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VOL. IlL ~MANNING, CLARE~NDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 88 O 5 MARRYING FOR 310NEY. MARION HARLAN) ON MA tTRIMONIAL FORTUNE HUNTERS. Girls Who Have " Married Well"-The Folly of Marrying Upon Nothing--Hus bands on Allowances from Wives--The Din of Marrying for a Fortune. Some things which are done by reputa ble people are acknowledged by nobody. When Thackeray, with his character istic violation of conventional expedien cy, made Henry Esmond say, with naive seriousness, of Lady Castleton, "She had been listening at the door," a howl of reprobation arose from critics of both sexes, professional and amateur. He had lowered the object of his adoration below the average of a common cham bermaid-or so it was declared. When Mrs. Candor avers unblushingly, "My eye caught a sentence in the open letter that aroused my curiosity, and I read the whole of it," her bosom friend, although delectated by the scandal re vealed by the act, must look shocked and murmur deprecatingly, or suffer in her own estimation. When Amelia can not refrain from whispering to Rosalie the secret confided to her under a solemn promise of secrecy by Eugenia, she defends the betrayal to her con science by saying: "It was told me in strictest oonfidence; but you know, dear, I don't consider that I violate my pledge by hinting it to you, from whom I hide nothing." The queer part of the laboriously acted farce is that the only person de ceived is the sinner herself. Lady Cas tleton's eavesdropping did not burden her sweet white soul. Mrs. Candor says boldly: "Anybody else would have done the same in the same circumstances." If she be shrewd she adds: "The only difference between people with charac ters and without, is in the amount they confess." Amelia does not avoid be trayed Eugenia's eyes at their next meet ing, says her prayers with a heart as single and voice as devout as if Rosalie were not privately convicting her of perjury So-whoever did marry for money? The thing is so odious, the treachery, cheat-sacrilege-so abominable that no man or woman who cares for reputation, or has even a nominal regard for social decencies, will admit the charge at the tribunal of self-consciousness. THE TITLE OF "FORTZYE-HtLTER' is as libelous as that of "coward," and he who deserves it exerts ingenuity and glozes over circumstantial evidence in introspective reflection to clear his soul of the stigma. The heiress of his selection has really no present fortune, as the daughter of a rich father may inherit nothing in the long run. Or, if she hold her wealth in her own right, she would be a prize were she penniless. In that unlucky event he would have controlled his manly affections, as the whole world knows and says sneeringly behind his back, however he may hood wink himself. The right of a man to fall in love with a rich girl or the child of a wealthy house, is as patent as King Cophetua's to woo the beggar maid. Cupid's freaks may as well take one turn as another. In the teeth of the doughty assertion, the world continues to shrug significant shoulders. To shrug and sneer and snarl, and yet become, with parents and friends, acces sory to the unholy commerce "Dinna wed &)r siller's sake. 'ywad be unco' sinful, ye ken," said a pious Scotch father to his son. "Bat see to it that ye gae where siller is!" \We may feel a twinge of regret, but we have ceased to be shocked when we hear the marriage of two ardent young people spoken of as "a genuine old fashioned love match, such as one sel dom hears of in this day." Nor are we righteously indignant at the compassion ate smile that accompanies the implied slur. -One direct question wiil prove the truth of the assertion. What do we mean when we say that a girl has "mar ried well?" Given a tolerably suitable age, fair character. health and disposi tion, the commendation has but one generally accepted interpretation, as any candid reader will admit. I heard an eminent theologian usc the words the other day, in answer to con gratulations on his daughter's marriage: *"She has, indeed, married magniti cently!" he subjoined aside to an inti mate friend. "I could ask nothing bet ter for her, thank God!" Meeting the son-in-law subsequently, the friend saw an uneducated man of mean stature, ignoble visage, boorish deportment, and less mhnnediocre in tellect. But he has erheited the mil lions of a self-made father, and is cunning enough to turn them over to advantage. Another bridegroom was so repulsive in aspect that one revolted at the con trast with his fair, majestic bride. He wore a wig, and his senile grin would have been less disagreeable had he em ployed dental skill also; he was squat in figure; his scanty beard was a grizzled red, his face mettled and freckled into the complexion of a gooseberry roley poley, and he was thirty years his wife's senior. "We feel very happy about our darl ing," said the tender mother, with glis tening eyes. "She has chosen more judiciously than do most girls of her The father, as well pleased, expressed his satisfaction in diflerent sort. - "Not much to look at," he admitted to a crony, "but he has at least ten thousand dollars for every fre.ckle'. We all say, and we all mean one thing by such comments, and that is to sweil the applause due him-or her-who doca good unto himself-or herself. The satis faction of parents has a basis of natur' and praiseworthy regard for their child well-being. If they are poor and sh< has had a har.d bringing up they covel ease and a smoother pathway for her. IN THE 3IATEniNA HEART. There is a fierce claim on these as he: daughter's right in life, her lawful shar< of the sunshine and case and prospenit; which are chief among the world's goo< ~ thns.Tahe has beeni brought up iz and society against the cruelty of alter ing her circumstances, the selfishness of him who would drag her down to the level of the working classes. The incon siderate swain, who, for love's sake, has proposed the wrong, finds himself in the posiion of 2raddles, when, after Jacob's seven years of waiting, he offered the humble home wrung from Fate's tight ilst to the "dearest girl in the world." "I give you my word, Copperfield. I felt a perfect bird of prey toward the family." The parental instinct of providing for the child overpasses the ignorant trans ports of the marriage day, and takes alarm at the menace of privation, "con trivance," pinching economies and un pleasant surprises in the shape of debts aud duns, which are natural attendants upon the early wedded lire of two people whose fortune-if they ever have one-is to be made and saved by themselves. The folly of marrying upon nothing is so easily demonstrable that the girl of the period, albeit a trifle romantic in some respects, does not need to have it explained to her. Not even a Traddles of our generation dreams of bringing Sophy home as his wife on $1,000 a year, no capital except love and stout heart, and no stocks except those taken rashly in Faith and Hope. Consequentv, the number ot marriages in the solid Yniddle classes decreases yearly; people marry later in life; there are more childless couples and fewer housekeepers. Oar girls know this, and our young men ap preciate it to the full. The former look for husbands who can support them well; the latter take their choice between cynical bachelorhood and a hunt for rich wives. Both sexes "look to it that they gae where siller is." One of the patented-all-rights secured sayings of unworldly minded moralizers is that the man whose riches have bought his wife, and the woman whose husband has sought her for her money, are much to be pitied in their splendid misery. These unsophisticated essayists, laying to the warped outlines the rule and plummet of sensitive rectitude, assume that suspicion of the truth must lurk in the bottom of Sevres coffee cups, and sit, bodkinwise, between the wedded pair on satin sofas and carriage cushions. They are represented as GAZING THnOUGH GILDED BABS at the frank, innocent joys of those who are chosen and beloved for themselves alone, as Adam and Eve might have sought unguarded crevices in Eden's wall, and made of them wailing places over what they had forever forfeited. If the innermost heart lining of Cresus and Baroness Burdett-Coutts were turn ed out to microscopic examination, we might find definite traces of the corrod ing suspicion aforesaid. The average millionaire does not dissociate in his most secret thoughts his riches from his in dividual personality. Purse pride runs through every vein, is assimilated by 1 every organ. Inconvenient as were the 1 conscliencCs of Midas' touch to his , daily bread, he doubtless retained in his prayer to be saved from starvation al, strain of pride in his unique accomplish ment. Our Wall street Midas is not chagrined that the beautiful sehoolmis tress elected to grace his table, carriage and mansion should be won by his mil lions. He loves her the more intelli gently for her appreciation of what is himself. Who ever saw an heire s to whom the dread of being married for her money was the fretting pea under her fourteen feather beds? The yellow reflection of virgin gold becomes her as ornaments the bride. She values her possessions as inherent, not extrinsic charms. She; knows as well as you and I that a rich girl never lacks for suitors, and she is grateful to a benignant Providence for making her future sure and bright. One of the vainest women I ever knew portioned oil her handsome, obsequious lord, month by month-so much for cigars, so much for horses, so much for talors' bills, so much for sundries-and so far from being ashamed of the one sided copartnership, reminded him of it in playful threatening when others were by i suh trms as: "Do'tbe auymy love, or I wil' stop your allowance!" Or. "Dear! dear: what expensive luxuries husbands are! Here's payday agt in." She had her flatterers and court, for she was pretty, flippant, lavish and rich -and in society! Her money was but one element of her power, as essentially a part of the woman who had attracted and won her impecunious Adonis as were her conversational gifts and fine eyes. The conscious possession of wealth im parts a sense of mastery that intoxicates steadier brains than hers. MATRIONIAn ETHlICS. Admitting all this, as the candid ob server of society's ways of reasoning and [action must, there is an ugly substratum of truth, realistic and stubborn, that trasts up a granite shoulder through sophistical froth and sparkle. Let the woman who has a prospect of marrying well, acco.rding to the definition already given, denade her betrothed of the golden fleece draping his moral and mental being; put behind her the visions of "houses and vlneyards, gardens and orchards and pools of water" (represent ed by Saratoga and B3aden-Baden), "sil ver and gold, men singers and women singers," (i. e., the German and French c per'a), "great possessions of great and small cattle" (thoroughbred horses and 'ooles), "all the peculiar treasures of kings and of the provinces," and ask herself, as in the honest hour of death, -Would 1L become this man's wife, Vor bettr and for worse, for richer and for pomer, in, sickness and in health, through good report and evil report, until death do us part,' if he had none f these things? if, in their place, he coukl oier me only a heart full of love, a pafr of hands able and ready to do battle with fortune for my sake, what would be the answer of my heart at the altar?" Si she answer "No," with or against Iher will, she sins in marrying him. When she takes the irrevocable vows upon her sh~e perjures herself in the sight f a holy God and pure augels; is sold body and soul, t a a life as degrading, as surely subversive of miodestv and morali 1' as is that of the beautifuld lave in a urkish market. How the mother can sanction by her blessing the unholy ceremony passes the comprehension of clear-eyed, right-minded women, what ever may be said of men's duller percep tions. It makes less difference with hmn WQ mr inia. tis closet union of lives possible in this world, when the bond is merely one of commercial gain and convenience. Let them settle with the masculine conscience the ethical question of wooing, with phrases bor rowed from Love, the women to whom they would never give a second thought were they portionless; the pretense of disinterested devotion maintained throughout the betrothal; the oath of allegiance to the women they hold by the hand when these are really addressed to bonds and securities, to stocks and real estate-the horrible wrong done to the creatures who believe in them as in Him who made them. Let us speculate, instead, as to the process- by whicli the mother who knows what marriage is what heaven and what hell it may be works herself up (or down?) to the con iction that her child can, in any sense, be "well onl" in wedding a man because :f advantages that have nothing to do with his intrinsic self. The girl may err through partial ignorance-her matronly dviser never! Yet the young maiden who says, "I mean to marry a rich man, whether I Love him or not," breathes upon her purity by the utterance, however thoughtless it may be. If this be her steadfast purpose, inculcated by her elders, acted upon, when opportunity offers, by herself, there stands between her and the poor wretch from whose touch she draws aside her matronly robes, as if contact were contamination, :nly the shadow of a legal lie, the teu )us screen of the wifely name. MAnIoN HARLAND. SPRING OATS. The Crop is Too Valuable to be Overlooked Even in the Spring. The Southern Cultivator thinks the creage sown in fall oats is mnch less than usual. The freezing out of a large portion of the crop of 1SSG by the hard Ereezes in January, 1SS7, hat a most dis wouraging effect, which was augmented by the unfavorably dry weather which prevailed in some parts of the country luring the sowing season. The oat crop, however, is too valuable and in the long run too reliable to be given up. Spring iowing costs little more than the seed, yven if the crop fails from drouth; and a good breadth-eight or ten acres at least o each plow run-should be put in. En our judgment-founded upon experi mee and observation-oats sown in February are much less liable to injury 3y freezing than if sown in January. sowing in the "old twelve days" smacks nore of superstition and sentiment than sound reason. Our hardest weather i 1sualiy from December 25 to February 1, and it is not often that oats sown in February are killed by freezing. The oil for spring oats, if not already fertile, should be well manured and deeply and closely plowed-the latter to guard against drouth as much as possible. If he land be cross plowed so as to leave he furrows partly open, the seed may be own broadcast and harrowed in with ood results. Cotton seed, or the meal lone, or in compost with acid phosphate mud potash, makes an excellent fertilizer or oats. The crop requires rather more ammonia and potash than the percentage isually found in commercial ammoniat !d phosphates. Undoubtedly the Burt oat is the safest or spring sowing, as it will mature in L00 to 120 days when sown in February >r March, according to latitude. Sow )lenty of seed; the later the sowing the eavier should be the seeding. Allow or yield of twenty fold is a pretty safe eneral rule, unless the unexpected yield >r capacity of the land is small, in which ase the seeding should be somewhat eavier than this rule would indicate, mad vice versa. Hlow to Make Trade. In the flood-tide of trade that comes with the spring and fall seasons, business s easily extended by wise business nethods; but the flood-tide of trade sts four or, at the most, six months of he year, and then trade must be sought y the progressive arts which are learned ~rom year to year in all channels of egitimate enterprise. The old style usiness house advertises freely in the rush of the trade seasons, and then it eaves to the more intelligent and pro gressive houses the vast business that is reated or gathered in during the dull season of off business months. Considering how vital legitimate ad. vertising is to legitimate busineas, it is marvelous how little it is understood as business art even by many intelligent business men. Many of them advertise most when they should advertise least in quantity, and advertise least or do not advertise at all when they have most need of it and could most profit by it. gain, many go on the principle of the mountain woman who said-"A tinfulof offee or sugar is a lpound and a tinful of shot must be a pound, also." They re gard a newspaper line in advertising as a ine of about equal value, whether it reaches twenty thousand or five thou sand readers, and they thus waste money on what they regard as cheap advertising that is the most costly because it is next to no advertising at all. The advertising space of a newspaper is a business commodity that is for sale and should be sold be sold on strictly honest business principles. Its value depends wholly upon the quality and quantity it'oflers purchasers, just as does the value of all'commercial commodities; and the purchaser should have every opportunity to know just what he is buy ing. If he is buying five thousand cir culation, or is buying ten, twenty, fifty or one hundred thousand circulation, he should know it and pay according to its ascertained value; and the only way hc can know it is to examine the extent and character of circulation as always shown by the books and accounts of a newspa per, just as a purchaser of dry goods or groceries is permitted to inspect and judge the articles he is buying.--Phila dlphia Times. Truly this is an age of progress. Well made pants from all woolen goods foi only $Z3 to your own measure! Scientific blanks, 25 samples of cloth and a liner tpe measure are sent to any address foi G cents in stampls by the N. Y. Standard Pants Co., of GG University Place, N. Y. City. Goods sent by mail. This firn is doing an enormous business from Maine to California. You will actuajl be surprised at the result, if you wil: write them.* A. game leg--Hindquarter of venison. THlE DIRECT TAX DISPU-TE. Shall Earle and Trescott Ha .e a Third? A Disagreement Among the South Caro lina Delegation. (special to the News and Courier.) WAINusTON, February 7.-Until this time I have refrained from writing any thing about the controversy now pend ing between certain members of the South Carolina delegation relative to re funding the direct taxes to the citizens of the State. The matter is just in that shape where a dispute about the distri bution of the funds might injure the final passage of the bill to pay these just and meritorious claims. The difficulty arises out of an amendment to the bill, which Senator Butler proposed before it passed the Senate. It provides "that no part of the money hereby appro priated shall be RiS. y. t _ Gqv ernor of any State or Territory, or any other persons, to any attorney or agent under any contract for services now ex isting or heretofore made between the representatives of any State or Territory and any agent or attorney." The South Carolina delegation are di. vided as to the propriety or advisability of this amendment, as it is well known to be directed straight at the South Carolina interests in the bill. Senator Butler states that he proposed the amend ment in good faith to protect the citizens of his State, who are directly interested in the passage of this bill. Without his I amendment he claims that at least one third of South Carolina's interest, amounting to about $90,000 or more, will be paid over to Messrs. Earle and Trescott, attorneys, acting for the Stato, under a contract made with the Gov ernor. He says he does not object to these gentlemen receiving a reasonable fee for such services as they may have rendered in lobbying this matter before Congress, but he will continue to protest against their stepping in and capturing such a large proportion of the entire amount. In his opinion the whole sum should be paid over to the State author ities, and the claimants permitted to have a voice in saying what they consid er a reasonable fee to be paid over to the attorneys. SENATOR BUTLER DETERMINED. He says there are members of the House who have examined his amend ment and they will endeavor to have it retained in the bill. Should it be strick en out he will endeavor to have it re newed when the bill comes back to the Senate. Should the bill finally become a law without it, and the State authori ties decide to pay over to Messrs. Earle and Trescott the amount they claim, it will cause one of the biggest scandals ever heard of in the State. It will be ventilated in Congress and out of it, and South Carolina will find its direct tax money a curse in instead of an intended blessing. SENATOR HAMPTON ON THE OTER SIDE. Senator Hampton differs with his col league on this question, and declares that he would have opposed the Butler amendment had he been in the Senate chamber when it was introduced. WHAT MR. DIBBLE SAYS. Mr. Dibble, when asked how he re gards the Butler amendment, replied that he was opposed to it. A member of the House judiciary committee stated to Mr. Dibble "that the sub-committee recommends that the amendment be stricken out, under the supposition that contracts had been made with reference to the State of South Carolina to look up matters, and under the supposition that it would be unjust and inequitable if they were prevented from receiving ompensation for their services under those coutracts. The bill as it passed the Senate would compel the State either to repudiate that contract or to pay for those services out of its general fund, and so the sub-committec proposed to strike out that feature and leave any such contract standing." Mr. Dibble said that the action of the sub-committee was in accord with his vews. MRt. ELLIoTT NOT PARTICU7LARI. Mr. Elliott, who was also present, was asked what he thought about the Senate amendment in relation to the payment of agents' and attorneys. He replied that he was not particular about the matter. MR. HEMPHIILL CAUTIOUS. Mr. Hemphill says he does not care to become mixed up in this matter, but de sires that the people's interests shall be looed after first, and the attorneys can Iget their fees afterward. He says further that the State .ofiicers should be able to adjust tlhe matter amicably, and he would dislike to see the bill jeopardized by an unseemly contest over the distribiution of the funds. Ex-GovERtNoR THOMPSON's POSITION.. Governor Thompson, who was the State Executive when the contract with Messrs. Earle and Trescott was made, states that at the time when the contract was entered into there seemed to be but little, if any, hope that Congress would ever take favorable action in this matter. It was generally conceded that the task of bringing the settlement of these claims was a hopeless one, and therefore the contract was made on the same principle that one would buy a ticket in the lot tery-little to lose and all to gain. THE TREASURY vIEw. Judge Durham, the first comptroller of the tr usury, says his attention has been directed to this matter, and he holds that the entire amount must be paid over to the Governors of the States, and they will have the power to settle with the various claimants. He ref erred to the latest circular of Secretary Fair child, setting forth the regulations gov ~rning attorneys and agents practicing before the treasury department. ilurted in Ierr Bridal Robe. 31iss Annie Utser,. daug~hter of the late W. M1 Ursey, Jr., w ho lived near Gcorge's, .. C., was fatally burned on Friday last. tIer clothiog caught. from an open lzre when she was alone- in the hIouse. and~ she rushed out and ran for a hundred yards, tr ig to tear off her garments, but they w :e entirelv consuamed before assistance r.~eed her. W .e -:alked back to the house without fabinug. She died on Satur day, retaining her cousciousness~ to theL lst. She was to have been ma~rried this week, and was buried in her bridal dress. Her betrothed ieached her before she died. "Death loves a shining mark." So doci calumny. AFTER PERKINS'S MONEY. The New York Sharper Sues for his Victim's Four Hundred Dollars. (From the New York World, Feb-uary 7) Papers were served on John S. Har riott, the property clerk of the police department, yesterday in a suit brought by William Rogers, the "green goods" man who so successfully swindled Asbury H. Pe:kins, the South Carolina planter, deacon and county commissioner, to re cover from the property clerk the pro ceeds of that swindle and $100 damages besides. Perkins, it will be remembered, came to this city from his home in Lancaster on January 24, with the intention of purchasing $10,000 worth of counterfeit money. He was walking down Broad way with Rogers when Detectives Mc .Qloskey and Mulholland caught sight of the pair and tracke thein ~to Earle's Hotel, where they separated. Next morning Rogers returned to the hotel and the bargain was closed. Just as the pair were leaving, Perkins with his bag of "green goods" and Rogers with the $400 which the rustic had paid for them, the detectives pounced upon them and took them before Inspector Byrnes, who, on opening the satchel, found 835 in good bills and four wads of beautiful light-green book paper. When Mr. Perkins saw that he had been sold he was indignant, and became more so when he was locked up as a witness against Rogers. The following morning the pair were taken to the Tombs, where Perkins made a complaint. Howe & Hummel appeared for Rogers, and after one ad. journment the case was dismissed, and the gray-haired rascal, who had traveled all the way from South Carolina to pro cure the means of swindling his con fiding neighbors, was given a scathing lecture on the evil of his ways by the presiding Justice. When Rogers was arrested he had $745 in his possession, and upon his be ing discharged $345 was returned to him and the Police Justice instructed the property clerk to take charge of the $400 which Farmer Perkins had paid him. Perkins's lawyer made several in effectual attempts to regain possession of it, and finally Farmer Perkins grew weary and left for home without the capital with -which he had intended em barking in the business of passing coun terfeit money. It is to recover this, together with $100 which he claims as damages caused by Mr. Harriott's withholding the money, that Rogers brings suit. Clerk Herriott has turned the papers over to the police commissioners, who will hand them to Corporation Counsel Beekman. He will make Deacon Per kins a party to the suit in order to prove who is the rightful owner. Thus the legal status of "green goods" transac tions may be passed upon by the higher Courts. Mr. Harriott says that if the trade was a legitimate one Rogers is entitled to the $400, but as Deacon Perkins paid $400 for $10,000 in counterfeit bills and only received Q35 in cash and the bundles of paper, he claims that Perkins is entltled to $355. Mr. Harriott adds, with much feeling: "It has been the general belief that the countryman who surrenders good money for packages of worthless paper is the only sufferer in the transaction. This is a mistake, as this novel suit shows that I also am a sufferer." A RAIN OF STONE. Caldwell's Haunted House--A Strange Phenomenon. (From the Heikory, N. C., clipper.) For some weeks past rumors of -a haunted house in Caldwell county, some eight miles from this place, have been common on the streets. Our reporter meeting Mr. T. C. Martin, of that neigh borhood gathers the following state ments: The family of M. L. Holler, consist ing of wife and lit:le girl about 10 years of age, who lived in a house about one quarter of a mile from Mr. Martin's were frightened a month or two ago by the falling of stones upon the floor of their room. The stones, ranging in weight from one to ten pounds would apparent ly fall 'as from or through the roof of the floor, or come bounding from or through Ithe wall and fall heavily upon the floor. It was observed that no dent was made Iupon the floor by the falling stones, Ithough the noise with which they would strike the floor would indicate that they had fallen with full force from the roof. Th eotof this strange occurrence wentoutanda great many of the neigh bor went in to see and did witness the falling of the stones. The family be coming alarmed left the house and Imoved in with the family of T. C. Mar' tin, the father of Mrs. Holler, and sup posed they would leave the "hants" or witches behind, bat, not so, as soon as they went to their new home the atones began falling in this house. This fright ened the mother-in-law, who stood it a few week-, and the family again remov d, this time about three-quarters of a mile, and before they were fully settled in their new quarters the falling ttones also appeared. It was observed that the !stones fell only about and where the lit tle girl of ten years of age might be. 1f Ithey carried her to the old house, where te family first lived, the stones would fall. Ina addition to the falling stones, a common block tin wash basin, which sets upon a shelf inside the room, will no frequently begin to move, as if im nee bysoenvisible agency, and will leave the shelf spinning rouud as it g os and falls on the floor, generally near the little girl. On one occasion, hard and dry bread came falling at her feet. Many people have gone in and witnessed these strange things, but can not account for them. Mr. Martin our informant is well known in our town, 1and is said to be a man of veracity, and 1refers to many of the leading citizens oi the neighborhood who have seen and wit ness as mauch as has. He says he is pre pared to make oath that he has seen everything above related. Have we little North Carolina child with a powei' as mysterious as the famous Lulu Hurst We turn the case over to the scientisti with a request that they investigate. Prof. Proctor, speaking of the possibilit: <f human beings flying, says: "The grea Iificulty which man has first to overcom' is that of maintaining his balance." Doe no t the Professor know that the difficult: of maintaining his balance has caused mori tb an ne man to fly-to Canada? TALMAGE ON QUEENS. HE PUTS THE CORONET ON THE HEAD OF THE S,:OOL TEACiIE!. A Glowing Tribute to Woman's Work it the school and in the Church--'1ie In justice of the Law--Ai A ppeal for Just ice. "Among the queens whom I honor are the female day-school teachers of this land," said Rev. Dr. Talmage Sur day morning in the course of his fifth sermon to the women of i mcrica. "I. put upon their brow the coronet. They are the sisters and the daughters of our towns and cities, selected out of a vast number of applicants because of their especial fitness and moral endowments. There are in none of your homes women more worthy. These persons, some of them come out from affluent homes, choosing teaching as a useful profession; others go to teaching to lighten the load of their parents. But I tell you the history of the majority of the female teachers in the public schools when I say: 'Father is dead.' After the estate was settled, the family that were com fortable before were thrown on their own resources." The Tabernacle was crowded and many could not gain entrance. The subject of the sermon was "The Veil of Modesty." "It is hard for men to earn a living in this day," continued the preacher, "but it is harder for women-their health not so rugged, their arms not so strong, their opportunities fewer. These persous, after tremblingly going through the ordeal of an examination as to their qualifications to teach, half bewildered step over the sill of the public school to do two things-instruct the young and earn their own bread. Her work is wearing to the last degree. The man agement of forty or fifty fidgety and in tractable children, the suppression of their vices and the development of their excellencies, the management of rewards and punishments, the sending of so many bars of soap and finetooth combs on benignant ministry, the breaking of so many wild colts for the harness of life, sends her home at night weak, neuralgic, unstrung, so that of all the weary people in your cities for five nights of the week there are none more weary than the public school teachers. Now, for God's sake, give them a fair chance. Throw no obstacles in the way. If they come out ahead in the race cheer them. If you want to smite any, smite the male teachers; they can take up the cudgels for themselves. But keep your hands off of defenseless women. Father may be dead, but there are enough brothers left to demand and see that they get justice. "Within a stone's throw of this build ing there died years ago one of the principals of our public schools. She had been twenty-five years at that post. She had left the touch of refinement on a multitude of the young. She had, out of her slender purse, given literally thousands of dollars for the destitute who came under her observation as school teacher. A deceased sister's children were thrown upon her hands, and she took care of them. She was a kind mother to them, while she mother ed a whole school. Worn out with nursing in the sick and dying room of one of the household, she herself came to die. She closed the school book and at the saie time the volume of her Christian fidelity; and when si-e went through the gates they cried, 'These are they who came out of great tribulation, and had their robes washed and made white in the blod of the Lamb.' "Oh, the (pportunity which every woman has of being a queen! The longer I live &hc more I admire good womanhood. And I have come to form myopnon of the character of a man by his apprecition or non-appreciation of woman. If a man has a depressed idea of womanly character he is a bad man, and there is no exception to the rule. The writings of Goethe can never have any such attractions for me as Shake speare, because nearly all the womanly characters of the, great German have some kind of turpitude. There is sel dom a womanly character in all his voluminous writings that would be worthy of residence in a respectable coal cellar, yet pictared and dramatized and emblazoned till all the literary world is compelled to see. No! no! Give me William Shakespeare's idea of woman, and I see it in Desdemona, and Cordelia, and Rosalind, and Imogen, and Helena, and Hermione, and Viola, and Isabella, and Sylvia, and Perdita-all of them with enough faults to prove them human, bt enough kindly characteristics to give us the author's.idea of womanhood-his Lady Macbeth only a dark background to bring out the supreme loveliness of his other female characters. "Oh, women of America, rise to your opportunity! Be no slave to pride or worldliness or sin. Why ever crawl in the dust when you can mount a throne? Be queens unto God forever. "When I see a woman going about her daily duty, with cheerful dignity presiding at the table; with kind and gentle, but firm, discipline presiding in the nursery, going out into the world without any blast of trumpet, following in the footsteps of Him who went about doing good, 1 say: 'This is Vashti with a veil on.' But when I see a woman of unblushing boldness, loud-voiced, with a tongue of intinite clitter clatter, with arrogant look, passing through the streets with a masculine swing, gayly arrayed ina a perfect hurricane of milli nery, I cry out: 'Vashti has lost her "When I see a woman struggling for political preferment, and rejecting the duties of home as insignificant, and thinking the ofices of wife, mother and daughter of no importance, and trying to force her way on up into conspicuity, I say: 'Ah, what a pity; Vashti has lost her veil.' When I see a woman of comely features, and of adroitness of intellect, and endowed with all that the schools can do for one, and of high social posi tion, yet moving in society with super ciliousness and hauteur, as though she would have people know their place, and an undefined combination of giggle and strut, and rodomontade, endowed with allopathic quantities of talk but ol homeopatii infinitesmials of sense, tne terror of ary goons cierxs ana rau road conductors, discoverers of signifi cant meanings in plain conversation. prodigies of badinage and inuendo, I say: 'Vashti has lost her veil.' "But do not misinterpret what I say into a depreciation of the work of those glorious and divinely called women, who will not be understood till after they are dead, women like Susan B. Anthony, who are giving their life for the better ment of the condition of their sex. Those of you who think that women have, un der the laws of this country, an equal chance with men, are ignorant of the laws. A gentleman writes me from Maryland, saying: 'Take the laws of this State. A man and wife start out in life full of hope in every respect; by their joint efforts, and as is frequently the case, through the economic ideas of the wife, succeed in accumulating a fortune, but they have no children; they reach old age together, and then the husband dies. What does the law of this State do then? It says to the widow, hands off your late husband's property, do not touch it, the State wil find others to whom it wil give that; but you, the widow, must not touch it, only so much as will keep life within your aged body, that you may live to see those others enjoy what rightfully should be your own.' And the State seeks the relatives of the deceased husband, whether they be near or far, whether they were ever heard of before or not, and transfers to them, singly or collectively, the estate of the deceased husband and living widow. "Now, that is a specimen of unjust laws in all the States concerningwoman hood. Instead of flying off to the dis cussion as to whether or not the giving of the right of voting to woman will cor rect these laws, let me say to men, be gallant enough, and fair enough, and honest enough, and righteous enough, and God-loving enough to correct these wrongs against women by your own masculine vote. Do not wait for woman suffrage to come, if it ever does come, but so far as you can touch ballot-boxes and Legislatures and Congresses begin the reformation. 'But until justice is done to your sex by the laws of all the States, women of America take the plat forms and the pulpits, and no honorable man will charge Veaehti with having lost her veil." TRYING TO STOP IT. The Dehorning of Cettle in the Ranches of the West. (From the Milwaukee Fentinel.). Superintendent Whitehead, of the Humane Society, is seeking an cfficient method of stopping the cruel dehorning of cattle, a custom which is growing in tiis State. "The professed object of this amputa tion is to prevent cattle from inflicting injuries with their horns, but any one who cannot protect himself against a cow or even a bull without resorting to surgery is apt to be a poor sort of a stock-raiser," said Mr. Whitehead. "And, as for that, I have never known more pugnacious animals than 'mooly' bulls. The fact, I believe, is that the greedy cattleman is counting solely on the square feet of room he will save by avoiding roping his stock." The operation is performed with an ordinary saw. Cut through the quick pith, the animal's head bleeds profusely for days, and the pain trust be intense. "It is a cruel attempt to convert a herd of cattle into a flock of sheep." continued Mr. Whitehead. "The origin of the custom in Wisconsin and Illinois was the prosecution of a man, Hoff by name, I think, in Genesee, Ill., by the Humane Society, of that State, three years ago last summer. One of the society's agents had his attention drawn to this solitary case of dehorning, and went to the spot to investigate. Hf s.iowed him his cattle, enlarged upon the advantages of the operation and treated the inquirer with some consider ation until he learned his business, when he summarily eje tted him from the premises. Viith no revengeful feeling whatever, I am convinced, the agent laid the case before the society, and the man was prosecuted. Hoff came to Chicago three times to have the case postponed, the last time on the ground that his wife was dangerously ill. It was afterward ascertained that his wife, on the day re ferred to, had driven him herself to the station. -Meantime he had been in ducing one farmer after another to try dehorning, and at last implicated so many, that an impartial jury could not be impanelled, and the society lost the case. Since that time the barbarous custom has extended to Wisconsin, and is, I believe, largely practiced. The. royal veterinary college of Scotland has condemned the practice in the strongest language, and we have written for furth er information on the subject. Our course of action in the matter will large ly depend on the reply to our inquiry." A Delicious Dish. Gen. E. P. Alexander, president of the Georgia Central Railroad, tells the Atlanta Constitution that the most de licious dish for lunch can be prepared as follows: Take a nice fresh shad and cut it up as if to fry it, put into an earthen jar, pack closely with sufficient salt and allspice to season to taste, and then pour over it vinegar enough to cover contents of jar. Set the jar in a pot of water, so as to be submerged to within an inch of. the top, and boil until the vinegar in the jar comes to a boil. Cook slowly. The shad absorbs the vinegar gradually, and it dissolves all the bones in the fish. It makes a delightful dish for a lunch, and it is to be eaten cold. Will keep for two weeks. PiANOS AaD OlIGANS. We are prepared to sll Pianos and Organs of the best make at factory prices for Cash or easy Instalments. Pianos from $210 up; Organs from $24 up. The verdict of the people is that they can save the freight and twenty-five per cent. by buying of us. Instruments delivered to any depot on fifteen days' trial. We pay freight both ways if not satisfactory. Order and test in your own homes. Respectfully, N. W. TRUMP, * Columbia, S. C. From a pretty woman's album: "A stupid fellow compliments a woman on her pretty teeth, but a clever one makes her ah."