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While through the old gray town The red light deemed to slant and quiver, Then sank in purple twilight, sweet and faint, Like tender mern'ry of departed saint. Upon the gleaming tide Our little shallop rocked and floated, berber the side nwp ~ind, and idly noted WZ . *-^??path offight, ^^-^f^mJnight, cwring gnefthan beaner . ^>rf Xh o?lwbatsubtle change ^darkened oTer4andandnver, ?^^^thoughsUUbyyoor side? ID tl O! Cfc.-: '?fEe?ly?f?. Jack, the farm is ii? jotir-vocation: 1 become more at more .convinced of the fact every da aud less contented with the life T are-leading/ Breakfast was over, and we ?to OD the farmhouse portie J arm in ai On the siU sat baby, sc ream i n g w delight as she fed a pair of pet geons from her dimpled hands. -Onr breakfast had been a de?ici ? one-^coffee clear as amber, br li?e snow, and steak done to a t gs about us waa a green tang? sweetbrier aad honeysuckle ; the " wa&just risiug above the mom '' " audahe^rxij?ying air was s pget into society' f I'm not overfond of 80< Un, but you should be [e?. I'm fond o? it. I * a hermit Why, JaC| fe to gre a little- parti Mould not for Jack 0f 1 Dearme,NelI?whvI cl fores.' J J 'Of a certain sort, yes<' a J notions. I\^ant4, e best ; the-the^sfe begets into in town -* I "Fashionable society 1 /Wei! then, wh ^ eans, Jack, and I flatte ^re^tted to move in, m should we bury ou Wilderness V j. 'Our means are '1'? a ware of thai* J* ?ouS?frrastart, anc At a halted salary, Oh, jes, but you Ci ^ay np, Jack; right m iost rOU?idofthe h?l V, Jack! I've ??red -ou ever since our mai rou can afford to olea* pow.' Jack sighed as he h ?s ripening grain fiel] ie close to his hej 'That's tr not Bo, care well for the little *>fte. Cfraid she won't like the cljynge. If [you happen to tire of town rauiL. &sb lion dou't forget that a wcj Icome al f ways awaits you at home.7 Jack's heart was too fu?l f(ir ut? terance. we od fm. [ito pi 'Thank you, sir,' I said, ? 'b/ut j shall not get tired.* y' Our new home in Penrith was a stylish residence in a fashionable block. We established ou/rselves iu the principal hotel, -sind thefti set about the task of furnishing the ? >use. ^My^dearcii?Ur----g?hrHkfrs. Vau -j-bor??ghTThe canker's wife? dropping iu for an early call, 'don't .dream of such a thing as ingrain carpet. Ge Brussels, by all means, good Engl isl Brussels. Youl] find it muoh cheape in the end, andr besides it is so muc more stylish.' We hearkened to our vice and laid our rooms w and the cost ran up .into Then furniture we go Mrs. Yanborongh and s friends aiding us in ours all sorts of preity, costly and real lace curtains, an tage piano. My old instr too plain and clumsy for tab! ish ment. . There is a curious sort meut in. spending mot j^seerns^tojirvie the most g people desp tat it. Jae eful of rythin P it Jack/ I suggested, timidly, [are spending a great deal of i, well, never mind. It will all inyhow, one way or the other, and [might as well enjoy it. You've iys wanted to get into good so ty,'NeIl, and you're fairly in now, it won't do to let people see that are cramped for money. Let's :e the most of it while we've got ly heart ached a little ; and in the 1st of all the .fiare and flutter of | jpaiation, I was conscious of a jue feeling of regret whenever I ?ailed the quiet months of my early ehood spent at Cherry Hill. Jack seemed such a different person in >se day s-so strong and steady " self-reliant ; and now he seemed take as much pleasure in life's friv-i ties as I did. With the foolish in-1 usistency of my ses, I sat down " cried over the consummation of I very hopes which I had cherished] (long. But, despite my tears, our recep n went on and it turned out to be ?Teat success. The best people in Eve honored us with their presence, ld every thing, thanks to Mrs. Van )rough's foresight, was carried out the most lavish and elegani_;nian ac ?agerness. ?We might, Neil- I.J* 'll try and borrow a ie ^ew^cre.* T 'Ob, ?Jack, no, no I l my remorse and despair, to the * seashore, lou baby H- Oh, Jack, as to let u-8 return nonie 'Obj you woman t \ell i* we went back, fully stpid down there J da/s lith the haymaki Weshfould never be abl now.' mjT 1 said no more. i? burning days wore on ran u$ higher anding little breath seemea aud \f eaker, and began to look dr* And we afternoj* in aj carriage^ cu dow ut my you werel he shouldl ac I hat surplus ind w( Jack' an< ithin< ls fol hiu _ >ng, iright, and otr bills >er. and jbaby's lo grow peaker 5oor Jack aimselfl t Bfully ill an| worn. >u he was set) humel "qu?te^-u n concious, [ by a- sudden fis er. ?ride aside theu ail wrote| /jack's father. rack and baby are both II, and Ire sick and tired of tis liie. forgive us, aud let \ come te very nest day the ?ar old fieman arrived, but thebes and officers of the law were iere be bim. The rumor that ^ iuteud o leave town had got oiand our iiitois rushed in, anxiouo secure li?u's share of our ef?e. Thc ?issels carpet, the handso farni. ly and costly bric-a-brac j went Her the hammer at a ditrously \ figure. trever mind,' said my fatin-Iaw, ' Ta shadow of reproach Os kine1 face ; 'let them squabbler it il * nil. We must geur eic! ? I arose softly and fell on/my knees beside Jack's low pillow. / .Oh, Jack/ I sobbed, *j have been so wicked. Forgive mer Jack, for? give me. I am so glad to be at home again.' ; His worn face grev? radiant, and his dear arms held mezcl?se. And then and there, clasped to my husband's heart, in ' the safe, sweet shelter of the home he loved, I un? derstood all the past. 'You didn't mean it, Jack/'I whis? pered. 'You only pretended to en? joy it all to please me.' He smiled at me with his ?rave fond smile. 'And, oh, Jack, our money is all gone, and-1 , He silenced me with a kiss. 'No matter, little woman, the les? son we have .learned has been cheaply bought. W<* shall not care to leave the safe old mountain nest in search of fashion'and society again.' I coulo* "Ot answer. I heard my baby coing to the pigeons in the grass, md sat there, clasped in Jack's forgiviJg arms, the happiest woman the wald held. k?tiated in Masonry. The Bad.Boy Gives His Father the Boyal Bumper Degree. 'Say, are you a Mason, or a nod fellow, or anything V asked the bad boy of the grocery mau as he went to the shelf and took out a long stick of cinnamon bark to chew. ' Why, yes, of course I am, . but what set you to thinking of that V asked the grocery man, as he went to the desk and charged the boy'6 father with half a pound of cinnamon. 'Well, do the goats bunt when you nishiate a fresh candidate V 'No, of course not. The goats are cheap ones, thal have no life, and wj muzzle them, and put pillows oj their heads, so they can't hurt body,' says the grocery man, winked at a brother Odd Felloj was seated ou a sugar barrel, mysterious. 'But why do '0, nothin, only I wish chum had muzzled our pillow. Pa would hi becoming a member of ter. You see,. _ IW'ofirctTgood the Masons and Odo" Fellows did and said we ought to try and grow up good so we could jine the lodges when we got big, andi asked pa if it would do any hurt for us to have play lodge in my room and urtend to nishiate, and pa said it wouldn't do any hurt. He said it wouW improve our minds and learn us tove men. So my chum and me borriea\a goat that lives in a livery stable aiiq. carried bim up to my room when pa aia^d ma was out riding, but the goat blat\d so we had to tie a handkerchief afcound his nose, aud his feet made such axnoise on the floor that we put some^baby's socks on his feet. Well, sir, my \ chum and me I practiced with that go>?t untii be bunt Xpicture of a goat every time. We j bod ied a buck beer sign from a saloon I mundud hung it on the b??k of - a j cbaityfiud the goat would hit^ft every time. T^iat night pa wanted to know what we were doing up in my room, and I told hito we were playing lodge, and improvingfvour minds, and pa said that was right, ??fee was nothing that did boys of our age^ralf so much good as to imitate men, and store by useful noliidge. Then my -chtim asked pa if he didn't want to come\up and take the grand bumper degree* an(* pa laffed and said he didn't care if he did, just to encourage us boysVin in? nocent pastime, that was so improv? ing to our intellect. We liad skut the goat up in a closet in my room> and he had got over his blating, so we took off tbe handkerchief, and lie was eating some of my paper collars and skate straps. 'We went up stairs and told pa to come up pretty soon and ?ive three distinct raps, and when we asked him who comes there he must say 'a pil garim who wauts to join your ancient order and ride the goat V Ma wanted to come up, too, but we told her if she come in it would break up the lodge, cause a woman couldn't keep a secret, and we didn't have auy side saddle for the goat. Say, efyou never tried it the next time you nitiate a mau in your Mason's lodge, you sprinkle a little kian pepper on the goat's beard just before you turn him loose. You can get. three times as much to the square inch of goat. You wouldn't think it was the same goat. Well we got all. fixed and pa rapped, and we let him in and told him he must be blindfolded, and he got on his knees a laffin, and I tied a towel around his eyes and then I turned him around and made him get wu on his hands also, and then his as right toward the closet door, the buck beer sign right lothes. He was a luffiu said we boys were de 'em. and we stairs, an crinia tue goat, auu ma was at the ootftom of the stairs listen? ing, and when I looked over the banis? ters pa and m a and the goat were all in a heap, and pa was yelling murder, and ma was s( reaming fire, and the goat was blati ng, and sneezing, and bunting, and l he hired girl came into the hall and t ie goat took after ber, and she cross ed herself just as the goat struck h er, and said : 'Howly mother, prote pt me !' and went down stairs the waj . we boys slide down bill, with both har ids on herself, and the goat rared up and blated, and pa and ma went into/their room and shut the door, and tl?n my chum and me opened the frlnt door and drove the goat out. The minister, who comes to see ma thr/ee times a week, was just ring;ng the bell, and the goat thought he wanted to be nishated, too, aud gavie him one for luck, and then went dcwn the sidewalk blating rjnd sneezing, and the minister came in the parlor and said be was stabbed, and then pa came out of.his room with his suspenders hanging down, and as he didn't know the min ister was there, he said cuss words, and ma cried and told pa he wDuld go to hell sure, and pa said he didn't care, he would kill that kussid goat afore he went, and I told pa the minister was in the parlor and he and oa went down and said the weatberwas propitious for a re? vival, and ikseemed as though an out? pouring of tje Spirit waa about to be \ochsafed tj^Eis people, aud none of them sot d^?but ma, cause the goat , didn't hjfl while . they was talkiu'^^^^Hwith their mouths, and kA\ vat inwardly, my ? chun ?-ned the lodge, andi U with i n^H Ben home ti HV?1 : &\ Mh'1 US M Buences. 1^, and we fe - Well, Bin ?k hired ?t go H V" Hi H' WM WBM B 'If that boy do I never saw one that dioVTne^HP man ought to have him sent to a lu natic asylum.'-Milwaukee Sun. The Give-Away Game. 'Do you know/ said a man who was selling jewelry from a dry goods box to a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, 'that the Americans are the easiest humbugged of any in the world ? It is true, and 1 have helped to humbug them about as much as the average . man.' Somebody had just beeu reading an account, of the Louisville lottery drawing, which brought forth this speech. 'Can't you tell us someofyour ex? perience in that line V asked a man near. > 'Well, you would laugh to>knoiv what fools people make of themselves sometimes. About two weeks ago I .was down in Brunswick, where 1 saw Vfellow running a perfectly square game, but which was the most out-and out "steal I ever heard of. His plan was simple, and hundreds of the very best ne^le of the town flocked to give himV. trial. He ret?ted a store and put a show-case across the coun? ter in the cei?ter. In the show-c?se he had, I know,\my hat full of $10 and $20 gold coins, piled in a heap in s one corner, and in the other about the ^arae sized pile of silver dollars. A d??e box and six dice completed his outfit. By paying 50 ?euts a man had one throw with the dice. If he threw sf^_ sixes he took the entire pile of gottf ; if he threw six aces ?ie was entitled to ali the silver. Of course he kn?>? no one ever threw vall the sixes, neither was it possible to gel the acres to co\me ail in a bunch, a man might as vr?\ expect to get struck by lightning from a cloudless sky at noonday as to throw six ace? ; it is almost an impossibility, that's all. Well, the fellow maos^several hundred dollars and left.' \ 'Did you ever hear of how ea^v i was to fool a man with soap V conKnt ued the talker. 'Wc street men know i that as an old story, of course. I was down to Troy, Ala , several months ago, when a fellow came along almost . strapped. He. went to a grocery store, bought a few bars of this trans ! parent soap, cut it into small pieces about the size of one's thumb, wrap? ped it in colored tissue paper very ; neatly, and then covered the package i with tin foil, sprinkling the whole , with a bottle of cologne to give it a ; good smell. Well, sir, that fellow i got ou a box and soon gathered a i crowd by some nice talking, and pto ! posed to take out all the grease from : hats, coats, etc., that could be brought f in. The first case presented was the ! city marshal, who walked up with a i j great spot on his coat which he levanted taken'out. The fellow car a sponge well saturated with ^^and arnica, which of itseli B ^^tt almost anything, ac i by fl fc^he soap soon thc ^entirely ifc^he soap it i fCBUivcu oil lue givc-awoy iau&ci. A fellow has to be mighty careful about working it, or he will get caught. It can only be played once in a town. 'The way to do it is this : Get a lot of fine gold rings, which cost about $1 a dozen, and propose to be advertising some big gold concern in New York. I called mine the brazed gold of San Francisco, stated that I would show the crowd a thing or two, and soon got them interested. First, I made a speech in which I stated my business, then I commenced to offer the rings at any price from 2 cents up, telling them that they could not be bought for less than $4 a piece at a jeweler's. I let out about twenty rings at 2 cents, and then asked everybody who had bought rings -to hold them up. Instantly everything was in the air. 'Now,' said, I, addressing the crowd, this is your money, is it?' 'Yes,' said a dozen 'And you give it up freely for the rings ? 'Yes,' came again in chorus. 'Yery well, hare's 20 cents for you, sir, and 20 cents for you, sir,' and so on around the crowd. They commenced to wonder what in the world I meant ; said I was crazy, and a lot of other things, but I only told them I was advertising goods for my house, and had plenty more things to give away. Next I took up some of my handsome diamond studs, which I explained were Lake George diamonds, equal to any on earth, etc., and that 1 was going to sell them from 25 ceuts up, the more ope paid the better ?? would be, of course, for him. Twenty studs soon out, and the same speech made. Then I made the crowd hold up the dia? monds, and each man got 50 cents back who had bought. 'The thing began to get very in? teresting, and the crowd numbered 300 or 400. Then I got out some beautiful gold-plated sleeve-button?, which I explained could not be bought for less than $12. These I ? proposed to sell for fifty cents each, giving to all who bought a dollar ad? ditional as before, each time doubling the money gift. The buttons 6oon went off, as had the other things, and 1 was ready tor the final 'bite' at the rowd. The twenty pairs of sleeve ttons had been sold for half a dot d I had given back twenty dollars. 'That fellow's a darned hear! all around me, but I Jlus_bv^ saying that last week., in Macon, I hau" grv?n away $1,500, and that I was ready to do it again. 'The crowd was perfectly crazy to see what came next. It was watch chains. The chains I was to sell at any price from $2.50 to anything above that one wanted to give,. I tell? ing them the while that the more Lhey paid the better it would be for them. I hinted that the watches would come next, and this let them off like a lot of madmen. The trick now was to sell as many chains as possible at $2.50. 1 had a devil ufa lot of chains, and so. I sent them out right and left. The dollars came rushing blindly at me, and I raked them in like chaff. Then I got out of chains 'Previously 1 bad prepared two big red silk handkerchiefs, exactly alike, and as soon as the chains were all sold I took the money, and in the presence of the crowd, tied it up together, and, after making a speech proposed to throw the bundie into the crowdforthe best man to take. While talking 1 pur? posely dropped the bundle into my box by my side, in which I had the other handkerchief. lu this was $10 in silver and some paper to make it stand out and look like the one I had dropped. Ali this had been arranged beforehand, of course. With a whoop ^fewung the bag around my bead after stooping to pick it up where I first dropped it, and up it went into the air. -. Great heavens ! you should have seen the mob ! I never saw anything like t it. They fought like tigers over the handkerchief, while I took occasion to leave the spot. 1 had also arranged to bring the thing 'to a climax about the time the Albany train left, so I was driven at once to tue depot. I was just $280 ahead. But I-ffot verv weak in the knees while waiting at the depot. I was s little too ?^i, and about a dozer young men^Lup, raising the veiy mischief of a^w, which I thought was for mo, au^K* proved to be true. ^ They saw me auafeg?me around me, -laughing and knotting each othci l?ifct crazy men. I d\'t know -..-hal o?CT?Cth was the raatt^L until the} finallmold me it was th\ best joke that hao^isyer been played on Bruns wick, and\ilthough they *ad buer victimized, t'key wanted to a^e mc it was all rigbt.x ^"^M '} had sold the chains to nearly^ the best men in Brunswick, some^ them paying me as high as $5 foi them. I was satisfied*to leave, 3nc had my revenge. You '^ay put ii down for a fact that aW average American crowd can be hui the same way every day in - ?-i lt ? ? unm A Deadly Assault GOKESBURT, December 5.-This morning, at 4 o'clock, Dr. Henr) Klugh, while returning from a profes? sional visit, overtook a colored mac driving on a wagon load of seed cotton, ten miles from Hodges. A young mac named Norman, who had accompaniy3 Dr. Klugh part of the way, heard halt the negro and ask his name receive the false reply that it was " hnston, from Hodges.'* Mj hen heard a cry of distj back, found Dr. If a pool of bb SENATE. COLUMBIA. December ll.-The Sen? ate met at ll A. M. Petitions from citizens of Williams? burg and Chesterfield counties, pray? ing repeal of the general stock lat?, were presented. Bill to provide for the more speedy development of the Columbia Canal, after discussion, was postponed till Tuesday, 2 P. M. Tho following bills, passed a third reading and were ordered to be enrolled for ratification : Bill to regulate the calendar of the Court of Common Pleas. Passed and ordered sent to the House : Bill providing a mode of determining the compensation to be made to the Com? missioners heretofore appointed for services rendered and about to be com? pleted in securing the payment of direct tases collected by the United States in this State dariug the late war ; bill to provent the sale of spirituous or intoxi? cating liquors in the t*wD of Uuion ; bill to incorporate the Southern Cotton Picking Company ; bill to regulate the right of dower ; bill to amend Sections 2437-8 of the General Statutes, relating to costs of Sheriffs and Constables. After executive session, adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 10 A. M. Prayer by Rev. Wm Martin. Petitions from citizens of portions of Chesterfield, Lancaster and Lexington Counties, prayiug a modification of the" stock law, were presented and referred. Mr. Murray introduced a bill to re? quire persons sentenced to imprison? ment in county jails to work on police highways. xv bills relating to the lien law were made the special order for Friday next at 1 o'clock. The bill introduced by Mr. Bobo of Spartanburg, to repeal the law which exempts the property of manufacturing corporations from taxation, came up for its second reading and was productive of a leugthy debate, participated in by Messrs. Bobo, Croft, Mauldin, Scudday, Murray, . McCrady, Davis, Farley, Brawley and McMaster. Mr. Pearce moved to indefinitely postpone the bill and the vote resulted as follows : Ayes, 63 ; nays, 29. So the bill was killed, and the exemption law stands. Mr. McKissick introduced a bill to j limit the time in which a citizen of a ! fl I I I fl : I fl Hfl BH i ll HH I lill i I *" fl^l 11CW? &UU V7V??i?J Beware of false prophets and patent tooth-aehe drops. It will be some days yet before we shall know whether Venas was elected or not. Experience is a high-grade school course thorough, tuition free-but inci? dental expenses enormous; ?Look not upon the horse race and monkey with the pool seller, for it is not wise to bet unless you can win. Try not to guy the stranger who fic journeth in thy land and sec m et h meek and sad ; for of such are three ca?3 monte men made. A wise woman will not light thc fire' with kerosene, but will invite the ser? vant girl to whom she owes three months' wages to light it. The foolish man saith to himself : "? will blow in the muzzle of this empty gun," and the wise coroner wili say in his report: *'Accidentally blowed ttf the hereafter." The young man who drinketh too* copiously of firewater and trieth to **ru*i a towu," will surely come to grief; when in the fullness of time he hath everlastingly hammered thc stubborn limestone. ?? If a man smites thee on the right cheek, turn also to him thy left cheek, and peradventure thou canst with great ease plant a kick that will cause him to become discouraged and repent of bis folly. A Chicago lady once opplied to a learned Judge for a divorce. ?What is the name of tho husband V inquired the learned Judge. 'I have no husband yet, bat inasmuch as I contemplate matrimony, I feel that I should be pre? pared for the worst. 'So your business is picking up, eh V said a facetious cobbler to a rag-picker, who had just commenced operations pa an ash barrel in front of his shop-door 'Yes, and I see yonrs are mendip; V quickly replied the ragged urea's, glancing at the dilapidated boot "initie cobbler's band.-Yonkers Statesman. John Steele, better, known as "Coal Oil Johnny," the fame of whose mag? nificent fortune and reckless extrava? gance still lives, is now engaged in I manual labor at^JWilliamsport, Pa., \At^e^eT^^M^t^ day for his services. V 'I aoi sorry to inform ,vjU*' cr? inan to an Arkansas ge^^eman^^^^nf" your son has been killed in a balloon ascension.* |'*M<Q0j'!'J'. asked the gentleman. 'Well, you see he went up with the professor, and the balloon dropped sud? denly and killed both of them. "It was the desceosion that killed him. My friend, wheu you come into this neighborhood with a piece of infor? mation, give it straight.'-Ark*risas Travcler. At a Boston dinner party the . other" _ evening, Mrs. Jalia Ward Howe ex? pressed emphatically her dislike and disapproval of Governor elect Butler, and finally declared that she never would allow him to be presented to her. 'Bat if you were at a friend's house, and she presented him, not knowing your feelings, what would you dpi* asked a friend. *Oh/ was the reply, *it would not be myself, but the lady's guest, whd. would know Gen. Butler.' A Horrid Deed. Last Sunday morning a respectable white girl, aged fourteen, living be? tween Central and Easley, in Pickens Coanty, was kidnapped and brutally outraged by a negro fiend. She was found this side of Ceutral crying bit? terly and she told the following tale: Shortly after her parents had left for church she wen tout for some wood near the road, and while picking -it up a black negro with a little mustache came along in a baggy aud as he seized her told ber that if sbe made a noise that he would cut her throat. The negro put her in the buggy. After going a short distance be tied a handkerchief over ber eyes and began to talk to her in m. improper manner, which she resented, but all to no pttgp^ When found she_ Idid not knor^ .e she was, ancf was inquiring h^r way to old Pickens; where she said her uncle lived. We' will give no names until further develop ts. This section will get up an un? ?anle reputation unless something is* to.check crime in our midst. Inf twenty-four hours wc have had! d a murder and highway robbery tdnapping and outrage and it t been long since we had a seri ot, which almost resulted in the of Mr. Dickson, our town mar Seneca Journal. Loss of Confidence* Shepherd was eating his dinner la spring when a Wolf walked the forest and coolly inquired r ?1, bow is the Wool and Mutton* Ly fair/ replied the astonished* ld. }e eomc to tell you/ continued k-ubat the Hyenas have forin |o break into your Sheep-fold id m offer my services as" a ch niau.' ever 60 kind to give me Y _ [dst leave thc gate open feeling perfectly safe. ia i who comes fooly Itton will fiud his m