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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. J- GOD .A-TSTD OUR COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. VOLUMES. . SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1874. NUMBER42 . IMeu" ,for Love. v'f ? XI Si I < f 5 AN ENGLISH OIRT/s ALT, AnSOflBINCl PASSION AND UNTIMELY END. A vcry? Btr^npo^ glory \vas told nie fhp> oilier day In n town tint fur from London there lived a yo'inx lily who Wat* hatidsomo'l tolernbl v w&ilthv, nn 1 more than usually well educated Mor father was an invalid; licr mother was nn insipid, cold and hoarders woman. Two years ago a physician of London was called to attend the father; in this way tho young lady saw him Ho paid no attention to her ? his mind was en grossed with his professional duties. A few weeks ago this doctor, after paying A visit to his oatient, was somewhit S'ir jirised by being nskod by the yonna; la <dy to give her the fnvor of a private in ?terview. She took him into a drawing ?room and led him to tin further end of lhc apartmant ."Doctoi," sail she,''I suppose that gentlemen of voik p?'oTiM? *icn arc nconstoinod to reccivo strange ?cr.nfidcnecs. I havo a confession to mnkc *to^yiiit7',''^Ic supp fse 1 that th j impending eon lesion had something to do with t!:e state of her own health, or with that of her father, and he begged her to 'proceed. 'You will however, he ?scarcely prepared for what I n?u about io say,' she continued. 'But I wish yo i to hear it. It is now just, two year* -since I first saw ynu. You Ii-iv ; sea reo ly exchanged a w >rd with mo hut 1 learned much about ynu. I am not mistaken in believing that you tiro mi ?married ' 'No,' he said, 'lam imt married ' 'A lid your i.fft ciions arc uot cngag <d ! 'You se ir :ely h tve the right t? a?k 'that,' said lie. 'Well, then,' she replied, "I will tint .iirk it. tut I must make to yon my uui ftssion. I love ynu ?with all my heart I wish you to marry, nie I liivo I you from tho first mmmmt I saw you. 1 paid to myself, I will w.iit for two ye in ?if he then speaks to me I will fen ? v what to say. You havo not spoken; and now I speak. I say I lovo you with all kuy heart, you arc necessary fur mo, will you marry tue V The doctor, who although not a very young limn, was twice the age of the young lady, recovering a littie from h s surprise tried to.turn tho matter ofl as a joke; hut the young l.idy was very so rious. ? ?ij e I* (v i*. [ 1 ?Xo.s.iid shCj'jI.a'ui in..very t-oler car nest. I know all that you may say or think as to tho indelicacy of my prop ? sal, but I ciinuot help it. 1 ask you once more, can you love me, an 1 will you marry mc!' 'In sober earnest, then,' he roplie 1 , '1 cannot marry you !' 'Then I shall die,' said she, very calmly and left tho room. The doctor had hearu people say be fore this that they should die, au I he left the house without attaching much importance to the prophecy, although wendering greatly at tho other portion *>f ilits interview. A lew days alter the young lady was found dead in her bi d. Two letters laid upon her dressing lablo. One was uddiesfred to her family solicitor. It re called to his mind a promise he had made her. t? She had gone to sec him, nud had asked him to m:.kc out for her a paper transfering the whola of her property to a person whose name she would not then givo him. Ho was to prepare the necessary paper and sond it to her to fill up the blanks and to sign . She had done this, and she now too lus ted tho papers; filled up and signed. Jivcry penny of her property was given to the doctor, nod tho solicitor was in etructed to tuako tho transfer to him to n.*k no questions and to tu kc no receipt Tho other letter was to tho doctor. '1 told you I should di \ ' sii 1 she, 'au I when you rocoivc tfita T ifaull bo dead. For ten days I have tnkon no food uor no drink; but that does not kill mc, and now I havo taken poison. I Imvo no reproach to make toyuu, but I could not live without your love. When I am dead, look at my heo.it. You will see your unmo there. I have two re quests (o make of you. Go to my soli citor and take what ho has for^ou, aud ihen go off on a holi lay t j It ily for i few months. The othor request is that you never ask where I am buried, and never come to my grave ' There was a post mortem examination i made oi the young lady's b i ly. On h ;r j breast, over her he irt, deeply i uprinted in the flesh, were tho initials of the doe tor's name. The characters se amo 1 to have been made there two or three j years before. They were prob ib!y i n printed by her own hand on the day | when she iirst saw htm. - i mi - - ? -r> in 'i * 1 * ?? The March of Improvement m The intelligence that the l.icrniative ? that demon which is always shrieking its warning note in nearly every by way of the land ? is about to steam and whistln bei.ire the gates of two of mil' ni'tst delightful a not Mit town--, will bring witli it a cert ain pang to all lovevs of the picturesque. St Augustine, in j Florida, and San Anrooio, in Texas,uro soon to be linked with the oufcar w >rl 1 by ruilrouU, over wlii?H trai is will daily convey tourists. The romance of the ride in a rickety volatile thro i.;!i the rich for Bts and acros< the pil n t.t. i strewn plains of our winter piradiso" to the gates of St. Augustini?th* ?'over faithful city,'' of which the Spin iurd boasted so proudly?gave way, sonic lime since, tu the ?nromu?tiu horse car; but now tl.o town i-. to be as easy of aceo.-s from ilie St. John's river as Long 15:.inc h is Ironi New York. The eh irsii <>! thchoij jo tr.iey in th ? r ittlio ; stige i-oaeli tiver the rich plains of Western Texas, by day past adobe villages tin i long i xpauses of road, bordered with m??'i|?tte atid ciiappar..!. and by n'ght through I!io piTlume-i thickets where tin: I i taltii.cn and wag?? tiers h v.: kin 1 led their eauip hies, will so.m vanish before the conviuien'eo of the rap'i ride from (jal\ust>>ti tu San Antonio in a J'u'.Iman car. Tin 2;0*0il Oill.i.S be iwccu N< w York au I the venurahlo city I torthc eiaiu; surround d ivith its..- u uh ling ii ml ornate Kr? ciscau missi ins, w I toioi I.e. completely uo/urol .vita trin ; rails, ami to crisis will cia-dder a visit i tn the Ala no?one id'tue ums ojlior it I ?d ol the shrio ?>i of A u.ri.jt i li'j.tfty - - au iuuispciisitble pleasure Vet one might almost wish th it it were not so. It would h.? su sfa i try "tu know that so u.vhcre in those, i ;i.e i States there were e inters in which ut least the ghost of a dea l rj.iiitio pi.st lingered, tiever to bi frighten j 1 i-vay. LeCmusj the j resent, with itsbiuzol crowding au I vulgiriLy, w is kept at, a Safe distance Hot we liv a in a.i ago "I Saratoga trunks, quick j ?Ui"utj_,s au 1 vti.-t ambition; and the mass of tourists doubtless resent it as an i ai a irti'u :ao : to themselves that. .St. Augustinesh >u! I have mi long shyly discouraged railroad entcrpr sj, and they will uo.v to.'.eh tli ij i Id town a lesson lot her ovor-:o<iJos! mien. They will crowd the ? !.?.?.: with new villas, and buil 1 roadways, a I u ; \vhielt glittering trj jtp ig.js :/til dish ij side the long lagoon<; they will c'iroa 1 I every thicket and oj.ju >y every site, they will press in tu u u i . i> th: tags in winder alongthj beautiful b j ie?i, a id will perhaps imrry nwiy pi::.: meal an 1 inos.s grown gateway^, thj nil piUud walls, aal the gi'?.it. fi'.'t itsj ,'. San Marco the maguilioetit, on .v i >s?-. j laiut Moorish towers the sunlight of the beautiful Southern ciimat: hasgiis j.ioJ lor an hundred years, a a I which st'iin Is on the hio of forttlicati ins oroeteJ by the Spaniard. to>>rc than three ec itur ies :igo Unin.ir hitli it thai the e was onco a sacrilegious proposition, t i run thuvbueiuble 'u 11 iiieal i in an 1 e l.iltlUh u terminal railway statio i o.i its ruins Aud now that the loo uotivj is eo nt ig in cainesi, well may the lovers of St. August!no the lair, the oldest town in the United States, lor it was settled in 15(55, tremble for the fate of tli'e fust decaying ruins When the oiler Mexican families in San Antonio heard that the rail toids were t-onn to invade their town, they prophesied that there would shortly bo epidemics-, levers, and all manner of tin cleanness, among the til. Tlioy shrunk from contact with what seeuied in their oyet u rude aud not over nice world Homo where outsido their gates. ?> hat cared thoy fur the increase of values of their property '! Had they u jt t'.io ir lovoly skies, their wonderful streams running through rich gardens ami along foliage strewn banks, where stool old.-stone houses, artistically built ? . II id they not quaint, narrow streets, with hits and there something exceptionally (in c in arc-hit eturo 'I And had they hot tin comfortable sense of seclusion, s'hioh prompted them to lie Lzily in the sliud'.*, and let th<' proud world clatter outside their charmed circle '! What need for them of Saratogi trunks, an 1 querulous tourists, and the rout of fashion ? Could not the consumptive go soiucwhcro else to be cured; or must thoy invade the ciruWuiirl dispel th s t ucliiilitutcill ':' San Antonio and St. Augustinc con tain within their limits, and in their immediate vicinity, sonn; of the most noted bits of architecture on the contin ent, hud the linest in the United States. Yet these are swiftly vanishing, an 1 the railroads will bring the iuflucuu ta which will finally cause theui almost entirely i to ds appear. Theophile Guuticr once .siid, in his s.id. cynicil way, th it iu ornate an 1 rich architecture sr; ill to 1?.: incompatible with a high *titJ of civilization. One in ly cortiinly bj^i.i in bilieve that the highly civilized, at luast of the Americans, havo but little love for the ruins which their nivsdj - ccssors loft them as historical Icgieijs; for tli-y arc doing all thatthsy em to in od? l iiize even the remotest corners of our broad domain. The great missions near San Antonio, on which Kr.iiiciseaa friars and converted Indians toiled sj bug and with such goo 1 intent, are crumbling away with painful rapidity, in I nue can not help fancying that the tide ol l-a.-ty foreign modern progress is frightening ihe.n b.iek to the IjvjI of the soil from which they sprung. Li San A utotii? must be transformed Irooi ??; dr< au y and charm ngly antique tawn into a bustling (ash ion and health re ! .Mot, whore the h ill* invalided will-gu. j to find renew od Icasj of tile; au I in; gay to luxuriate iu the ilcTghis of a pur j feet el i male, let tile missions, whatever ? happens td other rcninauls of the p ist, ho Mivod. The railroad oiiipmiie'*, whieh are about to launch molern ism upon tin- two lu'klcss ancient to vns , ought to !i : i I i hau Is ? u u subscription ! r.i r. * - ?. n- ? a'id ore for the d?M:ayi i * yet ip'c i !i I m "rials of the history of this I ?.jo'.iutry which still exist in Florida and : exts ? vie York '/Vmiw Tho Old Pa nip. - Near John ivu >x's h mn in Klin I burgh, sa,s ?.Ii! Dinbary min; Uoaj of ! thos: m is Ivo bj.< sll ip ? I p i co; s) e i u ! nion lure. It is the author of au iusi I limit suppose 1 to b i characteristii of Scotch hum >r. There was a woman [ who w.'is siHpectel of many thefts, but i no ri'.-Nponsibility c mid b-j fasten : I up mi her. She liyJ a lover who, froai a bi'.iu delect," Was ctilled 'Daft Jimmy. In despair of detecting the woman, the I police seized on 'Daft Jimmy,' and al ler a night's cjo?a ml :nt pruc.icd.il to worn the secret out of him. IJ.lt nil a sylltblu would ho give until llnrj Were brought to him the provost ail uiigis trutes. Those dignitirics, reiliziu^ tlu import nice of the iutelligj.ie j lost, no time in coming to Jimmy. ?Now,' s.ii l tho provost, with breath less interest. ''J hero will tiu harm come to me ':' asked t'a j traitor. They .solemnly assureJ hi u that no! a hair ol his heal shoulJ be harmed Still he hesitated. Probably because he was bald, and did not consider tho fi^ uro of speech exactly applicable to the occasion Again they assured him that he shoulJ not suffer. Ho looked anxiously over their faces for a moment, and apparently assured of their sincerity said: ?Yo ken the well uncut fvnox's house V 'Yes, Jin my,' they rcspondod. 'The sqiia re wan V 'Yes, Jimmy.' 'Do yo ken.the handle V ' Yis, J immy,' (with marked eager iicss.) ?Could ye lift it V 'Yes, Jimmy,' iu quivering voices. 'Well, go pump it them, for ye'll not pump me.' Tho audience dispersed. Tho Russian Hear From Ionia. In Detroit, a few day's sinco, as a policeman was leaning against the walls of the Detroit and Milwaukee depot, he was approached by a man about thirty years bldj whose red face was a good match for his hair, lie was a little 'Sprung," and ho felt like a steer touted into a clover held. "Mister," says he, speaking very con fidentially to the officer, "I don't wur\t to get locked up and have my name in the papers and be lined, but I'm in from Ionia on a little blowout, and I'd give a clean tej dollar note to have a little scrimmage with Fomebody " '?.You mean you want a light?" asked t he officer "That's what 1 mem. I'm ju-t well ing for a row. I want t'< .stand before lluce good fellows and have soaio one give me the word to g> in." TJJie officer aVii'cd if lie was licivy on ili'- h^lit, and ho r.nswere 1 : "Heavy ! I .should sty I was ! Why. I'm terrible They eall me the Russian l>ear at home, and the whole towu stands up and sits down, just as I say." The officer said it was his duty to dis courage disorderly conduct, b it in a case like that, where a man ha 1 co no 120 n iles to get up a row, he felt it his duty to extend indirect aid. Ho told the Kassian Hear to go to the corner of licnjtbico .street, enter some saloon, talk in ;. vciy loud v< ice, and he'd Sooil have his Iran ds lull. ? ' That's tue?ti.uih obliged '." cs claimed the in in, und he walked off. In about t a nitun'u-t a bay came running down and said that a mail with a chewed ear, two black eyes and a broken iiosj was up there in the ditch. Tho officer went back with the boy und ho fpoii came upon the Kussian Dear, wl?^'w'?- kin: in the nut tor, one leg ilfublcd back, flood aii over hi n, and Iiis coat iaj j cd in t very scam. "i hat's you, is ii'!" asked the officer :s> ho ] oiled i.t the ii ail's ami. "Well. ? lid you It- d ihat row V "I'olicomaii,'" replied the man. as he gained his feet mid looked down tit him self and felt id his car?"I'olieemaii, d: ii ; it in.k to you as if 1 did ?" A Strange People Discovered in England llobert Owen's drei in hash:: in; re ality in the New i' i v't where an el lor ? ly ?!:idy of wealth and position" has assembled about 130 men and women to have the til live as communists. They occupy thirty one acres, donated for the nit.st j art by the lady, and, as may tea lily be supposed, the large majority ol them are Irotn the poorer classes, and weie very willing to accept an offer which assured to them easy times and full stomachs. The principle on which the community U based is that rich and pi or a'tkc shall give up all they \. issass for the coo inen behoof, j et o ic or two persons of mean?, surprising as that may seem, have joined the community and complied with this condition. No money is used except as means of buying from the miter world what the farm will u it supply, and. as th: farm is u >'? sali :i-> tit ly productive to feed the community, it seems evident th it the communists are using up their capital. While the great principled of liberty, equality and Ir tcruity are in force in this earthly paradise, yet "they am sab .rdinito t > another principle, that of obedience'' The "mother," as tho patroness of the institution is called, is supreme, aud her bidding must be done in all things. She assigns the tasks and labors of the day, and at her magic word the whilom tailor must become a cobbler, and the cobbler the purveyor of meat. It will be readily mm that this govornmmt will oocasib h a precious deal of trouble when the lady grows old and childish. The flowers, the sewing, the washing, the house keep ing and cooking are assigned uO differ out departments of the sisters, and everything at present goes like clock work. All tho women, young and old, are dressed in plain bodice, short skirt and trousers, which generally are bo coming to them. The hair float* at will down the back. Tho men dress with the greatest plainness and ncatucss, nnci u.mic is the chief ait and recreation of (lie community, which, it should be said , holds no new or "advanced" notions on the marriage question, nnd, therefore, is not regarded by the neighbors as im moral and objectionable. ? ?? ? - ? -c?? . Scraping Fiiiit Trees. Perhaps October and November are the two best mouths, and April and May the next bebt, of the year for scraping and washing fruit trees?apples and pears. There is nothing better as a "wash" with which to scrub the trees than a preparation of ono pound of whale oil soap to a large bucket of water, well dissolved. There is nothing mote nauseous to the insects than this. It will lay "cold'' everything we have tried it on but the eurculio; that, how ever, cares no more for til c mixture, even though aoeompauied with sulphur, lime water and tobacco juiee, than if it were a giugorly dose of spring wator. Put rose hugs and the steel-bluo grape Lugs surrender to its power incontinent ly, livery farmer au 1 garJeuer ought to have a supply of this soap on hand lor use whenever necessary. Apple j and pear trees, well scrape I and then washed with the preparation; will not only be freed from some of the chiel insects preying upon foliage and fruit, hut will sensibly feel its invigorating j effects! Gray Eyes. '! he gray eye is; peculiar to the eye of won en Ami here we meet with a j variety enough to puzzle Solomon him self. We wilf pass over in silence the sharp, the shrewish, the spitelul, the told, and the wild gray eye; every one has seen ihicni?too oftru, perhaps. Put then, again, thcro are some beautiful enough to drive oue wtd j, and it is only them which wo mean. There is the dark, sleepy, almond shaped gray eye, witli lung black lashes- it goes with the rarest face on earth ? that Sultan-like beauty of jet black hair and a com plcxion that is neither d :rk nor fair? almost a cream color, if the truth must be told ? and soft and rieh as the leaf of the calls) Kthopian itself. Directly opposite to this is the calm, clean, grav eye?the eye that rea.-on.i< when this only feels. It looks you quietly in the race: it riows you kindly, ; but, alas, disappointedly; passion rir?ly lights it, and 1 ivp takes the steady blaze of friendship, when he tries to hide wilhiu. The owner ofthat eye is upright, conscientious, and pityin j h is fellow.men, even while at n loss to understand their vagaries. It is the eye for a kind and considerate phy sician, for a conscientious lawyer (if such there be), for a worthy village pastor, a Jrivll-J as faithful as any po)r bun..!.) being can be. Last ol the gray eyes comes the most mischievous; a soft eye with a largo pupil, that contracts and dilates with a wind, a thought, or a flash of feeling; an eye that i aighs, that si^hs almost; that has its .sunlight, its moon beams, and its storms; a wonderful eye, that wins you whether you will or uot, and holds you oven after it has cist you o'F No matter whether the face bo-fair or not, no matter if the features are irree;u lar and complexion varying, tho eye holds you captive, and then laughs at your chains. ?a . i -? NefTApapJr By-Laws 1 Pc brief. This is tho age of tele graphs and stenography. 2 Pe pointed. Don't write all around a subject without hitting li . 3 State facts, l ut don't stop to mor.i li/.e- It is a drowsy subject. Lot the reader do his own dreaming. 4 Kschow prefaces. Plunge at onco into your subject, like a swimmer into cold water. 5 If you have written a scutenco that you do not think particularly fine,draw your j en through it. A pet child is always the worst in tho family. G Condense. .Mako suro that you really have an idoa, and then record it in the shortest possible terms. Wo want thoughts in their quintesionao. 7 When your urtiolos is completed strike out ninc-tonths of tho adjec tives. A Quaker Printer's ProYnrta. Never [tci.d an article for publication without giving tho editor thy name, lor thy name oftentimes secures publication, to woi thless articles. Thou shouldsb not rap at the door of printing office; for ho that answereth the ran'mcerctli in his slcevo and losoth time. Never do thoujoaf jibout, nor knock down the type, or the boys will thoj as they do tho ; fchade trees,?when thou leavcst. Thou shouldst never read ths ?copy nil the print or-; case or the sharp and hooked container thereof; or ho niiy knock thec dewn Never inquire'of the / editor for'nows, For behold it is his business to give it to thee at the appointed time without asking for it. Tt is not right that thou shouldst ask him who is the author of an article, for it is his duty to keep such things unto himself. j When thou dost enter his office, take j heed unto thyself that thou dost not j look at what may4couccrn theei^not, for that is not meet in tho sight of good breeding. Neither examine thou the proof sheet for it is not ready to^ uicct^thino^eye, thou niayvst un 1 erstand. Prefer t'oinc own town paper to any othor, and subscribe lor it immcdiato ly. Pay lor it in advance, and it shall be well with thee and thine. 3 Health Nevcrs. Never oat hurriodly, becauso it causes ndi go.-tiou. Never speak in a hurry, because it is omiuous of instability. Never -think on "going to bed; becauso it makes wakofullaoss. Never cat between meals, because it produces irritation. Never dino in excitutucut,'* because the blood is called to the brain which ought to aid digestion. Never sw a llow to >d without thorough chewing, because it briugs on dyspep sia, Never cat when you do .not want it, because when you shall want "you cannot eat. Never sleep with J your J mouth opcnK because the air breathed with carbonio acid disturbs the mucous membranes. Never go to Vest without^wushiug tho hands and face, bocau-o more dirt ac cumulates on tho skin in the day than night, aud is re-absorbed during tho night. Items. "jjW.hen a servant .was asked, a few diya since, whore^her mistrcss^who had gone to a water cure establishment, was she said, 'She has gone to soak/ The decision of a Boston 3ourt that if a woman lends money to horjiusband she cannot get it back, only confirms in law what has long been held good in practice. A man having a bill agiin9ta distant merchant sent a letter of inquiry to a banker in tint locality. Tho roply wu Tie is dead, but he pays now as well as ho ever did.' A liberal Ohicigo gentleman has car ried out the dying wishes of tho late Bishop Whitehousa of Illinois by pay ing off tho entire dobt of tho cathedral in that city and making it porfoctly frco. Am. Fon the BeoT.?Dr Johnson used to say that tha habit of looking at the b.st sido of every event is bettor than a thousand pounds a year. Bishop Hall quaiutiy rein irks: For every bad there might be a worse; an] when a man breuks his log, lot him bo thankful that it was uot his neok ' Whoa Feno Ion's library was on fire, 'God be prais ed,' ho exclaimed, 'that it ia not tho dwelling of somo poor man I' This is the true spirit of submission, one of tho most beautiful traits that can possess the human heart. Hosolvo to see this world on its sunoy side and you have almo.-t half won tho battle of lifo at the ou> sot.