The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 08, 1888, Image 2

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* -^?xTER WATCH3CA3?, Established April, IS50. ^BS(??M?te4 Aog. 2, 1881.1 mm. SUMTER, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1888. tip I fl lill n , "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " THJ?? TRUE SOUTITBOX, Established' Jun*, 1S?#' New S?ri?s-To!. HI. ff?. 2?. BWOBB ?ac ss SX ? N. OSTEEN, SUMTK&, S. C. TSRMS : Urs per annum m advance. iDTXKTISSXSNTS. Oae-Sqnare. first insertion.$1 00 Xstary sabseonentiaser?ion._... 50 .Contracts for three mon As, or longer "will be made at red coed rates. communications which subserve private 4aticata ?wfllbecbarged for as-advertisements. ^Obituaries and tributes of respect will be abarged'for: " 1W ggjgg V W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE. 3Rie only Soe calf $3 Seamless Shoe in the world mode without tacks or nails. As st viii h and durable as those costing $5 or $6, and baring no tacks or nails to wear the stocking Or nert the feet, makes them as comfortable ?od weH-fittir x as a hand sewed shoe. Buy tba best. None genuine unless stamped on bottom "W. L. Douglas S3'Shoe, warranted." ; W L. DOUGLAS S4 SHOE, the original Ad only 'hand sewed welt $4 shoe, which -equate custom-made shoes costing from $6 to 99-, kt L. DOUGLAS, $2.50 SHOE is unex? celled for heavy wear. - ^K. L, DOUGLAS S2 SHOE is worn by all Boya, and is the best school shoe in the world. - All the above goods are made in Congress, Button and Lace, and if not sold by your deafer, write W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, -Mass. ." J/ AttenbergSons, Agetts, ?al25 _SUMTER, S. C. KAINIT, C. S. MEAL, " CS. C. Make,) ACID PHOSPHATE, ? grade Guanos, At Low Prices. H. LB. WELLS, At D'. J. Wiaa's: _ Jan. 1>, 188& 6. S. SEALTS Drug Store, Under Music Hall, . SUMTER, S. C. PIBE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS cons tan ly on band. A fine assortment of TOILET ARTICLES, PATENT MEDI? CINES, LADIES' REQUISITES, ?ad all articles kept by 6rst class druggists. - Personal attention given to the compound? ing of physicians* prescriptions. * Cold, sparkling Soda Water, wiih choice ?teamsyrups. Sarsaparilla Meade, and Milk Shakes to suit the most fastidious. G. S. SEAI Y, Apr 13 Graduate of Pharmacy. 7* TS? Folsom. L. W. Folsom. ?.* H. FOLSOM & BRO., Established in 1868. -Dealers in MOntTO&y V?7CHES, CLOCSS, STERLING SILVER and PLATED WARE, Jewelry, Optical Goods, Gold Pens, Pencils, Machine Needled, &e. Repairing promptly done and warranted by practical workmen. Orders from the country will receive our careful attention. Tr7 us. Nov 9 o BRIMSON HOUSE, SUMTER, S. C. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Bates-One Dollar Per Day. A liberal reduction made according to length of time. J. H. DIXON, Proprietor. Formerly of the Central Hotel, Spartan burg, S. C. Sept. n. v SEALY'S EMULSION -OF COD LIVER OIL AND IpMil^ of Lie asl Ma. This preparation contains seventy-five per eant.of Par? Cod Liver Oil, and one drachm each cfthe Bypopbosphites of Lime and Soda. ipekiag it one of the most agreeable prepara? tions of she kind known to the medical faculty. A tablespoonful contains two grains each of the flypopbosphitea. Prepared only by GEBERT S. SEALY, Pharmaceutical Chemist, ' SUMTER, C. S. Dec T_ i* on ?Jota Philadelphia at the Newspaper Ad ver. titing Agency ot Mesara our authorized agent* A. ?. CHINA, DEALER IN BrugSj Medicines and G ?ieraicals. FINE TOILET SOAPS. HAIR AND TOOTH BRUSHES. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. Ac. <tc. PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES AND DYESTUFFS, GLASS, PUTTY, ??c. Full supply of Fresh Garden Seeds. April 9_ PAINT YOUR BUGGY FOR ono 33 o ll r. One coat gives an old buggy the blackest black you ev saw and & handsome gloss without varnishing. It dries hard in a few hours. No rubbing ! No varnishing ! No extra trouble. Each can contains more than enough to paint a carriage. Retailed at One Dollar per Can. For Sale bv * DR. A. J. CHINA. J. F. W. DE??OBM 3 Agent. -DEALER IN mm i mm\m, TOILET' SOAPS, PERFUMERY AND ALL KINDS OF Druggist's Sundries USUALLY KEPT IN A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. Tobacco, Snuff and S?gars, GARDEN SEEDS, M., -ALSO Paints, Oils, Varnishes, &J,A$S, PUTTY, &c. -ASP DYE STUFFS. -o Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and 'orders answered with care and dispatch. The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genu? ine, and of the best quality. Call and see for yourselves. FOTJTZ'S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS So HOK?S will die. of COLIC. BOT? or Lo"G F.K vxa. if Fontus Powders are nsed in time. Fo?tz*5 Powiors wiil cure and prevent HOG CITOLERA. Fontz's Powders will prevent GAI*?.?- IX FOWLS. Foniz's Powders wip increase the qnantity of milk %nd cream twenty per cent., and make the butter fina tad sweet. Foutz"s Powdew vri?? core or prevent almost EVEET ?5ISKA.SK to -which Horses and Cattlcare subject. FOCTZ'S POWDKKS WILL GIVK SATISFACTION. S?!d everywhere. PA VIP "5. F0TJT2, Proprietor BAJLiraiOBJB. SIP DOORS, SASH & BLINDS. Whv send out of Sumter to buy them when they can be boughjt cheaper here ? This fact has been repeatedly and successfully demonstrated by us. Particular attention is paid to the making of ORNAMENTAL SSR0LL?W0BX] . BRACKETS, Trae?Mif ffitifles. The supply vof Rough Lumber on hand is large- and ample. H. KARBY & CC. "ow TO un mi GO TO THE SUMTER COTTON FACTORY, AND BUY FOR CASH, BAGGING AND TIES, In Lots of 75 Sets-40 Cents a Baie. In LOTS of 50 Sets-50 Cents a Bale. In Lots of 25 Sets-60 Cents a Bale. In Lots of 5 Sets-65 Cents a Bale. -ALSO Cotton Batting Matresses, from $3.50 to $10.00. Satisfaction guaran? teed or monev refunded. D. JAMES WINN, Sept. 14-v President. J. D. CRAIG. a FURNITURE DEALER AND UNDERTAKER, M A ty STREET, SUMTER, ^ s. C. RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCES to the public that he has a large, and well selected stock of Furniture to which additions are being made every week. We take pleasure in showing goods, and all are invited to cali and see for themselves the bargains offered in Wood and Marble-Top Walnut, Ash and Poplar Bed Room Setts, Handsome Parlor Suit5", Marble and Wood-Top Tables of all kind?, Lounges, Chairs and rockers of many styles, Bedsteads, Bureaus. Washstands, Mattresses and Pillows, Pictures, Window Shades, Picture Frames, What-nots, Brackets, And everything usually kept in a first class furniture store. A visit to Craig's wi il convince you that you can save money by buying of him. All goods carefully packed, free of charge. A large stock of window and picture glass always on hand. THE UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT is full and complete embracing Caskets and Coffins of varions styles. Calls promptly attended day or night. Charges most reasonable. Oct. 19_ E. SOLOMONS. Surgeon Dentist. J Office over A.A. Solomons* Store, j SUMTER, S. C. ? Office Hours-9 to 2 ; 3.30 to 6> I Mchl7 I ] Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies* A marvel of parity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can? not be sold in competition with the multitude ! of Iow'test, short weight, alum or phosphate j. powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAK- j ING POWDER CO., 106 Wall-st., N. Y. TAX RETURNS! FOR ?88T-8. RETURNS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY and Polis will be recieved at the follow? ing times a?d places : Tindales Store, Tuesday, January 3. Bloom Hill, Wednesday, January 4. Wedgefield, Thursday, January 5. .Stateburg, Friday, January 6. Gordon's Mill, Friday. January 6. Magnolia, Monday, January 9. Mayesville, Tuesday, January 10. Johnson's Store, Wednesday, Jan? uary ll Shiloh, Thursday, January 12. Lynchburg, Friday, January 13. Reid's Mill; Monday, January 16. Bishopville, Tuesday and Wednes? day. January 17 and 18. Mannville, Thursday, January, 19. Smithville, Friday, January 20. Mechanicsville, Saturday, January 21. Providence, Wednesday, January ll. Sanders* Depot, Wednesday, Janu? ary 18. Rembert's Store, Rafting Creek Township, January 19. AKD At the Auditor's office ?D Sumter, from the 23d of January to the 20th of February in? clusive. Parties making Returns by mail or by aootber person will please give full first name of Taxpayer and the Township the property is in. W. R. DELGAR, Nov. 30 Auditor Sumter County. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, SUMTER, S. C. January 9, 1888. THE FOLLOWING ACT IS PUBLISHED in accordance with Section 3 : An Act to allow unimproved lands which have not been on the tax books since 1875 to be listed without penalty. " Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Se?are and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and silting in General As? sembly, and by the authority of the same. That in all cases where unimproved land which bas not been upon the tax books since the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1875, and which are not on the forfeited list, shall at any time before the 1st day of October, 1888, be r?tcrned to the County Auditor for taxation, the said Andi tor be, and is hereby instructed, to assess the same and to enter it upon the duplicate of the fiscal ye?r commenc? ing November 1, 18S7, with the simple taxes oftbat year. Section 2. That all such lands as maybe returned to the Auditor for taxation between the first day of October, 1888. and the first day of October, 1889. shall be assessed and charged with the simple taxes sf the two fiscal years commencing, respectively, on the first day of November, 1887, and the first day of November, 13S8. Section 3. That as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, the Comptroller Gen? eral is directed to furnish a copy of the same to each Auditor in the State, and the Audi? tors are required to publish the same in each of their County papers, once a week for three mouths during the year 1388, and for the same period of time during the year 1889: and the cost of such publication shall be paid by the County Treasurer, upon the order of the County Commissioners, out of the ordi? nary county tax last collected. Approved December 19, 1887. W. Pw. DELGAR, Jan ll 3m "Auditor Sumter County. ELY'S Gream Balm Cleanses the Nasal Pass-ages Allays Pain and INFLAMMATION Heals the'-Sores. Restores the SENSES OF TASTE and Smell. TRY TU* Cl;RK.HAY-FEVER CATARSH is a disease of the mucous membrane, gener? ally originating in the nasal passages and maintaining its stronghold in the head. Fronr^ this point it sends forth a poisonous virus into the stomach and through the digestive organs, corrupting the blond and producing other troublesome and dangerous symptoms. A particle is applied into each nostril and agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists : by mail, registered, 60 cents. ELY BROS., 235 Greenwich Street, New York. ALL ABOARD! FOR THE CELESTIAL CITY ? ALL RIGHT I NOW I We would be glad to help yow on the way rejoicing, by supplying you with a choice Family Bible; any style and price: twenty-two dollars, down to a complete, substantial, and beau? tiful Bilde for only three dollars and fifty cents. My address, Mayesville, S. C. Youis faith fui Iv. HARVEY W. BAKER. Dec 21 o _ JUST BECE?VED, A Fresh Invoice of the Celebrated TOIiTEC CIGAR. Warranted full Havana filler. The best 5 cent Cigar in America. Known fror? Mai oe to California. G L. & C. W. KING.MAN, Sole Agent?, Sumter, S. C. Jan 18 x BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY*. Copyrighted by the Author, /ind published by arrangement wit?i. bim. ECONI'LNlJKDj CHAPTER IV.. CUTING FOR THE MOON, The strident voices of 400 looms would seem to be too much for human nerves, but the walls of the weave room Number Two of the Breton mills are hung with soiled plaid shawls and chip hats, the livery of the fac? tory girl. Their restless forms aro busy among the rattling machinery, their swift cunning lingers moving harmlessly where mutilation would seem certain. It is a mere matter of habit; one look at most of the set pale faces would show there was no brain force in-exercise Why. the overseer will tell you those girls are as much machines as the frames and belting: though they un? doubtedly have one advantage for the em- , ployers, the girls are cheaper. .The weirder- ? ful mechanism of those looms, the skillful system of belts and pulleys and th? enor? mous water wheel cost a fortune. Girls can be bought in the market any day for a crust of bread. Is not that figure familiar-the ono that stands this moment leaning against a dingy white pillar, while the rushing belts and slid? ing frames seem hurrying the faster all about her? Yes, on thc piece of wall between the two jail like windows nearest to her hangs the plaid shawl Philip Breton had for a coun? terpane only last night. Her dress is soiled and ill made, and her hair tied up in the closest and ugliest coil to escape the greedy machinery, ever reaching out for new vic? tims. But the warm, soft tint of her cheeks and the moist sheen in her black eyes were always the saine, and many a young man would rather look at her this minute than turn off an extra cut, they call it, of cloth at twenty cents. Her days used to be more terrible to her even than-now. She had wished every morn? ing that she might die before night, and at night that God would take her before morn? ing; take her, she cared not where; no placa could bc worse, certain. But she was slowly growing, she thought, into the dead calm that all the rest had learned; and yet how she hated the great massive mills, irresistible giants that held her with deathless grasp, grimly contemptuous of her writhings and foolish struggles. The overseers, too, how she hated them; their sharp words stung her like the lash of so many taskmaster?, and the paymaster who doled out to her the few dol? lars, the wages of her blood and life, as ii that could be paid for. She had longed so many times io throw back his money in the smiling, patronizing face: but the poor can? not afford the dearest of all luxuries, pride. Suddenly the mill bell rang out above the roar of the wheels, a::d at its voice the looms j stopped, the breath o? their life taken away, ? and the belts ceased from their- endless race. I Another day's work was closed, and the ! poor girls hurried on their shawls and hats ; as if at last something pleasant awaite? j them and went out in chattering groups. "What is it, Tommie?71 A broad shoul? dered young fellow had left the crowd and i followed her shyly up the hill. "Nothin much, only may I walk home with your "Wiil that do "you any good? Hurry up then." He was an honest faced young fellow, and a little better drcr#cd than most of the group j that waited about the miil yard gate. "What you want to walk round here with me for I can't see. They can't work you very bard, Tommie, if you want so much extra exercise." It was rather a contemptuous laugh sha had for him, but she showed a row of small white teeth that pour Tommie thought were very beautiful. "I wanted to say sometlrbv particular, Jennie." And he reached down his big clingy hand for a stalk of grass, and began pulling it nervously to pieces, as he kept up with her quick feet. They were just passing Mr. ?llingsworth s house, and father . and daugh? ter stood in the doorway. ' No doubt Air. ER?igsworth had just come home tb tea. He held his tall bat in his bund, while he waited with his beautiful daughter to enjoy tho soft spring mildness. Jane Graves could see in behind them. How could, thjey bear to stay outside? She saw a white spread tea table glis? tening with silver, and rare china, soft tinted carpets and pictures in rich gilded frames, far prettier, she was sure, than anything nature had to show. The girl's face, as she stood resting her white hand on her father s shoulder, was as calm as the twilight itself. .'How lias she deserved it all moro than II She was never tired in her life, and I never Lie down at night but my hands and feet ache. See what she gets for being idle; sea what I get for my ten hours' work, every day since I was a child." "We've known each other pretty long, Jen? nie, and-and'-he had pulled thc grass all all to pieces-uand I s'poseyou know how I've -I mean how I've felt. I am doiug a little better now." The young man's eyes bright i-ned. "'i've got a little money left me, and you know I'm just made second hand." '-What is that to me, Tommiei" she said, impatiently. Her woman's soul was longing for the beautiful life of the rich, whose house she was passing, and she felt, too, the admir? ing glance Mr. Ellmgsworth had given to her graceful figure. Why was this awkward boy oy her side to spoil thc ei?ect ? . Tommie Bowler winced, buf ducking hil round bead to avoid the sharp look be feared was in the beautiful eyes, he went on dog? gedly. "1 s'posed we'd been agoing together quite a while, Jennie, audi was goin' to ask you when you was willin1 to be married." ''Married-to you?" Ah, Tommie Bowler, what were you think* ing of to want to marry a girl who hod - such a tone as that for you ? JL?\rs oC shame started into his eyes. "I aint ro low; I never thought but what you v.'ouM before." She gave hi?? a look half curious and half pitii'ai. ile night as weil have oriel for tba moon. Could ft bc tho la 1 thought fh/it just | because she w;is pretty-sho could make his tome happy tor hL:i-bis. '.I'm nu: goin'X tu hav-o a ha-'l ut making another poor mans- home Pe??plc us had U t U r tip sm~b : there's only half thc tron?4" that \:-y, T?:m::::e." Ti:-' :'. :-i >i. '>:;!.;.-:..? ! young m."'."!. who ?lid I not 1::...??' what was ? ? >i for lum. i- A i^'-k from tile woman bi ; heart, hungered as if ! he wnssh. i:. And sh . wu! c d hu, with hard-] ly "{mother tl:- .u^ht for liv ... >'.'.>'\ lovvrwbo I imaginedt!i??v two i !?.. Itappy :<>;:"?l:"r. j Why ..-owldu't sk- !... ri- h.' They bad al-; ways ioid her she ivas beautiful li she only j bad a cl::i.:ee. They say men are fools over i pretty women,;-and that is tho only hopp a wem.-.:, has of winning-her way. If shconly ! had;? chance. A <1;-1: -atc gray mist floated over lin-* river ! Ic," . viii ???i l tl.e green forests.'and j fresh I :--::?uv.-s en ? !?- other side s:;n1?.-il j through j.', like a fttir woman through ber i tears. A tired soul mi '' have drunk in its ; beaut}- and bern r.-s'.i d; but June* Iraycs east | her eyes ilowii on the dusty roa? 1 before lier ? and v. M !!;.-.. I ???ung with a set bitter curl on ; ber bright red lips, and did not once look at ] thc gift of (?od s mei'ey'to thc poorest of his j creatures. For ber part she despised the j poor; she didn't pity them; great strong men I who submitted lo bc trodden on and ground under th" feet of the rich; whose blood and musf-1 N and quivering flesh were weighed in the baloney against a few dollars of thc spec? ular irs. It was good enough for them os . lome as they submitted to it. She didn't blame the rich ; they were tho only wise peo? ple; sho only envied them. They did well to take all they could get and walk over as many thousands as would fail d' '.a beioro thom. 5h; if she could only win her way to . their ranko. But tho rieb, men do note into tho weave room for their enslavers. Suddenly she heard a step behind he step she knew from all others in the w< and tho whole air teemed to tremble wi new, strange, heavenly impulse. "Good evening. Jane." ! She turned with a new, sweet shyness, was Curran, the agitator, who was ht her. A soft flush was on her checks, a w j light in her eye? that hod grown larger him in delicious siirprisc. "Who is that young fellow who just ycu?" "Oh, ono of my lovers," she answ? coquettishly, d.-epping her eyes before hi "He your lover!" repeated Curran in imperious fashion. " You ro not for sue' he, Jennie." Her heart Guttered in sweet fear at moaning she thought in his words. She trying to walk -very slowly, but how they seemed to pass the houses. "So 1 told bim,"' she said. "You did well, then," and he looked d< Admiringly on the girl. "You are a line I man 1 don't suppose you know it." Jane Craves tried to look as if it was n j to her, and Curran went on. "Few wo? ! Drc;prettier. There are fine prizes for sue you in this, world if you will only wait." continued thoughtfully, "3ien havo to w for distinction; a pretty face brings il ' women."' j * ""What sort of prizesr And she tru? herself. ts look up at him. How grand was. with his firm, rti-oug face. If ho c bad a touch of weakness in him that mi [ bend down to her. "Posit ion, moi-ey, power." j "INO woman cares fer those." And she licved it ey sae spoke, looking away over river. "'That then?"' he asked, smiling. "Tl: thing.-; aro what all mon are working fe suppose." "Women care for but one thing." Sometimes the climax of a charactei reached orly in old age, when storms b; wreaked their fury for a lifetime o? a sc Sometimes ;t comes in childhood, with thi score yean; of decline to como after it. was at this moment that this girl's '. reached its moral height. If she could 1 have kept it. "That" is love," she added softly. "It their lives: they hope only for that; tl dream cidv* of it." Curran laughed, but gently, as he took ] hands at parting, pressing them perhaps i consciously, yet no man can bo wholly ca less to such beauty ashers. "It is only because women are more fool than men*, not because they aro more i voted, that they are able to make such ; surd mistakes." * She smiled on him as radiantly as a i petaled rose unfolding its glowing heart thi morning sun-the sun that gives eve: thing rind wants nothing, and stood h turned watching his retiring form The rc at this point passed near a deserted ru once a brick saw-mill, which had shorn t hills and valleys around of their pride, nov favorite trysting place" for lovers of mo( light nights like this would be. Curran -n just entering under an arch, where once b . swung a heavy oaken door which long a haei served some skivering family for week's firewood Ho went in and did not once tum. E< cruel mon are. Perhaps,' she told herself, is to meet there some messenger of the Gre league he had told her about, and they w plan together some bold stroke. It w beautiful to have such power; even if it ma him forget this one poor girl, whose hen longed so eagerly for another smile. The whole world seemed glorified to t girl as she walked on. She had loitered long that the sun was now almost settm wita his flowing robe of carmine about hil and the whole landscape seemed in a raptu of silent worship. Jane Graves was like o: in a dream-her home, which she could t< from its cheap dreary counterparts, mig havo been a palace; the path along in fro: of it, beaten by so many faltering footstep, seemed only pleasant]}- familiar to he What hail she .seen to envy in anybody's ii. that had not her dear hope! But down the hill comes a great whi horse, tossing his mano and curveting in tl pride of his strength and beauty. Its rider who held the rein so graceful must be young Philip, the mill owner's soi he liad just finished college, they said S that was the young man Bertha Eliiugswort was engaged to; not ill looking, and he roc well The girl smiled to herself. "Bi Bertha Eiiingsworth had not seen Curran." "Did he lift his hat to me?" She locke inquiringly about her. "There is no or else, and his black eyes seemed to know mi too; how odd/' thought the girl, as si walked on more hastily, and the horse an its rider disappeared in a cloud of dust. "And it seems as if I had seen him som* where, too." _ CHAPTER V. A ncTx BY MOONLIGHT. Bertha lay back indolently in her favorit armchair, watching the deepening twiligh from her parlor window. Her eyes were a! most closed, and Philip, affecting to be intel csted in Mr. Ellingsworth's conversation thought he might look at her as fondly as h chose without discover,- and rebuke. Ile wa sure hew-as not noticed, but tho girl wa auite enjoying his silent offering-so long a au elia no" guess she perceived it. Ic a gir must have a lover, Philip did very well. Bu her lover was no divinity to her; she saw al bis faults as clearly as anybody: not wit: impatience, however; that was noi her tem perameat. For example, ho was too shorl and his shoulders were too slight. She hove: forgot it for an instant. But then he alway! ?lid what she said, and that was very con venient, and yet she was half provoked wit! him for it. A man ought to command a wo man's love, not try to coax it from her. H< thought quite too much of her for what she returned bin?; ho ought to be stern and cole to her somer:nie*, and give her a chance-tc ix* something h-\- les an ungrateful recipient. But perhaps she would not like him at all in that character. She suddenly opened hoi eyes wide and looked curiously at her lover: there is nothing so chi hing as such a look as that, and Philip winced under it. "Wel?. I suppose you two are bursting with tender <.'o:i??denc: r;." smiled Mr. Eiiingsworth, as he rose to his feet: "1 really won't stay a urinate longer." Ile moved toward the doc?r, liten Ho smiled and looked around; he had thought of something veiw funny. "Now Philip, my dear boy. you mustn't he too sure of her just because she seems so affectionate. That is where a young man makes his worst mistake. As long as there is another man in thc world, lie may have hope, that is,:thc other mau." His daughter looked eoollv after bim. ?'Must you go? Why v.v. shall die of on::ai. Wo shall have to talco a walk ourselves. Ex? cuse irv-. Philip, while 1 get ready." Left alone, the young nam rose and went r.o tho window and looked ont at the evening sky. There., was a little frown on his tace. '>Wi:at au unpleasant way of talking Bertha's failur had ? me won Iii think ho believed in no; liing. There wa< no danger of his feeling any Urj sure of lier: how far away she seemed 1.? hita. Thc idea of marriage seemed vague and dreamlike, and ver. ?:" had her promise." "Y'?a may ad just my..'shawl for mc." His vexation Cod, and lie smiled with the sweet complacency of p<\?sev;lon as ho lui 1 \h> deli? cate bit of lace about lier warm shoulders. To-night would bo a good time to turo his idea into reality, and ask her when .*i;ar. you mast promise mo one thing," she said, standing close to bin, for one moment. "What that, Bertha, dearie ho asked with guilty uneasiness. Slie put her sait white hand in his so charmingly that ho was suddenly sure it could i^e nothing han! she would require. "? promise," ho assented. "No love making in tho rain, if I let yoi; take me lhere." "Why. Bertha!" h^ exclaimed so sorrow? fully that lie showed his whole plan. Tho ghi laughed. "You are too cunning by half, Mr. Philip, but, then you know love making in tho saw mill is too common. Why, it is tho rendex .vons cf ail the factory bands. No, I couldn't think ox it for a moment."' "Then I won't insist on taking von to tho old saw mill." i vOh, yes! it is charming by moonlight." j "Ono would thxek^pu hadn't any heart.1' I Phill;) did not confess tho pecniiar chana this .'.roman's very coldness had for him; there was some quality ia it that TO; irre? sistibly exciting ' to his mirare. ftrhops it wes the presence cf an unconscious reservo of passion, cover yet revealed, that he felt in her, that kept his heart eyjr warm, and hi; eyes ever tender for its unveiling. The round faced servant girl had come np from tho kitchen, and stood awkwardly at tho door. ''Yes, yon may light the gos now,. Annie: wc aro going out. " She laid izcr hand lightly on Philip's arm as they went down t!x> walk. "I must really have a maid. That Annis te too clumsy for mo to endure in tho x;arlor or dining room. Oh, yes, I probably havo got a heart; some time it will frighten you, per? haps." They walked slowly along tho street, pass? ing tho very spot whero Tommie Bowler had offered his poor little- all to Jane Graves only an hour or two ago. Their feet trod care? _ lessly on the bits of grass the nervous lover had scattered along the path. "But you haven't told mo about the meet? ing. Did tho agitator havo auburn curls, as I said? That is tho clearest idea I have got of a hero." As ho told her his adventure they reached the ruin and went in The moonlight poured through tho dismantled roof, and made a white track for itself over tue uneven -Hoer, leaving the rest of tho interior in the shadow. Such as remained of the fallen-rafters rando convenient benches for visitors, who might . easily enough imagine themselves in some cid world ruin. And the young mill owner's son and Bertha, the hem of whose garment had never touched poverty, seated themselves whero man}' a penniless young fellow had wooed some pretty weaver maid to share his destitution, all fer love-soon starved out of both their lives. Philip felt all his last night's enthusiasm ' coming over him again, as he described the . meeting of the hope] ess poor and the life of thc family that had taken him in. He seemed to bc again thrilled with Curran's eloquence as he pictured his noble presence, "and tried to repeat his vivid sentences. Ivas Bertha listening so patiently to him or only idly watching the shadows as they shifted* with the moon? He hoped she was touched. She could help him-so much to do something for the thousand souls in the mills if there was anything could be done. And then it seemed so sweet to have an earnest thought, and hope ' in common-one more bond to unite them. "But what can I do. Bertha? It is ali so mined up. Do you suppose my father would listen to me? But if lie would, what can I propose? If I tell him the people are poor and unhappy, he knows all that, i can's ask him to divide ail his wealth with them; that wouldn't last so many very long, and then he couldn't employ them any more-they would be spoiled for w-jrk, and we weald ail starve together." "I wish I could seo him," said the girl slowly. Ile locked at her blankly. "Vwhy." Suddenly a double tread of feet without, and the forms of two men, one much taller than the other, blocked the doorway. "Hush, then," whispered Philip excitedly. "There he stands." The men came forward till they stood di? rectly in the path of tho moonlight, which seemed to clothe them with its silver sheen. ?o need to tell her which was he: the ?ir] bent eagerly forward and fixed her eyes on tho "majestic figure that stood with folded arms. "I am very late," began tho shorter man apologetically. Curran did not reply, and the man went on ina minute more. "vThat is the news? I want to report your village, you know." "There is no news. It is the same old story. Wliat is the good of reporting and reporting, and then doing nothing?'' The words escaped between his teeth like tho staccato tones of a comet. "I am sick of thc word 'wait:7 it is tho resource of the weal:." "But;we arc weak. Give us time." Curran unfolded his anns with a gesture cf impatience. "Tho injustice has got its growth; it has fattened on our flesh and blood, and sucked ? out tho lite cf untold generations before us." ; His eyes shone fiercely on the man cf caution. "I believe tho time has come to destroy it, ? and the crime of murder lies at our con? science? for every crushed soul sacrinced for ; our delay." Philip fancied Bertha trembled. - ' "But," began the stranger, in the metallic voice of tho objector, "the officers of the | league think tho laborers are no? ready." ; "2?o, nor will they ever bc; they have sub? mitted too long. But they are always good for action if somebody will lead them. They 1 hang on our lips, but we "do not speak." < "Yes, weare spreading intelligence, send- . ing out orators like you ; we arc arranging political campaigns. By and by capital will be more reasonable." ( "Do you fancy then," retorted Curran, bit- 1 terry, "that the rich will willingly open their ( coffers to tho logical workman, out of whose . ( earnings they have filled them? Isn't it too delightful to be able to build a palace for a ' home, and create another paradise for a gar- . den; to marry off their sons and daughters { when the first coo of love trembles on their ( young lips? Then will they divide," and he raised his voice with terrible emphasis, , "when there is no escape from it. As long - as thc people submit, if it ix till the tramp of t doom, so long the lord? and masters vail de? fraud them of tho price of their labor: so long their wives and daughters will look do?m complacently on the sufferings of tdio mi?lion; ono' of whom starves for every piece ' o? finery they smile to wear." s Philip felt Bertha tremble again, but ha* \ eyes never once wavered. "'What do you propose?" J "I don't know," muttered Curran, turning * his head half away, "but when I see thc silent z raging in the hearts of tho poor, when I seo f tho riches squeezed out- of their scant, iii fed blood, I am mad with' impatience. Bat I ' suppose all great changes come most benoit- I cent ly if they are slow. - Then there ero no t jcart sickening- reactions. Corns ont into tho j open air. It seems close herc." { The two men went cut and the indistinct ? murmur of their voices was ell that could ' bc heard. ( "How do yon like my hero?"1 said Philip, ? pleased that Bertha should have a chance to \ learn from tho same source whence he Uad , been so stirred. Nov.-, she could sympathise " perfectly with him, in the new idea that ho * felt must have such a groat'influenoo over his 1 life. 4 . ECe is coming bac!:," she whispered brea:::- s lessly. "alene." Darran I -oked in astonishment at two ?gures starting toward him out of tho sha- 1 dows. Ile rceognitod then at once. . "We*:1.. I hopa you may have learned some ! . useful truths," he said scornfully, lovhinj tie j j young man full ia the face. j , Bertha's lip quivered, and rho can? cl >5C to j ) him in tho mooni:;.'.t and laid her white j hand on his arm. "ATo didnot^moan ioovor- ; c hear your secrets,'' she said earnestly: "but '. . surely ii? could do nb liarm to listen to such , - beautiful words. They ??^?av.d to bo wasted | ' on the one y< u meant them for." j M i MPs s ? mi s '<v tim j I J i : c "TT'c did not viran to overhear your j J Plvi I ip looked at Bcrlha* in startled sar- " prire; ho hai'dly know ber: then bc glance?! et ? C?r;vmf v.hose curled li'.) sprtcned ito stern s lines. The girl's bonnet; had feilen baci on 3;er neck, and her face was turned up toward Iiis in tho perfection of graceful entreaty, her big" tine eyes showing dark in the evenincr. Tib agitator glanced at her sparkling elia monds, and the rich lace shawl that lay over her shoulders, then back into tho beautiful upturned lace, and af last his eyes fell before hers. His boldness was gone; his scorn and contempt for the women of the rich changed to timidity before her. "Don't distress yourself, my dear lady," ho said at last; 'there is no hann done, lam sure.'' As his tens* mood relaxed, tho chsrai that had so transformed the girl seemed broken, and she drew back as if in .surprise at finding herself so near him. The walk home was a silent one, till almost the end. "Do you know what I am going to do to? morrow, Bertha? I am going to put on the old clothes again. " "Dont you think ii rather boyish?1 'Tm in earnest this time. lam going to leam how to make cloth, and find out just how hard tho work is, and just h?w-why Bertha, are you yawning?" . They had roached thc doorway.- SheTOoked very sweet, even when smothering a yawn wi:h ber tvvo fingers, as she :;tood on the step above him; aird gazed off on the river. His foolish heart began tc? beat. "Bertha, we are not at tho saw mill now, 2nd''-? She smiled. "But you were not to say anything if I let you take me there, and I have let 3'ou, haven't I?' . ."But aren't? you ever going to consent to" '.There," .she stamped her foot playfully. " ?. on are almost breaking your promise:" then she looked at his reproachful face and 1st him*take her hand and kiss it "You kzov? there is a sort of solemnity in the kind of business like talk you -?vant so much. But Til promise tills: if you will be patient foi ' just ono month, you caa say what you p?case bo mo." Philip went of? in groat glee, and his horse Joe could not leap too high to suit him. for what Beilba had said v.-os almost what he asked. Ono month from today-that would be a Friday early in thc morning. . [TO Br co:;xrxt:ED.l From "?he Charleston Tri: Weekly Courier, cf May 12, 13??. Glimpse of Southern Society. ID the subjoined 'Glimpse of Southern Society," which we take from the Bos ion Courier, more than one favored SOD ?f the Palmetto will recognize the delicate etchings of au accomplished daughter of Piigrini-Laud : From a letter written Ly a young lady of Boston, and dared Charleston, 3. C , we are permitted to make tte following extracts : We Lave been very strongly invited to make visits to the varions See plan? tations, but have oa?y had time to go to that of Mr. Bull, whose house, called Ashley Hall, is 196 years old, and Erbose estate consists of some eleven bundred acres. Ile was very polite, iud took us all through his Sue garden ja the banks cf the Ashley River, ?vhieh runs within ten or fifteen rods' cf li? back of the house. Here, great ive oaks and magnolias, red cedars and impresses, tail pine trees and dogwood, tv b ich herc grows to* the siz"e of an apple ?ree, and is covered with large white blossoms, aro intermingled with the most beautiful Sowers, which we can inly cultivate in greenhouses. . We weDt into the negroes' quarters, jonsisting of some twenty whitewashed jottages, containing generally one room, )Ut of very good size, and on the door? steps of one of them sat a negress* one lundred and twenty-five years old. She looked" wei!, but seemed to have cst whatever s<ose she originally bar?, md, as Mr. Bali told us, bas for fifty ?rears done nothing but sit in the sun as tve found her. As we came to the ;hildreu's quarters a confused scram? bling took place, and some ten or twelve ittle negroes vanished under ODe of the souses, which are raised on posts some I hrce feet from the ground. One of he cider ones was cooking the dinner >f rice and vegetables, etc., in the open lir. Everything within the high fence, mclos?ng a considerable space, and fte cottages, belonged to the negroes, and hey can sell the produce of their gar lens and poultry yards to any one they moose. Nowhere have I seen any in lication of that cruel treatment which s charged against slaveholders. On he contrary, they show a degree of in? dulgence towards the idleness and )bsticaey of their servants which our Northern fanatics could not imitate with he first joint of their little fingers Not cn!y are the laws severe against ualtrcament of negroes, but . public ?pioion, which has here a chivalric var m tb unknown to our cold climate,* ;tards ever oo the alert to chastise any m-tacce of cruelty or wrong in any ;hape, towards those* simple beings who yy nature, as weii as social relations, ire so peculiarly dependent upon their j ;are ar.d protection. I always take | }nir??, to correct, whenever I have op- | >otrunity, tba idea which esi.-ts here of | he universality cf Abolitionism at the j NIorth, and assure them that it only iourishes itv ? smalj body of ignorant ! anaties, whose corrupt hands are at mee thc cause and csuusc, if there is ?nv, for i tie sour fermentation of their irains. Not, however, that people cnn aeniion politics io social gatherings, or hat they ever allow their general opin on of tho North to ir-fiu en ce their rc reprico if individuals; they arc kind! md iicspifrtlle to a* degree that mal'es j inc feel a* if acouaicteu for years with j hem. ? Ar *V?r iiiil'fs phire I saw a cotton i :in.au'j ...cm mci: screw press, such as j s' nsed i r eoi'en on the plantation, ! ?..fore sending to cities for export, j herc it is again pressed. Each bale j : o tu sining variously from 200 to TOO j > <::i:<"s. is subjected to a procure cf j 'CO teas, br which-it :->ses more than ! ?alf its original size ia about a minute. | n this process negroes aro also employ id ; one shuts offend lets cn steam, mother passes over thc reps, another j ios them, end in this, as iu all ether j abor, Of whatever kind, not one cf hem can bo compelled iu any w*y to ? lo the work of another, or vary his : :v. n : rh cy work lii:o machines. Tho cotton fields are all prepared, and he planting is, I believe., just about to ?onimoeee ; the rico is already planted, md they arc begining the first over lowing of ihe lipids. Now, too, the planter's families are. :0011c? ia town from their country vlaces r.car Charleston, or those that lave distant homes in healthy localities, j eturn to them after ?.winter in this j .iry. 31 any of the wealthy families ! .ave three or four homes io various ? .art.-? cf the State, where they ia gea- ] al live very simply, though comfort- I tt?e, as must bc thc case where oae ' j moves about from place to place 8a j much. i (?ce day we called on Miss PInckoey, ; a venerable lady! 84 years of age, and j the daughter of .General Pinokoey, the j patriot of the li? volution: The house j:" 150 or more years old, and ta furnish ! ed it was fifty years ago; with rich j hangings and inlaid furniture, and, old ! family portrait.' A black waiter j brought in cake a?a* orgeat cordial io the old style, and Miss P. invited ns'. very urgently to come and take tea wil? ber, bot we hadn't the time. General*. Washington and' mest of the leaders of the Revolution, have been entertained - in this house, and many an anxious consultation bas' no doubt been held in tbat same ancient apartment. It' would 5 do many of our' ultra-destructioniats" good to 'visittufa ancient city scatterat with the evidences of that great struggle of our fore-fathers-the statue of I*iHp mutrrate^l>y^tfe? fee, but still bending forward in undaunted exhortation; tb** many ancient looking houses where pat?' rists grew, and that blackened tower of/ St. Miches from which the alarmi bel?" once widly'rang, bet where now the hours are peacefully chimed, and'the'* watchman assures the lumbering eity with long drawn melodious cry, that1" "AH isrwell." - Sig i i OMm A Bear Starts, a Revival. A man from Lynch's Mill tells of a' huge bear scare in that section r?' ce'ntiy. It was no imaginary bear either: it was a solid reality, and a' big one at that. The varmint, a Urge black bear, walked deliberately info' the house of Mr.-YVriIHara Lee theolh j er day in open daylight, and went up' j to thc bed where the child was steeps I ing. Mrs. Lee screamed, and rail j towards Ute bed tc rescue her child, j and the bear left the house. After j stopping at the well to quench ita I thirst it strolled across the field to the j fodder slack, where it made a thor I ough search. The varmint then j moved off slowly in the direction of the river swamp and was lost in the distance. Shortly after nightfall of the sasne day Bruin put in an appearance on the premises of Sabe Friarson, as'old colored man. The dogs tackled bim, but he soon 'cleaned them up* and sent them to the house yelling io a style that aroused the neighbors. Old mau Sabe drew on his brogans and got a hand-torch and his gua and went out to the scene of trouble. When the bear saw him he vacated the situation and retreated over tb an adjoining neighborhood where" tne Cusaac negroes live. As Bruin stroll? ed away old man Sabe yelled 'bear F at the top of his voice. The Cusaac negroes heard it and 'caught on,' and very soon yells of 'bear V 'bear V were coming from all directions, and all tbe dogs iu the settlement were barking. Solomon Cusaac, a dusky widower of about thirty, was out on a scout that night and happened to get caught in the vary centre of the excitement lu the ru?dness of his fright he dashed for the river swamp, filling the air with wild yells as he weut. He was found about daylight the next morn? ing a mile or two from home, in an exhausted condition, wet to the neck and his fiesh terribly tom with thorns. Ile was taken home by his family and has since been under the treatment of Dr. Richard Friarson, colored, who thinks that he will pull through safely if the weather keeps cool. The Cusaac negroes have been holding prayer meetings every night since the occurrence -ItmmoMV?le Farmers1 Friend. : Newspaper Trials. One of the great trials of the news' paper profession is that irs me ai be re ar? compelled to see more of the'sham of the world than any other pro fest ion. Through every newspaper oSce, day after day, go all the weaknesses of the world-all the vanities that want to be puffed, all the mistakes that' want to be corrected, all the du il speakers that want to be eloquent, all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis in \ the editorial columns iu order to save the tax of the advertising column ; all the men who want to- be set right who never were right ; ail the cracked brain philosophers with srories as long aa their hair and as gloomy as their finger nails in mourning because bereft of soap -all the bores who come to stay* five minutes but talk five hours. Through the editorial and reportorial rooms #a?l thc follies and shams of the world ard soon, day after day, aad the temptation; is to believe in Gud, man nor woman. It is no surprise io mc that iu this pro? fession there are sonic skeptical raen mr X only wonder that newspaper :of?n believe anything.-Rev. T. De Witt Tahiiage. Th.3 Temper of tbe South Pdmelfc Post. Last week we mentioned the death ia Beaufort of a most excelled and highly esteemed colored mau, P. K. Ezekiel. To ph ow hew considerare the white peo .pie cf the South are to co:.red people who conduct themselves properly and command respect by th< ir clr-racier and conduct, ?he*stcres in the town wore all closed hy agreement from IO o'clock until 1 o'clock, daring the performance of tlie ceremonies, sad many cf our oldest and mc*t prominent citizens to show respect to the memory of a true, faithful, good man. who, although alie pabiicaa; and in the minority with his race in the South now, siill had the course to muintaiQ himself above re? proach The Power cf the Press. Col W. Il Aylett, of Richmond, W, in a recent speech at Philadelphia, said ?mo?? other things that "we hear in loud tones the voice of the great American press-that power mightier' than armies or navies, mightier that swords and tho sceptres of kings, on whose supporting arm the Goddess of Liberty leans, and whose daily utter-, anees proclaim that peace, friendship and love once more bind the American people with golden bands o? indissoluble and perpetual onion ; whose thousand tongues none can silence ; whose cham? pions ?'All unbr?bed at Freedom's altar stand, Faithful and firm, bright wardens of the land." - ?