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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1554, 1 By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, f VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - -J4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 UNPAYABLE IN ADVANCE g'i All advertisements emlnating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising ltatcs. One Square first insertion, - - - -51.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 tjfl'EN Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rah*. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for tea cent per line each insertion. DON'T HUY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING mm pews LARGE STOCK! —AS THEY— WLL not BH UNDERSOLD ! On any article in their line, but propose to UNDERSELL! WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR Georgia Sectl Rye l COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buyot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches ! ! B'or less money than they can order. GLOVER & PERRY, SSp9tf A MERIC US, Ga. OLDBTJGO COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CENTS. OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. MEALS FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGIIT. BILLIARDS 5c per game two games for 25 cts—cash. POOL 2K CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH. Come one, come all, and see if you don’t get the best—nothing charged at these rates. Best Cigars and Tobacco Always on Hand ! BOTTLED LIQUORS ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM. J. P. CHAPMAN. AGENT FOR KING'S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY, Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BREECH LOADING FIXTURES. Amcrieus, Ga.,Sept. sth, 1882. 6.2 m Miss KATE KING Invites the attention of the Ladies to her SELECT STOCK OF Millinery aait Fancy Goods NOTIONS, Etc., ALL OF THE LATEST STYLES. Which she keeps on hand at all times, and at the LOWEST GASH PRICES! NEW GOOES ARRIVING DAILY. OPDon't fail to Call and Examine her tock before purchasing elsewhere. Miss KATE KING, PUBLIC SQUARE AMERICUS, marSltf DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet ami B EWlirniflq 1 Typhoid Fevers, | ■“ ra & i cates B Diphtheria, Sali- I TMT AT A T>T A Hvation, Ulcerated g Sore Throat, Small WMHMKI—WMH Pox, Measles, and all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on the Sick should use it freely. 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Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LeConte,Columbia, Prof.,University S C Rev. A. J. Battle, Prof., Mercer University; Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME* Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. 11. ZEILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PH ILADELPHIA. TUTTT'S PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BANE of the present generation. It ia for the Cure of this disease and its attendants, SICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that TUTT’S PILLS have gained a w.orld-wido reputation. No Remedy has ever been discovered that acts so gfently on the digestive organs, giving them vigor to as similate food. Asa natural result, the Nervous System is Braced, the Muscles are Developed, and the Body Robust. Cliills and Povor, E. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says: My plantation is in a malarial district. For several years I could not make half a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged when I began tho uso of TUTT'S PILLS. The result was marvelous: my laborers Boon became hearty and robust, and I have had no further troublo. They relieve tho engorged Liver, olcanw flie Blood from poisonous humors, and cause the bowels to act naturally, with* out which no one can feel well. Try tills remedy fairly, and you will gain a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Liver. Price, 25Cents. Office, 35 Murray St., N. Y. mrs HAIR DYE. Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy" Black by a single application of this Dye. It imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York, (Dr. TUTT’S MANUAL of Information and Useful Receipt* I trill be mailed FREE on application, J' VS _ STOMACH - S|TTEB s The true antidote to the effects of miasma is Ilostetter’s Stomach Bitters. This medi cine is one of the most popular remedies of an age of successful prosperity specifics, and is in immense demand wherever on this Continent fever and ague exists. A wine glasssful three times a day is the best possi ble preparative for encountering a malari ous atmosphers, regulating tho liver, and invigorating the stomach. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. THE PLACE TO TRADE X have on hand the finest stock of iIIEMIES 111 HFEIMIIIES in the city. Ten big cases of toys, looking like young houses, in store, and more on the road, and by Christmas the finest stock of Toys will he in store that has ever been shown in Americus. Cigars of the finest qualities from a nickle to ten cents—veal Havana flavor. Confectioneries the sweet est and choicest. The fruits of tho Tropics, the most luscious and the best. A good stock of Chewing Tobacco—golden leaved. ED. ANSLEY. i Americus, Ga., Sept. 20,1882. tf INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1882. YBOTWY. THE UNFINISHED I* iSAVI.It. Now I lay me”—“Say it, darling;” “Lay me” lisped the tiny lips Of my daughter, kneeling, bending O’er her folded finger-tips. “Down to sleep”-“To sleep,” she murmured And the curly head drooped low; “I pray the Lord”—l gently added, “You can say it all, 1 know.” “Pray the Lord”—the words came faintly, Fainter still—“My soul to keep;” Then the tired head fairly nodded, And the child was fast asleep. But the dewy eyes half opened, When I clasped her to my breast, And the dear voice softly whispered, “Mamma, God knows all the rest.” O, the trusting, sweet confiding . Of the child heart! Would that I Thus might trust my Heavenly Father, He who hears my feeblest cry. Spoopemlyke as a Farmer. Brooklyn Eagle. “This,” said Mr. Spoopendyke, as lie gazed around on his new acquisition of six acres—“this, my dear, is what I have always wanted. A farm and a farmer’s life are the highways to happi ness. Mrs.. Spoopendyke, don’t you think so?” “It’s perfectly lovely,” rejoined Mrs. Spoopendyke. “I was born on a farm, and was always healthy, though I had to go a good ways for water.” “I’ll fix that, my dear,” returned Mr. Spoopendyke. “I’ll bring the water. Now, where are my agricultural reports? I must plant right off if we are going to have crops, and when they’re ripe we’ll take them to market.” “I see tho report says you must give your hen chopped turnip once in a while,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke,putting her thumb on the paragraph. “Either that or cabbages,” returned her husband. “I don’t know whether we will have cabbages enough,” he con tinued musingly. “You might have less buckwheat,” suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke. “I should think, though, that two acres would be enough for one hen, and if it isn’t you can buy a load now and then from the neighbors.” “I’ll think that over.” replied Mr. Spoopendyke. “Here’s one thing cer tain I don’t understand. It says we should test a few seed before planting to make sure they will germinate, hut it don’t say how to do it.” “Maybe it means to boil them,” sug gested Mrs. Spoopendyke, ‘ or perhaps you—” “Oh, perhaps you think it means to crack ’em with an axe to see if they are hard! I s’pose you’ve got an idea you stick straws into ’em to see if they’re done! Well, you don’t; you put acid on ’em. I’ll get some acid and drop ’em in, and if it discolors ’em they are no good, and if it don’t they’re all right. I think we ought to have some weevil for the pig.” “I don’t know where you are going to plant it,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, “unless it will grow with buckwheat or onions. You can’t put it in with the cabbage, because the pig and hen would fight.” “Don’t you know what w’eevil is?” demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, glaring at his wife. “Got a notion it’s some kind of weed for the pig to smoke, haven’t you? Imagine its gilt-edge note paper with a monogram for him to write on, don’t you? Well, it isn’t a swallow tail coat or a plug hat for him to go to church in, neither! You don’t plant weevil, Mrs. Spoopendyke, any more thanyou do soap, or clothes-pins, or stair-rods. You buy it in barrels, and I’ll order some.” “I think we ought to have some face curtains for the front window,” sug gested Mrs. Spoopendyke, anxious to change the conversation. “Yes, and we want a fold bedstead for the cow, and we’ve got to have a new arm chair for the pig, and I’m afraid those cabbages won’t do without a wet nurse!” squealed Mr. Spoopen dyke. “I suppose I’ve got to hire a man to see that the meadew don’t go fishing on Sundays and upset your re ligious notions. 0! you’re a farmer’s wife, you are! If I had time to write an index to you and get some dodgasted binder to fit you up with a flyleaf, you make a whole agricultural report!” And Mr. Spoopendyke shot into that house and to bed, while his wife, having put all the oil lamps into the buckets of water so they couldn’t explode dur ing the night, fell asleep dreaming that the cabbage patch had eloped with the onions, while the cow and the pig died of weevil, and the windmill had aban doned agricultural pursuits and started off through Ohio preaching the gospel. “Who is your new beau?” asked one Oil City girl of another. “What beau?” •anxiously asked the other, under thf impression she had made a mash. “Jumbo,” replied the other, with a giggle. Of course the girls must have their little jokes at Jumbo’s expense, the same as the boys. —Oil Cihj Blizzard. Atlanta, GA.,Feb. 10, 1879. Messrs. IhdcMnson & Bro: I have used your “Neuralgine” in several instances, and find it the best remedy for neuralgia and headache I have ever tried. It relieves the pain, leaves none of those unpleasant effects due to narcotics or other anodynes. I shall always keep it in my office, and take much pleasure in recommending it to my patients. 8. G. Holland, D. D. 8. 24 Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga. Written for the Republican Reminiscences of Alabama. • NO. O. CAMP PI RE STORIES. There are some men who care noth-, ing for the signs of the Zodiac. Yet would gladly penetrate the cane brake or the swamp to draw a bead on some of its animals. In all ages the chase was an exciting amusement in propor tion to the danger which aroused into activity the strength and courage of the huntsman. 'ln the early days of Alabama, par ties would appoint a day to meet and organize a regular camp hunt. Horses and hounds with a couple of negroes and two horse wagon filled with a good outfit for a party of five or six would be gone for a week at a time. Buch was the party of which we write. Nat Tichnor, Oleg Bradly, Isom Varner, Jerry Fleckmoro and Jeannes Kunker (uncle Jeems,) after a good camp sup per, sat by the fire and smoked. Each had a story to tell. Cleg Bradly was a man of an inventive order of mind and in telling a story, had plenty of material which produced a doubtful finish in some places and being not over stocked with truth told stories which were not always believed, and when doubted would call on his negro man Newt to vouch for his veracity. “Well boys,” said Gleg, “I have made many a good shot in my time, but the best I ever made was when I killed the big buck of TALLAWASSA. That was many years ago, Newt and I was hoys then, an’ 1 hearn the creek Injuns talking about a big buck down on Tallawassa creek that had been shot at many times and if he had ever been hit the hall never hurt him. Bill Weatherfoid,the injuns called him ‘Red Eagle,’ took a crack at him and as usual the buck skid out unhurt, that’s what the injuns say: I was on a hunt one day near the creek when I hearn a cracking in the cane brake and out burst that same deer in full lope. Ah boys he was the biggest fattest feller I ever saw. He dashed by me and tuck me by surprise at first. I lied at him fifty yards or sich a matter, and shot him through the heel and head at the same time. “What,” said the others through the head and heel at the same time with the same bullet?” Cleg knocked the ashes out of his pipe and said in a serious tone of voice “If yer don’t believe me ask Newt.” “flow was it Newt?” asked Nat Tichnor. “You see it was dis away,” replied the negro when Mass Cleg seed dat de deer was running like he was about to break his neck he raised his gun and tuck a good long aim, dar was a big seed tick on tie bucks ear and it bodder ed him in his run, so he stop jist a minit and reached up wid his hind foot to scratch ’em off, just den Massa Cleg he pulled tricker and shot him in de head and heel at de same time.” Newt walked off to the wagon muttering to himself “I wish Massa Cleg ’ndput his ideas closer to gedder.” “That looks reasonable,” said Vai ner, “Very reasonable,” put in Fleck more, confounded reasonable and you killed him in both ends at the same time,” said Nat. Jeems Kunker laughed heartily, I should say stomachly, for that was the only part of his long lean lank body that shook, but the gathering lines about his mouth spread out like Atlan ta Railroads, his mouth being the depot with only three sentinel teeth to guard that cavern of absovbtion. He had been one of the pioneers of that grand young state and knew every creek and bend on the Tallapoosa river. “I think,” said Uncle Jeems, that, that, ar story ar likely enough. When Bagby was Guv’ner I was fisliin on the big bend uv the Tallapoosa, wliar I had once bin with Gineral Jackson at the battle of the “horse shoe” as it is called and I sot my lines out in a cove and kindled a torch fur it was darker than the insides of a tar bai l. I fetch ed my axe with me thinken I mout find a ripe ’possum in a hollar log. Well when I got my torch to burning good I found the 'water was low, but thar had bin some awful big rains some time before, and thar was the cussedest hootin of Owls I ever heard, I never had any fish luck when they put in thar gab. So I ilashed my torch and tuck a good look at the black water in the cove and I seed somethin moving and splurging about, at last I made it out. It was the biggest catfish I ever seed ! You’ns lias seen Ben Dinkerel’s new ferry boat. It was as big as that— broader but not adzactly so long. Right at the mouth of the cove stood a hollar sweet gum. So I seized my axe and in no time I fell’d it across the mouth of the cove to keep it from gettin back into the river again. Fisliin was up for that night, so I trugs back home and gits a crowd uv neighbors next morning and wo fetched a yoke uv steers and a log chain and a power of ropes, crowbars and sich like. Jerry Canant fetched a cross cut saw and a grubbin hoe, for you see we war all bent on git ten that fish haudaciouslv out uv the water. Shure enutT that fish was thar in the mornin codumixin in the mud with the whole upper part uv his hack bone, four feet above the water line, some was fur takin him out alive an some was fur killeu him out-light and taken him out piece at a time. Canant ’low’d ho might have some valuables in his in’ards which would be lost if we did that. So we made a lasso of an inch rope and arter a dozen trials got it just beyant his gills and socked a crowbar behind it to keep it from slip pin off, then we hitched the log chain and the steers to the rope and with the help uv all hands we dragged him out, (fact gintlemau.) It tuck some time to cut his head off. The next thing we did wus to cut some big levess and git him on his back arter we chopped off his hind eend he stopped his cussed wigglin. Jerry Canant’s cross cut saw was too short so we jist nat’ally explor ed his insides by' diggin and cuttin an liackin ontil the loose meat scattered all about over the ground, looked worse an if lighten had struck a city butcher shop arter which we got into his craw or gurzzle bag and I wish I may be Odestified if we did’nt find an anvil— a blacksmiths anvil, and that warnt all, thar wus a sledge hammer, part of the bellussus the smiths leather apron, a wagon hub, a bed post and well nigh on to a keg o’ horse shoe nails. Be sides all those leetle things we found a horses huff with the shoe on, a pa’r o’ saddle hags with two half gallon jugs full of corn whisky in ’em. We sorter expected to find the blacksmith thar but we didn’t. The next thing we found was a Tarrapin, a tar bucket, a pa’r uv old shoes, some eels and mud turtles, and at the bottom uv his vat we found a music book,the old ‘Mosoora Harmony,” and I wish I mout bedick erated if all the few—so laws, had’nt taken roots in the sideot his stummick and was growin. That fish would uv made a fine sqnelin worm if we had’nt spil’d his music box. I’ve seed boss hars grow in water and tadpoles and wiggletails, hat music notes sorter giagumpficates my faekwildes. Dag it I never had any luck fisliin arter that and never did ketch a fish in the Talla poosa since. I was about to forgit one thing that ar catfish swallowed. It was the hard est uv all. “What was it?” enquired Cleg Bradly. With a twinkling eye and mulicious grin he replied “The head and horns of the big buck of Tallawassa.” Well its bed time, Nat and Isom can tell their tales to-morrow-niglit. “I hope they won’t tell any fish stories,” said Cleg. Nor a Buck story said Uncle Jeems Kunker. H. He Knew ’Em Both. Brooklyn Eagle. “There’s considerable doubt in my mind which I ought to vote for,” re marked the seedy man, rubbing his el bows and staring through the pigeon hole at the busy cashier. “For some reasons I like Folger and for others I’m way tip on Cleveland. But it was fours.” and he shook his head gloomily. “It was fours and no mistake!” “What was fours?” growled the cashier. “All three was fours,” replied the seedy man, rousing up. “I went in with a pair of kings clean, and when Folger raised, me and Cleveland stayed right with him. On the draw I got the rest of the kings and lifted things for a hundred. They were there!” and the seedy man sighed mournfully. “How did you come out?” inquired the cashier. “Well, sir, Cleveland didn’t have any ready money and Folger was strap ped, hut they were good and I let ’em chip notes for the amount. I was put ting up cold money, and the first I knew there were six or eight thou’ on the board. You bet they hung well. And I was on the premises myself. It was pull and pinch and finally they called. I showed the kings, but they beat me.” “What did they hold?” asked the cashier, who never plays, but likes to hear of such things. “Cleveland had four aces,” answered the seedy man, resting his elbows on the counter. “Yes, sir, four bullets was held by Mr. Cleveland!” “Where was Folger? What did he have?” demanded the interested cashiet. “Folger was there. He had four ‘jokers!’ He had, for a fact! We were playing with the odds and ends of some old packs, and Folger had come in with three ‘jokers’ and drawn the other.” i “Where was this?” “At camp meeting out in lowa, a year ago. Folger was running tem perance and Cleveland was doing the orthodox gospel.” “What were they doing out there?” demanded the mystified cashier. “They were preachers; the Rev. Ephesus Folger and the Rev. Welcome R. Cleveland. I know ’em. They laid me cold, and I’m puzzled which to vote for.” “You’re way off!” explained the cashier. “Those men never preached nor stocked a poker pack on a man.” “Sure!” exclaimed the seedy man, rather startled. “I thought they were the same. By the speeches nominating them at the conventions I supposed of course they were ministers of God, and by what the opposition papers say I was sure they were the men who set it up on me at the camp meeting. I say! couldn’t you run it up on ’em as a cam paign document and fix me on account of what I lost?” He wasn’t fixed, but his story is given as a warning to the rural press against tho seedy man and other mis takes he may make about the two can didates for Governor. Mothers, do not give Anodyne and lull your child to quiet and sleep, by prostrating the nervous system, to bo repeated again tho next night, but cure your child withTeethina (Teeth ing Powders.) A Man Who Can Unhinge Every •Joint in His Body. Cleveland Herald. The announcement that Mr. Charles 11. Warren, the celebrated contortion ist, would give an exhibition before the students at tho Erie-Street Medical College yesterday morning found a Herald reporter in the amphitheater at the appointed hour. The affair ; was certainly a marvelous exhibition of muscular activity and change. Mr. Warren is a surgical, physiological and anatomical phenomenon. The display which he made of dislocation and displacements of internal organs suggested continually the question, is he human? Mr. Warren is, in his line, undoubt edly, the greatest wonder ever brought before the medical profession. The fact that Dr. Hamilton has devoted several pages to his case in his “New Surgery” is ample guarantee that his contortions are really phenomenal and worthy the consideration of medical science. Concerning him. Dr. Hamil ton says: “I think it may ho safely said that if Mr. Warren does not dislocate his hips, then none of those seven or eight cases hitherto reported, and referred to by me in my Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations, were veritable dislo cations. No cases has yet, so far as I know, been verified by an autopsy. And it is to be hoped that, in the in terest of science, Mr. Warren will leave a request that upon his death a careful dissection of his hip joints shall be made by competent persons.” Dr. Agnew, a surgeon of scarcely' less reputation, savs: “I have never seen an individual who presented such a remarkable symmetrical development ot the muscular system.” Nearly all of the other eminent physicians and surgeons of the age have seen him, and unite in pronouncing him tho most w'onderful muscular speci men on record. His exhibition Wednesday morning was a most remarkable one, notwith standing that he professed himself ham pered by a temporary attack of rheuma tism. He began by displaying a dislo cation of the thumb, which was perfect. The students were permitted to exam ine with the sense of touch this peculiar phenomenon. The subject then exhib ited a dislocation of the wrist, equally remarkable. Next he produced by muscular contraction a partial subgle noid dislocation of both shoulders, which Dr. Kitchen pronoudeed a most, remarkable leat. This was followed by a dislocation of the scapula upwards, and a partial dislocation of the tarsel bones. But the most remarkable feat, that which brings the greatest consternation to the medical profession, was a com plete luxation of both hips upwards and backwards. This accomplishment, which has been made the subject of most careful study by Dr. Hamilton, was commented upon by Dr. Kitchen at some legnth. Mr. Warren also twisted bis ankles as if his feet hung upon a swivel, and produced a sub-luxation of the lower jaw. Another performance of his was the withdrawal of the viscera trom the abdomen and forcing of them into the chest. This feat he performed with alternate efforts, producing an effect so unnatural as to call forth most enthusiastic applause from the students. Dr. Kitchen then measured the chest expansion of the subject, stating that the enstomary limit is about three inches. The result was to measure ments, SOL inches in a state of contrac tion, and 89 inches in a state of expan sion; making a difference of 8j- inches. This difference has been as high as 12 inches. On a former occasion, when Dr.- Kitchen measured the exhibitor, the difference amounted to 11 inches. This falling off, coupled with a cough of Mr. Warren’s, suggested the fear, which was afterwards corroborated by testimony, that the gentleman is a can didate for the grip of that prince of dis eases, consumption. The exposure of such an exhibition as that of Wednes day morning, together with the abnor mal nature of his work, cannot be very conducive to longevity. Mr. Warren concluded his perform ance by wiggling his ears, and then performing a series of gyrations and contortions which are simply indescrib able. During all the exhibition the display of muscles and surface mark ings of the body was most instructive to those interested in the study of anatomy. The anomaly of Mr. War ren’s case is the fact that he is able to produce by muscular action a voluntary dislocation of nearly every joint in the body. Mr. Warren is now traveling and exhibiting his physical versatility to the medical profession at the leading medical colleges in the land. He has been in former years connected with different organizations as an athlete, but now devotes all his time to the cause of medical science. Read Wliat General G, T. Tige Anderson Says. Messrs. Hutchinson* Bro. iGontlemen— I have been a great sufferer fron neuralgia— tho attacks lasting for days, I had tried every known remedy without being relieved. In my last attack I tried your “Neuralgine,” and in a short time was perfectly cured. It is a consolation to know that I have at last a remedy that controls this painful disease, and I can cheerfully recommend it to all who suffer as I ilo. G. T. Anderson, Chief of Police. Atlanta, April 18, 1879. HUTCHINSON & BHO.,Proprietors, At lanta, Ga. Sold by Dr. E. J. Eldridge, J. E. Hall, W. TANARUS, Davenport & Son and A. J. * IV. B. Hudson. sept-2m | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. How Russian Girls are Courted, Love is tlie same the world over, but “courting” is managed very differently in different countries. Russian court ing, among the middle classes, is pecu liar. The first Whit-Sunday after the young girl is acknowledged by her mother to be of marriageable years, she is taken to the Petersburg summer garden to join “bridal promenade.” This consists of the daughters of the Russian tradesmen walking in proces sion, followed by their parents. Up and down they go, pretending to chat with each other and to take no notice of the young men—the tradesmen’s sons, dressed intheir bestclothes—who walk in another procession on the other side. However, every now and then some young fellow slips out of his proper rank adds himself to the line of girls on the other side, speaking to one par ticularly. The parents ot the girl join in the conversation in a few moments, and soon they leave the promenade and are joined by the parents ot the young man. Generally, the old folks have talked it well over before, but on this occasion everyone pretends to be sur prised. On the next day a female con fidante calls on the girl’s parents and requests her hand. This granted, all the r-elations on both sides meet and argue about the portion to be given with the girl. If this is not satisfactory, all is at an end; if it is what is expected, the betrothal takes place. The bride and bridegroom kneel down upon a great fur mat, and the bride takes a ring from her finger and gives it to the bridegroom, who returns the gift by another. The bride’s mother meanwhile crumbles a piece of bread over her daughter’s head, and her fath er folds the image of his daughter’s patron saint over his future son-in-law’s well-brushed locks. As they arise bridesmaids sing a wedding song. The guests each bring forward a present of some sort. Wine is handed about, and some says it is bitter and needs sweet ening. Upon this the bridegroom kisses the bride—the sweetness being supposed to be provided by this kiss— salutes the company and takes his leave, on which the bridesmaids sing a song with a chorus something like this; “Farewell, happy bridegroom, Rut return to be still more happy.” Courting time has now begun. Every evening the lover comes to his lady’s home with a present which is always something good to eat—generally cakes or sugar plums. He makes love under rather awkward circumstances, for the bridesmaids sit about the betrothed pair in a circle, singing the songs de scriptive of their happiness. The last evening of the courtship is enlivened by the presentation of the gifts of the bridegroom, which must include brushes, combs, soap and per fumery. On receiving these, the brides maids instantly carry the bride away, and wash her. dress her hair, and per fume her pocket handkerchief. Thus touched up, she returns to the company, and the bride’s father gives his future son-in-law the marriage por tion, which he takes home with him in a neat bag. The next mornjng he returns for the lady herself. She receives him with her hair unbraided and flowing down her back. They are married by the cere monies of the Greek church, and the old folks never go to the wedding dinner. Those eternal bridesmaids, whom they must hate by this time, are there, however, still on duty, and the evening closes by the bride kneeling down and pulling off her husband’s boots to prove her intention to be an obedient and sub missive wife. Good-natured bridegrooms generally hide jewelry or money in their boots, which the bride may take possession of as balm for her pride. After the wed ding day the parents begin to give feasts and keep it up a week, and it is not till all this is over that the “young couple” ece those blessed bridesmaids take their departure. 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