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9Hu Office, WAREHOUSE STREET, ,Om Door north of Cotton Warehouse. Official Journal of Folk and Haralson Counties. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 per square for first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The space of one inch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run far a longer period than one month. D. B. FREEMAN, Publisher. LABORING FOR THE COMMON WEAL. OLD SERIES—YOL. X- NO. 25. CEDARTOWN, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1883. TERMS: $1 50 Per Annum, in Advance. NEW SERIES—VOL. Y-NO.32. “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 Job Printing. THE AOVEirnSEil JOB OFFICE IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press and Mew Material, EMBRACING Type, Border. Ornaments, &e^ tS*designs, and all orders for Job \V ork will be executed neatly I cheaply and promptly. Blah-Priced 1 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 ?” * rr 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, *