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La.' appHe Iv. tnc thvk for dta. jn *■ >:i • n »,• . 1’ :«•>* to die nil pen»«»naoon < erm-1 ti : • I w i'l *. ;o ttt*m Mid avplkHtioa on tl;o > 5 ’’ i ’ br ti \ i»v\t T n Novcmber7tb, J>s (v ., v . , * l I RANKLLN, Ordinary. u : ... ■ ■ ... 1.1 I.U *. u . «*•.-! bp. i 1 ;>t>- n»<r.- »li.<- C • KULP b’«€ ‘ s T rr .< . T' r ' U' ..... ' PiiU. ' . J ii XiLL\ La .. \ K • '*to*a bl, ha* lort ARPANDJKRISKRINGLE Tho Little Children’s Joyful Holiday. GOOD ADVICE TO THE YOUNG ME School's just out. There are two hundred chil dren turned loose on this town and a hundred thousand on tho state and several millions on tho nation, And they are kicking up a racket wherever they are. Wo have to give the roads and sidewalks to them now. They think that Christmas belongs to them, and I reckon it does, I know it does at our house, ft is tho samb old story every year, for just as last as one set gets too big for the romance of Ciirist mas?. another set is ready to take it in. When the children are too big the grandchildren come gushing around,and now.my folks are fixing up a little evergreen tree for them ana they know it. Old Santa Claus is to prance round on our roof and Comd down our parlor chimney and fill up the Htpckingsand Idad the tree with good tilings, and it will take grandma a day or two to clean up after them when the show is all over. Christmas holidays are a healthy, beautiful rest for the "children, and it does us all good to see them happy. Penned up in school for weeks and months: puzzled and perplexed I over thoir books; now head and now foot and I now about half way between, with many a | heart ache and many a joy all mingled up to gether they need ar< 4 , a good long rest, and Christmas is sure to bring it. But nut to all—- no not to all—ami that is the shadow that karkens every joy. There are thousands us children to whom Christmas never comes —no Santa < laus, no tree, no presents, no anything but poverty and want. If the warm heart bl-eds when thinking about them let it bleed and maybe the pocket will, 100. Pleasing the children is the biggest part of life, mid is what mo«t every family man i; living for, though he don’t realize it. and would hardly acknowh <igo it if he did.f It is the power behind the throne, the incentive that stimulates every parent to be up and doing. Their daily pres ence, their depend* nee, their helplessness, en larges his love and biu.'idens his charity. He has more resn<*' t n r himself, for he feels that the love of children is a nobler thing than the Jove of money or power or fame. Mankind must have something to love, and so th* y will love mom’s or L'.i.h if ti.i y have no children. A rich man without children ought to adopt some just fur his own sake. The paternal rela tion is the natural relation, and no man or wo man is happy outside of it—not as happy as they might have l>een. (mr young men ought to marry—marry whether they can afford to or nut. It is the law of God and ui nature. Marry when the I’irst i ure love of woman comes over yon. don't gut alarmed at i her silks and satins, for she is just wearing them to attract you and will sober • down to busiimS' when you marry. There ! will soon be otb.ci*s to live f<»r and work for, I and the finery must go if you can’t afi’ord it. i I always tacmble fur tlie_>e travelers whom 1 1 meet everywhere on the rail—these nice young men of good families who are doing the com mercial business of the country. They are not mating -hardly ever. They don’t stay long enough in a place to fail in love, and by ami by tho whole outh lend will !<• full of con firmed bachelors—biuihelois who will soon get old ami seedy and wear out and die w ithout mourners and only en High friends to bury them. They will die and leave no sign. Let the young man and if he docs have to travel h«. will get home { now and then and there will | always be a light in the windw for him. The | faithful dng will bark a good welcome at his | coming, ami the wife and the children bo so j happy, never go happy. “As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man. so are the children of tho youth who marry.’’ “Happy is the man who hath Lis quiver full He should not b. ashaim d and .shall speak with the enemy in the gate.” That is so. Exactly so. The best security for any government is the parental relation. When a man reads of anarchy and corruption h*‘ <hu , .-> n children and it arouses his indignation and provokes him to action. I have gn at re spect for those large patriarchal familn s. Not long ago I traveled with an old gentleman in Stewart county who had tw<‘nty-two children by two wives, am) they had all settled around him and doing well, very well, and he bore himself I a king. Not long after 1 me! ago d look- i ing matron who had thtrt4?en children by one ; husband and tho oldest was only nineteen years old, and she told mo that eight of them walked two miles to school every day, ami i every morning she hail to put up their dinners. My goodness, what a picnic. My wife has to fix up the basket for two and makes as much j fuss over it as if she was going off on an ex- i cursion. She is so afraid that it wout be good 1 enough what there is of it, or enough <4 it such i as it is. The next da> I gut down to Camilla * and sojourned with my friend Cndcrwoud —the reverend editor of Jtho Clarion, and he intro duced me to thiru n ;uid looked out of the door for more, but I reckon that was all. I never visited a happie rhe usehold. His home is tallied Evergreen and the name suits the I place and the family, but the mystery still re- ! mains how a man who had nothing when he | went into ti e \ ar and lc s when ho out , and manied. a poor gid and settled down in the pine.v wo <.s and run a one horse paper amt I pKuu hud just f'»r the love of God could ever * raise sm h a family and own such a beautiful home. \ t iily. tl.eio is no excuse for a drum mi ■ i mj ot) ci •it ■•* I n. Camilla would be a good town ca< n it m b dy lived there, but | Mr. Tndorv.eod and li i. u.ily. 1 most always visit the schools when 1 go to a new place 1 don’t like these i long winded examinations, but 1 do like to < .’Jeh up the uupils all of a sudden and pe ruse their hopeful fa* •. There is a healthy 1 emulation amor.c the si bools and < v< ry town . tliii \s it bas the b< st in th<‘ world. The school at Lumpkin is a very prosperous one and has the supi ■rt of the whole community. Then there is the chool a' Blakely where there is a ‘ blackboard all round the largo room and the class arc all chalking away <m the same sum at the same lime and they work so fast t makes your head swim. They don’t care what kind of a Mun and g »t me all tanglvd up in trying to follow them. Mr Eit/patrick asked mo to gi’ them a Mim mJ in tlm lxw»k and I said “a third and a half third <f my age added to a sixth and a sixth of it and that sum in ert, a “«I by two ami a half will give a sum tho s.air? n t ur which multiplied by my ago WHI be 4.4 Ik y fox 1 through th.J in a hurry, and a via k < ved girl, whugot the answer first, lu..k» at m*? and sanj *1 dident think you were that old Mr. Arp.” Tin n 1 n hl them that one time there was a man who had a diamond necklace that the king wantv«l, and he aold it to the king for * Cuin on ct.nditiun that the king would take a chess board that has sixty-four squares upon it I and give him a grain of corn for the first square and two grains for the second, and dou ble it every time until nil tlie squares were ta ken up. Now , counting a thousand grains to an ear of corn and a hundred ears to the bushel and a thousand bushels to a crib full and a ’ thousaud cribs to a barn fall, and a thousand burns to a granary, bow many granaries would ; it take to pay the debt ? Well, they would have done that but the blackboard give out and figures got scarce uud so we nil quit for dinner. I put on the airs of a very smart man when 1 ,o tu these schools but the children id this g’Miuratit'n are smarter than we are. It is a lightning age ami they keep up with it and always makes us fv< l belploss and insignifi cant. 'The truth is our time is most uut and we dont know it. I want to retire on a pen sion. I just want credit for the little good I have done as a pioneer—as one who helped to blaze tho way and open tho road ami dig up the stumps for the generation. Then they ivay have this world and all there is in it. Our 1 itlu . o it to us ami now wo w ill ghe it to our children. How th. years are growing. It used to In- an age (rum Chri>imas tu Christmas but time is shrinking fast. I'l:e“ days : •<« n t :is long as they um d to be. and as the Irishman said, 1 don’t believe there arc a> many of them. I wonder Low short the il " • sh it V. ;s it tu M* PrusuVh! "l expect Im tild stairn in the iniddlo of tho year nd lu« k I. -k am! s. e tho tail of one Chris t uv< ami kx»k ahead and i ov .lie fr nt of ; not r. But whet ler long ' or short L t us all so li\v that wo may not l»e n Jiamed of um H\uid and regret t’. at we lived al all. Bill Aitp. Palpitation of thu lu nrt, nervousness, trem blings. nervous Itvadm he. cold Lands and feet, pain in the back, and other forms of weakness are rvbuwd b\ Cui'tvi » Iron Pills, made spe ; dally for tho blood, nerves ami complexion THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY DECEMBER 27, 1887. A CHRISTJIAS STORY. Written for Tho Constitution. » » • » » » • "It was Christmas night. 184—continued Plunkett, "when I first seed J’etcr Simpson, though it had been norated erround for some time that there was er stranger in the settle ment, and that he was erkin to old Billy Brooks, and was ergwyne to settle ennong us if ho could finder place to suit him.” Brown drew his chair up closer to tho old man and remarked: "Them war the days when you played the fiddle, and I hain't much to brag on myself nor on my kin but I nover seed no music that coino up to 'Sugar in the Gourd’ when I was er handling the straws and you was er pulling of the bow.” “I’ve seed the day I could fairly make er fiddle talk,” nodded Plunkett, and then con tinued : “On the Christmas night of 184— tbar was a party at old man Jimmie Lawrence’s, and we’d all gathered, and the young folks had played er game cr two of sich as •Thimble,’ and ‘Tim othy Tuburbntm,’ and ‘Snap Out,’ till at last they gathered partners and begin to walk erround and erround and Peter he was there a stranger and he didn’t have no partner and wasn’t er having nothing to do with the walk ing erround. So Lucy Coats, as good or girl as over lived in Georgia,(wanted to make him feel at home, and so she axed him to be the ‘middle fellow.’ "That's the way the play is. They all have partners but one. The odd one gets in the middle as they al! walk erround and sing and when they git to the part in the song where it :ays ‘Bight here I’ll find her,’ they all change partners and the middle man has the right to jump beside some of the girls if he is quick enough and then that fellow that loses his girl gets in the middle, and so it goes.” "Oh, I know that old play,” spoke Brown, at the same time drawing his chair a little I nearer to the old man. ■‘Well,” continued Plunkett, “Peter he got in tho middle, and the youngsters walked er- I round and erronnd er singing so as you could er hered ’em er mile: •It rains au.l it hails, ami it's cold stormy weather A !un,j comes the termer drinking all the cider; : ii reap the oats and who’ll be the binder? 1 lost my true love and right here I’ll find her.’ "And then the change come '"and Peter he throwed himself erround and got by the sideof Lucy and he Ims told me since that he loved her from that very minit.” Old man Brown was unable to contain him selt longer and he remarked: “Ami Lucy made him as good er wife as ever er man had.” Plunkett frowned at being disturbed, but soon continued: "The young folks went on with their play ing—fir >t one thing and then another—till pretty soon they got partnersnnd went walking erround and erround ergin, singing: ‘Very well done, said Johnnie Brown, This is the way to I. mdon '.own. i-mml you still, stand you by, Til! yo;i hear the watchman cry. On this carpet you must kneel, Kiss your true love in the field. Kiss ti.c one that you tm e best Just before she goes to rest.’ “Pretty soon,” continued Plunkett, “they cried out.‘Seat your partners,'and Peter and Lucy was right close to me and I.ucy she turned and lowed: ‘Mr. Plunkett, let mo make you acquainted with Mr. Simpson.’ “Then Peter he shook hands erlong with me and took er seat by me, and it warn't no time till me and hi tn was just like old friends and he lived by me er long tin e and I never had er I truer friend or better neighbor and Christmas ' makes me think erbout these old timesand ! these old neighbors that have passed away i forever. » “Well,” continued Plunkett, “Peter and Lucy married during of the year 181 —, and that’s what I want to tell you about. "In that old hewed log’house that yon pass ed on the road where the moss is er’ growing on the roof lives cr nigger man by the name of old Tom that was the first nigger that ever Peter and Lucy had. Tom was some eighteen years old when Peter’s dada give him to them, and old Ton; and Peter had been brought up to gether, and Peter done just as much work as he required Tom to do, and they made good crops and in two or three years Peter had er right smart meney layed up and so he bought some mere land, alter that he bought another nigger or two and they helped him, and soon paid for themselves and Tom and Lucy got ambitious to be rich and they went in debt, thinking they cauld work and pay out. and so things were moving erlong when old| Tom, over yonder on the road, wont to his young master and mistress and told ’em he wanted to marry one of old Squire Crawford’s nigger gals. Tom’s master was willing for him" to marry the girl that he loved, but tho old squire he fixed up and before anybody thought erbout it he'd sold out his plantation and puLa out for Texas. Folks were crazy on Texas them days and it didn’t take er fellow long to git off for them parts when the fever once struck ’em. “After Squire Crawford'wont off to Texas old Tom never was the same fellow. He didn’t sing and dance erround like he always had and he’d sot erround by himself and wouldn’t have much to do with anybody and Peter and Lucy noticed it and tried to ait him to forget the girl that went oft to Texas but they couldn't and old Tom he begin to talk erround ennong the other niggers that slavery was wrong and that he’d rather be dead than submit to it. Things wont erlong this way till Tom lie got worse and worse, till at, last one night when the niggers had gathered out in their yard and were er playing and er singing under a big oak on the grass, Tom be jest set out on er horse-block mid whittled with his knife and looked down at the ground, till he hered the uiggers sing the old song: "Old masse give me holler day He sold he d give me mote. And 1 thanked him very kinnly, And 1 shoved my boat from shore. It s oh, my dearest May: You’re lovely as the day. Your eyes so bright They shine at nlirht, When the moon has gone away.” And from across the branch came the plaintive sound of negro voices trout I'reeniau’s quar ter and as Tom listened bis heart seemed to go out in sympathy to the singers, for as they progressed he slowly raised his headand leaned forward, as if to catch the sound, and his lips moved in unison as the words I took her hand within my own. A teur was in her eye, I asked her if she w ould be mine, Her answer was a sigh. Oh Knuna, dear, dear Emma, From the Mississippi Vale, tn all this wide world over. There suone like Emma Dale, swelled upon the breezes, and at tho finish he arose from Ids seat and walked towards the woods. "When the niggers got through with their frolick, Tom was gone, and the next morning when the other niggers went to work thar wan’t no Tom there, and it was soon known that Tom was a runaway.’ “Peter and Lucy wouldn't here to putting hounds after Tom and so he was not heard from any more and they had quit talking about him on the place. Thus it went for a year. Tho eivjts were sorry and Peter failed to pay anything ou his thousaud dollar note to old man Smith but had to renew and borrow a little more. Peter was confident and Lucy was cheerful and so they pitched another cion and resolved to economize and work hard, ■ never thinking that luck had turned ergin 'em. "Krlong in Judo, though,”continued Pluuk l ett, "the niggers that Peter bad bought got i the smallpox ennong them and all three of tin m diet! and the crop w. s lo t but Peter rolled up his sleeves and worked the harder i and Lucy she was jist tho same good little w..man and they made er pretty good crop tutd got it housed <tud I don’t t i; v o ot ’em evil• thought erbont hit I > . ... u * "Bnt.” coutiured the old man. u the id dav ot I'i cemlti r- -on the night of that day - 1 never would forget it if I were to live er . thousand years. I'eter’s barn ketched er tire ; and burned up his whole crop and all three of his horses and the very uext morning old Smith was over there er pressing him for the twijve hundred dollars and said lie bad to | have it or he'd take possession of the farm. I T'm? tuone; would be duo on the 2Jlh day us z-q, -< -f given awny to Si,oooGold on January Ist. First present is SSOOingold. Only ten days left. Subserl-'. renew, or e : a >ul-s< r.ber at once and got vour uame in. . Half hour's work may give you S- ’ 0. i December and old Smith wanted his money or possession on that day. The prospects for a happy Christmas war nnghty gloomy for Peter but Lucy said: “ 'We'D. Peter, you've got me and tho chil dren yet.’ Yes,’said Peter,‘and you've never hcr’d me complain, but I do bate to give up the home.’ “That, was erbont as much to do as there was erlmnt it. until nt last Christmas eve night rolled around ami the little children hungup their stockings and talked tlicmselves to sleep about old Santa Claus, and Peter and Lucy i listened with hidden tears, and all through the long night they sat until the hands on the clock pointed to the hour of three, and then Peter raised his head and 'lowed: “ ‘Lucy, we will have to give up our homo to Smith.’ "Before Lucy could answer a soft cat-like tread was beard upon the porch and the latch string was pulled and as the door opened there was revealed to the sight of the astonished pair: Old Tom, tho run-away. " I’se worth §2,000 of aary man’s money and that will pay off old Smith’s mortgage,’ said old Tom. as’ ho unslung a clean pillow case from his shoulder that was filled with goodies for the little ones, and that soon swelled the little stockings that hung on the mantle. • »»»«* “With tho return of old Tom came pros- | perity to Peter and Lucy, for when old Smith ! found that Tom had returned and if put up for sale would pay the mortgage, ho mad terms that enabled Peter and old Tom to go to work upon the farm and not only got out of debt, but grew rich, and Tom was set free long ’fore any yankees knowed him and Peter he went out to Texas and found old Squire Craw ford and bought the woman what Tom loved mid brought her back to Georgia on Christmas day, 184-. mid give her to Tom for his Christ mas present and they live at yonder moss covered log house aud I wish them a merry, merry Christmas, s Sahge. letters from the people. The Biggest Statue. Editors Coosf itution : Where is the larg est statue in the world? 8. R. S. Near the smell town of Bamian, in Afghanistan, at the foot of the Hindo Koosh chain of mountains, several colossal statues were discovered about a year ago, which in point of size excel any o resen tutlon of the human form ever carved by the baud of man. The valley in which Lamian is situated is bordered by precipitous ell sis of a hard conglomerate rock, and in the side of one of the cliffs five Im inen- ■ statues have been cut out of the solid rock, the large: tof which is no less than a hundred and szventy-lhrce feet in height. When it is remember ed that the statue of liberty in New York I.arbor is but a hundred laud thirlyseven feet high, the immense pro portions of this remarkable work of antiquity will be better appreciated. Rude g: llaries and staircases are cut in these figures, by which octets can be gained to the heads, the same as in our modern col ossal statues. Some time after the completion of 1 the statue its draperies were formed by masses of j stucco molded into thgir proper shape and fasten e l I to it. Numerous holes, still visible, are said to have been made for the purpose of holding the stucco in | place. The gen ral appearance of these statues in- ■ diei.t. t that they were the work of tne Buddhist ; monks, who were very numerous in this region about the time of the Christian era. The largest one at least was doubtless meant to be a representa tiau of Buddha. They wm probably made about nineteen hundred years ago. Evolution. Editors tion.—Will yon please give me a brief synopsi o t .e evolution theory. 8. F The evolution or development theory declares the universe as it now exists to be the result offlt long series of changes, which were so far related to each other as to form a scries of growths analogous to the evolving of the parts of a growing organism. Herbert Spencer defines evolution asaprogreas from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from gen eral to special, from the simple to the complex ele ments of life, and it is believed that this process can be traced in the formation of worlds iu st ace, in the multiplication of types and species among ani mals and plants, in the origin and changes of lan guages and literature and the arts, and also in all the changes of human institutions and society. As serting th: general fact of progress in nature, the evolution theory shows that the method of this pro gress lies been (1) by the multiplication of organs and functions; (2), according to a defined unity of plan, although with (3) the in tervention of transitional forms, and (4) with modi fications dependent upon surrounding conditions. Ancient writers occasionally seemed to have a glim merlug knowledge as the fact of progress in nature, but as a theory ‘‘evolution’’ belongs to the en lightenment of the nineteenth century. Leibnitz in the loiter part of the seventeenth century, first Wittered the opinion that the earth was once in a fluid condition, and Kant about the middle of the eighteenth century definitely proimuuded the nebu lar hypottiesis, which was enlarged as a theory by the Herschels. The first writer to suggest the transmutation of spteeies among animals was Buf fou about 17t>0, and other writers followed out the idea. The eccentric Lord Monboddo was the first to suggest tho possible descent of man from the ape, about 1771. In 1813, Dr. W. C, Wells first pro posed to apply tho principle of natural selection to t bolnatural history of man,and iu 1822 Professor Her bert first asserted that the probable transmutation of species in plains. In 1814 a book appeared called. "Vestiges of Creation," which though evidently not written by a scientific stu lent, yet attracted great attention by its bold and ingenious theories, Tiie authorship of this book was never revealed until, after the death of Robert Chambers a few years since, it became known that this publisher, whom no one would over have suspected of holding such orthodox the orie*. had actually written it But the two great apostles of the evolution theory were Charles Dar win and Herbert Spencer. Tho latter began his great work, the “First Principles of Philosophy,” showing the application of evolution in the facts of life, in 1852. In 1859 appeared Darwin’s "Or.’g’n of Species." The hypothesis of the latter was that dif ferent species originated tn spontaneous variation, and the survival of the fittest through natural selec tion and the struggle for existence. This theory was further elaborated and applied by Spencer, Dar win, Huxley, and other writers in Europe and America, an 1 though today by no means all ti e ideas upheld by these early advocates of the theory are still accepted, still evolution as principle is now acknowledged by nearly all scientists. It is taken to be an established fact in nature, a valid iuductiou from man’s knowledge of natural order. The Longest Balloon Voyagc. Editors Constitution: Who made the longest balloon trip ou record, and when and where? Scientist. Professor John Wise, a world famed seronaut, sailed through the air in July, 1859, from St. Louts, Missouri, to Henderson, Jefferson county, New York —a distance in straight line of 835 miles. He laid claim to 1,050 miles, by reason of tho many turns taken during tha trip, which took his balloon out of a direct course into circles and curves. This voy age is the longest on record iu balloon history. The balloon was In the air over night—a period of about twenty hours. Professor Wise tried more than once, but without success, to equal or exceed tho famous trip mentioned. Finally a few years ago, he left St. Ixiuls iu a balloon on a long trip, for the last time. He has never been heard from. A reporter who went with him was found dead aome weeks later on the shore of l.ake Michigan. By reason of this and other disasters, the suggestion of a long air voy i are g.ves rise iu the public mind to a keen sense of the perils which attend every' attempt to stay in the I skye’. er right. Negro Inventors. * Editors Conbtttiitiox.—Has a negro ever ! natented nr.v useful invention? H. R. J. ; The ns'onls of the l atent office at Washington I show that negioes nave patented such inventions ' as improved gridirons, corn stalk harvesters, shields f r intautrv and artillerymen, fro extinguishers, coi on cullivnu rs. Joiner's clamps. ftirnUnrc cns u»r<. printing presses, tire e*cai'C la-idvr-, loe noLi * e-a eve i<*.>ieutoi¥, window vcutiulAUWs, hand corn ; sau He is. and other thirgs. Stevenson the Novelist. Editors Coxsthvtiox : Is it true that ‘ Robert Louis Steven.ou commenced his liter.iry co tOir, s'and be was unsuccessful. He was employed ‘ in the offi.e of the Century Magazine, but our vmerictui puWxihetii did not diieo\er ins BDUity. ; Mr Stevenson returned to England, somewhat dis ani>o'.uied. but «itti the determination to t ush hi* wav to the front. Uls stories are now ui demand u> every English country, wad be can name his owu , price for bis work. RICHIES _OHHE How Coon Allen Didn’t Get Bis B cakfast. Bv Al. AT. B. Written for Tho Constitution. Wc left Augusta rather precipitately, for tho reason that old Sherman and his troops wore anxious to look at tho town themselves, and very decidedly objected to our remaining there more than a few hours. Taking the cars we arrived at Midway (I be lieve they called it) after dark. It was raining, of course, and tho Edisto river at this point had risen aud overflown its banks until it was perhaps half a mile wide. Here tho fun commenced. All old soldiers remember what dead loads of fun were lying around loose during the war! It was so plen tiful that it was frequently necessary to kick it out of your way as you would a “shinny” ball. The only means of crossing this sluggish little stream was by means of a tramway of pine polos. It's quite unnecessary to stop here to tell anybody how utterly slippery a wet pine pole is with the bark off, for by this time surely everybody knows it. It was dark I And you couldn’t navigate a wet skinned pine pole at high noon and tP.e thing white washed with tar and sand and tied to the ground! It’s a feat that can’t be performed 1 with anybody's feet. It is a bilious impossi bility. A. polecat would break his neck were he to attempt such a job. “Forward,march!” commanded our officers. And then we inarched I Or, rather, we crawled; but before we reached the other side, or When we “struck the grit” on the side farthest from Sherman, it was discovered that two-thirds of the boys were in a condition to be hung out to dry. But time was too precious to allow us to air our wet dry goods too long, and so we had to trudge through the sand and cold, aud trust to friction ami swearing to dry us off. I mean those who were accustomed to swearing, for it tnay be probably remembered that during tho war swearing was a very rare accomplishment I The next point reached was Orangeburg, where we remained just long enough to get directions to Columbia. We didn’t even have time to wait for the train from Branchville, and so our inarch was continued on foot. A few miles from Orangeburg we went into camp for the night, as we thought. But we were caught up with again thinking wrong; for wo had scarcely got our fires kindled and our kettles to boiling to manufacture into hash the chickens and “taters” (South Carolina nigger for “potatoes”) we had maliciously grabbled en route, when it was whispered around that Sherman had selected that very spot for a camping ground, and if we wanted to live to smell any more gunpowder we would do well to organize a hasty foot-swapping right on the spot. In less than a handful of minutes our grub skillets with their uncooked contents were tumbled into the wagons, and we were again ou the road. Again.it was dark! But we were not hungry and mad. Shucks! A hungry soldier and a mad one at one and the same time was an unknown quantity. I don't remember ever seeing such a combination! A soldier never lost his temper, because it was about all lie had, and he couldn’t afford to lose it. And. if he suffered himself to get mad, there was no method, in it, for nobody cared for it. You might inform a respectable briga dier that one of his men had gone to roost in a bad humor, and I am doubtful if tho informa tion would cause him to lose an hour’s sleep. I said we were not hungry, but I have changed my mind; we were—at least I reckon I was, for I caught myself wishing it would set in aud rain fried chicken for a day and night without clearing up. But the hungriest man I ever saw was Coon Allen, of my company. We had marched till near daylight the next morning, and. he and I had straggled to the rear, fairly “fagged out.” “Mat, said he, hitting the pine-straw full length on the readside, "durned es I ain’t as hungry as an army mule!” “1 don’t believe it!” was my reply. “Well, that’s what’s the matter with me,” lie groaned; “and I’m goin’ to have something to eat in less ’n hour or kill somebody.” “Maybe yon will, but unless you gobble me up, I’m afraid you’ll remain hungry two or three hours yet,” I consolingly answered. “Come on.” Ho scrambled to his feet, and we continued our wearisome march. We knew that if we followed in the track of the hungry army wo would be morally certain to starve, and no thanks to anybody, so we determined to take the first oblique path that presented. Wo hadn't gone but two or three hundred yards when we discovered a blind trail leading off to the left. Not knowing nor caring whither it led, we turned into it, and had gone perhaps half a mile, when we saw the sickly glimmer of a light a few yai'ds ahead of us. By this time daylight had come home, and wc discovered that the light was in a little eight-by-ten pine-pole cabin with very black, sooty smoke lazily, but with unmistakable determination, getting as far from the place as possible. llieht here is a number one place to put on record the fact that everything in this portion of South Carolina—except the better class of whites —is as black as a quart of charcoal in a jug. The negroes are invariably smutty, the bogs are smutty,the chickens are smutty, hens lay smutty eggs, and our boys in passing through got to looking like a huge minstrel company —all the result of pine-knot smoke; but a more generous-hearted people never divided a crust. “Coon, do you think you will get enough grub at that wayside inn to produce a respecta ble case of colic?” I asked as we halted at the rail fence that enclosed the uninviting prem ises. “Do you think,” he replied, “that the blamed bats have kindled a fire in thar to warm their toes?” "Not likely,” I answered. “Well, do you s’pose the inhabitants of that ranch live on lightwood-knots?” "I wouldn’t be surprised, judging from the surroundings.” “Mat, you’re the most overwhelming fool in the army. Hello!” he yelled. An old inky-looking nigger wench, who was several shades blacker than the famous gross darkness that enveloped the people, shoved her wool out at the door and asked: "What yo’ want? What yo’ cum here fur?” “Come here to git some grub,” snapped Coon. “To git what?” . „ “Somethin’ to eat. you old ink factor}'. “Who’s yo’ talkin’ ter, yo’ greasy sarpint?” “None o’ yer gab, you old three-legged skillet. Es you’ve got anything to cat in thar I’m going to have it or trim the wool off’n yer head with a load of buck-and-ball,” re torted Coon, straddling the fence. "Jes dar yer to cum inside dis yard.” | Just then a rooster commenced laughing I back of the cabin. “Mat,” suggested Coon, "less nab that gen- I tleman,” “Do whut? Here. Tigo!” she screamed. I That ended the controversy, for the next I minute a smutty-lookitig hound with not the slightest evidence of sympathy in his counte j nance rolled out from under the cabin, Coon 1 rolled off the fence, while I was several lengths ' ahead, going through the woods like a “saud i *As Coon left the old darky in her glory, he yelled back: i “Never mind, my darlin'; old Sherman 'll ' be along this way before night. He'll fetch yer.” "I ain’t fear'd er ole Shummon as yo’ is!” i she tired back. An unmerciful fact! I We seen regained the road, and early in tho , morning landed in Columbia, where we had the good fortune to belli our mess dis ect a thirty-pound gobbler which they! ad purloined during the night, and which for the time gave i us tome relief from our trouble*. FROM "GRANT IN PEACE.” Points from Badeau’s Book About tlio Great Union General. “GR ANT don’t CAItE A D—N.” “But although ho (Grant) never felt over shadowed, for a long while when lie looked atSher m.in’s achievements he was dazzled; and when he recorded Sherman’s attainments and peculiar gifts, which were just those he did not himself possess, he fell his own deficiencies. Sherman was eloquent, animated, magnetic, learned in military history, ready to quote the examples of other commanders; above all, lie was brilliant; Grant knew that be him self was n lie of these; and though never lacking in self-confidence, he waso.tcn impressed by Sherman’s splendid qualities till he forgot tho weight due to his own soberer but more e-rentlal merits. To thes-a Sherman, however, was never blind. He appreci ated fully Grant’s remarkable poise, and that "al so lute confidence in success which he likened lo the faith which a Christian has in the Saviour. He knew that Grant's very lack of imagination waa sometimes an advantage in battle; for he once ’said: 'When I go into battle I am always thinking of wha* the enemy will do, but Grant don't care a damn." GRANT’S FIRST rOLITtCAL SPEECH. Grant’s first political speech was macle jiist after he was nominated for president at Cincinnati in May, 1868. It ran as follows: Gentlemen: Being entirely unaccustomed to pub lic speaking, and without the desire to cultivate tha power, it Is impossible for me to find anpropriate L n guage to thank you tor this demonstration. All that I can say is. that to wl atover position I may be called by your will 1 shall endeavor to discharge its duties with fidelity and honest? of pur;iose. Os rnv rectitude in the performance of public duties you will have to judge for yourselves by tl e record ‘be fore you." THE GREATEST TRAVELER. IN HISTORY. . Turning to “Graut as a Traveler,” we find soma interesting facts: “Grant was undoubtedly the greatest traveler that ever lived. Not, of course, the greatest discoverer or explorer, though he was admitted to probably in r secret and exclusive re cesscs and haunts than any other one man, but he ab?> visited more countries and saw more people, from kings down to lacke vs and slaves, than any bod.v who ever journeyed on this earth before. Others, of course, have made the tour around the globe—the prince of Wales did something of that sort, but lie went not so far and siw oulv the unper strata of society; others have had triumphal 'pro cessions, some have aseen led higher mountains or penetrated nearer to Ethiopia; but no other man was ever received by both peoples and sovereigns, by sayants and merchants, bv presidents and 'ov eruor-geneiab, by tycoons and sultans and khe dives and school children and work people and statesmen like Grant." A Valuable Aledieal Treatise. The edition for 1888 of the sterling Medical Annual, known as Hostetter’s Almanac, is now ready, and may be obtained, free ol cost, of druggists and general country dealers in all parts, of the United States, Mexico, and indeed in every civilized portion of tho Western Hem isphere. This Almanac has been issued regu larly at the commencement of every year for over one-fourth of a century. It combines, with the soundest practical advice for the preserva tion and restoration of health, a large amount of interesting and amusing light reading, and the calendar, astronomical calculations; chro nological items, &c., are prepared with great care, and will be found entirely accurate. Tho issue of Hostetter’s Almanac for 1888 will prob ably be the largest edition of a medical work ever published in any country. The«prOprie tors, Messrs. Hostetter & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., on receipt of a two cent stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person who cannot procura one in his neighborhood. Sectionalism Dying Out. From the Anniston, Ala.. Hotblast. One year ago last night, Henry W. Grady made the speech at the Forefathers’ Day dinner in New Y'crk, which so electrified tho country and gained for Mr. Grady a national reputation. It was a grand speech. No single utterance since the war has done as much town d breaking down the bar riers of sectional feeling and inaugurating the era of fraternal good will throughout all sections of our land as did that after dinner talk of Henry Grady at Delmonico’s. Tha year that has passed since then has been a bad year for the fanatics ou either side who strive to foster the spirit of sectional strife aud ill-will. Wherever this feeling has shown itself in the past year, it has been instantly met withastotmof disapproval from the fair-minded men of all sections throughout the country. Some few old fossils like Tuttle and Foraker and Fairchild still occasionally must give vent to their spleen, but the year drawing to a close has certainly greatly di minished their number and changed the spirit with which their utterances are received. 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