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Cedartown Advertiser. D. B. FREEMAN, Editor and Proprietor, OLD SERIES—VOL. VI-NO. 49. CEDARTOWN, GA., FEBRUARY 19, 1880. titpmc. /® 150 Per year, if paid In advance, l J&iuna. ^g<;.00 per year, if not paid in advance. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 10. LORD KEEP MY MEMORY GREEN. My feet approach life’s western slope, Above me bend the noonday skies; Beyond me spreads the realm of Hope, Before the land of memory lies; I know not what the years may brin^ Of dangers wild or joy serene, But turning to the east I sing,— “Lord keep my memory green.” O! land of Winter and of bloom. Of singing bird and moaning pine, Thy golden light, thy tender gloom, Thy vales and mountains all are mine; The kolv loves of o her years With beck'ning hands toward me lean— And whisper through their failing tears, “Lord keep my memory green.” Dear Memory,—whose nnclonded eye Can pierce the darkest wilds of space— I see her watch-fires burning high, I feel her breezes fan my face, I would not give the light she flings Across my future’s landscape scene For all the pomp and pjtwer of kings— “Lord keep my memory green.’* Let memory near my soul abide. With eye and voice to warn and win. Till Hope and Memory, side by side, Shall walk above the tides of sin - Till f rom life’s western lakes and rills The angel lifts the sunset sheeD, And hangs it- o’er the eastern hills, • Lord keep my memory green.” f man dictating a will to his lawyer, in which j rage. That decided the false, bold girl be- 1 he left everything he possessed to Laura! side him. Work absolutely. “Lewis Yanwirt,” she said, “if that will Mr. Scribe ventured to remonstrate, hut could be put into your possession to do what it was of no use. you like with, would you marry a woma i “1 know what I am about,” the impe- who loves you better than Laura Work rious old man said, and would hear nothing, ever could* 1 The will duly signed, witnessed, and She felt him start as she leaned upon his . sealed, he told the lawyer where to put it arm, and her hand tightened ! in his desk, which stood within Ins view. in her pocket. His face •* •‘Is it safe here?*’Mr. Scribe a*ked. .“I; so that she could not se see no kev.” His answer came after some mdments, but “Bob-sledding” by moonlight, eight or ten on a “bob,” lias been the epidemic fun in Deadwood during the cold spell. Every body has it, and children cry for it. No dignity withstands it, no prim sense of propriety is stiff enough to resist it. Ladies, gentlemen, boys, trirls and miscellaneous urchins, pinks of decorum and romping , , ., . „ i hoydens, all “bob” with the very wildness •I | so that she could not see its expression• j of j o!l . entbI13iasm . H, “ * ft “ r 80:1,6 bm ' Dignified reader, did you ever see a what was slightlv averted Bobsledding “Who"would touch it?” the sick mau : in a voice so husky and changed she would „ bob; ;„ So? Wb;ltj never? Thea your asked, irritably. “It would benefit no one , scarcely have known it. life has been wasted. Fancy two iron- ! hut Lewis, and the Vanwirts are not thieves ! "1 would. ' ! bound sleds ten feet apart, with a strong whatever else they may l>e. Besides, how Trembling with joy she drew out the, liink flfteen j nc b es wide, lashed on top do you know that 1 may not change my folded paper, and put it into ins hand. | of tb( , m w ; tb a cross-piece on the from mind at The last moment and destroy it He held it up■ m the moonlight a moment ■ f t , d|1ctor the sle(!rer stradd- ! yet'f Go now, please, and tell some one to j and then thrusting it inside Ins braiSt, turn-, j.^ lhe . k ju3t over llm hind one. s- ml my grandson to me.’ cd suddenly and began togoswittl} towaid f a ‘*b«)b ” Pauline would have liked to stay and j the house. Pauline could scarcely keep up j ImagiDe a 8t Wp mountain-side of ice m.d : frozen snow, slick as if it had been greased, ' and a half a mile down. Eight, ten or I advise you not to mind it. Come, there ; is no one here to see you; go into the forest and help yourself to sticks.” “Not I!” exclaimed the boy. “You are afraid some one will come and find you. But I will keep watch for you,” urged the King. “Will you take the punishment in my place, if I chance to get caught? No, no I” cried the boy, shrewdly, shaking hi9 head. “I should nsk my life if I took the King’s wood. ” “But I tell you it will be no risk,” said the King. “I wilt protect you; go and get some wood.” Upon that the boy turned and looked him boldly in the face. “I believe you are a traitor,” he cried,— “an enemy of the King! or else you want to get me into trouble. But you can’t. I know how to take care of myself: and I shall show respect to the laws though they are bad.” The boy weut on gathering sticks, and England’* Duke*. dozen ladies and gentlemen, ail seated on a ; j n evening went home with his load of witness thin interview also, hut she did not with him. An awful misgiving seized her. : dare. Laura must he wondering greatly “What am you going to do?” i now where she was. “You shall see,” he answered sternly, She found that Laura had come out of mid she read his determination in his eyes i , lorsel>ack fashion, clothes-pin style. | f“ e f' the sick-room so agitated that lira. Becket, “VS iaf» f‘ «l■'™ 8 - 9,16 muttered, hut ^ go! Track! track: And in the twink-1 The next day ids parents were astonished the housekeeper, had iii.li e ler t ' • , raster won’t th ink vou for i llB ? of an eye you are flying downward at: t0 rece j ve a summons to appear witli their ; and was now s itiug wnh her. ” for : literate of sixty miles an hour! Your eyes L before the King . As they went trem- 11k* night was by tins time so far ml- P ® • , , t ^; pop out. Your hat flies off. \ our false j blinglyinto his presence, the boy recognized anced, and Laura seemed so ill, that it was L,,.... Uair blows to Kamschatka. I our crockery-; ^j ie man w £tli whom he had talked the day The Stolen Will. Laura was already, rich, she | and yet to her who already had 90 much, j the whole great Vamvirt property had just been given. She envied her the fortune, Unit yon uill be a great deni happier with [lemen ^ Ild yoangsters arc> .dr. Lester than you would have been with ; ; 1)H sUdicg flying in every di me. But he will never love you any better ; |’, wn ”i j. 0 oo miles a When they told old Ethan Yanwrit that and she envied her the handsome lover, " M " 1 * was white and ispeechless with be , t : .i.,.G.„» ifiiii wiium ivus herse 1 more tiian nail his days were numbered, the first thing he said was: “Send for Miss Work, I must see Laura Work before I die.” Singular as the demand seemed, no one thought of questioning it. Miss Work was sent for. Laura turned quite white when the strange, imperative summons first came, and she was told that he who sent it was dying. “Dying?” she whispered, her blue eyes filling with tears. “What can he want? Will you go, Laura?” asked Pauline Ruble, who was visiting her. **01i, yes, yes! Poor old man! I am so sorry for him. Certainly 1 will go. But I am frightened, Pauline. I never saw any one die.” The pretty, childish creature was trem bling from head to foot. Pauline put her arm round the slight was herself more than half in love, and whom, hitherto, she had not been without hope of winning away from i.uBiK> U nmioa : ntr<in innir I iiono Laura d»»ishu me iu«u. ^ w*m«. * v,.* . j a d i u the fields yesterday, and tried to per- wus poor: vm ‘ u5 j{ ,jf (rrpnt hannicr with ! s briek8 * n a pin-point of time. And ladies, J 8ua( ] e him to disobey the law. But I found ~~ rolling, him proof against all temptation. So I sent direction, I f or you, good people, to tell you what a , minute, * true an( j honest son you have, and that the with nothing for a sled. That s riding on } aw j s be changed, so that poor people a. “bob. ’ can go anywhere in the King's forests, and k«* orconduct. I gather the wood they find on the ground.” * lie then dismissed the lad and his parents Never “smack” while taking a “sclioon- " ith handsome presents, which made them er” of beer ! r ‘ c ‘* * or l * ie remainder of their lives. “Don't run after famous people.” It is j undignified. \Yalk briskly, but don’t run. | “A man’s dress should not be remark-; vvilderment. “Laura detests Robert Lester,*’ cried Mrs. Work, taking in the situation at once, “aura - m ' . “She has never cared for any one but you, “But ot course he will have to marry her and you ougbt lo know it.” now,’ she thought bitterly -oil, my darling!” ejaculated Lewis, suddenly, as 9l ‘jt sa t u , 1 wildly, extendiug his arms, “is it true?” silence was broken hy the sound of some Jn *’ nothfir in3 f anl . Laura wa8 sobbing on commotion in the house—she heard hurried s ] lou ] f q er steps and excited \0ice3. Pauline went quietly to her own room, “1. hat can it be? she wondered. Mr. anJ g[)ent thp n > ght j n packing . When, \ anwirt must be worse. the next morning, she announced her ap- Slie sat listening some moments, then proaching departure, no one objected, she rose softly. Laura was still sleeping. Lewis Yanwirt looked somewhat einbar- Pauline succeeded in opening the door with- rasse( i t w hen Laura told him of the promise nit disturbing her, and stole out into the bad made his grandfather the night he hall. From the landing, she could see the ser vants below hurrying about with looks. An impulse of ungovernable curiosity a „ a j Q died. “I don’t think I am in any danger of be- struck; coming a gambler,” he said; “but I am willing to pledge myself never to play , seized her. She watched her chance, and, gliding down the stairs, slipped through j figure, and drew the golden head down Abe open door without being seen, and upon her shoulder. She was several inches j passed swiftly along the veranda, till she t taller than Laura, and far handsomer, in j came to lhe window where she had already j her own opinion. j spent so much time. “Little fool,” she thought, as she caressed ; 0ue g ] aace at { } ie bed told her the fair, flower-like face with her slim white hand. “Of course it is something about Lewis Yanwirt.’ Which he did and kept his word. Aloud she said, insinuatingly : “1 had better go with you, dear. Don’t you think so?” “Oh, if you only will!” Laura cried eagerly. Mrs. Work was quite an invalid, and could not accompany her daughter, so she, also, was very glad to have Pauline go with h€r. As the carriage drove off with the two girls, she sank buck upon her sofa, with a thoughtful look. “It must be something about his grand son. I hope Laura won’t be silly.” The young ladies were shown at once into Mr. Vanwirt's apartment. The sick man frowned at sight of Pauline. “I wish to sec‘you alone. Laura, my child,” he said. “1 will wait for you in the next room, darling,” Pauline volunteered, promptly, and departed. “Mr. Lewis has come, sir,” the attendant said as he was leaving the room, in obedi ence to an impatient gesture from his master. “Let him wait,” the old man said, grimly. The night was warm, and the windows pf were all open. Those gentlemen who mount a dry goods what had box to deliver a political speech have no happened. Etlian Yanwirt was dead! A i guile in their hearts. They simply want to sudden awe and horror seized her. post up the workingmen, brush up the ideas She was about to flee the spot, when her of merchants, and do good to ail. They ev'es fell upon the desk iu which she had , take no heed of the -mail bov lurking on seen the will placed. the outskirts of the crowd, but thoughtless- ‘T wonder if it is there vet?" she thought. 'J' b6 §‘. n ■ , was in the room at tile moment,! "Friends and neighbors, ] et me ask you thouirli the door into the next one stood j what;causes the hard times of which you open, and she could hear voices. ■ bmd >-comph.,Smg ••] am sure 1 eau reach il from here. I , a “ tof confidence in the mule vells should know it at a glance,” she mused. J ! 1,e «»»» '*>y..as the speaker pauses for an She nut her hand in and lifted the lid. ln9t ? 1 " t ’ , , . , - There it was. ^ ^ ie ^ iar( ^ times are u P on U8 » stares i f ee ^ out j n company. A wicked thought crossed her. What if us in t,ie fac ®’ ' v ' )e . and wretchedness are , a ]$ aU g 0r gin, and the room is net 1 . , „ „ ... . Prof. Paige, in a recent address devel- able, ’ No true gentlemen will appear at- a ; d among manv other theories, the be- dress party, in a red vest, a green coat, a ^ ^ hat the B eat - ice period tlia [ ground sky-blue necktie, yellow pantaloons and an | therockg int ° wil had ,5 een attrib ut “d to a iron ring in ins nose. It would make him , tin)C t(X) remote in the eart h’s history. He conspicuous, a thing which true politeness,^ ithadbeen the quite u .iiversall> ac- never seeks. | cepted opinion that the irreat ice caps were “In going up and down stairs precede f J me(J a cUmate ren dered cold hy rea- the lady.” it is no longer considered neces- ^ Qf ch J d eHsffiic re i atiou3 . ^ was sary m upper circles to step on a /a f 9 , kn(nvH that the eocentnci ty of the earth’ train, causing her to tumble to the bottom , of the stairs iu your company. You turn- 1 bier “Girls who part their hair on the | fif teen miUloil s of miles farther at times look fast.” And it is a so noteworthy , (han nQw The eart h’s great aphelion, to- that though they grow last they very sel-1 gether with changed conditions attributable dornget tired. ! to the procession of the equinox, was be- •‘Never take bits out of your mouth with ! , ieved have produced ,k e great periods ! y° ur , ti ov Wlth yoor ieet either, we Qf ice in , he ^ From this standpoint would and. Lse a pair of dentist s forceps ! f reckoiling /ciiffotd claims that man has “Address your wite‘Mrs and husband beeu ()u the S ’ artll two mi Ui on years. The ° ( . Professor said lie believed the modern ten dency of thought was in favor of a different view. ~ A young Duke is naturally an attractive figure to the popular imagination more especially when he leaps to the full splen dor of his position from a comparatively humble estate. The new proprietor of Welbeck Abbey, the Duke of Portland, will not, indeed, enter into the entire kingdom over which his predecessor reigned supreme and invisible, but he will have enough to make him one of the six greatest nobles in the realm, and to emphasize the contrast between the two lots which he will have experienced. Had the unhappy Mar quis of Hastings grown to man’s estate as a commoner, it is likely enough that he would have never gone to such tragic and irremediable grief. As a boy he had good tendencies and fair intelligence. But his life, from childhood upward, was the re cord of the easy victim of pimps and par asites, flattering knaves and fawning ad venturers. It is an inestimable advantage for the future possessor of the purse of Foitunatus, when supplemented by the highest dignities of the peerage to have had the training of a simple commoner. This lias only fallen to the lot #f three Dukes of the United Kingdom. His Grace ot Bed ford was plain 3Ir. Russell; the Duke of Devonshire was unadorned Mr. Cavendish when he became second wrangler at Cam bridge; and the new Duke of Portland was, a fortnight ago. Lieutenant Cavendish Bentinck of the Coldstream Guards. In each the fortunate individual had some rea son to congratulate himself on not being born actually in the purple. The wonder in this country is, not that so small, but that so large a percentage of the titled artiso- craey rise superior to the enervating and mischievous conditions of their statiou. From the first dawn of consciousness, the heir to a peerage*is pursued by parasites and toadies. The atmosphere which he breathes is impregnated with the mean in cense of adulation. The Duke of Richmond, Lord President of the council, is strongest on questions affectiEg the cattle plague; 3’et his eloquence even upon that topic scareel} T suffices to save the peerage, so far as its Dukes are concerned, from the charge of poverty in regard to the speaking power. The Duke of Argyll is an orator of no mean order; but somehow his harangues, rarely serve a better purpose than to recall the late Lord Derby’s joke about the black smith, and in no degree lessen that singu lar prejudice against the McCaUum More which prevails universally, except in West ern Scotland and around Campden Hill, path around the sun was subject, at long Unquestionably, the most able of our living periods, to considerable change, resulting ; Dukes is His Grace of Somerset, though iu carrying the earth out from the sun some in these degenerate days he has been left high and dry by his party, and is known Another Age of Ice. to the new generation chiefly as a crotch et}’ old fogy, remarkable only for a make up which associates the costume of the Stranger with a facial resemblance of the Martyr King. Shrewd as he is, the Duke of Somerset lias fallen under the influence of the Earl of Beaconsfield whom he de fended some time ago as a man who “only wanted to leave an honorable name in his- During the winter, in our northern tor}',” and was therefore actuated by the i “best intentions.” Detractors of all sorts ere to be silenced by the observation the This helps to equalize our climate, render- ■ Premier “would not be likely to want to r „. . , , . . Ihfcg the winters much more mild, and the j leave a dishonorable name to descend- -'There is too much promiscuous-kissingjlf 3 - - 1 in the country.” That is gigantic truth, ' ” 1 and the women folks had better stop oscu lating those sore-eyed poodle dogs. as ‘Mr.’ Such terms as “chowder-head” sound very affected be fore strangers. . view. me vvjuici, m uui uuuauu iu 1 19 ! m P° Ilt6 1,1 k “P, ,l 1 nms cmn con ;! hemisphere, we are two ami a half million “1 stun ly playing.” bend the hired man out | ^ |, care ; t0 tUe 8un than in the summer, i w, and let him kick the organ-grinder the fence. After Twenty Year*. In 1850 a man, still young and of indif ferent character, named Rambouillet, who carried on poaching with audacity and suc cess, was surprised by the game-keeper of a forest in the Haute Marne. An informa tion was laid against him, and was brought before the Correctional Tribunal, condemned to the forfeiture of his gun, to a fine, and even to imprisonment. Rambouilet re ceived the same sentence without protest, acknowledging the offense imputed to him, and resolving to turn over a new leaf. He kept his pledge, and from 1850 to 1870 he laid himself open to no reproach. He seemed bent on blotting out by his good con duct the stigma of his condemnation. When he met the game-keeper he avoided looking at him, not with the air of a man harboring a grudge, but like a man prevent ed by shame from encountering the witness of his fault. It was observed, however, that he often isolated himself from others, and frequently passed his time in wander ing about the fields without it being known whither he directed his step-. This also was attributed to regret for his delinquency. He regained public esteem, and his son married honorably. Strange to say, Ram bouillet was governed for twenty years by a single idea—that of vengeance. His ap parent contrition, the rectitude of his con duct, his sadness and his gestures were all directed toward one aim—vengeance. For twenty years, morning, noon and night, he . laid wait for the game-keeper, against ; ^ or .* i there is one for every 2,61d iu- BRIEFS. —There are 281 lawyers in Congress. —Russia is suspected of preparing for war. —There are 56 iron clads In the Brit ish navy. —The war strength of Russia is 2,- 249,000 men. —Athens, Greece, has thirty-four newspapers. —Japan has adopted our National Bank system. —Stanley Matthews has declined the English mission. —Jean Joseph Ponjulat, the English historian, is dead. —Last year thirty-three duels were fought in France. —Vermont has 217,800 milch cows, valued at $5,445,000. -Out of 577,353 persons of school age in Iowa only 264,702 attend school. —New' Hampshire has S06,080 acres in grain, potatoes and mowing land. —Over seven million watch glasses are sold annually in the United States. —The first iceboat on the Hudson River, N. Y., w’as built at Athens in 1818. —There are now 1,000 Sabbath Schools in France, 2,000 in Germany, and 1,200 in Italy. —London has 872 churches. In Nev whom he had vowed vengeance, and for twenty years that vengeance escaped him. In 1870 the war broke out, the Haute Marne was invaded, the forest in which the game-keeper lived was occupied by the German troops. One December night Ram bouillet, whom every one supposed to be a distance from the neighborhood, took his gun, slunk from tree to tree tlireugh the Germans occupying the forest, and, at the risk of being captured and shot, facing the greatest perils, and resorting to the most audacious stratagems, creeping almost on a level with the ground, he succeeded in reaching the game-keeper’s cottage. Theie was a light in the window. The game- keeper and his wife, lost in this solitude, amid hostile troops, were seated side by side. Rambouillet watched them some time through the clearing surrounding the cottage. The game-keeper remained mo tionless by his wife, in spite of the furious barking of the dogs, for since the enemy had occupied the forest the dogs had al ways barked every night. Rambouillet had raised his gun, took a careful aim, and fired. Two despairing cries w’ere uttered inside the cottage, the dogs redoubled their noise, all around distant calls of “Woher habitants. —The crop of castor beans raised in Kansas last year, is estimated at 10,000.- 0C0 bushels. —The Parnell demonstration in Phil adelphia, Pa., yielded $3,000 for the Irish sufferers, —The cost of the Ilayden trial is esti mated at ovor $25,000. The jurors re ceived about $200 each. —The debt of Euglish towns and cities for sanitary improvements amount to $230,000,000. —Of the 134 members of the two houses of the Louisiana Legislature only 13 are Republicans. —The amount expended on public schools in the United Kingdom during the year 1878, was $13,677,000. —A man in Easton, Maine, has this year harvested 10,000 bushels of pota toes from forty-five acres of ground. —The total debt of Boston at the close of last year will be $42,359,816.23, being a decrease during the year of $9,720,624. —Within the past five years the acre age of cereals in the United States has increased from 74,000,000 to 95,000,000. —A Virginia paper estimates the an- saamier’B heat far less than it would be if dant9”-an amiable argument advanced by ; the conditions were reversed. In the j the Duke in ignorance of the fact that Ben- southern hemisphere the exact reverse jamin Disraeli “has no children.” No iiiii . . , > i state of conditions exists. They are nearer more than two Dukes are at present en- dn0 - L ,f. re c ^/ I i a Abe sun in summer, and further off in win- gaged in administering the affairs of the . S p CCia y i^ f or i le r. They have cold winters and hot sum-j empire; and the value of the aid rendered da” were heard and Rambouillet hurried j _ _ _ along the paths, escaped, and disappeared ; niial loss to that State by the destruc- from the district. The next day it was j c j on °f sheep by vicious dogs at $1,000,- told how the Germans had killed the game-1 keeper’s wife, and all the neighborhood I Mrs, J. J. Astor, of Ne^v York, in mustered to the funeral. Peace was signed, \ 1879, provided homes for 677 friendless Rambouillet resumed his former life. The j children in the west, at an expense ot occupation ceased, and then every body j $ 9< ®0- ventured to express the horror excited by j —The Sisters of Charity in the United so cowardly a crime committed against a States numbered at a recent enumera- woman sitting peaceably at her hearth, j «on 1,179, in charge of 110b establish- Rambouillet had become more gloomy. IHei ‘ tS- A gnawing despair had penetrated liis —Nashville, Tenn., points to new heart. He had committed a useless crime. ! buildings worth nearly $900,000 as evi- Not only had liis vengeance escaped him, I deuce of substantial growth during the mere. At the south pole there is a vast by the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of North- excess of ice over that of the north pole, j umberland, may be imagined when it is The vast accumulation of ice at the south : remembered that, intellectually, he is prob ably a less robust personage than Earl Percy. As for the Duke of Buckingham, she took it? No one would ever know, abroad, and tlie laboring man. the merehant: dancing purpose. The lawyer would think Mr. Yanwirt had! a™} ‘ capitalist ask each other the cause 7—; destroyed it, as he said lie might, and Laura j anl * lc 1C11K ' 1 An American Kins David. I pole attracts the waters of the ocean, cliang- could not get the \ an wirt fortune without ^ ame speec le go o as nig , 1 "When the Spaniards, under the famous: ing the equilibrium of the earth’s centre, it. Besides, that will in her possession the poetry lett out. ve > ic >• Cortes, came to Mexico in 1519, they found moving the equator to the south, drawing might somehow help her to win Lewis \ an-j > 01110 o *s say t iu \%e 1 t i ie country inhabited by people already off the waters of the sea from the north wirt, after all. , fast as a nation, continues tlu speaker^ civiUzed About 100 years before the Te-1 pole to the south pole. This accounts for At that thought she snatched (lie will, pretending to have heard nothing, other zeucan3 tbc most enUgIltened 0 f the native the clearly noticeable subsidence of the and hiding it in the folds of lier dress, hur-, say that the currency has been contracted tribeS) bad a prince whose history has a waters in the north, and for the fact that ricdly retraced her steps. , t0 ° ™ ucl ! ; ©there declare l ' ult . striking resemblance to that of the Hebrew 1 there is but little dry land in the southern She was too flurried now to be as cautious 1 her s yer ec ipse on e \( n - g;j n g D a vid. His name is a hard one, but hemisphere. If the ages of ice can be as she was when she came out, but as it 0811 n & 1 over ltr * Ra 1 bv dividing it into double syllables we may | charged up to these causes, a glacial period happened, she regained her room without: 8m:t T . °^'. ... , master it—Neza-hual-covotl. In his youth, {is approaching in the southern hemisphere, any one seeing her. Laura still slept. ! He is driven away by a cituen who came Uke Davi ^ he was obliged to flee for his and will be at its greatest height in about Ethan Yanwirt had beeu dead about a J aereto war a spec- 3 life from the wrath of a morose monarch five thousand five hundred years. The last month. His grandson had entered into Uis locanon Ior a e | ' who occupied the throne, and he met with j per iod of ice in the northern hemisphere is ission of his estate without hindrance. ; “Some folks say that there are too many many romantic adventures and hair-breadth ; a i so of equijlly recent date, occurring prob- Tlie sick-room and the one ! There were rumors about a will; but, when | men m tlie country,” says the speaker. escapes. ably about six thousand years ago. The | to the Dukes of Devonshire and of Aber- npvt tn U hoth looked unon a wide reran- it could not be found, Mr. Scribe concluded ; “Too many men . Great Heavens, tan 0uce? when some so i<iiers came to take ; lecturer was of opinion that, if these recent j corn, they may lie said to have no title to da which ran across the entire front of the ‘that the old man had destroyed it, and re- j tb? re be t0 ? ™ an - v n . 1L ! u m , a country like him } n bis own house, he vauished in a ; views proved correct, there would be a re- fame, except as fathers of unusually prow- o-rnnrl nlri mansion fused, when questioned, to tell who was j this, whose fertile prairies cloud of incense, such as attendants burned ; currence of the ice period in about sixteen ising children, though the former may ° it was an pnsv thinp- for Pauline to step named in it. ‘H’ll go home and kill my dad ! solemn- j before Princes, and concealed himself in a j thousand years in the northern hemisphere; claim to be a more thorough educator of nnon Ibis vVrnnda without attracting Pauline Ruble was still visiting Laura ly puts in the small boy, and the speaker llut j] bis enemies were gone. He this view would also shorten the time of’.youth than the latter. The Duke of Rut- attentiou and pass along to the window of ! Work, although, truth to tell, her welcome j begins to lose part of Ins crowd. \\ hen he j fl e( j t0 the mountains, where he slept in j man’s existence on the globe. It wasprob- land competes with Mr. Maclver for the the sick-room 1 j had grown somewhat cold, both on Laura’s ’ starts off again he says: | ca ves and thickets, and lived on wild fruits, j a bly safe to say that man has not existed glorious post of Champion of Reciprocity; “I want to know what lie wants with her ” part and Mrs. Work's. “Wlrnt has made money so scarce, labor occasionally showing himself in the cot-j more than fifty ora hundred thousand : the Duke of Cleveland excels in prosiness she said to herself* “and Laura is such an Laura was very unhappy. Lewis Van- so scarce, and want and woe so plenty ? j tages of the poor people, who befriended ! years. * of speech. The Duke of Sutherland's fancy obstinate little chit sometimes as likely as wirt scarce ever spoke to her, except iu the j What has tumbled the price of property : their Prince at the peril of their own lives, j for fire-engines is not nearly so strong as ’ * mos t formal manner, though lie came to one-thinl ? What means these bankrupt Once, when closely pursued, passing a girl; Excellent interest Buies. the Duke of Wellington’s preference for who was reaping in a field, he begged her j — the more ancient four-wheel cabs to be ob- For finding the interest on any principal , tained in the metropolis. The Duke of but he felt that any attempt against the game-keeper would recall attention to the crime of 1870, and would divert suspicion from the German soldiers. His irritation in creased every day, and often found vent in threats against those around him. At last one of those scenes .was repeated between Rambouillet and his son’s daughter. he may be presumed to have made a re spectable ruler of a peaceful province, inas much as nothing has been heard to the contrary. The man would indeed be mad who should think it worth while to shoot at the Governor of Madras. The Duke of Bedford achieved success even greater than that attained by the Duke of Westminster as a silent member of the House of Com mons; and in his higher career as Chair man of the bucolic meetings he continues to maintain silence, if not in seven langu ages, at least with dignity. With regard Du, Laura Work,” the ihe house as often as formerly. Apparently j sales?’ “to ask you if you it was to see Pauline now, and though the “Means they are beating their creditors? gentle girl strove to feel the same toward ; squeaks the bad boy, and a dozen more not she would not tell me “I have sent for you, dying man was say in, *° Laura’s S s»'eet°face clouded with crimson her f'aLc'frieiid, she could not quite. hearers nod tlieir heads in the affirmative and then grew white asrain. She was trem- Mrs. Work, beholding the defection of and start for the market, bliug so, poor child, she could scarcely i young Yanwirt from her daughter, wished; “Have we a currency! stand. j most heartily they had none of them ever i mands the man on the box. “My dear,” he said, “I am dying, or I seen Miss Ruble. | ; ‘H we hadn’t, how could I buy this ere would not ask you such a question. Lewis j There was a certain rejected suitor of! gun ?” replies the bad boy, retreating belore was my only sou’s only child. If I die j Laura’s, named Robert Lester, who about the cane of an office-seeker. _ without a will, the whole Yanwirt property this time took advantage of the situation to “Me have a currency, but what is i. ? will fall to him as the natural heir; but the renew his devotion toiler. Laura had never ask the speaker. Is it money or rags? M hen bov has taken to bad courses lately, I am liked him. and liked him less than ever; the laboring man has a dollar in his pocket, afraid. He gambles, I have heard. His now; but in spite of her coldness he was father did before him. The taste for it is I always beside her now, and more than once in the Yanwirt blood. It came near being j she had fancied that Pauline had deliber- my ruin, at his very age. But I promised ately contrived to fasten him upon her for the woman 1 married that I would never : the evening. touch a card again, if she would have me, “1 must bring matters to a crisis soon,” and I never did. My grandson loves you thought Pauline, one night, as she wreathed as only a Yanwirt can. In that is my only her brilliant face with smiles, and pretended is he certain that “Not much,” cries out the boy. Tliis is too much. The crowd make for him in a body, leaving the speaker alone, and they forget to return. If he can talk long enough he may draw some new T ones, but he generally buttons his collar and goes down to the market after an egg-plant for lo cover him from sight with the stalks of ^ grain she was cutting: she did so, and when for any number of days, the answer in each ' Marlborough lias done the State some ser liis enemies came up, directed the pursuit case being in cents, separate the two right- vice—perhaps most by his retirement into into a false path. At another time, he took hand figures to express it in dollars and j seclusion—and so has the Duke of St. Al- suddenly de-j refuge with some soldiers who were friend- cents: bans; but both have faded into obscurity, Four Per Cent.—Multiply the principal j an d the latter is only remembered as a con- by the number of days to run; separate the nection of an eminent Baron of the Ex- right-hand figure from the product, and ; chequer. Of the rest nothing is known in divide by 9. j society. It is fitting that the ducal exis- Five Per Cent.—Multiply by number of j tence should be placid and serene; that days and divide by 72. j Dukes may be over-chiffident and modest, Six Per Cent.—Multiply by number of ; however, is evident from the life of the days; separate right-hand figure aud divide j late Dnke of Portland; and from the ten- by 6. ' dency of him, in whom centre the honors Eight Per Cent.—Multiply by number of j of Richmond and of Gordon, to speak of days and divide by 45. I himself simply as “I, for one,” lest poor hope for him. Am I wTonir, my child, in : not to perceive Mrs. Work’s unusually cold j his Sunday dinner. believing that you care for him?” ! maimer toward her. Laura’s pale lips opened, but she would Presently wheu Lewis \ auwirt called, i The Greeks. not utter a word. she was watching for him, and drew him at j “Little fool!” thought Pauline. | once into the garden. ^ j The physical superiority of the ante-Alex- “Listento me!” old Ethan Yanwirt said, “I want to tell you something,” she said j andrian Greeks to the hardiest and most lifting himself upon liis elbow, in his ex- in her softest voice; “and besides, Laura i ro bust nation of modern times is perhaps citement. “If you love Lewis, and promise and her lover are so happy In there by j best illustrated by the militry statistics of me that before you consent to marry him, themselvet, it would be a pity to disturb I Xenophon. The complete accoutrements of you will exact from him the same pledge them.” a Spartan soldier, iu what we would call my wife di« from me, lie shall be my heir. Lewis Yanwirt’s handsome face turned ; heavy marching order, weighed seventy-five If not, the money goes away from him. quite white. pounds, exclusive of the camp, mining and Speak, child! My lawyer waits now to “Has she consented to marry him at! bridge-building tools, and the rations issued make my will.” last?” he asked, bitterly. I iu weekly instalments, which increased the Laura burst into tears. ! “Oh, of course; 1 told you she would. | burden of the infantry soldier to ninety, “I do love him!” she stammered. “I; He is sueh a very moral young man, and i ninety-five, or even one hundred lbs. This will promise anything rather than you dear Laura is so very strict in her ideas. I load was often carried at the rate of four should do such a dreadful thing. But— believe she thinks he has not a vice in the English miles an hour for twelve hours per what—if he does not care for me as you world; and 1 know, if she thought he had think?” touched a card, she would not have “I will risk that; I know he does. All j him now.” I ask of you is your promise not to marry Lewis winced. him till he has solemnly sworn he will never 1 “Mr. Yanwirt,” Pauline said, suddenly, touch a card again. Give me your baud, “do you know to whom your grandfather child, and say the words over after me.” j left his money, in that Laura obeyed him, more calmly than been found? ’ might have been expected in her half-hys terical state. “God bless you!” lie said, as lie let her go. “Y’ou have made my dying moments almost happy.” As Laura quitted the room, sobbing. Pauline was about to join her, when she j heard the sick man mutter: “i am not sure, after all, that a would not make everytuing safer.” Then he ordered the attendant who had 3 ust come in to go and bring Mr. Scribe. “Can he be going to make a will after all?” wondered Pauline. “I’ll wait and diem, day after day; and only in the burn ing deserts of Southern Syria the command er of the Grecian auxiliaries thought it pru dent to shorten the usual length of a day’s march by one-fourth. The gymnastic tests applied by the syntauchus, or recruiting 11 which has never officer of a picked corps, would appear even ! more preposterous to the uninformed ex quisites of a modern “crack regiment.” Even tall, well-shaped men of the soundest constitution could not pass the preliminary examination unless they were able to jump their own height vertically, and thrice their own length horizontally, and two-thirds of Never mind, I do know,’’ Pauline said, ; those distances in full armor; pitch a weight lifting her beautiful black eyes to his in the equal to one-third of their own to a distance ‘I do not.” “I can tell you. ” “You?” He stared at her. "It gave everything to Laura Work.” “Impossible 1 How do you know? rill j moonlig “.Moreover that will is in, existence.” le stared at her harder than before. ‘I know where it is.” You do of twenty yards, and throw a javelin with such dexterity that they would not mis3 a mark of the size of a man’s head more than four out of ten times at a distance of fifty yards; besides other tests referring to their “Would you like to see it?” slipping her j experience in the use of the bow and the see.” . hand into her pocket. . sword. She resumed her listening attitude, well j “I certainly should.” . nnn nnA screened from view bv the shrouding folds “How will you like to see Laura and —1 he. South rased last year GOO,000,- Of the heavy silken curtain^. i Robert Lester lording it at Yanwirt House?”! 000 pounds of tobacco, which is 12,000,- To Wer amazement, she heard the sick I Lewis ground his teeth with involuntary 000 more than she ever raised before. ly to him, and covered him with a war drum, about which they were dancing. No bribe could induce his faithful people to be tray him. “Would you not deliver up your Prince if he came iu your way ?” he once asked a young country-fellow, to whom his person was unknown. “Never!” replied the peasant. “Not for a fair lady’s band and a great fortune U’ said the Prince. “Not for all the world!” was the answer. The Prince, who was rightful heir to the throne, grew every day in the favor of the people, and at last he found himself at the , head of an army, while the bad King was mere and more detested. A battle was fought; the usurper’s forces were routed, and he was afterward slain. The Prince, who so lately fled for liis life, was now pro claimed King. He at once set about reforming abuses, and making wise laws for his kingdom. He established a society devoted to the en couragement of science and art. He gave prizes for the best literary compositions j 0 f d a jg a nd divide by 18. (for these people had a sort of picture wri- j ting), and he was himself a poet, like King j How to C ount cash. David. His poems, some of which have j ~ been preserved and translated, were gener-1 In Eugland a patent check till has been ally of a religious character. His favorite j brought before the mercantile public which themes were the vanity of human greatness, j seems to be a very ingenious contrivance, praises of the Unknown God and the bless- j The official description of it says that it will ings of the future life for such as do good i check every penny taken and paid, better in this. The Tezcucans, like the Aztecs, j than keeping a cashier and using check- were idolaters, who indulged in the horrid j books. It occupies no more room than the rites of human sacrifice to tlieir awful; ordinary till. If an assistant should take deities; but this wise and good King detest- j money of a customer and fail to put it m ed such things antLendeavored to wean his j the till, it can be detected at once. If only people from them, declaring, like David, ; part of the amount is put in, it will show that above all idols and over all men, ruled j how much has been withheld, if any cash an unseen spirit, who was the one God. j has been taken out, it will show the amount. The King used to disguise himself, and j The till cannot be opened without it being go about among his people, in order to learn ( known, and the number of times. It will who were happy, how his laws were ad- show how much money there ought to be ministered, and wliat was thought of his j in at a time. Any amount of change can government. On one occasion, he fell in ! he left in it for use, and }et none can be with a boy gathering sticks in a field. i taken away without its being known. . It “Why don't you go into yonder forest, can be left any length of time without being where you will find plenty of wood ?” ; cleared, and will allow the amount that asked the disguised monarch. j ought to be in without counting the cash. “Ah!” cried the boy, “that forest belongs It can be used as a desk, or let in level with to the King, and he would have me killed 1 the counter-top, if required. It shows the if I should take his wood; for that is the number of customers waited upon by each j aw> ! assistant; and if a line is drawn across close “Is he so hard a man as that ?” j 1° the glass every hour, it tells the number “Aye, that he is—a very hard man, in- ( of customers at any given time. And a.l deed, who denies his people what God has these advantages are wound up with the given them!” • statement, “Interest on outlay and cost of “It is a bad law,” said the King; “$nd working, one half-penny a day.” Nine Per Cent.—Multiply by number of ; humanity should faint under the weight of days; separate right-hand figure and divide ; too great authority. bv 4. ,,, '■Ten Per Cent.-Multiply by number of what Home without a support (lavs and divide by 36. j Twelve Per Cent.-Multiply by number and gir , of days; separate right-hand figure and di-; on ^ ^ Quth Side , who3e only fau j t> ac . vide py 5. . [ cordinar to the young man whose affections Fifteen Per Cent.—Multiply by num | ghe had {a3tenedj i3 aI1 unna tural and mor- °f dais and divide by _4. ^ i bid appetite for oysters and theatre-tickets. Eighteen Per Cent.—Multiply by number | came ncar j os j n g the faithful crea. of days; separate nght-hand figure aud di-, ^ dothe8 sbe ^ expect310 bave VK 1® b - v -■ _ , I the wifely privilege of trading off for Twenty Per Cent.—Multiply by number d(Jga Tbe other eTe ning, as they were returning from the theatre, the young ladv passed the time in talking gleefully of the" future, and picturing the happy time that would follow their nuptials. ‘‘You will come home just as soon as ever you can, Charley, and I will have your slippers all ready for you, and then we can get sup per read}’ together, just like two little rob- bins in a nest, can’t we? An attentive listener might bave heard the cracking of a shirt-bosom as Charley heaved a sigh at this unusual scheme of married life, but chok ing back his emotion and a large chew of tobacco which lie had taken on the quiet, the young man looked at the beautiful fraud and said: "See here, sis, I’ll stake another fellow for enough, to keep you in suppers and theatre tickets for the balance of the season, and let him fulfil my sche dule, but my notion is we had better part. What is home without a supper?” The girl saw that she had bluffed at the wrong time, but artfully fell on his neck and said that she only did it to try him; that she ad mired nothing so much as a man who knew liis rights and would stand up for them. His answer had endeared him to her more than ever, and she could never, never let him go. Here was a great chance for the young man to break the siren’s chains for ever, but he was not equal to the occasion, and a portion of his hard-earned salary will soon be paid to a preacher for making them one. past year. —Queen Victoria lias ordered a quan tity of decorative furniture in Dubliu for Windsor Castle and Osborne, to be made of Irish materials. —A medal has been struck to com memorate Mr. Gladstone’s seventietii birthday anniversary, and a copy iu gold has been accepted by Mrs. Glad- ! Ah, yes,” exclaimed the latter, “yon j stone, want to serve me as you served the game j —There are 1,638 public schools in keeper’s wife; but I am not afraid of you.” j Connecticut, attended by 30,594 pupils. Rambouillet flinched. The conversation : t he school revenue amounted last year became known and reached the ears of ' to $1,390,972.54 and the expenditures justice. Rambouillet was arrested, con- 1 to $l,37o,S81.01. victed and sentenced to death. The jury j —There are now nearly 100 lumber answered every question put to them af- and shingle mills on the Saginaw Hiver, firmatively and without extenuating cir- j with an estimated capacity of 810,500,- cumstances. They felt that a man who 000 feet, and giving employment to had plotted revenge for twenty years must over 4,COO men. have acted with premeditation. The pris- —Lyons, France is going to raise a oner’s councel had, of course, urged as an statue to the memory of Jacquard, the extenuating circumstance that he mistook ! inventor of the famous loom bearing Ills victim. his name, who was born there in 1752 —— and died in 1834. Vears That End in Nina. —.j-j le decrease j n t) ie number of pu pils studying German in the St. Lonis public schools is since last year nearly Beware of the years that end in nine ! We give the following facts for what they are worth: In 859 the Adriatic was frozen; in 1179, eight feet of snow in the temperate zone until the month of April: 1269, sleighs could pass on the Cattegat between Jutland and Norway; 1339, hard winter, the peasants of Scotland eat grass like a certain King of Israel; 1409, the Danube was frozen; 1609, frozen bread was eaten at the Court of France; 1639, the port of Marseilles froze; 1659, the rivers of Italy were frozen over; 1699, terrible winter; 1709, the famous winter that saddened the last years of Louis XIV., the earth was frozen for two metres down; 1729, 1749, 1769, the rivers froze; 1789, the year of the revolution; 1809, the Seine was frozen; 1829, snow lay on tbe ground for fifty-four days in France; that of 1839, was also a rigorous winter, and the winter of 1879 seems to start well. In France the winter of 1879 has been unusually severe. Jerusalem I What a Cat! A few evenings ago Aivy was paying a visit to his dulcinea. She had smuggled him into the parlor, and the darkness only served to conceal her blushes while Aivy told the story of his love. The muttered words reached the parent’s ear, and coming suddenly into the room he demanded to know of Mary who it was she had with her. “It’s the cat, sir,” was the mumbling reply. “Drive it out of here! ■’ thundered pater familias. “Scat!” screeched Mary, and then, sotto voice: “Aivy, meow a little.” Aivy set up a woeful yell. “Confound it I Bring a light and scare the thing out.” This was too much, and poor Aivy made a leap for the window, carrying glass and frame with him. “Jerusalem! what a cat! exclaimed the parent, contemplating the ruins after the light was brought. “I have never seen any thing like it. And, confound it! it’s tail is made of broadcloth!” as he viewed a flut tering remnant hanging from the window. A Silent Woman. Madame Riginer, the wife of a law of ficer at Verseilles, dropping some remarks which were out of place, though not im portant, her husband reprimanded her be fore the company, saying: “Silence, madame, you are a fool!” The lady immediately subsided. She lived twenty or thirty years afterwards, and never uttered a single word to anybody not even to her children. A pretended theft was committal in her presence, in the hope of taking her by her surp^e, but with no effect, nothing could indutfe her to speak. When her consent was requisite to the marriage of any of her children she bowed her head and signed the contract, and even when she died she merely sighed “adieu.” 700. Nevertheless 20.128 pupils out of 38,485 are still taking the language. —Recent statistics show that about two thousand Russian soldiers com pletely lost their sight during the late war with 1’urkey. Only about eigliry Oeeame blind through the direct action of warlike causes. —The area of the Black Hills proper is 6,000 square miles, running in a Nortneast and Southwest direction a distance of about 100 miles, and an average width of 60 miles between the fork of the Cnevenue. —The woolen trade has grown rap idly in France of late years. In 1851 there were only 850,000 woolen spindles in that country, but now they number 2,270,000. The val ue of the goods pro- duced is 564,000,000 francs. —Harvard University owns in Bos ton property exempt from taxation ot the value of $404,300, and taxable prop erty valued at $S93.900. The uni versity’s property in Cambridge which is exempt amounts to $5,325,000. —The Cossacks number 4,309 officers and 152,514 men. They render military service without remuneration, in lieu of paying taxes, and have a small al lowance in lieu of rations, together with their arms and ammunition. —The ten orphan children of Gen. John R. Hood are to reside in Austin, Texas. They will be under the especial care of Mrs. E. R. Hennen, to whom they were consigned by Gen. Hood only a few hours before his death. —The reading-room of the British Museum contains three miles of book cases eight feet high. The dome whenee the electric light irradiates the — vast room is, next to that of the Pan theon at Rome, the largest extant. —There are about 60,000 Mennonites in America. They have 500 meeting houses, one-eighth of that number be ing in Canada. They abstain from taking the oath, do not inflict punish ment, do not accept public office, and never go to law. They are nearly all farmers. —Boston has a mulatto ’longshore man, a native of Cape Verde Island, and formerly a sea captain, who can speak Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Germ_n, English, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, and the various dialects of the Hawaiian and South Sea Islands. —Fifty-one of the flrty-four furnaces that compose the Leghigh, Pa., group, some of which are the largest yet erected In this country and have an annual capacity of over 600,000 tons of pig iron, are in blast. —The seventh anniversary of the death of Napoleon III, was observed at Chiselhurst, Eugland, on the 9th of Jan. Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the Marquis and Marquise de Bassano, Col onel de Ferdinande and a number of other Imperialists attended.