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IThc ‘SBiffiSrinr JJranrp,
A TVEEKLT PAPER,
Published Wednesday,
Watkinsville. Cconee Co., Georgia.
W. Gr. SULLIVAN,
EDITOR |\D PROPRIETOR
ilSRMS:
One year, in a Ivance. .SI 00
Six months............... 60
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
The battle is not to the strong alone;
sometimes the wife gets" the best of the
fight.
The next move of the Nihilists will
be to get the Czar to fool around a
threshing machine.
“ I’m a moderate drinker ” asserted
an old toper: “I only take one drink
at a time.” *
The Boston Post says the way to re¬
tain your footing when a goat charges
is to sit down.
“Bare and for bare,” as the bald
headed, man said,. when he bought a
front seat for the Black Crook.
Fabf.r has mad» great deal of
money f rom lead pencils ; which is the
difference between Faber and reporters.
Ex-Marshal Bazaine is breeding
American hogs in Europe. A great
have many American breeding. hogs that go to Europe
no
A banjo-playing craze has attacked
Boston, and everybody is learning to
play. This is probably the reaction
from too much Greek.
The injjn who built him a house out
his poker winnings pays that his resi¬
dence was built on a “ bluff.”
It is saiifthaf there are One hundred
different ways of cooking onions, but,
unfortunately, there is only one way of
smelling them.
An intelligent compositor says: “A
horse that is divided against itself can¬
not stand.” We should say so—unless
the horse is a mule.
Ip is a noticeable faGt that salt cod¬
fish and herring always are a prominent
feature in a bar-tfender’s spread of a free
lunch.
The teacher of a Sunday-school class
inquired into if any one could tell who went
the ark -with the animals. A little
fellow said. “ P. T. Barnum,”
The man who will wait two hours for
his turn ill the barber’s chair, will get
mad and thrash and • scold if a shirt
button isn’t sewed on in just ten sec¬
onds. ,
A LECTURER on optics remarked, “ Let
any and man he will gaze closely himself into his wife’s eye
ceedingly small see looking so ex¬
laughter.] that”-[Shouts of
Mabathon young man nas com
‘ me mgfed exercises in drawing. He sits
do Wn by his. girl and draw# her head
over on his shoulder.
De Lessei'3 estimates that the Brook¬
lyn bridge will last for six centuries.
We shall watch that bridge with some
curiosity —Boston to Transcript. see just how near he hits it.
Jones— “ Two lemons a day! Mon¬
strous! These doctors always overijp
it! A small piece of lemon, soaked in
hot water and sugar, and anything else
you like, is all you want.”
Now that diamonds ,ry>n be made by
the proceesaa of chemistry, it will be
harder than ever to distinguish the
common people frpm editors.
A Sunday-school scholar was re¬
quested to learn “Matthew xv., 13 and
14,” when he astonished the teacher by
jumping “Can’t up, do::e; with the exclamation:
be ’taint in the blocks!”
liquor PitoFEsSiSR—“ that is Wih-fbu lighter mention some
than water?”
J unior—“ Alcohol.” Professor — “Can
you mention any other with which ypu
are familiar?” Juniar immediately
searches for a club.
HeaeseS at Portland, Me., are cut
bias and trimmed with white satin and
gold lace .-—York The (hnirfrercial Ad¬
vertiser. fashion is not peculiar to
Portland. Hearses are cut by us every¬
where, as long as possible. But they
are never sat in.
It is curious to note how a flaming
m j w silk handkerchief will stiuggle up
from the deepest breast-pocket into the
light of day and ltoger there, while the
soiled cotton one skulks at the bottom,
making into only now and then a hastv sally
the air.
Annette wishes to know how an
earthquake feels. Let her start a paper
and write up several prominent, muscu¬
lar citizens, in free lance style, and she
will have ve as as thorough moroug a demonstration
as can be given of th e matter.
Mrs. Partington— “Well, I declare!
Here’s an ingenuous youDg man who
has invented an arrangement by which
the deaf can see and' the blind talk.
Such talons as his should be reorganized
by a statue.”
A -y *ullow fellow stopped stopped at at a a hotel notenn in jLeaa- Lead
ville and the landlord charged charged him him $7 $7
a day mistake?” for five “ days. No,” “ Didn’t"you make
a said the landlord.
“Yes, you did ; you thought you got all
the money I had, but you are mistaken.
I have a whole purse full in another
pocket.”
,,...... tjneen „ ,, Soiled , at Last. .
[Vorrittown iiiraid.]
Mr. Piute went home from the
the “ Lodge fifteen ” the other night, and tackied
“ ” puzzle. He wrestled with
the thirty blocks—at least he thought
there were thirty of them, he being’to
splendid condition to “see double” and
to about an hour’and a half had the
Then thing solved to his own satisfaction,
be got pen, paper, and ink, and
attempted to write out the solution as
follows:' Shove 4 down, push 1 over,
carom on the 14, swing the right bower,
drag keno out tlie 6, keep black, the 10 in the king row,
on deal again, run the 5
from first ba«e, move 3 to the Southwest
of 15 white to play and mate in twelve
moves, P to K B4, QR to K, move 13-14-
15 a little Northeasterly, R other to Kt5ch,
then set ’em up on the alley,
throw double fi’s, roquet the 9, take the
7 on fhe fly, lead king, then R to R7,
rake in the pot, and mov—mov—move
—” His wife, becoming alarmed at his
long absence, eame down stairs Jat 2 a.
m., and found him under the table,
But he had “ done it.”
The late.-t puzcle is this:
Hard........ - - Eggs
Boiled....... _____ - - Man
The trick is to get the eggs inside the
man without Press. breaking the
trait Free
Mbs. Swoons’ husband started to
write bis name Mr. Hddons-Scott, but
•he wouldn't have ft,
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
The Salvation Army.
The London correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun thus describes the per
sonnet and objects of this now famous
band: “About these days, wind and
weather permitting, your shores will be
blessed, even in disguise, by the landing
of the Commander in Chief, his staff,
his esftort, and his daughters of the
regiment of “ the Salvation Army.”
What was born and cradled in England
will grow in America, and in future
days we shall be branded with the par¬
entage of a new ‘ ism.’ I have before
now shown that the English ‘isms ’
people transplanted denounced in America aft by Engtish
as. “horrid. Yaukee- enough
lsms.” Goodness knows we have
of native eccentricities without any
foreign ones, be they of the “ Salvation
Army,” or the “ Hoiy Land Navy.”
We may adopt and fondle our own
native organizations, but we should give
to Csesar the things of Cse?ar. Have
yttu white any corporal remote ” idea does? of what a “dashing figure
Can you
to yourself a blushing celestial viv lowlier at the
canteen of the encampment of
this army? The white dorporal may
call his company roll, the blooming
maiden stout pedals of citoiimscribed fill skirts and of
bliss— -but may up your To clip
is that Salvation? some
it may be. Oh felitove Tuesday when
pancakes were the evidences of an ab¬
dominal ^Christianity and muscular
piety, wber#domes I took a sjroll'in the East End,
mark the jumping off part
of London. There I had the grateful
opportunity of being brought vis-a Army. vis
with a virgin of the Salvation
She was clad in a meek and evangeli¬
cally humble india-rubber overcoat with
an ample hood; and looked for all the'
world just like pious pictures I have
seen in Russia. I learned that her
sions.” adopted name was “ Margery of Mis¬
I rather iil^e tlieTheaMiteration
and surely Margery is intensely pretty.
dued “ Y'ougo to America?” I ask in a sub¬
and seductive tone. “ In course I
do,” says Margery. “ May I ask to what
part?” “Well, it don’t make much
difference so long as it is New York,”
said the geograpically informed Mar¬
gery of Missions. “To save souls?”
quoth I, in a sort of impediment ’em!” Heaps shy¬
ness. “ Oh, Think yes; heaps of
of ’em! of that, O Gothamite
godly people! “Heaps had of ’em!” a'most “What
is patent-*—I your process?”—1 also timidly asked. “ Well, said;
you see, Salvationists as we are, believe
in pointing out, proving practically the the
sinfulness of sin, the wickedness of
wicked; we exemplify this, show it up,
and then in a moment ask the sinner and
the wicked one -where he is or how she
is!” “ You catch them in the act fla¬
grante deliclu f &o to speak, and then res¬
cue them from the enemy red-hot?”
“ Well, I do catch not know them exactly sinners, what and you
mean ; we as at
once recruit them into our ranks, and*
they become better—and that’s why we
call ourselves the salvation army!” In
self-defence I piously whispered in her
ear, “.Young woman, go West!” Site
has gone where it is good for her to go.
And when the rising, or for that mat¬
ter the sinking generation, shall be found
in sin, phalanx let Margery be there, and the en¬
tire of “ The Salvation Army 1”
The home of the brave and the land of
the lree has not yet instituted a prohibi
tory tax on saints. Free trade in piety
is a boon that the Constitution or the
Custom House dare not tamper with,
Ians Deo.
Minister
[Virginia (Xev.j chronicle;!
An interesting little story floated up
from Reno on this morning’s train,
Last evening, shortly after 8 o’clock, a
stylishly-dressed hanging young his man, with called a
young woman on arm,
at the residence of one of the ministers
of the place, and said he wanted the
services of a clergyman to unite him in
marriage to the youDg lady. He did
not volunteer any information as to
where himself or companion came from,
He produced bis license perform and the requested
the clergyman to ceremony
as simply and as quickly as possible,
Both were evidently of legal age, and
the parson at once tied the knot, calling
in the members When of his pair own family made as
witnesses. the were
husband and wife, the groom drew a
$50 'greenback and from directed a the flat-looking minister
pocket-book, take $10 from that.” His
to “ reverence
with many thanks, took the biil, and
after diligent search, hunted up $40
in coto, which he gave to the bride
groom, who politely wished the minister
and his family good evening, and blushing and
walked off with his timid
bride.
This morning the parson was making
a tour of the hotels and using somewhat
worldly language. He could find the
happy pair marriage nowhere, and is convinced
that the was a mere trick to
pass a $50 greenback on him. The bill
was and bogus, bride have and as both the know bridegroom whither,
does look gone if none
discovered this as some genius had
method of “ shoving the
queer.” The awful sinfulness of the
device does not forbid the reflection that
an enterprising young man and woman
couid soon grow hundred rich by miles traveling and
marrying every or so.
-» •— - -
The Strongest Man in the World.
Reno, Nev.,_ T claims . to possess the
strongest man in the world, in the per
*°® °* Angelo Caidela, an Italian of
thirty-five to be years. double, His atad spinal his bones column and
seems
joints are all very large. He has re
peatedly his right lifted hand with the weighing third from finger of
men one
hundred and fifty to two hundred
pounds, hollow by placing his finger under the
of one of their feet and thus
carrying them around a room. He can
strike with his fist a blow with a power
of five hundred pounds, as measured on
a register, and when a couple of big
Irishmen attacked him the other day,
he seized one in each hand and knocked
them together until they were insensible
and half dead.
“ You can get a barrel of oil off any
carpet by applying buctwbeab” Aha,
that’s good! No more kerosene bills to
pay.— Danbury New*.
WATK’tNSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 21, 1880.
A \von» V.S STORY.
BY KULA LEE.
“ ’Tis only a tenant house yonder,
The poorest of its kind. ”
I was likening there at the window,
While John threw hack the blind.
Hark! ’tis a fireman’s trumpet’.
The engines rattle and lly,
While over the crisp and shining snow
The peopje come hurrying by.
Tbo le.-ijied from sill to sill,
Wtylc Ko$r Kissing the roof in glee,
far above the surging crowd
An' open window I see.
" Ob, God! ’tis a child, leaning far out
With its face unturned to the sky.
fiee! it has folded its tiny hands;
For the love uf inerdy,' liy 1”
As I turned to gaze, far up the side
Of that blazing, tottering wall
Was a form I knew; it must be John
Far up beyond recall!
Up, still upward; the flames seemed wild
And laughed iu their maddest way,
As That if they dared ihockc<l take the their breve, strong' hands
to prey.
Hushed and.spollboUnd the wondeiing throng;
? Seembd held by a mighty hand, * $
As if turned to stone the motley group,
The By some euchanter’s wand.
Were stars above, and the flames below,
While the gleaming angel of athwart death the sky:
Wus with sable wing
hovering strangiy nigh.
Wttn bated breath and eyes aflame,
And my heart just standing still,
Ami'leavelhe sniokitig sill!*’ chM
Then all was i>ittuk.,the wild, weird sceue
The crowd in asteSdy stream.
You know the rest, how John camo back
With only a blistered hand,
And I to-day am the happiest wife
In all this blessed land.
The child? ah, yes! ’tis a beauty!
Ah A ! poor how widow’s little only know son $
we what love Is worth
Till death comes near to S-Itetroil one.
i u "l Free, JVcw. .
A LEAP-YEAR PROPOSAL,
Fray, gentle being, give me heed,
As kneeling humbly by thy side,
With lacerated heart I plead
That I may be thy blushing bride.
I long—I wildly long to press
Thee to my heart—I know ’tisrash!
I pine to print a fond caress
Upon tliy neck and mild mustache.
Why, Why toll turn me away why, so thineeyelfd^rop; pettishly; **
Say, Thy why with tierce, tumultuous flop,
bosom heaves coqnettishly ?
I know that thou art young and fajr
But As thou tiny buds in early spring—
shall be my constant cares—
Thou frail and fragile little thing!
I’ll sew thy shirts and darn thy hose,
I’ll TJiy victuals cook, thy fires will light—
Each grease thy graceful Grecian nose
So surely snowy, thou’lt croupy, tell wintry night,
not me nay
And bid me, dying, quit thy side —
Brace uK pull down your vest and say
That I may be thy blushing bride.
, . —Deudgood Pioneer.
T1VO VIEWS.
BY LEE O. HARRIS.
’Twixt springtime beauty and autumn dews
A burning summer must, intervene.
Tbe morning flies and the night pursues,
But there’s always a day of toil between.
* ’Twixt childhood’s laughter and ago’s tears
Lies manhood’s summer of sweat and pain.
*The dawn of youth and the night of yeaw
Are cleft by the struggles of heart and brain.
ii.
’Twixt s pringtime flower and autumn fruit
A ripening summer must intervene.
The moon may fly hut the night’s pursuit
Shall sweeten the day that lies between.
’Twixt childhood's promise and age, full blest,
There lies the leneth of u golden chain.
The Are dawn linked of toil by the and pleasures the bight of rest
of heart and brain.
—Kokortxo Tribune.
A SISTER’S VENGEANCE.
My Experience don a« nn Accomplice In I*on
With a Murdered Woman.
'“f
cupant of the smoking-room of a “ Lit
erarv and Artistic Club” which faces
the Thames. I flung fresh coal on the
gloomy embers, blaze and stirred them till
they sent up a of light that drove
and the ghosts then picked out of (he shadowy corners,
the table, up dawdle a paper haphazard it till
from to over the
waiter being wandered lighted the in gas, or some human
It American to keep me Some company,
was the an paper. visi
tor to club had left it behind him
accidentally. I turned the pages list
lessly, until arrested suddenly by my atten
tion was a paragraph
headed “Extraordinary Crime.” ft
was the lady story from of its the robbery The of a whole body
of a grave.
affair was shrouded in mystery. On
the 14th of the month there died in an
Englishman American city traveling the beautiful wife of an
the which foy contained pleasure. In
same paper this
paragraph I found the heading of
“ Cradle, Altar, Tomb.” the following:
“ On the 14th tost., in this city, Dru
silla, the beloved wife of Blissett Emer
ton, four.” of London, England, aged twenty
In due course the poor lady was
buried, and during the night the the
church-yard was No entered and coffin
carried away. motive is suggested
in this American paper for the crime,
The husband is interviewed at his hotel.
He is inconsolable for the loss of his
beautiful young wife—mad with, min
gled of her rage remains. and horror He at toils the his desecration
story to
the reporter. He had only been mar
ried a few months. Thev were traveling
for pleasure in America’. His poor wife
caught a cold a fortnight since, returu
ing from the theater. He had medical
advice, but the cold increased and in
flammation of the lungs set in, and
soon all was over. He buries his bead
in his hands and weeps, and the reporter
leaves him alone with his sacred sorrow,
The by the account firelight in the concludes paper I thus: was reading “IJp
the to
present no clue to this mysterious
affair has been obtained.” I glanced at
the date of the paper, and flung it down
jn disgust. It was two years oid. I
had grown interested in the affair, and
here it was two years old already, and
probably forgotten. ended? Where The should shadows I
find out how it
had grown darker ana darker; the fitful
flare of the fire had died down into a
j j dull red being glow, lighted. and the I riverside flung myself lamps
! were
back into the casy-chair, and thrust my
: hands into my pockets, half closer!
m y eye*. Suddenly I was aware that I
was n ot alone in the room. From the
darkest It corner glided there slowly was a long black
; figure. had placed toward me. f
j I the paper where I had found
it, on the table, by my side. The figure
1 1 seemed to he looking for something. It
passed its hands over the tables and
ently peered it down among table the papers. elbow. Pres¬
came to the at my
In the gloom, as 1 sat in the deep arm¬
chair, 1 believe I was almost invisible. and,
The figure came right hand, up passed to me,
reaching out his it over
my table. Presently it Seized some-,
thing, and gilded away the* with it to the
window, on which lamps without
flung a flicker of light. The n I saw
that it was a man, and that in his hand
he held the American paper in which 1
had just read the account of a mys¬
terious crime. He glanced sounded at it, and
muttered something that like,
“ How careless of me!” then folded the
paper, thrust it into his breast pocket,
and walked out of the room, Hardly
had the door closed behind him when
the attendant came in with lights.
“ Who is that gentleman who has just
gone out?’' I said.
* “Don’t know his naihe, sir. Ain’t
seen him here often.”
I remembered that at this club every
member had to sign his name in a daily
book kept down in the hall for that purpose.
I ran stairs, and looked 'at the
open leaf to see if that would aflord me
any clue. The first name that caught
my eye was that of Blissett Emerton.
No wonder the figure i had seen in
the darkness had been so uuxioua to
had happened. pap 7- rr He T„A had been 0nce - in W L the at
room He had reading, laid the fancying downs himself alone.
paper thought¬
lessly and dropp a oft to sleep. I had
not noticed him in the gloom, and he
was quite thing unaware I of did my before presence. I
One more left.
I turned over the members’ address
book, and looked under the E’s. There
I found the ,name of “ BJissett, Emer¬
ton,” and against it “No. 7 Blank Court,
Temple.” bn . W
Soon afterwards I found time to dine
at the club, and there I met an old
friend of for mine, a barrister, whom I had
not seen a year, who, after dinner, in¬
vited me to come to his chambers for
an hour,
“Still in your old diggings then,” I
said.
“ Oh no,” he answered. “I’ve moved
since I saw you last into another set.
I’ve got capital chambers at No. 7 Blank
court.” I askedbtm at once if he knew
Mr. Emerton. > v $ >•<, , .... ,
“ Only by sight,” he answered. “ He
has chambers on the same floor, and we
pass on the landing. We Hever speak.’"
I stayed longer than 1 meant tm and
it was striking ton as we came out on
the Emerton’s lauding. chambet The outer ajar. door of As Mr.
was we
passed, rushed the Inner vritR door scared opened, white and a
man out a face,
j It “Help!” was Blissett he cried, Emerton! tearing his col¬
at
lar as though it ehoked him. “Help!
help!” Then there was a strange gurgl¬
ing noise in his throat, and he toll for¬
ward in a fit. I dragged him into his
chambers, which were in total dark ties*,
and laid him on the floor, bidding my
friend run for a doctor at once. • The
man babbled in his frenzy. “ The face,”
he cried, “ the face—it was her face—
there in the court below! Look between
the trees!” I looked out into the
court.
The moon was up, and among the
trees near the fountain I could see the
figure of a woman. She was in deep
black, and as presently she stood where white
the trunk of the tree threw her
face into relief, I could see that she was
looking towards the window. Probably
she mistook my figure blotted against
strange menacing Then she glided gesture to and pointed
at me. among the
trges and was lost to sight. The doctor
examined Emerton, and pre
fright,” s|rib(;d for he him. said, “but “He's he’ll had be a all violent right
an ’’ Ry- It’s more hysterical than
anything els#. Where are his friends?’
H I warned to learn something of
tjjp ^9,h man’s for better strange than story, a night wbat alone could with I
hi|jj. The ’ left doctor gave me certain direc
‘■to* 18 an<
' had carried Emerton to his bed-,
room and put him on the bed. Seeing
1ft was still, the I went into the front room,
whisky, U P fire, put on the kettle, found
8 9 n f e lit my pipe, and prepared
for the night. I had just turned the
burner down when I became aware of a
s Some 9” i Seating sound softly at the outer door,
door with one was key. The opening the outer
a gas was low down,
Hurriedly I picked up my overcoat and
other traces of my presence and flung
l h cm under the large couch at the end
df the room. It was an old-fashioned
sola with a hanging valance which
reached to the ground. I then crept
underneath, rise the and waited for the curtain
to on drama. I had hardly got
ioto_a safe oositiori when the outer door
yielded, that ana intervened. I heard a Then step in the pass
the outer
door ,was gently closed, expected to see
the inner door open in its turn and #ome
one enter. The minutes Rent by, ahd
IW> one eame. Whoever it might be was
in th<J passage. I could hear a slight
movement every now and then, and the
rustle of a woman’s dress. It must have
been quite top minutes since X dbtieed l heard the
outer door opened when that
th * irtner one was swinging noiselessly
hack on its hinges, and something was
gifting moved into the floor room. Slowly it
across the till it stood
right in the dim light oi the turned
down gas.
I shall never forget the terrible sight
that met my eyes. I would have
screamed, but my tongue remained
glued dead to my mouth. I was looking at a
woman risen from the grave. Her
face had been beautiful in life; nowit
was ashen gray. The eyes were sunken
and in their colorless. sockets, The and figure her lips were pale
Ion,- white shroud. »nd wasdrapied 1 fancied in
a the the
room was heavy with awful oder of
an moved open grave. Slowly the phantom
toward the next room, and glided
in. Fora moment all was still. Then
came a faint cry. The man was awake,
and alone with the apparitidh. “Dru
silla!” he shrieked. “Mercy! Mercy!
Have mercy!”
I heard a hollow voice answer him,
"Rise and follow me.”
“ What would you nave with me?”
“Confess,” shall
“ What I confess?” answered the
wretched man, his voice trembling in
an agony of fear.
“ Confess the foul wrong you did me.
Confess where my poor body lies, that
it may be buried in holy ground.”
Again the man’s trembling voice
wailed out, “1 will confess all.”
“Follow me.”
The apparition glided from the in¬
ner room, and the man followed her.
“Write!”
The dead woman pointed to the table
where the pen and ink were, and the
man “Write obeyed all.” her gesture mechanically.
I could see from a rent in the valance
the whole scene. Whe man, white with
terror, the beads of cold perspiration on
bis brow, sat an wrote.
The apparition glided behind him and
looked over his shoulder.
Once he paused in his task.
“ Write all,” said the white figure.
And again the man wrote.
The figure then grasped the paper
with its waxen fingers. “ Gol” it said,
pointing With to the inner room.
his eyes fixed upon its livid
face, the man backed slowly for some
paces. With a violent effort and a lit¬
tle scream, he seized the door, swung it
to, and bolted it on the inside.
Then, for the first time, the dead
woman trembled.
She seemed Btrangely nervous and
agitated closelv, then now. She clasped in her the paper
put it bosom and
glided I had from the room.
got over the sudden terror in¬
spired made by such a strange light, and had
up my mind that I had detected
some terrible imposture. There was a
of slight pause in bein& the lobby, drawn and the noise
a garment oft; then the
outer door opened and the visitant
passed followed out on to the staircase.
I as quietly as 1 could. The
staircase was lighted with gas. As I
trod on the second landing the ghost
heard the noise and looked up. She
was dressed in an ordinary black cos
turae now, and her face was a natural
color. To my intense surprise she
neither screamed nor attempted to run
away. She stood still, and beckoned me
to her side.
“ What are you going to do?” she
said.
“ To give you into custody.”
“ Are you a friend of hist”
I answered “ Yes,” mechanically.
“ Then let me go fiee if you value his
life.’ it ‘
~
“If I let you go I am your accom¬
plice,” I vile murmured; imposture.” “your accomplice
in some
“No. If you are my accomplice to¬
night, you are an accomplice to the holi¬
est deed a woiftan ever wrought. Pass
me through the gates if home; you doubt me;
watch me; follow me give me
into custody if you like; I don’t care,
I’ve got what I wanted.”
I took her arm as though I had been
a policeman, and said : “Pass through
the gate then, and if you attempt
to get away from me I shall call for
help.” She nodded
to the Tail sition. The
man at the gate was asleep. 1
roused him, and from his box pulled the
cord and let us pass through the wicket
door into the Strand.
I then listened to the strangest story
that ever mortal lips had uttered, and
there was no doubt that every word of it
was true.
The confession which the trembling
wretch had written at her dictation—as
he believed at the dictation of his dead
wife—I had read. It was a plain state¬
ment of how he had poisoned the poor
girl whom he had wedded in a fit of mad
jealousy, how and how he had concealed his
crime; at the last moment he had
overheard a whisper that some one
suspected the body foul might play; and how, fearing had,
be exhumed, he
with the assistance of an accomplice,
since dead, stolen the hotly that night
and re-buried it in the garden of a
house in a lonely part of the American
town where this accomplice lived.
This woman was his wife’s sister, and
she had suspected foul play from the
first. Ehe was an actress, and was away
on Emerton a provincial wooed tour when Blissett
and won Drusiila and
took her abroad with him. Emerton
had never seen this sister. The marriage
had been secret and hurried, and he had
seemed strangely anxious to leave the
country. months. They were to be back in five
the Drusiila—poortrusting fool idolized
man knight and obeyed him. To her lie
was a without reproach.
But soon his conduct to her altered
strangely, all and she began to suspect that
was not right. He grew cold and
cruel, and she was miserable and un¬
happy.
Hhe wrote secretly to her sister, told
her troubles and how quickly her hus¬
band’s conduct had altered. The sister
urged She her to leave him and come home.
there was expecting hsr of to do so when
came the news her illness and
death, and then of the mysterious dis¬
appearance of the body. From tha*
moment Drusiila Emerton’s sister made ami
up her mind to fathom the mystery
bring She refused the guilt home to the murderer.
to accept the explanation
of her sister’s death. She believed
Blissett Emerson to be quite capable of
carrying to get rid out of her. a carefully The disappearance matured plan of
the body strengthened her suspicions.
She concluded at once that he feared the
and corpse might afterwards her be exhumed,
as it turned out suspicions were
correct. When some time afterwards
he arrived in England, she commenced
to put her plans into exccutiou. She
would terrify his secret from him. I
have said she was an actress by pro¬
fession. She was also an exact counter¬
part in height and feature of her dead
sister.
When Emerton went to live in cham¬
bers, she managed, by a clever artifice,
to isopen get a night duplicate arid day, set of and keys. The there place
as are
only one or two men in residence,
it is easy to choose a time to step up the
stairs unnoticed. Br getting into the
inciosure before twelve, one would not
even be seen by the gate porter.
The plan which occurred to the mur
dered woman’s sister had been put into
execution for the first time that night.
Early in face the evening she had let him
see her among the trees. I bad been
NUMBER 7.
an of her unsuspected witness of the success
appearance this as one from the dead.
All was told at the trial in
America. He waa extradited and 1 went
over as a witness. But not even on the
scaffold would he tell where reposed the
remains ot his victim. The avenging
sister is now a member of Mr.-’s
dramatic company, and the story, al¬
though well-known iu the States, is now,
perhaps, England. known for the first time in
The Great Fire in Tokio.
[Japan Uasette.l
Hum!reds of carpenters \ ire at work
and erecting temporary places of shelter,
clearing repairing bridges; men engaged at
away the ashes on the si'.es
where their recent dwellings had stood;
women walked about listlessly with
children on their backs; groups of half
a dozen or more old men, women and
children gathered round little wood
fires trying to keep warmth in their
bodies; streets rendered almost impas¬
sable by immense heaps of ashes, broken
tiles, and other debris; ferryboats driv¬
ing a been thriving trade where remains the bridges
have burned; the of large
pottery the factories—such were somo of
rapidly sights did to be seen yesterday. So
the flames travel that it
was with difficulty the streets were
cleared of people before the houses ig¬
nited, and iu so many places was the fire
raging that they knew-not which way to
run. Anxicus to aave futons and wear¬
ing apparel, the poor creatures sallied
forth from their homes with bundles on
their shoulders to fty they knew not
whither. The streets became blocked
with the surging masses. Women and
children were trampled under foot, and
many who fell in the crowd never rose
again; their little children were seen looking
for parents, parents looking for
their children, while the air was rent
wjth cries of rage, anguish and despair. the
Still they clung tenaciously to few
in worldly bringing possessions they had succeeded
from their burning homes,
thereby the almost completely blocking up
narrow slowly streets threading through which the
masses were their way.
At length the police interfered ami
caused numbers to throw their bundles
into the rivers, or anywhere else out of
the way, so ns to facilitate the escape of
the people from the frightful death
which threatened them, and which was
gaining on them fast. Sixty-eight
streets, burned, containing rendering 11,464 houses, were
homeless. It is oyer 40,000 people
estimated that thirty
people were trampled to death in the
streets, and one hundred wounded were
the conveyed fire to the hospital. Long before
reached the foreign settlement
the residents felt anxious and began to
pack up. But this appears to have
been an almost needless task, for when
the fire did reach them there wiiH no
one to be found to convey their goods
and chattels away; this was particularly
the case when the residence of the
missionary Everything ladies at No. 11 ignited.
had been got ready for
flight, but had to be left in the house, as
no coolies were to be found willing to
undertake the task of removing the
boxes of clothing. The American Le¬
gation was in imminent danger for some
time, and Mr. Olataud’s hotel ignited
seven different times, hut each time the
flames were successfully suppressed.
The residence of Bishop Will Huns, of
the American Episcopal Mission, was
burned.
The Newspaper as a Text Hook.
The Superintendent of the Pittsburg
schools highly commend the uho of the
daily papers as a textbook. The lively
interest the pupils would take in tli3
gUbgraphv and history of affairs COI1
nected with daily events, would serve to
impress minds. both studies deeply upon their
Ample illustration of the in¬
by terest that possible in such studies is afforded
which was aroused in the minds
of many readers during the war of the
rebellion, the Franco-Prussian war, and
to some extent, the Kusso-Turkish war.
The curiosity excited in the places at
which great events are transpiring, is
taken advantage of by business men;
for during both the Prussian war and
the Turkish war, not only were cheap
maps companies designed and sold, but insurance
tised and other concern* adver¬
themselves by means of maps of
the“seatof war,” which they distrib¬
uted gratis. The human nature which
shrewd men of business understand,
might well be worth the study of tiiose
who engage in the instruction of youth.
Washington’s Pronunciation.
General Washington pronounced
corps e-o-r-p-s. The Boston correspond¬
ent of the Halem Gazette writes: “An
original Washington authentic annecdote of Gen.
is a rare thing, hut here is
one on the authority of Maj. John
Saunders, who commanded the Halem
Cadets in 1789, when Washington
visited Halem. In his compliment to
the cadets; ‘You have the honor to
command the best disciplined corps 1
have ever seen,’ he pronounced the word
articulating corps according the to and the English and spelling,
the short; p s, kore, accenting but
o not core or
c-o-r-p-s. This can be no imputation on
the intercourse scholarship of Washington, for his
with Lafayette, Count
d’Kstaing and other French officers
must have familiarized him with the
French pronunciation. It rather indi¬
cates his intense Americanism.”
traveled An Gil in City Europe, gentleman, said who he recently at
was a
dinner one day in Paris, and, while tell¬
ing a story, was attacked with a sudden
and continued fit of sneezing. When
he ceased, a Russian named' gentleman at
another table, Plitcheekee,
turned about and cemplimented him
on his excellent and correct pronuncia¬
tion of the Russian language !—Oil
City Derrick.
An exchange says: Nod#ubt “ Doves quarrel
more than eagles.” of it—but
dove’s, then, from what may be seen ot the
they have such a nice time when
they make up, and that accounts for the
quarreling.
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Boren, like sores, are always in the
way.
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THOUGHTS FOIt SUM1AY.
Hope without an object cannot live.
None preaches better than the ant,
and says nothing.
Industry needs not wish, and he who
lives on hope will die fasting.
The purest treasure mortal times
afford is spotless a reputation. — Shaks
peare.
Great things are not accomplished by
idle dreams,, but by years of patient
study.
The charities that soothe and heal
and bless are scattered at the feet of
man like flowers.
Labor to keep alive in your breast
that little spark of celestial fire called
conscience.— Washington.
LlTTtiE kindnesses from those around
us should be reciprocated and returned
in the same kindly spirit.
Pursue what you know to be attain¬
able; make truth your object, and your
studies will make you a wise man.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents which, in prosperous circum¬
stances, would have lain dormant.
The “ They Say So’s ” are the vipers
of Society. Eliminate them from among
us, and this earth would have a smack
of paradise about it.
Whoever is honorable and candid,
honest and courteous, is a true gentle¬
man, whether learned or unlearned, rich
or poor.
Of all the noblest; possessions of this life,
fame is the when the body has
sunk into the dust, the great name still
lifts.
There is little pleasure in the world
that is true and Hiucere besides the pleas¬
ure of doing other our duty comparable and doing good.
1 am sure no is to this.
Y'ouno man, don’t try to cover too
much territory. Remember that a little
syrup will make one pancake more pala¬
table than it will if Hpread over a dozen.
Beautiful lives have grown up from
dark places, as pure white lilies full of
fragrance have blossomed on slimy stag¬
nant waters.
We bear within us the seeds of great¬
ness; but suffer them to spring up, and
they overshadow both our sense and our
happiness.
Can there be any greater dotage in the
world than for one to guide and direct
his courses by the sound of a bell and
not his own judgment and discretion.
Energy will do anything that can bo
done in this world; and no talents, no
circumstances, two-legged no opportunities, will
make a animal a man with¬
out it.
Every man has three suits of attire
which he uses in his life: One for at
home; one for friends and acquaint¬
ances; the third for strangers. To each
he is a different character—the human
trinity—three in one.
I bleep most sweetly when I have
traveled in the cold ; frost and snow are
friends to the seed, though they are
enemies to the flower. Adversity is in¬
deed contrary toglory, but it befriendeth
grace.— Richard Baxter.
To an ordinary observer, the mass of
Here people and one there, meets perhaps, seem happy and joyous.
we see a care
worn, sad face, but the multitude pass
on as sunny and smiling as if there wa«
mo trouble in the world. But could Wo
lift the vail and look beneath this hid¬ gay
exterior, we would discover many a
den grief, so many hearts are there that
ache and make no sign, and that is not
the bitterest sorrow that the world sees
and knows. Those griefs are the sorest
and hardest to bear which must be kept
concealed and never spoken of.
The Starving Little Ones.
fCahle Diapatch in New York If* raid.]
Your committee have undertaken a
task which seems to have grown in im¬
portance with every day’s new experi¬
ence for and have investigations. in Applications
relief come from every part
of the distressed districts in such over¬
whelming numbers that they have been
compelled during to hold the almost last continuous days,
sessions seven
working until the small hours every
night in order to meet the most pressing
cases of need. The proper distribution
of funds in Donegal is greatly facilitated
by four large central eoramitties, through
which the contributions reach the fur¬
thest village on tbe sea coast. Another
committee of the same kind is in process
of formation in Monaghan. In other
counties it is necessary not only to ob¬
tain the facts concerning the condition
of the people by means of query sheets,
but also to corroborate them as far as
possible labor attending by personal these investigation, investigations The is
by no means slight, hut I am has glad to
say that the American fund lieen
already the family. means of saving many a
starving The attention 9f your
committee was some days attracted to
the startling fact that children by tens
of thousands are passing through little a heart¬
rending compelled experience. remain These in from school ones
are to
because, in the first place, they have their
not even rags with which to cover
nakedness, and, second, because they
physical cannot get strength food enough which is to required supply the for
their long journey to the school-room
and is equally requisite in order to
keep their intellects bright for the tasks
which are set them when there. This
is one of the most important factors in
the sad problem of the misery of Ire¬
land. I have seen scores of little ones
who are kept at home simply because it
was of impossible doors with and the indecent few tatters to appear which
out
only half conceal their persons. When
I remonstrated with one woman for
keeping her children from school she
pointed Indian meal, to her the scanty only supply food she ot had coarse in
the house, and not enough of that. She
told me. by way had of apology, that when they
the children enough to eat
were always willing and ready to
but days _ had
1 to school, for some they
been so listless and weak that she had
i not the heart to urge them. No one
can quite understand this state of things
unless he has seen tho child's spirit
gradually sinking under the effects of
semi-starvation, a* I have.