Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1875 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Mbs. Tilton’s letter to Judge Neilson was made public on the 4th. In it she declares her innocence and claims to have been for five years past the victim of cruel circumstances. She says she would like to tell her whole story truthfully and acknowledge the frequent falsehoods C rung from her through compulsion. She assumes the responsibility of this request, and claims it was made without the slightest knowledge of friend or counsel of either side. Judge Neilson returned this letter to Mrs. Tilton with a note saying that he must decline to introduce it in the proceedings. A Paris correspondent of the London Times, in a dispatch published on the Sth, declares that uneasiness prevails in well-informed circles in France, and that a war between that power and Germany , is deemed probable. According to a London dispatch of the Sth over 8,000 persons had been converted in that city through the labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The Russian authorities have forbidden the importation into Finland or Russian territory of American potatoes. On the Sth Stephen P. Andrews testitifiod that William Orton, Whitelaw Reid, Benjamin F. Butler and others were in the habit of visiting Mrs. Woodhull’s residence while witness was living there in the summer of 1870. Witness often saw Mr. Tilton and Mrs. W. together, but never observed any undue familiarity between them. Witness testified that he was in one sense the author of the scandal article, although Mrs. W. composed the original, witness preparing it for publication; so far as he knew Mr. Tilton was entirely ignorant of the article, and was surprised when it appeared. Mrs. Martha A. Bradshaw contradicted a portion of Bessie Turner’s testimony, and Mr. John Wood, a printer, testified that the Woodhull scandal was put in type the last week in October. Henry C. Bowen testified that he knew the contents of Mr. Tilton’s note which he took to Mr. Beecher (and which witness says was delivered at the residence of Mr. Freeland), but that Mr. Beecher did notask him if he did; Mr. Beecher did not recommend witness to discharge Mr. Tilton from the Independent, but witness told him (Mr. Beecher) that he had canceled Mr. T.’s appointment as editor. Witness said there was no connection between the tripartite agreement and the payment to Mr. Tilton of the $7,000; witness was always willing to- arbitrate with Mr. T., and did not know that Mr. Beecher had anything to do with such arbitration; the arbitration was concluded on the 3d of April, 1872, and the tripartite covenant was executed on the 7th. The Connecticut Legislature organized on the sth by the election of the Democratic caucus nominees. - Gov. Bagley, ot, Michigan, has appointed Julia 8. Sutherland Commission er of Deeds for Michigan at Salt Lake City. According to a St. Louis dispatch of the sth Indian depredations in Western Kansas were apprehended. Government troops had been ordered to protect the settlers. The appearance of the cholera in the city of Baroda, India, was announced on the Bth. According to a Washington dispatch of the 6th Minister Cushing, in Madrid, had received from the Spanish Government the balance due on the Virginius indemnity, thus anticipating the payment several months. On the 6th Mr. Bowen in his cross-ex-amination adhered to his evidence given on the direct examination. An employe at Dehnonico’s testified that there was no restaurant on the upper floor at the time Woodleigh swore he saw Mrs. Woodhull and Tilton lunching there. Telegrams from Pottsville and Wilkesbanre, Pa., of the 6th state that the outrages by striking miners were on the increase, and there was no prospect of the strike ending for some time. The managers ot some of the mines had concluded to abandon the works by withdrawing the pumps. The Ohio State •'Democratic Convention occurs at Columbus on the 17th of June.

Judge Morrieses, of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, ~ in a late charge to the Grand Jury, reviewed the Civil-Rights law, and expressed the opinion that all persons have legal rights to equal privileges in hotels, public conveyances and other institution? of a public nature, while they do. not thereby acquire. any social rights. He instructed the Grand Jury to find a true bill against any person violating its provisions. In his late tour through some of the Southern States Vice-President Wilson was entertained by several prominent ex-Confederates, among them ex-Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. President Grant has signed the commission of J. M. G. Parker as Postmaster of New Orleans. Ben Hill has been elected to Congress from the. Ninth Georgia District to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garnett McMillan. The Bishop of Breslau has been expelled from Germany for violation oi the Ecclesiastical laws. The Prussian police nave lately received notices of plots against Bismarck and Minister Falk. A special staff has been formed for their protection. An American Methodist Church at Quickarg, in China, was lately destroyed by a Chinese mob. The Comptroller of the Currency has called upon the National Banks to make

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

a report to him of their condition at the close of business on the Ist inst. A national convention of bankers will assemble at Saratoga Springs, July 20. Owing to the absence of Messrs. Beach and Shearman, of the counsel, the Beecher trial adjourned on the 7th to the 10th. ' - . , William E. Sturtevant, who some months ago murdered three persons, was hanged at Plymouth, Mass., on the 7th. The trial of Sam Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) BgwWiean, for libeling Mr. Phelps, of Massachusetts, a prominent railroad President, by styling him “robber” Phelps, has been concluded and SIOO damages awarded. The claim was for $200,000. The father of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan died at his residence in Somerset, Ohio, on the 6th. A bold attempt to rob an express car on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad was made on ihe morning of the 7th. A discharged railroad conductor by ttie name of Binkley boarded the eastern-bound express at Lima, Ohio, and effected an entrance into the Adams Express car by sawing out the panels of the door. He wore a mask, and on entering the car fired two shots at Geo. H. Price, the express messenger, wounding him slightly. Price shot the would-be murderer and robber through the head, Killing him instantly. Ex-State Treasurer Rankin, of lowa, on trial at Des Moines on the charge of embezzlement, has been acquitted. Another cyclone visited Middle Georgia on the Ist, causing the killing of fifty persons, the wounding of many more, the destruction of a great quantity of live stock and numerous dwellings. The ravages of the cyclone were confined mainly tiTHarris, Talbot, Henry and Calhoun Counties.

Vice-President Wilson was brilliantly entertained at Nashville, Tenn., on the 7th, at the residence of Gen. E. W. Cole. The Kentucky Democratic State Convention completed its nominations on the 7th. The full ticket is composed as follows:’ For Governor, James B. McCreery; Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Underwood; Attorney-General, Thomas E. Moss; Auditor, D. Howard Smith; Treasurer, J. W. Tate. On the night of the 7th the Eagle line steamer Schiller, which sailed from New York on the 28th ult. for Hamburg, was totally wrecked on an outlying ledge of the Scilly Islands, about thirty miles from Land’s End, England. The ship was one-half mile out of its course, an error solely attributable to the prevalence of a dense fog. Of the 379 persons on board, 311 are known to have perished. Several prominent German citizens of Chicago, Milwaukee, Davenport (Iowa), and other Western and Southern cities were lost. On the Bth the Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 519 to 149, approved the ecclesiastical policy of the Government. A resolution was adopted on the Bth by the Belgian Chambers approving the recent correspondence with Germany. The bill for the suppression of religious orders in Germany has been read a second time without amendment, and the bill giving the old Catholics a share of the Catholic Church property passed —the latter by 202 to 75. The provincial authorities have been instructed to treat the giving of money to priests who have been subjected to legal penalties as a punishable offense. A Washington dispatch of the 9th says that the work on the new CustomHouse building in Chicago will have to be entirely overhauled and the building reconstructed from the foundation, entailing an additional cost of $1,000,000 and postponing the completion of the structure a year. The Postmaster-General recently issued an order carrying into effect the treaty for the formation of a general postal union concluded at Berne Oct. 9 last. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia has declined to find an indictment against Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, for libeling ex-Gov. Shepherd. An attempt was made by miners on the night of the 7th to burn the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge above Locust Gap. A new trial in the case of Early vs. Storey, of the Chicago Times, has been denied, the plaintiff consenting to accept $15,000 in lieu of the $25,000 awarded by the jury. The defense appealed to the Supreme Court. In another libel suit against Mr. Storey for stigmatizing a Chicago lawyer as a “ shyster” the jury returned a verdict of SSOO. John Bender, the Kansas murderer, lately imprisoned at Florence, Arizona, has again escaped. . T . >• Captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agency arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the Bth, and were placed in the guard-house.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cotton.—Middling upland, 16X016&C. Livestock.—Beef Cattie—slo,oool3,2s. HoggLive, $....©..’.. Sheep—Live (unshorn), $8.50© 8.00. BBEADarum.—Flour—Good to choice, $5.45© 5.75; white wheat extra, $5.85©6. 50. WheaV-No. 2 Chicago, $1.1901.21; No. 3 Northwestern, $1.1901.21; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.23)4 ©1.24. Rye—[email protected]. Barley—[email protected]. Corn —Mixed Western, 91 ©9l He. Oats—Mixed Western, 74'4@77c. Provisions.— Pork—New Mess, $21.90© 22.00. Lard—lsH©lsHe. Cheeee—lo©l6fcc. Wool.—Domestic Fleece, 48©60c. CHICAGO. Live Stock.—Beeves-Choice, $6.0006.25; good, $5.8006.(0* medium, $5.5005.75; butchers’ stock, $4.0005.50; stock cattle, $8.50© 5.00. Hogs—Live, $7.5009.00. Sheep—Good to choice (unshorn), $5.7506.50.

OUR AIM: TO FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MCfcNEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1875.

Pbovisionb.—Butter—Choice, 28©33c. Eggs— Fresh, 15©15fcc. Cheese-New York factory, 16)4 ©l7c; Western, 16©16)4c. Pork New Mess, >21.70021.75. Lard-*15.45®15.50. Bkbadbtutfs.—Flour—White winter extra, >[email protected]; spring extra, >4.7505.25. Wheat —Spring, No. 2, >1.04X01.06. Corn-No. 8, 74)4© 7434 c. O*te—No. 2, 62J4062%c. Barley—No. 2, >1.3201.33. Rye-No. 2, >I.O6©IJOT. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45©58c.; fleece, washed, 40©52c.; fleece, unwashed, 27©37c. Lumbbb.—First clear, >48.00©50.00; second clear, >[email protected]; Common Boards, >10.50© 11.50; Fencing, >12.00013.00; “A” Shingles, 28.0053.26; Lath, >2.0002.26. CINCINNATI. Brzadstutts. -Flour— }s.Bo©6.oo. Wheat—Red, [email protected]. Corn—77©Boc. Rye-|1.21©1J44. Oats-67® 70c. Barley-No. 2, ©1.8501.40. Pbovibioxs.—Pork—222-12%©22.25. Lard—ls ©l6c. ST. LOUIS. Lsrs Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, >5.650 6.15. Hogs—Live, >6.7508.25. Bbbamtotws.—Floor—XX Fall, >5.6005.80. Wheat—No. 2 Bed Fall, fMZ01.46. CornNo. % 74M075MC. Oate-No. 2,65065 KC. RyeNo. 1,>14801.10, Barley-No. 2, >1.35©L40. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, 222.00022.25. Lard -IN4OW4C. Milwaukee. BBBADSTtrm.— Flour—Spring XX, 24.9005.&). Wheat-Spring No. 1, >1.08©1.08X; No. 2, >144 01.0414- Corn—No. 2, 74074XC- Oats—No. 2, 62)4 ©63c. Rye—No. 1, >1.17©1.18. 2, 21.3001.85. .DETROIT. Bbkadstutts . Wheat Extra, >1.32)4©1.33. Corn-No. 1, 80@81c. Osts—No. 1,,66)4©67c. TOLEDO. * Bbxabbtutts.—Wheat—Amber Mich., >1.28)4 ©I4SM; No. 2 Red, >148M©1.29. CornHigh Mixed, 77©78c. Oats—No. 2, 67J4067)4c. CLEVELAND. Bmadstutfs—Wheat—No. 1 Red, >1.3214 ©1.33; No. 2 Red, >1.27‘4©128. Com—High Mixed, 77@78c. Oats—No. 1,68069 c. BUFFALO. Live Stock.—Beeves Live, >7.5008.50. Sheep—Live (unshorn), >6.50@ 7.00. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock.—Beeves—Best, >[email protected]; medium, >6.0006.25. Hogs Yorkers, >7.50© 7.80; Philadelphia, • >8.50©9.00. Sheep—Beat (unshorn), >5.50©6.75; medium do, 24-7505.75.

The Loss of the Steamer Schiller.

Nuw Yobk, May 8. The Eagle line steamship Schiller, Capt. Thomas, which sailed from New York April 28 for Hamburg, by way of Plymouth and Cherbourg, has been wrecked off the Scilly Isles. The steamer sailed from here with 149 cabin passengers. The Scilly Islands, a group of about 140 islets and rocks, lie off the . southwest coast of England, about thirty miles from Land’s End, and in latitude 50 north, longitude 6 wedt of Greenwich. The larger of the group are St. Mary’s, Tresco, St. Martin’s, Brechar, St. Agnes and Sampson. The aggregate area is 5,770 acres. The islands rise abruptly from a deep sea, in a limited circumference of thirty miles, Mid consist for the most part of solid, uninhabitable granite. In a few places the soil is sufficiently fertile to enable the few people who attempt existence there to raise small crops of rye, oats, barley, etc. The chief means of subsistence, however, are fishing and the manufacture of kelp. The location has always been a dangerous one for shipping, and many horrible wrecks have taken place in the vicinity. A large light-house rests on the little Island St. Agnes, but has often proved an inefficient protection. One of the noted disasters which have been caused by these islands was the sinking of three line-of-battle ships, under Sir Cloudesley Shovel, on the 22d of October, 1707. London, May 9. The following additional particulars of the disaster have been received: A heavy fog prevented observations on board the Schiller since Tuesday. In consequence of the fog the engines were put at half speed and sail reduced at nine o’clock Friday night. At ten o’clock the same night the ship struck the ledge. Great panic prevailed. Capt. Thomas is highly praised for his conduct during the terrible scenes which followed. Two boats were filled with men, who refused to come out. The Captain fired his revolver over heads to drive them out, and then fired at them, but without effect. Afterward the ship was washed with her broadside to the sea, and all on board these boats perished. The tackle at the stern was released too soon, leavr ing the boats suspended by the bows. Three boats then got away. One, a lifeboat, was so badly injured that she sunk, and eleven of the people on board were rescued by other boats. The fog lifted an hour after the steamer struck, and the lights were plainly visible. Two of the boats on the steamer were crushed by the falling of the funnel. Rockets and guns were fired from the steamer until the powder became W»t. The deck, which was crowded with people, was swept away at two a. m. The Captain gathered some of the survivors on the bridge. All were gradually swept away by the flood tide, which took the doctor and Captain last. The rigging which remained above water was crowded with passengers and * crew all night. The mainmast fell ht 7:30 a. m., and, being of iron, sunk with all who had taken refuge on it. The foremast gave way soon afterward. The lifeboats and wreck stuff saved the lives of some who drifted miles away. One man was rescued after being in the water ten hours. Two boats from BL Agnes arrived a short time before the masts fell. They were unable to approach the steamer on account of the shoals, but picked up stragglers in the water. r The passengers say Capt. Thomas left the bridge at three a. m. to assist those on deck, and when he reached the deck was ?wept away by a heavy sea. All concur in saying that he exercised the greatest care, and was not abed for five nightaprevious to the disaster. The sea began to break over the vessel half an hour after she struck, and the tide rose twenty-five feet before daybreak. Only one woman was saved. The survivors who were landed at Tresco escaped in the Schiller’s own boats. A special dispatch from London on the 9th to the New York Herald says the total number of lives lost is 811. Of these over 100 are women. The special says: “ The survivors were taken to-day from Penzance to Plymouth, whence they will be sent forward to Hamburg, where there is the greatest excitement. It is asserted that life-saving belts were issued to the women. It is certain that most of the passengers found none. An

order was given that the first boat should take the women and chiMnen. This boat capsized. Paleman says seven boats were launched and only two livgd. The others were staved and swamped immediately. The cries for help lasted until three o’clock. The last voice heard was that of a little child in the cabin. It is not probable that the boats could have lived even if they had been successfully filled. The whole number saved is for-ty-four. Thirty bodies have been recovered.”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

William Snyder and his wife, of New Castle, are having a divorce suit, in which the latter claims 210,00tthlimony. Thj Tippecanoe Bounty Agricultural As •ociation have offend 27,000 in premiums to be distributed at the next annual fair. The Terre Haute JFzprm finds consolation in the fact that for twelve blessed months there will be no election to disturb or annoy. Virgil Fleming, a young man of Perry County, was caught by a falling tree, the other day, and instantly killed. His neck was broken and his breast crushed in. One Shank, a Henry County insurance agent, the Indianapolis Journal says, has stepped down and out, owing large sums to the companies he represented. James Carb, a farmer Bring near the bridge across White Rivet, which was burned about three months ago, has been arrested upon the charge of being the incendiary. The Prairie City, one of the best steamers on the Wabash, was burned while lying at the wharf in Terre Haute, with part of a cargo of grain. Total loss about >15,000. At Evansville, the other day, Dr. Hiram W. Cloud, an eminent chemist and a most estimable citizen, died from the effects of chloral taken on his own prescription to relieve a nervous attack. His death has cast a general gloom over the city. Sallie Taylob, of Evansville, had a presentiment that something would happen to her brothers, who were in the saloon business at Vincennes, and wrote a note jorging them to come home. Louis, the elder, fell dead of heart disease, and the note was found in his pocket. An unsuccessful attempt was lately made to rob the County Treasurer’s office in Perry County. The safe door was blown open, but the robbers failed to get into a small apart, ment where the money of the county, some 215,000, was safely stowed away. It was a botch job, antikhe burglars must have been greenhorns in the business. This is the third attempt to rob the same safe.

On the morning of the sth the Crescent Coal Company’s shaft, located on the South Branch, three miles below Brazil, was burned by an incendiary. Work had been resumed in the mine. Shortly after work began the strikers Inade a descent on the workmen and endeavored to persuade them A* quit the works. The proprietors of the mine ordered the strikers off the premises, and next day the shaft was burned. William White, a grinder in a plow factory at Evansville, was the victim of a singular accident a few days ago. He had left his grindstone for a moment, and was standing on a plank one end of which passed under the grindstone, when the stone burst, one large section striking the plank with snch force that White was thrown to the ceiling by the concussion, and, falling to the floor, had his collar bone-broken, several teeth knocked out, and his face and body badly bruised. Gov. Hendricks, on behalf of the Trustees of Purdue University, has interviewed the President touching the appointment of some competent military official who shall have charge of military instruction in the Purdue University. It was also asked that a Government signal station be put up at the university and that this official shall have charge of it also. The President favored the movement, but said it was only in the power of Congress to grant the request. Upon the assembling of Congress the matter will be brought before it. A young fellow named Mechallas Shannaberger was in Indianapolis a few days ago on a tour pf observation around the world. He left his home in Poland in June with but one dollar and a half in his possession, and has since visited London and New York, putting up at first-class houses, and leaving when his credit was exhausted. In all his travels he has done no work and has fared better than those who lack the sublime quality of cheek which he possesses in so eminent a degree. • The Richmond Independent has discovered unmistakable signs of the approaching millennium. The lion has not been observed to lie down with the lamb, but something equal to it has happened. A white cat with four young kittens set up housekeeping in a box where there happened to be two young rats. Instead of devouring them, as would have been natural, she adopted them, and afforded them the same nourishment that she supplied to the kittens. One of the kittens and one of the rats died. Yesterday, says the Independent, -we called to see the happy family, and found the three kittens and the-rats “tugging away” at the maternal fount. The mother cat bestowed frequent caresses upon her little ones, and the rat came in fo£ a full, share. It seemed to -enjoy the “ love lick,” and responded in as affectionate mannet as possible for a rat. After all, as a matter of prudence, that young rat had better move before his tail gets too long.

Postal Changes.

The following postal changes in Indiana were made during the week ending May 1,1875: . Discontinued—Red Brush, Warrick County. Postmasters Appointed—Emmettsville, Randolph County, Samuel Bretch; Andersonville, Franklin County, Wm.,J. Scott; Arcadia, Hamilton County, James M. Russell; Arcana, Grant County, Absalom Thomison; Ball Hill,- Carroll County, Wm. Kobe!; Belden, Wabash County, Miss Susan Shaw; Bowser, Blackford County, James R. Roberts; Chandler, Warrick County, Samuel Alexander; Clinton, Vermillion County, Thomas H. Allen; Dyer, Lake County, J. J. McCoy;Glenwood, Rush County,John C. Ochiltree; Hector, Jay County, George Fremyer; Howesville, Clay County, John G. Crawford; Mills Corners, Jay County, George T. Williams; Rigdon, Madison County, Zachariah Parish; Shannondale, Montgomery County, Wm. Custer; Steam Corner, Fountain County, Joseph H. O’Rear. r

BOOK FOR ALL. BYH. CLAY PBEUBB. Mew build up their worlds like poor, blinded moles, co With just room enough for their own narrow souls. ’Tis plain to their minds that black is not - white, And there’s only one line ’twixt the wrong and the right Firmly believing their creeds to be true, They wonder that others don’t think as they do. In the ages agone they tortured each other, And forced down their creeds in the throat of a brother. They forgot, in mechanics, no two clocks will strike Throughout all the hours precisely alike; That our species, like clocks, are of different kinds, And mankind are fashioned with various minds. Ah! ’tis a great truth to learn—a prize, if you win it—- “ There’s room in the world for all that is in it.” This life is a play, where each human heart, To make the denouement, must act out its part. If all men, like sheep, should follow one waj, Then life would, indeed, be a very poor play. ’Tis the law of our being most pointedly shown, That each man must live out alife of his own. Ah! be not too rash to judge of another, But ever remember that man is your brother. God made the owl see, where man’s sight is dim, And the light that guides you may be darkness to him. Tis a great truth to learn—a prize if you win it—- “ There’s room in the world for all that is in it” Our mission on earth is well understood: To root out the evil and cultivate good. Down, deep in the innermost depths of the . soul, A voice ever sings of a far-distant goal; And it whispers so soft; like a faint muffled breath, There’s something within us that’s stronger than death! That souls are but sown in this hard, earthly clod, To blossom and bloom in the garden of God. Oh, brothers! there’s only one God for us all, But his voice unto each makes a different call. Some see him in rags, as Jesus of old; Some mitred, and blazing in purple and gold. Ah! let us not proudly monopolize right Nor demand of a brother to see with our sight. ’Tis a great truth to learn—a prize if you win it—- “ There’s room in the world for all that is in it” —Georgetown Courier.

MRS. MONTGOMERY’S HEIR.

BY 8. ANNIE FROST. “So you have refused my nephew!” Mrs. Ambrose Montgomery looked severely at the young girl who was calmly tying her bonnet strings before her mirror. She was a severe old lady, very wealthy, about whom fluttered poor relations innumerable. Edna Sergeant might have counted as one of these, being certainly very poor, though people were apt to say of her, “ proud as Lucifer himself.” “ Yes, Aunt Lucille, I refused to marry Walter Templeton. Since he seems to have told you, I suppose there is no impropriety in my doing the same.” “May I ask your reasons?" “ Certainly! I want my husband, if I ever have one, to be a man, filling a man’s place in the world, doing a man’s duties. I will never be the wife of a lazy dandy who dawdles through life, waiting for a possible fortune.” “ Your cousin is very useful to ms.” “ Doubtless. But Ido net need anyone yet to put my footstool for me, fetch me a shawl, feed my poodle and run my errands.” “Oh!” “ I want my husband to work for me at a man’s work of brain and hands.” “Upon my word! You had better marry a mechanic. But pray take him away from here if you do. I want no low fellow claiming kinship with me. I should think when these plebeian ideas come into your mind, Miss Sergeant, it would be well for you to remember the rfact that you can trace your descent direct from the Pilgrim Fathers!” “ I am not likely to forget that fact, Aunt Lucille, hearing it everyday. By the way, auntie, do >ou suppose if our noble ancestors, the Pilgrim Fathers I mean, were to present themselves in your drawing-rooms that you would resognize them? I imagine them, in their common clothes, holding by shabby Wives with babies in their arms, homeless, exiled, coming suddenly upon you. I can hear you now telling John to put those ‘ horrid low people’ out of the house.” “ You are pleased to be sarcastic," was the cool reply. “ I can value my ancestors if you are incapable of doing so. I hope your ideal husband may appear. In the meantime I think yon are but one remove from an idiot to refuse Walter, a ‘perfect gentleman and my probable heir!" ~ “Perhaps! I will come to-morrow and finish your dress.” And so saying Edna wrapped her shawl about her and departed. For this girl, sharing with her mother an exceedingly Blender income, the legacy of her long-dead father, utilized a ready needle and exquisite taste by sewing for her relatives. Her mother would have fainted with horror had anyone suggested to her that her daughter was a dressmaker. But dear Edna, she admitted, helped her more prosperous relatives with their sewing, omitting to add that said relatives put a sufficiently small pecuniary acknowledgment into Edna’s purse. The girl herself, a superbly handsome brunette, rebelled mentally every hour of

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her life against all this pretense. Proud to her heart’s core, she had no mean shrinking from facing the truth that she was poor and obliged to work for money; but the prejudices of her rich aunt the affections of her helpless, fine-lady mother must be respected, and so she worked for half pay and secrecy when she might have won an honest living as an acknowledged dressmaker. When Walter Templeton asked her to be his vfife some of this long-pent-up irritation at the false life forced upon her found vent in her refusal of his suit She half -regretted the sarcasms she had poured out upon his position when she saw his dejected face and the expression of hurt amazement there. “ After all,” she thought when he left her, “ the poor fellow is not so much to blame. He has been under Aunt Lucille’s thumb ever since he was a mere boy, brought up upon small doses of common sense and vast ones of Pilgrim Fathers, blue blood and the degradation of honest labor. But I won’t marry him! I get enough of the family failing without going to live with Aunt Lucille, one more hanger-on. I earn all she gives me, that’s one comfort. Any dressmaker would charge twice as much as she will pay me to make that black velvet” Yet when she came day working busily at the fall seWißjfbf her rich aunt, she missed the courteous attentions of her cousin. Truly Aunt Lucille had spoken when she said Walter Templeton was a perfect gentleman. His manner was the perfection of good breeding, with deferential courtesy for all womankind, and a most fascinating deference for one woman he loved. Stung by the bitter emphasis of Edna’s refusal, the contemptuous sarcasm of her reasons, he withdrew from her presence, seldom coming .to the room, where he had read to his aunt while she sewed. Truly Edna had defined his position in that mental retrospect she had taken. He had been his aunt’s plaything in his boyhood, a Jiandsome lad full of talent and promise. When he attained riper years he was sent to school, to college, and, graduating there, was put into the position of a dutiful nephew to an aunt who openly proclaimed him her heir. Courted in society, his aunt’s favorite, with ample means at his ready command, his own idea of his course of life was that it was far superior to that of common men. Thoroughly imbued with his aunt’s pride, he rather scorned the idea of labor of any kind until he loved Edna.

By the light of that love he felt uneasily that she scorned the money he toOk freely, unless she earned it first. More than once he had known of her proud refusal of any gift for which her nimble fingers had not given a full equivalent. He loved her first for her beauty, then for the nobler attributes of mind and heart she certainly possessed, though she screened them well with her sarcastic pride. Gradually, indeed unconsciously, she had sheathed the weapons she kept at command, her pungent wit, her keen satire, when her Cousin Walter was by. She let herself be interested when he read, and spoke freely when they discussed literature or art. Mrs. Montgomery looked well pleased. It was one of her pet schemes to leave her wealth divided between Walter and Edna as man and wife, and' she encouraged intimacy with all her heart, hiding her satisfaction under her usual curt manner. • Partly from her hints, partly, it must be confessed, from his own sense of superiority, Walter had a settled conviction that he was conferring an honor when he offered his hand to Edna, a hand that would lift her to his side in the affluence of his aunt’s favor. So the first spur that drove him from her presence was certainly mortified vanity. More reasonable motives came later. The fall sewing was completed, when, with that unreasonable perversity that falls often to the lot of the most favored mortals, Mrs. Montgomery was obliged to have it all renewed in mourning for her only sister, Edna’s mother. It. was »“ dreadfully provoking,” of course, the more so as Edna, really loving the peevish invalid who had been her care for years, could not attend to the sewing. She sorrowed sincerely for many weeks, and then, to Mrs. Montgomery’s infinite disgust, accepted a position as companion to an invalid lady and went abroad. “ I suppose,” her aunt said, when it was too late, “ if Ihad offered you a salary with a home you would have come when I asked you.” And Edna frankly admitted that she would. So over the ocean she carried her sorrows and her pride, the one* fairly stifled for the time under the weight of the others. For she missed her mother, she found her new duties uncongenial and confining, and she grieved for Walter’s love. She did not regret her decision, knowing the uncertainty of riches. She saw no future of usefulness before him if, at at the end, his aunt disappointed his expectations. She knew him for a man who could turn his brain or hands to no purpose in life, and for-this she despised him as a mere dandified puppet of her aunt’s. Yet in the heart-hunger of her new life she thought often of the glorious capabilities of her young cousin. She knew he had a mind clear and strong—full of power to grasp any intellectual pursuit. She knew him patient, kind of heart, strong of purpose when once aroused, and it fretted all the grander attributes of her nature to think of the waste of such a manhood, .

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For what was het A walking tailor’s advertisement, a charming partner in a dance, a courteous gentleman, a willing servant to his aunt. No more ! Yet when Edna wandered with her new mistress over the Old World, enjoying with keen zest the intellectual, artistic and musical treat spread before her, she turned mentally to Walter for congenial pleasure. When the vapid praise or weak criticism ot the fashionable invalid was poured into her ears, she wondered how Walter’s clear brain would have viewed the same object. Her home memories were not very pleasant ones to her soul, full of sordid cares, of mean shifts, of shallow pretense, and she rested upon those of her Cousin Walter, floating upon them to rosy dreamlands till stung to life again by the fact of her rejection of his hand and her reasons for that step. Viewed through the medium of this rose-haze of memory she softened to her discarded lover, thinking of the chivalry of his wooing, the unselfishness of his love. She knew well that Mrs. Montgomery’s heir might have chosen a bride amongst the wealthiest; that Walter’s handsome face, undoubted tai. ente and courtly manners would have won him true love among the most fastidious. And yet he had turned from all these to choOse her, a penniless girl, whose education was, for the most part, self-imparted, who was quick-tempered and unpopular. In spite of her beauty, she knew well that she often owed it to Walter and his efforts that she was not a wall-flower in social gatherings. He loved her, and she had shut her heart to his love. She did not regret that home of luxury he could have commanded for her, the probable fortune she would have shared with him, but in her bitter loneliness she hungered for the sound of his tender voice, the love of his pleading eyes. For four years she wandered hither and thither across the Old World at the caprice of her employer. Then a lawyer’s letter informed her of her Aunt Lucille’s death, and her own inheritance of $30,000 and a superbly-bound copy of the “’Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers,” Mrs. Montgomery’s one literary effort, being a collection ot all her own cuttings upon the subject. She was glad to go home again, glad to end her uncongenial bondage. At the steamer’s arrival her Cousin Walter met her. There was a new beauty upon his* handsome face—the beauty of purpose, of a noble content. He had a hack in waiting and drove first to a hotel for breakfast. In the private parlor where it was served he told her: “ Edna, I want to thank you!” “ Thank me!” she said, wondering. “ For awakening me from a slothful dream to an object in life. Do you know how I have spent the last four years?* “With Aunt Montgomery, have you not?” “ Certainly. I would not desert her in old age when I was certainly a comfort to her. But I studied medicine, won a diploma, and have now a practice. It is large, Edna, but not very lucrative, being among the very poor for the most part. But I have found what you told me I lacked, cousin—a purpose in life, a field for labor where I hope I am not altogether useless.” “I congratulate you with all my heart,” she said, impulsively, holding out both hands. - “ I want more that that, Edna. Your words opened my eyes to my own waste of life; but, though I find my time busily filled, my heart wants something more. Edna, all the old love there cries out for you. Can you love me a little now?” “ Not a little,” she said in a low voice, her cheeks flushing rosily, “ but with my whole heart, Walter.” “ Then wiH you grant me my hope and be married here and now, coming to my old home as my wife, to help me in the life-work to which your words guided me?” And Edna, loving him, granted his wish, and in his old home proves, as he hoped, a true wife and helpmate in his noble works of charity and usefulness. — Hearthand Home. ,

How He Made Himself at Home.

“Make yourself at home” is a common form of hospitable welcome, but the invitation may be awkwardly taken advantage of if our friend happens to be odd. The Nashville Banner says: The eccentric “Brother Carr,” whose name has become a household word in many families in this city, once paid an informal visit to a good, religious family, as he was in the habit of doing when he came to Nashville. The lady of the house came In, but after some time excused herself to attend to some household duty, but begged Brother Carr to lhake himself at home. When she returned she found the reverend gentleman on his knees in front of the fireplace, taking up the ashes. Perfectly taken back at this spectacle, she said: “Why, what in the world are yon doing?” He answered: “You told me to make myself at home; and if I were at home and the ashes needed taking out as badly as yours, I would do it myself.” She was not much comforted to find that he had been down in the back yard and had hunted up an old ash-pan with *8 much idea of being at home as she could have possibly desired. A Yankee editor says: “If the party who plays the accordion in this vicinity , at nights will only change his tune occasionally, or sit where we can scald him when the engine has steam on, he will bear of something to his advantage.”