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FAME.
Front the Anurrienn Magazine.
‘‘Bridget,'' said I. with a modest air.
And the tone of a genius unaware,
As paper In hand. I pointed where
Some verses of mine wore printed.
‘ This is what I was writing one day.
When I sent you in a hurry to say,
Tne children must not make a noi*e at play.
Or I’d certainly go demented.
"My name is published— net. up there"—
She looked at it with bewildered stare,
Thai slowly ohankod to a pitying air,
As she laid asiJe the tajicr.
"Troth, on' I do. rua in, mind that same;
Id think it quare, an’ a burnin' shame.
If they should be afther printin' my name.
Like that, plain out in the iiaper!”
THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.
A Wonderful Scrap Book Unearthed
—Some Relics of the Days of 1801.
H'ruh i itgton Letter to Burlington Free Free*.
The most curious relic among the ar
chives of the Confederacy is the scrap-book
of designs for the Confederate flag. Those
designs were spntto the Committee on Flag*
when Provisional Congress first met at Mont
gomery, and they came from every State of
the South. Only a few of them are pre
served here, and CoL Boteler, who Was a
member of the Confederate Flag Commit
tee, tells me that the number of designs re
ceived ran high into the thousands, and
that they filled a box as big as a piano top.
These were captured at Richmond with the
other Confederate archives, and specimens
of them have been selected and pasted in
this old scrap-book. The book wae origin
ally a volume of Confederate Treasury
blanks, and you may seethe ‘‘promises to
pay” here and there peeping out from under
the many-colored flag; which ornament its
leaves. It is a ragged volume 18 inches
long, 12 inches wide and as thick, as a man’s
fist. Its paper is faded and its covers are
worn: the corners aredog-eared, and it bears
the evidences of its twenty-five year of
handling.
One cunured and twenty-nine designs for
a Confederate flag are pasted within it, and
these are of all sizes, shapes and colors.
Some are n . larger than a visiting card,
others are the size of this
newspaper and several are of
the full size of the ordinarv regimen
tal flag. These last are made of cloth and
the coloring upon them is of the brightest
paint The design which I here give you
with a rattlesnake upon .it is us large as "the
sheet of a baby's crib, and it looks as though
it might ha\e been made of some such ma
terial! Its thirteen stripes are of red and
white, and upon them are seven red stars
and crimson crescent moon. This rattle
snake has a skin made up of black and yel
low diamonds s(<ote, and there was a motto:
"Don't tread on mo—.t is certain death."
This design was sent to Robert Toombs, and
in the letter accompanying it the wr.te
says:
"The white stripes represent the seven
States of the South and the red one show
that if they are oppressed they will fight for
blood. The rattlesnake represents the Con
federacy. If you come near him he wall
sing out with his rattle. If you do not
leave, and dare to tread upon hun, it is cer
tain death.”
Nearly all of these designs are accom
panied by letters. Rome are addressed to
President Jefferson Davis, some to Alexan
der H. Stephens, some to Robert Toombs aud
a great many to William Porcher Miles, who
was the Chairman on tho Committee on
Flags. All of the letters are full of feeling,
aud all glow with loyalty to the new gov
ernment. Some are'written by ladies, and
not a few of the designs are furnished bj
them. The ladies’ letters are the most earn
est aud enthuiostic. One Georgia women
says she dedgnad the flag which she sends
herself and that she hopes tho Confederacy
‘will secede peaceable, but whether peace
ably or not, it will sere ie.” A South Caro
lina mother pathetically says, dating her
letter Feb. 10, 1881, that she has given three
dear boys to her country, and hopes the
young republic will honor the memory of
Washington by dating its organization from
from Feb. 22 and calling it the Washingti ;n
Republic. She writes just as she hears tbe
news that Mr. Davis lias been elected Presi
dent. and closes her letter by saying that
the Southern Confederacy has the sympa
tliiee of every Southern women, wife,
mother and maid, ami that she glories in be
ing a woman of the South.
Other letters propose that the new gov
ernment be called Allegbenia, and the great
majority of designs are modeled after the
flag of the Union. There was a very strong
desire among tile Southern people to keep
as much as possible of the old flag, and this
desire is seen in most of the letters. One lettei
which is dated Washington, Feb. 20, 1881,
beseeches the committee bv all that is sacred
to stick to the Stars and Stripes. It says:
"You have fought well under our glorious
banner. Could you tight as well under
another. Never. Alter it, improve it as
you will, but, for heaven’s sake, keep the
Stars and Stripes.”
Another letter begs that the Stars and
Stripes will not lie given up to the North,
and lifter saying that “the songs of the nation
and its flags have a prodigious moral in
fluence,” it goes on: “Keep the stars! Keep
the stripes! Keep the azure field and then
add a red cross—the Southern cross—cut
ting the stripes at right angles.”
This Southern cross is found in many of
the designs, and it. ranks with the palmetto
tree and the lone star as a prominent figure.
Some of the ladies’ designs aie very curious,
and Fome are made of different colors of silk
and satin neatly stitched together and with
little stars sewed upon them. In some cases
the designers hail not the paints to work
_with, and they have mode their
' designs of different pieces of
colored pajier cut into shajies
and pasted together. Here the red, white
and blue predominates, and the stripes and
stars in nearly every ease permit the addi
tion of new emblems for the new States as
they come in. One of the ladies’ flags is IS
inches long, and it consists of three series of
two stripes of red, white, and red atiove and
below abroad stripe of blue, upon which
are sewed seven white stars. These seven
stars represented the seven States which had
alivady seceded.
Rome of the designs are vpry grotesque,
and, coming as they do from all classes of
jieople, it is not strange that in some the
sublime should tramp very closelv upon the
heels of the ridiculous. I give you design
41, which was sent to Jefferson Davis from
Coffeeville, Ala., hut I cannot paint, the
wrath with which the colors seem to swear
at, each other. The design is large enough to
cover a good-size library table. It is made
of heavy drawing pa|>er ami is done in
crayon. One part of the ground is blue and
the other part a dirty yellow. On the
broad blue part, which is supposed to be at
tached to the pole, a big black eye is [minted,
and orouml this, in the simp' of a crescent,
which faces the front of the flag, are seven
white stars. From the eye eight white
strijies go outward, intiiuug'froiii blue into
Iho yellow and there losing themselves. The
letter which was sent with this design Is well
written. It is (luted Feb. 23, 1881, and is
addressed to ‘‘(ten. Jefferson Davis.” The
flivt paragraph prays for tho prosperity of
Ino Confederacy, and tire remainder of the
letter is taken up with the desorption of tho
Gag It reads:
‘‘Being a true Southerner, I have taken
tbe liberty to sent to your care a minature
Hag, the emblem of which I would like to
~ee adopted by our Provisional Congress as
ihe ensign ol our Government. The em-
I iloms us seen on tho flag were taken from
the last scone of the aurora borealis of
Bept. IS, JSV.i, (at night).
“The eve is a design of my own. and may
represent, flint, the Preeident watching over
the nation for the good <>f the people, and,
nocondly, the allseoingeye of God, by whoso
guardian care all nations have their exis
tence. You can huve the flag tendered
with whatever color suits your tat icy. Very
respectfully yoursurvnnt, L M .”
Ui tho above 1 do not give the full name
as the writer mav lie living, and I also sup
press til". name of the nobs! Southern woman
who sent the following letter to Jefferson
Davis in the latter part February, 11. Tim
letter is well written, and as loopy it 1 can
•pprecmto tho thrill that wont though
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the enthusiastic writer when she wrote the
wor in:
Osyka, Pike Cos, Mo., Feb. 30, 1801.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis , President of the
Beloerd Southern Congress:
Being n daughter of the South, I take the
liberty iu sending you a model of a flag
which I only hope may be received with
warm I'eeiings. I'ne w hite ground is an em
blem of innocence; the blue ring, lasting
love; the centre, red; on which is placed a
cross, represents a Christian nation; the
crescent over the cross is our Southern Con
federacy and the greeu star represent the
even States, and as all these arc placed in a
ring they represent one Union in the South
ern Confederacy never to be broken. The
name I have chosen is the “United Southern
thinner. ”
Please excuse the great liberty I have
taken in writing to you, but, like Gen.
Washington, you arc now looked upon as
the father of the South, and I know will
excuse all the lilierties the" Southern daugh
ters take.
May God bless the Southern Confederacy,
and whichever model is taken for a banner
may his rich blessings ever rest upon it, is
the sincere wish of Mrs. .
The women of the Southern Confederacy
were as strong in the support of the govern
ment as the men. They contributed to it
by every form of self-sacrifice, and the talcs
of their "heroism would make a fortune for
a skillful novelist.
From these designs and hundreds of others
the committee finally made a report fora
fla<;. This report was read on M arch 5,
tell, and after a long preamble it stated
that the flag of the Confederate States of
America should consist of a rod field with a
white space running horizontal to the centre
i oual to one-third the width of the flag.
The Union was to be bine and was to ex
tend through the upper red stripe and white
stripe, and in this Union there was to be a
circle of white stars, in number as many as
the States in the Confederacy. When "the
report was read four designs" of this flag,
made of cotton cambric and of full size,
were hung upon the walls of the conven
tion at Montgomery. The convention
adopted them, and thus the ‘ -Stars and Bars’’
were born.
Two hours afterwards the ladies of Montr
eoinery had made the first Confederate flag.
It was of merino, and was run up over the
State House at Montgomery aud loudly
cheered. The Stars aiuf Bars were not, how
ever, a success as a battle flag.
Gen. Joe Jobns-ton tells ine that it was to
much like the Stars and Stripes, and that
tho two could not be distinguished from each
other in the lighting. Gen. Beauregard says
that after the battle of Bull Run many
persons of both armies thought thntfthe other
side had put up the enemies' flag as a decoy,
and after thus Johnston an.l Iteaui-egard de
cid<4 to adopt anew battle fl ig. Johnston
at first wanted each regiment \o use its
State coloi-s, but this was found impraetioa
able and another flag was chosen,and in this I
tnink Gen. Joe Johnston had something to
do with the invention of the design. The de
sign as settl'd upon by him and Beauregard
became the battle Hag of the Confederacy,
aud it was afterwards adopted as such by
the Confederate Congress at Richmond.
This flag is known us the Southern Cross.
It had a red field, with two wide olue bai-s
running diagonally from one coi-ner to the
other, ami bn these burs were white or gold
stars equal in number to the States of the
Confederacy. This was really the flag of
the Confederacy, and it has more right to
the name then the Btars and Bans. A de
sign similar to it was presented to the Mont
gomery Convention by William Poreher
Miles, and there is such a design in this old
scrap book. The Hturs and Bars, however,
got the preference. They became known
the country over as the Confederate flag,
and they will probably go into history as
such.
A learned exchange declares that “Chris
tianity and soap go hand in hand." Yet,
there have iweti instance* where u littls, un
noticed, meek bit of soap on a stairway,
trod ui>on by a human heel, lias tel to any-
Prt of the
THE MORNING NF.WS: SUNDAY, MAY 29. I*B7—TWELVE PAGES.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW.
DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN.
Size or Structure—Front, 81 foot 6 inches. Side, SO feet 6 inches.
Size of Rooms—See floor plans.
Height of Stories —Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches; First Story, 0 feet 2 inches; Second Story, 9 feet.
Materials—' -Foundation, stone and brick; First Story, clapboards; Second Story, shingles; Roof, shingles
Cost —ol,7so to *2,000, complete, except kitchen range.
Spe< i vl Features. —This is a capital house for a seaside or summer resort, where meals can be procured from a hotel, thus
doing away with the necessity for a kitohni and cellar, and avoiding tho most, troublesome part of housekeeping. Without
kite ten and cellar (which are included in our estimate, however), and set on posts' or briek piers there is a large reduction in
cost. It is a good Southern house, also, wuere no cellar is wanted, and the kitchen is detached.
Thiß is a good design for any climate, however, and for a permanent residence. It is very showy, has plenty of light and
air and a fine, wide veranda.
There is a charming alcove in the front bedroom, also a stairway to the attic, where three rooms can be obtained if wanted.
Our plans and specifications call for a kitchen and cellar in the basement, which can be modified, however, as suggested
above.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
An Attempt Upon His Life is 1802—
The Kidnapping Conspiracy.
From the Wheeling (H*. Va.) Register.
“I am reading with a groat deal of inter
est Nicolay and Hays’life of Lincoln in the
Century,'' said Mr. John W. Nichols, ex-
Preaident of the Omaha fire department, to
me. "The chapters that, will most interest
me will be those relating to his career from
1882 to 1885, and particularly the history of
the assassination. It is not. generally known
that more than one attempt upon Lincoln’s
life was made in Washington, but such is
the fact.”
Mr. Nichols’ statement interested me
somewhat, and I asked him to explain. He
then went on and told me substantially the
following story:
“In August,’ 1882, company K, One Hun
dred and Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, of
which Mr. Nichols was a member, was de
tailed as lxxly guard of President Lincoln.
Up to 1884, owing to the vigilance of tho
guards, Mr. Lincoln escaped all attempts of
violence. The back of the Confederacy
were broken, a good feeliug pervaded all
Washington, and vigilance was considerably
relaxed. It was then conspiracies were
hatched and Confederates ran the city un
molested. The President aud liis family
spent the summer months at the Soldiers’
Home, about three miles north of the city,
whither the l>ody guard accompanied them.
It was the i ui-tom of the President to re
main late at the War Department, and after
his work was concluded he would ride on
horseback out to the Homo. That sum
mer he had persistently refused an escort.,
imagining himself perfectly secure.
One night about the middle of August
Mr. Nichols was doing sentinel duty at the
large gate to the grounds of the Home.
Aboutll o’clock be hoard a rifle shot, and
shortly afterward Mr. Lincoln dashed up to
the gate on horseback. The President was
bareheaded, and as he dismounted he said,
ref erring to his horse:
“He came pretty near getting away with
me, didn’t he? He got the bit in his teeth
before I could draw the rein.”
Mr. Nichols asked him where his hat was,
and he replied that somebody had fired a
gun off at the foot of the hill aud that his
uorse had become scared and jerked his hat
off.
“Thinking the affair rather strange," said
Nichols, “a eoporal aud myself went down
to the hill to make an investigation. At the
intersection of the driveway ami main road
we found the President’s hat—a plain silk
one—and upon examining it wo discovered
a bullet hole through the crown. The shot
had been fired upward, and it was evident
that the person who fired the shot had sec
reted himself close by the roadside. The
nextday I gave Mr. Lincoln bis hat and
called his attention to the bullet hole. He
remarked rat her ititconoomedly that it was
put their by some foolish gunner ami was
uot intended for him. 11c said, however,
that he wanted the matter kept quiet, and
admonished us to say nothing about it. Wo
felt confident that it was an attempt to kill
him, and a well nigh successful one. too.
The affair was, of course kept quiet in
compliance with the President’s request.
After that tin? President never rode alone."
Mr. Nicholas then went on to relate the
circumstances of a kidnapping conspiracy
which was attempted to bo carried out the
next fall. This plan was unknowingly frus
trated by the body guard, whose quarters
were immediately in front of tho south
lroh of the Executive Mansion, equidis
tant lietwis-u that building and the Treas
ury, State, Mar and Navy Departments.
Just to the east of the quarters was the
guard tent where a portion of the body
guards remained on duty. For reasons t hen
unknown to the guards the tent was moved to
the west end of the grave! walk in the rear
ot the War Department. Shortly afterward
it was learned by the guurdthaton the very
night the tent was moved a plan had beoil
laid to capture the President as
ho should pass along the walk, and
carry him to the house of oue Green, on the
bmk of the Potomac, back of tho White
House grounds, and thence, when the op
portunity offered, he was to be carried to
Richmond and held as a hostage. It was
always believed that the moving of the
guard tent to the west end of the walk fright
ened tho conspirators and thwarted tneir
design.
At another time, not long before this in
cident. Bourke, the veteran coachman, who
i.ad served through two administrations at
the White House, was taken sick. A
stranger from Baltimore applied for the
place and succeeded in securing it in the
absence of Bourke. He did not hold the
place very long, however, as he became so
domineering and important that he was in
tolerable. Bourke was reinstated. One
night, not long after he had been dismissed,
the discharged coachman was discovered
sneakiug about the stables, which was soon
observed to he on fire. The whole guard
was called out, and by great exertions saved
the Presidential coach and team, but Tad
Lincoln’s pony and Col. Hays’ carriage
team perished. It was believed that a plan
had been formed for this man to fire the
stabled, and during the excitement conspir
ators were to rush into the White House
and murder the President. Mr. Lincoln,
however, rushed out with the rest to the
scene of the lire, and thus fust rated any at -
tempt at assassination “What made this
appear more evident,” said Mr. Nichols,
“was the fact that after the incendiary was
arrested to produced several witnesses who
were employed at Ford’s Theatre, aud who
testified that he (the discharged coaehmanl
was down in the city during the whole even
on which the lire occured. These were the
persons who, in my opinion, laid the final
conspiracy that brought Abraham Lincoln
to his grave.” Alfred Sorenson.
She Took It Back
FYom the Chicago Tribune.
It was 10 o’clock p. m. In the friendly
shadow of the veranda stood Cornelius Me-
Stab and Ramanth a Cracraft. The cool and
refreshing breeze that wafts inward from
the lake and makes existence a perpetual
delight, in this favored locality toyed with
the ringlets of Samantha and fanned the
agitated brow of Cornelius. Ho was trying
to control the wild iieating of his heart, and
hide the tremor in his voice.
“Samantha,” he said, as he,swallowed
something that seemed to lx* a cannon ball
in his thruat, "many years ago, when you
were a little girl, you made me a present. It
was but a trifle, perhaps, in your estimation,
but, like a corner lot in Chicago suburb, it
has increased in value a thousand-fold, and
I now treasure that little present as the most
priceless thing in the world. Its possession
all tln—. • years, Samantha, has become a
burden on my conscience. I feel that lam
doing wrong to keep it any longer. It, be
longs to you. You may not have missed it.
You may never hnve realized its worth, but
I feel it to lx* a duty to give it back to you
ami ease my eouseience of the load it has
earned for so many years. You will re
ceive it, will you not. and forgive me for
having kept it so long?”
“Certainly, Cornelius,” replied Samantha;
“if it is a burden on your conscience I will
take if back, though" I don’t remember of
ever having given you any such present. ,
What was it f”
The conscience stricken Cornelius McStnb I
swallowe i another cannon ball and said with
deep contrition;
“It was a kiss, Kainant.hu!”
The wandering breeze, as it swept softly
through the veranda, bore on its voiceless
nay the widening waves of the scarce audi
blosouml that marked the impact with
which Samantha Cracraft took the little gift
back, after so many years, from the repent
ant young man.
A small girl industriously studying her
lesson in American history came across an
allusion to tue Shoshone tribe of Indians,
and after a silent struggle with the word
looked up wearily and asked: “Pnm, who
ware the Shoehorn Indians, any way r—Bou
ton bulletin. 'it
A Darling-.
From Fortran].
Two gentlemen, friends who had been
parted for years, met in a crowded city
! thoroughfare. The one who lived in the city
j was on his way to meet a pressing business
| engagement. After a few expressions of de
' light, he said:
"Well, I’m off. I'm sorry, but, it can’t
Ibe helped. I will look for you to-morrow
at dinner. Remember, 2 o'clock, sharp.
! I’m anxious for you to see my wile and
I child.”
“Only one child.”’ asked the other.
“Only oae,” came the answer, tenderly,
“a daughter. She’s a darling, Ido assure
you.”
And they parted, the stranger in the city
i getting into the street car I >ound for the
park, whither he desired to go.
After a block or two a group of five girls
entered the car; tliey were all young and
evidently belonged to families of wealth aud
culture—that is, intellectual culture—as they
conversed well. Each carried a very elab
orately deeorted lunch basket; each was at
tired in a very becoming spring suit. Doubt
less they, too. were going to the park for a
spring picnic. They seenied very nappy and
amiable until the car ngnin stopped, this
time letting in a pale-faced giri of about
eleven and a sick boy of four. These chil
dren were shabbily dressed, and upon their
faces there were looks of distress mingled
with some expectancy. Were they, too, on
their way to the park? The gentlemen
thought so; so did tho group of girls, for he
heard one of them say, with a look of dis
dain:
“I suppose those ragamuffins are on an
excursion, too.”
“I shouldn’t want to leave my door if I
had to look like that. Would youf’ This
from another girl.
“No, indeed! But there is no ac
counting for tastes. I think there ought
to be a special line of cal’s for the lower
classes.”
All this conversation went on in a low
tone, but tho gentleman had heard it. Had
the child, too? He glanced at the pale face
and saw tears glistening in the eyes. Then
he looked at the group of finely-dressed
girls, who had moved as far from the
plebeian as the limits of the car would allow.
He was angry. He longed to tell them
that they were vain and heartless as they
drew their costly trappings closely about
them, as if fearful of coutaot with poverty’s
children.
Just then the exclamation, “Why, there
is Nettie! Wonder where she is going!"
caused him to look out upon the corner,
where a sweet-faced young girl stood l>eck
ouing to the car driver. W hen she entered
the car she was warmly greeted by the five,
uud they made room t'or her beside them.
They were profuse in their exclamations and
questions.
"Where are you going f’ asked oue.
“Oh, wbut lovely flowers! W hom are they
fori”questioned another.
“I’m on my way to Belle Clark's. She
is sick, you know, aud the flowers are for
her."
iShe answered both questions at once, and
: then, glancing lowarci the door of the car,
she sa tv the pale girl looking wistfully at
her. She smilod at. the child, a tender look
1 beaming from her beautiful eyes, and then,
I forgetting that she, too, wore a handsome
velvet kirt and costly jacket, and that her
shapely bands were covered with well-fitted
giovi a, she left her scat m.d croa*ed over to
the little out s She laid oue hand caressingly
on the boy’s thin checks and nskml interest
edly of his sister:
“The little boy is sick, is he not? And lie
is your brother, I am sure, he clings so to
you,"
It seemed hard for the girl to answer, but
Anally she said:
ns, miss jhe Is sick. Freddie never has
lieen well. Yes, miss; he is my brother.
We’re going to the park to see if twont [
make Freddie better.”
"1 nm glad you are going,” the young girl
replied, in a low voice, meant, for no one's I
ears except those of the and addressed.
“1 tee! sure it will do him good. It is J
lovely there, with the spring flowers all 1
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in bloom. But where is your lunch? You
ought to have a lunch after so long a
drive.”
Over the little girl's face came a flush.
“Yes, miss; men be we ought to, for Fred
die’s sake; but, 3'ou see, we didn't have any
lunch to bring. Tun—he’s our brother—
he saved these pennies purpose so as
Freddie could ride to the pork and back. I
guess mebbe Froddie’ll forget about be
ing hungry when he gels to the beautiful
park."
Were there tears in the lovely girl’s eyes
as she listened? Yes there certainly were,
and very soon she asked the girl where they
lived, and wrote the address down in a tab
let, which she took from a beaded bag upon
her arm.
Alter riding a few blocks the pretty girl
left the car, but she had not left the little
ones comfortless. Half the bouquet of
violets and hyacinths was clasped in the
sister’s hand, while the sick bov, with
radiant face, held in his hand a precious
package, from which he helped himself now
and then, saying to his sister, in a jubilant
whisper:
“She said we could eat ’em all—every one
—when wa get to the park. What made her
so sweet and good to us I She didn’t call us
ragamuffins, and wasn’t afraid to have her
dress touch mil's; and she called me ‘a dear,’
she did. What made her?”
And Sue whispered back:
“1 guess it’s cause she’s beautiful as wall as
her eiotnos—beautiful inside, you know.”
The gentleman's ears served him well. lie
beard Hue’s whisper, and thought:
“Yes, the child is right; the lovely voting
girl is ‘beautiful inside—beautiful in spirit.
Mhe is one of the Lord's town, developing in
Christian growth. Bless her!"
When the park was reached, the five girls
hurried out with laughter and merry talk.
Then the gentleman lifted the little hoy in
his arms and carried him out of the*oar
across the road, and into the green, sweet
smeiling park, the sister, with a heart full of
gratitude, following. It was he who paid
tor a nice ride for them in the goat-carriage,
he also treated them to oyster soup at the
park restaur-ant.
Upon his return to the city he was sur
prise and gratified to see in his car the
kindly young girl who hail so tenderly re
membered the “least of these."
Again he saw her light shine—only a
cheery word or two to a poor, trembling old
woman, an orange to a fretful teething
child, who was torturing his mother and
every one else in the car. until the orange
soothed l’.is hot gums and turbulent spirit
only thi.se little tender services, and vet how
plainly they stamped her as the Master’s
own! ,
At 2 o’clock sharp the next day the two
gentlemen, as agreed, metagain.
“This is my wife," the host said, proudly
intrdueiug a comely lady, “and this,” as a
young lady of fifteen entered the parlor, “is
my daughter, Nettie.”
“Ah!" thought the guest, as he extended
his hand in cordial greeting, “this is the
dear girl who I met yesterday in the street
car. 1 dowt wonder her fattier calls her a
darling. She is a darling, and no mistake,
bless her!”
A Lucky Man’s Gratitude Expressed.
WrightsviLue, Pa., April s .—Editor of
The Pilot, Boston, Mass.: Thirty-five
years ago the Pennsylvania canal boatmen
would boat rll summer on the canals,
and steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers in the winter. I never thought then,
when I boated between Pittsburg and New
Orleans, that. { should draw on March lfith
from the Louisiana State Lottery $15,000.
God is good; I thank Him for the great
favor. I also thank the officers of the liOU
isiana Mtnte Lottery for sending me the
lucky ticket, No, W 1,551. It only took five
‘lays from the day 1 sent my ticket until I
got, the money. Yours with very great re
spect,, ’"''OWAS Faivky.
Boston (Mass.) /'Hot . ' Id.
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