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ON THE TEAMP. Is there any more enjoyable feeling in life than to be under a bright -norning sky, comfortably equipped, on thr tramp through a pleasant country; a world of meadows?a rocky dale?a stretch of brown, billowy moorland? The pulse beats freely, thoughts chase each other like 3ummer butterflies, and you seem to annex every pretty or wild bit of scenery, every quaint homestead, every living thing about you, "with an enlarged and conquering individuahty. Crowds op press, cities tire, books weary; but on the tramp, you are free to enjoy, to receive, and to romance. The junior tramp, however, is a limited individual, and he never gets far away from society and civilization in our island home. The senior tramp, on the contrary, takes ship over sea, and has a wider range. He is everywhere at home. This elder brother is justly tentitled a traveler;'the' junior has to be content with the less ambitious and sometimes shady designation of a tramp. Wandering and little-known tribes are not for him. He foots it at home, with good hope of reaching rail ways and hotels somewhere, if he turns his back upon them with fine scorn, and a philosophy warranted to endure for twelve or fourteen hours, but ? good enough while it lasts and renewable with morning light. Alas! there are others on the tramp, whose philosophy has little warrant at all, and whose burdens are ever pressing, not gayh" left behind! Apart from fine scenery, freedom, and rude health, it is in chance meetings with such specimens of the junior tramp, bright or dull-eyed, that an observing man will find much'of the romance of his revolt against acres of bricks and mortar and the elbowing of crowds. The division just made is an induction from a pretty large experience. The bright-eyed tramp is always a man with an object and character. He has either a home before him or behind, to reach or to brighten. He will converse freely with you, tell you his liistory, and accept littie kindnesses in a manly spirit. The dull-eyed man does not like you to look him in the face too closely. Scenery seems to oppress him. He ambles along through the finest bits as if he were pass ing down a back slum. He is a waif; he has no home?only a native parish. He begs, wlunes, bullies, and I fear he also steals; so true is it that homo has its subtle effect on the eye, the character, and the conception of nature. Meeting such men on a lonely moor, we ask our selves what restrains them from robbing, and perhaps murdering? The answer comes clear; "The other idea that sways their minds, the law!" Cruel nature, and almost omnipresent law?these are the only two ideas that rule them. Walking across a lonely moor, the wldte road wmdihg ribbon-like over dis tant brown hills, I was once thinking, in a dreamy way, over some scenes "in Scotch history, wherein the sound of a pibroch suddenly filled an apparently de serted hillside with human b'fe, when two men, who had been lying on the dry roadway, making a pillow of their boots, started up, and sent my heart into my mouth. I was never so startled in all my life, for it seemed as if my thoughts had been heard. Looking straight into their steady eyes, and noting there a hopeful look, though the men were almost as startled as I was, I said: "Good morning. How's work, mates T It was a policeman's hint I was acting upon. To know anything about a man, he had told me?his name, occupation, object?alwaya gives you a certain com mand over him in a critical moment. Exclianging glances, the tramps an swered: "Bad?awful bad! Do you know of a job, gov'nor?" I wished I did. They are making a new road seven miles off at P-; they might inquire there. Work-seekers* series are often most pathetic. "What, you on the tramp?" was my re mark one day to a young fellow, out at elbows, and with frayed garments, who visited me at home, hand ing me an envelope addressed to him in my own handwriting. Yes; he had lost his situation in a cotton mill in Lancashire, and had truged south westward through many counties round to London, and then, through the Mid lands, with ought getting a single job. Of late he had not tried; his clothing forbade it. He was clever; a hard, philosophic 6tudent; an original man in every way. Yet he had been herding with the mean est, sleeping anywhere, mostly out-of doors, living in aboriginal fashion on raw vegetables, and occasianally sharing what others begged. His wife and child had gone home to her friends, and he had never heard of them for nine months, though he had written to his wife at first regularly. She might be dead. How had he endured it all? He could scarcely say. He dare not think. Then followed a charming bit. As he had tramped along, it had been his etistom to recite all the prose and poetic passages he could remember from his favorite authors?and he had a well-stored memory?to preserve his "identity," to prevent liim from sinking to the low conversational level of his queer and casual companions. Occasionally others would repeat the little poems they had learned as children at school; sometimes "flash" ballads, bought in penny sheets at fairs. One companion had stuck to him for months, and whenever my friend seemed to be dull, or the way was dreary, or people were uncivil, this seedy-blaek-eoated "chum" would say to him: "Give us a bit o' poetry, mate." Can we ever tell to what uses we may put the verses and passages we learn at School and in early youth? They may perhaps save our sanity and self-respect. Here is another story. A tanned face, unkempt hair, intelligent eyes, clothes worn into a fluffy softness of texture, boots with loose soles, obviously never made for the wearer, hands dirty and large, announced to me, as I looked at them, a broken-down specimen of the work seeker. His companion, a suspi cious, fuxtive-lookmg tramp, a sailor, and not unlikely theinspirer of the journey* CbndenSng what it took me a couple 61 hours to learm" this was his story: ''Respectably -connected, load nevat learnt a trade; had been a shop porter, married a pretty seamstress, Uved hap pily together for years on their joint earnings. No children?didn't want them?hadn't a care. "Wife's work fell off, food lessened; she became ill; bit by bit furniture sold, her heart broken at parting with what she had painfully won by her labor.. When we had to sell the sewing machine, I could see 'twas all over?she clammed and died. Afetr her funeral, started off. Friends had left the place. I couldn't stand the work. No more happiness for me, six. Wl?ther bound?. To S-. Worked there . once ?might get a job. T-the only man I knew. Hard, sir?very hard!'' During this f ragmentary conversation,' I saw the man^reedily 'grasp at a frag ment of newspaper, lying tipon the ground, which . had evidently been wTappetLrOund something* ? "Might have an 'advertisement on it, you know!* ' ~ The sight of a sewing mactune always suggests Iiis touching history, told me along a road skirting the sea one misty spring day. Tramps are mainly men with no definite trade at their finger-ends. There is always a chance for them somewhere, and they lose notliing by net asking for it. The skilled men on the' road are much rarer now, since railway traveling has become so cheap, and .unionism has developed. A crisis or i. strike will, however, act in two ways?(tending men out, and drawing theih in. A bundle of clotliing or tools is generally carried by the skilled tramp, and his gait is more energetic. To show how gait betrays, here is an odd story. Meeting two brawy navvies in Cornwall one day, I said to my com panion: "Two well-sot men. See how they swing in 6tep; ex-soldiers or policemen, likely." Two days afterward we were near one Df the barrack-gates at Devonport when, oehold, our two tramps coming along in sustody. An acute rural policeman had, so we learned, noticed their military step and bearing and gone up to them, saying, with a bold guess: "You are deseatera from Devonport?" Taken aback, as much as persons are if you can show you know anything about them, and possibly . suspecting the man had a description of them, they admitted they were, and offered no resistance, dis cipline once more asserting its power. They bei-..& 1 to a kilted regiment; they had only been five days from barracks; and finer fellows I never eaw. They were navvies by occupation. Foreigners on the tramp are not very common, except on the coast-roads, and they are mostly sailors. They are not communicative, and know little English. The'oddest specimen of a foreigner I re member was a' German clock-mender I met in the midlands, who puzzled ine greatly. He walked like a drilled man; had well-kept side whiskers, and a bag over his shoulder. We passed and re passed several times. He called at road side houses, and as I slackened pace, gen erally overtook me, but I failed to get him into fair conversation. "Going far ? To-? Long way yet." His peculiar German accent was com ing out more strongly. "Seeking work?" "Yes, as he went along." For several minutes we kept step in si lence. Taking out a newspaper I began to read. The man's face relaxed. "Any news of Garibaldi?" was the sud den question that startled me. A Gari baldian, I said to myself at once. It was just at the time the Italian hero made ids j last aimed venture. I read him' the news, and he broke out warmly: "Ah, bad man?very wicked man!" He j became more of a puzzle than ever?a I nut I must crack. I waited on his movements, diverted from my intended walk, and devoted ? myself to getting his story. He became' too excited to be very connected, and hi?: German came grinding out at intervals with orchestral effect A friend had beguiled him into associating with j Republicans; he had been in some trouble in the movement of 1848; he had been imprisoned for opinions he did not hold; he was an absolutist and a skeptic. He had lost aU all his friends, and had come to England. He was a clock mender, good at Americans or any other make, and he tramped a district from a center, earning about 10 shillings a week. Our conversation became lively; he forgot to call at road side houses, and to my defense of Garibaldi, all he could splutter was, "Bad man? very?wicked man!" The chat seemed to excite him very much, and at last he ambled into a httle shop, got a job, and I went forward. Beggar tramps are the honest juniors' j aversion. They are full of tricks, and sometimes smart in speech. "I never give to beggars on the road," I remarked to one of this class, airing a young man's general principle, perhaps with some self conceit. "Will yer honor oblige me with yer name and address, and I'll call on yer V was the prompt retort. Between Coventry and Kenilworth swarms of beggars had formerly a fine harvest. I once counted twenty. Some were blind and lame; others were sing ing vagrants, humming snatches of their wailing ballads. One elderly man, with his legs in the dyke?a true tramp's way of sitting?was conning written testi monials, or begging letters, written on dingy yellow paper, that Cliatterton might have envied. He had a tiny black pipe in his mouth, the kind of thing a tramp carries in his waistcoat pocket, and he was studying his papers with an author's self-admiring interest. I fear he was marking down some country par son for a victim. "Dear Sir?The bearer-" was all f could see before he slipped the paper into a pocket in the lining of his waistcoat. A ding}- haversack and dirty garments may make even an honest junior seem like a beggar. Calling at a house in a lonely part of a well-known Yorkshire dale, to ask where I could get refreshment, the girl shut the door abruptly, and said nothing. To a second knock it opened again, and two tiniid women appeared, the cider in the rear shouting, "Seven miles further on!" A more civil shepherd's wife, to whom I told my story an hour later, said they were not "particular at Beggars mond" (Beckermonds), whereat I smiled, for the woman was evidently not pun ning, though at first I thought she was. Over the moor I should soon see "the Settle;" she meant a large viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle railway. With food and tobacco, a junior's heart can always be reached. On one occasion, meeting a hungry specimen, I gave him some of my bread and cheese without any request or word from him. "Thank you, sir," was all he saidt in a cold tone; but after he had gone a pace or two, and begun to eat, he turned round, saying, "Bless you, sir, bless you!" as if some new or old chord of feeling had been reached. The better tramps are often amusing company, and even the worst compel you to moralize anew on the old theme of the universe toid the individual. "Chats with a roadside stone-breaker?the true conqueror, because he always rises on the ruins he makes," as a witty prince said are often pleasant. The turf-cutter, with his long spade pushed before Jura, under the: soil, is also an interesting object Pleasant, too, it is to watch a dalesman thatclung his hay with green rushes; to come across strange birds and animals; to note the old village mills and sun dials, churches and meeting-houses; to get glimpses of heavy antique furniture through ' cottage doorways; to be mis taken for a wool-buyer, an artist, "the new exciseman," as I was on one occa sion; to spread news of big deeds; to find everywhere that home is sacred, be it ever so small or so lonely. He scarcely lives, in fact, who always carries with him the burden of society, who never tempts the unknown, except over sea, and who has never enjoyed the full and exqusite pleasure of being "on the tramp.''?Edward Goadby, in Cliicago Ledger. In the If.ct.iil Dry Goods Trade. The people that take up the time of the clerks without buying are called "skanks," and if any of our lady rwflfers when shop ping should overhear the word "skank" used from time to time by the clerks that are near to the one who is waiting on her, she may take it for granted that she is not regarded by the clerks as a probable purchaser. To "swap" a clerk is to leave him with out bu3'ing, a great-many 'swaps" dur ing the day exposing him to discharge. To "gouge" h> for one clerk, at the ap-. proach of a customer to the counter, to run ahead and wait on her before the other clerks. To have the reputation of being a "gouger" is not an enviable tiling. Dickens found humor and romance in all walks of life. The writer has failed in finding any in the retail dry goods business. From 8 o'-VeJr, in the morn-, ing until 7 o'clock at 1 ;.i?10 o'clock on Saturday nights?tue poorly paid clerks stand on their feet, putting up with the whims and eccentricities of all that choose to patronize the establishment, only waiting for marriage or death to re lease them.?New York World. Peculiar Structure of Musical Sanda. The investigation of savants in the matter of the musical sands of Kauai, Cal., which have excited so much inter est on the part of geologists and others, shows that they possess a peculiar micro scopical structure.. The grains are found to be chiefly composed of small portiona of coral and apparently calcareous sponges; they are all more or lees perfor ated with small holes, in some instances forming tubes, but mostly terminating in ? blind cavities, which axe frequently en larged in the interior of the grains, com mruucating_with the surface by a small opening. There were also in the sand small black particles, formed principally i of crystals of augite, nepheline and mag? net ic oxide of iron imbedded in a glassy matrix. The structure of these grainf explains, it is thought, why sound is emitted when they are set .in motion.? Scientific Journal. Dangerous Heat of Wot Zinc Dust. It has long been known that Bhippert are unwilling to carry large quantities of zinc dust in their vessels, owning to the danger of its getting moist and becoming heated to a dangerous extent. Mr. Greville Williams, F. R. S., has recently made some researches which throw light on this matter. He finds that wetted zinc dust, after drying, gives off nearly double the hydrogen that unwetted dust gives. Hydrogen is absorbed from a moist atmosphere at moderate tempera ture by zinc dust. It has, in fact, the power of occluding hydrogen after the manner of spongy platinum.?Chicago Herald. Why the Piano Needs Tuning. This is the heavy season for piano tuners. The neating up of a house un tunes in a short time its piano. This is not due, however, to expanding or con tracting of the strings under the varia tions of temperature, but to the varia tions produced in the somiding board un der the influence of the increased dry ness of the air when furnaces and stoves are burning. The sounding board is al ways made of spruce, because of the su perior resonance of the timber; but spruce is the wood most affected by changes in moisture.?Boston Budget. The Oil of tho Wool Clip. Mr. Edward Atkinson states that nearly the whole wool clip now comes to mar ket unwashed, and that out of the 320,000,000 pounds of domestic wool used there must be 2~> per cent, at the least, or 000,000 pounds of a very valuable oil thrown into the rivers and wasted. When the ?suint" is refined a thick, viscous oil is obtained, which is abso lutely free from oxidation, and whieh is therefore the most valuable oil for cur riers' use that can be found. Limit Fixed at Sixteen Feet. Professor Landmark, cliief director of the Norwegian fisheries, asserts that salmon sometimes jump perpendicularly Bixteen feet. Mr. W. M. Vanlandingham, of Lan caster County, has disappeared from home. BILL ARP'S OPINION OF FLORIDA. The VUiloscpher of The Atlanta Constitu tion Kclute? .Some of His Experience. I believe that I would like Florida pretty well if I could get away from it. But to be here a prisoner throws a cloud over its attractions and makes one rest less and sad. I don't believe that para dise would be welcome if there was a high wall round it. Like the sick boy who bes near me, I want to go home, and so does his mother. If we had the lamp of Aladdin and could use it for only a single wish, we would all say: "Now take us home." For sixty-five days tins boy has been lying here lingering and languish ing with Florida fever?a fever that has no other name?a fever that has no re mission, no crisis of fourteen days nor twenty-one, but is a fever by the year, and runs its course from sixty to ninety days, with privilege of extension, and is only aggravated by quinine and defies aconite and arsenic and eucalyptus and all the known remedies, and the poor vic tim has to he still and burn and see his flesh consumed and Iiis bones work through. His mind becomes deranged and his speech affected and Ins limbs drawn up like grasshopper legs. We hear of many such cases and we know of one, and the doctors confess then helplessness. Now here is a fiold for science. The Florida fever. People get restless and want to move somewhere and try a new country, but if any of your folks have got the Florida fever at home they had better stay at home until they get well of it, or they had better wait until Doctor Pasteur or some other doctor discovers what kind of poison to vaccinate-with so as to keep the fever off or shorten the time. But still I like Florida, and would not be afraid to spend my winters here, but I wouldn't come down here in the summer to work on a railroad until I had been acclimated. I reckon the people here are as generally healthy as they are anywhere. They look like a healthy people, but it ia very certain they have got a bad climate for fever. It is rarely fatal, but it cuts a good big notch in a man's time and flat tens out his pocketbook hi various ways. We think now that our boy will get well with careful nursing, and the doctors say we may take him home about next June, and bo we are comforted. But if another one gets down with Florida fever I shall move him home at all hazards, or else renc a house and move the family down. A visitor that is so affectionate and stays so long when it comes must be entertained. I see a Rome boy here who recently arrived from Texas and he is pale and sallow and looks like he had been living on gully dirt, and comes from the Brazos bottoms to get well in Florida. He took the Texas fever in Rome and went to Texas aud took it again when he got there and was down for six months, and now he says he can't bo worsted and is ready for anything. But after all it is generally imprudence and exposure that precipitates the fever here ?r anywhere. It breeds in the malarial swamps of any state and hence has n good chance at the boys who are ?urvoyin{c those railroads and the laborers who work on them and have to wade through them and drive piles and build trestle work. The highland country U not Bub ject to it. The negro laborers are more subject to it than- the whites and the railroad hospital here is liberally patronized with them. I saw some oi them who were convalescing and theli skin was as rough and scaly as an alliga tor's and all their joints were stiff oul They will get well," said the doctor. "Ah, yes, they all get well. We have had 800 patients, and never lost but one/ "What cures them?" said I. "Anne Domini," said he. "It is just like the fellow who had a sick mule, and he gave him castor Oil and whisky and lye soaf and turpentine and everything else that the ncighbora told him and then rubbed him with a rail and went off and left him for dead. But after awhile the mule kicked around a few times and got up and shook himself and went to earing shucks, but nobody knows to this day what cured him." Seven Cities of the Chlco Valley. A traveler in New Mexico gives a glowing description of the country through which a new road passes, and tells of the Seven Cities of the Chico val ley that almost reads like the romantic explorations of the members of the Smithsonian institute. He says that there are to-day in that valley ruins of large buildings five stories high, and some of them in such an excellent state of preservation that the ma sonry and plastering are looking as new and fresh as though done but a few years instead of centuries ago. These buildings are popularly supposed to be of Aztec origin, but, strange to say there is at present no historical account of them or their builders.?Exchange, Proposition of a Philanthropist. A New York philanthropist proposes to organize a land company which shall furnish homes to deserving young men in small cottages costing $2,500 apiece. By a novel plan, in case the tenant dies after the close of a year, the property will be deeded to his wifo as a home. The company will not lose, because its plan is the insuring of the young man's fife for the amount of the mortgage on the property, and if he dies his wif e takeB the property and the company the in surance.?Chicago Times. Manufacture of Iron Jewelry. What the old alchemists failed to do modern mechanics have accomplished, in effect at least. They have not exactly transmuted base metal into gold, but they are making polished iron jewelry that is as attractive in appearance as gold Gligree. The iron is highly polished and reflects light like a diamond. Muri-Hntr Epidemie Twelve Years Ago. Now York had a mad-dog epidemic about twelve years ago, when several persons were attacked with hydrophobia. Many alleged sure cures for the malady were* published in the papers, but the record of trustworthy cases shows that all ended fatally. An expression of endearment current in years gone by \s ?** "to bite the ear." Tay for your paper. A BLIZZARD. A BLIZZARD. A NOTHER BLTZZARD IS COMING. BUT IT WILL BE A COLD DAY jTV when PRESCOTT fails to sell you CHOICE GROCERIES, CROCKERY, GLASS and TINWARE cheaper than any other house in the city. I have also just received a choice Stock of FRESH GARDEN SEED, SEED POTATOES, &C. FRESH AND CHOICE GROCERIES Received Every Week at the Cheap Cash Store. CHARLES W. PRESCOTT, Proprietor. -o ?5TI am prepared to manufacture TOMBSTONES. &C., at shortest notice and in the most artistic style._._Jan 28-3m James Van Tassel, DEALER I> CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors and Segars. -o AT MY ESTABLISHMENT CAN BE POUND ALL THE STANDARD arricles of GROCERIES at Rock Bottom Prices, as well as purest and best WINES, LIQUORS. Sc., sold anywhere. Also the choicest SEGARS AND TOBACC0 to he found lu the market. WIIEX LOOKING AROO'D GIVE ME A CAUL. -o JAMES VAN TASSEL._ OLD VELVET RYE WHISKEY! EIGHT YEARS OLD. Gnaraateefl Pure anil Wane for Me?icinal or Otto Uses. FOR SALE ONLY BY W. T. LIG-HTFOOT. Nov 2G-3niOS Special Bargains! Extraorflinary Re?nctions TREMENDOUS SACRIFICES AT THEODORE TTOHN'S 1UEODORE J?lOHN'S FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS EMPORIUM. We are now closing out the balance of our ] Winter Stock of DRESS GOODS, CLOTHING, CLOAKS, " HATS, &0., at less than cost of raw material. Now is the time to procure Great Bargains. Everything selling off at unheard of low prices. This is a golden opportunity for all to SAVE MONEY. THEODORE KOM. J W. BOWMAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, OltAXGEEURO, S. C. MORE LIGHT ON THE Subject. I will now devote my entire at- ,. teution to LAMPS! LAMPS! With an experience of ten years I am in a positiou to know what variety of Lamps to keep on hand that will suit any purpose and give entire satisfaction. When in need of a Burner that will give yuu a large brilliant light call for "SORENTRUE'S GUARANTEE". I give full directions how to use it and a guarantee for a year with each Burner. Remember that "FAIR HEALINGS, LOW PRICES and BEST QUALITY is my Motto, and don't forget that whatever you may need in the way of or for a Lamp you will be sure to get it at SORENTRUE'S bargain store, Headquarters for Lamps. Jan 21-iyr ESTABLISHED 1833. C. & E. L. Kerrisoia, 88 MASEL STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. DRY GOODS, Black and Colored I>rc?s Goods, LINENS, HOSIERY, Ac, &c*, IN LARGE VARIETY. J3TAU Orders will receive prompt and careful attention. JSTCash orders amounting to $10 or over will be delivered in any county free of charge. C. & E. Ii. I?.crriKon, aug201y_ Charleston. S. C. HORSE AND CATTlTfOWDERS \^-r' FOUTZ Ii No ii..r.-K win cite ..f Colic, ISots or Lrxa I'n TKit. 11 KimiuVi I'nwilere are med In time. I". <iv:> !*..? ?:. wl:lciuvai:<l \<rr: i.:;tl!?wi fil'-I.Kr.a. Foiit7.'.i I'owih'rs will prevent UaI'Hs. in Fowls. K.niU'ii I'owilcrs will lncrv:L?> tlx; t|ti:iniity 0 mills ami cream mvntv per erat. :.?! make buturflna and wet. Koiiu's I'owiSors will cur? i>r prevcul almost BVERY Dim-asi i.i ivhlrh Hm:-.'-;i-i 11 nttlisarc Mibject, KofTZ's rowiitKs u 11.:. tiiVK Satisfaction. SoM everywhere. DAVID r. FOTTTZ, Proprietor. Ei-TrMOItE.HD. For sale by DR. J. G. WANNAMAK ER. F<b-4 B. II. MOSS. C. 0. DAOTiLER. ^/J OSS & DANTZLKR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OllAXGEDUnG, S. C.