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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.
In speaking of a person's ways,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
Should seldom throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do,
Than talk of those who win,
'Tis better to commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to iudge a man,
Until he's fairlv tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults?and who has not ?
The old as well as young;
Perhaps-we may, for ought we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you of a better plan,
And find it works full well,
To try my own defects to cure,
Ere others' faults I tell.
And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,
My own shortcomings bid me let
THe faults or oiners go.
Then let us all when we begin
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know.
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Our chickens, "roost at home,"
Don't speak of other's faults until
We have none of our own.
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KATE KENNEDY'S GHOST.
BY MRS. HENRY DEAS.
^ CHAPTER XVIII. " I
The %ick man never again rallied suffi-1
ciently to finish, in a connected manner, the
. account which had so abruptly been broken
off; but in a disjointed, fragmentary way, he
imparted to the Earl, from time to time, the
rest of his story. After hiding about for a
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ble remorse, which gave him no peace, he had,
he said, a vision, which made him resolve to
return to the scene of the fatal catastrophe?
a vision of Katie herself, who appeared to him
twice in succession, at night, and beckoned to
him to follow her. Unable to resist the summons,
he obeyed, and under an assumed name,
sought a fresh place of concealment in the
little village of Bloxton. Here he fell in with
Peterson?who, in some way or other, he did
notezplain how?obtained possession of his secret,
and thus got him into his power. From
thenceforth he became this man's slave. Peterson
assisted him to seal up the well, and
placed the old couple in the cabin opposite as
spies, to give notice whenever any one came
to the place, in order that he might guard
against discovery; and in return for keeping
his secret, and protecting him from his former
friend, Mortimer, of whom he had now conceived
a mortal dread, he extorted large sums
from him, until by degrees all bis property
passed into his hands. What subsequently
occurred has already been told?how the
long-growing insanity, culminating in delirium,
brought him into contact with the very
man he had so carefully avoided ; and how
the weakened physical frame, on which disease
of mind had so effectually wrought as to
reducelt gradually to an almost hopeless
condition, finally gave way and sunk beneath
this last and mortal blow.
Wilberton died, and was buried in the little
churchyard of Bloxton village, his funeral
being suitably ordered by the Earl, who had
comforted him in his dying moments with the
assurance of his free forgiveness, and who, accompanied
by his little household, followed
him to the grave. Here at last his weary,
wasted body found repose; while his suffering
spirit, it may be hoped, having expatiated its
,guilt by a long period of repentance and an.
guish, sought and obtained pardon at the
hands of its final judge. (
Andrew Kennedy, his quest ended, and his
fierce longing for revenge subdued, returned
to his home among the Scottish hills, where
he and bonnie Katie had grown up together
side by side, and where his parents lay buried.
His brother Davie was a schoolmaster in Edinburgh,
and his long abandoned cottage lay
bleak and ruined amid surrounding desolation
and neglect; but he went to work, put it
in repair, cultivated his garden and field
afresh, and when all was in order, sought and
won the band of a smiling lassie in the neighJ
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Bestic existence, in which he found solace for
the trouble of the past.
Peterson, the dishonest agent, concealed
himself successfully for many years, though
detectives were put on his track immediately
after the discovery of the forgery he had perpetrated
when on the fcve of flight. He was
fiually arrested at a gambling-table at a German
watering-place, and brought home ; but
was saved from suffering the extreme penalty
of bis crime by the interposition of Lord Desborougb,
who out of compassion for his unoffending
family, obtained a commutation of
the sentence passed upon him. On his release
from imprisonment be went off with his wife
and unmarried children to Australia, and
was never heard of again by any one connected
with his past career.
Lord Desborough caused the loose stooes to
be cleared away from the bottom of the well,
and found beneath them, as he expected, all
that remained of poor Katie's mflrtal frame.
These relics were placed in a casket and reverently
buried beneath the sod ; and shortly
after, the Earl caused to be erected above the
snot a simDle cross of Dure marble, bearing
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her name and the date of her death. Having
performed this duty, and placed the management
of the Cottage lands in the hands of
a new and trusty agent, he returned with his
wife to the Castle, from which he had been
absent for a period of nearly a month.
Under ver^ different auspices did Geraldine
now pass the portals of her stately home,
from those under which, as a bride, she had
first crossed its threshold. Then, her heart I
bad been weighed down with sad and bitter'
feelings." Now it was light with happiness '
and filled with joyful anticipations of the fu- j
ture which lay before her. If the Earl had
failed in lover-like behavior during the period
of his courtship, he more than madej
amends for it now. It seemed as though he j
could not do enough to obliterate the memory
of his former'coldness, and to prove to her j
how sincere was the affection she had awakened
in his heart. He had spoken truly when J
he had told her that it was long since he had j
first discovered how important it had become j
to him to win her love; but a proud reluc-1
tance to betray this desire, arising from the
belief that she waseutirely indifferent to him,
had restrained him from making any overtures
until chance had revealed to him how
completely he had mistaken her real feelings.
Geraldine never l^pd beeu.and never could
be beautiful. But with the radiaut light of
a new-born joy illuminating her face, and
every look, every action, softened by the tenderness
with which her heart was overflowing,
she no longer appeared plain. People noticed
the change, and wondered how it was that
unprepossessing, cold-mannered Lady Desborough
had suddenly grown so attractive.
Certain it was, that she now dispensed the
honors of her husband's house with a grace
and vivacity that made her charming. And
though she had never failed in the most perfect
courtesy, her deportment had formerly
been marked by a degree of stiffness which
had made it far less winning than it now was.
There were many lovable qualities in her disposition,
which had only needed encouragement
to blossom forth and shed a fragrant atmosphere
around. In her mother's home they
had been chilled and dwarfed by coldness and
neglect, so that there, it might be truly said,
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into play, and only its least attractive points
appeared upon the surface.
"Do you still find Desborough Castle lonely,
Garaldine, and its grandeur oppressive?"
the Earl asked her playfully one day, as they
were returning together from a stroll about
the grounds.
"No, I cannot say that I do," she replied,
with a smile. "Why do you ask. the question
?"
"Because, if you did, I had thought of a
plan for enlivening your solitude a little.
What do you say to our getting up a grand
ball, which shall be the admiration of the
country ? You know we have had nothing
but a few quiet dinners hitherto, and I want
to see you shine out in all the splendor of
Countess Desborough under the most favorable
surroundings."
"Nay, George, you are laughing at me. I
never could be splendid or brilliant under '
any circumstances, though I could manage, I
suppose, to make a creditable hostess on such
an occasion."
"I'll give you a set of diamonds that shall
eclipse Lady Raymond's famous heir-looms,
and cast the Duchess of Kent's magnificent
parure in the shade."
"And I should not enjoy them in the least,
wearing them with such a motive. My diamonds
are quite fine enough to suit me, I as
sure you. But are you in earnest about this
ball ?"
"Certainly; I never was more so."
"I thought you were not fond of gayety."
"Neither am I, as a general rule. But one
must sacrifice oneself occasionally to the exigencies
of society, and if it is to be done, it
may as well be done gracefully. So on the
principle of facing the worst bravely, let us
put ^ur beads together as soon as we go in,
and decide on some of the necessary arrangements."
In her heart Geraldine had no fondness for
gay entertainments ; but her anxiety to conform
in every point to her husband's wishes,
made her enter with alacrity into any scheme
which he proposed. She accordingly lent all
her energies to the undertaking, as far as her
suggestions and superintendence were concerned.
Upholsterers were brought from London,
and yieldedr to her taste in the adornment
of the elegant rooms which were to be
open on the occasion, confessing, when all was
done, that her ladyship's judgment and discrimination
were of the first order. She was
equally happy in the selection of her o^h toi
lette, which her city dressmaker declared to
be absolutely perfect; it was so chaste in its
simplicity, so artistic io it elegances.
The ball came off in due season, and was
universally pronounced -.to be an entire success.
Lord Desborough, in getting it up, had
q twofold motive. One was, as he had said,
the necessity of giving in to the demands of
society, and fulfilling his duties to his neighbors
no less than to himself aud his Countess,
as behtted their rank; the other was a
desire to display his wife in a brilliant And
exalted position, which he had a secret conviction
she would fill in a highly creditable
manner. In this last anticipation he was
not deceived. Moving among her guests with
the air noble one might reasonably look for
in a Countess Desborough, she dispensed the
hospitalities of the evening with a mingled
sweetness and dignity that won the admiratioh
of all, and excited many a commendatory
remark, even from some who had come
disposed to criticise and cavil. Lord Desborougb's
object was gained. The impression she
made was exactly such as he had desired and
intended, and the* position he chose her to
occupy in the county was thenceforward established
without dispute.
Geraldine was not sorry wheu this brilliant
affair, and the consequent influx of visiting,
was over, and she could turn, uninterruptedly,
again to the quiet of her domestic occupations.
In her tranquil home-life, beautified and
adorned now by the one element which it had
before lacked to make it delightful, and, lacking
which, its other charms were all null and
void, she found her truest and most unfailing
happiness, and needed nothing beyond to fill
up the measure of her content. The attachment
between her husband and herself constantly
strengthened, as each learned to know
and appreciate more fully the sterling worth
of the other. And if anything was needed
to draw this tie closer, it came, after the lapse
of some years, in the shape of a son and heir,
a noble boy, the only child ever born to them,
and in whom their iuterest and affection became
equally absorbed. ( This second George
Mortimer has been brought up, so far, altogether
under the supervision of his parents,
though they are now contemplating the expediency
of placing him in charge of a tutor,
who will put him through a course preparatory
to his entering college. In the meantime,
his father is training him up in all the
noble and useful qualities, and teaching him?
which is quite as important as Latin and
Greek?the duties he will be required to perform
when he enters on man's estate; showing
him by example, as well as precept, in what
way an Earl ofDesborougn in best discharge
the responsibilities of his position and do hon- j
or to his name.
Mrs. Harcourt, thauks to her son-in-law's !
liberality, which is so delicately exercised as ;
not to offend even his wife's sensitive pride, is
enabled to spend her declining years in the i
way which she finds most congenial to herself,
namely, a constant round of visiting at various
fashiouable watering-places and sum-!
mer resorts, where she passes her time in play- J
iug cards, in criticising her acquaintances, and j
in boasting of the wealth and splendor of
Desborough Castle, in the reflected glory of
which she delights?at a distance?to bask.
I say at a distauce, for the quiet there does
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not suit her taste; and as there exists, moreover,
but little congeniality between its inmates
and herself, it is tacitly conceded by
all parties that they are happier, except at
rare intervals, apart.
In regard to the mysterious visitations from
the spirit-world?as I must perforce call
Ihem?which led the Earl and bis wife to investigate
and discover the true fate of the lost
Katie, I do not pretend to offer any opinion
or explanation. I only "teH the tale as it
was told to me," and leave it to wiser speculators
to explore the cause of the mystery and
trace it, if they can, to any but a supernatural
source. I am content to believe that "there
are more things in heaven and earth than are
dreamt of in our philosophy," and seek not to
understand their secrets, or penetrate the veil
which bangs between the practical and the
unseen worlds. One thing I know, that no
more ghostly visitations have disturbed, the
tranquility of Lord Desborough or Geraldine,
since the period when such-effectual measures
were taken to lay them at rest; and as poor
Katie's remains now lie peacefully in hallowed
ground, let us hope that her appeased spirit
no longer flits restlessly about, but has also
found unbroken repose.
[the end.]
IpSfrilatiMUSi leading.
ANDREW JACKSON'S DUEL.
The duel between Andrew Jackson and
Charles Dickinson was deadly. Dickinson
had alluded, in public, to the well known and
recorded fact that one Robards had obtained
a divorce from his wife on account of her
"living in adultery with one Andrew Jackson."
She had already been made Jackson's
wife, but the offence was deadly. Jackson
sent the challenge. Dickinson was the most
expert marksman in Tennessee, and Jackson
resolved to give him the first fire.
The place appointed for the meeting was a
long day's ride from Nashville. Thursday
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stole from the side of his young and beautiful
wife, and began speedily to prepare for
the journey. She awoke and asked him why
be was up so early. ' He replied that he had
business in Kentucky across the river, but it
would not detain him long. On parting he
kissed her with peculiar tenderness and said,
"Good-bye, darling. I shall be sure to be at
home to-morrow night."
He mounted his horse and repaired to the
rendezvous, where his second and half a dozen
gay blades of Nashville were waiting to.
escort him on his journey. Away they rode
in the highest spirits, as though it were a
party of pleasure. Indeed, they made a party
of pleasure of it. When they stopped for
rest or refreshment, Dickinson is said to have
amused the company by displayiug his wonderful
skill with the pistol. Once, at a distance
of twenty-four feet, be fired four balls,
each at the word of command, into a space
that could be covered by a silver dollar. It
is said that he had laid a wager of five huudred
dollars that he could hit his antagonist
within half an inch of a certain button 'on
his coat.
Both parties, with their respective cavalcades,
reached the vicinity of the ground, appointed
for the duel, late in the afternoon.
They secured accommodations at a couple of
neighboring taverns. It is related that Jackson
ate heartily at supper that night, conversif?
in a lively, pleasant manner, and smoked
his evening pipe as usual. He retired early,
and by daylight next morning the whole party
were up aud in the saddle. A gallop of a
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to swim, brought them to the ground.
Dickinson and his party had already arrived.
The business at once proceeded. Dickinson's
second won the choice of position and Jacksou's
the office of giving the word. "Both
were perfectly collected," says Parton. "All
the politeness of such occasions were very
strictly and elegantly performed. Jackson
was dressed in a loose frock coat, buttoned
carelessly over his chest, and concealing, in
some degree, the extreme slenderness of his
figure. Dickinson was the younger and handsomer
man of the two; but Jackson's tall,
erect figure, and the still intensity of his demeanor,
it is said, gave him a most superior
and commanding air, as he stood under the
tall poplars on this bright May morning, silently
awaiting the moment of doom.
"Are you ready ?" said Overton.
"I am ready," replied Dickinson.
"1 am ready," said Jackson.
The word was given.
Dickinson raised his pistol quickly and fired.
Overton, who was looking with anxiety and
dread at Jackson, saw a puff of dust fly from
the breast of his coat, and saw him raise his
left arm and place it tightly across his breast.
He is surely hit, thought Overton, and in a
bad place, too, but no; he does not fall.
Erect and grim as Fate he stood, his teeth
clinched, raising his pistol. Overton glanced
at Dickinson. Annoyed at the unwonted
failure of his aim, and apparently appalled at
the awful figure and face before him, Dickinson
had recoiled a pace or two.
"Great God I" he faltered ; "hav6 I missed
him r
"Back to the mark, sir!" shrieked Overton,
with his hand upon his pistol.
Dickinson recovered his composure, stepped
forward to the peg and stood .with his eyes
averted from his antagonist.
General Jackson took deliberate aim and
pulled the trigger. The pistol neither snapped
nor went off. He looked at the trigger
and discovered that it had stopped at half
cock. He drew it back to its place and took
aim a second time. He fired. Dickinson's
face blanched ; he reeled ; his friends pushed
toward him, caught him in their arms, and
silently seated him on the ground, leaniug
against a bush. His trousers reddened. They
stripped off his clothes. The blood was gushitigirom
his side in torrents. The ball had
passed through the body below the ribs. Such
a wound could not but be fatal.
Jackson and his friends immediately left
tfre field. It was found upon exarainatfbn,
on reaching the tavern, that he was wounded.
"Dickinson's aim," says Parton, "had been
perfect. He had sent the ball precisely where
he supposed Jackson's heart was beating, but
the thinness of his body and the looseness of
his coat combining to deceive him, the ball
had only broken a rib or two and raked the
breast-bone. It was a somewhat painful, bad
Imtlrinir wniiml hnf neither severe nor dan- I
gerous."
Dickinson died that night.
In this duel it is plainly to be seen, from a
careful consideration of the circumstances
above narrated, though the truth doe9 not appear
to have reached the apprehension of
General Jackson's biographer, that Dickinson
was out-witted by his older and mope experienced
antagonist. Advantage was taken of
the very fact of his being a "dead shot," and
of his perfect confidence of his skill with the
pistol. His avowed purpose was to shoot
Jackson through the heart, and he felt abso*
lutely sure of doing this. In what manner
his object was defeated Mr. Parton unconsciously
discloses. He aimed 'precisely where
he supposed Jackson's heart was beating, but
the thinness of his body and the looseness of
his coat' combined 'to deceive' him. Admitting
the morality of private combat as of public
war, such a strategy, under the circumstan
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ces, cannot be regarded as unjustifiable. The
late Gen. Sana Dale, who was intimate with
Jackson, has been frequently heard to say
that Dickinson's fatal mistake was in not
aiming at Jackson's bead instead of his heart.
Parton is in error when he states that Jackson's
wound was 'neither severe nor dangerous.'
It confined him to his room for several
weeks, and it healed falsely. Twenty years
after it broke out afresb, and troubled him
for the remainder of his life. The pulmonary
affection, which finally carried him to his
grave, is attributed to that wound.
Jackson never exhibited the slightest compunction
for the part he took in this bloody
affair. He very rarely alluded to it, but when
he did it always was with perfect complacen
cy. It is told of him that a gentleman was
once examining his duelling pistols. Taking
up one of them the General quietly remarked :
"That is the pistol with which I killed Mr.
Dickinson."
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SWINDLING INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Some time ago, the failure of the Continental
Life Insurance Company, of New York,
waa announced, and the causes of the failure
are now being investigated in the Courts of
that city, ^kmong the witnesses examined
was S. U. Hammond, an ex-agent of the
Company who was stationed in California.
As a result of the examination, the public is
treated to the following revelations:
"Mr. L. W. Frost (President of the Continental)
was in California with me, remaining
thereabout three months; I went there in
September, 1875, and remained until February,
1876 ; when Mr. Frost went there in October,
1875,1 was instructed to buy up all the
outstanding risks of the Continental; I had
received from Mr. Frost a list, and succeeded
in buying nearly all of them, and inducing
some of the other holders to take out new
policies; I paid in orders upon H. H. Blake,
the coast agent of the Company."
"What inducement to sell did you hold out
to the policy holders ?" asked Mr. Moses.
"I told them the company was insolvent?
those were my instructions from Mr. Frost;
Mr. Frost told me that the Company was in
great need of money; that many of the policies
on the Pacific coast would be due in two
years, and tbey would be unable to pay them ;
as an illustration, permit me to cite a case; a
party holds an endowment policy of the Continental
Life Insurance Company; that policy,
from the time it was drawn out, has increased
in value, so that now it is worth about
83,000; in two years more it will be worth
85,000; well, if I represent to the person
holding the policy that the Continental is insolvent,
he will, in all probability, accept my
offer for a release?8100 or 8200 ; the Continental
thus saves nearly the entire amount
that they would have to pay when the policy
would become due?84,800, for instance, out
of 85,000. If they would not sell, I exchanged
'time' policies for 'endowments.' A 'time
Eolicy' is one drawn out for twenty years,
luring the first ten years it steadily increases
in value, while during the last ten years it as
steadily decreases. My instructions were, if
I could do no better than to secure a consent
to an exchange, to give the policy-holder a
'time policy,' without telling him what the
transaction amounted to. The limit that he
was allowed to pay on a policy, Mr. Hammond
said, in accordance with Mr. Frost's
instructions, was 50 per ceqL_nf.the. reeepe
due, but this lie did rarelyTvery often paying
much less than that. For his services he got
85,000 a year aud expenses, and a commission
of 10 per cent., making between 820,000
and 840,000."
"Did Mr. Frost ever tell you how much he
made out of this?"
"Well, he used to come to my office and
say: 'The Company has made so much to-day.'
I recollect on one day, when he had made
that remark, for he made it on different occasions,
turning to him and asking him, 'Who
is the Company?" He laughed and replied,
'Oh ! myself and my associates,' or words
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of the Company, and obliged, consequently,
to do whatever I was requested to do. It
scared the people terribly. I knew the announcement
would create a panic among the
policy-holders of the Continental and so it
did; and I knew at the time that the Company
was perfectly solvent, because Mr. Frost
assured me that all he wanted to do was to
relieve the Continental of some of the risks
outstanding against it. The amount of risks
extinguished in California by this plan was
fully 82,000.000. ' Nearly all the policies
were drawn in favor 6f married women, and
had to be signed by them before I would give
an order for the amount. I never saw the
persons in whose favor the policies were drawn,
but only the persons who had drawn the policies.
These latter I induced to bring the policies
to the former for their signatures. I
knew that this latter course was contrary to
the law, but didn't stop to consider that point.
I worked to get the policies any way and every
way, and I got them. Mr. Blake objected
to buying up the policies on account of the
small sum which I offered for them, but after
a private conversation with Mr. Frost he entered
enthusiastically into the work."
Mr. Hammond also stated that the value of
the policies, when he first undertdok to buy
them up, July, 1874, amounted to more than
82,000,000, and he succeeded in pulling it
down to 8600,000, the Continental thereby
saving 81,400,000. The panic which followed
his announcement to the Southern policyholders
of the Continental, Mr. Hammond
stated, was terrible. On all sides curses and
imprecations were hurled against the Continental.
The Governor of Alabama had
shortly before dismissed the Agent of the
Company from the State, and he then came
out in a circular, in which he bitterly inveighed
against the 'freezing'process adopted
by the Continental.
Mr. Hammond affirmed that every Life Insurance
Company in this city plays the same
trick on its Southern and Western policyholders
when it finds itself in a strait for
money. He had also 'frozen' policy-holders
in Omaha, Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio, but not
with such success as in California and the
Southern States. He made the negotiations
for reinsuring the Continental in the Southern
Life Insurance Company of Mobile, although
he knew at the time that the latter company
was almost insolvent. "It was none of my
business," Mr. Hammond said ; "all I had to
do was to find some company fool enough to
give bonds for the Continental." His salary
was $7,500 per annum at first, but it was afterwards
raised to $10,000. Mr. Hammond
further testified that it was the intention of
the officers of the Continental to send him
throfigh the Eastern States in January of this
year.
A Defense of Boa'rding-House Mistresses.?Nobody
who knows anything about
it, can have any other feeling than compassion
for the ordinary keeper of a private boarding
house. She has been the prey of small satirists
since boarding-houses and small satirists
were. It has been customary to represent her
as a willing and skillful adulierator of victuals
and drink, a skiuflint and sharper. In point
of fact, she is generally an intelligent aud
sensitive woman, who has chosen this mode of
earning a living partly because it is the only
one for which her habits of life have at all
fitted her, and partly because she has fancied
that it would do less violence to her sensibilities
than any other business open to ber. The
hoarding-bouse keeper is commonly a widow,
and her condition is a testimony, iu the first
place, to male improvidence. It entitles her
to the consideration of all men, and that consideration
by all decent men is cheerfully
given to her. If all boarders were decent
persons, her lot would be much easier than it
is. Instead of being the most crafty, she is
usually the most guileless of women. There
is scarcely a boarding-house keepey who has
not been made the victim of swindlers of all
kinds, from the swindler who merely omits to
pay his board, and whom she is too compassionate
to turn out at his first failure, to the
swindler who engages board for the purpose of
robbing the house. It is high time that these
hard-working and long-suffering women
should receive the commiseration and respect
to which they are entitled, instead of the
sneers and suspicions they oftener encounter.
Not one woman out of a thousand who keep
boarding-houses, derives from her business
more than a bare subsistence, ana it is innuman
and indecent to grudge her that. Whatever
the price of board in ordinary boardinghouses
may be, we may be quite sure that it
is justified and compelled by the prices the
boarding-house keeper has to pay.?New York
World. ^
THE TRUE* CINDERELLA.
? Many of the best stories in our story-books
are the reproduction of some very ancient bit
of history or myth; and the finest .of all English
nursery tales, "Cinderella," was once the
delight of the children of Egypt in the palmy
days of the Pharaohs.
We will tell you how it happened; and we
think that you will say that the old story is
quite as clever as the new, and much more
probable; for in the true Cinderella history
there are no fairy god-mothers, no mice and
no pumpkins. A wise old eagle takes the
management of the slipper, and we, in fancy,
can see him carrying it over the silver sands
and dark pyramids of Egypt without greatly
taxing our belief.
Rodolphe?a pretty name to begin with?
was the fairest lady in all Egypt. She had.
a dainty foot, and wore jeweled slippers, and
all the good people gazed upon her with delight
when she walked, as though she were a
goddess or a fairy.
She went out to bathe one day among the
white lilies of the Nile. While she and her
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shadow passed over them, and they saw an
eagle alight on the bank where their clothes
had been left. Presently it arose with something
in its talons, and wheeling through the
golden hazes, became a speck in the clear
blue sky.
When Rodolphe came up the bank, she
found that one of her jeweled slippers bad
been carried away, and she said to her maids
"The eagle has taken it."
And the maids said?"Then it will bring
you good luck. The eagle is a bird of good
omen."
So Rodolphe hobbled home with a light
heart, one of her slipperless feet crushing the
iotus blossoms. Her maids laughed at her,
but she said?"It is good luck, for an eagle
has taken it."
Far away up the Nile lay Memphis, with
Her bright-winged temples and palaces ; a
city seventeen miles in circuit, the seat of the
Pharaohs for nearly a thousand years, at this
time the capital of Egypt. Here were the
splendid temples of IsiB, Serapis, and of the
sun, and the throne was now filled with a
Pharaoh who had overthrown eleven other
Egyptian kings. ? : His
name was Psammeticus. His son, the
Pharaoh Necho, slew Josiah, king of Judah,
B. C. 610. (See 2 Kings 23.)
He was sitting in a cool portico of his palace
toward evening.* The crimson sun was
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but cool winds tripped with light feet along
the dimpling waves of the Nile, and fanned
the king as they passed. He arose, walked
into an open court, and a great shadow passed
above him.
He looked up, and beheld with delight and
awe an eagle descending, and wheeling above ,
his head, with something sparkling in his
talons. He looked upon the bird as a messenger
from the sun.
He lifted his arms for joy. Just then the
eagle began to ascend, dropping the glittering
treasure from its talons into his bosom.
It was Rodolphe's jewelled slipper.
The next day Psammeticus issued a proclamation
which caused all Memphis to wonder.
Whoever would find the mate to the jewelled
slipper, which the eagle had brought to the "
palace, should be loaded with riches, and j
taken into the service of the king.
Rodolphe heard the great news. She believed
that the eagle was indeed a messenger
of the gods to point out to her her destiny. (
So she came to magnificent Memphis, to answer
the proclamation of the king.
With one slipperless foot she ascended the
grand porticoes of the Pharaohs, and stood ,
before the king with downcast eyes, lifting her
dress just above her dainty feet?a perfect
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immediately fell in love with her, and mar- ;
ried her, and made her queen of all Egypt, j
There was great joy in all the dazzling
temples of Memphis when the marriage was
consummated?there was dancing and music,
and strewing of flowers. All Egypt was hap- j
py.?Hezelciah Butterioorth in Wide Awake.
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WHO WAS CAIN 'S WIFE J
The Rev. C. P. McCarty, who preaches
every. Sunday in the University Building,
Washington Square, New York, as Pastor of
what is called the American Free Church,
endeavored to answer the question of "who
was Cain's wife ?" Sunday evening February*
18. He took his text from the fourth chapter
of Genesis, and the seventeenth verse. (
The preacher said that he had selected the
peculiar subject announced at the request of j
several members of his congregation. Main- ]
taining that the old theories as to the meaning
of the Bible stories had ceased to be ten- j
able because of the increased light of science, (
he said that the theory held by many as to i
Cain's wife would also have to be abandoned, j
"The orthodox answer to the question," said
he, "is 'perhaps Cain married his sister.' 1
Well, I don't think he did. Now, I am not <
going to shirk the answering of this question, j
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not believe in. Nine out of ten believe that 1
the human race came from one pair. I don't
believe it. Do you say that is heretical? (
Perhaps it is, but this is not a question to be
answered by those who cling to the old theories.
That old theory can never answer it.
In the first place, Cain could not have married
his sister when departed to the land of <
Nod, because he had no sister. When Seth <
was born, Adam was only one hundred and i
thirty years old, a very young man for those
days, and Seth was his third child, There is
no mention of daughters. In the second i
place, Cain departed to a country where there i
were people, and he feared these people would ;
slay him because of his crime, and the Lord i
recognized the reality of this dauger and set i
a mark on him that he might be saved. The i
Bible nowhere states that there were only ]
two people originally created. Adam was
the generic name for human race, and male i
and female created he them. Do you believe <.
that negroes and Chinese are the descendants ]
of the same progenitors with ourselves? I i
don't. Caiu went over to the laiid of Nod, <
and there became the chief of a race which i
he found there. He built a city. He could i
not have done this alone. This, then, must j
be my answer to the question : there were i
races of people upon the earth at the time
Cain was driveu out a vagabond, and from
this race Cain took his wife."
The preacher dwelt at considerable length
on the lessons to be drawn from the life of
Cain, and exhorted all to avoid the little sins,
for even Cain did not become a murderer all
at once, but was led up to that great crime
by envy and jealous feeling.
THE BLUE GLASS THEORY. 4
A very general interest has been awakened
by discoveries made by General Pleasanton,
with regard to the properties of blue light as
a medical agent, and the opinions expressed
on the subject range through every degree,
from implicit confidence to absolute skepticism
and ridicule. At the suggestion of a correspondent,
who writes in quest of information,
we will state briefly what is claimed for the
new cure and the Drincioles on which the
claims are based. The good effects of the
blue light on the nervous system have been
known for some time to members of the medical
profession, but a book written by General
Pleasanton, was the first popular treatise on
the subject. Sunlight passes directly through
colorless glass, with slight obstruction, and
produces no heat, the glass remaining as cold
as the outside atmosphere. When the light
falls upon blue paoes of glass, six of the seven
primary rays are arrested, and only the blue
ray passes through. The sudden stoppage of
these rays of light, moving with enormous velocity,
produces friction which, according to
General Pleasanton, evolves negative electricity.
The blue glass is oppositely electrified.
When the opposite electricities, thus brought
together, meet at the surface of the glass, their
conjunction evolves heat and magnetism.
The heat expands the molecules of the glass
and a current of electro-magnetism passes into
the room, imparting vitality and strength
to any animal or vegetable life within it.
General Pleasanton, in the book in which he
unfolds his blue glass cure, takes occasion to
combat some generally accepted scientific theories,
denying, among others, the Newtonian
theory of gravitation, asserting that electrici'?
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ly is ice an-conirouing iorce 01 nature, uuu
denying the theory that the sun is an incandescent
body, throwing off heated rays. We
have not space to enter upon his arguments
on these points, however, and we state them
only in order to show the aggressive character
of his opinions.
The usual method of making the experiment
with blue light is by means of alternate
panes of blue and colorless glass in the window
sash. The glass used is a French glass
of dark Mazarine blue, which is colored with
cobalt, the ingredient* of the glass and the
metal being fused together. If an exceedingly
strong light is desired, a whole sash may be
filled with blue panes and placed immediately
in front of the ordinary sash. The diseased
part of the body must be exposed directly to
the blue rays. The sun bath should last half
an hour or so and should be taken for several
days io succession. The treatment is particularly
efficacious in all diseases of the spine,
and is specially recommended for these and
for nervous difficulties of every description.
Some astonishing cures are reported, so astonishing
in fact that it is easy to understand
the ridicule with which the theory has been
received in some quarters. Among other
cases which we notice are those of a Philadelphia
lady, who is represented to have been
cured of neuralgia by ten minutes exposure
to blue light; two gentlemen who were entire:
ly cured of rheumatism in three days; a lady
suffering from hemorrhage of the lungs,
wliuae disease has been a nested by a few weeks*
treatment; a girl who was cured of spinal
meningetis, and a young lady, made entirely
bald by sickness, wk^se hair has come out
luxuriantly under blue glass.
Boston Journal
A GAME A'TVREAMING.
While Sir William Johnson was suDerin
tendent of Indian affairs in the Mohawk Valley,
in 1755, one of his staunchest friends was
the old Mohawk sachem, Hendrick. Sir
William had great confidence in the old
chief's judgment, and seldom made a move
against the hostile Indians and French without
consulting him. "If they are to fight,
they are too few; if they are to be killed,
they are too many," was bis laconic response
to Johnson's question touching the propriety
of sending out a small body of men which he
had organized against an expected invasion.
On a certain occasion, Sir William was unpacking
a large box of clothing which he had
just received from England. Hendrick
chanced to be present, and was particularly
attracted by a richly embroidered coat which
he saw brought forth and shaken out in all
its glittering splendor of gold lace and gilded
buttons and bright silk facing. The old Indian's
eyes sparkled, and he could scarcely
keep his hands from the coveted prize. But
he held back, and held his peaae for the time.
On the following morning, however, the
chieftain waited upon the Governor for a purpose,
as was evident from the intensity of his
look.
"Sir William," said he, with wide-open eyes,
and a general expression of wonder, "me have
a great dream last night. Me dream that
you say to me, Good Hendrick, you have been
my friend, and now I will reward you. And
you gave me the new coat, with the bright
gold on it, that came in the box."
The baronet reflected a few moments, and
finally said:
"It is true, Hendrick, you have been my
friend. The coat is yours."
The chief went away fairly beside himself
with delight.
A few days after that Sir VY lliiam said to
bis dusky ally :
"Hendrick, I had a dream last night."
"Ah! and what did my white brother
dream ?"
"I dreamed that you took me by the hand,
and said to me, "Sir William Johnson, you
have been my true friend, and I will give yon
proof of my great lbve for you. And you
gave to me the tract of land on the great rivBr
and Canada creek," describing a square
territory embracing nearly one hundred thousand
acres of choice land.
The old chieftain was for a little time utterly
confounded. This was the fairest of bis
domain. But he was not to be outdone in
generosity.
"My pale-faced brother," he at length said,
'the land is yours."
And after a pause he added, with a significant
nod:
"Sir William, we won't dream any more.
5Tou dream too big for me."
The title of the land was confirmed to Sir
William by the British government, and
called the Royal grant. The land was north
oujlr onH lov mnatlv in what in
aow Herkimer county.
Sulphur for Scarlet Fever.?Dr. Henry
Pigeon writes to the London Lancet as
follows: "The marvellous success which has
attended my treatment of scarlet fever by
julphiir induces me to let my medical brethren
know of ray plan, so that they may be
able to apply the same remedy without delay.
All the cases in which I used it were
well marked, and the epidermis on the arms
in each case came away like the skin of a
snake. The following was the exact treatment
followed in each case: Thoroughly anuoint
the patient' twice daily with sulphur
ointmeut; give five to ten grains of sulphur
in a little jam three times a day. Sufficient
3ulphur was burned twice daily (on coals on
a shovel), to fill the room with the fnmes,
and, of course, was thoroughly inhaled by
the patient. Under this mode of treatment
each case improved immediately, and none
were over eight days in making a complete
recovery, and I firmly believe in each it was
prevented from spreading by the treatment
adopted. One case was in a large schooL
Having bad a large experience in scarlet fever
last year and this, I feel some confidence
in my own judgment, and I am of the opinion
that the very mildest cases I ever saw do
1 not do half so well as bad cases do by the
sulphur treatment, and, as far as I can judge,
sulphur is as near a specific for scarlet fever
as possible."
Stick to It.?No matter what your business
is?if it be honorable?stick to it, and
you will make a good living, if you do not
become rich. Any pursuit, well followed for
a dozen years will make a man independent?
provided, always, he is prudent himself, and
what is carried into the house is not wasted.
How many engage in business and .drive it forward
a year or two, and then abandon it for
some other scheme, to be driven as fiercely at
first, and to be given up as soon. No wonder so
few become independent. A man must stick
to it for years before he will begin to realize
much. A mechanic who is now worth thirty
thousand dollars just remarked to us: "I have
been on this spot more than five-and-twenty
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business." Stick to it was the secret of his
success; for, to our knowledge, when he commenced
business, he had to run in debt for the
tools he worked with. In the early part of
his life, at different times, he was associated
with partners who became uneasy and left
him. Not one of them added a dollar to the
funds they accumulated in the business with
this gentleman. Their shiftless character
made them run from one thing to another,
and hence their bad success.
We repeat?whatever your business or profession
be, stick to it; in season and out, amid
hard times and prosperous times, and if you "*
do not succeed there is no truth in us. We
do not say that a man may not- be unfortunate,
after years of toil, for people often are;
but we do say men who sjick closely to one
thing will succeed better and make more
money, in the Ions run, than those who are
fickle-minded, ana who are driven about by
every wind that blows. We would rather
stand our chance at home with the steady and
industrious man, than with the stranger who
first commenced digging gold in California.
Mourning Customs.?The ancients had
queerjdeas about mourning for their dead.
JL'he Egyptian women ran tbroogb tbe streets
crying, with their bosoms exposed and their
hair disordered. The Lycians regarded mourning
as unmanly, and compelled men who went
into mourning to put on female garments. In
Greece, when a popular general died, the
whole army cut off their hair and the manes
of their horses. At the present day, the Arabian
women stain their hands and feet with
indigo, which they suffer to remain eight days.
They also carefully abstain from using milk
this timej on the ground that its white color
does not accord with the gloom of their minds.
In China, the mourning color is whitfe. *
Mourning for a parent or husband is required
there by law, under a penalty of sixty blows
and a year's banishment When the Emperor
dies, all his subjects let their hair grow '
for one hundred days. In the Feejee Islands,
on the tenth day of mourning, the women
scourge all the men except the highest chiefs.
Another fashionable custom there requires
the friends and relatives of the deceased to assemble
on the fourth day aftp.r the funeral.
and picture to themselves the amount of corruption
the corpse has sustained by that time.
In the'Sandwich Islands persons desirous of
going 1ULU uiouruiiig.paiut iuc iunci pom ui
tbeir faces black, and knock out their front
teeth. No doubt this causes a very sincere
kind of mourning for the time.
When to LJse Spectacles.?The simplest
rules for ascertaining the need of eye-glasses
are, firstly, to note if you are obliged to remove
small print or small objects further
than usual from your eyes in order to see
them distinctly; secondly, if you find yourself
involuntarily moving nearer to the light
than was usual with you in order to read a
letter or book; thirdly, if very small objects
appear to be confused after you have looked
at them for any length of time; fourthly, if
the eyes, after a little close attention to anything,
become so fatigued that you are obliged
to turn aside to give them relaxation;
and, lastly, if the sight, on first waking, is
very weak, and does not recover its customary
degree of force until ^sometime after. As
for the choice of eye-glasses, here are a fey
general rules to begin with: "In the first place,
good glasses ought never to magnify the objects
very much, but merely to show them to
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Even in exceptional cases, where rather strong
magnifiers are needed, the proof when they
are too strong will be when you are obliged
to bring the object much closer to the eye
than a sound sight requires,"?in brief, "every
person ought, generally speaking, to be
able to read conveniently with his spectacles
at the same distance he lyas accustomed to
while his visual powers were perfect."?Fraser's
Magazine.
J?* The great Leech Farm of M. Laurens,
near Bordeaux, France, covers about 400
acres. The marsh is divided into compartments
of dive or six acres, each of which is
surrounded by two ditches with an intervening
bank. These compartments have some
30,000 to 40,000 leeches each. In the winter
the leeches remain under ground, but come
out early in the spring Horses are driven
into the water, about ten to the acre, on which
the "blood-suckers" gorge themselves for five
or six hours. The troops are then taken
away to be fed and recuperated for eight or
ten days, and other troops take their places,
so that by June the leeches have been fed
nine or ten times. In June the leeches go
under ground again, the water is drawn off,.
and the herbage is allowed to grow. In July
and August they come out, and deposit their
eggs on the tufts of weeds and grass; a little
water is turned on to moisten the ground, and
the young soon hatch. By the last of August
the grounds are inundated, and the fishing
begins; long lines of men in high boots pass
through the ponds, beating the water to rouse
the leeches, and putting the largest into bags
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wincb tney carry, omaner ones are ien mr
stock for another year. Paris alone oses 12,000,000
leeches a year, and before the introduction
of these leech farms 50,000,000 annually
were imported into France.
An Irresistible Appeal.?Some sheep,
belonging to a farmer named Reed, having
been stolen in the neighborhood of a colliery
village in Durham, England, while the thief
was still undiscovered, a local preacher, having
a collection to make, thought he would
turn the event to a good account: "We have
a collection to make this morning, and for the
glory of God, whoever of you stole Mr. Reed's
sheep don't put anything on the plate 1" Of
course everybody joined in the collection.
The Greatest Number.?Said Lord John
Russel to Hume, at a social dinner, "What
do you consider the object of legislation ?"
"The greatest good to the greatest number."
"What do you consider the greatest number ?"
continued his lordship. "Number one, my
lord," was the commoner's prompt reply.
S&~ A man lately made application for insurance
on a building situated in a village
where there was no fire-engine. He was
asked, '"What are the facilities in your vil- &lage
for extinguishing a fire?" "Well, it
rains sometimes," he replied, with great stm.plicity.