The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, March 23, 1880, Image 1
T1RI-WEEKLY EDI TION. WINNSBORO, S. INI ARCH 23, 1880. VL V-O 6
TO-DAY.
The hours were bright in days that are no
more,
And pleaant life's strange way-.
A rapture hung around the hills-a glory on
the shore
Yet Is aught changod to-day?
Shone over bluer skies than these-o'or sweeter
sang the birds,
Or hsped the brooklot's lay
or love, time tried, confosed its' tale with
truer, geutler words
Than t' esoe it breathes to-day?
And crimson buds so fair, albeit they grow in
early spring.
And with its zephyrs play.
That wh n the later Autumn's handaisief ripe
rod rses bring,
We'll wear them not to-day?
Hopo then oing fondly to our breasts and
like a Summor iriwnd,
Elang to us on our way,
but with the Winter fiolds-while strong and
faithful to the end,
Truth gives her hand to-day.
That was at night-we oven slept an I dreamt
illusiva dreams,
so let thoml pass away;
To thoso'who ,will, there's sweetest reAt and
blies in theso full beams
That light our lives to-day.
The Terrible Tragedy.
A burst of sacred music, from the care
fully-trained choir, rolled up through the
arches of the magnificent churcn where
Fashion in many guises hold sway. Just
as the hymn was about closing, a figure en
tered through one of the small rear doors:
hardly a fit person to mingle with the '"qual
ity" all about her, you would have maid. A
coarse, highly colored shawl Was wrapped
about a petite and shrinking form; a
piquant hait, lined with failed blue, crowned
a head of curly, golden hair. 'Thoughi her
garb was coarse, it seemed to set otT the
wonderful beauty ot her fitce-the charatc
terizing feature of which was a pair of
large, blue eyes, which seemed to appeal
and pray to whomsoever they gazed upoi.
A (ry, hacking cough shook her sliivering
form every now and then.
As she took her seat in the pew, no
19rayer was murmured fromi her lips. Her
whole attention, inuediately on entering
that church, was directed to watching a
couple directly in front of her-a dark man
vho would have been strikingly handsome
i. d it not been for the woln.sh glare in his
black eyes and the sensual turn of his mouth
-a woman who, rather overdressed, was
nevertheless a fashionable beauty in the
highest sense of the term.
As the poor girl in the back pew looked
with her great glittering orbs at the man as
he bent toward the lovely lady at his side,
it wail'easy to be seen that something more
than common animated her in relation to
him; the agony, Jealousy, rage, depicted
oil her countenance, and the tear drin in
her eyes, told a tale of wrong and wt
The service was soon over; and amid a
grand swell of solemn miisic ftom the great
organ, the fashion devotees filed forth from
the temple of worship. The poor girl was
not seen by the man as he passed her pew;
he was bending low over the grand lady
with him.
As soon as they were past, the girl came
forth from her pew and crept out inniedi
ately behind him.
It was a dark, December night; large
drops of rain were pattering down on the
flag-stones about the church steps. The
lady and gentleman evidently expected a
carriage, for they stood in the vestibule
some inoments before entering the street.
At last he said:
"I am afraid we will have to walk."
She linked her arm in his, and, raising
his umbrella, they started forth.
The poor girl crept -on behind them
slinking into the shadows cast by the street
lamps whenever possible.
Square after square was p)assedl, and still
the small, shrmnking figure was there, al
ways in the same relative position. Once,
as she cropt under a street lamp, he looken
back and seemed to recognize her-for lhe
started and mu.ttered something to himself.
The lady with him looked back several
times, and at last said:
"Howard, I am sure that woman behind
us is following our footsteps; she has been
following us since- we started from the
church,"
"Oh, no, I thInk not," lie answvered,
striving to speak carelessly.
Another square was passed, and still the
girl was there? Again the lady turned, and
said to her escort:
"I am sure she is following us."
The man muttered somec unintelllgible
reply, and nervously quickened his pace.
It was but a short time ore they reached
their destination. Ho rang the bell of a
brown stone mansion.
'i ho door had but .just .closed on him
when lie issued forth alone.
The poor, girl was leaning against a tree,
in the shadow, on the opposite side of the
way, Hie evIdently saw her, but took no
notice, and walked quickly down the street.
She followed. When he came to a crQssing
he came to the 51(de of the street she was on,
just a few pages in front of her, Hie turned
down a sido street, and soon slackened his
pace and w'aited for the girl to come utj
with him
She was within a few pacesof him, whil
he stopped short, put a cigar in his mouth,
and struck a match against the .side of I
dark factory-buildiing standing there; and
then, just as she came, up to hinm, he turnec
and cast the lighted match hii Jer face. 1
was the acticoa of' a brntop but' th'e laugi
Which accompanied it Wad thiattot a humtar
tiend-such a harsh, fiendish .enjoyment
Was mingled with it.
The0 girl shrunk back, .but ttered n<
sound.
"So you jade, this is the reward for al
my kindne5ui" lie- hiIWdd forthl "After]
furnished you, with. a ocd..homne, every!
thing any girl could wish, I find you dog
ging mec roun~d .in i~ hiAslonD A prett
return for my n a njity ,ffection.'
S tered no g a9ti~ ~re ut
words. ay ;n -to Ic -
Howard, are y'ou not my hiusband ? D
Onl think. ydi hate kfil&falWth6 wdman Il
e, all that is hua, i glisiui e
Iknarrg with thb, lay you wer
er,? I*
4yb t
that our marriage was a mere farce, gotten
up for the occasion?"
"So you have said before; but I believe
that, before the Great Judge of all, we aire
man and wife."
''Why don't you say it again--why
don't you say it again?" he returned, in a
Voice Zf suppressed passion, while his wolf.
ish eyes glared with rage. "Come home
with iime!" he cried, grasping her by the
arm.I
The girl made no reply, but followed him
quietly. They turned up another side
street, and were soon lost to view in the
depths of the great city.
It was to be the great wedding of the
year -11oward S. Hiansom to Miss MNinnic
Pord. It was to be in church in the even
ing. Only a few select guests were to le
present at the ceremony, though there wats
to be a great reception at Mr. Ford's after
ward. Every one was discussing the strange
ness of having a ceremony in the evening,
i church, and only a few guests present,
but such was the wish of tle bride, anld her
betrothed seemed very willingly to cosent.
to it.
The.misic of the noble organ was again
pealing through the arches of the church,
Only a few candles were lit about tihe clan
col-the rest of the church was in darkness.
It wias the wish of the bride, who wias not
accustomed to have anything denied her.
It was a lovely sight to see the ladies, in
their snowy dresmes, marching up the Iisle
with the ghostly shadows of the great church
thrown upon them. Not a dozen in all, in
eluding the gentlemen--yet n striking sight
in the noble edifice.
The little assemiNy was soon grouped
about the chancel-rail; and the deep grave
voice of the aged minister was heard re
sounding through the empty church, and
echoing through the wide range of deserted
seats:
" 'Into this holy estate these two persolns
present conie now to be joined. If any
man can show just cause why they may not
lawfully be joined together, let him now
speak, or else hereafter hold his peace!' "
I[is words had scarce ceased to resound
through the empty church, when a white
robed figure, heretofore tinseen, rose from
a pew, mid-way back, stretched her arms
imploringly to Heaven, like somo supplicia
ting angel, and said, in a voice head dis
finelly through the echoing church:
"I am his wife! 1I1a, his wi-"
The bloud gushed from her lips, and she
fell forward across the pcw--udeadl
it is an intensely cold nmght inl January;
snow lies on the ground; the carriage wNhIeels
grinding over it, sing a slow music of their
own. The night express is flying over the
frozen rails.
Who is this sitting in the seat in the
corner? Ioward Ransom! That man
there! How a few hours have changed
him!
le throws %ip the window and' leans far
out into (lie night.
Fastor and faster flies the iron steed over
the cold steel raits. Faster and faster-on,
still on, with thunder and crashi-yet never
fast enough to dealel the heart pangs of the
wretched man who sees his past misdeeds
rise up before him ias lie had never seen
them till now.
He at last closes the window and falls
asleep in his seat. But not to rest. Like
some dark phantasmagoria of the past, his
crimes pass in vivid array before his ex
cited mental vision. One can see, from
the clutching of his hands and the twitch
ings of tile muscles of his face the agony le
is suffering.
Hours have passed, Still grind, grind,
-grind; still on, on Ilies the through express.
'I'he inan is awake again. He throws up
the window. It. is almost morning. A
faint light appears far otT on the ihorizon.
Day is about breaking. The deathly cold
breezes fan his fevered brow, and play
wildly with his locks of curly black hair.
But he does not seem to feel it: yet lie is
trembling like a leaf.
Sittinag there in the cool gloaming (of the
breaking morn, let us lyope lie feels t,he
-comline events, and is thinking of the days
of early youth, when his soul was white
and guiltless!
TPhe train at last slows up. IIe goeb to
the platform to disembark.
''Look out, sir!'' cries the brakeman,
waringly.
"It is too late. One wildl shriek from
the passing express, and a man is twisted
and groundl to atoms b)eneath the cruel
wheels.
*A gray-haired woman is gazing from thme
porch of a beautiful count,ry-house down
across a wide, sloping lawn, to where the
sunset glows In crimson splendor. Minnic
For<i Is an 01k1 woman, wvho has never re
covered entirely from the excitement, of,
her early years. Yet her life Is not entirely
unblessed.. Hecr niecos and nephews neither
think her sedate nor thoughtless, and every
one looks (6 Aunt Minnie as t,he one to seek
when In trouble of any kindl.
Only those of riper years know of the
terrible tragedy which defaced her once
young and glowing life.
A frican Modes of Ralutation.
Modes of salutationi differ in'all parts of
the world, and in some countries assume
strange and grotesque forms, at -least what
are so In our eyes. Most of tnm originate
In 01(1 Ideas of vassalage, and are part of
the honor paid to royalty and divinity. A
lover kisses his hand-.to lis mistress as lie
leaves her, without an Idea that it is a rem
nant of what was once dlv.ne worship ;
ad-ore is simply "to-mouth," raising the
hand to the mouth; and Job, justifying
himself, says that lie never did so 'tos the
sun. In one p)art of Austialia, thme, more
polite native strikes the attitude of a kanga
roo and runs out his tongtue, as a sign that
he ia glad 'to see you. in A frica, oznttie.
western coast, one who mneets' a superior
prostrates hifmself at full lengthi on the
ground. Till recent. times, a Spanish letter
enided by saying, at least, by the in.tials of
tWo.wor'ds,. "Whose hands and feet I kiss,"
showing that such a custom was once deem
e d proerand respectful. Some6 nations
r ub: oss, ,some shuake hmmds, others ap
- rokc back~ other on all fours. The Bato
kas, an Afrldda ti'lbe, hiave Aeveral ways of
rsaluthag.: 'J~t Who fmen oclasp, their hands,
and u o'i * ; ii stoop and
- clasp t ihips; but.when
5 hy } escfu, the
> goumnd, .and( roll from sieto sidelslapping
3houtside of thelf-thtkh-ovyh% Kjdaboina
r bha,". kloking out .titulSlYitit their logs
B all the time. Dr. Lilngeone trie4 tZMo6p
.this strange spectacle on several ooasis,
Vbut th thought he deemd th4ir oome
no fs ~.oughg.agd kep 4t mnore
An Anvcent People.
In 1876 Prof. Wiclhell discovered at
Little Falls, Minnesota, a number of quartz
chips which bore evidence of having been
cut from the parent rock by the hand of
man. lie therefore concluded that the
quartz workers ilabited this country be
fore the mound builders' race, as h found
these chips in strata underlying the mound
building period. lIe also Ixe the era of
the quartz workers as that ending wilh the
last glacial period. It is often disputed,
how5ver, whether these quariz remains be
Iong to a past glacial folk, or to co-glacial,
inter-glacial or pre-glacial people, the ques
tion being dillicult to decide because the
remains found and noted by Prof.. Winchcll,
which are surface deposits, are so scattered
and irregular. At Little Falls also, there
has been discovered quartz chips and im
plements occupying regular strata In the
earhli. The remains consist of hammers,
implements, etc., both finished and tiifin
ished, together with the chips struck off
from the articles in the process of mnanu
facture. The aterial of which they are
composed is principally compact, lustrous
(uIlartz, frequently mottled as if selected
with an eye to the artistic beauty. The
stratum is soie few inches in thickness,
and lies in the soil a few feet. below tlhv sur
face. The appeariances indicate that this
wats once the site of a imanufactory of such
quartz objects, and this idea is upheld by
various considerations. Tiere are tools
fomnd 4!u-0b ! w -! be usd '. Li anuiu
facture of quartz articles, ad the nliole
strattm is mixed with quartz chips which
ii many cases appear stuck in the dirt just
as they fell from the laud of the unknown.
Unflnished implements are also found in
more or less advanced stages of manuitfac
Lure. It is not possible to fix the precise
point occupied by these remains in the
scale of the glacial epoch, until the drift
features and surrounding formations of the
locality shall be better understood than now.
Still it is certain that the remains belong to
it patheolithic people, that is, a people living
before the end of the last glacial period,
because dtey are deposited In a drift which
is known to be of glacial origin. Tc hard
pan upon which the quartz formations lie
is probably of the first glacial period, and
the quartz may belong to an inter glacial
epoch. Prof. Winchell somewhere records
the opinion that between the first and second
epochs, a considerable interval of time may
have elapsed, Utiring which forests may have
flourished not unlike those now in possession
of the soil. Should future researchs cor
roborate this theory, it may be found that.
the precise period in question is that in
which Little Falls quartz workers peopled
that part of the Mississippi valley. Ap
pearances all indicate that these "rude
quartz Implements" were finally submerged
by a flood, gentle in its action, probably of
long continuance and perhaps foreseen by
the palhvolithic inen interested. The dis
position of small, smooth, water-worn peh
bles in the interstices of the stratum shows
this, as likewise does the fact that collec
tions of implemeitts'of onc sort are not un
frequently met with, a portion of which
will, perhaps, be unfinished and the re
mainider completed. No such systematic
arrangement of material would, of course,
be possible had the quartz been strongly
agitated by ice or powerful currents
How She Was Saved.
At Baden Baden, about twenty years
ago, a Hungarian count, Christian W -,
and his daughter came to pass the season.
The young countess, charming and beauti
ful, and heiress to a large fortune bequeath
ed her by her mother, was soon surrounded
by a host of admirers. She speedily be
came captivated by one of the most worth
less of her suitors, Carl M-, because .he
had a handsome face, a'nd long, black,
wavy han-, was gifted with a fascinating
mnincr, diressedl with exquisite taste, dlancced
xmarvelously, andl poss$essed rare powers as
a singer-. Carl was a noted gambler and
givexn to dissipatioxn, and Couxnt Christian
became possessed of ixnformatioxn that thke
young chevalier, had quxittedl Naples in gon
sequence of some scandi(alous adventure In
which he had been implicated.
Helen wvas so complIletely infatuated wvith
Carl that 91h0 gave no heed to the advice,
the prayers, or even thxe orders of her father.
She would not believe the disgraceful at te
cedlents of her wily lover. Th'le conditkons
of affairs brought thme old Count, possessed
of a rexn'airkable deOgree of firmness, to thxe
deternimntion of originatIng somke plan
whereby lie could effectually over-comne tihe
p)erslstent efforts of Carl to secure his
'daughter-, as well as coxnec Hielexn that
to save her from suck an unprincipled man
was a dIeedl of paternal tenderness aknd care.
The chIevaher hald continuedl adroitly In
his work of enBsnaring the young heiress,
and finally mn diret terms asked her to
elope wvith him, lie wrote a note props
sing a clandestine meetIng at an hour when
hier father was In the habit of going,out to
p)lay whist with some genitlemen of Ils ac
quaintance, and In xt maxdo thme suggestion
thatif she favored tile prop)osition she would
wear in her belt a rose as a sign of consent.
Count Chxristian, having Intercepted the
letter, took tihe occasion soon after to ap
proaeh Helen, andI aIsking her to go out
with hlim, at the same time hlandilng her a
flower, remarking :"put this in your belt
as an ornament." She sinulingly obeyed.
Inx course of thleir walk they met Carl, who
bowed, and was overjoyed to notice that
Helen had carri d out his requesta
The Count conducted Is daughter to the
residence of oiie of their acqumantances and
requested her to wait until lhe called for lier.
This done 110 returned to thte house lie oc
cupied on thlp otstkirts of Baden. lie hxad
sent away his Servanits and was alone. At
the appohited-h'our Carl arrived anid .leaped
Qyer-tpe, gardpu wall. FIndiug. tIhe door
seorelyclIosed, ix0 entered the house threughl
one of the window+s. WIth pleasurable
excitement he hxasti ned towards Helen's
apartmiets, but great was his astonish
meat to find her father .armed with a brace
of pistols. T1hie Count closed the door, and
said to the miserable chevalier:
- "Cai M-, I could kill you; I have
the right,.to do so. You have ontered my
house at nIght;. you have broken into it.
[ could treat you as'a felon-nothling could
be more.natural."
"But, sir," said Carl, trembling, and in
an almost inaudible tone; "I am not a rob
ber."
"Not a s'obber I" exclaimed Count (lhilh
tIian. "What are you, tien? You -have,
come.to steal my daughter, to steal an heir
css and a fottuno. I hate your criminal
letter. legali show yett no memy. if
you refuse to obey pi I will slay you.".
.' Wat Is fol w1l, sIr 1"
"You mut leave . Badexi this instant;
YOU must put at least 200 leagues betw'een
it and you, and never como into the pres
ence of my daughter. Fot your traveling
expenses I will give you 20,000 francs."
Carl endeavored to speak.
"Silence!" said the Coupt, In a voice of
thunder. "You must obey. In that ecec
retary is the money; take ''."
The chevalier ventured thn remark:, 'per
mit me to decline your offet"
Trhe false modesty of the Fouing mar was
overcome by the inperlous.gesture of the
old man.
"But," said Carl, the segretary is lock
ed."
"Break the lock then," returned the
Count, and with his uistol in his hand, he
repeated:
"Break it, or I'll blow yoty brains out."
Carl obeyed.
"It is well," said the dd gentleman,
"those bank notes are yours llave you a
pocketboik with anything i4entifying it as
belonging to you?"
"Yes."
"Then let it fall in front d the secretary
you have broken open."
"What, ir!"
"I must have proof to duvict you. I
Iean to have all the evidenc6s of burglary.
Robbery or death. Choose I Ai, I see
your choice is made. Now.go before me.
I do not quit you until you. are a league
from Baden. I return late,: and enter no
complaint against you till to&uorrow noon.
Begone P''
Chevalier Carl could not resist the con
pulsory order, and Count Christian's plan
was carried out to the very letter. Tile
affair create4 great noise and excitement.
Ielen could no longer doubt as to Carl's
real charactei, and it was not long before
his image was banished from her heart, and
that wits in due time surrendered to one of
her cousins, at captain of an Anstiin
cavalry regiment.
Character in HiandwrIting.
Robert Browning "writes as a poet
should write." And lils manuscript is
"thoroughly emblematic of his poetry." le
punctuates carefully, and his words are
neatly finished. 'Were his beautiful chiro
graphy placed before us as that of a stranger
we should at once Pronounce it not on ly
that of a distinguished man, but also of one
who.never did anything c*irelessly. Mr.
Bryant's writing is severely censured. For
a 3 oung clerk seeking a situation, "it might
prove a recommendation," but for the poet
who wrote the lines on June, "it is most
disappointing." Late lin life it assumed "1a
more manly and deided style," Out during
the larger part of his career, '"it was siml
ply horrible, and (lid nlQt intimate thei
slightest scintillation of geulus." The
letters sloping in different directions, the
array of flourishes, and the looping of
words on to each other give hi manuscript
"an execrable appearance." Indeed, "these
callIgraphical fanfardnades In a literary man
are heart-rending qid cat. grave doubts on
his genius. Finially, "there is no beauty
and nothing but comnionplaceniess about
every specimen of Bryant's correspondence
that has yet come under our ken." Car
lyle's hand is not a very commendable one,
altnough it is not conventional. - There is
"too much evident effort at effect for it to
pass current as pure inspiration." "Ec
centric and spiteful-looking little flourishes
dart about his manuscript in various odd
ways." As for the autograph, "its
crabbed look is not very significant of ani
ability. Charles Dartwin's writing is so il
legible that lie has certainly never carried
out his idea of "Natural Selection and the
Survival of time Fittest" in the choice of his
letters. They are without form, and void."
ihe only inference the author draws from
then is "immense labor that allows of no
leisure." Theophile Gautier's hand is "one
of the most singular to be met with."
Sometimes It was most exquisitely fine,
again it wvas larger, after the manner of the
sixteenth century, "but It was always
beautiful aiid miost original." "The author
of such a hand could never by aniy possi1
ble chance be an ordinary p)erson." In the
paragraph on Gautier Edgar Poe is alluded
to. as "the supieme prince of imanuscript."
The introduction of postal cards lias de
moralized Mr. Gladstone's handwrIting.
Irevious to them, it was of the usual Par
liamientary type-'"clear, und(emnonstrative
and readable." It hiad, however, a chief
defect -"uncertainty.' But since the
postal Innovation It hiae "fallen ito
chaos." Trho fac-simle which Salamanca
gives us Is from a signature "prior to that
hnmentabie descent." The writing of no
Amecrican pleases Balamanca so miuch as
that of Oliver Wendall Holmes. Like his
verse it Is sometines old.-fashioned, but It
has the polish of a man accustomed to good
society, and IR inideed that of a gentleman."
It indihcates "enough Independence to pre
serve him from doing a shabby act, without
any trace of those flourishes which betoken
offensive egotism." As for Victor Hu~go's,
no one could glance over It' "without arriv
ing at the conclusIon, tliaut It was'the pro
duction of ani illtstrious personage." Lo
wvell's Is far more sightly thtan that of Long
fellow's, and would pronostigate greater
wealth of Imagination, and more terseness
of style than Its author has yet given evi
dence of. It is disfigured by no vainglo
rious flourish, nor- affected strain
ing after originality, but is juist what one
would wish a poet's to be." (.eorge Band
"indhited a more manly hand than did most
of her manly compatriots. Her's was "a
very legible and noble styles replete with
frankness and originality.' Swinburno
exercisee the presumed prerogatife of
genius, and "writes a wretched hand." It
hias much pieturesque vigor, but no beauty,
and "gives one the Idea of having been
writtein by a pen that, having served
several generations of authors, its ownol'
deemed it sacrilege ,to cut." Something
of his originality ibighit be derived from it,
"but nothing of the voluptuous beauty andi
unparalleled music of its author's verse."
M. Zola's 1s not very commflendlable. It
possesses a few negative virtues-being
legible and without flourlssh-but "it is not
free from vice." Th'ere is "a general lack
of elegamico and deficiency of artistic taste."
The signature is "utterly preposterous."
Loingfellow's hand is not very much to tpi
atihior's taste. In the signature the flourishi
of the "L" Is "very unsightly, while thie
"HI" is "simply preposterotma for a man of
genius--which the author of "jliawatba"
undoubtedly is." There is lit ho natisral
fluency abotit the hand; it is sI klied o'et
with the pale cast of thought ard is' a
maitfactulred style; niote signideanto
1e thof Art th.a the fleetness of TI ?
8@~ea ,fndt iWh I'p' ipa p
era4oyfoso dict,~i
gives very agh oft a,~ y}tC
ter at all"
There is in Texas an individualized set
of inen called Cow - boys. They are
knights of the plains, rough riders and
rough fighters, who manage the immense
droves of cattle on the plains, sleep in their
saddles, are experts with the six-shooter,
knife, lariat and whiskey bottle, and as de
void of fear as they atre foreign to civihza
tion and culture. They are rude children
of nature, always equally on the look-out
for a drink or fight, and when they dis
cover, as they are sure to' discover, onl
entering cities or railroad stations, that
they are "Grey wolves, and its their night
to howl I" a liveliness of an electric and
dangerous character is very certain to fol
low. They livo ont the prairies, taking
seasons and chances as they come and go,
and herd and drive the cattle of the anch
eros to the inner western markets. They
are not the typical romantic iigre lit pm
lthe order of piping shepherds of the ear
liest days,but of the modern wild-cat order,
and when they come around the quieter el
tizens are either very reserved or obsolete
in to street presence. or heavily heeled.
Their usual style of setting difllicut ies is, of
course, with the bowie-knife or pistol ; but
we find that civilization is it last growing
upon them, and, as our friend Jim Breslin
would remark, the eltete Idiocies of other
days are passing away. lecently two of
them quarreled on their way back from
Colorado. They were returning front a
cattle drive, aid, oddly enough. I1wy qumlr
relled about a woman. Far down near St.
Antonio some dark-eyed maid, with all
the mellow beauty, dashed throughout with
the electric light-way above Eklison'i
that 1lashes the soul of loveliness into Texas
girls, held the hearts of both, and as they
rode back, well filled with molney, head:
aches and poor whisky, tie rivalry be
tween themn broke through the barriers of
self-control, and a quarrel ensued. Before
either of the two hot-feaded young fellows
could get the drop on t lie other their friends
Intervened. A challenge followed. They
were inhibitea from tie use of either knife
or Pistol by their seconds, and latrilts were
the weapons. It must have been a novel
duel-more dramatic thai :ihe tilts of the
knights of medieval timtes. The space and
circuit wais measured ; both men leaped into
tie saddle, each on his lithe, active and
foot-sound mustang, with the lean coil of
rope at hand and the end safely fixed abioiit
the saddle's crupper ; th: word was given
and the war Ieraii. The thin lashea
whipped tlrougl tlhe air, cutting space like
arrows; but one struck too far, the other
closed about the o)poient's throat like a
hangman's noose, and as the fortunate (ite
list drew back his horse Uipon its haunches
his antagonist was dragged from hin saddle
to the ground. I1tappily, the lariat snapped,
aud though seriously injured,the vanquished
man was not killed. The duel over, the
defeated returned to life, friendship was
also restored, and the cow-boys continued
on their homeward trip.
".et's1 Mash time V11i1la1n "
A passenger train which left Lansine
coming east recently had among Ltie pas
sengers a plain-faced, sensible-lookitig girl
about i wenty years of age, and a thin-waist.
ed, sickly-looking young man a year or twc
older. 'No one would have mistrusted that
they were eloping had not the young man
asked the conductor If there was a clergy.
man on the train. There was none, and
the young iman explained to the passengers
around him that lie was in a bad fix. lie
had come down from Bath Township in a
buggy, and he was quite sure that the girl's
father would take the other road down tc
Chicago Junction. and there board the Lan
sing train and raise a row. lie was not
on a row, but yet lie loved tle girl, and
they were bound to marry. If the ol
man came alone lie thought lie could bluft
him off, but If his twvo big sons came along
the scales wvould be turned, IIe therefore
wantted to know of a man wvearing a red
woolen shirt atid coonskin cap) if lie would
stand by him.
"You bet I wvill I" was the hearty ro
sponse. "I got my old1 gal by rusnning
away wvith her, and I'll see you through
this if I tiever (do atny more good I You
wouldnt't be worth a cent in a frce fight,
and now you go Into the baggage par andl
'let me ruin this affair alone. I want to be
seated beside the gal when the old maun
comes In."
When the whistle blewv for the Junction,
Coonskin changed places, andt as the cars
halted he put his arms around Mary and
took one of her hands in his. The old
man atnd his two sons were on hand, an(d
they p)iledI Into the car pull-mull.
"Here she tsel" caled thie father, as he
catught sIght of the girl, awld the three matde
a rush.
"Run away with my--!" began the
old man, but when tie saw the stranger bo.
side her lie checked himself.
"Want anything of uis ?" asked Coonskin,
as lhe looked up.
"Who are you, sir ?"
*"I'm going to be your son-in-law in less
than ant hotr--eh I (darhing ?"
lie gave Mary a squeeze and Mary look.
ed happy.
"Cotme along, Mary-eome right, homie
with mu!" ordlered thie father
".Let's miash the villain I" ~added one of
the sne.
"Put a head on hihn-let me get at hunm"
shouted the other.
The father seized Mary and the somi
seized Coonskin. Then a red shirt tower
ed aloft, a lpaIr of big flits began workmnR
with a "'pop I" "pop I" ana ias fast as the tric
got up they mad(e for the- door. Coonskis
followed, arms andl feet workitng like a
trIp-hammer, and wvhen the train moved oil
tho father sst on a box with a big wooler
mitten held to his nose, one of the sont
was pullinig loose teeth from lis. jaw, and
the other boy was groping. his way to a
5lioW-b)ank.
"Now, then," said Coonskin, as the ox.
mutant lover returned, "resume' your seat,
take her little hand In yours, and don'I
calkerato you oWe mne anything."
"Say, Tiomn," said the girl, "Pmn going
to kiss himi for that!I"
"All' rIght; ale."
4WelI,e just-as y'ou fdel," said Coonskin
a ho' aetned the smack, "but I,want i
distinctly nderstood around these' parts
that when I see true love on its way fron
LAnsing to HIioel to got spliced. I kin Iild
'all-the pursuing dads Id thie Btte of Miohi
ganl
'essa was tlie ne of a little maiden
who had the misfortune to be very ugly;
indeed, her face was so repulsive that no
one loved to look at her.
"It is the face of a Medusa," said Carl,
the young artist, who rooned across the
waty.
"Poor thing ! I should think she would
want to bury herself," said the pretty
landlady.
Tessa knew only too well why they all
shunned her, and her heart was consumed
with hite and envy. "Why should others
be beautiful and I so plin ?" she said, gaz
ing enviously on the young faces that
passed her window : and the more hate
there was in her heart the more repulsive
rrew her features.
One day while wandering in the woods
brooding norosely over her own misfor
tune, witi io thought, of the beauty about
her she camile suddenly uponl a dwarf,
misshapen and difigured beyond anything
she hund ever iingined in human form.
For once site was happy ; she had found
someone more ugly ttn herself, and a
laugh, fiendish and cruel as a hy n's rang
through the forcs. lit ile dwarf began
to weep.
"No wonder you weep," said Tessa,
"with such a face and figure-"
"Nay," said the dwarf sorrowfully, "I
weep hecause I have found sor-e one more
wretched 1han titnlf." And as the tears
streamei from her eyes, her mottled skin
grew white and soft ; and Tessa saw With
amazement that the poor deformed creature
was actually becoming beautiful.
"What hias changed you so ?" she cried.
"Am I changed ?" asked the dwarf,
eagerly. "Am I beautiful again ?"
"Yes, so beautiful that I hate you,"
answere(d Tessa, regardng her with aston
ished antI envious eyes.
"Nay, do not hate me," she entreated;
"it was hate and envy that deformed me;
it is pity that Ims broken the spell. Re
joice with ile, and with all others Who are
beautiful and happy, and pity those less
fortiate tila yourself, and some time you
may be freed from tile curse." As she
spolke she vanished.
Then Tessa went. to her house an:l pon
dered the words she had heard. It was
hard advive to follow, to rejoice in the
beauty and happiness of those who scorned
and shunned her, bitt she determined to
make the effort. Hitherto she had spent
her time in idle repining,ecaring only for
herself, but now sho resolved to do some
thing for the comfort of others, and renem
bering i poor widow with a family of
young children, living not far away, she
set herself to fashioning warm mits and
stockings for the little hands and feet.
"Ugly as I am, I cnll create beaut.y for
others," she said, as the pretty things grew
under her fingers, and the thought made
her glad.
As time went on, all the poor and needy
in the neighborhood learned to bless her,
and she half forgot her own misery in try
ing to relieve the misery of those about her.
One day as she was entering her gate a
beautiful child who was passing, slipped
and fell. Once she would have felt a cruel
delight in the child's mishap, hoping that
the lovely features might be marred for
life, but now she sprang to help her.
"llow good you are," said the little one,
putting uipl her lips for a kiss, when Tessa
had bathed the bruised forehead and bound
it tenderly With soft linen.
"'And you are beautiful," sai( Tessa, re
turning the kiss.
"And so are vou," said the child, quickly,
"as beautiful s11 my own m1am1ma."
"AmI 1?" cried Tessa, turning with eager
haste to the mirror, which for many a day
she had kept closely veiled that she might
not, see her own ugliness reflected, and lift
ing the drapery, she beheld a fair, sweet
face, with tendler, pitying eyes. Then
Tlessa, gazing a moment to make sure that
this glorified face was her own, went down
on her knees and thanked God.
n)eadwvood(.
"D)eadwood," said the stranger, putting
dIown his half- eaten slice of lenion pie and
taking a long pull at the milk, "I went
there wheii tIe first rush wvas made for the
hills. Rather a rough crowd the first lot,
you bet; more wholesome now. When I
got there I was dead-broke--didn't have a
dtollar, didn't have a revolver, which a man
'Il of ten needl out there worse'n a meal's
vittles. I wvas prob'ly the only miain m the
lills whuo did(n't carry a firearm, an' I was
some lonesome, I tell you. 'rThe only
weapoI)1 hed(-'m a blacksmith-was a
rasp), a heavy file, you know, 'bout eighteen
Inches long, whlich I carried down my back,
the handle In easy reach just below my
coat collar. Understand? Like the Arkan
saw man carries his bowle knifo. I'm not
axactly a temperance mai. I just don't
drink an' don't meddle with any other tuan 's
drinkm'-that's all. One day-I hedn't
been in Deadwood mnore'n a week-I. was
sittin' in a s'loon--only place a man kin set
to see any society-wvhen feller come In, a
reg'lar hustler, with his pan full and a
quart over, lied,.a revolver on each aide
of his belt an' looked vicious. Nothin'
mean abouit hhn, though. Askt me to
drink, 'Not any, thank yeou,' sez I. 'Not
drink with mo I Mel luBll Feathergill I
Whien I ask a tenderroot to drink I expet
hun to prance right up an' no monkeyln'l
You h-c-a-r mo I'
"Well, whon his hand went down for his
revolver, 1 whuipped out my old fie qui'cke'n
fire 'ud scorch a feather an' wiped him one'
right acrost the face. When lio fell I
thought i'd killed him, an' te, s'Ioon Allin'
up with bummers I. sorter skinned out, not
knowin' what miglit .happen. Purty soon
a chap inia red airt came up to mue. #sz
he, 'You the maivs ke-arved Bell Feather
gill ? 'Cos, of so b'e as you are, of you don't
want ev'ry man In the hulls to plimb you,
don't you try to hide youTself-the boys is
askin' fur you now.'
"It struck ime that my friend had the
Idee, so I waltzed back and went up and
down before that s'kmon forn! h three hours.
1'e found out Bill Wasn't de i' was bad
medicine, but it would- -~te' let down.
Ptgt soon I adE my nman agheadin' for me.
isf eiuad .ben patohed'up 'till It-looked
lik the closiAg ot t dipl&y di ortail dry
6' gdetorO. Thr *as so 'ittre counte
eoped that cI d~t u what
as 4-id', o1 I ayhn
Bit 14FS.
--1 ot houe strawberris are 50 cen I
NpIece at loston.
-Last year Colorodo produced $2,
310.000 worth of coal.
--The first horse railroad was builthi
1826-7.
-Kerosene wag first used( for light
lig purposes in 1826.
-'ha irst use of' a locomotivo in this
tounitry was in 1820.
-Upward of 1,442 persons in the
British empire enjoy hereditary titles.
-There are 7.500 journals published
[i the United States.
-Virginia has now 2,491 echools, lit
Atructing 108,074.
-A Japanese geographical society
Itas recently been fouided at Yedo.
-The fences of the Uilted States
liave cost about $2,000,000,000.
-Arzona has produced a quality of
-otton Cqual to the Sea Island cottonl
from seed brought from China.
-'Tle tifteen car manufacturing e' -
:ablisheints In the country turned o.
17,350 cars in eleven months.
-A New laven factory showered
ipon the world 22,000,000 fish hooks
1ast year.
-Out of the million of inhabitantsof
New York cilty, it is calculated that
)ily about 800,000 attend church on
Sunlday.
--A school teacher thinks that pupils
)>ught to have a great hearty laugh
,very day.
-The kingdom of Slam is to be con
Iected with the telegraphic system of
'ie world.
-There ae fifty-one furnaces In
Ahe Lehigh Valley, Pa., with all an
iual capacity 01 over 600,00U tolls of
pig iiron.
-The first experimellt, in 1767, with
iron. raiIs for ia road wais made in K'ug
and.
--The coach i8 of French invention.
in the reign of Frauncis 1. there were
)1nly two in Paris.
-In the 15th century, straw was
ised to sleep on in the royal chambers
f the English palaces.
-Pis were first used in Englaind iin
tho reign of llerlly Vill., previolsly to
which ladies used wooden skewers.
-St. Paittl's Catledral, Lom1lon, oc
upiled thirty-seveii years in buIlding
itid nost X1,000,000, raised ty a duty on
Jol s.
-The Chilian government Ias forced
into the market $4,000,000 of paperl ci
reicy, making $16,000,000 ottstandiing.
-1'he Presbyteriian Church has 128,
228 communileants Ill the State of New
York, with 1,042 minjisters.
--he balincie of trade in favor of the
United States for the last iseal vyar
was no less than $269,000,000.
-The Chicago and Northwesteru
Railroad Is building a niew bridge over
the Minnesota River that will be 2,000
feet long.
-The seventieth birthday of Ole Bull
was celebrated at his residence Ill Cam
4ridge, M1ass,, on Friday, 13th, by a
surprise.
-The New Orleans minit has turned
mut 2,887,000 silver dollqrs and $60,000
worth of golol double eagles during the
3igit montis It has been ruiing.
-It 1s estimated that 50,000 tin and
women aire employed in Pliladelpliit
In the manufacture of clothing, makilg
20,000,000 suits a year.
Chicago lumber recelpts the past year
have been greater by 25 per cent. and
its shipiients by 1513 per ceit. than in
my previous year.
-Illinois farm products amounted
to $200,000,000 last year, whilh is dou
bie tile ploducet of all the geld anId sli
ver mines 1in the United States.
--Chlicago packed last year 5,100,000
hogs, being an Increase of' 10 per' cent.
aver' 1878, and 75 per cent. over 1877.
Over 10,000 men wvere enbployedI.
--Thle Janunary dividends in Boston
asgregate. $13,049.734, of whlichl tIle
r'ailIroads pay $1,874,375, and manufac
L,uring conmpanies $883,240.
-Thell. packages of tomatoes puIt up
iast year in the United States reached
thie total of 19,988,000, of vthich New
Jersey put up 5,592,000 cans.
--Manu facturi ng clothing iln Chicago
gives emp'.oymnent to :30,000 p)eop)le, and
1,10 value of' tile goods made is $15,000,
000. Tis ind ustry h as doubledi in four
years.
-During Januar'y, 1880, the mints
coineud 902,000 gold p)ieces of a value of
$7,067,500. They also coined 2,450,000
silver dlollars, 16,000 five cent pieces
andl 5,820,000 cent pieces.
-A musician, named Bruno, was
killed by an electric shoc0k received
from tihe appIar'atus for p)rodlucing the
electric light at the Holte Theatre,
Aston, Birmingham.
-Queen Victoria hlas presenltedl $250
to Pivate George Dodd, of the British
army, inl recognition of his gallantry
in saving a ehtid from death under the,
wheels of a tramn-ear in Dublin.
-T1he Hudson Hlighlands and Cats
kill Mount.ains contr'ibu ted 200,000 ever
green trees andO 100,000 yardls Df ever
green roping, which was sold in New
York cIty during the holiday season.
-Th'ie paln tings, soulptu11re, frescoes,
etc., contained in the chutrchies under
the supervision of' thle city of Paris ate
valued at 6;116,339 francs, of wvhich 3,
891,094 francs is apportioned: to pinIt
ings, 1,776,040 francs to sculpture, and
040,205 francs to stained glass.
An Elnglishl Journalist hlas (liscovered
that there are in France, at the present
time 1,700 women of' letters 1 andi 2,150
women artists. T wo-thirds of the wri
ters were born in the provinces Nor
mandy, Brittany a nd the solith, wile
twvo thirds of the artists were born In
Paris.
-There arc about 125- acres of straw
berries planted hId Florida this season
for the market. Thle yield i'anges from
4,000 to 6,000 quarts per acre. An aver
age of aboutry,000 q'aarts per aore would
inake the yIeld 725,006 quarts. The
growers are negotiating with~ the Pior
ida Despatchi Line for the movemntof
the crop,t.f :
-The preltminary" taxable vAlp., .
tions of N~ew.York;r4al eMox
lust compl6~ by t1he As i'.
an inceae fQ e ~ h~0