The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, October 27, 1881, Image 1
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m i'jxg im run corn.
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Blttlnf l>y th* Window,
Looking far iway • •
Owr fioldi* and inoudowa
Sweet with new-mown hay,
And o'er 'be etreemiet sparkling
Id the sunny morn,
Saw I litlle flgurea
r Playing in the corn I
Brown and flaxen tie-see
Floating freely back;
Litt c hale discarded
Near the well-worn track,
While the shapely fo eheads
Clover wreaths adom—
Chubby, childish figure*
Playing in the co.nl
An encllkntfd forest v
1 Is to them, I weon,
With Its golden iree-uree
Hid In shining grwen;
W-th Its tiny people
On its leaflet born ■»
Brtgbt-cyed, bonny figures ‘
Playing In the corn.
Sadly bad I risen,
■y cold care oppressed.
Worn with weary watching.
Filled with rigne unreel,
Bui coeu pie ley v.nlehed ■
B»*ry thutighl for om.
Watching lhahs wee flgnM
Haying m th* aaeal
mm* *
^ tariff,
iaa.U Me4dM UMr«i
C/« r»st ads I
days n* *r In*. ta<
• SiitlpaUtst.
VOC. V, NO. 8.
BARNWELL C. H., S. C„ THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1881.
w .* . ■ *
$2 & Year.
Che saino plmomonon wan witnessed;
the next, it wo* the name. I Was pleased,
yet annoyed. Miss Silkstoue gare me
innuy a private lecture in her own apart
ments. Mademoiselle, us-we wero taught
to call our French governess, was de
lighted ; the girls all langhsd; and, to
make assurance doubly sure, I hart been
informed that one of the maids had been
asked by a geutnman the name of the
new girl, whom lie declared to be a * regu
lar stunner.' . °
“ Now it was clear to mo and all the
rest of ns that this inquiry could have
come from no other than from the gentle-
mtm whouo optica Inul boon eo re<rnlarljr
»f» s//.PNM»A/f
ms rbihL** mt
i—'
bMBoUMWfsar
What n deitml« way of
1 CM mmim I «*• noitn k-ww,
bwt, ftH bke, | wee gUd Id Uuak tMmt
-Jm* at (Ms Um I had Id
• law day* ; nl Ike name
bf®
moment recommenced his amorous
strain. I grew quite frightened.
‘VOh I do let us go,* I whispered.
" * No, no;' said Mademoiiol’^ ; ‘ try
once more.’ .
“Agiun fell the leaves, again we list-
, U . ...f
eued, again tlie accordion ceased. There
was a pause, then a cough, then another
'cough, as if tire serenader was impatient,
and expected to be addressed. We
strained our eyes, and justsaw the dim
yutline of .a figure. 1 . , ~
“ ‘ t'ome ! Tionii of that \ re ! r wils his
exciamaiion.
** I could scarce believe my ©ftrs. t 3fy v
rHirte<V4«wer—imialging iu t.tmTi vulffsT-
md commonplace hmgunge 1 I scarce
knew whether to laugh or cry. How-
und, os it seemed, irresistibly exercised
on myseli I’rcsently another symptom .
of hts admiration was manifested. Every did neither, but said, os calmly^
evening at a ceitain hour, under the walls
of our garden, were heard the dulcet
sounds of an acotrdidb ; all said it was
my church admirer thus renewing on
weekdays the homage that he had offered
me at church no Sundays. I thought
what every <e>e «ud must be true, and
listened with peculiar pleasure to ‘Annie
Lsuhe,' i*nd * My Beautiful Star,' and
JeaufietTe and .f muot,* and * I Dreamt
tnat I Dw.Jt in Marblellall*,' aad other
popular airs, *1] of which I had heard,
it ia true, ptayed Iwfhrr. tart uwvar, ao H
to me, with
. THK TA tlLK jritOTK A BHO ID.
BriU'tfrutt on-dho continent always
means only bread and coffee. To the
tailoring people it means a liowl of broth
and a bit of bread,' or of bread alone.
The American, however, will find him
self served with butter and eggs, or meat,
unless he has previously ordered “a
plain breakfast,” when he will reepive
the usual bread and coffee. The noted
table d’hote is perhaps the least suscept
ible 6f change. It is Usually served at
6 o’clock—an hour when the day’s work
is over, and when the meal can bo taken
at leisure. It is the social meal of the
alay, oiitTall tka guuata of the hotel are*
as my excited feelings would allow me :
1 'Thatdid you say!’
< " ' Why; none o’ that ’ere, to be sure I
Pitch iug lots o’ dirt on to a poor fellow.
What do you mean )* _
“There waa aome terrible mistake.
My friend came to my rescue. Sum
moning up her dignity and pccrit-t over
the wall, abe said, aevenly ;
" ' Young mau. who are you f'
* Me, martu ? Why, Joe, thctmtelt-
«'• boy, lo be aww !*
“ ‘Oh, mdaedr Mil MaiViin i Ms
'And what do net IktsT
“ ‘TMaM.’ban plied, ‘I habiT gal
no place at borne to pTr*ic- la; m> I
nmmwMty nigULbirv, ‘rause tl« waits
keep the wuwi off; apd a»w it’s tip^. for
MaftnbaaC* <
•41 wh»Laif.
of my hm- 1
a^yonly add that I Mkdatr 1 an will*
twmal pang wboa, a ab*e i Uasa -*•■ f ■
I f wn I tiM tbaeyaa thel
sl*a>d *i mm *i j
tWw | ba«< a*4 kwwa qm** m> h«*t
•A OiiSaK
I Hi •#. V* f |%
r * M , Maw hw I.3iwa ti leia^ m
*•. aa4 wasw daww Uu> cws.mm*. ~
Hmm 0u* fee 4a Ml k» eba ew
t^**ahe4 Iba %k «h*w. A* • —I • rt*v*
• Mb th* myHle P—M A bxwe I
•huk* ui ^ ami M ew* Web
•S» 9 M k4» «b* feewei iam «*■ as
as /Tmt anna eml a ba*nd *4 b»# h as
and ami hat w*a
* Mm
at
brr <4 yonug
aarxcrptswalde
qamU. Hha frw|uenfiy advrrtiaiid in
the n«n*«, ami always had a vaenue; for
ana or two. Bat yun know as well aa I
that there never wa* a school for a lim
ited number that had not a vacancy for
a genteel and wcli-omuccted pupil. I
waa that, and more. Why. thou, was 1
sent to Miss Htlkslonc’n aalnbrioes
abode? Well, the truth ia, Dr. Holus,
our family phys ciait, hinted that a little
change of air aud ao occasional bath iu
the sea wonld not be amiss. * The sys
tem requires bracing, ma'am,’ said he to
mamma. ' We are getting,' added the
dear, fat old mau, as ho contemplated
my growing figure, ‘ a little pale and
thui; our roses are not quite so red as
they might be.’ Girl as I was, I had
read Lord Byron’s ‘ Corsair,’ and his
line* in ‘ Childe Harold,’ bidding the
deep and dark-hluo ocean roll on, and
had by heart Barry ■ ComtvaH’s songs;
mitt I loved, as girls of 17 do love, pa»-
sionately,
Tbe m»1 the we! the open m*1
The ever fnob, tb* ever free!
and made no objection to the amnge-
ment which for awhile transplanted me
from the paternal roof. It was not re
luctantly, then, that I journeyed to the
scene of my future residence. I was not
bad-looking, and I knew' that I had a
love of a bonnet which would set all the
girls wild. I had not lived at Clophum
lor nothing, you may he sure.
“ Arrived at school, I did *» the rest
On Sunday we went to church. Now the
church service is mther long ; aud, bow-
ever piva and proper uue mnvhadia-
piwed to ho, one onnnot ha always look
ing at the minister or at turn's prayer*
In on* ct my BBsanonfel paopa at
I louaid tha oyan at a
lonma. It wm
all IbnmM of
t wM are th- r W>> *1
»i»ifv * a* fee sv > pt Li«
1 oiss I luktrMkrM, ami laid In Mfer
Uft aur't an-1 lie twa Sthsl •«***
ail (be feme ami tay* ami purt*me *4 ba»
Uewrt. I Iteh-w-d afelu a« WW* f »t Ikst
ihrtltaj my whnL* hewtr TW«v* Ur | uuity-
• s«, Uagn^ittsg f r mtr ; ttrosaoug I'twl ||
I was siuuiar «*u Km lost. Tr-VJ rtmU ‘
• Mtrrvly Is* sii v d ttb*. luat I w. # the
luau* Lsurm lor wtamt bn w.mhl lay ;
him down aud Jm 1 I waa his ' Bnsattf J lonw of Um wind, although.
Star, up in heaven ao high,” no leva cer •* ha vs bnau
lainly. What waa I to do t Dal not kba humoanes warn vary dm tractive,
sack touching low dca*rva some grace- tha ona at Marshftald having out down
ful recognition ? Was h* to. milisa the
mournful fate of which lie sung? Waa
I, sovoung, to be a cruel murderer,
.om! all through life to liavo my heart
tiowed down with a sense of tlie fearful
shock of it\ck a crime ? Tet would it
not be imprudent to uddreas a gentle
man to whom I had never lieen intro
duced ? I was in a frightful etate of
agitation ; I could feel my cheeks get
ting red, and my heart jumped right up-
to the top of my throat. What should
Ido?
“' Why, speak to him, of course,’
said Mademoiselle, who was getting
very cold; ‘ or he will be laid up with
influenza for a month ’
“' 0b, dear,’ said I, ‘ I wish he would
not come playing here.’
“ ‘Oh, uonsense 1' said she. ' Speak
to him; it will be capital fun.’
“'No, no; anything but that,' ex
claimed I, in an agony of fear.
“' Well, if you won’t speak,’ said site,
‘ send him a token.’
“ 'A token I’ Ah, that was a capital
idea 1 There could be no harm in that.
He was just Itenealh me. I gathered ^a
few ’naves and let them fall. ”
“Hush r said Mademoiselle.
•'The accordion went on aa usual.
The leaves evidently had produced no
•-fbcL
“'Try again,'mid aba.
“I did ao. Weh-teoed—noacknowl-
The aeeordkm want am vig-
everyUna^along a path forty-six miles
long and l.HOU lest wide, killing 250 poo-
pi*. Mi. bmilh has lonued Um cun-
elusion that, notwithaUmiuig these ex
amples, thirty pounds per square foot is
sufficient wind pressure to allow fur in a
working specification. As reasons for
' this conclusion, Mr. Smith axpreesea
doubts aa to whether a direct waul or
gale ever exceeds this pressure. Whirl
winds may exceed it, bui the width of
the pathway of maximum effort in these
ia usually very narrow. Mr. Smith has
only found one example, already quoted,
wherein the path of pressures over thirty
pounds per square foot exceeded sixty feet
wide. This press ore ia in itself very
unusual, and, referring more p rticularly
to railway bridges, it is stated that a
loaded passenger train will leave the
rails at this pressure of wind, and oonse- and they called put the engines and got
quently not much could be gained by
making the bridge strong enough to re
sist a storm which would blow a train off
it.—Scimti/lo American.
There are 111,887 illiterate person»
in Maryland. Of this numl>er 90,17V
are colored. The State has 2,020 ele
mentary - schools, and 390 schools fot
f colored children; these schools are oou
ducted by 2,602 white teachers and 88V
colored once. The average salary pmd
is 181.80, and tbs average numbervd
months during which the te*cber« are
employed is 11^
Td 81 Lewis puy
of
expected to meet at tko table. It re
quires never less than an hour—oftenor
two; and unless your company is enter
taining it is a long and dreary piece.-*.
lYrhapa-you have been told \hat there
will lie hal or fifteen courses; and, if
uninitiated, you have your mind made
up that for once you will have your
usual “ aqnare bmuL" But when the
waiter, with necktie and shirt-front of
unmaoutate whiteneaa, brings you a
small piece of bread, and a dUh uf
slightly-colored srater called soup, yow
proceed with qwtsl iweignatioa, in the
In hnf that you wifi have Um dinner pros
imUy. Tour cariosity is <«Jj the im
ti
ff uiiyrrTytTrt&r
•ft. '* ■
Flaii'ii f/vrt'itini. ’
Robin, In Hi* olierr) new
Slag • little (vng t<> ii>*;
. Tel) me, Retllireaft, »litre vou go
■W jien tbugrooud le wli t* with enowT
Wl.rn tlie flusere lie Imned deep.
When tlie timoke are all ulcep.T _V, -
Robin ItedlntMl, tell me tfiie, . -
When 'Ue winter, wtiere ere you t
To some fell-lend do yon fl/.
Where the flowrresiever ^le?
Where the brook-ltt* (tently flow,
-Where the eoftert breexti blow!
In • dliUut tunny clime,
W here 'lie elwtye emuiner-tlme,
. He you tirg your eweeteet >our—
Bing Slid ting the whole day long ?*•
j t . .
TeH me, Robin Redbreeet, dear,
How you know when rpring l.-hereT
Mow Jon know Tlie time hae ooma
For your airy voyage horn*
To the deaf old cl-trry tree,
Tu the be by and to ujeT
Btng and tail me, Rolan, ting.
How vou know when it la agrtag,
-—4m«-1—--a—
Po the falrVe at lb* flnwai*
Whi. h have bloomed In eummer hours
la Ibetr tnug homae underground
Haneyeuckle-tnilB|-eta eounIt* **
Do they nag th* Uiy-hgK
Making me.le owort, eh** HIM
Ail the gritty Mid* that eing
■retag w eanaing merry >prtagt
— rearfA'tCWe
be felt
-•r
• kuui
And Will tuU lbs
abrati ttarttiSt I-! 4 ,
“ Isn’t it bxy Imd, Will, that our now
cook, who makes such nice cake and pi®,
is not honest, and tn.tmma has got to dis
charge te r ? ” said his sinter Jennie, the
next morning.
“ Yes, it is a pity. What has aba
taken?* ' • t
“Notvery much; but,as mamma says,
.it shows that her principles arc not good.
Hhe.orsome fairy (for there was note per
son bnt her in thoioom from the time you
went there until mamma went in and dia-
ctrtered it) took a qnartor out of Aunt
Mary 4 # room. Yon put the change on her
bureau? 1 ' —— —
“Yea, on a little blue mat”
“ That was where I saw it,” said Mrs.
Farnliam. . *V^' * • •
“ Then it was luoky for your parse.
Aunt _Mary,” raid Will, with a laugh,
*' that I liorrowed a quarter of you, or
you would be 50 cents poorer instead of
25.”
“ What do you mean ? I lent you no
quarter 1 ” waa the »urpri*ed reply.
“ Vo ; but I borrowed it”
“Did you lay but one quarter on the
baivau T” a*k<-d bia Bother.
“Yee, ma’am. I burrowed th® other.”
“Oh rexetaimed Mrs Farnham. with
b aigk of re*k f. “ Then tha rook Is not
I have unjustly
■* No oomassigsttea will bo yabiskbad
aaWm sea >mgeui*4 by th® asm® aad ad-
dmeof the writer, act sewamitiy far
^nhietti but as a gaxraaty of good
▲idlest TJK PEOPLE, -
Barawsfi 0. H . 8 0.
- v f
A var is known by tbs
keeps out of.
Wmuf he same home tipey ha told his
wife be had been out aherrynadinf.
To macx a sucoesafuli run for afka a
ian must imitate •
down occasionally.
“ I wish I wss a pudding,
Why?” “ ’Causa I would hava a lot
of sugar put into me.”
‘ It is only after long refleeHon that I
go to an entertaniment with any yoang
man,” said tbs maiden to hsr mirror.
Whar a woman leaves a man who has
not earned his salt for years, ha immedi
ately advertises that he will pay no debU
of her contracting.
A cert air gentleman must have been
very proud of hie wife srbam ha 4sa*
enbed her ae “ beautiful, dutiful, youth
ful, and an armfuL”
Eu Pknaixs says Texas is tha largest
dtste in the Union. Now tha Btate wilt
have to be asrvqysd all over again to
ascertain if that is an— Texat .Vt/Woge.
“Tam is a sad
noastrd civilisation,” a
’"“a.*—
t roddsITV
aw*
’ Wnat I
'« « wes fees !
j
“aC.F^srmM4
-Ob. fe*tp
>• maa »
has I'm!
r*f *i
m eA>* ii* eas. Pee V wm* a
geety few luoa TV* y4*W|
at •wda'fe «■*, aad la
8m*. H* rwwo urns ad
* et eft
bws •
WMh '•Wl H i i| an pe They ft d
lh*e bvn e® ft he »*v 1 a Kwiaefti He
e® thtiw was *i-4Sl fcely cate <*
'* *•* D«d», end ma thev wrr«- all
•hd fte-1 ti.eu him, fcowling
Um mutrn wee»**u. lit ug ftarfai. ao that
K4ka m the vkwuIj who bMod It wm®
'«mml and ha>l oil »*e .U. The rate
rsHitinuod to tear around and yell sc
•bat it cuuMu’t b > i-ml-iAl. Mr. MoU-
key and otlicragot up and vent upon
Um ruufit with didst. And at first the
•dgbt of tlie fit ry cat frightened th< m.
and one lady who *aw it roreiuiu-d ami
full through a aky light and nearly killed
a man sleeping bem-ut it, and mads him
think Mother Sbipton was right
Finally, Mr. Monkey and hia friend*
made a desperate charge on the fiery
cat, and the poor cat took a flying leap
to thu street He hit on a policeman,
Having his life, but nearly soaring the
officer out of hm, as he thought he was
titmek by lightning. The cat jaoqted
to the ground, and an astronomer came
along and took him for an aerolite and
tried to pick him np. To his amazement
Jhe aerolite ran. Then ho was scared, too.
F inally, tho cat got into a haymow and
somebody thought the barn waa afire,
seven streams turned on him. He
fought well, but they fixed him. And
then investigations showed no fire, but
only a dead cat And they told the
stableman, he was a cross-eyed fool to
mistake a cat’s eyes for a fire, and so
they left him. And all the West End is
talking of the B<T*terioas cfct, and
only yoang Monkey .understands Uu
mystery.—Bottom Pott
America has for years been sending
ougro nnoatrele tu England. A reitlia-
-i fMMia about to be madeby 8«fe Hogue’e
^ : oompany, of L v. qsjol, who will male*
tour of this country next winter. —
an*—te<4 t» fmi f
** ft | ted fwyw efewnft^ hftE
UTd few fes* eUpt-wteJ IT
“F*hawl Hum*4msff ft awep ft up I
few* y w swa nr* •» y m f
▲ twsunuk kb* fe «a fewt fee tee I
*> ■ T«Ui ?tefere WWW m hftft fewy a,
II*■» ttw*fa p4 mnusy,”
** ll fen kwta 1 fen«% fe*|ft
| la. KbnaamHhnft luwwl
I * • ,
Hwl hwly wars lee*
• II UM.
feuymctl
“A J.4W I
o*l.d ( feollM. IA
“TW..1 mine; IPs
gave me s duller th e
m* tu |wy 50 orfcU that
Jt uniooti, Um
81m wiU nut I
evening ; ami in the
up to gr.iiulma's and gut a qnartcr *h<-
uw«* me for some eggs I sold her—mv
UtUe Iwntam's eggs I Aunt Mary will
not mind, if I do tiorrow aquartc* from
her for a little while.”
• Wo the troasury of marvels parsed into
Will Farubam’s poeeeasion, and the
three happy boys made immediate ar
rangements for reading it aload, tarn
and turn aliouL At every street comer
they paused to look at “ just one more
picture,” and it wss with a violent effort
that Will tore himself sway to “run up
to grandma’s. ”
“ But yon boys may look at it whilo I
am gone, if you’U bring it to me before
tapper,” he remarked graciously as he
left them.
Unfortunately he got to hia grand-
Mother’s just a little while after she had
left home for a two days’ visit to one of
her sons; so the" little bantam's eggs
could not be paid for then.
“Oh, well, it can’t be helped now,”
Will said, to himself. “Grandma is
certain to ^ive me the quarter in a day
• ?* saga F*
m it wm. fea
to a
O A. II—“I
wmimA r
I
or two, and I'll tell Aunt Mary about it
as soon as she comes In.” ' ■ . "
When ha got home hia mother told
him to put his a&nt's change on her
lAiroeu, anil then run to the grocer’s end
get some sugar far tea. After supper he
betook himself to his n«w book, aad
aooo was s thousand years sad a thous
and autos away. H« dimly beard some
ooa ask him about Aaat Mary's moevv,
father had to epask to him three tunas
twAme fef nmlmod M waa bad (m* •
Of enwras h® hw a
“Father, Ism very sorry I did ft. I
U?It ®u *ur* at bring aids to pay U at
cues I But I can uuden tend now why
you say tburs is aurb a little stop ba-
kweeu borrowing without leave and
stealing. OI mamma, did you accuse
th® cook?”
“ No, I only suspected her. I waited
to bo very sure.”
“ There it is, WiH I You eame very
near being the innocent cause of gruel
injustice to cook, and of great trouble to
your mother. It ia easy to commit an
apparently trifling fault, but difficult,
nay, impossible, to foieaee what calami
ties may result irom it ‘Abstain from
all appearance of evil, 1 is a good motto
for boys aa well as men.”—/Vance® E.
Wadleiqh, in Christian Begitter.
a nsH-PitoPAQATisa company ot Coli-
tomia is experimenting with a frog farm.
New Brunswick furnished the material
to start with, 130 frogs being sent from
thcru packed in fresh moss in a box plen
tifully supplied with perforations for the
admission of air. Tho moss was fre
quently moistened on tlie way. On the
arrival of the box at its destination only
110 frogs were found, and of these ten
were death It is supposed that the
1»K. aad at tha
at ttft.tM autos
at about #19,1X10,000.0001 Tbs
tmemel
globs at that date to as follows:
b**«. ••••*•>•••*•*•■
tmartm.
>u tr» U
aaaaaaaaa
eighteen that were missing had been eat
en during tbs journey by their compan
ion® id ConflnenMWt. ‘
The total poputaUuu of Asstna-Hun-
gary by tb® tots oaoso® is 87,741,418, or
1,000.000 larger than that at
and 2,000,000 larger then that
ti Great Bhtaan. Tha mntaaa® to Ham
•*•••••••••*•• ®®9
The estimate, if brought down to tha
present time, would undoubtedly give
the full round number ol 140,000 mike, ^
or ten tune® the (urcmaferaoce of tha
globe.
Oou Hkrrt T. Tims, who died a4
T tusville, Fla., a tow days ago, had ft
remarkably-adventurooa career. He waa
born in New Jersey, and in hia youth
went to Florida, when ha joined the
Loptez expedition. In a hand-to-hand
encounter at Cardenas ha deft the skull
of a Colonal of lanben at a single blow.
Ha eaaayed another landing to Gotot
but was unsuccessful. He was to th*
thick of the quarrel in Kaheaa in IM^
and once had a scuffle with Oasawatomia
Brown. H® served in th® Oontodorato
army, joined the Walker expedition to
Nicaragua, tod a wi£d Ills to
Arisona and Ootorada, and to hia old i
lou uded the
Sncn 1871 the i
York
—104, er FT per t