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Ep3sß o News-Herald 1 Constitution, I |l2 on.tliS--sl-25. I rtfra THE GWINNETT HERALD, ) TIIE J ; NKws. : Consolidated Jan. 1, 1898. EntHbU»*»««* jn 1893. ) There are no better Pianos made than the CONOVER and KINGSBURY. Shorter College, Rome,' Ga.. equipps itself with Conover pianos. ™0 Because they could buy ■ no better. Pianos were ottered this College by At lanta dealers and other manufacturers at one half the price paid for the Conover. Shorter College Wanted Nothing But The Best. THE HOUSE OF CABLE Stands at the Head Of the great manufacturers ot high-grade 4 Pianos and Organs. A splendid assortment.of different designs in Upright Pianos on exhibition in our ware rooms. The most beautiful stock of Pianos ever exhibited in a southern city. Write for catalogues and prices. CABLE PIANO CO. 96-98 Whitehall St. Atlanta. H. B Morenus, Mgr. Capital $2,000,000. V Everett Pianos, Harvard Pianos, Bush & Gerts Pianos, Strich & Zeidler Pianos. Any of the above makes of Pianos can be bought very close for cash or on installment piwiueote. There are 25Everett Pianos now in use at the Gaii -sville Seminary, and are giving entire satisfaction. The Harvard Pianos have the “Plectrapbone” attach ment, by the use of which you can imitate the Banjo, Guitar or the Mandolin. The new Opera House, Athens, Ga., has a Harvard in use, and is very satisfactory. Mrs. M. J. Perry, Carl, Ga., has just purchased a Har vard Piano. I also handle the “FARRAND & VOTLY” Organs, and purchase them in CAR LOAD LOTS, having already sold four car loads this year. The Farrand & Votey is the only absolutely Rat,-Proof Organ on the market, notwithstanding others claim to handle them. Prices and catalogues will be promptly mailed on applica- HOPE HALE, Athens, - - Georgia, EISEMAN BROS. ATI - AIN'T A . The largest stock of Clothing, Hats and Furnishings in the South. thousands of styles for you to select from, and prices that are from 25 to per cent, cheaper than any where that’s because we are manufact urers and do not pay a profit to middlemen. Men’s Nobby Suits, - 500 up to 2500 Boy’s Long Trouser Suits; 450 up to 15 00 Boy’s Knee Trouser Suits, 150 up to 1000 We buy the best fabrics and choose the newest and handsomest patterns and coloring that are produced. Buy here once in person or through our mail order department, and the satisfaction you’ll receive will make you a permanent cus tomer of EIBEMAN BROS. [ Atlanta, 15-17 Whitehall Street, STORES Washington, Cor. Seventh and E streets, olunLJ l Baltimore, 213 W German Street. 15-17 WHITEHALL STREET.—Our Only Store in Atlanta. THE NEWS-HERALD. HOUGH RIDERS AT IT. THEIR SKIRMISH AT LAS GUASIMAS DESCRIBED BY PARTICIPANTS. Alton* tli«* Ambnnh —Dinnntpr to Ca pron'n Troop and I'nll of ltd Lead era— W lint Colonel* Wood and Roosevelt Have to S«> of the Flffht. [Copyright. 18*9. by G. 1.. Kilmer.] Shave been treat leader himself. less the, regret will be unani- mous among survivors before the Span ish war becomes a w.iruout tale. The actual fighting record of the rough riders was not long, two fights of j a few hours each, and if some capable j veteran would get down to it the truth might quickly be told. Colonel Wood commanded the regiment at Las Guasi mas, and his report, though unusually long for a skirmish, is contained in about 1,000 words. Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt’s reports on San .1 nan, where he commanded, make about 4,000 words. In bis magazine history of the rough riders he devotes over 10,000 words to the work of his regiment in each of these fights from the accounts thus far published it is evident that the rough riders did nothing extraordinary, nothing that could not have been ex pected of them. In the whole mass of literature on the subject the story of Edward Marshall, the correspondent wounded on the advance line at Las Gnasimas, gives the only matter of fact account of the clash of Oapron’s troop with the Spaniards. He says: “The six men who went in advance of L troop were the men at whom the first shot, and-the almost immediately succeeding first volley, fired by land forces in the Spanish-American war were directed. Tom Isbell, a full blood ed Cherokee Indian, went first, at one side of the middle of the road. Captain Capron kept even with him on the oth er. Private Culver was a few feet be hind, on the left flank in the bushes, and Bob Pernell was on the right flank, in the bushes. Wyley Skelton, Tom Meagher and Sergeant Byrnes, who had been a member of the New York police force, were spread out about 80 feet apart. Some one had fired a shot in an swer to that first one which came shrieking through the bushes, aud as a proof of our m a r ksrnansbip this little group captain capron, jk. found a dead Spaniard lying in the mid dle of the road. I tried to find out who fired this first shot, but I have been un able to do so. After that Tom Isbell saw a Spaniard and cheerfully killed him. Then everything opened up. The Spaniards were in force in the bushes, and Isbell went down with seven shots in him from the first volley. Not five seconds elapsed before Captain Capron received his fatal wound. By this time the men had naturally ceased to ad vance as boldly as they had started to and dropped behind whatever cover they could find. Culver, who was also an In dian, was on his face behind a rock. Sergeant Hamilton Fish rushed up to him in advance of the other men of L troop, who were running forward as rapidly as they could, and said: “ ‘Culver, have you got a good place?’ “ ‘Yes,’ replied Culver. “Fish lay down beside him at the edge of the road and began firing. After four or five shots he gasped: “ ‘l’m wounded. ’ “Culver replied by saying, ‘l’m killed. ’ “They had been hit by the same bnl let, and the cowboy warrior and tbs dude soldier mingled their blood there in the Cuban trail. Fish died; Culver lived. “The man to come np first after Hamilton Fish was Samuel Davis, known to the regiment as Cherokee Bill. He was standing upright when he saw Fish shot and had only time to look at him a second with wondering eyes when he went down with a crash himself. ” The disaster to Capron's troop and the death of the gallant leader was tha most dramatic incident of the fight. After that the advance of the rough riders was similar to that of the regu lars off on the right whose deeds that day have never been exploited as re markable. Lieutenant John R. Thomas, who succeeded Capron, has told his story and up to a certain point it is tha same as Marshall's. He says that tha advance along the mountain trail was made in single file, and the men expected to meet the enemy every minute. Cap tain Capron was with the five in the advance. He had seen Spaniards in tha morning and knew that they were around the buildings of a sugar planta tion in a valley to the left of the west ern end of the ridge. Troop L was within (HHeet of the Spaniards when the latter fired npon it, as Marshall stated. The rest of the company came in on the run to help the men in the advance. The Spanish line formed a crescent, and the rough riders had walked into the concave side of it. Sud denly a terrific fire of Mauser bullets was poured into the exposed men of Troop L. Says Lieutenant Thomas, “It was as hot a hole as I ever hope to get into. ” In a few trinutes he war wound- Dalton Argus: Not long since some hands working in the or chard of (Japt. D.C. Bryant dug uo some very fine specimens of what he thought was onyx. It was sent lo the state geologist and mineralogist in Atlanta, who returned it with the statement that it was a very fine specimen of ' Mexican onyx,” and that if it existed in any quanity here, was very valuable indeed. Capt. Bry ant is going to prospect a good deal in that orchard. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 19, 1899. ed, as Marshall had been jnst liefore. Colonel Wood’s report is not as clear as it should be to enable the historian to tell the truth about this regiment. It treats of the march over the moun tain trail, of knowledge of the enemy and precautions against surprise. He says: “The command was halted and the troops deployed to the right and left in open skirmish order and the command ordered to advance carefully. The firing began immediately, and the extent of the firing on each flank indi cated that we had encountered a heavy force. Two additional troops were de ployed on the right and the left, thus leaving only three troops in reserve.” From this last statement it seems that the first line consisted of three troops; then two were added on the flanks. The Spaniards still overlapped the line at each end, and two more troops were deployed, giving a line about equal to that of the enemy. Colo nel Wood says that at this time the firing on his front was heavy and on Capron s terrific. The remaining troop was sent in, a general advance ordered and the enemy’s right forced back. Wood says the officers and mop be haved splendidly. A blockhouse was captured and the Spaniards driven from a strong position among the rocks. This general advance of the rough- Wr Rtl : \gf ; IJKUTENANT THOMAS. , the Spaniards back. Meanwhile the Spaniards on the north were able to en filade the rough riders as well as meet the attack of the regulars on the direct front. Wood directed the fire of two troops against this new enemy, and with the help of the regulars, who came up in the nick of time, the Spaniards were again dislodged. According to Colonel Roosevelt the loss at Las Guasimas was distributed as follows: The rough riders had 8 killed and 34 wounded, the First regulars 7 killed and 8 wounded and the Tenth 1 killed and 10 wounded; total, 68. The strength of the two squadrons of rough riders and the,two squadrons of regulars engaged was about equal and aggregated 964 men. Colonel Win d's report is lacking in the details of what was done by each battalion and the separate troops. As the troops were deployed and sent in separately, a statement of the work of each would clear up the story of the rough riders in their first fight. In the course of Colonel Roosevelt’s 10,000 word narrative, now and then a sen tence bears clearly upon the way in which the rough riders took their bap tism of fire. But in the main, it is a jumble of facts. He goes into details about the advance of Capron’s troop, but still leaves the crisis in a fog. He says that Sergeant Fish with three oth ers had the advance, followed by 20 men in support; that Capron with the rest of the troop followed, and Colonel Wood came after Capron. There were 64 men in Capron’s troop; hence, only 40 in the reserve. Roosevelt then goes on to tell how the whole command climbed the moun tain in a single trail, so that there was practically no skirmish line. It was an advance in strung out column with no flankers. Roosevelt says that the ground was such that flankers conld not hava advanced as rapidly as the column; hence the command marched on in sin gle file until it struck the enemy. Wood says that when the‘advance saw signs of the enemy the command was deploy ed and ordered forward carefully and that firing commeticed immediately. This firing is described by Marshall and Lieutenant Thomaß. Oh Roosevelt says that while fbe line waß strung out Wood sent word back along the trail to him that the advance had come upon a Spanish outpost, and iu another min ute “orders to deploy three troops to the r >ght of the trail I*-, yj a nd to advance A XL when we became Yak-- engaged.” The •sc* meaning of “to .■jlfjEjadvance when ■we became en gaged” is not fc* %■' ' y jX r clear. Hecontin edward marshall, ues: “We had barely begun to deploy when a crash in front announced that the fight was on. It was evidently very hot, and Troop L had its hands full. ’’ Roosevelt com manded the battalion which included Capron’s, Llewellyn’s, Jenkins’ and O’Neill’s troops, and he set to work to get the last three to the support of the first. With Llewellyn’s troop and Kane’s platoon of Jenkins’ troop he got into line and in view of the Spanish position. The rough riders fired at places where the Spaniards might be, but saw none until Richard Harding Davis pointed them out by their bats. The rough riders’ carbines soon stirred the Spaniards np, and it was an ad vance and halt, much as Colonel Wood describes, until the end of the fight. Roosevelt says that he lost touch with O’Neill’s and Jenkins’ troops, which were away on his right across a valley. He tells of a “hail of bullets,” of firing volleys into buildings and other possi ble cover for the enemy and praises the gallantry of individuals in a way to make one hope there'll be plenty of the *ame kind for all of Uncle Sam’s bush fghting, and a bush fight it was for the i:ft wing at Las Guasimaa. George L. Kilmer. The trial of W. T. Channel for murder was concluded at Mount Veruon Thursday, of last week, the jury returning a verdict of guilty without recommendation to mercy. The case was one of ab sorbing interest in that section on account of the prominence of young Thompson, a merchant of Glenwood, whom Channel shot to death a few weeks since, and the court house at Mount Vernon was crowded to its capacity during the progress of the trial. A BEAUTIFUL POEM, When Rev. C. P. Bridewell, D. I)., the newly elected pastor of the First Presbyterian church of At lanta, preached his first germon before that congregation prior to accenting the formal call, he quo ted, in the course of his eloquent sermon, several exquisite verses which struck deeply into the minds of his hearers. Judge Wil liam T. Newman was specially impressed with them ; and he in tended to ask Dr. Bridewell to give him the name of the author, but failed to do so at the time. Last week he sat down and wrote to Dr. Bridewell at his present home in Fort Worth, Tex., and requested- of him the desired in formation, together with the verses themselves Dr. Bridewell prompt ly sent him the verses, stating that they came from the pen of some old Presbyterian divine by the name of Harbaugh, and add ing that they were now out of print. Here are the verses in full: THROUGH HEATH TO LIKE. Have you heard the tale of the Aloe plant That grows in the Southern clime? By humble growth of an hundred years It reaches its blooming time. And then a wondrous bud at its crown, Breaks into a thousand flowers. This floral queen ip its beauty seen Is the pride of the tropical bowers. But the plant to the flower is a sacrifice, For it blooms but once, and in bloom ing dies. riders was si multaneous with that of two squadrons of reg ulars of the First and Tenth along the northern side of the ridge. The Spaniards took up a new line 1,000 yards in ’length ami 800 yards in front of the rougli riders. Firing again be came heavy, and the rough riders steadily forced Have you further heard of the Aloe plant That blooms in the Southern dime, How every one of its thousand Mowers As they tall in tlie blooming time Is an infant plant that fastens its roots In the place where it falls on the ground, And fast as they fall from the dying stem Grow lively and lovely around. By dying it livetli a thousand fold In the young that spring from the death of the old. Have you heard of the tale of the peli can, The Arab’s Gimel el fiahr? That dwells in the African solitudes Where the birds that live lonely are? Have you heard how it loves its tender young How it toils and cares for their good, How it brings them water from foun tains afar And fishes the sea for their food? In famine it feeds them what love can devise The blood of its bosom in feeding them dies. Have you heard the tale they tell of tiie swan. The snow-white bird of the lake? it noiselessly floats on the silvery waves, It quietly sits in the brake. It saves its song till the end of life And then in the soft, still even ’Mid the golden light of the setting sun It sings as it Boars into Heaven. And the blessed notes fall back from the skies, ’Tie it’s only song, for in singing, it dies. Have you heard these tales? Shall f tell you one, A greater and better than all ? Have you heard of him whom the Heavens adore, Before whom the host of them full ? How He left the choir and anthems above, For earth in its wailings and woes, To suffer the shame and pain of the cross, To die for the life of His foes? ()! Prince of the nobles, O! Sufferer Divine, What sorrow and sacrifice equal to Thine ? Have you heard this tale—the best of them all— The tale of the Holy and True ? He died, but His life in untold souls Lives on in the world anew. Ills seed prevails and is filling the earth As the stars fill the skies above. lie taught us to yield up the Jove of life For the sake of the life of love. His death is our lift*, His loss is our gain, The joy for the tear, the peace for the pain. Now hear these tales, ye weary and sad Who for others do give up your all. Our Savior hath taught us the seed that would grow Into the earth’s dark bosom must fall. Must hide away and pass from view And then the grain will appear, The seed that seem lost in the earth below Will return many fold in the ear. Hy death comes life, by loss comes gain I The joy for the tear, the peace for the pain! Romo Tribune: The outlook for extensive development of val uable bauxite deposits in the southern part of Floyd county, near the line of Polk, is very 1 promising just now. Parties j from the east have secured a lease | of big deposits on the Minter farm | in Barker’s district, and it is un derstood that they will develop it on an extensive plan. The sup ! ply is said to be almost inex haustible and the mineral of ex cellent quality. A Letter From South Georgia. Bkoxtox, Ga., May 15, 1890. Seeing the letters from the cor respondents makes me think of writing from this section. The News-Herald is a most welcome visitor, and has a number of read ers in the wire-grass region of Georgia. Our farmers have planted corn, cotton, rice, ribbon cane, and are now putting out potatoes —of which a large amount is raised. Gardens are now fine, and peo ple- have all the vegetables they can eat. English peas are now r in their prime. Oats are about knee high, and are heading out beauti fully. Cotton has the fourth leaf in many instances, and the best corn is about knee high. The j broad fields look beautiful where the young plants are up sufficient ly to see them across the fields. Our sunshine is a little warmer than it is in Gwinnett, but every industry seems to be worth more here. As an example, I know a number of men who are hired to work on the farm at .sl2 to sl6 per month. A man does not think of getting less than 75 cents a day for daily labor. The turpentine business here is the most profitable of all, since spirits have gone up to forty-four cents per gallon. I believe it is an erroneous opin ion of the North Georgia people that people cannot have health and prosperity in South Georgia. It is a frequent occurrence to find a man here owning from one to three or four hundred head of cattle. I asked a man how many head of sheep he had, and he said he did not know, but estimated them at 600 or 700. His neigh bors think he has over 1000. Land sells at from 50 cents to $5 por acre. The laud appears a little thin, yet it is very produc tive when a little fertilizer is used. The country is fast developing; people are coming in from other places, new towns are being built, and the lands, to some degree, are being cleared, yet iu most all di rections in traveling one will find stretches of 8 to 10 miles in the woods, not a sign of a house except a little hut occasionally, built to lodge a few turpentine negroes while boxing pines or clipping the gum. The stills are now getting pretty well started, though they say the late spring put them a month be hind, as the gum does not run freely until the sun shines very warm. ' J. A. Mewbokn, Tribute of Reßpect. Noreross Lodge, No. 228, F. & A. M, Brother David Puncan, after a few days illness, passed uway to his final reward on the lflth day of April 18OT. Ho lived to be about 81 years of age. He joined .the Masonic fraternity at Stone Mt untain lodge over 40 years ago; afterwards moved his membership to Yellow River lodge, thence to Noreross lodge. While Bro. Dun can was very reserved, he was a useful and honored member np to hia death. His remains were taken charge of by the Masonic fraterni ty, at his residence, and carried to Mt. Carmel church. After a very solemn and appropriate sermon by Bro. B. F. Clement, of Nor cross lodge, the Masonic fraternity then proceeded to bury him ac cording to the ancient and estab lished customs and usages of that order, iu tlje presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends. Therefore, be it resolved, That the lodge room be draped in mourn mg for the next thirty days, and a copy of this obituary be sent to the family of the deceased, and a copy be furnished the News-Herald for / publication. Geo. A. Clement, W. M. Hunnh i tt, A. .1. Martin, Committee. An Essay On The Editor- A little hoy was required to write an essay,the other day and “The Newspaper”,was his subject. Here is the result: “I don't know how newspapers come to be in this world, I dont think God does either for he hain’t got nothing to say ’bout them and the editor in the bible. I think the editor is one of the missing links you hear ’bout, and strayed into the brush ’til after the flood, then sneaked out and wrote the thing up, and has been here ever since. 1 don’t think he ever dies. I never saw u dead un, and never heard of one getting licked. Our paper is a mighty poor un. The editor goes’ without underclothes all winter, don’t wear no sox, and paw hain’t paid his subscription in 5 years.” This Preaoher To Be Hanged. Austin, Tex., May 15.—The court of criminals appeals here affirmed the death sentence of Rev. George E. Morrison, who murdered his wife a few months ago at Pan Handle City, Texas., by strychnine poison. This is | ofle of the most remarkable mur der cases in the history of Texas. Morrison was born and reared in Massachusetts, and his father is a presiding older of the Methodist church in California. The con demned man lived for some time in that state and was married there to the woman he afterward poisoned. They removed to Pan Handle City about four years ago, and Morrison was placed in | charge of the Methodist congrega tion. He was held in high esteem by the people, and his domestic li f e was apparently happy. A year or more ago Morrison went to Kansas City to undergo medical treatment. While there he met a young woman who was one of his schoolmates in his boy hood and to whom he had been engaged before leaving his Massa chusetts home. Without telling the woman of his wife in Texas he began paying her attentions. He told her that he was a wealthy cattleman and had a large ranch in Texas. He returned to his wife iu Pan Handle City in a few- weeks and carried on a corres pondence with his sweetheart, mailing hiq letters from a neigh boring towu. It is alleged in the statement of the facts in the case that the con victed man carefully planned the murder. He waited until the physicians in the town were tem porary absent aud then adminis tered ihe fatel drug. Immediate ly after the funeral Morrison left for Kansas City. Suspicions were aroused aud the body was disin terred and an analysis of the sto mach revealed that death was due to strychnine poison. Morrison heard of the proceedings and fled from Kansas City. He was pur sued through several western states and in Mexico and finally returned to Kansas City, where his arrest occurred. On him were found forged deeds to a large ranch property in Texas, which he had used to make his intended in Kansas City believe that he was a man of wealth. When his trial occurred the man’s father wrote to the court officials declining to aid his son for the reason that he believed him guilty as charged. The date for the hanging will be set when the criminal court mandate roaches the trial court. It Didn’t Work. He came tow'ards her, his lips twitching, his brow furrowed. One of his handH was conee&led behind him. She regarded him coldly. “What are you hiding?” she asked. “I hide it no longer,” he said. “It is a lath 1” “Explain its purpose,” she hoarsely commanded. “I will,” he firmly answered, •‘if you read the pupear you must have noticed that a St. Louis judge has just handed down an o piuion that a husband is justified in thrashing bis wife if she suffi ciently irritates him. You have irritated me —therefore the lath.” She moistened her dry lips with the tip of her sharp red tongue. “1 suppose,” she slowly said, “that the punishment is the same, no matter how great the irritation may become?” “I suppose so,” he said in a hes itating way. “Then,” she harshly cried, “it is just as well to make it worth the while.” And before he could frame a suitable reply she had snatched out a handful of his whiskers, thumped his ears, lammed him with a roliiug-pin, prodded him with a poker and shivered the lath over his unlucky shoulders. Hall an hour later he poked his diminished head from beneath the diuiDg-room table and hissed between his white lips: “If I only had that St. Louis judge under here for about seven teen seconds I’d twist his idiotic neck off!” A meeting will shortly be called at Albany for the purpose of go ing through the preliminaries of organizing a public library associ ation. LaG range Reporter: Seab Wright is thinking of ruuning for Congress on the independent tick et. He is throughly imbued with the idea of independence and the people seem to eutertaiu the same feelings toward him. News-Herald I” Journal, .Stv, Only $1.25. VOL VI.—NO 80 How He Made Money. A farmer interviewed by the Greenville, 8. C. News explained his success by stating that he had read the newspapers, that he had watched everything closely, find, ing that he could do something on his sixty acres of land every hour of the year and by watching leaks. One statement of his was of unus ual significance. He said: “I like whiskey, but I am land hungry; I want more land. I fig ured out years ago that with very moderate drinking I’d drink an acre of good land every year. So I quit. At the end of the year I tell myself I’m just an acre ahead at $25 an acre by not drinking. I find that when I put it to my neighbors that way it makes, them think. You tell farmers to think about land every timo they start to buy whiskey, and calculate how much real estate they are drinking or giving away.” Another farmer, about 80 years old, with a wife and four childreu, is thus described by the News:. “He looked like that kind of a man —well fed and woll kept. His clothes were strong and warm and fitted him well. He rode in a well made wagon, which ran smoothly and easily and had been taken good care of. He drove a horse which he said was thirty years old and could do as much work as any animal in the country—a fat sleek dark hay, with evidence of good feeding, currycombiug, brushing and rubbing on every inch of his shining skin. The harness was good originally. It fitted like a tailor made gown and every buckle was in place. There was not a piece of string or grass rope or hickory withe anywhere about the outfit. It is safe to bet that the man did not have a pin any where doing a button’s duty,either. He looked as if he had left a wife at home who is the same kind of a women as he is a man, and who watches her husband and children and house just as he watches his ham and stables, live stock, tools and running gear. He has a horso thirty years old and apparautly good for five years’ work yet, and many a man loses his horse at twelve or fifteen years and must buy another at a cost of SIOO or more, simply from failure to take good care of him.” Honor the Heroes. “What’s the use being a hero, anyway ? I claim that the man who leads an honest, unobtrusive life, earning enough to be com fortable and having around him those who are near and dear, gets more out of life in the long run than one who sacrifices home and its pleasures for the purpose of engaging iu hazardous enterprises simply to gain renown.” “Oh, pshaw I I’d hate to take such a prosy view of life. What’s the use of living at all if one has to quit the world at last without leaving behind him a record to show future men aud women that he has at least been here ? I be lieve in heroes. We ought to hon or every man who leaves the beat en paths and tries to do something to make himself famous. We ought to keep the exploits of such men constantly before our sons, that they may have right examples to follow. If the world had no heroes it would soon become in tolerable as a place for man to inhabit. We owe it to ourselves to honor every hero and to praise his name ” “By the way, who was the man that fired the first shot for us in the recent war with Spain ?” “Lemme see ? By Jove—say, who won the prize at the pedro party the other night ?”—Chicago News. "A Female Stranger.” In St. Paul’s churchyard, in Alexandra, Va., is a marble tomb stone bearing this inscription To the memory of a female stranger : How loved, how honored once avails thee not; To whom related or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee. Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. This strange inscription raised much conjecture. The facts, as nearly as’kuown, are that in May, 1816, a man and a beautiful girl, accompanied by a valet, arrived at Alexandra in an English vessel. They shunned every one. Five months afterward the girl died. The husband staid long enough to erect a monument, left a sum of money to repair it and then sailed away and was never heard of again. Several novels have been founded upon this sad and ro mantic incident. When people pray for their dai ly bread they don't forget to put in a side order for butter.