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VOL. 32. YOEKVILLE, S C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1886. NO. 3.
JVh #rtginal Jtorg.
Written for the Yorkvilie Enquirer.
AN UNQUIET LIFE.
Uy Stanley StClaiu.
CHAPTER IV.
A week passed. During that time, as
may be imagined, Magdalen spared no pains
to make herself useful and companionable
to Mrs. Fairfax. With so important an
object in view, all selfishness must be laid
aside. Her efforts were crowned with
success.
"Magdalen," said the gentle lady to her
on the day week of her arrival, "it is time
for us both now to make our decision. You
will tell me your wishes first. Are you
contented here?"
"Perfectly contented?more than contented,
Mrs. Fairfax," replied the young
girl with a throbbing heart. "I have been
truly happy here?happier than I have ever
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L__ _ "You are willing then to stay with me?"
r "For ever!" was Magdalen's effusive reply,
as with a sudden impulse she took
Mrs. Fairfax's slender hand and kissed it.
"Then you may stay. But Magdalen,
remember, if I give you the position of one
of my family?for I intend that you shall
always be treated in every respect as my
equal?I expect from you an unquestioning
compliance with my wishes. Your conduct
must be under my guidance; you must
reward my care and my confidence with implicit
obedience and perfect respect. It is
on these conditions alone that I keep you ;
and on these conditions you will find me
a true and firm friend."
"They are easy conditions," replied Magdalen,
to whom* everything looked easy at
that moment. And what tyranny could
she fear from one so kindly disposed as her
new friend ?
"Well then, we may regard the matter as
settled. This afternoon we will drive to
the Asylum, and you shall get the remainder
of your things."
"I don't think, Mrs. Fairfax, that there
is any need of your taking the trouble to
go out there again, I have nothing of any
value?nothing worth bringing away."
"Your clothing?"
"I put most of that in my bag when I
came off," said Magdalen, who was secretly
anxious to get rid as quickly as possible
r?f nil hpp fnrmpr nnsspssinns.
' ."But you would like, at least, to bid
farewell 'to your former protectors and
friends?
There was mingled surprise and reproach
in Mrs. Fairfax's tone, and Magdalen felt
the implied rebuke.
"0 certainly, she rejoined, casting down
her eyes. It was only that I feared it might
inconvenience you to go."
"Not in the least. I have little to occupy
me in the afternoon, and a drive is always
beneficial to me."
Magdalen hated to re-enter the Asylum
in her old clothes. She would have enjoyed
showing herself to her former associates
under a new aspect, but would
have preferred staying away under present
circumstances, and the prospect of a general
leave-taking was particularly disagreeable
to her. However, there was no help for it. i
So, when lunch was over, she got her- i
self ready, and at two o'clock the carriage I
came to the door. The drive was a lovely I
one, but she felt a, perceptible sinking of
her spirits as the gates of the Asylum came
in view.
"Here's Magdalen!" "Magdalen's come
r UlfclM" etted two or three childish voices
as they drove through the grounds. Mrs.'
Ellery, knitting in hand, was sitting in an
arm chair near the front steps. Sheroseand
welcomed them pleasantly, and invited
them in.
"I have brought Magdalen back," said
Mrs. Fairfax, as they entered the parlor,
"but only to take leave of you all, and collect
whatever of her possessions she desires
to bring away."
"You mean to keep her, then ?"
"Yes, we have agreed to suit each other."
"That's well," said Mrs. Ellery, with genuine
satisfaction. . "Magdalen, my dear,
you had better run up stairs at once. You
know where to find everybody, and your
things are all in their old places."
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Ellery, turning to her visitor, said with a
smile, "I think there is a new air of dignity
about heralready. I do hope, Mrs. Fairfax,
that she will suit you in every respect."
"It would be difficult, perhaps, to find a
girl who would suit me in every respect,"
was the reply; "but situated as I am, I
must be satisfied with any one who will
suit me in most respects, as I think she
promises to do. She is certainly very intelligent
and well informed, much more so
than I had ventured to hope. She reads excellently
well, which is a great accomplishment,
and a rare one now-a-days."
"Yes, she is clever and ambitious, and has
spent a great deal of time over her studies.
She is almost too ambitious?and it is of this
I would warn you. She aspires constantly
to that which is beyond her reach. You
will have to watch her, Mrs. Fairfax, and
not give her too much license, or she may
get beyond your control. I don't want to
give you an unfavorable impression of
her?far from it?but if you know her weak
point from the beginning, you can the more
easily guard against it."
"T think I have already found out her
weak point. But after all, is it well to
cheek ambition?" asked Mrs. Fairfax,
thoughtfully. "It may lead to great and
: good results."
"Indeed it may, when well directed.
Magdalen has fine capabilities in her; but
the truth is, she has only shown me her
worst side. She has never been happy here,
and I have never been able to win her confidence.
Perhaps it is my own fault. I |
may not have tried the right method with
her. She is a reticent girl, and very proud."
"Probably she felt out of place here," said
Mrs. Fairfax. "She gave me a sketch of
her,former circumstances on the first day of
our 'acquaintance, and I can imagine that
she felt the change more keenly than if she
hnil vmimrpr whpn if. nppnrrpil "
"Yes, it's true that her parents were once
well off; but she has lacked no corn fort here,!
and has no cause to complain," said Mrs. J
Ellery, a little warmly. "I assure you that |
she has always been treated with entire >
kindness and consideration; and as to the
companionship of the others, 1 must say
they are, on the whole, a very nice set of
girls?very nice, particularly those with
whom she came most in contact. But she
looked down upon all of them, and as a natural
result there was no sympathy between
them and her."
"Of course, I can understand that. A 1
girl of her disposition would, I see, not be
likely to make friends under such circutn- j
stances. And you mustn't think that she
led me to suppose she had been otherwise |
than kindly treated, for that is, by no means,
the case. I am sure she was fortunate in j
finding such a comfortable home, and such 1
kind protectors. But she is getting too.old, |
is she not, for your institution ? Would she ;
not soon have been obliged, under any circumstances,
to leave?"
"We never turn them off without find-1
ing them good places; and though eighteen
is really the age mentioned in the rules j
as the limit of their stay, yet they can find j
a home here for a much longer period if
they are willing to take some useful position,
as sewing-teacher, assistant matron,
sick-nurse, or child's nurse, as many of
them do. But Magdalen would not have
accepted any of these positions. 1 lerstrongest
wish was to get away."
"Well, I am sure I hope we shall get on
well together, for it would be a great disappointment
now to me to find that she
did not suit."
In the mean time Magdalen was undergoing
a fire of cross-questioning from the
girls, who were always eager over new arrivals
and departures, particularly the latter,
because there was more excitement about
them. They asked herabout her new home,
her new protector, and her prospects, with
a volubility and enthusiasm to which she
did not outwardly respond. She put on her
usual impenetrable air, and made her answers
as brief as possible, yet while feigning
indifference she contrived to give them
a very lofty idea of her position.
"And of course you'll forget all about us
now," said Clara. "And as to the Asylum?pretty
soon you'll not even recollect
the existence of such a plebian place, eh
Magdalen?"
"Nonsense," said Sophy. "She'll never
forget us, or the Asylum either. Why
should she? Are we her enemies?"
"No, but she won't long count us as her
friends," responded Clara, who, as usual,
was reclining in lazy ease with a book in
her hand, for it was recreation time. "Own
up now, Mag; won't you be ashamed to
confess that you spent three long years in
an Orphan Asylum, and in such vulgar society
as that of its inmates?"
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"i reaiiy iwveii t ^iveu a uiuu^ut kj mc
matter, Clara," was Magdalen's reply. She
was managing in her bureau drawers, and
took out some little trinkets, to which she
did not attach any special value.
"Here, Clara, you may have this as a
keepsake-and you, Sophy, this" she said,
holding out to one a little jet cross, and to
the other a plain ring. Clara laughed as
she took the cross. Sophy thanked her affectionately.
"And whatever else of mine I don't take
I bequeath to you two, to divide between
you or give away at your discrestion. You
see there are some things I shan't need,
and it isn't worth while for me to carry
them off, particularly as I am going on a
voyage so soon."
"A voyage to Europe! Oh, what joy!"
said Clara. "I envy you that, Mag, I positively
do. Never mind, perhaps my turn
will come some day."
"I am sure that I have no idea that mine
ever will," said Sophy contentedly.
"For that matter, no one ever has an idea
that anything unusual is going to happen,"
remarked Clara. "For instance, which of
us dreamed a little over a week ago that
Magdalen was going to turn into a fine lady
and make a trip to Europe?"
"Well, I suppose I imist go now," said
Magdalen, who, by this time had finished
her preparations. She kissed them all
round as a matter of duty rather than inclination,
made a hasty tour of the building,
leaving adieux as she went, and was just
congratulating herself with a sigh of relief
that the business was over, when on her
way to the parlor she was stopped by a little
pale girl on crutches, who held' out a
a small parcel to her.
"They said you were coming back to tell
us all gooa-Dve," sne sai?, "so 1 maue mis
for you, Magdalen. You'll keep it, won't
you ?"
"What is it?" asked Magdalen unwillingly.
"Just a pin-cushion. I hadn't any silk
pieces, but one side is velvet, and 1 think
it's pretty?don't you?" She watched eagerly
as Magdalen unfastened the parcel.
"Oh yes, it's pretty, Amy. Thank you,
I'm sure."
"And you'll keep it to remember me
by ?"
"Yes, of course." She hastily kissed the
little cripple, put the pincussion in her
pocket and ran on.
At last she was through with her task,
every good bye was said, and Mrs. Ellery's
parting admonition received ; they re-entered
the carriage and drove off?and now, indeed,
the Asylum was left behind "for
good." Happy Magdalen! she had escaped
from her prison. Freedom, glorious freedom,
was hers at lasE
Mrs. Fairfax on reaching home complained
of a severe headache, and retired
early to bed. Magdalen drew a low chair
to the table and took up a book, prepared
to spend a delightful solitary evening, for
she was never happier than when she could
read and think without interruption, and
she had never felt less inclined for conversation
than now. After a desultory glance
through the pages before her she laid the
book-down, and gave herself up to reflection,
which best suited her present mood.
What a change, truly, had a few short
days made in her prospects and surroundings!
What a field was suddenly opened
to herambition! With a smile of self-pity
she recalled her fondly cherished wish of
becoming a teacher?how poor and narrow
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far broader anticipations opened up to
her view. What drudgery would it have
been, as set against the easy occupation of
making herself companionable to an amiable
person whom she could dominate, by
the force of her own will, in any way that
should suit her?at least, so she fully believed.
Leisure for reading, opportunities
of enlarging her mind, of acquiring experience
and knowledge of the world and that
polish which only polite and cultivated society
can impart; money for gratifying her
tastes?all this was now to be hers, in return
for her easy work.
Most girls of seventeen or eighteen indulge
in dreams of love, but romance formed
no part of Magdalen's nature, and if the
thought of marriage ever occurred to her, it
was in a most practical form. She would
marry (should the opportunity become hers)
a man of wealth and position, one who
would satisfy her pride and gratify her !
ruling passion, ambition; but a mere love
match she regarded as a weak, sentimental j
affair, unpardonable if it involved poverty, i
or the overthrow of any cherished plans.
While indulging in these musings, there j
came a ring at the front-door bell, and a
moment later Mr. Burton entered the par-;
lor. Magdalen felt rather annoyed, but she j
rose and greeted him with wonderful selfpossession?at
least, it appeared wonderfulj
to him.
"I am so sorry Mrs. Fairfax is ill," she j
said, half expecting that he would retire on ;
finding that she was alone. But he took !
a seat with the air of intending to remain. |
"1 have been attending to the purchase
of my cousin's tickets," he said, taking a
little package from bis pocket. "One for
her and one for yourself. Will you kindly
take charge of them ?"
"Tickets?" repeated Magdalen, inquir- j
ingly.
"Your passage, you know, on the Jinuisirick.
Mrs. Fairfax asked me to get them.
So you are fairly off, or will he in a few
short weeks. I wish I was going too."
Magdalen did not echo the wish, either
mentally, or aloud. She took the tickets!
with a little thrill of satisfaction, feeling
how much they promised for her gratifica-.
tion. Mr. Burton lay back in his chair?he ;
always chose a comfortable one?and clasped
his hands indolently above his head,
lie evidently did not think it necessary to
be ceremonious in her society. This was
quite apparent to her, and was one reason,
perhaps, for her half unconscious dislike to
his company. Seeing that he remained si-'
lent and seemingly unconcerned at her
presence, she determined to meet him on
his own ground, and resuming the book she
had laid down she began to look at the pictures.
By and by he rose, strolled into the
next room and opened the piano.
"Will it hurt my cousin's head if I
play?" he called out to her.
"How can I possibly tell?" was her cool
rejoinder.
"I wish I knew," he continued, drumming
softly on the keys. "I feel in the
mood for playing, just now."
"I wonder if he means that as a hint for
nin fz? zrr> nn.cfoifii ?n#l <?uL- lior
Magdalen, and she was amused at the
idea.
Burton put down the soft pedal and began
a slow, plaintive measure; brilliant|
inusie was not his forte. Altera few bars
lie stopped, walked about a little with his:
hands in his pockets, then came hack to his
former seat.
"How much that book interests you," he
remarked.
"1 must interest myself in some way,
must I not?"
"Certainly. But now that I am here,
why not talk ?"
"Why not?" she echoed, and in a negli
gent manner she laid aside the book, still
keeping her hand on the open page.
"That is, if it does not disturb you?perhaps
you prefer reading?"
"Oh no?I was only looking at the en-:
gravings."
"Or perhaps," said Burton with a sudden j
idea, "you play chess. I am so fond of
chess."
"No, I am quite ignorant of the game;
I do not even know the elementary rules."
"You have seen it played, of course."
"Probably, but I never took any interest
in it."
"I am sure you would prove an apt
scholar; I should be happy to teach you."
"For my benefit, or your own ?"
"Well, we'll say for our mutual benefit,"
laughed Burton. "Of course everybody
ought to understand chess."
"Well," said Magdalen, after a moment's
reflection, if I find that Mrs. Fairfax expects
me to learn in order to play with
her, I'll be happy to do so; but in the
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am not in the mood for taking lessons this
evening."
[TO HE CONTINUED.]
THOMAS \V. KEEXE.
Thomas W. Keene,the actor, was stricken
with paralysis, at a reception tendered him
011 January 3rd, at Kansas City, Missouri, j
by the local lodge of the Order of Elks.
Thomas W. Keene, whose prostration by
paralaysis so soon after John McCullough's
sad end will attract general attention, was
born in New York City in 1840. His father
was at one time proprietor of the New Orleans
Bee, and was subsequently connected
with the New York Courier and Enquirer.
At the age of sixteen, young Keene began
his stage career in the New York Bowery.
His first speaking part was "Lucius" in
Julius Ciesar, which he enacted in the
Chinese Museum, New York. He gradually
rose in his profession until in 18(io he
was leading man in Kate Fisher's company
playing In Newark. It was in this
city that he supported Pauline Cushman.
His next engagement was at New York,
where he supported Lucille Western and
the late Frank Crank Chanfrau. Thence he
went to Cincinnati, supporting Itistori, and !
played in that city for a long while. In !
1870 he made a successful professional tour
of England. Returning to America, he i
supported Davenport, Booth, Barrett, Mc- i
Cullough, Jaunescheck and Owens, playing i
the leading man with each. His success!
nerved him to essay the role of a star and j
since 1880, he has been playing in Hamlet,!
Itichard III, Shylock, Othello, Richelieu '
and other characters. He gained many admirers
and soon became popular in these!
roles.
FRENCH CRIMINALS. . j
The result of the Brussels lottery was to i
be made known one evening in Paris. In
the time of the Empire it was lawful to buy
tickets for this lottery three hours before
the arrival of the courier with the list of
winning numbers. With a margin of three
hours there seemed to be no possibility of
foul play, even among the clever sharpers I
of Paris. Rarher more than four hours be- j
fore the arrival of the messenger, a man |
named Baudin presented himself at the j
lottery office, bought a certain number,
paid for it, and disappeared. That even- j
ing Baudin received a million of francs. I
Napoleon the Great, however was not a man i
easily duped. Such a wonderful coinci- j
dence of good fortune seemed somewhat!
suspicious. He directed inquiry to be!
made, anu, airer some uiueu was discov-;
ered that Baudin had an accomplice at Br us-!
sels who sent him the number of the winning
ticket on the neck of a carrier pigeon.
The pigeon could fiy much faster than the
courier could ride, and Baudi. gained his
million for a time. But he did not keep it
long for he lost money, liberty and life
too at the Bagne at Brest.
Fiction, a forcaf for life, condemned for
numerous audacious crimes, had a trick of t
breaking loose, spite of chains and bullet,
the guard and stone walls. One day he is |
seen on the port quietly looking at his j
companions?not attempting to escape, only
taking a little free exercise on his own
account. Taken back to his bench?for he j
was chained to a bench apparently immovable?strictly
watched and doubly ironed,
next day he* is found in his old place on the
port, again watching his companions and
whistling "Be Postilion de Bongjumeau."
The commissary, a common man without
sympathies, orders M. Fichon to the cac/iot,
the dark underground cells.
"Here at least he will be safe," says the
common man, sipping his cafe noir.
Two days afterward he espies M. Fichon
strolling through the town of Toulon, his |
bands behind his back, whistling as before,
and looking in at the shop windows.
"What are you doing here, Fichon?"
"Why, my commissary, what do you see.
lam taking a little walk. What do you
want me to do? I will obey. Must 1 go
back from whence 1 came?"
"As you please,'' said the commissary l
ironically; since it seems a settled thing I
with you not to obey me any longer."
Fichon, hurt at such an insinuation, re-!
turned to his cell. An hour afterward the'1
guard found the door locked, and Fichon
re-ironed by his own hands; but they never
could find the most trilling instrument}
capable of filing or unriveting his chains.
Andre Fanfan was even more clever than
Fichon. Andre's foot used to itch and then
there was no holding him. He used to attemnt
real flight: Fichon onlv wanted a
quiet stroll without irons. But both seemed
to have secured the mandrake's power
over the bolts and bars. No walls could
hold them, 110 chains retain them, no balls
hit them. They were vulnerable only in
their facility of losing their liberty. They
never could keep free when they had got
loose. Fan fan was sure to be retaken before
twelve hours were over, and when he had
finished one sentence he was certain to soon
qualify himself for another. These two
men gave the guards many a days outing. |
It was almost as much fun as hunting!
a stag to hear the gun tired and the news j
spread that Fanfan or Fichon had escaped.
When they died the guards felt as if half!
the amusement of their wretched lives had ,
died also.
Disai'pkakaxckoftiik Kfimikatks.?
The Euphrates river, once a mighty stream, 1
seems likely to disappear altogether. For
some years the river banks below Babylon!
have been giving way so that the stream!
spreads out into a marsh, until steamers'
could not pass, and only a narrow channel j
remained for the native boats. Now the
passage is being filled up, and the prospect is}
that the towns on the banks will be ruined
and the famous river itself will he swallowed
tip by the desert.?C/iirar/n Herald.
; ittisccllattcows HcatUtw.
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A STUlKb! IN ANCIENT DAYS.
When strikes are so common in Europe
and America, it will beinterestingtoeonsider
how the ancient Egyptians managed such a
crisis in the labor question. It was supposed
that strikes were unoriginal outcome to our
modern civilization ; but the deciphering of
a papyrus in the Museum of Turin shows
how the old proverb that there is nothing
new under the sun applies to strikes as well
as to many other things. This papyrus,
which is a sort of journal or day-book of the
superintendent of the Thebes necropolis,
furnishescuriousdetails of a workmen's riot
or disturbance in Thebes, in the twentyninth
year of a King Ramses, who is supposed
to be Ramses III. The workmen's
quarter sent a deputation on the 2Sth of December,
to I latnekin, the keeper of books,
and to several priests of the necropolis. The
speaker of the deputation spoke as follows:
"Behold, we are face to face with famine.
We have neither nourishment, nor oil, nor
vestments. We have no fish ; we have no
vegetables. We ijavealready senta petition
to our sovereign lrfrcfthe Pharaoh, praying
him to give us these things, and we now address
the governor, in order that lie may
give us wherewithal to live."
These facts took place on the 27th of December
(first day of the month of Tybi).
The general distribution of wheat was then
evidently due to the workmen, but why it
did not take place is not known. Perhaps
the individual who should have distributed
the food was absent. Whatever was the
cause of delay, the need was urgent, and
Ifatnekin, with the priests present, either
touched with compassion, or to prevent the
affair from reaching the ears of the governor
of the necropolis, accorded one day's rations.
IIow the workmen lived in the days
following is not recorded in the papyrus;
but some weeks afterwards they were in full
revolt. Three times they forcibly emerged
from their quarters, notwithstanding the
walls which surrounded them and the gales
which closed them in. "We will not return,"
cried a kneftu to the police sent in
pursuit of them. "Go tell your chief what
we tell you; it is famine which speaks by
our mouths." To argue with them was
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useless. "i were was great nguiuiuu, wnics
the superintendent in his day book ; "I gave
them the strangest answer I could imagine,
but their words were true and came from
their hearts."
They were quieted by a distribution of
half-rations, but ten days later they were
up again.
Kohns, the leader of the band, pressed his
companions to provide for themselves.
"Let us fall," said he, "upon the stores of
provisions and let the governor's men go
and tell him what we have done." This
counsel was followed as soon as given.
They entered forcibly into the enclosure,
but not into the fortress where the provisions
were kept. The keepers of the stores,
Amen-Nextu, gave them something and
contrived to induce them to return to their
quarters.
Eleven days later the movement began
again. The commander of Thebes, passing
by, found the men seated on the ground behind
the temple of Seti,atthe northern end
of the necropolis. Immediately they began
to cry: "Famine! Famine!" The commander
then gave them an order for fifty
measures of wheat in the name of Pharaoh,
"who has sworn," said he, "an oath that
you will have food again." Most likely
Pharaoh|never heard of theeventand never
received the petition addressed to him a
couple of months previously.?The Pilot.
Ciikst Development.?"Chest, thirtythree;
inllated, thirty-five." Standing in
the show room of a fashionable tailor I
heard these words proceeding from behind
the heavy drapery which cut off the measuring
alcove.
As I waited for attendance, the; curtain
was drawn aside, and a young man, who
had evidently just left his order for a suit of
clothes, stepped out. He was of medium
height, with broad shoulders and fairly pro
portioned limbs; yet the flatness of the harrow
chest spoiled all beauty of form by a
lack of fullness, that meant a lack of power,
a shorter life, and a weaker hold upon existence.
Passing out into the street, my attention
was directed by this incident, to the forms
of men I met; and, in my walk, I did not
see a single perfect development of chest
among the crowd of young and middle-aged
men of all classes and conditions that a
great city's streets may show.
That afternoon I attended an athletic
meeting in one of the city parks, where
every day trained athletes, representatives
from every part of the world, contended for
the champion honor in feats of strength.
Their perfect development was obtained
through years of steady, careful training,
which, by means of a variety of exercises,
thickened, hardened every muscle in their
bodies, and swelled out chests, whose full,
curved lines, whose broad fronts and deep
sides gave to the looker-on a sense of tremendous
strength and of wonderful endurance.
Stand up a moment. Remove your coat
and waistcoat. Put the tape-measure around
you?under your arms, across your chest?
tight. What does it read! Thirty-five
inches. Put your hands on your hips,
thumbs in front?that helps to throw your
shoulders back ; nevermind if arms akimbo
are positive proof of a tendency to vulgarity
; now take a long, slow breath through
your nostrils. Notice the swelling of your
abdomen and the size of your chest. Now
have the same measure taken again?thirtyseven
and one-half. Two and one-half
inches difference, now that every air cell in
your lungs is filled. Do not hold your
breath long enough to feel uncomfortable
in the slightest degree; and let it out
through your nostrils, of course. Try that
six times every night and morning, and, in
a month make another measurement.
siik w as i^xcja?en.?'i"ne scarcity 01
young women 111 Yakima county, W. T.,
has not only caused considerable ill-feeling
among the marriageable young men, but is
certainly proving an obstacle to education.
Just as soon as a young lady is installed as
teacher of a school, scores of young fellows,
upon matrimony intent, vie with each other
to act as her escort to her boarding house;
and it occasionally happens that one of
them will demonstrate his right to act as her
gay cavalier by "knocking out" the others,
should they persist in their attentions to
the new teacher.
Two or three weeks' courtship, under
such circumstances, is usually enough to
convince a young lady that "a school teacher's
life is not a happy one," and that of a
wife is far preferable. Then the primitive
university is shut up until a new teacher
is found, and the youngsters, having no
lessons to learn, devote their entire time to
pleasure, and are as happy as the young
husband who stole away their teacher.
A member of the school commitee, who
had been empowered to secure a teacher for
a school temporarily closed because the former
incumbent had been persuaded to desert
her pupils in the manner described
above, had introduced a decidedly original
resolution in the School Board. It was to
the effect that no "lady shall hereafter be
engaged unless she signs a paper declaring
that she will not get married until a year
has expired after the time of her installation
as teacher." This, it was thought,
would prove a settler to the young men who
iii/%h? s-t.w.** *I\a n lnnf /* tton t It a i 1 octi ! _
wt'iu rvt'i uu uic n# uiusu uic uv.qv.ition
of the teachers from their posts of duty.
Mr. Beebe, the author of the resolution,
after much correspondence, engaged a lady
to officiate as teacher. She came from a
distance, and he went to the railroad station
to meet her. There for the first time, he
delicately sounded her regarding her willingness
to sign a document promising to
continue single for a year. She emphatically
refused, and declared that rather than
agree to such ultimatum she would return.
Mr. Beehe saw that she was in earnest.
She was not only intelligent, but pretty and
! amiable, therefore he did not want to lose
j her; and on the spot, notwithstanding the
' resolution, he engaged her?to marry him !
j C/iicat/o Letlf/rr.
IiAILltOAD ACCOMMODATIONS.
Bill Nye says: "I presume that 1 could j
write an entire library of personal reminis-!
cences relative to the eminent people with
whom 1 have been thrown during a busy
life, but I hate to do it, because 1 always ,
regarded such things as sacred from the !
vulgar eyes, and I felt bound to respect the |
confidence of a prominent man just as much
as I would that of one who was less before j
the people.
"I remember very well my first meeting j
with General W. T, Sherman. I would ;
not mention it here if it were not for the I
fact that the people .seem to he yearning for !
personal reminiscences of great men, and j
that is perfectly right, too.
"It was since the war that 1 met General :
Sherman, and it was on the line of the
Union Pacific Railway, at one of those justly
celebrated eating houses, which I understand
are now abandoned. The colored ,
waiter had cut ott' a strip of the omelette
with a pair of shears, the scorched oatmeal
had been passed around, the little rubber
doormats fried in butter and called pan- (
cakes had been dealt around the table, and
the cashier at the end of the hall had just
gone through the clothes of a party from
Vermont, who claimed a rebate on the
ground that the waiter refused to bring him
anything but his bill. There was no sound
in the dinning room except the weak re- <
quest of the coffee for more air and stimulants,
or perhaps the cry of pain when the
butter,while practicing with thedumb-bells, j
would hit a child on the head; then all
would be still again.
"General Sherman sat at one end of the
table, throwing a life preserver to a fly in ?
the milk pitcher.
"We had never met before, though for
years we had been plodding along life's
rugged way?he in the War Department, I
in the Post Office Department. Unknown
to eacii otner we naa Deen noiuing up opposite
corners of the great national fabric, if
you will allow me that expression.
"I remember, as well as though it were
yesterday, how the conversation began.
General Sherman looked sternly at me and
said:
" 'I wish you would overpower that butter
and send it up this way.'
'"All right' said I, 'if you will please
pass those molasses.'
"That is all that was said, but I shall
never forget it, and probably lie never will.
The conversation was brief, but yet how
full of food for thought! How true, how
earnest, how natural! Nothing stilted or
false about it. It was the natural expression
of two minds that were too great to be
verbose or to monkey with social, conversational
flap-doodle."
A List of Long- Words.?A correspondent
of the St. Louis Republican asked for
, the longest word in the English language.
There have been a large number of answers,
some of them quite amusing. Here is a
list of words, with the number of letters in
each: Philoprogenitiveness, 20; incomprehensibleness,
20; disproportionableness, 21;
suticonstitutionalist, 21; honorificibilitudinity,
22; Velocipedestrianistical, 23; Transubstantionableness,23;
I'roantitiansubstantiationist,
28.
Only the first three words are to be found
in the last edition of Webster's dictionary
and disproportionableness is undoubtedly
the longest word in that volume. The correspondent
who originated honorificibilitudinity
defines it as honorableness, but it
certainly has not honorableness enough to
entitle it to a nest in the unabridged. Velocipedestrianistical
likewise lacks age and
respectibility, but it might find its way
into Webster in time; it certainly has good
locomotive powers. .Suticonstitutionalist
i< doubtful iinrl we do not believe even a
mandamus would get it into the dictionary.
1 Transubstantionablcness might get there if
Webster wasn't looking. The man who invented
proantitianstantlationist says it is a
good English word, "derived from a short
and simple Latin root, and means one who
dissents from the doctrine or dogma of the
so-called Real-Presence." That may all be,
but he ought to be condemned to pronounce
the word twice a day as long as he lives, if
he tries to introduce it into the speech of
honest men.
Rut speaking of long words, what is the
matter with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgertrob
w 11 gerc h wy r m by 11 goge r b w 11 zsi n 11 osi 1 i ogogogoch,
the name of a village in Wales?
Rochester J'ost- Express.
~ "The
Swamp Angel."?When General
Gilmore laid out his plan of operations
against Charleston, S. C., and its defences
in the summer of 180.'}, he decided to plant
a battery in the marsh, at some point
whence it might be possible to reach the
wharves and shipping of the city with
shells. The marsh here was a bed of soft
black mud, sixteen to eighteen feet deep,
overgrown with reeds and grass traversed
by tortuous, sluggish water courses, and
overflowed at high tide. Here, at a point
midway between Morris Island and James
Island, fully five miles from the lower
end of Charleston, on a strong platform
of logs, placed directly on the surface of
the marsh but strengthened beneath the
gun platform by piles driven through the
mud into the solid sand below, and filled
between with sand, was planted the battery.
It mounted a single gun, an eight inch rilled
Parrot gun. The gunner was protected
by a sand-bag parapet. August 24, 18(58,
| General Gilmoie demanded the surrender
of Charleston. The demand being rejected
fire was opened from this gun upon the city.
Several shells did reach the lower part
of the city, and caused much damage by
exploding' among the warehouses there,
J but no persons were harmed. The Swamp
i a turpi flirl not. however, low continue to I
j terrify the Charlestonians. Being fired at
ja considerable elevation, with a charge of
! sixteen pounds of powder, and iinpellj
ing a projectile weighing loO pounds, it
burst at its thirty-sixth discharge. As
Fort Wagner, fully a mile nearer the city, I
was taken, .September 7, and its guns turn- '
ed against Charleston, the marsh battery
was put to no further use.?I/itir-Occaii. ! <
1
Oi'kx tjik Windows Kvkhy Day.? '
One of the most important causes of the 1
greater prevalence of disease and the high- 1
er death-rate in the winter months, as com- <
pared with the milder seasons, is the ab- s
sence of house ventilation or its imperfect J
; character in cold weather. It should be un- '
ceasingly taught by the family physician 1
| that when doors and windows are closed to *
j exclude the outer air there must he some (
I other provision for the supply of fresh air, 1
or sickness will result. Every stove, lire- 1
! place, or furnace used to warm a house not! i
supplied with proper fresh-air inlets is an
engine for sucking up the ground air from ; i
i the polluted soil beneath the house and for . i
drawing in the sewerair through every trap, i <
| washbowl, and closet. ' i 1
Typhoid fever,diphtheria and pneumonia ! <
| are the diseases most to be dreaded from ! 1
such causes. There is reason to believe, | 1
| indeed, that this latter disease is much 11
j more largely due to the contaminated at-1 t
I .?iAC.r.knw? /vf* /Ur/illinfrw- fWon ovnACtirn f/\ ! f
I lil/i? JJI Iv. l \JI v? \ I.IKII1 (..i|/i/.7ui v iw
cold and inclement weather, to which latter
cause it is usually attributed. Its relation
with typhoid fever has long been observed
by medical writers, and recent observations
point to the presence of some of the microi
scopic tilth organisms as it causative agent.
Thorough ventilation of sleeping apartments
when not actually in use, and proper
supply of fresh air when occupied, would
do more to prevent those diseases than any
amount of warm clothing, chest-protectors,
etc. Open up the bedrooms during the
sunny hours every day, and let them till
with'the fresh outdoor air.
BGT If thou wouldsttind much favor and
peace with God and man, be very low in
thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and
others much. i
PAY AS YOU GO.
Amoug the many good resolutions that
are being formed for the control and shaping
of character and destiny during the
coming year, it would be a good thing for
many of our readers to adopt the above.
Pay as you go, or buy nothing on credit.
We are persuaded that the credit system
as it now exists and has existed for some
time past, has more to do with the tinancial
distress of which we hear from year to year,
and the annual bankruptcy and ruin of good
men, than any one thing else.
The gradual decline in the price of cotton
and other marketable products for the past
few years, is bringing disaster, and sometimes
digrace, to many of our citizens. The
purchasing power of a pound of cotton is as
great to-day as it was tive years ago, as the
: ~ C ~i.\ 4.1.: U/%r1.w>nrl
price ui utnci ii11litis uccii icuuicu in
a similar proportion. But the mischief
wrought is clue to the fact that there has
been no shrinkage in the money valuation
of debts contracted years ago, and while the
present crop of cotton will go as far towards
paying for the supplies of the present year
as it ever did, yet its power to pay the debts
contracted in the year 1880 has been reduced
by the corresponding depreciation in price.
Debts contracted under a twelve cent system
must be met by the returns of an eight
or nine cent market. One hundred and forty
pounds are necessary where one hundred
would have answered live years ago. This
is one of the evils of the credit system that
is working hardships to both farmers and
merchants.
Another evil of the system is the fact that
one will make larger and more unnecessary
purchases when buyingon credit than when
paying cash. Send two men to market, the
one with one huudred dollars in his pocket,
the other with permission to buy goods to
the amount of one hundred dollars on credit,
and the chances are nine to one that the
cash buyer will make fewer, wiser and better
purchases, than the credit buyer. There
is a fascination in buyingon time that often
makes a man exceedingly reckless and extravagant
in his purchases. People are often
ensnared into making needless purchases
by the gentle, courteous and captivating
manners of popular salesmen, who assure
them that their promise is as good as their
money. It may be all that to the seller, but
it is neither the safest nor the wisest for the
buyer.
The cash system may not be favored by
the merchants, it may reduce hissales, leave
old goods upon his shelves and dispense
with an occasional visit to the Northern
markets, but it will eventually prove the
wisest, safest and most remunerative to both
buyer and seller.
To adopt it fully may be impossible, to
adopt it in part may call for rigid self-denial
and untold sacrifices, it may cut sharply
and deeply, but in the end?and the end
will not be very distant?it will pay and
pay richly. The discipline of self, the habits
of economy acquired, and the surplus
leftover at the end of the year, would be
more than a liberal compensation for the
pain and denial it entailed.
It would be infinitely better for the morals
of the country if merchants would draw
the lines more rigidly and sell less on credit.
The extension of time from year to
year, which has the appearance of mercy is
a positive unkindness to the buyer. The
process is continued from year toyear, until
the unfortunate man becomes hopelessly involved,
and all his property is absorbed by
the debt. If prompt payment had been insisted
on at theoutset, and the sheriff called
in if necessary, the lesson would have done
good and the poor fellow left with something
with which to begin life anew. Then
he would have been a slightly poorer but a
much wiser man. New he is literally
"cleaned up," and left to start anew with
nothing but a damaged reputation. Too
much leniency weakens moral obligation.
Excuse a man from paying an honest debt
and next year he thinks himself bestowing
quite a favor on you if he pays, and if
the debt lies over until the third year he
half persuades himself that he ought not to
pay, or if you press him for the money, he
denounces you as a heartless extortioner
and cruel persecutor.
That sense of moral obligation which
should have been as a band of steel around
a man's character, protecting it from warp
and twist, has been attenuated into a gossamer
thread, which the lightest breath of
policy may sunder in a moment. Such a
svstem as the one described has been influ
ential in bringing about the low standard of
moral obligation that prevails in many localities,
a standard that has rendered the
collection of an honest debt as next to impossibility
unless the aid of a legal process
is resorted to. .
Nothing but an invincible determination
to come out of and keep out of debt will
save the country from moral as well as financial
disaster. Abolish the credit and
adopt the cash system.
Pay as you go, and in the end it will pay
you an hundred fold.?A. It. Presbyterian.
T1IE WORLD'S LARGEST PLANTER.
COL. EDML'Nl) RICHARDSON.
Col. Edmund Richardson, a leading cotton
merchant in New Orleans, was stricken
* 1 - *- I- - I ? - : ~
rt'itn apoplexy at ms iiuuiv m jiilksuh,
Miss., on the night of the li'th instant, and
lied before assistance could reach him.
By the death of Col. Richardson fell the
largest cotton planter in the world, the
"ichest man in the whole South, and one
tvho stood among his people conspicuous
ror masterful achievements, his splendid
success in life, and the glory of his record,
fie was as bold a figure in the history of
southern finance as William II. Vanderbilt
?vas in New York. His cotton crops were
i wonder to the world. He was the owner
)f nineteen plantations in Louisiana, Arkansas
and Mississippi, covering over fifty
housand acres, and his annual crop was
lever less than nineteen thousand bales.
He was a man of rare public spirit, forenost
in every enterprise for the weal of his
lative land, and large hearted and gener)us
in every.impulse, he made his princey
fortune a great power for good. To his
efforts was the New Orleans exposition of
ast year greatly due for its success. As
President of the Association he lent his energy
to the enterprise, and it was doubtless a
natter of rare pride to this great Southern
armer that he had lived to assist in such
in exhibition of the .Smith's products. uny
a few days before his death lie had subnitted
to President Cleveland in his own
apaeity as President of the World's Indusrial
and Cotton Centennial, a full report of
he New Orleans Exposition, concluding his
eport with these words:
"In clbsing this report I desire to express
he grateful thanks of the Southern people
o the President and the Congress of the
United States for theopportunity so happiy
afforded, under the auspices of the Government
of the United States, of demon-'
itrating to the world their remarkable progress,
while at the same time the States and
territories of the Northwest were enabled
0 make for the first time in their history,
1 complete display of their marvellous natural
resources in friendly and harmonious
competition with their predecessors in the
Federal compact. The lesson thus taught
will not go unheeded, and its result is already
manifested in the quickening pace
of industry and the renewed impetus imparted
to the development of the newer
States and Territories, while, at the same
time, new fields of commercial enterprise
have been opened to the nation in the neighboring
countries of Mexico and Central
America, with promise of abundant results,
and the North and East have been presented
with new outlets for their enormously
increased manufactured productions. The
cause of public education, which is now so
appropriately receiving the attention of the
Congress of the United States, a cause in
which the Southern States are peculiarly
interested, anu wnicn e in unices a pruuiem
upon the solution of which almost the entire
fabric of tye future of this section depends,
was greatly assisted and stimulated
by the displays presented at the Exposition
from every country in the world, and the
opportunity thus afforded for comparison
and improvement. In this respect alohe the
Exposition is worthy of record as the most
conspicuous event of the century in the
cause of civilization and progress, and its
lesson should not be disregarded in the consideration
of the question of national aid to
public education."
Col. Richardson was a native of Rockingham
county, X. ., and moved to Mississippi
to engage in planting when a young
man.
The Snows of the Polar Regions.?
Through this part of the Arctic and subArctic
regions, reaching from north Hudson's
bay to the nearest channels of the
Arctic ocean and beyond, snow does not fall
very heavily duringthe winter time proper;
and it is claimed by the Esquimaux that except
the spring and autumn snows?for
which they have special names?no snow
falls at all during any other time of the
year. That is, these distinct fall and spring
snows are separated by the summer on one
side, with the snow off the ground and ice
otfthe lakes, and by the winter on the other,
with the ground constantly covered with
snow, but of a uniformly average depth.
During the winter time every gale and
storm blows the loosedrifting snow around,
and a polar traveler out of doors, on such a
day, might well think that a furious snowstorm
was ragingaroundhim ; but, say the
Esquimaux, it is only the drifting snow that
fell the autumn before, and for which they
have a distinct name (nioshoh) separate
from that of the snow itself (ap-poo or appoot).
These drifting banks accumulate at
various points, freezing together, and the
wind packs them as hard as marble ; but
they are built up at the expense of the snow
at other places, and keep the average depth
and fhof rlorilli nnf onmuuvc
i|Uiic uiiiiuiiiJ) cv u v.4 mat uv, j;m uuu uuj hmju
near as great as most people have summed
up in their imaginations.
In these portions of the Arctic where I
have spent most of my time, the snow was
quite appreciably less in average depth than
in many portions of the United States
where I have spent different winters. I
believe I do not exaggerate when I say that
a railroad could be built from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, along the Arctic coast of
North America, and it would be bothered
less by snow than we have often seen on the
Union Pacific railroad and connecting lines
running through the middle of the United
States and nearer the equator than the pole.
Certainly this would be the case in regard .
to amount of snow, although the texture of
it would be quite different, for in the Arctic
regions it is frozen by the intense cold and
packed by the glacial gales until it is seemingly
half way on the road to being pure
stone, and a foot of which might obstruct a
railroad train more than the deepest bank
in the temperate zones .?Chicago Times.
4- 4.
A Story of tiie War.?For the number
of men engaged, the battle of Hartville,
Tenn., during the war between the States,
was perhaps one of the most desperate struggles
of the war. Two companies of General
Hansom's brigade and a portion of General
Floyd's command were pitted against
the command of General John A. Logan,
late candidate for Vice-President. So far
as numbers were concerned, the conflict was
an unequal one, the Federals far outnumbering
the Confederates. The "rebs" were
victorious, taking more prisoners than there
were men in their command. Among other
Kentucky boys who took part in the battle,
were H. C. Payne and his brother, Mr.
Lewis I). Payne, of Fayette county. When
the Federals were routed, General Logan
was the last to leave the field. He was hotly
pursued and scores of shots were fired at
his retreating form, and when he saw that
he would either be killed or captured, he
threw himself from his horse, and laying
himself on the ground, face downward,
"possomed" death. The two Paynes were
together, and seeing him fall, and recogniz
inghim as an officer of high rank, they hastily
dismounted, took his sword and papers,
and remounting their horses, joined again
the pursuing party. Returning from the
chase, the Paynes looked for the fallen officer,
and found that he had either been removed
or gone away of his own accord. <
When the papers were examined, it was
found that the officer who had so cleverly
escaped was no other than General John A.
Logan. The papers and the sword were
turned over to General Hansom.
This is a true story, which in the great
volume of war literature has never before
found place. The Payne brothers are still
living in this county, and are among our
most honored and respected citizens.?Lexinr/fon
(Ay.) Press.
Sailors' Tokens, Ciiarms and Keepsakes.?Sailors,
the most superstitious of
men, and oftenestaway from Nancy or Sue,
are great at love tokens. They wear a
charm on a silken string around their necks ;
they tattoo their manly arms with two
hearts transfixed by a single arrow, and
! marked respectively "Jack" and "Molly,"
| and they believe, or pretend to believe, in
1 the magic power of such symbolical unions
i to keep their affections true to their lady
loves against all allurements of alien beauty.
Moreover, the keepsake, beside containing
as often as possible the hair of the beloved
object, is almost always made of precious
metals or precious stones.
There is a common though indefinite
i feeling that it ought to be something rather
| useful in gold or silver. It remainsremotely
true, in fact, to its amulet origin. Gold
and silver and precious stones are of immense
antiquity. Something to hang around
your neck on a string; something to wear
I as a charm on your watch chain; or, failing
these, something in the way of a necklet,
bracelet, brooch, earring?that is the ordi:
nary ideal of the keepsake. The ideal, in
short, descends from a time when clothing
i was scanty, personal ornament was a matter
j of high importance, barbaric decoration
! alone was known, and goods and chattels
I were few and simple. We seldom think of
! giving as a keepsake anything that can
nnt 1 ip wnrn nhout the nerson.?Landman's
! Magazine.
Parental Honor.?The words, "Honor
j thy father and thy mother," rry?ant four
things?always do* what they bid you, alI
ways tell them the truth, always treat them
lovingly, and take care of them when they
are sick or grown old. I never yet knew a
iioy who trampled on the wishes of his parents
who turned out well. God never blesses
a willfully disobedient son.
When Washington was sixteen years old,
he determined to leave home and be a midshipman
in the colonial navy. After he had
sent off his trunk, he went to tell his mother
good-by. She wept so bitterly, he said
to liis negro servant, "bring back my trunk,
I am not going to make my mothersuffer so
by my leaving her."
He remained at home to please his mother.
This decision led to his becoming a surveyor,
and afterwards a soldier. His career
in life turned on this one simple act of trying
to make his mother happy, and he never
had occasion to shed bitter tears for any
act of unkindness to his parents. Let us
not forget that God has said, "Honor thy
father and mother."? Votit/i's Companion.