Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1871 — Page 6

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(from ttae Ooiden Age.] THE LONU AGO.

•T ALIO mUJAIU.

Aanle and I, we loved each other, [ii ths i«Mt dt)i of the lon igo noddlnx home from the school together,

La autumn sunshine and winter aow.

Hkft wan

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midsummer fairy,

Free from care a* tbe wind* that blow Qtnr tbe blootn of tbe western prairie la tbe dear days of the Ion* ago.

1 vas a lad anouolb yet kindly. Bashful wltb other* and rough, I know ••t I worshipped each curl on her dear bead blindly, •ud thrilled at her voice In the long ago. Kpta that I gathered, and row, I gave her

Treasured the ribbon that fell from her bain And long»«i for noine wonderful danger, to •are her (Llkekuiglitof old) frcm the fearfnl snare.

Often I tarried when lesson* were over, Braving the iroiles of the ro«ul*h girls Aa they troaped along o'er the migrant clover—

Watching for somebody's yellow curls.

Ofiljr to carry her books and her basket,

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to tread the path by her side

War tbe sunburnt meadow 'twas little to •if ask. yet With crimson blushes dyed.

room, at the slues of the casement. In this wis foiled and Irom that, or HOtue other cause, a heavy frown was his face, which was, indeed, a hard, plain sort of face, not ill adapted to carrf a stern expression. As ho stood there, a step was heard in the road at 4D« noise he turned rouud, and then 4|„« little gate creaked again. There \ra* only Just light enough to see a fo•uiale figure enter the garden, although to the new-comer tho young man was dlsUnctly visible standing as he did jost before the lighted window. (hat you, Alice?" he sal.l In a Jaw tono. .. "Yes, Paul, dear," replied A very si minujiiiiK voice. "I hurried round to &e station after I had been to the 4*owu but I found tho train had

O0no i".1' As sho finished the young man put '1 Wa ariu tenderly round her, and klsaeu »t«r. Tho girl sighed ss he did so, IUI mm though Uie act had seemed in the place

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at spoech, to convey mtiie »ad Intelii»ctuet and then lifting prluiltlve fgtch, ahe opened the house door, and tlivu eutered. Without the Intervention of any or y»

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}flen I «»ole from under my A sidelong glance at her hands of snow Or caught th gleam of her blue eyes' flushes,

And watebed tbe blushes come and go.

Heart" had we as light as a feather, Little we recaed of care HIHI woe, 5 A* w- trod the old scliol-|»ftth together,

Amite and I, In the long ago.

Tears tigs did our pathways sever, Hhe to !h« West, to the noitliward I, Does sin? recall the bright-day* ever,

Wins we loved each other, Annie and I? Though veam are lied, with their sorrow* iad»n,

Oft«u I dream o' the long ago, arc in my mating* a little maiden— Over my heart steals the sell-same glow.

Tlif Kilfct-n cnrls fall In goldeu showers, And xoflly gleam the a/aire eyes As slio takes from my hand the wildwo*l floWi'M •With a look of shy yet pleased surprise. (lone are manhood's struggles and trials, dull" are the years of cure and woe! And we're walking the old school-path together,

Annie anil 1, In the long ago. Utxiulnnali, December, 1871. .•-

A Noble Revenge.

It was ft bitter north-east wind which •swept the platform at Edgefield Jutic Uon, and none of those wlu waited for llio branch train cared to brave it.

There was a young man of perhaps five and twenty yoars of ape, who, spite of tho chilly evening walked thoughtfully and slowly up and down tlie long bare platform. Ho watt a tall, healthy looking young fellow, clad ill a rough pilot ooat, a low crowned fell hat, and be hud an air, altogether as of a workman, •r—although to many minds tho comparlsou will convey, very needlessly, unfavorable Idea*—an omnibus conductor. No pretensions, then to tho oil ir.iclcr of a "swell" had tliiH, our drat actor.no ono watching hiin.as sevai from tbe waiting room window wonJ*- dorlnuly did watch, would have taken l«iin for a gentleman. In due time, the toVanch train drew up to the platform, and the young man took his seat with others, in a second class carriage. lie reserved the same grave, almost s'ulftti, taciturnity until the train reao-i «id tho station which formed tho tor-* minus ol tho branch, str«-de away without exchanging more th a nod with several persons who recognised and dieted hint.

In a lew minutes he had reached tho -t* further hide of the town, wheie some alrat:glliig cottages stretched out into

Uto count ry. "II beyond being void and bjack Inifeed, but for OII^ or two feeble lights shining from the little windows, ^it was black enough where ho stood. lie stopped at a gate which opened up,n the road, and hesitated a few moments ere ho entered the garden at •i last the gate swung back, and he passml through. Instead of knocking at the door, lie went softly to the window, nud, though the blind was down, tried to catch agllmpso of the interior of the

lhpy.

•MKI luto a suiall square room, orickfloored. and walla it)tennl with th© coniiMoottit paper—evidently a poorrooiu. Imt vwry clean and trim a large old-fashioned eight-day clock, the only mantel article most apprxiachlng luxury in It a tow common china figures on tho mantelpiece, and a few print*, wprti, except lug a row of flower-po*«, ,-h only ornaioeuU At l*rg« deal tahle a woman, atKiut fifty year* of age, wn» ironing, and tho ptlea of white. ,ti«wlyln«ed article* of apparel which lay n«»ar her showed ahe was Ironjim for profit. Hho was so like tho ctrl who now entered. th*t a stranger need hardly hare walietl for the latter to call her "mother" toguesa their re lationshlp.

Well. Purley, said the young jnau "I ara here,a* sai«l should be you are l*aul," »*ld the Irwner,

rimtiugthought,

to lake the offered hand "and

u,.v or am surf, I should be iMrry to ».*.». 1' It's ail over, then? »k«l the girl fffto had looked wuulully from one to lite ot her.

Yea, Alice," repl.e*! the young man, oaatins himself, and placing bis hat on lire droaeer bttide turn, "it's all over with tu- and the firm, I am diamlaaeu and I don't thluk tbe character they would «lv« iiw would do me much

*The sir I made no further remark, hot KastWi about, whtie ahe emptied nrom a some atuall pacWcla ot gw-

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^.f^niade up the collars, caff*, ews., Sb ch^i* Ironed, Into parcel# W

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are when we put them into words. All were poor, very poor. Alice and her mother supported themselves by laun-dry-work and ironing. Paul Hyles had been Alice's Bweetheart tor years, and she was readjfcto marry him whenever he asked her, as ho knew well enough. Her mother counseled a little delay, until Paul could prepare a home at leant as good as her own to take her to but in that poor part of tbe country, where laborers competed for work at eight or nine shillings a week, even that wa« difficult, Paul was of no

articular trade. The vicar of the town taken notice of the stalwart youug fellow, and bis sweetheart, tho latter indeed having special friends In the half-dazen daughters of the good cleryman. Through the vicar's Influence aul obtained a place as carman in tbe Urge watch house of bis brother, a merchant in London, whither full of hope and golden visions he had gone. Ilia Alien was to marry him when he had saved twenty pounds, which he hoped to do in a year at farthest while Alico, aapoor girls will do, bad abstained from every indulgence, however trivial—every expense, however small, and rose earlier and worked later, to obtain the simple outfit which wcrmed her ambition. But all was crushed now. Paul had been unlucky enough to offend ono of the principal clerks, a nephew ol one of the partners of the firm, and nothing he could do was right. Tho influence of the vicar's recommendation kept him in his post a little while, but eventually the ill-will of his superior was too stronir, add yet this ill-will arose from a very trilling cause. It arose from Paul's answering in hisown delenco when abused wrongfully ho fearlessly and fully vindicated himself, and showed he was light but tho malicious Mr. Andrew Tolmaine, tbo clerk and future partner, never lor pave him. At last some pack ago of value was missed, and without imputing dishonesiy, the loss was attributed to the earelessuess of Paul and he was di.-minsed with, as he owned, a churactt which would do him but little good.

As Paul finished his eloquent narrative, and ended with a heavy westcountry oath of revenge, if time ever served, his hearers wept silently, but did not chock him. "Now, unless these two chose to inarry and live in the squalid poverty that most of theirclass around them lived in, and made up their minds to reckon on poorhouse assistance every winter as part of their income it seemed as 11 they never could settle. They had a long sad talk that evening, and it was plain that nothing better, at the very outside, than laboring at the "only thing like a manufactory near—could bo done, if hanly oven so much could be achieved.

So time wont on, and Paul worked as a laborer, and dressed and looked like laborer, while poor Alico grow paler and thinner for it was hard, In that quiet little town to earn money enough to supply even the scanty wants of herself aud mother, and hope was nearly gone now. From one great and common evil, however, sho was spared—her lover did not drink.

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One evening, while Mrs. Purley sat exhausted with such little work as she had done, and Alico had laid aside the plain noodle work which sho had been plying all tho afternoon, and had coin tnenced arranging their scant and frugal tea, a well-known step was heard in the little garden, ana »hen Paul llyies entered. He was grimed and black with his work, of course, and wore tho loose smock frock which laborers commonly we^ir. He threw olF his cap, and passed lilsi hand through his linir, with the air ol a tired man. lie sat down, while Alice looked at hiin with a face from which the first flush of pleasure and surprise had faded, and which was now deadly pale. She saw that tlit* sternness habitual to him, and this, added to his appearing there at an unwonted hour assured her that be had something to toll them, and she dreaded to hear it. Finally with a tremulous voice, sho said "Aro they shortening hands, Paul

No—at loast, not for me," said the young man. "Some have gone, but I inn to stay a week or two longer." "Thank Hod for that. Paul." said the girl. Who knows what uiay turn up In a week or two "Ah, you mav well say that," returned I'aul. "there's many changes, now-a-days, Alice, and I vo come up to tell you oV one. Iiookhere!"

With that the voung mau produced from his broast tiie outside portion of a London paper. "See this he exclaimed, pointng to an advertisement in tho frout pago of the paper.

Alice took tho printed sheet, and read—for tbev were both fair scholars: "Two hundred pounds reward. Ab sconded.on or about tho 15th iust., Andrew Lawreuce Tolnnine, who is supposed to have embexxled a large sum

of money, the properly of his employers, Messrs. DoLiale, Tolm -lne aud Tolmaine, of Wheeler's Court, Cornhill." Then followed a description of the fugitive, Ac.

Kr»» Alice could utter a single exclamation of amageiuent, at finding their chief em my an outcast and a fugitive, Paul spoke. "This Is no small affair, Allle be must havo been swindling them ever since he has been there yet if both the (unior partuers hadn't happened to be away,the matter would have boon hushed up. I've often lain awake grinding my teeth to think that I didn knoca him down when he threw me my money and told mo that If I waan't off the premises In five minutes 1 should be kicked off but it's all for tbe best."

It hss has come home to him heavily, Paul," said the mother. "The wicked man may flourish Jor a while, and the honest man inay bo brought low, but wall iftitll th® end. It will be a sad shock to the vicar, for I believe this was his favorite nephew—the ouly child of Mr. Tolmaine, who died so young, just after he was married.

And Miss Rachel!" exclaimed Alio*, "1 pity her very much but for bim, why of course he would not expect to ao on much longvr without sonic judg^* nient overtaking him. He must often think uow of bis conduct to vou."

And so with a natural feeling, which finds a place in the heart* of those who stand much higher than those with whom we aio dealing, they saw In the downfall of their eoe^ny, a special judgment from Lleavt for his wickedness to I beta, and attributed special remoise to the man wbo bad probably, "rJfotten tho existence of tbe discharged

°*"T*S two hundred pounds!" said Paul erimly '*1 I had him at this minute, with no helper but myself, and if he wasn't in the Kdgefleld lock-up before that dock strikes again

II# did not conclude bis sentence but his tlggtMy-etoeed lips, and th* tierce vet thougotlul glauce he gave at bis clenched fitt finished it for him. Mm Purley oalr smiled faintly in return aod after a show of drinking lea, Alice rose with a sigh, aed prepared to renuroe htr work. •K3ood tps, God bis— yoo, Alios P*

TERmsi-JHAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAI1* DECEMBER 30, i871.

said Paul, taking her in his arms, and looking despite his hard feature# and I L.I k. I^

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grimy blackness, very tenderly upon her. "You're getting very pale and thin. But we won't despair yet yoo have taught me better th alter all, I find there is ho,

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Next week, as he feared, Paul was discharged from tbe mills. He seldom went near the little cottage, partly from a dread he had of being seen habitually loitering about, and partly because it gave bim keen pain to see how Alice would seek to blue their increasing poverty, and would strive to call up toe bright smile on h®r pale faee He

ight smile on n=r P*-

grew pale enough himself in a week or so, and sadly no used to face the crest of the low bill at tbe back of Edgefield—this was his favorite walk, as it was so solitary In these dark November days.

Work was very scarce hundreds about that part were half famishing and although Paul scrupled not to turn his band to anything, he could scarcely pay for Ills poor lodging, and his daily Dread for himself.

So ho used to patrol f' hours this lonely walk, with melancholy and sometimes very bitter thoughts and thus ho had paced ono afternoon, as the wintry sun was setting behind the hills which bound the western side of the country, till he leant thoughtfully aginst a treo, and looked across tho empty, dull fields, to the backs of the scattered houses on the skirts cf tbo town, and beyond tlietrt into High Street, where, already one or two jets ot gas were burning in the larger shops.

The sound of steps.clo.se at hand caused him to shrink into the shadow of a tree, and two persons wontsloVrly past and took a bypath, which led to the church and vicarage, and so through into tho town. One was Miss Rachel, tho vicar's eldest daughter, and the other—Paul pressed his hand to his brow, as though ho feared ho should taint with the excitement—was his hunted enemy! There, disguised by strange clothes, a false moustache and wig, was Andrew Tolmaine. Ha! he was his prize—his alone. He suddenly remembered that just, behind him lay some stakes, left there by tho hodgers, ready lor their work the next day he dashed to these, and selecting the heaviest, stole swiftly but very stealthily, after the retreating pa'r-_ H'8 °ye,J loamed like fire, while his powerful rame and heavy club made him an antagonist from* whom tho strongest might shrink.

As he stole after them carefully keeping them in sight, he hurriedly debated whether he should take him then and there, or go to the station and give information. Have him he would, dead or alive—if dead perhaps the better. The wild beast nature was roused and ho hoped tho fugitive would resist, that he might bo justified in killing him. Should he dash at him at once? No, Miss Rachel hud always been kind to him and to Alice, aod he would spare her. They turned a corner be hurried on lest he should miss them, and found they had stopped at the angle. He was forced to pass them and as he did so ho heard the young lady saj% "Come lu for a few minutes."

That was enough he would take him as he came out again. So he watched them into the vicarage, and creeping close to the house, saw them enter the parlor, saw lights brought in, and the blinds drawn, he had no ear ol

stoot? he coulcl soo both of tho doors, tho only means of egress from the vicarage. Almost immediately the door by which they entered opened, and the young lady came out alono—y£!Jt slone —and there was b'» abnd"^-r§n blind as it had first fallen. Paul gave no heed to her, but waited like a crouching tiger, for Tolmaino to move. Suddenly a light hand touched his arm, and turning IWooly round he saw Miss icliel. She looked at him very steadily—so sieadlv, that he almost shrunk" fro in her, for there was a depth in her soft eyes which reminded him of Alice. He strove to speak, but tlie words had died away ero he could utter them. "Why are vou hero, Paul HylesT" said Miss Rachel and spoke low. as one who avoids being overhead. "You do not answer—you need not, I saw vour face as vou passed us, and I knew then that alfwas lost. Do you moan to linger bore?"

Miss Rnchel," said Paul, and the hoarseness of his own voice almost startled him, "Miss Rachel, you had better go away from here. Tho work I am going to do is not for ladies to see." "Then, Paul, vou mean to seise my wretched cousin said the young lady In the same hushed tono as belore.

Go away, Miss R:ichel, for heaven's sake!" sakf Paul,earnestly,"theremay be

Yes I know," sho said, son mean tv say there inav be bloodshed—you mean that you may slay tbe helpless fugitive whose shudow you are watching."

The young lady spoke with the same calmness with which she had previously spoken, and as she pointed to the window and almost hissed tbe last few words out, Paul shrank from her, an he had done before then rousing himself, he turned aiigrily round and clutching his weapon tbe tighter, faced tbo window.

You are resolved, I see." she continued then follow me, sna do at once the work you are bent upon doing. Come!" "Miss Rachel," gasped Paul, "you and yours have been good friends to nie aud those that I love a thousand times beyond myself let me beg of you, as a rough and desperate, though not ungrateful man may beg, to go Irom hero. Go from here, my dear young lady, for I am sworn to tny soul, to take that man dead or alive."

I know it," she said. "Follow me, and do vour errand Inside the bouse. Come, If you think you owe uie any gratitude."

Then in spite of bimsell Paul turned and followed her Inly the ptrior, Rise up, Andrew," exclaimed Miss Rachel, "toryour time has coaie. This mau has seen and known y«m."

With a start of ejaculation and terror iTollimine rose irresolutely from his chair, and then sank dmrn again,

Do vou yield peaceably, Mr. Tolimainef' safd Paul. "For this lady's sake have no violence." 1 Tjini ine looked appesllngly from one to the other without speaking, but the girl spoke for him. "Yield peaceably!

Paul look at

him. Tbe unhappy man you bate captured la far gone In a disease which was never known to be other than fatal. {Andrew Tolmaiue Is dying with consumption. Look at htm! If be could struggle he would lie a mors worthy I prise, but you will get your two buutired pounds even for his euiaciatad frsme."

I am sorry for your sake," began Paul "but of course it's not my own fault. Mr. Tolmaine was yever any friend ot mine, and I may as well--*'

You may aa well have tbe money as any one else,** interrupted Miss K»cbel. "Then take him. We cannot rrs»«t you. I would, if 1 could fiar 2 wasMi nave married the dyia* saan r»s

and I waited tbe time as patiently and hopefully aa you and poor Alioe have done. That his career is blighted, that my hopes sro blasted, ana that he crouches there without a friend in the world but one weak girl, you know or can guess as well as I can."

Few men were more noble or generous In their natures than Paul Hylfas, and he almost repented having ever entered on the business throwing off, however, what be deemed a weakness, he said, "I have been ruined, Miss Rachel, by this gentleman. He drove me from honest employment I see through him, scarce any means of living, unless I steal or beg and the reward of bis apprehension—which will certainly fall to some one, even if I don't take bim—will make a man of me."

I—I have no money now," said Tolmaine eagerly and tremulously, "but I am sure my Irionds in

Don't be deceived. Paul Ilvles," Interrogated the girl,"his friends have refused to do anything for him ho is penniless but it may help yon if you will accepi from me these trifles—they aro worth something!" As sho spoke sho handed him the lew trinkets she wore. "Take them," she said "and in time you shall have more. I pledge my word for that but lot him go. It is not to trial you are taking him, but to death it is not a man but a corpse you will trample on."

With one great gulp Paul rose, and spite of bis gaunt, harsh face, and laborer's narb, stooo a lofty noble looking man as be spoke:

It is over." he said "my mind is made up, Miss Rachel fear nothing from me I forgive you, Mr. Tolmaine, as truly as I hope to be forgiven inyself, and 1 swear now that you are safe from ine. I will not touch your gold nor your jewelry, Miss Rachel so don't ofl'er them again. Now can I be of assistance in any way

To Paul's amazement, when Miss Rachel who had been so calm and self possessed, attempted to speak, she merely gave a stifled scream and had he not caught her, she would have fallen to the ground, lor sho had fainted. They brought her to horsolf and although very weak, she regained her clearness ana decision.

It appoared that some such agent as Paul was exactly what she wuntod some one who, wearing clotlie» natural to him, which Tolmaine sliowld be the spokesman of tbo two, would) enable tho fugitive to get out of England. The vicar, although he knew of bis being in the neighborhood, would not soo him neveithelew*, thoy thouicht.so they told Paul, that if they wore safely away, his uucle would contribute to his snpport. All this ended in Paul pledging himself to assist Mr. Tolmaine in bis escape and so with many wringinferof tbe bands, aiXl tears from each of tho three, he left.

Together with Alice, Paul resolved that he should help Tolmaino away, and take no reward from Miss Racheli for the service, and Paul kept his word. As two working men engaged on aSpanish railway, with Paul's provincial dialect, and thoroughly natural manner, even Mr. Toimaiuo's reticence and avoidance of strangers passed off very fairlv, for bullishness^

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on board a Cadiz boat, and Paul left Ihe unhappy man safo on Spanish territory that, with the least possible delay, he hurried back, reaching Edgefield a verv few shillings tho richer for his excursion. The chief pb-eeofgood tune which bofel hiin was his being.engaged at the old mills...

Thus three months word on, and save that Mrs. Purloy was sinking (lister every day, and Alice's home grew poorer every day also, little change occurred in the hum bio circle, but at tho end of that time, just as Paul was leaving work one afternoon, the time keeper ealled to him, "Hello, Hyles, here is a message from the governor that you are to go to the Crown at 6 o'clock, and ask for Mr. Smith, fit's no use to look inquiringly at me," continued tbe man. "fbr I kno'w no tnore-than I have told'

Of course Paul wvnt to the Crown, and was ushered into the best room. He found silting in the twilight an elderly gentleman.

I was told to ask for Mr. Smith," began Paul. "(iuite right," Interrupted the gentleman "my name is Smith—at feast it Is so In this house. I do not choose, Mr. Hyles, that every one sho«ld know my name and my business. Some three months back you assisted an unfortunate young man to escape from England." "I did," said Paul, hoping devoutly be was not getting Into a scrape.

Very good," returned Mr. Smith

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you Tost tbe chance, tbe certainty of two hundred pounds. That young man was my nephew. My name is Andrew Tolmaine, second partner In thebousool DeLisle, Tolmaine and Tolmaine, and that wretched boy was my godson. He is dead, Mr. Hyles, and but lor vou he would have diod in a prison. 1 am not Insensible to your noble conduct, and therefore beg to make a slight return—only a partial return—nothing can wholly pay you."

Paul most mechanically too* a offered. ,, Paul," said he, "that is the freehold of Upland cottage, and a half a score rnwi of land with it and I am authorixed to say that vour post at tbe mills will from this day be that of overseer, at a fitting silary. No, no words lake the cottAge as freely as it is given and if ever you want a friend apply to me. As I fmcv you contemplate marriage. 1 inns' tell you that ttae bank here has a bund mi pounds to your credit which a in

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Paul and Alice married, and lived a prosperous and hsppy couple. Mrs. Parley survived long enough to see her S fintt grandchild and as a final remark, II may sav emphatically, that neither

Alice nor'Paul never regretted tbe day when the latter threw away a golden tbanee.

A TKXAS paper says "We bare been asked why we stopped publishing the list of marriage licenses issued by the clerk. Because a great big aUod-UD-iihtbe mud out thin* in tb® nnd hill* 1 said we published hi* daughter as owried vhe weren't, and that he would 'hit oa on tbe head hard enough to knock our ankles out of Joint. Is the

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[From the New York Herald, Dec. t] HOW TO DIM.

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Paul," snid the young man, speaking for the first time, and Hyles almost staggered at the hollow sound of his changed voice, "If you wish to have revenge, I can't see why you should not, I cannot stay you. I may as well end ray days In prison as elsewhere they cannot be worse than I have had. Leave us now, Rachel, don't linger here I pray, or you will drive me mad." "Leave you!" exclaimed Miss Rchel. "No, Andrew, not until the cell door Is closed on you, and I am turned from your prison. Mr. Hyles will not refuse you the support ot my arm as we walk to tho police station—you will grant that "Don't talk liko that to mo?" esclaimod Paul dropping into a chair, and covering his face with his hands "why didn't he keep out ot a starving, desperate man's wav?"

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Dying the Eotiest Thing a Man Does. Mr. Beecher was in an unusually talkative mood last night, and discoursed familiarly in his lecture-room about the various Ideas of death. He did not think it an evidence of special Christian grace to be willing to die. He didn't think it natural for the young or for those full of the activities of life to desire to die. It is better to be willing to live and do the duties of life. When Paul said it was better to depart he was au old man and in prison. If an October pippin says it is ready to drop, is

hat any reason a little green apple in June should be ready? It is the business of green apples to get ripe. All the representations of the Testament about death are full of cheer and hope. For Paul to die was to go to Christ. Dying is not growing short of breath aua feeble of pulse: it is flying up to the All-loving Soul of the universe. Il is going to sweet companionship. We struggle on through the world, finding little compauionship, but we go to the spirilsof just men made porfoct. We go where all tbe conditions lift us up to a realm of nobility. There all is concord. There is no selfishness, no hardness and crudeness and rudeness or revenge all are working up with one sweet impulse with great genial creative force of Divine love. These thoughts ring in my soul liko the bells of a tar off city, drawing me thitherward. Dyiug is the easiest thing men do. The suffering is in life but as a rule men die as easily as a door turns upon iUs hinges. Dying is going home, not to supineness, not to Oriental luxury, but to supreme activity, where every part is developed and cultHred in the realm. Bless God for the privilege of dying! My brother Charles, who was always in a dying mood, once congratulated my father upon the lact thai he couldn't live much longer.

said the old man, "I don't

thank any of my bovs to talk to me in that way. I don't want to die. If I had my choice, and it was right to choose, I would light the battle nil over." Father," continued echer, "was a war-horse, and after lie was turned out to pasture, whowever he heard the sound of a trumpet ho wanted the saddle and bridle."

WOMAN VS. FKMALK Tho term "female" as a synonym for woman, is vulgarism that ought to be scourged out of good society. As it is equally applicable to one-hall the brute creation, its use instead of wom»n,lady or girl, tends to lower the dignity and position of womanhood. When it is used without the substantive, one is sometimes provoked to enquire whether it is the female sheep, or hear, or swine, that is intended. Those who havo a true respect for woman would never employ a term so indolicate and objectionable as is, if they roalioed how bad it was. Thoro may be occasions when its use is correct and u«nvoidable but to speak of schools for yousg women as female seminaries, or female colleges,is »M»t.only un^rammat-

ICUWIlo WllUjj* inrnniij ical, but essentially vulgar. Gail Hamilton holds up a yownglady to ridicule

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becaiiso sho objects- to boing oalted a

female teacher. The objection is reasonable and just. We do notsay "male" teachers, "male" schools, "male" colleges,. "maio" clubs? certainly the great army of patient, hard working, underpaid wotnon, should havo tho privilege of being called "wonwn," anJ not bo set down as "females."

How absurd il would seem to haar eople say Harvard male university /el is that any more ridiculous than to say, Rutgers female institute, or Troy female seminary Mow ofle.i we hear men speak of meeting females in the street. Would they feel complimented or insulted, were the ladies to pass then, as males.

Tho use of this term is another evidence of tho low estimate placed upon women for these long, weary ages. Ills the result of tho harem idea, which regarded her as a men* human animal, created for tho sole purpose of pleasing tho fancies of her mastsr. Woiuen Is now struggling to freit herself from, a debasing thrafidou*: yet custom Is so powerful that ovon her friends constantly, but thoughtlessly, uso tlas epithet," which tends to degrado her. Usually, when one makes an etlbrt to win tbe standard oft womanhood, there aro opposite bigots whouuote tl»e Bible in its condemnilion. Hut the Bible, whose teachings aro the foundation of the woman cause, is a model In respect to tbe uso of this objectionable epithet. In no placo do we find fomalo used when, women, or maiden, or damsel, can be omployod. Thoso whodosiro to have Us authority on their side should follow its example in this respcct.— Jane 0. De Forest.

[From an Old Wiwhinaton Letter.] ITER CflANCKS. The thought brings upoue of tbelailnamed sort, whose entrance to a ball roots was tne ovation to a qnoen—a fair girl from the West, and at whose feet the so-called statesmen ol the day bowed in love that approached adoration. She married one of these statesmen, and a rival belle, her superior in wit, butnotequal in beauty,said, commenting upon tbe event: "You wonder at the match because you do not understand it." "What bo you mean "I mean that she married one term in

Via QailiiiA "What a small ambition—only six years out of a lifetime f" "Six year* make up a woman's social life. After It is a living tomb in a nursery and then she has her chances." "Whatdo yoo mean?" "Did yoo never read tbe story of the philosopher who undertook the difll cult task of making the Pashs's don key read tbe written words of the prophet?" "Neverdid tell me. "The philosopher, like all philosophers, was poor. At times he was hu ngry, at all hours be was ragged. He offered the Pasha to teach tbe donkey to read in five years. But during tbe difficult task be was to be clothed in purple and fine linen, fed on the be*t, and lodged in a palace. It be failed tbe penalty was deatb. One day an old friend met him leading forth the royal donkey to the grove, where tbe lessons were supposed to be given, and be said, "Surely you do not expect to teach that ass to read Tbe nhilosopher, putting his thumb to his nose, winked one of his learned eyes and said nothing. 'But' oontinued the friend, if you fail at tne end of five years you ill be strangled.' 'My

will be sponied the that in that time

igl^d.' -My friend,' repbilosopher, *you forget

Then* are her may die."

... may die. Tbe senator

chance*.

TH* oldest man now-on earth visited our town last week. He was a colored minister, and preached In the Methodtat Church Sunday night. He refer1 red to Sodom and Gomorrah, and said 1 he recollected with great vividness tbe time when Mrs. Lot wss transmogrified

Into a pUt of salt—[NobleavlUe ledger.

[From M. D. Con war's London Letter Clnelnnati Commercial.] MUSSULMAN WOMEN IN IND

The most interesting part of Ameer All'saddress related to what said of tho social life ol the Mustuluij population. Referring to tho impr sion that Mohammedan women are tie bettor than prisoners or slayes, a that whon their master is enraged is accustomed to put them into d. boles or throw them into the sea, said that women among tho Moll medaus posssess exactly the sa privileges and rights as men tlierti no law of "coverture" and "uierg*' among tbein marriage gives no rij, to the man which it does not give tho woman. Marriage is among th a civil contract, based on consent. woman is asked if she accepts the ir»' as her husband, the same as tho nnj The Mohammedans do not, except Bengal, marry so early in life as* Hindoos, the man beiug often thi the woman twenty. A Mohummi wife in low lifo is not less happy ty an English wife cf the same class. high Mussulman society the wife rr absolutely iu hor owu hauie all bow* her authority, husband and father 4 though they*do not appear among in? thev have freedom in the circle of tuj male relatives and those of their h| bands'. Their home life Is not »i"h| py, and evening parties aro foniii The old uolion Uiat Mussulmen do bollevo that woman have souls, speak or passed over as exploded. W? regard to polygamy, ho said that law of the Prophet thai, a Mussultn might have four wives, provided could do "justice" among them, tnf lug hem with equal regard, was pj claimed ut a period of great wrote hi noss among women, millions oI' wJr were raised from want and misery it. The conditions of the time mat then a noble reform, for it resiri«. polvgamy, which it has not instill# In India,''it is only the ri««h wh* cm* ford to have various equally conilbit ble establishments for wives, and der tho stern condition of justice! each wife, insisted upon, polygamy disappearing ninety-five out oi' e\ hundred aro monogamists. The Z»n na (Harom) system—I ho words sigi only the sacrtdnessof tho wile's apt.| ments—is really the svstem of Enul I homes, as woll. The Mussulmen ciiff this privacy to an oxtreino, no doip but if English ladles In India without any patronising airs, seek acquaintance of Mohammedan lad^ they would find them neither so seclf? ed or exclusive as many imagT They would find those ladies very fully educated, though- peril ips no will up in light music, dancing novels as their European sisters. Tl are generally good Arabic and Pors*t scb3ars, and know history, arithrj tic, poetry and composition. They lot? embroidery and all tiuo needlo-wo The art ol'cooking is taught to c\ Mohiimmodau woman, as in Ihe I of the Cream Tarts of tho Arab. Nights story. "Iu the nutural ease .i elcgtuice of manners, in-the frank BI| plicily aud unaffectediiess which sta a lady everywhore, our women are infeitor to those of any European tion."

THBSaturday Rovlewsays, It nch Impossible to doubt that Marlborou^ objeot in life was to amass a forti Ho won great victories and served country, out neither of these was absorbing object, not oven fame—it': it seems Impossible to doubt ho sa» tioed all throe to a good round br from Franco. From youth to ago ey was bfS objoofc, mid-he wna I ashamed of it. "Codogoti." said turning out a littlo board of br plecosfrom his oscrutoire and view them with satisfaction, "observe tl| plows well they deserve to be obst ed there aro just forty of them, tho very first sum I ever got In my VI and I have kept It always onbro• \l from that time to till* day." Ilvr. one object beyond gratification ol'st ,wa» not so much noetic fame as il

create a sensation ana make men strt to bo anyhow in men's mouths i:\ SwLft avowed that his object in life tike root of all his endeavors to disi gwslw himself, were only for of a'title and fortune, "that I be used liko a lord by thoae who 1 an*opinion of my parts, wlvtlior r' or wrong, it is no great rimttei an the reputation of grr at learning ii the work of a blue ribbon and a co and six." And even where not sell genius does not preserve men from takes In this respect. Walter wroto for an ulterior end. Far showed himself almost indiffere his »l»}ect was to found a family, father of a linoof Scotchlairds. Ch. La tub's object in lifo was leisure der tbe weight ol which, whon at ed, he broke down.

GROWING OLD.

1

A philosophical old nonngen* finds these comforts in growing Grumblers take notice!

I have become very deaf. W blessing I There is such a lot olj talk I cannot hear, such as scaa etc.

My eyes aro failing. How fortui I do not see a tithe of the folly wickedness going on around uie. blind to faults that would provok to censure.

I have lost my teeth, and mv vo not very audible. Well, I find use babbling to folks wbo won't I so I save my breath for better purp I dou't show my teeth where I bite. I venture on no tough meat!

My taste Is not so dlscriminatfn in days of yore, and the good is am more easily satisfied, and keej) finding fault, and am cont ana thankful. A nice palate is a p. one is well rid ot,

My joints are rather stiff. Wei? my were ever so supple, I do not^go and see the sights, hear con ike speeches, nor carouse at fem,

they to ma

I am not so strong as I was but what end do I need to bo stout? not going to wrestle or fight with, body. My morali are general I j| proved.

TUB HBATIIK*CIII.HKF..—Tho la, Nev.. Enterprise is responsive following:

A day or two since a couple of 1. wbo were out collecting mone« church purposes, stopped at tbe House, Lower Gold Hill. Alte^ci upon a number of persons for butions, they asked "John," thu ne»e cook, to give a dollar. "What foryou wantee tnoglve tl» saked John. "We want you to give us a do help tbe church." iptfc. 'Dolla belpa churcha!" cried opening his eyes "what cnurcha." "It's poor it needs money, you give us a dollar "Me no sabe cburCha- me poor What, you call churcba—what nsmee f" "Christ'* Church," was tbe repl "No, me no glv® dolla," ans John, decidedly. "Me no likee Klist wantae too mucha money ey, money, ali tiins money for K1