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lENRJ., EDTIN.WINNSBORO. S. C.. JANUARY 6 . 183 TIIEC PIoTUE. A bit of lovely coast, . Dashed by a f aning sea, Tha'. lie might see uo mtore in far-off 19oly. A figure, dumb as de;nth, Prone oi tho yellow sand, Beside his use:es craft, Shattered upin the strand. And a fair fisher girl, Watchiug with Bad, wild eye The breaker's seething foam And dhun, tenape'stuuus sky. Crouched on the broken bow, The giae of sky and sea shone oil the sweet, dark face And wild hair nournfuliy. A simple ploturo hung Oil the waiscoted wall, And yet tie prouil inin's heart It hold with solenia thrall. Ills was tie prostrate forrn Lyftig upun the sand, And his tile true eyosi girl Who Watched upon the ttrand. He lived-; but she alas I.. in sea-Iole wioly ' S'ept In a loniely grave Beside the toauLng ooea. Hle broke lhor untaught, heart 1y silence cold and long; In vain wguid late reinorse Atoue her grief and wrong. Nor wife nor child had lie To cheer his lonely hall: Only that painted bit Hung On the dreary wall. ilERt RELATIOMS. "I tope, miy doarl, you won'tolbjeot to John's folks?" said the, bride, tilily. "John's folks ?" repeated the tall, lilack-eyed young man, who had just been Made happy, and wias n1ow sitting I be side Mrs. Frederic Fane, in the rail road train hteaing t wards Hastings, I which was their nearest station to Lau. i rel Farm. "Not in the least, my love. Why I should I objoect to them ?" "Oh, I don't know," jid Mrs. Fred- < orio Fane "SomO people do, you know. . "But of courno it. 'bcns hard to turn< It hem out, after all theso years, and-..-" "Stop-half amiiluto, iy dear," said I -Mr. F ano. "I am not quite sure that I under- 1 Stand you. "Who are John'ii folka? ] "And who, if I may take the liberty to ask, is John ?" f Mrs. Pano turned pink, and look3d 3 hatoitatingly down at her lace-bordered pocket handkorchief, as if uncertain whet.hor a toar or two wotltt not be ap- c liropriato. ''Oh, Fred, said she, "what a quea ti )111. J ust think a moment. a "And of course they always expected to have a home with mne." ''Oh I" said Mr. Pane, making Up his lips into a whistling position, as lie re membered that Mrs. Fino's first hu. I band had been named John Quiioy i Adams Larkins. "Yea, I comprehend. Are there 1 aany of 'em my dear?" n "Well," hesitated Lilias, again color I ing, '"thero's John's stopfather-a dear I "1id gentleman, but a little peculiar. He's an escaaped Mormon-" "A whatT' said Mr. Fane. "A Murmon," explained the bride. C "He joined ile community, and then I lie didn't like thom as well as lie thought ai lie should, so ho ran away aud married a John's mother. "And ifter aho died, nothing could induce him to ieatve the soene~ endear- I *d by her presence." "Ah 2" said Fane. "A sentimentalt old party."t He very ngreeablo,'? adtded Liiis, 'it only you will let him have his owun way ini over~ythiing." a Do you know, my dear, that is a I oharacteistio-whuich I have observed in othters ?" gravely remarked Mr. Fane. "Then there's auht (Jrace," went on I Liilias. "She's an cxcllent housekeeper---in fact she is cleaning neaely all the timeb. "It does get a hittie uncomfortable 4now and thea ; but it's aunt Grace's I way, and so.I put up .with it. "Andc John's two sisteirs, Diorcas and Keturah, are water-cure people. "They like tihe plae buecause thtere is a cascade ait the b~ack and a river close I by." "'Ah I" said Mr. Fane, "And oousiin Ferdivand-thiat'si all!"' added Lilias, with a sigh of relief. "Th'lat a all, elh ?" said the bridegroom. "Cousin Fordinaun ini very agreeablo," she said. "He's waiting." "Waiting '?" echoed Mr. Pane. "What 'or ?" "For the millquum," oxpilained Mrs.1 Fane. "He's been1 wiaitinig these many years." "Oh I" said Mr. Fanti. "He's crazy, ohi ?" "Well," confessed Lle 'i i T ittle peeuliar. "Butt we're used toitadwe(oi' "And are tho people all to live with us ?" akedi Mr. Fanio, a little gloomily. "'If you don't objoot," Lilias timidly No inthe least, my darling," said Your will is Iawv to me." "So ided of you, dear," said Mfrs. IFano, aesparently much relevod. And then the train sto'pptd att Ha-li ings and the young pair got, out, But during the long dhive to Laurel -Farm-Larkins Farm it~ jmd be when Lilias fbst,1 came there, but shte had adopted the more euphonidus iuamo Mr, Fane turnedi matters over in his muiud. His mother, a shrewvd old prophotoes, had warned him that he couldn''t 'ex. pet to marry a rich young - wiglow,. who Swas pretty and attractive into the bar. gain, without some return of annoy anoe or trouble to balance his bliks. And here it was the urs't thimg, Not' the ghost of thel cdear, departed Larkins-tat he thought he ool4 have endurd-but live substantial bequests, 1a fastened to the old farm like limpets t< a rook, barnacles to the hull of a ship And Lillas evidently expected him t< adopt them ito his affections, ana to] erate their various eccentricities even a tihe had done, Lilias was such a pretty, dove-eyed confiding little thing. She ihould not be tormented at a] events, lie resolved. if "John's folks" were to be met an conquered in single combat, he woub do it alone. And so he looked down with a smili on her innocent face, and replie< pleasantly to-her timidly-hazarded ob servations, studiousIv veiling the cur rent of his thoughts; for as they neare< the old home, Lilias was evidentig growing nervons. It was a line old brick house, as Mr Fane could see, in the cold Decembei moonlight, surrounded with alternai rows of Jeafleis maples and evergreens with lights gleauing in all the windows and "John's folks" were all asemble( at the door to welcome the now marrie couple. .iiest and foremost stood the "es. calped Mormon," a tall venerable gentle man, with a flowing board and a suit o pepper aid salt, with a red necktie and turnover collar. " elcome, my children, welcome;' sail this relic of the past, with a patron. iziiig air, as if the wholehouse belonged to hum. "I bliall use my every effort to rendei your stay at Laurel Farm agreeable. "You're a little late," glaning re proachfully at the clock, "and I'm cfraid the roast fowls will. be spoiled. "It always disagrees with mo to eat )vordono poultry ; h/ut of course this will not happen agai. ." "Oh, no, .indeed, pa I" Lihas eagerly iaid. Aunt Grace stood in the background, t grim, bony female, with her faco tied ip in a handkerchief, and a dress of )adly dyed merino stuff, made in a nost outlandish fashion. "You'll have to sleep in the garret. ihainber to-mght, Lilias," she said 0ioofniy, 'I've had yours whitewashed and ileaned, and it ain't dry yet." "But it wa cleaned thoroughly only ast fall, aunt Grace." "I can't help that," said aunt Grace, rith a sniffle. "Clcanliness is next to godliness, and ain't one to live iu the dirt. '-You wouldn't ask me or your step. ather to turn out of our rooms, would ou ?" "Oh, no !" cried Lilias. Dorcas and Keturah mat knitting on ither side of the firo, Ovidently in a C~aj ILJ ULMEIUL. "We were invited to tea to Miss 'Jumbitgo's to-night," said the eldest inter. "But Keturah thought we'd ought to tay and weleome you fust," said Dor "And the tra*n's late, and we shan't >e iii time to go there now," moodily dded Koturah. "But some folks don't care how they acouvenionce other folks," said Doas, s she extended a thlbby; nittened and to her new cousin-in-law without ooking at him. "I1am vety sorry' pleaded iias, vith a troubled fatce. "Well, then, Grace," said the See nd Advent man-a stout, rubicund ittle follow, with a red nose, and hair a white as silver-"let ui have supper erved at onc. "What arc you waiting for ?" And Mr. and MIs. Fane were com. ielled to seat themselves without los f time at the tab e, without an oppor unity to remove the dust of travel, or o reiresh themselves alter ther jour ioy. Mr. Fane had iudeed ventured to say omnething abou t to wels and fresh water, mtt Lihias whispered "Never mind just now, dear. "Va will be so put out and Grace nd Keturaha like punctuality. For this mee, do oblige me ?" Mr. Fanoe looked around in. some suir >rlse. Roare were ho and Lilias, the right. tul ownaers of the house, placed in the Jositioni of scond-into guests, of no great iuapo'rtance onte way or the other, whilo "pa," aunt Grace, the resentful isters and the isecond Adventist eigned supreme, and Lilian hardly lared to express an opinion of her >wni iin their presence, But he miute no comment, to Lihas' great relief, and endunred everytiunig vith tue serenity of an Ariutotle. Eatrly the next morninug' he descend 3d into the cellar, where aunt Grace vas skinmming milk, and looken sharply ihout him. "My dlear aunt Grace," lie said cheer. 'ully, "will it, incouvemencee you if I ise some of these shelves for my oci 3.d1 ?" "Your wvhat'? ' said aunt Grace, drop. ping her creamn-apoon mn amasement. '1. intend to use this cellar as a lab 3ratory," blandly explained Mr. Fano; "andi~ a'id asn some ou the chiicats are "I had bettor move the pans1) cut to the airing-nonse," gaaped aunt grace. "But LDoicas and Keturahi are ~very~ timid, and--" "Ini that case," said Mr. Fane, "per hiaps they had better remove themselves to tthe sp~ring-hlouse, too, "I1 really cannot -exist wvithout my Aunt Grace sat down and thought it over. Was shte, after havng hved for sixty odd years in peace and qliet'iess, to be blhowni upl like a torpedo at last? There was cousin tarke, in Wales. t would not, perhiaps be such a com. fortuable home a tids, but there wouk1 be n" chemicals. M.. Bogle the roelreant Mormon, wat cezily reaidi'ug the paper by the fire when his stepson's successor blandly rootuested him to '-moyo a little." "Movo~l" said Mr. Bogle, droppinj his hlseas. "Wheo? and what for 2" "I am endeavoring to attack elect'rl wires here," said F'aso. -'1 aba-getting up 6 aialitrr assist in may ehhemical experimants." 1 "Ohemical experiments I Hero 1" oried I the ex-Mormon. > -"But I di'slike chemistry, and I don't - approve of electricity. 3 "in my opinion it is a trifling with. the gifts of :'r(svidenoe."4 "Electro-ohemistry is a wonderful agent," serenely remarked the bride I groom. "I am thinking of charging all the boards of the floor with electrioity, in j order to observe the effect prodnoed by the footsteps of dillerent members ca 3 the family." I "Sir," cried Mr. Bogle, involuntary . lifting his feet up on the round of hiq - chair, 'I will not tolerate it, I "I[-I am not a lamp, tobe lighted by r electricity, nor a battery, to be charged." "My dear air," smiled the bridegrooiil, "in less than three days I shall have made a convert of you." "Never I" roared Mr. Larkins' step father. In the meqntime cousin Ferdinard was dubiously eyeing a pair of superb blood bounds which were chained up in the stable. "I don't like dogs," said cousin For. dinand; "and I always used this par ticular stall for my pony Grib." "I have ordered GruU to be changed into the stall beyond," said Mr. Fane. "And you need not be afrai4 of Star and Planet; theyarechained carefully." "But suppose they should break their chains ?" croaked cousin Ferdinind. "In that case, your life would not be worth five minutes' purchaso," said Fane. "But my wife and I are very fond bf the dogs ; they know us." "i'll leave the house I" roared cousin Ferdinand, retreating as far as the barnyard fence would permit hiw. "I won't be made a martyr to hydro- 1 phobia. "Pray reconsider your determina tion?" said Fane politely. But cousin Ferdinand was away like a shot. Liliras came to her husband t4at even ing with Hushed cheeks and brilliant i eyes. "Fred," she cried, "they're going I" L "Who are going, pot ?" he asked. "John's folks-to-morrow mirning." t "Impossible I" said Mltr. Fane tragic. I ally. "Hfow should we ever live without I them ?" "Every one of them," whispered Li- I has; "and oh, I am so glad, because < they had lived here so Jong that they v had become exacting and cross, "I didn't observe it so much in tho 1, old times, and I think we shall be so i muoh happier by ourselves. L don't like electricity, and oousin Fer- t dinand has a horror of dogs." ] "I am very sorry," Mr. Fano solemnly i said. ( "Fred," cried the little bride, looking s up with a sudden light in her eyes, r "you have dono it on purpose I" t "Done what ?" said the bridegroom f innocently. ti IWasn't I always an amateur chemist i and eleotrician ? t "AInd ore iot Star and Plknet my in- I separable companions wherover I go? r "How can I help it if my tastes are I antipathetic to those of your deceased husband's relatives ?" But Lilias shook her head and laughed merrily. "Ired," she said, "I have penetrated 5 your mystery. 0 -But I shall not scald you, dear, for ) it ia so nice to have the house all to our- d selves." "So you will not mourn hopelessly ~ for John's folks ?" mischievously asked Mr. Fano. "No,'' said Mrs. Fane, "I do not think 1 shall." For it was as she had said-"John's folks" had becomo chronic; and people are always glad to be relieved of a chronic ailment. A C'onjugal Lssc.n, In deciding an interesting question growing out of an ante-nuptial contract t the Supreme Court of Iowa has given an opinion whicb may prove a sugges tive lesson to a good many husbands I and wives as well as those who may pro. I pose to take one another for "bet-ter or I worse." It appear's that Johni York of- I fered to make a specified pecuniary pro vision for Susan Mosier if she would I marry him. Susan consented, the con tract was duly nmade and the marriage I followed. Lai less than two mnonthsB after their wedding the bride aban doned her husband and refused to live withl him. 11cr r 'anson for this was his druinkcnness, Subsequently John diedl, wvhether oni account of the loss of Susan or the cause for which she had left him does not appear. After his dleathi the widow claimedl the benefit of the con tract and sued to enforce it. The Su promo Oourt docides against her, It finds that Johnx's intemperate habits were no worse after his marriage thani they were before and that Susan knew as much about them before as she did after. Under these circumstances the Court holds that she was not justified ini leaving him and had not lived up to her p~art of the ante-nuptial agreement. Uence she was not entitled to the bene, fit of it. "She chose a drunkard for her husband,'' says the opinion, "and she ought to discharge the duties of a drunkard's wife. Sne does not show' that her personal safety or even her well-being required her to leave him. She dloubtles~s woulid lhave livedl more comfortably in the society of a sober iman, but shle ought to have considered, and d >ubtless did consider, the discern forts of a drunken husbanid wvhen she married the intestate. But she urges he promised reformation before mar Iriage. His fairuo to keep this promise did not justify her in deserting him. All the world knows that such promises made by a drunken man are always broken. In a few words, as she know ingly married a drunkard she must be content, to be a drunkard's, wife." This pointed leotnro doubtless left Susan a sadder if not a wiser womn.. There is no mnore ooniedable trait than thetat detoi~mmnaton to persende in the right Miretion. fEiotory anid Cost of a Tunnel. The recent opening of the St. Got1 ard Railway througm the Alps has move Consul Byers, of Zurich, to write sketch of the great tunnel. The pa of that name is over the highest mom: tain chain in Europe. Tue old yIo road, commenced in 1820, 7,000 fe above the sea in places, was 18j fol witle ; it orossed. gorges. clung dizzil to stoop mountaiu sides, and wk roofed over %%here most threatened lb avalanches. When the first railwa was opened, in 1840, from Badeu t Zurich, it was proposed to ask concei sions to enable the company to attae one of the high passes, and in 1863 union or soieLy for theli' pose wa effected, upon the basis of '%u estimiate cost of $37,400,000. - In. Decombei 1871, the 8t. Go'thard 1 rilu ay Co pany was orgaiiized,.$6,80.000 btoe) and $18,600,000 of bonds wore issued, i aoitract was made calling for conple tion in eight years, with a forfeit o 81.000 for each additiomua da'. and i bonus of $1,000 for each day gaine< upoii the contract time. Work begai in the sumni-r of 1872, and it was sooi discovered that tWe estimates wer< wrong, and that $57,800,U00 would b4 needed to carry out the plan ; a crisi foilowed, ad tho enforp4se seems t( have been sayed only by what had al ready beon Invested in it, leaing in way out but to push ahead. The rail way property exteujs 113 miles frona mnumenseo, in switzerland, to Chiasso in Italy, and morb than 6ne-Ufth of til hole line is in tunniols-fifty-six Ii num, *)er; many of these are 'not straight, ut actually spiral, accoiuplib Iung leavy ascents in short distances, and ohere are also many lofty vi- tnets >ridges, and compliicateI -raldories. .he ttal eligthlibl tumimlidg is 23 rgiles. L'he main or great tunnel is 9k miles ong, although others, exceVdiiig 6,000 cot, might be thought noticeatule else vhere. The great tunnel is 26 feet vide and 19 high. Tne modern boring naclhinos were worked by air now >rosset by la4rge turbine wheels driven )y the rapid river Reuss. The air was arried from the compressors outside o the borers within the tunnel in iron apes of six inches in dianletor, P'1 Ghe soaping air served gn irdinpewiable urpose In ventilation; 8,00,000 feet 4 compressed air wore daidy thus do tvored and sot free, pushing back and ut of the tunnel the bad natural gases, nitli those sot free by the dynainito and brown off from animals afd workmen. Oifty drills vere worked; the usual Aily advance waw 21 foot, % orkiug 1.om oth euds, and the while 'e3.uavisi,)ii hick. The workmno woro plincipaly talians, who worked eight hours a day, roeiving 60 cents to ;1.20 per day inmstly the former), boardmng them alves, and living chiefly on meal pur idge ; yet most of thema are reported 3 lave saved and sent home to their Onili's a part of this pittmuoe. The aunel cost 310 of their lives, and rounds were inlicted upon 877, Tue milal aitual cost of the tunnel anti rail ly, cexluusive u rolling k is n eported at somothing oyer $10,000, U0. A Largo Owl. Home two m1onith8 ago a hunter over in hanmoth Park, Ualorado, shot a largu wl. tie rueic( up with the expectation t huling it struggling in the agonies of enth, but was simewhat 6urprlied aind tartledI to find the b rd stainlig erect iand ipparentliy anxious to have reve'nge oit. of omeO one for the ijuries lie lhe had su-i isn'd and the pain he w s suffering. lHe lade a dlash I'or the huinit, but it wa' VithL at that he wais wvilgeti and could not take mutch pOrore. Tiie hiuiter secuiredl long pole andi deterined to make a cap ive of lisB large eyct ed hthness if it Was .ssible, w'ithaut kuiling hiun. This, a~tcz nime irgn,iq, he s icceeded in dolig. but Lot until he was roaced to elab the obsti ate bird into partial suuhmission. lie fin 11y pinned him ubown to the earth and then ed his legs togethcr. A rope with a run mng noose was thrown over his lhead, so hat when lie becamieobsrreperous he could me choked into submnission. In this way ho hunter succeeded ini dragging his esp. lye to the road, where an ore wagon souon assed and lie sencured passage for himself nd cap)tive to thme city. O arrivmng there ho bird, of course, attracted grea'. atten Ion. Hie imaur-edi nearly ten feet from ly to tip of each wIng. He would snap Ls viciously as a mad cur at ths approach uf any one, and the only way one could get ieat was by first choking him down. What 0 (do with hitm was thme questIon. Thes munter had about, decided to take him out ild..i the corporate llitis and round upi hii arcer with a rifle shiot when Alexandel amrstena, the saloon mani, p~roposed to pur ha-.e the wild fowl aid attemipt to tamnt The cap:lve was taken to the rear of Mr. Jarstens' ostablishmnent and chained In the utddle of a store room. Uarstens ther spent to work to civilize him, and, remark ible as it may seem, he accomplished al hat he set out to do. The broken wing it first aggravatedi the captive, but than p'adually got well and In the course o, bree weeks was In as good oondition s he other. For nearly a month he woult per.ni6'no oneO to'come Inside of hIs priuor mad It was necessary to throw food in t< tIm by stealth. Hie soon learned to know Carstens' voice, however, and gradually his owner wa-s permitted to open the dom)i andi throw nmeat to him. In this way th< lap~tor and caiptive mtade friends ftud n the end the great bIrd took delight in havy mng Mr. Carstpns comes In an'i put him 01 tils great h)ead. (Uaritens always utsed en ckaeadng words and sentences, such al "Goo~d old boy.'' "Does you like your oltn boes Alecki" "Kiss your dada," and al that kind of thing. The fame of that bird went all over th Btate, but Mr. Carstons would not par with him. Ha. had( determine'. to keel blom, un 11 s few days ago agentlema: camne up fro'n New M'xico, .nut only t< see hirni but to purchase, him. Hie hai come all the way from $ania'F to- hay that bird. They wanted It for a hIUSeuIC which was now traveling, but ulmatel would hleomeo a fxttirQ in (hOt0.go. Afte sonve bantering Mr, Qafstens ag~eed 10 t~sk $100 for' is' pet, atid the bWrgalk w' oled anad the mesey paid, Another Great Latko in Africa. The existence of another equatorial lal ld in Central Africa, far to the west of Albe a Nyauzs, rumors of whioh have reache Is Europe froin time to time since Sir Samu . Bker's first journey, is again reportet it this time In a much nore deflnite form )b hir. V Lupton. Governor of the Egyptia It proviuce of Bahr el Ghazal, writes to i y from his statIon, Dehui Siber, on the 27' a of July, to the etfect that Itafal Aga, a y employe under his coiniand, on his retur y from an expedition toward toe Uelle, tol hin that he and some of the nouiber4 C the expedt:a had soon a great lake ha th k country of tbi Brbja, a powerful capp3r a co) tribe clothed with a peculiar gras eHl'ItTf whicL Mr. Lupton sends a spool men in his letter). Mr. Lupton gathere that, the position of the lake was in1 abou 8 dog- 49 mini. north latitude, and 23 deg. east longittide, and that It was quite a large as V ictoria Nyanza. When thc weather permits, the Barboas cross th luke in large open boats made out of a siig!o tree, the voyage taktog three days. and they obtain fromn the people living on the western side (their owt country being east of the Lake) articles of Europeasi inaufacture, suion as blite beads aud brass wire. Mr. L;ipton adds It bai Aga's own account of fis route to the lake: Started fro:n Dchm Beoeer, marched six days southwest to Z-.riba el Pailetb, then four days soulth solutlwest to Beugler; four days southwest to Z.rlba Warenidiemna; six days soutiwest by west to the Bahr el Makwar, which he crossed after vIsiting several yeiy large Islands inhabited by a people who call theiiselves l1:wago. The Makwar is called by the Arabs Bahr el Warshal, and joins the Uello, but is a much larger stream; both flow in a west southweat di rection. After crosming the Makwar Halal iirched teni das sonth )stitnivest -andl rmached the residence or tile '%ultau" of Biarboa, by whon lie wis well received; the lake is rtiitetd four day's miarch to the Southwest of the Su't-in's residLnce." Mr. L ipton conc!ldes by saying: ' I feel I should not be doing right in keeping (lark thIs izformnation, whien. When looke!d into by oompeteut persons, may thro*v soie liyht on the famuous Congo and Uoill rivers. I believe that the Uelle flows into the lake discovered by l~fai Aga, aud that the a ream whicht is said to flow out of Lie lake probably joins the Congo. " Mr. Upton further informs us that lie is on. gaged in preparing . map of this province, and that lie was about. to start in a few days on a journey to a cointry called Tjti iungu,, aone ifteei days' march to the west of Delim biber. ' kio 15aby'l Haak. '' No," said the engineer, as lie closed one valve and opened aniotlm.r At T anything for a long tinio. I had the knowledge ill my head all the while. but it was lost under a heal) of rubbish. What fools men are when they are left to thietmielves sometimes I Now look at no. Would you say I was ever a tramp?" A tramp I His wbite, munsular throat-white and wholesome under the coal dust-his strong, vell-kmitted frame, clear eye and Arm hand denoteil a ninia of pinck and courage-a practi cal worker; not the idle, nervelo.s, re. laxed object which is denomaited a triaimlp, and which is a blight on tie face of naLure. No ; this nan, guiding the good engine Mohawk, was never a tramp, and we told him so. " But I was, gentlimen," he said, coolly sightiig a long stretoh of road over the backbone of his enine, and letting her out a little for a dead level he at, " L was not only a tramp, but the meanest - kinid or one, and L worked harder and suffered more to get into that conoition than I ever did to reach this," acid lie looked proudly at the polished trimmdings of his flying steed. " i'll toll you howv it was," he said at last, as lie slowed itp to rounfi a curve, and1( tucon went easily on piast the Ilcids clad in their summer verdure, past woods that were panoramic in a flash of beauty, and away itito the open country, "I was a tramp-nio mnatter how I came to be, or why. I lost home, friendit, self-reagieot, ad that makes manhood but I di n't woar a red-ribbou at my watch chiaram then, and my brain was muddled-there were more like mue and I weut from had to worse, but I had never broken the laws ; wronged any oune but myself, when I full in with some fellows who thought they hali fout a tool, and they had. Tiney say every man hias his price, andt they offered me mme.; it was the price of my soul, too, and I agreed to take the money and do the work. "It was this-to sneak around andl get acquainted with the inside of a house-the house of the richest man in the place, and to show them the way ; they said I looked the moat respectable for the purpose. G~entlomeni, you wouldn't trust one of the gang with a ten cent bit, least of all me as I looked then, but I~ felt aimost proud of the comaplignent, and that afternoon I was to go uap to the house to look for work or to ask for food, just as it happened to strike me, when there was no one home bitt the women folks, and look airound to see how we could get in that night-for robbing, and perhaps iiur. der was what they meaut. "itkj was just suchk a pleasant, peace 7it~ afternoon as this, and all the doors 'and windows opon, and not a soul saw me as I lounged in through the gArdert and up the veranda. The gang I had fallen in with had made one mistake they had kept me sober' for the work, not eleta-hieaded, but sober enough to make me feel that I was doing a ,spepnc, dastardly trick, to make me for the lfirdt time Iin many a day ashamed of my own company. But I d gone so fpr i1 must go on. I had walked uptho' steps and intothe ous witoutseeing a saul, and I stepped into a long, cool roonm, and there I. saw on the manitel, in ai great gold'framed glass, a white face a and two red, blood-shot eyes-my own; a, but what a fright "tliby gutle me ; and i then I saiw somet lilg ptlse, a small Iror e bank, sueh 'as ould ren keep penmes in, a It was made of latticed barsat wroughi iron, and between every bar was th< gleam of quarters and half dollars,- anc 9 smaleor ,OolR, .I hadn't a ppany to msa a amse,. A was he~ngry, tired, gootsor< and disgusted withx wiab I~ hadude taken. It came over me like a flash that I could take thiN money and get 0 out of the gang; it would be a dishon t eaty, but not such as this they had d planned. I reached out my hand and I stopoed. There at my very feet, on a , whito pillow, and all white and fluffy like an angel, lay the loveliest baby I Q ever saw in all my life I She was asleep, 8 but as I looked at her in startled won der, she opened her eyes as wide and 3 bright as daisies, held up both pretty hands, laughed like a bird singing, and said "Joe, Joe," which wasn't my name at all. J didn't touch the baby's hand, and I didn't touch the baby. While I stood there a little pale woman came out of her room and nearly fainted when she saw me, and I sat down there and told the whole story, and asked her to have me sent to jail for protection for myself and others; she sent for her huq band, and all the timo we were talking the baby laughed and cooed, and called me by the name she gave me, "Joe," and the rest of the gang were walting at the turn of the road for me to come back to them. "I didn't give them up-it wasn't worth while, when I had to put the people they bad designed to rob on their guard, and left the town that night; I didn't go to jail; the man whoso house was to be robbed gave m some work, but I didn't reform all in a minute, and he never could have reformed me at all -it was the baby did it. Bhe trueted me ; when I felt the old )oy getting the botter of me I wont to the baby and she smiled at me and I grow strong right off-it made a man of me. I never conl tell what that baby sav in my face to make her help me in that way, but it wasn't of this world. Sio know she -could save me, and she did it. Tant was ten years ago, gontlemen, aid I an more of a man to-day than I ever was, and it's her doing." "She must be quite a largo girl now," wo said. inquiringly. . "iaybo so I I don't know how that is; some folks say they don't reckon them by months and years I I'd liko to feel Bhe's the same sweet, smiling baby, holding out her hands in that conlding way and calling me thatsame name -but I never wanted anyone else to use the name since she said it the last time. Bhie was going to sleep, never to wake up. the doctor said ; they told me she wouldn't know me, that I would distiri) her. I went in on my knees, I erawiett up to the bod and looked at her ; doar saint, she was a8 whito as the shoots, and her prelty curls neveratirrod a hair and her swoet eyes cliod, and I groaned in my heart, for I thought Phe for breath ; and oh, my God, I'd have died to ho> hor, and she just looked at me and put 0:.e hand up-I fancied she pointed up there-and she smiled on me, and salyq she, all it onoo, 'Joo-l Joe !' and then aho made hor mother understand that alte wanted something. It was the little hank, and she wantedI me to have it. I took it to humor her and thought I'd give it back to her when shu got weil. And then she amied again, and I listened to hoar her say : 'Joo l'-and all was still You see I could never go. wrong now ; it how did sh11 know about that little bank and my wicked thoughts ? And so forgavO and loved me, too, pretty #lear. The smoke makes me cry. Thoro's our depot at the next station, anl we're running on sohedule time, aW you seO, gentlemen.'" larbers amn Surgeons. It must be recollctued that in early tImes thcre was lelnty of need of the surgeon 's art, and conaparatively little f'r that of lhe physician. 'Taking Into account the tig wars andl htile wars, crusadea, rebel lIons, the Iree exercise of the "right. of Drivate war" by persons of noble birthi, and ordinary brawls and eq'aahbles, it seems 1 to have 'uemn long odds on cold'steel agmiust all other aIlments whatsoever, en I there was little fear 6f a gentlemiau's hite heing protracted to the prejudice at his heirs by a correct observanice ut thme laws of Ilygela. 'The chances were all In favor of being k cnoched on the head at a comparatively { Iearly afge; but it is wetl known that in the hand to-hand conflicts with sword and buckler, for instanice, many more were hurt than killed. The wounded sought, either the mnhe kor the Jewn. -,ho em-1 played as their assistants the barbers of the periodl, an allhance whence arouc the (a. mous Uoinpany of lBar ber-Burgeons. How closely the two callines were at one time knit together is shown by the sign which surgeons have abandoned altogether, and which barbers nowadays buti rarely hang out. 'Ihi well-known pile is an imitation of one fortnerly held in the hands of pa tients during the operation of phlebotomy -now abolished altogether-end the stripes represent the tap or bandages us90( for fastening the arm; both pole and tap being in oldier ti'nes hung up outside the shop as soon as done with, to announce that there was a vacancy for a patient wishing to be "blooded."''Ihe foundsa tion for the (Jompany of Barbors is as cribed to as early a date as the reign of hEdward of Carnarvan, but the fIrst kRoyal ciharter was granted to the Barber 8ur geons by Edward IV. and his amIable orother,; the Duke of (loticester. F1or same unexplained reason thme barbers and surgeons did not p~ull very well together, and the surgeons scveredl the connectIon; but so much inconveniedcoe arose froni the jealousy of the two companies that they were reuhited by the Act. 9, Henry VilI., under pioe na no of blasters or Governors of theo iys~tery and Comanalty of Bar tiers hnd Surgeons of Iondon, Thls dec unient bound .the associated crafts firmly together titi the yoatl1745, when the sur geons finally departed to the Old S dlley, aid subsequently, in 1800, tormed the bodnW' well knmown as the IR yal 0W1. lego of, isurgeons yin Lincoln's innilelds. COhpose for your friend him that is wisq .anm4 good, and seoret .and just, ingeniious: andl honest, an d In th~ose thinugs waloh have a latitudeuse youir. owniliberty, . 9 Men speak too much about the world, Eachx one of us here, let the world go niow it wll, and be vlotorious .,. 9 victorrous hshnot adJl~, ot )his own to leadt 'ihe world's belzi saved wml save us, We rhould look to ourselves. 11876. 1882. F. W. HABENICHT, Proprietor of the MORNING STAR SALOON I respectfully call the attention of the pnblic to my superior facilities for sup. Plying everything ia my line, of superior @iality. Starting business In Winne boro in 1876, I have in all this time given the closet attention to lny busi ness and endeavored to make my estab lishment FIRST-CLASS in every par ticular. I shall in the future, as in the past. hold myself ready to serve my austomers with the best artiles thatcan be procured in any market. I shall stand ready, also, to guarantee every article I sell. I invite an inspection of my stock of Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. F. W. HABENICHTV. IMPORTED. Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey's). A. Bin Laubert and Marat Cogna4 Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rotterdam Fish Gin. 1098's Royal Ginger Ale. Jules Mumm & Co.'s Champague. Cantrol & Coobran's Ginger Ale. Apollinaris Mineral Water. Augustora Bitters. Old Sherry Wine. Old Port Wine. DOMESTIC. Ginger Ale. Soda Water. Sarsaparilla. %U lbMdha lYfry-Whiskey. The Honorable Rye Whiskey. Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey. Renowned btandard Rye Whiskey. esse Moore Vollmer Rye Whiskey, )1I N. 0. Sweet Mash' Corn Whiskey. Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey. Western Corn Whiskey. Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy. Now England (Frech's) Ram. North Carolina Apple Brandy. Pure Blackberry Brandy. Pure Cherry Brandy. Pire Ginger Brandy. Boston Swan Gin. SUNDRIES. Rook and Rye. Oscola Bitters. Hostetter's Bitters. oergnor & En~el's Lager Beer, in patent stopper bottles and on draught. eow Jersey Sweet. Sparkling aiaer. -olu, Rock & Rye, Lawrence & Martin. Stoughton Bitters. Book and Corn. Cigars and Tobacco Syndicate Cigar, 5 cents. The Huntress Cigar, 2j cents. Ifadeline (Jigar-All Havana-10 cents. :)on Carlos (Nub)-all Havana-10 cents lnorva Cigar-Havana filler-S cents. iheok Cigar-Havana filer-5 cents. -ur Boast OJigar-Eavana filler--5 cents' suoky Hit~igar--Havanallr-5.. cents. he Unionnm Self-Lighting Cigarette, (Amber month-piee to every ten packages.) The Pickwick Club Cigarette, (Shuck mouth-Dieces.) '1 he Rtichmond Gemi Cigarette, (Light smoking.) i'18 DilY Bllial~ al Pool Par lbr 11 ToRn .ICE! ICE! ICE! An abundance always on hand for tho use of my customers. I wil also keep a smpply of 'FISH, OYSTERS, &O., for my Restaurant, which is always open from the first of Septemnber to the e~t of April. * e hall endeavor to please all who give mea call. Very respeotfully, *PQIITE POS561~Z