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found that most of these tiny offerings
have been brought long distances, even
from miles away in the mountains.
Three deductions are inevitable, that
money is mighty scarce among these
people, that time is of little value to
them and that these things are not the
product of the purposeful industry of
their sellers, but rather accidental ac-
quisitionS, the bounty of unaided na-
ture appropriated as opportunity en-
abled. Each conclusion is quite correct.
The land is so fertile that one who
possesses q little patch of it can live
practically without work, for scarcely
any effort is needed to produce the
necessaries of life, bananas, plantains,
sugar cane and beans. The things men
toned above have been clutched by the
very poor from where they CHANGED to
grow, excepting the yams-which af-
ter all require little care-the eggs and
the hen. Even the eggs may, very
probably have been found in the bushes.
AS for the hen, she would not appear
had she not outlived her real mission
in life-the production of game birds
for the licensed cockpit, in which
Chicken disputes" are conducted ev-
cry Sunday afternoon. That the toma-
toes are always marketed when too
small and green and hard even for
picking is due to the fact that if Pepe
didn't pick them one night Pedro
would the next. The title of property
of this sort is in possession. And this
applies to fruits generally. 1t does not
matter who owns the trees. The moon
does not shine every night.
The herald., 1896-01-26

THE SNOW FOOT OF THE STEPS.
joys of living. After you have got over
wondering why your feet feel so far
apart, and have learned not to hit your
left ankle with your right snowshoe, it
is comparatively easy,-in fact one of the
easiest of exercises. One falls into it
very naturally and without instruction.
Confidence is necessary if you would
disport yourself, but for an ordinary
tramp across country all that is needed
is a few evenings previous practice,
snowshoes firmly laced on, good part
ner, and plenty of breath in your lungs.
The exercise is not firing, not dangerous,
and not particularly exciting in ordinary
cases. But with health and spirits and
good crust on the snow it is delightful.
Soft newly fallen snow will not do for
snowshoeing, and the happiest time for a
snowshoe tramp is after the snow has
been packed. A storm which has blown
off the loose snow or a rainy day sue
ceeded by a sharp frost will produce the
desired result, and Snowshoe tramps may
begin.
Our tramps, however, are not altogeth-
er like the proceedings of the Montreal
Snow Shoe Club, where experts, both
ladies and gentlemen, can do almost any
thing on snowshoes which ordinary
mortals can do on their unencumbered
feet. They jump and run and race, fol-
low the leaders across hill and valley for
eight or ten miles and then return to the
friendly club house for coffee and more
gayety. Their feet never go back on
them; but in Goretown, where it is SO
cold and stormy that the words freeze
as they leave our lips, two miles or SO
satisfy us.
But there is much innocent amusement.
plenty of good-natured tumbles, plenty
of nonsense; for nobody is crazy enough
to talk seriously. Then at the end, peal
after peal of laughter, girls voices and
bass Accomplishments, the soft tread OF
moccasins, the clacking of snowshoes.
and the snowshoe party is back, ana
wants coffee.
We are too warmly clad to stay after
we have got in; besides, one cannot
dance in moccasins. SO in less orderly
style we start for our respective homes.
Moccasi are the easiest Of all footgear
TO walk in snow-covered roads; there Is
keen delight in every swinging step ana
in every breath of the clean cold air. The
whole being is exhiliarated; one reefs
that it is good to live. -
MADGE ROBERTSON.
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Mhern nature never placed it?

where nature never placed it?
The white hat is a freak of midwin-
ter. 1t has little to recommend it to
the wearer, much to the milliner in its
readiness to soil. OF course the trim
ming is confined to black, usually in
big splashes of velvet on the crown
and in overhanging ostrich plumes. A
white hat is at the best apt to look
over large; but nothing can be much
smarter than a small white toque with
black ribbons and q bunch of blue vio-
lets and jet and silver ornaments.
There is a great run upon all forms
of stitched and braided garments. A
rough, blue black cloth makes up into
splendid plain skirt with no decoration
save stitching to break somewhat the
monOtOny of its surface. Braiding is
employed about the bodice mainly A
blue and gray plaid, soft as a doves
plumage, 1 have seen rendered very
fierce by broad military braid and
frogs, astrachan edging and gold cadet
buttons. From q wide waistband of
velvet repeating the colors of the plaid
falls skirt whose only decoration is
a large pleat at the back edged with as
trachan and the braid. Many of the
heW pluluS are Ill tueSe softer ana more
delicate tints, avoiding the positive
reds and greens that in ruder age set
the tartan precedent for all time
Black hopsacking with a white satin
yoke covered with guipure and outlined
with sable tail etching is a startling
, reminder of the black and white com
binations of year or two ago.
Some of the new gowns to be worn
over padded hips employ a heavy and
| visible scanning of black, holding to-
| gether succession of cores, running
| down the skirt. This is a sort of East.
lake construction-made- de-
vice.
We shall be sorry to quit us of the
| wide skirt if in it's stead there comes
. the draped one; but of this there is only
| the unsupported rumor.
For red haired lady, or one whose
| tresses stay the sun in his admiring
| course, to put it more POLITICALLY, a hat
| of green felt with violet velvet, with
violet leaves and blossoms is irresis-
| tible.
For a house dress, a golden brown
shot silk, with a frill front of pale rose
pink silk, with ruche of pink, green
! and brown. ELLEN OSBORN.
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ly attired; the regulation blanket suit.
blue and white, pure white, red and
white, or yellow and white, with toque
to match, predOminates, but we poorer
members wear whatever we can borrow
from our thrifty sisters. There we pick
out the people we would like to walk
with. / don't know whether the men or
the girls arrange that. have never been
able to find out. Perhaps it is arranged
beforehand. But if you, dear girl, are
doing the choosing, take tall, strong
man whom you can rely on not to talk
you to death or insist on helping you
over fences when you can get over much
more easily by yourself; who
neither hauls nor shoves you
along, but allows you to take
your own gait; who laughs at your jokes,
is sorry when you fall, is neither reck-
less or over-cautious, and above all who
is an old snowshoer. You may have to
seek this ideal in another and better
sphere still few are to be found here
and there on earth.
All the girls know enough not to wear
long skirts. Short skirts may not be
graceful, but to go snowshoeing in long
ones is midwinter madness. Then we
start off in pairs and under the guidance
of an accomplished leader.
Oh, that tramp Miles and miles of
unknown fields and a calm starlit night
SnowdriftS cover the fences and bank up
wall ON either side. We go straight
across country. The landscape is of
dazzling whitenesS, and the sky is pale
| with the northern lights that it meets
the frozen snow-covered bay behind us.
and no one can tell just where. We are
faxed with the falling snow, and a soft
wind is blowing little feathery bits off
the drifts.
| Snowshoeing is certainly one of the
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These are odd only in minor details.
The Beauharnais toque or turban-you
can call it either-is more of an in
novation. Figure it in blues, say-n
shape not unlike liberty cap behind
in ciel blue; q black plume curling
over from the left; white plume fall
ing outward from the middle front to-
ward the right, where a red rosette is
fastened, and in front a number of
folds of Dresden ribbon In very light
bike and white. This is piquant and
old-worldish head covering and more
becoming and logical, 1 cannot help
thinking, than the little toques of wire
and beads that we have all seen.
Huge lapels are worn with all manner
of bodices, and now and then one sees
something very like fiounce. Or sew
eral of them, ranging about shoulder
and sleeve. Flounces of fiuted chiffon,
the under one light, the upper dark,
are. used with good effect over an Or
ainary balloon sleeve upon an evening
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HER PUP HER ONLY COMPANION
drift by passing strangers; fourth, fresh
start. A few encores enlivened the pro-
ceedngs, but on the whole we confined
ourselves to plain repetition. We Great
ed no small interest in the strangers we
encountered along our devious path; and
the remarkable appearance the drifts
and bitches presented next morning is
still the talk of the village
So long as L had my snowshoes on I
was hors de combat. but when the kindly
neighbors who conveyed us home had
departed and left Rex and me glaring
at each other in front of our own door
steps, I had my revenge.
"Come on he barked. "Let's go and
have that beautiful time over again"
mo, thank you, Rex" said, wearily.
81 am not equal to you, with snowshoes
on. Wait until / take them Off"
Being the politest of dogs, he waited.
"Now," l said, summoning back the
! energy l had scattered along the village
streets, 81 am going to have my fun.
You have had yours"
Then l astonished that mastiff. I made
q sudden rally at him and rolled him in
a familiar snow bank. When he recov-
cred he returned the compliment with
direct and overwhelming interest. There
was a confused mass of puppy, girl,an
snow, and for five minutes a storm rag
ed. When we arose the drift was level
+ and the sport was over.
am now competent to give advice to
! young snowshoers. but the ability was
bought at the expense Of the hilarious
enjoyment of an otherwise serious COM
munity. I am now qualified for active
membership in the Goretown Snowshoe
| club and entitled to all its privileges, so
cinl and athletic. The men, Of course,
! enjoy the first, and the girls the second
/ We meet at each others houses, ,variou
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SOME OF THE CUTEST SPRING MILLINERY

PAR IS

Dubarry shape has fat brim, turned
sharply up behind, of colored straw in
mixed tints, crown of ribbon in close
vertical pleats and a sheltering ostrich
plume or two swept over it. The rib
bon crown will be SNOWY in q brilliant
red.
The Lamballe is not very dissimilar
in shape, but is Of felt, constructed
with long bow Of rather narrow rib
bon in front and a loose pleat of wide
sprigged ribbon standing upright
about the crown, these latter now quite
u common arrangement.
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In the Puerto Cabello market turtle
eggs are common and cheap. Fisher
men bring them in from the sand
beaches. where green turtles are caught
in great numbers. The turtles, how
ever. are seldom offered for sale in the
local market. 1t is more profitable to
throw them into the pit of ineXpres-
siblc filth at the side of the lagoon into
which the sewage of the town is poured
where they are held to await a steamer
of the Harrison line that will carry them
away, presumably to London. People
here do not care much for the meat of
the turtle. They prefer that of the
iguana-a huge lizard of astounding
ugliness-and they are right. Not even
terrapin is so good as iguana. But it is
best that one who is at all fastidious
should prove its excellence in stew
The herald., 1896-01-26
ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER.
Pretty Hats from Paris and House Wraps
That Are Gay and Unique.
PADDEDHIPs, NARROW SHOULDERS
Ribbon Crowns for Spring Millinery
Huge Lapels and Shoulder
Flounces-A Midwinter Freak
Is the White Hat.
Copyright 1896. by Bachelor. Johnson B.cheier,

Upon one of New York's great trade
avenues, there is an abomination of
desolation, if desolate that can be call
ed which is busy with men at work
let us rather say desert, yawning with
chasms and pitfalls, bristling with col
umns thrust into the air, criss-crossed
with network Of beams and plate grid
ers and lattice girders and struts and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-10

A CURIOUS PosTMAN.-A Russian
proprietor, several years ago, wishing
to learn the direction of fight of the
many varieties of birds that visited his
estate, caught a certain number Of
these birds, and, attached to their tails
little tubes containing his address, and
request in Russian, French, German,
and English to let him know when and
where these birds should be taken or
killed. No reply came until the pres
ent year, when he received one from
an unexpected and interesting source.
1t was addressed to him by Slatin
Pasha, prisoner of the Mahdi since
the fall of Khartoum, who recently
regained his freedom and appeared at
the Geographical Congress in London.
He states that 10 November, 1892, q
bird was killed in Dongola, which bore q
tube containing paper which was sent
to him to translate. He was overjoyed
to receive letter from Europe, even
In this strange method, and resolved,
if he ever regained his liberty, to reply
to the Russian ornithologist. This he
has done.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-10

A CONSIDERABLE HOsTEss.-The se-
cret of being good hostess is in hid
ing the fact that you are making an
effort to please. The houses to which
you like best to go, are those where
you feel at liberty to look over books
and portfolios, where the piano stands
open, and there are easy chairs without
elaborate cushions.
In preparing for an evening party,
if you expect to have games which
involve real play, put away delicate
bric.a .brac, so that no guest shall have
the misfortune to spoilhis evening and
yours by an accident. Scatter picture
books and single views at the sides of
the room for the benefit of those unfor-
tunates, the wallfowers.
There should always be corner set
apart for those who do not dance, and
this should be large enough for table
at which a game may be played COM
fortably. Look after the shy girls and
boys-that is one of the chief duties of
the hostess. 1t is better to try to bring
them into the general sport than to
devote yourself to their amusement.
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ID. FRIDAY, APRIL TO- 1885,

of a spider encouraged Robert Bruce
to regain his kingdom of Scotland, but
not so many know that according to
Jewish tradition spider saved David's
life. Saul was hunting for him, and
his soldiers approached cave where
David was hidden. Shortly before,
however, spider mad spun her web
at the the mouth of the cave, and the
soldiers taking it for granted that if he
had taken refuge in the cave he must
have broken the web, departed, for
getting the web might have been spun
as we'll after as before his entrance.
A spider saved the life of grand
uncle of the German emperor. Fred
erick William was king of Prussia,
and an attempt was made to poison
him in a cup of chocolate. BY chance
a spider fell into the cup, and for this
reason the monarch gave the choco-
late to dog, which Immediately died.
Inquiry was made, with the result
the cook was hanged, and large spi-
der wrought in gold now decorates
one of the chief rooms of the Winter
Palace at Potsdam in memory of the
kings escape.-London Public Opinion.
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LETTER FROM HICKORY GROVE.

Complaint Against the acknowledgements
The Confederate Veterans.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
HICKORY GROVE, April 8.-For some
time past the merchants here have been
incensed against the railroad people on
account Of their shipments being broken
into and things taken out. Truly can 1t
be said, silence has ceased to be virture,
especially 80, when such practice Is an
every day occurrence. Canned goods gone,
cheese cut, barrels Of apples broken into,
and many other things are charged in this
category, and yet the depredations contin-
ne the same. We call the matter to the
attention of our management, and in
humble supplication ask thatthey give US
relief.
Mr.. Chess Leech has returned to his
school duties at Wofford.
Mrs. James Cobb, who has been con-
fined to the house for several months past,
is improving, and on last Sunday was able
to be at church.
Several of our Confederate veterans
went to Yorkville Monday to participate
in the exercises ofthe day. tits a pleasure
to see these loved and brave men 60 forth
for day of pleasure, for they deserve it.
Faithfully and bravely have they faced
the enemy, fought for our liberties, and
now we should find pleasure in seeing
them again united and unfurl the "Star
sprangle banner" T.
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TALENT AND LABOR.
An Ironical Inquiry Into Their Proper
Application.

An Ironical Inquiry Into Their Proper
Application.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
A man speaking to another short
time ago, remarked /: "If l had your
sense and education l.. would not
work on the farm" I had heard the
same speech many times before, and
the idea is as prevalent as it is perni-
cious. Analyze it and define it and
it would read as follows: "You are
hiding your light under busbel." )"
You are frittering away precious time,
wasting and abusing your intellectual
talents, obscuring the scintillations OF
genius and rendering dormant good
education, by remaining on the farm.
But has talent and education no
place in the avocation of farmer
Is it not essential for farmer to be
a man of excellent sense, sound judg-
ment and fair education in order to
succeed?
Well, not necessarily so; because
there are thousands of farmers, who
are illiterate! Are they successful ?
Are they making good crops and at
the same time enriching their lands,
developing their resources, improving
their homes and managing their busi.
uess in such way as to make it pay
a reasonable per cent. on their invest
ments ?
Well, no; 1 can't say that they are
entirely successful; but they manage
to get along somehow, whereas if they
should engage in any other business
they would make total failure.
What then would you have man
to do who, in your opinion, possesses
some education and talent?
Why take a profession?
Is no, farming profession
Well, no; it's a calling.
What would farmer think. if you
were to call him a professor
Take a profession and thereby Sc
cure for yourself nicer, cleaner, softer,
easier and more honorable position.
Don't stay on the farm where you must
rise early when you ought to be sleep
ing sweetly, and work in all sorts OF
weather, toiling in dirt and slime and
wearing the coarsest clothes. And
besides don't you know that the farms
are crowded to death, while the pro-
fessions are nearly all vacant2
Take a profession and secure for
yourself freedom from manual labor
and the ability to wear kid gloves
and Immaculate linen and live like the
gentleman which nature intended you
to be. Leave it to the masses-to the
other folks-to raise the breadstutts
necessary to feed the millions of the
world. S.
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CHAPTER Y.
THE CURTAIN FALLS.

Squire Fambrough insisted that his
son should 60 to the house and look it
over for the sake Of old times, and
young Clopton went along to keep Miss
Julia company. O'Halloran, Fitzpatrick
and the neg-o staid where they were
the white men smoking their pipes
and the negro chewing thu first "man-
nyfac" tobacco he had seen in many a
day.
The others were not gone long. As
they came back courier was seen rid
ing through the woods at breakneck
speed, going from the Union lines to
those of the Confederates and carrying
white flag. Fitzpatrick hailed him,
and he drew rein long enough to cry
out as he waved his flag:
"Lee has surrendered !"
81 was lookin out for it," said Kill
patrick, "but dang me if hadn It ruther
somebody had "a shot me right spang in
the gizzard. "
Lieutenant Clopton took out his pock-
etknife and began to whittle stick.
John Fambrough turned away, and his
sister leaned her hands on his shoulder
and began to weep. Squire Fambrough
rubbed his chin thoughtfully and sighed.
''It had to be, father" the captain
said. cts piece of news that brings
peace to the land"
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"We are just turnin our backs, sor."
branch of a tree he drew line several
yards in length between himself and
Fitzpatrick.
"D'ye see that line there?" he said
to the negro.
"Dat ar mark: Oh, yasser, sees de
mark. "
every we'll On that side Of the lire
ye are in slavery--on this side the line
ye are free" E"
"Who? Me?"
"Who else but ye?''
81 been hear talk er freedom, but I
amt seed 'er yit, ali I dunner how she
feel" The negro scratched his head
and grinned expectantly.
'Tis as 1 tell ye," said the Irish
man.
"I b'lieve I'll step cross an see how
she feel" The negro stepped over the
line and walked up and down as if to
test the matter physically. " 'Tain't
needer no hotter ner no colder on dis
81 de dan what tits on dat" he remark
ed. Then he cried out to his young mas
ter: Look at me, Marse Dave Henry.
I'm free now."
"All right.
The young man waved his hand with
out taking his eyes from the letter he
was reading.
"He take it mos too easy fer ter suit
me-" said the negro. Then he called
out to his young master again: "Oh,
Marse Dave Henry! Don't you tell mis-
tiss dat been free, kaze she'll take a
bresh broom an run me Off de place
when I 60 back home"
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EASILY ExPLAINED.-"Sam, how is
il that here we have two legs presum-
ably off the same chicken, and yet
one is about 100 per cent. tougher than
the other ?n
"Always the case with chicken, sab ;
one leg has about 100 per cent. more
work to do than de oder, and de mus.
cles consequently git tougher"
"Wby, I never heard of that.
Which one is it?"
"De one de chicken sleeps on, sah."
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milton of the judicial functions Of his Of
fee, was invited to take seat beside the
Judge on the bench. The appearance and
demeanor. Of the young lawyer named
Evarts attracting his attention, he said to
Judge Kent, "Who is that young gentle
manP'
"His name Is Evarts, " replied the Judge,
"and think he has the making Of Law
yer In him."
1t was the famous William NJ. Evarts,
since then admittedly at the head Of the
American bar.
Edwards was convicted and sentenced to
ten years. imprisonment, mainly upon the
testimony Of Recorder Vaux. At the close
Of the trial the prisoner, with studied po-
Nnteness, looked Mr.. Vaux piercingly in the
eyes. "I am glad to have this opportuni-
ty Of speaking to you," he said. II want
to say one thing to you that Is important
sfor you to remember. am going to kill
you the moment I come out Of Sing Sing.
/ give you this notice as from one gentle
man to another"
~ nm very thankful to You, Colonel Ed
wards" replied the recorder, with the
same politeness, "for giving me this time
" notice. 1t is very gentlemanly Of you
to do 80. will give you the opportunity
at any time you desire. I have only done
my duty and am prepared to take the con-
sequences. I only ask Of you that when
you make the attempt you will look me In
the face"
I As Mr.. Vaux said these words he gazed
f1edly into the forger's face. The man
turned white and trembled, for he read In
his captor's countenance the justifable de-
termination to kill him should he ever dare
to face him after his release. Not another
word was spoken between them, for at that
moment the officers led the prisoner away.
He never attempted to carry his threat In
to effect, for he died in prison in January,
l847.
As q sequel to the trial came the duel
between Tom Marshall and Colonel James
Watson Webb. Marshall was member OF
congress at the time Of the Edwards trial,
and for defending the brilliant criminal at
the same time that he was representative
Of the American people in Washington he
was severely criticised by Colonel James
Watson Webb in the columns OF the New
York Courier and Enquirer, Of which jour
nal that gentleman was the editor. In his
address to the jury Marshall answered the
newspaper criticism In that bitter style OF
invective Of which he was the master. This
led to q challenge and meeting on the so
called "fleld of honor" The congressman
shot the famous editor In the knee and
lamed him for rhfe.-Clncinnah Enquirer.