The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, May 24, 1876, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

- The Beaufort Tribune. # . \ , VOL. II.?NO. 27. BEAUFORT, 8. C., MAY 24, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. . , _ Sit Down, Sad Sonl. Sit down, sad soul, and count The moments flying ; Come, tell the Bweet amount That's lost by sighing ! How many miles?a score! Tnen laugh and count no more ; For day is dying ! Lin down, sad soul, and sleep, Aud no more measure The flight of time, nor weep The loss of leisure ; But here, by this lone stream, Lie down with us and dream Of starry treasure ! We dream ; do thou the same ; We love for ever; We laugh ; yet few we shame, The gentle?never ; Stay, then, till sorrow dies, T1 a., > 1 % * :uvn mpru mm uappy BK10S Art- thine forever! Rachel Moffatt's Shadow. _? Reuben "Moffatt and Kezia his wife received a triplet of white wedding cards from the hands of their daughter Richol, and fell into serious chat over the bits of cardboard. George Reynolds, tho groom, was discussed with positive knowledge,^gained by acquaintance with him from boyhood. Kate Maurice, tho bride, was discussed with the speculative knowledge that characterizes remarks concerning stranger brides. Rachel Moffatt had loft the room while George Reynolds was under discussion, and her mother's careful eye had observed that tlitre was surprise, anger, almost tears in tho girl's face. "I say, Reuben," begun the good man's wife, after Rachel had gone. " Yes," assented Reuben Moffatt, signifying his readiness to hear what his wife had to say. " I want to call ^our attention to our Rachel." "You needn't call very loud," was Renlien ananmr '' "*r- ? ? ?* V* iu.j ttltOLltion goes a good deal that, way naturu'ly." "To be sure," answered Kezia Moffawt. " How oonld it ba otherwise, and yt'i the father of such a girl as our Rachel ? I am sure I wonder that a young manlike George Reynolds should look further than such a' trim, handsome girl as Rachel is, and he knows all about her housekeeping too." " ' Look further and fare worse ' is an old proverb, you know," rejoined Reuben Moffatt. " And it's my opinion he's done worse, and deserves to do worse, "^said Kezia Moffatt, with anger in her'eyes and tones. "Iam sure I hope Rachel will get over it and go to the party." " Get over it?" repeated Reuben Moffatt. "You don't mean to say that Rachel"? The old man paused and surveyed his wife critically. Kezia Moffatt nodded her head affirmatively. " Ob, nonsense, Kezia I" exclaimed the old man. " You feel unpleasant like because George Reynolds should prefer any other woman to our Rachel. It's my opinion that Rachel hadn't a thought of George Reynold, except "? A shadow fell on the porch, and the old man suddenly changed thesnbject of his remarks. The shadow that had fallen on the porch was Rachel Moflfatt's. It followed the young girl across the green fields where she walked, mtirrnii. , ~*~d**"Jku6 uo& null* bonnet into an unshapely thing, and lengthening her slight figure into exceedingly lank proportions. 44 Which way, Miss Rachel ? Are you running # away from your shadow V asked a young man, stepping out fiom i an oak tree that stood midway in the field. Rachel Moffatt gave a sidelong glance | at her shadow, and said, with an effort : 44 We can't escape them any more than we can our thought*." " It's lucky for us that they are harmless things," answered the young man, with a smile. " I shouldn't think you'd want to escape your thoughts, Miss Rachel. I'm'sure I shouldn't. And if yon have no objection, I will walk in your shadow, as yon seem to be going my way." Rachel Moffatt bowed, but the young man, glancing into her face,saw that she aooepted his company with resignation. 44 I presume you have received George Reynolds' cards ?" said the young man, after a pause. 44 Tee," Rachel answered, gravely. 44 They are very stylish," she added, with an effort. 44 Mies Maurice is said to be wealthy," the young man oontinued. 44 Ah 1 Rachel exclaimed, with a curl of lips that was fall of scorn. # With a deli-ate intuitive sense that wo old have done honor to men in finer clothes and a jMtier sphere, Walter Gibbs changed subject with the remftwlr < l\aw<StA WaaU V.W1.W tL-a ? * jjwty bii i ian/a v/? jvoid vuav 1 borrowed, in My pocket, Mies Rachel There were larnw of paper in it and some bits of faded flowers. I hare saved them aU, Mid return them with the "Thank yon: ? did not signify," Baohel replied. indifferently. She turned m leavsa of the bine and gilt volume with the nnsasy motion of restless hands, and then dropped from the gilded leaves the faded flowers. They were all alike, mere bits of pink ooloring on a woody stem-^-nfaik not so deep as the color that glowed on Baehel Ifonatt's cheeks at sight of the flowers. " It is the Cercis canadensis, or Jydas tree," hear eompanion re?eked, picking np oue of the fallen bits and polling it in pieces. "The Judas tree 1" echoed Rachel Moffutt, all her tones full of scornful wonder. " Yes," the young man said, answering the wonder in her tones. ' In the spring it is a tree of promise, with nil its rugged branches crowded full of blossoms; but the blossoms die, and there is never fruit or beauty in fulfillment of its springtime promise. There is but one in the village that I know of, and that is in Squire Reynolds' garden." Looking up to see if Rachel Moffatt remombered the tree, Walter Oibbs became painfully conscious that his remark had dyed her face with telltale blushes, and the tale they told was about George Reynolds. Then he remembered how he had foroed his company upon her, and his conscience smote him when he thought how his careless words mi^ht have added to the trouble of the giri ne iove<*. At Teast she should be relieved from the annoyance of his society, and, with a sigh, he remarked: " It was uncivil of me to join you, Miss Rachel, when you camo out to walk alone. I beg your pardon. And as I hun an errand down to the widow Brown s, and am going around that way, I wil. leave you here." " I would be glad to have your com pany," Rachel Moffatt felt constrained to say. " Thank you, but my errand is urgent," Walter Gibbs answered. "Glad to have my company!" he muttered, as he walked away?"a pretty story that, and she wishing me ten miles away, from the moment I joined her ! What a poor blind fool I have been 1" The woman whose happiness George Royuolds had trifled with so wantonly walked slowly toward her home and sat down on the little low porch, watching the moon come up. She overheard her father's words as he talked to her mother: " There's as good fish in the sea as was ever caught. It's my opinion the man who gets our Rachel will find there is bettor fish than George Reynolds has caught, and I'm sure Rachel will find better fish than George Reynolds, if he does think himself the biggest toad in tha puddle." Over Rielinl Moffatt *s sad face flitted a smile that was almost merry. To think of comparing Medbury society to a puddle, and George Reynolds to the biggest toad ! Then her thonghts wandered to herself. Did her father and mother suspect her liking for George Reynolds i And Walter Gibbs?had her face tattled to him of secrets that she fain would have kept ? Henceforth she would wear a mask, and hide her secrets in her heart. She went into the house and eat down by the lamplight. Her mask was on, and she woudered if Mrs. Reynolds had made the fruit cake for the reception, or whether they had bought it of the baker at Medbury. 1 Mrs. Moffatt thought that Mrs. Reynolds would make it. She was such a hand to have everything done up in her kitchen. " Maybe," she added, " Mrs. Reynolds wouldlike your help in making lady cake or something. You're such a master hand at lady cake, you know, u ;? 1 u <?uuoi. -dug bud buuuiu express h( rsolf that way, what shoal d I say to her?" Rachel's mask threatened to fall. To go into George Reynold's home and help prepare for the reception of his bride was a blow for which she was ill prepared. Only a moment, and the tottering mask worf up again. " Certainly, if Mrs. Reynolds shonld ask my help, I would go," Rachel answered. "I would be glad to go," she added, a moment after, as if she were giving the mask a final securing touch. And so Rachel MofTatt found herself beating eggs and stirring butter and sugar in Mrs. Reynold's kitchen, listening to the woman's garrulous chat. " Lady cake it will be," I expect," she said, pausing in the midst of her culinary operations to watch the whites of eggs rising in a fooqpunder Rachel Moffalt's dextrous'manipulations. " And I expect she's a very fine lady we're amaking it for; but it's a matter that I wouldn't like to go no further than be tween us two, that I'd 'a been satisfied if George had picked out a wife nearer home. I'm sure I wouldn't 'a said a word if she who is making the eake and she who would eat the eake had been the same identical individual." Rachel's mask shook a little, but she was a brave girl. " Oh, I am sure George's wife will be a nice lady, and 1 dare say we will all like her very much," she answered. R&chel Moffatt's words were full'? verified. George Reynolds' wife proved to be a very nice lady?a little delicate creature, all pink and white, whom i( was impossible not to like, because she was so thoronghly amiable and lovely. " Who is the lady in white with the pink flowers in her hair?" asked the bride of the bridegroom, the evening of their reception, as Raohel Moffatt entered the room, somewhat late. "She looks very lovely, but I shouldn't think she Would like to WPAr flnwnro nS S" Judas tree. Don't you know?" she asked, answering the inquiring looks ol her husband. " That this is the nam* of the.tree that bears those pink flowers. , I am a great boWnint?don't you kno that, my darling ? The darling oolotvj, seeing Moflatt and the pink flovn,an.'/ baring oertain wor' u\?p/ the shadows of the f Baohel Moflatt was pin at George Rej Walter Gibbs' oy * ; j wherever she moved I thinking of the mv . as it revealed itself in Rachel Moffatt and pink flowers. The Judas tree had never bloomed but once when Qeorge Reynolds and his wife came to Medbury to live. "George don't get on so well as I i could expect," Squire Reynolds said ; and Mrs. Reynolds hinted to half a dozen neighbors, hoping it would go no further than between herself and the one with whom she talked, that George's i wife was a well meaning, good hearted little creature, but, bless her heart! she didn't know the first thing about housekeeping, and she hadn't any knack at i making the most of her means. George Reynolds' wife sent for Rachel Moffat t one day. " I would have come i down myself, ' she apologized, " but i really I was not able;" and Rachel, looking iuto her face, saw that the pink had nil fn/loil nnf lnntnn/? 41% ~ 1.-4. ?uu.,iv?iiug umji uic wuiwiuess of the previous year. " You see, dear," she weut on, with a winning frankness, " I wasn't brought up to anything useful, and the housekeeping don't go right, and George and I have moved out, thinking we could manage better, and it would bo better for the baby. I remember what a beautiful lady cake you made for our reception, and the praises that were in everybody's mouth about your cooking. And now, my dear Miss Moffatt, would you min i showing me a little, and see if I can't learn to manage better, and make George's home more comfortable ? I thought I had rather ask a young person like you than George's mother even." And so Rachel Moffatt found herself in George Reynolds' kitchen, instructing the child-wife in the mysteries of cooking, and trying to impart to her some of her " rare knack," as the people called it. One day, as she came out of the little gate and took her way toward her own home, a gentleman passed her on horseback. Looking up, she saw a man with a full board and good figure; a stranger she thought him until he wheeled about and exclaimed: " You are not running awaj from your shadow agaiu, are you, Miss Rachel 1" And the stranger was no other than Walter Gibbs. Rachel laughed this time without effort. " They are harmless things, as you said," she replied; and then phe inquired kindly after bis health and stay in Medbury. '' I presume strangers occupy the cottage yonder?" Walter Gibbs remarked, pointing to the cottage Raohel had just left. "George Reynolds lives there," Rachel answered. "I've been up to assist Kate?Mrs. Reynolds - in canning some fruit." Rachel Moffatt's face did not color or a feature change. Either her mask was perfectly worn, or that look had ceased to bo a mask. HililAD ' ?? V..MWH, UUlllig Alio D my 111 Medbury, fell into bis old habit of walking in Rachel Moffatt's shadow. Looking into her face as on that evening a year before, he missed the resignation it bad worn then, for iu it was real pleasure. One day he sought her with a strange nervousness and abstraction in his manner. Rachel was very grave too, and "Waiter Gibbs 6aw that she had been weeping. He looked into her faco with tho tender solicitude that only men who love and women who have been loved know, and Rachel explained hastily. Did he not know ? Had he not heard ? George Reynolds' wife died suddonly that morning of heart disease. Walter Gibbs went home with the nervous abstraction all gone from biB manner, and a hard enduranee in its stead. George Reynolds was free now, free to win Rachel Moffatt if he could, and she who loved him once was free to accept him. "I couldn't be 'satisfied with a doubtful love," ho said ; " I will wait." He waited until the Judas trees were in blossom again, and then he went to Med bury. i "It's a-waitincr on TtocViol Mnffatt i George Reynolds is," one of the M-sdbnry gossips told him. " And his wife not been nnder the sod a year yet! They were old schoolmates, and knew each other from childhood, and we used to think it would make a match before he ever married that little helpless city girl, and I haven't any doubt in my own mind but it will make a match now. Gussie Reyuolds is going to have a tea party next week, and that will show which way the wind is blowing." Walter Gibbs weDt to Gussie Reynolds'tea drinking. He said to his mother i he would not miss It for a fortune. Raohel M-jjTatt was there, walking now and then with Georgo Reynolds, and talking with him ever and anon; but then > it was Rachel's kabit to be kind to every [ one who came in ker way. Late in the > evening Walter Gibbs missed her from > the parlor. He looked around for ? Ge >rge Reynolds, but he to- as k >nc. " The Medbury gossip "ight " 1 i thought. "This tea pur t which way the wind if. ' > walked to the wiud descrying Bach'-1 i garments d Reynold v ? theyt >ok > off to t' [ ou* i" ' * _ y< ' ' r$B:r/,^'I proached her, and stood where h< shadow fell. "Rachel," he said, with all his heai in his voice, " I wonld like to walk i your shadow henceforth, if /on are g< ingmy way." Rachel Moffatt looked up with startle eyes into the face above her; the pin flowers with their fatal significance fe from her hand, and tho irregular oul lines of two confused shadows, neve henceforth to bo parted, lay upon th greensward. In the frosts of the follov ing winter the Judas tree died, and th place thereof knew it no more. " Daymon and Pathos," Two bard-up looking fellows, on about fifty years old and the othe twenty years younger, entered a baker in Detroit, says the Free Press, an called for a lunch. One was provided and when they had eaten a 6quaro mef the old man said to the baker: " I'll stop in anil pay you -when w come back." "I guess Uot?I guess you'll pay m now !" replied the baker. Tboy hadn't any oasli, and the; hadn't any spare clothes. The bake fished up a clnb from behind the cour ter and vowed that he would have mono; or revenge. " It's a similar case to that of Day mon and Pathos," explained the ol< man. " My friend hero shall go afte cash to settle this claim, and if he doe not return by noon you can take reveng on me." "I don't care forDaymon nor Pathos nor any other man; I want cash !' shouted the baker. " Daymou will bring the oash by noon or I'm yonr meat," softly answered th' vagrant. " Daymon " went out after cash, an< " Pathos" sat down and spit tobacc* juioe all over the floor. The baker or dered him to quit. " Didn't you ever read the beautifn story of Daymou and Pathos ?" nskei the aged bilker. " Don't you remembe that Pathos sat down and chewed tobac oo while Daymon was absent ?" An hour slipped away and theoldcha] fell asleep anil lurched off the chair almost upsetting the stove. The bake rushed at him, but "Pathos" held u] his hands and protested. '' Don't you remember that Patho fell asleep while waiting for Daymon'i return. I don't know as he fell of his chair, but that wasn't a progressivi ago." Noon fonnd him still there, with n< word from "Daymon." The old mai was firm in his belief that his frieni would return, and reaching up on i shelf behind him he took down a custari pie and calmly began eating into it The enraged baker grasped him by th( throat, and in the tussle which followei " Pathos" came up to the mark so livel; that the baker's heels swept through i showcase, and then the old man slid ou doors, and when the baker yelled fo: the police the vagrant explained to tin crowd: " Didn't Pathos have what he wantei to eat while waiting for Daymon's re tnrn ? Can I play the part of Pathos 01 on empty stomach ?" Life in the Prussian Army, The Berlin correspondent of the Lon don Daily News writes to that journal A case which tecently came to light here through tho courts throws a singula: light upon one phase of Prussian life Some time since a non-commissionet officer of a regiment stationed at Konigs berg committed suicide, and just befon the act wrote a letter to a Berlin journa explaining his motive. He had pre viously published certain facts highly discreditable to two officers cf his regi ment, and from that time they had per secuted him with every form of military cruelty that the superior can visit upoi the subaltern. No opportunity was of fered to him to prove his charges, anc the standing of the officers screenec them from any investigation. Life therefore, became intolo.able to tin poor man, and he decided on suicide The allegations against the two officeri ?a paymaster and, I believe, a lieuten aut?were repeated in the testamentary letter. But as soon as this was pub lished the entire line and staff of tin regiment?which seems to have beei less solicitous about vindicating it houor so long as the accuser lived? hastened on this nnsthnmnno r tion to prosecute thb newspaper ' < libel. The care caino before . eivi court here, and, much to 1'.. olur price n all parties, the jomrial won ?n'- " It proved the truth f~ ? THIS PAGE C DEFECTS Wh ^ r?1 ? . A Singular Story. ^ A Hopkinton (N. H.) corresponi n of the Boston Journal says : The . camstanoes we are about to relate not recent, though of snoh a remark] (l character and of snoh scientific imp ^ ance, if trne, we wonder that apparei ]j no informed person of the time to wl j._ they belong made any account of th "r But now, as years have passed since e publication of " Elsie Yenner," it i be proper to inquire if any such phc e mena as we are about to describe car correctly ascribed to the subtle ] son of the rattlesnake. Sixty years ago, or thereabouts, C tain Parker Parsons kept a com "tahvern" in the district of Hopkin! e known from time immorial as " Stui r field." Being personally engaged y variety of rural pursuits, the cap ^ kept about the farm, as general hel I young man about twentv-flve years J age, who bore the somewhat oppress ly suggestive cognomen, Moody Swall G At that time the rattlesnake was by means an infrequent habitue of \ e viumiiy, mongu [do numoer 01 re] sentatives of this class of reptiles y been greatly reduced since the first r tlement. One day young Swallow g out that being himself close to a dm y of elder bushes growing by a wall at side of the highway, a rattlesnake flicted a bite upon his leg, at the ss j time confirming the statement by r hibiting a wound or scratch upon g naked skin. 0 The information reaching ns does state whether or no Swallow immedi ! ly exhibited the effects of the serpe >? venom, but it is solemnly affirmed t soon he became the subject of " spel during the attacks of which he mi g fested traits peculiarly and strikin snaky. His brow corrugated, his e j flashed, and he would actnally craw 0 wriggle upon his belly. A resort dur these attacks was quite noticeable. N the " tahvern " stood the old Pars 1 homestead?an ancient, unoccupi I dilapidated building, with roof exte r iug far down toward the ground on side. Here Swallow would repair i give demonstration of his fitful mala 3 not the least astonishiug of his expli boin^ the exploring of the wholo r p on his belly, wriggling up one side i 3 down head first on the other, and abont to the extent of his serji s tine impulse or pleasure. These fits B came matters of such common obser f tion in the neighborhood that on an 3 currence of one people would si " Swallow is having one of bis spo! 3 his snake is after him." 3 According to the information, th j things continued at least a year, thoi a we are not told how frequently the j tacks occurred or how long they last Swallow does not appear to have beer 3 this town, nor its long resident, j soon went to Vermont, where ho r ? convicted on a criminal charge of so a kind and sentenoed to the State pri t at Windsor, where he was visited by r person, now living, who informs us a these circumstances. From this ti wc have no account of him. 1 A Political Reminiscence. 1 The Titusville (Pa.) Herald sa; I Earlv in 1840 Henrv Olav. as fAtuiui for the Presidency, stood head t shoulders above any other. The dele tion of the State of New York to i - Whig convention were unanimous in : favor. In Jane General Scott went 9 Saratoga, and was there made to bolit r that his popularity might secure b . the nomination and the eloction. 1 immediately went to Albany and coi - seled with Governor Seward, who t 9 the general he would require twen 1 four hours to oonsider Scott's propt - tion, whioh was that the trover] f should, in case of Scott's election, - his right hand man. At the eipirat: - of the twenty-four hours Scott cal j upon the governor, in the old Yn i mansion, when the governor told L - that on mature deliberation he concluc 1 that the general was or might be 1 1 most available candidate. Ho 1 , fought the country's battles at Chippe j and Lundy's Lane, and his scars uoi . plead most eloquently for the sufTrai a of the people, but he, the governor, < - not regard the general as a politic! j and politics was the governor's pre* - sion. "Now," he says, "if you \ 9 place yourself in my hands, u>u v i not to answer anv'- tiers or m s without mv approval, I - to seen re you the - t' I . Ifie geuer.il rer ) 1-im ii[? - ' i a d"" f 1 CONTAINS FLAW IICH MAY APPE _ ? ' ""? Items of Interest. lent There are as many rich' men as good men. ' The valao of a man's education can? not be estimated by the prioo he paid X >?r " uoh Th? estimated income of the parochial em olergy of England and Wales is the 828,006,000. nay The latest thing from the Black Hills mo- ?the man who had money enongh to 1 bo get back again. poi- A shipment of twenty-five boxes of Chinamen's bones was recently made at 'aP* San Francisco for China, itry jOD The sheriff of Perquimans oounty, N. mp' G., weighs 410 pounds. When a prisma oner *8 refractory he sits down on him. tain How many thousand parents ought to P. a be whipped every day for doing exactly 1 of what they would whip their children fort LV6ow This is the season of the year when a r qq mau wonders whether he will have bis ^jR hair cut or wait till ho won't catch cold. are- The man who feels the meanest is he had who with the new hat on his head tries set- to keep the old one out of sight under ;ave his coat. John Murray sat in a window in Balti \uo more, to ont his toe noils, fell out, stack m" the knife blade into his side, and bled to death. kj8 A man who never has more than a dollar abont his person at one time oomno? plains that silver coin substituted for currency will be too bulky. nt's A fashion journal says "waists are to bat be longer this year but as long Is," as they are not broader, young men with mi- short arms will manage to get around * gly them. ;yea Marshal MacMahon has consented to \or pardon those Communists condemned ^8 for their political course who have exear hibited good behavior in the penal ??8 colonies. ntj' A San Francisco millionaire has carone P?ted the stalls in his ptable, and would in<j liko it if his horses would sleep on $50 ^ bedsteads. There's only a step between the horse and the mule, oof A cat at a Detroit fire rescued her kitmd tens by-bravely entering the burning go building and dragging them out; and ,en. her reward is adoption by a wealthy old l>o- woman, who will feed her on dainties va- during the rest of her life. oc" Haboy, a candidate for senator in *y : Paris, was nominated as a representative "8! of poor workiugmen; but, much to the annoyance of his supporters, the dises? covery has been made that he owns prop'8h erty worth 350,000 francs, atA woman near Bolton, England, sold ! 0f some impure milk from her farm, and He the result was a violent outbreak of was typhoid and milk poisoning, from which ,me twenty people died, "the woman who son owned the farm among tho number. the At Yen-ping, China, placards inciting 5 ?* the populaoe against foreigners are postmo ed on the walls of the city, and flags bearing this inscription, "expel and destroy the foreign barbarians," are flying in prominent localities. 78 : Because a man in Portland, Oregon, ate j deemed it necessarv for the ujd of his authority at home to ffog his wife, ga- all the women in the vicinity met in the council, passed resolutions, and then his going to his house, whnlod him until ho to became insensible. 3.ve In Ohiua, where labor is cheap, a up* Chinaman will sit all day long clinking H? gold pieces in a leather bag. By conll? staut procoss of attrition tho leather be?'d comes tilled with gold dust, which, when collected, affords him fair remu)S1" neratiou for his day's work, aor bo A young lady at Newark, la., has reion covered damages from tLo estate of a lej suitor who committed suicide upon tea heing called upon to fulfill his promise lim marry her. The court held that the led suicidal act under the circumstances was tho a deliberate breach of promise for lad which his estato might be held liable. lWR There was no plea of insanity. \ traveler ov<wf;. iec < >! * I \ teriau mirjy* ?>. fatimed, in../.. !. 411 * upon lr^ "fur "V. yours '? ?ill I L /S AND OTHER 1 AR ON THE FILM J