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ONEincident of the battle which raged
in Hie First Reformed Proaliyterian
'church of Piltal)Urg ln*t Sunday deserves
to puwi into history. When the conflict
was nt its height a bright littlo Sunday*
school scholar was heard to cry out, “Bee
my pa—see my pal He’s getting his
work in!” What au inspiringbattle-cky
for the pious father t
From a “study - of the action of teu^
"M r. W. J. Morton 1ms arrived nt these
conclusions: As with nny other dmg,
there is a proper and nn improper Mae
of it. In moderation it if u mild and
pleasant stimulant followed by no harm
ful reaction. Its continued and immod
erate use leads to a very ncrioUa group
.»f symptoms, such mhetulnche, vertigo,
ringing in the cam, Ircmulousncss, nerv
ousness, exhaustion of foind nnd body,
with disinclination to mental and physi-
cal exertion, increased and liyegiiar ac-
tion of the heart, and dyspepsia. Many bf
tin? symptoms of immoderato ten-drink*
iurfnre such ns may occur without a sus
picion of the real cause. , ... «-
-fc* H*. \ t
A Chicago man lias perfected a ma
chine for making from water gas of
highly illuminating power.: By it he is
said to be able to disintegrate water, nnd
bring its component parts together again
nnd produce light, heat, or nlunm, as he
chooses. The light obtained is a beauti
ful and very briliant flame, and cart be
perfectly controlled. Its heat is of the
most intense cnaracter. By tlio turn of
:i valve he can transform the light into
steam. The procoss by which this is ac
complished is a secret. The discoverer
admits that ho generates a tremendous
explosive power—a power ns grentns that
claimed for the hcoly motor, but ho
ulilir.es it at onco in the milliner men
tioned. ‘
The financial measures offered in the
lious? thus far arc ns follows: A bill to
authorise the conversion of national gold
banks; respecting the funding of the
national debt (one offered by Mr. Wood
and another by Mr. Garfield); bills to
"ubstitule greenbacks for national notes;
bills to declare the meaning of the word
dollar; bill to restore gold nnd silver to
their full power; bill to amend the re
sumption net; one to repeal that act;
bills to issue gold and silver certificates
and to provide for the redemption there
of ; bill requiring reserves of national
banks to be kept in gold nnd silver; bill
in reference to bank deposits; bill re
quiring silver certificates to be paid out
by the treasury in lieu of coiuou demand
thereof; bill to compel the paying out
of all kinds of money in the treasury not
needed for 'Current expenses in the ic-
dcinption of bonds; bill to restore the
legal-tender currency to its constitutional
requirement; bill to rcpciil the ten pe r
cent, tax on State banks; and Weaver’
bill to issue $500,000,000 to pay soldiers
the diflcrence between the coin nnd cur
rency in which they were paid.
The London Times, in an article
treating of the recent marked revival of
trade in tin* United States nnd the drain
of gold from Europe that attended it
makes some very Interesting assertions
about the future vuluo of gold which
are not without a bearing on the money
question in this country. It says:
.The annual gold production of the
United States themselves, about six mil
lions sterling, should also lie sufficient
oil the average for very considerable de
mands. But making all allowances, the
United States’ current requirements for
bullion
foot on
they g<
ist lion
•eforth at all times af-
ncy market greatly, even if
further than the absorption
in America itself of its annual gold pro
duction. We must be prepared, then,
in tlio next year or two, especially if
Germany should adhere to its gold stand
ard, for much higher rates for money on
the average than those which prevailed
during tlio last period of good trade.
The extraordinary demands for gold on
German account were certainly very
heavy; but they came ujion full mar
keter while the annual supply from the
.mines was greater by several millions a
year than it is now, nnd neither Ger-
anany nor the United States were then
Sold using countries. There may be
some compensation for all this strain
upon gold in Franco being obliged to
part with its stock of that metal, under,
the influence of what remains of its bi
metallic law; but wo doubt if it would
lie prudent to roly upon France permit
ting this, while the strain would be seri
ously increased, of course, by any special
effort on the part of Franco to recover
the stock of gold it has lost. The chances
seem all to he, then, that gold in the
next few years will lie in scarce supply
for all the current demands upon it, and
that money will consequently be dear
in countries which use gold for their
standard. Trade may lie very good, of
course, with dear money, ns it wi
1864 and 1805; lint the conditions ii
favor will not lie quite the same ns when
money is cheap.
A Brave Boy’s Deed.
A brave lad has just performed a rare
feat of courage, common sense and
presence of mind, in Berlin, in the
presence of very few observers. A
milk-cart, containing no one but a little
girl about three years old, was being
wildlv dragged along the Muhlenstrasse
by a furious horse, and no one dared t«
rush at the bridle of the galloping beast.
A boy, apparently not more than thir
teen years old, sprang forward and rolled
a large empty tub, which was standing
at a shop door, into the center of the
road. This brought the horse to aiHn-
stant pause, and, when tried to pass at
its side, the boy seized the briale and
hung on, at the same moment throwing
up his legs and clasping them tightly
around the horse’s neck. This heavy
burden at so unusual a place, brought
the terrified beast to a full atop, and the
bystanders hurried up and lifted the
little girl out of. the cart. While all
manner of questions and soothing
THE BUTLER HERALD.
■LET THEItE BE LIGHT.' 1
Subscription, $1.50 in Advance.
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1880.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The shipment of cotton in Bremen is
argo and increasing.
Charleston, 8. C.* boUglit Christmas
turkeys frem Now York.
Mississippi’s next legislature Will liaVb
ji democratic majority of 103 on joint
A. panther was recently killed In Pa
nola county, Mississippi, tohiWi torts six
feet ldh£.
The cxlfA session of the Tennessee
Legislature, which lasted for eight days,
cost $12,174,31.
A handsome pitraeiigcr depot is to be
erected ill rerimndinnn Fla., the building
to lie of corrugated iron.
The Treasurer of Anderson county,
8. C., issued 450 tax executions for tlie
collection of leas than $000.
From July 1 to December 13, Rich
mond, Va., shin;ied to foreign ports,
80,001 barrels of flour, valued ntfOio, 888.
Old John Robinson will sell out his
surplus rolling stock at Baton Rouge in
a few days, Hi» show will travel by
water in the future*
ReW C, 8. Long, of Campbell county,
Tennessee , is going in the firing ns a
missionary to Japan, under the Caro of
the M. E. Churcnj 8outh,
Little Bock (Ark ) Democrat: From
fifty to sixty families per day have been
settling at Arkadelphia. Curtis and Gui
don, Clark county, during the past Week.
Mr. J* N, English, of Macon county,
On., has picked and sold from one acre
on his farm this year two lmles of cotton,
one Weighing 474 nnd the other 475
pounds.
Mexico (Mo.) Herald; III Murion
county n gentleman 'captured n pure
white blackbird front n flock of black
birds that camo to his barn to feed a
few days since.
Memphis Avalanche: With munici
pal debt of over $5,000,000 nnd a total
tax valuation of less than $10,000, Mem
phis is not in a condition to try costly
cx|ieriment« in sewerage*
The law makes it the duty of the Ixra-
islana legialnturc just elected to proceed
to choose n senator at the session about
to be hold, for the term expiring on the
4th of Man’ll, 1883, to succeed Mr. Kel-
lpgg, or the gentleman who shall then be
the collengue of Mr. Jonas.
Knoxville Chronicle: Mr. E. V.
Smalley, the well known staff corre
spondent of the New York Tribune,
is now in Cumberland county, on the line
of the Cincinnati Southern railway, as
wo learn, with the view to the location
of a colony from New York.
The Gainesville (Ga.) Gazette suggests
that a sugar refinery in Savannah would
pay. At present the ealte-grotoers are
content to turn their crops into *yrUp.
having no mnchincry or means at hand
to make merchantable the dark sugar,
which only classes as “milado” in tlio
ranrkets.
Meridian Mercury: N.H, Muhn lives
in Newton county, and is a wide-awake
and industrious farmer of no small pre
tensions, if he is a wee small inah him
self. He weighs cighty^hinc pounds and
is four and oncdilut feet high. His wife,
who la it Leak county lady, is only four
feet high and weiglw fifty-seven pounds.
Raleigh News: General Joseph E.
Johnston was lately in Raleigh, and a
gentleman asked him mlhW pointedly
why the southern army did not take
Washington after the first battle of Man-
asms. Rising on his toes, he replied:
“There were two reasons—myself nnd
the Potomac river. I had reached that
age that I know an American soldier
could not ford a riVcr a mile wide and
eighteen feet deep*”
Reidvllle (Vrt.) Times: Mr. Wormby,
a very Wcnlthy man, who lived in Ches
terfield, Va., lmd two sons, Tom and
Jack, both fond of playing poker, blit
Jack was very sharp at the gallic and Tbitf
'cry flat. When the old man died he
left Tom $90*000 nnd jack only $1,000,
but he explained nt the foot of his will
that $1,000 was stake enough for Jack
to win everything that Tom find, and it
was a wise provision, for it so turned out
Wheeling Intelligencer t I t is said the
counsel fees’and expenses in the suit
brought by the bond holders of the White
Sulphur .Springs Company to secure a
sale of the springs property under the
deed of trust supposed to secure tlu'ir
bonds, alrendy aggregate some $35,000,
and the end is not yet. At this rate the
parable of the wise counselor who ate tlio
oyster and handed the shell to the liti
gants is about to lie still further illus
trated.
Richmond letter in Petersbug Index
Appeal: The debt payers intend to op|iose
the repeal of or nliy radical modification
in the present laws. Many of the lend
ing Read-adjustqrs in both houses arc in
favor of arepenlof the Moffett system of
raising revenues. A warm fight may lie
expoetod to ensue when this matter
cornea up. The representatives of most
of the cities, whether they are debt-
payors or not, will be apt to favor the
change.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger:
last Sunday, nt the residence ofM*. ...
O. C. Burnett, Mr. Benjamin S. Good
year was married to Miss Burnett, a
daughter of Mr. J. C. Burnett. On the
16th inst., Mr. J, C. C. Burnett wn
married to Mrs. E. R. Goodyear, motiie.
of the young man mentioned above. In
this manner the children of the last cou
ple were first married, followed by the
nuptials of their parents. The occur
rence is rare, and interesting. They are
good and esteemed citizens of Macon.
Petersburg Index-Appeal: Yesterday
morning nbout one hundred colored em
igrants of all sizes and both sexes arrived
here on the northern bound mail train
from Goldsboro, cn route for Washing
ton, from which place they go to Indiana,
this makes between six and seven hun
dred emigrants of the colored persuasion
who have passed through Petersburg
from Goldsboro, N. C., on their way to
Indiana, during the past few weeks.
Ihese emigrants appear in good spirits,
apparently highly elated at the
and i
idea of traveling to a country of which
they have heard so much and know so
little. As before stated, a noticeable
feature of these emigrants is tlio number
of women with infants in their arms.
Montgomery Advertiser nnd Mail The
Columbus Enquirer’s count shows that
forty-seven gin houses hnve been burned
in Georgia since August 31, nnd twenty-
nve in Alabama. Their destruction in
volved n loss of $100,000, for, with each,
cotton was burned. Very few were the
results of incendiaries. I„ Florida we
nave noted the conflagration of somo six
or ten. We do not wish our Northern
admirers to imagine as they did a few
years ago, that these houses were for the
manufacture of gin. We mean by
houses places for ginning and baili*w
ton. We rpmemfir n fon. xrnn• - ■* b
WARS WELL AT THE LAST DAT,
Dream* have been through all the age*—
Dreanii yfanHely vivid have been dreampt
Byharda, 1 overt and by aige*,
wlio*« fan ole* aeenu-d from naught exempt
lliat would gtade historic paged;
Or, through oddity, earth would tempt
Tet my recital of an uncouth dream
Kay be, withal, not flt poeUo theme;
And aome may tail#, bat If I tell
That earth 1 fancied paaaed away,
It atrangaly may tha awe Impel
That hoarta will feel lu their dismay,,
when o'er Uila worl.1 a vtrtrc shall eweR
S To warn ue of the Judgment day—
e day when every human soul Mall know .
eternal fate—the fruits of what we sow.
Dire shapes were mine In dreamland formed:
It eceroed life’s work had reared to be,
And o’er earth'a an rface blindly roamed
Poor mortals In deep misery.
The waters skyward madly foamed,
Aa rote tho dead from out the aea,
Then calmed tha ocean back again and lsft
Them atand Who long of lift had bean bereft
Of awful sigh's that e’er were aeon
Upon tha earth or down beneath,
It was thia host In dbrnial aheon.
Bo ghastly clothed In shroud* of death.
ind causing eyes to gloi
A* passed the dead ashore from off the stream.
And slow they moved through doubtful light
For all aeemrd chaos. I saw no Sent
There shone no mooh. udr tiers an height;
All seemed like earth when
As, Ah rough pale bearaA that v
Marched living and tha dead
To judgment, ’fora a Judge In
Dy whom, condemned w
y alght
whon each bad learned tl
and others bleat
r fate,
ard their h
d a heaven to ahare;
anrd In their despair I
Beloved ouea damped each other tlghtt
Tho partings filled my heart with alllhgs'
While a
How th n se unfortunates u
A pious
>tt the right
Deplored her sou’s earth's faUlngi;
But Hstan claimed him to hla might,
Heeding not that mother’s wallings,
wivos end husbands of each other were bereft;
Dear onos on the right, dear ones to the loft.
forsooth, It seemed a sorry thing •
For souls that last adieu to speak—
farewell, ’twas nflt like bora we sing.
Which doth but last a day or week:
Bat theirs did untold anguish bring,
As touched white ltps a bloodlosa cheek,
To seal the truth that they must separate.
Sinners wept; the blessed were happy In their fata.
Though f hie a dream, 'tls apt to rule
When t*'at great day shall dawn in trntb
Te mortals, in the vestibule
Of that groat church beyond this youth,
Prepare your souls while on God’s stool;
(For after death there la no ruth);
Lost from those you lovo you’re cut forevet
Upon the left, o'er thst^Isikllng rlvor I
■ • ~ .V...WUUCI a ie*> JUifg ftj, 0 that
v . a Massachusetts paper feoundlv W.
HiK-eches were being addressed to her. tured the Southern people on th :Ir
the hero of the action quietly slipped . temperate habits. The editor
knowing* his nawe'or I from the uuinlsr of .'iu hot
1 burned.
judged
My Beautiful Client.
RT MAUDS A. HILTON.
It had been an unusually sultry sum
mer day. and I was fretfully anathema
tizing the press of business that con
fined me to the city during the heated
term, while all my friends and associ
ates were enjoying themselves in fash*
ionable watering places, or rusticating
in some plctuesque noox.
I was only a poor young barrister,
although rapidly rising in tho pro
fession, and there was a case on my
hands that promised a golden har
vest.
It is true the courts were not then
in session, but the case of Smith versus
Jones required a deal of study and
“ working up,” and I was kept rather
busy all the time*
“Confound the luck I’’ I ejaculated,
as I tossed aside a brief over which I
had been pondering on the particular
summer afternoon of which I have
made mention. “Confound the luck I
I have a great mind to pack up my traps
and take a run out of the city, aespite
the claims of a hundred Smiths and
Jones.*’
While I had been giving way to this
unusually vehement outburst, there
had been a timid rapping at the outer
door, and my office boy Henry threw
aside the paper which he had been in
tently perusing for the last two hours
and admitted a young woman, pretty
and pleasant-faced, and with au agree
able smile—
“ Please, sir, are you lawyer Reavey!”
she asked, timidly, and with the slight
est possible brogue, betraying her Celtic
origin.
“ That is my name, madam,” I as
sured her, as I placed a chair for hei
near the desk from which I had arisen
at her entrance.
She handed me a note written in a
delicate female hand, and insisted on
remaining standing where she was un
til I read it.
I confoss to a feeling of curiosity, and
without much ceremony I opened tho
daint, pink-tinted note and read its
contents, which were brief and to the
point
Mr. Hugh Rentev*
at leisure to wait upon
Fi.kxorb Herbert.
This was the note,word for word, nnd
I confess no Biranger message had ever
been transmitted to me. There was
something in the tone of the brief
epistle that seemed to breathe a spice
of romance and adventure, and my
idea of a country trip was abandoned
instanter. * •
“ I am ready to accompany you, miss,”
I said to tho waiting-maid;’ aqd watch
ing her closely, I could see that my
decision pleased her.
I found a carriage awaiting at ray
door, and silently assisted the young
lady to enter it.
She made no attempt to enter into
conversation with me as I drove through
the city streets, and although I was—
aa the ladies say—“dying to know”
something of her mistress, I did not
stoop to question.
I heaved a sigh of intense relief,
however, when the carriage drew up
before the entrance to a Buperb resi
dence on Madison avenue, and my com
panion announced that our journey
was at an end.
A solemn-looking man-servant ad
mitted us, and in answer to some low-
spoken inquiry of the maid, informed
her that the mistress would receive the
gentleman in her boudoir.
With a growing sense of my own im
portance, I followed the girl up tho
broad, richly-carpeted staircase and
into a room that waa like the home of a
fairy, so beautiful and pure-looking,
with its furniture of white and gold,
and delicate hangings of snowy silk ana
lace.”
“Lawyer Reavey, Miss Herbert,
announced my companion, and a lady
arose f'rOta a couch near the window,
Came forward to meet me.
I could with difficulty repress an ex
clamation of astonishment, for my eyes
had never beheld anything so exauis-
itely lovely aa the lady addressed aa
Mra. Herbert
She oould not have been more than
eighteen years of age, and looked even
younger, although there was nothing of
the child in the expression of the sadly
beautiful face or in the blue depths of
the fair, shadowed eyes.
Bhe motioned me to a seat near that
she had lately occupied, and I could see
that she was visibly embarrassed and at
a loss how to proceed. Her hands moved
restlessly from place to place, and I
oould see the color fading out of her
perfect face, and she at last summoned
courage to address me.
Her brother had been my friend, she
told me. and when she mentioned that
brother's namo I started, for it was in
deed that of one of my most valued
friends, who had lately died very sud
denly.
My poor brother bogged me, with
almost his last breath, to go to you, and
ask you to take my case in hand for the
sake of your old friendship.” The
beautiful woman faltered; and it is
needless vo say that I answered her she
had but to state her case, and count on
a willing champion.
Bhe tiranked me with a simple grace
that was infinitely charming, and then
told me the story of her life.
. Sho was uttlerly alotie in tho world
since her brother died, and tied to a
man whose cruelty was killing her.
Charles Herbert was a strange char
acter, thought peculiar by his friends,
but believed by those who knew him
best to be developing traits of mad
ness.
Iu the presenoe of strangers he waa
remarkably kind and devoted to hi*
beautiful young wife, but in the sanct
uary of home he was actually brutal
in hia cruelty to the unfortunate girl,
as was evident from the livid marks
Upon her white arms and shoulders.
“ I want to be freed from him—I am
in actual terror ol my lifel Oh, Mr*
Reavey, can the fetters which bind me
to this terrible man bo broken? Give
me some hope, or 1 will no longer live in
this agonizing suspense!” she cried,
aud I was frightened at the expression
of her face an she stood before me, with
her small bauds clasped in an sgony of
supplication, and her behutiful eyes
glancing hastily around her every min
ute, as if dreading the approach of her
tormentor.
I was at a loss for words to answer her
appeal.
8he wanted to bo freed from the hus
band who was cruel to her, and she evi*
dently believed that I had but to write
out a couplo of siieets of foolscap, and
pronounce her the divorced wife of
Charles Herbert. How waa I to un
deceive her?" How was I to tell her
what a work of time and trouble it
would be to obtain a legal bill of di
vorce? I told her I would exert every
means in my power to aid her, and I
resolved to watch tho movements of
llcrbert closely, while t he lady prom
ised to communicate with me sheuld he
attempt any further violence.
I Icit that house Hire one in a dream,
my heart filled with pity for her hope
less condition, and my brain puzzling
itself-over innumerable ways and means
of obtaining for her tho release she
sought.
True to my first resolve, 1 sought out
Charles Herbert in his usual haunts
about town, nnd ntiulied him In secret.
Ho was a polished gentleman, dark-
faced and handsome; but I did not like
tho glitter in his dark eyes, or the
treacherous and oft-recurring smile
that played about his full, sensual
lips.
I met him in society, where he was all
attention to his beautiful young wife,
and apparently devoted as the fondest
lover.
I shuddered as I thought of the life to
which beautiful Klenore Herbert |
Beamed hopelessly doomed, for with tho !
cunning of a fiend, her husband wore |
his mask; of smiles, and gave no chanco
to the most suspicious observer by '
which he might bavo been condemned. >
I noticed, with an inexplicable feeling
of pain, that my beautiful client was
growing more fragile and worn-looking
every day, and the look of haunting
terror was deepening in Iter dark blue
•yes.
One night I saw her wandering alone
through the fragrant aisles of a con
servatory, having stolen from the bril
liantly-lighted parlors and from the
midst of the gav throng in whose so
ciety her husband lingered.
Watching a favorable opportunity, I
joined her unobserved, and had the
satisfaction of seeing a momentary look
of gladness sweep across her beautiful
face at my approach.
She questioned me eagerly ns to the
progress I wus making; but something
in myface must have told her how lit
tle I could do for her, for she threw out
her tiny hand with a gesture supreme in
its agony, nnd I could see the quick
shudder that ran through her frame.
“ What is it? Has lie repeated his
cruelty?” J asked, huskily; for some
how tho indignant blood seemed to rise
in my throat and choke me. and I felt
like strangling tho wretch whose cun
ning baffled me.
She did not speak again, but looking
into her pale face, I could see her lips
forming the word “ Hush!” anti looking
up quickly, I saw Herbert sauntering
toward us through the avenue of ferns
with that disagreeable smile on bis lips,
and that strange, glittering light in nis
black eyes.
“ My dear Nellie, I have been search
ing lor you;bow imprudent of you to
stay out in this chilly place without
your wraps. Ah, Mr. Reavey, I shall
question your gallantry; see how my
little wife shivers. Come, darling, I
think we had beBt return home.
He spoke lightly, and with his arm
around his wife’s waist: but I could not
banish tho impression that ho had been
olavinx the BDy: and,to confirm the im-
f *restf..ra, 1 caught the gleam of abso-
ute terror that Elenore Herbert threw
back at me as ho led her away.
“ That man is mad; there is danger
in his eye* to-night,” I thought, and
impelled'by some Irresistible impulse, I
found myself hurrying in the direction
of her residence half an hour later.
Was it fate or providence that guided
my wandering steps7 I do not know;
it was all bo strange and unreal; the
events that followed seem to me even
now, looking back into the dim vista of
venrs, more like tho incidents narrated
in some sensationa\ novel than an oc
currence in real life. I had just turned
into the block on which the Herbert’s
resided, when a wild, thrilling cry dis
turbed the silence of the summer night,
r cry that came from the lips of a
woman, and from the direction of the
house in which Elenor Herbert passed
her miserable life.
“Father in Heaven, save her!” I
cried, and no such fervent and heartfelt
I irayer had crossed my lips since I
rnelt at mother’s knee. I cannot re
member how I sprang up the steps;
Sadie, the maid who UHd brought Mrs.
Herbert’s note to my office, waa in the
hallway, wringing her hands and giv
ing vent to the wild screams that had
attracted my attention to the sj>ot. 1
dial not wait for her explanation, but
dulled up the stairs and toward the
door of the white and gold boudoir from
whence came the sound of maniacal
laughter and low groans of pain. Al
most marl vith tqjror I forced my way
hetweefi a group of frightened and use
less Herfams. and threw myself wildly
against the door. It yielded, And if I
live for a hundred years I shall never
forget the sight, fllirented to my view.
Beautiful Elenor Herbert lay prone
upon the flaor, her white silk evening
dress dyed crimson with blood, and her
face rigid and pallid as that ol a corpse.
Her mad husband stood over her with a
d uel-looking knife in hk hand, chuck
ling gleefully. At sight of me no burst
iuto a terrible peal oflaughter, and be
fore a hand could be put forth to atay
him, plunged the knife in his own
heart.
“ Ha-=*-hal” he cried, “see how nobly
I hnve foiled you! You would have
stolen her from me—take her now—she
Is voitrfl.’*
lie fell to the floor dead, With the
last works on his lips, and at the same
moment an officer, attracted to the spot
by Sadie's cries, rushed into the room
to ascertain thb cause of the disturb
ance. I can. never olearlv remember
what immediately followed. I only
know that the words CRme to my ears:
“The lady Is not seriously wounded.”
Then I must have fallen 111, for when I
recovered myself the remains of Charles
Herbert had been laid in the grave and
his wife was slowly recovering. Years
have flown since that terrible night,
and looking up from the wfitteh pages
before me, my eyes fall upon the fair
ace of my wife.
“Elenore, my darling!” I call softly,
pnd she comes to meet me gladly, more
lovely than wheh.taaW hbrflrst In that
fatal room o! white and gold, far more
beautiful, with the love light giving
place to the look of hunted terror In her
violet eyes, And a npileof infinite peace
Upon tho perfect lips.
“My wife—mv own!” I murmur,
fondly, and perha’ps Bhc guesses why 1
kiss her face with shch passionate ten-
dernoss, for she shudders and nestles
closer to me, with her golden head upon
my breata, and her mind straying back
to the tragedy of the past, that is dead.
A Street-Car Episode.
“ Driver,” I cried, “ be so kind as to
stop until these ladies get on board.”
Ho was kind enough to do so. On
marched the enraged threo. The face
of two showed indignation, the face of
tho umbrella one showed vengeance.
“ You think you’re smart, don’t
you?” she snapped out at me a9 soon as
she got her breath.
I modestly confessed that such was
the case.
“Do you think I’m going to run all
over town after a car and then pay for
it?’»
“ I wouldn’t if 1 were you—it’s too
hot,” I replied.
“ I won’t have any of your impudence,
sir. I'll report you to the company, my
man, see if I don't.”
“ Madam,” said I, “it won’t cost you
a cent more to Bit inside the car than
to stand on the platform, and you must
admit it would be more dignified.”
“There’s your fifteen cents,” she
cried, “ and don’t you talk back to me.”
Willing to appease the woman I
walked the length of the car and put
tho fare in the box.
“ Let me off at Lincoln avenue,” she
called out to the driver.
“ Thiscar don’t go to Lincoln avenue.
This is a Woodward avenue car.*’
*.What!” ahe cried, “isn’t this a
Grand River car?”
“ No ma’am,” said the driver. “Any
one can tell a Grand River car from a
Woodward car, and tho other cars have
conductors.”
“ That conductor took my money and
I want it back—stop this car.”
“ Madame,” said I, “I put the money
in—”
“ Give me that fifteen cents.”
“ I say that*-*-” '
“Give rao that fifteen cenUl”
“ Why, I ”
“ Give me that—” and here her um
brella came so violently in contact with
my hat that I.missed the rest of the
sentence.
“ Give mo that ”
" Certainly, madam, here is twenty-
five; never mind the change. You
might miss the next car.”
We never met again.
Rather a Long Lived Family.
Some two years ago a physician in
Secretary Evarts’ favorite Village of
Windsor, Vt., was called to visit a pa
tient living Borne miles out of the vil
lage. Ho drove out, and as he was
hitching his horse the door opened, and
a young woman with a child in her
arms came out. They greeted each
other, and sho said, “Oh, you are the
doctor, come to see grandmother. She’s
pretty sick. You’ll find her in the
house.” He went in and found a wo
man nbout forty, who said, “Oh, you
are the doctor. You’ll find grand
mother in that way.” In the room to
which he was directed he found an aged,
white-haired lady lying on the Bed,
with her face the other way. She was
quite deaf, and did not notice bis ap
proach until he sat down and began to
feel her pulse. She turned and said,
“Oh, you are the doctor. I’m not sick.
It is mother you want to see. You will
find her in that room.” Bo into the
next room he passed, and at last he was
in the presence of his patient, whose
daughter, grand-daughter, great-grand
daughter and great-greatqzrand-daugh-
ter he had encountered. He found ner
so reduced by disease and old age (she
was ninety-nine) that he saw no chance
of her living more than a week. He
told the family so, but at their reauest
left medicines and directions, some
three weeks after he was driving by and
saw a woman picking up chips. He
pulled up his horse, intending to ask
when his patient had died, when she
looked up and said, “Oh, you are the
doctor who came to see me when I was
sick.” Bhe is still living, as “ chipper”
an old lady of ninety-nine as you will
often see.
The Plaguy CroojreJ Letters.
The following conversation between a
senior and an inquisitive freshman waa
overheard in a New England college
town the other evening:
Freshman (confidentially)—"! BAy,
Smith, didn’t you find Greek plaguy
hard when you were a freshman? ’
Senior (nonchalantly)—“Greek? No.
Greek came pretty easy to me.
Freshman (awe-struck) — “ What!
Didn’t you find Greek hard ?”
Senior (meditatively)—“Hold on.
Lem me see. Greek? Is Greek the
stuff with the funny little crooked let
ters?”
Freshman (in astonishment)—*' Why,
yes!”
Scnor (emphatically)—“ Oh, yes,
Greek waa deuced bard!”
Those who quit their proper charac
ter to assume one which Iocs n6t)bclong
to them, are for the greater part ignor
ant both of the characar they leave
and of the cnaracterther assume.
ALKAA!U>£II STEPHENS.
Alexander If. Stephens still remain-
the wonder of Congress from the persists
cut manner in winch ho clings to life,
and the fact that his mind seems to re
tain its old time vigor, even while the
body is apparently fiend. His is a remark
able example of will po Vcr J he lives
more Wcause lie wills it . than because he
has nny natural right id.
Your correspondent railed upon him
at his rooms nt tlio National hotel, Where
lie Ira* stopped when in the city for many
years. j he u.;.cre*' ,n old t statesman
was found seated in his wneel ch«»r,
which lu* occupies on the floor of the
Ilou-e, wheeling himself pruuiul from
one pari of MiC tiftiy to mother. His
greeting was cordial, and conversation
opened.
M .rshall Jewell, when in the city, had
said that in his state (Connecticut) they
. talking of a presidential ticket with
Grant fir-! Jitfu e, and A. M. Stephens for
second. Frve, of Maihe, said lie had
heard of such combination, and the ob
ject of my call uinin the old Georgian
to ascertain his views upon such a
ticket.
He declined to discuss politics, hut
said: “ I shall never occupy any por
tion other than til': 1 do now, and I
don’t expect to hold that initch longer.”
Upon iny expressing surprise at that,
he said: “I don’t cxiK*et to live through
anolliCL presidential election. I don’t
expect to live hKl*** month- longer.”
I.OOKINO FOR THE END.
It was suggested that he might lie mis
taken till- trine, as his friends had been
so often Indore. “No,” *nid lie, “I
think not; I can fed that my health is
rapidly declining : I notice it myself. I
have held on now far beyond my time,
nnd have outlived my generation. I
alway
NUMBER 14.
Advice to Young Men.
And then* remember, my son, you have
to work. Whether yon handle apirk or •
pen, a wbeelbarroT.’ a *■*’ of books,
digging a ditch or editing a pitpt'L ring^l
ing an auction bell or writing funn^
thing*, you must work. If you wi
look around you, son, you will see tk.^
the men who are the met able to li
the rest of their day* without '
the men who worl ed the hardest
be afraid of killing yourself with evi
work, son. It In beyond your power
do that. Men cannot work so hard ,
that on the »unny side of thirty. The,
die sometimes, hut it is because they quj
at 6 p. m. and don’t get Immeuntil 2 a.
It’s th«* intervals that kill, my soi
work give* tOU an appetito fo
meals, it lends solidity to your si
it gives you a perfect and grateful]
ciation of a holiday. There are"
men who do nrt w.»rk, my
nfen who muko « living by
eud of a cane; whose entire mental <
oprnent is insufficient to tell them
side of a postage stamp to lick; ycl
men who can tie a nocktie in eleven!
ferent knot.* and never lay a wrinkle
it, and then yet into a West Hill strel
car to go to Cnic*.tro: who can spend i
money in a day t*..:n you can cam
month, eon, and who v' 1 uo tho
Sherifl’s to buy a postal ca. . and apply
at the office of Street ('"it. issioner for
a marriage license. But the world is
not preud of tlivm, son. it doc* not
know tkelrasinij even; simply sp<\'.ka
of them mold Scandso’e hoys. Nobody
likes them ; nobody hate# them; the great
busy world do»-n’t even know they are
there, and at the fcfrcat day of resurrec
tion, if they do uot appear at the sound
of the trumpet, and they certainly a ill
but still t
halo and hearty ,
ami woMieintes in t’oiigrcs
by the Wat. f < nlep «
lived while
liong John
not unless »omebmly will tell them what
it i* for and what’to do, I don’t think
Gabrialwill miss them or notice their ab
sence, and they will noth** sent fur, or
lited for, or disturbed, 'lhingswill go
ju*t as well without them. S'* find
out what you want to be nnd to do,
BUceesI
A negro at Little Rocfl
wens and warts cut fro!
They weighed eleven pouJ
A farmer aaks the
beets pay.” In our c
found that, usually,i
beat their way. j
A young lady
parties should haveUH
until she is able tof“‘
her own. /
It very fre<|utnt[ hafl
ei:
dust
s nnollici*, Ram
sey. Jhc now Secretary of »7nJ\ v ira there
and some twelve others, that I counted
up the other day, I never shall forget
that Illinois delegation,” Ami the old
man laughed a little .-brill querulou*
laugh at the recollection, “'there was
Stephen A. Douglas, John entnortli.
John J. Harding, nhd Bob Smith. They
all got the Presidential idea iu their
head. 1 remember at that time the p<*|>-
ulritlon of Ohicngo was 0,000, and they
all used to mention the fact with pride.
Well, one session in particular they
were ail very active, speaking when
ever they could get an opportunity;
all striving for prominence.
ad take oft your coat and
i the world. The binder you are the
less deviltry you arc to get into, nnd the
sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter
aud happier your holidays, and the l>ct-
er satisfied will the world bo with you.
keep tiic
people. Every hill that c
them t" their feet, and c
the Illinois delegation *
a speech.
QUITE A JOl
‘ up brought
“»g
the questi
House ns to the proper pronunciation of
tho word Illinois. Some thought it
should he Illinoy, while others argued
Illinoi. At last some one proposed to
refer it to the venerable gentleman from
Massachusetts, (that was John Quincy
Adams.) He arose and the House at
once became as silent as death. Adams
waited a moment, and then, with great
seriousness and deliberation, began a
quotation from Virgil, “Why should I
lie chosen to decide such a grave prol>-
Ioin? v - Then he said, “I feel that I am
hardly competent to settle question" of
such grave importance, hut if left to me
I should say, judging from tlio demon
strations witnessed in this House of late,
that the only proper aad appropriate
pronunciation of the word would he
‘All Wise,”’and at the recollection of
the joke, perpetrated so many years ago,
hut still fresli in his memory, Mr.
SteuhciiH Ikudied as heartily as though
lie had jitfft heard it for the first time.
He then spoke of Stephen A. Douglas
in thg hjghost terms, a.* one of the first
men lie had ever met, possessing more of
the element of true statesmanship than
any other fnan of his time.—[Cor. Chi
cago News.
Living With a Bulletin His Hcnrt.
[Hartford Courwil.]
In July, 1878, Amos June was shot
at Greenwich by Eli Carpenter, a
colored boy. The hall entered his left
breast and remained in his body,
the last day of August, 1878, while
working in the field, June instantly
died. A post-mortem examination was
held, when, it was ascertained that the
ball had. passed through the left lung,
ruptured.the pericardium, and into the
heart, wWe it was lost. The bullet
was not found, and on account of the
peculiarity of tne case, Dr. Holley took
the heart for further examination. An
inquest was held, and a verdict rendered
charging Eli Carpenter with criminal
negligence. A warrant was issued for
his arrest, but he was not to be found.
In March of this year a report of the
case above mentioned appeared in
London Lancet. From this it
learned the missing bullet was found
imbedded in the heart of the deceahod.
The fact that the boy had lived fiftj^
four days in this condition introdi
the case as an exceptional one to tho
medical fraternity. Upon further
quiry it was ascertained that Dr. Holley
had taken the heart to Dr. Gibs, of
Stanford, who subsequently took it to
the Pathological Society in New York,
by whom it was found. On Wednes
day, 29th, the ex-I)eputy Sherifi’ New
man discovered the boy Carpenter,
passing through Mianus, and imme
diately took him into custody. He was
committed to Bridgeport jail, to await
the action of the Superior Court.
Chandler on the Emergency.
Among the anoedotes of Zack Chan
dler the Milwaukee Sentinel tells the fol
lowing: Senator Chandler was for forty
j-orsa lHHitiemn, and gained national
promiucjice by his remarkable energy in
war times urgivig tho prosecution of tho
war. Lacking^ 1 * Itivntion and book edu
cation, he was pos«< seu'.of nn"*ual irood
sense, which was at tiuna of immensu
value to the government. Senator Car
penter tells tliis of him: When the Ala-
Damn claims were under discussion by
the “high joints,” England submitted a
proposition that waa very severe. In
resjtonse to a cable dispatch, the Eng-1
lish members of the “high joint” were j
told to withdraw entirely if the proposi- j
tion was rejected. In great distress
Secretary Fish sent for Senator Chan
dler. The point was explained to him by
Fi-h in the presence of Grant and the
whole CahincL and Chandler was m*kcd,
“What shall we do?” Old Zacli replied,
“Tell ’em to go to hell—put it in diplo
matic language, of course.” That is just
what was done, and it answered the pur
pose entirely
I’rrak of a Judge's Wife.
[Meidville(fa.' R»j-rH*r.)
Social circles in Cleveland have been
considerably stirred up wiihin a day or
two past, by the announcement that the
wife of Judge R. F. Paine had left him
to go on the variety stage. Judge
Paine was nearly GO years old when,
five years ago, be married his wife, who
quite a young woman—not over 28.
_ . name waa Humphrey, and jho had
played on the stage iu minor parts
through Michigan prior to coming to
Cleveland. She was al*o well known as
reader in thia city. She found em
ployment as a copyist in the Court
House, where the Judge, who was on
the bench, met and married her, ahe be
ing hia second wife. Their married life
was supposed to be happy, and, as ahe
was surrounded with everything that
money could buy, there was Reeraingly
nothing to tempt her to leave her home.
The truism, that any one who pos
sesses histrionic talent is miserable
when not exercising it, seems to hnve
been exemplified in the case of Mrs.
Paine. For three years she has been
secretly studying for the stage, and a
few days aeo, after receiving a consider
able sum ol monqf from the Judge, she
departed for St. Louis, and it is re
ported, has made an engagement at a
variety theater. It is said that she was
Accompanied by her husband’s son, who
recently married a sister of Genevieve
Ward, the actress, and that all three
are now together in St. Louis. Mrs.
Paine is a woman of rather fine aDj>CKr-
ance, possessing a good figure and a
pleasing face. Her hiktrionio talent l:a»
lways been admired in thoso circles
hich she occasionally favored with
readings. Her desertion is said to be a
severe trial to the J udge, who was an
indulgent husband nnd ullowed his wife
every privilege.
Why tho Law is Uncertain.
Language is nn imperfect instrument
for tho expression of ideas. Not a few
of its forms are ambiguous; that is, they
speak in two ways. Reader and hearer
loft in old Isaac’s perplexity. Tho
ec is that of Jacob, the hand is that
of Esau.
Many t|Bkc terms of languago are
cquivocLSjTflWy havo two meanings, so
that the reader is in doubt as to tho
mind or intentiou of the writer.
Those who draft statutes know how
difficult it is to frame a law which shall
he free from ambiguous expressions
equivocal terms. Judge Story onco told
a personal incident, which illustrates
this difficulty.
He was employed by Congress to draft
an act. So important was it that ho
spent six months in trying to perfect
tne phraseology. His purpose was to
make the statute so clear that the most
astute lawyer should not he able to car.
tho shadow of a doubt upon its mean
The draft proving satisfactory to tl o
lawyers in Congress, became a law. In
less than a year, a suit, involving tlio
interpretation of this very law, enmo
before the court over which .Tu/dico
Story presided. Having heard the ar
guments of tho able attorneys, the
J udge confessed that ho was unable to
decide upon the meaning of a statute
which ho himself hud framed.
He of course, know what he had
meant to put Into the law. But the criti
cisms of the two lawyers showed him
that he had used such ambiguous ex
pressions that it was doubtful if ho had
said what lie mqant to havo said.
4 _irl who has the mi,
t has the Lkg p st holet’vn
’ stockings. ^
L'o they call the
the p.-eacher spe»k» finjj
c»u«e Ikr tries to pull JI
pltlroAtl»tpom*r-“
Now wt« ‘ 'rev?
gun, «ndl6»e» '
fun, step**™ 1
lone. .
“ SlNhLB niail^to* _
yer as the witness took his place. ^
air, ’ was the reply. Lawyer—“i
living';” Confualon nmnrapidexpli
tiona.
A Connecticut woman sued j
for taking off his hat (f.i the street a
the jury gave her damages. T)
don’t put on any^scollops in Conndj
A Syplion Boot.
Thanks to the good office* of a rich
friend, a povertjr-strickcu young artist
obtains a commission to paint the por*
trait of a rich young lady
Upon going to wni< upon the lady he
manages to get himself up very credit
ably as to hat, coat and pantaloons, but
his boots—ah, his l^nt*’ « «u nSiicf in fashTona
apart*vw it*- too of each where the
•ole nas parted company with the upper.
On t.hn mod fn llm lurln’ii mon Jinn A
cut.
“ Darling Ki?a My Eyelids Dowjj
is the latest moonshine song,
kisses themwip and down and ci
and then Rettku on her lips t
thing.—SHUicamc Lvrihtnnann
The latest thing at churen
to serve a search warrant with i
cyster soup. It^ffifesn’t aid digei
materially, but it renders valuable!
Biatance in finding tho oyster.
It is not strange that writers )
times get puzzled In their
tween “ that,” “ which” and
Relatives are always more or less troul
some.— Tratiscript,
The youug lady who Mpires to bi
mitted to ti e rank! of the lo gal pr
sion, does nat reflect that tho gral
tion of her irabiti’oa would onlyf
her a bar-n^krl. /
YB8H, I suee,” Raid a moral \ry
to a tramp, ‘ you want to go an,
whisky.” “ Well, yes, I did \
asked you,” waa tho reply, “l> ‘
of yourbrea/hhasaneweredthi
and I’m j™*’
“ Two-fort ““the
a slang phrase‘ iu ‘ 1
ago,” either. the non
trot n mile ‘ l *“ th * n
hardly bo U, 10 n “ta/mai
world ispTO e » 1Q K a 2.20 rai
Oirlp ]<* out! It isn’t alwi
youug me vho wear tlie 8Weeleat
and uearl break their flecks ni
oarth plr-ant for you during the ■
ship sea a. who arc the quickest t]
up of a Jd rooming and build
during Anted life.
iW*-fivb thousand goUTea]?
cnmeo/</in one steamer rccenYiy. Tl
is the *»ml of bird wo want to coj
home roost
Ho strange that the widow of Boi
diaco-irer of the Bodie mining distric’
ahou. hear, at her homo in Now
wiclr that tho remains of her In
whoperished in the great Nove.
,nor storm of 1859, were discovered
C Qu.y, near the town which beafl
nn*o. Fact is, indeed, strnngerj
ftcion in many instances.
A young lady who bad been^.
n ittle over a year wrote toheri
oJftct old father, aaying: “ W
tie deareat little cottage in til
rnmented with the most jr
•tl-- creepers you ever saw. Q
^hii rend the lettor^rftnd *
Twins, by thundorf' _
I" Holland Bays a man's chaw
may bo judged by his cravat,
wears no cravat, we suppose he hea^I. .
any.—Buffalo Express. Bailey, yom <tf '
the Danbury News, will you stand thief
—Norwalk Hour. You ought to eaeloet
a stamp when asking for informatiopf-
Danbury News.
Mrs. Foozle (improving
sion)—“ Is it not sad, my aea
f our friend Mr. Buffies dri
ntoly? I’m told his only e~
loss of his wife.” Mr. Foozl
—“Only excuse—only ex _
And a very good oxcu~
are many men who w~
liavo the same excuse.”
The Judge at i
recently sentenced
five years in the S
was communica*
mother, whh^juui •
tude of the sente
t fpr?” sh
,rs! >V
i?je thr
•quar^
On the road to the lady’s mansion _
sudden ahower came up, flooding the
i^de-walks, and when he enters the draw-
ilg room he perceives to his horror that
Hs boots have turned into pumps, and
,l “* at each step the water withiu them
rated forth over the costly carpets
asttf from the blow-holes of lively young
"’■Ties.
ie, however, is not disconcerted, but
" gracefully to tho young Indy of the
sion:
^non my word, madame, these sy-
phen boots that are all the fariiion aud
aroW> highly praised may ho nil they nre
~“ ! '\to be for outdoor use, hut for wear-
the house they will never answer
at nl, nt all.”
are Ornamented along the se
edges with feather nnd briar stit
in bright oontrastin^colors of emb
ered silk, and with panels or bauda
ecru colored silk canvas worked
quaint designs with sampler stiU
The edges have also n fringe of ta
of embroidery silk, matching the oolo
of the embroideries on the mat
A poor but highly respected youn-
man rescued au heiress from a water
grave nt ono of tlio seaside resorts a fe’
weeks ago. The next day her preserve
received a delicately •rfumed note froireg
the young lady, ami iiTOovemberabl
will mnrry. N’>, not the young man%h{
saved her life, but a man who has a cai 1
novels.
turns out that way—but not i