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VOL. 33. YOEKVILLE, 8. C.. WEDNESDAY, A.TJGrTJST 17, 1887. NO. 33.
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From the New York Clipper.
ADALEE;
OR,
THE MYSTERY OP DEUTEROSCOPY.
BY WILLIAM H. BUSHNELL.
Separation, if destined to be long, draws
hearts, and especially those of lovers, more
closely together, shadows the latest moments
of association and hides the sun of
the future behind clouds heavy with forebodings
and dark with premonitions of
doubt and disaster.
It was so with Rex Wilbur and Ada Lee
as they sat by the sea watching the gulls
dipping their white wings in the placid
water, and the ripples that broke in tiny
foam-beads, and with a soft feline purring
at their feet. For a little time there had
been silence between them. Feeling had
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that they might never meet again weighed
down their hearts. Almost unconsciously
Wilbur had taken the parasol from the
hand of Ada Lee and traced his name
with its point in the shining sand. Then,
and with his pulse quickened by a new
emotion, he looked up and asked :
"Is it to be thus, darling?"
"Thus? I do not understand," she answered,
questioningly, and with deeper
blushes curdling upon her cheeks.
"Is my name traced only in the shifting
sands of your heart, and liable to be washed
away by the waves of separation ?"
"Never! Living or dead I will be true
to you, will ever be with you."
He looked at her with an awed and
startled expression creeping into his manly
and usually beaming face, laid his hand
tenderly upon hers, looked earnestly into
the.large, luminous black eyes, and continued
:
"Do you believe in Theosophy, Ada ?"
"No, dear, not that we are wise as God
is wise. I do not believe that while in the
flesh we shall ever know aught of His hidden
mysteries; in the sense that he permits
souls when separated to hold communion
together I do believe."
"That is simply theoretic."
"It has been proven as clearly as the bow
He set in the heavens declares His majesty
and glory," and her voice deepened,
became morepnlsed in feeling, more subtle
and penetrating in its magnetism.
"You mean, darling, that when sleeping
you will dream of me?"
"That, and very much more than that.
You remember?we read it together in the
De Divinatione?that 'the soul flourishes in
sleep, freed from the senses and all impending
cares, while the body lies supine,
as if dead.'"
"Yes, and proving my assertion."
# "And, to quote again from the same
source, 'when the soul in sleep is screened
from companionship and the contagion of
the body, it remembers the past, discerns
the present, foresees the future.'"
"To deny that visions come during
slumber would be obstinately idiotic. But
this can be accounted for by natural
causes."
"Sometimes; yet there are well authenticated
cases?plenty of them?where
dreams have been prophetic."
"Possibly."
"I have faith in a beyond,, in waking
ones, in the soul?and I use the term as
something higher, greater and farther
reaching than what is termed mind."
"The two terms are but synonomous for
a single sense."
"Not so. Mind is simply earthly; the
soul is essentially and supremely spiritual
; mind is finite, the soul is infinite?is
not fettered by time or space; is independent
of surroundings, of distance, and the
lenses through which it looks are cleansed
from all mortal film."
"Perhaps," he answered, doubtfully aud
uneasily, "there may come such a moment
just prior to death."
"There do come moments of blissful
foreknowledge then, but the divining
power is not confined to the dissolution
of mortal flesh and spiritual essence. It
always exists; weak and undeveloped it
\ may be in the many, only strong and active
?^ in the few, vague and shadowy in the
masses, giving the prescience of divinity
only to a very small minority."
*\ "And you, Ada? Have you this mysterious,
this occult, this wonderful gift of
second-3ight?" he asked with uncertain
voice and quivering nerves.
"Of Deuteroscopy; that is dreaming
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or to happen miles away, having painted
in glowing lights and shades upon my
waking brain what is transpiring or soon
to transpire though seas divide and mountains
intervene ?"
"That is what I would know, dear."
"I have frequently had premonitions of
such a power. Premonitions I say, for it
requires some strong incentive, influence
or passion to call it fully and forcibly into
action."
"As love ?"
"That is the most potent of all, for it is
the direct infiltration of the divine into
the human; but earnest sympathy, pity,
the hoping to save from disaster, the imperative
against coming danger will give
to the soul wings, to thought transference,
to the spirit telegraphic currents."
"You believe, then," he questioned,
"that when I am a thousand miles away
you can send your soul seeking for mine,
and, having found, can inform me of your
presence, can whisper with spirit lips, as
you are now doing with mortal ones ? I
am one in the dark searching for light."
"So are we all. The wisest in psychology,
the deepest student in the phenom.
ena of hypnotism, of psychomacy, are
but as children learning to walk. We
may reach a higher plane, but never the
highest until there is a final and total separation
of spiritand matter, of earthy dust
and the reflection of the glory of the Godhead."
"You believe this ?" he repeated, unable
to dispute, wondering at the slight, usually
pale girl who in the hour of parting had
been born as to a new life and become
pulsed with a spirit above* and beyond
the earth; had become radiant with beauty
such as she had never before possessed,
lie looked at her, startled at the change,
amazed at the development, and the latent
force of character and knowledge she revealed.
Her eyes had become brilliantly phos- j
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air was periect. Touched by his Angers
it rayed out lambent sparkles and shot
bee-like stings. Her breath was hot and
deeply drawn. Every nerve is quivering
with excitement though the muscles were
firm and form braced as that of an athlete ;
awaiting attack. She appeared to him i
the incarnation of the spirit in the Aesh. I
and his love became tinged with awe and
partook more of reverence.
But, notwithstanding her mental excitement
and almost inspiration, her words !
were calmly uttered as she answered:
"The incident, dream foretelling of the
doom of the unfortunate Andre just prior
to his embarkation for America; the ghastly
images reAected upon the negative of
the brain of Macbeth as depicted by Shakespeare;
the visions of the 'gifted Highland
Seer' recorded by Scott in the Legend of
Montrose, are too familiar to need repeating.
So are the writings of Swedenborg.
Indeed, to use the words of another, that
'the soul of a living person possesses this
power of disengaging itself for a time
from the Aeshy body and appearing at
a distance by means of the more ethereal
body which is proper to it,' I dare not
question against the proof. Again: that
'deep mutual sympathy between two
widely separated individuals may bring
this faculty into play when one of the parties
in sore distress craves the other's presence
and aid,' I dare no more disbelieve
than my own being. And this actio in
dixtans trangresses no spiritual law, but f
is only the foreshadowing of the wider, 1
higher and holier destiny that awaits the c
soul when death has removed earthy shack- i
les and it floats and soars free-winged from
pole to pole, from star to star, from burned- i
out moon to living worlds?worlds con- r
tinually vanishing and being re-created? 1
through an immensity of space the human \
mind cannot grasp." a
The sea that had fawningly licked their c
feet had grown restless and defiant, tip \
from the depths of its bosom great waves
had risen, came rolling in, fringed with ]
tawny foam, and dashed upon the sands as 1
if hungry and prey-seeking. The wind I
had increased. Its low, plaintive mur- j
muring had changed to whistling blasts f
and threatening shrieks. In tangled, twist- j
ing masses, as if thousands of huge dark i
serpents were sporti ng together, the clouds 1
swept past. From the distance cameomin- cj
ous mutterings of thunder and the hiss a
and flash of lightning. The armies of na- i
ture were in line for battle, and against
??mKinivl fnrpp human mierht would
be as a breastwork of spider spinnings.
"We must hurry home, darling," said 8
Wilbur, throwing the light scarf of the J
girl aroundher shoulders. "The storm is ?
coming very rapidly?will soon be here."
"Yes," was answered with a sigh. "The I
spirits of earth, air and water are angry at ?
our daring investigation of their realms. *
Yes, we must go, but there will come a time 8
when we will be greater than all of them, *
when we swing in the hammock of clouds v
and the fiercely flashing lights of the up- t
per air be but as harmless torches to guide i
us in our spiritual flight." 8
The spell that had been upon them thus 1
rudely broken, human love and fear as- F
serted themselves, and the cravings of the s
heart would not, could not be satisfied. [
Shudderingly, they listened to the voices
of the tempest, but within their breasts all
was peace, save the ever-present ghost of 8
separation, the haunting horror of never o
meeting again. *
"Remember," said the girl, with an almost
holy kiss, "remember, dear, I will F
be ever present with you. Living or
dead " 8
"Hush, darling. Do notspeak of death, i
That thought would make me the worst of 1
cowards, and, throwing business, honor c
and duty to the winds, I would remain by F
your siae." J
Bravely she kept back her tears, and en- t
deavored to send him from her radiant ^
with hope. Yet her own soul was pain- e
fully troubled. Despite his patient listen- '
,n" "niiH nnf. hut realize that he re- 8
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garded her as a deluded, fanciful-dream- c
ing, enthusiastic girl of highly nervous 5
and sensitive organization. r
"Willyou, oh will you not believe?" r
she had pleaded with her parting breath, e
and his answer chilled and forced her
soul back upon itself. *
"For your sake, darling," he replied, '
gallant and tender to the last. "I try to "V
do so. Come to me when I am far away, ^
give me some realistic token of your spirit o
presence, and there shall be no more fervant
worshipper at the shrine of the im- E
mortal."
But notwithstanding his almost cynical t
skepticism the conversation exerted a o
powerful influence over him for a time, t
Much more than he would have acknowl- e
edged, he was watching for some token r
that the spirit of the girl was near him.
None came. Weeks passed and he felt as
if he had never more been alone. He saw t
no ethereal form standing by him in the E
sunlight, none by his pillow when dark- ?
ness covered the earth and the glory of *
stars was above. There was nothing to ^
indicate telegraphing of soul to soul, of a
spirit hovering near, no whisperings o F
unseen lips, no mystery of mind reading t
mind, nothing of the union of hearts save
letters fragrant with the sweet perfume of \
love. c
After a month of separation unforeseen *
complications of business entirely changed ?
his plans. In a directly opposite direction f
to the mapped-out journey must his steps j
be turned. There was no time for or '
means of advising his love. Even the *
lightning failed him. A mighty storm
had beaten down wire and poles in forest J
and open field; an inland rushing tidal
wave swept away miles of the slender
thought-railway along the shore. 1
"My darling must wait until I reach the j
end of the journey for news of the change,"
he murmured audibly. "Knowing where 1
T wmild he at certain times she might send 1
her spirit upon errands of love and mercy,
might possibly stand by my side and
whisper words of warning. Henceforth,
it will be impossible until she receives
another letter, for I will be far away from
where she fondly dreams."
His destination was the sea-coast. He
walked along the platform of the little
wayside station to tne office and requested
a ticket.
As he did so a hand cold as ice and sinewed
with iron clasped his wrist and drew
his arm back. He turned quickly and
angrily around to learn who had dared to
molest him. There was no one in sight.
The agent and he were alone. For a moment
he was staggered, knew not what to
think. He fancied he must have accidentally
hit the point of his elbow against
some sharp projection and numbed and
partially paralyzed his arm. He endeavored
to again grasp the proffered ticket,
found the resistance was even more powerful
than before, his sinews less under
his own control, and was as certain as of
his own existence that he felt the lightest
of kisses upon his lips and heard breathed
into his ear the most plaintive pleading
"Don't go."
By a mighty effort he compelled the
physical to obey his will, secured the
ticket and entered the cars as they came a
to the station. But all through the day, c
the long and tedious ride, he was aware g
he was not alone, that some invisible pres- :
ence was seated beside him, that a shadowy J?
hand nestled within his own, that a voice ,
was constantly urging him to turn back, f
that at every stopping-place an unseen and
almost resistless force endeavored to drag j
him from the cars.
Worn out by mental anxiety, perplex- s
ed more than ever before, as one in a som- t
nambulistic state, he landed at Charleston >
and sought a hotel and rest. He could no
longer doubt that the spirit of the girl he c
loved had been with him, had been wrest- t
ling with his own, had been earnestly c
warning him of some coming danger. 8
The city never looked brighter or more s
attractive; the populace never more con- t
tented and happy. With the sweet perfume
of flower and vine stole in through f
the windows merry song and careless s
laughter. The Cooper and Ashley flowed a
smoothly along and the ocean stretched ^
away with the moon, sailing through a a
cloudless sky, making the ripples as t
burnished silver. The wind toyea softly ^
with palmetto and palm, and the stars
looked down upon the peaceful scene as in
holy benediction. t
To obtain a trifle of rest, even before i
breaking his fast, the tired traveler threw c
himself upon the bed without undressing, a
and consciousness was soon lost iu slumber, c
But how long he slept he never knew, t
From its depth he was suddenly recalled
to wakefulness by a voice that thrilled c
through the mental organism as galvanism i
j 4.1 ..?u <i,n r>H\7uir>Ql hiddinp^ him ^
uues imuu^ii mo ?
arise and flee; by the terrible warning s
that to remain would be death. Startled f
and alarmed he sprang up and asked: I
"What is the matter? Is the house on | t
fire ?? \
His own breath came back to him chilly f
as winter. He became conscious of a pres- 1
ence, saw it dimly outlined in the dark- c
ness, and stretched out his arms welcomingly.
c
"Ada, darling? Great Heaven !" he ex- t
claimed. "How came you here? Of what c
would you warn me?" t\
The presence was so real, the visual sen- c
sation so perfect, that his understanding s
was baffled, and he could not distinguish i
for a time between substance and shadow, r
lesh and blood and a phantom. Then, as
lis senses threw off the clouding influences
>f slumber, he knew in his soul that a spirit
vas there.
"Dear," was answered, "fly while there
s yet time. The Lord is abroad in His
najesty and might; the sea will arise and
ciss his feet, the earth will shudder in His
>resence, the rocks fall down in worship
md the mountains bow in adoration. He
ometh not in peace, but in wrath. Fly
vhile there is yet time."
The words were meaningless to him.
Te could make nothing ot them. Again
le begged for an explanation. With one
land pointing aloft to heaven, with one
>ointing downward to earth, the form, the
ace of Ada Lee, white as a chrism, im>alpable
as air, but certain as marble in
ts development, slowly faded away. But
ong after the shadow of the reality had
lisappeared he could hear, growing fainter
ma fainter, tne ternoie woras :
'HE COMETH NOT IN PEACE, BUT IN
WRATH !"
Dazed, awed, trembling, uncertain of
,ction, Rex Wilbur crept to a window to
ook out upon the night for a some tangi>le
evidence-of coming disaster.
A great and fearful change had taken
ilace. Moon and stars were blotted out,
vere hidden behind whirling masses of
nky clouds. The wind was moaning and
hivering as it came up from an ocean
ashed to foam. Waves were rushing over
Vaves, each one greater and more resistless
han the last. The trees were wildly tossng
and twisting their branchesthe
trongest trunks were bowed and torn,
['he earth groaned as some monster in
>ain, trembled and was convulsed. The
tout ships in the harbor reeled as drunk en,
stood still, then "leaped a cable's
ength."
Yes, the Lord was abroad in the majesty
,nd might of His wrath, man bowed
lown in abject fear, and the work of his
lands were but as straws in a whirlwind.
A moment of crushing anxiety and sustense,
and the cause was made plain.
From every portion of the city, with
trangled utterances from those drowning
n the inward sweeping tidal-wave, from
he huts of the negro, from the mansions
?f the rich came weeping and wailing, and
iraying for succor and safety. Every
ight had been extinguished. To add to
he other and complicated horrors, all
vere stricken as if with blindness. The
arth was rocking as if angrily tossed
'in the hollow of his hand nouses were
haken down to foundation; rivers were
iver-running their banks; streets were
rawning and swallowing all within their
each ; plains were ridged with giant furowsand
the mountains were seamed with
nighty scars.
The Lord was abroad in the majesty and
night of his terrible wrath, and as Bex
iVilbur sank unnerved, unmanned to the
dbrating, cracking, splintering floor, his
ehite and quivering lips took up the cry
if the stricken city, and he gasped:
"An earthquake ! May Heaven have
nercy."
There flashed through his fast-numbing
train, words until then forgotten?"when
me of the parties in sore distress craves
he other's presence and aid," and he calld
out as if to spirits was given mortal
learing:
"Ada, darling, save me."
Was it fancy, was, it reality that from
he blackness of darkness, above the comningled
outcry, the sobbings, wails,
:roans, the crash of matter wrecked, the
umbling thunder of the earthquake, a
mice calm, low and sweet came, saying:
"Courage. Love leaves not its own to
>erish, and the Lord helps those who help
hemselves."
In an instant he was upon his feet, gropng
his way for the door for the stairs to
lescend. Along the rocking, tilling, upleaving
floor he went, with walls swaying
ind ceiling falling. Thus?a stranger in
he house?he soon became lost among the
ntricate passages, and, exhausted by the
rnttle, wounded and bleeding from unseen,
but heavy, blows he sank hopelessy
to the floor?his last prayer for mercy,
lis last blessing for her he loved.
An invisible force lifted him again to his
feet, an invisible hand clasped his with
firm though tender grasp. He was drawn,
guided by some supernatural power, out
from the little better than wreck of hotel,
through streets filled with flying debris,
through shrieking, raving, imploring humanity,
safely around yawning chasms
sucking down to death everything near;
*way from subterranean-born fountains
belching forth blazing gas, boiling, hissing
water and huge stones; beyond the insatiate
maw of tne tidal wave; beyond rocking
steeples, falling walls and the fierce
rain of brick and timber; piloted through
iarkness profound beyond the extreme
limits of the doomed city.
Then the guiding hand released him, a
ace more man mortal mir, una sinning
yith more than mortal glory, beamed
iown upon him for .an instant, warm lips
seemed to touch his own, there was the
seating of another heart within his breast
md then?
The sun was shining brightly when he
iwoke; wind, sky and water were at peace;
lowers were sending forth their sensuous
idors, and birds singing sweetly in the
iranches of the scarcely stirring trees.
The world was resting after the straining
hroes of the earthquake birth ; resting for
mother and more mighty effort.
From the shaken, wrecked, affrighted
iity, shuddering with the fear of being
>vertaken, all that could fled. Among
hem was Rex Wilbur. Business no longer
had shackles for him, duty no chains,
m the stillness of his slumber upon the
lillside had been whispered in his ears the
ingle word "come," and nothii.g mortal
:ould have kept him from obeying the
piritual summons. Thrice during the
ourney it was repeated?once as he startid,
once when midway, and again, and
nore forcibly and imperatively, when he
inally stepped from the cars.
It was near midnight as he turned swifty
and alone toward the house of his beoved.
No, not alone. By his side was a
hadowy form, a white cloud fashioned in
he semblance of girlhood, with face divinely
fair, hair as spun darkness powdersd
with star dust, and eyes that shone with
lazzling, electric blaze. He could feel the
ouch of the hand, but when he would have
ircled the form and drawn it to him, his
irm Dassed through as if it were but fleecy
moke or mist curling around the mounain
top in the morning.
By his side the spirit form of Ada Lee
loated rather than walked for a considerible
distance. Then it suddenly turned
iside, took another path, drifted away and
vas slowly dismembered and dissolved in
iir. He strained his eyes to follow, saw
he road taken led to the graveyard, and
groaned in agony of grief:
"She is dead, dead !"
Of this spirit his words could never be
rue. That goes back to Him who gave as
t has been written, by a greater than that
>f earth ; is fetterless in flight, is deathless
is God, and to it will be given the likeness
if angels, and the tireless wings to fly
hrough cycle after cycle of eternity.
And it was not true of the body. For
lays Ada Lee had lain in a trance, icy,
notionless and to all appearance soulless.
iVas it not so in reality? Had not the
pirit passed out from matter in the search
or and the saving of her lover? Ah!
iow little we know of the strange union,
he strange separation! How very little
ve know until the stone is rolled away
rom the grave of finite matter and the
ight of a new glory illumes the darkness
>f the soul's earthly tomb!
In a trance she had been, so said physiian,
mother and friends. Wilbur counted
tack the time when her eyes had been
losed to the mortal, and found it to be
he very hour when the warning came to him
\t thewayside station. That since then her
oul had been seeking for, guarding, prayng
for him he could not doubt, did not
oarvel. From his eyes the scales of earth
were falling, and he was beginning to look ?
into the beyond. 2
"She is not dead but sleepjeth," said the 5
physician, involuntarily quoting the holy consolation
given to the mourners weeping
around the daughter of Jairas.
No one present comprehended his meaning;
they thought him insane from anxie- E
tv and sorrow. He regarded not tjfeir ex- ^
clamations of surprise, of alsfcrm, answered ^
not their questions. Kneeling by the bedside
he raised the head of ihe girl in his N
arms, pillowed it upon his |>reast, kissed L
the clay cold lips, and called her by every sc
endearing passionate name, to come back ti
to him, to live, to bless. ^ is
Is love more potent than* death?the bi
spirit than the mortal ? HdS it power to oi
stay the swinging gates of dissolution and u]
turn back thesoul from its hefcvenly flight ? A
Can the living breathe into?the dying the
seeds of a new life ? di
Even so, it would seem* The lips of
Ada Lee answered not, :5but a gentle th
warmth, a faint flush came to them, to the ai
cheeks; the dormant heart beat slowly, cf
the breast heaved painfull fitfully, then "
more strongly; the icy .marble of flesh w
faded away; the stiffened ,?p)*and limbs P!
becan/e relaxed: the'^fonous "eyes were a1
opened with the mist of the mortal cleared tr
away; she saw her loved one, felt his w
touch, his caresses; a bright, happy smile G
illumined her face, and she rapturously th
murmured: h<
"Safe! God be thanked." fa
Then she lapsed again into insensibility.
But it was not for long. Her heart strings
were again anchored on earth ; his were 01
drawing her to him. The spirit was more tl<
powerful than the mortal, and before many iE
hours had passed the reunion of the finite 0i
and infinite was perfect, and love had rn
heard and told all. " Cr
There was no more of separation, would u]
never be until the last, the great change, f0
when one soul would wait for the coming tfc
of the other on the heavenly shore. to
Wedded, heart-mated and soul-united, Ci
they are journeying along the pathway of sp
life and completing its cycles. Of the sr
mystery of tfte spirit they are studying, p
learning, but knowing that little will be or
revealed until they have passed behind th
the veil. Then all will be made plain, ki
And the more they attempt to explore the re
hidden, the immaterial, the more they are ti
convinced how infinitely small is the sum tl
of human wisdom of things spiritual, re
But believing, hoping, loving, they wait, ei
bowing to the decree that "all power is of re
God, and God alone." tii
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENNIAL. of
_ To the Editor of the Yorkville Enquirer: Ci
The centennial anniversary 01 uieirmmug
and promulgation of the Constitution of tl
the United States is just now attracting hi
much attention throughout the country. p<
The arrangements for its proper observance oi
are being completed, and the Centennial B
Commission is actively engaged in perfect- fc
ing the necessary details to secure a large h
attendance from all parts of the country, o1
and to set forth the great importance and ol
significance of the event. Tne recent jubilee
of Queen Victoria's reign and this
great celebration of the American people ,,
are occurring so close together as to natu- H
rally invite comment and comparison, f1
The spontaneous manifestations of the sub- n
jects of an honored and enlightened sov- r?
ereign of Great Britain, although making a
a shout of joy around the earth, are after
all only the personal congratulations extended
by the millions, on the fiftieth an- *
niversary of her coronation, to a reigning
Queen whose character has been pre-emi- l|
nently pure and spotless, and whose reign sj
has been wise, just and progressive. No ?{
great principle of government, however, *{
was held forth as a matter for public ap- "
probation. The personal nature of that ^
jubilee was marked and inevitable. It X
concentrated around one individual, how- ?
ever exalted and upright. But not so with J5
the American jubilee which will call our 11
| people together in Philadelphia within a ^
few weeks, in order to celebrate and ap- ^
plaud, not the character of an individual, ~
but the foundation stone of a great nation
1 and the principles contained in the charter JV
upon which its existence is based. Eng- s<
1 land's greatest living statesman has de- a
1 clared that the Federal Constitution is v
; "the most wonderful work ever struck off a
' at a given time by the brain and purpose J5
1 of a man," and this opinion of Mr. Glad1
stone ought to remind us that the success- *
" ful formation of the Constitution of the ?
United States was the momentous event in J]
' the history of the American people, and 11
; marked an epoch in the history of the
world. It.becomes us, then, to recall the
circumstances under which this great in|
strument of organic law was framed and
1 promulgated, and to strengthen and quick- o
en our sense of the obligations imposed by e
1 its adoption and continuance as the su- v,
preme law of the land. Let us appreciate, F
; in a reverent and grateful spirit, the char- tl
acter of the proposed celebration, and a:
bring to it that hearty support worthy of tl
the occasion and the event. as
In order that your readers may be in- ai
formed as to the proposed celebration, I tf
append herewith an outline of the princi- lc
gal ceremonies in preparation for the rc
onstitutional Centennial, to be held at la
Philadelphia on the loth, lGth and 17th of S1
September, 1887. re
1. The loth of September is assigned for ai
a processional Industrial Display, the ob- lc
ject of which will be to illustrate, in con- ai
trast, the customs, characteristics, com- y<
merce, arts, implements of industry, means hi
of transportation, <fcc., of 1787 with those Si
of 1887, to show the changes and progress C:
made in the first century of ourconstitu- la
tional existence. This display, moving in ol
procession, mounted upon cars prepared fii
for the purpose, and accompanied by va- cl
rious civic organizations, promises to be a T
feature of brilliant and historic interest, sc
In the evening of that day, the Governor ec
of Pennsylvania will hold a public recep- cc
tion in honor of the Governors of the States bl
and Territories who are present at the eel- t\
ebration. Ci
2. The 16th of September is designated to
for the Military Parade and Review, in to
which the militia regiments and compa- G
nies of the several States and Territories, g(
accompanied by their respective Govern- M
ors and staffs, and detachments from the U
army and navy of the United States de- K
tailed for the occasion, will be expected to th
participate. Not less then twelve or fif- th
teen thousand troops will be in the parade, ec
and Pennsylvania alone will furnish seven m
thousand soldiers in honor of the occasion, sh
In the evening of the same day will occur to
a public reception, in honor of the Presi- d<
dent of the United States, with the Gov- hi
ernors, representatives of foreign govern- bl
ments, military, &c. di
The 17th of September will be devot- gi
ed to the special services of commemora- ar
tion, as the Centennial Day proper, and ec
the exercises will take place in Independence
Square, at which the President of
the United States will preside. The ora
J/m-. ?t511 Kq rl<i1itToi.Qrl hw Mr .Tlistipp Mil- I
ler, of the Supreme Court. In addition
there will be a poem in honor of the event 9*
celebrated, together with national hymns,
vocal and instrumental music, &c.
Various other entertainments will be of- v!
fered by citizensduringthe progressof the ?.
celebration, and it is to be hoped that the
occasion will give brilliant testimony to
the unshaken attachment of all classes of >*'
our people to the great charter of Ameri- J
can liberty, to which is due,?in so large a "
measure, the unparalleled development
and extraordinary progress of the States,
once so feeble and insignificant, now grown /
so powerful as to excite the admiration ?
and attract the populations of thecivilized r"
world. James A. Hoyt,
Commissioner from South Carolina.
S&* All perfection in this life hath some ar
imperfection mixed with it, and no know- th
leege is without some darkness. ri<
? or
j^- A man that studieth revenge keep- a i
eth his own wounds green, which other- w
wise would heal and do well. dc
t
iUi5crUauecu5 fUadiug.
an hIstuiucal'explosion.
[From the Philadelphia Times.]
Charles R. Lawrence, of St. George's,
elaware, declares that he is 90 years old;
lathe has served forty-two years in the
nited States navy, and that the govemlent
owes him $23,000 arrears of pensions,
obody at St. George's calls the old man
awrence. Old Robinson, Captain Robin- ,
>n and Robinson Crusoe are some of his
ties and he resents none of them, but he
proud of his true name, for he believes
imself related to the gallant Lawrence,
t" the Chesapeake, whose "Don't give
p the ship" still fires the patriotism of !
merican boys.
The old man has a strong tincture of Inian
blood in his veins, some of his fore- ,
,thers having been Mohicans, dwelling in
le Shenandoah Valley. His straight hair (
-iH Kivm-jofl olrin Hrv and wrinklpd as
sntury-old parchment, testify to his aboginal
blooa. Twenty-five years ago he ,
as a seemingly hopeless patient at a hosital
in Baltimore, having been injured in
1 explosion on a gunboat somewnere on
ie James river. A few years later he
as put ashore from a canal boat at St.
eorge's and pronounced a dying man by
le village doctor of that day. After that
3 recovered, married and brought up a
tnily of children. ;
heroes of the old navy.
Lawrence knew half the heroes of the j
d navy and served in a dozen line-of-bat- :
e ships long since sold for junk or laid up
i "rotten row." He saw service in three .
four wars and helped to quell the Morons
after the Mountain Meadow massa- i
e. He sawSecretary Spencer's son strung :
? to the yardarm in West Indian waters !
r fomenting a mutiny, and was on board
le Princeton in 1844, when Captain Stock- ]
?n's exploding Peacemaker killed two
ibinet officers. The old man loves to I
iin yarns of his naval adventures and he
lecially delights in the details of the
rinceton disaster. He is probably the
lly person left of all who were on board
ie vessel on that day. All the world
qows such part of the story as history
icords. The gun exploded while a disnguiehed
pleasure party was on board
ie ship. Secretary of State Upshur, Sectary
of the Navy Gilmer, Captain Bev ly
Kennon, the Hon. Virgil Maxey, just :
.'turned from the Belgian Mission; Colo?1
David Gardner and a servant of the
resident were killed, while nearly a score
' others, including Senator Benton and
aptain Stockton, were injured.
The accident might easily have changed
ie whole subsequent course of American
istory, fbr President Tyler escaped ex3sure
to danger th^tovertook his Cabinet
ficere by the merest triviality and Mr.
uchanan, even then a possible candidate
ir the Presidency, intimates in a letter to
is brother that it was only through an
irersight that he was not asked to partake
f Captain Stockton's fatal hospitality.
the story of the princeton.
Old Lawrence, sitting on his doorstep
ie other night, his head enveloped in a
ghtly-drawn bandanna handkerchief and
is knees and chin but a few inches apart,
isped out the story of the Princeton from
throat hoarse with a twenty years' cough.
"It was on the 28th of February, 1844,"
lid the old man, "and I mind it well, for
n o/\n kniifl tliolflov pflntflin
11UU A OUii UUl U ilJUI/UUJ ?
>n built the Princeton on his own plan at
le Philadelphia Navy Yard, and after
le was launched I helped to rig her. Then
le went round to Washington and lay at
le Navy Yard, in the Potomac. When
le 28th came she steamed down the river,
nth the President, most of his Cabinet,
oung John Tyler, a lot of Senators and
Lepresentatives, a dozen or two naval ofcers
and ever so many ladies aboard, all
le guests of Captain Stockton. There
^as fiddling and flirting and dancing and
hampagne drinking all the way down,
ifficers on shore were mighty polite to
ho wives of those that were away ih the
lediterranean or cruising with the Asiatic
^uadron, and there was no end of fun
mong the young folks. The President
ras merry, too, for Miss Gardner was
board. Her father was killed that day,
ut I saw her on the Princeton again when
tie vessel was off the Battery at New
Tork. She was Mrs. Tyler then, the wife
f the President. I saw her agaiu a long
ime afterward at John Tyler's home on
tie James river. The ex-President showd
me his children that day and gave me
tiirteen gold dollars,
THE EXPLOSION.
"Well, they fired the Peacemaker twice
n the way down the river, ard then evrybody
went below for dinner. There
'as plenty of champagne again and the
'resident gave the toast, 'The Princeton's
iree guns?the Oregon, the Peacemaker
nd Captain Stockton, and the greatest of
lese is Stockton.' At last Secretary Gilmer
sked to have the Peacemaker fired again,
od some of the company followed Caplin
Stockton on deck to see the piece
laded. The President started up with the
;st, but turned back to hear his son-iniw,
Mr.' Waller, sing a song. Captain
tockton ordered Lieutenant Hunt to make
>ady for firing. Old King was gunner
ad Barlow was gunner's mate. They
taded the gun with 25 pounds of powder
id a 212 pound shot. She was so big that
Un.tn nramlorl inttirlp nf hpr ftfld
JU L'UUIU llll VC l,iuiui.u 1UU.?V
ad plenty of room to spare. Captain
tockton stood nearest the gun, and the
abi net officers, some Senators and a few j
dies were not far away. The Secretary
: War walked off before the gun was
red. Captain Stockton called out, 'Stand
ear of the gun," and then she was tired,
here was an awful explosion, a cloud of j
noke and a loud scream from the wound- i
1. When the smoke cleared everyone '
>uld see that the top of the gun was I
own off from trunions to breach, and |
co dozen people were lying on deck, i
iptain Stockton was hurt, but he jumped i
i his feet and mounted the gun carriage i
i see the damage. There lay Colonel (
ardner with both legs and both arms
>ne, Mr. Maxey with an arm missing, <
r. Gilmer with his skull crushed, Mr. ]
pshur with one leg blown off, Captain |
ennon with his watch blown clean i
irough his body, and still a-running, so i
iey said; the President's servant wound- 1
1 so that he died soon after, and ever so j
any more hurt with pieces of the gun or
locked by the concussion. Senator Ben- <
n was hurt a little and scared a good ]
jal, and Senator Woodbury's daughter i
id her pretty face splashed with the 1
ood of the injured. One lady's head- ]
ess was singed with a hot piece of the <
in. Senator Phelps' hat was blown off <
?d almost everybody on deck was knock- j
I down. I
THE SCENE OX DECK.
"The ladies below deck didn't know !
hat had happened and before they came
flouc nnrl ranvus were thrown over the
J iiufau v-.-v. ?
>ad bodies. A Senator said to the Presi- :
>nt, 'You've lost two of your Cabinet,' c
id Mr. Tyler burst right out crying. "
rhen the news spread everybody rushed (
i deck. Captain Ivennon's wife wouldn't "
i satisfied until she had lifted the canvas '
id looked at her husband's body. Mrs.
ilmer sat on deck with dry eyes, moan- }
g and saying it couldn't be true that her
jsband was dead. There was no merry- J
aking on the way back, except that
me of the sailors broke in and drank up ]
hat was left of the champagne. One feI- \
w they said tried to steal Kennon's
atch after it had gone through the poor f
ptain's body.
"After the accident the Princeton looked
ifshe'd been in action. There was blood >
id bits of flesh all about the place where
e gun exploded; the bulwarks were car- c
sd away; the rigging was tangled and
te of the yards was cut clean through by
big chunk of the gun, that flew up and i
ent half through the deck when it came ?
>wn. That piece weighed over seven t
hundred pounds and there was more thai
sixteen hundred pounds of metal blowi
off the gun. When we landed the dea<
bodies were taken to the White House
Captain Stockton was dreadfully cut uj
about the accident, as the Princeton and he
guns were his pets. The court of inquiry
cleared him of blame, but he never got ove
it, even after he was made a commodore.'
ILLINOIS' FIRST GOVERNOR.
Illinois, the fourth?possibly the thirdState
in population ana material prosperi
ty, has reached the seventieth year of it
history.
Of its 3,500,000 inhabitants, compara
tively few perhaps realize that at the be
ginning of the century nearly its whoI<
territory was in possession of the Indians
A government fort here and there, an(
in the southern portion a few stragglinj
settlements, was all that redeemed th<
whole region from being a complete wild
erness.
For some years prior to 1809 it constitu
ted a part of the territory of Indiana, bu
at the date mentioned the territory of II
linois was organized, and in the year 181:
sent its first delegate to congress. Th(
name of this delegate was Shadrach Bond
a strong, sensible, vigorous pioneer in thi
prime of life.
He was born in Frederick county, Mary
land, in 1773, where he spent his earlie
years on his father's farm and meantimi
acquired a plain English education.
In 1794 young Bond, having just come o
age, emigrated to the Illinois country ant
lived for a time with his uncle, Shadracl
Bond, Sr., who had made a home in thi
American Bottom, Kaskaskia. At Alton
111., the bluffs on the east side of the Mis
3issippi recede from the river and do no
approach it again till the mouth of th<
Kaskaskia is reached at Chester. Betweei
the bluffs and river there is thus left i
level strip of country, varying from ten t<
fifteen miles in breadth, with a deep, rich
black soil of exceeding fertility and name(
by the early settlers the American Bot
torn.
TT It J -1 1L. 1 : iUA
nere liveu ui uie uegmuiu^ ui tnc ucu
tury perhaps three-fourths of the inhabi
tants of the country that to-day comprise:
the state of Illinois.
As the French were the earliest settler
their unique customs and simple habit
were impressed upon and to some degrei
followed by the Americans who came late
and gradually peopled the Bottom.
All kinds of heavy work, as harvesting
house raising, etc., was done in common
No one expected pay for work in thi
harvest field, and if a neighbor was strick
en with sickness his friends gathered ii
and did up his work. Flax was one of thi
crops raised and was ready for pulling a
the same time the wheat fields ripened
As the girls pulled flax it often happene<
that the young of both sexes from a whol
neighborhood congregated at the sam
farm house in harvest time.
The wheat was cut with sickles ant
reaphooks by the younger men, while th
bound sheaves were gathered up and pu
in shocks by the old men and boys.
At noon time all came in for dinner
when, first of all young and old, male an<
female, went to the spring and washei
hands and feet, for nearly every one wa
barefoot. Then with what appetites the;
gathered round the heavily laden tabl
that was spread and waiting in the yari
under the shade trees! The table had bee:
improvised by laying loose boards?fre
quently those that made up the sides am
bottom of the wagon body?upon cros
pieces, that in turn rested upon the forke<
ends of stakes driven in the ground
These boards were brushed and scoure
till they were clean, when the dishes tha
had been gathered from all over th
nighborhood were put upon them. Th
hearty harvesters, male and female, gath
ed around this rude table and were seate
upon benches, rails and slabs. The raos
venerable man at the table asked a blesi
ing and very soon thereafter drank a glaj
of rum, several bottles of which made
part of every feast.
While yet a young man Bond was cho;
en to the legislature of Indiana, of whic
Illinois then formed a part. In 1812,8
before mentioned, he was sent to Was!
ington as the first delegate from Illinoi
territory to the national congress. Her
he succeeded in getting an act passed b
which settlers were enabled to pre-emp
the land upon which they had located an
made improvements. Hitherto everj
thing relating to lands had been in a chs
otic state, and no one knew what momec
he would be driven from his new hom(
About 1814 Bond moved to Kaskaski
and became the owner of a large farm nea
that place. For some years previous t
this he had lived on a fine farm in what i
now Monroe county.
In 1818 Shadrach Bond was chosen th
first governor of the vigorous young stat
of Illinois that had just been admitted
into the Union. His popularity and man;
sterling traits of character enabled him t
reach this high place without opposition
In this sudden transition of Illinois from
territory to statehood many importan
measures came up lor consideration, am
great were the responsibilities throwi
upon the shoulders of the executive, bu
everything was met with characteristi
promptness and determination on the par
of Governor Bond.
After serving one gubernatorial teru
Bond was appointed register of the lam
office at Kaskaskia, where he continue!
till old age overtook him, still discharginj
the duties of the office to the satisfaction o
all concerned. He died April 11, 1834
with the love and respect of every om
that knew him. Bond county in Southeri
Illinois perpetuates his name. In its ear
tier history this county was very large
and embraced much territory that ha
since been organized into other counties
To-day it is one of the smaller counties
but within its borders the pioneer in th<
beginning of the century was called upor
to face many dangers. One incident illustrative
of this truth we will give: In 181:
a family of the name of Cox lived on Shoa
creek, not far from the present village o
Pocahontas. This same year, on the 2nc
day of June the family, save a young mar
and girl, had occasion to be away fronr
borne, when a party of Indians suddenly
rushed upon the cabin, killed the younf
man, and after mangling his body left ii
upon the floor, and carried off the girl
together with some horses.
A pursuing party numbering eight per
sons was soon made up, of which Colone
Pruit was captain and Henry Cox and Ber
Jox members. The Indians were over
taken about fifty miles north of SpringHeld,
when, according to one narrator, u
sort of "bashful fight" ensued, and in the
excitement which attended this the young
girl broke away from her captors and ran
:oward the whites. But while she waj
leeing an Indian flung a tomahawk at her,
nflicting a severe wound in the hip. She,
lowever, reached her friends, and they
laving meantime recovered most of the
raptured horses finally all reached home
n safety. The floor of the Cox cabin was
itained with the blood of the young man
,vhom the Indians killed. The family
sought to remove all traces of this by chipling
out every blood stain.
The cabin stood for a great many years,
ind a stream near by has ever since been
cnown as Cox's branch ; but the marks ol
he adze and a few remaining purple stains
vere pointed out to the children of anothsr
generation as the spot where a pioneei
shed his life's blood. Nor did this fail tc
mpress the young beholders with the dangers
incurred and sufferings endured by
hat hardy band of men and women, who,
aking their lives in their hands, were
imong the first to open the way toward
she settlement of a great and flourishing
lommonwealth.
It is impossible that an ill-natured
nan can have a public spirit, for how
should he be loved by ten thousand men
,vho never loved one?
i A RAIN OP BULLETS.
1 To keep up the supply of ammunition
I pack-mules were brought into use, each
animal carrying 3,000 rounds, says a writer
? in the Century, describing the fight at the
r "bloody angle" at the battle of Spottsylva/
nia. The boxes were dropped close behind
r the troops engaged, where thev were
quickly opened by the officers or file-closers,
who served; amGunition to the men.
The writer fired over 400 rounds of ammu
nition, and many others as many more.
- In this manner a rapid fire was maintains
ed, to which the enemy replied with vigor
for awhile.
Finding that we were not to be driven
- back, the Confederates began to use more
s discretion, exposing themselves but little,
. using the loop-holes in their works to fire
1 through, and at times placing the muzzles
X of their rifles on the top logs, seizing the
3 trigger and small of the stock,and elevat
ing the breech with one hand sufficiently
to reach us. During the day one of our
batteries took position behind us sending
t shell after shell close over our heads to ex-'-j
' J - At-_ /-I J T.l
- piOUU lUSlUtt Hie t/UUlCUCiaic rruino. Jill
2 like manner Coehorn mortars 800 yards in
s our rear sent their shells with admirable
, precision gracefully curving over us.
e Sometimes the enemy's fire would slacken,
and the moments would become so monot
onous that something had to be done to
r stir them up. Then some resolute fellow
3 would seize a fencerail or piece of abatis,
and, creeping close to the breastwork,
f thrust it over among the enemy, and then
i drop on the ground to avoid the volley
i that was sure to follow. A daring lieuten3
ant in one of our left companies leaped up,
on the breastworks, took a rifle that was
- handed to him, and discharged it among
t the foe. In like manner he discharged
3 another, and was in the act of firing a third
i shot when his cap flew up in the air and
i his body pitched headlong among the ene)
my.
, On several occasions squads of disheart1
ened Confederaies raised pieces of shelter
- tents above the works as a flag of truce;
upon our slacking fire and calling to them
- to come in they would immediately jump
- the breastworks and surrender. One party
s of 20 or 30 thus signified their willingness
to submit, but owing to the fact that their
s comrades occasionally took advantage of
s the cessation to get a volley into us, it was
3 some before we concluded to give them a
r chance. With levelled pieces we called
to them to come in. Springing upon the
, breastworks in a body they stood for an
. instant panic stricken at the terrible array
3 before them; that momentary delay was
- the signal for their destruction. While we
i with our fingers pressing the triggers
e shouted to them to jump, their troops
t massed in the rear poured a volley into
. them, killing or wounding all but a few
I who dropped with the rest and crawled in
e under our pieces, while we instantly bee
gan firing.
The battle, which during the morning
3 raged with more or less violence on the
e right and left of this position, gradually
t slackened, and attention was concentrated
nnnn nncrlp. So continuous and heavy
was our fire that the head logs of the breastJ
work were cut and torn until they resem1
bled hickory brooms. Several large oak
s trees, which grew lust in the rear of the
y works, were completely gnawed off by our
e converging lire, and about 3 o'clock in the
i day fell among the enemy with a loud
crash.
d Two Dog Stories?Flash, the finely
is bred setter owned by Dr. C. A. Packard, of
d Bath, Maine, has a favorite house in the city
I. which he often visits. The other day he
d was there at the dinner hour, and, civil dog
it that he is, he waited till the family rose
e from the table, when he made his ape
pearance known and was at once admiti
ted as a welcome guest. One of the famid
ly, a lady, is very fond of Flash, and he
it reciprocates the kindness shown him. The
i- latter is a great knitter, and as soon aa
is Flash entered the hallway he passed to a
a room secured the lady's knitting work and
brought it to her. Findinglthe ball of yarn
s- was not with it he return?! at once and
h secured that also, and then laid himself
is at the lady's feet while she went on with
i- her work.
is A family removed to San Francisco a few
e weeks ago and let the furnished house it
y vacated to an old lady. Among the assets
it was a Newfoundland dog, says the Vird
giniaCity (Nev.) Chronicle. In the drawr.
ing room of the residence is a large, cushioni
ed easy chair, in which the aged tenant is
it fond of reclining. The dog watched wisti.
fully for the old lady to vacate this comforta
able seat, and so soon as she did so it leap,r
ed into the chair and refused to vacate ft.
o The lady being afraid to eject the dog
s violently resorted to strategy. She opened
a windowand looking out called "Cats!"
e The dog left the chair instantly and leape
ed through the window in search of the
d intruding feline; while the lady sat down
y in her favorite chair. The next day the
0 dog entered the room while the mistress of
i. the house was seated in the coveted chair,
a Suddenly the animal rushed to the open
t window and began barking furiously.
1 The old lady ran to the window to ascera
tain the cause of the dog's excitement,
t when the animal instantly leaped into the
c chair she had vacated and refused to leave
t it.
1 A Wonderful Lake in Iowa.?The
i greatest wonder in the State of Iowa, and
j perhaps in any other State, is what is
y called the Walled Lake, in Wright county,
f twelve miles north of the Dubuque and
Pacific Railroad, and one hundred and
3 fifty miles west of Dubuque City. The
i lake is two or three feet higher than the
. earth's surface. In some places the wall
is ten feet high, fifteen feet wide at the
3 bottom, and five feet wide at the top.
Another fact is the size of the stones used
in the construction, the whole of them
\ varying in weight from three tons down
\ to one hundred pounds. There is an
ahundance of stones in Wright county,
I but surrounding the lake, to an extent of
1 ten miles, there are none. No one can
f form an idea of the means employed to
j bring them to the spot, or who constructed
] it. Around the entire lake is a belt of
, woodland, half a mile in length, composed
7 of oak. With this exception the country
r is a rolling prairie. The trees must have
I been planted there at the time of the building
of the wall. In the spring of 1856
' there was a great storm, and the ice on the
. lake broke the wall in several places, and
1 the farmers in the vicinity were obliged
, to repair the damages to prevent inunda.
tion. The lake occupies a ground surface
. of 2,800 acres; depth of water as great
L as twenty-five feet. The water is clear and
> cold, soil sandy and loamy. It is singu,
lar that no one has been able to ascertain
[ where the water comes from or where it
j goes, yet it is always clear and fresh.
' About Wearing Beards.?One rea!
son why neither whiskers nor moustache
, could be tolerated during the last century
; and the early part of this was the fashion
| of snuff-taking, and it was not until that
habit began to disappear that the revival
, of the beard was even talked of. During
our civil war beards came more in general
fashion, and it was frequently suggested
by the press to Mr. Chase, who in raising
' the enormous expenditure at that time,
r had DroDosed to Congress taxes on almost
: every article of food and clothing, that a
tax be laid upon beards. It would have
! had a despotic precedent, for Peter the
. Great laid a tax on the beards of his subjects.
His object was to abolish beards in
! his dominions, which he succeeded in doing.
It was not until the time of the
[ great Empress Catharine that Bussian sub[
jects were again permitted to wear beards.
With us fashion no longer controls, and
1 each can do according to his will. But this
word in your ears, my masters, whoever
hath not a well-shaped neck and chin
1 would better grow his beard.
i a?"* True eloquence is the serious, hearty
love of truth.
A