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VOL. IT.?NO. 52. BEAUFORT, S. C., NOVEMBER 15, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
Isolation.
Wo walk along tbrongh all life's various w&ya,
Through light and darkness, Borrow, joy and
change;
And greeting oacli to oacb, tbrongh fasting
days,
* Still wo aro strange.
We bold our dear ones with a firm, strong
grso,-;
Wo horr tin invoices, lcok into tbeireyos;
And vet, betwixt us in that clinging clasp
A distance lies.
Wo cannot know tboir hearts, howo'er wo
i may
Mingle thought, aspiration, bopo and prayer;
Wo cannot reach them, and in vain essay
To enter there.
Still, in each heart of hcatts a hidden deep
Lies, ncvor fathomed by its dearest, best;
With closest care our purest thoughts we keep,
And tenderest.
But, blessed thought! wo shall not always eo
In darkness and in sadness walk alone;
There cfiuea a glorious day when wo Bhall
Know
As wo are known.
ABEL WEBB S CHOICE.
Tli 3 Story of a Father's Devotion.
Abel Webb entered his dark and dismal
rooms, and, as he reached the door,
was nit t by his daughter, Polly.
"Why, you're rather late, father,
ain't you ?" inquired the girl, springing
to her feet, aud giving old Abel Buch a
sounding kiss tin t it might almost have
been lizard on the pavement ontside, if
anybody hud beeu curious enough to listen.
" I've been home a long time."
" We 1, Polly, I ve been to the savings
bank, and afterward to Aldermunbury?jo'.i
know where. I took live
pound ten ; aud Mr. Baker, junior,
spoke so kiudly that tho time slipped
* by, and 'twas seven o'clock afore I knew
where 1 was a'most."
" Heaveu bless Mr. Baker for those
kind words I" responded Polly, giving
her father another hearty kiss as she un
w.muu m > wooieu comtorter oucircling
his ueck. Then, after a pause, she asked
: "Does not that make ninety
p >unds you have paid ?"
"Yes, ninety pouuds. It's a good
deil, ain't it? All saved, too, by jou
and me, Polly.''
" Ob, futher, I don't do much to it.
If you weren't to deprive yourself of
comforts, why, wo shouldn't have paid
off twenty of it." i
" Don't, say that, Polly. If it was
not for your earnings, how could I put
my wages into the savings bank, as 1 do ;
nearly every mouth?"
" Well, daddy dear, you know it'sonly
you I've got to live for," said the girl,
archly. i
"What's that you say?" replied old i
Abel, highly pleased with his daughter's i
remark, but determined not to bo hood- i
winked. "How about Tom Smith?
D'ye mean to say you don't care for
him ?"' i
' Hush! Don't speak bo loud."
P0II3' blushed, and looked half fright- 1
ened toward that corner of the room (
whero the big bureau cast its shadow. ]
" Why, there's nobody can hear." I
" Yes, father, tlio childreu might; and <
children sometimes make a lot of mis- 1
chief," observed that littlo wiseacre, 1
Poliy. Then, with a desperate inten- |
tion of changing the subject, she said : :
" You must have a great coat this wiu- <
ter, or you are sure to have the rheumatics,
as you bad 'em last year. Oh, ]
I saw a beauty in the Horseferry road 1
to night?so thick, with nice warm lin
ing iusido, and the price only eighteen )
shillings. Second-hand, of oour60, but 1
almost as good as new." i
" Oh, I think I can do without it this
year. Let's save the eighteen shillings, i
and send it to Mr. liaker, junior."
"No, I shan't allow anything of the 1
sort. I'm just as anxious as you are to
. pay our debts ; but I'd rather work my 1
fingers to the bones than that yon should 1
suffor another year as yon did last."
" And I, too," added a strong, mnnly I
voioo, which seemed to issue from Mr.
Webb's sleeping place.
Polly gavo a shriek, thou burst into a i
ringing laugh that seemed to fill the room
with joyous harmony, like the sound of i
bells upon a frosty night ; and Abel,
turning suddenly in bis chair, suw the
burly form of Tom Smith emerge from
tho dn 'ky corner.
'' Hullo, Tom 1" shouted Abel. "So
you've been listening. Well, luckily,
you ain't heard no secrets. I suppose
you are one of those children that makes
mischief, as Polly says."
This retaliation upon his daughter
struck Mr. Webb as such an extraordinary
raasterpieco of witticism that he
fairly roared with laughter. By-andbye
Tom Smith roared, too ; afcd when
he had had his laugh out, 'finding that
Abel's attention was btill engrossed by
tho wondrous joke, seized the opportunity
to throw his arms round Pollv's
waist, at which the damsel, who did not
like being langhed at, told the devoted
lover to " a done, and not bo so silly."
Mr. Tom 8mith considerately wailed
nntil his old friend had completed his
simple repast, and then explained the
object of his visit. Polly, who was busy
clearing the snpper table, wanted to
leavo the room, but her betrothed
wouldn't hear of such a thing ; and byand-bye
that, gallant swain exercised his
influence with such marked suooess that,
all orIow with blushes, she was induced
to tako a seat upon the footstool between
the two men. of whom it would
be hard to say which loved her best.
" You know, Mr. Webb, Polly and I
have been courting a long time, nigh
upon eighteen months, and we're be- t
ginning to think?that is, I'm begin- j
niug to think" (this alteration in response
to a protest from Polly)?" it's 1
time wo got married I don't like to a
see her wearing her young life out in ?
our hot workrooms. My snlary, as you
know, is at present ?80 a year, and I t
live on the premises. Now I think if I 1
was to tell Loostriug the facts of the t
case, and that I wanted to livo away, t
he'd give me ?130. Now, ain't that f
enough to get married on, and have you t
any objeotion to Polly anil I being mar- r
ried at once ?"' e
Here Tom Smith paused, not because 1
be had exhausted his subject, but for 5
the reason that ho was out of breath.
Then Polly took up the parable. *'
Sidling her stool to her father's side p
and resting her head upon his knee, she "
Faid, tremblingly:
" Don't think, daddy dear, that my a
being married will mako any difference
to you and me, for yon aro to come and ?
live with us ; eh, Tom?" 1
Mr. Smith, thus appealed to, vowed ?
that his father-in-law's residenco with ^
them was considered quite a settled matter,
as in truth it was.
A tear stood in old Abel's eye, and 6
his voice quivered with emotion as, lay- ?
ing asido his pipe aud takiug his daugh- c
ter's hand lovingly within his own, he v
said : c
" Tom Smith, I know you to bo a c
true and honest fellow. There is no a
iiitin upon tno iace 01 tms eartb l would
more desire to call my son-in-law ; but
before I givo my consent to your marriago,
I must tell you of something that v
may perhaps causo you to draw back." 8
Tom was about to speak, when Abel, a
in trembliug accents, resumed : ^
" I* you'd both been content to wait
a few years, what I am abont to tell
might never have been known to either Q
of jou. I was still a young man when
I di st entered Baker and Baker's ware- .
h#>ioe; jou, Polly, were three years old, |
but your brother Sam was eleven or ^
more. Ho used sometimes to bring me ^
my meals at the drug warehouse, and
onoe or twice Mr. Baker?the old man ^
I'm speaking of now?took notice ot
him. As I was a bit of a favorite, he ^
need to say to mo : "Now, Abel, when
that boy's old enough I'll take him into .
the couutiug house, if you like.' If I
would liko ! I treasured those words,
and your mother and myself did all we
coaid in the way of sending him to
school and such like, so he should be lit
when Mr. Baker wanted him. Ob, how ^
we loved that boy! how proudly we |J
watched him grow up, and what hopes
wo formed of him 1 Sam seemed a
steady, industrious lad enough, and for ?
a time he certainly gave great satisfaotion
in the coanting house. He was then
seventeen, and as handsome a fellow as
you might wish to see, though I'm his ?
father as says it. no was a general fa
vorito in the office, and at lust got trusted
to collect some of the debts due to 'l
the firm. About this time there camo a a
sudden charge in his habits and appear- **
nuce which alarmed me and his mother y
very much. He got to keeping late ?
hours, made somo bad acquaintances, J*
and begun to dress extravagantly. It
was no use our caniioning him, lor he 8(
seemed determined to go on his own P
Bourse. But all the sorrow and disap- 1E
,,,,f,?....? c. u /m
t>uuuuir.uii no mil win U>1 IlUtlilUg lO (lie
blow that almost stunned us when on, a sc
chance examination of the books, it was ai
fouud Sam had embezzled his employera*
money to a handred and fifty "I
pounds. From the moment of that terrible
discovery your mother drooped and m
drooped until bhe died. e;
** What he had done with the money B
he would never tell; but the head
cashier (Mr. Robert Wilmot, he who "
went soon after to Australia) declared tl
that more than once he had heard the yi
boy talk abont horse racing; and it was ai
in this way wo always considered tho pi
money had gone. As for Sam himself, w
he stuck to it hard and fast that he was si
not guilty of any dishonesty. He swore m
I hat the money he'd collected had al- li,
ways been paid over to the cashier; but pi
the evidence the other way was too ol
strong, and onr boy was branded as a tl
thief. Mr. Wilmot, who was angry at A
Barn's insinuations, wanted him Bent G
to prison; but Mr. Baker was a merciful h
man, and did not bring upon us further
disgraa \ After this I felt I oould no w
longer remain in Mr. Baker's employ; h
and thus it was I went to Loostring & a
Tool's. So that Sam might have a cl
chance ol getting back his charaoter, w
Mr. Bakor gave him a letter of introduc- fi
tion to a merchaut at Bombay, some- h
where in India, who might be able to
find him employment snch as wouldn't "
have temptutions. Ham eagerly jumped
at the offer, bnt up to the moment of his p
departure declared himself innocent of fi
stealing Mr. Baker's money. Poor fel- ci
low 1 it was the last we saw of him. Be- b
fore the vessel reached India she met a U
fearful hurricane, and evory soul on h
board perished." o
Overcame by these painful recollec- u
tious, Abel buried his face in his hands b
and wept. Complete silence reigned in &
the room for a few moments, and then
Polly, controlling with an effort the v
strong emotions that swept through her t!
heart, crept to her father's side and a
placed her baud in his. r<
" Dear father, the story of your sor- b
row makes you dearer to me than
ever." n
The old man withdrew his hand from v
her embrace, and, when she hail kissed *
the tears from his clieeka, reanmed: v
"There could bo no doubt of your u
brother's guilt, and I was too sensible ?
of the kindness of his employers to al- n
low them to snffer. I resolved, oome t
what might, that I would do my best to
repay them. For this I daily denied i
myfelf ; for this I narrowed your op- fe
portunitios of education ; and this, next I
/
0 your happiness, my child, is the obect
of my life." _ c
' Dear father, and until now you t
lave always led mo to believe that the 1
imount paid half yearly was to discharge '
1 debt of your own." v
" My darling, was it to your interest t
o know the truth ? When your brother v
eft England you were but a child. Up s
o to-night it has been my constant enleavor
to hide tho real facts of the case c
rom you. I had hoped to have paid off 1<
he whole amount before you got mar- s
ied. Tom's proposal to night, how- p
iver, has frightened the secret out of 1<
no, for I could not allow him to marry g
on without knowing tho truth." si
" And now I do know it, Mr. Webb,"
xolaimed Tom, who had been trying to
peak for some time, but had been nnble
to do so, owing to a strange sensaiou
as of marbles rolling up his throat, S
nd a determination of his eyes to water t<
now I do know it, I am more than C
ver desirous of making Polly my wife, t]
thought of having the banns put up g
lext week, and then wo can bo married tl
lefore another month is over our heads." h
" But, Polly, is not that rather soon?" h
His daughter was at that moment en- si
:aged in attending to tho fire, tho it
irightness of which bad, during the re- b
ital of Abel's revelation, become some- tl
?hat, dimmed. Jnst after he spoke a w
beery flamo again shot forth and dis- w
? unppjr nuiiio upon irony h iace tl
nd a blush upon her cheek, 1'ormiug si
[uite enflicit nt answer to the question. g<
" Well, my children, "do as you will." tc
Torn Smith sprung from his chair and st
urn wringing Ab< l's hands in token of b
ratitude, when the sound of footsteps a<
scendins the stairs caught Abel's ear. ti
" Hero, Polly ! quick with the candle," hi
e cried ; " there is somo one wants us,
r has mistaken the floor." ol
The room had hitherto been illutni- w
atod solely by tho fitful gleam of fire, ba
ud just as Polly had got tho candle it
light the door was opened, and in m
brodo Mr. Baker?Baker junior?whom bi
.bel had lei t but an hour and a half tL
efore. ic
"Oh! Abel," raid Baker, with his p]
road ruddy face glowing with exoitelent,
"I'm so glad I've found you at ja
omo. I've good news for you?news di
iat'11 make your heart leap from your ce
osom." re
" What?what is it?" exclaimed Abel, hi
hilst Polly and her bethrothed looked h<
u in amazemeut. tL
" Why, your boy Sam?ho who. eight lo
ears ago was thought to be guilty ol
f robbing ue?is proved to have been st
mocent." Y<
Abel sunk back in his' chair, his fa en ai
rew pale, and bin hands clutched the wi
rista of Tom Smith and his daughter, cl
ho had rushed to his side. in
"How?how do you know this ?" he ti<
osped. pc
"Auhour after you left my office a H
itter writtor from Australia was de- sii
vered?it was written by a gentleman, w<
magistrate iu Melbourno, and was to mi
10 effect that our lato cashier, Robert an
filmot, having received a fatal injury he
trough being run over in the streets, ?
i his last moments made a deposition fo
efore the legal authorities that your co
m was innocent, that himself had up- pi
ropriated the moneys of the firm, and
i order to conceal his own delinquen- re
cs was compelled to fix the guilt upon oil
>mo one else. The official papers will hi
rrive by next mail. Abel, believe me, he
o person is more rejoiced at this intel- bo
g? nco than myself." ur
The old man was in tears?he coulu
ot speak, but the pressure ho gave the
ctended hand evinced his belief iu
aker junior's siiloerity.
"And, Abel,"oontinued the new-comer,
it gives me great pleasure?more
ian I can tell yon?to hand yop ba'k er
our ninety pounds. Both my father Rl
id myself resolved never to touch a
enny of it; if you had died before you gj.
ere satisfied you bad discharged the af
im we shonld have handed over the
loney to your daughter. I am de- fft
ghted, however, to give it back to you aE
Brsonallv ; aud if you will come to our eE
[flee to morrow, I will hand you over nj
le five per cent, interest. Good-bye, jjC
l>el. I feel mvself an intruder now. v..
ood-bye, and Ileaven bless yon, my pj
onost fellow 1" or
Baker, junior, who seemed with every
ord to become thicker and thioker in qj,
is utterance, then placed in Abel's lap ai]
small canvas bog which gave forth a j(
linking sonnd, and once again heartily 0G
ringing the old man's haud, bounced W)
om the room ere any one oould bid jG
im farewell. n
"Polly, Polly," whispered Abel, ju
give me tltot workbox." cc
The girl knew what he wanted, and af
laced the box before him. She saw his ^
ngors draw from its contents of pre- ?t
ious relics of a bygone day a tiny ^
aby's shoe whioh had never belonged W(
) her. The old man held it within his a(i
and, and after gazing at it for a few sec- ^
nds, drew it rovoroutly to his lips and Cl
mrmured: " My boy innocent, my ^
oy innocent 1 Oh. that hn ha/l 1iwn<l ..
Be this day !" g,
Tom Smith stole his arm aronnd the ni
raist of his bethrothed and drew her to
tie window. They raised the blind, p
nd, looking ont, witnessed the heavens Qj
Bsplendent with myriad stars and a ^
right oreseent shaped moon.
" Polly, dear, it's the first dajjr of the m
ew moon. Yon onght to wish, and 8j
rliat yon wish is sure to oomo true." w
" Is it, Tom," replied the girl, with a w
fistful, trustful look in her eyes that
oa?lo him draw her still nearer to him. ^
' Do yon know I've watched for the new
noon, and wished regularly the same
hing for many months past?"
" And what was your wish, Polly ?" "
nqnired Tom, arohly. (I think ho b
mew, although he pretended to be quite t<
gnorant.) | *1
_ >
" Oh, if I were to tell yon now, the
harm might fail. Ask me, dear, when
he next new moon cornea, and perhaps
*11 tell you my wish."
" Then, darling, we shall be man and
rife." His voico had sank to a whisper,
mt it reached her ears, and when the
rords ceased her head sunk upon his
honlder.
The flro in the grate died away, the
audio upon the table flickered, and nt
angth went out; but with its last ray it
howed the old man rapt iu tho comtemlation
of bis precious relic, and the two
jverr?one in heart and mind?still
aziug uponjthepeaoefnl splendor of the
tar checkered firmament.
A Faithful Wife.
lears ago, in the days of the old
tato banks, a mechanic named Brvcr?n
moved from New York ont into
hio. He had been his own master of
ransportation in the removal of his
oods, and when he found himself seted
iu his new home, ho had on his
ands a pair of sirong horses for which
0 had no use, and he sold them to a
took trader named Slattor, receiving pay
1 five and ten dollar bills of an Indiana
auk. A few days later Bryerton offered
:ia mnnnw ir* ? o*-? -?A ? 3
.uv/uvj iu | ojrnouu Ui U X?t Ul IULU1,
hen it proved to be counterfeit. He
as arrested, and offered in defense
lat ho had received the bills from the
;ock trnder, and supposed them to bo
anuiuc; but Blatter, when called upou
) testify, swore positively and with
>letnn earnestness that ho had never
efcre seen those bills. He had paid the
sensed for his horses in bills of a Kenicky
bank with which he was in the
abic of doing business.
Those were times when a vast amount
f counterfeit money was in circulation;
hen business confidence was becoming
idly weak and demoralized; and when
was deemed necessary that punisheut
for crime should not only be wift,
at sure; so Bryerton was sentenced to
ie penitentiary, the tears nnd- eutreats
of his wife, and his own solemn
leading, failing to move his judges.
Mrs. .Bryerton visited her husband in
il, and having received from him the
irect and emphatic avowal of his inno>nce,
she set herself at the woik of
iscue, determined not to rest until she
id conquered. She hung upon the
jrto dealer's track, seeking for evidenco
iat ho was a counterfeiter. For two
ng years she worked, thinking never
failing or shrinking, and at length
iccess crowned her efforts. In New
ark State, close upon the Canada line,
latter was taken sick. The faithful
Lfe told her story to the physician in
large. The physician, anxious to he'p
ii.A *- ? * *
tuo ii^uicuuh wurK, gave 10 ins paint
a treatment that brought him to a
>int of sickness not to be long borne.
0 was frightened, anil the dreadful
iking of every atom of life made him
iak and childish. Under the careful
imputations of the man of medicine,
,d the spiritual guidance of a preacher,
1 made a full confession of all his sins
all he could remember. H- had heen
r many years connected with a band of
uuterfeiters, it having been his part to
it tlie base money in circulation.
Furnieked with the confession of the
al culprit, and accompanied by an
licer who was able and willing to give
s time, the jubilant wife returned to
;r home, where her hnsband was very
on restored to her. It was hard?the
ijust imprisonment and the two years
incarceration?but a generous public
d all they could to make amends.
Romance of War.
A subscription has just been raised at
ingival in Frauco lor the purposo of
ccling a monument to Francis Doberte,
a gardener of that commune, who
is shot by the Prussians on the twentyitli
of September, 1870. Some days
tor Paris had closed her gates the
irty Sixth regimeut of Prussian in
ntry took up its quarters atrBougivnl,
id the colonel's first care was naturally
tough to establish telegraphic coinrnucation
with Versailles. l)ay after day,
>wever, the wires wore found to have
>en cut by an invisible enemy. Suscion
lighted ou Debergae, who at
tee acknowledged himself the author
the mischief. He had done it "be
use the Prussians woro his enemies,
id he was a Frenchman." " Would he
) it again?" asked the^presidout of the
iurt martial beforo which Debergne
us summoned, to which the {poor felw
replied that he certainly should,
e was condemued to death, and it was
vain that the inhabitants of Bongival
illected a sum of 10,000 francs, and
Fered it to the Prussian commander as
ie ransom of Deberguo's life. Deborle
himself entreated his friends to
ake no effort on his behalf. " If he
ere released ho should cut the wires
;ain to-morrow." The German officer
ho commanded the platoon at the exertion
soemed much affected, and was
aard several times to mutter the word
patriotisms " with a Teutonic aocent.
noli is the tide or legend, for one can
aver forget that the genius of great
aople may be inventive; und many
renohman to this day repeat the story
[ how the Venguer went down in the
jttle of ths first of June sooner than
rike her colors, and how officers and
ien stood 011 the deok an nhe foundered,
looting : "Vive la Repnbliqnel"
horean history relates that the officers
ere busy lunching with their captors at
le tinio the Venguer sunk, and the crew
ere being picked up in English boats.
One of the magazine writers asks:
Did you ever hide some sacred thought j
eneath your pillow and weave a web of |
mder hope about it f We never did
ud we doubt if anybody else ever did. |
The German Census Returns.
Tho German census returns give th<
newly formed empire the rank next t<
Great Britain of the fastest growinj
oonntry in Europe. Within the limit
now comprised in tho German ompiri
tho population has almost doflbled ii
sixty years. In 1816 the population wai
23,103,111 ; in 1875 it is 42,726 844, in
eluding the annexed territory of Alsace
Lorraine. The census before that o
last December was taken in 1871 ; thei
tho population was 41,023,095. Thui
the increase of population amounted t<
1,703,749 in four years, being slightl]
over one per cent per annum. It ma]
afford material for comparison to stat*
hero that the annual rate of increase ir
England and Wales during the seventj
years previous to the census of 1871
was 1.35 per cent., the actual aggregate
increase being 13,819,730, or 155 pei
cent. While it has taken German]
sixty years to donble her population,
England and Wales doubled theirs ir
%jiax3 jouin jun'i >rum^ UCtweefl lOUJL ?U0
1851, and ut tlio annual rate of increase
prevailing during the ten years preceding
1871 would go on donbling itsell
every fifty-six years. The rate of increase
in Germany from 1871 to 187E
differs in a striking manner in the various
States of the empire. It was largest
in the two free cities of Bremen
and Hamburg, amounting to over sixteen
per cent, in tho former, and fourtoon
per cent, iu tho latter, but this was
not so much owing to a general increase
of popnlation as to tno movement from
rural into urban districts prevailing all
over Europe. The increase of population
was greatest in Saxony, which had
2,556,24.4 inhabitants iu 1871, uud
2,7G0,342 at the census of 1875, showing
a growth at tho rate of close upon.eight
per cent, in tho four years. Next stands
Prussia, the population of which -increased
from 24,605,842 iu 1871 to 25,693,688
iu 1875, or at the rate of 4.40
per cent, during tho period. The three
southern States of Bavaria, Wurtemburg,
nnd Baden exhibit a very inferior
growth of population. Alsace-Lorraine
lost?not by decrease of birth, but
by immigration?20,330 souls in the
fonv years; the population of the
Roichslaud falling from 1,540,738 in
1871 to 1,529,408 in 1875, or at the rate of
three and three-fourths per cent, in four
yeaia. Threo other States showed a
decrease of population in tho census returns
of 1875?i. e., the little principality
of Waldeck and the two grand
duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and
Strelilz, tho administration of whioh remains
semi-feudal. Tho returns of the
census of 1875 have been summarized in
tho statement that the increase of population
was mainly in the northern States
of Germany, more particularly in Prussia.
the eastern r>rr?*rin/?ea r\t toIu'aIi
stan J prominent in this respect, and in
Saxony. In other words the boundary
lines of large increase fall injto amsrked
degree with thoao divisions of the empire
inhabited by Protestants. It is
worthy of remark that in this respect
Germany is typical of the whole of
Europe. The census return supplies
some interesting information upon the
relative number of the sexes. Prussia
has an excess of 362,730 females over
mules, or proportionately about half the
surplus of females in England and
Wales. In some parts of Prussia, however,
thore is an excess of males over
females. In the distriot of Hanover,
for instance, in the province of the same
name, there was at the census of the first
of December, 1875, a population of 215,364,
males, and 284,695 females ; while
the district of Luneburg, iu the same
province, had as many as 195,546 males,
with 192,128 females ; and the adjoining
district of Osnabruck, 139,761 males,
with but 138,001 females. The review
from which we extract these facts omits
to state, with referonce to the provinces
where the ladies are in minority, what
is the number remaining unmarried
abovo the age, say, of thirty.
An Old Man's Weary Chase.
The case of tho State vs. James MoGeehec,
alias James Collins, alias J. H.
Hancock, was up before the oounty
caurt at Jonesboro'. The prisoner was
found guilty aud sentenced to twelve
months in the chain gang.
The facts are briefly these : Collins
went from Georgia out to Cherokee
county, Alabama, and stopped with on
old man there who had c yonng wifo and
three children. Collins remained there
eight months, during which timo an at
tachiuent sprung up between the wife
anil Collins.
They eloped, took the old man's
money, and left him the three children
to support. Collins wont to MiflRiflsippi,
married tho woman, and wandered from
Sluc-o to place under various names, and
nally settled in Clayton, three or four
miles from Jonosboro'. Tho old man
went in pursnit of the fugitives. He
had nothing to guide him but the photograph
of Collins. For two long, weary
yeurs he went on horseback from plaee
to place, now aud then getting some
faint tr ces of them. He linally traced
them to Georgia, and he traveled from
town to town showing Collins' pictnre,
but oould hear nothing of his whereabouts.
Wearied, tired, worn out and
exhausted, for he is now over sixty years
old, he showed Collins' pioture iu Jonesbor.>',
and found that he lived near.
He had Collins arrested, sent the
wuiii?n m ni'u m x cuiiureii, ami proROcutt-d
Collins with tho Above result. On
the trial the old man, with team in hie
eye-, suid ho might livo with Mary yet.
It is Lord to tell whioh will bring the
ino.-*t pleasant expression into a woman'(
face?to tell her that her baby is heavj
or her bread light.
1 III II ?
Lore and Death.
0 When the end oones, and wo mot say good-bye
3 And I am going to the qoiet land ;
1 And Bitting In eome loved place hand in *
s band,
9 Vor the last time together, yon and I,
1 Wo watoh the winds blow, and the sunlight lie
9 About the spaoes of oar garden home,
Soft by the washing of the western foam,
Where we hare lived and loved in days passed
I by~
3 We mast not weep, my darling, or npbraid
} The qoiet death who oomes to part as twain;
, Bat know that parting would not be such
f peln
) Had not oor love a perfect flower been made.
I And we shall find it in God's garden lAd
r On that sweet day wherein we meet again.
I ;
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r Items of Interest.
r
When an original poem oomes in
[ written on both sides of a sheet of paper
I the editor is happy. It goes to the
) waste basket under rales that take the
. place of a reading.
F Few expressions of despair can eqnal
- that of the belated female, carrying an
? umbrella and a carpet-bag, as she stands
- on the platform of a railroad depot and
vlArnq n.t tlm rftflr nar nf a ratraafinn
traiu.
If you wish to learn German, never
oommonoe with the German Ante I
Boarding houses have been broken np
and back stair lodgers blown to pale
shadows through this melancholy instrument.
A Tennessee paper has disoovered that
rum costs that State $200,000,000 and
the clergy $2,000,000, and expects that
profane people will cry for the abolishment
of the latter on the ground of
eoonomy.
Whoever sees " a small, dark skinned,
dark haired, bluo eyed man, who laughs
more and louder at everything he says
than anybody else," will know that he
eloped from Frankfort, Ky.,with a married
woman.
A fnoetdous person went into a village
shop and was observed to be looking
abont, when the proprietor remarked to
him that they didn't keep whisky. *' It
wonld save you a good many steps if
you did," was the visitor's reply.
An anonymous contributor sends to
the Norristown Herald some verses entitled
" An Ode to a Silver Dollar," but
the editor is averse to publishing them.
He says such things are " owed " by too
.many poets already, and his advice is
"Ode don't."
A man at Fairview, Ky., with a craving
for liquor, after selling everything
of value wherewith to buy the' stimulant,
took his few months' old ohild and
traded it ever the bar for a drink of
wliieky. The child was afterward redeemed
by the mother on paying for the
liquor.
Judge Henderson, of Lebanon county,
Pa., at a late session of the court of
quarter sessions, issued an order forbiddiug
the admission of boys into the
court-room during the trial of cases.' Ho
based the order upon the demoralising
effects cf the narration of crime upon
the yoong.
There is a considerable oommeroe in
toads between Franoe end England. ' A
toad of good size, and in fair condition,
will fetoh about twenty-flve cents in the
Loudon market, and a dozen of the
extra quality are worth five dollars.
Market crardeners emnlnv th?m tn k<?n
down insects.
A distinguished author says: .** I resolved,
when L was a child, iwrer to use "'
a word which I oonld not prooounoe before
my mother without offending .her."
He kept his resolution, and became a
pure minded, noble, honored gentleman.
His rule aud example are worthy
of imitation.
The amount of meat consumed annually
per head in Spain is twenty-five
pounds; in Italy, thirty-three; Sweden,
fifty-four; Prussia, fifty-six; Austria, i
fifty - eight; Belgium, sixty - seven;
France, seventy-three; South Germany,
seventy-seven; Mecklenburg, eightyfive;
England, 205.
A conversation between two peasants:
"And so old FatherMathuxinhas set up
for himself in the fruit- business in
Pari* ?" " Yes, and he does a good business,
too." "I must go ana see him
one of these days. Where does he lire ?"
" Well, I ean't tell exaotly ; but you'll
easily find it. His name is over the
door, and the number is on the house."
This happened at the Centennial. A
stout American woman leaned over the
counter to the smiling Chinaman and
sharply demanded: "What's your
name?" He smiled and bowed, but
gave no sign of understanding her.
" Take off your hat," was her next ab*
rupt command. "Madam," said a man
who was standing near, " he is not on
exhibition."
There is published in Berlin the Journal
of Cooks and Housemaids, in which
housekeepers who lock up their butter
and sugar and inflict other indignities
upon their servant*, are held up to public
obloquy by name. large number
of the subscribers of the paper hare
bound themselves not to enter the ser
vice of any woman who has been thus
advertised three times within the year.
Experiments have been oonduoted in
Paris with reference to a method of autumn
planting of potatoes, bywhich
1 now may be dug in January. The sets
are planted in August on a thin layer of
salt, whioh appears to be the special secret
in the prooess, and the potatoes are
> earthed in September, the ground being
i cleared of weeds in October. The ret
salt is a orop of seven or eight fall sised
tubers to each root in January.