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c utr */ n M h THK ■ story -of '. MAfikto I'JUKST Wlli'i, W KXT li \CK*TO*TI|K Cllt It*'ll. 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. THE FIELD IMI FIREMIIE. BOOK AND JOB Printing EMiM! 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