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VDT-TJME VIII —NO. 4.
talbotton standard.
SrwcWPTioN Price, $2, A Year.
JANUARY 17. H 77.
- leG AL AI)VF.RTIKEMF.NTS.
Talbot County Sheriff Sales,
Will be sold before the Court House door
n (he town of Tlbottnti ilnrirK (be If- ; ,1
loer* of sate on Ike first Tin adav in TVL>-
■nnrr next. at public outcry to tiic hi !. -s'
,iil,b-r. a tract or parcel of lnrul in the ‘2:M
listrict of’Talbot conotv. eontiunini' 371
,ms, more or less, end known r.s the
Voree Bnckcr plftce.whcrcnn the w.dm. <
aiiil Rnckr now lives, In ini; the tend s, M
i„uic Cheney, deceits <l, to su'd Rucker
md is accurately described by pint nnnle of
he same by It. D. Shnptinie. Ret, in. e
einy hereby made to said pint. 1. >\ iod ,
,s the property of George Rn- ker, do . -i- 1
iv virtue of a Fi. Fit. issued from T albot
Superior Court in tavor of Joseph Alien,
idmioistralor.
At the same time and place, lot c,f bod
Ho. 213, lying in lie lfith distri t of Till , t
comity, to satisfy one execution in uiy
bauds' in favor ef W. 4. Li on vs. John Q.
L v Adams. Property pointed out by 1„
H. Worrffl.
At the Brtine time and place, will be sell
a certain parcel of tend No f>, in (lie AM
district of T albot county, rontniuinc 1 dj
acres, levied upon as the prop, r v of Mrs.
F„ E Mabone.to satisfy an execution in rev
hands in favor of James Brvaut vs. Airs. K.
E. Mahon*.
A.t the same time and place will t,c sold
<7 acresot land, more or less, in the 17th
District of Talbot county, known es tie
James Story place, adjoin;’ ,- lands of J. R.
llilev, S. Jonfs. Jas. F. rhillips audio hi rt
ISfripline. Levied on as the property ot
James Story to sntis'y the following . i-i’ i
tions: tLrre in favor ot Henrv Person .
Administrator. Ac. vs. James Sturv; one m
tavor ef R. M. Davis vs James story, and a
Tax execution for State and County T axes
187a vs, Jas. Story. Levies made by Win.
Cooper, L C., and returned to me.
Also at tint same time and p , the land
now i,weed by Mrs. Sarah P. Wells and ;■ r
tuer’.y owned by Edwin I. Higlae, the -uin*
being thirty eight acres more or less. ,1
Ivine in the north east . cur ot lotN->. 271
in the 16th District of Talbot count’ . lev;, ,1
upon as the profierty of Mis Sarah P.
Wdls. to satisty ~n execution in f,v r
W. 11. Seheififeiin & Cos., t s. Sarah P. Wells
and F. J. W, 11 a
Also, at the same fin.o and p’.< otic
third el flic lands of which Ruler! I’-rvon
dird possessed, being tiie plantation o ■
which lie lived at If, time of Ida- . ii-d
which has I,een set off as the dotrarof Mrs.
0. Roxana Persons, said dower h.-ine the
interest levied on, and whereon M;a. *l.
Ertxaua Persons now li7es, eoti’a c 421)
aer*s, mere or 1- ss, levied u. en as t; e proj -
ertv of 0. Roxana Persons, to v.itedy an
exeention in favor ot R R Sin'lii.g-', ’. .
0. It. Persons. Levy made by W, A3.
Cooper.
J. H. HARVEY,
Jan 3-td Kkfruu.
Administrator s Sale-
GEORGI\ Tai-bot Cm-N it.
By virtne of an order ot th** Court f *i Or
dinary of ai<l comity, will he hold It- -o
tbo<sonrt hons? door in on the
fcrrt Tuesday in Fa-1 wiry nfit. 'v;Tm •
hrnirfi of fialc, the remaind r ii :. kI
a'tr the termination of the life • : - i nd
following descrihod lot*-, and n re< N of
land. to- it, lots 11. 20, 27, four acre-, of 1 t
No. 2 the four acres Ivinc* ti-c Mri? '*!
woods in troct of Homestead one ncro > i
and four lorn?, f.Fo lot No. 4. a . i h.df'of lot
No 5. Fraction X* 297 containing 81 J ■ ;
imetion 298 Containing 150 cr s. f-a*-? •
No. 299
district ot Talbot countv. So ! tin
property ot the estate of josr yh llr • <r
cetHed, for the benefit of the heirs and cred
itors of said decfasxd. T-rrn* 1 * -h.
m. y. kylandkr,
T. W. HAT.VEV,
Jan 3-3fM. Admit tre v.
Sale.
GEORGIA -Talbot County.
By tirtne of an order of tin- Court of Or
dirary of mi id Comity. will lo sold lx r •
thf Court house door in Talbotton, f, : thf
first 7uesday in Febnarv , xt, v.i'i in t <
legal houTfi of the cast h If of lot. N
165. in the 2*2d district of Tai’. ot county.
Bold at th' property of the of Vr
Jenny Howard, d.'ce.ified, for the 1 en* fit ■'*;
the heirs and creditors of paid d* - • !.
JAMi: AI ,LEN.
Jan 3-1877. Adminihtvator.
Administrators Sale.
GEORGIA- Talbot Cot nty.
By virfnc of an Order from the Court nf
Ordinary of K.ai<i county. v. -.11 l,c s .Id bcfc.r
the Court House door in Talbotton. on the
fiwt Tnaaduy in February next wri . ti
hour*, of sale, the foUowiiic eVs • 1 -d
lands t wit. Lot nurab r 159, ai if n
*es[ half ot lot number IG4, ftl> > t ?'•
maitiflcr after Dower in lot nmnlHr IGO. a’.!
of Raid landa lyfuff aud b*-ii.</ in lb:-
Distrirtof Haid county, Riid lands !■• \< : ,'
to the cKfate of William d- - -• a nd;
and h. Id fo r (he benefit ‘>f tis* •>’
cte<litorH of paid deceased. TANARUS nns cash,
fvud property sold at the rink <;f ands V
Hawkins t rmcr purchas r. be having i .ih and
to comply with the terms ••?*■.■ I‘‘-
James m<neil.
Jan 3-tdn. Admiurntr tor.
GEORG IA—Talbot Cot - nit.
Whereas. James McNeil Adminirdmtor of
//arnson W. Hagertnan. reprewen's bv In
petition, that he has lullv administered said
Estate and prays to be di.-,-d
from. Now therefore,nil persons < -i-co
Rie hereby cited'and required to f-how
canse if any they have, within t!:e tin • pr
scribed by law, wLy aaid Adndnistr ‘•■r
should not be dißcbargcd. (iiv, ii iiL er
m y official feignatur- Lis I>u- 1 l- r 4th.
GEO. N FURIIES,
Dec. 6-tf. Ordinary.
GEORGIA —TaIbot Cot NTT.
Whereas Thomas M. Bailey and Charles
E Dozier as Administrators ot John
Dozier, senior, dee.eeHed, rc]ircser.t by their
petition that they have fully diseharpt and their
trust and pray to be discharged there
from
Now therefore nil persons corecrned are
hereby notified and required to show ce.as*\
if any they have, wit}jin the lime prosed
ed by law. why said admuii-trators ,-hould
be discharged, and m-eiv letters of
dismission. Given under my Official Slgna
lore this Ist day of Jannarv, 1877.
GEO. N. FORBES,
3 3m. Or Unary.
Kemembor Tliy Mother.
Load thy mother tenderly
Down life's steep decline;
Once her arm vm thy support,
Now she leans on thine,
See upon her loving face
Those deep lines of care;
Think—it was her toil for theo •
Lett that record there.
X* Vr forget her tireless watch
K< pt by day and night,
Taking from ha* step tbo giace,
Fr<>m her * y the ii Jit.
Cherish well her taithtul heart,
Which through weary years
F.elui* and with it.*; sympathy
All tliy smiles and tears.
Thank God tor thy raothci’s love,
Guard the priceless boon;
Fur the bitter parting hour
Cometh all too soon.
When thy grateful tenderness
Loses power to save,
Earth will hold no dearer spot
Thau Ih.v mother's grave.
[WriUfn for tho Rtanparh.
ESTHER;
OR TIER
Tragedy of Millback Bridge,
BY “rKSA.”
CHAPTER VI.
Esther’s secret.
Eatlier’s childisli ),l(iasiirt's, xernned
to have suddenly liven i<‘lin-jnis.Lo<l,
and in their stead, was a hingiii" de
sire to repay her kind benefactress,
for the; rare and interest she hud
manifested for her, as w ell a determi
nation to solve the mystery of herself,
and the idonity of her parents.
“Auntie,” she asked, “is there not,
a single clue, not even an article of
clothing, or anything that would lead
to the discovery of the fiend? I have
often heard, that the slightest, clue or
incident sometimes points to the per
petrator of the most licinious crime.”
“There is nothing I believe but, a
pistol, found near the spot, where the
murder is supposed to have been com
mitted. 1 helievn Mrs. I ipseomh has
it. 1 have never seen r. but have
heard it lias some initials on the
handle, but do not remember what.
Hut why do you ask, and appear so
much interested? The time has he, n
too long for slight clues to benefit
now.”
“Why do Ia it?” replied Esther
springing to her feet, and placing her
hand upon her heart, and speaking in
such thrilling tone-, as to cause Mrs.
Gleason, to also rise, and stare at, the
girl, as if frightened, at the sudden
change in In r.
“Why do i ask? Because I do
not know, if the name 1 bear is my
rightful om'. Is there not a cloud
merit? A mvstery concerning my
birth? Who is my mother? Per
haps sho is a!i,c, and mourns the loss
of 1: r husband and child. Peihaps I
have been in her presence, and never
knew it, no instinct telling me, of the
1 proximity of my parents, because 1
have been so passive and Careless, in
everything concerning her fate. Poor
Grazv Nell always shuddered while
looking at me, muttering, “blood !
blood 1 on her hands and vengeance in
her eyes.” Auntie, I have vowed to
hunt down the assassins, and that vow
is written in characters of fire, on my
heart, and registered by the angels in
| heaven.”
| “Esther Clayton for the love nf
I heaven, stop your wild insane ravings,
and become more composed. Tim rash
xmw you have made, may be imprinted
on your fevered brain, and excited
imagination, but it is worse than mad
ness, it is sacrilegious to say your vow
is registered in heaven. Remember—
“ Vengeance is mine, f will repay,
saith the land.” It is natural my
child, you should desire to find the
identity of your family, but it may
lead to great unhappiness. The reali
ty proving more disagreeable than mi
certainty. But possibly, much good
may accrue, although the task of Her
cules, will not be more difficult, than
tracing up the murderer,and bringing
him to justice. And then Esther my
dear, it would avail but little good, or
gratification to you. Leave vengeance
to a Higher Power my child. Beside*
f doubt, not, if the person is living, he
has self, r <1 punishment., or will have
justice meted out to him, in another
world.”
“])o not, Esther, commence this un
dertaking. You are young, a mere
child, only thirteen years old. And
1 here, instead of dreaming of future
conquests, and contemplating, the
; pleasures of dress,ss would most girls,
i von are erving vengeance and blood.
: jf you wid not retrace that aw fnl vow,
1 let me beseech you to wait atleast
i four years longer, before you com
i mence operations, for, I cannot bear
jto see you burden your young heart
and life, and perhaps darken your
i mind forever, until your education is
! complete, and you have tasted a little
; pleasures of girl-hood, before assuming
the form of an avenger. Will you
promise Esther?”
’The young girl stood almost mo-
I tionless, with head bowed in her bands.
But in a moment raising it. and look
! ing at Mrs. Gleason, she said :
I “We know not what a few years,
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TALBOTTON GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24,1877.
nay months may bring forth to my
life. My mother, if 1 have one alive,
may die, and that too, of a broken
heart, for the loss of her child and
husband. His murderers blood stain
ed hand, may clasp mine, and 1 not
know until too late. No Auntie, 1
cannot grant your request, but will
say, 1 will exert mv vigilance but
commence no action, nor mention
again this unnatural subject for one
so young, unless 1 discover a chic
upon which i commence mv work.”
“Well Esther, my little girl no lon
ger, but a fully developed w oman. 1
have often heard of putting mature
heads on children's shoulders, but I
have seen it. personified to-night. 1
really think by the time you heroine
grown in size, your mental faculties,
will be in their dotage.” And smi
lingly Mrs. Gleason imprinted a Iti-s
on the girl’s blew. “Go to bed she
continued,and try now to sleep, all the
wild fancies, and delirious vows out
of your little cranium. God bless you
1 Isther !”
Tears were in the affectionate lady's
eyes,as the strange and incomprehensi
hie girl left the room, obeying Mrs.
Gleason's injunctions to go to bed,
and was soon asleep forgetful of the
vow, as well as the wound her pride
had received, causing the link if had
pressed in her heart, to rankle, and
the girl to too suddenly assume the
role of a woman of mature veals.
Horace saw, anil fretted over the
change ill his “Wild Gat,” for she had
become sedate, and evinced a great
interest iu all domestic affairs, which
had heretofore been too great, a re
straint on her free evanescent spirits.
No degree of teasing, could provoke a
b’ow from her lists as of old, causing
his eye to look as if in mourning, and
Ills nose present a somewhat diopsi
i ill appearance. Nor was there any
more races-down tin graded walks
One night had not changed the 1 i111•
Tartar into an angel, but she had
formed a determination to act. differ
•uitly, and though the Hashing eye,
firmly compressed lips, and lingers so
firmly clenched, that the le.ils almost
pierced the flesh, were the frequent
consequenreß of an aroused temper,
she never forgot her determination.
Horace wee; troubled. He could not
solve 1 1),- knotty riddle, and although
in* was forced to conie s, she was
mure feminine, in her di-posit ion,
dignified and fascinating iu her con
versation and manners, vet he secretly
sighed over the great change in hi
fi, r e heads!rung E-th’-r, for whom he
felt a protecting interest, as much so
on ■ could le’-l for a m-wly fledged
Eaglet.
Her teachers saw the change from
an idle spirit, who v.-ss fin- torment of
|i he school room, that kept- the little
: bare foot urchins in constant dread of
i bones, for every conceivable prank of
; mischief was prac! ie.-d by her, but
; she always knew the lessons required
;of her, witlemt anv appearance of
| thought or study. But. m-w Mon: i.-ur
! Bierre had not a more studious pupil,
I she seeming to have an insatiable
! ihirst, for knowledge, nothing being
! t.io difficult for her to master. And
Ms ieiiioisel. ■ Esther, soon became the
: favorite ’he dignified Professor.
| All her friends noted and spectila
| ted on the wonderful change, none
' knowing the secret but Mrs. Gleason,
, wlto would often gaze fixedly and al
, most sadly upon the eonfraeted brow
of the girl, a she perused mer some
i difficult study, hut not a word escaped
her. 'Time spoil on, and Esther's va
eatiun attest arrived, sic- welcoming it
with pleasure, for her close application
Ito study, and two years confinement
in the school room had given her usu
hllv pale brow a more shadowy hue,
and her elastic step had Isieome hst
h-M. Two years since she had f.,l ined
her Ksoluiinn toiler mode of life. Two
years since sue had registered the vow,
that had metamorphosed her into a
woman, while still a child in year-.
Bight well she had kept Ic-r resolution
as well as promise, to Mrs. Gleason,
in regald to not mentioning the disa
greeable subject unless some elm* had
lawn discovered. Nothing worthy of
notched transpired to disturb the
even tenor of her way, although she
often indicated great impatience,
seemingly a:s if chafing under the re
striction that had been placed upon
her. She is now fifteen the day after
the examination, and is standing by
the window looking out on tic; green
grassy lawn, almost covered w ith wa
ter, for tic rain had been pouring all
day, and the dark leaden clouds giv
ing iridieatsons of protracted showers.
She is idly thrumming the window
panes with her tap. ling fingers, while
a shadow of impatience, floats across
her brow a- she hears the mutteriii*
thunder and the rain falling with ac
celerated velocity.
“Pshaw!” she, at last exclaims. “H
does really appear, evert,hing conspires
lo torment me this morning. I had
set my heart on going to Millbank
Mill, to see the operation of the new
machine, that ha: so much interested
Horace. All the other girls will go i
know, and of course Helen Be Forest
will he there, with her waxen doll
beauty, and childish simplicity, to kill
all the rest of tho girl* with envy, and
turn the boys heads, by her smiles,
and particularly so, Horace Gleason.
I never saw a person more infatuated.
1 gave him Credit for better taste,
than to lavish his love and fascinations
on that little piece of insipidity. But
then it has been truthfully said, “Alan
like a trout, may ho taken by tick
ling,” and 1 tbink if a poor individ
ual was ever besot by a Siren, Horace
is and she has him now almost entan
gled in the meshes of her net.” And
Esther smiled a cold contemptuous
smile, although in the depths of her
fathomless eyes, a sad light shone.
“But why need 1 care,” continued
she almost sadly, “lie does not care
for me, even as a friend. And yet
only a short, w bile ago, 1 know 1 was
dear to him, and was essential to his
happiness. He even ealled me sister,
ami was so proud of my late improve
ment. But with my rash hand,or rath
er my unruly tongue and violent tem
per 1 have canceled even his friend
ship, by telling him, Helen He Forest,
was a wily and deceitful actress, w hich
I know is not the ease. But then 1
saw his growing love for her, and it
almost drov e one mad. I w ill not
stoop to ask a reconciliation or en
deavor to thaw the icy barrier that is
now bet ween us. But 1 love him so,
I love him so.”
The proud girl bowed her head upon
her hands. Her emotion lasted but a
moment-, and on raising her face, the
sorrowful expression was gone, and iu
its stead, were signs of her old pas
-ioni c nature, and stubborn will, as
she exclaimed :
‘“Hut Horace shall never know mv
humiliating secret. I will guard it with
mv heart's blood. Yes, I have been
a fool, to allow his handsome face,and
gallant manners, to win my love un
asked, and unrot,timed. But it is
well, for what right have 1 to love?
when my life has been dedicated to
flie God of vengeance. IT 1 seem to
beget tile vow 1 made two vears ago,
I am reminded of it, by the burning
I'naraeters so indelibly impressed upon
lev heart, t tli 1w hy did 1 make that
promise to Auntie ? Two more vears
to wait, before I commence my work,
ami this seems like a century to wait
\\ hv was I not formed, with an or
ganization like other girls ? And be
contented to settle down ill a quiet
hum drum life and end my days in the
common tread mill existence that is
allotted most f- males. But a phan
tom seems ever to be by mv side,
pointing with its bonv fingers, and
whispering in mv ears:
“Revenge! Revenge t"
it. is, I know, the hand of desfinv,
end I will obey jt,x dictates. But I
did so much wisli to visit. Millbauk
to day, and again inspect, the spot, of
mv father's murder. But Auntie,
will not. listen to mv going out in the
rain, after having this horrid cold.
Heiglm ! I suppose I will 'live to
make the lies! of surrounding circum
stance*. But yonder comes Mrs.
Eipseomb, and surely it, must be
sometbing urgent to bring her out,
this rainv dav.”
(to ru: (’i)NTtsri n. )
11 is wife’s Troubles.
“Ef V!in\l bin down to my house
las night von’d seen a punrt'.iiiuuerl”
said Old Si.
“How is that V”
“My ole’oniaii she bought a sfleon’-
lmn’ one ol> dose liytir newly-invent
ed steel-spring female tenders, an
“Bought what, yon say?”
“< Ini'i b desc p,stint, fish traps flat
a ’onm.ti strap* on an’ totes ’round!”
“A bustle ?”
“Bar, now. dais do very name!
Well, she tried for to put hit. on, an’
ez sin lie/, only got nine yard ob
kalikei in her die: i, yerkin ’mugine
de Htrni’gil dat she had 1”
“Well, did she get it on !”
“Oh, VAX, she got hit on jess ez
ee/v ez putting do harnesses on a
stm.-t-kyar mule. De aggyliodinn
ariz when she emu ter put on her
dies o!;er de darn cor! I Apshiti 1”
“llow did that work;”
' Blessd miu.-ter. dal’s wind Ise
tryin ter t- II yer -hit didn’t wurk at.
all sdi. She jess gymnast*d ’round
dur tell dar wuz’t. room in de house
fur nnlliin’ else Imt her end dat
shuck Imskit nfiVr! 1 had ter hup
her on wid de gyanniut, honey!”
“ Why, how did you manage it
sir V”
“Sho’! I’se waggin’d man;
da vs not ter git de better ob a case
like dat 1 I jess stood de ole ’otnan
oil de table an’cot eh hold ob de
drees wid de waggio- kiver grab, an’
F had dat gyariuint on fore yer cooil
say Jack Kobbersori !”
“ Well, and how did she git out
of it?”
“Oh! oh! don’t ax mo dat ! I
went visitin'soon ez I got hit on her
•ill’ 1 stayed tel) bed-time, yer ink
ho bound !” Atlanta Sniidny Herald.
Ilaniaii? Al.xtuis.
It is the mother who moulds, the
character and destiny of the child.
Never make a remark at tho ex
pense of the other; it is meanness.
Never part without loving words
to think of during your absence.
Besides, it may be that you may
never meet again in life.
“llow gentle glides the married
life away. When she who rules
j still seems but to obey?”
| Never bath manifest anger at
once.
I Never speak loud to ono another
’ unlois the house is on fire.
Jus. GciaD ii liennett
The editor of tho Herald is at. a
disadvantage in seizing public
opinion, with all his machinery of
circulation. Having scrupulously
kept out of his paper any reference
to his courtship and engagement
acting in this respect very differently
from his father, who mado his
marriage a great topic—Mr. Bennett
is estopped from referring to its
rupture and the attendant affray.
Meanwhile most of tho other morn
ing papers omit no feature of tho
scattdal and are apparently bent on
forcing a duel, as a good way to
stamped pt.be Herald’s circulation.
Newspaper men am like wolves;
when one is woundt and the others eat
him up. Tt tn: y be said for this
wountled editor that lie was excep
tionally decorous to other editors;
that he neither replied to their at
tacks nor took advatitepe of their
misfortunes, and kept bis editoral
columns clear of imputation upon
their business or honor. He did
this in the fttco of the very opposite
standard set. by his father, who re
joiced in personalities and as
perities.
Tt was Air. Bennett’s inheritance,
perhaps, to leecivc, with riches, the
love of pleasure and little or no
domestic, training. His mother
traveled, his father was a
recluse; the importance of the
paper attracted to the young man
bis elders, generally men of pleasure,
and bis income was mol-, than a
match for any of Iheirs. He spent
much of bis boyhood and youth in
Europe, and never knew the sweet
wses of adversity. Tho deceased
Vanderbilt has said that lie never
knew lint two or three tnn to have
the head to stand wealth. 'William
Vanderbilt was kept hard at. work
on a farm until be was forty years
old Mr. Bennett’s son was born
like a young Highland chief, with n
i end v-in a■ le clan and a feather in
his hat. Besides, be was of very
peculiar descent, llis father wis
Scotch Catholic, with a romantic,
baronial notion that lie was to form
anew kind of clan around a, print
ing machine,old servitors and young
henchmen, and all were to be ruled
bv family traditnns Nobody Could
be individual there; discipline was
to bo military, ns in the country of
the Macgrcgor. With the greatest
mental re-peel for his father, voting
Bennett took the paper, and strove
to square the circle between feudal
an.l modern times and to carry on.
the old man’s ideal of a newspaper
barony. Hence bo made bis oftice
a sort of biiirnek'H and sought, his
associates elsewhere. He is reported
to have said he could not. go to tits
Lotos Club because he might, meet
his employees there: so he went, to
the Union Glub, where this affray
happened Ia ing to physical edu
cation as the most, baronial of
pleasures, lie s tiled like the lords of
the ish s, rode polo, walked mate,he ,
distributed soup, gave athletic prizes
ami ilispatcned Stanley and others
if Quixotic yet quaint adventures.
Tne aurora bore-lis of sensation
-bone ever the son as the father, iu
startling bead lines and
alliterations. The Herald was al
ways surprising, acrobatic and rang
ing between tin; sublime and the
ridiculous. The young man was
loyally steering for the old man’s
ideal, without being as much of a
poet. “My ardent desire,” published
the elder Bennett, when Ho editor
ialized bis marriage, “has been
through 1 ito to la-aeh the highest
order of human excellence . by the
shortest possible cut. I must, fulfil!
that awlal destiny which tho Al
mighty Father lias written against:
my name.” If ibis was sensation,
it was also insanity, arid perhaps
they are tbo same Genius, sensa
tion and insanity are divided by
tßin partitions.
Thus, of such parents as the Duke
de lieichst.adt had- a volnptions
princess and a romantic conqueror
—young Bennett came of age in til
fiiialiest period since Alexander’s
feast, with an income of not less
than one thousand dollars a day,
and all the appurtenance* of a
prince. His property was a sonrre
of government, the most feared by
New York politicians. His staff
was made up of every calling and
t rs le—freebooters,satli>rs,medianies
and engineers—and the office fitted
out and put in the war sixly-o Id
soldiers as the Herald’s company.
On the 1 1 h!h of Louis Napoleon’s
pension-roll was the Chevaliar
Wykoff of this office. Bennett bad
yachts, horses, telegraphs, expr s
wagons, signal stations, foreign
officers and agents iu eve y por ■ f
the world. Below Bis build
ing, at the central spot of Ameri
can movement, lay half a million dol
lars’ worth of presses, each of which
could speak as loud Hiid oft as the
rolling surf. Such possessions, with
so little restraint to prepare him
for them, soon gave Mr. Bennelta
surfeit r.f power and enjoyment.
His father died, and there was
nobody so perfectly absolute in the
republic; for he had no partners, ne
guardians, no reverses, no counsel
ors. Ft could speak without reply
punish without recourse and bf
oared or flattered every weere. ’] •
the list, of absolute kings, who have
yielded to passion and pleasure,
must bo added this young King of
tho Commons. But 1 hold it to bo
remarkable lhat with this almost
lawless authority he kept the Herald
more disi a situate, less spiteful and
less personal than any morning pa
per in New York. His private feuds
were never exercised in it, except
oecasially, when an order went out
to put on no account someone name
in the paper. That order is general
in New York paper offices, as a
species of infant terror.
Mr. Bennett was educated nt
Harvard ami his tastes were not
akin to his father’s, who liked to ho
among the writers and correspon
dents. Consequently (ho wovkijg
force, with few exceptions, has no
social relation to Iho controlling
editor. This proves to have been a
mistake. Ho would have found
more reliable and less misleading
triends in his own service. Ono of
his correspondents bocatno a great
favorite ot the Emperor of Brazil;
another was highly- esteemed bv
Lord Duffei in. the presence of
(heir employer would have toned up
and inspirted tli” office, and 1 never
s xv more devoted adln rents of any
body-, though afraid of him, than
Elliott, Connery, O’Kelly, Be Fon
taine and that ram of Herald men.
But the young lord was oi a differ
ent growth; he had the barony on
his mind. Generous at times with
bis men, paying Sd 1110 on ono oc
casion for English watches for three
of them -Fox, Stanley and O'Kelly
—and even more cordial to men of
rival papers, Mr. Bonnet managed
his office fitfully by telegraph and
lived with clubs anil club men. His
chief ability was in ideas of some
thing bold or ] iguant or adventur
ous, which he would work up in his
mind and spare no money to accom
plish. He had nerve and enterprise,
.and only lacked stability, his father's
’ xtingnished fire. Ho inherited
business ability, also, but exercised
it alternately with p liols of pleas
tire, bo that the place worked jerkily
and nobody was quite certain ot
being here or yonder. Hi accor
dance with the baronial idea tho edi
tors were degraded to reporters at
will, and reporters en masse levied
as editors, a system of civil service
like a steamboat explosion, xvhoro
those going up astonished meet
others astonished coming down. Jle
took this method of making the city
department better, as in the London
Times, but it was not so plain how
lie c-rnhl thus improvo the editorial.
It seems to me that the idea of mak
ing all sorts of a man out of one xvill
spoil the man. Tiie newspaper is a
school of mental dissipation at the
best,; one's truest place is where ho
was efficient the longest.
I recall one occasion,and Iho oulv
one, when J wrote editi ’rial for the
I Herald or talked with Mr. Bennett.
Several times 1 had baon requested
to call on him, but being also sliv
had postponed the time till one*,
alien dropping iu the Herald office,
they brought mo plump into (he
presence of that supremo being. He
was sitting nt a table, in a sort of
alcove, or side room, and appeared
as bashful as myself. Ho was a
young man, of 115 pounds weight,
or less, wearing a gray suit of clothes
on rather slim limbs, and all about
him was neat; ring, studs, collar
button, linen. He had a light gray
■ eye, light sandy lmir, clean, loan
features, no great forehead, but a
shrewd, observant one, and x-ery
good manners, though not. plausi
bility or decided address. Tfc was at
the time of the Groe'ev campaign,
just before the B.d.imoro Conven
tion met. He spoke with a little
hesitation, bearing out mv precon
ception that he sees a thing more
dearly than ho expresses it.
“1 heard you were hr.ro,” he
said, “and f have just thought of an
“editorial.” You know that when tho
deluge began to come and the ark
was built, tho people all exclaimed
that there would be no rain. It did
Jain, though. Then they said it
would only boa shower. But as it
rained more and more, the little
animals began to get in out of the
wet. '1 he bigger animals, also, got
alarmed and came in. At last the
giraffe and the elephant, tho rhino
ceros and the grizzly bear came in,
very sullen, hut niraid to stay out
any more. That’s the way the
Democrats recognizing Greeley,”
concluded Mr. Bennett. “The little
fellows came in a good while ago;
now Thtn-mau and Hendricks and
Bayard are lagging in to ‘get out of
the rain Call you write that 1”
1 had an engagement of a most
imperative character, which lie for-
I got to inquire about. It was to meet
my wife and go out to dine. But 1
galloped those animals into the ark
with a precipitation never equalled,
except when they got loose about
two years afterward. In half an
hour tho whole btory of the deluge
was told.
Stanley says Hint Mr. Bennet, put
his head out of a chamber door one
morning in Baris and told him to
go and find Living-alone as com
posedly as if he had said, “Go M ost,
young man !”
The Scotch element in Bennett is
convivial, and his companion* are
generally-men retired from business
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or xvithont avocation, men of for
tune, with no such sensitive! proper
ty a a his, and oftenev with moro
capacity to stand havy dinner*.
Like all men lvlio indulge, his toru
por is uncertain; his repontanco is
deep.
Advice <o Voting Men.
ihe Philadelphia Lodger says that
President Porter, of Y'alo College,
e the following advice to students
of that institution the other day:
“Yeung men, you are tho architects
of your own strength of body and soul;
take for your star self-reliance, faith,
honesty and industry; inscribe on your
haulier, luck is a fool, pluck is a hero.
Don’t, take too much advice, keep at
your oxxai helm, and steer your own
ship, and remember the great art of
commanding is to take a fair share of
the work. Don’t, practice too much
humanity, think well of yourself,
strikeout, at:- umo your own position;
put potatoes in your cart over ft rough
road and tho small ones go to the
hot iotn, rise above the envious and
jealous, fire above the mark you in
tend to hit; energy, invincible deter
mination, xvith a if|jlit motive, are the
lovers that move the world; don’t
drink, don’t chexv, don’t smoke, don’t
swear, don’t deceive,don’t read novels,
don’t marry until you can support a
\\ ife, ho in earnest, self-reliant, bo
generous, be civil, read tho papers,
• iv< rtise your business, make money,
and do good xvitli it, lox-e your God
and fellow-man, love truth and virtue,
love your country, and obey its laws.
A Man Rescued.
Jessie McDonald was hard at work!
at the wash tub, one day, when her
little son Fergus came rushing into
the room crying as if his poor littlo
heart would break.
“Daddy’ll die up there,” ho sobbed;
“they can’t get him down.”
“Die ! up where ?” exclaimed Jes
: ie, wringing the soap olf her hands
and wiping them upon her apron.
“(>ll the top of the factory chimney;
tho rope hi s slipped down and they
can’t get up another, and the ladders
arc all too short.”
Jessie flew out of tho house and
ran to tho foot of the new factory
chimney, round which a crowd of
workmen were gathered in loud dis
cussion. On the top of the chimney
stood Angus McDonald, far beyond
tan reach of help, to all nppearanco.
When the staging was taken down,ho,
tie l most, skillful of the workmen,-
li.ui been left to do some last bit of
work. By a strange accident tho ropo
by which he was to let himself down
Imd slipped and fallen xvhore it lay in
a heap.
Jessie covered her eyes with her
hands. “Lord, help me !”she prayed
from the depths of her heart. A sud
den thought came as the answer to
her prayer.
“ Angus,” she called, “ltiirax-el your
sin king, man, and tie a hit of mortar
to tlieeud of the yarn, and let it down
to me.”
Oir came one of Angus, blue socks,
knitted of the best yarn, spun by Jes
de herself. He raveled it out tied on
the mortar, and let it down to tho
ground.
Meanwhile Jessie had sent for a
ball of stout t.wiuo. The end of tho
twine she tied to tho end of tho
yarn.
“Now, draw the yarn up slowly,”
she said.
Angus followed her directions and
us the yarn went up higher and higher
and higher, she let out more and
more twine from tho ball in her hands.
What steady hands they were ! no
tangling of the twine nor dropping of
tie-ball. If she had been unrolling
a clothes line, she could not liavo
done it more quietly. At last Angus
called out:
“All right ! T have got tho twine.
Now what are you going to do ?’
“Tic on the rope,” called Jessio.
'There was not a sound among tho
crowd, you could liavo heard a pin
drop ns, with breathless interest, they
watched the work.
She tied the rope and tho twino
together as firmly as any sailor could
liavo done. Eager eyes, watched it
ascend, higher, higher, higher, until
Angus called out:
“All right, I’ve got tho ropo, stand
from under.”
He secured tho ropo, camo down
over hand—ah ! one can’t tell about
such things ! Tho xvorktnen cried
like children, and pressed round
Angus and Jessio with words of praise
and affliction. Then some ono wiser
than t he rest said, “Lot them go homo
alone.” -v
And in the little kitchen the hus
band and wife and child knelt, and
thanked God that their hearth was
not made desolate 1
A man is what hia wife make*
him.
A good wife is tho greatest earth
ly blessing.
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Marry into a different blood anil
temperament from that of your
own.
Never allow a request to be re
p-dr 1. “/forgot is never an accep
table excuse.