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The Beaufort Tribune
VOL. II.?NO. 37. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 2, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
The Summons.
Jubilee 1 jubilee 1 Motherland, hail to thee !
Hail to tby glory, thy pride and thy worth!
Ail tby sons flock to thee, fly to thee, sail to
thee,
Lovingly keeping the feast of tby birth.
Throw all the banners out 1
Joyful liosannas ebout!
Gather thine own from the ends of the
earth.*
Gather by millions, from lowland and highland
Kneel at the shrines where our forefathers
knelt.
Call all from mainland, and foreland, and
island ;
Whore the figs ripen, or snows never melt;
. Where the swift shuttles hum ;
Whore the flails flash and drum,
Noman, and Saxon, and Teuton, and Gelt.
Come from the mountains where brood the
fierce eagloe!
Come from the giovoe where the mocking
birds call!
From the blue billows where drift tho white
sea galls,
Or where the rod leaveB of the prairie rose
fall.
Come while the etarry eyed,
n-aven born, rainbow dyed
Banner of liberty stroama over all.
Loyal to tboe and thine, nation all-beanliful,
Nnrecd in thy bosom, or borne by the sea.
Come we wi'h reverent homage and dutiful,
Homeland t-o happy, nnited and free,
nail (o thy hundred years !
Forward! with songH and cheers,
Keeping tho yea; of our land's jubilee !
' ?Scribner't.
Independence Gained aid Lost.
" We will have an elegant time. You
must come."
"I don't think I can," 3aid Carrie,
her eyea wandering oyer Julia's dainty
fresh linen suit, and up to the bewitching
Dolly Varden hat which completed
a lovely picture.
Why not, dear? Oh, I want you
to ! Perhaps you don't care to come?"
Tins last with ft coaxing punt.
" Ves, I do; but "?
" Never mind the ' huts.' I shall expro
yon. Cousiu Frank Warden iH
o m ng up, and he can walk over with
you in the evening."
* I don't mind the getting homo,"
replied Carrie, with a langh.
" Theu, good-bye. You'll oomef"
"J think not." But Carrie's voice
was faint, and her eyes danced at the
thought of fun.
The thoroughly buttoued groom tuck
ed a lineu duster over his mistreps'
flounces, and Juliu kissed 4ier hand as
the pprightly pouirs stepped off down
the road. Carrie leaned her arms on
the gate and watched the phaeton with
a pleased face. Julia was a dear friend
?as young ladies estimate affection?
and it was pleasant to seo her drive up
with so much ease, and leave agreeable
thoughts of untold good things. When
the leafy branches hid her from sight, :
Carrie turned, and, stopping a moment
to set np a plant which drooped, and to
examine a bush whioh gave promise of
speedy blossoming, returned to the
house.
4t Ob, I want to go 1" she declared, as
she threw open a closet door. "I do
so liko to have some fun on the Fourth;
and this will be splendid?croquet,
uiunu, uuuuiug, ureworKs, ice cream,
without having to make it yourself?
oh !* and Oarrie whirled about the
room at the thought. " But all the
ladies will be so elegantly dressed.
Julia said she should wear a white
organdy trimmed with Valenciennes.
Now I never could bear not to be well
dressed too:" and ehe darted into the
closet, and came out with two dresses
over her arm. " There's no use looking,"
she exclaimed, throwing them on
the bed; "I know what they are like.
The barege has a great darn in front,
and the muslin is horribly faded across
the shoulders. I can't wear my black
silk, for I should ruin it. Oh, dear!"
With a great sigh she sat on the foot
of the bed, and, curling up her feet,
rested her chin in the hollow of her
hand. "Then my hat I It isn't a
Dolly Varden, or anything but an old
sundown." It would be impossible to
give the emphasis of contempt with
which Oarrie uttered that word.
" Why should I care," she so'ilo?uiz$d.
" If the year had been better
should have had a white pique; but
poor father was so pressed I did not ask
for the money. I know it's all right,
but I had counted on going all the time,
and I cau't uuh sa I can have something
pretty to wear." Carrie spoke with dotermination,
and gave the fading sunset
a perplexed, troubled look. As the quiet
skies and whispering trees presented no
solution of the question, she brought
her gaze in until it rested on her lap.
She saw a neat white apron, and nnderneath
that a really very pretty blue and
white striped cambric.
" I'll wear thisl" oried Carrie, jumping
np. "There, freedoml Haven't I
read and read abont women emancipating
themselves from the rale of fashion?that
it would lead to progress in
higher ideas, and be so good for them ?
Have one dress and wear it, no matter
what others did. How they'd be rerespected,
and how happy they'd be 1
I'll try it. I haven't anything else to
wear, and it's pretty, and I'll do it up
myself and make it look nioely. I'll
put a blue ribbon in my hat, and go."
Her father's (arm adjoined Mr. Liv.
ingston's country seat, and Julia and
Carrie had been summer friends for
years. Julia liked Carrie's hearty, unmanner,
and it was a pleasure
1
to have a friend to whom everything
was fresh and delightful, and in a measure
Julia leaned on the strong, healthv
spirit whioh stepped into the world with
suoh honest and discerning eyes. Carrie
admired Julia's delicate beauty, and
felt a protecting love for the girl who
oould decide nothing but the pattern of
a dress, and was unfamiliar with tho
thousand delights which nature lavished
about her. But while Julia's girlhood
had been Bpent at schools, so that now
she oould execute on hor grand piano,
paint a water color sketch, converse or
read in French or Italian, danco anything,
bow in the divinest manner, and
ride her chestnut or drivo hor ponios
like a Diana, Catrio's had been spent at
home. She could rollout delicious pats
of butter with plump, sweet hands; did
shape and make the perfectly fitting
dresses which adorned her busy little
person; could demonstrate any proposition
In geometry, or calculate interest
as fast as she could talk ; had
read all the English books she could
find, and could talk intelligently to you
by the hour on any topic of present interest,
from the^protective tariff to the
probability of Pius IX. being tbo last
pope. Sue lind lier own ideas, and
thought about everything which seemed
to affect the world, and never -knew an
idle, unhappy moment.
Yes, ono?when Frank Warden bid
her good-bye last summer, and said he
expected to go to California to remain
years, and probably should not be in
Preston again in some time. But that
did not la?t long. She had no aeconi
Elishment, so called. She could play
ymns on her old piano, oould embroider,
make delicious pies, cake and preserves,
and harness old Jenny to the
buggy; but these are not accomplishments.
She was just a rosy, active girl
with bright eyes and a tender heart, that
made the old farmhouse a pleasant plaoe
to be in. These were the two girls,
whose preparations were as different as
their lives for the coming fourth of
July.
Carrie's mind being onoo made up,
she did not hesitate or grieve over the
inevitable. Her mood was only mockheroic,
for she did not hope or intend to
ro:orm the world, only have a pleasaut
day.
"If I worry or feel at all vexed," she
reasoned, "my fun will be all spoiled,
aud I'm really going to try and be independent."
The next morning early found her at
the washtub. It was very far from a
homely picture that she made at tho door
of the shed, the sunlight playing over
her rippling hair tucked out of the way,
and her round white arms dashing the
snowy suds about. At times a pucker
in the absorbed mouth, and then a smile
and a few notes of a song, as tho way
so'-med clear. There was an unseen
spectator of this now sicnina' of a doelar.-i*.
ti. u of independence?a gentleman who
was coming across the fields. He must
have admired it, for he stopped to look,
and then ensconcing himself cna top rail
amidst well disposed branches, he
watched nntil the little drama was over.
Saw the clear rinsing water supersede
the suds, saw the dress hung to dry in a
shady place, smiled at the little pats
which it received before Carrie left it
and disappeared into the house. He
waited some time, but she did not come
out again, and only the dress hung
there dapping in the wiud. Only! The
natural soeno was lovely, with the old
farmhouse nested in elms, the orchard
rambling down a hill at the back, a field
of tassled corn stretching away to a
flashing brook whioh sung through the
meadow. But this was notliiug without
the active little declarer, and the gentleman
picked a switch and trimmed it as
he said, half aloud :
" 1 wonder how long it takes those
things to dry ? She'll como ont for it, I
suppose. I might mako a whistle."
So round about he wandered, not
losing sight of the flapping dress, which
slowly stiflened into an awkuard, thin,
shapeless object, and swung back and
foith on the line. When this result wai
attained, he was repaid for waiting by
on ?iig vjiirno run OUU W1IQ an apron
over her head,'throw her dress over her
arm, and back to the Bhed. No use
waiting any longer; evidently the ironing
could not be Been; and the restless
tig ore disappeared from the fenoe and
field, much to the gratification of u
squirrel who liad viewed him with disfuvor
for some time.
But it won a pity any one who felt interested
could not have seen the conclusion.
The shower of water from the
twinkliug finger tips, the firm rolling
with compressed bps, and the artistio
ironiug which followed. Hair baokclose
enough then to be entirely away from
tho flushed cheeks, critical views at a
little distance with the head on onoside,
ruffles reironcd, and at last all complete,
and a satisfied rent 011 the bed, with the
dress laid ou two chairs opposite; a rest
with interruptions, which referred to the
manifold alterations and fluol adjustment,
broken at last by the adorning of
tho piebian sundown with a blue ribbon.
inn next uay was tue fourth, and
dawned fair and beautiful. A little
warmer than its predecessors, it was still
just the temperature for out-of-door enjoyment
in tne shade. Carrie gave no
thought toDclly Varden or Valenciennes
as she straightened the sash of the blue
o imbrio and tied the sundown over her
sunny brown hair. He who wanted anything
prettier than tho fresh brightness
of the toilet and the piquant young face
under the shadow of the straw hat must
have been hard to please. And though
perhaps wo ought not to hear the secret
which was known only between Carrie
and her gla s, she was perfectly satisfied
as she gavo a last look and ran down
stairs. So was Julia, as she greeted the
spotloEB little figure which ran into her
room as the organdy was being assumed.
" Are you not dressed yet ?"
"No, dear; Anna did not finish the
dress until last night, and the laoo had
to be sewed in to-day," said Julia, with
a slight frown.
" Let me help you."
" Frank asked if you would come,"
said Julia, from a fleecy maze of white
muslin.
" Did he?" and an innocent flush suffused
Carrie's face a moment, but it returned
to natural color as she cried :
"Arc yon going to wear this lovely
braoelot? You look like a bride."
" Do I ?" Julia smiled into hor mirror,
well satisfied with tho image reflected.
" Perhaps I may be."
Carrie opened two gray eyes pretty
wide, and following Julia down stairs,
joined a gay troop of ladies and gentlemen
on tho lawn. The spot chosen for
tuo picnic was a bit of meadow land and
a grovo on Mr. Livingston's grounds,
bat far enough from the house to be
quite rural. Carrie found herself in the
midst of a group of elegantly dressed
ladies, and gentlemen in the immaculate
toilet of white duck ; but having once
made up her mind, she was not to be
disturbed, and entered into the enjoyment
of the day without so much as a
backward glance at Dame Fashion. Mr.
Frank Waiden was not slow in exensing
himself from a beauty in a gauzy muslin
and walking by hor side.
*' I supposed you were in California,
studying seals and Chinese," said Carrie,
smelling appreciatively the rose he
offered her.
" Didn't Julia toll you I was here?"
" Yes ; I meant till then."
" I have boon, but found my mind
was too fully occupied to study the interesting
subjects you name."
" Been and come back !" and Carrie
gavo him a good look of mingled interest
and surprise.
" Yes ; I could not help it," said
Frauk, returning tho gaze.
" Wliy not? I should so like to go ;
I'm sure I'd stay," said Carrie.
"Why not?" echoed Frank, with a
tono and look that caused Carrie to flush
and want to ruu away.
"Oh, is this the place, Mr. Warden ?"
asked his former companion, adding, in a
lower voice : " You And that rural child
very attractive."
"Yes, I do. Allow me : Miss Budd,
iu.iss *jarrie xioDDins. "
Tbo ladies bowed, and both exclaimed
at the beauty of tbo grove, while Carrie
paused iu admiration of tbo smoothly
cut, firmly rolled croquet ground. All
the pleasure which she had anticipated
came to pass, and much more besides.
The grcunds had been elaborately prepared,
and on one side the meadow presented
a smooth green carpet fordaucers,
while the other side pnt in a plea for
flirting ovor croquet wickets. The
lunch was served by servants, and the
gay party thought of nothing but enjoyment.
Carrie was in the best of spirits,
and her merry laugh and bright talk
proved attractive to others tliau Frank
Warden, for Captain De Lancy gave her
many a prolonged stare through his eyeglasses
before he asked for an introduction.
He seemed to be Julia's especial
attendant, and if anything can be judged
from a face, she was well pleased that it
should be r.o.
" Miss Livingston, would you introduce
me to the lovely creature in blue
and white?"
"Who? MissMareton? You have
met. her."
"Oh, no. The lady with her foot on
the ball. There, she strikes."
Julia followed his eyes, and saw Carrie
turn with a laugh from a croquet
which had carried consternation to tbo
heart of her antagonist.
" She'B a charming creature. Where
i3 she from ?"
?ne lives liere," replied Julia, a little
coldly, leading the way, and, the
game being over, making the requested
introduction.
"Most happy," said tho captain,
bowing low.
Frank would not yield his place, the
result being that Carrie had two satollities
instead of one. In the rambles
ubout the grove, the games, and dancing,
the thin muslins of the other ladies
suffered, and soon becamo rnther uusightly
draggled robes. Their lovely
hats were caught in bushes and torn ;
and if taken off, the delicate skin, unused
to exposure, suffered. But Carrie's
dross freshly maintained its own.
It was short enough to be well out'of the
way, stiff enough to resist briers, and at
tho end of the day still looked cool and
clean, being a refreshing contrast to the
mussy toilets of tho other ladies Tho
gentlemen appreciated that, Captain
De Lancy saying :
"Really, Miss Bobbins, I ought not
to take tho liberty to admire your dress,
but it is charming."
Carrie smiled, and he oontinued :
"But it is the wearer that graces it."
Carrie turned away, for he had been
paying like compliments all day, and she
mo iiuu iiouei-l to iuiuk mem mi
genuine.
' Hear ! hoar !" shouted a gentleman,
beating vigorously on a tin pan. " Misa^
Livingston says there's a flue view from"
Sunset rock. Who will make the trip
to see it?"
Will you go, Miss Bobbius?" inquired
the captain.
' Miss Carrie is engaged to go with
me," asserted Frank Warden, boldly ;
and Carrie, glad of the chauge, confirmed
him.
Quite a party set out; but as there
were several paths, it soon came to pass
that Frank and Carrie were alone.
"I'm going up that cliff," said Carrie,
indicating a steep rock.
' Impossible.
' I will. See, hero's a little path."
Ill travel any path with you," re
plied Frank; and with much scrambling,
holding of twigp, perilous slips, aud precarious
footing, up they went, and sat
panting on the top. They oould hear
their party ou the other side a little below
them, but a thick growth of trees
prevented their seeing them. They were
well repaid by the fine view and the
beautiful sunset, Carrie very much onjoying
the little rock chamber and the
reputation of having accomplished what
none of the other ladios had. As the
gold and red curtains closed over tho
sun's departing face, and a blush, which
slowly paled before the approaching twilight,
stole over tho sky, tho two became
confidential, and Carrie said :
" How odd it was for Captain Do
Lancy to admiro my dress. It's only
a cambric."
" Not odd at all."
'And it's funny, too." Then she
told him all about her quandary and
subsequent independence.
"Was that the dress you were washing
yesterday?"
"Yes; did you see mo? with a deep
blush.
" Didn't I! I never saw anything so
lovely. And this isn't the sort of thing
the others wear? I like that. I never
loved you so well before."
"Mr. Warden !" flashed out Carrie.
-- i?H, uirne, you ro tno girl lor me.
I've known it a good while. Do come
and wash dresses whore I can see you;
wash tbem for me."
"lean tell you Mr. Warddh," cried
Carrie, rising, "I don't generally wash
my clothes, and I don't like such nonsense."
" It's all true," ho paid, gently pressing
her down again. "I love you, Carrie?have
come to take you back to California
with me."
" I don't want to go," replied Carrie,
with an averted face.
" But only consider. I love you so
much that I came back for yon, ran the
risk of losing my business, and if you
don't return as my wifo you'll never see
me again."
Frank's tone was grave enough, and
his face very red, as he tried to see her
eyes. Carrie pulled at tho moss, and
said, faintly:
" I don't want to be married."
"Ok, Carrie," he replied, with a half
groan, "thinkof me."
Carrio made no reply.
"Can't you love me ?" pleaded Frank,
putting his arm about hor.
Carrie moved a little, and still did not
speak; but he was evidently waiting for
an answer, and at last she said "yes,"
with a jerk,
" Then you'll marry me."
" Nc?that is?not now."
"Oh, yes; why not?"
"Because," she replied, facing him,
"married people are tied up. I should
have to do as you say, and you know I
like to bo independent."
"I wouldn't want you to do anything
you didn't want to."
" Oh, I know how it would be," replied
Carrie, springing up.
"Yon don't. You should do just as
yon pleased. Now will you give me a
kiss ?"'
Carrie turned a look of indignation
upon him, which was basely taken advantage
of, and the kiss was stolen.
" Mr. Warden!" and away she ran.
"Oh, don't go down there !" he cried.
"You can't; you'll hurt yourself. At
any rate, wait unt il I come to help you."
Carrie did not heed, but went on; and
in a moment a crash informed Frank
that his fears had been realized. He
hastened to the spot, and found hor sitting
very still, apparently studying the
forns.
" Are you hurt ?"
" It's nothing."
" Shall we go on ?"
" No, I don't wish to."
"You are hurt; let me help you rise;"
this anxiously.
"I don't wish to rise."
" But you can't sit here all night. I'll
get help."
" I don't want any help." Carrio
started up, but fell bock with a white
face.
"Darling," said Frank, tenderly,
" let me put my arm about you. Thore!
so. Now yon can walk."
Carrie consented without a word, and
at last broke the silence by saying :
"There's no uso trying to be independent."
"Not if you are going to run away
from me, and jump down rocks like
that."
"I slipped."
" Then you give up ?" asked Frank,
stopping. "You'll be my dear, independent
little wife ?"
"Yes, if you'll be good."
"Always," said Frank; and before
they reached the rest of the party the
independent damsel was so far overcome
as to lean on a loving shoulder when
they rested, and her foot was so much
better as to enable her to tako the promired
wulk home in the evenincr.
A follow was accumulating a fortune
in Amador, Gal., by robbing the sluice
boxos of miners. Every night for years
he worked faithfully, and had stored
away nearly enough money to go to his
home in the East and live upon the result
of his enterprise, when ho unfortunately
ran against a cord that was attached
to a gun trap, aud was instantly
killed.
A gentleman once approached a pretty
Quakeress, and said she looked so
charming ho couldn't help giving her a
kiss. " Friend," she said, "thee must
not do it." "Oh, by Heaven I I will."
"Well, friend, as thee has sworn, thee
may do it, but thou must not make a
practioe of it."
The Celebration's Cost.
Whon the American public has been
exposed on the fonrth of July to fire- H?
crackers cast by the rampant boy, Bays
the New York Herald, it naturally avails ,
itself of the first glimpse of sanity, the .
first lull in the storm of pyrotechnics,
to consult its mortality lists and underwriters'
records, and to ondeaver to ascertain,
if possible, how many of it re- 5
main and how mnch of its property has P?
been destroyed. Before we drift further *5
upon the waves of these statistics we
may say that we have been far more BIf
fortunate this year than we expected to
bo ; than onr neighbors have been. The ?
suburban towns have relatively suffered ,*
much greater loss of life and property, f,B
and wo donbt not that the Rame state- ?
ment holds true of neighboring oities.
Thus at Philadelphia one fire caused by
pyrotechnics involved a loss of $200,000.
aud a sinclo oxnlnsinn lcillml fnnr ^
moil. This comparative exemption has
been duo to the watchfulness of the city
and fire police, the oarnest endeavors of v"
private citizons to prevent or check
patriotic incendiarism, and the rcmarkable
absence of intoxication and fP*
consequent paucity of affrays. Nevertlieless,
the killed and wounded is sufilcieutly
formidable. In New York, dur- 1
iug the two days covered by the celebration,
four people were killed or fatal- ,*
ly inj ured as a direct result thereof, a 8
forty-one were seriously wounded, and
twenty-niuo slightly injured. Of those y
badly hurt, thirteon blow off or shattered P
their hands or fingers; nine were Beriously
burned; two lost eyes, one of R*
whom will probably be completely blind;
throo were crushed or bruised ; two j"?
broke limbs ; three were shot in the
body, four in the head or neck, and five
in tho arm or leg. Of the twenty-nine J"1
whose injuries were of a character less r0'
grave, one had an eye injured, another
was bruised and a third burned. The 27(
remaining twenty-six were wounded by
explosions of firearms or their careless jp8
use. Ten patriots were shot in the leg, R'
seven in the arm or hand, six in the ?
head or neck and three in the body. It is
possible that some of th severely *
wounded will die; it is certain that many r *
accidents were not reported ; it is equal- 10
ly certain that the suffering and injury f??
caused to invalids and nervous people
witl, though they cannot be estimated,
swell considerably the tale of death and .
BIC
pain. ..
These figures can be more forcibly \
presented. Lot us take the population
at 1,175,000, according to tne apportionmenfc
oonsus, and suppose that the
celebration were a thing of every day, 7,
aifecting tho mortality rate like dysen- ?
tsry, or typhoid, or measles. Then in
the course of a year one person of every '
1,609 would lay his life on the
altar of his country; one person of 7
every 154 would be severely wounded ,P!
or injured, and one of every 222 less '
seriously hurt. Or, to look at it in another
light, if we assume that the rate
of patriotisMi throughout the Union is .
but half of what it is in New York, our
Centennial has been celebrated at the .
expense of eighty persons killed and .
1,400 wounded, 800 of whom have re- .
ceivcd severo injuries. ..
Iu the matter of fires our local show- '
ing has been most favorable, for though jrj
there have been during tlio two days
eighty fires caused by the careless use
of explosive and inflammable materials, f
the aggregate loss, as nearly as can be .
a j paa D?
o^iiuinvau, in u uiuu ujiucr ^l,UUU.
Keep This in Mind. jjj|
The second centennial celebration w0
will occnr on the fourth of July, ;m
1976. The patriotic people from the an
Arctic sea southward will fire off the
sort of cannon they have in those days, a r
hang out the same old stars and stripes, pjj
play the '.ame old Yankee Doodle and yei
Hail Columbia; but in the progress of
the century the firecrackers will probably
bo abolished, and the boys will 8^j
celebrate with something less noisy and 8ft,
less dangerous. It will be a great day,
tlio second centennial fourth. It is ca|
hardly possible that any of us will bo
on hand to take part in the proceedings. m(
We should all like to bo among the yQ
actors and spectators, no doubt, but the 8ta
laws of nature forbid, and from them <je
tliero is no appeal. There will not be frc
a trace of us physically left, exoept in gn
tho succession in the life of nature, ani- we
mate and inanimate. nn
Hut though we shall not be there to 8^
see all the grand doings on the - fourth th<
of July, 1976, yet wo can contribute it i
our part to make tho day a happy one jju
for those who take part in the oere- fot
monies. The twentieth century patriot Th
will study up the condition of things in wo
this first centennial year. Editions of for
tho bost orations may be printed, and, un
perhaps, some of our contennial odes
will bo remembered. The journals of
the day will discuss us and what we do ^
with great ability and in choice English. 8j81
Tn fftcl. n licht brierht as that of niv. i_:~
hydrogon will bo thrown on tho events wa
and people of this year 1876. The we
papers of that ilay will search their old tyj
files, investigate the temper of the ha<
people a hnndred years back, and weigh ^01
the oouscqnences of their aots in iudi- <jr(
cions, perspicuous and philosophio lead- ho
ing articles, which will be read by mil- ap,
lions with interest and thoughtful consideration.
Therefore it behooves us all to eare- ,
fully direct our stepsto the goal of right .
and wisdom in this first centennial year. .
The eyes of tho future are upon us, and j
its scales aro ready to weigh us in the
balance.?New York Sun. j
'l I make it a principle novo# to lend '
money," said a good man to a friend, act
" but in your case I sucrifioo principle fat
for interest." And when the latter tin
found he had charged twenty per oent. bo;
discount, he said he thought he did. sh<
TIIE AYR FIRE.
>w Twenty-Two Veenc Wmei were
B*rae4 to Death. ^
rhe Glasgow Newt gives the follow?
aocount of the burning of the mill
Ayr, Scotland, by which twenty-two
ung women perished: Within the third
>ry of the second block of buildings
>m Fort street the fatal spark was
idled. The operatives resumed work'
?r breakfast as usual, and all went on
toothly till the hour indioated above,
len Jamos Barr, a laborer in the
>rstod department, was alarmed by a
roun g lass " (as he describes her) exkiming
in a state of excitement that
ore was a fire in the room. The girl
d been working at a wool teaser, and
jn it was peroeived that the wool had
ken fire, apparently from friction,
rr immediately called his neighbors,
lo gathered in large numbers. Three
binctenrs kept on the establishment
: emergencies of this kind were prooed,
and an effort made to subdue
9 flames, but without effect. No
:>ner was water poured on one corner
in the fire spread to another, defying
9 utmost efforts of all present to keep
within bounds. Some one at an early
riod called for a sheet with which to
smother" the fire; but with such
inning rapidity did it spread, that
y attempt in that direction would
ve boen useless or worse than useless,
a few minutes those who had gatherround
the spot where the fire origibed
were compelled to flee for their
es, leaving portions of their clothing
d all they possessed in tLe mill, beid.
So far all was tight,' in reset
that no damage had resulted to
i, but the sequel of the event which
I just been inaugurated was disasus
and appalling. In the garret
nrhead of the room described, James
ar, aged fifty years, and father of the
n named above, was working with
9nty-five young womeo under his
irge, and there the great loss of life
?k place*
rames Barr, it is alleged, on hearing
i screams in the flat beneath, and on
iog informed that there was a fire,
kuw uu euuoayur vu necp iuo uriea ux
>so who were apparently terror strickbcneath
from penetrating his own
partment and censing greater oon>rnation
than was neoessary. He
3n ran down stairs, saw the imminent
ger of the whole establishment,
shed np and gave the alarm, bnt was
5 late to effect an escape for himself
others, as the staircases were all
blaze," and the smoke and fire were
eh that no one oould -pass through
d live. A soene more easily imagined
m described followed. The young
imen rushed to the windows and called
: that aid which could not be afforded
?m. They gesticulated, and screamed
d sobbed in the presence of death,
d implored those outside to save their
e8. Meanwhile the fire spread rapidtho
other buildings one by one were
veloped, the flames shot nigh in the
and before long the spot where the
lpless females had been vainly seeking
: succor was reduced to ruins, ana
:>se who oocupied it were lost beyond
s hope of recall. Several most pain1
incidents are reported in connection
th this event. The old man Barr was,
fore the fire obliterated everything,
m at one of the windows waving his
ads, apparently calling for rescue, and
arge number of the girls were holder
by him in the last lingering hope of
ving their lives spared. One young
man, named Catherine MoKinnon,
cnped from the height of four stories
d fell heavily on the ground beneath,
e was taken np insensible, placed on
nattress and removed to the Ayr hosjil.
The poor girl, who was sixteen
ars of age, fell on her forehead. Her
all was fractured, her arm broken and
ler injuries sustained, so that all the
111 whioh could be brought oould not
her life.
Another young girl, named Simpson,
ne to a window screaming. Her sis*,
who happened to be beneath at the
iment, called out: " Jump out, or
n'll be killed, and the little girl inintly
leaped over. The sister enavored
to catch her, but as the height
>m which the leap was taken wan very
sat both came into violent contact and
re thrown down. The sister escaped
hurt, a fact which is marvelous, oonlering
the whole circumstance?, but
i young girl was a good deal bruised,
is feared seriously so. Her hair was
rned with the flames, which just bee
her leap was devouring all before it.
ose who had found an exit from the
rks now made the best of their good
tune and ran from danger, while the
fortunate persons left behind were at
) mercy of the devonring element.
>thers appeared on the soene in terror,
cing for their daughters; brothers and ters
looked everywhere for their raises,
who, alas! oould not be saved. It
s impossible to say who were and who
pa nn? amnnor fVia nnfnrlnnafA irinfinoa
well on in the evening, when the fire
1 been subdued. Hoping against
pe, parents expected that their ohilm
might return home at the usual
ur, and waited with eager anxiety their
pearance.
V surgical operation recently per*
mod on the shoulder of Judge Que o
Cook, of Houston, Texas, result;
in the extraction of an old bullet, roved
by him during the war. A piece
the ooat, cut away by the ball over
ven years ago, was found with it.
'You must cultivate decision of char,er,
and learn to say 'no, said a
her to his son. Soon afterward, when
> father told the son to ebon wood, the
y said " no," with an emphasis that
>wed a remembranee of the lesson.