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VoiuXTtt. FRANCIS F. CARROLL, Jr n Coroner s Notice, KNOT RIBBON. Att<mm«y-at-Law, * BAMBERG, S.C. Office <vver If. C. Fvrfk & Co.’* store, giar 20-t ; ' FHOmW PATTERSON, ATTO V- AT- L. A W. RA^HW^ C. II,, S. C. V Will Rive iwonti^t >j»ention to all bus- e^trustod V WU care. Jiv^ry »tb, e! Ml GREEN, ATTORNBY-AT-LAW, AKNWKL.1^ c. H .k.C, Will practice In the State and .United States Court* and j^ive prompt, atten* lion to all biuiue^aeutrnsted to his care • jan 16-ly A. r WOODWARD, Attorney "at-Law BARNWKMo c. it., s. c. Ali irial Juatioes are directed here after to l^old no inqneat* in this County unleKs specially inatruyted % me. 1 can be looadat my olilcc ill Barn well every day prepared to, attend to the duties of my otticse.' S. 1<. I’KA^K K, Coronyv Ibiruwell Count\\ _ MONET TO LEND Mve business o^ihoney ler/Hnsr here tofore conducted b.y ('oi. t\. ji. l)uneau V\ tU be continued fty th,e undersigned, at tKe aaiue place over the Bank of Barn well. Terms mode easy, ai d Loans eji'eeted wi^h promptness and dispatch. WILLIS ,1. UUXCAX, JvvJ. BROWN, JanuanyuthAt^W. *0(Uo$ UYejf post ofllce. m ti^r Richard A* Ellis, ATTOHXHY AT UAW. BARNWELL C. H., S. C. M-aetfca* in »lt Ihe Cmirts of the Stale v«« >oiy , T'airentkm to ail tMisiiK-na rti- t«dtuM«U- Ufilce over Tobin’s I>nig Store. ■ , jum*27-ly Going to Savannah. ltct hkh go \ FAIR NOTICE. . Ri£ f^olorcd Excursion from Rob bins and all stations on the I’ort Itoyal and Augusta Railroad to Savannah, <ia., ov Friday, August ^vh, bOO. A very ^raml Uniy i*, anticipated iu Lhis,. moilern city with iu many interesting scenery. 11 is certainly a rare oppor tunity, esptMMally to persons that were never in the city of Savannah before. —The best of order wjll be kept. Come «md go. l)o*T (or^el the dav.-huh of August. X. S. M. CARTER, jipiv^* B. A. MAKIBBEN^ ATTORNRYmATMl.AW, r BABN’WKLLC. II.,H. C.' Will give prompt attention to all bus iness pi|tnuttHl to hi* care, april 4-Sa _j£ i«k » W. t tpin, J, K. Hnu'Kim >>k, Alkeu, 8. C. Rarnwell, 8. C. Grahams Graded School^ * . Grahtmis* S- C« Only & knot of ribbon biua. Ifo rmmt, my friejhl. “And yet"—(say you) I ‘smooth it with such tender touch.",’ “A story, nh.’" you “thought an much!" And you would have me "telldt here; ' Make a clean breast.” I ‘h^oU !jpt fear, . For some one else, not far away— ‘ May know just how"—(the douce! you «>y!) ‘.‘It is himself*” 1 see! I see! Your hand. old hoy! Not, not from theo This stofy Would | now conceal. My iumojit soul I will rcteoL This silken trifle, I confess, I toticiied it w it)*■ a soft caress. But you’d not fdame'Mie if yem knew Tlie one that wore tlie fTlibou blue. ’^le woro.it,’' (ask you) ‘Wrhere. aud wheaf" Ah! May mnomls red of all mem! Wheo Georgia through her l»rders wide Rati gathered all her grace and pride. t»<Totb. never was more brave array Than on that autumn holiday. How do you need to ask me ‘•where*" "Well, friend, twits ala fh-orgia fair! Site sto*)d from mit the throng apart, r And I. with proudly ^eating heart, W'ntche*!, lam Indore her ail the crowd, ' In iWisTatii admiration bowed. , Tlie eyes of ail were tunM-d on her, (With rupture still, my pulse* stir!) All looked at her. My friend, but she, Rad eye* for none, for none, but me; Oh, thought to thrill the blood like wind This peerless one is mind is mind -From dainty hcatl to slender feet. Mine, only mine, my own, mj’ sw«s‘t! Then thtiuigh the crowd ran wliisis*Hng. "What i* there I ere, the loveliest tiling." “Fnun mount loses, ooukl Georgia bring?" ~**Wliv, Mie il Is tiryond ronipace,'* "Tlie <|u«s*n, the queen of the Georgia fair^* , Well.’tho judge* no d>'Ct<le*l it. And Uiis th*“y tusl in her bridle bit, Thit ’ribboq blue” at the Georgia fair, Was won, my friend, by my laMinie toy marc! — Mrs. IL W. Hunt in Atlanta Constitution. ficv*er«l times knocking at ybo vjoor otr Mrs. Betsey Hill's little frown house, and the worthy milliner was over joyed at Jhe opening of the brilliant prospect before tier. Rpt the news of the sudden rise in western lands caused Mrs. Hill, with her small i>os- scssions, to sink into insignificance by the side of the rich woman with her \vell tilled acres, lior oversowing barm* and hcr prospective thousands of dol lars. ^ ^ ^ _ # * Xlic idea of failure in his matrimo nial venture never entered the deaeon’s hesid. ‘‘The way afore ye is as plain and straight as a* piiie stem, Solomon Uinch,” lie tnunnnred, rubbing thy palms of his hands together, as he walked toward Miss Koziahs side door. “Women is mostly alike—eager an’ willin’ to embrace matrimonial opj^or tunities. They'll snap at an offer like a hungry trout at a worm. She has got the money, a,, d I hev got the prominence and inilyence; that’s a u’int not to be 6verlt>oktHl; and dea cons isn't to be hath every day. Put j Iter money and my i+vtluencc together, j and 1 rather guess we*ll stand about f jug alxnit mi: i )i: a cox's ton of the heap in New Bethany.” Miss Ke/.iah was sitting by tlie table knitting as usual. She had just liegun to narrow for the hole of the stocking, when a step sounded on the walk. Sim threw down the stocking and opened the door, and holding the lamp high alxive her head, her eyes rented v^on the amazing sj)ecUicleOf the deacon in all the Sunday magnificence of white shirt and shiny black broad cloth. “Well, l never 1” she ejacu- i)./ .., furling yhat her reccn- “j lion liad been h ardly hospitable, she lo we ret l thc-lauip and said, kindly: ' “Conic in, deacon—come in.” been menffiers qf the same church for thirt> j cai-s or more, and we’ve been mcinbersof the same spiritooal family, we ll now he members of the same hu man family.” Miss Keziah straightened herself^up iii her highhacked chair, and drew in hpr chin, while her voice Vang out shrill nml clear • # “I rather guess il’Il take two to make fha^isogaiii.” ■ 1 : A s<>c<nul look at the, agcvl r.dmirer, who was cslging up to her with a sheepish simpei;, t-xasi* rated Miss Keriah lieyond control. “The old fool!” aIh-said wrath fully. HuvAdor came into the deacon’s thin cheeks and, he stm-ted to his feet, looking anxiously towuix! the door, ns if nusiitaiinga hasty r'lri'ut. But the varu was wound around hi.sTicx.ls and he was forced to icumm. Miss Keziah likewise 103d, and fold ing her hands grimly in fiont of her, remarked grimly : —Wh^r you find liegan your talking I hadn’t the least what you were driving at. I llurnglit you were hint- Ik tsy Hili, and wantetl to The Tintype DM It. Qne day a mwt came, over to our. mine, which was at> »ut seven miles from Virginia City, and told UH tlmt a plio- Uigrapher had just opened up in the town. Next day lx>ing Satunlay a lot of us knocked off at noon and went up tohave our tintyjies taken. Among the crowd was old Bill I-awson, who wa« the homeliest man you ever set eyes on, He was not only ‘lapshouldeml and humpbacked, bnt a boar hail clawed his face and a tighter had bitten hit nose mid blinded him in one eye. It was a matter of remark that Ids looks would scare, a panther, and we knew of- men (x>ming six miles to look at him; but, as Uie old man would never look into a glass, ho couldn't realizo how homely he, really was. He might never liave realizetl it had he not concluded to si^ for a great big tintype—the largest the artist could make. When a finished picture was handed him he stared at It in blank surprise; then lie scratched his head and rubbed his grsxl eye mid looked again. Then he eamo over to us and asked in a faltering voice: “Bards, who is this clmp in tlie pic- tur’f” • “That’s you, Bill.** . * “Ixxiks like met” “Exactly.” “Can't be po one eVser' “No.” • ^ “Thank ye, thank yc; rdon tmiud JP. Ik RO WI'.I.I,. Mwprrl«>le«denl - -Mii*, Ji wa4>vy, Rlrsl Assistant. •L Tyi kk ITuxtx^Seaiaul A*ni>iUnt twi TOimim. — — C(v/t A Burckhn'ter, AITOItN R.VM ATI,AW HARNWKLI* C II., S. C. Will pnu‘tb+ in *11 the Court* of thi* Idtate and in the UuIumI State* < oiirt*. Mr. Croft will attend the Court* of Bsrnw ell County ami all matter* of im- |Hirtanee w ill rv«*eive the personal at tention of mcl» member of tlie firm, may 2?!-if T NELLIS, Jr., ~ Sunppyot and Civil Engineer. SUcniioS Ctr*-n to the enOlpUUUkNI Of witn-r levHIna and drsina^r. A porttal e^nt aiMroHSHil to me at Martiu*, A will n*-etrr iwonttK ^tteuta u. _iMt lusjt-lir Frank M. Mixson. mviim avo kotahy rotue. BLACRV|BLE, S. C. f.and Surveying in nil it* hr.uudies. Conveyancing a *p«ci»lty. mov 22-8S ^ . Winihrop Training School FOR'TEACHERS,eoi.iMBiA, 8. c. Thorough hnyuai instruetion slid ^^rsidpa* In best piethiMl* of teaching.— t u* girl* over. 1" year* old Session i u S«‘pt4* ii«Imy i:ir f» rit dfiate** ^e»‘» ire * g'HxJ |H»*ition*. Eipdi county i* given J two«eholitrships;ooehy the State worth I $15<l and one by the srU<M>l worth $:»n. j A ddre** 1». B. Joh^kox, Suiierinten-*! dent, Colutnhia, S. C. ^ J jun 12-lm _ Talbott & Sons, Engiues_ancl Boilers* SAW ari|J>S AND UKIST MILLS, are acknowledged to In? the best ever sold in tbU State. Wficp you buy one of them you are figfiblied that you have made no mistake. Write for our prices. ’ Cotton Qipi? and Cotton Bresses at bottom figures. | can save ypu pioney. V.C.BADHAM, v _ ; Gk KN KliAI, A OK .NT, > COLUMBI A, S. C. mar l^tf —»*«i ■' ■ — ~ - (kstahi.ishkd lK7fi.] A £ MOORE & 00. . «~ ‘ » —rr-rWM0LK8AL|t # * FKUIT ANli PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 95 Weal High A- And 20 North Market Place. SPRINGFIELD,mtTO. JO SjIirPHRS: We call your atten- our twarket OH-MekHi* and Bears •Jjfi^tarneatly ask that you give it a With tn ftc tiye experience of over rears in the trade liere w e firmly et to be one of the best re this lua^^inri we being at the in central OMo, ^hjii give your ship- head of tha tradjs ^hfl }>ersoiial atten- t tnenta oun^ronipt highest market ssrfterS, hwR w !™ rlJ*" IS? D. E. MOORE it Reference*: Tint Naljjoal Bank, Springfield, #hioi W. M. Co., Columbus, biio; Oao. S. HowpR A Co., Mi** K. A. Mt Bkyuk, Mu*ir. Fourth siiiuihI *o»idoti logins tirst Monday in St*pu*hilH».r. Tuition ll.'i, 7.Vr and S20 |*t *«•*- *ion of ten mouth*, aivording to grade. Mu*iv, $'J jmt mouth. Hoard. to t* i.wr inouth. TeiJ®lir»f»experienced, eour*eof *tudv thorough and standard of *eh«Md higli. Write Superiiitendeiit at once for cat alogue and parlicubii*^ Machinery. Aiittw’ Engines and P.oiler*. Klfiott lioHgi.i't oipm (iiu. ^ U in^hip <'otion Gjn. . Ib>** <Litton preo* (for *t«‘api or water ■<>vv ei.) lUud Power i’ottou Pre.-*. Saw Mid*- (i.iddell Variable feed and veritable paradise in comparison wi his untidy, ill kept home.' He placed hat on the In sir beside his chair, i ordinary friction feed.) Implex Pevrt Mitl (grind d* •^irn and ' eol» iii sliue.k and any kind td *t<4-k feed. Colton Seed Crusher. O*borue Reaper* and Mower*. Buekeye Hiding aud tYalkiug Cult!- , vator*. Blstriuan Boiler F<*eder (one handle.) Shafting, Pullev*, Belting, Bra** Kit- ? ting*. Gin Bri«< r le*, Gin Kib*, Kndle** | Gin Heft*. We order Kngiiies, Gin* and j Prc*.*e>, by the e.,r load aud give our pa- | troir* the benefit of low rate* of freight. J Try our pfiem, write for eatulogiu* wild look Into the nuulU of our m.iehin- ; ery. STONE k CAVAN 4UG11, Cotton Factor* and Machinery, Cor. lir.y nold* and Jack*o|i Sts. Augusta, Georgia. I julvil ’ L I ARE YOU HOT? The sun had disappeared behind the .. hill* of New Bothanv ami the linger- | .» r | ^ i lay* 'rn Tiro mo'.rt.tein j -TAc a «-at. draeon." clian^n,/ fmin new lo parpU*. wIm-'I ; t ^ Deacon lunch stopjsxi his melancholy . . I old mare in front »>f the village post- 1 ° * utlice. It was Saturday night, the only time when New Bethany roms-d itself fruin its l<*riiargy ami* sfiowed T any signs of life ami energy. The rest <>f the week it dniwstsl and IrMiguialted ^fter the fasliiou of small country , towns n*mob* fmm railway and nianu- fartnring centers. ^ “Whoa. Mary Jane!” said the dea- '7*on with unm'eessary cinpliasis, throwing’ tliemiisou the mare* hnsui Imek. and springing to the groin'd. | But tlie de.s)>ondent Mary il.ul al- rea«iy nofi’d her sliambliug gait from ihi^T force of liahit. A ten year's ser vice with the deacon had made her perfectly familiar with the accustomed round of stopping placi*s. Wrsincsday night il wu* prayer meeting;.Sunday the church wrvire; and Satunhiy night invariably the jRistonmc, and. as a late variation, un after iiause at tlie liouse of Mrs. lk‘t*ey ilill, the milliner, who for a quarter of a cen tury had tunplicd the women of Now Bctlutny with l»e;ulgi*ar fearfully and womlerfully made. The moment the deacon stopped in side theotliee he knew, fn»m tlie unu- Mial buzz of con versation, that »ome- tliiug ejtraonlinary luui iiapix-msl. # * “Heanl the news—eh, deacon?” asked one of the village loungers. The deacon looked up inquiringly. “Mia* Kcziah'sluui ananmziu' streak of luck.” “It!* l>eeM nothing but an illllaRill , *tn*dk of luck ever sinew she was born,” returned the deacon. “If own in' the U*st farm in town and itoviti* money at interest isn’t luck, I'd like to know whaPit is.” — , “Yew; but this is something out of Common. You used to know lierbro- flJer w ho di»sl' years ago and l^-ft his (»nly child for Miss ke/.iah to bring w hen the-old man Mead ilirsl. Miss Keziah took the farm its her share of the property, and Imr brother, liKik the mind if 1 The deacon surveyed the attractive | from the deacon's fis*t gave Mi*s Ke- rixvii, which, with iu cheery lire and; xiah a chance- for further nunark: i-hair. »ts-ineii a ; *’01)0 word more, deacon ; have you 1.1 i: ._ : ... ’ -i — "'rX* i . v, --— i —“ DIM j displaying ,lus_ scanty gray h>cks in j genibusty plastered <*ver the top of Ins Ii«ad so as to cover as much of the Istld surface as |»oiisihle. There was a long {musc. - “Anything going on, deacon?” ask»*d Mis* Keziah, resuming her knitting. Slic* was greatly puzzled to j as her guardlau. take,me into your confidence. I never drcprrted that you meant me, ’Why, I supposed every one iu town knew that 1 would not give up my freedom for the lest man living. Betsey Ilill is a pious, likely woman, she'll make a good home for you and she needs a home herself.” The deacon was completely wither ed, and Miss Keziah continued: “If you’ll step arounAu little livelier, dea con, and pick up the Kjones on your lots and put them into good fences, and mow down those {s-sky .weeds, there’s no ittrlblv re;won why your farm shouldn't look a* well as mine. If Uve said anvthingto hurt your fvs*l- ings, dmcon, 1 1ioi>«you’ll overhsik it. Why, von are All tangled up iu that j be any other feller, can yarn; Vll untangle it.” “No.” ' * . r iiie delay of unwinding the yarn | “That’* my mug—my blinker, my none, my inouth and cliinP “Yme« _ —“TtiaPrenuff. -Onod by, ^‘Uut where are you goingf” - “Back to camp. See you later.” But* lie never did. He started for yaffip akiite, and at the half way spot he sat down on a rock and suicided by a bullet into bis liead. On a flat stone lay tho tintype, and with a piece of clay lie had written on the stone: “Gone to get a decent looking mug." —New York Sun. ‘Tin as homely as that, am I?** “Worse, if anything.” “Yon don’t say! I*>ok a-hyar, boys, how long hev you known thiaf” “Two Tears.” “And never let on! WeB, that wm white of vou and no mistake. Cafi’t nr The Ka^ierona XTay* • Women Make* D« .»t Wise Veefhl. The larrpin in an indispensible ticlo to % woman's toilet She not get along without one. A may spend one, hour in dressing, half the Jiour is usually occupied arranging tlie hair, which she skillfi ly twists into coils becotrtiiig to la face, and to keep it in place she wi use abott^one dozen hairpins. A woman finds a hairpin useful iu many ways, ami if she is about to be gin that important operation of disar ranging everything—-colletl house- cleaning—it is safe U> say she will put one extra pin in her tmirand will need it before going far in hpr work; many a ciack, ercvico and yorner is poked into with its head. It is a woman's most useful ally, and 4 with her skill in using it becomes * kind of combination tool that can he used iu many ways. Bometlines tho key of & mmk i* tost, and the inevita ble hairpin is used to push hack tha spring aud the Ud is raised. < While scrubbing it iu used’ in every comer to pike out the dirt- In fixing up her room she may want to hang clean eur- tpiuM and finds the running strings broken; she will take a hair pin, stick it through the end of tape and with much patience work that hairpin through the hem; m * ^ • in * r he goods twenty times, bttislie wil persevere, and eventually get it heanl ul*>ut the westerh Jantl*f Tlie deacon wished he was any w hen* out of the range of those nierri- Iom black eyes. “4—think I’ve hiiTn tell suthin' about ’em,” ho replud meekly. “1 thought so! 1 thought so!”ex claimed Miss Keziah, savagely. “Well, deacon, those lands rightfully belong to my niece. Mary; I only hold them I w as great ly puzzled to . ua her guard is ’ r account for those Sunday dotin'*. The deacon lieq^n to look upon his j “Nothin’ within tho range of my ob | rejection a* u hhisnng iu disguise, for lA’illisMit 111a irrtttlx*rti M isk Ivm* I M*ifi’ of a rovin’ turn "of inittd. __ _ ew thous;uid of personal pn»perty as flrfi YfitJ Hunnrv? luvcstjed ’em tn w^Wrn . • */*¥' iitfftij Jf, J |aiu!s, w Incli turned out to be worth'" ess, aud he lost every cent he put in. ?’oiks always blamed him for bein’ so foolidi and hasty, and they say grief norlilicatioit alike hastened his Wa al, it turns out that they put^a railroad square thro’ tlie lands, and it's sent real osUtU* way up. no body knows where. Miss Kczi&h's been offered nigh onto $8,000 for the lands, and they say she’ll get evejvuo much more if she pnly holds on.” “You don't^mean itf”• “I dew; it's as trow; as Scripture.” “Slic’d hold out, never fear.” said the deacon, “and I hold it to lie our bounden .duty as neighbors to advise her to that end.” ■epvation. Tliere won't be uuich more a goin’ now till 'lection time; tilings'll i 1* pretiy lively then." “Want to buy any hav this year?” , ehirpetl Miss Keziah. “Slino is extra j g(hr! this mason; my hired man says | it’s the l»est harviwt vield in town.” *T rather gues* I’ll hev enough to carry mo thro’ the winter. If 1 don’t I shall know where ter come fur liay as i* hay. 1 declare, your farm dors j heat all! I feel kind o’ rigged like w hen I think the liest farm in tow*n is j managrd by a woman.” Miss Kt'xiah snuled graciously, and ; the deacon drew his rhair u little nearer hi* hostess. “It must he u great load for ye to carry aloiuv Such a I large farm is a tremendous n-sponei- I bihty for a lone woman.” “Oh. I don't mind it; it keeps me proper busy.” Tlie deacon hitclied hi* chair along 1 a few inches fart lief. “Ye'd ought to j have a brother or cousin, or some rela tive like, to share the burden with ye.” “My slmulders are plenty strong,” returned Miss Keziah,’ good naturedly. “I'm glad to show the folks that there i arc women good for something besides giddy-gaddying and tatlliu".” ! “Yis, vis,” annwercd the deacon. “we can all testify to your valley and ! worth. You’re a real honor to your J sex. You're—you're a bright and shinin’ beacon light to the trillin’ . If either or both go straight to R.L,WILUAMS&C0.|;5; Dark Street, Blaekville, S, C. IGF. IGF. ICE- A iionsfant supply of the purest, ice k<*|»t on haml for sale at live and let live prb.ie^ FREBIT MEATH - ■*•.■^■1—■ , r-. -- :v r ^ . , ■ .- J ^ rim best Beef, Fork and Mutton that can he obtained in this section, and when Imme sjinplies are, Insufticient we w ill get theliest from North slid West, for the people must be led. Poultry Dnd E^rgs- . The best prices p'aid for Chickens, Turkeys. Ducks, Geese atpl Guineas. Don’t ship them off to strangers, but •ell to K. L. WILLIAMS ft CO., I’uryevors lor the I’uhlie, filaekville, S. C. ’Kggs waqtyd all the time. juneli) a fe w Words. and the n »,k,-r *»»eU Ida tiand at tin- Hf hadabout till one lon Pl cold little oratorical villag*’ Inste^l »>f lingering as usual for the gossip—for New Bethany post- pfliee on Sciturday night answered tho purpose of a weekly paper—the dea con seemed ju a great hurry to get home. It was the night of the choir rehear sal, and iu driving by the church he saw Mary Mead, Miss Kc/jali's niece, going up the steps. Ho suddenly whipped up his sleepy old mare and drove homo at a breakneck rate of si>eed. “Now’s your time, Solomon Pinch,” he inuttered'lo himself. “It's inobbe a long while afore ye ll hev such a good chance ag’iu. She’ll ho sure to lie alone for a couple of hours or so—hi, pldladv! no stoppiiT hero to-night,” he adJed, giving tho lines a sudden twist as Miry Jane showed an incli nation to stop before Betsey Hill’s house; “we've other fish to fry, now, pld gaL^x 'When he reached home he drove the mare under tho.horse shed, and tied her there, instead of unharnessing her as usual. Then he entered the H A'S beep busy in selecting and eel- house ami hastily swallowing the lectingH stock of GENERAL MER- scanty' s s]**akor conclusion of this flourish. Then hitch, hitch, hitch went the chair Miss Kcziahwurd. “Don't you feel sort o’ lonely at spells?” he asked, insinuatingly. Miss Keziah glanced suspiciously at the rapidly advancing cliuir. She dropjHxl her knitting and went to the tire and piled up the blazing sticks of wood. Then she came hack to the ta ble and set her chair on the farther side of it, thus putting a harrier be tween her and the visitor. “I'm never lonely, deacon; plenty to do is the best medicine for loneliness.” ' “But woman's a tender, dependent creatur’. Woman's a vine,” hero the deacon took up the weekly prayer meeting drawl, “and needs suthin’to cling to when the Iron hies, desolatin’ waves and winds o’ affliction aud sor row roll over her.” * “Stuff and nonsense!” exclaimed Mias Keziah. with a contemptuous sniff. “I shouldn’t have expected that a man of vour sense, deacon, yvouhl repeat such silly trash. I have no patience with the people yvho are alw’ays talking as if women couldn’t stand without the western lands Mim Ke- ziah’s attractions seemed tame com- | (Mired with tlu*e of mild, blue eyed, buxom widow Hill. “I can trust ye never to mention 1 thi*?” he asked timidly. “I shall not mention it. Now follow j my advire, deacon; make sure of Bet sey Hill before another week goes by. You have my good wishes. Bee to this at once.” “Thank ye, thank ye; I don’t mind if I dew.” « The good woman followed her crest fallen visitor to tho door. As a sudden ! glint of cold night air put out tho light, *he said: “The nir is snapping to-night; have a frost, eh, deacon?” And thediscomfitted deacon felt that 1 he had been nipjicd by something I sharer than a frost. — LippineoU * | Magazine. , A Tsl« with m Moral. “Some young fellows,” said Gen. George A. Sheridan, “were telling stories and having a hilarious time. An old ffwitleman snt a little apart, and Nremod unable to joiu in their merriment. He was rallied on his morosencss aud requested to tell a story. ‘ “*T don’t know any stories in your vein, my young friends, ’ said he, ‘but 1 will relate a little incident "with a Having dBiwntinued tl»0 sale of Li quors since the New Year BEN DAVIES 1 alone, and needed propping up like a rag doll that hadn’t any back bone. I’m no vine, or creeping, help less thing, I can tell you. 1 can stand alone as well as anybody, if the Lord so yvills it, although I admit, deacon, that it’s pleasanter to havo some one. keep you company. and the nwtr- Please rts, sten- leoting ■ CHANDISE that Will suit the people bv its completeness and please their pockets by the inofierntion of its prices. The public generally and the ladies particularly are invited to call, ex- anjine goods and compare prices those quoted elsewhere. And don’t yob forget That you may he happy yet. with Where you’ll surely get more Good* for your money than at establish- that promise a heap and perform g worth Hiking about. BEN DAVIES, B^nwcU L. JJUb. C- pb 13-U scanty supper which ihe hired woman placed before him, donned his best clothes aud drove off again at a rapid pace, ’ “l^tw aakes alive!” exclaimed the woman, anlazed. “tho deacon's got sumthin’on his mind surel It's tho first timo I ever knew him to disre- member to ask a-blessing.” « . Ever sine© tlie death of hi* wife If you buy at BEN DAY’IKS Store, pcocou Pinch had looked*on Misji Kc xiah as her probable successor. For years ho had gazed with covetous eyes Miss Keziah was dumfoi on the fine’ Mead farm, with its suK ^dropped her knitUng, and RtAntial h’.tiidings.'but be never could screw his courage up to the point of facing the* snapping black eves of iU pwner. l A bUc he had been sec seen afs jest it; yo hev hit the nail squar’ on the head 1 It’s pleasanter to hev company in our sojourn on this mortal yearth. ” / The deacon seized his chair with both hands, and by a circutous lino of 'hitching he placed it within three feet of Miss Keziah’s table. “You’re a fore handed woman, Miss Keziah; I’m a man of prominence and influence in the community; it seems to me that it would be a good thing if we could walk hand in hand through this vale of tears. Providence seems to p int its fiugcr that way.” Tho deacon was thinking at that yery moment of tho w money no-could save bv a thrifty manager like Miss Keziah in place of his ineflicient, wasteful hired woman. Miss Keziah was dumfounded. She the night for sleep.—Boaton Globe. the hall ot S ' yayn rolled across the floor. “Mercy 1” she finally gasped. ‘Til make ye a first rate husband, and ye’ll make me agood wife. We've day trying to find something to cat. But his search hail Iscn a complete failure, and late in the afternoon he flew home, weak and disconsolate, andTlmrtxd feebly onto his perch, about ready to drop with fatigue and hunger. Ho-was tnuirly ready to drop when he dctectiHl a dead aheep which Providence had nlaocd over in the bushep. He.climbed down from his perch, hoj>{)ed over and managed to climb up on tlie sheep. There he pecked anil jicckrtl aud pocked awav until his little craw was filled with nutritious, if /-unsavory,-food. Then he felt nrucli better. He flapped his wings and hoppl'd nimbly about, and finally flew hack to his pFrch. Then his little throat swelled witli gratitude and he sang all the songs he knew and tried to sing several he didn’t know, when a hunter came along, leveled his gun and shot him.’ .“The old gentleman seemed to have finished his story. ‘But the moral. What is the moral?’asked the young mail- “/Tlie moral, my young friend, is: If you wjll eat carrion, don’t crow over it.’ ”—Washington Post. Utorery >lglit Owls; The deceased Jefferson Davis figured conspicuously among thpse literary workers who are at their best in the nocturnal hours, and he reserved these hours for his labors with the nett throughout almost his wholo life, liv ing to be over eighty. - In saying this we do not mean to in vite all literary workers to imitate what is a seeming reversal of the order of nature. It would be fatal to some temperaments, aud is probably a mat ter of temperament jaltogether. For active, technical work the day is most inspiring, a» ©pinion which night editors on the newspapers of the world vrill probably indorse. But for poetry, philosophical and reliectiyo- work, which calls the subjective facul ties most intS- play, the bulk of the world’s great 1 iterury producers have generally used the midnight oil for flbeir best touches. All this does not militate against nature’s general law of life and health, which appoints the day for work and CurivK* OeflnllluM. Many of tlie definitions In the En glish dietionnrr of 1626 are amusing, ami some of them ludicrously absurd. Tlie “pole” is described as “tlie end of tlie azletree whereon tlie heavens do move," a very primitive explonf tion. The “Hobridnau wax*#” seems rather a poetic sulietitut# for the Irish wo. and a “badger” Is a still more ex traordinary equivalent for a com mer chant—“one that buys come or other victual in one place to. sell it in an other.” Still funnier arc some of the notu ral Idstory definitions. A ‘ ‘baboon” is said to be “a beast like on ape, bat feur© bigger;" n “lynx” is “a spotted beast—it hath a most jiojfoct sight, in sotuuoh as R is said It con see thorow a wall.” The account of tlh> “ealamon dcr” reads like gn elaborate Joke—“a small, venomous beast will) fours feet and a short toile; it lives in tho fire, and at lengtli, by Ids extreme cold, {sits out the fire.” Turning to more general topics we havu tlie “aipliahet” defined os the “cross rowe of letter*, M «uul “an alsMtr dorian” is “one xvho teaolics tho cross rowe.” Then from classic time* tho “Olym pic games” are “solemn games of activ ity,” and “Ampliitritei is not, as usual, tho goddees of tlie sea, but the “sea 1 itself. , “Mathematicks” and “mathe maticians” are hardly dealt xvith. The latter means “a soothsayer,” and tlie science as defined includes nearly all kagwlodge^—“the arts of arithmetic, musick, geogruphie, goometrie, astron omy, astrology, cosmography,” remind ing one of the trivium and quadrivium of the school men of the Middle Ages. “Actresse” has a very literal and inter- ifffing signification—“U woman doer,” but at tills decade of the Seventeenth century there were no actresses In tho modem sense of the term, the female parts being then taken by boys or young men. Women actors first ap peared in 1660.—Chambers’ Journal. Thorough. A close fisted man who wished to build a picket fence round his grounds linggled long with the village carpen ter, an excellent workman, about the cost of erecting it. At last the carpen ter agreed to build a certain sort of fence for a sum much lower than he had originally asked, and was told to “Go ahead.” When a dozen yards of the fence hoc been built the owner of the grounds saw that it was a much better job than he had contracted for. “See here,” said he to the carpen- 'ter, “you don’t suppose Tin going to pay for such a high priced job as that, do you?” “No, I don’t,” answered the median lc; “you’ll pay what you agreed to ant I’ll do tho Job to suit myself; I donV scant my work, even if I don’t get ful pay for it.”—Youth’s Companion. Rite 'Hit* Stopped Sliop Talk at Table. Watchmaker (during dinner in a New York boarding house)—No, sir; there is nothing tougher than the**pring steel used in watches. Landlady (innocently)—Mr. Uhrair. aclter, won’t you try scone of the spring lamb??-Jewelers’ Weekly. A firm faith is the best divinity; a good life Jfhe b«»t plntcsophy; a clear- conscience the btU law; honesty the best policy. • ■, C,: .V » ' "W- . ; tljrougli and go merrily on with her work, os tlie hair pin has saved her tho trouble of going downstairs for a bod kin. Many Ultlo things she wishes to hang un and of ten has no Lacks handy ; she will break off apiece of a hairpiu aud make it answer for a lack, and when bent into the shape of the letter 8 it will suspend fancy articles from gas fixtures, anil by twisting the book it can bo made to hang just asdesired. Home one gives a great pud at tha door Udi umLbreaks thu wire- ratlier than hare enRsw* ksuwb we kiaa oatha door, a woman will hunt that break, find itxuid take a hairpiu and splio* tlie wire, and the lief) is in order again:. Hornetime* the wire t lint hinds Uie ribs of on uiiihreliu to the stork >reaks; this can easily be mended with a hairpin by stringing Uiu wires on it and moving the cap down and twisting the hairpin close, and it is done. A woman, with the aid of a pair of pin cers, can easily do this herself. Tha hairpin often serves both as ashossud love buttouer. House plants out W ept in a healthy ^onditiini all winter by* using a hairpin once a week to. loosen the soil iu the )ioU. It is said that oorns should never be cut with a knife, but whoever rend that cunis sliouid not be pricked with a hairpin? Iu ibis operation lacHea prefei a hairpin to a knife. Corks in small bottlnscun be drawn by iuserUng the pHnt* of a hairpin in the cork al the C pcr angle and giving a little pull. nn wicks sliouid never be trimmed with knife or scissors. Die hotter plan is to smooth off'tbe dun red portion with a hairpin. U will iusufis a better light and the wick wil! Iasi twice us long. Tlie hairpin eon be beht into a fmme for artificial cobwebs, which is' quite a lltriainias novolty. 1/ Uie steak or Osh broiler or bread toaster cornea a;iart a hairpin is all that is ij4ce«iary to make it servieealils again. There Is scarcely a lady bat carries a little hairpin iu her pocket- book. It is a woman’s little friend and constant companion, and as ever ready iu case of an emergency when oUkt tools are not con reuicnUy at baud.—Philadelphia Times. - Tlie New' York Flxchao^o for Wom an's Work has been in existence eleven years, and its growth and pros perity liave been steady and contin ued. It is the pioneer of such outer- prises, and not onljrhas it beeomo successful itself, but can now count up sixty-four exchanges iu different pulls of this country and Canada which have been modeled after H and have started out with the same by laws. The object of fhe exchange has 1 from tlie first to aid imp ' gentlewomen, who tbrougi tune have been obliged to _ bread winners. There are now 2,300 names of consignors enrolled on its books, and it has paid out to these eonngnors,, whose numbers steadily increase, almost a million dollars, be sides the salaries, paid to its employes at its rooms, No. 322 Fifth avenue. There arc now fifteen gentlewomen employed at the rooms, and these re ceive better salaries and better treat ment than women in similar positions iu tlie city shops. The hours of ^rorii are the same, but the conditions art infinitely better, and each one is gives} a month's teuyc of absence op salary during the summer. The consignors, os the women who offer work for sale are colled, have a most kindly “middleman,” for this is precisely the j>oeitiou tho exchange oc cupies. Its affairs are managed by a board of forty f womeu, divided into va rious subcommittees. Although the exchange conducts its busmens oat a business, not-a charitable, basis, it is not wholly self supporting. The rear sou is that it has steadily refused tp charge more than 10 ;)er cent, eoaa- mission for the sale of goods, a rote at which a merchant would expect to face insolvency in six mouths. - Although desirable, self not held to be tlie mpsi imj of Uie exchange. That is tho opt. C. of a market for the work of n^etl> men, without grinding down worker, as is done by the slo^ « ing shops; to give each consignor a chance to sell her Work at a - price fer her laborX-Agnes B. bie in Harper's' ~ , That Hair Cut. Wife (to husband)—Take Johnnie to the barber's He wonts his hair cht ter ribly bad. Husband—Come akng, Johnnie; my barber’ll give you cut.—-Epoch. Vt»* sane i sanity a big pbqr come that, fillup IF