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Newspaper Page Text1 OLIYIA; f— ■ “Oft,— THE DOCTOH’S TWO 107 ES. I%*' * *1 THE AUTHOI Of *• Second Mrs. TiUotson • * Never Forgotten, 9 Etc., Etc. i T. I • • ' CHAPTER XIT. # EEBCUE. I do not know why terror always •trikes mo dumb and motionless. 1 did not stir or speak, bnt looked steadily, with a fascinated gaze, into mj husband’s face—a worn, white, vnaaciated face, with eves peering cru aaj into mine. It was an awfnl look— one of dark triumph, of sneering, conning exaltation. Neither of ns •poke. Pierre I could hear still busy in the transept, and Jean, though he had disappeared into the sacristy, was within call. It seemed as if he and I were the only beings in the whole World, and there was none to help, none to rescue. In the voiceless depths of my spirit I cried, “Oh, God !” He sank down on the seat beside me with on sir Of exhaustion, yet with a low, fiendish lailgli which sounded ludeouslv loufl th my eafS. His fingers Vere still about jay arm, but he had to ~yiit to Fieorar frCfii tfie first shock ol success—for it had been a shock. His taoe was bathed with perspiration, aud lis breath camo and went fitfuUy, I I could even hear tho h*sVy throbbing of his heart He spoke tefter a tltoo, while mv eyes were still fastened upon him, and my ears listen ing to catch the first words he uttered. ! “I’ve found you,” he said, his hand its hold—and at the first ■ound of his voice the spell which Ibound me snapped—"l’ve tracked you •out at last to this cursed hole. The game is up, my lit tlo lady. By heaven! you'll repent of this. You are mine, mnd no man shall come betwoev us.” J “I don’t understand you,” I mut tered. He had spoken in an undertone, •end I could not raise my voice above a whisper, so parched and dry was my •throat. “Understand!” he said, with a shrug of his shoulders. “I know oil about Doctor Marlin Dobree. You under stand that well enough. lam here to (take charge of you to carry you homo with me as ray wife, and neither man wor woman can interfere with me in that. It will be best for you to come •with me quietly.” “I will not go with yon,” I answorod, ttho same hoarse whisper; “I am liv g here in tho presbytery, and you ’cannot force me away. I will not go." He laughed a little onoe more, and looked down upon me contemptuously Sa silence, as if there were no notice to jbe taken of words so foolish. , “Listen to me,” I continued. “When (I refused to sign away the money my {father left me, it was because I said to ■nysolf it was wrong to throw away his Ufa’s toil aud skill upon pursuits ’ like yours. He had worked, and saved, pod denied himself for me, not for a than like you. Hia money should not {fee flung away at gambling-tables. But how I know he would rather a thou sand times you had the money and left jpte free. Take it, then. You shall aiave it all. We are both poor as it is, £ut if you will let me bo free of you, lyou may have it all—all that I can part r "1 prefer having the money and you,” ate replied, with his frightful smile. “Why should I not prize what other people covet? You are my wife; noth jjag can set that aside. Your money is Wine, and you are mine; why should I (forfeit either?” I “No,* I said, growing calmer; “I do jßoTbelong to you. No law on earth jean give you the ownership you claim (over me. Richard, you might have won me if you had been a good man. jßut you are evil and selfish, and you nave lost me forever." ; “Tho silly raving of an ignorant HS*l!" he sneored. “The law will com r®el you to return to mo. I will take jibe law into my own hands, and com you to go with me at once. If there no conveyance to be hired in this wanfounded hole, we will walk down 4ba road together, like two lovers, and iwait for the omnibus. Come, Olivia.” Our voices had not risen much above "their undertones yet, but these last words he spoke more loudly. Jean •opened the door of tho sacristy and jlookod out, and Pierre came down to (the corner of the transept to see who ;was speaking. I lifted the hand Rich !rd was not holding, and beckoned Jean. “Jean,” I said, in a low tone still, “this man is my enemy. Monsieur le Cure knows all about him, but he is ot here. You must protect me.” “Certainly, madame.” he replied, his •eyes more roundly open than ordinarily. “Monsieur, have the goodness to re lease madame.” “She is my wife,” retorted Richard Foster. “I have told all to Monsieur lc Cure,” 2 said. “Bon i” ejaculated Jean. “Monsieur le Cure is gone to England; it is neces sary to wait till his return, Monsieur .English man.” “Fool!” said Richard, in a passion, “aho is my wife, I tell you." “Bon!" he replied, phlegmaticallv; "but it is my affair to protect madame. There is no resource but to wait till Monsieur le Cure returns from his voy age. If madame does not Bay, ‘This is my husband,’how can I believe you? Bite says, Tie is my enemy. ’ I canuot eon tide her to a stranger.* “I will not leave her." he exclaimed, with an oath, in English, which Jean could not underatand. “Onodl Very good! Pardon, nxm •tour." responded .loan, laying hia iron Segura upon tlie hand that held iuo, mid loosening ita grip a* candy aa if it had been Ilia hand of a child. “Voila! Madame, you are free. Leavo Mon •iw tlm Englishman to luc, and go ■way iuto tlm house, if you please.” ) and and not wait to hear any further ul lawattoa, hut tied ua quickly aa 1 could inhithn pr> ahvtery. I'p iuto my own rhauilier I ran, drew a txavv ohsvt gcao.at lh 4* or, and fell trembling *t. J warrclami ejou tlta floor b**nt# it. lint I bar# M bo I *iite to loot in tarrora | toy diUUufl/ a.tJ iat.g*r war* o gr at Way fcliatrti- I n-d writ* to T.rdift If- had t'‘ to com* to Hi)T bei|* whvto M r end where'er I luivltl at.iu *oo i hpo, I )*4 down to Ma>. euro < tie ‘ihifi *# Or lt<* tu.hr at* fur a letter, a.i.o a |< * tut‘ Wat it *,-* written aa < <* ihs w#y to #i4t, Th#?i h, t U wht{|wa* atilt rime, iwwtv <| uf |t v t<-rrwf 1 tw-l Ituiirt a *a> , - lit tdy Itm waa f. n>. > #.t im ti- w • * tei lira ti-rit fm <j .- • • GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREKNESBORO. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1886.-EIGHT PAGES. BtUl smoking their pipes under th# broad eaves of their houses. A horri bis dread took hold of me. Wss it possible that he had returned with some force—l knew not what—whirl should drag me away from my refug* and give me np to him ? What wouilc Jean and the villagers do? What eouli. they do against a body of gens d'armes? I heard harried footsteps and joyom voices. A minute or two Sfterwsr* Minima beat against my barricade*! door, and shouted gleefully throng! the keyhole. “Come down, Aunt Nelly," she pried; Monsieur Lauren tie is come home again!” CHAPTER XV. PIEBBE'K BEC BET. I felt as if some strong hand had lifted me ont of a whirl of troubled waters and set me safely upon a rock. I ran down into the saloon, where Mon sienr Lanrentie was seated, as tran quilly ss if he had never been away, in his high-backed armchair, smiling quietly at Minima’s gambols of delight, which ended in her sitting down on a tabouret at his feet. Jean Btood just within the door, his hands behind his back, holding his white cotton cap in them; he had been making his report of tho day’s events. Monsieur held out his hand to me, and I ran to him, caught it in both of mine, bent down tny face upon it, and burst into a pa£ J sion of weeping, in spite of mysolf. “Come, come, madauie!” he said, his own ypice faltering a little, “I am here, fey child; behold me! There is nc place for fear now. lam king in Villo en-bois, Is it not so, my good Joan?’ “Monsieur le Cure, you are emperor,” replied Jean. “If that is the case," he continued, “madame is porfectlv secure In _m> castle. You do not ask me what bring.-- me back again so soon. Bnt I will tel! you, madame. At Noireau the propri etor of the omnibus to Granville told me that an Englishman had gone that morning to visit my little parish. Good! We do not have that honoi every day. I ask him to have tho good ness to tell me the Englishman’s name. It ia written in tho book at the bureau. Monsieur Fosters. I remember thoi name well, very well. That is the name of the husband of my little English daughter. Fostere! I see in a moment it will not do to proceed on my voyage. But I find that my good Jacques has taken on the char-a-bano a leaguo or two beyond Noireau, and 1 am compelled to owait his return. There is the reason that Irctum so late. ” “Oh, monaieurl" I cried, “how good yon aro ” “Pardon, madame,” lie interrupted; “let mo hear the end of Jean's history.” Jean continued his report in his ueunl pblegmatio tone, and concluded with the assurance that he had seen the Engl shman safe ont of the village, and returning by the road he came. “I could have wished,” said tho cure, regretfully, “that we might have shown him some hospitality in Ville-en-bois; but you did what was very good, Jean. Yet we did not encounter any stronger, along the route.” “Not possible, monsieur,” replied lean; “it was four o’clock when he re turned on his steps, and it is now after nine. He would pass the Calvary bo fore six. After that, Monsieur le Cure, he might take any route which pleased him. * “That is true, Jean,” he said, mildly; “you have done well. Yon may go now. Where is Monsieur the Vicaire?" “He sleeps, monsieur, in the guest’s chamber.” “Bien! Good-evening, Jean, and a good-night." “Gooa-niglit, Monsieur le Cure, and all the company,” said Jean. “And you also, my child,” continued Monsieur Lnurentie, when Jean was gone, “you have great need of rest. So has this baby, who is very sleepy.” “1 am not sleepy,” protested Minima, ‘and I am not a baby.” “You are a baby,” said the cure, laughing, “to xnuke such rejoicing over an old papa like mo. But go now, mv children. There is no danger for you. 31eep well, and have pleasant dreams." I slept well, but I had no pleasant dreams, for I did not dream at all. The cure’s return, and his presence under the same roof, gave mo such a sense of rocurity as was favorable to profound, aubroken slumber. When tho chirp ing of the birds awoke me in tho morn ing, I could not at first believe that the events of the day before were not them selves a dream. The bell rang for matins at live o’clock now, to give the laborers the cool of the morning for their work in the fields, after they were over. I could not sleep again, for tho coming hours must be full of suspense and agitation to me. So at tho first toll of tlio deep-toned bell I dressed myself, and went out into the dewy freshness of the day. Matins were ended, and tho villagers were scattered about their farms and households, when I noticed Pierre loit ering stealthily about the presbytery, as if anxious not to be seen. He’made me a sign, as soon as he caught my eye, to follow him out of sight, round tho corner of tho church. It was a myste rious sign, and I obeyed it quicklyl “I know a secrot, madame,” ho said, in a troubled tone and with an appre hensive air—“that monsieur who came yesterday has not loft tho valley. Mv father bade me stay in tho church at my work, but I could not, madame, I could not. Not possible, you know. I wished to see your enemy again. I shall have to confess it to Monsieur le Cnve, and he will give me a peuance, perhaps a very great penance. But it was not possible to rest tranquil, not at all. I followed monsieur your ene my ala Uerobte. Uo did not go far away." “But whore is he, then?" I said, looking down tho street with a thrill of fear. “Madame* s*luip*od Piorre, “ho ia a straugor to this pldcc, nud the poo plo would not roceive him iuto their iiouuoa—-not otto of thorn. My father July said, ‘Ho i an enomy to our dear Eugli'ilt madam*,’ and ul 1 the women turned the hack upon him. I xtole utter him, you know, hehind tho tru a and tho hi-Jgca. ilo marched very ♦lowly. I he a titan very weAiy, down tho road, till be uaiu* in sight of the factory of the late I'meaux. 110 turned aaiilo into the court lliore. I auw him kitu a at tho door j<f tho lu.u**, try to lift the latch, nud p cp through tho window*. Uicut After th.it h i gooa ntu the factory | thorn it a door it em it u,to tit# I.OUH-. ||n iinaai-d through. 1 dared rot follow him, hut lit ua •hurt l.aif huttr 1 kite am ,to riiui nn o tof th* i hiii.tivy, H-nt Th- *m<4 i* 111 r a Tit* I'ngl lttwaa l, .# o* Jourui'd there all lit# i .ylit, * “fh I, I'.crrc “ f rt\i.|, alii-eriur. t in ah the am waa tdieady ahiitiuw ht<tl) “I*.* re, the |.c,i * & hta a iatai tlhi. If ta #- l,. * i „, u g m ■lad. to ’ e ud• 1. M oowur I*, f or* I m k. 4 ft up au4 11om, ht away w** *t t* •*. *w* *•* # • * •**## the boy; “no one in the village would go near the accursed place, but I never thought of that. Perhaps monsieur your enemy will take the fevr end perish. ” “Bun, Pierre, run!" I cried; “Mon sieur Lanrentie is in the sacristy with the strange vicaire. Toll him I' must speak to him this verv moment. There is no time to lie lost!” I dragged myself to the seat under the sycamore tree and hid my face in my hands, while shudder after shudder quivered through me. I seemed to lie watching him again, as he strode wea riedly down the street, loaning with bent shoulders on hia stick, and turned away from every door at which he asked for rest and shelter for the night. Oh I that the time could but come hack again, that I might send Jean to find some safe place for him where ho could sleep! Back to my memory rushed the old days, when he screened mo from the unkindness of my stepmother, and he seemed to lovo me. For the sake of those times, would to God the even ing that was gone, and tho snitry, breathless night, could only come back again! [TO BE COSTDiITEn.I Ths Man With a Glass Eye. [From the Chicago luter-Oeean.] “Speaking of glass eyes,” said an old lawyer, “brings to mind a little incident that occurred in Chicago. Among our young professional men is one whose brilliant black t"7 e 8 would attract atten tion anywhere. He much into so ciety, and is quite a favorite among the ladies because of his eyes One of these beautiful black eyes is glass, but it seems so much the counterpart of the other that not one person in a hundred would detect iti artitlciftlity. Among the iuembfcfs of his profession not onckuows that the young man has only one good eye. “On one occasion lie oscortcd a joung lady to the refreshment tables and en tertained her with pleasant chat in a way that ho thought was making a fa vorable impression. As they were tak ing ice-cream he looked up as she gave utterance to some startling exclamation, and was surprised to see her eyes fixed on him w ith a look of mystified intent ness and horror. She was a well-bred gill, but something so astonished her that she continued to look at him in a way that raised the question of his san ity. A fly had lit square iu the centre of his black glass eye and remained there, he, of, course, unconscious of its presence 'i ho spcctaclo of that eye looking at her with a fly ou it and the owner making no attempt to brush it otT was too much for his companion. His explanation, even, was not quite satisfactory. She had believed so im plicitly in those magnificent eyes that she has since that time regarded him at something of a fraud.” A Rallior Embarrassing Mistake. A sombre-looking wagon, bearing a long and high white box, was driven up to a Fourth avenue residence a few days ago. just as the man and the boy in attendance lifted the box from the wagon and carried it slowly up the steps, two elderly ladies of the kind that fairly dote upon funerals, moved up to the stoop in procession. They gazed at the box. “Samantha,” said one, as she glanced over her spectacles, “I m afraid that your eyesight is getting poor. Y r ou must have missed this death when you hunted through the newspapers this morning." “I’m afraid I must have, Jane.” “1 ooks like a very respectable resi dence, and there'll probably Be plenty of carriages. What’s that name on the loor-platel” “Binks." “Wonder if the corpse was a man or a woman?' “So do L" “Of course we’ll have to bo present!” “To be sure." Just then the boy,after he had dropped his end of tho box in the hallway, walked slowly down the steps, proceeded to the wagon and took out a force-pump to which was a small rubber tube. “Samantha, that’s a stomach pump!” “So’tis, Jane.” “Must ha’ been a case of poisonin’, and there must be more wot’s poisoned. They wouldn’t have any use for a stom ach-pump on a corpse." “Jane, there's a mystery here, and 1 wculd't miss that fuderal for the world.” “Nor I, Samantha. We must know all about it.” .. “Surely. We’ll find out when the ob sequies is to take place.” At this point in the interview the man and the boy came down the steps. “Would you kindly tell us when ths funeral is to take place?” asks Samantha of the boy. “Wot funeral?” “The funeral that that coffin belongs to.” “Wot coffin!” “The one you just carried up th< steps ” Then the boy smiled until he looked ns if his whole head had suddenly bees blown off. "Ah! wot yer givin’ us? Don't vci know a coring fruma bath-tub?” And then Samantha and Jane moved past the reviewing stand of howling hoodlums that had gatherod round and didn’t move an eyelash.— Ne Tori Dir ]>atch. Tho Judge and the Dandbox, The famous English Chief-justice, Lord Ellen borough, wttt on one occasion about to start on circuit, when his wife ex pressed a desire to acco upany him. “ v'ery well,” said he, "bet remember there nre to be no bandboxes tucked under the seat of the carriage, as 1 have too often fo tud when honored before by yoir lady ship's com[ any.” t-ha pr.uiosed to meet his Wishes, and they set out together. They hid not goao ' cry far when tho judg -, stretching out his legs uuder tha rest in frout of him, kicked against one of the flimsy re eptoclcs which be had expressly forbidden. 1 own the window went with a bang, and out went the bandbox iuto the ditch. Tho atariled couci.iiiuu at once pulled up. “Drive ou,” said the Judge, sternly, “sad let tho thing lies who a it is. • Th y rea died tha tttcdxe town m due course, and hit lurdehlp pr e ceded to rube for the court. ♦‘And uew w lter ’s my wig-•where'* my wig;'' ho 4 mtudt'd, when everything rUe bad U'-cu f>>u<><|. ‘Yt wig, my I.oid,*' answered itii so.vant, iruail l"U*ty, "waa ia tha hand let a your lord ship threw out of the window ae weesuta a Ist. g ” The Itlybl Answers, I I vys |mim the tivtl sirtie# eiau ' i 4 ta | know t#. but | got the right (m*w. is t ,*mte.tf th* .pinion,” m •'llh ah w** w-t* tl, It|* #i ill fljfM H it* If I,jf g . *l l ‘± '.'l*. lm *** ’■** '*.**• steel •aa last* i. NITRO-GLYCERINE. I _ _ AN EXPLOSIVE WlilC'H ANN LATHS ITS VICTIMS. : Perils of Transporting the Deadly Stair ia the Oil Regions—Some Fatalities—Carrying Nltro-Gly cerlne by Wagon and Boat. | A Warnn (Penn.) letter t> the New , T< rk Tin'u.i soys; Since the ex pirn ion ; of the Roberts oil well torpedo patent, i which was the only torpedo w th which | oil wells ciuld be legally shot, ani out of the patent on whic h Dr. Roberts made | a fortune of several millions of dollars, | manufactories of iiArotgkyxeclns- have | come into existence in great numbers in the o’l regions, and an • now scattered in anything but reassuring proximity to many towns an villages. One of the most extensive nitro-glycerine factories in the world is licated between Warren an 1 Kin ua. At this factory ihey make 10,000 pounds of the deadly explosive every day, and a sc ne of magazine s are distributed about the country for the st-rage of the stuff, which is ready canned for use in the wells. The wagons in which these cansof nitro-gly cerine are carrie ! to the magazines, and in turn to the w Its that are to be tor pedoed, are made especially for tho pur pose The cans arc fitted in softly up holstered apartments in the wagon body to preveal sudden concussion that the passage over the rough roads of the re gion would otherwi c make liable* at any moment and which might explode a can and annihilate a'.l within sound of it. Under I’ic cans a zinc tray is fitted so that any leakage ?9npot; reach the axles. In the fciuy ilajs of nitro glycerine transportation this precaution was not taken and it was a common occurrence for the acid to leak from the can--, drop on the uxles, aud there become exp!o led, killing tam and driver. Scores of | cr sons wo;c blown to atoms in that way before the vine tray was introduced. Tho Lower Pennsylvania and Ohio oil districts are supplied with nitro glycer ine by means of boats run down the Al legheny and Ohio Rivers. The b ats aro stiletto-shaped c aft, thirty feet in length aud four feet wide. They arc loaded with 10,000 pound* of nitro glycerine each and manued by two men. A col lision between one of these boats and other craft on the river would be fol lowed by horrible consequences and they arc given a wide berth. The men who run the nitro glycerine boats are in structed to tie up wherever night over takes them, and not to run a minute after it gets dark. The men, as may well be imagined, are without fear, and manage their dangerous craft with a nonchalance aud independence that is a source of perpetual terror to the crews of ordinary boats, and to the citizens of towns by which the deadly cargoes are run. “Attending the frightful deaths that so frequently follow the handling of nitro-glvcerinc in the oil regions,” says an old oil operator of the Bradford field, “there is one feature the mysterious na ture of which is startling. It, has puz zled scientific observation and study, and I do not believe to-day that any satis factory explanation can be given of it. This singular feature is the almost com plete annihilation of matter, especially of the human body, which in a majority of cases results from a fatal explosion of this deadly compound. 1 have noticed that in many instances. I had a team ster once in my employ named Henry France. Like all men of his kind in the oil country, there was nothing, cither above, below, or o i the earth that he feared. He was in the habit of carting nitro-glyccrinc to any well where I want ed to use it, and he and his partner, War ren Jack, actually got so reckless in handling the deadly stuff that no help I had would remain at work when they knew Franco and Jack were com ing in with a load of glycerine. These two men were so callous to fear that they used to un load the stuff the tarns as they would a lot of brick, Fran, e standing in the wagon and throwing a can to Jack, who stood some feet away, and Jack catching it and placing it on tho ground in time to cntcli the next one his compan ion tossed him. As it takes a man with a good sot of nerves to even ride in a wagon when he knows there is nitro glycerine under the scat, this manner of handling a compound that the slightest jar frequently explodes,will give an idea of tho sort of nerves those two men had. Ono day in 1880 France was coming in with a load of glycerine, and when he was within a quarter of a mile of the well we heard an explosion No one ever knew how it happened, but it was one of the most complete ca-es of nitro glycer ine annihilation I over saw. We found the usual cellar that a few cans of glycer ine always dig in the ground when it ?;oes off and the usual area of timber elled. Ovor 800 feet off in the woods,to the right of the road, we picked up a wagon tire. We found the tail of one hor-o and the hoof of another. In another part of the woods a man's knee was picked up, and that was all we ever found, ex cept Henry France's greasy <np lying by tho side of a stump nnd his silver watch hanging on the limb of a tree. •‘George Doran was blown to pieces by a nitro glycerine explosion at Red Rock a few years ago. lie was a man that weighed 200 pounds. All that the most thorough search ever recovered of that 200 pounds of iiesh and bone was a part of on * of the poor man’s feat—less than one pound. Charics Berridge, a well-known oil man, was blown up by nitro glycerine one winter in Allegheny County. The ground was covered with newly fatten snow. On oither side was a high* and abrupt hill ouly a few rods apart. I erridge was a very tall man, aud his weight was 180 pouuds. Tho re mains of the |Kior fell >w were soarched for carefully, but loss than fifteen pounds of them could bo found. The most curious part of the case, and one showing how completelv annihilation accompanies an explosion of nitro glycerine, was this: Tho greatest force of tho explosive is always extended upward. However in flnitedmal the atoms to which Berridge’a body m'gtkt have been reduced by this explosion, in falling back upon that >|iot less snow some tmre of thorn must have to n seen, but tha snow remained us spotless as be ore. Resides human bodies, the iron frames of wagons, ad even the pnndar.m* nitro glycerine safes, have teen r moved Trent human visit n by au oiploslun as effectually a* If they had never been formed, uud the my >t*ry of their niter auuibllslion cans t lw it plained," Tie author Ibn of Hutf-ntl Cobi., ato ir pored as "wall pleisel with carp •• rt wr •i* i i|u m it*, i tUli in twd it i cittt|t)< iif i* *•*! § I one •• II I 0 mil ltMtli I< 4d Ilit fr. ** Id Ni tfdMvff*dl*llld t f I l Turk di|* iI IH if mr# fll j #*l llut idMdlff || 0 i !#•■ Lived Statesmen. The longevity of famous statesmen is remarkable. imagine Lord Palmers'on acting vigorously as Prime Minuter of EngLrd when over eighty, governing the great British Knpirc with steady hand and making spec cues three hours long in the House of Commons, and ris ing next day fresh as c man of forty! Think of the venerable Guizot, the French statesman, who at the age of eighty-seven was still writing histories, presiding over teligious conventions, and carrying on lively discussions iu the French Academy. The late Lord Lyndhur-t made able speeche# in the House of Lords when he had passed his nintieth year; and his rival. Lord Brougham, wrote his autobiography, in three goodly vol umes, when he had nearly reached ninety years. The Marquis of Lansdowne, who, as Lord Henry Petty, wss a leading mem ber of the “All the Talents” Cabinet, of which Charles James Fox was the chief, in 1806, w as still an active member of the 1 House of Lords nearly sixty years later, hi l>-83, and died in that year at the age -or'oighty-thr.-e. The Duke of Wellington took part iD public affairs until hia death iu 1852 in his eighty-third year. In former generations energetic States men of advanced years were Aound thickly scattered through the pages of history. There war the old Marquis of Winchester, who could remember Ed ward IV'., the first York sovereign, in 1483, and who, when he died in 1572 at the age of ninety-seven, w.:s holding of fice under Queen Elizabeth. ll<?frring to the Statesmen of our own country, it is a familiar fact that John Ada ns and Thomas Jefferson, the second a n d t ird President, both died the 4th of July, 1820. just half a ceu ury from the day on which both signed the Uc cla atlon of Independence—Adams being 91 and Jefferson 93. President Andrew Jacks in lived to be B’, John Quincy Adams to be 81, and Madison 85. — Youth'* Companion. Tlie Hawaiian’s Poi. But what is it? tome of our readers may inquire. Briefly, it is the Hawaiian’s staff of life. Without po a Hawaiian would not find life wovth living. Give him psi. and, with an occasional allow ance of raw fish as a desert, no mutter what may happ nhe is happy. He will take it three times a day, aud oftener if he can get it, and every day in the year, and always with equal if not increased relish. Roi is made from the root of the kalo or arum esculentum. The root, which is about the size and shape of a large beet, is baked in an underground oven and then pounded in a hollow stone or board and mixed with water until it has the con-istency of printers’ paste. It is next laid aside for a few days and al lowed to ferment. When ready for use it has a slight sour taste and a pink or lilac oolor. The taste is not unlike that of sour bookbinders’ paste, and is any thing uut palatab e wnen one first essays to make a meal of it. But a liking for th as for anything else, is easily acquired. Eating poi according to the nativo sjshion is quite an art, and requires con siderable manual, or rather, digital dex terity. The index finger, or this and the second finger together, are dipped into the pasty mess when it is quickly and deftly twirled around them and then elevated above the month and allowed to trickle down the throat in a way that simply astonishes any oils but a born Kanaka. — Sacramento New. Tenement-Houses in New York. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Record writes: “Forty years ago there were not a score of foreignora living in the Tenth Ward, where now not more than a score of Americans of the old stock can be found. It was then the abode mainly of mechanics connected with the shipbuilding trade, but now it is largely inhabited by Hungarian, Polish and Bohemian Jews. It is, in fact, the great Hebrew centre of population. Its 1,077 tenements contain 10,740 families, and its 110 acres show 47,554 inhabitants, or 432 people to the acre. North of it lies the Eleventh Ward, with 190 acres and 78,778 inhabitants, being an average of 350 to the acre. To the south extends the famous Sixth Ward, infamous for its slums, with eighty-six acres only and 20,1 6 inhabitants. But this is scarcely a fair showing, for half the area of the once ‘bloody rixth’ is now devoted to warehouses Ana business structures, and its apparent average of 234 people to the acre should really be made 408. In point of fact, its tenements are more thickly populated, viler and more dangerous to public morals and health than any other in the city. There is no heathenism ;o degraded as that which reigns in this district; no violation of a 1 sanitary science so terrible; no more monstrous distortions of humanity, male and fe male, than cau be found here at any door on any day. It is a grand field for mis sionary work, but wholly neglected.” The Choctaw Nation. The Choctaw is a flue sounding ton<rue declared by Walter Lowry,once a United States Senator and fully capable of judg ing, as being the finest language in the world for oratory. It is easy to learn enough of it for trad ug purposes, but to learn it thoroughly is very difficult. It has more words than most Indian tonguer, the lexicon containing about 10,000. The Choctaws for over fifty years have had publications in their lan guage they use the Homan alphabet,with some modifications. There arc twenty two loiters. They have a regulur repre sentative form of government and havo had for many years. Their principal chief is Edmund McCurtaiu. This olfi ctal is elected every two years. Thomas McKinney has recently been elected his successor. The Choctaw capital is Tush knhomni-i. They hare a general council, consisting of a senate and house of rep resentatives. and have county, district and supreme courts. Tho Choctaw na tion had tha prohibitory law thirty years b fore Maine, and it was in thuir consti tution thirty years beforo Knua <a bad it. It is enforced fairly well, part cularly as the I nited status intercourse laws pro hibit the intro tu-tiou of intoxicating lii|Unra into tho territory. Aa to thu general law* of the nation, tb*v are not as woll enforced a> they might be. Whipping l* a favorite punishment.— Indinnupoii* Juurual, Chines* Taper. (I waf t|i end *f tho first cm tury of our era that a grt mandarin of tlta pniare, • dUtlai|Ube4 pltyaicUa, ihs over#d th* ac. rat of nukiug * vu y fine pt-tu with ih lutrlt of several trees and u 4 •ilk stuif*. hr bdlinj them In ws or, lit made vf h till* pat* dilfsr ct t kiuda ot |M|wra. Tn-day the thi > wlmh l* the ntm < gh* t to tiaiutr In t Mo* 1* msnniatiurvd sitb dtut re ntt> irritl* ‘I he) to iktt tl of b mp, f mul> Ur>|i boll, olth lltd of ihs i ,iio t irrs sit wiriti *th r I'D*-, pri’ti' sltii| th* tt.s It* I . ><l t| ’ *4l I S 'll *| w, Slid, Iff, of th* IU • -bin sid bl* iuuod I, the § *<• *tt of b. ua*. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. LOSE NO TIME! 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