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'Tis to be born; A helpless babe to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, Wish sunny smiles between-and then And then apace the infant grows To be a laughing, sprightly boy, Happy, despite his little woes. Were he but conscious of his joy! To be, in short, from two to ten, A merry, moody child and then? And then in coat and trousers clad. To learn to say the decalogue, And break it, an unthinking lad, With mi th and mischief all agog; A truant oft by field and feu, And capture butterfies-and then? And then, increased in- strength an size, To be, anon, a youth full grown, A hero in his mother's eyes, A young Apollo in his own; To imitate the ways of men In fashionable sin-and then ? And then, at last, to be a man, N To fall in love, to woo and wed! With seething brain to scheme an plan To gather gold or toil for breati; To sue for fame, with tongue and pei And gain or lose the prize-and then And then in gray and wrinkled ohi, To mourn the speed of life's declin To praise the scenes our youth behel And dwell in memory of lang syrw To dream awhile with darkened ken, To drop into his grave-and then? -John G. Saxe. OUT OF DARKNESS~-LIGHT, -0 BY AL. SYDNEY. -0 "What an awfully jolly place thi world is, I am sure!" exclaimed voice from a pleasant bank where girl's form lies with prostrate grac half buried in the spring grass. don't see what there is to make pe ple look so miserable. I am. sure could not be anything but hippy especially on such a splendid ds as this. And yet-but there.-it stupid of me to care what they si about old Jeffries. He is old ,enouc to be my father-and his sons a getting on in years-bah! I dova care for him at all-" "Oh!" The girl raised herself on h( arm and saw standing pretty clo: to where she had been lying young man handsome as A-'il and evidently one endowed wit all the manly graces. "I wonder if he heard all I ha' been saying,'' she thought, an alond she exclaimed: 'Oh, Fred is that you ?" "Yes ! and I was nearly fallix over you, the grass almost hid yC from sight." The young man sat down on stump opposite to the mound ( which pretty Grace Maitland ha now seated herself. "I don't think you are very plea to see me," angraciously e: dFred. "If only it had bee Fd ting !" interrupt ~'her fair face fins] ing w"u always w throw th ~th." "Well, G :, yo his safely tied jyou, although he an old man.' "You are a. fbad as the rest. expect it was you that told mx aunt that I flirted disgracefully "No ! I did not. Your aunt to] me she thought your flirtation we too serious." "You nasty-disagreeable-thing I hate you-there !" exclaimed th young lady. Grace turned to walk away, whei suddenly a shot was heard. TiE id girl as she was. She graspe Fred's arm and asked excitedly "What was that ?'' "Only old Jeifries or so;me of hi sons out shooting. I expect. Wh; dont you join the happy family. "You make us hate him, Grac' by the way you go together," ax swered Fred. "What business is it of yoursi I marry him to-miorrow ?'' fiashe Grace Maitland. "You force me to speak plainly Grace. That. man is false-he wa faise to his first wife, and does no mean to be true to you. I kno' you think I am pr-ejudiced-becaus you know I love you-yes-hea me now-love -you with a passiox ate love that Jeffries is incapab] of feeling. If: you cannot love m in return-t'tsen at least let me b your brother-to give you advice "And irmult everyone I care for, interrup'.ed the girl. "No !. a thousand times no ! you lo~ved a man worthy of yon', wonM advis. you to marry bit sead Al me kAMd was temalang." "Noble, chivalrous man ! sneered Grace, and then in a more friendly tone she said: "Fred, don't be angry with me. Will you do me the favor of telling my aunt that ] am going to the city and shall not return until evening." Fred felt that this was a polite dismissal and taking the hint, he left the satirical young lady tc journey alone. Late in the evening Grace Mait. land returned from New York tc her aunt's house at Monclair. The shades were down and the house seemed as though funeral sadness reigud supreme. "Where is Miss Leslie ?" asked Grace as the servant girl opened the door. "Upstairs, Miss Grace." Grace Maitland ran upstairs, but on the !1nding was stopped by hei aunt, who with stern voice com manded her to be quiet. I "What is the matter aunt ? Did not Fred tell you that I was gone to New York ?" "Yes !" answered Miss Leslie, "And it is the last message he will ever carry for you." "Oh, no, it is not !" laughed the girl; when he gets over.his sulks h( will be all right." "Then he will have to rise out ol d his coffin." "What ?" Grace almost shrieked "Why you and your old lovei have killed him. Why do yot ? stand there ? Don't you know h( has been shot by old Jeffries ?" The girl staggered away from hei aunt, not knowing whether to be lieve her or not, for Miss Lesli4 was given to exaggeration at times On her way to her room, however Grace met one of the servants com ing out of a room with a shee rolled up in her arms. Stains o blood were distinctly seen on it Grace looked on the stains with be wilderment, and with a shriek whic could be heard half a mile awal fell to the floor in a dead faint. It was morning before she re gained consciousness, and then sh< realized that Fred was the one shi loved-and he was dead. Shi would go to him. There could be no unmaideul: conduct in telling the poor deal body Now much she had loved him e, Perhaps the spirit of the dea< man Would hear and know, and tha might be some poor consolation. THE VARIETIES OF LAUGH .. TER. FROM THE HE H GIGGLE TO THE THOt s.4D ACRE GUFFAW. It Brooklyn Eagle. There is the hearty laugh, th convulsive laugb, the be-he laugi r and the uproairons, almost-tumble eout of-the-chair laugh. There wa the laugh of Prince Hal, who wa ,said to laugh "till his face is like h wet cloak-ill, lai up." There i the incipient lang '. which is not elaugh but a : aile. The lat dCharles Backus, it1. minstrel, whc it will begremembe:-ed, had a ver; large mouth, was once having hi gphotograph taken. The operato Utold him to look pleasant, to smil a littl'e. The famous minstrel gav an .elaborate smile. "Oh, tha i will never do!' said the photograpli er, It's too v,id.e for the instrumeni Speaking c-i a western actres - the reporter wrote: "Her smil - opened out litLe the Yosemite valle in a May mo:ning." When Mis Marie Wilton, the English actre.* played Hester Grazebrook in thi "Unequal Mat oh," .her laugh wa 1said to be of the character tha f rrt as it were looks out of th eyes to see if the course was clea2 BIthen steals down into a pretty din pIe of the cheek and rides there i an ed3dy for the while; then waltze at the corners of the mouth like ting of life; then bursts its bond of beauty and fills the air for a mc mert with a shower of silver tong ned echoes and then steal 'back to its lair in the heart t watch again for its prey." Hoi differei it from the kind of laugh c Prince ..Woare, a friend of riayde: the paint'-er. This gentleman wa a delica te, feeble.looking mal with a timid expression of fact and when he laughed heartily b almost seemed to be crying. 'It runs r.n famiilie-s sometimest distort the coe,nte:ance in laughtea Mr. Laboutchere6 s peaks of a famil who laugh a 'greet -deal, and wh always shut thei- eyes when the do so. It is fuinny .at the dinne table, when somnething witty is sai to look around and se;e the sam ditrto of every face. There: trio of sisters is spoke iofyw showhal aninch of pale pin gums when they laugh. In thea -presence, like Wendell Holme eone "never da?es to boas fu1no7 a eone can," for fear of seeing thero applauding tripe of gums. laugh is sometimes only a snee Diogenes, of tu~b nototrIety, saW good deal of -this kind of laughte fSome one said to hira', "Mar Ipeople laugh at you." "But I ~,he quickly remarkd, 'ama n lauhari rna" SIX-LEGGED -OLICEMEN. THE ARRT OF A DRUNEEN ANT---SOME THING ABOUT ANIMAL PRISONS AND PRISONnS. - "Just cast your eye over this," said a naturalist. "There is evi dence that among the animals there is a police department or an ambu lance corps, one or the other." The reporter closed one eye, holding it shut with one hand, and with the other gazed through a powerful magnifier. He saw three ants, and one was apparently in a very maudlin condition. It raised its legs in the air, waved its head to and fro like an elephant, and ev inced a decided desire to walk back ward. In the mean time the other two ants were vainly endeavoring to coax it along, at first caressing st with their antenna, and finally, as if out of patience, seizing it and marching it off out of the range of vision. "That," said the naturalist, "is a case of 'drunk and disorderly; $10 or ten days.' I fed the ant on sweetened rum, so that it was act ually drunk; then I admitted two sober ants to see if they would take care of it, and you see they have done so. "The idea of intoxicating ante is originl with Sir John Lubbock. He found that ants nearly always L arrested other ants that he had made drunk. In fact, if you asked me what was the most intelligent animal next to man I shobld say - the ant. No, not, because he will get drunk, but for a thousand rea sons. , "Do you sppose ants imprison - their kind for offences?" asked tho L reporter. r "There is no doubt of it," was the reply, "as they imprison vast numbers of insects for various 1 reasons. In fact, the lower ani r mals have their prisons and pris oners as well as we do. Of course - they are a little different, but we 3 must allow for a difference in tastes. 3 Everybody knows how ants make prisoners of various species of ap hides, and slaves of their own kind. One of the most remarkable I cases of imprisonient is that of - the bird horn bill, so called from the wonderful development of its t bill, which is only used in erush ing fruit. The breading season is probably not looked forward to with any great degree of pleasure by the birds, as it is a period of close imprisonment for the mother and of great labor for the father bird. As the time approaches the female searches for a hollow tree, and, having formed a rude nest, takes her place within. The male. now flies. away and returns with his bill full of mud, which it plas Sters about tbe opening of the neat. BLoad after load is thus brought and laid on until the crevice is comn pletely plastered up, with .the ex ception of a single orifice large enough to admit the bill of the prisoner. The mud soon hardens, and the bird is firmly enclosed, and so remains until the young are r hatched and well grown. The Smale bird is not a hard jailer, how e ever, but works to obtain food for t its mate, so that she comes out of prison in much better condition than her unfortunate jailer. "Trees are not the only prisons," continued the speaker. "In marine life there is no end of prisons and prisoners. For example, here is the beautiful sponge called Venus's flower basket which grows in east era seas. They are unsightly ob jects when first taken up, the rich sheeny silvery framework that we see lying merely the skeleton of .the sponge, so to speak. So much like basket work is this skeleton that when they were first brought to Europe they were supposed to be the work of men, and so brought fabulous prices. In this one that I have you see there are two pris oner crabs, but how did they get in! Each is as large as the end of your little, finger, and the largest ~hole in the skeleton is not larger than a pinhead." "The reporter gave it up. "The truth is," said the natura list, "that the crabs are prisoners for life, and have served out a life sentence. In their younger days these crabs are called by different L natnes, and in one stage-the zoea-they are extremely small, and live a roaming sort of life. o During this time our crabs must have crawled through the minute d windo w of the living sponge, and were unable to get .out. The spnegrew, and so did the crabs. Finally the spogg 'ished up, o and the animal washed k away, leavin silvery prison with prisoners r crawling s eat a puzzle York Stae ;~in Jant r, w ~g Nally d1iO give hear * ~uncom IheActs that Court A r- are -"V on . lat rest. wn at tl sb e. P rps livej BE MIGHTY PATIENT WITH CHILDREN. BiU Arp. Parents and teachers ought to be mighty patient with children. Seme have more capacity and some more memory. Some are slow and some are quick. It is not the smart est child that makes the smartest man or woman. It is a powerful strain on some of 'em to keep up, and the dull ones oughtn't to be crowded until they hate books and and dread the time of going to school. Some folks send their children to school to get rid of 'em, but my opinion is the parents ought to help the teacher every night. It shows the children how much interest they feel in their ed ucation. It is a sign of a good teacher when the children get am bitious to keep up and get head marks, and bring their books home at night and want to go to school if it is raining a little. Wrap 'em up and let 'em go. Thre is nothing that demoralizes a school-boy like staying at home every few days and getting behind the class. We used to walk three miles to school, and we never mind ed it at all. It was a frolic all the way there' and all the way back and we did have the best dinner in the world. Delmonico never has as good things as our mother, used tofix up for us. It seems to meso now. A child's life is full of ro mance and fun-the best sort of fan. A child's dreams are splen did, but we don't dream now, hard ly ever. I used to read Robinson Crusoe and dream it all over again. How I did long to be ship wrecked on an island and raise monkeyy and goats and parrots. Slow children are generally sure children, but they don't show off much. Daniel Webster was raost always foot in his class, 'but when he learned anything he never for got it. Some boys qre wild and restless and have no love of- books, but they oughtn't to be given up backed or abused continually. If they have good parents they will come to themselves after awhile. It is astonishing how humiliation will follow a boy. One time a boy stole a quarter of a dollar from another boy at school, and that followed him to his grave. He got to be a great man and was thirty years in congress and was a senator and one day when he made a bitter speech against the corruption of the opposite party and denounced their stealing and .plundering by wholesale, one of his opponents replied by saying he would remind the gentleman that preachers of morality ehould come into the pulpit with clean hands that Ben Franklin said, "He that would steal a pin would steal a big ger thing," and he asked no quar ter from the gentleman on that score. go, boys, remember and keep your hands clean. Folks will for give mischief and a heap of other things, but they won't forgive mean ness. WANTFED A WHPING.-I know a pair of boys beside whom even Helen's Babies must have dwindled and grown tame. NTaughty, wilful, mischievous, loving little scamps. They were at times as soundly thrashed as a rather soft-hearted father would permit. For a time they would mind; but they "would't stay minded," to use a childish ex pression. Nothing seemed so for cible a method of punishment as tak ing away their spending-money-a few pennies each day. For some particular grievous of fense this was resorted to two or three days before the Fourth of July, and great was their grief and indig nation. Very early the next morning the father, who had visited this upon them, was awakened by hearing them at the chamber door crying. "Boyst'' "Oh, papa !" "Boys-go back to your room!" "Oh, papa-dear papa-won't you please give us our pennies and go back to the whippings ?" IBBEsoUIoN.Irresolution is a fatal habit ; it is not vicious in itself, but it leads to vice, creeping upon its victims with a fatal facility, the penaltyof whrch many a fine heart has paid on the scaffold. The idler, the spendthrift, the epicure, and the drunkard are among its victime. Perhaps-in the latter its effect ap pears in the most hideous forn. He knows that the goblet he is about to drain is poison, yet he swallows it. He knows-for the example of thousands has painted it in glaring colorsthat it will deaden all his faculties, take the strength from his heart, oppress him with disease, and hurry his progress to a 'dis honored grave, yet he drains it. How beautiful, on the contrary, is the power of resolution, enabling the one who possesses it to pass through perils and dangers, trials and temptations ! Avoid the oon traction of tbe habit of irresolo tiin. Bsuikm -sgsingb I te lb. Lu A QWEEK HABITATIO3. AN OLD SEA CAPTAIN'S HOUSE BUILT OUT OF SHIPWRECKS. There is a queer little nook down on the coast below Santa Barbara, into which a repopter found his way a few days ago. It is the wreck of a vessel, perched high among the sandhills upon the Palos Verdes rancho upon the shores~of San Pe dro bay. It is the home of a viva cious, eccentric individual, an old salt named Captain J. F. Janes, who boasts of having met and van quished, single-handed, the repre sentatives of the most powerful mo nopoly on the Pacific coast. "Come and see my museum," said Janes to the reporter, who was weather bound on San Pedro wharf, with the mercury steadly crawling up above the one hundredth degree. "It is a queer place, but I ain't ashamed of it, and its cooler down here; beside, I want to show you my lawsuits. I have twenty-eight of them nailed upon the wall, and each one repre sents money." The "queer place" was found in a dry arroyo, or sandy gulch, upon the north side of San Pedro harbor. It is a handsome, square house, with a piazza extending all around it and a flagstaff surmounting the whole. At a distance it presents the ap pearance of a tasty little hotel, and over the top can be seen painted upon the stern of some wrecked ship the words "Ocean Villa." It is only. when one enters the neat little en closure about the house that its true character is observable. The house and it whole surroundings are made up of portions of wrecks. The garden fence, the plants, the orna ments all around bear the signs of the sea. The house is a combina tion of bulwarks, bulkheads, lock ers and cabins. The -principal room is the cabin of some first-class ship; the room above it is the cabin of a bark. The kitchen is the galleys of a wrecked merchantman, and each and all of the many apartments are either cabins, wheelhouses or cook ing galleys transferred from dis mantled craft wrecked upon the bay. No two rooms are alike, and all are constructed so -as to- preserve their original appearance on the ship they were built upon. Some are finished in natural woods and some are ceiled with wood of the m.ost expen sive character. It is, in fact, a house made up of wrecks gathered together by- Cap tain Janes, as a water man on the south coast during ten'years. The principal p&tions of the house are from a wreck-of the Adelaide Coop er, which was cast ashore during a southeaster about three years ago. The interior walls are covered with marine curiosities gathered by sail ors in all portions of the world. The collections of handwork made by sailors is perhaps the best on this coast. The models of ships and quaint carvings are splendid. The most remarkable curiosity of all is a large star formed out of legal documents from the courts and sheriff's office, and nailed upon the wall. "Those papers," said Captain Janes, in explanation, "are my lawsuits. I keep them on exhibition like an Indian does his scalps. Those are suits I have had brought against me by the Southern Pacific and by General Phineas Banning to drive me away from this spot. I have defied them all and have whipped 'em. I am here yt' and here's my boats, those three little sloops anchored in front of my house. I own this land and the water front, and all I have about me is paid for. W?en me and my wife came here we had not a dollar, and -we lived in a tent made out of an old sail. Now I am independent and next month shall start a news paper, the San Pedro Slapping Ga zetti. I am no scholar, never went to school; I am a sailor, but I have made up my mind to grow rich with San Pedro."-Santa Barbara (Cal.) Independent. Never give a promise that you do not intend to fulfil. -Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without oteu pation; the growth of his fallow na tre is apt to run to weeds. With good humor and kindness a man is more agreeable in the world than with a superior intel let deviod of gayety and goodness. A man who is able toemploy him self innocently is never miserable. It is the idle who are wretched. If I wanted to inflict the greatest punishment on a fellow c reature, I would shut him alone in a dark room without employment. - "Etiquette now admits of a sec ond plate of~ soup." This is all right, bat~ if a man's apeiewill not admit of a second paeof soap, etiquette irsworth otig to him. Religion gives part of its reward in hand, . the present comfort of havin done oar duty; and for the rest, itffers us the best security zha .~an fs.~ Advertisemene inserted at the rate Ot 11.00 psnam (one inch) for first hertion, Lnd centa for each subsequent insertion. - Double column advertisements ten per. cent Dn above. Notices of meetings,obituaries andtribtes Df respect, same rates per square as odinaRZy dvertisements. Sp'l Notices in Local column 15 cent Advertisements not marked with the na. ber of insertions wf be kept- in tMforbid and chared accordigly. Special contracts made with large advar tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates JOB R"AffIvW DONE WITH NEATNEss AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. From the Charleston News and Conrier. THE LATE LEGISLATURE. YNOPSEs OF soxt VERY IPOR TANT ACT. An Act providing the manner in which joint debtors may separately *ompound their indebtedness: SECTION 1. That any joint deli or may make a separate composi ion with his creditor as preseribed n this section. Such a compost ion shall discharge the debtor naking i.t, and him only. The com >ounding debtor a release of the ndebtedness or other instrument onerating him therefrom. A mem er of a partnership cannot thus ompound for a partnership debt intil the partnership has been dis-. olved by mutual consent or other wise. In that case the instrument must release or exonerate him from di liability incurred by reason-of iis cqpnection with the partner hip. 'An instrument specifed in ;his Act shall not impair a credi- - or's right of action against any ther joint' debtor or his right to take any other proceeding agoinst ,he latter, unless an interest to re ease or exonerate him appears affirmatively upon the facethereof SEC. 2. An instrument specified in the last section shall be deemed I satisfaction piece for the purpose Df satisfying any judgvnent repot red- upon an indebtedness released :r discharged thereby, as far S the judgment effects the compounding debtor. When a judgment is satis fed thereby a special entry must be made upon the judgment roll to the effect that the judgment is satisfied as to the compounding debtor only. SEC. 3. Where a joint debtor ba thus compounded, a joint debj,r who has not compounded m aak any defence or countereWM- 6r have any other relief assagisst the '. creditor to which he would have been entitled if the campositios had not been made.. He may -require the - compoundyg debtor; to contribute his ratable proportion of the joint debt or of the partnership debte as the case may be,-as if the latter had '' not been discharged, andtihe btgr who has not compounded wi creditor. may sg up byway of count against, ;seh creditor tbso amount compouided by bis joint' debtor. LOCAL ol'TION. An Act to amend Section 1,74~ of the General Statutes relating t - elections for the granting otlicense for the sale of intoxicatinug liquors: SECTION 1. Tht Section 1,746 of the General Statutes be and the same is' herebg antended by strik ing out the words "forth esuing year" at the enid of the said section. and "inserting in lieu thereof the - following:i "For two .years next succeeding such- election," so that said section shall resad: "When ever a -number of the citizens of ~ any incorporated city, town ii lage in this State, equal third of the number of vt0s~ in the next precdeding uml4~ election. th'erein, shal, in on or before the '1ftsiith d~o November in aniy year, ~iinb an election upon the question II cense' br 'no license' for the s o7f intoxicaing liquors therein the council of such city, town or 'Blaga is hereby authorized and requfre& to-submit such question to the qualifed electors of such city, town or village, at a special electioito . be held therein on or about the 1st day of December following-: and if a majority of said electors votain favor of 'license,' then the council of such city, iowR or vtilage sliaUgrant - license according to the laws now of force in the State for the sale of liquors in such city, town or village for two years next succeeding such election; but if a majority- of said electors vote in'- favor of 'no license' then it shall be unlay ful for the council of such oly. town or village so votingh grail. any license for the sale -of any'. spirituous or intoxicating liguors, bitters or fruits prepared with such liquors for two years nex*t se ceeding such election." TRIAL JUSTICEs. An Act to amendan Act ent1t1i - "An Act to increase the n1uabert Trial Justices in the Codaeusti Anderson, Colleton,- Spatsbg and Edgefleld," approved' Dseei er 2, 1882: - Be it:eatdbyteSn House, ofReeenais f State of Sonth Carolins, no ept and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority o thssal SECIIOI 1. T13a% 511 Aenti-e "An Act to increase the nuinberofg trial justie in the countim ofM derson, Col.leton, Spartanburg and Edgeeld," qppened. Decmber 2$ 1882, be -ad thes .Sai s hereby amended by striking out the word "fifteen" in the third -line thereof Gad insrting the ir4"dseventee