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r r RUBNUlimOM BATE*. Om yttr $1 » Hix >uofiha 76 Tlto*A«niha „ 40 lawapipiv DmIiI«h. jS A.*/ ptruou who Uke« » paper regular ■7 m>m the postoffira- whether directed u» 4 hie name or auotbor’a, or whether he hie mb- penbed or uot—Seioapouiiblo for the amount. a. If a pereou ordon hie paper discontinued be mutt pay ail arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment ir made, and colleot the whole amount,whethor 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. i ;no ■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.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. NUMBER 9. 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