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y ll? I jr M. .Wi ^ ititi* LAURENS C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST If), 1885. NO. 3 lu the Lonely Baoh Pow. Thf. sermon waa long nod thoproaohor wes Tb? cushion wns soil utul tho corner war ooxyi And, niushvr, '. know llj my Bide i:i iii . ?OW Vian n dour little lace timi waa dimpled aud roby. A struy titt or ince and tho curl or a feather Lay clone to my cheek, and I didn't cure whether Tho service was l"iig. Or tliit:ii>r wns wrong In n lonely buck pew, tm wo knelt down to gether. in rending tho prayers wo lind ono hook tie tween us; So ?weet v.?i-, ir r Btnlto that, had nobody soon us, White i en! on r?ur knees (Oil how Cupid 'Hil !<. :....!> I had stolon a kiss wttli tho prayer hook tr Boreen UH. In tho oriel win tow tho Biuillght was gloam ing;. In my drowsy old brain t foll love fancies teeming; Then my henri gsvi II thump Hut my lie id ;?? II l ump On thc back of the pew | inul only boon dreaming. _ _ -Life. A SO?IKT Y LADY. ?lo?? tl?? Dcm m.l< of rushton Arc Nut laded. lrro\n ..?- Morning Katti to il??? Evening Itccepll .II. A LIPli <>: LUXUKV. 'A ltttlo 1'Vcnch pdt liniepioco ticking away tho minutes in an lippi r room <>1 ono of Murray hill's lino residences struck the hull-hour beyond 9 o'clock on a recent morning, and while its deep cathedral note yet echoed upon tho air there was a sudden movement amono tho lace hangings of n brass bedstone standing in n recess of lito same apart* nient, and a woman's face looked forth. Tho room was full of pretty Illings, warm willi tim blaze of n luck.?rv Ure, and brilliant with lim dazzling winter sunshine, which, filtering through tho draperies of tho bro.id windows, Liv ill patches of light <?n Moor and furnish ings, hut lhere was nothing o:ie-half so pretty, so warm, or PO hrilhant, no piot ure so .sunny or dazzling .villon thc four walls, as th.it muda hy lids sam - faco, thc face of a young and lovely woman, Which, Hushed from tho pillow's downy carc-s, tho eves dewy willi sleep, and tho rumpled chestnut ha r framing thc whole in sweet confusion looked out to see what had awaken, il it*- owner. "Oh, it's you, you chattering little clock," as her eve fell upon lite telltale hands, then, bet?re she sank back into her nest, she leaned out lo touch an electric button Within easy reach. A moment and tl soft I.noe!, prefaced the entrance of ti neat-looking middle-aged woman in cap and apron, "Good morning, Harker," ( ame. from tho pillows. "My hath, please;" and Harker opened n second door and dis appeared, in three minutes she was back standing at tho bedside with a bath gown of thick, soft Hamid and a pair of low shoes, warm and woolly. Thc youno; woman ^o: up, sn Herod the dannel garment to be thrown over her lace and cambric night dross, thrust two while lout Into IIH? waddi d shoes, and crossed to the bath-room. Harker only waited to lake from various drawers and presses an outfit of feminine apparel, finished with an em broidered muslin combing gown whose ribbons were of tho sam.- pale-pink hue as tinted thc silken stockings, before shu vanished a second limo, and the room was left lo tho clock and die lire, with occasional intifilcd splashing.-; from thc naiad in 1e r tub. Btlt not for long. Tho hall door un closed again lo numil n lull old negress, black a Ktcblts, her le ad bound in ti brilliant bandana. Sil shuttled lo tho door of tho bath-room and knocked. "Bs von ready, hom \ ? "In a moment, mammy," onndod from Within; tuen: "You may come now." and once more thc (in and i look hud il all their own way in thc outer apartment. Next Har!.cr reappeared bearing a silver tray, on which wis n cup < f bouil lon with nome wat. i-.. to . .... k r-, Sho had scarcely placed her nay upon a stand and wheeled n i ixurious Turkish chair beter ? the crackling lire when tho Inner door was thin .' wide open and, fresh from her plunge and flowing with mammy's vigorous massage Beauly came out, her lianne! gown wrapped warmly abotit lu r and her beautiful hair still closely snooded in its oilskin cap. she .-auk with supple grace into lier walting ohair, tho stand with its light refreshment quickly lifted lo her side; then, as thc lire gleamed too ardently on tho soft, eli ar skin, Harker inter posed a glass Bcrei n, which temperad tlie Hume's fervor, w hilo it look nothing from its cheerful light. While the bouillon was sipped and the crackers munched mammy brought a lOW hatSOOk. upon whicli She drew her young mistress' feet, and with gentle, enressin;; touch put aside thc wadded shoes and incased oacll slender ankle and arched instep In Its silken covering, using a silver shoe-horn of exquisite workmanship to spring thu little satin slipper to its place. Then mademoiselle stood np while tho black hands went deftly on with tho task they loved so weil. "You's jest like cz if you was a baby yet. honey, tho old woman said, pat ting ttlO "lovely shoulders Which rose smooth and dimpled above tho hwob chi misc: and. "'Deed, 1 w ?sh you w as,'' as sho sliped tho clinging |>otticoat of knitted silk (?vcr her ol) argo's bead. Mademoiselle laughed, and tho dress ing went on lill, lin- la .t ribbon of the muslin gown tied, mammy was forced reluctantly enough to resign ber nurs ling to another's care. For Barker lind not been hilo during tho robing process. Tho bouillon tray and stand were geno; a low dressing table w hoso bevolcd mirror was tho per fection of reflective excellence hud boon Untied to catch tho proper light, an armless chair placed before lt, and now, flanked by hoi implements of ofllco rows of sliver-mounted brushes and combs, steel pins, pomades, and per fumed water- -tho priestess of tho b?b> dru sing ceremonial awaited lier victim. Mademoiselle seated herself, Harker slipped ot)' the oilskin cap, loosened some pins, letting the voil of chestnut hair fall lu wavy richness ?piito to the floor, and begun" her w ork. As the tire woman labored her mistress let her eyes stray idly before bur. und her glance Urti unbn a little crystal vase noon ti.* drosstng-table which held n single fading rose. What did she BOO in its rusty petals and crumpled loaf to call up that curious half-tender light to her face, and why should this expression die slowly away and tho proud lines of tin? exquisito mouth obtrusively show in its steadP "Barker," coldly, "don't keep Howers about that ore not fresh." "No, miss," said Barker respectfully, hut wonderingly; then her eye, too, foll upon tlie condemned Mar?chal Niel. "1 left (he rose, miss, because you had it in your hand lust night when you came in, and lhere was a. bit of water in thc vase where you put it, SO I thought you would not wish it disturbed." Did a faint blush mantle that smooth white brow, or was it the wanton lire light which filled the room? "Very well, Barker; it is of no further value." And now tho hair is done and the muslin gown is dolled for a robe of pale India cashmere lined throughout with quilted satin and trimmed from neck to hem and at throat and wrists with cost ly fur. Then Barker hands a bit of embroidered cambric exhaling a faint spioy fragrance, and draws aside a heavy pur;i re, through which made moiselle passes lo a morning-room be yond, a beautiful, cozy apartment full of bric-a-brac and objects of art, an open upright piano in one corner, with a bunjo, Hie latest craze, tilting its Hat sphere ega i asl one leg. A sea-coal Uro glows in tin- burnished grate, a tiger skin rug sprawls before it, and tr break fast service of transparent china and old silver is set out upon a claw-legged mahogany table near tile center ot thc room. As mademoiselle enters, a beautiful collie leaps forward, fawning against i r and thru-ting his nofiO under her 'dressing hand. Ills mistress pats him il little absently and moves on to tho .able, where at her plato is piled the morning mail. Letters, notes, cards of invitation, ono or two black-edged funeral announcements, for death moves m tho best society i too -she looks them all over without great oilgemoss, though her eyes brighten when she opens otu. to read that a prominent man of fashion b gs tho honor of leading a coming nmuh-tnlkcd-of cotillon with her, nor do th ry dull when tho next note informs her that her presence is desire! among a small select party which an aristo cratic society matron is arranging to lake to lier country-house for a winter's lark. She goes on through her totters while a servant brings the breakfast fruit, chocolate, a pair of recd birds, willi potatoes a la creme, with an omelette aux eonllturos, Mademoiselle eats with relish and appetite, while thc dog, on his haunches by her siile, his forefeet on the tloor, makes with his head in the air a long, silky, inclined plano of his back, which ends effectively in a hindi of waving fur. His eyes follow every movement of the fair oater, hut his dumb entreaty gain.) him naught till the meal is done. One letter of her many that morning she has not yet opened. She takes this now, and as she breaks the seal thu saan: Hooting look which the dying rose liad ovolvcd conics hack. Tho noto is -hort, a half dozen lines: "1 found my orders awaiting mo last night. 1 leave to-night May I call late this afternoon to suv good-byP" The lotter drops from nor hand. Tho dog secs her cessation from writing and conies over to her feet. "Vi s, Sultan," she says, stroking his head, "ho may como to say good-by. and then we will think no more of this channing young oilier willi his small pay and -low promotion, and his tempt ing suggestion of frontier barracks life." O.ie moro h iter is quickly added to the number waiting to be sent, tin ll mademoiselle hurries to her room, where Barker already awaits her. Twenty minute^ later, perfectly dressed in a costume of cloth and fur, winne elegant simplicity equaled it- ex travagant cost, gloved liku a French woman and .-hod like an ICnglisli peer ess, mademoiselle outers her carr lag!, mid tho tall footman holding tho door bonds to ree. ive. her initial order. She drives to he;' tailor's whero she mounts a wooden horse, to have a new habit adjusted, i<> tho jewolor'a to select a present for a fashionable wedding; ut a ilorist's -he orders a funeral piece, .-cut to a society house of mourning; she h aves her carriage for live minutes at a picture-gallery to glance at ii canvas which her world is discussing; she shows herself at a business uni ting of u charitable organization of which she is a member long enough to -ay that she will stand at tho Russian tabl? in a coming festival; shu drives to tho fur rier's to choose her sables, and to her bootmaker's for consultation over bot tines a la Si. Petersburg, ami sho hurries tinnily Into thu boudoir of her dearest friend: "Just to hope, dear, that you aro go ing down to Oakchlf with Mrs. L. on tho 21st. No? So sorry. Ami, oh, Noll, will you kindly lend' mo that little book on figures for tho gorman your brother .-cut out from vienna last month? Mr. H. nnd I want some novel ties for tin: Worthington ball." " That is tho last,' soo says to hersoll thankfully when she hos kissed hot friend good-by, and "Homo," is the word tho footman takes as ho oil mba tc the coachman's side. lt is 2:80 when Barker Is getting hot out of lier outdoor wraps, and luncheon is served, sho is told. That mual over, sho must give her maid ten minutes' confab over tho evening's drosses and twenty more to criticise an nrrangemonl her dressmaker hus sent for Inspection. Then a fnW inonu nts to loll among du cushions of her divan skimming tin chapters of tho last novel before nnoth.ni toilet is In order. At 5 sho is again ir tho earriago in a sumptuous reception dress, rolling to an "afternoon." Twe aro down on lier tablets for that day and by nico calculation she gats the cream of both before, shortly after 0, shu .-tandi once moro in her own hall and learns from tho servant In attend anco that a gentleman ls waiting to bc received In tho green parlor. In all tho bravery of brilliant dress, dropping only tho fur-lined carriage wrap, slio erosses tho hall. Fifteen, twenty minutes pass, then tho porticrr of tho green parlor is put asido and n young man comos out His face ls pah and his lips ara compressed, but h'm bearing is erect and soldierly, and then ia tv gleam of something in bis klodllnj oyo wli'u a may ]>.. :. lino Room whoo that ur i ol londonien hos clearod away. Mademoiselle go? ? up-slnirs a trille languidly. Hui* ru >m i.; brilliant with warmth ami llghl, ami on tho hod is Bpro.nl an evening dress, oil lace and silken sheol). "There ls no hurry, Harker." she says, hr lolly; '"we entertain ti home to-night, and dinner is not until half-post x. Helo mo (?IV with t hes;; thin;-. glVO Ul" a loose gown and I'.ftoon minute hero before the lire."' "Your Howers for to-night," says tho maid, answering mademoiselle's ring half' an hom- lat r. but the young girl scarcely glnnuos ul the hugo bouquet tho wo.nan is h Hiring. "1 shall bo late, Nark ur." sin? '-ays; "make haste lo dross m There are two hours ni dinner and three hours of hall gol through with be fore 11. : i > 1 ? 111 . > ':1. . i ' ? . " ? day is really done, and tho petted ??<d* linds her lu .. - ounopied eon-li. The world hus boen ut her feet, mid th" expression of triumph and power does not wholly I. ave tho perfect fae? even after the fringed lids aro clo - -I and tho soft swed breatlt comes regularly through th j i-> parted lips.- A'. }'. 'it1.1 s. iitnb > on Tear. Jumbo i- . .. chimpanzee nnd has received a < liristian education. Visitors a: the nut* um will have noticed him, as he occupied a enuc in the third sion of lite mu> 'tim, und was very vivacious nt limos, showing groat stn ngth in shaking Ibu heavy iron bar and swinging with o' inn cad? nco <>n the flying trapeze. "Jinn" is a charac ter and his exploits recently rhowed him to bo a ?cht nu r of no mean order. The fastenings of his en e w thought secure, his keeper f<owu:ida, always tak ing tho precaution lo carefully padlock tho har>; hut woo ulai to carelessness! A key was loft in the lock ti id his worthy monkcyship proeeeiled with groal cau tion and subtlety to unfasten his look and liberate himself from the dreary confines of tho cage. Once out Jumbo, like all true revolutionists, made license of liberty and commenced to free the birds hy runion ,- across to tho other cages; letting out tho eoeatoos, parrots and other rare hird-!, and stirring them up with a, club, as varimi ? marks tvund on tho aforesaid birds would Indicate. Thora is a largo glass cage in the mu seum, and on ?hu same Udor, In which aro kept several snakes <>f tho constrict or sp. eus. A ihm son burner, connected with lubing and lighted to warm the occupants, was burning, and the Ci ul lie look lng chimpanzee thought he would invest?galo. How it occurred tho keeper could aol tull, but coming up-stalrs, ho heard thc unusual cluttt r ot the feath ered tribe, and then suddenly tl bend sh yt ll, that indicated somethingunusuady interesting, and startling. Bounding up stairs a strange sight met his gaze. Tue monkey had just leaped oui of thu sn uko ?len and a larg-- constrictor was drag ging af tor hun, his fangs fastened In tho unhappy .Jinn's stump of a tail. At thc sight of tho keeper thu howling mon key made for thc stairs, the snake still chuging to him, sweeping a dozen sleeping parrots out of the way, who >ot up n perfect pandemonium of screech s irt tho disturbance. Lowanda says it was worth a man's life losco that chim panzee go down tho stairs and thump ing tho constrictor after him, who like n bull-dog nev. r lot up. Hastily closing tho snake den and extinguishing tho light, Lowanda ran down to the second floor and then began the chase Over tho freak stages, upsetting chairs und smashing medicine and photographs in a way that was a caution; Iben crossing the hall, leap.ic; tho iron grating that separates tiie. crowd-, trun tin: theater, tho monkey went at a headlong gait, leaving his sn a kos li p stranded high and dry on tho wo e grating- a wiser if not thoroughly awakened snake. Down into tho darkness of tho passage went "Jinn." and at tho bot.om of tho stairs ho collided with a colored girl who was working about tho building, and too now thoroughly frightened monkey, chattering and jibberlng, clung with might and main loins fr.end "in need." Lowandn says ho appeared at the lop of tho landing just HS they rolled over, and thal the chimpanzee had a lot of bangs and frizzes of African fashion and cut in his paws; howsoever bo it, "Jinn" was captured and taken back to bis den, docile and wheezing slightly from his exertions. When a reporter saw him ho was esconsoed demurely on his lianne.u s, and at tho approach of tho DOWSpapor man he cooked his oyo and scratched his chinchilla whiskers as much as to say. "Old chappie, it's a cold day when wo got left."-til. I'aul Globe. Him Was in Trouble. A young woman, bofnrrod and oyo glassed, sat near the stove Weeping. It was not a hearty, yard-wido weep, but a furtive dropping of half-repressed tears upon tho corner of a scented hand kerchief-merely a blt of a thaw in a cold wind. "In trouble, miss?" queried tho gray haired and sympathetic passenger. "Ye-yes," was tho sniveling reply. "May I inquire thu nature of your woe, young I nly? Possibly I can com fort you." And for answer sho sntlfHod up two or throe times in her nose, reached into her dress pocket and pul hal out a crum pled telegram, saving: "Head that." Tho syiupathelV: pass n.er adjusted his Spectuolos, hemmed and hawed, turned half round In his seat, and cau tiously hold tho ominous mlsslvo to tho light. Ile read: "Come homo at once. Your doggie is sick."-Chicago /Jerald. Thero is a certain man about town Whose generosity is not unbounded. He is quite ready to accept, and even to ask for, favors, but is not so often known to reciprocal. Thora como to lum, how ever, as to all men sooner or later, oc casions when it ls impossible to avoid the semblance of hospitality and gener osity, even if ho jposseMHM it not. A for mula of #his for Mich dire necessity, I hear runs in this way: (Moderato) "1 d invito you to dinner to-day (an dante) but wo aro to have codfish to day (allegro and staccato, without walt ing for a dreaded acceptance) and I know you don't like codtb h."-Boston tvsi. Tho Model for a Marble Mund. After the restoration of Louis Philippa to tba French throne? many of Napol eon's soldiers were left in comparative poverty. One of thora, a famous Gen eral, had a beautiful daughter whom he wished to marry rich, but who fell in love with a poor young man-an under secretary or something of that kind. She married at her father's request a rich Count, but refused nt tho wedding ceremony to allow thc ring to bo placed upon her left hand, upon which sho wore a ruby, put thor?! by hor lover. Her jealous husband was not loug in Unding mit wdiat was tho matter, and, intercepting a letter in which the ardent young lover claimed Matilda's hand aa his, he determined upon an awful re venge. Ono night as thc celebrated surgeon Lisfranco was returning from a profes sional visit, ho was captured hy a party of men, blindfolded and taken to a dis tant palace, and lcd through a labyrinth of passages and rooms, At longih his conductor, stopping, said: "Doctor, wo have arrived; remove your bandage." Thc doctor, whose fears had given placo to a restless curiosity and a vague ap prehension, obeyed, and found himself in a small chamber furnished with re markable luxury, ami half lit by an I alabaster lamp hung from the celling. Thc windows were hermetically sealed | as woll as tho curtains of an alcove at I the end of thc room. Here the doctor found himself alone with one of his abductors. Ho was a man of Imposing height and command ing air, and his whole exterior of the ! most aristocratic Stump. His black' oyes gleamed through the half mask that covered tho upper part of his face, and a nervous agitation shook bis color- I less lips, und thu thick black beard that inflamed tho lower. "Doctor," said he, in an abrupt, loud voice, "preparo for your work-an amputation.1' "Where is tho patient?" asked tho doo-' tor, turning toward the alcove. The curUiins moved slightly, and he beard a stilled sigh. .?Prepare, sir," said tho man convulsively. "But. sir, I must see tho patient." "You will see only tho band you are to cut off." The doc tor, foldiug his arms and looking lirinly at thc other, said: "Sir you brought mo hore by force. If you need my profus? sional assistance I shall do my duty without caring for that or troubling my self about your secrets; butti you wish to commit a uri me you can not force ma to be your accomplice." "Bo content, sir," replied tho other, "there is no crime in this," and lending him to the, alcove ho drew from thc curtains a hand, "lt is this you are to cut off." The doctor took the band in Iiis; bis lingers trembled at the touch, lt was a lady's hand, small, beautifully molded ano its pure w ' te set off by a magnili oont ruby encircled with diamonds. "But," cried the doctor, "there is no need of amputation; nothing is-" "And 1, .sir! 1 say." thundered tho other, "if you refuse I will do it myself," and. Seizing n handlet, he drew the hand toward a small tabb; and seemed about to strike. The doctor arrested his ann. "Do your duty then, doctor." "Oh, hut this is an atrocious act," said tho surgeon. "What is that to you? lt must bc done. 1 wish it; madam wishes it also; if ncccosary shu will demand it herself, ('onie, madam, request tho doctor to do 3011 this sorvico." Tho doctor, nonplused, and almost fainting under Hie torture of his feelings, heard from tho above, in a hall-expiring voice and an inexpressible accent of de spair and resignation : ".Sir, since you ar-- a surgeon yes 1 entreat you- let it bc you ?iud not-Ob, yes; you! you! in mercy!" "Well, doctor." said tin man, "you or I." , Tho resolution of this man was so frightful, thc prayer of thc poor lady so j full of entreaty and despair, that tho doctor fell lhat even humanity com manded of him compliance with tho appeal of tho victim, ile took bis in struments with a last Imploring look at thu unknown, who only pointed to tho hand, amt iii. n will) a sinking heart began the o| oration. For the lirst limo in bis experience his hand trembled; bul the knit . was doing its work. There was a cry from the alcove, and then air Was silotlt. Nothing was heard but Ibo horrid sound of tho operation till thc hand and the saw foll together on the lloor. Lisfranco wore thc ruby upon his watch-chain, w here it was sceu by the voting lover on his return to Paris, and out of it grew n duel that led to the dis closure of tho infamous crime. 'Hie morning after the young lover's arrival ?it the capital ho was presented by a man in livery with an ebony box. Opening it be. discovered a bleeding band, Matilda's, and on it a paper with thoso words: "Sc how the Count of --- keeps his oath.' After the duel the young man Heed to Brussels, where tho bleeding hand was transferred to can- , vas. Hart seeing the painting copied it In marble.-Lexington (A'yi) Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer. An Extra Quarter.-A peddler of tin ware in one of tin: mountain counties of tins Stale culled at a farnidiouso tho other day, where tho woman wanted to sell lum a hear skin. " 'Tain't worth no great shakes," said tho peddler after looking it over. "Tho b'ur was killed two months too early." "How much?" asked tho woman. "About 75 cents." ' Sec boro, stranger," she continued as ?be gave the skin a rub, "when i t. il you that this 'ero b ar clawed my hus band to death less'n two months ago, and that i'm still a griovin' wlddor-wo man, can't you make tho prioo a dol lar? Being a niau of sentiment and tinware conibined ho said ho could. Wall Street News. General longstreet thinks that his uncle, William longstreet, of Augusta, Qa.i should share with Wobei 1 Hil too tho laurels of tho inventor of steam boats. This ingenious Georgian wa*) big with tho idea as early ns 1788, but it was not until 18U8 that he successfully ran a boat by 6tcam in tho Havannah. . Tap," said little Jacob, looking up from his Sunday-school pn|>or, "here in a piece that sn vs 'Boer versus Whisky.' Shall I read it ?" "Trow dot pabor tn dc sehtovo, Shaky, Inny mans vot says beer is vorso as visky ain't fit for nod ings oxeopt kindfing-vood."- Ding' .hamton Hcpubliran^ GAMBLER RANSOM? Wovr Ho Surrd n Mun from Kuli) und Marie "I could relate, hundreds of stories about his life," said a shining light of the N. Y. Athletic Club speaking to a re porter of the, N. Y. Mail ? Express about tho well-known snorting man Charley Ransom, who dieu rccontly. "'Ibero is one story about him which the papers have not published yet. Charley and I mudo tho acquaintance of what wo thought to bo a very wealthy man at tho Monmouth Beach race-course two years ago last sununor. Ho was introduced to us hy a prominent official of polieo headquarters. After tho race.? were over, all three wont over to Long Branch. Charley and I came up to tins city on an early train, leaving our now acquaintance behind. I never saw him after that, but Charle) one day met him on Broadway, near Twenty-third street. They went to the Fifth Avenue hotel to get a drink. I don't know exactly how it was, but that santo night both sat down in the room of a neighboring ho tel to play draw-poker. 1 do not wish to disclose the gentleman's name, be cause ho is a good father now and be cause such indiscreetness on my part might hurt his present fair chances; but ho was a confounded uss for his own sake. Charley was an honest fellow, however, and he played a square game. Our new friend dropped ??.'17? that night, all ho had in his possession. He made an appointment for the next evening in tho hope of getting even, but hu again quit a loser. This time he threw np his hands to tho lune of $1,200. They kept playing every odd night until the mid dle of tho following December. Our gay friend by that time was minus, ac cording to his own calculation $18,900. Charley wan tod lum lo give up poker half a dozen times before he lost this amount, but In each instance he refused. The fellow commenced to drink like, a tish and (.'harley confidentially told tuc he'd be hanged before he'll sit down with him again. He in ver did play af ter that, although tho fellow accused him of being afraid lo render satisfac tion. "One morning about lO.Oclock Char ley fell in with the would-be Spoil Oil Sixth avenue. Ile was partly intoxicat ed, ami his dissipated appearance de noted he had not seen a bed for several nights. Charley endeavored to get away from him on tho plea of business, but it was useless. Our friend held on to tho lapel of his overcoat and insisted that they re]lair to a room and indulge in a game. Bul the devil could not have altered ('nar!, v's lixed determina tion and hr saul so. While both were talking a little boy of about 12 years eaane iq.' and touched the leg of ( har ley's foolish friend. Thura was a little snow on the ground, and the little fel low's feet protruded from a broken pair of boots. Ile had neither overcoat nor mittens on. and he r ally looked the picture of misery. Turning around, our friend saw thc boy, and Charley often told ino he turned deadly white. 'What uro you lining here'.'' he tinnily asked tho "hid. 'Oh, papa,1 stammered tuc boy, moving backward, ns if he was afraid, '1 have been looking all over for you. Aunt and mamma sent me to timi you.' This drove the fellow almost mad, and lie broke out with frightful oaths, winding up by bidding the buy to gi t hotne or he would kick him all over thc street The lad departed with out a word, Inn before going he cast a most siguilicaiit lint ailcctionale look at tho man h.- . ailed lather. ..Charley had had cnou.h, and break ing away from th . mail's grasp he. walked in tiie opposite direction to that taken by ?lie hoi. The father, after a moment's hesitation, weni into a gin? mill. When Charley saw him disappear from view he turned on his heel and with a quick gait started after the hid. lie overtook lum a! Tweniy-'ifth street. Tho boy would Hot talk h r M.inc time, but li nal ly he broke down and told ail; informed him how his father was fast ruining a good business down town; how he, had mortgaged tie- house they lived in, on well, myer mind what street how molhur, sister, ami self wore being neglected, abused, am! starved, and ?tow their once com for li bio homo was fast going t>? ph ces. W ell, the.end of that busin i ss was that a sober man entered his home that night, and a weeping wife embraced him. They wera tears of joy, I assure you. Tho mortgage was paid oil'the next day, a good business was revived, and a man who not ?OII?; before w ished to be ii sport, sat down to dinner with his fami ly in his cozy dining-room. No matter how tho thing was managed. I prom ised a dead friend I would never t ll any one about it, but I could not keep a secret, for he was a good fellow. He may have been a sporting man; may have carnell a living by cards, and may have associated with some rough per sons, but I'll warrant thero never walked along the path of lifo a better man than Charley Ransom. No Show l'or tho Creditor, ..Rath i strange thing occurred the othi. >...'' said a jewelry drummer, a* ho lighted a match on his pantaloons; "1 went to a town ont in Iowa to settle up au account with a firm thero that hud been running behind on their pay ments. Tho linn, composed of two brothers, was one, of tho largest in the town, and I had no fear of trouble, hut when I arrived there I found that they had dissolved partnership and closed business." ..Didn't lose anything, did you?" "Lose anything? Should say wo did. Ono brother took all tho stock and skip ped cast, and tho othor took nil the cash and lit out for tho wost. What show has a poor creditor got coming in on the shank end of such a dissolution oi co-iiartnersldp as thal?" - Chicago ihr* A St-,to street merchant put a hand* some plaster figure in his store window and prepared himself to enjoy it with his customers. Along in tho afternoon tho wife of an artist carno in and notic ed it at onco. "Ah, Mr. B." she said, "that's a handsome ligure in your win dow." "Yes." replied tho merchant, "I call lt so myself, I do," "Your taste ls excellent," purmted tho lady, "und I'm glad to see a love of art developing In commerelnl oirclos. What la toe ngura Hebe?" "O. no, ma'am; it's plaster of parla.*'- Merchant 'J^nwkr a i'?iiii!. Happy. Melville'* Ambition. "It's n terrible tiling to bo cold," said Cliict Engineer Melville, ol the United States navy, at tho rooms of tho United Service club, "hut it is moro terrible to sutler tho pangs of hungert to crawl on hands ana knees on tho icc. us 1 have done, that my comrades might bo saved. It was not for myself, but for my coun try and my fellow-man." Engineer Melville, who looked the picture of rosy health, was surrounded by distinguished officers and ox-officers of the arm}- and navy as he road his in teresting papot on Arctic, exploration. Among them wcro Gen. JoshuaT. Owen, Capt. Richard C. Collum, Pay Director Russell, and Col. Nicholson. In his opening remarks Mr. Melville said: '.When 1 roturnod from Siberia I promised mvself and the whole world that I would never lecture on the trials and sufferings of Arctic explorations that I would never coin money out of thc blood ami hones of my dead com panions." Continuing ho said: "For moro than SOO years some of tho best blood and brains of lin; world have boon devoted to solving tho problem of the far north. It was for a grand and noble pul poso the benefit ot man, that wc may have knowledge, which is wealth, power and happiness." Mr. Melville spoke of tho peculiar ab sence of scurvy in tho later American expeditions, particularly those of tho Polaris, Jeannette, -.iiiii (neely party, while Sir George Nares' exploring party were terribly nilli et ed. He thought \t was a matter of food, clot hine; ami well ventilated quarters. He had fre quently been asked how he hoped to es cape thc fate of those who had gone, be fore him if he attempted to reach tho pole. His answer was that tho bitter school of experience led him to believe that tin; pole could bo reached safely, and that thc proper route was by Franz .Joseph hand, the southern end of which WO? accessible every year. Mr. Melville then described tho Arctic oui lits necessary for explorers, and tho mistakes mudo in making them too heavy. lb' said: "I have slept comfort ably on top of a sled in a sleeping-bag, with the thermometer lo;) degrees below the freezing point of water. 'I le Arctic sloop! ng-bugs, ho explain ed, iver . worn with the hair inside, thus reversing nature, lt was tho only fur clothing worn that way. Ho thought t in; very ?ilea ot unlimited appropriations hy congress caused an Arctic expedition lo be loaded down with the. worthless rubli iga of even crank in the land. His sleeping-bag weighed eleven pounds, The Creely expedition bugs weighed twenty-two pounds -"elegant things to .deep in. but death to those who attempt ed lo ? any them." lu conclusion tho chief engineer said that with his know lodge, born of experience, he expected at some fut un dav to conduct a party in safety to tho Arel ie regions, and to lind a grand, public-spirited citizen ol vost m ans who would aid him in solving tie- problem of a commercial pole. Th? ro e! was one of trial and tribulation, but tho object was attainable and tho scientific world would not bo satisfied until it was reached. -Philadelphia Timex. A Deputy Sheriffs Philosophy. Nearly nil tho deputy sheriffs in this city live well, dress well, and grow fat, and yoi they are not happy. Ask ono of them how his business is. and with .a deep sigh ho will nnswor in heart-break ing tones, "Oh, things uro frightfully didi. Then; ain't a cent in thc busi ness any more, and I wish to heavens l could Hud homet liing else to do." But they don't spend much time in looking for anything oise, and the distress of mind that those gentlemen sutler when any change in tho sheriff's office is about to lake; place is highly inconsist ent with their alleged deplorable condi tion. Deputy Sheriff Aarons occupies un entire liouso in a fashionable portion of tho city. Il is well furnished and his wife and seven children always dress well and look happy, Mr. Aarons smokes good cigars, ami has grown so fit in th?; sherill's office thal he linds difficulty in getting within writing dis tance of his dirk. Tho other day, while In; was resting himself after writ ing tho date oil thc top of a legal docu ment, a reporter .-aid lo him: "How is it that you seem to bo so contented when ail tho other deputy sheriffs uro complaining of hard times?" Mr, Aarons scraped a little piece of quail otf his mustache, and replied, confidentially: "About two years ago 1 wanted to get a new suit of clothes, and as my tailor had mad'; money enough to retire after having my c list oin for a year or two, I bogan looking around for a new tailor. I spoke lo ono of tho deputies about it, and ho advised mu to try a tailor who is localed on Broadway, a short distance from here. 1 h it my order l'or il coat, and told thc tailor to deliver it nt roy house. When tho gai ne nt ai rived tho messenger refused to leave it until 1 paid him for it. I som it back. Tho next day thc tailor told nie had so nundi iioulile in getting money from one or two of thu deputies that hu was afraid to trust a stranger who was in tho saino business. Now, the men he mentioned made as much money as I do. Tho se cret is just tho same here a- it is in every other business. I look after my money and other fellows don't. 1 como to tho office at the samo hour evory morning, attend strictly to business un til lunch time, and thou pay $1 or mare for a good meal. When tho day's work is dom; I go home and stay there. Tho men who are. always complaining spond 41) or 50 cents on their way down in thc morning, tito same on their way home, buy a cheap lunch, and devoto their evenings to playing cards or squandering their money in some other foolish wav. It is the spending of small coins that makes a man poor and keeps him there, and a man is never any bet ter off if ho trios to savo money by do oming his stomach of food."---New York Aiail and Xxpress. M. D'llarp has boon treating himself to a now hat. Proud ol hi ? conquest ho showed his purchase to ovorybooy next day. "What did you givo for itP" asked a friend. "It cost mo 15 francs." "Rut it is marked 16 francs on the lin ing." "True," softly rcpliod M. D'Harp, "that is what I paid tho batter; bnt I wont without my dinner yesterday," Far*? Journal Antwan*. ?. Ut viii v ?m. Aiuiiiiiiii ??..). un iiuiuy?. Among Mic bills introduced in (bu Renate last week and appropriately re ferred was one by .Senator Edmunds, ''providing tor tho inspection of meats or exportation, prohibiting thu Im portation of adulterated articles of omi and drink, and authorizing tho ('resident to make proclauiutiou In certain cast!?." Senator Edmunds said tltat this bill had been reported last year from Mic committee on foreign relations. Be sides providing for tho inspection of pork, &c, tor exportation, it contaiu i'd, he said, a section iriviug the Presi dent authority, whenever lie was con viliced thai unjust discrimination was made against thc admission of Ameri can products into other countries, to prohibit the introduction ot such inicies as he thought (it for the pro motion of thc just interests of the United States, lu view of what ho (Ed in linds) saw in the newspapers about current events in other countries ? ouohilig American proiiucls ou the ?henry that they were supposed to be diseased, when the fact was obvious hut thc object was to exclude them under any consideration, ho (Ed mund-) thought it (dear that it wa? time lo introduce this bill aglill. Tim IMncovorjr of America. A number of prominent gentlemen interested in establishing a permanent Vmericail exposition in Washington . nd a world's exposition to be held in I8?I2, in honor of tht} four hundredth iiiidversary of tho discovery of Amer ica by Columbus, met last week and ndoptcd rcsoolutioiis strongly favoring the project, and thc chairman was In .irneted to appoint a eouindttee of oil i ze nts to formulaic a plan in further ance of the celebration of this impor tant an II i vet say. THE LAURENS UAR. JOHN C. I1A8KELL, N. U. DiAL, ('ol ii in nia, S. C. Laurens, S. C. HASKELL & I>LYL, ATTORNEYS A I L A W, I.AUKKNS O tl., S. C. ? J. T. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE-ElemiuK's Corner, Northwest side of l'ublic Square. LAURENS C. IL, S. C. J. C. OAKLINGTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAU KENS C. H., 8. C. Office over W. il. Garrett's Stoic. W. C. BENET, F. P. M'OOWAV, Abbeville. Laurens. BENET & McGOWAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAURENS C. Il , S. C. J. W. FERGUSON. GEO. F. TOLSO. 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