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? 2 5 SUMTER WATCHMAN, Kstablished April, J S 50. ?gn#>Kdate4 Aug. 2, 1881.1 kSe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " THE TRUE SOUTHRON, established Jafc?, 1?66 SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1889. New Series-Yoi. IX. No. 6. T ? Published every Wednesday, BY N. Gr. OSTEEN, SUMTER, S. C. - Ts ?MS : Dollars pw annum-in advance. One Square, first insertion................-$1 00 Kvery subsequent iusertion.. 50 ? "Gbntracts for three montas, or looger^eiH be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tribales of respect wil1 be POWDER Absolutely Pure. This ^"powder never varies. A marvel oC ?ority, strength and wholesomeness. More fbonomica] tbaa the ordinary kinds, and can ??<^e<saSd in eomp?tition with the multitude Of iow test, short weight, alum or phosphate -powders. Sold only in catv-. ROYAL BAK - IKg P?WPglfcCO., 106 Wallet., N-. Y. 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SENNEDY. { Oct. i 3, ? um. By JOHN HABBEETO??. Author of "Helen's Babies," Etc. (Copyrighted by J R. Lippi nco tx company, pub Ushers. Pl; i ?adelph ia, and published by permission through the American Press Association, j CHAPTER L HOW rr CAME ABOUT. E SU RE to look us gal u^ w^en -vou co:n3 XuF^^W^M ll Jffi Tbis invitation \j ?*T~ Mf^, was extended with Z?&?/$?& 9 s Bft that deligbtful af f?rn V^LHI f-Si i^ectation of hearti [fyj?j~jr~*. J^S?l ' B?J ness ^hat a man can J&T-?"^JJ^- ?Tg^ assume when be be yV^^^LVt^/n heves that the per ^*I?|fi]|?|' yft] in son invited w i 11. tffij&llmm?t? never avail himself '^^^SQ^lfy of the cdurtesy .?^^j^l i J Fortunately for the "NA nfl// purpose of this *4&r?J/ story, Master Philip T^lk/" flajn, whom Mr. Tramlay had asked to call, was too young and too unaccustomed to the usages of polite society to regerd the remark in auy but its actual sense. It would have seemed odd toany one know fog the two men and their respective sta? tions ia life Tramlay was a New York merchant, well known and of fair standing in the iron trade. Hayn was son of the farmer at whose house the Tramlay family had passed the summer When the Tramlays determined to exchange the late mummer dust of the country for the early autumn dust of the city, it was Philip who drove the old fashioned carryall that transported them from the farra tor.be railwaystation. The head of the merchant's family was attired like a well todo business man. Philip's coat, vest and trousers were remnants of three dif- ; ferent suits, none of recent cut. The contrast was made sharper by the easy condescension of the older man and the rather awk ward def? erence of Philip, and it moved Mrs Tramlay to whisper, as her busband helped her aboard the train: "Suppose ho were to take you at your word, Edgar f' The merchant shrugged his shoulders slightly, and replied. "Worse men havecalled upon us, my dear, without being made to feel unwelcome.* "1 think twould be loads of fun," remark? ed Miss Lucia Tramlay. Then the three, followed by smaller mem? bers of the family, occupied as many seats near windows, and uodded smiling adieus as the train started. Philip returned their salutations, except the smiles; somehow, the departure of all these people luado him feel sober. He followed the train with his eyes until it was out of sight, then be stepped into the old carryall and drove briskly homeward, declining to rem up and converse with several sidewalk loungers who manifested a willingness to converse about the departed guests. When he reached the outer edge of the little village he allowed the horses to relapse into their normal gait, which was a slow walk; he '.ct the reins hang loosely, he leaned forward until his elbows rested up; m his knees and his hat brim seemed incline i to serape acquaintance with the dash boarU, then he siovrfy repeated; W~**i'-e ^re to lo?>k U>up when you come to theidty.' Sou may be sure that I will." Tho advent of the Tramlays at Hayu Farra tia?I U*ea productive of new sensations to all concerned. The younger members of the Tramlay family had nt first opposed the plan of a summ-r on a farm: they had spent one season at Mount Desert, and part of another at Saratoga, and, as Lucia had been "out" a year, and brui a sister who expected early ad mission to a metropolitan collection of rose? bud-., against a summer in the country-the T rude, comomn, reai country-the protests hat! been earnest. Eut the head ot the fam? ily had said he could not afford anything bet? ter, trade was dull, a mau had to live within ills income, etc. Besides, their mother's liealth was not equal tc a summer in society; they would find that statement a convenient .xi-us? when explaining the family plans to ?heir friends. Arrived at Hayn Farra, the objections of : ha. juveaile.T^xyDihiys quickly disappeared. HIviM->thmg was new and strange, nothing ras repellent, and mach was interesting and imiising; what more could they have hoped or any where-even in Paris? The farm was -o*>d and well managed, the rooms neat and -<>::??or:ab'e, though old fashioned, and the ?copie intelligent, though Miss Lucia pro tounced them "awfully funny.** The head .f th?.- family was one of the many farmers w*2o "took boarders" to give his own family .n opportunity to see people somewhat unlike rheir own circle of acquaintances-an oppor unity which they seemed unlikely ever to h..l Lu any other way, had he been able to .iniosa The senior Hayn would have put ?to his spare rooms a I "mon Theological .Kiniiiary professor with his family, bat, as io such person responded to his modest ad lertisemcnt, be accepted an iron merchant md family instead. StrawlM.-rries were just ripening when the Pramlays appeared at Hayn Farm, and the ittle Tramlays were allowed to forage at .viii on the capacious old sfrawlK-rry bed, :heu rame other berries, in the brambles of which they tore their clothes and colored their lips for hours at a time. Then cherries reddened on a dozen old trees which the chil Iren were never reminded bad not been slanted for their especial beneiit. Then thc successive yield of an orchard was theirs, so rar as they could absorb it. Besides, there ivas a l>cat on a pond, and another on a little stream that emptied into the ocean not far iway, and, although the Hayn boys always seemed to have work to do, they frequently :ouM be persuader LO accompany tho chil Iren to keep them from drowning theai ?el ves. For Mrs. Tramlay, who really was an in j ralid. there were long drives to bo taken, iver roads some of v. hieb were well shaded uid others commanding fine views, and it 1 was so restful to be able to drive without 1 special preparation in tho way of dress- 1 ?vitbout, too. the necessity of scrutinizing jach approaching vehicle for fear it might ?ntain some acquaintance who ought to bo .eeognized. As for the head of the family, who spent >nly Saturdays and Sundays with his faul? ty, he seemed to find congenial society in the iea<l of tue house-a tact which at first gave lis wife great uneasiness and annoyance. "Edgar,'' Mrs, Tramlay would say, "you CHOW Mr. Hayn is only a common fanner." "He's respectable, s ml thoroughly under ?tamis his own t?usiness," the husband replied - '"two rearons, either of which ts good enough to make me like a mau, unless he happens to tx.* disagreeables. 'Common farmer!' Why, Pm only a common iron merchant, my dear." "That'sdifferent, protested Mrs. Tramlay 'ls it' Weil?don't try to explain how, little woman, 'twill IK> sure to give you a three days' headache.*" !.">./ Tramlay continued to devoto hours to shat with his host, pressing high priced cigars ' ja him. and sharing '.he farmer"s pipes and ! tobacco in return. He found that Hayn, like j any other fanner with brains, had d'mel?me ! ? bard thinking in tho thousands of days when J his hands were employed at common work, ind that his views of affairs in general, out? side of the iron trade, were at least as sound ss Tramlay's own. or those of any one whom Frnmlay knew in the city. The one irreconcilable member of thc fam- ? ly was the eid^r daughter. Lucia. She was ' * the oldest child, so she had her own way; ! she-was pretty, so she bad always been pet-i ? ted; she was twenty, so she knew everything ' that she thought worth knowing. She had ! ( long before reconstructed the world (in her f >wn mind) just ns it should be, from tho ! , standpoint that it ought to exist solely for i uer benefit. Not bad tempered, on the con? trary cheerful and fud of high spirits, she ?eas nevertheless in perpetual protest against j j ?verything that was not exactly as she would ? m ve it, and not all the manners that careful t breeding could impart couid restrain the un- I ? ?nscious insolence peculiar to young and 1 * self satisfied natures. She would laugh lou? ly at table at Mrs. Haynes way of serving a omelet, tell Mrs. Haynes husband that b Sunday coat looked "so funny," express ht mind freely before the whole household t the horrid way in which tho half grow Hayn boys wore their hair, and had no hes tation in. telling Philip Hayn, two years hi senior, that when he carno in from the fiel in his brown flannel shirt and gray felt ht he looked like an utter guy. But the Hayt were human, and, between pity and admire; tion, humanity long ago resolved to endur anything from a gu l-if she is pretty. Slowly the Hayns came to like their hoare ers; more slowly, but just as surely, tb Tramlays learned to like their hosts. Mutua respect began at the extremes of both fart ilies. Mi's. Tran day, being a mother and housekeeper, became so interested in the ferr niue half of the family's head that she cease to criticise her husband's interest in the ol fanner. The Tramlay children wondered a and then admired the wisdom and skill o their country companions in matters not ur derstood by city children. Last of all, Luci fouid herself heartily respecting the farmer1 son, and forgetting his uncouth dress and hi awkwardness of manner in her wonder at hi general courtesy, and his superior knowledg in some directions where she supposed sb had gone as far as possible, She had gone through a finishing school o the most approved New York type, yet Phili] know more of languages and history am science than she, when they chanced-neve] through her fault-to converse on such drj subjects, he knew more flowers than she hat ever seen in a florist's shop in the city; am &ce when she had attempted to decorate th< rather bare walls of the farmhouse parlor h< sorrected ber taste with a skill which she wa obliged to admit. There was nothing strang? about it, except to Lucia; for city seminarie ind country high schools use the same texl books, and magazines and newspapers thal jive attention to home decorations go every? where; nevertheless, it seemed to Lucia thal ?he had discovered a new order of being, and i>y the time she had been at Hayn Farm a nonth she found herself occasionally sur? prised into treating Philip almost as if he ?vere a gentleman. Philip's interest, in Lucia was of mucL pricker development. He had had no preju lices to overcome; besides, the eye is- more ?asily approached and satisfied than the in cllect, and Lucia had acceptably lilied many m eye more exacting than tho young fann? y's. There were pretty girls in homes near 3ayn farm, and more in thc village near by, >ut none of them were-well, noue were ex? actly like Lucia. Philip studied her face; it vas neither Roman nor Grecian, and ho waa >bliged to confess that the proportions of her eatures were not so good as those of some ?iris in the neighborhood. Her figure sug? gested neither perfect grace . nor perfect Strength; and yet whatever she did was rracefu?ly done, and her attire, whether plain >r costly, seemed part of herself-a peculiar? ly that bc had never observed among girls x>m in tho vicinity. He scion discovered that she did not knew ?verything, but whatever she did know she alked of so glibly that ho could not help en ioymg the position of listener. She did not >ften show earnestness about anything that ? him was more than trifling, but when she lid go out of her customary mood for a mo nentor two she was saintly; he could think >f no other word that would do it justice. 3e had not liked her manner to his own nother, for at first the girl treated that esti nable woman as a servant, and did it in the nanner which makes most servants detest nost young ladies; but had she not after vard, with her own tiny fingers, made a new Sunday bonnet for Mrs. Hayn, aud had not lis mother, in genuine gratitude, kissed her? Should he !>car malice for what his mother ind forgiven? The young mon merely admired and re pected Lucia; of that he was very sure. Re? gard more tender he would havo blamed limself for, first, because love implied ma irimony, which he did not intend to venture nto ratUbc had seen more of the world and ?erbe^s ?3ne to college; secondly, bec:;uso he ?id uot imagine that any such sentiment vould be reciprocated. He caine of a family hat through generations of hard experience md learned to count the cost of everything, sven the affections, like most of thc better country people in the older states. He had also tn aversion to marriage between persons of lifferent classes. Lucia was to bim an ac maintance-not even a friend-whom be lighly esteemed, that was alb His father thought differently, and ono lay when the two were in tho woodland be onging to tho farm, loading a wagon with rood to be stored near the house for winter iso, the old man said, abruptly: "I hope you're not grawin' too fond of that .oung woman, Phili1* "No danger," the youth answered, prompt y, though as he raised his head his eyes did tot meet his father's. "You seem to know who I mean, anyhow," aid the old man, after throwing another tick of wood upon the wagon. "Not much troublo to do that," Phil re dicxL "There's only one young woman." Tho father laughed softly; the son blushed iolently. Then the father sighed. '"That's one of the signs." "What's a sign?-sign of what?" said Phil, fTecting wonder not quite skillfully. "When 'there's only one young woman'it's i sign tlc 3"oung man who thinks so is likely o consider her tho only one worth thinkin' bout.** "Oh, pshawr exclaimed Phil, attacking he woodpile with great industry. "Easy, old boy; 'twasn't the woodpile that aid it. Brace up your head ; you've done tothing to lie ashamed of. Besides, your old ather ca? see through tho bael; of your lead, anyhow; he's been practicin' at it ever ince you were born." Phil seated himself on tho woodpile, looked a the direction where his father was not, and aid: "1 like Lucia very much. She's a new ace, she's different from tho girls about ?ere She's somebody new to talk to, and lie can talk about something besides crops, nd cows, and who is sick, and last Sunday's ermon, and nest mouth's sewing society, 'hat's alL" "Yes," said the old man. "It doesn't acm much, does it? Enough to have made ii liions of bad matches, though, and spoiled aillions of good ones." Phil was silent for a moment; then he aid, with a laugh: "Father, I believe you're as bad as old Hrs. Tripsey, whom mother's always Jangli? ng at becaxisc she thinks a man's in love if j ie sees her daughter home from prayer meet? ing. " **F*r'aps so, my boy-p'r'aps-and maybe is bad as you, for every time there's a bad bunder storm you're afraid the lightning'!! trike the barn. Do you know why? It's ?cause your finest colt is there. Do you seer" Phil did not reply, so the old man con inued: "I'll make t clearer to yon. You're my inestcolt; there's more lightnings in a girl's yes than I ever saw in the sky; you don't j mow when it's going to strike, and when it tits you you Ye gone before you know it." "Much" obliged. I'll see to it that I keep nysclf well insulated," said Phil Nevertheless, Phil studied Luria whenever ie bad opportunity-studied her face when j ho read, her fingers v hen they busied them- j elves with fancy work, her maimer with dif- j erent persons, as it changed according to her j dea of the deservings of those with whom she j alked. At church ho regarded her intently rom the beginning of the service to its end, j inalyzing such portions of prayer, hymn, or ermon ns did n?>t seem to meet her views, j ie even allowed his gaze to follow lier when j he looked more than an instant at other j .oung women,.in the ignorance of his mas-i illino heart wondering which of tho features j f these damsels specially interested her; his; ootJier could have told '? ira that Lucia was j nerdy looking at bonnets and oilier a : tides i f attire, instead of at their wearers. Ho pondered what she thought; he told himself . rhere her ch.- racier was at fault and how it j night be improved lu short, he had ample ? aental leisure, and sue was the newest and onsequently the least understood of his va- j ious subjects of contemplation. It is impossible to devoto a great deal of bought to any subject whhout becoming leep?y interested, even if it be unsightly, | fres?me an^msjff ujfcaot. Lucia wa? ?enc j of these, for she was a pretty girl It i ! equally impossible to see a familiar subjec 1 of thought in the act of disappearance with out a personal sense of impending loneliness and a wild desire to snatch it back, or at leas go in search of it. Therefore, Philip Hay* needed not to be in love, or even to thin! ! himself so, to be conscious of a great vacancy ! in his mind as the train bore the Tramkn j family rapidly toward their city home, ant ' to determine that he would avail himself o; the invitation which the bead of the family had extended. CHAPTER H. FAMILY COUNCILS. Wm ?USBAND," sn ic J?2?^B mmi busband one night t?lE^^?? W e n 1 ^ G P01^01 ^L^SB^^SM addressed wai il: '?'FXj^t. 'Z^wk '?n"a> *? suppose, ^.V* 'Sf^^f* V \ mV sa*^ the farmer. ?s?a^^A\ ''He's been gettin' $tf\ ou*' muc*i earlier H#\ *T^V than usual, and ' J spreadin* it on thc I ridge of the pas I ture. The sun's been pretty not, though it is October, and the hot sun on that sort of stud always breeds malaria.** "I wasn't tallan' of sickness, said the wife. "The dear boy's health is as good as ever. It's his mind that's out o' sorts." "A long, soft sigh was tho farmer's only reply for a moment. It was followed by the remark: "That city gal, I s'posc-confound her!" "I don't seo what you want her confounded for; she hasn't done anythin'. They don't correspond." "I should hope not," said Hayn, with con? siderable vigor. He now was wide awake. "What could they write about? You don't s'pose Phil could write anythin' about our gpin's-on that would interest her, do you F "No, but young people sometimes do Cud somethin' to exchange letters about. You and I didn't when we were boy and girl, be? cause we lived within a stone's throw of each other, an' you couldn't keep away from our house after dark; but Philip and" "For goodness sake, old lady," interrupted the husband, don't you go to sottin' yourself down at your time of life by gettin' the match makin' fever. There isn't the slight est chance that" "I didn't say there was; but boys will be boys." "lt doesn't follow that they should be fools, does it-not when they're our boys?" " 'Tisnt bein' a fool to be interested in a rich man's daughter. Pvo often thought how different your lifo might have been if I'd had anything "besides myself to give you when you married me." "1 got all I expected, aud a thousand times moro than I deserved.5' This assertion was followed by a kiss, which, though delivered in the dark, was of absolutely accurate aim "Don't put it into Phil's head that ho can get more than a wife when he marries, 'twill do him a great deal more harm than good." "I'd liko to see the dear boy so fixed that he won't have to work so bard as you'vo had to do." "Then you'll see him lest? of a man than his father, when he ought to bo better. Isn't that rather poor business for a mother in Is? rael to be in, old lady?" "Well, anyhow, 1 believe Phil's heart is set on makin' a trip down to York." "Oh, is that all? Well, he's been promised it, for some day, this long whUe. Some thing's always prevented it, bnt I s'pose uow would baas good a time as any. Ho deserves it; he's as ;rood a son as man ever had." Mi's. Hayn probably agreed with her hus? band as to the goodness of their son, but that was not the view of him in which she was in? terested just then. Said sho: "If he g**es, of course he'll see her."" Again the farmer sighed; then be said, quire earnastly: "Let him seo her. then, tho sooner ho does it the sooner he'll stop thinkin' about her Bless your dear foolish old heart, her ways and his &ro as far apart as Baynton and heaven when there's a spiritual drought in this portion of the fiord's vineyard." "I don't think the Tramlays are so much better than we, if they have got money," said Mrs. Hayn, with some indignation. "I always did say that you didn't set enough store by yourself. Mrs. Tramlay is a nice, enough-woman, but 1 never could seo how she was any smarter than I; and as to her husband, 1 always noticed that you generally held your own when tho two of you*were talking about anything.*1 "Bless youl** exclaimed the farmer, "you are rather proud of your old husband, aren't youl But Phil will soon see, tvith half an eye, that it would be the silliest thing in the world for him to fall in love with a girl like that." "1 can't for the life of me see why," said the mother. "He's just as good as she, and a good deal smarter, or Via no judge." "See here, Lou Ami," said the farmer, with more than a hint of impatience in his voice, "you know 'twon't do either of 'em any good to fall in love if they can't marry each other. An' what; would Phil have to support his wife on? Would she come out here au' 'tend to all the house work of the farm, like*y?n do. jusi for the sake of bavin' Phil for a husband? Not unless she's a foch even if Phil is our boy an' about as good as they make 'em. Air you know well enough that he couldn't afford to livo in New York; he's got uothin' to do it on." "Not now, but be might go in business there, and make enough to livo in style. Other young fellows have done iii" "Yes-in stories," said the old man. "Lou Ann, don't yon kind o' think that for a church member of thirty years' standin* you're gettin' mighty worldly minded?" "No, I don't," Mis. Hayn answered. "If not to want rn}' hoy to drudge awn}* hi? life like Iiis father's done is bein' worldly, then I'm goin' to l?e a backslider and stay one. 1 don't think 'twould be a bit bad to have a married son down to York, so's his (?ld mother could have some place to go once in a while when she's tired to death of work an' worry." "Oho!" said tho old man; "that's the point of it, eh? Well, I don't mind, backslid in' enough to say tho boy may marry one of Satan's daughters, if it'll make lifo any easier for you, old lady." "Much obliged,*' the mother replied, "but 1 don't know as I caro to do visitin' down there." The conversation soon subsided, husband and wife dropping into revery from which they dropped into slumber. In one way or other, however, the subject carno up again. Said Mrs. Hayn ono day, just as her husband was leaving the dinner table for the field in which he was cutting and stacking corn: "1 do believe Hui's best coat is liner stuff than anything Mr. Tramlay wore when they were up herb. 1 don't believe what lie wore Sundays could bold a candle to Phil's." "Like enough," said the farmer; "and yet the old man always looked Ijc??er dressed. I ! think his clothes made hun look a little ; younger than Phil, two." "Now, husband, you know it isn't fair to j make fun of the dear boy's clothes in that way You know well enough that the stud ! for his coat was cut from tiie same bolt of broadcloth as tbe minister's best." "Yes," drawled the farmer through half a j dozen inflections, any one of wi neb would have driven frantic any woman but Iiis own wife. "It's real mean in you to say 'Yes' in that way, lieu ben I" " 'Tisn't the wearer that makes the man, obi lady; it's the tailor." "Pm sure Sarah Tweege cut an" made Phil's coat, an' if there's n better sewin' wo lunn in this part of tli^ county I'd liko te I.now where you lind L.T." j 1 "Oh, Sarah Tweege cnn sew, Lou Ann," j the old mau admitted "GoodnessJ 1 wish ? : she'd made my new harness, instead of what : j ever fellow did lt. Mobhe, too, if she'd made j the sacks for the last oats 1 bought 1 wouldn't ! have lost about half a bushel on the way ; ] home. Yesm', Sarah Tweege can sew a bed- ! 1 quilt up as square as an honest man's cou- i . science. But sewin1 ain't tailoriu'." j' "Don't she always make the minister's . * clothes:" demanded Mrs. Hayn. "1 never thought of it, before, but of course she does. I don't believe anyl>ody else could do it in that way. Yet the minister ain't got so bad a figure, when you seo him workin' in his garden in his shirt sleeves." '.It's time for you to go back to the corn? field," suggested Mrs. Haj-n. "Yes, 1 reckon 'tis," said thc fanner, caress? ing what might have been nap had not his old bat been of felt. " 'Tain't safe for an old farmer to be gi vin1 bis. time an' thought t?. pomps an' vanities-like the minister's broad? cloth coat" "Get out!" exclaimed Mrs. Hayn, with a threatening gesture. The old man kissed her, laughed and began to obey her command; but as, like countrymen in general, bo made bis exit by the longest possible route, wan? dering through the sitting room, the hall, the dining room and the kitchen, his wife had time to waylay him at the door step and re? mark: "I was only goin' to say that if Phil does make that trip to York I don't see that he'll need to buy new clothes. He's never wore that Sunday coat on other days, except to two or three funeraL an' parties. I was goin' it over this very moniin', an' it's about as good as new." "I wonder how this family would ever have got along if I hadn't got such a eare takin' wifef" said the old man. "It's the best coat iu the United States if you've been goin' It over." Phil was already in the corn-he had left the table some minutes before his father and as the old man approached Phil said: "Father, don't you think that wind break for the sheep needs patching this fall?" "It generally docs, my son, before cold weather sets in." "I guess I'll get at it, then, as soon as we get the corn stacked." "What's tho hurry. Tho middle of No? vember is early enough for that." "Oh, when it's dono it'll bo o?r* our minds." "See hero, old boy," said the father, drop? ping the old ship's cutlass with which he had begun to cut the corn stalks, "you're dom' all your work a month ahead this fall. What are you goin' to do with all your time when there's no more work to be done?" ' -"I can't say, I'm sure," said Phil, piling an armful of stalks against .a stack with more than ordinary care. "Can't eh? Then Til have to, I s'pose, seein' Tm your father. I guess I'll have to send you down to New York for a mouth, to look aroun' an' see somethiu' of tho world." Phi! turned so quickly that he ruined all his elaborate work of the moment before, al? most burying his father under the toppling stack. "That went to the spot, didn't it?" said the old man. "I mean tho proposition-not the fodder," hs continued, as he extricated him? self from the mass of cornstalks. "It's exactly what I've been wanting to do," said Phil 'but" "But you didn't like to say so, cb? Well, 'twasn't necessary to mention it; as I told you t'other day, 1 can seo through tho back of your head any time, cid boy." " Twouldu't cost much money,' said Phil. "I could go down on Sol Mantriug's sloop for nothing, some time when he's short handed." "Guess I can afford to pay my oldest son's travelin' expenses when I send him out to see tho world You'll go down to York by rail? road, an' in tho best car, too, if there's any difference." "1 won't have to buy clothes, anyhow," said the younger man. "Yes, you will-lots of 'em. York ain't Haynton, old boy; an' as the Yorkers don't know enough to take their style from you, you'll have to take yours from them. I was there once, when I was 'long about your age. 1 didn't have to buy no more meetin' clothes after that until I got married-nigh on to ten years." "If it's as expensive as that, Pm not going," said Phil, looking very solemn and beginning to reconstruct tho demolished stack. "Yes, you are, sir. I'll have you under stand you're not much over agc yet, an' have got to mind your old father. Now, let that corn alone. If it won't stay down, sit on it -this way-see." And, suiting the action to the word, the old man sprawled at ease on the fallen fodder, dragged his son down after him and said: "You shall have a hundred dollars to start with, and more afterward, if you need it, as I kuoiv you will The first thing to do when you get to the city is to go to the best looking clothing store you can find, and buy a suit such as you see well dressed men wearing to business. Keep your eyes open on men as sharply as if they were bosses and clothes ..cere their only points, and then seo that you get as good clothes as any of them. It don't matter so much about tho stuff; but have your clothes fit you, an' cut like other JXK) pie's." "I don't want to put on city airs," said PhiL "That's right-that's right; but city clothes and city airs aren't any more alike than country airs an' good manners. You may be the smartest, brightest young fellow that ever went to York-as of course you are, bein' my son-but folks at York'll never find it out if you don't dress properly-that means, dress as they do.' I'll trade watches with you, to trade back aft sr the trip, mine is gold, you know. You'll have to buy a decent chain, though." "I won't take your watch, father. I can't; that's all about it." "Nonsense 1 of course you can If you try It isn't good manners to wear silver watches in the city." "But your watch"- Phil could get no further; for his father's gold watch was ven? erated by the family as if it were a May flower chair dr the musket of a soldier of the Revolution. Once while old farmer Hayn was young Capt. Hayn, of tho whaling ship Lou Ann, he saved the crew of a sinking British bark. Unlike modem ship captains (who do not own their vessels), he we went in the boat with the rescuing party instead of merely sending it out. and he suffered so much through exposure, strain and the fear of the death which seen eil impending that he abandoned the sea as soon thereafter as pos? sible. Nevertheless he thought only of the work before him until he hail rescued the imperiled crew and stowed them safely in his own ship The circumstances of the rescue were so un? usual that they formed the subject of long columns in foreign newspapers; and in a few months Capt. Hayn received through the state department at Washington a gobi watch, with sundry complimentary papers from the British admiralty The youngsea man never talked of either, his neighbors first learned ol' the presentation by conning their favorite weekly newspapers; neverthe less the [tapers wolf framed and hung in the young captain's bedchamber, ami, however carelessly he dressed afterward, nobody ever saw hun when he had not tho watch in his pocket. "Father," said Phil, after some moments spent in silence and 'acial contortion, "1 can't take your watch, even for a little while. You've always worn it; it's your-the Tami ly's-patent of nobility." "Weil," said thu old farmer, after .contem? plating the toes of his boots a few seconds, ,-l don't mind ownm* up to my oldest son that I look at the old w atch in about the same light; but a patentof nobility is a disgrace to a family if the owner's heir isn't (il to inherit it. Sci Guess youM bettor make up your mind to break yourself into your comm' ro sensibilities by can-} in' that watch in New* Yol k. Wonder what time 'tis?" Thc-question was a good pretext on which to take the "patent of nobility" from his fob pocket and look at it. He did it in a way which caused Phil quickly to avert his face and tlevoie himself with great industry to stacking corn. Half a minute later the old man. cutlass in hand, was cutting corn as il his life depended upon it. [TO r.K coNTiti?nn J There is advertised for salo in WOP- ? ccsterchire, Eng., thc leese of a piece I of property which has 1.711 years to ? run, it being made for 2,000 years, bc jitming in 10*00. -- i- - It is rumored that Governor J. P. [lichardsou will oppose lion. Geoj^e IV. Dargau in the next pleclygu for Congressional honors from this district. ! -Florence Farmer's Friend, Tile Alliance Argument for Cotton Bagging. The Farmer's Alliance argument against the use of jute, from one point of view, is.not sound ; from another it is sound to the bottom. As a mere matter of money at present prices, a loss of fifty-one cents to the bale of cot? ton is admitted on the face of things. The offset of the home consumption of a hundred and fifty thousand bales of raw cotton which is put up against the four million dollars greater cost of cotton cloth bagging as compared with jute bagging, from one poiut of view is specious. Admitting that taking this one hun? dred and fifty thousand bales out of the world's present consumption will raise the price of cotton by a quarter of a cent, the same thing could be done by growing that much less cotton. And with that area converted into some i other production, the pecuniary results reached would be better. At the average rate of production it would take 400,000 acres to produce this one hundred and fifty thousand bales of cotton. Putting such an aria say in corn, with the average produc? tion of fourteen bushels to the acre for tbe ten cottou States, we see 5,000,000 bushels of corn as the product, which at the average farm price given by the United States Department Report of 5C.7 cents per bushel shows over $3, 000,000 io corn. A quarter of a ceDt on the largest crop yet reported would reach some $8,000 000, and not ten million as assumed by the Alliance. This three million dollars of corn made, carried to the enhanced price of the cotton crop, would show over $11,000, 000, which carried to the amount saved by using jute would show $15,000.000, which the farmers would have io pocket against $4,000,000 after deductiog the giCaier^cosfc of using the cotton bag? ging, which shows a loss of ?11,000. 000 to the farmers in bard mosey. But from another point of view the position of the Alliance is stroDg aod unanswer? able. The sentiment of self-help and self-protection is altogether beyond a mere money count. The organization which this jute fight inspires is above all valuation. The sentiment involved is no idle (biog. It is what every great ruler in the world has recognized as an essential factor in human govern? ment and as that which to a certain ex? tent is UDConquerable. To raise the cry of no jute, is to call the roll of the Southern farmers and array them for the first time as ooe body on the line of self-defense a?d self-protection. To begin witji, this difference of fifty? one cents to the bale between jute and cotton bagging will in the end be done away with in a cheaper cotton bagging product and other regu? lations of trade. Again, who can tell that the planters would have been allowed the present rate of ten cents fA r jute bagging with the cotton bagging competition out of the way ? Twenty five per cent added to the present price of j ate would put jute at twelve anda half cents instead of ten, which would wipe out the whole difference between cotton and jute coverings It was to meet this very thing that the farmers have formed their Alliance, and if they had not moved in this matter they would have had to pay in all possibility 15 in? stead of 10 cents. In the hands of a trust the only limit to the price of jute w.vd what "the business would staud,*' 1 as they say in railroad circles where the monopoly of transportation is en? joyed. This organization of the farm? ers, then, is as timely as it is right. Jute is but one of the burdens the farmers have borne unnecessarily Should the farmers organize on strictly business principles and not attempt too many things at once, they must reach , substantial success in the end. In the matter of advances the farmers have suffered cruel exactions, which has not only kept their noses to the grind stone, but bas hampered trade in the ' South and stayed the progress of this 1 section of the Union in many directions. The seven thousand million dollars of 1 cotton made since the war has been ' spirited away from the farmers, and 1 largely from the South, so that this vast production, which would have ouce and under other auspices proved a steady tide of gold to the South, tend- 1 ing to the development of all our rich resources, has been turned in other ' channels, and the South has to beg for capita) when she should have been in- ? dependent of the world to-day for her J building mouey. It is a low estimate * to say that at least ten per cent, has been taken out of our cotton product ' since the war which should have re- ! wained with the farmers at fair and just j rates for advances made them. We thus see over twelve millions of bales or some seven hundred million dollars J ?one out of our working capital which should have remained here in some j business shape. The reports of the Agricultural De- 4 partment at Washington have warmly j animadverted on this matter, urging 4 with perfect truth that the cotton pro ducers of this county have had to bear a burden which no business on earth 1 could successfully carry That tho planters have stood the pressure so long shows the wonderful resources of our section and the grit of our planting class as well. If in dealing with this matter the j Alliance should interfere with thc j general trade of the South it could not ? be esteemed otherwise than a great j | misfortune. LIVE AND LET UVE is not only good morals but good po?ti- i ( eal economy. Our fanners will find in I , thc end that they cannot hold the f plough and keep shop at the same time, i f [t. is none the less absolutely necessary ! t that they should see to it that they are ? not eaten up. body aud buttons, by the ^ cost of advances, and take such steps as they shall find necessary *o protect them ?; from extortional rate- ID the advances ; j needed. | \ Looking the matter all over, we do j t not expect to see the Alliance interfere ! r [mrmfuJJy with the general trade of the j c South. As soon ns the farmers begin j i to get their own, it will be imposible to j 1 keep this money from freely going into j i trade for the thousand and one comforts t and luxuries which the families of the l c farmers will want as soon as a compara- j t live prospetitj shall be felt in cur great i farming class. Aud that will mean better business all rouud for everybody and cheaper money. We are convinced that the" farmers are on the right line, and if they keep politics ottt of their association that they will prove a power in the land which will be a blessing to the over-reached and down-frondden South. There may be some mistakes made, bat in (he end things will work for the good of all. with the mean ambitions of the meaner men pushed to the wall - Columbia Register. Hold the Cotton. * TLANTA, Qa , Aug. 26 -The n? tional cotton committee, consisting u one delegate from each of the cotton growing States, held a meeting iu th Kimball House to-day. The routtu proceedings were secret, b?t e?ot?g information was given to the public to show that business of thal importanc was transacted. The personnel of the committee is made up of the National Wheel, hatton al Union and National Alliance; Tb object of the meeting was to devise ways and means for increasing the price of cotton. The committee was in ses sion all day. Mr. ll. J. Sledge, of Kyle, Texas, presided, and Mr. B. M Hard, of Nashville, Tenn., acted as secretary. The following resolutions were adopt ed : Resolved, first, That the national cotton committee recommend that the farmers of the South sell no cotton dur? ing the month of September, except what may be absolutely necessary to meet obligations which are past due. Resolved, second, That the national cotton committee instruct the president of each Sub-Alliance, Wheel or Union, or some person appointed by him, to meet the president and secretary of his County Alliance oo Saturday, the 28th day of September, at the county seat for the purpose of receiving instructions from the national cotton committee. Resolved, third, That each State Secretary, of every cotton State be charged with the duty of placing these resolutions immediately before their respective county presidents and charge all expense of printing and postage to the National Alliance. Resolved, fourth. That farmers be urged to take special care in sheltering their cotton from damaging weather. Resolved, fifth, That every news? paper in the South in sympathy with the farmers is requested to publish these resolutions.'* R. J. SLEDGE, Chm'n, Kyle, Texas. A. T. HATCHER. Grand Cane, La. S. B. ALEXANDER, Charlotte, N. C. L. P. FEATHERSTONE, Forest City, Ark. M. L DONALDSON, Greenville, S. C. W. J. NORTHERN, Sparta, Ga. R. F KOLC, Montgomery, Ala. B. M. HARD, Sec , Na-hviHe, Tenn. It is whispered that the farmers will be able to carry out their plans, and force the result desired. They will be' able to hold their cotton for any length of time they may choose. The move? ment is organ zed, with not only a solid phalanx of? co-operating membership, but ample capita!. The measures of the Alliance, however, are conservative and fair. While enforcing a demand for a better price for their cotton they will not be at the expense of their honest obligations. The cotton committee will meet again in September. ?- ???-?? mm* "Cotton Bagging Wins." To the Editor of flu Neics and Courier:-Two days'absence from home prevented my seeing your editorial under above beading sooner. I now take the earliest opportunity of answer? ing, but I regret my inability to give you more definite information. The inability of the ?West Poiut" and ,,Lane** mills (to these all the orders from this State have gone) to fill orders earlier, and the increasing deter? mination not to use jute bagging, may delay somewhat the marketing of the cotton crop. But as soon as it w?-h known that most of the shipments would j i be as late 'as from the Otb to the 15 h ?>f October the Alliances in the several sounties began to cast about for substi? tutes-"Dundee" bagging, "pine fibre/' '.burlaps," '-old" bagging, etc.-and I im unable to say how much of these substitutes have been secured, but I am < idvised that the earlier shipments from < Marion and Marlboro couuties will be i ;overed with "pine fibre.*' Our people underhand that they ere m trial, aud they will endeavor to meet heir obligations as tbey fall due, and if, in doing so, some of them should be 'orced to use Trust, bagging, they will ind little difficulty in obtaining all that hey may need, and if they should bc J( orced to do 60, they will not likely daud on the trust price of the article, jut they will "go slow" in the purchase *f the substitutes and slower in the )urchase of Trust bagging, and wait, ts best they can, the arriva! of the cot? on bagging as it is manufactured. Thanking you for your interest in the 1 uatter, I am respectfully yours. J K T. STACKHOUSK. * Little Rock, S. 0 , Aug. 23.1880. j? _. ---???. ?W? A Railroad Problem. Speaking about the new scheme which i s now being promoted to build a rail- \ oad from Pregnalls, on the South Car- j dina Railway, to Walterboro, and per- i laps to Vemnssec, a prominent railroad i ?racial said yesterday that after a while i he people of Charleston would awake I o the idealization of the fact that the s nail when it is built will be one of fhe ceders for the North and by no mea us or Charleston ; nor would its complc ion be calculated to enhance the int?r? ?ts of Charleston io the slightest de-j < tree. i '.It seems to me to be very plain," < aid he, "that it is one of Mr. Jobo i .lobins?n's schemes to complete his Syr? ern of roads into Florida. If it is uot, hen I am v.i badlv mistaken, and a ! r ?J V F )um ber of railroad people will be thor- t >ughly fooled. Rumor says, and there f s no reason whv it should not be be- t ieved, that Mr. Robinson has a big ( nterest in the Kutawville Railroad, and J hat he proposes to conuect his South :rn roads at some available^ point with ; ( he Kutawville Railroad: When this j \ s done, and tte? ^?oposed road from ' I Pregnali's to Y?massee is finished, there is a very strong probability tbafc the road will be completed to the Sa? vannah Rifer, abd there it will meet some other connection, aod theo thc system will be finished US some big point in Florida. ,4Thi? proposed1 railrood has an al? most Oulimited charter dated in ?nd it will be nsed for alf it is worth. What will be the result when the road\ as I have mapped it oat, is completed, and bo* will Charleston be affected.? The answer to the question is very easy. Instead of there being an 'Ashley Jonc? tion' there will be 'Fregna?Ps Ttfrnoiit/ and Charleston will suffer tn s mattoe*? that Will cot be difficult to calculate, ?c fact. We will be 'in the toreen' and shat oat as tisual.- Another road wftl be built, winch wit! carry away ?oaf Very sosten an ce which has doner* so?' much to benefit the city-t menu the trade with Florida and Georgia.-Mat? and Courier. z - . _. - . ? > -J? Sumter Men In Charleston. Among the Sumter excursionists yes? terday was Mr. F. W Crosswells * prominent merchant of that city, who* took a day or* from the cares of btwk ness and ran dcvo to Charleston- ttf-en joy aoother whiff of sea air \ before a her winter sets in. Air. Crosswell is a jolly* fat, typical American man of business and ranks among Sum'er's most pro-* gressive citizens. Ile has been in bus? iness there for quite a number of years* and what he does not know about thc' progress and prospects of the Game? cock City is ashworth knowing. *'Samter is ow a good steady boom/' said Mr. Crosswell to a Reporter for the News and Courier. "We have no* wild-cat schemes op there, bat we mean business, and. we intend in a few years* to stand abreast of any of the smaller cities of the Sooth. We have been try? ing for several years to secure a first class elect ric light platt f, and have air last succeeded. As you know, I ?ap? pose, the company has already been or? ganized with a good capital, aod backed by the staunchest citizens of the place. A lot has been purchased and the wort v is well ander way. The excavations ? have been ? ade,, and the. foundations1 will be laid tn a few days, and before the first of Jeuuary we expect to rele? gate gas and oil to the rear, and have' our little city lighted wholly with elec? tricity. - ? . "Bat this is onJylin; incidental; im? provement,1' continued Mr; Crosswell, "the railroads that are ceming totq^ Sumter will make-ber blossom^rt?V* rose aod flourish like a green bay free' in the sommer time. We cow have three roads io operation, and tbe Eu> taw ville Road will be completed to Sam ter in the coarse of two months, giving as a competing line to ChafTestbn. This road will also in the couse-:ef%he next year be built on to Cheraw, wfaticb wtil give another outlet On the Northv and will bringa great deal of. trader from that section into oar gates. lSut the big advantage this road wilful tos Sumter will be in tbe establishment of its shops there, which will not. only help things generally, bat will put thousands of dollars in circulation every week, which is just what Sumter andV and every other ?Southern town needs. Tbe Atlantic Coast Line extension to* Camden has been surveyed and tbe.Hoe7 located and active work will be beguri? on it io a few months." "What do the Sumter farmers (bini? about cotton bagging?" asked the Rem? porter. = -: 1 i ' Oh, I knew yon were going to com* . to that," said Mr. Crosswells ."Tbe News and Courier is championing the7 cause of thc farmers, and they appre ciate it too. The feeling in Sumter" County is very strong against tbe ?Tuter Trust, and everybody is fightings it. They all say they are going to use. cot? ton bagging even if they lose money by N it.' The Alliance is strong, nearly" ali of the farmers being interested in itf sind they have declared a boycott/ ig ai ns t jute that, in my opinion.: is zoing to be sustained until something imps, and that something is very Apt to be the Jute Trust. The Alliance agent at Sumter has orders away ?fftad For cotton bagging from the faratitrSf iud he is getting in a good stock to wp-** ply the demand. Everybody in {far bounty expects a good crop thia year, ind they are all in a good humor ac* ardingly. The drought in the spring lid but little damage, and the recent .ains, while they did some injury, ?ave lot been so deleterious in their effects is was feared." A PROVIDENCE PLANTER. Col W. D. ?carborough, a prominent- /' :>lau ter and merchant of Provideoce, it*/ Sumter County, was in the city yesfeer. lay on business. He is so wellfewowo ind popular ia Charleston, Itoicever, ,hat when he comes to thjr city be is* .eneraily taken tn h aridly Iiis nuiner )U8 friends and shoja^thc hospitalities if their homes'in^^G a manner that 2o\. Scarborough/ has to burry to get .hrough bis .bu>iness to return borne. [Ie was seen yesterday afternoon by a [Reporter, in company with some of his* "fiends, and courteously consented to* say something about the crop outlook. "The corn crop in Sumter," said he, "is now better than it has been for many ?rears, and if nothing happens to damage t there is every reason to anticipate a rory heavy yield. AH the planters are ubilant over their corn crop, and the ndicatirns arc that it will be the best nade in many years. The cotton crop s likewise good. In some places it has jeen hurt by the rain and worms, bat ?0 far the outlook is very encouraging. k full crop will, in all probability, be? ilade, aud the quality of the staple ia ?rst-class. "As a consequence of this outlook,,f ?ontinaed Col Scarborough, "business s already looking up and is increasing ivery day. The merchants are porcbas ng their fall goods tn large quantities, ind the general business aspect is lively ind very gratifying. The farmers are ?aturally very happy iii consequence of h?9 state of things and our people are prosperous and progressing. Of bourse \ his crop of cotton will be ahippfed to Charleston, or at least a verj iarge >ortion of it." . Gol. Scarborough thinks that Sumter 5otinty is pushing ahead and ??iof ether ?rosperons. He left f?>r Provk^.^r , - a&t night -ive?? and ?Oww^rX?, ;-.