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t emem) aii b ESTABLISHED 1865. _ NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1891. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR THE COB-PIPE. A TALE OF THE COMET OF '43. II.-THE PIPE. BY DR. 0. B. MAYER, SB. The comet continued night after night to excite the wonder and specu lations of the people. Yetta Elfins told her father, with an air of indifference calculated to impress the reader with horror after the developments just elicited, that in her opinion it was a sign "somebody was plottin' 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 warnin'. Oh, daddy, take my adwice, 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 a while the old man was amazed; but at length recovering his austerity he cried: "WTat de teffie ails de gal? Is she beside herself ? Wat did you tream, you hussy?" "Wy, daddy, I dreamt dat de pigeon house fell down," replied Yetta, seri ously. "Wat!" exclaimed Mr. Elfins in a tone of voice not unlike a blow upon the bottom of a tin pan, at the same time planting his walking stick firmly before him, while rage twinkled in his eyes as he discovered that so alarming a prophecy rested only upon an insig nificant dream. "Jess as sure, daddy, as you stand dare," answered Yetta, gesticulating vehemently with her head and out spread hands, "jess as sure as you stand dare, I dreamt de pigeon house fell down, I dreamt it t'ree nights, and I know it meant dat dis here school master-" "Shtop! you goot-for-nottin' hussy. Dis is some voolish teffelment wat Apram Priester has bin a wisperin' to you; aud"-here the old man advanced towards Yetta with his stick elevated, not, however, to chastise her, but merely to illustrate his concluding.sen tence,-"ef I ever git widin reach of him, I'll preak his rashkally bead." - "Ah, daddy," cried Yetta, "Abram once turned some strange cattle out o' yoir-" "It's a tam lie!" snarled the old man. "And," continued the distressed damsel, "Abram stopped de holes in mammy's garden, so dat de rabbits-" "It's anodder tam lie!t' growled her obstinate father. "Ah, well," sighed the poor girl, "I see you will not take warnin'." "Well, now, kin you tell me wid all your treams wat goot it would do Mr. Purns to kill me?" enquired her father, with great reason. "Wy daddy, surely you and mammy ricollicks wen dis here schoolmaster told us long time ago 'bout one Mister -Guy Fawks wat blow'd up wid five hundret parrels of gunpowder a whole houseful of peoples in de olt countries on account of de Roman Catolicks?" questioned his daug;hter with almost a Sibylline scream. "Yes, py ching, I remempers it well enoug" replied the old man, much confused by the an.dacity of his dangh ter's insinuations, "I rememper's very well all apout wat he said, but I can't see ennyting in it." '"A b, daddy, you will see wen it's too late," said she. As Yetta left her father she muttered to hereelf through her compressed lips: "Yes, yes, I see it muss be done: I'll have to blow daddy up with gunpow der. Il do it sure." Foolish girl! Will you provoke me to make Abram Priester's execution, and likewise your own, the denoument of this story? Late one evening A bram Priester was cantering along the road leading to his father's house from the direction of Mr. Ellins'. It was Friday evening, and Samuel Burns had dismissed his school s >mewhat earlier than usual. He had all day, much to the neglect of his duties,. been trying his band upon a work of art,--a piece of carving with the blade of his pocket knife. Having finished it to his liking, 1he dismissed the p.hIl@en.to their respective homes, and betook himself towards Mr. Eltins' where he was invited by the old folks to spend the night. Abram Priester oastered swiftly on his way. His con tracted brows and the almost convul slve clutch with which he grasped his br:dle-reins z'howed that thoughts of an unpleasant nature were agitating his mind. An abrupt turn in the road brought him suddenly into a large old field, and he wyas nea;ly thrown from hips horse by the animal's darting to o.ne side with a loud snort. Recover ing himself. he saw advancing towards him the figure of a man tidily dressed, and holding in' his hand something ,which A bram's keen eye easily discov ered to be a pipe "fantastically carved" out of a red cob, and having attached to it a stem of unusual length. Alas, 1his perceptive powers went further than this pipe. In the rapidly increas. Ing gloom of the twilight he neverthe less recognized in the person before him, - Mr. Samuel Burns; and his evil angel caused the blood which his heart at 'that moment distributed through his. "Good evening to you, Mr. Priester," c said Samuel Burns, with studied pre- n eision, as if he was afraid of pronounc- t ing a word wrong; "I see you are com- p ing from the direc';,,: of Mr. Elfins'; tl are his people all at home?" tA "Look here, Samuel Burns," answer- ti ed Abram, "don't aggrawate me jess a uow; for I feel dat dare's danger iu me. b You know very well dat I don't go to it 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 h my hoss agin, I'll beat your nose so fiat 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- a ing opportunity to pick a quarrel with p me. In your hands, I know I would be as powerless as a 'lamb under the a teeth of a wolf. By the by, Mr. Fries- y ter, did you ever read Esop's Fables?" n "No, durn your imperdence!" yelled 1 Abram, his blood growing blacker and A blacker. s "Oh but you must read them; for they are most excellent. There's one of them, Mr. Priester, I would particu larly advise you to read. It is entitled the wolf and the lamb. You see, sir, the wolf sought for an opportunity to raise a quairel with the lamb so that he might li devour hin,. So one day they were drinking from the same rivulet, and the wolf accused the lamb of muddying the s water. 'That can't be, sir,' said the lamb, 'because the water flows from s you to me.' At that the wolf tore the ' lamb to pieces, not because the poor n creature muddied the water, but be cause he aggravated one more powei-fulI than himself." "Samuel Burns," continued Abram, v "You'll go on a foolin' wid me, ontil there'll be trouble when you ain't ex- Y pectin' of it. Did you git the letter I writ to you yisterday, givin' you I warnin'?" "Oh yes, I received it, Mr. Priester," replied Burns", ha,ha, ha, it was a fine Y piece .of composition. Why, Abram, k you ought to come to school to me. I Y could teach you in two months how to write a better letter than that. You s surely do not venture to write to the b girls? They would all laugh at you." At this Abram writhed in his saddle and made a movement to dismount, in f order to wreak vengeance upon the man who was, as he thought, making sport of him. His good angel, how- c ever, came to his help and changed the 7 color of his blood back to the clear t crimson of forbearance. In a moment t be resolved to smother his rage, and g urging his horse onward he disappeared t from his accomplished rival. Though t scarcely had he lost sight of him when his blood began to grow black again, as f he reflected upon the man's meanness i in importuning a young woman to marry him upon the strength of his ~ having the good will ot her parents. He turned his horse round suddenly in C the resolution to rush back, and with out waste of words, inflict upon the f person of Samuel Burns condign pun- 5 ishment. The fable of The Wolf and the Lamb was all that saved the un suspecting pedagogue. f Regaining his composure, Abram 1 threw the reins upon the animal's neck, a and sank into a deep reverie. At Length he began to soliloquize. "I ought to take courage," said he, a "for dat same cob-pipe is gwine to be his ruination. I 'clare, though, it's too bad. I could make Mr. Elfins a bushel of sich, and better; but it would be of d no use. WVen people git so old dat dey ai.n't got no more sense; but inns keep t on a bodderin and a interfeerin' wid 3 wat dey ain't got dle feelins to under stand, nor to ricollect ennythin' about; but must keep on a bodderin young folks wat has got to step in deir shoes, and -and-a-take deir places, wy, I-I. b [-I-"while stammering away at this s personal pronoun, he had gradually, b while standing up high in his stirrups, raised his fist high above his head, and, bringing it down with violence upon bhe pommel of his saddle, exclaimed, -r I-I'll be durn'd ef it wouldn't be right o put 'em out ot de way!" Beware, Abram Priester, beware! The schoolmaster proceeded trium phantly on his way, and in a half hour fi knocked at the door of Mr. Elfins. He 1 was received with great distinction by t] he old man and his wife. The pipe t: was offered and accepted with thanks t: xpressed, Yetta, who was in an ad- I joining room preparing the table for P the evening meal, recognized the voice e f the visitor; and in an agony of dis- 9 satisfaction petulantly seized the P fre-poker and inflicted a cruel blow upon a venerable tom cat who was purring good-naturedly by the fire. d "Dare's dat schoolmaster agin," she b xclaimed,-"dat ugly, yaller-eyed, i pinty-nosed feller, wat daddy wants mue to arry. Now, ain't it a sin r.id a shame? Goodness gracious! wat sort of a life would I lead wid him? I won't ave him! I won't! I won't! I won't!" ~ At each asseveration she twisted her pretty shoulders from aide to side, and ~ tossed her head and kicked the burn ing chunks in a manner ludicrously Lovely. To show how such epithets, used by an irritated maIden like Yetta, illus- r trate the injustice which so gentle a pas- d sion like love can inflict upon persons opposing its smooth course, I must say 1, that Samuel Burns was really quite a t handsome young man. His teeth were e regular and whbite, and he was well exer. cised in the ex pressions that bring them ~ in view; his eyes were brown and full of I ian; and his well-pomatumed hair lay' i trained curls about his brow and mples like unanswered interrogation C oints. Nevertheless, what could all 3is do in the presence of Ab:am Pries :r's stalwart stature, flowing hair, and -ue blue eye that retained Yetta's imu ge faithfully from one day's seeing c er to another, except when it changed r self to a dream on every intervening ii ight. s The old cat, unable to sati.fy him- g lf as to what crime he had committed, w fter loading the night air with his 3 mentations, ventured to approach his d oung mistress, and rub his head under a er foot. Yetta looked down upon d im, and felt sorry for what she had n one. A bright tear stole out of her e ye, and picking up her pet she pressed n im to her bosom, while he rubbed his t: beek against her neck, and played b -ith a ringlet that hung over her tem- p le. Ah, Yetta, that looks well. There is spark of goodness. yet remaining in tl our heart. Come, now, do not let us o iurder your old father,-he is de- S ided; but rather let us elope with n bram Priester. and save our con- a :iences from the pangs of quilt! "Yetta!" 1 "Wat, mammy!" is "Is supper ready?" 0 "Yes, ma'am." 'I Mrs. Elfins, follow'ed by Mr. Samuel s ,urns and her husband, entered the a ttle room, where supper had been set. o "Why, good evening to you Miss v [enrietta, a pleasant time to you," q aid Mr. Burns. "My name ain't Henrietta," an- tl wered the incensed maiden, "it's plain a etta; and it ain't a pleasat time to me uther." - a "Is that the way you talk to Mr. ,urns?" asked Mrs. Elfins, chidingly. tl But youi musn't mind her, sir, she is p ery young yit." n "It's no sich a thing;-I ain't i< oung," muttered Yetta, undutifully. G My aige is sot down in de Bible; and v was twenty years old last Easter li fonday." y "Well, now, hussy! will you hold r our tongue? I reckin' I ought to s1 .now wen you was born. Whar's a our sister Effie."0 "She's got skeer'd at dat ting in de s ky, and is crept into de bed, wid her t ead all kiver'd up." 'I "Ah, Mr. Burns," began Mr. Elfins, a tell us 'bout dis comit,-wat's de dif- o rence 'twixt 'clipse and a comit." - y "Why, Mr. Elfins," answered Mr. p ,urns, straightening himself didacti- p ally, "the difference is simply this: a lnmanick makers, or 'stronomers, as e hey are sometimes called, can tell to c he very minute when an eeclipse is i; oin' to happen; but, to save them, e hey can't tell when a comet is going tl , appear." p "Well," cried Mrs. Elfins, 'it's a aw l sai-cumstanc3; and we ought to take r more to heart dan we do." "I 'clare," cried Yetta, shrugging si er shoulders and pouting, "I wish ~would go away. I can't go to sleep c n account of it." t: "You foolish gal, you," said Mrs. El- f< ns, upbraidingly, "ain't you got your ~ster Effie to sleep wid you?" "Yes," exclaimed Yetta, "but wat g in me and t-ister Effie do agin a fright- o il comit--a dreadful fiery dragon wat eked out its tongue at Mark Moyer, y~ nd tried to run its sting trough him." o "I suppose," remarked Mr. Elfins, r rastically, "dat you wouldn't pe fear'd if Abram Priester-"v "Oh, daddy, 'lo hush!" exclaimed o "It's a warnin' agin a'll ondutiful chil- t< ren," said the old man. t: "No; it's more likely a sign dat some- n in' dreadful is a goin' to happen to e o, daddy,"c Yetta! 1 [TO BE CONTINUED.] D t Fret not your life away because your air is -gray, while young, as you can r top all grayness and can beautify the air with Hall's Hair Renewer and be appy.f "ALL HAZARDS." he Governor says the Fameus Jones Case Must Come to Trial.t . - - e [Columbia Record, 27th.] 1 The Governor has received a letter t om Solicitor Nelson telling him that a is exceedingly difficult to get all the s irty-four witnesses for the State in t he celebrated Jones case to attend the v rial, as the venue being changed from y dgefeld to Lexington, the fifty cents p er diem allowed would not pay their i penses. The Solicitor made thc re- t uest that the Governor pay the ex- 1 enses out of his contingent fund. s The Governor has replied, saying I at he will do so, with the express un- o erstanding that the Solicitor will ring the case to trial at any and all azards. boy stood on the burning deck, Unwisely, too, 'tis said, 'or, with the fast approaching fiame, His elders quickly fied. ,, many now in peril stand, Unmindful of their fate, 'ill, step by step, Grim Death conmes on a And then, alas too late ! 'ar wiser, surely, would it seem, When his approach we see, Vith "Pierce's Pellets" well in hand x To vanquish old "*G. D."e Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have re arkable power to correct all physical erangement, thus warding oft disease I bat will surely follow. Purely vege- t able, pleasant to take, perfectly harm ass ! With a little forethought, they'll e a present help in time of need beating the doctor and robbing the ;rave As a Liver Pill, they are un qualed. Smallest, cheapest, easiest to ake. One a dose as a laxative, three orC ur as cathartic. Tiny, sugar-coated I TALK ABOUT THE NEW PARTY. arlisle Asks Some Conundrums the Lead ers Can't Answer-A Delegation Call on Him and His Remarks Make Them Thoughtful. CINCINNATI, May 21.-The men who reated a new party yesterday are al :ady busy with plans for nursing the ifant. They will feed it right off with )lid food, and they'll take care that it ets no soothing syrup. If it doesn't alk with League boots before next ,ovember its nurses will be much isappointed. No infantile maladies re feared, not even the often fatal angers of the second summer. The en and women, who, in a frenzy of thusiasm, rocked the cradle of the ew born baby yesterday until the poor hing's life was imperilled, are to-day ragging about the youngster's good oints with all the pride of parents ith their first born. In their great delight some of them ought it would be a good idea to go ver the river into Kentucky and asked enator Carlisle what he thought of the ew baby. They did so and they met ith a cordini reception. Some of the Vestern delegates have rather a kind feeling for Carlisle. They believe he i an honest man and they wanted his pinion of the revolt they are leading. 'hey talked with the Senator about me of their pet projects and asked that he thought of them. Government wnership of railroads and telegraphs ,as brought up and Mr. Carlisle turned uestion er. "Do you propose to get possession of 2ese properties by confiscation ?" he sked them. "No, that wouldil't be fair," they dmitted. "Then you must buy them," was ie reply, "and to buy them you must ay for them, and to pay for them you lust tax yourselves. Have you any lea how much it would cost? Our 'overnment debt at the close of the rar was more than two thousand mil ons, and we have been almost thirty ears in paying half of it. The rail ads, telegraphs, telephone lines and ;eamboats in the country represent bout $10,000,000 invested capital; 44, )0,000,000 is bonded indebtedness rhich must be paid. Are you ready to ix yourselves to raise this money? 'hen, after you have got the property, re you ready to tax yourselves to perate it, for the Government never et succeeded in doing business at a rofit? Consider another effect; such a Ian would add- perhaps 1,200,00&men nd women to the roll of Government mployees. How would you ever suc eed in turning out of poweran admin itration with such resources at its ammand? The more corrupt it was Le more difficult it would be to dis lace." The delegation looked dubious and erplexed, for the questions and sug estions were evidently all new to their iguine and enthusiastic minds. "Anyhow," broke in one of them, banging the subject, "don't you think Le money power Is getting into too sw hands?" "Yes, I admit it is a bad sign," re lied Mr. Carlisle. "But how are you oing to remedy it? By a revolution r by an act of Legislature? Do you ropose to say by your Legislature that hen a man has earned $100 or $1,000 r $10,000 that he shall not earn any iore ?" Again there was no response. The isitors nresented two or three more f th grievances which form the basis f their platform, and Mr. Carlisle sted first one and, then the other with Le question: "How can they be re 1edied by legislation ?" And no practi al answer was suggested. The fathers f the new party went away with the lea that, after all, the political mille ium might not be as near at hand as buey had imagined it to be. Mr. Carlisle sees in the new party no aenace to the Democraoy. He does not uestion the present intention of the ~aders to put a third party ticket in the eld next year. But he believes the ituation will so change 'in the mean ime that the project will be abandoned. f the new party is iun the field, disaster the Republicans would be the only fect. In his own State, Mfi. Carlisle elieves the Alliance State ticket no uinated last night will receive only bout 3,000 votes unless there should be ame combination with Republicans in be cities. Commenting on the uni ersal opinion among those who formed esterday's Convention that the Re ublican party has about reached a grave, and that with the present urn of events the chances of success in 392 have disappeared, Mr. Carlisle iid that several Republican Senators .ad recently expressed to him the same pinion in Washington. CHARLEsTON'S REGISTRATION. ,us Than Pour Thousand Votes and the Colored Registration Very Light. (Special to Greenville News.] CHARLESToN, May :33.--The books f registration for the city, county and state elections were closed to-day with total registration of 3,985 votes, a ttle less than one-half the estimated oting strength of the city. Of this umber not over two-thirds are regist red on the democratic club rolls. There 3no' way of getting the number of egroes who have registered, but it is hought they will not exceed 5"0. No Danger or War. [Frmi the Minneapolis Tribune.] It costs $8500 to fire a shot from one if the Italian iron-clads. It would ake about seven shots to throw the COOSAW SCORES ANOTHER POINT. The State Knocked Out by Judge Norten, l 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 c 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 pio ceed no further in the action. It is agreed that it is, if a federal question is involved, which must be determined by this court for itself." "Defendants in their petition allege that they have a perpetual lease from the State, the plaintiff here, for certain property, (a contract), and that the State claims to reserve possession of said property by virtue of an act of her a Legislature, which is void, because it impairs the obligation of its lease (con tract)." t "Plaintiffs object, first, that it relies on the invalidity of the lease, and not its repeal; second, that the test under K the act of 1887 is whether, if its com plaint had been filed in the United States circuit court, that court could have retained jurisdiction against the wish of the defendants. In the act of a 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- d 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 e does not do so. It is therefore the duty t of the court to accept the said petition and bond and proceed no further here in." "Wherefore, it is ordered, adjudged 0 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 Caroli- r na, and the bond therewith filed, be, and the same are hereby, accepted, 1 and that this court do proceed no fur ther in this suit." "J. J. NoRTON, Presiding Judge." What Is a Billion Dollars. 8 The Mercantile and Financial Times has taken the trouble to give a detailed account of what is meant by the state ment that the last congress expended $1,000,000,000, This a round sum and I a large one, but it is so easily said that the words which express it do not convey to the mind any adequate idea of the vastness of the amount. For this reason, the Times picks it to pieces and presents it in various lights. I Exclusive of interest-$1,000,00,000O -the amount which the Republican Congress has expended, would give 5,481 families of four persons $70 a week I for fifty years. If loaned out a. 6 per cent. it would give a return of $60, I 000,000 a year. One billion dollars in silver would weigh nearly 50,000,000 pounds. It would buy gowns for all the wo men in this civilized world and shoes for 50,000,000 homeless children. It would pay for th.e education of 250,000 I children from the kindergarten through college, and a city lot apiece for 50,- 1 000,000 persons.1 If a man with this immense sum de sired to throw it away $1 at a time, he would be in.trouble. His task would 1 keep him busy 428 years. If he were to attempt to burn $1,000,000,00Q0 in paper money, $2 at a time, he would 1 complete his taa.c, by working night and day, at the end of 12,840 years. These figures show what the Reed and Harrison Congress has done for the taxpapers. Soaped the Horn. In the old days of camp meetings a horn was blown to wake the congrega tion in the morning. The instrument hung near ,,he stand, and was generally . sounded by some of the reverend brethren. Of course, a camp meeting is a great3 place for practical jokes, and one to this effect was played on a brother at< Bear Spring before the war. A rascally fellow filled the horn with soft soap. Brother A and B went down to the arbor soon in the morning to sound the horn. Brother A took it, and standing in front of Brotheri B, proceeded to blow a blast. Of course, Brother B's slick face was sicklied all over with the pale coat of1 soft soap. As soon as he could pre vent strangulation, he spoke out some thing to this effect: "I have been a Methodist preacher for fifty-five years. In all that time I have never sworn an oath but I'll just be conessentially smothered if I can't whip the fellow that soaped that horn." The vocai ,. .ans are strengthened by the use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Clergymen, lawyers, singers, actors, and public speakers find this prepara tion the most effective remedy for irri tation and weakness of the throat and lungs, and for all affections of the vocal organs. Straw Hats in latest;styles and end THE CANDY-PULLING. till Arp Finds Candy Everywhere-Even Sits Down Upon a Piece-Mrs. Arp Glories in Pleasing the Little IOnes. [Atlanta Constitution.] "What's all this rumpus about?" I ame home to dinner and found the Louse full and yard full of children randchildren and other children. "Oh, othing much," said Mrs. Arp. "I romised them a little party and they ave come over to spend the day, and ,nd brought some little friends with bem." "Well, but these door-knobs are all tuck up with candy. "Yes, they had a andy-pulling, and, I expect, have aessed up things just like children rill. I will wipe of the door-knobs. nobs." "Well, but there I've gone and set own on a lump of it in this chair." Mrs. Arp smiled and said: "Well, here's the washboard and a rag." I meandered out in the piazza, and >und candy knee deep in everything. 'he chaps were in the backyard cook 3g dinner on a little brick furnace they ad built. Some were toting water and )me bringing wood, and they.had otatoes and rice and eggs and butter nd pepper and everyting they could eg from the cook. The waterspout was inning all over everything. I stopped hat part of it and surrendered to the est, and retired to my accustomed seat t my desk. "Who has been here projecting with iy pens and letter pads, and turned ver my inkstand and messed up my apers?" "Oh, I don't reckon they have hurt nything. Rosa wanted to show me ow she was learning to write. There ras very little ink in the stand. I riped off all she spilt." I got up and walked in the garden as EiDg Ahasuerus did to let my cholar own, and I found where they had been icking peas and broke the twine that eld the vine up-Ialwaysstick my peas rith twine--and so Icame out of the gar en to let my cholar down somewhere Ise. I looked all 'round for the children give them a blessing, butthey had be Dme alarmed, for Mrs. Arp had told bem to run and hide. "Il wear them ut" said I. "I'll wear them all out, ig and little, old and young, I'm awful iad. I'm as mad as a mad bull. Broke own my pea vines!" and I mocked a ull and pawed dirt. The chaps had un up the ladder and got on the shed of of the house and as I pranced and ellowed around they smothered their ughter until I was out of sight and ben they turned loose in full chorus. found the buggy pulled out of the bed and the whip gone and the calf vas tied up in the back lot with a addle on, so I took my seat in the ront piazza and put my feet on the ailing and ruminated. My thoughts arried me away back to my childhood vhen I took delight in such things and he whole picture came before me like he turning of a kaliedescope. What Spity that folks can't always be as iappy as when they are children. tout this time Mrs. Arp came out ith a bundle of stuff and remarked hat she brought home some pinks and hrysanthemums that mnst be planted >ut. "Are you doing anything?" said he. "I am ruminating,''said I, solemn y. "Well, you had better ruminate ground for the gardin hoe, and I'll elp you put them out-your back ueeds exercise." I was picking peas the other morning, nd they were of the low kind,. I had o bend over' smartly, and by and by hen I tried to straighiten up, I couldn't traighten. There wais a hitch and a ain in my veins, the same old trouble had once before when I worked in he water hailf a day damming up the ranch to make a wash hole for 'the :hildren-so I hurried from the garden o the house half bent and made my isual fuss foi- help and sympathy. I vas down for two days, and took medi ie and chicken soup. and they put a >ellydona plaster on my back as big as letter pad, and it is there yet, and I'm ot well by a long shot, but my folks eem to think I am. If I get up and :reep to to town they put me to work asoon as I get back. IJused to have oys of all sorts and sizes to wait upon ne and do my bedding, but they have ll 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 oe and dug around according to orders. ast night at the supper table Mrs. rp remarked as 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 ieek in the family, and she always vants to make a little present of some ort-a spoon or napkin ring or sleeve >uttons, or something. I tell you what s a fact-where there are ten or a dozen >hildren in a faimily to start on and hey grow up and get married and nultiply and replenish, and the poster ty keeps on getting "more thicker, ore denser," as Cabe says, and the naternal ancestor is a large-hearted woman, these birthday gifts and vedding presents will keep the old nan's surplus down as effectually as he Republican party keeps it down in he United States treasury. It is the ~asiest thing ini thbe world. I never saw mother with a numerous flock of ovely offspring but what she wanted big house and a bushel-of money. My wife is always scratching around hunt ng up something for the children. She -eminds me of an old hen with a brood >f young chickens, always a-elncking remind her of the old rooster who every now and then finds a bug or a worm 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 f said that twenty-:.even years ago to-day we were running from the foul invader 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, t for it vibrated up. and down to old t Buckner's heavy trot, but you never slackened up a bit, and we fairly flew through old Van Wert, and too'- the mountain road until we got to Mr. 9 "Yes," said I, "and we stayed all a night there, and they did the best they 1 could for all the runnagees, Lit they s dident have room for the men folks. t and we slept outdoors under the wagon shed, and the fleas kept us so lively that we got up in the night and run through the bushes -to brush them off, just like cattle do when the flies are after them." "And the next morning about day light,"said she,"the news came that the yankees were coming, and we started up that long mountain, and it did seem to me that we never would get to the a top. It must have been three or four d miles up, and we felt pretty safe then E and stopped awhile to rest, and then c we scooted away to Dallas and rested a there for dinner. and that night we r camped out somewhere. near Powder c Springs. The wagon and our tent and t baggage kept up pretty well, but we t found out we dident have anything to cook in except a copper pot." "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 t he got through. She said his feet had sores on 'em, and the dishwater was powerful good for sores. Tip tried an ot her place and got a skillet that wasn't so popular." "And next morning," said Mrs. Arp, "we stopped to get some water at a house, and the well was in the yard, and it was locked with.a chain and a padlock, and they wouldn't let us f have a drop, and you gave 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 little half-starved things." "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 fretful, black-eyed baby, and now she is sitting here a mother with a child of her own that is so much like what she was then that sometimes I imagine the] child is mine and I am Aetting ready to make a new run from the yankees." "May the :fowl invaders live long, when the devil gets them," said I. "They kept you trottitsg, and. you bore it like a heroine; you have seena good deal of troublous life, and P'm thankful that now your~ days are calm and serene." BILL ABP. The TMrd Party Drives Up. [New York Sun.] I am the Third Party ! Git on to my style Will you ? And my trinimin's ! By gravy. I don't wear no socks,j And my galluses is. Fastened with a linehpin, But I'm cuttin' A wide swath Right down the middle, And they can't head Me off, Nobow ! Mebbe I am a sort of A Farnmers'-Ailiance-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, But what if Ilam? What are they gaid To do about it? That's what ! That's what ! By zucks, I have come To stay, A d-no razor-back Democrat, r slab-sided Republican,. .hor ring-nosed Mugwump Kin root me out ! I'm a forty-acre field, That you kin mrke anything on From a mortgage To a bale of hay, With a wagon load Of dressin' throwed in, And I don't give a durn Who knows it ! Ikin grub up astump, In two shakes of a lamb's tail, And the old political . Stumps has got to come, Ef I bust a britchin' Doin' of it ! You hear me ! Mebbe my cdo'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 In that end Neither ! All the American Eagle Has got to do in this business 4 Is to set quiet on the fence And watch my Thrashin' machine go When that oft mule Gits done scatchini' His back up agin the fence ! Hand me that whip ! Gimme them lines ! Now ! ! Wo-haw ! Jeewhillikins. $ Origin of the Dollar and the Dimes. [National'Educator.] Mill from mille, a thousand, an im Lginary money, being the one-thou andth part of a dollar, or the tenth of cent. Mille is from the same root, nille passuum, originally a thousand >aces. Cent, Latin, centum, a hun lred, the one-hundredth part of a dol ar. It is coined of an alloy of copper, in and zinc, and is at egal tender for he payment of sums not exceeding 25 ents, that is, you can not compel any >ody to take more than 25 pennies in ayment. Nickel, the five cent piece, o called because it is made of the met a nickel, which name is derived from ick or Nickolas, the copper of Nick. name given in derision, as it was hought to be a base ore of copper. -: )ime, from the French disme, which i from the Latin decimus, the tenth. C'he Dollar, from the German 7haker, lerived from Thal, a valley, from Jo himsthal in Bohemia, where dollars vere first coined in 1518. Gold coins xe legal tenders for all sums; the sil 'er coins, except tie dollar, only for , ums not exceeding five dollars. The dolar sign ($) is not a mono ram of "U. S.," but dates from 'the lays when the transfer was made from >panish to American dolars, and ae ounts were kept equally in dclars ad reals. Thus: one dollar y eight eals (American and Spaish parellel ae ounts). Later the 8 was placed be ween the cancellation mark 181; then he perpendicular lines crossed the 8, nd finally the 8 shaded into an S,. nd, combined with the cancellation ne, evolved the present sign ($). South Carolina Bible Association.. This body will meet in the Washing. on 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 ege, on Thursday evening. Fria norning and probably in the after. toon also, there will be a business neeting to elect officers, hear reporta rom the city and county auxiliaries hroughout the State, and to discuss )ractical. subjects connected withthe murposes of the Bible Society. All the auxiliary societies in the state are requested to appoint dee rates to the annual meeting of the state Association, and to send up fla. md carefully prepared reports of their-. work and progress within the pad rear. The following are the OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION: President, Rev. Dr. William Grier, Due West. Vice-Presidents-ist Judicial Die ~ret, Rev. Dr. E. T. Horn, Charleston; kd, Hon. D. S. Henderson, Aiken; 3d, B?on. T. B. Frazer, Sumter; 4th, Hon. WX. D. Johnson, Marion; 5th, Hon' W. El. Lyles, Columbia; 6th, Hon. 0.3J Patterson, Chester; 7th, CoL. S. M Rice, Union; 8th, Prof. J. B. Blake, 3reenwood. Secretary, Dr- John Forest, Charles Executive Committee.-Rev. Prof. JT. Win. Flynn, (Pres.), Columbia; Rev.-W. C. Lindsay, (Bapt.), Colum bia; Rev. 0. A. Darby, (Meth.), Co umbia; Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D., Epis.), Columbia; Rev. E. A. Wing trd, (Luth.), Columbia. The Association meets annually, its nembership consists of all the offBers f the several auxiliary and branch so :ieties in the State (who shall be cr qf feio members and entitled to all the privileges of the same) together with two representatives from each of said societies, and any officers or colpor Manrs of the American Bible Society who may be laboring in South Caro [in. Dr. Grier as Annual Orator is a most wise and happy selection and A fall meeting is anticipated. Dmereet Nar-zia. "Health, Grace, Beauty: Delsarte Philosophy made Practical," is pub [ished (with 23 illustrations) in the June number of that thoroughly wide swake periodical, Demorest's Family' Kfagazine; and you will want to began practicing the exercises almost before you finish the reading. And that is not all you will learn from this especial ly bright number; all (ladies included) may learn "How to Harness and Un barness a Horse;" even children can learn from "Foes Afield" how to know poisonous plants when tbey see them, "Signs of Character in the Face" (very rully illustrated) will teach you how to read your friends' characters by their - noses; and "China Painting for Begin ners" will give you all the points nee msary to do that artistic work, and - without a master. $2 a year, by W. Jennings Demorest, 15 East 14th St., N?ew York. With health and beauty laden,I A rich and priceless thing, To woman, pale and wasted, My precious giftlI bring. Such the object and such the missio'r f woman's valued friend, Dr. Pierce's Eavorite Prescription. Don't let.un -easonable prejudice prevent you from I haring the health and beauty prof ~ered, in good faith, by thinost ex- -i ~ellent! 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