Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 February 1872 — Page 1

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Old lOrti 10c.

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Drlwl Peaches, 9010c.

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Clovor 9«»l0c.

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COTTON—Sale® 1,200 bales lulddllug upUndsai 23%c. FliOlIR-stiperflno Western and State, 759M 10 common logixxl N35®6 70: good to choloe, W »6rt|7 35 white wheat Western extra, *7 !»r47 40 extta Ohio Jfl 80®7 30

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LA IU)~WMJie no sales. WHISK Y-Market steady, at 87c.

EAST LI HKHTY LIVE STOCK. KAST LIBKKTY, Feb. 9. OATTLK— Arrtrals benvv nmspectsslow tx»t, 9« AVjM 75 lookers. Is i%4 M.

SHKKP-Arrivals fair and uro* pectssiow bost, 9707 80 medium, 9«#9 56 common, Arrivals fair and prospect* tor iMod firm Puiladolplii js,^ S(W Yorkers.94

WKNDKtX lMtiixir* wiys that no nublic question ever get« thoroughly dlscussco tn Atuerlc* until il Is made tHililical issue." Tbia is true. But it true that no public nest ion c.»n over be wisely made a political issue in America until it b*s first been pretty thoroughly dlwcusaed. We have#0010times thought that our reformers, or some of them, hare been in too great haato to run with their reforms to the Id Hot-box—asking for a popular vwdie before the people Jvao been sutBc4euUy indmtrinalM.—(Golden Age.

A NKW OKLKAJTS P^I^R eivs thats voting widow in thai city, wno writes well, "i* training herself lor an editor. Who Is the editor she is training tori

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DOMESTIC.

Three distinct shocks of earthquake

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felt at Winoa, Mich., Tuesday morning. The small-pox deaths of the week, at Philadelphia, ending Saturday, were one hundred and fifty-eight, decrease nineteon.

The Chicago health report shows twelve deaths by small pox for the week ending Tuesday, a material decreas. There are about sixty cases In the pest house.

There is no material change in the blockade on the Union Pacific Railroad, and no prospect of any train getting through until the wind stops blowing and the weather grows warmer.

A fire occurred Tuesday in the passenger depot of the Ogdensburg A Lower Canada railroad, Ogdeusburg, N. 1., destroying the

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TERRIi-HA UTE MARKET. TKRRK-HAUTB, Fib 8. The following figures are paid to farmers and others hy dealers In this cltyi

building, thn freight de­

pot, two cars and considerable freight. Loss 930,000 Insurance not known. At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, the matter was talked over, and the opinion was unanimous that the reference 01 all claims to the Geneva tribunal was absolute. To that body must be left the rejection or allowance of Indirect damages. This was concurred in by Sumner and Banks.

The Herald's Washington dispatch says General Sheridan was in consultation with the President Wednesday. The strength of the country in a military point of view was canvassed. It Is known ihat orders have been sent to our military forts to have everything brought up to the point of perfection. Naval circles are also active.

A serious explosion from fire damp occurred in Mitchell's mine, at Plains, near Pittston, Tuesday. Robert Hays, Patrick McCullough and Richard Norris were Instantly killed, Michael Barrett was seriously, if not futally, burned. The other man was iu another part of the raiue and escaped.

A crowd of twenty-five or thirty masked men on Friday, went to the jail at Richmond, Ky„ where Slough, who inured his wife Thursday, was confined. Overpowering the Sheriff they took the keys of the jail and proceeded to Stough's cell and marched him out a short distance, where they hung liini to a tree. The mob then quietly dispersed, leaving their victim hanging. The circumstances attending the murder were of such brutal nature, and the act so entirely unprovoked, that the action ot the mob seems to meet with geueral approval.

Mavor Medill of Chicago has called for an appropriation of 9120,000 to meet the expenses incurred iu the erection of a temporary City Hall, and repairs of sewers and sidewalks. A bill is before the county Commissioners authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of 91,500,000 to rebuild I he court house, and a committee was appointed to secure its passage by the Legislature. The Chicago Relief and Aid Society reports cash receipts to January 6, 93,805,700.• 55, and disbursements up to same period, 81,57$,039.10, leaving a balance on hand on February 3d ol 91,314,629.70.

Five powder houses belonging to the Miami Powder Company, located between Xenla and Yellow Springs, on the Little Miami Railroad, exploded about ten o'clock Monday morning. Five men were kill»!d and one is missing, who Is supposed to be killed. The grounds are strewn with timbers for half a inile around. Hundreds of windows were broken at Yellow Springs, and Springfield WHS considerably shaken, bringing the people to the streets In great alarm. The first explosion occurred in a wheel-mill. This coin 111 unleafed with the press-mill, where the powder in process of manufacture Is contained in canvass bags. The double dry-house, fifty feet square, containing a vast quantity of dry powder, came in next for destruction, from this the flames started on errand of terrible destruction, other mills following in quick *ucces.sioii. The Cincinnati Gazette special savs two large double dry-houses, three glaze mills, ou« canning mill, two press and one packing house were annihilated, while the remainder of the company's works were more or less Injured. The names of those instantly killed are Arthur Mero. David Conly, colored, Wm. Robblns and John Bullard. Henry Duncan, colored, Is wounded In the head, aud will probably die. Sam Miner was blown across the mill, and his hearing partially destroyed. Others were badly stunned, barely escaping with their lives. All the killed were men of families. From tweuty to twenty-five tons of powder were In the destroyed buildings. The eompanj estimate their loss at 825,000.-

FOREIGN.

The Augsburg Algemine Zeitung says that the attempt of England to forestall En rowan Judgment and gain an opinion in her favor is as foolish as it Is unjust. The Zeitung contrasts the slleuce and moderation of the American grew with the Illconsidered clamor of the Engdsh.

A Washington special says that the British nole to our Government concerning the Alabama claims, makes 110 formal demand for the withdrawal of any claims for Indirect damage**. It alludes to theexcltemeutof the public mind, and the dillvreii.t Interpretations put on the treaty.

The London telegraph complains that English newspapers are not sufficiently distinct and vehement In their denunciations of the American case. The Telegraph also says the demand of indemnity for the prolongation of the war Is so monstrous that leave® no other result but to shut the door In the face of all Indirect damages. The dally News contains a statement to the same effect.

The New York Tribuno's special from London says Earl Uranvillo's dispatch contains no threat to withdraw from the arbitration, and make* neither a demand nor a proposal. It simply calls attention in temperate and conciliatory language, to the meaning that England attaches to the treaty. Gladstone's speeches Tuesday and Wednesday are widely criticised as mischievous, offensive, needlessly Irritating, and It Is believed that several members of the Cabinet strongly disapprove of their pasalouate tone. The Cabinet and peopl are for abandoning arbitration unless the American claims are modified. Then- is no lntentk» to offer an affront to America. The situation is regarded In the highest English and American quarters as extremely grave, but not hopeless.

The following correspondence has been published as genuine, but it not con­

firmed.

Lonoon,

February 7.

To Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of Mate, Washington: SIR In view of the expression of opinion to what action Great Britain should take tn reference to the Geneva Conference, on the part of Chief Justice Onckbara. and the general tone of the English prwa, I desired to be officially Informed whether the Government of the United SUUes wlll ln any degree recede from Its claims for Indemnity as reeen ly presented.

Your obedl nt servant, HOSKKT M. 8CMKTCK,

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. .• BWARTHKJCT O* STATS,

WAMIINOINI.H.

February «.

Te Hon. Robert M. Hehenek, Envoy Extra, ordlnarv and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Hiatos. London.

Si*:—Von are authori* ti to affirm that in no event will the Government of the tolled State* recede from the positionilt has taken in relation to the Washington Treaty.

Yoor obedient servant, HAMILTON

Fwa.

Secretary of Slat*

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10. 1872.

A Rio Janiero letter gives the details of thn loss of the steamer America on her passage from Buenos Ayers to Montevideo on December 2a. The America sailed from Buenos Ay-rs on the 22d of December, taking 131 passengers. Her company consisted of over thirty persons, including the Captain, crew aud servants. On ttie morning or the 23d, when Cerreo.a well known point of the river was discovered twelve or fifteen miles ahead, one of the boiler tubes exploded. The steam rushed out into the lire room, Instantly scalding to death two firemen and oue coal-heaver, who were oiling portions of the machinery, at the same time extinguishing all the lights, and scattering live coals all about the room. Between boilers and on the steamer's sides«the heat was so Intense that it was impossible to rem 1 in longer below. The chief engineer informed Captain Bossie of the fact, who recommended that the pumps should be rigged immediately and set going. The pumps had not been used for a long time, and were in bad order. In the mean line it was deemed advisable to work the company for the saving of the passengers. The fire spread rapidly, consuming everything before It, The fire, being amidships,separated the steamer's company and passengers into two portions, naturally causing a panic, producing a deplorable confusion and a scene which It is impossible to describe. Of all the boats of the steamer only one could be lowered others not having been used for some time were secured so firmly to the boat shocks that it was next to impossible to remove them. The two which were launched were Immediately launched by half crazed passengers. Some more enercetic passengers tried to launch other boats, but it was impossible. At this time the officers had lost all control of the crew, who, with revolvers, were disputing aud fighting with the passengers for means of saving life. No signals were made to 1 he passing steamer Villa de Salto which would indicate any unusual danger on board the America, and It was not until the flames burst oui into sight that the officer in charge of the Villa de Salto was aware that there was any trouble or danger, .when he immediately put back to trie assistance of the

Vmerica. The Captain of the America, ssie, was the first to abandon Ills steamer, taking refuge on board an Italian vessel of war, where he 1ms siuce remained. His course has excited universal indignation In Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, aud he Is threatened with lynchin* if he appears on shore. The loss of life it not possible to learn with certainty, but It seems that more than sixtv persons perished. iti/scns of the United States were among the lost.

INDIAN UriNNbRS

The marvelous delicacy of touch possessed by the Indian women (says an English writer) counterbalances the inferiority of Indian cotton in weaving the fine and delicate muslins to which the names of "Webs of Woven Air," "Dew of Night," "Running Waters," etc., are given by the natives. They now use the spinning-wheel generally for the ordinary labrics, but "the spindle still holds its place in the hands ol the Hindoo wo.neu, when employed in spinning thread foT the finer muslins for those the Hi:idro woman first cards her cotton with the jaw-bone of the boalee fish she then separates Jhe seeas by means of a small iron roller, workeel backward and forward upon a flat board. An equally small bow is used for bringing it to the state of a downy fleece, which is made up into small rolls, to be held in the hand during the process of spinning. The appnratus required for this consists ot a delicate iron spindle, having a small ball of clay attached to it in order to give it sufficient weight in turning, and imbt dded in a little clay there is a piece of hard sholl, 011 which the spindle turns with the least degree of friction." Very great attention is paid to the temperature of the air during the process of spinning, and the spinners in the dry climate of the North-west of India actually work under ground to secure a moist a.id uniform atmosphere. The cheapr.es of EngUsh naaujjfdctured goods seems to have greatly oppressed the cotton fabfrta* of Iudla, bat the fini muslins of Uft latter oountry yet main .tfftd celebrity, and are vat tain undispuw ued as highly

.... ey«r. Dacca muslins aeb U1T1 nnj Jwrif of all. Onfp of the besi pieces, wweh found its was! to England, was ieo y»rd« lo»g on# «ide, weighed only three o«nom twd ma could l««sed

AFTER RECOGNITION, WHATf After God is recognized in the Constitution, what then? Is it to begin and end with a mere barren recognition or is the recognition to be the beginning of an order, the basis of a system of operations? Jf the first, where is the use Is it anything more than— does it not exactly meet the Idea of a vain oblation a thing of which he has declared his abhorrence? If the last, of what system of operations is it to be the initiative? It it is to serve as the basis of a scheme of afflrmltive action, that action must be political prosecuted by means of. political agencies, and culminating in political results. Religion, which means theology and finally ecclesiasticism, will baye made a lodgment in our institutions and then, call it ky what name we may, we shall have piety intensified by party, politics mixed with theology, and the Church mounted upon the State.— [Commoner.

E. PERKINS EL UC1DA TFS MY IRAR DON PIATT I congratulate you. I am glad you still live. I was under the impression that you died in the Galaxy a year ago.

Now, Donn! you say you met this original, witty showman, Artemus Ward, of whom our "Artemus" got ss much of bis information aud wit. Why in the dickensdidn't you got something out of hitn, too?

You .v Artemus Ward never got funny till he went to England—that ttoing to England **brought him out. D. Piatt! draw on me at sight for your passage money to England. Draw at once I Drawl!

A GOOD story Is told of an engineer who rnns locomotive on the western division of Erie railway. The track runs through an Indian reservation In Cattarauguecounty. One day ssquaw, holding a papponse in her arms, was standing on the depot stepsst Salamanca. As the engineer was drawing his train up to the ststlon, observing her, he called. "Hello! bare yon got little Injun there?" No," s*id she, "it's half logon and half enguneer!

A OORRKRFQXDBXT writes to the Houghton (Mica.) Gswttte: *'In Detroit the autborities hire Pontiaeera to bury tbowe who die from small-pox. The Pontlaoeni are then sewed up In sacks snd bt rncd to death. A large number of people from Pootlac make a liviog^lhu way."

TEN YEARS OF SILENCE.

BV HOWARD OLYNDON.

Howard Glyndon," the author of these lines, is a very popular lady writer. She is entirely deaf.—ED.] :S I

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Oh! It Is not often I dare to think Of the oue bright spot In iny burled past, Standing out in such bright relief

From the dimming shadows by Memory cast. Twenty years old to-day! Ah, well!

Ten nave wrapped me in silence about Since this terrible canker upon me fell, And the music of my life went out. .... Ten long years, and never a sound

To startle the stillness out of my life! Velvety muffled Its wheels go round, Noiseless, forever, in joy or strife.

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Sometimes rav Utile sister coraes, With a pitying look In her soft blue eyes, Murmuring words that I cannot hear.

The first time I was at dinner at Lord —well, it don't matter where. It is sometimes advisable to mention proper names. I don't think this would do any harm, though—at a dinner at Lord's cricket-ground, and the second time was on the occasion of which I am speaking,, when I found him drinking sherry and soda water, and smoking cheroots with three officers of Marines, one of whom, with five gloves (lady's six and a half) and a withered rose before him, was telling how—"After leading ine on in this way, after gaining my young affeqtions In this manner, by Jove! sir, she throws me over and marries Blubber."

It's like the sex," said the second larine. "It's woman that sejuicess all mankind," saj's the third Marine.

It reminds me of what once hap-

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to myself and Jenkyns you now the story he continued,turning to me. "So just order yourself some sherry and soda-water ah! aud while you are about it order some for me too and you can pay for them both when they come tnen I shan't be put out. Thank you I'll try oue of your cigars. Well, gentlemen," turning to the marines, "some time ago I was staying with Sir George House, shire. Great number of people there all kinds of amusement going on—driving, riding, fishing, shooting everything in fact. Sir George's daughter l?auny was often my companion in these expeditions, and I was considerably struck with her, lor she was a girl to whom the epithet 'stunnins' applies better than any other that I am acquainted with. She could ride like Nimrod. she could drive like Jehu, she could row like Charon, she could dance like Terpischore, she could run like Diana, she walked like Juno, and she looked like Venus. I'ye seen her smoke."

One good in her character, at any rate," said the third Marine. Just like the sex!" said the second Mtrine.

Ah! she was a stunner," continued Jenkyns, "you sbonld have heard that girl whistle and laugh—you should have heard her langh, she was truly a delightful companion. We rode together, drove together, fished together, walked together, nnced together sang together I called ber Fanny, and she called me Tom. Alt this could have but one termination, you know. I fell in love with her, and determined to take the first opportunity of proposing. So one day, when we were out together fishing on the lake, I went down on my knees among the gudgeons, seised'her band, pressed it to my waist coat, and in burning acoents entreated ber to become my wife. "Don't be a fool!" she said. "Now drop it, do! and put me afresh worm on.

O Fanny I exclaimed "don talk about worms when marriage is in question. Only say

I tell yon what It is, now," she replied, sngrily,"if you don't drop it, 1*11 pitch you out of toe boat." "Gentlemen," said Jenkyns, with strong emotion, "I did not drop it, and I give you my word of honor? with a sudden shove she sent me flying into the water then seising thcscnlls, *ith a stroke or two she put several yards between ns^md burst Into a fit of laughter that fortunately prevented ber from going any further. I swam np and climbed into the boat. 'Jenkyns,' said I to myself, 'revenge! revenge!" I disguised mv feelings. I laughed—hideous mockery of mirth—1 laughed. Palled to the bank, west to the boose

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Once, I thought ray mother's voice 1 t^.j Floated across the death-still blank, And my heart was astlr-but it died away.

Poor heart! how It fluttered, and hopeless sank!

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How she stirs the olden memories! She wonders to see the tears that fall, Like Summer showers, upon her brow 'Tls so hard to think of what has been,

When life is so different for me now!

IV.

God of the Silent! I cry at the door, That the path is too straight for my feet to tread: Yet know I whose footsteps have gone before,

Though the human is stubborn of heart and head. Oh! let the blessings of Patience come down

To ease my passionate soul of its pain! Let it shine on my brow like a martyr's crown!

Oh! give ine the sunshine after the rain!

Jenkyn's Revenge.

A TALE TIIA TWAS TOLD TO THE MARINES.

Now, mind, I will not guarantee the trjuth of this. I can only tell it you as he told it to us. It sounds improbable, certainly, but no one can say it is impossible. What'is thereto prevent a lady, if so inclined, from But that would spoil the story. And there is 110 law of nature, I suppose, to restrain a man who is dovoid of gentlemanly feeling as he is But that would teli what is coming. It is 110 good saying he was intoxicated, because I defy you to get drunk on sherry and soda-water and to lay it to the heat of the season is absurd, for it was a remarkably cool evening for August. No! Jenkyns is a man who has some strange experiences, and this was not the least strange among them. Still, uiind, I will not guarantee the truth of this though, by the way you don't often find a man tell the same tale twice in exactly the same way if it is not true, and I have heard him tell this twice.

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and changed my garments. When I appeared at the dinner table, I perceived that every one had been informed ot my ducking—universal laughter greeted me. During dinner Fanny repeatedly whispered to her neighbor, and glanced at me. Smothered laughter invariably followed. 'Jenkyns,' said I, 'revenge!" The opportunity soon offered. There was to be a balloon ascent from the lawn, and Fanny had tormented her father to let her ascend with the eennaut. I instantly took my plans bribed the seronaut to plead ill ness at the moment when the balloon should have risen learned from him the management ot the balloon, though I knew that pretty well before and caltnly awaited the result. The day came* The weather was fine. The balloon was inflated. Fanny was in the car. Everything was ready, when the aeronaut suddenly fainted. He was carried into the house, aud Sir George accompanied him to see that be was properly attended to. Fanny was in despair. "Ami to lose my air expedition!" she exclaimed, looking over the side of the car. "Some one understands the management of this thing, surely? Nobody Tom she called out to me "j'ou understand it, don't you "Perfectly J" I answered. "Come along, then!'' she cried "be quick, belore papa comes back."

The company in general endeavored to dissuade her from her project, but of course in vain. After a decent show of hesitation, I climbed into the car. The balloon was cast off and rapidly sailed heavenward. There was scarcely a breath of wind, and we rose almost straight up. We rose above the house, and she laughed and said:

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"How jolly!"

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We are higher than the highest trees, and she smiled and said it was very kind of me to come with her. We were so high that the people below lookod mere specks, and she hoped that I thoroughly understood the management of the balloon. Now was my time. "I understand the going up part," I answered "to come down is not so easy," and I whistled.

What do you mean she cried. "Why, when you want to go up faster you throw some sand overboard," I replied, suiting the action to the word. "Don't be foolish, Tom," she said, trying to appear quite calm and indifferent, but trembling uncommonly. "Foolish!" I said. "Oh dear, no but whether I go along the ground or up in the air, I like to go down the pace, and so do you Fanny, I know. Go it, you cripples," and over went another sandstone.

Why, you're mad, surely," she whispered ~in utter terror, and tried to reach the bags, but I kept her btck.

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with love, my dear," I answer­

ed smiling pleasantly only with love for ycu. Oh, Fanny,"I adore you Say you will be my wife?" "I gave you an answer the other day," she replied, "one which.I should have thought you would have remembered," she added, laughing a little, notwithstanding her terror. "I remember it perfectly," 1 answered, "but I intend to have a different reply to that. You see those five sand bags. I shall ask you five times to bocome my wife. Every time you refuse, I shall throw over a sand bag so, lady fair, as the cabmen would say, reconsider your decision, and consent to become Mrs. Jenkyns." "I won't," she said. "I never will! And, let me tell you. you are acting in a very ungentlemauly way to press me thus." '•You acted in a very lady-like way the other day, did you not?" I rejoined, "when you knocked me out of the boat ?4

She laughed again, for she was a plucky girl. "However," I went on, "it's no use arguing about it, will you promise to give me your hand "Never," she answered, "I'll go to Ursa Major first, though l'*e got a big enough bear here, in all conscience. Stay! You'd prefer Aquarius, wouldn't you

She looked so pretty that I was'almost inclined to let ner eff. (I was only trying to frighten her, of course— I knew how high we could go safely well enough, ana how valuable the life ol Jenkyns was to his country) but resolution is one of the strong points of my character, and when I've begun a thing I like to carry it through, so threw over another sandbag, ana whistled the Dead March in Saal. "Come, Dr. Jenkyns," she said suddenly, "come, Tom", let us descend now, and I'll promise to say nothing whatever about this."

I continued the execution of the Dead Marcn. "But if you do not begin the descent at once I'll tell papa the moment I set my foot on the ground."

I laughed, seised another bag, and looking steadily at ber, said: "Will you promise to give me yonr hand "I have answered yon already," was the reply.

Over went the sand, and the solemn notes of the Dead March resounded through the car. "I thought you were a gentleman." said Fanny, rfstng up in a terrible rage from the bottom of the car, where she had been sitting, and looking perfectly beautiful in her wrath "I thought yon were a gentleman, but I find I was mistaken why, a chimney-sweeper would not treat a lady in such a way. Do yon know that you are risking your own lile as well as mine by your madness.

I explained that I adored her so mncb that to die in her company would be perfect bliss, so that I begged she would not consider my feelings at all. She dashed ber beautiful hsir from her face, snd standing perfectly erect, looking like the Goddess of Anger or Boadicea—if yon can fancy that personage in a balloon—she Id •*I command yon to begin the descent!" The "Dead March," whistled in a manner essentially gay and lively, was the only response. After a few moments silence I* took np another bag. and said:

We are getting rather high if yon do not decide soon we shall bare Mercury coming to tell us that we are tresjax»in^—will you promise me your

She sat in snlky silence In the bottom of the car. I threw over the sand. Then she tried another plan. Throw­

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ing herself upon her knees and bursting Into tears, she said: On, forgive me for what I did tbo other day It was very wrong and E* am very sorry. Take me home and I:'! will be a sister to vou."

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I can't, I can't" she answered#* Over went the fourth bag, and I be*1' gan to think she had beaten ine after1' all, for I did not like the idea of going'1 much higher. I would not give in just^ yet, however. I whistled for a few3* moments to give her time for reieo-'J5 tion, and then said

Fanny, they say that marriages are*1 made in heaven—if yon don't take care" ours will be solemnized there."

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"Come," I said, "my wife in life, or* my companion in death!" Whioh ii® it to be? and I patted the snnd ba« in^ a cheerful manner. Siie hid her finee^ in her hands, but did not answer. I nursed the bag in my arms as if it had'^ been a baby.

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"Come, Fanny, give me your prom-u ise!" I cobld hear her sobs. I'm the most^ soft-hearted creature breathing, and1* would not pain any living thing and,^ I confess she had beaten me. I forgive" in I or a or jecting me. I was on the point of" flinging the bag back into the car, and saying: "Dearest Fanny, forgive me"' for frightening yon. Marry whomso-^ ever you will. Give your lovely hand1' to your lowest groom in the slables—*1:. enaow with your princeless beauty the chief of the Paukinwuuki Indians.?* Whatever happens Jenkyns is your:.fi slave—your dog—your lootstool. His'^ duty, henceforth, is to go whithersoever^* you shall command." I was just onfe the point of saying this, I repeat, when1" Fanny suddenly looked up and sald,^ with a queerish expression upon her"2 face: "You need not throw that last bag*' over. I promise to give vou my

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With all your heart," 1 asked qui -h-?* ly. "With all my heart," she answered^ with the same strange look.

I tossed the bag into the bottom oft^ the car, and opened the valve. The'**' balloon descended. "Gentlemen," said Jenkyns, rising from his seat in the nr.ost solemn man-' ner and stretching out his hand as if* he was going to take an oath. "Gen-I tlemen will vou believe it? When weipJ had reached the ground, and the bal-t?' loon had been given over to its recov-'' ered master—when I had helped Fanny#* tenderly to the earth, and turned to-"' inward her to receive anew the promise of her affection and her hand—will^j you believe it?—she gave me a box on' the ear that upset me against the car, and running to her father, who at that moment came up, she related to him' and the assembled company what she^1 called my disgraceful conduct in the'5 balloon and ended by informing me. that all ber hand that I was likely to get had been already bestowed upom my ear, which she assured me had boen^, given with all her heart."

You villain said Sir George, ad-Ht vancing toward me with a horsowhlpi3' sv in his hand. "You villain I've at good mlud to break this over your .'* back." "Sir George," said I, "villain andy' Jenkyns must never be coupled in thev* same sentence, and as for the breaking ", of this whip, I'll relieve you ol the trouble." And, snatching it from ills' hand, I broke it in two and threw the' pieces upon the ground. "And now I' shall have the honor of wishing you': I good morning! Miss P. I forgive you.'14" And I retired.

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"Now I ask yon whether any specimen of female treachery equal to that has ever come within your experience, and whether any excuse can be inadei for such conduct."

As 1 said before, it's like the sex,'' said the second marine. Yes, all mankind is sejuiced by wo-!" men," said the third marine.

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on in that way—after gaining my afl'estions in that treacherous inannea, by Jove! sir, she goes and marries Blub--.vL ber!" "Well, It does aound improbable. certainly, very improbable. But I said before I begun that I would not guarantee the truth of it. Indeed, if yon» ask my candid opinion, I don't believe it is true but yet the marines believe it!" 'i

THE OBJECT OF LIFE. The narrow object of life, as set forth m. and defined by the theology of the past, and which Is not vet cast off by the world that has in reality outgrown It Jare a disgrace to enlightened people,and should be dismissed from the cal-'" 3 a re or in a re prevalent Ideas of the moral purpose^' ol this world which have prevailed a re"4* in the first place that it is a wreck, that'*** it can never be rebuilt and all that

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can be done for this world is to get out?'" a few bales and to save the crew if pos- ', Bible, but the old foundering thing itself it is supposed must go down that men are on earth, it Is held by some, for the especial purpose of getting off from it again safely into another world,"/ and so that is accomplished it is supposed to matter veryHittle what they leave behind or how they fare. Her.*-'" Ilenry Ward Beecber, in a recent lee-'** turs, says that such a system of lifs^* would set dvilizition at defiance. A sounder theory is that towards whichf all Christian men in our times are un-4,,. consciously tending, namely, that in every generation we are to »e sure to', seek to prepare men for another life, but that the best possible preparation for another life is one which shall ike'/* this at the same time a fairer,

iurer, nobler and better earth to be In. We bold that this world is^., built as a kind of a school-house world.' where men are being educated, una that a part of their euucition consists"' in building the world, and that by that 'M building tbey are themselves developed, and that they are to leave it to their [»osterity a better one, and so generation after generation to polish it, l«j cultivate itj to augment the stores or beneficent influences, to diminish the a malign tendencies in it until there ,., sbalfcome a day in which It shall glow'^ in universal light, and shine in unire*--" sal purity.

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