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r '/'ii;ii<inh /v Tin: ym: is.,i, C. lEIE-A-IR-ID, \ PROPRIETOR. } 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. 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