The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 08, 1894, Image 4
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<Duv .family Story.
The End of Her Waiting.
BY KLLF.N F. WYCOFF.
It wa? a now scnsution to Dolly?tl?in
l>erfeet, beautiful happiness. Itseoiued
to her that some wonderful new
brightness must have settled down
over the world.
And it was only this morning that
she had dusted the old brown dross and
tried to brighten it with a fresh collar
and pink bow. Only this morning - j
scarcely twelve hours ago?she had
pinned on the brown hat, with its dejected
" droopv " bows, and wondered j
if she must walk about under it all the
summer. And now it was all away
back in that pitiful past !
For at noon a telegram had eotue for
her. She was eating her lunch, so
daintily put up by Aunt Harriet, when
the tnossemror-hov oamn into t.lw? '
back room of the millinery store and
handed her a yellow envelope. And
the opening of it whs all that lay Ihjtwoen
the old world and the new. .lust
that tiny isthmus of time l>otweon the
old life and the now. Kvorything was
changed as by magic, and she wanted
to take the freckled-faced boy in her
arms and kiss him then and there : but
instead, she wrote her name in the
book he held out to her. and when ho
was gone, she read the scrawling lines
again.
" it is all right. Coming to-morrow.
Rohert."
That was all : hut oh, the meaning of
it '. It mount an end to the years of
weary waiting. It meant comfort and
happiness and rest and the fulfillment
of countless lovely dreams. It meant
everything to the woman who had
waited and waited for her weddingday.
And it mount thutiun heir hud boon
found at lust by tho puzzled lawyers,
und that tho fortune of tho old Western
minor would no longer go a-begging
for some one to use it. For tho
miner's will hud called for "tho son of
my friend Garrison Brent," und Robert
was the fortunate man
Dolly's hands wore not quite steady
that ufternoon, when she fitted one
after another of tho pretty huts over
her Cousin Kitty's yellow bungs, and
Kitty was hard to please.
" You ain't interested, Dolly : your
eyes are dreamy. Do you know Robert
Is coming home ? Amy told mo *, they
had a telegram. He is tho heir : isn't
he rich ? Rut he's hud u hard time
taking cure of his mother und sisters
und Mrs Brown's children. That one
is a little too close; try a Muring
brim."
Dolly brought another hut und patiently
laid the blue feathers around it.
"Maybe you'll ho getting married
now," l<itty said, smiling under tho
drooping plumes, "bow that Robert is
u rion man."
Dolly flushed and bont over tho hats
on the counter.
" It looks like it's time," Kitty wont
on, " if you are engaged, as people say.
But long engagements rarely ever end
in marriage, mother says. Yes, this
one will do. Get it ready by Sunday,
Dolly: and I nearly forgot?mother
told mo to ask if Aunt Harriet is
through with her headache."
And when Dolly hud answered,
pretty, dimpled, rosy-cheeked, yellowhaired
Kitty tripped out of the store.
But it was not of her pretty cousin
that Dolly thought now, us she lay in
tho hammock under the low spreading
magnolia-tree down by the gate. She
was resting and thinking of the blessedness
of this now world that had
formed itself about her?the world
that held Robert all her own, and a
home that she would make beautiful
for him.
It was twenty years since Robert,
standing by her under this very tree,
all in blossom then, hud told her the
sweet old story that every maiden must
hear. Twenty years ! She had been a
slio of a girl then, awkwardly conscious
of "her first long dross : and Robert, a
boy scarcely older than herself, had
blushed and stammered over the story
that is never easy to tell.
And then his father had died, and
his mother and sisters; and, later on.
a family of little orphaned nephews
and nieces had been left to him.
Dolly was the lirst to say that they
must wait. She could see how impossible
it would be for Robert to take care of
them all. Me left school and worked
bravely on the old farm, and the waiting
hud gone on.
So twenty years crept away. Dolly
hud remained in her aunt's homo, helping
with the children ut first, and
afterward workine down town fo?< lini>
aunt's daughters needed everything,
now that they were grown up, and
Dolly was used to looking out for herself.
But there had always been the love
that bound her and Hubert to each
other. Not even the slenderest
shadow had ever fallen between them.
And now the waiting was over at
last, and she would bo Robert's wife.
She would rather have waited for this
than to have been a queen long ago.
It seemed to her that the very leaves
knew and trembled, as she did, with
joy; and the stars twinkled down between
them, as if they too, knew all
ubout it.
The town clock struck .ten, and Patty
and Ben came in from the reading
club. They always lingered a little at
the gate, as the manner of lovers is,
you know.
Dolly smiled as the soft murmur of
their voices came to her. Sko wondered
if the poor young things would ever
be as happy as she was then !
And then, as they walked slowly up
the path, words began to grow out of
the soft murmur.
" Bob Brent has struck it. they say,"
lien remarked in his elegant way, and
Patty replied mournfully :
44 Ah, yen. How sorry 1 am for Dolly !
Poor faithful, loving Dolly !"
44 Sorry ? Why isn't she in it? I
thought they were?"
44 Why, Ben," Patty broke in, with
tears in her little babyish voice, "can't
you see that Dolly is only a faded
middle-aged woman now, while Robert
is in his prime?the handsomest man
in town ? And haven't you noticed
how he admires Kitty ? It was all well
enough when ho couldn't marry ; but
now "
But the words were indistinct again :
Dolly heard no more.
She had risen from the hammock and
was standing, white and still, in the
glare of the electric light. The stars
were mocking her now up above the
lower light, and the breezes wore
whispering of the twenty years that
had rolled over her, carrying her
freshness away.
Ben saw her there when ho came
down to the gate, and bowed with a
cheery 44 flood night, Miss Dolly," and
went whistling his newest favorite
down the street.
Then Dolly crept to her room.
44 And I would nave let him do it! I
never wouid have thought of the
change' Oh, tho shame, the humiliation
of it! To think that I, a faded
middle-aged woman, would have held
him to the promise made to a fair
young girl twenty long year* ago 1 lie
was too true and noble to lot me know,
too tender to hurt me. If only 1 had
eon ! It is all so different with
women, but I never thought of it Imv
fore. It would not matter to mo how
changed Robert might l>o: I'll love
him only more, if ho needed more.
Hut he is grandly handsome and and
he must have a?a young, pretty wife.
It is l>est, I see that?Iiest for lioliert
and for her and for ino : for I couldn't
beat* to have him sorrv or?or ashamed."
She loosed her dress at the throat
and pressed her hands against her
temnfes.
" Ho mustn't i>o?usliamod of ins?
wife, dear faithful Robert. lie must l>e
happy, now that the world is brighter
for him. 1 can l>oar it?for him/'
And then she wrote a letter, and,
when it was finished, she knelt by her
bedside : and the stars twinkled in and
the breezes fauned her pale ealtn face.
Faded V OI?. the beauty of it us she
knelt there giving up all she held
dear ! What are dimples ami all fresh
prettiness to a beauty like that'( You
only get to the soul aftor theso are gone.
In tho morning, before any of the
household was awake, she took the let
tor ami carried It out to the mail-box
on tho corner ; and then who wont to
the hammock under the magnolia, and
watched tho Bun rise down at the end
of tho cross street.
Presently the guto latch clicked,
j and then a pair of strong arms folded
| themselves about her and her head
was on Robert's broad shoulder, and he
! was telling her how he had longed for
her, and what an ago the last week had
been.
I " You would have been sorry for me,
Dolly," ho was saying : " for, in my
hurry getting otT, I left your last photograph
in the pocket of the coat I'd
1 been wearing, and there was only
| the childish little thing taken
twenty years ago ! Forgive me, dear,
but its more like your little silly-faced
Cousin Kitty than like you. There,
don't be vexed?1 know you are not
very like her now ; hut, between us, I
believe you wore in those first days,
though it is hard to think of inv beautiful
full-blown rose as anything less
lovely and sweet than she is now. But
you will soon be my very own, Dolly,
and I shan't be missing a photograph
when i have you."
Dolly drew her breath. She was in
, till' lli'W wai'lrl !iir,.iii
- - ? " * "? "h1*1 (
"Do you really want mo, Robert V
who asked, a glad light in her dark-bluo
eyes.
" I'll show you pretty soon. Want
you ? Oh, Dolly !' and then ho went
on, laughing happily as he told her of
his plan.
" I'm coming to-night with Mr. Sims,
and I'm going to claim my wife and
take her away with me. What a jolly
tour ours shall he ! Yes, 1 know there
is always trouble about clothes and
things; hut we won't let that mako the
waiting longer, l'uton the little blue
frock and come away with me. I want
you, and I've waited twenty years : and
now I must hurry to mother and Amy
and the sinall'army of young people. I '11
come for my wife at nine, Dolly. Will
she ho ready
What could she say hut yes V
And then how her happy eyes followed
him as long us his broad shoulders
wore in sight!
Sho stood by the gate until the postman
came to take up the mail, and
then she Hew out to him and begged
for the letter she had dropped through
the slot an hour ago.
"It's against the rules, Miss
Dolly," he said : hut sho hold out her
hand and lifted her pleading eyes to
him, and ho laid the letter across her
palm.
Then the break fast-hell rang, and
uony w?*nt in l(? tell thorn that, her
wedding-day wascotno.?Arthur's Now
Homo .Magazine.
Uattgk kok Commkrcial Supkkhacy,?Is
not the industrial and comi
moroial supromacy of Knglnnd to bo
! transforrod to this country, and what
are some of the forces working to that
end? Of all tho coal mined in the
world from tho beginning of this century
to tho present time that speck
upon tho occun has produced quite
one-half, lier output of coal still exceeds
that of any other country. In
181U she mined .'!(> per cent, of the
world's product, while the Unitd States
produced 3d per cent. This country is
increasing its output of coal at tho
rate of 10 per cent, per annum, while
the increase in Great Britain is less
than 2 per cent, The cost of coal is in
creasing in Groat Britain and decreasing
in this country. Fugluud exports
.'11 per cent, of her total product
of coal, while this country exports
less than 1 per cent, of its product.
This country will in the near future
become a large exporter of coal.
Great Britain has for many years led
all other countries in the production of
I pig-iron, producing,' until of late years,
more than one-half of all the pig-iron
made in the world. Grout Britain
reached her maximum output of iron
in 1882, and this country has doubled
its production since that time, now
producing more iron and steel than
its competitor. In 1807 Great Britain
produced f>2 per cent, of all the iron
made in the world and the United
States produced only 14 per cent. In
18U1 the United States produced .'14
per cent, and Great Britain only .'10
per cent, of the world's product. The
production of iron is increasing in this
country faster than the increase in
population.?John H. Proctor in the
Forum.
What Thky Wn.r. Pay.?Some
illustrations of the effects of the proposed
income tax upon men of means
may he found in the cases of cortoin
prominent men. If the bill passes,
each Congressman will have to pay
Jiti/t ' ? *? * - . - . -
<p-u year. mo i'resident will have to
pay $1120, aiul tho members of the
cabinet will luivo to pay $50 oncli,
while tho Supreme Court justices will
be taxed $120. There are thousands I
of millionaires in the United States,
and each one of them will have to pay
about $1,000 on every million they
own. William Waldorf Astor is said
to have an income of $0,000,000 a year,
and if this is true, bis annual tax will
I amount to more than $180,000, or about
j $15,000 u month. Coilis l\ Huntington
and Russell Sago would bo subject
I to a tax of aliout $50,000 a year and
numerous other millionaires would
have to contribute to the national
treasury princely fortunes annually,
where now they do not pay, all told, as
much taxes as the owner of a $100,000
manufacturing plant.
?A special dispatch from Knoxville,
Tenn., says: "Sixteen Tennessee
soldiors, under indictment for the
murder of a man named Drummond at
Coal Creek, last summer, were freed
yesterday bv the circuit at Clinton,
.'their cases being nolle pressed. This
ends tho notorious Coal Creek war.
Lieut. .1. II. Fyflfo, who commanded
tho troops during two days' bombardment
in 1892, was tho onl/ofllcer indicted."
?Dr. J- Win. Stokes is a candidate to
succeed Judge Brawley in Congress.
mi,L A 111' ON ORAXCCS.
Various Opinion** About tin* Crop Home
IVople Make Money un<l
< >i liei'N l)o Not?Tlie Climate Worth
si oo an Acre, hut the Soil Ih No
<*oo<t.
Atlanta Constitution.
Sot oo jKirtions of wont Florida tiro
still in the piney woods and very lonosomo.
Traveling ovorland I found the
habitations several miles apart on the
main road, hut was told that the little
[ grass-covered roads that branched olT
right ami left led to somebody's house,
where clover people lived and' cultivated
orange trees for a living.
"This is a great country," said a
settler, " where the climate is worth
$100 an aero and the land ain't worth
a darn, it is risky for a man to die
here and be buried for there is not
enough virtue in the soil to make him
rise when Gabriel blows his horn."
"It seems to produce fine oranges,"
said I.
" Yes," said he, "but what's oranges?
The more oranges he nas got the
poorer he is. The price has got down
to about 20 cents a hundred on the
tree, and he can't keep up his grove
for that."
That man was a pessimist, and there
are thousands of them. I found Mr.
Starr packing 2,f>00 Iwixes of his own
crop and ho saiil that his not profit
would be 00 cents u box, and that would
pay him woll on his investment, lie
is an optimist and is increasing his
acreage every year. I found M r.
Itobinson near l.enard with 20,000
trees and ho is entirely content with
his business. His twenty acres of
bearing trees have paid all expenses
of increasing his acreage and all will
be bearing in two years more. Like
I every other trade or calling more de|
ponds on the man than on the business.
Mr. Sampson has shipped thirty
carloads of lemons and is getting rich.
Hut 1 see many neglected groves and
j some that have been abandoned. You
can tell the thrift and industry of a
' man by his orange grove. Then there
are hundreds of groves that belong to
people who live away otT and have got
I tired. They get some poor fellow to
live in the little shanty and look after
I things, and he, perhaps, was born
I tired. The other day we came to
| when; the road forked and not knowing
which to take we drove to a dirty
little hopse not far away for direction.
"Take the right hand," said a big
gray-bearded man with a newspaper
in his hand. " I have to tell somebody
that most every day." " You
might put up a signboard," said I,
"and that would save you the trouble."
"Then they wouhlont drive down hero
to ax mo," said he, " and 1 wouldent
get a chance to hoc 'cm. No, I won't
put up 110 board, for I likes to sou
folks once in a while, specially women."
The poor old man was living there
alone watching a grove.
With constant care and attention
! there is still big money in growing
oranges and always will be. It is a
simple business and is easy and attractive.
Many citizens add to it in a
small ami profitable way by growing
i lemons, limes, grape fruit, shaddocks,
guavas. mangoes, peentos, oumgusl
I oranges and other tropical fruits. 1
have seen acres of easava, from which
tapioca is made. The peontoos, when
ripened on the tree, arc said to be the
; most delicious of all peaches. The
j trees are now in bloom. Strawberries
are just coming into market. The
gardens are supplying us with all
i kinds of vegetables. The woods have
been burned oil and thousands of acres
of low bush palmetto killed, leaving
i uieir groat roots piled across eticli
i oilier in promiscuous confusion/ They
j look like great snakes with alligator
scales on them, hut, of course, they
are not killed and will soon sprout
again and cover the earth with their
fun-shaped leaves.
1 went out in the country to see the
fruits and tiowers of an old lady who
s lives in primitive simplicity and loves
j Florida and her humhlo home and
j cultivates tropical plants for the plca;
sure it gives her and gives those who
1 visit her. 1 cannot give tin; botanical
, names as she gave them to mo, hut
she had more curious plants than i
oversaw before. There was the date
palm and thistle hemp and camphor
' tree and eucalyptus that I remember
j and there was an oleander in bloom
that was nearly a foot in diameter,
j and there was cactus vines running
over the house and tea plants ami cof;
fee plants and many curious tilings
that I never saw before. As for
oleanders, they are common enough
everywhere, and some on the sidewalks.in
Clear Water are twenty feet
high, and are now putting on their
beautiful garments. The liora of
Florida is so easily grown that most
people take little pride in it. What
we grow at homo in greenhouses and
pits will grow and llourish here in the
woods, or oven in the big road if
planted there. Mrs. Clodwin, of Lakeland,
gave mo a bouquet of the finest
roses I ever saw?a bouquet that an
Atlanta swell would have given $f> for
to present to his best girl.
Hut the climate?the elimato on the
gulf coast?tho coast whoro no east
winds prevail?tho oast wirul that
comoB over tho Atlantic ocean and
brings aches and shivers and cold and
asthma and catarrh?the east wind
that was accursed from way back, for
.Job says, 44 lie llllcth his belly with
tho oast wind." If our northern
brethren want it on Indian river lot
them have it, but 1 want some of our
southern folks to come down to Clear
Water and take it with its balmy west
wind and its odors from the pines and
get well of all pulmonary and bronchial
atTcctions. I mean just what i
say. Wo have bought two lots hero
and there are plenty more for good
people and 1 want to colonize them.
My nigger, Hob, wasted a whole week
at a big mooting up tho road while 1
was gone away, and when 1 complained
of it ho said, 44 well, now boss, you
J musent get mad wid mo, for you know
now it is?you white folks is done got
dis here world it ml wo niggers is just
lixin' a trick to got do next one.'' Just
so our northern brethren have done got
east Florida, all the way from St.
Augustine to St. Taioio, and now let
us tlxuputrick to capture west Florida
and be happy. Of course we won't
rule any clever yankeo out, but I toll
you right now we don't want any stuckup
millionaires from anywhere. There
is room enough from Cedar Keys to
St. Petersburg to locate thousands of
unponsioned sovereigns of the South,
where they can come and spend the
winter and bring their invalids and be
calm and serene. We want no palaces
to live in, but can build little cottages,
with broad verandas, and live on air
and water, and iish and oysters and
oranges thrown in. 1 have eaten
oranges until 1 am getting a rich,
golden complexion. Tho little grandchild
is getting fat on tangerines.
J lor bronchial troubles have passed
away and she can wade in the salt
water on the sandy beach with porfect
impunity. Folks go to the springs
and drink sulpur water, but that won't
eomparo with tho salty air of the gulf
when it is tlltored through tho pine tops
and drawn into the lungs at every
breath. There is somo grip down hero
among the natives but none umong
the visitors I reckon it is becanso
they gorge themselves with fruit. Joe
Anspaugh keeps the girls in fruit.
Joe is tho bully boy with u glass eye.
lit* lost one eyo in Cartorvillo and
wears a giuss one. Joo is tho life of
the little town. If a bad man comes
here .loo frets his crowd and runs him
out. Joe moves signs and gates during
Christinas. He has a sailltoat and a
row boat and ahorse and buggy and
will take you anywhere for the fun of
it. .Its* steals oranges and tangerines
for our little girl. lie went out tho
Other night to a grove, whoso owner
lives in Boston, and found a fellow
stealing on the other side of the tree.
Joe made a noise and the other follow
dropped bis bag and ran like a turkey.
Joe picked up the bag and brought it
home. The landlord of the hotel told
Joe to get him some chickens if ho had
to steal them. That night Joe stole
four out of the landlord's coop and sold
them to him at Ho cents a piece. Joe
is a trump, and everybody likes him.
Bill Aki\
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A 1>ISI?KN8AHY Il.\rriil<:.
Spooling AH'ruy in < 'oluiiihiu? Dug I
Meet/.e (Jets u I(iiII?*t in I In- Groin?I
11 Fulls Near (lio Spot WIumt llo
Killed Clark.
COM'MiUA. S. C., Feb. 2.?Tlio dis;
pensary constables have entered the
1 capital city, and to-day blood Mowed on :
the streets near the court house and at
' the famous Mancke corner, where a
i number of lives have been lost during
the last six or eight years.
The principals in this duel wore W.
I II. Meet/.e, who killed Trial Justice
Clark on this corner several years ago,
and openly defied Governor Tillman
and the State constabulary while sell!
ing beer at the State fair grounds,
and Davis Milior, a young stockman,
1 who testified for the State to-day in
the trial of W. S. Seal for selling
liquor.
It was an exciting occurrence, and
happened on u crowded thoroughfare
which was almost blockaded by hundreds
of persons coining out of the
! court room, a quarter of a block distant.
Miller was supposed to be a dispensary
spy and there was bitter talk
I against him during the trial, lie was
armed to the teeth, and kept his hands
in his Dockets while on the witness
; stand. During a recess of the court,
Miller got into a quarrel in the court
room, and a serious fuss was imminent:
but was stopped by Justice Clarkson.
When the crowd tiled out, it was evident
there was some trouble afoot. A
young1 man named Fry, who bad also
testified in the case, stepped up to
him and asked if be bud said be (Fry)
bad perjured himself. Miller denied
| tbis, and said that who ever said so
| was all sorts of a scoundrel. As be
said this Meet/.o struck him in the face
: and the row began.
i Nobody appeared to try to stop the
men, except Trial .I ustico Stack, who
commanded in the name of the law to
observe the peace, and struggled to
bold them apart.
Stack called for assistance, but no
one responded. Miller retreated into
the street, Meet/.o following him, bareheaded,
and daring him to shoot. Miller
jerked loose from the trial justice
and in a twinkling bad both pistols
levelled and then shooting began.
Miller tired nine times and Mcet/.e
live. Mcetze fell to the ground with a
bullet in bis side, not far from the spot
whore be killed Clai k ; and bis infuriated
friends rushed towards M iller,
with every appearance of harming him
and crying out, " Lot's kill him."
It looked as if the man was doomed,
when policeman Moorhoad sprang forward,
and with drawn pistol, defended
bis prisoner, telling the crowd that
further advance, meant death to the
first man.
Meet/.e is dangerously wounded in
the groin, but will hardly die therefrom,
while Miller got olT with a llesh
wound in the arm. Thoro is great excitement.
over the utTair and staid citizens
say that more bloodshed is bound
to result.
The case tried today was that
against W. S. Seal for keeping a blind
tiger. The only witness for the State
who testified as to bis having sold whiskey
was Miller. The jurors were on
their voir tliro, unci they were all substantial
citizens. In ilftocn minutes
they agreed ananiniously upon a vor:
diet of " not guilty."
A CillAVH QUESTION.
A Wi<lou Wlio Was Orently Changed
l>y Her Second Marriage.
Sam Benton used to keep a kind of a
tavern on a mountain road in West
Virginia and one summer evening I
stopped at Sam's for supper and the
, night. 1 had never met him before,
but we wero soon 011 good terms, ami
after supper we wont down to the road
and sat on a saw log to smoke and converse
together.
" Air you a married muii?" lie asked
, familiarly.
" Unfortunately, I'm not," f said.
" Don't worry about it," said he. ""
" I don't," said I, " but I'm sorry for
myself."
" Vou might be sorrier," said he.
" You talk as if you had missed it,"
1 said 1, a little curiously.
" I ain't savin' so, am I V" said he.
"No," said 1, "hut you are coming
close to it."
He took three or four long pulls at his
! cob pipe.
"Well," said lie, "1 reckon I ain't
| 110 wuss oft' than most folks, only I
don't understand one thing."
" What is it?" said I.
" It's this way," and he slid over con!
fidontly. " You see, Bill Simons' farm
; and mine jinod ; 1 was a bachelor and
! Bill had a wife ; one day Bill died and
1 left a widdor. Mightly soon after Bill
I was burled the widdor got sprightly
I an' uster be talk in' 'cross farms to me ;
! 1 kinder liked it, for she was powerful
! good lookin' an' had a tongue in her
I head that you could mow grass with,
j 1 wuz kinder shy, though, an' hel'oil
for mighty nigh three yo'r, the widder
all the time talkin' an' talkin' an' me
injvin' it lit to kill but mity baokerd,
not knowin' b'out women ; utter while,
though, I come 'round her way an' we
wuz spliced. That wuz seven yo'r ago,
an' for the last six yo'r I've been tryin'
to llnd out why Mrs. Benton ain't so
(logon perlite an' palaverin' as the j
Widder Simons wuz. llave you got an 1
idee 011 the subjick ?" But 1 hadn't; j
at least, not one that 1 could have 1
fully set forth to t he entire satisfaction |
of both of us, including Mrs. B . !
who just then cauio to tho front door
und yelled for hor husband.? Detroit.
Free Press.
? ?? ?
?A bolt of lightning near Luling,
Tex., struck tho corner of a house,
nasscd through a sholf, hit u snutT
bottle and leaped to tho Moor, where it
seemed to exhaust itself on a little
two-year-old child. Tho child
was only slightly stunned, but in a
short whilo its hack turned perfectly
black.
Father?''Tho idea of marrying
thatyoung follow ! Ho couldn't scrape |
enough money together to buy u square :
meal."
Daughter?"But what difference '
need that make? We havon't oithor *
of us had a bit of appotito for mouths."
IF WE COL'tiD KNOW.
F1Y MRS. A. \Y. CURTIS.
If wo could know what lies before our
feet,
If we could see thoshadowshovering
near,
Wo would not dare to take another
step ;
Our life would 1h> an agony of fear.
If we could know what one small word
would do.
To brighten up this little world of
ours,
To cheer and comfort worn and weary
hearts,
How carefully we'd scatter these
sweet llowers.
If we could know how soon our homo
would be
Bereft of all that makes it bright
and dear,
How would tho shadow of the coming
loss
O'erwhelm us with its constant dread
u ud fear.
Not knowing, wo go onward day by
day,
And if this day be full of grief and
pain,
Wo think to-morrow will be brighter
far,
And for each loss there will be some
sure gain.
Oli ! it is well for us our Father keeps.
Securely hidden from our mortal
eyes,
The rough and rugged pathway wo
must tread,
Before we reach our home beyond
the skies.
Oh, it is well ! for stumbling blindly
on,
We reach like little children for His
hand ;
; And, clasping it, take courage, knowing
well
lie'U bring us safely to the better
land.
now ri<;.\KF/rn;s aki?] madr
Appalling I iiloi'inni ion About tlie Matcriul
UscmI?Their Ftl'eets upon the
II iiinaii System.
Bo you euro to know how cigarettes
are made? 1 think I can enlighten
j you. An Italian boy,only eight years
I old, was brought before a justice in
New York City, as a vagrant, or, in
1 other words, a young trump. But with
what did the ollicer charge him? Only
with picking up cigar-stumps from the
! streets and gutters. To prove this, ho
showed the boy's basket, half full of
1 stumps, water-soaked and covered with
I mud.
j " What tie you do with these ?" asked
His Honor. What do you think was his
I answer? "I sell them to a man for
ton cents a pound, to ho used in making
cigarettes." Not a particularly
, agreeable piece of information, is it,
boys ?
In our largo cities there are a great
many cigar-butt grubbers, ais they are
called. It certainly is not a pretty
1 name, though very appropriate : for it
j is applied to the boys and girls who
scour the streets in search of half-burnt
I cigars and stumps, which aire dried
I and then sold to be used in making
eigarctts.
But this isai't aill, nor even the worst
of it, These cigairottos have bqen anI
aly/.ed, and physicians and chemists
i are surprised to lind how much opium
( is put into them. A tobacconist himself
saiy that " the extent to which
; drugs are used in cigarettes is appatlling."'
' ilavaina Havering" for this
same purpose is sold everywhere by
the thousand barrols. This flavoring
is niado from the tonkai-hoam, which
contains ai deadly poison. The wrapI
pers. wurrunted to bu rice-paper, awe
sometimes made of common paper, and
sometimes of lilthy scrapings of ragpickers,
bleached white with airsenie.
Whait a eheait to be practiced on people
!
Think of it, boys ! the next time you
I taike up ai cigarette, drop it ais you
I wonUl ii coal of liro. Tho latter would
simply burn your fingccrs; but tbis
' burns up good health, good resolutions,
good manners, good memories, good
faculties, and often honesty and truthi
fulness as well.
A bright boy of thirteen came under
| the spoil of cigarettes. lie grow
stupid, and subject to nervous twitch!
ingr, till finally bo was obliged to give
J up bis studies. When asked why ho
I didn't throw away bis miserable cigar;
ottos, the poor boy replied, with tears,
j that he bad often tried to do so, but
could not.
Another boy of olovon was made
crazy by cigarette smoking, and was
taken to an insane asylum in Orange
County, New lYork. lie was a violent
and dangerous manic, exhibiting some
of the symptoms peculiar to hydrophobia.
The white spots on the tongue and
|inside the cheeks, called smoker's
patches, are thought by Sir Moroll
Mackenzie to be more common with
users of cigarettes than with other
smokers.
44 Does cigarette smoking injure the
lungs?" asked somo one of a loading
Now York physician. For his answer,
tho doctor lighted a cigarette, and inbaling
a mouthful of smoke, blow it
through the corner of his handkerchief
which be hold tightly over his mouth.
A dark brown stain was distinctly
visible. ".lust such a stain," said the
doctor, "is left upon the lungs." If
| you ever smoke another cigarette,
think of tho stains you aro making.?
| Christian at Work.
I) CAT 11 Til ltOL'till A KISS.
While Caressing Mis Gi-niiflcliihl a
llair Lodged in I lie Old Man's Windpipe
and Killed lliin.
SUSQUEHANNA, l'a., Jan. 30.?An
affectionate kiss, imprinted upon the
rosy cheek of a beautiful flaxen haired
grandchild, has suddenly terminated
the festivities of a golden wedding.
The aged grandfather is no more, and
his widow, overcome with grief, is not
likely to recover.
It was a joyous company of young
middle aged and aged people who congregated
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Larkin on Thursday. They
met in honor of tho fiftieth wedding
anniversary of their host and hostess,
who had passed their allotted threescore
years and ten. and were still in
the enjoyment of perfect health.
Several sweet faced, laughing grandchildren
wore present to contribute
their share of sunshine to tho occasion.
liittio o-year-old Mary Kdwards, with
hor bright blue eyes and light tresses,
was there. After kissing her grandmother
affectionately, she sprang up
in her grandfather's lap exclaiming,
"Grandpa, 1 have lots of kisses and a
bear hug for you."
Then the old man pressed the sweet
face of his favorito grandchild to his,
fervently remarking : " God bless you,
Mary ; no company would l)o complete
without you ; you are the embodiment
of sunshine itself, and 1 trust you will
grow to bo a noble woman."
" Toll mo how much you love me,
grandpa," said tho child, "and then I
will givo you the kisses and the bear
hug.'
" I cannot toll you how much I lovo,
you, ehild, " answered tho 6ld man,
" but I can assure you it is a big lot.1'
Then Grand fat bet* Larkin irupriiited
kiss after kiss upon the ruby chot ks,
and the child, delighted at the ruunlfeatulion
??f alTeotion, returned the
coinpiiineiit, and throwing her little
arms about the old man's nock, gave
the promised " bear hug" She then
crawled down from Grandpa's lap, and
busied herself for a time among the
others of the company. An hour later
and just before the joyous party wero
about to partake of dinner, the same
little Mary approached her grandfather,
remarking: "Grandpa, I want
to give you one more kiss before dinner,
nud then I want you to sit by me
at the table."
The old man smiled and lifted the
little girl in his arms. Two minutes
later he felt a tickling sensation in his
throat, and realizing that in returning
the last kiss a hair had caught in his
mouth and been siiel'ed into his wind
pipe.
Phis immediately produced hard lits
of coughing, and before relief could be
obtained a blood vessel bad ruptured,
and death resulted instantly.
Consternation reigned for a time,
and the aged partner of the unfortunate
septuagenarian, overcome with grief,
fell in a swoon. She rallied an hour
later, but it is thought her great grief
will cause her death in a short time.
AN OIUUINAIj AlUiUMIONT.
Congressman Itayner <Jets a Very
Amusing I otter oil the Turin't^uest
ion.
Uoprosontativo Uaynor, of Haitimore,
lias hud many queer letters
from all sections of the country since
he made his dauntless taritT reform
speech in the House a few days ago.
One of these letters has gone the
rounds of the House and created considerable
amusement among the members.
It came from a Kansas farmer
and reads as follows :
"My Dear Sir:?Send mo two hundred
and tlfty copies of your spoo;h.
I want to distribute thorn at church
next Sunday. You have preached the
best religion 1 have ever heard and it
will keep the sinners awake. I would
put another mortgage on my farm to
hear you. 1 have a large farm hero,
hut it has one mortgage on it which is
larger than the farm. The Mclvinley
i bill lias starved us Western people to
death. There is nothing free hero
i except blizzards and children. Kvery
i man, woman and child who can read
j ought to read your speeches. 1 have
six daughters, and tlioy each want a
| copy. Four of my daughters are
young : two, I am afraid, have lapsed
beyond their time. They say it is the
fault of the MeKinley hill. Are you
and Hilly Wilson single or married ?
i'lease write. Send us your pictures,
agricultural seed or anything that will
give us a show alongside of those
tariff protected barons in the East who
havo swallowed up all the money and
let farmers and mechanics starve. 1
read about the attack, the tariff people
want to make on you.
44 1 was a cowl>oy once. If you are in
i danger telegraph me. Is there any
little olliee around Washington that
(irover would give mo? if it pays
i living expenses that is all 1 want. I
do not care for any more money bej
cause I would have to pay it out on my
mortgage and the government might
; as well keep it as for the mortgagor to
get it. Tell (irover not to bother
I about the Quoen, but to put his whole
| mind on having the money of this
country divided up a little more
evenly than it is now. 1 am for an inI
come tax strong. It don't hurt anv|
body that hasn't got an income. It
I won't catch anybody in these diggins.
; A government detective couldn't lind
| enough income within a hundred miles
of this place to pay his trip out.
| Don't forget your picture and Hilly
; Wilson's and tell me how old you are."
Mr. Havnei* has i'i?c<?ivi>?l t.lmn
! ii thousand letters since lie made his
' speech, lie handed these letters over
to the National Democratic Committee
1 ho that H they desire it they can puhI
lish them in the next campaign in
I order to show the views of the laboring
men upon turilT reform. The old
pages report that the call for Mr.
Mayner's and Mr. Cock run's speeches
have been creator than any demand
ever made in Concross for speeches.
Mr. Kay nor only spoke twenty minutes
and Mr. Cock ran an hour and a half.
A prominent Senator said to-day :
44 Mr. Kaynor is the only man I over
saw with his wonderful and absolute
command of the English language that
I can put a speech of an hour and a half
j in twenty minutes."
Evapouatkd Sweet Pokatoes.?
! Few people know how easily sweet
j potatoes can be dried, even in the sun,
and how handy and useful the dried
potatoes are. At best sweet potatoes
are a troublesome crop to keep, but
when driod or cured in an evaporator
they are really no trouble to keep and
are always at hand for use on the table
at short notice. They should be sliced
and then evaporated. Then to uso
them they are soaked to restore the
evaporated moisture and then baked
in pans as the fresh ones often are.
They are an adiuirablo article for puddings
and pies. For this purpose it
would be better to grind them into
meal and put up in packages with directions
for making puddings. Put
up in this way it ought not to bo much
.pankin * 1 t -
i ./...n.w.v; iw a uuu ivuo lui' uio dried
swoct potatoes. If un evaporating
plant would but undertake tlie putting
[ up of the sweet potato meal in puck*
I ages the article would sell well. GroI
eerymen are slow to take hold of such
' products in the crude evaporated state,
but in such packages, with a few atractive
hand-bills and a lot of receipts
for making the many delicious preparations
that can he made from sweet
potatoes, a market could soon he made
for a product that the Southern Stutes
can supply in limitless quantities.
Who will start this enterprise?
??a? ?
The Farmer and the Newspaper
Man.?Many men think that newspaper
men are persistent dminers. By
way of comparison lot us suppose that
a farmer raises 1,000 bushels of wheat
a year and sells this to 1,000 persons in
all parts of the country, a grout portion
oft hem saying, ' I will hand you a dollar
in a short time." The farmer does
not want to be small and says all right.
Soon the 1,000 bushels are gone, but
he has nothing to show for it, and
then ho realizes ho has fooled away
his wholo crop, and its value to him
is due in a thousand little driblets,
consequently he is seriously embarrass
?_ ? in nis easiness, became his debtors,
each owing1 him a dollar, treat it as a
small matter and think it would not
holp much. C'ontinuo this kind of
businesss year in and yoar out, as the
publisher ilocs, how long will ho stand
it ? A moment's thought will convince
any one that a publisher has cause for
persistent dunning.
? - - ?The
Florida orange crop will bo
larger this year than was anticipated,
it was estimated at from 4,000,000
to 4,500,000 lioxos. The storm that
provailod in October ovor the eastern
part of the Stato shortened the crop.
In somo places the estimate of damago
was as high as 26 per cent.
STATE XKWS IN OUIKF.
Interesting Notes IVom Various Sourccs.
I
The next session of Cleinson Collego
will open on the 15th inst.
?Thomas 11. Karle, Ksq., lias Iktu
appointed Coroner for Anderson County
vice R. M. Wright, resigned.
-The State Dispensary has shipped
to Greeley ville, in Williamsburg
County, a largo supply of liquors for
the dispensary just opened there.
?An election was held at Little
Mountain, New berry County, for "dispensary
" or " no dispensary.'' The 1
dispensary people won by vote of 25 to
10.
The Htato Supreme Court lias adjourned
till the 10th of April. Cases
from the Kighth Circuit will he called
on the 2Sth of May and seven days will
be allowed for arguments.
?The State Dispensary was shut
down last week, and nearlv all of the
employees wore laid oil for u week.
This is necessary in order to tuko stock
and make up the quarterly report.
?A special to the Times-Union from
Titusville, Flu., says: A man named
Laguiro from South Carolina, was
murdered and robbed near Kockledge
this evening, by two negroes. If trie
negroes arc caught, lynching is likely
to follow.
?Uev. \I. A. Connolly, a superannuated
preacher the South Curolina
Conference, died on the 2bth ult. in his
seventieth year. His remains wore interred
in the cemetery at Kershaw, - .
Lancaster County, where he was living
at the time of his death.
? State Phosphate Inspector Jones
is still at work preparing, under the
recent act of the Legislature, the rules
and regulations under which the phosphate
mines will he managed in the
future. It will he some time before ho
is ready to report to the State commissioners.
?The President has sent to the Senate
the nominations of Thomas 13.
Ferguson of Maryland as envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary
to Sweden and Norway, and George
1). Bryan of South Carolina as collector
of customs for the district of
Charleston.
? S. C. Whitehead, of Marion, committed
suicidcon the .'list ult. bv shoot
ing himself in the head with a .TJealibrc
pistol. Mr. W hitch cart was a
inorchant, dealing in stoves, about
forty-live years of ago and possessed of ?
many noble traits of character. Ho
leaves a wife and live children.
?Circuit Judge Simonton has designated
Augustine Seymour, of the
Western District of North Carolina, to
hold the February term of the United
States District Court which convenes
at Greenville, S. C., on Monday, February
Judge Brawley, th* new judge
for this State, not having yet qualified.
?Laurence Tolleson, a young man
about twenty years old, committed
suicide on the .'loth ult. at Gowdeysville,
Union County. Mr. Tolleson was
a bright young man, but has been a
sulTerer from indigestion for some
time. Ho was an inveterate cigarette
smoker, and it is suppposed -thut despondency
caused the act.
?The test ease against George S.
Legaro for interfering with whiskey
constables in Charleston was tried in
the judicial court on Friday, Whaley
h?r ine prosecution ami Smytho for the
defendant. The jury, composed of
prominent business men, were out live
minutes and returned u verdict of not
guilty aipid great cheering.
?The first conviction under the new
dispensary law in Anderson County
was secured before Trial Justieo Fant
at Townville, when Warren Holland,
colored, was convicted of selling whiskov
contrary to the dispensary law and
delivering contraband whiskey in the
nighttime. He was sentenced to pay
a line of one hundred dollars or he confined
in the county jail for thirty days.
?As a result of the suspension of tho
collection of taxes in Georgetown
County, owing to the August hurricane,
all the public schools in that
county have been closed, save tho
graded schools in Georgetown and two
in the county, which do not have to
rely on the collection of taxes for their
maintenance, it seems that the county
is run on a cash basis, and was not
willing to go into debt to continue tho
schools.
?At the twenty-sixth anniversary of
the homo for mothers, widows and
daughters of Confederate soldiers, held
in Charleston last week, a gift of $20,000
from a Baltimore,-in was announced,
but tho name of the giver is withheld.
This home, the oldest in the South,
was founded and has been managed by
women. It has housed thousands of
widows and ndni'atn/i ........i.. ?
iivm iy u wiousand
daughters of Con fed e rato soldiers.
Up to this time, the late W. W. Corcoran
was its main benefactor.
Tilk Draining.?It was a western
New York farmer, .John Johnston, of
Geneva, who nearly sixty years ufA
began the first tile draining in
America. The drains he made then
are in good condition to-day, and tho
farm has been kept up to the high
degree of fertility which its tirst owner
mado for it. After land has been
made fertile, if it is in a locality where
it can be profitably used for producing
other than grain as its staple crop,
there is no trouble in keeping it fertile.
It is the grain crops that are sold from
the farm that exhaust fertility most
rapidly. This is especially true of underdruined
land. It is saved from tho
losses by washing that take away
fertility from soil that is not drained.
Whatever fertility a farmer puts into
a drained soil must remain until it is
used by crops.
?The Pension Ollico in Washington
has received a communication from .
Special Examiner Eitzpatriek at
Cnattunooga, Tenn., announcing tho
arrest of Rev. C. W. Lewis, William
Johnson and John Cry for frauds in
connection with pension claims. Upon
the hearing before United States Commissioner
Ewing each of the accused
pleaded guilty to tho charges, and
they were all sent to jail in default
of $1,000 bond. Rev. C. W. Lewis confessed
to illegally using the seal of
notary public and forging his namo
to pension papers in several claims.
The other two confessed to filing
fraudulent claims. Numerous arrests
are expected.
? The Assistant Attorney General of
tho United States ?!>? i-"
v.nu iubtor
carrier is cxompt from military duty.
The case under consideration was of /&*
carrier who desired to withdraw from a
military organization because of tho
hardships incurred by frequent drlling
exorcises. Being refused leave of absence,
he applied to the postotlioo department,
which docided in his favor,
?Hon. W. L. Wilson, chairman of
the committee on ways and means, has
rrangod to go to St. Augustine, Fin.,
this week for a brief rest, lie will be
accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Representative
and Mrs. Tarsney. The
trip may bo extended to the City of Mexico.
The party will bo absent about it
month,