The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, September 30, 1885, Image 1

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C?fihit n* cWit?w&tt % 91 [fir it $wit & VOL. I. LAURENS C. IL. S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1885. NO. 9. l'atloiioo. Hnvo patience, honrl ! That wore no I'Offl Hutt wer?- not tlrnt rt closed boil. How comes tho iluy? Not nilli tim noonday ?nu o'orlioad, Hilt SlOH'lv Ktclllltlir lin Clint, lu fnlntcpt ns), HllVQ pal?eme, hom t (Whit BO Ihluo own llfo's dawning no? il. Iluvo patience, boar tl Keck not nt morn tom.iko tlio?lay ns bright us noon. Koro?? not thc bud, bOforO lt? tllUO to IM> n rose. How BiQWiy, when wo wiitnli Hie sky, the dny II) lif grown: And yet, for ?li. Indeed, the ROU goos down lou, i>oon. Ilnvu patience, heart I For ruin will come; Illino own pelf knowB how tenr-tlro* 8 full. Beek not to M??V t lit? "louds before t hoy've . p. m their ruin. Or eine nofosi the ?ky the clouds mny como again. Have patlonoe, grieving heart 1 for ijood must coiac to all. Have patience, heart ! What though no kisses tall upon thy Oreti oyo?, And love hulda not Its ro.se to thee, nor tiny ld fair? Mourn not: perhaps thy lovo needs heavcn'B purer air. Oh, heart! he ?uro 'twill walt for theo In Par? atllse. -Amy K. Ulanohnrd, in Harpor's Weekly. HILL'S CHILD. No ono over know whoro tho child came from, ot evtjn its name. Ono day a sloop freighted witli brick was unloading up town, and a Landon deck was tossing bricks, two by two, to another man on Ibu dock. All of a sudden H wee little chap, not moro than 2 years obi, carno toddling along, got right in tho way, and was knocked over by tho Hying bricks. Hill Forster, who was handling tho load, was a rough mar.. It had not been exactly his fault that tho child had been kuockoil down, still ho felt very sorry for it. Tho littlo fellow's head was badly cul, and Lo was stunned. He was carried into tho cabin of tho sloop, and there lay tpiito motionless. The Captain of tho sloop sent to tho police station, and tho surgeon came. Tho child waa carefully examined. Tho surgeon said the caso might Lo a sorious ono and that the littlo Loy Lad bettor Lo taken to thu hospital. Forstor had a sister, who worked in a laundry, and at onco Lo sont for lier. Molly Forster hurried dowu to tho wharf, took tho child in hor lap, and listonod breathlessly to wbat tho surgeon said. Tho caLin of tho Lrick sloop was not a handsomo placo to look ut. It waa dirty and slovenly, Lot and close. Molly Forster set about making it tilly. Sho opened tho little windows of tho cabin, and kept off tho crowd who were swanning in tho narrow quarlors. She fanned the child,laid it on a coarse pillow, having lirst spread Lor clean apron ovorit.und bathed the poor baby's hoad, trying to stancb Hie How pf Llood from tho wound. "If," said tlio sur f;eon, "you could koop tho cliild por ectly tpiiet for a while it would Lo all for the bettor. 1 am afraid to joli aim in tho ambulance Maybe he will como to botot o long. It is rather cooler Lere on tho river than in tlio Lot wards of a hospital. Can you tako ohargo of him until I come Lack? I will see you this evening." Molly had already torn up her handkerchief and bandaged the child's head. Now she followed tho surgeon's directions. The doctor was a humane man, for when ho left lie ?nil a half dollar Into Molly's hand ami told her to buy some ice lo cool thc water sho was using on tho bandages. Molly Forster fanned and fan nod that little stillerer, anti balbi... its hoad, and was tender with the child. About sunset tho surgeon carno again, ami just then the cliild opened bis ?tye?. "VVoll, that's a good sign." Bald tho doctor. "Now hadn't you better ad vertise him since no one has como for Lim? .Somebody will claim him, I suppose. 1 can arrange for you to keep Lim if you want to. " Although tho accident was reported in two brief lines in all the noWspapors, mid notwithstanding the efforts of tho police to lim! tho parents o? tho child, no ono ever came for it All that night Molly Forster nursed the child. Occa sionally Hill would push his hard-lit.ed and weather-beaten face into tho cabin window anti look wistfully at tho littlo child. Ho never Wont to sleep that night, but kept walking up and down tho deck. At daybreak ho said to Molly in a hoarse whisper: "Molly, tako that kill to your room. It's got to ho done. " Hill Forstor, who was a man of 10, I Jiavo said was rough, 1 do nut know how it happons, but handling bricks ...Tm i to niako pooplo ooarso ami rath er brutal. Hill would tako not only ono glass o? whisky, Lut as litany as Lo could (bink. Mixing with k crowd of mon worao than Lo was wild lretpiont od rumshops, ho was mud) given to lighting, and his face was ai ofton as not digligurud with a Llack evo or a cut lip. Hill earnod about a dollar and a quarter a day, and when thc week was up Lo never had a penny loft Perhaps if Hill had not Leon a little drowsy and stupid that morning fiona too much liquor tho day beforo w h.; the littlo chap got in thc way Lo (Hill) would havo Loon moro careful Loh Lo throw his bricks. Tho wook after Molljhad taken Oh urge of thc child lilli ?fosistod tho temptation to go on a spfo and gavo his sister a dolTar and aAalf. That was tho first time for yoarsthat ho had over saved a cont. Tis? wcok after that Hill did oven Lotter. ' Tiaro was Molly working as Lard M [tho could at tho wash board or tLo ir?ning board, oarning 70 cents a dav, add feeding tho child. That shamed Hill. It happen ed thal tho littlo Loy's short frock had boon stained with blood., Molly Lad carefully washed it, ba still Hill thought ho saw stains on. it and that worrfod him sick. {vjont \vook, whoa ho BIS? h|s sister, who was waiting on tho faiarf for 1dm with tho littlo follow in 'lis arms, ho said, "Hoe hore, Molly, itkkind of hard on you, having to food ttys littlo fellow. Broad and milk and p.tat oe-, costs monoy, aud nursing hill nikos away lots of your limo. Any* O/B, a dress ing of that kid would bc fiat ruination to you. Hero's a dollar ind a half for his keep, and here's a i illar besides, and buy calico or somot mg and make n frock for that 'did, ad mind you burn the ono h I got l on, and next time 1 sees him K hin be looking primo. Won't you*" "li's lulgllty good ol you, Hill -and just you wad. I'll rig him out. Ho isn't a bit of trouble. YVboil i'm at work i take idm to tho laundry, and ho's a real pot Ibero. I used to ho afraid ho was kind of dazed -but don't you boihor, Hill, ho's all right, fur ho takes to playing now. Ho's only quiet on account of Ins natural sweetness all real good children's Hull way and 1 love him, just as if ho was my own baby." On tho next trip up tito North Uiver Hill Forster pondered a great deal over tho child. Tim fact is, the chilli, wheth er he was awake or asleep, was mi Vu I' for a moment oui of Hill's mind. Ile had never thought much aootll any thing before, and it was hard work lor him lo think al nil. Maybe bcC.iUso for more than one-half ot lite his brain had been muddled by liquor ho hail never set il working. As Hie empty sloop Honied up the broad river, slow ly moving with tho lido, Hill .sal in ibo shade of the Happing jib ami argue ! with himself, and tie; general conclu sions ho arrived at Were by no means fluttering to himself. "Tho beginning and tho ending uf this hero is rum. I've wastell nigh on to 2d years of my lite. Why hasn't lae boom of that mainsail knocked the stupid brains out of mu before thia? W hat have 1 got to show for 1?) year ol lifer" Just thosu here ragged amt brick .soiled clothes 1 stands m. Came near murdoriug a child, did you, you good for-nothing boast ? Didn't have no bettor sense nor thatP A herding with drunken sailors, you big blackguard, and not knowing nothing bottorP Just litton to loss brick - irom na and oil' a .sloop. That's tho bosl you kin do. 1 You took a drink lids morning, and you fool sharp set for another just this ' blessed minute. Yon can't get it be cause you are on the river where grog . shops ain't Heating roun 1. Ain't you man enough to go to H.ivcrstraw and no maller what nappons say Hill For stor.* don't you take another drink no matter if another fellow does stand treat? There's lois ol' things that kid : wants. There's a whip.likewise a nair i of shoes, and when Winter comes lian ' iud petticoats ?ind wool socks, likewise j Christinas presents. Now, you loafer I of a Hill tors tor, every time you .soo 1 tho bottom of a glass ain't you gUit I /.ling down BOinothing lullt little sbav I or wants? Maybe its just like you.yotl white-livered purp; you'll bo letting I your sister bo a taking of the victuals ? uni of her own mouth so as lo feed'em i to that child, and it was me as shoved the kid on her. Maybe you'll be hunt ing around fol* more bailies to knock over with bricks you good-for-nothing lounging Portuguee." When Hill ll ul cabed himself a Port uguese he had poured the last drop from his private vial of wrath on his own bead. Hid helped to load Ibo sloop with brick ?it llaverstrnw, and although it was a hot, sultry ?lay and tho work was heavy, he never took a drink. Thu other hands might come back, smacking their bpi and banter ing him, but he stood linn. "No i.se, boys," said Hill. "I did the business for that baby and once is enough. 1 have got to tako keer of him. It stands lo reason. Nono of you is family men like me. 1 kin stand OjS lunch running as the best of you, but don't you try and rub it lu too steep! I hain't the reputation id being sweet-tempered, and inebbo I kin teach some of you manners." Il must bo stated that there really was no necessity for Bill's excited words, for tho hands on tho sloop .seem ed to take in Hie situation at once, and rather respected the way Hill assumod his self-imposed duties. Down Hie river Hill was thinking what mime Ibo child ought to have. Should it bo Goorgo Washington, Ulys ses Grant, or Moses? He knew all tho names of tho .steamboats going up to Albany, and to call the child "Albany" or "Vibbard" was suggested to him. Al last hu made up his mind that Molly should have tho naming of Ibo child, "She's got most rights to him, any ways." Then hu fell kind of melan choly willi thu idea that somebody might COIUO later and claim the child. Hill bad never road a story book in his life, so no romance of a rich father and mother coining in a carriage to demand their lost baby presented itself to his imagination. Hill became parsimonious, and that week saved almost every cent of ! is wages. Ile begrudged himself evo? tho tobaCOO ho chowed. Uti only kent BUilioioat money for his most meagre wanls. Hu never look a drink and de? clinod being troalod. To Molly he gave his money. Sure enough, the little boy, when Hill next saw lum, had ou a now frock, and with what pride Molly exhibited him to her brother! "He just looks like a daisy, Molly. Isu'l he pretty! Kind of sleepy, ain't lie, Moll) P" "Ho does sleep a gooil deal, but that's natural, Hill. Much you know about barnes! Hut, Hill, what's this pde of money for? f ain't spent all you gave mo vol. 1 don't want it and the child (hm t. His cost for keen it so lillie, li's mighty good ol you. Hill; nail now and then you can give him ii bit of clothes, As you say, when Win tei come, thu poor lillie lamb will wain thicker things, itnd they cost mon money. Here, 1 ain't going to take this, depriving you of your hardoaraotl wages"-and Med ly made a motion ai if lo return the handful of silver. "Hut, Moll, just hold hard a minuto, ile mayn't waul it now. Supposiu' work was slack ami I didn't earn noth lug, You have got to kuoji tho casi for tho limo thu boy grows. He's gol to go lu school, and has gut to look ai nico as any other boy. ito's to bu hud die.Ued know something moro noi handling bricks. Don't hu do a lot o Blooping, MollyP" inquired Hill anx iously. "Oh! don't you koop worrying nbout him. lip's been playing over so sweet. Maybo ho's one of them childron whal talks lato in lifo.'and they, so I heal toll, is always tho smartest in I hfl loaf) run. Fact is, Hill, I have a surpris! for you. Ho novor said a word boforr ?osterdiiY. I was afraid myself ho wa.? ind of dumb." Hill avorled his faco and the', looker out on tho waler, for the brother am sister were Talking on (he dock "but-but. to-day. Hill he said .mud der' so sweet, and thon ho said it o vet nuil over again, ami holdout Iiis preliy litilo mouth t<> bo kissed. Oh. H.H. ids senses ls coming hack lo him, .slow, hut sure;" ami Molhj cuddled thu sh oping chilli i loser lo her breast. Hill kepi right ou in tho good wav ho had phonied for himself. nd never swerved a hair's bread I h. Mid > was his savings hank. 15; other und* Histor contributed to the child's support. lu a month 15 ll was richer than he had ever been i.i h s life. Then io- insisted lin.1. Molli ?liolli.l lenta li le lo .Ul. 'i'll" o n- sae .i.e.I m. 11 ? i sahl, h,..ked out on ;i dingy, il rea ry n..u. \ ard. '.Stands lo rotisou," sahl ll.,l, "that a bani should seo horses aim trucks and things it-moving about in Ibu st routs, lt makes 'om lively. " "Little Hill"-?o they called him (Molly insisting that lier brother's nnnio should servo for tim child) -im proved, hut loo slowly for blt. Hill. J ho po.Ice surgeon wu* c..?lc.I in. Hill Forstor insisting on paying him fee. Tim opinion tho doctor gave was a guarded one. "Thora is III?II.?CM im provement -not, perhaps a-* r?p .1 as 1 should wish. Von are a capital nurse, ma'am, and 1 am s uro your kindness ami attention will holli tue child. Hu will OOUIU round, 1 believe." The cool weather caine, ami with lowering temperatures the doctor honed tho child would gain Strength. The cicatrice on the head had unite healed. "Slowly the little boy seemed lo acquiro new words. Molly wondered ai mein at lune-, ami thought that she had taught thom lo tho child; but thou again tho tlltto fellow's adopted mother was startled by words sue loll (plito certain tho child had pinked up .sonicwhere oise. Those new words eanie lo thu child nt lirsl vaguely. Ile would re peat thom over and over again, at first hesitatingly, then giving them a slight emphasis, as if lo lix them ou his mind som'Illing like a litllu bird thal pipes the .??st faint tuno il has Heard. Tho child w.is more awake now. This change delighted Molly. It never was fretful. The child would lay quiet, with its blue eyes wide open for hours, wit amii a whimper. So il went oil for another week or two. Hill, who was always coining and going, when ho loft New York for a Irin Up ibu river, was happy, for tho child was bettering la.t, so lie believ ed. lt was nu October evening when, as the brick sloop was being brought, up to thu Wharf, I5;ll saw Mo.ly h aning against one of thc big woo iou posts of ino dock. Hill was bu.y with the hawser, hut at once he saw that his sister did not have tho child in her ?inns; moro than that, she was crying. Hill choked down bl*grief-be seem ed lo know ?it one: what had happen ed. One last hope there was. Maybe it was so cool thal Molly bad been afraid to bring thc child willi ber. "Hill," suid Molly, sobbing, "tho poor little fellow bas gone lo-to heav en. lt was last night. He called *.o mo au ! snub 'Good-night, inud-der; good-uight, far-dor-now 1 am going walking in garden-good-good night!' Oh, Hill, he had never spoken so long a string of WO "il S before - then he play ed for a moue at with a ring on my lin ger, and then he added. "God bless lur-der and mud d r, and thou hu look ed so lovingly ?lt ni", an I around tho room ns if searching tor you -and thou ho died-SO quiet! Hill'! Hill! don't yon take on sui lt was an accident, and (J id and his little child have no fault to lind with you." I'.i : ? I stead of Cl OHO tH. In closets which are not provided with drawers and wardrobes whoro dresses may bo hung or laid away from all danger from dust or crowding, bags which will completely envelope tho dress and protect delicate fabrics aro a necessity, Such bags must be long enough lo hold a dross-skirt without folding, and wide enough lo glvo room to all kinds of frills and flounces. Any kind of match il \iill answer, but mus lin or print is most often used. Cut one side of the bag three inches longer than tho other; seam together, land around the lop, work four lailloii-holos across tho longest side, which buttons down on Ibo other liku a Hap. Thc bollom of tho bag now becomes Ibo top, seam it across again, and in the casing so ni ad o run a Hat, narrow stick ; at each upper corner sew tapo loops by which to hang tho bag on I wo hooks in tho closet. lo wide tapes, sewed near the casing, pin the dross skirt by the band and also tho waist, hy which even part of it will least muss too trimming. Aller the dross is care fully pinned in place, pull down thc bag over it and button Ibo Hap across Ibo bottom. Hags for the various small .*rticlos in kitchen and wash-room, which nood keeping together, should bc made of some dark, stioug material, and of a plain, square shape, and furnished willi curtain rings sewed around Ibo top lo run tho draw string in. Such bags are useful receptacles for clothes-pins, sinai! clothes-lines, strings, and thc hundred and ono things which must bo kept in some place where thoy can bo found ia a hurry, Hags for thu store-room and for hold ing bundles and scraps must bo of strong stuff, Tho former of Urtu, close ly-woven linen, sewed in a turned seam, and provided with tapos for ty ing up, several inches below tho top, KO lliey may bo turned over and Hud closely, ellcctually preventing tho en trance of any undesirable object, ani mate, or otherwise. - Mrs. L. A. france, in (Jootl Housekeeping. Titree IT u:o5 Facta. 1. Every mau knows bettor what ho wants to buy and sell than his govern ment can possibly know for bim. Ile will buy ami sell to tho best advantage if loft fice to buy and sell aa ho choos es. "2. Every one who hi y s soils at tho samo time. His purchase is rosily an uxchange. Tho money ho pays for tho roods which ho buys is really an order elven to tho sullor for other goods. The more buying, thu more soiling. :>. As regards doalings between in habitants of tho sumo stroot, the same village, the ?anio town, tho sumo coun try, no ono thinks of disputing those truth* Hut they aro just as true as regards dealings botwuoii inhabitants oi| di ito rou; countries. - .". J/, farrer. Tit A IN TA T.K. "If you write aterios for tho papor," said u Kock Island Ki ?I way froight conductor, "let mc toll you a truo ono that caine under my observation last winter out near Den Moines wlioii I was running on tin' Iowa division. This is no railroad yaru, but a fact. I saw it willi my own eyes. One day we wore running along ami 1 wai in tho engine. As wo bogan to cross a bridge wo looked ahead au I linne was a little girl about six yours uld clam bering over int lilli burs, Shu had Home school books in hur h uni, and was evidently on her way bonn from school. Tho engineer Whistled", whou she turned her face toward US. PH novor forget that face as long as I live, lt was just as white as Ibo snow on tho ice in tho creek thirty or forty foot bo low hor. Hut she didn't scream, nor try to jump, nor do nothing. She- just looked at us with a aloady glare as if she'd stop tue train with hor eyes that wo were unable to do with our brakes. At lirst wo woco all so broke up wo hadn't any idea what lo do, anti I be lieve we'd of stood thor? like posts if sho hadn't suddenly alrotehed out her litllo arms toward us in a mute appeal for help. Well, air, that brok? tho charm, and we all started up wildly. I swung way out as far as I coula, holding by one hand, and with tho other UlOlioniug her to get down - down between tao timbers. Would you believe it? Thal little thing fol lowed my directions as if she'd boon a mau. And she look: her time to it, loo, and climbed down as deliberately as if she'd beeu at home. She was none loo quick, though, for her littio brown hood, with a rod ribbon flutter ing from it, had no soouur disappeared between the limbers thun wo thunder ed over hor. " 'Lot her out, Hill,' I shouted to the engineer, 'lot her out lively, or that lillie thing will never be able to stick down there till wo got ovor tho bridge. Turu lier loose!' "So Hill hu let her out, but sho'd no sooner roachod the bank than 1 jump ed ell and wont heels ovor hoad in a s.mw bank. I got back to tho bridgo us soon as i could, and walled for our long train to gut by. Don't mind toll in' ye that as 1 stood thure i did some thing I novor did afore-yos, sir, I stood there and prayed that that littio ouo might bu able lo slick it out HU I could gut to hor. Hat I guess my prayers aro no good, for when tho train was by I rushod out on tho bridge, over tiinburs by tho dozen, ex pecting every minuto to soo that little rod ribbon. Hut it never showed up. Tears bugau lo lill my eyes so that 1 could hardly nee thu crosspiccos-I have a lillie girl of my own, you know -but on and on I wont, and no brown hood or red ribbon could 1 lind. Thou 1 turned ami looked tome ico below, and there abo was. Yes, shu had fall en tidily or forty foot through the bridge. know, bull got there. 1 lifted her up in my arms. Her oyes wore closed, Lat she opened them, looked at mu u second, and said: .' 'How did you get down hero.' "This question would have made mo laugh if 1 had felt sure abo wasn't hurt, bul as it was 1 hurried up tho bank and to thu caboose. Sho said she wasn't hurt milch, but 1 knew she couldn't tell, and wo started for tho next station. '. 'I'm going home, ain't 1?' abu in quired, after wo had I.xe.I Lor up in our bunk. "1 told her 'yes,' knowla* thal min nie thal MO wore going right by her house. 1 was in such a hurry to get to a surgeon that 1 thought it right to deceive her. Pretty ?ooh she wont off lo sleep, and abo looked so deathly lying (hero thal all of ua went to wip in' our eyes iiko women. " di .)*,' any* I, 'il shu tie vcr wakes up Ph quit ino roa?l. 1 never want to ?co ti.at bridge agin.' " "Ami you HA vc quit thu road?" gol neil, and all thu spring u.od to watch for my train at ?ho would for her papa coming home fruin work. Wu never passed hur house unless she was out waring that lillie browtt hood at ns and malling that red ribbon dance. Our engineer unod to whistlo for hor regularly, ami sho (ot to sho could tell thst whistle us far as sho could hear it. Once in a while, when not in a hurry, we'd atop our train and have a talk with her. She said she loved na all, even tho old engine, but sho baa nevor sot her' foot on tho track since that day sho foll through tho bridgo. Thia is a true story, and tho littio girl's name is Lily." - C'A? cayo JleraitL Jay (..md's WnlntonaC A young friend of (ioorgo Gould was dining with tho family. Conversation turned on trioka, and tho young friend said ho could tako off a man's vost without removing his cont. Ho ox plalnod that frat, which consists of workine tho vest down tho arms by gradually coaxing tho shoulders through tho armholes. Thon tho vest der tho coat sloovos. Dexterity and patienco aro required. The young man was positivo ho was the only one pros ont who could do it. Mr. Gould llslou od to the explanation and said that any man could do lt, and that he could do it ou the spot. The caller waa zeal ously anxious to bot his modest pile against aa equal sum to be put up by tho millionaire; but tho latter advised him not to bet any moro than a big appin, as he would be sure lo lose lt Mr. Gould thoroupon proeeodod to por form the elusivo act. He first took off his coat. "Hold on, sir," said tho young tuan, "that is not permitted; it ls barred." "I understand that," replied the bunker: "i'll put on the coat again. I'm only gotting ready." Then-he look off ids vost and at ono? put on his coat, and sucoeedod lt with putting on his vost outside ot his coat. "I'm at your aorvlce now," he quiet ly said. The young man lost au apple, but gainod a verification of the important truth that thero ls more than one way of doing a thing. In his own style thora ls no greater lover of quiet faa than Jay Gcuhl.- Brooklyn Eagle, eau bo romovod by lt UM. Ll AT IO!) COW HOYS, Tlte l<ftN<toit Tittil Wa? Tnuglit Them '.> ?ti 1,'n ii lu r II? i vi> lYiitlMrfonta Tliovo have bunn a grout many ?to? rica told of thu reckless daring ulld abandon o? tho cowboy. Ho ia an Auiorioan production, and at tim sound of Uto word cowboy tito mind lovorls to sumo western locality whore law and order aro unknown, and aro sup plied by a rudo ?Otol conventionalities, thu non-observance of which means violence without process of trial. Tho typical cowboy must bo fearless, ready to shoot al a moment's warning, wild in Iiis make-up and language, and ruaily to perp?trale a joko ou a "ten derfoot" at any lillie. Hut Ibero is often considerable brag? gadoela ia the cowboy, anil a good illus tration of this fact was told U Sentinel roporlor by a station UgOllt, who had lived in the west for many years and had buen in tho employ of various rail roads in localities where cowboys wcro numorous. "1 have seen a good many during doods pe,-im mci Mini coarse jokes per petrated by cowboys," said tito agent, .'but 1 will toll you of a lillie incident whoro tho wind WAS taken oat of three cowboys by a determined, fearless 'tenderfoot.' lt happened only last ?pring. 1 WAH thoa station agent and telegraph operator for the Northern Paeitie Railroad company at a place near thu Montana line, lt was not much of a place, ns it consisted only of a depot, a house or two, and a sa loon. "One morning a traveling man ar rived at the depot by singo from up north somewhere. Ho bad a small sample-case and sachet. Ho was be low medium height mid rallier ?dight, but was very Heatly dressed and wore n silk hal. Ho was travelin?: for a New York jewelry house. He was about an hour early for the traill east, and hu opened his grip on ibo plat form, took out a brush, and dusted his clolhlng and shoes. Ho thoa drew out an old newspaper, leaned up against tho sido of tho depot willi ono foot pro jected iii trout of Ibu oilier, am! began reading. "Motin while, however, three cow boys liad sauntered up to the depot. They nil oved him closely and watched his operations. When he bogan read ing they huddled together and talked awhile iu au undertone. Present ly one of them-a big six-footer-left thu group and bogan lo haunter carelessly about tho platform with bis head in the air inspecting thc posters on lito j building and lite cornice. When he ? got around whore tho traveling man stood, bo lifted his big brogan and planted it ti rm ly on the jewelry man's loot. No apology was niano. Tlio traveling mau merely looked up, drew his foot back a moment, then placed it back where it was. Tho cowboy pass ed back to the other two. They all chuckled and joined in tho low-toued conversation. "Soou tho cowboy started out again on a similar round, gaping at thc roof. When ho roached tho traveling man hu tried to bring down his coarse bool on the extended foot. The traveling man ?'irked his foot back suddenly, and tho trogan carno down with a thump on tho platform. Another conference and chuckling followed. Finally tho cow boy set out on the third round, dust as ho was about to raise bis foot to plant it ou that of tho traveling man, tho lnttor looked up quickly and said: *' 'Seo hero, there is my foot, and it's going to stay there. You step on it, if you want to, but I want to tell you that bofore you can gol oil' of it 1 will kill you.' "Such a volley staggurod tho cow boy, lie looked at tito foot, und Iben at the small possessor, and finally moved oil without stepping on it. An other consultation followed. "Tho traveling man calmly read his Kiper a tow minutes, and thea took om his sache! three apples. Ho look sd at thom a moment, and suddenly threw them a fuw feot into the air and thou ?pilek ly drew a rovolver, tired three shots, splitting eacii apple into a do/o.n piceos boforo tlioy reached the fground. Ho replaced tho cartridges a the empty chambors of tho rovolver, and returned it to his pocket. "Tho cowboys witnossod tho act without saying a word, and soon, com plotoly cowed, turned aud loft tho de pot. Tho travoling man told me after they left that ito would have killed the three of thom had tho fellow stepped on his foot again, and 1 think he would, as ho was quick as lightning. He thoa showod mu n medal ho carried, which ho won as being tho most rapid and ono of tho best shots in New York. Tho story simply illustrates that thcro is sometimos a great deal of fictitious valor and daring about tho cow hoy." Milwaukee Sentinel. Paris As To Health. In health, Paris is on a levol with a hundred othor pinces. It has nothing of its own tu oti'or. Its climate pr? sents a fair averago of tho qualities and faults of contral Continental woathor; the air is drier and more vivifying than that of England; extremes of hnnt and cold are sometimos folt, but they aro unfrenuout; strong wiuds aro ram; und though fogs have become somowhat ac climatized of late yoars, the air is on tim wholo fairly bright and .pleasant. Ullt tho same atmosphere may bo found almost evurywhoro along the same par allel of latitude. The sanitary condi tions aro good; tim sewerage is excel lent; tho water is abundant and puro, and tho precautions against infection in all Us forms aro minute and well ap plied. Tho material coud it ion , of lifo aro, howovor, growing so much nbko in al), largo towns that we are living evorywhore under moro and moro sim ilar influences, and it may bo said wilb out much inexactness that, so far ns Europo is conoornod, what used to bo called (?specially a hoalthy or unhealthy place ls becoming difficult to find. Kpl douiies como and go in -Paris as they do in other centres of population, but they are seldom traceable to local causes, and usually nsstimo a general oharaeter. Rut ali these qualities aro merely negativo; they imply thu an ?once of objections, not tho presence of recommendations; Puris posseMoa no Eositivo advantages in climate or .sith, and English people will not bo tempted to live in it for reasons of that sorU- The Fortnightly lt?vtau. ri Th? Now York Democracy* Tho Doinocnilio Slat o Convention of New York mot atJ?ai'atoga last Thurs dav. Tho utmost good feeling pre vailed! Some of tho delegates seemed inclined to postpone nominations, hut a motion to go into nominations was adopted by a large majority. The bal lot resulted as follows: David 15. Mill, :?:?H, A. S. Hewitt, 33, .7. A. Slocum, 8; Flower, 1. Governor Hill was de clared, amid great enthusiasm, to bc tho nominee, ami thc bands, in differ ent parts of tho hall, struck up lively airs. A I.uhor Itlot in Cleveland. If lt had not been for a notice posted in the yards of the Cleveland rolling mills conceding prices a general attack upon all Ibo mills would have been made Oil Friday morning by a mob of three thousand men. lu the evening tho men who bad returned to work before the notice was posted were re ceived by howling mobs of strikers as tlicy left the shops and stones were throw II and pistols fired, but no one was reported fatally injured. A S i< Ken I ii i; Story from Onto. Several carcasses of diseased pork have been seized in thc Akron, Ohio, markets. An investigation shows that hog cholera exists in every quarter of the county, several hundred porkers heing down with the disease. As soon as it Appears, the owners kill the nfllictcd hogs and send I lunn to market. The discovery bas caused much coin motion in 11 ie city, and Council is ask ed to forbid the sale of pork in Akron for a month. Jurifjr Justice. Mrs. Elizabeth Hendricks, of New Brunswick, N. J., convicted ripon charges growing out of brutal treat ment of a girl whom she had obtained from a Philadelphia charitable institu tion, was last week sentenced to pay a fine of .*.r?00 upon each of tho two charges and to ten years' imprison ment nt hard labor in prison, ou a charge of atrocious assault. -Col. I). P. Duncan, President of the State Fall' Association, has re ceived propositions from some of the young men to have during the fail it State tournament, ami it is desired that those who favor tho project will notify Mr. W. II. Gibbes, Jr., of Co lumbla. If a sufficient number of knignts iudicata a desire to ride, hand some prizes will bc arranged lor, and ii full programme will be announced. Thc race committee will have a gentle man's saddle horse, race, which will give tlie knights another chance to display their horsemanship. THE LAURENS HAIL JOHN C. HASKELL, N. U. KIAL, Columbia, S. C. Laurens, S. C. HASKELL & DIAL, A T T O H N E Y S A T L A W, LAURENS H., S. C. ?T. 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Also, Pure Wines and Liquor*, for nodical purposes. No trouble to show goods. Respectfully, B. F. POSEY & BRO., Laurens C. IL, S.C. August ?, 18S6. I ly COLUMBIA Ss GREENVILLE IL H. PA8SENUBU DEPARTMENT. On find alter July 19th, 1885, Fasscn ger Trains will run tm herewith indi cated ?non tins Road and its bl anches : DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. No. 63-Up Passenger. S C Junction A 10 ;io a m Columbia (C O D) 10 66 a m Ar Alston ll 66 a Ul Ar Newberry 12 68 p m Ar Ninety-Six 1) 2 14 p m Ar Hodges 3 lt; p ut Ar Holton 4 24 p m Ar (.reenvido 5 45 p m No. 62-Down Passenger. Lv Greenville lo 00 um Ar Pelton ll 21 am Ar Hodges 12 ?ll p ni Ar Ninety-Six 1 %2'.\ p m Ar Newberry 'I 08 j) m Ar Alston 4 IO p m Ar Columbia 6 16 p m SPART ANBURG, UNION AND CO LUMBIA. No. 63-Up Passenger. Lv Alston 11 58 a m Ar Union 1 6'J p m Ar Spart'g, S U ?fc C depot il 27 p in Ar Spart'g, K & I) Dep B 8 87 p rn* No. 62-Down Passenger. Lv Spart'g R & D Dep ll 13 05 p m Lv Spart'g S U & C Dep G 12 ii p m Ar Union 1 48 p ni Ar Alston 4 05 p m LAURENS RAILROAD. No. .'5-Up Passenger. Lv Newberry 8 15 p tn Ar Goldvlllo 4 15 p m Ar Clinton 5 IO p m Ar Lau rons G oo p m No. 4 - Down Passenger. Lv Laurens 9 10 a m Ar Clinton y 66 a ni Ar Newberry 12 00 m ABBEVILLE BRANCH. Lv Hodge? 3 20 p m Ar Abbeville 4 20 p nt Lv Abbeville ll 25 u m Ar Hodges 12 25 pm BLUE RIDGE AND ANDERSON BRANCH. Lv Pelton I 28 p m Ar Andei son 6 01 p m Ar Seneca (.'itv 6 15 p m Ar Walhalla ? 45 p m Lv Walhalla ? 60 p m Ar Helton ll 02 p in Trains run solid between Columbia ?ind Hendersonvillc. CONNECTIONS. A Seneca with lt. & D. R. H. for Atlanta. A. With Atlanta Coast Line and South Carolina Hallway, from and to Charleston. With Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta from Wilmington and all pointe Nortli. With Charlotte, Columbia und Au gusta from Charlottes and all point* North. lb Willi Asheville and Spartanburf from nuil for pointu in Western North Carolina. C. Atlanta and Charlotte Division H. k I). It. lt. for Atlanta and pointa South and West. G. IL TALCOTT, Superintendent. M. SLAUtillTElt, tien. Pass. Agt. D.CAUDWELL, A. G. Pas?. Agi. MAGNOLIA PASSENGER ROUTE. G. L. inul S.. A. anti K., und 1'. IL and A. Railways. BLUE TIME-COING SOUTH. Lv Woodruff *7 50 a ra Lv Enorce 8 22 a m Lv Ora 8 62 a ra Lv Laprenn ? 82 a m Lv High Point 10 10 a ra Lv Waterloo 10 84 a rn Lv Coronaca ll 07 . m Ar ii reen wood Ml 35 a rai Lv (beenwood fl 50 a m 2 00 p ra Ar Augusta IO 25 am 7 00 p ni Lv Augusta ?IO 60 am ?10 00 p ? 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