The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 17, 1885, Image 1

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"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends .tho? Aimst at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's/' PAWCA???? fit?d i'iife iL -1881/1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I7, 1385., | Kew Series-Tol. IV. No. 20. M?isked ?sar? Tuesday, ? , ' . ? -SF THB;- :" . ' ^Vr^chi?j^"^^f^out?pn Publishing . ? 'Compaity, stimEK 10. c; Two ?oljkrs ^er^aotta?^ - jo advance. ; ig S very subsequentlasert?on........'50* Ccmriw^ for tlrree;i?oniAsr.*vor longer will - h^ ma.^ ?i:t?!$^ce? rates.^ ^ - All t?ittmim?tio private ini?restStW?Ubechacged for as ad vecti-seraents. 3 ; - ^ will be \ * ^Rrge^^?^ ^>\ ;;b-r'Vy; ?arrfag'e hot ices arid- notices Of deaths* pao- ; lisbed;^ ; ' . ^ ' ' " :?y>;)Po? Job- worjc oTcontracts for advertising \ eA?rvss? Watchman and Southron, or apply at '??^?J^to^f1^ "??. 'G. OSTEEN, . ^Jf?'^?^S/ ; * > Basmess,M?bager. m THE .:/;?/ ->::.. 'ATj?TT? TJ,Mj-\\V <^m?mm J*utl*lmM.?.^e^aM delicately and ?at ^->l,a'rj4Vp-*?lM--l> Ultr,freti? TOJUoh tktjarewulo. MK STKENGl ? 15? ?RTJE FB?IT IH?ce Baking Powder CoM ^Dt??^o?:llfc- St. Louis, Mo. v- . r.-;^^.>^.,.^. ?Alte? or - - . .... .*.???-? frdte^?wam Bdkln* Powder Br. ?r??B^I7Bpnnn I^ast Gems, BcitJDrjrHop Yeast '." K ?rrr, ?srsr . ^socssss. - WE iUKE BUT ?-\B Q?^Lrrr. '; vii?'.vrif fc?>o Yeast sn toe worid. Bread ,-.? ! -^^3; ?'-%??sf is jBgfct^ .gfritffiand jwaoie? ?: -.- ly-- . i as <TT^clrr?titheg!iR ^Hffrr-os bread ' MM *"-- ?V, -"rf '^l?^<i rv*'--*' ^rrv^--^-rw II anju aaTCMMaamil ?>nc^ Sc?k?^ir (Powder Co., ?-^?-ygwi ?Lina? mw ? i i? -mi-x?v?^3%i>?QW? Fr/r Coiisumtion . Asthma.. Bronchitis, Chronic*and Ne&Q?t&is&d?rt. .Y:'. A' CARD. We. th*- uod-rsiirned. having received great ?ind fXiTHttne-it **-nefi i f roo) I be use of "CUM POV1St?V??G&:"T>njp*nd aod j^dmiais tetjed-bvi Das ;5TARKKY* FaLEH^of Phiiadei phia, and being <?t??^?. that it is a new dis? covery in medical science, and ail that is clahaed-for it. consider -it a du tv which we oir? to tbe many rhobsa?ds who ?ire suffering from chronic and.. SOTCHUHI "iocurable" dis -eBS^O.^o^H.^at.we'can to make its virtues known and to inspire the puMic with con? .dence. .We bave personal knowl**dge of Drs. Star keyA: Palen'. They ?ire educated. inteHigent. an^cooscientioos physicians, who will not, we are*sure, make any statement, which tbey do notrkoow or i>eii**ve.to *.e true, nor pub? lish any testimonials or reports of cases which ?re*'not "genuine, WM.. D. KELLY, Member of Congrexs. from, Philadelphia. T. S ARTH HR. Editor and PwAisher *lArthur*s Mom Magazine,*''- Philadelphia. - V. L. Qp^RAD Editor* of . "Lutheran Observer^ . Philadelphia. .PHrLADKtPHiA. PA , Jess 1, 1882. ? ?n order to me?*t a natural inquiry in re? gard to our profeisiitnal and persona! stand iogvi-and to z*** inrr?-ased coo&dence in oar jliweroents aod in the aenuiness of our testi toonialsand report.* of ca*es, wa print the .covecard fro*n gen)lernen " wr!l und widt'v known and oi'.rbe hi^hesr -jersoQMl ?;bs?rjic*"?-r Our ^Treatiseon Compound Oxygen, ob? taining .a-history of the discovery of nxx-\ ?ode of action of this remarkable curative agent, and a larjje record of surprising cures V> Consomption. Catarrh. Neuralgia. Bronchi tis, Asthma, etc t and a wide range of Chron? ic diseases, will be sent free. .Address Drs. STARKEY k PALEN. 1109 % H U Girard Street. Ph?adelpnia.. Pa iT. H. Folsom, ' ? ~L. W. Folsom. ---KSTAB'D JS6S F. H. FOLSOM & BRO, Practical Watchmaksrs and Jewelers, 'Main- Street, opposite John ReifCs, SUMTER. S. C.? WALTHAM ts* o td o m o* o J? OM O {flocks, S?ver&are, Jewelry. Spectacles, * Cutlery, Fishing Tackle. Violin r Strings, Machine Needles, ; Oils, ' ?c. - ?epairiog of Watches, Clocks and; Jewelry ? 7^ j?wap??f dooe and satisiac?oa '* A SCHOOL-DAY. /'Now, Jobo," the district teacher says, With frown that scarce can'hHie .The dimpling: smiles around her mouth, Where Cupid's hosts abide, "What bare you done to ?iary Ann, That she is crying- so? Doo'* say 'twas nothing*-don't, I say, ; |"or, John-, that can't be so. "For Mary Ano would never cry At nothing:, I am sure: And if you've wouo?t-d justice, Jobo, ;? jTou know the.only eure ; . Is punishment! So, con?-, stand up; Transgression must abide Tbe pain attendant on the scheme,. Tha^makes iv jris?6|d." So John steps ?&?b, with sun-burued face, t. At?d-bair all in a tumble. Bis.laughing eyes a contrast to . His drooping mouth so .humble. . ^Now,- Mary..y ou must tell me all ' . I ?ee that John will not, j And if Tie's heen unkind or rude, I'll whip bim on the spot." "W-we were p-plavin.' p-yriV-ner's base. .Aha* b.-be is s-soch a t tease, 'An* w-when I w-wasti't Mookin'. m-ni a'am H beh-kt?s?dme-if you please!" Upon tbe teacher's face; the smiles Bave triumphed o'er the frown, .ATjileasaot thought runs through her mind, "-^Tbe stick conies harmless down, . Bot outraged law must be avenged! Begone, ye smiles,' begone! IA way, ye little dreams of love,. . 'Come on, ye frowns, com? on! |f*I think -i'll bave to whip you. J<>bn, I Such conduct breaks tbe nile: }?a boy, except a naughty one, Would kiss a girl-rat school - 'Abrain the teacher's rod is raised, ;*$A Nemesis she stands- s A premium "were put on sin,x If punished by such hands! A^wben the bee explores the rose ' ^ese? the petals tremble, So trembled Mary's rose-bud lips I Ber bean would not dissemble. "I wouldn't whip bim very bar?" . ':' Tbe stick stops io ?ts fall ."fl vkan7t rtgbt to do it, but * wI? didn t burt'atali!" *? Wh*? made you cry, theo, Mary Ann?" ' Tbr school's noise makes a. pause, And Ont op?n the* listening air, From Mary comes "Beeaase." MIS L?TTEXOVE. A snowy January afternoon. Through the-- little windows of the warm waiting-room two travelers saw Jtifie snow blowing across the whitened "fields, a? d heard the sweep of the wind among the leafle-s branches and against '.the window-panes. ^ A gentleman of about thirty stood by the wmdow* one arm resting on a little shelf, ^hd-eyes bent en the girlish face beside* him. He was not handsome, yet his wa'S"&face one would look, at with as mitch, or with more interest than if the features were as perfect as Apollo's own/ - - ; The eyes and month were full of pow? er, theiformer" especially, wonderfully expressive, and, as he spoke now, full of easy, quizzical regard. uA'c you afraid of me Miss Marion? Do you think.1 shall-prove a tyrannical or lenient guardian?" e.-- ?.l am not the least bit afraid of you, sir!" the young lady called Marion an? swered, >n a cold business-like voie looking him in the-eye. * "Not afraid? How strange!" he said, the smile around his mouth deep? enin?:. "Do you generally inspire those who meetyou with awe, Mr.. Yann?" "Tam a lawyer." he replied, "there? fore blessed with second sight, of course. Not only do we judge by the outward evidence of the thoughts in a client's heart, but the meer working of the vi? tal org n is an open book to us. Your ' thoughts now-:-" Ke paused. 4'\ycii.?:" sae'asked impatiently. "Ar? not nattering to nie. You con? sider me a? unmitigated bore, very cold and professional-not good-looking. You long for the school left behind in the South, where days like this were unheard of and where the college stu? dents dedicated ?owery sonnctsto your beauty." The girl riushed and darted a quick, angry glance at him from the dark eyes under the little tissue veil strapped across her nose. "You are pleased to be sarcastic,'" she.said, with a little sneer and shrug; but of what matter is it? If it amuses you, sir, it amuses? me infinitely more. I am not afraid of your satire-neither do I like you!" J rome Vann raised his brows in un- ' feigned surprise. She was so petite, so childish in ap? pearance despite her 18 years, and the open animosity she expressed was .so novel. It was all ; efreshing, and he watched her amusedly as she went to a distant corner and -buried herself ?n a novel, to the complete exclusion of h ni? sei'-. AH he could see beneath the book was a pair of extremely, lovely red lips, and those he wat ned steadily, scar ely aware of it. Five minutes passed, tick? ed lowly off by the clock in" the empty wait ng room, and a brown euri appear? ed above the rim of the book, then one curious and brightly angry eye, which met his and disappeared like a flash. Jerome laughed. He knew that, by that outburst of mirth, he totally lost all vantage 2Tound with her, but he could not help it Still smiling, he walked slowly to her side. j "Do not freeze me!"" he said pathet I ically, holding out his hand; "we must i be friends you know." "Not at all!" she said coldly. "I am absolutelv sure we shall never agree! Ectter begin as we shall surely end!" "You dislike me?" "I have said so!" she answered, turn? ing th? leaf.' "And why?- Because I have been un? fortunate enough to have unwittingly offended you?" "You have laughed at mc. 1 do not know what name they give that in the North; but, in virginia, we should cali that unmannerly." "If I have been so. Miss Romero, ? sincerely beg your pardon," Jerome said, stiffly, and retired to tue window, to whistle ttfe "Exile of Erin," in most distracting discords, until th? train puffed in. s * * * * * * Jerome sat by the library fire, a cigar between his lips, his hands clasped idly, his eyes almost closed. He was listening to a story which in? terested him. A younger man was also sitting by the fire, a cane in his hand, and his cha resting on the top of iL He was ! a very handsome young fellow, and the firelight playing on his head, turned. his hair to gold, and made the intense, earnest blue eyes seem black. "I have loved her from the begin? ning," he said, slowly. "Through all the past months I have loved Marion silently; now I will tell her of it, with jvu* permission, ana learn my late. Bettemltimate rejection than this sus? pense." "Ned Buffington, you love my ward?" Jerome asked, calmly, and no i evidence that his heartwas beating like [ a boy's could be seen in his face. "You j love/ter-truly, you say?" . _ ._ . . | ."I do! Upon my honor!" Ned plied. "That surely is not stran Could a man, seeing her constantly, I have done, not lose his heart tohei "You know, of coarse, that she ^ left a fortune?" Jerome asked aga in the same quiet way. "I have heard so. Perhaps, inde it is the on y thin?: to be regretted, I love her, and have abundance both," Ned answered regretfully.. Her guardian stood up, and his f? was very pale. "It isno longer tobe regretted. M ion has nothing! In the recent faih she lost it ali!'?" "All!" thc young fellow echoed, a there was silence. "Marion is very proud," Jerome c< tinned. "If she knew that she was i absolutely in ependent of my bom she would not stay an hour longer 1 n ath this roof. But, poor child, - need never know; at least, until ali she has been married." The deep, expressive voice ceas with a regretful ring, and then he cc eluded, more cheerfully. "Go, and I wish you success in yo wooing!" Ned wrung his hand and left t room, and in a few moments Jeroi followed. For a While the fire glowed on noisi in the grate, the wind howled, and i. quiet remained unbroken; then t heavy velvet curtains were drawn bac and Marion stepped out from behind. Her face was as pallid as a ghost1 her dark eyes were burning with fier* pride, and" very angry; her lips we trembling with'^ excitement and su pressed resentment. A prettier picture of enraged prit could not be se. n. "Great heaven!" she cried with passionate stamp. ?"What deceit! Ho often have; I hu led the fact in his fat that I was .glad, infinitely glad that owed him nothing.' He calmly heai me, knowing t- at|fc- was;a beggar's di lusion he was listening to!" Shenau ed, and her flashing eyes turned on tl chair he had lately occupied. "Ho1 he detests, me, too, " she said. "I ha\ never tried-to win his favor-we-.ha\ never been friendly, and. to think th: for weeks past, of perhaps months, have eaten his bread and spent his mot ey, thinking it entirely my own. Bi itisover-r-I sh ali. not stay. In tl wide world there is surely room for m to earn my bread!" She drew back the curtain and lool ed out The stars were shining fros ily, but the wild March wind was ma) ing havoc of every stray leaf and ira? ment in its path. The streets were deserted. It wa an unusually bitter night of that bin terous month, a night when humanit keeps its head, snail-like, indoon "when the crackle of a bright fire wa the sweetest sound On earth. Marion, with a little shiver, turn away. "Imus*go!" she muttered, "not ar other night will I stay here abeggar o his bounty. Old'Mrs. Chaplin, thong?] she is poor, will keep mc for my moth er's sake until I get something to d and pay her back!" Sh i paused a sec ond by Jerome's arm-chair, and leane* her arm on the back of it. "I wish wish he did not dislike me so," sh whispered, and the tears tempted th? lustre of her eyes. "It was my abom inable temper at first, and now he i tired of me, and would gladly marr; me to tiie first coxcomb that asks." This mood only lasted a second, an( all the old .fierceness returned. "But what am I doing?" she said dashing away the tears and trying to control her quivering lips. "Do . not hate this "man-this superior-bein^ th.it treats me a child? Ami noi glad by accident 1 learned the truth o; my position? Certainly! Am 1 noi delighted at the possibility of feeling independent, away from his benevolent smile? I am; and the time will com? when Jerome Vann will wonder that he ever laughed at me or my vagaries." . All the warm Southern nature arous? ed, she went to the desk and began tc write a note to this detested guardian. "Sir," it dashed off, "ten minutes since I learned my position in youi house, and it is such an undesirable one that I renounce it this night. You, who have disapproved of me so strong? ly, will no doubt be glad to learn that I have broken from your reins and fled. Good night and good-by to you, sir. MARION. "P. S.-I distinctly and emphatically refuse to marry Mr. Bluffington." An hour later she was on the street, the wind blowing her cloak, and twist? ing her veil until it looked like a signal of distress. There was nothing of the heroine about her as she hurried along, keeping on the darkest side of the street, her head lowered, and her tears dropping thick and fast. Poor Marion*! The first touch of the world, in which she stood alone, was cold and blustery. The weeks passed on by leaden feet Advertisements and detectives- were both of no avail, and Jerome Vann's face grew strangely old and sad, for Marion's whereabouts still remained a mystery. x He loved her far more than he ever realized. He longed to see that spirit? ed, magnetic face again, and to hear the pert, merry voice which had made such drollery of his well-meant advice. Day after day passed, each one an ex? act repetition of the preceding one, and all very weary, sickening blanks to the rich lawyer in his stately home. It was June. Sunny, soft weather reigned in the city. Roses bloomed ev? erywhere, in florists windows, in mar? ket carts, in wealthy gardens-every? where the fragrant bunches of different hued flowers waved in the breeze. Jerome was standing at his library window, looking out at the throng of promenaders and open carriages dash in z along. His eyes were no longer tilled with suspense, they were far worse-calm and hopeless. He had left nothing untried to dis? cover her whereabouts, and it had all been worse than useless. He had been beating his heart out with pain, in al? ternate hope and failure, in passionate longing, and now ali was over. With? out any renewed vigor he was still kept tn professional duties, trying, but vain? ly, to take u:> the thread of existence as though Marian had never been known and dearly loxed. He took lip his hat and cane and went out His steps led him to Broad? way. The thoroughfare was crowded and he walked slowly along, 1rs moody iaee, with its quietly bitter expression, in marked contrast to those around him. He paused to look at a picture which attracted a number of people. It was a quaint design in water colors, in tho shape of a small screen. The picture showed the -sea on a stormy day, with the floating spars and masts of a wrecked ship appearing above the angry waves in the distance, All the coloring of the picture is cen? tered in two figures on the shore. One, the dead body of a drowned sailor, curls lying on his forehead, his eyes closed, his blue jacket torn, show? ing the powerful chest in which thc heart would never beat again. The other, a young girl with a face of ex? treme loveliness, though convulsed with anguish.. Her dress denoted that she was a fisher lass, and as she bent over the body of her lover, one hand over-his heart, the other holding on the little black hood she wore, the expression of her eyes were strangely real and touch? ing. The subject was an old one, yet this little water-color sketch held a quaint original oower of its own. Jerome looked at it, puzzled and fas? cinated. There wa3 a strange resem? blance in the man to some one he had known; nay, more. VVith wondering eyes he realized that it was a perfeet likeness of himself. . . Hs went into the store and bought it, at the same time obtaining the artist's address, and following the direction with feverish haste. The house was a small one, in astreet which the word "genteel" describes. On inquiring at the door for the artist who rdsides there he was told to knock at thc door at the end of the passage. He did so, but, receiving no answer, opened the door, and found himself in a shabby, clean, unoccupied room. An? other room adjoined it. Jerome ad? vanced hesitatingly, and stood on the. threshold looking in as though his hun? gry eyes would never be tired gaz.ngat the picture ?Wsaw there. Marion, in a plain black dress, was sitting at an easel, the brush lying idle in her lap, and her eyes turnedlanguid ly toward the open window, through which the sunbeams, were straying. Her. figure looked very slight, and out of the pale face her eyes shone with unhealthy luster. She turned and .?aw him standing in the doorway. Without a start or sound, or any ehange of feature except the tightening oi her lips, she rose to her feet Jerome came forward and took the feverish, unresisting hand in his. What would he say? In what words express the suffering of the past weary months? She was before him now, and .the wild, impassionate, torrent he had immagined bursting forth from his lips at this happy moment had completely deserted him. When he spoke at last the words were commonplace enough, but they covered the entire ground. "I never thought to see you again, Marion; but I have found you." "And you really remember me so long?" she asked, with a flash of some? thing like the old defiance. The expression which came into his eye answered her, and he took the pic? ture from its wrappings. "This led me to.you," he said, with impressive tenderness, "and it also told - me that yon had remembered me so long." . Marion flushed and turned away, bit she could notMeny it The proof w?s there. Jerome drew her to his faithful heart, which h:id suffered many a bitter throb for his little love, and kissed her with solemn,heartfelt earnestness. Thus peace was . declared between them forever.. A week later they were marr ed in Mrs. Chap n's little front room, andi after a C nadian tour, Marion settle? in the old homo in a new character. Philadelphia News. x Cruelty to Cockroaches. . * He entered the office of the Superin? tendent bf Police with a black eye, a skinned nose, and other evidence of to? tal depravity: and, wi|hout waiting tc be asked whether he'had been knocked down by an ice-wagon or run over by a butcher-cart, he led off with: "It was off up this way on some street or other, and I was never so misused in my life. I'm a square man, and all I want is a square deal and a fail show." "Well?" "Well, I sat there drinking a glass o? beer, when in comes a chap with eyes Uko peeled, onions and a nose which gaye him away forty rods bri. He had two cockroaches in a box, and he was a tricky man." "What was his game?" . "It was to draw a circle about two feet across on the table with a piece ol chalk, and then'dump the cockroaches in the centre. He'd select one and I the other, and whichever roach ran ov? er the circle first took the money. Say! it looked like a square deal." "Yes." "Well, I put dowti a dollar, and se? lected a cockroach with a sort of wart over his left eye. The insects clawed ' around for a while, and acted like a cat in a strange garret. Then his roach traveled off about a foot, and wheeled and came back. Then mine squinted his right eye and made a break. He saw the cold lunch on the table ten feet awav, and he was After it." "?seo." / "He'd got within six inches of the chalk-line, and was just climbing for Limburger cheese, when the stranger he up and hauls off with a beer-glas3 and knocks my roach into the middle of next January." "What for?" "Why, he claimed that I rubbed my end of the table with taffy! I never did it! Stranger, I'm square-square as a hole in the grindstone. I grabbed the stakes and ne grabbed me. He got the money and I got a ricking. Can you do anything for me?" "K? more than to advise you to get a warrant" "Squire, I can't do it Tm on my way to Chicago, and can't tarry to fool with the law. If that's the best you can do, then good-by. I'm a square man, and never kick if I have half a show. I don't care particularly for the dollar, nor for this black eye and abused nose; but say! if that was?'f the brutal est, cold-bloodest way to serve a poor cockroach, then mav I be called a kick *r!"-Detroit Free ?ress. Tbe Journalist's Good Angel. "Oh, mercy! Let's go down quiek. [ wouldn't stay up here a* hour for a farm," exclaimed a young lady Who caught sight of a bevy of eockroaches icarnpering over an editor's desk. "Why, what's the matter? Isn't this ihe sanotum you have so often wanted k> see?'- said the editor, rather surprix id at her anxiety to get away, after in? citing herself up a doien times. "Those awful bugs, and you just left them run ovcr'your paper and on your Rothes and everywhere. I'd die, in? deed I would." .These," and he shook a couple of ine ones out of his sleeve, "Vhese are )ur nightly companions, our sleepless conservators of health. ' They are the guardian angels of a newspaper office. Were they to suddenly disappear I would be sure some dreadful scourge or ?al a mi ty was going to fall upon tho place, and I would flee Until I found a spot where th? cockroach felt at ?lome." "What docs it do but run over you?" "My dear child, it eats every bit of paste or other harmful waste that is ?eft lying about It is a scavenger whose business it is to destroy ferments. These, when absorbed in the erstem, ire very deleterious to health. S , you see, we have a motive in keeping on good terms with thc cockroach- He is ihe buzzard of the newspaper office." "Well, I think I'll go anyhow, as I want to get the next car.'1-Pittsburg Qif?atchi Humors of the Battle-Fiel ? Many humorous incidents oc< on battle-fields. A Confederate c ran ahead of his regiment at Mi Hill, and discovering that the mei not following him as closely as he ed, he uttered a fierce oath, an? claimed: . . "Come on! Do you want to liv? ever?" The appeal was irresistible, and a poor fellow who had laughed a colonel1 s queer exhortation laid his life soon after. A shell struck the wheel of a Ft field-piece toward the close of th( gagement at Fair Oaks, and, shiv the spokes, dismantled the cannot: "Well, isn't it lucky that didn't pen before we used up all our am] tum,1" remarked one of the artille as he crawled from beneath the gi When Gen. Pope was falling before Lee's advance "in the Vii Valley, his own soldiers though bulletins and.orders somewhat str in their rhetoric. At one of the erous running engagements that r ed that disastrous campaign, a pi in one of the Western regiments mortally wounded by a shell. S? the man's condition, a chaplain beside him, and opening his Bib] random, read, out Samson's slam of the Philistines with the jawbo? an ass. He had not quite, finished,1 as the story nuis, the poor fellow i rupted the reader by saying: "Hold on, chaplain. Don't dec? dying man. Isn't the name of ? Pope signed to that?" A column of troops' were pus forward over the long and winding in Thoroughfare Gap to head on after his retreat across the Potoma the close of the Gettysburg campz Suddenly the signal officer who ac< panied the general in. command dis ered that some of his men, posted < high hill In the rear, were reporting presence of a considerable body of* federate troops on top of the blufl rho right. A halt was at oncesoun ;*nd the leading brigade . ordered ward to uncover the enemy's posit The regiments were soon scrambling the steep incline officers and men lantly racing to see who could ri the crest first. A young lieutenant some half-dozen men gained the vance, but at the end of what 1 deemed a perilous climb they ? thrown into convulsions of laughtei discovering that what the" signal 1 took for Confederate troops was on] tolerably large flock of sheep. . As leaders in this forlorn hope rolled tho grass in a paroxysm of merrinii they laughed all tho louder at see the pale but determined ff? ces of ti comrades, who, of course, came up ly expecting a desperate hand-to-h; struggle. It is perhaps needless to say the gade supped on mutton that "eveni -Boston Budget. His Magnum Opus. A well-known New York artist ha little place in the country that is pride and delight, and upon which spends all his spare time in manual bor. One day he met some of neighbors, among whom was. a li who at every meeting insisted ur talking art. She at once accosted h with, "Oh, Mr.-, so glad io see y Upon what work are you engaged now "One of the greatest Of my life, nu am," replied the artist impressively. "Indeed! Do. tell us all about it. do so love to know of such things 1 fore they are given to thc general pi lie! What is the nature of the wort "Its nature, madam, is heroic, a the treatment demanded is of the bo! est. I am now engaged in washing t surface, which is so large that even ti simple task will occupy me sevei days." "Why, Mr.-, you surprise nc How large is the canvas?" - "It is not canvas, madam; it is woo and in the four sides of the barn that am whitewashing are about 3600 squa feet."-Editors Drawer, in E?rpei Magazine for November. WHET* ASP "jtfUMOR. We believe it was a Boston girl w remarked that thc remains were "bea tifully upholstered." A Boston girl fell in love with a gra haired old man, and some of her a quaintances were mean enough to s; that she has got the antique craze. A patent has been granted in Was ington for a "hen's nest." The on wonder is that somebody has not got patent on she hen.-I'hiicdclphia Call A Burlington boy sent for a fifty ce; watch, and received a sun*diai. ? has named it "Faith," because fai without works is dead. A Vermont man has lost a goo; that was said to be 300 years old. has probably gone to join the Mich ganders. Mrs. Murphy: "Ooh, it's awful, th< paypul what's buried aioive! If I t living whin I'm dead, Pat, don't be a ther burying me aioive!" Taste in dress holds supremacy eve in the far west. A Miles Cit}' editor1 wife wears red to match her-husband1 nose. "Killed at a Spelling Bee." is th heading of a sensational item going th rounds. People wi il persist in wrest ling with words that are too hard fo them **I know the man wi io pokes fun a my visual infirmities," said the man ii spectacles. "He's a chap that goe about vmxh an ear-trumpet and a 4Wha d'ye say.' " A New York man has asked for a di vorce because a mustache is sprouting on his wife's Iii). As a rule, it make: a man mad to have any mustache oi his wife's lip but his own. The game in Wall street: "Simoi says up; Simon says down; Simon say* wiggle-waggle." His nameisn'tSimon, though, and he usually says "Down." -Fuck.. ..Civilization, on her luminous wingi I soars in the direction of lleno, Nev.," says the "Sacramento Dec. ""Tue squaw? in that vicinity have taken to using face powder." Mrs. Brown-"And so your husband lost his ieg. Isn't, it awiui?" Wife "You may well say ii. And it was only lust week'that he bought a new pair o? boots-a pair,.Mrs. Brown." A Boston letter-writer says that the publishers of the Youth's Compa?:.ion paid Tennyson $1.0(X) lor his "new poem." Softening of the brain all around.-Texas Siftings. The word "obey" has been stricken from the marriage service by Canada Methodists. This is right. The women won't obey, and there, 55 no use encour? aging thetu to commie perjury. Daughter-Arc ali men brutes, mam? ma? Marama-No, my dear: but some are. Daughter-Which ones are the brutes, mamma? Mamma-The mar? ried ones, my dear, j* A Utah paper uses the words "mel j low drama" four times in reviewing a ! theatrical performance given in its town. The critic evidently took a i mellow dram or two before ha wrote J the review. BILL ARP. The Philosopher is Hot % Against tbe Toothache; Write, my child-write somethii the Constitution. I don't care wha am too nervous. I can't think my thoughts. It'is perfectly horrible ful," but I reckon it is all righi reckon so. I wish there was not a I in my head. When they come, come with pain and peril, and keej poor child miserable, and when tbe they go with a torture that no phi phy can endure. Oh, my poor ja just look how it is swollen. I i sight. A pitiful prospect. I look a bloated*bond-holdcr on one side ol face, and no bonds to ^comfort me wonder what would comfort" a ma my fix. I have suffered more m< agODy from my teeth than from ev thing else put together. Samson coul pull them hardly, for they are all r ed .to the jawbone. I have been li1 io dread for a month, for I knew eyetooth was fixing up trouble; an< yesterday morning it. sprung a leal tbe breakfast table, and 1 jumped of my chair. The shell caved in, nerve was touched, and in my agoi gave one groan and retired like I w funeral. Five miles from town anc doctor. Don't put down what I su ed all that day and the night foll?n for you can't. Mush poltices and c phor and paragoric and" bromide chloroform and still the proc?s; moved on, and the jumping, throbb agony sent no flag of truce-no.ce tion of hostilities. What do I care anything. Don't tell me abooS He ricks being in Atlanta. I don't c where he is. Yes I do. He is a g man, but I've got DO time to thiok ab him now. Please give me some ni of that camphor. I've burned all skin off. my mouth now but it counter-irritant and sorter scatters pain around. If I had some morphin would take it for I want rest. I tired. Oh .for one short hour of rest W7rite something, my daughte write to the Constitution and expia Tell them I am -'Billy in the 1 grounds." I ara sofferiog and w sympathy. Write a note to the doct and tell him to come, come quick, can't go'through another night, ( my country.- ?ct me try that hot ii again, i'll cook this old fat jaw outs and inside. I wish I had no tongi for I can't keep it from touching i plaguedtootb. Just look at my gut they have swelled up so you can han see the old tooth. Gye me a knife a a band glass. Fil see if I can't some blood out of those strutting gun l am so nervous I can't hardly hold.-! knife,but here she goes. .Oh, my cou try, now give me the camphor and 1 Itt it born in a new place. Just write a line to the Constiiutic I don't care what-say I am sick-; wonder if the doctor will come. \ will kill me-I know. It is awful think of cold steel-clamping this too audieing ;jaramed aw-ay up on ?he gums. I'll take, chloroform I reek for I can't stand it. I am afraid he w come. I want him and I don't wa him. The last- tooth I bad pulled went to the dentist's office like a he aud I was glad he wasn't in-glad 1 door was locked-and for two more da I endured my agouy aud then had have it gulled at last. And -he pull me all to pieces and the chloroform 1( me before he got done and I bad.; awful time. The memory of it is e cruciating, and yet I have got to < through the same thiner again.. "O the pity of it, Iago, the pity of it What bas a man got teerb tur I wou like to know? it is the brute that is : him, the .dog. or the old Adam that ev luted from* the monkeys. There nothing God-like about teeth. Thc bite, that is all. They are. culled "cai ines." I saw a man bite, another.mun nose off once-the teeth did it. Tit?- e\ God-like, angelic.. beautiful, harm les The ear is a good thing too. for if tak< in the harmonies of nature aud mak< music sweet-music that is tue o?I thing common to angels and to mee The uose is gentle and ornamental, bl is not of much coiiseqnence except t blow off a bad cold and tell the diffei once between-cologne and codfish. Bi ibe teeth. Well, I think that fais ones are better than the genuine, fe they never ache. I dou't care for an now. I am tired. These women ca have eight or ten pulled at one time just to gej; a Dew set. How in the worl do they stand it? Pride, I reckon womanly pride, womanly nature. He love of the beautiful. But we men cai wear a mustache and'hide a whole setc rotten snags. If women baa beard th dentists would perish. Tbere she goes again, and then boom Let me try some more paragoric ant camphor. May be I can go to sleej after a while if I will keep dosing, wish I had justa small graio of dyna? mite behind that tooth, just at the enc of the roots. I would explode it if i killed me." * * * * *; The.doctor coming you say! Merci ful heavens ! Well, let him come. It the language of Patrick Henry. "I re peat it, sir, let him come." Lay on McDuff- cold steel forceps, wrenching twisting, crusbiDg, ' gouging. I don%t believe 1 have got a friend in the world I almost wish 1 was dead. Teeth are a humbug-a grand mistake-a blundci -an eyetooth especially that sends iti roots away up under the eye and makei 0c abcess there. They say a child i: smart when it cuts the eyetooth. I be? lieve I hud rather do without and be a a fool. I have had rheumatism and all sorts of pains, but I wit! compromise on anything but thc toothache. I've a great respect for dentists, for they do the best they can. to relieve maukind from this most miserable agony. - Good morning, doctor. I suppose 1 am the unfortunate individual you hav/: come to doctor J am ready for the rack. Get out your chloroform and your steel-jawed grabs ; I am ready for the sacrifice. Is that a dagger that I see before ma ? Father is in bis little bed. He is asleep uow. The long agony is over. For nearly one hour we s* 11 wrestled with him, for the chloroform gave out He bad taken so many things before the doctor came that chloroform failed to subdue *him. It only made him de? lirious, when we could not bold bim we called io our blacksmith, aud even thou be polled us all over the room, an doctor had te take him on the wing, bid shell crashed and the roots ha be dag out in fragments, It was fal to hear him beg to go home, has morphine now and will be all in the morning. He told me to you something and I have written. BILL ARP, Per ] Just now be waked up and want know who whipped that fight, the p or the Monkey. j y- . - 100 Bales,;. Bach Weighing Pounds, from 219 Acres,, in a crop year. Aiken Recorder, Jan. 6. Knowing that }Jr. Lewis Bradi by 'liberal fertilising and. progref methods, has been gradually devi ing his farm near Aiken' to a high gree of fertility, we requested some months ago to give us the ac outcome of his cotton crop' for li after it had all been baled for the *t ket. A few days ago he handed in following 'result : He planted 119 acres, and bas c 50,817 pounds of cotton, which is e< Ito 100 bales weighing ?08'. 18 I pounds,-equal to a bale weighing I pounds from every one of the acres. When it is taken into con eration that. the crop was .materi cut by drought, some idea may formed as to what he-might have in with a favorable season. ; Fifty acres of the crop were plat on rows 4 feet wide, the plants sta ing 2 feet apart in the drill ; the raaining sixty-nine acres were plan on 3| feet rows, the plants chopped as usual to 8 or 10 inches apart. The laud was thoroughly prepa with two-horse ploughs, and recei the very best of cultivation, both v Sweep and hoe. The ' fertilization waa liberal, c sisting of cotton seed and commen manures, prepared and applied acco ing to Mr. Bradwell's own metbo Mr. Bradwell is a strong believer in goods sold by the Ashley Phosph Company, of Charleston, of which tl courteous and popular gentleman; 1 Frost, is the president. Last year bought afrootjHie thousand dollars wo of fertilizers from this company, c( sisting of/cotton seed meal, acid ph phate, ka?o?t.and Ashley soluble ph .phate, which were used in conjunct! "witbi a large quantity of domestic u nure made io bis own barnyard. ] authorizes us.ter say that he has be using the goods of the Ashley Co pany for several years, and that th have given such uniform satisfacti that he now uses no other commerc fertilizers. The secrets of Mr. BradwelKs st cess are, .first, an enthusiastic fon ness for his business as-a farmer' sc ood, ' the intelligent appreciation progressive methods; third,, the nie thorough preparation of the soil wi two-horse plows and harrows ; fourt liberal fertilization; fifth, the clean ? kind of cultivation with the very b* of implements. The result speaks for itself, strong than anything we can say. Mr. Bra well bas not sold all his crop, b averaging the 50,817 pounds at 9 cent we have ?4,574 as the gross produ from 119 acres of cotton, equal ?38.44 per acre. Allowing one-ha for ex peu ses, this leaves a handson margin'of profit. In addition to this Mr. Bradwell h; made-good crops of corn, peas, oat potatoes, forage, &c, besides ginnit for his neighbors at his steam gin. It is very pleasant to chronicle su< j instances of enterprise and good faro iog, as it goes to prove that the farme of Aiken County are abreast of ll times and substantial'factors in the get oral prosperity of our State. We would be glad to publish si mik successful results by any of our Aikc farmers. Such information is exceei iugiy encouraging to all who feel a interest iu the welfare of our Count and Srate. A Big Mill. The Kingstre? Comity Record, spcali ing ol' the Town improvements, tell about the big mill of our former felloi citizen, Mr. Joel E. Brunsoa. ? says : We have in our town to-day an-en terprise that illustrates the thought w are trying to enforce. .We refer to rh? Black Uiver Lumber Mills, which hav been in operation here only a fev months. Mr. Joel E. Brunson, an eu terprising and energetic citizen, and J first-class practical machinist, about i year ago bought a few acres of land im mediately adjoining Black river, upot which is included a small island that ii never covered by water in time of fresh? ets. Upon this island he has put up. and now has in fail operation ooe of th( largest and most complete lumber mill: in this State. The building is a large two-story one, the lower department is used for his saw-mill and the upper de? partment for his shingle machine, and s machine for dressing bis lumber, put? ting it in ready condition to be put to? gether. He bas built a trestle tram? way from the upper story of his build? ing to the hill, a distance of five hun? dred feet and about twenty feet high. From the top of the bili the tramwav continues probably half a mile to his lumber yard on the North-eastern rail? road. His tram car runs into his build? ing, is filled and deposits the lumber, shingles, etc., at his lumber yard, where it is shipped by rail to various markets. # To write up this enterprise in detail would take more time aud space than we can devote to it just now. It is an enterprise long needed, and one man? aged with system and business method. It is an addition to this town of great importance. NQW, the point we want to make is this : That the erection of these mills, at this place, have brought into use, and into value, thousands of the finest i timber trees in this country, which, j without such an enterprise, would have ? remained as they have, since the dis? covery of this country. I The' most valuable timber to be found in this section of the State is that j to be found in the river swamps, bays, etc. It consists mostly of cypress, ash. sweetgam, hickory, etc., the most of which is inaccessible to be removed by hauling. Mr Branson's mills are sit? uated immediately on the bank of the river. He has hts timber .cat when the water is down. When there is plenty of water be floats the logs into the main stream to his mills, where be has made a water pen that se? cures them until wanted.' We have been living here for a long time, oat we had no idea of the valuable timber to be found in this section, until there was a demand for it. We saw recently at these mills some of the largest cypress, ash, hickory, etc., that we have ever seen anywhere ; but when Mr. Brun? son puts them in his-shearn harness they fall to pieces as if by magic, into beau? tiful building-material. The Mason Cottonll?xrester. New York Trioune. Charles T. Mason, the ID ventor of the Mason Cotton Harvester, is a young man, a native of South Carolina, and has speDt most of bis life within sight, of the cotton fields.. He has J>een working o? tbe cotton harvester for nine years. " He said to a Tr?biin? reporter recently : . .The extended ase of my machi oe for the harvesting of cotton will almost ef? fect a revolution in cotton-picking, and ft may .bring about a considerable change in the price of cotton. It wil? do the work of thirty or forty mea. At present it costs the planter about $9 to pick ? bale of cotton ; by. the as? of *' harvester a bale can be picked at a, cost of ?1.00: lt cost nearly '$5{T,OOO,O0tf to liarvest the great cotton crop of ?882, aod ooe can see how great will be the aggregate amount saved when th? crop*, is gathered by machinery. None; of these, harvesters have be?? mannfae tored for the market yet. We hope to' have a limited ntimber-io ase nett fait. I am making some farther improve -ments in th? invention'. The machine will be sold.for about ?150. -Is your harvester the only machine' of the kind io the market ?' ' -Since 1840 ooe bae'dred patents! have beeu given to the ioveptors'. o? cotton-picking machines. 1 have never* beard of any of these many patents ex cent at the office ?? Washington. There is no cotton-pickfog- machine. in.. use? In Texas they have some kind of a rough machine which'.. rakes up the fibre, hut it has . no- discriminating quality,'and gathers wood, leaves* abd* dirt; aod mixes these foreign matters with the cotton. My harvester is *> machine which resembles a reaper somewhat ; a large Dumber of sledder cylindrical rollers* armed with teel?* which lie below the surface of the cV.l ioder, run over every inch of the cotton plaDt, aod if the .boll has opened wide enough to indidate that the plant is ready for picking, the fibre is grasped; by .the sunken teeth and passed through' the machine. Nothing bat tbe cotton, is taken. A negro boy aod a male caa' gather a crop" of cot'too with it. We have protected our patent in all of the" cottoo-growing countries* in* the worlfr; aod in Eoglaod.*' ;, ? \ ~. What will be the effect of youriovei?^ tib? upon cottoa growerV autf laborers io the South V .In South Carolina my invention will not be "welcomed. The farmers t?tere Hook*forward to its introduction with* gloomy forebodings. tn Texas -there' .willbe an enthusiastic demand for the harvesters. The South Carolina' plan* f 'tera?cannot raise cotton io such abaod"-.. -ance as it is produced4 in Texas. o'h. ?? .equal amouoe of land; They have to make*exteosive use of commercial ferti? lizers'and with the additional expense tiiey do bot begio to produce as many pounds to'th?' acre as: the Texas plan tera" do. Io South Carolina there is a large' ; negro population and labor is cheepi The cotton grower there can gather au of bis cotton at a smaller expense th au his Texas comp?f??o'r. In Texas-there iff oot enough field labor aod a large por tioo of the crop is always lost;" some? times fully one-half of it is not gathered.* There is uo doubt that they will have a greftadvantage over the cotton .grow-, ors of South Carolina'aod that they yn\t be able to undersell them'. The ne? groes will have to seek other employ- / . ment. There is always enough else for them to do ; other crops have been neg? lected in the South because the negroes* would do little else than pick cottoa da? ring the season when it is harvested. I** j do not fear that tbe introduction of my machioe will cause any distress among, the colored people. I thiuk they will1 find an abundance of profitable employ-' ment in ofher directions. Words Misused. CONDIGN* for severe-** Condign" meaos simply 'worthy' or appropriate.' It was formerly applied to reward, praise, &c, as well as to punish-' toeot ; but, from the fact that it is DOW mostly used io cooriectioo with paisb-" ! incut, some misapply to it the meaning .severe.' For slight offences, severe' puniahmeut would oot be condign. ETERNAL for everlastiog-It is a pity that the oice distioctioo betweeu these" two words is not observed either tn Kiog James's translation or io the New Ver-" siou. Nevertheless, it is well to notice^ that, strictly speaking, -eternal' mean?' 'without be^iooiog or eod of exist-" eoce ;' while -everlastiog' means only -without end.' God alone is eternal (See Isaiah 57 15) ; while we aspire to everlasting iife. OBSERVITION for observance. Tho* word -observe' is used io two quite dif? ferent senses. When it means 'to. notice with care,' as to observe an eclipse of the moon, the corresponding noun is -observation ;* but wh?o it means* 'to regard with reiigioos awe,* as to* observe the Sabbath, tbe proper noan is' -observance.*-Naiad* The Seoate of North Caroliba bia passed a bill directed against the im-' portation or sale.of obscene books, pa-*" pers or prints withia the limits of that' State. A scientific paper has anooaoeed1 -thatf, the* braio is oot oecessary .tb life.' This fact has long beco suspected oy" some of our local college preceptors/ The Greenwood, Laurens and Spar taoburg Railroad has been completed to* \ L?ureos, S. C., and regular freight and : passenger trains began running last" Monday to and from Augusta: