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VOLUME III.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1879.
NUMBER 152.
A MILLION and three-quarters :#f dot
Ian hm bats iwbrcrlbed for eharitablt
i through the agency of the Now
York Ob amber of Cotaaaroa daring tbo
pant twenty years. Ths Chicago and
northwestern fires in 1871 called oat
girts to amount of $1,044,000; the French
sufferers by the war of 1870 reoeived
143,000; the yellow fevor fund raised las
year amounted to $172,000.
The plague of wild beasts and snake
In India is extraordinary indeed. Snakes
Hloue in 1877 killed nearly 17,000 per
sons, and tigers, elephants, leopards and
other wild beasts nearly 3 000 more. Ef«
forts were made at the same time to de*
stroy tho animal, but without apparent
reduction of the numbers. Aliout 127,-
000 snakes and 22,000 wild b2aats were
. killed, and $50,000 paid in rewards for
their di structhm. N
Til hue was suipended over the long
table in tho cotton exchange yesterday a
ti markable cotton plant, received by
Mwuis. Gilkeson & Sloss from Rednor A
JE ilon of Ladduia, Fannin county, Texas,
this plant bore two hundred and twenty*
three bolls, some of them open and over*
Mowing with tho flseoy product, and
altogether it was an interesting object.
'That this numlier of bolls is unusual is
demonstrated by a reliable statement
that twenty, five to thirty is tho average
•range £Ht. Louis Republican.
In racing, the efficiency of tho jockey
fluctuates just as much as that of the
animal he bestrides. He may be all
keenness and vigor when he comes to do
his work, or he may be more or less dull
of brain or lumpy in body, and therefore
moro or less of a drag on the beast than
what he should bis Often the case is
W 'fse. Rill Scott, one of the best riders
t» e turf has ever seen, and who rode the
winuers of five Darbys, was so drunk the
year he rode Sir Tattoo Sikes for the
Derby that he had to be lifted into tbe
saddle. Yet he came in second, and
w uld have won but for his drunken*
uess.
The London Economist baa been corn-
pi ling a statement of gold and silver now
lying in various banks in Europe and
t io treasury at Washington. The grand
total amounts to$1.400,000,000, probably
the largest aggregate ever before collected
811 this visible shape, and the amount
goes on increasing without check. The
quantity of gold and silver in circulation
hU oyer the world is a matter of the
merest guesswork; but even taking tbe
highest of theee guesses ia recent discus
sions of the subject in France, this enor
mous mam which lies now locked up in a
few banking-vaults comtitutcs one-tenth
cl the circulating medium of the world.
Professor Swing wisely remarks that
t will be a great mit-takc and a great
uiisfortuno If tho return of gooel times
shall bring back tho oil fervor for ad
venture and property which made mort
gag< s among tho most popular things of
tl»o day. “ Mortgages,” ho add", “are a
pestilence, and debts are a regular chol
era. Estates die undor them. Churches
vicken and have to lie sat up with at
night; individuals pine away, wives and
children become disheartened in the
inortgsgc season, and the fiuancial grave
nigger is busy day and night. Swamps
and dirty houses were the black death of
Europo ; debts are the plague of Amer
ica.”
Carul, the capital of Afghanistan,
where the massacre of Oavaguari and the
E iglish embassy took place, is not a city
whose places and public institutions
would allure the elightseer to any
lengthened stay in its vicinity, for with
out exception a more neglccUd or
tumble-down collection of houses, with
out the slightest pretence to sanitary
arrangements, can hardly be found in
A ia. Tho only shops of any interest
aro the leather and iron workers and
others dealing in skins and stuffs peculiar
11 Cabul. The fruit stalls in the autumn
arc crammed from the ground to the
with every kind of both ripe and raw
fruits. __
There ts only one country in the
world in which there is no illiterate peo
ple; it is the Sandwich Islands. The
population of tho islands is 58,000. They
have eleven high educational ins*itu-
tious, one hundred and sixty-nine mid
dle public schools, and forty-three pri
vate schools. The public instruction is
under tl o supervision of a committee
R| pointed by the King, and composed of
fivo members, who serve without remun
eration ; the committee appoint a gene
ral iiis|K)Ctor and a number of sub-in
spectors.) The ^Government takes care
that every person shall be able at least to
read and write, and pursues energetically
all parents who neglect to tend their
children to school.
The present cattle belt of the United
States is about 2,000 milm in length, and
350 in width. It stretches from the Rio
Grande to Manitoba. In tbe extreme
southern and umthem portion it iif
neither highly elevated nor particularly
dry, but for the greater portion it lies
along the surface of high table lands. It
n i ? m that the cost for raising a four-
year-old steer, which will sell at the
depots at an average of $30, wllfnot ex
ceed $3.60. The increase is about 30
)>er cent, a year. It requires, however,
a round sum of in ney to successfully
start tbe business of cattle raising, which
is gradually falling into the hands o
large drivers. As valuable as the bull*
ion product of Coiqj|to 4s, its cattle
product is even more S8»*>io, and all
the cattle men are sai^ to be gieater fa
vorites at the banks than the miners.
One banker iu Denver exprened the
Opinion that ho would rather have onto
THE BUTLER HERALD.
hundred accounts among the cattle
dealers than three hundred milling ac-
otmota. _
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Texas streams are nearly all dry.
The Texas school pro rata is $2.09.
Tho Kansas exodus has not reached
Florida.
Augusta, Ga., is to have free letter
delivery.* ^ ________
Hon. Herschcll V. Johnson is sixty-
Heven years old.
Montgomery received 75,000 bales of
cotton last week.
Selma has just raised tho tax on drum
mers to $200 per minium
Drouth has cut cotton short in por
tions of South Carolina.
Tho social clubs of Richmond aro to lx)
tried for selling liquor on Sunday.
Memphians arc petitioning fora Hjiccial
session of the Tennessee Legislature.
Forty miles in fifty minutes wns the
time made by a Virginia carrier-pigeon.
A charter lias been granted to the
Knoxville Ice Manufacturing Company.
Continued fine weather lias removed
all fears of a poor cotton crop in Georgia.
A Texas man is mnking his way to
Fort West with one hundred prnirie dogs for
sale.
Corn is still selling in some portions of
North Alabama at twenty cents per bushel.
Aunt Letty Bnldwin, of AshlKiro, N.
C., is tho mother of twenty-three living chil
dren.
Maj. Penn converted two hundred and
oghty sinners at Buffalo Gap, Taylor county,
,Texas.
Up to Sunday the Hood Relief Com
mittee, of New Orleans, Juid received $1,-
088.25.
In Macon no child will lxi nllowed at
the public school unless its father has paid
poll tax.
Pecan-gatherers iu Frio county, Texas,
get twenty-live cents a bushel for gathering
the nuts.
Entertainments are being given nil
over Texas to raise money Jfor the Ilood
children.
The total revenue from the drutnmers*
tax that has bcon taken in at Austin amount
ed to $00,000.
A thousand licll-punchcs have l>ecn
received at Austin, Tex., for distribution
through the State.
Tho heavy tax inqioscd by tho last
legislature lias pretty much put an end to
horse-racing iu Texas.
A recent census gives the population of
Wilmingfnn, N. C. ( at 17,00-1, an increase of
nearly 4,000 since 1870.
Over one thousand persons in Clark
and Wayne counties, Mississippi, earn their
living by the turpentine industry.
Now Orleans is uneasy over the rapid
increase of houses of ill-repute and their in
vasion of the best parts of tho city.
There is such a remarkablo plague fo
mosquitoes around Fornandinn, Fla., that
farmers work in mosquitoe netting.
Mr. Sullivan, of Starkvillc, Miss., in
tends to turn loose his newly-invented llying-
machine on the 1st of November.
Says the Advertiser: Seldom has Mont
gomery been the scene of as much activity
in every department of business os ifow.
Norfolk, Vn., has just held a mass-
meeting to clinngo the “moving day” from
January 1st to some more propitious day.
Tltcro arc six murder cases to 1x5 tried
at the next District Court term at Hempstead,
Texas. The murders were all committed
this year.
The report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture for September slates that the
corn crop of Tennessee is above the average
in nearly every county in the State.
A ghastly-looking gallows, upon which
three men have been hung, stares the passen
gers by the Jackson route in the face as the
train approaches Jackson, Tennessee.
A Fort Worth special says a two-days’
fight iu the Texas Pan-handle county resulted
in the killing, by Indians, of seven young
hunters from Fort Worth and Dallas.
The Tuscaloosa (•Ala.) Gazette tells of
a uegro who came out of the war witli $114,
ami now owns a farm, stock, crop, etc., worth
$20,000—all made by legitimate farming.
John E. Mason, an old and wealthy
citizen of Cannon county, Tcnn., lias ordered
his coffin and tombstone made, and is super
intending the construction of both in person.
It is stated that there are fifty-five au
thorized distilleries in the small county of
Gaston, North Carolina, and that the price of
corn has gone up to ninety cents per bushel.
Winston (N.C./Sentinel: The prospect
is most cheering indeed for one of the finest
tobncco crops that lias been raised in this
section since the war. The crop is not only
large, but is curing up bright.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: All
tilings iu this section must lie prospering;
we nrc reliably informed that there is mot a
vacant store-house or dwelling-house in either
of our neighboring towns, Wetumpkn, or
Prattville.
In disinfecting Memphis the National
Bourd of Health lias used 170,105 pounds of
copperas, 9,000 barrels of lime, forty barrels of
sulphur, 1,215 pounds of sulphate of zinc, 15
barrels of carbolic acid and 1,200 gallons of
zino iron.
The following is San Antonio’s small
pox record up to 22d ult.: Persons attacked,
one hundred and thirty; deaths, all Mexi
cans, twenty-eight; houses and jacals under
yellow Hag, thirty-three; persons on sick list,
forty-three.
Aberdeen (Miss.) Weekly: A rcsiden-
of this city, a keen observer, who has ret
ccntly traveled through the Mississippi bot
toms, estimates that sixty thousand negroes
will exodc from that section this fall und
winter for Kansas and other points.
Galveston News: Recording the escapes
of prisoners through the careless of the
jailers, and accidents from the cnrelessucss
of bundling firearms, is growing monotonous.
The supply of simpletons sccimj inexhaustible.
Fools seem to do us much harm as knaves.
Columbus, Ga., has the biggest cotton
mills in the South, and yet the Times
The Dispatch Icarus that tha Atlanta LuRr*
is “chuck full of orders.” W£ ore gl^'jmy
hear it, for everything over this.%ay is s * to
ordered up that Columbus aaMftjkfdp o° fully
Gov. Miller, whoso father fs ninety-
two years old, says iu the soimuieighboriiood
with his father, in Independence county,
Ark., lives William Allen Mo(ijtarjg| aged one
hundred and nine yearn. He JKD! walks to
Batesvillu and back home, (Ae'ffMtuncc being
twenty-four miles.
It is estimated that the various cotton
manufactories in and nround Augusta, Ga.,
use $1,500,000 worth of raw cotton per an
num. The annual sales ftom their, product
amount to about $2,000,000. The product of
the Augusta flour and grist mills yields $1,-
A00,000 per annum.
Wilson (N. <$.) Advance: Our colored
people have caught Ac infection, and are
now desirous of leaving their old homes, and
friends «ud emigrating to the wonderful
country, Kansas. There will Til a mass-uieot-
ing in this place Saturday in tho interest of
the exodus movement.
Abbeville (Ala:> Register: Mirny of
the colored people bitterly oppose colored’
arresting offioem. They say they will will
ingly submit to arrest by white officers.felt
feel very much like resistin'* men nf
S iuuch like resisting men o^Etf*
r. This is strange, when soma, of
45 fojongcomplained that thcymvo
uot oecn ullawtfTn share fn the offices. -
Judge Fkemfof -soy* the number.‘of
urimes m Wh CnWtym, as shown bt the
repords of the coTkrta, is not more IhiAnp
that culprits arc actually punished for their
crimes. The criminul docket all over the
State is very light now.
Bristol (Tenn.) Courier: The Swiss
colony iu Tennessee is reported very pros
perous. It consists of one hundred and thir
teen families, seven hundred persons, and
they bought 10,000 acres of land at $1 per
acre. They have started a cheese factory,
devote most of their attention to dairy farm
ing and get high prices for their produce.
Memphis Appeal: There are some fifty
or sixty people confined at the county jail
who are said to he entitled to a discharge on
habeas corpus, but we have no Criminal
Judge, und our Governor seems disinclined to
appoint one until the epidemic ceases. We
need a yellow-fever judge, one who is natur
alized or acclimated, who will stay here dur
ing yellow-fever times.
The following from a Georgia paper
raises a question as to which is the more
dangerous end of the mule: One of them in
the lower end of Gordon county, a few days
ago, got Mr. Reuben Jones’ linger iu iiis
moil til nnd refused to let go. After lie liatl
kept his unfortunate captive in misery for
half an hour he gave one quick jerk and
literally pulled the flesh of the linger from
the hone.
Newport (Tcnn.) Reporter: An old
colored women, Anna Duncan, died in Jef
ferson county a few weeks since at the age
of one hundred and twenty years. She car
ried the flowers for her mistress to decorate
the bridge at Georgetown which George
Washington marched over with his army
during the Revolutionary war. The old wo-
Alexandria (Va.) Gazette: For some
time past the family of Mr. James P. Machen,
who lives near Centerville, have been an
noyed by tho mysterious opening of a door
in their house. By attentive watching the
cause of the apparent spiritual visitation lias
been discovered. It was found that the
house cat was in the habit of climbing up
the door, holding to the knob with ono foot
while the knob was turned with the other.
“ We were shown last Friday,” Hays tho
Oglethorpe (Ga.) Echo, “the shuck from an
ear of corn, raised by Mr. Fielding Dillard,
tbe seed of which he obtained in the moun
tains, which is a new variety in this section.
The shuck is an imperial purple, and we learn
is used by the old ladies of North Georgia to
dye yarns and cloth, It is said to make a
beautiful and lasting shade of purple. The
ears from this corn arc of medium size. Mr.
I). is noted for his extensive.and prolific va
rieties of corn, he making his business to im
prove the seed by crossing the best kinds.”
Ilow an Election Was Won.
Tho Madison (Ind.) Star says: Some
years ago, Russ, our own G. W., lived in
our adjoining county of Riploy. Ho was
thou a Republican in a Democratic
county. What his politics aro now we
don’t know, and don’t care, and we
think he don’t know or euro either. Wo
only know lio is a manly, big-hearted,
genial gentleman, and that’s all wo caro
about these times. But to tho story.
Russ was a Republican candidate for
Shoriff in tho Democratic county of
Ripley, and, os a matter of course,
wanted nil the votcB he conld get.
Then, as now, ho was passionately
fond of gunning, and always owned a
fine gun and dogs. In his country was
an old German; we will coll him Joke.
He also was a hunter and a power
among “tlio boys.” Ho kopt a littlo
country doggery, and his “influence”
wils worth about thirty votes. In duo
time Russ mot Jake, and a talk about
hunting, guns and dogs rather warmed
tho Dutchman toward Russ, although
Juko was a Domocrat. After a whilo
Russ saw ono of Jake’s lank, pot-bcUicd
pointers, and commenced to giro away
taffy.
“Jake,” said Russ, “that's a mighty
lino dog. Whcro did you got him? ”
Joko replied to tho effect that ho
raised that kind of dogs.
“ WoU, I’ll toll you,” said . Russ, “ I
am vory fond of hunting, and if I am
elected Sheriff this fall I shall indnlgo
myself in shooting to my heart’s con
tent. If I am not eloctcd I will not bo
ablo to shoot much. I will give you
$50 for that dog, Jako, if I want him
after the election. Here’s a $5 noto to
bind the bargain.” Jako, tickled to
death at the fine solo of his dog, which
was worth about 50 conts, took tho bill,
and as a oonseqnonce his ond of the
county gave Russ a haudsomo majority
and he was eleoted. barely puUing
through. Timo passed and Russ was
duly instaUod in tho office of Sheriff
of Ripley connty. Soon Jako put in an
appearanco, dragging the unwOling cur
at his heels.
“Mister Russ,” said Joke, “you vos
now elected Sheriff von dis gounty nnd
bore is deso dog. Gif mo my vorty-
vife toilers.”
“ Jake,” said Russ, “ I find that my
timo will not allow mo to hunt so much
as I thought it would; you may just
koop tho dog and tho $5, too.”
Jake studied a long time, then took a
long breath, and said:
“ Mister Russ, I peliovo id, py Got,
yon buy me and not my dog I Ain’t
it?”
An Embryo Indii
“flay. mister, ci
Icon hang upjqJNPtt *F*o got the
monoy to pay,” said a small, Bright-
looking boy to Pdl(Wr n 'Officcr Houslor,
in Broad stroet, Newark, at 2 o’clock,
on Tuesday moruiug. Tho officer took
tho boy to the Second Preciuct station.
Tho boy had in liis pockets three small,
old-fashioned pistols, ono of which was
loaded; a box of cartridges, slugs,and
caps; a dagger made of a rat-tail file and
incasod in a tin sheath, atm bugle, and
$3.05 in silver. In a bundle the boy
carried were a guide book of New York,
a package of railroad time tables, a pair
of scissors, a brad-awl, a paper of
noedlos, thread, pins, and u box of
salvo. JHe said his namo was Henry
Werkor,and his ago 14. His mother,
ho oddofl, is a widow liviqg at 181 Sec
ond street, this city. In u memoran
dum tyoktlio boy had written: “Hen
ry Worker, caro of Mrs. Worker, 184
Socond. street. Cbnrlcs Werker and
Prougott Werker; Gus und ’Gertie
Werker^CBBThird street; Katie Glis
ten, 135yWwnT Fortieth street,4j||tween
Eightliftnd Ninth avenues.”
He Bara he hud written the names
so that il ho got lost in tho West,
to whicl\ ho was bound, his friends
migh^hear.of him.
The boy was aftffhrard taken before
Potioe Justice Mills, lie said he hud
been reading dimo novels and boys 1
story papers, and had - started from
home iu order to hecomo n lmnter on
the plains, lie thought he might grow
up a great Indian lighter. He bad been
for weeks collecting tbo pistols und
other articles. lie refused to tell
jghcro he got his money.—New York
Sun.
Canada has abandoned special efforts
to indneo immigration, and her agents
abroad, who havo for yoars beon hold
ing out all sorts of allurement, aro to bo
recalled. The trouble about tho busi
ness has been that, while Canada paid
tho heavy expenses, the United States
reoeivod a largo shore of the benefit.
A ZOOLOOICAL ROMANCE,
[/fepfrvd hr an Umuual Flow of Animal A
N» «WMter Rlrl owe *vor *na
That Betty Marten** danghtcr Sue.
With a*bl* hare, amall tai>lr walnt.
And lips jrau’d gopher mllo* to Imm;
Bright, lambent oyoa, like the gazclla,
Sheep pertly breught to bear so woll{;
Apo pretty lass, it was avowed,
Of whom her marmot to be proud.
I’ll starvo yon down, my aallor One,
DnUl for bcon and porcupine 1"
And, fairly horae with llendiah Ianglite
Would aay: “Henoeforth, mind what giraffe U»!"
In abort, tho many rlska be ran
Right wall a llama braver man.
Then he waa wrecked and castor ahor*
While fcably clinging to anoa.
Hyena cleft among tna rocks
He crept aana shoes, and minus os:
And, whon he fain would go to bod,
Ha had to lion leaves lnstoad.
Then Sue would aay, with troubled fins:
“How koodoo live In auch a placeT "
And straightway Into team would melt,
And aay: h How badger muat have feltl *
While ho, the brute, woodchuck her chin,
And aay.'^'Ayo-ye, my lata I “^and grin.
Eionae thoeo atoera. • • • It's over now;
Thare'a naught llko grief the hoar! can cow.
Jackaaa'd her to be hla, oad aho—
She gave Jackal, ami jilted mo. .
And, now, alaat tho litUo minka
Is bound to him with Hymen's lyma.
—CAarUa F. Adami.
KISS AND WED.
O, “Kina and wed” 1h often said,
Not often wed and kiss—
It should not try tho dullest head
To Hud what's hero amiss t
If klsa and wrd la all that's said,
If lovo no further gnenl
If when its happy summer's fled
o bloom li
It B'
To chooso a thriftier flower—
Aro bul
Its summer's but tho trys
When lovo and beauty u
And what moro worthy closo could be
To its consistent rhymo,
Thau when tho fruit hnngs ripening
In golden autuiuu-timoT
Then lot lovo bo llko
- he last;
. " Wod and kiss,” and you'll not n
Tho best keep for the lost;
Howard Qlyndon. In llnhlirln's Monthly,
HOW VAN DYCK WON 1118 WIFE.
In ono of tho splendidly decorated
saloons at Bt. Jumes’ was assembled
a group ol youug and lovoly girls, whoso
dolicato fingers were busily engaged in
different kinds of ornamental ncodlo-
work, which, undor tlioir skillful ar
rangement, formed bouquets which
rivaled nature in tho brilliancy of their
colors and accuracy of shades. They
woro tho Queen's maids of honor, and
botween their gay chattering and busy
flngors employed tho time whilo waiting
for her rising. Tho only gruvo person
in tho ossombly was tho Dowager Duch
ess d’Alby, the chief of tho ladies of
honor.
Among tho blooming group tho
youngest was remarkable for simplicity
of dress and tho quiot modesty of her
whole appearanco, Her attire was a
dress of block volvot olosod to the
throat, but of which tho skirt, open in
front, disclosed an undress of white
satin; the sleeves enrao just below tho
elbow and coquettislily disclosed the arm
and hand of the most dzzling white
ness. A plaited tucker encircled her
graceful ueek, on which hung a chain,
to which was attached a largo cross,
and tho luxuriant linir, simply parted
on tho forehead and confined by a largo
scarf, completed her costume.
This was tho daughter of one of tho
most illustrious families of Scotland.
Her father, Lord Rnthven, united to
princely fortune a pedigree of whioh ho
was more proud than of his wealth.
Lucy, his daughter, had secrotly arrived
at the English Oourt on her appoint
ment to a post in tho Queen’s honse-
hold, tlioro to complete tho education
which hod been carefully guided by her
father. Rotircd and simple in her
tastes, her mind instinctively sought tho
sublime in tho works of nature and art.
She exceUcd in painting, and her genius
hod cveatcd a world of her own in the
dailv contemplation of tho productions
of tho host masters, which adorned tho
S llories of her father. Paul Yeronose,
uido, Rubens wero of the number of
her friends, andfsho vowed them eternal
gratitude for the light their talents shed
on her solitude.
Tho habits and manners of Lucy con
trasted strongly with thoso of her com
panions, who had boon habituated to
moro independence and liberty. Gentlo
and timid to excess, she scarcely at
tempted to answer the sportive and
often mischievous saUicsof her compan
ions.
Tho largo clock in tho saloon chimed
tho hour of 10. AH eyes woro directed
to it, aud several voicos exclaimed:
“He’s vory latol” just as a domestic an
nounced, “tho pointer, Van Dyck.”
Tho announcement caused a general
agitation among tho smiling group.
Each ono changed her positipn on lior
Velvet seat, rearranged her dress, and,
oomposing her countcnanoo, sought to
givo additional graco to hor aspect.
Tho young pupil of Rubens, alboit ac
customed to tho spirit of boauty, could
not suppress a murmur of admiration
at finding himself in the midst of this
brilliant cirolo.
The old Duehoss, supposing the young
painter’s embarrassmont to ho caused
by her own imposing appearance, to on-
oourage him addressca' him in thoso
words: “lam told that yon have tal
ent, young man.”
Those who have so informed you do
mo too much honor, madam. Doubt
less, they judge mo by my intentions;
but I havo as yet produced nothing
worthy of attention.”
There was os much confidence and
noble prido in the reply of the painter
as thore had been arrogance and imper
tinence in the address of the noblo
dame.
Luoy, who possessed tho high spirit
of hor country, was also shocked at tho
insolent tono of the Duchess, and now
Unshod with pleasuro at tho reply of
Van Dyck. As her soft eyes rosted ap
provingly on his face bo understood hor
feelings, and thanked her by a look for
hor genorons sympathy.
“ Well, weU, we shall see. Hor Maj
esty wishes to ronow tho ornamonts of
her chapel; so you will bo fully em
ployed. A residenco will be assigned
you in yonder monastery, whore you
will copy undisturbed. In summer,
also, you shall havo a fit residence, be
sides a pension from the Government.
Tliis, I think, is paying an artist pretty
well,”
“Art cannot be paid for my Lady
Dnohoss, and, if I purchased tho talents
to whioh I aspire, the favors which yon
boast oould not purchase them.”
“ This is all vory well—you are proud
and wo aro noble, but, nevertheless,
these honors are conditional. You will
be chosen painter to the Queen if you
succeed in gaming tho prize which ia
offored for the most perfeot hood of tho
Madonna.”
“ Ah I madam, if the pntroungeof her
Majesty is offered me only on those con
ditions I shall not obtain it.”
“ Aud why not?”
“ Becauso I shall not gain tho prize,”
replied ho, with an expression of sad
ness which was instantly reflocted on
the face of Lucy.
“ Why do you refuse this honor ? Do
you fcak to fail ? ”
“ No, madam; but how shall I repre
sent as she should bo represented tho
mothor of the Savior? Whero shall I
find a model?” As ho pronounced
these words his eyes rested on tho an
gelic face of Luoy. “ I have hitherto
sought in vuin the combiuutton of mild
ness, sweetness and candor which should
characterize tho Queen of Heaven.”
Tho fire of goniuB which illuminated
tho handsome countenance of Van
Dyck elicited tho admiration of aU ob
servers.
“But I should imagine that there
would bo no difficulty in obtaining mod
els of painters.”
“ Tho models which can bo obtoined
for hire aro beautiful, without doubt.
I havo sought in vain for tho dignity
and purity which I havo never scon uni
ted but in a noble lady who would dis
dain to sit to a poor artist.”
Tho animated and ardent glaucc of
Van Dyck embarrassed Lucy; it told
hor that he had at lost found tho object
his fancy had dopictcd. Tho Duchess,
however, had not observed it, and
11 Who is this noblo lady ? ”
“Tho Virgin horself. madam I” Bow
ing profoundly and giving a parting
glunce at Luoy, he added: “ If I gain
the prizo you shall seo mo again, mad
am, if not I leavo England.”
He took immediate possession of his
apartments, where ho could at the samo
time paint liis Madonna and copy tho
frescoes for tho oliapel. With his* mind
full of tho celestial fate ho had just
seon, ho seized his pencil ami endeav
ored to troco her lineamouts. But the
oxtremo sensibility so useful to art
whon timo has calmed it was now liis
chief obstacle. Ho felt too deoply to
succeed in expressing tho idou which
filled his soul. Tho day passed in fruit
less attempt and the night surprised
him, dissatisfied and despondent.
In tho meantime Lucy lmd suffered
severely for tho proforenco shown her
by Van Dyck. Tho envy and jealousy
of hor companions found vent in im
pertinent sarcasm; so that, on separat
ing for the night, hor mind was filled
with liis idea, and, after hor nightly
G rayer, his name was the last on her
ps.
It was midnight. Tho heavens shone
with a thousand sparkling sturs, and a
dark light spread itself on tho old abbey,
which stood solitary and alone among
its ruins.
A window of tho palace opened, and
a shadow passed slowly along tho bal
cony and staircaso, crossed along the
court and reached the monastery.
It would be difficult to say how this
figure had loft the polaco and pene
trated so far; but she must havo been
well acquainted with all tho turnings,
for in a short timo sho crossed tho long
avenue, and, arriving at ono end of tho
gaUorica of the ehapol, sho found her
self in the painter’s work-room, aud,
passing lightly on. seated horsolf, with
out looking around her, immediately in
front of his easel.
Oh, surprise! Oh, joyi this being
so calm, so beautiful, is Lucy I Tho de
sponding artist who hod been unable to
retrace her features on his cunvas now
behold a living model before his eyes.
What oould havo induced her to como?
Wlmt idea could havo givon hor the
conrago and resolution ? He threw him
self on his knocs before her, bat Luoy,
motioning him to riso, pointed" to hie
pencil. Her look ponotrated him with
a flame so pure that ho forgot tho real
ity of his vision —liis astonishment
seemed to him a want of faith. Trans
ported by his imagination to an ethe
real sphere, he scorned abovo tho earth
and in tho midst of the sublime con
certs of angels; he beheld Mary en
vironed by divino rays. He was no
longer the powerless artist who had just
thrown at his feet his unsuccessful
pencil—the artist replaced tho man.
Muto and breathless, inspired by mys
terious strength, he soizou his palette.
His colors gavo the form and his soul
the life—in a fow hours ho created the
most beautiful and most puro of vir
gins.
When tho young girl saw that after
tracing her features ho was occupied in
impurtiug to his picture tho soul which
auimatcd him, she roso silently, and,
with a culm and assured step, left the
monastery by the samo road sho hail
como.
Van Dyck, with wondcriDg eyes and
oppressed breathing, made not the
slightest effort to detain her. In his
eyes bIic was no longer mortal, and in
hor departure ho thought ho saw tho
Madonna returning to her nativo skies.
Enehunted l>y his execution and excite
ment, ho fuU asleep in his arm-chair.
On awakening, his first thought was to
exomino tho canvas. Transported with
i 'oy ut his success, ho thanked on his
:nees tho angel or woman who hod so
fuvored him. Iu vuin he endeavored
aguin to import the ideality which ex
isted iu his imagination. He had so
combined the thouerhts of the Madonna
ana ol Luoy that lie accormmea to ais-
cover tho truth, and wroto tho following
biUet to tho young girl:
“Tell mo if you aro indoed an angel;
if you do not wish to deprive of life
senses tho poor artist to whom von have
condescended to appear this night, teU
me if you aro tho Virgin or a mortal.”
It was a part of tho duty of the dow
ager Duehoss to open the bUlots ad
dressed to tho young ladies confided to
her eliorgo. What was hor astonish
ment at roading this epistle I
“Horror!” criod she. “A child of high
family to violate hor duty in Booking a
painter at midnight I”
Sho rang and sent for the guilty one,
but hor rage redoubled when Lnoy,
with hor customary gontlonosa, denied
aU knowledge of the cause of her re
proaches. Tho Duchess, who expected
to witness in hor great oonfusion or a
candid avowal, would listen to nothing.
Tho alarm was given in tho palace and.
it was decided that Lucy, disgraced,
should bo sent home to her father. «
Her prayors wero/f no avail; a singlo
night of respite ^6 alone acoorded her,
and she won compelled to sloep in the
apartment of tho Duchess to avoid fur
ther scandal.
At midnight, Lucy roso as before; tho
Duchess was aroused from her unquiet
sleep, aud called ull the ladies to wit
ness tho confirmation of hor suspicions.
With lighted flumbeuux, tho Duchess,
attended by a numerous suite, followed
Luoy, who traversed again the long hall
and numerous passages aud arrived at
tho door of tho monastery. Her culpa
bility could no longer bo doubted, but
they foUowcd her even to tho painting-
room, where sho was already seated be-
foro tho easel. Tho noise around her
and the brilliancy of tho lights awoko
her in a fright. Sho was a somnambu
list.
Thus nnlonsciously had she served
as a model to the artist, who fuUy re
paid in lovo whut sho had given him in
renown. Ho obtained tho prizo and
was loaded down at the court with hon
ors and riches.
A few days afterward there was cele
brated at St. Paul's tho union of Van
Dyck and Lucy, the daughter of the
noblo Count Ruthvon de Gorry.
The Detective’s Dream.
Mr. George Tan, the Illinoia detec
tive, who has been engaged in the
search for the murderers of Dr. David
Pienon, of Augusta, performed a feat
whioh surprised himself, on Friday
night, and which is partially attributed
to the long search and the excitement
attending the arrest of Edwin Fergu
son, one of the accomplices in the
bloody conspiracy. On Friday evening,
after the return of Messrs. Hoy, Tan
and the prisoners from the chopping
camp, near Montrose station, the two
dotootives, accompanied by Ohief Mun-
f er, strolled around the oity for an
our or two, and then Mr. Tarr retired
to his room at tho Windsor Hotel. Ho
soon fell into a heavy sleep, but it was
disturbed by an unusually lively dream,
in which his prisoner, Edwin Ferguson,
escaped and ran off at tho top of his
spoed. Tho detcctivo evidently fol
lowed him—in his sleep—and with sur-
f irising suddenness and agility Turr
eaped from his bed, and, with ono
bound, passed through tho window of
his sleeping apartment, currying the
sash witu him, and falling a distance of
several feet, but miraculously escaping
severe injuries. Ho was fully awakened
by this somnambulistic tumble, but was
naturally startled and confused. Being
in a strange place, aud not clothed for
an extended journey in tho night air,
he impulsively concluded to climb up
the side of tho houso to his room, and
gripping tho corner with ono hand, and
clawing the outsido boards with the
fingers of his other hand, and free use
of his toe-nails, he actually succeeded
iu climbing up tho wtdl like a scared
cat, and entered his room, without
awakening any of tho people about the'
hotel. In his ascent ho “clawed” the
boards so violently (but succcssfuUy)
that ho loosened some of the nails on
liis hands and feet, and tho blood flowed
from them upon the sido of tllo build
ing and tho furnituro nnd bttldiug iu
tho room. Mr. Tarr himsolf states that
ho had not fully recovered from the cx-
citemont attending tho imaginary chase
after Ferguson, and could not again
perform tho feat, oven if his lifo de
pended upon its successful accomplish
ment.
Mr. Thompson, tho proprietor of tho
Windsor, states that tho marks of Tarr’s
nails aro plainly visiblo on tho sido of
tho building, where ho clambered up
ward, and tho blood spots still remain
as proof of tho striking reality of the Illi
nois detective’s dream. Mr. Thompson
states that ho would decluro tho feat a
physical impossibility, if ho did not
know positively that ho had ono guest
able to scalo tho sido of n houso like n
cat.—Paul Pioneer-Press.
M»j. A mil e.
In a lecture before the Workmen's
Club und Institute Union, iu Loudon,
the* other day, Dean Stanley spoke of
Maj. Andre. The memory of this
young officer, he thought, was hardly so
well preserved in England as it was iu
America. The story of Maj. Andre’s
striking adventures and their tragic
conclusion was graphically narrated in
tho lecture. Every American, said the
Dean, who saw Maj. Andre, at the time
of his trial und up to the moment of his
execution, was so captivated with liis
courage and his chivalrous behavior
that, if they lmd allowed their feelings
to overcome their sense of duty to tluiir
country’s cause, they would certainly
havo granted his ropiest that he might
be executed a soldier, if they had not
released him altogether. When lie
(tho Dean) was iu America it was sug
gested to him that he should bring back
a wreath of leaves from tho hanks of the
Hudson river, which wero then in all
tho extraordinary colors which they
beur in the full, and this wreutli, which
wns taken from muplo and oak trees
overlooking tho spot of Maj. Andre’r
death, lie had brought buck and placed
abovo the tomb in the Abbey, where ho
trusted it would long remain ns a token
of tho kindly feelings that might bo
culled forth by such tragic events.
An AuiniateU Rat-Trap.
Animated rat-traps are the latest
things boforo tho public. At the Ocu-
tral Hudson railroad freight house,'Wm.
Wilson observed sometliiug llrrnly held
in tho shell of u Clnm L which won packed
with others in a barrel. On inspecting
it he wns rather surprised to Asia a rat’s
toil. In tho barrel were- several holes
for ventilation, and it is surmised tho
rat put its tail thrdngh ono of these to
get it saturated with tho juice to obtain
a variety in its bill qf faro. But a vin
dictive clam seized ypon- tho caudal ap
pendage and held it ton ac ion sty. The
rodent pulled desperately, anil finally
the toil came out by the roots. An
inoh of the toil was inside .the shell und
half an inch oL-Hie skin inside, and tho
bore tendon extended four inches fur
ther. Tho rut must havo hud to pull
strougly and suffer excruciating pain,
but tho rude amputation was complete.
Could tho clam havo boon drawn from
the barrel tho rat would have drugged
it to his hole, but tho uperture was only
half an inch in diameter, aud tho rut’s
strength was not sufficient to enable it
to haul off the barrel—Auburn Ar*
burnian.
a* Bitot.
In one ol Detroit aehools the
other day a olaot ilk Baflkh. history
wore being qneationad bv the f
about Henry tha VIE, anc ifce
asked:
“ Did Anne of Olovor (only's foi
wife, die a natural deai*
There waa an awful
minute, and then one
ont:
No, ma’am-
SABBATH READING.
O, moaner, miking thy pltooai ■
“Whit itaill 14oT Bow era I go
Down through tha desolito dtya iloMl*
Wilt tor Um righteous light to ■
Wilt ind the diwn thill grow
Om hr one come thi decolito diyi;
It IS onlr to-diy tint toucheth theo
Look itnlght before theo I lomo guiding i
“■* w on thy pith. Go on with ‘ '
light tint thou cinit im.
It tl cnlr to-diy tint toucheth thee:
t>ok itnlght before the* I iomo guld
Hblno now on thy pith. Go on with prate*
In thi light thit thou cini* ~
—Am. Wathlngton Oladdtn.
Choice Saying* of Matthew Hoary.
Divine vengeanco comes with feet of
lead, bat it strikes with hands of iron.
Men may die like lambs, and yet havo
their place with tbo goats.
It ia common for those who aro farth
est from God to boost themselves most
of living near the church.
Events are not determined by the
wheel of fortune, whieh is blind, but bv
tha wheels of Providenco, which aro full
of ayes.
I reckon him a Christian indoed that
is neither ashamed of the gospel nor a
shame to it.
Those who pray with an unforgiving
spirit curse themselves every time they
■ay the Lord’s Prayer.
Nature is content with littlo, graco
with less, bnt lust with nothing.
God’s presenco with a man in his
honse though it bo but a cottage, makes
that honse both a castle and a palace.
Length of days is wisdom’s right-
hand blessing, typical of eternal life;
bnt it is in her left hand that aro
riohos and honor.
It is good to bo early at our devo
tions. Tho morning is as good a friend
to tho graces as it is to tho muses.
We ought to know tho scriptures os
tho physician does his dispensatory,
tho lawyer hia books and reports, and
the sailor his charts and compass.
God’s laws wero never designed to bo
like cobwebs which catch tho littlo flics,
bnt suffer the largo ones to break
through.
Venture not into the company of
those who are infected with tho plogne;
no, not though tlion think thyself
guarded with an antidote.
As when we are in prosperity we are
ready to think our mountain will novor
be brought low, so when we aro in ad
versity we ore ready to think our voUey
wiU never be filled np.
We caU the propnets the penmon of
scripture, whereas rcaUy they wero but
tho pen. The tongue of the most
snbtlo disputant, and tho moat eloquent
orator is but the pen with which God
writes what Ho pleasos.
Tho woman was not made out of man’s
head to top him, nor out of his feet to
be trampled upon by him, but out of
his side to be equal with him, under his
arm to be protected, and near his heart
to be beloved.
When Christ was about to leave the
world Ho made His will; His soul He
committed to His Father; His body Ho
bequeathed to Joseph, to bo decently
interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers;
His mother Ho left to the care of John.
but what should He loave to His poor
disciples, that had loft aU for Him? Sil
ver and gold Ho had nono, but Ho left
thorn that whioh was infinitely better—
His peace.
Quiet Iloar*.
“I feel as if I wero so useless,” said
ono who had passed by several years tho
Psalmist's limit of thrce-scoro and ten.
“And, if by reason of strength they bo
four-scoro years, yet is their strength
labor and sorrow, said David; and ob
servation confirms tho truth of his
words every day. When ugo with its
infirmities has come thcro are fow who
preservo tho buoyancy and vigor of
carher times.
But tho old should never coll them
selves useless. Wo younger ones do
not think them so. Wo go to them for
counsel, nnd wo prize their gathered
and ripened experience. Wo lovo to sit
at their feet nnd listen to their stories
of lifo nnd lovo, their rcminisconces of
childhood, and their recoUections of the
heat and burden of their noonday.
Even though they must sit with folded
hands, lot them not complain, for theso
quiot hours havo many compensations,
and mneh to mako thorn delightful.
It is always ngrceahlo to bo tho recip
ient of courtesy and refined nttontion.
By common consent, in Christian house
holds, tho easiest chair, tho coziest
corner, the best sent at tho table and
most desirable plnco everywhere is
given to tho grandparents. Tho
voices of others aro hushed to hear
thoir tremulous accents, aud tho strong
arm, the quick step and the alert facul
ties of youth are at thoir sorvioo to
command. If grandpa cannot seo to
read his papor, Edith oy Mary
is ready to tell him its contents or
road them to him. If grandma cannot
tbjead hor needle thero aro bright oyes
and dimpled hands which are eager and
deft, and very swiftly do it for her.
There aro many homes hero in whioh
such a picture as Mrs. Field draw of the
grandmother in Franco would would be
true to life: “Grandmother—the
queen of that little roalm.. How charm
ing sho is, with hor white hair, and that
littlo cap, so mutronly and becoming I
She is still young in hor footings. She
is the ono of whom the yotwg married
conple take counsel; it is into hor dis-
oroot ear that tho son, jnst homo from
ootioge, confides his first attempt at po
etry or oloquonco; ’to her tho young
girl whispers tho secret of her first
love”
Take tho comfort of your quiot
hours, dear agod friends. Alroady you
are invested with somo of tlio radiance of
the bright heaven to whioh you are go
ing. Wo look at you rovorentially, and
avorv day you spend with us is precious.
—Christian at Wbrk.
A Parisian Tragedy.
Paris is const antly edifletf by domes
tic tragedies. Ono of tho latest is thus
recounted: Six mouths ago a nowly-
murriod couple took up their residence
on tho fifth story iu the Rue Gondorcet.
The husband, who was of Swiss origin,
was employed in a bank. He was 26
years old, and of a sad, taciturn temper
ament. His wife, four years younger
thun himself, was, on tho contrary, of a
S ay disposition. Tho couple ap-
to live happily together. On re-
rjiomo one night tho young man
found his wife dead on tho bed. A let
ter bn the table announced that she was
abont to poison herself. Struok with
horror and despair, ho soized hold of a
revolver which ho kept in a drawer, and,
after discharging four shots into his
breast without fatal effect, fired Uxe
mllets into his
>is brains
LMAl ABVI
Will be inserted at tha l_ ,
Sheriff sales, par square
Sheriff*! luortgagt.salM
Application for letter* •( edalatra.*^
Application for litters off aardlaaaf*
DisinisBiaairom ftdmiaisnjatiea .ft
DiamiMWTrom fUarffiaMnip .
For leavo to aelllaaiL
Application for homestead... *
Notice to debtors an ’ —
Sale of real estate
AMNODBCffMBinr.—All bill! for
PITH AND POINT.
A lost star—A Bailor overboard.
A bham-too—Affected contempt.
Theiue is no disgraoe In being poor:
the thing ia to keep it quiet, and not
let your neighbors know anything
about it.
“Tad book the heart that thou
gaveet,” aa the gambler said to hie pal,
who had paaaed him under the table the
wrong card to fill the flush.
Oxoi they started a girl’a seminary
in Utah. It flourished well; but, Justin
the height of its prosperity, the princi
pal eloped with the whole aohool.
A ooRMBPOND^fck explains why ha
hadn’t writtsnby saying ha
“oould not |et tftamnough together”
to buy a postsl-oamA-Fond au Lao
Reporter.
“Pa, what does ftlobby’ meant”
“Stylish, my dear.” "Well, then, pa
your nose must be very stylish, for
grandma aays you’ve got the nobbiest
nose in town.”
With feeling not benign;
And, when npbrsldod by her frleodi,
Exclaimed, “ Thi* hair Is mlnol ■
— ClaudM <U Haven,
Thebe are too many women in the
world; 60,000 moro women than men in
Massachusetts,” growlod tha husband.
“That is the ‘ survival of the fittest/ my
dear,” repliod tho wife.
An illiterate farmer, wishing to enter
some animals at an agricultural exhibi
tion, wrote as follows to the Seorctary
of the society: “Enter mo, also, for a
jackass.” And he took tho prize.
Ann now tbe gay and featlra frog
Within the marsh ia seen;
Tha loafer aeeka a aunny spot
Upon the village green;
Tho trade In patent livcr-plUa
Becomes a ateady thing—
The rbymor, with a penalva air.
Indite* an oda to spring.
—Toledo Commercial.
An ale guzzler doesn’t stop to eon*
aider that overy time he drinks *“
adding an ale to his coffin.—7
Post. A result, no doubt, ow‘
tacks on spirits.—New York
dal Advertiser.
The people of Ceylon bake and
bees. If wo were going to indul
this kind ot provender wo should
to know that tho baker mnlerstoec
business, for if a bee should
after ho had been swallowed 1
The Woman's Journal asks,”
is a sadder sight than to see a
bride siek at heart? ” We hare
teen bat ono sadder sight. That
on an excursion to Racino last summer.
Thero was a brido sitting on a coil ol
rope just outsido our stato-room door.
She vos sick at tho stomach. Sadneast
Lordy, thero was a pail full of sadneaa,
and red lemonade, aud ice-croam. The
Wovian’s Journal ought to havo been
thero in our stato-room, and sho would
nover talk about heart sicknoss any
more.—Milwaukee Bun.
s
laiin that Hwect and balmy Bpring ia
Orim winter hasten* to Ida Polar lair,
Knd-lDoy! )u*t nee If my umbrella’* bore.)
Woo blades of green hide Inld tho faded grMa;
The brooklot laughs to And itself roloaaod;
Tho zopliyra whisper coyly aa they paaa—
lA-tbero/ a cbercf Tbe ylayuey \clnd U eattl)
ploaaaut is ft la these vernal day*
study nature, Mwero
igh wood* and field*,
(Confound my luck I lliflmy rubbtre bo
vcot anringtimo, thon art wolcomeonce *
Tho pleasure* of our brief “
(Ifc//, here'* a a n -' What
Through v
Tho pleasure
[ ire//, bere'eut
tee soaked r,
r brief llvoa to enhai
t feel a
: spoiled my
Frank O. Bangs, the tragedian, tells
tho Philadelphia Press that America’s
great actore thirty years ago wero
Hamblin, John R. Scott, Gns Adams,
and tlio elder Booth; that Edwin For
rest took entire possession of tho tragic
stage a little later, and hold it until Ed
win Booth took it away from him; that
noither Edwin Bootli nor Davenport
over showed a spark of genius, although
very artistic actors, whilo Edwin Adams
was a “child of geniusthat Barrett is
cold and conservative, and that McCul
lough may Vecomo Forrest’s suoccesor.
The Next Census.
Gon. Walker, Superintendent of the
next census, tells a reporter of the New
Haven Register that the main body of
tho work will bo undertaken next fall.
Thore will be two or three months of
preparation, and the oensus itself will
be taken in a month’s timo. The statis
tical matter in referenoe to the popula
tion of cities and towns he will rive the
public in a very short time. The last
census ho gave in nrinted form in 1872;
this timo the period will be muoh shorter.
Ho contrasts this work with previous
censuses, which were of tittle practical
value. The census taken in I860 was
nominally published in 1867, bnt really
not till 1868. Tho census taken in I860
was not published till 1859. Thore was
nothing but historical interest to work
done in that way. The country was
growing and the population changing so
rapidly that such censuses woro far from
tho actual stato of tho country when
published. Tho now Oonsus law, he
said, put. extra work on tho Snporin-
toudent. Tlio month the census was
being taken ho likened to u battle, when '
tho General must bo at his headquar
ters. Having taken ono cousus, he was
bettor qualified to take another, for ho
knew whut improvements to make.
This was ono reason why ho could com-
pleto the census much more rapidly
than before. When the work was being
dono ho could bo ut Washington with
his lingers on tlio telegraph keys, so that
if there wero a break hero or there II
ould instantlv be repaired.
WH1 Bloed Trill
Dr. Heitzman, of New Yad
tho announcement that ft .
man’s blood plaoed vsdft
scope will tell just what 1
and constitution map be.
tracted study of 1
ceme to Die oon
danos of large grant]
constitution; on the <
granules were few i
tire body .4 th« oo .
evideaoe of • poor
frequently noticed tlut J
white blood eorpnqoka i
inoreMed idter » M
ao much ao tiut it I
whether • run lud l
rest e* not I
It < ‘