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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. - 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. ■ ■■ 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.