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OL. XX.
IE SOUNDS OF THE
BELM.
SABBATH
NO. 30
, no, there is no flaming hell!
' the Universalist hell:
t>k up to heaven this holy day,
end this church and learn the way;
Bre are no tires, no friends to blight
lhope within the heart that’s right;
jliell! no hell! no hell! no hell!
(well! do well! do well! do well!-
the Unitarian bell;
te here and cast aside your load,
1 work your way along the road,
Ith faith in God and faith in man,
hope in Christ where hope began;
l well! do well! do well! do well!
the Unitarian bell.
►ell! swell! swell! swell! ye waters, swell!
[claimed, in peals,the Baptist bell;
Itile faith in i hist alone can save,
mist he plunged beneath the wave,
I show the world unfaltering faith
(what the sacred scripture saitli;
fell! swell! swell! swell! ye waters, swell!
[claimed, in peals, the Baptist bell,
►rewell! farewell! base world, farewell !
ed out the Presbyterian bell;
’e is a boon, to mortals given,
i there is nothing true but heaven;
not provoke the avenging rod—
le here and learn the will of God;
eweII! farewell! base world, farewell!
:d out the Presbyterian bell.
: trip
that
t tell the irn'l-' we tell! wetell! *
>uted the v. ■ listicbell;
Lord has made salvation free,
te need he lost on land or sea;
►pent, believe, have hope, and then,
saved, and praise the Lord—Amen!
i truth we tell! we tell! we tell!
(touted the Melhodistic hell.
keel! excel 1 in love excel!
limed the Episcopalian bell;
is is thechurcti—not built on sands—
iblem of one not built with hands;
i forms, and rules, and rites revere
[ul worship here—come worship here;
•I in faith and works excel!
limed the Episcopalian bell.
>k down, ye saints, in heaven that dwell!
outed the Roman Catholic bell;
Hn o'er the battlements of bliss,
d deign to bless a world like this;
mortals kneel befoteetbis shrine,
ere is the water, here the wine;
jk down, ye saints, in heaven
dwell!
claimed the Homan Catholic bell.
►’or city’s streets or hill-side dell
; on, each Heaven-assuring bell!
< forward, pilgrims, to the shrine
)fCavalry and Palesline;
rinse paths that lead through earthly
dross,
Lll meet at last beneath the Cross,
the (’hristian does not fear the knell.
Vs angels toll the funeral hell.
Oil, DISNA YE FORGET,*
When 1 gang awa’, laddie,
When I gang sae far awa',
Dinna ye forget, laddie,
Her who lo'es ye inair than a',
For her heart s thine ain, laddie,
And ye ken it fond and true.
And how sail- would grieve thy lassie
If ye could nae la’ her too.
Lang wi' be the days, laddie,
Lang wi’ l»e the hoars to me,
And 1 ken I'll grieve, laddie,
Thy dear loving faee to see;
But in glide time, kiddie,
We shall meet yet again,
And if not on earth, laddie,
May we meet above in Heaven.
Then when i gang awa’, laddie,
When 1 gang sae far awa’.
Oil, dinna ye forget, kiddie.
Her who lo'es ye inair than a'.
hlOHWAVMAN 0LTW1TTED
!X CHANGE NO BOBBERY.
•oni London Society Christmas number,
>77.1
Dingle farm was such a pretty
dace. Charmingly situated at the
>t of a slope, it commanded an ex-
nsive view of a beautiful Kentish
ralley, the ground rising to a ridge
ibf wooded hills in the far distance.
Its steep tiles! roof, covered with
ellow lichens, indicated its anti-
nity, and the numerous farm build
ings, ricks and barns, which stood
ground in picturesque confusion,
■narked it as wealthy ami prosperous,
An a language of their own. An or
chard of venerable, but not the less
Tull bearing, apple and pear trees ran
Up the incline behind the house ; the
sture fields were intersected by
'Woods of oaks, under which a tangled
tass of undergrowth lent a wild
auty to the sjx>t, the birds keeping
| Up a sweet incessant concert from
Sunrise *to sunset in the branches
Khovc.
II Two sliadv lanes led down to Diu-
*lefi irm from the high-road, which
Was more than half a mile distant.
This old and attractive place had
|»eeii for generations in the possession
w®f the Dales,a respectable and wealthy
fhmily of farmers, and among the
Villages and country round was better
known by the name of Dale’s farm,
was inhabited at the time of our
|after v—the latter part of the last cen
tury—by old Mr. Dale and his wid-
• lived daughter-in-law. Richard Dale,
•..•Mer husband, died soon after the
|>irth of tlieir youngest child, the only
•Ur viving soil out of four, three of
"Whom died in infancy.
This boy, r-i-.v 13 years old, was
woted ou by iiis grandfather and wid
owed mother. An orphan grand
child of old Mr. Dale’s—a bright,
ever girl of 20, named Susan Sti-
dpli—lived with them since the
•nth of her mother, his only daugh-
r, and was Mrs. Dale’s right baud,
he directed the servants, looked
,fter the dairy, fed the poultry, kept
"le accounts and always went to mar-
et on market days, Mr. Dale being
owtoo infirm to undertake the jour-
ley and transact business.
The market was held at Hazleton,
town distant about seven miles;
,nd hither the farmers sent their
“I wish you’d let me go, too, moth
er,” said Beu, the boy before men
tioned, who was whittling a stick at
the door. ‘‘I know I could help*
Susy.”*-
“No, no, no, my dear; you’re too
young, replied his mother, while the
old man, removing his pipe, said,
coaxingly :•
“All in good time, my lad; all in
good time. Let things come by de
grees. Mi nd your schooling now,and
you’ll be all the better farmer fora
little book larniug.
“But suppose .Susy should meet a
highwayman, grandfather. Then I
should be -of use. Wouldn’t I tackle
him just! It would be fun.”
“Eh, lad, eh ! Young folks talk a
deal o’ nonsense,” laughed the old
man. “Those gentry you speak of
are not so easy to tackle, I can tell
you.”
“Did you ever meet one, grand
father?” asked the boy
“Ay, ay, and I rode home as hard
as I could, with him at my heels,
But it’s no use o’ frightening Susan
when she’s going to-morrow
“I am not frightened, grandad
said Susan, going up and kissing the
old man.
Ben here ran across and, coming up
unperceived, pulled one of Susan .s
curls, which had tumbled from under
neath her cap.
“Dont, Ben, you plague!” cried
Susan; and she tried to catch him as
he ducked away from her hand and
jumped over a settee, whore he sat on
the lioor in the attitude of a frog
ready to leap if she chose to follow
him. But, seeing that she took no
heed, he crawled up to her and said
“What should you do, Susy, if
footpad came up and asked you for
your money or your life? 1 wonder
whether you’d call me a plague then
Ha, ha!”
“I shouldn’t want yon,” laughed
Susan; “for T should tell him to go
about his business, and ask what he’'
do with my life when he’d got it,”
“Ah! it’s very fine to be pert, now
but you’ll long for poor plaguey Ben
then, I know;” and Ben here not
only pulled the curl again, but
tweaked the cap off the girl’s head
She caught him, and was in the act
of administering punishment by
box on the ear, when he leaped over
her stooping form, and ran up stairs
to bed.
The next morning Susan rose at 5,
and dressed herself with much care
and neatness. Ben met her as she
came to the kitchen door; and Mrs
Dale, who ,was already down, began
to cut large slices of bread and butter
and told him to be quiet and get his
breakfast.
Susan went to see that her basket
of poultry, eggs and butter was ready
packed
Don’t let the ducks go for less
than six shillings the couple, child,”
said Mrs. Dale, “and get as much as
you can for the fowls. Ducks are in
season, and ought to fetch a good
price.”
“Susan’s a duck herself,” chimed
in Ben.
“You’rga goose, at all events,” re
plied Susan; “though I shouldn’t like
to have the selling of you, for you
would not fetch much.” And she
sat down opposite the boy and began
her breakfast, the farm servants com
ing in soon after to get theirs
“Tumrnas started betimes,” said
Ben; “I heard him go. Make haste
Susy—eat away.”
“There’s no hurry, my dear, said
Mrs. Dale, as she stirred her porridge
“but you can go and see if Jerry’s al l
ready, and bring him round.”
Jerry was the horse, of respectable
and ancient appearance and some
what clumsy build, on which Susan
usully made her journeys to market.
She was a good horsewoman, having
been accustomed to ride about the
farm with her grandfather since she
was quite a child, and she was rath
er impatient of Jerry’s slow paces,
though she knew them to be a neces
sity on market day
“Lady, your pal fry waits,” cried
Ben, bowing at the kitchen door with
mock dignity.
“Bless the hoy, ” exclaimed his
mother; “he’s full of fun I declare.
Come and help Susan with her has
kets.”
Jerry was led to the mounting stone
which stood in the yard, Susan was
duly settled on her saddle, the bas
kets adjusted, and the horse ambled
away up the wooded lane.
“Think of me when you meet the
robbers, Susy,” squealed Ben after
her, as he pretended to be overcome
with grief at her departure.
Susan rode along, enjoying the
fresh morning and the song of the
birds. The dew twinkled on the
grass and herbage, and the sun glint
ed through the trees overhead, while
the scent of the hay, now being made
into ricks, filled the air with its deli
cious fragrance.
When Susan turned into the high
road she found it full of carts, horse
men and farmers, all bent on the
same errand as herself.
It was of no moment whether she
Arrived at Hazleton sooner than her
neigh hors, so she took no pains to
urge on the steady-going old horse,
and she was soon ’ left alone at the
foot of a steep ascent.
Before many minutes had elapsed,
a gentleman on a fine bay horse over
took her, and reining him in with
difficulty, asked if he were right for
Hazleton, and if it were market-day
there.
Susan looked round at him, and
divined her thoughts, he
ittle, poultry and vegetable produce
ir sale the first Wednesday in every ,
ionth. These journeys were attend- was struck with the handsome aequi-
i with some anxiety and not a little line face and piercing dark eyes which
anger from highwaymen, who still seemed to read her through. Dressed
infested the roads, and who did not | in the best fashion of the time, his
lil to make use of market day as an
Available opportunity for plunder,
is the road was much frequented on
these particular days, Susan went
jack ward and forward without fear
if an encounter with these uncom-
| fortable gentry.
It was the evening before market
lay. Supper was just over at the
{farm, cud Mrs. Dale was busy re
moving it from the old-fashioned oak
(table in the kitchen. A bright fire
[blazed on the spacious hearth, though
[it was the end of June, and old Mrs.
Dale sat in the chimney corner under
[the immense chimney, where a col-
flection of hams hung in various sta-
[gesof smoking.
“Now mind, Susan, that you be
i early for market to-morrow, said Mr.
!>ale. as she seated herself.
“Never fear, aunt; I’ll be off be
times. Thomas must start first with
the two cows and the heifer, and I’ll
follow when they are well on their
way. Don’t you disturb yourself in
the morning, aunt dear.
“Bless the child, as if I shouldn’t
be up and about against your start
ing! I shall see to your* breakfast,
vf course.”
horse carefully groomed till its glossy
coat shone brightly in the sunlight,
he made a marked contrast to Susan,
on iier thick-made, clumsy animal.
“You are bound for the market,too,
little maid!” inquired the gentleman
raising his hat as he spoke:
“Yes, sir. All the folks are going
there a’most, this morning, I think,”
answered Susan shyly.
“And what have you there? Chick
ens and butter ?” her interlocutor
went on to say. “Do you like the
business of buying and "selling ?”
“It depends on the prices I get for
them,” returned Susan quiekly.
The gentleman laughed, ana stop
ped for a moment to arrange the
leather .of his stirup more to his
liking; while Susan rode on, won
dering what a well bred man, on a
thorough-bred horse could want at
Hazleton on a market day.
While she mused on these points,
he again overtook her.
“May I ask your name?” he said.
“My name is Susan Stidolph,” she
answered simply; and though she
would have given much to ask him
the same question, she refrained from
innate feelings of courtesy.
As
said:
“My name is Hamilton St. John.
Do you like it?”
“Very much; and what do you call
your horse, sir?”
“Wildfire; and a famous stepper
he is ! Good-by, Susan ; I hope you’ll
get good prices for your fowls and
ducks.” And away he sped at a tre
mendous pace.
The market was becoming very full
when Susan reached Hazleton, and
many sounds of life resounded on all
sides.
Here stood ranges of stalls covered
with fruit, heaps of vegetables being
piled behind in glorious confusion.
Baskets and coops containing live
poultry lined tn§ interior of the mar
ket place. Farther on came the pens
full of sheep and lambs; then goodly
oxen; then horses of various breeds,
sizes and shapes; colts and ponies,
grouped in a place set apart for the
purpose.
Tins, pans, crockery and wooden
vessels attracted the "housewives to
the centre of the market, and toys
and sweets-stalls kept their venders
perpetually on the alert, so attracting
were these wares to the children of
the community.
Susan having met Thomas, and
given Jerry into his charge, entered
the market, and did her best to effect
the sale of her poultry; while the
farming man undertook the vending
of the cows, submitting his bargains
to Susan’s judgment before conclu
ding them.
The day soon came to a close; all
their marketings were attended with
good success, and Susan having made
her purchases at the draper’s—an old
friend of her aunt’s, at whose house
she usually dined on these occasions
—concealed her money,to the amount
of thirty pounds in gold and notes
in the secret pockets of her stays,pur
posely made to stow away these treas
ures, and mounted Jerry for her ride
homeward. Very blithe was Susan
at the result of her day’s work. The
cows had fetched a capital price, and
the heifer alone remained uupurchas-
ed. Her poultry was all sold and not
a pat of butter remained in her bas
ket.
Susan determined to return by a
lane which wound circuitously from
the town of Hazleton to the borders
of Dingle farm. By this she would
avoid the society of several half tipsy
farmers and rough horsemen, whose
proximity was very undesirable. Jer
ry stepped out as was his wont when
he scented his stable in the far dis
tance; and Susan hummed to herself
as she looked on the beauty of the
evening and the scenery around.
Birds were singing their soft even
ing lays; shadows fell darkly across
the road from the overhanging bows
the last rays of the sun gleamed
brightly through every gap in the
hedge; "and fleecy clouds, tinted with
the gay colors of a parrot’s wing
floated away eastward in the pale-
blue sky.
Susan had not proceeded two miles
when the sound of horse’s hoofs
struck on her ear; and, as she turned
up the lane to see who it might be,
her well-dressed acquaintance of the
morning rode up to her side and greet
ed her with a polite bow.
“Well met, Susan! Why, you're
late from market. I hope you’ve
been successful.”
“Pretty well,” curtly replied the
girl, who was inclined usually to be
reserved to strangers.
“Why, you’ve an empty basket,
perceive. Do you know I was not so
far off as you might think ; I saw'
you while you were making your
"bargains,” said the gentleman, look
ing straight at Susan with a knowing
look.
“Well,” returned she raising her
eye-brows, “I had a notion that I
caught sight of your face once; but,
seeing it belonged to a man in a
smock-frock, of course I took no
heed.”
The stranger laughed, and there
w T as something in his manner which
made Susan feel uncomfortable,
He proceeded to ask her numerous
questions, to which she gave at last,
only monosyllabic answers; for the
ourteous manner of Mr. Hamilton
St. John, which had so attracted her
in the morning, had given place to
an unpleasant familiarity of tone,that
grated upon the girl’s sense of refine
ment; and she hoped that her disin
clination to converse would presently
induce him to ride on and leave her.
He soon remarked on her taciturnity,
and asked her why she was so silent.
I don’t care to talk much to stran
gers,” she replied.
“But 1 have told you my name,
and you may judge when you see a
gentleman,” said he.
How do I know* that you are a
gentleman?” asked Susan bluntly. “I
think its very bad manners to ask so
many questions. At all events, it’s
not the way simple folks are taught.”
Whom do you think I can be
then, Susan, my dear?” inquired the
horseman, insinuatingly.
“You may be a highwayman for
aught I know*,” courageously ex
claimed the girl.
Her companion laughed loudly and
long; and Susan in anger and desper
ation at bis pertinacity, endeavored to
urge poor old Jerry to a better pace.
“What a good guesser you are my
dear!” cried the horseman. “Sup
pose I take you at your word and ask
you, affter the fashion of real high
waymen, to let me look at your
purse.”
“I don’t carry a purse,” replied the
girl, now somewhat alarmed, and
believing that her suspicions as to his
strange behaviour were not without
foundation.
“Do you see this?” said the man,
in a jeering tone, drawing a small
pistol from his breast pocket. “It’s
little instrument I carry, to induce
people to tell the truth. Perhaps it’ll
make you do so. Come, out -with
your money,” he added in a rough
voice, catching hold of Jerry’s bridle
at the same moment.
Susan was a spirited girl, but she
turned pale. They had arrived at a
part of the road where it sank be
tween high hedges, and a rising
round on either side hid it entirely
om view*.
Itw 7 as becoming dark, and, as Su
san looked right and left, she heard
nothing bnt the faint breeze among
the trees, and the chirp of the grass
hopper in the long reeds at the road
side, and all idea of assistance from
casual passenger she knew to be al
most hopeless. Though quite taint
ith terror, she rallied all her cour
age, and determined to brave out the
attempt of the man to rob her of her
money.
For"one moment hope revived. The
stranger dismounted and passed his
bridle over the low, overhanging
bough of an elder-tree, and Susan
took the opportunity to whip Jerry
into something like a trot: hut she
had not proceeded many yards when
the man came running after, easily
overtook her, and, laughing derisive
ly, led her horse back to the same
spot, where he again asked her to de
liver up her purse to his care.
“Better do it quietly, Susan
dear,” he urged. “I shall take
hook or by crook.”
Susan still stoutly refused, declar
ing. with many assertions that she
carried no purse.
“Well, then, w T e must try what can
be done by searching. It's a tiresome
process, biit I’m very patient, and not
pressed for time to-night.”
He lifted Susan out of her saddle
as easily as if she had been a baby,
unsaddled Jerry, turning him loose
to graze as he pleased, and commenc
ed searching' her baskets. Finding
nothing but a few parcels of tea, cal
ico, and ribbon, wlrfcli he carelessly
threw down in the road, he next beg
ged the terrified girl to remove her
hat and cloak, and coming close to
her, began feeling for her pockets
Susan’s indignation knew n«
bounds; but the robber only laughed
and told her he should take every
means to extract the gold from her,
and taking out a large clasp-knife, he
she recounted the adventure she had
met with.
“Ben w as right, you see, and I did
meet a highwayman,” she said, as
her spirits began to return. “But
I’m so grieved to have lost your
money."
“What does it matter, so long as
you’re safe, my dear?” said old
■an, ivy | Mr. Dale, patting her hand,
ke it by [ “Why, the horse you were riding
is worth more than what you’ve lost
I’ll be bound,” cried Ben. “It’s
beauty, grandfather! What a brave
clever trick you played in riding off
on him, Susy! But why was he
so vexed about the saddle? Why, of
course he thought there was money
in it. That’s where robbers hide
their plunder. I’ll be bound there’s
something in his saddle. I’ll go and
fetch it. Hurray!”
Off ran the lad, and, calling one of
the men,Mesired him to unsaddle
the animal and groom him down im
mediately.
The saddle, when removed proved
too heavy for Ben to carry into
the house, and old Mr. Dale, who had
followed him to see the horse, aided
him to bring it in. They laid it on
the kitchen table, and commenced
searching it all over.
In the padding they found bank
notes amounting to £200, and from
said; “It's such a pity to cut his pret- ■} an artfully concealed leather lining,
ty bodice asunder; but I must, if .you I under the saddle flaps, golden guin-
r,._— .i- 1 eas poured out in incredible numbers
on to the table.
“Oh, niy eye!” cried Ben. “Why
Susie, you’re the robber, after all!”
“Oh,don’t Ben!” said Susan, be
ginning to cry.
The astonishment of the old people
w 7 as unhpunded. They went on
counting and counting until they
arrived at the sum of £1,000, and they
looked from one to the other,scarcely
crediting their senses.
Well!” exclaimed old Mr.
are so obstinate. Bless you, do you
think I’ve been years on the road,
and don-’t know the ways of you
pretty little maids ? The money that
was paid for the cow 7 is somew'here
about, and I am pretty certain it’s in
a particular pocket of your corset. 1
shall cut your laces if you try my pa
tience too long;” and he began to in
sert the knife into the lace of her
bodice.
Susan, trembling lest she should
lose her senses, now made up her
Dale,
mind to part with her money, and I “the first thing to be done is to give
assured him that if he would retire
out of sight for a few 7 minutes she
would get at her pocket and give it
into his hands
The robber declared that lie could
not do that, but that he had no ob
jection to turn his back. 1 don’t want
this up to the proper owners. Su
san’s nothing to do with it nor have
we. But I think it’s our duty to in
form the patrol where they are likely
to find’ yonder ruffian. Deprived of
his horse, he cannot proceed far from
the spot, and*Susan may as well have
to distress you, my dear,” lie said; but I any reward that Government may be
he pulled out his pistol at the same ready to give; and this fellow is very
time, and stood waiting. I likely to be the man who robbed the
The poor girl proceeded to take off Yorkshire coach t’other day, They
her dress, and after some difficulty, I offer £100 to those that find him.”
removed her stays, and donning her
cloak hastily, threw them down be
fore the highwayman.
He seized upon them, and discov
ering the pocket, soon rifled it of its
contents, and then picking up
her dress, and began to feel
about the linings, to find if possible,
more bank notes which might be
sewn up in them. As Susan stood
shaking and irresolute a sudden
thought seized her. Catching up
Jerry’s saddle, which lay on the
ground at her side, she threw it over
the hedge, exclaiming, “You shan’t
have it all, at any rate.”
The thief, off his guard for the mo
ment, and thinking that the saddle
might contain the greater part of the
spoil, threw down the dress with an
•Oh, pray don’t, grandfather; pray
don’t let me be the cause of his being
taken!” cried Susan, imploringly.
“Nonsense, my dear!” replied the
oldman; “when the path of duty is
straight and clear before you, you
must walk up to it, though it be hard
and unpleasant. You don’t wish yon
der thief to take more pioney, do you,
from those perhaps who can ill spare
it?”
Without delay Mr. Dale dispatched
a man with a full description of the
robber, and instructions to the patrol
as to the likelihood of his being in
the neighborhood, and early the next
morning a search was set on foot in
all directions by the officials at Hazle
ton.
Within three days the notorious
oath; and, cursing frightfully, ciam- for such was his real
, . . ’ , ° . nnuic sillH that Ku vtrhiob Ka ,iroo
bered into and over the hedge to re
cover the saddle. One of his pistols
fell from his coat to the ground; Su
san threw it over the opposite hedge,
and releasing the bridle of the rob
ber’s horse, climbed nimbly by the
aid of the stirrup on to liis back,
passing her right tfhee over the large
pistol holster, and giving the animal
the reins, galloped up the laue at a
tremendous pace
A loud curse and the crack of a pis
tol, which only caused the hofse to
increase its speed, followed; but the
bullet missed its aim. Susan heard
it whiz past in dangerous proximity
to her ear, and it then lodged harm
lessly in the trunk of an old oak by
the wayside
Away flew Wildfire like the wind,
with Susan on his back, and her
courage rose every moment, as she
remembered that old Jerry had wan
dered grazing up the laue, and that
it would be impossible for the thief to
overtake her on the well-bred animal
she rode, even if he attempted pur
suit. For au instant, a clattering of
liooffs made her look hastily back ;
but the noise was only a lumbering
attempt on the part of old Jerry to
follow and keep up witli her. Susan’s
hurried ride off and the shot of the
pistol had disturbed his calm grazings
na*ue, and that by which he was
known on the road), was taken. The
patrol had been on his track since
his attack on the Yorkshire coach,
and had no difficulty in securing the
villian when furnished by Mr. Dale
with the particulars of Susan’s recon-
tre witli him, and her description of
his person.
He was lodged in Greystone jail,
and was shortly after convicted and
executed. The money found in the
saddle was duly handed over to the
Government, who offered half the
reward set on the man’s head to Su
san. She, however, could not bring
herself to accept it, but entreated that
she might keep the robber’s horse
Wildfirt?. This, after much corres-
pendence and deliberation, she was
permitted to do, to her great satisfac
tion, as she regarded the beautiful an
imal as the cause of her escape from
danger, and perchance death. The
money found on the highwayman
was restored to Mr. Dale, and poor
Susan’s mind was therefore relieved
ou this point.
She married before long a farmer
in the neighborhood, and never ven
tured to market again.
Ben w 7 as in due time invested with
the longed for dignity of seilingpthe
larm prodnee. He failed to encoun
ter any gentlemen of the road, and,
THE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY.
was too much to expect two out of
the same family to meet and outwit a
highwayman.
and he turned with a clumsy start I as liis gnuuifather often told him, it
before the robber could lay hold on 7 *
her, and, unencumbered by Susan,
baskets, or saddle, trotted off at a nov
el and excited pace after her. Cer
tain now of safety, she urged the
beautiful animal she sat on to its ut
most speed, and dashed desperately
homew 7 ard.
The Great Wale of China
The great wall of China was meas
ured in many places by Mr. Unthank
an American engineer, lately engag-
“Why, here’s a go, mother!” cried I ed in a survey for a Chinese railway.
Ben, rushing into the tarm-kitchen
full tilt. “Here’s Susy tearing down
the lane like mad! I never thought
Jerry could go so fast. I w*as on the
hayrick and saw her coining. She’s
something white on.”
Susan in white! It must have
His measurements give the height at
eighteen feet, and a width on top of
fifteen feet. Every few hundred
yards there is a tower twenty-four
feet square, and from twenty to twen
ty-five feet high. t The foundation of
the wall is of solid granite. Mr. Un
been her ghost,” said poor superstir thank brought with him a brick from
tious Mrs. Dale, putting down her the wall, which is supposed to have
dishes, and turning pale with appre- been made two hundred years before
hensiou. the time of Christ. In building this
A great clattering of hoofs over the immense stone fence to keep out the
stones of the yard soon divested her | Tartars, the builders never attempted
mind of this absurd notion; for, rat
tling up to the entrance, hardly rein
ed in at the house-door,came the dark
bay horse, flecked with foam, having
galloped for at least five miles at the
top of his speed, with the excited,
half-clad girl upon his back.
It was the work of a moment for
Ben to seize the bridle, and hold the
animal’s head, while Susan dropped,
to avoid mountains or chasms to save
expense. For 1,300 miles the wall
goes over plain and mountain, and
every foot of the foundation is in sol
id granite, and the rest of the struc
ture solid masonry. In some places
. the wall is built smooth up against
the bank, or canotis, or precipices,
where there is a sheer descent of one
thousand feet. Small streams are
rather than dismounted, into her 1 arched over, but on the larger streams
aunt’s outstretched arms, and, over- j the wall runs to the water’s edge, and
come by her previous emotion, burst a tower is built on each side. On the
into tears. top of the wall there are breastworks,
“Goodness gracious!” cried the or defences, facing in and out, so the
good woman, altogether scared, | defending forces can pass from one
whatever does it all mean?”
“I’ve been robbed, aunt! Oh, dear
all the money’s gone!” and she sob
bed still more.
“Poorgirl!” said Ben affectionate
ly, seeing the girl’s almost fainting
condition. “Come in-doors, Susy.”
Her aunt led her into the kitchen,
and Ben, though as curious as a kit
ten, knew enough about horses to see
that the one he held must not be al
lowed to stand with his flanks reek
ing from recent exercise; so he led
him off to the stable,
tower to another without being ex
posed to any enemy from either side:
To calculate the time of building or
cost of this wall is beyond human
skill. So far as the magnitude of the
work is concerned, it surpasses every
thing in ancient or modern times of
which there- is any trace. The pyra
mids of Egypt are not compared to
it.—-[London News.
A hot-headed Frenchman, who
felt himself insulted by the remarks
and, having I of a friend, wrote as follows: “Dear
fastened and covered him well up, he j Sir—Your remarks personal to my-
returned to the house as quickly as self are so offensive that I wish you
—A sweet thing in combs—honey.
—Two button kids—a young goat
fight.
—Fools and their back hair are
soon parted.
—A great hardship—an iron steam
er.
—The frost on the milkmail’s mous
tache chills the hired girl to the
heart.
—“Come ami dine with me.” “No
I thank you George; I’m too hun
gry.”
—The rabbit is timid, but no cook
can make it quail. This is a fact in
natural history.
—A man fooled into buying a
pinchback watch called it Faith, be
cause it was without works and there
fore dead.
Rowland Hill said, when he once
saw a boy on a rocking horse. “Like
some Christians; motion enough, but
no progress "
—A converted jockey has shocked
the church by alluding to the receipts
at a fair as “gatemoney.”
The first hours of slumber are the
sweetest. If ever a man sleeps the
sleep of the just, it is when he is just
asleep.
Can you tell me, sor-er wher-re
Mistress Mur-r-phy lives ?” “Which
Mrs. Murphy ?” “The one who died
las’ noight, sor-r!
The study of ceramics is a mod
ern intellectual struggle to find out
what sort of pictures ancient Egyp
tians had on their shaving mugs,
—And now a meddlesome person
has discovered that the old Collossus
at Rhodes was a “bigger man than
old Grant.” When the General gets
there he will please straddle.
—Settling it.—Tax collector: “Now,
look here! how many more times do
you want me to call ?” Defaulter—
‘Never again, sir, if it’s the same to
you.”
—“Hi! where did you get them
trousers?” asked an Irishman of a
man who happened to be passing
with a pair of remarkably short
trousers on. “I got them where they
grew,” was the indignant reply.
Then, be me conscience,” said Pad
dy, “you’ve pulled them a year too
soon.”
“Reduced to $7!” remarked
Jones, as he passed a fashionable tai
lor’s store and read the above state
ment prominently displayed on an
overcoat. “That’s nothing; I am re
duced to a much smaller sum than
that myself.”
A new song is called “Always
Keep a Smile for Mother.” Some
young men will drink every drop
that is in the bottle ;witliout giving a
thought to their parents
Model Verdict of a Coroner’s Ju
ry:—“We do believe, and therefore
do so find, that after due inquiry and
according to our best knowledge, we
do not know how, when, or where,
the deceased came to his death.”
—Jones: “Did you see the star
shower the other night, Miss Jessi
ca?” Miss Jessica (with a rapid but
comprehensive survey of the heav
ens): “No. But it couldn’t have
been much, as there are no stars miss
ing !”
-A dentist tried his first operation
with gas upon a robust, colored wo
man. After she had used up all the
gas in the office she wheeled in the
chair and shouted, “Hurry up, boss,
and bring on another bag of that
sweetened wind!”
—Mrs. Macarthy: “Faith, an’ I
don’t want the things at all, at all,
Biddy O’Brady, though it’s yourself
ith your plisint tongue I’d rather
have than any one else to chate me.”
O’B.: “That’s thrue for ye, Mrs.
Macarthy, an’ shure I don’t know
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^*For anything you want in the Shoe
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A contiaunee for any length of time muses
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SCOTIA LAND PLASTER.
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Kelley’s Building, Savannah, Ga.
jal7 2m
United States Mail Line.
N and after the 1st of February the Rates
via CENTRAL LINE BOATS to ;; ii
points on the Chattahoochee, Flint and Ap
alachicola Rivers will be as follows:
FLOUR, per barrel SO cents
.73 ceHts
so pleased to ehate.”
—“ There’s no place like comb,”
as the bee said when storing up it’s
honey. “I’ll come to thee when day
light sets,” as the Chinaman observ
ed to the hen-roost. “Measure for
measure,” as the topers said when
they drank fair. “I do not ask thee
for thy hand,” as the child said when
gazing earthward o’er its parent’s
knee.
—Bishop Clarke of Rhode Island
always will have his joke, and it’s al
ways worth having, too. He once
went to see one of his parishioners, a
lady with a prodigious family which
recently had been increased. As he
rose to" leave the lady stopped him
with, “But you haven’t seen my last
baby.” “No,” he quickly replied,
“and I never expect to.” Then he
fled.
—Everyday Absurdities—To make
yourself generally disagreeable, and
then wonder that nobody visits you.
To sit shivering in the cold because
you won’t have a fire until Novem
ber. Not to go to bed when you are . .^
tired and sleepy because it is not bed- COTTON, per bale
time. To make your servants tell Other Freights In proportion.
lies for you, and afterwards be angry STEAMER WYLLY,
because they tell lies for themselves. 1 ’
To tell your own seerets and believe
that other people will keep them.
A youthful Georgian said to his
mother the other day, “Yuba Dam
ain’t swearing, is it ?” O, no; that is
the name of a town in California.”
“Well, nia, when you go out on the
back door Yuba Dam careful or you’ll
take a tumble to yourself on that ice.
I just sat down on it so sudden
that it jammed my neck clean down
into my lungs.” It was jammed
back into place again in just two sec
onds.
—He bought a guitar and practiced
for six long weary months. But at
the end of that time a smile of joy lit
up his wan and weary face, and his
brow grew radiant with joys, as he
inspected the corns on the thumb of
his right hand. The hour was 10 p.
m., and he wandered through the
still night to the boarding house
where she lived, and directly under
that window which had been so often
sanctified by her presence, he com
menced to toot: (Twang, twang, him)
“I wandered by-i-i the brook-side
(kling, clang, boo), I wandered by-i-i
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WILSON SEWING MACHINE CO.,
S29 Broadway, New York City;
Chicago, Ill.; New Orleans, I.a.;
Or St i Francisco, Cal.
A GREAT OFFER £ HOLIDAYS
Me will during these HARD TIMES and
the HOLIDAYS dispose of 100 NEW PIANOS and
ORGANS, of first-class makers at lower prices
for cash, or Installments, than ever before offer
ed. WATERS’ PIANOS and ORGANS are the
BEST M ABE, warranted for ii years. III. Cata
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PIANOS. 7-octave, Si 10; T 1 ,,-octave. $150; OR
GANS, 2 stops, $4S; ( stops. $.Vt; 7 stops. 865: S
stops, $70; 10 stops, $S5; 12 stops, $00, in perfect
order, not used a year. Sheet Music at half
price. HORACE WATERS X SONS, Mauufnctur-
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, FOR DISEASES OF a
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When I say cure I do not mean merely to
stop them for a time and then have them
return again; I mean a radieal cure. I am a
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99
THE WHITE
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best satisfying in the market. It has a very
large shuttle; makes the lock-stitch; is sim
ple in construction; very light-running and
almost noiseless. It is almost impossible
for other machines to sell in direct competi
tion with the White. Agents M anted. Ap
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Cleveland, Ohio.
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In their own localities, canvassing for the
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ruggist for it. Circulars free. Address
O. G. Moses, IS Cortland street, New York.
A Extra Fine Mixed Cards, with name, 10
4-U cents, post-paid. L. JONES & CO., Nas
sau, N. Y.
PIANOS
Retail price $900 only $260.
Parlor Organs, price $340
only $95. Paper free. Dan’l
Beatty, Washington. N. J.
$200 eo
ipese or Planetary Top, Buckeye
Stationery Package, Magic Pen (no ink re
quired). Catalogues of Agents' Goods free.
BUCKEYE NOVELTY CO., Cincinnati, O.
Lawyers.
ALONZO A. DOZIEK,
Attorney and C'onnsellor-at-Lan
Office Over 120 Broad Street.
Practices in State and Federal Courts
botli Georgia and Alabama. mhl8,’77 ly
C. BROCK A WAY, Captain,
, cieaves SATURDAYS,at 10 A M, for Bain-
bridge, Ga., and Apalachicola, Florida.
4®“For further information call on
C. A. KLIN'It,
General Freight Agent.
Office at C. E. Hochstrasser's. j uz> t f
People’s Line!
THE STEAMER
G. GUNBY JORDAN,
T. H. MOORE, Master,
Will Leave Every Wednesday a! 10
o’clock a. m. for Apalachicola, Fla.
ja8 tf W. R. MOORE, Agent.
DISS OLUTION
I N consequence of the death of Mr. R. G.
Williams, the firm of
Pearce, Binford & Co.
his legs could carry him. j to consider your ears well cuffed.' I; the mill”—and the sash was gently i
At this moment all were startled, expect to give satisfaction.” A few i raised with a crash, and a deep bass ■ is dissolved. The business of the late firm
as old Jerry came bungling into the days afterwards he received this re-1 voice yelled out: “I vish as you fall ! -Hi HP.hy ^^dersigned, who
ttowI iiritVi o olaHmnrww 1 tt 1 I n l«. - CQ. Iff.. A* 1 1 1 • i i i -— - ^
yard with a clattering, ungainly gal- I ply: “Dear Sir-My ears tingledand j into your” brook off your brwkside , mksionbuwness*tKdsmnd under
lop, stripped of his usual accoutre- I am mad clean through. I regret! and trown yourself in dose mill oder the same flrm name - au parties indebted
ments. He made his own way to the the provocation, but I wish you to I dIow mv vissil and call a 1 to the late firm will please make immediate
•table; and Ben, entering the kitoh- comfier j-onrseif ran throng thl 1 Jili.emel tf hi to
en, found Susan sitting by his grand- body with a broadsword, and laid out changed her room without let tin" him i ment * T - J - pearce,
father m the chimney comer, while'for immediate burial.” ( know 7 . j j anu ary 1st, ists. (eodim/' B1XFOKI ''
CHARLES COLEMAN,
Alturne.v-nt-I.Htv.
Up-Ktairs, Over C. E. Hochstrasser’s Store.
febll,’77 tf
REESE CRAWFORD. ,T. M. M'NEIt.I.’.
CRAWFORD A Mf.VEILL,
Attorney* and Cuunvollon-nt-Lntt,
128 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
jal0,’76 ly
G. E. THOMAS,
Attorney and Coun*ellor-at-l<aiv.
Office:
Over Hochstrasser’s Store, Columbus, Ga.
jyS),’76 ly
MARK. H. BLANDFOD. | LOUIS F. GARRARD,
KLANUFORU A GARRARD,
Attorney* and Counvellora-at-Law.
Office, No. 67 Broad Street, over Witth-h «fe
Kinsel's Jewelry Store.
W'ill practice in the State and Federal Courts.
sep4,’75
Piano Tuning, &c.
E. W. BLAU,
Rapairer and Tuner of Pianos, Organs and
Accordeons. Sign Painting also done.
Orders may be left at J. W r . Pease & Nor
man's Book Store. sepo, ’75
Tin and Coppersmiths.
W3f. FEE,
Worker in Tin. Sheet Iron, Copper, Ae.
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
jyl, ’“6 1,74 Broad Street.
Doctors.
DR. C. E. ESTES.
Office Over Kent’s Drug Stork.
ju3 1y
REAL ESTATE ACENTS.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Georgia Home Building, next to Telegraph
Office, Columbus, Ga.,
Real Estate, Brokerage and Insnranee
Agency.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT.
Refer, by permission, to banks of this city.
nov3,’75 tf
E. N. FRESHMAN & BROS.,
Advertising Agents,
186 W.Fourth St., CINCINNATI, 0.
Are authorized to receive advertisements
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ed free upon application.
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