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} TRI WEEKLY EDITIO3 WINNSBORO. S. FEBRUARY 27.1900E - - - -e.a - - SUCCESS. (Au Old-ian Speaks.) :last, upon te !ote-o:ne higit The i"urple-tinted peak that was my The prizo I used to dreasi oL il the night The Iott'y ond on which I set my soul Is Mine to-day, and all the toil Ar-d all-tho schemes aro da1e; But chldiug vol!s echo roan-i Ths ligt that I have won. Ah. fatile toll and unreward3.1 he:nes! The hopo that hired me on has ;led away; I've gailpd the hlight, -Iut lost the sweet old dreams. And no"warm hands vlasp my ccld hand to-day; For on the toilsose steep tLat I Havo mauaged- to acend eu Each step is but the form of one Who hailed me as-a frieud! -Cleveland Leader. o A L ITU,r AND 1 II h_RO. 000060 000 00,C000 00 00000 - ECENTLY my two cousins andi I had I had come from , school to my uncle's estate, p a 1 e and: overworked. Now, . . brown as berries, we felt strong and mischievous. The day was hot and suffocating. The air seemed to be laden with somae thing more than the scent of new mown hay and pine--a flavor so com monon a July day in Northern 1 assia. The grown people said: "The al mosphera; is .impregnated with elec tricity," and although we boys of twelve and thirteen years did not know what that really meaut, we woro sure that, sooner or later, a storm wculd come, for the old shepherd had said so, and he always told the truth. In the afternoon a black cloud rose over the horizon in the northeast. An hour later a dark bank covered half the sky. and we heard the far away rumbing oi thunder. Rain began to fall in large drops and we, standing on the grass-cov ered porch, amused oarselves i:: watching the chickens run, the acks dive in the pond, the workmen hurry ome and the cattle rush for the bles. An unexpected clap of thunder made s jump, d'd we quickly obeyed the call f my aunt to como into the house, as e had no desire to stay outside any longer. - T" r-"- darker and darker. The 'rew cross the open space or turn to the left and heep in the woods until I had got out of sight and reach of the enemy. It would have been just twenty miles more of muddy road. The dispatch was important and haste necessary, so I decided to move straight ou. We had hardly reached the open valley wheu a small clond of smoke from the northern fort of Plevea told me that we had been seen and were now a target for the Tarkish guns. A short commaud from me brought my men into a line, so that the eaemy had only one mau to aim at. We were moving at fall speed towari the protecting timber on the other side. The first shell fell short; the second burst fully a thousand yards behind us; the tlird was "deal," and passe d fifty feet in front of us. We were almost in tue shale of the tall pinesn when Iheard a territie crash i and lost my senses. I awoke very soon, with a stinging pain in my head. A man lay right over me. He was unbuttoning my uniform. Th thouaht of " war hyena " flashed through my mind. Cautionly I opened one eye...-jast enough to see who my assailant was. To my aston ishment I sav it was one of my own men: He had noticed my mnement, al whispered: "Keep still; we are the. only survivors." "Bat, man," said I, "take the dis patch and get into safety." "No," he whispered, "I shall cover vonr body with mine till help comes. l The Turks will fire again as soon rs they see one of us move. You re melmber the time you saved me from the buaning house of Michael Kabar kin? Now is my turn to show that I h-ae not fcrgottc that I owe my lifo to Ton. A few minutes later came a littl3 troon fromr the titwber, wih the -lag of the Red Cross. Eleven men were buried on the spot, and I was taken back on a stretcher, having lost one eve and suffering from a bro(keii jaw. While the deal were being buried and the Iirst baudages being put on me my brave soldier had disapi:eared, and one of the horsesof the Red Cross command was missing. When I was discharged from the hospital I recognized in the sergeant of my regiment, who was the first to congratulate me on my recovery, the soldier who had covered me with his body in the hour of danger. It was the boy I had dragged from the burn ing hut on my uncle's estate.:-New York Independent. WISE WORD3. -r un p.lin d pnt i GTALES OF PLUUK AIND ABVENTUII. z Sergeant Walker's Daring Feat. In recent di!patches from t.g.c ippines there was referenco to a "trasty messenger" who saved the United States forces from destruction at the battle of Mautiulupa hy travel ing seventeen miles in a leaking boat for reinforcE ments. In the o!lcia" reports it w-s said only that the hero was a Tenuessecau. Mails have come since then, and the "trusty messen ger" has been named as Richard Wilde Walker, S,ergeant-Major of the First Battalion, Thirty-seventh In fantry, son of J. Simpson Walker of Nashville, andc( nephev of Dr. L. P. \\ .'ker of 25 East Twenty-foarth strest, New Yurk City. Sergeant Waiker, responding to a call for volunteers at the ont'ureak of the war, went from 1iissir;ippi, where he was in basine:s. to Nas,hviite and enlisted in the Pirst Tennessee. He re-enlisted last Juno in the Thirty seventh Infantry. He comes of Souh ern fighting -ock. On his father's side of the f, i.' wag General L. P. Walker, who , . e.:etarv of War in the cabinet c J ff, D.avis; Major John J. Walker was a Captain in the Croek Indian war; Judae R W. Walker was in the Confederate Sen te, and afterward on th3 Snreme bench of Alabama. Oa his mo-ther's side was Colonel Benjamin Herndon, a hero of King's Mountaiu, and Johan W. Rice, a Captain of th Mexican war. Three compauies of the Thirty seventh Infantry received orders onl September 12 fro:! Major Sunigert to go to Mr.atinlapa from Pasig. They 1 started out in bauca3, rowing down the river, but at La-una do Bay the I water was so rough that they had to disembark. Through marshes and over rough country they went, until at least they sighted Muntiulapa and a veritable forest of white flags. Oat to them came the padre ofj the tow1n, who told Sergeant Walker that the in surgents had fied the night before. The Americans, unsaspecting, ad. vanced. In a fev minates volley were poured into them from all side and they knew the priest had betraye them. - They lost sere' me-n, and then flee into the town, whe e they could 'na fr-n hogter go7er. of them, surround gan.ts. ' ealized that it was the s eep of death. lay down upon somaeth ug which t ould feel, although I cou i not see, ras a corpse, and fell aslef p as calmly g ever I did in my lii. When I woke omcebody was for - ing me to wallow brandy and coffee and I was rying to explain that it wou d be need eys for meo to drivo a wago= , as there ad been au accident in th mine. 'The Hero of the Char e. The larrc -the~ gali./ earg! he Teuty-first British Lancers at he batte of Omflnrman was a pri rate named Byrne, who has since re ;eived the Victoria Cross for unusual )ravery: Lieutenant Molyneux fell in the ihor into the midlst of the enemy. In ;he confusion, he disentangled him 5elf frcm his hors.e, drew his revolver kud jumped out of the hollow before _n Dervishes recovered from the im act of the charge. Then they at nacke-l him. He fired at the nearest, ud at the wmnent of firing was Aa hed aci oss th e right wrist by an .her. The pistol fell from his nerve ess hana, and being wounded, dis .ounted, and disarmed, he turned in he hope of regaining, by following htle line of the ciiarge, his -squadron, rrih was just getting clear. Hard Linon1 his track came the enemy, eager toW make an end. Beset on all sides, and thus hotly pursued, the wounded ilileer perceived a single lancer riding cross his path. He called on him for help, whereupon the trooper, Pri rate Byrne, although already severely wounded by a bullet which had pene rated his right arm, replied without laoument's hcsitation and in a cheery voice, "All right, sir!" and turning, rode at fonr Dervishes who were aout to liil his officcr. His wound, which had partly paralyzed his arm. prevented ~him from grasping his sword, and at the first ineffectaal blow it fell from his hand, and he ,eceived another woand from a spear in the chiet. But his solitary charge had checked the pursuing Dervishes. Lietenant Molyneux regained his sanadron alite, and the trooper, see inLg that his object was attained, gal loped away, reeling in his saddle. Arrived at his troop, his desperate cor.dition was noticed, and le was told jo fall ou. .Bnt this he T'fusel rging that Ire-as entitled to ty and have "an t er go !angth he i, fai NEWS AND NOTESZj i~ FOR WOMEN. New Style in Bows. The bows this winter have ends not : much longer than the loops, the long f ends of the summer having departed t with the chilly weather, although in i sor -4nva .ive silk ties knotted about i the throat the big ends are :nost j liked, Young Women Condnectra. In Santiago, Chili and other South American cities the street cars hav e young women for conductors. They wear a neat uniform, and are said to perform their datics in a most satis factory manner. They are seldom- in trouble with their passengers, but when trouble oc;nss they blow a whistle and summon the police. Mra. Stowe's Pecan Trees. Many years ago Harriet Beechr s Stowe and her sister bought a place a c few miles from Tallahasse, Fla. Soon i after settling there they planted a w gtove of small pecan trees. The r trees have now grown to considerable t. size and bear abundantly. The pecan j inastry is particularly pro table, be- t calse of the proliic character of the c uut-bearing trees. 't A Unby's Cry. f A moderately intimate acquaiutance with in:ants enables ou: to distin- a guish, almost from birth, three cries t the healthy yell by which the child e:mrcises its lungs, the fretting of moderate discorfort,.and the acate cry of main, the latter two includin at first hunger, thirst and dissatisfac tion. By the end of three months the { nnrse or mother should be able to dis tingnish the fretting of actual physi cal discomfort from that of restless ness, and the sharp cry of pain from the less acute announcement of thirst, i hunger, etc.~, while anger imparts a characteristic qnality to the cry. If the baby is comfortably.dressed and properly fed he will be less likely to { be fretful and crying.-Dr. A. L. Benedict, in Woman's Home Com panion. _ A Fiv Notes About Fur. More fur is worn this winter than ever before. The fur hats which just came in this season are now widely orn, and the fashionable woman has i - 6 -a f - 1 rent occa is ] li conlders, and the lining of lovelg ink satin shading into deep rose L triped with white moire. Paint and Powder. An increasing tendency to the use f paint and powder has been observed mong the leaders of society. Not a ec; years ago the employment of hese cosmetics would have raised an uterrogatiou point as to respecta >lity. The decoration of the human ac3 with paiut has been a custom rom the earliest times. And at resent the chromes, the greens and a vermilion decoratc the faces of . who w aid feel that theii rave (torn en,,z s far from com lete without these ade '". In the !venteenth century the emplo - nt f rouge was a matter of education, a y it the wearer could convey and in :rpret the most delicate sentiments. .l womeu painted their faces. The ire important the oasiioun, th righter the tint. The higher the ocial position, the more brilliant the olor on the lady's cheek. The in rior c!asses were only permitted very slight decoration from the ouge-pot. Even at night, upon re iring. the make-up was not left off. Aside from any ethics in the matter, ue use of rouge, with its substratum f grease, is injurious to the com lexion, as it blocks up the pores of lie skin. That a custom so generally mployed should ever bc set aside hows the variablenesr of the goddess 'ashiou. It was a happy turn. That here can be any serious thought of ibe adDption of so meretricious a Ioe, or one which does such vio ene t: the texture of the skin of the ace, must be deplored.-Harper's ,azar. cossIp. Eleren women have undertaken the ourse in forestry in the University of ebraska, nine of whom completed t. The London papers say that the Lealth of Florence Nightingale is so afebl. d that she cannot live much ouger. The School Journal records that in witzerland's six universities there e 987 women students of whom 555 tre matriculated regaiarly. Being a titled editor pays. Lady landolph Churchill has 3000 subscrib rs who paid $20 a year in advance 'or her quarterly, the Anglo-Saxon. Blanche McManus -Mansfield, the )oster artist an, designer of book .overs, is making a bicycle toar h,.o 'a hma.1with he usan 8&rl'holomwv RECIPES FOR THE NURSERY. A Few Appetizinz and Healthfal Dises Yor the Children. Physicians assure us that salt cod lish is both nourishing and digestible and may be eaten with impunity by those who are unable to digest fresh' fish. Piperly treated there need be aNmore salt than sufficient for season iing, an ' ' care is taken to select thick, whi uarts of the uncooked fish the result wi ' I A shallow pint or quart baking dish is necessary for a scallop, from which it shon1d be served. To make, wash and soak over night about a pound of salt codliab. It should fil a pint measure when picked free from skin and bones and well shredded. - this add a tablespoonful of flour blended in a pint of milk, to which add a well-beaten egg; season to taste with pepper and salt (if needed). The thickened milk and egg should be cooked until smooth in a double boiler, and if the flavor of onion is liked a small onion cut in quarters may be cooked with this and removed before using for the seall.2& When - the sauce is read.y paa lay2 bread crumbs in the bottom of the buttered dish, then a layer of fish. next a layer of finely-chopped celery, then one of the sauce, and so on until the dish is full, always, of course, finishing with egg and crumbs. If the celery has not been parboiled the, dish should be covered for -tbe first ten minutes to insure the cooking of - this vegetable, which will be found to blend admirably in flavor with' the lisb. Plenty of fruit and a few cents worth of fresh wafers will enable the home caterer to send to table a sightly and digestible substitute for unwhole- - some though tempting.pastry. Fill a shallow oval dish.with freshly stewed or canned fruit. Evaporated apricots, peaches, cherries and the like; if soaked over night and earefully cooked, are excellent A cheap brand of ed if cut in smaller slices added, may also be u