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BY DEAYTON & McORAOKEN,
AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBJJUARY 21, 1882.
YOL. I. NO. 19.
headquarters for SPORTING GOODS!
O. IB. O^IPIH
HARDWARE MERCHANT,
vVJITJETV, O.
We Ukf pleasure in calling the attention of sportsmen to onr stock of
BBEECH AND MUZZLE LOADING SHOT GUNS,
Paper Shells, Primers, Cartridges, Etc.
Also to our new selected etock of
Hardware,Tinware. Stoves, Agricultural Implements, Hubs, Spokes
and Rims.
We have added a Saddlery Department, consisting of
Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Collars. Whips, Etc.
Al! the above wo offer you at the lowest market prices, and defy competition with other markets.
OUR MOTTO—“QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.”
Mr. Edward B. Curtis is with us, and will bo pleased to servo his many friends.
C. H. LUDEKENS & SON
DEALERS IN
IROCERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES,
Imported & Domestic Wines, Liquors, Cigars, &c-
Mil Male to Orior. Catting a Spialty.
Ktreet.
AIKKIV, C.
IMMENSE STOCK OF NEW CiBPETS!
Purchased from the leading manufacturers of the country, are offered to the trade, our frie nd
/ ^ and the public at
RO()K BOTTOM PRICES!
Body and Tapestry Brussels, Moquet’s Velvet. 3-Ply Ingrain Carpets, all qualities Crumb
kdotlis. Door Mats, Hearth Rmrs, a full line of New Chromos, Hair Cloth and Upholsterers’
rTrimmings, Floor and Table Oil Clotbs, Lace Curtains, Cornices and Bands, Window Shades
tall sizes), Piano and Table Cavers, Wall Papers and Borders, French Terrys, Curtain Goods,
^Cretonnes for Lambrequins, China s*" 1 c>»coa Mattings, and a big stoek of goods in my line.
4»nis G-. BAUjpp
UGIt*L CARI ‘ '
IjD ORIGI
CARPET STORE, - - 713 BRO ^STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
RESH STOCK OF GROCERIES.
I have in store and arriving 500 cases Canned Goods, Moats, Vegetables and Fruits of every
variety; New Preserves, Jellies, Crackers, Mackerel (No. 1 and in mess), Salmon and Boneless
Codfish; all grades of Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Soap?, Starch, etc.; Onions, Cabbages, Potatoes,
Apples. Straw and Rittan Brooms, Scrub Brushes, long handle and shoit handle Hair Brooms.
Tu bs, Pails,Clothes Hampers, Clothes Baskets,et*.; all of which I offer at the lowest prices for cash,
JAMES Gr. BAILIE & SONS,
OLD STAND .TAMES G. BAILIE & BROTHER, 113 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
MYERS & MARCUS,
JOBBERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS FOR
Dry Goods, Notions, Hosiery,
Boots, Shoes, Clothing.
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The undersigned would respectfully inform the merchants of Aiken county that their Fall
and Winter Stock is now being jcceived. nni in price and assortment is uuequaled by any that
has ever been brought to this market. A special feature of onr business is the establishment of a
Wholesale Boot, Shoe and Hat House
'‘Fnfctelv diatinct froni^uJAj.r.w«"*« ** ■♦**. ""naitinents. In our new store will be
found the largrfi! tl-J 1 " • -.•.-.selected stocks of Boots and Hats wc have ever had, and we feel eat*
isSed that it will be (o the interest of purchasers to inspect our goods before buying elsewhere..
M v i±: i* ss*
286 AND 288 BROAD STREET,
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AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
Hardware Merchants,
Cor. Broad and Washington Sts., Augusta, Ca.
DEALERS IN
Mill S&'.pplies, Wagon Material,
Carriage Material, Oriole Plo vv s
Farmers’ Friend Plows, Rowland
Chilled Plows and headquarters
FOR
HARDWARE
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
NEW GOODS.
I am receiving my Fall Stock of
GROCERIES!
Comprising ail that is call* d for by an epicure.
Quality and quantity guaranteed. By
the quantity and for cash.
I will sell for the
Lowest Possible Prices!
Give mo a call before you go to Augusta.
W. TIEJIfcINfBU LL.
OPERA HOUSE GARDEN
BEN NIESZ, Proprietor.
CHOICE
WINES, LIQUORS
AND
C a GAR s.
Philadelphia and Cincinnati Beer.
Broad and Ellis Sts., Augusta, Ga.
ESTABLISHED 1846.
S. P. T. FIELD’S.
Cor. Laurens St. and Richland Ave.,
"VARIETY
AND
G-ROCER
All kinds of
Canned. C^roods.
Tbew Nectar, tne lincst Flavored and Pureet
The Eook-Tonih of BrAdorc.
A drear and desolate shore l
VV here no tree unfolds its loaves.
And never the spring wind weaves
Green graes for the hunter’s tread;
A land forsaken and dead.
Where the ghostly icebergs go
And come with the ebb and flow
Of the waters of Bradore 1
A wanderer, from a land
By summer breezes fanned,
Looked around him, awed, subdued,
By dreadful solitude.
Hearing alone the cry
Of sea-birds clanging by.
The crash and grind of the floe,
Wall of wind and wash of tide.
“Oh, wretched land 1” he cried,
“ Land of all lands the worst,
Ged-forsaken and curst,
Thy gates of rock should show
The words the Tuscan seer
Read in the realm of woe:
‘ Hope entereth not here! ’ ”
Lo ! at his feet there stood
A block of ijuiooth larch wood
Beside a rock-closed cave
By nature fashioned for a grave.
Safe from the ravening bear
And fierce fowl of the air,
Wherein to rest was laid
A twenty summers’ maid,
Whose blood bad equal share
Of the lands of vine and snow,
Half French, half Eskimo,
In letters uneffaced,
Upon the block were traced
Ihe grief and hope of man,
And thus the legend ran:
“ We loved her !
Words cannot tell how well 1
We loved her!
God loved her !
And called her home to peace and rest.
We love her !”
The stranger paused and read.
‘ Oh, winter land 1” he said,
“Thy right to be I own;
God leaves thee not alone.
And if the fierce winds blow
Over thy wastes of rock and snow.
And at thy iron gates
The ghostly iceberg waits,
Thy homes and hearts are dear;
Thy sorrow o'er thy sacred dust
Is sanctified by hope and trust;
God’s love and man’s are here.
Still wheresoe’er it goes
Love makes its atmosphere.
Its flowers of Paradise
Take root in the eternal ice,
And bloom through Polar snows!”
—.7. O. Whittier, in the Independent.
ST. VALENTINE’S LAY
Leaf Tea ever ,
Large variety *»f
Party Cakes supphe]
Coffee, Rice, Grit*
every variety of
with'the finest bran]
iffered to the pub'ic.
[Candies. Wedding and
at short notice. Sugar,
Mfal. Butter, Lard and
[mily Groceries, together
of Flour in the market
It KA3 a clear, sunny morning this
fourtfeentn of February About ■which 1
write, and the postman of Longwood
looked for a busy day, for Longwood
was a cozy, old-fashioned town where
lovers still clung to time-honored cus
toms, and valentines had not become
miserable daubs or vile caricatures.
The morning sun was not very high
when Maggie Layfiell, one of the ac
knowledged belles of the town, sat
combing out the rippling waves of her
dark hair and building her air-castles.
It was a double holiday for this pretty
girl; her birthday and St. Valentine’s
day, and Maggie knew that on thi-i
eighteenth birthday there was not likely
to be any lack of the tributes laid yearly
at her feet. She knew where two for
her wee brother and sister were securely
hidden and she was wondering what
Lizzie and Hattie, Willie and Laura
would receive from the postman, and
whether her mysterious lover who for
five years had remembered her would
be forthcoming on this her eighteenth
birthday. She was still dressing when
her two elder sisters, bright, pretty girls
of nineteen and twenty, came in.
“Now, Maggie,” said Lizzie, “I would
not for the world be suspected of
hinting, but Hattie and I do hope you
will remember us when you receive
your yearly remittance.’'
“Perhaps it won’t come,” said Mag
gie.
“ Perhaps it will 1” said Hattie. “Oh,
it is too delightfully mysterious! Do
you know, Maggie, I am furiously jeal
ous, and should bo worse if you were
not so generous.”
“ It seems so funny,” chimed in Liz
zie, “and if papa was not so willing for
you to accept it and mamma so smiling,
I should very much doubt of its pro
priety.”
“ The breakfast bell; and I am just
ready. Come, girls;” and off Maggie
darted to answer the summons.
Speculations were plenty as to the
number of valertines expected and the
senders thereof; but many allusions
were made to Maggie’s certainly com
ing, and various hyits were thrown out
about wants and ^Y^sires.
At last the double rap at the front
door gave the signal, and as the sound
rang through the hall Dr. Layfield’s
eldest son, Albert, came down the
stairs to breakfast. Every one of the
children, except the wee baby, was in
the hall; Lizzie and Hattie hidden by
the door, Laura beside Betty, and
Willie peeping behind her skirts. Mag
gie was kneeling to draw from under
the stairmat the envelopes addressed
to Louis and wee Amy, while even John,
the doctor’s erraad boy, made the boots
an excuse to appear on the scene. The
doctor looked up from his paper with
an air of interest, and mamma left her
second cup untasted till the important
letters were delivered.
“One for Lizzie and one for Maggie,
that’s all by the first post,” said Hattie,
coming In, followed by all the others.
“Yours always comes early, Maggie;
there it is.”
Maggio broke the seal. For four
years before a crisp bank note for five
hundred dollars had fallen from the en
velope. bnt this year there was, with
the usual offering, a letter, and insid 3
of that a smaller envelope addressed to
Dr. Lay field.
“ A proposal, and here a note to ask
papa’s consent,” cried Lizzie. “Too
bad, and you younger than Hattie
or 11”
Bat, looking at the face that was bent
over the sheet, she paused to ask, in a
quieter tone:
“What is it, Maggie, dear?” And
Dr. Lay field, with a glance at his wife,
echoed the question.
“Bead it, and tell me what he
means,” said the young girl, handing
the doctor the letter, which he read
carefully.
“Come into the library with me,
dear, and I will tell you. No, none of
you,” he added, waving his hand to the
others who crowded around him; “I
must see Maggie alone.”
The deep gravity of his, manner, the
mysterious letter, filled Maggie with a
vague dread, and she trembled violently
as she followed him. Even his kind
arm aronnd her, his loving kiss on her
face conld not qaiet her Agitation,
white his fiVca tTUA so grave and his
voice so sad.
. “I cannot tell you why this letter
was written,” said the doctor, gently,
as he placed her in a comfortable chair,
“until I open my own, and this he has
requested me cot to do yet. Read his
letter to You again, Maggie.”
With a trembling voice the young
girl read:
“ Mr OWN DEAR MaOGIM T At l»*st k
after eighteen year*’bf Oru'.l separation,
I am hoping to see the dear face whose
baby features, pictured by my loving
heart, have been the comfort of my
leneiy exile. I am trembling with joy
at the thought that the eyes now scan
ning these Tines will rest lovingly bn
my face, and the clear Voice I have
heard in tny dreams will fall in music
of affection upon my waking ears. 1
am coming home—shall be with you on
the day yon receive this, lo clasp you
in m.y erm?, never again to let you go
from me. Go to Dr. Lay field, and ask
him to tell you the story of my life,
then read what I inclose to him, and
oh, my darling 1 my treasure! open
voor heart to the weary wanderer who
looks to you a? his haven of love, of
joy, after years of bittc*t exile. Listen
to my etory, love me, and welcome me.
“Herbert Abcnder.”
“ Now, dear father, pray tell me what
all this means.”
“It means, Maggie, that you are to
leave us: but nCj I tVill toll you the
story as he requests : Years ago, when
these gray hairs were brown, and this
peaceful home a dream of a far off fu
ture, Herbert Arundel and I were old
college friends. I would not pain yon
by a recital of our life, but it is neces*
sary to make you understand what
follows. We were what indulgent par
ents called ‘ wild boys,’ what sternest
truth-tellers call ‘dissipated young
men.’ Young, and with ample means
at our coremaud, tYe fah the career that
bofdc-rs closely on vice and crime. For
three years we continued this miserable
course of folly, keeping our position
partly by family influence and partly by
exerting oar powers of intellect at in
tervals to redeem past idleness or mis
spent time.
“ The fourth year we really devoted
to study, and passed creditably through
the necessary examination, but after
leaving college old habits resumed their
sway. Plunging recklessly into the
amusements of the large city where we
lived, we became involved in debt, and
made our lives one long course of
fashionable extravagance and dissipa
tion. To dress with taste, to be
acknowledged leaders of fashion, to*!
-bs»f
drive the fastest horses, give
suppers and llirt with the gayest belles,v
seemed the height of our miserable am
bition, till we both became conscious
of loving t uly and fervently. The
ladies whose fair faces became the light
to show us the folly of oar lives were
good, pure women; one the daughter of
a leading physician, the other the or
phan niece of a wealthy banker.
“At first a false shame kept ns both
silent; but in some moment of better
feeling we both mutually promised to
amend our lives, and try by steadiness
and rectitude to become worthy of the
love we coveted. Frankly and without
one reservation I laid my case before
Dr. Lee, the father of my Amy, and he
held out to me the helping baud I
sought. Making my reward depend ut
terly upon my own merit, he admitted
me among his students, and allowed
me to visit in his family, where for five
years my present wife waited for me to
prove my love.
‘ ‘ Herbert was not so fortunate. His
addresses were treated with scorn, but
he won the lady to consent to a clan
destine correspondence. Meantime he
obtained the situation of clerk in the
bank over which her uncle exercised
some control as director. With a res
olute determination to win the esteem
he had periled by his former career he
kept his head clear and his hand busy
with his new duties, striving earnestly
to overcome the evil desires that still
clang to him.
“ Three years after Herbert had en
tered the bank it was discovered that
extensive frauds were being perpetrated
and large sums stolen from the institu
tion. With bitter malice Mr. Wallace,
the uncle of the woman whose love was
given to Herbert, fastened this crime
upon him. Ho was followed and
watched, and among his private papers
were found letters and part of tho
stolen money, tho letters containing
proof that ho had spent larger sums
than his salary would cover. Ho was
imprisoned, tried, found guilty, and
sentenced to a l.ng term of imprison
ment. Two weeks after his trial the
prisoner escaped, and no trace was ever
discovered of him, bat the malice of
Mr. Wallace war thwarted, for Margaret
fled from homo on the night when the
prisoner escaped. They were married
in New York, and sailed for California
the next day.
“The doubt of Herbert’s perfect in
nocence of the charges brought against
him never crossed my mind—never for
one instant dimmed Margaret’s faith in
him, and she accompanied him as
cheerfully on his flight as if friends and
relatives had sanctioned her marriage
with the noblest of the land. Under an
assumed name Herbert again tried to
win a position, and aided by Margaret’s
possession of a large sum of money he
started in business in San Francisco.
“ Five years later, when my own mar
riage bad been blessed by two crowing
babies, Albert and Lizzie, and worldly
prosperity was smiling upon me, I
again saw Margaret Arundel. Herbert
had lost everything by a destructive
fire, and this devoted wife bad come
home alone to beg for aid from her
uncle, and to obtain from government
her abused husband’s pardon.
‘ It was a wild evening in February
when she came to my office, weary and
faint, to implore me to help my old
friend. She had seen her uncle, and
been cruelly taunted as a felon’s wife,
and refused the most trifling aid, and
as the last words of he pitiful story
left her lips she faimod in my arms.
That same night, or rather the next,
eighteen years ago, you were born, and
two hours later your mother died.
‘ ‘ I wrote to your father, inclosing
such pecuniary aid as was within my
reach, and promising to fill a father’s
place to his child till he could claim
her. Maggie, dear, you can best judge
if I have kept my word.”
But Maggie’s voice, broken by sobs,
Lad no word; only her clinging arms
round his neck, her face lilted to his,
told how truly she felt that he had in-
dfctti fhifllled his i&l*.
“ For two years I heard nothing from
my old comrade; but then he wrote.
He hitd again obtained a foothold
Among the msrtihauls, And wifinl^g
his way to affluence, but he implored
me to keep his child, never to let the
taint of the felon’s name rest on her
life. From that time he has sent me
yearly more than sufficient for yoUr sttp
port* still Imploring nte.tb wiffke nd dif-
fOtefiCd between you ana my own Ohil-
dren. Wishing, however, that you
should enjoy what was truly your own,
I proposed to him to inclose a portion
of you* fneomb to jduiAelf, alid hath
contrived to drop it in the postoffice so
that you receive it on Sfc. Valentine’s
day. Your own generosity has still
kept the balance even, for I am sure
that bat- a small portion remains after
jotir ffifls to all have been selected.
“Aiid hotV, my dear child, beiore we
open tl^is envelope, let me 8»y to you
that no father’s love was ever stronger
than mine for you Your gentleness,
your fi^nk, loVing heaft, yon! obedb
ence and intelligence have been to me
as great a joy as the gifts of my own
children, and the separation will be as
painful as if Lizzie or Hattie were
al ,«ut to be taken from met”
(^uief.lng her own emotion, Maggie
Watched tho doc'or as he broke the seal
of his letter; Only a newspaper scrap
fell from it, but upon this was printed:
“ The mnrderer of L— J— to-day in
open court confessed his crime, plead
ing the heat of passion as his excuse.
Following the long confession which we
give in another column, the prisoner
made auotner one almost as important
Twenty-three years ago he was clerk in
a large banking house in B—, and in
love with the niece of one of the direct
ors, I cmuel Wallace. Being favored
by this gentleman, now deceased, he
was aniious to be rid of a rival, and
with the aid and consent of Mr. Wal
lace contrived to fix the crime of the
celebrated bank robbery of that year
upon him, secreting in his desk forged
letters and some of the missing money,
and swjaring to acts and words of the
accused which would make his guilt
appeiu: certain, but of committing or
uttering which he was perfectly inno
cent. He begged that, as some atone
ment lor the crime he has just con
fessed, Herbert Arundel's name may be
clearea before all the world, as he was
innoceit of the crime laid to his charge.
Dnringthis recital one of the jurymen,
Henry Atherton, a merchant whoso
name lione of otlr most honored among
merch.nts, was observed to be violently
agitated, and as the prisoner concluded,
he roseurom his seat and stood erect,
facing lira.
“ ’Look at me, John Davis,’ he cried.
“ ‘John Davis! that is my own
u-me,’ said the prisoner, trembling in
eveiv li^iK bat obeying the request.
"^Ntio •'faTme.' repeated Mr.'Ather
ton, • and say if I am not the Herbert
Arundel whoso good name you swore
away twenty-three years ago ?’
“ Tho prisoner gave him a long,
searching gazo, and then trying in vain
to speak ho fainted to the floor.
“ Mr. Atherton or Arundel has been
besieged by congratulating visitors,
but it is rumored that as soon as he can
arrange his business and collect his
vast wealth, he will return to B —,”
It was in vain that Maggie tried to
speak in answer to the doctor’s kind
words of encouragement and congratu
lation. The old gentleman, himself
elated by this good news of his friepd,
was almost vexed at the white face and
quivering lip the young girl turned to
him.
“ Maggie, think of it! After twenty-
three years of ’ mely exile he is coming
home a free, clear man, to establish his
innocence and claim his child- My
poor child 1 all this agitation has been
too much for you. Hhall I leave you
alono for an hour or two while I tell
the others?”
“Yes, yes; let me think! It is all
so very strange to me.”
Strange indeed! to part from all
these dear ones, whom she had always
believed to be her own relatives, and go
away with a stranger who was really her
father! With yearning, pitting love
she longed for him, to repay the gener
ous love that had starved itself so long
to give her a happy home, and yet she
shrank from this bitter parting before
her. Lizzie, Hatlie and the children
had never seemed so dear, and Albert
—how coul 1 she leavo Albert ? From
the time when he had shared his mar
bles with her, and refrained from break
ing her doll, she had always been his
pot sister. L’zzie and Hattie were to
gether constantly, and Albert became
very fond of the baby whose brightest
smile was for him, ot the child whose
first word was his name, of tho young
girl who turned to him ever for pro
tection and companionship.
Belle as sue had been, she preferred
Brother Albert for an escort to auy of
the adorers who always begged the
office, and while the two older girls
were always provided with “beaux,
Maggio kept the place for Albert. And
he was not her brother! she had no
claim upon that tender love, so precious
to her! The strange father would carry
her away from home, sisters, father,
mother and brothers. Worn out with
conflicting emotions, tho young girl
carried her sorrow to the source from
whence she had always looked for sup
port, and kneeling down by the doc
tor’s chair she prayed fervently for
counsel in her new duties, strength for
its trials, gratitude for its blessings ;
prayed for the dear unknown father, for
the tenderly loved home circle she
must leave, and as the whispered words
fell from her lips she felt the painful
agitation quieted, and the troubled
throbbing of her heart growing calm
again.
She bad risen, and was standing by
the window waiting for the return of
the doctor, when the door opened and
a tall, handsome man, with iron-gray
hair, and a kindly look in his gray eyes,
came forward. It scarcely needed his
open arms and tender call of “Mar
garet, ray child !” for Maggie to know
her father, and the tender clasp of his
arms, the loving words he poured out
upon her, told her that he would keep
his word, “ never again to let her go
from him.”
The whole morning passed, and the
long separated father and child held
uninterrupted converse, the -one seem
ing only too happy to scan again and
again the features of his daughter, to
hear the music of her voice, to take into
his heart the timid but warm assurance
of her sympathy and comfort, while
she, already opening her heart to take
in ihe patient, noble nature that was
leaning so trustingly on her love, was
happy too, as a woman always is when
she is a comforter.
At lost the dear mother of her child
hood came to break Maggie’s lung
morning of loving intercourse with her
fatner, au-T t ake ber back again to the
hortie aitela.
For some week? Afundfl was
content to stay at Longwood, ana
his darling gradually from the dear ties
of her life, but the parting came at last,
and Maggie left her old home to pre-
sld/J ovur her father’s large house In B—.
The patted darling oi the wealthy
man, whose sole object in life tte9 her
happiness, she had every comfort, every
luxury at her command; but money
coul** not fill t^e great house with the
music of home voices, could Co a leseen
the painful homesickness of the loving
heart.
Her father never dreamed of this pain.
For him hex face wore its gayest smiles,
her voice rang out its music in gayest
welcome, and t>'hile h6 was near her
tho hours flew by in music, reading And 1
familiar canversation. She loved him 1
truly, but she was learning in absence
another Ifessun of love: she was learning j
to recall a voice that had always been I
tenderest for her, a brother who was !
fast becoming remembered and loved j
with a stronger affection than even a '
sister gives. So, with threads of joy
and pain iuterwoVeh, A Year glided by.
“Maggie, dear,” said her father, as
ho sat playing With his coffee cup,
next Wednesday week is your birth
day, and we are to have a grand party.
Everybody is to come, and Miss Arun
del is to enter society. Now, I want
you to write to Longwood and invite
them all here, as many as can oorao.
The doctor's family must come for a
long vi-it, and you must ask all your old
friends for the party. It is only four
hours’ ride from here, and they can
stay all night. I may have been wrong
in not having them here before, but I
Was jealous of the old affections. You
have not been unhappy?”
“ Not for a moment! I have missed
them all, dear father, but I have never
doubted your lore, never wished to
change my position. Yet if they conld
come sometimes for a visit—”
“ As often as you will. Have one or
the other always with you, dear, if it
will make the hours when I am away
less tedious.”
St. Valentine’s day found the doctor,
his wife, Lizzie and Hattie, Maggie’s
guests, while Albert was to come in the
evening. Every preparation for the
great party was completed, and Mrs.
Layfield bustled about full of the im
portance of mistress for the nonce, and
chaperon for herdear adopted daughter,
Maggie.
Late in the afternoon Maggie re
ceived the only valentine offered her
that day. She was in her room, pre
paring for the evening, when the white
envelope was handed her, and she let it
lie unopened while she finished dress
ing. As she broko the seal,* the mirror
before which she stood threw back her
figure, in its glossy white silk, its
fleecy lace folds and the pure pearl
ornaments, her father's gift. The rich
dark hair, braided low on tho neck,
contrasted well with the pearls there
resting, and the beautiful face bore the
test of full dress bravely. She looked
very lovely, and as she read the words
before her the deep flush that mounted
to her cheek was not unbecoming.
Inclosed in folds of soft paper the
letter contained a ring—a circlet of
pearls with one bright diamond in the
center. 8Lie took all in her hand and
softly went downstairs to her father’s
library. He was alone there, and
greeted his darling with fond words and
proud praises; but she put in his hand
the letter and the ring.
He sighed as he read, but the blush
ing face beiore him gave added force to
every word of this earnest petition:
“Maggie, Maggie, I cannot live apart
from you. Tho brother’s IdVe, for so
many years part of my very being, wai
nothing to the earnest devotion I lay
now at your feet. I love you fondly,
truly, as a man loves but once, and I
implore you give me one word of hope
that you will return my love. If you
can give me the precious boon I crave
let me see the inclosed ring on your fin
ger to-night, the sign of betrothal to
one who will make your happiness the
hope and study of his life.
“ Albert.”
Studying Maggie’s face earnestly the
young girl’s father read there her an
swer.
“ He must come here, Maggie; I may
take a son, bat I cannot lose my daugh
ter.”
She clung to him, whispering:
“ Nothing shall part us, father.”
Long he held her closely in his arms,
then with a fervent kiss and a whis
pered blessing her father put Albert's
ring upon her finger.
The Ameer’s Method of Execution.
A description comes from Cabul by
way of India of the manner in wnich
the ameer caused the late minister of
war to be exterminated. The latter
made glowing promises of future devo
tion, but his sovereign would not listen
to them for a moment, but condemned
him to instant death. Thereupon the
prisoner was bound hand and foot, con
ducted to that part of tho yard in which
tho elephants’ stalls open and laid upon
the ground. At the same moment one
of the stall doors was unfastened and
out stepped a gigantic elephant. Tho
ponderous executioner, evidently un
derstanding what was expected of him
made no delay, but advancing through
the courtyard placed his fore feet upon
the prostrate body of tho culprit and
forthwith began to tread him out of
existence. A few seconds later noth
ing was left of tho miserable Daud
Khan except an unrecognizable mass of
flesh and numerous mourning wives
and relatives.
How a Pro-peetor Lost His Lucre.
J. W. Patiick says this glorious
weather has occasioned him a loss of
350,000, and this is the way he explains
it: Last fall he discovered anew mining
district in the neighborhood of his Belt
Park ranch. He had jnst time to
prospect enough to ascertain that the
leads are large and well defined, carry
ing a high grade of ore, when the enow
came and caused him to cease opera
tions. He then camo to town, supposing
that tho foot of man would not find its
way through the deep snow into his
bonanza field, and until a few days ago
he rested in perfect security. Then ho
learned that the snow had disappeared
and that every lead in his new and
supposedly rich district had been
located by the persistent prospector!
And this is why Mr. Patrick charges up
to the weather clerk a loss of 850,000.
He says it may reach a million.
HKALTIl I1L>TS.
To remove freckles lake lemon juice,
one ounce; quarter of a dram of pow
dered borax and ono dram of sugar.
Mil theta and let them stand till ready
for use, then mb It on the face occa
sionally.
Never stand still in cold weather,
after having taken a slight
degree of eiefclss} and always avoid
standing upon the ice or' enew or where
the person is exposed to a cold Wind.—
Dr. Fnote* fftafth Monthly.
The Curative qualities of common salt
art? hot as freely impressed upon the
public as is ripedient. Inflam
mation can be fSpioly reduced by a
solution of salt, and for a wwk or dis-
eaped membrane local applications of
salt riid water act as magic. Incises
of sore throat, sole eyes or catarrhal
affections, simple salt and water as a
gaggle or doucha, ia a most efficacious
application. The chief virtue of min
oral waters is salt, which forms a con-
stiitient either in large or small propor
tions in all springs recommended for
healing. The unmistakable benefits
derived from sea bathing afld sea. air
pressed fr.m that great strengthening 1
medium—cumraou salt. A goblet of
well iced salt and water is not a dis
agreeable beverage before brefikfast,
and is highly beneficial as an aperient.
If “salt should lose its savor” a roost
important lever of the pharmacopoeia
wortld be destroyed.
Concerning the treatment for diph
thftiis, the Food nnd Health says :
To us it appears that fresh air is the
first necessity; we should allow a diph
therial patient to be near an Cpen win
dow. Next, we should use hot malt
vinegar for flannel wraps round the
throat, gargles of the same dilated
with water, and the most tonic diet pos
sible. Neither quinine nor mimral
tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolks of
eggs beaten up in strong beef tea ;
warm baths made of chamomile flowers;
feet placed iu mustard and water, and
flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar
around tho stomach. The juice pressed
from raw beef, heated in a farina boiler
and given constantly, but, above all,
hot red wiue. Inhalations of the fumes
of vinegar with open mouth and pencil-
ings of the same within the mouth. The
use of lemons is also to be recommend
ed. Diphtheria is apreventable disease,
and when we know more of the condi
tions under which the health of human
life can exist and are inclined to listen
to it and act accordingly to it, we
shall have fewer epidemics such as
those of diphtheria.
Great Salt Lake.
The lake from which this town,
writes a correspondent, takes its name
—the full name is the “ City of the
Great Salt Lake is a very curiousand
interesting body of water. It is about
100 miles long, from north to south,
some twenty flvo to thirty-five LroaJ,
from east to west, is more than 4,000
feet above the sea level, and has no
outlet. Its greatest depth is sixty feet,
but it is generally very shallow, being
in many places not more than two or
three feet deep. At one time it must
have been vastly larger than it is now,
spreading, an inland sea, for hundreds
of miles. The water is transparently
clear, bnt so salt—it contains twenty-
two per cent, of chloride of sodium—as
to form one of the most concentrated of
brines.
It was long thought that it contained
no living thing, but recently a kind, of
shrimp and several species of insects
have been fonnd in it. Large flocks of
gulls, ducks, geese and swans frequent
its borders and islands, one of the lat-
tea—Antelope island—being eighteen
miles long. It is so buoyant that a man
may float in it at fall length, his head
and neck, his legs to the knees and
arms to the elbow being entirely out o
water. In a sitting posture, with arms
extended, his shoulders will rise above
the surface. But swimming is hard, as
the legs can hardly bo kept under
water, and the brine is so strong as to
nearly strangle him who swallows it,
and causes severe pain if it gets into
the ryes. Nevertheless, a bath in the
lake is refreshing, although fresh water
is required afterward to remove tho salt
from tho body.
The lake was first made known to
the white race nearly two hundred
years ago, through Baron La Hontan,
who had learned of its existence
through some Western Indians It
was formerly named Timpanagos; was
supposed to be much bigger than it is,
and to have an outlet into the Pacific.
Fremont was the first man to navigate
its waters, and ho described it in 1843.
The lake reminds ono in many respects
of the Dead sea, and the resemblance
had its influence in deciding the Mor
mons to settle here, associating the
neigliborkocd with Judea, and prompt
ing them to name the strait connecting
Salt and Utah lakes tho River Jordan.
They have copied various features of
ancient Israel, and claim to believe
that they, like the old Jews, are under
the immediate direction of God.
The Kigbl-Wind.
Once, when the night-wind clapped its winss,
And shook the wlod-nr-bare and roof,
I heard the eoafa of ’attk-kings
Drive bjr in cb^hiny proof l
Sometimes a runic strife it kept.
Of winter nights, in elected trees;
Or underneath the eaves it crept—
A swarm of murmuring bees. •
Or, now, wild huntsmen of the air
In hollow chase their bugles blew,
While swift o’er wood and hilltop bare
Tho slirlll-voicod quarry flew.
Sometimes I beard of lorers flown.
Safe, under ward of storm and night,*
To where, in sylvan lodge, there shone
A taper kind and bright.
Tlicso things the night-wind used to tell,
And still would tell, if I might hear;
Bnt sorrow sleeps too sound and well
To lend a dreamful ear.
■— K>lith M. Thomtu, tn the Century.
Fishing in Japan.
Fishing in the rivers and streams of
Ihe main island is not considered as a
^ort by the Japanese but as a means
of livelihood, and therefore the “gentle
angler” will not receive much encou
ragement from tho brotherhood in the
land of the rising sun Salmon trout,
trout and ai (a small but game fi a h) are
“educated” on some rivers to take the
fly. The Japs work with very small
fires, fine tackle, slight bamboo rods,
with which they are very successful.
Altogether, however, the game will be
found scarcely worth the candle on the
mainland, but capital sport with the
salmon trout can be obtained in several
streams near Satsuporo, in Yezo, daring
May and June, with a genuine British
fly. The most important export from
Yezo is in dried salmon, which are
netted in incredible quantities in vari
ous rivers of the northern part of the
island and in the southern Kuriles; but
sport in these rivers among the dense
masses of fish is oat of the qaestion,
even if the proprietors of the fishings
would allow their fish to be poached.
The Japanese seaboard is everywhere
picturesque, and the seas abound with
fish, giving employment to the crews of
thousands of fishing boats. When tailing
along the coasts numbers of large black
whales and sharks, both large and
small, will be seen, the latter being
caught by the ^fishermen, as their fins
are counted a delicacy, aid the skins
serve manv uses. The hilts of all the
old swo ds era covered with white
11bark’s skin.—The London Field.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A good prophet—One bandied per
cent.
“ The simple utterance of joy is poe
try,” says Oscar Wilde. That settles it.
We shall allow no joy in our family. It
will ba tossed into the waste-basket.—
Noe Haven Register.
A fashion writer says “raised figures”
produca excellent effect. Well, that
depends; if they ate on a check they
sometimes produce the effect of send
ing the raiser to State prison.
“The difference between a marriage
and hanging,” said an old bachelor, “is
that in the former a man’s troubles
commence, while with the latter they
end.”—Philadelphia Chronicle.
It is sn'd that the only obstacle in the
way of transporting live hogs from this
country to England is the difficulty of
feeding them on tho passage. Why not
feed them from the trough of the sea?
—Somerville Journal.
Said Mrs. Ragbag: “At table, while
the servants are present. Mr. Regbag
and myself always talk of the large
amount everything costs ns, It gives
the neighbors such an excellent imores
sion of our liberality.”—Boston Post.
Prosecuting Animals.
In the good old times from the thir
teenth to the sixteenth centuries ani
mals wore duly prosecuted in court for
injuries done by them to life or limb or
to private property, and numerous
cases are recorded in France of hogs,
bulls, horses and other quadrupeds
being convicted and punished, capitally,
by hanging, burning or in other cruel
fashions. In Sardinia cattle taken in
the act of damaging property could be
lawfully slain, but asses, possibly as
being stnpid and less accountable, were
punished for trespass, first by loss of
ono ear, on a second conviction by the
loss of the other and on the third by
forfeit Ur®-to ihC nrn»m Ww* TTfrow—
physical seizure of the^offending erea-
tuies was impossible the ecclesiastical
tribunals took cignizance of the mat
ter, and the plague of rats, locuste,
caterpillars, or what not, was duly cited
to trial. More fortunate than human
offenders, they were allowed eminent
counsel and wide latitude in their de
fense. One of the most famous law
yers of France made his first great hit
in the defense of “certain dirty ani
mals in the form of rats, of a grayish
color, living in holes,” in the diocese of
Anton. Bis clients did not, of course,
appear on the stated day, and he pleaded
defective service, and that as all the
rats in the diocese were interested no
tice should be given to them in all the
parishes. The priests having been
duly instructed, and the rats still re
maining in contempt, their counsel ol>-
tained a postponement on the ground
that more time was needed to make
their preparations for a journey eu
masse, and when the time was up he
came into court professing the good
faith of his clients and their anxiety to
appear, but demanding for them a safe
conduct and the pu'ting of all the
plaintiff’s cats under heavy bonds not
to molest any rat until the case had
been decided. As the plaintiffs declined
to enter into the bond the rats got off.
It would bo curious to know what ever
came of the famous lawsuit between the
parish of St. J alien and thebeetles, which
began in 1145 and had not been ended
in 1487, when the records unhappily
terminate. The proceedings ended
with a compromise by which the inhabi
tants gave tho beetles in perpetuity a
certain portion of the parish for their
sole use and benefit. The beetles
demurred to this, but the demurrer was
overruled and, tho court’s astessors hav
ing inspected the land and found it
everything that a beetle could ask. the
title was made duly out and signed and
sealed and tho beetles would have had
to retire to it or place themselves in
flagrant contempt had it not been dis
covered that there had been a quarry
on the land, and, though it was ex
hausted and no longer worked, that -
there was a right cf way over the soil
which if exercised would incommode
the new proprietors. Tho beetles
promptly made tbe point, and the trial
was begun over again at the beginning.
One reason perhaps why the courts
were so scrupulous was to be found in
the fact that the plaintiffs had to show
a clean tithe-bill before beginning the
suit, and daring its continuance numer
ous imposing and expensive ceremonies
were performed.
How Webster Looked.
Daniel Webster was bom 100 years
ago on the eighteenth of January, 1782.
Nobody who once saw him ever forgot
him. Of all Americans he was prob
ably the most imposing in his appear
ance. Others have had a finer, loftier,
more refined, more spiritual aspect, as
there have been Americans of a far higher
essential greatness. But there was a
certain grandeur in Webeter’s look
which was incomparable. His Olym
pian presence gave an air of significance
and dignity to whatever he said. We
have heard him deliver the most aston
ishing commonplace in such a way that
the audience seemed to be listening to a
new revelation of great truths. He had
the instinct which assur d him that tbe
prosperity of the oration is in the eye
and ear of the hearer. Of the singular
charm of his private intercourse there
are scores of published records. But
the private circle of friends seemed to
be always a little oppressed by the con
sciousness of his greatness. Hie man
ners were those of what is called the old
school. His dress upon great occasions
was that of the English whigs, blue and
bnff—a yellow waistcoat and a blue
dremcoat with brass buttons.—Harper'a
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