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Beyond the Stars.
Beyond the stars tlrero breaks a inorn
That never wears to eve forlorn,
That never sees its happy fire
In darkness* chilling gloom empire,
Nor hears the night wind's mocking scorn
Ne’er droops the lily there, onco bom,
Nor rose, nor golden tasselod corn,
Nor is there any funeral pyre,
Beyond the stars.
VYhat though our feet bo bruised and torn
jugged stone and rending thorn,
We shall not flag, wo shall not tire,
But cherish more the fond desire
To bide at last when taint and worn
Beyond the stars.
•—JVew Orleans Timet.
7 THE STOLEN NOTE.
Except that he indulged too freely
in the use of the intoxicating cup,
John Wallace was an honest, high
minded and extraordinary man. His
one great fault hung like a shadow
over his many virtues. He meant
well, and when he was sober he did
well.
He was a hatter by trade, and by in¬
dustry and thrift he had secured
money enough to buy the house in
which he lived. He had purchased it
before, for $3,000, paying $1,000 down,
and secured the balance by mortgage
to the seller.
The mortgage was almost due at
the time circumstances made me ac¬
quainted with the affairs of the fami¬
ly. But Wallace was ready for the
day; he had saved up the money; there
seemed to be no possibility of an acci¬
dent I was well acquainted with
Wallace, having done some little col¬
lecting and drawn up legal documents
for him. One day his daughter Annie
came to my office-in great distress, de¬
claring that her father was. ruined,
and that they should be turned out of
the house in which they lived.
“Perhaps not, Miss Wallace,” said I
trying to console her and give the af
“My father,” she replied, “had the
money to pay the mortgage on the
house in which we live, but it is all
gone now.”
“Has he lost it ?”
“I don’t know. I suppose so. Last
week he drew two thousand dollars
from the bank, and lent it to Mr. Bryce
for ten days.”
“Who is Mr. Bryce?”
“He is a broker. My father got ac¬
quainted with him through George
Chandler, who boards with us, and
who is Mr. Bryce's clerk.”
“Does Mr. Bryce refuse to pay it?”
“He says he has paid it.”
“Well, what is the trouble then ?”
“Father says he has not paid it.”
"Indeed! But the note will prove
that he has not paid it Of course,
you have the note?”
“No, Mr. Bryce has it”
“Then, of course, he has paid it?”
“I suppose he has, or he could not
have the note.”
“What does your father say?”
“He is positive that he never received
the money. The mortgage, he says,
must be paid to-morrow.”
“Very singular. Was your father—”
I hesitated to use the unpleasant
word which must have grated harshly
on the ear of the devoted girL
“Mr. Bryce says father was not
quite bad7 right when he paid him, but not
very
“I will see your father.”
“He is coming up here in a few mo¬
ments; I thought I would see you
first, and tell you the facts before he
came.”
“I do not see how Bryce could have
obtained the note unless lie paid the
money. Where did your father keep
it?’
“He gave it to me, and 1 put it in
the secretary.”
“Who was in the room when you
put it in the secretary ?”
“Mr. Bryce, George Chandler, my
father and myself.”
The conversation was here inter¬
rupted by the entrance of Wallace. He
looked pale and haggard, as much from
the effects of anxiety as from the de¬
bauch from which he was recovering.
“She has told you about it, I sup¬
pose?” said he in a very low tone.
“She has.”
I pitied him, poor fellow, for two
thousand dollars was a large sum for
him to accumulate in his little busi¬
ness. The loss of it would make the
future look like a desert to him. It
would be a misfortune which one must
undergo to appreciate it
“What passed between you on that
day?”
SPRING PLACE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1880.
“Well, I merely stepped into his of*
flee—it was only the day before yes¬
terday—to tell him not to forget to
have the money for me by to-morrow.
He took me into his back office, and
as l sat there he said he would get the
money ready the next day. He then
left me and went into the front office,
where I heard him send George out to
the bank to draw a check for two thou¬
sand dollars; so 1 supposed he was go¬
ing to pay me then.”
‘‘What does the clerk say about it?’
“He says Mr. Bryce remarked when
he sent him, that he was going to pay
me the money.”
“Had you the note with you ?”
“No, now I remember; he said he
supposed I had not the note with me,
or he would pay it. I told him to
come in the next day and I would have
it ready—that was yesterday. When
I came to look for the note it could
not be found. Annie and I have
hunted the house all over.”
“You told Bryce so?”
“I did. He laughed, and showed me
his note, with his signature crossed
over with ink, and a hole punched
through it.”
“It is plain, Mr. Wallace, that he
paid you the money, as alleged, or has
obtained fraudulent possession of the
note, and he intends to cheat you out
of the amount.”
“He never,-jpaid me,” he,replied,
promptly.
“Then he has fraudulently obtained
possession of the note. What sort of
a person is that Chandler, who boards
with you?”
“A fine young man. Bless you, he
would not do anything of that kind."
“I am sure he would not,” repeated
Annie, earnestly.
“How could Bryce obtain the note
but through him? What time does he
come home at night?”
“Always at tea time. He never
goes out in the evening.”
“But, father, he did not come home
till ten o’clock the night before you
went to Bryce’s, He had to stay in
the office to post books, or something
of the kind.”
"How did he get in?”
“He has a night key.”
“I must see Chandler,” said I.
"No harm in seeing him,” added Mr.
Wallace; “I will go for him.”
In a few moments he returned with
the young man Chandler, who, in the
conversation I had with him, mani¬
fested a very lively interest in the so¬
lution of the mystery, and professed
himself ready to do anything to for¬
ward my views.
“When did you return to the bouse
on Tuesday night?”
“About twelve.”
“Twelve!” said Annie; it was not
more than ten when I heard you.”
“The clock struck twelve as I turned
the corner of the street,” replied Chand¬
ler, positively.
“I certainly heard some one in the
front room at ten,” said Annie, looking
with astonishment at those around her.
“We’re getting at something,” said I.
“How did you get in?”
The young man smiled as he looked
at Annie, and said:
“On arriving at the door, I found I
had lost my night key. At that mo¬
ment a watchman happened along and
I told him my situation. He knew me,
and taking a ladder from an unfinish¬
ed house opposite, placed it against one
of the second-story windows, and I en¬
tered in that way.”
“Good. Now, who was it that was
heard in the parlor, unless it was
Bryce or one of his accomplices ? He
must have taken the key from your
pocket, Chandler, and stolen the note
from the secretary. At any rate I will
charge him with the crime, let what
may happen. Perhaps he will confess
when hard pushed.”
Acting upon this thought, I wrote a
lawyer’s letter—“demanded against
you,” etc.—-which was immediately
sent to Mr. Bryce. Cautioning the
parties not to speak of the affair, I dis¬
missed them.
Bryce cama
“Well, sir, what have you to say a
gainst me?” he asked, stiffly.
“A claim on the part of John Wal¬
lace for $2000,” I replied, poking over
my papers, and appearing perfectly in¬
different *
“Paid it,” he said, short as pie-crust.
“Have you?” said I, looking him
sharply in the eya
The rascal quailed. I saw that he
was a villain.
“Nevertheless, if within an hour you
do not pay me $2000 and $100 for the
trouble and anxiety you havp caused
my client at the end of the n.*t hour
you will be lodged iu jail to answer h
criminal charge.”, j
“What do you mean, sir?'* j
“I mean what 1 say. Pay, or tak#
the consequences.’*
It was a bold charge, and if he
looked like an honest man, I
not have dared to make it.
“I have paid the money, l tell
said he; “I have the note in my
3 * on -
“I got it when I paid the—”
“Wh&MNt feloniously entered the
house of John Wallace, on Tuesday
night, at ten o’clock, and took the said
note from the secretary.” ‘ :
“You have no proof,” said he grasp¬
ing a chair for support.
“That is my lookout. I have no
to waste. Will you pay, or go to jail?”
He saw the evidence I had was too
strong for his denial, and he drew his
check on the spot for $2100, and after
begging me not to mention the affair,
he sneaked off.
I cashed the check and hastened to
Wallace’s house. The reader may judge
with what satisfaction he received it,
and how rejoiced was Annie and her
lover. Wallace insisted that I should
take $100 for my trouble, but 1 mag¬
nanimously kept only $20. Wallace
signed the pledge, and was ever after
a temperauce man. He died a few
years ago, leaving a handsome proper¬
ty to Chandler and his wife, the mar¬
riage between him and Annie having
taken place shortly after the above
narrated circumstance occured.
Indian Slavery in Early Mexico.
The old Spaniards were not at all
afraid of the savages, and enslaved as
many as they wished and made them
work well in the mines. Histojry tfat tells
us this, and tells us besides they
treated the Indians with great cruelty.
Even the pious fathers made the In*
dlans cultivate tho soil and lead clean
lives, and, above all, caused them to
give up their ways of idleness. Every
evening the Indians came in from la¬
bor, and, after singing some religious
songs, were locked up for the night in
about the same way that the negro
slaves of the Southern States were for¬
merly locked up. There was no non¬
sense about it, and near every mission
there was kept a small party of Span¬
ish soldiers who disciplined the In¬
dians whenever they needed It, which
was quite often. Whenever any of
them made their escape to the moun¬
tains the soldiers went after them and
brought them home, or rather back to
the missions, and again set them to
work. Some of these Indians eventu¬
ally become respectable members of
society and good men, though others
returned to their vagabond life after
the priests had lost their hold upon
them and the church property had
been secularized, which occured as far
back as 1883. When the church prop¬
erty was abandoned, as was virtually
done in consequence of a decree of the
supreme government in the City of
Mexico, dated August 17, 1833, the
semi-civilized Indians found them¬
selves free, as they considered it, and
returned to their wild ways .—Chicago
Times.
A King’s Workshop.
In a letter recently received from
Burmah a characteristic sketch is giv¬
en in illustration of the state of the
country under its present ruler, in
which it is stated that at Sagine there
is what is called the king’s workshop,
which was erected at the instance of
the last ruler at an enormous expense,
his idea being to build steamers for his
own and the country’s use. The ship¬
building yard is at Mandalay, aqd the
place at Sagine was designed as a
foundry, in which cast and wrought
iron was to be treated. Two large
furnaces, fifteen boilers, three furna¬
ces for cast iron, seven large engines,
five rolling mills for bar iron, and
a quantity of other machinery (includ¬
ing a large steam hammer, lathes,
punching and shearing machines, and
ore crushers) have been put down.
All that is required is to start the fires
and raise steam; yet this valuable prop¬
erty is meantime overgrown with the
products of the soil. The large steam
hammer is twined round with beauti¬
ful crimson creepers; from out of one’
of the furnaces grows a large prickly
caetus; the rolling mills are shaded
wjth large tree ferns. The machinery,
however, is not rusted, though nearly
ten years have elasped since the king
died. The works were suspended at
bis death, and the present king will ■
neither spend more money on the un¬
dertaking nor sell it to others,— Iron.
JJJg DIVISION OF LABOR,
Odd Ways bf Making A Liv¬
ing in New York*
Peculiar Means of Livelihood which
Civilization Develops.
There are many odd ways of earn
livelihood in a great city like
New York, and it is surprising to see
many persons there are whoread
adapt themselves to new occupa
■lions. Type writing, for instance,
was unknown a few years ago, and
now there are thousands wno support
by it. It lias supplied a
pew and wide field for the employ¬
ment of women, and has come into
'id most universal tise for legal docu¬
ments. The invention of the tele¬
phone has given employment to thou¬
sands in the construction of the appara¬
tus and the attendance at telephone
Wees, and the number thus employed
Biready rivals the number engaged
in telegraphing.
The introduction of electric lighting
has given employment to many per
zons ( as has also the comparatively re¬
cent use of refined oil all over the
world for both lighting and heating.
It> is only a few years since the inven¬
tion of district messenger service and
the employment of street bootblacks
gave employment to an army of boys.
The successful manufacture of play¬
ing cards, which were largely made
abtoad until within a few years, has
recently given employment to ninny
American workmen, The canued
gauds industry has grown up since the
wat and offers an entirely new occu
i). *
Photo-lithography and many other
quick processes of picture printing
have furnished employment to many
within “’a few years. There is an Im¬
mense business in ready-ipade cloth- ,
hig’lor w-omen and children that is of
comparatively recent growth.
There are at a rough calculation,
about fifty men in the United States
who make their living by hardening
steel for various mechanical purposes.
There are three or four who earn a liv¬
ing by demagnetizing watches, and
perhaps about as many who adjust
compasses on iron ships. There is an
odd and somewhat intricate occupa¬
tion in the insurance business known
as the adjustment of averages, and the
number of men engaged in it in a great
city may almost be counted on one’s
fingers.
There are many men who earn a liv¬
ing by tastiDg various articles of food,
or judging of them by their appear¬
ance. There are experts in handwrit¬
ing, in chemistry, in mechanics, and
all sorts of things, who turn up in the
courts and make litigation costly.
Civilization tends to a division of la
bor, so that in every profession there
are men who get a reputation for some
particular branch. Thus there are ac¬
knowledged specialists in law, who
have almost a monopoly of a certain
class of cases. Some lawyers know all
about patents, and others all about ad
mirality; others all about criminal law,
and so on. In the same way the doc-%
tors take each 3ome portion of the hu
man body as a special study, so that
the old family doctor, who undertook
to doctor all sorts of diseases is com
paratively obsolete in crowded commu
nities.
This division of labor leads to the
establishment in great cities of many
queer stores, or depots of supply for
ail sorts of odd things of which the
general public knows little or nothing.
There are for instance, depots for the
supply of pecular food for the various
nationalities that centre in the great
city. The Chinaman, the Italians, the
Germans, and the Scotchman all know
where they can go and buy things that
are specially suited only to their own
taste.
A craze like roller skating gives em¬
ployment to many persons. American
roller skates are now known all over
the world. There is an American
roller skating rink even in India.
The progress of mechanical inven¬
tions, while it throws many persons
out of employment, also furnishes new
occupations to many, and does away
with the apprehension that thy ma¬
chine may supplant the man .—New
York Sun.
‘There are in New Yo:k city about
78,368 buildings wholly or partly used
for dwelling purposes, of which 32.-
1)96 have one family each, 10,314 more
than one each, while 16,992 have one
family to a floor, and 18,966 more than
one to each floor.
VOL V. New Series. No. 26.
The Weird Bird of the Atlantic.
As the craft bowls along in the
South Atlantic a new world seems to
open oh the voyager. The constella- j
tion of the Southern Cross has scarce¬
ly become familiar to hint before he
begins to see animal, or rather bird,
life altogether new to him. One of
the' greatest novelties of this kind
that can e^er Impress the? albatross. itself on the
mind of man is Some
morning the lounger will reach the
deck and, casting his eye in tha
wake of the ship to judge her speed
will see a speck just above the horizon
far asterd. Growing larger and lar¬
ger as it approaches* it finally devel
opes into a gigantic bird, and the old
sailor, conning the helm, will gruffiy
suggest the fact that it is proper for
the tyro to wet his first introduction
to an albatross, There is something
inexpressibly weird about the bird it¬
self as well as in its manner of flight
and it is matter of little wonder to
those who have seen it, that a brain
such as Coleridge’s should have hit up¬
on it for the text of his Lay of the An¬
cient Mariner. Without a beat of
wing, without motion of the body, the
bird will, by long, easy-going tacks,
swoop up from astern until it gets
within easy watching distance from
the ship it chooses to follow. It will
then “lay to” at that respectful dis¬
tance and after taking thorough stock
of the stranger that has invaded its
domain will, with no apparent effort
swoop past the ship to port or star¬
board, as the case may be, pass it by
several cable lengths and then, laying
to on the hand to its advance
allow the ship to psss it, and will then
once more take up its post as rear
guard of the procession. Nothing can
be more ghost-like than the action of
the albatross in thus passing, or being
passed. No stroke of the wing occurs
and all the motion apparent,. except
that of the almost unintelligible cleav¬
ing of the air, is the half turn of the
bird’s head towards the ship, made as
if to see what manner of beast this
was that had come to bother it.
Though sailors are over prone to su¬
perstition, they seem not to be very
particular as to the sacredness of the
albatross and will always assist in the
capture in spite of the curse Coleridge
associates with its killing.
Christening Eugenie’s Baby.
The secret papers of the second
empire give an account of the expend¬
iture on the occasion of the birth and
baptism of the prince imperial. Medals
in diamonds head the list, at a costof
25,000 francs. Doctors and midwives
received 68,000 francs. The wardrobes
cost 100,000 francs, The several
societies of dramatic authors and
composers, painters and sculptors,
industrial inventors, and medical men
of the department of the Seine received
10,000 francs each. Ninety-three
thousand francs were given to the
benevolent “bureaus” of the depart¬
ment of the Seine and of the commune
in which lay the estates of the crown.
The “agents of the interior service”
of the empress receive gratifications to
equal four months’ wages, amounting
to 11,000 francs. Forty-four thousand
francs were allowed to giving perform
ances at the theaters on March 18,
1856. The parents of children born
on the 16th of that month shared
among them 50,000 francs. For
medals to be given to authors and
composers of verses and cantate
addressed to their majesties, and to
the pnpiles at the Lycees, 85,000 francs
were allowed. The relatives of the
godchildren of their majesties received
20.000 francs. The service of the
stables of the baptismal cortege is
down at 172,000 francs, and
francs were distributed in
to the hired servants of their
household: The total come to
sum of 898,000 francs.
Medicinal Intelligence.
“What is the matter?” asked
Austin doctor of a thin young
named Anderson Pye.
“I think the climate of Austin
not agree with me—have great
breathing with my lungs.” -
“You would have a great deal
trouble breathing without your
responded the doctor, whereupon
derson Pye got up and adjourned,
now he tells every one that
doctor does not understand his
ness .— Siftings.
i An equivalent of $2500 has
j offered lor a safe substitute for
) powder in coal mining.
One Day. Vi:
Ouo day—some day—I know that we lhali
meet,
A]l we]) j know .
ximt day, tost lovo, wilt' thou seam just as
sweet 7
Nay, nay, not so.
Yet let us moot. That day I shall not (oar
To hoar thy tone—
To take life olt-kissed hand, once found so
dear,
Within mine own. V
t ■
I shall not tear to look into thorns eyes
Where Love’s light flowed,
A signal star new risen in the skies
To point my road.
Then let us quickly meet—I have no fear—
Of that old bliss—
Meet as friends meet. Yet, oh, come not too
noar—
Lct us not kiss.
I do not fear tliy eyes, tliy grace, thy tone;
But woo is mo,
Thy tender lips might mnke mo nil thine own
Who now am free.
—Philip Baarkt Martian.
HUMOROUS.
Boilers Kate is the most popular
girl of the period.
Be content with your lot, especially
if it’s a lot of money.
“We meet to part no moro,”.said
the bald-headed man to his hair brush.
Women are not inventive as a rule.
They have no eagerness for new
wrinkles. /■.
Mrs. Fartlngton said that a gentle¬
man laughed so heartily that she
feared he would have burst his joculaft
vein
The base-ball umpire now prepares
Himself against disaster,
And lays in quarts of arnica
And yards of sticking plnstor.
An Austrian naturalist has discov¬
ered the nervous system of sponges.
It lies in the vicinity of the pocket
book.
“Why comes not my lover to me?”
wads a poetess in a Chicago paper.
Ten to one he’s at the- skating rink
with another girl.
There won’t be any white,elephant
in the circuses this year. The price the
of whitewash has advanced until
business won’t pay.
Some of the poet Willis’ best lines
were written in his boarding house.
They were tender lines probably. They
are always good in a boarding house;
The Boston girl never says: “Don’t
you forget it.” She merely remarks ;
“Fray allow not the remembrance of
this circumstance to be relegated to
oblivion.”
A correspondent of a fashionable pa*
per asks, “What shall I get for moths?”
We should not get anything; but if the
correspondent is fond of the moths, a
very acceptable present would be a
sealskin jacket.
Judge—“The sentence of the Court
is the prisoner be confined in State
prison the remainder of his natural
life.” Prisoner—“But, your Honor—”
Judge—“Not another word, sir, or I’ll
give you four years more.”
A Madison avenue, New York, girl
wears a beautiful bangle bracelet pre¬
sented to her by an admirer who went
without his dinner for a month in
order to buy it. But then it is no
hardship for a youth in love to go
without his dinner.
“And so you like the yarns wo sea
dogs spin?” asked the gallant young
mariner. “Idote on them! ” the young
lady passionately responded. “And
what shall I tell you of the doings of
us salts?” he tenderly asked. “O,
tell me how you luff?” she innocently
answered.
True Courtesy.
A beautiful fact on this subject is
related of a distinguished clergyman.
On one occasion a humble, worthy maa
who had befriended the clergyman in
early life called to see him, and was
invited to the family table. He began
to eat with his knife, as he had been
accustomed, and the younger people
smiled The clergyman looked round
upon them, as if to say: “Stop that!”
and at once himself began to eat with
his knife, and did so to the end of the
meal. After dinner one of the children
asked him why he did so. The clergy¬
man replied: “It is well enough for us
to observe the etiquette of the day; but
it is far more Important to avoid in¬
sulting people. 1 wanted my old
friend to enjoy his dinder, which he
could not have done if he had seen you
laughing at him. He is accustomed to
use his knife, and it would be quite
difficult for him to use the fork in¬
stead.” That was genuine politeness.
Tlie world would be happier and bet*
ter if there were more of it.