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TEE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WMS-
LET.
Bence little Wesley went the place seems
.
strange and still—
XT'-,- rran , P-” I’d
’ ' P ft as miss
tv , 0 thinkTust ,• .,,,
And to I istto to scold SC bl h- him , fer his ever-
ustin noise,
When I on’y rickollect him as the best o' little
trompin h , d _
m,
And all the noise he ever made was twic’t as
loud ag’in!—
It Vd seem like some so't music played on
some fine instrument,
’Longside o’ this loud lonesomeness.eenee little
Wesley went.
Of course the clock don’t tick no louder than it
ust to do—
Yit now they’s rime it "pcarB like it’u’d bu'st
itself in two!
And, let a rooster suddent like ’ crow ;nm Vr«
clos’t around
And seem W mighty nigh it, it Vd lift me
'
off the ground' .ti’itw.
And Mini- with ‘ catle when they bawl
‘
aro mu ... the bars,
a'.VlLr/" 0 "'"' 0 '' dMk
When the neighbor*’ ” bov* * ’*t passes,never n... stop,
nut jest go on,
A-whistlin’ kind o’ to theirse’v’s—sence
Wesley's gone!
And then, o’ nights when Mother’s sittin’ up
oncommon late,
A-bilin’ pears er some pin, and I Bet and smoke
and wait,
Tel tho moon out through tho winder don’t
look lugger ’n a dime,
And things keep gittin’ stiller—stiller—stiller
all the time—
I’ve ketched myso’f a-wishin’ like—as I dumb
on the cheer
To wind the clock, ns I hev done for moro ’n
fifty year’—
A-wishin’ ’at the time hed come fer US to go to
bed,
With our last prayers, and our last tears sence
little Wesley’s dead!—
James Whitcomb Riley.
TOM MIDDLETON’S WIFE.
Br FLOKA HAINES LOL’GIIEAD.
iXfrt] JJT . was A one MITCHELL of those
jjPH lbi!'ilijl' jrv';' Sj , unfortunate men plus whose sur- wo-
1 physical en-
MU mf» qY ergieg distinguish
*•, them from others
of their sex. Asa
child, she was
r - — c-T known as a “tom-
-^T boy, ’ and prim
mothers held her
U P at> an awful
warning to their little daughters, while
in her own home the question of how to
subdue her was wrestled over with true
maternal solicitude. When she grew
up society frowned upon her as a “hoy.
den,” and her way was beset with
thorns.
At eighteen sho could row, and swim,
and ride, aud play lawn-tennis like a
boy. She tvas a great walker, and upon
one occasion had walked to Mt. Diablo
and back in two days, with her brother which
and a couple of friends, sufficed a feat
alone would have to place
under a ban in San Francisco’s best so-
eicty. That sho sang like a bird, danced
like a sylph, pure-minded and was, altogether, a very
amiable, girl, was a small
offset for the sum of exceedingly her iniquities, and
although she of was and irresponsible popular
among a set young
boys, conservative circles frowned upon
her, and it was generally understood
that she was a young person of most
radical and dangerous tendencies.
It was, therefore, a matter of polite
regret when the announcement of her
coming nuptials with one of this same
conservative circle was received. Tom
Middleton was a promising young law-
yer, of excellent family and irreproacU-
able manners. It bad ideal been generally
understood that Tom’s was of a
different type, and moro after the pat-
teru of the elegant society women with
whom he had been accustomed to
oiate. His intimate friend and boon
companion, Jack Spencer, who had al-
ways disapproved the mouthpiece of Kate, of undertook society, and to
pose echoed as its sentiments in Tom’s unwilling
ear. Tom stood stanchly by his oolors,
but his friend’s words Bank deep into his
soul, nevertheless. He secretly resolved
that, for his sako and her own, Kate
must bo “toned down.”
He succeeded even beyond marriage, his hopes. few
Nine years after her
would have recognized in the quiet, T&-
pressed woman, the gay and fond spirited
girl of former days. Kate was of
her husband, and the alchemy of love
had wrought the change; but it is a dan-
gerous thing to meddle with spiritual of
chemistry as well as the forces the
material world, and if Tom had known
what pent-up longings and rebellious in-
clinations raged beneath his wife’s quiet
exterior, success.' he" might have repented liis
But he went on callously and
hlindlv as men will when dealing with
delicate forces which they cannot under-
stand, and Kate kept his grievances to
L herself Two children came—the eld-
a cirl a fiery, little creature, who
made the mother’s heart ache, as she saw
in the child a reflex of herself; the
other HieSiiUlrengrew a bov deliberate, like his father.
When larger and need-
whiVhTheir ed room for exercise and out door air
city home would not afford,
thev took up their nS residence in a little
counrty home, so far away but that
Toni could travel back and forth daily
j attend to liis business, and it is
Fore tlift' our story finds them.
cmv December dav, Kate stood
At */: bet-window cazing out upon the land-
-r t had been before,’Tom a dull tiresome
week' *, Several davs h-uromised had
*vt . j,. i Q11 vacation,
, .od tn be dedicated to a hunt in
e c in enmitanv with a party
, ,- K , cKp ,'ti wfis thinking with envy,
t ii l - 1 f cf nn , fv and wondering,
c° nc ' \ L i +rT .1. n Ln A r and ‘i healthful for
‘ ,, l lAft pi.f n a nd DrODer
for women, How wow sue gj ie would > u have en-
joyed fcbe o g P
holding b D-un*011 her shoulder, and
Lifh'the and shoot
witn tne best of them ' She felt a wick-
©d sola^ as sue , luougut x. showers
thathad clouds that falien h m the e_ ^ey*nd 1* the
the mountains. , be'r'hedcr- dull
And and j : n<d
cross, boundariel bound
ed-m life, with its narrow es,
its senseless restraints.
There was a rnshot feet
house, the door of her room opened, an
the children burst m.
“Mamma, the creek is up! Take us
down to see it novelty »nd -
The childish longing for
excitement found au instant echo m her
heart. They had run in from oub r
bonneted and \°^ ,
play, and were c .»
with rubber overshoes to protectthei for her,
feet from the damp earth. As
5«J t £ SfJWSS
front door in her loose house-dress,
bare-headed, and with worsted slippers
on her feet. They followed a garden
far 11 101 * lllt e dl8t f nc f> and tllen en-
e rea } a narrow , Jane leading to place
. a
where they were accustomed to ford in
the summer time, but over which now
swept a seething tempestuous flood.
As they looked and listened, Kate re-
alized that this was no ordinary freshet,
but the product of a heavy rainfall over
tiny nvulets, and, joining issue with the
mountain stream, plunged down its
narrow ble channel, a mighty and irresisti-
power.
^ ater ^ven suddenly »» they looked rear up she above saw and a wall of
come
aown toward them like a miniature
tidal wave. -
The dam built by the new water com-
pa °y had * a y!
Diev rau back from the shore to
er dk ground, and not a moment too soon,
e Kt r eam rose severa ' f ee t in a second,
It cut into the solid banks on either
*3 ed V p ^ nd and bu8 8U ? \ ke<1 ps a m ?<*3™°* b y the trees, eed root-
rent, went by. f^ 7 cur-
wavered, spinning flung A giant syca-
more out its bare aud
■ j&b? rfefu-.; 7^__V —7"
~
P . ^
-V
fe&grf- “
!si hit
skeleton limbs as if in ghostly protest,
and * eP f ar ou t “ lto the stream, inter¬
locking its branches with a sturdy ever-
greeu oak which stood on the opposite
bank, while its trunk, loosely anchored
by long, snake-like roots, tossed help¬
lessly in midstream.
“Mamma! See the big boards com¬
ing !” cried out her little daughter.
Kate looked far up stream and saw a
great timber sailing leisurely along.
Now it caught on a projecting snag and
swung half about, now it struck on a
submerged island, and idly disengaged
itself and sauntered on. Behind it was
another, and yet another—the stream
was black with them.
«Oh, my God ! The railroad
bridge '1170 railroad 1” bridge,
and the afternoon
train now nearly due, soon to rush down
a steep grade to a leap into that yawning ‘to
chasm. Her first impulse was
up the canon, but sho instantly checked
herself. What folly, when miles of
overflow lay between her and the doom-
e d train ! Word must be sent down to
the station, and from there a telegram the
to the next stopping placo above
bridge. But how ? The hired man!
Ji m bad gone an hour before to the vil-
] age to get the mail and have his daily
Even gossip with the loungers of the place,
if he were here, neither horse nor
man was fleet enough to cover the cir-
ouitous road that lay between. Then
B b e looked at the prostrate sycamore.
Down the stream, leisurely, but nearer
aJu l nearer still, sailed the great timbers,
“Marian, take little brother and go
straight to the house and stay there till
mamma comes back.”
She had already pulled herself up by
one of the roots and was creeping
stealthily Here along dress the swaying trunk,
her caught on a branch;
there she had to climb down and crawl
along with her feet under the water to
avoid an upright limb. Once she slipped
a nd lost her hold, and was nearly sucked
into tho eddying current, but she caught
a t a again. stout projection and swung herself
up She
could hear the swash of the heavy
timbers up-stream as they rocked lazily
upon the water, but she did not dare to
look. Before her the main trunk of the
tree was lost and she saw two diverging
limbs, one low in the water, the other
locked with the oak in mid-air. W hich
to take? She dared not hesitate, but
began a slippery perilous climb along the upper
limb, and naked m places
wat ering so that she grew dizzy and
shut her eyes to keep from falling. And,
so, lying prone the upon entire it, hand over hand,
she crept length, and the
great stick of timber struck heavily
against the fallen herself sycamore, and just as
Kate swung into the branches of
the oak she felt her support give way,
and with a groan, and crash, and wild
up-tossings of its from skeleton arms, the old
tree tore loose its moorings, and
was swept down stream toward the bay.
Her hands torn and bleeding, Kate
Middleton reached solid ground at
length, and first her maternal instinct
asserted itself, and she looked back and
saw her children standing still and look-
ing after her. She pointed home with a
gesture that they and dared not disobey, and
saw them turn run up the lane,
then sped along her way.
She was not light of foot as in her
girlhood; whereas, she was once fleet as
a deer and swift motion was a very joy
to her, she now realized that she was
growing to be a stout and middle-aged
woman. She moved heavily and clum-
silv and labored for breath, and lier feet
were like c’ods beneath her. There was
a mile of rough and rocky ground to be
covered before she reached the station,
and the train—oh, but to possess once
more the agilitv of her girlhood !
Which would be first ? Would the
train, flying across the upper levels of
the Coast Range, reach the next station
before the brave woman liad sent her
message of warning ? question How many she could times
6he asked herself the
not have told. She scarcely dared hope
that she might be in time. Her heart
seemed ready to burst with grief for the
terrible misery threatening so many
happy homes. Alas! for the orphaned
children who might cry aloud to heaven
that night l Alas! for fathers and moth-
ere whom the morrow might behold
bowed down with sorrow! Alas ! for
husbands aud wives--
She was crossing the bed of one of the
abandoned channels of pathway the impetuous
mountain stream, a rock strewn
the Bpoils c f bv-gone freshets,
wbere 6 ven then, a shadow stream was
rippling past, token of the torrents sur-
plus force. She faltered smitten by a
new and awful thought. What if Tom
_Tom who was not to come for two
davs d*™ more; “°^ Tom A who had started out in
er differentdirection _ sllould
have cut short his excursion, or, with
liis nartv driven home by the continued
rains ra , somehow * wandered to one of the
and bo arded the train
1 was her vaunted physical all,
th f what was she after
but a weak, wre^e^w^an^vitn wrAtcbed woman with trem- trem
(li this • “...f gR«t horror horror_thot that had M taken When posses- po»
of her »fiereepamgnppmgat^
k fj... blinded
wmch ^ t t ier eves
prJdiearan ’Thank God! her
brain k P true to its purpose, ^
Sf ovTmtllhaKksf acrmnir body TJL On,
level
stretches of sand down new ravines she
ran. Once she cut her foot cruelly, upon
a sharp stone, and remembered, for the ]
first time,that she had on the light wors-
ted slippers carelessly she had worn in the house,
and had neglected to exchange
for walking-boots when she started down
to the creek with her children. She j
even house bethought herself that her loose
dress was scarcely the style of ap-
parel in which she should like to pre-
sent up a prayer of thankfulness for its
light weight,which scarcely encumbered
her movements.
With all the rest of her senses dulled,
her hearing appeared to liave become
preternatural lv sharp. She seemed to
hear the clatter of the approaching
train twelve miles away. The throb,
throb, throb of the engine kept pace
with her beating heart. She heard the |
hollow echoes from the neighboring
hills as the train crept over embank-
ments, trestle-work, its deafening its clamor dull rumble as it rushed it |
across as
rolled over solid ground. She even
seemed to hear the engineer as he laid
his hand on the escape-valve, ready to
give the iron monster voice as it neared
t he little mountain town, then the wild
of the .'scaping Bteam, the clangor
?• the bell, the putt, pull, puff, as the
train slackened speed, the clatter of the
brakes, the jangle of the couplings.
Would she never reach the little red
station-house, now JU plainly gra^Ie/roadf in sight at ;
the end of the !
bhe was passing the post-office, where
people idly gazed at her. What mat-
ter! If only there was a horse and
bugeyin only Bight to help heron her »»y!
It one of the loungers would un-
derstand and take up the mission which
ker ?P e nt 8t ^ e « gth seemed inadequate
to fulfil! , , But she might not turn aside,
On the depot platform more loungers,
Jim T™ nmnnn among (Imm them, vr.lUnry rolling a nnirl quid nf of to-
bacco in his cheek and talking earnestly
about the state of the weather and the
prospects of the growing crops. Tliey
all looked upon her as a mad woman, as
she ran past them. Jim muttered an
expletive under his breath, moved always by
the strong indignation that must
possess a self-respecting servant, something when
master or mistress does
derogatory to the dignity of his “fam-
“y*
The station-master was in his office,
talking ivith a gentleman who had come
down from the mountains, and was wait¬
ing to clad take the train to the and city. He
was in a hunting-suit, was talk-
ifif? with some excitement.
“It has rained all the week.” he was
saying; “you think it rains here in the
valley, but, great guns I you should be
up in the mountains in a rainstorm.
Sheets and sheets of it—blizzards of
sleet and hail, and the wind blowing like
a I hurricane. bee-line We down broke camp yesterday. The
took a here. rest
crossed the hills to the station above.
They’ll be down on the foqj’-o’clock.”
Voice and speaker were familiar to the
woman who stood in the doorway, both
hands pressed to her panting breast,
The words came only too distinctly to
her quickened sences. Then her pre¬
monitions were true, and Tom—Tom
was on that fated train. Again her body
reeled, but her steady brain saved her.
“Stop the train 1 The bridge is gone!”
she cried.
Both men looked up, startled at the
words. With the prompt movement of
a leaped man trained to obey orders, the agent
to his instrument; the other man,
slower to comprehend, came forward,
the look of amazement on his face, as he
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viewed the singular apparition in the
t | 001 . wa y giving place to amused indul-
as he rec0 gnized the speaker,
what au eccentric, impetuous girl Kate
Mitchell always ^ was, and what a life she
T Middipimi'
“This is quite an unexpected pleasure,
Mrs. Middleton.” he said smiling.
She waved him back with a single im¬
perious gesture. There was a brief si¬
lence. The operator listened intently,
with his head resting on his hand. Ivate
Middleton remained standing in tho
doorway, her hands clasped low, her
face blanched with dread, and all her
soul absorbed in listening. Jack Spen¬
cer, slowly comprehending his the meaning
of the scene, waited, interest grow¬
ing with every moment’s delay.
At last it came, the monotonous click,
click, conveying its portentous message
in a language unknown to two of the
three listeners. The operator arose from
his chair.
“Just in time. The train was pulling
out of the station, but they stopped
her.”
T . fi?st timeln , , her^life . ,, ,
£ nead a Jd gave „ ave way. ^ one She was was a-aiii again on on her the tne
sycamore, and the limb was
^lT felt thewaLr^o^her^facl tne water on ner lace amTopened and opened
bcr e J eB > b nd Jack Spencer support-
^ Her head and the station agent
pourmg ice cold water o er hei.
“Sbe’H be all right m a minute said
Jack, cheerfully. Now, Mrs. Middle-
ton, with your permission, 111 see you
nome -
She borrowed ,,,,,,, a hat and cloak from the ,,
station agent’s wife. Jim brought up
the horses. Jack Spencer handed her
into the wagon, wuth grave courtesy, and
they drove off. Some of the loungers,
dimly understanding what she had done,
looked on cunonsiy. That was all. No
fuss, no formal tributes, no speech-
making even from the two who under-
stood. There was no deputation of
strong men to tender her publio tribute,
in voices shaken by sobs. Contrary to
all tradition, and unlike any hero or he-
roiue who ever saved a train from wreck,
she was on the wrong side of the bridge
and the people most deeply concerned
were nine miles away.
She had little to say on the ride home-
ward, although Jack Spencer was atten-
tive and talkative, and tried, as hard as
a man could, to show his appreciation of
her brave deed. Perhaps she was em-
b arrassed in the consciousness of her
odd attire, and the curious looks cast
upon her as she rode through the vil-
lage. Perhaps she was secretly ashamed
of her mad race, and of the exceptional,
unwomanly physical prowess that had
made it possible, notwithstanding the
faet that it had saved many lives. She
did not even invite Jack to come in
^ ^ cached her own door,
descended from the wagon with great
jjS*iS and only 4rne.Uy: rda!;ed „ Utt l e »heo
dj «iy
“I shall never underrate the value of
physical training for women again, Mrs.
Middleton. little Someday daughter under I shall beg to
put my your tute-
Which was a great concession for
Jack, whose little daughter was the
apple of his eye, and whom he had
hitherto only looked forward to making
an accomplished woman, of elegant
manners.
Neither honor nor praise awaited Kato
i n her own home. Bndget scolded her
an d put her to bed, and declared that
8 he “wud surely catch Well her death a-cold
an’she deserved it ” and tried to
children, Harrv stubbornly oil resented
her base desertion of them the bank
of the racing stream and Marian with
her mother’s spirit of adventure strong
upon her, terrified the household bv a-
vowing her intention of going across
the water on a tree the first timo she
CO uld escape parental authority. I
The mother had her reward, neverthe- }
jess. Late that night, when the children
we re asleep and Bridget had relaxed
guard, Kate escaped from bed, and don- !
ning a wrapper ami shawl laid herself
down mxm the lonnce before the open
fire, to enjoy scanning the daily paper.
The rain fell steadily without, so steadi- j
] v that the sound of a horse’s hoofs
coming up the sodden driveway was;
rfttSSjT scarcely distinguishable from the patter
Kato an-i j
she heard a step Qmtside the door;
other moment, and Tom was before her,
lookin« ializecf very solemn ’ like a newly mater- 1
“ |
ghost.
«*Tom r* rIia cried dmrnlv and then '
ah
before him but the horror of the after-
/not which nfmin descended nL nnon lier ;
nTU tb i nf l.ev bet-
ha a nd, ; might b have been one of’ that
griz!jr j dying tu ong phantoms o( maDgleJ of the , cmghed, might-have- dea.l,
an(
been,‘ever ’ torturing her mental vision,
ci,,. r n CCO ,i J h 0 :j c tl?e nT nr tLbt lmr 7 na
’
it they miglit h bar out r t the sight,
„ 01 u ou | hfc not; you never should
(lo BUch ’
a tbin » &llQ
After all, she had nerves, and they
h d b aor elv I tried that day ^avelv
do 5 mean V’ de-
Meeting n l d Tom afSr This he^ was indeed a ‘sorry
sfonuTn’t all have had been come through homeTn
this unexpec ted way; you should let
pe0 * «& ple know when you are coming.”
ate ,” said Tom solemnly, seating
himself on tbe sofa and drawing her
down beside him, “you will speak dif¬
ferently when you know how near I
came to not coming home at all; I have
traveled twelve miles on horseback over
a night. rough mountain road to get here to¬
We were just starting out of
Prescita when we were notified that the
bridge miles three miles below 1 there—six
above here, Kate—had been car¬
ried aw r ay.”
“How did you find out?” Kate was
herself again. There was a little tw inkle
in her eye, but her lip trembled.
“As to that,” replied Tom, “reports
are somewhat vague. But all accounts
agree it was a woman. And she did
wonderful things. The bridge-tender’s
wife, I believe. Floated down stream
on all a timber, somebody said. Started,
there dripping, for the station, and got
in an unconsiderably short time.
Not a minute to spare. If it hadn’t
been for her!—oh, it was a wonderful
feat, everybody says.”
Kate, “But in how—very—unladylike!” shocked stooping said
a voice, to
jhek up something from the floor.
“I “Unladylike!” cried Tom, excitedly,
tell you, Kate, that was something
worth while. Very different from your
lawn-tennis practice. When a woman
puts her strength to such a use—and
such a strain as it must have been, by
Jove! Why, Kate, I doubt if you could
so much as w T alk to town and back. But
when a woman saves two or three hun¬
dred lives at one stroke-! My good¬
ness, Kate! What have you been doing
to your foot?”
For Mrs. Middleton had unconscious¬
ly pushed the wounded foot into sight,
and its load of bandages, piled up by
Bridget’s with clumsy fingers, and finished
a red flannel swathing, was indeed
calculated to strike terror to the be¬
holder.
“I—I took a little walk to-day,”
replied Kate, guiltily, trying to
hide the loot again beneath the hem of
lier dress. “But don’t let us talk about
that, Tom. I’m sorry I seemed queer
and cold when you came in. I wasn’t
made feeling well, and you—you looked so. It
me shiver.”
Like many people who are dauntless
in the presence of real danger, Kate had
all her life been shy of praise. If she
could have kept the knowledge of her
escapade, from husband, as she mentally would termed it.
her she gladly
have done it. But, stupid as he was in
some ways, obtuse as he was, he was not
to be put off in this way. He was already
on his knees beside her, cutting threads,
removing pins and undoing cloths, in
spite of her protests, until he disclosed
a little foot, purple w ith bruises, and
with an ugly, gaping cut in one side.
“No wonder you are not yourself to-
uiglit. A‘little walk!’ I should say so.
Kate, what have you been up to now!”
“I had on my slippers,” confessed the
culprit, change “and—there wasn’t time to
them. Let it alone, Tom. It’ll
be all right to-morrow.”
“A little walk!” persisted Tom.
“Great Caesar, Kate, you are not to be
trusted alone any more than a two-year-
old babe, I’ll never dare to go off and
leave you again.”
“If I hadn’t taken my little walk you
—you—you chance!” mightn’t have had the
cried poor Kate, cornered at
last.
“My ^ soul!” cried Tom, a light ° dawn-
cg him at last <<It wft JOU
j think he kissed the little, lame,
bruised feet. I am afraid lie did a great
many foolish things and humbled him-
self most lamentably to show his love for
bis brave young wife, his pride in her,
and his contrition.
There was a purse made up by the
passengers on the overland train that
fateful day, to reward the plucky woman
who had saved them from such a fright-
ful disaster, but they were never able to
find her out. Tho station master and
Jack Spencer kept their secret well. The
onlv subscription that ever reached its
destination was Tom Middleton’s. His
wife sometimes wears a very ugly brace-
] e t set with*a couple of very large and
ponderous gold coins. When people
question her about it she replies that ifc
i s a medal Tom once awarded her for a
race she won. It is generally under-
stood that she refers to some rowing
match or horseback ride, for there are
boats on the pond now, saddle-horses in
Tom’s stable, ^veu and a tennis court on the
W But as she answers Kate
sees again the railroad train, with its
precious living freight, thundering on
to destruction, and a woman, bare-head-
e< j, wild-eyed, with draggled dress and
bleeding feet, racing desperately across
a rough country in a mad effort to avert
the impending danger .—The Argonaut,
---
Don’t think just because a girl per-
! sistenUy ssys -So" to tliit yon that she has
made up her mind J.e trill never
marry. The chances are that there ia
another fellow who comes to see her
Thursday nights, and who never heard
her say “No” in all his blissful and glad
c~cr._scmcrv.tic Jemal.
FROM PRISON TO HIS HOME.
_ Sequel To Baltimore . Sensation , of
a
Four Years Ago.
Four years ago Gilbert W. Haz-
pltine > 8on of Br. GL B. Ha zeltme
°* Jamestown, N. Y., killed Mamie
Thorpe and wounded May White in a
Hls father well known, and sx. of
is is one
the oldest men in Jamestown. But the
young man was wild and ungovernable, j
He got into frequent scrapes and brought
a & r ? at deaI of sorrow upon his people, j
fn the summer of 1884 he and a compan-
1Q n met the two young women in Canada,
The four went to Baltimore. Hazeltine 1
indulged in a prolonged spree. He en-
deavored to get from the women their !
jewelry. There was a quarrel, and it
ended m a tragedy that became one of the
sensations of the city. The trial that
followed was full of intense interest,
Eazdtine’s Vvn* T?* 8 t°°h T?!
throughout. From the first she has left
liberty. nothing undone to secure Ins life and
Brilliant counsel saved his
neck and g°t the term of imprisonment P
»J;oed to five 31is.irazeUme year,. has been
constantly at work to get lnm pardoned,
g° fc recommendations from 10 mem-
bers of the jury, from the State's Attor-
ne Y* from tb e Judge, and she even
<* 0 ”- ™ •* i
^ ew lork - Recess came. Gov. Jack- ;
6011 g a ' - e her the pardon at Annapolis, !
sbe came by the first train to Balti- !
™ “"wa ““X ygeet h'‘'““J'" mg. nrll toko
placedunder m 1° Jamestown, where he will be j
, thecare of a specialist in,
brain diseases. 1 he only protest against ! 1
the P a rdon was from the father of Mamie
rphnme ^orpe, the the Tnnrdered murdered gnl. m’vl He Tfe is i« a a
reputable sailor, living on Long Island,
and hia ™ fe thought that their
daughter was a dressmaker in Canada,
a “d the shock that resulted when he
cam e to Baltimore just after tho murder
a nd found ivliat sort of life she had been
^ing unsettled his mind,
A Narrow Escape.
A story ia going the rounds of the
newspapers that an assassin shot through
the window of the house of Senator John
P. Jones with the intention of killing
President Arthur. This was in the early
fall of 1881, while tho President was
temporarily awaiting living cleaning with Senator Jones,
the and repairing of
the White House. The story is true,
and was known to several of tho corres¬
pondents at tho time, who kept the
secret because it was feared the publica¬
tion would incite other assassins. When
President Arthur went to Washington,
immediately took his life in after his Garfield’s death he
hand, and knew it,
but he never exhibited any sign of fear.
His great anxiety was to got tho Senate
together so that a President pro tem.
might be elected and the succession as
sured. Ho was in great mental distress
over the cruel imputation that he, to¬
gether with the Stalwarts, had encour¬
aged he the assassination. A day or two
after arrived he was urged to take a
ride for exercise, and a close covered
cab, with a detective seated by the
driver, was called. The President dis¬
missed the detective. His friends ex¬
would postulated, but in he declared that he
such not go public and suggest that
a thing as assassination was possi¬
ble. “Besides,” said be, “if it is the
purpose of any man to kill me he will
accomplish it in spite of all guards and
protection. ” And then he added, with
most pathetic utterance: “In my present
state of mind it sometimes seems to me
as though I did not care whether I am
killed or not.” Aside, however, from
this shooting, it is not known that there
was and ever detectives anything who, that unbeknown caused the police
to him,
were on the watch, to entertain the
slightest suspicion.
Ministering to a Mind Diseased.
Barth, A correspondent says:—Miss Dorothy
of Athens, Ohio, has for several
years been superintendent of one of the
departments in the .insane asylum at
Athens and is a member of a family of
consider tble prominence. Among the
inmates during the past year was Osmar
Parrish, a printer and newspaper
well known in the neighborhood and at
Marietta. Ohio, where he has worked.
In her work of superintendence Miss
Barth came often in contact with Parrish,
who at first was violently J insane, F, but
rapidly .... improved. . During his , . confine-
ment a mutual affection sprang up be-
tween these two, but was not generally
noticed, fi 1.1 l Fftirittii arnsu stemea flhp/tvQ always fn to }m 00
easily quieted when she approached him;
in the presence of others he would often
have violent spells. About three months
ago Parrish was discharged a well man.
On Tuesday evening lie returned to
Athens, and, having made all arrange¬
ments, went to the asylum, and, finding
Miss Barth, the two repaired to the
offiqe of a justice and were married. The
parents of the lady, though living but a
few rods from the scene of the marriage
ceremony, knew nothing of it. The
justice was pledged to secrecy and Mr.
and Mrs. Parrish went away, she return¬
ing to the asylum and he going to his
home. The marriage has just now be¬
come public, and- the young lady’s pa¬
rents are said to be very angry.
Mrs. Parrish admits that she fell in
love with her husband before he was
cured of his insanity, and used extra ef¬
forts to bring about his complete mental
restoration. She will still continue in
her present situation, which is quite
lucrative.
Should Carry Chalk With Them.
He wore a white waistcoat ana a white ...
four-in-hand tie and he was standing on
the front platform of a Broadway car
smoking a cigarette. The street
muddy. and Presently immaculate his gleaming
coat his tie were orna-
mented with splotches of mud. He look-
ed annoyed and angry. He said
thmg which Col. Sheppard would never
print. He drew a cambric handkerchief
fr* 0 ™ bis pocket and tried to wipe the
mud off. He only succeeded m rubbing
111 . He looked more worried
ever.
By his side was a flashily-dressed
.... big .
young “Kinder man smoaing muddy!” a cigar,
said the flashy
young man in an off-hand tone,
“I es,” said he of the white waistcoat,
as he rubbed at the muddy spots. “And
I d °n t know what I shall do. I m going
to make a call, and I live too far away to
go home and change my clothes/’
The flashy young man puffed his
cigar in silence for a moment. Then he
thrust his hand in aside pocket of his
coat and fished out a cube of billiard
chalk.
He “Try this," he said,
of the white waistcoat took the
chalk and carefully rubbed it over the
spots. In a few minutes they had all
disappeared and his waistcoat and neck-
U. w«. pnrciy fHh-ta.
A COMMON-SENSE LETTER.
To tht Editor • I see that npwsmror
c i K * re again making their appearance calling
attention to matters vertainmg to health as
well as to the means whereby disease maybe ¥
in^ ! ,ont d rt? fr,§^ d t f lt 1 pre8Cn ed am
!Letotime, '
1 pmphSt *n pafccafi^iSi^ T n , ,
tha w*ll-known firm of H. II. Warm r a Co.'
which dwell upon the history and growth or
kidney diseasts ; showing how such is the cause
neys. SSSSs At the time is taken
same care to remind
the reader that Wannr’s Safe Cure is the only
means when by the physician or the individual
prevent aud cure this class of
Whii ; t T have caupe to feel t f d
to Warntrs ^afe Cure, lor the benefit wbch 1
derived from it when suffering ficm kidney
troubles last Spring, I cannot see, since that
\\ f P "S reS'li ^eSd in “
n to
i n calling attention to. what the public
Editor, already knows so well. I am aware. Mr.
that the members o: the medical
profession aro seldom disposed to give due
Meni ?s P ®1“4“reu S shffin t W
learned gentlemen since the startling disclosures
in the Robinson p nsoaiug cases were made in
Somerville, Mass,
Here was discovered through the efloris of
of the them other in that one of Lnily, relative—wherein and wi- bin live years mol
a the true
cause of death had not been even suspected by
prominent physicians who were in attendance,
out who treated the cases for other causes, an 1
meningit s. etc.
Af er such an evidt nee of the utter incompe-
tenev of those physicians who were regarded as
“FyTrtl’K oi“„7io^be^d.« “o *l7oi f““lrth« \v«„r"stfo conceive ad-
te i,
be Cure, since 1 deem the Somerville disclosure to
the best possible endorsement of the good
sense manifested by those who take matters of
winch in *?«• own lias hands shown and be use fullv a adapted remedy
for tbe experience £ to of*
p rpose9 intende d, instead trusting
thorns,I wh in experimental hands,
Experience.
Control the Market.
The New England mills have practi¬
cally surrendered the manufacture of low
grade goods to the Southern mills, and
now devote themselves exclusively to
finer aud more profitable work. The
Southern mills have fairly captured the
“brown goods” market, and as they are
crowding each other in that market some
of them should enter upon the manufac¬
ture of higher grades of goods, and so
make profitable business for themselves
and room for the new r mills at the same
time. Enterprise is better than “combi¬
nation,” both for our mills and the peo¬
ple who support them. Having entered
the field of cotton manufacture, the
South should not rest or halt until it
dominates every part of it. There is
room and opportunity on the higher lev¬
els, and the next step must be forward
and upward; not backward. It will he
a great event for the Cotton States when
a Southern cotton factory sends its first
bale of calico to market.— Charleston, S.
C. Neus-Courier.
Place for Americans.
Edmund W. P. Smith, for eight years
United States consul at Carthagena, Re¬
public of Colombia, but for the past two
years engaged lie in business there, is home
again, says that there is a great Ibid
for American enterprise in the Republic
of Colombia. Electric lights, water
works, railroads and ice machines are
particularly wanted. The government Concessions
is disposed to be liberal.
will be given to bona fide capitalists for
twenty-five years, and in the case of the
water works the government will guar¬
antee 7 per cent, on the capital invested
for twenty-five years. Most of the trade
of the country is controlled by the Ger¬
mans and English/whose representatives
are met everywhere, while a traveler for
an American firm is rarely met with.
There are hints from Berlin and Lon¬
don that there is a sort of understanding
between Prince Bismarck and Lord Sal¬
isbury on the Samoan question. It is
certain, however, that the people of
England, as well as of her Pacific colo¬
nies, are decidedly opposed to any alli¬
ance with Germany in this issue or on
a ^ lgsuc ’---------
tion, Why suffer of longer from dyspepsia, indiges-
want appetite, loss of strength, lack of
f£S’ a Mtto W to cure th^
diseases. They act like a charm on tho diges-
tive organs, » emoving all dyspeptic symptoms.
will not blacken the teeth or give headache.
Michigan -7—7-- papers are agitating for the
res-
, toration of capital punishment.
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T. O. Callahan. Charlotte, N. C., writes : “B.
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1,500 drinking place* closed in Boston.Mass.,
under the high-license system.
Catarrh Cared.
A clergyman, loathsome after years Catarrh, of suffering and from
that disease. vainly
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prescription him from death. Any sufferer from cured thisdread- saved
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Dnugerous Trifling.
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possible, Hamburg Figs specific for these affections. to delay.
aro a
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the Nothing pain so completely robs confinement of
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