The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 13, 1882, Image 1

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\ '-?H?^, Established April, 1S50. ??g. 2, 1881.1 "Be .Just ?nd Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jan?; 1866. STJMTER, S. O., TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1882. Sew Series?Vol. I. No. 46. ad every Tuesday, J ^tchTnan and Southron Publishing ISJ I'IH C&pcpy* : tjv.,. "Two Dollarsr,p%r annum?in advance. ^a i>rs s i-y k e'?jkts.'. ... One Sau are: first insertion..$ 1 00 fiTerysubsequ??t?se9tioni?^.. 50 ;s-^-. 'Contracts for three months,, or longer will be- made at reducadUrates. . AU com rnonica?ons.which-s abser ve private . Interests wiftWc?argetfftwas advertisements, ^^jtsta^ejt'aod tributes, of respect wHl be -jdl?ittB^D?Ttice*and notices of deaths pub lisbediree, 5 . F?"-. job %orkvor contracts for advertising ~T<HeIwwi and SoutkroUy^oz apply at Bnsmes3 Manager BSIEBBLOOD. wo c^fnries^fa half ago f .Off, trudgedto,work with shonTdered boe ^A^ornan, barefoot, brown an<raough, e^ithVplnck of PmStenic staff. Six lusty children tagged behind. All haflessi shoeless, nncpnfined, And happy, as.the Birds that flew About thenu. Nanghtof books they knew, Save-one they read at twilight hour, Bronght with them in the stanch May : . ** *" * * * * s< A pretty lady, thin and white, a hammock swinging light, Languishes, mid in the shade Bevou r3 rhyme and lemonade: Wbilj^b^^ng^ear her loser sighs > Ata^enily ?ns-away- the flies. Sh*-Tmzranr3: "^Ttsso nice that we - J^&JQeither of low family, ^ JBnt of oldp?i|ri^?toc1^ . :: TbaUanded npori Plympnth Bock.'... * ALICE'S ADVISEB. ?Tp(F~$K?& idea of marrying Jack Hunter ? seemed absolutely ludicrous I Jj^?. she had, known hiui all her im mense life of eighteen years and four raettths; called Mm cousin, on the strength of his distant connection with - %?J5?step-inotber^ squabbled with him WejEtvthey,^ere.chiidren ; played a lit t|e:at being in love ages ago?when she was nfteev^bot to turn serious at this late -vday>}, ,write h-er a-downright prbpo?*^ ?OTriago, was atferlp pre posterous. Why she meant to go over to Europe before wisiter, and be trans iuto a countess at the very "articles Jack could have chosen fake his absurd-declaration this was 'most unfortunate. Alice was visit Mrs. Stamford, up at Lake i, and among* -w?rdly old cor morants, without bowels,' she was the worsts The lort" William Henry hotel wa&^tbin an easy row of her place, anJyPukjt season there was a set of very . gay, dasHtng people staying there; and thejm^. bad seen St to^make. a sort of <rueelfof pretty Miss Alice. Andfn tk^midst,:pf. -her: triumphs to .he asked ^ to^arry Jack Hunter 1 She was first amuaed^then vexed, then soweijow, she /"feit^eaoj 'to' cry," anoTdecrdeoTEha^she aa^"o!&aster Jack for haying1 distressed -and bothered her, an? determined she would write him the severest answer her peoic'oald Jxame?it was what his non ' aeoso deserved. ^^^kjAtmi^ herj&iend^ Mrs. TO]^mV,M^*5fi's. 'Craven was a wlrBif'tweDtj-six. years old^and lovely -mmiatuce. She still clung mm |fapfeail^8 .and marvelous ^c#tp^irr^e^:%>tj^as she frankly e they wgniried mitigated uH?tlfroin $he fact. that*" they were becoming.'' ? " \:'!*W?&fU?&ejZ than ;^;ni?nl?ng canary r\^aid she, 'and, you're worried and vexed about something. What is ^28? 'Out "she ^coulrl not tell?the secret was' not ier - own. There; was jgj nothing the matted and ended, natural ly by telling the whole story. : 'The young man is mad/ said the "widow. Why you're to go across ;Vf^Water and marry a title I Dear me I ; "int I've'seen Mr. Jack, he's a very nice ~ <i*ap$ handsome and clever, and all % tbat.-[ : *Brit like a brother to me,' interrupt Alice. *It's absurd V "'V 'Just so,' said the, widow, and medi tated with her head on one - side. *I should think you might find some ?_tbing else to say, "after my being goose enough to tell you the story,' returned ^^Kce irritably. y 'Oceanscried th.e other; 'but you uvtJon^t want advice.' . . /Indeed I do,' said Alice, just out of ?. $e spirit of contradiction. * 'Then don't write to him ; he says he shall come up if you don't. It's always much better to say things than to put them on paper.' ' So it was arranged. But, though " Alice indulged in no epistolary efforts, the widow did, and sent a regular vol ume to the post before night. Four days passed. Alice never ' looked at the letters lying on her break fast-plate-without a shudder, but each morning she found the shudder wasted, for there was neither word nor sign from Jack Hunter. By the time the week ^girded, Alice was vexed at the compo sure with which he bore her silence, And was too young an actress. to keep the veteran of twenty-six from perceiv " ing it. The whole. Stamford party were at a nop at the . hotel one night, and in the midst of a waltz, Alice looking out from the dizzy circle she and her partner were describing, saw Jaok Hunter, not ery far-off,-engaged in an animated conversation with several ladies. The thought of the scene she must undergo made her so nervoas, that by the time her military bird led her back to her ehaperone, she felt as if she had an ague chill. When she had courage to look for Jack again, he was dancing as gayly as if he had not a care in the world; and she was thoroughly angry with hers?lf for her stupid agitation. She managen* to get away for a little; slipped out through an open window that gave on the piazza; and walked round the collonade until she came upon a cjuiet corner, far removed from the Ball-room: The moon was shining soft ly over the plaeid waters, and the whole scene waa lovely enough to have inspir ed a poet, provided that, unlike Alice, j he had not been too busy with bis own afiairs to hunt for similies and rhymes. Bat her quiet was soou disturbed. If there ever is a time when one wishes to be alone, that is the season when some body would" discover one in tne very heart of Sahara ! Alice looked'toward the intruder with a more irritable sen sation than a heroine ought to be guil ty of, but the feeling changed into a breathless sort of suspense made up of too many emotions for her to analyze them?it was Jack Hunter who had found her out. Before she could do anything but catch her breath, and gasp a little in the effort, he was shak ing her hand warmly and saying? 4I thought it was you ! -I am so glad to meet you?I happened to notice yon just as you slipped out of the ball-room. Ain't you going to say you are glad to see^me?' .'lAin^alwaysglad to^see yau* cousin Jack,' she replied, taking.a urm hold of her self-possession, and giving him the familiar..appellation of childhood as a warning what he must expect if he per sisted in his nonsense. *.; 'Towo was so hot that-X determined to cut Wall street for a fortnight,' pur sued Jack, talking very fast, but by no means so much at his ease as a dashing New York youth ought to be. 'Delight ful place this old Lake G-eorge, isn't it? Haven't had a sniff of fresh air in Gotham fo* the last month ! How well you're looking?and?and you're sure you're not sorry to see me ?' 'Don't ask foolish questions, Jack, else I shall think the heat bas affected your bead,' returned Alice, in a supe rior way, her composure more and more restored by his oonfusion. 'It's hot much of a head, but it's about as clear, as usual, I think,' he answered and laughed rather oddly? she was getting up her dignity so fast that she thought it somewhat imperti nent. " * 'I'm glad to hear it; very glad,' said she, and became solicitous about ar ranging Jier puffs and' fluffs so they should not.^be creased by sitting. 'Oh I' be exclaimed, suddenly, 'did ?did you .get my letter, Alice ?' * She turned as stately and icy as if she had been born an English duchess, at least, aod answered in an absent tone, 'Your letter ? Yes?I received it.' She saw him fidget on the bench?he was going to be foolish in spite of the warning ber manner might have convey ed, do believe you are sitting on my fan. Jack,' she cried. Then there was a little search, and the fan was - found on the floor. 1 'No harm done./ said Jack, handing it to ber; rather red in the face and "flustered with the exertion of stooping. 'It's my pet fan?it was a present; I wouldn't have anything happen to it for the world I Fm sure you poshed it off the bench. You're always such a care less creature, cousin Jack.' 'Yes, 1 suppose I am?hut-So you got my letter, Alice V 'Dear me, didn't I say so ? If you are not going to listen when I tell you things, Jack, what's the" use of my talk ing V demanded she, with' a very pretty assumption of injury, a . > 'Ob, yes, I listened?I heard what you said,' replied Jack. 'I thought perhaps it missed?I was in hopes?;?' faJjfear me{ Jack, you ought>to know: better than to hope anything?my ex perience has taught me that! If you haven't learned so'much, I'm sure you are living to very little purpose ! But then^^grow-oldl so j much"? faster? tfian you boys.'* 'You didn't think it-worth while to answer my letter, Alice V in a voice that had gjrown ominously quiet.- ? * r% > i ^OhUgeodfgraeioBa me, Jack,r now] could Yansw'er it ? You know just as well as I do there was nothing for me to sayT-we^can^t either, of us afford to be foolish?we're not children'any longer.' She was expecting him: to burst out with a torrent of expostulations and re proaches ; she stole-a look at his face, half afraid to meet the pain and anger she was certain to read there. But lo ! and behold, his countenance, had clear ed ; every trace of embarrassment was gone; he said, coolly, 'I don't know how I came to write that letter, Alice; we'd always been the best of friends?cousins, you know! I suppose it was youf going away that made me get a sentimental St, and I really thought I was breaking my heart. But it's all over?Fve come back to my senses! I am so glad you were too sen sitive to send me the scolding I de served ! It's all over now, and I beg your pardon, I'm sure: and you'll for get my nonsense just as fast as you can, won't you?* He was backing out of his offer?it was absolutely he who was refusing her. Alice felt as if she should choke ! She had so many times during the last week gone over in fancy the scene she must have with Jack; had been wise and worldly, and condescendingly tolerant of his folly ; had imagined him saying and doing scores of different things, from threatening her life to pointing a pistol at his own head-^but never had it occurred to her that there could be a denouement like this. He was talk ing still?asking her something; she must answer?what would he think ? He had the advantage every way: she could not even concoct any terse, cut ting little speech ; she was ready to cry ?just from pure nervousness, she told herself. 'And we'll be the best friends always, will we not, Alice? You'll be going over to Europe, and turning into a duchess'or somthing, but you must promise to make your duke like me ; only I hope he won't be a Dutchman? don't let him be Dutch, Alice !' By this time she was so angry that she had no fear of crying, and felt her self able to speak, only she coi?u hear that her voice was sharper than she could have wished. 'You are very good, Jack, to arrange my future so nicely for me, but, if you please, I think we will leave it to take care of itself. I must go in now?I am engaged to dance. 'And you're quite sure you have for given me t* he asked. She had risen and was shaking out her puffs, so much emboldened by get ting her voice back that she must needs try to sting him a little. 'Dear me, yes; I never bear malice ?especially toward a boy like you ! I was quite vexed, aud meant to give you a good scolding?but you have saved me the trouble by coming back to your senses. My fan, please! Don't stay out here and get cold ; you know your grandma is always worried about your throat. She says while you're growing so fast you ha*e to be very careful.' --Jack sprang up as suddenly- as his wooden namesake in a box, and as he was nearly six feet already, it did seem that his grandmother might be satisfied he had his full growth; but Alice floated away without paying the slightest at tention to the attitude that displayed his length to such advantage.'* When Jack returned to the ball-room, after .having solaced himself in.- the moonlight with a segar, Alice was doing a galop with her military bird, and Jack plnnged into the fray with the first dis engaged female he chanced to spy. The next time Alice, had leisure to look for him, he was busy with her friend, the widow ; and Alice, watching them, thought thafMrs. Craven's man ners were anything but what they ought to be. Later in the evening the two ladies chaneed to be near each other for an instant, and Mrs. Craven whis pered. 'Haven't I been good to keep him from bothering you? Indeed, he's very bright and jolly?just the sort of man to be called Jack-' . > 'I've not got to, an age to have -any fancy for boys,' returned Alice, trying to be severe, but only succeeding, girl like, in appearing pert. It was all wasted, too, for the widow had moved away without seeming to hear, and there she was waltzing with Jack again ?Jack, indeed! Alice made up her mind on the spot that she would never like any other woman so long as she lived, especially a widow ! She wondered that the fash ion of making relicts mount a funeral pyre and go after their husbands.was not introduced into every Christian^country ?it was the only proper way to dispose of them. Alone in her room that night Alice bad her little cry from sheer mortifica-. tion at Jack's having go? the best of h?r. She hated him now,*and it was bis fault?they bad been such good iijends, and she could always tell him everything; and now they could never be on easy terms again ; and Mrs. Gra ven was a disappointment, too ; and, al together, Alice went to bed, feeling that it was a dreary world, and she the most uuftu^njn^e ^creature .therein. Lying awake till after daylight madeher over sleep herself; it was past ten o'clock when she woke. As she was looking at her watch, she heard the sound of voices and the trampling of horses' hoofs below ber window." ""She peered cautiously out. ? There were the widow and Jack just starting off for a morning gallop, and Jack as handsome as a pic ture, in his iron-gray riding suit. Alice.had three minds to write her step-mother word to send a telegram ordering her home, but by the time she was bathed and dressed, Sirs. Stamford came up to pet and laugh at her for be ing late and said so many,nice, compli mentary things, that. Alice decided it would not be . right to disappoint the dear old body by going away. Jack and the widow never came back until luncheon time, but before that a party of people had rowed over from the hotel, and Alice was the centre, of a.lit tle group, of men, so much.occupied that she could only give Jack a condessnd i?g nod; but',,he' did not seem'a bit miserable in consequence,.. and when they all sat down at table he kept up such a fire of nonsense and witticisms, seconded ably by the widow, that Alice thought she,had never seen conduct on the part of two rational beings so frivo lous ^and-UBworthy. - *s ? * -~ - Several days passed^ bringing a 'suc cession of gayeties, which left nobody any leisure for ; sober thought; and Alice wondered why she found the pic nics and dancing so tiresome, the edge worn off the adulation she received, till, when night came, instead of going to sleep, she could only He awake and think how tedious life was, and how horribly tired she felt. Then, one morning, she met Jack in the shrubberies, and he changed from ' his indifferent manner to the old time friendliness, and they were really hav ing a comfortable chat, when up came the widow, and immediately ordered Jack off on some errand, as if be were her personal good and chattel. 'If you go,' said she with one of her dangerous smiles, Til promise to show you that letter you tried to quarrel with me about yesterday.' And Jack went without a murmur; and Alice wished that, at the very least, she-could see a mad dog make full tilt for the widow before anybody could in terpose. The instant he was gone, Mrs. Craven said : 'Now, own that I am good-natured ! I saw Mr. Jack come this way, and I koewJt would be awkward for you.' 'Dear me V replied Alice. 'It was not in the least awkward, I assure you. I'm sorry you sacrificed yourself 'Well, I do thinli he's come nicely to his senses,' returned the widow, con fidentially. 'You may thank me a lit tle fo. ,at.' 'I h- ve always heard you had more talent ,'or making men lose their senses than anything else,' returned Alice. 'Now, that's a very pretty compli ment,' said the widow. 'But, admire my sack ! Did you ever see a lovelier lavender ?' It is mauve,' asserted Alice, and stuck to her opinion, till a very anima ted argument ensued. Alice could not quarrel with her about Jack Hunter; but she could over the tint of a ribbon, and she did. Only the quarrel was all on her side. Mrs. Craven would ODly teaze and be aggravating, and, when it was finished, Alice had to admit to her self that she had been childish and pert; and she hated ber enemy, as she called her, more bitterly in consequence. The next week Col. Somers came up to Lake George, and Alice remembered that, in the first days of their friend ship; Mrs, ('raven had several times j spoken of him, and more than once j Alice had seen her receive letters with an initial S on the envelopes. So she saw fit to adopt her prettiest and most bewitching manners for the officer's benefit, and the widow watched her with silent but intense delight. She saw her way clear to bringing about a climax to the little comedy she had helped on so diligently. Master Jack conceived the most vio lent animosity for the grave colonel, who, out of the wisdom of his thirty eight years, was content to do as Mrs. Craven had requested, without bother ing her with questions. He thought Alice a charming child, and was nice to her, according to the directions he received from headquarters; but it looked to Jack like a deep ly-seated flirtation;' and there was no doubt that the wicked little widow en couraged him in the belief, and even did a bit of the forsaken Ariadne busi ness in their private discussions con cerning the matter. Jack reached a point of exasperation, where he was bumptious and contradic tory with the colonel^ and the colonel was more quietly provoking than he ought to have been, making the young fellow feel that he was regarded as a mere boy, whose opinions, like his rudeness, were not worth regarding. So, one fine morning, what does the irascible Jack do |but seed a letter to the colonel, inviting him to take a little run over into Canada, in regard to which nobody w?sf to be the wiser, until one or the other of the two was left winged or ready to bury on the bleak Canadian shore. Before the colonel answered it he went in search of Mrs. Craven, and told her what had happen ed, and the widow clapped her hands, and cooed with delight. . 'Well/ said the colonel, regarding her with a gravely amused air, mingled with a good deal of admiration, 'you take the thing very coolly ! You don't suppose I could hold a pistol" toward that handsome boy, do you ? I presume you don't expect me to carry my com placency to the'point of standing up and. letting him take a shot at me without defending myself. 'It's just beautiful,' cried the widow, as soon as she could speak for laughing. I declare, I'd like to continue the mat ter so far as to make Alice follow you to Canada, and appear on th"e bloody field, waving a flag of truce! What fun!' . 'Now, Sophy,'said the colonel, 'there are limits to a man's patience. I am too near forty to be made ridiculous?* 'Oh! you don't need auy help in being so,' interrupted she, maliciously. 'There, don't be cross you have behav ed like an angel; but I've no more time to waste with you just now. I must go and find Alice.' I .'Do let both children alone. I've scarcely had a quiet word with you since j I came up here.' .... 'Be good,' said she, trying to dr?w J away the hand he had taken, 'and I'll j promise that, dating from the fifteenth ! of October, you shall have your whole life to talk to me as much as you like, though I'll not promise that you shall have quiet.'' He burst into rapturous exclamations very unbecoming his great age, but she only laughed and ran away. - Alice was sitting alone in her room, in a rather 'stricken-deer* sort of atti tude, when the widow burst in upon her in such a state of excitement, and told her story in such incoherent fash ion, that Alice concluded the duel had already taken place, aud that Jack was mortally^wounded at the very least. She proceeded to turn as faint as death, and the widow had to clap her bands, and make her smell ammonia. 'You are no better than a murderess,' cried Alice, when she had come to. 'Dear me!' said the widow, 'they've not fought yet; maybe they won't! Men are like turkeys. They take so long to*?et/ready,, that generally' the battle doesn't come off.' 'You must'stop it!' moaned Alice. You must?you shall!' 'I don't see why,' returned the other, coolly. 'We don't care about either of them, anil L ?m sure there are plenty of men in the world?more than enough, for that matter.' 'I do^ believe you are a fiend Tshriek ed Alice, wringing her hands, and gasping with dry sobs, for she was past tears. 'Jon've just pitted "^fhe two men against each other for your own amuse ment, and now you'd enjoy seeing them murder each other.' 'Well,' said the widow, frankly, 'I should uncommonly like to see a duel, I own ! I might dress in boy's clothes, and go to Canada to act as second.' Have they gone to Canada,' moaned Alice, 'Ob, I shall die-' 'Merciful powers!' exelaimed the widow. 'I do believe you're in love, or fancy you are, with that ridiculous .colonel.' The colonel! What do I care about that old fogy,' retorted Alice, scornful ly. 'Why, ten thousand men like him wouldn't be worth as much as Jack's little finger!' The widow made , an odd grimace, unseen by the frantic young lady, but said, very quietly: 'Well, I know it's not Jack you are in love with, at all events; so, as you care about neither, let them fight. 'I have known him all my life; he has been more ihan a brother ; and do you think I wiil stand still and let bim be murdered to gratify the vanity of a. woman like you V Oh, it won't be murder! The colo nel is very honorable; it will all be conducted with strict military fairness! But the colonel's a beautiful shot. Jack will only be?be- What is it they call it? Winged, I think; but I don't knew whether that means loosing an arm or a leg.' As she spoke, she looked out of the window, which commanded a view of the lake and the landing at Mrs. Stam ford's place. There's Jack Hunter now/ said she, ! 'coming across iu his boat. . Well, j they're not going to fight this morning, at any rate.' Alice darted past her, and flew out of the room not so much as deigning her a look. The widow sank into a chair, and laughed till she cried. Alice fortunately met Jack just by the boat-house. He saw her coming, and his first idea was to get away. It was all terrible earnest to him now, and he had no desire to see her. 'Stop. Jack !' she cried. 'I must speak to you. I will V He stood still then, looking very glum and obstinate, as she came up, panting. 'I don't know what you can have to say to me/ said he, coldly. 'Did you mistake me for Gol. Somers?' Oh, Jack ! Jack ! I've found it all out I Oh, how could you be so wicked, to think of fighting a duel,' gasped Alice. To go and-' How do you know V he inturrupted. Has that man told you? Is he a coward, too? He didn't tell me. or anybody. She found it out?that Mrs. Craven. It's all her fault; I know it is?she's the wickedest woman that ever lived! She wants one of you to be?be-Oh, I don't know what she called it; but you shan't be, just'to gratify her vanity, You shan't. Mrs. Craven has nothing whatever j to do with the matter/ returned Jack, grandly: 'nothing in the world! I Wherever else the fault belongs, it's not with her.' Where does it tbe? V Never you mind where/ said he. roughly, to hide a sudden weak agita tion that-threatened to unman him.. 'I'm not complaining, aud I don't wan't pity. All I ask is to be left alone/ That you may go and get yourself killed!' groaned Alice. You seem uncommonly sure of that/ retorted he. *Do you suppose one must be a colonel, with Ja - back like a poker, and legs like two wooden sticks, to know how to fire a pistol?' 'And if you were to kill him. and be?be?a murderer/ shivered Alice, covering her eyes with her hands. You're mightily afraid something will happen to the colonel/ thundered Jack. Oh, Jack! As if it was about him I think, in conparison to you, when I've known you all my life?when-' That dreadful knot, which had seem ed growing tighter and larger in her throat each instant, left her incapable of addingjinotber word. Jack waited with a cruel politeness to see if she meant to continue, then he said, with elaborate courtesy, You are at a loss to give any very good reasons why you should le inter ested in my fate ; pray don't take the trouble?one doesn't expect one's acT quaintances to be so sympathetic.' 'Oh, Jack! JackJ' You break my heart when you talk like that.' 'Your heart/ sneered Jack, in a tone that would have answered admirably for a parlor Mephistopheies. 'Any woman's heart for that matter! Is there one among the whole sex V When I have always li?liked you so much/ sobbed Alice; 'when you've been like a brother to me, ever since I can remember!' <mw<* ' I never wished to be your brother/ howled Jack, unable to keep back the - truth an instant longer. 'I've loved you always, and you treated me abomi nably ! Talk about brothers, indeed, when I'd have sold my soul just to get a smile from you; and now, I don't care what becomes of me ! I'm sick of my life and if I didn't think that devil would shoot me I'd do it myself.' Alice sank down on a bench, because she was trembling so that she could not stand any longer. By this time she could shed tears, and she shed them in such a tumultuous fashion that Jack was frightened out of such small store of sense as he had left, and skipped to and fro, and up and down, like some thing strung on wires, vainly urging her to stop?to be quiet?first to listen. I can't! I can't ! until you promise me there ^hall be an end of this/ gasp ed Alice/ready to follow up her advan tage. Oh, you won't fight, Jack?you won't! Promise me to let it all go ?' , 'I'll not promise you anything/ shouted he, growing obstinate again, as* soon as. she stopped crying. You didn't answer my letter; you let me see you thought me a fool! I meant to show you I didn't care;' but that did no good. You have gone on flirting with that man till you have driven me almost crazy ! He shan't have you?he shan't. I'll kill him ten times over first!' The crimson shot up into Alice's face, over^he pallor of her fright and pain. Once more she covered her eyes with her bands; but this time it was not to hide any image of horror, and Jack heard her whisper : How could you think I cared for him -41? Oh, ever since you came here I've been so wretched ! When you talked so horridly, that first night that I fonnd ont that I?that I-' Well?' cried Jack, suatching her two hands, and "trying to get a look at her face. Tell me, did you care?do you, Alice?' She could not speak ju-t yet. But when he fell on his knees, and caught her in his arms, she laid her head upon his shoulder, and wept tears so full of thankfulness, that they washed out all the bitterness and unrest of the dread ful days through which she had passed. I But Jack heard, at length, that he was I forgiven, and his love, prized as it de ! served; and for a long hour they two I forgot that the world held anything be j sides their two selves, and their happi ness. Then steps on the gravel startled them back ioto the consciousness that they were not absolutely alone in the universe, and there stood the widow, placid as a moonbeam, and she v^as say ing : 'Don't be quite merciless toward the wicked old fairy, who wanted to prove to Beauty that Beast was the true prince, though the blind little thing could not see it! But I didn't mean matters to get so serious, Alice, dear?that's the awkwardness of men ! And here's Col. Sowers, who wants to apologize to Mr. Hunter for what he has or has not done; and you must be quick about it, I for I've got a telegram that calls me to i town, and I cau't let him stay to be shot, because?because he has fallen into the toils against which Tony Wei ler warned his son !' So there were a few moments of eager talk,'then the elder pair left the young couple" to their bliss ag:>*n. They were Id enough and wise enough to be satisfied with that which fate offered, though tbey might have passed through trouble so real that they could never find exactly the unreasonable and un reasoniug ecstasy of the two tbey left behind. But they knew what Alice and Jack would learn in tiniej that, beautiful as youth and its dreams may be, there is a love deeper, higher, broader, though it show less glowing and bright.; a love that no doubt can touch, no time can dim ; that eternity itself shall only widen into a perfection more complete and enduring. They knew it, and were content. Egypt. The present Khedive of Egypt, Mohamed Tewfix, is the sixth ruler since Mehemet AH, the founder of the dynasty, who was appointed governor in 1806, and soon after made himself absolute master of the country by force of arms. He was the recognized ruler of Egypt from 1811 to 1848. The father of the present Khedive, Ismail I.,"was recognized by the Sultan by firman of 27th May, 1866, obtained on the condition of his paying an in creased tribute to the Sultan's civil list' It was from Ismail I. that M. de Lesseps obtained the required conces sions for the Suez canal. The shares which Ismail held in the canal were sold to the English government in 1875 for about four millions. But the large sum he thus received was not sufficient to relive bim from his embarrassments, and he was compelled to abdicate in 1879, under' pressure of the French and Eng lish governments. The present Khedive, by a decree of November, 1879, placed the administra tion of Egppt under the supervision of thego'vernmcnts of France and England, represented each by a controller-gene ral, invested with large powers, and responsible only to their own govern ments. By another decree of April, 1880, the present Khedive appointed an international commission of liquida tion, composed of seven members. The commission was invested with power to examine the whole financial situation of Egypt, and draw up a law of liquidation regulating the relations between Egypt and her creditors. England, France, Germany, Austria and Italy pledged themselves to accept such law of liquidation. The present defiant attitude of Arabi Bey, the utter helplessness'of the Khedive, and'the in abiiity of the French and English squadrons to'land a sufficient force just now, are the main features in the pres ent crisis in Egypt. Arabi Bey, the War Minister, raised a revolt in opposition to the levying of a very harsh tax with which to repay the money borrowed by the late Khe dive from money lenders in France and England, to further his pleasures. The present Khedive, as is well-known, is bat the creature of the Powers. As a result of this revolt, Arabi Bey was re m?radJr-oinjoJiee, and his expulsion from the country ~was detswuled by England and France, with which de mand the present Khedive was very anxious to comply. The recalcitrant Minister, however, had the people with bim, and'so emphatic was their demand that he should be restored, and that Egypt should be governed by Egyp tians and in the interest of the . people rather than of foreign countries, and so great a pressure was brought to bear upon the Khedive?who was himself threatened with arrest and forcible deposition unless he complied?that be was forced to 'bow to the will of the nation,' restore Arabi to his oflice, and virtually yield the government into bis bands. This is the present situation of affairs What England and France will do about it, rematus to be seen ; but, as the Savannah News says, whatever the outcome of the present complication, however the Egyptians, have taught the world one unexpected lesson., and that they are not the lazy, passive, unam bitious people which they have been credited with being. They have here tofore been looked upon as a race fond of ease, and careless of how they are ruled or who ruled by, so long as they were-permitted to live in peace.; This revolt of Arabi Bey, and the energy with which he has been supported shows that the Egyptians are as ready to re sist what they regard as tyranny and oppression as are natives of other coun tries, and that they are as restive under foreign control as are nations hereto fore inclined to look upon them as an indolent, inferior people, fit only to be ruled by despots,,and utterly unable to govern themselves. Arabi Bey may be finally be overcome, but he has already forced the world to accord him respect, and if he remains firm,?and, in case he is driven to fight for what he considers the just rights of himself and his people, he makes a good fight this re spect will be heightened into general admiration. The question naturally arises, can Egypt 6ght ? The normal force amounts to 12,000, which can be re?-Ji ly brought up to 45,000. The Bedouin contingent at present refuses to obey the summons of Arabi Bey. But if they are persuaded to joiu him he would be able to place in the field some 120, 000 fighting men. It is clear that France and England, if not Turkey, are bound to uphold the present ruler of Egypt, and will do so with the approval of the European powers. But it is not improbable that Arabi Bey may solve the present difficulty by the summary method familiar to Orientals, and pnt the Khedive out of the way. His removal wonld, it is supposed, relieve the taxpayers from the obligations which be entered into with France and England for the payment of debts which were mainly contracted through the reckless extravagance of his father, Ismael I._ _ 3/'ossil Fishes. In a raviue near Little Falls, be tween Durham and Middletowu, Dr. Davis and A. E. Hobson, on Tuesday afternoon, armed with shovels, crow bars, and chisels, brought to light some 50 fine specimens of the Catopterus gracilts. These fossil fish, which are illustrated in Dana's Geology, were j found in the triassic formation, and, I according to geologists, must be about 3.000,000 years old. When they were alive the waters of the Atlantic reached the centre of this State. Sir Charles j Lyell first found the fossil fish in this j place some 50 years ago; and it is said that there are only three places in North America where this variety of fossil fish can be obtained. The Peabody Museum, in New Haven, has only a very few inferior specimens.?Meriden, Conn., Republican. Treea Dy wild Jiogs. Daring the war, says the Philadel phia Times of yesterday, a sow and a litter of pigs belonging to J. L. Crarap >ton, a farmer of Burligton County, N. J., wandered off to the swamps and became as w.d and savage as peccaries. From that litter of pigs have sprung all the wild hogs that live or have lived in the miles of swampy.and unreclaim ed land in Burlington and adjoining counties since 1864. It is reported that a drove of these wild hogs, driven out of the swamps by hunger have been roaming through the country during the past month attacking people, killing and devouring sheep, dogs, and poul try, and in several cases driving farm ers from their work in the fields. On Friday May 26, a drove of five attacked a horse that James Cooke was driving along the Brown's Mills turnpike. Cooke endeavored to drive through the swine, but his horse became frightened upset the buggy tumbled Cooke out and ran away. The hogs followed the horse a few yards and then returned. Cook, who weighs over two hundred pounds, started at a fat man's racing speed for a small pine tree forty or fifty yards away. The hungry hogs followed. Cooke reached the tree a few yards in advance and mauaged to climb it. His pursuers, after gnawing the bark entirely off the butt of the tree; stretched themselves on the ground and waited for Cooke to come down and be eaten. Cooke's runaway horse was stopped at the Mount Misery toll gate, and as the owner did not appear before dark a party of men on horse back started to hunt for him. The approach.of this party frightened the hogs off and Cooke was' saved. He was in the tree five hours. Two days after Co'oke's adventure a farm hand named Berry was chased across a thir ty-acre field by a drove of hogs, and to escape from them was compelled to take refuge in a hay barrack. They kept him blockaded about an hour and- then went away. This.occurred in the morn ing, a mile south of the Peterson tav ern. That afternoon the same drove, led by a black boar, killed and devour ed two dogs on the farm of Joshua Ludwig, four miles to the south. On Tuesday last Hiram B. Barclay saw his flock of sheep running wildly around their pasture field.' Supposing that they were attacked by dogs Bar clay got his gun and ran to the field, where he found five hogs feeding on a merino ewe. Barclay shot and crip pled a brown hog and the others re treated. On the followiog day the saine band of hogs chased a famer named Murphy, who lives in Tally-ho jj.nci.was drivibg home. They raided John 'f ierney^s-jtoultry yard on Tues day evening and "remained there aj night. On Wednesday mornTng^'Teir' ney was unable to leave the house on account of the hogs that roamed around the yard. His wife and three daughters were compelled to remain indoors watching their blockaders chasing chickens and ducks around until noon, when the four hogs trooped away and Tierney went to Brown's Mill's and told his story. A - hunting party of eleven men was organized and two of the hogs were killed. Two escaped and after them the dogs and hunters went across country until at last the game was brought to bay. In the bat tle that ensued two dogs were killed and half a dozen were wounded by the swine. Seven bullets killed one of the hogs and thirteen bullets were fired into the oth^, a black boar. Grape Culture. A gentleman of this place made a hundred and fifty dollars clear money last year on his little vineyard of one-fourth of an acre situated in 'the western part of town. This vineyard is only three years old, and will of course improve with age. We arc satisfied from his experiment that the grape is the most profitable crop that can be raised in this section. The soil and climate are 'perfectly adapted to its growth, and an acre well set with grape-vines will at the end of four or five years from the time of planting yield an income of one thousand dol lars a year. If our people would turn their attention to grape-culture there is no doubt that in ten or twelve years Stokes would become the wealthiest county in the State. Let every famer set out forty or fifty vines of the Cataw ba or Lincoln variety, next spring, and every time he prunes bis vines set his cuttings in some rich spot to take root, and in the course of a few years he can have, at comparatively no cost, a vineyard the products of which will yield him a really fine income. Plant grape-vines. ?Danlury Reporier. me ffli How They Do in England. One pretty good thing that is about to be performed by this body (Parlia ment) is the passage of a package-post act, which I feel like recommending to the American authorities for their con sideration. It provides that all parcels not exceeding seven pounds' weight may be sent to any part of the Uaited Kingdom for one shilliug, or twenty five cents each. The postofnee will try to-establish at the. same time an inter national postal system, and it is certain ly to be hoped the United States may be induced to come into the arrange ment. In England the postoffice runs the telegraph system as well as the savings banks, in addition to its normal business. And one who has never been there cau have a very limited idea of the promptness with which all these mat ters are disposed of. You may post a letter iu London, directed to any other portion of this great city, and be per fectly sure that.it will be delivered in side two hours. You may mail a letter for America eight hours after the steamer that is to bear it has "left Liver pool. A special train bears it to Queenstown, and there it is put aboard the next noon. You may send a tele gram of twenty words to any part of the United Kingdom for twenty-live cents and a letter for two cents. And you may deposit your savings in ?ny post office station with "the full knowledge that the Government is responsible for their safe-keeping. All these arrange ments insure the transaction of the bus iness involved at the very lowest cost. ?London Letter. .News ana uossip. -0 Ex-Gov. Moses has been sentenced to the New York penitentiary for six months for obtaining $32 under false j pretences. William H. Vanderbilt recently paid ?20,000 for a blue-white diamond weighing fifteen carats. It is pro nounced the finest stone of its size ever brought to America. The Andre monument which was erected by Mr. Cyrus W. Field at.Tap pan, and which has been defaced seve ral times recently, has at last fallen to the ground. . j A N-rth Carolina girl who went out. j to meet her lover against the wishes of j her parents, was struck dead by flight I ning just as she had agreed to fly with i him. Jost imagine bow badly taken back the fellow must, have been. A desire has beeo expressed in -cer tain quarters to nominate Senator Hampton for Governor at the approact ing State Convention!. A correspon dent ef the News and Courier says that Senator Hampton has no desire to run, and that he is tired of politics. Major Earle's final estimate, as pub-, lished to the Georgetown Enquirer of June 7 th, places the total cost of coo- . structiog and equipping the Georgetown and Lane's 'Railroad at * $341,585. This estimate includes 56 lb. steel rails. If 45 lb. steel rails are used, the cost will be reduced to ?313,504. The Hampton Guardian says: Re? cently a minister while marrying a couple was rather disconcerted on asking the bridegroom if he was willing "to take the young lady for his wedded wife,- by the groom scratching his head and say ing: 'Yes, I'm willing, but I'd much rather have her sister.' The Blue Ridge Scrip men are seek ing a compromise with the State. The whole transaction connected with the creation of the scrip were hujge swindles, and have been so decided by onr Courts ' when they were presided over by Re publican Jodges. The people of the State should never be called on to pay one dollar of these stealings of the Re publican party. .When Cyrus W. Field, the mil lionaire, arrived in New York as a boy. he found employment in the house of A. T. Stewart & Co., at a salary of ?2 a week. He was obliged to be the first at the store in the morning, to sweep it cut, and to remain untU the partners and most of the clerks had gone at night. A new railroad, 38" miles long, is to be built from Santa Fe, New Mex.,' to, Espauola, the terrain as of the Denver^ I Rio Grande. The contracts' j same have been let, and gaapbably under way. This^ ^^^ihvay reaches mnch ever, fchan its actual being pose of doin< _ nation against tliJ "^"FitsT jobbing center, Wnchit is alleged the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road h responsible for. There was a sad instance of destitu tion in New York City on Friday last. A woman nearly 60 yearsof age had worked hard to support her* bedridden mother until the sick woman .took all her time. There was neither money nor food in the house, and when the daughter saw that the mother was dying she took poison and is dead. There were doubtless oharitable; people who, had they known the wretchedness of these poor creatures, would have aided them. ?nfortunately, however, indi viduals such as .these cannot be reached. Guano Beds in Florida. Mr. J. B. Collins showed us last week a sample of bird guano from his lately discovered guano bed in Hillsbo ough county, South Florida. The bed covers an area of five acres and is about eight feet deep in the deposit. Millions and millions of sea birds con gregate there every night to roost, and have been probably for a. hundred years. The deposit appears to be>aa rich in fertilizing "qualities as any Peruvian, and Mr. Collins has sent on samples to the Agricultural Depart ment at Washington to be Analyzed. If it proves as good as appearances in dicate, Mr. C has an easy fortune withfn bis grasp as one' of the Sooth Florida Railroads will run in about half mile of the place ' of the deposit Mr. C. has already refused one thous and dollars for one. acre of the land? Land of Flowers. An Elephant's Hevenge. There is no creature in the world so cuun.iog as the elephant and no crea ture, moreover, so full of duplicity. I The elephant in the Jardin desP'antes j in Paris, never forgave his keeper for I having nv.de him ridiculous before the' crowd assembled to witness his per formance on a penny trumpet, which I the poor man had been at the greatest j pains to teach him. A note came out I in 'J'ai du ben tabac' with a shrill squeak, when it should have been ppee contralto. The creature was vain of its artistic skill, as all artists are, and, flinging down the trumpet, made a charge against the iron bars of its cage.; which sent the crowd flying right, and left in the utmost terror, while the keeper who fortunately bad time to creep through the opening left at the bottom of the cage for the purpose of escape to time of danger, ran out of ' sight immediately. He never dared ! enter the "case again , for he knew by ! the express:-n of the creature's eye i that the grudge was owing still. Th j new keeper wisely withdrew the penny i trumpet, and 'J'ai du bon tabac' was heard no more. To wound the vanity of the greatest of beasts is as dangerous as to trifle with that of the" greatest4 of monarchs. Census of South Carolina* From advance bulletin No. 2S2, we get these facts. In "this State there arc 095,577 inhabitants, 30,170 square miles of territory, 202,062 families, 191,914 dwellings, 33 persons to the square mile, 19 39-100 acres to each person with an average of 5 persons in each dwelling and 5 persons in each family.