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OIT?PHB BIVEE.
{Dorothy Holroyd in Baldwin's Monthly.)
rfsiowlyi&e san went down
' ,:T TLat Summer night upon the river, .
. 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
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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