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lb gutaertfott. PUBLIIlIHD "evert THURSDAY KORKIHO. YTOf. BRADFORD, Editor. TEBMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: l Copy, one year - - - • - 1 »• six months - - - - - 11 *' one year - - - • - 10 *°° TERMS—Cash In Advance. Address, ADVERTISER PUBLISHING CO., CzdIstowx, Ga. -■ L ii • r m Cedartoww Advertiser. OLD SERIES—YOL. YI. NO. 27. CEDARXOWN, GA., SEPTEMBER 18, 1879. NEW SERIES—YOL. I. NO. 40. lb ADVERTISING BA1BI. w. t)uL 11 y. »ouH IK'S insertion. For two or nun» lueruona. fln cems per line each insertion. MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES—, er bt news. nuousAed mn. ter to news, putllaAeO tree. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at haB rate*. THE OLD HOME. The w ild bird siu, s aua tne rivulet runs Bo cheerily round the spot Where the peaceful shades of the towering hills Fall dim on my mother's cot The windows are low and the thatch is low. And its old stone walls are gray— Oh ! I see it, 1 love it, where'er I go, That old home far away. The little clock ticks on the kitchen wall To toil the passing lionrs, And the woodbine is climbing round the cot. With its sweetly scented flowers. And the old arm chair, so cosy and low, Where iflother did kbit each day— Oh ! I see it, I love it, where’er I go, That old home far away. My mother ; I see her before me now, Asleep in that old anto-chair, With the stmshine tinging her wrinkled brow That was once so smooth and fair ; Her orimpled border, as white as the snow. And her dark brown hair turned gray— Oh ! I see it, I love it, where'er I go, ■ That old home far away. And there’s the white cow on its homeward path. As it comes so quiet along ; And the little maid with pail in her hand Is singing that dear old song. And the fr Jicnome lambs in that barnyard Axe gathering round to play— Oh !1 see it. I iovs it, whoe’er I go, That old home far away. Not all the p easnras the world can give. Nor riches of land or sea, Or the wealth or rank of eaith’s proud lords Can e’er estrange from me The roof that cover’d my dear mother’s head. With the humble floor of clay— Oh ! I see it, I love it. where’er I go, That old home far away. But alas ! she has gone where all must go. For we all shall pass sway— Yea ! even tiie cot that I love so well Will crumble and decay ; For this earth is ODly a resting place, Its joys are ours f, r a day— All my pleasure of life has center’d in That old botae far away. The Old School- «ou*e. In the Gloaming. “You are the best judge of your own hearty but I do not think your future prom ises much happiness as the wife of Godfrey Hill. ReniQjnber who and what he is.” These were the words 'over which Alice Hill pondered as she walked slowly through the grove at Bellows Falls. It was her favorite walk, when «he wished for solitude, though It lay at some elistance .from her home, the stately house that crowned an i But what ails you I incline stretch of ground overlooking the j you had an ague fit. ing dark, so promising to send home the ! And Godfrey Hill left his old home never borrowed dress in the morning, Alice started to retyim. . forYiome. | There was no thought of revenge in! R stood by itself da the outskirts of the she smiled at herself as she stood before j Alice Hill’s heart when she hieard of the ! village, and had now. fallen into decay, the cottage mirror, for she had not worn a 1 death of her cousin, nearly three years after j The old porch through which we entered gay color since her father’s death five years before.. . Lizzie's blue dress, scarlet shawl and gay Sunday hat were sadly out of place upon the slender figure, and setting off the pale, refined face of Alice Hill. “ Dear me, ” said the old woman. I hope you’ll soon chirk up a bit, Miss Alice, and his departure from Bellows JFalls; but she! broken downed longer the honey could not restrain a fervent thought of i suckle clambered over the sides. There take off your black. The old gentleman ; a villain. thanksgiving, when she realized that there was no murderous thought hanging upon her possible death. And to her relief she told her husband for the first time of that involuntary mas querade that saved her from the power of has been dead a year, now. Them roses do suit you baautifuL ” Alice glanced at the staring red flowers reflected in the mirror and smiled, as she said: “I will take great care of Lizzie's hat, Mrs. Mason. Good-by, and thank you. It was nearly dusk, and th^re was a quarter a mile to walk before home reached, so Alice hurried through the grove where the trees had already shut out lingering daylight.. She had tied a small veil of gay tissue over the gaudy hat, as she left the cottage, and she hoped, if she met any acquaint ances, she would escape recognition. * It was at this hour, Will, ” she whispered that I have been able to sit, without a shudder, in the gloaming.” was an air of gloomy desolation about the place, and the meaning-doves in the trees without added to the gloomy picture. The desks and benches were still there, bat cov ered with dust, and the spiders had hung their gray drapery over them. The teach er's table, raised on a p%tform, still stood, and the inkstand blade and dry, had never “and this is the first time Since that day i been removed. -./The Bible, from whose * T ~ * -» >- *- ■*-***-— * *- pages the exercises of tip school were always opened, was in Us accustomed place, bnt like evey thing els#, covered with dust axKimold * T * ••Of* t f Twenty years-befftre, when a very youn t For some weeks the parents of Bertha; boy, I had sat many days and months con Charmed by a Snake. gled with the rustling of the leaves of the tall trees without. The teacher was a pale-faced, dark, sad eyed woman, not more than twenty-two ing paleness and emaciation an<J accompanied r*balbiy breezes crept in laden with the por- by a melancholy mood/ So marked wasj fume" of the'flowers without. The butter- the change becoming that they began feel- . flics darted in and out of the windows, and iag great solicitade-cottoerning herandcou-| the little humming-birds hovered around _ _ % suited a physician about the matter. The j the honeysuckle wliich clambered over the When she was half through the grove physician visited the girl, but was unable ; porch. The stream that dashed over its she heard quick* footsteps coming from the j to explain Urn cause of her. decline or to rocky bed made a weird music which min village, and a momeitf later a vtlice said : j render-tervnd. It afso fell under the ob- “You are punctual,” tend she was caught ! servation ofiier mother that each afternoon, for a moment in Godfrey Hill’s arms. abput.three o clock, the girl would leave* She knew his voice, and struggled to free bouse andremain away from .one to T .... herself, before realizing that he had mis- j two horn This fact being communicated, years old, with a gentle manner that taken her for the village beauty. to other parent, it was decided to watch seemed almost Jiopelesa. She had come to “Pooh!” he said, relMsini; her. • “Don’t 1 the J’9 un S l»dy Safi discover if-poesihle the j the Village a stranger and opened the school, put on airs, Liz. Were you going to the hflOntua! abAeace. Accor-, she called herself Mrs. Ray, and boarded housei” dingly on the day following when the hour I with the wife of the sexton of the church. “ Yes,” she answered, faintlr indignant ■ bad about arrived the father left the house 1 She evinced lint iitfle inclination for socia- and yet curious, her woman’s wits quioklv I and watched for the S oin g of daughter. ; Mlity with the villagers, and generally re- soeing his error ‘ In a few minutes the young girl was on her fua-d all invitations to social gatherings. “I must go,' too, before long, though I way through a wood and up a ravine lead- had far rather stay here in the woods with “6 from the house to.a small stone quarry, you, sweetheart ” j 801116 half-mile distant, reaching which she “Tour sweetheart is at the house,” Alice ! a "»* °" a Btone > uuder . a <™ al > said, trying to assume the- jealous tone of clump of trees, and remameo sitting there x ' quietly for several minutes, her ,pead held village. Remember who and what he is! Mrs. Hill had said these words very slowly, and with due emphasis, only a few hours before, when Alice had read to her a letter in which Godfrey Hill had asked her to be his wife. Who was he, then! He was the second cousin of Alice, a man of about twqpty- seven, who had been brought up by his grandfather in the ~ Heights, and had supjkteetF his inheritance of house and fortune assured. Alice and her widowed mother had never ■^entered the stately house while* old Mr. If ill lived, but had supported themselves by keeping a school for young children, after Godfrey’s cousin, Alice’s father, had died. It had never crossed their wildest imagin ation that the old gentleman at Bellows Falls would remember them by even a trifling legacy, and they were inclined to think themselves the victims of a practical joke, when they received the lawyer’s letter informing them that Alice was the heiress of the entire estate of John Hill, of Bel lows Falls. It was like a dream, to come to the splendid home, to know there were to be no more weary struggles for daily bread, to wander through magnificent rooms and ex tensive grounds with the deliciously novel sensation of ownership. And it must be confessed that Alice at first thought but little of the dispossessed heir. But he introduced himself soon as a oousin, and visited the house as a welcome guest. For, in answer to the second clause of Mrs. Hill’s question, what was he? Alice could have answered truly that he was the most fascinating man she had ever seen. And Alice Hill, though a bread winner in the busy world, had moved in good so ciety, having aristocratic family connections both on her father’s and mother’s side. She was no novice to be won by a mere ly courtly manner, but she had never met a man whose intellect was so broad, whose courtesy was so winning whose face was so handsome as were those of Godfrey llill. And yet there was a letter in her writing desk written by the dead man whose heiress she was,warning her that, “because he is unworthy, because he has betrayed the trust I put in him, 1 have disinherited God frey Hill.” There was no specific charge, no direct accusation, but the young heiress was warned against her cousin. Yet, in the many long conversations the two had held together, Godfrey Hill had endeavored to convince his fair cousin that his grandfather had been influenced by false friends to believe statements to his discredit utterly untrue. He had almost convinced her that he was an innocent victim to unfortunate cir cumstances, a victim to a mistaken sense of honor. She was young, naturally trustful, and her heart was free; so it is not wonderful that Alice Hill was inclined to restore the disinherited man to his estate by accepting the offer of his heart and hand. Absorbed in her reflections, Alice did not notice that clouds were gathering, till a sudden sum mer shower broke with violence above the tree tops. The rain came through the branohes sud denly, drenching through her thin Black dress, and she ran quickly to the nearest house for shelter. The nearest refuge proved to be the cot tage where Mrs. Mason, who did the wash ing for. the great house, lived with her daughter Lizzie, one of the village beauties. There was great bustling about when Alice presented herself at the doer. “ Mercy sakes! You’re half drowned,” ths old woman cried, hurrying her unex pected guest to the kitchen fire. “You’re wet to the shin,'dearie. Now ain’t’ it a blessing there’s a whole washing in the bas ket to go home ? You can go into Lizzie’s room and -change your clothes, and I'll do up thenryou’ve got on. Dear, dear! your hat is just ruined—crape won’t bear wet ting—and you’ve no shawl. Ycu must just pul on a dress of Lizzie’s to go home in. It's nearly dark anyway.” “ Where is Lizzie?” Alice asked. “Sewing at Mrs. Gorham’s, dearie. She will be coming home soon. I allers make that a part of the bargain that she’s to be let home afore dark, and it gats dark now by six—fall days are shorter than summer ones. So she’ll be home soon. It’s clear ing up.” it was clearing up, and it was also grow- An uneducated girl. “What! That chalky-faced girl in black ? Not a bit of it Didn’t I love you long before she came to take what- is mine?” And a curse followed, coupled with her own name, that thrilled Alice Hill with horror. “Bat thdy say you will' marry her,” she persisted, calming her voice as well as she could. “They say right! I will marry her, and have my own! Then, when she is dead, you shall have your old beau again, Lizzie, and come to the great house, my wife. It is only waiting a year or two. ” ‘But she may not die!” gasped the hor ror-stricken girl. She will die] I’ll have no fine ady taking what is mine—mine, I tell you. ~ " You are shaking as if I’ve talked it all over often enough bdfilre, and you. never went off intosuch shakes! It is nothing new I’m telling you. ” i ‘ ‘ But—you — would — not—murder— her?” the poor giri gasped, drawing her veil closer. “Ca|no now, none of that,” was the rough answer j “you’re hot going back on me neftr, .‘after all you’ve heard of my plans.. You've sworn to keep my secrets, upon Bellows or !’<£ sever have told you them. But what is the matter ? ” here Alice, found herself shaken ffbr icroat iiidijtfMi- But her fears overmastered her anger. Godfrey was heir-at-law to her newly acquired fortune, and if he suspected her identity, in those dark woods, she did not doubt, after what he had already said, that he would take her life. “1 am not well,” she said, freeing her self from the rough grasp on her arm, “ and I must hurry on. Wait for me here until I do my errand at the house ami come back. ” “Be quick, then,” was the gruff reply. And if she was in haste, the scoundrel might well be satisfied at the rapidity with which his companion left him. She scarcely knew how she reached her home, tore off her borrowed finery and wrote to Godfrey Hill, declining the honor he had proposed to her, but giviflg no other reason for her refusal than the state ment that she did not love him sufficiently. “Mamma,” she said, coming into the drawing room,“I have written to Godfrey, refusing his offer, and sent the letter to him by James. I have remembered who and what he is. ” Mr. Godfrey Hill’s amazement was un bounded when returning to his home, in the village hotel, to dress for his promised call upon Alice Hill, he found her note awaiting him. But he did not renounce his hope of shaking her resolution until the next day, when he met the true Lizzie Mason in the shaded grove, and in the course of their lover-like conversation, that damsel told him who had worn her gay hat and red shawl on the previous evening. “An’ she sent a five dollar bill with the dress,'because it got wet,” said the girl. “Au’ that I call real handsome of her. Why, what ails you? you’re white as chalk! ” “Nothing—nothing. You were riot in the grove at all, then, yesterday? ” “No; } couldn’t get off till long after dark and so I stayed all night. I knowed you’d be mad waiting for me, but I couldn't help it this time. Why—” For her lover had started for the village without even the ceremony of a good-bye. He lost no time, on his way, until he stood in the office of Jerrnyn & Jermyn, his grandfather’s lawyers White as death, with a voice hoarse and thick, he said to the older partner : “You told me my grandfather lcit me ten thousand dollars, upon certain condi tions.” “Quite correct. The conditions are that you leave Bellows Falls anft never return to it, and that you sign a deed relinquish ing all claims as heir-at-law, in case Miss Hill dies before she is of age. Mr. Hill did not draw up this paper until his will was signed and sealed, and he was remind ed that he had made no stipulation for the reversion of his estate.” Reminded by yeu? ” was the bitter re joinder. - “ Reminded by me! He was shown the danger that you might become a suitpr to the young heiress. ” ‘ Well, that danger is over. I have been a sincere suitor to the heiress, and she has refused the honor of an allianoe.” <«Huml ” “So, having lost that stake, 1 am pre pared to accept the conditions, take the ten thousand dollars, and turn my back upon Bellows Falls for life.” It was with a sense of great relief from a very urgent fear, that Alice Hill heard from her lawyer of the demand upon the estate, that made her poorer by ten thou sand dollars, and removed Godfrey Hill from her path for life. She told no one of the walk in the gloam ing that had revealed to her the black treachery of the man who wooed her so gently, and had so nearly won the treasure of her young heart. It made her shy of suitors for .a long time, fearing her money was the magnet that • drew them to her side; but there came a true lover at lastwme Bhe trusted and loved, and who won her for his tender, faithful wife. in one position, and eyes evidently fixed on one spot. The father had gotten up so near by this time that he could observe ail that would happen. In a few moments, to his amazement, there proceeded from the direction in wliich the girl was looking a snake about four feet in length, and known •to him as our common Wacksnuke or racer. So astonished was he at the peculiar man ner of his daughter and the appearance of the reptile that he remained quiet in his concealment to observe what would happen. The snake crept slowly along towards the girl until it halted close to her feet. After remaining there motionless for a minute or more and gazing fixedly into the face of the She was evidently a woman of culture and refinement, accustomed to moving in polite circles; and how she ever came to drift into our quiet, little, out-of-the-way village it4ftas hard folell. She happened to come just at the time we needed a school, old teacher having died, and so, in a short time, her school was full. She was very gentle and the pupils learned to love her. Her very gentleness proved a restraining force, and the roughest t»oy bent readily to the rule of Mrs. Ray. It worried us, however, to see her fo sad, and we noticed, too, at any unusual noise, or sudden appearing ef the parents in the school-room, her dark eyes would assume aaeager startled look, and her. white face would turn still whiter. Twenty years had rolled Away since, as a little boy, I had gone to school to Mrs. Ray. 1 had left the village for the city, and i for the first time, had come to visit the girl it slowly and stealthily began creeping hom ; of childhood, toward hejs and in a moment lay coiled in .. WeU John e j ^ to tbe oUi ^xton, her lap. The girl remained perfectly mo-. *q e j ug awalknowtotheschool-room.” tionless, apparently not the least alarmed at .. Ah; sirj many is the day any one lia8 the presence of her visitor, but gazing in-1 been there. It is never opened now, and is tentlyatit. After lying in that .position | faSt BHK t0 decay ^ John for a short time it slowly uncoiled, crept j iik , T) T , , . , r down to the ground andLck to its hiding- j th ‘^ d place in the rocks. The girl remained sit-i .,PSh e ’ dar - ed . teache . . ... ting motionless for a considerable time, and I /?> d - vou “ Ter llcar ’ 8lr - the terrlble then got ap and retraced her steps to the j . . , house. On the next day the father, at the 1 00 neao. appointed time, took his gun and proceed * ‘tdTth : chDtefSd go Them,’ m »rr SS her father, proceeded without timber ado fl _ owere aroand , tt . died - “ d , tbe back home with him. She, when interro- l ^ apa “- » ' a very, desolate gated, rrmhi give no Juttfligibk/ reason 4.44^ visiting the 8j)ot, except^that at a certain “Ah, sir, that was a terrible thing. We hour she felt strongly inclined to go and sit there. She has rapidly recovered her health, and appears in no wise affected in her mind. Experts can offer no solution to this strange proceeding, the most intelligible that the animal possessed a powerful mesmeric in fluence, and had so wrought upon the mind of the girl that she went automatically to the place. This, in connection with an ac cumulated inherited disposition to be' be- And what became of Mrs.'Kay ?” By this time we had reached the old school-house, and having entered, were looking around. “We’ll dust this bench, John, and sit down, Jand you can tell me the story of Mrs. Ray. ” The sun was just sinking behind the hills when we took our seats amid the dust and cobwebs of the old school-room. It seemed to me that I could see the sweet, pale face of Mrs. Ray clearly defined against the dark guiled by a serpent—transmitted from our r/bl 1 n 7 7 tot mother, Uvo-offem the only rational ; f ck e™“ d °«the gloomy place, and hear J the gentle tones of her voice. ^ 4 ^ | “Well sir,” said the old sexton, “it was The Amenities of Poker Playing. : a terrible day when we found Mrs. Ray 2—“ 7 . , lying dead in the school-room, her throat When we sit ddwn To play poker cut and her dress covered with blood. The dull cure vanishes, wc\&\ distinctions are children ran home and told the news, and utterly ignored, and Dte Bill, the postmas- t j lc vjiiagera hastened there; bnt she was ter, utters the kindliest sentiments to Ante- 8ir> and all wt . uon]d do m t0 pick lope Jack, the guide. There are, however, jj er up and can y her to my house, where aspertties, teven in poker. Rocky Mountain I ^ boarded.” Jim and a blind man were playing alone the other day, and a citizen was looking on. Rocy was “well heeled,” in fact, as fully prepared to beat the* blind man as Bill Nye had been to punish tho Chinyman’s earn ings in Bret HarUrs verses. The citizen saw the point, and winks were. frequently exchanged between the irregular party at poker and himself. Finally the climax comes. Folir aces fof the blind man and four for the other man. The irregular party felt as Dowerfully the injury done him by the blind man as Bill Nye—it would not have been popular for him to have whipped the blind man. ..The town would have made him blossom on a cottonwood. He, however, pulled the stopper out of the phial of his wrath in a direction which was perfectly safe. He knocked half the citi zen’s face away with a pair of brass knuck les. As soon as the citizen was able to get to work he carved a beautiful piece of re lief work on the chest of the irregular poker player, and made an earnest and protracted search for his heart with a bowie-knife. Both gentlemen are now in bed. We have a number of people at the Springs who have gratuated in the halls of fame as shooting men. They are courtous, gentlemanly fel lows in buckskin, were long silky hair, and can never succeed in getting partners at poker, because of their invariable prac tice of winning or shooting. They carry their forty-fours directly over the seam of their trousers behind, and when one of these engines are turned upon you, ‘no power of heaven or earth can in any way avail to save you, proriding the gentle man contemplates letting out your soul, as he beautiful puts it. Tbe souls of several ;per-_ sons have been thus released at the springs, but this year so far there has occured noth ing of this sort to break into the cruebino- notQny of existence. lhe Pyramids. The Pyramids continue to puzzle man’s ingenuity, not only as to their methods of construction, but as to the purposes for which they were built. Mr. Smyth, whose astronomical views imbned everything he looked at with his favorite science,endeavored to show that the pyramid was nothing more than an everlasting monument, with the beneficient intention of keeping for ever fixed the unit of length—a sacred cubit standard. The last idea is that the pyramid is simply cairn, and, that as a cairn it will be resolved some day, and will crumble to the ground* The labor employed on tbe Great pyra mid was equivalent to lifting 15,733,? 000.000 of cubic feet of stone one foo, high. If accounts can be relied upon it took 100,000 men twenty years to complete it. As a contrast, in con structing one of our earliest lines of railways there were lifted 25,000,000*- 000 cubic feet of material one foot high. The road w r as built by 20,000 men in less than five years. ■: { i . 1 Did she cut her own throat ?” “Oh, no, sir; it must have been done by a stranger who spent a night in the village, ami who was heard to inquire if a person answering to the description of Mrs. Ray lived here. You see, sir, her name was not Mrs. Ray at all, but Mrs. Manderille. The man was not seen the next day, and was never heard of again.” “What reason could he have for murder ing her?” “Mrs. Ray told her stray to my wife. She had been engaged to be married to a young man who was poor, and who her father did not wish her to many*. He wanted hef to marry Colonel Manderille, who was rich and influential. Then the story reached her that the one she loved had married a lady m England, where ho had gone to visit his father, and she felt desperate when she saw it in the news papers. She married Colonel Mandeville, but she was not happy with him . because Bhe did not love him, and he was a fiery- tempered man, and she was afraid of him. In one of his rages he told her one day that the young man she loved was not married at all, and that he and her father bad caused the marriage notice to appear in the papers, and had intercepted all their letters to each other. Then Mrs. Mandeville told him that there was no forgiveness in her heart for him; that she neVer wished to see him again, or her father either, for they had broken her heart. When the young man had heard of her treachery in marry ing another when she had promised to marry him, he wrote her a terrible letter, upbraiding her. He grew a sort of melan- clioly. and one day he was found dead in his rqom; he liad shot himself. Mrs. Man-, dcyille stole from her house one night when her husband was out, and made her way here, because she knew that it was an out- of-the-way place, and none would be Apt to find her. 8he lived in tlijs village two years, and we all learned to love her, she was so gentle apd so kind. But my wife says she looked terrible, so white, and her eyes flashed whenever she spoke of her father and'h’usband, and she used to say, “I never r-»n, I never intend to forgive them, Mrs. Morrison; no, never! never!” We can form no idea how her husband traced her here—for we supposed that the man was her husband—although we had no clue to him after he left the village. The children had left Mrs. Mandeville putting on’ her bbnrfet to leave the school-room, and that was the last timetehe was seen alive. Her bonnet was lying beside her wfiefi we found her dead, all bioody and crumpled. Poor youpg lady! It was a terrible tight to see her lying there, her eyes wide open and filled with an expression of fright and agony. ’ I think, sir, that it. wpuld have amse and walked out, glad to leave behind a pluce haunted with such sad memories. No doubt as the old sexton said, it would have been better to hare been forgiving, far forgiveness, like charity, covers a mul titude of sins. Tl»© Xew »*Annihilator.’ Bank’s ilabfes. Bright and early, before one-tenth of the citizens of Detroit had shaken off the* ef fects of the glorious Fourth, Professor James K. P. Bnrlingame made his appear ance on several streets in Detroit almost at the same moment. You would have known him to be a professor, even if you had seen hipi tangled up with a butcher-cart. That tail plug hat, carrying the stains of years— tint linen duster girted at the waist—his lorg hair hanging down to keep his shoul ders warm, was a dead give-away on his title. The Professor came here to dispose of iueiiridual rights to use his “Fly Annihi-. later,” and he didn’t let thoughts of the next Presidential election set liiin down on ■pencil. His piccolo voice inquired of a wSiian at the front door of a house on Cfhgress street east: “Madame, have you ten seconds to spare thr* morning?” “No, sir,” was the prompt reply. “Very well, then ; you W'ill miss seeing my Fly Anniliilator, ” he remarked, as he wWxedoff. “-Thousands have missed it, to their everlasting sorrow—thousands have accepted it and been made happy for life.” it’s some kind o’ pizen!” she called after him down the street. _ “Warranted free from all drugs orchoin- lczls dangerous to the human system, and recommended to people troubled with sleeplessness,” he called back, as he briskly retracted his steps. — I’ve got screens in every window*, and yet the five get in,” she continued, as he opened his satchel on the steps. *Of course they do—of course. A fly is iike a human being. Bar him out and he is seized with a desire to get in at any price. Tell him he can’t and he will or break his neck. Fling away your screens and depend entirely on my fly aimihilator, warranted to kill on sight, and can be worked by a child four years old. This is the application.” * He took from the satchel an eight-ounce bottle filled with a dark liquid and pro vided with a small brush, and holding it up continued: “One twenty-five cent bottle does for twenty doors, and I give you directions ing twin! Well, you ought to’ve heard the how to make all you want. No poison j congregation laugh! I never seen nothin’ here—nothing in this bottle to trot little ; like it in all my experience. Even Dr. children iin to the remeterv ” Binns had to smile. And the Bankses, they I was detained over Sunday in Barns- bury, and on Sunday morning I resolved to go to church. The first church I came to, a small frame structure with a wooden steeple, had the doors and windowrs tightly shut, but there was a man sitting on the front steps whittling a stick, and I said to him: “Are you connected with this church?” “Yes,” he said, “I’m the sexton.” “What is it closed for?” •‘Well, mostly on account of Bank’s babies.” “Babies?” “Sit down, and I’ll tell you about it. You know Banks, he come to this town to live a few weeks ago a perfect stranger, and he rented a pew in this church. It seems that Banks had three little bits of babies, triplets, not more’n two months old, and then, besides these, he had twins about a year old. So nobody knew about the ba bies, but Banks wanted the little darlings baptized,and he allowed to Mrs. Banks that to rush the w r hole five babies into church oa one Sunday might excite remark, you understand. So he settled it that he'd have ’em christened gradually, so to speak. Ac cordingly the next Sunday he fetched little Jimmy, one of the triplets, and all went off well enough. On the followin’ Sunday he came a promenadin’ up ’the aisle with George Washington, another triplet, and Dr. Binns, our preacher, he fixed him up * ;ht. People thought it wras queer, but when on the next Sunday mornin’ Banks and his wi*e come into church with another baby, William Henry, crying like a Pawnee war-whoop, some of the folks couldn’t help snickering “Howsomdever nobod}' complained, and all might have been well if Banks had’nt come along the Sunday after with Elijah Hunsiker Banks, one of the twins. Every body laughed, and Mr. and Mrs. Banks they were furious—mad as anything, you know; and when Elijah Hunsiker Banks hauled off accidently with his hand and hit Dr. Binns, who was holding him during the ceremony, a wack in the face, and the doc tor dropped him in the water, the congre gation just fairly roared with laughter. Mrs. Banks turned red as fire and looked as if she would like to murder somebody. Well, you know, we all thought this was the last, And public feeling kinder simmered down on toward the end of the .week, when who should come booming up the asile on Sunday morning but Mr. and Mrs. Banks, with Tecumseh Aristotle Banks, the remain children up to the cemetery. Why, you don't put it on the flies, do you?” she asked. “Not altogether, madam. Any child can use it, as I said before. Just watch me a moment.” lie swrung the front door open, and with the brush applied the mixture to the back edge, giving it a thin coat from top to bot tom. “Now, then,” he said, as he swung the were perfect wild with rage. Anyhow, they baptized Tecumseh; and after meetin’ some of tiie elders got to jokin 7 about it. One, they’d have to apply to the town su pervisore for an extension of the water works; another allowed that arrangements ought to be made to divert Huckleberry Creek and run it down the middle aisle of the church; another made some kind of a joke about business being good because so husband. The sun had fairly gone, down, tyefyind tbe hills when the old sexton finished his story. The shadows enveloped the. Old school-house in dusky dimness; We quietly door back, “flies like sweet. This mixture j many banks were in town; another said that is sweet. The fly alights on the door, and j Banks would need about twelve pews when you swing it shut, and he is jammed ■ his family grew up. Somebody must have against the casing and crushed in an in-1 told Banks about it, for what does he do to strait. Every door is capable of killing revenge himself? He sends down to Cla- I39UO flies per day. If you have twelve ! rion county to his two sisters to come and doors, your aggregate of dead flies will be bring their children. Ho they had a couple ejsLjtly 12,000. When you have crushed | of babies apiece, and as soon as they arrived 3,000-on a door, take an old knife : Banks he begins to bring them to churnh and scrape them off, and begin over again.'*j gradually, like the others. Yon never seen “Do you suppose—!” began the indig- j such meetings as them! The church was nant woman, but he interrupted with: j jammed full, and people just roarin.’ “Don’t suppose anything about it, except | And when Banks came in on Hunday with that it will mash flies and never miss. Allthe fourth and last of his sister’s babies, you have to do is to open every door, apply the mixture, and shut them in succession. If you have twelve doors and twelve children, you can leave it all to the children. And only twenty-five cents a bottle.” “Do you suppose I want my doors daubed with flies and molasses?” she made a cuff at the bottle. “Just as you prefer, madam,” he quietly replied. “Home do and some don’t. Home won’t have it at any price, and others even set up extra doors in the back yard in order to use lots of it. I'll warrant this liquid to draw ’em, if you'll only open and shut the doors.” I won’t buy it—I won’t have it!” she shouted, as she jammed the broom against the door. “Very well, madam—very well. If you prefer a fly on your nose to one on the door ’ can raise no objections. Remember, how ever, that this is my farewell tour previous to appearing before the crowned heads of Europe, and you will not have another chance to secure the annihilator. All you have to do is to take your sewing on your lap and open and shut the door at regular intervals. ” “If my husband was here he’d—he’d- “He’d buy the right for this county and make $20,000 in two months ; but, as he not here, we’ll bid you good day and pass 1. Horry madam, but some folks prefer to kill their flies with a pitchfork, and the man with pitchforks will call here in fif teen minutes.” Strauge Mexican Animal- The banks ot the RioFuerte are lined with stately bignonla trees; and here I saw for the first time the singular rep tile which the Spaniards call iguana ami the Portuguese eayman do motto—i. e. ‘tree-alligator.’ The latter name may have been suggested by the formidable appearance of an animal which atttains a length of seven feet and a weight of sixty-five pounds, and jumps from tree to tree with the impetus of a tiger-cat; but there is no doubt that the iguana is the most harmless creature of that size which ever jumped or flew or swam on this planet of ours—the most harmless creature of its size, we might say, for the little goldfish and the robin red breast are beasts of prey compared with the tree-alligator: they will hurt a fly, but the iguana is a strict vegetarian, and iike an orthodox Hindoo endeavors to prolong his life without shortening that of a fellow-creature. Still, with its saurian beak, its preposterous claws and the row of bristles along its back bone, this giant lizard is a scandalous phenomenon. The Boy Barn-Burner. been better if she could have fotgiVen thoae who did her the great wrong; Mr8^^Aifl , „ there was not one atom of fraghreh^i m in his hand and eke those in his hat. Then The boy stood on the back-yard fence, whence all but him had fled; the flames that lit his father’s barn shone just above the shed. One bunch of crackers in his hand, two others in his hat, with piteous accents loud he cried,“I never thought of that! ” A bunch of crackers to the tail of one small dog he’d tied; the dog in anguish Sought the barn and mid its ruins died. The sparks flew wide and red and hot, they lit upon that brat; they fired the crackers her heart, that she would ratheo die than to came a burst of rattlin sound—the boy ! say the word foigive to her father aad; her* Where was he gone? Ask of the winds that far around strewed bits of meat and bone, scraps of cloth and balls, and tops aigd nails and hooks and yarn, the relics of tnfe dreadful boy that burned his father’s bam. trustees thought it was time to interfere. Getting’ to be a farce, you know! So Deacon Smith he stepped up and said somethin’ or other to Banks, and Banks, quicker’n a wink, laid down the baby and banged the Deacon with his fist. And so, I duuno how it it was, but in a minute there was Banks and Deacon Smith, and Deacon Hubbard, and Banks’ sister’s baby, and me, all a rolling and a bumpin' over the floor, hittin’ and kickin’ and woopin’ in a manner that was ridiculous to behold. And when we all come to, and got straightened out, Banks picked up the bat tered baby of his sister and quiet, and the trustees held an informal meetin’ and agreed to close the church for a month so’s to kinder freeze Banks out, and now we've shut up; but I reckon is is no use, for I hear Banks has got his back up and gone over and joined the Baptists.” So I said g<x>d day to the sexton and went in search of another sanctuary. A Remarkable Seal. In the will of Napoleon* III. occurs the following remarkable passage : “With re gard to my son, let him keep as a talisman the seal I used to wear attached to my watch, and which came from my mother; let him preserve everything that comes to me from the Emperor, my uncle ; and let him be convinced that my heart and my soul remain with him. ” ’The telegram from Cape Town which announced the finding of the late ex-Prince Imperial contains these words: “The Prince's body was found stripped of all clotliing, but had not suffered any mutilation, and the reliquary which he wore suspended by a chain from his neck, together with his watch and rings, was found lying near the spot where he fell.” The “talisman” which the late Emperor so solemnly enjoined his son to wear, which he did wear, and which returns to his mother from that wild scene beside the Tombakala, is almost certainly the once famous charm of Charlemagne. It has a more interesting 9tory than any gem in Europe, if not in the world. In the course of studies for other purposes I have recent ly come upon legendary traces of this curi ous object. “La plus belle rclique de l’Europe,” as a French antiquarian described it in the last generation, was by one myth said to have been contrived by one of the Magi belong ing to the court of Haroun-al-Raschid, who came from the East to pay homage to the great Emperor of the West along with cer tain ambassadors. The wife of Charlemagne, Fast rad a, asked tne Magi for a talisman which would always cause her husband to be fascinated by its wearer, and this charm was framed at her instance. But another fable ascribed to it the following origin : While Charlemagne had his seat at Zum Loch, near Zurich, administering exact jus tice to all, he had a column fixed at his gates with a bell and a rope. It was open to any one demanding justice to sound this bell; and when the Emperor heard it, even though at his meals, he would instantly answer the summons. On one occasion this bell was repeatedly rung without any person being found near it. At length an enormous serpent was found twined around the rope. The Emperor, hearing this, im mediately went forth; the serpent inclined respectfully before him, and then moved slowly off ; Charlemagne followed it to the river, where he saw a monstrous toad sit ting upon the nest and eggs of the serpent. Resolved to administer justice to all crea tures, the Emperor ordered the toad to be burned. A few days after this the serpent crept into the judgment hall, bowed low to the Emperor, crept upon the table, and having dropped a precious stone into a gol den goblet, glided quietly away. The Em peror, impressed by this marvel, built cn the spot were the serpent’s nest had been a church called “Wasserkelch. ” He gave the precious stone to his beloved spouse, Fastrada. The stone so drew toward her the Emperor’s love that he could hardly suffer her out of his sight. In the hour of heV death the Empress, dreading lest another should succeed her in the affections of the Emperor, placed the gem lieneath her tongue, and it was buried with her. Charlemagne could not separate himself from the body, and for eighteen years car ried it about with him. At length hi9 con fessor, by some black art, discovered the stone and its virtues; after which Charle magne allowed the body to be interred, and transferred his affection to the confessor, who became his Prime Minister. Archbishop of Mainz, and Chancellor of the Empire. But then, either in a moment of repentance or anger, this individual threw thestonein to a lake near Ingelhun. Then the affec tion of Charlemagne was diverted from his former favorite to the lake, and lie built be side it a palace, for whose decorations his other imperial residences were made bare. But w*hen Charlemagne came to die liis throes were long and violent; and the Archbishop, knowing the cause, *x-.‘d the lake dragged for the gem he had thrown into it. The talisman having been restored to the person of the monarch, he died peace fully (814). The tomb of Charlemagne, at Aix-la- Chapolle, was opened by Otto HI. in 997, and it‘is said that the wondorful gem was found’suspended from his neck. However Hint may be, the gem hail been for a long time the most valued relic in Aix la-Cha- pelle when it was presented by that city to Napoleon I. It was at a moment when ha seemed fo many, pre-eminently to "himself, an avatar of Charlemagne. Napoleon pre sented it to his favorite Horteuse, cidevant neM * Queen of Holland. At her death, in 1837, it passed to her son, 'Napoleon III. It shared his imprisonment at Ham, and ac companied him through ail his vicissitudes. In the course of its long history the pre cious stone has undergone evolutions. The nut-like stone constituting its basis is sui rounded by antique filigree of fine gold, ana is set with various gems. There are sever al relics about it. In the centre is a portion of the Holy Cross. Possibly it gained* its sanctity after losing its virtues as a love charm. Some of the variants of its legend look as if its virtues had gone into the ther mal waters of Aix-la-Chapelle, which would account for the association of rhe serpent with it—of old the guardian of wells. At any rate, Ilortense had an experience of its attractive powers widely different from that of Fastrada The Magian amulet could not co-operate with the true cross, and Hortense was divorced from her husband in 1810. It appears to have had equally little of the power originally ascril>ed to it in the case of the late Emperor. For while it was worn by him, and he was writing so solemn ly about it in his will (dated April 14, 1805), he wrote sadly in another clause of the same instrument that “contemporaries seldom render [one] justice” and “it is necessary to consider that from heaven on high those whom you have loved regard and protect you ; it is the soul of my illus trious uncle that has always inspired and sustained me.” Whether the late Emperor would have expressed himself so strongly about the tal isman if his will had been written after He- dan is questionable. It is open to specula; tion how far the young ex-Prince was in/ flifenced by tliis talisman. That which his father wore at Ills watch chain the son wore suspended at his breast, as Catholics wear the most sacred reliquaries in whose protec tive virtues they believe. The strange mys tical addresses to the Diety found among this youth's papers reveal a degree of super stition about himself which amounts to a phenomenon. At the seat of war in Africa he displayed a recklessness wliich had led some to believe tnat his desire to do “some thing to get himself talked about” (words reported from him by his intimate friend M. Amigues) amounted to insanity. NEWS IN BRIEF/ —There are 1,800,000 marriageable girls in France. * —The negroes of Georgia owh nearly $6,000,000 worth of land. —About 100 years ago there were on ly four newspapers In America'. —A rich vein of bituminous coal has been discovered near Ringgold, Pa. —Canon Beadon. of Wells, England, is 102 years old and never wore specta cles or overcoats. —The English sparrows' In Erie county are waging an exterminating war on the grasshoppers. —The Boston Public Library’and its branches contain at the present time 363,983 volumes. —During the month of July the New York police captured sixteen runaway boys, from Boston and vicinity- —The consumption of coffee through out the world has increased daring the past forty years from 190,OQOJMH* to 850,- 000,000 pounds. —Daniel Lawrence, a rich distiller, who died at Medford, Mas9., ifecentlv left $7000 to the town ^of Tyngsbord, Mass., for a poor funcL —Fourteen cops of Serres chfna will be ottered in eotnjjetiUon.by tfeei'rench War Office to the societies of earrier- pigeoii breeders. —It is estimated thrft the Minnesota wheat crop will yiel^aa average of fif teen bushels to the acre; or altqgether 14,001,000 bushels in the State. —There are lour hundred and fifty lady dentists yi the lyiited States, and three times a6 maiiy learning the busl- A wonderful Fall. David M. Andereou recently fell over the Palisade Rocks, at Englewood, New Jersey, a distance of two hundred and sixty feet. Mr. Anderson, who is about twenty-threo years of age, for the past three years has been passing the summer at the Englewood house and the winter at the. Htuyves&nt house, Jersey City, together with 'his moth er and his aunt, Mrs. Coe. On the after- norm of Friday a party was formed to have a picnic on the Palisades near Englewood. Anderson was engaged in business during the dajfr and did not join the party until ev ening. The horses of the party were fied near the edge of the deep gorge which at that point indents the Palisadca About nine o'clock Mr. Anderson, who was with the others at the edge of the Palisades, nr>- ticing that one of the horses was very rest less, started to remove it to a safer place. As lie stepped forward, horse and carriage began slipping over the precipice. Seeing this, and thinking he could save it, he sprang upon what he supposed to be solid ground between two openings in the cliff. His footing proved to tic nothing but a bush growing outward, aDd gave way as he stepped upon it. He was precipitated two hundred and sixty feet, striking upon rocks and stones as he partly fell and partly slid. Immediately upon seeing Mr. Anderson fall his frightened companions hastened in ev ery direction for help. Four of them, George S., James H., and Edward Coe, to gether with G. Lydecker, started down the narrow stairway leading to the foot of the Palisades. But here there was no trace of the missing man, and search was begun up rough aud steep sides. Part way up the carriage wheels were discovered, and near these Mr. Anderson was found. He was in an upright position, tightly wedged be tween rocks and trees. His face was so cut and torn by the rocks that it could with difficulty be recognized. Near him lay the dead horse and broken carriage. Making a sort of stretcher of pieces of the broken carriage, the four placed him on it aud commenced their perilous task of carrying their burden down the steep slope, a dis tance of over one hundred and liftv feet. Whem they reached the foot of the Palisade [ -Thirty-two American horses arrtr- their clothing and shoes were tom. and ed at Havre recently for the French their bodies and hands were severely i ,.; Wa i ry . They were inspected by scratched .Mr. Anderson was conveyed to French officers detailed for the purpose, the residence in Englewood of George S. and were all accepted at prices ranging Coe, and from there was removed to tiie 1 from $220 to $270, wliich are the top Englewood house. Dr. Currie, who is at- j prices lor French remounts. The hor- tending him, says in all probability Mr. j ses were in splendid condition after Anderson will recover. His right arm is their voyage, no accidents whatever broken below the elbow, and he is severely hat ing occurred on Board ship, bruised upon all parts of his body and j —The immigration statistics at Cas- limbs. But there are probably no internal, tie Garden, New York, give the number injuries. His face and head are greatly of arrivals of imigrants dorinjr July at swollen and discolored. 12.4U8, against 8822 in July, 1878. The total arrivals since Japuary 1 are 68,300, an increase of - 21,550 over the same per iod last year. The records of each month show an increase, that in 'May being the greatest, when there Vere 18,328 arrivals, against 11,450 in MaV, 1878. —Mrs. Daroaris Boutelle has just djed at Fitchburg, Mass., at the advancei age of 99 years. Longevity is a char acteristic of her family. Two of her brothers died a few years since, on the 8th day of Augusi, at tbe ripe ages of 82 aud 86 respectively A large num ber of tbe lamilv nave died at ages varying from 80 to 92. Mrs. Boutelle leaves a brother, Mr. David Bouttild, of Fitchburg, now 88 years old, and \ twin sisters, aged 81. —The number of convicts in |1878 in all the Htate prisons of the Union was 29,197; of whom 13,186 were employed in mechanical industries. n,yj —The amount of lumber on band a t the different points on the Susifuehanna is represented aa. larger this'year, at this season, than for years past at the same time. —The Pennsylvania Railroafi has erec ed gas works near the Union De pot, Pittsburg, for the manufacture ot gas to be fcsed in the depot ana '<ln the cars. j? —Gadsliill Place, Higham^ the resi dence of the late Charies Dickens, and which has been for a long time in the ffiarket, has at length found a purchaser in Captaiu Austin Budden, of the Twelfth Kent Artillery. *“ —The exporf of American beer was valued at $150,100 last .year, agaius»- $50,000 in 1874. The importatious, c*' the contrary, have fallen off very large ly, being 2,167,251 gallons in 1875, against 767,709 gallons in 1878. —In recognition of the labors of Pro fessor Greist, of the Law Faculty of Berlin, President Hayes has transmitted to the Professor, through Mr. Everett, a collection of volumes on the history of juresprudence. —A woman was drinking milk from a cup in Paris on the 28th of Junfe, at 6 o’clock in the morning. The light ning knocked the cup from her hands, but left her unhurt. The cup could not be found. —Three of the surviving descendants of Massasoit, the noted Indian, Mrs. Mitchell and her two daughters, are panning the summer iu camp at Betty’s Neck, a tract of land up the shores oi^ Assawampsett Pond, in Massachusetts. —The national debt is now about $2,- 304,000,000, which bears interest as fol lows, in round numbers; 3 per cent.. $ 14,000,000; four per cent., $650,000,000; 4 jo per cent., $250,000,000; 5 percent., 4690,000; 6 per cent., $350,000,000; no interest, $400,000,000. —Ten years ago the exportation of leather to Europe was first staited as au experiment. Since then the trade has grown to 25,000,000 pounds (valued at $4,000,000) per annum, with an in crease for the first six months of this year of 1,000,000 pounds —The Chicago elevators contain at the present time 2,535,273 bushels of wheat, 2,958,576 bushel* of corn, 154,219 bushels of oats, 50,070 bushels of i»ye, and 76,96(Umisuc1s ot barley, making a grand total of 5,775,098 bushels, against 15,70,055 bushels at this period last year. —In Paris and its suburbs thefe are more than 18,000 people who live by rag-picking or rag-selling. There are 10,000 chifionniers whogo about collec ting scrape of rags or paper, and. 3,000 old clothes dealers who Duy rags, t^nd who again employ 2.000 workmen, —In New South Wales last year the sum of $1,708,485 was expended* upon primary education. Teachers’ salaries absorbed $799,320. There were in Oper ation 1,187 schools, attended m the ag gregate by 128J25 pupils. Since If 77 there has beeu an increase.yf seventy schools. Ten years ago there were only 642 schools. - T 0 —Tne Boston Fish Bureau has jjist completed statistics 'of the ctffch of mackerel, the Receipts and imports from January 1 to August 1, The New England cateh of mackerel for fnat time is 61,763 barrels, of which 19,414 barrels have been packed out at Boston, 12,490 barrels at Gloucester and*29,941 at all other Siew England ports. * V - —A mile is 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards in length. A fathom is six feet. A league is three miles. A Sabbath Day’s journey is 1,155 yards less than two- thirds of a miie. A day’s journey is 32>a miles. A cubit is two feet., k A hand (horse measure) is four inches. A palm is three inches. A span is 10% inches. A space is three feet. —Of 17,000 guns constructed by Herr Krupp at his works at Essen daring the last twenty-three years only sixteen have hurst, and nearly all of these were destroyed during trials undertaken to test their power of resistance or endur ance, and when,, consequently, they were loadrd with charges heavier than they were designed to lire. Tiie Two Wills. There are two pas ages in the will of Chiselhurst and the will of Long wood which may be contrasted and read with curious interest. The First Napoleon writes: “I die prematurely, assassinated by the English oligarchy and its * * * The English nation will not be slow in venging me,” The Fourth Napoleon writes? “1 shall die with a sentiment ot pro found gratitude toward Her Majesty the Queen of England, toward all the Royal family, and toward the country where I have received during eight years so cordial a hospitality.”