Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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s ? tr ff - > i /'Be Juat^andbrFf ar notr-lret ?lt the Ends thon Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's. ? * } * i * i g S j < . \ ? i I -_LJ g : - ;: _--? i ? i i V ! ? ; 11 Ii ? lm?Tffi? M Wy TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1883. TBE TKCE SOVTBRON, Established Jone, 1866. Sew Series-Yoi. II. Ko. 33. -..vi* r*. x mum-?? advance. ^Orioager will .of respect sf?fc be. S?j?if^c?^*>?t or Ht? ^ IUJU-L?J fjpItflriiU, fros i? language. comer tjiitca?e. behind, v? -'as - - * .-TT-' .. . poUntes, i?^teWlA'i Iii '-4** V/ ..st:; J.* tcaetfrowa,. . ,.v?. s a Hs < j? ?Si* _______ "?? . * rio Ic^orVs etaee*, K*_^^^^t?_3?.?'" j pijk jfcet^i?b, wtffc aa enorama* broa/i . ?if_?_5_^;L?, ?^a aa^ep?og wustaefre.' % lii??M| ta hk shesMers, stood K#}aeWr' -HrfcF' udfiee. 'carelessly -?l^m|^ey*?.?ter. A slight twitch bluffaT** fklrt? wa? piassed by uo ?pf*??. wee? his glance fe? apon ;mmk*w?* mi**t* tfti ? whose be_d| tte tfSw ?? wopder he W not seen * 1^ r- fie wi?_y*c4_og lase best ?iowu _4MWfi?d? oe*, and' ie * deep base ^.Mgi^TV ??e_'.io. >eajr childish tdace; 9? ^^^^e word* ceuld.oQt not l^^efareed by the fcoidiog^op ^^^^^^UMlches thu? eoroers of the The itttle ??arewes barefooted, and calico gariuout rent, faded acd ; l ?Wt ?ant any te-day, lissy,' TTexao. mUtetv woo^yoo Bay roy '?witfc* secood pall at the tamed again, impatiently, Va^tb^Jitticrond ; then, os I, anti with a furtive glance rs in bS vest poek-'l t instant _>> brigUt ?.h?lf- i ?i ?he -'gnnny fingers, j 1itl a baJf aigb the big-hearted fel- j tti^Hd^jttltfiD biaself ; -Poer tittle i ; ^Fleate, rotster, doo t you wao t toe - - j.*0?? a?-*l; BO % xeep toe change and 'HbJdiof tire precious co io fa both t^??f:g?e ?iteJi g.rl Tftoiab?d like s I WiW tkroagb toe fro?* <ioor, aad ; ?he Teli?, jrith amottered 'what a fool Pf S?f?^'a?i aowa, Sixth atreet pattered tire Bttle*aked feet, oo ootacio?? (hat she was roBowed, aod ap /ooo of the streets devoted to small deal |j_er?fr*^ffect nest of * pawnshops. . ^?Sfli ?Af toe least e)eao acd imposing j : ?ftheae abe darted and whispered some L thlnf toSee ?oman, who took a paper ??ee? oofc of a drawer aod banded it. to i&shi&c ?ae child tore off *bfpaper Bk _rjrt^? fingers, aad the*e was the ^SH|tM'Cgo> of ' her heart-ber only Bl%rifri-~bej dot. Sire bogged it ???jf?t0?ml ted kissed it. What was ^ilitttWH?e wotoae tad child could rasalutioe might not hot? oat very ?t^?fait: The; cliflo^ iookeU r?a??^, ?od at the door stood: the Texas; with a- very suspicions moisture o a -h is cb e ek ?ad a big io tn p io his throat. : .^f?ygttj? ?;??aje,;g?rl lite yon at bx>me/ said he, 'Come along, and. show ase where yctr lire/ - - . J - * Wei!, yon may be sore that the sic* toother aiod tn? little girl werai ?repdef ed inpr^eomfoftable,. for aa hoar after ward abe had a receipt for a- month's renrtn^r nari?s, and ? doctor's car? riage stood at the door bf that tenement ?^?4^a?j^vs4r>Ao^ was told tofthe reporter by Uje^ r/ie-uea?ted ETotei for his borne-upon the wide plain where range bb broad-horoed herd. . Finding a Father. . . ???nWli?rty yearn age there re? sided ?poer a farm, a few miles north e?atWt?lfe'cttj of Oakland, a.msm named ?^r?mai A- Fairbaitk8, who, if ? ot, i? affluent circumstances was,: as the saying-' ist * comfortably fixed," with a good home, a happy . family ., consisting of a wife and twp children. He waa pfoud HI Ute strength of wis manhood, and had a pauorama of; his ?ifetor the ijr?ngjf years* to come been spread out before" him be would have scoffed at the picture. . Sickness caine, and after-years of unavailing cajet?n 185T he .laid the. mother of j h*?*d??(dren away in the grave. -/Ehe lo ? illness in his fcraily and conse? quent expj????a rrt&cf?'U advisable for bim to dispose of his homestead, and his chiWrea; theil quite *tma?l;tHwerc taken in charge bj a sister of bis de ceased. ije^ wiio" sjbortly ^jeto/ned with* them te lier ho?ne in MassacL u set^iY ^??rfen'ks^c?m? Jo! ?us'^vayey tow after tb wake a .ne w home, fully expteetiug'.ui a'tntle t?m?^'^ain^be able tbg?tn?rlils children tinder bis SPw?-t6of^T B?f man '''proposes fSA 6_o?? d$sj$>$f$Vsi- Soon after Ins a rr lyal here, while ^engaged in . bis* vocation an a/armer, bis team ran away and-he | was thrown under a wagon ?and ' had onepar :hwr sides* ;^?teraflji * ?r^ne?^ His~wou'i*d?were *yejj5;cpai?f??, and tronble him ere? ts$e?s' * Dari ngu ~ t h is lo?fc i illness -r^ym?^r-fbmSh^f-t^ alt?w?te'nts^a^ttl?s>by 'the* a|e; ot opi?m; and^wifU tjie. osnaU. ?snit: He became an opium 6e?d. At times He *?mggk?d against the habit, which he ? ue w was dead,ein n g both body attd tni?d. He might still ha ve-.-pe? ro vered,b^Uie not^^in, .been the victim ol iBMtftui&?-'- ??* H?g?iu be was crashed and Mis limbs were mangled-this time-by the. . caving of a well which be was digging. Then Iiis courage Tefl bim; and be, aban doneil himself to- the use of the- bale? ful weed, and for the past twelve or fifteen years he .han. been mest of . bis time an inmate of the county infir? mary, and constantly 6o for the pa^ six years, until teil months ago, wbeif Dr. Kelly, one of tin* visiting physi? cians, became interested in the quiet, patient old man, and determined to give him a better,, home. Since then Fairbanks, LOW upward of seventy years of agc, has been thoroughly content and bas'earnestly striven to make ail possible returns in the way of<light citares, far, the kindness of ti?e doctor, whom be regardsin the light of a benefactor. A week ago lie re? ceived a' fetter. ? A ri ' epejit t.. in itsel? as he had not received a letter from, j anyone io half a- score of years, and did not suppose that ontside ' of | thisvaliey there was a friend-any where wW remembered bim. His. memory was weakened by the dreg which bad" been Sis sole luxury ti?r years, and he scarcely'rem ein be red that lie had children somewhere in,the>world. Tiie letter was opened With trembling bands. It wag signed, with a name which be f.ad never Lear j, but k cou- ; tained queries which agitated bim greatly, although it was very- brief. lt merely asked, if ita bad escher lived at-Fruit vale, in ?Alameda County,-and i if be was the father .*6f a dajjghter. named- Albertina.. , J. Ile recognized- the- name of his daughter, of-whom he had not heard for many years, bat Fin it vale be knew nothing of. He. allowed: bis letter to bis best friend, and described to bim I'. location of bis former home, which is where -Fruitvale Sta- ? lion now is. . ?By: the 'advices of the doctor be answered the letter, giving as fall .an account of his own audi the history of bis family, as be could re? call. A few days ago he received another'?et t? r from * tlief Same man, stating t?tat fie WsV -the husband of | Albertina Fairbanks, for whose father they had spent ten years in unavailing search, and that they believed bj in to be the man. - He will "be sent to Oak? land in a few days for an interview, but <he^circumstances arc such: as tb leave no room to doubt that the. o?a man bas found a.borne for bis declin? ing yearSi and that the few* years re? main ing to bim will b?* made as happy as possi&le'. J)r. Kelly speaks of h .m as honest, industrious and faithful, having but one vice, and that the re? sult ofhi8 injuries.-San Jose (Cal.) Mercury 'mm i i > mm He Didn t Bark. I John Henry, the masher, stood on the corner with another one of his kind watching for a girl toeorne along whom be might crush. At Iftt a thin young woman from the rural districts came by, and John Henry thought he had foo nd ber. As she passed be said something about ber being bony, but he went after her, and catching np be said: *Good evening, Miss/ *Go^d evening.' she replied, look? ing at bim so suspiciously that he hesi? tated. . ?Abem^Mrss,afee m, ^ * ?Well/ she put in, 'why don't, yo> bark V - 4BarlT?-bark ? What do you mean 1 I don't quite understand.1 fOb? yon don't? Why, in Our coun? try a pappy that has any decent train? ing always' barks when be fiada a fem?,' V . iobn Henry didn't have any to tay,amfto this day he ts a cbai That Bad Boy JJFnat ?h?eifih is; that jo? : nave got cfo yooV opper Ifp/'Wu? th? gro? cery; ra an to the bad. bo y? ??he came in. an?, befcan V? pee? iel ?itafcaga, aud his rpper lip hung down over bia tee>h, afcd> was] .covered with some? thing tHat tobke?j like shoem?ker's' wax. 'You look as though you had been digging potatoes with your '0, that's some of^patnJsl?ci? ness. I asked him if he knew any? thing t^?atr ifoulI?mafe ajbdy'ai j mo^s tacbe^grew/ anfl-he^eld irre the best thing he ever tried was tar ^ aad for me to rub it on thick when ?xt?Aio) bed ; and wash it off in the morning. I put it on last night, and by gosh I can't wash it off EaJj4d _nae^._4I JL had to do was to uw? a%wtfcnff. brick ^apd it would come o|g, ^u?ll a?a till tar is there yet,' and say, does my lip look very bad.' _ The grocery man told him it was the worst looking ^R^1p?f ff3** but he could cure it by^bbingfa futre" pe>>e4-4^Trjtlol8erf k?n? *acl as a cooeing lotion to the lacerated lip. The boy went to a can of pep1-' per behind the counter and stucK. his finger in ar*drwl3?^*'lot* ^ lip, and then his hair began lo " raise, and he began to cry, and rushed to the water-pail and rar^d?r ^ca ffittf the water to wash off rae*perjper. xnlr grocery man laughed, and when . the boy had -?pt tbgt pepper washed off, and had resumed his rutabaga, he said : " I * 'That^aJs .your^ate^. y o _niau ever l"^f^^1'^ef* l5^'^?^^^^ without living to rue it. I will lay fot^pur, oJi^nyri^?u^doirt^jfou $ for? get it. ra thought 'he was smart when he got me to put tar on my. lip,, I to bring my moustache out, and to ! day hels on a bed pain, and?o i morrow^y??f turn wilf come, iou ? will regret ?iat you did not get down? Ton wm DA sorry that you did not I prescribe cold ^^/i?iVV^i__^'8e& lip, instead of^erfn^fepperf Be^} wa?e,ry4,n base twelve,- ounce to the ( pbxuid uucJ?*ter? you giinleVe^d^seP' 1er of dogsausage, yon ^saud^d ?ligar . idiotryo_f art?ai f pjatoef th lee! caid) monte sleight of hand rotten egg Bend, you villian that sells smoked sturgeon and dogfish for smoked hailibut. The avenger is on your track ? - ! 'Look here, yom?^%iaTi, at>nft- you j threaten me. or 1 will take you.byUhe ; ear and walk' }*ou through green ! fields, a"d beside still waters, to B tfye. ' fiout/door.^ii^ ly lek your pistol podv et ?leai?arotuia so.you can* wear it for a watch pocket- in- - your- - vest. - No~ boy can frighten me, by crimus. But tell me how you got even with we will be frieuds, and 1 will tell > ou. I Thanks ! Gosh, but that cider is made ! out of.mouidy~dr.ed apples and sewer watet g aud he] to?t?a hkndfu|of fayer! rai sir >8 off the-tog of a ?ox io take ti) o' I taste out his mouth, and while the grocer charged a peck of rutabagas, a gallon of cider and t wo pounds of raisins'to the boy's pa; tte boy pro I ceeded : 'You see, pa likes a joke the ! beet of ariy .man you ever saw, if it ia, ! on soinebod r^^V hu Hie kicks like m j steer when it is on tum. I asked lum this morning if it wouldn't be a good ! joke to put some soft soap on the I front steps, so the letter carrier would slip unhand spill lijsself, aud pa -said I it W(Hiid^e^_g;ant. t? U demo I erat and he thinks that anything that wi!l make.it unpleasant for r?publi? cain office-holders is legitimate, and ! he encouraged me to paralyze the let h ter-carier. The letter carrier is as old a man as pa and I didn't want to humiliate him, but i just wanted pa [to give his consent, so he couldn't , kiele if he got caught in his own trap. I You see ? Well, this morning the minister and two of the deacons called oil par Co bave'a talk fr^hf si^n' :;_r$otit j his actions!? V?lnificli^rifn?lw? oe t3ree ' occasions, when he pulled out the pack of cards with his handkerchief, and played the music box, and they had a pretty hut lime in the back parlor, and finally they settled it, and were going to sing a hymn, when pa handed them.a little hymn book, and the minister opened it and turned pale and said, 'what's flus,' and looked at it, and k^ri^ra^beok <<>f- Hoyle's [games insfea?To?aliym-boo?. Gosh, wasn't the minister maj ? Ile had started to read a hymn and he quit ! after he read two lines where it said, In aj fearn^ o?| foti?4n*i?led5 %ocbYe>, H neTrerftftimj) v?tor parfcufcc's acei ib?i4: ; rely on the ace to take the trick on suit.' Pa was trying to explain how the book come to be there, when the minister and the deacons started out, and then.! poured the two quart tin pail full of Soft soap on the front step, j j lt was this whi.te soap, just the color j j of the stop, and when 1 got it spread I j I went down in the basement. The ! j visitots came out and pa was trying i to explain to them about I^oyle, when ! one afilie deacons \ steeped In tho soap and his feet flew up and he j struck on his pan's and slid down the j steps. The minister said 'great bea- ! veris, deacon, are yon hurt? Let me | assist,' and he took two quick steps, and you have seen these fellows in a j j nigger show that kick each other head ! over heels and lall on their ears, and I stand on their hands and turn around ? like a top. The minister's feet slip i ped and the next I saw he was stand ring on his head in his hat, and his j legs were sort of wilted and iel! limp by his side, and he fell over on his stomach. You talk abont spreading 'the gospel in heathen lands, lt is .nothing to the way you can spread it with two quarks of soft soap. The minister didn't look pious a bit, when he was trying to catch the railing. He looked as though he wanted to murder every man on earth, but it may be he was tired. Well, pa was ! paralyzed, and he and the other dea? con rushed out to pick up the minis? ter and the first old man, and when they struck the step they weet kiting. Pa's feet somehow slipped ba<:kwa and he turne/i a- -au^mmer sanity t 6tr?ck full'leiig?h-op / his h?ck * one heel was across the ministe neck, and lie slid, do wi) the steps,' s tiie other deacon fell'al I over th? c er three, and ps swore at theo ;-am was the worst looking >iot ;?f pi< people I ever saw. 1 think if 1 minister had been uv tiie woods ?OE wh?re, where nobody coufd ha beard bim, he would have used li guage. They all seemed mad at ea oth^jv. Tlie. ?ired girl told ma tin we?efl?i'e?itf?iB'ps out on the si? walk fighting pa, and ma she took t broom and Started to'help- Ipa. 'arie tr?etl to ?top ma/ 'eause her const! lion isn't very strong and 1 did waifclieri? do any flying trape beness, but I couldn't stop 'ber, a she went out with the broom and to^el tied overlier head. Well, do*?%nolte&ftere ma did strike, t when she.came in she said she- h palpitation of the heart, but that! w not where ma pot the arnica. 0, b she did go through tbe air like a b let through cheese, and when s weif?^Dw^^evsieps bump?ty, bum I fefa^riy^of ma. The minister h gotoso be cou 14 set up on , the sid walk,r\yr;t6 his Jack against the low sterbe n'ma came si fd mg down,'ai one of the heels of her gai tors bit t! minister in the bair, and the oth foot went right.through between Ii ?armand his sfefe, andthe broom lil to pushed his teeth down his thro; But he was not mad at ma. As soi as Jrecsee it wagina, he said, 1 Wb sisfefttie wicked stand on slippe places, don't they,' and ma she w mad-and said foi' him to let go h stocking, and then pa was road and 1 said, 'Look-a here, you sky-pilot, th thujg has .gone far enough,' and tin a policeman caraealojtg and first I th?j|g$?tbattboy/were^U drunk, b he found they were respectable, ar 'he got-a chip and scraped the sor off of t?iem, and they went home, ar pa and ma they got in tire house son way, and just then the letter carri? came along, but he didn't have at letters for us, and ^e didn't con onto the steps^ and then I went c ?tair% a#?vI ^saic^ J ?Pa%) dr)n't lye think it is real mean, after you and fixed, tlie^soap on the steps for the le ^r?irrfeCh?t 3raiT?*~come on tli steps at alt/ and pa-was- scraping tl; soap^oflThrS pants' with ' a Apiece ( shingley and the ?iired girl was pu ting IhfraenJ on ?ma, and; heating fn for palpitation of the heart, and p said, 'You dam, idjut, no more of thi or I'll maul the liver out of you ;' an 1 asked him if hz didn't think so soap would help a moustache to grow and be picked up ma's work-baske and threw it at my head, as I wer down stairs, and I came over here Don't fou think my pa is unreason* b"le; to get m ad at a little joke that b planned himself V ^/Qie-^??Ksery trian-/--said 'we didn1 know, and the boy went out with j pfir of skates over ,h is - sbou.kier, an thS groor^m"aW& weberra g*- wh? jcjjje the boy wit I ."play GB bim to ge e{fen Jorobe cayenne pepp^^Pec^' i yflKojr^?rf?j?t. aa J?oSfcremiu tte of the iron works- of this city wa sing tbe ya rd one. day he espied i lifte skip of a boy, seemingly not ove 1 {spears old t sea ted .on a big fly-whee ^B^^^f^?^C^^Si bitter j?c?8oe 7>Vbarare you doing here 7 guesting.: z \ r-- - |Sy bardo you want?' p? job.' V i?rrose were" the "fn qui r?es and an< SWOTS. Jhe boy wa* .pale-faced and ragged fdu Irk steeUbloe^ eyes thc foreman saw game*: And, too, the idea of a waif like him setting out to baale the world touched a tender chord in the heurt of the man who bad boys ofiis own, and he set Jack at work iu th|jar??r . r no ooift tboagbt the boy would stay a wejgk, anj) so no ??O eared to ask where he'eatne f roui or who be was. But he studs. He was hard-working and faith? ful a ad'aa thc weeks went by he gained frijSds;;; Ope day" be " walked up to tbe fo re?na o aad said : ?| want to learn the.trade.' raitt ^a ! ba ? ha ! Whyr Jack. y?jPare not big enough to handlea cold *I can whip any 'prentice boy in this shop ? was the earnest declaration. S?st hear brm ! Why, any of thc lot co?? turu yon wrong side out! When youi get big enough to whip the smail? es *ro!^ yon eenie to me for a job ' ?t noon that day Jack walked up to th?ftigges? apprentice boy io the shop .aud^aid : t?ouie out doors:' ' *$Vb*t'.?5 jon want !' ?tn go??g'to lick you!' What ?rfc J 'Because I want a chance to learn the ?trade.' The two went out, and in sight of twenty witnesses tittle Jack won a vier tory. At 1 o'clock be touched bis cap to the foreman and said : 'I've licked your biggest 'prentice and want to go to work !' Ten minutes later he had become a machinist's apprentice, and if you go in there to-day you will find him with greasy bauds, oily face and a bead full of busiuess ideas. Jack carries tbe keys to the drawers where the steam gauges, safety-valves and other trim? mings are kept., and he knows the use of every tool, the workings of every piece of machinery, and tberc is a con? stant call for Jack here and Jack there. Before be is 20 bc will be a finished machinist, and before be is 25 be will be foreman of some great shop. He is quiet, earnest, respectful and observing. What be does is well done. What be is told he never forgets. And there are hundreds of boys who complain that there is no chance for them, even wheo backed by money and influence. They wait and wait and whine and complain, and leave it to waifs like little Jack to call up the game in their souls and walk boldly into great manufacturing works and say: 'I'm here-I want a jobi troit Free Press, The Colic Medicine. The Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise says: A butter peddler from Hooey Lake relates with great glee how a neighbor of bis was cured of too fre? quently tippling the gin bottle. This neighbor married a yoong, handsome and spirited lady, and for a month or two all went well in the house aod about the farm ; theo the husband feli back into his old track. The wife re? monstrated, and for a time the husband reformed. Presently ; however, she be? came satisfied that the "bottle tippling" was going on. Wbjen she spoke to her husband about the matter he swore that the "aroma'' she detected was that of a colic medicine he was taking, he having developed a most intractable colic, for the relief of which he bad brought home and paraded a bottle of medicine. The wife was confident that there was kept somewhere about the premises a considerable store of. a very different kind of medicine. She kept ber own counsel, and at the same time strict watch. In a day or two she discovered under a manger in the barn the secret board. She said nothing of the discov? ery to her husband. Soon after the husband bad business at a neighbor's some two miles away. On his return he was somewhat sur- ! prised at seeing a oote pinned on the front door. He hastily advanced and read as follows : t BEN : You will find tbe key of the home where yon keep your colic medi? cine. I hare taken Kitty and gone home to my mother. Father aud brother Bob will come to morrow for the trunk io which I have packed roy things. NELLIE. The husband rushed tn the barn. At a glance be saw that Kittie, bis wife's mare, and the side saddle were gone darting to the manger he hauled out bis j corpulent demijohn of gio. end suspend ! ed from its neck, found the key of the bouse. Securiog the key be sent the demi? john whizzing and crashing against a post of the barn. Bounding forth he ran and mounted the horse he had left standing in front of the house. Away he dashed. It was ten miles to tbe house of his father io law, and he was determined' to overtake h?s wife' before she could reach it or kill a horse in the attempt. Said the butter man r 'Now^I see*d j Ben's wife come over the hill, a mile sooth of my boase, on her little mare Kitty, and begin to perform some queer abolutioos. After she'd gol over the brow of tbe HW I she paced up and down the road for a time ; tben she rid up aod looked over the ridge for a while. After look io g a bit she turned about and rid up aod dowo the road a few ! times; then weot up to thc brow of the hill again. So she kept doing.' aod ooce or twice she got off and led Kitty ; up to the top of the hill. 'I was puzzled as to whether she was ' wai?V for somebody or had lost some- j thing while oo her way to her father!? j place, some four miles beyond my ' bouse. I was jost abont to walk out j thai way wheo I seed ber wheel Kitty round from the brow of.thc hill and be? gin to ply her whip. 'Io haifa minute she was flyin' past my place like a mad woman. I stood at my front gate by the road-side, ready to boiler ^ont at ber to.koow what was up, but bless you, she never looked j to'ards me. Her eyes seemed sot in ber head, her face was pale, aod at every jump *be let ioto Kitty with her whip. I swar, her riden' skirt fairly cracked as she bounded past! 'Jist theo I heard a tremendjos clat? ter behind me. Turnio' about. I seed Ben a comin' over the pitch of the hill 00 his big black boss, like a wild Co maocbee. He was rid in' with loose reins, leanen' away for'ard. and diggin' his big spars into bis boss like he'd rip bis insides oat. 'He passed by with hair and coat? tails sail in' back io tbe wiod, aod oever toroio1 his head to right or left. I tell you, a million thoughts weot through my brain in a second. All tbe stories I'd ever beard about jealous husbands aod iosaoe husband weut through my brain io a lamp, aod I do believe, if I'd bad my gao io my hand, I'd have taken a wing shot at bim on suspicion. 'I see'd Nell look back once and then laid the whip on . Kitty hotter'o ever. Ben was goin' like the wind. I know ed Nell was headed for her father's and 1 see'd plain as day that Ben would get her 'fore she was safe landed. 'At last be was upon ber. It was then neck and neck for a time, with Ben reachin' out for Kitty's bridle. At last he got it, and tbe two horses gradually slowed up till they finally stopped. I mounted roy gate-post all of a tremble, expectin' to see some? thing happen. 'They stopped in the road talki o' nigh unto half an hour, then I saw Ben lean over and Nell lean over till their two heads come together. 4 'What, that mischief!' says I, 'kis sin instead of killin. Well, that sort o' fracas gits me !' After the bead bumpin' thc pair turned about aod j came slowly joggio' along back. 'As they passed me I called out to Ben to know what io the living jingo it all meant. Beo began to slammer something, 'bout half of which never got out through his big beard. When Nellie sings out to me, 'only a race for a kiss !' and givin' Kitty a cut that made her bound ten feet, she called out to Ben : 'Come on I A race to the top of thc hill for another !' and away they j both went. *That was five years ago, and I never knowed the meaning of that wild, harumscarum ride til! 'bout three months ago, when the story 'bout the colic medicine' leaked out among the wini men folk?. For a good time ! after the ride, however, I remembered of | the neighbor man wonderin' what bad come over Ben that he had shut down | on his gin all of a sudden, and wouldu't j so much as take a glass of Oregon | cider. 'To this day no doubt Ben thinks he j had a desperate chase after Nell, and a narrow escape of ber gettin' into the home den 'long with her big brother, ber father and bis mother-in-law ; and I've never said a word to bim 'boot bow /she fooled long under the brow of the ML* :?'} MULE OF TEXAS. Mule of Texas, ere we ^art, Teil me why you will not start ; Or if you really must balk Pray excuse my wicked talk, Hear me vow before I go, I'll be even witb you, though. By your long: tail unconfined, Wooed by every passing wind, By tbose heels, so wondrous swift, Which can men o'er tree-tops lift. By those ears that droop so low, I'll be even with you, though. By those ribs ? long to baste, By your show of D. B. taste, By the melancholy bray That alarms folks railes away, By your stein resol *e to whoa, I'll be even with you, though. Mole of TesaSj I am gome; Think of me, sweet, wheo alone, For I fly to get a club, Theo your blamed old back I'll drab, If I cannot make you go, I'll be even with you, though*. Cotton Seed Oil. The following dialogue recently took place between the enterprising editor of the Athens (Ga.) Banner, who is devoting a good deal of his paper to farm topics, and oue of the largest and most successful planters in the State : 'Why do you not urge upon the farmers of the country the importance of extracting the oil from thejr cotton seed V asked Hon. James AI; Smith, the mammoth plauter of Oglethorpe, of os yesterday. We replied by asking Colonel Smith to tell os all he knew in regard to the matter. - , 'You can get fuller information on this subject from Professor White than any one else, for he has analyzed seed both- before and after extracting? the .oil aud can tell you the exact value ot each. Hehasclearly demonstrated, however, tl?at both for feed or ferti? lizer the cotton seed is worth more after extracting the oil thau before. Actual experiment, too, by practical farmers, lias proved the Professor to be correct. I had ratlier have one hun? dred pounds of cotton seed meal un? der a crop of any kind than: the best ammoniated guano that you can buy. It is just as valuable as a fertilizer, yet don't fire the crop so badly during a drought. This may look like a surprising statement, yet, neverthe? less, it is true. You can take the meal and spinkle.it just as thin as you would guaDo, and it is fully as valuable, pound tor pound, as the highest brands. Why, we Southern fanners have lost a fortune by not knowing this sooner. Here we have been expending millions annually for a commercial fertizer, and then wast? ing a much better article right at home Let us now investigate this matter and see what a farmer's cot? ton seed are worth; 1 have thorough? ly informed myself on the subject and know what 1 am ?talking about. A bushel of cotton seed will yield one half gallon of oil, which is worth at wholesale twenty cents. Besides this it turns out twenty-five pounds of meal, and putting this at the same price of guano, we have fifty cents worth of fertilizer or stock feed There are thirty bushels of seed in every bale of cotton-a clear profit to the farmer of $15? leaving out the value of the oil. So putting cotton at ll cents per pound, you see the seed brings him in more than a third as much as the lint, upon which crop we have heretofore solely depended for our money. Cotton seed are to? day worth 35 cen ts per bushel to the grower, and I believe that in less than five years they will bring 40 or 50 cents. Our people ara getting tast aroused to this new source of wealth, and it wont be many years before you will see a cotton seed oil mill in every neighborhood. Farmers will carry their seed to it the same as they now do their corn to some grist mill. It will enable us to raise cotton cheaper, save the money we are now paying for guano, and at the same time re? store our worn out lands. I tell you these colton seed oil mills are the grandest enterprise on this continent, and wil' be worth more than any other manufactory we could build. They are going to revolutionize the agriculture of the South, and you know that we farmers badly need a change of some kind/ 'Can you give us any estimate as to the cost of one of these mills V we asked. 'Yes ; for I have been writing for prices, with a view of putting up one myself. To get a mill in running order will cost about ?1,800 ; but they can and will soon, be built cheaper. A large company is now at work on these mills, and intend to manufac? ture a small size for farm purposes. 1 do not know what they will be worth, but they will doubtless be in reach <>f all.' Mr. Snfith is :io visionary man, but a so!id, practical farmer, who never endorses a thing unless he knows what he is doing. During the Cle? ment attachment craze he examined into the matter and informed U3 at once that there was not much money in them. But he is enthused on the subject of cotton seed oil mills, and gives them his unqualified indorse? ment. We will investigate this subject further and let our readers know all we can leam about their worth .-Southern Cultiva tor. Mrs. Davis forbade Johu Doyle, a saloon keeper at North Adams, Mass., to sell her husband any more rum. *As long as he has money to buy with,' said Boyle, 'he can get drinks at my bar.' Davis abused this privilege by getting drunk at once, and while in that condition had both legs cut oif by a locomotive. Mrs. Davis got a ver? dict of ?7,500 against Doyle, and the Supreme Court has confirmed it. Suits with similar results are constantly beu^Hwoughtlu numerous States un? der civu damage laws which arc sub Bt&Bjtftfy alike io their provisions. lu SfirFrfociscp a society bas been form? en to ^prosecute such oases free of cbargef Working County Hoads. Now is the season, says the Indus? trial South, for a fair estimate and a proper appreciation of the.advantages ofgood county roadsover the disadvan? tages of bad county roads. To say nothing of the discomfort and danger of the long exposure of the drivers of teams hauling on bad county roads during the winter months, the gains in time saved and in quanity carried, ought to be a sufficient consideration 1 to induce every reflecting man living | iii the country to agree to unite in any reasonable movement for the im? provement of the public roads of his count}'. M '' The same reason that brought the railroads into existence, ought to . bring the county roaus into the best possible condition that can be made consistent with the necessary cost. The railroad car is quicker, greater.in capacity, and cheaper as a means ol' transportation ithan the old wagon which it has superseded ; and so, too, a well garded, well-drained, and, if practicable, well-gravelled county road will be found similarly superior. to the old road iii'old condition, with ruts, and holes, and steep hills re quiring four horses to do the'work bl one, afid consuming a whole day when four or five hours, ou a good road would be ample. This is a serious question of econ? omy, in which the interests of lami? ere are much more deoplv involved than all farmers may suppose. And, although men engaged in agriculture are exceptionally slow in new move? ments, the}* are nevertheless men of eleur heads and practical intelligence, and the day is not distant, tve hope, when, after carefully estimating .the costaud reasonably computing the profits, they will set to work earnest? ly in co-operation for improving their county roads wherever improve? ments are.needed. Farming on a Credit. Col. Isaac VV. Avery, in his 'Rich? mond' letters from Atlanta to the Augusta ( kronicle, thus forcibly dis? cuses the borrowing ol money to run a farm with. The subject is one of overshadowing importance, and that paper deserves credit for inaugurating the agitation. The system of getting advances for merchants of provisions and fertilizers at time prices has kept the farmer a slave to his factor, es specially when the farmer bas neg-, lected to raise provisions and give his farm to cotton. Necessity ad? mits of no argument. Men to get a start had to borrow. Exclusive cot? ton raising keeps farmers starving all the time, aud does not relieve their necessity, but rather increases it. As a simple business truth no man, farm? er or merchant, can pay high interest as his fundamental expense and make business pay. Ile will be swamped sooner or later. The farmer must economize, and raise his provisions. Until he can? do these twp essential things his farm? ing will not pay. A firm here from the West, Nelson and Barker, have loaned a million dollars to ?iur farm? ers on five year's time, iu sums from three hundred dollars to one thousand, and laken mortgages, The farmer pays them down a year's inter?s* of 8 per cent, and the agent's commis? sion of 2 per ceiit. for the whole five years in advance, aud ali costs, etc. It makes about 12 per cent interest a year. This is a better rate than the 30 or 40 per ceiit. interest for provi? sions to factors. Iiis money that, be borrows will buy supplies.and manure at cash prices, making an immense saving. But here is the rub. Ile borrows l?rger amounts, pays out the first year fully 20 per cent interest iu cash, cannot pay his debt in install? ments, but only at the end of five years, will fiudV his yearly interest about all he can pay, will not there? fore save up annually a portion for the filial payment, and when the pay day rolls around he will have to borrow again,, or be sold ou f. The Northwestern Life Insurance Company, eight or ten . years ago, loaned about ?100,000 in, Georgia on mortgage at 10 per cent, interest. This is less interest than is paid Nel? son and Barker. The majority of these loans were collected by fore? closure and sale of the property. It is rather the exception that mortgages are redeemed. Judging them by past experience the borrowers of the million of money above mentioned have a bad outlook before them. These are only my own views and bind no one else. Debt is a remorse? less t3*rant, and I doubt the beuefit of j capital that encumbers our private farms. In my judgment the only exit of the farmer from his troubles is econonijj, self-denial and raising his own supplies. Make more home made manure, produce provisions and live hard and dress cheap, until the farm briugs money to do better. This is better than debt. Cared for as if She was a Trotting Horse. Few, indeed, are tho people who can I keep up the round of Wa?hingtou gay ety without sadly showing their weari? ness. An exception to this rule is a young daughter of an army officer sta? tioned in that cit}. All winter she has been busy with receptions aud diuuers, j kettledrums and germans, aud on j Wednesday, as she came into Mrs. Chandler's parlors, she looked as fresh and rosy as if it were her first day. ! My curiosity was aroused, and present? ly I had an opportunity to inquire of i her how it was that she was able to en dure that to which stronger women yielded. '-Oh," she replied, laughiug, j ..mamma is almost a crank on that sub- | ?oct. She is bouud I shall not look ! passe at the end of this my second j winter. Every night when I get home, . no matter how tired I am, a warm i bath is given rae, after which I drink a j bowl of boullon, and am put to bed in i the guest chamber, which is more quiet than my own. In the morning I am not called, but arise when I awake, which is not often before lunch time. It grows monotonous, I assure you, but if j I go, I have to submit. I tell aiamma she treats me as if I was a Maud S. or j a prize fighter." j Samsons Down in Georgia. From the Athens Banner-Watchman. Our young friend Jacks, is clerking at Dorsey's, is one of the stoutest men in Athens. He can takff six sacks of shot in each hand, holdifethe bags between his fingers, and t?rrr them with easo. Ile can also lioid but three sacks at arm's length. Bill Beusse can take a large-sized keg of beer and hold it up at aral's length over his head, without the same touching his person in being Raised up. Judge Nicholson says he has taken a heavy anvil in each hand and carried them across a room. But this was in the dim and distant past. Wyatt Upshaw, a negro in A?hens, has been seen to take a heavy bale of cotton on his shoulders and carry 'H across the street. Mr. R. K. Reaves says he has seen a man named Harri? son carry three sacks of salt, weigh? ing over six hundred pounds, across Broad street at one time. A man once lived in Athens who could take the largest-sized sledge hammer be? tween his teeth and heave it over hip head from between his legs. - i ? i mm ' No Excuse. .When I was a young man,' said an old lawyer,. 'I.speut several years in the South residing f.?r a time at Port Gibson on the Mississippi river. . A great deal of litigation was going . on there about that time, and it was not always an easy matter to obtain a jury. One day I was summoned to act in that capacity, and repaired to court to. get excused. On my came being called, I informed his honor thc judge that' I was not a freeholder, and therefore not qualified th serve.* *Yon board "al:, tbe hotel, I presume/said the judge." 'I take my meals there, butliave'roortrs at another part of the town, where I lodge.' *So you keep bachelor's hall?' .Yes, sir.' ?How long baveyouK lived in that man uer?' 'About six months.' *I think you,are qualified,' gravely re^ j marked the judge, 'for ? have; never known a mau to? keep bachelor's halt the length of time you name rwbov.hacU not dirt enough in his room to make him a freeholder. The coort dees;not ex? cuse you.' . . ' Vulgar ffai>its. _ Asking questions private and person? al is a vulgar habit, and telling t your own busioess, which, no , one wants to hear is another. Asking" the cost of a present that bas be?? made to you, loud taking in publics hard staring at table, insolent di.srepect to husband* wife, sister or brother, showing temper' io trifles, and making scones in public, showing an embarrassing amount of fondness, and making love in public, covert sneers, of which' -people can see the animus, if they do not always tio derstand the drift; persistent egotism, which talks forever of itself, and cannot ' even feign the most passing interest ia another, detraction of friends, and^it ; may be relatives, a husband telling bis unpleasantness,, a wife complaining of . ber husband's faults, the bold asump tion of superiority, and the servile con-. fession of infinite, un worthiness-all these are signs and evidences of val garity-vulgarity of aworse*ype than that which eats its fish with knife, - and * says: 'You was/ and- 'Each of the men were.' * A Puritan Pineapple. . It was in the early days of tbe Ply? mouth Bay colony that John Josselyn., thc Puritan naturalist, wrote a hook which he labelled 'New England Bari? ties.' It is a queer work, and here isa gravely funny passage from it: .Happening into a fine, broad walk,* he writes. *I wandered till I chanced to spy a fine fruit, as I thought, like a pineapple plaited with scales. It was as bi" as the crown of a woman's fiat. I made bold to step up to it with an intent* to have picked it. No sooner had I touched it but hundreds of wasps were about me At last I cleared roy?elf from them, but by the tim? I was coro> into the house they hardly knew me but by my garments!' It is safe to assume that Master' Josselyn afterward sedulously avoided the kind of pineapple known in New England as the hornets' nest. Why* Not? The schools in Newberry have adopt? ed tbe two town papers iostesd of text books iu reading. The scholars will thus be brought face to face with the issues of thc day. and learn of the doiugs of men and thiogs which in oo other way would be brought to their notice. If a good newspaper was used in every school and academy ha tbe land, the varied inforaiation thereby gained would give so great an advan? tage that the text book makers of tbe day would have to seek some other occupation.-Florence Times, Major Palmer has roused a great deal of anger and delight in Boston by his refusal to audit the bills of thc Ald? ermen for refreshments. They had ?De come accustomed to celebrate suppers after every evening meeting, and some of them, uot satisfied with what they could consume at thc table, carried home large quantities of wiuc and cigars. An attempt was mnde to compromise with the Mayor, but he has refused to allow a dollar of the claims to bc paid. The accounts at two leading hotels amount to over ?5,000 for tne first two months of this year. The Boston J iv mil has taken pains to get reports from the principal cities of the country on thc subject, and it appears that official juketing has almost entirely gone out of fashion. More than one-sixth of*the water in the Mississippi goes out now by the Atchafalaya instead ofthrough the jet? ties. A committee of prominent citi? zens of New Orleans are about to inves? tigate the matter and recommend measures for preventing the further en? largement of the Atchafalaya. 'Pa, is it right to call a man hort in Poland a Pole?' 'Of course, tty child-' ?Well, then, if a man ts born in Hollaod is be hole ? 'Tat, tali ,TU answer no more of your silly ques? tions.1