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the paper is taken from the office or not.
3. The ec.u r t« have decided that refusing
to take newspapers or periodicals from the
poetoffiee, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for is prima facie evidence of in-
Capt. Edokll, of the Seventeenth
Lancers, when shot at Ulumli, fell back
iuto the arum of a comrade, a Dublin
man, exclaiming at his last words, “Sec
that the men spare the wounded. Spare
the wounded.” One of his soldiers rode
iu the charge with a wooden pipe in his
mouth, and when shot down asked with
hi* latest breath, “Give the pipe to broth-
Law, physics and divinity are well
supplied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors num
ber 530, dentists 420, while sixty-eight
are preachers aud twenty practice as
lawyers. Home ladies adopt two or
three callings at once. A lady living in
8t. Louis notifies on her door-plate that
she is an “ elocutionist, poetess, washer
and ironer.”
The rudely planet Mars, now nearly at
its brightest, is under elose telescopic
scrutiny. The two moons which for so
many years escaped telescopic detection
have to lx? newly timed ajid rated. The
astronomers at Washington hoped to re
discover these minute bodies about the
middle of October. But Mr. Common,
of London, caught- sight of them as early
as September 21, when Mars was far from
being at its brightest. lie used a tele
scope of the reflecting sort, having a
mirror three feet in diameter, aud re
garded by some (despite its inferiority to
the Ross telescope in size) as the most
powerful telescope in existence. The in
ner satellite has since been rediscovered.
Phobos (for so the little moon is calledf
was aliout three-quarters of an hour
ancad of its computed time, judged by
the rating of 1877. Of course, astrono
mers infer, as it is cosier to suppose, that
that the Washington astronomers calcu
lated a period of revolution a few seconds
too long, not that the little moon lias
really been accelerated in its motions.
The San Francisco Chronicle says tha
the Parur"Baron Hirsh, who is worth
$20,000,OOO and recently won $100,000
in a lottery ticket, is almost rich enough
to live in SAn Francisco. TJie qjasteuceof
rich men in thateity^ms rendered neces
sary ji course of scientific instruction for
burglars. A professor of thi art, a recent
graduate of the State Prison, has begun
a series of lectures on the subject, for
which fifty cents a head is charged. The
first night the les.-on consisted of a trea
tise, with a practical illustration, upon^
the operation of breaking open a safe.
The outer door was ojiened in forty-five
minutes, and would Iflgve been accom
plished in even less timiMiad nofthe pro
fessor been so unlucky as'io break off his
drill. A goodly number of well-known
thieves and burglars were present in^the
public hall where the exhibition'took
place, and for fifty cents obtained infor
mation which they could have got other
wise only by inonthsor years of study. At
the end of the lesson a detective appeared
and cleared the hall of the most notorious
of them.
The annual report of the Chief of
the Bureau of Statistics contains some
interesting matter. The value of the
exports of domestic merchandise during
the la»t fiscal year was greater than, du
ring any previous year in the history of
the country. From 1863 in 1873 the
value of imports exceeded that of oxjtorts
iu an average of about $100,000,000 per
annum. During the last four years, the
excess of the value of exports over im-
jxirta has amounted to $753,000,000.
The exports of merchandise during the
last ten years have increased from $275-
000,000 in 1869 to $698,000,000 in 1879.
The value of the exports of bread and
hreadstufls during each of the last two
years lias exceeded the valhe of the ex-
portsof any other commodity. During
all the prccccding years in the commer
cial history of the country since 1821
(cxcopt during the war between tlw
{States), tho value of the exports of ray
cotton exceeded that of any other com
modity. From 1821 to 1860, ootton fun
nished 50 per cent, of the total value of
exports of merchandise, but, during the
Lit two fiscal years, it has only amount
ed to About 25 per cent. It must lie ie
membered, however, that, while the for
eign demand for cotton is regular and
constant., a staple, iu fact, like the crop
itself, the demand for bread stuffs and
THE BUTLER HERALD.
W. M. BERMS, I
jasm ». at'uj
‘LET THERE BE LIGHT/
VOLUME IV.
BUTLEIl, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 187!).
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
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■iu)
Marriage license costs but fifty cents
iu Memphis.
The street railroad of Vicksburg is
payiug handsomely.
The Hood fund in Atlanta now
amounts to $2,652.02.
Tramps arc flocking into Florida for
their winter quarters.
Texas would make thirty-five states
the size of Massachusetts.
A new town in Lauderdale county,
Tenn., is named Pilljerk.
A South Carolina man cut 22,000shin
gles from one cypress tree.
The cause of education is Ixinming in
many comities in Alabama.
Chestnuts sell at twenty-five cents per
bushel in southern Virginia.
The sewerage question is the leading
topic of interest in Memphis.
The third crop of figs for 1879 is nearly
ripe iff Oglethorpe county, tia.
There wore 113 deaths in New Orleans
during the week ending Sunday.
Tho wool clip of Texas this year is
estimated at 22,000,000 pounds.
The colored Baptists are erecting a
$3,000 church at Dallas, Texas.
There were sixty-one vessels iu the
port of Savannah, Ga., Saturday.
Alex. H. Stephens is a consistent mem
ber of the Presbyterian church.
Arkansas has a state society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
Over fifty new firms have commenced
business in Atlanta, Ga.. this year.
A Texas boy sixteen years old is being
searched for on the charge of rape.
The Alabama Great Southern'railroad
will soon receive 100 new coal cars.
A cotton gfn with 175 bales of cotton
burned near Dallas, Texas, Saturday. *
A Memphis gun store was robbed of
$1,000 worth of pistols Sunday night.
Panthers are said to abound yet in the
mountains of western North Carolina.
Some of the Arkansas papers advocate
spelling the name of the State Arkau-
saw.
The tendency of the people of Georgia
to emigrate to Texas is not so great as it
A penalty of four per cent, has lioen
added to'the delinquent tax list of Mem
phis.
The burden of tho North Carolina
papers is of heavy crops and new rail
roads.
The people of San Antonio, Texas,
have subscribed $2,000 for an emigrants’
home.
The enrollment iu the public school*
qf Chattanooga, Tenn., hist month, was
1,614.
Colonel Robert ^1. Nimm, well known
throughout Virginia, died at Newark
Friday.
A woolon-mill at New Braunfels,
Texas, yielded a net profit of $81,000
last year.
The Collierville Tribune is the latest
addition to the democratic press of Ten
nessee.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, F. and
A. M., met in annual session in Nashville,
Monday.
The expenses of the city government
of Galveston, Tex., for October, amount
ed to $9,446.08.
There was an increase of forty in the
number of post offices in North Oarolinu
during October.
Taxes have l»ccn paid more promptly
this year in South Carolina than for
many years before.
X colored man in Tennessee goes to
the State penitentiary for three years for
stealing titty cents.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, W.
Va., raised this year ten barrels of corn
from one car’s planting.
The Council of Wheeling, W. Va., re
uses to encourage the introduction of
the telephone in mat city.
The Groesbeck New Era says that one-
fourth of the cotton gins in Texas are
destroyed by fire every year.
A widow seventy years of age, residing
near Austin, Texas, takes care of a stock
ranche and 300 head of cattle.
Four calves were found near Tnlbot-
tun, Ga., with their throats cut. It is
thought the deed was done by wildcats.
Texas papers arc complaining of nn in
vasion of tramps from the north sinci
the beginning of cold weather up there
During the first seven davs of this
month, 32,801 letters and packages were
handled in the Columbus ( Ga.) postof
fice.
The registration of the voters of
Charleston, S. C., closed Tuesday, the
number being 10,777, against 9,o86 i:
1877.
Hie Robesonian says there is a. well i
medicine to produce abortion, hung him
self in hi* ceil Friday morning.
Orange field, (8.C.) Democrat: A larger
numlier of trains are employed now on
the South Carolina railroad than at any
previous time to move the freight.
The Cincinnati Times says that dur
ing the past six months five colonies
have gone from Cincinnati to settle on
lands in Tennessee and Alubuma.
^ Rev. W. G. Veal, of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church South, of Texas, lias
been dciMised from the ministry on ac
count of charges of gross immorality.
The Lancaster, (S. C.,) Lodger says
that a number of jiersons who emigrated
to Texas last year are wining back to
their old homes in Lancaster county.
Texas exports $50,000,000 worth of
ports annually, and the Groesbeck
New Era says that if it were not for the
imports the state would soon wax rich.
Upon the resiguatiou, hist week, of A.
Shaw, superintendent of the Richmond
and Petersburg railroad, he was presented
by the employes with an elegant gold
watch.
A fire started in a cotton gin in Wius-
boro, S. C., the other day, and before it
could lie checked three cottages and a
colored Methodist church was de
stroyed.
Thursday afternoon a negro woman
and her child were burned together in a
house in Union county, S. C. The fire
was caused from a wood chimney catch
ing fire.
A colored woman, aliout fifty years old
and in feeble health, while alone in her
residence in Richmond, Va., hist Satur
day evening, caught fire and was burned
to death.
A meeting of farmers will lie held at
Hendersonville, N. C., this week to con
sider the advisability of planting a large
crop of tobacco in Henderson county
next year.
Carrollton, Ga., charges a license of
$2,500 for the privilege of selling liquor
in that town by the quart or less, and
$2,000 for selling it in amounts more
than a quart.
Tho Gulf City Steamship company,
of Mobile, Ala., lias advices from Glas
gow, Scotland, that the Lust steamship
built for the company has just lieen
launched and will soon reach Mobile.
The city of Richmond, Va., is asked
to contribute $750,000 for a railroad up
the James river, such road to lie con
structed under the auspices of the James
River and Kanawha Ciuial Company.
There arc 754 patients in the Georgia
State Lunatic Asylum. The current
expenses of the institution amounted
to $89,629,19, an average of expense per
capita per diem of 329-10 cents.
Li Washington county, Mississippi, a
colored man was elected circuit clerk
two white competitors. He was
voted for by a good many white people
on the score of superior fitness ami relia
bility.
A. J. Killian, a quiet and highly-re
spected citizen of Ellijay, Ga., commit
ted suicide the other day. He tied a
rope around his neck, fixed it to the limb
of a tree and then shot himself through
the brain.
provisions is exceedingly fluctuating and j Robeson county, North Carolina, over
irregular { dependent upon contingencee 1years old, which has never failed till
upon which no man can safely build. j this fall.
■ ■ i -i ■ ■ i. ■ ■ — The circuit court of Rockbridge coun
ty, Virginia, granted a flee roe last week
for the sale of the Rockbridge alum
Society In Parliament.
I Philadelphia l*rc»».]
Another incidental feature of the ! *P nn K*'
House, which immediately strikes an | A lot of 149 Short-horn rattle, averag-
American, is tho number of dress suits 1 ing 1.570 pounds, were shipped for Eu-
acattcrcd over the room—the men who rope last week by Francis Bell, of Au-
havo been to dinner or are going, for j gust* county, Va.
“ society ” here is alwaya distinctly rep* Two men cm
nted in " *
’o men engaged in digging a well
Sherman, Texas, two or three days
only represented in, Congress, but_posi-: fom ti,c cH'cciT
Under tho English system not only has t’,,,. ' 1 ,,, 1 i , ■ ^
‘■the individual” a certain reprerenta- Bl ”*
tion. but also all that h« has b£cn , Ml) . "orks will follow,
to add to.himsclf of moral or intellectual ;
worth or even material wealth. The “'*
American gentleman in polities on the
contrary, has only the same quality and
ris*d the City Council to abandon
and wells in the city as nuisances
Itirious to health.
force as the American blackguard--one | jailor of Yancey county, N. C., has
vote. The American scholar in jpelitiea lieen (mated for complicity in the recent
has only thdaame quality and foot as tecApe of the two murderers, the Boones,
the American hoodlum—one vote. Tho , from the Burnsville jail.
American millionaire in politics haa only ~~ “
the same quality and force as tho Amer
ican communist—one vote.
The bottom reason why the Amerioan
gentleman, the American scholar, the
American property holder does not go
into politics, and is ao unfrequently seen
in Washington, is because education,
cultivation and property as such are not
represented in our sufirage system, aad
there is no constituency, therefore, to
send these men. Wo represent only the
“individual, ’ and, consequently, as *
rule, “individuals’* go
“individuals” arc sent
Th# dress-routs, I may
his paragraph, are this,
the government side, although tho
ThaRMie(Ga.)Tribune says that it
is imBomlblo to get cars enough to haul
won From Georgia ami Alabama to fill
northern aad eastern orders.
Knoxvflla(Tenn.) Dispatch: There is
hardly an idle mechanic in the city, or
u» itfakbowr of any «or», All <ctni t,
no employwi end at fair wages.
Tb« Obwtvtj- sayg that every railroad
ru j m W mfWiariotte, N. C., has done
I, consequently, .. . at 4 " y
’ B °. f nt w P< ! l i!fcj n4 U w,n cnrt least »lfi0,000 to funidi
-s-'aaSSsIgawifessriE
this paragraph, are thuyear mainly on) W .a Odtof . last legislature '
tho government aide, although tho Mar* I-v. wm Vt ,,
quia of Uanington, tho lender of the op-1 A, *£® l<! „ ll,ld ^ireni*
position frequently addressee the House , ” , ’tt* jn nulls at Columbus hi., sold $4*V
In fuliaiffimr costume Still, liberalism °9°. 1,1 their products—Rescue
. , i of
the opinion that the reports of the As-
scssors for the present year will show an
increase of tho valuation of property iu
that state over last year’s figures of $1,-
006,000.
Nashville American : Lightning en
tered the eapitol Monday via the tele
phone wires, and produced loud reports
in the rotunda, in the comptrol lers of
fice and in that of the cleric of the su
preme court.
The owners of established factories in
Georgia complain of the legislative co
emption of new factories from taxation
for ten years, and it is said that the valid
ity of the exemption is to lie tested in
the courts.
Lynchburg Virginian: One of the
most- remarkable results of the late elec
tion in Virginia was that in which nn old
politician who had been frequently
elected to the legislature, was defeated
by his former slave.
Charleston (S. C.) News: In the past
three days three large steamships have
passed out from this port for European
ports with about 12,000 boles of cotton,
and on a submersion of sixteen and n
half to over eighteen feet.
The law passed at the last session of
the Alabama legislature, prohibiting the
buying of cotton in seed, lias been deci
ded unconstitutional by the circuit court
in Lowndes county. An appeal will lie
taken to the supreme court.
The Journal says immense licds of salt
have lieen found in the Elm fork of the
Big Wichita, seventy-five miles west of
Henrietta, Texas. Two wagons loaded
with 5,000 pounds of the salt sold in
Henrietta last week at one and a half
cents a pound.
The Georgia Legislature, at its last ses
sion, enacted a law prohibiting the sale
of immoral or obscene literature, and
now it is rumored that the next grand
jury will indict all vendors of Police Ga
zettes and other similar illustrated papers
under the luw.
Washington (Ga.) (Gazette : W<_
shown a $20 gold piece a few days ago
that was made from Lincoln county gold.
Some parties interested in the Sale mine
sent some gold on to the Philadelphia
mint and requested that it be made into
money and sent back.
Austin (Tex.) Review: The next Log*
Mature will probably supplement our
lienal code by a provision making it a
misdemeanor at least, if not a felony, for
a railway company to give, or for any
one not a paid employe of a railroad, or
a puti]icr, to accept, a free pass.
During the recent session of Pasquo
tank court, in South Carolina, a negro
swore a lie at 12 M. The Tarboro South
erner says the solicitor was instructed to
draw a bill for perjury ; the grand jury
found it true; trial and conviction at once
ensued, and by 5 r. m. the perjurer
was sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years.
Dublin (Ga.) Gazette: We loam that
there is not a sufficient quantity of labor
in the county to house the cotton crop of
the present year, and, furthermore, that
some fat-ntere in various parts of the
county have resorted to very unfair
means, and are actually going to the
fields and hiring the laborers from their
employers. • ,
Educational progrera is apparent in
many counties in South Carolina. In
Fairfield county many districts have peti
tioned the right of local taxation, and
ttpon^hc expect*^ Ifcat these no-
Statti and CMUty owm were closed
in hon-
from a
JZ
hibitions in one day to satisfy the anx
ious sight-seers.
Captain Crook, of Calhoun, Alabama,
lias iuijiorU-d some premium Jersey cat
tle from England for his farm. His ex
ample in this matter has aroused a great
desire on the part of farmers to introduce
blooded sUick altogether to take the
phiceaof the common kind now raised.
The Mississippi Valley Cotton Plant
ers’ Association held its annual meeting
at Vicksburg this week. The president,
in his opening address, said that if the
planters of the south Would only raise
the feed consumed by their teams, it
would add to their wealth every
$32,000,000, which they now expi
ring item.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald: Two or three
years ago an enterprising lightning-rod
man, with prophecy in his soul and faith
iu his heart, visited the Valley View
neighborhood, in Cook, county, and red
ded every house at good figures, taking
notes therefor, payable when the railroad
reached Gainsviile. It has reached
Gainsville, and that agent wants his
money.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette: A com
pany coinjiosed of ex-Senators Dorsey
and McDonald and others have recently
purchased silver mines in Colorado for
the sum of $750,000, and the purchase
money paid in cash. It is reported that
both of our ex-senators have recently
made enormous sums by lucky invest
ments in mining stocks.
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Free Press: Mr.
J. M. Yearwood showed us on Tuesday
a red careless weed which grew on his.
farm in this county, it being twelve feet For 1
high, ten and three-quarter inches around
at the ground end, and had limbs ujxm
it that measured seven feet in length.
Mr. Yearwood stated that it had seed
enough upon it to sow a ten-acre field.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: A farm
er of McMinn county was arrested Sat
urday by a U. S. revenue officer for sell
ing seventy-five cents worth of tobacco
of his own production, lie was found
guilty and thrown into prison, where he
must remain until the Federal court con
venes in Knoxville aliout a year hence.
He will then tie fined perhaps $100.
Shelby (N. C.) Aurora: The first
cjise of corporal punishment in this
state since 1866 occurred in this place
last Saturday. When General Holland,
a liov, was convicted of an assault up
on the person of Julia McSwain, Judge!
Buxton informed his father that he
would not pronouiiQo sentence if he
would thrash the lmy in the presence of
the Sheriff. The boy’s father took him
into the Sheriffs office and executed the
sentence of the court.
Considerable interest is ls-ing mani
fested in the South in regard to the man
ufacture of sugar from the sorghum
plant, which, with the new varieties of
plants, promise to be both practicable
and profitable. The interest has attained
such proportions as to warrant the or
ganization of the Mississippi Valley
Cane Growers association, which will
hold its first annual meeting at St. Louis,
Mo., commencing on the 3d of Decem
ber and continuing several days.
Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf: For
some time there has been doubt as to
whether the Owensboro and Nashville
railroad would run by way of Spring-
field, Tenn., that place, not licing in the
air-line by several miles, but the ques
tion has now lieen settled on very favor
able terms to Springfield. The demand
made upon that place for the diversion
was $25,OIK). The committee aii|Hiintcd
to raise the sum failed, and tendered the
company as a 1 sinus four acres of ground
and a fine brick depot building, which
Colonel Cole accepted, and now the
Springfield people can rejoice.
Richmond (Va.) State: It is sad to
think that the burning of the Academii
hall at Hampton was the work of an in
eendiary black man. This institution is
supported by the government, the State
and the peojilc for the especial benefit of
that race, and it was a matrieidal hand
that applied the torch. An appeal has
been made to the country for money to
rebuild the hall and cover the loss, by
Gen Armstrong, and we hope it will not
be in vain. This is among our most use
ful institutions, and in the success of its
various experiments in race culture ami
discipline nil have a deep interest.
UFZ MKKIJNDKHNT OOD.
We %»111 rough lift* iulsuu>lml:uiding
Ami ui!euiul«-r»t<i<»l.
Wo arc ton prom t, n, iu other*
Evil lustciul of good.
In overt heart there is a grar#
Where wi lay
Om- hjr one our crushed hopes dos
Till all decay.
The ever-wasting oare* of earth
Wc there conceal
Till lifts has no more bitterness
That wo cau feel.
Jealousy, hatred and strife
Till love, hope and sympathy
For vile, ungorenied passions hold
The vaulutfu xroiiud.
At length the soul in ruin sinks
At wlut a cuetl
And grim death snaps the vital chord
Aud all is lost.
-ftrfumWa (Conn.) BtgU'.e,
A GOOD-NIGHT BONO.
rod keep yon a
All U .
llest close in Ills encircling a
Unf
My heat
All through the night;
i in Ills enelrcUn
Until the light.
Thick shadows creep like stlont ghosts
I lose myself in tender dreams,
While overhead
comes stealing through the window b
A silver sickle gleam lug ’mid tl
~ *
and yet—
tho old fond pra
Feel safe and strong,
routhus. dea *
The night is
I say with sobbing hoi
Good night! Sweet dreams
GERTRUDE'S STRATAGEM.
My sister Patricia was an heiress.
Strange enough, for we had always been
terribly poor down at Lowbridge, my
widowed mother bringing up her four
daughters with the greatest difficulty;
’ when brought uii, were worth look
ing at, I believe, llealthy habits jtnd
frugal living are apt to make good condi
tions, and Bess and Amy ami Patricia
and 1 were as bright aud handsome girls
" are often seen.
Bess and Amy were twins, with eyes
as blue as the sea near which they wire
born, rosy checks, and lony, light-brown
curls; Patricia was a sparkling brunette;
while I was a perfect blonde, with
crinkled hair like molten gold. Great
had been our excitement when Aunt
Betty wrote from Fairhavcn:
Dkar Sistrr-ix-Law- I am going to do
myself the pleasure of visiting you this rum
mer. I hear that brother Abol loft four girls,
and I waul to see them. 1 aui getting on in
ys&rs, and will make one of them iny heiress."
Aunt Betty, ot Fairhavcn, was worth
$100,000 if she was worth a cent.
Well, in due time she came. She put
up at the hotel, for our cottage at Low-
bridge wasn’t big enough to hold her,
with her maid, coachman and carriage,
but fortunately that was close by, and
she spent the larger half of three days
with us.
Wo all thought Bess would be her
choice, for father had named her Eliza
beth for Aunt Betty, though she had
always been “Bcss”with us. But it was
neither of the twins and it was not I.
It was Patricia.
“Where did that girl get her black
hair?” Aunt Betty asked, as soon as she
saw her.
“ I think she looks like my brother
Luke, don’t you?” asked my mother,
with a wistful look.
“The very image of him,” answered
▲unt Betty, turning pale.
I divined then, as l learned afterward,
that Uncle Luke had lieen n lover of
Aunt Betty’s, when both were young,
before their marriage, and the fact
seemed to have a power over her.
Charleston (8. C.) News: The follow
ing is aliout the present condition of the
crop in this State: Weather for picking
in October and November very favorable;
some damage from the drouth, which
lessened the 'abundance of the fruit;
amount picked in the upper section of
the State, soventyftve per cent., and in
the lower and middle sect ons eighty to
ninety Tier cent.; injury from rust, lim
ited; the total out-turn for the State,
while showing some irregularity, is ex-
peetd to about equal last year’s growth.
Savannah (Ga.) News: Last night
about nine o’clock a white woman was
scon on Broughton street in a shameful
state of intoxication, reeling from one
side of the pavement to the other. She
was leading by the hand a little girl sonic
five years old. As the woman staggered
about the child was in great danger of
being injured. Atone time the little one
was thrown upon the rubbish in front of
the building next to the Masonic hall.
The inebriate, was plainly clothed, but
the child was very neatly dressed.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald: Dallas has in
deed a cosmopolitan iMipnlation. The
patient on the first l>cu as you enter the
city hospital is a negro, the next a Swede;
the third lied is occupied by an English
man, followed by one in which a son of
the Emerald Isles swears away the hours
ns he discusses what he claims is tho ty
rannical rule of the English government.
The fifth lied is occupied by an Ameri
can, who seconds the Irishman’s argu
ments, declaring that a republican form
of government is the licst under the sun.
A Hebrew occupies the sixth lied, yid
listens to the others quarrel. Next i£a
Polander, and last a Russian. A few
davs ago a Mexican was discharged from
this institution.
Risky Business.
At the Western railway station two
young men are awaiting the departure
of tho St Germain train. The elder of
the two says to the other, who is watch
ing a lady with some tenacity:
“Don’t look at that woman that
way.”
“ Why not?”
• “ Because, one day, in this very place,
I contemplated a little lady oa you are
contemplating this one.”
“Well? 1 I ■ r
Well, I have been contemplating her
now for eight years!” , . ^
Sho looked nt Patricia until the girl
blushed rosy red, and would have slipped
out of the room when she called to her,
and drawing her down upon her knees
upon a footstool before her, she put a
withered hand each sido of tho young
cheeks, and said, warmly:
“My dear, you shall be my heiress!”
So it was Patricia sho chose to leave
her money to, but wc were not out in
the cold, for she sent tho twins, who
were only sixteen, to school for two
years, and invited me, with Patricia, to
tho Hermitage.
It was her home—a stately old man
sion of gray stone, gloomy looking on
the outside.*but luxuriously comfortable
within, without being in the least mod
ern. We had each a maid, and the freo
use of tho horse and carriage. After
making this provision for our comfort,
Aunt Betty excused herself from mak
ing company of us, and wc were as freo
as air to enjoy ourselves ns wo chose,
provided we did not interfere with her
nap. We chose to make ft great many
acquaintances, guided cautiously by
.Aunt Betty’s wisdom, and the result was
that X returned to Lowbridge in the
summer engaged to Mr. Clyde Shcrring-
Ho was wealthy, handsome, agree-
, well connected. Evei
'Gertrude has done well for
That autumn Aunt Betty died. Pa
tricia was to come in posseasion of her
fortune in a year, when she was twenty,
one—full and undisputed possessor of
$100,000.
It was arranged that wo were all to
como to the Hermitage to live. We did
so, and lived there quietly as was be
coming for nearly a year, when Patricia
made the acquaintance of Mr. Gage
Redmond.
She met him first at a funeral—of all
places!—tho occasion caused by the
death of our next door neighbor, Gen.
De I^ncy, Gage Raymond being a neigh
bor of his. Ho was well connected, but
as poor as a church mouse, people said;
"so, of course, he was after Patricia's
fortune,” mamma declared.
“Patricia is rich and beautiful. Pray,
don’t let her many a fortune-hunter,
mamma,” said I, looking np from a let
ter I was writing to Mr. Sherrington.
“I would not if I could help it; but
what authority hate I, Gertrude?” said
my mother. “In a few months Patricia
will be in undivided possession of bet
fortune. Wo arc here only by courtesy.
The Hermitage is her home. I have B0
right to control her whatever.”
“But your influence, mammaf' •
“Will have very little effect if she
sets her heart on this Gago Redmond.
Pray stop staring vacantly out of that
window, Gertrude, and attend to what I
say. I want assistance in this matter.”
“Please excuse mo; I am thinking of
my own affairs just now, mamma. They
may be of no consequence to you, but
my* letter is a matter of some importance
to me.”
I did not mean to be saury,
tiali; blit mamma, having f
Jiwwi
“Well, finish your letter, Gertrude,
and then advise me.”
But my train of thought was broken,
and after a few momeuts 1 put my sheet
in the writing desk.
“What cau’t be accomplished openly
must be done by stratagem, mamma it
is probable that this Gage Redmond is
after Patricia’s money. J*he is a great
prize matrimonially. Well, you say I
am prettier than Patty. Suppose I play
decoy ?”
“what!” cried mamma.
“Mr. Redmond is dark and reserved.
I am fair and volatile. Don’t you think
he will appreciate my style and beauty
if I Like a little pain* to " make him do
so?”
But, Mr. Sherrineton!”
I will tell him. He will not object.”
T think he will.”
'O, no; he will be interested in the
good of the family. He comes next
week. Fortunately Patty is sick with a
cold, and Redmond can see but little of
her till then.”
Quite pleased with my scheme, I ran
>staire to give Patricia htr cough
drops, sitting down at the window of her
room, and bowing cordially to Mr. Red-
mono, whom I could see writing in his
uncle’s study, in the great mansion
across the way. The larches hid all the
house but that one window. He was
there a good deal, and I reflected that
Patty’s blue silk curtains were more lie
coming to my style of lM*auty than hers.
“I’ll bring my umbra. Jery up and sit
with you, Patty,” I said.
“Do,” she saiil; “I am tired of watch
ing the evergreens swaying about tho
gay spring sky.”
feo I filled my lap with rose-colored
worsted and frained myself in the blue
window drapery for Mr. Redmond's bene
fit. Just the colors to set off the pink
and snow of my complexion. 1 had tho
satisfaction of meeting his eyes more
m once when I glanced over the wav.
‘Scem’s to me you’ve wonderfully
good fimrits, Gcrt,” remarked Patricia,
languidly.
Tne DeLacy dinner bell rang, and Mr.
Redmond di«ap|'c.ired.
•‘Well, I must take them in another
direction now,” I said, rising*. “I can’t
give any more time to you, sis, for I
t s<» finish my blue silk suit before
Mr. Sherrington comes. You’d better
take a nap.”
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Patricia settled herself obediently
noiig her cushion*. Suddenly she
lifted her beautiful head.
‘Has Mr. Redmond called to inquire
me to-day, Gertie?”
'No, I believe not,” I replied indtffci-
ently.
She showed a moment’s surprise, then
settled herself o * * ’ ’
in five minutes
The blue silk
curls over a beautiful forehead, softly
modulated tones. He contrasted nicely
with her dark spirited beauty.
“Clyde has an elder brother—Ray
mond—just the one for Patricia. I
wonder if it cannot be brought about?”
But I soon had my hands full, for at
all hours of the day and night, Mr. Red
mond came to the' Hermitage. And it
was not long before my success as decoy
was patent to the most careless observer.
He asked only for “ Miss Gertrude.”
In three weeks the crisis burst upon
me. He proposed.
“ I used to think Mr. Sherrington your
lover,” he said, standing before me, the
light on his frank, handsome face, “ hut
late observations have shown mu that his
visits here are for your sister. Since you
are free, then, will you not marry me?
I can support you well, Gertrude, or i
would not ask you to join your future
with mine. The death of my grand
father two years ago left me $50,000, be
sides some real estate. I have a pleasant
home on the Hudsou —retired, but eto
gant—where I would like to take you.
What do you think, Gertrude? Could
,you be contented to leave vour friends
and live at Rose Cottage with me?”
My amazement allowed me to stammer
nothing intelligible. In some distant
wav I temporized the matter, and begged
31 r. Redmond to give me some time fox
reflection.
He went away, making nn appoinment
for the next evening.
So thunderstruck was I by the revela
tions of Mr. Redmond’s wealth that I
wandered about the house in a dazed way,
not heeding how mamma was fretting
about Patricia, who had gone to ride with
Mr.Jr herring ton.
“ What’s the matter, mamma—is it
going to stormf’ I said at last.
“ To storm? Nonsense! Where are
your eyes, Gertrude? It i* nearly nine
o’clock. Patricia ha* been gone seven
hours with Mr. Sherrington, and I know
something is wrong.”
“ What? ’ I demanded, rousing myself.
“ I don’t know.”
Nine, 10,11 and 12 o'clock passed. No
carriage—no news.
At noon the next day the buggy drove
into the yard. Patricia coolly presented
her husband. They had been married
the even ing before by our pastor at Low-
bridge.
“Sc nice and quiet,” said Patricia.
“No fuss, no notoriety.”
She took her place coolly at the table.
You needn’t hesitate to take Gapa^
witA, 1
now, Gertrude. He’s dead in love
you; and, as 1 like Clyde lient, I thougni
I d decide the natter without any cons-
plications."
1 think I was dumbfounded. But
found my tongue when Mr. Rcdmi
came that evening, and said “ Yes.’
I give mv experience for the benefit
of others, it is dangerous—loaning one’s
her couch again, and !* 0 ' cr * - ■ ■ —■
is sleeping sweetly. j Russians In America,
finished, and having
exed Russia c
a, the
Betty and donned it, tlip family pro-
ncunccd tho effect charming. ' of Russians in America docs not seem to
“Is Mr. Sherrington coming to-night, 1 be very marked.
Gertrude.” asked mamma I try, living in N
whole number at less than two hundred;
'Yes.” I but in this h*e docs not include the Men-
1 want to any to you, my dear, that, nonites, on account of their beiug Gcr-
on Mr. Sherrington’s account 1 don’t mans, or Jews, on the ground that they
think you had better—” she whispered, are cosmopolitans, or the Poles, who do
but I interrupted her by my exit from not call themselves Russians. Of those
the apartment. I who have immigrated, more than half
A fat man in summer is like
groping in darkness; he feels bis weigh.)
The most useful pedestrian is ths
man who walk* vp and down ail night
with the baby.
The successful man is he who looks out ,
for number one, and add* a lot of ciphers
to himself in thesliapeof weaker-minded
lo.vilui a.id iools.
“John! John!” shouted the farmer’s
wife, “ the butter won’t come. Run.
quick, nud get me auothcr sack of
hair.”
It’s not at all surprising that Adam
fell. He had Eve constantly about him
talking about a nude dress, ami she had
one every day.
In a discussion with a'temperance
lecturer, a toper asked: If water rote
your boots, what effect must it have upon
the coat of your stomach?
“Yes, Mr. Barkeeper; I am not like
the re*t who, when they owe you money,
never show themselves any more; I re
main faithful to you. Giv’s ’notfcei
bottle! ’
Professor—“Now, I ask you, as a
practical miner, what spade do you think
is the very best?” Third-year man
(scornfullyj—“ Wby, the ace, of course.
(Sensation.)
An exchange has an article on “How
to run a newspaper.” This should bw
read, only by editors, as every other per
son in the world knows just how a news
paper ought to be run.
Knowledge is the right bower, and
ards in the paok;
one of the showiest cai
ittle joker that is oftentimes ths
winner.
“Money does everything for a
said one old gentleman^ pompously,
“Yes,” replied the oth«‘ '
money won’t do as much*
some men will do for money. 1
Mr. Thomas think* it .i« _
most touching things in life to’
Western hog singing to it* yo
“ There’s a litter in the mire, baby
baby mine.”
That was an observing fellow, If hw
was but six years old, who said, “Pap*
I wish you u quarantine against Tom
Jones comiiJ hero every night to se«
Jennie. It’s got to be too epidemic.”
The Boston Post has invented a new
gun for tho use of the didn’t-know-iU
was-loadcd people. The Post explains
that “it let* the charge out at the
breech.”
Russian ladies have just begun ta
take pert in boat race*, in Saratoff tho
first prixe, a jrell embrace lot,
ond. a golden breastpin*
to t*« two jo nag ladies.'
rudder.
A CHINESi maxim says: “W^
four thin<rs from woman—dial
dwells in her heart, that
on her brow', that sweetness
ktr lips, that industry occi
“j 1
ha
*ui: girls ought to be comp
tippy.; They are wearing boy’s ka£
boy's ties, boy’s cravats, and it ls'iJitod
that they contemplate a raid upoi •#-
er important part of the ttikJ s ap-
el—according to Dr Mar,w vVakCfe**.. y w
Don't you love her still?” asked
Igcofam-m who wanted a divorce. f
ertainlv, 1 do,” he said. “I love her \
ter still than any other way; but the -\
judp
“Certainl
better
trouble is she w ill hover be still.” The
j lid-re, who is u married man himself,
took the case under advisement.
The next day brought Mr. Clyde Sher
rington.
‘‘Jlow delightful that the spring is at
hand,” said lie, “the sunshine growing
and tho grass springing! 1 passei
iturucd. They did not find ns
en-y work and as largo pay as they cx-
cxpccted, and could not compete with
American or German skilled workmen.
Some of them went to
a bit of wood coming nip from the station ginia and Florida, and established com-
is full of arbutus. We will have ! monistic colonies, but tho disti
delightful walks, Gcrty. I am very nt home have Liken them back a
Witness—“Drexler? Is be a little
old man, bent over, wears gold specs,
carries a cane w ith a big ivory head?”
Attorney nods confirminglv.
Witness—“No. 1 don’t knew him.
Never seen him.”
. „. nr . A whiter in the August Gentleman 9 *
Kansas Vir-' Magazine says that it is truo of nations
v ’ * as of individuals that a succr is almost
HfligKtfttl waits. Ucrty. I am very at home have taken them back aeain A j Notaa“°diaSwto non^X
t,rc<1 of c,tyhfe ' ! ft.s
“Yes, Clyde, dear; but you see 1 have j country, in which tho Russians are Alabama aimcuny.
been obliged to make a little plan which ; greatly interested. They speak of the A London gent, walking in Dublin!,
will interfere somewhat with that nr- 'Americana as “our transatlantic friends.” ; for the first time, got into easy conver-
Ixmumo to Patricia!”
liilc I lure nwav a most ineligi-1 tuul Help
- .... . cnr->
ommunity of feeling I ration with a native, and^h#ffed Mink—
them, in spite of their communis- considerably, .winding up with this .*
tic tendencies. A Russian Society of Mu-1 1 -1 * *
blc suitor she has. Mamma and 1
elude that it is the only way,” 1 added.
“Patricia has a fortune of about $loo,-
000, you know.”
“Yes.”
“Well, w’o think that Mr. Gage Red
mond is after her money. Wc can’t af
ford to let Patty make such a match os
that, and so, I don’t think I’m totally an
uninteresting person—do you, Clyde?—I
am going to try and flirt a little with Mr.
Redmond. Now you won’t bo a licar,
and say no, will you, dear? And you’ll
its third year. They illustrate their Rus
sian proverb, that where three Russians
meet there arc four opinions. They gen
erally lose their money here when they
bring nuy, but others leave fortunes for
the sake of liberty. In Kansas, a gradu
ate of tho highest military academy,
brother of an assistant Minister of War,
his wife an aristocrat, also, have nearly
starved for ten years. A promising can
didate for a professor’s chair in the Uni
versity of St.^ Petersburg, recently
tramped from Kansas to New York,
j They don’t easily got rid of their Russian
try nnd help tia by devotinjr yourself to j ways and notions, their Aristocratic or
Patricia, won’t you." socialistic ideas, and so they fall. There
At first my companion did not believe I »"> ““ peasants in this country,
I was in earnest, but when convinced of
v smart observation: “Now, tell me, flit i
New- York, did not outlast where you would be if tho devil got kin i
my sincerity, his astonishment was inex
pressible. I remember ho stammered
out sorno faint objection, but I would
not listen, and before retiring that night
I whispered to mamma that I had inado
it all right with Mr Sherrington, and
sho had only to observe how nicely I
would manage the whole afliiir.
I sent Patricia off in tho morning to
find arbutus with Mr. Sherrington while
I waited to receive Mr. Redmond.
When lie camo I was in tho garden,
i and had ordered lunch an hour earlier
than usual. My pale blue silk looked
beautiful in the lawn grass.
“ Pray come and see my tulips, Mr.
Redmond,” I called as I walked up the
avenue.
He came, pleased enough, and as he
was especially fond of flowers, I had no
difficulty in'detaining him more than
half an hour.
Then, seeing him look at his watch, I
observed:
Wc won’t wait lunch for Patricia, for
Mr. Sherrington is with her. They have
gone roamiug offafter spring flowers, and
may not be back this three hours. Como
in have a bit of salad, with a cup of
chocolate, Mr. Redmond. I made tho
chocolate myself, and can recommend
it.”
So I kept him for another half hour,
ami he left pleased with his visit.
Patricia and Sherrington came luck
onlv fifteen minutes after the usual
lunch hour, the former so delighted with
a profusion of pink arbutus ns linrdlv to
W.'term te:
and stn\ed with Miss Gertrude for
lunch.”
She had put th* rosy rlu.lor. in her
her km, runhtt. I think I atver raw
hor boh » perfectly lovely.
"Mo haa been here. \ery nhe for
you to keep hermit of the w»y ao lot,. ’
uTtard”aV me' queerly, Iml Slid
‘ ''’id nut mat him to eajwat*
I believe he>i"-nedL
.film fieri 11%
iff ptoj
One in full dress would be arrested ii
large city for drawing a crowd; though
Rurnum might bail him out and niako
money on him by putting him on exhi
bition. Tho Russian Government does
not allow tho peasantry to leave tho
country,
General Crook on the Indian's Wrongs#
General Crook, who is doubtless tho
most experienced officer in the army in
Indians allairs, makes a forcible state
ment in a recent letter, of the wrongs to
which the Indians are subjected, liecause
ey have no legal status. Last winter
id spring two bands of 8ioux were rob
bed ot 1,000 ponies. The agents, although
zealous men, were powerless to check tho
outrage. Congress lmd, by the posts
miiitutM act, made it a crime for tho
military to interfere or to stop the dep
redations. so the plundering of these In
dians by bands ot white thieves went on.
As to the matter of redress, General
Crook says:
" For all this there is no redress what
ever. Ah I understand the law, wo can
not seize Indian property when found in
the hands of well-known thieves. The
Indian owner has tho privilege of suing
for recovery in the State courts, but this
would prove to !>e, in most cases, a very
shadowy consolation.
“ It seems to me to be an odd feature
of our judicial system, that tho only
people in this country who have no
rights under the law, are tho original
owners of tho soil. An Irishman. Ger
man, Chinaman, Turk or Tartar will Ik*
S rotected in life or property, but the In
inn commands respect for his rights
only 6o long as ho inspires terror for his
rifle.”
General Crook believes that this poiicj
of injuatico th<
vcantos the following
“ Tho tme, the only policy to pursue
with tho Indian, is to treat him jtret its
ono should a white man; if lie makes
war upon cur frontier, punish him; hut.
after fee ha* been reduced to submission,
protect bim in life and property. Keep
white Uiic\cs from plundering him; let
him see that peace meaus progress: that
•llevcs that this policy
l Ik* stopped, aud ad-
ig lino or action:
o yo
dues?” Pat replied with feig
plicity, “Sure, then, I’d be rlone, yer *
Honor.”
This passion for shirring is a blessing
to some old seamstresses, who began to
hear tho wolf gnashing his teeth at their
door iu spite of the whir of tho sewing-
machine within. Young girls, who have
learned to regard their needles as a last
rcsorl to finish machine work, havo not
the patience to do shirring and gauging,
and there is a call for tho old bauds to
come to tho rescue.—Boston Transcript.
From hearing older members of the
family, Charley had got in the habit of
calling Mr. Brown “Tom.” Of course
he was corrected, and told to always say
“Mr. Brown.” Not long afterward a
kitten was added to the household, and
christened “Tom.” But Charley had'
not forgotten his lesson. “No, no!” ho
cried; “oo mut n’t tay ‘Tom;’’t id n’t
pitty. Oo mut tay ‘Mitter Bwown.”
A i.ittle four years old who gather*
her ideas of harmony from the street
musicians lifted her great wondering
eves to her mother the other day ana
asked: “Does ni *“
“I think they
“Doesn’t any little girl angels havej
the hat?” “Why, no, my dear; wj
such foolish questions?”
i liarpl dor
nil
tq be an angel. I shouldn't feel foot
enough to pass tho lint up to God.’’ . \
<>n’t wfil
> pass
The Bream of Life in Fraaeo*
he has a market for every pound of beef
and every hide, and every rack tvfrgi
■and my word for it he will makok
J Self-interest will im«*ef
chiurii
The dream of every young FrcnchmAk
whose pockets are empty, is to many ir
girl who has from £2,000 to £4 { 000, *1
earn about j.200 a year for huBaaU \
meaus of a situation aJr.r^fog i
salary. It is not an exiruvagwte
and, to <lo tho Frenchman raafl^s, hg ia
quito happv if 1~ -.aliaoi
got £300 or £100 a year, fel <
seek to enlarge hi* income, but livea
prudently within hi* means, and invests
some saving* every year with commend
able judgement. The vary fact, how
ever, tiiat most Frenchmen should pitch
their ambition no low as to require noth-'
ing more than what an Englishirian would
call a little competency, shows how keen
the struggle for lifo is, and, when one re
flects that the thousands of" men who
cover tlfe position of petit-rentier are^,
joined annually by 20,000 y
fresh from the schoof
talents iffiettc<
systems for tl
wonder at til-
young men who 1
Tho Inst mi Mid
of Justios dwel
i\umbor of we~
ar* imprisoned
spa