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BANNER
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ATHENS, GiL, TUESDAY MORNING.MARCH 1.1892.
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
THE GRAY WOLF.
Hero is what was recounted to us bj
the old Marquis d’Arville after dirmn
at the house of the Baron dee Ravels
Saint-Hnbert.
We had started a stag during the day
The marquis was the only one of tht
guests who had not taken
pursuit. He never indulged in
During the entire time of the repast wi
had talked of little else Hum the iminis
ere of animals. Even the women inter
ested themselves in the sanguinary ant
often incredible tales, and the speaker,
mimicked the attacks and the combat,
between men and beasts, gesticulating
with their arms and conversing in ex
cited tones.
M. d'Arville spoke well, with a car
tain air of poetry, a trifle sonorous, bm
full of effect. He had often repeatec
this history, therefore be spoke fluently
not hesitating to find choice wards ix
which to depict bis images.
Messieurs,” he said, “I have never
hunted, nor did my father, my grand
father or my great-grandfather. Tbit ,
last was the sen of a man who huntec
more than all of yon. He died in 1784 .
I will tell you how.
He was named Jean, was marries j
and was the father of this child, wht
was my great-grandfather, aod be lived
rith his younger brother, Francoii
’Arville, in our chateau in the midst o!
forest in Lorraine. Francois d’Ar .
iUe had remained a bachelor through '
3ve of the chase. These two hunted
one year’s end to the other, with-
t repose, without stop, without
de. They loved nothing else,
nothing eLse. talked of
lived for nothing else than tht
This terrible, inexorable pwesioL
them to the heart, had invaded
m entirely, leaving no place far any-
ng else.
‘•They had prohibited any one from
terrapting them daring the chase
any purpose whatever. My great-
dfatber was born while his fathei
as following a fox. and Jean d’Arville.
of interrupting the run, swur;
the name of the saints, the raxsal
ght better have watted until after the
inntr
His brother Francois was even move
ed away by this passion than him-
From the time he arose in the
he went to see the dogs, then
te horses, then the shot birds in theim-
iediate vicinity of the chateau, up to the
tne of leaving to start some larger
pe. They were known throughc t
neighboring country as M. le Mar
aud M. le Cadet, the nobles of that
r not endeavoring like those of om
time to establish a descending hier-
hy in titles: because the son of a mar-
|s is no more a count, nor the Sua of a
rount a baron than the son of a gen-
1 is a colonel by birth: but the shao-
ranity of our day finds profit in this
mgement 1 return to my ancestors
They were, it apj*?ars. huge. long,
ry. violent and vigorous. The yonng-
even taller than the elder, had a
ice so strong that, according to a
fend of which he was the hero, all the
ives of the forest trembled when he
rated. And when they leaped into
saddle to depart for the chase it was
superb spectacle to see these two
ats bestriding their great horses.
Now, toward the depth of the win-
of this year, 1764, the cold was exces-
> and the wolves became ferocious.
;y attacked the belated country peo-
, wandered around the houses at
ht, howling from the setting to the
hg of the sun, and depopulating the
bles.
‘And soon a weird rumor circulated,
ey talked of a colossal wolf, wrh
iv hair, almost white, who had eaten
d children, devoured a woman’s arm,
angled all the watchdogs of fhe
intry, and who penetrated without
V into the inclosures to sniff under
doors. All the inhabitants declared
they had heard his snaffle, and that
made the flames of the lamp*
And soon a panic ran through
province. Nobody dared go out
nightfall. The darkness seemed
haunted by images of the beast.
d’Arville brothers resolved to
animal and kill it, and they ac-
ngly summoned all the gentlemen
country to a grand chase. It was
They hunted the forest over
searched the thickets, but did not
ter it. They killed plenty of
but not this one. And each
after the chase, the animal,
to avenge itself, attacked some
or devoured some cattle, always
m th" place where they bad been
rag for it. At last one night it
ted the pig stable of the Chateau
and ate the two finest porkers,
brothers were inflamed with
considering this attack as a bra-
the monster, a direct injury, a
They took all their strong
mnds, accustomed to the pursuit
oubtable beasts, and entered the
their hearts provoked to fury,
m dawn until the hour when the
sun descended behind the great,
they beat the thickets with
ding anything. Finally, Ians
and desolate, and astonished mat
ir skill had been baffled by this
they were walking their hones
a path bordered by boshes, when
ere suddenly seized by a sort of
ous fear. ,
beast is not an ordinary one,’
oldest. “One would almost say
had human attributes. ’
e should have a hall blessed by
usin, the bishop,’ said the younger;
ive same priest pronounce the necee-
ords." He cessed speaking
how red the sun to,' replied
‘The big wolf will de some
thin night 1
had hazdly spoken these words
his horse reared; that of Francois
kicking. A large chimp of boshes
~ with dead leaves opened in front
and a colowsal beast, all gray,
up and ran off into the woods.
*hew emitted a sort of joyous
bending over the cheats of
horses they threw them for-
with all their strength, rushing
sbead at such a pace, exciting
urging them on with Toice, gee-
spur, that tie yusaful xidam
to carry their beery beasts be*
their thighs, and to lift them up
fluff would fiy away with
They went thus, belly to the
ground, breaking through the thickets,
crossing the ravines, climbing the hills,
descending the glens and sounding tbs
horn with full lungs to attract the at
tention of their companions and their
“AH of a sudden, in fids wild run, my
,ther dashed his fore-
branch, which
_ he fell to the ground _ _
stone dead. Hia bone, mad with fright, agnized everywhere far just what they
ROBLNSOX’S GHOST.
“Boahi I don’t take aay stock in ysnn
like that, and itfs positively absurd fez
such men as wo are”—a party of three
lawyers, a doctor and a journalist—’“whs
pride ourselves on oar common sense, to
discuss such stuff eerieoaly. Modem
science has thrown so strong a light on
" iHusioos that they oogfat to be reo-
the:
I this i
[from l
disappeared in the shadows that
veloped the wood.
“The younger d'Arville stopped short,
jumped to the ground, seized his brother
in bis arms and saw that his brains
were pouring from the wound, with his
blood. Then he seated himself beside
the body, took the rod and disfigured
head upon his knee and contemplated
the immobile face of bis elder brother.
Little by little a fear invaded him, a
singular fear which he had never frit
before: tiie fear of the shadow, the fear
of the solitude, fear of the deserted
wood, also fear of the fantastic wulf
which had killed hia brother to venge it
self upon them.
“Darkness was falling rapidly, and the
sharp cold made the trees crackle. Fran
cois rose np shivering, incapable of re
maining there longer, feeling himself
almost fainting. One could hear noth
ing, neither the voices of the dogs, nor
the sound of homs; all was silent. And
tins gloomy silence of freezing night had
in it something homble and strange.
“He seized the colossal frame of Jean
in his bands, lifted it np and laid it across
the saddle, in order to carry it back to
the chateau Then he slowly started to.
return, his mind wandering ae if he
were tipsy and pursued by horrible and
startling images. Suddenly in his path
way through the night a monstrous form
passed.
“It was the beast.
| “A shock of fright agitated the hunt
er; something cold, like a drop of water,
glided along his loins, and, like a friar
haunted by the devil, he made the sign
of the cross. He was distracted by this
sudden reappearance of the frightful
wanderer. But his eyes fell upon the
inert corpse lying before him, and his
fear immediately changing into chsler,
he shook with rage. Then be spurred his
horae and dashed after the wolf. He,
followed it through the copse, through
ravines and through the forest, travers
ing woods which he no longer recog
nized, hia eye fixed upon the gray spat
which flew before him in the night. His
horse also seemed animated by an un
known force and ardor. He galloped
straight ahead with outstretched neck,
the head and feet of the dead man across
the saddle dashing against trees and
rocks. The brambles tore the hair of
the corpse, the forehead battered the
enormous tree trunks, spattering them
with blood, the spurs ripped the bark to
tatters.
“Suddenly the animal and its pursuer
emerged from the forest and rushed into
a valley just as the moon appeared above
the mountains. This valley was closed
on all sides by immense rocks, without
possible egress, and the wolf found it
self driven into a corner. Francois then
emitted.a bowl of joy. the echoes of
which were repeated like a roll of thun
der, and jumped from his horse, cutlass
in hand. The bristling beast waited
with rounded back, its eyes gleaming
ftke two stars. But before offering bat
tle the hunter lifted his brother down,
seated him on a rock, and supporting by
means of stones his head, which was
hardly more than a patch of blood, he
cried into his ears, as though he
speaking to a deaf person:
‘ ‘Look, Jean: look there!”
•Then he threw himself upon the
monster. He felt strong enough to
overthrow a mountain, to grind the
stones in his hands. The beast would
have bitten him and tried to dash at his
stomach, but Francois had seized it by
the throat, without even the aid of his
weapon, and slowly strangled it, listen
ing to the stoppage of the breathing in
its throat and the beating of its heart.
And he laughed wildly, closing tighter
and tighter his powerful grip and cry
ing in a delirium of joy:
“ ‘Look, Jean; lookl*
“All resistance ceased; the body el’
the wolf became limp. It was deadl
Then Francois took it op in his arms,
carried it and throw it at his brother’s
feet, repeating in a tender voice:
~ ‘Thine, thine, thine, my little Jean;
there it is?
“Then placing the two cadavers across
his saddle, one upon the other, he set
out on bis way back. He returned to
the chateau laughing and crying like
Gargantua at the birth of Bantagruel,
emitting cries of triumph, stamping with
joy in recounting the death of the ani
mal, groaning and tearing his beard in
telling that of his brother. And often
in after yean, when he spoke of that
day, he declared with tears in bis eyes:
“ ‘If only poor Jean could have
strangle the brute, I am sure be would
have died contented.’
“The widow of my great-great-grand
father inspired her orphan son with
hcsHw of the chase which has be<
His rutted from father to son down to
old pax.»
**£§8** Marquis (TArviOs
finnw asked*
“This history is a legend, is it noCT
“I swear to yon that it is trne from
IB end to the other," he responded.
Then a woman said in a soft, tittle
are - nothing more than the result at
mental disorder. What do yon say,
Robinson; doyen believe in ghouls,as
our friend, the doctor, seems toT The
speaker contemptuously throw away the
stamp of his cigar as If it were the of
fender he was berating instead of the
dseter, who had just been spinning an
"Tte 1 believe in ghosts? Well, reaHy,
Brown, 1 don’t know. Bnl your speak
ing of the sciences Teorindrm* I once
had a remarkable experience with a
ghost” Robinson readied for the bot
tle, filled his glass stowly and held it
to the fight with an air of tenthrisoenl
meditation. After a short pause he went
on, in answer toour inquiring looks:
“It was five years ago, just after I had
ly office hero and taken young
OnebotJnly
I received a telegram asking
me to go at once to B-?—, a little town
out on Long Island, to draw up a wCI
for a man who had been one of our beat
clients. Johnson was out of town, so 1
had to attend to the matter myself.
“A glance at the time table showed
me that 1 should have to stay in
several hours, and just aa I was leaving
it occurred to me that itmight be worth
while to take my camera along—John
son and I were both ’Kodak fiends’ in
those days—as qpy business might not
detain me long, and 1 should probably
have aa hoar or two to spars. 1 had
barely time to catch my train, so 1 has
tily picked np the camera from ray desk
Just asl expected,!
soon finished the wfil and started out to
get some views of the sleepy old town.
1 kit B is a rather commonplace vil
lage. and 1 saw nothing 1 thought worth
my camera at till 1 had
reached the outskirts of the town, where
found a picturesque old mansion' that
caught my fancy.
“If waa a quaint, rambling-old boose,
gabled roofed and overgrown with vines.
i to be deserted—in fact, almost
a rain. It stood at some distance back
from the road, and aa there appeared to
be no one living there I went into its
garden, which was aa unrestrained tan
gle of weeds and tall grass, to get a
nearer view of the budding. I was just
about to take a picture of the porch j
when an old man appeared in the door-!
way. He was very feeble, but a rather
• condense tor yoa.no*’ •£>*»
doce his words and his Scotch aocent:
“During the war of the rebellion Mr
S lived in this house with his wifi
and an only daughter. Miss Annie, t
beautiful girl, who was about twenty
yean oid at the time at which I aa
speaking. She was the idol of the Cam
fly and loved by all who knew her. Sbt
to have been married to John R .
a fine young feHow who lived near by.
but when the call for volunteers wa*
made hsr lover went off to the war. Shi
almost overcome with anxiety fm
him, for her heart had gone with him
One day soon after, one of the early bat
ties—I forget which one—my friend tin
gardener came up from thetown with >
telegram. He met Miss Annie coming
down the stairway and gave her tht
ragBL She stopped on the landing
opened, the envelope and read the tale
DISCIPLINE.
[ federate sheU went crashing through the
Federal ranks, and the hero sank by hia
gun to rise no more.—General Cullen A.
During the winter of 1863-4 it wro my Bottie in Drake’s Magazine,
fortune to be president of one of the
court martinis of the Army of Northern
Virginia. One bleak December mom- j
“She stood perfectly stiH for an in
■teat as if she could hot realize it.sue
taro—the gardens’was just in tune te
save her from falling, as she fainted
The telegram announced the death oi
Lieutenant John R , killed on tht
battlefield. Miss Annie never recovered
from the shock, and she died insane in »
few months. Her mother soon followed
her, and Mr. S left tfie town, 1
lonely, brokenhearted man, and never
has returned. The place has never taeea
rented because it is said that the on
fortunate girl’s spirit haunts the house,
and especially the stairway, where sht
beard tas news of her lovers death. 1
had photographed the ghost.
Duties of Our Coast Polleo.
In addition to feeding the hungry,
urbfln tfin mn w rn.rofl im P eriled ths
mg, white the snow covered the ground Hfc Jjao a* revefene cutter s duty
Sod the winds bowled 2kri>Ulld OUT camp, 1 Minwn— imitiniftR. «tingylfnor
I left my bivouac fire to attend the see- J enforce the neutrality laws and the
si on of the court. Winding for miles j quarantine ptotect mer-
along uncertain paths 1 at length ar-1 chant vessels from piratical attarks,
rived at the court ground at Round Oak I protect wrecked property and guard
Church. I the timber reserves of tiie United
Day after day it had been our duty to I States against depredations. The con-
try the gallant soldiers of that army. I slant and frequent inspection of the
charged with violations of military law. I vast fleet of merchant vessels that
But never had I an any previous oa»- I trades along oar coast forms* very im-
tkm been greeted with such anxious j portant duty of the service. MT> ^ imm>
spectators as on that morning awaited j which. if not performed, would befal-
fbe opening of the court Case after I sowed by a very general neglect of the
oaaewas dispwed of, and at length tiie I customs and navigation laws,
case of “The Confederate States versus I Even with the rigid and in-
Edward Cooper" was called—the charge, I spectioos, from 1,000 to 8.000 violations
desertion. A low murmur rose span-1 are detected each year ami reported xo
taneously from the battle scarred spec-1 the proper authorities. It is not alone
fetors asm young artillerymanroeefrom in the examination of the ship’s docn-
ti» prisoner’s bench and, in response to I meats and the ascertaining that tiie has
the question “Guilty, or not guilty?” an-1 no smuggled articles on board, that she
sweied, “Not guilty.” I is engaged in the trade for winch she is
The Judge advocate was proceeding to | licensed, that her marine documents are
open tiie prosecution, when the court, jin force, that her regularly authorized
observing that the prisoner was unat
tended by counsel, interposed and said
to the accused:
“Who is your counsel?*
“I have no counsel,” he replied.
Supposing that if was his intention to
1 tipi went himself before the court, the
.TO BEAT BENNIE-
DEEP LAID SCHEMES ARB SAID TO
EXIST.
SENATORS WORKING IT.
[captain is in command, etc., that the
I importance of the boarding duty is most
1 strikingly shown. —Scribner’s
“Now that I knew the story of the gin i judge advocate waa directed to proceed.
that picture took a stronger hold on mt: Every charge and specification against w e _
than before and the mystery was only • the prisoner was sustained. The prison-1 ManuaL The first case before him was
intensified. I could not get rid of that' er was then told to introduce bis wit-1 that of a cowboy far a steer.
MoHom ta.a Coart or Jcutlea.
A rather erode citizen of Seguin, a
small town in western Texas,
elected justice of the peace; and ’ the'
only law book be bad was Cushing’s
face. It haunted me mere'sorely than
the poor girl’s ghost ever haunted the
stairway, and 1 could not shake off the
faecinatttm. In abort, 1 had fallen in
love with a ghost, and 1 envied that
Lieutenant John R .
“It was a horribly uncanny feeling,
but calling myself an ass did not help
me to forget the face. And thro the
puzzle of it all, the problems it suggest
ed. Could it be that the camera war
able to open a new world to ua? Was
its unerring vision dear enough to j
When the case was called the h-Hreg
“I have no witnesses,” he replied. I lawyer of the town, the Hon. John Ire-
Astonished at the r zlraiw us with | hud by —m*, waa -there to tK.
which he seemed to be submitting to I prisoner.
what he regarded as inevitable fate. 11
said to him:
“Have yon no defense? Is it possible
you abandoned your comrades and de
serted your colors in the presence of an
enemy without any reason?*
“There was a reason, but it will not
avail me before a military court.”
“Perhaps yon are mistaken,” I replied.
“As there is no counsel for the other
side,” he said, “1 make make a motion
that the case be dismissed.” .
The justice looked over his ManuaL
“A motion has to be seconded,” he said.
“1 second the motion." promptly re
sponded the prisoner.
“The motion, has been seconded that
the case be dismissed.” said the court.
pierce the mists ot a spirit landand as- j “You are charged with the highest crime I “All in favor wiU please say‘ays'” The
sure us of the testify, of a ghost? And; known to military law, and it is your I piawr and his attorney voted “aye.”
if so, how was it to be explained^ I laid duty to make known the csuob that in-1 “All opposed will say Ho.’ ” Nobody
the matter before the Society^or Psychi- j flnenced your actions.”
cal Research, but they only talked a! For the Gist tirize bis manly farm
long time, about it without suggesting trembled and his bine eyes swam in
mudL-aad' for all T know they're at t tears. Approaching the president erf the
court he presented a letter, saying as he
did so:
“There, general, is what did it"
I opened the letter, and in a moment
yet. But I never shook off the spell of
that phantom face.”
Robinson paused a moment, lost in •
faraway dream. Brown, the skeptic.at
voted.
“The motion Is carried, and the case
is dismissed,” repeated the court. “A
motion to adjourn is now in order.”
The prisoner made the motion, and
the court adjourned.—Ijancaster Law
Review.
length aroused him with a short “WeU3”i my eyes were filled with tears. It’
Robinson lit a fresh cigar and continued. p«M*t fmm one t» wwIm-t chy***"* |
“For a week after my return that until all had seen it, and those stem
picture, tiie mystery and the beautiful - warriors, who had passed with Stone-1
Me
. “When my children were little,” said
a rather original mother, whose meth
ods, although somewhat eccentric, were
fine looking old boy. 1 at once began to; fee® had such an effect on me that it al- wall Jackson through a hundred battles, in the main excellent, “1 taught them
apologize for trespassing on his grounds,
bat he stopped me and told me to take
as many pictures as I wished. He turned
out to be the man in charge of the place.
“1 soon struck upan acquaintance with
Mm and was not long in winning his
good graces. He told me the house had
not hero need for many years; it be
longed to Mr. S , who lived in Eu
rope and who had left tins place in his
charge, he having hqro the gardener.
He was very willing to show me around
and invited me to look at tiie inside of
the bouse, which I was glad to do. The
first glimpse of the interior pleased me
so much that 1 decided to make a view
of it for my first picture.
“The door opened on a broad hall run
ning clear through the house: there was
large winding stairway at-the back
with a landing place half way up, upon
which there opened a beautiful oral
window, overgrown with ivy. The light
waa good and 1 snapped my camera at
this fine old stairway and window. 1
took a number of views ot the house and
grounds and had barely time left to
catch my train back to the city.
time after my return I was
very buy, as Johnson was away and all
Ae work fell« me, so it was at least a
mouth before I got tiie negatires of my
pictures <rf the old house. But I remem
bered all the incidents weH, and was
much pleased to find my views as good
as they wen, but you may imagine my
astonishment when I looked at the nega
tive of my first pfctnfO rod saw in it tiie
figure of a beautiful young girl standing
on the landing place of the stairway.
“The whole negative was excellent;
* girl's picture was especially clear
rod weH marked. How m earth did
gat there? I had certainly never
her before; rod I was absolute
eertaza that there had been an girl
the stairway whro I took the picture.
“Bat there the stranger was standing,
as if zto had paused a
most unfitted me for work, and 1
heartily glad whro Johnson came back.
1 told the whole thing to him and then
showed him my strange picture. He
was much interested in the story, bat
when he saw the picture 1 Aught a
wicked twinkle in his eye. After a mo
ment he drawled out provakmgly:
“ ’Yes; strange; very strange. The
old man to *******
But, Rbbmaon, yon might as weH return
me my camera—you evidently took mine
instead of your own that day. _Your
mysterious phantom beauty is my sister
Kate. You took your picture on the
plate I had already used. r. Kate’s photo
seems to fit in remarkably wefl. The
joke is on you, old man.’
“Johnson introduced'me to his sister
the next day. She’s Mrs. Robinson
EL L. Pangbom in Journalist.
“It la a fine thing to have soeh pas-
atona.”— 1 Translated from the French by
Guy de Manpaaaant far the Boston
Herald.
YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
fays hare three stem*. Hoping. Having am
Had;
The hands of Hope are empty, sad the hereto
Having is end;
For tbs Joy «e take,
Joy we Had le K» gboat.
Hear, which is the better—the Joy 1
n*
. and
m slightly
■toed and leaning forward a trifle, aa if
laakmg at acme one in the hall below.
II waa utterly inexplicable to me. I
aaror seem that face, and the
had tali me that Ae house wa
habited. I do not befiera that there
eanid have been such a girl in B ,
yet there ah* wee. As far as one could
judge from an small a photograph, i*
was a' face of rare beauty. I
nletelv m ratified. '
“As luck would have it I waa obliges
to go to B again the next day, rod"
took my negative with me, prozmaint
myself to look for the mysterious beauty
of tbs stairway, for the face had
strange fanrinatitm for me, and I deter
mined to find the girl whose picture
had so unaccountably takan, if I cook
possibly do so.
“1 harried through my business
off to seek my friend the gar
I found him and at once sbowee
Mm my puzzling negative. The moreen
be saw it be dropped into a seat on tin
bench beside Him ae if he had been shot
trembling flke a frightened animal anc
with a look of terror in his eyes. In
moznentcr so he found hia breath anc
in my
•Don’t
i «•*.
i!ii! Aa>! the dude exclaims,
a nder ankle I’ve pat
fre said me for whom b
“I have aome Salvation OiL”
**Xy time is np,” said the doctor to the
patient whom he found using Dr Ball's
Cough Syrup, and he was correct, far his
cough bad been cored.
Oea keep my «*» away from me.
ili'ii IF ilBK
** ‘Good God, it’s Miss Annie?
“You may imagine my surprise. Th*
old man looked at me and at the pactun
with a scared look, as if
of some unholy relation with the devfl.
“But after awhile he calmed down
tittle, ana a good stiff drink from
I happened to have in my pocket
to brace Him up and persuade Him that
I was not an imp in disguise, and aftei invigorated through the
awhile I succeeded in getting the follow
ing »TTilmi«6<»i from him, which I wiL
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wept like tittle children. As soon asl
[ had recovered my self possession I read
j the letter as the defense of the prisoner.
It was in these words:
Jfr Dus Edward—1 hare always been
prouu ot yoa. and since your coenectiaw with
the Confederate army 1 have been prouder of
yon than ever before. I would not hare yon
do anything wrong for the world; bat, before
God. dear Edward, unices yon come home wo
an*l die. Last night I was aroused by little
Any Body to Beat Harrison, Seems to .'s$5
be the Plan of detton—They Am
Quietly and Earnestly at
Work at the Came-
WasHcenoM, Feb. 26.—A deep and
carefully bud scheme exists in Repabli-
ean councils to prevent President Kar-
risonh renomination.
A close compact, which is expected to
be enlarge4 to accomplish this end, has
been formed by republican senators
from New York, Pennsylvania, ZHtnoie,
Michigan, Wisconsin, North and Sooth
Dakota, Iowa and Odorada.
They are quietly hut earnestly seek
ing te have the delegations re their
states and other states instructed far
one other than Harrison. If they
cannot do this they will try te have the
delegates seat uninstracted. They have
not decided en whom they wfllcombtaa.
Their cry is "anybody to heat Harri-
«.* '
They look to Platt for substantial eop-
port in New York. Of the states named
this council behoves that New York,
Minnesota, Nortk Carolina and Sooth
Dakota, Colorado and Washington will
go mninstrncted. They expect Michi
gan to iastraet for Alger, Fransyhranie
far Blaine, Illinois far Collate, Wiscon
sin far Rash, and Iowa for Allison.
PROM THE CAPITAL.
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WjlSHRKROH, Feb. 28.—The sftvsr
caucus ended in nothing, as was exprot-
ed. It seems Hkely that a fee* silver
hill will come before the house. One
plan to defeat it is to allow sufficient
diecu’sioa to Mt everybody go on record
and then poet pens a vote till the next
session. Another plan is te amend the
bill hy providing that all
shneld be paid in gold.
Ia tk« Hawse.
OTarzaa of Virginia, from the com
mittee on library, reported bills for the
erection of .monuments to General Dan
iel MorgaAat Winchester. Md., and
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I was in Grimsby not long age, a
went into one of the few fishmongers’
shops in that capital of fishmongers en
gros. The worthy shopkeeper was in a
talkative mood, and among other things
told me that he was under orders to send
a small hamper of fish daily to Lord
Tennyson. In support of this statement
he produced a letter from the poet lau
reate's residence, and in handing it to
he said: “It’s not from the lard *m-
seUL It’s from hie eon, Master ’Aflam.
In wotfs doing the poetry now. An
he added confidentially, “they do say as
'am it isn’t a patch on the aid man's.'
I thought the worthy fishmonger's idea
that as a matter of course Lord Tenny
son V son, on his father's accession to
other duties, weald take over th* poetry
just as in due time his own
l succeed him in the fitimw-
gartag Due, sufficiently amrnuug to be
chrotriele& r rOar. Pall Mall Gazette
A tittle Csriboa ghi a taort time ago
id five grand fathers tiviag on her
father’s side of Ae family. Mainecaa
good illustrations at re-
what we called an ‘emergency cate
chism.’ 10 which they would answer
glibly as possible, standing in a row and
saying it together -to the great amuas
ment cf those who heard them. Here
are aome of the questions, and the an
swers yon can easily supply for yourself:
‘What would you do if you were lost in
New York? ‘What would you do in
case of fire? ‘In -rase of being in a run-
JSS'lr^aad ^*What | Mray? -fa case of floating off in a boatT
kUt.rautre.Eddter^^-^-okra^ U care of drowning, if 00. tried to
save you? and a number at other qoee-
ms. I'm 50 hungry!”
d«.Kny Lccj. she never complains, but she's
growing thinner and thinner every day,
before God. my dear Edward, unless you
home we must die of starvation.
:• ■ Torn Mart.
After reading .tiie letter 1 turned to
Ae prisoner and said:
What did you do when you 'received
this letter? Did you apply tor a leave
of absence to Ae proper officers?*
“I made application for a furlough
and it was rejected: again I made an
application and it was rejected; a third
time I made application and they re
fused to grant it. That night as 1 wan
dered backward and forward in the
camp Ainking of my trame, with the
mild eyes of Lacy looking toward me
and the horning words of Mary miring
deep into my brain, I was no longer the
Confederate soldier, but 1 was the father
0# Lucy and the husband of Mary, rod 1
would have peered those lines if every
gun in the battery had fired upon me. 1
went to my tome. Mary tan out to
meet me—her angel arms embraced tne
and Ae whispered:
“ ‘Oh, Edward, 1 am so happy! I am
so glad you got ydur furlough?
“She must have felt ms shudder, far
she turned sepal* as death, and then,
catching her breath at every word, she
timw of °—- nature.”
“Did they ever have cause to apply
them?” said one amnned listener. “Only
once,” was the answer, “and that waa
whro a pair of ponies that 1 waa driving
ran away. The little dears sat perfectly
still just as they had been told, bat it
might have hero sheer fright after alL”
—New York Tribune.
Hunting Bear* iw Maine.
“Charles Smith, the Jackson bear
hunter,” said a trapper, “followed a
track through the snow some winters
ago and finally it disappeared in a ledge.
He was bound not to give it up that
way, so he made him a torch,-and tak
ing it in one hand and hia single shot'
rifle in the other he entered the (ten. He
wasn't long in spotting a pair of 'eyes in
advance of him rod to fired. Retreat
ing until be was satisfied Ae bear hr
be dead he again entered, but there the
eyes wer*, apparently as before. Again
to fired, and when to next entered the
cave he found to had killed two bears
rod both big onec.*—Lewiston Journal.
Nathaniel Greene, at Guilford court
house, N. C.
The committee of the whole, Mr. Ba
lov at Tennessee, durirman, made n
effort to recoze consideration of the
trills on the private calendar, bus the
house preferred to resume discussion at
the Crsig-Stewart contested election
ca^, and it was addressed by C. W.
Stone of Pet£IU ’t* support of the
claims of the
A BRUTAL OUTRAGE.
fuHjv-H* Bwt Tb«t* Kmpl«x«4.
MasooCTaH, j Bis., Feb. 96.—A GHm-
tan county . co.iw taM* has brought Ae
news here at » trzhf outrage pnrpe-
tested in th* southern part of that c*u»>
ty several day* ago.-
Borne days ago a bachelor fanner h j
the name at Schooner, fh lived be-
torero New Memphis and Dazaaicvrill*,
took -into his employ two men elaimrng
to be brothers, who gave their asms a
Schmidt. . Everything vent well uatffi
day the Schmidts-became angry
and best their employer rate ineeneihfl-
ity with clubs. They tliri ran to twe
neighboring farmers who were ea bad
terms with Sctoener and toft them that
to had tried to kill them with a kntfs
while they alepfe. Ywz the farmers re
turned betoener wa huring Marti
into his bachelor hem*. He wa eea-
] wUed to rise; and wa marched off am
: oot fore miles to a country jane* at
the peaenkftaawsr to A* charge at •to-
tempted murdzr.. Wha to etsggwsi
a fell hia captors tout him wiA risks
“ •Have you com* without your fur
lough? Oh, Edward, Edward, go beck!
Go back! Let me sad my children go
down together to the grave, bat, oh, far
heaven’s sake, save the -honor cf your
A Womea*B Revenge.
Husband—Mercy 00 at Where did
I you get this set of Royal Worcester
I
- Wife (calmly)—I bought it
Husband—Bought it? Great snakwd
Why did you buy aoch ruinously expro-
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WAITING.
[ foliar bands aod wait,
'wind, nor tkfo. nor an
t’■einat time or foie.
Aalere. awake, br afeht or day,
The Meads I zee* are seeking
No vied oea drive mj berk 1
I welt With Jor the eaainc yean;
My heart shall (sop where it 1
“I at ones returned, and here 1 am,
gentlemen, not brought tore hymflil ary
power, but in obedience to the command
of Mary, to abide the sentence of your
court.”
Every soldier of that court martial
felt the farce of t
Before them stood j
eloquent pleader far a husband's and a
father’s wrongs,. but; they had been
teamed by their great leader. Robert, &
Lee, to tread the path of duty though
Wife (wiA suppressed emotion>—I bad
to hay it to nmtdi that aided saltcellar
yon got at Joblotfs far ten cents and
gave me for a present.—New York
Weekly.
FELICITY.
A agsaBd. Udeooz vmn. where ttreaa
Week
With vomit at a hundred marine aims,
mttorecernlen calls me. aadova tore
All la th* sable reek that waatealy
One may at least eurmlae the sky ztin trine.
EVU here the aayriad slaves eC the 1
[overheard a kind eyed firl relax*
To her companions, bow a tavorinc <
By some few ahfllings weekly had to
Data the soolet
Toe Mowerst noddtnc la the wind
Is ready plfchted to the bee;
And. maiden, why that look aaUadf
Tor lot thy lover aeeksth thee.
The tidal wave t
happy, having all we wished.”
It lay
little than ia visaing alL
Fehdty. indeed!
Th aw her tones <
Spreader at foils _ r __.
No gnOe may capture and no force surprise:
Only by them that never wooed tar. won.
earn with wide desires and spa*
beneath their fesL and
nooroed the I
But fortunately far humanity, fortu
nate'y for the Confederacy, Ae proceed
ings of the court vrera reviewed by ths
commanding general, and upon the reo-
ord was written:
HRADOCAKtEKS ARJST
▼trot an
BIB 1*.
Edward Cooper. Is
win report to hie company for daty.
B. E. Lze. UenereL
During Ae second battle of Cold Har
bor, while shot and sheU were falling
“like torrents from Ae mountain cloud.’ £b£«£ £S?aiWt?r£^ ^
my attention waa directed to Ae fact AehyaaSpteineai. whew
that one of our batteries was being The ceremony and dreams ta:
silenced by tin concentrated fire trfAe T# **g*f
„ . , • uro w no —WiUiare Wataon In London Spectator.
Union forces.
{ When I reached tbs battery every gun The worst of it.
but one had been dismantled, and by it g^You look as though yoo had raised
It to qn ir probable that yoo may need stood a solitary Confederate soldier. Ned m your club last night,
the Btrvxxs oLm pbjsxiaa someday; but wiA the Mood streaming from bis side. ; He—I did, and what is
vvucan p*stpnne <*- time indefinitely fay ** 5f°S°fed me ha elevated Ms «e bect-Brooklyn Life.
” . ^ Vl , nr voice above the roar of Ae battle and
keeping yu* Wood pure and yoar system fiaid .
shell left Tell
Too canntoglr do ye aecamalate
Appliances and t
and atock zharpened sticka
Wbea they reacto&A* :
into hi* 1
they reached A* justice efi
, - aim justice had Ae
released gas tuned hum evar
a doctor far treatment. Schceasr’s
xorety is dpubgaL, Ttatoffilte
nave disappeared. j;
YELLOW FEVER ON BOAR0.
VMlne
NnrYosz, Feb. 23.—Tbs
Advance is held in quarantine.
lit fever occurred during
Jezeege and three deaths resulted from
it. A fourth waa nearly dead from in
juries received ia the engine ream.
Otief Officer Baker died the second daw
after leaving Rio'Janeiro after aa ifl-
■ of twenty-four hours. AR traces
of the fever plague tod disappeared
when Aa Advance reached ton, and
tor detention by the health anthwritite
tom precaution. , -«
. . Fire h> Kwhiin*.
> Niismu, Feb. Sffi.—Fir* destroyed
J. J. Anderson’s wagon fast cay. Bell’s
paint shop, Mintonfa turnery, and R. A
Jones’ hverv stable. Loss estimated at
between $30,000 and $35,008. with $8, M0
8ah Fkascssoo, Feb. ML—The jury fa
th* careoGCurtu, the actor, was unable
te agree and was discharged, it stead
teu far ooariettou and two far acquittal.
nan old
said:
| “General, i hare <
aved Ae honor of Mary and
.
e of Ayrr’* Sar-
Prevtction is better than me> j
Lucy?”
1 raized my hat. Once mors a Con-
» T - -* . v --te
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Om Way Out of It.
Clara—Do you see how Ae shape of
gown could be Improved?
Maude—You m-ght get soma other girl
to weir it.—Cloak Review.
FALLING 0FFAL0G.
“Aa eesy ez falling oft a log,’ 1
saying When it was first uttered, nobody
knows. Nothing ■ easier, ankm it is the
taking uf a dors of Dr. Pk rot's Peasant
Pellets. These act like magic. Nognp-
iag or drenching foUowa, as » ihe rose
wiA the okt-fati>kmcd pills. The reBrf
that follow* restmMes the vetioo of nature
to Ae dormant liver » of Ihn
Sick btadachp,
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