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J. C. GALLAHER.
fKItAIS OK SVHSCIUPTIOX I
TWO DOLLARS rter A union in Advarn c.
TIIE QUARREL.
They hnng, heavy plumes of purple,
over (be little gateway in that bright nf
ternoon -the Ist of Juno. A charitable
breeze swept one scented. bunch of bloom
a bit aside, just out of the reach of n lit
tie brown hand that lmd a moment ago
ruthlessly stripper! off half its blossoms.
But the owner of the hand had already
turned about, with a toss of her black
curls and a flirt of lior pink calico dross,
that scared the butterflies, and before the
branch swung back slio was hastening up
the trim garden path, ami flinging 1 uick a
sharp speech over her shoulder at n tall,
sunburned young follow who, with a vexed
light in his eyes, stood in tho gateway
Watching her.
'•Oh, it don’t matter what l think ! In
deed, I don't think at all. You may take
whom you like to tho next May dunce
you won’t tuke me /”
It wnssuch a pretty shoulder over which
these words were cast, and thorc was such
a rosy flush of anger on the round cheek
half veiled in curls, that it is no wonder
John Armitage took two or three steps in
pursuit of the speaker; but ho stopped,
drew himself up with sudden pride, and
said one reproachful word.
“Nanoy!”
The one addressed wavered a little in
her retreat, then resumed it with in
creased eelerity.
“Will you stop and listen fo me ?" the
young man queried, his rising indignation
aootswhat mudifyiug his tone of appeal.
“No 1” and the pink calico swept the
myrtles on either side of the walk fa;,to
yet.
“Very well,” wns'thc angry response,
as he who had pleaded turned towai 1 the
gate. “But mark my words: yen'll la
sorry for this bob ire these bushes here
brushing the low sprays sharply a idc
“arc out of bloom 1 Now good-by.”
Nancy, peeping from behind a curtain
after his retreating figure, cried, i' lh .j
the soliloquy will toll why.
■“Well, it’s all over between ns now, any
way. It’s his fault, too. IL’d no busi
ness to take any one < lac to tho .M.y-daneo
when I couldn’t go. I shouldn’t wonder
if he's gone down to Hand) AndersonV
now. They’ll be engaged next thing, and
sholl crow over me finely. Jin'll try to
make mo jealous” here Naney had a
spasm of crying. “Bee if I won’t make
him jealous first 1”
JTJie way she would do it. appar
ent the next afternoon, wlu , dressed it
a jaunty bin; suit that off w-fi t j
creamy complexion, da). curls, end t it
chocks, sin started for tho vMl.i jo* Tli
xlaiuty blue silk parasol wu i lov< red a lit
tie as slio came to tho pretention-, block ol
buildings opposite the hotel, up..n one of
which hung the sign, “Dr. Mile. Gray.
Office hours from 8 to 10 a. m., from’d u>
Cp. u." But tlie face of the 1 > ll i 1 ■ iii. w
Blank. sudf tho offioo curtains low r
with an impatient exclamation under her
breath, Nancy went onto the p> t La ,
where, getting no letter, she turned dis
contentedly toward nom ,
Tho Pates forbad- >v. Ido '-ad >tne
Cimiplishod a quart if. dr anee b ore
the tight roll of v.Lee. >...!.’ • Him her
head and start pore. ; ...bly. In a mouicni
mono yonng Dr. Gray, wh ■ e natty top
buggy was tho envy of all the men, and
whose fascinating smite had won the hearts
of all the women, had drawn up his horse
at her side, and leaped to tho ground, arid
had asked, eagerly,
“Miss Evans, may I havo the pleasure
of driving you home ?”
The color brightened hi Nancy's cheeks,
tho light in her eyes, an :ho a • nted with
a charming smile; and in arr >:t they
were slowly bowling along the road, and
the blue ribbons wore blown against tlr
doctor’s broadcloth.
Dr. Oray was yonng, handt- -a. not. d---
fioient iu brains, with p- t money
enough to prevent him from t ting ' •fn
cally earnest iu hi profession, and . ,
much in love with the evu,:' bit of
womaiihood by bis side. As for N> nay,
she was a little afraid of the gray eyes that
could be quizzical ns w-U as a.;un* : g, and
of tho audio tliiii eomotimos c-rrltd the
corners of tho black mmi-.rUo. But-
Naney was minus a lover just Iff, the
doctor was a “catch, ’’ - ..1 *•.> m augbed
ami chattered ns the liay horse trotted
along.
The farm-house came in sight too soon,
and the doctor stopped midway in a speech
to inquire,
“Won’t you take a longer ride? It’s
Such a beautiful aft* moon!”
Niuioy demurred, us in duty bound.
“I—don’t know. I guess it must be—
’most tea-time.”
Tlie doctor laughed, and held his wat ch
before her. It was precisely four.
“Oh, well, then—” began Nancy, some
what confused. “But aren’t these your
offioo hours ?”
“Confound my office hours !” com
mented the doctor t<f liimsel;. Aloud he
said, “I’m sometimes obliged to break
through my hours. I’m going no wto see
a—a patient on the outskirts of tho town.”
So they drove on.
Tho “patient” could hardly havo been
in a critical state. Tho doctor, leaning
back in the carriage, lot tho lines lie loose
ly on the horse’s back ns they paced
slowly through shady wood road; smelling
of pines, white the warm breeze fluttered
light curls across Nancy’s arch black eyes,
and tho blue silk parasol had to be held
up to keep the sun from her rose bud or a
taco. The doctor had : lurking 1, M r <!:.•
VOL. IT.
j Nancy was rustic and ignorant, but ah!
1 slio was so pretty !
How far they rode in (his lazy way.whel
j lyropt in c- a-.versa!ion,is not known. How
• far they would have ridden is uncertain, if
j Nancy had not sent a mischievous glance 1
; straight into the gray eyes, mid inqnired,
“Why, where din's that patient of yours j
live ?”
The doctor laughed frankly, coloring
nevertheless. .
“I aooyou understand the ‘ways Hint me
1 dark and the tricks that, are vain’ pretty
well, Miss Nancy. And now 1 don’t dare
, to tell you wliat 1 was going to before you
1 spoke."
“What was it ?’’ queried Nnuoy, ruri
j ous and eonsen u i.
! “It was,” said tho doctor, bonding bl
own face closer to (ho curl-shaded one at j
■ his side, “that I wish I had the right to
keep you with me always. Miss Nancy,
will you look at me will you let me ?’’
It was well that tho doctor did not guess
why, amidst Nancy’s bright blushes, her
; lip quivered and her eves filled with tear ;
1 She had made up her mind to accept the
: doctor, lmt in this decisive moment the
thought of John Armitage sent a pang, ,
cruel iu intensity, through her heart.
Then came tho memory of (heir yester
day's quarrel, and Nancy faltered, with a j
struggling smile,
“1-1 don’t know."
Bbe did know when, in the late twilight,
she and tho doctor walk'd together into
1 the dusky sitting-room at home, where tier
father was dozing and her mother knitting, ,
to ask their consent and their blessing
“Dear me!” said the coral farmer, rub
bing hr eyea. “Twb r-eeh pieces of new
in oue day’s eill ’ns hereabouts. I lieertl!
on’y an hour settee that Johnnie Armitage
is n-goiu' to Texas to kinder fa, m on his
I own account. I-sorter thought, I---', that
i ho an’ Nancy fancied each other, but here
i she's wantin’ to marry another man. It's
cui’iis!”
Nancy had taken her hand front the doc
j tor’s arm mid had sat down in th -v, iadow.
j t-ilm heard, mistily, comments and eon
I grntulatkms; she answered questions,
i laughed at jokes. Mho wall's'll down to
i tlie gate with tho doctor when be left, and
> stood there under the lilicer;, hi.: arm
I about her, replying to his tender talk; but.
; when be was gone, leaving a farewell kiss
jon Iter lips, she mailed up stairs and
threwiioiia If on the bed in n perfect ag
! ony of sobbing that slio could hardly si i
: lie in tiio pillow.
The story o' ■ ‘i ■* v.‘ *< is hack
-1 ",qj ’. Buck happenings too com
l u. >n. N-piejf czlio and wnt like the
\ glio: ! i.: 'V, but the v.' : village w:;
i gosa.pii’g over her cm • , i,i at, and her
nvidonceti of troe'- . a aribed to the i
1 “qupemexs o’’ g: •' ju t oiVy.ged.” t
: tie tired Mrs. A• and! a ran ov. r uevo-s lota '
one afternoon to . .! tiio fdv. .-, . that
| John was gel. ft l‘U : hi ,:, and she mm!
I lie would manage to get over and bid
! them good by, f.ad or" breane.-' be>* pa:
son was g-fire; a.w-ry, -ad v,- j cool and
sharp to Naney, evidently .suspecting that
j she waa the ear. . '.
IVrhaps light uature-i suffer moat over
whelm i gly. Oft in in those beautiful
1 June day.; ■.% ad ;d< '-a h -one sha.i
--i owy, grassy plaa , vit-i sr.--b.-iun . him
■ oi-iii!*; -ibovc, vvofdd won.!- : i:; a dim,
childish way if she should not “die when
; Johii went,” Only one hope was left:
| John was coming to say good-by. <>h, if
I she couhl only let him know how it really
j waa ! Bui how could she? and she would
look down despairingly at the iililo gold
circlet on her finger.
■ Bnndcy afteino >n John finally c.unc.
Mc.hcy, sitting in the path th the doe
tor, caught a of the \ T-!,i ov,n
. figure at the gali'->!--. til -’aes ag.dn.
1 For a moment the r ..oci vdctlcd are, ct,
; and sho wrd .fitly white: I he:: die :
i mechanically; :’.ying U-.c ;no mn ,t bid
I Mr. Armitage good-by, :ivt L..-n out to
:ho doorway, where Jehu waz/re lie ; her
paronto, and w-.-rding olt t , !i. N< wfonud
: land with a 1-.• i>
“Yea,” ho w ; r ilvin r-.u Nancy camo
*• ‘ * ,
up, “they ;y the -u i a p-. U_. good i is.m e..
out there ffu a young leJUiv, v.iih liealth
1 and ciu-.r-y. How and , ... do, iliso Nancy 7:
-and J’vo always been cute • i-i 11; ; sol
I to try it.'”
Nfmry stood p tho roue vinca in
1 pieces while for half an hour the others:
| talked ei'ops, ]>olifcics, mid prospects. 81 ic
: ouhi tot lmv. spoken for her life, though
! the longt and to speak ac a condemned crira
j inationgs to ask mercy. IS<>t once did
| John turn Ills obstinate auburn head to
J look at or spied: to her, and at last ho rose
! to go. 110 irjternipted himself, while do*
' tailing prviio.d;u’s .'dioiifc g ,/rog i ’i'.ds, to
! say “good-by,” b.-: j ;;d toriohr i iior
- liand. If lie ha l looked ut hor, tho mis
; (Table pathetic look of appeal on her ehild
; isli face would havo gone straight to his .
] heart: but ho did iiofc dare to luok, and
; turning away abruptly, walked down luo
j garden path with the garrulous old farmer
hobbling by hh side. Nancy had just.
' time to escape her inoiher’s eye by rua
: mug up the stair. 1 !. Bbe lid :.:ot f.e.it; but
I Clod forbid that girls should often know
j such misery as she suffered then ! W lieu
| sho at last joined.tlie doctor, as iu duty
j bound, the stunned look in her face was
i pitiful. Sho “was not well,” sho said, in
i answer to tins alarmed queries.
ft was Nancy who proposed that they
should go to church Unit evening. In tho
corner of tho high old pew, with her veil
| hiding her face, sho coil id at least be
: .piiei, and i;:lioiir more of effort would
: luive beci, insupportable. Mr Arnutago
QUITMAN, CIA., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.
was alone in her pow, and cried silently
all through the service. Nancy's heart so
went out to tin'poor woman .(lmt, when
they nu t in the aisle, she pressed her
hand impulsively. saving in a quick whin
per, “Mrs. Armitage, I’m sorry for you!”
“1 don't want any of yem-sorrow 1” was
the sharp response. "Jt’n line to talk; blit
you amt l know well enough who’s tho )
cause of all. One word from you would
atop it now if you were ‘sorry’ enough I”
l'oor Nancy 1 Tho clock was on Uio
stroke of eleven that night when her lover
finally took his leave, and she was free to
pace the moon lit fitting room from i lid
to end with sot lips and wide, glittering j
eyea. .She did not cry. She felt an if she j
wore going crazy, and in lief desperation
■ •!.. ,i;>i not care if alio did. Hour after
hour passed, mid still she paced there, till
her rigid face showed whitely iu the first
faint gray of morning. “Oh, ico/M he go?
eoidd lie go ? would nothing happen to :
stopkim? Scarcely knowing what she I
was doing, Naney slipped through the
door, and halloas, trailing her dainty blue
skirts through Iho dewy grass, ran across
lots to the Arm it ages. ’
it was all still and dark and dewy. She
heard the village clock .strike three as she
paused on the outskirts of tho old-fash
ion ad (lower garden behind tho houso,
mid shrunk behind a hedge of blossomy
lilacs, whose potent odor sickened her.
ller mind was iti a whirl. Slio did not
know why sho was there, or what she
should do. She was in deadly fear lest 1
someone should discover her, yet sho
could ant go away. For half an hour alio
crouched there shiver!ugly, never taking:
her eyes off John’s window, but starting
every time the curtain blew. Suddenly a I
: top on the garden path starthxl her so
violently that she scarcely could suppress
asc i am. hr \,a : probably some of the ;
work peop’e oh, if they should sec her ! |
A lire!y peep through the bushes showed
her that it was worse than that; it was j
,!ohn hiii,self, s!ruling straight toward tin -
gap in the stodge, and wearing n most un
prupitious face. Nancy, in blind terror of
discovery, crawled on her hands and knees
close under the lilacs, lie laid passed, he
was almost by, when a bird that Nancy
had di.,;,url)i.-d Hew out with loud chirp
in‘gi. One end of the loosened bine sash
had caught on a stiff bough, rind the color j
arrested hi.s eye. Two ntrides brought
him to the spot, amt he stood with folded
arms looking down r.t her a moment be
fore liis amazement found v. ut iu the ex
clamation,
“Nancy !”
Ha had never ."ecu such utter abandon
and rgtuiy of shame as (hut with which
l.ho poor little maiden hid her face and
cow-' red in the wet grass, with the cry,
“tfii, shall l do? Don’t speak to
me,! (io away !” and burst into a storm
;.f tear.;.
For answers he gat-le red the little wet,
figure in his arms, smoothed the tumbled
curl:;, tried to warm the icy hands, and
did not dare to qu, ..: :o,i, while lie soothed
her in his teoderest w ay,
“Take mo homo,” said Nancy, as soon ns
she found strength to speak at all.
•■I shall do no such thing,’' was the de
cided answer, as John’s disengaged hand
lifted her taco no Unit iio could see. if,
“till you toll me why you came. Nancy,
! couldn’t help hoping; a 1 itiio when l saw
you here. Don't make me give it up 1 i
thought ray pride would support me
through any thing, but I'm afraid it
won’t,” be. ended sadiv.
“I'm so glad it won’t” breath' and Nancy,
ill tones of heart-felt relief. “But some
body ’ll aoe us. '1 aiu: me home, John,
and 1 II tell you till about it.
How different seemed the way home,
i with John at her side. But Naney was in
ino hurry to “tell all about it.” Klio only
j laid, iicrviou.-Jy, holding ,John's hand in
! Ijolli her.-;,
“IToinise n:- you won’t go away !”
| “Alt, lmt I want another promise first.”
j Nancy looked back at Urn plumy Judge
Ia hose : in.Jter tiny k ft, nod sad, with t
half smile, “You see the lilacs aren’t out
f of bloom yd, John; and f am sorry, as
you Said J ’d bo 1”
“And the doctor ?” auks tho erilnsd
reader. Ail, Naney is no model o'. (du b. ,
i tian maidenhood. Mho is only a faulty
young girl, erring and loving nd suffer-!
Lug. playing her pari in one of the tinge
dies than are played every where iu the
springs ami a.itum is, in tho tiino of snow
drifts as well as in'the time of lilacs.
CL liiOSfiUW OF THE MILE.
A man who vvesj condemned to solitary
confinement forlifoina prison, relieved
the todioaruiess of tide years !,v aseertaiuing
the following facto: The Bible contains
!l letto'S, 7d’,b!)2 word,:;, M,J7f
verses, 1,18!) eliaptc-i's, and (iC books. The
word “and” occurs 40,277 times, tiro word
“Lord” occurs J,SSO lime:-;, the word “Itrv .
croud” occur.j but once, which is in the
Dili verso of tire 111th Bsulm. The middle;
verse is the BUi verso of the 118th I’salin.
Tho 21st Vi-.-.o of the 7fh ciiapter of Ezra ;
contains all tire letters or the alphabet ex
cept the letter J. The finest chapter to !
read is tho 2<!th chapter of the Acts of the i
Apostles. Tho 19th chapter of 11. Kings j
and the U7th chapter of Isaiah are alike. ;
The longest verse is the 9th verse of the
Bth chapter of Esther. Tho shortest verse •
is the doth verse of the 11 th chapter of j
St. Joint. The Bth, loth 21st and hist j
Verses of the tl)7Ui iV.dtn me id ike. All I
the verses of the llllHh l’salm end alike. ;
Tli.-re no ..,nde a iu,.lit,., of over a.;
) lhdires.
HE ECU Eli’S IDEA OF RELIGION.
It appears that Henry Ward Booeher
has n happy joyous dispositjon, and thinks
a mail's religion is like the silver lining to
the clouds, lie says:
“Religion, fls presented to the World has
gone through many moods. There have
been periods and there are still sections
where religion is still presented in Its as
cetic form, and preached us il' the nlinv
pain the more isrtuc, tho more self denial
the bet ter the man is, This ascetic school
has dmii iged (,'liristianity exceedingly.
“Religion is like a tune; it may bo ployed
slowly in a dull way, or rapidly with a
sparkling effect. The popular religion is,
on the whole, dolorous. It is very much
:i commercial transaction. We pay n cor
Into amount of sorrow fieri' for tho sake of
having a very large dividend of joy hero
after. Now there are hours for solemnity
and hours for sobriety; lull to elmr.ieterize
religion by solenmfly is ns if a man should
characterize nature by tho night instead
of tho day.
“I would give a few dollars extra to the
servant that sings at her work, nml so
sometimes captains like to pay n man on
shipboard a little extra I localise be can fid
die, and the crew are happier and work
better for a little occasional fun at night.
But how much better if all could fiddle !
“I would not have men come into this
church with questioning whether before
they come how far they will have to eon
form to church usage, whether they w ill
havi to stop going to the opera, or playing
cftrdu at home or dancing. I want to
come here to be joyful and happy, to find
in religion the delight that Iu longs to it.
THE CAT.
The cat is railed a domestic miimile
-Iml 1 never have bill able lew toil where
b >r.
You kant trust, one puny more than yen
knn a ease of the gout. There is only one
mortal tiling that you knn tni. t a eat with,
and cum out even, and that is a bar of
hard soap.
They are as meek ns Me: i but us full
of deviltry as Judrr 1 -carati,
They will harvest il dozen of young
chicken:; for you, and then steal into the
sitting room as ‘ fitly ns an undertaker,
and lay tin mreli down oil fie vug at your
feet, full-of injiuvd inner sice, and chid,
ona, and dream of their childhood days.
Ail I here iz, about, a eat that i/, domest ik,
that I kno uv, is tt at you kant loozo otic.
1 11 !l lirr'iS i-,,a- .. ;; flu-y are a,, L-tl£t to
loozc ii”, a bad ro)>ntfti-h>ii iz.
You may uend om |o.it ov Hie Btate.dime up
ill a meal ling anil m eked "to (). D.,”and
the next morning yen "ill find him or her
(according tew :hi the cam.' spot
aloii/r ido ov the kitchen stove, ready to
be stopped on.
Cat:; have , ot two good eai i for meiody
and off.-n make 11 1 .- "igllt almo..plu re me
lodious with their - v it- mm ik.
But the most woaderfsl tliiii:; .• Old a.
eat that has been diseoveivd yt is tin ir
fear of death.
i'll kant indium our, by ajiy ordinary
means, to secept ov death they actually
: kei.i in die.
s',hi may bill i \ u hav a mind to,
and they will begin, life anew in a few
juim-ito, vvitli n line llatieiieg p,-; lelduu.
Do; > I love, tli.-y r uy their krideti
chills iu (to ir faces, and kant hide them,
blit tho bulk of a cut's n-putaaluui lays
buried in Iboir Rtuiuuk, ok unknown tow
themsolfs nz lew i-nny Is sidy else.
There is only ono thing about a cat that
f. like, and that iz, they are very cheap u
lililo money, well invested, will go a grate
way in eats.
tails are very plenty in this world just
now. I eon tiled eighteen from my board
ing ho;: winder one moonlight night last
summer, and it vwn’t p fust rate night for
i-alu licit lu r. J- -h ISTC tigs.
A GUEVT CHANGE.
A great change is evidently passiugovi r
Bio North. In adv sating that no dis
'
i-r:i the graves of Felt rai or (.'onh derate
uldiei'H, us Hie nmm. I custom new in, the
if., toil •!,' f.ftbm- pay iif high compliment
to Hi leaver;, of tho iJen who fought for
the Boath, raid evt-n g- .ao far as (•> ad
mit that “they fought fora principle which
they he ld deal’, nod for which they were
willing to ra. rifi.ee their lives.” [t do
!: i t!,a! tho animosities excited by tlie
war should liow ceaso, mid e.illa upon tli"
bl:i'j and tho gray, to “unite in paying
common honors t i tlie heroic dead of both
armies.” The Bo: ton (flohtt, in language
moro oomplini' atai'y to the fiout.li, says;
“>t. i-, c-iiise of the bravery shown by
our Loiithera brcllireu in the war that our
victories have such lustre, mid it would be
as unjust to deny the sincerity of thegreat j
body of our opponents as to impugn their
coiu'uge. Tiiey fought for ivhat they be- j
lieved lo bo the right. * A * The peo-1
pla of this country, North or South, caul
not afford to keep up tho spirit of nntagon- j
is.ui or distrust which invidious distinc- j
lions in the decorations of tho graves of
their soldiers, would naturally excite. If j
we arc to have u genuine Union—oue of:
hearts as well as hands—wo must eulti-1
vato the amenities and perpetuate tho los-1
•son of the devotion illustrated on both j
sides of tho great contest, ns tho best i
utoaus of insuring the devotion to those
groat principles of constitutional liberty j
which were there enforced."
Tho Baltimore Ocaet/ti adds to this:!
“Now let (feiierul Butler return those i
spoons. ”
. - ♦. •
The Czar has anew Bible. During bis
stay in Loudon lie was waited upon by |
tho Archa'litthoj s of Canterbury mid York
at Buckingham l'nlace, whore the ifiriiiiuta !
presented to him a Bible in Russ, traiw- j
lated iindci the aii’-pitccs ol the British
utul r’.aei;;:i l.fifie B' .iefy. Luan otuuli-y ,
Wua pit aelit at liic inter viLw. -
rVrul the Coiirißi'-liuirnii!.]
HERMANV, ENGLAND AND
FRA NCE.
j The questions add rosed by Earl Russell
| to Earl Derby some time since? and upon
| which we then remarked, have created
: mere stir tliiin was expected. The official
National Zeitung of Berlin, and the semi
i official Kolniselic Zeitung of Cologne, the
' Jon nml lies Debats, La t’atrio and In
| Temps of Friinee, tlie Wmideivr and None
Froie l'resse of Vienna, liostdes the great
er number of lesser organs and provincial
sheets, have till made t Is- quest ion raised
the subject of leading editorials. The
general tone seem to be that there is
nothing just now to disturb the peace of
Europe, but the elaborate reasons which
ail think proper to give to assure them
selves and their leaders betray a strong
iiiider-ouiTCMt of sppiohcnsion. It often
happens that what we dread most wo la
tier to persuade ourselves is the most mi
likely of all things to happen.
The fact of France's humiliation is not
mere palpable than her desire for revenge.
The feeling and its expression are new less
ohtrusiv and less demonstrative than imme
diately after the war,but none the loss real.
France knows that she forfeited the influ
ence to which, by wealth and gcograph
ieal position ami population, she is igiti
tled until she lignin asserts herself as a
great military power. This is ns well
known in Uernmny an iu France. Prince
Bismsrk is said to have expressed his as
tonishment at the recuperative power of
France, nml his regret, that no did not ex
act double Iho idemnity. Be this as it
may, Germany feels that she has net sue
! eeeded iu permanently disabling her he
; reditary foe, that she has only crippled
her, and that for a short time. The fur
: rows drawn upon tho lmek ol Franco by
tee German plowshare, though deep, are
tilling up. Her wounds are healing, and
; tlie sears which remain only suggest, what,
she once was. and what sho may yet. be
i rotno. It in useless to tell the Fivneliuinti
! that Germany did no more to France
- than Bimaparte did to Prussia after the
I fatal field of Jena. To men whose tradi-
I ditionn point to French interference in
German affairs from the days of Francis
I. to Napoleon 1 i!. the idea of disim ni
Ivrineiit by the Teuton is the most galling
' eoiH'eivnblo. Tim vast efforts made to in
I crease the army of France, to build new
| fortifications and repair old ones, to con-
I struct anew line of defense ns a point
j d’sppui for recovery of the old ones, to
i east- rami'm am! provide her soldiers with
la more deadly weapon than either tl.e
! elm- report or the needle-gun, and to do all
: this sih ntlv, steadily, uninterruptedly, are
Hie form of expression which the domi
nant idea takes. The speech of ('"lint von
Aft til ke on the army will show plainly
enough that Germany understands the
| drift, of aenliineiit in Franco and is deter
: mined, if not to checkmate, at least; to
! prepare for the inevitable. The reported
| conversation of I Tin Bismark with Vie
i tor Emanuel may be altogether apocryphal
: pi-ob.ibp i iuif is mme t-b.e less signi!
li. .ini. whether true or not. We remember
| fhai a favorite th-viee of the late Emperor
! Napoleon was the publication of a tenta.
| five brne/ittu • now and again to feel tin
| public pulse of France and of Europe.
! if the results accorded with the Imperial
views, il was allowed to pass unchallenged;
:f ollu iwi-". il was qiiiiveiiiently disa
vowed. The end sought way. invariably
'accomplished an expression of public
"pinion through ihe metropolitan and pi"
. iueial press. Whether authentic or not.
’lie - I’is.murk has gotten tlie opinion ol
It tin- ,-ivai owers on the n-cession of
1 Nice .uni Savoy to Italy. European "pin
i on the subject ofa German Italian alliance
' ha ; spoken in no indistinct tones, and the
Brims; i: non in a. condition to pronounce
, "Nieeaudiitvoy” 1 - likely to be a winning
! card.
Tho official G, set to of the German
! (iovi rmneiil is iuolined to think Hint-tie
| intei p,-nation of Earl Russell wan neither
i irievels.at lull inopportune. While it falls
I in with the generally expressed conviction
; I hat there is no cause for immediate up
! prelien.-ion, it regald the, interpellation in
i directed especially to tho treaty relations
jof England, with Franco and Germany
; villi regnal to J,cl,(iuni. The only active
i iuteilern ecu of Englimd dining the last
war was to renew the treaty with there
two powerw iu regard to the neutrality of
the little f-itste. The absorption of Bel
• i uni by i-itln-.r Uie one ortho other would
result in such a matoiial im remont that
tho tiallanee of (lower would be seriously
affected. France is now, with the exception
of the channel, oonteiiuiims with Jhiglund
all nking her southern coast. Tho addi -
tion of Belgium would ciiahlc France con
sidcrably to overlap England. Germany
is uov, separated from her by a considera
ble fivieh of coast line, but Belgium
once absorbed, Holland would soon lose
In-r isolation by absorption also, and Ger
many would thou march with England on
iho southeast. IJnglnnd is bound by
treaty us well as by interest to stand by
these two little States assures their imu
trality in war and their in.h jH-tiileiico in
til,:" of pi . ee. What Earl Rusanli wanted
to know, though coucimd in a somewhat
disguised diplomatic phraseology, was,
“Does England, as represented by the
present Conservative (lovernment, intend
to preserve tho integrity of Belgium ?”
Foreign policy was Gladstono’s weak
point. Lord Granville had a dash of
Fulincrstoiiiunislii, but it was restrained
and cheeked and diluted by tho influence
of John Bright and the Manchester school
whenever disposed to assert itself. Lind
Earl Granville been allowed to slmpe the
foreign policy of England, instead of
transmitting the decision of tko Collective
(’:tbinot the Central Asian question and
iho abrogation of the restrictions imposed
on Russia by the treaty of Faria would
have found a different solution. The
Gladstone ministry was satisfied with
economizing as much as possible ou the.
army and navy in order to reduce the iu
come tax a penny on tho pound and im
port sugar duty free, carrying the policy
of non-interference as far us possible -
oven to the extent of asserting that Eng
land was an Asiatic power and must not
interfere iu European affairs. Tho Glad
stone ministry went out of office none too
soon for English foreign policy. The
Tories arc accredited with a dosiro to
maintain the traditions of tho foreign
office before the rise of tho "Manchester
school.” To asertain how for the Eng
lish people were justified in believing this
was the real object of Lord Bus oil’s mo
tion.
The old lines of access to Germany are
blocked up to Franco. Metz and Stras
bourg mid Tliionvillo are no lougr oil
French soil. Sho does not touch the
Rhine iu any part of its course. The next I
| time Franco invades Germany it must he
| through Belgium. This is, as things
stand, not only the most ncfiessiblo, hut
j tin' only accessible way. A political mo
; live is added to strategical reasons. Tho
j French are still more covetous of Belgium
Hum of tho loft bank of the upper Rhine,
amt King Leopold is convinced Hint the
! iuU'fitinu of Napoleon ill. to appropriate
it was not only matured, but Hint the
proclamation was already printed. We
j know how much he had its acquisition at
heart, how much he negotiated with Bis
limrok about- it., and how he was at length
made the dupe of licit, astute diplomatist.
When England in 1870 wits urged to throw
■ her influence against the disturbance of
Hie peiu'o of Europe, fettered by her peace
policy, she oolild not rise to tho occasion.
Tho Kohiiseho Zeitung asserts that, the
conviction is general on tho continent that
in all human probability the least great
] war would have boon prevented if England
bad cast her full weight into the scale at
]I he right, moment. Alter the lvnnnoia
! lion ot the candidacy of Prince Leopold
j of Hohoiizollern, all that she could lie per
siuidcd to do was to declare that she
j would protect the neutrality of Belgium,
i But il a declaration of this sort was of
j much consequence then it is of infinitely
j more consequence now. Then it meant
| that she would prevent absorption, and
l guarantee tile little kingdom immunity
j from being made the theater of war. Now
j it means that site will resist, an attack
! upon Germany by France by forcibly re
sisting on effort on the part of France to
mareli through Belgium to Germany. Il
means also that she will not interpret her
treaty obligations in regard to l.nxein
li I'g as the cabinet of Mr. Gladstone did.
The recent declaration of Earl Derby t hat
England will uphold her treaties with
| Belgium amt Luxemburg- is tjius of the
j greatest, importance and means much
j more than lit first, sight it, seems to do.
j This is Hie interpretation of the German
I press, and we are inclined to believe it. is
! right.-
■* • *
[l'VonHJir IHuimm (Texas) Mews. J
! RETURNED FROM INDIAN CAPTIV
ITY.
A "(aiding Talc lij a !">)
On tlie evening of the 28lh „f yp lv
arrived in Sherman, Texas, u hid about fit
teen years old, who, from hi.s general itp
peal'll nee and starved look, gave indica
tions of having suffered terribly from
hunger and cruelty. This boy's conduct
and general forlorn, starved look attracted
the attention uf several gentlemen who
were sitting in front of the .Southern
Hotel, and one of them interrogated him
in relation to who he was, where from.etc.
The boy at once tol.l his story, which was
reduced to writing, and is as follows:
THE BOY’S STOIIY.
Li lh" spring, two years ago, mv father
and mother, (maiden name Miss Johnson,)
with her children, six sons, myselt iu
eluded, named'and aged us follows: John
Met'affo'i, aged 22: Frank 21 ; Chur
J ley, aged Iff; Biiumel nml \Yillium (twins)
! aged Iff. and myself, aged Iff, with my
1 sister Maud, aged 22, and Sarah, aged 17,
started from Aikadelphin, ('Drive county,
.Arkansas (my father was a keclboat ow
ner at, Arkudejphin, and was in comfortable
eiieuinstaiiees when lie started,) with two
wagons, one, a three-horse team and the
i other a two horse team, with household
! I limit iuv, clothing' and provisions, to emi
! grate to Texas. \i e Raveled by wagon
to’.'oe.'.!i \\ afliiiigtou, Hempstead efmnty,
Ark.; and by way of Fulton; thence
through McKinney county, Texas. When
within live miles east of .laeksboro. Jack
j county, Texas, 1 was walking nlieml of the
; wag-ms. win u i called to father: “Look at
ill- Indians! Here they come!" .My father
jumped from l,ln wag.oi, and soid:""Right
hero will I die. ”
My father and sister Sarah both had two
! six shooters each, and they fought, des
jpenitvly. My lather killed four Indians
and wound.-,! several others. My sister
j Sarah wounded seven Indians.
All were soon killed of my family.
: They wen all -enlped, tho wagon cut to
| pieces and burned up, 'the horses stoieu.
and all the provisions, appan I, plunder,
"to., destroyed. At the commencement of
the tiring.i xviik cut off from the train, and
held up my hands and : am mi, red.
The Indians tied me to Hie back of a
horse, and m Ibis way I was forced to lav
for lour days, until they reached their
( ituiii in tho Wichita Mountains. 1 was
then taken Horn the burse and bound with
a log chain l" a plum tree, in front of tin
j chief’s camp. 1 was kept tied to this free
I for one year; was fed generally with r.u.
I meat, and was at times forced to eat the
j parts of entrails ot the beef and lioises
I that were killed, and was elioiu and iiuiil I
| did cat.
Alter the arrest of Haulaula and Big
; Tree, I was released from the chain, ami
■ was allowed to wander around the camps,
closely watched. J stole a live dollar gold
piece from,the pocket, book of the chief,
and bribed one of his squaws, with that
money to got me an old hat,* shirt and
pants, and made my escape that night. J
have uxv'.ed all the way from the Wichita
Mountains; been one week and a half on
the road; have not had anything to cut
until this evening for four days.
The Oamanohes have five thousand war
riors with I.li'-ui, and have made treaties
with other tribes iu this settlement. Where
Iw. infiu: vl they had about fifteen hun
dred families.
J ,M: W: la,i am McDaniel.
His general appearance, his familiarity
with the habits and conduct of the ( a
munches, his knowledge of- their language,
etc., would satisfy any one that his story
is correct. He was cross-questioned by
numerous parties, and all pronounced his
story truo. He is now in Bheruiau, Texas.
- 1 ■
Out West a girl backed out, of her mar
riage engagement, when the minister got to
the house. The bridegroom wasn’t of the
brokenhearted kifftl He turned to tho
assemble ladies and said: “If there's ary
mither gal lu re that’ll occupy this viicunl
situation. I’m her'a. (Jp jumped the sister
of the lady who had declined to be a
bride: “Count me in. Proceed, old text
singular, with tho pefonnance, t ain’t
afraid.” And the ceremony was performed
to the delight of the groom and company.
A young widow advertises in a Cincin
nati paper that slio has an income of throe
thousand dollars a year, and will marry
any man, young or old, who prosesses the
same means, arid can produce a certificate
of good character.
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Tho negroes of Kansas City have “Re
solved, That negro minstrel shows tend to
itfigrudc our race. ”
[Form thn Now York Tim.f. ]
BREVET PARENTS
| A Umnnntiti Adoption and Vn Willie a Die”
iaverf.
Nearly twenty years ago Mr. E, H.
1 Gibbs nml wife, of Brooklyn, adopted art
! their own a little girl, then lmt,six mold) r
I old, who was reared and educated by
them its their own child, and until within
a year or two so regarded herself, and with
very few exceptions was so regarded l.y
all to whom the parties were known. This”
child was the daughter of Peter J. Him
mona and Cordelia Potter, who, at the
time of the ehilds birth and adoption,,
were living together under a mere civil
eeutrnet of marriage, lmt who subw-queut
I. were niairied liy a clergyman. Iu 1808
tlie mother of Peter J. died, leaving in
; trust t(i mu executor for Peter and a brother
’ named William, her only children, pfop
i orly valued at, #42,IKK). Since then the
, brother Peter died, and the executor of
Ihe trust fund,- in coining to make w filial
j accounting boforo the surrogate', (earned
that this young girl waft living, and to
[ save him future responsibility lie would
i have to make her a party to tho final set
I leim-nt of his trust. Searching Out Where
| she lived he had her served at t.ho hotiao'
of her adopted father under tho name of
! Selma Canfield Simmons, alias Gibbs. In'
j astonishment the young lady showed the
letter to her supposed father, ami asked
him what it meant. Anxious not to break
the eliarrfi which had so long surrounded
the relations of tho young lady to him
j self and wife, and preferring rather to sac
rifire any money there wits in tho case,
Mr. Gihl is told her it amounted to noth
ing, that ho would attend to it. Finding
the executor and his roll nor I, lie told then)
he wanted none of the >Siinnionff ('Sfeffo,
that rather than have tlie eighteen years’
impressions of his adopted child dispelled,
he would forego all. It was found, how
ever, that this could not he done with
safety to the rights and interests of tho
li usti-os, and that, a suit by the latter must
commenced to determine the yonng lady’s
interest in the estate. Accordingly a suit
was commenced in tho .Supreme Court, iff
this city, and came off for'trial Vestefdny,
before Judge Van Brunt artd a jury. The
suit is defended by tho only surviving
brother of flics gill’s father, who claims
flint there heingim marriage of her parents
by a clergyman at tho lime of birth, if at
mu line, she is not entitled to claim ns
her father’s heir. Ono of the witnesses off
I In- stand yesterday, testified positively to
a marriage by Rev. Mr. Johnson,of Brook
lyn, having taken place. A nnticnblo fea
i lure of the ease, also, is the remarkablo
j resuiiihlaiKse which tho yonng lady hoars,
not only to her own, hut to Lor adopted
I mother also.
—. • .
! A (. OMI’L/All: NT TO SENA TOR AOfr
WOOD.
i The St. Louis Times pays the following
! high, but eminently merited compliment
j to Senator Norwood a fid Ida kite’ speech
! against the social cqualitf atrOfnination:
None the less keenly ra-teastie, none tho
| less merciless in its irony, mine tho less
j skillful in its analysis, nono the less pow-
I erful in its logic and overwhelming in its
grouping of laW, precedent, historical rd
; '.earoh and acute human' observation is the
I speech which tho whole Senate'listened to
lin awe, surprise and dcl'igfcl, slid which
was afterwards the fa Ik of Washington
I City tor a week. The Month but few to
j plead her cause at tho National Capitol,
lmt surely this last measure 'lie Civd
: Rights Bill, as it is called -the (Tying be
quest of a man who fras done more to des
troy the Union, Corrupt patriotism, alld
make AiAerienus Jon the and despise the
very name of a Republic than nil the Fir
ritauK and all the eumichs,4|B all the Imr
ren women tied ever came ouTnf Massachu
setts eomhimled will not bo forced upon
the country under the keen spuF’of paiti
san necessity. But whether the Civil
Rights Bill (lasses or does not pass, the
country owes a debt of gratitude to .Sena
tor Norwood for a speech which will do
probably its much to stem the tide of fa-
I uatieisinstill running high at Washington,
as any that could possibly bo made after
month's of preparation,study-and finish, ft
exhausts the subject. It is keen and mer
ciless, but j lie ulcer was a dreadful one,
and flu- knife had to go to the hilt.
SCRAPS.
“('nine where my love lies dreaming,”
' says an up country swain, “and see how
she looks with the (faint off.”
A man who has traveled through New
; .lorsey says ho saw some land there so
poor that you couldn't raise a disturbance
I on it.
V. WpstoVn editin' says that fresh water
has lusted strong of sinners over since tho
deluge, and that’s, hie, why lie players
bis.
The Interior, Ky, Jimnutl. hits an editor
of giant intellect. At least he says ho has
u eabb.ig. head four feet iu oiiciunfcrem’.o
in liis offioo.
Writing a >keto!i of his life, an Iriatuann,
:-.ys lh and ho i arlv ran away from his father
11,I I, i in:.,-.- ho discovered that ho was only his
: undo.
An ol.solving man has discovered a niini
| lardy between a. young ladies’ seminary
! ami i aigai’house, as both refine what it
already sweet.
‘ 0 ! why should the spirit of mortal lie
::,.l ?” exclaims tho Milwaukee Sentinel,
"when New Dr) ~.m molasses sells at four
teen cento, (n r quart, and buckwheat is
thrown at a m ui iu fifty pound packages. ”
A f.-w yen s since, t the cerebration of
il national unuiveraity in New York, a
is*u** d.ll, who was present being called
'ast, offered the following:
“Hero is health to poverty; it sticks to ar
man when all Li.-, friends alt sort him.”
Two dm lists having exchanged shots
without effect, one of the seconds inter
l'erod, and proposed that the parties should
shako hands. To this tho other second
obje< t as unnecessary; “for,” said ho,
"their hands have been .shaking this half
hour.”
A well-known preacher, being scon iu
the streets of New York in a Shakor grab
vn.s asked by a friend, “What in the world
sent you into that community ?" The re
ply was, "Throe good meals a day and
plenty of warm clothing arc not to bo
sneezed at. ”
A German tow nor who had tarried late
at a wine-supper, found his wife waiting
liia return in a high state of nervousness.
Maid she: "Hero I’ve been waiting and
rocking iu Hie chair iili my head spins
round like a top. ” “Jess so, wife, where'
Fvo been.” responded ho, "It’s in the ul
niti jthn e /”
“And have you no other sons ?” naked
a curious lady of a bronzed old sen captain.
“Ob. yes. tnadame. J bad one that lived
in tho' Mouth Moa Islands for nearly a
dozen years.” “Really, wits ho lirtd
there, and what waa his taste, tiio sea or
the land?” “No, madamo, tie wasn't
broad, he was meat, leastways tlie niggers
ate him; and, as for his taste, the chief
said lie tasted of terbneker.” Tlie lady
walked to another part of the ship, and
the captain smiled anil took a fresh
“quid,”
NO. 7.