Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 March 1881 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 12,1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper arc published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, hM a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even tog, goes Into the hands of near!y every reading person in the city, and the fanners of this Immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear lor THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

AN AMERICAN ANDRE.

THE TWO SPIES HANGED COL. JOHN P. BAIRD.

ONE OF THEM A GREAT-GRANDSON OF MARTHA WASHINGTON.

The United Service Magazine for March prints-"A Remarkable Episode of the Late.War," taten from the forthcoming volume entitled, "Andre and Williams: A Strange Historic Parallel of Treason in Two Wars. With some references to the genealogy of the Washington and Lee family, and the origin of the late rebellion." By Col. Wm. F. Prouser The following is a summary of the article:

The facts related in the following narrative would doubtless have been published several years ago but for the efforts

the War Department Wash

ington City to suppress thani, and to keep the ollicial papers locked up in its arc-hivos which contain a history of the arrest, trial and execution, as spies, of Col.

William Orton Williams and Lieut. Walter G. Peter, of the Confederate army, in the month of June, 1863. This action in regard to these records ha* boen taken, as I am informed, out of deference to the wishes and feelings of relatives and friends. Seventeen years have elapsed, however, since these unhappy events took place, and, as some of the parties most deeply interested are no longer living, I have doomed it proper to avail myself of the faots and papers in my possession on the subject, giving them to my readers for their information. It is due to the public at the same timo that these facts should be made known, in order that the responsibility for the sad catastropho and the unfortunate fate of these men should be placed whore it properly belongs.

The story of Major Andre is familiar to the readers of English history in every part of the world. For 100 years his untimely end lias been read and discussed, often with throbbing hearts and eyes brimming with tears, and yet the interest felt in the iate of that gallant officer is as great now as on thb 1st day of October, 1780, when ho was led to execution bv command of Gen. George Washington himself. Military authorities on both sides of tlio Atlantic have almost universally conceded the propriety of the action taken by Washington in that matter but there have been many of his admirers then and since whose reverence for that illustrious patrious would havo boen greater if ho had mitigated in notne legitimate way the severity of that painful sentence. Few, indeed, of his contemporaries, who at that time debated so warmly the merits or the demerits of that course, could have dreamed that eighty-three years afterward, or, to bo more precise, on the nth day of Jurte, 18H3—a lineal descendant of Mrs. Georgo Washington should have perished in the same ignominious way, under circumstances which present, to say the least, a series of remarkable coincidences vet such is the fact, and Col. William Orton Williams was the chief conspirator, actor and victim in the awful tragedy, taking with him in the crime and its punishment a cousin, named Walter G. Peter, also of Georgetown, in the district of Columbia.

Col. Williams was the son of Capt. William G. Williams, who wasfortwen-tv-two yours a well known officer of the topographical Engineers of the United States army, and who was mortally wounded at'the battlo of Monterey, durmir tho Mexican war, on the 21st day of September, 184(5. Capt. Williams was bom in Philadelphia, of English parents, by whom ho was taken to England, and for a time sent to school at Exeter, but having a strong desire to return to America his father brought him back and placed him in an educational institution in Kentucky. Here the youth developed sujh stmng'military aspirations that an appointment to a cadetship at West Point was secured for him in the year

Point 1818. served in Charleston, s. C., ... tier, and in other localities within the limits of the United States. Many years Itefore his death he had married Miss Columbia Peter, a daughter of Thomas Peter, who was, in the early part of the present century, a prominent citizen of Georgetown, a* large property owner in the District of Columbia, and one of the intimate personal friends of George Washington. Thomas Peter had married Martha Parke Custis, who was a grandchild of Mrs. George Washington, and long resided in Georgetown, where, in the year 1804, he built the old mansion uow occupied by Mrs. Kennon, the widow of Commodore Beverly Kennon, an officer in the United States Navy, who, among others, was killed on board tho Princeton by the explosion of a gun in 1844. One of the fruits of the marriage of Capt. Williams and Miss Peter was a son, bom on the 7th day of July, 1839, named William Orton Williams, who became the leading aetor in the deferable train of events about to be related. Mr*. Williams and Mrs. Kennon wen' also the sisters of G. W. P. Custis, the former owner of the Arlington estate and the father of Mrs. Robert E. TiWk

As an engineer officer he had the Cherokee country at on the Niagara fron-

It will thus l»e seen that W. O. Williams

WAS

the direct and lineal

DRSCKSOAST

OF MRS.

OKOROK WASHINGTON.

Gen Washington himself left no children. With Williams was associated a cousin, Walter Gibson Peter-* grandson of Major George Peter, the brother of Thomas Peter—who was born on the lYth of October, 1842, and who. when thev were Iwys together, had formed for Williams a most devoted and romantic attachment. In complishments, William Orton W UH*ms l»ore grmt pssemblance to his father,

Williams, and was possessed of a senilis verv inuoh like that of Major Andre. After completing htaatudiea, he

wa%emploved

for a tinne in the service of

the Coa-«« Surrey, but his great ambition

was to become a soldier, and through the assistance of friends he obtained a commission as a Lieutenant in the 2d Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Shortly after he was appointed an aide on the staff of Gen. wlnfield Scott, then Commander-in-Chief of the army, with headquarters at Washington City. This was in the early part of the year 1861, and the ominous threatenings in the Southern horison already indicated the outbreak which culminated in the war of the rebellion. Col. Robert E. Lee was Gen. Scott's Chief of Staff, and was also on duty at the War Department in Washington. As in the case of Major Andre, so in that of Lieutenant Williams, a love affair was, indirectly at least, the cause of the course of events which ended so disastrously for both and which led both to death on the scaffold. Lieutenant Williams was passionately devoted to a daughter of Col. Robert E. Lee, who was then residingat Arlington. While on duty at Washington he made frequent visits to the young lafly, both before and after Col. Lee resigned his commission as an officer of the United States army. These visits came to the knowledge of Gen. Scott and Assistant Adjutant General Townsend, who were naturally apprehensive that, in those critical times, especially in the months of April and May, 1861, Lieutenant Williams might carry across the Potomac information of a valuable character to the conspirators in Virginia. They ordered him, therefore, to discontinue these visits. He promised to do so, but the temptation was too great, and he continued to make clandestine visits to Arlington. This fact again coming to the knowledge of the officers above mentioned, they ordered his arrest in the early part of the month of May, 1861, and cent him to Governor's Island, near the city of New York, where ho was kept in confinement for several weeks, until any information he might have had in regard to army movements would have been useless to the Confederate authorities, when he was released. Shortly after, on the 10th day of June he resigned his commission in the United States Army ahd went South. He was immediately commissisned a Colonel of^ artillery and assigned to duty with BishopGeneral Polk, then commanding in Western Kentucky, with headquarters at Columbus. Hero the ardent and impulsive temperament of Col. Williams, combined with a haughty and overbearing manner, which was intensified by the strictest ideas of discipline, new and distasteful to the volunteer soldiery of the West, involved him in a battle with a private which resulted in the death of the soldier. This affair made Col. Williams unpopular in Gen. Polk's command, and although he behaved with great

COURAOE

ASD GALLANTRY

a$ the battle of Shiloh, some months afterwards, he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Bragg, then in command of the Confederate forces in Tennessee, where he remained until the first day of Juae, 1863. The campaign during which weire fought the battles of Fort Donelson, Shk loh arid Corinth, with m&ny minor enV 'agements, had ended, in the summer of *862, by the retreat of Gen. Buell's army of United States troops across the States of Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Ohio River. The friends of the Southern Confederacy were greatly elated, and those of the Union were equally depressed. Geri. Rosecrans assumed command of the Army of the Cumberland, recruited its depleted ranks, and marched south to Nashville, Tenn., in the latter part of the same year. The flower of the Southern army, under Gen. Bragg, was assembled at Murfreesboro, about thirty miles southest of Nashville. .Both sides had made extraordinary efforts for a conflict, which was expected to be decisive in its character. Gen. Rosecrans advanced and delivered battle on the last day of December, 1862. At the close of that day tho advantages were most decidedly with the Confederate troops. Massing his forces upon the right wing of the Union army, which was at the time weakened by too great an extension, Gen. Bragg fell upon it, crushing it completely and driving it back with terrible loss upon the rear of the center and left. Gen. Rosecrans nevertheless held his ground, although almost entirely surrounded by the enemy, who was then greatly superior in the number and efficiency of his cavalry. On the 2d day of January. 1863, when the conflict was renewed, Gen.

Bragg

t0"Yremain,

was driven back with

great slaughter, and at the close of the engagement retired in a southerly direction to repair his losses and recruit his shattered command. Notwithstanding the immense efforts put forth by both orties, the battle of Murfreesboro, or jtone River, as it is sometimes called, was indecisive. The national troops retained possession of the field, but it was by a precarious tenure. Their line of communication with the rear, every mile of which required protection, was more than 200 miles in length. About 10.000 men on each side were killed, wounded, captured, or otherwise placed hors dc combat. The Confederate army had sulleuly retired some thirty miles south, and the whole of the surrounding country was vexed with tho incursions of his cavalry.

Such was the situation, in a military point of view, when Col. Williams conceived the daring and treacherous enterprise which he shortly afterward undertook. Full of a desire to distinguish himself in some bold and dashing movement, and knowing from hisexperienoe in Washington how business was conducted and orders issued at the War De-

Cartment,

he undertook to render a

rilliant service to the cause of secession by entering the lines of the Union troops and obtaining such information as might lead to a magnificent succesq for the Confederates. As Fort Granger was so desirable an acquisition, he induced his cousin, Lieut. Peter, then serving on the staff of Gen. Wheeler, to join him. Haying completed their preparations, Col. Williams and Lieut. Peter,

DISGUISED I!* KKDKRAL UNIFORMS, and mounted on fine horses, with forged orders, letters and panes in their pockets. approached the entrance to Fort ranger and demanded admission at a late hour in the afternoon of June 8, 1863. Their coming occasioned some surprise,

skirmishing had been going

on constantly for several days in almost everv direction, and the fort was practically

invested

by the enemy. How

ever,"as thev wore Federal uniforms, and presented orders in regular, form from the Secretary of War and from the headquarters of the Army of the Cum berland at Murfreesboro, they were ad mitted, and upon their entrance they presented the following papers, all of which were forgeries. They read as follows "WAR DEPART*KJCT, AWVTAJJT ornca, WAsmsnrro*. D. C- May 2S, IAS.—Extract special Orders, No.

140.

««jv. Ool. Lawrenca W. Auton. cavalry, United States Army, and Acting Special Iomttt*tor General. Is hereby relieved from duty the line of the Potomac. He will immediately proceed to the West and mlnntety inspect the Department of the Ohio and the

Denarii of the Cumberland," l» aceordIUK4 Special Ins^pectarti tiwtmctloo*. 7(i sj b?' lift, furnished from this office and that of

t?..»

Paymaster timnL

.y jjAi r^-nlop, A»Maiit Qtmrtermarter. Is 1 iev«rt from duty fn

^3? '-ate

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this city. He will report immediately to Col. Auton for duty.' "By order of the Secretary of War. "E. D. TowjesKiro, "Assistant Adjutant General. "Ool. Lawrence W. Auton, United States Army, Special Inspector General."

They also presented the following forged letter from Gen. James A. Garfield, Chief of Staff of the Department of the Cumberland: "HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OE THE CUMBERLAND, MURFREESBORO, TENS.,

May

», 1863.—Colonel: The Major General commanding desires me to say to yon that he desires, if vou cah spare the time at present, that vou will inspect his outposts before drawing up your report for the War Department at Washington City. "All commanding officers of outposts will aid vou in this matter to the best of iheir ability. "The General desires me to give his respect6

very respectfully, your obedi

ent servant,

J. A. GARFIELD,

"Volunteer Chief of 8tafT and Acting Adjutant General. "Col. L. W. Auton, Cavalry, Special Inspector General."

They respresented to Col.' Baird that they had been surprise by a party of rebels while taking dinner at a house near Eaglesville, a little village some miles distant in the direction of Murfreesboro', that their orderlies, overcoats and baggage had been captured,

and

that

thev themselves had barely escaped with their lives, which accounted fof'the fact that thev had at the time strapped to their saddles citizens' overcoats. They represented themselves as being destitute for that reason of many necessary articles as well as money, that they desired very much to go to Nashville that night ana requested of Col. Bair&a loan of $50, which he advanced to Williams at once, taking his note for that amount. After partaking of some refreshments, and apparently in the most cheerful manner, thev mounted their horses and started in the direction of Nashville. Just as they were passing out of the fort Col. Loui9*D. Watkins, of the6th Kentucky Cavalry, entered on horseback, followed by an orderly. As he passed Williams he caught a glimpse of the side of his face, and a consciousness of recognition came over him, though he could not at once determine or locate the individual who had attracted his attention. Riding up to Col. Baird, who was near at hand, he inquired who the men were he met as he came into -the fort. Col. Baird replied, "They are inspecting officers of the United States army who has just been making us a visit." Col. Watkins remarked that "there must be some mistake about this. I think I recognize one of those as an old army officer.

NOW IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

After a moments consultation, for there was no timo to be lost, CqJ. Watkins, with his orderly, immediately started in pursuit, determined to overtake Williams and Petdr, though the latter were riding rapidly toward Nashville. Giving his orderly instructions to unsling hiscarbineas they rode along, and to fire on the men they were pursuing if they refused to return with them, they overtook the self-constituted in specting officers about 600 yards from the fort. Without betraying any excitement, in a bland and pleasant tone of

any excite-

.... ... _._sant tone of voice Col. Watkins rode up to them and politely Tequested them to return, as Col. Baird aesired to see them again before they went to Nashville, and sug-

furnished

ested that perhaps an escort sbuld be them for their protection on the way. Just as Andre's presence of of mind forsook him at the sudHune moment, when he was brought jMKto face with a tremendous danger, jH flpppaen failed for an instant to comp||p|n'd the situation, and in that instant fHffr doom was sealed. Williams, during the moment when their destiny hung in the balance, had some misgivings, put his hand on his pistol and almost determined to fire upon Watkins, put spurs to his horse, and probably he could have made his escape without much difficulty but, lulled into security by the easy tone and manner of Col. Watkins, seeing no others in pursuit but the two I have mentioned, and confident that his own odroitness and skill would find a way out of any trouble, he courteously consented to return to the fort. This was all the more remarkable as they were well armed and mounted, and their escape was almost certain if they made the attempt. But fate had decreed otherwise, and they returned to inevitable destruction. On their way back Col. Watkins remarked, "Gentlemen, 1 will not trouble you to ride back to the fort, but if yen will halt at my quarters, which are near the turnpike, I will send for Col. Baird and he can come here to see you." To this they consented, and, having dismounted, entered Col. Watkins tenf, where a guard without their knowledge, instantly surrounded them. Thev soon became nervous and manifested impatience at the delay caused by the non-arrival of Col. Baird. Presently one of them looking out of the door of the tent saw that they were prisoners. "What does this mean, Col. Watkins?" thev instantly asked. "It means," replied Col. Watkins, "that you are suspected, and for the time being you are prisoners. If you are what you represent yourselves to be, yon will only be delayed a short time but we must be convinced of that fact before you are released." They stormed and raved greatly, and threatened to denounce Colonels watkins and Baird to the. Secretary of

or of Col. Watkins was proof against all such demonstrations, while this conversation was in progress Col. Baird entered. "Let me see your papers again, please," said he to Col. Williams. The papers, letters and orders were glanced over and returned. Turning to Lieut. Peter, he said: "Let me see your sword, please," Realizing the peril of their situation and becoming greatly alarmed, they both protested against* what they called an Insult, but finding resistance useless they submitted the sword was drawn by Col. Baird from its scabbard, and npon its blade the tell-tale words were etched, Lieut. W. G. Peter, C. S.

"Let me look at your cap, please," Col. Baird said again. The cap was removed, the white flannel havelock lifted, and again the same characters appeared on the facing. The same articles worn by Col. Wflliams were examined, and similar revelations made. They were almost overcome with confusion for a moment, but quickly rallied, and preserved their coolness ever after. "Gentlemen," said Col. Baird, "this is a very bold game you have been playing." "Yea," replied Col. Williams, "and it came near being a perfect success." From this moment their guilt was neither doubted on the one side nor denied on the other. In the meantime, while Col. Watkins went in pursuit of the so-called inspecting officers, Col. Baird sent tha following dispatch to General Rosecrans: "FRA5KUX, TENN-,June8, 1889.—To Brig. Gen. GatfeM, Chief of Htafh

there any

such Inspwor General as Lawrence w- Anton, Colonel United States Army, and Assistant Major Danlop? If so, please describe their personal appearance, and answer Immediately. J- P.

BAIKD,

"Colonel Commanding Ft**."*

Shortly after the developments above related took place the following reply was received:

EAXKTR AKTXRS DEPART* EXT OK TH* CUMBERLAND,

June 8,Wsl5 p.m.-Co».J.P.

Baird, Franklin: There are no such men as Inspector General Lawrence W. Auton, Colonel United States Army, and Assistant Maj. Danlop, in this army, or in any army, so far as we know. Why do yon ask **J. A.

GARFIELD.

"Brig. General and Chief of Staff," The possession of the order said to have been given by Gen. Rosecrans!ully convinced that officer that in all probability they were spies, and he instructed his Chief of Staff, Gen, Garfield, to order a court-martial at once. The following is the order, brief, peremptory, and to the point: "HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND, MURFREESBORO',

June 8,12 p. m.—Col.

J. P. Baird, Franklin: The two men are no doubt spies. Call a dr am-head court-martial to-night, and if they are found to be spies, hatjg them before morning without fail. No such men have been accredited from these headquarters. J. A.

GARFIELD,

"Brig. General and Chief of Staff. On this order Col. Baird acted with promptness. A court of commission was speedily organised, which began its labors at once at his headquarters. There was no question as to the guilt of the prisoners. "Out of their own mouths they were condemned," as was declared on a similar occasion by an American officer during the revolutionary war, Col. Baird saw rising before him the painful task of executing these handsome and accomplished officers as common spies, and his generous and sensitive nature shrank from the unpleasant duty. While the Court was taking the confession of the prisoners—which constituted in reality their principal task Col. Baird, searching for some way of escape, sent the following dispatch to Gen. Rosecrans: "FRANKLIN,

June

9, 8:25

"FRANKLIN.

a. m.—To Gen.

Garfield, Chief of Staff: Col. Watkins says that Col. Williams is a first cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and he has been Chief of Artillery on Braeg's staff, We are consulting. Must I hang mm 1/ you can direct me to send him to be hung somewhere else I would like it but if not, or I do not hear from yon, they will be executed. This dispatch is writton at the request of Col. Watkins, who detained the prisoners. We are prepared for a fight. J. P.

BAIRD,

"Colonel Commanding Post.

"HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

June 9.—Col. J. P. Baird,

Franklin: The General commanding directs that the two spies, if found guilty, be hung at once, tii us placing it beyonjlthe possibility of Forrest's profiting by the information they have gained.

FRANK

BOND,

"Major and A. D. C."

June

9, 1863.—To

Brig. Gen

Garfield: WUI you have any clemency for the son of Capt. Williams, who fell at Monterey, Mexico protest our innocence as spies." [A portion of the dispatch is illegible. It appears to be signed by Lawrence W. Auton, formerly L. Auton "Nyilliams.] Williams then adds: "I send this as a dying request. The dispatch is concluded by Col. Baird, who says: "The men are condemned and we are preparing for their execution. If you can answer before I am ready, do. "J. P.

BAIRD,

"Colonel Commanding Post."

Gen. Garfield, remembering the course pursued by Gen. Washington in the case of Maj. Andre Andre, refused their request to be shot, and determined that the sentence should be carried into execution as originally ordered He knew nothing whatever at* the time of their personal connection with, or relation to, the Washington family. Col. Williams made a most touching and earnest appeal, first for his cousin, Lieut. Peter, who was his companion and associate in the execution of the plot, though he was not responsible for its original conception and preparation second, that they might be shot if their death were fully determined. Williams alone assumed the responsibility of the. scheme, whatever it might have been, and Peter had been led into it by his attachment for his elder and more experienced companion in arms, who haa in the beginnhig induced him to desert home and friends and follow the fortunes of tho so-called Southern Confederacy. At 9 oclock a. m. Capt. Alexander reported the gallows ready. The troops of the garrison and vicinity, including infantry, cavalry and artillery, which were under arms during tho morning, were disposed in an open square around the spot assigned for the execution. A guard conducted the prisoners, who behaved with the greatest possible coolness and self-pos-session, through the gateway of the fortr, across an open space of ground in the rear, thence across the railway to the cherry tree where two ropes hung dangling within eight feet of the ground. Lieut. Peter was almost overcome with grief and terror as he looked upon the scene, but Col. Williams promptly restored his courage by saying, "D17 those tears and die like a man." Taking their places upon the cart Capt. Alexander tied a linen Handkerchief over the face of each one and adjusted the ropes. They then asked permission to take a last farewell, which was granted. Clasping Peter in his arms Williams saia, "Good by, Peter let us die like brave men." Slanyof the spectators turned away in tears. At 10:30 oclock on the morning of the ninth day of June, 1863, the following brief dispateh from Col. Baird to Gen. Rosecrans announced the fact that the last act in this terrible and bloody tragedy had been performed: "FRANKLIN.

Jnne 0, 10:30 a. m.—To Gen.

Garfield, Chief of Staff: The men have been tried, found guilty and executed In compliance with yonr order. I am ever yours, "J. P.

BAIRD,

"Colonel Commanding Post."

SOLD HIS BODY TO PAY RENT. This is a hard story, but it is said to be a true one:

An unfortunate tenant in Louisville, Ky., having received a wound which disabled him and endangered his life, was not able to provide food for his family, or even to procure the medicine prescribed by his physician, and proceeded to make known ms destitution to his landlady, hoping thereby to prevail upon' heir to relax her demands for the money in advance and gain time enough to recover and earn the money. But the landlady's fingers itched to get hold of the dollars, and she answered his appeal by a renewal of her demands. Then the bed-ridden tenant, driven to desperation, sent for a physician who was connected with a medical school which sometimes stood in need of a subject for the dissecting table. To him he made known his circumstances. A month's rent would be due on a certain day, near at hand. He offered to assign ana transfer his body to the doctor in case he died before that time, provided the doctor wonld obligate himself to pay his landlady th© rent. This offer the doctor accepted, and a contract to that effect was duly signed. The tenant then sent bis wife to the landlady to inform herbf the nature of the security for the-month's rent, and to satisfy her, a copy of the

The landlady and finding ft that

contract was shown her. examined the document, trustworthy, accepted it, remarking she "did not care how the money was raised, so that ahe got her rent. The day for payment of rent has not yet arrived, and the chances are that the tenant will not live to see it, so that his landlady will be paid at the cost of his body.

THE most eminent physicians of the day highly recommend St. Jacobs Oil as a cure for' rheumatism. It can be purchased at any drag house, and the price is insignificant, when you take into consideration tbe wonderful cures it will produce.—Peoria National Demo-

t- r,

AFTER THE WOODEN" WED-

Ten years ago, they say, good wife How swift the years have run! Since that auspicious day, good wife,

The parson made us one. gg How pleasant seems the Journey!—1§Looking backward o'er the road And vet, sometimes we've mnrmnr'd

At the burden of our load. We've had our sorrows, yes, good wife, Some joys have

passed.from

sight

But see the Joys He left, good wifeHow calm they sleep to-night! What, tears, good wife Oh, no, no no!

Dispel such Idle fear? I trust He'll spare them both and us For many, many years! For you're but tliirty-two, good wife,

And I'm but thirty-four As vet, upon life'ssea, good wife, We've scarcely left the shore. Decades may come, decades may go—

With this, my good night kiss, I consecrate thee, wife of mine, For fifty years from this! —JOHN SCOTT, in Ind. News.

IF YOU SHOULD OET MARRIED.

If you shonld e'er get married, John, I'll tell you what to do— Get a little tenement

Just big enough for two! And one sj*ire room for company. And one spare bed within it— And if you'd begin love's life aright.

You'd better thus begin it. In furniture be moderate, John, And let the sttaflted chairs wait One looking glass will do for both,

Yourself and loving mate And Brussels, too, and other things Which make a fine appearance, If you can better aflbrd It they

Will look better a year hence. Some think they must have pictures, John, Superb and costly, too Your wife will be a picture, John,

Let that suffice to you. Remember how the wise man said: "A tent and love within it, Is better than a splendid house

With bickering every minute." And one word to cooking, John, Your wife can do that best For love, to make a biscuit rise.

Is better far than yeast. No matter If each day you dont Bring turkey to your table Twill better relish by and by

Wlien you are better able.

AT THE MASQ UERADE.

I know 'twas not the proper thing to do, And yet I thought it would be jolly too, To go alone to that swell masquerade,

And so I did it. Well my plans were laid. My wife of my intentions naught did know. I told her out of town 1 had to go,

And she believed me. Leaving her to stay At home, I went and danced in costume I had^jeen ut the ball an hour or so, When someone introduced a domino.

I saw that she was plump and graceful, and She had a pretty little foot and hand. Hor eyes, I noticed, flashed like diamonds bright, Though plumy, she waltzed divinely feather light,

And then she flirted with most perfect art, It isn't singular I lost tfiy heart. Soon my sweet charmer I began to ask To step into an alcove and unmask

To let me see the lovely face I'd swear Was hid behind that mask. My laid fair At first refused. I pleaded long and hard Declared my life foreverwoula be maiTed,

Unless her cruelty she would relent. My plvja^ling won, at last, a shy consent, Hsr face she would permit my eyes to view, If I unmasked, tne selfsame Instant, too.

The dancing hall had alcoves all around. And soon in one of these ourselves we found The alcove was, for two, the proper size, And passing dancers would not recognize

You, for the light was dim within the niche, And flowers, about, their perfume gave, My witch Her mask removed. I meantime did the «ime"My wife!" "My husband!" So we did ex claim.

The truth was, neither of us had mistrusted, And each was disappointed and disgusted

THE MODEL.

HOW SHE BEHAVES IN THE STUDIO.

Taris Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I went to the atelier with an artist, who advised me to assume to be an art student. Just after wo had entered, the model, a girl of eighteen or nineteen, came, and the thirty-odd students, who wore smoking pipes and talking and laughing, greeted her with "Gooa-day, Mademoiselle," and began to prepare for Una. She was a full length. She removed her garments in as unconcerned a manner as if slio were undressing in her own chamber. Being completely nude, she ascended a low platform in the middle of the room and assumed a graceful position. "Will that do?" she inquired.

Two of the painters were not satisfied. They told her to lift her right arm a little, and to advance her left foot. She obeyed, but still they were not pleased. They went fo her, handled her arm and leg as if she had been an automaton, and placed them just as they wanted.

She was French had black hair, very dark eyes, and clear, olive complexion, a pretty mouth, a delightful retrousse nose, and a charming oval face. I do not know where I have seen so handsome a young woman in her nation. Thero was not the least air of self-con-sciousness about her. I wandered at her complete indifference, until I reflected that ner posing had naught to do with her morality or imorallty that it was simply a business, for which she was paid so much an hour. The students sketched her, and were evidently absorbed in their work, regarding her as a model, not as a woman. After, perhaps, half an hour, she had a rest, when she threw a few outer garments over her and sat down by the stove. I went to her side, and as she quite covered her nudity, I remarked: "Madamoiselle is very modest." "It is -not modesty," she replied am chilly." "You are exceedingly pretty, and you have a superb figure,' I continued. **1 know I am pretty, and that I have a fine figure. No woman who has an attractive person

ever

remains unconscious

of the'fact. I hear often that I am beautiful, but I never tire of it. It may not be novel, but is* always delightful. Say it again. There is no such music to a woman's ear as flattery."

I particularized some of her physical graces she listened with attention, saying, "You are right herejyou are wrong there,'7 and the like. She ended with, "I am entirely aware of my good points. My arms are very well but my bust and legs are my best things. Its hard to find abetter proportioned leg than that," and she thrust out her bewitching right er

leg and fixed, for a few momenta, admiring gaze upon it. There wa

professional air in" all this which #as delightful. She appeared to feel exactly if she were showing some goods on the counter of a shop. I told her that I thought it must be painfnl for her to be a model. "Not at all," she replied. "I do not object to it. It is easier for me to make five franes by posing for two hours than in any other way. If I have a fine figure why should I not employ it for art? Isn there a sort of selfishness about a beautiful woman keeping her beauty entirely to herself

WE have been informed that a large glass factory in the State of New Jersey haa been engaged in nothing else but the manufacture of bottles for Dr. Bull's Otough Syrup—tbe sale of which is enormous. Price, 25 cents.

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iJ§lfe

ECONOMY.

Two classes pt people says the Boston Home Journal, have brought discredit upon this great virtue, namely those who refuso to practice it for fear of being regarded as parsimonious, and those who show themselves moan under the pretence of being economical. But economy, if rightly understood, will never be confounded with anything that is unworthy of respect and oi imitation. The term economy literally means management of a family, and properly used signifies "that mar ment which spends money to advantage and incurs no waste." The earth yields bountifiilly for the sustenance of man and nature should never bo held responsible for the misery which results from sinful waste on the one hand |or sordic" avarice on the other. Men wTaste their health, their time, their money, their possessions of every kind, and then regard themselves as the victims of misfortune, unfortunates to whom* the world owes

tation. ns Ahe

tintagi

living. True economy is

never out of place. It is not that timid or miserly hoarding of means whicl would inevitably block the whoels business and crush the life out of oui industries, but such a use of our talents and possessions as shall result in the greatest good to our selves and our fellows.—Waste is folly, avarice a most coutemptable sin, but economy shuns the latter as certainly as the fornior, and is a necessity as well as a virtue for nation, or family or individual. Let every man be liberal in proportion as God has given him the ability, and our charities will receive abundant support. Let every man combine integrity and prudence with fearless enterprise, thus practicing genuine economy, and sufferings from famine, and poverty, and business depression, shall cease from tne earth ana prosperity shall prevail on every hand.

MARY ANDERSONS HEART. A ltdy writing from Washington to the Cincinnati Commercial, says that Mary Anderson has a heart. She says Mary attended General Sherman's reception, and was the center of an admiring throng. She wore a dark blue velwhich displayed her tall figure to advantage her soft pretty hair was drossod simply, in a low coil her exquisite profile was as clean cut and fair inthe drawing room as when thrown out in the cameo-like relief against stage backgrounds.

Tho incident that, more than anything else, has drawn my heart out toward this pretty girl—a friend of mine going lato at night up tho elovator at tho hotel, saw tho actress, who awhile before was smiling before the curtain, sitting with averted face, "quivering lips and tearful eyes. From the conversation of her mother it was judged by this eavesdropper that the young lady had given way to her chagrin and mortification, and in her room would indulgo in a good cry."

She is, after all, a mero girl liko tho rest of aur girls, with heartaches and headaches vnth feelings Bensitlvo to reproof, smarting under these sevore criticisms, whether profiting by them or not a girl pure, modest, and boautlful a girl ambitious, faulty, aad lovely. Mary Anderson before the footlights I could sometimes find fault with, but Mary Anderson weeping in a cheerless hotel! should want to pot and encourage.

KA TE SPRA a UHTS HUSH A ND. Gath's Special. To-day I passed on the uvenue a rather medium sized man, with squaro shoulders, and whose countenance was something familiar. Looking again, I saw it was Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, formorly a senator and rich householder in this city. When he was elected to tho senate of tho United States ho said that he would not live under any other person's roof here, and bought himself large house between the buslnoss quarter and the apitol, where ho spent tho early years of his marriage under tho samo roof with his father-in-law, tho chief justice. Now ho is in Washington, without a homo and without a fatnily. He

WOKO

can

a sort of greenish overcoat, been slept in lib

WOKO

rumpled as if it had

breeches were of domestic cashmere, not a ron his shoes were not blackened, and he was alone. Two or three newspaper writers were with me who know Gov ernor Sprague formerly, and tlioy ha no idea who he was until I pointed hin dut.

tressed for some timo by tho tailor's blael

CHANGING FUNERAL CUSTOMS. Springfield Union. The announcements "It is requested that no flowers be sent," and "Interment at the convenience of the family," which are so often added to funeral notices in the newspapers, indicate recent reforms in funeral practices that are in the interest of privacy, ocomy and good taste. Still another now fashion is announced in New York, tha of having funerals in the evening, so that friends who would unavoidably bo detained in the daytime,|can lie present. The next morning the remains, accompanied by the immediate family, may be taken to tho place of interment and laid at rest, thus doing away with tha necessity, whether real or assumed, for hiring a long string of coaches to accompany the oody to the grave.

A HORSEStORY. Original Source Unknown.

turned

A horse at Fairbault. Minn. loose in his master's dooryard, saw a basket banging on a clothes- polo, about seven feet from the ground. It contained a pet cat belonging to the place. The horse walked over to the basket, put his nose up to the basket to investigate, and tbe cat put out her paw and gave the intruding nose a very lively scratch. The horse turned around, looked over the shoulder as though to take aim and measure the distance, kicked, and cat, basket and all shot into tbe air like a rocket. The horse watched the success of his shot, then gave a low whinny of delight, and walked away to feed.

THE POPULAR DEMAND. So great has been tbe popular demand for the celebrated remedy Kidney-Wort, tliat it is having an immense sale from Maine to Callforina. Some have found it inconvenient to prepare it from the dry compound. For such the proprietors now prepare it in li'inid form. This

be procured at the druggists. It is

Eiredsefy

the same effect as the dry, but

very concentrated so that the dose in much smaller. RUFUS SPEAKS.

One bottle of your I)r. Thomas' Eclec-. trie Oil restored tbe voice when the person had not spoken above a whisper fiv« yearn. RUFUS ROBINSON,

WRITK

Nunda, N. Yn

to Mrs. Lydia

Pink ham

233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., fo names of ladies that have been restored to perfect health by the use of her Vegetable Compound. It is a positive mre for the moat stubborn cases of female weakness.