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eyes to clear them of unnatural dimness,
and the great lump in his throat seemed to
choke him. A chuckle from Nose Bradley
recalled his self-possession, however, and he
took a step or two toward the latter with
eyes that fairly blazed with hot indignation.
Nose rapidly retreated a step or two, and
his chuckle died an untimely death, and for
room. At last Alice raised her head and in
a broken voice dismissed the pupils to the
play ground.
AS the children passed out she heard some
one say, $50 you've got a whipping after al,
Jim," and Jim's reply, "Yes, and 1've got
enough to pass some of it around if any
body is anxious about it.''
At o'clock Alice rang the bell with a
feeling of utter despair but no. school ever
moved more smoothly than did her school
that afternoon. Quiet, obedience, study,
good lessons, and respectful attention were
universal. But Alice had determined to
quit the school; she felt as if she would
rather be the poorest washerwoman than to
be badgered, bullied, and tortured for
months at time by set of brutal ruffians,
whose parents employed her for the sole
purpose Of enduring this martyrdom.
So when Alice locked the school house
door that evening it was with mingled
feeling of humiliation that she started to
offer her resignation to the directors. AS
she left the school house she saw jim Tur-
ner a few yards ahead of her walking rap
idly toward home She called his name,
and he respectfully waited until she had
overtaken him. Mr.. Turner" she said,
'sI'm going away in the morning, and wish
to thank you for your brave defense of me
at the school to-day, and to ask your for
giveness for the punishment so unjustly in
fiicted on you," and in her earnestness Alice
held out her little trembling hand, and Jim
instantly grasped it.
II have nothing to forgive," said he ;
"you could not do otherwise and neither
could I but you are surely not intending
to quit the school ?"
"Yes," answered Alice, 81 would rather
die than pass through three months of such
scenes as I have to-day"
"But you will have nomore trouble there
is no one in the school that would be at all
likely to give you trouble, except the Brad
lev boys, and as long as am there will
answer for their good behavior"
At last Jim's eloquence prevailed, and
Alice finally consented to teach a week lon
ger, and at the end of that time she decided
to stay, for never did a school move along
more smoothly. At her request Jim was
allowed to remain during the term, and as
soon as it closed he went to college.
Alice taught the Bear creek school sue
cessfully for three years, but in the end I'm
Gle Zeke's prediction was verified, for Jim
Turner came back and broke up the school.
He married the teacher.
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CHURCH DECORATION.

It has been said-it ought always to be
said, for it is true-that better and more
honorable offering is made to our Master in
ministry to the poor, in extending the
knowledge Of His name, in the practice OF
the virtues by which that name is halloWed
than in material presents to His temple.
Assuredly it is So; woe to all who think
that any other kind or manner of offering
may in anyWise take the place of these
Do the people need places to pray, and calls
to hear His word? Then it is no time for
smoothing pillars or carving pulpits; let US
have enough first of walls and roofs. Do
the people need teaching from house to
house, and bread from day to day? Then
they are deacons and ministers we want,
not architects. insist on this, plead for
this; but let us examine ourselves, and see
if this be indeed the reason for our back
Wardness in the lesser work. The question
is not between Gods house and His poor:
it is not between Gods house and His gos-
pei. 1t is between Gods house and ours.
Have we no tesselated colors on our floors ?
No frescoed fancies on our roofs? Noniched
statuary in our corridors? No gilded furni-
ture in our chambers? No costly stones in
our cabinets? Has even the tithe of these
been offered? They are, or they ought to
be, the signs that enough has been devoted
to the great purposes of human stewardship,
and that there remains to us what we can
spend in luxury but there is greater and
prouder luxury than this selfish one-that
of bringing portion of such things as these
into sacred service, and presenting them for
a memorial that our pleasure as we'll as our
toll has been hallowed by the remembrance
of Him who gave both the strength and the
reward. And until this has been done, do
not see how such possessions can be retained
in happiness. l do not understand the
feeling which would arch our own gates and
pave our own thresholds, and leave the
church with its narrow door and foot worn
sill and blighted walls; the feeling which
enriches our own chambers with all manner
of costliness, and endures the bare wall and
mean compass Of the temple. God never
forgets any work or labor of love; and
whatever it may be of which the first and
best portions or powers have been presented
to Him, He will multiply and increase seven
fold. Therefore, though it may not be ne
cessarily the interest of religion to admit
the service of the arts, the arts will never
flourish It'll they have been primarily de-
voted to that service-devoted both by ar
chitect and employer; by the one in scrupu-
lous, earnest, affectionate design by the
other in expenditure-at least more frank,
at least less calculating, than that which he
would admit in the indulgence of his own
private feelings.
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HE BROKE UP THE SCHOOL.

"That is the new school house, is it ?" in
quired Miss Alice Ray, the ''new teacher,"'
as the farmers plodding little team passed
by o little white house standing endWise to
the road, inclosed, in a rather dilapidated
fence. -,
"Yes, there is where you will hold FORTH"
remarked Uncle Zeke Woodburn, "but Pm
afeerd you won't hold out long, fur we've
got the toughest set of boys in the State" /"
and Uncle zeke gave a kind of cracking
little laugh as he thought of the tlmld, de-
murelittle damsel at his side controlling
the boys of Bear creek school.
''But don't the directors expel them when
they are beyond the control of the teach
eir?' asked Alice, her heart beginning to
sink at the prospect before her.
"Expel 'em no, we never eXpel nobody !;
if a teacher can't boss the school we just let
it boss him; it amt our fight. an the school
here generally bosses the teacher, and thar's
been some pretty good men licked in that
school house by the boys.'
'I did not know the school was so un-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-22

BEECHER ON THE SoUTH.-At the recent
testimonial entertainment in the Academy
of Music, New York, in aid of the Southern
Veteran Soldiers Home at Richmond, Va,
given by the Grand Army of the Republic
and the citizens of Brooklyn, the Rev. Hen
ry Ward Beecher presided. He was intro
duced as "the friend of humanity every
where" and on taking the chair he said
that in all the earnestness and enthusiasm
of patriotism, and in all the elements that
had bound them together with common
compassion and pity for a great cause, he
had never crossed the threshold of the
Academy with a more hearty sympathy.
"We remember WE'LL" he said, "When the
cry from morning to morning was ON to
Richmond We found some difficulty in
getting there. [Laughter]. We propose to
enter Richmond this time by virtue of gold
and silver, and that without very much de-
lay" The reverend gentleman said that
there never was any natural antagonism be-
tween the North and the South. Their po-
Itical institutions, so far as the framework
of government was concerned. were identl-
cal. Mr.. Beecher alluded to his recent tour
through the Southern States, when he had
heard citizens say that if they could by
holding up their hands, reintroduce slavery
they would not do so. He alluded to the
brave conduct of the Southerners during the
war. "Although practically 1 am peace
man." he said, "poetically | admire militia
ry affairs. [Laughter]. Ibid notgo through
the war myself, as you might now be listen
ing to the Rev. Gen. Beecher. 1t might
also have been otherwise. [Laughter]. I
don't believe the Southern people meant dis
senson, but when, since they had commit
ted themselves, no nobler set of men, no
Drawer soldiers were ever known, and no
more heroic sacrifices were ever made"
TApplause7. At Mr.. Beecher's request the
"venerable father of the city of Brooklyn"
Mayor Low, made an earnest address on be-
half of the Home in Richmond. "What
right has any man in Brooklyn who did not
fight to withhold his helping hand from
those who did," said Mayor Low. Miss
Emma Thursby sang the "Star-Spangled
Banner" as an encore, "The Old Folks at
Home" Mr.. Maurice Strakosch accompany
ing her on the piano. Col. w. E. Sims Park
Theatre orchestra contributed musical selec-
tions, and the Columbia Band, of New York,
was also heard. Gen. Hancock sent 500 to
the fund, Gen. Grant $50, having previously
contributed $3.50; Col. Sim 500, and Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher gave 500.
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I read a thrilling tale to-day
Of one who met an awful fate,
Her spirit seemed to fleet away
And longshe lay in solemn state,-
Pulseless, and cold, the dear ones round
Wept wildly for her early doom,
Yet while trance her senses bound,
Consigned her liviny to the tomb.
Rich satin lined the narrow bed
Where she laid breathless as the dead.
may not tell the story here
Which stricken hearts concealed;
How chance which oft makes darkness clear,
The hideous fact revealed,
How soon the tomb again unclosed
Betrayed the secret drear,
The form so carefully disposed
Had made some struggle here
Had moved the hand and turned the head
Ere she was mercifully dead.
There are some words we dare not speak,
Yet earnestly we wish them said,
We are too cowardly, or weak,
To speak of self as cold and dead
One dismal fear has haunted me
Whenever have thought of death,
A dread that may buried be
While vet there is a ling ring breath.
Forget it not-this haunting dread
When am dead-or seeming dead.
Oh, when my pulses cease to beat,
Watch me with loves exceeding care,
Before you close my winding sheet
Be sure no heart throbs family there
Be sure that mines sightless eye
And cold indeed my busy brain
That not in seeming death lie
To wake in horrid life again.
Deaths dart might not be surely sped,
The silent form might not be dead.
I've stood in silence by the dead,
To utter thoughts I did not dare,
How knew that all sense had fled
That nothing earthly fingered there?
AUhold on life might not be gone
Some vet unbroken thread might cling
Some consciousness might tremble on
Hide not too soon the helpless thing.
Love weeps, bat care must guard thy bed,
Poor, silent, unresisting Dead.
When am dead, pray you too
Lay me not out in fun raj state,
A show for strangers eyes to see
TO comment on and speculate,
But cover up the empty shell,
And DER the face mantle fold,
Let none but loving glances dwell
Upon the features changed and old,
And be thou sure that life has fled
That am dead--that I am dead.
COLUMBIA, S. G.
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Savannah to FL Paso. he might turn back

Savannah to Ell Paso, he might turn back
discouraged, but such would be the fact.
Again Texas wants deep water at Galveston.
But it is nearer from Ell Paso, Texas, to the
deep harbor of San Diego, CAL, than from
FL Paso to Galveston. In fact, more than
1000 miles of the Pacific coast, extending
from Los Angeles, CAL, to Mazatlan. Mexi-
co, is nearer to Ell Paso than any part of the
cr,,lf rooct
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A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.-There are
more temperance organizations and socities
in the country to-day, more men who are
total abstainers, than at any time in its his
tory. There are three or four States where
the sentiment against the use of intoXica-
ting drink is so strong that their Legisla-
lures have been compelled to adopt strin-
gent legislation on the subject. The memo
ry of most men living can recall the time
when the National Congress, the Senate as
well as the House of Representatives, wit
messed scenes of intoxication that shocked
and disgraced the whole country. Strong
drink was openly sold in both wings of the
Capitol at Washington, and it was an ordi-
nary occurrence to see drunken Senators
and Representatives staggering through the
corridors to their seats in the two branches
of the National Legislature. 1t is true that
liquor is still sold there; but it is in viola
ton of the rules. The Congressional revel-
ry has come to an end, and no man who rs
known as habitual drunkard, no matter
how great his ability or how excellent in
other respects, can retain his seat in either
body. This is true of nearly all the State
Legislatures. Ninety per cent of the office
holders of the country State and Federal,
are men of temperate habits. They cannot,
in fact, be elected or appointed if their lives
are, in this respect, a scandal. In private
business houses the same rule applies The
clerk who is heavy drinker is very soon
invited to seek another positiOn.-NeaC York
Hour
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-22

UNsAFE.-The man who puts off mar
riage until he has earned or acquired
sufficient property to maintain style OF
life that pride and worldly ambition sug-
gest is in great danger of missing both hap
piness and honor in the relation. He is
likely to become the victim of craft and
design on the part of those who court his
money and position rather than himsef.
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WELDING THE GAvEL.-The Washing
ton correspondent Of the Cleveland Leader
says: The Speakers desk is a sort of mar
BILE pulpit behind which Mr.. Carlisle sits in
a great armchair, and holds in his right
hand the ebony handle of an ivory-headed
gavel. This, in case of disorder, which
very often occurs, he brings down with a
laundering rap upon the board top of the
marble pulpit 1t sounds when used with
vigor like the shot of a pistol, and is the
terror of long-winded speakers. Mr.. Car
Isle uses the gavel lightly, but little Sam
Cox, when he gets in the chair, brings it
down with all his might, and once when he
was raising it up for mighty stroke the
head came off and flew to the floor. Often
the gavel breaks and then a new one is pro-
cured. Sam Randall was very hard on
gavels, and broke great many during his
term as Speaker. He has the remains of
these in cabinet at home, which he shows
to visitors as a sign of his former power.
One of these is beautiful one which he
got during his last term as Speaker. 1t was
made by a Georgia mechanic of ITO pieces
of hickory wood.
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na~ In this country city is a municipali-
ty comprising one or more villages. In
England, however, city is usually corpo-
rate town, which is bishops see, and has
cathedral church; town is an assemb-
lage of houses, usually having market, or
a subdivision of county. In early times
collection of buildings as was surrounded
by wall. A village is the same in Eng
land as in this country.
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A~ Queen Victoria is we'll known per-
sonage-better known by that name than
by any other. Yet in view of possible con-
tingencies it is we'll enough for newspaper
folks to have her proper name at hand. She
was the granddaughter of George Guelph
alias George III. Her fathers name was
Edward Guelph alias the Duke of Kent,
and she was in common parlance Miss Vic
toria Alexandrine Guelph. She married
Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel
Victim, alias the Duke of SAKE and Prince
of -Coburg- -Gotha. And now in plain
speech she is the "widow Wettin."
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Original 2oettg.
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
WHEN / AM DEAD.
BY MRS. NJ. W. STRATTON.
read a thrilling tale to-day

Suggested by reading burial of young lady at
Dayton, Ohio.
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REASONS FOR EARTHQUAKEs.-I
are much greater variations of pressure at
the sea coast than elsewhere, and though
usually the crust beneath the seashore may
be able to withstand such changes, yet there
may not be sufficient strength in certain
places to prevent the occasional formation
of openings through which water may find
it's way into the interior. Consider, for in
stance, the effect of the alternate inflow and
outflow of water along shore line, the
enormous added pressure when they sink
again. This would not operate over large
region, when the whole of it is affected, as
for instance the portion of the sea-foor that
is always under water. But along shore
portion of the crust comes under the effect
of this alienation of tidal pressure, while
the neighboring parts of the crust are not
at all affected. Thus, taking strip of sur
face square to the short-line, and one-half
below one-half above the mean sea-level-at
high tide the portion of this strip of earth
crust which lies seaWard is subjected to
much greater pressure than when the sea is
at it's mean level; at low tide it is subjected
to much less pressure. 1t is clear that this
constant variation of pressure on One-half
Of the region must have tendency to pro-
duce openings or cracks running parallel to
the coast-line, and that though the strength
of the crust might usually be able to with
stand the effects of this constantly varying
strain, there must be certain of the many
thousands of miles of coast-line on the
earth's surface where the chances of strain
would at times become too great to be re-
sisted, and submarine fractures would ensue.
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A HAPPY COUPLE.-A married and eX-
perienced friend tells us that man should
always be little bigger than his wife, and
little older, little Drawer, and little
stronger, and little more in love with her
than she is with him.
A woman should always be a little young
er, and little prettier, and little more
considerate than her husband. He should
bestow upon her all his worldly goods, and
she should take care Of them. He may owe
her every care and tenderness that affection
may prompt; but pecuniary Indebtedness
to her will become a burden. Betterlive on
crust that he earns than on fortune that
she has brought him.
Neither must be- jealous, or give the other
cause for jealousy. Neither must encourage
sentimental friendship with the opposite sex.
Perfect confidence in each other, and retic-
ence concerning their mutual affairs, even
to members Of their own families, is a first
necessity.
A wife should dress herself becomingly
whenever she expects to meet her husbands
eye The man should not grow slovenly
even at home.
Fault-fnding, long arguments, or scold-
ings, end the happiness that begins in kisses
and love-making. Sisters and brothers may
quarrel and make it up" Lovers are low
ers no longer after such disturbances occur,
and married people who are not lovers are
bound by red-hot chains. If man adj
mires his wife most in stri ped calico, she is
silly not to wear it.-Ihe Eye.
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THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

The theory concerning the "Star of Beth
lehem" is based on poe,lcal foundation,
having little to support it. In the year
1872 Tycho Brahe, discovered new star
near Caph in the constellation Cassiopea.
1t increased in brilliancy until it was as
bright as Venus, and could easily be seen
at monday. 1t continued to shine for
month then gradually grew dim and in six
teen months disappeared from view. 1t
or sun on fire, and the general opinion
was that it would never again shine in the
tar depths. Forty years later the telescope
was invented. When it was turned to the
position in the heavens occupied by the
blazing star, minute star was found near
the identical spot. This telescope star is
still there, and it is doubtless the same one
that blazed forth in 1872. The discovery
that existed led astronomers to search as
Economical records, and it was found that
similar bright stars had appeared in the
same region of the sky in 945 and 1864.
Counting back three periods from 945 we are
brought to the near Vicinity of the birth of
Christ. Observers gifted with poetic fancies
naturally connected the two events, and
have inferred that the Star in the East,
pointing to the place of the Nativity, was
sudden outburst Of this wonderful star.
For this reason it has received the name Of
the Star of Bethlehem.
About "a of these temporary stars have ap-
peared in the last 2, ,000years, subject, like the
star of fCassiopea, to sudden outbursts follow
ed bya return to their normal insigniticance.
They are classed as variable stars, subject
to sudden outbursts due to eruptions of
blazing hydrogen, and which are followed by
long periods of quiescence. According to
this theory, the star of 1872 is variable
star, with period of a few more than 800
years. The last period was 3OS years, if the
bright star of 1854 was one and the same;
we may, therefore, hope for repetition of
the incomprehensible phenominon in the
immediate future. The star was due in
1880; if it appears at all it will surely blaze
forth by 1885. There is a possibility there
fore, that the long-lost star Of Bethlehem,
the Pilgrim Star of 1872, or Tycho Brahe's
star-for it is known by these names-will
once more become shining wonder in the
sky. Such celestial visitor will be warm
ly welcomed by astronomers, and far more
acceptable than great comet spanning the
heavens with its gossamer tail.
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THE STATE OF MAGNIFICENT D1sTAN-
CEs.-The distance from Dallam county, in
the Texas Pan Handle, to Brownsville, at
the mouth of the Rio Grande, is 800 miles,
but we can better realize how far it is by
saying that it is nearer from Dallam county,
Texas, to st. Paul, Mimi. or to Bismarck,
Dakota; or to Helena, Montana; or to Vel
lowstone Park, in Wyoming, or to Salt
Lake City, Utah, than it is from Dallam
county to Brownsville, Texas. 1t is also
nearer from Brownsville to Guatemala, in
Central America, than from Brownsville to
Dallam county. Again, it is nearer from
Lipscomb county, Texas to st. Louis, than
from the same county to Galveston. And
even Chicago and Cincinnati are nearer to
Texas than Dallam county is to Browns
vile. 1t is farther from Texarkana to Ell
Paso than from Texarkana to West Vir-
ginia, Old Virginia, or North Carolina.
Suppose gentleman should start from
Savannah, Ga, on the Atlantic to look at a
tract of land at Ell Paso. After travelling
three days and nights on q passenger train
he might arrive at Orange, Texas. Of
course when he put his foot on Texas soil,
he would begin to look around to see how
he liked the country by way of deciding
whether he would buy the Ell Paso land or
not. But if told he was not half way from
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aGr According to DR.. Farr, if we take the
march of million children through life,
the following will be the result: Nearly
10000 will die the first year $4,000 the
second year, $4,000 the third year, and less
than 1000 in the thirteenth year. At the
end of forty-fve years 100000, will have
died. At the end of sixty years $40, 900 will
be still living; at the end of eighty years,
ninety-five years, 2,1OO. At the end of 100
years there will be 223, and at the end Of
los years there will be one survivor.