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VOL XXXIX.
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Him t doubt iu th» sinning-, the blight
i, and O 1 dwelloth with iT.an, as
n.’Hln h* brenlhc >ft upon idod, and
I.tIioUI !
Llf. ii 'timn ainl pur
Life ii >o-J, h (’ll nri.
At morn,
^•ii'ii the Wurid auT our souls ar': now born,
- < nai lf» p. N -ttlfton, In In h indent.
SIIIVL’8 sLIl'PER.
m Non a nanny
IIK year Sir William
8 ii o w e succeeded
a General Dago as
A mpI fl a < I ary 'overnor commander and inili- oi
n x' tho N< v, England
Ajpr-- ' A' fr-ntX'W- g province, h *■ i<f
make ^ liirroc If and me,- the h« King’s i to work cause to j J
*'"I" 1 *“* " oeinl wav, by giving a
• n s of fiiu entertainments in the
l.dt ]y I i (ivince House. |
(i th< ‘<>enteriainments were bidden j
oil the Boston townsfolk who were
loyal to the British crown. Amongst
such, none were more prominent or
made mure welcome, than Mr. Jeffrey
Merridew and his pretty young niece,
1 ,'i V ’
Mr. Men ....
me w was a stanch lloyai
»st, though he was by no means a vio
lent hater of the rebels. Many of them
were lu« old friends ami neighbors,
a ml Ins only brother, Mr. Ephraim
Merridew—Sibyl’s at heart, though in father—was far a rebel
does, away Barba
where he was at that time en
gaged in business, he could not serve
m rebel cause in person, us ho would
g ad ly have done. But he left behind
urn a son who, in full sympathy with
his father’s views, ranged himself
boidly on the rebel side, as part and
parcel of the American Army.
\ A rebel relative in Barbadoes was
riot a matter to trouble oneself about
but a rebel relative on the
spot, so to speak—for young Ephraim
was only six miles awn v at the Cam
irnlgi- rallying ground—was a differ*
gu t thing*, and amiable and easy-going
Jeffrey Merridew was disposed
to h nop’how’s close proximity j
oruM not, Muter the poovliii’ ciremn
t i HUM m F>—‘i <. but 1L33 be einbarrj ^^^d rttTTT
f r fertile young
man, besides being his nephew, war.
Sibyl s brother, and Sibyl, as a mem
borAjf the Royalist's family—for her
father on his departure for the Barba
does lmd left his motherless girl in her
uncle s charge could not, of course,
be allowed free intercourse with one
who had placed himself in an attitude
of active hostility to the Royal cause,
W lieu Sibyl was apprised of this die
turn she at once made passionate pro
test ng amst ii. “What harm do the
King's soldiers think poor Eph can do
them by now and then paying a visit
to his sister? " she asked her uncle
scornfully. j
Harm . 1 \on are very young, Sibyl,
and don’t understand these things. I
\ mir brother has chosen very foolishly
to join the rebel forces, and so has
made himself oneof our acknowledged
I lu niies end l never heard of declared i
enemies in time of war walking in and
out ot each other s houses like tame i
cats ” answered Mr. Merridew
tiddly. saveas-!
•ll... K,.l, «b , hoy »s Eph-ooly J
Wh.i h.rm could ho d„
than he has ever done, by coming out
to his nude’s house as a visitor?” still
persisted Sibyl rather foolishly. i
“What harm!” exclaimed Mr. Mer- 1
ridew impatiently. “What a child you
are. Sibyl! \N hv, his coming here
would compromise me fatally with the
royal Government. I should be sus
pooled of disloyalty, and do you think
that he, your brother, could be iii anv
Huch cum, nuniction uritU n. .ml fail
J"-'!'""; nn.s us msa.Jtr if '«»«* reported ’}•»' to his “"Si- of
f*v i ou «*»■ luma i vi i pti Uni , , be»o ,
mean
ns tx) tell tales exclaimed Sibyl iu
tell talcs . repented Mr. Merri
tlew, flinging birok his head with irre
pressildc laughter at Sibyl’s ignorance. 1
“M hv, my dear, the reporting of im
port ant facts, however gained, in times
of war, is i.art of war tactics i* is not
called telling talcs.
Aud would yon would you. if you
were iu Ephraim’s camp as « visitor,
would you
"Telltales'.'' laughed Mr. Merridew.
"iudeod I would, if l heard anything
worth telling - anything that I thought
would save the cause l believed to be a
righteous cause. Then more seri
ously, "VN liv, Sibyl, it would be my
duty to do it. .
“Gb, oh! cried Sibyl, “ir ♦»
odious, odious, all this war business.”
"Yes, I grant you that; but who is
to blame for bringing this odious
business upon us? Mho but these
foolish malcontents. these rebels,
lik*
Ik. mt father mid my brother,"
broke in Sybil hotly, „>[. Merridew
besitated.
“Yes, like vour father and your
1 vother. i am eorry to say,” concluded
her uncle, grave! v* "
"No, no, no,” cried Sybil, excitedly,
"It is not they * who ar t<> blame, i
They are too g( >■! s:ud brave and wise.
They only want jostle UIU t fail L iii«
It is the King’s folk v> blame
-the King’s folk who want to oppress :
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3. 1894.
ihe people with unjust taxes, that they
juhv live in greater grandeur.”
Mr. Merridev stared in silent aston
ishraent at this un xpected outburst,
then in a severer tone than his neice
had ever heard from his lips he said;
•‘So this is the treasonable talk yon
have heard from vour brother—these
are the teachings that ho has been in*
stilling into you ? All, it is none too
>on that you are cut off from the in
fluence of that head-strong boy.”
i “But it was my father who instilled
| these *‘. teachings i ciples into my nd brother. they They
Hrf ‘ ,H l )r n ft are iny
principles, “lour principles," too! and Mr. Mer
r-dew, his sense of humor immensely
tickled at the sound of this fine word
that rolled off with such an assump*
tion of dignity from those rosy young
lipp, burst into a great laugh. "That
Jackanapes of a boy, to fill her head
with this treasonable stuff! But we’ll
see if we can’t crowd all such stuff out
w ith livelier things when we have
those line doings at the Province
House Sir William is talking of.
Her principles! I he little parrot,”
and he lunged again.
"And you’re to dance the last dance
with me, remember, Miss Merridew.”
"Indeed, Sir Harry, 1 will not prom
i.se you that. ”
"Ion will not promise? But von
have promised.” *
"Have promised 1 What do you
mean, sir? 1 think yon are forgetting
yourself?” and Miss Sibyl Merridew
lifted up her graceful head w'ith a i
little air of hauteur that was by no j
means unbecoming to her piquant
beauty.
But young Sir Harry Willing was
tie not provincial—not to be put down by‘this pretty lit
he; and so, lifting
up his head with an air of hauteur, lie
said to Miss Sibyl: "I crave Miss
Merridew’s pardon, but perhaps if she
will reflect a moment she will recall
what she said to me yesterday morn
ing when I begged her to give me the
pleasure of dancing tho last minuet
with her to-night.”
Waving her great plumy feather fan
to and fro Sibyl looked across it at
her companion, and answered in a lit
tie sweetly impertinent tone*
"But I never reflect.”
"So I should judge, Madam,” re
torted the youth wratlifully, "but
perhaps,” he'went on, "if Miss Merri
dew will begin to bestow a glance upon
this”—and the young fellow pulled
from his pocket a gold-mounted card
and letter case, out of which he took a
tablet upon which was written ! "Met
Miss Sibyl Merridew this morning on t
the mall. She promised to dance the
last minuet with me to-morrow night.
Mem. Send roses if they arejo be
in the ~
lifting '*'&!>'$ blushed as she read this. Then
the flowers—Sir Ilarrv’ s roses
—to demure her face for a moment she "dropped
a courtesy and said with a
gleam of fun in her finds" eyes!
"If Sir Harry that it is neces
sary for him to recall his friends and
engagements by memorandum notes,
he certainly cannot expect an un
tutored provincial maid who carries
no such orderly appliance about with
her to charge her mind unaided,
"An untutored provincial maid,”
exclaimed Sir Harry, all his wrath ex- I
tinguised his' dowers,'and by her pretty recognition of
his admiration of her
ready wit; "an untutored provincial
maid ! By my faith, Miss Sibyl, you’d
put to shame many a court dame. But
hark, what’s that? As I live, the ■
musicians are tuning up for the min- '
net,” and smilingly ' "he held out h ls |
"
baud to her.
“A very pretty pair,” said more |
than one of the assembled company as i
the two took their places in the
beautifully decorated ballroom; and !
lV * fi u > ilance ..teUlJt nrooressed Mr .TeftVw i
SfewMe,, hi. uiceefrom l,i,
Uh ,, eongr.tnl,,.,,,- ■ smile, -Wh-re
,
now are Miss Sibyl’s fine rebel prin
eiples?-! scarcely think they would
stand a test.” |
Almost at that very moment Sir :
Harry, boy as he was spite of his one!
and t went v years, was giving vent, to a
little boatful talk about “those un
disciplined rebels who would never !
stand the test against a full regiment
of regulars ’’ i
"Why.- Sir Harry Sil? .M»ved, at
length, led on l>v y l-. air of great
interest, “we have positive informa- J
have tion neither that their troops ammunition at Cambridge J
arms nor to 1
carry on a defense, and they are iu a
sorry condition every way—it is im
possible for them to resist us success
fully ; we shall literally "if sweep them off .
the lace of the earth they attempt
it.”
.piired "Aiul Sibyl. you—tlic King's troops?” in- {
"We, well, we have been a little
straitened ourselves for the munitions
of war,” replied the young aid-de- I
camp, "but by to-morrow night a
vessel lieve ail will such arrive necessities. for us that Ah,” will re-j
with
a gay smile, "what would not these
rebels give to get possession of this
information and put their cruisers on
the "But alert there to capture is possibility such a prize!” of this?” j
no
“Not the slightest. But vou are
pale—don’t be alarmed, there is no
danger, The rebels have no sus
picion of the expected arrival, we are
certain.”
■-B.it if tlit-v ’might W
"Well that -Her the ease. !
Their ecnien luoe their bnsinese
better then their landsmen.’ i
All this in the pauses of the dance,
When they startetl up again, the music
had accelerated its time, and down the
^reat hall they led the way at a fine
pace. But in swinging about to return
Sir Harry felt his companion falter. •
"What D it ?” he asked anxiously. ;
“Mv siioner.” sht M^i-g replied with a
v,v! Uugh, nml -
spoke, she wlusked off » little satin j
shoe, the high hollow metal heel oT
which had suddenly given away.
Certainly no more dancing that
night. For that matter, though, it
was near the end of the ball. But
could not he do something, Sir Harry
asked; he hat} tinkered gun screws,
why not a slipper? No, nothing could
be done then and there; a new heel
must be hammered and fitted on.
But—-then and there. Sibyl had a
sudden inspiration ! Something could
be done. She was to go to Mme.
Bontineau’s rout the next evening.
j She needed these very slippers for
that occasion. Would Sir Harry—on
bis way to his quarters that night—
would he think it beneath his dignity
to leave the slippers at Anthony
Styles, the shoemaker’s?—it was just
there by the tavern, at the sign of the
gilded boot. He had only to drop the
shoe—w ith a message she would write
j to go with it—into the tunnel box, by
the door, and Anthony would find it
by daylight and set to work upon it
at once, that she might not be disap
pointed, for it was a longish job, she
knew.
Beneath his dignity! Sir Harry
laughed. He was only too glad to do
her bidding.
And would he t:ien give her a bit of
paper and pencil and take her to the
cloakroom for a moment?
Alone in the cloakroom, Sybil wrote
ber message to Anthony Styles,
Folding the paper in the slipper, and
wrapping the whole in her pocket
handkerchief, she fastened the parcel
sturdy with the silken cord that'had
held her fan.
"And may I have the last dance to
mo «*ow night?” asked Sir Harry, her"
smilingly, as he took leave of a
few minutes later.
"Perhaps—if I may depend on you
—and Anthony Styles,” she answered,
Her eyes sparkled like dark jewels as
she spoke, her cheeks burned like two
red twin roses.
In the midfct of a pretty disorder of
satin find Jacc and flowers sits Sibyl,
far into the night, or rather morning,
turning over’and over in her mind
something that effectually banishes
sleep.
By and by, as she turns it over for
tho twentieth time, she says aloud to
herself; “To think that it should be
given to me to do—made my duty !
Uncle Jeffrey taught me that, as he
has taught me many things these past
months—to keep my own counsel, for j
one thing, 1
‘ ‘Ah, Uncle Jeffrey, you have fancied j
me all these months naught but a vam
little poppet who con i be led to for- [
get anything Vlnikui. in a roir&t hi grants am i
dearly, dearly, but l uiu something
else bd&er. I like what my father has
taught ue, what my dear Eph is going
to fight for, far, far better. l r et I felt
like a cheat to-night as I led Sir Harry
on to tell me what he did—Sir Harry,
who thinks me, as all the rest do, a
stanch little Tory, for I have kept my
counsel indeed, and no one suspects.
ut, oh, it is odious, it is odious, this
war business, vet 1 have been taught
how to do my duty, and I have done
it. Yes, I have done my dutv, for
‘the reporting of important facts,
however gained, in times of war is
part of war tactics. ’ Yes, these are
your words, Uncle Jeffrey, and, oh,
kow the Y flasb ed up to me to-night
' vheu Sir Hftrr X told me of the British
vessel, and how they fairly rung in my
ears like an order when it suddenly
eame to me how I could get this inl¬
portant fact that I hid gained sent to
r ^sht quarters by means of good
Anthony Styles and that parcel box of
his, through which so many messages
have gone sufelv.
Oh, I could laugh, I could laugh,
^ ^ didn t shixer so, when 1 think of
il 1 Sir Harry, Sir Harry of all per
sone » dropping the message into
Antony Styles’s h.nus-Anthoay
Oh, I could
laugh I could laugh! And now if
everything goes well-if everything
goes well, my dear rebels will not be
sw ?pt off the earth by the British arms
quite yet?
“But hark, that is the clock, it is
fUikmg one, and I out of bed and gab
bbng to myself m this foolish way of
a P la Y acting woman,’ as
Uncle Jeffrey would say of me! But
1 tviH not stay up a minute longer, so
night. ^
8 oo l )
The clock was striking four the next ;
afternoon, when a weather beaten man,
who had a look as if he had once been
a seaman, knocked at the side door of ,
Jeffrey Merridew’s mansion and asked j
to see young Mistress Merridew.
"It’s Shoemaker Styles,” the maid
informed Sibyl, "and he says you must
come down and try on the slipper he
has brought—he’s not sure about the
heel. He’s in the ballroom, mem. ”
It with a wildly beating heart
that Sibyl, obeying this summons, ran
down to the little ballroom where
Anthony Styles awaited her.
He stood with the s.iipper in his
hand as she entered the room, and be- j
fore he could close the door behind
her, he called out in a frank, loud
voice: "I thought miss—i you had better try
on the shoe, wasn’t sure of the
heel.”
rr>. Tne moment _____. the ,, du<_r ,___ as c.osei.. r .„i j
*
however, he came forward eageny and
in«low Ltoi tone Lard said * 4 *It s allrisrlit, of little
“el Lx U I the click the ton
night, for I hndn't turned
in, and afore many minutes I nip
and off in my boat with the message,
in mv head-I burnt the paper ! There
was a stiff breeze, and I reached the
cutter iu quickest time ever made,
and I got back afore daylight, with
nobody the wiser. Shoemaker Styles
understands his old sailor business bet
ter than shoemaking,” with a grim
laugh, "and no Torv knows these
'
waters ns I do.”
it’s ali right, and the end will .
be all right?” faltered Sibyl anxiously.
“All right!” You'll know for your
self by nightfall perhaps, and D >W
God bless yon, little mistress; you’ve
done a great- service, and it ever Aa
thony Styles can safveyou, he’ll do it
with a whole heart—God bless you,
God bless you 1” and with these words
Shoemaker Styles hurried oft' leaving
Sibyl with the slipper still in her
hand, and both o' them quite oblivi
ons of that important trying-on pro
cess,
The day after the ball was a busy
one for Sir Harry Willing, and it was
not until late in the afternoon that ha
found himself at liberty to take his ae
customed saunter about town,
1 As he came in sight of uae gilded
boot, he smilingly thought: “I wou
der if Shoemaker Styles has done his
duty by the little slipper—is he has, I
shall dance with my lady Sibyl at
Mme. Bontineau’s this evening.”
But Sir Harry did not dance at
Mme. Bontineau’s that evening, for
when at nightfall he returned to his
quarters he was met by the disastrous
tidings that the long-looked-for and
eagerly expected British brig loaded
with supplies for the King’s army had
been captured off Leehinore’s Point
by the Yankee rebels.
It was not many months after this
capture that, the British evacuated Bos
ton. When Sir Henry Willing took
leave of Sibyl Merridew he pleaded
for some token of remembrance.
"You will not promise yourself to
me,” he said in reproachful accents,
“but give me some token oi yourself,
some gage of amity, at leas:.”
"But what—what can I give y ou,
Sir Hurry ?” asked Sibyl, net a little
touched and troubled."
"Give me the little slipper you wore
that night we danced together at the
Province House.”
"That—that slipper?” tnd Sibyl
blushed and paled.
"Yes—ah, you will, you will.”
A moment’s hesitation, then with a
strange smile, half grave, half gay,
Sibyl answered, "Yes, I will,”— ( St.
Louis Republic.
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, .....
WISE WORDS,
The first of the uew iu pur race’s
story beats the last of the old. —Brown¬
ing.
Most men, until by losing rendered
sager, will back their opinions by a
wager.—Byron.
Walk boldly and wisely in the light
thou hast; there is a hand *^ ihove will
loth e ,n. - BaUev.'
bie draweth out ; • i’A • « aleS
fiiS
argument.-Shakes^a^^**
^he gem cannot be polished with
out friction, nor man perfected with
out trials.—Chinese Proverb,
Trust not him with your secrets who,
when left alone in your room, turns
over your papers.—Lavater.
Men are generally more careful of
y ie b ree d of their horses and doge
G f their children.—Penn,
A . person is . always- . start ^ „ ed , when , he
, bears himself seriously called old for
the first time. -O. W. Holmes,
T]i e avarice of the miser is the grand
sepulcher of all his other passions as
they successively decay.—Colton.
Excess of grief for the dead is mad¬
ness, for it is an injury to the living
and dead know it not.—Xenophon.
Life, I repeat, exercised is energy of love, di¬
vine or human, in pain, in
strife and tribulation.—Wordsworth.
The hours we pass with happy pros¬
pects in view are more pleasing than
those crowded with fruition.—Gold¬
smith.
Explaining * the Puzzleof Spinning
sW nue sninilin<? fe P ir jnin a , k Keeps „ n _ eieci ,
,
forces
? yZlleucy ' S V; te “ ei ^Z # Ct X
v were not held to
m
f® thei by the the attraction attraction of o cohesion cofieoion
waler fly“ff ^ bein'
^ a mon wliile it is
, ’ ^ little sand in’motion salt or dust
topwbile would
^ ™ ™ mattered ^ ^ in a circle just as its freeTo own
atom ’ MOXU 1 00 1 th n ey were 0 to
act.Tte "'homs'Ii klUc'TYreM; 2
au
would only be influenced by momentary
contact with the rotating body. This,
tendency to'fly of the particles of a rotating
body outward from the centre is
ca lled the centrifugal force. Theother
f orce influencing the topis the attrac
t j on gravitation, which, were the
toT> not spinning would draw it toward
th e earth. The motions of the earth
am q a p f b e beavenlv bodies are con
trolle(l by precisely the same guidance
as thatwhichkeepsaspinningtopup
right.—Chicago Herald.
Molecules in Diamonds.
If you think your polished diamond
is a mere aggregation of inanimate
crystals you are away wrong. If yon
imagine that its components are de
void of orderly, coherent motion, you
are equally mistaken. It has come to
pass that we are given to understand
that diamonds are masses of active
* ;•
Sir Robert Ball, of . T Liverpool ; , as
serts that were the sensibilities of our
ever iL incretteed so at to make them a
million t.mee more powerful it
would be seen th»tthediamondatom., ,
which form the perfect gem when ag- '
gregated each in condition sufficient of myriads, rapid are j
in a move- •
ment of the most complex description, j
ing Each to and molecule fro with would the utmost be seen violence swing- j
•;
quivering among the from neighboring the shocks molecules it receives and j
from encounters with the other mole
cnlen, which o«nr million* of time, in
A*eh second
COURT LIFE IN ENGLAND.
DAILY PLEASURES AND DUTIES OF
QUEEN VICTORIA’S HOUSEHOLD.
Dining AVitli the Queen is Delightful,
but Standing About is Fatiguing
—How Appointments Are Made.
B LL1LMNL •p concerning welcomes their r ipvTve any *i tlio royal public fresh iv places details always i and
Stuart Erskine royal occupant* writes
iu the New York
Herald, I determined to apply myself
to the fountain head, and if possible
to procure first class information from
a member of Queen Victoria’s hotise
hold. A gentleman consented to tell
me all I wanted to kuow upon, my
giving a guarantee that 1 would not
puohsli his name. These terms I was
obliged to accept, and the result of my
the
“ re
cautu, arc, arranged at court.
"Well,” said my informant, "the
principle on which they are arranged
is simplicity itself. The ‘waits’ of the
various gentlemen employed in Her
Majesty’s household correspond, so
far as the system is concerned, with
those oi an ordinary constable. A
constable is toldotY to watch a particu¬
lar thoroughfare or guard a particular
spot in the same way that we are told
oft’ w'ait as Her Majesty’s servants. I
have just come off my beat,” said my
informant laughing. "My next ‘wait’
will not take place for some time yet.”
"Is there auy special rule or prin¬
ciple,” I next inquired, "upon which
appointments iu Her Majesty’s house¬
hold are made to operate? Most of
the gentlemen of the Queen’s house¬
hold are, I believe, ex-ofiicers of the
British army, but I suppose the Queen
is at perfect liberty to exercise her
own discretion as regards the appoint¬
ments in her household. ”
"Well, of course you know,” said
my informant, “that some of these
appointments to which you refer are,
so to speak, in the gift of the Govern¬
ment of the day. ”
They are exclusively jrolitieal ap
pointments, and though the consent
of Her Majesty to a particular appoint
ment is necessary, according to the
terms of the constitution, still they
are not upon the same footing which* with
the minor appointments Her
Majesty can fill up without consulting
any one, and which indeed, as you say,
are generally bestowed upon officers <5f
the arm Y‘ men, iu fact, who, having !
their in Queen d of and little country good! j
service : are nt a assistance
*n .uc,ba r -Vf for them !
wthn they retn ng/- ® :
"May I ask, ^hat j
your duties as a member of Her Ma
jesty’s household mainly consist?”
"As to that,” replied my informant,
much on a level with those of a private
individual in a private household,
supposing it were the custom to em
ploy We" gentlemen in such capacities,
have, of course, to be in attend
ance on Her Majesty whenever it is
required of us; to look after the dis
tinguished strangers whenever they
come on a visit to Her Majesty, and
generally servants" to make ourselves useful as
to the Queen.” "What is
called the Windsor uniform is most
generally affected by persons employed
at court. Officers, generals, etc., who
are members of Her Majesty’s house
hold, are allowed to wear the army
uniforms suitable to their rank in the
service. The ordinary court dress,
which you can see at any levee or royal
function, is also much worn at court.”
"How do gentlemen of Her Majesty’s
household live when they are in at
"
tendance on the Queen?” I then said,
addressing my informer.
"Each individual,” he said, "has,of
course, private bedroom, etc., at
court, whether it be at Windsor, Bal
moral or elsewhere, but there is a
general ‘mess’ or dining room for the
various officers employed in this par
ticular branch of the Queen’s service,
Very often we receive commands from
the Queen to dine, etc., with the
Queen, not, ot course, m a body, but
in such numbers as it may suit her
pleasure to invite us, or the exigency
or the moment may decide. A day
rarely passes at court without some
one of our number being called upon
to perform this agreeable sort of duty,
for Her Majesty is one of the kindest
and most gracious hostesses that ever
..... lired.”
"About the duties,” I then said.
"Taking them as a whole, I suppose
they are light and pleasant enough?”
"Oh, yes,” replied my informant, )
“we have nothing to compiain of on
that head. We have plenty of leisure,
plenty ox time in which to amuse our
selves. Sometimes the work is of a
very fatiguing nature. For instance,
there is sometimes an immense amouut :
of standing about to be done, which !
for men not exactly in their first
youth, is a source of great inconveui
ence and even physical trouble. Hang
ing about passages for hours together
clad in heavy uniforms and fully
equipped, is a service which, though
it may seem pleasant and easy enough
to those who have never experienced
it, to those who have done so is not by ;
any means the thing of joy and delight i
which the others axe so fond of mak- j
ing S it oat to be ” ,
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« • ,. Statement hr Clergyman,
a
The Rev. Dr. H. L. Wayland »ynhe
recently wrote a paragraph for his
paper, the National Baptist, “boat.tne ■
serious illness of a clergymen and his
^ ben it appeared it ended with j
Ih 1 ^ remarkable statemen. . But God ,
is good, and tney are better. -Chi
" & g° Ti mes.
_
Conrtvrallf 1 Park * ver in "tombston. Wales i' I
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SELECT SUTTMiS.
Connecticut has 30,000 farms.
More people die in spring than u
| any of the other seasons. ,
Ireland is larger than Scotland by
! twelve hundred square miles.
laukets were invented . by Thomas
Blanket, who made them in Bristol in
1340, .
m> , i j , . , ■
1H 1 roh ° lb ” mu " 11 •'
p, lu - “ u “«* «"• “•'«* ■»
j ( HUK tr '
Ivul gloves are sewed with cotton
| thread, as it does Hot cut the kid as
reft dily as silk, l
In the year 162vi England coined
tin shillings, each having a stud of
copper set iu the centre.
■
The Roman architects used to put
, empty jugs in the walls of theatres
to make them more resonant
„oS lit ‘
in the aftecaoou and until 7. I
Mo sal<l to have 170b "big ,
*°° w
’ tbc B,uall ^ of ^
‘ 0
5000 P ounds » «“* 1 the lar ^' st 443 > 772 * ]
Biuee the repeal of British miviga- 1
tiou huvs in 1819 British shipping lias
population. increased seven times faster than the ]
The Alaskans often have eating
matches, at which great numbers of ,
villagers compete. The one who eats
the most is considered the biggest
man.
The two highest inhabited spots on
mining earth are Arevicliiary in and Mucapata, |
camps the Andes. Tho i
former has an elevation of 17,950
feet. !
Jefferson A rabbit City, was Mo., recently which killed had near the j
form and features of rabbit but 1
a was
apparently wearing the skin of a
Maltese cat.
Mr. Austin, of Livingston County,
Missouri, just dead, was seventy-four
years old, never way out of the State, j j
never was shaved in a barber shop,
never ate in a hotel, and was never ill
until just before his death.
Cardinal Mezzofant, the most re
^ maiiiab \ e linguist said to have the been world able has ever
uowll > to use
ever Y word of any considerable im
P ortance m over 10:) different' lan
Stages, and to have been able to carry
on a conv e r sation in forty-five or fifty
otuers ,
-
chlbl 4 U to uuxboUti Physician mother to have once him took n
a pass
Judgment on one a very protruded ugly-shaped and they jaw.
c ^ l<3 uo we ^l together. 1 he doctor
a6snr etl , ber or most such
blemishe: . rov ’d ’ treated if . the
*“*** ken tv "’rough, to
a P^tty , woman, the child*/las gr well-formed oe
*
a mouth as any one.could desire.
Tbe Clt Y of Mexico is the third eitj
iu tlu! world to try the new red glass
treatment as ail aid in the cure of
smallpox. The Board of Directors of
tbo American Hospital, at the recom
mendation of Dr. Alfred Bray, the
attending smallpox physician, has fitted up one
°t the wards with ruby glass
window lights, and the new' theory
be given pi’actical application,
claim, as made by the Nor
we gi ftl i experts on skin diseases, Drs.
Lindholm and Einsen, is that the
u H ra violet, or natural rays of the
sun - are 3 ust a!3 injurious to a diseased
skiu as they are to the delicate film of
the photographer. The experimental
smallpox wards are, therefore, nothing
more than photographic dark rooms,
^t is held that the use of the red glass
prevents the fever of maturation, and
that the eruptions soon dry up, leav
iu S’ ° llt few scars on the patient. The
experiment made by the enterprising
management of the American Hospital
is bein g watched with close interest
by the Mexico medical fraternity, to
wb om and to the country at large it
has particular and vital interest by
r ^ a son of the great prevalence of the
disease in the South. —Atlanta Con
stitution.
Married the Cook.
"The Hermit of Sonblick,” Peter
Eechner, whose duty it is to attend to
scientific instruments in the Alpine
observatory on the mountain top,
^^^00 feet above the level of the sea,
hag-got a wife. Some time ago he
advertised the fact that he thought of
marr ying, and it is said that he re
ceived hosts of letters and photographs
from laclies of high and low degree
who .were anxious to share his isolation
a ^d income. He used these precious
mi »sives, to the intense amusement of
the summer visitors to the mountain,
to ta Pestry the wall of the observatory,
The wnom he decided to marry
a Murdy country maiden, who has
P roven her affection by bringing him
supplies of food lor two years
^ rom U* a ’ Jr i B > a f ar down the
Some time ago I raulein
J^sepa Jauschutz was promoted to
I JOB ^i°n oi cook for the observa
* or Y’ anc I bas been the constant associ
I earue( I professor. The
adding was celebrated at Kauris, and
we ddmg party returned to the
observatory the same day, bergstock in
band. New Orleans Picayune,
"To Rhyme With Timbuctoo.”
Timbuctoo, that mysterious Central
African city which has recently been
v
occupted i i by ri the r? French \ i, • chiefly u* m
^1“!, ‘ orize oLred thkt'nnri
*=“ , h™™ to ‘
ous name. one ox tne versus was.
onoffie plaLns°of^rimbactoo
j ^ould eat a missionary,
.Skin and bones and hymn-book, tcy.
Another, with a more perfect rhyme
ran thus:
"As I was hunting on the plains,
All ou the plains of Timbuctoo,
A £,R*
NO. 13
THE FLIGHT OF EUGENIE.
HOW THE FRENCH EMPRESS ES
CAPED FROM A PARISIAN MOB.
A Hasty Departure From the Tuiler
ies—Harbored and Assisted by an
American Dentist.
HI JC __ 1.18 T-a ANNA .. t „. L. _ Bl( KeiELU ,
| |\ / j I who Was for roam roar- a
^ governess in the family of'll,. of
one of tho lame.
Empress Eugenie's household, write.
D f "The Tuileries under the Second
Empire” in tho Century, from which
we take the following account of tho
escape of tho Empress after the dow n
fall of Napoleon in the Franco-German
war :
The Chamber of Deputies had boeu
invaded by the mob; the downhill of
Empire had been decreed : the iff,
vor v <*» «>- Tuil * r r- ;ml • b
.
enraged populace was com mg ltearm
ftml ueR rer. The crowd reached Hit
reserved garden in front of the palace,
and tore down the emblematic imperial
eagles. It was then a quarter pest
three in the afternoon.
j The Austrian and Italian ambassa¬
dors entreated the Empress to leave
the palace, but she warmly rejected
the proposal. The daughter of a noble
race, with the heroic blood of the Get
mans flowing in her veiiv, she could
rot but consider flight as ail net. of
cowardice. She was a sentinel left to
defend a post, and she would die there,
The roar of the mob became loudei
and louder; theories of "Vive la He*
publique!” wero distinctly heard,
"Madame,” then said her faiHil'nl
Secretary Pietri, "by remaining hero
you will cause a general massacre of
your attendants.” She seeded strunk
by this, and, turning to General Mel*
l inet > slie said, "Can you defend tho
palace without bloodshed?” "Madame,
I fear not.” "Then all is over," said
tbe Empress. She turned to tbos<
present. "Gentlemen, can you bear
witness that I have done my duly to
the last?” They hastily answered,
"Yes,” again urging her to leave.
All her usual attendants of the ser
vice d’honneur were assembled in the
rose-colored room, a fairy bower, ill
suited as a frame for such a tragic
picture, and which she was never fc
see again. She bade farewell to nil.
Strange to say—and the inexplicable
fact had never been denied nor x
cused—not one of those present
offered to follow her; not one asked
where she was seeking a refuge. Let .
us hasten to add that her ever-faithful
friend and follower, the Due de Has
sano, was not there; he was at tliu
ooifttn the flood. house, vainlv trying to ston i_
HUT, Wimw , - -- .,». !*<? Hvh«
could have filled his place. All wei
bewildered and absorbed by selfish
fears. One lady, who filled a second¬
ary though confidential post in the
household, Madame Lebretou, sister
to General Bourbaki, followed her un-*
happy mistress -into exile. With one
faithful attendant, Pietri, and the
two ambassadors, the Empress thread¬
ed the galleries communicating with
the Louvre, while the mob broke into
Tuileries on tho other side. There
was a door of communication which was
found locked, and for one brief mo¬
ment anxiety was intense ; but the key
was happily found, and crossing the
splendid Gallery of Apollo, iu tho
Louvre, the fugitives found their way
into the place opposite tho Church of
Saint Germain l’Auxerrois.
! Two columns of insurgents were
coming in different directions; the
danger was great, and the Austrian
Ambassador, Prince Metternieb, went
in haste to seek Iiis carriage. Mean¬
while a street boy called out, “There
is the Empress!” Much alarmed the
Italian ambassador, Chevalier Nigra,
hastily thrust the Empress and Ma¬
dame Lebreton into a hackney car¬
riage and turned to silence tho boy.
The driver, frightened at the approach
of the mob, drove off in violent haste,
and the two ambassadors immediately
lost sight of the vehicle. ,
The Empress had no money about
her, and when, on reaching a quieter
region, the driver asked her where he
was to take her, she knew not whither
to go. Several calls were made at the
houses of friends; none were at home,
and the Empress, utterly exhausted,
and not knowing where to find a
refuge, suddenly remembered that Dr.
Evans, the American dentist, lived
near, and to him she went. Dr. Evans
was about to go to dinner, and at first
refused to see the unknown lady who
came at such an unpropitious time ;
but as she insisted upon sp* iking to
him, he came out, and was struck with
astonishment on finding him seif iu the
presence of the fugitive Empress, To
his honor be it said that never iu the
days of imperial prosper) < v could she
have met with more rust met or more
devoted zeal in her si rv’ce than was
shown on this occasion by Dr. and Mrs.
Evans. Nothing that could be done
for her comfort was neglect c-d, and
Dr. Evans never left his imperial
guest till he had safely landed her ou
the English shore. Here, at lea-t,
there was neither ingratitude nor sel¬
fish fear, and the conduct of Dr. Evans
on this memorable occasion will be
remembered as a title oi honor to his
name and his country.
Seuator Evarts’s Private Secretary.
The doorkeepers of Congress are
often required to be purblind. A few
years ago every one in the Senate
Chamber was astonished to see Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on the floor
one day. The doorkeeper afterward
confessed that Senator Evarts had in¬
troduced the doctor, with a wink, as
"My new private secretary.”—Kate
Field’s Washington.
Eighty-seven and a half millions of
passengers passed through the various
railway stations in Peris, arriving oy
departing, during 1892