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Our Story Corner
My Wife's Stitch in Time.
Well. Sophie, I have just been at tho Mur-
roughs'. Everythin" tou&idu'ed, they are pret
ty comfortable in tUir humble lodgings. Poor
Tom is fc-ry low, but bis wlfo is bearing up
bravely; but she wants somo kind hand to help
her to put things in order. What do you say,
my dear, to going down to her for aa hour or
so? The children would be the bettor of some
e»nc to look after them. 1
“PH go, with all roy heart, Jack," said my
wife; ‘ indeed, I hod intended to do so. 1’ii put
on my-roantlo and bonnet in a moment. But,
Jack, there's tho button of the wristband of
your shirt just falling oil', como boro and I’ll
make it all right. ‘A stitch In time,’ you knaw
•-that's my motto through life.”
And to my little woman had her needle and
thread in her haud in a moment, and secured
the button.
“Aye," said I, as I watchod her nirablo
fingers at work. “ ‘A stitch In time.' 'Twonld
have been woll for the poor Murroughs if they
knew the value of that good old saw, and hod
acted upon it. How different would their eon*
a*..fou oo now?’’
"That is true,” said my wife, with a sigh
“The lesson they have now learned is a sad
and a revero one. Who knows but it may bo
n useful one too?”
“God grant it!” I responded. Let us hopo
for the best. And now off with you. Thero
may l e many a timely stitch in ono way or
another to bo done for them; aud I know no
cue abler or more wilting to do it than y
Sophie.”
When my wlfo was gone I sat down by the
fireside. It was a dark, chill November day,
and suited with wclltho gloomy niusings th it
I gave way to. I’uor Torn Morrough! Every
cne loved him, but no one relied on him. Not
that he was untruthful or false; but ho hul
little Matility of purpose, aud nn easy temper
that ever postponed till tomorrow what should
be done today, and so ho too often filled to
pcrfoim his promises or keep h appointments,
und could cot mako up hU r- 1 to do wh it
ought to lie dotio till tbo lav ihi • opportunity
was lott forever. Ho had «. im* > mu at a fair
rent, hut liis indolence prevent- ’aim getting
half tbe value out of it. ilo i veil to cut
and rave his crops from day f • during tho
fine weather; and whin ho at. • umcnco to
do so, the rnin came down, da' tg his hay
and laying his corn, and costi- . .un twice ns
much as it ought to huve doi .** tho time he
had them in the •tack-yn- 1 . . ..eii lie was al
ways the Inst mar i, uir or market, and so, if
he wanted to buy, all the goo.i sheep and
mMle were disposed of; or if be wsntod to soli,
i-'l the good buyers were snpplk 1 and gone
» V ay before his arrival. If-here was a leak
the roof, or dump in the wall#, he put off tho
all to rights
i Jlling repairs that
tho damage becu
longer be left un
tin times as nn
would have do’
to him, “Ah, Y
a little toot ■ r.'
the old proVi. k"
justice of my /••»: r.r..
*" ‘ d tills was the ui '«t hopeless ay dtp-
wild wave set
-at that it could no
< . to: aud then it cost
/ to repair it as it
U Many a time I said
hy don’t you see to things
tch iu liras’— you know
i never questioned the
_ the went on In the
old why, ana tills w.:s the ui >*t hirialusj
tom of hismoiuJ vr*hdy, lie bad beg:
world with fair 1 ^pects. The death o. :in
1.1 her while he was yet a young man had put
him in possession of a Bn o farm, os I have said
at a fair rent. Shortly after, he married a
vu -. -^orranof mtfny excellent qualities—
good pciMJ, IWtionatc, and prudent—
with, . attune o* -ouiethousandpuuuds,which
bcr .ihcrwi. • insisted—and l’om willingly
am i.ted— sbnti . be ftivested in securities,
giving bi> > a Die use of tho interest, the prin
cipal heii. cured fur hi* wife and children,
after the i. mer In which lawyers manage
11woo thing)' itbah legal formalities. But
i*h u v: • iu quality which Ikssle Morrough
i ot, slid which, as Tom’s wife, would have
l.crn iuvulunu.w. . L M’od not a strong Intel
lect ora strung will, wlucu »• "ild assert itself
over her husband's failings, and give him
ttrenpth in those ] Juts wherohe was weak art;
CLd so her rmonr uucbi were no doubt, ro
es ived with kind! • m, but as sac wanted the
yewer to enforce them they were generally
mdus. Poor Bessie! had she been what now
s' <*»?• is called a “strong-minded wo mas," the
i> „ht 1 vc. been Tom's salvation; but ibe wae
i.or, and there was no help for It. While her
father lived things went on pretty fairly, for
he was a shrewd determined man, and contriv
iu :■ ’ r^p the young couple’s affairs tolerablv
»qu.re Ifdy. He nuide Tom insure h£»
house, eflicre, and stock, (no easy matter), aud
•Iwsys poked him up when the time for pry
ing the premiums came round; and on one oc-
etrion, when tbe days of grace had expired,
he v < nt to Tom and asked if he had paid np.
“No.” mid Tom, “but I’ll do so tomorrow.''
“Will. I'm glad,” mid the old gentleman,
“that the house Is standing, and that the com
end bay have not bceityuraed. Don't you know
that your property bas been uncovered for
more than a week?”
Tom went to bis desk, took oat bis poller,
found it sras tbe foct, aud looked very foolish.
Then his fother-in-law, without a word more
but with a look that was worm, ae Tom srid
when recounting the circumstance to me, that
if he had knocked him dosrn with tbe butt-end
of hie horsewhip, took bom bh pocket-book
. and throwing it
out of tho room. You
may be suro Tom repaid the old gentleman be
fore the day wae over, with many thanks and
apologies.
These sad habits made Tom the laughing
stock of the neighbors, till at last, hy an easy
transition, they changed tho namo of Tom
Morrough Into “To-morrow”—a sobriquet hy
which he was so well known, that I think if lie
had accepted a bill or signed a receipt by it,
nobody would have noticed the difference. On
cne occasion I got a note from a mutual ac
quaintance which read very funnily; though
not at all so iutended:—
•Beau Jack,—Yesterday I saw Tomorrow, who
jmbed to ceme todaj~ * -* • •
My friend was rig]
pointnient, which was to arrange a litilo money
ufj'air, und so got into trouble, aud had iu tho
cr.d to pay a lawyer’s bill of costs as woll as
tbe debt. 1 could tell a dozen such storios of
my friend's weakness in tho matter of proems,
tiuntiou, some of them merely ludicrous, others
no laughing matter, but attended with very
dinigrccable results—hut to what purpose?
l.et mo come.to two which reduced him to his
present unhappy condition. About a year be
fore this time, Fhortly after the death of his
worthy father-ln law, one of tho trustees of his
trmisge settlement was killed by a fall from
horse, out hunting. Tho surviviug trustee
v. us a commercial niau of our country town,
w ho some years ago had gone to push his for-
tums in Lornlou. Somehow I did not enter
tain the highest opinion of him, though no
thing whatever could ho alleged to his dis
trait; but I thought him very ambitious and
very speculative, und knowing that ho would
row have the entire control of tho trust funds,
1 felt rotber uneasy, and lost no tiuio in calling
on Tom aud advising him to get a new trustee
appointed at once in pluco of tho deceased ono.
As ureal, Tom promised that lio “would see
‘o It,” nnd ns usual he broke his promise, pit
ting the matter off from day to Any, till it en
tirely passed from his mind. But it was vory
difecgrtcably called to his recollection by a visit
tii'Li his late father-in-law’s solicitor.
“I have been expecting a call from you, Mr.
Morrough," said tho man of law.
“What about?" asked Tom. He had a spe
cial objection to lawycn-not that ho thought
them all bad fellows or Togucs, but somohow
they were always sure to give him trouble,
and very often treated him to a bill of costs.
He classed them with doctors, and thought
tho less a man had to do with either tho bet
ter.
“Why, nbont appointing a now trnrioo to
your settlement in place of poor Wildman.
’Tls three months now since ho died, aud I
don’t think it wise to leave tho fund in the
power of any one person."
“Oh, there’s no danger,” said Tom; “White
is an honest, clever follow; but I’ll neo to it."
“You’d better," said tho lawyer. “I hear
some ugly reports about him iu town; and to
say tho truth, that’s wlmt brought me here to
day. If what I hear be true, you havn’t an
hour to lose in looking after him. Other
l>coplc are doing so, I can tell you; and ton to
one he'll give you all the slip. An acceptance
of his to a large amount was protested at our
county bank today—you know I’m their solic
itor. There's a train leaves for London in an
hour's time: I’d have you run up by it and soe
after him ot once.”
Tom was now thoroughly alarmod. As soon
as tho lawyer was gone, ho ordered his trap to
be got icauy, and in twenty minutes he was on
the rood; bowling away as fast as liis cob would
carry him, for he was four miles from tho sta
tion. Before he was half-way thero, just
going un a sharp point of a hill, smack wont
one of tie traces; and Tom then remembered
that tho last time he drove, tho oye of the
trace wss nearly cut through, and ho had for
got tc u to send ft to tho saddler to get “a stitch
in timo" in it. Well, what was now to be dono?
Fortunately thero was a house near at hind by
the road-side, and tho groom got a piece of ropo
there, nnd they contrived to patch np tho
trace, and nway they went again, putting tho
cob to tbo top of his speed; and at last they
reached tho station, just in time to hear tho
last whiatlo and the snort of tho eugiito as
it left the platform. You may lie suro Toni
was horribly put out, and hcwnilod bis bad
luck pretty loudly: but it did not occur to him
to utter one malediction against tho real cause
of his failure—and that was himself, for yield
ing to his old habit of procrastination, and not
gutting “a MPch In time" in tho trace.
“Plague take It. Nippers!” he
tionmafttcr, “I'm late after all.”
“Late, Mr. Morrough!” replied the official,
who w as a hit of a wag, and knew Tom's fail
ing (os who did not?)—“nover knew you
ondon, so you may as well stop into
m and look at tho naper. A terrlblo
collision on tho Thames this morning.”
Tom had nothiug for it but to wait, and so
j sent home the trap with strict injunction*
to the groom to have the trace mended at once
—a direction which tho groom translated ietto
voce into this charmctcrestic adago of his call
ing to tho porter— “Aye, Bill, lock the stable-
doer after the steed is stolen.”
If “time waits for no man," as Tom learned
to ids cost, neither will it lie hurried for any
man. Accordingly in twenty-live minutes,
not a miunte sooner, the up-train steamed
into the station, and In two minutes more
steamed out again, whistling and snortiug, as
is tho wont of railway engines. Tho train was
a slow one, stopping at all stations, so that it
reached the London terminus an hour later
than tho previous train. Tom jumped out of the
carriage the moment it got to tho platform, to
the imminent c*
into a hansom, „
place in the city which he indicated at the top
of his speed, with the promise of a gratuity
over end above his fore, which Cabby did to
tho great peril and utter discomfiture of vari
ous small children and old gentlemen. Tom
thought ho would nover reach his destination,
though he never drove foster in his life. He
did reach it, however, at last, sprang out, aud
van up two pairs of stairs to the chambers of
Mr. White. The door wot half open, and on
the outride of it was pasted a hill: “These
chambers to be let. Inquire of iho porter on
the ground floor.” Tom pushed in the dow
and entered. There was nothing witUp in the
way of furniture but an old desk and a high
stool; the floor was strewed with pipers, and an
old woman was sweeping them into a heap, ea-
Vt loped in a cloud of dust
Where Is Mr. White?” asked Tom.
“Well, rir, “replied tho woman. “I’m sure I
don't know. Ho’a gone out of this.”
“I see that plainly enough without your tell
ing me,” rejoined Tom. “Bat where ii he
gone? When did ho go?”
“He went nearly an hour ago, sir. I exited
an ’ansom for him and ho drove away—I’m
sure I don't know where—only when I gave
him hie ‘Gladstone’ into tbe cab I heard nim
say to the driven *To St. Paul’s.’
Ma^rbe, sir, he went to the evening service. 1
»went to the -
groaned Tom
in agony of despair.
Well, maybe so, sir,” responded the drudge,
at here’s something I picked op on the
off his port * ~
in an
“W
“But , .
stairs. I think it came off his portmsntle.'
Tom took what the woman handed to him.
It was a parchment label evideatl/ torn off
some luggage. He examined the writing and
read: “Mr. Smith, paseeager to New York by
the steamer.” “Yon could hare knocked
ree down with a straw,” mid Tom ashore-
counted his misfortunes to me on his return
home, “when I read this. Of course the rascal
took tho name of Smith every rascal does
when he’s ashamed of his own name and wants
to go incog.— and I saw at once it was all up
with rac.” Now Tom’a wlfo had a brother who
was a barrister iu London, and off ho let for
advice nt the moment in his core perplexity.
Ho found the man of law in hix chambers, and
opened his caso to him. Dick Flint looked at
the advertising columns of tho Times, and
found that tho ships named was to have sailed
from tho docksjust an hour ago. As a last
chance they took a cab aud ported away full
Freed, in the hone that something might detain
the sailing of tno vessel. And so something
did, but not long enough; they wore just half
an hour too late. Well, White was gone; but
perhaps Tom’s money was not gone too. That
was the next thing to be ascertained; so off they
went to the office of tho railway company in
which Tom knew that his wife’s fortune had
been invested; and suro enough, they found
that, two days before; Joseph White had duly
transferred to Ephraim Aaron all tbo Mor-
roughs’ trust money nt tho price of the day.
This was a stunner. "What are wo to do now!"
inked Tom. when recovered from tho blow.
“We’ll go to tho Steam Packet office and soo
tho list of passengers,” answered Dick Flint.
And so they did. hut no one of
the name of Smith or White war, amongst
them. All hope was now at an end, every cluo
to traco the fagitive was lost, and Tom return'
heio what afterwards camo to light, that Whito
had executed a very artful dodge to mislead
anyone that might be looking for him. He
purposely dropped tho label with tho direction
1 have mentioned, being pretty sure that it
would bo found by the sharp eyes of the pry
ing old woman, and communicated to all com*
crs. Meanwhile Whito had gone by tho Fon<
insular and Oriental Steamer to Gibraltar, aud
thence found his way to Algeria. So much
for him at present.
Misfortunes, they say, seldom como alnglj
nnd tho mlagc proved truo with Tom Morrougl
A few days after his return, tho family were
aroused at midnight by a cry of fire. .Every
one mo hurriedly; but already tho homo was
filled with smoke, the roofwhich was thatched,
wns all ablaze, nnd iu a few minutes the raft*
turs bepau to fall in, and tho lluiuing thatch
dropping on the floor, tho interior of the house
seen became ouc muss of smoko und conllugr*
1 it n. Half dressed and half smothered, the in
mates hod scarcely timo to escape when the
whole roof sank in, and tho flames rose roariug
nnd lusLing through wiuduwsaud rootless walls
till nothiug remained hut a bluckoned ruin.
Too late, however, to aav
alas.? to save the life of a
sonant, who perished* in ono of the upper
rutius. And how was this tcrriblo disaster to
counted for? Easily enough; and, as usual,
butablo to Tom’s m
a week before, his wife
chimney needed sweeping. Tom said “ho
would see to it,” hut lie didn't seo to it:
so tho chimney took tho matter iuto its own
management, and set itsolf on fire to gctcloau-
cd by a summary process. But it did more, aa
wo have seen, it set flro to tho house and clean-
cd, or retb'jvcleared, it of everything. Fortu
nately tho flro took place before quarter-day,
so that tho insuranco was iu force; but Tom
never insured his furniture, nnd that was all
a dead lues. A few ol’ us neighbors at once
Lurried the family into tho village, where wo
procured lodging* for them, and supplied them
with ncccisnry clothing ana attonded to tlioir
other wants. And it was from seeing them
that I bad just returned and scut my wlfo to
minister to them as women only can do.
All this happened some two years ago. Let
me continue to follow tho fortunes of Tom
3Ioriough and his family. For a timo Tom
was sunk in a stato of profound dexpair,
amounting almost to a stupor. Ho took his
meals mechanically, lmt spent tho day brooding
in silence over a grief that seemod unutter
able. What appeared to affect him with a hor
ror amounting to anguish, was tho death of
tho poor old faithful nurso, as from timo to
time he uttered her name with a moan that
was heart rendering to listen to. At leugth two
good friends camo to his aid—ono our worthy
squire, with whom Tom was always a great
favorite and a companion In hunting and shoot
ing, the other tho excellent vicar of the parish,
who was everybody’s friend, and, above all
tbe friind of unyoue in trouble. The squire
Tallied and roused Tom up in a sunowhat
bohlirors but kindly manner. He rated him
soundly for hit want of pluck; told him that no
should sit down like echild or a woman
r misfortune: showed him that^ho had
brought what he called mh fortune on himself,
m il that tho remedy for the past was all in
wn bauds, if he would resolutely turn
a new leaf, and give up his unfortunate
lmbits of procrastiuation. anil never defer till
to-morrow what could bo done to-day. And
the squire followed aphis words hy deeds. He
got tho imuranco money; act men to work on
tho house; forced Tom to ins|>cct tbe repairs, to
buy furniture (for which, by the way, he lent
him money),and ki a very short time ho had
him back in bis former dwelling, now slated,
and more comfortable than over. The vicar
took Tom in another fashion—not much in the
v, but a great ileal in the way
ly consist 1. lie showed him
what he railed ill-luck was but the natural re
sult of duties neglected aud opportunities lost;
that God’s morel government was not to be re-
feinted with impunity; that thrift end diligence
aud a faithful discharge of tbo duties imposed
iiponus by providence, were the bext means of
insuring feucccsa in this life; and in line, he
comforted him by suggesting that his post suf
ferings might turn out to blereingH iu disguise,
if he made a right uae of them. And what]wa»
the outcome of all this? Why that Tom Mor-
rough’s very inmost nature was i«netratated
by all this good advice. He took ft all deeply
to heart; pondered over it day and^night; made
his solemn resolutions in the privacy of hia
chamber, in the presence of bis God; arose and
went forth, it may be a saddder man, certainly
a wiser one. From henceforth he was a*c hang
ed man. as we have known tbe drunkard and
the thief and the sensualist to be suddenly re
claimed by some great moral shock. No man
was more diligent in business, more punctual
in fulfilling engagements, more active, earnest,
huid-worklng than, Tom Morrough. He was
the first ’In fair or market, the earliest
to sow bis crops, the earliest to reap them.
Everything prospered with him, he lost hlsjold
sobriquet of “to-morrow” and might hare
claimed In institution that of to-day;” and
Tom’s word was now a guarantee for who
ever he said and wbat-cver he promised, that
he did withoutfoil.
It was about n year after this change that
Tom went to London on a matter of basineas.
and I accompanied him. Yon may be euro
that the cob was well harnessed, and that wo
were up to timeat the railway station. When
we had executed our business, and were on oar
return to the Ixmdon station, Tom suddenly
espied afcab with n tingle passenger in it.
S nick as thought be bailed a hansom, and de-
ring roc get in, told the driver, as he entered
to follow the one pointed oot with the white
hone, and never foee right of it. As we drove
along he said, “If Joe White is in the world, he
is in that cab.”
Tbe cab which we were following drew np
nt n boose neer the Tower, audits fore got out
end went In. We were up In a moment .and
at the door.
•We want to set the gentleman who has
just gone in.”aid Tom. “An"old acquaintance,”
ho added, slipping a shilling into tho hand of
the girl who stood In the doorway.
“First-floor back, sir,” said sho, making way;
nnd up we went. In a moment wo wore-in
the room, and suro enough, there was Wliito
seated at the tabic, Ho instantly recognise!
us, nnd springing up, tried to rush by us and
mako his escape, But Tom caught him iu his
arms and bold him fast.
White was now at our mercy. Turning
tlcggfilly on us, he said “Wliat do you
want?”
“I want/ said Tom, “(he restitution of tho
money yon robbed mo of."
“I ^enu’t give it to you, I am a pan-
l*r.”
"Then you’ll stand yom trial for oiubo/.zlo-
incut and breach of trust, Jack, go for n
policeman; I’ll be able to tako care of this fol
low while you are away."
I was just almut to go for the purpoxo when
the door waa opened, and iustopitcd un elderly
gentleman.
"White,” fnhl lie, “I have come here as you
desired, anil have brought tin* money with mo,
but who uio these guntlcnmn? Frieudr, I sup
pose?”
"Well, not quite that,” said Tom, “bmt old ac
quaintances.’ ’*
licroppn a full explanation took pi ice.
White c.ou)tl not deny tho emhezxlemcnt of tho
trust funds, of which wo gave ample proof, tho
money derived from the salo of which ho had
deposited with the gcntlenmu who hod just on-
tcicil. This latter looked at White with an
expresssbn of surprise miuglcd with disgust;
then, turning to Tom, said—
“Sir, I entreat you to bellovo that I am
wholly ijnionint of the transaction which you
have just mentioned. The inouoy was deposit
ed witli me upon a dWVrent statement,. I am
quite ready to buml it nvortoyou now, if Mr.
Whito consents, aud gives me an acquittance.
If not, I shall certainly not give it to linn, but
will hold it to abide tho result of any stops you
may take.”
White saw it was in vain to resist, so the
money was bunded ovor to us both— good
Bank of Engbiml notes. Then wo all joined in
a receipt, and Tom anil I took our departure.
“Well, Tom," said I, when wo were bowling
away to his imnkcni to deposit tho money, “let
me congratulate you on your good forttino. I
don’t think there are. inauy men who would
liavfc so quickly recognized White, or run him
to cover so keenly. I confess I nover should
have known him. He hud a black wig instead
of his sandy hair, and ail his light brown beard
and whiskers were ahnved clean off.”
•“Aye,” replied Tom, “but I knew tho cut in
his forehead, to xay nothing of his hawk’s oyo
and Homan nose. Well, I think 1 was pretty
lively this time, nt all events, took time by tho
fore-lock for once in my life—eh, Jack?"
You may well lnslievo Ihnfc wo had a hearty
welcome when we arrived at Tom’s houso that
evening; and so it war that his own readlnoss
nnd alacrity recovered in the end what his
carelessness had lost. Iu a few days tho money
was well apd safely invested in tho names of
two trustees, of whom I was ono; and Tom goes
on prospej^pg more nnd more, bis favorite
adage nofly being. “Attach In time savcj nine.'
v U SENSITIVE MONKEY
From tho f'hlcnfo Nowx.
In tho monkey’s cage at ono of the public re
sorts in this city is a very largo and somowbat
aged prehensile monkey. Owing to his ago ho
is xomewbnt given to staid ness, and, whore
younger monkeys are wont to pranco about und
cut up antics, ho ofton retires into a cornor to
deeply ponder over somo abstract problom in
monkey philosophy. Soiuo timo ago ho con
tracted a skin d iscaac, tho ravages of which have
sadly disfigured Ills countcnanco. As it causod
him little or uopaln ho paid littloajtsntiontoit.
The younger monkeys in the cage hnvo guyod
him occasionally, but ho was in blissful igno-
lanccof the cause of their jibes. For tho last
fow days there have been several broken bite of
looking.glaae in tho cage, with which tho
younger monkers have been onjovlng them
selves. Tho old monkey at last haa his curios
ity aroused, and lio riipi>cd down, took a piece
of tbe glass away from a smaller monkey and
then climbed on to a porch iu order to investi
gate with In coming dignity. First ho critical
ly examined the back of tho glass with a very
knowing look on hia disfigured foce. Then ho
turned it over. Tho moment ho saw tho re
flection of his own conntenaiico ho camo near
foliing backward from tho perch, while
an exprearion of horror overspread
his foce. For a moment ho was
■tuiiD» d. Then ho pulled his chin whisker*
meditatively, and finally screwed up enough
tour ago to look in the glass again. It con
firmed all its worst auspicious. With a howl
he threw tho glass from him aud went raving
about tho cage. All the little monkevs wore
horror-stricken, nnd kept out of tho old man’s
way. After a while ho got another pioco of
glass, inspected his disfigured countenance,
and vainly tried to rub away the white spots.
Failing in this, ho gave up in despair, and
•gain took to raving. Ho has refused to eat
since he made the discovery, and will allow no
Pin 1 to look Ujn in the focc. His heart soetus
broken.
TUE PRETTY PICKPOCKET.
Lillian Kmith, tho pretty girl, who was ar
retted in New York three i or four days ago as a
pick pocket, tells tho following story of how she
was taught to pick pockets:
About a month ago I went to live with Mrs.
t mlth, a f riend of my mother. I was there about a
wc« k when ono day she took me onaThlrdave-
u% elevated railroad train to Fourteenth street
We went toward Mscy’s. When near tbe store
Mrs. Hmltb Mid to me:
We must not be seen together. You go In
first. I wl[l meet you Inside.’
We met inside and Mrs. Smith said to me:
1 ‘look around. I would like to find a pocket-
>k heie wme place/
We both went up stairs, but I came down in a
fow minutes, and saw a satchel on one of theooun-
tern with a lady standing by. I walked over, and
when she looked around I took the pocketbook out
of tbe satchel, brought It up stairs and gave It to
Mrs. Smith She went into the toilet room, took the
‘ om the pocketbook and threw, the book
Ve then came down stain and she bought
metwo night dresses. On our way up town there-
youare?ia smart, bright girl/ ”
’•Twodftjxsfter Mrs. BmJthtold tome. 1 would
..je to bare some mn
town nnd get romef
After, taking out lh* »oMr t I Jbre* Uw
vent down to Ui
br. ki. .11 oat nr
f j) After taking out tbt moony I
Tockcttaoka Into tbo gutter In th.
unit home. I handed tho nwa
tmlih. Kha had company at lha tli
not ray anythin, to me. A Caw da]
*“ “willan, I need nu mor. money. Can you
ntgrt meaoawT*
"I raid, 'Iguoaan. I wlllfo down town ud
try.’ lifforugolnr ahe gart ma twenty eaula to
ray my fare. J went to lfearn’a .tomand note two
taken thw money out, m f dJd wot want to b. ar-
jaSar , * rt A 1Mek afta, {S, ,'jg?
Fourteenth atreta, and took from thtaa iajchala
About a week afterMra timlih brought laodiwo
toMern’nwoce,inTwtniy UilrdaUoaa. ^UtoUtwo
otaem^^Vwretheta to Hn. (mith and k$ tbe
K. with wh<rh 1 bought mme thing., nt west It
Kt tltdy Wend; 1 went bnoe.”
THE PUNKEY REUNION.
Uy Wallace P. Reed.
For Thu ContUiutlou.
Many of my readers are doubtless acquainted
with the Dun key*. Few families have made
more noise in tho world, and 1 know of no
gemtino first family with a larger circle of con
nections.
Of course. I cannot, in this brief sketch,
attempt Anything like a biography of any t *of
the Duukcya. My purpose is simply to relato
a little iucident growing out of my iutercourse
with Mr. Green Duukoy and hix cstimablo
wife, au incident which I make bold to say
reveals.a phase of human uaturc as rare as It
is interesting.
When the tumultuous anarchy of fashionnblo
boardinghouse lifo brought mo into iutinmto
relations with tho Dunkey*, I folt thit l hud
at it'ht found congenial spirits Mr. Green
Duukoy wax fat, jolly nnd easy-going, Mrs.
Green Duukoy was slim and vivacious. They
were both ou tho elderly order, so far ns years
go, and youthful in their tastes nnd habits.
My wlfo shared my favorable impressions,
und wo fell in love with the Dunkeys on the
tpot. <>nc bond of union between us was the
f iiuiiartty of our pursuits. I win n newspaper
man. Mr. Dunkcy solicited and wrote tho ad
vertisements for nn occasional publication is
sued by tho house in whicli ho was employed.
“Wo literary fellows,’’ wild Mr. Duukey, ono
oveuing, “must stick together. Evory mail's
Imnd is raised against us. Wo are not under
stood, not appreciated. But it is all right.
When wo are banded together wo can afford to
laugh at a cold nnd sordid world.”
Mrs. Dnnkey followed with a delivcranco on
tbo same lino. For so rapid a talker, sho was
wondeifully impressive. Sho generally rat
tled off nlmut two hundred and forty words to
the minute, but her high-keyed voice nnd
penetrating enunciation made'each word hit
rtrds forgot the
Her
words had an adhesive quality. Sometimes,
when sho was talking, it Boomed to me that
I could feci them sticking to mo like so many
porous plasters. So strong was this impres
sion tlmt I frequently caught myself in the act
ot’ gingerly putting myself in motion witli a
view to nxcertnining to what extent tho plasters
impeded my movements.
Tho sociability of the Dankovs was posit! voly
too charming for anything. They had no falso
pride, no false notions about anything. They
w ere ns much In a stato of nature as anybody
keeping up with tho fashions could be.
Until wu met this interesting family, my
wifo and I hod been in tbo
habit of devoting what wo con-
sidored a reasonable number of hours to sleep.
But tho Dunkoys changed all that. Thoy
made it a nolnt to spend overy uight In our
room until 12 or 1 o'clock.
To say that wo were entertained by tho con-
vt iMMioi) of ,bur visitor*, expresses it too faint-
out a care in the world.
“My dear,” said Mrs. Dunkoyto my wife,
late one night or rather early iu tho morning,
as she tripped lightly back to our room after
finishing ono of her usual visits; "ray dour, I
borrowed a littlo change of you yexterday.
I.cl me return It now. It was—it was five dol
lars, wusn’t it? No, it was four or throe.
Whicli was it now? Wai It four or three? Did
yon ray three? Woll, here it is. There is noth
ing like attending to these littlo matters before
they are forgotten. Good* night.”
“Did you straighten it out?" I *skod my
wife.
“It istoo bad," sras the answer.
“What is tho matter?" was mvnext question.
“Oh, nothing much. And yet it is un pleasant
* things occur, llow much do you
to liuvo such t
“Tho
suppose the old lady borrowed?”
"Threo dollars,” I replied, sleepily.
"No, It wsa five.”
“Well, why didn't you tell her so?”
“I could not do it,” said my wife.
Donkeys have such a contempt for money; tnoy
have such liberal ideas that I do not like to be
alwnya reminding them of these little mat
ters."
“Always!” I repeated. “Always!” Do you
often have such tiaiuactioiu?”
“Yea, Indeed; every week or ao.”
I u as too sleepy to think it out, but that
night I dreamed that hy a well-regulated sys-
t< m of financiering Mrs. Dunkey sucrecde l in
making two dollars a week out of ns, or a
yearly total of something over a huudred dol-
I re.
My attention was repeatedly drawn to thoso
trifles, and the effect would have been irritat
ing If I had not been so strongly attached to
my new friends. But I could not he severe in
nosing judgment on pcojde who were so unself
ish, so warm-hearted and so affectionate. Bo-
•idea, Mr. Dunkcy was a literary man.
The incident, howover, which made the
greatest impression upon me, was tho fotnily
reunion of thn Dunkeys. Tills took place dur
ing the holidays, and nothing else was tslkod
of at my fireside for weeks in advance.
Night after night it waa poured Into our cars,
and by degrees I got pretty Woll acquainted
with all or tho Dunkeys belonging to tho Green
Dunkey branch. The reunion was intended to
bring together nil of the Dunkoys In the south
who were nob in sympathy with Mr. Fink
Dunkey. Just what Mr. Pink Dunkey had
done to bring upon hlmselr a
»ort of ex-communication, I could
rot understand; Imt it must have been some
thing awful. Whenever bh name wsa men
tioned a frown cams over Mr. Green Dunkey's
foce.
“Don t exclt* youraelf," hit wife would tor.
“Tho man hu brought it til uponhlmwlf.
I^tSblm go.’
lien then would be »tllenco of a fall min
ute, oml 1 would punch tho flro to conceal my
■Kitatlon. Hr Wife told mo that tho fall oner-
mitr of Hr. link llunker’t wickednea* htd
bun concealed from her. but oh. htd hoard
enough to ho utltlod that Pink bad mu
S can before beartleatlr .topped lending Hr.
recn Dunker moner, teeoiiipnnrlog hia re
fuel I with the brutal adrlco to go to work.
After hearing tbla, I did not wonder at tho
„r i,i. friend, to leave their
out of their foia.lv
The preparation! fortlio ra unlen want
rowed mr big demUohn for tha otraalen. It
au alout half full, but I did not lika to men
tion it, thinking that Hr. Duukoy would prob-
* b Thotwrnlut*b»fera tho reunion Mr. Duuker
called me Into hia room aa aoon u I entered
“SitdOTTO, old fellow," mid ha ehetrilr- "I
want to tall TOO aometbing, and I can tell It
better when Mn. Dunk, , la out of tha war-
~ la in joor wlfe'a room at praaent.”
Halted to bear what mr ganlal friend had
^’-riia reunion la off," mid Mr. Danker.
“What!" I exclaimed In amazement.
“Yea” wu tbo rcoponae, -t'llr.g. bare
pointed that war tor auroral dojvand now
wa know It"
"Ko had newa£ hope?. 1 ’
“Ka," anawgrad Hr. Dunkey,-So ta* nswt
You arc Mn. Dunkey and I have been talking
'his nutter over. Now, you know ahe wu a
Blink, y. daughter of Colonel Slink-
cy. She lusialed that tho Slink*
ryn roust bo invited. I consented, bnt
llicrc ore difficulties In the way.”
I intimated that th jy might not be Insuper
able.
“But thoy arc.” replied Mr. Dunkcy. “you
see thero is Toro Slinkey. We can't inrite
hlmbenusc ho Is in the Innstic asylum. It
would ho absurd to Invito- a lunatic, you
know.”
There was no reply to lie made to thit, and
ho continued:
“I | would liavo Invited Tip Slinkoy," he
raid, “hut Tip Is down with the jlnpanm.
You wouldn't invite a ease of tho jlmjams ton
family reunion, would yuuY”
1 shook roy hood.
“Thou there la Bob Sllnhoy - Bob haa a
queer afllictlonsomething like St. Vitus' dance.
He is liable at any minuto to bo solsod with
the Jerks and upset the table or stick a fork
not understand him. Now you would. Yon
would llko Bull. Some of thoae days I'll bring
you together."
I said something or other, I luvo forgotten
what,
“So yon seo,” said Mr. Dunkey, “I can’t In
vite tbo Slinkeys when threo of their moat
.. rys.
the Judge, llo’i undergoing hia impeachment
trlaland couldn't eomo. Tho colonel Is about
tu ho sold out by the shorin' and don't feel In a
fcstlvo meed. There are lady ruombem of tbe
family, tn bo Bare, but they bare not yot
emerged from tho overwhelming wreck ot the
fort tinea of tbo Blinkova caused by tho unfortn-
nato, siul, I may say, fratricidal strife between
tbe states. In a wont, thire Isa lack of moana
among my wlfe’a relations. So, aa wo oould
not get them here, my wife and I bavo agrood
to give np tbe whole thing."
“The Slinkeya seem to bo unfortunate," I
remarked. “It la bail about tho poor fellow in
the asylum."
“Yes,” answered Mr. Dunkey quiokly, “and
that reminds mo that most of the Slinkeys ora
unsound mentally. Ilaro you nover notlood
an insane streak in my wife?"
"No, of course not,” said I, vory firmly.
my ’
o, uwumi uOt, Sbn, *, 1U.J . w .
should olieorve her closely. Her abnor
mal and exhaustive verbosity, tho unnatural
brilliancy ot her eyoa—why, air, It la plain to
mr that she sometimes border, on lunacy."
I made some czetisa fur leavtog. It was
lolnful tu bo raodo tbo reolplont of suck con
fidences.
Mrs. Dnnkoy was In my room when I en
tered. Sho waa explaining to my wife irbf
tho reunion bad boon abandoned.
"It was out of tho nutation,'' tho said, "and
we saw It alter considering it n littlo. Did I
ever speak of the Insanity In tbo Dunkey bm-
My wife told her that ahe had nevor heard of
It.
'."There are doaena of lunatics among thorn,”
explained Mrs. Dunkey. "Haifa dozen are In
tho asylum in tbla stale, and three are confined
In Alabama, two In North Catollna and one in
Arkansas. You know that my husbind la not
ozaetly right In his headT”
“You surprise mo!” crlod my wife In alarm.
"Oh, everybody knowa It "saidMrs.Dunkey
"He’s perfectly harmless, it b truo, bnt then
tine never knowa how a mania may turn out.
liut there areotlior thlnga tn tho way. To aay
nothing of the lunatic Donkeys, there b ono
In Toxni who hna been nrreeted for hone abat
ing and can't como. Major Duukoy haa gone
to California hunting hia wife who tan away
from him last week, and thn Hon. Cicero
Dunkey fell down and cracked fib skull tho
other night when going homo from a banquet.
With tkeao away, our party would bo o dull
afiklr, Tho other Dunkoys would not enjoy it,
and to tell you tho truth, I don't much care to
see them.”
His. Dunkoy’a talk, with what I had Just
hoard from her husband, made mo feel gloomy.
Ono thing, however, stmok me. I had at last
found pennlo who had no akelelbn in thalr
closet. Tho Donkeys had abaolntoly nothing
to conceal. They told It all, aud without re
serve.
It ciiuo with a shock to me to have my rela
tions with the Dunkeys rudely severed, bnt on
the very day fixed for tho feotlve gathering, my
frienda moved to a distant quarter of tho city,
end 1 have alnco loot sight of them.
trenie. I am not sore that It to to lie com
mended. It woo all so new to me, ao surprising
that 1 bavo nut felly made up my mind alroutlt
RESULT OF*A QUAnnBt..
Bonyoir, December S».— 1 Tho detaib of aaen-
•allonal tragedy, resulting In the death of tiro
' girls, who will bo burled In Mount Hopo
cemetery tomorrow, are printed thb morning.
The matter, althongh known to tho antboriUea
for some time, haa been sacredly guarded, and
ant a breath of the afiklr has before been made
public. Sadie Bigelow and Llasle Hart, aged
respectively, eighteen and nineteen yean, camo
to Beaton two or three years ago, and •ecuraii
employment in a Urge dry good*
houso here. Badlo fell iu love with s
respectable business man of thb city, and they
were married. Boon after, however, they sep
arated, owing, It b mid, to tbe husband's abuse.
Tbe two girb want to New York, and were
employed there for a time In a largo retail
houso, but returned to Boston, where they
formed the acquaintance of two young men.
On Christmas night the four were together at a
home on Bowdcren street, and drank wlno
there. >
Before separating they bad a serious dispute.
The men, however, pat the girb sboerd a rex
cn rente to their Bonth End lodging. The girb
were In an excited state when they boarded
tbe car, and at once discussed with each other
plana for taking their own Uvea.
Leaving tho car they obtained two boxes of
"Bough on Bata," and bnrricd to their rooms,
mixed the poison In their tooth brush n —
and swallowed it. Sadie took an oveedoeo
did not feel ita effects as soon as did
who sank Into a deep stupor. Sadie, re
what had been done, rushed into tbe
end hurried lack to tho Bowdcren
boose, where tho young^men atilt were. FI
tin in, ahe Implored them to hurry to tho
End boom and aare Lizzie. By tt
poison waa taking effect upon Bailie
log herself upon the bed ahe writh
/Radical aid wu aummoned, but after hours
Cf suffering she died. Tbo young men finally
decided to go to Limb's houso aud break tbo
news to her. They called there and upon
reaching Lizzie’s room ebo was found lying
dead upon her lied.
Clnverlus'a Efforts for 1
Biciimosd, Vs.,
tha modem nod murderer of
sign a petition asking the governor
reprieve until they meet. When
meets, Clnvertoa '
rrurrr
1ft