Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1874 — Page 6

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for

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WHO ABU THE RICH.,

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turn hi M«d

all.

fyoa net

F6fc$U 'b *»1 Kim stovef

In air, sad IltX«FO« i.

Are iithaod D«ai tOMtX

Tfs

and *11 wMod, Joy«ad OMnfMt l-yiiiT, ?g

Ikd*any own •nonthaBdoiw "'-0 The BoWWrtltolurnncc, JU»U lu Unst Towho? to you belon 1)4 WOfe?

:i't rest

Dow mrf *sur »»tlM4wpd«l!K))t ioSlti,a.»t* ,•,ni..I -..4 bright Then you're not i. Of All th T*at

tfw»ltat»frrld hM no bos*t,~». 'if rich who love the

AnTthi

res and titles and changes, his

he.-. •. forward with a great yearninn to the ope thinc he pray* may never ItBd feafclng out from her upon the nose of the mountain, it I, s. boot-room window, and vjuily i'rom the exercise she l» g, Maggie Mlddlebrook sees ng down at tlu hotel, shaking

tUiiu owmi him ha ana

itht and left, receiving welcome e: i* is !at i' nail akmg ilte streei, o»ly» oming

to her

uUi past all with •rd and coming—eor

*C came near and turned to «TOS^:

tb* flbot-patli ti...' {zaggttd up to he* pe—*• through »»ggy pinea, and he ntc road and looked npand r. He waved his hand and p« ed ui v^sight, and wh«tthe ha«la»oo«»t«d sii sleep mm emerged on the shelf of Uh :r

v:n.

Yonrv rays hi to*' Sp* tead ghereverr^*

.-«v

ran

good," she saMLMyoa*v |uJ to me. Bert, fndeed,

.'Ii

,i .ister

w«H," ••No, spsakiiw in a wwlile—way, mm yer. "Tbis cursed bote toe, yoo

MOW

men may fuu jt golden mtu botjoatthat little part which Uuv ebsetvd some human

•J

Cinnabar City.

*f JAWtg'v. hcst^Y f.t'*y

You stand in the road looking up and weft Be fore you stretch eat he gorge between the stark mountains that low® in1 wpitab" on either hand, above the .\ .• lines uildings that have to barrow Into the crowding feet of the opposite In-i«ht^ to make room for the road between th an. At the upper end a sharp ni ntain face wedges down and split# tli" i^orge Into tws, and on a shelf of this 'rf«m neretod the mhool and? th^ newijmuinrourjt). dnnf*

^Behfe tfe»"road $fn8a ou sight ubwr. wwards the lonely foot-hills, and already you can holt tte'edbotenr rumble of the coach from below, and will pr^nUxca| ,UjAj*itp&o£vw^ and jingle of Oa the bo* tl":r.t 4fenfM llAt

Isome passenger, whom the driver carried before and to whom tee has shows respect. about the mines and

dty in the months he has been away, in

which time Cinuabar has doubled itself once or twk-c. ,m -M~ Before the-edtohifOprfaT tb* #$**• silver hotel," I must tell you the history of the man on the box-seat. His name is Garrett Colyer. He was born in an eastern country town, studiod law thefr* And went awav to the city to seek Ms fortune, went tock at an hour's notice to defend a scapegrace Mtara friends had no money ftt) far coda**,iKptbtoi off by the skin of anf otitof! ar!i of other warrants none too soon. Tiw scape-grace was to reform, having already repented, and await his father and sister in the fer west, and provide for Ihem when they came out to him. go witM Oolyer cent on tbelyf parage and itimoftr, whence a glowffig -grace. but her Ivtler lewMftti^^cit^iliUk Ins the *un"nor Inducements of Quartz

own. Arriving in*

let: f^xkef found, no scape

"^J^ther, daughter and friend were forced to ^ttrworltlbrviWy stttwfctdace

oct wther west in search of the scapesrr.MMv and alter mouths in the wild eoud&jr rittunied aloni. Hi Ifcftiid a partnership with a young attoaruey naixdH Bidley, and becoming mg&ged 1n a mlt, iuvoivhK tfce tUle «f the greater'* pan of the land the town oc«3 d, ne went to Washington and

Bi^hi,raa7

jST'tYT.

^"liat *. i" TM hftn Cnis roomla JU4..J# lwr*y*o«*i| nor admire his neVr-do-fe&Mv «ho had been dead iiowfor r'.y year. No, he. did not love old ^Qadfrbrook ndr his good-fa*-n&Uung mo, but he did love their sistar and daughter. All that and more he h»! lone#* he went east he introduced his partnert.- iu and asked him to see th*ir«!te.i.4u4u to no harm. Now he Is eomU% ImnSc, Mid aahe talka to the drive

I'm »^ck, I tell you," Kidlcy luoswered roughly "I'm going to bed. I don't I him laybei

KSi.ISrSS ...

and oae of the walls of rock, while the other towered in the shatlow. A few houses Riraggied along the forlorn su)llrh nftKa "Mtf iq|{[ Oolyer stopped before one of them on the dark aide,

burb of the ^eltr," an®

and while he stood a moment in the moonlit road somebody came out of the shadow by the doorway, and, approached and spoke his name. "Ootne, Maggy,w he said, "I want to speak to you.

On the lighted side of the gulch, and a little higher up, a small otuinp of pines grewou a shelf of the mouutain*, not to gain, and he led the way thith When they said:

stood among the trees he

Maggy, you sal4 you ^believed RVdleywas not very well. He s^yt he is sick, and I don think he was glad to nuch changed

have me back. lie Is muc! and acts very strangely. up tojxsd and# tpw him ©n tho strec jnst 7»w4 knowjp&at's the ^He spJIfe1 steadily ^a gravely, an he turned pale visibly with the white leonlightonher upturned face: "Yes, I suppose I do." Her voice was steady, tiuwweh very low pa& jh# put, lwr^rtik

seeing thai And" asleep, t..

The driver is teli^g hiau growth of the

the

8pffiaioo^Sat

idw was waiting for him

at v.-h.-a-bowii daor. He «»i cie^ und ok both her hands, and she «fn»l*d a to«eh soberaees, and di COl-

arfy, Vm *4rf f^ul you've

I her on ind kwd at Imht, tad

suof^ A

JIM'

tr.xit.ie. Maggie? Haa I? Is there anydl#I, H-4?" *«.!.! j.iHt! "No, I bed«isfericie.A that.*' he aakl, drawftw "V -w np&d: -tw mtm

to be do ft

trAohUM

(I slug, But l"m t!*i! w, ami vou *s ont hnvt

fire

and am

ta*(!f«d. HI five Is upwh« aayfo* *wt dooH mv ••••ont. Yon is l-ibes--

SI?t

», and

I 'ifiaii do »«U, I am

.... rt down fto Kbsep »a!y street. H«wi» jdkin* to tor wton.

.1 S

n.-n.tf u}-,

his iy. aglft his own IB t, law (Met. loi Rkliey." to «*W.

He left me to

goili Ifcii saJtighli^„t^.iste»Jvi

shook from head to foot, ig have you known?" he I

Only sTnee yesterday. His eager ear caught the faintest tremor in her voice now, and it shook liko wind. He turned his jtece away oked althe mOottwibhont saying or seeing anything for a little wnile. Then she said: ««v

and not hei don't ktfbw What I was see it before, lie not ki*w ab»»ft™us, and

think yott tdtfim l^^WWTiTiu. am very sorry. Wf JfiRent emotion, and only ewkcd-jf "^Vhat did "\-ou ^y to fiimT^*"

She flushed up, and legan tp answer quicklr, 4 Mfm doubt! JBuV wh^abe bpmmore plain lyher votee broke tt^ smdddnTjrimd shem&<mtt wftpi® she Mis,•»!

ne ftverth^ ledge, aha fetiK!mbered having satin the gravel so once when a chiK, iyadit^Wd wbbtes irtto the *a-

quite calmly it seemed as if his heart

BUt you um mmihB Whdfe trda%

fon

Maggy And she answered passionately: "Oh, you havo n# righ&t*aak we that. I do ose deserve il-l haytf dfoflle ^yoif no wrong. I serrt %im tfw^y as^sOon as I knew Qfik jj wt* forty,, ae^ toldihlia so but I told him I could jiover think hut von, and thonghthe knew it all ther'tim. ItoJd him how gbod ^oti hM fllttayf fo toe, and J«w e'aidly yon were Imrt, nml ho pmnn^ hied to go away as soon as you came. Dont be unkind it's not like you." And she reached out both hands to him

tidrjmadow* elBcrou^

stretched hands, bnt did not move towards her and he asked |u*t|uifbetoretll Is there nothing more ?,r

Sho drew back her hands, and lifted her head. "You have no right to ask me," she answered, speaking rapidly, and unsteady with passion. "You have no right to a»k what I ^rould ^ot let him xsk i*ysffl£ iiet

If» can do, an

No, dont go,

SffWtobt*?

'•MMW

I '•iW liitl

li- yo

i* rt h.

iJltt

of manner, toelt IwSd

atvi f'.tmd hint s! i!u»

SaifkMWn

Ih"

1 you 6av

and Colyer spoke *ir»rly I have aright to know the truth, do know ft. rkheir It whMi I flnit met you to-day."

The girt began to roefe herself, and to cry again, disconsolately now, and with ffeiir.

Oh, I csnt help It," she sobbed, "I dent know how osme about. I dont tMnk we were to blame. It's a forsaken place, and I had no friends when you had gone. And too know you introduced us, and teld me to be kind to him. Ami be was very pleasant, and helped tne not to be loneis? aadfl ft now I meant Mi* ifioupS

con-

tlnaed slowly. "When you look back

tfwj rrere silent, and seemed to lt«t* se£M intimation of sn eeespe from their dismal onamlary. But only the breese mag under its breath In the pine Deftghs of the &• eoh •hd a stone. lwnnM heights, clMtered

mif|n tim*

be said. "Uood night.' She etood and ,_too h#t$o# h|sj she

^Wby not," headed. "Ia there any! in*" I

going to hurt him? wont hart him." "Oh. indeed!"

aiwiW^X witt I want met* hurt

So yon don*:

TBRHE H^PlUTE/9ATIXRB^LY

SKKuS&i.S ^&Z. iL*2g&£S mms but looked hard, and Of* *k#m1

pinea.

one tb»v. Th«a to went wit and hunted Umi stems and J»tei% tet did aM

Pud"$kk,9 Riffle* answered, ttnd hlnu Coming out of ana of he was met bjra man named Bruce, editor of the Cinnabar Mereury, and I've got to getout of li. 1 want {and a pnossfaieot ctttMB, *k® to come krtd get things In hand, on him and told him something shoat

and aqaare upiMX»o«(uta. I'll see you in the naomUMi." iw Ue was going out, but Celyer stopped him. "Oh, hold On, Ridley," he said. "What i» the matUnr with you? What the devil is it all about T"

committee of arrausetnepis for

eonimlttee of arraiiBenH»ui» for pro[pOMd reception of toe city's distinguished uiuaaol, and celebration of the nappj? tenniiiatiou of the law-suit with anoh important results to tbe mountain ui«tropolis, as he was eonftdent jptpitiff', was aeon to be.

Colyer bade him iooghly to let *6 of ln», snd consigned niui to perdltioa

kne^what it Is iaaSyb^i^li the mereur/1 ^th his eeleb^onik Many other In the air. I've got a bad turn, and I'm hands and voices greyed Win, but he going to bed. JSmteome with mei I'm poshed past wHhoat heeding, and sn a* ugly as Satan, and not fit lobe spoken I wwered no one a word. to." 0%mt eat alone la tbeoAee thinking till the d*y went out. Then he locked the door and went jdotut the dark road beyond the flaring tlgms of the town, and turned to the east

He came out of the Bubarbsn hotel, and the town was behind him, Hei ed up to the dkx% outlines of the helj andsaw above him the tower of th tie church, tipped by the moonUghMmd

up the traverse I dim, lower down In the shadow, the In between the] school house perched like a bird-house cliff. Heellmbedths braak-neok nud oau»e out beside the silent building. Here,on the point of the ledge, where a pine or two made a little shade in tbedaytkne, he had sat with her that happy afternoon before he went away.

It had seemed so hard to go than, and now he looked back to that parting as to a great and unattainable happiness. All the months he was away he had seen her sitting there, with the sunlight slanting down from the peaks, and flickering through tlv* pine needles on her face and he had hungered fbr the meeting her there again! tie wished be had nevor come bade, that he had died with that thought of her in his heart. Ho lay down on his face on the bare rock where she had sat, and did not move for along While. In the saloons and hotels of more towns than one the news sproad that night that Colyer of Cinnabar had come back and many a man envied him bis good luck or praised bis well-earned success, and prophesied a golden future for hhn, Arid the rode foltthe pressure of his face, and the wanton wind played with his hair, und the only thing that pitied hhn was the height that cast their shadows over, him and hid him ftaraadfcht,.

By and by he got ub and went slowly vvn the path and through the town.

The saloons and hotels were the onl places open now. He went up to Ridley's room, and found him there asleep, Ills disordered head was over the edge of the bod, end the bedclothes half on the floor. The moon had got round by this time and lighted this uppor room. All Celyer's movements were slow and like the motions of an old man

His ^rst tierce passion had been hatred, blind, unreasoning, overpowering, but $ven fn the unresisted sway ot it his bitual keen perception hud seen the of it, and whilo he had hunted idley eagerly, ho had been glad as a bystander might that he had not found mm. An immense pity for himself, a feeling of astonishment that such a tremendous hurt was possiblo, and that he of all the thousands, should suffer it took possession of him, and pushed away jetty jealousy almost out ot sight, ^nio unendurable pain that must yet be endured, the awful sense of loss, the loss of the worth of everything iti life and yet tho burden of the empty, intol.Nowhere

nn^5"

to sob and bemoan hefselk And Colyerlerable life still to be borne, sai jWUcil hifi'/bu# %ot ttrtR«ftli% orfto turn^-eVerythiiig futile—fto help or

ing to her and his hands finding 4»fe$ hetM^tth htonst^ewa\«i^h loose l^^Md»tpdlbti«|l7 fNMhg

bit8

understanding. It was so terrible, and it might so easily not have been yet it wai irremediable. He wanted nothing but what he had lost, and that was gone and neither haste nor revenge, nor death could bring it back. That was the intolerable part of it—the futility of everything. The only possible solace the thing lost, and that was—lost! did not love Ridley, but the sting of it was that it made no difference,and that

His

pfty of himself, He lifted the disordered head,and laid it on the pillow: sat,down on the edge of the bed, and looked at him with introverted eyes and a face full of wrinkles. And Ridley opened his eyes and stared him. "What are yon

iatnow?"

he asked,

roughly. "What do you want?" A sudden flush shot into Colyer's face, fiftd he cursed him and took him by the throat. "Don't speak to me like that," he said "I'll kill you if you do. I want what you've stolon from me. Give it back to me, will you ?",

Then his look changed as suddenly back to the old one, and ho lay down on his face beside Ridley. .Ridley sat up and looked down at him, scowling and wondering a little while, then stepped over him softly and pulled on some clothing, watching the motionless form that lay dark in the shadow. Then be stood over him a minute, turn, ad away and wheeled about two or tfree times, put his head out of the windrow, and looked up and down the street. Anally came' back abrnptiy, and bent

into CSolyet^ fcsud BOed the other and lighted it, mA drew a dtalr and sat right in frtmt of hi«p»rtner, so that their knees touched.

Ridley pnfffetihard a minnute or two, staring squarely into Colyer's free, who, for his part, held his pipe between his toeth, snd let it go out. Ridley leaned ftjfward and looked into the bowl of (flyer's pipe and knocked it roughly with his own. "Why don't you smoke?" he said, harshly and be tipped the fire into it out of his own, and by so doing put ttftra both out. Then he got up and laughed, and went about the room shakand doubled, and startling the night with deep-toned, tumultuous laughter. And be stood still and cursed himself ami (Vayer ftjr a couple of babies and

••Vm ooniemned,"

?lessly 6ir sway,

he continued

fiercely "if I know myself or you. Here are two great hulking follows who have fe ed wild beasts and wild wen, who have tasted famine snd loneliness, and dered them

cold and heat* and who have shared good and evil fortune, and risked life togettor, »nd we come mid alt down here as If the whole world were one little school teacher and there was Only room enough for ops of us two to walk to. and the only path tor either of us was over the other. Look tore

looked! It's fhto that's tied as up let fkte setMelt," He took tip Wkg&mmon board, threw himself down In his chair again,

~7Toh dont rt+riM like ttoi," she said, and set tto bocrd on their knees bewith a'eadden J^raenewL^VouVe W jtween thenu He took the dioe box ihen

Promise me yw ai^myd ^idO^lyer. And Uolyar said, "You flrst.^ on't wantan

it want mate hurt) "I dontwam any oa^'«wiey aa-

my MOMtirt. -ihp not boaid toad w. Ttoa with a swift Mangel and threw. Ow

**I don't want wtjr odds," Kid \om uj aeent

him? Wd you him not to hurt me? swered. "I'tt Um up tor Anrt. my and It t&t tto

toids*' He threw up

He look up the dice Iyer ton! ftwward and

^Thtfn li," l« mid. "I might well

^Snfn Sait'S'^fSd, *Tto«S*4oubl©.*4x. inae wto* i»* 5 Ridley tod ed ap the 4: and

thrown tfcew i*t» the boa, and be sat

ontfee ioer and got up, upsetting the bianl 4 D—n the dhk" he lie drew ups table before Oo|yer and Istmslii out nls chess-box, and rajsnly

Oto uowpi md set wp (he men. You taught me tha asmo," to said. "You can't oa»pia«^rf yow fltoto©.

tWill

you play

And Colyer sat forward with a sudden, reselttt»$gh»in his foes, sod mo*e& his

He unlocked a drawer and took Out a tin toXfqfMHMd it and took

out

a bundle

of papers snd threw them on the table. Cblyer ment" Whleh

from under tlie„ iHllow, and laid them on the bonds, ,, I play them,'** he saSd "I play any ftonre, W gun, my books, iny share and good-will in the business, and if 2 bsve anything els^ I stake it on this

Sothey foil to and played pawn against I ft pawn, knight, ami castle, and b&hop, IA and queen, keenly, and grimly, with I heads beads bent over the board, the moonlight falling white on their stern, intent faces, snd darkening them with blank shadows. They played long, not relaxing an instant, now and then re-

moving apiece from the board or muttering the few low words that were part orthogatne. By and by Ridley paused longer thap usual before moving, and then moved slowly and heavily, and then, without haste Or hesitation, Colvar put otrt his hand, and moved also. Themtbey Itoth leaned back and stood but Ridley did not stand straight, tiiey stood opposite one another lor a minute, and then Ridley lifted his head with a motion as if, it hurt, and said harshly:

Let me Alone now want to sleep. I'll go in the morning." He took A small bottle from the shelf, and drank a mouthful out of it and tjarew himself Into the bed, making It creak alarmingly. Presently Colyer heard him breathing heavily in a drugged slumber,

Colyer sat fccing the window, watchIpg tbo ghastly squaro of moonlight ^ep across tho floor and up tho legs of I Mi ittlo tablo and sitting there alone in the still night, a fierce conflict of passion and blind yearnings waged within him. The overpowering longing to liavo things a* he had never doubte.1 lliey woore, to have what he had lived for, and ne e\rerything for, and was all that be ted for, possessed him entirely. He had played no 'man false $ he had honestly won his prize, arid ho man could gainsay it. Why should' he question, then Why was he troubled or divided? Bui his hurt pride, wounded and in the dust as it was, stood up and asserted Itself. Had he forgotten or grown cold through absence, or let another creep into her place? Had she not made him seoond Did he want a mended faith Then his half-drowned reason took her part against his prido and pain. Had he not her esteem, her strong friendship, her confidence, her unfeigned gratitude? Had Sho power to give him more? Could debt, or dutv, or -willingness give more? Did he owe her anything, that he gave her all he had! Yes, he owed to her, or to his thought of her, all that was best in himself—afl that was pure, or strong, or true. And had lie been altogether unselfish, after all Had he, indeed, done all for her sake only? Behind that bad he not hidden his own immense gainhis soul's one desire? Was not she, too in trouble to-night, and had he not put her pain aside as not eemparable to his own How did he know his was the greater? And, was she to blame! Who was to blame! Honestly, he. .could not teli.

And all the while tHaC he was questioning and combating with himself, his bitterness and awful sense of loss was none the less above all that. The waters of desolation went over him and swept him to and fro, yet would not the brave man within him suffer him to be borne altogether from his foothold. Some words said by Robertson of Brighton came to him vaguely, to the effect that though a man should lose everything, even to his Mth in God, yet would it still remain to him to do justice, and love mercy and truth. In some grim way there was a certain satisfaction iu the thought of his still being able to trample himself under foot, like the sang of pleasure one feels in the crushng grasp of the forceps on an aching tooth. But this counter current of selr-

assertion lay deep beneath tho flood ofl quentlv? misery that overwhelmed him. Yet, though his breath came hot and biting with pain and anger towards her and Ridley,In his deeper and more abiding self *he was forcing himself to be just, and acknowledged tfiat neither was especially to blame, and that both were in trouble a# well as he. His heart swelled against the inscrutable fate that had wrought it, as Ridley said. And yet even in that dark passage, he held fast to his abiding faith In the right and justice of the Hand that guides the world, whose grasp upon our hearts becomes, times, like that, so palpable and awful reality. He knew it was right not that he understood or comprehended any sense of the word in which it could be right, but he felt that he and those others and their trouble were parts, aa were there the stars and the dark heights before his eves, and the whole struggling, suffering, laughing, unseeing race of men, of one Infinite whole, the finite thought or words could no more comprehend than a foot-rule gauge the waers of the sea. A grsafc humility overcame him, ami bis iteart went out with deep pity for all bis blind, si foolish orothei to understand.

At any courage also, but ho felt no great bravery then.

Ho got up slowly, as If A Arrest weight toile pressed hitn down, end moved about in «rtd

down toward the gate. She stoor lttttoway ofi Btlu and as if &

me, Maggy," Colyersai^r .j came near wnd looked up at aim an smsiioas, dMrsased nee and. mmiagaat to know wtot tsaf.^u ap ^J^j^s^depire«aUa«ly, and to took ,—, ..

WFV»yon

are nip too, $ftHttCj7*he sdd and smiled in a pitiftti IkwAiiob. ?«s,"she answerad with athicirin her throat at first. "Do you could, sleep while you, are In trouble? Indeed I am net so udgtateftil

ness think

I am vety, vwy aoiry P' He turned away hia head hettong^k she might have told him it was not true, that it was all a horrible dream. But no,

she wsaaorry, very, it wa» all too t«e. again «»d ^P9|te with now, "I've been gy {dont you think I

as yen my lis

vef Yes, you

And ahe answsirod indwd,"

I think I would have died for you I have

I to everything I

iav*j put your good and happiness befon» everything else, or have meant to a*iy rate, I am quite sure. I thought I wm nnadl&ife, bat I dont knew now I don't know whether them's any such thing. But there's only one thing to do now/*

And do yon think I can do and en dure l* am not

ina aoyooraimt «in «o anu ennothing?" she answered pmwiotxte"Oh, do not go. I will 8lu)W, you I lot forgetfttl or uhgratefbl."

He leaned beek in the shadow and said notliine. Her last words stung him n. He had bo] «r nlng she said only conflrm

again. He had hoped against hope that she would prove his resolve unnecessary ed but everytl his concltisiotK'. gratitude.

Wbe

He did not want tor

No, it's no good, Maggy," he said. "Pmnot finding ftiult with you, and I do not mean to blame you. It's a mis-

bless yon, Maggy, Good-bye." While she was trying to gather her senses to answer him, he turned about and she saw him move away and pass out of her sight, walking siowly and with the motions of one long sick. lie felt faint: the shadow of the heights weighed him down. He got his horse from the stable his hands fumbled weakly with the saddle and bridle. He took no provision, no weapon of defense.

He had no conscious thought or care which way he went only these stark, black gorges were a horror to hilta, and the thought of the boundless plains drew him somehow. Out of the utiully sleeping, God-forsaken settlement, ana into the awfhl loneliness of the lower de files, he rode to meet the morning coming up the eastern slopes.

pushed part

ly under his pillow, and the bond* in their case lay in the open drawer. The chessmen had been replaced in their box and set away. In their stead on the ta-1 iy ble stood thSidioe-box and a penny lay the beside it with the head turned up. The boti dioe lay together as if thrown, and the count was a double-six.

MORRTSSEY OX THE BEECHERTILTON SCANDAL. We have some philosophy at last from John Morrissey. Towiisend, the Bohemian, found him at Saratoga the other day and "touched^" him ou the TiltonBeecher business. When novelists like Charles Reid, and ex-pri«e fighters like Morrissey begin to teach better than the paid moralists of the pnipit, it is tkue for society to "take an account of stock." Gath tells the story thus

Recent events having been unfavorable to the pursuit of morality in better directions, I went down to John Morrisaev's club house last nighty He was at leisure and communicative! Said I:

Mr. Morrissey, have you formed an opinion in the matter of T. Tilton versus his pastor?"

No, sir, I haven't. I have no desire to lead such scandals. They sadden men and communities. They make us bow our heads. SucHi a tissue of weakness and superstition as that revelation seems to be is pitiful. Andagreat man. too, as I always held Mr. Beecber to be! Such a style and stature of American! Well, if we don't respect ourselves, who will?"

There was a pause. Mr. Morrissey brought hfe powerful expression into form a«ain, and said

Sir, go along the porches of those big

hotels, and what do you find most fro-

Novel reading, oi lamed

or a woman

coquetting with a married man. The novel generally dealing in domestic infelicities, and painting up the superiority of tho outside lover to the prejudice of the husband. 'Half the women living for a false Ideal, And deploring the monotony of real Hfo.

Why a large part of 'em think they must have both a husband and an adviser, instead of advising with the husband and of him, as in the old days I respect the pastoral relation, but your pastor is apt to be tbo first led away. He's the first to surrender to a woman's sympathy. I'm orthodox, sir, in my views ortiiem thtnfls. •»M

and stood up 111 thoring, IM Inorer tot P™?

they leg another. For example, the feet will

duty. It's the first thing to take care of hand, and then started, lor

ittto

all the days of vour life. Now them people are all ruined, no matter who started the offense. Nothing in this world will give 'em the sweet sleep they bad.'" FASHIONABLE LADIES' UNDER

WEAR,

Under clothing" Increases In costli-

stumbling, new from year to yeart the pnnde now

rothers, and a strong yearning I appears, not bow little but rather how stand. Hart as he was, almost much to spend, for JbttUe imaginations *blv. he vet clunir to what was I are at work to invent methods of getting rid of money. Ladles who are only con-

sidered moderate spenders now never dream of wearing anything but silk stockings for day as weU ew^ag paasing atony-he toilet. These stockings are "very fine, feuce—4esuspicious of him perhaps be always match the dress with which I contemplates stealing, some of these they are worn or what is more fashion-1

«iu, tbtfpot to one. color and the

..... .. ^ot

teone

to one, oolorand the queer

be black, and the upper part straw or flesh color, tto npper

iip the chess-board, and tbe game^they" had played, lie now first noticed that Ridley had pushed the bonds and the watch across the table at the end of the game, mid it hurt him, and made him ashamed. He pushed them back, and sat down and went over Uw cloelng mores. Yes, he had played the better hand, and the checkmate was complete, ami yet he had lost tto game. He took up the dice from the floor, and cast them. .. over and over, but the highest count he I dies' drawers, which during tto winter could make was a double-five. He

now

turned iMtlucUvq)v towmtl UwJ ctohowWy tnBim0d with §tnbwra* house up the canon. He stopped at the j}®®6'

fonoa. whew shadotVatid mofmlight met wfth either pink or bine ribbon. and looked up at a certain

window.

When he had stood there a

mlnute

part

were^rn

ctoaged tbo arrangement of things a mere, are °r little, movhig about silently, then went pale nine fontaaed, trtmtned with \alenout, shutting the door softly behind ciennes lace btrt theee sua not so salt*ble as white batiste. Satin stays are went down to tto street, and his

terminating

in Vandykes For nep2w« wear, striped silk stockings am considered in good

Muslin underskirts art ejaberatoty embroidered ami trimmed wUh imitation Valenciennes lace two flounces are arranged one above the other. 6o as to, make a charming fe*Ui* of lace. Ia* whleh dui

of^therirf^&mnelwewh-

£& wSm8

This is the extreme of elegance, but

or the m^ority of ladles, even wealthy

two, there was a stir of drmperyatthe ones, sullprefln-toe u^orclc window and then a fiice appeared for a will wash, and that does not moment, white in the moonshine. It latently renewing. Outer clothing can disappeared and quickly afterward Hkrdly be obtained to mateh underwear some one came out orthe door and tim-1 of silk, satin, and lace,

A BorriUe Scpuupf OmmtxmU OrrpmUm —A ANMJW^r mmkMoiM MWM-sat-^§^^b-^Ae^lHjfcse,e5^"^s

The Athens (^n4.)^Ml contains range er named Jovm, fiunily ne&r the lower

ring deacriptl' A dfstiHei with his Csa

foliowin dent. lived branch of ito had been anno

on of a strange in

'.tjf

Smoky

Mountains,

a great deal by tbo

revenue rangers last fiall, and determined to change his location and business to a snoxe seduded spot. To carry out this purpose he selected tho head of a deep gorge some four miles distant* walled in with elitib, where daring the winter, assisted by some of his Mends, be

very sorry—because be erected a log tmildlng. As soon as Jte tetnfld to tovltheeold weather raoveraud the spring than apparent celd- fairly opened, the still and other things

fairly opened, the still snd other things neceesary were moved to the place, and the Work Of" violating the revenue law I was resumed. SeveiNi "rufts* were oongrakilato

hava,mad#, himself uge beyoha me prying ey •rnment hireiiag*^ wipers hsopnld pur

Wwf OQC# Ifthathe ayond the

begft& to aast last foulidare£-

them mom than «onep in.a fortnight. Everything went on well enough until about four weeks ago, when he foiled to appaar at the accustomed time. Nothing was thought of this for a day or two* bet when another week elapsed without the return of Jonea, the ftuniiy became alarmed, and they thought that he had been captured by the revenue jayhawks and carried to ICnoxville or some other place whero violators the law are occasionally convicted and punished. The alarm was'given through the Sparsely settled neighborhood. A smell number of men gathered, and aooompanted by Mrs. Jones and her son, a youth of 10 or 12 years of age, they started up the gorge in the direction of the still house. On reaching the building they found the door closed and fastened, and no sign of Jones or any one else could be seen. Mrs. Jones called the name of her busI band several times no response, howI ever, came back to relieve her anxiety. But upon attempting to force an entrance, they were greeted with those peculiar notes of warning which the ear of the East Tennesseemount«ineer never fails to recognize. The door was at once broken down, and a sight met them that caused all to start with fright aad horror. The form of the distiller lay on the floor, with eyes starting from their sockets, the features horrlDly distorted, tho body swollen to twice its usual proportions, while the whole interior of the

building was alive with rattlesnakes, some in coil and ready for battle, but the larger portion stupid and inert, as though they had been imbibing liberally of the illicit fruit of the still. The mother and son fled horror stricken from the place. A consultation was had, and as it was impossible to rescue the body of poor Jones without incurring fearful risk, it was determined to reclose the entrance and other apertures and fire the building, "which was done. Ihe party stayed until tho house entire* ly consumed, and nothing remained but the now useless still and tho calcined bones of the miserable distiller. It is supposed that Jones had built his manufactory close upon a den ot the deadly reptiles in the oVertiatigiug cliff, and that attracted by the heat, or possibly by the fumes of the whisky, they found their way into the building in large numbers after he had closed the door and lain down to sleep.

I HI I I .• 'I ..'JLI

M-i HANGING IITTEXAS. The recent execution in Texas of a negro named Bly was attended with a pe-f/ culiar exhibition of feeling on the part of the fiither and family of the man whom the prisoner jbadl beenfouud guil-., ty of murdering. Tbo father, Mr. Car-* michael, a gray headed but robust old follow, watched the trial like a hawk, saw the murderer of his son convicted, and hired an extra guard at his own expense. In the four weeks of waiting he came from his horn©, forty miles away, onoe every week to see that the murderer bad not tampered with his chains, anctf! on the day of the execution he came tor. the gallows with his whole family. Hcf came in a buggy with his wife, while his son-in-law drove the three daughters in£i a rockaway. Two of them are unmar-j. ried. are really beautiful women, and,,,, accomplished. They had the canker of revenge in their blood. They drove uppj in front of the scaffold and took a good^* look at it then they went away to their Stopping place. Tho next that was seerf ot them was when an opening was madeB in the crowd to let the guard pass in to the scaffold. The old man Cnrmichael" and his family came marching in ahead of the guard, and took their seats almost immediately under the scaffold,sj the old man with a Winchester rifle in

his hands. When the negro was brought^,, out Carmichael cocked his gun, and sat*f« with his eyes fixed upon him. When .i tho drop foil, old man Carmichael in-*x stinctiveiy grasped his gun and rose out*/: of his seat but there was no breaking ofH|. the rope, no accident of any kind, and the vengeance of the Jaw and the still keener vengeance of the Carmichaels

was satisfied. When the body was tak-' en down and put in the coffin the old hangman's

He stood

nVu1'

K"-

HOW TO MAKE MISCHIEF.

Keep your eye on your neighbors. Take care of them. Do not let them stir without watching. They may do something wrong if you do. To bo sure, you never knew them to do anything very ,,, s, bad, but It may he on your account that they have not. Perhaps if it had not been for your kind care they would have disgraced themselves a long time ago. Therefore, do not relax ally effort to keep them whore they ought to be. ffce. Never mind your own budness—that will take care of itself. There Is a man

Is looking over the

dark nights there is no knowing what

color and the queer fanciea may have got into Ws

If you find aiw symptoms of anyone Ing out of the path of duty tell every one else you see, mid be particular to see a great many. It is a good way to id late such tmngs, though it may not

cirou benei

ngj tnougn ww

said there was silence in Heaven tor tho ff space of half an boor, do not let soch a thing occur on earth, it would be too much for this mundane sphere.

It, after all your watchful care, innot see anything anyone, yon may b#%ure

fid care, you

cannot see anything out of the wayJn anyone, you may o# sure it Is not because they have not

done

any thing bad

perhaps in an unguarded moment you lost sight

of them—throwout

hintsthat

they are no better than they should be, that you should not wonder if the people found what they were in a little while, then tbey may not hold their heads so high. Keep it going.and some one else may take the hint and begin to help von along after a while, then there will be music and everything will work tike a charm.