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THE GAZETTE.
jSTew Sei ies.
ROMANCE IN NAPLES.
From the London News.]
Our correspondent at Rome writes :
Miss Vernieri, still in her teens, has lost
her father, and lives with her mother in
Salerno. She is beautiful, clever, and
accomplished, and inherits 120,000 du
cats, or about half a million lire. Her
mother is completely under the power of
the family physician, Dr. Cosimati, who
poses as protector of the widow and or
phan. Eligible offers of marriage are
made to Miss Vernieri, but are skillfully
staved off by the doctor and bis dupe,
the mother, their object being to enjoy
the administration of the young lady’s
means, of which the mother was simply
the depository, and of which the pros
pective son-in-law would become abso
lute master. At length Miss Vernieri
attained her majority, and her guardians
anticipated her intentions of matrimony
by proposing to her as her fiance her
first cousin. This young gentleman, re
sided in Naples, and thither the mother,
daughter, and family doctor repaired to
arrange the nuptials. The youth, how
ever, found no favor, in the eyes of Miss
Vernieri,who, on the contrary,became des
perately enamored of a young advocate
whom she met under the roof of an aunt
in Naples. Her passion was reciprocated,
and the mother's opposition made the
daughter only more resolute in her de
termination to marry the young advocate.
So doctor and mother together changed
their tactics. One morning Madame
Vernieri said to her daughter, “Are you
really determined to marry him ?” “Yes,” ;
“Then, as I can’t bear to see you unbap- j
py, I give my consent ” The young lady
fell on her mother’s neck and wept with !
joy, til!, gently disengaging herself, j
Madame Vernieri said, “Now, as your !
lover qnd Lip family.live at Naples, it is
eft he.
xfyfptyaStfiagf,
reaSfy** '• l[ i , dfngfy>. a'ntl
took] #pptirtml£its * at*, tine Hotel Jriori,.
near thq Eiortihi Tk&ajter, • rttfyhfiing-to
tprke st hoiLsfffiffthe' ccftmttyr ftMlreTnsu
’iiffi siimnlcr* (file tflaai'iagn* fiavihg been
avrshgedTor the* Arijfl of, ad?map. They
Deejx only TtVoyiayA to l! ia hotel;,
epffie a Signor
Sffla-aglif, wWgiv •flsifir&sftflted ,as--rii
ecjuslt. cril his,*&‘jjs‘r'c d:.3?rous ffirnv.rg
Miss Vernieri’s acquaintance. The visit |
Seemed one of pure courtesy. The young
lady chatted pleasantly enough on cur
rent topics with the new comer till he
took his leave, and she thought no more
about him. Forty eight hours afterward,
the doctor proposed a drive into the
country, at which the ladies were de
lighted, and all three were soon in a car
riage bowling along the Via del Campe.
Miss Vernieri asked many questions
as to the palazzi and villas they passed
till they approached a grand edifice
whose magnificent site awoke her admi
ration. W hose was it ? The doctor, as
if suddenly struck by an idea, ordered
the driver to stop. “Here,” he said, “is
precisely what you want, a country res
idence till the close of November. This
palace is divided into suites of apart
ments. Come in and let us see how you
like them.” They alighted and entered;
the doctor asked for Mad Floureus. An
iron gate was then opened, admitting to
a couityard, from which they mounted
two flights of stairs, and then they were
ushered into a drawingroom where they
were politely received by that lady. Dr.
Cosimati then intimated that Miss Ver
nieri wished to take apartments for the
summer in the palazzo, and would like
to be shown t rough the various suites.
Madame Floureus was only too delighted,
and offered her arm to the young lady,
who mechanically took it. Then the:
mother raid languidly, “You can goj
alone, my dear, and make your choice, !
which is sure to satisfy me. lam tired, !
and will wait here with the doctor till !
you ccmo back.” Madame Flourens and j
Miss Vernieri then moved off, and the
moment the door closed behind them the
mother and doctor slipped stealthily
through a private passage, gained the
staircase, and were soon in the courtyard.
Meanwhile Miss Vernieri was making
the tour of the appartments, and it was
not long before Miss Vernier; learned
that she had been left in an asylum for
lunatics.
After her discovery. Miss Vernieri
asked Madame Flourens, the lady super i
intendent, how she could have consented
to become an instrument in such a base
conspiracy. The lady smiled sadiy.
•Triglia mia! were I to believe all
those who say they have been brought
here as the victims of a conspiracy, I
should have few patients on my hands 1”
“But,” remonstrated Miss Vernieri;
“what legal proof have you that I am a
fit subject for an asylum ?”
“The doctor that came here with you,”
replied Madame Flourens, “applied to
me for the admission of a patient. I
j i flu him he must first have a certificate
] of the patient’s madness, signed by the
di tector of the establishment, who is the
first alienist in Naples, Dr. Miraglia,”
••-lb,” broke in Miss Vernieri, to vjhhfh
tii■- name was a revelation, “the perfidi
ous plotter ! That cousin of his, whom
Dr Cosimati presented to me, was Dr.
Miraglia, then! But how could the
I doctor certify my lunacy ? I talk ration
illy enough. Oh ! the monster!”
••Lriglia mia ! behold my justification,”
a\d Madame Flourens produced the
certificate of the alienist, Dr. Miraglia,
the director of the asylum.
Thereupon Miss Vernieri addressed
herself to the task of devising her extri
j.tion from the Flourens Asylum. Vig
ilantly watched, she succeeded in getting
t a letter convoyed to her lover, and he
ESTABLISHED 1859-
ELBERTON, GA., OCT’R 11,1876 0
went straight to work to rescue her and
bring her persecutors to justice.
He got the Procurator of the King to
send forthwith’to the asylum an instruct
ing judge and a notary. These gentle
men obtained immediate access to the
young lady, and examined her with the
most painstaking minuteness, putting
questions of every kind, laying traps for
her and taking down her answers. She
came out of tiie ordeal triumphantly, and
the result was the immediate order from
the Proctratore del Re for her release
and criminal proceedings were at once
taken against Dr. Cosimati, the widow
Vernieri, and Dr. Miraglia. No sooner
set at iiborty, than Miss Vernieri lied to
the aunt at whose house she iiad met
her fiance. Their marriage took place
immmediately.
Meanwhile the conspirators, whose
object it had been to prevent the mar
riage, and to invalidate Miss Vernieri’s
right to the control of her fortune by
making her "out mad, were put upon
their trial at Salerno. They had already
taken legal steps to complete to their
nefarious design, when the young lady's
release upset everything, and turned
them from appellants into defendants.
The section of accusation (as the Italian
phrase goes) acquitted the mother as
dupe of Cosimati. Miraglia was admit
ted to Lave acted with bona tides, and
he, too, was declin ed guiltless before the
law. The doctor was fully convicted.
The Public Minister demanded, as bis
sentence, three years imprisonment a
year for each day during which his
victim was immured in the asylum,
and that sentence was pronouned
by the Judges. Dr. Cosimati appealed,
and the term of imprisonment was re
duced to oho year. Not content with
this remission of the sentence, the doc
tor-j-always,. be it, remarked, enjoying
'pAvisic flal -liberty; thesis, nofr-hirpris
bned Jl*e- tkurrt of Catr
sojti&tf - luitlris pjlea was rejected.. Then
ho* the..Kufg’s xnjircjffirßuL
£>ignq£vrigliana, fate Minister of Justice,
refused* him that also. The 17th‘ of
Marnh-came, and, ♦ith'rit, the Left
power. Tli£:.appea> to' the
\vats?rehtwed, and his ]\'§triesly was 1
yitsed- to •grant;.it. conJ'-
•nnfttTtbf'.toi- inielnPjfteti’J; in q, IjJrescpib- 1
eu krwriity from Kay to NoveiuW*
months, as Farfulla puts it, of Villeg
giatura. So much for Itatain justice!
HOW TO OTfKF. A BAD MEMORY.
Your memory is bad, perhaps ; but I
can tell you two secrets that will cure
the worst memory. One is to read a
subject when strongly interested. The
other is, to not only read, but think.
When you have read a paragraph or a
page, stop, close the book, aud try to
remember the ideas on that page, and
not only recall them vaguely in your
mind, but put them into words and
speak them out. Faithfully follow these
two rules, and you have the golden keys
of knowledge. Besides inattentive read
ing there are other things injurious to
mem One is the habit of skimming
over newspapers, items of news, smart
remarks, bits of information, political
reflections, fasnion notes, all in a con
fused jumble, never to be thought of
again, thus dilligently cultivating a hab
it of careless reading hard to break.
Another is the reading of trashy novels.
Nothing is so fatal to reading with prof-;
it as the habit of running through story
after story, and forgetting them as soon
as read. I know a gray haired woman,
a lifelong lover of books, who sadly de
clares that her mind has been rained by
such reading.
A help to memory is repetition.
Nothing is so certain to keep your
French fresh, and ready for use, as to
have always on hand an interesting story
in that language, to take up for ten min
utes every day. In that case, you will
not “forget your French” with the ma
jority of your schoolmates-
St. Ni Lolas.
♦<£>♦
A DISAPPOINTED MAID.
Miss Stockes considers work veiy
unladylike, and kitchen labor “perfectly
shocking.” But when an industrious
and sensible young man began to occa
sionally drop in and spend an evening
she very wisely refrained from expressing
these convictions, after hearing Lrm on
several occasions denounce the frivolity
and indolence so fashionable at present,
w.th many of the young ladies of Phila
delphia.
Entertaining a high regard for the
young man, she determined to surprise
him by some great feat of her industry
and perseverance, and last evening as
they were seated together on the par
lor sola, after the conversation had be
gan' to flag, she artfully allowed a sigh to
escape her.
“Are you unwell?” he tenderly in
quired.
“No, I am quite well.”
“But you sighed,” he persisted.
“Yes ; but I suppose it was because I
felt so tired.”
“Have you been busy ?”
“Oh ! yes, indeed,” was tire reply.
“Why, would you believe it, I cut out
a towel and made it all by myself to
day.”
There has been a coolness between the
parties ever since, the reason of which
he has never been fully able to' explain,
but she angrily remarked the next morn
ing that some men were foolish enough
to imagine that a woman ought to be
able to do more work than a fifty-horse
power steam engine.—Blade.
GOSPEL AND GROCERIES.
1 From the. Gillmon (111.) Star.]
| The name of Elder Oloyes has become
[ a household word in this State, and all
his acts are imitated and his words
(quoted as freely a3 Shakespeare’s.
I His front name is Henry, and when
|he puts his John Hancock on a hotel
; fegister, it is plain Henry Cloyes, writ
j ten in (not with) a modest hand.
I Henry Cloyes was born at a very estrly
■ age. Perhaps it would be proper to say
; it was the beginning of age, at the very
1 onset of life. He never did anything
| Tory wonderful in his youth, except to
cut down a cherry tree, and then
! accuse his father of doing it. This
iso pleased the old gentleman that
j bo sent Henry to school, intending to
j make a preacher of him ; but, ns time
\ advanced, Henry changed bis habits, and
; with some natural ability entered as a
j Chicago missionary, traveling through
! this State selling teas, coffees, spices,
j and other articles too numerous to men
! Jion.
The scholars, while Henry attended
j school, called him elder, because they
i knew his father intended him to be a
| minister, and this title clings to him
I SUII, and he is known far and wide as
Elder Cloyes.
He once took a trip to China, and on
his journey painted a panorama of scenes
in that celestial country, and on his return
traveled through tho States giving exhi
| bitions. In the show business he was
: not altogether a success, as he advertised
to show his moving panorama free to
the poor, and on these occasions there
were few willing to acknowledge that
they were rich. While he was wander
ing around with a “busted show,” his
aunt died in Maryland afid left him $40,-
000. He took this money, bought a lot
of peas, and after burning and grinding
fcnem, traveled over the route be had
Si own his Chinese panorama, and sold
tl cm for coffee. He has become im
mensely rich, and sports a SIOOO diamond
fastened to his shirt.
S, Having introduced our subject and
his peculiarities, we will now tell our
story. One of Elder’s patrons had a
very good anil a very religious mother,
and this patron conceived the idea of
; ’ vying a iok-e.on- bi% goo.el mother and
the elder, so he fold her, bn - Saturday]
that he had invited Elder Cloyes, of Chi
cago, to dinner next day. Sho was do-(
lighted with the idea, and made strehir- ’
ous efforts to have things about as grand
and suitable as the occasion would ad
mit. Sunday came, and tho son intro
duced the elder to his mother. The
three sat down to dinner, and the mother
asked the elder to say grace. As the
elder never did such a thing, be begged
to be excused. During dinner, the elder,
who is a fluent talker, entertained mother
and son by rehearsing his extensive trav
els, and the manners and customs of the
Chinese. After dinner the son slipped
out and left the elder and his mother
together. Th® mother was much inter
ested in the elder, and when, his story
being done, she asked if ho went to
China as a missionary.
“Well, yes,” said Henry.
“Have you a charge in Chicago, or are
you still in the field?”
“Wall, now,” replied Henry, beginning
to see that lie was taken for a preacher,
“I may say both, madam, both. My
partner does the charging, and 1 do the
field work.”
“Oh, you are a sort of a Moody and
Sankey. What is your opinion of thorn?
Are they doing good for the blessed
cause in which you are engaged?” con
tined the lady.
“I think they are, madam. They bring
a great many sinners to repentance.
This decreases the demand for whisky
and increases the demand for coffee. We
carry a splendid line.”
“What is your opinion of the future
salvation of man, elder?”
“Wall, I will tell you, my dear madam,”
replied the elder. “If we don't have a
corn crop, saltpeter won’t save him.
Collections are wretched; yes, ma’am,
abominable.”
“You should hope that all was for the
best. Have patience.” pleaded the wid_
ow, “have patience ; remember how pa
j tient Job was.”
! “Ah, yes, madam. I often think of
i Job. He was a patient man. Yes,
! ma’m, Job was, but ah! madam, Job
; never sold groceries in Illinois.”
i “Sold groceries !” exclaimed the wid
; ow, in astonishment. “Sold groceries ;
why, what do you mean ? Are you hot
an elder anc? a preacher?”
“No madam, lam no preacher. I ara
too proud to deceive you. Your son has
undertaken to deceive us both, but I
: scorn to represent goods in a false light,
i Our coffees, madam, are made from the
! best navy beans, aud our teas are im
| ported from the willow swamps of New
j Jersey, and will sell you any amount on
j sixty days. An revoir ?” Elder waved
his lily white paw to the lady and van
quished. As he leaned over the back
fence he saw the paternal widow drag
ging her son around the woodshed by
the hair.
Letters from Gen. Garfield to' the Con
gressional Campaign Committee, ex
press the evident defeat of the Republi
cans in Indiana, and tho Urgent necessi
ty of concentrating all possible efforts on
Ohio by sending campaign documents in
abundance and all the material aid that
can be got from all the officers and em
• ployes of the government departments ;
j also corroborating Carl Schurz’s ex
pressed opinion that tho Germans are
nearly solid with the Democracy.
Vol. V.-No. 24.
RUEUS CHOATE’S FENCE.
I suppose that the story about Rufus
Choate’s hadwriting has been told
often. It seems that Mr. Choate, while
living on a farm down in- Massachusetts,
wanted anew fence around the home
lot. So he called in his carpenter and
bad a talk with him about the work, and
the next time he went to Boston he got
his orchiteet to make a rough sketch,
showing his ideas of how he desired the
fence to be built. On the day appointed
for tho work to begin Mr. Choate was
summoned away. Just as ho was about
to start the carpenter appeared, and Mr.
| Choate pulled the plan out of his vest
I pocket, and hurriedly delivered it and
then drove off to catch the train. Re
turning after an absence of two weeks,
on approaching his home, he was filled
with amazement, and led to doubt
whether he knew where he lived : his
home lot was surrounded by a zigzag
fence of most extraordinary design.
When he saw the old carpenter pound
ing lustily away, he felt reassured as to
the identity of the place, but most puz
zled by the marvelous fence.
“Hello! ’ he shouted. “What are
you doing.
“Doin’!” said the old carpenter,
smashing ; n a tenpenfiy nail with one
blow. “We’re doin’ some pooty tall
work. We’ve just slung up this fence to
gether in a little bit less time than any
similar slingin’ was ever done in the
’Co m m onwealth o f Massachusetts !
! We’re two days ahead of contract tinio
now!”
“But, for Heaven’s sake, what kind of
a fence is this t”
“Don’t know. Thought whsn veu
gi’ me the plan it was thedarndest fence '
I ever heard off, but I supposed you
knew what you wanted.”
“Plan !” said Rufus, “plan? Lot me j
see the plan !” and when , the carpenter j
handed it over the fence, Mr. Choate'
realized that in his haste he had felt in
the wrong pocket, and handed him, not
j the plan, but a note in hri own handwrit
ing.
RATHER HARD.
The Chicago Journal tell3 the follow
ing on a wqjl Toledo conductor
'on a road tlyit-rnTs.into jßtikfoity
, He was a tramp, bonrff. Chicago ward,
and as he boarded the couples at tI)C
rear of an incoming engine just across
the line in Indiana, one recent dark
and chilly night, he had faith to believe
that he had a soft thing of it for a cheap
ride. But the conductor, with his eagle
eye and railroad lantern, soon espied
the moneyless passenger on his uncush
ioned and comfortless seat. Did hs or
der him off? No; he had and deeper plot.
He let him remain, while on and on went
the train, from station to station, until it
reached a great tank where the engines
stop to water up.
“Now for him,” grinned the heartless
conductor, as he passed to the front
“New for him, ’ he maliciously contin
ued, as he grasped the water trough
from the firemen's hands and directed it
over the back end of the engine.
“Now for him,” he fiendishly grunted,
as he heard a Noah’s deluge pouring over
the head and down the back of the luck-!
less tramp.
All grew still and the conductor or
dered his train on its way, convinced he
| had drowned the tramp, or at least flood
j ed lain so far away that he could never
j get back again.
But when that conductor drove into
the depot in tho early morning, there
was a surprise in store for him.
“Be you the conductor ?” inquired a
shivering voice at his elbow, as he stept
on the platform.
“Yes,” said he, looking around and
gazing upon a bedraggled and cinder
covered man
“Then I want to ask you why yer
don’t run around the end of the lake in
cornin’ inter town?”
“I do,” said the conductor.
“Yer do?” exclaimed the man.
“Certainly,” was the reply.
“Wall, I gosh !” muttered the stran
ger, in a bewildered loffe, “blest if I
didn’t think yer swum through the
lake!”
Then the conductor knew that this
tramp still lived and was water proof.
CHAMBERLAIN’S TRICKS.
James Canton and P. H. Blackwell ar
rived at Aiken on the 30th ult., from Co
lumbia, under authority, they said, from
Chamberlain and U. S. Marshal Wallace,
for the purpose of making up a report
of the Ellenton troubles. Both being
government officers, it is believed that
they were sent there in the interest of
the outrage mill. They were discovered
in a back office of tho village taking the
testimony of negroes, and a request was
at onco presented that the whites should
be heard before the report should bo
made up. This was reluctantly acceded
to, and a number of gentlemen who were
present at the beginning of and at dif
forenfc points throughout the riot prom
ised to appear and give a sworn uarra
five of the entire affair. The Radicals
will thus ho prevented from spreading
false and partisan statements before the
country, as iff the Hamburg matter, with
out the whites being allowed to fell their
eide of the story.
The Graphic calls upon the Republican
leaders to “charge along the whole line ”
and the Worcester Press says: “That’s
' just what tli.yare doing—charging two
per cent.”
GOOD ENOUGH FOR H. ME.
“Why do you put on that forlorn old
dress?’ asked Emily Manners of her
Cousin Lydia one morning after she had
spent the night at Lydia’s house.
The dress in question was a spotted,
faded, old silk, which only looked the
more forlorn for its once fashionable
trimmings, now crumpled and frayed.
“Oh, anything is good enough for
home !” said Lydia, hastily pinning on a
soilded collar, and twisting up her hair
in a ragged knot, she went down to
breakfast
“Your hair is coming down,” said
Emily.
“Oh, never mind it’s good enough for
home,” said Lydia, carelessiy.
Lydia had been visiting at Emily’s
I home and had always appeared in the
I prettiest of morning dresses, and with
neat hair and dainty collars and cuff’s ;
but now that she was back again among
I her brothers and sisters, and with her
parents, sha seemed to thing anything
i would answer, and went about untidy
j and rough in soiled finery. At her un
cle’s she had been pleasant and polite,
and had won golden opinions from all;
but with her own family her manners
were as careless as her dross ; and she
seemed to think that courtesy and kind
ness were too expensive for home wear,
and that anything was good enough for
home.
There are too many people who, liko
Lydia, seem to thing that anything will
do for home. Y'ouug men who are polito
and pleasant in outside society are some
times rude to their mothers and sisters ;
and girls who among strangers are all
gay (fly and animation, never make any
exertion to please tlieir own family. It
is a wretched way to tiirn always the
smoothest side to the world, and the
roughest and coarsest to one’s nearest
and dearest friends.
AN AMUSING CENTENNIAL SCENE-
Among the crowd collected around the
machinery in the Government Building,
showing the process of manufacturing
cartridges, last Saturday, was a young
lady and her beau, both evidently hailing
from the wilds of Jersey.
Unnoticed, he hail quit her side, in or
der to obtain a better view, and was then
standing a few feet to the left, eagerly
watching the movements of a young
mechanic, whose nimble fingers seemed
a portion of the machine itself.
While her gaze was also riveted at the
interesting eight, a dark liued Turk liac?
paused by her side, also gazing in
tently at tho scene. Suddenly the maid,
without lifting her eyes, clutched tho
sleeve of the Turk, gave it a vigorous
jerk and exclaimed, “Oh ! look, Charlie ;
can you oeo ?”
Surprised at co£ receiving an answer
she turned quickly, etill, however, re
taining tho Turk’s cleave in her grasp,
gaje a startled glanco at the swarthy
isiog •.cffiayf
uttered a hJwTsarifllq t wquscjp? r*,
fallen to the floor if tho outstretched
arms of the Turk had not received her.
As they hastily walked away Charlie
tenderly inquired whatjbad alarmed her
so.
“Oh ! Charlies that horrid man,” was
the faint reply.
“Why, you hcfecfa’tbave been so afraid
of him. He was nothing but a Turk.”
“Yes, 1 know ho was a Turk. But,
then, Charlie, you know that Turks have
so many wives, and I was afraid that ha
might want me.”
Charlie muttered something about
having to pass over his dead body, but
we didn’t hear exactly what it was, but,
however, it appeared to please her very
much.—[Philadelphia Times.
A SCOTCH STORY.
A certain minister, Laving become
much addicted to drink, his presbytery
Lad to interfere and get the minister
to sign tho pledge. The result was that
the sudden reaction provedjtco much for
him, and he became so ill that the doc
tor had to be sent for. The doctor
said that he must just begin aud take
his Socldy again. This the minister said
he could not do, as he had taken tho
pledge. The doctor replied that be
might get a bottle or two quietly, and
that nobody but {heir two selves and tho
housekeeper would know it. “Map” said
the minister, “iny housekeeper is worse
than all the presbytery put together, so
that would not do.” However, it was
arranged that the doctor was to bring in
the whisky and sugar, and that the minis
ter was to make up the toddy in his bed
room with the hot water that he got for
shaving purposes in the morning. Tho
result was that the minister speedily got
well; and one day, on going out, tho
doctor said to the minister’s housekeep
er, “Well, Margaret, your master is quite
himself again.” “There’s nao doubt
about that, sir,” she replied ; “he’s quite
well in the body ; but there is something
gane wrang wi’ his upper story.” “What’s
wrong there, Margaret?” asked tho doc
tor. “Weel, sir, I dinna ken, but ho
asks for shavin’ water six or seven times
a day.”
Make Home Pleasant in Appearances.
—How many unsightly homes there are
in houses standing stark and stiff - liko
some sentinel, with scarcely any trees or
shrubs or flowers, to break the monotony*
and rigidness of the {scene. Plant tress
and flowers; let order aid ffeatness'
icign about your dwelling, making it
look more like a home than a shelter for
a night. Within, also, lot beauty ar.d
neatness dwell. Pictures and ornaments
that need not be costly, may bo had. Do
not live in the darkest part of the house,
reserving the sunniest for occasional
company. In tins sunny world let us
live in heaven's free light and sunshine.
Say not, “It don’t pay.” Better fill tho
cars of the young with sounds of instru
ments and singing, than for them to
leave home for the noise aud bustle of
the busy town.
An old bachelor who died recently,
left a will dividing all his property
equally among the surviving women
who hau refused him. “Because,” said
he "to them I owe all my earthly happi
ness.”