-. j. .ry J evalb rnu.u~.-uI~.. 1P,ft5.NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUN1,19.PIE$.0AYA 1VC ______________86____ THE COB-PIPE. A TALE OF THE COMET OF '43. 11.-ThE FIFE. BY DR. 0. B. MAYER, SR. The comet continued night after night to excite the wonder and specu lations of the people. Yetta Eltins told her father, with an air of indifference calculated to impress the reader with hoiror after the developments just elicited, that in her opinion it was a sign "somebody was piottin' agin his life." When she was questioned about her reasons for thinking so she replied: "Wy, daddy, I've had a dream; and I've dreamt it t'ree nights, one arter de odder. Ef I was you, daddy, I'd run dis here schoolmaster off, and I'd never let him come anigh me agin; for, take my word for it, he's got evil designs agin you; and dis here ting, wat we sees every night in de sky, is sent for a a , my wice, and gid rid of Samuel Burns; for he is minded to kill you, as sure as I am your dorter." In uttering these prophetic words, Yetta had gradually soared to the wild eloquence peculiar to women. For t a while the old man was amazed; but c at length recovering his austerity he 1 cried: t "Wat de teffie ails de gal? Is she beside herself? Wat did you tream, you q hussy?" C "Wy, daddy, I dreamt dat de pigeon d house fell down," replied Yetta, seri- v ously. "Wat!" exclaimed Mr. Elfins in a 1: tone of voice not unlike a blow upon y the bottom of a tin pan, at the same l time planting his walking stick firmly c before him, while rage twinkled in his e eyes as he discovered that so alarming t a prophecy rested only upon an insig nificant dreamn. "Wat!" t "Jess as sure, daddy, as you stand p dare," answered Yetta, gesticulating v vehemently with her head and out- v spread bands, 'jess as sure asyou stand dare, I dreamt de pigeon house fell r d6wn, I dreamt it t'ree nights, and I p know it meant dat dis here school- y master-" e "Shtop! you goot-for-nottin' hussy. v Dis is some voolish teffelment wat s Aprat Priester has bin a wisperin' to g you; and"-here the old man advanced towards Yetta with his stick elevated, a not, however, to chastise her, but .o merely to illustrate his concluding sen- n tence,-"ef I ever git widin reach o him, I'll preak his rashkally head." e "Ah, daddy," cried Tetta, "Abram c once turned some strange cattle out o' c your-" h "It's a tam lie!" snarled the old man. u "And," continued the distressed fi damsel, "'Abram stopped de holes in s< m?amnmyrs ga.rden, so dat de rabbits-" h "It's anodder tam lie!" growled her h obstinate father. i "Ah, well," sighed the poor girl, 'I ni see you will not take warnin'." h "Well, now, kin you tell me wid all E * your treams wat goot it would do Mr. ti Purns to kill me'"' enquired her father, o1 with great reason. pl "Wy daddy, surely you and mammy is ricollleks wen dis here schoolmaster tl told us long time ago 'bout one Mister si Guy Fawks wat blow'd up wi five hundret parrels of gunpowder a whole ti houseful of peoples in de olt countries a: on account of de Roman Catolicks?" Ie questioned his daughter with almost a Sibylline scream. " "Yes, py ching, I rememnpers it well hi enoug" replied the old man, much be confused by the audacity of his dangh- of ter's insinuations, "I remiempers very n< well all apout wat he said, but I can't ai see ennyting in it." 0r "Ah, daddy, you will-see wen it's too w late," said she. sti As Yetta left her father she muttered bi to hercelf through her compressed lips: fo: "Yes, yes, I see it muss be done: I'll ai have to blow daddy up with gunpow- I der. P'lldo itsure." p Foolish girl! Will you provoke me wl to make Abram Priester's execution, ra and likewise your own, the denoument br of this story? -th Late one evening Abram Priester was " cantering along the road leading to his to father's house from the direction of Mr. Elfins'. It was Friday evening, and Samuel Burns had dismissed his school pJ s->mewhat earlier than usual. He had ki all day, much to the neglect of- his we N duties, been trying his hand upon a t work of art,-a piece of carving with wa the blade of his pocket knife. Havting ex finished it to his liking, he dismissed joi the children to their respective homes, th and betook himself towards Mr. Eltins' of where he was invited by the old folks sai to spend the night. Abram Priester fir cantered swiftly on his way, His con- ul: tracted brows and the almost convul- pu alve clut'u with which he grasped his bridle-reins z'howed that thoughts of ex an unpleasant nature were agitating pil his mind. An abrupt turn in the road mi brought him suddenly into a large old sb field, and he was nearly thrown from a 1 his horse by the animal's darting to ha one side with a loud snort. Recover- - ing himself. he saw advancing towards pre him the figure of a meu tidily dressed, toi and holding in his ha'id something ini which Abram=s lkeen. eye easily discov- lo' ered to be a p.ipe "" - 'astically carved" ' out of a red cob having attached an to it a stem of tw'usual length. Alas, tre his perceptive r4owers wvent furthet si( than this pipe In the rapidily increas- op ing gloom of the twilight he neverthe- th: less recognized in the person before him, hs Mr. Samuel Burns; and his evil aRgel re caused the blood which his heart at .cis that momxent distributed through his in "Good evening to you, Mr. Priester," c said Samuel Burns, with studied pre- 11 cision, as if he was afraid of pronounc- ti ing a word wrong; "I see you are com- p ing from the direction of Mr. Elfins'; t are his people all at home?" t< "Look here, Samuel Burns," answer- ti ed Abram, "don't aggrawate me jess a now; for I feel dat dare's danger in me. k You know very well dat I don't go to il Mr. Elfins'." "No offence, I hope," returned the pedagogue. s "But dare is offence, I tell you; and I a give you fair warnin', ef you ever skeer u my hoss agin, I'll beat your nose so flat y upon your face, dat folks will say it was b done wid a slidge hammer." b "My dear sir," remonstrated Burns, d "I did not frighten your horse, it was e your horse that frightened me, for he b nearly overran me. Indeed, Mr. Pries- c ter, it is very plain that you are seek- i ing opportunity to pick a quarrel with F me. In your hands, I know I would be as powerless as a lamb under the a cL ui n.l.- Cdy,'Mr. Pries- y< er, did you ever read Esop's Fables?" m "No, durn your imperdence!" yelled In Abram, his blood growing blacker and A )lacker. se "Oh but you must read them; for hey are most excellent. There's one >f them, Mr. Priester, I would particu arly advise you to read. It is entitled he wolf and the lamb. You see, sir, the volf sought for an opportunity to raise a B 1uairel with the lamb so that he might lit levour him. So one day they were Erinking from the same rivulet, and +he H volf accused the lamb of muddyir g the sa vater. 'That can't be, sir,' said the %mb, 'because the water flows from SR ,ou to me.' At that the wolf tore the Y %mb to pieces, not because the poor nt reature muddied the water, but be ause he aggravated one more powerful Bi ban himself." " "Samuel Burns," continued Abram, ve You'll go on a foolin' wid me, ontil here'ii be trouble wlien you ain't ex- Yc ectin' of it. Did you git the letter I "2 vrit to yca yisterday, givin' you I varnin'?" M "Oh yes, I received it, Mr. Priester," eplied Burns", ha, ha, ha, it was a fine Y0 ieee of composition. Why, Abram, kr on ought to come to school to me. I Yo uld teach you in two months how to rrite a better letter than that. You sk urely do ,ot venture to write to the he iris? They would all laugh at you." At this Abram writhed in his saddle "t nd made a movement to dismount, in fez rder to wreak vengeance upon the ian who was, as he thought, making Bu port. of him. .is good .angel,. how- cal ver, came to his help and changed the Al )lor of his blood back to the clear t' rimson of forbearance. In a moment thi e resolved to smother his rage, and go. rging his horse onward he disappeared th, 'om his accomplished rival. Though to arcely had he lost si~ght of him when is blood began to grow black again, as ful e reflected upon the man's meanness it i importuninag a young woman -to iarry him upon the strength of his he aving the good will o1 her parents. 't [e turned his horse round suddenly in on ie resolution to rush back, and with 2t waste of wards, inffict upon the fin rson of Samuel Burns condign pun- sisi hment. The fable of The Wolf and ie Lamb was all that saved the un- kir ispecting pedagogue. u Regaining his composure, Abram lie irew the reins upon the ar'imal's neck, an4 id sank into a deep reverie. At ngth he began to soliloquize. s "I ought to take courage," said he, afe or dat same cob-pipe is gwine to be s ruination. I 'clare, though, it's too Ye d. I -could make Mr. Etfins abushel ' sieb, and better; but it would be of dre >use. Wen people git so old dat dey n't -got no more sense; but mus keep thi Sa bodderin and a interfeerin' wid yot ie dey ain't got de fbelins to under- 3 said, nor to ricollect ennythin' about; I must keep on a bodderin young ks wat has got to step in deir shoes, I d-and-a-take deir places, wy, I-I. hai -"while stammering away at this sto] rsonal pronour'. he had gradually, hal bile standing u.p high in his stir-ups, ised his fist high above his head, and, inging it down with violence upon e pommel of his saddle, exclaimed, ThE -I'll be durn'd ef it wouldn't be right put 'em out ot de way!" eware, Abramn Priester, beware! The schoolmaster proceeded trium- TI iantly on his way, and in a half hour froi iceked at the door of Mr. Elfins. He it is i received with great distinction by thu e old man and his wife. The pipe the s offered and accepted with thanks triai pressed. Yetta, who was in an ad- Edi ning room preparing the table for per e evening meal, recognized the voice exP the visitor; and in an agony of dis- que isfaction petulantly seized the per e.poker and inflicted a cruel blow TI eon a venerable tom cat who was tha rring good-naturedly by the fire. der: "Dare's dat schoolmaster agin," she brii claimed,--'-'dat -ugly, yaller-eyed, haz aty-nosed feller, wat daddy wants to marry. Now, ain't it a sin and a A b sie? Goodness gracious! wat sort of U ife would I lead wid him? I won't For e him! I won't! I won't! I won't."' So At each asseveration she twisted her U tty shoulders from side to side, and Till A ed her head and kicked the burn- 'Far chunks in a manner ludicrously v rely. Ti Fo show how such epithets, used by , irritated maiden like Yetta, illus- man ite the injustice which so gentle a pas- dern rn like love can inflict upon persons ta posing its smooth course, I must say les at Samuel Burns was really quite a be ndsome young man. His teeth were ches ;ular and white, and he was well exer ed in the expressions that bring them eq view: his eyes were brown and full of forn an; and his well-pomatumed hair lay I i trained curls about his brow and mples like unanswered interrogation oints. Nevertheless, what could all 2is do in the presence of Abram Pries ,r's stalwart stature, flowing hair, and ue blue eye that retained Yetta's im ge faithfully from one day's seeing c er to another, except when it changed r self to a dream on every intervening i ight. The old cat, unable to sati. fy him alf as to what crime he had committed, , fter loading the night air with his tmentations, ventured to approach his c oung mistress, and rub his head under a er foot. Yetta looked down upon c ,im, and felt sorry for what she had one. A bright tear stole out of her e ye, and picking up her pet she pressed Y ,im to her bosom, while he rubbed his t heek against her neck, and played t ,ith a ringlet that hung over her tem le. Ah, Yetta, that looks well. There is spark of goodness vatrerLi.ning in t ur heart. Come, now, do not let us o urder your old father,-he is de- S ded; but rather let us elcpe with n, bram Priester, and save our con- w iences from the pangs of quilt! V "Yetta!" 15 "Wat, mammy!" is "Is supper ready?" 0] "Yes, ma'am." T Mrs. Elfins, followed by Mr. Samuel sc arns and her husband, entered the w tle room, where supper had been set. o "Why, good evening to you Miss ' w enrietta, a pleasant time to you," qi id Mr. Burns. "My name ain't Henrietta," an- ti -ered the incensed maiden, "it's plain as ,tta; and it ain't a pleasat time to me tther." ac "Is that the way you talk to Mr. irns?" asked Mrs. Elfins, chidingly. tb ut you musn't mind her, sir, she is pE ry young yit." m 'It's no sich a thing;-I ain't id ung," muttered Yetta, undutifully. G ly aige is sot down in de Bible; and w ras twenty years old last Easter li( >nday." ye "'Well, now, hussy! will you hold ro ur tongue? I reckin' I ought to sti ow wen you was born. Whar's at nr sister Effie." 00 'She's got skeer'd at dat ting in de w) y, and is crept into de bed, wid her ta ad all kiver'd up." TI 'Ah, Mr. Burns," began Mr. Elfins, ar all us 'bout dis comit,-wat's de dif- op ence 'twixt 'clipse and a comit." ye 'Why, Mr. Elfins," answered Mr. pr rns, straightening himself didacti- p1 ly, "the difference is simply this: an manick makers, or 'stronomers, as en y are sometimes called, can tell to ce very minute when an eeclipse is ist n' to happen; but, to save them, co ;y can't tell when a comet is going th appear." pha 'Well," cried Mrs. Elfins, "it's a aw sareumnstance; and we ought to take pe nore to heart dan we do." ge 'I 'clare," cried Yetta, shrugging sai Sshoulders and pouting, "I wish rould go away. I can't go to sleep ch account of.it." -th< 'You foolish gal, you," said Mrs. El- fe, s, upbraidingly, "ain't you got your :er Effie to sleep wid you?" pli 'Yes," exclaimed Yetta, "but wat go! ime and sister Effie do agin a fright- or comit-a dreadful fiery dragon watpr ed out its tongue at Mark Moyer, wi i tried to run its sting troughhim." or I suppose," remarked Mr. Elfins, m< eastically, "dat you wouldn't pe r'd if Abram Priester-" vih Oh, daddy, :1o hush !" exclaimed of ta, petulantly. of It's a wai-nin' agin all ondutiful chil- tes n," said'the old man. th< No; it's more likely a sign dat some- me ~dreadful is a goin' to happen' to cal , daddy," of ~etta! ide [-rO BE CoNMUED.) nit thf ret not your lire away because your I r is gray, while young, as you can me >all grayness and can beautify the qu< r with Hall's Hair Renewer and be lea >py.fi "ALL HAZARDIS." i Governor Says the Fameus Jones Case I Must Come to Trial, to'1 -- eff4 [Columbia Record, 27th.] bel he Governor has received a letter mi: n Solicitor Nelson telling him that ab< exceedingly difficult to get all the sor: -ty-four witnesses for the State in the celebrated Jones case to attend the ver I, as the venue being changed from yes ~efield to Lexington, the fifty cents pul diem allowed would not pay their its enses. The Solicitor made the re- tur st that the Governor pay the ex- 189 ses out of his contingent fund. saji he Governor has replied, saying hat She will do so, with the express un- opi itanding that the Solicitor will ig the case to trial at any and all ads oy stood on the burning deck, uwisely, too, 'tis said, ,with the fast approaching flame, is elders quickly fled. many now in peril stand, of nmndful of their fate, Sta ,step by step, Grim Death comes on a 1 nd then, alas too late! !i wiser, surely, would it seem, lit then Is approach we see, v h "Pierce's Pellets" well in hand nul avanquish old "~G. D." ere< ierce's Pleasant Pellets have re- . -kable power to correct all physicalis ngement, thus warding off disease nea will surely follow. Purely vege- tho e, pleasant to take, perfectly harm With a little forethought, they'll t present help in time of need ting the doctor and robbing the i re ! As a Liver Pill, they are un aled. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to 3. One adose as alaxative,'three or of -'as cathartic. Tiny, sugar-coated Itak TALK AB5OUT THE NEW PARTY. arlisle Asks Some Conundrums the Lead ers Can't Answer-A Delegaton Call on Him and His Remarks Make Them Thoughtful. CINCINNATI, May 21.-The men wh< reated a new party yesterday are al eady busy with plans for nursing the afant. They will feed it right off with olid food, and they'll take care that i ets no soothing syrup. If it doesn' valk with League boots before nex Zovember its nurses will be mucb isappointed. No infantile maladiei re feared, not even the often fata angers of the second summer. The nen and women, who, in a frenzy o nthusiasm, rocked th; cradle of the ew born baby yesterday until the poo hing's life was imperilled, are to-dag iragging about the youngster's goo ioints with all the pride of parent vith their first born. In their great delight some of then h uld be idea to g rer the river into Kentucky and mator Carlisle what he thought of thie w baby. They did so and they met ith a cordiai reception. Some of the resterv delegates have rather a kind feeling for Carlisle. They believe he an honest man and they wanted his >inion of the revolt they are leading. hey talked with the Senator about me of their pet projects and asked hat he thought of them. Government vnership of railroads and telegraphs as brought up and Mr. Carlisle turned testioner. "Do you propose to get possession of ese properties by confiscation ?" he ked them. "No, that wouldi.'t be fair," they mitted. "Then you must buy them," was e reply,. "and to buy them you must ,y for them, and to pay for them you ust tax yourselves. Have you any ea how much it would cost? Our vernment debt at the close of the ir was more than two thousand mil >ns, and we have been almost thirty ars in paying half of it. The rail ads, telegraphs, telepho'ne lines and lamboats in the country represent out $lu,000,000 invested capital; 44, ),000,000 is bonded indebtedness nich must be paid. Are you ready to K yourselves to raise this money? ien, after you have got the property, e you ready to tax yourselves to erate it, for the Government never t sudceeded in doing business at a ofit? Consider another effect; such a tm would add perhaps 1,200,000 men d women to the roll .of Government iployees. How would you ever suc md in turning out of power an admin ration with such resources at its nmand? The more corrupt it was a more difficult it would be to dis ice." i'he delegation looked dubious and rplexed, for the questions and sug tins were evidently all new to their iguine and enthusiastic minds. 'Anyhow," broke in one of them, anging the subject, "don't you think a money power is getting into too v hands?" 'Yes, I admit it is a bad sign," re ed Mr. Carlisle. "But how ai-e you ng to remedy it? By a revolution by an act of Legislature? Do you >pose to say by your Legislature that Len a man has earned $100 or $1,000 $10,000 that he shall not earn any >re ?" kgain there was no response. The itors presented two or three more the grievances which form the basis their platform, and Mr. Carlisle ted first one and, then the other with question: "How can they be re died by legislation ?" And no practi answer was suggested. The fathers Lhe new party went away with the a that, after all, the political mille tn might not be as near at hand as y had imagined it to be. f. Carlisle sees in the new party no nace to the Democraoy. He does not estion the present intention of the ers to put a third party ticket in the d next year. But he believes the lation will so change in the mean ie that the project will be abandoned. he new party is in the field, disaster he Republicans would be the only ct. In his own State, Mr. Carlisle ieves the Alliance State ticket no ated last night will receive only ut 3,000 votes unless there should be 2e combination with RepubliWans in cities. Commenting on the uni sal opinion amiong those who formed terday's Convention that the Re lican party has about reached grave, and that with the present n of events the chances of success in l have disappeared, Mr. Carlisle i that several Republican Senators i recently expressed to him the same iion in Washington. CHARLESTOW'S REGISTRATION. SThan Four Thousand Votes and the Colored Registration Very Light. [Special to Greenville News.] 'IARLESTON, May 23.--The books registration for the city, county and te elections were closed to-day with otal registration of 3,98.5 votes, a e less than one-half the estimated ing strength of the city. Of this nber not over two-thirds are regist I on the democratic club rolls. There o way of getting the number of roes who have registered, but it is ught they will not exceed .500. No Danger of War. From the Minneapolis Tribune.] t costs $.500 to fire a shot from one the Italian iron-clads. It would e about seven shots to throw the COOSAW SCORES ANOTHER POINT. The State Knocked Out by Judge Norten, and the Case Is Removed to the Fed eral Court.-Protracted Litigation Now the Order. [Special to The State.] CHARLESTON, S. C., May 28.-Judge Norton, in the court of Common Pleas at Beaufort, accepted the petition of the Coosaw Company and rendered a decision that the case was properly re moved into the United States Court. The effect of this decision will be, it is said, to tie the case up in the court for about three years. Litigation will now proceed in the United States Courts without further interruption from the State court. The followingare the essential clauses of the decision: "The question before me is whether it is the duty of this court now to ac cept said petition and bond and pro ceed no further in the action. It is agreed that it is, -if a federal question is involved, which must be determine! y this court for itself." "- fendants in their oeticion allege A h v a nerpetual lease from that they1 . a n the State, the plainti v hereii o. property, (a contract), and that the State claims to reserve possession of said property by virtue of an act of her -Legislature, which is void, because it impairs the obligation of its lease (con tract)." "Plaintiffs object, first, that it relies on the invalidity of the lease, and not its repeal; second, that the test under the act of 1887 is whether, if its com plaint had been filed in the United States circuit court, that court could have letained jurisdiction against the wish of the-defendants. In the act of 1875 the removal is authorized in any case arising under the Constitution of the United States. That the act of 1887 is intended to restrict removals does not change the well established judi cial interpretation of words transferred from a former act, unless the contest shows an intention so to do." "We have already seen that the con tract supposed to show such intention does not do so. It is therefore the duty of the court to accept the said petition and bond and proceed no further here in." "Wherefore, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the petition filed by the defendant in this action on 30th March, A. D. 1891, for the removal of this action to the United States Circuit Court for the District of South Carath but I'll just be conessentially z smothered if I can't whip the fellow z hbat soaped that horn." - t The vocal organs are strengthened by E he use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. alergymnen, lawyers, singers,. actors,1 nd public speakers find this prepara ~ion the most effective remed for irri- a ation and weakness of the throat and , ungs, and fbr all affections of the vocal >rgans. ,_________r Straw Hats in latest;styles and end- C Le...aity at BALOCK's. tf a THE CANDY-PULLING. Bill Arp Finds Candy. Everywhere-Ev Sits Down Upon a Piece-Mr~s. Arp Glories in Pleasing the 'ittle Jones. [Atlanta Constitution.] "What's all this rumpus about?" came home to dinner and found tl house full and yard full of children grandchildren and other children. "0 nothing much," said Mrs. Arp. promised them a little party and the have come over to spend the day, a and brought some little friends wil them." "Well, but these door-knobs are a stuck up with candy. "Yes, they had candy-pulling, and, I expect, ha messed up' things just like childre will. I will wipe of the door-knobs. knobs." "Well, but there I've gone and s down on a lump of it in this chair." Mrs. Arp smiled and said: "We there's the washboard and a rag." I meandered out in the piazza, at found candy knee deep in everythin The chaps were in the backyard coo ing dinner on a little brick furnace th had built. Some were toting water ai potatoes and rice and eggs and e and pepper and everyting they coal beg from the cook. The waterspout wa running all over everything. I stoppe that part of it and surrendered to th rest, and retired to my accustomed sea at my desk. "Who has been here projecting wit] my pens and letter pads, and turnei over my inkstand and messed up m; papers?" "Oh, I don't reckon they have hur anything. Rosa wanted to- show mi how she was learning to write. Ther was very little ink in the stand. wiped off all she spilt." I got up and walked in the garden a King Ahasuerus did to let my chola down, and I found where they had beer picking peas and broke the twine tha held the vine up--Ialwaysstick my pea with twine-and so Icame out of thegar den to let my cholar down somewhere else. Ilooked all 'round for the childret to give them a blessing, hut they had be come alarmed, for Mrs. Arp had told them to run and hide. "I'll wear then out" said I. "I'll wear them all out big and little, old and young, I'm awfu mad. I'm as mad as a mad bull. Broke down my pea vines!" and I mocked a bull and pawed dirt. The chaps hp' run up the ladder and got on the shed roof of the house anc asI pranced and bellowed around they smothered theii laughter until I was out of sight and then they turned loose in full chorus I found the buggy pulled out of the shed and the whip gone and the cal was tied up in the back lot with a saddle on, so I took my seat in the front piazza and put my feet on the railing and ruminated. My thought! carried me away back to my childhood when I took'deightin such things and the whole picture cama before me lik the turning of a kaliedescope. Wha1 a pity that folks can't always be as happy as when they are children. About this time Mrs. Arp came oul with a bu.ndle of stuff and remarked that she brough t home some pinks and chrysanthem~umis that mnst be planted out. "Are you doing anything?" said she."I am ruminating,"'said I, solemn. ly. "Well, you had better ruminat4 a,round for the gardin hoe, and I'll help you put them out-your back needs exercise." I was picking peas the other morning, md they were of the low kind, I had to bend over sniartly, and by and by when I tried to straighten up, I couldn'1 straighten. There was a bitch and a pain in my veins, the same old trouble [ had '-ce before when I worked in ,he water half a day damming up the aranch to make a wash hole for the bildren-so I hurried from the garden : the house half bent and made my isual fuss.for help and sympathy. I ias down for two days, and took medi :ine and chicken soup, and they put a ellydona plaster on my back as big as Sletter pad, and itis there yet, and I'm iot well by a long shot, 'but my folks cem to think Iam. If I get up and :reep to to town they put me to work is soon aslI get back. I used to have >oys of all sorts and sizes to wait upon ne and do my bedding, but they have il grown up.and left me but one, and ie is at school, and when he isn't he is >ff some where at baseball or tennis, or >icnicking around. I am the boy now -the waiting boy. I was ruminating,- but I found the ioe and dug around according to orders. Last night at the supper table Mrs. Arp remarked asi she was making the offee that to-day was another anniver ary. I thought she meant a oirthday, or they seem to come about once a veek in the family, and she always rants to make a little present of some ort-a spoon or napkin ring or sleeve iuttons, or something. I tell you what s a fact-where there are ten or a dozen bildren in a family to start on and hey grow up and get married and nultiply and replenish, and the poster ty keeps on getting "more thicker, nore denser," as Cabe says, and the naternal ancestor is a large-hearted roman, these birthday gifts and? redding presents will keep the old nan's surplus down as effectually as be Republican party keeps it down in he United States treasury. It is the asiest thing in thbe world. I never saw mother with a numerous flock of ~vely offspring but what she wanted big house and a bushel of money. My rife is always scratching around hunt ag up something for the children. She niminds me of ar. old hen with a brood f(young chickens, always a-clucking remind her of the old rooster who every now and then finds a bug or a worm o and makes a big fuss and calls up the little chicks, and just before they get there he gobbles it up himself. No, she didn't mean a birthday. She said that twenty-seven years ago to-day we were running from the foul invader e as fast as our good horse and a rock away could carry us. "Just about this time," said she, "we were hurrying across Euharlee bridge and I trembled all over for fear it would break in two, d for it vibrated up and down to old Buckner's heavy trot, but you never slackened up a bit, and we fairly flew l through old Van Wert, and took the a mountain road until we got to Mr. re "Yes," said I, "and we stayed all night there, and they did the best they could for all the runnagees, but they dident have room for the _men folks, and we siept outdoors under the wagon shed, and the fleas kept us so lively that we got up in the night and rup through the bushes to brush them of, just like cattle do when the flies are. after them." "And the next morning about day d light, "said she,"the news came that the yankees were coming, and we started up that long mountain, and it did seem would get to the to me or four top.' It must have . miles no, .nd we felt pretty ( and stopped awhile to rest, and then we scooted away to Dallas and restel there for dinner. and that night we r camped out somewhere near Powder e Springs. The wagon and our tent.and t baggage kept up pretty well, but we t found out we dident have anything to a cook in except a copper pot." a "Yes, I remember," said I, "and we I sent Tip off to a little farm house to borrow a skillet, and he came back without it and said the old woman told him the old man was washin, his feet in it, and we would have to wait until he got through. She said his feet had b sores on 'em, and the dishwater was powerful good for sores. Tip tried an other place and got a skillet that wasn't b so popular." "And next morning," said Mrs. Arp, l "we stopped to get some water at a house, and the well was in the yard, n and it was locked with.a chain and a padlock, and they wouldn't let us have a drop, and you gav the woman 10 cents for a cupful for the baby. Oh, it was just awful." "I believe," said I, "that we had about seven children then." "Yes," said she, with a sigh. "poor g little half-starved things." C "Why, they enjoyed' it," said 1 "They thought it was a big frolic, and that we were running a race with Joe Johnston, trying to see who would beat to Atlanta." "Stella was the baby-then," said my wife, looking at her earnestly, "a little I fretful, black-eyed baby, and now she is sitting here amother with achild of t her own that is so much like what she 2 was then that sometimes I imagine the E child ismine andlIam getting ready to 3 make a new run from the yankees." I "May the fowl invaders live long, P when the devil gets them," said I. I "They kept yoti trottinsg, and you bord G it like a heroine; you have seenia good deal of troublous life, and I'm thankful t< that now your days are calm and serene." BILL AuRP. J h The Third Party Drives Up. [New York Sun.] I am the Third Party ! n Git on to my styleo Will you ? And my trimmin's ! By gravy. f I don't wear no socks, p And my galluses is Fastened with a linchpin, But I'm cuttin' A wide swath t Right down the middle, U And they can't head i Me off; Nobow ! MebbelIam asort of A Farmers'-Alliance-Citizens' Alliance-Knights-of-Labor National-Industrial-Anti Monopoly-Single-Tax Prohibition-Woman-Suffrage Greenback-Free-Silver Potato-Currency-Socialistic Grand-Old-People's party, I But what iflIam? ? What are they goin' To doabout it ?' That's what ! That's what ! pl By zucks, I have come y To stay, n And no razor-back Democrat, n Nor slab-sided Republican, 1 Nor ring-nosed Mugwump 21 Kin root me out 'h I'm a forty-acre field,.l That you kin make anything on l From amorge To a bale of hay," With a wagon load fu Of dressin' throwed in, r And I don't give a durn Who knows it ! Ikin grub up astump, n In two shakes of a lamb's tail, e And the old politicalw Stumps has got to come, Ef I bust a britchin' Doin' of it ! N You hear me !. Mebbe my clo's don't fit, And my cow-leather brogans Hain't got no shine On to 'em, But that-won't stop Ther kickin ! And brains ain't F In that end rei Neither! s All the American Eaglef Has got to do in this business Is to set quiet on the fence . And watch my 0 Thrashin' machine go 6aD. When that oft mule' Gits done seatchi1MAL SEC H.isbackupat SE H and met4 jfl .arrington & McLbben St., KHWBRRY, S. C.U bDuring by absence Mr. Robley ice will have charge. $ Origin of the Dollar and the Dimes. [National Educator.] Mill from mile, a thousand, an im-' aginary money, being the one-thor. sandth part of a dollar, or the tenth of a cent. .ille is from the same roo mille passuum, originally a thousand paces. Cent, Latin, centum, a hun dred, the one-hundredth part of a dol lar. It is coined of an alloy of copper,, tin and zinc, and is at egal tender for the payment of sums not exceeding 25 eents. that is, you can not compel any. body to take more than 25 penniesin payment. Nickel, the Lve cent piece: so called because it is made of the met al nickel, which name is derived from - Nick or Nickolas, the copper of Nick a name given in derision, as it was thought to be a base ore of copper. Dime, from the French disme, which is from the Latin decimus, the tenth. The Dollar, from the German 1haler derived from Thal. a valley, from Jos r chimsthal in. Bohemia, where dollars were first coined in 1518. Gold coin are legal tenders for all sums;, the sil- " vei coins, except the dollar, only for sums not exceeding five dollars. The dollar sign ($) is not a mono-. = gram of "U. S.," but dates from the days when the transfer was made from Spanish to American dollars, and ac- 4 * were kept equally in dollars ~-one dolla " ed reals. e esnIs (Ameead-paish parellel ae dunts). Later the 8 was placed be ween the cancellation mark 181; then be perpendicular lines crossed the 8s nd finally the 8 shaded into an 8 ad, combined with the cancellatlon mue, evolved the present sign ($). This body will meet in the Washing )n Street Methodist church, Colum ia, on Thursday, June 11th, at 3.15, .m. The annual address will be delivered y Rev. Dr. William Grier, President' f the Association, and of Erskine Col ige, on Thursday evening. Friday sorning. and Probably in the after oon also, there will be a business ieeting to elect officers, hear reports 'om the city and county auniaries iroughout the State, and to discuss. - ractical. subjects connected with the urposes of the Bible Society. All the auxiliary societies in the tate are requested to.appoint dale-= ates to the .annual meeting of the tate Association, and to send up;feu ad carefully prepared reports of t -e rork and progress within the ear. The-following are the OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION: President, Rev. Dr. William Grier; mue West. Vice-Presidients-Ist Judicial Die ct, Rev. Dr. E. T. Horn, ChadJeson1 . d, Hon. D. S. Henderson, Aiken; 3d, [on. T. B. Frazer, Sumter; 4th, Hoea. V. D. Johnson, Marion; 5th, Ron. W. L Lyles, Columbia; 6th, H.n. G. J. atterson, Chester; 7th, CoL S. H aice, Union; 8th, Prof. J. R. Blake, ~ reen wood. Secreary, Dr- John Forest, Charles. Executive Committee.-Rev. Prof n'~ Win. Flynn, (Pree.), .Columhlan ev. W. C. Lindsay, (Bapt.), Colum la; Rev. 0. A. Darby, .(Meth.),. Co. Lmbla; Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D., Epis.), Columbia; Rev. E. A. Wing ed, (Luth.), Columbia. The Association meets annually, Ita 'embership consista of all the officers the several auxiliary and branch so eties in the State (who shalbeez.of ,io members and entitled to all.the rivileges of the same) together wit wo representatives from each of said? icieties, and any officers or colpor urs of the American Bible Society ho may be laboring in South Caro Dr. Gnxer as Annual Orator is a most - ise a,d happy selection and a full teeting is anticipated. -Demorsst Nagaiue. "Health,. Grace, Beauty: Delsarte bilosophy made Practical," is pub ihed (with 23 illustrations) in -the me number of that thoroughly wide wake periodical, Demorest's Family , :agazine;and you will want to begin acticing the exercises almost before >u finish the reading. And that is at all you wiH learn from this especial br-ight number; all (ladles included) . ay learn "How to Harness and Un arness a Horse;" even children can arn from "Foes Afield" how to know ~ >Isonous plants when tbey see them; 3igns of Character in the Face" (very Ily illustrated) will teach you how tr' ad your friends' characters by their ~~ ses; and "China Painting for Begin irs" will give you all the points nec sary to do that artistic work, and- - ithout a master. $2 a year, by W nnings Demorest, 15 East 14th St., - ew York. With health and beauty laden, A rich and priceless thing. To woman, pale and wastr precous gi ftJ woa',d Mean vorite Pr' Mt We Say. )ME AT ONCE (JRPE THE BAR?GAI ?fore It Is Too lio Keni ePoor Man's Frient