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Woman In The Garden.

Much in these days is said about the
sphere OF woman. OF this vexed question,
We have nothing now to say. The cul
ture OF the soil, the body and the soul,
are our themes. Rich soils, healthy bod
les, pure, cultivated souls, these are wha;
we are aiming at. And to this end we
recommend that every country woman
have garden that she keep and dress
with her own hand, or at least, that she
supervise and manage. The culture of
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,
goosebcrries, currants and garden vegeta.
bIes are as delightful and profitable AS
anything in which woman can engage
She may sprinkle her garden we'll with
flowers. All the better for that. A snow
ball in this corner, rose in that, a dahlia
bed there, and moss border here, will
not be out Of place. Only let the substan.
tiaI and useful constitute the chief part
a tonch Of the ornate, like ribbon on a
COOL bonnet, is not in the leas, objection.
able. In all the schools the girls study
botany. In all familiesohe woman ought
to practice potany. 1t is healtbfuI, pleas.
ing and usernI. The principles of horti
culture are the principles of botany, put
into practice. Farmers study agriculture,
why should not their wives and daughters
study horticulture If any employment
is feminine, it would seem that this IS
II any is healthy this must be. If any i;
pleasurable none can be more so than
this. A rich bed Of Strawberries, a busl
of bIackbcrries or currants, border o
flowers produced by ones own hand
what can well afford more rational sat
isfaction We say TO all our country sis
tiers, have a garden, il it is only smaI
one, and do your best with it. Plant /
with wha, pleases you best, with gooc
variety, and sec what you can do with ii
What woman cannot raise beets, toma
toes, melons, onions, lettuce, and furnish
her own table with them What woman
cannot plant raspberry bush, or currant
Tor gooseberry, and tend il well v. Farmer
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Seasonable Hints.

AT this season many persons contem.
plate travelling; to do so with the largest
amount of comfort and advantage, physi.
cal, social, and mental, the following sug
gestions are made:
lake one fourth more money than your
actual estimated expenses.
Acquain. yourself with the geography
of the route and region of travel.
Have good supply oil small change,
and have no bill or piece higher than ten
dollars, that YOU may hot take counterfeit
change.
So arrange as TO have but siugic ar,
ticle Of luggage TO look after.
Dress substantially. Better be too hot
for two or three hours at noon, than to
be cool for the remainder Of the twenty.
four.
Arrange, under all circumstances, to
be at the place Of starting fifteen or TWEEN.
ty minutes before the time, thus alIowinr
| for unavoidable or unanlicipated detcn.
| ton on the way.
Do not commence dav's travel before
| breakfast, even if that has to be eaten at
daylight. Dinner OF, supper, or both, can
| be more beautifully dispensed with thar
good warm breakfast.
Put youi purse and watch in your vest
pecket, and all under your pillow, and
/ YOU will not be likely to leave either.
The most, il not secure fastening Of
/ your chamber door, is a common bolt on
/ the inside : if there is none, lock the door.
I turn the key so that it can be drawn
! partly out, and put the wash basin under
/ it; thus. any attempt t. use jimmy or
put in another key, viii push it out and
cause racket among the crockery, which
Will be pretty certain TO rouse the sleeper
and route the robber.
y siXpcnny sandwich eaten lesurelv in
the cars, is better for you than dol1cr
Dime, bolted AT the station.
Take with YOU months supply Of pa.
tiencc, and always think thirteen times
before YOU reply once to any supposed
rudcness or insult, or inattention.
DO not suppose yourself specially and
dcsignclly neglected, il walters ut hotels
do not bring what you call for in double
quick time nothing so marks the well
bred man as quiet waiting on such oc.
casionS passion proves the puppy.
DO not allow yourself to converse in a
:, tone loud enough to be heard by per.
son at two or three seats from YOU it is
the mark of a boor If in man, and o
want Of refinement and i,Ay.like delica
cy, if in woman. A gentleman is not
noisy ladies are serene.
i a
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sun1uy Rrnhiug,
Translated from the French.
Except the Lord build the House.
they Labor in vain that build it,"

1t is very natural in the commence
ment Of the religious life, to build up a
structure OF our own. But God over
throws this edifice. lie leaves not one
upon another. lie lays the superstructure
deep within. These stones so nicely ad.
Justed by the hand of art become chaos
OF confusion; the gi!ded ornaments are
scattered to the winds But lie. not this
overthrow discourage or d;shearten YOU.
The divine Architect himself is to in.
habit the new cdiiice, and your eyes will
ere long be opened to the beautiful order
aud symmetry of Cords work. Those
beautiful enchanted palaces, which we
read of in fable, and which are reached,
only after crossing deep, subterranean
caverns-and which no person can find
only he 10 whom the secret is discovered.
seem to me a good illustration of The in
terror. Externally they ae covered with
/ dirt, and the riches are deeply concealed
/ from external view. 1t is Thus the Lod
/ conceals his hidden ones from their view,
and also from their own self conceit.-
Nothing is self produced, nor selfappro
/ prated. We see here the economy OF
grace to bring things to their true issue.
be happy, dear f., that God is destroy
ing the work Of your own hands. There
will be no sound Of hammer, no labor. no
work OF self, when the Lord builds the in.
terror Palace. May God complete the
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"rHE Doom OF THE WORLD."-The
British Review, discussing on the doom
of the world. has the following remarks :
"What this change is we dare not even
conjecture ; but we see in the heavens
themselves some traces of destructive Gle.
ments and Indications Of their power. The
fragments Of broken planets, the descent
Of meteoric stones upon our globe, the
whirling comments welding their loose
materials at the solar surface, the vocan.
Ic eruption in our own satellite. the ap.
pearance OF new stars and the disappear
ance OF others, are all fore shadows OF
that impending convulsion to which the
world is doomed. Thus placed on planet
which is to be burned up and under heav.
ems which are to pass away thus resi-.
ding, as it were, on the cemeteries and
dwelling upon the mausoeums Of former
worlds, let us learn the lesson OF humility
and wisdom, ii we have not already been
taught ib the school Of revelation"
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Srlrrt purtry,
NV Mary.


Fair is she whom love so we'll
Fairer than the daisies
Oh, never, never can sing
Aly love for her in praises.
/ would that were but flower,
Entwined in her tresses,
TO droop adown upon her brow,
And load it with caresses.
Her form is beautiful and fair,
Her smiles alike the morning,
Which breaks 80 bright upon our gaze,
a light of sudden dawning.
Her mouth is roscate and ripe,
Her hair is dark and cleaning
Alike the dew upon the leaves,
A sheen of silver seeming.
My Mary has n jet-black eye,
With happy lu~ire beaning
My daily and my nightly dreams
Are ever round her weaving.
lo:c ny Mary's gentle voice.
Her ways so kind and winning
! lore her better than all earth,
am sure it is no shining.
But still love my Mary more
For mind so pure ana stainless;
Heaven alone eau grasp the theme,
For the love of soul is namcless.
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LANCASTER H. SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY g. 1885,

dyin' hand, 'Massy, liltI, sister, have
read your Bible, as promised, every day,
and it has made me wis, unto salvation.
Good bye to Mother, AM tell her her boy
was not afraid to die"
The tears were dropping fast upon my
hands but Aunt Mery's had ceased to
flow, and light, which seemed to me
fairer than the lost light of her youth, il
Iumlned her aged fac, as she said, gain G
upward, i have waitd more than seven
~ years, and |, too. shall not be afraid,
Increase, my brothe'.'
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BIRTH PLACE Or JAcKsoS.-For near
ly year Il grave dispute has been going
on in the papers about the birth place OF
Andrew Jackson-some locating it in
North and South Carolina, and others in
Ireland and on the broad Atlantic. All
sorts Of frecolections historical and ira
dilionaI-have been raked up, and one
would suppose the argument exhausted.
LatterIy the authority Of Amos Kendall,
the authorized biographer Of the General,
has been invoked, who fixed this State as
the place of his birth, in the Waxhaw set.
tlement What need to appeal to any
authority short Of Jackson himself. In his
will he left tho "silver Vase" and the
"Poinsett picture 10 las naGve State,
and both were received into the keeping
Of her sons hy Gov. Alslon. This should
settle all caSils. Surely the old hero
should know more about his birth place
than bis biograpber-C Carolina Spartan.
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WELL AND SPRiNG CLEANING.-As
spring is approaching, we earnestly advise
all persons who use well water aud spring
water, TO have both wells and springs
thoroughly cleaned out, and then washed
out in early May and also during Octo-
Der, as there is strong reason to believe
that the settings which have accumuIa
ted, including decayed vegetation, impart
their disease engendering qualities to the
water, and thus originate some Of the
most dangerous forms of low or typhoid
fever, at time Of the year when the
weather is so cool as to preclude the idea
OF their arising from vegetable decompos
iion. The stencil Of the debris at the bot
tom Of wells should induce all cIeanly
persons to expurgate the,u thoroughly,
aside from considerations Of health
Halls Journal of Healh.
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Paid in your own Coin.

'"'''''''l''' '''' w 80 away fpIn
you; You like me, AMI nobody else does.
Last night George Ecdju and had
quarrel struck him, and he struck me.
Nobody likes me- Peter Jones said this
as he was sitting on his trunk ready to
start for home.
lie only paid YOU in your own coin
SAID grandmother 'peop'e generally do
"A blow for blow, cross words for cross
words, hate for haze. 4 don't know but
it is So, said Peter, looking very sorry,
but it is II poor sort Of COIN
'uow different it would be if YOUR
pockets were full Of the right sort of
CON- said grandmother. what kind 2
asked Peter. The coin Of Kindness said
grandmother. III the great pockets Of
your heart were fu! of that sort of coin,
the more YOU paid away, the more you'd
get back, for YOU are generally paid in
your own coin, you know then how hap
py YOU would be-
The coin Of kindness, repeated Peter
slow y; that is good coin; isn't it? [
wish my pockets were full OF it, g.anl.
a L 10 L. s,,,.l l..
ho k;nd - ,no' .Ins. 80, ','' 10y, oGy' - ''e, -"
mo,Lor '''' a''""'
po,or,s o,rr ,ou,x H.,
he was son, - aramJno,La,;, ,''",
:, opa,reIsomo f-o,i,I ,on,.. No 'I"''
amt co,Id No, ,,ana,o 81" Tvs
er children Vie G,anJ,no,Los M s"' os',
kindly and ns,ien,Iy ~;,L hin, and Lei',' Ie5'
ed him 70 imnrove L;msoIr ' D,,au "',a "s'p .S,,,
had a new mn,har anI Ii" cah,nn IoI n,I
sent for him TO com. home po,or "GI I;I
not want 70 oo Va c.I, Snro ~ sI',,'iI Wv"
not like his new mo,her onI T,a, .La
woulJ NOT like HIM .Th,t 'i IanamJ, ,,"I s,n sue
on vourseIc pstsr' sa;j arontmo,hol ~
carry love and Kindness in yonr no"I.a, ,
and you'll fnd M IifHcul,y, Tfo ;I"n
struck the how fayoraLIv II. wisLoJ La
could. he said, '' ~
And the best Of il is said GRAM. .
mo,bnr .r ro, o,,,, I,a.;, '"'
your nockeis will reyer 10 49,, "' t"'
You'll be paid in your own co;p RI
kind. and you'll be treated tirdIv. I,vo
and vonpl he Iova,, u w;sh i oo,,II
said Peter,
All the wav homo ba mora ~ ,,.s
thouuht Of it. do NOT Lnow abo,, HE
welcome home or what his fa,ber ~ rew
mother said TO him. The newt morn;ro
he a,osa eorI,, 90 Ia ,nos.,,asI -
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An jrshman, having accidentally bro
Ken pane in window of house in
Chestnut street, attempted, as fast as he
could, to get out of the way, but he was
followed and seized by the proprietor, who
exclaimed
You broke my window, fellow did
you not 2
TO be sure ] did an didn't you see
me running home for the money to pay
you for it T.
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pATIENcE.-'l remember says the cell
ebrated Wesley, hearing my father saw
to my mother, How could YOU have the
patience to tell that blockhead the same
thing twenty times ovcrT Why said
she, If had told him but nineteen times
| would have lost all my labor.
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DYINo CoNsoLATioN.-An old, unlov-
ell Deacon in his last hours was visited by
a neighbor, who said:
well, Deacon, hope you feel resign.
ed to going
'Yee s. said the Deacon, Il | think II
am resigned
Well, said the other, Il tho't ii might
be consoling 10 you to know that all the
neighborhood are resigned also
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A dandy with more beauty than brains
married AN heiress, who, although very
accomplished, was by no means hand.
some. One day he said TO her, MY dear,
as ugly as YOU are, love you as well as
though you were pretty
Thank YOU, love- was the reply, 4 can
return the compliment, for fool as you
are, | love you as well as though you had
wit
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A modern writer says: 1T NAV seem
strange, but it is a fact, that men general
ly are much more afraid of women than
women are Of men, Brown remarks that
the fact is not strange at all; for in both
cases the fear is proportioned to the dan
ger. Candid, but ungallant.
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CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBIA.-A cores
pondent Of the Providence Journal re-.
commends asparagus as cure for hydro
phobia in any stage of canine madness.
The directions are Eat the green shoots
OF asparagus raw, sleep and persPiIation
will be induced, snd the disease can thus
be cared This remedy proved efectu'
al to man in Greece after the parox-
ysms han commenced.
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Some lucky chap says if there is hes =.
ven on earth, it is on a soft couch, with
your wife on ole side, and a smiling bady
on the other, clear conscience, plenty to
eat and a knowledge that you arc out Of
debt. and don't fear the printer, tailor,
sheriff, or the devil.
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Every body must have altered very
much in short time. Only few years
since General Jackson, being seated be.
tween two ladies, said he felt like a
thorn surrounded by roses. V. S. NJ.
says a few days ago, while riding in an
omnibus, and being seated between two
ladies, he felt like stave in a hogshead
OF moIasscs, surrounded BY hoops.
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When man is always sneerng at and
saying derogatory things of woman, it is
a sure sign that he has always associated
with the most degraded of the sex.
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A man in Kentucky killed a COW a few
days since, in whose stomach was found
large brass ring, a hair pin and bun.
die Of hooks and eyes. 'Brindle is sup
posed to have swallowed the milk maid.
That gal must have been gyccn.
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a man should never be ashamed to
own that he has been in the wrong; which
IS but saying, in other words, that he is
wiser today than he was Yesterday
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A GREEK poet implies that the height
OF bliss ia the sudden relief of pain thero
is nobies bliss stil--the rapture of the
conscience at the sudden release from
guilty thought.
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A Frcnchman repeatedly hearing the
word press used to imply persuade, one
evening in company exclaimed: Il say,
squeeze that lady to sing
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Look here, Pete said knowing dar-
key to his companion, don't you stand
on de railroad
why, Joe ("
'kase If de cars see dat mouf OF yourn
dey'LI tink it am a depot and run rite in
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DR.. FRANKLIN, speaking Of Education,
says:
IF a man empLies bis purse in his head
no one can take it away from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays the
best interest
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The young man who stood on his own
merits became very much fatigued with
the operation.
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Speaking your mind says Jerrold, is
an eXtravagance that has ruined many a
man.
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A fool IN high station Is like man on
the top OF morument-everybody ap.
pears small to him, and he appears small
to everybody.
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Eating ones meat with a silver fork,
while the butchers bill has not been paid
is called genteel.
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| know Of no manner Of speaking so
offensive asthat Of giving praise, and
closing it with an exception.
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4jnllInraltG.

Inc surest way to lose your health is,
TO be all the time drinking that Of other
folks.
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Prayer is the messenger that sends
for Christ from heaven; and he will
come.
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SouLE ON DoUGLAs.-Senator Soule
was at p Portsmouth Va, few days ago
and the correspondent Of the New
York Herald writes of him: trgs
a"The, manifesto Of Senator Douglas,
as published by the Harpers, receives
the hearty Endorsement Of Mr.. Soule,
who prononnces it perfectly unanswer-
able. The Southern statesman who
dares occupy different ground he
charges is either blind, or dishonest
This paper of Senator Douglas, he
says, will meet 1.-The cordial approval
of the national Democracy7;9 nor does
he doubt the nomination of Mr.. Doug
las by the Charleston Convention. Mr..
Parham, another, distinguished politi-
clan from the "Sugar State fully COR
roborated all these views. Not only
would Louisiana stand united for the
"Little Giant, but from an intimate
knowledge of the people OF Miss,ssip-
pi, among whom he had lately mix
ed, he was satisfied that that State
would send to Charleston, q Doug
las delegation . si.s,;i.1.;ss ~. e.i,;r,
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-ip
many fashionable youths on, their tray7
els. His European tour was partly
to give him an opportunity for looking
after q wife among the Prostestant
German Princcsses. We regret that
we cannot give any assurance that he
will look for a wife inH this country
the Royal marriage Act would scarce
ly allow that So our young ladies
need entertain, no visions of becoming
a. Princess Of Wales, or a. Queen Of
England. l ~; THE'3iillaaaezl,hia, e ila B,tlletin: u
Another paper ergsoht.a has as!1 the following 6
paragraph, upon the same subject:r,o7
It.. is rumored that the Prince, OF
Wales, who is about to. visit. Canada,
will not travel in the United States,
except under a strict .incognito. 1t
has been decided that he would be
subject to too much attention !; So that
his rather delicate health would isuff- If
fer from the incessant serenades and
visits TO which he would be subjected.
The terrible enthusiasm of the Ameri-
can people is much drehded in Europe:
There princes of the blood and great
people generally go abroad without
any mob following at their heels or
circumscribing their lnovements-bnt
here we make much, ado over every
new conner, from a patriot exile to i
concert singer, from Turkish survey
or of navies to a ballet dancer. DsNo
prince is powerful enough to face an
American multitude. fai-y i ,,ian5I'. y.,.g
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A MAD MUSICIAN.

Mr., Maguire, ,cin hiss Rome aud Its
Ruler" a second edition of which
has just BEEN issued, describes. the
Asylum for Lunitics at Rome, which
he inspected, on. his, second visit to
that city. As he went through the
various wards and compartments he
had an opportunity of seeing this ter.
ribfe disease manifest itself in every
pitiable form. The following is. one
of two cases which particularly interes-
ted him in the male department. .'t'We
shortly after entered large saloon.
at the end of which was placed a
piano. BY this time our followers had
been considerably increased by add
itional numbers, and we were now
surrounded by between thirty and
forty of the inmates, some gesticulating
without any apparent motive, Others
politely oficious, others grave, digni-
fed, or mysterious, more contiding
their oft-told tale of imaginary griev-
ance or thousand-timea revealed secret
of grave Importance, One poor p'e9 tel
low was conspicuous in > oaniisolo
de force, an occasional crunching of
his teeth and rolling his great black
eyes fully justifying the precautioll
which had placed his hands soutli"t
harms way. There was sdpreformer
as well as piano. In obedience to
the doctors summons he soon made
his appearance, and = more 5mrntellianI y Ill. J
choly wreck ! never before beheld. I.
Had q cowl oyershadowed. his long,
bloodless, attenuated visage, impress;
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something is wrong to-day. He look
led gayer down at Solferino, within the
smell of .gunpowder. His appearance
is not striking. although he is :unques-
|tionably,, the ablest man in the French
army. His moustache Is sandy, his
hair the same color, and cut close: his
forehead is expansive, his eye small,
and he has the appearance Of a think.
er. 2Mcnahon was born in the same
year rs the Emperor, 1908. paraguay
d'Hilliers sits next to McMahon, and
although he is a very old man, and
hae. but one: arm, he is tn most pl awful
man of the lot He takes off, his cha
peau and finds a quantity Of rain COL
looted in the top Of it, and to amuse
the Empress and the boy, who sit
above, dashcs the wateron the officers
ofthe Emperor's' suit, all the time
keeping one eye in front. of him to see
that the Emperor does not catch him
at it. He is a tall, slim, straight old
man, who commenced his. military
career under the first Napoleon and
he handles his drawn sword and bri:ii::
die with one hand just as well as if he
had two. s@9+5eaoN .--a ga- .2Eio.tzi .:2y
Mel stands next to him and ap-
pears more gay than McMahon,3 al
though these two are set down as the
diseontents at the termination, of the
war: They had only got a taste Of
human gore, and were drawn from the
trail with reluctance. Mel is a tall,
slim man, with large, hollow cheeks,
brown hair, and struggling beard. He
has an expression Of immense energy
in his face, and is destined, with Nc
Mahon to take and keep the first rank
in the army. Marshal Repault de- St
can d Angiey, Commander of the
Imperial Gaurd, is Is years old, man
of middle height, straight, not heavy
in person, with grey moustaches, i'm.
perial ana side whiskers, (the latter
totally destroy the military character
ofhis face and has mild, quiet air,
calculated to mislead one as to his
profession. Marshel Magan was as
fassy as his enormous size and rest
less horse would permit, while the old
Duke Of Malakoff looked, as I thought,
with an eye Of jealousy on a scene in
which he had not been PERMITTED to
take part. '.'5-'4..f' %