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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XX.
KILLIKS AJt 8A.01.R.0W 1..
The Dealli Jlrmrle of a BtS Bird
With Ejr of Fire.
Nat We luts inany’surprises to those
who wait on her. One of the great
est she ever favored me with was
the sight of a wounded Magellanic
eagleowl I shot on the Rio Negro, in
Patagonia. The haunt ot this bird was
an island in the river, overgrown
with giant grasses and tall willow,
leafless now, for it was in the middle
of winter. Here I sought for and
found him waiting on his perch for
the snn to set. He eyed me so calm-'
u- when I aimed my gun I scarcely
had the heart to pull the trigger, lie
had reigned there o long, the feudal
tyrant of that remote wilderness!
Many a water rat, stcadug like a
-shadow along the margin between
the deep stream and the gunt rushes,
he had snatched away to death;,
many a spotted wild pigeon had woke
on its perch at night with his cruel
• crooked talons piercing its flesh; and
beyond tho valley on busy uplands
many a crested tiuamou had been
slain on her nest and Iter beautiful
glossy, dark green eggs left to grow
pale in the sun and rain, the little
lives that were in them dead because
of their mother's death. 15ul I wanted
that bird badiv, and hardened my
heart; tho “demoniacal laughter’
with which he had so often answered
tho rushiug round of the swift black
•river at even-tide would be heard no
more. I fired; lie swerved on his
perch, remained fora fow moments
then slowly fluttered down. Behind
the spot where he had fallen was a
great mass of tangled dark green
grass, out of which rose the tall, slen
der boles of tlie tree; overhead
through the fretwork of leal less
twigs the sky was flushed with the
tender roseate tints, for the sun had
now gone down and the surface of the
earth was in shadow.
There in such scenes, and with the
wintry quiet of the destjrt over all. I
4n.tnA .. hlii 1.., t,:, ,
Voiltm
to fury ami I prepared for the la-1
supreme effort. Even in repose he is
a big, cagle-liko bird; now his ap
pearance was quite altered, and in
the dim, uncertain light he looked
gigantic in size—a monster of strange
form and terrible aspects. Each par
ticular feather stood out on end, the
tawny barred tail spread out like a
fan, (lie iminni-e tiger-colored wing
wide open and rigid, so that as the
bird, that had clutched the grrss with
his geeat feathered claws, sway
his body slowly fioin side to side—
Just as a snake about to strike sways
its head, or as angry, watchful rat
moves its tail—first the tip of one and
then of tlie other wing touched the
ground.
The hlack horns stood erect, while
in the center of the wheel-shaped
head tho beak snapped incessantly,
producing a sound resembling the
clicking of a sewing machine. This
was a suitable setting for the pair ol
imagnificenl furious eyes, on which 1
gazed with a kind of fascination not
unmixed with tear when I remem
bered the agony of pain suffered on
former occasions from sharp, crooked
talons driveu into me to the bone.
Tho irides were of a bright orange
color, but every time I attempted to
approach the bird they kindled into
■great globes of quivering flame, the
black pupils being surroundel by a
scintillating crimson light which
threw out minute yellow sparks into
the air. When I retired from the bird
the preternatural fiery aspect instantly
■Vanish.—Gentleman’s Magazine.
Young I:idr mi Honrdlng School.
Al some of the French boarding
ectiuoU in Paris, the girls are led on
weak soup, two or three degrees
stronger than hot water; meat, from
which nearly all the nourishment is
extracted by boiling; coarse veal, wa
tery carrots and gray sour bread. The
young lady who comes home after a
lew terms of this sort of diet may be
very learned, but is pale and poor
.looking, lacking vigor and health.
Give her Brown’s Iron Bitters—the
best tonic in the world for young la
dies with impoverished blood—and
bring the roses into her cheeks.
In no other medicinal preparation
have the results of the most intelli
gent study and scientific inquiry been
so steadily and progressively utilized
as in Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It leads
the list as a trulyscientific preparation
d’or all blood diseases.
A ROMANCE.
After 30 Tears’ Separation—A Strange
Storr from the Nutmeg" State.
The simple announcement in a local
paper, 11 ;trt (onl, J wne
2. tV. TV. Converse, of Hattfbrd,”
gives little clew to one of the most
romantic affairs that has over oc
cupied in local history. Such roman
ces arc not unfamiliar in novels, but
in real lire rare. The bridegroom is
the President of*ihe Winchester Arms
Com pa ay, a great Xe >v Haven cepora
tibn of worth wide fame employing 1;
000 hands, ami the bride is a member
ot an old Conneeiicut family. Before
the war Mr. Converse, then a young
man of 20. vaiue from Massachusetts
and located in Hartford. lie met
Miss Spencer, who was of tine same
ago, ami aw euga wnniit hot ween the
young people followed. About this
lime Miss Spencer’s father a bote!
keeper,died leaving (lie family in some
what straitened circumstances—so
much so in fact, that (lie widow
opened a boarding house as a means
of supporting herself and tlirej chil
dren. Miss Belle, the fittest, was be
sought to remain with her mother
during tier lifetime, and promised to
do so. Her mother was then nearly
Hity tend needed other assistance and
and counsel. The young girl refused
to marry Converse, and a lover’s
quarrel ensued, resulting in his re
moval to New Haven. He prosnered
there,and sometime later, by marriage
with Now Haven woman was brought
in close relation with the TV ino Hesters.
Eventually lie engaged in business
with them, anil in the course of years
rose to the presidency of the company
with a salary ot ♦l2 .000 per annum,
lie heard but infrequently from bis
cr rly love, and finally a report reached
him that she was dead.
His wife died three years ago, and
last fall he heard dial Miss Spencer
was yet alive and and unmarried, and
that for thirty long years she had
held her promise to remain with her
inoi o'er iinfiViVcatli renoFeci her from
duty. In November last her mother
died at I lie age of 78, and within a
lew weeks Mr. Converse called upon
the sweet heart of Ins early manhood.
He called once, and again and again,
and during the last winter an en
gagement of thirty years before was
renewed. He gave her elegant pres
ents, and a wedding trousseau of tlie
finest description was prepared.
The ceremony was performed last
Tuesday week and was a quiet affair
with the wedding party limited to a
few friends. They were a handsome
couple—lie a wcll-pteservcd gentle
man of 50; she retaining much of her
youthful beauty, although her dark
hair was liberally sprinkled with
gray, “.’ho wedding trip, like their
marriage, was a qniel afi'air—a car
riage journey through the beautiful
Berkshire bills of Western Massachu
setts, never more delightful than in a
New England June. After all these
years of devotion to what Miss Spen
cer held to be her duty, she is deserv
ing of tlie congratulation ; her friends
have showered upon her for its hap
py lerminalien.—Chicago Tribune.
WANTED A WEAITUIIK MAN.
The Rutland, Vermont, woman
who applied for a divorce from her
husband on the ground (hat a “weal
thier New York man wanted her”
probably looked at this life with the
cold eye of a practical woman. She
was tired of sewing buttons on a poor
man's shirts and of trying to keep his
home in order for the bare living his
hard work gave her, and the little
matter of love which ho tried to
tluow in lost its charm amid the walls
of a humble home.
It isn’t the first ease on record in
which divorces have been sought for
just that reason, although that lias
never been the ostensible motive or
basis on which any were granted. It
takes something of character and pa
tient self-denial on the part of a wo
man to go through life as the wife of
a poor man, am} she echo of rustling
silks sometihing haunts her when ar
rayed in humbler garb. Some wo
men, however manage to do it with
out very serious regret and some ap
pear to'have been happy while doing
it. It is unfortunate for tho Ver
rucntclaimaut that her petition was
denied, but more so for her husband.
A woman of that kind can be easily
spared.
JLlfc Preserver.
If you are losing your grip on life,
try “Wells’ Health Receiver.” Goes
direct to weak spotß.
WASHINGTON, GA.,. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1885*
IT MAKES A MAN HASP. TO BOOK,
Tile Waves of Tipsy Melt null Shout,
of Pretty Women on 1* roadway.
“Drunkards and pretty women,”
said a stalwart Broadway policeman
yesterday “run in shoals. A period
ofdititikenness has settled on this
town which people must be awaro of
if thoy have had their eyes open dur
ing the last two weeks. I have boon
observing New Yorkers for a good
many years front my post right on
this corner. All New York passos
here at some lime or oilier, and I have
got so that I know tlie faces df'half
■ hebusiness m'en in town. About ten ‘
days ago what you might call a rage
ofliquor fell on the boys. Every oth
er man who walked up and down
passed my corner with his head in
ihe air. swinging his arms aaid whis
tling, singing, or talking at the high
rate. Front that lime to this it has
been on the Increase. I never saw so
many young men under the influence
of liquor in my life as during thiajpar
ticular time. One of the waiters in
the saloon three doors above he."| tells
me that that business lias never ‘been
so brisk as during this time, and the
only reason that tho true state of
things lias not come up in tho police
courts is because tho drinkers are
nearly all gentemaniy appearing fel
lows wiio are not fractious or tigiy;
at least, few of them are. There are,
of course, some who are ugly, and if
you should go around to the bounces
of the different hotels, particularly of
iheHofftnan house, and ask them
about some of tho midnight scenes
during the past two weeks they might
give you a heap of information about
prolty well known into. It is hard
to account for It, except on tltegnmnd
that the sudden rush of hot Prather
makes men feel stale and mjeoniforl
ahiuand they take a drink toStruighl
en tip. You never feel liko eating in
hot weather.and so if yon drink imicli,
it is apt to be ou an empty atunach.
•WrsCoTiM"ifi!f l iS 1 ,, tofnytrffr fUrf'Trr
you don’t feel like eating, von n <inr—
ally keep on drinking. Tie first
tiling you know you are three disets
in (lie wind. It is very different in
the winter when men go home as
soon as business is over and ea their
dinner, because tlie brisk air gives
the man appetite, and they stay n the
house to keep warm.”
“But the shoals of pretty wonten ?”
“That, boats me. Every policeman
on Broadway will tell you that there
are, times when pretty women run so
thick that it makes a man gafp to
cast his eyes along a block, and there
are other times when the faces collect
ively and singly, arc enough to stop
the watches of every policemai on
the street. I don’t believe the weath
er has anything whatever to do with it
for I have known beautiful days to
bring out crowds of ugly women,
while on other days that are uol!half
so pleasant the streets have been alive
with pretty faces. There seem to be
no particular day of the week, either
on which pretty women come out in
numbers. I need to think llrat Fri
day was the best day for handsome
women. That was a sort of trad tlon.
But it is a mystery. They simply turn
out or they don’t as the fancy strikes
them, and the fancy seems to govern
pretty women at one time and plain
onos at another.
A BOV’S ESTIMATE OF Ills MOTH.
KH’K WORK,
‘My mother gets me tip, builds tbc
fire and gets my breakfast and sends
me off,’ said a bright youth. ‘Then
she gets iny father up, and gels his
breakfast and sends him off. Then
she gives the other children their
breakfast and sends them to school
and then she and the baby have their
breakfast.’
‘llow old is the baby ?’ asked the
reporter.
•O, she is ’most two, but she can talk
and waU as well as any of us.’
‘Arc you well paid ?’
‘I get $3 a week and father gets |2 a
day”.
‘How much does your mother get?’
With a bewildered lookjthc boy -aid,
‘Mother, why she don’t work for any
body.’
‘I thought you said she worked for
all of you.’
‘O yes, tor us she does but there
ain’t no money in it.’
**Rouf(t> on Toothache.”
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RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
llellgtout Statistics srour cities.
The Rev. William Bryant lias been
studying somo of tho religious statis
tics of our cities and gives some re
sults: “Taking tlio thirty-four
American cities with ovot 50,000 pop
ulation we find that the Methodist
Episcopal Church is the largest in
seventeen ; the Presbyterian in nine;
the Baptist in four; tho Congrega
tional in three, and the Episcopal in
one, New York, its natural home.
The Scriptures In Japan.
The eagerness of the Japanese for the
Scriptures the past year,says Dr.Natli
an Brown, from Yokohama, has boon
astonishing. Four thousand Gospels
were disposed of and over 10,000 small
portions and tracts. Dr. Brown’s
principal colporteur has sold and dis
tributed over 12,000 books and trap's
with his own hands. Christians own
Bibles and road them, always turning
to tho passages referred to by the
preacher in his sermon—not a bad
habit for Christians of every race.
A View Tlnit USugieitlve.
Dr. Smith furnishes the following
estimates : A view of the missionary
growth of Christianity, at epochs
widely separated from tho ascension
ofChrist and from each other, ena
bles us to show the comparatively ra
pid progress made in the present cen
tury, and especially in the last tbitty
years, which has given the Christ llie
first fruits of harvest.
Three centuries after Christ, 5 mil
lions. Eight centuries after Christ,so
millions. Fifteen centuries uflor
Christ 100 millions. Eighteen cen
turies after Christ, 174 millions.
Eighteen rnd a half centuries after
Christ's ascension, 440 m.llions.
Of all commentaries upon the Scrip
tures, good examples are the best and
the liveliest—Dr. Donne.
llTe robi lif (Tiviiie ilt’e is faith. The
chief branches arc love of God, chari
ly to man,purity, and humility. These
are ‘he highest perfections that either
men or angels are capable of, the
very foundation of heaven itiid in the
soul.
It was 1 lie atmosphere ofElkanali’s
and Hannah’s godly house that pro
duced a Samuel. It was tho wretched
sir of Eli’s house which ruined Hopli
ni and Phinehae.—Dr. T. L. Cuvier.
Perhaps we first.come to love Christ
lor what he lias done; but then we go
on to love him tor what ho is, to rc
joioo in the ever unfolding sweetness
of his perfection.
Don’t say, “There is very little
Christianity in the worldsay rather
“There is very little in me.” When
you sav the former, the latter is true.
—N. 11. Rcmick.
Tlicro is nothing which so much
distinguishes Ihß Christian’s religion
as its opposition to the passions and in
clinations of tinman nature.—Haller.
The professed Christian who suc
cessfully avoids all real self-sacrifice
in such a world as this is successful as
well in missing an indispensable mark
of true discipleship.
Massillion hit it when he said that
if tho dogmas did not evolve the du
ties of Christianity, there would be
few avowed skeptics. This is the
difficulty with you.
When the man you dislike trips and
loses hi* balance, don’t rush forward
and give him a push with a view to
make hi* fall complete. This is trip
ping yonrselt.
No pastor can do his work without
the sympathy ot his people. Give
him yours in such a way as to make
him feel it.
No injurious effecls can follow the
use of Ayer’s Ague Cure in the treat
ment of malarial diseases. It contains
besides a specific and unfailing anti
dote for miasmatic poison, other rem
edial agents which unite to expel the
poisonous humors, purify the system,
and leave it in a healthy and reinvig
orated condition.
Heart Pain*.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings
Dizziness, [lndigestion, Headache,
Sieeplesncss cured by “Wells’ Health
Kcnewer.”
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