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il paii.y ENQrntEU-srx: rm.nmrs. ckokma. srxi>.\Y moiimxt;. may w, is.-r tiii \\onnkhi i i. hi n m. There is n wonderful weaver. High up in tin* air. Am) In 1 weave* a white mantle For cold earth u. nr. With the wind for hi.- HiuMle. The cloud f»ir his hmm. How lie v caves, lo w he weaves In the light in the xloum. Oh! with ihi' fine! t of lares He decks hush and tree; <>n the i»nre. flinty meadows A cover he. Then i <4111 ini < up he phe ' S {in pillar and post; And he changes the pump T«» n grim, silent ghost. Hut this wonderful w.-uv/a (trows weary at last; And the shuttle lie- idle That once flew so fust. Then the sun peeps abroad on the work that is done; A ml he smiles; 'I ’ll unravel Jt all. just for fun!” unlatched . liedjnT' i\V. II) »1\ St re Id I hers hi xpodile little main Mine is a strange story, the story of the* one event fraught even now w it It a haunt ing mystery in a life otherwise monoto nous and uninteresting-. What subtle in stinct prompts me to toll my tale, I know not; unless it be the half unconscious wish to communicate to others that which must ever be connected in my own mind with so much that is wi ird and inexplicable. Hv< n now, when it all lies behind me like “a tale that is told.” last receding and fading away into the outlived past; when my blood flows coldly through my veins, and my heart, like a wearied, wasted thing drags slow ly on t ill the chill hand of death shall stay it forever even now 1 shrink with shuddering repugnance, and would fain draw hack from my self-imposed task. I doubt it under <1 oil’s heaven, two hu man souls ever loved each other more de votedly than my husband and myself. We had been married but a short twelve month, when in- came home one night with a haggard, absorbed look on his face that told me instantly something of im portance must have happened. What it Was I soon learned. Business of the utmost importance re quired him to start at once for Brazil. We were to be separated, he and !, for six long months he to journey across a world of wild, angry waters, I to drag out the wea ry days in lonely waiting and watching for j his return. Of tin* desolate weeks that followed my husband's departure, I will not now speak. The days dragged slowly on, one by one, and at last the time arrived when I might expect to hear from him. The mail from Brazil the only one hi* had promised to write by—came in, but the letter I had Watched for, longed for, and prayed for, through so many weary days and restless nights, came not, nor had any tidings of the ship had been received. 1 went into his office where I knew they would hear directly she arrived, They told me there was no cause for anxiety; the ship was overdue, but that was a common occur rence; some accident had probably delay ed her; they would telegraph me*directly she was “auvised,” Days grew into weeks, and weeks into months, and yet no news of the Os pray. How I had lived through that awful time God only knows. Night after night I lay awake thinking, thinking, t hinking, unti*! utterly exhausted, I fell into a restless, dream-haunted sleep, only to toss to and fro on a wild, heaving ocean, over which I was wandering in search of my lost bus band. Day after day 1 would shut myself up in my room to lie prostrate on tin floor sobbing: “Oh, my husband! my brave, noble hus band! God give him hack to me, give him to b back to me! end that d stay k. In Uipp I will not weary the u nder, ami wi liijf my own heart afresh, hv duelling upon tin black misery and hopeless am my of that fearful time. Two lout; years had jr<ini- by uiid nothing boinu heard <if the Osprey, it was considered as settled beyond doubt that she had tfom- down, and all on hoard perish,d. Just at this time, ami old maid en aunt of my husband, who had In very ill, took it into her I Would like me to no out at days with her. As t he doctors said she ci bly live more t halt a mold It not the heart to refuse; and t time since my murriane, I found m,\nclf! slrepiiiK under n strange mof. It wus a little country' farmhouse, away up in the midland counties. 1 hud never been there | before, and as the journey u as a i.>111; on. , ; and 1 was very tired, I went to bed soon 1 after tnv arrival. 'Chat iiiffht I dream pi a | dream of sueli intense vividness and reali ty. that even now I can recall it to nd"d, 1 fresh and unfading tvs if it had happened but vesterdny. 1 tound myself, I know not how, stand ing alone at midnight oil u bare. M ak heath lit only by the weird light of n low I k mg moon, tar away in the starless soul h. Across her wan face stretched a ragged .‘il’iirt of black, angry cloud, on either -idc '/ which the intereepted rays broke into Two long, ha/y beams of light uni shoot ing far across the calm heavens, and the other bending downward toward the earth, till it was lost in the shadowy hori /.on. All around me, as far as the eve could reach, spread the wild waste of moorland, save that away to the right I I saw the dark outline of some bidding ap parently a deserted shed or cottage I As 1 stood there, numb and trembling in the chill night air, a strange, irresistible impulse I knew not w hat seized me, by I which I was impelled, as by some unseen i pow er, in the dirction of litis object, i drew closer ami closer, my heart wrench- I i ng in wild, uneven effort in my bosom,] my breath coining in short, quick gasps, and my ears so unnaturally strained for j the slightest sound, that 1 could hear the j blood hissing and rushing through the veins in my temples. Suddenly 1 heard a sound as of some hit- 1 man being in pain, mid then a wild, wail- j ing cry: "Harry, Harry, Harry! Uod help me!” and then there came a low moan, With one hound I rushed forward, and ! there, in the shadow of the shed, crouched , up against the wall, 1 saw the form of a ! woman apparently dying. 1 knelt at her side, raised her in my arms, and as the pale j light of the moon fell on her face, 1 reeog- I tnz-ed the features of my lost husband. I recollect a wild, unearthly cry ringing j in my ears, whether uttered T>y myself or not, I cannot say; and then I awoke to find myself lying there in that silent house ! with the cold light of a cloudless moon falling on my face through the uncurtain ed window. Sleep, with the recollection of that 1 dream haunting iny mind, was impossible; so I arose, and on looking out tound that 1 my window opened on a pair of iron stairs reaching down to a garden. In a dull, mechanical way, I dressed, slipped a shawl over my head, and step- I passed through the garden. gale, and found m.vs'H in •».. mud. bordered on cither side b.v a tub row. In front the Hind rose in a d hill, until it met the- line of sky d which I could see nothing, 1 stepped hurriedly onward, the widen till then bad Keen shining full face, darkened, and when I rose 1/ j or hor the f»row of the hill astningc conscious-i long am ness of having trodden that path b« fbro I be left b came over mm and as I found myselfon ; "IP', the summit, and linked at t he view which ' was an j sud* idy Ij-oke before me. an icy chill ran j been eo through niy frame, and 1 nearly fell faint- j there w; ing to the ground, for there--soon in the ! They eu ! wan jig'ut of i low-lvimr moon, .across j bringing | which stretched a rugged skirt of lurndc same re/ ' angr.v cloud spread the wild heath of my dream, stil). silent, and sombre. And as J stood there* trembling and * shuddering, two long, hazy beams of light i one- above and one below shot out from I either side of the darkened moon, just as j it had appeared before. It was Several seconds'la fore l could nerve myself to look to tie* right, but when 1 did so, then* ' dark and dim, 1 saw tin* outline of the de- ' serted shed. j Once more the resiles impulse .seized me. I once more I was drawn gradually but, sun•- I ly toward the shed. I heard a low moan. the wailing cr.v, and saw just a.s 1 had 'seen it in my dream—the dark form 1 crouched up in the shadow of the wail. I But this time there was no awakening. this tine- it was no impalpable form I , touched, but the fragile figure of a woman, her hair loose, lying around her, her eyes -glazed, as if in death looking up into mine with a dumb, appealing look. Trembling and affrighted as I was, I rc- i collected t hat I imd a small bottle of bran- i dy and water in m.v pocket, placed there , in case I should require it on the journey. With jgrent difficulty I suecei deu in forc ing a f< w drops past her lips, which seem ! cd to revive a faint flmt'-ring in the well nigh lifeless bos*>m. I saw that she was perishing with cold; so I raised the poor creature in my arms, took off my shawl ami wrapped it around her, ami tried bv brisk churning and rubbing to restore ani mation. Then with all tin; strength of my lungs I shouted for Inin; but except tin- angry bark of some distant watch dog, there was n<> answer. Life was so nearly gone that I flared not leave her, even for tIn half hour it. would take to hurry home amt obtain aid: and so, the long night through, J sat there /m tin* damp clammy ground, bareheaded and shivering, with the head of the help less woman on my lap, striving to keep the faint, flickering spark of life from be ing extinguished. At last, toward daybreak, 1 heard a wag oner going by, and hopelessly hoarse with cold and calling as I was, succeeded in at tracting his attention, and induced him to drive us both to the house. A doctor was hastily summoned who said the. poor wo man was almost dead from hunger and ex haustion, but that by care and attention her life would be. spared. That night J went to bed with my head burning like a furnace, and every limb aching with pain; ami when morning came it found me stricken down with a raging fever, brought on by the exposure to the i dumps and news of midnight on the lonely ! heat n. How long I lay like that I do not know. | It must have been many weeks, for they i told me that I had been twice “given up' 1 by tin doctors. I was delirious the greater t part of the time, aiul have no recollection of anything, except that when I was g<;t- . ting better I had a dim consciousness of a ! familiar presence in the room, and 1 once fancied that someone kissed me on tbe fore head. The first persons 1 recognized, when my ! senses cleared, were my mother and the j woman whom I had found on that eventful night, lying in the. shadow of the shed on ! the hare heath. I grew stronger and strong- i er, was pronounced out of danger, and at 1 last was allowed to sit up in bed, and talk. 1 One day tin; doctor asked me if I had heard the history oft he woman whose life, 1 he said, I had saved. When I told him “ No,” he said: “Ask her to tell it to you. It is a most tragic affair. She, too, has lost her hus band, and 1 think you will bo interested.” i I give her tale just a.s it came from tier j own lips, omitting my questionings and in- i tempt ions. “Mv husband,” she said, “died six I months after our marriage, and us ! was ' left almost penniless, my brother in A us- * India wrote t<» me to come and keep house : for him. Tn the. steamer l went by there was a young German gentleman, called I Wagner, who won very kind.to me. We were within five days journey of our des- , tination when I wok** upon" night to find myself alone in the cabin, and t lie ship on lire. 1 sprang to the door, hut fell back, almost suffocated by the deadly smoko,and just as I felt my consciousness going. Mr. Wagner rushed in and seized mein bis arms, and I knew no more until when consciousness ret unit d. ! found myself in a small boat with my <h iivcivr. tin* first mat*-, and two sailors alone on tin-wide sea. A keg oi water and a p cm' u ••re all \v«* bad i:i tin* * ions enough to last us ab*. The first mate, however, d* might lx* We< lo before \\ t \v and that w«* must portion tlx last ten daws at least. tte\ u:;d. ‘Day by day | i r and stronger, ncr, whose no! ost him his lift. )V -dinrf buntIt ■ • * ri fifi n a little r. lures t hone t hat all t: Mr. \Vugr cottage j- m-peoU 1 tin iv. to hnt little •Thing f< r Lb.at if we , but that long way oif out I. succeed in attraetii Morning. hove\ er, v id gone for ■ whole b >n, leaving on! m vself *m home.’ in 1 had built, ne .,hw a ve‘ few miles of the island, and we mud with j'o.v to see that thev w» ing a boat in reply to our signals. •ading ship, bound for Li d by as ruffianly set as seen. We told them the othe back in the evening, and begg ; wait: but when they found chance there was of getting a | their pains, they said roughh ! liked to go will) them we could, b | they were behind already, a;.d eo; ' afford to wait another hour (V.»ai I Wo begged, prayed, promised they j be. amply rewarded, but all wit hout ; and we were at last obliged to go \ ' them, leaving u note behind for our comrades, h lling .hem that v ; steps to insure their deliveran to Upland. Mr. Wa;;i J wlicn we b-.nd**d at Li'e 1 ti<;:i must i.** to |/*t his v i*.other know of bis sal t would take ;ne home to stay while I communicated with my j friends in Australia. Poor P-Jlow - little j did lie think \\ hat was before him. | “The very day of our hulling, Before he i i*a t firm. ev n To teleg.-ajih home, lie Dll ] down in the. streets in a < -ort of lit. They I carried him to a dreadful hospital, where J j followed and begged to x* allowed to i nurse him; hut w iie) theyasktd if 1 were hi.*i wife, and 1 told them mo,’ they re fust d tile told >• ‘l Ji V. He er, and I hat in to my st« threatenin''to give me in charge as a va grant if f came again. “ There was one doctor who looked kind, and 1 waited for him outside, begging to toil me if there was any hope. lie.said he was afraid not. If my story were true and the patient's friends could lx. found, he thought perhaps by the givato.d care and attention, such as it was impossible for him to receive in the hospital where he was. w hich was only a kind of proper in stitution for foreign seamen, he might possibly recover. lie said lit.* would write to Mr. Wagner’s; friends if I gave him the add ress, but wheal told him I did not know when* they live** except that it was some where in London, he shrugged his shoul ders ami went away. “Then 1 determined in my mind, that. God helping me, the man who laid down lii.s life for me, as it were, should not die without an effort on my part to save him. 1 had friends in London, if 1 could only get there, who would help me to find his mother, i had enough money to purchase a ticket for half the journey -the rest I would endeavor to walk. When you found me, madam, 1 bad had no food* for three days, and had been walking for five days and nights, very nearly without resting. ’ “Ana your preserver, Mr. Wagner,” I said, “tell me, is he still living?” “Yes. madam, thank God' he is better, but still very weak and feeble. Directly I told your kind mother 'who had been tele graphed for when you fell ill. my story, and prayed her for the love of heaven to help me to find his relatives. She wrote immediately to her brother in Loudon, telling him the whole case, and begging him to make every effort to find Mr. Wag ner’s family } which he did without diffi culty, i believe. His mother and sister went down to Liverpool instantly. Th-* y were only just in time, the poor fellow was almost gone. However, everything that could be done was done. One of the best physicians in London was telegraphed for, and by the greatest care ami devotion his life was saved. He is still weak and feeble but much better, strong enough indeed to be mewed from that horrid hospital.” “Thank God!” I said, the tears coming into my eves. “How 1 should like to.see him and o il him what l think ol him. tie must be just su< !i an one as ;ny i lurry.” ‘ * Yes, madam, 1 think lie must,” answer ed tin* woman; shall i doserib.- Mr. Wag ner to you?” J nodded, for my heart was full of my husband, and 1 could not trust myself to speak. ‘•lie is tali, but so broad shoulder.-d That you d-> not notice his height; has a ru Idv compi'-xi »n, much bronzed ami sunburned; dark navel eyes that have a clear, honest look about them; and a voice that has such a ring of genuine m.uhinev) and wuth I had u>ui nights *nt I all our allowanc*. Wagner had lake lb I In t.ddesp* him. lie ah vutt tend to refuse, brute tint I was: in fact 1 hardly t hank/ d him for it. so utterly mad was 1 with the fearful erivings of hunger and t hirst. “I had noticed, hov.'en r, that, strong as he appeared, tin- awfu* priv.ui.e. to which w* were subjected so .ml tu toll opium nn i re t ban on any of tin others; Lie wa.*> weak* ;*, pal* r, and more exhausted. 1 soon found the reason. Foi now when there seemed nothing beu»r»- u** but o', ink starv ation, and when the strong nun began to whim* anil pule like infants', he turned to me with an attt mot at a smile, bidding me to keep i brine heart, ami showing me, hidden awav in his Ipoeket. tlie whole al lowance of biscuits that had been doled out to him. ‘They are all for you; I kept them on purpose,’ he said, in reply to my savage de mand for one. “God forgive me! 1 snatched it from his hand like a wild bea-:t. never even thanking him for his noble self-sacrifice, although I saw that the poor fellow was fast sinking from hunger and exhaustion. I cam see nmv. though 1 did Mot notice U at the time, tin sad. pained look on his face, as he turned aw ay when 1 fiercely demand ed the oth‘»r biscuits, then and there, and even attempted to tearaway from him by foree. i was mad mad with hunger .mil thirst!” The poor woman broke down here ut terly, and it was some time before l could soothe her sufficiently to goon with her tale.^ “We were ten days in that boat,” slit* continued, “and on the morning of the eleventh, we were fast approaching land of some sort. We were too weak to row, or direct the boat in any way, but we soon found we were drifting rapidly in. For tunately, just as \ve e. ime into shallow wa ter, a large breaker lifted us clean up and fixing the boat some way in, leaving it stranded there; otherwise’it would proba bly have been overturned, and all washed away by an outgoing wave. “As we crawled out ol the boat, which was lying on its side among the shingle, one of us noticed a quantity of shed-fish adhering to the bottom. We had just enough strength left to tear them ofl‘ greedily, open and devour them. If it lmd not been for this. 1 believe we must have died where we lay, for there was a long stretch of sand and a shingle to pass h^- f°re we could get sufficiently inland t<> ob- i 1::ilt*‘ .>'• 1 > i s— 1 Imt i; llOlll v to you IV hcui-t 1 :k<* a ray av of of !>riElt. f rush : : liair " t ’ t!ii*i , III vs. “Why v- >u a it * (a SD’jl -in"' iii\ Harr s’.” i •l‘tre/1 tll.-li il iiiti-rruptf-d her with a mb: “!)<■ was just l‘r !>i<‘ lit ll Up, Silt It It (HU- . is yo u say, ; i i ju it such an- III out s.t us to other hcui-t , lira yo and i -obit-'. Oi i, my I.GS- •n lot « du.vs bund! in v lost huslian -1! trod give Jiim d s in •O!'. Hill! buck to tin ! LiVv • him !iuck to me r <Uv Mi-. Thi-f- ,vt sihiHv of some sccc Bids, •r i-. ..it, in-; bl-oki-l- oi b - !>v i ill V .-sold. iiiyj, ami tiien the 1, u (! 1 III to wotntin suit i in' a forced, nnnat i:r il voi. ! . 1H1 1 lot p,v- “Yus. 111! :da m , it is \ scry strangle. Mr. d havi -and tin i great I v she broke oi h \ sterieal kind ol' Luil'I): ■ ‘Cannot you yu ess? (’annot Voii auess?” I thnn^iif she w -> mud. My brain was so confused i e'Mil (1 her think nor con* * S * ( ‘ Guess what?” nniHA?” i .suiii. “Wliat d«> you “\Ye dared not tvl! You a- \ once,” sin- re- plied. “We wer ■ • afraid - »fthe shock. I Uioa^ht y»ui wo -aid !iuv- suspected the cannot you see [\ } The iri wss th** Osprey. I was Australia, but Brazil. Mv your husband truth long ship I vv n..t goi lioblt (! HngUsh he Ls euming!” A sii spoke, I heard stairs: it was slow and t it! 1 knew it! it was he Harry come back from the grave. The door opened. I spr ing up in bed with a great yearning cry of hum and jov, and in another moment we two were Kicked in dysentery CHILDREN TEETHING 50(PERBOTTLE <3-0 TO The New York Store AND SECURE SOME OF THE SUN BEAM CLOTH Entirely X<-\v. only 7c. woi-iit 15c. Also beautiful Cluunlii-y ;tt 7 conls. woe!It 10c. Parasols at -oc, Rallies" Linen Collars at 5U- dozen, worlh SI 00. Elc- l!aij! Summer Silks at 40c. cost (jOc to import. Rood Rlcachcd Colton al 4c. All-wool Black Binding at 15c, wtiHb 25c. Beautiful Cream While Race Stripe Rawns at 10c. canuol be duplicated in the city for 15c; and many oilier bargains ihrouehoul the stock. AT THE BEEHIVE H BIG STRIKE High .Prices! j Years ago we had the cour- figegto apply Hie axe In !) J0 root of high prices, and w,. have kepi up Hie system". Those who are hurl piouj considerably about our upU liug p'oods below market va|. ue. hut il is much easier p sell eood ariieles for |jp) e profit Ilian al man i-rms, U e never wore good al il. Thai isn't whal we are Ro,-^ for. We are going to sell our eutire slock of Laces and bin- broidery Flouncings. Skirliii”s and Allovei's, in while heiee <ind lan, al unprecedented low prices. W’o have just received an immense new line of Swiss and Oriental Flouncings, which were bought al Imy prices. Our entire line of Novell'/ Dress Goods, including all silk. wool and eombilion sails, at 25 per cent less Ilian orig inal cost. We offer for to-morrow again 100 White Embroidered Holies al 90c. Call early il you want any. We have just received a beautiful line of Ladies Jersey Jackets. We have a Jersey for $1.00—heats anything ev er sold here for $3.00. Stricl- lylfor summer wear. SJust received new styles ol Bahv Caps, Ruchings, Mos quito Nettings, in 80, 90 and , 108 inch widths, at pries lower than any of our so- J termed competitors. Who can i give you a 4-4 Net for 35c, land a 12-yard piece of N<d, j 108 inches wide, for $2.75? j Can’l he moldied in town for $4.( m ). Sternberg&Loewenherz READERS OF Low Prices, JAS. E. CARGILL Agent.J footstep no the I -*i*U. hut 1 kntw | av husbaitci mv 1 GRANDEST OPENING OF IDE SEASON h gr.ivia. s—together at la.st. -Bel- M A N l’ KACTU RF.I) BY M0XIEC0MPANY, Atlanta, Ga. I HAVE OPENED THE LARGEST STOCK OF Pattern Hats and Bonnets ail the latest styles and combinations ever shown in this market, and of such prices as will astonish every one. UNTRIMMED STRAW GOODS DEPARTMENT, For sale by John P. Turner & Bro.. and (}. A. ! Bradford. City Drugstore, Columbus. <in. 50 | cents quart bottle. upld d 1 v n r m 1 tain any food, fish Wert . they time. T)ien tH ex* * stud, e v Howvvcr. hard a.s the sh» 11 served to support life for a ■ mate, who was the h aw d. a ’it tl.* wav in, at id at faculty, Union Milans, Milans, China Milaiis, English Milans, Saf in Straw, Fancy Straw, Leghorns, and an endless variety of smHEBum School Hals. Ostrich Feathers and Pompons, Parasols and Fans, and everything appertaining to Millinery, to which the ladies of Columbus and vicinity are respectfully invited. This School L ; lie best m America. The most t practical course of in struction and the most . Eu- i n e s a houses. For circulars atid specimens of Ft n* man ship, address sotrsMiTB, Priuwpal 3K. HI. LEE. :es represent the brands of tv the most popular TOBACCOS in this or any other section of the country. 5 here must evidently he merit in these good*, or they would not have attained such popularity. —H would otherwise not be the pet among.A Une ■ ’*- rious Tobaccos Imndled by the different dealers in that line. For their particular pleasant taste and flavor they are not excelled ; nor is there a rival as to their cheapness compared with their excellent quality. Among the many dealers handling same in this city, we beg leave to enumerate some in the space below and recommend those Tobaccos highly to their respective trade. D. A. Andrews, C. Batastjni, R. Broda, T. A. Cantrell, V. R. Cantrell A: Co. R. S. Crane, L. H. Kaufman A* C. H. Markham, Tii os. Names, Tore Newman. W. R. Nkwsove, J. H. Rumsev, A. Simon, T. J. Stone. Luo III Itielinioiiri, Virginia. Manufacturers of Fanny Edel and L. Rv<ad To baccos. lil.KV A- 1,0Hit ure our Sole lor tlii* territory. mv2 se6m I am now prepared to do all kinds of Bon Painting And in the very best manner, with the best Paints, as cheap as any one in the city * -y always ready f<»r small jobs as well a*= luige o I have the best of workmen employed. JAMES M. OSBORNE, AT THE Old Bradford Paint Shop. mh 15 se&w2in