Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1884 — Page 3

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"Sans Merci."

A light girl's form and a baby face,

She can hardly know what they mean.

I 8he played the deuce with good old Fred, Till he went to the Ea*', you know She had sad to his face that she wished -Ati.it him dead, j. ..., **3 For ste'd somebody else in tow. S They said Horry blew out his brains- for

debts

On the nlichtof the last Two Thou Bat I saw hl« uook, and, for all his bets,

He might have been unglng now. And two men fougnt on the.beacb.at

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One fvll ai'iil the other fled

And as you migbt be tempted to trltle with my heart, ./, And I might flirt a little, love,

We'll pledge bi-fore we part.

Through mazy stitches without plan From ti» to heel 'i is but a span! 1 I feel my knees together knocking 8tlll rocks my pretty Puritan— Still knits that dear, d-iliclous stocking!

,'T- Uf' If'.: KKVOY. -wb\ Maidens I si nee cunning Eve began Our hearts In ne«1le loops your locking She tilts—the pretty Puritana tjanffipd

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skein—a fateful stocking!

j.. —Elaine Ooodale.

Fortune in Seven Check?.

Br R. E. FRANCILLON, AUTHOR

CHECK THE FIRST—A BAD START.' "Susan! look—and ont of the window—quick! I do really think I saw Lockmead spire!"

If Miss Hillyard really did see Lockmead spire Ishe liad good eyes, for it was a moonless night, and Lockmead spire was not only eight miles away, but was hidden, to boot, behind a line of hillB, while the lady's view was obtained from the window of a postchaise, "Ay, miss, to be sure!" answered Susan, glancing at the nearest hay-rick with the worse half of one eye, for sleep was stealing the better half of one eye and the whole of the other. "Ay, to be sure. There's no mistaking about that there steeple. I should know that if I was to meet it coming t'other Bide the world." "What a pity! it's gone again. But we shall see it all the better in a minute, I dare say. Oh, I wish there was a moon! and then we should

Which was literally true, for the interior of the chaise was as dark as pitch—so dark, indeed, that not even the reader of this page, nay, nor its writer, may yet perceive what manner of women these were. For it is not to be supposed that the writer is so clearsighted as MiBS Hillyard, who could see what was ^not to be seen, or that the reader is so docile as Susan, who could see whatever she was told.

But, for all that, seeing that mysteries are abominable and ought to be abolished forever, this Miss Hillyard ought by rights to have needed no description within twenty miles round Lockmead spire. True, it was fourteen years at least since her six-year-old eyes had looked upon Dane's Beacon, and the barn, and the elms, and the pond where the eels were. But, though invisible save to a memory at least as sharp as her Bight, all these, barn, elms, eels and all, were her very own—had been her own for more than a year.

Lockmead, when our grandfathers

E*^®tewerB y°ung. —and for that matter

isitill—in the county of Nottingham, and, whatever it may be now, was a large, rambling village, with some pretensions to call itself a town, and interested in the woolen trade, Miss Hillyard's great grandfather, who owned the whole parish and a part of next—he had flourished in the days of Queen Anne—waB born a weaver, but had walked to London with eighteen pence in what he called his pocket, and he had driven back in his own traveling coach to found a county family. His son, a cantankerous and hot-headed person, with a mimimum of the patriarch's brains, quarrelled with his heir (his eldest son) and left everything, real and personal, to his nephew. So that, when Miss Hillyard came to the throne, the family stood thus: she, representing a younger branch, had all the lands, while the representative of the elder branch had to be content with the exceedingly barren fatfc of genealogical precedence, without even the consolation of a title for this the Hillyards of Lockmead had not yet attained. After all, no legal injustice had been done, seeing ^at the man who had turned each ihhis original pennies into some three thousand pounds had an unquestionable right to do what he liked with his own.

It is of some consequence to bear these trifling matters in mind,although Hiss Hillyard's own head had never been troubled with the ancient misfortune of

far-away

•X BREATHINGS FROM THE POETS frained from troubling himself about I who must haye made »i.» n.u»

Blue eyes with a cool soft stare Yet they tell me, Dick, she can go the pace ... In away that would carl your hair.

They say that she's not twenty-one, And me hardly looks eighteen But she does not care for what girls call fua—

And KomUa prl-st would have broken his vows, But liu broke hl heart Instead. No. Dh-key, you need not look so glum

Mne'll wait for a bitter match She's not the girl for you, old chum And you're not what they call a catch. -M. O. H.

We May Not Meet Again.

.We may not meet again, love, For many a long, long day. While fate is so uncertain, dear,

And you so'far a wav.

the matter, and much lees from troubling his only daughter. People had whispered that in the matter of his first cousin's disinheritance his hands had not been over clean, and this may have been one original reason for not making Lockmead Manor his home. But such whispers as these soon blew over, so that they could not have been his only reason for his perfecting the life of an absentee. The weaver's grandson was very much of a fine gentleman, and Lockmead had not yet lost the traditioa of his family patriarch's early and ragged days—indeed, some of the weavers themselves might have /t\ claimed kinship with the squire, if they had a mind. Not much more than a mushroom in Nottinghamshire, especially in a part of the country where families ran old, he could hold hiB own with the oldest of them in

You promise to be faithful, /.promise to be true, ,, A.i»l send each other every day •'l A scented billet-doux,

Quite full of love's outpourings, v, A real Cupid's dart Yes, love, It Is the proper thing,

A pledge before we part '-.J.,'. Then If you should loslall, love, ^.4 A'notner In my p'ace,

...

I'dhave tome grounds on which to build A breaeb of promise case. If such a thing should happen,

I'm sure 'twould break my heart ydt

the whole 'tis oelter, love, To pledge before we part.

1)'Had of a Stocking.

What vala excuse shall I seek For Ignorance "so like a man?" i, My scruples will not let me speak—

I'll whisper, softly, If I cao, bhedoesn't wish me In Japan

She

doesn't think the fact so shooklngj She knits—the pretty Puritan—

A modern, rare, testhetlc stocking!

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she'd slowly, slowly rocking

Herself—the pretty PuritanAndob, vieux rose, that lovely stocking

Her supple wrists swift vengeance wreak The while that silken web I scan The Angers chase flying freak

sort or

uncles rjid cousins,

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London, and he did hold it well. He could afford it, for there was not a single mortgage upon Lockmead, and his agent, Amos Morwen, was a ma£ in

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ten thousand. Among his featsof distinction, which were many, his greatest was the carrying off of Miss Vernon, the great West India heiress, who could have re deemed Lockmead had it been mort gaged thrice over. He took her down to the manor, and, finding himself to be great man enough to be more than welcome, lived there till his heiress was six years old. But then came a catastrophe—not financial, indeed, but still of a grievous kind. He carried off another lady, undei circumstances which made the country as much too hot to hold him as it had once been too cold and neither his wife nor his child, nor his friends nor his enemies, saw the face of Francis Hillyard again from that day.

Then Mistress Hillyard risked the Chances of being herself carried off by a French cruiser by returning, with her little girl for company, to her own plantation in Jamaica, and lived the life of a broken-hearted wife and good

The olive contour of her cheek, JCyes—never water brownlier ran -J The brooc.'i, deliriously antique,

A topaz In a silver fan— The cottage chair of quaint rattan. ... In

mother, until she died sadly before her Hillyard 1.n/. aAnn n/lvolo 1 IITA "5 1

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time. Rakes and scoundrels, like

another, both of the masculine

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ferment, while, strange to say, her own heart remained as cold as if Jamaica were Spitzbergen. Perhaps it

were Spitzbergen. remaps it may

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So one afternoon she said to the maid who had followed her mother—it was five minutes after her forty-seventh offer, not counting those she had received more than once over— "Susan, I can't and I won't stand this any more. I shall go home." "Yes, madam," said Susan, is "Men are all idiots—" A "Ah, madam—indeed they are!" •'And women are idiotesses—" "Ah, and that they are indeed!"

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Dane'B Beacon, and old Juggin's barn, and the pond where, the eels are, and the dear old elms. I haven't forgotten a single thing—have you? And I do see them, Susan, without a moon. Oh dear! I think I've never Btopped seeing them ever since I saw them all loir the last time have you?" "Never, miss. I can see 'em all as plain as I see you."

There must have been a spite of her father's devilment in the girl for though, thanks to the great war, the sea carried perils worse than its own, Miss Hillyard laughed the advice of of her seven-and-forty suitors to scorn. Indeed, all their wise counsels did but fan a whim into a purpose—a spark into a flame. As fortune would have it, a fleet of West Indiamen was about sailing under convoy, and in one of these, the Amazon, she took her passage, not without hope that she might see brave adventures by the way for her head waa hot, if her heart was cold, and she was one of those girls who would give half they are worth to have been born a boy—the more fools they.

She was fortunate in Susan—a stolid lass, of unbroken Anglo Saxon lineage (I know the phrase is all wrong), who was unconscious of sentiment, even if she had it, and would have followed the child whom she had nursed with equal equanimity to the Isles of the Cannabals or even to Tartarus, had Miss Hillyard of Lockmead so willed. Was it not even so that, without a murmer, she had jilted a game-keeper, and gone with her mistress across the vast and unknown sea to unknown lands? The gamekeeper was married to another, and Susan might have been that other, and were I an Irishman out she had never regretted, much less repined. She took what came—and that is the great Anglo-Saxon secret all over the world. So she suited Miss Hillyard, who was very far indeed from taking everything or anything that came, to a T. It was not even a drawback that she agreed with everything. For Miss Hillyard detested contradiction, without the least touch of affectation. She had so many quarrels with herself that she Jiked to be

themselves, and their rivals dropping daily leagues behind. Of course Bfae would have been angry but he who could succeed in making Miss Hi-l yard angry with him would have

cious,

and of the feminine gender, which not to be, except unnaaidenly or poor, combined to make her wifth for a As to her lady friends, they spoke of change of air. The Lady of Mount her after their kind until she left Vernon found herself too much of a Jamaica, and then spoke of her kindly, prize she kept the whole island in a Only Susan believed in her from first to last, and would have tramped after her to the world's end. But then

incredible that a young lady

OF "EARL DENE." should have nearly maintained her

should have nearly maintained her majority without a romance of her own—more incredible ptill that she should be absolutely weary of refusing offers, of being hated by nearly all the women she knew, and of making all the men hate one another. Yet so it wa8 and Miss Hillyard of Lockmead and Mount Vernon was blase at twenty, and hungry for a wider world, where she might be uncrowned, and— free.

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farther than any man had yet gone. So, having received and refused two more offers en voyage (total forty-nine), she arrived at Bristol, enjoyed the hospitality of one if the leading slave traders, and then, in the highest of health and spirits, set out for Lockmead.

She had not written to her invaluable steward and agent, Amos Morwen, to announce either her departure from Jemaica or her arrival in England. Such a proceeding would have been far too commonplace and humdrum. She had not run away from the almost queenly state of Mount Vernon, where she ruled despotically over white hearts and black limbs by the hundred, to be received at Lockmead amid the ringing of bells. What she wanted was to go home, and to play once more at being a little girl running about the fields. She had planned, too. a pleasant surprise both for herself and for the good people whom the West Indian princess assumed to bear some fendal relation to their lords and ladies. Of course she knew that an English peasant is as free as an English peer -so far as difference of income allows but then she also knew that the world spins round at the rate of a thousand miles an hour, and she realized the one fact as little as the other. And, for that matter, there were peasant in those days of whose theoretic freedom the lazy, well-fed negros of Mont Vernon, with their present case and their freedom from used to think of the morrow—veritable black lillies that they were—would have felt not a spark of envy. However, of all these things Miss Hillyard as yet knew nothing. At leisurely speed and resting at historic towns from which the beauty of age had not as yet been brushed away by new brooms, she posted through the heart of England, and saw no signs of poverty or sorrow. She was reminded twenty times a day of the Lockmead of fifteen years ago and she thought sixty times an hour of the delight of having her share in the soil of this homeland and of the people who lived thereon. She would be a good princess and it would be very easy here, where the people worked, pot for the whip, but for honest good-will.

Whence the ruling nature of M'ss

Whence the ruling nature be guessed in three

ilyard may be guessed in

words—love

Francis Hillyard, commonly do marry horence of pain. And in all these women for whom their betters things she had hitherto been indulged mostly have to search the world to her heart's desire. in vain. The heiress clean for- Iu short, any but her nine- and-forty got lier father, though shej remember- lovers would have called her, if in a ed theeelpond and when, at twenty complimentary mood, a benevolent years old, she received official commu- tryant, an amiable coward, and so great nication of his death in a duel, she did an enemy to suffering that, if it came not even pretend to sorrow. But she within appreciable distance, she would was seized with a passionate longing shut her eyes and put her fingers to see her own native home and ber ears. As to her lovers, they gave there were other reasons also, of one her much harder names—cold, capri-

coquette everything she ought

Susan would have tramped after a shefiend whom she had held in her arms at Lockmead. Susan Croft took peopleas she took things—as they come.

Miss Hllyard had purposely chosen to arrive by night at Lockmead. Her plan was to put up, all unknown, at the Unicorn, to rise with the sun, to take a ramble all alone in the dew,and to scare the housekeeper out of her wits by demanding breakfast at the Manor. At one-and-twent.y one foresees fun in a surprise, and it takes just nineteen years more to learn that such things always come to a bad end. A

Ceforehand

"Now that poor mamma is gone— loor mamma! and since she is gone, iusan, what do I want to be doing here? I

head over ears in love,

Susan—that's what I am. Aren't you?" "Why, mercy on us, madam! Why, I thought there was never a 'Maikey man fit to look at—and me—" "With a man? No—with England, Susan! Why, I remember every stick and stone: I could find my way blindfold to where we used to make the cowslip balls, when you carried me in your aims and I wasn't higher than your knee. You were born at Lockmead, and so was I. That was where poor mamma used to laugh and smile —there were no tears there. And I'm going where my heart is—home: 'to my ain countree.'" "Yes, madam. 'Twould be wholesome to see the old town. I'm a bit tired of the blacks, and the creatures that bite and sting. And a bit of Lockmead grass would be good for the eyes—" "Ay, and the song of a Lockmead lark for the ears. Susan, you are a witch. Your words have fixed me. W

hilosopher, home-ward bound, writes to announce the day, hour, minute, and manner of his home-com-ing, and then waits for an answer he gives ample time to hide away all the skeletons, and for everybody to be on parade. Meantime, while Susan slept deeper and deeper, Miss Hilljard grew wider and wider awake, and saw Lockmead spire, though still invisible, as plainly as if she *ere in a dream.

The chaise from Deiby rolled along smoothly for those days of rough roads, and Miss Hillyard was as happy as a girl who had nobody to love except herself can be, when, in less time than I can think the words, the carriage was brought up with a sharp jolt, ana Miss Hillyard was thrown violently forward. Nor, after the shock, did the chaise recover itself and go on. "Susan! Susan!" cried Miss Hillyard. "I see 'em" muttered Susan, between a snort and a gulp "I see 'em all as plain aa I see you. "Wake up! Something has happened to the chaiee. Look out and ask—" "Lord, miss! and so there have, to be sure! Are we oir our heads or our heels? Are you hurt, miss? Well, to be sure!" t" "Not a bit but—" "Bless us and save us, Miss Hillyard!" cried Susan, wideawake now. "The schaise is all afire!"

And truly, as she spoke, afire filled the carriage with momentary light, and Miss Hillyard, attempting to lean out of the window, was met by a face half covered with crape, while a rough, heavy hand was laid upon her arm. "Great Heaven highwaymen!" cried she. "Halloo, mates!" bellowed a rough voice beyond, "the ladies takes ussen for thieves!" "No, ma'am," came from behind the crape, "we ben'tno thieves—we be the honest men, let them be thieves as

"Then who are you, fellow asked Miss Hillyard, loftily. "Who are you that dare to stop a lady's carriage—" "Hallo, mates!" bellowed the first voice again, "the lady asks ussen why we stops her leddvship's carriagethink o' that there!"

A murmur from in front and on both sides of the road proclaimed numbers—perhaps a crowd: and robbers do not work in crowds. But that rendered the attack the more alarming, inasmuch as its nature was beyond guessing. Susan sat bolt upright, beholding her mistress with open mouth and eyes. Had Miss Hillyard not been there Susan would have been afraid. Miss Hillyard was afraid but she was far too great a lady to show her fear, and she had learned how to be imperious from her hundreds of black slaves. "Drive on!" she called to the postilions, in .aB firm and clear a voice as if she had been brave instead of trembling all over. But the chaise did not move. "None of that, ma'am!" said the masked fellow at the window. "There's four men at the horses' heads, and your jockey dursen't use whip nor spur. You be warned by me. You're bound for fiOckmead. And so be we. And there's none but us goes into Lockmead this night, tramp or drive

reis witn nerseir uiau bub at peace with the outer world, and an This here's a Leicester chay, I know, echo was a godsend. You turn their heads and sleep at

Adventures, it has been said, are to Nottingham, and you'll come to no a a a a wooing such things to sail from Span- "Unless you want to rop ish Town to the port of Bristol in war "D'ye take lis for a gang d— mill time, nothing happened that could be owners," roared out another called an adventure, at least bv Miss above the murmur, with an oath, that Hillyard. That fine frigate, La "Guepe, you call us thieves?" ., once herself a Frenchman, never once "Maybe she 11 be one their wives, let her charges escape from under her shouted a third, "and duckings too formidable winge, and led them as good for'her." safely home as a mother-duck heads "Least how, none gets to Lockmead her brood across the pond in the farm to night that's like to carry tales. We yard. The sea was well-behaved, on can't stop to duck she-folk," continued the whole, and the wind was fair. Not the man at the window, "and we're one of Miss Hillyard's lovers was at not going to take purses—no, not if once BO bold and so wise as to ship we was hungrier than we be. So you himself on board the Amazon, or it turn back, my lady, xf you don want 1 At A IV!. knnn Vins) irATI* KAMCQ +A VkA cKftf OnH vnnf PnftV

BUlp^ VUC V^UWU VUttTiUbWi WUIUU WW to Bail later, and then privately slipping on board the Amazon. Whether the heiresB waa not the least hit in the world disappointed at the bqccck of ber own strategem* I dare notaay— there must have been two or three out of forty-seven whose dash or vigilance ^ould not have displeased ker, and

my own land. I shall go on where I will. I am Miss Hillyard, of Lockmead Manor and I will have you flossed at the can's tail!" ouirceiy were the words past her lips when a hooting and groaning went np iron* the crowd enough to scare the stoutest heart in the world. Even Sosan uttered a gasping scream.

Hillyard discovered that »i to deal with turbulent negn_» *, *hom her name and her lofty bearing would bring to their knees. She felt like a child who has dropped a match and eel ISr*» to a barn. •I Id your row, mates!"

cried

The poor girl could only Bit silent and aghast. The man's earnestness appalled her, though not one* single word could she comprehend. The howls and groans were over. This man was the orator of the company, and there was something in his voice, and something more indefinable still, that told why. "For all that are in distress I am sorry," faltered she. "It too late for that, my girl," said the man. "Sorrow won't send us back, nor help you on. Sorrow won't fill these men's bellies, nor their wifes', nor their children's, nor cost you a tear. I'm thinking God he sent you our way. He's not so good to us in common. There's been many black, grinding tyrants in these parts, but the Hillyards, that

was

"Bring

of rule, love of ease, ab-

once weavers them

selves, are the blackest of them all. 'Tis the old tale—there's so such cruel, grinding tvrants

the rich that once

were poorl Isn't'it they that bred the machines?" "Amos Morwen cried a voice from the crowd, amidst another howl. "No! Blame the master or the mistress—not the man. Here's Jezebel herself—"

a torch, sir," said Miss Hill

yard, haughtily, "that you may see if I am afraid to look you in the face—yes, and all. Let me see my people of Lockmead—my home, where I was born." "You'll see them soon enough, my lass—and I don't think you'll like what you see. But I'm not going to have you look hard on these poor feF lows, so that you may swear awav their lives. You shall see another sort of torch than we've got here before yov're older by two hours. When you've got back Nottingham way as far as Coldash Hill have the coach heft round, and you'll see a torch—a blaze!" "Ablaze?" "Ay—one to warm you, my lass, and all the country-side. 'Twill be Hillyard's mill." "Susan," said Miss Hillyard, with a sigh, "I think we will—Bleep at Nottingham. This isn't coming home."

With a shout that was at once a groan for the machine-mongerand a cheer of scorn for the coward, the horses' heads were turned, the postilion picked ur from behind the hedge and tossed into his saddle, the horses lashed and maddened into a collop, and the poor heroine who had dared the French cruisers and the dangers of the deep was sent flying back the way she came, with her dreams dispelled. foS fc&C.

CHECK THE SECOND.—DOCTOR QUIXOTE.

Late one moonless evening in early autumn, Amos Morwen and his friend Basil Hillyard were drinking port and chatting in the parlor of the bachelor house inhabited by the former* which, barring the manor, wasthebeBt in all Lockmead,and the most comfortable, bar none.

As these two men, one excepted,are the principal among the persons of this drama, they must be described to the extent of their due—a task rendered the easier for their present silence, and for the complete knowledge that all Lockmead had of both of them.

Juniorespriores. Basil Hillyard, whose surname suggests kinship with a certain brave-spoken but deplorably timid young lady, looked, beyond the utmost stretch of suspicion, a gentleman from head to foot—and by gentleman 1 mean the best species of the genus man. Now, this sort of gentleman consists of three parts—body, heart, mind. Basil was of the best height for a compromise between strength and grace that is to say, something more than two inches under six feet, and something less than three his shoulders were broad, his flanks lean, his chest deep and full: he had altogether something of a model physique for those pre-athletic days, when men never took a grain more muscular exercise than they were obliged. As to his features and complexion, he was neither distinctly plain or handsome, dark nor fair but if the world were divided into two classes in each respect, he would have been placed jast beyond the line on the fair and handsome side. However, what ordinary human creature, man or woman, cares for a man's features, so long as ttiey be passable? Enough that his hair was brown and strong, his eyes gray and clear, his nose straight and honestly broad, his mouth manfully grave, and his chin pronounced and firm, while his color, healthy and clear, erred only in being over-pale. With the body of an athlete in perfect training he combined the coloring and the expression of a student—an unlikely combination to meet with at Lockmead, where the few persons of a class higher than the farmers and weavers drank much, worked little, and thought not at all. Moreover, the town afforded no field for any person so eccentric as to read or think, or in any respect to live a life of his own. But the best part of this Basill Hillyard was the signs of heart which but few of the masks which we call faces condescend to reveal. Of affectation there was not a shadow of a sign the outlook was frank, though by no means genial. None would choose Basil Hillyard for a boon companion -but the blindest could tell at a glance that when nature turned him out she stamped him—Friend.

I have already called Amoa Morwen his friend and therefore need notadd that the the two men were aa opposite in appearance as equator and pole.

Happily, opposites may be equally excellent and to praise the pole by no means implies detraction from the good qualities of the equator. Amos Morwen was not only a notoriously excellent., but in every respect a remarkable man. He had now, at fortyfour years old, the air of a prosperous and superior sort of farmer who mixed with the country gentlemen, or of a country gentleman with an agricultural turn. Appearances were true BO far as they went, for he had a farm of his own, and had the letting of all the Lockmead estates, so that hp was a sort of master-farmer. More -ver, by reason of the absense of Sqq're IJillyard, of the age of ^pluralist yirar in residence at Oxford, and of the iuueity of near neighbors, it had been found advisable to make Amos Morwen, who was virtually the squire of Lockmead, a magistrate for the county and he took the lead at the petty sessions for the district, having been articled to the law in Mansfield, and having practiced there as an attorney during a few of his earlier years. Besides, however, being something more than a mere justice or a mere farmer, he was a man of ideas and advanced enterprise.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 884.

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vuice higbt above the tumul—a v..ice, like thexest, but less rustic, and in the tone of a man used to command, "'and let me by So you are Miss Hillyard of Lockmead, eh? I can't see your face, young womannor do I wiBh and if I was to fill your coach with torch-light—and that's the only light left us but the sun's and the moon's—you wouldn't dare lift up your face to look on these poor men. Yes, 'tis you and the likes of you that can ride in your coaches and wallow in the fat of the land, and make the poor man pay, and that take the last crust out of his children's mouths with your d— infernal machines? And now you've come back— what for? To see what you've made Lockmead? or to squeeze out another penny? God help the place,but you're done there.. There's none left to

kept half the inhabitants of Lockmead off the parish until they fell ill or grew old, but they also kept hands out of the fields, and the whole place at a point barely above that of starvation. Added to this, clothes, food and all the necessaries of life were at war prices and theie was not even a Lady Bountiful to try to scare the wolf away with her fan.

And yet Atnos Morwen, who was responsible to Hillyard

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for

the condition of things, saw iit *-«rthly reason why Lockmead should not be made the germ of a second Leeds. He set out on a journey to the north and when he returned it was in company with a gentleman from Yorkshire, who, in the course of a few months, had built for Mr. Morwen a cloth mill, with frames and finishing machines that appeared to do all tne work of themselves. Nor did Mr. Morwen stick at cloth hett :=p newly-invert ed and wonderful looms, that mm!' the hereditary weavers stare. He also called a meeting and made a speech. "To improve a trade is to extend a trade," said he. "The cheaper you turn out goods, the more you increase the demand and the more goods are demanded, the more mnst be supplied and made. These new mactiines will require greater skill, and skilled labor means higher wages and the stubborn fools that won't learn and change with the times are sadly wanted in the fields. This is a great day for Lockmead, say I, and for every man, woman, and child it belongs to. Better wages—more work —a share for me and you in the welfare of us all."

To-day truths so obvious would be greeted with a ringing cheer. But Amos Morwen was not only introducing new machines, but was speaking newly-discovered truths and a truth is a tree that takes long to gro w. There was no opposition, because anew idea cannot be taken in all at once, even by the cleverest of us all. What so respectable a gentleman as Justice Morwen said was likely to be right enough fell upon stony soil. They ment change and even the wisest mistrust sudden change.

So, simply because he was thus farm advance of his time, he muBt unquestionable be called a remarkable man for the product of a slow and stiffnecked generation, who now sat over his bottle pondering many things. He was broad and stout of build, taller and larger than his companion, rugged of feature, with a broad, low brow, full eyes that said nothing, a weatherbeaten complexion, and a coarse mouth, firm and close, indeed, but by no means inconsistent with a fuH share of thoBe animal propensities which require strong brains, strong principles, or something stronger than either, to make them useful servants and keep them under command. Happily, AmoB Morwen was notoriously possessed of all i,hree element* of strength together. His brains were unquestionable, his principles were unquestioned, and_ he was the moBt eminent churchman in Lockmead. Not that he had many rivals in that matter, for, with the great house empty, the vicar absent and a mere scholar, and a curate who was a nobody, there were no fewer than four chapels for as many sects, and they were all filled. It was not Morwen's fault. To be a farmer, lawyer, justice, mill-owner, and political economist is enough for one man, without his being theologian and missionary besides.

To be continued in the Sunday Express.]

WALTER MAIiliEY'S STORY.

Blanche Douglass an Inmate of a Catholic Institution Ont West. New Haven (Conn.) Correspondence New

York World.

Walter Malley says that Blanche Douglass is in a Catholic religious institution out west. He says he was in aNew York saloon recently, and was attended by a female waiter. He asked her to drink with him, and she quickly acquiesced. After a few remarks of a general character he asked her name. To his surprise she said it was Blanche Douglass. He asked her if she remembered the incidents of the famous trial in New Haven, and she said she did. Proceeding, 6he related about everything of importance connected with the trial. "Every little incident," said Mr. Malley, "the names of all the persons in any way interested in the proceedings, the details of the trial, a complete description of my house and of the prominent places in New Haven, a full story of Blanche's life in jail, with incidents connected with her confinement, anecdotes of Jailer Stevens and his wife, the testimony, arguments and other details she related strictly in accordance with the real facts and with wonderful accuracy. "I listened to her attentively, of course, much interested in the story she told. She then said that her room was situated a short distance from the saloon, and asked me to accompany her there, where she would show me pictures of herself and Jennie Cramer, and all other incidents of that trial. "I was somewhat amazed at the assurance of the girl and the ponnected manner in whicn she told the story. For a short time I did not repjy to her request to accompany her to her room, but finally said, 'Well, as I am Walter Malley himself, those pictures would probably not interest me in the least.' "The girl left that table with surprising suddenness, not waiting to bid me good night. I became a little curious, after hearing this story, to know how many girls there were using Blanche Douglass' name for the purpose of business, and as the result of my investigations I discovered in the city of New York three different girls were using her nanje."

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Lockmead, tbougn lying somewhat outside the recognized circle of the industry, was a township of cloth-fin-ishers as well as of weavers. But it* prestige in this matter belonged to the past the place had been decaying for years, ana ita rude and primitive mechanics had fallen behind the'times. The machine still in use at Lockmead, and indeed at many districts in the West Riding itself, waa a barbaric instrument, worked entirely by manpower, slow, inefficient, and requiring a vast amount of unskilled labor, poorly paid. Them things indeed

How a Great Detect!re Agency la Kept

Motion—Ramification* of the Pinkerton Slenth-Hounda—Set on the Track of Fugitive Criminal*—The Coat of Pursuing Absconders. New York World.'

"We never sleep," is the motto of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, and a very appropriate one dots it seem to be. It has been the guiiiinc star of the organization siiuv foundation and that it haB not proved a bad one is shown by the innumerable successful operations that have been carried through by the many noted criminals that have been brought to justice, and by the number of illegal schemes that have been detected time to save thousands of dollars to the parties against whom they were planned. The history of the detective system is an interesting one. As a means of ferreting out crime it has no equal in the world. __

A "an Pinkerton, the principal and founder of the agency, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland. His father, who was a weaver by trade, was sergeant of police at Glasgow, and Allan was early apprenticed to the cooper's trade. When he had reached the age of twenty-two the excitement attending the Chartist movement was at its height, and he figured prominently among those who were agitating for a moreliberal form of government. This agitation culminated in the Birmingham riots and in the arrest and conviction of several of the leaders, who were sentenced to death and to various terms of imprisonment. Allan thought there were other lands more conducive to longevity than his native country, and as he felt that he was a marked man be hurriedly married a young lady to whom he was affianced and Becretly left for America. The vessel was shipwrecked near Sable Island, and on tne 9th of May, 1842, he and his young bride found themselves at this point in a destitute condition. He, however, managed to obtain passage by water through the lakes to Chicago, where he soon found work at his trade. After a few years he established a cooperage of his own at Dundee, 111., thir-ty-eight miles northwest of Chicago. He gradually built ap a thriving business and had a large number of men in bis employ.

At this time there was very little money in circulation, the want of this being supplied by tbe checks of the Milwaukee Fire and Marine Insurance company, which passed current. These were crude and easily imitated. The cousequence was that a large number of forged checks were put on the market which were so excellently done as to almost defy detection. It was here that Pinkerton did his first piece of detective work. He had suffered through some of these forged checks, and determined to put a stop "to it if possible. He struck a clue to John Gray, a very skillful counterfeiter of Vermont and leader of tbe gang, and soon had him in jail. It was the detection of Gray that fitst brought Pinkerton into public notice. The forgeries continued even after the capture of Gray, and he was requested by the merchants of that section to follow up his work and break up the gang. He went to work and in a few years had a number of forgers in the clutches of the law. While carrying on this investigation he was twice shot, once coming very near losing his life. Dnring this time he still successfully carried on his cooperage business at Dundee. This operation made him well known and popular in Illinois, and he was finally induced to accept the position of deputy sheriff of Cook county. In 1848 he became a special agent of the treasury department under Secretary Guthrie, and was subsequently made special mail agent. He did some good work whil^ in these positions and seemed to be successful in every detective investigation which

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Plymouth (Wis.) Reporter.

Several times during the winter the attention of our citizens has been attracted to the peculiar condition of the atmosphere, which at times possessed astonishing powers for the transmission of sound. On numerous occasions the whistles in the manufactories at Sheboygan have been plainly heard here, a distance of not less than fifteen miles on a straight line. This acouBtic peculiarity has never been BO noticeable as in the past few weeks. An acoustic phenomenop that would well be worthy the attention of scientists occurred between Sheboygan Falls and Sheboygan about six week3 ago. A telephone line connects the Falls Bank with the German Bank in Sheboygan, where there is also a telephone exchange. The residence of C. H. Pape, which is about two miles west ot Sheboygan, has communication with that city by telephone. At the time aliove mentioned a person standing at the audiphone of one machine could distinctly hear communications occurring between other parties on an entirely different line. For example, J. (3.

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the fall?/ b$nk, distinctly heard ponversations between H. C. Pape aud parties in Sheboygan, although the Falls bank and Mr. Pape's residence are connected with the city by two entirely different linps. Mr. Fapeand Mr. Fairweather then communicated directly with each other in this circuitous manner. This wonderful occurrence was atthe time supposed to be caused by the wires of the two lines coming in contact with each other. But Mr. Pape went out and examined the two lines and found that nowhere in the entire distance of the the two miles between his residence and Sheyboygan were the wires nearer together than eight inches. So the phenomenon has remained unsolved. Tliat was the only time of its occurrence.

Pittsburg Weekly News (colored people's paper): Fred Douglass has married a red-headed white girl, thirtythree years old. We have

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oae for him as a leader. Hia picture ia hungin our parlor we will hang it in the stable.

under his direction. When Lincoln became president he was called to the secret servics of the United States bv McClellan and Lincoln, where he remained for several years. When Mr. Pinkerton first came to America he became a strong opponent of slavery. When the fugitive slave law was enacted he became prominent with John Brown, James H. Collins and other noted abolitionists in running the so-called underground railroad, and by his energy and assistance many negroes were saved from being carried back into servitude.

In 1854 Mr. Pinkerton's name was well-known throughout the west and northwest, and it was then, at the strong solicitation of the leading railroad men and bankers of that "section, to whom he had rendered great service at various times, that he establish his detective agency and formed that system which later became known as Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. He established his headquarters at Chicago and had associated with him in the beginning only a few men. The field was a large one and there were many daring criminals and outlaws abroad in the land. His buside^s rapidly increased and be was obliged to enlarge his force in proportion. At times he has l)ad detectives located in every state in the Union. He soon found that the Chicago office alone could not conduct the affairs properly, so he established branch offices in this city and Philadelphia. At present he has nearly two hundred detectives in his employ, both men and women. From the commencement of the detective business he laid down and has since adhered to the most stringent rules, discarding the old maxim, "a bon chat, bon rat,' and only permitted on his force detectives whose characters were unimpeachable. He claims that the honest mind, guided by an upright principle, i3 best competent to grapple with the criminal, and his unprecedented success has demonstrated the truth of his theory. He does not receive nor does he allow any one in his employ to receive continpent rewards, but pays all his detectives a regular stated salary, and charges aper diem rate for his services in all matters in which he is retained. These salaries mnge from $3 a day to $3,000 a year. He insists upon no compromise with thieves, and for the express con-panies alone he has recovered and returned to them several millions of dollars, covering innumerable thefts and robberies', both large and small, in each case prosecuting the thieves.

I^is chief business i3 with banks and express companies, but he will take up any line except divorce ctses. He has made it a rule from the start never to interfere in family matters. He has thirty-five Detectives working from the office in this pity, who foo|' after the pastern and Atlantic states. The Chicago office takes care of tbe West and Southwest and employs forty detectives. In the Philadelphia office there are twenty men, whose chief business is in the poal rogions of Pennsylvania. The work of these cpen is not cpnflned tp cities. They extend oyer the country, reporting to the office from which they have been detailed. In addition to this he has a private night watch in Chicago of one hundred men, located in the business portion of the city. Every bank and express office and nearly all the wholesale houses are guarded. This force has been in existence over twenty-five years, and was established when there was no regnlar police force in Chicago. Mr. Pinkerton has in his employ men who have been with him over twenty-five years. His system is to take young men, and they are suited, to break them into his way of doing business. His two sons are with him, Robert A. being the general superintendent and William A. having charge of the Chicago office.

Among Pinkerton's early detective exploits was the apprehension and conviction of Augustus Stuart Byron, illegitimate son oi Lord Byron by Mary Stuart, and a young man named Napier, ne hew of Admiral Napi&, of the JEnglisL navy. These parties wrecked the (rain, on tbe Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana railroad, and plundered the mails of a large amount of monen which at (bit time waft car

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ried in considerable quantities by the United States mails in tha absence of express facilities. While engaged in hunting up the James boys in Missouri he lost five men in one year. He always claimed that he would have succeeded in running them down had he received the backing that Governor Crittenden afterwards gave to other parties when he went into office. The work of breaking up the Molly Mathe Pennsylvania ooal done by the Pbila-

guires in regions was delphia office and covered a period of eight years. Franklin B. Gowen, then president of the Philadelphia & Beading railroad, was deeply interested in this work. Among many succpsslul operations may be mentioned the extermination of a gang of desperadoes, which made its neadquarters at Seymour, Indiana, known as the Reno Brothers. There were four brothers and the most dariug gang of outlaws ever known in that section. Thirteen of this band, including the four brothers, were lynched, several of them being taken out of jail for that purpose after a hard fight with the sheriff. The capture of tbe Bidwell brothers, the bank of England forgers, the conviction of the gigantic bond forgers, Roberts and Gleason, and the apprehension of the Northampton bank robbers are apart of the work of this agency.

At the breaking oui, of the war Pinkertor detected a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln at Baltimore, on bis wav to Washington to be inaugurated, and personally accompanied Lincoln to that place so secretly tnat it was known to only a few of his most intimate friends.

Besides carrying on his extensive detective business, Mr. Pinkerton is a farmer, owing two farms of 760 acres at Onarga, on the Illinois Central, some distance south of Chicago. He is engaged iu cultivating the Scotch larch-tree, nearly, a million of which he has imported and transplanted.

A MODERN JESSICA. :,f

She Abandons Home and Religion for

A special from Scranton, Pa., to tbe Chicago Times says: "The residents of this city, were astounded this moming over the following notice, which, surrounded by a heavy black border, appeared in the advertising colamns of the Spranton Republican 'Gone and forgotten. We mourn ttao marriage of our sister Justine Levy to Farr as death, and disown her for life. lkvi FAMILY. "John R. Farr, referred to above, is of Welsh parentage, and about 29 years eld. He attended Lafayette College at Easton for several terms, acquiring a good education. About eighteen months ago he was city editor of the Republican. Afterward he was connected with newspapers in Hyde park, and is now assistant secretary of the Scranton school board. He is also an athlete of considerable local fame. Tuesday he was elected a member of the school board. About a year ago Mr. Farr became enamored of MisB Justine Levy, a Hebrew girl of eighteen. Her father is dead, and she lived with her married sister, Mrs. Fliescher. Mr. Fliescher and Justine's brother, Henry, are engaged in tke leather-finding business. For the laBt four years the girl has been their bookkeeper. Farr was a constant visitor at the store. The relatives of Miss Levy were greatly displeased with his attentions to her, and lorbade him the. house. The girl's sister escorted her whenever she appeared on the street, so as to prevent Farr from resuming his attention. Then the lovers communicated with each other by telephone. Miss Levy left her sister'B home Wednesday evening last, saying she had been requested to write a letter for Mrs. Cohen, who lived nearby. Farr had heen watching for the girl and met her. They went to a restaurant, where they remained for nearly an hour. The girl's mother and the family beeame alarmed and began a search. They found Justine with Farr. He locked the door of the parlor, and while the Levys went toward another entrance the lovera escaped. They were obliged to scale a fence nine feet high. They hurried to Pyovidenoe, about two miles, away, arriving there at 11 o'dock. Farr awoke the Rev. George E. Guild, a Presbyterian minter, and he consented to perform the marriage ceremony, but told the young people if they desired to consider the matter further they might. The girl hesitated, but at about 2 o'clock in the morning Farr succeeded in getting Her consent, and the ceremony took place. They remained at the minister's house until morning, when Mr. Farr brought bis bride home. A brother and sistey of the girl visited the liousp apd de« manded Justine. Ievy asserted that young Mr. Farr ruined the girl, and the elder Mr. Farr and his daughter drove the Levys from tbe house. A warrant was issued for the old gentleman and his daughter, and they were held for trial. Subsequently Mr. Scranton, the former employer of young Farr, sent for him. Farr and his brother-in-law, Fliescher, met in Scran ton's office, and but for interference a collision would have resulted. Farr's mother-in-law has had a warrant issued for him for alleged threats to* do her injury if she interfered with his visits to the young woman. Crape hangs from tbe front door or the ^evy residence.

Saw a Sea Serpent.

Philadelphia Record.

The officers and crew of the schooqer Edward Waite. of Portland Me.,which arrived at this port on Saturday, are positive that they fell in with a genuine sea serpent on the voyage from Cardenas to this city with a cargo of sugar. The vessel was yesterday dock-r ed at South street wharf, and the bronze-faced mate, Wm. Page, who has been a seilor for thirty years, tqlcj the story of the reinafv.able ftdventure in a straightforward manner. "Our voyage," said he, "from Cardenas to Cape Hatteras was uneventful. We passed that point on the morning of the 14th, and were more than half-

men oh deck at the time. We thought at first that it was a whale, but as it did not "blow" we concluded that it was a large shark, although some of the men who was watching it said that it was too large for a sh4r» The thing, whatever \t~was, oame nearer and nearer, as if charging for the vessel, and we began to get a little excited. We noticed, also, as it came within a reasonable distance, that the tiling's head was raised oat of (he water. It came nearer and nearer, leaving a long, wide wake behind it, and stirring up the water into foam, like the paddles of a river steamer. It passed the schooner within less than 250 yards, and we had a full view. We were BO mush interested that I forgot to call the captain, who was below asleep, but all of tbe watch saw tbe thing as plainly as I can see tbe schooner there in tbe next dock. It was a sea serpent and no mistake. We could only measure its size by the line made in the water, but I Bhould say that it was fully ninety feet long, with a head as large and something like the shape of a horse's head. The most remarkable thing about it was the color and size of its eyes They were of a bright safiron hue, and naif as big as a man's band. It held its head above the wator all the time we saw it, which was about half an hour, when it passed out of sight in a sorithernly direction. We were at tbe time in latitude 35.^4 and it waa a dear day. W©could not have been mistakes.'

Commercial Gazette": Virginians are killing off the robins by the thousand. These binds are protected during the atimmer breeding season U» the northern states that southern people may have plenty of excellent wild bird meat daring th* wia««r.

Some Have Come True—Others Are Coming Trne—The Great Storms, Cyclones, Floods, Kte., Foretold. Worth ington Times.

In 1879 Prof. A. O. Grimmer, of San Jose, California, issued a very remarkable pamphlet "in regard to the approaching crisis in this world's history." It was published in the Times in 1879, and as it is coming trne, we once more give extracts from it:

The writer believes that in the latter part of 1881 Christ will come and translate to heaven those who are holy and pure in heart* Then will follow forty years of judgments on the world, ending with a anniveasai resurrection and judgment.— Forty years from 1881 the day of wrath, &c., which is so often referred to in the Bible, begins. This will last seven years, and culminates in the total destruction of tbe finally impenitent by the great conflagration that

tent by tne great connagrauon tnat melts tne globe just before tbe earth is made over into a lovely and universal Eden by the Omnipotent power of Christ. The appalling calamities that will befall the world during the seven years that the effects of the conjunction of the fonr great planets last will almost equal in horror tbe dreadful woes that will be visited upon the finally impenitent during the period of wrath that occurs forty years later.

The above pamphlet contains very startling predictions of the most appalling calamities that will come upon the world on account of the conjunction of tha four great planets in 1881. There exists the most remarkable coincidence between the predictions thus made from a scientific standpoint, anc those contained in the bible relating to tbe same period. Here are a few of these remarkable coincidences: "It is oretty well understood," he Bays, "that the peralielia of the four great planets, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn, will be coincident in 1881. The effects which this conjunction will pro'lnf-3 are momentous. From 1880 to .v7 will be one universal carnival of death. No place on earth will be entirely free from the plague. Diseases will appear, the nature of which will baffie the skill of tke most eminent physicians. Every drop of water in the earth, on the earth, and above the earth, will be more or less poisonous. The atmosphere will be foul with noissome odors, and there will be but few constitutions able to resist the coming scourge. Therefore, prepare ye that are constitutionally weak, and intemperate and gluttons for 'man's last home—the gnive.' From the far east the pestilential storm will sweep, and its last struggle will end here in the far west. All the weak and intern' perate will be sure to die. There is no escape frsm the inexorable plsgue fiend. Fortunate, indeed, are thoBe whose blood is pure from any taint or weakness, for they alone will survive the wreck of the humane family. The intemperate and weak will join hands and go down to their graves in tens of thousands. Ancient races will be blotted from the face of the earth."

Oentile Husband—Wrath of her FnmUy.

There will come stormB and tidal waves that will swamp whole cities, earthquakes that will swallcw mountains and towns, and tornadoes that will sweep hundreds of villages from the face of the earth mountains will tremble, totter and fall into sulphurous chasms the geography of the earth will be changed by volcanic actions mountains will also toss their rocky heads up through the choioest valleys valleys will appear where mountains formerly Btood volcanoes that have been dormant for centuries will awaken to belch forth their lava with more violence than when in their tristine vigor rain-falls will deluge valleys, anil mountain streams will enlarge their beds and become mighty torrents fires will start spontaneously and devastate whole forests great fires will occur in many cities, and some will be totally destroyed there will be remarkable displays of electricity, frightful to witness wild beasts will leave their natural haunts and crowd into populous cities, timid and harmless suffocating fumes of sulphur will escape from the earth, to the great dread of many an unprecedented number of ships will be shattered in fragments by running on mighty rocks and small islands that are not down on the navigator's chart."

Dueling Upheld by Austrian Mill5^1 tary I^aw. A young Austrian liliitenani lias been deprived of bis commission and rank because of his "absolute refusal to fight a duel." In declining a challenge he gave as his reason that dueling was forbidden by both the civil and military law, and wae against his religion and his reason. The matter was taken before a court of honor, made up of superior officers, by whom the above sentence was pronounce^ and made operative forthwith. The case has been tqk9Q wp by the Vienna newspapers and is being warmly discussed. Those who uphold the action of the court urge that a refusal to fight a duel is evidence of a degree of cowardice that should not be suffered among army officers. On the other hand, it is maintained that the young officer has exhibited much more sense and manliness in the matter than the court that tried him. As the action of the court is practically a proclamation that the military law instead of forbidding dueling makes it incumbent, it would seem important that the civil law should be made to conform to that ide$. Otherwise, in case of a difficulty between a civilian and an army officer, the former would be liable to prosecution for accepting a challenge, while the latter would suffer disgrace and dismissal he failed to accept it,

London Streets at Night.

Bull and His Island.

From 8 o'clock in the evening tne finest part of London is entirely given up to debauchery. Respectable Englishmen do not walk about in the evening. The men that you see in Regent street are mostly foreigners or provincials who have come up to town for around of dissipation. Several years ago the public ball rooms were closed, and the market which used to be held within four walls, is now transferred to the open street. The police dti iruewy does not exist iu London, and the capital of this country, BO moral and so Christian, exhibits sights too heartrending to imagine. Girls of fourteen or fifteen, with dyed hair and wan-looking face? daubed with paint, stand about drunk And in rags, soliciting the passers-by for a vile wage. Worn out with fatigue, they drop in the gutter at daybreak. They have been up and down the street six mortal hours! It is horrible! The inhabitants of London are beginning to take the matter up petitions &re being prepared. It is high time. The drunkenness in the streets is indescribable. On Saturday nirbt iit is a general witchrb' Sabbath. The women drink to alm^t as preat an px tent as the men. In Scotland, they fqual them. In Ireland, they surpass them. My authority is an qffioial report made to the English government in 1877.

The Millionaire.

New York Graphic.

Who is this hard working man? This is the millionaire, the man who has wanted to be rich and has got rich, and is getting richer every day. Is he happier for it Happy Bless yonr sool, he's more miserable, fuller of cares and antieties, and harder worked than ever. He ia tbe veriest slave of thfun all. He is pushed with business and business is pushing him. He has so many irons in the fire that some of them are horning his fingers while others are getting cold, His pjasent life a rush from the meet* fng of this hoard to that board, and

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and when he does lay his poor head on the pillow he can't stop business plans and scheme®, hopes and fears from whirling and whiiring through it He can take a day to spend in quiet ont of town, and if he could he would take all of his business with him into the wotos. He is a slave and a victim. His millions in bank don't, bring bim so much enjoyment than does anew ten-cent piece given to a boy ten years old. He'B infected with the mania for getting, and the more he gets the more he wants. If vou could see him just as he is, and where he is inevitably going, and how he is going there, yon would only pity him. He is one of the coming victims of de-' mentia paralytica—the prevalent ailm«nt among so many Wall street men.

TEflSTROUBLES OP TWO PEERS.

Aa Earl Seeking to get Rid of his Wife. Special Cable Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.

Mayfair, a new society magazine, will to-morrow publish the following paragraph: "Another celebrated case will be that of the gallant Earl of Euston, who will be the next Duke of Grafton. The Earl seeks to get rid of his wife. His contention is that the lady's first husband was alive when ,, she became Countess of Euston, isnow alive, and can be produced. His. appearance in the witness-box will be highly dramatic, for the lady has seen him and declares that she knows nothing about him. The approaching trial, will rival the Tichborne case and be' the sensation of che season."

The facts of the matter are these: Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy, eldest son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy, fell in love with a dubious woman known as "Kate Cook." She was handsome and styliBh in person, and her matured charms were quite sufficient to captivate the youth of 23. Unknown to his fa*her, who was equerry to the queen, he married her. Most chronicles of the peerage ignored the marriage. Others described the bride as the daughter of John Walsh and widow of "Mr. Smith."

In 1882 the bridegroom's social position changed. Lord Augustus Fitz- •, roy succeeded his brother as seventhf duke of Grafton, and Henry Fitzroy became earl of Euston. The widow of "Mr. Smith" became countess of Euston and the future duchess of Grafton. But troubles had already come between her and herhasband. They separated by mutual agreement. No fault being proved against the countess since her marriage, the earl in vain sought an excuse for divorce. The mysterious "Mr. Smith" has now appeared, and the excuse is found. If the case falls Kate Cook will be duchess of Grafton, and the title created for a mis-4 tress of a king will be borne by woman of the town.

U.,, ?*V Lincoln's Captain. Blue and Gray.

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Jack Williams waa a brave Sergeant of a regiment which, undrilled and undisciplined, had joined the Army of the Potomac just as the terrible campaign of 1864 began.

Before the army reached Peterslftttg Jack commanded his company, the captain and lieutenants having been killed. His gallantry was bo conspicuous that he was recommended for a captaincy in the regular army.

Ordered before an examining board at Washington, Jack presented himself. dressed in a soiled, torn uniform, with bronzed face and uncut beard.

The trim, dapper officers composing the board had never been under fire or roughed it in the field, but they were posted in tactics and in the theory of war.

Though shocked at Jack's unsoldierly appearance, they asked him all Bortsof questions about engineering, mathematics, ordnance, and campaigns. Not a single question could Jack answer. "What is an echelon?" aBked one of the board. "Don't know," answered Jack. "What is an abatis?" -3,, "Never saw one."&§ "A redan?" V* "You fellows have got me again," replied Jack. "Well, what is a hollow square, sir?" "Never heard of one before guess they don't have them down at the front, do they "What would you do, sir, if you were in command of a company, and cavalry should charge on you?" asked a lisping fellow in white kids. "Do, yon fool," thundered Jack "I would give them Hail Columbia— that's what I'd do."

This ended the examination and the report of questions and answers, with the adverse judgment of the board, was sent to President Lincoln*

His private secretary read the report to him, and, when he came to the only answer that Jack had given, the president said: J? "Stop! read that over again." "Tnat's just the sort of men our army wants!" said the president, taking the report and dipping bis pen in the inkstand. On the back of the paper he wrote in a clear hand:

Give this man a captain's commission, A. Ujicojun.

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A Chicago Man's Nose. There was a Chicago man who found out that he was not so peculiarly endowed by nature as he had supposed. An inch more than usual would proverbially be a great deal on a nose. This man had it, and in consequence he overrated his nasal importance. A test proved that it does not rendei him thrilling to the masses. He is a cigar maker by trade. Whenever he took his walkr abroad he was gazed at in amazement. "If I am to be looked on as a curiosity," he reasoned, "it would be better to make a lazy living with my abnormal nose. So he took his big feature to the manager of a ted-cent museum. "Very well," was, the offer which he received: "I'll do just the same by you that I do by the other new* freak. We can't tell what'll catch on with the public. You can have a place on the platform for week. If you make a failure, I'll give you five dollars. If you hit 'em, I'll fix a square, liberal salary." "But how'm I to know whether I hit 'em the amateur curiosity asked. "By seeing whether the folks stop to look at you. That's the test." The nose was not potent. What had been novel in private life was almost disregarded in a professional. The man has returned to his cigar bench. ?T" 1 "S

Slip a knitting needle into your pocket, says a well-known dairyman, and when you go to a meal dip it in the milk pitcher. If any of the milk adheres to the needle it is pure, but if it does not, the fluid is adulterated with water.

A Hebrew'maiden, of Scranton, Pa., having married an editor, her family publish the following announcement: "Gone and forgotten. We mourn the marriage of our sister, Justine Levy, to John Farr, as death,and disown her, for life."

Elder Roberts, who has charge of the headquarters of the Mormon church afeChattanooga, states that there are over sixty fire Mormon elders engaged in proselyting in all sections of the south, and the force will be doubled in May.

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a hotel-

keeper in Geneva, Switzerland, for extorting $50,000 from him. The felloWgot sick and couldn't get away from the house, and the landlord charged him all his conscience would allow.

Mr. Bergh is still nnmarried. What can he possibly know abont cruelty