Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican, 1873-11-20

forbidding. She went around, and 1 dropping on her knees beside him, slipped her arms about his neck, say- t ing: j 44 Oh, John, I wish you'd promise me ^ you'd never drink no more whisky." "That's most too hard on a fellow; c but I'll promise not to?not drink too j mnch ag'in." * " But I'm afeared that wouldn't do 1 no good." } 44 You talk like you thought I hadn't \ sense enough to Btop when I've got " enough, if I try," he exclaimed. 44 O, John, don't talk bo; you know J you promised me that nigh onto a year 1 ago; but you think you'll just take one dram, and then just one more,and afore * you know it, it's too mnoh. If you'd 1 only promise now that you'd never taste ? nary drop ag'in." 1 Still he kept his eyes steadily turned . away from hers. . * " Don't you mind, now," she went on, 44 how your mother said one time, 41 reckon, Nancy, you count John a mighty rough chap, but he's all right at the core;' and don't you mind how she used to pray for yen in them old r times? Don't you mind the eveuing f we heard her praying down by the old ^ spring ? If she's watching you among t the Btars, how proud she'd be to hear j you promise. And, John," she con- e tmued, dropping her voice to a whisper, j 441 pray, too, sometimes. I haven't r never told yon, but I've been feeling right serious here of late. I've taken { to readin' my Bible, and I've just made up my mind to live better'n I used to ; g aud pray for you, too, and it seems like j God hears me." And she laid her head T on his shoulder to hide her tears. v His arms slipped around her, but he i still kept his eyes turned stubbornly ]

sr. Y ?' -? ?k ? ck to her: " If you bo dress jour legs anc feet that the blood can't get down intc ;n. them, where can it go ? It can't go oul ed visiting; it must stay in the systeit y somewhere. Of course the chest anc ?t. head must have an excessive quantity, ad So they go * bumpety-bump,' and sc ly thev must go, until yen dress your legi it, and feet in such a way that they shal he get their share of blood." In the cold' an est season of the year I leave Boston fo: vn a bit of a tour before the lyceums? 'yt going as far as Philadelphia, and ridinf much in the night, without an overooat iat but I give mv legs two or three timet to their usual dreAs. During the coldesl weather, men may wear, in addition t< ad their usual drawers, a pair of chamois nt shin drawers with great advantage, be When we ride in a sleigh, or in the cars us where do we suffer? In our legs og of course. Give me warm legs anc a feet, and I'll hardly thank you for ar en overcoat. of My dear madam, have you a head ache, a sore throat, palpitation of th< ed heart, congestion of the liver, or indi gestion ? Wear one, two or three pain of warm, woolen stockings, and thiok, 5r. warm shoes, with more or less reduc ho tion in the amount of dress about yoiu n- body, and you will obtain the same re in lief permanently that you would deriv< p. temporarily from a warm foot-bath. >w I must not forget to SAy that a thir g. layer of India-rubber cement upon th< 3d boot-sole will do much to keep the bot lis torn of the feet dry and warm.

10 ascena mac stairway ; n was nut yui< on fire. Only the smoke troubled me a bn little. Had I waited a minute longer, f)oor little Louise would have been J1 ost." At the reopening of the seminary, a ofl few months later, M. Barreguin asked Mademoiselle Heloise to step forward, th and presented her, in the name of King on Louis Philippe, a handsome gold medal co for saving a human life, and praised th her courage and devotion in eloquent th terms of enthusiasm. th The girl thus honored blushed deeply, and when tho hall in which the opon- laj ing ceremonies were held resounded th with heart-felt applause, Mademoiselle co Heloise was more confused than at that in; memorable mem out when she had rush- Hi ed into the flames. all Among the spectators on this occa- mi sion was a yonng officer of the garrison of Limoges, who seemed to be deeply interested in the heroine of the day. jr. He asked what her full name was, and or was told that she was the daughter of w( M. Antoine Gilbert de Morin, Seigneur jj0 de Valleau. ^ This information made the inquirer mi somewhat thoughtful. Perhaps the fact that M. De Morin was one of the wealthieit and proudest noblemen of the surroundiug country had something to . do with this. Captain M'Muhon (that was the name se' of the young officer), however, was not ? v much disturbed by this information. ^ True, he was then but a captain in the French army, and had nothing but his pay to depend on, but then he had ex- toi cellent prospects of once becoming rich; Tr Viin fnmilv was us nld. if not older, than be

U iur, ui auoviU) v * ve thousand dollars a side forfeit has en put up, aud the match will come f six weeks from next Christmas. The farmers in Illinois are running e thing on An economical plan. At e of their conventions in Effingham unty they made the candidates pledge emselves to perform tho duties of eir offices at $1,200 each, and furnish eir own assistants. At Clerkenwell Police Court, in Engid, a few days since, the manager of e Newcastle Colliery Company was nvicted of having knowingly sold an ferior quality of coals for a gocd one. 9 was lined X10 and costs, with the ternative of one month's imprisonsnt. An exchange says: "Out of seven indred and fifty redingotes seen upon e street, only three were of a style quality that did not disfigure the :arer. Yet they are fashionable and imely, and can be made expensive? ree things that commend them to a ijority of the sex. The sardine fisheries in France at esent employ 20,000 sailors and some .000 men, women, and children on id to prepare the fish for market. It ems that the catch is now diminishing ery year, and the almost complete dure of the fish may be anticipated no remote period. Professor Hitchcock states that tho tal area of the coal Melds of the lited States amounts to 230,669 miles, sides the strata which belong to lior formations than the carbonifers, as for instance those of Virginia, the territories west of the Missouri rer, and those in California. England has received news of the dcrture from Australia of a ship loaded 1 *- ?- ? A ??J /wnnlt 1i*t ? nonr in -

by Female Heroes. P(I * Two noblo women, yonng and beauti |ie fill, named Mattic Stevenson and Litlt lis Wilkinson, are lying ill of the fever ai 11" the Walthall Infirmary, Memphis, tin ^ victims of their own disinterestedness irc and philanthropy. The former, a na h0 tive of Illinois, was visiting som< he friends in Bloomiugton when intollihy genco that Memphis was in distresi reached her. Saying nothing of whai , she intended to do, she immediately ?, set out for that city, and, reaching it, ,offered her services to tha President oi , the Howard Association. She was bui ^ nineteen or twenty years of age, and in ? experienced in such duties as she would 1 have to undertake should her offer b( '? accepted. At first the President was I inclined not to accept her services, bui * she insisted and she was sent to the , Lenher House to await orders. Thai *' night a Scotchwoman, ill of the fever, , was delivered of a child, and there wai no nurse at hand. Dr. Blackburn sent V to the Lehner House for one, and Mist Stevenson volunteered. She nursed ' the poor patients tenderly until they died, and then went to the aid of othj ers, nursing an old man and woman it ne Main street who had that very morning taken four orphan children under tlieii protection, two of whom were also now , ill. Afterwards she was sent to a houst " in Sullivan street to take charge of live lie The severe labor she under' a went told upon her system, and sh< liorHolf wn? striplcpn down find tnlrnn if

urop jubl ai uayngm.. oonu jump >ff and -was the first to reach the feri 3e had never seen Atchison so qni< kVith the exception of those who h trossed on the ferry and a few eai isers who were hurrying up the stre? ;he town seemed asleep; but as jassed Commercial street, he saw a m rho was riding a mule, coming do\ n great haste, who cried out, "How d' rohn ?" "Why, Jake!" he replied, "is th rou ? I allowed you was half way Denver afore now." %" We started yesterdav, but we h; i powerful storm on the prairie o lere, last night. We chanced to iglit near to a house and they let n; but it sent our wagons rollii >ver and across the prairie, like jatch of tumble-weeds, and our ox ire all stampeded; I'm on the hunt em. " It don't look like it had reach' \tchison." " No ; I reckon it ju?t took a streak John hurried on down the riv< Hie road ran so near the bank that t iteady swash of the water seemed u ler his feot. Thebirds were singing he trees, and the sunshine came crec ng down the bluffs overhead. He ager he was to get hoaie that mornin lis heart was full of new plans ai lew purposes. Ho could keep li iromise, and he would ; he would nev cake Nancy's heart ache again 1 ireaking that promise. He stoppi uddenly?had the storm reached Sui icr? The tall buildings along t' rharf were leaning roofless, one tl; ray, another that; as if the wind, coi ner over the bluffs, had reached i ii

" She is a dear, good wife," thought he; rtwhat a scoundrel I was to make her e feel so budly." He knew that he had h been rough to her the night before. He t wished he could remember what he h said. Of course, he never got dead 1 drunk, but he wished he ever could let s whisky alone. c His breakfast was just to his liking, 1 and his wife as cheerful as if he was the t best man in the world. He wanted to t say something pleasant to break the 8 awkward silence, but he did not know c how to begin. He had an uncomfort- 1 able feeling that he ought to beg her 1 pardon, but, being a man, of course he t did not condescend to that. At length ^ he begau by saying, " You was right ^ peert about your breakfast this morn- 8 mg, Nancy." T "Oh, I allowed most likely you'd 8 want to get off soon," she answered. "Yes, Jones wants us theie ag'in' 1 sun-up. It's only a fifty-log raft; reckon 8 we can get it down to Leavenworth I ag'in' the nigt train starts, and I'll get ^ right on, and be back to Atchison afore 1 day. Don't catch me foolin' away an- 8 other day 'round that old fort." " Oh, John ! I'm so proud"?she ? paused abruptly, for his eyes dropped fwith a look of conscious shame. What mood was he in ? Would it do to speak then ? He had shoved back from the c table, and there was a serious, far-away t lrt/Vt in liia Avps hnt nothinc sullen or ? -

oar, j usi across lue wp ox me xorcsi; uii the low eastern shore. Scattered through the hollow and up the 6ides of the bluffs were divers houses, from the pretentious Gothic dwelling on the northern hill and the brick business houses down street, to log cabins and cottonwood shanties ; while the road that wound up the bed of the ravine was lined with a long, white train of Denver-bound freight-wagons. She reached the steep main street to find it filled with wagons that had been turned crosswise of the street to rest the teams. But*edging her way close to the clay bank, sho reached the river just as the steamer was leaving the wharf. The snorting of the engine and the shouting of the deck-hands, together with the puffing of the mill near by, was too much for baby bravery, and Sammy's lips began to quiver. Catching him in her arms, his mother sat down on a saw-log, saying, " There, there, honey, don't be afcared; be puppy's man, now." The tide-waves of the receding boat sank lower and lower on the sand; the gay crowd that leaned over the guards grew indistinct, and sho peered more and more eagerly in among the tall Cottonwood trees on the opposite shore. At length four men came out of the woods and, entering a skiff, started across the river. She watched the skiff anxiously, for it frequently disappeared between the waves which were raised by the pf HAnAi c/Mitli wrin/1 ounli witwlu Knl/M^er.