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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.