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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A. J. HARP, FmblUher.
THE NEW8.
Interesting 1 Happening* from all I’olnti
EASTERN AND MIDDLE HTATKN.
Mrs. Horatio Seymour died a le v days
since at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Bos-
coe Conkling, in Utica, N. Y. She had been
very low since the death of her husband,
Governor Seymour.
A New York kknatk ape -Ill committee
which has been investigating the alleged
bribery of New York eitv aldermen in con¬
nection with the granting of tho Broadway
surface railroad franchise has made a
long report The report alleges that
the investigation unearthed gross violation
of law, in which public plunder, bribery and oorrup
tion, railroad speculators, aldermen
and others are implicated. Swift and sum¬
mary meted justice, the the report says, should be
out to guilty ones, and the fran¬
chise wrongfully acquired should be restored
to its rightful owners—the people.
At the sale of the late Mrs. Morgan's art
treasures, which followed the sale of her
eight paintings inches in high, New York, a porcelain vase
made in China about 300
years $18,000. ago, brought the enormous sum of
Ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee died
few days since at the residence of his son-in-
uged law, Ulysses sixty-one S. Grant, Salem Centre, N. Y.,
Niagara years. He was born in
youth; amassed county, a fortune N. Y,; in went Colorado, West in his
he entered the legislature, where
of t he house; served two becoming in speaker
territorial delegate, terms Congress as
and when Colorado be-
oame a State in 1876 was elected United
States Senator as a Republican. He lost
soD-in-Iaw $500,000 by the Grant General & Ward failure. His
was Grant’s youngest
son.
f^Tdlad^°h’ eK '^d < ad ley ^ neral ^ reWS< * r ’
The schooner Robert Byron, from Port-
and, board, Me., for Cape de V erd, seven men on
has been given upas lost.
A tugboat’s boiler exploded in Boston ba ay
and the crew of five men on board were all
killed.
Miss Belle Finch, residing near Ithaca,
N. Y., has been suffering from some nervous
disorder for two years, and is said to have
gone without food for the last eighty-five
days or more.
At least 100 of the 105 inmates of the coun¬
oned ty )>oorhouse at Lebanon, Penn., were pois¬
the other morning by partaking of cof¬
fee which contained Paris green. At night
twelve persons were reported in a dying con¬
dition.
Frank Murgatroyd, of Philadelphia,
sneezed so hard in bed the other morning
that he ruptured a blood vessel, and in a few
minutes was a corpse.
MOUTH AND WEST.
Mahpi Gras was celebrated this year at
New Orleans with the usual ceremonies.
There wasagaily costumed procession headed
by the King of the Carnival: the city was
thronged profusely decorated; thousands of strangers
the streets, and jollity ruled.
Nineteen men have been arrested within
two weeks near Portland, Ore. by United
states authorities on the charge of attacking
Chinamen.
M. E. Grace, a young lawyer, and J. M
Brou, a prominent business man, met in thj
clerk's office of the United States distric
court at New Orleans, and quarreled about a
case which the funner was conducting
against a triend of the latter. Pistols were
drawn and discharged. Grace was instantly
kilit'd, and Brou mortally wounded.
The B. E. Lee Camp No. 1 of Confederate
veterans, Richmond, Va., has contributed
*‘6 to the fund for the late General Han¬
cock’s widow.
A colored boy of thirteen years, em¬
ployed Tams by Mrs. Sauls, a widow living at
Cross Roads, S. C.. attacked his
employer mid t lien with robbed an ax, the knocking house. He her senseless,
lured and lodged was cap-
in jail, but a crowd of citi¬
zens took him out and 1 anged him to a gate
post.
WASHINGTON.
Nominations by the President: Samuel
E. Wheatley, of Washington, to lie commis¬
sioner of the District of Columbia; V. O.
King, of Texas, to be secretary of legation
mid consul-general-of the United States at
Bogota ; I bile Letcher, of Missouri, to be con¬
sul of the United States at Rio Grande do
Sul. Postmasters—Jas. A. Wall at Methuen,
JUa s.; Chas. J. Porter at Bethel, Conn.,
Henry Van Seoy at Kingston, Penn.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, has made a
statement to the House committee of mves-
tigat electric on concerning his relations to the Pan-
lie purchased Telephone contjiauy. He states that
100 shares of stock for $1,000,
as eive a regular business transaction, and lias
re- 1 one dividend amounting to $10 or $15.
The President has vetoed the bill to quiet
t tl • o| settlers on the Des Moines river lands
m Iowa. He says that the jioiut at issue in
tins ease was fully settled years ago, and if
re n • c l now it would produce legal strife
and a.v,uits.
FOREIGN.
Fearful storms occurred during the last
voyage .of the British steamer Acton, just
arrived at Queenstown from Baltimore, and
two sailors were washed overboard, while
another was killed at the wheel.
A party of Apaches, supposed to be some
of Geronimo’s band, are destroying lives and
property in Northern Mexico.
Several, engineers and thirty workmen
employed on a Turkish railway near Vianja
were killed the other day by Arnauts.
Viscount Dgpplin, heir of the Earl of
K mnoull, died at Monte Carlo the other day,
and is supposed to have committed suicide on
aei o.mt of losses at tli gambliug table.
' a1 -paraiso, Chili, has lostan entire busi¬
ness block, l, including the city’s principal
"™I IS > y Are; damage estimated at $1,000,-
It is announced from Rome that two
American cardinals are to be created—the
Baitimore P ° f yuebeoaud the Archbishop of
Five persons—three passengers and two
railroad employes—wore killed and twenty-
six passengers injured—thirteen of them
trains dangerously—in a collision between two
riear Monte Curt the notorious l.u-
to; lean gambling resort,
1 UK Princess Helene de Ypsilauti, of Vi-
enna, ls announced to lie a bankrupt. She is
" daughter of tin late millionaire ban'ter
'iron Hina, and widow of t lie late Greek
envoy and minister plonip itouliary to Aus-
la Her father at his death left each of his
tnfee daughters $15,000,000.
Islanders Starving.
WOEFl’l, destitution on tiie west¬
ern COAST OF IRELAND.
The British government has placed gun¬
boats at the service of Mr. Tuke to aid him
in his work of relieving the distress among
the inhabitants of the islands along the west¬
ern Irish coast. Indescribable distress has been
developed the Arran among the people inhabiting
having hardly Isles, anything off Galw r ay, who, and beside
left but moss sea
grass to eat, are without fire and
often without clothing and shelter. It
is not rare to find girls of seventeen and
eighteen years of age kept in enforced
hiding ‘fey during the daytime because
which are bereft of every thread of clothing,
has long ago been bartered away for
s ?™ potatoes or roots to feed the smaller
children 1 with.
™ P“°ple are slowly dying of starvation by
e Rrr ’ rp and measures of relief on a large
. >
scale have been taken in Ireland. Money
nas been sent from America to aid the sul-
A BOY’S TERRIBLE CHIME,
KILLING HIM FATHER, MOTHER:
BROTHER AND NINTER.
Ttic Youthful Murderer Tell* the Story o
HI* Horrible Deed.
Particulars have just been received of tha
Murder of the Sells family by its youngest
member, a boy seventeen years of age, near
Osage mission, Neosho county, Kan. The
crime is one of the most horrible on record.
Mr. Mendel, living thirteen miles northwest
of Osage mission, was awakened about 1
o’clock a. m. by a scream, shortly followed by
another coming from the road in front of his
house. He went to the door and was met by
YVillie Sells, the sou of J. W. Sells, living
about a quarter of a mile up the road. The
hoy cried out: “Mr. Mendel, a man is at our
house with a hatchet and has hurt father and
mother. I don’t know how badly.” Mr.
Mendel went with the boy, arousing J. I.
Uice, another neighbor, on the horrible way. Upon
reaching met their Sells’ house a most sight
Ill eyes. the
the bed in north room lay Walter,
Willie’s eldest brother and bedfellow, aged
nineteen, his throat cut and the entire top of
his head chopped off, exposing the brain.
Passing into the main room, where a light
was burning, they stumbled over the form of
Mr. Sells, his head crushed and almost sever¬
ed from his body. Near by lay Mrs. Sells
aged forty-three years, her head' mashoil and
a fearful gash in her throat. On the lied in
the southeast corner of this room lay Ina,
Willie’s sister, aged fourteen, killed in the
same manner as the other three. Near Mr.
Sells’ heal was a bloody butcher knife and
on blood. a chair a hatchet, matted with hair and
The boy said that he had been awakened by
something, with and looking up, saw a low, heavy-
set man dark hair, cut close, standing in
the door. This man stepped in, and reaching
over Willie, struck his brother, Willie who lav in
the back of the bed. jumped, .an.
and dressed while the man was still
in the room. This operation, 1 e
claimed, rushed took him of just half a minute. Tile
man out one door, while Willie ran
out of the other, and started up the road on
a run after him. A short distance off stood a
man which on horseback, holding another horse,
qpon the man vaulted, and both made
off. Willie then went on to Mendel’s.
After the bodies had been discovered Rice
took Willie home with him, where he slept
soundly till morning. A coroner’s jury was
impanelled rested and an investigation begun. Sus¬
the picion stand. He upon the boy and he was put on
swore that he had not washed
his hands since the murder, but lns|iection
showed that while his hands and wrists were
clean there was a water mark about his wrists,
and his forearms were deeply incrusted with
blood which appears to have spurted up his
sleeves. Around his finger nails, also, there
was blood, and upon removing his pants his
drawers were found to be saturated
with spattered blood and his bare feet were
also blood-stained. His feet fitted all the
bloody footmarks to be. found.
The boy stoutly denied being the murderer,
and throughout all the trying ordeal main¬
tained a bold front. The boy was smuggled
into a buggy by Police Judge Lon Cambern
and Deputy Sheriff Locke, and driven to .jail
in Erie, for fear of lynching, which ap¬
peared imminent. On the way to Erie he
said to Mr. Cambern: “Those fellows
tried to get me to say that I did it, but I
thought hardly it would doubt be best not to admit it.”
There is a but that the boy com¬
mitted the dreadful crime, though no motive
is known. Mr. Sells had in his pooketbook
$100 in gold and $170 in bills, which were not
disturbed, beside three watches. John Hall,
of Erie, has been appointed guardian of the
boy. coroner's jury
The was in secret session all
day, and at 4 o’clock P. m. returned a verdict
charging young Sells with the crime. The
boy was remanded to jail, where he was
visited by a correspondent. He protested his
innocenccaud showed ncmoi c feelim Mian if it
had been so many hogs he had butchered. He
is five feet six inches high, weighing 145
pounds. though it He has a stubborn rather intelligent expression. face, al¬
weiTS a His
complexion is fair and his moderately high
forehead is crowned with a shock of light
hair. He has hazel eyes, a straight, well-
formed nose and large mouth. His hands
and arms are large and muscular.
The Sells family were highly-respected
country Methodist people. church. They Mr. were all members of
the Sells was a school
teacher. Willie, the son, is undoubtedly the
murderer, and the only motive lie could have
had was that his brother Walter had been at¬
tending school away from home, and he had
become jealous. Willie, Walter had just returned
from school and after murdering his
brother, probably thought it necessary to kill
tha others to conceal his crime
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Joseph Jefferson will begin a spring
tour April 23, under the management of his
son Charley.
It is reported recuperative that Clara medicines Morns is the obliged
to take on stage
while acting.
The music-loving people of Toronto are
making preparations for holding a great mu¬
sical festival in June.
Young men who play on the flute or
clarionet in Santa the authorities. Barbara, Cal., are ruth¬
lessly fined by
Thkodore Thomas, conductor of the
American opera of company $5,000 month. in New York, re¬
ceives a salary a
Saha Bernhardt says that she expects
to make 1,600,000 francs, or about $800,000
during her coming engagement in America.
Mrs. Dinah Mui.ock Craik, the author
of “John Halifax, Gentleman,” be and writing other
famous novels, is reported to a
play for Mary Anderson.
William J. Furguson, one of the promi¬
nent eccentric comedians of the American
stage, was twenty and Ohio years railroad. ago a newsboy on
the Baltimore
Forepaugh and Barnum have renewed
their last other’s year's agreement circus territory. not to Forepaugh interfere
with each
will show for the first time in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Langtry is busy storing away her
wealth here. She has gradually been in adding New
to her investments in mortgages
York city until she now holds over $150,000.
The great English tenor, Sims Beeves, is
still compelled audiences. frequently As he charges disappoint $500 ex¬
pectant concert, it is estimated that he loses about per
$30,000 is per yearthrough trouble to “indisposition.” him. His
throat a sore
Aitdran, the author of “Mascotte,” has
made another hit in Paris. It is descrilied as
a very sparkling little comic opera. Its title
is “Le Sarment D’Amour,” and it was played
at the Nouveautas of Louis recently. XV. The plot is
laid in the time
The popular song “His Heart was True to
Poll,” which Rosina Vokes has introduced to
American audiences, the was originally Brougham’s sung by
Mrs. John Wood.in late John
burlesque of “Pocahontas.” The sougwas
written expressly for her by F. C. Burnand.
It is said that when the next and last comic
opera by Gilbert and Sullivan is sensational completed,
W. S. Gilbert will try his hand at
society comedy. It has always been his am¬
bition to shine as a successful dramatist, but,
although he has written many comedies, they
have all proved dismal failures.
J. W. La n erg an, a veteran actor, one of
the best known men in the East, died unex-
pectedly at Boston, March 1. He was fifty-
seven years old, and was born at Taunton.
He began his theatrical career at the age of
sixteen. His field of work was chiefly con¬
fined to New England Of late year- Mr.
Lanergan has managed a theatre in Law¬
rence and various companies on thc New
England circuit, and has given a great deal of
his attention to training pupils ior the stage,
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 18, 1886.
HANGING FROM FREES,
THE FATE OF THREE DlHI’F.ltA
DOES IN INDIANA.
End of the Aliirilrroii* t'nreer of a Fullin'
Son and Brother.
Three leaders of a gang of desperadoes in
Martin county, 1ml., have just received sum¬
mary punishment at the hands of a midnight
band of lynchers, Details of the affair aro
as follows:
mittee Precisely at 1 1 o’clock a vigilance com¬
of about 10 ( 1 , composed of men from
Martin anil (Irange counties, surrounded the
j ul at Shoals. The lynchers were very quiet
and orderly, and the sheriff was first
aroused by the barking of his dog,
followed l>v n knock on tho door.
He askod who was there, and the answer
lowed was a crashing by in blows of the which front door, fol¬
demolished heavy it. The mob then completely
went to the
jail door and knocked off the lock and were
dismayed to find another which would
not yield to blows, After .about
twenty minutes a man in the
ci owd was found who understood opening
the cell door. it yielded to iris efforts
and the lynchers rushed in and grabbed
all three of the intended victims, Thomas,
Martin, and Jehu Archer, the latter the
smi of is Thomas, the ringleaders of
what known us the Archer gang.
The mob was provided with the necessary
tools, they both to get in and to capture them if
made any resistance Several of them
had long iron hooks with which to grab the
prisoners around the neck if they resisted
without endangering their own lives.
When tho Archer gang saw the lynchers
they offered had no resistance, and they when asked if
they speak. Their anything hands to say behind refu e l to
ware tied their
backs, and they were taken over to the court
house yard. They were again asked if they
still had any confession lieing given to by make, of and,
they no reply unceremoniously any them
were 1 abc^t rixf/ ^s strung
Xrat y oX , ga^ 8 > < t
the of
age, brother was Tom, hanged aged first. about Martin forty-five Archer,
to years,
was suspended next. John Archer, son of
Tom Archer, who was about thirty years old,
was hanged to a tree with his hands tied be-
hind him, about thirty feet from his father,
The crimes for which the three men were
hanged comprise almost everything in the
criminal calendar from murder to petty
thieving. For twenty-five years Martin they had
been a reigning terror, both in and
Orange counties, and had terrorized the
community in which they lived until the
people did not know when they went
to bed at night whether they would be mur-
dered before morning or their houses burned
down. They never iailed to visit vengeance
fora fancied slight, and manv a farmer in
Orange and Martin counties has lost consider-
able suras ot money by daring robbery, the
theft of cattle, or the burning down of
barns and houses. ^Martin Archer had i
a family living in Southwest Town-
ship, yigkdT^teichiuJ^hilin Orange county. " who are
e s^
of the country. Old Tom Archer, as he was
called, lived in Martin county, Columbia
township, and had a large family, every I '110
of whom are under indictments for larceny,
SZSt in Columbia “K£’ township, SUTlJnSt and in the past ”
year
ago and brought to Shoals by Sheriff Padg- |
ett. The chief cause for their being hanged
was the confession of John Lynch, another I
member of the gang, who is in the Washing-
ton (Daviess county) jail. He made a con¬
fession and told where the bones of a man
named Bunch one of tne vie-
tims, were. They were found in two differ-
ent graves, the body having been cut length¬
wise, and each piece being buried separate,
It seems that unknown parties followed the |
officials Buneh when they and went to them the place where j
was buried saw exhume the |
remains. Word was immediately spread j
themselves over the country, accordingly. and the vigilants prepared j j
National Education.
THE BLAIR APPROPRIATION BI1.1
PASSES THE SENATE.
What is known as the Blair educational
bill has passed the United States Senate in an
amended form after a long debate. The finaj
vote upon the bill’s passage was thirty-six
yeas to eleven nays. The vote in detail was
as follows:
Yeas—Berry, Blackburn, Blair, Bowen,
Call, Colquitt, Conger, Cullom, Jackson, Do!ph, Eustis, Jones
Evarts, George, Gibson, Hoar,
(Ark.), Kennn, Logan, Mahone, Manderson, Pal-
Miller (N. Y.), Mitchell (Ore.), Morrill,
8awyeL^w'ioneiy *Telkw,'Vance/Van Wilson (la.)—36. Wyck,’
Voorkees, Nays—Cockrell, Walthall, Cooke, Frye, Cray, Hale,
Harris, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.), Maxey, Plumb,
The educational bill provides that for eight
years after its passage there shall be annual¬
ly appropriated from the treasury the follow¬
ing sums in aid of common school education
in the States and Territories and District of
Columbia and Alaska: The first year,
$7,000,000; the second year, $10,000,000; fourth the
third year, $15,000,000; the year,
$13,000,000; the fifth year, seventh $11,000,000; $7,- the
cj-d, year the 9,000,“On-. eighth the *5,W0,0CJ—making year,
000,000; $77,000,000, beside which year, there is special
a
appropriation of $2,000,000 to aid in the erec¬
tion of school-houses in sparsely settled dis¬
tricts, making the total fund of $79,000,-
000. The money is given to the several
States and Territories “in that proportion
which the whole number of persons m each,
who, being of the age of ten years and over,
cannot write, bears to the whole number of
such persons in the United States,” according
of oblL^ and 6 thon^aecorcL
ing to the latter figures. In States
cbfl(hen^^ r nioney sliall°be'pai'/oiiVin'sup- colored schools
port of such white and re-
Ef ^.drrttw^
twenty-one years old in such State
bear to each other by the cen¬
sus. No State is to receive the
benefit of the act until its governor shall file
with the secretary of the interior a statement
giving full statistics of the school system, at-
tendance of white and colored children,
schools*!^opera^mn^urabe/and teachers, etc. comperisa-
tion of
y^fr^TtWs’hinTmoromon^than paid out the previous from its own it rev- ha£
schools. year If State
enues for common any or
Territory declines to take its share of the na¬
tional fund, such share is to be distributed
among the States accepting the benefits of
the fund. If any State or Territory with misap¬
plies the fund, or fails to comply the
conditions, it loses all subsequent apportion¬
ments.
Samples of all school books in use in the
common schools of the States and Territories
shall be filed with the secretary of the in¬
terior.
Any State or Territory accepting the pro¬
visions of the act at the first session of its
legislature after the passage of the act shall
receive its pro mt<* share of all previous an¬
nual appropriations. the right to alter
Congress reserves or re¬
peal the act.
The bill has gone to the House of Repre¬
sentatives for action. •
The word cannibal signifies a brave oi
valiant man, and is derived from tin
n-ime bv which the Carribees called
themselves.
By the Sea.
C sat by the sea wlien the sun sliono bright
And flooded its depths with a blaze of light,
And the gulden sheen and emerald green,
Liko gems in the crown of a fairy queen,
Flashed forth in glittering splendor;
And the soft winds sighed on tho shining tide,
And the mourning waves to tho breeze replied
In tones that were low and tender.
I stood by the sea when tho moon was high,
And the stars shone out from the midnight
sky,
And a w, mderous sight was that shimmering
light
That flashed from the crests of the surges
bright,
Like the stars in trembling motion;
And the moon’s soft ray on the waters lay,
And its gleaming track made a bright
highway
Across the slumbering ocean.
I stood by the sea when the lightning flashed,
And the waves ran high and the thunder
crashed,
And the blinding spray that was dashed
away
By the howling wind in the furious fray,
Brought death to the hardy toiler,
When his ship, at last, by the stormy blast,
A dismantled wreck on tho rock was casts
A prey to the ruthless spoiler.
The beautiful sea! the treacherous seat
A joy and a terror it is to me.
A beautiful sight, by day or by night,
Is the tranquil sea, by whose margin bright
The fisherman loves to wander;
A terrible thing when its rage doth bri
The angel of death with his sable wing
To darken the bomsteads yonder.
—Thomas Burke, in Detroit Free Press.
AMY’S HERO.
A dissatisfied expression was on Amy
Carroll’s countenance as she sat listening
to her lover, John _ . ... Wentworth, , , cl bhe . had .
,
|-, een indolently dreaming over Tenny-
all , the , afternoon, and , , her
tons poems
r ,. ;ll see med prosaic 1 compared with ideals,
The shimmering . moonlight and j the .. sort ,,
zep t- hyrs, j t c perfumed with the breath of
June and lilies, failed to cast their , .
roses
r ’
®
There upheaval ... her soul,
was an in
Her nature clamored for a life removed
from the commonplace, untarnished by
fh actU alities of labor, ’ and filled with
romance and luxury. The babble and
(mull8tl ,.i ,71 ;cV» lfmcrhtpr laugnter floatinc noatrag im up from 110 m tbe me
miners’ cottages struck discordantly upon
her ear - What romance and poetry was
there among those women, absorbed in
household cares, and those grimy, hard-
handed men? True, those men some-
mtmmt. ft.*** but .he,
meditated no more upon them than oxen,
**« t**-*»»
bread. Why could not she have been
. born a princess, . instead . , of , the ... daughter , , ,
of the mine superintendent, without rank
and without wealth, though comfortably
circumstanced?
And what was her lover but an honest,
hard-working, mining engineer? ° He
looked , , , quite . picturesque, . , tanning . him- . .
ge lf j n the moonlight, but he had never
performed , ..... a heroic deed, never went on
chivalrous quests, nor battled for the
fair. She wanted a hero-lover—*;hival-
rous, knightly, daring; and he was only
a neatly-dressed, intelligent, every day
sort of a man, whose greatest ambition
was to succeed in his business and to
make a cosy home for his Amy. How
could she listen patiently to his relation
of his plans and of the prospects of the
mine, while visions of Sir Launcelot and
Sir Galahad haunted her?
She was sensible little girl, and did not
trouble her lover with her dissatisfied
thoughts; but there was an indifference
in her manner and a Prance in her tone
that he noticed and felt.
“Amy, what is the mattqr?” he asked
anxiously.
‘ ‘Nothing, ” she answered freezingly.
At that moment Mr. Carroll called in
an excited tone,
“Wentworth, come quickly; there’s a
fire in the miners’ row 1”
Wenthworth hastily ran down the
steps, and the two men strode toward the
fire. Amy went to an opposite room,
where she found her mother gazing at the
rapidly increasing flames.
“Amy, let us go there,” she said; per-
haps we may be of some aid to the suffer-
era. „
They found nearly , all „ the villagers
Sobered around the fire, a few squares
distant. Men were carrying furniture
out of thc bllnlin K buildin * and dashi “g
water upon the neighboring houses. Mrs.
Carroll and Amy hastened to join the
group standing around thc mistress of the
eottage, sitting with a babe in her arms
and two frightened children clinging to
, UCI Blvlru skirts ■
“They can’t save the house,” explained
the woman to Mrs. Carroll, “but they’re
gettin’ most of thc, things out. They car-
ried mammy out first of all,” glancing
affectionately at her old, bed-ridden
mother.
“Yes,” chimed the invalid, “my boy
and Mr. Wentworth carried me out easy
as a baby.”
Amy’s eyes kindled, but something
mockingly whispered, “No heroism in
that, for there was not the least danger.”
Nevertheless, she watched her lover’s cool
and energetic movements with admira¬
tion, and gave little heed to the disjoint¬
ed chat around her.
At length the building was pronounced
unsafe to enter, and the men slowly edged
toward the group of women.
“Amy, you here?” exclaimed Went¬
worth, seeing her there for the first time.
“I came with mother,” she replied,
cordially.
‘‘We’ve got ’most tho things out,"
cried the owner, cheerily, to his wife.
“ ’Tisn’t much matter ’bout the old shan¬
ty. I’ll have to build a new house a
leetle sooner, is all.” A sudden pallor
flashed over his swarthy face, and he
shouted, “Good heavens 1 there’s half a
hundred cask of powder in the pantry I
clear forgot! Run for your lives 1”
A sriek of terror sounded; men and
women snatched up their children or
some household treasure, and ran in all
directions, frightened and bewildered,
seeking a place of safety.
Amy felt John Wentworth wring her
hand, heard him whisper huskily, “Amy,
go quickly; Heaven bless you, my dar¬
ling 1" and saw him dart toward the burn¬
ing house.
“Amy, come—cornel” cried her moth¬
er.
“Yes,” she answered, mechanically,
but stood still, watching John entering
the house. He disappeared—the roof
seemed ready to fall—Amy thought him
lost, and reproached herself. “I was
so wayward, and grieved him. Oh,
John! my darling, I cannot live without
you,” and her soul wrestled in an agony
of prayer. It seemed hours to her before
John emerged carrying the cask. Some
of the fugitives glanced back, like Lot’s
wife, saw him, and raising a wild huzza,
heartly returned to aid biro. The mo¬
ment the powder was out of danger,
John sank exhausted, and the crowd
rushed up, overflowing with curiosity
and gratitude; but Amy was first at his
side.
“Are you hurt?” she ashed, supporting
his head.
“I believe not,” he gasped; “the excite¬
ment makes me weak. In five minutes
more the powder would have caught fire 1”
A shudder ran through the crowd at
the thought of the devastation they had
escaped.
“Oh! your hands?” exclaimed Amy,
pityingly.
He held them up, horribly burned, but
he only said, “The cask was hot.”
In a few minutes John recovered suffi¬
ciently to walk to Mr. Oorroll’s, where
Amy bandanged the poor, blistered
hands.
“John, did you know how much you
risked?”
“Yes, I realized it all in a second; but
I determined to give up my chance of
escape for the small possibility of saving
the others. Amy, why did you not go
with the rest?”
“I could not seek safety while you
were in peril.”
The next day she told him all her
dreaming and discontent of the evening
before, adding,
“I am prouder of my hero than I
would be of Sir Galahad.
“Why, Amy?”
“Sir Galahad gave his life to a phan¬
tom quest, but you offered yours on be¬
half of humanity.”
The Great Seal of the Confederacy.
There is a mystery as impenetrable as
the authorship of the Junius letters sur¬
rounding the great seal of the confeder¬
ate states of America. Where is it? No
man but its possessor knows. It had a
curious history. Not until February 22,
1862, did the provisional government be¬
come permanent, and not until April 30,
1863, was an act approved by the confed¬
erate congress for a seal. The design had
for its centre a representation of the
equestrian statue of Washington at Rich¬
mond, with the legend encircling it,
“Confederate States of America, Februa¬
ry 22, 1862.” In a wreath were mingled
cotton, rice and tobacco plants, emblem¬
atic of southern products. Below was
the motto, “Deo Vindice.” John W.
Mason, notorious from the Trent affair,
was then in London, and was entrusted
with securing the manufacture of the
seal. It cost, with accompanying press,
wax and wafers, nearly $700. It was
from solid silver, and a marvelously
beautiful specimen of the engraver’s art.
Not until July 6, 1864, was it committed
to the charge of Lieut. Chapman, who
sailed for Bermuda via Halifax. It was
safely brought to Riclunond, and a few
foreign documents and very few domestic
papers received its impress. It has been
erroneously said that it was never used.
In the final panic that accompanied the
closing of the Union forces upon the con¬
federate capital the seal disappeared.—
New York Sun.
Mind and Body.
Healthy body, healthy mind; or, healthy
mind, healthy body. Keep the body
healthy, the mind will be healthy; keep
the mind healthy, the body will be
healthy. A worred mind wearies a young
body into an old one.
Old age often comes of rust, treadmill,
living in ruts, learning nothing new, in¬
sisting one it too old to learn. A young
man marries at twenty-three; the woman
ditto; they give up recreation, get into
the social treadmill, turn their lives into
business, housekeeping, calling and re¬
ceiving calls. At forty they are mere
machines. Now they begin to lay up for
old age; they begin to feel old—get old;*
think old; and they are old. Ericsson
is active with work and inven¬
tion at eighty-four; Gladstone, in his
seventies, is ruling England; DeLesseps,
canalling at eighty. To remain young
we must act, feel and hope like the
young .—Dio Leu>i».
The Pump.
There the familiar pump, who makes
the business of his or her life to rout out
every disagreeable circumstance connect¬
ed with every family and retail them
around the neighborhood. People speak
of her or him as “knowing everything,”
but this supreme knowledge is only gain¬
ed by the greatest perseverance and sys¬
tematical pumping.
The pump is detestcu and feared; she
generally makes her attack upon the
youngest and softest members of a fami-
ly, going to work after this fashion. She
meets little Mary, whose brother George
has left the country (as she thinks) sud¬
denly and suspiciously. After kissing
the dear child, she takes her into a shop,
expends a penny on sweets, then they
walk hand in hand, and the pumping
commences:
“And so kind brother George has
gone away?”
“Yes.”
“And dear little Mary Is very sorry (
isn’t she ? Yes, I know she is. And
how’s mamma?”
Quite well, thank you.”
“Ah! not quite well, of course; but
she was very glad for poor George to go,
eh?”
The pump glances sharply at the
child but the little face is unruffled, the
sweets are good, and just the suspicion
of a smile plays around her lips.
“Oh! yes; because it was for his good,
you know.”
“Ah! he left the bank rather sudden¬
ly, I think.”
“I don’t know; I did not see him.”
The pump looks baffled and vexed—
was it for this she wasted her substance
in pear drops? But she continues:
“And so poor mamma cries very
much, and dear papa was angry with
George?”
‘ ‘No, he wasn’t; there was nothing to
be angry about.”
“No, dear? I thought you said that
when poor George came home unexpect¬
edly mamma cried and papa was angry.”
The pump had met her match for once;
the child looks and laughs.
“I didn’t say anything of the sort, and
George told me to tell you if you asked
any questions that there’s an iron pump
in our garden and you can exercise your¬
self there if you like.”— Tinsley's Maga¬
zine.
Intelligence in Dogs.
At the meeting of the British Associa¬
tion at Aberdeen Sir John Lubbock read
a paper on the intelligence of the dog.
Sir John remarked that it was surprising
how little we know about the true nature
of animals. This, he thought, arose very
much from the fact that hitherto we have
tried to teach animals, instead of to learn
from them; to make, for instance, the
dog understand us, rather than to under¬
stand the dog. He suggested that some
such system as that adopted with the
deaf mutes, and especially by Dr. Howe
in the case of Laura Bridgman, might be
tried with advantage. For this purpose
he had selected a black poodle, Yan, and
then presented pieces of card-board ten
inches long by three feet wide, on which
he printed words such as “food,” “wa¬
ter,” “tea,” and no one who had seen
Yan look down a row of cards and pick
out the one he wanted could doubt that
he was able to distinguish the different
words: and quite understand that a card
was equivalent to a request. The cards
were certainly not recognized by scent,
because he used a number of each. He
suggested that some one with sufficient
leisure might carry this much* further,
and that the attempt would be well
worth making.
Professor Flower mentioned that he
had seen within the last few days a dog
which knew the return of Sunday.
Nothing could induce the dog to go out
with him, though on other days, when
he took his stick and hat, he showed
great anxiety to go with him. Professor
Flower attached great importance to
kindness in the teaching of animals.
Miss Katherine Wray gave an interesting
account of how, in three weeks, by means
of a bone attached to the door-bell, she
had taught the dog to ring the hell. C.
C. Walker mentioned that he knew a
family which had taught their dog to
howl at the late Opposition and show
great interest at the mention of the late
Government. Mrs. Stokes thought that
some animals seemed to have a greatei
power of communication with animals
than others, and she mentioned an En¬
glish professor who seemed to have the
power of calling birds from the sky.
A Place for Everything.
An Eastern man in Dakota said to s
citizen:
“Is this Mr. Bulge?”
“It is,” said the citizen, suspiciously.
The Eastern man put his hand in his
pocket, and immediately the cold muz¬
zle of a revolver was pressed against his
nose.
“None of that!” shouted Mr. Bulge.
“Throw up your hands! I've got the
drop on yon!”
“I w-w-was only g-goingto offer y-you
my b-b-business card,” said the fright¬
ened stranger; “I’m from Boston.”
“Then I beg your pardon,” apologized
Mr. Bulge, lowering his pistol; “but
when you are in Dakota, stranger, you
should never carry cards in your hip
pocket.”— New York Tinies.
VOL. I. NO. 25.
CIIILI1RKVS COLUMN. ,
IVnlliiiiK l.lkr Mother’*
A kiss wlien I wake in the morning,
A kiss when I go to bed,
A kiss when I burn my tinklers,
A kiss when I bump my Head.
A kiss when my hath is over,
A kiss when my hath begins,
My mother's as full of kisses
As nurse is full of pins.
A kiss wlien T play with my rattle,
A kiss when 1 pull her hair.
She, covered me over with kisses
The day that, I fell down stair.
A kiss when I give her trouble,
A kiss when I give her joy.
There's nothing like mother's kisses
To her own little baby boy.
Jnmho in * Criidrin.ii.
Mr. linruum sends the following short
account of Jumbo’s introduction to his
herd of elephants;
“The day after Jumbo’s arrival at
Madison Square Garden -we resolved to
introduce him to the thirty-five Indian
elcphenta which we had there. Some of
us feared the result, but Scott insisted
that Jumbo was too much of a gentleman
to misbehave, So we placed our thirty-
five elephants in a row, each being
chained one leg to a post, and then Scott
led Jumbo in. He passed in front of the
string of elephants, looking at first a lit¬
tle surprised, as did all the other ele¬
phants when they first discovered him
approaching. But Jumbo and all the
other elephants at once looked kindly,
and each extended its trunk as Jumbo
passed, which he fondly took with Us
own trunk, giving each elephant a kind
caress. Mutual affection seemed at ones
established, and it extended without in¬
terruption till the day of his death."—
Harper's Young People.
A Chlneie fiame-Sonf.
“ Loy Yow, a bright, red cheeked Tit¬
tle Chinese girl, “blinded” her eyes and
eyes and the rast of the players fell into
line with their hands Held open in cop-
shape behind them, while Wong Hay
circled around the line lightly touching
the open hands as she passed, and croon¬
ing in a peculiar Chinese sing-song tone
the following little game-song, much as
American children sing, “ Tread, tread
the green grass,” or “ Green gravel,
how the
“ Come maidens all, and stand In line,
back your flower-like hands to mine
The pledge now flies, it flies away
To the Eastern land—to the land of day.
’Tis the lantern feast! Ninth moon commands!
Now, maidens, lift your flower-like hands. 1 ’
To Loy Yow, whom they now called
“Hide-Your-Eyes,” Wong Hay now
sang:
“Come, thunder-shower, with all vonr power,
And open this four-fingered. flower!"
Meantime, as she sang, she had drop¬
ped in one of the hands the little pledge
—a thimble or some Uttle keepsake selec¬
ted for the occasion, much as American
children use a button in a similar game.
At the words, “ Maidens, lift your gold¬
en-flower hands,” as it is literally trans¬
lated, all the hands were raised high
above their heads, but closely shut, so
that none could tell who held the little
pledge.
At the words addressed to "Hide-
Your-Eyes,” Loy Yow came out fromthe
shed, and, using a long stick as if it were
a wand, pointed to the one whom
she suspected of having the little pledge.
She was not successful, however, for
the hands opened and nothing was found
there. So ohe had to try it all over;
while Wong Hay walked about again,
and sang the little oriental melody.
The second time, she looked very
closely in the faces of her Chinese play¬
fellows, and she saw so funny a look on
Qui Fah’s that she i mm ediately pointed
her out. Qui Fah’s hands were opened
amid much laughter and merriment, and
there was the sought-f or keepsake I Then
they changed places, and Qui Fah be¬
came “ Hide-Your-Eyes.— St. Nicholas,
An InterstlBgr Discovery.
General Meredith Read, in his speech
at the banquet given in Philadelphia by
the Pennsylvania Historical Society on
the 200th anniversary of the introduction
of printing into the middle colonics, an¬
nounced an interesting discovery which
he made when United States Minister in
Greece. In speaking of Franklin he said;
“Wherever types are set, or the electric
spark may Wander and. work, Franklin’s
name is commemorated. The most re¬
markable result of Franklin’s discoveries,
the electric telegraph, owes its name to
that mother of civilization, the QreoK
language, and it is a remarkable fact that
the venerable rocks which watch over the
violet-crowned city of Athens have
assumed the philosopher’s features. For
I discovered many years ago, while daily
scanning the outlines of the ancient
Acropolis, that the northwestern profile
looking toward Mars Hill and the sea is
as perfect a likeness of Franklin as the
southeastern is of Washington. It is a
happy and a striking coincidence that
the father of our country and the man
whose key unlocked the mysteries of the
universe look down from that classic hill
from whence flowed the influences which
gave to mankind the sciences and the art
of not governing too much.”
A liquid black lead for polishing
stoves is made by adding to each pound
of black-lead one gill of turpentine, one
gill of water, and one ounce of sugar.