Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1883 — Page 3

TBS WIBDOM OF AGE.

""Votf^si thou have back thy life again," I asked an aged man "Cooldst thou not grander end* attain,

And better life's whole plan7" ••Mo, eon," he aald "I reat content, And calmly wait the end. One life alone to man la lent,

To waste, or wisely spend. "If, with the knowledge year* bestow, We started in the race. All plans might meet with overthrow,

And shame us with disgrace. "No combination man can make Insures complete success,I "The lucky winner takes the prise "i

He won by random gness. "1 would not say chance rules below All nature shows design: Life is not like the dice's throw—

Luck follows laws dlTine. ••Some men are born to grace a throne, Some to a leper's doom Yet equal light for both hath shown

Their spirits to illume. "My life has run through Ugh and shade—

The end is drawing near long for rest all undismayed, na ask not back one year." —Chicago Tribune.

HILDA.

BY BERTHA M. CLAY, AUTHOR ... OF "DORA THORNE."

"I am not at all satisfied -with Hilda's etate of health," said Lady Bayneham to Barbara Earle. The child looks aB though a cloud had fallen over her.

One evening Barbara Earle had been singing a pretty ballad, founded upon the story of Lord Burleigh, of Burleigh house. "I do not like that

Btory,"

BP"Yes,^

^~^i^ov^dT^iaftw|ou

rtproehe.

said Lady

Bayneham "Lord Burleigh should have chosen a wife from his own class. Unequal marriages are never happy ones?'

Hilda was busy arranging some photographs, and Lcrd Bayneham was assisting her. "Is that your belief?" she said to him, when Lady Bayneham had ceased

he replied, carelessly, "'I am

no great advocate for unequal mar-

"^Suppose," she continued, "you had married some one very far beneath you—some one whose name even was a disgrace and shame to bear, and you

were married,

ii1-- Her fair face grew pale as she spoke, and her heart beat quickly as she waited for his answer. "How dearly you ladies love argumentl" said Lord Bayneham, with a smile. "Well, suppose, as you eay,

Blue Bell, that I had married some one very dreadful and disgraceful, and found it out atterward, what should I do with her? Was that what you •'"a asked me?" "Yes," she replied, and he never saw her quivering lip, or noticed her trembling voice. "Well, continued Lord Bayneham, with an amused smile, "of course, any one dreadful or disgraceful must be sent back to her iriends again. The very pictures would start from the walls in horror at such a

mesalliance.

The Ladies Bayneham have ever been tans

As soon as I discovered

mv mistake, I should find the remedy for it." He spoke carelessly, never dreaming she attached any importance to his words. They destroyed the last gleam of hope in her heart. She could never tell him her secret for now, if he Bhouldknow it he would send her away.

From that hour hope seemed to leave her day by day the fair young face grew more sad and wistful, and' the graceful figure grew thin.

Lord Bayneham became seriously alarmed, and summoned one of the best physicians in England, to his wife's tud but the doctor was puzzled too. "You tell me," he said to the earl, "that Lady Bayneham has had no trouble, no grief or anxiety preying upon her." "I do not think she knows the meaning of grief or sorrow," said Lord Bayneyam, smiling at the idea "whatever else may ail her, it is not that*"

With all his skill, the doctor could find no solution to the mystery—no reason for the weakness and languor that wore away the life of his beautiful patient He advised change of air, and Lord Bayneham was prompt action. By the end of that week every arrangement was made, and the earl with his young wife had begun the ioarney that he thought was to restore her to health and strength.

CHAPTER XX.

A,"

VI *1&

"The taonth of blossoms," "sweet maiden May," "came round again, .... bringing all most worthy of note—men flushed her face, but 1- 4ft lrtt of letters, artists, poets, statesmen, beauties and belles—to the great city. London was in its pride. The season was a good one, and everyone looked busy, prosperous and happy.

In the drawing room of one of the prettiest houses in May-Fair, Lady Grahame sat with her friend, confidante, and companion, Miss Lowe. The house was not a grand mansion, mor was the drawing room one of the "most sumptuous, but everything in it nd el

him was conneaed with some of the leaving his wife and son to lament his best families in England. Her mother low.

and Lady Grahame, while still in the

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In order to insure this continual attention to her comfort, Lady Grahame sought for a companion. She was not long in finding one. For a certain stated sum Mass Lowe consented to devote every thought of her mind to the personal comfort of hame.

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"Did you ever try Miss Earle, quietly. "Cottage visiting? No, my love, I am too sensative, said the countess, was not to oe compareu W UIUJ, blandly. "I gave plenty away during attentions were quite marked. Mrs. tbe late earl's lifetime but I cannot Henderson tells me he has beseiged endure sorrowful sights they make me ^er requests for an introduction ill." "We will hope Hilda's nerves are stronger than yours," said Barbara. "I do not think the cottages weigh upon her mifid but she is really ill, and should have change of air."

February had arrived, and the snowdrops began to show their drooping heads still Lady Bayneham ana Barbara lingered at the Castle. The young earl was unwilling to part with them he had grown anxious respecting his wife. He could not understand the change that had fallen upon her. The light had died out of her beautiful face, the smiles had left her lips. Whenever he came in and found her alone her face was so sad and wistful that it pained him. He thought her spirits forced, and her gayety unnatural and assumed.

It was a strange lot that had fallen upon that fair young child, and she faded away under the weight of the secret. The grass was beginning to grow upon her mother's grave, still no hint of it had escaped her, yet its weight was robbing her life, and hope, and love. She began to think she might be justified in telling Lord Bay-

vnenam.

"No matter," she said to herself, "how binding the vow, it could never be right to keep a secret from him." She grew bewildered, and there were times when she could hardly distinguish between right and wrong. It was so hard to keep a secret from him when she loved him so much.

LacTy Grahame was in an unusual state of high spirits. She had called that morning upon one of her many dear and intimate friends. The ladies had gone out shopping together, and during the course of their drive they met Mr. Henderson, who •\troducea his friend, Mr. Fulton, to dy Grahame. Mr. Fulton was, or seted to be, charmed with her. He offered her more homage, more compliments, and more delicate flattery in one hour than she had ever received before. After he left them, Mrs. Henderson told her how often Mr. Fulton had expressed a wish to know her "elegant and graceful friend, Lady Grahame." 'I think," said Mrs. Henderson, you have made a conquest, Lady Grahame. Mr. Fulton is said to be immensely- rich. I never saw one with such a flow of spirit, and eloquence. ''Is he one of the Fulton's of Hex-

ham asked Lady Grahame. "I know ntfthing of his family," was the reply "Mr. Hendarson met him at a banquet given in honor of the Prince Risentour and he was quite charmed with him. I assure you, several ladies of my acquaintance would be proud to make sucn a conquest.

over

It was a bright May day the windows of the pretty drawing-room were open the soft warm breeze was laden with the fragrance ol mignonette, Lady Grahame's favorite flower. Tbe

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spoae of refinement and elegance, was no trace of that sad, passionate Ladv Grahame herself was more ele- love Btory in her calm face no trace of gant than beautiful. No one knew her the felon's dock, the convict's cell, or age and, "what was still better, no one the. outlaw's doom. Bland and calm

could guess it. She might be looking old for thirty, or younj* for fifty. Her dark hair was as luxuriant as ever roses bloomed on her cheek and lip -there was light and fire in her dark 'f- "i eyes, and no wrinkle or line marred

the pleasant, comely face. Lady Grahame was fairly entitled to

IFKJFC W1V UMJKCL otuo vt 1UV) vuvugitkl)«iv uau V* a vague idea that gomewhere far away troubled with much of that commodity ous happy world I

hbr prospero— —ril, dazkar shades of human troubles that ,eople o)rfa$fore their time, and fcjLwonderful mya-

Hhert ,life-3

made peopi brought them teiv called death. ch(ra-i

S™^(5as the only

-«f a country squire, mjgariy lUe-had married Sir Wilton j^Jbame, pfcaisraetof noble descent, anu Trt-

A c.

was the daughter of Lord Dalecairn, In- simple truth, Stephen Huwt and her mother's family was a large broke _his mother's heart_ Her hppes one. were all centered on him, sne seni

Sir Wilton Grahame died, leaving him to college, depnving herself of his widow a comfortable jointure her

parents died, leaving a small fortune

everything,

that

career was

prince of life, found herself free and disorder. He made friends there, for

membeni of her family. face and gay, careless manner, his

Lady Grahame made no pretensions hearty laugh and genuine gooa spirns,

a S or an is

to intellectual culture. She knew the

won

associate

wj,jow

debonnaire

man, whose careless smiles and words were so full of life and humor, and Lady Grahame returned home in a perfect flutter of spirits for he had asked permission to call on the morrow, to show her the wonderful opal, about which he told such a strange, interesting story.

The morrow came, and Lady Grahame's maid found it very difficult to please her but when the toilette was completed she acknowledged it to be a

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erfect success. Every good point in figure and face was made the most of, and every defect carefully concealed. Lady" Grahame smiled as she gave a long, lingering look at the mirror Miss Lowe was observed to look unusually tired when the ceremony was over.

look upon. "I will not read, my dear, she Baid, when Miss Lowe suggested a book: "it make me so sleepy and stupid. Give me that purse I am netting you can read aloud if you choose."

But not one word did Lady Grahame hear her thoughts were all upon the visitor whose coming she anticipated BO anxiously. It was long since a blush of real pleasure had there was one

when she heard a loud and ve perative knock at the door. Her almost trembled when she ro3e greet her admirer.

__ Magdalen Hnrst to her fate. There

_,y and graceful, he looked like the Hurst who so many years ago was Lord Hutton's chosen friend.

§tephen

The past was a dead letter to him it lay buried in his wife's grave. At times the memory of Magdalen Hurst, with her beautiful face and passionate love, came before him, but only to be

be called' "well pwserved." Why banished with a contemptuous thought, should Bbe be otherwise? Her life or a sneering smile at tbe wondrous had beert one calm, untroubled scene love, of women whhfti beate all Mid of enjoyment. She knew nothing of suffers all, and even in death hides all the darker side of life, thougttishe had memorv of wrong. He was not

called heart. When he thought of Brynmar woods and the beautiful young girl he had wooed there, it was with an impatient Bhrng at what he called his own folly.

Stephen Hurst ought to have been a gentleman. His father was one of the bravest officers in the English army, and died facing the enemy,

might tave an.

never did weir. His coUege

course of dnn^g and

with

iramea eervanw, «»uu»w and good jewelry, all of which tastes live as they did. When he went down her income enables her to gratify, with Lord Hutton to Brynmar.Stepnen The one grand study of her Dfe was Hurst bad nearly come to the end of ''comfort." She had no idea beyond his purse. Then his downward career it. Her sofa cushions and easy-chairs was easily accomplished. He married must be of the softest down no breath one of the prettiest and best girls ui of cold, no rough winds must ever Scotland, and broke her heart, He come near her. Her table must be forged the name of one who had once daintily prepared, and her slumbers been his friend, and^suffered the never broken.

eyes sparkled and her comely, pleasant he should once more be free. He was face was lit with smiles. only twenty-nine in ten years he "I tell you, my dear," she said to would still be a comparatively young Miss Lowe, "that I have really never man. He sent for his wife, but when seen a more elegant or handsome man. he saw her he hated her, because his Poor Sir Wilton had a nice face, but sin and her sbame had stricken the he was not to be compared to him his fair beauty of youth from her face. He

to me. The ever-attentive Miss Lowe murmured something to the effect that it was not surprising which little bit of incense being properly offered and accepted, Lady Grahame resumed her rewarks with the same expression of well-pleased vanity. "I am told that ne is very wealthy that he made a large fortune abroad, and goes into the best society, I know. Really I never saw more polished or charming manner, and such a flow of spirits. I cannot remember the witty thingB he said, but we quite agreed upon many points. He has a very handBome house near the park."

Miss Lowe looked smiably interest--ed, having nothing particular to say. "There are times, continued the lady, pathetically, "when I feel very lonely. When poor Sir Wilton was alive he hept me continually amused. Really, to quote and alter the saying of a French king, a house without a gentleman is like a garden without flowers?"'

Her companion cordially agreed in this it was a wonderful flight of imagination for Lady Grahame. "Mr. Fulton said something about calling to-morrow morning said her ladyship "but I do not. know whether he will. We were speaking of jewels, and he said he had a very rare and beautiful opal that he would show me. I forget where it was found, but in some strange place. Do you think ale pink or light blue Buits me best? may as well look nice. We must see about a becoming toilette, my dear,—something elegant, but not too

£art set of men, and to

Lady Gra- at him and sneered at him for being what they called a fine gentleman but

The ladies had been out shopping, .1 1.1—! L«.1 LUINSAH

Claud tells me she goes about visiting and something had evidently caused was sullen in despair, but hope be_ cottages and all that kind of thing. It Lady Gr^a®e ^at pl^ure, Jor her to whisper of what he might do when must be very injurious to her." it, aunt?!', asked %fd

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heard of the wonderful gold-fields in California, and when the time of his freedom came he returned there, and succeeded beyond his wildest hopes. He amassed a fortune and returned to England, and his first step was to try to get rid of his beautiful, unhappy wife, who still remained where he had left her.

Then he set to work to reconstruct his life. He was not afraid of recognition. Of the fast set he had lived with none reminded. Lord Hutton was dead, some were abroad, others had had vanished no one knew where.

In seventeen years the worldTinderoes great changes, and no one could jave recognized in fbe handBome, bearded man, the ex-convict, Stephen Hurst. He took a-large house, furnished it magnificently, and made his way in society. He was warmly welcomed there, and no one in London gave better bachelor dinners, or kept a more hospitable house. He had but one trouble the wife he had learned to hate had discovered him had met him in the public streets, and had cried out his name. To his relief, some months afterward, there came a letter from herj addressed to him by his newly assumed name, bidding him farewell, as she had not many days longer to live. He then supposed she was dead, and troubled himself no more about her. He was free now to retrieve his mistakes, to make for himself another life, for the past was buried. He thought sometimes with a dull wonder of his child, half curious to know if it was living or

had been taken from the treasured gems of some great Indian Rajah. He Bhowed the Wondrous gleaming colors, the ever-changing tints, the hidden fire that seemed at times to flash ruby red from its depths. "It should be set in pure, pale gold," said Lady Grahame, admiringly. "I have seen'many jewels, but none like this." "I hope to have it made into a ring," said Mr. Fulton, "if ever good fortune

Lady_Grahame was delighted. Not should favor my wishes, and I should that a lover was a novelty, for her marry for that jewel will Bhow to perpleasing person and comfortable joint- fection on a fair white hand. ure had attracted many, but some- Lady Grahame involuntarily glanced thing or other interfered with each of at her own as he spoke, then blushed them. as she found his eyes bent upon her.

One was too old, another only There was so much to be said about sought her for her money, a third was the wonderful opal that it was luncheon too dissipated, a fourth could not agree time before the visit was half ended,

settlements, and, in sober earnest, and Mr. Fulton accepted Lady GraLady Grahame cared for none of them, hame's invitation to join them. He But she was quite pleased with the was beginning to fall in love with his homage of this handsome,

own scheme, and the more he saw of

the lady, tlie more sure he felt that she above all others was best suited for him.

During the course of conversation Mr. Fulton found that Lady Grahame seemed to know everyone, and go everywhere, and that the circles he sighed in vain to enter were open to her. "You have been abroad for many years, I presume?" said Lady Grahame. "Yes," said M. Fulton, quietly,

Many years ago I went to seek my fortune and I made it, and now wish to enjoy it." "'I should imagine the latter to be very easy," said Lady Grahanie. "Not so easy when one is quite alone," he replied sentimentally.

As he spoke there came across him a vision of the beautiful face of his dead wife. Would anyone ever love him again as she had done

As Mr. Fulton stood there in the subdued light of the May sun he looked a handsome man. The careless, dtbonnaire expression as still on his face, and the easy, graceful, languid manner had deserted him. He was the same man that beneath the shade of the woods of Brynmar had wooed

He left Lady Grahame resolved to

»o.. —.— ,_

blinds were skillfully arranged, so that win her. If she were his wife he felt a boautiful rosy light came from the' that anything was poBsible. With her silken hangings. It was really a influential connections he might as-

retty picture and Lucy Grahame, in pire to hold any office. Golden hopes effective toilette, was pleasant to and dreams hovered over him. Rank

and position seemed to be within his

Cp.heHis

task lay straight before had but to win Lady Gra

hame and his life would be one long success. [To

be conlinued in the Sunday Express.

A Convenient Double.

San Francisco Chroniole. There are two men in the city so much alike that they are constantly taken for one another. They met on a California street car one day, and one offered to toss the other to decide which of them should shave his whis kers off. "No no," said he. "It is most convenient. If I am ever accused of do^ ing anything disreputable, I always say it was you."

Goat Farming in North Carolina Charlotte Ob»erver. Mr. John P. Morris has bought a tract of land near Harrisburg, in Ca barrus county, and will embark in a new enterprise, which is nothing more nor less than a goat farm. He intends to go at it in regular goat herding style, and will breed the best species known. He will have his farm well stocked within the next few months, and wiO then be ready.to supply the crying demand of the country for goats.

New Form for a Promissory Note. Venango Spectator. Andrew JackBon, a Seneca Indian, who could write a little, and only a little, borrowed $2.50 from John Halftown, and ?ave him his note for the money with interest. It ran like this: "Me, Andrew Jackson, day after to-morrow six months, will pay John Halftown, maybe three or four days, $3 or $4, no fetch papers, no get money, by dam."

Pnblic washing of the feet is stall carried on at Smyrna, and travelera tell us the ceremony is more solemnly

ieu us

TERRE HAUTE

Wnwrt

A SERVANT IN SOCIETT

How a Hired Girl Managed te Knter the

ami

ingenuity thanany girl

primeof life, found hersdf free and disorder. He made fne^s tnere, tor .jeatlemeri residing on West Before he had finished the editorial, unfettered, moderately rich, liked and there was some charm about the man ot, TOaa^H^en^ "Constant Bead*" entered, threw an courted by the numerous aristocratic that few could resist. His handsome Forty-eighth street anddomg business

names of the leading authors of the Lord Hutton was one of those who fourteen years old, witn asurge anu back on Hhe corn day, she knew the most popular artiste, liked him best. When his mother had

well

and the best pictures they painted, laid down her life, thankful that kb mdevM .« 'Such things were talked about," and troubles were ended, Stephen Hurst plexiono/Jh.!^ gant house well-filled with pretty successful gambler, always winning, well educated and talks well. Sheis a me cornnusx ±L}^^MOUri knick-knacks, she liked a few well- seldom losing and he continued to ioverof romance, and the way she detrained servants, fashionable dresses

vour8 noveiB

penEng-

alty of his crime. When he left Eng land—a convict—all hope died out of his heart. He never believed it would be possible to retrieve his position.

Although his associates were the vilest of the vile, Stephen Hurst did not fall into their ways. They laughed

hekept aloof from them. At first he

dead. One thing was necessary to se- society. With her good clothes, her cure his position, and that was a good pretty face, her cultivated manners, marriage. He did not want money, she has, by passing herself but connection. He must marry some ofi as a relative of mine, been attendone who could establish him securely ing fashionable dinner parties and rein good society, and secure for him an ceptions. How she first obtained an entree into circles that at present were introduction into society I do not closed to him. So when he heard of know, but she got it, nevertheless. By Lady Grahame he knew he had found assuming high connections she has what he wanted and set himself to woo been making conquests upon the naand win the pleasant, self-indulgent bobs on the aristocratic avenues,whose

New York World. replenished thecal fire, and then 'Mary Kelly has more genuine cheek commenced a timely article headed

.. ingenuity thau any girl I know "A Cold Lookoutfor the Poor."

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carriages wear the family coat-of-arms

"I have been impatiently awaiting and crests displayed in the World, and the time when you gave me permission whose pedigrees, according to their to call, Lady Grahame," said Mr. Ful- own testimony, date back to the ton. "I never found a day and night ancient warriors of history. Though so long before." my

familY h?s

Lady Grahame blushed and smiled, we claim to be descendants from royal Cool, elegant woman of the world as ancestors—yet our respectability has she was, she did not feel at her ease in been established, and it is somewhat the presence of this handsome embarrassing to have a wsherwoman s. stranger. He had brought the won- daughter passing herself off as areladerful opal, and there was plenty of tive. But Mary has taken this risk is it a

wjremuny is mure suiemiuy aeprti ot ue coia, you see. laougui religious than it is practically efficient, you'd like to know what a blizzard of

an}llIgkej

*wv nnnnggftfl ear oi^corn I to to a W or re or an a it

pretty girl about

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for him many friends. v«ars old with as large and them other Canadian weather prophets,

developed form as any girl it ia an

caution. She resides

street, Ninth an honest,

hard-working washer-

no coat-of-arms—nor do

with" society—and therefore she did not fear detection. "To show you her remarkable tact in carrying out her deception I will partially explain how it is done. Nat urally when a young lady attends a reception or party she is escorted home, by some young gentleman. Mary never went alone for the want of an escort. Upon leaving the party she would lead her gentleman escort to house and pretend that it was her home. We live in a flat. About 1 o'clock the bell would ring. We would shout down the tube,'who's there?' The answer would be, 'Mary,' in a soft voice. Under the impression that she had a message for us from some of our neighbore, who also employ her at times, we would open the aoor by the electric contrivance. Mary would bid her gentleman friend good night and enter the hall. After waiting until he

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"Mary in return for the many presents and marked attentions by the aristocratic young men she met at the various homes she visited' would reward them with bewitching smiles and handsome hat-bands worked by her own nimble fingers. She received in-

BtJNDAY MOBNIKG

a winter coiraDjfc so yon could' and remember

ufgeT yoor readers tor remeinber the, 1 feut't rfccall anything of poor. And the "Old 8ubecriber" went out,

earof corn on the table,

,fYou

may ridicule Wiggins and

0ld

reliable every time,

A mild, open winter, sir—the mildest we've Chad for twenty-five

vours novels is a caution. She resides years. Look at t|At—" stripping down with her mother in one of the tumble- the husk, "whenSdid you see an ear of do™ between Eighth and succeeding winter will be avenues. Her mother .. ..

phenomenal for-fts genial spring-like atmosphere and4he absence of snow.

woman. Her father was a hard drinker Yes, sir! Next. and a terror tu the neighborhood in en will be sending you dandewhich he lived. He was finally made lions in full bloom, plucked by the insane through drink, and is now re- roadside. Just,print a piece in your cuperating on one of the city islands, paper saying mat the coming winter "I first met Mary a few years ago will be marvejously summery, and, when she was a little child in short although plumpers and icemen may clothes. Her mother did washing for swear and bemoan their hard luck, it

our family and Mary assisted, and sometimes took care of the children. Mrs. Kelly was something -more than the ordinary washerwomen whose native characteristics have become a matter of record. Previous to her departure from Ireland Mrs. Kelly had lived on a nobleman's estate, and possibly through her associations there had become more refined than .is customary for people of her circumstances. There is quite a romance connected with her life in old Erin, but I will not dwell upon that, but will confine my story to Mary. "Our most intimate neighbor is an English family on Forty-sixth street. It was upon their recommendation that we engaged Mrs. Kelly to do our washing. She has been employed by us off and on up to the present time. Mary has been in our house more or less since then. We engaged her to do errands and to look after the children occasionally. Of late, since Mary has been getting to be a 'big girl noW,' we have noticed a change in her style of dress. She dresses with exclusive taste in the height of fashion, with a profusion of jewelry and bangs which looks Btrangely out of place considering her circumstances. Her mother, a poor, hard-working woman, dresses in accordance with her means, which is consistent with her surroundings. Since this change in Mary we have noticed that she had assumed the air of the ladies along the avenue and has even cultivated the fashionable lisp.' "However, this did not worry UB, since when we needed her services she rendered them in an unassuming manner and behaved herself in our house as a servant ought to. Though I have remarked this recent change in Mary, I never took the trouble to inquire about it, but the circumstances which have just come to my notice strike me as being so remarkable that I feel that they should be reported, if only out of justice to myself. "Mary has undoubtedly beenliaving a good time by practicing a gentle deception upon the unsuspecting uptown

will be a blessing for- the poor, corn-husk neve# makes a mistake

The

And when be had -departed the edi,tor mopped his brow, threw off his coat, dosed thtf damper in the stove, and commenced an editorial entitled "Signs of an Open Winter."

KISSING, BY CLARA BELLE.

Not Descriptive Nor Commentary, but Reportorinl. ln Interview Form—About the Long Ial*Bd Cane, in Wbleh a Girl

Seek* to Make a Moclt Marriage at a Church Sociable Hold Good for lUe. New. Tori Lety»r.

At the house of a friend I met a couple from iFlatbush. You know, Flatbush is |ite suburban town that is just now notorious for its mock marriages, hammock flirtations and kissing. I have been very much interested in the trial that brought all this to the surface, not only because it's so very shocking, but on account of a moral to be drawn from it. Not a moral moral, but a common-sense' moral. AH the principals in the case are boys and girls and as boys and girls are merely so many men and women in the raw, they are worth studying whenr they get into trouble. So I plied the young couple from Flatbush with questions, and this is what I got: First, the young man said, "Miss Anna Higbie, the girl who wants to prove that her marriage to

Walter Vaughan was serious and

legal, is a very pretty girl. She is plump and dark, and modestly behaved. She does not believe what she is testifying to. She is in the hands of somebody who has forced her to make believe that she thought fill this play-marrying-was serious matrimony, and who wants to get money out of old Vaughan., The Vaughansare rich and the Higbies are poor. The main bets the girl testifies to are true. The weakness of her case is that she says it was all in earnest, whereas it probably was all a juvenile joke. Young Vaughan and his boy companions area lot of fresh young hobbie dehoys—the kind that you see with cigarettes and frisky girls in short dresses. The arfr all legs and arms. Thev have not begun to fill out, nor to step growing. In business they are office boys, juvenile clerks and that sort-of thing. On the witness stand tli6y tried to be funny, and they seemed glad of the chance to tell not only ho# they hugged and kissed Annie Higbie, but to boast of the favors shown them by the other girls. If the same boys were asked the same questions two or three years from now they would rftther go to jail than talk against their girl companions."

Herel spoke up and said that it seemed to me there is very little proof

other men or boys, would not do the very Baine thing. It may be very mean of me to say so, but I think there is "a great deal of humbug about manly honor so far as shielding women is concerned. Just because the Prince of Wales "per jured himself like a gentleman,' as they say, by lying to shield a woman who loved him, I suppose we are never to hear the end of the nonsense about manly honor. I say the facts are that ipen are far more apt to boast of their sentimental affairs, and that when such matters get into court the chances afre ten to one that they will sacrifice the women as long as they do not have to suffer for it.

Then the Flatbush girl took her part in the conversation. Said she: "There is not a bit more hugging and kissing in Flatbush than in any country town

you chhoSe to mention. The partieB

was out of sight she would return to those mock marriage cases all belong the street and to her humble home to the litttejilique of boys and girls near the river. Becoming tired of whose mothers and fathers let waiting for Mary we would descend them go where they pleased, the stairs only to find that she Was stay up as late as they

gone. This she repeated frequently, and do what they pleased. Their though we did not suBpect anything at are such boys and girls and the time.

B,1n

aged lady in Fifty-ninth street, who is tlurd-class people. The nice folks of a model of fashion and propriety^ This Flatbush all belong to the Dutch Relady subsequently learned who Mary form and Episcopal churches, and is, and she was so shocked and morti- dont have any sociables. And the fied to think that she had entertained nice girls are just liae a washerwoman's daughter that she any other girls. T:' Jt°®y has been ill ever Bince and it is feared kiss and hug it is only with some one that her mind is aflected. Mary is fellow that they like very much, in: still carrying on her deception and is deed, and that is a grown up man, and apparently, enjoying herself. won be likely to try to gotoo fiw oT "She is a mighty smart girl. She not to tell anybody anything. What I am only boasts of my alleged wealth, but trying to say is that every girl kisses in some places, where she fears the her beau, and the^well-bred girls in story will not be accepted, she says .... ......—

that her mother is a crank and that she has an aunt living on Fifth avenue who is worth several millions of dol lars and who desires her and her mother to come and live with her. But she repeats that her mother is a crank and insists on working for her living. "I don't know how many young

It is rather embarrassing."

pleased

such parents in every village and in every city. While these little snipes were hugging and kissing the rest of us. Flatbush girls were either in bed or asleep, or were with our mothers and fathers at home. The Flatbush Methodist church is poor, and the Methodiets have been giving a great many

vitations to parties and receptions ad- sochikk®' exhibitions andT festivals. dressed to our house, but she always Well, these youngsters took all these managed to be on hand to receive them things, because it gave them a when they came. chance to meet together and carry on "Her fraud was discovered in two and stay up late, and because it was or three instances. Mary recently at- cheap and within their means. Their tended a reception

given

by a middle- parents are about what you would call

girl

Flatbush are no different from the rest. As for that Annie Higbie, nobody knows anything about her. She doesn't belong, in Flatbush. I do assure you she isn't pretty at all. She has got a sort of a pudding face, and her,cheeks are all covered with a rash. She has got full pouting lips, and an expression that Bnows that if ever a

aon snow now many .yuuug —. bloods Mary is engaged to marry, nor girl needed a strict mothers care and do I know how her escapade will watching ahe is the girL terminate, but I do protest against her I call sloppily affectionate. Claiming relationship to me when she that boy who she is trying has never been more than a hired girl, marry her was on the witness stand •#. .i 11

Signs of Winter Weather. Chicago Inter Ocean. The rural editor sat in his office, writing an able and convincing editorial on "The European War Cloud," and had succeeded in embroiling France, Germany and Spain in a sanguinary struggle, when the "Old Subscriber" entered, squirted a stream of tobacco juice with nice precision into the cuspidor, removed something from his vest pocket and remarked: "See that?" '•Well, what's that?" queried the editor. "That's a Kentucky goose bone, right from the breast of a fowl slaughtered only last week. And d'ye see that dark portion covering nearly the entire bone?" "Y-eis," said the editor, vaguely, as he hastily scrutinized the bone "What does it portend?" "It predicts a howling cold winter— thermometer away below zero everyI day during Januaiy, and snow lying three feet on the ground until. the middle of March. The depth of the black mark on the bone indicates the depth of the cold, you see. I thought

she looked at him as if she wanted to throw herself around his neck. She seemed as if she would melt and flow away. You know now just what sort of a girl she iB. She has testified to the very worst sortof thingB, and of course th*t puta all the girls pretty much in the same box. But, although I can't bear those little brats at all,

Kyswore

r.~

you please."

MAKING THERMOMETER#^

The thermometers were enclosed in

THE STAGE.

The Demoraiixlna: Chance that Uai Taken Place in the Theatre. New York letter.

do not think it is fair to make them rest under any such suspicions. They ran after boys, to be Bare, and the boys pnt their arms around them, and kissed fhem, when they got achance. Now, there was a {treat deal too much of that sort of thing, and it was to -be ex. pected that some mischief would grow out of it, but

don't believe the ma

jority of those girls meant any harm, or ever.stepped over the bounds. On the contrary, they. say around my home mat the girls are frightened, and the mothers and fathers have woke up to what has been going oiu There will be less kissing around there before there will be more. As for the little fellows,"-she continued, "why, they are not to blame for telling about their fun, as long as it was only fun. Why, yen must remember, Miss Clara, how was when

a short skirts, and the little were forever kissing ahd hugging you, and you never thought pT-aqy harm.': ''Stop! Stop!" said I, "you go qn

1888.

rou like, but that ant, if

Says the Hour to-day, speaking of the time when the building devoted to theatrical purposes had nothing of the sufnptuousness which has now become common: "How hard stock actors worked then, contrasted to what they now .do! How malleable they became beneath the many shaping dramatic blows to which they were subjected 1 Where a favorite actor in a useful position now plays one part, he then played twenty. All his resources, both those that were merely mimetic and those which expressed creative |n8 duty. nur. ovArv mfl ability acting sympathy with a certain role, were taxed to the utmoBt. Every twiBt and turn of his capabilities were repeatedly presBed into service. The various registers of his dramatic voice

A BIjOCKADBR* USf RUN.

The BMUtkaH* tar* ot the

mand of

of him. "Here ia a good chance, buy *-*3°

8te*mer

a perfected register of atmospheric Confederategovernment" temperature for the small sum a The speaker waa a medium-****!, dimeand a half: Stop forward, gen- square-built man, with deep set eyes tlemen, and embrace your opportu- and determined features. "I have read the account in the Sun-

neat jananned tin cases, and the scales striking chase at sea and the story of were silver plated and marked in black, the remarkab ««ape of a confederSome of the tubes held mercury and atesteamer at Galveston I was in some held colored alcohol. command of that ship at Ae time. "I cannot comprehend how ther- "'The reporter recognised at once an mometers can be manufactured for old Savannahian, CaptChas. W. Austhat price," a thermometer maker said: Un,whois now the government

Where can the profit be? You have «"»ploy, and who figured in many no idea of the great trouble and thrilling adventures in the ™r but amount of time that it takes to make cams out without a scar. "You had a an accurate thermometer. I know narrow escape, ^captom, but tell us that thermometers can be bought something_about the affair. throughout the city anywhere from "As I said, it was some time in the fifteen cents up, and I must say, also, fall of 1865. I had made four or five that many of them are good thermome- successful trips from Havana, bringing ters. These cheap thermometers are

not manufactured in this city. They come chiefly from Connecticut, where there are several factories, which turn them out in vast numbers." "Why are accurate thermometers so costly to make?*' "In the first place we buy the glass tubesand test them. According to my experience, only one out of every six is fit to put into a thermometer." "How are the tubes tested?" "By drawing into them a short column qf mercury, and measuring its length at different points with a piur of dividers. It is absolutely necessary that the bore of the tubes be uniform. Then the bulb has to be blown and filled with mercury. The air is driven out of the tube by heating the mercury to boiling point, and then putting a tip of sealing wax on the open end. The amount of mercury necessary for the tube is regulated by vaporizing it off. Then the open end of the tube is closed by heating the glass. The next thing is to make the scale. "MuBt afresh scale be made for each thermometer?" "Certainly. To make the scale it is necessary to have at least two points on the bulbed tube which holds the mercury. The points usually selected are the freezing point and the bailing point of water. For the former the bulb is surrounded by ice, and for the latter it is placed in boiling water. From these points the scale is made. Each scale is stamped out by hand. Afterward the bulbed tube is fastened

strip of brass. It is then fastened in a tin case." "Are the fifteen cent thermometers made in this way "I suppose that they must be, and it is for this reason that I don't see where the profit comes in." "Is there no other way of grading a thermometer than by putting the bulb in ice and in boiling water?" "Yes. The points may be obtained by putting the bulbs in water, the temperature of which iB told by a standard thermometer kept especially for the purpose. That method is often used." "Is mercury better than colored alcohol in thermometers "It is, except where the thermometers are wanted for measuring extreme cold. Mercury can be frozen solid but it is impossible to freeze alcohol. Experiments have been made which show that the most intense cold known will only have the effect of making alcohol oily in its appearance. Mercury withstands more heat before it boils than alcohol does, for alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water. "The kind of thermometers that I have been speaking of are those which are most commonly used."

from

aadFiaal Gay. SSwaw go.

Savannah New*. "It was about 11 o'clock in tbe forenoon, sonietime along in the fall of

Some Material* and Considerable Tronble for Fifteen Cent*. Kew York Sun. "First-dass thermometers for fifteen 1865—in the month of October I think cents!" called out a man, who stood in it was—that I tan the Federal blockthe lower part of Broadway with a ade in the Galveston harbor, ia comJarge basket of thermometers in front

Snaanna, with a

ammunition for the

CODt\nn^'

"of

arms and munitions of war, but thiB trip pretty nearly wound me up. The Susanna, which the writer in the News referred to as the privateer, was a trim-built iron vessel, with a capacity for from 1,400 to 1,800 bales of cotton, and with an average speed of about fifteen knots an hour. She was built in England on the Clyde as a blockade runner, and lay -low in the water, with her long black hull hardly visible except in broad daylight She was about 225 feet long by 30 beam, and being a new vessel, I felt her eqaul to anything in a chase. We left Havana with a crew of twenty-seven men, well officered by men who knew their business. We had fine weather and calculated to make land inside the blockiade under cover of night between one and three o'clock in the morning. However, aB luck would have it, an accident at sea —the giving way of some of our machinery—detained us several hours and brought us to land in open day- steamboat," light, about six o'clock in the morn-

ing. By this time we ware in plain sight of the blockade squadron, bnt as yet were unobserved. "The entrance to the harbor was filled with gunboats. It was near the close of the war, and the blockade at other points on the coast having been raised all the Federal cruisers were concentrated at Galveston. The situation was a perilous one, and there was but one thing left to be done. If we could evade the enemy until nightfall, and then pass the squadron and enter the harbor, unobserved we would be all right. Calling the men all to the bridge I gave them their orders, and the ship was soon heading toward land. We stood well to the eastward close under the shore with the intention of secreting ourselves until night We were yet some distance out and hauling in rapidly, when about 8 o'clock I discoyered a cruiser bearing down on us. All hope of making land was then abandoned, and the only chance for escape was to j?ut to sea. Having full confidence in my men, and knowing the speed of my Ship I did not fear the result. "Calling to the engineer through the pipe, discovered that after making a twelve qours' run offshore and back again, 1 wopld not have coal enough to carry me back to Havana, as there was none to be had in Galveston. I was in a quandry but no time was to be lost. 'Give her full head,' I. shouted to the engineer, snd casting my glass across the harbor I saw the Federal cruisers preparing for action. There was only one alternative, and in forlorn hope I took tbe desperate chance of running the squadron .and breaking the blockade. It was then about noon. I headed the ship for, Ga'vieaton and. passed over" the outer bar into the swash or beach channel, hauling in south by west, in the very, teeth of the guns on the gunboat Seminole, which had already opened fire. At this point the chase began, and for an hour we ran under a heavy fire from the guns of three jf the squadron, which were bearing down on us all the time. "'Push her hard!' I shouted again to the engineer. 'All right, sir,' came the reply and the huge, black volume of smoke pourd out of our funnels and lav in clouds on the water the throbbing of the engine in the hold the straining of the wheels as they flew around, plowing the water and leaving the track of boiling, foaming sea far astern, told that he was do

It was an exciting time,

but every man was at his post and not a word has spoken. The shell whizzed over us and splashed and drenched our

deck as they fell close under our sides. Two sollidshot passed through our funnels as

were trained and perfected as far as bow above water, but otherwise we possible, so as to allow as few weak were unhurt

"Of course, the antagonism that ex- bridge, between the flashes of the guns isted in all things existed there too. and the clearing away of the smoke. The constant pressure that developed "We were even now^ about half a hidden resources and emphasized ob- mile distant from each other and.about vious one, sometimes produced in the a mile from the shore. All right beover worked stock actor a fatigue that low?' inquired ,again through the impaired hfa memory, brought the pipe. 'AU right, sir, was the answer, prompter's voice in louder service and the ship rushed through the WMer than was consonant, and induced a as the shot fell thick and fast» "Ut me perfunctory performance of the anti-

stood on the bridge, and

the fragment of a shell shattered our

notes and as smoothly sustained Iran- ments of the men on the cruisers sitions as possible. through my glass, as

could watch the move-

chase was

pathetic parts. At even excellent the- tween' us and the gunboats, and the aters then the scenery was poor, the distance grew greater as the channel illusions were gross, the silks and sat- widened.

ins were most transparently make- were out of their reach, and running believe, and the name of the author the ship under Pelican Point, we were was not printed in invisible type in

under cover

order to leave room for that of the from the enemy's. plumber. "We were now safe. The open bay "Now, it takes almost a fortune to was before us, with the white sand Btart a theater, as it takes almost a for- hills beyond. The fleet was lying betune to start a newspaper. Every great low about two miles, and the fort ana or little star has his planetary compa- wharves along the city were lined with ny, ahd frequently the repertoire lor thousands of spectators who had witthe entire season consists of but one nessed the chaae, and who received us lay. By this means young actors with open arms." ja^e but little opportunity to progress. "It was anip-and-tuck race, captain. Their time is o-cupied not with study- remarked the reporter. How did you feel with the shells bursting about you?" "Well, about as I do now, was the

ing new parts, but with traveling from town to town, from hamlet to hamlet, until all the obscurest one-night places in the United States are exhausted, reply, as the complacent »ptain stood This process is continued from year to with nis hands his^pockets, quietly year, the actor averaging one part each smoking his cigar. True, there were twelvemonth. How j»ralvzed he be- about 200 pounds °f powder under the comes in that part! How demoralized bridge where I stood, but it ai all in a his system becomes by the broken lifetime. Thefe no use getting ex days and nights, the interrupted sleep, cited. the alterations «f climate, the varieties **We lay in port about eighteen of bad fare, which incessant traveling days," he resumed, "discharging onr obliges him to endure." cargo and reloaded with cotton, when "What opportunity do these things we again put to sea and pasBeathe leave lor improvement? Does not this squadron without Ming molested of system of living naturally lead to the interferred with. Everything went nse of stimulants? Is it any wonder smooth nntil about sixty naues 0' that this brisk vagrancy, which is made Cuba, when we bioke our crank pui, so practicable by the railroad, should and so disabled were picked up by the break commanaand lc Better, seum, which gave two dramatic performances daily, and imposed upon its demned as a government prize.

-..-a Tho fiafflinAlft

stock company an amount of industry all but unknown in these more modern times, than this hurried race from one end of the TTnited States to tbe other, not omitting to drop in on the way on Canada and Mexico."

A Reminder of a Great- Occasion. 1 The following, advertisement may be found in a Danville, Virginia, paper, signed by the firm of Lyack, Due A Company:

Individuals and firms boAowed guns and pistols of us during the evening of the riot Some of them failed to return them and it was impossible in the rush for firearms to take a memorandum of tbe names of all the parties. We call upon friends to refresh their memories and examine their premises, and if they should flud any property of the.kind here advertised not returned or properly accounted for, to attend to (he matter »t once.

stood on the

about up. The bar wasbe-

ten minutes more we

of our own guns, sheltered

vliien

The Seminole, which figured in* the abeve affair, was employed by the United States government during the war in cruising along the sonth Atlantic and Gulf coasts in search of the manV enterprising blockaders with which the coast and West India waters were infested. She captured and assisted in the capture of a num-

Handkerchief Light-ahip.

saved.

THE CMUMXAli

RAdonai

and assisted in tne capture oi a nuin- —_y v^ber of vessels, in which several of our snng all over the codntry, and there 4V..« titrfn was nobody in the soutli unwilling to laugh gooa-h'umoredly at the idea of a negro toiling ae we cane in Georgia, where none isgrawing. The banjo he has never seen -a plantation negro play. He has Ijteard them passably dse 'the fiddle, me flute, and the fife, and blow a tin trumpet with a surprising skill but never a banje, a tambourine, or a pair of bones.

citizens were interested at that time. After the war she was sold to the Nickerson line and ran as a merchant steamer between Boston and Savannah for a number of years.

She was taken ofi a little over a year ago to give place to the new steamships City of Columbus and Gate City. Her engines were taken out and she has singe been used as a arg* lhe following paragraph of marine intciii gence record* ner last ran: ]Barge Seminole, from Hoboken lor Boston, coal laden,

while. 1ft

tow of

th?£fauner Prof. Moratf.-stlhfc-oiHhe morning of November 1& four miles

Crew

WASHISGTOJT,

YFARS

AGO.

The Removal at the DtpsiiU-Ci^tkta a»i A resident of Sterling, 111., hasaeat to the Lancaater (Pa.)-Examiner the copy of a letter,^sa follows, addressed to his fatherly the Hon. William Heiater, once a representative in congress from Lancaster county

Dec. 15,1S33.

MR. GABKIKL DAVIS: DEAR SIR—As,was

anticipated, and

as you have, of course, been advised through the public papers, the removal of the deposits haa already elicited the attention of both branches of congress. From the skirmishing that has already taken plaee, we have reason to expect hard fighting in the chief encounter. Notwithstanding the opposition to the President and his secretary of the treasury's course toward the bank includes by far the greatest weight of talent in both houses, yet I am of opinion that there is a majority, at Jeast in our houae, ready to say that the President has done right, and that the bank must be put down. You have no idea how the new members are drilled into the ranks by the Jackson and Van Buren drill sergeante.

During last week we had an amus ing farce with Col. David Crockett It was announced that at the particular uest of Davy, Mr. Hackett would iron the hoards in his favorite

appear OL character of Nimrod Wildfire the play called "The Kentuckian or, A Trip to New York." This brought out a house full to oveiflowing. At 7 o'clock the colonel was escorted by the manager through the crowd to a front seat reserved for him. As soon as he was recognised by the audience they made the very house shake with hurrahs for Col. Crockett "Go ahead!"

wish

may be shot," "Music! let

us have Crockett's march." After some time the curtain rose, and Hackett appeared in a hat covered with a wild cat skin, and long tall attached, who, after bowing to the audience, turned toward Crockett and bowed repeatedly. The compliment was reciprocated by the colonel to the no small amusement, noise and gratification of tho spectators. The play then went on, through the whole of wnich were used the phrases attributed to the colonel:

full team,

am a

can whip my weight in

Wild-cats," "I am half horse, half &c. Really, it was the greatest farce imaginable to see a grave congressman the buffoon of such an audience, and he apparently enjoying the sport very much. I have not yet got acquainted with him, but his appearance and conduct in the bouse are

farf

fam,and

Tbe

enjoying

altogether correct. In haste, sir, yours truly,

WILLIAM HEISTER.

In Maasa-

Adonai Shomo chnaetts.

Springfield Republican. The "Adonai Shomo," the wellknow Communistic society located just beyond the Xthol line on the road to Petersham, are rejoicing over two recent accessions to ther number. Since the fall of 1870 their ranks have been decimated by death and desertion, and the hail the new arrivals as making the beginning of better days. The society was organized by one Howland nearly thirty years ago. Howland and the late Ellinwood were almost rival leaders of the numerous local Millerites, and finally Howland claimed to be a prophet and started the Communistic society. After living for some rears in the house of one of the menijers on Pleasant street, Athol, they bought the 200 acre farm

HOW

owned

by the community. One of the peculiar tenets of the new faith was that the members of the society would never die, and though their faith in this was somewhat shaken by the death of Howland himself, they clung to thebelief till Fuller, the successor of the first prophet, was taken away. He was followed by one or two other leading characters. They now only say that they "hope to live." In consequence of the accumulation of property following their thrifty habits, and the means brought by new adherents, they applied for a charter under the name of the "Adonai Shomo," meaning "The Lord is There," and were incorporated in 1876, and Boon afterward their "great trial began. Hearing of the extensive property of the community—one woman was said to have brought $(50,000— two adventurers named John Howe and Alfred Gussler got into the fold and gained great influence over Fuller and the leading women, Howe pretendjpg to be Jesus Christ. Howe led them into all sorts of extravagances, causing them to abandon their abstemious diet of grains and fruits, making some of the women his mistresses, and raising such confusion that the law •_was invoked by the town authorities and Howe imprisoned.

The Fullerites returned to their old ways, but the taste of the world which they had received under Howe led them to get rid of their old-fashioned house furniture and antiquated clothing, and to refit both buildings and persons according to modern notions. The work is just^being completed with the furnishing of the "new parlor. A new ichapel with stained floor has been built and some twenty-five new chamber sets, including fine carpets, have 'been put in. The large dining-room, "with beautifully tinted walls_ and fine silver service, makes the visitor forget that he is not in the dining hall of Some* quiet hotel, while -the itoothsome baked beans, the delicate bread and the- dessert of pie, fruit and sauce, would cause one to re{ret the absence of beef and pork but ittle. Anew furnace and bath room are just being arranged, and it will be indeed strange if there are not plenty of people without homes who would be laa to find a resting-place with the

STRANGE FAliLS OF STONESi

Conatry l'eople in Central Hew York Greatly jitiOed—Bemarkahle Occurrence! that are Believed Ut Have Haa-' teaed the Death of

that

Shomo," even though rumors

of internal quarrels and scratchings should reach their ears through the neighbors. "The Lord," says President Richards, "told us to get the house ready, and now we expect, to see it filled." Any persons who wish to come are admitted, the sole condition being the putting of the newcomer's property, if he has any, into the common stock. All the business operations ire carried on in an economical and thrifty way, and a casual observer is favorably impressed with the management.

'^Tbe Negroes and the Banjo. Joel Chandler Harris confirms, the assertion that the negroes of the south know little about the banjo. It is not only difficult, but impossible, to displace the banjorplaying stage negro in literature with tl»e real negro. It is not only so at the north, but in a great measure at the south. The first song Mr. Harris ever learned was astring of "I'm gwine banjo on my ther in wh a negro, who was supposed have lost his Nelly Grav, declared lie would "take bis banjo down and sing a little song." Nelly, in the meantime was down in Georgia "a-tniltng :in the cotton and the cane." These songs, and hundreds of similar ones, iwere written bj^whiteTnen who know even less about the Uegro than-they did about meter but the ditties were

Lady Wilde is reported to be in favor of killing congressmen. This will bb all well enough nntil she .comes to a congressman who happens lady kityer,

Well-lo-doF«rm-

«r-Stone« Falling JUi^Chi^reli. Jordan Special. •?, v's

For twenty-eight /ears Ricfiaifd St2v vena owned, a large farm about two mileB from this village. He was much. respected by his neighbors, and was a good example of the thrifty central. New York farmer. He had a family consisting of his wife,, three daughters and six sons. On Tuesday, after an illness of' about one week, he died of pneumonia, and his death is believedto have been hastened by exciting and. remarkable event in his hotise, which have astounded the country people and puzzled many from neighboring villages who have witnessed them.

A week ago last Friday., while the household afiairs were-going on in the usual way, the family were startled by the clatter of several stones which fell on the kitchen floor. The doors and windows were closed, and there seemed to be no place where the stones could have entered the room. On the following night, when the girls pulled ofi'their shoes and were preparing to go to bed, one of the shoes suddenly ascended to the ceiling and fell to the floor. The young women were frightened, and running out of the room, called their brothers, who searched the room, but found nothing to explain the singular affair. After the girls had gone to bed the noise of the mil ing shoe was repeated, and Mr. Stevens' sons being again called, rat up all night to detect the Bource of the manifestations.

The next night a stone fell, apparently from the ceiling, when the girls were retiring. From that time on the fall of stones in all parts of the house was freqtient. Mr. Stevees was annoved, his nerves were unstrung, and his disease was complicated by the excitement.

Stories of the mysterious occurrences at the Stevens farm house spread through the country, and the people began to come from all quarters to gratify their curiosity. One day stones (ell all the the time, and at night more han 150 were picked up.

A gentleman who doec not believo in spiritualism, or supernatural manifestations, while staying at our villago hotel one night expressed doubt about the reality of such phenomena. He accepted an invitation from one of Mr. StevenB' sons, who was prraent, to acompany him home and see for himecf. He tells of what happened as felows: "When I arrived they took me into the kitchen, where I should think there were about a dozen people, all waiting for-the falling of tbe stones, And all very much excited. "CliarleB Stevens, a

80-

son

of Richard

Stevens, and myself went into the* parlor, and .one of Mr. Stevens' daughters, who is about 12 years old,jv«it with us. We were sitting around the stove, and Mr. Stevens' son was relating some of the incidents of the affair. Miss Stevens was near us, on the other side of the stove. I could see her plainly. Suddenly a stone fell within two feet of where I was sitting. The girl jumped, and I jumped. The stone seemed to fall from the ceiling and came with force, as if it had fallen from a great height. The doors of the room were closed, and no one was in the room except us three. I watched both of my companions, and I am sure that neither of them threw the stone. I could have seen them plainly i! they had. "This occurred about 7 p. m. About 7:?.0 another, stone fell, seemingly without any more cause than the first. No more stories fell during the evening, and about 10 o'clock I went to bed. Nothing occurred during the night. The next morning, while I was standing uear the stov© in the kitchen, ahout breakfast time, two more stones fell. "I cannot give any explanation of the matter. If the family are any tricks, they certainly go througJ

ai/wu v* playing

through

their parts well bht I am very certain they do not know any mote about this sfialr than I do. The youngest daughter, ('elia, looks like a medium. The day before I was there about forty stones fell."

On Sunday two of tho Stevens girls went to the Presbyterian church, imd while they Btood, joining in the singing, three stones fell at their feet. The preacher picked them up after the sermon. The family are very indignant at the Rev. Mr. Benedict, pastor of the Baptist church, who, after visiting tho house, reported that tbe stones were cast by ]jucill6, one of the daughters. He asserted that he Baw her throw one of them in a forward direction, but the girl denies that she did so, or that she has had anything to do with producing the manifestations. The physician who attended Mr. Stevens says he has a theory about the case, but declines to say what it is.

None of the family except Mrs. Ste* vens seems to be superstititious, although they all are thoroughly alarmed. Mrs. Stevens related before her husband's death that some years ago a person named Penny, living at their house, S*1|J, he' bad a dream in which he sa^ iwx'lying in the dooryard, and j&ia* that either he or MrStevens would 'soon die. Penny lived but a short finire and Mrs. Stevens expressed tlie belief that his spirit was uaunting th« Tioilae to warn them Of her husband's death.

Belle, one of the Stevens girls, became so frightened that she left the house, and refused to return till her fathers death' made it necessary. The stones which were thrown appear to be common pebbles from a field, and vary from the Bize of a bird's egg to half the size of one's fist. No stones have fallen since Richard Stevens death.

Suing a Child Three Years Old. New York Herald. Ernest Grant, a colored child three and a half years Old, was standing on the sidewalk in front of the house No. 144 west Twenty-fourth street, on he 3rd of August last, watching other children at play. Ferdinand Knolholf, a little boy not much older than Ernest, seized his legs near the ankles and pulled his feet from beneath him. Little Ernest fell backward, striking his head upon tbe stone flagging. Tho child died from his injuries, and his mother brought a suit against the juvenile Knolhoff for $5,000 damages.

In granting a motion yesterday to compel the plaintiff to file security for |costs Judge Van Hoesen says: "I think the motion should be granted.

This action does not appeal to the indulgence of the court. The defendant is only a baby. The deceased child was also a baby. The pecuniary flamage to tbe next of kin from tbe death of-a child who must for years be a charge upon the parents is, as a rule, purely imaginary. No good can come from aiding tbe prosecution of this litigation. The verdict ought to be for little, if any, more than the nominal amount."

Tbe Motion Wasn.t Seconded. DouglaavlUe Star. Some yettrs ago, when the HohJ Hugh Buchanan was judge of the Coweta circuit, there lived in the county a gentleman who had once teen a justice of the peace and judge of the inferior court, whom We ehall^ call Judge S. This gentleman had jusf been admitted to the bar. He was in his first case before Judge Buchanan. Colonel A. was bis opponent Colonel A. moved to dismiss .the case of Judge S. for some defect in the pleadings. Judge Bnchanan asked Judge S, what be had to say in reply to the motion of Colonel A. "Why if it please your Honor," said Judge S. Won" can't entertain the inotion of dolonef A. lias no second*" Judge S. lost bis case.

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