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CEDARXOWN, GA., SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.
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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.”