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“WE ONI.T."
Come, wife, dear woman, and sit by me,
For the toilsome day is adone,
And many thoughts in my heart are bora
With the setting of the sun.
Ay, give me your hand my patient love,
That my own may clasp it tight;
Not dearer was it in the days agone,
Dear wife, than it is to-night.
Old and wrinkled it may be dear,
But look you, wife, at the shine
Of the ring that has clung to your finger
there ^
Since the day that I made you mine.
*Twas a long, long march from our youth to
age,
But Time, be he ne'er so gray,
. Can never tarnish the lustre, dear,
Of the pledge of our wedding day.
E'en so the truth of a faithful love,
Born far in the auld lang syne,
In our steadfast hopes, through weal and
woe,
Never has ceased to shine.
There are teais in your eyes, my wife, to
night;
You are thinking, dear, I know,
How strange it is that as shadows fall,
We only are left below.
We only to sit at the old hearthstone,
In the twilight, dear, of life,
While our children wait at the gates above—
When shall we meet them, wife?
Nay, dry those tears and be clad with me,
That the day is almost done,
And father, mother and children all
May meet—with the set of sun.
THE WIDOW’S TEST.
•‘Sybella, you are going to do what a
widow generally does when she mames
a second time. You are going to make
a fool of yourself ! Arthur Austin
doesn’t love you; it’s your money he
wants!”
Thus spoke Aunt Margaret^ prim and
grim, behind her inevitable knitting-
needles. Her niece, Sybella Ruthven,
> a young widow, looked at her indignant-
Jy.
“Why, auntie!” she said, “how-
naughty of you! And have I no charms
that a lover should not be possible to
me?”
“But, can’t you compare this man
yourself with poor, dear Reginald, who
would do anything to make you happy?
I’d rather live on the memory of such
love than take a pretence of a love like
this. Why, your Arthur Austin is too
selfish to love any one but himself; and
though, of course, first love stands apart
and you can’t have Reginald back again,
only be sensible for a moment and con
trast Mr. Austin with the men you have
refused—that fair-haired artist—that
merry, good-hearted German, with a red
mouth just made for kissing—and old
Mr. Bell, who, if he was 70, worshiped
the ground you trod upon. I tell you
there’s neither sentiment nor passion in
Arthur Austin. He is an extravagant
fellow, and he is lazy, too! He happened
to have the kind of looks yon like, and
so you’ve been silly enough to turn your
back upon good men and held out your
arms to him.”
“Oh, auntie! any one would think I
did the courting!” said the little widow.
“Hold out my arms, indeed!”
“It’s all the same thing,” replied the
elder lady. “You dropped into his arms
like a ripe cherry when he field them
out, and it’s dreadful to me to see you
expecting so much, when you’ll get so
little. A gay honeymoon, perhaps.
After that, neglect, the pangs of jeal
ousy—with good reason, too, no doubt
—and bitter, life-long regret.”
“Auntie, dear, I love him, “said Sy
bella. “I used to say no woman could
love twice, but this second affection is
very strong, and as sweet as if I were
sixteen again. I trust dear Arthur
thoroughly. If I had not a penny in
the w-orld I should be even dearer to
him. He has often said that he wished
that I had not. But I’ll not be angry
with you, auntie; only I’ll test him. I’ll
prove him. You shall own how gener
ous he is, and how fond of me.”
“I trust so,” said the old lady; “but
I don’t believe it, and beside, you are
already having your wedding dress
made.”
But Mrs. Ruthven, as she kissed her
aunt good-night, vowed that the test
should be made.
“He will forgive me when I tell him
all,” she said. “Aunt Margaret is so
good that I cannot bear she should not
exactly know how good Arthur is also.
Dear Arthur!”
Then she ran up-stairs, and opening
the locket in which she wore his por
trait, kissed it a thousand times, think
ing those thoughts that fill the heart of
any loving woman who is a promised
bride, and which are so pure and holy
that while they move her she is a better
woman for them.
Great grief had come to Sybella when
her young husband was tom from her
heart, and she had been very wretched
for long years; but the wound had heal
ed at last, and then Arthur Austin had
come into her life, suiting her so per
fectly, realizing her every dream of
what a man should be. Often she won.
dered how it was that she should ever
he so happy again.
Doubt him! Ah! she would not dare
to doubt him. But Aunt Margaret
should be satisfied.
“You are looking very grave, my
dear,” said Arthur, as they sat together
the next evening.
“A little, perhaps,” she answered. “I
have been worried about something. I
don’t know exactly how to explain it.
But when banks fail, people who have
their money ip them must suffer, you
know; and you’ve read of the failure of
the Cosmopolitan Bank to-day?”
“Yes,” he said. “You had your
money there?”
“If I had not, would it trouble me
that it should fail?” she asked. “To be
sure, I have a little beside, but Aunt
Margaret and old Uncle Reuben must
have a home, you know, and I suppose
I shall have about $200 a year over all
expenses. You’ll not have a rich wife,
Arthur, after all.”
He paused a moment, then answered,
huskily: “It shall be my pride and
pleasure to see that you want nothing,
sybella. I am almost glad you have
become poor for that reason.”
Then he kissed her and Sybella was
happy, but ashamed of herself for put
ting him to the test.
“You see he is all I thought him,
auntie,” she said to Mrs. Margaret,
when he was gone. “I shall tell him
all to-morrow.”
“No,” said Mrs. Margaret, “wait a
week. Promise me you’ll wait a week,
Sybella?”
So Sybella waited, and Aunt Marga
ret, watching, saw the signs she waited
for, though this loving woman had as
yet no suspicion of the truth.
Four days had passed.
It was a bright day, and there was to
be a pleasant picnic party that after
noon. Sybella and her bethrothed were
among them. They were all old friends
and Mrs. Ruthven was in her gayest
mood, and chatted merrily with all—
perhaps a little more with a shy young
fellow of eighteen, who was in the com
pany, than with any other, because of
his youth and shyness.
Arthur Austin had "begun the day in
his usual good spirits; but as it went on
he grew gloomier and gloomier, and at
last relapsed into perfect silence. In
vain did liis betrothed endeavor to cheer
him. He scarcely spoke or looked at
her, and at last his manner began to
have effect upon the whole party. One
after the other grew dismal, and the
return home was as solemn as a funeral
procession.
At Sybella’s door Austin lifted his
hat coldly and bade her good evening
without even a pressure of the hand.
“You are coming in, Arthur?” she
said, softly.
“No,” he answered.
“Are you ill?”
At that he turned sharply upon her
and said aloud: “No, I am not ill. I
am not blind—that is all 2Tor deaf,
either. I have watched and listened
to-day to my cost. Good evening!”
“What did he mean, aunt?” cried
Sybella, when the door had closed,
' ‘What has been done? I saw nothing.”
“He is pretending to be jealous of
young Mordaunt,” said Aunt Margaret,
quietly. “Sybella, have courage. He
means to quarrel and break it off with
you, now that he thinks you penniless.
Tell him the truth, and he will soon re
cover from his jealousy. Keep it to
yourself, and you will never be able to
mollify him.”
And this time Sybella only sighed.
But she went to her room and wrote a
pretty letter to her lover, begging him
to come to her, and when he came she
met him with an offer of her lips, which
he shocked her by rejecting.
“You know how I have Seen offended,
Sybella,” he said. “You know you
flirted with that boy Mordaunt all day!”
“I did nothing of the kind! I never
flirted in my life; why should I begin
to do so now? No woman was ever
truer than I have been to you!”
“I doubt it!” said he. “I have seen
much, and I suspect more; and, since
your conduct has alienated my heart
from you, we had better part. There is
only one way of managing these things. ’ ’
Sybella looked earnestly at him. She
saw no jealous madness there; only a
cool detemination to set aside his en
gagement with a woman whom he had
never loved, and whose fortune had
been his only object from the first.
And she knew that Aunt Margaret
had been right; but she loved him so
well, and trusted him so entirely, that
it seemed to her as if the knowledge
would rend soul from body. She tried
to hide her tears, but m vain.
Slowly she drew her engagement ring
from her finger and put it into his hand
and turned away. At the door a strong
hand grasped hers. It was Aunt Mar
garet’s. She led her niece to her room,
and returned to the parlor before Arthur
Austin had left it.
Standing before him, looking straight
at him, she said: “So, sir, you have
been tried in the furnace and found
wanting! You know that my niece’s
loss of fortune is at the bottom of this.
Don’t prevaricate; you know it »true.
1 have seen through you from the first.”
“It is not your affair, I believe,” Ar
thur answ-ered, sulkily. 1 Of course,
when a man expects to marry money, he
isn’t pleased to find himself saddled with
a poor wife and her beggarly relations.
But of course I was jealous. I’ve broken
it all off with Sybella on that account,
and it’s her own fault.”
She has had a lucky escape, Mr.
Austin,” said Aunt Margaret; “but be
fore you go, let me tell you a little se
cret. Sybella has not lost her money.
The bank that failed had not a penny
of hers in it. And as for the beggarly
relation—you mean me, you know—
poor Aunt Margaret is worth her $50,-
000, and every shilling of it is to be left
to her dear niece Sybella Ruthven. I
warned her that you did not love her. I
forced her against her will to put you
to the test. And now I see that I was
right, and you may go, Mr. Arthur
Austin.”
Mr. Austin departed. A month after
ward he wrote a penitent letter to Sy
bella, telling her that he believed him
self to have been causelessly jealous, and
quoting a good deal from Byron and
Shakspeare on the subject. But the
woman who is fooled twice by .the same
individual must be a hopeless idiot, and
Mrs. Ruthven will remain Mrs. Ruth-
ven until some better man asks her to
change her name.
Tire old Spy-CrlmM.
Plain Talk About Marriage.
As to the age when people should
marry, the lady should, in my opinion,
be 20 or 22, and the gentleman five
years her senior. Poor men cannot
marry extravagant girls, who expect as
good a home as their parents were onlv
able to acquire after many years’ toil.
The deceit practised on both sides is
very great. The ugly suitors gets a
tailor to hide his deficiencies: the un
sightly maiden calls in the aid of her
rouge pot and milliner. Until recently
marriage brokerage was carried on in
France. We Americans are guilty
of the same thing m another way.
Mothers sell daughters to the highest
bidders and daughters sell themselves
for gold to men old enough to be their
grandfathers Such women would no
more choose honest mechanics for hus
bands than they would convicts from
the penitentiary. There is no reason
why women should not choose as well
as men. At present the men have all
the advantage. No girl is fit to be a
wife till she can, if necessary, cook a
meal, make a dress and keep a house in
order. Accomplishments are good, but
a tired-husband would much prefer a
good square meal. All matches that
are brought about by selfish motives
are unholy, and women who marry for
position or wealth are just as guilty as
those who sell their virtue for a given
sum. They are, in fact, living a life of
legalized prostitution. Marriages in
which there is no adaptation are un
lawful. As oil and water will not
unite without alkaline, so many a cou
ple are united by means of gold: Such
artificially matches are often broken.
You may force alcohol and gum-cam
phor to blend, but at presence of water
the alcohol elopes and leaves the cam
phor a grass widow. In like manner a
third party often steps in between a
badly assorted pair, while those who
have been united through pure motives
and deep, abiding love, fulfilled the
conditions under which a man and a
woman may really become husband and
wife.
—Lord and Lady Onslow are about
to leave England on a. lengthened tour
through Canada and the United States.
—A million and a half shad are to be
put in Kentucky waters.
Uncle Silas had a rickety, old-fash
ioned spy-glass that he kept in a sail
loft on the end of a decaying wharf,
where he stored the spars and sails of
his boats in winter-time. The loft was
wanned by a rusty, drum-shaped, sheet
iron stove. There were no chairs
it, only one or two behches. Uncle
generally sat on the floor when he was
patching the sails. For a thimble he
used what sailors call a palm, which
a leathern band, with a central piece of
steel punctured like a thimble. With
this he pressed the large spike-like needle
through the heavy canvas. There was
always a number of old sea-captains
fishermen or sea-loving lads whiling
away the time in Uncle Si’s sail-loft,
telling their experience or listening to
stories of the sea. Or they would talk
about their favorite ships, or look out
of a small square-shaped window, shaped
like a port-hole, at the vessels gliding
into the harbor.
They often used the old rickety spv-
glass, which threatened to fall to pieces
every time it was taken up; but the
glass was Uncle Si’s especial delight.
He prized it as the apple of his eye. To
say anything against that spy-glass was
to start him into a long discussion,
which went to show that he was behind
the times. For he always insisted that
all the improvements of later science
had failed to make any improve
ments in telescopes that would
eclipse his cherished old telescope. But
nothing would induce him to tell how
the glass came into his possession. We
knew that he had had many advent
ures, like every man who has ever been
to sea, and surmised that there was
something peculiar attending his right
to the old spy-glass, although no one
who knew Uncle Si ever suspected that
there was anything discreditable to lijm
in having it.
But, one day, it liappened that the
death was reported, in the sail-loft, of
a well-known shimpaster, Capt. Luce.
“Is Capt. Luce dead, then?” ex
claimed Uncle Si. “Well, that reminds
me that he knew as much about that
spy-glass as I do.”
Every one at once gave attention, for
we seemed on the eve of learning the
story of the old telescope.
“Not that it’s so much of a yam,
either,” said the old skipper; “but I
just remember the v’yage I took with
him, some 25 years ago last August. I
shipped before the mast, for Calcutta,
in the ship Skimmer of the Seas. Luce
was master, and he had his wife and
little girl with him. He knew his biz-
ness, it’s a fact, but he made us toe the
mark, I tell you, and wouldn’t stand
no loafing nor impudence.
“We had a good run out to Calcutta,
and nothing special to note. But on
the way home we met a hurricane near
Mauritius. The ship behaved well, but
the gale carried away some of the light
spars.
“A few days after this we sighted a
wreck and bore down to see if she had
been abandoned. The wind was mo
derate, and so a boat was sent off to
her. We found she was a French ship.
There wasn’t a living soul on board.
The crew h:id ail left li»r in the boats,
you see, except one poor fellow who lay-
dead just inside the companion-way.
We didn’t dare to stay long, for the
bark was wallowing deep in the sea and
went down just after we left her. But
we brought away with us a box of tea
and this ’ere spy-glass. After this we
had calms until the tar all came out of
the seams of our ship and the captain’:
temper gave out. The heat and the
terrible long calm kinder made him
crazy, I think. You couldn’t wink but
what he’d be at you. Now it was the
man at the wheel he abused; then he’d
heave belayin’ pins at the lookout, or
he’d kick the steward. ’Twas only
when his child Ella—he called her
Birdie—was around that he was quiet.
He loved her, and when he began to
swear and cuss, Mrs. Duce would send
the little girl to him, and he’d stop right
off and take her in liis arms and wind
her curls around his fingers.
“One day it was my turn at the wheel.
The captain was aft fooling with the
glass we’d got from the Frenchman.
He took it all to pieces and wiped it
clean and talked about it to himself.
“This is the glass to use,’ said he, in
mutterring voice. ‘I never see the like
on it. Guess I can scare up a breeze
with such a weapon.’
“Just then the ship gave a lurch. She
was onsteady-like, you see, bein’ as it
was a dead calm and a lump of a swell
a-heaving up from the south’ard bring
ing a wind with it, Tliis threw one of
the lenses in the glass on the deck, and
it went a-rollin’ toward the scupper,
but it lodged in the waterways. The
captain got up and looked at me. His
face was as white as a sheet he was so
mad. His eyes glared like a demon’s.
He walked up to me with his teeth
clenched. Then he up with his fist and
made a blow at my head, saying.—
"Where did you lam to steer, you
confounded son of a land-lubber?'
I jest dodged the blow, and he fetched
another clip at me.
“ ‘Capt Luce,’ says I, ‘I’m a-doin’
the best I can. It’s this swell that did
it. I can’t steer without nary a breeze. ’
“‘Yes, you can, you lubber! You
did it apurpose! I’m a good mind to.
make shark’s meat of you!’
‘“You’d better take care!’ says I,
speaking up smart, for there was blood
in his eye, and we’d stood this sort of
bullying long enough
“ ‘You dare to sass me, do you?’ said
he. ‘I’ll teach you to mutiny on board
my ship?’ and he made a movement as
if he was going to draw the revolver out
of his pocket.
“I let go of the wheel and was just
a-goin’ at him with both hands—I didn’t
want to draw my knife—when I heard
the wild scream. We both stopped and
looked around. Mis. Luce was a-flyin’
up the companion-way, a-shriekin’ and
a-cryin,’ ‘My child! Oh, my child! She’s
overboard!’
“I looked over the side of the ship.
I saw the little thing under the lee
quarter, a-struggling and a-holding out
her hands. We all loved the little
creetur, although she was the child of
that old sea tyrant. But I didn't think
much of her bein’ in the water, for
’twas smooth and we’d soon have a
boat down to pick her up; until I see a
shark’s fin not more’n a cable’s length
away. This settled me; Twa’n’t in
human natur’ to stand by and see a
poor innocent creetur like that eaten up
by them bloody monsters.
“I just cast off the coil of the main-
brace from the belayin’-pin, and, hold
ing the end in my hand, went over
board. I dove close to the child, and
caught her by the hair just as she was
goin’ down. Then I took her under
the arms, and, holding on to the brace,
called to them to haul in. The shark
was mighty nigh by this time, and as I
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drew my feet out of the water, he shot |
right under me and bruised my foot I
with his fin. I “A New York fashionable wedding
Capt Luce didn’t say nothing when is a very expensive thing, ” said a promi
se got his child aboard, but he was aent New York caterer of Fifteenth
just like one dazed. His wife took him I street to a journalier
below, and that night he was lyin’ in “Of course,” said the reporter “the
his bunk with a fever and ravin’ for bride’s clothes cost a great deal and
his child. Tne mate took charge of perhaps the groom has to pay the minis-
the ship. A breeze sprung up that ter a large sum, but do the other ex
night. we were close to Cape Town I penses amount to much ?”
and we put in there for a doctor. We “The bride’s outfit is somethin"-I
lay there two weeks afore Capt Luce I don’t know anything about If a wed-
was himself again. He was like ano- ding is coining off, the bride’s father or
ther man the rest of the voyage, peace- mother or uncle or somebody comes to
able-like and meek as a Quaker. £e and says: ‘I am going to have a
After we’d got to Boston and laid I wedding and I want you to furnish for
the ship up by Long wharf, and I was I*.’‘All right,’I say,‘how many guests?’
a-goin’ ashore, he called me to come I ‘Well, about three hundred to the re-
aft. His child was sittin’ on his kneelception.’ Then I set to work to calcu-
and playin’ with his watch. I what kind of a table they want.”
“ ‘Bill,’ said he, ‘I aint said nothin’ I “‘How much pec guest,” interrupted
to you about how you risked your life the reporter, “do&t it take for a very
for my child, but I aint one of them I nice wedding collation ?”
folks who forget such a thing as that. I ‘‘Well, I can set a very pretty table
I want to do the right thing by you, MY $1.50 per head. That will include
although I could never pay hack theIstes, bdnillion, cake, wine, jellies, bon-
greatdebtl owe to you. What can 11 bons. several kinds of salads, sand-
do for you?” | wiches, flowers, china, waiters and all. ”
“ ‘Capt Luce,’ says I, -you don’t “What else beside the above menu
need to worry yourself about it. I did I would people want ?’
my duty, and I’d do it again for such a “O! many things. Champagne,
trim little gal as that.’ oysters, a spiced fish which cost $20—
“ ‘No,’ says he, T aint satisfied to I more, if he is a nice fellow; cold meats,
leave it that way.’ etc. These are all expensive things,
“ ‘Well,” says I, ‘if it’ll make you and of course we have to charge for
feel better, then I don’t mind if you I them.”
let me have the glass we got out of the I “I>o you include the wedding cake in
French bark. It’ll serve to make me I the $1 50 estimate ?”
remember little Ella.’ I “Not generally. You see it costs us
“‘It’s youm,’says he.” i about twenty cents for each box full.
“And so, lads, that’s the way I came I The box costs a few cents, the white
to have that’ere spy-glass.” |satin ribbon that ties it about eight
cents, and the cake about ten cents.
a Ben-Ringing Boy. | Each box costs the person who orders
„ T ‘ 7 7T ... „ _ 1 11 about thirty-five cents, which just
I would Uke to nng that bell. Say, multiplied by 300 cents, comes to $105.
m on’t you let me ring that bell? That*" 1 ' ■ . .. ’ ..
Tfce Hero of Chippewa. I a Bine-Eyed Helpmate.
On the 2Sth of this month, June, the vr~ -\r .
home of Samuel Smith, the “hero of I Dans, a pretty woman
Chippewa,” will be sold at auction, the "Lfe Brid“en4 P T? T®?^?
last member of his family. Miss Min-1 S+w 111 .r^&eport, Conn., charged
nie, having died a few months asm I ' I ^ 1 ln ^l ie robbery of the
The act of darimr that won for^?* P 0 ?* office at Bristol and suspected
brave Canadian his title was performed 1leader the £* an °
one winter years sUim.^'a 1 scow L^&^nV .
containing four men broke loose and ^tate. She 1S about
started down stream for Niagara Falls y? 18 of , a = e > ba s a bne form, talks
at a terrific rate. Smith saiTtS scowl tlu * 1,tl - v - and uses good Eugjish.
as it approached Chippewa He sm-imr-1 t v 1 ® f lme -m 0 the office of the Derby
into a clinker boat ^at once IV hf I L u “ ber company of Derby was entered
forged out into the stream he made a hVVVo S! 38 ^®** iV 61 * a" ll0 i over P<>wered
hasty survey of the situation and then bound ^a? d .gagged him,
en^Afie 2* ^et^ job
almost leaping from the wlter at each traLT^lSare tU The ° f
a s hore ee La?feirfe ) rent h fhr a 1?le noted at u£ vofefofT
The moment Smith appeared the atten- ImdVbreaG a I ,isto1 to his head,
tionof the men on tliVscVa- wls rivV I to blow Ins brains out
£? d meloilio^ andUiaTthr^nd which
the distance between him and the ^throat was smaller than
scow, but the latter was firettinff alarm-1 U t 01 a
mrlv Close to rm.idY * Investigation next morning, how-
menf^“S^tte^ < along fee'side 5 ^ ^
boat and drop in as I pass by.” The I me< \ V V? , cnn ?®» and it was also
command was promptly obeyed'and the t ,‘ at ^ "‘V -Y 38 f° me wa y
little craft was alongside. One after I ™U dc a ted - Meanwhile the detectives
another the men sprang in until the 11" 10 1 ' Vere lnv ? 5tlg i llmg the Bristol
four were safely in the I '* ur glarj came to the conclusion that
four were safely in the bottom. i , i , .
Now came a moment of painfdi tiie J°t>. had been planned and its actual
anxiety. “What will he do?” was the Wl- 0 " Greeted by a woman. It
queiy that came to every mind. Smith - t ^ t a stra f ge .. >’ oun S
had liis plan of action and never hesita- 1' omau had, just previous to the rob-
ted a moment. At a point some dis-
, . „ „ i „ . . You can always tell a swell wedding
must be a fine-sounding bell. I’ll give by the cake that’s served to you.”
you fifty cents if you let me nng that “How do you go about serving
| wedding collation ?”
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face that inspired confidence at the first dSh^'^d^ilv^ar^wnt VhJ'tPsh 116
sight. He was a Boston bov and was , kl V her i
m Waterloo, Canada, with only fifty hands of
cents in his pocket. He hadn’t had sILnfV The ? i? 1 tke fable, mix the
any breakfast or dinner, and when he) w, ’/VfVVlIa 116 lces > etc -, and just
offered Charley Hail, the proprietor of | 1 g ° o 0Ver y?P d
the hotel, fifty cents for the privilege of Some
ringing the huge dinner-bell that set in 1 ® caterMS takR «™rvth,mr left ever
the office, he was playing for a stake.
Charley gave the youth a casual I ““ “? remains
glance, “sized him up” as a “fresh,” I and lt la really of no
and then told him he could ring the 1^1 tke caterer > except fertile wai-
bell as long as he wished to for fifty . _
cents. I As the reporter left the caterer’s he
The young man laid down his last encountered Johnson. Johnson is a
fifty cents, seized the bell and began a to un K and -rather good-looking man.
vigorous ringing. I Be takes of the carriages and
As it happened to be about the din- the adfeitlaaWJf guests at every fasli-
ner hour, the proprietor thought this a i ona ble affair. He is to be seen stand-
good joke. I * n g under the awning of the mansion
In through the parlors, out upon the at which the ball or wedding is occur-
veranda and even up into the chambers I and calls the numbers of the
sounded the clang of the bell. The carriages, helps the ladies out, keeps
guests soon became annoyed and then rogues away, and knows everybody,
exasperated. “What in thunder have “Why,” said a young lady to a
you got that bell ringing for?” asked Journalist, “there is never the least
one. “Tie a rope to that calf and haul danger of any one but those we desire
him in,” said another. “H you don’t Setting into a house as long as Johnson
put a stop to that confounded nuisance “ around. You can trust him entirely,
we’ll quit your house,” said a third- J And everyone is sure to get their own
The landlord, thoroughly bewildered, | -" J t r U asc ’. to °' He is worth his $100 or
both by the ringing of the hell and the a night, and besides he often has
complaints of the guests, went out to I men to assist him. ”
the fellow and said: “Come, haven’t “Flowers,” said a florist to the re-
you rung that bell about long enough ? I porter, “cost money. But there are
The guests are all complaining about I several ways of decorating a house. I
it.” can make pretty decorations for $75 or
“Rung it long enough? Bless your I $100, and I can make decorations for
soul, I haven’t hardly begun yet. What I $500. From $100 to $200 is the general
do you suppose I paid you the last fifty layout, however. That will include the
fence from the Canada" shore the cVr-1 0 ®®® t0 inquire for letters that never
rent divided at the head of the rapids cdm f’ a “d to discuss with the post
part of the stream flWfeg th ®, tlm f ° f th ® arrival and
island in the vicinity of tbe bund | de ^ rtur ® “fUs. . .
spring. In reaching the current lead- , l !' e footprints in front of the
ing around the island lay the only hope the morning following the
of escape. Taking a diagonal cou^l wa8 ‘ “I ° f “ U a,ld nai "
across and down the stream Smith | .W V 01 ,’ V ‘d enti y made b_\ a woman’s
bent every effort to reach the Canadian togh-heeled shoe. As the man wno
divide. It was a desperate struggle | ff'I ,! 1 ®A l T" arS . drl '? away was posi-
for the life of five men between the I l fi at tdeie " e ff f° ur °f them, and
seething, boiling waters and the muscle Ife , j 1 o, 1 '® y H Wer f| il1 - m ® n ’ s
and endurance of young Smith with c ‘°thing, the idea of there being a
the aids seemingly against him.' But '' omai i m the case was dropped untii
the divide was finally gained with not Vi® . ne " s ca me to Bristol that Mrs.
a boat’s length to spare, and the frail Pavrswas suspected of being concerned
craft shot down between the island m tu ® bur g lar y. Then the detectives
and the mainland like a rocket. At caI ! 1 ® to , e , rb >'* looted into tire case,
the foot of the island the channel I a ? d conc - uded t ba t Mrs. Davis was
widened materially, the current slack- to® “ysteHoas woman who had fig-
ened and the water became more shal- m ^ ie ^ 08 ^ office robbery at Bris-
low, and here young Smith landed his to ,V, t
boat, having performed one of the 1 ” ien - “ Kl oblcer3 went to Davis’
most heroic and daring teats ever per
formed by mortal man.
house Mrs. Davis refused them admit
tance, threatening to shoot, but they
cents tnat I had in the world for? Long I church also. You see we place the
enough? Pshaw! You must be crazy, I palms, ferns and growing plants about
man. Just listen to that bell. Ain’t the chancel, but we take them all back
that a splendid sounding bell ? What a I again. But a wedding bell, a horn of
magnificent bell! man, and then think I plenty and baskets of flowers cost the
how you could ask me to stop ringing money.
that bell. I'd rather ring this bell than I “What are the other expenses of wed-
eat my dinner. Don’t keep botheri ng I dings besides the flowers and the sup-
me; let me attend to this bell.” I peii” he was asked.
By this time the attention of the town *^Rere are the carriages at $2 to $5
officers was attracted to the matter, and 1 apiece. The bride’s family order about
the landlord w’as told he must diseon-1 four besides their own; and there are
trnue the ringing of the bell. I the awnings at the house and church,
“Condemn it,’’said the now thorough- at $15 apiece, and about $25 to the sex-
ly exasperated landlord, “I’m not ring- ton and $10 for the use of the church,
mg the bell.-’ and then there are the invitations—a
‘ W ell, you must stop it, no matter big bill in themselves. People send
who it is that’s ringing it.” cards to hundreds they do not invite.
To the bell-ringer again went the an- Take for instance Mrs. Vanderbilt’s
noyed landlord and repeated his re-1 ball; She invited 1,200 people. For
quest, this time a little more severe. Invitations, directing and deliverv it
“I want you to let up on this business. | cost her over $600. Now, let us figure
You have made noise enough, and I up. For the breakfast—-$150 a head
think its time to stop. Do you want for 300 people, $150; flowers, $200;
to alarm the whole country?” wedding cake, $105; awnings $30; John-
-Just listen to that bell; ain’t that a son $100; carriages, $10; clothes, $300;
daisy bell? That’s the best bell I think in all, 81,195. I think I’ll just get
I ever heard. Where did you get this I married and go without the wedding.”
bell. What an exceptionally fine sound-1 _ .
ing bell What will you take for that I
bell?” I
“The question ain’t what I’ll take for I
the hell, but what you’ll take to let I Tbe latest proposition is to build a
up,” said the excited landlord. | maritime canal through Palestine, and
“Well, i don’t know that I care to 1 311 English company, with the Duke of
stop, but ain’t that a fine sounding bell I Marlborough at its head, has been form-
—if it’s all the same to yon about $10,1 tor the purpose of making investiga-
I think would be about right.” I tions and preliminary surveys. So far
“I won’t give you $10, but I’ll tell I as at present proposed, the work will
you what 1 will do; I’ll give you $5 I include, in the first instance, a canal
and the best dinner you ever had if I twenty-five miles in length, from Haifa,
you’ll stop right where you are.” I m the Bay of Acre, through the plain
“Agreed; let’s have your$5. Thanks. I of Asdraclou to the valley of the river
Now we’ll go into dinner,” and in a I Jordan. The depth of the proposed
few minutes the ravenous youth from I eanal is to be forty feet and its width
the “Hub” was putting away roast I ^-N) feet. This will bring the Mediter-
beef and chicken salad at a marvelously I mnean into the heart of Palestine, and
rapid rate. 8° ^ar towards making a seaport of
— I Jerusalem. It is further proposed to
What a Fanner needs. | construct a canal twenty miles in length
from the head of the Gulf of Akaboah
Invasion ol the Holy land.
The stepping ashore of the men was bri ? ke m toe door,
the signal for another cheer that for a L,- 1 V Davls was tilken to prison in
moment drowned the roar of the cafe- waterbury, and then to Bridgeport.
ract, and the rescuer was literally t) “ e ■ sa >' s tlla t her husband and she
home upon the shoulders of the excited were at ,10me on tbe mght of the Derby
people. ’ burglary, but admits that they were
'Anythin; “LL 011 tb f ■ of the Bristol robbery.
„ 1 —“ Mrs. Davis, it was further said, was
Harry Meyer, alias ••Muldoon,” alias acknowledged to be the brains of the
Duncan, one of the most noted crimi-1 combination. She conducted herself in
nals in the West, who is serving a four- the jail in a dignified way, and passed
teen-years’ sentence in Joliet prison for the time in reading Blackniore’s “Loraa
the Fairbanks robbery at Wheaton, Doone.
deliberately chopped off part of his right
hand while at work in the cooper shop,
recently. He did not like the work he | V. bought from F. furniture, and
Sale of Furniture <
compelled to do, and took this way paid for it in other furniture and notes,
to escape hard labor. He was taken u> I and there was an agreement that 4t if
the hospital, where Che wounded hand the notes are not paid F. can retake
was attended to by the dootor, after the furniture again.” The notes were
which he was marched to the solitary not paid, and F. went to V.’s house
cells and locked np. with several men, in the absence of V.,
“Muldoon,” as he is called, and by and, iu opposition to the wishes of the
which name he is best known, comes of other memliers of the family, carried
a bad family. His father and two broth- the furniture away. V. sued for da-
ers have served long terms at Joliet, mages and recovered a judgment. F;
He is a professional burglar and garro appealed the case—Van Wren vs. Flynn
ter, a criminal with a queer reputation —to the Supreme Court of Louisiana,
in more ways than as a thief. He is a where the judgment was affirmed,
clever and desperate crook, hut is cred- Judge Fenner, in the opinion, said:
lted by his pals as being a “squealer,” “The acts complained of, unless the
a “give-away,” and a “stool pigeon” as agreement removed the parties from
well, and is hated and feared by other tbe application of the general princi-
criminals who go into schemes with him p!es of law, constituted a gross outrage
to rob on acconnt of hi« known leaky I u P° n tbe rights and fee lings of the plain-
quality. He has been severely “slagged” ^ b as a citizen and a man, for which
by his associates frequently for this fail- ( -' uurts of justice must grant redress or
ing. I sanction the personal exaction of satis-
On the night of October 11 the farmer faction by violence. The agreement
Fairbanks' robbery was committed at I oannot, in our opinion, shield the de-
Wheaton, m Da Page county, near fendant - It does not, purport, in terms,
Chicago, This was a most atrocious t0 confer upon the defendant the right
and cruel affair. Three masked men f? outer the house of the plaintiff, in
entered the house at midnight, the I d . 3 utisencc, without his consent and
women folks were tied up, roughly without notice, and carry off its con-
handled and subjected to various cruel- te uts. The grunt of the simple right to
ties, such as holding a burning lamp I retake bls furniture on non-payment of
under their feet to make them tell wnere | I le P nce ennnot be construed to em-
their valuables were concealed. Sir. a 11 ®* 1 P° we , r : H conferred,^, at
Fairbanks was tied across a bed and his L ®®*, n = bt upon defendant,
feet horribly roasted before he would “toerngl’te, could be en-
disdose the hiding place of his money, f ? rcedonly . ' V1 . th 000X111 °f the
but human nature (Hold not stand the or , legal process; and we
jas as
as5^^5JrssSSteSe a ^'“
tied nn the whole familv and departed ° f tbe P nCe " lutdl ^ Paul.
NEWS IN BETEF
—The wild blackberry is grown with
success around Atlantic City.
—The experiment of making wood
gas is a success in Sunbury.
—Chief Justice Waite has gone to liis
home in Ohio for the summer.
—Sir. Graves of Corry, Pa., thinks he
has the oldest clock in America.
—Tehama county, Cal., has S00.00O
acres of vacant land subject to entry.
—Thdre are 18,000,000 Catholics in
Spain and 40,000 magnificent churches.
—Voltaire’s house is used by the
Geneva Bible Society as a repository for
Bibles.
—The city of Boston has 42,207 dwell
ing houses, 152 apartment houses and OS
hotels.
—Mr. P. T. Bamum says he-will
never lecture again; not even for the
temperance cause.
—Hartford, Conn., boasts of $25,000,-
000 bank deposits, or about $600 to every
person in the city.
—The largest milk pan on record,
holding 600 gallons, lias just been made
for an Iowa creamery.
—In a recent speech the Prince of
Wales said London now liad about 5.-
000,000 inhabitants.
—Rattlesnakes weighing ten pounds
and seven ounces liave been found in
the Santa Anna mountains.
—-York is the most ancient Metropol
itan See in England. It was made a
bishopric by King Lucius, about 180.
—During the year IS82 Albany pro
duced 242,951 barrels of ale, 104,003
barrels of lager and 550 barrels of weiss
beer.
. —Until 1835 the punishment for sac
rilege in England was death. At that
date it was changed to transportation
for life.
—A party of Cincinnatians have
bought 5,000 acres in Florida known as
the Apopka Mountains, and will build a
$100,000 hotel there.
—The Memphis (Teim.) Avalanche
says that another cotton seed oil mill,
the Planters’, with a capital of $100,000,
has been organized there.
—Louis the Fat was the first king
who tookthe orifiamnie into battle. The
banner belonged to the Abbey of St.
Denis, and was suspended over his
tomb.
—The “Radicals” beeame prominent
in England in 1816, when Hampden
clubs were formed, of which Sir Francis
Burdett, Lord Cochrane and W illiam
Cobbet were members.
—It is said that the first Masters in
Chancery were apiwinted to assist the
ignorance of Sir Christopher Hatton,
Lord Chancellor of England, in 1587.
The office was abolished in 1852.
—One of Nelson’s men died a few
days ago at Southampton, England, iu
his one hundred and seventh year. He
was a gunner in his time, and was
present at the battle of Trafalgar. Since
1847 he has been in retirement, living
on a pension.
—A Gardiner (Me.) man wills $2000
to tbe Methodist church there on the
condition that it gives up sociables. If
the church people do not want the
money it is to go to the sick at the poor-
house.
A farmer needs his vacation just as to the Dead Sea, and thus unite the
much as any man of business needs one. waters of the latter with the Red Sea.
A week’s run to town after the busy sea-1 If these things were successfully per
son is over will do him a world of good. I formed it is expected that an inland sea
And they need to visit other farmers, I about 300 miles long, varying in width
to learn, if possible, easier or better I from three to ten miles, and deep enough
methods of fanning or of living. They to float vessels of the largest size, would
need to attend farmers’ conventions and I extend from the Mediterranean to the
organizations to *gam new ideas—some-1 Red Sea. There are some matters be-
thing to broaden or enlarge their views I sides engineering difficulties which may
of life. People who always stay at home I hinder the execution of this project,
are sure to seek dark sides and shadows I The consent of .the Porteiis indispen-
of their own lives. They need to learn I sable, and certain European powers
and to realize that storms and droughts I would undoubtedly oppose the granting
and thunders and showers and treshets I of a firman conferring upon England
visit other farms beside their own; that I the exclusive right of way by water
weeds and insects thrive in all degrees I through Palestine. The holy land also
of longitude; that flies and dirt accumu-1 has sacred associations for Christians
late and annoy other households beside I throughout the world, and a widespread
the ones that they preside over. In short, I sentiment among all churches and sects
they need to learn how other people live. I would doubtless be raised in opposition
Could farmers manage so as to be con-1 to the innovation. It is possible that
fined less to their farms, could they work I the new enterprise may be proved to the
more in partnership, as do men in other I satisfaction of many devout men and
business, or could they believe it profit- women to be the fulfilment of the
able to employ a higher grade of labor- prophecy of Ezekiel, to the effect that
ers—men whom they could trust alone I there is to be a broad sea in the desert,
for a day or week, or could they earlier and that 4t the fishers «h*u stand upon
train their sons and daughters to have a I it from En-dedi even unto En-eglaim.
care and an interest in the affairs of the
household, then they could oftener find
the opportunity for leaving the farm for I He who lives pure in thought, free
a short season of recreation and enjoy-1 from malice, contented, leading a holy
ment, and thus be in reality what they I life, feeling tenderness for all creatures,
have the name of being, the most inde-1 speaking wisely and kindly, humble ana
pendent class of people in the world. [sincere, has the Diety over his heart.
tied up the whole family and departed,
baft before leaving the mark slipp.d j a Golden sorrow.
kTIv. iT.j „ YCJfrom melancholy, and no charm has
The familv w«r* yet f °und by which it can be dis-
The family were released from thrnr Her na&sty has reached an
bonds y a passing neighbor early the ag e at which the character becomes
next mormn^, and an active search was su tficiently indurated to render any
mad 5j or , “fibers, but toey had gj-gat change unlikely, except those
eBC *?®t ^toeago. Mrs. Fairbanks unfavorable ehanges that arise from
was taken to Chicago, where she was Ioss of yjtal strength. A Queen whose
shown the pictures in the rogues gal- re jgn has been a long one, and who has
lery, and at once picked out ^that of I ] ost many of her most valued friends
Harry Meyer, alias ‘Muldoon, as the both in humble spheres and in positions
leader of the robbers. His description on jy i ess exalted than her own, can
was telegraphed all over toe country, scarcely be expected to look upon life
and he was finally captured in St. Loins. Lyjth a vety pleased eye. Much, of
Mrs. Fairbanks went to St. Loom and | course, must be allowed to tempera-
oompletely identified “Muldoon. ’ He I ment. There are Queens whose exter-
was taken to Wheaton and placed on I causes ef suffering are greater than
trial He had the beet criminal lawyers I au y which Queen Victoria has yet been
in Chicago to defend him, but a good called upon to bear. Witness'the ex-
old farmer jury settled his case in snort I Empress Eugenie. Or, if we go back
order by sending him to Joliet prison into history, witness the long catalogue
for fourteen years, and he will be apt to of sovereigns who have exhausted the
serve it. | possibilities of human suffering. So
far as the great majority of people are
capable of judging, the reign of Queen
A tall young man went bathing in Victoria has been exceptionally prosper-
the Mohawk river at Schenectady, New ous and happy—so much so that, un-
York, with several other Sabbath- less allowance be made for a constltu-
breakers, in spite of previous protests tional strain of sadness, it would seem
against their selection of such a con- as though her Majesty would have ex-
spicuous place for their ablutions. I perienced more happiness than usually
While they were in the water a Mr. falls to the lot of hereditary rulers. At
Van Voast appeared upon the bank present it can be matter for conjecture
and carried off an armful of their only as to the mental condition in which
clothing. All of the bathers, however, I the last years of her reign will be
had enough apparel left to get home passed. In contemplating them one is
without undue exposure except the tall reminded of Shakespeare’s lines:
young man, whose only remaining rai-1 i swear -iu better to be lowij born
ment was a collar and a pair of shoes. I ana range with tumble i.vea m contempt.
But as luck would have it, he found! —• — -
near the river an empty barrel, out of
which he knocked the heads and into! The Scientific American enjaUMthe
which he stepped, and thus appareled haulage of our railway* now employ*
he made his way home across the fields, over 17,000 locomotive*, and tne aggre-
painfully holding up the barrel as he I gate cost to run them, such aa fuel,
walked, but dropping and sinking into I water, oil, repairs, and engineers is
it whenever anyone appeared in sight. I about $90,000,000, or not far from $5000
Before he reacbed^the paternal man- a year for eacn machine. The item of
sion half the dogs in town had detected I tael alone is $33,000,000, but the
his predictment and united to form a I greater portion of this fuel is practical-
howling escort. I ly wasted.
—Next to Texas, Wyoming is prob
ably the greatest stock-growing region
in the United States. It is said that
about 1,000,000 cattle are now feeding
on its plains, the estimated value of
which is about $30,000,000.
—The decrease in the supply of lob
sters is attributed to the fact that many-
young lobsters are caught in the traps
and pots. It is suggested that the
meshes in these should he large enough
to allow the small lobsters to escape.
—At a party given by the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts, Lady Carvagh, who was
the most admired of the ladies, wore at
her right side (her dress being white
satin) a basket filled with different col
ored roses.
—The surrender of Abd-el-Kader to
the French took place Dec. 22,1S47. He
was imprisoned at Pau and at Amboise,
although the French had promised to
give him his liberty, but LouisNapoleon
released him-in 1852.
—The revenue of the Dominion of
Canada during May was $3,106,572, and
the expenditures $1,047,637. During
the eleven montiis of the current fiscal
year which ended May 31st, the revenue
was $32,330,103, and the expenditure
$24,109,926.
—This year’s anniversary of the Lon
don Sunday School Union was the
eightieth in the history of that body.
The number of schools now in connec
tion with fee union is 5286, with a total
membership of 1,182,190 scholars and
123,598 teachers. Tliis represents a
gain of 411 schools, 5059 teachers and
65,507 scholars.
-Although three or four chrystals of
the genuine precious topaz, remarkable
for size and clearness, liave been found
near Pike’s Peak, Mr. R. T. Cross
asserts that the stone which is cut in
Colorado and sold as topaz to tourists
is not topaz at all, but simply smoky
quartz, or the cairngorm stone of Scot
land.
—Edgar A. Poe’s former home at
Fordham, N. Y., was bought by Milton
Strang, an heir of the estate, recently
for $5,700. The cottage is among old
trees and by a road, the walls of which
are moss-covered. There Poe wrote
‘The Bells,” “Annabel Lee” and the
Uke.
—General Sherman attends even ama
teur performances in the Washington
theatres, and when a good point is made
he boyishly leans over the cushioned
edge of his box and applauds. His gray
eyes sparkle, he forgets Herbert Spen
cer’s last book, and he gives himself to
the innocent enjoyment of the occasion.
One of his best friends says: “Sherman?
why, he’s Ml brains and simpUcity.”
—There are three trees in the Horti
cultural Gardens of Toronto, Canada,
planted by members of the roval family.
The Princess Louise planted there in
1879 a Scotch fir, but it died, and last
year she planted another tree of the same
kind, and it is now flourishing finely.
The Prince of Wales set a handsome
maple in 1860, and a Canadian oak was
planted by Prince Arthur in 1860.
—The Duke of Veragua is a descend
ant of Christopher Columbus. The
Duke is a breeder of bulls for the bull
fighting amphitheatres of Madrid and
Seville, and his stock are such fierce
fighters that when advertised as eomlng
from his estates the amusement attracts
extra patronage. He is about forty
years old, and bears a striking resem
blance, it is claimed to the accepted por
traits of Columbus, *
