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PRESSED FLOWERS.
BY KATHERINE H. GREENE.
I have a dainty volume
Enshirining here and there
Between its leaves, some flowers
Once blooming sweet and fair.
Now faded, dead, and withered
Though these sweet flowerets be,
They hold within their glicstly forms
A nameless charm for me.
iiessed flowers! How very precious
-T Jeiery human. heart
Are these pale sweet mementoes
W%h ich form of life apart!
Thef breathe of happy moments
They speak of golden hours
And twine their fragrance in ad out
Of these frail hearts of ours.
kiisies! now but a shadow
-fbatonce displayed
Petals of gold and purple
With dewdrops fair inlaid,
Oh! the pansies of past summers!
Sweet pansies claster still
Within my hearts lo:ie garden,
i 14ke those beside the ril.
Liies! pure, spotless lilies
Fair lilies of the vale!
4. blight bath softly fallen
Upon t1jeir faces pale.
TA~stillthe music lingers
Within each snowy bell,
Like tM-sweet, yet far-off murmur
Within some pearly shell.
Violets! sweet spring violets
f hia onmeet i hmilit
And the merchant, not doubt
ing that Cleora herself was an
swerable for the presumption
of which this young gentleman
had been guilty, reached home
in a very irate frame of mind, and
summoning his daughter reproved
her sharply.
Cleora laughed first, pouted
afterwards, and ended by crying.
Less than a week from that time,
Miss Cleora received another lec
ture, couched in much briefer lan
guage, but eloquent beyond any
thing that young lady had ever
listened to before, judging from
the -im-pression it made.
"You ought to be proud of your
work, miss," declared Mr. Daham
el, angrily, "Frank Reeves has got
himself into real trouble this time,
and there's no doubt in my mind
that he would never have done so
crazy a thing, if his head hadn't
been turned about you."
"What has poor Frank done
now ?" asked Cleora, incredulously
but looking a little uneasy.
"He has been forging the name
of Duhamel & Co."
Miss Cleora started, and turned
red and white all in a breath.
'Papa, how do you know ?"
"He don't deny it; had the ef
frontery to present it at the bank
himself, even."
Silence some moments. Miss
Cleora grew paler, and paler and
twisted her curls with nervous
white fingers.
"Papa, what will you do with
him ?" she asked, presently.
"I? I do nothing. The law he
has outraged will give him a term
in prison, probably. Serve him
right, too."
"Doyou know where he is now?"
she asked, tremblingly; but the
merchant, absorbed in his own re
flection, did not notice that.
"In Newgate, of course."
"Oh, papa !"
Cleora Duhamel rose to her feet,
white and palpitating.
Mr. Duhamel lifted his -keen
eyes to her face scrutinizingly.
"It would be easy to imagine
that you had some personal inte
rest in this young scamp," he said,
coldly.
Cleora clasped her hands, and
looked up at him with trembling
lips.
"Well?" exclaimed the merchant,
angrily, rising also.
"Papa, what made you let him
o to Newgate ?"
"Really ? Why should I not,
pray ? Come, come, miss. It is a
ood thing for you, I see, that he
is disposed of."
'Papa, Frank Reeves never
forged anybody's name in his life"
-and Clec.ra burst into tears for
the second time that evening.
"He don't deny it himself," re
peated-Mr. Duhamel, with added
indignation and amazement at his
aughty daughter's espousal of
the young man's cause.
As Cleor.a made her escape from
th room, he began to pace up and
down, muttering, "She's self-will
ed enough to do anything. I'm
glad he's where he is, though I al
ways liked the young fellow. It's
odd too that he wouldn't defend
'himself. Neither denied or;owned
it. Some mystery there, but it's
not my business to solve it."
Frank Reeves was tried for for
gery; pleaded "Not guilty," but
refused to give any account of the
forged check he had certainly pre
sented at the bank and received
the money on. He was sent to
prison for five years.
During the trial, a woman close
ly veiled, was observed to be un
remitting in her attendance upon
the proceedings; and the prisoner,
it was noticed, se.emed to watch
for the entrance of this person,
and to be uneasy till she came,
when his handsome faee would
flush slightly, his dark eyes bright
en with pleasure, and he would re
sume his usual air of mingled
pride and determination.
When Frank Reeve's bright
young head vanished behind the
ignominious prison walls, he car
ried next to his heart a little
scented note without address or
signature, but written in an ex
ceedingly delicate female hand,
and having in one corner a most
dainty silver and blue monogram,
"C. D." It said: "You are a hero.
I am a cowardly creature, un
worthy of you. But the day you
are a free man, if you do not do.
spise me too utterly by that time,
I will be your wife. Every hour
of your heroic imprisonment I
shall think of you. I love you
already, and shall love -you more
and more till we meet."
Three years from that time, MIr
Duhamel died suddenly; and his
daughter, still single and stil
beautiful, came into the posses
sion of a large fortune. In th(
course of the fourth year she ob
ta,ind, by private and personalap
peal to the Home Secretary, Fr:
Reeve's pardon.
The two met at last in Miss
hamel's own magnificent draw
room. The beauty and heii
had attired herself with an ar
tic elaborateness she had never
stowed on any party or recept
toilet. Her loveliness was bey<
description; her eyes were fi
ing with tears.
Frank Reeves came calmly i
the room, and stopped a few pa
off, without offering to appro:
nearer. He was very pale,
his closely-cut hair altered I
very much. The years, the c
finement, and the companions
of brooding thoughts, had grai
upon his face sterner lines t
had marked that handsome co
tenance in the flush of eager,
mantic youth.
Some unexpected expression
that face seemed to strike Clec
"Frank," she exclaimed, and
her haughty voice was a new v
piteous accent, "you h4ve neN
forgiven me, Frank! I have e
fered too."
He did not say more, but
eye flashed, and he uttered 1
word "suffered" after her conteE
tuously.
"1 am a pardoned convict,"
said, proudly. "In the terri
prison to which your coward
condemned me,. my young a
eager manhood, all those generc
and self-sacrificing impulses whi
made me yo'ur tool, even the he,
which loved you, ha've been ?
by one crushed out of me. 1 f
gave you at first. Afterward
grew bitter month by month, d
by day. It was so little y
needed to do, to have saved 1
all that long horror. Your fatt
would have forgiven you. I mig
have been spared my honor, z
good name, if you had stood
your own wrong-doing."
"Ob, Frank, I will atone! I
rich. We can go anywhere y
are not known," Cleora exclai
ed, sweeping towards him, and i
tending her white hands entre
ingly.
He lifted his somber eyes or
to her peerless face.
"Miss5 Duhamel," he said, "th<
are some thinge that even mon
cannot buy-that even the ic
of a beautiful woman cannot atc
for. That is what I camne to t
you, and-Good-bye."
Without so much as touchi
her hand, he was gone.
In another country, F r a
Reeves redeemed himself from 1
stain of that injustice once - dc
him, and became an honored me
ber' of society through his own:]
tient endeavor.
M.iss Duhamel never married
SAVING 15 WEALT.-One gr<
cause of the poverty of the prese
day, wisely says an exchange, i
failure of our common people
appreciate small things. Th ey
not realize how a daily additi<
be it ever so small, will soon mna
a large pile. If the young m
and women of to-day will onlyI
gin, and begin now, to save a
tie from their earnings and plh
it in the soil of some good si
ings' bank, and weekly or mon
ly add their mite, they vwill w<
a happy smile of competence wbl
they reach middle life. Not or
the desire but the ability to
crease it will also grow. Let cle
and tradesman, laborer and ai
san, mnake, now and at once, a
ginning. Store up some of :y(
youthful foice for future cont
gency. Let parents teach th
children to begin early to sa
Begin at the fountain head to ci
trol the stream of extravagal
-to choose between poverty a
riches. Let our youth go on
the habits of extravagance
fifty years to come as ti
have for fifty years past, and
shall have a nation of beggE
with a 'moneyd aristocracy
Let a generation of such as si
in small sums be reared, and
shall be free from want. Doi
be ambitious fo r extravagi
fortunes, but seek that which i
the duty of every ons to obtaii
independence and a comforta
home. Wealth and enough of
is within the reach of all. I
obtained by one process, and<
only-saving.
Neenah wants some one to c
cover a lead mine in that vicini
to bring down the price of the m
al. A policeman there has b
shooting at a mad dog for th
weeks and the city has to furn
the material.
A you ng lady in a neighbor
town is engaged to be marnies
a gentleman named Iomer P1:
iand you can judge for your
whether she thinks "there's
Plhwe like Homer" not.
~istlaneons.
Du
OUR TIN WEDDING-THE
CENTENNIAL.
-ess
tis- Whether marriage is properly
be- to be regarded as the blessed even
ion which it is considered by one-hal
)nd the world, or as the fatal misfor
.sh- tune which it is called by some
thing less than the other balf
nto certain it is, that much more that
ces the half have agreed to considei
ich it an occasion worth after-celebra
md tion in festivals holding various
m intervals of distance frora each
on' other. So far as generally ui
bip derstood, the initial event is not
ren worth celebrating at all, until five
ian !0
a years have gone by without cither
uof'.the parties eloping from the
once-loved presence or committing
such bodily or verbal assaults upon
the marital partner as to make
ra- their disagreement a matter of no
toriety. This first and mildest of
,nd the celebrations, after only five
years, is known as the "Wooden
Wedding;" and all the gifts
brought by felicitating friends are
his: t
bi expected to be ligneous ia their
character, embracing was h i ng
tubs, ax-helves, saw-bucks, clothes
he pins, ladies, breA-trays, cradles
; and the like; though an excep
i tion is occasionally made in fa
:i vor of a piano, on the ground
n that w o o d enters somewhat
us largely into the composition of
ch' I
ch i that instrument.~ It is likewise
rt understood that on such a festivo
ne
occ.asion, tho parties wlQ ho vp
r 1 only for that brief time kept
their matrimonial contract, are
ay not (using a common but very sig
ne nificant expression) to "put ou
er too many airs," as married people
t ofadvanced age or long experience.
Five years later, a second festival
by occurs, in the "Tin Wedding,"
with the presents understood to
be all of that harder b4t more
flexible material derived from the
OU Cornish mines, necessarily run
)- ning into the direction of pails
at and pans, and the happy couple
allowed to bear themselves with
Lee a trifle more of assurance, as hay
ing longer braved the difficulties
rofunion and given a little addi
tional proof that they both mean
ey and are able to live together for
a considerable period. J?gssing
eiover the nondescript affairs which
the greedy and the impatient have
sometimes managed to interpolate,
so to speak, without any titles, at
i k fifteen and twenty years from the
he marriage day,-the third legiti
ne mate occasion comes when twen
rty-five years have elapsed, when
children may be grown up around
the knees of the couple who have
thus long remained together, and
when they may indeed be grand
parents. This occasion, really pos
~at sessing a meaning, in the proof of
nt endurance and at least reasonable
s a compatibility which it affords, is
to called the "Silver Wedding;" and
aO guests who appear at it are ex
Spected to signify their sense of its
ke value by bringing nothing less
en pure and costly than the argenti
e- ferous metal, in all varieties from
it- tea-spoons to full table services.
,nt Any lack of dignity in position,
v visible in the married partners in
th- the Wooden and Tin affairs, is now
~ar amply supplied; they have done
en something, they have borne some
Ll thing, they amount to some
~n thing, not only in their own
rk estimation but in that of their lit
Stie world of friends and admirers.
be- Another long interval-a very
ur long one, covering as much space
in as that between the marriage cere
ir niony and the occasion last alluded
rve to-and after fifty years of unio~n
3comes the "Golden~ Wedding." A
ice proud occasion, indeed !-proud as
nd rare. The gifts are to be of gold,
in now; but golden indeed must have
for been the bond holding two hearts
ey and two lives togetcher for that
we half-century; and well may the
,rs, couple most concerned, gray-hair.
'- ed, perhaps stooping, and possibly
,e great-grandparents, hold them
we selves to be, in no limited sense.
iot of the "salt of the earth"~ in use
int fulness and endurance, and worthy
is8 of being thus honorably surround
1ed and ministered to. There i
bl yet a nother-t he "Diamond Wed
t, ~ding;" not in the sense intended
tis by Stedman in his capital poem
ne but marking the rare instances it
wvhich the supremely blessed cou
.pie have lingered together for five
1- and-seventy y ea rs , necessarily
ty> standing on the verge of their cen
et-' tenary. Alas !-the demand foi
aenl golden plate and Ornaments foi
ree the occasion last preceding may
ish come but seldom; but how seldoix
indeed is there need to purchas
a brilliant for this last and crown
ing ing recognition of the possible !
tto as, indeed, ho a keen a mocker)
ce; would be such an event, if it oc
self curred even oftener,with the price
no less gems held out to eyes too din
to see them) and the echoes frou
the land.beyond the flood soun
ing much mgre plainly to ti
waiting ears than the felicitatioi
of friends and descendants !
Holding this practice and thei
periods in view, let us glance ver
briefly at the Centenary of Amer
tan Independence, now commeni
ing to absorb all minds and to coi
trol much of public action-at il
surroundings, its omens and il
proprieties. We are a very youn
nation-very yolng indeed-th
very youngest on the globe, ui
less we consider Italy as only lat
ly having emerged from the chac
of division and become a complet
member of the national family.
Beside that Iceland, which a fei
months ago held what might b
called its "Diamond Weddingr" c
one thousand years, we are butth
merest of upstarts,how ever sturd;
and promising. Beside any on
of the nations of Europe, we ca
only be considered as standing i:
tutelage. We have really bee:
linked together, as a nation, s
little while, that it is doubtfu
whether our "Wedding" occasio;
could not properly be called
"Wooden" one, the very lowest c
all; but let courtesy have its fu
measure, and let it be designate
the "Tin," at least a trifle mor
dignified in its standing. And
so much conceded, what are ou:
surroundings, and what have w
really accomplished, to give u
right for wholesale, felicitation
Our ancestors entered upon a wili
and unknown continent, two bui
dred and 'ftfty to three bundre
years ago; and up to the time of on
Independence, they pursued th
usual course of colonists, holdin
the lands they had acquired, wit
the countenance and assistance c
the countries from which the;
had been derived or which hel
territorial dominion o v e r th
lands where they chanced to b
located. With the Ieclaration c
Independence and the successfu
struggle which made that declare
tion a reality, the former perioi
closed: from that time and froE
that time only, the national eist
once is to be calculated.
We have grown rich and populow
True: we had a wide extent c
territory ; the older countrie
were swarming, needing addition
al space and additional opportn
ty, which our continent could a
well supply. In this, the story c
rapidly increasing populationi
told; and there is really not muec
matter for national pride in it, on
of the laws of nature, invoivin,
the vacuum and its filling, the de
mand and it.s supply, having onl:
been carried out as it might hay
been by a mere dumb force.
Wealth could not well do other wis
than come to us, with so man;
square acres of rich land to ever;
inhabitant, with such amounts c
the precious metais as have reveal
ed themselves and to some exten
developed themselves; with all th'
s'trengths and favorable condition
of youth in our favor; and wit]
none of the embarrassing remain
frora the past, inevitab!e with na
tions passing through much lon
ger periods and more endurinj
struggles. We have become a pou
er in the political world. T rue :
power of peculiar position 'ant
virtual isolation. What wve are
in that regard, we have becom<
through that position, combine<
with the mere inert force of terri
tory, and without any considera
ble assistance from diplomacy o
legislation, in the former of whic.
wye have generally been little lee
than contemptible, and in the lat
ter of which we have usually bee1
dealing for sections and classes, t
almost entire forgetfulness of th
welfare of the whole. We ha%
done wonders in invention. T rue
the exigencies of a new and wide
spread country have wonderfull;
spurred the inventive faculty
while the influx of people from a
the nations of the Old World ha
brought in to us that blendingc
practical intellect, and that oppo:
tunity for comparison as to plan
and processes, which no other nt
tion has ever enjoyed. In labo>
saving inventions we stan dpra
eminent. But how far this fat
redounds to our credit, and ho'
far it merely shows the wis
to perform a certain work with
little labor as possible, may t
some time a subject of amused ii
quiry. And more than half<
what we have invented, we has
by no means perfected as has
some of the nations of the 0]
World. We have roved our wi
and our power to remain a natio;
through two international conflict
and one internecine struggle of it
mense proportions. True: to
certain extent. The first of ti
two tiggles with Great .B.ritia
does not ~ly come in to ti
calculation ; 1 .v as part of ti
throe of our bijth. Thie secor
L
d- was of very limited reach, bring
ie ing out few resources on eithei
is side, and with our then enemj
hampered and crippled by th<
ie wars of the continent, almost t<
y the degree of helplessness. I
i- is too early, as yet, to speak calm.
ly of the internecine struggle; bal
i- it is not too early to say that the
's less spoken of it in the way o
,s self-glorification,the better and the
g wiser. At the best, it was the
e somewhat slow and difficult de.
i- feating ofa much weaker antagon
1- ist; and how far it has proved our
s determination and power to re
e main one united country, can bet
- ter be answered twenty years
v hence than at present-answered
e when we shall have ascertained,
if -through the course of later legis.
e lation, whether we really desire
y to resume the old status of friend.
e ly members of one compact, or
a whether personal or sectional pro
a fit is to be made the dominant ob
a ject, no.matter what other persons
o or sections suffer or become de
1 stroyed.
a Honestly, some of these things
a had better receive calm and self
f examining thought,before entering
I upon the reception of the other peo
I ples of the world, at our "Tin Wed
e ding." We have no especial cause
for shame, on the whole, as to the
r results of our one hundred years:
e nay, we have much for pride. But
s we need to remember, in receiving
? our guests and the "tin" which it
I is at least to be hoped that they
- will bring us-(1) that we have
I enough deficiencies, as compared
r to opportunities, notably to modi.
e fy our arrogant conscioustiess of
that which we really possessed; (2)
i that the nations visiting us are
f materially sharers in any glory
F which we may have acquired
I their former subjects, with the
e idioms of their languages not yet
e worn from their to4guea, hAving
f been among the stardiest and
1 most beneficial workers in securing
- any and all of our grand. results;
I and (3)-that, however hopeful we
a may be of the future, and how
ever staunchly every true Ameri
can is determined to straggle, and
.labor, and reason, to make that
f future glorious, we have as yet
s by no means proved our capacity
-to put down national weaknesses
L- and temperamental vices, in such
a degree as to assure the world of
f our capacity to maintain the bless
s ed union of good will, helpfulness,
a and national homogeneity, beyond
e the "Tin Wedding" stage so close
Sly following the mere nuptials, up
-to the '-Silver" of three times the
Speriod, the fine "Gold" of vet ion
e ger endurance; or the true "Dia!
- mond" qfW gi score of eenturies,
o -From T HE ALDINE for May.
S IN THE DEAD OF IGIHT.-Most
fpeople imagine that house plants
- poison the air of a room by the
t exhalation of carbonic acid during
a the night. That this is a popular
s fallacy, and that it should be
a speedily consigned to the well-peo
s pled limbo of "Vulgar Errors," was
.demonstrated not long since by
- Professor Kedzie of the Michigan
~Agricultural College. To make
the test as conclusive as possible,
Sinstead of taking the air from a
jroom containing a few plants only,
*the professor gathered it from the
a oollege green-house, where more
i than 6,000 plants were gro wing.
- The room had been closed for more
,than twelve hours; and if the
r plants exhale carbonic acid to an
2 injurious extent, the analysis of air
s from such a room would certainly
,have disclosed the fact. Three
2 specimens of this imprisoned air
a were gathered shortly before sun
e rise, from .different parts of the
e .room, the analysis of which gave
4.11, 4.00. 4.00 parts of carbonic
~acid in 10,000 of air, or an average
of 4.03 in .10,000, while the outdoor
,air contained 4 parts in 10,000,thus
Sproving that the air in the green.
,house was better than "pure coun
iftry air."
s NOT MUCH CHANGED.-A party
.- had met at a public table, when
~.. the conversation turned on the
. subject of transmigration. Mr. K,
twas a firm believer in the doctrine,
Sand was expatiating largely upon
h its points when he was interrupt
s ed by a gentleman who was pres
e ent with "K., wha.t do you,suppos
-. yourself to have been before yot
~f were K. ?" "I do not know," re
e plied K.; "I might have been a
'e hog, for aught 1 know." "Well,'
d rejoined his friend, "you have not
jaltered much-only got upon your
kind ligs.
. All the Candor of youth-Aunt
a Bella (who has read aloud "The
e Burial of Sir John Moore,")-.-"Now,
n then, which of the verses do yor
e like the best ?" Jack (with alacri
.et)"!Ikio-Fwadso
d e th"O pryr knw'ew adshor
a were the prayers we said.' "
- THE OBELISK AT THE TEM
PLE OF HELIOPOLIS.
I have the interpretation of the
beautifully sculptured hierogly
phics that cover two sides of the
obelisk from top to bottom. The
profusion of flattering words on
the obelisk are addressed to King
Ousertasen I., who, according
to the highest authority, reigned
2,803 years before Christ, and dua
ring the period of forty-six years.
The obelisk, therefore, if the dates
given are correct, has stood where
it still stands for nearly the period
of 4,700 years.
Herodotus says Sesostris or his
son (both kings of Egypt) pre
sented two obelisks to the Tem
ple of Heliopolis, and that each
was at least 150 feet high and
twelve feet in diameter. As the
obelisk now there is of fully one
third less dimensions, it is possi
ble there were, in his day, two 1
obelisks of greater magnitude,
and not placed on the masonry of
the temple, but on the ground in
front. It is also to be suggested
that the obelisk now there must
have been erected in Heliopolis t
long -fore the University was t
erected by Sati Mernephtah.
And although the obelisk fixes
positively that it is on the site
of the ancient city of Heliopolis
or Onoo, yet it does not deter- I
mine positively and of itself that I
it was adopted as one of the 1
obelisks of the university. From
other surroanding indications it is
probably at the very spot where I
the university stood. But as it
was erected in commemoration of
a panegyric festival, and some ',
800 years in advance of the uni
versity erected by Rameses I., or j
at least the university temple
dedicated by Rameses I., and
claimed to have been erected by
him, its exposed part does not of
Itself alone afford sufficient evi
dence of the precise site of the
university. The attention of
learned antiquarins is respectful
ly Wglled to the propriety of ma
king excavations at the surround
ing mounds and in the plain it
self where I believe little or
nothing has yet been done to1
explore the site of perhaps the :
oldest city in lower EIigypt.
During the lapse of thousands e
of years, insects fixing specks of t
dirt into the cavities of the sunk- a
en hieroglyphics cut into the gran- i
itic obelisk, have completely obli, e
terated them on one side. But the ~
inscriptions on both sides are be
lieved to be exactly the same be- r
cause all other obeliaks are known
to be 80, and the interpretation of r
the side which is legible (and t
which is now given for perhaps t
the first time in the Englis hlan- s
guage) is as follows:
"The Horns, t
The life all that is alive,
The king of upper and lower Egyp t
Chaper-Ka-Ra
The maker of kings,
The life of all the living,
The son of the Sun,
Oasertasen, loved by the spirits of the City
ofOno
And of immortal life,
The golden hawk,
The life of all that lives,
The gracious god [king]
Chaper-Ka-Ra- . a
At the commemoration of the festival of
panegyric
Erected this obelisk;t
He who bestows the immortal life has erect- I
ed it."
Even this obelisk, still serving a
to fix the site of the temple, shows I
that the vast surrounding plains a
have risen, by scarcely percepti- y
ble accretions, perhaps more than
nine feet since its- foundations
were laid. indeed, the plains of ~
Egypt, and of Nineveh, and of I
Babylon, and of Persepolis, and a
of the Indus in upper India, laugh i
to scorn the utmost labors and !i
contrivances of man to render his r
fame lasting, or .his grandest
structures continuous. Even the
pyramids, and tbe hills from which
their material was taken, must be
yet changed and obliterated.--Win.]
F. ,Shatw, in Overland Monthly for
May.
SELF-GUIDANCE.-It is the asser
tion of a scientific paper that self
guidance is the first condition of
a reasonable, improvable being.I
Children should learn at school1
how to study alone-to discover 1
for themselves what they wish to
know. In giving them no initia
tion, in denying them their free
will we prepa.re them to resign
themselves to the passive part im
posed upon the nation by govern
ments that take the initiative in alli
measures of social interest. Wei
thus form subjects for a tyrant,
.not citizens of a republic.
When a Connecticut deacon
nudged a somnolent worshipper
Iwith the contribution box, the
sleepy individual awoke partially, f
smldmrue,tIdntmk!
anild,urmred,f a"Idn' mk!
and droDDed off again. I
HE WAS "SHOOK."
THE LADY WAS TWENTf YEARS OLD
ER THAN HE, BUT HE LOVED HER.
"What I want to know," said a
white-headed young man of twen
ty, as he stood before the sergeant
in charge of the Detroit Central
Station, "what I came here for
was to get some advice."
"Proceed," said the sergeant.
"You know Nancy Thompson,
ion't you ?"
"Never heard of her."
"Well she's a widder, over forty
rears old, and I've been boarding
-here."
"Yes?"
"And we were engaged to be
narried."
"Whew !" whistled the officer.
"I don't blame you," continued
he young man in a broken voice.
'I'm only twenty and she's forty,
mt a man can't always tell when
ie's going to make a fool of him
elf."
"And you fell in love ?"
"I did that, and as soon as we
ret through talking I'm going out
o hire some one to kick me over
o Canada and back I Yes, sir, fell
ead in love-loved a woman over
'rty."
"And what followed?"
"What follered ? What allers
'ollers? I'm human, same's any.
)ody else, and when I love 1 love
ike a lecomotive on a down grade.
N'hat do you think I did in just
ix weeks by -the watch. Went
0 the theatre sixteen times, went
>ut sleigh-riding tw6lve times, had
bree parties, went to three lee
ures and took her out to eat oys
ers ten or eleven times. Fact,
ir-cost me darn near $200."
"But it w.s allfor love," replied
he serg;ant.
"I thought so, and what else did
do ? Bought her a $40 watch, a
10 bracelet, a $5 ring, a $7 set of
ewelry, a new dress, and gave her
$5 gold piece with a hole in it!
les sir, I drew $500 from the bank
very red I had-and used it all
ip on herl"
"And then ?"
"She purtended to love back, and
vhen I aguone her hand she smiled
~nd smiled and look heaps of love
~t me. She lean on my arm, talk
.bout Cupid, and git off poetry by
he rod, and it was plainly under
toQd that we were to be -married
a June. Oh~ Bhe knew her - biz,
ud she slid around me as the Ben
~al tiger does around a lamb !"
"Did she break, the engage
c'ent ?"
"Last night," said the young
nan, swallowing the lump in his
broat, "she told me she'd been
rifling with me all along. She
aid she was engaged to another
2an, and she could never be more
han a sister to me; I tell you, son
eant, you could have knocked me
own with a straw#. I braced up
fter a while and called her a
ypocrite, when she called me a
rhite headed idiot, and the board
rs threw me out of doors."
"Five hundred dollars gone, arnd
'm a wrecked man."
Hie blew his nose, wiped his eyes
nd con tinued:*
"I don't want to drown myself;
he water's awful cold, and perhaps
can get over this. I want them
resents back and I'll go to Mus
egon and try and forget her.
t's wrenched me all to pieces,
nd I can never love again. Were
ou ever shook, sergeant ?"
"No, never."
"Then you don't know the an
uish--the gripping around the
eart. It cuts like a knife, and
1l .[ can think of is being laid out
El a coffin, my right hand hold
ng a bunch of roses and my left
'esting on my heart."
"You are young-you may out
~row it."
"I may-I may, but it's so aw
'1l sudden, and hits so hard, that
feel as if I'd fallen from a house.
~o to the house, sergeant, and
iee if you can't get them things
ack. If I'm alive I'll be round
kgain to-morrer, and if I don't
some you may keep the things for
tour kindness. I'm white-headed,
ut I'm tender-hearted, and want
o retire behind some barn and
And he retired.
After relating a snake story,
he Owensborough (Ky.) Exami
~er adds: Were our informant
iot a man of truth - and strictly
emperate habits, we should be
nore than half inclined to suspi
~ion that his little snake story was
~rected on the ruins of a pint of
Jincinnati whisky.
"The great need of Cairo," said
ScapitaIist after being taken over
he town, "is a fine-tooth comb
actory, with a retailistore in con
ection-"
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THE MAN WHO W&NT IN
FORM.&TION.
Yesterday noon, while the 'peo
pie around the office exoept the
"bead reporter" were at dinnor,
the smell of smoke suddenly be
came apparegat, ad a fat- man,
smoking a big pipe, cam6 ti6ng
up*stairs. When hb hAd TM'oVer
ed his breatb And taken a sout h,6
inquired:
"Is der big editor what knows
everydings in ?"1
"1No-gone to dinner," wat the
reply.
"And he shall come backpry
soon?T'
"In about two hours.y
"I can't wait so, quick as dAt;
I hab to a funeral."
"Did you want anything ?
"&Yes, I wants to -know somae
dings aboat dat Peecher scandiL
You zee, one day aboat -dree
months ago. a feLlow Comes =4t my
zaloon and he says. TDid you -heir
noddings about Mr. Peecher?-U nd
I say nix, und he say Mr. Peecher
Fithole corn."
"Yes."
"E7Lnd der next day when I *ent
home my wife iays: 'Did dl
hear noddings-about Mr.Pehr?
Und she sid Mr. Paethev %sthol 1L.
man's life. He lives thirty days
in one. Old. trite proverbs -take
on new and startling meanings.- -
He looks upon all men and all
things in a strange new light.
He judges all men and all things
with regard to the accomplish