Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 May 1880 — Page 3
WEEKLY COURIER.
C. IlOANK. lHtIMi.r.
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nut soLDixrs xkprikvb. MV 111 I ' HlrtHH4 H," m bk vo;oelt tMlvered wh phIb, White Ike tear w idrtwly dropping On M tremMw (hU Ilk mm. m ft KM wh h Wave whI teyal, Si true: ItUl iwy eve are dim, I nMrt read the tetter, The 1 HM Jtet fRMM h'(. PteaH" red ti Kir, white I li-MWi In fa I hlm-dead; Mv Hft dowa I ke h traitor. My Hte, ' nsir - ltear fat-wr," run the tetter, Ta-momiw when twIIUht wwj Atomftke hill to the churchyard, ovrihetfiave where mother teep, WlHHI the lH(ky HhWhWH (WttHT, THy'H lay your boy Ih 614 itrave, r,r marly In too line the country ' HttwikKlvi(hteHfBtiHve. And, ta.her, I tell ymi only, WtiU HiHMHt iiy latest breath, TkatyoMrlytowitatrnlir, TmHHCh he Hea h t ' death. -"You remember I ten ale Wtkjon? ltV filtered dtwl of nam. Hrt w on.y MmU day mtU'ml Iwck into the ranks attain. I i-arrled nil of hi liWfCjfi , , With mine. " the mareh that day; I ve h hi v arm to le ih on. flie be had dropped by the way, Twa Iteuule turn to Iw mntry; Hut I to k hH tdaee, and I Father, I iImmwI iwkp. and won I must d. w traitors iIIp." "Th Colonel I kind and thoughtful, lit! h tUHHJ tltu l.-t he CHH, Awl they will not Wiwl or blind me 1 ?U Het ilt-Mth like a hmh. Kli mite IMt-swntt lait, fa'her, Need you Ml her how I rail."' A hI f rom the sh idowed corner Vw, IMomoih bad heard It Hll. A ehe kKed the prwsiou tetter, Sim ld, with rn.terln breath: " Our rivl wh ms'-er a tniHor. 1-homth h He h traitor's UeRtk." Awl a Mttte (tun-Un)wn mnMeH.
Ih H!4Mol'y, tlmt-woni tlrtA, IfHtk hr MHt m llf hour Ulir Ih iheemwdetl (ilKhtt'Xi'rti". TH cwtoeKir toeanl her story A l e heM her ilitHlel hwl. Ami !uihel for th mI he itti lneklfHC All ovt tbo tnmtlel 1m1. lit. ienterly wIihmI the teardrops. Krow th I4u e ItrlmwlH o r, Ah'I KWrO4 her fotftlet? Mtety Tilft re!hel the White Hotwedoor. The I'reoMent wit t his wrltmir: Hut th eyes were kind awl ihIW Tht tnrlwl with UhK of wonder On tfco Mttle fyfet chM. Awl he red Fred's fMrewell letter, With h look or ihiI regret. T m Irt-Hve, youiw Hre." he murmured, '.wd hlcwntry nee' him yet, FriM an honored tie In Imttle I1 yhMll l)ld the worhl jrooMy. If that lrve ytmiMf lire l neetletl, He ihU litem hcro4 dte.' courtship v rnoxr.
Ishkku," shhI the doftcon's wife. I
mn wif, imWiHjf nut kr kml to kwap
mtt iroiu rMMiur; " hhi! whtM L mw your
MM SHHWI Iriltnj( IH Ml th gHt I iMHl to myself tkuL's mn markiHi m tokn m
KHlwKiih Ml the well, with the tlU;her
oh her HltooMttr. I hvn't tlm sroM
mrriRgA hiuI brtM.'lU to oJTr you, but I hnve mU the rw," shBKllml, htughinf Htrvo4wly. Jwt how the (1nw!Oh ofHie in. Now tlierH h in tint opinion of his wif hut one reiuMin why Denc-on Slmukulforil d'wlH't umke the world. He fouml it Hlruitdy tntule. And when lie ceme in lie lookiMl up to him an though Atlns hnd conuj, Hiid slid uould wtfely drop the wortd on Im shoulder Hud so oh'
picking xoldeu Kpples. I whh just speaking good word for Mr. Ilrodheed to Bella, Deacon," sid she.
"Alii hiui wiiat tlooe lJellasiivf" ro-
turnwl the duncon, looking hs though it were h question of investing in roal
ostetc, or the price of gold. " ISuIIh doennH y "anythin"," I re
plied, "(Jertainly not before she is
asked." I " You nncd not wait lonjpj, if that is 1 all," answered iJeaeon Shackelford. I'll ask you now. Have y ui any objection to an oiler of marriage from ilr. Hrodhead? There!" 44 He U a very bashful man, Mr. Brodhoad is. Be'la, and so he got us to help him a little. Why he is in love with you," interposed "Mrs Deaoou Shackelford; "hois in love with you down to
his boots." "Let it run out of his toes, then," said I, beginning to feel like new yoast. But you can't have anything against tho man." persisted Mrs. Doacon. "And think! after awhile you won't have your grandfather and your Aunt SiMtmnah to talk to. and you will miss
it if you don't have somebody in their
place. It is best to uuntc oi iiiese things. And you won't Hnd a kinder man, if j'ou (search the world over with a was candle, than Mr. Brodhead." "Mr. Hrodhead is well enough, Mrs. Shackelford. I don't deny that. But tho idea of making a proposal of this sort through middle men!' It is too absurd!" 1 said, laughing, and put on my hat. So L went home to my classes in em
broidery and drawing, and wax workto making Aunt S'annah's caps and rrandfather'a coffee. Mv lifo Wa8 full
of monotonous work in those days; and
sometimes I had a stransce, uncomiort
able imnrussion of a machine wound
up and running without any act of its
own.
One evening when I was putting away the silver after supper, and fcelinsr the creak and crank of the wheels
more than usual, as though the machine
"wi.KKiV-i needed oiling, the front gate slammed, knew by thaUhe hadn t heard a word I .long up the walk. lsl luxott savin-. .... 1 .
"L Kiioweu some uuu iu iuiihu I've knowed all dav some one was talk-
ing of coming," said Uitty runen, wno. " to accommodate," as she often told
liail Iwi'H saviiir.
" Whv, ye." I repeated, a good deal diwxmraged, lor I saw I nnwt begin again at the very beginning, " she is more tlian a hitndwl years old, and entirely destitute. Yethe did not complain of anything but the cold. She was formerly a 4ave in Kentucky, but somehow strayed away up here, and how has outlived everybody that ever belonged to her. If I could manage to get her in the Colored Woman's Homo for the reet of her life I should be glad. But as she isn't a resident of the city, it will be necessary to pay her board. A dollar a week, Mrs. Uoyt thinks it
is. Certainly, that would be the best thing to be done," replied Mrs. Deacon, waking up a little. "Still I don't know what we can do until we have called a meeting of the Soeietv." That was much like her! If the vestry had been on fire she would have stopped to call a meeting of the Society before she would have ventured to throw on a dipper of water. " But the tvoor creature is freezing and starring," said I, impatiently. Can't von, as President of the Society, empower me to give her at least one of those woolen saoks we have on hand?" " I don't know but I might go as fr as that, though I suppose it isn t exactly in order." returned the deacon's wife.
leaning back in her chair, and smoothing the table cover between her thumb and finger. , She seemed to be meditating, so I waited for a minute, and thea she said, abruptly: , " What do you think of Mr. Brodhead. Bella?" , . "There! I shouldn't wonder if he would give something handsome!" I exclaimed, going down on my knees in mv heart to the deacon's wife for ray injustice. He is a man of means and a generous man, I've always heard.' The deaoon'a wife look puxxletl. " Oh! your old colored woman!" said she, directly. "I wasn't thinking about her; I was thinking of you. Mr. Brodhead hae a very high opinion of you,
Bella. Did you know itr' " What do you mean, Mrs. Shackelford?" said I, as surprised as though the man in the moon had winked at me, for my friends all knew how I detested such talk. And lwsidos, I never considered Mrs. Shackelford that sort of a woman. Her attention was usually centered in the Sewing Society and her flower garden. , . But for once some other idea had taken possession of her mind, and as her thought always ran ia grooves, she never could harbor more than one " Mr. Brodhead is a nice man. and finedooking man," she said, looking at m sliarnlv. "A man of means and a
generous
i
reallv loved our minister's wife, I al
ways felt a nM of guilt, and Never at home with her.
But it seemed it was not that I had
1hh late at church or ahiit from the Sewing Society thkt timt. Neither had
1 a bow too many or a now too iw on my Sunday bonnet. Wore, though; Mr. Brodhead had been to her. "My dear," she liegan, as sweet and as cold and as stiff as a dish of froxen uutitard, " I want to have a serious talk with you on a serious subject, and perlmiw I niHV an well sav at once, Mr.
Brodhead hag solicited the good offices of Mr. Corliss and myself between you and hinnelf. He seems to be a very earnest admirer, but a very diffident one. What should you say to the idea of entertaining a proposal of marriage from him?" " I couldn't think of such a thing for a moment, Mrs. Corliss. I have no expectation or wish ever to marry any one," said I, feeling very much annoyed.
Mrs. Corlise sighed severely. "Mar
riage is a uivmeiy-appoinieu institu
tion," said she, "and not to be lightly
set aside without due consideration and
prayer. You are not now prepared to give a filial answer to so important a matter. It comes upon you suddenly. Take time, my dear friend, to think it
over carefully, prayeriuuy, and wuu a view to what is your duty." Mrs. Corliss shut her lips tight, as though to keep her toeth in, and then kissed me good-night a soft, clammy kiss, which made me feel as though I wanted a lump of sugar. Accordingly. I went in the house and ate one. and thought no more about .Mr. Brodhead for a month and a day. At the end of that time Aunt Kent asked me to go down and do up her caps, Aunt Kent was a dear, good old
lady, who lived in a little yellow and white cottage at tho end of the grave
yard, where her husband and seven
children were lying ia one paineuc row, under the bods of heart's-ease and
forget-me-nots. But when they went
he adopted all tho world into her
warm, motherly heart. So though she lived alone, with a little cream-colored
greyhound, she had a large family, and
wnoever was sick, or sorry, or uuuuj , went to her, as well as whoevor wished
for sympathy m health and gladness.
Dear Aunt lonu wnen i went in
there she was knitting a checked sock for young Mrs. Cables first Imby, with such a look of peaceful repose on her
face that one would be willing to go
over tho same weary path of suffering.
if it should lead at last into such aland
of rest.
" I don't know when I've felt sori w .-lil.d
ncr, saiu sue, wnen l was sumuu v my work by her side, " than I did for somebodv who came to me last week in
lovu affair. He w a man of whose
no like a field 111 v. right out of the
5 row ltd, and he stood with his eyes ropped shyly as a girl's, and hU handsome lips trembling. 1 pitied him almost as much m Aunt Kent had done. "It will kill me if I don't speak; and it will kill me if 1 do and you don't listen," said he, throwing out his words in jerks, like water running from a straight-necked bottle, and looking suddenly at me with such pathetia feeling in hw great brown eyes that I begaH to feel abashed. For what was I that he shoal- Iw so stirred by me? "Yeu couldn't oare any for me, I
suppose?" said Mr. Brodhead, humbly. "PerkapsI might, I don't know," I renlled. almost involuntarily.
"Dear me!" But a love story sounds so different when a man tells it
himself. And o. rrentlv. it was I who trem
Idad and east down my eyes and
blushed: and it was Mr. Brodhead
who looked as though he was master
of the whole world and tne stars oe-
Aunt Susannah, waiting behind the
woodbine window, thought I was eath
. . . . . t .
ering lieros to siook. a puarmacy, ui the sun had dropped behind the ce
dars on the top of Mount Margaret when I went home with Mr. Brodhead by my side, my hands empty, but my heart full. Yos. we are ensraced. and are to be
married two weeks from next WodnediiV. And the moral of mv story is
this ;
A. r In MS
"II you want your uihiumm uuuv, gu,
il not, send." .xcmihqc.
HUMOROUS.
us, had kindly consented to rule over .... i t
our Kiicnen aim us wun ruu ui wmu
(in the form of a crutch.)
as uuiv liau uu iiuuiu, uu iijuuc),
and only one foot of her own, but as wood as four cars and two tongues. It
inhrht seem sometimes that the accom
modation was two-sidod. However,
things are not what they seem.
" i knowed t was Mr. Corliss'." pur
sued Gftty, triumphantly, as grandfather opened the door and disclosed the figure of our minister and his wife. "I
nan tell his step as far off as I can hear
it. Did vou ever notice his eves?" she
continued. "Thev look like two holes
burned in a blanket. And ho holds his head just like Deacon Shackelford's old white horse." And then she disappeared into the kitchen with her crutch and the cat, while Aunt Susannah put in her teeth,
nut on her black silk apron, and went
ivitU her mnotinip t en into the parlor.
When I followed her soon after, I found W tlkinr in as steadv a flow as Uie
waters came down at'Lodore, to Mrs. rnriUa. who sat bv the -woodbine win
dow, with hands folded in black netted mitt across her lap. and her tea-colored
curls shaking their heads, as it were, at tlw world and its vanities: while grand
father, who had been senior deacon for fifty years, and who had no idea even the church edifice could stand without him, was already in deep discussion
with Mr. Corliss upon tne question then absorbing and disturbing us, as to whether our Sabbath School should hereafter be called a Sunday School. " I can never consent to have a religious organisation known by a heathen name," grandfather was saying, as I heard him say half a hundred times before. And Mr. Corliss, with his serene white head bent toward him. was thinking how he could braid in one the fossilised fathers and the versatile sons of the ohurcli. . . , . , K t liurn was notlnnr for mo to do
but to sit anil smile and listen; for irmndfather and Aunt Susannah were
not the persons to yield the lloor when U u-iia once theirs bv priority.
"Mr. Corliss, is it not time for us to go?" said Mrs. Corliss, at early starrising, with her measured dignity. "Certainly, my dear," replied Mr. Corliss, rising at once, with his head
still bent to CRicn graauiaiHoi a sentence. " Bella, pnt on your hat and walk out with us a little way. It Is a charming evening," said Mrs. Corlies, turning to .mo after taking a ceremonious leave
of Aunt Susannah. nt rwvnr I went for my hat.
think of insisting
k V
I l. iff cls Biinn
law alinllt mi. " , ? l .1.
mv cliau-1 aluMlt TMM.
" Oh! don't you go yet, Bella. I wa wanting to see you, and I consider your dropping In quite providential. The deaeon and I were talklag of oa ling on you this very evening," said the dea-
Mrs. Corlkw. Or so I supposed then. But 1 trembled in my heart, and began in mv miml all mv little
over-dones and under-donen. She hail such a Lady Superior way that, though
love anv woman might be proud, but
he is so full of humility and sclt-distrust that he doesn't even ifare open the subject to the young woman herself. And
1 don't KUOW out, ll Will cost mm m life. He savs he is sure it would if she should refuse him, and I guess he is sure
about it."
In an instant Mr. Brodhead flashod
into my mind, and my heart grew harder
than the nieeting-nouse steps.
Whv, Aunt Kent," said 1, " it is too
absurd! He has already been to the minister and to the minister's wife, and then to the deacon and to tho deacon's wife, to ask them to intercede for him.
I wouldn't have a man anyhow after ne had made such a goose of himself." Aunt Kent opened her eyos in mild astonishment, and then I remembered she named somebody. Then I stopped suddenly and felt my cheeks begin to burn. "Dear child," said she, tenderly, ' when vou have seen a few more of the ups and downs of life, you will think more of a good man's love than you will of these outside manners. Mr. Brodhead told me he had been in his strait to some of our mutual friends, but he supiwwfid ther had not spoken with you.
And we must not judge him by the standwd we would apply to some peo
ple. He is shrinking to timorousuess, especially with ladies. And he says he
is conscious mat ne aiways appunis ms worst before vou. Poor manl I've seen him sit at ohuroh with his eyos
fixed on the ribbon of your hat, as it fluttered a little in the wind, and looked so hungry and so hopeless, my heart just ached for him." This time my face flushed with anger as well as shame. " I feel humiliated, Attnt Kent," said I. "1 hope nobody else has seen him make such a silly spectacle of himself." " Bella, ray dear, you are wrong," Interposed Aunt Kent, gently. "We must take people as they are, not as we would have made them. The man is cast in a delicate, sensitive mold, and this is nearlv or quite a matter of life or death with him. I doubt if you are loved again by so worthy a man, and I am sure vou will not be any more sin-
cerelv. I hone vou will not be so mis
guided as to throw a.yay such a trees-
- J. . a a T il.
1 could not laugu at aunt ivout s
tender earnestness, but I shook my
head and felt immovable from the
btimn of firmness down to my boot
soles. And thus ended the third les son.
Weeks after this, one day in the
"dawnin- of the vear." when the bees
hummed and tho lilacs bloomed, I went
mit to die- blood-root where the road
ran through a bit of woodland a little
north of the village. Because if we didn't need it. somebody might, ami Aunt Susannah considered a few roots and herbs "so handy to have in the house." Presently I felt an unconscious, magnetic drawing to look up, and there stood Mr. Brodhead. To this day I oannot tell how he oatue there. It was as though he had shot
TniSK thrice bofore you drink twice.
Foot Notbs Those of squeaky
boots,
Foiiced rOLiTESESs Bowing to ne
cessity.
Whv should a circus rider never be
put in charge of the Weather Bureau? Give it tin? Because he often makes a
backward spring. Graphic.
Hk who fails and runs away, may have to pay another day; but he who nrnditors defies, raav stay at home and
compromise. UoHoh Advertiser.
Cincinnati lovers don't say, "My sweet little rosebud" or "My own darlinc suear-plum." but it's "You
sweet little ham." Ohkrtgo Truth.
Mv dear bov, allwuss keep sumthing in reserve. The man who kan jump six inches further than he ever haz
jumpt, iz a hard customer to beat Hillings.
Household decoration makes groat
nnwress in tenement quarters, we
note that old hats have taken tho place
of cast-off clothing in broken window panes. Puck. Patiencb on a monument, smiling at grief, is not more beautiful than the
spectacle oi an amateur .isueiiunu standing in mud, with a breast full of
IlUllu 1U31IIIOU JJ f ni-jui.i.ji, ............ tickling the tail of a worm on his hook. N. O. Picayune. The reason why women have little or no success at fishing is because but a few of them possess nerve enough to hold the worm between their teeth so that they can use both hands in gutting the hook out of their back hair. Philadelikia Chronkle-IIeraUl William Hulmk, of .England, left, for educational purposes in 1W1, property -worth $200, which is now valued at S.S00.OO0. We would like to be ed
ucated on that fund. We wouldn' t care to take the full course, we'd just like to loam how to spend it. Hawkcye. Phonetic Spellinoj lortSHS Ys.UC, ZeAl utKHialtZH; 4 he wilt stinir )H U no A 18dr place, and hurt U so U'll Mr.poorun4.tn8, F 'twas a pin on which U m.
A Frenchman who is just beginning to venture to handle the English tongue
for himself called at a livery stable for
a carry-all to go to a funeral in a sub
nrlmn town the other dav. and this is
what he made of it: I vauts two horses
and a alcohol to visit my aunt in bhewitt Citv. He is dead!" He was accommo
dated. Norwich Bulletin.
The editor of a newspaper that has
mooted nhonetic spelling, in a measure.
received a postal card from an old subscriber in the country, which read as follows: "I hev tuk your paper for ivnn wms. but if vou kant spcl enny
better tlian you nave oeen uom uu mo ft . a .... ;a h
las to munths you may jos sioppu.
Cincinmti Saturday Aytu.
ram lea MAvaatrLak Tale was'
Dr. F H. Kkdkrs. a snnreen of the
Sandwich Islands under employment of the (lovermnent, arrived Tuesday night and is registered at the Utelede. He
returns alter an ausenoe oi mx years
from St. Louis, and is accompanied by his family. For the past six years Dr. Kuders has had sanitary control of three islands of the group, rix.: Manl,
Molokai and Lanai. On the island ef
Molokal there ie a hospital for lepers, now containing 700 patients infected
with that disorder, ine leprosy is m-
ouralde, there never having been
single case cured. It is, However, greatly alleviated by medical treat
ment, antt is now on me ueoree. nw vitalstatfsticsshowafavorable condition of health, and, on evidence, the Dootor states that out of 80 white children
undor his observation during the past
six years there was only one death. The cultivation of sugar is the princi
pal source of wealth, and some oi tue
planters have become rich. A oouple
ol parties, wno oomnienceu mi a mumi
scale, sola out recently xor i,uw,uw.
Mr. A. II. Spencer, who wont mere a U. S. Consul some IS or 20 years ago, has just sold out his plantation and will
bring away fiw.wu. The reciprocity treaty between the islands and the United States has been
existence four years and still has
three years to run. It is of great advantage to both countries and should bv all means be renewed, as the United
States in particular should not jeopardize its interests, asd be supplanted by other iiowors, as it would be should the i -a.i ..if -...1
existing treaty aurogaieu ur huuwuu
lo i; xi Ji re.
Inure are aoout iu,uw vjumeeo on
the islands. Except for their labor
they are of no use or advantage to the country.
liofore tne umnesc came to tue iiauus thero was no necessity for locks and
bolts to protect property. Good order
prevails and tno laws are. strict, out vum
country nevertueiose ia an inoiaiuu. place to live in, as there is very little society or the diversions of more favored oomrauuitios. The Doctor brings his children East, to enjoy the advantages of education, and ho will return to the islands in five or six weeks. Sf. ots llepulAican.
1 of an of
Fashion ana Hygiene.
of London,
Dr. Richarpson, of London, wno
has won so wide a reputation through
Iits proposed reiorms in mo mnvnmuij of social existence, has now turned his attention to the dress of women, aud, like all his brethren, thinks that there
is plenty of room for improvement, although he expressly states that it is foreign to his purpose to deprecate "good fashion." On the contrary, he regards it as the duty of every woman to make herself as becomingly boautiful as she possibly can. Naturally, being a man, and a sensible one, he objects t a. itutalhBMtla
verv strongly to corsuts, nHiuiim,
A Letter from Ueneral Jfelikeff. Burdette, of the Jlawk'tye, has received tho following, characteristic letter from General Melikoff. In explanation of the familiar style in which the letter is couchod, says, the New York Graphic, it should Uo said thatBurdett . and the nussian factotum once spent six months together in jail at Honolulu on a trumped-up charge of having attempted to assassinate Queen Emma by suddenly pounding a Chinese gong at her bedroom door at midnight, ihey both got off at last on a plea of habitual U-Wand emotional insanity:
1 . v
"MY L' EA.lt uohbib: a our iavor u. the 2d with enclosure of fifteen dollars
is at hand. I am eternally obliged and
will hand H to you the first time I meet
you in St, Petersburg. Such a time an
we Had yesterday morning hi me t inter Palace. The Czar got out of bed on the wrong side, and was as cross as two
sticks. Nothing pleased nun, and to
ward noon he began sinking so rapidly
that the court physician was summoned. He talked with His Majesty a few moments and then said to me confidential
ly, He needs excitement; he lacks Ws usual stimulant. When was he last
shot at?' I said, 'Nearly three wee les ago.' The physician shook his head and said it was enough to kill him; and
instructed roe to do sometning. do a. fixed it all up, and when the Gar wan coming down the front stairs I sprung; out from behind a door and hit him an awful clip with a bolster. Somebody else hit hira in the face with a snowball, we throw him through the glass doors of the conservatory, poured a tub of ice water over him. fired a shotgun ' behind his head, split his ooat down the back, emptied a can of kerosene on his head, kicked him down the kitehen stairs, and blacked his eye with a pair of brass knuokles. It would just have done you good. to see how the old man, brightened up. 4 Ah,' he said, rubbing his hands cheerfully while the doctor was pasting court plaster all over hira, and a couple of atteudnnts were pullinr slivers out of his bic!r, Ah,' he said, smiling upon us, tl'a is something Ilk living, Melikv, dear, out somebody's head off and we'll go into breakfast. Eggs are oheap anil butler is scarce. Wu haven't bad any rain for nearly tm weeks. Love to your brother Jokn and come aud see me some time. Ever
garters andtigm snoee, iu too to.jjhv of garments dragging from the waist, nn.r to various other developments of
modern feminine costume. In general terms he holds that the dress of women should be, with the exception of the outer dre.ss, nearly identical with that of mnn. He recognizes the fitness and
Knanivof the lorn? dress, and holds
ili.t. It ftriantabUitv to all form of or
ii am nut ation will lie unimpaired if
nmr sensible rarments are worn un
derneath it. Silk and light flannels are
nwommended for nnderolotliing, as
distbguiehed from the heavy ,((' LtVoW
yours
KneeiM SnpentiU.
Witchcraft In Russia is a profitable
occupation, but accompanied by great dangers. Last year, near the city of Tikhvin, a woman was burned as a
witch. Now, in the city i aaraton, a. whole peasant family is to be tried
for the murder of a sorcerer. J.Je circumstances of the case are those: A
peasant known to be a sorcerer was invited to a wedding ceremony, and
treated with the utmost attention, in order to dispose him in favor of the young couple. The conjurer, however, looked dissatisfied, and when the young pair were lying nt his feet supplicating his mercy, the mother of the bride instantly began to wry out as one possessed with an evil spirit. This was looked upon as a bad sign for the newly-wedded couple, and their relatives fell on the sorcerer, killed hint on the spot, and mutilated his body so shockingly that it could hardly e identified.
saw play by Joaquin Miller, eaUed
R.I.