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ry TRI WEEK LY EDITIOY WINNSBORO., 8.C., THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE You must either sorr or stoop, Fall-or triumph. stand or droop; You must either serve or govern, Must be slave, or must be sovereign; Must, in fire, be biock: or wedge, Uust be anvil or be sledge. SN I C E" 3 A Wife's Second Courtship. 9e ___________ Anico Vale and Lawrence Favorite married each other as a part of their social duty. They had grown up with '" tation that they would be contemplated that fact interest for all the yea:s nice came troduced under d only inly would is young wife tim. He had been pleased to marry her. Ie the purity and dignity of her life and could not help noting her regal beanty, but his life, like hers, had been mapped out for him to a great extent. lie had not thought much abont her life. He had supposed, in a lordly but chivalrous 'fasu.ion, that she sat in the parlor eating bread and honey, biguratively speaking, while he was away at business, and that she watched for his return, as was the duty of a wire, that she made herself beautiful for his pleasure, and went snd came according to his desire. An indisposition which kept Law rence at. home for a week revealed to im the fact that his wife lived a stir ing life in which he had no part, and the detaAl of.lbich she did not con fid- him. She was seldom at home. gave over the keeping of their great n"sion to her corps of servants, and her directions to them were of the briefest. Visitors came who were closeted with her-visitors of whom e bad ever heard. She went out, plain ttired, was gone for hours, and re- T turned greatly wearied. Lawrence Favorite was mystified and a trifle displeasec. But for all that he began to acquire a sort of respect for this oman whom he had taken as a ter'of course. He tried to draw conversation, but- she gave polite nothings, as had been t always. ~ae .a .reticeut woma my j also.to me. Forgive me that I have not understood. Neither of us has und1rstood. We have been like chil dren groping in the dark and comfort close at hand had we only reached for it. I know I am not worthy of your love, but try to love me and perhaps I ray. grow in goodness. She interrupted him, weeping. "I .have loved you long," .he sobbed. "But I meant that you should never know. "-Chicago Trib une. THE TRUE WASHINCTON. The Father of His Country a Century After Hit Death. Apropos of the centenary of Wash ington's death the editor of the Cef, tury comments thus upon the life and fane of the first president: It can be said that not only the fame of Washington has greatene:l during the century that has flown since hi deathl, but the knowledge and understanding of him have like wise largely increased. The sculptor, Daniel French, in the Washington that he has nodeiel* for the Paris monument, has expressed the gran deur of his fame. Here, with sword and brow lifted toward heaveu,he ap pears as a world-hero; there is some thing of the demigod, of the creature of traditiou, of myth, in attitude and aspect. To be sure, there was an unusual dignity about the person and reputa tion of this hero, both during the time of his greatest a#tivity and later in his career. There are none Low living who can make direct report cf the effect of his presence upon be holders, but there are many who-have had from those who saw him an ac count, at first hand, of this effect. The present writer can never forget a description of his appearance, from the lips of. an old gentlewoman who has been one of the band of children who strewed flowers i)ef6id i: at Trenton, on his way to his inaugura tion at New York. And, besides,there are many printed records of the dignity of his :earing, and the impression of majesty proiuced upon individuals and the multitude. As this country has grown, and as the imuortance of his work is moro ad more appreciated, and, too, as he regedes in distance, Washington's truo prtportions are appreciated, and he loos ever more grandly. Compared, indeed with the unselfishness of his actions and the nobility of his aims, most ol, the world's conquering heroea and m a s sfm, in moi of self-seeking FOR WOYAN' BENEFIT. F First American Poetess. The first person to publish a volume of verse in New England was a wom an, Mistress Anne Bradstreet, the pioneer American authoress, who was married at 16 and was the mother of ight children. The time taken from Mrs. Bradstreet's literary labors by hrer sight children cannot le dcemed lost when her descendants include such names as William Ellery Channing, Joseph S. Bnckminste-, Richard H. Dana and Oliver Wendell Homes. C'ub for Tall Women. The latest women's club in London is to be formed of nineteenth century Amazons. The first rnle of member hip of the new club is that every woman must be six feet in height. Amazonian proportions will obtain in the new club house. The building is o be of mammoth size, the suite of roums to spread ont in vast distances. Nowhere will the gigantic size of the fittings so strike the eye s in the gymnasium. This is to be unique, with every modern apparatus for de velopment of the human form. Hori zontal Lars, rings and vertical ropes, trape' d all will be one-tenth larger. than those ueed by athletes of ordi nary proportious.sA writer in an Eng lish journal observes, a -SILs only been too apparent for some tine ti our girls were growing taller and men shorter." Women'a Veila and Ited Nose The development of abnorm ness of the nose is a consequ the wearing of a veil in wint iscoloration is most pron those points where th rst intimately applie face. The effect is meohanical actio rbugh testur anU " - por prey drive ad jace conseqt conspicu grvated i sisted in on warm atmos tend to becom the veil is woI longer its injuri tained by coi season and out his born of coral to war. effect of the jettatura is a dar politan indee.. Great qua: coral ornaments are sent fr del Greco, near Naples-th coral works in the world ons countries, for wear by idols. The "luckiest" cors posed to be the bloodred var is found l etween Sardinia African coast.-New Y4rk Co Advertiser. Pick Flowers for a Livi. Grasse, in the southern France, is the centre of the indnstry. There the women may be seen with broad Lats heads gathering flowers from until 11 in the morning, and turning with their fragrant to the houses, where they y leaves from the b:oasoms and rest of the day in preparing t the work of extracting the es. essential oils, which contain fame. . In March they begin picki lets, from which the popula water is made, and from the be of May to ths end of June the the jessamine, roses an soms, as. well as July, the mignon the cassia in will blow t the nim mov b