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TOLU ME I.
TOPICS OFJTHE DAY.
Patti made a great success at Cincin
nati.
Beck start FBELiuaHUYSEN is a Sun
iay-school teacher.
San Francisco lias raised $20,000 for
a statue of jGarfield.
Nett resolves are easily made and
tasily broken. They are a cheap article.
Sorry to say, William H. Vanderbilt
las no more marriageable daughters on
hand.
TiiF. Ohippewa Indianreportcdto
e starving on account Of smallpox
quarantine.
Shipping beef from Texas via New
York to France in refrigerator cars has
been begun.
Oscar 'WibitE, the fektlietie poet, will
be the guest of Mr. J. M. Ktoddard, of
OKilodalnViia.
It is thought that Congress win en
ieavor to do something novr, that the
holidays are over.
It is the pink of fashion novr to have
a sore arm—uulcss you can show a pret ty
respectable looking scar.
Vanderbilt viuia Anl l-mai
ness, has enough and wants to
live in peace. He has our sympathy.
_..D\sDta contains a population of 135,-
008. Nevada was admitted as a State
when her population was only 62,000.
ffuiTEAU in the dock makes as much
uoise ns Guiteau out of the dock. What
iTrfxl T <a t Jri® bodiiyill gut some day.
Hrnry B. Cohlky, oi rnnauftlpma,
bitten on the finger three years ago by a
tlog, died a few days ago of hydropho
bia.
The Providence Pruts suggests that
the plaster casta of Qaiteau be used for
eupsidores. Good things to spit at,
that’s a fact.
-
A co-temporary, speaking of the Gui
teau trial, thinks it about time to “drop”
the subject—Guiteauff at the end of a
rope, a* it v^-re.
boss Shepard, who is iu Mexico, was
bitten by a tarantula a few weeks ago.
The bi(e of a tarantula is deadly,
Shepard- got wall. This is a conun
drum for. rcau
Beal culture is at a premium in Bos
ton. The clerk of the new Mayor, Green,
is an author, named Robert Grant, bis
most notable production being “The
Frivolous Girl.”
The cars on tlie elevated roads in New
York are to be run by means of a pneu
matic engine, if the experiment proves a
success. The engine makes neither
steam nor smoke.
A bridal outfit valued at $4,000, and
confiscated to the Government beoause
of the non-payment of duties, was sold
at auction in New York, in separate lots,
for less than $2,000.
The Postmaster-General has been
asked to remove an Indian postmaster
who does not bajieve in hell. It is
thought the act would change the opin
ion of said postmaster.
The Pope is more seriously than ever
considering the advisability of leaving
Rome. He says his situation is becom
ing intolerable. He is accused of being
a rebel and enemy to Italy.
It is a lamentable fact that on Christ
inas day a number of American citizens
called on Guitean, at the jail, and -wished
him a happy Christmas. Really, crime
is getting to be viewed yery lightly.
The latest thing in Chicago is a mar
riage ceremony performed by departed
spirits. Mediums, who are suppositi
ously under the control of the departed
spirits, do the tongue-rattling part o
the job.
It seems that Jay Gould controls tin
2s’ew York World, and Cyrus W. Field
the New York Exprew, All hi#
control newspapers, but all newspapers
are not controlled by big men by a good
deal—no indeed.
Charles Dudley Warneb says that
while the country is filled with people
unable to pay for a newspaper, he has
never heard of auybody unab’o to edit
C. D. W. seems to fully under
el and tlie situation.
Theodore Trt/ros is on another lectur
ing tour. We may say right here that
lecturing, ss a profitable business, is not
generally as popular as it hug been. The
lecturer has become nearly as great a
!*>re as the book agent.
It is rumored that one of Sira Burn
hnrdt’s silk stockings was stretched to
ruination Chriffttnas by someone at
tempting to put a lead pencil in it. Bara
'“erhaps sill know better than to hang
- L<r stockings up next time.
Inc Vex- Orleans Picayune eonpratu
'•etes husbands and fathers of the South
Ui their good luck in not living in a seal-
climate. It would be a good
idea to mention this feature in an adver
tisement urging Southern emigration.
* iUeftuux cavalry vatefkß a tabs
THE JACKSON NEWS.
that at the time of Jeflf. Davis’ capture
by Union troops, the saddle-bags and
hostlers on liis horse were filled with
$14,000 in gold coin, which the captors
buried in the ground and aftewards
secured.
Mr. Boswell Smith, publisher of the
Century Magazine, gave $5,000 in
Christinas gifts to, his employes, and
$16,000 of the valuable Century stock to
the leading memliers of his literary and
•usiness staff. The Century deserves
lie greatest success.
Guiteau has a patent reversible brain.
He admits that lie is sane now but claims
insanity for the 2d of July. Ho has the
genius to lie’sane or insane at will, and
seems, at all times, to understand his
condition, His conceit makes him the
more contemptible.
It costs the Lord Mayor of London
$150,000 a year to keep up expenses,
requiring his own salary, which is but
$50,000, and an additional SIOO,OOO.
Where the additional SIOO,OOO comes
1 rom is his lookout. There may be, of
course, an occcasional perquisite.
Rev. Talmaoe has had to let down on
' free salvation. ” The annual expenses
*>f the Tabernacle are $20,000 and the
Income—contributed in envelopes by the
members—has never exceeded $17,000.
So it has been decided to sell the pews
~ TANARUS„ bernacle to make up the deficit.
It is stated that Prince Bismarck
excels in the employment of a particular
class of spies, who are known to his
countrymen as "reptiles.” They are sham
revolutionists, whose business it is either
to get on to the staff of Radical news
papers, or to play a loadiug part in
Socialist electoral committees, for the
sake of bringing to light real offenders.
The grass on Christmas Day was ns
green as it usually is in the month of
. April, and according to the old supersti
tion, the year of 1882 will witness an un
usually fat graveyard. The preceding
Christmas was a “White Christmas,”
but it would be Hard to find a year more
disastrous to human life than that just
closed. If the year 1882 surpasses vR,--
thon indeed we may expect to have an 1 '
awful time of it.
Prjshjxkt Grew, of'SpSm, "Sk.,
“ turn on ” his theater or his opera when
ever he likes, and sitting quietly at
homo in the Elyseo can hear all the first
artists of bis conntry. He has a tele
phone connection with the Opera, the
Theatre Francais and the Opera Comi
iue, and the voices are heard in his
drawing-room os clearly and distinctly
is in those theaters.
Says the Boßton Journal: “Clara
Louise Kellogg sang about SI,OOO worth
to the inmates of the Nebraska Peniten
tiary, the other day, and asked nothing
for it. A man who had never stolen any
thing or made love to another man’s
tiorse would have to pay $2 to hear her.
About the only mar who gets left now
idays, and has to pay a big price for all
the fun he has, is the honest, iespectable,
hard-working citizen,”
— 1
Aocordin’o to the Cincinnati Gazette,
President Arthur is seriously considering
the advisability of becoming the son-in
law of Queen Victoria. It appears that
Mr. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, was to set as best man at the
wedding, bnt the premature publication
if the matter in the Commercial has
probably imperiled the consummation
if tills part of the programme. Anyhow,
Mrs. Grundy is going to have the Prasi
ient marrying somebody, and it does
not matter much who.
E. H. Tai-pen, of Hammond, Indiana,
went, to Dr. Dodge, a Chicago dentist, to
have his teeth drawn. He insisted on
taking chloroform, and the anaesthetic
was given. Within half an hour Tappen
was a corpse. An inquest was held and
a verdict was rendered only after a large
number of experts had been examiner!,
all of whom agTeed that the use of any
anaesthetic was dangerous, and that
chloroform was especially so. The num
ber of scientific medical men who ad
minister anaesthetics is yearly growing
smaller. There should boa law prohib
iting its use as an ansosthetio altogether.
The four-year-old child of Mrs. M. F.
Cappege, at New Orleans, last week,
shot and instantly killed his mother.
Mrs. Cappege was giving the child in.
dructions with a pistol, showing it now
to aim, and after she had gotten through
with the rudiments, she sat back from
the little fellow on the floor to witness
his dexterity as a shootist. He oex-ked
the play-thing, took deliberate aim, and
fired. Mrs. Capi>cge fell to the floor *
•• orpse, the ball having e-tored her
.Min. This young mu did remarkably
•veil for his age, and when he grows up,
.vdl !*e able to distinguish himself at
ready frontier repartee. There is noth
ing like teaching the young idea how to
shoot. _
The operations of the Mormon mis
sionariea in England have been called to
the attention of Mr. Gladstone, and he
was asked if the English Government
ean do nothing to prevent the “ decoy
ing c-f thousands of young persons to
life of immorality in Utah.” ThaMinU
-1 ter replies that “he fears it is a matter
wherein he cannot interfere, >s it is to be
! presumed the ymutg persons g > volan.
tartly.'’ To this the Heston UtraM sa>
JACKSON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 18S‘2.
quires: “ Would it not be worth while
for somebody to inquire more particu
larly than has yet been done whether our
pwn government cannot do somotliing to
prevent the landing of purposed and
avowed law breakers, recruited in foreign
lands to strengthen an inchoate rebellion
against the authority of the nation, and
to swell the ranks of an alien and organ
ized barbarism within our borders ?”
The Nation’s Dead.
Asa matter of general interest we
give the following list of national mili
tary cemeteries, together with the state
ment of the number of interments in
each:
, IXTIKMI.NIg.
Same of Cemetery* Known. Unknown. Total.
Annapolis, Hid 2/285 204 2,489
Alexandria, La 534 772 I.Butf
Alexandria, Va 3,40*2 120 3,52*2
AuderHonvillo, tia 12,793 921 13,714
AniUtum, Md .* 1,818 4,871
Arliugtou, Va 11,915 4,349 1C,204
Bali’a Bluff, Va 1 24 -2ft
Barrancas, fla 708 657 1,455
baton llouga. La 2,489 495 2,964
battle (iround, D. G., 43 .... 43
Beaufort, 8. C 4,748 4,493 9,241
Beverly. N. J 14a T 164
fcrownyillth T 3Xft* 1,417 1,879 2,796
Camp Butler, 111 1,007 356 1,36*2
Camp Nelson, Ky .2,477 1,165 3,64*2
Gave Hill, Ky 8,344 683 3,927
Chaimette. La 6,837 6,674 12,511
Chattanooga, Tenn v 7,999 4,903 1*2,96*2
City Point, Va 3,789 1*3.4 5,159
Gold Harbor, VA 678 1,581 1,954
Dorinih, Mias 1,789 3,927 6,716
Crown Hill, lad 681 3*2 713
Culpepper, Va 466 911 2^367
Custer Battlefield, M. T.... 202 ... 202
Cypreaa Hills, N. Y B*7lo TO 3JBO
Danville, Ky..,*.. a 336 6 343
Danville, Va 1,172 155 1,327
Fayetteville, Ark 431 781 1,212
Fiun’n Point, N. J 2,614 2,614
Florence, 8. C.. 199 2,799 2,598
Fort Doneison, Tenn 158 611 609
Fort Gibsoii, I. T. 215 2,212 2,4*7
Fort nan...-, v u 2/J 675 Bi 4
Fort Leaveuworlii, Kan..... vu om 1.7H.1
Fort McPbarsou, rveb.... it 162 *291 443
Fort Him Hi* Ark 711 1,182 1,803
Fort Bcott, Kan 390 10: 651
Fredericksburg, Va 2,4*7 1‘2,7i0 15,2 >7
tiettyeburg, Fa 1,907 l,ouß 3,5/5
Uleliuaie, Va. 284 9dt 1,195
Graf6m, W. Va 034 029 1,2 A
HaiAplon, Va 4*9*o 494 5*494
Jefferson HarraCht, Mb ... 8, 4 2,9 6 1j,49J
ileffeicOU (Jjljr, Mo 349 4r2 701
Ke.ikuk.lowa 012 *3 645
Knoxville, Tenn 2,090 1,040 3, MO
Laurel, Md 2/2 0 250
Lebauon, Ky 6V4 277 K>B
Lex-iigDin, Kj 80* 108 913
Little Hock, Ark 3,265 2,3*1 t.odi
Logans CrokvroadH, Ky.;. 3.5 *66 u
LvJuUUi. I‘arU, Aid. 1,0*7 160 1,303
Muriotta, <ia ,io3 2,903 10,id
Memphis, Teun 6,.00 0,ot? 13,37?
ileiAC* C*lt>, Jdo. 284 7*o 1,03*
Mobile, A a 7. 0 113 B*9
Mound City, Id 2,50* 2;72l 6,2*10
Aiaativil a, leuu,... 11,6*3 4,ibl 10,8*6
Natohef, Miss ~od 2, <O9 8,033
TSw Albany, Ind 3,1*9 tnfl 2,0..5
Mew lleruu, ,N. C 2, 77 1,077 3,*2 4
Fhiiadeiph.a, Pa 1,081. 28 1,9/9
Fiiuburgh Landing, ieuii. I,**9 2,861 *,*9o
•poplar Wove, Va 2,i98 4/MJi 6,U9
®crt Hudsuu, La 650 3,*23 3,8i9
fltleigh, N. C 019 562 i,i*i
Iticllmoud, Va 54* f.7>.0 t,<:42
Hock Lueu'l, 111 **77 19 ;.90
Bajlsbuiy, N. C 94 1J,u92 12,1*6
Ban Antonio, 'icx&fl 3.4 Hi*/ 4id
Haven Hints, \ a. 160 1,298 1,333
Soldiers’Home, D. C 5,314 238 6,0 2
Staunton, Va llj.l s*o .*3
Bu.no River, Tehrt 3.821 2,324 6,145
Vickhburg, Miss 8,8*96 l*,iU4 16,090
Wilmington, 27. C 710 1,898 2,490
W'inebecter, Vn 2,094 2,*0fl 4,453
W'oodiawu, Eiunra, N. Y... 8,0.4 16 8,1*99
Yorktovrn, Va. 748 1,434 2,18*
Total 1.1,302 147,508 318,87
Of the whole number of interments
indicated above there lire about ti/JOd
known and 1,5> >0 uniuiowu civilians, and
6,10d known, 3,200 unknown Oonleoer
ates. Of these latter the greater por
tion are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, N. Y., and Finn’s Point Cem
etery, noar Bulem, N. J. The inter
ments at Mexico City are mainly of
those who were killed or died in that
vicinity during the Mexican war, and
include also such citizens of the United
Btates as may have died in Mexico, and
who under treaty provision have the
rignt of burial therein. From the fore
going it will appear tliut alter making
all proper deductions for civilians and
Confederates there are gathered in the
various olaces mentioned the remains oi
nearly SUU.OOO men, who at one tirno
wore the blue during the late war and
who yielded up their lives in defense of
the Government which now so graciously
cares for their ashes.— National Trib
une. v
Cold Feet.
Very many persons do not properly
care tor their feet. They use cotton
stookings and thin shoes in winter;
sometimes they sit, perhaps for hours,
with their feet damp and even wet. It
is not infrequent for females to go about
their household work half a day at a
time with feet inadequately protected,
while the cold currents of air cause a
temperature forty degrees less near the
floor than overhead. Some people be
come so liabituated to cold feet as not to
“feel” the chill the long-continued
cold having contracted the blood vessels
and destroyed tlio proper sensibility of
the nerves. Not a few persons go to
bed in a cold room, with the feet still
cold, to have them yet further chilled by
a cold bed.
Now, the feet sustain a olose nervous
relation to the rest of the body. Hence
it is that the physician applies heat to
the feet to relieve a congested brain.
The feet of one whoso I.gs are paral
yzed will kick when tickled, though
the person is not conscious of the tick
ling, nor, except by sight, even of tlie
kicking. This indicates, too, why a
rusty nail in the foot causes the fearful
disease, lockjaw. Good health cannot
tie enjoyed unless the blood circulate-,
warm and strong through the extremi
ties.
Mothers should see to it that their
children’s feet are well clad ; and should
from time to tune during the day re
move their shoes, to make sure that they
are warm. They should further tram
them to right ideas and habits in this
respect.
With all persons the rule in winter
should lie woolen stockings and thick
soled shoes, and rubbers in wet weather.
Extra soles, whether of cork, felt, or
even thick pasteboard, may lie ued to
great advantage. Clipper* or shoes that
can be easily removed should lie worn
about the house. If the feet are perma
nently cold from the shrinkage of the
blood vessels, this will tend to enlarge
them again. Il; such cases they should
be soak, and every night, for a tune, in
quite-warffi water.
A TOTOfq lady ate half a wedding cxke,
and then tried to dream of her "future
husband. Now she says slj, would
rather did than rnuiry tlie man that she
law in that dream,
Devoted to the Interest o£ Jackson and Butts Countv.
THE BROKET HEARTED.
I Raw that tb Hght of her h**uty had feflrd;
Thfi eye t'iat .Uumed It gazed wildly and drear;
The trustee, neglected, huug loose and unbraided.
And rthrouded a cheek dewed with memory’s
tear.
Yet the breathed not the name of her cruel de*
ceiver;
The aolace of frlendnhlp ’twe* vain to impart.
81ie had loved with the warmth of a guileless be
liever;
But man had been faitkfeaa and broken her
hear!
The dwelling is low where ehe withered In aadnese.
The >K)\ver is deuerted, her harp 1h unstrung;
The roeos she- twined, the light uoteß of gladnes*,
No longer shall blossom, no more a hall be euug.
The dove hath a refuge, a home of protection,
When reutis the storm-cloud, amt vivid its dart;
But desolate wanders the maid of affection
When truth hua been alighted and broken her
heart*
She has gone, and her relics the willow w£epn OV5r J
In tle grave’s quiet slumber are huahed her deep
woes;
Slio hears not the sigh of a recreant lover,
Nopronniflea blighted disturb her repose.
Her spirit, too pure for the bonds that enclnillied it,
Now hallowed in realms whence it ne’er shall de
part.
Looks radiantly down on the wretch who disdained
It;
On liiiu who has rifled and broken a heart
Retribution.
He was a prettv little fellow Of per
haps 3 yearn, and tie looked through the
window of the restaurant with hungry,
longing eyes at the big cakes and rows
of tempting pics; at last flattening his
iittlo nose against tlid glass as if to be
nearer the beautiful viands was more
Satisfying. There was something in his
appearance which was so different from
tlio ordinary little stroet boy that 1 first
stopped aud looked, then addressed
lnm with t
“ Avo you Isungir, little boy?”
lie then turned quiokly, gave a littlo
nod, and said laec ically :
“Awful 1”
“ Well, soppoto: wij go in there and
get aomothing to ? '
The child’s face brightened ; then lie
hesitated aud said, dubiously :
“ Maybe mamma wouldn't like tne
to.”
“Where is your mamma? How came
you here clone V”
“She’s borne, sick. I*vo mnnod
awny;” and he looked up iu my face
with big, brown eyes in which then) was
a sparkle of mischief,
“Run away, have you ? lam afraid
that is very naughty; won’t your mam
ma be anxious F
" Oli, she’s sick, she’s awful siek! And
I ain’t had anything to eat to-day. ”
“ Have you any brothers and sisters?”
Tho little face sobered at once as he
said i ,
I “ No, only Elody, an.! she’s gone
away, and papa's gone away, and ms u
ma suys maybe eht/s going away, and
she don't kuow what 11 come of me.”
“ Who is Eioise? Your sister?”
“ Yes’in.”
“ Where has she gone? Won’t she
comeback?” ;
“No, she ain’t sever coining back ;
they put her in a little black box and
took her to heaven, and mamma cried;
she said she wouldn't never come buck
again, and I haven’t anybody to play
with now/’
“ Eioise ! ” The name had struck a
chord in my heart which awakened
painful memories, and while tho little
fellow was talking my mind had strayed
bock to years ago, and a vision of a
beautiful false friend rose before my
eyes. Suddenly I atked the child ins
name,
“Edwin Alexander Anderson.”
For an instant I felt faint and sick,
happy wife and mother though I now
am. That nanio brought back to me a
time of wretchedness never to be forgot
ten. and I utmost fell like turning away
and leaving the child—A/# child—to bis
fate. Rut, thank Heaven I the impulse
was only for a monent; I knew now
why those brown ejes thrilled me so;
but with the impulse to turn away came
a whisper from my food angel : “Do
good to those who dtspitefully use you.”
And, seeing the little fellow still looked
longingly at the cakes, I took him in,
gave him some buns aid a glass of milk,
and a bag of cookies to take home; but
he could not go alme probably, if, as
lie said, he had rui away; so I asked
him where he lived, ind if he knew the
way home.
“ We lives now in No. 10 Pine street.,
but I dunno where ’til.”
I was not at all sire of the locality
myself, so hailing in omnibus I re
quested to be carried :o my destination;
and then the awkwardness of meeting
his father flashed acrosi me, till 7 recol
lected he had said “Papa’s gone away.”
“ Whore has your papa gone?”
“ He’s gone to thtdogs.”
The answer was certainly startling,
and notwithstanding, r perhaps in con
sequence of my nervuusne-s, I smiled,
and felt in rny throat a mingled incli
nation to laugh and cry. Then I said
beriotisly:
“IV hat do yon warn ? Who told you
that?”
“ Oh. T heard a man tell the doctor so
when he dime to see Eloise, and I found
it in the big map-hook mamma let me
have to ’muse me.”
“ Found what ?”
“ Ids of Dogs ; tlrnfs where he’s gone.
I gnss he aiu’t coming back.” A littla
p use, then iu a low frightened tone,
“ he’s awful cross ;he made mamm i cry,
hd d.”
I felt guilty of learning famite secrets,
mi I turned away from that subject and
sad ;
“ Is your mother very ill V
“Oh, she’s dread uliick 1 She cough*
and coughs, and spits up lots of red
spits; it's awful I ”
Poor K oioe, the brilliant beauty, was
indeed dy r.g ! I looked down aVthe lit
tle i>ov in hie shabby clothev, and f. re
membered the eleganc of his mother’s
attire when we were girls together ; I re
membered, oh, so well ' But I awak
ened from my painful re very by niy lit
tle c mpanioo’s cvclairotng:
“ Here we are i ”
I j i ; 4 the driver, and we got cut and
mounted three flight* of stairs in *• shab
by lodging hcue. ft opened & door,
and there, lying on a stretcher, with a
hard mattress, was ‘.he wreck o£ the
brilliant beauty I lntd not s*ca for tea
years, end who. but tor the child, I
should never Hava rccognlz-d, Sot so
with her, however; *•> the door opened
uU u*t wlul4 watered she held hat her
hand, saving in a low, breathless voioe :
“ Eddy dear, where have you been ? ”
Then she raised her eyes, and, seeing me
standing in the doorway, she turned
deathly pale, and, throwing up her
hands, said, wifttly: “Oh, Goa, she
lias Cotno, she has come I Alice, Alice,
forgive mo ! lam dying now ! ”
Forgive her ? Yes, with the grim
shadow of death hanging over her I
could not do otherwise. I went to the
bedside and took her hand.
"I urn glad to have found you,
Eloise; all is forgiven.”
I could say no more ; the poor, thin
face, feverish eyes and shrunken form
toade my heart ache. She raised her-
Eelf up, and, clutching my hand, said :
“ Listen, Alice, lam dying. I must
speak now; my punishment is from
Heaven jhe has left mo. Yon are re-
venged, and iny little girl has gone, and
he ” —pointing to the boy—“ the image
of his father, will soon be alone, all
ttlone 1 My father and mother aud sistbr
are all dead, and his father—l do not
know if lie is living or dead, but he
should not have my innocent boy to
ruin. Oh, Alice, you look the same as
ever; will you take care of my boy ? ”
For an instant I recoiled; I take Edwin
Anderson's child to mf house to live
■with my children ? It seemed impos
sible ; but those largo, wistful eyes wore
fixed on me ; 1 must answer.
“I will find a home for him, Eloise.”
“You will not take him yourself,
Alice ? ” And sho raised herself up, aud
excitement lent strength to her voice.
“ Alice, I heard of your marriage to a
good man. Have you children ? ”
“I have a little girl 3 years old and a
baby.”
“ Then for God's sako take my boy
and make him goo 1; let him be your
child, and, when he gets old enough to
understand, givo him that desk," point
ing to one on a table at her side. “ I
have written out my history as a warn
ing to him. and all my p.[>ors of any
value ate there ; I have nothing left of
mv father's property j he has sold it all
and squandered the money. I believe
he went to Europe and is living some
where in Italy with another of his dopes;
my boy ia portionless. Will you, oh,
Alice, will yon forgive all aud take
him?"
“I will,”
I could say no morn, and, the excite
ment, being ovek, she fell back exhausted.
I summoned assistance from one of t'i
other rooms, and begged them to go
the nearest physician ; but it was too
late ; he camo but to say that Bho wns
go : ng font, and ere night she died with
nor head on my shoulder.
I bad sent a note to ray husband ex
plaining ray absence, and hie was there
with a carriage to take home myself and
our new child. He knew nil. I had
told aim the sore secret of tny heart
before I married him, As Eloise had
said, ho was a good man, and when I
told him her wish about her boy he
said quietly :
“ Tho child is ours now.”
There was a quiet funeral, and Eioise
Anderson was laid beside hor lost little
girl.
And this is the story of our two lives.
Yeurs before, Eioise Grayson and I,
Alice Browne, wore togethc? at Ma lame
C.’s boarding-school for young ladies.
Her father was called wealthy, and she
and u sister several years her aenioi
were all that were left of a large family.
Eioise was very beautiful, and, when at
school she bud admirers who would meet
uu and bow iu our daiiy walks.
After we left school I made her a visit
of a few days and invited her to come
and see me iu our quiet country home
when she liked. Hhe hud, however, too
gay a life and too many admirers to care
to accept my invitation then. Mean
while I settled down at home ami helped
my mother sew and learned to keep
house, and also learned something else
—to love with all uiy heart a handsome,
dashing young man who bad come to
our quiet village to stay for a few days,
but had lengthened out those days into
weeks. Edwin Anderson almost lived
at my father’s bouse, and, at last, with
my father’s lull consent, we were en
gaged.
Of course in the fullness of my joy I
wrote to ail my friends, and Eioise
among the others. Not long after, she
wrote to say she was coming to make me
that, long-promised visit. Well, she
came, ana at her very first meeting with
Edwin she completely monopolized his
attention; she came to my room that
night and declared herself unarmed with
him—“a perfect Adonis.” Hhe envied
me, called me a sly pass for catching
such a handsome man in that out-of the
way place; then kissed me good-night
and left me with a strange chill at my
heart. Ido not know how it was, bnt
she was always with ns; we never
seemed to be alone, and she englossed
him completely; sometimes she would
laugh and say so caroletmly:
'* Oh, Ally, you must not mind ; but
your Edwin's voice j tint chorda splendid
iv with mine; you will lend him to me,
won’t you?”
I>* they sang together and I listened.
I, too, could sing, but my voioe was
nothing to hers. Who was very fond of
rhling. and ws had but one lady's horse
and she hud forgotten to bring her
habit; ® nearly every meaning she
would borrow mine, and the two would
go off for a ride and not return until din-
ner-time.
My father began to look coldly at her,
and my motlier often sighed as she saw
them together. I wa* too proud to show
what I felt, but I locked my door at
night now; I could not bear to hear
Eloise rhapsodize about my lover, whom
I never saw now except in her society.
She stopped for six weeks—six weary
weeks to me. Then one diiv, after a
longer ride than oanwl with Edwin, itho
announced that she must go b me at
once. Her talk and manner were flighty
all flay, and until late at night we hetird
her moving about her room packing her
trunk—snch elegant clothes as she had,
putting my quiet muslins and cambrics
in the shade. Next morning she loads
us good-by and wont away, my father
romerkitg after she bad gone:
“ Well, I don’t want to ba inhospitable,
but I hope that girl wont come hurt)
again very soon. ...
All day I waited and w&tched for
Edwin. Now, I thought, I will have
him to myself pn<*> mors; but ho did n t
I eomo. The ne%t day waned, uud still
he tU wrt <wf- Om tba third day of
weary waiting 1 took up the newspaper
after my father had got through with it
and looked carelessly and absently at
the advertisements, the local items, and
then my eye wandered to the marriago
list. There I saw the marriago of Alex
ander Anderson to Eloise Greysou. I did
not faint nor scream. I only feit numb
for a while, then I quietly handed the
paper to my mother, pointing to that
place, and as quietly left the room aud
went up-stairs to my 'own chamber,
where I sat by the window, looking out
on tho moonlit garden, aud tried to un
derstand. My mother soon followed
mo, imd then passed the most miserable
hours of my existi nee ; my first, love and
faith and joy all shattered. Of course I
felt as If J must die ; but I was proud; I
would not be pitied by tbo neighbors ;
and bo 1 threw off the awful pain when
I was with others. Youth is verv buoy
ant; I had good health, a good home
ftndgcod parents ; and soon two bright,
tensing cousins were invited to make us
a visit; so in time I crushed this love,
which was sin now, from uiy young
heart.
Five years afterward T met mid learned
to love with a quieter, deeper afieetion,
born of respect, my good husband, Hen
ry Halford, an elderly lawyer, vh< came
to seo my father about a lawsuit, and
having come oncC came again and again,
until at last he came to carry mo to u
beautiful house in the city ns its mistress
and his honored wife. We have two
dear littlo oliildrou, and I am Very hap
py, and very proud of my “ elderly ”
husband.
We call our now son Alexander Hal
ford, dropping tho old name forever;
and I pray that he may boas good and
honorable a man as his adopted father
Ub
The Uen*e of Hob Law.
Tho existence of mob law In a commit
i ty indicates ehlier a state of senu-civ
- i r.ntioii as di played in our frontier set
loinoi ts where government is still in
mbryo, or a lack of confidence in the
.unties roeti tl out by the courts. When
rc find this diaord r apparently increas
k mold ami conncrtative portions of
Iu country, ami when summary ven
wirti for crime is winked at if md
.pciilj approved by ohi-r, respectable
i -opltyil w evident tliatsonu thing more
I.mi ordinary is wrong. They don’t
1 .prove of mob law hi cause they believe
t. to lx) right. I hey know it is all wrong,
oil a d.sgiace to the flammunity even
.lien the suff. rer from it deserved bis
ate, instead of being, as is sometim *s
b<- eoso, an entirely innooeiiUndi'idua 1 .
Vhy is this? There cun he only one
.newer. It i til.-delay anil A fli. mtv, if
i- it impossibility i • many caa-, of pnn
idiing criminals through the ordinary
uolliods This Constitution was -.mreml
t > guarantee to crin Inals the r ght to a
ji.-edy and impartial trial, but that in
cost case. i the lost thir g they want.
Tlio vary first effort of a prisoner's at
iirm is too often successful, is lor de
ny, in tho hope that new subj* cts may
oiigross the attention of the pub ic, wlt
ic: sos become scattered snd the moat
infiiverahlo facta forgotten. That, the
public bus any tight to a speedy trial is
a fact, too often ignored. This of itself
tends to encourage crime, for the moral
effect of punishment is largely lost when
so long delayed, even if conviction is
attained. Then the Insanity dodge has
boon played so extensively of late years
as to nrhctic&lly work a denial of jus
tice. Mon whose sanity had been trusted
all through life in every sort of business
transactions are suddenly found to have
become irresponsible beings, and the
law which would have ln-ld a man re
sponsible in all ordinary matters sud
denly finds him irresponsible should he
lake a notion to imbrao his bauds in tho
blood of his fellow-man. To heighten
the absurdity, if possible, a person
whom twdvo men have declared so in
sane that be can kill bis brother without
legal responsibility, is allowed to go forth
a free man to carry out bis deadly work
on someone else. It would seem that
oven lunatics who go shout killing peo
ple ought to lie confined in the interests
of society. The general public is en
tirely out of patience witli all this, and
the feeling has Income very general that
if the courts will not punish criminals
the people will take the law in their
own hands. This is not creditable, bnt
dealing with facts, there is no use
mincing things. When the people of
this country oonelndo to abolish capital
punishment they will do it through their
Legislature!), and in the meantime they
expect tne courts to puinsu com - speed
ily and vigorously. With the certainty
that punishment in a legal way is sure
to follow crime tho motive and excuse
for mob action will dis ippesr, and with
it the acts themselves.— Ht/nUtenvilln
Herald.
The Eavesdropper.
The roost contemptible thing in nature
is the eavesdropj-r. Tbs name was
originally given to the person who
listened beneath the windows and at the
doors of people’s lions s, but custom
authorizes it mi in spesking of any of
the tribe of contemptible sne.iks ho
p, k about ami listen and pry into their
ueighb. rs’ affair*.
The eavesdropper the impress
of bia character noon his couuteoance
and betrays it m h sneaking p
gait. He sidh b into every company
where he thinks any private matt, r it
being discussed, and peeks over tl eir
sboiilders with tuft mouth scape like a
young, chimney swallow waiting for a
worm, and here he will stav until tlie
oompnny is eith* r compelled to change
tho subject of their t k or seek bouib
some .pit not info ted by the ev.-
dropp* r. led two gentlemen ait down
at any p hit along the street and engage
in private conversation, and it will not i
be long before the eaveMlropper toko*
up bia position n'-sr-th. mto pry into
what do s not cone, m him.
Yriur ‘ avesdropper has no shame. He
cannot take a hint, and th. re are hut ]
; two ways to get rid of him. One is to
go where he can’t find yon, and the
’ other U- to kick him for hit; insolence
, Those- who prefer tho former method
lean take it, but -a for ourself we have
- detox-rained to adopt the latter, tlxe next
‘ rime occasion requires.
Tu man who Vs “going to uo," never
floes anything.
Ei.lt t *1.50 i er
NUMBER VK
POPULAR SCIENCE.
i Ordinary combustible subßtanoesmay
be .set on tire by nitric acid.
Ocb earth is moving through space
with a velocity of nine miles a second.
The temperature of the blood depends
on the rapidity with which it is oxidized,
Coagulation serves in nature the
purpose of stopping wounds. Balt pre
vents it.
The edible swallow’s is made
from a secretion from the glands of a
kind of swift.
Defective color vision is chiefly man
ifested in the inability to seo the differ
ence between blue and green.
Glucose is used for manufacturing
table syrups, candies, food for bees, arti
ficial honey and in brewing.
When warm air is forced through a
hot mixture of turpentine and water a
disinfecting substance is produced.
In oases of arsenic poisoning the
phosphorus which exists as phosphoric
acid in the brain is replaced by arsenic.
A solution of smelling salts in water,
with a slight pnqxirtion of other saline
matters, contains all the elementary
tmdies which enter into the composition
of protoplasm.
Thin disks of very different sub
stanoes emit sonnds when exposed to the
action of a rapidly interrupted beam of
sunlight, proving sonorousness to be a
property of matter.
German scientists are making a study
of the relative distribution of blonde*
and brunettes, in aid of tlieit investiga
tions of the origin of the German people.
The anteunse of insect*, besides being
orgituß of touch, seem to be organs of
smell. Flies, deprived of their anteiinte
cease to display interest in tainted meat.
Tiie arguments of Malthas in rognrJ
to the relation between food supply
and increase of population are siiid to
apply to fish. They increase mois
rapidly tliau their food.
Ammonia is to be found everywhere.
Ily susi>endlng a piec.) of glass, and
after u while washing its outer surface
by moans of a spray bottle, the pressure
of HinmoiiiA may lie asm rtaiued.
A goou climber oan ascend only 9 000
feet in nine hours ; that it, raise his
own weight 1,0.10 fe. t an hour. The
work done hy the h. art is iqmvaleut to
raising i<s own weight 13,800 loot iu the
same lime.
The archwopteryx, the famous fossil,
r. ptile-like bird, was about the size of s
pigeon, si and lia l a ta 1 as long aw its
bony, supported by numerous vertebrae,
a 9 iir of leathers corresponding to ta. li
vertebras.
The fo lowing is useful in removing
inlt ft ans or blotching wood: Oxalie
~oid dissolved iu warm water, aud ap
pli ,1 to 'ho parts stained, will remove
stain, or blench wood that is too lurk to
match any ether part.
Two of the old-world reptile* have re
cently been disooveiel at Stuttgart.
Siino aurus L tne name given them, aud
they form an imp. riant link iu thechaiu
of evolution, being land animals in pro
cess of adaptation ro the waUr.
Longings.
Though wo seem grieved at the short
ness of life in general, we are wishing
every period of it at an end. The minor
longs to be of age. then to be a man of
business,'then to make up an estate, then
to retire. Thus, although the whole life
is allowed by every one to be short, tho
several divisions of it appear long and
tedious. We are for lengthening our
span in general, but would fain contract
the parts of which it is composed. Tho
usurer would he very well satisfied t'>
have ail the time aiiiiihiluU and be
tween the present moment and the next
quarter day. The politician would bo
contented to lose three years of his life,
could lie place things in the posture,
which he fancies they will stand in, after
siieli a revolution of time. Tho lover
would l>e glad to strike out of his exis
tence all the moments that are to puss
before the next meeting.
Thus, us fast as our time runs, we
should he very glad in most parts of out
lives, that it ran much faster than it
and ais. Several hours of the {lav hang
upon our hands; nay, we wish away
whole years; and travel through time an
though a oonntry filled with many wild
and empty wastes, which wo would faiu
hurry over, that wo may arrive at these
several little settlements or imaginary
points of rost.
An Occasion for Boycotting.
In reply to a correspondent who in
dignantly asks if nothing can be done to
stop the vandal* who are transforming
the face of tho country into one vast ad
veivising medium, tlie (Springfield He
publican observes that one obstacle in
the way of preventing such outrages is
the melancholy fact that farmers and
landed proprietor* “don’t care, ora if
they do, it is only $1 or $2 worth. Tlie
dii approval of the advertising flend ia
cbnfl felt by persona who don’t own
any fences or sheds or rocks—who have
nothing but a sensitive ta-*te and a pow
erless indignation. These unfortunate
j> ople can't do anything exot-pt swear
i.ev.-r to l uy a particle of the soops or
dentifrice# or elixirs or suspender* or
other contrivances so insolently alvei
tised, and never to deal with the ftdvcr
ttsi ra. We shonld like to see a league
f. rniod, lionud by that sol. mn obhpa
t on—it is a ;>eriectly proper occasion
for lioycoUing.”
How Forest Fire* f'tort.
Investigations made in Canada and
Michigan show that the destructive for
est fire generally start and spread in the
brunch.-* and foliage of trees that ure
loft on tho ground by the lumbermen.
Tho rtsrioua bough* of the p ne, hem
lock, spruce and fir will, when dry, kin
dle with the touch of a spark, and pro
duce beat so intense ns to give a tiro
gr.at headway. It will then dry the
wood in Imng trees to such an extent
that they will bum readily. After a for
fire baa beau raging for considerable
time it heats the air that moves before
it, so that it yreporea the treea through
u:.ica it paste* lb feed the advancing
flames. A tire once under headway
-i .11y continue in its course till
} tin CAtvusivo' clearing or body of wafer
1 in aaelwd.