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Sv. "Dieis..* O/febef 2.. Some
sensation has beeii rausvd in this
ckv ami ( 'hicago lv a story set
alloat lv tin* Inter pub
lished at tht* latter place, eon
ceiuing the wile and eliildren of
an English Catholic priest. \\ * I
Ham A. Ward l>v name. He i
said to be the son of a wealthy
of Hull, England, is
Krty-six years old, tall, hand
Pome ami accompli lied. In 1875
he. suddenly disappeared from
the congregal ion to wtiiidi lie
ministered, and with him went
M ary \\ Yeghitt, a handsome
younftsSS'fietto of nineteen, one
<d hi- parishioner . Abandoning
position, family and the mm*-!
mu id, Ward lied to
lie and the gul were duly
nil by a I*I• <t • t lilt . h-l !• \
BHPlliey only remained there
■one enough to learn that they
ea I oil by I lieii parent
Wid bailed tor the I nited State-.
End of Act I.
I At the elo i* ot January, I^7<,
I gentleman of Chicago wa ad
■jj|RMcd by a cans a- Cr ss ho hole
the mark of retinenient,
■onch hi con lit ena me a lid cloth
poke 111 <le perale posel
I 'he lit leinan In- .ehli •• cl
illing to buy any of hi
wares, anil the poor fellow turn
eda'way with an air of dejection
not to he feigned, groaning
glbai ms poor wile mil I die <1
jkNturl led at I bis excla
■2* xMrteinnn asked his
,iT "iVoceedilli. 1 t< llu*
runted found iu a room,
bare, Ward's wife
K binn Iwiu children.
r— ii,. ul, it L i I, ii it.. i ■ 111, Ii
im dot inng, mi iui‘iii
cal attendance, till food, and lull
Im tin- stranger's kiinlnesat least
Ilirt*.* (il tlic four miserable beings
within the svmild nut have
seen another morning. Help
was soon procnretl, the family
were removed to comfortable
quarter . clothed ami led ; Mr.
Ward had olitaiued employment
as a tutor, and all looked bright
before them dims matters were
alront a month ago, at lhi‘ end ol
Act 2.
Ward, then, had taken a build
ing on West Adams street, ('hi
ra£;o, and issued circular: an
noinieing that on the Ist of this
month he would open there an
academy. Scholars were prom
ised, and the friends who had
been so kind felt that all was
well with their proteges, w hen,
on the 7th of September, Mrs.
Ward hurst into the presence of
her first friends and falling on
her knees before the lads cried,
“O, you will not you will not
desert me in ms trouble, will
you'!'” Then she svent on to sav
that tin’ priests had found out
that her husband had belonged
to the clergy, and after long; la
boring with him had induced him
to abandon hi family and return
to the bosom of the Chinch. Till
then In’ had been kind and Ins
ing to her, but that morning lie
hod told her that they mu I part,
had ads ised her to place herself
under the guidance of the Church,
torn up her marriage lertiticate
and left for Dubuque, la., svhith
er he had been out lis Hi. hop
Thounc Foley, Unman Catholic
Bishop of Chicago, who gave him
120 and bade him there asvait
further orders. Mr Ward' old
friends took to their residence the
distracted woman and her chil
dreu. There she was frequently
visited by members of the clergy.
On the 11th Mi . W ard said •that
she had been ordered to give up
her children but not to as that
she svas their mother, and boss ed
an order from Father Sautoi to
Sister Mary .In eph, id the Doug'
las: Asylum, to “receive this la
fc itv, treat her kindly and ask no
■question^.” The sj t,. r declined
Lto receive the children, as (lies
RVere too young, but her scruples
lwere removed by a peremptory
■order from the Bishop. The mu
Ham remarked < a nails lh.it cai
Hot. fesei was prevalent in the
■dace. A few day- later, when
Afir. Ward's friend went to the
K-vltim to 5,.,. the babies, be
Riiiikl that tlie little girl had been
Riven assay to another family,
IMtougli the boy svas still in the
institution, flue ended Act ,‘b
aa. The s i its ot tin* prie l to Mr
Ward were renewed, and two
and two days later she told her
friend-- that she would have to
go a was —the Bishop had ordei
ed her to do o and she must o
Lev. They told her to remain if
to do so, and that no
take hei from their
ten
ches in cireuinK
Jioiise; but to all slie moaned
that she must go. “My God!"
she cried in her agony, “is there
no way to heaven but by this
road t” She -howed an order
from Father Sautoia to the Supe
rioress of the Orphan Asylum,
Tenth and Middle streets, in thi>
city, bidding her to receive this
lady, “treat her quietly ; ask no
questions and avoid scandal.”—
A carriage was sent for her, and
she was taken to the Alton depot
in Chicago; and when the lady
at whose house she had remain
ed wished to enter the car and
Ind her protege good by, she is
said to have been prevented from
doing; so by a Catholic lady who
was present. This was the end
of Act I.
Mrs. Ward, on arriving here,
wa admitted to the asylum,
where soon afterwards she gave
birth to another child. There
she is now. In a letter to her
t ’liicago friend- she wrote that
lie was kindly treated but con
limed with anxiety to be well
again, that she might return, gel
hack her children and support
them. <>f her husband she spoke
with some bitterness. “I hope,”
lie wrote, “that whoever has inv
I'loreme may take dear little
Willie. Poor little fellow, how
lonely he must feel w ithout moth
er or sister. His father I'll not
name; he is not worthy ot it,
cruel, wretched thing. I could
have overlooked his leaving me,
but to forsake his dear little ones
I can never forget it. They
say it is a greater sacrifice to him
than to me; that it is to merit a
brighter crown in heaven. If so,
I'll never light to gain one.” She
lias been interviewed by a re
porter of the Globe Item omit,
who found her a pale, thin wo
loan, with a ghost of a voice. She
was sorry, she said, that anything
had been published about the
matter; it washer own sorrow,
she would fain have horn it alone.
Only it was not true that her
husband deserted her. They had
lived very happily together, and
she knew of no twinges of con
science on Iris part till the day
that lie went toiler and said that
(lie Bishop hail bade him go. She
told him then that if it was for
Ids happiness to obey the Bishop
to go. She was reconciled to his
tearing up the marriage eertiti
rale, because a priest could not
many, “only 1 did not think 1
w ould have to give up my little
ones.” It was true their names
were changed after they were ad
mined to the asylum, but per
haps it was all for the best. When
she gave them up she thought
site might get them hack once
more; now she did not know,
hut she hoped there was nothing
that was allowed to keep a moth
er from her children, li was al
most treacherous of her friends
in Chicago, she said, to make the
matter public and to print the
letter she wrote to them. She
wished as little said as possible,
and “nothing that could hurt
him.”
Is this the end of Act 5 t
A Superstition.
“.Not long ago at dinner there
were thirteen at table, and one
of the guests, a gentleman from
New York, immediately rose and
could not tie induced to take his
seat until another was added to
the party. What is the origin of
llu vulgar superstition?” The
superstition that if thirteen sit
at table one will die within a
year is quite general, but not
vulgar. Lord Lyttletnn, who
made considerable research in
to the question, refers the ill
luck of “thirteen at a table” to
the Last Supper of our Lord, at
which that number sal down.—
In the Prussian city of Dantzig
there i> a curious clock, which at
12 admit- through the door little
elligie- of Christ and the eleven,
•hutting out Judas, the betrayer,
who is the thirteenth. He, how
ever, is admitted at 1 o'clock.—
l’lte Uoinuns regarded thirteen
as an unlucky number a preju
dice hared by modern Italians
and Hussians. Moore, the poet,
told an anecdote of Mine. Catala
ni, who, perceiving thirteen pet
sou- at dinner in her own house,
sent a French Countess (who
lived with her as a companion)
up stairs to remedy the ill; but
soon after another person com
ingin, the poor Countess was
brought down again. Ford La ns
downe capped this story by say
ing lie had once dined abroad
with Count ttrioil’, iiie Russian
statesman, and perceived he did
not sit down at dinner, hut kept
walking from chair to chair. It
catue out afterward that there
were twelve at table, and that
nine of these, he knew, would
TII E F I E LI) AND F 111 ESI I) E.
instantly rise if they perceived
the number thirteen, which Count
Orloff would have made by sit
ting dowm himself. The philoso
phy of common sense On the sub
ject lias been admirably express
ed in a charming poem of Hera ti
ger’s entitled “Thirteen at Table.”
Florida Duck Hunting.
How they' kill ducks on Lake
Wier, is know n all over Florida,
hilt from some cause I did not hear
of it until 1 had been in the state
several weeks. But so soon as I
heard of it I struck for the noted
place to see the show. Between
Lake Wier and Little Lake there
is a nec k of land thirty feet wide
by a half mile long. The duck
hunters, sometimes as many as
twenty, are strung'up and down
this neck of land. There they
stand in wire grass up to their
necks, armed with long poles,
having strong lines about six
feet ftng with four-ounce balls
of lead attached to the little end
of the poles, ready for the sport.
Other men, who are called grab
bers—l suppose because they
grab up the dead and wounded;
line the beach with their little
boats.
About a half hour by sun the
ducks begin to come from a large
section of country to roost on
Lake Wier.
Heavens alive! The ducks,
the ducks ! I hope 1 may never
see the back of my neck again if
1 had ever seen such a sight be
fore. You have seen a swarm of
bees on the wing; it beats that
all “to hollow.” After the ducks
get to passing the “neck” good,
they look like a dark cloud mov
ing for several miles out on the
lake. There are more ducks
right on and alwmt Lake Wier
than in the whole States of Geor
gia, South Carolina and Alabama
combined.
And the noise! Flense don’t
say anything to me about fuss.—
1 have heard whole army trains of
wagons passing over a turnpike,
“the roar of cannons and rattle
of musketry.'' 1 have heard
storms on the waters. But “1
will just be Joe Bradly and cry
for mush” if 1 ever heard any
thing to equal the noise t lie ducks
made flying over. The evening
1 was there they killed and woun
ded 1,500, and did not got them
all, either. A large number of
these fow ls are consumed bv tin
people living on and around Lake
Wier. The wounded—those not
too badly hurl- —have their wings
cropped, and are turned in a
small lake, with a high plank
fence around it, made for tin* pur
pose. The rest of the ducks are
dressed and shipped, it being a
line source of revenue to the
place. The duck season begins
about November 1, and lasts mi
til about the middle of Man li
lt is worth a thousand dollars to
see the sight. —Florida Core, of
Courier- Jour mil .
I liquid Shades in Court.
OX WHAT TERMS .1. IIEMII BRYAN
WAS HU) OE lUS WIFE HANNAH.
“John Henry Bryan,” said Jus
tice Kilbreth, at the Tombs, yes
terday, to as black a negro as
ever stood at the bar of justice
or elsewhere, “your w ife Han
nail has caused your arrest for
abandoning her and tailing to do
as you promised when yon and
Hannah became one flesh.”
“1 heint none o' hers,” said the
prisoner, in an undertone.
“What have you to say ?”
queried the Justice.
“Afo'de Lor', Massa Jedge, de
trufe nebbeiwas in dat. while
hu’red nigga'. She knows, she
do’t, dat l done gone an' got a
w hole barr'l flow ah an' two ton
eon' last winter, an' ”
“But that was before the Fourth
of July, John.”
“Jess so, Jedge, an -lie know
it.”
“Lor' help my soul, volt long
leg'd, squinty-eyed, furloru nig
ga'!” burst in his wife. “You
spec' a barr'l flow ah an’ two ton
eoa* amt a gwine to las’ nobody
fureber, leastwise since afo'
pendence Dav. be it. Massa
Jedge ?”
“Go on, John; let us hear
what you have to say.”
John and Hannah are old pen
pie, but have been man and wife
only three years. John's right
eye has a fit of squinting every
ten seconds, which makes him
unintentionally amusing. John
wa- asked if he'd like to he
-worn, and said he would, but In*
could tell the truth just as well
without. “liar's a whoppalr,
said Hannah, which remark was
answered by many -quints from
John. Both commented on each
other's story iu an undertone.
keeping the Justice and the room
in a i on!iimal laugh. John was
-worn, and slapped the book a
gainst his big lips, giving it a kiss
that coil Id lie heard out in the
corridor.
“Boss,” In* began, *-I lied a sit
awationou de eoperation, and
wuk got slack an* 1 lied to lay oil'
an’ didn't make no money adoiif
nothin' an’ she git mad den —do
she got money in de bank.”
| The undertone—“ You didn't
guv it me nohow. ' “Sliet up,
you liiungrel.”]
“An’Jedge, she done gone a
way alter a bit 'case I wouldn't
ship a nigga boada w at -In* hired.”
‘•Was this hoarder a w oman ”’
asked I In* t ’our!.
“ Yes, Jedge,” put in Hannah,
“an he w ii.- too thick wid her.”
“ Y ou fot lied her dar,” murmur
ed John.
“An,” continued Hannah, “1
b'longs to Zion church, an' I'se a
member obde class, an' as a spec
aide pusson 1 wasn't agwine to
stall’no such nniliri- linlike he
lm ve yah.”
“Dar, Jedge, I know’ll it,” bel
lowed John in great glee. “She
haint huntin' fur no bandou law,
she’s chuck full oh de gray-eyed
monster, an' dats wats de matter
will dat Hannah.”
“Ah,” said the court, when the
court had recovered itself, “1
thought there was a nigger in the
fence somewhere.”
“An you skeered him out, too,
Jedge, Ides- de Lor fur dat.”
[•‘Oh, you bad female nigga,''
whispered John to his colored
half. |
“ However,"con tin lied the court,
‘the case looks dark for you,John.'
Hannah bristled up.
“How many years shall 1 give
him. Hannah ?”
“.Oh, Lord, Jedge,” answered
Hannah, in great fright, “1 dont
want no prison tin* to cum oh it.
1 only wants him to do his duty.”
“Ilow much do you think lit*
ought to pay you a week ?”
“Well, Jedge, 1 ain’t no stylish
pusson, and I gits along wit li bery
little. Ff he'll gib me a dollar or
twelve shillin'a week I'se satis
tied.”
John said he could'nt pay more
than onedollara week. The court
hound him in S3OO to pay Hannah
that sum for a y ear, and asked him
if lie had auv collateral.
“No morn twenty ton' cents,
Jedge,” answered John : and the
court let him oil on Ids ow n re
cognizance, providing he came to
court every week he failed to pay
the dollar and reported Ids excuse
for not paying.
“Jedge,” shouted John as he
was going out, “ef I pay that fee
fur a hull yeah, she don't have no
more dominion ober me, does she?'
“No,” said the court, and John
laughed outright, poking his que
ry “What did ye make? Wat did
ye make?” at poor Hannah as they
left court.
Free Trade.
Free trade means trade unham
pered by burdensome restrictions
and taxes,'hut not necesssarily
the abolition of custom houses
and duties on imports. The oh
ject of a protective taritf is to
prohibit trade in certain articles
with foreign countries. This be
ing practically impossible, it
burdens such trade with unneces
sary restrictions aud high duties,
which compel the consumer to
pay twice as much as it is worth
for a home made article, the dif
ference not going into the Treas
ury', hut into the pocket of the
manufacturer. A protective tar
iff does not’make the oountrv eitli
a •
er richer or poorer, but, by mak
ing the people pay manufactu
rers two prices for their goods,
in course of time places all the
w ealth of the land in the hands
of the few who control its indus
tries. A taritf for revenue only
is essentially tree trade. Our
present taritf is protective, and
reducing the duties levied we
could greatly increase our ivve
nue. This is the object ol the
free trader-.
Slightly Missed 11.
A young woman on W est A
dams street read some time ago
of the cutting courtesy with which
a Duchess once silenced a pre
sumptuous youth w ho was about
to light a cigar in her august
presence. ‘ I-; -looking disagree
able to you, inadauie ?” -aid the
p. v. *1 do not know , sir: no one
lias ever smoked iu im presen. e,”
answered the haughty dame. -
“That'll l.e a bully good thing to
say some day,” said the young
woman to herself, and last week
she got a chance to ring it on to
a gentleman wlmsaid tnher: “I
begyour pardon- i- smoking dis
tasteful to you ?*' -1 do not know.'
she said, with ineffable stateli
ness, “no one ever asked me be
fore.”
The Lkngth of Days.— The days
of Sun liner grow longer as we go
Northward, and the days of Win
ter shorter. At Hamburg, the
longest day lias seventeen hours,
and the shortest seven. At Stock
holm, the longest has eighteen
and a halt hours, and the short
est five and a half. At St. Ft*
terslnirg, the longest has nine
teen, anil the shortest five hours.
At Finland, the longest hastwen
ty one and one half, and the
shortest two and one half hours.
At Waiidorlms. in Norway , the
day* lasts from the twenty first of
May to the second of July, the
sun not getting below the hori
zon for the whole time, but skim
ming along very* close to it in the
North At Spitzbergen, the long
est dav lasts three months and a
half.
A Goa respondent having in
quired of the Glasgow Times as
to the best wav to cure a mule
of the habit of kicking, the edit
or replies that the best wav he
knows of “is to walk up behind
the quadriibed, take him quietly
by the hind leg and stand him on
his head until he forgets how.”—
The Times setting a trap to have
some poor fool’s head “busted
wide open” by the kick of a mule.
The first thing a mule learns is
to kick, and to kick is the last
thing he forgets. Take the most
forgetful of them, and fasten his
heels immovably to the ground
and leave him there undisturbed
for forty' years, and then, having
loosened his heels without let
ting him know it, step up behind
him and twist*his tail, and you
will find—no , you won’t find eitli
er, but those who come to carry
your remains into the house will
ti in I that, that mule remembers
just as distinctly' 1 1 <*w to kick as
if he had been at it every da v of
his life.
If a callieo dress is washed
carelessly, starched still', sunned
a day or two, and half ironed, it
is not a very comely sight. But
if quickly dried in the shade,
very thinly and evenly starched,
and ironed on the wrong side so
that it will not shine, it w ill look
like anew dress for a long time.
Many pretty blue prints and
cam bricks fade when w ashed in
I lie usual w ay. If they are w ash
ed the first time in strong salt
and water to which a little beef’s
gall is added, the colors will he
set so that they w ill always be as
handsome as at first, and can be
washed ever after like other col
ored goods.
Talk about outliving all love!
In the bright lexicon of youth
and in the somber dictionary of
age there is no such word. Mr.
William Shannon, of Barren
county , aged eighty two, was re
cently married to a w idow lady of
eighty-one, Oh, there’s nothing
half so sweet in life as love’s
young dream, whether it be
dreamed at eighteen or eighty
I w o.
Writing of Brigham Y'oi no, a
Chicago paper says: “His soul
took its flight at 4 o'clock on the
afternoon of August 29, after an
illness of -ix days.” If, after all
Ids wickedness, Brigham's soul
was ill for only six days, it must
have been a very tough article of
soul. Bui perhaps this Chicago
paper knows best.
Every day in the week is the
Sabbath of some nation. Sunday
is observed by the Christians,
Monday by the Greeks, Tuesday
by the Persians, Wednesday by
the Assyrians, Thursday' by the
Egyptians, Friday by the Turks,
and Saturday by the Jews.
A citizen of Eureka having oc
casion to go home rather unex
pectedly a night or two since
caught a gentleman acquaint
ance iu the act of kissing Ids
wife. On relating the eircuni
stafiee to a friend he was asked
if he punished the guilty couple,
and replied: “No, not exactly;
but they must have seen from
the way 1 slanted the door that I
was not satisfied.”
••Are you a Christian ?” said Mr.
Moody to a gentleman whose ap
pea ranee was much too cheerful
for the enquiry room if tie were
a penitent. •* Oil, yes, -ir ” the
man pertly answered. *Do you
believe the Bible ?" **i )li, no! no!
1 dont believe any such slutl as
that.” “Doyou believe \\ ebster s
dictionary ?" “Oh. y es.” “ The
unabridged ?" -Oh. yes. I believe
that.” “Well, my friend,” said
the devoted, but quick witted e
vangelist, “Webster says an infi
del is one that does not believe
the Bible. You had better read
i it more faithfully, and call your
I self by your right name.” This
reminds us of a quaint member,
formerly of the New York confer
ence.of whom many very amus
ing traditions have been preserv
ed. In a season of revival he
asked a person whom he met, w ho
said he was not a ceristian. if he
did not desire to have his soul
saved. The man, in response, as
sured him that he did not believe
lie had a soul. “Have you any ob
jections to my praying for you ?”
“Oh, no,” was the answer. Down
upon his knees went brother F.
“O, God,” he said, “we have been
in many strange places, in prisons,
in hospitals, and have seen many
j strange men wonderful sights,
but we never saw ,i man without
a Be pleased to ble-s
this poor, w retched creature, with
only a gizzard.”— Herald.
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