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AX CXCLE nr KANSAS.
In the Central passenger coach, some
time ago, in a seat directly in front of
the writer, sat a young boy and girl,
who appeared unusually intelligent and
wide-awake. The boy especially, had
a quick eye for every event that took
place, and was not afraid to ask ques
tions of any who caine within speak
ing distance. Suddenly in the midst
of an indifferent conversation with the
writer he asked:
'• Have you ever been West ?”
Being informed that such was the
case, he seemed interested, and the
following somewhat remarkable dia
logue occurred:
••What kind of a State is Kansas
for business f”
“ Rather good I should think. Why?”
“ Good State to start a grocery store
\n, you think ?”
“On general principles I should say
it is ; but why ?”
I and Sis here are going there to
set up a grocery.”
“You are not going alone ! Where
is your father ?”
“My father is home, I guess. I ex
pect he is the maddest man in the
United States.”
“ Are you running away ?”
Before answering, his sister gave
him a nudge of caution.
“ Well, if we are, you won’t tell the
conductor or anyone, will you ?”
“ It would be my daty to tell would
jt not ? Where isyonr home ?”
Both seemed to grow uneasy at this,
and the sister cast a reproachful glance
fit her brother for having iufonned
against themselves. He answered
more guardedly:
“O, East of here, in the Eastern
States.”
Then he continued in an eager, ex
planatory manner:
“ You see we wouldn't stand it at
home any longer. Ma died five years
ago, and two years ago pa married
again, and our new mother began to
domineer over Sis and me like every
thing, and when onr half-brother was
born she was worse than ever, and it
was always ‘ Willie, dear,’ and ‘honey,’
and ‘darling,’ and all that kind of
stutf; and Sis and me were ‘ brats,’
and ‘ torments,’ and * imps,’ and we
couldn’t stand it, so we lit out. We’ve
got an uncle in Kansas somewhere.”
“ Your father will hunt you up and
take you back, won’t he ?”
“ Oh, no he won’t; he has talked of
sending, us to our uncle, and I guess he
thinks we have gone there.”
“ But how did you get away without
anyone knowing it ?”
“ Well, you see, father keeps a gro
cery store in village, and as he
always keeps a lot of trunks for sale,
Sis and I packed all our things in one
without anyone knowing it; the rail
road goes right by the store, and night
before last we got up quietly and left
on the 1 :35 train.”
“Aren't you afraid the conductors
may find it out ?”
“ I always find an excuse for asking
someone to show the conductors our
tickets, and so they think we belong to
him. If you are going West may be
you will show him our tickets ?”
I get olf at the next station. Don’t
you think you will get sick of j-our un
dertaking and turn around and go
home again ?”
“No, sir; we are bound to go to
Kansas and start a grocery store.”
•■l’ve got—” Another admonitory
nudge from the sister. “ Pshaw. Sis,
don’t I know an honest man when I
see him ?—we’ve got the money with
us.”
“ Indeed ! Where did you get it ?”
“ Well, you see, ma left Sis and me
(nudge) $5,000 (nudge) apiece (nudge)
—that’s SIO,OOO— when we were 21,
and as the banks were bursting up so
pa took the money home and put it in
in the bureau, and I took it.”
“Aren't you afraid you might be
robbed ? How do you carry it ?”
“ Well, you see we—(violent nudg
ing from the sister.) No, we ain’t
afraid of being robbed ; nobody knows
anything about it, you know.”
But you don’t know much about
the grocery business, do you ?”
“Oh, yes; I’ve been clerking for
father a good many years.”
“ How old are you ?”
“ I’m thirteen ; Sis is eleven.”
Syracuse !” cried the brakeman ;
and the writer stepped off. Those two
young people will take care of them
selves.
Peru.
Professor Falb, a native of Gratz, in
Austria, while in Peru visited the fam
ous fortress at Tiahuanuco, and found
upon one of the gateways of the tern-
The Haktwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. IV—NO. 4.
pic hieroglyphics which made it certain
to his mind that a portion of the fort
ress at least had been built at a period
anterior to that of the Incas. 110 aUo
found conclusive evidence upon the
arch of the gateway that the builders
were versed in the mystic lore of Ma
sonry. Professor Falb also noted a
most marked resemblanoe between the
language of the Indians of Peru and
Bolivia and the dialects used by the
Bedouins of the desert. lie is, in fact,
a firm believer that Peru was settled
by voyagers from Tyre or some of the
Phoenician States.
LETTER FROM CAROLIXA.
For the llartwell Sun.
Messrs. Editors : It has been some
time since you heard from the undersign
ed. Nevertheless, lie has not forgotten
you. I suppose editors are very partic
ular as to what goes into their paper.
This is right; so many read the papers
who never read anything else. What a
power for good or evil is the printing
press! It either floods the land with
light, or casts a sickening shade over the
homes of its readers. A good newspa
per is a boon to a family. The Sun
brought the sad news of the death of
Mrs. Dr. Webb to oursideof the Savan
nah. The world is poorer since she took
her departure to that “ beautiful land.”
Our Father's children all cross the river
of death at the same place, and have
their dying ears regaled by the song of
the angel boatmen. How gently are
the dew-drops kissed away by sun-beams ;
so tenderly are God’s children taken
from earth’s wintry blasts to his more
congenial clime. “We shall meet
again.”
It was this writer’s privilege to attend
the recent protracted meeting at the
Methodist church in Elbcrton, Georgia.
It was good to be there for more reasons
than one. The kind hearted citizens
won our heart, and then the tide of re
ligious enjoyment ran high and washed
away every oli6tacle. The altar was
thronged with penitents almost every
service. Up to Tuesday last 18 had
united with the church and the interest
steadily growing. This is what the
world needs now. If this continent
could he suffused with such an influence
it would do more to bring about even
more temporal prosperity than all the
laws of Congress anu legislatures com
bined. Talk about a poor, blind crea
ture or a nation doing without Christi
anity ! What superb nonsense !
The time has come when something
more than mere human legislation is ab
solutely demanded to save this country
and the world. That something is the
religion of the Lord Jesus. This is the
only remedy. Would that in thunder
peals it could he sounded from every
mountain aod hill, until earth's sorrow
ing children should find a solace under
the shelter of the “ Rock of Ages.”
The women of this land have a fear
ful responsibility on them. Backed up
by the teachings of the Bible, they can
do unspeakable good. Let them lead
their younger sisters and brothers, and
let mothers carry their boys and girls
into the closet every day. Let them dis
countenance the fast female who would
dare to poison the pure atmosphere of
home. Let them bv their dress and de
portment demonstrate that amid streams
of bleeding virtue and blasted domestic
peace they can make their homes and
husbands the happiest on earth.
Carolina.
Texan Society.
Frank II- Taylor, in Harper '* Magazine for Oet.
A journey of several weeks’ duration
in the Lone Star State revealed the fact j
that iu the eyes of every true Texan the
particular location where he has taken
root is the focal attraction, the garden
centre of the earth, while the next town
is the antipodes of all that is good,
great, and prosperous. The native, and
the mau who came down in ’46 as a sol
dier, remaining in the State through its
short-lived era as a republic, and ever
since, held themselves as a sacred aris
tocracy, and however kindly the settle
ments toward later occupants of the soil,
they can not refrain from frequent allu
sion to the peculiarly constructed laws,
such as the “ Homestead Act,” which
make Texas a desirable refuge for those
who can not afford to live in a State
where creditors can squeeze hapless
HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 1870.
1 debtors between the jaws of tbo legal
vise* Tt is true that on oceount of such
laws the modern population contains a
largo percentage of men who have tasted
the hitterncssof debt, of seizure aud dis
, traint, and not liking the flavor, have
sought the friendly shadow of Texan
statutes, and builded anew.
• The significant initials “G. T. T.”
(Gottc to Texas) inscribed on the boltod
door of an involved merchant, arc ac
cepted as prhna facie evidence that lie,
too, has boUed, It must not be inferred
from this that all who have located
w ithin the Lone Star are to he suspected
of financial short-comings. Through
the northern and central portions of the
State many well-to-do farmers and mer
chants are found who have migrated
from the frost-lands of Minnesota to n
region which, at the worst, knows but n
very few days of cold and snow in the
course of a twelvemonth. Such men
have built up a condition (if society of
which they are justly proud, and jealous
lest the sins of the frontier, which have
too often made the name of Texas a
synonym of lawlessness, be brought to
their doors. In the cottage homes of
such cities as Dallas, Austin, Houston,
and the metropolis of (he Western Gulf,
Galveston, the chance guest will find
scattered about the current literature of
the two worlds. Libraries will be found
replete with the more erudite forms of
publication, and the daughters of the
family may treat a friend to selections
from the newest operatic compositions of
the season. In point of fashion, the
costumes of the ladies conform quite as
closely to the edicts of the modistsas do
those of their metropolitan sisters. The
richly stocked shelves of the merchants
in wearing apparel prove that the finest
productions of the loom are in quite as
active demand here as in the East.
FITE SCXDAYS IX FEBRUARY.
Wlicn They Ocenr. and Why.
For The Martwcll Sun.
Holland's Store, S., C. (
September 5, 1879. £
Messrs. Editors: I dislike very
much being the means of depriving
your correspondent of his chromos:
but for the sake of science and truth I
cannot let his communication concern
ing the fifth Sundays on the 29th of
O •
February pass by unnoticed. In stat
ing that February will have five Sun
days in 1908 he has fallen into an er
ror, supposing that the Julian calendar
was still in use. If such was the case
he would be right; but the Julian cal
endar was abolished in 1684.
Julius G’ajsar when he reformed the
calendar at the beginning of the pres
ent era, took no account of the eleven
minutes and some seconds that the
year lacks of being 3G5 days and G
hours; and hence it was found in 1684
that the error had amounted to ten
whole days. Pope Gregory XIII at
this time, calling to his assistance
the astronomer Lilio, reformed the
calendar by cutting off ten days, and
to prevent the recurrence of the confu
sion he provided that every 100th jear
being a leap year should have only 365
days, except every fourth centennial
year commencing at 1600, which should
have 366 days. This leaves the error
so small that there will be no necessi
ty for correcting the calendar again for
many years, as the error now only
amounts to a day in about 3000 years.
The Gregorian calendar was adopt
ed by all Catholic countries in IGB4.
But the animosities between the Pro
testants and Catholics being so great
at this time the Protestant Princes of
Europe unanimously and pertinaciously
refused to adopt it. Some of them
held on to the old calendar for nearly
100 years. England and her colonies
adopted the reformed calendar some
where about 1760, hence in dates of
events happening prior to this time you
see “O. S.” annexed. To make these
dates compare to the present time we
have to take off 10 days. Russia is
now the only country using the old or
Julian calendar.
The 29th of February happens on
every day of the week by turns, in
cycles of 28 years, in the following or
der: Sunday, Friday, Wednesday,
Monday, Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday,
and if every fourth year were a leap
' year it would occur regularly on Sun
Devoted to Hart County.
“ I’ll no Trust Ye.”
Two centuries ago, the Highlanders
of Scotland were very simple folks,
honest ami trustful to their friends and
neighbors. To ask a note from a debt
or would have been an insult, equiva
lent to saving, “ I doubt your honor.”
The method of transacting mouoy mat
ters was as follows:
The parties stepped into the air, fix
ed their eyes on the heavens, and each
repeated his obligation with no mortal
witness. A mark wn than curved
upon sonje rock or tree near by, as a
remembrance of the compact. Sucii a
thing as a breach of contract was rare
ly met with, so highly did the people
regard their honor.
When the march of improvement
brought the new mode of doing busi
ness, they wore often pained by these
innovations. An anecdote is handed
down of a farmer who had been to the
Lowlands and learned worldly wisdom.
On returning to his native parish, he
had need of a sum of money, and made
bold to ask it from a gentleman of
means named Stewart; this was kindly
granted, and Mr. Stewart counted out
the gold. This done, the farmer wrote
a receipt and offered to Mr. Stewart.
“ What is this, man ?” cried Mr.
Stewart, eyeing the slip of paper.
“It is a receipt, sir, binding me to
to give ye back yer gold at the right
time,” replied Sandy.
“ Binding ye ? Well, my man, if ye
cannn trust yersel, I'm sure I'll no
trust ye. Ye eanna have my gold.”
And gathering it up he put it into
his desk and turned the key on it.
“But, sir, I might die,” replied the
canny Scotchman, bringing up an ar
gument in favor of his new wisdom,
“ and perhaps my sons may refuse it
ye: but the bit of paper would compel
them.”
“ Compel them to sustain a dead
father’s honor !” cried the Celt. “ Tbej’
will need compelling to do right, if this
is the road ye’re leading them. Ye can
gang elsewhere for money, but ye’ll
find nane in the parish that’ll put more
faith in a bit o' pa|>er than in a neigh
bor's word of honor, and his fear o’
God.”
Passage of the Bill to Furnish Limbs to
Maimed Confederates.
Atlanta Constitution 17 th intt.
The following bill introduced by lion.
11. G. Wright, of Richmond, passed the
Senate \C3terday, and will become a law
<m signature of the Governor. We call
attention to a communication in another
column pointing out a defect in the bill.
The bill should be reconsidered this
morning, and the correction made, as we
have many worthy citizens in our State
who lost their limbs in the defense of our
soil who did not enlist in a Georgia regi
ment :
A bill to be entitled an act to carry into
effect the lust clause of paragraph one,
section one, article eleven of the eon-
stitution of 1877.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia,*
That any person now a resident of this
State who enlisted in the military service
of the Confederate States of this State, j
while such resident or any person who
enlisted in any military organization of
this State, though non-resident at the
time of such enlistment, but has since
become and now is a resident of this
State, who, while engaged in said mili
tary service, lost a limb or limbs, may
furnish to the Governor of this State
proof that such applicant has supplied
himself with such needed limb or limbs,
and the Governor, on reception of such
proof, is hereby authorized to draw his
warrant on the Treasurer of this State in
favor of such applicant, for either
amount hereafter mentioned, to wit:
For a leg extending above the knee,
8100; for a leg not extending above the
knee, $75; for an arm not extending
day every 28 years. But throe out of
four centennial years having but 365
days this creates an Interruption in the
cycle. It will occur in 1880, and if the
year 1900 contained 366 days it would
happen again in 1908; but 1900 con
taining 365 days breaks the cycle, so
that 29th of February will fall on Sun
day again in 1904, 1932, 1988, Ac., if
I hnve made no mistake in the calcula
tion. Truth.
$1.50 Per Annum.
WHOLE NO. 1(50.
above the elbow, S4O, provided said
amounts of money may lie allowed any
one entitled to the benefits of this act,
who may prefer to supply himself with
the said artificial limb.
Section 2. Be it further enacted by
the said authority that such application
shall contain certain proof of such ap
plicants being entitled to the benefits of
this act, and shall further state whether
arm or leg has been supplied ; if an arm,
whether extending above the elbow, or
not, and the Governor shall decide the
sufficiency of the proof submitted.
Section 3. Beit further enacted, That
no applicant shall receive the sum al
lowed under the act, oftenor than once
in five years.
Section 4. Repeals conflicting laws.
KISSIXG TIIE BABY.
A Misnourt Ciiimll.lhlv'm ItlNii|i|lutliiß
Eipcrlencr.
St. T.ouit Timte Jturnal.
While Csl. Allen was discussing na
tional finances on the hotel plan, Col.
Tom Crittenden quietly slid down off'
the platform and circulated among the
the crowd. 110 wore a delicate white
duck suit, blue neck-tie and patent
leather pumps, and was the cynosure of
all female eyes on the premises. Colo
nel Tom, with an eye to business, began
ogling the babies.
“Oh, you sweet little darling,” said
Colonel Tom, addressing a fuzzy, pop
eyed brat that lolled lazily ill his mother's
arms under one of the trees ; “ how old
is it, ma’am?”
“ Four niontlw, sir,” said the fond
mother.
“ A little girl, eh?” said Colonel Tom.
“ No, a boy,” replied the mother.
‘‘All, yes, now that I come to look at
it more closely, I detect the strong man
ly features of a boy,” the Colonel has
iciitd lu n<K v. ricaac may J kina tliv
little cherub?”
Col. Torn shut his eyes and exploded
an osculatory sound on the fuzzy face,
and the child put up a big lip and
threatened to cry.
“ He is such a beautiful child,” mur
mured Col. Tom, “such eyes, such a
head, such an expanse of forehead, such
a mouth, such a wealth of complexion,
such a sweet, tranquil expression !”
“ La, me, you dou’t really think so,
do you?” simpered the flattered mother.
“I never saw a sweeter little cherub,”
said Col. Tom. “I believe I’ll have to
kiss him again.”
Having gone through a second oscu
latory martyrdom, Col. Tom assumed a
seraphic 100k —a look calculated to
strike taffy to the most hardened femi
nine heart, and got right down to busi
ness.
“I’m a candidate for Governor,”said
he, “ and nothing would give me greater
joy than to feel assured that I hail the
support of the father of this sweet babe.
Come let me hold the little darling in
my arms. I do think he is just the
sweetest little angel I ever saw.”
“The flattered mother gave up the
fuzzy baby with profuse apologies nbout
its not being well dressed, etc., hoped it
wouldn’t trouble the gentleman, etc.,
glad to know he admired it so much,
etc.
The fuzzy baby writhed and squirmed
and grew red in the face, and wrinkled
itself all up and belched a trifle, and
then lay calm and composed on Col.
Tom’s right arm.
“ The little precious!” cried Col. Tom.
“You tell his father how much I think
of his little cherub, won't you, ma’am?
and you’ll tell him I’m a candidate for
Governor, eh, ma'am.”
The poor woman’s face dropped, and
big salt tears came into her eyes.
“ Oh, sir,” she said, “ you don’t know
what you ask—my poor husband died of
the jaundice two months ago.”
There was a far off look in Col. Tom
Crittenden's gold-glinted eyes as he gen- i
tly but firmly dumped that fuzzy baby
ou the bereaved woman's lap ami walk- j
ed straight back to the platform and re-1
alaced himself on a bench.
Not alone was sorrow confined to Col.
Tom Crittenden’s upheaving bosom.
There were silent traces of suffering up
on his right coat sleeve,
Why is a young lady dependent up
on the letter Y? Because without it
! she would be a yonng lad.
A WTT,T> WOMAX.
rrighionafl Aw iiy I'rot* *phlx.
Ito Mint Tli rou ffli I Ik- W ood*—Sliul I.*rk
of lliimniilly Amontc thp|ll Peo
ple.
I/itlU liork (Art.) tiartU
Mr. J. Handlie, who has just arrived
in the city from Crittenden county, re
lates rather a sad story in regard to a
woman who is now roaming around in
the woods of the Mississippi river bot
tom. Shortly after the yellow fever ap
peared in Memphis, the woman, whose
name is Mrs. Aim** Harper, left the
city, crossing in a skiff to the Arkan
sas shore, She lost her husband and
two children last year, and when the fe
ver appeared again she became wild in
her manner, and declared that she would
die unless she left the city. But leav
ing an infected city is not a perfect as
surance against trouble, if it docs some
times prove a safeguard against disease.
Mrs. Harper wandered around in tho
dense forest almost crazed. The bot
toms are very sparsely settled, houses in
many instances being several miles
apart. When tho woman applied at
the first house a man came out with a
gun and demanded her immediate
change of scene. In vain the woman
pleaded. The man explained that it
was better for one person to die than to
be the cause of the death of a dozen.
Plodding to another house the woman
was just entering the gate when a man
cime out and said that coming in would
be more disastruuA.tlnm a case of yellow
fever. The poor woman wailed aloud,
declaring that she bore the mark similar
t) that worn by Cain. At tho next
house a man gave her something to cat,
but advised her to move on. Thus she
has been wandering around, getting a
morsel to cat here and being spurned
there. She turned toward Memphis,
but lost her way in the woods, almost
trophically dense. W hen she went to
the next house, where a Mr. Woodson
lives, she declared that she had the fe
ver, and wanted to spread it. This, oi
course, excited the inmates of the house,
and the woman’s hasty departure was
demanded.
Mr. Handlie saw the woman uear
Blaekfish. The woman had been wan
dering aimlessly and had at last reached
the railroad. Having heard of the wo
man. Mr. Han/Hlrt asked her several
questions.
“ I’m wild,” tho woman said. “Yel
low fever is chasing me. Like a blood
hound it follows my footsteps.”
Then, in a quiet manner, the woman
related her sad experience, and then,
in a moment, she became wild again,
and, with a wild shriek, she dashed otf
into the woods. Mr. Handlie followed
her, but she paid no attention to him,
wildly exclaiming that she was dying
with the fever. Mr. Handlie says that
from what ho can learn Mrs. Harper be
longs to a respectable family’, and that
her husband was quite a prominent
plumber and gaslitter of Memphis.
Something should be done for the wo
man, as to continue in this way will
only prove to bo her death or total des
truction of her mind.
IMuuireeable People.
Good Company.
We should bear with disagreeable
people better —and generally find them
more agreeable, probably—if we were
accustomed t,o look on their mental in
firmities with more of the pity with
which we regard their physical deformi
ties. We have only commiseration for
the man who is born with club feel, or
cross eyes, or St. Vitus' dance. Wc do
not blame and berate him that his ef
forts are crippled by such disadvanta
ges. But the man is just as deserving
of pity who comes into life afflicted
with a club-footed sense of propriety,
or a cross eyed judgment, or an epilep
tic temper. At least the reflection that
we might not do near as well as he,
were we in his place, should temper our
criticism and dislike. “ You are pale,”
said one soldier to another, as they were
waiting the enemy’s attack, in a tone
that implied some question of his cour
age. “If you were as afraid as lam
you would run away.” was the pat re
ply-
Constitution: We have received a
circular from the office of General
Walker, superintendent of the census,
upon the duties ot enumerators. The
districts are to lie small, and the can
vass brief. The pay of an enumcra-
I tor cannot, lie says, much exceed SIOO.
lie should be a person of clerical apti
tude, of active habits, writing freely
and “ good at figures.” Above all he
should know the people whom he is to
count. Gen. Walker suggests to su
pervisors that they prefer lot the work,
assessors and other local officers, post
masters of small offices, country physi
cians, and schoolmasters.