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MABEL ELLIOTT
THE
Baiter’s Danglitir.
By GENF.VIETB ULMA R,
Acthor of "A Weird Wedding Kight,’’ “T>
Love of Her Life,” “The Stolen Bride
groom,” “Crnel a* the Grave,”
“Her Wedding Night,’’
Etc., Etc, Etc.
CFrom tire Chicago Ledger.!
CHAPItR Xl.— CosriNTttl.
High spirits, loving emotions, beaut’
heroism, wealth, arid laudable ambio.cn—
ail the-e elements were present"! that houi
on the ib-ck of the steamer, as Giulio list
ened to the happy talk of the beautiful
girl Ht his side.
The blissful hours stole U’ft&V, the pas-
Bengens promenaded the deck or sat view
ing the lovely scene about them, until
morning's first dawn showed the distant
vitjr >o near that no thought of sleep en
tered their minds.
And hour by hour the two hearts sc
strangely met felt the companionship of the
time enchain their souls in deep mutual
interest
An -w life had opened to both. Giulio,
on the threshold of a destiny of honorable
business success, was amazed to see how
a newly awakened love eclipsed all its for
mer allurements.
“I lovo her.' I love her!" he mnrrrtired,
passionately, as at last her fatbeS led her to
the cabin. "The pressure of her hand
thrills me yet, the Ineuiorv of her glance
will never depart. It is folly, treacherv,
to encourage the emotion—she the bank
er’s daughter, I the dependent outcast—
and yet I love her! I love her!"
in blissful re’.Trie he paced the deck,
dreaming of the future in which, under
the inspiration of anew impulse fo# etie
cess. Ire would win a name And position
that would level the social barriers that at
present seemed to exist between himself
and the object of his love.
The future grew bright as he wove his
fancies into the resemblance of practical
reality. Its attainment, noble, self-sacri*
li' ing, honorable, seemed so m>ar, so cer
tain, that love began to hope, and intensify,
and embolden.
"A dead sister's memory," he murmilred
—“dear little Teresa!—the lovePf this inno
cent girl!—oh, what incentives to become a
man among men, to strive for only that
which is noble and earnest!”
Life seemed, indeed, all before him. Its
path showed no pitfalls or dark byways.
He could not discern its dawning "dark
ness; be could not know the evil that
menaced him, even on the very threshold
of anew existence.
Its presence was tangibly manifested, al
though he did not observe it, as a dark,
minister face glared malignantly vpf.h him
from a portion of the deck near by where
he sat, lost in rapturous reverie.
Ihe face was that of i ance, the men
whose path he had crossed, whosb enmity
he was yet to learn to Tear and areaa.
A rival, a foe to my every plan!” hissed
the watcher, wildly. " She evades me, but
1 saw her thrill at his lightest word. A
protege ot the banker, her lover, he will
bailie my every scheme. AN ho is he? what
the mystery of his adoption by Elliotti
That, I will learn, and then, Giulio Elliott,
if. as I suspect, you aspire to the band ol
M .be! Elliott, have a care for yourself. Be
ware! ”
CHAPTER XIL
AT THE MANSION.
It was Air. Elliott who spoke the nami
as h ' (iked into the drawing-rooms of the
eb iat mansion ho cail.xl home, the after
nooa ot the day following that upon which
his young protege and Mabel had so
strangely met
Into that home, and all its comforts and
privileges, Giulio had been introduced as
a member of the happy little family circle
most valued and beloved Whatever place
in the household and the bank Mr. Elliott
had designated for him, his hist act ol
heroic devotion had caused the hanker to
regard him and treat him almost as a son,
and tie found himself most pleasantly lo
cated aud regarded with a Welcome that was
deep and genuine,
Atabel had been invisible the day of theii
return, but the ensuing morning at the
breakfast table she smiled brightly at Giu
lio us she remarked:
“Dissipation at the summer resort, end
ing with a tragic denouement and a cold
bath, made me a miserable being all dav
yesterday. But to-day, papa, you will hear
my latest sonata, and look over my crayon
sketches with Air. Elliott?”
Mr. Elliott shrugged his shoulders archly.
"The world cannot pause to admire your
Kchool-gul accomplishmeats, young Aliss.”
he said playfully. "Giulio will act as my
deputy to-day, for I must away to busi
ness.”
Mabel pouted prettily, but a covert flush
ut the mention of Giulio’s name told that
she was more than delighted with her fath
er's arrangement.
“Always busiuess, papa,” she mur
mured. "You told me before we went
away that anew mauager was to take all
Ihe cares of the bank off your tired shoul
ders.”
“So he has, or, rather, will, as soon as I
have adjusted some old and complicated
matters. The steady, uniform business of
twenty years cannot be disarranged and
tranferred to new hands without som >
trouble; Giulio, 1 leave you to be amused
for the day with Mabel s music and
art- ”
Amused!” cried Mabel, in mock indig
nation.
Instructed or entertained, then, as you
will, amended the banker. “When I re
turn we will discuss business affairs in the
library, and to-morrow, if you like, you
shall begin your career at the bank. ”
AN hat a day that was after the banker’s
departure! In Alabel's happy company the
hours seemed drifted by ou golden wings
her sweet voice thrilling the precious mo
ments with all the ecstasy ad delight of
youthful vivacity and loveliness.
She sang and played for Giulio, she
showed him her drawings and paintings, she !
chatted shyly, yet coutidiugiy, with him,
uutil the bewitched young man knew no
influence in life to sw iy or direct him ex
cept the imperative command of her smil
ing lips.
I bus it was, seated at a portfolio ot
drawings. Mabel s golden tresses dauger
ousiy near the happy face of her compan
ion, that the banker found them on his
return.
He startled hi- protege back to the real
ities ot lire as Ire sp >ke his name.
A\ ith careless badinage against Mabel's
pouting demur at be ng deprived of hei
cavalier, Mr. Elliott indicated that hs
wished to hold a brief business conference
with Giulio in the library.
He motioned his companion to a seat,
and closed tne door to shut out intruders
as they reached the apartment.
The banker’s face was serious and ear
nest as ho addressed Ginlio:
“Yon kn.'W thit it has always been my
intention to have you enter business life at
the bank when you had completed vour
collegiate coarse," he said.
f Giu':o heaved oseemingly.
1 know of no better opening to a busy,
honorable career than that I can offer you
at the b-.uk," resumed Mr. Elliott. "I be
gan under my father’s direction a quarter
of a ceuturv -duce, and the house bears a
name as so ld and la spectrd as its gold and
.credit I have found my health failing,
although comparatively a young man. from
too do e application to business, and*in
tend to retire actively from the managem- n*
of the bank.”
THE MONROE ABVE&TISER: FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY. JULY 20. 1887. —EIGHT PAGES.
umtio lookhd somewhat surprised at this
statement
"It is desirable to me, therefore,” pur
sued the banker, “that I have some trust*
Worthy representative of my interests at
the institution It has peep the dream of
my life, these lateV Vears, to see you au
honore-i, pnj-perous business maa. I wish
yfiu to enter the bank at once, to familiar
ize yourself with its details, to study its
management, and to become in timi my
virtual successor.”
“Oh, Mr. Elliott, what shall I say to all
this kindness?”
Gin'.io's voice broke as he realized th?
consideration and generosity of fhe man
who had been to him A protector and pa
tron, ajmo't a lather.
The bauker s reply was to grasp
hand warmly.
“Only try not to disappoint me, to ad
here ever to the record of honesty and sta
bility of the honored hottse ot Elliott A
Cos., and to be true to yourself arid your
fellow man. I have counted so on all this,
that it would almost kill me to find my
hopes ruined by any error on yottr part4f
“Twill not disappoint v4ii, Air. Elliott. ”
affirmed Giulio earnestly. “If I am ever
tempted to forget your kin Iness, or neg
lect my duty, a memory of the past wilt re
call me to myself.”
“I will go to th*> bfm'k with you to-mor
roW, then, said Air. Elliott, “and introduce
you to your associates. Mr. A’auce has left
he city for a few days, but upon his return
we will have a talk with him.”
“Mr. Vance!” repeated Giulio, in some
surprise.
“Yes. Oh, I forgot that I had not made
you aware of his connection With the bank.
For s’CmY y’ears he has represented as trus
tee quite a large interest in the institutio i.
When I decided to retire from active con
trol of the bank, tho directors suggested
that be be given the management. The
substantial wealth he could bring to it;
doors and his experience aB a financier
seemed to make him the man for the po
sition, and you will act under his direc
tions.” ,
There was the faintest quiver of dlslilte
and disappointment In Giulio's face as the
banker eprtlle.
The latter seemed to read it carelessly,
but spoke no further on the subject, little
attribut ug the look to a keen heart-pang on
the part of Ginlio, as the latter felt ah
emotion of As lie thought of
Mabel;
“Oh, I nearly forgot," said Air. Elliott, as
they were about to leave the library, their
conference ended. “Your friend, Mr.
Alarcy, of whom you spoke to me. I have
recommended him to tne bookkeeper, and
he will try and find him some work in his
department,”
are too kind to myself find
friends, ” murmured Girdl'd as they left the
apartment together to regain Mabel in the
drawing-room.
His dreams that night were res tie-s ones.
Strangely mingled in their meaning, there
floated the lovely face of Mabel, her smileS
and laughter keeping time to the noisv
jangle of the golden con of the bunk, one
sinister presence only darkening thfi fanci
ful picture—the b.ailntittg, shadowifig face
of Vahcfi.
The ensuing morning Giiiljo ivafi initi
ated into his duties at the batik.
He found its employes a genial but busy
set of men, who possessed much of Air.
Elliott’s quiet, systematic business (tatte,
and vas gratified to obsjeri’e that his friend
Howard Marcy dediipied a desk beside the
bookkeeper.
The novelty of the place soon wore off,
and Giulio was surprised to find how rap
idly he became interested in the hard, ac
tive facts of banking.
It was about noon when he had occasion
to speak to Marcy,
A spirit bf energy and ambition
seeniea infused into the college clork amid
new and congenial influences, and although
there was a lurking anxiety in liis face ever
present, it was less marked than when
Cecil had last seen him.
“How shall I thank you for interesting
yourself in my behalf?” he spoke gratefully
to Giulio.
“I gUess yob will efirn your niofiey wher
ever ybu work, ” was Giuiio’s light i-'epiy, fis
he glanced at the neat Writing at Which
Marcy was engaged, ‘AVhen Air. A'ance re
turns, I fim going to tell him how expert
you are at figures, and you will soofi Win
your way here.”
Giulio was startled at the effect of that
name upon his friend.
Marcy started violently, and caught him
agitatedly by the arm.
“Mr. Vance! did you say?” he cried
sharply.
“Y’es, ”
"He is connected with the bfink—he ifi td
be here?”
“He has succeeded Air. Elliott in the
management. YVhy, Alarcy, how strangely
you act!”
Howard Alarcy had turned frightfully
(pale k
“Is it—is it the same man we saw with the
girl you rescued at the nvt-r? ’ asset!
Maroy, disregarding his friend’s query,
ind staring fixedly at his ama/.ed face.
“Yes, the same.”
A hunted, frightened look came into
Marcy's eyes. In their expression, for a
moment, the bewildered Giulio imagined
he traced dread, uncertainty, hatred and
fear.
It was only a flash, then it was gone. A
forced smile partially dispelled the sickly
pador of Marcy's face.
“It is nothing, Elliott,” ho said, with an
effort. “That name revives memories that
are not the pleasantest in the world. Don't
look so mournful. You ought to be used
to my moods by this time.”
•nilio’s ingenious nature accepted Alar
expianatiou as sincere.
“Poor fellow!” he murmured pityingly
as he left Alarcy. “If he would only let me
hear his dark secrets of the past, I flight
make the present more happy for him. ”
If he could only have seen Howard Alar
cy's face at that moment!
The under-clerk had resumed his seat at
his desk. Crouched there, one single
6pasm of suffering and emotion convulsed
his whole frame.
With pallid face and wild, hunted eyes
he sat gazing blankly at the dasring,
blurred page of figures before him.
A moan of anguish, rent his lips rs a pic
ture of dread and pert, “eemed to fill his
tornrented vision.
“It has come again!” he moaned wildly.
“At the threshold of anew life of honesty,
and struggle, and hopefulness, fate links
me to that demon of the past -Vance!”
CHAPTER XIII.
HUNTED DOWN.
It was two days later when Air. Yance re
turned to the city, and it was at the Elliott
mansion that Giulio first saw him.
The evenings had become a source of
such pleasure and comfort to the banker,
that he greeted the announcement of the
servant that Air. Y r ance awaited him in the
library with almost a frown.
The picture of his beautiful Mabel, and
the handsome, manly Giulio at the piano,
engaged in reading, or entertaining him
with interesting conversation, had cast a
rare peace over his soul, an 1 a recall to
business cares and business associations
rudely and unpleasantly disturbed him.
It was half an hour later wnen he re
entered the drawing-room accompanied by
his visitor, in whom Ginlio recognized
the unskillful boatman of the river, whose
recklessness had almost led to the drown
ing of Mabel Elliott
The latter bestowed a silent nod upon her
father's business partner. Giulio, watching
his face intently, imagined that A ance s eyes
flashed with latent chagrin at the careless
welcome. He was sure that they hid a
rancorous, malevolent dislike as he ac
knowledged Air. Elliott’s introduction to
himself.
“I do not like the man. A secret voice
seems telling me to beware of him,”
Giulio’s mind 6eemed to say.
There was a manifest constraint on all
parties present daring the entire time of
Vance's slay, and Ginlio felt relieved
when, after the exchange of a few formal
courtesies, he retired.
The episode of the riwer, much to his
pauncation, had not been alluded to, but
no uuaginea warn tne moaeace oi mat oc
currence was felt by both Mabel and
Vanoe.
“He loves her, be is jealous of thy intere
position in her hehalf, even though it saved
aer from death. ’ murmured Giulio. “Does
she care for him in return—does Air. Ell
iott favor Vance's addresses?"
Giulio's thoughts and anxieties were in
terrupted by the return of Air. Elliott, who
had accompanied his guest as far as the
door.
“I find I shall have to go a wav for a week
or two to the East, ” bfi r*?nia?kfid.
lifibel looked surprised and concerned.
“Just as we were settling down to inch
happy times." she murmured.
“The business of the bank demands it,”
said Air. Elliott. “I shall not go until next
week, however, so it will not interfere with
four intended reception, my dear."
He referred to an event for which Alabet
had beefl preparing for some time, and
over this she was considerably occupied for
the last fe\V days.
At the bafik, A'ance treated Ginlio with
the utmost courtesy and consideration,
and as he did not again call at the house’
Ginlio'began to regard him more favor
ably.
, He had witnessed the first meeting be
tween Yance and Maroy at the bank°with
some cariosity and interest, but he was dis
appointed in observing that Yance did not
apparently recognize the book-keeper’s
new assistant.
A reason for this he soon fonml in Afar
cv’s changed appearance. The latter had
shaved, off his beard, and wore a pair of
fiol'dred spbcticiefe;
“He is seeking tb disguise himself, but
tohy should he do so? AN'hat i 8 the mystery
of these two mea?” Giulio asked himself
perplexedly.
[TO BE CONTINUED. J
A Lucky Army Mule.
There lives in this country—to be more
particular fit Mbunt Vernon; Ala.—fi
unique animal. This distinguished
creature is a mule, it might be supposed
that its uniqueness lies in its kicking, but
this is not the case. It is unique because
it has been regularly pensioned bv the
United Stfitfis Government. This lucky
mule’s name is Mexique. He has had a
long and useful career. He has certainly
served his country in two wars, and it is
believed that he enlisted in the army
even as early as the war of 1812. AVhen
application was made for a pension for
Mexique, his recdVd was transmitted to
the War Department; th<? fact being Ob
tained from tile special books in .whlcli
the careers of army horses and mules are
recorded. Alexique is now a white mule,
but he was a sorrel when, according to
the records, he entered the service during
the Mexican war. A part of the army
when on its homeward march in 1849 left
him at Tampa, Florida.
When the civil War broke out he was
still at Tampa, and during the war he
served throughout the region, between
that place and Key AVcst. In iBB’2 the
post at Tampa was abandoned, find Mex
ique about Christmas time arrived with
Bdttery L. Third at the bar
racks, ATount. VOrnou, Ala. He was ndi
in good condition, for shortly before
leaving Tampa, he got a severe kicking
from a mare for attacking her colt.
THE l'E stONED mILr.
Soon afterward the officer in command
at Mount Vernon barracks was ordered
to sell all mncrviecable draught animals
at auction. This would have included
Mexique. In consideration of the dis
tinguished services of this mule the com
mandant petitioned the Quartermaster-
General that Alexiqiic tie allowed to re
main in the service, toitlt filli rank and
pay, as the officers of the post were will
ing to raise a fund for that purpose.
The petition, going up through various
departments, reached General Sherman,
who, in referring the matter to the AVar
Department, wrote:
“I have seen that mule, and whether
the story be true or false, o&j soldier* be
lieve it was left at Big Soring, where
Mount Vernon barracks now are, at the
time General Jackson encamped there
about 1819 to 1820. Tradition says it
was once a sorrel, but now it is white
from age. The Quartermaster's Depart
ment will be chargeable with ingratitude
if that mule is sold, or the care or main
tenance of it thrown on the charitable
officers of the post. I advise that it be
kept in the department, fed and miin
tained till death. I think the mule was
at Fort Alorgau when I was there in
1842.”
this the Secretary of War issued
tre.. lowing order:
“Let this mule be well cared for as
long as he lives.”
Mexique is now feeble. According to
General Sherman he is nearly seventy
years old. He has never recovered from
the mare’s kick. He has the liberty of
the reservation and many distinguished
strangers have called on him. He is a
very lucky mule.— New York Sun.
The Picture of Impudence.
Jilt VH*
“M’s*, may I dare invite myself to be*
come your escort ?”
“Thanks, I await my friend.”
“Permit me then, gracious lady, to
help you wait.”— Fiiegende Blotter.
The National Bureau of Statistics
ihows that on the 8700,000,000 which
annually passes into the tills of the re
tailers of intoxicating liquors in this
xxmtry, there is a profit of 133 J per
sent. If poor people had to pay such a
tax as that on bread there would be a
rebellion. But when a man tosses off a
rlass of whisky and pays 5 cents for the
irink and 7 or 8 oents to the barkeeper
lor the trouble of handing it to hkn, he
yenerally thinks the barkeeper an
awfully uood fellow
WAKS VICTIMS.
WHAT THE CIVIL WAR tosT IN
HUMAN LIVES.
The Most Deadly Ever AVaued —The
known and Unknown Dead !h
Seventy-Three Cemeteries—
A Comparison In Losses.
Official returns Glow that about 2,653,-
000 Federal soldiers enlisted during the
war in response to the successive calls of
President Lincoln, and that of this num
ber 186.007 were colored troops.
Report# show that the Northern and
Southern Armies filet ifi over 2,000
skirmishes ami barth's. In l 4 of these
cofiflirtg the less <m the Federal side was
Bvfcr 500 men, find in at least fcp battles
over 10.000 men were repotted Ifi’st on
efieh side. The appended table shows
thajt thb cdmbinfcd losses of the Federal
ahdConfederate fokt silt killed.'wounded,
and missing in the following engagements
were:
Shiloh, 24.000; Antietam, 18,000; Stone
River, 22,000; Chick, -imatigH, 33,000;
Alc( lcllan’s Peninsula campaign, 50,000;
Grant’s Peninsula campaign, 140,000;
and Sherman’s campaign, mo,ooo.
Official statistic* show that of the 2.-
603:000 men enlisted, there were killed
1H battle 4l;'i3fl; died of wounds, 49,*
2ds;diedof disease, 186,216; died of
unknown Causes, 24; 184: totfil 303,843.
This itieltidi § dnR tho§e whose death
rVhile jfi ilife afrny hall lieer! dcfually
proved. To this number should be
added first, 26,000 men who are known
to have died while in the hands of the
enemy as prisoners of war, and many
others in the same manner whose deaths
are liniecdi-ffed ; second* ,a fair percent
ane of the 205,794 men who ar£ tfitt down
on the official reports as deserters ahd
missing in action, for those who partici
pated in the war know that men fre
quently disappear who, it was certain,
had not deserted, yet could not be other
wise officially accounted forj.third, thou
sands who are buried in private. Ceme
teries all over the North who died while
at home on furlough.
The nation’s dead are buried in seventy
three National cemeteries, of which
twelve are in the Northern States.
Among the principal ones in the North,
file: ~
Cypress Hill, with 3;7Bfi d&ad; Finn’s
Point, N. J., which contains th'e remains of
2,644 unknown dead; Gettysburg, Pn.; ?vith
its 1,90“ known and 1,008 unknown dead:
Mound City, 111., with 2,505 known and 2,721
unknown graves: Philadelphia, with 1,909
dead; and \\ o xllawn, Elmira, N. Y., with its
3,900 deal.
In the South, tiefll 1 the scenes of ter
rible conflicts, life located the largest de
positories of the Nation’s heroic dead:
Arjingfffd; Ya.j iii.2o4; Of wliioll 4,319 are
uiikiidwll; BCaufOrt; S- Cq 9;24b of Which
4,493 afO Unknown; Gliftltticttecv Jiq 12.-511,
Hi which 5,074 are unknown; Chatb>nM?ga,
Tenn, . 12,902; Of Which 4,963 are ugku6'rti;
Fredt'rii kshurg, Ya., 15.257, of which 12,770
are unkno vit; JCfferebt? Barracks; Mo., 11,-
490 of which 2,900 are unkiiowu * Little Rock,
Ark., 5,002,0f which 2,337 are unkno'Vtri; City
Point,Ya.. 5,122,0f which 1,374 are unknown;
Marietta, Ga., 10,151, of which 2,903 are un
known; Memphis, Tenn., 13,997, of which 8,-
817 are unknown; Nashville, Tenn., 16,526, of
which 4.700 are unknown; Poplar Grove,Va.,
0,190, of Which 1.001 are unknown; Rieh
tndnd,'Y T d.-j 0,512,0f which 5,700 are unknown;
Salisbury; N.. C , .12,126, Of Which 12,032 are
unknowfl; Stone RiCer, TfirinL, Which
288 are unknown; YJclrebifrg; Aliss,-,- 16,fK)(),0f:
which 12,704 are unknown; Adtieffei!; Va.,
4,701, of which 1,818 are unknown; Wifi “bet
ter, Va., 4,559, of which 2,305 are unknown.
In nil the remains of 300,000 men who
fought for the Stars and Stripes find
giiafded graves in our National ceme
teries; Twft cemeteries are mainly de
voted to filed who perished in
the prisons Of thesdme name—Andersoil-
Ville; Ga.,- which Contains 13.-714 graves,
ahd Salisbury, with its 12,136 dead, of
Nvhbm 12;032 are unknow n.-
Of the vast number who are interred in
our National cemeteries 275;000 sleep be
neath the soil of the Southern States, and
145,000 of these rest in graves marked
unknown.
The total Confederate loss will never
be known, but the best estimates place it
fit about 220,000 men out of 1,000,000
talen wild served ill the Southern armies.
The total dumber of men furnished to
the Federal arniy by the United States
during the war under a'.i calls was 2,083,-
523. The total number of colored’tf'OOps
in the Northern army was 123,150. The
heaviest loss by disease was suffered by
the colored troops; while but 2,997 died
in action and of wounds, the enormously
large number of 20,301 died of disease.
Among the white troops the proportion
of deaths in action and from w ounds to
the deaths from disease was about as one
to two; among the colored troops as one
to eight. Of the colored troops enlisted
one out of every seven died of disease.
The proportion among the white troops
was one to fifteen.
Now that we are brushing up these fig
ures it will be well enough to remember
how many men were furnished by each
State, and the following list will show: -
Maine 71,715 Ohio 317,133
N. Hampshire. 34,715 Indiana 195,14 i
Yerrnon’ 55,250 Illinois 258,217
Massachusetts. 151,785 Alic-liigan 90,119
Rhode Island.. 24,711 Wisconsin.... 96,118
Connecticut.... 52,270 Minnesota.. .. 25,024
New York... .455,568 lowa 75,5r,:i
New Jersey... 79,511 Alissouri 108,178
Pennsylvania..36o,32o Kentucky 78,540
Delaware 13,051 Kansas 20,097
Alaryland 4:1,510
West Virginia. 30,003 Total 2,653,002
D. of Colum’ia. 10,872
Waterloo was one of the most desperate
and bloody fields chronicled in European
history, and yet AYellington's casualties
were less than 12 per cent., his losses
being 2,432 killed and 9,580 wounded
out of over 75,000 men, while at Shiloh
one side lost in killed and wounded 9,740
out of 34,000, while their opponents re
port their killed and wounded at 9,616,
making the casualties about 30 per cent.
At the great battle of YVagram Napoleon
lost but about 5 per cent. At Wurzburg
the French lost but per cent., and yet
the army gave up the field and retreated
to the Rhine. At Kacour, Marshal Saxe
lost but 24 per cent. At Zurich, Alassena
lost but 8 per cent. At Lagriz, Frederick
lost but 6£ per cent. At Alalplaquet,
Marlborough lost but 10 percent., and at
Ramillies the same intrepid commander
lost but 6 p--r rcnC At Contois, Henry
of Na ;.: : was reported as cut to pieces,
yet h.s loss was less than 10 per cent.
At Lodi, Napoleon lost 1} per cent. At
Valmv, Frederick AVilliam lost but 3 per
cent, and at the great battles of Marenog
and Austerlitz, sanguinary as they were,
Napoleon lost an average of less than 144
per cent. At Magenta and Solferino, in
1859, the average loss of both armies was
less than 9 per cent. At Konigrath,
in 1806, it was 6 per cent. At AVerth,
Spechcran, Alars le Tour, Gravelotte and
Sedan, in 1870, the average loss was
12 per cent.
At Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chicka
mauga. Atlanta, Gettysburg, Mission
Ridge, the AVilderness, and Spottsylva
nia, the loss frequently reached, and
sometimes exceeded, 40 per cent., and
the averaire of killed and wounded on
one ~ide or the other was over 30 per
cent.
Of the gentlemen who were at AVest
Point during one period of cadetship,
fifty-six were killed in battle, and esti-
mating the rate of killed and wounded at
one to five, 280 were wounded.
From (he discovery nf America to 1861
in all the wars with oltef flatifine the
record give* the deaths in battle of but
ten American Generals, while from 1801
to 1865, both sides Iking opposed by
Americans, more than lOOGenertfl
fell while leading their triumphant col
umns. From 1492 to 1861 the killed and
wounded upon American soil in all bat
tles, combats, and skirmishes, added to
gether, as shown by reports, hardly ex
ceeded the C'tsilafficS of single battles of
the great American cbtifliCf.- G’emmer
cial- Gazette.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Those who are never weary can never
know how sweet rest is.
If we were never tried our true charac
ters never would be known.
Dfi jctut duty in little thing* and you
will be faithful in great ones.
Improvement in the daughters will best
aid in the reformation of the sons in this
A&C.
Silent sympathy is to troubled hearts
what the soft spring rain to the frozen
earth.
The true value of a good home is too
often only realized when it is broken up
and gone.
Be courteous to all. but intimate with
few; and let those few be well tried, be
fore you give them your confidence.
Reveflge i§ a debt, in the paying of
which the greatest knave is honest and
sificere; and, so far as he is able, punctual.
Go od bleedirig is benevolence in
trifles, or the preference of others to
ourselves in the little Occurrences of
life.
Books are among man’s truest con
solers. In the hour of affliction, trouble
or ,?orrOw f he can turn to them with con
fidence ana trust.
Why does the new moon bear the form
and the name of a sickle? It is because
it mows down our joys and our sorrows
as it moves onwards.
Tbe best thing to give to your enemy
is fofgivfe'ncos; to your opponent, toler
ance; to a lVififid, your heart; to your
self. respect; to all men, charity.
We get gradually accustomed to men
tal as well as bodily pain, losing our in
sensibility to it; it becomes a habit of
our lives, and we cease to imagine a con
dition of perfect ease as possible to us.
iitfgs nf Constantinople.
A description tff Uonstantrnople would
be very incomplete that passed over its
dogs in silence. They are poo# creatures,
with reddish hair, pointed eafsv thin
flanks, medium sized, and wild, in that
they never attach themselves to man; but
they are, however, gentle and inoffen
sive. They belong to the wolf-dog spe
cies,. and change their color twice a year.
Always living outdoors and sleeping
under the open sky, they receive from
nature, their master, a summer garb and
a winter garb. The first consists of a
light efiat of hair, which is very thin and
of a dirty fellow color; the second is
thick, more silky, find of a dark gray
color. AVhile they are’ shedding their
coats, which occurs in spring and au
tumn, their hair falls off in matted locks.
This leaves their skin bare in places',
making broad black spots, which arc re
pulsive.
They never get into a house, and never
allow themselves to be drawn to one by
either caressed or kind words; not even
by tid-bits, which they eat, nevertheless,
with avidity, when tlirinvn to them on
the street. They sleep a good deal, es
pecially in times of scarcity, which for
them is the normal condition of things.
Lying down all curled up on the side
walks of on the rough pavements, they
do not allow themselves to lie disturbed
by threats or noise, or by the crowd; tliej
get up only when they sec a toe that is
going to strike them, or a carriage that
is going to run over their bodies. In
these cases, they move away slowly and
lie down a little farther away.
The Turks never injure them,and, Iv-J
as they are, condesccned to turn to one
side a little in order not to disturb them.
The Armenians, Bulgarians and AVester/i
--ers have a good deal of sympathy for
them, never maltreat them, and often
throw them food. The Porotes and
Greeks like to stone them to death, crush
their bodies and stab them with sharp
sticks. The poor creatures utter cries so
prolonged and dismal that they pierce
one’s heart as well as ears.
The dogs of Constantinople and its
outskirts, which form a population of
more than a hundred thousand, appear to
divide the streets of the city amongthem
selvcs. The hairy occupants of one
quarter never allow those of another to
enter their domain. AVhen a dog driven
by hunger or thirst, attempts to pass the
limits of its street to seek its fortunes
elsewhere, it is repelled by a concert of
howls, accompanied by a good deal of
biting. All the dogs of one quarter are
united for the defense of that quarter.
At the first howl announcing an invader,
they all run, and often they let the unfort
unate alone only after they have killed
it.
The food of roving dogs, when they
find any, is not, we may believe, either
varied or dainty; it is the waste scraps
from cooking, constituting choice hut
rare food for them; it consists especially
lof filthy things of all kinds, among
I -which figure- most prominently the ex
| crement of passing horses, camels and
cattle.— Cosmopolitan.
Four Bears at One Shot.
Air. McNeil, a farmer of Randolph
County, carries the palm of being the
most successful bear-hunter in West Vir
ginia, and the only man who ever killed
four bears at one shot. This feat was ac
tually performed not long ago by McNeil,
who tells the story in the following words:
“My two horses—a mare with her colt—
and my riding horse were left one morn
ing in my pasture,which lies in a narrow
valley between high hills. Early the next
morning the colt came running frantical
ly down the path leading to the house. I
knew something had frightened him,and
taking mv double - barreled shotgun,
which was’loaded with heavy charges of
buckshot, I started for the field. Just as
I got to the fence, about one-third of the
length of the field, I heard fierc e growl
ing and snarling. I peered through be-
I tween the rails. About thirty yards dis
tant, through the rising fog, I saw what
I thought a couple of bears rending the
old mare to pieces. Taking as good aim
as I could at the anima’s, who were ebree
together, I tired both barrels right at the
centre of the black mass. After the smoke
had cleared away I could only see a slight
movement of the black pile and in a few
minutes that ceased. I then loaded up
mv gun and walked up ready to give them
another close if necessary. A\ hen I got
Ito the spot I found that I had not only
killed two full-grown bears, but also
knocked over two cubs about the size 4if
Ia wild cat. They were all dead and lay
iin a pile. That, I believe, is the first
' time four bears were ever kilfiji ty a
hunter at one shotii s - these
| —New York World.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HI'MOHOIS SKKTCHHS FROM
V tutors KOVKCK&
The OilTereii e—lneonipat ihility Wl
Temper Foiul of the Vegetn
blV Vpiihrr Went —Site
Studied t l’least'.
Midlc Aged Lady in Market— ** How
do you sell l*eiries !"
“ Two quarts for a quarter, ma’am."
•* t guess I will look a little further.”
&ln*e Lady to inext dealer) — ,l How do
sell your la-fries ?”
“ Two quarts ftr a quarter. Miss.”
“I'll take four quarts.”— Mcrcfemt-
Tra refer.
Incompatibility of Temper.
“Have you spoken to my daughter
yet asked the old man.
“No, sir; l wanted your consent tirst.”
“Well, I advise you to give up the
idea. I don’t believe she would mfirry
you, and if she did, neither of you would
be happy,”
••\\ hy do you think so, sir?”
“Because you |>art your hair in the
middle and she parts hers on the side.”—
Puck.
Fond of the Vegetable.
A young physician of small practice
noticed a man buying some cucumbers,
and he followed him home and waited
outside for developments.
Four hours later the front door opened
and the man came hastily down the steps.
“Want it doctor?" gasped the impecu
nious physician. “No,” responded the
man, “I’m going around to the grocer's
for some cucumbers.” —Mew York .Sun.
Neither Went.
Two mothers sat opposite each other
in a ear on a Michigan Central train going
to Toledo the other day. Each had a
baby about a year old, and each baby
came in for a share of the admiration of
ihe passengers. This seemed to make the
mothers jealous, and after thinking the
matter over for awhile one of them leaned
across the aisle and said:
“I feel it my duty to tell vou to go into
the car ahead with your child, as mine has
the whooping cough.”
“Oh! has it? Thanks for your kindness,
but mine is all over the whooping cough
and is now coming down with the measles.
Perhaps you had better go into the car
behind!”— Detroit Free Press.
She Studied to Please.
Speaking of Washington society, Mrs.
Gen. M planned a series of receptions,
and allotted her friends in such manner
as to form congenial circles and prevent
crowding her salon. Colonel . a
crusty old bore, attended the tirst one,
and the following conversation took
pliice:
“Very pleasant lot of people here this
evening, ma’am; but one misses a good
many familiar faces!”
“Yes, my dear Colonel,” the hostess
replied; “but I shall give another recep
tion next Friday evening, and then a
good many familiar faces will miss you.”
—Piiifedelphia Record.
The Official and the Hull.
There was once a very important state
official in California, Aviso thought that
everybody knew him, or .ought to know
him. He Avas one day walking through
a field, Avhen a bull addressed him iu an
undertone and made for him Avith its
head doAvn and horns in a position to
raise him. He was a state official, a man
of dignity and political poAVX;r and
natural pomposity, but he ran. He ran
surprisingly well. He ran even better
than he did for office, and he got to the
fence first. He clambered over out of
breath and dignity, and found the
owner of the bull calmly contemplating
the operation.
“What do you mean, sir?” .asked the
irate official. “What do you mean by
having an infuriated animal like that
roaming over the fields?”
“Well, I guess the bull has some right
in the field.”
“Right! Right! J)o you know Avho I
am, sir? Do you know Avho I am?” The
farmer shook his head. “I, sir, lam
Gen. .”
“Why the deuce didn’t you tell the
bull?” —Son Francisco Ghronfele.
Romeo and .Juliet.
Jle (languishingly) —I have been hop
ing that you would in time emme to re
gard me as your company.
She (Itashlu 11 y)—^Company! What do
you mean by that?
He (encouragingly Well, as your
beau.
She (blushingly)—<o ! That’s what
company means.
He (smilingly)—Yes. And if you con
sider me as your comjunny I should like
to consider you as my misery.
She (Avondcringlyt—Your misery ?
He (triumphantly) —Yes; because* you
know misery loves company.
She (demurely) —I see. We’ll admit,
then, that you are company and I misery.
But don’t yon think misery a very disa
greeable name for a girl, an&tliat it ought
to be changed—say to company.
Then he popped*.— Boston. Courier.
A Dakota Train.
“Seen a man go aloyig here lately?”
asked a Dakota conductor, leaning off
platform, as the train passed a farmer at
work near the track.
“Yes.”
“Red whiskered man!”
“Yes.”
“Grip in each hand?” /
“B lieA r e so.”
“When did he pass?”
“’Bout ten minutes ago—he’s just
’round the curve. He’s walkin’ mid’ling
fast, though.”
••That's just the trouble, but I’ll catch
him or run every wheel off the engine!
I’ve no objections to his Avaiking if he's
in a hurry, but lie Avunts to put up his
fare first, and you bet lie’ll have to if we
catch him! Hi, there, Bill, pass the fire
man some more of those dry express
packages!” — Dakota Bell.
Only too Willing.
“Penelope.” said the young man, as his
frame shook with emotion, “in that cosy
cottage. I'm building on Ogden avenue,
Avhere you are to be the mistress, you
would not object, I’m sure, to my fitting
up a snug littl room for the occupancy of
an aged mother, who may come occasion
ally to visit us, and who will be glad to
know that she has not been forgotten in
our happiness —
“No. Cyrus,” impetuously said the fair
voung girl, “your generosity moves me
more deeply thru) I can express I have
always intended to have ma come and live
with me, but I had not thought of fitting
up a room for her. Your noble offer will
afford her great pleasure. She will come
not only occasionally, but will come as
soon as we are married and make her
home with us always, and—”
“Then, madam,” said Cyrvs, in an al
tered tone. “permit me to say that I start
for Australia to-night. Henceforth our
paths lie apart. You can take the house
and we ll call it square. I have the honor,
madam, to bid you, in the rn<>*t respectful
manner, ta, ta. Chicago Tribune.
Not N#n and Wife.
“ There are some q*wer couples in this
world.” remarked a Dcarisun street real
estate agent. “The other 'lay a man
and women called to see about renting a
fiat OfJ the North Side. The Avonien did
all the talking, and turned to the man
for confirmnntion or corroboration. He
always agreed with her and did it very
meeklv.
“ ‘Well,’ says the women finally, 4 1
trill give you $”1 for the flat, won t we
John."
“ * Ynt'ni,’ replied the man.
“ ‘And I'll pay my rent promptly, too,
won’t we. John?’
“ * Yes’m’
“ ‘And I'll take good care of the
house, won’t 1. John ? _
“ ‘But,’ I inquired), as usual in such
cause, ‘are you man and Avife?’
“‘Man and Avife'.’ exclaimed the
women sharply, ‘indeed avc are not; are
we John?*
“ ‘ No’m/ , ,
“ ‘What” iWjal, ‘nOtmanandwifd
“•Not much*. I'll have you k p
that in this family > ve arf> and m*
ain’t At e John? ’ xH
“ • Yes’m.” —Chicagcr ffA'ail.
111-Tempered
The Brazilian Mycctes i vr.nkcv, or red
howler, defends itself by m °f its ap
palling voice, Avrites Felix a v -'*a!d. At
the mere sight of a jaguar a .M?<rtes as
sembly will set up a general av V*rp, rais
ing their voices to a deafening’ ifproar.
till the enemy prefers to retreat. n'orne
of the old howlers arc then apt to j'pt me
him for u quarter of a mile, breaking ut
into fresh execrations Avheuevcr t?x\'"
| catch sight of liis speck loti hide. It tak'Si
hours to calm their excitement and ini
moonlight, when every bush seems to*
hide a lurking foe, they often make a
night of it, and keep up a far-sounding
roar, renewed at the rustling of every
twig.
The East AJrican baboon often falls a
victim to his passionate temper. If the
Arabs wish to catch a rock baboon Avith
out bringing on a' ponflicj with a Avhole
troop of hististy rclittives, they havcouly
to insult the desired specimen by hitting
him Avith a stone.- Ten to one the en
raged four-hander will rush down from
the rocks and charge the offenders on
their OAvn vantage ground, when they
can easily capture him by a stunning
laloaa t or by means of :f pet.
I have a Chacina baboon who flics into
a passion at the slightest provocation.
If she secs anybody oat or* drink she
usually *-t retches out her hand /or a share,
and if her Avisli is not instantly gratified
she grabs the iron bars of her cage and
makes it rock about the floor like* a ship
in a storm. Once she managed to .bend
tAvo of those bars out of shape and es
cape through the gap. But aa t c caught
her again by getting a boy to shake hi:*
fist at her. She had taken refuge in iv
tree in front of the house, but in the ex
citement at the offered insult she leaped
upon the roof of the veranda and chased
t/ie culprit from room to room into a
gairet, Avhere we succeeded in recaptur
ing her.
How Blood Oranges are Produced.
Strolling about the neighborhood of th
Quincy market, Avrites a Boston corre
spondent, my attention Avas attracted by
the sign, “Blood Oranges, $7.50 a Box,”’
which decorated the exterior of an im
porter’s shop. I had ahvavs supposed
that the blood orange Avas a freak of na
ture, to be found semi-oceasionally like a
yellow fire-cracker in a pack of Golden
Dragons brand; but this, it seems, Avas a.
mistake, for the dealer assured me. that
the ruddy fruit was a distinct variety.
“It is artificially produced,” he said,
“by grafting an ordinary orangte tree with
the pomegranite. The result is an orange
like any other, so far as flavor ,is con
cerned, but with red juice that is visible
through the skin. It brings a slightly
higher price, because it is regarded
curiosity. The people of Sicily cults- 4
vatc it mostly. Yes, there are one or two
kinds of oranges I knoAv of. The pine
apple orange, which has something of
the pine-apple flavor, is finding its Avay
into the market.
I had a feAV sweet lemons in stock
the other day,” added the dealer. “They
are quite a rarity. People in this part of
the world have poor tastes in tropical
fruit, any way. They will always pay
more for a red bananna than for a yellow
one, though the former is considered an
inferior fruit where both are grown. The
lime, too, is far more prized in tropical
countries than the lemon, but nortljcners
think it is only good for pickling.”
A Sea Tragedy.
The story of life on the high seas',
which came out at the Thames police
court on Tuesday, Avas one of the most
dramatic and peculiar that even that pe
culiar locality has ever produced. The
Malay Sailor Hassin had made himself
impossible on board the little bark Lady
Douglas; he secreted the carving knife
and hid himself in the fore-peak, only
uttering from time to time the Delphic
remark: “If I kill one, I die;” nobody
dared go near him, for he wanted to die;
imprisonment and intimidation were
tried in vain; he possessed himself of
lucifer matches, and it was feared he
would fire the ship, so at last the Cap
tain and all the ship’s crew agreed to kill
him, “as it was too dangerous;” so they
flooded the fotepeak with water to drive
him out, then the carpenter made an em
brasure, the mate fired through it with a
shot-gun, a sSilorhooked Hassin's clothes
and drew him up on deck, another sailor
blew out his brains Avith a revolver, and
they tied a weight to his feet and dropped
him overboard. Now they are all being
tried at the Thames police court for mur
der. In their defence it should at least
be remembered that in the East it is the
practice—and the perfectly Avise and
justifiable one -to kill at sight, like a
inad dog, any fellow who “runs amuck.”
—Pall Moll Gazette.
Paper Car Wheels.
Not only is traveling by water in
debted to paper, but traveling, by land.
A paper car wheel seems even more a con
tradiction of terms than a paper boat, yet
it is generally acknowledged to be better,
safer,and longer-lived than one altogether
of metal. It Avas the invention of Rich
ard N. Allen, a locomotive engineer, af
terward master-mechanic of the Cleve
land and Toledo Railroad, Avho took for
his aim in life the production of a better
car wheel than those in use. Ilis first
set of paper wheels Avas made at Bran
don, \ t., in 1861), and after much scoff
ing he was graciously permitted the use
of a wood car on the Central Vermont
road, under which they were tested for
six months. The Pullman Palace Car
Company in 1871 gave the first order for
a hundred wheels: ten years after, the
Allen Paper Car Wheel Company, with
great shops at Hudson, N. Y., and Pull
man, 111., produced and sold 13,000 in a
single year. One of the -et first experi
mented w : th under a “sleeper” is shown
at Hudson, with a record of 300,000
miles’ traveL —Harper's Magazine.