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/ "Vol. ?5. 1 Under a ?pell, BY 11AZEL WOOD. It was late when Goorge Atwood arrived at Mrs. Ilallcck's party. There was quite a brilliant company present, and Mr. Atwood stood near the door to scan the throng. Kvidontly lie was looking for some bodv?yes, for his eyes rested now on n young A girl with a beautiful face up-] turned to a fair, hvndsome man bonding over the back of her ohair. Sho seemed in a trance of delight and wholly unconscious of anybody's presence in the brilliantly lighted parlors but the man bonding over her. And this girl was George At wood's \ promised wife. OVhen his qyes rested on her, an jVul change ciKne over his face, the dark color lied, leaving it white fid rigid, and his lips formed a tense lino under his heavy, dark beard. For days past George At wood watched Ida ChaUis, his intended wife. lie knew that Ida loved.him devotedly, and he tried not to watch her; lie tried not to notice Alfred May's attention to her, but as he caught sight of her face, when ho entered Mrs. 11alleek's parlor, la; know that ho ought to have kept a hotter watch over her than he did. One glance at her face told him all. Alfred Mav possessed the fascination of a serpent and lie had drawn Ida into his meshes. George Atwood turned away with an inward groan. 11c loved Ida passionately; her love seemed lost to him, yet he could not think of giving her I "P"Mr. Atwood is here,'' Alfred May said, looking down at Ida Challis. The radiant face grew pale, and Ida shivered as she looked around her. She had fallen from her world of bliss, and she was once more in Mrs. Ilalleck's crowded salon. I , "Did you say Mr. Atwood was here? Where is he?" she asked in a low voice. "Yes he was here a moment ago. I saw him looking savagely in this direction; I do not seo him anywhere now," and ;Mr. May laughed musi\ cully, changed the conversation, and in another minute Ida's face was upturned and tosy once more. A quadrille was forming, and a gentleman came to claim Ida foi the dance. Away from Alfred May, and the glamour his presence cast over her partly vanished. She thought of her lover. Where was he? Did he notice anything wrong i - in her conduct toward Alfred May? If he was in the room why didn't ho 4 come to her? These thoughts flashed through Ida's mind as she waited for the first figure to be called, and happening \ to turn her head, she saw her lover I standing 011 the opposite side of the room, his eyes fastened upon her. One glance at his livid face and k everything in the illuminated parlor fl seemed whirling round her. / ) The dance waef-over. Ida never (could tell how she got through it. The heat of the room was suffocat* ing to her, and when her partner left her, after leading her back to ?' J her scat, she rose and staggerod Over to one of the windows that opened out upon the balcony. As she stepped into the deep recess of the window she let the curtain fall behind her, shutting in the r' light, and heat, and whirl. How delightful and c&d it was out here! The shining stars looked down at her from their deep-blue setting through the open window. But Ida v ' did not shut herself out in the darkness to gaze at the stars. She threw herself into a chair which occupied the recess, and buried her face in I her hands. I iif\U T ID -1 i viij n iiui> ii> iviciuii i illlli IjllO moaned. "(JoofV* suspects 1 think more of another than I do of him. Heaven help me! IIow is this going to end?" Little Ida dreamed that before [*-*9 many minutes she would know how it was going to end. As she asked herself that question voices came to her from the balcony without. Ida's head was erect in an instant. A lady and gentlemen were speaking on the balcony. Ida did not wish to sit and listen to what was not intended for her ears, but the man's 55 ~ cojntw voice held hor spell-bouud, and she leaned forward to catch every word that fell from his lips. "What absurd ideas, to be sure!" the man was saying, in his lightest tones. "Absurd! How can you say so?" said the lady's voice hotly. "Anybody can see that you are trying to conic between George Atwood and his intended wife." "Trying to conic between them!" and Alfred May laughed derisively* "Ah! you mean that you have already accomplished it? Yes, everybody says that you must have fascinated Miss Challis?that she loves you is no longer a secret.'* "She loves me! Then more fool she for her pains, for, my dear, I have no affection to waste on anybody but your own sweet self." Ida listened to no more. For days she had been under a spoil, but it was shattered at last. She fell back in her chair, buried her hands once more, and groaned aloud. At that moment the heavy curtains parted, and George Atwood stepped into the recess. "Ida, what ails you?" and he rested his hand lightly on her shouldor. "Oh, don't touch mo?don't speak to'nie!" she cried, drawing away from him with a shiver. "George, I am not worthy a kind word from your lips." "Heaven forbid, Ida, that a word should fall from my lips but in kindness to you. It is too late to consure you now. He happy if you can; but ob, Ida"?and the strong man's voice shivered "it is so hard to give you up. If Alfred May was a good man?" "Alfred \iiiv i< ;i Hnrnimlrnl mid 1 httto lii 111?I hate myself! Oil, George if von know how wretched I am!" and Ida hurst into tears. "Ida!" cried George, in joyful astonishment, "I thought you loved Alfred May!" "George, I've acted foolishly?I've done wrong; but oh, I'm so sorry!" said Ida, between her sobs. "My darling!" and George clasped her in his strong arms, "let us forget the past ftw weeks of our existence." An Incongruous Family. Wilmington Messenger. Mr. S. Van Aniringc, of this city, who has a residence 011 the Sound at Wrightsville, tolls us a singular and interesting story that is, however, not a story as the word is popularly construed. About six weeks ago a turtle nest was found 011 the beach at Ocean View and Mr. Van Amringe conceived the idea of putting some of the turtle eggs under a duck which began setting about that time. About eight days ago the duck hatched out seven ducks and eight turtles and the incongruous brood by this singular incubation are as happy a family as can be imagined. A pool was constructed in the yard for them and the little ducks and little turtles occupy it in congenial association and uj> to this writing foliow the mother duck around together on the best of terms. Nothing is fed to the little turtles but they are growing and thriving fast and some of these days they may take a notion to eat up the duck part of the family and then go hack to their natural elements by crawling away to the sound near by and thence make their way to the ocean. Suit Against Sam ?Jonos. A suit against Rev. Sam Jones and the Montgomery Christian Union lias put religious circles in Montgomery, Ala, in confusion. Last fall during the progress of Sam Jones' meeting at the tabernacle the wind blew almost a gale, and one of the electric light lamps, with which one of the streets was lighted, fell and struck Wm. Uogerson on the leg, burning him greatly. The glass also struck Mr. Kogerson's little hoy and cut him. Efforts have been miwla l\xr 1 UvaiiwU iiiiiMv MJ IOVIIJ uiiun^n ma torneys, to get payment for the loss of time and suffering, but without avail. Mr. Jones wrote that he was not running an accident insurance company. As a result a suit has been brought for #10,000 by Gen. J. S. llolzclaw and H. C. Burk, Rogerson's attorneys, against Sam Jones and a large number of gentleman of the Christian Union. ? - ? / \ n ? j + \ i . ' jpkALD. /.' \>k : jn SE AY,fe. C, T And Here is a Legal Question. Iticlilund Court Suddenly and Abruptly Cnded. JUDGK ERASER AG It EES WITH A NOVEL POINT OF A COLUMBIA LAWYE 11?TilK JURIES, DRAWN AS USUAL, PECLA U KI> ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS. The StHtp. The .1 lino form i\f f Lu t !om?f r\f General Sessions for Uichlaml County camo to a sudden termination yesterday in a manner which is causing considerable stir among the members of the Columbia bar and will no doubt CUU80 much discussion all over the State. On the call of the caso of the State vs Wado I laities, charged with the murder of Miss Florence llornsby, the defense moved for a continuance 011 the ground of the absence of a material witness. The .Judge ruled that tho term was the second term at which the caso had been called, refused to grant the continuance and directed a bench warrant to issue for the absent witness. The defendant. then challenged the array of jurors on several grounds. Messrs. C. A. Douglass and Allen J. Green, attorneys for the prisoner, attacked the validity of the grand and petit jury on tho ground; first, as to the petit jury, that the general statutes in making provisions for the empaneling of the jury requires that the panel shall consist of thirty-six good and lawful men to serve thereon; that the panel of petit jurors was illegal in that there were two names on same which made t he panel defective, as it contained the name of one person who had been dead for many years and the name of another juror who was exempt by law from serving, also that the return of the sheriff on the venire facias showed that the affidavit as to service was made by himself, (J. \V\ Jamison, W. TI. Coleman and J. W. Hammond in the following language: Who upon oath, say that the excution of the foregoing writ of venire facias appears by the schedule thereto annexed; that they personally served those persons oppcrite whose name in said panel is marked I'. 8., ami those persons opposite whoso name is marked 8. I/., summonses wero left at their place of residence or business, and those persons opposite whose name is marked N. K. I.i could not he found in Kichland County. Mr. Douglass, after reading the section of the general statutes bearing upon this point, construed it as meaning that the sheriff must in person serve the venire facias upon the jurors, or by regularly appointed deputies in writing, the fact of which appointments must appear either on the veniro or by some certificate of the sheriff attached to the venire that the deputies were appointed according to law in writing. Ho submitted that the venire in question did not show that the three persons who assisted the sheriff in serving the notices had any connection whatsoever with the sheriff's oflice. And as an additional ground of objection to the legality or the jurors drawn in obedience to the writ of venire facias the General Statutes, section 2, 240, distintly says that in cases where jurors cannot be found, and are not served personally, they must be served by leaving the certificate or notice at their places of abode, whereas, in this instance, the affidavit of the sheriff says that these certificates or notices were left either at the plase of abode or at the place of business. The illegality of the grand jury was attacked by Mr. Douglass on 41< i 4lw,4 ! -I buu giuunvt uiitii nitj vunirc uiiuri which that body was drawn and which the grand jury had found a true nill against the defendant before the court was not a lawful venire, and was fatally defective in that it had not attached to it the 3eal of the court. In support of this position Air. Douglass cited the case of the State vs. Dozier and said that the present grand jury was summoned to serve for the term and not by the year. Judge Frascr sustained the positions taken by the counsel as to the manner of service upon the jurors, / Word, Your Work and You THURSDA that the sheriff's affidavit that the papers had been served at (he places of business was not sufficient, and that it ought to have been as pro vided by statute?left at the places of residence where the notices are not served personally, and that it ought to appear on the face of the venire that the parties who assisted the sheriff in summoning the jurors were the sheriff's deputies. That they did not so appear on the venire, and that he could not go outside of what appeared on the paper; that, therefore, he would quash the panel of petit jurors. With reference to the question raised as to il._ ...i i i- . 1 i i .i i urn giunu jury uiu juugo stutcu mat ho would give that ::::?M:er further consideration, for if he should come to the conclusion that the panel should bo quashed it would necessitate the talcing of steps to get a new grand jury for the next term of the court. IX CONSTANCY. "All I hope of mortal man Is to love mo, whilst he can." In modern society there is such a constant change, such a running to and fro on the face of the earth, that most people have very little time for a constant friendship. A few weeks or a few days in a country-house will make people very intimale, and the sanguine young heart will often fix its deep affection on some person who has a hundred other admirers, and who, go id naturedlv expressing esteem, misleads the object of it into thinking that politeness ami congenial views of things will lead to a deeper and enduring liking. Hut. often the next comer effaces that impression, and the very qualities that attract are precisely those that make up for any loss of t he beloved society. Silently and alone, the tender heart mourns for one that, it thought its brother, and hungers for sympathy, applause, and comfort, convened 1 liivliioti liny 1 1ml k'litiW KI1 well It.iW "I ? j to speak from a brain so capable of ministering to the yearning for love and fellowship which it had inspired and noted. Most inconstants will plead that their fault is excused by their possesion the. nature of the "Last Duchess They have a "heart too soon made glad, too easily impressed, and it would perhaps astonish most moralists if they knew how many in the present day would plead that excuse. Many young ladies defer their marriage, secretly owning to themselves that they are afraid lest they should marry the wrong person, and meet, after the decisive act, some one whom they loved better. Almost all youngnien, if tolerably good-natured and politely bred, are ready to fall in love with any girl, and as ready to fall out of love, too. The consummate knowledge of the human heart which was given to Shakespeare, has made him picture Romeo, that type of an Italian lover warm as the sunset skies of his own fair land, as actually in love with another lady when ho meets Juliet. In the first scene of the play his words to Renvoiio are: "Farewell! thou canst not teach me to for get." And yet, in a sconce or two further r?i> lin lma mponttftii I'ou-iliml foe Juliet! Such is the charm of the play that the ordinaly reader thinks nothing of his inconstancy. Warm and excitable natures that love intensely Jove with constancy; their passion is like a lire among thorns, it soon goes out, yet it is very tierce during its continuance. They do not. deem themselves inconstant, but would sooner lay the fault on others than fhemeolves. Inconstancy in the lover presupposes a want of power in the victim or sufferer, as well as a variation in the guilty party. As a rule, a man marries not the actual woman that ho sees, hut the ideal that lie has formed of that woman; and she, on her part, would be wise if she acted upon that ideal. I'lvcn the most fickle of all people, the French, demand constancy, at I. . ~ i U ~ r 1.1. ^ . * f, rni_i luiijji open uiu part or inu wnt!. i lint devoted being, abandoned, betrayed, left in poverty and misery, turns out at the end of the play to be true and constant to the miserable, flighty, selfish, and self-indulged butterfly who runs after every new face, and who does all ho can to show how contemptible a man can make himself. There is, however something to be said for the iuconstants. They _Jay Oould narrowly escaped betj, (Jqi^ m'r hy a t,:i*n ,l^ Irvington. Cllm/?e's coudippn -s .Y,/J"XJl^Y :\ are w/ak, and to bo weak is to be miserable; they have no faith and ( no firmness; they are limp people, without a moral backbone; they love change; their very appetites are not constant; they grow tired of house, places, towns, and persons. They -j admire strongly at first, but soon fall oil. If they are the lirst to come '1 they are the firt to go. They have, h for the most part, simple, child like a natures, a wide perception of charac- 1 tor, and a delight in what is beauti- c ful, !So it is in friendship and in 1 love; if wo are fixed in our affections 'I wo bring to the loved person that t which we luvc. t The reward, as well as the merit, is in ourselves. Truth is one. Love c demands one sacrifice alone, but that one is the whole heart- a rich dowry, i if given truly, but a poor, contemp- t tilde heritage if cut up and divided I between many. v Of all the pangs of which humani- 1 ty is susceptible, jealousy is the worst a frequently it is an effect without t cause a monster engendered in the e imagination of its victim, feeding a upon its heart and brain. r It withers the rose upon (ho check a of beauty, dethrones reason from its judgment-seat, and gives the reins o to passion. If is the punishment of a tantalus without his crime. To the u jealous min i madness would be a ro- d lief and death a blessing. t< Jealousy is a passion against which persuasion and argument are o vain; (he proofs which convince hut A tend to confirm its fatal error. n All attachments subside after a p ti 1110 hut such as are founded on the v solid basis of congenial tastes, dispo- a sitions, and pursuits. li We look back with anguish on t< | many things, but on none with such o bitterness of heart as on the unkind- si ness of those who were once kind. e liciil f rinndshin is no onmnion blessing. Love is but ;i more agree- a able modification of selfishness. I When its object ceases to give pleas- e arable sensations,love takes its rapid flight; but friendship, sublime friend- t skip, outlives deformity, age, and n disease.?Laura .lean Libbey. i (foil Bless Tlie Cranks. The Chicago Herald. I It is by 110 means the worst thing i in the world to be called a crunk. I find as 1 prowl up and down through the earth that wherever 1 meet a r man with sufficient individuality to r take a stout stand against impurity ,, and shams of every kind, too honest ^ to get rich by underhanded methods H and too brave to be a cowardly conformist, lie is called a crank. Wher- s over a woman is found who thinks c] more of her brain than of the hat ^ that surmounts it, she is a crank. ^ Wherever a man is found who hon- s estly believes that life holds hotter v things than to become a dancing t popinjay and a social success by reason of fine clothes and society man- c ners, who would rather wear a shiny 0 seamed coat and an unfashionable <. hat, and thus gain the means to cultivate his mind and enlarge his soul, ho is a crank. Wherever a young : erirl is found who hun/hs at fashion _ ?=? o - il and wears a gown to please herself, j rather than to conform to a passing ^ style, who stands by a friend at the (j risk of becoming unpopular, and who j, is a law unto herself by the dictates ^ of her own pure, sweet, womanly heart, she is a crank. Christopher s Columbus was a crank, and yet Chioago, after 400 years, is turning j itself head over heels to do him a honor. Ah, well, my dear, when c you count on your lingers the world's c famous cranks and note the outcomo j of their crankiness, who would not }| choose but go down upon the dc- (] spiscd list? A Practical Prayer. A little girl went shopping the oilier day with her mother, who making purchases at various stores gave as the parting word, "Please charge them to my husband. 2G street." At night the little girl, half asleep and tired out, said, in conclusion. "I pray God to bless my mother and my father, ami my little brother, and send bill to papa, S?G, street." -+ ?At a Pittsburg lire the hose kinked and escaped control knocking firemen down and into the Allegheny river. V Domini JJIL iick8*tf. si/iv I'll \ClvST< 0,l< / ^ ^ ^ ^/w t IcIoimIh His Cmiiso in Comiec* 1 I foil W iih Tlmt Paper?II? Cites Instances ot Journals In c Oilier States Itun by Stipcrin- t ten dents of Kdueution. j r 'ho Charleston World. Columbia, Juno 22.?Mr. \V. J. * 'hackston has waited long to make ^ lis reply to the charges brought 1 gainst him in connection with the 1 'alinetto School Journal only to re- 1 eivea certain announcement which ic wished to publish in his journal. < 'hat announcement was about the ( eachcrs trip to Chattanooga, Toron- ^ J ^...1 ! MM 1 i U, ClU., aim 18 pUOIlSIlCU LO-ClUy. ' Mr. Thnckston's reply to the ] barges is as follows : The editor and owner of the Pal- 1 nctto School Journal has been made he target for some sharp shooting >y a number of newspapers, many of vhom have attempted to attribute to ' dm the lowest and meanest motives, 1 ,ml have labored painfully to show hat not only this Journal and its ( ditor but also ot hers have attempted , high-handed game of treason and ohbery, and are guilty of jobbery ml incipient rottenness. The acts of the publication and its wner and editor arc always unionhie to a just and fair public sentilent. Nothing has been done in the ark. There has never bten any atmipt to conceal anything. The Journal came into possession f its present, owners some time last 1 [arch. Homo negotiations were 1 uulc with a gentleman who is a : rinter in Columbia, looking to- ! uvrds the printing of the Journal 1 ml becoming interested in the pub- 1 cation in order to advertise his goods .) teachers. No agrcemont was reach- 1 d. Since that time no ono hut inyclf has in any manner boon interestd in the Journal financially or othrwisc. No one has been solicited in ny manner, directly or indirectly, to icconie interested financially or othrwise. ll was with a nrofund conviction hut such a publication could bo nude a great power for good in the mprovement of the administration >f the affairs of the schools in tho State, that induced me to assume the mblication of tho Journal. This >elief was strengthened by the expeience of other States. The Pennsylvania School Journal, iow about GO years old, is the most lot able instance and is the oilicial rieans of communication between ho department of education and chool officers. At one time in Virginia the stato uperintendent of education made a lirect contribution from state funds o the support of the school publicaion of that State. I am not in a poition to say, but think the amount vas something like one third of its otal expenses. The State superintendent of edu lation of Arkansas is associato editor ?f the journal of education of that >tate. A former state superintendent of ducation of Alabama was jointed- * tor of the Educational Exchange, nd conducted an official department u the same. Ho still retains his inerest and edits the publication in [iistion, while an ofticial department i conducted by the present superin- 1 endent of education of that state. i A careful study of the schools and i chool system of the state, as well as ,n experience of six or more years uul lead to the belief that a better dministration of tho affairs of the ommon schools, under the present ircuinstancc can only be had by givng the trustees more light and more issistancc in tho discharge of their lutics. The only question was how to each some 2,100 trustees, according o report of superintendent of edncaion for 1800. After a good deal of thought the d in whioh has brought so much nath upon my head was deemed easiblo by mo and a proposition to hat effect was mado to the State >oard of examiners. The result of this was announced n a doublo leaded page in tho April mmbor of the journal fn. 263^ whinh vas published about tho last of Apil or first of May. This announcement was followed by a circular lotor which has been published. That L>lan was one I conceived to bo the jest to"Jeffcct tho cuds ucsired. It / Sr f . >' ^ . \, - ? JSTo. 5Q. ( yas not in any manner concealed or tidden. There was no scheming to filch mony from the taxpayers to get somehing for nothing. In no way were rustees forced to take the journal, rhe matter was entirely voluntary, irst with tho commissioners, then vith the trustees. If any persons or lewspapcrs desire to impugn the uithoritv of tho state board of ex imincrs the courts are open. The Journal has nover contained )ne lino that could in any manner be construed as political or partisan. Nothing lias been done that could bo construed to be an attempt to "boom" politically or otherwiao any person. It's aim is openly and avowedly for the promotion of he educational interest of the state. The most searching investigation is cordially invited. The result will show that in no thought or act, have any but the purest motives for the best interests of the common schools of the State, prompted by any action as an individual or otherwise. The above is a plain simple statement of tho facts and with these noted I am quite willing to bo judged by a fair minded and discriminating public. W. J. Thackston. Superintendent Johnson was seen by The World-Budget representative to day, and in speaking of the matter Mr. Johnson said that there was nothing unusual in the board of examiners endorsing a journal and authorizing county treasurers to pay for if out of the school funds. He mid that within his own experience us member of tho board several(map8 and charU had boon adopted just as tho journal was, and treasurers were authorized to pay for them for county boards. BEGINNING OP THE END. . / Kansas Alliance Politicians Quarrelling Amoiig Tlieranelves. The State. New York, June 23.?A special to the Sun from Leavenworth, Kansas, says: In every county where the Alliance has nominated candidates for offices thus far there has been a wrangle, with the invariable result of a split. Tho defeated factions immediately withdraw from the party and declare their intention of returning to the old parties. Many reasons are assigned for this inharmonious sentiment, chief among which seems to be a lack of good leadership. The Alliance is in a sorry plight and its days in Kansas as a political party are numbered. Better Than Ice Water. In Great Britian, for toilers in hot places and heavy labor, as in e. .1 ? .1 ! . ?ii i i .. ioununes iina iron mm, n anna is recommended that is pronounced better than ice water; better thau the foaming ale when it is brown, bettor ihan beer or any of the mild drinks by which hot and thirsty men cool their throats. This is simply oatmeal water. It is made in a small quanity by putting two tablespoonsfnl of oatmeal into a glass and then stirring in cold water. When the mixture is settled the liquid is drunk off it. This drink is more refreshing than either beer or simple water. The oatmeal in it is nourishing, so that the man who takes it gets both food and drink. The iron workers throughout Europe use this preparation, and the temperate men among them declare that it is much better than either ale, beer or porter. To make it in larger quantities, add slightly over half a pound of oat meal to a gallon of water. Among the laborers in tho Brooklyn navy yard this is tho popular drink, 21 pounds of the meal being stirred into an ordinary pail of cold water. The ice water season is at hand, bringing with it dyspepsia, tho sudden chilling of the blood, tho decay of the teeth and all the other ills that doctors dealirfi nrp. nil the imbibing of tbia favorito American beverage. Instead of the iced water, instead even of the iced beer, try the oatmeal drink just cool enough to taste agreeable.-?Idle Hour. ?John Brooks, of Waldron, Mich., celebrated his 106th birthday anniversary this week in good health. k M *