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HTKB WA^BMA?f, Kstabliahed April, 1830. -"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's. SUMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1885. ?viky Tuesday, <ts<? iSoutliron, fuSlishing Bollars per annnm?in advance, ^ ; :^?\ ?.1>:T-.XRT? S1XI KT S . Qae Square, first insertion..$1 00 50v Contracts "for t?feniontrhs,, or longer will >as?bieii*ub~iLTe private j . ? w-....~,. .~rged for as ad ver tisemen ts. ^'^^pee?ti?r?esrnad tributes of respect will be e not^&Taad notices of deaths pub- f Vf I I? * ? 5r| '-i ;-* ' _ r?te or contracts for advertising | - ;. ?ddreai f?fea???ft <mdSou?\ron, or apply at ^J?e|Epce^\t? v . G. OSTBEN, 2? fe ^v^K?s .powder never jaries..,_.A__.marvel,nf.J piarity. strength au^whoiesomeuess. v Mpre ecooomical than the or^arj kinds, and can not be sold in competition with* the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate ? -- -TySf??Bs?^ROTAL"BAK- | m WaU^?JNTY. " FOR SALE. "'-.?. . and in ??veu m ?les"from th? Town ?nea?Prpvjdfence, containing 5? o?'^icU;*re.-cleared , and "we?T^ra?n?oT. Place contains 8 room Dwelling in good repair and ;.;Vr lately repainted, new Barns and Stables. 12 fraaae tenant bouses. fc>r the most part lately ; ; ^ bmrC fetore for cattle .and hogs large.'and; j_v~.? Good water. Cha rac of lands much better than ordinary. j$5&&t? **? n$Ie West ofProvidence, cori ift^ie^30*acre3, known as the"T?aboo Saa dersland. . -:. t . :? ?also? ?:-*?8ateT i i mijes Northwestof G.*??lard's X ?;-., Boao^ on^B^adf?rd Springs road, containing*] . i:. 4H> acrjesj*itbout improvements, hejn?:_psft.of^| ^^Iaed*|?n^y^wn^^ Cham ''. ' b?rs. : / . . f' , : .THRERDNIMPROTED.TRACTS, lying in ' lUfton Creek Township near Hagood P. O., C.R.S. r " . v onCamden Branch of S V ONE TRACT of 200acresin Privateer, two Pp;. milesSputbj>f Sumter, with,.a common dwel onse^f a r^ms Barns and stables. , i??-w - :? ?ALSO?: A TRACT fOf ;100 acres* , in Lyn?hbarg Lynnnberg bor *:- dering on Lyn?oee*-Brver. ^ P?JJ?FATK>N> 3? ? miles- North-East of . Snmter^coDtaining481 acres, 231 acres cleared animosi ?fit in cultfvation, 4 room dwell ii^,^ tenan t bouses. Barns and Stables, and paatnre^br cattle and hogs conveniently loca ctet??^ -j,-. m f-yr " ' ; 2^ ALSO? r -T-^WEE^?G in Town of Sumter contain . ?ng 6 rooms. Barn, Stables and out houses ~xrejxi?iG lot. . Lot measures 200 feet square ; '\fire minutes walk of Court House.. : ?.-; ;^5r: ?cifTr- ?'; ?also? ^^?C? piirtry within and partly without ?in^rnonij?irfn?tsof Town of Sumter, near t?r^ ?>epot,: c?ajniog 48i acres. 8 room Dwe?Hng, Barec;-Stables, Servants house and ?1?:;' :>o?^oM??les.- Orchard ?fapples, peaches, peara, ploma, grape, both bnncb and scapper -Dong- S acre wood pasture for cows and itoga: Ooeterlaat. bouse of 3 rooms, and two ^ ?f 2 rooms. .: These tenant houses pay f&ZS&Qex month. i - -auy? 3<i j'; ?: . .?also? v^J?IHB?:-TBACTS AND PLANTATIONS iftrSamter <k>anty. -;^PStrtiee wisaing to purchase can communi cate with us, and if they desire to see these lands, or any of them, we will take pleasure ^ hiving same show them. imkMiWW. * BLANDINO^ ^Sin?er>S. -C; July 21. Attorneys at Law. lierai Vater. SM - ? T?t?momals of Eminent Physicians The following are selectee from many sim ilar oses: Db. L. C. Kenseby, of Spartanburg, writes the Proprietors : "The remedial qual ities of Glenn Springs I have known for over ^orty'years, and can attest to its value in rspepeiafrom gastric or functionnl derange :nt of the Liver, General Debility, Dropsical fosionslferirle Gregalarity and Affections ' the Kidneys and Bladder. To the last dis X would particularly call attention, as , _ re sIwwfl laT*^ carative powers rcomplaints?' B. ' Mat?r, of Newberry, S. C, bare'sent more than fifis persons with Jaundice to these Springs, and ir"-been disappointed in any case; ^b?y al!%|peedi?y recovered. I cannot find words toorpressmy confidence in the Glenn Springs w^ter, as a remedy for the Liver, when funetionaHy deranged. Dyspepsia, .Dropsy, certain skin diseases, troubles in the -Kidneys and Spleen, if produced by the Liver, as 1 kuv disappeared at the -i^?r^or e McIirrosH, President of the Med -?e?? Association o? South Carolina, in his an nual address before that body remarks: ^ G?eeo Springs, for diseases of the Stomach, LIverand Kidneys, deserves to rank with 4BSf other on the continent." ^^ ?R?CE OF WATER. 'vcase?f two dosen quart bottles, securely -packed *cd delivered on the train atiSpartan Per gallon, by the barrel, delivered at jr r SIpetla?borg, 20 cents. '.gtPer gallon, for less t'van a barrel, 25 cents. . ;.. Address SIMPSON k SIMPSON, - " . '_Glenn Springs, S. C. s- - State of South Carolina, ^^^?MTER COUNTY, '^fi^ C?vxt of Coyisco^ Pleas. -?x,jparte Mary F Hawkins?Petition ? for Homestead. RJTJCB is bereby given that Mary S. F Hawkins, widow of John W. Hawkins, filed.liar petition with me, praying that a ad in his Estate may be assigned and ter as provided by law. :/$JOBS S. B?CHARDS0N, State of Sout? Carolina, j -c??JOT 0# GEN??ALViSf?SS?ONS, OCTOBEirTfi?bc, 1885. Presentiment of the "Grand Jt?^y. 2V'??w Honor J?dge Aldrica, Presiding: The Grand Jury beg leave to report that they have., besides the consideration of bills pertaining to the routine business of the Court, given attention to County affairs, and also/to the matters of general Jnterest referred toi by your Honor. ~ / I The public offices and buildings were visited %nd"%und in goo?Tcondition. The' Office of Jodge of Probate, (also used by/the County Commissioners^) bas recen.tlx been, repaired and is in very neat order. The Jail has been Materially improved by th? laying of a new floor over th? old one up stairs1, and also in other respects. The officers we found at their places of business and ready to give any in formation-dedred. . Fibm the Treasurer we learned^ witt- ^regret, .that the ^payment of tazeaisslow*^ than has latterly bees the ease. The Auditor is just now somewhat at leisure, caving his books, as-he informed us, all up. 'The'* nest assessment-w?ll^be made in Janua ry and February next. . The County Poor House and Faro^were visited and found to be in good condition. The buildings have been repaired during the year, and the inmates appeared to be well cared for. v .. _-.?<> ; >. ? Trial Justices ^b%rdxvCaia randjDialaos brought their books for examination, and the same.were fouad-in,proper shape and correct. The other Trial "Justices Bave not "brought their books before us for examination during . the year. ?We are not informed if tbey" are \?* ?SS - ~? :*. - ,?? " -y =i ?si ^ ?.. - ? Teqoired^so Xo d5,^bufso?h. ha^ing^been the custom, we refer to it accordingly. . JBThife upon, the tobject ofs Trialjustices we -would remark th?trw? havenoticed that there, is dissatisfaction throughout^the*State with fcvk present'sysfeoi. One ?in^oft?nt objection . is the giving to the Trial Justice an interest in he costs. We suggest that that feature be abolished, anc-. that -their>-pay be :strictly in 'the shape of "s&laryT We thiuEi'?lsbV^hat the : salary should be sufficient to secure good ser vice. We: are of the^opinion, however, that if the system of County Circuit Courts, by which the business .can be dooe.by one man who will? have stated appoiutmeote- around the County, ag is the casei it some other States, could be adopted in this State; itwoufd b?"ah improvement upon our present Trial Justice system. 'Weare'g^ditfoe^ao?e^to rlep rt that the Roads7and Bridges are in ?~mttch_ better con dition 4ban4rt*ib^rst^f^the year. Most of the roads have been laid off the proper width and other suggested improvements have been made. /There are some * roads yet, fhowever, that have not been widened and "w? suggest that such be looked after at once, before the aground adjoining may-be -planted. -There is a snort road, near t?wm, leading in to'the old R. R..Turnpike from near the Factory, that is a need of prompt attention, and the Cause wayknown ?s l DuB?s?'s, ou->Lynches- River Swamp above BishopvUIe^m ne^^ . way. ^In^c?l?rog- attention to these matters we do' not do so in a fault-finding spirit, for we think our County Commissioners are doing their best to attend to their various duties. The Publio School system as at present ad ministered does.not give satisfaction. In some cases the- Teachers are inefficient, and there are many complaiots of irregular hours on their part. Many Trustees, in our opin ion, do not give proper attention to the con duct of schools under their charge, and we re commend that those interested make an effort to have these irregularities corrected, either through the*Trustees or the Board; of. - County Examiners. . In the matter of public work by the Connty Commissioners, and School Trustees, we re commend that all work, for" building and re ; pairs, amountiog to $50 and over be adver ! tised and put out to the lowest bidder. The illicit sale of spirituous liquors in the County has been a cause of concern to many of oar citizens, and we hope that the actions I brought at this term of Court will proved warning to l?w-breakers in future. So far as we can learn all the accused parties except one?W. H. Rembert, at Mayesville, who has U.S. License for retailing spirituous liquors, and against whom no other evidence bas been secured?have been indicted before this Court. We recommend that the next Legis lature pass an act making the possession of a TA S. License to sell 1 iq a ors prima facie evi dence of guilt. We notice that much trouble bas resulted in some portions of the State over the practice of miscegenation, and reports of the same crime are current iu some places in Sumter County. No definite charges bave been made to us, but we recommend that the Trial Jus tices use all due diligence in bringing those guilty of the crime to justice. In regard to convicts, efforts should be made to employ them within the bounds of th? Penitentiary proper, as much as possible, at useful avocations which will make the in stitution self-sustaining, and also be the means of teaching trades to the convicts which will serve to make them useful citizens in after life. The suggestion of your Honor as to the establishment. of a penal colony is worthy of consideration, but may be liable to the same charges <f mismanagement and abuse, that have brought the leasing system into disrepute. Such an institution, howev er, under good regulations, if its establish ment upon one of the sea islands be practi cable, might go far towards solving this troublesome question. The suggestion as to the establishment of a reform school or prison is important, and we recommend its consider ation to our Legislature. Until some satis factory plan can be decided upon in lieu of the leasing of the convicts, we would recom mend to the Legislature that if necessary, the law be made more stringent as to the respon sibility of supervision of convicts by the Pen itentiary Superintendent, or some special ofS charged with that duty. Another matter referred to by your Honor, viz : the habit of parents going from home i and leaving their children locked up, exposed j to the danger of being burned up : we recom mend to the consideration of our Legislature ' the necessity of making such an act, under certain circumstances, a misdemeanor. We would also call the-attention of the Legisla ture to the dangerous habit indulged in by some persons of firing guns and pistols on public highways at night. This is wrong, and when done either upon or withiu dange rous proximity to a highway, unless in self defence, should be made a misdemeanor. We heartily endorse, as a matter of econo my, if \>r no other consideration, the sugges tion of your Honor as to "the employment of a stenographer for the Court, aod recommend j that one be employed for this County, if not for the entire Circuit. i Thanking your Honor and the Court offi cials for courtesies during our term, we re speetfally sabmit the foregoing. ? N. ?. OSTEEN, Foreman. cAKEisTOFs mm. By HUGH CONWAY. Author of "Called Back," "Dark Days*' "A Family Affair,1* etc. [TOLD BY PHILIP BRAND, M. D., LONDOK.J PAST THE FIRST. CHAPTER L I wish. I had the courage to begin this tale by turning to my professional visiting books, and taking at random any month out of the last twenty years, give its record as a fair sample of my ordinary work. The dismal extract would tell you what a doc tor's?I suppose. I may say a successful doc tor's?lot is, when hie practice lies in a poor and densely populated district" of London. Dreary as such a beginning might be, it would perhaps allay some of the incredulity which this tale inay probably provoke, as it would plainly show how little room there is for things imaginativo or romantic in work so hard as mine, or among such' grim reali ties of poverty, pain: and grief, as those by .which I have been surrounded. It would certainly make; it appear extremely unlikely that should have-found time to imagine, much less to write, a romance or melo drama. . The truth is that when a man has toiled from 9 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night, such:leisure as he can enjoy is precious to Vm, especially when even that .short respite is liablo to be broken iu upon atany. moment. Sti?? in spite of the doleful picture I have drawn of what * may be called 'the daily grind,1' begin this tale with the account of aholiday. : - ? In the- authhm of 18641 turned my back with right good will upon London streets, hospitals and patients, and took my seat in the North ' express. The first revolution of the wheels sent a thrill of delight through my jaded fraine. A ; joyful sensation of .freedom - came ? over me; I had really got away at lesti Moreover, I had left no I had realty got away at last address behind me, so for three blessed weeks might roam an undisputed lord of myself. Three weeks were not very many to take out of -the fifty-two, but they were all I could venture to give.myssli; for even at that time my practice, if not so tee???ree?| as Ioou?d wish, was a large auo^in easing one. H?ving--?o?o--arfcwdve-month's hard work, I felt that no one in the kingdom could take i his holiday with a conscience clearer than mine, so I lay back in a pe culiarly contented frame of mind, and dis counted the corning pleasures of my brief respite from labor. There are many ways of passing a hc'iday ?many places at which it may be spent, but, after all, if you wish to thoroughly en joy it, there is but one royal rule to be fol lowed. That is; simply to please yourself? go where you like and mount the innocent holiday hobby which is dearest to your heart, let its name be botany, geology, en tomology, eonchology, venery, piscation, or whatnot. Then you shall be happy, and return well braced np for the battle of life. I knew a city clerk with literary tastes who invariably spent his annual fortnight among the mustiest tomes of the British museum, and averred that his health was more bene fited by s? domg than if he had passed the time inhaling the freshest sea breezes. I dare say he was right in his assertion. Sketching has always been my favorite holi day pursuit .-Poor.as my drawings may be, nevertheless, as I turn them over in my port folio, they bringr to me at least, vivid re membrances of many sweet and picturesque spots, happy days, and congenial compan ions. -It is not for me to say anything of their actual merits, but they are dear to me for their associations. This particular year I went to North Wales and made Bettws y Coed my headquarters. I staved at the Royal Oak, that well-known little fan, dear to many an artist's heart, and teeming with reminiscences of famous men who have sojourned there times without number. It was here I made the acquaint ance of the man with whose life the curious events I am going to narrate are connected. On the first day after my arrival at Bettws my appreciation of my liberty was so thorough, my appetite for the enjoyment of the beauties of nature so keen and insa tiable, that I went so far and saw so much, that when I returned to the Royal Oak night had fallen and the hour of dinner had long passed by. I was, when my own meal was placed on the table, the only occupant of the coffee-fbom. Just then a young man entered and ordered something to eat The waiter knowing, no doubt, something of the frank camaraderie which exists, or should exist, between the followers of Melpomene, laid bis cover at my table. The newcomer seated himself, save me a pleasant smile and a nod, and in five minutes we were in full swing of conversation. The moment my eyes fell upon the young man I had noticed how singularly handsome he was. Charles Carriston?for this I found afterward to be bis name?was about 22 years of age. He was tall, but slightly built, his whole bearing and figure being remarkably elegant and graceful He looked even more than gentlemanly?he looked dis tinguished^ His face was pale, its features weil cut, straight and regular. His fore head spoke of high intellectual qualities, and there was somewhat of that development ever the eyebrows which phrenologists, I be lieve, consider as evidence of the possession of imagination. The general expression of his face was one of seriousness, if not sad ness, and its refined beauty was heightened by a pair o? sofc, dark, dreamy-looking eyys. It only remains to add that, from his attire, I judged him to be an artist?a pro fessional artist?to the backbone. In the course of conversation I showed him how I liad classified him. He smiled. "I am onlv an amateur," he said; "an idle man, nothing more?and youJ" "Alasi I am a doctor." "Then we shall not have to answer for oar itins m painting to ?ach other." We talked on pleasantly until our bodily wants were satisfied by the good fare placed beiore us. Then came that pleasant cra v ing for tobacco which, after a good meal, is natural to a well-regulated digestion. "Shall wo go and smoke outside?" said Carriston. "The night is delicious." We went out and sat on one of the wooden benches. As my new friend sai*1, the night was delicious. There was scarcely a breath of air moving. The stars and the moon shone brightly, and the nish of the not far distant stream came to us with a soothing murmur. Near us wer o three er four jovial young artists. They were in merry mood; one of them had that day sold a picturo to a tourist. We listened to their banter, un til, most likely growing thirsty, they re entered the inn. Carriston had said little since we had been out of doors. He smoked his cigar placidly and gazed up at the skies. With the white moonlight falling on his strikingly beautiful face?the graceful pose into which he fell? he seemed to me the embodiment of poetry. He paid no heed to the merry talk of the artists, which so much amused me?indeed, I doubted if he heard their voices. Yet he must have done so, for as soon as they left us he same cut of his reverie. "It must be very nice, * he said, " to have to make one's living by art," "Nice for those who can make livings by it," I answered. "All can do that who are worth it. The day of neglected genius is gone by. M?ller was the last sufferer, I think?and he died young." "If you ere so sanguine, why not try your own luck at it?" "I would, but unfortunately I am a rich man." .. I laughed at this misplaced regret. Then Carriston, in the most simple way, told mo a good deal about himself. He was an or phan, an only child. He had already ample means; tut Fortune had still favors in store for him. At the death of his uncle, now an aged man, he must succeed to a large estate and a baronetcy. The natural, unaffected way in which, he made these confidences, moreover made them not, I knew, from any wish to increase his importance in my eyes, greatly impressed ma By the time we parted for the night I had grown much in terested in my new acquaintance?on inter est _not. untinged by envy. Young, hand some, rich, free to come or go, work or play as he listedl Happy CarristonI CHAPTER It lam disposed to think that never before did a sincere friendship, one which was fated to last unbroken for years, ripen so quickly as that between Carriston and my self. As I now look back I find it hard to associate him with any, even a brief, period of lime subsequent to our meeting during which he was not my bosom friend I for get whether our meeting at tho same pic turesque spot on the morning which fol lowed our self-introduction was the result of accident or arrangement. Anyway, we spent the day together, and that day was the precursor of many passed in each other's society. * Morning after morning we sallied forth to do our best to transfer the same bits of scenery to our sketching blocks. Even ing after evening we returned to dine side by side, and afterward to talk and smoke together, in-doors or outdoors, as the tem perature advised or our wishes inclined Great friends we soon became?insepar able as long as my short holiday lasted. It was, perhep?, pleasant for each to work in company with an amateur like himself. Wo could ask each the other's opinion of the merits of the work done, and feel happy at the approval duly given. An artist's stand ard of excellence is too high for a non-pro fessional. "When he praises your work he praises it but as the work of an outsider. You feel that such commendation d?mm it and disheartens you. However, had Carriston cared to do so, he might, I think, have fearlessly submitted his productions to any conscientious critic? his drawings were immeasurably more artis tic snd powerful than mine. He had un doubiedly^gsreat talent, and I was much sur prised to^nd that good as 2m? was at land scape, he was wen better at the figure, ife could, with a firm, bold hand, draw rapidly the most .marvelous ii????ies. So spirited and true/were some of the siudiftSjteshowed me, that I could without flattery advis^fein, provided he could finish as he began; to keejS entirety to the higher branch of the art I have now before me a series of outline faces . drawn/by him?many of them from mem ory; ??nd as I look at them the original of each ctnes at once before my eyes. Fron^?hayery first I had been much in teresteSR?- 7-C 0g ^manJjaBd;^sdav_ by_ 'Say"went by and the peculiarities of "his character were rev?a!ed tq me, my interest grew deeper and deeper. ' I flatter myself that I am a keen observer and skillful ana lyst of personal character, and until now fancied that to write a description cf its component parts was an easy matter. Yet now when I am put to the proof I find it no simple task to convey in words a proper idea of Charles Carriston's mental organization. I socn discovered that he was, I may say, afflicted by a peculiarly sensitive nature. Although strong, and apparently in good health, ihe very changes of the weather seemed to affect him almost to the same ex tent as thoy affect a flower. Sweet as his disposition always was, the tone of his mind, his spirits, his conversation, varied, as it were, with the atmosphere. He was full of imagination, and that imagination, always rich, was at times weird, even grotesquely weird. Not for one moment did ha seem to doubt the stability of the wild theories he started, or the. possibility of the poetical dreams he dreamed being realized He had his faults, of course; he was hasty and impulsive"; indeed, to me one of the greatest charms about the boy was that, right or wrong, each wtrd he spoke came straight from his heart. So far as. I could judge, the whole organi zation of his mind was too highly strung, too finely wrought, for every-day use. A note of joy. of sorrow, even of pity, vibrated through it too strongly for his comfort or well-being. As yet it had not been called upon to tear the test of love; and fortu nately?I use the word advisedly?fortu nately he was not, according to the usual significance of tne word, a religious man, or I should have thought it not unlikely that some day he would fall a victim to that re ligious mania so weli known to my profes sional brethren, and have developed hysteria or melancholia. He might even have fancied himself a messenger sent from heaven for the regeneration of mankind. From natures like Carriston's are prophets made. In short, I may say that my exhaustivo study of my new friend's character resulted in a certain amount of uneasiness as to his future?an uneasiness not entirely free from professional curiosity. Although the smile came readily and fre quently to bis lips, the general bent of hi3 disposition was sad, even despondent and morbid. And yet few young men's lives promised to be so pleasant as Charles Carris ton's. I was rallying him one day on his futura rank and its responsibilities. "You ' will, of course, be disgustingly richf ' I said Carriston sighed. "Yes, if I lire long enough; but I don't suppose I shall. " "Why in the world shouldn't you? You took pale and thin, but are in capital health. Twelve long miles we have walked to-day-* you never turned a hair." Carriston made no reply. He seemed in deep thought "Your friends ought to look after you and get you a wife," I said. "I have no friends," he said sadly. "No nearer relation than a cousin a good deal older than I am, who looks upon me as ono whe was born to rob him of what sheuli be his." "But by the law of primogeniture, so sa cred to the upper ten thousand, he must k;iow you are entitled to it" "Yes; but for years and years I was al ways going to die. My life was not thought worth six months' purchase. All of a sud den I got well. Ever since then I have seemed, even to myself, a kind of inter loper." "It must b? unpleasant to have a man longing for one's death. All tho mere rea son you should marry and put other lives betweeu him and the title." "I fancy I shall never marry," said Ca riston, looking at me with Ids soft, dark eyes. "You sec. a boy who has waited for years expr-i-ting to dio doesn't grow up with exactly the same feeling as other people. Idont think shall ever meet a woman I can caiO for enough to make my wife. No; I expect my cousin wi?l be Sir Ralph yet." ? tried to laugh him out of his morbid ideas. "Those who livo will soc," I said. "Only promise to ask mo to your wedding, and better still, if yon live in town, ap point me your fanni" doctor. It may prove the nucleus of that West E;t 1 practico which it is the dream of every d octor to establish." I have already alluded to the strange beauty of C arriston's dark eyes. As soon as companionship commenced between us those eyes became to me, from scientific reason-, obj?cfs of curiosity on account of the mysterious expression which at times I detected in them. Often and often they wore a look tho like to which, I imaging is found only in the eyes of a somnambulist look which one feels certain is intently fix?d upon something, yet upon something beyond the range of one's own vision. Durinz the first two or three days of our new-born in timacy 1 found thii eccentricity of Car riston's positively startling. When now and then I turned to hi and found him staring with all his might at nothing, my eyes were compelled to follow the direction in which his own were bent. It was at first impossible to divest one's self of tha belief that something should be there to justify so fixed a gaze. However, as the rapid growth of our friendly intercourse soon showed me that he was a boy of most ar dent poetic temperament?parhaps even more a poet than an artist?I laid at the doer of the Musa these absent looks and re curring flights into vacancy. We were at the Fairy Glen one morning, sketching, to the best of our ability, tho swirling stream, tho gray rocks and tho overhanging trees, the last just growing bril liant with, autumnal tints. So beautiful was everything around that for along time I worked, idled, cr dreamed in contented sLence. Carr?ton had set up his easel at some little distanca ?rem mine. At last I turned to see how bis sketch was progressing. He had evidently fallen, into one of h:s brown studies, and, apparently, a harder one than usual. His brush had fallen from his fingers, his features wer3 immovable, and his strange dark eyes wera absolutely riveted upon a large rock in front of him, at which he gazed as intently as if his hopa of heaven depended upon seeing through it. He seemed for the while oblivious to thing? mundane. A party of laughing, chattering, terrible tourist girls scrambled down tha rugged steps, and one by one passed in front of b.'m. Neither their presence nor the in quisitive glances they cast on his statuesque face roused him from his fit of abstracci?n. For a moment I wondered if the boy took opium or soma other narcotic on tha sly. Full of tho ? thought, I rosa, crossed over to him, and laid my band upon his shoulder. As na felt my touch he came to himself, and looked up at me in a dazed, inquiring way. "Eeally, Carriston," I said, laughingly 'you must reserve your dreaming fits until we ara in places where tourists do not con gregate, or you will bo thought a madman, or at least a poet." He made no reply. Ha turned away from me impatiently; oven rudely; then, picking np his brush, went on with his sketch. After a while ha seemsd to recover from his pettishness, and we spent the remainder of the day as pleasantly as usual As we trudged home in the twilight he said to me in an apologetic, almost peni tent way: "I hope I was not rude to you3ust now?" "When do you mean I asked, having al most forgotten the trivial incident. 4'When you woke me from what yen called my dreaming." 'Oh, dear no. You were not at all rude. If you had been, it was but the penalty due to my presumption. The nights of genius should ba respected, not cheeked, by a ma terial hand." "That is nonsense; I am not a genius: and you must forgive ma for my rudeness," said Carriston, simply. After walking soma dis tance in silence he spoke again: "I wish when you are w*th mo yon would try and stop me from getting into that state. It does me no good." s??ir.g he was in earnest, I promised to do my., ^Jr* ""-s curious enough to ask him whither his thougnr . ^red during those abstract moments. ^ 0 "I can scarcely tell you," arc cannot ex* things which are "To see things? " "Things, as 1 said, whicl ^aee. Yon must know there are , pb^?sstB3SS22^r? 'I know they possess what the assertion is too absurd to refuting." "Yef," said Carriston, dreamily, "I know that if I did not striva to avoid it, sonio such power would come to me." "You axe tte ridiculous, Carriston,'7 I said. "Soins JBdIc see what others don't, because they hawe longer sight. You may, of course, imagine anything. Bu your eyes ?handsome eyes they are, too?copain cer tain properties, known as humors and lenses, therefore in order to ssa-" ''Yes, yes," interrupted Carriston; "I know exactly all yon are going to say. You, a man of science, ridicule everything which breaks what you are pleased to call the law of nature. Yet take all the unaccountable tales told. Nine hundred and ninety-nine you expose to scorn or throw grave daubi3 upon, yet the thousandth rests on evidence which cannot ba upset or disputed. The possibility of that one proves the possibility of a:L" "Net at all; but enough for vour argu ment," I said, amused at the boy's wild talk. 'You doctors," he continued, with that delicious air of superiority so often assumed by laymen when they are in good health, "put too much to tha credit of diseased im agination." 4 "No doubt; it's a convenient shelf on which to put a difficulty. But go on." "The body is your province, yet you can't explain why a cataleptic patient should bear a watch tick when it is placed against his foot." "Nor you; nor any one. But perhape it may aid you to get rid of your rubbishing theories if I tell you that catalepsy, as you understand it, is a disease not known to in ta fact, it does not exist." He seemed crestfallen at kearing this. "But what do you want to prove?" I asked. "What have you seen yourself?" "Nothing, I tell you. And I pray I may never sea anything." After this he seemed inclined to shirk th3 subject, but -I pinned kim to it. I was really anxious to get at the true state of his mind. In answer to the leading questions with which I plied him, Carriston revealed an amount of superstition which seemed utterly childish and out of place beside the intellec tual faculties which he undoubtedly pos sessed. So much so, that at last I felt mors inclined to laugh than to argua with him. Yet I was not altogether amused by his talk. His wild arguments and wilder beliefs made me fancy there must be a weak spot somewhere in his brain?even made me fear lest his end might be madness. The thought made me sad; for, with the exception of the eccentricities which I have menti cne?. I reckoned Carriston the pleasantest friend I had ever made. His amiable nature, his" good looks and perfect breeding had en deared the young man to me; so much so that I resolvel, during tha remainder of tho time we should spend together, to do all I could toward talking the nonsense out of him. My efforts were unavailing. I kopt a sharp lookout upon hiiu, and let him fall into no mysterious reveries; but the curious I lei him fall into no more mysterious rev erics. idea that he possessed, or could pc?nes~. some gift above human injure, was fcoo firmly rooted to be displace 1. On all other subject? he argued fairly and was open to reason. On this one point he was immovable. AVlir?a I could get him to notice my attacks at all. Ids answer was: "You doctors, clever as you arc with the YoJy, know as little of ps\chology as you did three tbousaud years a^o." When the timo rame for mo to fold nn my easel and return to the drthlgcry of life, I I parted from Carriston with ir.uch regret. ' One of those solemn, but often broken prom i iscsto join together next year in another sketching tour' passed between us. Then I went back to London, and during the subse quent months, although I saw nothing or him, I often thought of my friend of tua autumn, [ BE COXTiyuED.] Bill Arp. Discussing Mob Law and its Law lessness. Mob law is very bad law. It is the very counterpart of that civil law which is called the perfectioD of reason. It is hasty vindication, uncertain a?d unrea sonable. I was just reading about a mob in Ohio that put kerosene oil and torches through the grated windows of a jail and roasted the prisoner alive ; and another mob, in the same state, that forced the jail door and took the prisoner out and hung bim, and the re porter who witnessed it said that the most of the men were drunk. And there was lately a horrible affair in Knoxville. where they hong a man to the high bridge, and he climbed the rope and they &hot him, until finally he jumped 80 feet down into the river and was drowned. Most every day wc read of a mob somewhere taking the law into their own hands and administering summary vengeaceo in deSance of the time-bonored law which says every man is entitled to a trial by a jury of hi peers. Mob law is getting very com mon in this civilized country, and there must be some reason for it?not a good and sufficient season, but still a reason, an excuse, a provocation. Our Ameri can people are not naturally disposed to do such things. They are generally law-abiding. They are long suffering and fall of patience. I know that it would require some overwhelming im pulse to induce me or my nab'ors to join in a midnight band to break into the jail and take out a prisoner .and hang him. I don't know of but one crime that would justify sach summery venge^ ance, and even that should have the proof beyond all moral question. That is a crime upon which the people can not await the law's dely and should not. Brutes are not entitled to juries or a trial. The law's delay is'the great trouble after all. This delay has been provocation for centuries. Hamlet soliloquized it and classed it with odious things when he said "for who would bear the whips and scorns of time the oppres sor's wrong, the proud man's contume ly, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay and the insolence of office.' If justice was surely and speedily administered these mobs would pease, ut the people know that money wiM rebase a clearance or an e ow the law's delay and jfice and extrc _who have been unible suite^^HcTurt remember how their patience^Fas exhausted by the tricks and deception of the lawyers, and how they were finally forced to submit to wrong and oppression by the law's delay and the insolence of office, and they felt helpless, and so when some great outrage was committed they were ready to join a mob and be court and jury and executioners. It was the law's delay and the law's indifference that provoked the lawlessness of the Daltoo regulators. This kind of law lessness is catching. It travels with the wind. Evory community has its own bad cases that have festered for months and years, in spite of courts and juries and they long for some relief. Preachers may preach and the press may remonstrate and the learned'judge may charge the grand juries but still the masses sympathize with the mobs. ?A court is a great thing for a good man but a mob is a better thing for these terrible crimes that shock the community. Their terrible vengeance has more effect upon the vile and the vicious. I remember the many graphic and exciting accounts given me in the long ago by Mark More and Tom Lyon about the scenes they witnessed at Pike's Peak when they were miners. How there were no courts, no laws, no lawyers, and yet these rough men who had congregated there by the thousand from all states and nearly all countries preserved the public peace and enforced private rights and avenged private wrongs, and did it speedily and effect ually, without the aid of Blackstone or Lord Eldon or Greenleaf. They bad no sheriff or marshal or constable, not even a justice of the peace, but they had a committee of safety, and that committee had as njuch power as a rail road commission. Generally they tried a man the day his crime was committed, and sentenced him and executed the sentence. It was like a drum-head court-martial?tried at sundown and shot at sunrise. I saw that once and was deeply impressed with the differ ence between Judge Underwood's court on our cireuit and Joe Johnston's court at Centerviile. Two big, rough wharf j rats belonging to the Tiger Hi?es from { New Orleans had been leading a kind of mutiny iu camp and had beaten an officer of their company, and old Joe heard of it and had a court martial in a half an hour, and a trial, and they were found guilty and wore shot uext morning at sunrise, and their graves were already dug and everything was over before breakfast, funeral and all. That looked more like business to me than anything 1 had ever scon or read j about. If those Tiger.* had been ar rested and bound over to court or put j in jail anil waited a few mouths for tl?e?r j trini and had suine lawyer tip toeing j and screaciiiug lor thrni, ilio oilier j Timers would have lernt ot? with fliesr i mutiny, but a* it was tiiey surrendered i at once and made good soldiers It j does look like the civil law is as mucii j too slow as mob law is too fasi. Whose fault is it? Tho judge's j maini)'. Il is very coin mon for people ? to say : "Well, he is a good judge ; ; ho despatches business; he will clear j the dockets ; l teil you ho makes these ; lawyers rack up fast ?tie will dispose j of more business in one week than our j judge will in two." The judges arc i not exactly afraid of the lawyers, but ; j they have a very great respect for their ! j influence, and so tliey let the lawyers Jo j as they please, and talk as ? as they : I please and give them leave of absence, j j and so the court pokes its slow length I along, and the dockets get heavier and cases get old aud the parties die-aud tbe witnesses maT?-'-%woy:i'?b^4t^?ist the case frazzles.out, and nobody gets anything vout.of it bat the lawyers When a lawyer has a bad case his plea is to "swear it out/' and the judge*sits np there and lets him do it. Judge Wright used to be a good law yer to .wear out a cas?, and he'.knew the rascality of it, and so when, he got to be a judge be commenced, wearing the lawyers out and he made diem keep pace according to the importance of th? case. If it was a heavy case hetfet them walk, if an ordinary case he~pu$ them in a foxtrot, and- it-a email -case be just made rii?m ^lIop rolrwP?heH?^. As for certioraris-froni-rhe justice court, he wouldn't hear them at ? all ? forhe said, the maxim-.of thevlaw wasrA'de minimis lex curat non.f, -I4pji?t kftow but that it would be a 'good.^cjaaD^e to elect a judge for four years, and^?en| l?t him step down and out* or* ste'p^urV to the supreme bench; ?hefeber wouldent have to have so much, respect for the lawyers.in bis circuit...-..Wb^^t. has got so now that a judge . is not. ccn~ sidered progressive or in Che Hne'oP promotion unless he gets-the?memfc^ of hi? bar to call a meeting and -pass resolutions complimentary,-, aod ^ sa forth. They form a syndicate .a?cLex change court all about, and e?ch^j?dge gets his compliments from the n?r, and that means that be wants-t? be- judge-j again; or go to c?ngressi.or-inay be step up in the governor's chair. .r a But in the m eaa ti me ? the jaw's, delay and the ' insolence:6r the impotence of ofice goes' on, and the people'"suffer under a weight of taxation tenpay* for juries. In the meantime the people gefc tired and restless^and.tAkejth?.J^w aitfO; themselves, .and /put on-tbe midnight., mask and hunti for.crime"??H criminals.~ ?Atlanta - Constitution^?' ^* ^ S? What Qw'Emimvms?yr^ Edgefield Butahers**,-. ts; Palmetto .Post. . r ^ : ' If ever a set of men deserved death'^ and to be put to death "a? in a: folrtfpW'i the avenging gallows, -the ly^chera^?f1 Culbreath, in Edgefield- County;, mekftte that fate. ;The proceedings atibe cojo?? ner's inquest, though it failed to cause^ the witnesses to tell tbe bald truthj'and* boldly to-identify the ieadra^ ruffians";2 from the time:they covered- the?lawyersv with their pistols to. the - time. ;that- tha poor wretch implored his : murderers ?pxA mercy, told enough tolux ttie gufltat^ least upon Will Parkni'an an^ 'iVyatf' Holmes,-asr principals "; ittHh?e murder. Tb?t/'WilH'.Ufrafr ' breath, in moi pictured him from his pillow^ Now-, wilj[ therf3 be found a jury honest,..true.an?.cqd-j scientious enough in Edge field-.Coun iy~ to bring the devils to justice1", of 3oesrj the conduct of the whole affair^frbaa inception to its acconipiishment, through^ the death scene, aucL at^the? . ipqueat^J show that scarce a man or family <inthe^ county but may be implicated'?n one way or another in the atrocity ? ^' 1 Was there nothing in the -doctor^ telling them cot to ailow.-t?ie dying manu to speak to excite, such-^suspicioaj,^ Is ( there nothing in not having. Jaken,bis;. ante-mortem statement2? *" Is \ ?upfew nothing in the hardly extorted - ie^imft'* ny of some of the witnesses wbcrseemed to be afraid to identify.:-the? redVhandecL murderers ? The Orangebufg Tii??s 'andremo-* ..." ; .erat, jx: < ? .;v m Summerv?h Herald. .,. ? r;5 The editor of .this paper, or bjs agsor^ c?ate, is occasionally actuated ."to', tn?ej senseless insinuations as to the Sunder-*; ville Herald; and the issue of last week j contains another,gratuitous -flings : Then Herald is.edited jby.,cneiwho 48;aa un^j changeable Democrat,^ and who, in | 1876, was continually to 'the'* fro'nt^en1^ deavoring'to do^his -whole** duty in b?-'j half of good government,-and; fortb'e*! redemption of the State, while others^ were either inactive or skulking in the] rear. Occupying this position before! the public, we believe it is"out righi;'to feel interested in a "New Deal," SrVfif? any other matter which concerns t?e: people of our State. Of course, we^are *verj much iu favor of a ?ew Deal;"' and in different issues of the Herald We ; have presented cur reasons for it. r'The" press of the State is solid for a changed and ?s plaiuly as much interested in the change as the Summerville Hei'ald.^ From the start this paper has been, strictly and purely Democratic in tone and action, hence the fight: ?t'ihas %6? speak for the Democracy, which it rep resents. No one but its editor has any thing to do with its editorial columns, and these columns have always b??n' under his control or management. *"?^ On the whole we are incUue<Lto think thai the Times and Ocniocrai.co&Q Sud better use for its columns than that of exhibiting towards a Democratic con temporary a kind of petty spleen and" envy?which might be as difieult to explain as a corresponding lack of dig-., t.ity. - Whiskey and Murder?The Green ville News on Selling Whiskey on Sunday. Keo:cee Courier. From its editorai on the killing of l>eu Brock man one would think the Greenville Xaes attributed to the sell ing and drinking.cf whiskey on Sunday a peculiar effect on the mental and mor al nature of the human family. It is hot and heavy after the persons who*' sold the liquor to Walker and Gibson on the Sunday of I he murder, and anxious that these violators of the law should be ferretea ont and arrested. We agree with our co temporary this' should be done, for the sale of liquor, bsd in itself or. any day, is' worse on the Sab bat h, not m) much because ^it is a vio lation of the State aud municipal laws, as for the reason that it is siuful ' and immoral. While wc asree thus far, we cannot absent to the statement of the AV'csrhat, *?f that, liquor had not been sold in de fiance of laws, bonds and pubVic .senti ment, J&u. Brock ina would be alive this mvioing, and Walker and G?o?-?u woulij bo free men, without tho.iiain of blood on their hands, and -their' families, amending to their affairs.1 In ou? yUv? the violation. *>i boa?svx?? pat?i? sei?timeifc^;?iiei^i^f^^? l?qaor on Sunday, ba^^njpg.?(??^f^ accideni??ffiffc?' M?n^ 'oacatting- oif- ?; Sunday. The day trad nothing to d?' Wtt?r^<b^?n?iFde^ s^f?sy? d?^the " worfeoat?d^-tfca??too? ite:? ottieni teile-: "--li ghiaiate w-ork, and.the ev?reaie- 00tint - lL'1* ? 'ILi 'ollT.* t-^fi ^:A' J *4iv^ leadjnen to violate the muTuctj^;;Stat? and^ivme4awand~.aV;^ se^as, fco cause the? to cpnroiWbe eigfc* ->'^ wt argument ?ruclT^t^e^iSw^?li^^./:?--^ pfessr??^W?^eifaft?W tra?c;*i^KSal?: i: it-be ?nyH1i#fce? ?^etoo^^%i?n^: ^ when under tb?n?toe eetat?cu^iiof-jic^gki on...aoptber 4ay.?ban Sunday. and drunk 00?nday? ^V#'- faat?f thinfcanj^anw?eM M .ton?etd^ 7 D?d? 4 then, tii'e- drinkin?,andr. seUmaJQ^ irano?. ??b?ti ta^Tcfg^ t??t^po^^ir^Mr^ suppose it would strenuously of j license 4j?gtenii ffi^wyfjs ppison to every ^o^le a^d elfit?? ?jpro^^tio^rl iiicarn?te:^^ Wb?t?c|,r?y ^h>rr^?Tezc^pt^j^^hiti^ Xr wbjskey^elier fo^uad?^Jlo?^jtj : %?^ any other oay? * It ts s~o?dfof&emr? the profit it brings the eelt?rv^eif te#?| certs taken in o n Strnday wi?r?*&C^:#^ rent % ?tendente?on Monday, ma&>^| under the foftu^ence o?j^apr M'j^^^H'^'? Otto" SU^ge$3&?ftl&&?^^ cases the same active ag 1 eg^Ltana? ? - wort, i cialLy. to defisse meavti?on&v ^???'"???^_ stVengthln^^^ jfoi^ttf? ipomfo'f?s?oa. >qp? nfce. gr*Te*fc. carnea** cid |5?u? isoessg Rifeci* Mo ^fbT2? ? Tlie Late Cardinal McCl?? CoTumBia ???ril'' varions Gt?istixnl?e&x ' their tears 01 good a man (^ii?^c ^k?f e*wj&tWect?^ b^;;T^a^ le?YeV beb??tft? ClI?t?tfs^??l^Ef?^g w.eji egpogjh $at,-.he s^g?^jj^g^t^t^^^ m?mint" Ae* ?nWgea^1?,i^ where bis temple wWtis: biriW.3?lieW he Uft&.bia-7enerabie IieXd-X ted 'State?>ndVne'"Fb? is*f an ay?wS^^ enemne^e1*?^^^^^^^ - Carenai ^ ? 0*^ ^-4e3o?e?fe^| ftll 1D ?loved tbem allin retato? SeJ'iwe-* ; t?weet^e^wa??^ep?B?E??fe O?ofer^ejield^?o*?etrott wat ^o?t fbir'gl i a n..i f ? Anrlir ( A * AM -xArtli smith sbof&?*&*& 3? ?^.^^ir^J l ACatcbvboid bere^aod Jbe?tr me doJ?t^!^ tothe'sf??? w*ftE??;th^ ^o??ancF? 3 bu7%e-Tw4^^^^%^ I low.- "' :;????.if 2^ -:^ ?i: ^r; ; ' ^ver-j?r^^solejna^ replied.tfcC? ? The5 ?fttf drep^^be^w%5^^tongoe,3?. . looked*hard>?t ihe dm^nb?r? a?iiaaked :^o^yo^eVt?4;;. *2?q, sir .was^th^ ??? * *"mu?t De* mused the teamster 'FU bet .you even that lean Tay yott %s ' onie;t?Ow^e?a?wa>?^?^t^^ ^ 5 .. OV?il? iet/s. tajke eacli qtber^ .doiwn. for fun. tu?n. Tou W ?sl>ig_asT?m/'?af : I"?iv?,syoa thVuncfer bo?f?9^^^ \ '1 a ver u^ej^^^c^-n1^.:i^li^'?'^ tire member.:: > ^ A ^fera"'tsST?^pS^ '^ell^rm^o?iag to'tee^j.jon anjr* how Here we g;o ' ? ^?. Th? teamster slid up'ana endeaivorea' to get" a?Hck;%ci?d, %nt-WaaiTt>nly|??^ commenced his Ina w4i?n(.?e>.wa? lifted . clear off tho.?rj]tss.aud slanainect against' f a tree box with such force s that lie gasp ed a' ?ia?f a1)ze?''Vtmfe':'b??oT8^' ^^ ^ - catch hiyiST?htii*. -? r; ;4 V Now^i^Ee?pta^j: rfeoni me,' exr^ : ; claimed ?tne^ awuist<yc^ pjckiog .np hia" cane% _ K ,^ -; _ . ... v., ?.. ?.-.??-. ? 4Kus? mcTitfclonV rep??eol the'tea^yVt<k ster ?? h? "edged ^ff ; *WfiaVs the ns?^ *'?-?' in lying and sa^iug:you dido- ^iave'any,: fun in yon whee-yon^re^liuck-fcilLnfit^T/r;?.^ Yon wan ted5to break ,?y * back,, didn^ jo?.??etroit Free Press. - \ : ' ! - ? " - - ^ * ' - .'":;-:?y^ Betsey, an old colored co^v;jW?<^^ nioauj?g around tbe^^kiltob^.^one^y^v.^ wheu ber mistress! asked ?erif.ebo wa?^.^?, ilt. "No ^nia'ain," not; ^ctiy^. a^i^ Betsey; ^buV th? fact" #^on>*w^ig^ amb4tioQ?nongh?: . <^^^cit4x^'.X)JkW5^^