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STRIFES Foil A SLANDERER.
jl |K*rsnirr of Women • Meri
ted (anliKiUiou-111* Abject Apology.
Kvtoma (hida Tritmne.
For three months Ql e * n
been tilled with slanderous stones. To
our knowledge live excellent young ladies
have had tlieir numes dritjgged liittrwhis
perings t*bhngctine; them with l>ase action.
One of these had been traduced before, and
she had sworn solemnly, not wickedly,
that if scandalous stories were again put
afloat about her she would have sweet re
venge. The scandals were uttered. Quietly
she went to work until she was sure of
their author, lie was a man of whom it
may truthfully be said. lie is not above
suspicion.” The writer hereof heard his
name mentioned a year ago in connection
with that of an unmarried woman (he is
married) and an abortion. It is also said
of him that he loves to lie; that no re
spectable woman can pass him on the street
without getting a searching look from him
if alone, or being remarked about in an
jug;way if he has company,
r We have no room for all the details—her
meeting with him at a party—her delicate
flirtation ou the street —a return of his
gweet smile of cautious recognition. Her
blandishments caught him badly. She de
cided yesterday that'the fruit was ripe,
that the harvest was at hand. She had met
lmn the evening before, on a quiet street,
and, as she passed him. without turning
her head or halting, whispered. ** Post
oflice to-morrow morning—Cornile.” On
yesterday, with her own hand, she drop
ped into the outside post-office letter-box
a perfumed billet ileux in these words :
Dkah Fkiknd —Call this evening at 8.
My husband is and will be absent. If
light in room, tap gently at front
door. If light in front room, depart.
Lovingly, * CouNli.K.
lie received the pretty little note which
we have seen, at 11 a. m. lie was.in high
irlec the rest of the day. Last night he
lail on Iris nobbiest suit, and was shaved,
powdered, shampooed, perfumed, and
made pretty. During the day the husband
was not visible. Promptly at 8 o'clock he
was on the ground. The sign was right—
he tapped gently as a child —the door
opened noiselessly—he was inside.
| Here the lady came near spoiling every
thing. A playful effort on his part to kiss
her came near eliciting a scream. She re
membered her business, and with her sweet
voice said. ** Wait a minute, please, 1 am
all unstrung with fright.” She gave him a
chair and took one herself near him. She
chatted pleasantly for a whole minute.
Gracefully she arose, stepped two paces,
olfered him a glass of water, which lie de
clines with thanks, took a sip. placed the
glass back to its position, stooped, and. as
she raised, with one hand, the left, she
turnedtup a large/ very bright lamp, amb
with the other drew from under a sofa a
large, old-fashioned, well-worn rawhide.
Her piacid face and benignant smile were
gone, and in their places a hundred little
devils danced. Hers was then a face that
would have made a stouter heart than that
jof a vile slanderer thump. He stood ap
palled. hut before he ban time to gasp she
uttered these words slowly : " You vile
slanderer, now I'll have my revenge," and
struck. 'That stroke started the blood
from the left side of his head, above the
ear, so that it trickled down behind that
organ and dropped upon his snowy collar.
She followed this with fearful force about
his legs and body.
lie recovered ids senses and exclaimed :
** uadain, 3011 are in my power; this is
too much; allow me to depart; give me
that whip." She threw a door open, when
the light, as bright as the sun, fell on the
persons of three men. each wearing a false
face—one representing a .Johnny Bull, one
a Turk, and the other a ankee. As the
door opened, she said, in the most con
temptuous voice. “ I'm in your power, am
IF Upon your knees, sir.”
lie went down. Again the rawhide was
applied. ** Do you acknowledge, in the
hearing of those you've seen, that you arc
a vile slannerer of women F Do you swear
you will never speak wrongfully of any
lady againF Do you agree to tell y*our
wife what a liar you have been? Do }-ou
promise never to take my name upon your
13-ing lips?” To all of these questions he
promptly* answered, ” I do," except that
next to the last—at that lie hesitated, but
the cowhide prompted him to a satisfac
tory response. Having satiated her desire
for revenge, she demanded her note, re
ceived it from him, opened the door, and
bade him depart. He went out as if he
were shot from a gun.
Tlit* Winter of tlie lltart.
A beautiful writer counsels wisely when
he says : Live so that good angels may pro
tect you from this terrible evil—the winter
of the heart. Let no chilling intluence
freeze up the fountains of sympathy and
happiness in its depths; no cold burden
settle over its withered hopes, like the
snow on faded flowers; no rude blasts of
discontent moan and shriek through its
desolated chambers. Your life-path may
lead through trials, which for a time seem
utterly to impede your progress, and shut
out the very light of Heaven from your
anxious gaze. Penury may take the place
of ease and plenty; your luxurious room
may be changed for an humble one ; sum
mer friends may forsake you; the unpity
ing world pass you with scarcely a look or
word of compassion ; you may be forced
to toil wearily, steadily on, to earn a live
lihood; death may sever the dear ties that
bind you to earth. Amid all these sor
rows, do not come to the conclusion that
nobody was ever so deeply afflicted as yon
are and abandon every anticipation of
••better days” in the unknown future.
Do not lose your faith in human excel
lence because confidence has sometimes
been betrayed, believe that friendship was
onlv a delusion and love a bright phantom
which glided away from your grasp. Do
not think that you are fated to be misera
ble because you are disappointed m 3 r our
expectations'and baffled in your pursuits.
Do notitedare that Hod has forsaken you.
$1.50 A YEAR.
when your ways is hedged about with
thorns, or repine sinfully when He calls
your dear ones to that land beyond the
grave. Keep a holy trust in Heaven
through every trial; bear adversity* with
fortitude, and look upwards in hours of
temptation and Suffering. When your
locks are white, your eyes are dim and
your limbs weary, when your stops falter
on the verge of death's gloomy vale, still
retain the freshness and buoyancy of spirit
which will shield 3*oll from the winter of
the heart.
Novell t'p.
The gallant fight made by the Demo
cratic Seven against the Republican Fight
will be a subject for history*, and will 110
doubt occupy important pages. The num
ber seven, though an odd one. is mentioned
many times in the Bible. 111 view of its
importance, we give below instances where
it is mentioned :
Oil the 7th da3 r God ended Iris works.
In the 7th month Noah's ark touched the
ground.
In 7 days a dove was sent out.
Abraham pleaded 7 times with Sodom.
Jacob served 7years for Rachael.
And yet another 7 more.
Jacob mounted 7 days for Joseph.
Jacob was pursued a 7 days’ journey by
Laban.
A plenty of 7 3 T ears. and a famine of 7
years were told in PharoUlTs dream by 7
fat and 7 lean beasts and 7 ears of full and
7 cars of blasted corn.
On the 7th day of the 7th month, the
children of Israel fasted 7 <lay*s, and re
mained 7 days in tent.
Every 7 years the land rested.
Every 7th year the bondmen were set
free.
Every 7th year the law was read to the
people.
In the destruction of Jerusalem 7 priests
bore 7 trumpets 7 days. On the 7th day
day they surrounded the walls 7 times,
and at the end of the 7th round the walls
fell.
Solomon was 7 years in building the
temple, and feasted 7 days at its dedication.
In the tabernacle were 7 lamps.
The got Jen candlesticks had i -ranches.
Naamnn washed 7 times in Jordan.
Jolt’s friend sat with him 7 days ami 7
nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7 rams
as atonement.
Our Saviour spoke 7 times from the
cross, on which lie hung 7 hours, and after
his resurrection appeared 7 times.
In the Lord's prayer are 7 petitions con
taining 7 times 7 words.
In the Revelations we read of 7 churches.
7 candlesticks, 7 stars. 7 trumpets, 7
plagues, 7 thunders, 7 vials, 7 angels, and
a 7-headed monster.
But 8 can out count 7.
A Local Rotnminjr Board.
Brooklyn .1 rgut.
They were playing poker, and Pompey
held a full hand. Ilis eyes glistened with
conscious triumph as he put up a ten-cent
ante and gazed at his partner expectantly.
“ 1 raises dat ten cents." remarked Pete.
“ 1 goes a quarter more." insinuated
Pomp.
“ I stand and raises anudder quarter,”
replied Pete.
*• 1 continue on de war-path and Hops
down de last thirty cents.” answered
Pomp, placing his six nickels on the table.
“ ! kivers de pi 1 e and calls you.” remark
ed Pete.
••Full hand,” said Pomp, turning his
cards. “ What you got?”
“ A pair, and de game am undecided.”
••What's dat? Undecided? Dis yer
chile takes de pile.”
“Not by a long chalk. Dis case will
now be referred to de Returnin' Hoard,
who will examine into the partickelars.
Par's plenty more good cards in de pack,
and why didn't I get 'em? Par's been in
timidation and fraud, and meanwhile de
Returnin' Hoard takes possession of de
spoils," and Pete readied out his hand.
Then the other side denied the right of
the Hoard to meddle, and when the reporter
left the horrible demon of civil war was
dancing in the neighborhood, and a police
man was marching to mediate with a club.
How to I'se <naiio.
For the benefit of our cotton planting
friends we give the following experience of
a Carroll County farmer, extracted from
the Carroll County Times. Try it:
The following plan for putting guano un
der cotton was furnished us by a gentle
man who learned the lick in the cotton
patch. He thinks the reason why guano
“ don’t pay ” is because it is not put in
right, break your land deep. Kun off
rows three feet wide, with straight shovel.
Double furrows if the land is rough. Dis
tribute from one to two hundred and fifty
pounds of guano to the acre, owing to the
quality of the land. List on it with shovel,
after which throw two furrows together
with turnplovv. This makes a nice flat
bed. Open with a small plow or coulter.
Strew the seed. Cover with harrow.
When your cotton begins to come up.
plow out middles with subsoil plow. This
leaves the ground loose anil clean, by
putting your guano in the above method,
you have it directly under the cotton plant.
The common practice is to list with turn
plow, and hence the guano is on one side of
the bed and the cotton ontho other.
HARTWELL, U.V., WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 28, 1877.
I'ovirj It 111 Hint.
I stood upon the ocean's briny shore
And with a fragile reed 1 wrote
Lpon the sand,
" Agnes, I love thee !”
The mad wave rolled by* and blotted out
The fair impression.
Frail reed ! cruel wave! treacherous sand !
I'll trust you no more !
But with a giant hand I'll pluck
From Norway's frozen shore
Her tallest pine, and dip its top
Into the crater of Vesuvius,
And upon the high and burnished heaven
I'll write—
“ Agnes, l love thee !"
And 1 would like to see any
Dog-goned wave wash that out!
Tlie illiir-OlasK Theory.
Hritlyin Smith'* I'aprr.
Some poor devil unearthed the theory
some time ago that the odorous onion was
a sleep-producer, and then the world ate
those esculents before retiring in order to
woo the quick approach of nature's sweet
restorer. The whole country became a hot
bed, and whole cyclones and hurricanes
were heavy with the breath of onions. But
it was a wicked snare. It brought not
sleep, and the vegetable with the reckless
odor was abandoned.
Now. we have anew theory—the blue
glass cure. It is claimed thnt, the rays of
the sun focussed through a pane of blue
glass will cure rheumatism and kindred
ailments. Experiments have proven, so
they say. that this cure is one of the most
wonderful ever known, and that it promises
to supersede physicians and physic.
Wc confess to a love of the theory. It's
a pretty idea, that of being cured 03* sun
beams. And so simple. We begin to
think of the days when the primitive man
lived and cured his complaints with the
simple hark and herb. We imagine our
selves floating back to the good old time
when sugar-coated pills and cholygogae
were unknown.
How much better tluu./having your back
rubbed with red-hot linmient would it be
to turn your back to the blue-glass window
and let the gonial sunbeams play upon it !
See how easily backaches could be cured.
And tootbaclic ! Could anything be more
blissful than to lie down and till your
mouth with warm blue sunbeams.
Give us the blue-glass cure. Let us bask
in the cerulean sunshine and thus heal our
selves.
A Combination Tool.
„ Bridge * Smith'll Paper.
** And a quarter of a dollar takes the
lot 1”
Hut the crowd hung around sheepishly,
and heeded not his importunities. They
were there to compose an audience, not as
customers. They watched him as he sliced
up the glass with his patent cutter; they
turned to each other and said. “it is a
darned good thing, ain't it?” but they
looked away when he asked them to buy.
•‘Fellow-citizens,” said he, “ I am a pri
vate man—l ask for no office. J wouldn't
be President of the United States for whole
worlds full o' dead niggers. I'm not here
for ’lectioneerin' purposes, and there is not
a drop of election whisky in my body.
Therefore, 1 must be treated with respect.
I offer you this this evening ail article that
should’ be in every man's family. It
should take precedence over the sewing
machine and the coffee grinder, and in some
cases can supplant the piano in your affec
tions. Gentlemen of Atlanta. let me call
your attention to this little instrument. It
is a combination of the most useful tricks
that ever proved beneficial to man. In the
first place, here you have a glass cutter
that will cut glass ten feet thick as easily
as a child cuts its jaw teeth. You sec how
nicely I cut capers out of this ; cut ac-
I quainfance out of that, and cut for deal
out of this ! You can cut diamonds, hearts,
spades or clubs, and. if you are lively
enough, you can cut the pigeon-wing. It's
i the best thing on the market, and when
j you take this home and it fails to come up
I to what I recommend it. bring it back, and
: I'll return to my native city. In the sec
| ond place, here you have a double-action
| toothbrush, which not only renders the
! teeth as white as drifts of snow, but makes
; them strong. I sold one of these brushes
to an old man up in Maine, who didn't
have a tooth in his head. In less than
! twenty years he had a full set of false
teeth, and just because he used my brush !
This is no common, hog-bristle contraption,
but a brush made of the beautiful hair
from the head of the Mississippi river, and
a handle from the purest ivory know to the
Hottentots.
•• The next contrivance of the combina
tion is an oyster-can opener. You have
only to insert it in a can. thusly, and be
fore your mouth has time to water for the
oysters the can is open, and the edges
turned down as smooth as a baby's face.
It need not be used for oyster cans alone ;
it will open anything. You can open sar
dine boxes, nitro-glycerine cans, and all
the tinware used for preserving. It will
open doors, and gates, and has been known
to open the way to fortune. If it is worth
anything at a'l. it will open your heart and
pocket book.
•‘Another feature of the combination is a
double-edged, back-action razor, that will
shave anvhodv from an iufaut to an old
man. It will shave the toughest bristles
or the softest down. It will shave a note
mid keep its edge. Gentlemen, examine
how nicely it splits this hair ! That hair is
as line as the gossamer thread of a silk
worm, and I know it's genuine, because 1
took it from the hash at the hotel to-day
myself.
•*<>no more attachment, gentlemen.
This is a knife and scissors sharpner, war
ranted to sharpen anything from a hand-saw
to an appetite. You can take the dullest
comprehension, and a gentle pull to the
left will give it a perception keen enough
to see double. A knife sharpened with
this machine will cut a figure from the
hardest wood, and has been known to cut
down whole trees atone lick.
*‘ And now. here you are, gentlemen: a
glass-cutter, tooth-brush, razor and knife
sharpener combined —and all for the trifling
sum of a quarter of a dollar! I don't ask
you to buy them because 1 want money.
I started in this business without a cent.
Now look at me ! I can sell money. No,
gentlemen, the proceeds of these sales are
sent to the heathen across the sea. I
am merely passing my time. It is a labor
of love with me. In this position wo be
come acquainted with the great men of the
country. I know every judge of police
courts from Maine to California, and some
of them have taken lancies to me. Several
times I have been requested by them to
remain over in their cities—until my line
was paid. Duly twenty-live cents, gentle
men, walk up !'*
And the gentleman with the combina
tion tool paused in his remarks to slice up
more glass.
Tlie Kiiti'rnvrr'N Trap.
A few days ago an engraver in Bristol.
England, happening to look through his
shop window, observed an elderly gentle
man, whom he recognized as an excise offi
cer, attentively scanning the outside of his
premises. After satisfying his curiosity
i>v an outside inspection, he entered the
shop, notebook and pencil in hand, and
opened a oonversatiop with the proprietor.
•• Mr. .1., I believe?”
“ Yes, I am Mr. 4.”
“ You keep a trap, I understand?”
“ Yes."’
•• Have you a license for that trap?”
“ No.”
Down goes an entry of this candid ad
mission in the notebook.
•* Did you have a license last vear?”
“ No."
Another entry in the book.
“ Why did you not take out a license ?”
“ I did not think it was necessary.”
“ How many does your trap hold ?”
‘* Five.”
A mother memorandum.
‘•How many wheels has it?”
“ None !”
‘* None ! why what sort of a trap is it ?”
“ A mouse trap.”
Tableau.
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Ills Safe Investment.
j “ Tc-he ! I bet I've got even with that
, ‘ere concern,'i chuckled a big, overgrown
lubber of a Michigan boy, as fie came out
! of a minister's donation party, in his town.
! the other t\ening.
•• What did ye do, Jim?” asked a com
rade.
“Po ?” echoed Jim, boastingly. ‘‘l'll
tell ye what I done. You know they
charged ten cents to get in there ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Wall, I gin 'um their ten cents, but
after I got in where them eatin’ fixin's was,
if I didn't git inor'n them ten cents back,
then I'm mistaken.”
None of the boys seemed to doubt his
word.
Items of Interest.
A handfull of fresh chloride of lime
sprinkled in rat holes, will keep them away
for months.
Caroline Lambert, of Omaha, lived to be
a hundred years old. and was then burned
to death in a kerosene accident
The present is the youngest Legislature
ever assembled in Georgia, there being six
members under twenty-six years of age.
The State tax in Maine is only a third of
a cent on a dollar of assessed valuation, or
about a sixth of one per cent., on real value.
For chicken cholera, take Venetian red,
dissolve it in water, giving them no other
drink. It has been tried with marked suc
cess.
Egg shells form one of the best clarifiers
for cider and wine. One pint of pulverized
egg-shells will clarify one barrel of cider
or wine in from twenty-four to forty-eight
hours, according to the clearness of the
weather.
David Dudley Field showed that accord
ing to the decision of the Commission if a
Federal officer were to compel State can
vassers and the Governor to certify four of
his soldiers as electors the State and Con
gress wohld be powerless to correct the
wrong.
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It is woxdEKFTTj to realize the new
principle, Pr. J. 11. McLean’s Cough and
Lung Healing Globules. As the Globule
comes in contact with the juice in the mouth ;
a gas generates, which soothes and heals :
any soreness in the Throat or Lungs, stops
Coughing and Consumption. Trial Hoxes
2"> cents by mail. Pr. J. 11. McLean, 311
Chestnut St., St. Loui
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.
Swallowing the bristle of a toothbrush
has been known to cause death.
The oldest sort of fire-escape on record
is the fond husband who lies abed morn
ings.
A recent lecturer advises all men to
know themselves.” That’s advising a good
many to form very low and disreputable
acquaintances.
“ Which is the bottom of a hatter-cake T*
1 is gaining as wide a reputation as a flrat
| class debating club argument as the famous
query of** which is the butt end of a goat F”
A paper thinks that when a Republican
woman refuses to use a Democratic journal
for a curl paper, it is time for the country
i to pause in its mad career of political dis
cussion.
“ Have 3'ou a suit of clothes here to tit a
large body of waterF" “ No; hut we can
send you a needle and thread with which
to sew n potato patch on the pants of a
tired dog."
••Johnny, have you learned anything
during the week ?" asked a teacher of a five
year old pupil. ** Yetli'm, “Well what is
It?" ** Never to lead a small trump when
you hold both bowers."
** Fteniitv, past and future Hashed la-fore
my eyes," lie said, ‘‘and I saw where the
crack of doom began and ended." This
was his experience the first time a huso
ball struck him in the stomach.
A teacher in a Nashville Sunday school
urged the familiar lesson that the early
| bint catches the worm. A bright boy re
minded him that the owl, wisest of hints,
j is out all night and sleeps nil day.
It is stated that Judge Bradley consid-
I era it a great wrong that a “legal techni
cality " should deprive the people of Ore
gon of their vote. It does not appear that
lie thought so 111 the ease of Florida.
It now turns.out that our hitppv frierrd.
It. J. Gaines, the poet, who his furnished
this column with one or more sweet poems,
is a guano dealer. He fertilizes the flowery
fields of literature, and calls fragrant verst s
from the guanoed soil,
A mail who was about to he hanged in
Indiana, sang as he stood with the noose
about his neck, ** Oh the bright angels are
waiting for me." Whereupon the local
editor fiendishly* wrote, “ And then the
angels stirred up the lire and looked bright
er."
This is the wav they did it in New York
in old times: *• Public auction to-morrow,
nt the Merchants' Onfl'ec House, will he
sold a valuable negro boy. about In years
of age ; capable of all kinds of work, faith
ful and honest. New York, 28th Juno,
1 1 7 o."
A German lias invented a machine for
turning music leaves for piano players,
which, says an exchange, will do away with
the ornamental young men. If some other
German would invent a machine for play
ing the piano, it would do away* with the
ornamental young ladies.
NUMBER 27.
Scene from a schoolroom. Teacher:
‘•Now, who was the oldest man mentioned
in the Scriptures?” Young scholar: “I
dunno. Who was the cove?” Teacher :
•‘Why, Methuselah; he was over nine
hundred years old.” Scholar: ‘‘Golly,
what a lot of centennial shows lie must
have seen !”
A prominent Connecticut writer is noted
for neglect in his personal appearance. The
night before Christmas a gentleman spoke
to a friend of making the author a present.
“ I want to get something that he would
keep.” observed the gentleman. “In that
case I would suggest a cake of soap,”
remarked the friend.
A youthful prodigy is now on exhibition
who is only seven years old, and yet has
committed one thousand poems, etc., to
memory. The youth of this generation is
above pa. We look every day to see four
year old youngsters come into a bar-room
and sing out, “ Fix me a whiskey cocktail,
Satterfield, and make her hot as hell.”
A Virginia hunter says that he saw about
seven hundred thousand ducks settle on a
pond. They w ere wedged closely together,
lie fired both barrels of his gun into them.
They flew away, leaving no dead ones in
the water; but. as soon as the flock spread
out a little, dead ducks loosened and fell
until lie picked up enough to fill twenty
nine barrels.
State Senator Frank Stewart has intro
duced a bill into the Nevada Legislature for
the prevention of cruelty to women. It
provides that women beaters shall be tied
to a stone post erected for the purpose,
wearing a placard on their breasts marked
“Woman beater ”or “Wife beater,” as
the case may be, and further punished by
imprisonment and fine.
Two young men in Cooke county. Tcnn.,
stole a girl apiece and were leaving the
vicinity, when the girls' fathers came upon
them with revolvers, and took their daugh
ters from them. The kidnappers immedi
ately opened fire upon the parents, who
replied m like manner. Some twenty shots
were exchanged, when the Sheriff appeared
and arrested the boys.
A farmer who had sent a bale of cotton
to a warehouse instructed a merchant to
have the same sold. The merchant com
plied with the request, and the staple was
disposed of. The farmer, upon examining
his statement, was heard muttering to him
self. “ Drayage, wharfage, mistakenge.
\ storeage. leakage, weighage.—well I'll take
the balance out in fightage.”
Tf a man becomes President by stolen
votes, it will be idle to suppose that he can
have the respect of the people. Tf Hayes is
declared elected by means of having the
States of Florida and Louisiana, which be
long to Tilden. counted for him. he will
present the curious spectacle of the chief
ruler of a great government, whose only
title is that of the receiver of stolen goods,
knowing them to be stolen. Who shall
dare punish theft, when the Thief Magis
trate of the country occupies such a posi
tion.