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BOND SERVICE OF THE HEART. When b; the fire we sit hand in hand, My spirit seems to watch beside your bee, Alert end eager at your least command To d> your bidding over earth and sea; You sgh?and of that dubious message fain, I s<?ur the world to bring you what you lack, TilLfrom some island of the spicy main, He pressure of your fingers calls roe back; Yra smile?and I, who love to be your slave, Post round the orb at your fantastic will, Though, while my fancy ski ma the laughing wave, My hand lies happy in your hand, and still; Nor mere from fortune or from life would crave Than that dear silent service to fulfill. ?Edmund Gosse. DOCTORiNG ROYAL PATIENTS. Court Etiquette That Hedges In a Queen from Her Physician's Touch. It was a matter of wonder to many persons in Paris that Dr. Fauvel, the great French specialist in throat diseases, had not been summoned to attend the king of Spain at the commencement of his malady, especially as Dr. Fauvel had .always attended Queen Isabella and hex children during their residence in Paris for any troubles of that nature. But such a proceeding was forbidden by the strict rules, of Spanish etiquette, which jjrohibita one of the royal family of Spain from being .attended by any physician who is not aSpaniard by birth. At the time. of. the last illness of the young Queen Mercedes there resided in Madrid a German doctor who was es pecially famed for his treatment of ty phoid fever, the dlaeaae from which the' queen was suffering. He had recently saved the life of Mrs. J, B. Lowell when she was suffering from a violent attack of that terrible malady. A few days be fore Queen Mercedes breathed h.rlast her Spanish doctors sent for their Ger man colleague and requested him to pre scribe for their patient without seeing her. This he positively refused to do, saying that he must examine into the physical condition of the queen before prescribing for her. But that could by no means be permitted. "Then," he said, "let me merely see her?let me go to the door of her room and look at her without crossing the threshold." Even that concession was refused. "Then," gentlemen," he declared, "I can do nothing. I will not attempt to pre scribe for a patient that I have not even seen," . . He 'withdrew from the palace, and a few days later the young queen was dead. But the sacred laws of Spanish regal etiquette had been preserved without in fringement. t A similar affair, but with a different denouement, took place a good many "years ago in Russia. The late czarina, the mother of the present emperor of Russia, was shortly after her marriage attacked with a serious affection of the stomach. Up to that time no physician could approach the bedside of one of his lady patients of the imperial family nearer than ten feet. The empress grew worse and became alarmingly ill. The ? i ghutwmi^ ^ ^y?rmfl?q---g^'g?^>rder3 that a famous physician called Botkin, of whose skiU in such cases he had heard, should at once be sent for. Botkin came, and, to the horror of his colleagues, he walked straight up to the bedside of the empress and took hold of her wrist to feel her pulse. He was instantly hurried from the room and was loudly remonstrated with on the impropriety of his conduct, being told that his imperial patient was to be looked at from a distance and that he must not approach her. Botkin list ened in silence to all that the other doc tors had to say, but wnen the report of the consultation was drawn up he refused lo sign it. The emperor, who was ex ceedingly anxious respecting Botkin's opinion, sent at once for the report, and on noticing that the name of the new doc tor did not appear in it . bo caused him to be summoned at once to his presence. "Your majesty," quothBotkin, frankly, "I can not pretend to treat a patient that I am not permitted to examine. The empress is, I learn, in a very critical situ ation. I think I can save her, 'but to do so I mnrt be allowed to goto work in my own way." ? The emperor rose from his chair, took Dr. Botkin by the arm and marched with him into the sick-room of the empres and straight up to her bedside. "There, doc tor," he said, "examine your patient, and if any one pretends to interfere with you remember that you are obeying my com mands." The course of treatment pre scribed by the great physician proved suc cessful. The empress was saved and that particular rule of imperial etiquette was abrogated forever.?Mrs. Hooper's Paris Letter. Pleasant Mode of Traveling. Steamboating seems to have lost its former charms for the traveler, owing, I suppose, altogether to its slowness as compared with railroads. It is the pieasantest mode of traveling, though, and I would not be surprised to see the world shake off its wild and impatient way of hurrying through life and re turn to some extent, at least to the leisurely and comfortable way of getting from one point to another. I may not live to see the day when this change wiU take place, but it will come. The time will never be reached when the tourist with leisure wiU not prefer river travel to rail.?Capt. J. H. Dunlap in Globe-Democrat. Precious Pearls, but Not Any Bread. "Certainly pearls are prized by the Mexicans. It is common to see girls ttere with strings of pearls around their nedes which would fetch' a large price in London. I, myseif, know women in LaPaz who have pearls of extraordi nary value, and sometimes they are so poor that they have npt the wherewithal tobu; food."?Interview with a Pearl Diver. Theumbrella as a Nightshade. People with weak eyes in New York, who go ut of an evening where there are electic lights, carry parasols and umbrellas o protect their eyesight. The sunshade ? transformed into a night shade. THE MOST PERILOUS VOCATIONS. Trades That Arc Exceedingly Dangerous to Health?Those Least Hurtful. Labor performed in factories where tho air is laden -with irritating particles of dust, whether of vegetable or mineral origin, or where poisonous matters, such as arsenic, lead or mercury are used for coloring or other purposes, should be ab solutely forbidden for children, and em ployers should be obliged to adopt every know precaution to lessen the dangers for adult workers therein. The most perilous occupations, by the inhalation of irritating dust, are needle makers, pin-pointers, cutlers, grinders, etc., since they inhale a mixture of metallic and mineral dust. The height is reached in the grinding of forks and needles, which must be done on dry stones. Workmen that do the wet grind ing, such as razors, scissors, table-knives, etc., have their risk also in their liability to rheumatism, pneumonia and bron chitis of an acute form. One authority says the mortality among this class of toilers is so great that they die at or be low their 35th year. Workers in lead suffer greatly, and, like mercury, the poison affects women more readily than men. Coppersmiths are not subject to disease by virtue of their trade, but the makers of bronze powder, which is the filings of copper or brass, are greatly broken hi health. Phthisis and bronchial catarrh are com mon among them. The adoption of red phosphorous for the white in the making Of matches lessens the dangers, as this form of this substitute does not give off vapors and is not poisonous, even when talc on internally. Toy balloon makers are poisoned by the vapor of carbon bi sulphide sometimes producing actual men tal disease. The hearing is impaired and the sight affected. Printers and pressmen usually work in badly ventilated rooms and take little ex ercise. Dyspepsia and diarrhoea are com mon among compositors. Rheumatism and sciatica is the lot of the cooper. Carpenters frequently have hernia and cabinetmakers are subject to varicocele. Tailors and shoemakers work under the worst hygienic conditions, and consump tion claims over one-third of them. Cement-makers find it impossible to work many consecutive days together. They have a persistent cough. Nine years is the limit at the trade of a cutter of millstones, It is said that almost aU the sandstone cutters near Edinburgh die of consumption, and it is rare to see one attain the age of 50 years. The makers of pottery and porcelain sooner or later become asthmaticaL The female operatives are pallid and chlorotic and their infants almost aU scrofulous, with an enormous mortality. Bright's dis ease is common among glass-blowers. Blacksmiths become prematurely aged, caused by the extreme exertion, the ex posure to the heat of the forge, the pro fuse perspiration and sudden changes of temperature. Phthisis is hardly known among this class of toilers. The dust of flour and meal to which the miller is constantly exposed has no effect on the respiratory tract. The only ailment is an irritation of. the akin. Brewers are sometimes dyspeptic and troubled with congestion of the Rver; butchers have only rheumatism to fear, and are usually florid and robust in ap pearance. The sapping of the vital forces in the trade of baker is thorough and their power of resisting epidemic disease almost nothing. Feather ornament makers, who are mostly women, suffer greatly. Three years at tin- trade is the limit with great impairment to health; The lungs and eyes both suffer. Artificial flower-mak ers are in danger, through the poisons necessary in obtaining the colors needed, to paralysis which last long after work is abandoned. Bleachers of colors inhale chlorine gas, which is harmless, while tlxeir other only danger is eruptions on the forearms caused by having to work with hot water and strong lye, which cracks and fissures the skin. Fanning would seem to be the most healthful of aU pursuits. The life is free from anxiety, but the fact is a painful one that their lives are shortened and made uncomfortable by the poorness of food they consume. Salt pork is the chief article of meat, and usually poorly cooked. A class that are actually benefited in health by their profession is the tanners and leather-dressers, fat-renderers, lard refiners, bone-boilers, gluemakers, pork packers, soap-makers, ofl-pressers and makers of cheese. The manufacture of tobacco would seem to have no dangers beyond that of the absorption of nicotine by the system, for workmen claim exemption from in flammatory and epidemic diseases. But ton-makers, and all workers in bone, are healthy men. Another class of toilers who enjoy good health and a certain im munity against epidemics are the work ers in wool. The little dust eauaed by the combing never troubles them.?New York World. Irrigation in the Nile Country. Irrigation in the Nile country in Egypt is carried on as foUows: First, a hole is dug in the ground to a level with the Nile river. Two upright poles are erect ed and another pole or crossbar is ex tended from one to the other. Then a long pole is placed upon the crossbar. Attached to one end of tliispole is a stone of probably twenty or twenty-five pounds in weight, and upon the other is a rope with a pail. A native or slave belonging to the Sheikh operates this machine, wliich is called a shakiro. Ho draws the pail down, fiills it with water, and then the weight raises it up, after which the water is emptied into a channel, wluch conveys it over the land and into oilier channels.?Cliicago Herald. Had Been Painting in tho Country. "Why, Palette, old boy," said Robin son, heartily, "where have you been lately ?out of town?" ?'Ya'as," relied Palette; "beenup along tin' line of the Hudson, painting littlo bits of scenery?trees, rocks, and that sort of thing, y'know." "Ali, all! Patent medicine ads, I sup pose?"?New York Sun. Two Correspondents Answered. [bui Njo.] Mabtdt P. Topper, Texas.?The poem to which you allude was written by Julia A. Moore, better known as the Sweet Singer of Michigan. The lost stanza is something like this: "My childhood days are past and gone, And it fills my heart with pain, To think that youth will never more Return to me again. And now, kind friends, what I have wrote, I hopo you will pass o'er And not criticiso as some has hitherto hore before dona" Miss Moore also wrote a volume of poems, which the farmers of Michigan are still using on their potato bugs. She wrote a large number of poems, all more or less saturated with grief and damaged syntax. She is now said to be a fugitive from justice. "Wo should learn from this that we cannot evade the responsibility of our acts, and those who write obituary poetry will one day be ovcrtakon by a'bobtail sleuth hound, or a Siberian Nemesis with two rows of teeth. Leonora VrvTAK Gobb, Oloson's Forks, Ariz.?Yes. You can turn the front breadths, let out the tucks in the side plaiting and baste on a new dragoon where you caught the oyster stow in your lap at the party. You could also get trusted for a new dress, perhaps. Rut that is a matter of taste. Borne dealers ore wearing their open ac counts thi.i long winter and some are not' Do aa you think best about cleaning the dress. Benzine will sometimes eradicate an oyster s^w from dress goods. It will also eradicate every one In the room at'the same time. I have known a pair of - rejuvenated kid gloves to break up a funeral that started out with ovory prospect of success. Benzine is an economical thing to use, hut socially it is not up to the standard. Another idea has occurred to mo, howevor. Why not riprap the skirt, calk tbo salvages, readjust the box plaits, catstitch the crown shoot, fllo down tbo gores, sandpaper tho editors and dis charge the dolman. You could then wear the garment anywhere in the ovening, and half tho pesplo wouldn't know that anything had bapponcd to it It Ixofcod Sqnally for a While. [Tho Louisville Postl A young lawyor, who has bean recently married to a beautiful bollo, was made the victim of a. malicious anonymous letter that might havi resulted seriously to his domestic Happiness. It seems that the young man had made in enemy cf a man who has an office so near that ho can at times overlook his movements. A few days ago the young man's bride received an anonymous letter saying: "As now a groom as your husband ought not to hare a young lady call on him in hir. office, and he ought not to take her in his arms and kiss her. Wednesday, 11:15 a, m." The young wife was almost heart broken. She cried until her eyes wore red, and when her lord came home upbraided him bitterly. She showed him the* letter, and as he didn't hare any explanation but a denial, matters began tolook very interesting around his home. He couldn't think who would tell such a falsehood about him, and he started down town in a very moody condition. As he sat in the corner jf the ear brooding over his trouble, an idea suddenly struck him. It had the Bame effect on him as if he had sat down on a pin. In an instant he was run ning at full spaed homeward, while the pas sengers in tho car wore congratulating them selves on their narrow escape from a dan gerous lunatic. Bursting into ids wife's room he fairly danced with delight as he ex claimed: "Don't you romember7 You wore in my office Wednesday morning; you were the young woman I kissed!" Peace now reigns, but ho had a close calL_ "In tho Regular Army, Ol** [Harport Weokly.l Would-be Recruit?Now, Mr. Sorgeant, you've told me all about the pay and cloth ing, and all that How is it about the grub! ?*he food, you know?" " Sergeant?Well, that thoredepinds largely appan wheer ye gc. If ye jine my batthery ??that's?av the Phif t'?I won't desave ye, for ye'll ioind it out soon enough yerself?if ye coom t' my batthory yo'il be c?mpeUed to ate yor mince pie cowld. A Variation of tho Compass in Georgia. [L&wrcnocYllle (OaJ.Hcrald.] In the early history of Gwinnett two neighbors disagreed as to their land lines, and agreed to have tho dividing line settled by the county surveyor. This surveyor was fond of his toddy, a fact not unknown to one of the parties in interest On tho day the lino was run one of the parties notified tho surveyor that just be hind a tree to which he desired him to run was a bottle of old corn liquor, and if he happened to hit that tree the bottle was his. Strange to say, tho surveyor hit that tree centrally. To do this it was necessary to make a curve, but this was not hard to do, and when tho other party protested that the lino was not a straight one, tho surveyor silenced him with the remark that it was nocossary to nnglo a little to meet the varia tions of tho compos*. The line was duly established, and to this day it stands as tho dividing line between two tracts of land. It is needless to say it is not a straight lino, but it has been duly surveyed, and "that do settle it" A Texan Home. [Storyatto.j When Mr. Morton was American minister to Franco, ho was entertaining a party at dinner, among whom were several English swells and that great American raconteur, Tom Ochilt*ua One of the Englishmen had described the Duko of Westminster's place as being remarkably large and beautiful, wbon Tom broke in with: "Why, that's nothing. A friend of mine in Texas has got a placo a thousand miles square, and a house a? big as a hoteL Ho mot mo walking about tho house one day, and said: "Hollol Tom, whoro do you como from)' 'Why, old man, I've been staying with you for two weeks.' It was a fact; wo hadu't happened to meet beforo." Overheard On tho Train. [Mntl and ITxprcss.] "Morning papor, sir?" Old gent, angrily: "I havo no use for a newspaper." "Have a picture book, sirf A NEW STUFFING FOR FOWL ! a. Purchaser Finds Fault "With tho Plumb ing In His Turkey. [New Tort Tribune. i I Purchasers of food in some of the down town markots are not always suro of what they obtain. A tall man of middle age went op to a market stall two evenings ago and b'-'gan to examine the display of turkeys and ikickem. "Did you wish a large or a small bird, sir?*' ?aid the proprietor, persuasively waiving his hand toward an extensive array of turkeys of all sizes. "Well, you see," said the buyer, confiden tially, "1 thought I'd give 'cm a good solid .firmer at home, and the family's pretty large, so I need a good deal." "That's right," said tho dealer, genially. "We hive a fine lins of young holiday gob blers. Here is a beautiful bird," he added, taking down a largu turkey, "weighs twenty pounds without trimming; nothing better in New York large, delicious and economical." After sonic bargaining 'and proof of the weight, the head of the large family made th? purchase and departed with a light heart and a heavy turkey. Tho next morning as tho dealor in fowls wa3 counting his gains his customer ap peared woaring a rather sour expression, and laying a two pound coil of lead pipe on the counter ho said deliberately: "When I buy a turkey I most generally oxpect to do tho stuffing myself; any way not have'em plugged up beforehand. I want to know how yon explain that pipe which my wife found in the turkey you sold me last night?' "How do you explain that jripef" "You Bay you found this in the turkey V Inquired the dealer examining the lead with great apparent interest. "Well, it's really romarkable what a healthy turkoy will eat, but my dear sir, you can't expect me to know just what Connecticut farmers fatten their poultry on, can yon?' "Oh, you can't fool mo like that," said tho angry pur ser of lead pipe. "You staffed that pipe '.he turkey to make it heavy, and you're a fraud." "Sea hore, my friend," said tho dealer, Im pressively, leaning over the counter, "what is the matter with that bird? Don't its pipes draw well? Isn't tho plumbing in that turkey good? Aren't the sanitary roguln rtions perfect) And yet when everything nbont that turkey fa A No, 1, and the drain age fine, you como around here and tell me I am a fraud The trouble fa, you want too much, but if you think you can come in here and get a whole gas main with a twenty .pound turkoy. you'ro mistaken. Now got right out of here, or I'll put a lead pipe into you." And tho victim of the heavy-weight turkoy didn't wait to talk anymore, but he hurried sadly away. Mrs. Partlngton's Sister. [Peek's Sun. "What's that about plaster of paris curing hydrophobia?" said Mrs. Pugmiro; "I don't believe a word on't Plaster of paris has no Buctionary qualities, and wouldn't illuminate the poison half as well as a bread poultice. Don't you rocolloct the timo yonr pa was snake-bit in Vermont, how we dosed him with whisky and poulticed his log, and he got over it In a few days?" "It Isn't plaster of paris, ma," said "Ma tilda. "There's a celebrated Doctor P-a-s t-e-u-r living in Paris, who claims that he can prevent hydrophobia by inoculation, and lately four children who had been bitten by a mad dog were sent thero from Newark tobe treated," "La, suz, is that so? Well, that was kind in the neighbors. And the little ones got back all safe and sound, did they? I do hope the treatment of this Dr. Pastour will prove sufneacious, but do you know, I haven't much faith in immaculation, any way, oven In smallpox-" Just then the door bell rang, Matilda's beau was admitted, and further scientific discussion was postponed. A Brutal Condnctor. [Toxm SIftlnsn.1 "I can't let this girl travel over this road on that half-faro ticket," said tho now con ductor to the Widow Flapjack, "Why not? What fa the matter with my little girl?" "She fa no child. She fa more than half grown," "Well, if that don't beat everything then Til give it up. Here poor little Mamie has been traveling over this road on a child's ticket for the last ten years, and now all at once you say she fa no child. That's a new way to worry the traveling public." She paid full fare, and thon tho diminutivo girl in tho corner pulloi horsolf out, so to speak, like a marnie telescope. Took Her Advice for the First Time. (San Francisco MaTorIck.1 "Send out an alarm. My husband has been missing all night and all day!" fran tically cried a. little woman dressed in a faded red dross and groon shawl, as she bounced into the police station. "What land of a looking man was ho?" asked the sorgoant. "Little short man, bold headed, gray clothes; nosomost as rod as yours." "You will find him at the morgue. A man of that description was found drowned this morning." "Drowned! drowned! And It's all my fault! I told him to go and soak his head, and this fa the first timo ho over took my ad vice." _ In the Ball Boom. [Detroit Free Press.] Major?Who fa that young lady on the op posite sido of the room.' Widow?That is my daughtor. This is her first season. Sho is not quite 19 yoL Major?Will you introduco me? "Widow?Certainly. Itosa, my dear, this fa Maj. Uuns. Major, my daughtor Rosa Rosa?Good evening. And so you were in the war? Major?Yes; I enlistod immediatoly after tho battlo of Bull Run and served till tho close. Rosa?My poor dear father was killed in that battle. The major fa now buried in deep thought. rTVTEW VORK ?TO?E Ii EW JL ORK DT ORE ALWAYS AHEAD! Upward and Onward, MY MOTTO! I Defy Competition Always tie Leafier of Low Prices! Having Enlarged My Store it is Now the Largest in the City and Fill ed With Every Desirable Goods Imaginable at the Very Lowest PRICES! To See is to Believe! What We Say, ^Yc Do, or Money Refunded. 1.. It would take this entire paper to enumerate everything we keep to sell, Our Stock embraces $50,000 worth of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOT AND SHOES HATS AND CAPS, OIL PAINTINGS, SHIRTS, TRUNKS, DOMESTICS, CARPETS, RUGS, WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, &c, &c., &c. CAIjLi AIVI> SEE US! AI*? SATE MONEY! CARPETS, WINDOW SHADES and LACE CURTAINS big specialties. CALIFORNIA BLANKETS at a great sacrifice. GUNS to suit any price. Come and Sec. Don't fail to Come and See Us. Once dealing will bring you again. D. EPSTIN, New York Store. c. mayhew. j. m. mayhew. C.Mayhew&Son, COLUMBIA, S. C, MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTS* AND BUILDERS, COLUMBIA MABBLE WORKS. Manufacturers of and Dealers in All Kinds of AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE WORK. Mantels, Monuments anil Tablets furnished to any design at Lowest Prices. Polished Granite Work, either Na tive or Foreign, to order. Building Stone of all kiud furnished. Correspondence solicitetl with tho9e in want of-auy work in the above line. Jan 7-lyr. BUTTEB FOR FAIL! USE IN CONVENIENT PACKAGES. I will have in auother lot of the 10 pound cans of BEST GILT EDGE BUTTER, such as gave such general satisfaction, in tima for Christmas. My patrons can leave orders for same, it will he sent home. Also tubs of fine Creamery Butter at 24 cents delivered. ONE CAR OF HAitim/k?; ?kick at my yard. Trice to suit times. COWFEED, BRAN. CRACKED CORN, HAY, PEAS, CORN, &c. &c, COAL. Red Che?<itut Anli, Hard Coal. BURNS EIGHT HOURS. All goods delivered free. John A. Hamilton. Mrs. L ffl. SfflOAK Wishes to inform her friends and the public that she has REMOVED her Millinery Establishment next door to B. B. Owen, where will be found constantly in Stock all the Latest Novelties in LADIES' IIATS AND BONNETS, NECK WEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, LACES, EMBROIDER i", &C. Agent far the Genuine SINGER SEWING MACHINES. NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS. Orangeburg C. H., S. C April 16._ FRUIT! FRUIT!! FRUIT!!! Finest variety of Tropical Fruits in Mar ket. Fresh cargoes every week. 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All work CASH ON DELIVERY. Postively no credit. VAN ORSDELL, Artist, July 17 Russell Street. Orangeburg, S. C. THOMAS' RESTAURANT Is constantly supplied with, the very best Ovsters and Fish that tin- Charleston Market affords, which is sold at a reasona ble price. Meals can be hud at the Restau rant at any hour and cooked in a way that will please" the most fastidious. nov5-5in