try it
dim by British law and punish him for a
inurder), armed with a huge short- h
pronged pitchfork, to catch the madman tl
by the throat and pin him to the wall, c:
rt'hcre lie is driven to bay. Generally o
speaking, the amok is killed by the
crowd of his pursuers, though occassion
ill}', os in the case of tlie Sultan 1 usuf,
he escapes to the jungle. Very few arc
brought to trial. Major McNair Jdoes (|
aot believe the amok ia the result of jtpium
eating, which is an imported custorn
among these people; he holds it to g(
have had its origin in the deed of sonic
Jespmtc Malay, to have been handed (1
ilown by tradition to his highly-sensi- (
live successors, and since then ''regarded
is the right thing by those who are cx? <]
cited to frenzy by apprehension of some
injury that they regard as deadly, and c
to be washed out in blood."?The Spec- j
tator.
A Strange Dream Fullfilled.
A singular dream case is reported from (
St.Thomas, on the Canada Southern Hail- c
way. A week ago Jesse McConnell, a s
brakeman, was killed at Harwich while (
couplingcars. His remains were brought t
home to his widowed mother, and that j
night she dreamed she saw two coffins, t
one of Jesse's and one containing the r
body of her son Jnmcs, also a brakeman.
She was so disturbed by this that early
in the morning she telegraphed to James,
asking him to come at once to his j
brother's funeral. He answered that he j
was on his way, but ho was killed nt ,
llrigden, twenty miles from home, by ]
falling off the platform of the car. Ilis
remains were conveyed to his mother,
and, true to her dream, her two sons lay
dead in the house together.
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Keep conscieuoe clear, then never fear. 1
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Keeping up Appearances.
A member of the sanitary police came
icross a boy the other day who was
wheeling home a load of oyster cans and
jottles, and curious to known what me
he lad could put them to, he made a
lirect inquiry.
"Going to throw them ovor into our
jack yard," replied the boy. "I took
:wo loads home yesterday."
"What do you use 'cm for ?"
"It's a trick of the family," grinned
he lad.
"How trick z"
"I'd iust ns lief toll" rontinnnil ti n
joy, os he ?pit on his hands (o resutr.o
lis hold of the barrow. '-We're going
;o have some relashuus come in from
-he country. We may not have much
o eat, but if they sec these cans and
mottles and boxes they'll /hint we've
lad istcrs, champagne, figs and nuts till
ire've got tired of 'cm, and are living
>n bread and tatcrs for a healthy
jhange !"
The officer scratched his ear like a
nan who had received a new idea.
What I Have Seen.
An old man of experience says:
I have seen a young man sell a good
'arm, turn merchant, and die in the in*
lane assylum.
I have seen a farmer travel about so
nuch, that there was nothing at home
it to look at.
I hsvo seen a young jjirl marry a man
if dissolute habits, and repent for it as
ong as she lived.
I have seen a man spmd more money
in folly, than would support his fiuiily
o comfort and independence.
I have seen a man depart from the
ruth, where candor and veracity won id
lave served him to a much better purpose.
1 have 8- en the extravagance and folly
)f children bringing their parents to poverty
and want and themselves to disgrace.
1 have seen a prudent and industrious
xife revive the fortunes of a family,
fvlten the hnsband Dulled at the other
:nd of the rope.
When the Dark Comes.
A little girl sat, at twilight. in her
>ick mother's room, busily thinking.
A. 11 day she had been full of fun and
loise, and uiauv times worried her poor
ired mother.
'Ma,' said the little girl, 'what do you
iupposc makes me got over my misihief.
and begin to act good, just about
his time every niglu?'
'I do not know, dear. Can you not
ell r
'Well. I guess it's because this is
vhen the dark comes. You know lam
l little ufraid of that. And then, ma,
' begin to think of nil tho naughty
hings I've done to grieve you, and that
icrhaps you might die before moroiug ;
,nd so I begin to act good.'
'Oh,' thought I, 'how many of us
rait till dark couies, in the form of sickicss
or sorrow, or trouble of some kind,
cfore we 'begin to do good !' IK-w
nuch better to be good while wo are
ujoying life's bright sunshino ? and
hen. 'when the dark comes,'?as it will,
a a measure, to all?we shall be ready
o meet it without fear.'
The Story of a Sword.
In one of the great aud bloody batlea
fought on Virginia soil in the late
rar, the 25th North Carolina Infantry
nptured a sword belonging to the lato
Jen. Hayes, of the U. S. Army. The
word was presented by the captors to
lie gallont Col. Z li. Vance, now Govrnor
of North Carolina, who has ever
ince held it as a sovenir of those trying
imes. On yesterday Gov. Vance reeived
a lettfr from Major John
Iughcs, stating that Mrs. Hayes, the
ridow of the late General, had written
im in regard to the sword, asking that
: be returned to her. The Governor
t once wrote Mrs. Hayes, informing
rr of his intention to at once return
lie sword. In the letter he took ocjsion
to pay a tribute to the gallantry
fthe deceased officer.
Private Prayer.
The root that produces the beautiful
nd flourishing tree, with all its spreadjg
branches, verdant leaves, and rereshin^
fruit?that which gains its
up, life, vigor and fraitfnlless is all unecu
; and the further and deeper the
oots spread beneath, the moro the treo
xpanJs above. Christians, if you long
o bring forth all the Spirit, strike your
nots deep and wide in private prayer,
"hat faith aud support, that strength
nd grace which you seek of God in sc.
ret, that they umy be exercised iu tho
tour of need, God will in that hour
jive you before rucn.
Hearts, more or less, I suppose, mo.*t
if us have, but wo keep theui so close*
insed and pndlockcJ?we wear au out*
iide so hard or dry?that little or nono
?f the love that may be within, escapes
o gladden those around us. And so
ife passes without any of tho sweetening
o sooicty that comes when affection is
iot left but expressed.
Gen. Curtis Lee has regained tho
\rlington estate where his inunoital
ather so long resided. He has had a
ong hard fight in the courts and it is a
natter of congratulation that he has at
ast beaten the enemy,
There is an essential meanness in the
wish to get the better of any one; the
>nly competition worthy a wise niua is
with himself,