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DEACON H( 'I'lle )2istor at GIoShel Corners had prl'ehed at clo4.e, praticail serion oil the ins tit do so easily besot its. ;ile* 'i-et 'l'witchell and l3eacon I lonliln cLmeW4 out. Of t1.he1 meeting house -tall st.ar41 oil their loiidward way to 4,411111. Int l I 'ueter's cano went down 1l(poll the stony road w ith ' strong emii phaiis, as lie begatt : "Tull ye now, that was a powerful sar'hin' discourse Brothber Jonks give us this miiornIlin' -ehl, deacon ?" " Wall, tollerbly so, to somo folks, I expect, butl he didn't bear down on S0111 pinits as he'd orter, and left out a good ( many as had ort'er beet fetched ii. I"' I'd been prlaclin' Oil that air subjiek, with Squair Bowle's a-settin' right afore m1e, I should 'a' beon moved to say suthin' about drinkin' and takin' oulawful intrust, but ministers Is nothin' but air'thin vessels, the bost on 'em, and a big pow rent hides a good many besetmonts." "Sho, now, doacon, I wouldn't say that of I was you-don't appear to sound like the charity that thinkoth no evil. There was one or two pints I took portikelar notice on, one was that a man's besettin' sins ain't apt to bo marked sins, so plain that every body calls 'em by their right names we talk about 'cm as only our ways, as of that made 'em all right-whereas, Scripter says it's the 'leutle foxes that spile the vine.' 'Nd then agin, it's a sight easier to see other folks' beset monts than our own, es the Good Book says-a mote in our neighbor's eye, and a beam in our own." " As to that," began the deacon-but just here the road parted, and the two wetint their diffeirent ways. The deacon's thoughts having been led into a persolll channel by Uncle Petc r's last remark, ran on somuewhat in this wise: "'Cordin' to B3rother J.18ks tihe' h somne pertikelar sill that hbeets every on'e of us. Now I ean'L call to mind anytl hing inl my wal k or, convarsatior thalit Iin't streuiispect." Ilere a dini siggtestiot) of t1e i'harisee in th e tepl)14.e Crossed his illind. " I ain't by 114) m11ans perfet, and dont' purtend tor be-but I coIntribit to all the causes and reiember. the widder and th( fatherless, and don't nover- sufler sit ill mily leighbor without rebike What's unbeknown can't be cured; e I've got 'il), the bord'll hev to makt 'em known." Dinner was smoking oil the tabb when the deacon reached home. Afte: his eustomary acknowledgment on the divine bounty, 1he surveyed tile tabb with a look of disapproval. t" Mlarv Ann," he sharply ordered " you go d]own sullar and fetch pl) son pitkles. How ailyhody kin git bake beans, and leave off tile pickles, beat all." "But, father," his wife timidly vent ured, " you said last Sunday pickle ilake your tooth aehe, so I got eide app~llos4ass to-d.ay." "Spos'n Idhi say.3 so, that's 110 reaso5 why I shouldn't, m:' muickles on) thi table :that eider' aplesas -. '' bile down half enough. Helre, E-:zry, yo take this 'cre coffeep1ot, and set, it bac' onto the coals ;I wish it, could be0 key in mind, thlat coffeeL or'teir be hot,'' wit] a master'ful look at is wife. By wvay of creating a diver'sion 'Siah Stearns, the hired man. romar'k ed to Ma' s. Holden: "I thought we had fust-r'ate singini to-day." Becfore she could r'ely,' the deacoi took up the word. " Singin': Wail, of scr'eehin' is goot singin', I should say we had--but 'tain' nowise beOlittinl' tile satnetooary, as part o' worship. What Phineas Gat chel11 is sot up thei'e in theO gallery fo. is mor'e thlan I. can tell ; hlain't no voiet -for singlin', and what lhe has need ilin' as bad as Amos's old bass viol." "Mother," asked .'lIary Ann,"d you notice Jim Pettengill's got hlomo How glad his folk must, be ! SSpeociaily his mnother-'-I'mn glat for' her," said Mi's. Hlolden. "'he say Jim's (lone well out there in lowy. " 10f he has, he's the fuist, Pottengil as cycr' did do well," pronounced the deacon. "The sins o' thbe fathers i, visitedl upon0 the childurn, and evei sence- the old1 colonel's eviil(loin's th4 P'ettcngills has aller's come out at tiht leetle end o' the horn." By this time nlobiody car~ied to encoun toe' the cr'oss-currei'nt,. of contradict iot any ful'ther, so tile meal wans finlihct in silenec. "1Plough the south mnedder to-day 'Siah," 4.1irected the deaconl Mondaj morninig, "'andl try your hland at a straight fuerer' for once." Now if there was oneO thing upor which 'Siah priidedi him sel f it was h i: skill in ploughing. lie knew lie hat a neighborhood repultation for that. "' Some folks can't see when th ingi airi straight,'' lhe saidl ha'11f tolI hisl: as he went out. 1'The same14 minlilg lh'othler l 'ike pre'Lparing to go out on his round o. churchi.oiloecting, said 1It his wife: " l'v a niottion to begin this tim<14 over on l)ennett,'s hiill, andl take thi: neiighborhloodi last. Th'le fact, is Ill'oth or' I~oldoni's4 irst-rate to payI3 :hut, h<4 has a way of tallking -. t11bat puts me al1 outo0' sot'ts-nobody, nor~i nothiin', seenn to be4 just iright, accordinlg to hiis view andl I always get clear downt to ga heel about tle church when I hear h1inl to]lk." So it was 1late in thle afternioon whet It -other' Il'ike's "'Ih ul lo "' br'oig lit th d aeon to the roadside. LOanig or hlis hoe 10( hnlo besido 1.he4 stonec wall lie remarked(C~ intterrlogatively3' tihie oin't .Y I",dks int gener'al ain'I over01 anxious11 to) payi upJ thie Lor~id't dues0." "' Well, I'ml glad to say3 1 haven't found them batckl ward't ti)'-day. .1 ust look there no0w," po4inting to4 aL bibo r'4iouly b4erawle.Id linie wh' i ch pro'4ved) on1 car'eful (!xam~linattionf to recad :"biddy 1'oter's, li vo doliars."' " ' 8 ne sol( denial it's takent to get that11 five (do1 lar's, and someO faith, too14, as to how she can get along without It.''" "Self-denial's a1 good thing of It's pra'ictised wheire it's mo0st, n'e(eed, and1 us to faith, we'ret 'onltnanil! to add to it, virtoo. iU Widder- l'eters'd jumst brtidle that onruly' tongue o' horn, mt woulid help) the causl5 in4r'nl twice five dollairs. Her's mty oiutes, jot II Lty, of I've coutedC( r'ght. low multch did "' Abovo two hundred." 'Orter' bin thlroo: tell ye what Birother' P'ike, yoi'e'c too easy :you'd orter dive 'cm right up1 to the miiark, anu hlave all the titLhes fetched in. It's a means o' grace for a1 mnan to be told hIs (1a11in's, and theroe Is thtem that says a le'tle moi'e snap In 'olIh-''t n' DLDEN'S.... -PET SIN. would bring the tiggers up a good deal higher. As 'Siah i'ove up to the bars just then liLrother I'ike very 'willingly de parted. " Wall," said 'Slah, looking back over the level stretch of straight brown furrows, lying fresh and mellow in the setting sun, " I call that a purty fair piece o' work." " Ucm, tain't so bad as it might be nor so good nurther; that's a consider 'ble of a crook over there to'ards Mar tin," replied he deacon. " Natorally," said 'Slah dryly, "I didn't hov no plough thet would cut straight through that big rock," and gathering up his reins, he started homeward, wondering. to himself what " the old man," as he rhentally termed him, could have found to say if there had been no rock there. By prayer meeting time that night the deacon felt himself Prepared to re prove and rebuke with more than ordi nary fervor. It was the burden of his prayer that the watchman upon the walls of Zion might be no longer dumb dogs that did not bark, that they might cry aloud and spare not, show ing the people their transgressions, and the house of Israel their sins. He warned the brethren again covetous ness, which is idolatry ; expressed his conviction that a good many had a form of godliness w*,tliout its power ; and exhorted each and all to pui away their easily besotting sins, winding up with the declaration : "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Walking homeward in the dark ness of a clouded night, the deacon could riot help overhearing a conver sation going on just before him. It wias Uncle Peter's voice that was say ing: " You'vo got a good place this year, 'Siah, a fust-rato good placo ; you'd orter git a good deal of spiritooal good, whilst you're under that rutf." There was a little pause, and then 'Siah burst out: " I git good vittles, and good pay enulT, but as to spiritoOal good, any body as gits that livin' with the deacon will hev to take it by the rule o' con traries, now I tell yo!" " Why, why, 'Siah i--what at alrth possesses ye to talk-that way ? Deacon's one o' the pillars o' the church ! 'Tain't many hes his gift o' speech ! Brother Jonks hisself couldn't a spoko more powerful than he did ter-night." Ef church pillars is set up for folks to stunblo against, 1 grant yO, he's one to all intents 'nd purposes. Uncle Peter, I ain't give to talkin' agin the folks I live with, but seein' you've started it, I'm jest goin' on to tell ye, of all the contrary, contradictions, Iaultlindin' men I ever seed, he's the - beatin'est! Yis, sir, and all the time settin' hisself up that lie's a better judge o' what's right than all the rest "Ain't you a leetle ha'sh now, 'diah ? Iexpect he hes his faults, like all the rest oni us-pocor faillable critters we root o' the matter in him. Pint out Ssomebody, of ye can, thet's more honest and fair in deal in's than he is !" "I say 'tain't honest to pile on blame whero 'tain't due, and keep back every single word o' praise tnatfolks deserve's anid ortor hey. Eif Iwas testifyin' be fore a jury I should say jest as I'm tellin' you~l, I hain't never nearn that man own upl that anybody, minister or wire or chiildhren, or neighbors or' church or gov'nmenit or' what not, had done one thing that wuz jest right! All he has tor say is pickin' iaws. As to the root o' the matter, as ye call it, mabhe I ain't no jedgo, but i do0 know there's an a1wfuml heavy topgrowth o' thorns and briers." "Wail 'Siah, I dunno what ter' say. I'm drietful sorry to hear ye say sich things about the deacon, sich a nice fambly as lhe's a-br'ingin' up. too '' "\What do ye 'apose I hoar' thoem children say one day up overhead in the bam'n t Ezry wuz a-tellin' Mandy he'd rather riot go to Heaven of pa was goin' to be ther e ;but Many she says: ' I guess pa'Il c.v to stay in the fr'ont r'oom all the Lia. u0lp there, 'cause he's a lea'~on, end ho won't dlar' to he cr'oss am11onigst the anrgels !' Now, I jest want ter kncw. Uncle Peter, what r'eligion is good for ef it don't make a man pleasanter to live with every day ?" H-er'e thae talk came to an end. Never in all his life before had Samuel Holdhen hcon madec to see him sel f as5 othbers saw him. At fir'st he wars stunned altnd bewildered, feeling as though his hearing was playing him false. Ic, to be spoken of as a stum bling block iAnger, r'osentmont and mnorti lied pr'ide strugglced foi' the mas11 tory. But, p~reLsently all these gave wiay before an over'whielming convic tion of sin. The Spirit of God( sent home thre truth like a searclIghrt upon his conscience, br'inginig out his ways anoi wvords' In their true colors, till he was r'eady to en'y out :' I abhor miyself :" Th'le deacon was in hris aiccustomcd se at at the next, pr'aye~'rimeting, but iv idecntly rnot in his uisuarl stateo of mii nd. TPhr'ough prayers alnd oxhor trations and( singing he sat silent, with bent head, evidently unconscious of the wornde'irig glances turinied towar~id him. When the mooetinig drew to Iwrds a close, lie rose0 uniutoadnily, leaning heavily upon the desk before him. His face was working with 01mo Lion in the str'uggle for utterance. "lin'ethr'en and friends,'' he said, "I've been 10(1 to see myself a sinner beforo (God and man. It's an awful hing to know that you've bocn a1 diumbl in' block ! A stumrnbl in' block IThat's what I've been all these years, 'ndn now, my besettin' sin has found mo ouit. it's moy fauIt-li ind in' moanner 0' speLec'h that's beeni a rer'lnoach to thre cause, anrd madc rel:Iigion arn otfonce and~ a by worn! I've priovoked mny childr1 nen to wrath, 'nd cf their souls Is lo-t, thir blood( 'll be 0on my honmd. I ha In't exercised char'ity. I've spoken evil of my fellow mrenr. I hain't studied to please my neighbor for Iris goodh to I onddyficationi. I as5k youri pra'iyers, that God be mnercifulI to me, a sinn ter'.". T1he deacon 's manner, ro) less than his wor'ds, mado(1 a deep imopr'ession. T[he light in wh ich~ he saw himisel f so clearly re flected into ever'y hreart, br'irnging into view a multitude of bri setting sins, uinsusp~ected hitherto. A fter a solemn silence, Uncle Peter's tr'omuilous voice said :'" Let, urs pra'iy." and all, with one accor'], fell on their knees--a comnpanry of sinners before a holy God. As the good old1 man pou r'ed Out his whole soul in the words of 'ul f-ahnlsinfo ('nnitritinn. anhs and arid1L blo reaponses came from all parts e the room. The influence of that meet ing made itself felt in " great search ings of heart," in mutual confession and forgiveness, and walking softly before God. This was the beginning of the great revival at Goshen Cornors. -N. Y. Observer. PITY FOt THE POOR. Bill Arp Draws a Touclhing Ploture o' Sutlering-Help for the DeLst tute. If Gordon Noel Hurtel never writes anything inoro, " Tho laillT's Sale" Is sullicient to draw lovo and prailso from all good people. It has kindled a kindly feeling toward-him, and what is better, it has warmed our pity and culisted our sympathy for the suffer ing poor. How casy it is for. hearts to got hard and charity to grow cold. Tho sale of the poor tenant's house hold goods to pay the landlord's rent is a much more common thing than is supposed. The picture is not over drawn. If it is not sold by the consta blo it is by the auctioneer. I never pass an auction sale of old furniture but what I linger and look and ponder. There is an unwritten chapter of want and misery in every old bureatt and sofa and chair. There are hearts ach ing somewhere. There is sadness under some roof. If the sale paid the debt there would be some comfort, but the costs of court, the dray age and commissions takes about all-for, as Mr. ilurtel says : " Such worthless old rubbish will go for a song." "Alas ! for the rarity of Christian charity," when the bereaved mother has to spend her last quarter to buy in her dead baby's chair. If that did not really happen, something akin to it is happening every day In our crowded cities. What we so when we visit them Is only the sunshine and glitte that wealth has brought to the favor ed few. We walk or ride on Peach treo and wonder and admiro, but who socks the dark ailoys where the poor congregate? Judge Ileckley wrote a beautiful pom, called " A Tale of Two Citics-the City of Life and the City of Death "-Atlanta and its cemetery ; and his contrast between their inhab itants was wonderfully graphic and true. Ilut there is a mor'e .pathotic contrast between the very rich and the very poor in every crowded me tropolis. Sometimes we Condone out' neglect of poverty and suffering by saying they ire not worth befriending -they art ungrateful-they brought their misery 1)o11 themselves--or, if you feed them and set them up for to day they will want more tomorrow. Some folks say that private charity is against public policy, but my expe rience and observation is that the best way to quiet our consciences is to fielp then-give help In some way. There are a few professional beggars, but not enough to impoverish anybody in this Southern country. But those who are really poor and do actually suffer for good shelter, good food and comfortable clothing are many and In creasing in numbers every day. My wife (iut out those touching verses about the bailitf's sile and says they reinkfd her of Tom Hood's "Song of the Shirt." 011h, for onIe short hour To feel as I used to feel, Heifor I knew the woes of wanit, I. l the wiork that e ,sts a meal." That "' Song of the Shirt " awakened all London to) the sutIlerings of poor' women and it has come down to us aong the corriidors of time and quiick ened our1 sympathies and enlarged our' charities. Oh, that our rich p~eophle would sometimes r'eadl it and dr'op a tear' of symipathy and then go out into the by-ways and do something for humanity's sake. lHockefellor IS at great 1)1hilanth roplist in his way, but George Pecabody wvill outrank him in the annals of historty and the jtidgment of heaven. W by does niot some multi inill ionairec follow his example anid prov'ide cheap homtes for the poor1 of ouir cities ? I have heard it said that it was Tom liood's poem that first in sirued him to build cheap lodgings for the 1p00r of Lo~ndon. ils plans for- so dloing were not carriedl out for sever'a! years, but lhe could not erase from his memory the lines: "Thzat shattered roof-this naketd floor, A\ table--a broklen cir , Ao nd ahal so blnk myV shadtow I tlihn H-I spent three millions on those lodging houses andl they are still a coinf t to jtm thousartnds who occupy the:. . i: a . ut.'ar is not so) meani and - .. . .i oughtless and for getl. Oia io at emotions need re mi's. Every now and theni a pa thetic'picture must be drtan n, a tender poem l must be written. We must see the poor01 woman with the faded shawl "As she wipes with its friniges a tear (romn her eve." Many a mni has pity in his breast and chatrity in his hecart, but, it slum hers because it does not see the misery of the unfortunaite, i'overty shrinks from th'e public gazie. it hides and~ sultfi's and waits, and hence we see large sums of money gathered in the churches to be sent to those alfar oilf when there is more need of it at home. Starmv ing' pleople do not go to churich nor will thbey go half clad in unml y gairments. The* best relhigton Ian Iguishies from hunimger' and cold. True charity must hunt for disetress aind re lie it. This reomindls me of the convicts and their' pi tiletss condl i tion.- Most of the m dlescerve theiri fate but amoang the 3i.000( there are some who i.avo expiated thieir~ (otensems anid ought to be set free. The coar its make mistaktes so~meti mes, tar d no doubilt there are many convicts palyling peinalties they d10 not owe. There is not, a mfor'e helploess creatur'e upon earth thtan a fr'ien~dless convict, and we rejoice that Governor Atkin son and the comminittee are making a sear'ching examination. T1he GJoveir nor toldl me of a negro boy who had served nine years and had eleven more to serve. lie wvent In a boy of fifteen charged w ith ar'son and now it alppear's most clearly that ho was not guilIty, and it could have been, so prioved, b t the witness, at substantial citizen. live d out (If the State and his evidence coild( not be had. The boy was convicted on circumstatntial evidence. The Gover nor1 has alhiidavits that place the innc conco of this negro beyond all doubt, andl of cour mse ho lias set him at li berty. Hei has shortened the termns of a great many and his consideration for those who havo b'ehavedl well r'eoivos uin usu11al co)mnmndlation. Reform is said] to h otne (If the ob) jects (If punishment, and if the crimi nal hlas real ly r'epented and reformed, ho should be given another chanco. My wife was commenting on that little chair- that was the poor1 fbother's token oIf her dead chilid e'nd that ire minlded( her of a little workstand that tihe Y'an kees tootk from her' and car' r'icd oif. It wats a beatty and was madec specially for Iher twenty-four-thi birthday and she hats lammnnted its loss all theso years. ioorty mnoro years' have nand, and now she has nnoter birthday, and all that I had to give her was a morning kiss on her brow and a white rose in her rayon hair and to wish shor long life and happiness and that her last days inight be her best days. God grant that no allliction or calamity may befall her! Her absent boys wrote her loving letters, and as she read them she said : " f know they would not forgot their poor old mother." " Poor ! " said 1. " You are rat and you are rich in your postority, and you are not old-not near as old as I am Why not say their rich and well-preserved mother?" But nu merous grand-children and more com ing does make an ancient matron feel old, espeolally If she had to play rulla geo from the fowl invaders and carry halIf a dozen little helpless children with hert during a long and cruel war. Those four years ought to count ten in the ealendar of a mother's ago. Hii, Amr. THII STAR SPANGL'D BANNEIR. Anl El1ort to Build a Monument. to (lie Anthor-The OrIgin of' tihe Poem. Philadelphia Times. [rancis Scott Kov, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," to whose grave an elfort has recently been made to raise funds for tile erection of a suitable monument, was the father of Mrs. George H. Pendleton, of this city, who died a few years ago, leaving a flmily who cherish tile memories of the noted hymn writer. Among some of the papers of the family are the ever familiar stories of tile events leading to Key's Inspiration and anu thorship of this national renowned song. Some of tile most prominent and interesting facts are gleaned from a paper that was road before the Hlis torical Society of Ponnsylvania a few days ago. The grave of Key is in a pubtlic coeletery not far from l'red crick, Md., the home of his birth, and is only mark(ed by a slab abnost over grown with weeds and busies. Mr. Key was born near Fredrick, Md., August 1, 17719. After graduat ing at St. John's Law college in An napolis, h began a successful practice in Georgetown, Md. His Camreer was sull that he was soon appointed dis trict attorney of Washiuj;ton, and was considered one of the most brilliant attorneys of tile (lay. le was poet and wit as well as lawyer, as'a few of iis productions h ad aInl ready gained the admiration of his friends before his niam bcame a Iousehold word throughoeut the land. Key was a great friend to Dr. William Boanes, and it was through a string of circumstances happening while boarding at the lat ter's house that led l) to the soul stirring words of the ballad. In 1814 lie and four or live of his most intimate friends were spending the summer at the Beanes retreat. Dur ing tile sumlelr Admiral Cockburn and General Ross cailpaigned a inarch upton the calpital. When they reached Marlboro, thu ollicers and tieir stall, mlade thir hieadquarters at the doctor's residence. They wei-e well pleased witn the reception given them, and General Ross pliced guards around the grounds as a means of protection against any depredations of which the soldiers might be guilty. The march on Washinigton was made in Aigtist, resulting inl the de struction of the capitol, president's house, navy yar'ds, arsenal, pulbic stores and the vairiouls newsp~aperl of liecs. Thle Britishm were unsuccessfully attacked by a small army of raw i cruits. Waite the alir was dlenso, ' w ith smoke, some one rushed wi tih gladne1ss inito Dr'. IBeanes's yard crying, "' The redicoats ar-e whip jped, I see them comn ing o'ver the hilt." As they were re treating over thme hill, the doctor and his friends descenidedl to the spring in tihe hollow for a drink. While there thrce British soldieris apipeiared and declared they had been victorious. A dispute ar-ose resuilting in aL light. The redcoats were over'powered, taken and confined as pisonerPs ill the coirit house. Cock burn soon hieaird of it,, and that night sent a body of soldhiers5 to libo'rate the subijects and r'oturn with iBeanes. Tile dloctor was unmciifully tireatedl andt impiIsoned in one of the ships. Key was bound to have is friend released, iad consultedl P resi dent Madison, who gave oi'ders and placed a boat at his service. Key, with his associlate-s, over'took the lBritishl bomt neair the month of th e Il'otoimalc. Key's persuaision wats unsu51cessful wvitlh the aidmira'il, wvho stated ini strong teicnms that Bteanes- should be hantilred. Hius ar'gumient with GJener'al R~oss was morec oll':ctuail, whlo, afLter consmiderinor thle matter, concluded that Beanes might hge i'oleased shlould their attack on Lkdltimoire be unsu~lccessful. A fice landing, Ross miovedl up the Il'aluixenit to I'ort Meilenr'y. Meanwhile hleanes had beeni transfer'red to hey's vessel and kept uinder- British guards. Ilt i mfore wias 1)1in ly in sight from the smnall A merican vessel. Throughout the night shot and shell initense agony awaiting the result of thie conflict. Ju Lst at dawn the fi ring cased ,and calmness r'eigned. 11ut yet their suspense wias not irel ievedl, as tihe smoke was so low they could not see from tie shipl's deck whiichm lag was floating. .Key often said that wa the most trying time of his life. As the Suilnroise, a faint gl imnpse of tihe A imri can fIlmg coulId be seen th rough glasses, wavinig In the breeze. At the sight of the hlag, Key could only 11in( cx. i'ressioni fori hiis feeIi ng b~y wiin g the Iirist two stanzas of the "'Star Spangled Banner." Th'ie IBrmitish could be seen retreat ing, beaiiming the b~ody of I toss. aL corpse. Th'ley boarded their' vessel leavinzg Dr. Beanes, Key andl their friendls free. Key wr-ote the lines while 0on the vessel (in the back of an old letter he found in is pocket. It wais published and suing for tbe first. 1,ime Septemb er 15, 1814. Key dhiedi in Baltimore Janti uary If, 1842. --A gorud story Is being told on one of ILoulsvillio's most prominent hmoimo copa1th Ic phiys!eians. SeveraIL dfays ago at younmg womnan ('alled iat his olie amd, after' di5isusing Oil all the topjies of interest of the dauy, settled down to tell himi her ailments. Amiiong other Liings, she saidi that, shie was greatly annioyed w ithi a sinking fooling. The p)hysician preparerd a littleo bottle of pill s and gave them LI) her, 'i ih minu111to diirections ias to how they shouild be Ltakeni. The won- an1 aigain beganm to talk atnd, after many vain ef forts to) get out., she starited for the doom'. She had just openied it when she turmnedl and1( Iaid : " Oh, dloctor, w hat shiall I do (0If these p-ills do not enui- me ''" "' Tmko Lime cork,"' lie re toirted ; "they tell mc that s good for a sinking feeling," and1 he' called( the next, patient into hiis prmivate ('1lico. --ThIe M is.-com i is I.hio longest, iiverm aind the Mi1ssissipp;i really joins the M~ti *-iuri. hut thme Missi~4.npi wats discoveried first and obtineid tile repul hation of being thlo nininal stroni: ISAAC G. McIUSSICK. A Sketch of' Ills lite and Services A 13iave t101(lier' aniid Pntriotic Citizen. Tho subject o! the following sketch died at his home in Union on Monday, June 8, 1819t. ilo ws much larger than his own county, and was well known and highly .esteoiied by hundreds of peoplo in all sections of tle State. Ile was generous, largo hearted, full of love for his neighbor, kind to every one, a genial companion, a helpful friend in time (of need, without hitter ness to any one, with stirong faith in the lpeople, a lover of hils coutntlry, his church and his (od. It gives us pleas ure to publish the follovinlg bketch prepared at tihe re'uest of Tne Spartan: Col. Isaac G. Mci(issick wits born in Union county, in that section known as "Pea Ridge" which he has since madie famous, on Nov. 20, iM5. ile sprung from the loins of a sturdy Scotch-Irish ancestry, his ancestors having lived near the border of Scot land and Ireland. When he was seven or eight years of ago his father (lied leaving a widow, live son1s and one daughter. Col. McKissick's early childhood was spent Ol the farm and his education was, of course, limited in a very great degree. Dis school days would number lessi than twelve months, all told, and it has boen often told of him that his education was ob tained by studying at night by the light of a pino knot, or lightwood, af ter the day's labors was over. In fact., he has often told the writer of this, that it was his custom, after getting his supper, to steal away and go belind the old barn and study. Whatever ed ucation he received was through Iis own elforts. At t.he age of twenty-tive lie was elected clerk of the court of IJnion distirict over Wne of the most in liuential meon in that section, who was, if the writer Is not mistaken, Mr. Wim. J. Keenan. IHis election at that age was a high compliment to his native ability and worth. When the time came for him to take the oath of ollice and assume its duties, all the teamis and horses on lils mother's 'Plantation wereso busily engaged in gathering the cr)op, that lie walked from h is mother's IQne to Union court houtse, a distanee of twelve miles. Ferom thatetime until the war began he held the ollice cf clerk of the court, and the records show that his dities were t'll per formed, and its Judge Wardlaw once said he was the best clerk of the court he had ever seen. When secession was uppermost in the minds of the people of South Carolina, Col. McKissick espoused the cause with all the fervor of hiis warm nature. lie imade spechies thbroughout the upper section of South Carolina and until his dying day, believed inl State' rights. Djuring his term of cl2ce as cim k of the court, he was successively elected lieutenant colonel and afterwards brigadier general of State militia. \hen the war caie on heo forsook his bomb-proof olice, which he could have easily held during the war, and organ ized a company. This conimand was known its the MeKissiek Jtingers, and its lieutenauts were Jlohn W. Pulmuer, long sitnce dead, and Gilliam [J. Jcter, now living in Union county. The Me Kissick ilangers were sent to Charles ton whecre there were other companies in the Holcombo begion tinder the command, at that time, rf Col. P. 1-'. Stevens, nlow bishiop of the Episcopal church. T1his coinmaind was named after Governor Il'iekens' wife, Lucy ilolconmbe. \Vh ile serving on GJov etrnor I 'iekens' pllan tation, whiiichI was thben forti lied, Governor Il'ickens, hiis stalf and Mrs. P'icns visited the legion and presented it with a ibag and si viply said: "Soldler-s, thiis hlag repr-e seats one dear to my heart, never let it trai." The legion wa~s-aaterwards, transfer-ed to Virginia with head quarters near Williamsburg. It was ati Williaunsburg that, the McKissick I.angers atchieoved, per'haps, theirt greatest victory dturing the wvar. This shot sketch necessai-ily precltudes the incidents of that heroic chiargo~ led by Col. McKissick. Afterwards the Hiol coinho Leg ion was dlisbantded or dis organizAed and the Mceilssick hRanger's wetrc transferrmed to the Seventh Southi Carolina Cavalry, of w'h ich A lexander C. HI askeli wvas elected colonel and I. G. AlcKissick lieutenant (colunel. The suplerb service of thmis coimtand1 is written in hibtory. At .Old Ch itrch neair Cold Harbor, while under the command of Gien. M1. C. Ilutier, the Seventh South Car-olina Cavah'my fotigh t one of its h ard(est battles, ini whichl every lild oflieur was killed and wounded and in whIiIch rnany zallIantI miein lost their livas. (Col. .\IeKissiek was s'everely wvounded,& mmd while~ neing taken fronm thme liehI lost his bswor'd, a fact lhe regretted always. lie went iiomlie a fter- lying in the hiosplital at. I tichm tonid a long time, and~ whlileI tecuper-atitng lhe wvas elected to the Iegislatnu-e w herc lie served uti hiI iis woumnd was healed and lie then r tur-ned to the fr-ont. Hie was plresent at the sutrrendcer, al Li hogh on furlough Hi-le wanitedi to light, hiis way~ otut wvithi somet of Gatry's Brigade, but his soldletrs woulid not al low himi to do so on account of his coni dIitioni. lI etti lg hie~tm stricken in fortuneI, sore3 at, hear-t 1and desolate with the kniowledge that the cautse) was l(ost., he attempted tm recoup as be hst he could.- lie eiitercd the law ollice of lion. A. WV. Thlompiison ini 186 and wazs ad~lmitted to the bair in a ver-y large class, amorng whlomi was Ju idge Van Wycke, of lIrbooklynt, N. V. an I1111lotn, I loher-t AIdrmich, of lI arniwell, and many other- jin'omiinenmt, tmen wh h11 iave nua' I thir i mpre~-ss ont thme hiistotry of theitr counfttry. In ti 66i Col. McKissick anid Miss Sal lie l''ostetr, dau~tghtctr of Col. I11. 11. l''osteir, oIf Glenni Spinigs, Spar-tmia birg county, were tmarried. Ini 187o Col. Mcl(issiuk was niotminmated foi Cot gr-ess by thte D emaocrats mand was elected by a lar-ge milajor itly, alIthough hie op p)onment, A. S. WnmI lace, of Yor-k, was coute d in by the lI epub Ilicans after 'm lomng and tedius cotntest in Washing toti. A bout thiis timeii a law pam't,no sh ip wams formed bettween 4tm and Gen. Wtm. II. Wallace, whliebi lasted until 1877, wheni Genieral Wallace was ele vatmied to thme bemelh. In I18711 Col. Mc K issiek di vI~alilant wvork for- t~me cause of I1am pton and fot' t~me catuse (of evotry homiest, CarIol inilan. lIe wor-ked niigh t, and~ day, ma1kIig sp)eechtes every whem-c. Noi man rejoiced more tlbani lie did at t~he sucecess oIf thme D)~tmocraitic party. lIt 1878 lie was elected to t~be Lecgisla ture at thme hlead( of t~me tickeCt and wasfl successIvely e)lected umntilI 1890, wheti lie recfused to stmand agalin for thi l ofr liee. Cal. McI(issiek's services in the fagislatimre Itt- well knmown to1 the peopilo of Soumth Carol ina. When J1utdge Wval lace was ceeva' d to thme bletnch CoI., McKl issick forimied a pat ner'sh ip withi J1. ii. IRion, whiich latsted un mtil thme death of Colm. Ilion. lie was themi associated with J1. S. 1. Th'lotmson amnd then w ith ,1idge C othr ian, whI.ich listed tuntilI his (leath. ils faitlly conisists oIf Mirs. I. G. McKissick, E. P. McKlissich:, of A sheville, N. C., atid A * I-'. MleN is'-irk,. of Autburn-, Ala., Miss Salh lees sick and lHion McKissick, who snevive him. ProilereI ( HIsiitlity it th Ite Tihe Richiond newsptipers prilnt tihoe fol lowiig letter from (;e'. .Joe Shlb, v of Missouri, in respolset toGen. I'eyt (I Wiso's invitaion to Confetiur.0 veterans everywhere to cooe to the reunion. Goneral Shel by says : "General Wiso: We, thc Confed orato soldiers, womien, abil (itizens Of NIissouri, accept. tle genero's invita tion froi old \'irginia, hani of out fathors, lanld of our iotlhors : lanal of Wa.sh i ngtonl, .litrsonl, .\ad iml, M\ull. roo, IPatrick len111ry, a 1ld tlbe los of the llVollltion : land( of oilr foreliatlis W ho IoItle with SpoltswVood rnilld I he lai:1111 Anid sailed n ith lHaleiph ('er thie seas Land that gave birth to the immor ail I )eelaration of I nd pend enice: ianil that ilunciated to the erow1ned heads of Iiurope thit Monroe Doetrine : land that gave to the World the first, law guari'a teeing religious freedoin ; land whose fair women, in the (dyiig (ays (if the Con federacy tore theiri rich jewUl's ftorin their person ll tilre w thei into the depleted treasury, that re cognition ats a nation in ight hie seureld to tihe Soit'h. Snal of old \'irgin ia, we vreet thee . fr.ind of i kson, i, and Stewart, we salute yol: \ve w il a1e4Cmble ill ouril great ttity (of St. latis on the morting of tho 27th (if .imw( e and over the Air Line and the Cjh apeake road we will parsstiln-olug loG. Old henticky lilo,' stopping f 1 1. un hour' at l1ol1isvill o to greet, I hJii 1)uke, 1lem-y t\Vteroon anttld ott. comrades. I'assing oin to 'ank -t we will stop ahl hour and p- in it a lid give ou1r George G. \'est an oplnortnliity to look on the lhiue ills and Ieau-i!il river of his happy, ragg'ed oyhoid days. At Lexington, we top all lwiir to greet the monihers of the Orpham l3rigadu,' and the gay cavalikrs of .loh n Morgan: and on Mlt. Sterling, to SU( I old Cerro Gordo Williams, the hero of two wars, Iissi ng on throlugth t.be blue grass pastu res of K enituk v to ti.e beautiful In1ount.ain sceeiriiy of \'ee:trn Virginia, over the Alleghanlie S to the great valley of Virginia. Made Iiiiiou.. :0id historic by the decis oi :-dw .lackbon, wo wiiil arrive At Iichmiiioid on the morn ing of tihe :!5th , to be given the hund and heart of welcome by the greatest people the world ever knew, o ming:o the last time, perhaps, wit Ih the gallant survivers of the A rmy (if Northern Virginia anui the Arimy i Tenn'essec-anid let 1.1h tiim see the \li: souri soldiers who thri-ice carried th southern cross of ' II xic ' from the God-blessed and sun-ki.cd hinl of tie mo1ckcing-bird and thu inagnolat, amid llung it to the breezes on the .I\issouri river. Let all go who Ucan. ST. LOUIS WANTS ''11 I. N EIT. I will go with you in this march (if peace, and along oir old comrades at the reunion we will Join in fervent prayers for Continued blessin ils n oul happy reunited Country, and plede( anew our allegiance tio the con.,ti tution and Our Conmnon country and tlie starry insignia of its power. a nld we will ask Our coirades of the South to ..rant. us the reunion of INiG. \Ve wi givic themi a cordial invitation to tliet great ety, of the .\ ississippi V hey, St. 1.oie, Senator tortie (G et a;ii plat St. Louis in nonEII iat11..n." A Gool) Iysiz Suul Y.--One of thec mo1(st reiinarkable (catches (everi miie with the rold andl reel ocoe t' r ii e t ti ne atgo~ ini the state oIf I" orida. 'JYe inain who actomlllisheoi this ex trtoi'i nary feat was N. .\I. George, of Ia I oswell l'. l''ow Ier, of New York. i I was Iishuiing for tarponii in (comp~am-y with a guide, at a little pllace calb d N igger' Head, when lie felt somethin! pIulling ati his line. It dhii hot ti long t) aLscertain that the gamIle wast Ceen bigger than the silveri kinl2, andu NI r. George settled dlowni to givye: fellow battle. Th'e lish soon caime h the surface. lUe was a monster saw tiish, and he 8lashed his saw abouI~t in the water at a great. rate. Nlr. Gor handled the lish most skillfulily, a prloved that he is ai thior'ouh ef xplerit. in the use of roil and reet. Thm hattle lasted one hone andit twenty muiinu-t when theosawhish wais broug lt tol ti. gatf and k ill cd. le mneasurmith foute feet eigt.l inches in length and wu-i' ed G'2 pounids. Iilis saw w:w fnu inehnis in lengtuh andi live in wiut.hi.an ,his liipijferis' iesured~i liity-six ine I'his tyives .l.Go-' h recor en the Gl)oosuhatebiet for the largtest NI r. George says lie doesn't caiie to taekle anoIther, and thiis is the 'o.01 eluionii oIf aill the noted expter-, w t, have ve '"r playzied a -sawlis n. Thiis iii. r'ead~ like great, iush stoiry to plii'e wVho( know l ittle of the great li hinot on the Catloosaha~tebe~ iver, but 'lie facts ---Caimels arei' perIhailps the t ly am~o Iimatls t.h at can not sw imn. Itonii. iate ly upon entering th;e wauter'. it i.~ said, they t uln onl tthir bact~,ks andlll1 ae dIrowvned. Wlifl A CoMiP:IT OUTFIT FOR ~Cuy $12.00,~ ed)tb' 'l 'it raltroadi depot, alt uit - ' - -. : 'il id Ctooking p -t- i v 4 - i or )O inch pot hotem; Sli ....* I . ia rnlbox,211inches IIti e o..h'eind foriany tradl ~ - -i ' *i . inbin i al the0 good ti i .(I .. ii m ., ji -r' mityo , and '41 .'o Toam to inlauren. 4 0 .-a i 0-: t ib '. .,t Ni. 4 Cook ing 'I or i; .r. - r in . Euiu e n t Slar. ko .r * r . '.t tI li4 po3lih 1 Iron I -o ' it ' ,'" 1. W'e itnt, to uake cus. 4 s ti n! :i -. o in ivery p'arLt f the b Stut.tt. fr tlh. -are -s:. of iut roincing or y uin.,tiw ga 'il'. andt to rosnew ouril.-.j3 okn9t. acq ain~en-eit.t , le , r isl W ie wnill s ,1'.:g.i ~ N'' ou iSt veto Catalogue of . 'irnit~u to, S'tves andt Jiaby Carriages tuailed free . A ddrets1 L 1. 1F. PA DGEITTP " fl M6 road trot. 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