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hrs. Frank Leslie's Intended.

A New York letter writer says it is
amusing to hear Mrs. Leslie talk
about her approaching alliance to his
nibs, thA French marquis. She talks
somewhat in this strain
"Oh yes; L shall marry him some
time in the fall, I think, and then l
shall go West for a little trip. 1t is
quite likely that 1 shall take him along
with me, as the trip will do him good.
He is a very pleasant and agreeable
sort OF person, you know. When /
come back l might take him with me
to Europe. Ofcourse, L shall not allow
him to have anything to do with business
affairs he is not hat kind of a man and
l prefer not to have any one associate
with me who is not thoroughly acquaint-
ed with business affairs. He is very
pleasant though" ect., ect.
She talks about her future husband in
this condescending manner, and her flu
ture husband is all devotion. No wonder.
He marries halls million dollars, and
rather a pretty woman, too, even if she
Is a bit passee. / saw the marquis last
night. The boys guy him numerically,
and he seldom ventures into the street
by day. He reminds me very much of
the caricatures of over-dressed
Frenchmen which frequently APP
pear in La Vie Parisienne.
He wear c~orsets, women's boots, and
women's gloves, and his shoulders are
padded out by his tailor to a grotesque
width. His breast is also padded, and
his hair and beard oiled and curled.
On the top of his bushy hair he wears
a shining and dainty little Partisan hat.
He carries an ebony stick with a little
gold head, which is as delicate as a lady's
parasol, and he is constantly accompan-
led BY a tiny ~black-and-tap terrier,
which he fondles as a woman would a
baby. Altogether the marquis is a par
ticularly sickening specimen of human
ity. l knew him quite well two years
ago. He did not wear corsets or ladies'
boots then, and was a very agreeable
sort of a man. 1t seems too bad that a
woman with so many sterling qualities
and so much practical business sense
should be so daft on an over-dre3sed
and shady French marquis.
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An Old Sailors Superstition.

From the New York Times.
An accident which occurred a few years
ago on an American vessel which was
nearing port after an extended voyage
around Cape Horn, illustrates the su.
perstitions that are held by sailors.
Among the crew of the vessel was an old
sailor who was noted for his meanness
and who had openly expressed a desire
that the voyage might be prolonged in
order that he could have more wages
when the port was reached. The eAA~
seamen were satisfied with the amour.
due them and were anxious to get into
port as sOon as possible. One evening,
during the dog watch, the penurious sail
or went to the forecastle head and be-
gan to whistle. He then beckoned 70
the various points of the compass ahead,
as if to charm up a head wind. While
the old sailor was occupied with his in
carnations he was observed by one of
the ships boys, who Immediately rushed
into the forecastle and informed the
men that "Patsey" was on the fore
castle head engaged in diabolical at
tempt to charm up a head wind. In
tense Indignation took possession Of
them. Curses were heaped upon his
head, and some of the holder ones pro-
posed throwing the Objectionable wizard
overheard. He had committed a sin
which his shipmates could not forgive.
And yet the same men had a short time
previously expressed themselves as
firmly of the belief that whistling or
any other action on the part of mortals
could have no effect whatever on the
wind.
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Value of BeautY.
the Philadelphia Call.

From the Philadelphia Call
The most lasting and valuable species
of beauty is that which is least cultivat-
ed. The young and capricious miss,
with an elegant person and finely mod
-eled face, Illuminated by brilliant orbs
and splendidly bedecked with dark,
shining locks very often destroys the
moral beauty of her nature merely to
humor the perverseness of her physical
attractions. She trusts in the power OF
her bodily charms, and she even refuses
to provide herself with those of a less
perishable nature which are not only
~serviceable while bodily beauty remains
but especially so when it is gone forev-
err. She brides herself in her wardrobe
of silk and satin, and would
encounter any species of pain or
hardship to increase it and to
furnish herself with gold and with dia-
monds; but the wardrobe of the mind
and the heart she takes care to replen-
ish, as if a young beauty were independ-
ent of this, and, if she play ed her cards
well, might make her fortune without
it. It is time enough to begin to be
amiable when You begin to be ugly, say
some young ladies'. or they seem to say
it. But nature Furnishes this %perversity
in a very striking and remarkable a
ner. They who refuse to cultivate the
moral beauty during the reign of the
season of physical beauty lose the OPP
portunity of possessing themselves of
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vorite species of beauty by their indie
pendence and neglect of the other. The
temper imprints its mark upon the coun-
tenance, which very speedily reveals the
character of the disposition which Turks
behind it. Being a growing power and
a vigorous power, which is even strong
est at death, it gradually overcomes
every obstacle which stands in the way
of its own escape into outward Observa-
ton. 1t wrinkles the brow, lowers the
eyebrows, bends down the curve of the
mouth and pouts the lips, whenever il
happens to be a disagreeable nature and
it gives life and permanent animation to
all the lines of the face whenever its
course of feeling happens to be of a
kind and generous character. 1t comes
out at last and shows itself, and once
shown and impressed upon the face. it
is there so long as it continues to act
from within, and that is generally for
life. 1t is no easy matter to begin to
be amiable with an unamiable express
sion of countenance and IN unamiable
and fixed habit of behavior. Few have
strength Of will sufficient tomake such
a change in their mode Of life. 1t is
not by a mere moral resolution that
such a conversion takes place. We are
far more likely to become worse than
better when we find attraction of the
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Confederate Army Yarn.

General Forrest was approached by
IN Arkansas man, who asked:
General, when do you reckin' we're
going to get something to eat?"
"Eat!" exclaimed the general; "did
you join the army merely to get some-
thing to eat?"
wall, that's about the size of it,"
"Here," calling to an officer, "give
this man something to eat, and then
have him shot"
The officer understood the joke, and
replied
"All right, general"
The Arkansas man, exhibiting no
alarm, said:
bile me a ham, cap'n, stew a couple
O. chickens, bake two or three hoe
cakes, fetch a gallon o. SO o. buttermilk,
and load yer guns. With SIGH induce
ments, the man what wouldn't be willin'
to die is a blame fool"
A hearty meal was prepared for the
soldier, but he still lives.-Arkansaw
Traveller.
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MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.
Two Anecdotes of Peter Cartwright.

AneSAobcS oL ESteE OaEbWE1B nLs
Peter Cartwright was the name of a
we'll known Methodist pioneer. He
was a sort of a peregrinating pigeon,
who flew over the hills and swamps up
on his apostolic wings. Hefeared moth
ing, and was as strong as he was brave.
AT a certain camp meeting he got into
trouble with a set of roughs who had
tried to break up the services. Maj. L.,
who was a prominent citizen, though q
great skinner" identified himself with
the roughs, and, flying into a desperate
rage, said if he thought Cartwright
would fight him a duel he would chal-
lenge him.
"Maior," the preacher answered, eff
you challenge me [ will accept it."
well sir, Idare you to a mortal com
bat"
"All right, sir; I'll fight you. And,
sir, according to the laws Of honor l
suppose it is my right to choose the weap.
with which we are to fight"
Certainly" the Major replied.
"Well then, we will step over here
into this lot and get some cornstalks. 1
think l can finish you with one"
The Major waxed hotter. He
clenched his fists and foamed with rage,
saying: eff L thought L could whip
you | would smite you in a minute"
Yes, yes, Major" the militant minis.
ter asserted ''but, thank God, you can't
whip me; only don't you at
tempt to strike me, for if you do,
and the devil gets into me, 1 shall give
you the worst whipping you ever got in
all your life" That ended 1t.
Another bully threatened to whip the
Rev. Cartwright, who answered, Sir,
l never like to live in dread. If you
really intend to whip me, come and dr.
it now"
The bully continued his curses and
threats, and the minister jumped off his
horse, and going to him, said, "Look
here, you nave to whip me as you threat
ened, or you will have to stop that curs-
ing, or 1 will put you in the river and
baptize you in the name of the devil,
for surely you belong to him"
The bully repented, and afterwards,
became one of the preachers best
friends.
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Decreased in DGarketvalue of Stocks

Some of the railroads have increased
their stocks, in the aggregate about
$40, 900 900, but taking the present
capital stock as the. basis of comparison,
it is shown that the par value of the
stock of thirty-two large properties is
S1,116, 981 ,140, and the highest value in
1881, on the basis of the present capital
was 81, 236, 101 ITO, or an average of 10
per cent. above par. These had depre-
ciated in May, this year, to SCAT $685.
1l6, which is about IS per
cent. of par. If we were to
take the lowest prices made during
the panic last week the depreciation
would be still greater, but that would
not be as fair an indication of their gen.
eral market value at the present time.
The decrease in market value is $780,
004, 1894, or nearly 48 per cent. These
include such as the Union Pacific Rail
road, on which the depreciation was
$50 1888, $50 or over 65 per cent. from
the highest point; New York Central,
which has declined $42, AIS, 442, OF over
30 per cent. Central Pacific, which lost
in the aggregate $50 ,521 ,S05, or over
go per cent. Denver and Rio Grande.
which fell, $3S $50, 900, or over 80 per
cent; Western Union, which
fell off $32, 900 900, or nearly 43 per
cent; the aggregate decline in
Erie was $50, 712, 500, Oregon Naviga-
ton $27, 780, 900, Oregon Transcontinen-
tai $27 200, 900, Lake Shore S21, 625, 700,
Wabash common $50, BAG $50, Wabash
preferred $40, $50, 651, Texas Pacific
$40, 1856 ,286, Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as $19, 200 ,076, Missouri Pacific so, $50,
600, st Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
ST., SOC, 1856, Louisville and Nashville
SIT ,625 900, Northern Pacific $14, 49,
900, Reading $13, 635, 977, Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy SAC, 218, 155,
Michigan Central SO, 462, 1913, and others
proportionately. Most if not all of
these properties are doing "a fair bust
ness, " and many of them are earning and
paying as high dividends as ever; prices
may have been too high in 1881, but it
is certain that they are too low now,
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Judge Black and Shakespeare.

"The late Judge Black, says a writer
in The Philadelphia Press, twas a
Shakespearean critic and authority, and
nothing grated on his ear more harshly
than a m~isquotation. During the last
constitutional convention, of which he
was a member, the county delegates
could scarcely make a speech without
dragging in some poetical except which
they usually butchered, and the
Judge, who never knew whether
he was in or out of order.
would interrupt them with his correc,
tions, or would go to the clerks desk
andsee that the lines were printed right.
One day there had been an unusual
number of mishaps of this kind, and
the Judge had secured leave of absence
to go home. just before leaving he
walked over TO Mr.. George W. Biddle's
seat and said 'Biddle, 1 am going
away. and if in my absence, you allow
any injustice to be done to the memory
OF William Shakespeare 1 will hold you
personally responsible
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Reason is but analysed faith ,-Schu-
NAM -~@
The wise man avenges injuries by
benefits. Chimes. -
The first step to virtue is to love
virtue in another Samuel Maunder.
As the body is purified by water, SO
is the soul by truth.-Manee, Hindu.
Man is a reasoning rather than a
reasonable being.-Sir William Hamil.
ton. .sS
Verify hypocrites sink into a lower
abyss than any other sinner.
med. 49,
Good taste rejects excessive nicely
it treats little things as little things,
and is not hurt by them.-Fenelon
Thepity which is not born from expert
ence is always cold. 1t cannot help be.
ing so; it does not understand.-Ouida
If men had only temptations to great
sins, they would always be good; but the
daily fight with little ones accustoms
them to defeat.
1t is useless to attempt to reason q
man out of anything he was never rea-
soned into. Reason is a very light rider
and easily shaken off.-Dean Swift.
1t cuts one sadly to see the grief of old
people they We no way Of working it off.
and the new spring brings no new shoots
out IN the withered tree .-George Eliot.
Chiefly the seashore has been the
point of departure to knowledge, as to
commerce. The most advanced nations
are always, those who navigate the most.
Emerson.
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An Heroic Deed.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends" This is what Chief Engineer
Balm, of the steamer State of Florida,
did. The only woman saved from the
wreck Of that vessel was Stewardess
Jane MacFarland, of Glasgow, and
she owed her life to the s~elf-sacrifce
of the chief engineer. He was in one
of the boats when he saw that this wom-
an was left on the sinking steamer. He
gave her his place, returned to the
Florida and went down with her. Such
a deed recalls that thrilling scene on
the sinking B%irkenhead many years
ago. There was only room in the boats
for the women and children, and there
were many British troops on board. At
the command of their officers these
brave men put all the women and little
one in the boats; then drew up with
parade steadiness on the deck, and as the
vessel sank they fired a volley and went
down with her, their ranks unbroken to
the last. That was collective heroism,
but it was not nobler than the perfect
self-devotion and manliness which the
Scotch engineer displayed when he de-
liberately gave up his own life hat q
helpless woman might be saved.
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Young Loves Heroic Test.
From the Chicago Tribune.
kiss me again.

@AOh "S ChAI16o 1llDuhC'
kiss ME again"
Sibyl Sartoris spoke these words in g
grave calm manner that betokened the
serious import in which she held them
and as Herbert Holdfast bent tenderly
forward and pressed his lips softly to
hers she looked up to him in a shy,
cat-on-the- back-fence fashion that had
SO bewitched him in his golden-hued
days of courtship-those days when all
the world seemed filled with sunshine,
when every breeze spoke in whispers
of his love for this beautiful girl, and
the cloudless skies seemed only to re-
fleet the deeper azure of her eyes.
There was no deception in the pure
nature of this girl, and every act was
the result of reflection, often profound.
Brought up in Boston, she had all her
life been accustomed to put to its
best use the power of d~iscernment which
a thoughtful mind gave her. Sur
rounded as she was by the mystic in
fuence of Emerson, the Concord School
of Philosophy, and several large ware
houses where mackerel were sold, it is
small wonder that when, standing on
the threshold of womanhood, she be-
held suitors for her heart and hand APP
proach; she had analysed with critical
care the hopes and fears of each-had
subjected the character of each wooer
to the rigid scrutiny of a mind that,
seated cross-legged on the starry sum-
NIT of psychological research, looked
upon man as only vivitied protoplasm,
and the deepest emotions of the heart
as merely the manifestations of a too
active nerve center.
Herbert knew this. He knew that
this girJ-the rounded curves of whose
figure and the dewy sweetness of whose
lips would have made an anchorite leave
his Job without a pang-had naught of
passion In her nature. And so when he
complexion, so gladly-with her re-
quest, there stalked from out the ban
quet halls of his imagination where they
had so long been unwelcomed guests the
sheeted ghosts of Doubt and Apprehen-
sion. He knew now that Sibyl loved
him with a love that, would never fall
ter Oh fall-a love that, securely built
upon a foundation of respect and admir-
alton, was now crowned with the large.
roomy, mansard roof of a deathless. new
exchanging passion. Her words proved
it. Never before had she even so much
as limited at a kiss, and when he had
sought to take II she had submitted to
his caresses more as a dutiful wife than
an ardent lover. But now all was
changed. and it was she who sought the
bliss that a large, well regulated, three
story and basement kiss alone can give.
The thought was ecstacy.
you love me better to-day. Sibyl,"
he said, then you did yesterday. Is it
not so, darling?"
NO" she answers, standing there
calm and pulseless as a clam at high
tide,
"Then why" he says, "did you ask
me to kiss you?"
Because" Sibyl replies, Il desired
TO ascertain whether or not you had
been drinking Medford rum.
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events proved this statement to be true,
no one has cared to hurry matters.
Carpenter had large business interests,
and 1t has taken him some time to
settle them. 1t is estimated that his
defense at the trial for murder cost him
not less than SIS, 600, and his business
was, OF course, neglected for q long
time. The sale of his residence this
week closes his career in Lincoln, and
it is now known that he intends to leave
in a few days. 1t is reported that he
will settle in Massachusetts,. No one
knows and no n cares so long as he is
eve seen in Lincoln again.-Lincoln,
Ill, Correspondence n. Y. Sun.
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person to cease after q heartless and i'm
perious reign of saucy beauty. 1t is no
easy task, indeed, to resign ourselves to
our fate when our attractions have dis
appeared, and all at once to correct the
scowl and the frown, and the naughty
air and the satirical grin, and the heart
less sneer, which have already left their
lmprints on the fLce and made them
selves quite at home in the very citadel
of expression.
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At Philadelphia early on the morning of the
18th three tanks, containing 10000 barrels Of
oil, exploded, but the oil burnedi itself out with
out doing further damage, and at night only
one tank, containing 14OOO barrels, was III
danes. An estimate places tbs loss at about
$40,
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Words of Wisdom.

Reason is but analysed faith, -Schu-
mann. @
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-21
Gen. Grants Condition.

Gen Grant will never be q we'll man
again. l doubt if he will ever again 60
out of the house. called there yester.
day by previous arrangement, but L
found him quite unable to see anybody.
I walked through the great marble floor
ed hall while waiting for the message
into the bijou of reception room, with
it's ebony table and ivory carved orna-
ments, great bronze Japanese kettle on
the shelf an enormous turtle climbing
up the wall-no, a closer inspection
shows him hung there by the under shell,
the upper shell polished like mirror.
The creatures skin at the side was tau
ned and painted and bestrung with rib:
bons, while the vital creature himself
has beon dug out and turned into hoav-
enly soup, and in his place now stick the
latest newspapers; into the long drawing
room, bejewelled with lovely silver bas-
kets from Vienna, rare stands from Con.
stantinople, enormous vases of bronze,
big enough to cook calf, from Yoks'
hama, faience ware and clock of ormolu,
trophies and trinkets from around the
welcoming world. Then comes the ser
want again; General Grant did not sleep
wink last night. The only sleep he
gets now is little cat maps in the day
time. It is mostly pain that keeps him
awake. His diet has become rigidly
simple. Indeed he has little appetite for
anything. am seriously afraid that our
most distinguished citizen has been seen
in public for the last time.-Letter to
Boston Giode.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-21
The Nystery Of Dreams.

A man fell asleep aS the clock tolled
the first stroke of twelve. He awakened
ere the twelfth stroke had died away,
having in the interval dreamed that be
had committed q crime, was detected
after Eve years, tried and condemned ;
the shock of finding the halter around
his neck aroused him to consciousness,
when he discovered that all these events
had happened in an inGnitestimal frag
ment Of time. Mohsmed, wishing to
illustrate the wonders of sleep, told how
= certain man, being sheik, found HIM
self, for his pride, made poor fisherman
that he lived as one for sixty years, bring:
ing up family and working hard, and
how, upon waking up from bis long
dream, so short time had he beer
asleep that the narrow necked gourd
bottle, filled with water, which he knew
he overturned as be fell asleep, had moi
time to empty itself. How fast the sou
travels when the body is asleepl Otter
when we awake we shrink from going III
the dull routine of sordid existence
regrettiug the pleasauter life OF dream
land. How Is it that sometimes wheI
we 20 to a strange place. we fancy tha
we have seen it before? Is it possible
that when one has been asleep, the sou
has Aoated away, seen the place, and ha:
that memory of it which 80 surprises US
In S. word, how far dual is the life OF
man, how far not?