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BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1884,
Bereft.
Touch with thy vlrfln Up these flowers; then
twlae
Then In thjr hair aad lay them oa thy.
brtsit.
amonp them thou wilt weave thk heart of
mine.
the
her
And near thine own it lovinflr may reel.
•hall her
Thus, for an hear, my bliss shall be supremet
And, dreaming la tby smile, 1 may forte*
That as these flowers fade to ends my drsam.
Bo fades my hope, and thou hast ao regret-*
Y» blossoms pure! return her stainless hiss;
Your fragrant breath give to her sweeter
Her haughty soul entrance till radiant biles
aghtj
Kevesls*tba love-look In her joyful ays
■ »d
O cruel maid I cold art thou as one dead
Witb whom my love eternal Hath urned.
Tbou vanished start whoso light my spirit
led. . .
But not a spark ef all Its warmth returned.
Borne day. peioltsu;oc. In dreamt thou wilt raJ
cs<l I
A tweet remembrance ef my lore and we,
And any, “1 waa bis quaes aad hi mj t brail, I ..
My knightly lover in the long ego.
These parting flowers—then but a faded 1
wreath—
The emblem of my withered heart will bey
Their icrfume sad Its passion lost In dsath.
Gone liks the vision* I have dreamed of
thee.
FOB H18 COUNTRY.
They woa4eru«l. in that qniet
nr village,
could ipava hid i
countr
quiet little
how Edward Dorranoo
family and ge straight
forward hhto the midst of deadlv bat
tle, aad they wondered how Rachel
could Wt him go.
Edward waa twenty-eight years of
age; a strong, healthy, intolligeat,
baadeome man; a hatter by trade, with
aid ad y work, and sure of good wages.
Hia wife, Rschel, was two years
younger; and everything as a woman
that her husband waa as a man.
Before her marriage she had haen
the life of the social circle ia whieh
•he moved; no gathering for haalthful
amusement could be thought perfect
that had not her for one of its directors.
And their marriage did not remove
them from society.
Of course, they found not so much
time to devote to lighter affaira; but
the more weighty affaire—especially
everything that had to do with the re
ligious society witb which they wor
shipped—never suffered because of
their absence.
Their union had been blessed with
two children—a boy and a girl—Eddie,
aged five, and little Ella, aged throe-
two beautiful, bright-faced, golden-
haired, laughter-loving children, be
loved by alL
The war had been going on a year
when Edward Dorrance had fully coma
to tho conclusion that be ought to go,
He was a man of deep and strong con-
victiona, and when his mind had beea
once made up, nothing less than a
stroke of Providence could turn him
from it
‘'Rachel," he aaid to his wife, as
they eat aloae late in the evening
“snppoee I should live to be an old
When the news
ehel oould find Bo
obtained tho paper
account
At Ike end of six
came from her hi
croud and
"My darling;'' 1 he wrMa,
Joy. And yet, alaa! how many others
must find Misery inMeed of joy. • I
hare been promoted aguin. I am now
colonel of my regimaefl, and it ia one
of the very beet m the army. Aad I
am proud to know th flhl have the credit
ef having done much foWardi bringing
II to ita present high standard of ex
cellence. Colonel Tflfiey -died last
week In hoepltal at Harrisburg. Oh,
how f pity his famllyl*'
The dsyt and the ‘weeks pussed on'
into hise»rr, as hefora, uetU at length
yak quaked with rumors ed a
battle more terrible to its results of
mortality than any Which had preoedsd
Rachel heard the ruvrs In the air,
as she sat In bar quiet little drawing
room, but she did not, as before, hasten
away for th# paper. Something whis
pered to her of dark and dismal fore
bodings. She felt as she had never
felt before.
Heretofore she had beea eager to as
sure herself of her hatband's safety,
but now the feellag earn* to her that
■be did not dare to knim.
But little Eddie wan moved by no
such dark foreboding. ‘
When he heard tbeaf talking of a
gnat hauls, la which be knew his papa
must have taken a part, he ran away
to the post-office where there was a
stand for the sale of papers and per
iodicals, and he got a paper, telling
the man. “Mamwis will pay you for it."
And away ha went to his home.
"Mamma! Mammal Another big bat-
in her music pupils, Rachel had found
it lor her interest to employ a sc
employ a servant;
aad that servant answered the sum-
mean at the door; and presently she
name in and reported that a soldier, s
negro, was at tne door asking for food,
asm for shelter, aad rest for the night
Be had beea told, he said, that he
would be anre to find It at the homo of
the widow of hia old oolonel
"What!—a man of Edward’s regi-
mentf"
"So be says.”
‘Then bring him in. No—I will go
myself.” And she took tho lamp and
went into the front hall, whpre the ap
plicant stood. He was a colored man
—uttarly black—habited in a soldier’s
garb, appeared neat and clean, and of
pleasant, honest dotfntfcnance. 7 ~ ^ T r
Something in his look appealed to
her woman’s sympathy, and captured
her atoeee.
She led him late Hie room where
Ihey had been sitting, and motioned
him to a east Hia head was of goodly
shape, though covered by a thick mat
of oloae-eurllng wool, while his face,
by far the greater part of it—was like
wise ornamented.
She had never teen a woolly beard so
thick and so heavy.
"Ah.” he said, slowly shaking his
head, "dey tole me ’f I could find m&s’r
colonel’s widder I’d find friends, suah.
Yaas’m I wer’ de colonel’s cook.
Didn’t he obber write to yer ’bout old
Pompeyf Oh,
when he fell!"
Rachel wiped her eyes and presently
asked the poor man if he was hungry.
He answered her that he could not tell
how hungry he really waa; whereu
A Crushed Pudet
It was on a Cohey Island boat. Ihn
crowd on the steamer would sbod on
lost amid the wild dissipations of West
Brighton. The stately elephant wan
already visible. Wild straina af al
leged mnsio smote the ears of tha sus
ceptible passengers as a dim forealud-
awing of the pleasures to oome. Among
the passengers was a faint yonng doda
with an imperceptible outline and a
still more imperceptible moustache,
and a marvelous collar, beneath which
he seemed to be constantly sinking.
He polled himself up from Its depths,
however, and resened himself from ex
termination.
He had been discussing a soft-shell
crab W being i d Wt ’particularly ajpdrd- ’
priate to bia tender being. A atow
still lingered on his plate, and ha waa
toying with hia fork in a
ferent manner, when a syl
an, wonderonaly olad
robes, flitted before him
him to remain, with the
,Ji*»der, wt,.
Whan you fret]
'WMi
you not to
that mudo U i
jam
and
crab’s
poised between his taper fingers.
produced upo
was the impression prod
ils
elaw
Such
upon the
dude by this apparition that ho allow
ed the claw to fall re&l-haavy-don’t-ye-
know on the plate, while lie himself
torned to the individual behind the
counter.
“Deuced pwetty girl," he llaped, his
voice sounding like the summer wind
amongjhe trees; “dayvillish pwetty
my man? I’11 give
topeou
iteto
tha
we lost a good man j girl. Who is she, my
you a nickle if you tell me. ’Pou me
word, I will, and the expense."
The individual addressed, however,
with a remarkable disregard for busi-
doclineu somewhat in
now nungry ne reauy waa; whereupon , ness enterprise, declined somewhat In-
sho got op and went out into the kit- dignantly to bo interviewed, leaving
chen; and as she opened the door lead- the dude to depart. That parody on
tie. Read to us abauLpapa.’
With tremMtog hands, she took tha
sheet, and opened it
She saw the wilderness of flaming
head lines, and she altoWed her eyas to
follow them down.
A few seconds, aad than, witb a low
stifled cry. and a catching of her hand
over her heart, she tot the paper fall
and sank senseless npoa the floor.
Eddie caught up the sheet, and
looked where his mother’s ays had
rested. Ha had learned to read easy
words, aad those bold head-lines he
oould make oat every one. Presently,
two-thirds af the way down, ha found
it
“Colonel Edward Dorrance among
tha killed.”
man, what shall I tall my children.
story of a battle? If I should tall
them that I stayed at home, while
others did the fighting, what should I
give as my reason? Ah, they would
not ask. They would shriuk away,
shamefaced and pitiful; and I can fancy
their saying to themselves: “Poor
f randpa! I won't ask him what made
im afraid.’ Darling, think how I
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Thousands of dote ns Ladir*’
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The South Carolina Seamless Hosiery, in Men’s Half Hose, New Fall Mix
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iar
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No trouble to show
v goods.
St., Awgwate, Ca.
CUYILASS IS AHEAD II FOLITCS,
-BUT WE LEAD IN-
'OUR MOTTO, like bis. is “Reform”—Old High Prices mast get out of the
-wav and give wav to the New Low Prices. We bay for Cash, hence are able to
rget'the Bottom, as our Prices will prove. Read and wonder.
SOLID WALNUT MARBLE TOP SUITES, WITH TOILET
WASHSTAND, TEN PIECES, FOR FIFTY DOLLARS.
This is what Cash docs. We have Suites from this flip to $800. We are now
fitting on two Hotels, who bought as cheap from as as they could bay from
the factories, and a little cheaper. We defy all competition
Or All goods packed and shipped free of charge.
Call
bnv
ana i
see as.
have talked during the past yoar; how
I have nrgod others to enlist; and how
I have proclaimed the eacredness of
our cauae. And now, my precious, 1
am offered a company, it 1 will ga
Charles Weston, and George Ambroee,
and Walter Jacob* are going—all mar
ried. and two of them lav* children.
Rachel, what eay yon?"
•■First, Edward, tall me yonr own
deepest wish.”
“Can you seriously aakP I think I
should never hold np my head again if
I should hold back.”
Rachel swallowed the big Inmp in
her fhroat; she kept beck the naiag
tears, and finally, with her arms
around his neek, and her head pillowed
npoa hie bosom, she hoarsely whis
pered;
"Darling, I will not be a coward.
Go, and may the God of battles ba
merciful”
In Just on* week from that time Ed
ward Dorrance was in full uniform,
with his captain's commission In his
pocket
People gaxed in surprise. It seemed
to them strange and unnatural He
was so necessary to tha life of tha vil
lage, and his little family was such s
picture of comfort and happiness
What need was there? There wer*
enough without him. How oould Racbdl
endure it?
How they pitied her! how they pitied
her! But he was going, and Rachel
smiled when she last held his hand and
eheerily bade him Godspeed.
They saw all that, bat they did not
see her afterwards, alone to tiM cham
ber, upon her bended koeaa by ner bed
side, sobbing and praying, and weep
ing, as though her heart was breaking.
Ah, they would have pitied her then
had they seen, and they would have
pitied with cause.
Bat she rose bravely after a time,
and when the first ordeal was passed
■he resumed her household dntiea, and
■ought relief from painful thought by
mingling in society, and giving her aid
wherever it oould be of benefit as of
old.
At length came word of a battle to
which she knew her husband's regi
ment was engaged. She hastened tor
tne newspaper, eager for the true in
telligcnoe. That narm had befallen
Edward did not enter her mind.
She found the paper and carried it
home. Little Eddie was old enough to
understand and possessed understand
ing enough to be anxious for news of
papa.
"Oh, Eddie! Eddie! Papa is a
t >rl There has been n great battle.
laten: ‘Captain Edward Dorrance, by
his own personal bravery, and marvel
lous daring, saved Hnngerman’s Divi
sion from rent, and so, in fact, saved
the day for ns.’ And bar* is tha leaf
Una: ‘He was made a major on tha
field.’ Alas! bow many brave man
toll” ' ■
"Bat papa ia safe?”
"Yea, papa ia safe.”
‘Oh, lam so glad! Da
‘Colonel
killed.”
For days aad weeks Rachel Dorrance
lay havering between life and death.
Bat far bar children, aha would here
given an and pasted ever to Join bar
Easbana; but th* thought of her little
left all aloae to ball is tor their
weak young liras turned th* scale, and
■he lived.
Whan the warm ■nrtoMhB*Awl rfil
trees near her door, her ayes brighten
ed. her face took on soss*thing of its
eld color, and she want one* more
about the duties of a mother.
Bat she waa broken to spirit; marks
of age had oome upon her lovely face,
and th* am lies war* gone to return no
more—so she felt la Ear heart of hearts.
She had thought at first that she
should aarar care more for Ufe, bat as
time passed on, and the first terrible
agony gave place to settled melancholy,
and that, ia tarn, to true Christian res
ignation, based upon Christian faith
and promise -after this, she entered
society one* more, giving herself, with
every energy of body and spirit, to tha
work of earing for other widows and
mors unfortunate than her-
f, for her hatband had owned tha
at pretty cottage la which they had
lived, beside* nearly two seres of land
around it, and Edward had lati nearly
five hundred pounds in tha bank whan
ha want away.
Nor was this all She had not a par
ticle of trouble in obtaining a generous
i to ^Mch
ing to the hall, the old dog, Princo. a
beautiful Englith tpaniel which Ed
ward Dorrance had purchased at a pup
when hia ton was born, eight years be
fore, came bounding into the room.
He saw tho negro soldier, gave a sharp
snapping yelp, and Eddie called to him
to “lie down."
Bat the dog did not obey. He drew
nearer to the stranger, and presently
with a cry that was almost human—a
cry of Joy and jubilation—a cry not to be
mistaken—he leaped upon the man,
fairly clasping his forelegs or arms
round his neck, lapping, and kissing,
and panting and struggling to get
nearer and nearer, like one possessed.
Eddie stamped his foot and shouted
with a vigor of authority that ought to
have quieted the brute at once; little
Ella cried with a terrible fear that old
Prince would eat the poor black man
up; while Rachel having heard the
frightful racket, had come in from the
kitchen to see what In the world the
matter could be. She knew that old
Prince was a fastidious dog, and per
haps he was trying to eject the dark-
skinned invader.
depart. That pflrody
youth roamed about the lower deck for
fully thirty seconda, when he espied
tho object of his search seated with an--
other girl just before him.
"Ha! ha!" said he, "here’a look,"
and drawing a stool close to tha femi
nine couple ho bestowed his imperoep-
tible outside upon it and oast lan
guishing glances at the object of his
particular admiration. His glee reach
ed & climax when the maiden smiled
•eraphically upou him. It was nd
i timid smile, but an open, undeniable
salutation. She was evidently pleased
to see him, and his soul rejoiced with^
in him.
“Off to Coney, alone?" he said, with
an ere to business.
i “Yes, sir," said the damsel with a
bewitching laugh. “No one will ran
away with me, I hope."
The dude looked as though he would
have liked to soar far above terree
tial nuisances. Coney Island elephants^
and such vanities, with the yonng girl
but he restrained his ardor and only
sighed, omitting a sound like tho hav
ing of insects among the marshes,
i think 1 have seen you
wandered on
imagination the
dear old mother, was
her accustomed place
if bar life depended a
heel” of that stockl
Father waa reading
Just as I ha'
times. My
all there as nsnal nod tha sal
and paired batore-tim tore *1
branches, aad tha bosk law at h
hot aim rolled from ita Blade tad
tared ambare hare aad ttMnt
seen It do ovi
■boats of th*
oat, the harry of
glowin
U - J
DCIOrt
of unsightly
th* activity af
progress of tk*
th* overturning
smoke aad all the
oitemant aad effort la
ware as I had
■-&S
was aot there to help, and
omabl* longfeg to gn and
to tha dear old aaanaa aan
What would I have gtoan ~feu tito
poor privllaga af bornlM mgr Anfftotlt
a futile effort to sat apthaMtoS **•
dogs? "—■ * ‘ ™«i
Bow Ii
I
danced tor Jay oven to bone m
from hrmthing tk* swahsf f|
have bean onto second to kato
have had m elker Mnd np mm MBflNtiA
her anxlely In And e«$ wMNr I wnfl
shamming. Btonoi Ihtoftototo total
■‘-■fr** —wm> 0*»4m.
■j
■-?
< r
oh aha as-
pension; in addition
tablished herself as a teacher of mnsio,
whence, in th* coarse of a few months.
lOrseU
BOWLES & CO.,
avovsta,
she derived enough to support
and children; so that when, as tha
rslne of real estate neatly Increased
in the village, a wealthy man offered
her a large sum for a portlet of her
land, the weald net sail She had no
need of tha money, and siaoe her son’s
father had left it, to that son should It
descend intact when she had done with
It
Many of the soldiers—both officers
and privates—of her hasband’a regi
ment called upon her; and they never
tired of sounding his praises. The ad
jutant of the regiment—he who waa
Adjutant at the time of tha battle—
called, and gar* her more particulars
than she had before rooaivad; for ho
had been with the advancing column,
and close by his colonel’s sink
Said he:
"We should hare had th* body em
balmed aad sent home, had the thing
been poaaiM*; bat he was killed by the
bursting of a shall—one of tha largest
aad most destructive shells I ever saw.
We were hand-to-hand with the enemy
at the time, and I am vary sore that
the same missile that killed th* oolonel
killed more than on# of their own num
ber. He was Bat I will not tell
you any more.
"Yes, yes—tell me all I would
rather know. I have wondered why
his body oould not have been embalmed
and tent home to me."
And then he told her that the shell
had literally torn her husband to pieces.
They could only gather up the poor
mangled mas* and consign it to a grave
by itself, which they nad carefully
marked.
The days and the weeks and tho
months paaaad on, until three years
had gone siaoe that dreadful day on
which her hatband bad fallen on the
field of battle, and Rachel sat to her
little parlor, with her children by her
side, reading to them the glorious new
of the closing of the waa.
Eddie had now grown w* 1
e bnst boy of #ip K “ ***'
la had v*n»,-
happened. The dog. in hit frantic ef
forts to get at tho face of the strange
guest, had got his paws entangled in
the matted wool and presently—lo and
behold!—tho whole woolly moss—from
bead, cheeks, and lips—camo sway,
leaving oxpoeod to view a wealth of
golden-brown, curling, glossy locks;
cheeks white and smooth, with only a
neatly-trimmed, handsome moustache
upon the upper lip; and tho first tiling
she heard was a startling cry from Ed
die:
"Oh, papa, paps, papa! You aro my
paps! You are! you are!’’
And then Rachel saw a pair of strong
arms fly swiftly around her boy; saw
him dragn dose upon tho soldier’s
bosom, and heard smothered sound^ of
kissing and blessing.
The next few minutes we will leave
to the reader’s imagination. It .was
Edward Dorrance, in his own proper
person, alive and well.
“Pardon me, darling,” he said, after
he bad washed hia face—a face as fair
and as handsome as ever—Rachel
thought it a thousand time handsomer
—"pardon me. I did not assume this
disguise in sport—far from it. I shrank
from the wild turmoil and uncomfort-
abh> interruptions that would inevit
ably result from my sudden and un
heralded appearance among old friends,
after having been thought dead so long.
"Furthermore, I hade misty idea of
allowing tho truth to break upon you
gradually; bat tho keen perceptions of
Old Prince dished that part of it. And
yet, my preciona, I do believe if 1 had
appeared at yonr door aa I am at this
moment, the shock would have beea
severe. The comical manner of my
revealment took away the shock, and
orm for a min ate or so.
"Yon have," waa the answer.
“Ah, you remember me, do you? O,
bliss." ecstaticaUv rejoined th* dud*.
“You bet Ido," was the answer.
! "Don’t you recollect it is 1 who bring
round your Sunday oollar and yonr
one pair of cuffs every Saturday morn
ing. And, sir, mother says she shan’t
allow you to have those articles next
week unless you pay her tha sight
cents you’ve been owing her for a fort
night.'’
There was silence, and the dnde fell
j back overwhelmed. The big elephant
was blurred from hia sight, aad the
gleaming houses ou the island lost
i their interest for him, and he sighed
j when at last he saw tha he artless dam
sel masticating a toothsome Frankfort
sausage between two crusty pieoes of
bread and taking her place on a mer-
ry-go-round.
whaa
wsir
to
y'pBlow was woi 1
ImmI imllrt fiff moMmt la \
ao Iwas
lady of tha kowa was kind few*
oftan whan aka feoad am waaptom
■trok *4 my hair ao Uka mj
ia vaaraagoM. Iw
1
Th* hoars
alas to stops* baton tha
soom ware hoars of
good-by* was said to my
toa hall t
Th*
hall tappad, aad I was an th* warn
Spaad was far too alow, aad I to-
t felt that 1 sauM ga tofltot M I
aflMUta!
The End of Two Monster Ships,
brought It to yon pleasantly.”
And Rachel a
agreed with him.
In telling the storr of that terrible
day, when it was believed that he had
been killed, he said that tome other
man, battered oat of all shape or rec
ognition by the bursting of a shell had
been mistaken for him.
He had on that occasion advanced a
considerable distance beyond tho spot
where the shell had exploded, suppos
ing that his men were behind him. He
Sf
upon their ranks witb irigl
effect, and so eager and determined
was he that he never thought of look
ing round until he was directly under
the muzzles of the enemy’s guns; then
he turned, and found not a man of his
regiment in sight.
He was captured and sent to the en
emy’s rear, and on the next morning,
with many others, he was lent away
to a dismal prison, where he had been
kept through the long and weary
months and years that had since passed
He bad written several letters,
had
For a few days there will ba soom
life and activity in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, for a large number of workman
have already been engaged to destroy
two balks known at tha Colossus
and Java. For the past twenty years
these two uncompleted vessels hare
never been moved from the ways on
which they were originally bailt, sad
the very timbers on which they Ue are
almost rotten from long exposure. Th*
Java and Colossus have always attract
ed a great deal of stfontion from visit
ors, and from their battered appear
ance many people supposed that the
two ships must have been through
some frightful naval battles.
The Colossus was to be a double tnr-
retod monitor carrying four fifteen
inch guns. She was designed by Ben
jamin Delano, one of tho most skillful
naval constructors of his day. Two
millions and a half were to be expand
ed on her, but when tho war was more
advanced orders were received from
Washington to stop work on the Colos
sus. This was done, and many . man
in consequence thrown out of employ
oeeii
ment The ship’s engines had jostbeen
{ »ut in her, an
i
‘P
d she was all ready for
away
r-
but it was plainly to be seen they
been intercepted and destroyed.
aunching when the men ceased work,
and nothing has been done to bar from
that day to this.
“What about the Java?"
“The Java was designed for a fast
steam cruiser for the purpose of par-
suing such fast vessels as the Alabama
and others of her clast. She was to b*
capable of attaining a speed of seven
teen knots an hoar; in fact she might
have equaled the speed of the Arizona.
The Java was mainly built for speed,
and all her woodwork was of the best
white oak. She would have made
formidable mate to the Coloaans, aad
especially in those old war times th*
two vessels co tfcJl .t'
ware os foot
man began to sail oat the
tions that I knew, asy *
with every riatag hops
eostaey of joy. At
sounded aad tha bn
name of the
Tha train R
Tk* plattof i
What ehaag*
world? Th* ’
so high two
law; the boys
tha girls ware to
llttla sweetheart
dor, shy end
hardly apeak
tha same. F
■ore gray, th* ekfldrsa
“ ' toco* I
rdeaUad tk* aa*t»
I want away. Tk* Ai
and inactive, aad the Are
baQdiags I hi
jarej^retowh
£ wSretoUMt iS
to her. At hMMt H w>$
Father aa* i
president of
G P. Hantiagtoo,
rings ia tha Utwt a|
•treat ia wadloak, will
tog the
tempt tor a flrst-elaas
This will not' —
of tha
Alto
tracts, aad ha has I
his position
Sidney DUloo
Pacific) wa '
Central Pacific ■
ton was estimated at $lM
began poor, aad bow that ho la t
likes to talk shoot tha tire*
a month waa big w
splendid hottaa aw
whieh ho will bring
oloa* of thafr praaaai
gaa to advaae* tk* TAp ltoj
ding took plan* What aa
future happiness!
are
foot, he had been so in<
set free, for a is"
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