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IN CODRT! The Will of Myjs Maty Harden Goes to the Test. carrying with it the ORIGINAL “HOME SWEET SWEET HOME.” an interesting CASE- THERE MAY be some wild SENSATIONS IN THIS CASE. Mr w h. Harden and Others Intere9t- ,)d in Breaking the Will of Miss Mary Harden Who was John Howard Payne’s Sou thern Sweet Heart. A N OTABLE WILL CASE. to this third and last will. LAWYER MCCALL TALKS. ’ Mr * McCall, the lawyer who came from Amerieus to investigate the legal ity of the third and last will has been m Athens several daye. * He has been to the court house and looked at the records. He has talked with members of the family.' He was seen last night by a Banner ri porter, and the following conversa tion occurred: “What about your effect to break Mias Harden’s will !>» asked the repor ter. Ad effort is being made to break th Kijlof Miss Mary Harden, who former ly lived in Athens. The attack on the will is made 'by the relatives of Miss Harden who live iu Amerieus, Georgia. There is an interesting story attach ed to this m atter that might as well be told now as at some future time, as it seems certain to come out soon or late. Mr. McCall, a lawyer from Amerieus 1 is in the city now investigating the will, its records in the ordinary’s office and gettinj; up the data upon which to open Sre in the courts against the will. It must now be told that this is no the Unit evidence of dissatisfaction on ihepaitof the Hardens of Amerieus us to this will of Miss Harden. The will ba- always been a source of contention among certain members of the family, though the matter never before assum cd the shape of a legal investigation as is now being made. MISS HARDEN’S PROPERTY. Nobody knows but the chanoes are that the chief possession of Miss Mary Harden at the time of her death in point ol value was an original copy of “Home Sweet Home” written by John Howard hyne himself, and sent to Miss Har- | u;n in the (lays of her youth, when they were sweethearts. This simple | li .tle scrap of paper was worth much, by reason of the fact that it was the | oily known copy of “Home Bweet Bioie” in the original bandwriting of tie immortal author. Besides this, Miss Harden owned a I very valuable bouse and lot valued at about $15,000. She owned some rail- wil stuck, too, and the estate was no still one. “1 am not prepared yet to talk. I ht.ve nothing to say.” In whose favor do you desire break the will?” “In behalf of Mr. W. H. Harden, of Americas, and, well others.” ‘Who is W. H. Harden ?” ‘A son of Judge Edward R. Harden who was a brother to Miss Mary Har den.” “What ig your claim?” “I have made no claim yet. I may Utick the will of Miss Harden upon t wo weak points.” “Has it not been probated in solemn r oraa?” “No. If it had been probated in olemn form tbat would have settled he whole thing. It has been probated •n common form.” “What does tbat mean”? “It means that the will was probated without due and proper notice to those who were interested in It.” “ When will your case come up be fore the court of ordinary ?” ‘M don’t know.” THE GREAT QUESTION. Now, the question is, has the origin- tl copy of Home Sweet Home come to ight and has its quiet discovery led to ibis step?* Wbat will turn up? Somebody says if this case is pushed, «>m(t very sensational developments. HER FIRST WILL. Many years ago, Miss ;Harden made |m & will, in which she bequeathed al lber earthly possessions to the Episco- ||(' church of Athens. This will was lei irst. Some say the will has never Itan destroyed, others say it would be |*l ao value if it were not destroyed ►■* there are two wills made later in I hr life. AS TO TUB SECOND WILL. i witness to the second will |*h'ch Miss Harden made |*f* it gave all her possessions to |h. Frank Harden, of Amerieus. The witness states further that Mr. ink Harden was the only one of the uden family mentioned in the will. | It seems tbat be died, before Mis* toden died, and so the will could not served its purpose, if it had only i intended by its author to give her »!>erty. co the one person and not to i heirs. TUB THIRD WILL. [The witness declares that the same Mr. Frank Harden died, Miss Mary ,Ue *‘ decided to change the will and out one in her ' handwriting and carried it to Mrs. * Jackson, saying she loved her and 'daughter Miss Jackson (cousins of 1 Harden) more than any of her !ll K kindred and wanted to will her *l»erty to them. 18 quoted as saying she would not . happy that night unless the will “sh she had already written herself N signed and properly attested. I itnesses were called-in and this was where were the other two miss hardkn’s llh'erybody in Athens remembers the . ' ent * ° f Harden's death. L.? rcport was put out tbat the had the MILLIONAIRE RUSSELL SAGE Will Probably Bo Hal* tho Defendant la a Novel Law Salt. New York, Dec. 26—Unless a com promise is effected Russell Sage will probably he made defendant in one of the most novel and interesting suits ever brought in a court of law. Ths preliminary steps have been taken to bring an action against the multi-mil lionaire put and call broker tor heavy damages for having used broker’s clerk W. R. Laidlaw as a shield to save him self vrhen Norcross, the dynamiter, ex ploded his bomb in Sage’s office at 71 Broadway on the afternoon of Friday, Deo. 4. It is understood that the amount of damages to be claimed ha* been placed at $100,000. The suit will he based upon the atte- gatioi. that the miUionaire deliberately held the broker's clerk between himself and the menacing dynamiter with the result that Mr. Sage’s life was saved at the expense of horrible injuries to Mr. Laidls.w. It will be further alleged, it is understood, that Mr. Sage was folly aware of the great peril in which he stood and tbat ho held Mr. Laidlaw in front of him and he realized that he was jeopardizing the young elerk’s life, and that he utilized him as a shield with tie knowledge that in doing so he was deliberately imperiling Mr. Laid- law’a life to save his own. Since the day of the terrible explosion Mr. Laid law has been an inmate of St. Vincent’s L spitiil on West Twelfth street. The originals of the certificates of cures effected by the use of Ayer’s Sar sap iril a are kcot on file at the office of t ie J. *3. Ayer Company, Lowell. Mass. Probably no similar establishment in ■ he world can exhibit such a mass of valuable and convincing testimony. ’ A Million Dollar Fire. Chattanooga, Dec. 28.—A fire start ed at 12:30 o’clock in the Loveman block, the largest dry goods house in the south. The indications are that the whole block will burn, entailing a loss of $1,000,000. A large number of girls were oi; the third floor, ia the dress making department. Several jumped to the pavement below, while many are supposed to be burned up. Will Prevent the Fight. New York, Dec. 26.—Superintendent Murray this morning announced that the polite will not allow the Mitchell- Corbett boxing contest to take place. It had teen announced that the contest wonld ;ako place February 11, at the Madison Square Garden. Walt Whitman’s Condition. CiMffiffl, N. J., Dec. 36.—Walt Whit- max’s condition is not such as to give his attendants any substantial hope of his recovery. He rallied slightly and partook of milk toast and orange juice. CITIZENS TALK FROM RUSSIA. Typhus Fever Killing Russian Prison ers. ABOUT THE AUGUSTA & CHATTA NOOGA ROAD. VAST BENEFIT TO ATHENS Will Accrue when It Is Built—A Com peting Line to the West and a De veloper of a Great Section. The news concerning the purchase of the charter of the Augusts and Chat tanooga railroad by the Seaboard Air Line was discussed widely yesterday. And so favorable were the opinions expressed by different citizens that cyen the wire edge of hard times was worn off by the rosy outlook for better days. Everyone agreed that it was decided ly a stroke of good luck for Athens,and tbat such a movement would move the upbuilding of northeast Georgia to a marvelous extent. A Banner reporter was talking to a prominent coal dealer yesterday and he remarked that it was a great thing if it could bo accomplished. Said he: “We are now paying terribly high freight rates on coat and if the Augus ta and Chattanooga is completed, it simply means that we will get just as good rates as Atlanta on coal. It will put us in direct connection with Chat tanooga and from there to the mines of the Glen Mary and other vaiieties of coal. In this one matter alone, the bnilding cf the road will do Athens an incalculable amount of good.” A representative grocer was tieen and he spoke in the same cheerful manner, saying that, it meant a big reduction in freight on goods Handled by the groce ry merchants of the city and of conrse anything that reduced the freight ena bled them to l&y it down to the people of Athens at lower figures. A gentleman was seen who has a great deal of property in Athens and who watches carefully after every in terest of the city. He said: The building of the Augusta & Chattanooga is an event I no longer consider doubt ful. The’mystery to me is how in the world it has so long been delayed. The road will run through one of the rich est sections of the State, and the people residiug in that section can’t afiord to do without it. It will cross the Marietta & North Georgia at Tate, and will thus strixe the very centre of the marble fields. In addition to this it will give such splendid opportunities for the de velopment of such a rich mineral sec tion. But the beat thing of all is tbat it will be a competing line that will put every commodity in Athens at a cheaper price.” Will it be built? There hardly seeins a doub; o! it. And when? As soon as practicable for tho Seaboard Air Line to make a move in the matter. Sad Deaih.—On Sunday morning at 9% o’clock, Miss Ida Clarke, a young woman Imng at Princeton Factory passed away. She bad been sick only a lew days from a severe attack of Pneu monia. She was a member of the Meth odist Church and was much beloved by a large circle of friends. The funeral took place yesterday, Rev. C. A. Cona way conducting the services in a very impressive manner. St. Peiebsbubq, Dec, 28.—The prison at Samai-a, built for two hundred in mates, it now crowded with thousands of unfortunates, among whom typhus and typhoid fever is rife. The doctors whose dnty it is to attend the sick prisoners, are in despair, and have not visited their charges in a month. The rapid increase of the num ber of deaths is doe to famine, which * Sweet Homf 1 should ^^uried be “ reported^ to the authorities 1 her. This, however, it is said,was l ' ° ne > *nd members«of the family L Her on her death-bed say I* 'e not make any such request. • 18 generally believed that tho ori- u c °py of Home Sweet Homo was ^•ed with Miss Harden’s remains, ‘Hii v , ) Cert * ln l hat the copy myster 'disappeared, never to be seen ? the heirs oi her estate. ll6r death about three or four I 1 *®. Mrs. Asa Jackson and Mht . J property. L * w ®oruhs age, Mrs Mias Jackson l, ttleheir to the here. The government is dispatching troops to the dintricts where a riot is likely to break out. Government officials now refuse to grant permission for the pri vate distribution of food or tho opening of soup kitchens. All relief must be given through the officials ii> the name of the czar, Moscow is threatened with an epi- , 1irB As „ To „ too „ „„, w-- . demic of smallpox. Twenty new cases Han h. ^sa Jackson and Miss rted there daily. The scnools V* S POS8eS8 ' 0n ° f M,S6 of Ue city are closed for the holidays a week earlier on account of the smallpox Jackson aH the scholars hare been Is now . ’ .. . , vaccinated property according MAHER TO FIGHT DEMPSEY. A FacllUtM Aiuaaetnnt •* Croat In terest te Srwtlif ClMin. New York, Dee. 26. —SIavia, Corbett and Mitchell have had the pngiliitw field, all to themselves apparently for the past few days, and Wm. Madden has had very little to say abont his man Maher. Whqn some one asked Billy Edwards what had become of the Irish champion’s manager since Corbett and Mitchell were matched, the guardian of the Hoffman house art treasures replied with a significant wink: "Yon let Mad den alone. Itfs ten to one he’ll spring something pretty soon." And Madden did “spring” something in the shape of an announcement that Peter Maher and Jack Dempsey would box four rounds at Madison Square Gar den January 14 The conditions of the affair are that there shall he ne referee and no seconds. It ie to he a scientific boxing exhibition, pnre and simple, and the net receipts will be equally divided between the boxers. The reports of Dempsey’s iB-Sealth have been exaggerated, according te bis own statement. He said: "Ite-is quite trne tbat I was ill after my arri val from the Pacific coast, but I am all right now and have been for two weeks. The reports tbat I hare eenenasptiea are, according to the statements of a number of physicians, utterly withemt foundation. I am beginning te get used to this sort of thing, however. Jnst before I fought Billy McCarthy in San Francisco, aa enterprising news paper man visited my training head quarters, and the next day sent out long yarns all over the country to the iress to the effect that I wae on my leath-bed. Telegrams inquiring abont my health came pouring in from all parts of the country. For the next week the newspapers came out with lengthy, I must say. very lengthy ar ticles, and, although I was only slightly ill, they made me out dead to the world. Whoa I met McCarthy I was well and strong, and I am ia as good health to day as I bewe beeu in years. I ua giv ing away watuM lu Bus «s*a,fc* beeuee, sure, bat I do net belieue that Fetor Maher or any ether brine man eeu eut- point me in four rounds. * * Tuthill thinks as Dempsey does, and will wager some money en hie opinion. The ex-middle weight champion and his old trainer, Tom Maher, ef Williams burg, will begin training tomorrow on Long Island. Tuthill thinks Jack will weigh abont 162 pounds on the night of the exhibition. The Irish champion is in Philadelphia, spending the holidays with friends, hut Madden will cut short his visit and send him to the country. After three weeks’ training he will probably tip the beam at 170 pounds. FROM THE CAPITAL. THERE ARE SOME HANDSOME MEN IN THE LOWER HOUSE. Gig General Cnrtl*. of New York, and Hlit Big Beard—Little Ben Cable, of Illinois, and His- Mustache—John Al len, the Humorist. ISpsrl&l Correspondeaee.] Washington, Dec. 34.—There are some fine looking men In-the new house of representatives. This is distinctively a smooth faced house of commons. Jnst after the elections of a year ago some one discovered that in nearly every case in which a beardless man had been pitted against one with a beard on his face the former had won. At the time this statement was generally regarded as a^ joke, or as a conclusion drawn from two* or three instances, which in no wise established a rule. Bnt when we come to look over the faces of the men sent to What is it makes George Edmonds so cool and placid, and how does he do sneb deep thinking? It is because he never allows himself to be barrassed with colds. He trikes Dr. Bull’s Cough Svrnp, he does.^ Sold everywhere for 25 cents. Dealer= say they can’t sell any other liniment since the introduction of Sal vation Oil. THE LONQ AND THE SHORT OF IT. the cyclone congress it is plain to see that in the famous congressional fight of 1890 the smooth faced men had the luck and the other fellows the hoodoos. Jnst how many smooth faced men there are in the house 1 cannot say, bnt It ia certain that not since the war has there been such a large number of them as there is today. Among them are some remarkably fine looking men too. Faces sure to at tract attention In any gathering are those of young Bailey of Texas, Bryan of Nebraska, Tom Johnson of Ohio, Storer of Cincinnati, Miller (the Greek) from Wisconsin, Fellows of New York, •utt Wike at Hltnela. MsGaan ef Chi cago and many others unadorned by hirsute appendages. It Is a noteworthy fact that, with a few exceptions, all the smooth faces are on the Democratic side of the hall, though both sides are Demo cratic nowadays, inasmuch as the ma jority members have spread themselves over a large section of the space devoted to the minority. By arrangement the Democrats took possession of one tier of seats on the Republican side of the hall, and this tier is commonly known as “the Cherokee Strip.” Some of the best men in the party sit in the strip, apart from the majority of their friends. It happens that the biggest man in the house. General Curtis, of New York, has one of the biggest beards. General Cnrtis is a giant who stands 6 feet 6. Inches in his stocking feet, and though comparatively slender weighs 250 pounds. Since taking his seat in the house General Cnrtis has been busy forming anew the acquaintance of men who knew him in the troublous days of (he war, and among those who have taken the big hero’s hand are many who fonght on Hie Confederate side. The fame of General Cnrtis as a fighter spread throughout the armies near the close of the war and has not yet keen forgotten. He was promoted four or five times for gallant services on the field, was wounded in the breast in an engagement in southwest Virginia and lost an eye in the charge at Fort Fisher. An odd sort of friendship has sprung up between Mr. Cable, of Illinois, and Gen eral Cnrtis. Why they should be drawn together is more than their friends can understand, for they appear to have nothing in common. One is the biggest man in the house and the other the smallest—“the long and the short of it” —one a Democrat and the other a Re publican, and while the giant was a hero in the civil war, the little man was not old enough to fight with anything more dreadful than lead soldiers. Cnrtis has a long, patriarchal beard, while Cable has one of the outest little mustaches yon ever saw. The young Illinoisan is so* slender and so boyish looking that he is sometimes called a dude, bnt as a matter of fact he is a manly man, an athlete, a great traveler, an adventurer who has known what it is to face dan ger. Out in Rock Island, where ho lives, he is known to every one as Ben Cable, and though a very rich man, being Hie son of the president of the Rock Island railway, many of his warmest friends and most intimate companions are poor yonng men whom he has known at school or in business. One story is told of Cable which is too good to suppress. When he decided to make the race for congress in a district which had previously given a large ma jority against his party, he went to an old politician and asked him his advice as to how to carry on a successful cam paign. The old politician gave him a number of valuable hints, and added: “Jnst one word more. Yon are popular to tola AistrM. Yen eaa make a good campaign. Bnt there is erne thing yen must do or be defeated. It is a simple thing, and yet 1 fear yon will not do it.” “What is that?” “Give up smoking ciga rettes till after election. Can you do it?” Young Mr. Cable was ailemt for some minutes. It was apparent that s strug gle was going ea in his mind between Hie allurements of a seat in congress and the joy of cigarette smoking. In the end ambition triumphed over habit, and for six weeks Mr. Cable was never seen in public with a cigarette between his lips. If he had continued smoking the people of that district would aot have sent him to congress, where he smokes as many cigarettes as hs likes. One man who went away from Wash ington a year ago without a beard and came back with one on his face is the famous funny man, John Allen, of Mis sissippi. Allen is without doubt the funniest man now in congress, unless a -•Wl be discovered new ngnt ui iue«u<a. among tnenew statesmen. Since Horr left tho house and Sam Cox died Allen has reigned supreme in the realm of con gressional humor, and he is now fun nier than he ever was before in his life. D anally wearing a simple mustache, he now appears in Washington with a black beard all over his face. With this beard he has had no end of sport. It disgnised him so tbat his best friends did not know him. Innumerable stories are told of the pranks and deceits Allen has played with the asiistance of this heard. He has approached his friends in the guise of a tramp and begged them for a quarter, never failing to abuse them in - - . round terms when his demands were not complied with. To Congressman Owens, of Ohio, who was one of Alien’* fast friends in thp last house, the waggish member from Mississippi was introduced as a new member. “So you are from Ohio?" drawled Allen. “Yes, sir.” “Well, 1 never did have much use for the men from that state anyway." Of conrse Owens fired up at this. “What do you mean, yon ratty little popinjay?” he ex claimed. And as Allen, with a straight face and a most provoking manner, piled np the abuse of Ohio and Ohio men, the amused spectators became somewhat alarmed for the joker's safety, and final ly found It necessary to reveal his identi ty to the irate member from the Back- eye State. Allen is in many respects one of the most remarkable men ever seen in the house. He is the only man i ever saw in public life who can carry on an argu ment on any question under, the sun simply by telling stories. No sitoaHon so desperate from a logical point of view that Allen cannot at once rescue it by telling a story in point; no Illustration so cloudy that he cannot summon to his aid aa anecdote and make all as clear as day. One of the best of his stories is of the last presidenHal election. Allen chanced to be in New York city as the returns were coming in. Abont midnight it became apparent that New York had gone for Harrison and that Cleveland was defeated. Gloom settled upon the little party of Demo crats who were aesembled in Mr. Brice’s office. In a few minutes young »Mr. Hearst came rushing in with a telegram from his father, the late Senator Hearst. This dispatch announced that California had gone for Cleveland without ques tion. At this everybody present bright ened up. Things were not so bad sifter all. Only Allen appeared glum and silent. “What do yon think of it, John?” some one asked. “Well,” replied the Missis- sippian, “it reminds me of Mrs. Kemper down in my town. Mr. Kemper had gone to running on a railroad train as a brakeman, and one day a dis patch came to the good lady frees up to# rest that her husband he! been caught ia a wreck and had had his neck, one leg and one am broken. Of course Mrs. Kem per was plunged into grief. But in about half aa hour another dis patch cams, and as shs was a bright, cheerful sort of woman, who always tried to make the best even of adversity, allen and his beard. she brushed away her tears and cracked np a smile as she read the message to her condoling friends and neighbors. •This is good news indeed,’ she said; ‘see, they have discovered tbat it was a mis take abont his arm being broken—his arm is not hurt at all.’ ” Speaking of fine looking men, Mr. Shively, of Indiana, whom 1 once before characterized in print as the handsomest man in congress, is with ns again, as handsome as ever. He is as modest and as witty too. When some one bantered him about the reputaHon he was getting as a handsome man. Shively retorted by telling the following story: Once upon a time Lanham, of Texas, had a competitor in his race for congress named Davenport In the conrse of Hie campaign Lanham arrived in the town in which his competitor resided and repaired to the hall in which he was to address the people. Davenport with the chivalry naHve to the Texan, volun teered to introduce Lanham to the audi ence. This offer being accepted, Daven port proceeded in a most serious and dignified manner to pronounce upon his competitor an encomium which, in the liberality of praise, fairly exhausted the garniture of eulogy. With a twinkle of mischief in his eye the speaker contin ued to ascribe to Lanham such a great number and variety of virtues and per fections that for a few minutes the vis itor did not know whether he was human or divine. The keener part of the as sembly were inclined to commiserate Lanham on the embarrassment of the situation, but when Davenport finally concluded and introduced the orator of the evening the latter folded his arms and said in tones deep, distinct and sol emn: “Fellow citizens, every word which my distinguished friend has told you concerning myself is the God Almighty’s truth." Walter Wellman. A homo factory in Traverse City, Mich., turns out 1,359 homes a day. On that scale it is an uncommon industry, hames being the pieces of wood used in the collars ef harnesses for draft horses. BETTER AND BETTER. “Better than granulesr, better than gold, Bettor than rank a thousand fold, Is a healthy body, a mind at ease, And simple pleasures that always please.” To get anq keep a healthy body, use Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, a remedy designed to not only cure all diseases of the throat, lungs and chest, but keep the body in a thoroughly betlthy condition. It eradicates all im purities from the blood, and overcomes Indigestion and Dyspepsia. Blotches, Pimples and eruptions disappear under its use, and yeur mind can be “atease” as to your b®aith. POETRY. Oh, mistress, whom the bards have called their muse. Thou chaste inspirer of their choicest lay Deign to accept this little gift. I pray. Unworthy, yet thy grace will not refuse; Useless, aud yet thy largeness still may use The offering smaller hearts would cast away. Divided homage poverty must pay; Its workshop as a temple It must choose. And work and worship must be mingled there. The incense blending with the.forge’ssmoke. And busy hours bo interspersed with prayer. And sacrifice anil service. In one Stroke, Must slay the victim and the food prepare. Finding their surplice in a laborer’s cloak. —William Rice Sims in New York World. ELSIE. A Christmas Crime. Monroe, Ga , Dec. 25.—[Special.]— Mose Ivey and tyill Guthrie, charged with the murder'’, of Will- Everett in chis county yesterday, were incarcera ted in jail here this evening. All the parties are colorei> I was pracricing medicine at the time in Rotherham, a large straggling towu six miles south of Sheffield, in York shire, England, in the heart of tho South Yorkshire coal district It is arough class of people with whom a general practirioner generally has to deal in snch a district, though thero-are .some very big- swells in the neighbor hood to be sure. Still, as is always the case in life among the roughest and most uncouth, one sometimes finds a gentle flower. Such a sweet exception was little Elsie Underhill, to whose bedside 1 was called professionally on the evening of Nov. 22, 1873. It is a long while ago, and I doubt much if any of the persons connected with the little story I am abont to tell (should any of them still be. surviving) will remember Dr. Newman. At any rate, not one of those who knew me will be hurt, and the one person against whom I shall have much to say is so mean and contemptible in my opinion that I care little for his. It was a poor little home I was called to in Church street, where Elsie’s parents lived, but very different from the dirty, carelessly kept cottages and small houses in the vicinity. But I am not going to weary you with a description. I was met by the dear, old, kindly faced moth er at the door, where, before taking me up stairs to the tiny room where lay her suffering daughter, she told me some thing of her history. Elsie was only just turned nineteen, bnt she had already made herself a repu tation which was honorable and en nobling. The years before, when just turned sixteen, being a pretty and well developed girl, with more than the aver age amount of intelligence, she had ob tained an engagement at the local thea ter, where she had appeared in the char acter of Jeanie Deans in Andrew Halli- day’s adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel, “The Heart of Midlothian.” She had attracted a great deal of attention. The local correspondent of a Loudon theatrical paper, The Hornet, then the property of Stephen Fiske, had spoken highly of her, and more than one Lon don manager had visited Rotherham to see her act There were stock com panies in those days. Among the many young fallows who had become infatuated by her beauty was one Horace Willington, the son of a physician in Sheffield, a very rich man. This young man’s attenrions were very marked. He obtained an introduction to the young girl’s parents, and through them to Elsie. And then he began a serious courtship. In every way his manner and appar ent object were decidedly honorable. Only one thing he omitted—he did not take her to his own home. In order to be near the man who had completely won her heart, she refused more than one lncrative offer to go to London, where she wonld have at once been on the high road to fame, and ac cepted an engagement at the Sheffield Theater Royal, which being close to bier own home she conld also reach very easily. Here her opportunities were wider than in Rotherham, it is true, and here she succeeded in increasing her al ready high reputation. She remained in Sheffield two seasons, playing during the summer a series of traveling engage ments throughout the northern conn ties. Then came a proposal from a great London manager which was so good that she could not afford to neglect it. Her aged mother went with her to the city of smoke and fog, and in Septem ber, 1873, she made her debat before a London audience at the Princess’ the ater. Less than a month later her health entirely gave way and she found it necessary to throw up her engagement and return with her mother to the little home in Rotherham in which she had breathed her earliest breath. So much her mother told me, then took me up to see her daughter. Did I say just now that she was suffer ing? That was hardly the case. She was dying of rapid consumption. She was too weak to suffrf much physically, bnt the broken heart was giving her ex quisite torture. Such a lovely girl I have rarely seen. Brown curling hair swept back from the sweet face and long dark lashes shaded the blue gray eyes that were all intelli gence and had been wont to fill her au diences with blind enthusiasm. The little room in which she lay wait filled with delicate feminine knick- knacks, reminiscences of her favorite roles, souvenirs of her professional friends, all arranged about the room with genUe, thoughtful love by her stricken mother. Bnt most interesting of all was a rather curious thing hang ing above her pillow on the bedpost by a narrow blue ribbon. It was something that wonld attract the attenUon of the least observant. A large gold split ring, elegantly chased and evidenHy of antique manu facture, to which was suspended a com mon copper English penny piece. The combination was so incongruous, so ludicrous, that I could not refrain from taking it in my hand to examine. “Oh, please don’t touch that,” ex claimed the dying girl; “it is all I have.” Then there was a story to itl When I had prescribed a simple pallia tive for the racking congh and had given instructions for other simple treatment, I went down stairs again with Hie mother. “You saw the penny and the ring, doctor,” she said, “and you wondered. Is it not so?” I confessed that I had felt a little curi ous to know its history. And here i3 what the old woman told me: The old gold ring had belonged to Elsie’s great-grandmother. It had once been a thumb ring. Elsie looked upon it as a sort of heirloom, and had carried it with her as a sort of talisman since childhood. One day, after she had known Mr. Willington a few months be fore they were engaged to be married, the young man had laughingly pulled w * • *i—wah nrhjfih ms pocKet a penny ofofuaa. .. some foolish person had bored a hole. Elsie was just about to appear in a new character, so Horace, in fun, remarked, “Then take this penny and keep it for lack; you will never fail in a part so long as you keep it.” Elsie entered into the spirit of the the thing and said, “Now, if I conld only get my own talisman split I wonld hang the penny onto it” “That is easily done,” said Horace, as he took the ring in his hand and ad mired its chasing. “I will take it to Evans’, in Sheffield, and have it split” Accordingly he took the ring, and in a few days returned it with the penny hanging to it Elsie fastened a ribbon to it and wore it around her neck. Alas! that ring and that penny were the parallels of the characters of the two persons to whom they had belonged. The one pore gold, refined and chased -by a master hand, destined to be broken by the owner «f the baser metal which entered the golden heart and broke it in two and left it * When Bhe went to London Willington followed Elsie, and there, amid the fol lies and excitements of the great Baby lon, he came out in his true colors, a conscienceless, ^ loveless scoundrel. It seems unnatural and untrue that a man conld deliberately lay plans, and take years to mature them, for the ruin of a young girl’s life. Bnt so it was with Willington and Elsie Underhill. Plenty of people there are living yet who remember the success of the young actress on the Princess’ boards, and who remember with sorrow her sudden de parture and death. Willington succeeded in his designs, then left her, as it was afterward known he had left others, to droop and die or to go from bad to worse. He cared noth ing- ~\ • Elsie’s sensitive nature was too high strung. She could not survive the dis grace, even though it was apparent only to herself. Her heart broke, and in the early weeks of December, when the nar row little Church street and the roofs of the neighboring cottages were covered with snow; when the timid robin had become so tame as to fly to the windows of human habitations for the food of charity; when the world was beginning to prepare its annual festival of “peace and good will toward men,” the poor little actress, who was a delicate flower in the midst of a life of nettles and brambles, withered and passed away, to be transplanted in the garden that is kept forever beautiful by those angels whose duty it is to soothe and comfort those poor waifs of humanity who are not strong enough to overcome human ity’s blowB and bnffets. * What became of Willington? I have never heard of him since. Somewhere, probably, he holds an honored position on earth, for he was rich, and wealth on earth covers innumerable sins, bnt sorely when his time comes to go to that bourn from which no traveler ever returns, lie will be met by the dark recording angel yith a page not yet blotted out, on which he will be shown— A Penny suspended from a Pore Gold Ring.—Tracey L. Robinson in New York Recorder. Machinery and Farming. In the country the farmer is now sup plied with plowing and reaping ma chines, binders and grain sowers. A man with a team of horses or yoke of oxen did good' work once in plowing five acres of soil in two days. Now the three gang or double furrow plow does the same amount of work in one day. The steam plow has in some cases superseded the double plow, aud made it possible for one man to do in one day what he formerly did in thirty dayB, or, in other words, one man plows for thirty. Once the farmer sowed the seed while walking from side to side across the newly plowed ground; the seed is now placed in a hopper on wheels, a child mounts the box, manages the team, and in one day as great a quantity of seed is scattered over the surface as it formerly required ten meiPto sow. All the way through, from oue end of the farm to Hie other, machinery has lightened the labor of those who work the farms; planting corn, sowing grain, planting potatoes and gathering the harvest iq now done by machinery.—St. Louis Re public. Nature’s Fewer of Adjustment* There is an interesting collection of cats in the cellars of a cold storage ware house on Front street. The temperature of these cellars varies from 12 to 8Q degs. Fahrenheit, and the rats and mice were so destructive that three years agq twelve cats were caught and placed in. them. At first they had to be closely confined, bat they soon adapted then;? selves to their new conditions of cold and darkness, and now seldom venture into the light and warmer air. When brought up they at once attempt to re turn to their cold quarters. Five of the original twelve remain. Their hair has grown very thick and re mains without change through the year. Two litters of kittens have been born successive years, all having very thio hair. The room where they were found was at a temperature of 81 degs.—Phila delphia Ledger. She Was Tired Anyway. Li had been trotting her little feet off waiting upon the elder members of the family, as litUe children can. At last, weary from slipping down from her chair so often, and out of patience at the demands made upon her, she exclaimed, “Well, I guess I get tired as anybody, if ’tis only a small tired!”-*New York Tribune. There is something very amusing in the report that Mills is still mad with Crisp. 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