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AN OLD AUTOCRAT. Who was he? Why, the colonel, of course! What other man in that big .family of overgrown children occupies 'die "proud position of absolute monarchy? And what was his name? Thomas Cre veccBur. He was an autocrat?an absolule mon arch?a martinet of the fiercest and most unreasonable description, and he com manded the gallant regiment known as the Eighth dragoons. Behind his back they called him "Tommy," "Our Old Man," "Old Fireworks," and the like; but to his face it was "yes, colonel," aud "no, colonel," hi the most meekly-mouthed manner. Occasionally the youngsters played very judicious pranks on him; that is to say, when ' Tommy" got three sheets in the wind he was wont to unbend considerably, and they therefore had to fall in with his humor, and if lie joked, joke back again; but it was unsatisfactory work?so akin to playing with lighted matches over an open barrel of gunpowder. WeU, one evening, after an extra big night, Col. Crevecoeur retired to his rooms, rather nearer to half-seas-over than was asual even with him. who could stow ajvay a bottle of cognac a day with ease and comfo: c. He was desperately sleepy ?almost too sleepy to walk at all; the night was awfully cold; on the ground outside the snow lay thick, and the fires in his rooms burned briUiantly?as fires do in frosty weather?casting a meUow, pleasant glow over everything. Up to the sitting-room fireplace CoL Crevecoeur went, meandering thereto in graceful curves, which so delighted him that he unburdened his soul by a burst of lauguage, popularly called "choice Italian." And, somehow, his legs seemed more inclined to continue the graceful meandering movements than the rest of him did, so he caught st the chimney piece to steady himself; a^liber$y"which? as it was merely a sham shelf.of;wood and fringe, put to hide the hideous regulation finish to the hideous regulation grate that article promptly resented by breaking down, with all its freight of letters, horse shoes, candlesticks, photograph-frames, and odd little Indian ornaments and fig ures. Happily the gloss was safely screwed to the wall, and the fire happen ing to flicker up just then into a brilliant blaze, Col. Crevecoeur caught sight of his own handsome countenance, and suddenly became aware that he had been having too much. "What a demmed red face you'v got, Crevecoeur, my boy," he remarked, con fidentially, gazing idiotically at the reflec tion of cheeks flushed scarlet, white mustaches, fiercely waxed, and close cropped white hair, all rumpled up on end. "Been having too much?very wrong? shouldn't do it?bad example to set the young 'uns?gerrabed?gerrabed?sooner the better." Now, since a roaring fire was alight in ea^h of the rooms, the use of a candle was entirely-superfluous; but Col. Crevecoeur, being in as great a state of absent-minded ness as was ever Sir Isaac Newton when ' he made the little hole for the kitten though, to be sure, the cause was a very different one?troubled himself to stoop for a candle and stick from among the debris on the floor. Ho fished up the stick first; then the candle. But, alas! the candle was broken, and, being slightly too small for the candlestick, required fitting to a greater nicety than his head was capable at that moment of conceiving or his fingers of carrying out. "Dem the candlestick!" said Col. Creve coeur, flinging it across the room. Still it did not occur to him to betake himself to bed without any extra light; stooping, he placed the broken candle be tween the bars, with the effect of making a big blaze in tho fire, but none where he wanted it, at the end of the candle. "Dem th-a candle!" he exclaimed, tossing I it Into the fire; then sat himself down to recover his breath; his eyes closed, and in two minutes he was oft to sleep as sound as a church. He must have slept for about a couple of hours; for he awoke, with d start, to find the fire burned very low in the grate, the room in darkness, and the big ttjfi?k in the gate-tower striking three. Col. Crevecoeur sat up in bis chair, as sober as-* Judge. "I must have been asleep,' he muttered; "gad! how deuced cold it is." As he passed the- window to go to the next room he drew aside the curtain to look at the night. The square was as light as day; on the great expanse of newly-fallen snow, the moon shone down bravely, bringing each sentry-box and each snow-capped range of troop-rooms into view with the startling distinctness of a photograph. He only stood there for a moment, but, as ill-luck would-have it, a man in plain clothes came quietly out from betweeu the chief block of officers' quarters and the commanding officer's house, and passed quickly towards the nearest troop room, unchallenged by the sentry im mediately below Col. Crevecceur's window. He did what, of course, any other com manding officer in the service would have done, he flung up his window, and de manded angrily the reason of the non challenge. "I didn't hear him, sir," stammered the unfortunate sentry, in dismay. "You?didn't?hear?him," iu tones of the most withering scorn; "and what the devil did you mean by not hearing him, sir? What are you there for, sir? Who is he? What is he doing out, prowling about at this time of night? Up to no good, I'll be bound. I'll not have men prowling about at all hours." The man in plain clothes had quickly enough vanished at the first sound of the colonel's voice, but the old autocrat was not going to be done in that fashion. It was just the time for relieving guard, and, while he was yet speaking, the corporal of the guard made his appearance and per formed that ceremony. "Put this man under arrestl" thundered the autocrat, "and turn the guard out." So there was a scurry back to the guard room, a hoarse "Guar-r-r-r-r-d tur-r-r-r-r-n out " a great scrambling and scuffling and catohing up of carbines plainly audible across the silent square; then a tramp of spurred heeis, as the guard marched down to the commanding officer's quarters. "ikmnd reveille!" shouted the colonel. Out rang the trumpets, and out came the regiment, wondering if a big riot was on, cr a monster fire, or maybe an invasion. But, after nil, it was but a great to-do about nothing. Who had been out in the square during the past half hour'-' The delinquent stood out instanter. "Me, sir,' he announced, without any circumlo cution whatever. "Oh, you!" with a frightful sneer on his har.dsome old face; "and, pray, what were you doing out of your quarters at this hour?" r "I'm Mr. Bartholomew's servant, sir," the man explained; "I've been helping Dr. 1 Scott to put 'ot flannins on 'im, but when he dropped orf to sleep the doctor said I might as well go to bed, as he could do j weny well by;hisself for the rest of the I night." ??? "tJ? ?? /-via.. Now, asyoungsBartholomewwas suffer Ing fron?, a ^ere-attack of inflammation of the luiigs^theWf was-nothing- further to be said; therefore, wdt&a-very bad word, the ohlfcolonel banged down his window, not-even condescending to dismiss the regiment, and, while the orderly was hesi tating whether to take that responsibility upon himself, one of the men broke into a hearty laugh. Up went the window again. "Ah, ah, my fine fellow, I'll teach you to laugh on the Other side of your mouth!" the colonel roared.- "Mr. Mordaunt, let the regimen: be ready, in full marching order, in half an hour." Full marching order, at 3 in the morn ing, with the thermometer at ten degrees below zero, and snow afoot deep, on the ground! In two minutes that barrack mignj, with reason, have been likened to paliTOinbniuiii;'sucn a cursing, such a swearing;' in ttuth;.ln, the space uf five short minutes-you might have heard as great a variety of oaths''as would have served to fill this volume: such a hasty blacking of hoots, such a polishing of hel mets, such groanings over soiled gloves and facings, which there was no time to clean, such u 'hurrying, such a scamper ing of orderlies to apprise the married offi cers living in the town, snch a rousing of whole streets to find the married men living out of barracks, such a grooming and stamping,' and kicking of sleepy, frightened horses, such a plunging and slipping and neighing, until, at last, they were ready to start All through the town! Such a flinging up of windows; such thrusting out of sleepy heads to know if an enemy had sud denly invaided the country; such wonder as the loud strains of ?Auld Lang Syne" and "The girl I left behind me" rang out upon the frosty air; such bitter tears of Bweet, little modest maidens, who did not like to appear en demi toilette, and made sure the brave Eighth were off for active service at least, such hurried mental foot big up of unpaid bills! Then out into the country! Rousing the inhabitants of village after village, and making them wonder if the queen was dead, that the soldiers made so much fuss. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven long, slippery, dismal, miserable miles by a round which brought them back through the town again,-vh?re the worst was to come. A good mae from the town clouds quickly drifted across the moon, and the snow began to fall again in heavy, blind ing wreaths; several horses suddenly be come utterly unmanageable and frantic, loshing out every minute when they were not stumbling, and stumbling when they were not kicking; one fell, breaking his rider's leg in two places in the fall; n second came down a couple of hundred yards farther on, smashing a fore-leg horri bly; a third ran his hetvd bang agakist a lamp-post, tumbling over as dead as a door-nail; at which another terrified ani mal made a clean bolt of it, and tried to jump a house, with the result of turning a somersault and lauding in the gutter with a broken back, jerking his rider off, with, happiiy, no more serious injury than a couple of broken ribs. It was a ghastly night's work, and, truly mornmg light rose upon a ghastly sight. Three gallant chargers lay stretched stiff and stark upon the trampled, blood stained road; two hospital cots were filled that before had been empty; anger and disgust was on every face, well-nigh rebel bon and mutiny in every heart. Among it all Col. Crevecoeur stalked, gt.m, silent, vigilant, like on avenging spirit?a mighty big spirit for such a very trivial misdemeanor. In duo course the story was wafted to headquarters, with what effect never transpired. The dignity and the authority of a commading officer must be kept up, of course; yet many in the regiment sus pected that when not many weeTts hiter Maj. Forde was gazetted to th? command of the regiment, vice Thomas Crevecoeur, resigned, the re tirement had been politely compulsory. So he passed out of the regiment which he bad'ruled so long with a rod of iron, and wjthjitm?with one excoption?passed away the last of the old race of martinets. -J. & Winter._ Far Ahead of a Ghost Story. The Rev. Mr. Llndsey, who formerly re sided and*preached^ia. .fhtoqounty, was able to boast that he had been born four months after his mother had been dead and buried. Here is the explanation: His mother, who resided in Stewartville town ihip, in this county, f '1 ill, and, to all ap pearance died and was "dried in Stewart viUe cemetery. The night following her interment ghouls, for the purpose of secur ing some jewelry that was buried with the body, unearthed the remains, when con sciousness returned, and she was enabled to return to her home. Arriving at her late residence she rapped at the door, and was answered by her husband, who demanded to know who was there. To his groat astonishment the answer came: "It is your wife." He was not quick in opening the door, but finally did so, and was overjoyed to meet again in lifo his beloved wife, whom . he had mourned as dead. Four months afterward the Rev. Mr. Lindsey was born, and she survived several years. This is indeed u strange story, but we are assured that it is literally true.?Buckingham (N. C.) Spirit of the South. "Hollo" Gottlug To He si Chestnut. "Have you noticed," said a telephone operator to me recently, "that we are get ting out of the way of saying 'hello' to everybody?" "No, I haven't noticed it," I confessed. "Yes, 'hello' got to be a chestnut, and so we have changed to'well.' When a man calls us up now we say 'weU' in nn inquir ing tone, and it sounds much better than the rude, rough shout of 'hello.'" Anger and the Other Pagslour;. Of all passions, en?^r is most under the rule of the" will. What man but could govern his wrath if a fortune hung on it, how choleric soever he were? But not so with fear, love, ambition, hatred, and other passions which often tear their way against all will, or arc locked only with great struggle.?"J.'V. B." in Globe-Demu crat. Dr. Holmes says that "On horseback a man's system becomes clarified, because his liver goes up and down like the handle of a churn." The highest price ever paid for a pointer (dog) was f l,2?? for Faust, bought in Eng land in 1SS0 and now in St. Louis. Man is a mystery, and life is a poem which human depravity too often makes Into prose.? Mine. George Sand. C. P. Huntington, the great railroad magnate, was once a farm hand on a Con necticut homestead. An American church for Christian wor shipers of all denominations is to be built at Nice. * FLIES ON THE WINDOW PANE. A Characteristic Anecdote of Holman Hunt's Early Artistic Work. My father was from the first strongly opr d to my becoming an artist; ho had had reason to see the ill effects of a loafing, idle life, and he believed, in accordance with the general opinion of those days, that artists were necessarily of a reckless, frivolous character, and led a useless, un stable life. So, finding that at school I scribbled more designs than exercisqs in my copy-books, he removed me from school when I was 12% years old, mth tho intention of placing me in some city office. Owing to a fortunate accident I was placed with an auctioneer and estate agent as a sort of probationary clerk, and one day my master, coming into the office hur riedly, caught me putting away something in my desk, and, insisting upon seeing it, discovered that I could draw. This led to inquiries on his part as to whether I had painted, and it turned out that he was himself fond of art, and, whenever he could get a chance, practiced painting. "One day," he said to me, "when there's nothing much to be done, you and I will shut ourselves in here and have a day's painting together;" and sole happened. Here were tho tables turned upon my father with a vengeance! I was get ting artistic encouragement from the very employer who should have been distilling into me commercial principles. This lasted about a .year and a half, wh*-"t owing to my employer's retirement fim.. business, 1 obtained another situation in tho city at a Manchester warehouse, in Cateaton street, managed by a London agent of Richard Cobden. Hero I sat by myself in a little room looking out at the three blank walls and made entries in a ledger, and seemed further than ever from my desire of becoming an artist. But here, too, curiously enough, another artistic friend turned up, in tho person of an occasional clerk whoso business it was to design patterns for the firm's calicos, etc. Surreptitiously I also used to try my hand at designing, and attained sufficient proficiency to enable my friend to mako use of my designs on various occasions. I remember an amusing incident of this period, which gave me great delight at* tho "Knie. The window of my room was made of ground glass, and, having but little to do, I passed my time drawing with both pen and pencil flies upon its roughened snrface. A good blot of ink sufficed for the body an* some delicate strokes with a hard pencil for tho wings, and at a short distance the deception was perfect. Day by day the number of flies in that room increased, till ono day my employer, coming in, ^topped suddenly in front of the window and said: "I can't make out how it is; every day I come Into this room there seems to be more files in it," and he took out his handkerchief to brush them away.?Holman Hunt in Contemporary Review. The Kailroad Across the Caucasus. The railroad across the Caucasus is a military one?i. e., constructed primarily for purposes of troop transportation, etc., I like nearly every railroad in the vast Rus sian empire, such as, for instance, the ene, now building from the Caspian to Tash kend, a distance of 1,550 versts (about 1,100 miles). Tho places between Batoum and Baku, a distance of 827 versts, are few and j far between, and, with the exception of Tiflis and Elizabetpol, of no great impor tance. The scenery between Batoum and Tiflis is grand and varied. The railroad climbs on its way a mountain of 3,200 feet in height?the Sougame?and feats of engin eering sk?l are frequent all along tho'nne. Of course, all this makes this line very ex pensive and unprofitable, and tho govern ment annually has to put up for the de ficit. Only one train every twenty-four hours starts between Batoum and Baku. Tho latter town is now sufficiently known to America as her great rival in the petroleum line. A whole book on tho town and its wonders has lately been written by an Englishman, but ho confines himself to the -technical points. Baku has now 67,000 inhabitants, and has grown , to such proportions within the last four years. It is an old town, however, and the presence of naptha here was known even In the dimmest antiquity. The temples for fire worshipers, who used to come here as to a sort of Mecca front all parts of the orient, have been destroyed. The fire is no longer worshiped here, but the oil is. Baku sent away to Russia and foreign ports . last year no less than 25, 000,000- pud (tho pud equals 16 kilos, or 35 pounds,) and the oil delivered on board, refined, costs but 17 to 20 kopecks (8 to 10 cents) the pud.?Baku Cor. Chicago Times. She Liked tho Epilogue Best. A young lady from St. Louis was visit ing her cousin, an Ashland avenue belle, a few weeks ago, and together they at tended a Modjeska matinee. "As You Like It" was the play. Tho St. Louis young lady was delighted. "It was just splendid," she declared to some of her friends the next day, "and tho audience fairly went wild. When the play was finished the people didn't want the curtain to come down, and cheered so that Mrs. Modjeska had to stop down to tho front of the stage and make a little speech thanking the people for their kindness, and asking them to come again some time. Such a speech ns it was, too. I never heard such a pretty one in all my life. I didn't think there was any woman living who could make such nice speeches. Why, the language was as pure and sweet as that Governor Marmaduke used in his campaign addresses last faU."?Chicago Herald. The Value of Many Associate*. You can not live your best life without plenty of associates and an ever-widening circle of associates. You draw a new life from every real friend you make. So does that friend from you. If you isolate and cut yourself down to an ever-decreasing circle of friendB you are literally starving yourself to death. You will never find a person in good physical health or balanced in mind who went off from tho world and lived alone. Take all the active minds of our time, the people who are live working powers in the world, and you find them always people of wide and ever-widening range of association. The "crank" blooms in solitude?an un healthy growth through feeding on him self?over much self-communing and nursing of his pet idea until in his eyes it fills the universe.?Prentice Mulford in San Francisco Chronicle. It Indicated His Popularity. Officeseeker?Well, what was the meet ing like? Ward Politician?Entirely harmonious. Never saw anything like it. You were nominated by acclamation. "A spontaneous outburst, eh?" "Entirely so, sir. It indicates your pop ularity. There wasn't anything else to bo expected. The spontaneity was aU ar ranged in caucus tho night before."?Phil adelphia Call Removed TO OUR NEWLY FITTED UP STORE OPPOSITE THE TENT. NOTICE. We do not propose to undersell everyone else, but we arc ready ' meet fair competition. Our Stock is now complete: give us a call Mr. I. S. CUMMINGS is with us, and will be glad to see Iiis old friends and customers. ' Wc sell the. ROYAL 1ST. JOHN SEWING MACHINES. Machines of all makes repaired.. Large Wogoa Yard in rear of Store. 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