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7 Our Love Letters. I was betrothed in infancy to Miss Gertrude Duval There I pause. The statement sounds romantic. You may doubt the facts.but who can guess to what length a romantic woman may go? There were three romantic women in our fam ily; my mother, Gertrude and a maiden aunt, who had property which she wished to bestow upon us *j : ntly,’ a la Captain Cuttle. Circumstances separated Gertrude and I be fore we were old enough to talk. They drove me and my small affimced, then attired in dresses three times her own length, to K'DR8ton. I believe that. I bad a dim remembrance of her as she appeared while sucking an orange; bat when my mother would say: ‘Oh, Effingham. don’t you remembir your sweet little wifey? —another romantic blight in the shape of the name of Effingham had been bestowed npon me—I answered: ‘No’ as a mat ter of principal. A ter this, I would generally add: ‘I hate her! All girls are hateful, but she is the hatefulest.’ Tuere is an age at which all boys make this declaration witb perfect ease. In after years, had they not lost that far from fascinating frankness peculiar to youths of four teen, the same boys would not nnfrequently change their song and declare that they loved all girls. At eighteen, I confessed to myself that this was the case. The thought that a young beauty was ‘saving herself up lor me,’ really touched my soul; and when one day, there arrived by mail, a small box containing a photograph of a fair-haired young lady with dark eyes and dimples in both cheeks, which my mother presented to me as the likeness of M ihb G tftrude Duval, my affianc ed wife. I fell in love with it at one.',as I should have fallen in love with any other passibly pret ty portrait of a lady ‘Yon are now eighteen, Effiagham,’ said my mother, ‘Gertrude is seventeen. You will be of age iD three years. Iu one more I intend to send you away on a visit; but before you meet, I trust you will gain some knowledge of each other by correspondence O: coarse a betrothal in infan cy is no longer binding. You need not gratify the hopes of your parents unless yon choose to do so,’—here my mother sighed; ‘but I am sure you will at least cultivate the young lady's ac- q lintancs as I have suggested. It is your place to write first.’ AN I said was: ‘Y*»s ma’am.’ But that night I went early to my own room, took half a quire of note paper under my hand and began: ‘Dear Madame—’ that was too formal. ‘li'spectfully Miss—’ ridiculous. ‘My Darling Gertrude—’ she would be insulted. How would it do to commence without any formal begining ? But if so, what should I say ? I sat with my head between my hands and my elbows on the table, when a knock sounded on the door. I knew by tbe sharp sound that it was Obed Drake who applied for admission. Obed was a young man some ten years my se nior, who had been left at an early age upon the hands of the world in general, by the disappear ance of his father and the death of his mother, who had had recourse to the gin bottle to com fort her in her afil ction. Handed about I rum uniglibtrr Co neighbor, he had filially taken root in our house, where, dis covering that, having to split wood, draw wa ter, milk the cows and run on errands all day, he sat up all night to s udy geography and bat- tie single-handed with geometrical problems, my father's scholarly heart was drawn toward him. and he became a sort of adopted eon. Despite hi-, unpromising antecedents, he was a wonderfully worthy young man, and now a hard-working and rising lawyer. M »ny a scrape had he helped me out of. Now, as I heard the knock upon the door,one that knuckles less bony could never have made, I called; ‘Cime in,’ in tones of relief. Ooed Drake could assuredly advise me as to a ‘beginning’ of my letter. •Come in,’ said I, and the door opened a long, thin f irin advanced and half retreated. ‘Ob, if you are writing, I’ll not disturb you,’ said the voice belonging to this apparition. •No, no,’ said I, ‘not at all, not at all. Come in; I want you. Obed, I'm in a dilemma. Sit down.’ Ooed sat down, and I confided the facts of the case to him. •Yju see,’ I said in conclusion, ‘I am obliged to write a letter to a young lady I never saw, on whom I desire to make a favorable impression, and I can’t imagine how I ought to begin. It’s really the most difficult task.’ ‘D.ffijult! cried Obed, with a curious jerk,pe culiar to him when he was excited. ‘Difficult! No such thing. Not at all difficult. Most en joyable task—most enjoyable. I only wish I bad it to do. But really, do you find it difficult, EAT •Terribly so,’ I said. ‘S ce, this is her picture. Beautiful, isn't it ?’ ‘Yes,’ said Obed. ‘But I like dark girls. It wouldn’t inspire me particularly. Now, do you know, if I were going to write, I should imagine to myself quite another girl. Do you know -I shoul 1 think vou’d like to write to an unknown yor.Dg lady. Here, 111 show yon how I’d begin.’ He sat down to my desk; I lit a cigar; he took up my pen. Instantly it began to fly over the paper. With hi3 shoulders to his bead and his nose on the lines, Obed worked away. I finished one cigar and lit another; still he wrote on. „ , .. At, last, three sheets of note-paper lay id a pile be ‘There”said Obed, with a long breath, ‘that is a little'of what I would say.’ He selected a cigar for himself and puff ed in silence, while I read his production. ‘It s a very fine letter,Obed, I sal 1. I con.dn t do anything half so good. Bless my soul, how many quotations! Where do you keep tuem stored away? I say- Obed would you mind my i ist copying this and sending it r J ‘Do as you like, Eff. I d have taken more pains, however, if I had thought of that.’ 1 I took advantage of his permission, copied his letter and dispatched it to Miss G rtrude Duval. In iess than a fortnight I received a rep y. It was long poetical and as full of quotations as Obed’s bad been. Ia fact it was a complete answer to bis epistle. Of course I took it to Obed. ‘Fine letter,’ he said, as he turned its pages for the third time. ‘I say. if this was to me I would get up a famous reply. This remark now about men and their want of appreciation of wo men, and quotation, twisted to suit herself;now 1 d ‘Obed ’ I eric d, ‘do you say what you like. The voung woman is too opinionated for me; sue knows too much; she is too sharp. .1 can t write to a giri like that. And who woald think it from ^‘Nobody!’ said Obed. ‘She looks like a bread- and-butter miss.’ . . Then he once more seized upon pen and pa mper. and this time an enormous packet made its Kay to Kingston. r= To cut a long story short,Obed and my young betrothed ware s ion exchanging not s j much let ters as parcels of manuscript. They wrote regularly,and tomhed upon every subject under the sun, from love to electricity. ’They had read every author who ever wrote, and had opinions on every ‘ism’ that bewildered people’s brain. Ot course I knew that. Obo-i, whe was at least eight-anti-twenty, had dabbled in everything; but that a girl of seventeen should have gone as tar as ha, was a mystery I could not explain. It did not attract me. But fir that beautiful portrait, I should have returned to my youthfnl opinion of Miss Ger trude and declared that I hated her; hut the face was piettior than any I knew, in my eyes. Some times my mother perns id what she sup posed t> be our correspondence.and greatly com plimsiited us on our flowery expressions. But oue or two letters were two heavy for light reading, and once she remarked, having folded the many sheets of Gertrude’s last, with a very grave air: ‘There ia so much about the doctrines of Con- fucious, my dear. I hope he is not one of those liberal preachers silly youDg people are all run ning after now-a-davs,and that if you do marry, yoa'li take a pew at Dr. Crosby’s. I hope she doesn’t go to hear this Confucious regularly.’ However, the poetical epistle ploased her,and when the correspondence had been going on for a year, it was decided in family conclave that had hotter go aDd visit my brother. It was decided also that Ooed should go with With a new warlrobo, a full pccket-book and my parents’ blessing, I started on my romantic journey. I left the letters at home, bnt I took with me the photograph. Obed attended to such practicable matters as baggage and lunches, tackled cabmen, and saw that we were not sunt into the roof at any hotel we patroniz id. I must confess I felt that he was not ornamen tal,with his tallow-colored complexion and bean pole aspect, his wild sweep of greenish yellow hair and his large knuckles; but he was useful and I was very fond of him, and it might hurt his feelings to explain to him that his yellow- gray traveling suit was three siz -s too small for him. We reached Kingston an! made our way to a mos' respectable house, with a large garden, where dwelt the parents of my alii '.need. Having attired ourselves for a call, we engag ed a cab to take us hither, and arrived in the middle of a fine summer afternoon. To our inquiries, the little servant who open ed the door replied that Mis Gertrude was in ‘the abour,’ and as we bad heard much of ‘the arbour,’ in the letters, and it was in full sight, I suggested to Obed that we should approach unseen and surprise the lady by our appearance. It was an impudent thing to do, but consider ed myself priveleged. We accordingly followed the winding walk with careful steps, and arriving at the arbor, peeped through the vines an d saw, not one young lady, but two. Tue youngest was the original of my picture, fair with golden hair, dark eyes, dimples and a rose-bud mouth. The other was about thirty, sensible, shrewd- looking, and vary dark. She was writing. The sheets of note-paper on tbe table looked familiar. ‘Finished,’shesaid,laying down her pen. ‘Aid as he's to come soon, that I suppose, is my last letter. Heigh-ho! Gertrude,he is much too sen sible a man for you. How such a boy can have acquired so much information I do not know, bnt I've acquired my share of the correspon- de> A C uu ini mncti o.Miged, Mirtha,’ said the oth er. ‘I never could think of anything to write to the prosy thing If he is like his letters, I can’t like him; but Lis photograph is ever so nice looking. M tybe be won’t talk as ho writes.’ I looked at Obed; he looked at me. We tiptoed our way back to the house, found the servant aDd sent her out with our cards. **•**» ‘Do you know, Effingham,’ said Gertrude to mo a week later, ‘I have a confession to make ? I didn’t think I’d like you a bit.’ ‘Why.’ ‘Dic’tbe off nded. Your letters were so—so solemn—like improving works we ought to read, and never do—at least I don’t.’ ‘Gertrude,’ said I, ‘I have a confession to make too. I never wrote one of those letters; Obed did them for me.’ •Oa!’ said she, ‘Do you know that Martha wrote all mine?’ Afterwards I told her that I did know it, but not then. ‘Mr. Drake is a very nice person, isn’t he?’ asked G rtrude very soon. ‘A splendid fellow,’ said I. ‘I am very glad,’ said she, ‘for Martha is en gaged to him, and she told me she did not be lieve you ever wrote a word of those letters. So i returned home with news that made my mother happy; but Obed stayed behind. He married Miss Martha, and settled down in Kingston. He is a successful lawyer. She occasionally lectures,and both seem to be as happy as Gertrude and I, and only for our love-letters they might never hava met. Says my wife sometimes: ‘Well, they were our love-letters, af.er all.’ Letter From South Carolina, Gen Hampton in the Rural, Districts at Home —Pouring oil upon the Troubled Waters of a Young Namesake. Bx Gage Hampstead. A new county was formed during the setting of the last S. C. Legislature, and baptiz d with the honored name of Hampton. Like most in fants this young county grew contrary and wanted too abundant a diet of fat offi sos. Nurses of many ilks and nostrums were sought to quiet the claruerous babe, but each in turn, failed and lefc in vexation, discouragid. The attention of Gov. Huupton wa3 fi tally drawn to this incorrigible offspring of old Beaufort.and he was forced to pause in his triumphant tour over the State to devote unwonted time to his name-sake. It was diffi jult to say whether she needed a sound castigation or a drop of the oil of kindness. Kindness won. The presence of the good Governor acted like a charm. The babe stretched out its hands the moment its great name-sake approached, and now scarcely whimpers, besides has promised strict obedi ence to the G overnor’s commands. But we will rehearse her behavior : The corner stone of tbe new court-house of Hampton was laid on the 12 h of Oct. The day was bright and beautiful, and summer weather bore the breath of flowers and the scent of the woods From all parts of the country the peo ple came. Many hundreds from their homes in these low-lands, but a goodly number by rail from a distance. The scene was gorgeous as throngs of men in red shirts, women and chil dren in red jackets, and horses and vehicles in the same gay trappings assembled. When Governor Hampton, escorted by .the military and preceded by a fine band of music, arrived, the enthusiasm was as unbounded as ic was joyous and spontaneous. Never was Napo leon the recipient of heartier, pmer devotion than this hero of the great peaceful revolution in South Carolina. The people looked in the face of the man who, in a terrible day, risked life and property for them. In that trying time this face was earnest, sorrowful, determined ; now a deep calm rests upon-it, a holy self grat- ulation, and tbe laurel wreath lies where the cypress was threatened 0-ily these people knew the full meaning of those twelve horrible years under radical rule, hence only they could almost lose themselves iu joyous huzzas at sight of their liberator. The day passed all too soon. The speeches a_.d ceremonies were ended and then the crowd melted away, many to hie to the little village of LaTtonviNe, .the central point in the county where the G ivernor was to speak on the morrow. Again the throngs of people came, and d tzzling red was the order of the day. The little village was wide awake. Almost the first d welling had an arch of evergreens over its garden gate and a “Welcome Hampton’’ ia bold letters. What a jubilee there was. Even our old Pegass ts snuff id the breeze, and tossed his head an l rad pendants iu triumph. Eve.y wherj c m!d be seen men in red shirts, and lovely, gentle women who smiled their deep satisfaction. What bevies of bright-eyed, beau tiful young girls, and how soft and musical were their voices ! a trait peculiar to this land. Under the shadow of the great oaks stood the spacious rostrum. Fair hands had so adorned the canopy that it was indeed ‘a bower of beauty.’ The glossy magnolia leaves were made to ser,ve as festoons of beads. Vases and wreaths of au tumn fliwers and grasses, graceful^hungiDgbas kets added to the pleasing picture. Taere were, at the fi-st glance, handsome magnolias in bloom, but a second inspection proved them to be but bolls of cotton, ready for the picker. And those hanging baskets, what a delicate green t ej were, what a Roft polish! Not until the place was deserted and a few curious ones made a personal inspection, were they discovered to be—green gourds! They were cut iu half and ihe grasses and fl >wers found a nice support iu the pulpy matter. The idea is novel and bril liant, and Lawtonville deserves from fntare copyists fall credit for the invention. But there were thirteen fl igs, besides mottoes, revealing the mind of the people for their Gov ernor, and more than all of these, more than any of the moving mass of humanity, was Wade Hampton, General, G ivernor, noble master— and last though great—humble Christian ! Oh ! it was a sight worth the seeing, this good m in, whom the world so cheerfully calls great. Even this welcome visit was a noble mission to a broken, worn, but now hopeful few—to a little stray corner which more than any place in tDe State has been s’ a^k.ed, almost stiff >d to death. Tue hundreds of eyes that were leveled upon him were earnest and full of graticu le, for did not each one feel that he had helped all out of the S’.ough of D jspond ? When he arose he stood as a very king amidst the people, and his words were to them as Her man s dew. Yet his tongue did not roll in gold en eloquence, nor did his words flow in mag nificent periods. His true, manly face is not handsome like many of the commonplace men he beholds. He spoke in plain Sax in of what he had done and what he wou’d do, and since they have cause to believe him. every word was equal to a sworn statement. The man is great in actions—there are few who c mnot talk, b ct fewer still who can perform as Hampton has done. Time and circumstances have made his greatness immortal and looking upon the man in his grand simplicity we realize how possible >. is for each, all of us, to be great, likewise, in our peculiar spheres of life. Had Hampton been obscure and poor, he wouli. have never been a general, or the most remarkable gover nor ever known on the American continent, yet, with those fine elements so inherent in his na ture, be would have been, in his sphere, ever oo hnmblc, a trnlj £rcat mau—14 LiTftll Of dCllOIi-4, bravery and sincerity. Not until the sun was waning toward the West did the people leave the pleasant spot the eloquent speakers, the entrancing music, held them spell-hound. The day closed upon bright faces, glad wi.h the thought of the meet ing with friends, the pleasure of sparkling ebul litions of gifted minds, and the sight of tbe hitherto unseen, but loved and honored Hamp ton. The road leading towards the Savannah was thronged by the red shirt cavaliers—and many in buggies. The multitude had discovered that the morrow would find Hampton at Brighto i, where busy and glad hands were weaving wreathes and festoons for his bower of beauty. Thus he moves as G ivernor never moved before ia this State—followed from place to place and covered with fairest flowers, even as he is en veloped in a people’s affection and gratitude Yet, like all truly great men he is humble, and points the people to that God who alone used him as the instrument of victory. Stxllwood, Hamptjn, S. C. Household Department Hints for the Farm, Garden, and Fireside. The Orchard Dear Editors: You ask mo to tell you why I succeed so well with my fruit; why it is of such good q lality and so plentiful. It must be bocause I nave taken care of my orchard. In the first place, I planted good young trees (I am not much of a believer in grafting upon old stocks) then I had good fences and kept oat cattle. I prepared my laud well at the outset; broke up and fertilized thor oughly, with a home made compost. I give a liberal top dressing occasionally. I planted my trees far enough apart to give them ample space to spread, and. pruned sparing’y I alio v no fruit to be pulled when green. I have a few rules for the orchard that I keep framed, as it were, and hung up in my mind. Here they are: 1. Waon fruit trees occupy the ground, noth ing else should—except very short grass. 2. Fruitfulness and growth of the tree cannot be expected the same year. 3. There is no plum that the curculio will not take, though aay kiad may sometimes escape for one year in one place. 4 Peach borers will not do much damage when stiff clay is heaped up round the tree a foot high. 5 Pear blight still puzzles the greatest men. The best remedy known is to plant two for every one that dies. 6 If you dont know how to prune, don’t hire a man from the other side of the sea that knows less than yon do. 7. Don’t cut off a big lower limb unless you ar<- a renter, and don’t care what becomes of tho tree when your time is out. 8 A tree with the limbi coming out near the ground is worth two trees trimmed up five feet, and worth four trees trimmed up ten feet, and so on until they are not worth anything. 9 Trim down, not up. 10 Shorten in, not lengthen up. 11. If you had your arm cut off, you would feel it to youj heart—a tree will not feel, but rot to the heart. Iu moist charcoal, seed will sprout with re markable quickness and certainty, but, after they have sprouted, they do not continue to do well in charcoal alone. Drilled in with the seed, charcoal powder is said greatly to pro mote the growth of wheat. Fruitcake—Ooe cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cap of hot, strong coffee, ooe cup molasses, one egg. four cups fl iur, one pound raisins, one-half pound currants, one teaspoon- ful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, two ounces ground cloves, two ounces cinnamon, a grated nutmeg and a little citron cut in thin strips. Bake one honr. English Potato Balls. —Bail so ne potatoes very dry, ruash tuem as smoothly as possible, se ison wtl with salt and pepp r, warm them with about an ounce of butter to the pound and a few sp >onsful of good cream. Let them cool a lit tle, roll them into balls, sprinkle over them some crushed vermicelli or maccaroni, and try them light-brown. Cabbage Salad.—Shave a hard, white cabbage into sm ill strips; take the yolks of three well- beaten eggs, a cap and a half of good eider vin egar, two te<.s.>oonful of mustard, mix id iu a little boiling water, salt and pepper to suit the taste. Mix ail but the eg ;s together, and let it boil, then stir ic the eggs rapidly, tarn the cab bage into the mixture, and stir well. Pie Crust. —Here is a simple but excellent re cipe, which please publish for the information of yocng housekeeper-: Four cups full of fiiur, one of lard, one of butter, one of ice water, one teaspo'inf il of salt; mix with a knife and han dle as little as possible. Bake in a quick oven. Beef Omelet.—The readers of the Sunuy S mtu will agree with ns after they have tasted it, that but few more appotiz ng breakfast dishes we e ever spread before a guest, than the fol lowing: Cut the bone from a porterhouse steak, pound it slightly; season with pepper and salt; lay it in a hot, dry skillet, turning it almost constantly until done. Then put in with it one teaspoonful of lard and one of batter. As soon as this is hot, pour over the steak the follo wing ruix ure: Separate six eggs aud beat them light —j ist before cooking them stir in the whites with the yolks; keep lif.ing them gently with a knife until done. Turnout on a warm dish and serve at once. To Renovate Black Cashmere.—Rip the dress apart; then soak the goods in warm soap-suds two hours; dissolve one ounce of extract of log wood in a bowl of warm water, add sufficient warm water to cover the goods, which is to be taken from the suds without wringing; let the dress stand in the logwoad water all nigh*; in morning rinse ia several waters without wring ing in the last water; add one pint of sweet milk iron while damp; it will look like new. Snow Pudding. —Soak one ounce of gelatine in one pint of co d water for ten minutes; place the same over the fire; stir and remove as soon dissolved, and when nearly cold,beat to a stiff froth with an egg-beater; beat the whites o r . three eggs to a stiff froth and add to the gelatine froth together with the j lice of three lemous and pul verized sugar to suit the taste, and mix the whole well together; next pour into molds to cool; serve with a soft custard made of the yolks of the eggs. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, Martha —To wash fl innels make suds of sof, water as hot as you can bear your hands in. Rinse in same way and dry quickly. Use old soft soap, as the chemicals in har 1 siap full the fl innels. This applies to all wooilen goods. Reader —Exercise in the open air, with regu lar and temperate living and early hoars, will doubtless render your complexion satisfactory. A mixture of fl iwers of sulphur and milk is sometimes recommended to soften the skin. J. L.—To make modelling clay,knead dry clay witu glycerine instead of water, anl a mass is obtained which will continue moist and plastic for a length of time. This removes one of the greatest inconveniences that is experienced by the modeller. Sufferer —Melt some rosin at night on go ing to bed, and let the smoke from it fill the room; inhaling the smoke heals the inflamma tion, and sleep is often produred when one could not sleep before for much coughing; a change for the better should be felt in about a week. Grace —To freshen black lace lay it on a clean table, sponge it all over with a weak solution of borax—about an even toaspoonful or less to a pint of warm water. U le a piece of old black silk, or black kid glove is better, to sponge with. While damp cover with a piece of black silk or cloth and iron. A cement for meerschaum can be made of quick lime mixsd to a thick cream with the white of an egg. This cement will also nnite glass or china. 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If yon care to use my name, you are free to do so. J. G. Medlock, M. D. I have introduced Dr. B. F. Ulmer’s Liver Corrector in my practice, aud find that it gives geueral satisfaction. Toe beat evide ice of tho estimation iu which it is held is the fact that persons tryiug it once Invariably return for auother Dottle, recommending it at the same time to their friends. G. A. Penny. M. D., Cedar Keys, Fla. PREPARED BY 4 B. F*. ULMER, SAVANNAH, GA. Price. Oue Dollar. For sale by P. A. B 3ALL, 180 Broad street, Augusta, Ga., and Druggists generally. i«