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TO-DAT. . .
The boars were bright in days that are no
more,
And pleatsaut life's strange way—
A rapture hang aroaod the hills—a glory on
the shore—
Yet is aught changed to-day?
Shone ever bluer skies than the*e—e’er sweeter
sang the birds,
Or lisped the brooklet’s lay—
Or love, time tried, confessed its’ tale with
truer, gentler words
Than t‘ ese it breathes tc-day?
And crimson buds so fair, albeit they grow in
early spring
And with its zephyrs play.
That when the iater Autumn's handmaids ripe
red roses bring,
We’U wear them not to-day?
Hope then dung fondly to our breasts and
like a Summer friend,
Sang to us on our way,
But with the Winter fields—while strong and
faithful to the end,
Truth gives her band to-day.
Tiiat was at night—we even slept an 1 dreamt
illusive dreams.
So let them pass away;
To those who will, there’s sweetest rest and
bliss in these full beams
• That light our lives to-day. £ £ ... ~
. Jt was to be the great wedding of the
year -Howards. Ransom to Miss Minnie
Ford. It was to be in church in the even
ing. Only a few select guests were to be
present at the ceremony, though there was
to be a great reception at Mr. Ford’s after
ward. Every one was discussing the strange
ness of having a ceremony in the evening,
in church, and only a few guests present,
but such was the wish of the bride, and her
betrothed seemed very willingly to consent
to It.
The music of the noble organ was again
pealing through the arches of the church.
Only a few candles,were lit about the chan
cel—the fest of tliejchurch was indarkness.
It was the wish of the bride, who was not
accustomed to have anything, denied her.
It was a lovely sight to see the ladies, in
their snowy dresses, marching up the aisle
with the ghostly shadows of the great church
thrown upon them. Not a dozen in all, in
cluding tlie gentlemen—yet a striking sight
in the noble edifice.
The little assembly was soon grouped
about the chancel-rail; and the deep grave
voice of the aged minister was heard re
sounding through the empty church, and
1 he Terrible Tragedy.
plements occupying regular strata in the
earth. The remains consist of hammers,
implements, etc., both finished and unfin
ished, together with the chips struct off
from the articles in the process of maim- ^
facture. The material of which they are , rea j charactei, and it was not long before
^ , composed is principally compact, lustrous ! hig image was banished from her heart, and
echoing through the wide range of deserted ..quartz, frequently mottled as if selected , that was in due time surrendered to one of
with an eye to the artistic beauty. The her cousins, a captain of an Austrian
A buret of sacred music, from the care
fully-trained choir, rolled up through the
arches of the magnificent church where
Fashion in many guises held sway. Just
as the hymn was about closing, a figure en
tered through one. of the small rear doors:
hardly a fit person to mingle with the “qual
ity” all about her, you would have said. A
coarse, highly colored shawl was wrapped
about a petite and shrinking form; a
piquant hat, lined with faded blue, crowned
a head of curly, golden hair. Though her
garb was coarse, it seemed to set off the
wonderful beauty ot her face—the charac
terizing feature iff which was a pair of
large, blue eyes, which seemed to appeal
and pray to whomsoever they gazed upon.
A dry, hacking cough shook her shivering
form every now and then.
As she took her seat in the pew, no
prayer was murmured from her lips. Her
whole attention, immediately on entering
that church, was directed to watching a
couple directly in front of her—a dark man
who would have been strikingly handsome
h .d it not been for the wolfish glare in his
black eyes and the sensual turn of his mouth
—a woman who, rather overdressed, was
nevertheless a fashionable beauty in the
highest sense of the term.
As the poor girl in the back pew looked
with her great glittering orbs at the man as
he bent toward the lovely lady at his side,
it was easy to be seen that something more
than common animated her in relation to
him; the agony, jealousy, rage, depicted
on her countenance, and the tear drop in
her eyes, told a tale of wrong and woe.
The service was soon over; and amid
grand swell of solemn music from the great
organ, the fashion devotees filed forth from
the temple of worship. The poor girl was
not seen by the man as he passed her pew;
he was bending low over the grand lady
with him.
As soon as they were past, the girl came
forth from her pew and crept out immedi
ately behind him.
It was a dark, December night; large
drops of rain were pattering down on the
flag-stones about the church steps. The
lady and gentleman evidently expected a
carriage, for the}' stood in the vestibule
some moments before entering the street.
At last he said:
“I am afraid we will have to .walk.”
She linked her arm in his, and, raising
his umbrella, they started forth.
The poor girl crept on behind them—
slinking into the shallows cast by the street
lamps whenever possible.
Square after square was passed, and still
the small, shrinking figure was there, al
ways in the same relative position. Once,
as she crept under a street lamp, he looked
back and seemed to recognize her—for he
started and muttered something to himself.
The lady with him looked back several
times, and at last said:
“Howard, I am sure that woman behind
ua is following our footsteps; she has been
following us since we started from the
church.”
“Oh, no, I think not,” lie answered,
striving to speak carelessly.
Another square was passed, and still the
girl was there. Again the lady turned, and
said to her escort:
“I am sure she is following us.”
The man muttered some unintelligible
reply, and nervously quickened his pace.
It was but a short time ere they reached
their destination. He rang the bell of a
brown stone mansion.
'1 he door had but just closed on him
when he issued forth alone.
The poor girl was leaning against a tree,
in the shadow, on the opposite side of the
way. He evidently saw her, but took no
notice, and walked quickly do\yn the street.
She followed. When he came to a crossing
he came to the side of the street she was on,
j ust a few paces in front of her. He turned
down a side street, and soon slackened his
pace and waited for the girl to come up
with him
She was within a few pacesof him, when
he stopped short, put a cigar in his mouth,
and struck a match against the side of a
dark factory-building standing there; and
then, just as she came up to him, he turned
'and cast the lighted match iu her face. It
was the action of a brute; but the laugh
which accompanied it was that ot a human
fiend—such a harsh, fiendish eujoymen;
was mingled with it.
Tlie girl shrunk back, but uttered no
, sound.
“So you jade, this is the reward for all
my kindness!” he hissed forth. “After I
furnished you with a good home, every
thiug any girl could wish, I find you dog
giug me round in this fashion. A pretty
return for my magnanimity and affection. 7
Still the girl leaning against a tree, ut
tered no sound, save a few low spoken
words.
“Howard, are you not my husband? Do
you think you have killed all the woman in
me, ail that is human, that I should hear
your marriage with that lady you were
walking with discussed, and not feel for
her, for you, for myself, a shame at what
may be* in store for us?”
“How often shall I have to inform you
that our marriage was a mere farce, gotten
up for the occasion?”
“So you have said before; but I believe
that, before the Great Judge of all, we are
man and wife.”
“Why don’t you say it again?—why
don’t you say it again?” he returned, in a,
voice of suppressed passion, while his wolf
ish eyes glared with rage. “Come home
with me! ” he cried, grasping her by the
arm.
The girl made no reply, but followed him
quietly. They turned up another side
street, and were soon lost to view in the
depths of the great city.
seats:
‘ ‘Into tliia holy estate these two persons
present come now to be joined. If any
man can show just cause why they may not
lawfully be joined together, let him now
speak, or else hereafter hold his peace!’ ”
‘His words had scarce ceased to resound
through the empty church, when a white-
robed figure, heretofore unseen, rose from
a pew, mid-way back, stretched her arms
imploringly to Heaven, like some supplica
ting angel, and said, in a voice heard dis
tinctly through the. echoing church:
“I am his wife! I am Ills wi—”
The blood gushed from her lips, and she
fell forward across the pew—dead!
It is an intensely cold night in January;
snow lies on the ground; the carriage w heels
grinding over it, sing a slow music of their
own. The night express is flying over the
frozen rails.
WhQjs.' tjiis sitting iu the seat in the
corner? Howard Ransom! That man
there! Iiow a few hours have changed
him!
He throws up the window anil leans far
out into the night.
Faster and faster flies the iron steed over
the cold steel rai.’s. Faster and faster—on,
still on, with thunder aud crash—yet never
fast enough to deadeu the heart pangs of the
wretched man who sees his past misdeeds
rise up before him os he hail never seen
them till now.
He at last closes tlie window and falls
asleep in his seat. But not to rest. Like
some dark phantasmagoria of the past, his
crimes pass in vivid array before his ex
cited mental vision. One can see, from
the clutching of his hands and the twitcli-
ings of the muscles of his face the agony he
is suffering.
Hours have passed. Still grind, grind,
grind; still on, on flies the through express.
The man is awake again. He throws up
the window. It is almost morning, A
faint light appears far off on the horizon.
Day is about breaking. The deathly cold
breezes fan his fevered brow, and play
wildly with his locks of curly black hair.
An Ancient People. I “Break the lock then,” returned the
u Count, and with liis Distol in his hand,-he
In 1876 Prof. Winchell discovered at repeated: /
Little Falls, Minnesota, a dumber of quartz ! “Break it, or I’ll blow your brains out.”
chips which bore evidence rof having been j (j ar j obeyed.
cut from the parent rock? [by the hand of j “ft 1S well,” said the old gentleman,
man. He therefore cocbluded that the j “those bank notes are yours. Have you a
quartz workers inhabited this country be- j p0C ketbook with anything identifying it as
fore the mound builders’ nice, as he found ; belonging to you ?”
these chips in strata underhung the mound ; “Yes.”
building period. He also fixe-* the era of i “Then let it fall iu front of the secretary
the quartz workers as that ending .with the j y OU j iave broken open.”
last glacial period. It is often disputed,! “What sir!” *
however, whether these quartz remains be-1 must have proof to convict you. I
long to a past glacial folk, or to co-glacial
inter-glacial or pre-glacial people, the ques
tion being difficult to decide because the
remains found and noted by Prof. Winckell,
whiA are surface deposits, are so scattered
mean to have all the evidences of burglary.
Robbery or death. Choose! Ah,* I see
your choice is made. Now go before me.
I do not quit you until you are a league
from Baden. 1 return late, and enter no
and irregular. At Little Falls also, there . complaint against you till to-morrow noon,
has been discovered quartz chips and im- j Begone!”
Chevalier Carl could not resist the com
pulsory order, and Count Christian's plan
was carried out to the very letter. The
affair created great noise and excitement.
Helen could no longer doubt as to Carl’s
stratum is some few inches in thickness,
and lies in the soil a few feet below the sur
face. The appearances indicate that this
was once the site of a manufactory of such
quartz objects, and this idea is upheld by
various considerations. '- There are tools
found such as would be used in the manu-
cavalry regiment.
’•I.et’rt !tla»h the Villain!
A passenger train which left Lansing
coming east recently had among the pas-
facture of quartz articles, and the whole •«*“* 8 P hlin - iace, f 1 ’ ^"sihle-lookiug girl
stratum is mired with nimrtr. chins which a ^ <m f twenty years of age, and a thin-waist-
ed, sickly-lookmg young man a year-or two
stratum is mixed with, quartz chips which
in many cases appear stuck in the dirt just
as they fell from the land of the unknown.
Unfinished implements are also found in
more or less advanced stages of manufac
ture. It is not possible to fix the precise
point occupied by these remains in the
scale of the glacial epoch, until the drift
features and surrounding formations of the
locality shall be better understood than now.
Still it is certain that the remains belong to
a palaeolithic people, that is, a people living
before the end of the last glacial period,
because they arc deposited in a drift which
is known to be of glacial origin. The hard-
pan upon which the quartz formations lie
is probably of the first glacial period, aud
the quartz may belong to an inter glacial
epoch. Prof. Winchell somewhere records
the opinion that between the first and second
epochs, a considerable interval of time may
have elapsed, during which forests may have
flourished not unlike those now in possession
of the soil. Should future researchs cor
roborate this theory, it may be found that
the precise period in question is tiiat in j yvu J l . . ,
which Little Fails quartz workers peopled f ml now >°, u .«° lato th , e bil '
1 - 1 let me run this affair alone.
older. No one would have mistrusted that
they were eloping bad’ not the young man
asked the conductor if there was a clergy
man on the train. There was none, and
the young man explained to the passengers
around him that he was in a bad fix. He
had come down from Bath Township m a
buggy, and he was quite sure that the girl’s
father would take the other road down to
Chicago Junction, and there board the Lan
sing train and raise a row. He was not
on a row, but yet be loved the girl, and
they were bound to marry. If the old
man came alone he thought he could bluff
him off, but if his two big sons came along
the scales would be turned. He therefore
wanted to know of a man wearing a red
w’oolen shirt and coonskin cap if he would
stand by him.
“You bet I will!” was the hearty re
sponse. “I got my old gal by running
away with her, and I’ll see you through
this if 1 never do any more good! You
wouldn’t be worth a cent in a free fight,
age car and
I want to be
seated beside tlie gal when the old man
comes in. ”
When the whistle blew for the Junction,
Coonskin changed places, and as the cars
How She was Saved.
But he does not seem to feel it: yet he , , - .
trembling like a lost - - ~-j- a # Ua, e <i '>7 ice-wpowerful currents
Sitting there in the cool gloaming of the
breaking morn, let us hope he feels the
cominv events, and is thinking of the days
of early j r outh, when his soul was white
and guiltless!
The train at last slows up. He goes to
the platform to disembark.
“Look out, sir!” cries the brakeman,
warningly.
It is too late. One wild shriek from
the passing express, and a man is twisted
and ground to atoms beneath the cruel
wheels.
A gray-haired woman is giizing from the
porch of a beautiful country-house down
across a wide, sloping lawn, to where the
sunset glows in crimson splendor. Minnie
Ford is an old woman, who has never re
covered entirely from the excitement of
her early years. Yet her life is not entirely
unblessed. Her nieces and nephews neither
think her sedate uor thoughtless, aud every
one looks to Aunt Minnie as the one to seek
when in trouble of any kind.
Only those of riper years know of the
terrible tragedy which defaced her once
young aud glowing life.
that part of the Mississippi valley. Ap
pearauces all indicate that these “rude
quartz implements” were finally submerged
by a flood, gentle in its action, probably of
long continuance and perhaps foreseen by . . . . „ ,
& , r VUn halted he put his arms around Mary and
the pa ajohtlHC men interested, lhe dis- . 5 . , , . ,. mA
.*. , i took one ot her hands in his. lhe old
position of small, smooth, water-worn peb- 1 , , . . -
bles in the interslices of the stratum shows ! “ an sons ware °“ hand > and
this, as likewise does the fact that collec- : the JP lled , mto tbe ** P? 1 :“ ed • .
lions of implements of one sort are not tin- I ^ Te . “ , ca ! I ? d th , e t , fatber ’ “
frequently met with, a portion of which | “"8“ ”S ht of the S ,r1 ’ 80,1 the three raade
will, perhaps, be unfinished and the re- ar M® * ... ..
mainder completed. No such systematic .. Run awa y, wub my--! began the
arrangement of material would, of course, old man; but when be saw the stranger bo-
be possible had the quartz been ! side her he cheeked himself.
Love anil Lariats.
There is in Texas an individualized set
of men called Cow - boys. They are
knights of the plains, rough riders- and
rough fighters, who manage the immense
droves of cattle on the plains, sleep in their
saddles, are experts with the six-shooter,
knife, lariat and whiskey bottle, and as de
void of fear as they are foreign to civiliza
tion and culture. They are rude children
of nature, always equally ou tlie look-out
for a drink or fight, and when they dis
cover, as they are sure to discover, on
entering cities or railroad stations, that
they are “Grey wolves, and its their night
to howl!” a liveliness of an electric and
dangerous character is very certain to fol
low. They live on the prairies, taking
seasons and chances as they come and go,
and herd and drive the cattle of the rancli-
eros to the inner western markets. They
are not the typical romantic Tityre tu pa-
tulce order of piping shepherds of the ear
liest days, but of the modern wild-cat order,
and when they come around the quieter ci
tizens are either very reserved or obsolete
as to street presence, or heavily heeled.
Their usual style of setting difficulties is, of
course, with the bowie-knife or pistol; but
we find that civilization is at last growing
upon them, aud, as our friend Jim Breslin
would remark, the effete idiocies of other
days ere passing away. Recently two of
them quarreled on their way back from
Colorado. They Were returning from a
cattle drive, and, oddly enough, they quar
relled about a woman. Far down near St.
Antonio some dark-eyed maid, with all
the mellow beauty, dashed throughout with
the electric light—way above Edison’s—
that flashes the soul of loveliness into Texas
girls, held the hearts of both, and as they
rode back, well filled with money, head
aches and poor whisky, the rivalry be
tween them broke through the barriers of
self-control, and a quarrel ensued. Before
either of the two hot-headed young fellows
could get the drop on the other their friends
intervened. A challenge followed. They
were inhibited from the use of either knife
or pistol by their seconds, and lariats were
the weapons. It must have been a novel
“Want anything of us ?” asked Coonskin,
as lie looked up.
“Who are you, sir?”
“I’m going to be your son-in-law in less
~ than an hour—eh! darling?”
At Baden Bailen, about twenty years He gave Mary a squeeze and Mary look-
ago, a Hungarian count, Christian W , i ed happy.
and his daughter came to pass the season. ! “Come along, Mary—come right home
The young countess, charming and beauti- j with me!” ordered the father
ful, and heiress to a large fortune bequeath-! “Let’s mash the villain I” added one of
ed her by her mother^ was soon surrounded the sons.
Character in Handwriting.
by a host of admirers. She speedily be
came captivated by one of the most worth
less of her suitors, Carl M , because he
had a handsome face, and long, black,
wavy hair, was gifted with a fascinating
manner, dressed with exquisite taste, danced
marvelously, and possessed rare powers as
a singer. Carl was a noted gambler and
given to dissipation, and Count Christian
became possessed of information that the
young chevalier, had quitted Naples in con-
Put a head on him—let me get a! him!”
shouted the other.
The father seized Mary and the sons
seized Coonskin. Then a red shirt tower
ed aloft, a pair of big fists began working
with a “pop!” “pep!” ana as fast as the trio
got up they made for the door. Coonskin
followed, arms and feet working like a
trip-hammer, and when the train moved off
the father sat on a box with a big woolen
mitten held to his nose, one of the sons
sequence of some scandalous adventure in j was pulling loose teeth from his jaw, and
which he had been implicated.
Helen was so completely infatuated with
Carl that she gave no heed to the advice,
the prayers, or even the orders of her father.
She would not believe the disgraceful ai te-
cedents of her wily lover. The conditions
of affairs brought the old Count, possessed
of a remarkable degree of firmness, to the
determination of originating some plan
whereby he could effectually overcome the
the other boy was groping his way to
snow-bank.
“Now, then,” said Coonskin, as the ex
ultant lover returned, “resume your seat,
take her little hand in yours, and don't
calkerate you owe me anything.”
“Say, Tom,” said the girl. “I’m going
to kiss him for that!”
“All right, sis.”
“Wall, just as you feel,” said Coonskin,
African Modes of Salutation.
persistent efforts of Carl to secure his as he returned the smack, “but I want it
daughter, as well as convince Helen that j distinctly understood around these parts,
to save her from suck an unprincipled man j that when I see true love on its way from
was a deed of paternal tenderness and care, j Lansing to Howell to get spliced I kin lick
The chevalier had continued adroitly in j all the pursuing dads in the State of Michi-
his work of ensnaring the young heiress, ;gan!”
and finally m direct terms asked her to
elope with him. He wrote a note propo
sing a clandestine meeting at an hour when
her father was in the habit of going out to
play whist with some gentlemen of his ac
quaintance, and in it made the suggestion
that if she favored the proposition she would
wear in her belt a rose as a sign of consent.
Count Christian, having intercepted the
letter, took the occasion soon after to ap
proach Helen, and asking her to go out
with him, at the same time handing her a
flower, remarking: *‘put this in your belt
as an ornameut.” She smilingly obeyed.
In course of their walk they met Carl, who
bowed, and was overjoyed to notice that
Helen had carried out his request.
Robert Browning “writes as a poet
should write.” And his manuscript is
“thoroughly emblematic of bis poetry.” He
punctuates carefully, and his words are
neatly finished. “Were his beautiful chiro-
graphy placed before us as that of a stranger
we should at once pronounce it not only
that of a distinguished man, but also of one
who never did* anything carelessly. Mr.
Bryant’s writing is severely censured. For
a young clerk seeking a situation, “it might
prove a recommendation,” but for the poet
wha wrote the lines on June, “it is most
disappointing.” Late in life it assumed “a
more manly and decided style,” but during
the larger part of his career, * it was sim
ply horrible, and did not intimate the
slightest scintillation of genius.” The
letters sloping in different directions, the
ar^ay of flourishes, aud the looping of
words ou to each other give his manuscript
“an execrable appearance. ” Indeed, “these
calligraphical fanfaronades in a literary man
are heart-rending and cast grave doubts on
his genius. Finally, “there is no r beauty
and nothing but commonplaceness about
every specimen of Bryant’s correspondence
that has yet come under our ken. ” Car
lyle’s hand is not a very commendable one,
altnough it is not conventional. There is
“tpp much evident effort at effect for it to
pass current as pure inspiration.” “Ec
centric and spiteful-looking little flourishes
dart about his manuscript in various odd
ways.” As for the autograph, “its
crabbed look is not very significant of ami
ability. Charles Darwin's writing is so il
legible that he lias certainly never carried
out his idea of “Natural Selection and the
Survival of the Fittest” iu the choice of his
letters. They are without form, and void. ”
The only inference the author draws from
them is “immense labor that allows of no
leisure.” Tlieophile Gautier’s hand is “one
of "the most singular to be met with.”
Sometimes it was most exquisitely fine,
again it was larger, after the manner of the
sixteenth century, “but it was always
beautiful and most original.” “The author
of such a hand could never by any possi
ble chance be an ordinary person.” In the
paragraph on Gautier Edgar Foe is alluded
to as “the supieme prince of manuscript.”
The introduction of postal cards has de
moralized Mr. Gladstone’s handwriting.
Previous to them, it was of the usual Par
liamentary type—“clear, undemonstrative
and readable. ” It had, however, a chief
defect* “uncertainty.’ But since the
postal innovation it has “fallen into
chaos.” The fac-simile which Salamanca
gives us is from a signature “prior to that
lamentable descent. ” Tlie writing of no
American pleases Salamanca so much as
that of Oliver Wendall Holmes. Like his
verse it is sometimes old-fashioned, but it
has the polish of a man accustomed to good
society, and is indeed that of a gentleman. ”
It indicates “enough independence to pre
serve him from doing a shabby act, without
any trace of those flourishes which betoken
offensive egotism.” As for Victor Hugo’s,
no one could glance over it “without arriv
ing at tlie conclusion, that it was tlie pro
duction of an illustrious personage.” Lo
well’s is far more sightly than that of Long
fellow’s, and would pronostigate greater
wealth of imagination, and more-terseness
of style than its author has yet given evi
dence of. It is disfigured by no vainglo
rious flourish, nor affected strain
ing aftei originality, but is just what one
would wish a poet's to be. ” George Sand
indited a more manly hand than did most
of her manly compatriots. Her’s was “a
very legible and noble style, replete with
frankness and originality.” Swinburne
exercises the presumed prerogative of
genius, and “writes a wretched hand.” It
has much picturesque vigor, but no beauty,
and ‘ ‘gives one the idea of having been
written by a pen that, having served
several generations of authors, its owner
deemed it sacrilege to cut.” Something
of his originality might be derived from it,
“but nothing of the voluptuous beauty and
unparalleled music of its author’s verse. ”
M. Zola’s is uot very commendable. It
possesses a few negative virtues—being
legible and without flourish—but “it is not
free from vice.” ' There is “a general lack
of elegance and deficiency of artistic taste.”
The signature is “utterly preposterous.”
Longfellow’s hand is not very much to the
author’s taste. In the signature the flourish
of the “L” is “very unsightly, while the
H” is “simply preposterous for a man of
genius—which the author of “Hiawatha”
undoubtedly is.” There is little natural
fluency about the hand; it is sicklied o’er
with the pale cast of thought and is a
manufactured style, more significant of the
length of Ait than the fleetness of Time. ”
Salamanca finds Whittier’s manuscript
very vexatious, it varies so wildly, and
gives very slight indications of any charac
ter at all.”
Albanian Brigands.
Modes of salutation differ in all parts of
the world, and in some countries assume
strange and grotesque forms, at least what
are so in our eyes. Most of tnern originate
in old ideas of vassalage, and are part of
the liqpor paid to royalty and divinity. A
lover kisses his hand to his mistress as he
leaves her, without an idea that it is a rem
nant of what was once divine worship;
ad-ore is simply “to-mouth,” raismg the
hand to the mouth; and Job, justifying
himself, says that he never did so to the
sun. In one part of Australia, the more
polite native strikes the attitude of a kanga-
The Count conducted his daughter to the j roo, and runs out his tongue, as a sign that
residence of one of their acquaintances and
requested her to wait until he called for her.
This done he returned to the house he oc
cupied on the outskirts of Baden. He had
sent away his servants and was alone. At
the appointed hour Carl arrived and leaped
over the garden wall. Finding the door
securely closed, he entered the house through
one of the windows. With pleasurable
he is glad to see you. In Africa, on the
western coast, one who meets a superior
prostrates himself at full length on the
ground. Till recent times, a Spanish letter
ended by saying, at least, by the initials of
the words, “Whose hands and feet I kiss,”
showing that such a custom was once deem
ed proper and respectful. Some nations
rub noses, some shake hands, others ap-
excitement he hast.ned towards Helen’s | proach each other on all fours. The Bat o-
apartments, but great was his astonish-! kas, an African tribe, have several ways of
ment to find her father armed with a brace | saluting: The women clasp their hands,
of pistols. The Count closed the door, and ! and utter a peculiar cry; men stoop and
said to the miserable chevalier:
“Carl M , I could kill you; I have
the right to do so. You have entered my
house at night; you have broken into it.
£ could treat you as a felon—nothing could
be more natural.
clasp their hands on their hips; but when
they wish to be especially respectful, they
throw themselves on their backs on the
ground, and roll from side to side, slapping
the outside of their thighs, crying Kinabom-
ba,” kicking out furiously with their legs
“But, sir,” said Carl, trembliug, and in | all the time. Dr. Livingstone tried to stop
an almost inaudible tone, “I am not a rol>-: this strange spectacle on several occasions,
her.” but they thought he deemed their welcome
“Not a robber!” exclaimed Count Chris-! not friendly enough, and kept it up more
tian. “What are you, then? You have energetically,
couth to steal my daughter, to steal au lieir-
duel—more dramatic than the tilts of the j ess and a fortune. I have your criminal
knights of medieval times. The space and j letter. I shall show you no mercy. If
circuit was measured; both men leaped into ! you refuse to obey me I will slay you.”
tlie saddle, each on his lithe, active and j “What is your will, sir?’’
foot-sound mustang, with the lean coil of I
Tiro Valuable Belles.
Iii the Library of Congress, under lock
and key, are two very interesting manu-
‘You must leave Baden this instant; i script volume with a history. They were
rope at hand and the end safely fixed about ! you must put, at least 200 leagues between j written about the middle of the seventeenth
the saddle’s crupper; the word was given i it and you, and never come into the pres- j century, and contain an account of the for-
and the war began. The thin lashes
whipped through the air, cutting space like
arrows; but one struck too far, the other
closed about the opponent’s throat like a
hangman’s noose, and as the fortunate due-
list drew back his horse upon its haunches
his antagonist was dragged from his saddle
to the ground. Happily, the lariat snapped,
aud though seriously Injured, the vanquished
man was not killed. The duel over, the
defeated returned to life, friendship was
also restored, and the cow-boys continued
on their homeward trip.
mation and acts of the Virginia company in
regard to the early settlement of Virginia.
They were originally in the possession of
the Earl of Southampton, the friend and
patron of Shakespeare, and, after several
transfers, became the property of Thomas
ence of my daughter. For your traveling
expenses 1 will give you 20,000 francs.”
Carl endeavored to speak.
“Silence!” said the Count, in a voice of
thunder. “You must obey. In that sec
retary is the money; take it.”
The chevalier ventured the remark: “per-1 Jefferson, and were sold among his effects
mit me to decline your offer.” j at his death, finally reaching the libraiy of
The false modesty bf the young mar was j Congress, where they have since remained
overcome by the imperious gesture of the | almost forgotten. Senator Johnson of
old man. j Virginia has introduced a resolution provid-
“But,” said Carl, the secretary is lock- ing for.printing 1000 copies of this valuable
• ed.” J relic for the use of the government.
Some time ago a native of Delvino, Al
bania, was traveling, and came upon a man
asleep under a tree, and immediately recog
nized him as the leader of a well-known
band of brigands. On looking around and
finding that he was not observed he cut off
the brigand’s head. Two nephews of the
murdered brigand have now come to live
in Delvino, and every one knows the object
of their visit. They will stop there for
years until their vengeance is satisfied.
Sometimes the man sought for, goes to live
in the island of Corfu, thinking in that
manner to escape; but he is generally fol
lowed, and suffers the penalty. While I
was stopping at Corfu, the body of a Mus
sulman Albanian was found just outside the
town with liis head cut off; and lrom this
fact it was believed that he hal been fol
lowed to tlie death. It is a horrible and
ghastly practice; and as I sat in my quar
ters at Delvino, and looked from my win
dow on the lovely scenery of moimtain
and valley, river and forest, the houses sur
rounded with olive, orange, pomegranate
and myrtle trees scattered on either side of
the steep hills and extending for two miles
along the valley, with here and there a
minaret, and then a Christian church—I
felt a shudder at the thought that, notwith
standing this peaceful scene, each house
probably contained a murderer. With all
this, the Albanians have a certain sense of
chivalry. They assured me that a stranger
might travel with perfect safety from end
to end of Albania with a sack full of gold,
provided he was accompanied by any
female companion: and I have heard this
confirmed from other parts of the country.
An English lady of my acquaintance was
traveling to join her husband in Northern
Albania. She was accompanied by only
two zapteehs, or policemen. She had
stopped in the middle of the day to rest un
der a tree, when a fine looking man, armed
to the teeth, suddenly appeared and entered
into conversation. He was shortly joined
by many others, and she found that she
was in the hands of a large band of brigand’s;
but they showed her every courtesy, anil
conducted her safely on her way. These
same men would have robbed a man cf
everything he had, and would probably
have made him pay a ransom besides.
—A York county, Pa., farmer was
fined $13.95 for using profane language.
—One-fifth of Norway is under tim
ber.
Transformed.
Deadwood.
Tessa was the name of a little maiden
who had the misfortune to be very ugly;
indeed, her face was so repulsive that no
one loved to look at her.
“It is the face of a Medusa,” said Carl,
the young artist, who roomed across the
way.
“Poor thing! I should think she would
want to bury herself,” said the pretty
landlady.
Tessa knew only too well why they all
shunned her, and her heart was consumed
with hate and envy. “Why should others
be beautiful and I so plain ?” she said, gaz
ing enviously on the young faces that
passed her window : and the more hate
there was in her heart the more repulsive
grew her features.
One day while wandering in the woods
brooding morosely over her own misfor
tune, with no thought of the beauty about
her; she came suddenly upon a dwarf,
misshapen and ilisfigured beyond anything
she had ever imagined in human form.
For once she was happy; she had found
someone more ugly than herself, and a
laugh, fiendish and cruel as a hyena’s rang
through the forest. But the dwarf began
to weep.
“No wonder you weep,” said Tessa,
“with such a face and figure*”
“Nay,” said the dwarf sorrowfully, “I
weep because I have found some one more
wretched than myself.” And as the tears
streamed from her eyes, her mottled skin
grew white and soft; and Tessa saw with
amazement that the poor deformed creature
was actually becoming beautiful.
“What has changed you so ?” she cried.
“Am I changed?” asked the dwarf,
eagerly. “Am I beautiful again ?”
“Yes, so beautiful that I hate you,” I
answered Tessa, regarding her with aston- :
ished and envious eyes.
“Nay, do not hate me,” she entreated;
“it was hate and envy that deformed me;
it is pity that has broken the spell. Re
joice with me, and with all others who are
beautiful and happy, and pity those less
fortunate than yourself, aud some time you j
may be freed from the curse.” As she!
spoke she vanished.
Then Tessa went to her house an I pon- j
dered the words she had heard. It was j
hard advice to follow, to rejoice in the
beauty and happiness of those who scorned
and shunned her, but she determined to
make the effort. Hitherto she had spent |
her time in idle repining, caring only for
herself, but now she resolved to do some-!
thing for the comfort of others, and remem-!
bering a poor widow with a family of
young children, living not far away, she
set herself to fashioning warm mits and j
stocking? for the little hands and feet.
“Ugly as I am, I can create beauty for
others,” she said, as the pretty things grew j
under her fingers, aud the thought made j
her glad.
As time went on, all the poor and needy !
in the neighborhood learned to bless her, !
aud she half forgot her own misery in try-1
ing to relieve the misery of those about her. j
One day as she was entering her gate a:
beautiful child who was passing, slipped I
and fell. Once she would have felt a cruel 1
delight in the child’s mishap, hoping that
tlie lovely features might be marred for
life, but now she sprang to help her.
; How good you are, ” said the little one,
putting up her lips for a kiss, when Tessa
had bathed the bruised forehead and bound
it tenderly with soft linen.
“And you are beautiful,” said Tessa, re
turning the kiss.
“And so are you,” said the chikL quickly,
“as beautiful as my own mamma.”
“Am I ?” cried Tessa, t urning with eager
haste to the mirror, which for many a day
she had kept closely veiled that she might
not see her own ugliness reflected, and lift
ing the drapery, she beheld a fair, sweet
face, with tender, pitying eyes. Then
Tessa, gazing a moment to make sure that
this glorified face was her own, went down
on her knees and thanked God.
BRIEFS.
— r l’he first steel pen was made in 1830.
—The first horse railroad was built in
1826-7.
“Deadwood,” said the stranger, putting
down his half-eaten slice of lemon pie and
taking a long pull at the milk, “I went
there when the first rush was made for the
hills. Rather a rough crowd the first lot,
you bet; more wholesome now. When I
got there I was dead-broke—didn’t have a
dollar, didn’t have a revolver, which a man
’ll often need out there woree’n a meal's
vittie 8 I was prob’lytlie only man m the '"S Th ' e fln?t , Dcifer match wa3 ma de
hills who didn’t carry a firearm, an’ I was : n iq^q
—Ships were first “copper-bottomed”
in 1837.
—Japan has a well organized bank
system.
—The first iron steamship was built
in 1830.
some lonesome, I tell you. The only
weapon I hed—I’m a blacksmith—was
rasp, a heavy file, you know, ’bout eighteen
inches long, which I carried down my back,
the handle in easy reach just below my
coat collar. Understand? Like the Arkan-
saw man carries his bowie knife. I'm not
axactlya temperance man. I just don’t
drink an’ doif t meddle with any other man’s
drinkm’—that’s all. One day—I hedn’t
been in Deadwood more’n a week—I was
sittin’ in a s’loon—only place a man kin set
to see any society—when feller come in, a
reg'lar hustler, with his can full and a
quart over. Hed a revolver on each side
of his belt an’ looked vicious. Nothin’
mean about him, though. Askt me to
drink. ‘Not any, thank you,’ sez I. ‘Not
drink with me! Me! Bill Feathergill!
When I ask a tenderfoot to drink } expect
him to prance right up an’ no monkeyin’!
You h-e-a-r me! ’
“Well, when his hand went down for his
revolver, I whipped out my old file quicke’n
fire ’ud scorch a feather an’ wiped him one
right acrost the face. When he fell I
thought I’d killed him, an’ the s’loon fillin’
up with bummers 1 sorter skinned out, not
knowin’ what might happen. Purty soon
a chap in a red shirt came up to me. Sez
he, ‘You the man aske-arved Bell Feather-
gill ? ’Cos, ef so be as you are, ef you don’t
want ev’ry man in the hills to climb you,
don’t you try to hide yourself—the boys is
askin’ fur you now. ’
“It struck me that my friend had the
idee, so I waltzed back and went up and
down before that s’loon for nigh three hours.
I’e found out Bill wasn’t dead an’ was bad
medicine, but it would do to let down.
Purty soon I see my man a-headin’ for me.
His face had been patched up till it looked
like the closing out display of a retail dry
goods store. There was so little counte
nance exposed that I couldn’t guess what
he was a-aimin’ at, so I brought my hand
back of my collar an’ grabbed my file.
“ ‘Hold on there, there; hold on,’sez
he, ‘gimme y’r hand, I’m friendly, I’ve got
nothin’ agin you, not a thing, but—you’ll
pardon my curiosity—what sort of a weepon
was that, stranger?’ ”
Cat and Rattlesnake.
Superiority of Skill over Humber:
Military history abounds in instances
where, on account of position and skill, a
force has vanquished an enemy greatly its
superior in numbers. Hannibal gained his
memorable victory at Cannie with a force
not half so large ns the Romans, and killed
upward of 40,000, while his own loss was
less than 6,000. So Lucullus in his great
battle against Tigrapiis met an army cf
260,000 men. The force of Lucu lus was
not more than about 16,000—a force so
small that it is told" of Tigrauus that he
said “if they came as ambassadors, there
were too many of them; if as soldiers, too
few.” Yet over this mightyjiost, vain and
confident, on account of their numbers, Lu
cullus gained an overwhelming victory.
So Marcus Lucullus, a brother of the for
mer warrior, when under Sylla, attacked
and became complete master of the field,
killing 18,000 men, and routing thrice his
own number. Sylla also gained remarka
ble victones over forces vastly his superior.
Marius at Aquae Sextiae, with greatly infe
rior numbers, overcame the- army of the
TuetOuS and Ambrones, killing and cap
turing over 100,000. So numerous was
the army of his enemy that they occupied
six days in marching, without intermission,
by the camp. Again, on the plain of Ver-
cellae, with an army of 52,000, he cut to
pieces the Cimbrian host, whose infantry
centre formed a front of some four miles,
with each flank of about the same length,
and whose cavalry numbered 15,000. In
the great battle of Leuctra, the Thebans
had but 6,000 men, while the Spartans had
at least 18,000, but the former, under Epa-
minondas, gained a complete victory. A
captain, Pelopidas by name, gained almost
as much honor by this victory as did Epa-
minondas. He afterwards, with only 200
mounted men, routed a large force under
Alexander of Piiera?. Caesar, with a force of
7,000, in one battle, defeated the Gauls,
numbering 70,000. In more modern times
Napoleon gained his important victory at
Marengo, with a force of 28,000 men, over
an enemy numbering 40,000. His still
more decisive victory at Austerlitz, was
over an enemy numbering not less than
90,000, his own numbering about 70,000.
The loss of th^llies was 10,000 killed and
wounded, and he captured 20,000 prisoners,
185 guns, 400 cassions, and 45 standards.
At the battle of Blenheim, Marlborough
and Eugene gained a* complete victory
over an enemy superior in numbers aud
stronger in position, causing a loss to the
enemy in killed and wounded and prison-
era of 36,000 men. .Clive, with 3,000 men
at the battle of Plassey, defeated and put
to rout 70,#00 men supported by fifty can
nons. Wellington won the battle of As-
saye with 1,500 British and 3,000 Sepoys
over 20,000 Maharatta infantry and 30,000
cavalry. In the battle of Corunna, zhe
French, numbering 20,000, and numerous
artillery under Soult, were driven from
their position by the British, numbering
14,000,. and only nine six-poundere So it
will be remembered General Scott, in his
victory of Cherubusco with 7,000 men, de
feated the enemy five times as numerous.
About three weeks ago, during the beau
tiful sunny weather we have had which in
duced the trees to bud and bloom, I was
walking in my garden in Atlanta, Georgia,
thinking about preparing for an early start
for spring vegetables, when I saw a large
rattlesnake sunning. My firet impulse w?is
to go to the house, get a gun, and kill it.
But looking around, I saw* a large house cat
cautiously creeping upon the reptile. An
ticipating a fight, and equally desirous of
getting rid of the cat, which killed chickens,
I concluded to witness his attack upon the
snake. The cat crawled upon its stomach,
pulling aloDg on its feet, whisking its tail
from side to side, and every now and then
stretching its neck to view the snake. When
about eight or ten feet off, the snake sud
denly coiled up, sprung its rattle, faced the
cat and darted its forked tongue out rapidly.
The cat commenced a rapid circle around
the snake, so fast in fact that the eye could
hardly keep up with it. At last it got near
enough and made a dart at its enemy, but
through providential reasons it went high
above the snake, which also struck at the
cat, thus breaking its coil. The cat went
too far and by the time it turned to face its
foe, the reptile was again coiled ana ready
for the attack. The same method was
adopted and carried on for four or five
times, occupying at least half an hour.
The cat wished to catch the snake, but
seemed aware that if it missed the neck it
would be certain death. At the sixth as
sault they met and instantly the snake was
wrrapped in several folds around the body
of the cat, which used its sharp claws with
deadly effect. The cat had been bitten on
the head and neck several times, and both
continued to fight. The snake was torn
nearly to shreds, but did not unloose its
coil around its victim: The poison was
swift and deadly, but before the cat died it
caught the snake’s head in its mouth and
crushed it, and fighting they died, the snake
enwrapping the cat in its coils. The snake
measured four feet eight inches and had
thirteen rattles.
The Conscience Fund.
Where no wood is, there the fire
goeth out; so when there,are no tale
bearers the strife ceaseth.
The first record of money received by this
Government from repentant defrauders was
in 1863. When General Spinner was trea
surer he kept the account separately, but the
practice was discontinued. The money
now, as it has bean for the greater number
of years since 1863, when the contributions
began, is turned into the treasury as mis
cellaneous receipts. Repeated attempts
have been made by members of Congress to
secure appropriations to be paid out of the
conscience fund. If the money goes into
the treasury as miscelladtous receipts, it
ceases to be a separate fund, and cannot be
drawn upon. It is not known how much
the conscience money now amounts to.
The total amount from Dec. 1, 1863, to
June 30, 1874, as given in the treasurer’s
repoit for the latter year was $162,914.
Since then no account of the contributions
has been kept. Treasurer Gilfillan, how
ever, estimates that tlie money now foots
up $250,000. The contributions, as a rule,
come through the mail with a note saying
for what purpose the money is forwarded.
Very frequently a penitential explanation
is included. Some of these explanations
are very curious and some very laughable.
The ladies contribite a good deal. They
repent principally over false returns made
under the income tax and for having evaded
the duties upon articles of dress. A lady
visited this country in 1864 from England.
She smuggled in while here a silk dress
pattern. A short time ago she wrote con
fessing the evasion of customs duties and
sending $15 to clear her conscience. She
gave the value of the dress and wanted the
balance sent back to her if the duties did
not amount to $15. The customs division
of the treasury made a computation based
upon the duties charged in 1864, and found
that the lady owed exactly $7,50. The
bal.mce was remitted. Ministers of the
gospel are very frequently the medium
through which the money is refuuded.
While administering spiritual consolation,
the confession of defrauding the Govern
ment is made, and a restitution follows.
The clergy transmit the money without
mentioning names. The largest amount
ever received as one contribution was $15,
000 in United States 7-30 notes. This con
tribution was announced in the newspapers.
Many and ingenious attempts were made to
get this money out of the treasury. One
man said his father made the contribution,
and that he was crazy. The contributor of
it had carefully cut out the numbers of the
notes so as to make it impossible to discov
er from the books who had sent them.
in 1829.
—Gold was first discovered in Cali
fornia in 1848.
—Hot house strawberries are 50 cents
apiece at Boston.
—Virginia has now 2,491 schools, in
structing 108,074.
—Tha first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1820.
—There are 7,500 journals published
in the United States.
—Kerosene was first used for light
ing purposes in 1826.
—Last year Colorodo produced $2,-
310.000 worth of coal..
—The first saw-maker’s anvil was
brought to America in 1819.
—The fences of the United States
have cost about $2,000,000,000.
—Virginia has 675 colored schools
taught by 415 colored teachers.
—A Japanese geographical society
has recently been founded at Yedo.
—Upward of 1,442 persons in* the
British empire enjuy hereditary titles.
—The firet experiment, in 1767, with
iron rails for a road was made in Eng
land.
—A New Haven factory showered
upon the world 22,000,000 fish hooks
last year.
—The kingdom of Siam is to be con
nected with the telegraphic system of
the world.
—A school teacher thinks that pupils
ought ro have a great hearty laugh
every day.
—The coach is of French invention.
In the reign of Francis I. there were
only two in Paris.
—In the 15th century, straw was
used to sleep on in the royal chambers
of the English palaces.
—The Presbyterian Church has 123,-
228 communicants in the State of New
York, with 1,042 ministers.
—The fifteen car manufacturing es
tablishments in the country turned out
37,350 cars in eleven mouths.
—The balance of trade in favor of the .
United States for the last fiscal year
was no less than $269,000,000.
—Arizona has produced a quality of
cotton equal to the Sea Island cotton
from seed brought from China.
—Pins were first used in England in
the reign of Henry VIII., previously to
which ladies used wooden skewers.
—The Chilian government has forced
into the market $4,000,000 of paper cur
rency, making $16,000,000 outstanding.
—St. Paul’s Cathedral, .London, oc
cupied thirty-seven years in building
and cost £1,000,000, raised ty a duty on
coals.
—The seventieth birthday of Ole Bull
was celebrated at his residence in Cam
bridge, Mass,, on Friday, 13c.i, by a
surprise.
—There aie fifty-one furnaces in
the Lehigh Valley, Pa., with an an
nual capacity of over 600,000 tons of
pig iron.
—Out of the million of inhabitants of
New York city, it is calculated that
only about 800,000 attend church on
Sunday.
—The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad is building a new bridge over
the Minnesota River that will be 2,000
feet long.
Chicago lumber receipts the past year
have been greater by 25 per cent, and
its shipments by 15j>£ per cent, than In
any previous year.
—It is estimated that 50,000 men and
women are employed in Philadelphia
in the manufacture of clothing, making
20,000,600 suits a year.
—The January dividends in Boston
aggregate $13,649,734, of which the
railroads pay $1,874,375, and manufac
turing companies $883,240.
—The packages of tomatoes put up
last year in the United States reached
the total of 19,968,000, of which New
Jersey put up 5,592,000 cans.
—Illinois farm products amounted
to $200,000,000 last year, which is dou
ble the product of all the gold and sil
ver mines in the United Stares.
—Chicago packed last year 5,100,000
hogs, being an increase of 10 per cent,
over 1878, and 75 per cent, over 1877.
Over 10,000 men were employed.
—The New Orleans mint has turned
out 2,887,000 silver dollars and $60,000
worth of gold double eagles daring the
eight months it has been running.
—Manufacturing clothing in Chicago
gives employment to 30,000 people, and
the value of the goods made is $15,000,-
000. This industry has doubled in four
years.
—Queen Victoria has presented $250
to Private George Dodd, of the British
army, in recognition of his gallantry
in saving a child from death under the
wheels of a tram-car in Dublin.
—A musician, named Bruno, was
killed by an electric shock received
from the apparatus for producing the
electric light at the Holte Theatre,
Aston, Birmingham.
—During January, 1880, the mints
coined 992,000 gold pieces of a value of
$7,067,500. They also coined 2,450,000
silver dollars, 16,000 five cent pieces
and 5,820,000 cent pieces.
■—The Hudson Highlands and Cats-
kill Mountains contributed 260,000 ever
green trees and 100,000 yards of ever
green roping, which was sold in New
York city during the holiday season.
—The paintings, sculpture, frescoes,
ete., contained in the churches under
the supervision of the city of Paris are
valued at 6,116,339 francs, of which 3,-
391,094 francs is apportioned to paint
ings, 1,776,040 francs to sculpture, aud
949,205 francs to stained glass.
An English journalist has discovered
that there are in France, at the present
time 1,700 women of letters and 2,150
women artists. Two-thirds of the wri
ters Were horn in the provinces Nor
mandy, Brittany and the south, while
two thirds of the artists were born in
Paris.
—There are about 125 acres of straw
berries planted in Florida this season
for the market. The yield ranges from
4,000 to 6,000 quarts per acre. An aver
age of about5,000 quarts per acre would
make the yield 725,000 quarts. The
growers are negotiating with the Flor
ida Despatch Line for the movement of
the crop.
—The preliminary taxable valua
tions of New York, real estate for 1880,
just completed by the Assessors, show
an increase for every ward in the city,
ranging from $43,600 in the Thirteenth
to $9,348,520 in the Nineteenth Ward.
The aggregate increase is $28,183,417, or
about 3 per cent, on the valuation of
last year.