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, .-,y- V.' !/??>- S*- ^ Jf^r BY ^ 6K /<i?M>-viUeer \wm s1 wy y.y. <& ?. 5r^ x J \v V; " Incline T IPKfe-Hf phin >, tha ' . spotless .t! />, soften the he the frozen w; \rffj$\[Jn&\\ thc dans?r?i Jr t MJf^ 11 by the way f*cnt]e ccld s ji tV \' sti abandons his \ >->f^ God's thron ^i^Wks - pnycr! Lo life;f:nd ou Mijr-| sprung from jWy ' J ' TM S2? fragrant mou /Wri 'mmSi God, that, w ' r V fc il??.' '111, the Lord, the , M|X M Ji'iv, welcome hi. ,\i r-\?'4?i ?k?cro-.vns >y t'on l^'c '' i \ fi Ji' glorious peai If ff AN EASTER 11 V IDEA OF 7, '? MARGERY'S. 1$ A,WK1SV LKX'! ' NOX rau down: 1 piazza. hnttonini: |iL ^ [\/\ ^ ? her jaekot as she ! J /jL% C wenl. l'atsy. lier ^ little fox terrier. - . ~ . -N r * hearing the bang ci'1 < of tlie front door. I rushed around] the of the house to join it is lit "le i)ii<ir. *s. ami lugcuiei iu*-.? ?? " Jh- corner of the avenue. "Now. I'aisy. dear, yon must go back. Y< i ought to lie thankful that I'liti go Uu k. instead of having' to >it i' .1 stuffy old schoolroom all . ornii-g. when it's so beautiful out- i loo; >. ?Jo. tluit a good doggie!" And ! I*ai>\ turned baek obediently, if a little n In tantly. and was soon dash- j tig alnon the wet lawn with one of Margery s old rubbers for a playt'el- | ?ow. Mart \v went skipping on to school i rejoicing in the enticing beauty of the ' April morning. It seemed to her that the grass- ,t]ul t- bursting leafbuds oil lite shrubbery fairly laughed as she jtassed thotn. and. as for the robbins | and bluebirds, they were actually hiliriotis : [ their joy that spring nad ; oiin . The people she met seemed tin- j usually pleasant looking until sac aim '< vvht re Central alley met the street. .'. ist as siie reached it three boy . nis-iied out. almost colliding with her a> :i:.y ran. and looking over their should, s ;t> jf they e.\peeted some one were N .it wing. Margery checked hersell to avoid them and then looketl ill the direction from which they had on.". "They've been teasing old Mrs. l.a;.<y." she thought, and sure enough, the old woman stood in her door slia!;in 11^t at tln> receding boys. While A!:ii> paused the dirty. disheveled old creature stooped and picked tip n battered :in can in which ;i sickly geranium had been growing. With trcmb1 i p i; lingers she tried t<> straight en the plan;, and it fell over the edge of the pail ; tain, and .Margery could sec that the main stem had been broken off mar 1:.< root. Then she went <<n. but mi!!!' way the joj ottsm-< of the morning *< "lued dimmed. and if the birds in tie maple trees above leer sang as gay ly ,<s evi r she did not hear them. Sh" i as thinking of the tumbled old gray i ad bending over the broken plant. In the school r?>oni the girls were gatle".?"i in a earner discussing a plan which Margery herself had set on foot, th" lmying of a palm for their Sunday .school teacher by the six girls of the i !asv (, he presented on Master mortify T3^1 rWi' 'It? iW -<^3^ iiig. Several of the girls had brought money and tendered it to Margery, whom they called chairman of the committee. To their surprise, she refused IVELF JESU, the bold son of \\. ^ he mountains invokes Thee, as Lord of the eternal snows and sovereign of the lefty P'\iks. ri^HTOr hinc eyes towards these white SSSSfe t have the likeness of Thy robe, vi snowy ! Deign, 0 Lord, to -rror for mortals who go through ^ , j ays ; lead them, protect them in [ is paths; and if any should fall and die, receive him into Thy Softly spread over h'.m the hroud ; and as soon as his soul j 1 j ; earthly body, may he ascend to e. 0 Blessed One, hear my ck T hou on all the deeds of his t the noble thoughts that have his heart, and scatter them like sSwCT ntain flowers before the feet of gpSJj"" hen his spirit reaches the face of Kjpt fa Lord may in His infinite mercy ft: rj n. And may the golden light ^ the Alps, which is an emanaDivine light, enfold him in - / >,Ljs :e for ever! Amen. fa ^ to take it. urging her friend, May Hard nor. to tako it in hor place. "But why don't you tako it. Margery? You started the plan." Margery was silent for a moment trying to gather courage to face the girls' surprise and displeasure. "Because." she said at last, not very bravely. "I can't give anything toward the palui. and it wouldn't be fair for me to choose it." The girls were silent for a moment. Then one of them said, nieahingly: "it's a que? r way to do. I think, to talk up a plan and get people interested and then back out when it comes to paying your share." Margery blushed and the quick an "CHRIST IN G <rrr tr? irs; f-nnio into lior fygs. May (.ianicer slij>i>f?l her arm around het : friend's waist, which gave her courage ' to answer: "It does look that way. I know, lnu wp agreed to spend only om ' own money for the palm. and. and I have thought of another way to spend , mine." | The girl wile had spoken first turned j away. "Miss Andrews wilt lie flat ; torn! when she hears that." she said I Oin e more the P-ars started in Marg ; ery's eye-. The hell rang and tin ; group broke up. hut May waited b j give her friend a sympathetic sipteizi ! and to whisper: "Never iniiul. Marge i I know you're all right." On her way to school in the after noon Margery ventured into the alio} and peeped through the half-open (loot of the shanty. The old woman la\ I asleep on a cot. On the tloot* besidi her was a half emptied bottle, and 01 ' the window sill stood the poor gcran I iiun tied with a piece of string to n stick to keep it upright. The stem Inn been carefully bandaged, but the leave.had wilted and hung limp and dying. ! The school children had become fa miliar with the sight of Mrs. Laney intoxicated and belligerent, but it is doubtful if they had ever thought of her as Margery saw her now. a friendI less old woman, her poor old body worn j with long years of hard, incessant iaj bor and her mind weakened by sorj row and lo-s and most of all by the 1 li?jnor she had taken to make her for! get her hard lot. As Margery went to j sehool her spirits rose. Site was saying to herself: "I'm glad 1 though: of i it Tim tviivv* t 'K lei'iii"' tli.i trials j and over. Now. 1 am jioiiit; io 1 <-2ijoy the rc-t." Mrs. I.;uioy v. as still asleep on Master morning when Margery peeked ; through llio litilo window. but slio i lia^ not thought it necessary to look ! the door. and. opening it softly, the I little girl set inside a beautiful white | hyacinth in a prettily decorated pot. j Then she closed the door and rail out of the alley as fast as site eon Id go. What the old woman did when. 0:1 waking, she saw the lovely plant Margery never knew, but she was quite satisfied that her sacrifice had not hern in vain, when next morning she discovered Mrs. I.aney seated in her doorway holding the pot in her lap and every now and then bending her rough gray head to inhale its fragrance. When at last the waxen bells began to fade tin old plant mysteriously disappeared. and in its place the bewildered woman found another just as fresh and fragrant, but this lime pink. Again the pink one faded and a purple flower took its place, until the colors were exhausted, and Margery was substituting a flourishing geranium in nlace of tiie !a?t one. when she was startled to hear a slr-ill voice behind her call out: "Thanks to heaven. I've found ye at last! And to think the only friend I have ilo he one o* thini school ehildor 1 be cut-sin' this many year!" The geranium thrived, but Mrs. I.nney did not. and before another Kaster came round her hard life tvas over. To her little friend she had confided her horror of being buried by tlie town, and. after consulting with her mother. Margery was able to promise 1 er that she need not dread a pauper's funeral. When Miss Andrews' Easter present was under discussion that year Margery made haste to ..and iter share over the chairman, saying, with a smile as she did so. "That's so: I won't change my mind this time, girls: there might be another temptation."?Alice D. T.aukhage. l>nr For the Children. j Easier is a bright day for the little I ones at the fireside of our own nation, j The President of the United States ' eomes out on Easter Monday and opens the gate to his big yard, and the j happy children take possession and ^ " ^ -J ETHSEMANE." play egg rolling on the beautiful lawns. The Marine Kami plays ami many pen. pie come to look on at the children's j pleasure, among whom are often grave and wise Senators, who. taking a short recess from the arduous exorcises 1 //y.UUiliilil!:ih I <' of national legislation, come to bestow j their Easter smiles on the little sover eigus of the Itepublie. i i" the ^hvcc ihavijs iAfter the painting b i ^legend of the |i 9 jflsteruly^ { O flower lias been more hon^1 ored in song and story than X the imperial lily. Its purity and stately bearing have caused it to l>e chosen as >70 the symbol of divinity and ? the badge of kings. 1 ^ Although in this country we understand by the word I lily the lily of the valley, the stately calla. or the wonderful barrisii. or Kaster lily, these are only three ' varieties of a very great family. : members of which are tottnd in ! all quarters of the earth. Kverywhere [ the lily has been honored and held a : sacred flower, whe'her by the hanks - . ;~-i v:u .... Onni'its where. . j 01 IIIO SlOl lfU .Mil- ?M vxw.B. . . | ,-is tho lottis. if received honors little | short of those accorded to tloifH*, or in j heathen tJreece. where it was conse- I crated to .Muio. the spotless yet imperj ions i)neen of Olympus; or later in [Christian eoitntries. where the flower i was dedicated to the Virgin .Mary. No great artist, when he painted the Holy Mother, ever forgot to place near her the flower that was the symbol of her j I heavenly rank. It is also in art the j , symbol of saints, martyrs and an- ' ' gels. The Kaster lily is a native of the i east. Those now cultivated in lterumda. ami popularly known as the Her-1 muda lily. were originally imported ! i there from Japan for commercial pur poses. The lily played an important j part in Chinese history Wo years ago. I I It happened that the Flowery King- , 11<>111 was ruinl hy the Kmp< ror Chow. f ! a monarek universally feared and hat- J ed. No one could depend on his favor, i end at lest his host friend, the Prime ' Minister. Li cluing. Iicgan to tremble for his life. Knowing we!! the bloodthirsty na" 1 : ilovised tl.fo oL nil' J-.iupci ?>i. i.t - , :i f-I; \er scheme li> eM iipc from liis ! power. One da*. when lie fancied thai tin* : Kmperor was in a I'mvorable moo.1. Inbroached tin* plan. It was that 100 of tin- strongest young men ami 100 of I in* most beautiful maidens should In* . sent with hint on hoard ship to an islam! i:i Ihi' -ea. whirh lie said had been ! revealed to him in a dream l?y the j ','ods. There. for tin* welfare of China ' , land its i (>:iditio!i eould not have been j ltttteli worset these people were to be I sacrificed to the deities for the b-netit j of tlteir native country. There was it sanguinary toueh it bout tin- pian thiit pariiettlariy recommended it to the bloodthirsty mind of wiekeil old ; Chow, and he immediately gave cheerfitl assent to the project. even showed liis interest by throwing in a royal prime and prim-ess or two as special tidbits for the gory banquet of the gods. , The ship in which I.i Chung and his hundred young men and maidens ' sailed was the very finest that China ! afforded. The larder was tilled with : dainties and every provision was made I that the victims should be kept in lirst, class condition until the time for the j saerifice. The tirst torn tout musicians in the kingdom were loaned for the ' voyage to charm the ears of the pas- J sengers with sweet sounds. But in ' I vain the artists tried their most pleas- : ing compositions; nobody would sing i I or dance, while the prevalence of red i eyes indicated that a good deal of | weeping was going on. When they were far troni China, j however. J.I ? liurg lonu ui? tiers into his eoiiiidenee. He had not ' intended to hill sbelli at all: instead j ; tliey were going to tin* most beautiful j island in the world, where they would I | settle and where they would live happily ever after, far from the power of the wicked Chow. This island was Japan, and here they did settle. But they had brought with . them great quantities/of lily bulbs as food. Nobody had been able to eat j much on shipboard, and quantities of i these bulbs were left over. They were planted, and in the balmy climate of S at Christ's Tomb." y (J. Spangenberg.l the Flowery Kingdom they attained a beauty unknown in China. Years later some Europeans, discovering the beauty of this flower, iraIKirted it into their own countries and called it the Liliura longiflorum. But ^jj "" 1I I V \f l\ V as an American named Harris was practically the tirst to discover the flower and make ir popular in two continents it is now called the Liliuin harrisii.?Ethel Knox. What's in an egg": Everything at this season, especially chickens. Kabhits. ducks, hears, deer, pigs, elephants and other birds and beasts s|iare the privilege, not to mention whole regiments of tin soldiers. A little chick sitting on a chair comes as low as ten cents. Another baby chicken sits on a nest of eggs. No doubt it assists it< mamma. Still another is blithely enjoying itself in a swing. A rabbit in a Mother Hubbard is very quaint. Other rabbits draw carts and one climbs a pole. Another dwells in a lettuce head. Coops and pens are among "the latest." and range from twenty-five cents to $1. They are fenced, with a gate. ;in?l in some instances wmi a nouse, ami contain chickens, sheep or bunnies. Eight cockatoos on a branch are new. Their Easter message is obscure. A little nuuil made of real feathers is to be bad for a dime. I'nele Sam on a rabbit is new. A lovely white eiderdown bunny at s!..")<? has his ears lined with pink silk. one of the new candy boxes shows :: ?ouple of stuffed kittens on the cover. Every sort of animal ligures in some way or other, ami most of them have a weakness for motoring. Cotton birds are very attractive. They are made from white cotton, with a little color laid on where necessary. The chicks, ducks and storks are very well done. You simply raise their wing to get at the candy inside. It's not a bad idea to put a tiny bisque baby under the stork's wing instead of edible sweets. V." ? / PALMETTO POINTS ' GIVEN IN BRIEF *r *""* Strongly Suspected. Greenwood, Special.?Sheriff McCaslan returned to the city recently with a negro, B. Mathis. who is strongly suspected of murdering another ne^ro. Praser Goodc, on Sunday night. The murder was committed on Mr. Tern Chatham's place and by means of a blunt instrument which was used as a bludgeon, the assailant striking the negro without warning as he was going along a lonely path from the home of a girl he was "courtin*" to his own home. The negro who was killed had carried for years in his nnckfttionk an old Confederate five dollar bill and a one cent piece for luck. A bill of this kind and a one cent piece was found on the person of the supposed murderer. Until the shbriff went down, there had been no clue on which to work, the coroner's jury having failed to find anything. The circumstantial evidence against Mathis is very strong. A Heavy Docket. The busines sof the South Carolina supreme court is steadily increasing Clerk Brooks estimates that in the ten years of his employment /with the court the business has increased by a third. When he took charge in 1894 there were 74 cases heard at the first term. The indications are that 135 to 140 cases will be docketed for the spring terra beginning the 19th of next month. Already 96 cases have been docketed for the coming term. 01 the 100 cases docketed for the November term about 90 were heard. The South Carolina supreme court has the reputation of being the most prompt in the United States in hearing and disposing of cases. The Nebraska court is five years behind and the Florida court is three years behind. . \ j All Acts Signed. Gov. Heyward has completed the work of signing the acts passed at the recent session of the legislature. The t r work takes some time as the bills must be, of course, carefully read. The only instance in which the chief executive exercised his veto was that of the "exclusive jurisdiction" act. also put his veto on the bill to pro-^^H hibit expatriation, in other words to ^ provent a convict from being pardoned upon his promise to leave the State. The bill was killed by the Senate, but became engrossed as an act and would have become a law, but the Senate requested the governor to veto the "jj act. Palmetto Briefs. Trouble is brewing about the sctipol * at Campobello. There is friction or disagreement between, the male prin- ? < iji.il and the trustees. It appears tl)&t last Saturday the trustees, having re- $ eeived information that the principal *. had been swearing and drinking, told ''Jj him that they would no longer need \i him in connection with the school. S He was at his post Monday, and after again told him to discontinue teaching there; and the school is without a "tj principal. The teacher dedies the I charges and a petition for his rdin- % statement is being circulated. .,* P. D. Havlrd. of Saluda, the young ;-J white man who appealed to Governor * Hey ward a few weeks since for protection. and who mailed the Governor , in some notices of a threatening nature ja found posted on his premises. wa?'fi3fl shot twice Saturday morning by John IS Yarhrough. a white man living on his ,'jfl p.ace. It is said that the shooting J had nothing to do with the threatening I notice. The trouble is the culmination . | of a personal difference between Hvird a and S'arbrough growing out of some dispute relating to their contract for .^1 The town of Union was shocked Monday morning to hear of the death of States It. Crawford, presl- /m dent of' the People's Supply Co., i hat place, who died the night before 3 as the result of blood poisoning caused by a carbuncle. Mr. Crawford went to ./-j? Ai!enta last .Monday in his > usual V3 health: on Wednesday he felt a ear- J9 bimcl? coining and returned on Thurs- . JH day night, when he went to bed. Blood JJ poisoning at once set in and after suffering intensely Mr. Crawford passed away at 10:30 o'clock. :;8 The police of Charleston were son- 1 usually busy Saturday night and Sunday and the harsh clang of the patrol "3B wagcn gong could be heard in tttb' j streets at all h nirs of the night and day. Only one fatality resulted from jHB the revels of the merry-makers, aqd jB this slaying took place outside the city ^11 limits. Frank Jenkins, colored, was I shot and killed by Scipio Jankins, col- I ored. in Lawton's lane. near the navalnJ station. Scipio escaped and had not^^B been eantured at a late hour Sunday Ed "Lucas. colored, who has been I conducting a small restaurant in Darl- - V lington. was drowned Monday night in ' I Pee Dee river, at the "Barn planta- B Uon, near coutij n*?. Robert Wilson, colored, was shot 9 and fatally wounded at Lumber by ' Robert Register."also colored. Regis- 1'9 ter was arrested by Deputy R. G. Par- JH nell and lodged in jail at Darlington. 9 Further than this no particulars have 9 been learned. 9 The value of railroad property in 9 the State is now thirty million dollars. * 9 Valuable tin deposits have been dls- -.9 covered near Gaffney. in Cherokee 9 The Secretary of State Tuesday char- 9 terpd the Siimmerville Hardwood Com- ;9| panv of Summerville. having a capital 9 of $5,000. R. R. Cuthbert is president 9 and W. X. Richardson treasurer. 9 Three conflagrations in the business 9 section of Bamberg within six weeks is 9 the record that that town has estab- ^9 Iished. The third and most disastrous 9 occurred Saturday morning, and four stores were burned. The fire originated in the store of H. F. Bamberg and Is 9 supposed to have been accidental. It 9 gained such headway before it was dis- |9 covered that it was impossible to save any of the goods from that or the ad- H joining buildings, and the whole block would undoubtedly have been burned but for the assistance of the cotton . >..'5^9