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VOL. XIX.
STOLE A I'LOW lilt
A Strange Story and Sad Scene in
Court.
An old woman with long, gray hair,
stepped forward when her name was
called, and confronted the police judge.
‘•You are a very old woman to be in
a place of this kind,” said the judge.
•‘What is the charge against her!”
turning to an officer.
‘‘Stealing a pot of flowers, your
honor.”
“Who made the csniplaint ?”
“I did,” replied a man, stepping
forward. “I know that it looks hard
to have such an old woman arrested,
but I am ala s abiding citizen, judge,
and I don’t intend to be imposed od.
This is the way the whole thing t-atpo
about : I keep a large flower depot.
Day before yesterday, ibis woman came
into the store, ancj when I asked her
if she wanted to buy anything, shook
her head. Just then a customer came
in, and I paifltqo attention to her; but,
after she was goue I discovered that a
containing a pot flu geraneum was
-missing. I knew she took it. and what
6he wqpted with it is mote than 1 can
tell. Ifshehnd stolon something to
eat or wear, it would have been a dif
ferent thing.”
The old woman looked up and said ;
“Judge ! I stole the flower.”
•‘Didn't you know it was wrongj”’
“Yes.”
“Was the teuiptuiion so greaf that
you could uot withstand it
“There was no temptation. It re
quired mare of a struggle to take it,
than it would have required not to
have taken it.”
“This was a singular occurrence,
ipadani ! Tell us all about it. Don't
think that you are among those who
desire to see you punished, and re t
assured that 1 will stand by you. Law
or no law, it makes no difference.
There is a court jq tl.p human heart,
pld woman, whose decrees are nearer to
jqstipe than ifle written declarations of
ny tribunal."
The old woman again ioofeod up.
Tpafs were in her eyes, but with a
corner of tl)e oi l black shawl, drawn
bur shoulder-, she wiped them
away.
“Q'n, gir,” she said, “(o n.alfo yg
understand why I took tlie flower
might be a story toq long to t<jl 1 in a
court, qrid it ipijjht be oqt of place tp
tell it anywhere before stranger-; bqt,
gs you have spoken so kjnflly, I will
tel| you. Years ago I lived jn this
pity. JJy parents were well situated
and l was curel'nlly reared. [ married
a uian whom every one recognised as
an elegant gentleman, but to me, he
proved to be a drunken brute. At last
he took our little boy and went away, I
know not where, leaving me with a ba
by just two months old. A/y parents
had died, and I went out iu'u the sun
jtry and changed uiy name. I worked
for a living, hea"t-bioken as 1 was.
One day, my little darling wa6 takpn ill
I took her in my arms and started to
ward towu, where she might have the
ptoper medical attention, but she seem
cd to grow worse. 4-1 last I k ne ff sfle
was dying, and I sat down under a tree.
I held her to my bosom a long time, (or
■he shivered, anfl when I looked into
her face again, she was dead. A man
who lived near by made a coffin, and I
buried the little girl under the tree
where she had died. Then I went
away, I know not huw, and began a
long search for my husband, not that I
wanted him, but that I wanted my
son. I must haye gCDe crazy, for 1
was seized one day and taken to the
madhouse How long I remained
there, I don't know ; but, I could see
that I was much oider looking than
when I went in. from time to time, I
implored the keeper to let me out, bul
he refused. About a mouth ago, I
saw aQ opportunity, and escaped. I was
not m and, for when again under the
clear sky, the memory of my troubles
were as though but a day had passed,
I turned, alter much inquiry, toward
my native place, and a lew days ago I
arrived here, but I did not stop until 1
found my way to the little grave under
the tree- I bad carried stone and
built a little wall around it, but briars
and bushes had grown up so thickly,
that I could hardly find the place I
cleared the briars away, and came to
[town. While passing along the street
! t saw this man’s flowers I stole a ge
raneuui pot, and it now sits on the little
child's grave."
The flower dealer had sunk upon a
| bench “Great God, judge!" he ex
-1 claimed springing up, "the woman is
my mother!" Arkaosaw Traveler.
....
■low Slut kept I lie (Secret.
N. Y, Evening News.
‘We're bound to be equal to yon
men,’ said tbe Mason's wife; ‘we
formed a secret society of our own
last night..
‘lndeed!’ said the worshipful
master, composedly; ‘then I hope,
m I dear, your projvct will be suc
cessful. Is it u hanevolenl socie
ty or whats’
‘That’s none of your business.
Il’a a secret, and we’ve sworn by
solemn oath riot tu divulge anything
relating to it.’
.Very good, my dear,’ observed
the worshipful master, returning to
his paper; ‘l’m sure I do not wish
you to violate your oath.’
‘lt wouldn’t matter if you did.
I wouldn’t. You keep your secret
close enough —and to think of that
stupid J/rs. Furbelow! She could
recollect neither the grip nor the'
sign, U took us an hour to teach j
her When I gave her the sign
(suits the action to tbe word) she
would make it this way, ha! ha!—
Her stupidity would have been ex
asperating if it hadn’t beet: lidicu
lous, and as for learning the grip,
she would have it that it was this
way—give me your hand a minute
there; she would have - ( t that
way, while it was this way; and
the password ! she couldn’t keep it
in her memory/or two minutes.—
Over and over agni.i 1 told her it
was ‘He just, and fear not,’ and
she would have it ‘Swear ne t at all’
or ‘Do unto othors as you would
he done by.’ ha! ha! Wp almost
despaired of getting itthrough
her head. Hut we manqgeij to
make her understand at last. Oh,
yes, we are going to havo a
flourishing society, ant] vya can be
as secret qboqt it as you men cun
be about yours.”
Then the lady went off to attend
to her household duties, anti the
worshipful master hid his face be
hind his paper and smiled.
lloi'titagtMl Fanil.
There have been many cases where
industrious young men have cleared the
mortgage from the farm before they
reached the thirties. J.ct onp ease
serve to illustrate manv. 4- yoflOg mat)
whom we, knew intimately, brad on a
farm, who, after he wu- of age worked
at the carpenter’* trade, thus earning
money enough to stock a farm, pur
j chuspd one in a good grazing town,
| married a gjrl who had been brought
Up on a dairy farm, and they went to
work together. The farm would keep
about fifteen cowsantf an ox team to do
the farm work. One drawback, atjthe
beginning, was that he had to build a
baru the first season be occupied the
farm Little help was employed out
•of-doors or indoois. “John’’ and his
wife worked on together, he doing th#
out-door and she the indoor work, to
wit, including thg making of butter
and cheese, butter then bringing from
ninepence ton shilling par pound. To
make the story short, withiu less then
a decade of years, the mortgage was
discharged, and meanwhile, a house
had been built as well as a barn Th ey
then sold the farm, at a handsome ad
vance on jybat they paid for it, and
.'bought a lamer and a more eligibly
located farm, and have since sold and
purchased a farm in one of the best
agricultural towns in Councctieut, noti
fa/ f/om the right hank of the river
Connecticut where they still reside,
after having brought up a family of
children, on a large farm where they
are ageing, with a competency ef the
good things of this life. Hut for the
mortgage on a fairly large farm to bo
ffin with, they might have been like
Uncle John of Lexington” memory,
homeless to-dav.
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People.
GREENES BORO’, GY., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1884.
LEVY'IXL OX A UAE \ ISO*>SE
Luke Smith controls ft fi fa. against the
town ol Monroe, ami for five years lias
been trying to get the money on it. It is
saiil that he lias elected not less than a half
dozen different tickets for municipal hon
ors, with flip understanding that liis fi fn
was to be paid off, but as rumor lias it the
commissioners bare invariably given him
the cold shoulder when (hey were safely
landed into otlice. Last week this plan
was abandoned and “Kirby” ordered the
sheriff to levy on the calaboose and the
treet lamps. Tips was done, and the town
is minus a prison, besides being in the
dark. Sheriff Ammons has locked tbe cal
abouse and pocketed the key, and lia§ re
moved the street lamps to a rqoin in the
old jail, whore they are secure under lock
and key. Luke says that every pick, siiov.
el and hoe will he levied on whenever (lie
marshal attempts to have the streets work
ed
Tlio Ihiie ot Iler (E<t<dlr.
Somerville Journal.
Tom 11. lias u young brother and u
young lady sister, and Tom 1L is a
hard one to keep up with. lii sister
had a beau tbe other night, and just
as the conversation became interesting
the little brother waited in.
“Well," said his sister, “what do you
want here?”
“I want to whisper something to
you,” was the reply
“’Tisn’t polito to whisper in pomps*
uy , speak out likes little man.”
“Oh, I den,t like to.”
“Yes, but you mu.it. so Mr J can
see bow bright you are.”
All right, thep. Brother Tom told me
to ask you what was the date of your
last bustle, for he can’t find to day’s
paper high nor lot/, and he loft it in
your room just before supper."
Torn left on the midnight Iriin for a
trip South, and his house is not ex
pecting him back before the fir.-t of
May. The young lady may recover l y
that time.
lltm to Spoil.
To spoil steak—fry it.
To spoil tea or coffee—beil it.
To spe.il custard bake it too long
To spoil house plants— water them
too much.
To spoil butter —do not work out
all the milk.
To spoil a carpet —sweep it with a
stiff half-worn broom
To spoil pan cakes—bake theu; on a
luke-warm griddle.
To spoil a breakfast—grumble all
the time you are eating.
'To spoil potatoes —iet them lie and
soak in water after boiling
To spoil bread—u-e poor flour and
sour yerst and let it rise until too
light and it runs over.
To spoil scissor?—cut e.veiything
from a sheet of paper to a bar of cast
iron.
To spoil garments in making -cut
them out carelessly and ruin al) thp
seams.
To spoil a school —change teachers
ev t . soc;e one iu the district
flnd= fault.
To spoil children humor them to
everything they happen to think they
want. Ex.
MAVSJVWMJU m.\s.
The Harrisburg Patriot make the fol
lowing sensible comments on an old sub
ject : u e presume that some people think
ijewspaper men persistent duns ; let a far
mer placa liimselfin a similar position and
see if he would not do the same. Suppose
that he raises one thousand bushels of corn
and his neighbor should come and buy a
bushel, and the price was only ode dollar,
or less, and the neighbor says “I will pay
you tho amount in a few days.” /is the
farmer does nqt want to he small about the
matter he - ays “All right.” Another comes
in the same way until ihe whole of _<jne
thousand busbeisare entrusted to one thou
sand different persons, and not one fif the
purcha-era concerns himself about it, fqr
it is a small amount they owe the farmer,
and of course that will not help hiuj any.
He does not realize that the farmer Ims
frittered aivay his iarge crop of corn, and
that its value is due in a thausaad little
driblets, and that he is seriouly embarrass
ed in his business because his debtors treat
it as a little matter.
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