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Newspaper Page Textthe pennycomequicks. A NOVEL BY S. BARING GOULD. isiliorof “Mi MAI Ml," "''"I HI K< 'VII," •■Jnll.N HmtllJNfl,” •• Tin: Oavf.kocks," etc. [All Right R • CHAPTER LI.—Aru U there In all Europe a ful old-world town than Jc plunder miiuteis. then* are more princely mansions, but there no love- |j<>r situation than that oca j> : •! by tb*> (Jwi « d city perched on a n**k round wbicli the gre o i Aar forma a 1<•< >p. May the great cancer of modern D**n.e that lift in the west never creep over :*n i d«*- ttrov the beauty of the ancient tow r, :is the same horrible fungus growth i- <n->- borfngand killing the charm tul of nearly evoiy ancient city on the conti nent. Even our common red l>ri» k bouses are better than tba vi l .1 per, Jerusalem nrtidioke colonel ofii- Eiv>, all staringly alike, nml equnlly un interesting, that are growing up in long line and regular square in Imperii 1 Aix. in patrician Nurnberg, in I pi-copal bpires, everywhere treading <m ,nl trampling out l*eauty. In a hundred Team probably all the gre.it towns of the Middle Ages will have ficn transmuted from gold to lead, ; n 1 ■ n\e. WJ- || U- a miu of a churchman abU*y, a castle, an old manor-house, even of a strzw- tiiatched cottage, we arp sad, for we think what they welt ^.beautiful in their several ways, and alienating lost much by bee »mingruins. Latof these mod em edifices everything we can kay is . t'nt we live in hope that they may 1 < come ruins, for then only can they con ceirabiy touch thep'c'.uresque. In Eng land our builders have grasficd thu| truth that tliere is iieautv in a brok itv-lin,*, and in alternation of light ai shadow in a frontage; but on the Con unit, in France, Italy, Germany, Bel gium, Switzerland, no architect B.i-. rt«*n nbove Uie idea of drawing parallel line**, and of m iking of entry street •taier.tirr study in perspi ctive. On u brilliant summer day. w lien ;.i was styenmir g down out of a i tly blue sky into tho long main street of Berne, ahvo with marketers, three s drew up at the entrance to th ■ . i y, ji. 11.. * . ■ . offer, nod fin) i. i pp.-d.HlMB lr«t p!ac?, a young man in I > - rowers and lavender gloves, r.n l tlx-n a oung nml pretty lady wearing a bridal reil, a weuding-dlfvi of silver grey, rum tho second carriage descended ■ ■ ' I :i ' n*> t titan lie* ''birto girls- and from the third Iff. .Sidebottom and 1 hilipand Sal ' ',ui II . ! i •" II •fried at the Embassy to Janet Bay mu, ml if the day’s weather gavoa true *:;oof the new* lifo entered on, that die captnjt and his bride was likely okes happy etna. But there wire surer Wimteon Which to base a for Cast or hymeiii.il condition than the delight- ;li it the •' Thera 'listing11 no love- 1 In th'- I bv tho til- Sr 1.1 ally an earl. He fro I the ) tho id M» untaiiirt and, n id die diHalicc L-.W. Is the town in il - full length, with towns an I gahlrd re*»f.s of cliocclute- ile. Vidto - are at tended on by ** in tho pretty n .-tume of the lovely. . uiiillumined the di*ta mts of the OU-rland a vindous of the I"N-h-making m* vhieh the mem. '.'«■! Id aMire. ,, e . e!ati ms of lie i d such re Sal.; > tli.- lli.it old world below. There •sin life, smie iceur^ with tinar* •s wliii li have l>een or nujcMt v to the i" is that from the r who is there for i douh e revelation -r of tiie glacier id simultaneously >f the l-eauty, tile the idle [ the w.athi The capta |* la. ii, \\ bum nothing p ut opposition, and Janet, a* lie and ?;o:hcr had ascertained, was vcr\ o t <! Iv o»l. i n • I, .dor would have i fiv* hundred a ytar, and live him- * ami mini Iran* e. whole they themselves iw much ns if they had wNe that sum in Bn bad, ■ r, *y Ihc. uso things were cheaper in inw, hut becaufto popular opinion al- - 1 retrenchment in a thousand of irilles which in England are the bt outl»ta that let money leak away. 1 m ' was to bo no wedding tour; uot a -e Janet did not desire to oscapo . but because tho Labarte girls ab ly refused to be parted with. Tiny i suddenly woke to the *i Deo very that Lk id* bottom hut I hoodwinked them, 'ilied them away out of sight und •t love-making was ill r " s; n * ;; had lieen tom from 1»- I tlicir t.. c i ami they raw through all “ dges and uuhtertuges, and were in i m d mutiny uml angry protest. '• fortlt nothing would sever them n m their aunt. A great opportunity IU i n lost through the craft of that -uing old women, a passion on a I*", T a *° bad raged—so to speak, un- tlit-ir noses, and they had not sniffed , ‘bfir alt •ntion lind been drawn *>' . a, "‘ Hiev had been unable to inako v interesung and instructive studies UlL> process cf love-making to *»5 ru,u , . c,inM »x in rrop<jeal. so might have been theirs b .-n to them of incalculable interest "• vantage, but for that dreadful 0 ‘/".h- Tlius—If they could no r r a -p O‘«*rvations in the conduct v ' »>, they could examine, and store •« tr <»l s4*rvations on the conduct of l • 7*» rr »«d l»^>ple in tire honeymoon. . r ' lung to their aunt, with their about her neck, they lavkilred ex- ■ of U n ierness, tlioy protested ■■■ y could not and would not ho Ij^tni from her; and Janqt foresaw a j»h U ng tour encumbered with J.ilarm girls would bo worse than -t all or one with the Labarte girls n..^bottom, ami Salome and fl ,P u draw them off from her occas- n . ' .. t l . e . ,P ftrt y drove from the L v .r' ’ ' Ir ** H *d e * oUora said to Philip, • W. what ilo you think? Won- K -l«JU never oism. Did you see the tbl, a w « ,it ® r previous i of hid. ■"■ni- might jmlgi upbitingn few si Mi vvhi*'li in auotli<T <>f that g(*ncniiion or will kumv *>f 1 inoiiuim'iitM. M*t in ud judge of it f llu* iKvan hy Is dug out of a at! inrble t*.ppe.| lal.h*. idg-1 lie- aunt i see! Th. r*• the\ M. lo Comte do tv iioville and *.ur «l.*ar Arte- miv.i. Shall w»- go i*. lln-m?” - t#.i no arc*iii,if-,niI Mrs. I’. nnv- oombe-Quick, that i> to sav .Iam : t, Ii.-.Mdy. -lk-H.i.y h* lo.k'.Mi m the Ratno din-i fion—•*tln-\ not Mvtn to doftlrs our interference.” Ali looked at tho littIt* table, not f;ir ill 'iuf, where vst Bcaj.lo Yeo, alias •- ** fidd. nml his bri l<. The name dav that had - inilcd on I. iinU'i t and Janet had laughed ov. r th.*m. but wiih-.ut suio augury of calm v «*ath* r a| p • nntly ; il ready a postnuptial Murm had Hi and hlotrlKHi Beuple u-painted 1*1 0|.|N thiih(Hl ami talki n tho little theater i.: vhi.-li the overture t 1 do Parish” was I win, whatever you * all vonrelf. I you U • return t-. y\n 11 table yourself where yon v waitress is In a?arr, h« payment for wha: you consumed.” VWW Ye*» hull- aiy \x pUce. PI, wit), ,i„i, Artemisia; , ( hedeninsl herb She obeyed. ‘ When they -,v» re earshot of Mrs. Sidebottom, Sal the reiL Philip Slid, .tauding little table, "Mr. Schofield, 1 ai to ask of you a question.” “I ara ready, mv dear bo;., to through my cate* iii«ni," answer with recoverd asauranee. the pedigree of Schofield, ! my firi^ers'ends.” “It is not the |»edigree ho alUanc*« of Earic tfehoiield that intero- ino.” said Philip. “Oh, the Schofield* have been allied with tho best Wood in the land,. In tter than your 'twopenny-Iia'iienny manu- facturera.” “I must ask you to tell me whether, before you married Mks Durham at tic- End 1 i»y to-day, you had that an alliance- not a very high one was at an end.” “AVhat do vou mean?" asked Y< wh his fac% clightly clyirguig color. T “You may happen to rememlxT Am D.'wU, the citsi barge you married ^t Hull aom« ago?'' Beaplo iittr-nsl a low oath. "I i iv« reason t<» know,” contir.u •'•‘ill.*, -that .die is aliv•* and v-nikn. that she is Ho, as well as I d*. Mi Durham, this f»?U<.w had in right marry you. His bgitinmm wih-i.-, *,iiil | alive; no rTiuntcs*, but a woman who owns and u l»eige on the Kelddale cana non hy her. One good •ther, and as you did i s at tho Hospice 1 rep: i from a degrading tracted with this wretch, mere adventurer and »w. one word with you, Scholl • » i*’e ic« of your bigamy is ; Take care that you never snow y at Mergatroyd to aim..y me or "n • «r that you trouble Janet--if y shall have v i inuucdiatelv arn hargo of ieiony, ! t'HAPTER LIF,—Tmk Df.vil’r 111 Carisbrooi; • v_i.si »? i*, a three hundred feet in depth d‘ r to draw tho vva*er, tiwro is contrived a rr*-ut Wotslen drum , r wlico!, which vdien turned, draws up the bucket Within the wheel stands a donkey, am ii turus it by rtep]>ing on as if walking. MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1889. L-l'Ji ft , n ' 1 you were a Tanging an,!** 1 ma <** inquiries. 1 Here was .. i •* Hie emlisasv this morn- in . rt * our affair. / n unheard-of l 5e *Jie t» luive two EnglUh ■oHu/, 00 t l ® “ a " 10 d »J r . » *!>• oIuiih "1 'hre An.i Kjw* wtio Ihojr were who cn- '“'My l«niU,” J r ally Clln not> j |, now none 1 !| t you d 0 know, and are quite able "oftjjetn-nor. then. . ' » t Ol. \ <HV lliat la In “Mo and, * Durham. H; I ■ ^ Veo. that U to mr. Earl '* ""lour fritnI at Andennatt, ..— tl hid whi*hrr ol» foreflndir, nml K.id etnm thiiif. In ply ton dLscIutrge of mi :rv wi.nl, from Artvmiaia; whaterer it iva. tlmt I it bo .tung her that, lo.inz nil aelOov trol, sho sprang to her feet, leaned aern-s tliu table and struck him on the check. Henplo lost his equilibrium and went over with his chair on the gravel of the terra*.e. to the groat r.mu-.-m.mt of th.. Hwiftu waitress nml of the scattered visitors at tables, who had noticed the altercation. Artemisia was HUrtled at lier own vhilenco, ami ashamed: she looked round and caught tight of the friends site had mudo fit An* daruuitt. Her .color was so lifghtoned with ixission that it could not beoomt deeper with shame. Iratesd of resum ing her seat, without regarding tho hu- niilivted man who was picking himself up from the ground she came directly to the tnhlo where tho party of Penny- comeouick-Sidebottom was seated, aiid with Leaving bosom and flashing eye, •he storsl before Philip, and said 11 a tone broken with excitement: "You haTe helped to deceivo me. It was raeam-'t was cruel! You insulted me first of all, and then you conspired with this—this man to play me abase trick. It was unworthy of a gentleman, of an Englishman. “I beg your pardon,” said Philip; "I do not understand what you are speak ing. I am quite unaware that lever deceived you.” “You to'.d me that he wm a nobleman —an earl—and he is nothing of the kind." I never said he was.’ I asked you, and you answered me that he was an earl." •*I did no such thing. You misunder stood me. You asked roe whether he had any right to the title of Earl of Schofield, and I answered—I recall exactly my words—that he was perfectly justified in calling himself Earl Schofield. That is his name. Whether he baa any right to call himself Beaple Yos, and to claim to be a colonel, is another matter on which I entertain grave doubts; but I have none whatever that his surname is Schofield, and tlmt his Christian name is Earle.” Artemisia did not speak for a minute, she was very angry and nsliamed. When she had in some measure recov er'd her s df-posseasion, she said bitterly, frxi might nave been more explicit." “1 refused to say much about the man. 1 had my reasons. Moreover, I bad no idea that the matter was one of impor tance to you." I have sold myself to. him. I have although, in fmVtheu vaneee an inch, for, n* i wheel revolves under its f was known to p-rform ilii^ ti k } cars, and another for forty yearn, b. unless we guard ngnmiit it. doncy in ourselves to tall into the loutfuo—tramping, tramping, on, the same around, in tin* »au)u mmuibi tioas manner, neither lid-.ant ing in oui course, nor varying our h. rizon. Tic a; juainUnco with Miss Durham had wrought mu li good in Salome ns well .v* in Phi li,, Slit* had opened hi. j • y i,j , u» see hlo *g icranco .if himself, and her. to hfcr, i.rursneo of tho world. .‘• .al iiueH^pbrl'ib’iis tx’ . a-nc.' had I icon r k hina n>rroyr .q.U»*^. Dliut * IT by M»n*l iitvrm v»f- : , ••mill IHUICU. i h a feet. I auppnee he really l» an 11' rj"H wm ®ntere<l in the regi,t.r MA'hofteld, an,I not m Col. Beaple LlSj’ Ciiilip .tammered, "il la not he cannot.™ <»!'»>. I .aw tho entries. They 5 Imlf an hour before we at- ™^inquireabout It,™ mid Philip, ii - ev * r *h* carnage stops. I ‘1, kick to the embassy. Something ilone. He had no right to hy not!- u, He w;,., , ‘'"I nvmn* M 'lkt aWw. .t. V—-U -sugmi - ' Imp V ‘t *«t loo late to forbid tL**'I aims. 1 married him thu day, and only now hare diecovered that 1 han beta basely imposed upon.” "It la 1—l who hare been taken In,” shouted Yeo, ooming forward, pushing to the table, regardless of tho shrinking fear that appeared in the faces of Salome and Janet, "ltls I," ho repeated, "X that bare heen deceived. I was led to hoik to you were a wealthy American, worth hundred* of thousands of doll ire J—A Watilk U> AUUM «».wu M WM> money? You are an adventuress." “And you are an adventurer,” laughed Artemisia. “Perhaps we luive taken each other In, and we are both fools to have heen so easily deceived. Who told you I was a rich American heiress?” “The waiter at the Imperial." “And be told me you wera a rich mL lorc\" “1 want to know what you really are,” said Yeo, who was also very angry- angry and dkaupointctl. “I havo a right to know who or what manner of person 11 ave married." “And I,” said Artemisia, “I also want to know who and what manner of pt&»>n I haw marric<L” “That, perhaps, I can tell you,” said Philip :ravelv. "Hut not in tin* j*r uu ui Ifiusw LUau*. Mr. Schofield, loust* oocupieti by th \ uncitj and nephew, o iht but thatshu would ••d into a condition little •f the Carhbrcok have trotted round and *• I* r.: n., and hare ac- ii wlf without n murmur ..ht of resistance In tho course of years she would have become almost aa ordinary, as petty-mint led as tho deceased Mrs. (uvwurtii. But cuntoct with 3IUa Durham had startled her out of this in tellectual donkeydoin. She saw in the American girl a vivacity of interest, a breadth of view, a sparkle of inti* li- gence, a n ••. ptivirv for novel ideas, and a knowledge of the world and of the things in tin- w* i Ui—tho currents that circul i * -1 in il, the force* that propelled its waves and directed its tides, to which she had boon completely strange. And this stimulated iu her the uesire -to know. An American gentleman once said to Die writer: “We liave no preju dices, theref* T3 we arc rlways learning." Tlmt is tho American success in every branch of activity. H-lf-conceit breads pig- hsadsdasm, whloh raises mountains of prajudic-e In our way, preventing us * ... “ German* havo it, that there are inen beyond these moun tains. Salome had noticed that 3!is* Durham was able at once, and without effort, to arrest the interest and etu-liain tho attention of Philip, and this alio at- ‘ ' to the possession of qualities in ago girl which were dormant, if i WMtint, in herself. She had the shrewdness to porceive and the ;ood M-n-o to acknowledge Iter own Pliv^iawia th^;'f H0Sni g JQ ABE LINCOLN^M^ ‘ j l Ixen hidden from him hit_ A o art all, through life, if we do warilt hecoino like tin* toad-hole %rbei|g introduced into new «.hi'tlfg by tlie no juLition of a • H|> Fleming, or by learning i *mig|;ig®, like the German, ' 1 > tiau-l, as tho Yankee. ■'P 1 Salome had put on their - -i’mutjneously, and it quickened r. 11 r« njI ion for each other to l.o engaged ti. efort, and to be together in “‘M'lisitioirof w isdom and knowle lge .iii.i* iSenc*. Besides this intellectual .inlier l bihd they had another—cer- i.ui.l v ,t( the time not very intellectual, VT fait and dear one—tho little * tleveled witli them wherever nnd who wound himself t I " h thpir hearts, and in doing no «-1 | Mh in one. It was early id life iKd to begin h s travels, but t di*l not hurt him. He throve •ore he s.iid "pa,” or "nrn,” I o d the syllable "go.” As Philip, Ifr, laid, an augury of the young tftre, as one of action, nkth Pnilip nnd Salome were •Bonce again Salome Hew lo the the dear white-haired old man. tke hud lost all its hardness and I'dred a new expression of sw p cet- \ nd Jeremiah was able to receive ilk' embrace, and to hold her to ndthout shrinking, without a 2Tlie storm had paused and the t-%summer had set in on his end % be cheered not only l*v the *■ of Salome, but also by tnat of • Little, who, it was clear, woul 1 pe ix-t and idol of old Jeremiah, •» than he was tho pet and idol J>er and mother, f night, in the nursery, at findow on Christmas Eve, when ® Great, and Philip the Uttb, fib were returned to Jlerga- i Lund nnd wife stood, looking fjie «tar-lx*spnnt wintry nky. 1 il her arms round Philip’s iyl ihe had bin thrown over her yjgawing her to his side, and E golden head on his breast, t in ti e room exmo from [tie only sound forsomo time 11 teuthing of the child in its 11 Iinpjpy, and occupied with I ■ ! Ii Philip broke the silence and «ery, very good of Uncle wnus token me into full Ipi and what is more, ho pro le should winter abroad nnd spring to allow of our then Outlay together,” hat is he going to do about rttom?” trt hay. Ho Is himself unde- i says tlmt as he laid the trap i she fell, he must not bo too her. Ho will ste her himself, ter tho new year to France, ’ill visit her and make some nt. > Ho says, hut Imrdly can f ho says, that it is a law of (persons pinched in circum- 1 pressed for money lose their s crabs cast their claws, and p their tails when nipped or It is u law of nuture and must shudder of jirotest against dome said nothing, she started. “Oh, Philip! • In* Ii Jit * i tin cflertud take their mil ignorance and inability to t part in conversation when it turned on jiolitici, natural history, or music, art or Mdal questions of tho day. She could nlk about receipts for tapioca and semo lina puddings, what pro|>ortioii of water should Lo put with milk for a baby, the delinquencies of servants, the termons ‘ward, the hymansho tang in church, utting-out and stylo of a dress, but •n much beyond. Being 1 u utile- minded, she was ready to take to heart ■■ recognised, and she studied Mias Durham with attention, to ascer tain tho points in which she w as accom plished above her own acquirements. Whennloin hotths turns flat house- iv« put in a ftMn, ami this at one#* stores the effervescence. A prudent #ni.*H) s|pMil*l havo a reservo of taisins er by licy to pop into iter husband’s spirits whenever they aro down. Some wives, h«»w«*ver, act on the reserve prin ciple, and perforate tho corks, t>r knock off the necks of all the s[xirkling liquors in the cellars of their husband's hearts. They can not fcaar to njo their good men cheery, sanguine, interested, hopeful; they reduce them all to tho state of lamtili ami Inalnltlilv KunhwivMwIion they find their husbands strung to con cert pitch play tho domestic m c xnpani- ment a n*mitono lower, ro that tho daily music of tlx* household is a discord. They take off the edge of their husband’s w it w ith a sneer, overshadow his spirits when they sparkle, lash him to anger when he is pleased, and goad and spur him to madness when they find him jaded ami desirous of repose. By a na tive perversity they seek to be always at cruf-a pulp - > with their husband.**, and then grumble because their victims do >t smile ami sing when on the bed of itli-n thvj have strewn for them. | But S«1 im* wo.-* not Mm* v, ho couhl de- j generat*- into such a m.>r-| »•.*<■<• a-* llu'-. i in h« r lowly mind siie arkm>wii <i^i**l h«*r - t [j j •d and * t tho other to They laid up together a fund of pleas ant recollections to which to revert when holiday was over und work began; shift ing diorama of scenes mid incidents and Keautify*the iuterior of a drum wlun they were recalled to the obligation of treading it. Bnt not so only, When they returned to work, it would lie the hope and schen o for such another excursion together in the future, though perhaps they could hardly look for another of tho same du ration. The retrospect would enrich, and the prospect stimulate, And banish, tedium and the sense of drudgery from their lifo and work at smoky Merga- troyd. What veins of interest luul, moreover, lieen opened (o both—flowors. scenery, pictures, music, antiquities, 10 ial cus toms, political institutions, Europeau history past and that making under their eyes, such were no longer dead words, but living interests, germs of thought, studies to be pursued at home in the in tervals of work, in relaxations from task, by tin* aid of books and papers, and in As mention has been mado of tho :a ing of an American, the writer ventures to quote another—the remark made to him by a Belgian. “I perceive that when a Flemish shopkeeper has realized a little money over tlie necessities of life lie says to himself, ‘Now I will buy a picture!* The German under the same i ^ „ -A-v-e-i circumstances says. Now my son shall in nerself. She had learn another language!* The American says, ‘Now I wUl see the worldf Tlie Englishman says, “Now I will have ral- mon, though it is fourshillings a pound!’ They fill their minds; your man his There have been found toads imbedded in stone, which aro supposed to have oc cupied tlie same situation for even six thousand years. For six thousand years inasbav I * ’ I ,ve never traveled beyond deficit r 1 with i actly fitting them, in which they will sit out the span of their allotted days in self-complacency, without an Idea be yond it, an ambition outside it Indeed, we live upon a Goodwin sand, that is ready to ingulf us, to suck us dovfn anil imbed us in its heart, unless we bestir ourselves and resist the downward suc tion. Let the reader look around him and see how many of those be knows are imbedded in their boles aa toads, able only to talk aoout their holes, to bo touched by nothing that does not affect tlieir boles, aro unconcerned abouteverv- thing save the texture of the stone that incloses them, and the slime that drapes the walls of their hole. We ck> not say J hat the only means of stuitiikwtioo is continental travel; th re are a hundredways of escape from petri faction, if only we will use them, and uho them persistent ly. In the case un der consideration it haipvnod to be the way, and the most effective way, in which both Philip and Salome escaped from the holes into which they wtrj about to sink and be* o ne sealed up. But there ie one way in which the overplus of money will never help ti deliver us from putrefaction, and that is, by putting it into our stomachs in the bfutpe of salmon at four shillings a pound. We remember the c »>o of a very short- man, who I a l b-fii short-sight* -1 fancy. He r \»u«r gh-nca ‘ i - iig***l alt*nit iiv*e- ;iii*l-tw« ritv. “Hark! oh hark, Philip. Baby is laugh ing—laughing alutd in his sleep. He Im* never done that .before. It is from very joy at Icing home—at hi* own doar homo nguJr.” “What, fckilcm;? after Paris and Rome, • a »— iwirl yew wniw nmr nU fjtrier_ dirqur Il.-rKaitoyd hi dear?’ “To l*e sure* it is. Philip—how can it lie otherwise? And oh, Philip, how kind tlie people are! H »w pleased they all roem to see us hues again. I thought—1 JOilly thought they would havo shaken my hand off, and that old Fansbawe, the night-watch, would have kissed mo Philip. Tliere may lie more light hearted, more picturesque, more romantic pc< p’u iu other lands, i>ut there can te nowhere not throughout tlie world, more troy, warm-hearted, sterling folk, than diir dear Yorkshire people. Do you not love them, Philip?” “I have given Yorkshire tlie best proof of my attachment iu taking to mo a wife from thence." “Oh, Philip!" Salome nestled to his side again by the window, and with him again looked forth sileutly into the night sky. After a long pause Philip said, “Hark!” Through the still night air could he heard the church bclL Threw Three. Three. “Some man is dt ad.” sold Philip. “How strange—at midnight.” Then he counted tho strokes that de note the age. He counted to 100. “One hundred!” exclaimed Philip. "How extraordinary. How can tfcttbtr* “Philip," said Salome, laughing, “do you not know ? It is tho Devil's KnelJ.” “The Devil's Knell V “Yes, at midnight on Christmas Eve tho sexton hero and in other Yorkshire* towns tolls tlu* knell. The Devil is dead. Christ is born.” After a moment's thought Philip said gravely, “Ye.*, the Devil is dead; that is to say,'the old evil principle in me—my fornter self-assurance, pride and mistrrot —it is dead. But, Salome, I ought to tell ycu that there was a time, and not long ago w hen k ” She put her hand over his mouth. “The D.'vil is dead,” sho said; “I want to hear nothing of his last sickuess. But, Philip, you ought to know that 1 was— at Andermatt—very foolish, very jail lie stopped her with a kiss. “Salome, you were never fooliih; you were always an angel.” “Well," she said, “we will not talk of tlie i«st; we will set our faces to tlie future. “Tlie Devil is «lea*L" THE END. "BREVITIES. Ixffmter catchers along the coast of Newfoundland are* having a successful season. A radish *.M inches around was exhib ited the other day in a store at Winter Haven, Fhr, A Michigan man had Ids clothing re moved hy lightning while sitting at the supper table the ot! or evening. Advertisement in a Western paper: “A middie-ag<*d wc m in, who is capable, honest and industrious, but as liomely as h stone fence, wants work." Henry Walterson of Jefferson county, Oiito, carries in his pocketb# oka piece of his scalp which the Sioux Indian* cut from his b,*ad when lie was out Wost Tlv i • 1 is a claim in tlie patent office for d's Prayer, tlie sped- SECRET REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION TO HIM <N 1864. IIU Withdrawal Neeessa rjr to Save tho Party and the Natlon Somr in teresting Unwritten His tory of the War. The unwritten history of the war cor tains probably no more sensationnl feat ures than the publicatu n in the Hun of thedeiails of a secret attempt in tho summer of 1861 to force tlie withdraw al of 3fr. Lincoln from his candidacy. The fortunes of the union re.cr seemed darker than during tho interval iraui the meetingof tlie republican er mention at IUltimore on June 7, 1864. lo tho ful! of Atlanta on (September 1. Throe days liefore the Baltimore convent '.o i General Fremont liad accepted a nomination for Pretddcnt by the republicans who met at Cleveland. The democratic convention was not to meet until tho end of August. Republican dissatisfa'-tion with what was supposed to he the slow progress ol the war was at its bight about the mid dle of August. At that time a number of gentlemen met hero and agreed iqion a call for a convention to be held In Cin cinnati on Wednesday, September 3 % A NEW CONVENTION WANTED. This is tho call for a now convention, prepared by the confeienco: “Hie u.ulersigned, citizens of tho state of New York nnd unconditional sup porters of the national government, con vince*!, “That a union of all loyal cil'E *ns of the Unitjd States upon the basis of a common patriot inn is essential to the ►a fet v a id honor of the coi n try in this < ris'.i ot its affairs; “i'hut the present distraction nnd apathy which iicpreM the friends of tho union threaten t > throw the government into thu hands of its enemies; and “That a convention of tho people •tic ulci bo osjcmbled to consider the state of tho nation and to concentrate tho union str ‘iigth on some on" candidate, who commands the contidi n o of the country, even by a new nomination if necessoiy; “Do therefore respectfully invite the ir fellow-citixens in this and other states to send delegates, equal in numlicr to tlieir respective congressional delegations, to a convention at Cincinnati on Wednes day, the 28th day of September, 1868, for friendly consultation, with the pur pose nbove stated, hi tlie confident hojm thereby to secure the early return of peace by suppressing the rulwlUon and to maintain the integrity of the American Union and thu rights and liberties of tho nk The signatures of loyal men uymps thizing with tho object.** of the abw call are invited to till* |*»|>er." okexlky's orroani in to Lincoln. Tie ■ .1 .-..I * \i i I. It!i >m Ii *< retly circulated, and one nt tin- Hr t ;m> tho fall of AManta and tin peace platform: " I D :! uli h I cmild «l<* 1 tion you Indicfit? ! ;i j during tluVGa * tte t*» come Lincoln’s withdrawal. Tii- hfen telegQiphcd E.*™>t. and I dono Homo good. I ** ill I"' 1,1 in a few days/and " ill exphn Davis more fully than 1 can do difficulties tlmt enibara** *any action. We think M* t Iellan dleton a very stron, result.” CHARLES flT. see that wo shall ■ I nn !" But if he does rot none the less clear tion to tlie comino: Favorabl from Amas Sedgwick a expressed t ; t >i *:i m. while ho fa itrained frr his name 1 vice-presid# P. Chase w very clear, duty is * ■re* ul-<> received .b.hn day, C. I r ithen*. all of vrlmr The capture of At Tin; sti ijt or iiisroitv. How It Mioult! Im* Miiilie tl lit Or«l«*r to Oltfnlu Uouti IKraiUts* rrowtfcs Boston Oot.i1 r. It is of course always allowed that. it nec« ™*ary in nny * «»f * dticali<>n to give an important place to the coreid- erati. n of hktanr, but there remain . ill : *u. li I" I,. *!(>„*• I .‘I'll f th. re -.il 1 bo any proper and , uml appro* iati«»n * the impoi :i*i'-o «.t this branch of knowledge. Th fact that hlsto *dv' due to tin- m"*jf dates Per ha ns eir youth tho method in v to cram history they never get option (if tl of the study, an fortunate there TMs h . country III.** ours, w apposed t«» take i tin- nirmrs ol ■ individual i •am Bright, the member for Stole followed on hi * present vOya o iu so: of health hy tl*o cordi d. j M;-at affectionate, good wishes of tho most dent radicals, who know him aa a i brother And most loyal ally. Oil other hand, the new member for V romingham lias amazod tho world support ot doubtful pensions, with defense of the House of Lords, with maintenance of landlord privilege ; with apologies for massacre in the G Coast territory. Such a paradox i urally awoke tho muse of [the rad bard, with tho following result, wh was handed about below the gang* and which might bo headed by query: , f J£ o . h * ,< *\ 0 ?£ e *r r * r «v> " lost 1 who \m BjriL •»*.-, uuv uf i iiH'iit !*> uiperiri'i nntHi a ur. b*. : ill.- dem- ci ;ilI* - which nouiinate r*.n.. | wtio > Intel likely lo i the gravest I Mi n, at least by hii* »olviiig. To know wliat should lie dono i u any si tun tion it is uecessar y to know Hotn wl (•Mil It look. Tho tried adage that hist* least mi far true problem in NIr. Roosevelt** Oplnlou or R«rr, From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Theodora Roosevelt, tho young mem ber of tho civil servico commivdon, waa Milwaukee and has gone again. When the commission went to Schlitz’s park Mr. Boooovetl dedined to go inb* theater, saying that he would give more ' >r five minutes under tlie trees tlum a Ml • vening of grand opera. So they sat down and tailed or utentoro whiler drinking lager beer, “Do you kna holding up In * the aniber-huetl liipiid, there ia u >C a thought in .i I tog-head of beer; that Hi* iv i-. not un i-h'.i in a wliob* brewery? I nn .'ii," rniuiiiiit'ri iiu* New* York p«>li- 4 iV.'d ild filTeet upon bruin i* to stiig- ^-aW8F,1in4 Vhift- nuU tnhuji.. DJooL imagine t'nA I teA Il ,.f III,. Oil.r* ivlilell iliev a teimHT.ino::il..r. I .in. ulmirff r.,m- gy uud with excel.cut abilitie* launched into . v*uiId, and ably "I must go out of (owi evening and cannot attui l at your house. Allow* me t<. Mr. Lincoln is already beat |tw •• •|«*i__ And ws another ticket to savo u overthrow. If we liatl sue could lie made ly naming Gnu or Sherman for I’roident, and ns vice, wo could make a fight * miicIi a ticket we ought to hare with or without a convention. 1 LINCOLN'S NOMINATION HUC Not less emphatic win the Lucius Robinson, dated Augu wrote: “I apprehend that it is too vent the impending evil. In u mont McClellan will inovitably next President uiiIcm Lincoln ar son arc at onto withdrawn and lien. Grant or Cion. DU, with afttrongnnd popular candidate for Vice President, nominated in their places. A* I do not suppose that this ran or will In* done, I have not deemed it of any use to * gn the proposed call Tlie action at ImUi- more on tin* 7th of Jw. lie was the mast stupid political suicide the t I liave over known. It ullght and should liave L*en prevented. I uo not see how the d«1 can now he raised,” HENRY WINTER DAVIS* ATTITUDE. Henry Winter Davis was * no ot tl- most vehement advocates of tho scheme to Milwtitute a new ticket for that of Lincoln and Johnson, which ho believe was d( orned to certa n defeat. He wi particularly active iu distributing tl call for auotlier convention, and und* date o' Aug. 25, only a week before tl democratic convention, lie wrote as fo lows: * “317 letters from 3rary!and say Ui coin can do nothing th* tj, even uht-i the Union party is nu*»t vigorous, an every body is looking for a new candidal from somewl ere. * I liave a letter from Wsde, who ronguine, but is with us of t pinion tlu after Chicago,ba 1 * spoken it the time I act—till then caution ami preparation, am almost in ikw|iuir at tlie ksw of tim oct a ioned by the tn rverse arrangemenl of tiio snails; but 1 have-.i’oio the best could. • • * 11:skill Hickman t sound Cameron and < urtlu in P.i Tania. 1 think wo ha o nnre ity start in New York nml tue N. E. s Pa., Ik*!., and Ohio and 31ici i run. break lx* made there, it compel* Lin cut render.” DEACON SMITH AGAINST UNCOU Richard Smith, editor of f»e C, nati Gazette, gavo thu movement his *n- tliiishn t c adhesion, ■•* * Ire- folk tract from a letter ditixl August 37 shows: Tiw* regard Mr. ^Lincoln’s #*nt strength when nominated was *lletl- tious, nml now tire* Ilo-ion had disap peared, nnd instead of .'onildeiKe there is distrust. I do not Jtnow a Lincoln man, nnd in all our correspondence, which is Urge nnd varied, I have seen few letters from Lincoln men. thinking people will vote for him, hi not because they like the candhlate, but for tho sake of the pause. There f* therefore, of course, no enthusiasm, aim, r>—— without this it is up-hill work in a «an-1 studied tho bi-^ry of Docial Tho withdrawal of Fremont, and tho nominati that w< u'd Inspire eonffiler fe into (#ur ranks would I general delighL” BE1D AFRAID OF “.’JIT l,.t.-Liw l: id, who >

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The weekly telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1885-1899, July 10, 1889, Image 1