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' v Doctor I'ratik.
"Dear mo! Such a pretty dress!
so sadly wasted. It seems almost a
sin to put it on. I don't think either
Uncle Keubon or Aunt .lane will appreciate
it, and h'ido I am sure will
not, inasmuch as it's rulllcs are not to
ho soiled by his dirty na.vs."
And, thus solihx]ui/.ing, Kate Arr
lien hesitated a moment as to whether
the open trunk should. receive
back the pink batiste, with its innumerable
lace-edged > flounces, and
loops of roso;?ylbred ribbon, or
whether it sV'.Quld deck the pretty
ifictf and form reflected in the mirror
of Aunt .fane's best bedroom, occupied
only since yesterday by her
pretty city niece, who had como
down to smell the June roses and
\ woo some of their color into her own
* pale phonics.
Something in the reflection deluded
the question. The trunk was
closed, the batiste donned, and looking
.-is lovely as the first flush of sunrise,
Kale tripped smilingly down
the stairs, knowing tluit two pair . f
eyes would kindle in admiration, and
that I'nolo Reuben would break into
a hearty speech.
Nor was she mistaken, lie turned
toward her as she opened the door.
"Ah, hero comes the little girl
now!" he said. "Kate, dear why,
how lovely you're looking, my lassie!
This is our new doctor -Doctor Lawrence!
lie stepped in to know how
mv rheumatism was getting on, ami
I was just talking to him about you."
The girl looked up. All regret
concerning the pink batiste lied, for
standing by her unaleN^ride was n
young, handsome ^ v l^iose clear
brown eyes were Ik .. A ? Mbon her,
and who acknowledged - introduction
with a eourto^^how uttorly-devoid
of embarras Vient or rusticity.
"We thought at first no one could
take poor old l)r. (iray's place." con
tinned Uuncle-Heubon. "(You know
ho is dead, Kate. Yes, took a sudden
cold last winter.) Dill somehow
1 don't think we would quite know
how to do without Dr. Lawrence
now, although we old folks do laugh
at some of his new-fledged notions."
"You're very kind, Mr. 10vans,"
answered the young man in a deep,
musical voice. "1 liopo vow don't
think me unappreciative of how little
vou'vo let mo feel myself a stranger
in Kvansvillo."
"It was your own magic, my hoy;
hut talking of strangers, you must
certainly not he so now. We don't
quite know what to do with this city
girl, who's comn to spend a few
weeks with us, to get hack the roses
dissipation and town life have scattered.
You'll liavo to help us make
tho country so attractive that she'll
not he in too threat a hurry to run
away from us."
"If you always set such delightful
tasks, Mr. Kvans, your proscriptions
will, 1 am quite sure, ho religiously
followed, though, unfortunately, every
chemist cannot make them up."
And he glanced at Kate with a
mischievous smile.
She was not slow with some merry*
repartee, and when, half an hour
later, Dr. Lawrence took his departure,
he had left quito n pleasurable
wave of anticipation and excitement
behind. Nor did Kate experience
any more regret at pretty dresses being
wasted, as one by ono she took
them from her trunks, and proceeded
to make herself as fascinatingly pretty
as possible.
It was wonderful, too. the time
that Dr. Lawrence managed to sparo
fiYJm his patients. It grew to ho a
very customary tiling for his light
wagon to drive up in tho earlv gloaming,
and for Kate to take in it her
place beside him, for one of those
? 'V charming drives which she said were
doing her so much good. They had
long talks, too? talks in which ho
told her of his hopes for the future,
and touchod very lightly on some of
his disappointments and strugjj'leH
of the past.
She learned that this man was ambitious;
that tho post of physician in
this obscure town was in his own
mind but a stepping-stone across the ;
stream which yet separated him from ,
honor, name and fame. Somehow
her own blood coursed moro quickly,
and her pulses leaped, as she listened.
It was all so different from the
languid talk she was used to hearing
from men who would spond, in the'
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roses offered at lier shrine, a sum
which would do so much to realize
his life ambition; yet she wrote home:
"I am havin.o a new experience -a
flirtation with a country physician. I
* I
hope he's taking care of his heart;
no may mm it ilillicult to heal him- |
solf. For mo, of course, I liuvo no
heart. Ho lias so much spare energy,
I'm sure ho must iiml it a kindness
to ho iihlii to nxtemi some of it
on mo."
Hut after she had written this she!
laid down her pen and sighed. After
all the words did not help her in j
a fight she was having with herself,
nor make arguments the stronger for
her own convicting; hut she folded
i and sealed the letter and mailed it!
i that same evening, she and the doc- i
1 tor driving hy the postoflico that she
might do so.
.Inno had nearly passed before
Frank Lawrence put his fate into her
hands. She had had many men to
make love to her, hut never one in
those simple, earnest tones:
"Vou'll have to share some of the
hardships, Kate," ho said; "but I'll
make them as light a ; may ho for
. i i: i i > - ii i
jwh, umiiiiw j and tnhi (i;iy i ii maae
vou proud of mo. Looking ahead to
the light, will you lot my lovo tuako
tho present not ([uito (lark?"
llo used no eloquence, no passion,1
lint his face was vory pale, and his
hand trembled just a littlo .is ho
folded hers within it and awaited Iter
reply,
A sharp pain she could not then
analyze shot through her heart.
%> o
U1 am vory sorry, Doctor Lawrence,"
slio murmured, hut it is im- (
possible."
411 m possible! Wh v ?"
She got no further.
"You do not lovo me? Is that
what you would say? Look straight
in my eyes and toll ine true."
She dared not. She know that
once her eyes met his, she would
liido her head upon his breast and
whisper what she dared not acknowledge
that he alone had not been
burned in the hot lire her hands had
helped to kindle.
For Olu; littlo minute f I?a nwiiiuipv
of tlio past month returned to her
the strange, swoet iniluenco lie hu< 1
exerted over hor life?tho future
.sweetness life might yet hold for
her.
Pshaw! This was but a oil's icllo
n
sentiment. I )i<l not every man dream
of Cilery? Ami to <tow old, like
Aunt Kate and I'nclo I'eubcn, in a
stagnant country town to have her
sleep disturbed by every old man
and woman within a radius of twenty
miles who wanted a portion for their
latest ailment how could she bear
this?
"I am already engaged to be mar*
o r*>
ried,v .-.lie answered, hastily, as though
seeking strength in the words, a visd
d '
ion rising before her as sho uttorod
them of tho man of her choice?a
man more than twice her ago, bald
n 7
and gouty, but with bonds and bank
n j 1
notes sullicient to atone for all delleiences,
and make tho world esteem
it high honor that she should be
.
made his wife. "Oh, Frank, forgive
me!" she cried, in quick contrition
fortius hand now had unclasped itself
from hers, and he sprang to his
feet with a look upon his face of mortal
agony.
But he answered her not a word,
as he walked quickly away in the
mockery of the .June sunlight,
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Five years later and in one of the
/
most fashionable hotels of Paris lay
a child ill unto death a little fairy
creature of perhaps three years of
age, but whose golden curls now
clustered about a face white as the
inuu-iriiiiiiiuu piiiows on winch it
rested.
Ovor her bent her mother, n woman
young and beautiful a widow,
wondrous rich, the world said, hut
who in this hour would gladly have
poured out all Jier treasures to buy
the priceless treasure of her darling's
life. She had loved her husband,
this same world declared; but, bo
this as it may, Ik; had made no moan
into its listening ear, and after two,
short years of wedded life, when
death, after a short, decisive struggle j
had claimed him, all that he had was
willed unreservedly to the woman
who had filled alike his pride and
his heart.
If she had also made the latter
, TO irouK -^7-o^r
CONWAY,
suffer, there was no codoeil in hi:
lust ^onerous testament to that of
foot.
A liifht knock on tlio door arousoi
hor. Sho softlv ononod it.
"The vouiio American physioan
to whom niatlam was reccotnded i:
l>olow," announced an attendant.
hsslniu' lil??* ?itv ^ olio noeiuoh/^j ?.?.
. ?..??? 111 111 u | nuu <ii iv
returned t<? her post. "(.'otue in,'
she called, softly, when a secern
knock was heard; and then standinj.
motionless she turned to look ink
the face of one who, though a strati
oer, was at least a countryman, l>u
started back as thoujdi confronted lq
a o-host. "Frank!" she murmured
"is it you?"
I lis own amazement equalled hers
"Alt, I comprehend!" he said, tin
first to retrain his control. "I du
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not reeoirnizo Miss Ardeu in Mrs
Geoffrey, and douHtlosft the Krone!
tongue so garbled mv own name u:
to render your mistoke- an easy one
Kurd<>n me, I will withdraw at onco.'
"No, no, stay!" she cried, layinj.
one entreat inn hand upon his arm
"1 havo heard of your wondorfu
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.-mm, imih'ii iiiis iii:i11<' vour name i;i
moils ovoii on this sido of tlio water
Oh, Kmiik, lie merciful! Stivo nn
child 111 v lull)}'! Slio is all, that
havo." ?
"Where is your husband?"
In quick, curt tones ho put tlr
(| lOStV'q!.
M)iq you not know?"' sho said
4kllo has 1 >0011 (loud three yours."
uAnd vour child vos, I hnvi
heard. It is the brain which is af
footed."
"She has boon unconscious fo
twenty-four hours. The physician;
hero havo jd veil her up. < )h, Frank
do not tell 1110 sho inn t die, if yoi
would not break iny heart," and sh?
clasped her hands together in an no
ony of ent reat v.
A scornful, incredulous smile crop
about his lips this woman spoke a
if sho had a heart; but his physician''
instinct conquered licsftation, am
bondinw over the little sufl'erer, witl
careful, tender skill ho lifiml iti.
clusterinjr rin<fs from llio I?a!?\ l>rov
FY O ?'
ami made a brief examination of tin
head. 11o looked very irravo as In
lifted his own.
"There is hut one chance for von
child's lifo, Mrs. Geoffrey," he suit
then, and only the physician spoke
"There must he an immediate opera
tion of a precarious nature. IJer re
covery from it is extremely doubtful
hut there is a chance. ()thorwis<
there is none. Will you consent?'
"You will perform it?'
"I will entrust it to no one else.'
"She is in your hands. Do witl
her as you will."
"And if she dies?"
"Oli. Frank, she is my child! Yoi
will not lot her die!"
Was it the romomboranco of thosi
words which mado Dr. Lawronci
hesitate a few hours later, as, witl
two of the most, eminent surgeons ii
Paris, he stood beside the little suf
ferer? If his judgement should b<
at fault! I bit there was no time t<
weigh the question.
Two hours after he stopped int<
the darkened room, where one wo
man awaited him.
"She is sleeping. When slit
wakes she will know you. I thud
that, she will live."
I ie had stepped some little <Iis
tance from her as he spoke, but witl
a suddenness lie could not doviiu
sho had fallen on her knees before
him, grasping his hands and covering
them with kisses and her tears.
"You must be calm for your child1!
sako!" he said, in a voice all uninov
od. "Now go in to her I will re
turn to watch with you through tin
night".'^
O T
Put when morning dawned hi:
n
prophecy had been fulfilled. Peati
had taken awav his irriin shadow, am
tho baby, waking, smiled i1.1*> tlx
beautiful face above lier and whis
j>ered:
"Mainma!"
Throughout Paris spread the new;
of the marvelous operation. It wa
another on the long list of triumph
accomplished by this young man
not yet attained his thirty-fifth year
"I)octor Frank," baby Alice callor
him; and as the old gulf grew am
widened between Mrs. (ieoffrov am
himself, tliey became the greate
friends.
Throe weeks had elapsed, when la
said, one day:
f'
5 ^.USTOD -stotjor WOE:
s. G? THURSDAY, AI
$ I "Little Alien is <|uito well now.
. Mv visits will bo i o lonirer noeossu?
n
! ry.M
| "I novor onn repay mv debt. Doetor
I .uwroiiee," auawored Alice's
mother uI.Jut hero is my ehetpm.
. Kill it with what sum you you will.
11 shall l>o honorod."
] "Madam," ho said, "it is I who am
, in your dobt."
I And with a quick motion ho tore
r mi t woo tho yiooo of j>aj?er sho liand,
od him.
"Soo! you inako mamma ory," said
( tho baby. "Sho always crios aftor
, you havo boon ImrO. Why does sho
. do that, I Motor Frank? Kiss hor -1
y !
ploaso kiss hor and toll hor you arc
'sorry. You must not inako my iirot*
, ty mamma cry."
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IUTUII-UH", 11 Li ii* wiii* . IIO unfavored,
easting no glance to the lovely
, faeo pale with its Ion if and anxious I
,, waiting.
,*\dn have not kissed mamma,"
' pleaded the baby voiee. "-die says
r i she was very nauifhty to you onee.
Please foroivo her and do not let her
I "
I cry any more."
lie strode toward Kate at these
i latter words.
"Is it true,'' he asked, "that vou
I fancy you stand in need of my fori>iveness?
When I cease to love i
you 1 will send it to you."
1 "Prank," she whispered, "must you
I wait till then? (ind knows I have
I j suffered for mv fault. I was only a
child, Frank. I did not know my
n own heart, or that 1 had one, until
i until?
"I 'ntil what ?"
Ills voiee was very hoarse now
and he drew a slot) nearer her.
"Must you wiino all from 1110,"
( she said. "Yet I owe you the alone*
, merit. I ntil I learned, your ima?rc
filled it. Scorn, despise 1110 as you
will I cannot l>anish it."
I But ore she could finish her cons
j fession Dor-tor I 'rank had cautrhL her
s in his arms, linby Alico clappinjr her
i I hands exultantly tho little hands
1
, 1 which unwittingly bridged (he chasm
, between two divided hearts.
At I lie While II ohm'.
a
President Arthur was a very hih
feeder, and spent a ?rreut deal of
r moneymhi his table, but he managed
I to save about $100,000. tlurliold,
was not in oilico lone" enou<di to save
much money. Ho left about $10,"
000, and the ^ifts Mrs. (itrliehl has
- received have made her a wealthy !
woman.
3 Mrs llayes ran tho tinaneiai end |
, of the house durine Hayes's administration,
and that she is a financier
is proved by the amount saved out of I
his salary.
i uruni ii(!Vi>r saved niucii 01 ins
salary, but tho mmerous jdfts of bis
, made liiiu independent. 11o lost bis
all in tho (irant- Ward failure. Tho j,
1 sale of bis book lias placed bis wifoi
in an allluont position.
^ When Andrew .lobnson left the
tbo White House ho had about tfl 50,000,
a ifood deal of which was lost
? ?
by tho fuiluro of the Freocliiiou's;
i Bank.
Buchanan left over 250,000 to bis
, nephews and neices.
Piereo did not do so well. Fifty,
thousand dollars was his limit and
no one to inherit it.
) Pi I more left tho White House a
- pooi man, but by a second marriage
I became wealthy.
John Tyler went to tbe White
Mouse a poor man, but he manured
< | to save enough out of bis salary to
| live in comfort.
-I James K. 1 \>lk left about 150,000.
x As ho bad no children Mrs. Folk received
it all.
Martin Van Huron did not save
' , much out of bis .H ilary, but loft *<500,
; 000.
Andrew Jackson was counted a
4 rich man in his day, Tho Horniitage,
which he left to his adopted son,
is now tbe property of the State.
James Monroe died in New York
i in solvent.
()f the earlier Presidents, Waslig1
ington was the wealthiest. At bis
death bis estate was valued at xJtltl -
1 000.
Adams was poor, Out by liis wise,
n able manatfomont lio never suffered
. want.
WIioii Jefferson entered tlio
White Mouse ho was a wealthy man,
hut he lost, all his property and died
* insolvent.
si Madison was wealthy when he
$ becflfrno President and left a handsome
estate, which Mrs. Madison's
i son, Payne 'I'odd, squandered, and
j left her a poor woman.
This is the first decision upon this
1 precise question in the United States
r Courts, and is thought to have an
important bearing, particularly in
? [ tho South and West, where these
i contracts are numerous.
i-r ^.xntid -stotjttz co"
rOUST 25, 1887>
Pluck.
Pluck was tho son of a poor Unitarian
shepherd not an American
boy, as one would imagine from liis
name. , I called him Pluck because
it was so characteristic of the boy,
and because I could not recall tho
Unitarian name I )r. Hamlin oavo
him. \ little hut in Uulfarin made
of mud and stone was. Pluck':-, home:
and Ins father was so poor thai ho
could hardly ?^ot food unouoh for
his laroo family. Their clothes
cost little, as they all wore sheepskins,
made up with the wool outside.
.lust imagine how funny a
flock of two leoood sheep would
look. Pluck was a bright, ambitious
boy, with a m'eat desire for
study. And when ho heard of IJobert
College at Constantinople he
determined to jot there. So he told
his father one day, when they were
away together tendiuo sheep, that
he had decided to tro to eo lit
The poor shepherd looked at his son
in amazement, and said:
' Vou can t ip> to college; ii*s ali
I can do to feed vou children; I can't
<dve you a pinstre.
"I don't want a piastre, ' Pluck rejdied;
"1ml I do want to oo to coll(>OC."
"I lesides,'' the shepherd continued,
uyou can't <n> to college in sheepskins.M
lint Pluck had made np his mind,
and lie went in sheepskins and
without a piastre. It was a wonrv
march, of a hundred and liftv miles
to ("onstantinople, Init. the hoy was
willino- to do anything for an education.
lie found kind friends, till
alone the way, who jrttve him food
and shelter at ni^ht. So I Muck
trudged sturdilv on day siftor day
until he reached ('onstantinople.
As ho was not one to let the orass
orow under his feet, lie soon found
his way to the eolleoi*. went into the
kitchen, and i .ipiired for the Presi<
lent.
I Muck asked for work; hut the
President kindly told him there was
none, and that In1 must <ro away.
"t)h, no," Pluck said; tkl can't do
that. I didn't c into here to ip?
away."
When the President insisted,
Pluck's answer was the same: 4,l
didn't conic hero to oo away."
lie had no idea of trivin?r up.
uTlte kino of Prance, with forty
thousand men went up a hill, ami so
came down aouiu;" but it was no
part of Pluck's plan to <ro marching
iiome aoain;jiud three hours later
the President saw liiin in the yard,
patiently waiting.
Some of the students advised
Pluck to see Professor hone, "lie
l,..it ..I ...... u..t,-.r..t
?,,W" ' "" ,1,nM'1 ^ VMI J< I
lows."
Tlic IYofessor, like 1110 President,
said there was no work for him, and
he had l>ettor <oi away. Hut IMuok
bravely stuck to his text. " I didn't
come hero to go away."
The boy's courago and persevoranee
pleased the Professor so much
that he urged (lie President to give
Pluck a trial. So it was decided
that ho should take care of the fires.
That meant carry wood, and a great
deal of it, up three or four flights of
stairs, taking away the ashes, and
keeping all the things neat and in
order.
The President thought that ho
would soon get tired of such hard
work. Hut a boy who had walked a
hundred and lift v niileslfor the sako
of an education, and was not ashamed
to go to college in sheepskins
and without a piastre, would not bo
easily discouraged.
After a few days, as Pluck showed
no signs of "weakening," the
President went to him and said:
"My poor boy, you eannoty (*liere
this Winter. This room isV^^apnifortable,
and I have no othoi\ '"?ive
Voil."
"< >h, I'm perfectly satisfied,"
Pluck replied. "It's the best room I
ever had in my life. I didn't conn;
here to go awuv."
JOvidently there was no getting
rid of Pluck", and lie was allowed to
stay.
V fi I - 1 1 - I 1 * ?
.MOT IH! IliKI gHlOeU Ills point MO
settled down to business, and asked
Homo of the (undents to help him
with his lessons in the evenings.
They formed a syndicate of six.
That was good old I )r. Hamlin's
way, so none of the hoys found it a
harden to help Pluck one ovenii g in
a week. It was a success on both
sides the hoys wero patient and
kind, and Pluck was as painstaking
and persevering in his lessons as in
other thing-., so that in mudo great
progress.
After some works ho naked to ho
examined to enter tho preparatory
class.
"Do you expect/' asked tlio I'resident,
"to compete with those hoys
who have many weeks the start of
you?" "And," he continued, "you
can't go into class in sheepskins; all
tho hoys would cry, ,haa.' "
"Ves, sir, I know," Pluck said;
"hut tin) hoys have promised to help
ine out. ()no will ifive inn a coat,
n '
another a trousers, and so on."
Nothing could keep hack a hov
like that, who overcome all the obstacles
in his way.
critsr^n^^rr."
Aftor tlio examination, the I'rosidcnt
said to Professor Lon<f.
"('an that boy f^Ct into that
class?"
"Vcs was tho ronlv. "Hut that
class can't </ot into that hoy."
It
It was not all plain sailing yet.
Although I'luclv hail pussou the ex
animation, ho had no monoy, and tin*
rules of tho college required each
student t<? nay two liundred dollars a
year. That was a nuostion in umtho*
inaties that puzzled tho {food IVesidont.
U1 wish," said 1 'rofossor Lon?f,M
"that t his col le;o? would hiro I'hick
to holp me in the laboratory and
oive lnin a hundred dollars a year,
lie has prosed himself very deft and
neat in helping me there, and it
I we uld {five me muoli more time for
other thintrs.
I'luek hocaino tho Professor's assistant,
and was perfectly delighted
with his <food fortune. Hut whore
was the other hundred coniiny
from ?
President Washburn sent an account
of Pluck's poverty and oroat
desire for an education to l)r.*llainJin,
the ex President of Poberl ("olleifo,
who was in America.
The doctor told the story to a
friend one day, and she was so much
interested that she said:
"I would like to oive the other
I hundred."
And that's the way Pluck trained
i the wish of his heart.
i lie proved the truth of the old
i sayine, that "where there is a will
thero is a way."
I lilt his way was so hedged in that
no hoy without a strong will and I
" real perseverance would have found j
it.
( )i* course such a !>ov would succeed.
To-day I Muck is head master
of one of the schools in his own
country. / '/></// / '. !.<>I'imj, in In-1
ill/n n(h nf
? ?? wt ?
t'lie l.lnir Hill.
Tin* f 'ortrii1 r J<mrna! calls the attention
of (ho advocates of I'Vtlorul
aid (o (he disco ssi>n in (ho Northern
pies-, of a bill recently introduced]
into (lie (ieoroia Legislature prohibiting
(lie co-education of the races.
The hill relates only to < Jeonda.
% c I
It exactly accords with tieornia's
( 'on.-titution, and is heartily approved
l?y (lie people of ( ieoroia.
A mono* the religions fanatics at
(Ik* North it is virulently assailed.
The flu/i/xiii/riif, a <piasi-relicrious
journal of Now York, is frothing at
the mouth*, it "dares" ( leoroia to pass
su h a bill; it declares that Northern
public-sentiment will be shocked at
| rueh inhumanity, and it enlists at,
once for the new crusade.
The political journals of the radical
class arc etpiallv denunciatory
and they demand that this bill be
made an issm* in the national campaign.
Wo thus oet, a pdimpse of what
will follow federal aid to education.
( leorepa now supports her own schools
| and sno will re?*uiate tliein without!
submitting to any outside interference.
lint when < ieoreiii and other
Southern States are receiving subsides
from the National Treasury
this privilege of local control will be
greatly abridged. The busy bodies
of the North, who are ready to attend
to the business (>f other persons,
are as numerous as ever, and they
will be very <dad of an excuse* to direct
the course of education in the
South. If this course is not satisfactory,
the Interior may, under
bill, stop all payments. lie ware of
(J reeks bearing ;dfts. I 'o/o7-"/* t/ourmil.
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A Fitflitliitf Iiishop.
Apropos of iiishop Tuttlo's feat in
rescuing a vounjr holy from drowning,
a Schenectady (X. Y) correspondent
relates the following tinecdote
of the Iiishop when he was one
of Western missionary bishops of the
I'. Iv tMiurcb: The Iiishop was in a
sta?re on his way to Montana some
years am>, and amoiic the passengers
wero a lady, a drummer and a man
whom the paper designated as Mr.
Smith- The latter smoked a pipe,
much to the annoyance of the lady.
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i ii?9 i>isn<t|) asKCd miii to desist, hut !
Smith said ho would do as lie pleased.
Bishop '1'uttlo said if Smith did not
coaso smoking by tho timo tho next
stage station was passed, lie would
tiiko tho pipo from Smith's mouth. |
The Bishop did as ho hud threatened,
and Smith howled with race, ordered
tho stage stopped, and, jumping out,
called upon Bishop Tuttlo to come
out and give him satisfaction. Kvory-1
body was ignorant of the Bishop's!
j identity except tho driver. The
Bishop stepped out and mauled
Smith with such good effect, that he
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cried for mercy. lie did not smoke
any more that trio.
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the early iif^e of Homo women!
worn prohibited .from usin^ wine,
and hence their near rcalations worn
' allowed to salute them with a kiss,
in order that they mitfht ascertain hy
the sense of smell if they had been
drinking it. Thoy woreso fond of it,
however, that Romulus, the first Rin^,
made a law that a husband inijiht
I kill his wife for drinking.
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I Ion. John A. Uoutrnn of Texas,
in liis reply to the letter of Hon.
Jefferson iJavis is opposition to tlio
propo-ej prohihition amendment .t'V
the ('oustitntion of Texas, uses the "*
h iNowinir argument:
4,\'ow object to this amendment
because the world is governed too
inuoii. Our laws prohibit the carrying'
of oistols. howie knives and brass
knueles, itiul ptlnishes those carrying
them hy lino ;ki<I imprisonment.
()ur laws prohibit and provide for
tlio punish..milt of many other things
which are injurious to society and
which restrain the personal liberty of
the citizen.
'You admit that the intemperate
use of liquors is the root' of many
social disorders no ono can tell
truthfully the baneful effect of the
liquors tratlic -but you think, with
many others, that to prohibit it will
be an abridgement of personal liborty.
"This i.s admitted. Personal liberty
was abridged. When God
forbade our progenitors to eat of the
fruit of the tree of life. Tho decalogue
in tic ilolv Scriptures abridges
personal libertv in nearly ever com mandmcnt.
The laws of the United
States and of our several States are
in a large measure made up or provisions
for the abridgement of personal
liberty. They do this in order
to give protection to the persons,
the reputations, tho lives and the
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peace it 11< 1 prosperity to society.
The\ do it becauso ijoverment. find
civil sociotv camw?t exist without tho
abridgement of personal liberty.
They do it for the eoud of society
and the protection of its members.
"Is the lienor (radio an evil?
h'ow have the hardihood to deny
that it is. Most of the anti-prohibition
arators ?f this State admit that
it is. Then why not prohibition it,
except for the purposes mentioned
in the amendment, as we prohibit
gambling and the carrying of weapons?
' Yon justly rofor to drunUards as
'detruded, common criminals,' Why
not do all we lawfully may to prevent
drunkenness and the crimes it
ndves rise to?
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"The orcat chartor of Kurdish liberty
the portions of thti ('onstitution
of the | nited States which operate
as a bill of rights, the bills of
rights of the several States of the
I uion, may be analyzed in all their
aspocis and it win not, cannot, ho
found that tlioy anywhere, under any
circumstances, protect personal liberty
where its exercise is a crime or
offends injuriously tho^ interest of
society- 'ho} only protoot those
Treat and sacred riiflits without
r~> o
which man cannot be fren cannot
en joy either personal liberty or popular
rights.
"If the liquor traffic is rijjht, if if
promotes peace, is it promotes
prosperity, if in increase the
happiness of the poople, if it promotes
the general welfare, if it is a
necessity as a means of maintaining
our private or public nVhts and libcrties,
than I aorec that it is protected
by tho bills of rights and ouidit
not to bo intorferetl with. I5ut if it
is evil?if it produces drunkenness,
idleness and crime if it tends to
tho waste of fortun if it causes
tli? improvorishmont, disgrace ami
ruin of men, ami if it deprives women
and children of the comforts of
life and home, if it causes men to insult,
almse, maltreat and murder one
another, if it causes them to neglect
to almse, to degrade and heat their
wives and children, then 1 submit it
does not come within the protection
of our hills of rights, and that those
things are not tho personal liberties
which should jjJjfaheld inviola^lu^netie
Wind.
A story comes from KI I'usso, Texas,
of a magnetic current of air which
issues from an artesian well |>ipo
near Sierra illauco, on tho Texas Pacific
IJailway. According to tho
storv, i4it has been observed by horsemen
that whenever they get in tho
neighborhood of tho well strong
magnetic forces are felt, and sparks
are given off if the horse's inane is
touched. Keeontly a man from Siera
lllanco was sitting close to the
well, and on taking out his pocket
knife found ft nail which he had in
his pocket clinging to the knife, lie
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.A... ...? niniu mo uurruiib or .'iir,
and found the magnetic property whs
greatly increased. Several weeks
ago Superintendent .ludviield his
pocket knife in the current of air for
four minutes, and the knife is still
stronidv maoneti/ed from tho effect.
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The outflowing current of air is belie,
ved to possess remarkable curative
properties. Its efficacy is to bo tested
by experiments upon cases of paralysis
and other diseases. The people
who live*near the wonderful well
call it the 'fountain of youth.' "
At feasts, throo centuries ago,
every guest brought his knfo, and a
whetstone was placed behind the ?
door, upon which ho sharpened his
knife as ho entered.
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