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TRI I-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. FEBRUARY 17. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848
AN ANSWEICtED PRYICit.
"0, give mne a mesage of quiet,".
I asuk in ay nioraing priyer;
"FIor the turbulent trouble within tie
is more than any heart can bear.
Around there is strife and discord,
And the storms tihat do not cease,
And the whirl of tie world is on une-r
Thou only oanit give me peace."
I opened the old, oll Bible
And looked at a p ige of Psalms,
Till tile wiutry sea of ny trouble
Was snioothed by its sutner calus.
For the words that'lave helped so manty,
And the pagda.have seenie il ore dear
Seenied new in their power to oomnfort,
ni they brought nine any word of cheer.
Like mntle of solemn singing
These wpris came down to me;
4q' .Lord Is slow to anger,
X11l of naeroy great Is lHe;
Eacht generation praiseth -
Ills v ork of long renown;
The Lord utiholdetit all that fall,
And raiseti thle boweil down."
I-iat gav tine'lie atrength Iwanted'
r knew the Lord was nigh;
All that was nakling me sorry
Would be better hy'antl by.
I had but to wait in patience,
. Anil keep at any lallier's Milo,
And nothirg would really hurt tae,
Whatever might betide.
Tit UC CU RCFiEW it EtOIN E.
It lacked quite half all hour of curfew
toil, The old boll-ringer came from
under the wattled roof of his cottage
,toop, and stood with uncovered bead in
I he clear, sweet-sisented air. He had
grown) blind and deaf in the service, but
his arm was as muscular as ever, and he
who listened this day marked no falter
ing in the heavy metallio throbs of the
cathedral bell. Old Jasper had lived
through many changes. He had tolled
, ut his notes of mourniug for good Queen
Bess, and with tears scarcoly dry he had
rang the glad tiuings of the coronation
of James. Charles 1. had been crowned,
reigned and expiated his weakness be
fore all England in Jasper's time; and
niow he, who under urmy held all the
commonwealth in the hollow of his
band, ruled as more than monarch, and
still the old mian, with the habit of a
long ife upon him, rang his matin and
sorrow.
Jasper stood alone now, liftiug his
dimned eyes up to the softly dappled
sky.
The walls of his memory seemed so
written over-so crossed and recrossed
by the anuals of the years that had gone
before, that there seemed little room for
anything in the present. Little reeked
he that Cromwoll's spearamen were
camped on the moor bey ond the village
- that. (1rnmwall himieif rnd-n witha hi
guardsmen a league away; he only knew
that the bell had been runa in the tower
when William the Conqueror made cur
low a law, had been spared by Puritan
And Roundhead and that his arm for
Mixty years had neverfailed him at even
tide.
He was moving with slow step toward
the gate, -when a woman came hurriedly
in from the street and stood beside him;
a lovely woman, but with face so
blanched that it seemed carved in the
whitest of marble. with all of its round
news and dimples. Her great solemn
eyes wore raived to the aged taco in piti
ful appeal, and the lips were forming
words that lie could not understood.
"Speak up, lass; I am deaf and cannot
hear your clatter,"
The voice raised, and the hands clasped
and unclaped, ind rung themselves to
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gotha, palm alid padim.
"For heaven's sake, ITasper do not ring
the ourfewv to-night.."
"What, nia ring curfew! Ye must be
daft, lassie,"
"Jasper, for sweet heaven's sake, for
my sake, for one night in all your life
long, forget to ring the bell Fail this
once, and my lover shall live, wvhom
Uromnwell says shall die at ciurew toll.
Do you hear? my lover, Ritobard Temple.
see, Jlasp~er, here is money to makoyour
old age happy, I sold my jewels that
the Lady Mlaud gave me, and the gold
shall all be yours for onie curfew,"
"Would ye bribe me, Lily Do Yore?
Ye're a changeling. Xo've nia the blood
of the Plautaganets in ye're veins as ye're
mother had. What, corrupt the bell
ringer under her mnajesty,. good Queen
B~essI Not for allI the gold that .landy
Maud could bring mnch Baibes halve been
born and strong men have died before
now at the rmhging of my bell, Awat'l
awa'!"
And out on the village green, with the
solemnn shadows ol the-Ilicens lengthen -
inig over, it,. a str6ug rman awaito~d the
curfew to toll for his death. Hde stood,
handsome and bravo and tall-talor by
an inch than the tallest pikomnan whe
guarded him.
What had he done that lhe should die?
Little it mattered in those dlays, wvhon
the sword that the great Cromwell wvield
ed was so prone to fall, what he or others
had uone. fle had been scribe to the
late lord up at We' castle, anld Lady
Maud, forgetting that man must woo
and woman must wait, land giveni ber
heart to him without asking, while the
gentle Lily Do V're, distant kinswoman
and poor companion to her, had, with
out seeking, found the treasures of ht
true love and 1101d them fast. Tihen nie
had joined the army, and made one of
the pious soldiers whose evil passionls
wvero never stirred but by sign or symbol
of popery. Blut a scorned woman's hat
red had reached him even there. Euie
mies and deep plots had comipassed 1im
about and conquered him, To-night lie
was to dlie.
Th'le baautiful world lay as vivid pie
ture before him. The datrk grscon wood
above the rocky hill wvhore iobin Ho'xd
and Ils merry meon had~dwelt.; the frown
ing catstle with its draw bridge and square
towers; the long strotoh of rnoor with
the purple shadows upon it; thme green,
straight walks oh the village; the birds
overhead, even the daisies at Is feet he
saw. Bunb, ahi more vividly thani all, lie
saw the great red sun with its hazy veil
hingering above the trees, a though it
pitied himn with more than human pity.
He was a God-fearing and a God-serv
ing man. He had long made his pence
wIth heaven. Notning stood between
him and death- nothing rose pleadmng
troy him but the sweet face of Lily De
Yore, whom'he toyed. She had knelt at
Dromwell's feet and.pleaded for his life.
Bho had weariel heaven with her pray
iirs. but all without avail.
Slowly now the great sun wont down.
Blowly the last red rim was [id behind
the greenwood. Tbirty seconds more
and his soul would be with his God. The
color did not forsake his cheeks. The
Llark rings of hair lay upon a warm brow.
It was his purpose to die as martyrs and
brave men die. What was life that he
shiould cling to it? He almost felt the
ftir pulsate with the flirt heavy roll of
the death-knell. But no sound came.
Still facing the soldiers with his clear
gray eyes upon them, he waited, The
Drinson lbauners in the west were paling
to pink. The kinc had ceased their low
iug, and had been gathered into the
brick-yards.
All nature had sounded tier curfew;
but old Ja per was silent!
The bell-ringer, with his gray head
yet bared, had traversed' half the dis
lance that lay betwoon his cottage and
the ivy-covered tower. when a form went
flittiug past him, wilh pale, shadowy
robes floating around it, and hair that
the low westorn lights tonchad and tinted
LW a with a halo.
"Ah, Huldiah, Huldahl" the old man
muttored; "how swift Pho flies! I will
come soon, dear. My work is almost
done." Huldah was the good wife, who
had gone from him in her early woman
hood, and for whom lie had mourned all
his long life. But the fleeting form was
not Huldah's it was Lily Do Vere, hur
ried by a >udden and desperate purpose
toward the cathedral.
"So help me God. curfew shall not
ling to-night! Cromwell and his dra
goons come this way. Oace more I will
kneel at his foet and plead."
She entered the ruined arch. She
wrenched from ils fastenings the carved
and worm-eaten door that barred the
way to the tower. She ascended with
flying and frenzied feet the steps; her
heart lifted up to God for Richard's de
liverance fromi peril. The bats flow out
and shook the dust of centuries from the
black carvings. As she went up she
caught glimpses of the interior of the
great building, with its groined roof, its
chevrons and clustered columns, its pic
tured saint and carved image of the Vir
gin, which the in pillages of ages had been
spared to be dealt with by time. the
most relentless vanquisher of all.
Her breath was coming short and gasp
ing. She saw through an open space
old Jasper cross the road at the foot of
the tower. Oh, how far! The seconds
were treasures which Cromwell, with all
his blood..bought commonwealth, could
not. pnmhase from her. TTInaLx tiare.
just above her, with its groat aefikzen
mouth and wicked tongue, the bell
hung.
A worm-eaten block for a step, and
one small, white hand had clasped itself
above the clapper-the other prepared
at the tremble, to rise and clasp its mate
and the feet to swing off-and thus she
waited. Jasper was old and slow, but
lie was sure, and it came at last. A faint
quiver, and the young feet swung from
their iest, and the tender hands clasped
for more than their precious life the
writhing thing. There was groaning
and creaking at the pulleys above, and
then the strokes came heavy and strong.
Jasper's hand had not forgot its cun
ning, nor fbl arm its strength. The
tender, ioft form was swung and dasha
to and fro. But rhe clung to-and car
esssed the cold, cruel thing. Let one
strokc come, and a thousand might "ul
low-for its fatal work would be done.
She wreathed her white hands about it,
so that at every p~ull of the great ropes
it crushed mnto the flesh, It tore her,
and wounded and bruised; but there in
tile solemn twilight the brave woman
swung and fought with the curlew; and
God1 gave her victoi-y.
The old bell-ringer said to himself;
''Ayo, Huldahi, my we k is done, The
pulleys are getting too heavy for my old
arms. My ears, too, have failed me. I
uiuna hear one stroke of the curfew.
Dear old bell, it is my ears that have
gone false, and not thou. I'arewell, old
Iriend."
And just beyond the worn p)avement a
shadowy form agaim went flitting paist
himt. Therio wetre dlrops of blood uipon
the white garmniits, and the face was
hike the face of one who walked mi her
sleep, and the hands hung wvounded and
p ,werosa at her side.
(Oromwvell paused with his hiorsomnen
under the dismantled maypole before the
vilhge green. Hie saw the man who
was to die at suinset standing ng in the
dusky air, tall as a kmig and lbeautiful
as Absaulom. He gazed with kinitted
brow and angry eye; but his lips did not
give utterance to the quick command
that tr-embled on them, for a girl came
flying toward him. [Pikoman and archer
stepped aside to lot her pass. She threw
herself upon the turf at his horse's feet;
she lifted her bleeding and tortured
hands to his gaze, and once more poured
out fher prayer for the le of heir lover;
with tremiblinig lips she told him why
Richard still lived--why the curfew had
not sounded.
Lady Maud, looking out of her latticed
window at the castle, saw theogreat Pro
teeter dismonut, lilt the fainting form
in his arms and bear her to her lover.
She saw the guards release the prisoner,
and she heard the shouts of joy at his
deliverance; then she wvelcomed the nignt
that shut the scene out from her envious
eye and sculptured her in itsi gloom.
At the next matin bell 01(d Jasper
died, and at curfewv toll lie was laid
beside the wife who had dmed in his
youth, but the memiory of wvhom had
been with him always.
A Ca,,fornia isuuon,
In the Green Mountaim claim, near
Cedar ravine, Captain Ames, of Cali
fornia. found a large and handsome
diamondl, larger than an ordinary pea,
without defect in color and remnark'ably
clear. There is a smiall flaw on the
side, but it will dress down to a very
fine gem of much value, Of course,
no exact estimate of its value can be
made until it alnl have n rsd.nem
Camps of Snow.
The uses of snow for heating purposes,
or, more accurately, for keeping out the
cold, cannot be appreciated at their true
value except among the arctic and semi
arctic wilds, where it would be Impossiule
to sustain life during at least half the year
were it not for the snow. The E',quimaux
hut has often been illustrated and de
scribed, but there are oti er structures
made of snow which, though less proten
tious, are of as much value to the moose,
caribou, deer and fox hunter as the hut to
the E'qumLaux.
The three orders of architeteure in snow
are the simple .burrow, the V camp, and
the snow hut. Of these the burrow needs
the smallest amount of training in order
to construct it, the V caip but little more,
while the snow-hut is a rhing, which to
build successfully, requires long practice
and skill.
In constructing the snow barrow, all
that is necessary in order to be perfectly
comfortable is a heavy overcoat, a blanket
or shawl to cover up the face and nepk
and prevent the snow from touctihgi te
skim. Having this, find some place wh
the snow has drifted rather deeply on tiltz
lee side of a rock, a clump of bushes, a
tree-trunk, or in fact anything which will
seliter the pile in which it is proposed to
make the burrow from the wind. Then
dig with the hands, or anything else, a
hole in the snow, crawling in as fast as It
is made. Wriggling would be a better
word than crawling, because while getting
into tLe burrow it Is necessary to moye
along lying at full length, so that, beyQud
the disturbance caused by tne passage of
the body, the snow shall not be moved.
When a person enters in the manner des
cribed, as fast as the support for the upper
snow is removed by digaing, the body
thkes its place. Freshfallen snow-the
best to make a burrow in-is very easily
ioved, and were a person to make a hole
large enough to admit blui on hands and
knees, the roof or coverini would fail in,
and lie would not be sheltered at all. The
blanket or shawl-the writer has known of
one case where a vest was used instead
with pertect success- must be wrapped
around the head and nei-k before beginning
the burrow, and the burrower will conse
quently have to work in the dark or with
his eyes blindfolded. This, however, is
of little consequence if he will start in the
right direction, and keep going towards
the eround as mauci as possiole. The
process of burrowing is very simple. The
hands make a hole and the head follows
them as fast as possible. It is sometimes
necessary to push the snow as it is dug
out (town at the side of the body, disturb
ing the snow as little as may be, and keep
ing it from conlact with the skin. Once
in the burrow, the burrower should push
the snow away from around his head ao
as to form a small space in which 9
lsremneT10 It ite snow is so lighit thitn
is unable to do this withoutiits falling in,
then le shouli arrange the cavering
around his head in such a way as to give
him some space inside ot it. i1e need be
in no fear of stilling, as the snow allows
Mir enough to pass through it to give all
lie wants. The one thing to be feared in
snow-burrowing is that the weather may
not be cold enough outside, for if the snow
be wet the burrow, is of no use. As long
as the snow is dry the burrower will be as
comfortable inside of the drift as lie could
be in the warmest feather bed.
Uonsiderably more pretentious, and cer
tainly more comfortable, because one is
not so confinett is the V camp. It is aol
Lionm made unless for a number of persons,
as it involves a good bit, of labor. Choos.
ing a drift not less than flve, and butter
yet, seven or eight, feet (eel), the canipurs
niark out on the surface a gigantic V.
.ilor a party o live this would be about
mne feet across the top, and about the
satme mb length. The drift inust be what
is called "old anew," because new-lallen
alnow is too light anid fleecy to give the re
quisite strenght to the sidles. Taking
their snow-shoes, the muen proceed to dig
out the snow, throwIng it Qn the difft, oa
time outside and leaving the walls porpen
dicular. having g't, all of the sniow out
at, the lower or narrow cnd of the V, what
is cslledi a "'rise" is mad~e, which is sinmp
ly a p~ath trainp~ed down from the bottom
of the camnp to the 1.01) of the snow. While
two or three of. thbe party are (digging the
camp, die rest cut (down 0one or two flr
trees, the flat branches of which are
trinmed off anti brought to the camp.
Somec of these arc p~laced in the "rise'' to
preveiit those walking in and out tromi
siniking in the anio ". Th'le rest are I id on
the groimd~ to form the bed. At thme lower
enid 'A the V a lire is built, and( the camip
us redy to be occuied. There are few
mocre delightful places to sleep.
WVyemmg Newu.
Six ycars ago an' man camne to Wyoming
fromi New Eniglano, andl started in the
cattle business on the Laramuie plains with
one solitary Texas steer andl a good, serv
iceable branding iron, lie now has over
000 nead of stock, the multIplied increase
of that one critter. Wiio says there Is no
money in the stoca biusinessi
A femiale named Calamnity Jane, a
characte~r of i8771 and~ 1878 in D~eadwood,
who has beon liviig on a ranch for two
or three yenia, Is again on the walr-paith.
11er specialty Is dlexterity with a six
shooter andl a pelker deck.
Jupliter Is now the eve-iing star, and ap.
pears na the eastern sky as soon as It is
dark enough to see him rise with stately
ste p to the zenith, and sinks slowly to the
west, glowing in the celestial dome nearly
all iighit.
Among the unfortunamte callers on Moni
day was the y'oung--gentlenmn who called
on f mr queens at onie tiue, Hie forgot
there was snch a thing as Ikings. A en
quiette who meets a fociman worthy of her
steel will spare no effort to bring him to
her feet, taking the risk of gettiny, snared
herself in the endeavor. And when she
his him there, andc his scalp fliirat ively
speakIng, is lirmnly attached to her belt,
she iOses no opportunmity of exhibitinug her
conqiuiest to her fellow laborers In the
harvest, ild of Ilhrtation. It is one of the
m.>st ainusing p~astlhnes of society, but
those who go through it wihhout singed
wings are largely In time minority.
Paiox lias a fall: "Dere ia noe danger
of dumblig town," aid a fat pedestri
an 3Cesterday. ".I. Ish always in luck; a
sort of a Ma.-" The last syllable of
the word was never spoken, but some
thing vei y like it ini Gernman, with sun
(dry additions, was muttered as a police
man lifted him on hus adiu.
Fish Food For Patnquers.
The Introduction of ermau carp into
the United States, a fish that will thrive and
grow fat and savory on decaying vegeta
tion, is a progressive step toward utilizing
the millions of small water tracts that dis
figure the farms of the country. It is a
rare exception when a hundred- acre farm
has not a pond, or a pool, where fish
culture can be made to flourish, if not
with the beauty, with more than the value
of the harvest acre.
Fresh fish for biecakfast is a great rarity
upon a farmer's table. This is the more
strange when we consider that many of
our most fertile farina, especially those
east of the Allegheny beit 11U' niVUg tine
great water nou80, or are furrowed by
struntus that will yieldea bountiful supply
of coarse, but good fish food.
Fish-culture, by its rapid, economic
progress duritg the. last decade, -has
placed at the will of the farmer a means
of providing for hiseiaily need. which
ranks in Importance with the raising of
ordinary-. finjprodcti tor home oonsump
tion. Why t'4, farmer has not found this
.0ii long ago ils easy to exilain. ' The
-tursuWt* 'dtibh-editiire has been almost
exclusively cinfined to those who may be
classed, without offense, as professional
flsh culturists. These gentlemen have
made fish-culture an axt; froni a knowledge
of which, the farmer, with his acres of
water area, all ready for the seed, has
been debarred. Yet all these years fish.
raising, for dnestiQ use, has remained
one of the sinplest problems that ever a
farmer was called upon to solve.
(iven a pond, a few fish, a shovel, a
few hour' labor, with twelve months o1
patient waiting,-and you have your crop,
which, with cie, will become an annual
one, without the use of plow, harrow or
seed bag. Take the carp as au illustra
Lion. If you have a natural l)ond, cove:
ing at least half an acre, with an outlet
and inlet, its gicatest depth at least eight
feet, with a shelving margin, you have
your fish farm. Bond to,th fish commis
sion of your State for 4 supply of carp,
which will be furnisheoi to you free of
cost, except that of transportation. Place
them in your pond, ficding, if needed,
with the scraps from th hitchen, or better
still, with the curd -o' sour milk. In
twelve months there will be a crop ready
for table tse.
Fish, like cereals, must have p-otection.
Before planting the carp. see that the p-md
is cleared of all other kinds of fish, and of
frogs, hoth of which will so:mn eat up the
young fish, as well as the spawn ot the
larger ones. The young fish have other
enemies, such as the kingfisher, the blue
heron, ducke, water-rats, etc., against
which they will need protetion.
Put no other flah in the pond with carp,
but if you crave a varied lish diet, and
have another natural poni, or the chance
XM itA# onsu?*Wdzn itsh or
; 1h, 1in ii. Tis Balhi prolects its
young, and mecrcascs withi gfa i-apidity,
In a separate pond may be planted the
lorge-niouth black bass, or the yellow
perch may be raised. All of the above
nined fish will live and thrive in pon(ds
with a muddy bottom, and their growth in
size and numbers will be dependent upon
the food and fresh water supply. The
carp is a vegetable feeder atd will re
quire little food s long as the pond is
well tilled wit'i aquatic plants. The other
fish feed on minnows, rogs, the larva of
water isects, fresh-water crustacea, and
such other aninial food as co:nes within
the reach of their rapacious jaws. By
the judicious culture of a small frog pre
serve, sufficient food for the black bass
can be raised with a surplus of delicious
frog legs for private consumption.
John1 naara1flndb4Aw-rrne.
"Mamie is (iying."
These were the words that the tele
graph-key clicked out upon thme silence
thait had fallen upon the station of which
Jolha Heathcote was in charge, And so,
as John Ueathcote placed the message in
an envelope andl sent it by his ofilce boy t~o
an address with which lie was not familiar
there was perhaps the suspieiom f a tear
glistening in lia honest eye, and imayhap
the hand that penned the adldress tremibled
a little, for lie hind wife and children of
lisa own, had John IHtat hcoto, anitIt came
to him with awful torce how cheerless his
life would be were one of the little pairs
of arms that each miorninr twined so lov
ingly arouind his neck to be folded ncross
a heart that was stilled forever and the
deep brown eyes be closed in the diream
less sleep of death.
And while he was still thinking there
caimi agamn the nervous click of the hn
stiumnent, andi as he atnswered the call' be
felt, Instinchvely that the message lie was
to receive -would bring more bad ne ws,
And lie was right. "Mamie is dead; I
will be home In the morniing," wero the
wordls that came to him over the wires,
nd~ then the tears in honest John Heath
cote's eyes were lplain enough, and lie was
not ashamed that lie had wept at the sor
rows of people tall unikno)wn to him.
When the morning train from the West
canm. thtundering ito the little town where
John ileathcoto lived he was standIng
upon the platform. is hours of duty
had endled somne time before, but he
could not bear to leave until lie hiad seeni
tIAe man whose namie was signced to the
dilspatches of the p)revious night. A
sleigh had come to the (depot andi the dIriver
had satd incidentally that lie was to meet
Mr. Jones. When the train arrived a
weary-looking man stepped fr mn one of
the cars andl the dIriver of the sleigh ap
proaehe I himn. Johii foathtcote was
standIng withIn a few feet of them.
"Good( morning, Mr. Jone," said the
driv -r.
"''O d inorning. John."
'S > Matmle is dead?'' asked the mi m.
" Yes," was the reptly, in low, agonized
tones, "anid she would have beatent 2. M0
next senson."
John Ileathcoto want away.
Vermont is said to produceo more
marble than any other -Btate in thme
Unmon or than any country except tis.
Tihe business has expanded with mar
velous rapidity since 1870, when com
paratively little Vermont marble was to
be 1omad in the market. The aggro
gate amount of the State's production
the piesenit year is 1,000,000 cubic feet,
valued at over $2,000,900. The num
ber of mon employed in the quarries
and mills exceeds 2300, and it requiredi
10,000 oars to carry thgi marble away.
Nearly $1,600,000 was pauid for time
labor of workiingn by the quarry
The Indln Mariage Market.
Of the curiosities of Anglo-Indian
literature there are none more amusing
than the stories of matrimonial allianceso
in times past. It seems incredible now
that a young lady could be shipped off
like a parcel of goods consigned to an
agent in India; but such was the fate of
many a girl, and it must be confessed
that It was a destiny not uiiwilHlingly
encountered. Nevertheless, wnat must
have been the feelings of the young
lady during the tedious timo of the
six months' voyago to India, knowing
that she was just as much sent out for
sale as any of the packages among the
cargo, and cognizant of the fact that
certain pig-tailed and nankeen-breeched
nabobs would be waiting at Garden
Reach, Calcutta, or the Bunder, Bom
bay, to appraise her marriageable value
the moment she landed? By all ac
counta, the girls thus shipped to the
East, along with oadets, the black sheep
of their families, accepted the situa.
tion philosophically. Those who had
no female relatives to look after them
wore placed under the charge of the
captain, and it is a curious fact, do
noting the mannors and customs of the
times, that one of the essential qualifi
cations for the command of an iLdia
man was a reputation in the trade as a I
male chapcron of young women. Cer- I
tam captains were well known for the
care. they took of their interesting but I
difficult charges. Nor was the respon
sibility a light one. It is to be remem- a
bered that even as lately as thirty years i
ago the East Iniiamen carried troops, i
and, of courso, their fascinating red- i
coated officors Ps well; also cadets and I
midshipmen, who probably asked for
nothing better than the opportunity 4
offsetting the commander's vigilance at i
deflanco. Under the circumstances
and the surroundings, the poor captain <
must have resembled a lien with a
brood of ducklings to look after, and he
must have been Argus eyed indeed to i
have prevented all flirtation betwoen
his young ladies and his young gentle
men on the voyage out.
We catch glimpses oi the good man's
difliculties in such old Indian novels as
'Poregrine Pultiney,' and in the sea
journals of travelers of the period.
TI rst, the girls worei proiy; utherivise,
i. wouIld not havo ben iauch use to
send them out to the Indian Marriage
Market, at heavy expense in the way
of outfit and passage; and. secondly, I
they were fresh from school and' con- i
sequently romantic. So, too, wero
the cadets and young offic ers on board. 1
Aud, thirdly, the monotony of lifo on i
board ship during a six months' voyago I
to India round the Cape of Good Hope 4
was highly favorable to a development I
of the tender passion in hearts that I
were already fired with droanin (f con
quest and glory. No doubt, too, the
sacrificial maidens put the future as
much as possiblo out of their thioughts,
It was no use looking forward to th
wizened old judge or the jaundiced
merchant prince at the end of the voy
age. Better to make hay while the sun:
shone-with the cadets. And so the
captain had to be alert and ever vigi
lant, lest the cadets andl midsh'ipmeni
should b)e whispering with the young
ladies through the port-holes, or, even,
worse, should snatch kisses from themi
in the dark holes and cornefrs of hmii fine,
frigate-built ship1. In the novel above
referred to an amusing account of the
advantage taken from a storm is given,
The heroine is destined for a wealthy 1
old gentlemn in Calcutta, but gets into
a terrible tlirtation with a cadet. And,
as they chmoose to suppose that the ship
is going to the bottom, they think it
no harm to die in each ot.hcer's arms,
though the young lady's fwuce iu Cal
eutta would probably have thought
otherwiso had hie been there to look on.
The splenidid marriages, from a
wvorldly point of view, that woere made
in those days must have also been a
sore temptation. Fifty years ngo mcin
could make fortunes in India-som-e
times in a few years. And .the girl
who went out a toeherless lass might
return in a few years as the wife of ani
aIdian millionaire, to astonish Bath or
Tunibridge with the water of her dia
monds and the lavish expenditure of
her lord: The whole thing, in short,
was a lottery in which they were valu
able prizes and few blanks. The girls
carried all the beauty of penniless
English families to the market, the
gentlemen their Iakhs of easdly-won
rupees. Cupid, in the shape of some
self-interested hartidan of the Indian
fashionable world, acted as a go-bol
tween, and my Lord Bishop of Benga
did the rest. Shawvls and other Indian
curiosities were sent home to the happy
parents, who speedily made ready new
consignments of sisters to the bride,
and so the gamie went on from one
generation to another untIl, in some
Indian proyinoes, lihl the wealthy or
influential people became curiously in-i
termarried.
Foregn Oapitaui in Georgia.
The last ofileial signature of Governor
Colqiut, ot Georgia, executed about tea
mInutes before the Inauguration of G*ov
ernor 8tephens, will brIng $5,*00,000 of
foreign capital Into that 8tate. It was at
tachaed to the "'ertlfication of a deed trans
ferring a tract o'f mining land lin northern
Georgia to an English syndicate, for a con
alderation of one mIllhon pndsmt.eli.n.
The 9irocco.
What shall we say of the sirocco?
What, indeed[ Only Dante could do
ustice to its horrors; only setting itside
>y side with the plagues of Egyptcould
ightly catalogue it. During the sirocco
rou do not live, you exist; and your ex
stenee is suffering, All the strength
Koes out of your shews; all the stiffness
)ut of your backbone. You have no
energy, no hope, no cheerfulness, no
?atiencel Your head is burning, your
eart heavy as lead, your nerves are
mapod and as if lying bare, your temper
is a curse to yourself and au infliction
bo your neighbors; and you take kindly
lo the strange new heresy which makes
tUs planet' the place of torment and
nnan life the expiation of foregone
uilt.
At night you cannot sloop; during the
lay you can neither work nor play.
Vhon you get, up in the morning and see
he clouds of dust hanging heavy in the
Lir; when you note what has crept in
brough the crevices during the night,
wd is now lying settled on everything
n your room-when you find sand be
weei your teeth and rub into your eyes
-then you know what Is beforo you,
mud shudder at the ielanob oly prospect
)f the day.
When the noon comes, hot and fierce
ike the blast of a furnace; when the air
)urns your face, cracks your skin and
Iries up your hair till it feels like gritty
iay; when the intolerable glare over
verything, even whien1 the sun does not
hine, makes your eyes ache, and when
t does seeni as if it would blind you
here and then-you think that your cup
s full, and that it would be impossible
;o add more to your tale of suffering.
But when the night falls things are
iven worse. The iheat is intense, and
he earth seems to radiato a dull and
)oisonous fire. If you open your win
lows you are burned; if you keep them
hut you are eulroated,
Mosquitoes seem to be made of the
inem stuff as those stout "medliums"
vho can drop through a roof or two or
silings, pass through closed windows
Lnd two-inch doors, without more diffi
mity than a flashof electricity; nor with
dil the windows fastened they somehow
nanago to make good their existence
tmd to make you aware that they are
here. Duing a sirocco they bito like
urv; so do the light cavalry, which
ibound no a horn o the aust wfifuh
-ruinbles under your feet as you walk
teross yonr tiled floor; so do the myr
ads of flies which infest your apart
nent, for the one part, and for the other
hey fall about like drunken 'things and
iickon you with their heavy loathsome
ouch Well for you if these are Your
mnly living enemiesi Life is prolific in
Sicily; creeping and flying things of all
tinds are abundant and ubiquitous; and
t would seem its if the native skin were
nipervious to assaults which fairly
nadden you.
Everything suffers during the sirocco.
VIhO flowers diuop and iade, and the
(rass, or what takes the place of gras
)cre-is burned and browned. In the
[4avorita, whioch should bo a very carpet
voven of all manner of wild flowers,
here are not this year one-tenth the
isual numbier. T1hie orchards arc stun
ed; the moss is parched and dry; many
eeds have not come up at all; many
oots are withered before Ilowvering; the
>range and1( lomion gardens are diseased,
md the fruit is covered with fungus, or
hie laryss of the little insect which in
irusts the rindl with small brown oval
pots, and the leaves are shariveled and
>hghited.
Day by (lay you pant for the rain
vhichi never comes, and without which
dll thungs pine now andl die hereafter.
En normal seasons thme sirocco lats for
bhroe days, and then~ passes off in rain;
his year it blows for more than its al
oted term--blows ahnost continuouly,
mud no rain falls. Night by nmght the
mnn sets in flory tapors, which presage
torm and deluge; dhay by dy the morn
ng sky is overcast with clouds which
mywhere else would moan a heavy
lownpour. But by noon those haye
'teared away, and the sun shincs
ree of all obstacles, save that light
>rowvn veil of dust the b)1uo haze whioh
iesacentless over the town.
Io~w A 14ian Dropin1g 1,000 Fe~et Feuis.
With regard to thle recent sad suicide of
Sgirl by leaping from one o' the lowers
>f Notre Dame, Dr. Blronardell's expressed
riow that asphiyxhation In the rapihd fall
nay have been the cause of death, has
tiveni rise to some correspondlence n fLi
N{ature. M. Blontemnpa points out that the
tepth of fall having beent about sixty-six
lietres, the velocity acquired mn the time
less than tour seconds8) cannot have been
iio great as that sometlimes attained on
railways, e. g., thIrty-three metres per
second on the lino between Uhalons and
Pais, where the effect should be the same,
yet we never hear of asphxlation of engine.
Irivers and stoirers. He considers It doe
sirable thsat the Idea in quest:on should be
3xploded, as unhappy persons may be led
to choose suicide by fall from a height,
tmnder the notion that they will (lie before
reachig the ground. Again, M. Gossin
mentions that a tow years ago a man) threw
himself fromu the top of the column or
July, and tell on an awning which she:
tered workmen at the pedestal; lie suffered
nly a few slight contusions. M. Rlemy
says he has often seen an E~nglishmanm leap
!rom a heIght of thirty-one metres (say
108 feet) late a dleep river;, and he was
shown, in 1852, in the Island of OJahu, by
missionaries, a native who had tallen from
m verified height of mnore than 800 metres
:say 1,000 feet.) Hits fail was broken
aer the end by a growth of ferns and
)thier plants, and he had only a few
wvounds. Asked as to his sensations in
alhng, laie ( ho only felt dazzled,
1876. 1882.
F. W. HABENICHT,
Proprietor of the
MORNING STAR SALOON
I respectfully call the attention of the
public to my superior facilities for sup
plying everything i my line, of superior
quality. Starting business In Winns
boro in 1876, I have in all this time
given the closet attention to my busi
ness and endeavored to make my estab
lishnient FIRST-CLASS in every par
ticular. I shall in the future, as in -the
past, hold myself ready to serve my
customers with the best articles that can
be procured in any market. I shall
stand ready, alI, to guarantee every
article I sell.
I invite ano.sspeotlon of my stock of
Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc.
TFW. HABENICHT.
IMPORTED.
Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey's).
A. Bin Laubort and Marat Cognae
Brandy.
Jamaica Rum.
Rotterdam Fish Gin.
Ross's Royal Ginger Ale.
Jules Mumm & Co. i Champagne.
Cantrol & Cochran's Ginger Ale.
Apollinaris Mineral Water.
Angustora Bitters.
Old Sherry Wine.
Old Port Wine.
DOMESTIC.
Ginger Ale.
Soda Water.
Sarsaparilla.
Old Cabinet Rye Whiskey.
Old Schuylkill Rye Whiskey.
Th6 Honorable Rye Whiskey.
Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey.
Renowned btandard Rye Whiskey.
Jesse Moore Vollmer Rye Whiskey,
Old N. 0. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey,
Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey.
Western Corn Whiskey.
Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy.
Now England (French's) Rum.
North Carolina Apple Brandy.
Pure Blackberry Brandy.
Pure Cherry Braudy.
Pure Ginger Brandy.
Boston Swan Gin.
SUNDRIES.
Rock and Bye.
Osceola Bitters.
Hostetter's Bitters.
Bergner & Engel's Lager Beer, in patent
stopper bottles and on draught,
New Jersey Sweet, Sparkling Cider.
rolu, Rock & Rye, Lawrence & Martin.
Stoughton Bitters.
Rock and Oorn.
Cigars and Tobacco
Syndicate Oigar, S cents.
The Huntress Cigar, 2} cents.
Miadeline (Jigar-All Havana--10 cents.
Don Caries (Nub)-all Havana-10 cents
Minerva Cigar-Havana filler-S cents.
Cheek Cigar-Havana ller--5 cents.
Our Bost Cigar-Havana filler-S centa
Luoky Hit Oigar--Havana fier-- cents.
I'he Unionm Self-Lighting Cfgarette,
(Amber mouth-piece to every
4 ten packages.)
The Piekwick Club Cigarette,
(Shuok mouth-inieces.1
'1ha~ .Richmond Gem CIgaretto,
.(Light smoking.)
lor ill Tomll
ICE! ICE! ICE!
An abundance always on hand for the
use of my customers. I wil also keep a
supply of
FISH, OYSTERS, &O.,
for my Restaurant, which is always
open from the first of September to the
first of April,
I shall endeavor to please all who give
mue a call.'
Very respectfully,
F. W. HABENICUT.
OPPOSITE POSTOFF(E.