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W-- • . VOL. IX. ju; r BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1885. NO. 6. md V DC. I OUB oh for your w«Bltb bad wrought my A Candid OonftoMlon. Tou uk mo, Jorely Ethel, wby I care feir Youraelf, and why 1 long your baud to dtrn. You're vmr rich, you know, my dear, and therefore 1 lore you fondly far your wealth alone. I know that I thould fay It ia your beauty That o’er my doting heart a apell has thrown. But I am fraq|k; 1 Acm it Is my duty To say X lovo/you for your wealth alo ugbtto swear your eyes That loW was wakened by yasir rolce's tone. That but to gase upon your face was rapture; But no; I lore you for your wealth alone. Suppose I said I loved you for your manner, 1 love you fondly for your wealth alone. My constancy I claim is thns attested; Love baatd on beauty goes when youth has flown; But if your money Is but well Invested, I’ll love you always for your wealth alone. —Ham bier. A BPR1NO CLEANING. For a whole week Number two Bred- K r Vilas, Camberwell New Road, had on turned “upside down and inside out,” as poor Mr. Clayton declared, ‘till there was no raat for the aole of •ae’a loot,” and each morning as he started to catch his train at Kenning- ton Church with hit son, 'ho vowed that naver again would he undergo the agonies of “a spring clean.” But the afternoon of the last day at leagth ar rived, and Mrs. Clayton and Wini fred. her daughter, with their one aerraat, were busy as bees putting the finishing touches to the household ar rangements, though it must bo flnhk that Winnie, who had just tiaishodhag last term at hoarding-school, and who was not yet fairly domesticated, was a more ornamental than useful element. However, she had not been idle, and ytt last all was finished, and ratht^. tir ed and (lashed with tier exertions, Winnie went upstairs after a somewhat makeshift dinner with the best inten tions possible of clearing out the closet in her room. If it bad been a liuen-olosct, or a china-closet, or a preserve closet, or anything but the eluant It. was, tLcro i« ao telling wh&i Winnie night have ac complished. But those four rows of drosses, haaging smoethly dowu from their re spective pegs, proved fatal. They were dresses of her nnto-boarding- acheol period, and she had had hardly a glimpse of theit for two years or more. Trying them on came next, in the natnral course of affairs. it was an amusing process. They were woefully out of stylo, most of them bottooed behind, none of them reached bolow the tops of her shoes; but it was very absorbing, and she could hardly believe her ears when she heard kma mother calling to her up the stairs tweflflneigowQ to lea. She wtfl atra^ed at that moment in a white spotted muslin, which she re membered to have worn for the first time on her fourteenth birthday. It had a sash which tied in an impos ing bow behind; it had a row of white peari buttons down the back; and it was several inches shorter than—sup posing there had been anybody to ob serve— would have been strictly desir able. W'ibd ie giggled. A sudden idea had struck her. She pulled out bur hair pins hastily, braided her hair in a long tal, and tied it with a blue ribbon; •he had discovered a string of coral beads in her drawer—she had worn it at the ago of six—and put it on; and then she giggled again delightedly, and went downstairs, Her JiUie pfau was, to A Certain cx- teat, highly stiocfesio). Her father looked at her with exact ly the degree of bewilderment she had anticipated; hor mother set dowu the teapot and gazed at her in just the as tonished, hull-rvmooslraling way she had know n she would do; her brotitor George emitted the explosive chuckle she had expected. But there her tri- stflOfe ewtah . . For next b* own vacaut place, spreading his napkin across his knee, and regarding her calmly from a pair of handsome bine eyes, there sat a vouag man whom she had never seen before. Under ordinary circumstances Win nie would hare been rather gratified than otherwise at the unexpected ap pearance of a nice - looking young man. But now the blood nnhed to her face in torrents, her breath came in rasps; the light fairly danced before her eyes. Thre was nothing to be done. She was half-way across the room; they were all looking at her; the precipi tate flight which she had meditated for a wild moment was not id be thought of. She clutched a friendly chalf to steady herself, darted a fierce glance at George, who was stuffing his napkin into ilia mouth, and advanced aa mm* jeaticaUrofl her .limited skirts would allow. “My friend, Tom Bradley. You’ve heard me speak of him, Winnie. My ablet” laid George from behind his napkin. Mr. Bradley turned his blue eyes up- on the figure ak his side. ft had twieted its chair sway from him as fgr as possible; it was bending low over ita plate; it was evidently bashful. The young man smiled paternally. “Doyou go to schoolf" he began, in thepatronising tone JouDg meu as- ’'^fiJffiSnfioStfiomdthiflg inaudi- bljj—George gave a violent anicker, and covered it hastily with a cough. Tom Bradley, being a kind-hearted fellow, and unwilling to tee anybody Mooutfortable, talked iadustriouely to hie timid neighbor, in the hope of i probably he wouia more peculiar. T v. r She had rushed upstair# and intp her own room, locked the door, thrown herself on the bed, and commenced what the girls at school eall a “good cry.” If ho had been old, or ugly, or disa* K ecable—if ho had been anything bat e soft-voiced distractingly good-look ing fellow he was—she could have borno it With fortitude. Why had George brought him at that dreadful lime? Why nad she hit upon this particular day u>r that idiotic performance? Why was ho not red- haired or cross-eyed, or—something? 1 She would not have minded it in the least in that case. There was a tap at the door, and she hoard George’s voice, not yet quite composed, begging her to let him in. His mirth disappeared before tho woe-begone little person who opened the door to him, and stood mopping her eyes. “Ok, well, now!” ho begau, com fortingly, “you don’t menu to say you're broken up like this about a lit tle thing like that?" “A little thing!” cried Winnie, chok ingly. “Oh, George! what—what will ho think?" "Never mind what ho’ll think." said George, calmly. “It was a good joke, and that ougnt to be enough for you.” That diil not seem to console Win nie. bku only sobbed into her hand kerchief the more wildly. •*'U lyr didyuu br'uin u him?"^h<i :nur- lanp d, iu a heart-broken way.’ “Why didn’t you bring somebodythat wasn't so- so nice?" ‘•Oh, well," ho observed, trying to speak iu an ofi-hand way, “ilon’t wor ry about it! he’s—he’s married!" The sobs ceased. But, strange to say, the face which lifted itself from the handklfthief was not exactly ra diant. It soamed disappointed. "Married!” Winnie repeated in an injured tone. , "Good gracious!” said the bewilder ed young man. “Don’t that suit you?” “Don’t be rude!” said his sister se- VsCofy. The sight of so aturh dignity, in combination with the coral necklace and tho juvenile dross, was too much for George. Ho clung to tho door in another paroxysm of mirth. “You’ve got to come down, you know,” ho gasped, wiping bis eyes. “Pul on something dcccut, and come down and paralyze him. What do you care?" Winnie wavered. After all. what did she care? Ho was married! Half an hour later, Tom Bradley, Icauing against the piano in tho draw ing-room, and listening to George's rendering of tho latest [>opular air, was roused by tbe sound of a footstep on the nucarpctod floor, and startled by the appearance of a graceful and extremely pretty young lady in a blue dress. He was astonished at the familiar smile sh*' gave him; ho was astonished at the way in which George whirled about on tho piano-stool, and grinned, without introducing them; and then, as he looked more closely at the pretty apparition, he became aware of tho startling truth. Winnie’s composure, which had be gun to desert nor, returned iu full force, as the young man dropped his eyes and studied tho bare tloor in evident confusion. She sank ou the sofa calmly, ar ranged the f</iis of her dross becom ingly, and bogged her brother, sweet ly to continue his song. “I’ll lot him know 1 don’t care,” she said to herself triumphantly. “Mar ried—tho horrid thing!" “Are you as fond of music as of— dolls?” the young man ventured, breaking tho silence at lust “ Almost, ” said Winnie, with a laugh. And the conversation, with this small start drifted on gayly. It struck her, as they talked on, that Mr. Bradley, for a married man, was—well—not well-behaved. He kept his eyes fixed on her in an admiring way; the tone of his remarks —half bantering, wholly complimenta ry—was highly improper under the circumstances. He had edged nearer and nearer to her, until there was uo appreciable •pace between them. Winnie felt that something most be done. She went to tho piano hastily, and played a few meaningless notes with desperate speed. Mr. Bradley followed promptly, and leaned over her with an air of pro found enjoyment. “Doe* Mra Bradley play?” said Winnie, frigidly. “Mrs. Bradley?" her companion re peated, smiling inquiringly, and lean ing rather lower. “Yoor wife I ” said Winnie, severe* iy- ‘Gh, but I haven't one!” said tho young man cheerfully. Winnie looked up at him quickly, •nd immediately looked down again. “I haven’t ono,” Jlr. Bradley re peated softly; “but I’ve been thinking for the last twenty minutes that I’d like ono immensely, if ” Tbe recollection that she had known Mr. Bradley barely an hour and a half, caused Winnie to turn away from him hastily and commence a noisy polka. But when she got up to her room that night, at a rather lato hour, and sank on the edge of the bod, staring with unseeing eyes at the white mus lin, lying where she had left it in a heap wo the .floor, the thought did run vaguely, through her mind that per-' haps she had helped, or hindered, her' mother for the last time. Tone Bradley wan of the same WHIPPING A MAD BULL. * * 1*041 1 * right tfHn u.4 VateeUM and U was an unusual thing, be said to himeelf, in girls at that mtereeting age—that she was decidedly pratty. “Well, we’re very good friends al ready, aren’t wef” ho said encourag- Uudii an. they arose from fhaAhlm ~ There wee no response other than sodden swish through the air of a brown braid tied with a bine ribbon, and a gHmpse of a short, whitn skirt flying through tbs door. Wfcat.n peculiar little girl she wefll &bo had eeou her at that Bering her embarassment, though ppinion. was certainly the moftt diffident child he had ever kon. But he obmwnd Tho doepest eea soupdiags known woro made in the Pacific, where the lino reached down 4,676 fathoms, and off the east coast of Japan 4,600 fath oms. Thus it scouts that the greatest heights of mouuuius and the greatest The erase in S mtu Barbara. Cal, is to grow English walnuts, it is said thut iour-tliths of the fruit trees will be uug up, and walnut trees planted in thoir sload. Abram Post, of KlUerville, Pa., own i a blooded bull, which has long been nn ofajeei of terror 4# & employed on thefarm. owing to ltd fierce uad ag gressive disposition. This bnfl had al ways been under the control of its owner, who declared that, so long as any one stood up boldly against the animal, no fear of its attacking him need Ite entertained. H-’ urged this upon his hired help, but he nm or could employ any man who would not put hhnself iu a safe place os »».>ii h« the boil assumed a belligerent altitude, and Post’s wife frequently up|>e:ded lo him fb have the animal killed, believing that, sooner or later, it would rebel against the authority of her husband, and attack him. Tho boast was loo valuable an animal to bo saerfic.td,* and Post, ridiculing tbe idea thui the bull could master him, refused lo p irt with it * On Thursday evening Post had fin ished milking a cow in the baruta d, and was returning to lliu houso when he noticed that tho bull, which was in the yard, shook his head savagely as he passed by it and had nn unusually vicious look iu its oyos. Post passed ou, paying no attention to tho animal. Ho had gone only a short distance when ho heard u quick step bonind him and a low bellowing which he knew was made by the bull. Hu turn ed quickly and saw tho animal bearing down upon him. He grasped the bull with ono hand by the horns hoping lo prevent it from goring him. and the next instant ho was tossed iu the air. Uo full on tno bull’s head and nflefc, ami was losied the sc-coud time, this time being throw n to Iba opposite Milo of the barayaru feucc. lie was La* By bruised and his clothing Was torn by rough handling ho had received, but believing tiiat if lie uiJouod the boll to remain master o( uic field its usei til ness would be gone uud its killing u neces sity, Post ilctonuined to .isiuuio Iho of fensive hiuiicli ami use every t ILirt to cosqucr the sal ago animal. He is a large atnl nxuscalur mao. .aid. arming himself with a heavy club, he jumped over tbo femv a:»d udvp«|;ud boldly npoh itistmtf, wfifch was jciwiug tfio ground and bellow ing luriousiy. i hs moment it saw Post in too yard it [ iluugud at him tvitn horns lowered, ’ost mot the bull wall a terrific blow, with the club ucro-s the (oridio.iit, 'Iho heavy wooil was broken to pieces, but the blow had uo ell ct upon the animal except to increase its fury. Tho bull pressed upon the farmer, who jumped aside and caughi it oy one horn and one ear, and endeavored to keep its head turned away. He was thrown from side lo side aud in, hold broken. Tue bull caught him on his horns and once more tossed him iu the air. this tiuie throwing him over the fence into an adjoining fiuid. The maddeued an imal charged against tho funoe and en deavored to knock dowu the barrier between il and the onject of its rage. Still the farmer was undismayed, and, entering ins barn, ho armed him self with a heavy threo-tiued pitchfork and returned once more to the barn yard. The bull rushed again u> the attack. Post stood his ground aud thrust tho sharp tines of the fork into tho bull's nose, supposing that tho acute pain caused by the stsbbing would force tho animal to turn back and make it more cautious. In this he was mistaken. The animal ruslied on, and was forcing him agaiust the fence, where ho would have been crushed to death in a moment. To prevent this, Post threw htmself forward, ami. the hull’s head being lowered lo the ground, jumped astride the animal's neck. A few plunges by the bull ihrflw him from that position, aud ho fell flu tho ground close by. Fortunately ho retained his hold upon Die fork, aud, rising qaiukly to his foot, ho thrust tho tines again aud ngaiu into the animal’s side and nook. The blood spurted from every wound made by tho fork, and the bull bellowed wilu pain and redoubled its efforts to catch tho farm er on its horns, but his desperate situ ation had nerved him to greater activ ity, and tho boastfaiied in all its efforta. Post continued his assaults with the pitchfork as ho jumped from skU to side to avoid the chargee of the {ufll nntil both sides of the animal Gere dripping blood from nock to flkwka. The bail continued the contest for a few minutes, nnd then turned and ran to tbe other aide of the barnyarel, bel lowing with pain. Post did not move away for tome time, and then wcut to his house. He was covered with blood, almost naked, and dripping with perspiration. He washed himself, rested a moment, and then, against tho earnest protest of bis wife, went back to the barnyard. He found the bull standing in one corner of the yard. Post walkod briskly up to thf animal, and R cowed at his ap proach md stood trembling in‘fear. The beast was completely mastered,' and walkod sullenly into tho bars hi Post’s command. On tho farmer's Bp- turn to the house he found that hts own injuries wore greater than he had supposed, nnd ho U now confined to his bed under a doctor’s care Mr. A. B. Frost, who is one of the ^fc 0 * r i‘*SrT**iP o P ulM » rtUt * <*» the staff of Hakper • Brothers,mar ried a few years ago ono of the daugh ters of tho late Moro Phillips, of Phila delphia. Mr. Froat was a yoeng and stroggiing artist, and Mr. Phillips hfld no ambition for that sort of a son-in- law, and wholly disapproved hie daughter’s choice. He proved a severe and iflapleflablo parent, but abont a year since relented and seat his son-in- law a check for a largo amount, repre> senting the arrears of his daughter^ allowance, which he had stopped. ' h was returned to him by the next «naH with a degree of resentful repudUttiou aud SBcrgmio indignatioa that filled him *ith amazement, and wrought * complete revulsion in bis feelings to* ward tbe plucky and independent art ist who Jiad married his daughter. , 11| ibiI i of his earlier Judgment, and there is •aid to bo no danger that Mr. A. B. Frost's leal as an artist or his ambition for eminence in his profession will ha clouded by the $40,000 a year which will full to his share from his father-in- law’s os tale. * Professional Jokers. Among the frequenters of a well- known Parisian restaurant was a cor- taiu methodical personage, who dined thoro every day, and always at the same table, which the proprietor, with a due regard for so regular a customer, especially resurvod for film. Once, however, by some mistake of tho waiter, bo found on arriving his usual place already occupied by a stranger; aad, inwardly fretting at tho disap pointment, entered into conversation with tho mistress of tho establishment, who presided at the counter, and awaited the intruder's douarturo as patiently as he could. The latter seemed iu no hurry, for, after consult ing the bill of fare, lie ordered anoth er dish and a fresh bottle of wine, see ing which tho hahiluc, who would rather have gone without his diunor than taken any place but his own, re solved at all hazards to got rid of the univolcomu guest, and mldrussiug tho eUune du coni)du.r in a low tone, in quired if she knew who tho individual at iiis table was. “Not in the least," she replied; “this is the first time ho has been hero*’’ “And ought to bo tho last,” ho sig nificantly remarked, "if you knew us Ido.” “Why, who is lie?” “Tin' ox'Tiitiivior of Versailles!" “Mi<u Dieu!’ exclaimed the terrified diWu du crifUjir; and, calling bar husband, imputed to him tho iiilonua- lion she had jiM received. “Make out his b.d,” ho said, nnd oounlor-ord. r what lie has asked for. He must not stay here, or wo shall loan every customer wo have." Whereupon, armed with Dio d<.cu- merit in question, be presently crostod the room lo wherfl the stranger was silling, nnd inq irud it he were satis fied willi iiis dinner. “Pretty well.” was the answer, “but the service might be quicker. Why don’t they bring what 1 ordered?" “Monsieur," replied tin) ir.tUtur, as suming an sir of imporlauoo, “I am compelled to say that your prcsuuco here is undesirable; mid that 1 must request you to leave my houso as soon ns possible, nnd ou no account to set foot in it again." “What ou earth do you mean?" asked his ne'.ouished guest “You mu.t be perfectly aware," continued the other, “that your being seen hero is most prejudicial to mo, and—” “Speak plainly, in in!” impatiently interrupted the stranger. "I insist ou being told whnt you imagine mo to be.” “I'aib'.eu! you know as well as 1 da The executioner of Versailles!” “Ah! and pray who is your authori ty for this?" “That gentleman," replied tho pro prietor of tho restaurant, pointing to tho habitue at the counter, who was beginning to (eel uneasy as to the ro- sult of in. "joke." “indee..! said the stranger, raising his voice so os to be distinctly beard by every one present; "llial gentleman has informed you that I am the execu tioner of Versailles. Well, he ought to know, for two years ago It was my painful duty to brand him:" With those words, uttered iu a tons of complete indifference, ho left the amount of reckoning on tho table, leaving tho other tnyslilior to dine as ho might. — TempU liar. • m +- m —— Grant's Clear Stumps. General Grant, when President, used to walk out every evening for a smoke. Just at duxk he would come out of tbo north gate of tho White Houso alone, with a cigar in his mouth, his head bent down just a little, and his left band behind him holding a oane. That was Us fararita attitude, and tho strik ing figure was familiar to everybody. Tho hackaiun on tho streets would take off their hats as ho went by and bo al ways returned their salutes. He would walk down past tbe Treasury Depart ment, down Fifteenth to the avenne; thence past Willard’s, past the Nation al Theater, and up Thirteenth toward Now York avenue. All the newsboys, bootblack*; and street arabs generally, knew him and would follow him hi hts walk, wafting fer him to throw his el- g are tarn ee away. There was always a sflraffcbfe After bfc stumps, either be came they were hotter than those or dinarily found or because he had smok ed them, and there was some dignity attached to swokbg after hire The urchin who got the stamp would put it between his lips and stand with his back up against the door post of the National “poaaut gallery, with his thumbs in the armholes of his vest, and puff away with a dignity that was the envy of nil his admiring associates. One day the G- noral turned to two lit tle urchins who had been following him for several squares, watching his cigar very eagerly, and asked thorn what he could do for them. “Pleosh, mlshter,” ono of them ro- pMod; inatChiirgriilfl ragged cap off and holding It with both bands in <ront of him. white his cflmonuion got oloso bo- hind; “ploesh, mishter, wo only wants a smoke what tbe Presidenthash had.” Tho General smiled good-humoredly, and taking aa expenaive cigar from his pocket—the only one he had loft—he cut it in two ami gave each of them halt Tho two little rascals ran off Gift their hearts in their throats, and tor many weeks were held in awe and reveronoe by the whole of urchindom.—Walking* ton Star. Tho Lanctt says, that the. pain of neuralgia hredachp oxporienoed by women is generally located in one or more branches of the second cervical nerre, very commonly thoeo terminat ing in Use scalp at ^pbc occiput. Tbe nerres of the sflalR are irritated by ft* hair Doing drawn tightly back, and pnt on thaetnun, MS as a whole, in which case the strain jrould bo spread oror n large area of the surface, but by small Mind Ire of baft wBMT^re palled back and held tn place by hairpins. Belief is often consciously expensnoed as a result of removing tbe hairpins, but The injury done is lasting in dressing hair should bo' as it probably, In part, ft* extreme preralenoe diseon tinned, accounts for of neuralgic ROMANCE O'F’A It (AT A. Kt.'n B. I»t,)r ami SV" •n it Urldr. The iiioveiiie.il. of a real cowboy on Kearney at reel attracted attention yes terday. Hu kIimmI nearly six foot in his boots, aud bis regular features and blonde muslaclie gave bit face an as- G ot of beauty fuily in keeping with ■ handsome proportions. Iiis attire was that of tho vuquero, consisting of buckskin tron.«crs, a woolen shirt fns- lonod at the Ibroat with a carulessly- knotlcd silk hand korun iof, a coarse chinebilia sack coat, and brood-rlm- ined felt bat of Dm Mimbrero pattern. An Alla repot ter learned bis name and history. iiis name was Edward N. Willols, and six years ago he was at college, wbon ho received peremptory orders from Ids father, a wealthy Bos ton merchant, to enter tho theological class and lit himself (or Ilia ministry. Tim command came like a thunder bolt to tbo happy-go-lucky young fel low, who had always believed himself destined to follow bis fulhor in busi ness when the latter should bo ready to retire. A iiuarrel with Ids pore was Die result, anil Die young follow sud denly left for Dio west. At Cticyepne lie laid over for a short hunt on tho plains. Tho wild life of the cowboys caught Ids f mcy. Salary proved little object, and he had little difficulty in attachiug himself to a big ranch until lie had mattered his new Vocation. Finally ho drifted through portions of Montana, Nebraska, Da kota, Idaho, Nevada, an I finally into Oregon und California. Tho opeeiur of the summer found him engaged with three or four ooinradc* in driving n small hand of steers over tho Santa Cruz moniiiuiiis. Cattle iu the moun tains are not pleasant objects to deal with. Every tinrulr steer tiiat broke from the baud required an hour’s chas ing up and down stoop slopes, oror rooks and fallen trees, and through Die spiteful brush. Toward the end of the drive the steep bluffs that line the road on either band kept the steers In fairly good or- der, and only occasionally did an un usually- juicy bunch of gross tompt some hungry one to bolt up tho slope or into the canyon below, it was an occasion of this sort that sent Willets careering among the brakes nnd forna on the slope above. A chase of half a wile had seen the trnant return to the road, aqd WilleU woe skirting the edge of the bank some distance in ad vance of tbe drove in search of n safe plane lo dusoond, when in tbe nioldie of the narrow road he saw a lovely girl. Tho drove was thundering down on bor, and promising to soon orush hor young life out beneath their pon derous weight. Escape for the girl seemed impossible. From the rofla to w here WilioU’s horse stood was n wall of rock full twenty feet in height, nnd below to the bed of the stream was a sheer descent of double that distance. For only n second was the hone man in active. Then with the speed born of long prnotioo he lifted his trusty rawhide rteta from the horn of hie sad dle nod threw it. “Pat that uder your arms Miss,” was WUlett’s hasty injunction, it was obeyed, and not n moment too soon the girl was lifted above tbo heads and horns of tho on- oouiiug entile. When they were well by Willetts slowly slacked down until his “cAtch” dropped softly to the earth. Five mia- utos later, when ho managed te find a pathway down and rsachod the sub ject of bis daring bit of horsemanship, site was lying in the dust in n feint. When siio recovered he learned that she loo was from Boston, and with her fattier and mother was spending the summer amid California’s most fav ored spots. Tno old geu Demon, her father. Was highly delighted when he leal Bod of Willetts 1 identity, as be soon did. “His daughter foolishly placed a high value on my Httie service,” explained Willetts, blushing, “snd when I saw how she had overestimated It I “•Mtiy demanded tho largest reward 1 could think of. Tho details were settled yesterday, and I came np by the even- lag train to fit myself for her societv. She swears that I look like an angel w my woolen shirt and buckskin trons- ers, but I win try and get her used to' mo ifl civilized garb, for a vaquoro’a dress is hardly the thing for aBstbetie Boston.” “Are you going back?" "Yes, in September. Wo shall tour Yosomite as man and wife, and the* go back home. My fsther-ia-law says that my father has long bean anxious to havo mo come homo, and that he will aet roe up it the old gentiemau doesn’t, so I think I hod better go.”— San Francisco Alta. The Lightning Ticket Seller. Barnum used to carry round with him his famous “Lightning Changer,” a* individual whose mechanism wan a side-show in itself. The man sold tho fifty-eent admission tickets. He would receive tho coin, make change and de liver tbo tickets t# half adoien persona at a t The rapidity of his hernia wus so great that* their movenseata could not be analyzed. It rrtmrt to the dazed observer ze if he did nothing but make a continual "scooping” movement of the moaev into the wages behind him; bat with all his swiftness ho never made an error in ehangw The struggling, lighting cfowda would •warm about him, thrusting ia their halves and fending off the prcee abont there Men would cling so tightly to coin that he would have to bring hie flat down “bang" upon tbe finger* to wrench it ont Thoro is a story related of him that a man once shoved in a pile of pirn a ins to him for a tiekst “You don’t oomo that,” said the “Lightning Chaagor,” glancing at tho K e and ahowering out tickets to other ads. ‘Take that away, will yon?” shout ed the changer, sending the pile in a scattered shower among the crowd; “there’s only forty-nine cents in that pilef”—/ny.'ss/df cord, N. H., Asylum, was VflWWs renlre j WreV Ire arereiaalx MB — V - * > ■ p J v ear its coosequsaots. Ths present stylo of katiy insane, it is believed, by remorse t a if ft lam rlzMamWmsI faartm tkre mesereen ten because he deserted from the army in the war.' His doctor recently wrote to President Cleveland, asking ths man’s discharge, and has jut received it. It I Is thooght the nows will flarekifl lift. Indian Ref ton A farther examination of Mr. Rieh- mond’s relic collection, writes n Can- ajoharie, N. Y.. correspondent of the Albany Journal, showed banging over tho door a flue card of arrows, spears, knives, and scrapers, from the bonks of the Congaree river. North Carolina. In form and material they are quite like many heretofore described, limy are arranged in tbe form of tbe symbol of tbe hoiy trinity. On the eantgol the door, covering almost tberatire spaos to tho floor, bang grooved axes; taey are of various sizes and material, nearly all in a good state of ppastrya- tion. Many States and territoriss are reprosentoct, one of tho most perfect being from tho cliff dwellings of Ari zona. It Is symmstriesl ia form, hu a good cutting edge, so made from grinding down from both sides, with a deep groove running entirely around it In siae it is about six inches long by three wide. Another, abont the same siae, is from Kansas, and I note a vary large one from Michigan, anas- aal la form and not worked te as sharp aa edge u those spoken of above. Instead of being grooved it is so formed by depression on the sides thot it could easily he held ia place by n withe. The materiel resembles granite. In siae it is ten inches long by four la breadth. Some are thick, beevy, and seemingly elnmsy. while others are so small as to gtveaa idea that they were La tended lor oraaaaaato rafter than use. Many of them are made with the sides alike, while several have one side square, that is they are straight down frees tbe head of the az to the blade. Others have a groove down one side. Tbe object of making them la this manner ie that a wedge may be laserV ed tor tbo purpoeo of tightening the withe. Tbo manner of boidlag the ax that was made with roeadod sides, or, as before stated, with sides was to insert the ax ia a split la a small growing tree, allowing il to remain there until tbe wood bad eiosed tightly around the groove. Another method was to Insert a strong withe in the groove, letting it follow around the ax, bringiag the ends together, when they were firmly lashed by means of deer sinews or thoags of beokskia. Grooved axes were extensively need la deadening forest tress nad bruising tbe outer fiber near the route, se that Area kindled around them might the ■sere readily eat into the trunks nnd tuura their early fall, also removing the charred surface from time to time, thus affording fresh fuel for the flames. Often the heed of Ihe ax ia splintered or bruised, which indicates that they were used as olube or wedges lor split ting wood, ia the Utter ease the edge being placed and held ia pnsltian by the wooden handle. The ax was drir- •a into the wood by blows struck upou IU hssd by sous# other object of wood or stone. In parts of this country the grooved ax is found in goodly aambere. either ia graves, upon the sitae of eld vMages or la cultivated fields. In this imme diate section I do not think any hare been found: neither do I think that New York has ever furnished many. To my knowledge I do not now think of but two. They are also vary rare Iu Europe; in fact but one or two are known to have been found there. What makes this seem "^g-W Is that so maay objects are found in all preto of tbe world that are similar ft shape to thoes found at great distances from each otbsr. Axss move than anything else seem te differ in form ft liBbrent countries. While this eouatiy plenty of grooved axes, Europe none, and the perforated ax there is not known here. In everything else reed by primitive man, tbe world over, a similarity ft form of objects existed, for inttaaee, arrow and spear heads, celts, goages, bone a win, beads, pottery, mortars, els, etc. • l iZ I heard rather aa other day about Mim who has just sailed for abroad. A talented New York WAS dftftg at one of ths most derout sad ouo ef the wealthiest ladies ef his eeugragalioa. Hs seemed te take great pis as are ft entertaining the bamuoma yoeng ftd)r who sat aext to bias, aad was evUaat- impressed with her charms of and her eonvomtioael putrere * Ths amassment question came up at the dinner, nnd the young clergyman ! mounted a favorite hobby, aad began to speak with warmth aad fsofing about the immorality of the stage. He had oommitted himself beyoad re demption before be notioed that bis re mark was received with some lisgrss of coolness by the company, but tho fare ef Us neighbor oaly MMfrinr miU. "Do yon often go to tho she inquired. "Net indeed.” was ft* snergstls re ply. "It is oflongh for mo te are the posters oa the fences, aad the photo* graphs ft tho shop windows Why, only two days ago I saw tho platers of aa actress who appears oa Iho stags absolutely barefoot For mj port, 1 aa not surprised at tbe low social standing of theatrical people, aud Ido not wonder that they areanvur area prey, but the young lafly's fere wore aa amasftg smlfo “Let us talk of something Use,” raid the boat by that item the re sly felt that he The party broka ap,' walking bnum ft company witk •r of the guests, ho asked, “What was the name of that next to too at it” “Mias Estalfo Clayton,” was tho ro* ply. “Estelle Clayton,” replied the young divine, ‘fit seems te me I haua kauri that naam be' — ~ “She’s tho actress who he young alsrgymau had put his lout ft ft team aud as ho wm tot young lady who sat table ? I did —Daily freight on tho Bine Ridge -O. T. Culbreath’s lift for $2,000 in —Greenville ft frfllr ▲saodafiou ft only two woflka off., . —Tho Newberry County Mr will be bold on the Mft, »ft aad fifth lo* daring tho month of COftOfMe —New bulldlnffl areagoing ly ia Charleoton aud improved. —M. A. Waldrop, of GfUfluetta, os* Mbits a stalk of cotton with 14S mo> torod boils. —Tho restfisues of Mr. fornum C. MUIor, of York, was burnt by aa nod- dental fire. —Oapt. H. r. Edwards, of Darting- ton, was found dead in Mb bod ou lost Friday morning. —Bond-workers ft acme parte of Abbeville county are eouat of bnadadw. -Tbo Ei of South Carolina will ington ou the tfod late. —A staryoou wdgMuf 109 jumped into a boat erocsing Sand-Iter Ferry and was captured. —Spartanburg haaquete the Oman wood, Laurens aad Spartanburg Bail- road men ou the lift Inst. -The State Baptist Couveatiou will Baoot at Newberry ea Thursday before the third Sunday ft November. —Robert L. Connor, sou ef Mr. L. D. Connor, of Cekssbury, in a railroad accident ia —A protracted _ ___ tist church la WUWamiteu has BBtemted lo on Ms - J. A. Atteway, of the ftod motion of ftrtgofloM oa hero discovered a coal plantation. A young man ef Abhovilla eeunty i a cow aad coft a shotgun, a mw ftr ulmml!** *** *** * ott **** 11 —Th» next term Of Court ftr field county will swarms ou tho Monday In Nov iu preside. —A wild turkey gabhter _ a drove of tame turkeys ft burg during ths day, bat at i into the SeuU, • died suddenly oa a ataaa Charleston as foe wmou her 81. Heteua Intend. tho Roe/ilUl Awuhf ft sale by Frauds W. of J. M. Ivy ft Go. way te •fo^uf tho South wm ft Sfladea aovorJ days bo next mmAou will la Dun West. Tbo i bo hald at Bethany,; a, oeavftted ef hiUteg amnia Unreua J Heavy Clay bestowed tho ftl&B**** "V* 6' ten oed lo ho I —Copt. H. F. Durlftmteamn Maboaou the He —WDttiml. loot weak ia the the marder ef Robert Bewem at the Halft gold adao ea Map If, lait amd mtr, was found daad ia moraiaweftiftflO(huR. dyweUtha night bateau. —Tha aaw Qathatie t villa will be Sunday ia thte i Work ea tha fat the same Iowa ft poo* of XaDauid ft alt. wtthlft •'T * YoBejr v-A-