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“ SOMEBonvs I>AKI.I\U.-'
Into a ward of the whitewashed walls,
W here the dead and the dying lay—
" Wounded by bayonets,shells, and ball S
Somebody s darling was borne one day.
Somebody’s darling! So young and so brave,
Wearing still oft his pale, sweet face,
Boon to Ik; hid by the dust of the grave,
The lingering light of his boyhood’s grace.
Matted and damp are the curls of gold
Kissing the snow of that fair young brow ;
Pale are the lips of delicate mould—
Soinel>ody’s darling is dying now.
Hack from the beautiful blue-veined face
Brush every wandering silken thread ;
Cross his hands as a sign of grace—
Somebody’s darling is still and dead.
Kiss him once for somebody's sake,
Murmur a prayer soft and low ;
One bright curl from the cluster take—
They were somebody’s pride, you know,
Somebody’s hand hath rested there ;
W as it a mother’s, soft and white ?
And have the lips of a sister fair
Been baptised in those waves of light ?
(iod knows best. lie was somebody’s love;
Somebody's heart enshrined him there;
Somebody waited his name above.
Night and morn, on the wings of prayer ;
Homebody wept when he inarched away,
Looking so handsome, brave and grand;
Homebody’s kiss on his forehead lay ;
B<>:Jody clung to his parting hand.
Somebody’s w itching and waiting for him,
Yearning to hold him again to her heart;
There he lies, with the blue eyes dim,
And smiling, ehild-iiice lips apart.
Tenderly bury rho fair young dead,
Pausing to drop on his grave a tear;
Carve on tiie wooden slab at his head—
“ Somebody’s darling lies buried hero.”
MiAKKIt IIW.HK.
One sweetly, solemn thought.
Comes to me o’er and o’er,
I’m nearer to my home to-day
Than ever I was before.
Nearer my Father’s house,
Where the many mansions be ;
N>ar<w the great white throne,
Nearer the crystal sea.
Nearer the bound of life,
Where we lay our burdens down;
Nearer leaving tiie cross,
Nearer gaming the crown.
llut the waves of that silent sea
Roll dark before my sight,
That brightly the other side
Breaks oe a short of light.
O, if my mortal feet
Have almost gained tire brink ;
J f it be that.! am nearer home
Even to-day than I think ;
Father, perfect my trust,
Let my spirit feel in death
That her feet are firmly set
On that rock of living faith.
—./ii vies R.. Jiandall.
ISc Touched Her Heart*
Yesterday morning a woman living on
Napoleon street was seen on the walk in
front of the gate heaving tho snow right
and left, and she only had got fairly
settled to work when a boy lounged up
and remarked:
“ I'll clear off the walk for ten cents.”
** I guess I’m able to do it,” she re
plied.
“ But see how it looks,” lie continued.
“ Here you are, a perfect lady in look
and action, highly educated, and yet you
grovel in the dust, as it were, to save the
pitiful sum of ten cents.”
“ You grovel along and mind your
own business,” she curtly replied, still
digging away.
“ It’s worth ten cents,” he said as lie
leaned against the fence, “ but I’m a
feller with some sentiment in my bosom.
Now, we'll say five cents, or just enough
to cover wear and tear o’ my bones.
Give me that old shovel and you go
in your mansion and put ou your seal
akin sacque and best jewelry, and while I
work you stand out here and boss around,
and talk as if you owned the biggest half
of North America, while I had nothing,
and was in debt for that.”
She looked at him sharply, saw that
he was in earnest, and when she passed
over the snow-shovel she put two nickels
into his hand. He looked after her as
she went in, and then sadly mused:
“O ! Flattery, thy surest victim is a
woman homely enough for a scarecrow I’
An AcfoiiMKlnting Hotel Clerk.
Scene 1. —French’s Hotel. Time, mid
day. Fat hotel clerk, and brushing his
diamond stud with a feather. Enter
young man in a hurry. He writes on the
register, “ John Green, Harrisburg, ra.”
Young Man.—l shall take a room this
evening. Some bundles may be sent
here for me this afternoon. If the char
ges are not more than $5 pay them.
Exit young man in hurry. Clerk stiffly
"bows and continue to brush his diamond
stud with a feather.
Scene ll.—Time, one hour later. En
ter a small boy with heavy, oblong pack
age. He struggles up to the couuter, and
says: “ A bundle for Mr. Green. The
charges are $3.50.”
Clerk drops the feather, and permits
the diamond stud to dazzle the small
boy’s eyes. Then he takes the boundle,
and pays the small boy $3.50.
Scene lll.—Time, the following day.
Fat clerk scratches his head with the
feather and thinks of Mr. Green and the
small boy, and the $3.50, Then he opens
the oblong bundle and discovers a
brick-bat in paper box, with a note, say
ing : “ This is the best Russian clay I
could find.”
Clerk exclaims, “ Godelmity,” and the
proprietor of the hotel debits him with
*3,X!.
§-lj£ #okti)or}w Cdio.
BY T. L. GANTT.
CURRENT TOPICS.
—Kentucky is to be bored for oil.
—The Black Hills editors use gold nuggets
for paper weights.
—A fall of live snakes occurred in a Mem
phis rain storm the other day.
—A New Jersey boy died in a dentists’
chair the other day, after inhaling ether.
—Large quantities of marble are being ship
ped for building purposes, from Knoxville,
Tennessee, to San Frauciseo.
—The art of printing was invented by Cath
olics. The first newspaper was started by
Catholics, viz., the Gazette, of Venice, in 1505
—over 300 years ago.
—lt is asserted that the chief manager of a
private London bank receives a salary of
£150,000 a year. His two assistants each get
$50,000 annually for their valuable services.
—A dog was accidentally fastened up in a
theatre in Virginia City, Nevada, and after
five days had elapsed, during which time the
animal was without food or drink, was found
alive and and as strong as ever.
—A North Carolina farmer, to catcli the
thieves who had been stealing his meat, put
strychnine on one of the hams in his smoke
house. He has forgotten which one, and the
whole family dare not touch one of the 150
harus.
—it has been decided by the courts that if a
partner of a dissolved firm neglects to give
notice, through the local newspaper, of a dis
solution of partnership, he is equally liable
with his late partner for all debts contracted
after dissolution.
—Four officers elected in Louisiana by the
Returning Board have sent back their com
missions, with the statement that they were
fairly beaten, without violence, fraud and
intimidi tion, and could not consent to hold
office at tiie hands of the Returning Board-.
—While the Patrons of Husbandry have not
of late taken any part in polities, they have
by no means lost their organization. The sta
tistics of the National Grange show that there
are in the United States, 13,093 granges, with
a membership of 532,400. Last year there
were 590 new granges established.
—The town of Gheel, in the province of
Antwerp, has been for six centuries an abode
of madmen. There are 11,000 inhabitants in
the place, and they have 1,300 lunatics from
abroad as boarders—this being the only source
of revenue to the place. The children from
youth are familiarized with the business, and
all know how to manage such patients.
—The standard American barrel of flour
weighs 190 pounds, but California has impro
ved upon this arbitrary standard and makes
her barrels of flour to weigh two centals or
200 pounds. No other country but America
puts up flour in the same way and by such a
measure. In England another arbitrary stan
dard is adopted, and flour is usually sold there
in parcels of 280 pounds.
—Diptheria is doing a sorrowing work in
lowa. In Davenport several hundred cases
have been reported. Many families have lost
two, throe and four children. In other parts
of the State it seems to prevail to a still great
er extent. One family in Washington county
lost six children within two weeks, and have
not a child left. In Pana county a Mr. Don
aldson lost six children out of seven. They
all died in one week of diptheria. At one
time they had three corpses in the house and
at another time two.
—At a distance of twenty miles from Carter
Station, on the Union Pacific Railroad, is sit
uated a remarkable coal mine. It is about
four miles in length, and consists of sixteen
veins, lying one above another, with a thin
layer of sandstone intervening. The bottom
vein is the thinnest (five feet), while the next
one above is over seventy-five feet in thick
ness. A few feet above this is a vein of sixty
feet, another of forty succeeding, and so ou,
making in all about 400 feet of coal. The
veins slope at an angle of about twenty-two
degrees, and are very easy of access.
—Facing the statue in the market, place at
Rotterdam is an old corner house, handed
down to posterity as the house of the thousand
terrors. In 1572, when the Spanish by strat
egem entered the town and so treacherously
murdered and massacreed its inhabitants, a
thousand of the people took refuge in this
house. They put up the shutters and barred
the entrance, and killing a kid, let the blood
run under the doorway. The Spaniards, see
ing the red stream, concluded that the inmates
had already been dispatched, and passed by.
—Newberry Journal: Among the passen
gers in a sleeping car of the Erie the other
night were a couple of sisters occupying a
berth together. Sometime in the night one
of them had occasion to get up, and in getting
hack made a mistake and got into the next
berth, with a man. She, supposing it was
her sister who had rolled to the front, began
to nudge the sleeper to lie over. The fellow
woke up and seized the girl by the neck, sup
posing he had caught a thief. The scene
which ensued was mortifying as well as
amusing.
—ln the lists of property for sale in Peru,
coolie laborers are chissed among other live
stock. A letter written from Lima a little
more than a year ago says: “ They are driv
en from their lairs before daybreak by a bru
tal black fellow on horseback, who follows
them as the whipper-in does a pack of hounds.
At noon a cob of raw maize or nearly a pound
of boiled rice is given them; at dark they are
served out the same ration and driven home.
As soon a-s the first term of the contract has
expired they are re-entered upon the estate.
In fact, the survivors are given the names and
have to fill out the terms of the dead. Thou
sands commit suicide annually on the guano
islands, as many as ten or a dozen some morn
ings jumping into the sea.”
—Last Sunday morning two burglars were
captured in a New York store in a very neat
manner. They had packed up $30,000 worth
of pearl buttons, and were astonished to find
themselves confronted by a policeman before
they could remove their plunder. It appears
that the pearl buttons were contained in boxes
placed upon the counter on the first floor of
the store, and by a mechanical arrangement a
Eingle ounce in weight of goods added to or
withdrawn from the counters operated an
alarm through wires connected with the under
side of the tables, running through the legs
and concealed by the flooring. The thieves
were unconscious that their operations had
been discovered until they heard the breaking
of the doors and glass below.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1877.
DEVILTRIES.
—A legal tender.—A lawyer minding
his baby.
—“Mated” and “cremated” will be
the style of marriage and death notices
of the future.
—The vouug man who goes serenading
these nights should not forget to take his
catarrh with him.
—The man who ate his dinner with
the fork of a river has been trying to
spin a mountain top.
—A child sat down on a hot stove
hearth in Pittsburgh, and was perma
nantly branded with the words “ Base
Burner.”
—The modern cook stove is approach
ing a degree of perfection which will re
quire a competent engineer at a stated
salary to run it.
—The wisdom of Gen. Grant’s course
in keeping his mouth shut for so many
years has never been so apparent as
since he began to talk.
—“Why Did He Not Die?” is the
title of a novel. We have not heard the
answer, but believe it to be, Because he
refused to take his medicine.
—“ls the Colonel here?” shouted a
man, putting his head into a Kansas
City street car. “He is!” answered
thirteen men as they rose up.
—Why does the letter R hold an envi
able position ? Because it is never found
in sin, but always in temperance, indus
try, virtue and prosperity. It is the
beginning of religion, and the end of
war.
—Scene in the Grand Jury—Foreman
—Gentlemen it is not necessary to ad
minister the secresy of oath to this wit
nes, as he is a member of the press, and
nobody would believe anything he might
divulge, anyhow.
—“Ah,”said a father to his son Wil
liam, “ hearty breakfasts kills one-half
ot the world, and tremendous suppers
the other half.” “I suppose, then,’’ re
torted William, “that the true livers are
only those who die of hunger.”
—A minister in Lexington, Ky., lately
said in the pulpit that he had seen a
pack of cards and a backgammon board
in the parlor of a member of the church ;
and alter services several pious men
scolded their wives for carelessness.
—You can always tell whether a buzz
saw fs going or not by simply feeling ot
it, but it generally takes about as long
to find the end of your fingers as it would
to have gone and asked the foreman of
the shop if the thing was in motion.
—The editor of a French newspaper,
in speaking of the dedication of anew
cemetery near Lyons, says that “M.
Gascoigno had the pleasure of being the
first individual who was buried in this
delightful retreat. How delightful!”
“ Why in the world don’t you go to
work ?” inquired a citizen of a lazy fel
low who was trying to borrow some mon
ey. “Go to work?” echoed the roan,
“ how can I do anything till I know for
certain who is going to be the next Pres
ident ?”
—A Maryland jury lately declared that
a man had come to his death “ by an un
known wagon.” About on a par with this
is the Wisconsin verdict respecting a man
who had been crushed to death in a mill,
when the jury remarked, “ no blame eau
be attached to the machinery.”
—“ Come Fete,” said a merchant to a
gentleman of the colored persuasion,
“ what’ll you put that load of wood into
the cellar lor?” “Indefuss place, my
name is Peter, sir; secondly, I’se a per
feshnal carpet cleaner and whitewaslier ;
furdermo’, I doesn’t compete for sich jobs,
sail!”
—A minister going to visit one of his
sick parishioners, asked him how he res
ted during the night. “O, wonderously
ill, sir,” he replied, “ for mine eyes have
not come together these three nights.”
“ What is the reason of that ?’’ said the
minister. “ Alas ! sir,” said he, “be
cause my nose was betwixt them.”
—Burlington Haw key e : The other
day some of the boys induced a young
man from Flint creek to take hold of the
handies of a galvanic battery. As it
puckered him up he roared, “Jiminy
Criminy, let up I whoever heard of a
tiling that could make you taste green
persimmons with your hands before ?”
—He was a gloomy, taciturn man, but
so sensitively organized that in lifting a
worm he invariably took it up by the
tail, for fear of injuring his brain. His
wife laughed at his foible, but he rebuked
her solemnly, saying: “Sarah, do you
remember the golden rule: Do untooth
ers as you would have others do unto
you.”
—A pedagogue told one of his scholars,
a son of the Emerald Isle, to spell “hos
tility.” “ H o-r-s-e, horse,” commenced
Pat. “ Not horsetility,” said the teach
er, “but hostility.” “Sure,” replied
Pat, “ and didn’t ye tell me other day
not to say hoss? Bejabbers, it’s one
thing wid ye one day and another the
nixt ”
—An Arkansas coroner, having occa
sion to investigate the cause of a man’s
death lately, charged the jury that they
were to ascertain whether the “ man
came to his death by accident, by inci
dent, or the incendiary.” The jury re
turned that “he came to his death by
incident, the bowie knife having inci
dentally touched a vital part.”
LOOSE COTTON AND PULL-BACKS.
—Every honeymoon has a man in it.
—The woman who was “filled with
emotion” hadn’t room for her dinner.
—Mrs. Partington notices that very
few persons are suffering from sugges
tions of the brain.
—Since cremation, it has been discov
ered that of all parts of our anatomy a
woman’s jaw stands the fire best.
—lt is estimated that the number of
ladies who can pass a mirror without
glancing into it, average twelve to every
dozen.
—A fashion paper says that damasscs
will be popular with the ladies this win
ter, and society men have taken a fresh
hold oflife.
—The young man who wrote ahd ask
ed his girl to accept a “ bucket” of flow
ers, became a little pail when she said
she wooden ware it.
—A. young widow in New' Orleans,
being asked after her husband’s health,
answered, with a soft, quiet smile, “He’s
dead, I thank you.”
—This is the sort of weather when a
woman feels that all the flour she can
heap upon her nose is as ineffectual as
“sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.”
—A docter recently gave the following
prescription for a sick lady: “ Anew
bonnet, a cashmere shawl, and a silk
dress.” The lady, it is needless to say,
has entirely recovered.
—Mrs. Partington says she did not
marry her second husband because she
loved the male sex, but just because he
was the same size of her first husband
and could wear out his clothes.
—“Have you any limb-bora bon
nets?” inquired a very modest miss of a
New York shop-keeper. “You don’t
mean leghorn ?” The young lady was
brought to by proper restoratives.
—A South James street man proposed
to quit drinking liquor for a year, if his
wife would quit scolding for a year ; but
shesaid life would not be worth living if
she must rob her home of pleasure.
—What relation is bread to a sew
ing machine? The mother. Why the
mother ? Because bread is a necessity,
and a sewing machine is an invention,
and necessity is the mother of invention.
Bruce had recourse to the sword,
Tell to a bow and arrow, and Washing
ton appealed to the God of Battles, but
when a woman strikes for liberty she
uses most anything she can lay hands
on.
—When a Chicago shoemaker sells a
young lady of that city a pair of gum
shoes, lie make the bill out in the fol
lowing form : “To twenty-seven pounds
of India rubber at SI.OO per ft)., $27.00.”
And even then lie feels as if he were on
the very verge of bankruptcy.
—One hundred buttons is the regula
tion number for a lady’s dress, and the
Graphic thinks it is “hard on the hus
band who has to button his wife’s back
up.” Let him refuse to lend a helping
hand, and he will “ get her back up”
easy enough, without any assistance.
—An old lady ,on hearing that a young
friend had lost his place on account of a
misdemeanor, exclaimed: “ Miss De
meanor? Lost his place on account of
Miss Demeanor ? Well, well ! I’m
afraid it’s too true that there’s alius a
woman at the bottom of a man’s difficul
ties !”
—Many women Tcold at a mark, and
so accurate is their aim that they will
knock all the good resolutions out of a
man in three minutes, and leave him
doubled up over the aching void where
his manhood ought to be like a small boy
who has become the sepulchre of a green
apple.
—A justice in rebuking a virago who
had been arraigned for nearly scratching
her husbands eyes out, said, “You should
remember that your husband is the head
of a domestic realm ; indeed he is your
head, madam.” “ Well, then,” screeched
the termagant, “ have I not a right to
scratch my own head ?”
—She was fond of conundrums, and
when she learned that mulicr was Latin
for woman, she thought she had a good
one. So she asked her husband what
was the difference between herself and a
mule. And as he had been married several
years, he was too thoughtful to trouble
her by guessing, but kindly remarked
that he had never been able to see any.
—lt’s absurd to think that the adoption
of professions usually regard as masculine
monopolies unsexes woman. It onlv
makes them business-like. Here, out in
Montgomery county, there is a lady law
yer. She is, or was married. And the
other day a client went to her office and
found the door locked, and the following
notice pinned on the outside: “Gone to
husband’s funeral ; back in thirty min
utes.”
—They have a novel way in Silver
City, Nevada, of evading the law on elec
tion bets. A young lady bet a young
man a kiss that Tilden would be elected,
he to pay if Tilden won, she to pay if
Hayes was elected. On the morning of
the Bth he called and paid the bet; on
the 9th he called and “ took it back.”
That evening she paid the bet. Next
morning she “ took it back,” and he paid,
and so they have been kept busy by the
contradictory dispatches ever since, and
both declared their willingness and abili
ty to hold out till Congress decides the
question.
GUEEN ELIZABETH.
It was the evening of the day set for
Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Kenilworth.
Great multitudes of people had been for
many hours assembled on the walls in
chase, and park, and gardens, to witness
the splendid sight. But her majesty had
been detained till twilight at Warwick,
to receive the homage of her subject, and
now it was announced that the grand
entrance would be made by torchlight.
At length the great bell of the castle
tolled, and a single rocket shot up in the
air. Then all held their breath and lis
tened. At first they could only hear a
dull, sea-like sound, in the direction of
\\ arwick Castle—but it came nearer and
grew louder, till they could distinguish
the tramp ot horses, music, and shouting
and the clang of armor.
\Y hen the Queen entered the royal
chase, hundreds of great rockets were
sent hissing and blazing into the sky, and
such a mighty shout was set up by the
multitude that it was almost a wonder it
didn t jostle the stars out of their places.
\et they did not seem at all disturbed by
the tumult, but stayed quietly in their
orbits, and winked at one another as
though making fun of the Earl’s fire
works. The whole music of the castle
burst forth—then there was a round of
artillery, and a tremendous discharge of
blunderbusses.
The procession moved slowly and state
ly from the gate to the park, illuminated
by two hundred great wax torches, borne
by armed horsemen.
The Queen, who was young at that
time, and though not handsome, was no
ble and grand-looking—came mounted on
a beautiful milk-white horse, which she
managed finely, for she was an admira
ble rider. She was dressed in the rich
est silks, velvet and lace—and from head
to foot she seemed almost blazing with
costly jewels. Beside the Queen rode
the Earl of Leicester, on a jet-black
steed, one of the handsomest in the world
with trappings of velvet and gold, and
silver hits. The Earl was gorgeously
dressed, and glittered all over with gold
and gems. He sat on his horse so ele
gantly, and was so proud in his hearing,
that he might have been mistaken for a
King, had he not rode bare-headed like
the rest of the courtiers. After the
Queen and the Earl, followed a train of
nobleman and ladies, guards, pages,
knights, gentlemen and soldiers—a long
and splendid cavalcade. On either side
stood a line ol people, closely packed to
gether, all howling and shouting their
loyal welcomes.
As the Queen was approaching the
tower, she checked her horse to speak to
one of her ladies, when suddenly there
broke, or rather slid through the line of
soldiers, a little girl, who flung herself at
her majesty’s feet and grasped her robe,
crying—
“ A boon, great Queen, a boon ?”
A rude soldier strode,,forward and lift
ed his broadsword jover the head of the
child, when quick as a flash, a boy scarce
ly larger than the girl, leaped out of the
crowd and snatched the sword from the
soldier’s hand, saying boldly
“ Thou art a cowardly knave !”
The man turned upon him in rage—
caught back the sword and might have
killed him with it, had not the Queen
cried—
“ Hold, villain ! By my faith I think
the lad is right! YVould’st butcher babes
like these? Then art thou one of King
Herod’s men and none of ours. Stand
back!”
Then turning her eye on the little girl,
who stood trembling at her side, she
looked at her a moment in silent surprise.
And well she might, for the child was as
beautiful as an angel. She could scarce
ly have been more than ten years of age ;
she was very fair and delicate, with a
tender, appealing face, and voice sweet
but mournful, like the sound of a wind
harp. She had large, dark eyes, with
long heavy lashes, but her eyebrows
were a shade lighter, and her hair, which
was soft and wavy, was of a rich golden
hue. Now tears were flashing in her
eyes—her red lips were quivering—her
cheek was brightly flushed—her hair
gentiy lifted from her forehead by the
evening wind ; and in her simple white
frock, she looked there under the torch
light, so like a radiant little seraph, that
the stern Queen spoke softly to her,
almost as though in fear saying :
“ Who art thou? and what would’st
thou with me?”
“My name is Rosamond Vere,” an
swered the child ; “and I came to put this
petition in your own hands, and to be
seech your Majesty to grant the prayer
of a poor motherless little girl, who will
pray to God for you every night and
morning, so long as she lives.”
The Queen smiled graciously and took
the paper but said—
“ This is no time or place to read peti
tions, child. Come to the castle to-mor
row at the hour of twelve, and we will J
give thee an audience. But tell me, who '
is thy brave young companion ? By my
soul he hath aright gallant spirit!”
“ I do not know, your majesty, I never
saw him before,” said Rosamond.
The boy of whom they spoke had gone
back among the spectators, but on hear
ing these words he stepped modestly for
ward. He was a handsome lad, with
deep, dark, beaming eyes, and a sort of
grand look about his forehead which
made him seem, for all his plain peasant
dress, nobler than any young lord or
VOL. Ill—NO. 16.
duke in all that cavalcade.
The Queen smiled on him and said:
“ Well, young rash-head, what art thou
called?”
“ William Shakespeare, may it please
your majesty.”
“ Marry, a good name, and an honest
—and thou art a brave lad—doubtless we
shall hear of thee when thou art a man.
But now away with ye both, for it is late
for such chicks to be abroad.”
I hen she loosened the reins of her
horse and rode forward with Leicester,
and all the procession moved on again.
They passed through the tower, over the
bridge, and entered the castle, with
another peal of music and discharge of
artillery, and such terrific irruption of
rockets, that some of the country women
shriekedg with fright., thinking that the
castle and all the great folks in it were
being blown into atoms, some even fancy
ing that they saw the Queen on her white
horse riding straight up into the air.
Rosamond Vere went away to War
wick, with some friends, and William
Shakespeare went home to Stratford w ith
his father and mother. They drove in a
rough little wagon, for in those days only
kings and nobles had carriages. William
sat on a bag ot wool behind his parents.
His head was full of splendors he had
seen, and his heart beat high and fast
with pride because of the Queen’s praise.
He was greatly excited, but he was tired
also, and when he reached home he was
found fast asleep on the wool-bag.
The next day when little Rosamond
presented herself at the castle she was at
once admitted and conducted to an ante
room, where she had a few minutes to
wait. She met there an elegant young
courtier, one Sir Walter Raleigh, who
kindly instructed her how to conduct
herself before the Queen. Above all
things he told her she must remember
never to turn her back on her majesty,
but whens e was dismissed to go out
backward. And Rosamond promised to
do as he bade her. Just at twelve she
was summoned by the Lord Chamberlain
to the great hall, where the Queen was
holding court. She was seated on a
throne under a canopy of state. She
wore her crown, and a dress of rich velvet,
soft, blue, Ike the sky, covered with
white lace so fine that it looked like
lighted clouds; it was looped lip with
great diamonds that shone like stars.
After having been conducted to the
loot of the throne, Rosamond knelt there
and looked up timidly into her majesty’s
face. Alas !it was clouded with a frown.
“ And so,” exclaimed the Queen, “ thou
art a daughter of that Walter Vere, who
lately conspired with other traitors to set
our prisoner Mary of Scotland free! He
hath deserved death, and death he shall
have!”
“ Oh, have mercy, gracious madam,”
cried Rosamond,'“ my poor father hath a
tender heart, and the Queen of Scots
moved it by her tears and beauty. Oh,
she is so beautiful; if your grace would
see her you would have pity on her also.”
Queen Elizebeth blushed deeply, for
she knew in her heart that she was
envious of Mary Stewart’s beauty—and
she said more stearnly than before: “Thy
father acted traitorously, and must abide
his sentence. Go child.”
But Rosamond, instead of rising, took
from her bosom a small package and
placed it in the Queen’s hand. It was a
paper containing a ring. On the paper
was written the name of Walter Vere,
and a verse of scripture, signed “Anna
B.” On the ring was engraved a crest,
the arms of the Boieyns.
Queen Elizabeth turned pale as she
examined these, and hastily added—
“ Where got ye this? And tiiis?
Speak, girl.”
“My father,” answered Rosamond,“was
an officer in the tower at the time the
Queen, your mother, was imprisoned
there. He was good to her, and the,
night before she was beheaded she gave
him these mementoes.”
Elizabeth’s face softened, and a tear;
shone for a moment in her cold, gray I
eye, but did not fall—then she spoke—
“ For her memory’s sake we grant thy
prayer. We forgive thy father, but let
him see to it how he again braves our
ire.”
She then wrote an order for the imme- :
diate liberation of Walter Vere, stating
that she had granted him a full pardon.
This paper she was about to give into the ;
hands of an officer to be conveyed I o Lon
don, but Rosamond begged that she j
might carry it herself, and the Queen
kindly assenting, placed her under the!
charge of an officer, requesting him, with
her own lips, to be kind to the child, i
She extended her beautiful hand to Rosa- j
niond, who kissed it fervently, but was
too much overcome with joy and thank- j
fulness to speak a word more. She rose
up so bewildered, and in such a haste to
set out on her journey, that she quite
forgot Sir Walter 'Raleigh’s injunctions,
and turning her hack on the Queen, ac
tually ran out of the hall, much to the {
merriment of the gay court.
The rest if Rosamond’s sto-y is soon
told. She went to London and freed her
father, who never got into any trouble of
the kind again. She grew to be a beau
tiful woman, married a country gentle
man, and lived for many years far from
the great world, but happy and beloved,
because always good and loving.
- -
—Rev. Edward Beecher says that men
will yet live to the ageof 1,000 years; so
we shall probably see the end of the pres
ent Presidential contest after all.
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BEAI’TT SUM) BY At tTIOX.
How She Harems of Constaaitlaoplo
are Itcrultcd.
A correspondent of the Paris Gaulois
describes a recent visit to a slave sale in
Constantinople. Notwithstanding the
nominal abolition of the slnve trade iii
Turkey through the efforts of the civil
ized European governments, it still con
tinues in a furtive way. As long as the
harem exists this trade will exist.
This sale was in a house. Allthewin
dows facing the street were closed. The
correspondent accompanied an Egyptian
friend and his valet in a carriage to the
mosque of the Sultan Mahomet, at which
point they turned into narrow and com
plicated streets, which finally became im
passable. They alighted before a pile of
mud which could be crossod only on foot)
Reaching the house, they were introduced
into the sclomlik, or chamber reserved
for male visitors. Here they found the
slave dealer standing, a short pipe in his?
hand. He has a little old Tripolitan;
Gassirgi -M essoud-Ago, by name, lie
has followed the trade for forty years-
After the customary salutations, pipes
and coffee were offered and taken with
the silence usual to Oiicntals before any
business transaction.
An ebony young eunoch soon entered
and whispered in Messoud’s ear. The
latter made a sign of acquiescence, and
turning to the guests, said: “Bouyour
o7in (permit me). The guests rose and
followed him into a room of the hareni.
A long divan, about a foot and a half
high and four feet wide, surrounded three
sides of the chamber. An excavation in
the wail held the cushions and coverings
used at night. The floor was covered
with moss and loose pieces of earpet. Up-’
on the divan, sealed side by side, two
white girls from Circassia, in the dress of
their country. Opposite were three oth
er women, one of whom was white, fronr
Georgia, and the others black.
All arose as the visitors entered. One
of the Circassians seemed scarcely four
teen. She had bright, chestnut hair, long
dark eye lashes, with shaded eyes of liq
uid blue; a light, well rounded form and
regular features, overcast with mel
ancholy. She was a beauty of the first
class. Her companion, aged eighteen,
slightly less beautiful, bat was a perform
er on the kermaudja or Turkish violin.-
In addition, she was recommended as a
good cook, seamstress, aud washer. Her
brown hair fell to her knees. She looked
at the visitors coolly, and fixed her eyea
on the Egyptian with an expession that'
seemed to ask him to purchase her.
At a sign from Messoud one of the*
black girls disrobed the Cicassians. This
was not a complicated process, as their
dress was simply a tunic, a pair of trous
ers and chemise. The younger seemed
distressed; the other simply fixed her eyes
on the floor. Messoud, passed his hands'
over them, called attention to their good
points, and made them show their regu
lar, pearly teeth. He dwelt also upon the 1
strict decorum of their antecedents.
After an examination of the Georgian
and a glance at the black girls, the party
returned to the sclaiulik to close the bar
gain. The youngest Circassian was quo-'
ted at 200 pounds Turkish, the elder at
130, the Georgian at 120. The Egyp
tian found them to high priced and took
one of the black girls for 38 pounds. He
simply wanted a house servant. The sale
being completed, the party were again
served with pipes and coffee, and left ther
house.
The preliminaries to this were conduc
ted with great caution. The valet of the
Egyptian was sent the day before to an J
nounce his master’s desire, and Messoud
immediately came to the latter to assure
himself that ad was right by a personal
inspection ot his customer. Asa mere
visitor to the harem would have beer#
eyed askance, the correspondent was in
troduced as Tahir-Bcy, a Syrian gentle*
man who wished to take a chambermaid
home with him.
A Soldier"* f jntiflenee.
One day, when Napoleon I. was review
ing his troops in Paris, he let fall the
reins of his horse from his har.ds upon
the animal’s neck, when the proud charg-'
er galloped away. Before the rider could
recover the bridle, a common soldier rarf
out from the ranks and placed the bridle
again in the hands of the emperor.
“ Much obliged to you, captain,” said
Napoleon. The man immediately believ
ed the chief, and asked, “ Of vrhat regi
ment, sir?” Napoleon, delighted with
his quick preception and ready trust in
his word, replied : “Of my guards 1” and
rode away. As soon as the emperor left,
the soldier laid down his gun, saving J
“ He may take it who will/’ and instead
of returning to the ranks whence he so
suddenly issued, he started for the Compa
ny of staff officers. They were amazed
at his apparent rudeness and disobe
dience of ordere, and one-of the general*
contemptuously said : ‘1 What docs thia
fellow want here?” “ This fellow/’ re
plied the soldier, proudly, “ is a captain
of the guard.” “ You ! my poor friend ;
you are mad to say so/’ was the answer
of the superior officer. “He said it,’*
replied the soldier, pointing to the empe
ror, still in sight. “ I ask your pardon,
sir,” said the general, respectfully; “I
was not aware of it.” And so the sol
dier came duly to his post as captain of
Napoleon’s guard.
—lt cost the State s7o lor the House
to decide whether a Chaplain should be
paid SIOO for he session.