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:'. ...BY ORXA LYJLi-X.
" Hake me no vows of coi?st?acy/.d^Triend,
To love me though I die, thy whole life
-;;- throng'>i " :
A^oslo?.no: other tili .thy days shall end I. .
- -I^l^qrere wrong i:o do.
jer, be it so , .-. r:
o?t ofmy ouiet grave
To bind^ny^efrt^tfi^ i? go :
Love should not be a slave.
. Ky*sp?rit self^l-jvould trust, > will walk serene
lb cJeare>^g^t fiia*?jgi@s these earthly;
morns ^ ? :.
Abp?e$gt|??tafr osies, and envies keen -
^"?ifeitAre?r ihi?.life with thorns".'
? Thou would'st not^fteiTnjrshadowy caressy
If, after death/my sontihould ??ngerhere ;
Metfaheartscrave-tan gible, close tenderness?
Xove s presence, warm and near..
It would not make me sleep; more peacefully,
That thouwert wWiag. all"thy life in-woe
"For my poor sak?? tiWiatlov? thou.-has for
?'-' - -
Bestow H erel go ? " . ;-.
- v? ' -
" Thepra?s?s~*rn?cn f emorseful mourners give
To women^rgmise?a^dy . ompajse
--B?^?N?i%lei five ! :1K
~ ~ Heap not the heavy marble on my head,
To shut away the sunshine and the dew ! ?
Lef small blooms grow there j and let grasses
; ?avey
^ta? r^ad?ps fitte^ through.
Forget n? wneufl ct??? The violets
. ;* Aflbve my head" will blossom Just as blue,
Hot miss- thy4ear*.r$e,en nature's self forgets.;
JACK WATTLES;
$%v??:X: il . ' : .
-W?ft -Always "win.
P? TALE OX-BAiT?MOBE. SIXTY YEABS
;. .^&j%&&%? sari Z ' - : -
.r . BY TOil PHENIX.
I must eoDiess_I~w?s\ D'ot altogether
pleit^^^^Fwa^trtft snr'e of the 'girl
*t?$m&0^*:lh*d~ studied her
care^l^?$3^wBi?e ?? admit she was
bandioebe ajj'?'?pparcDHy posses cd ao
amiable disposition, she had a way of
' ' ' ^Idid Vot- iike Both
she and Jennie, had arms from which
Ctnova might have modeled his Venus.
They were, perfection itself. The girls
iffbys wore Mort si?ev?s. ' After sup
- per every, night there was a regular
? race for the' o'ttoman, which stood near
?.lA^:%epla^.'''WbieheTer reached it
.v<:fir? would seat herself and, with an
elrx>w^^her knee and the tips of her
fingers^tf?Tpg *' her chin, that arm
"w^^tf?^r^xSib?t?on until something
cempelted- her to resign this conspicious
pasiiktn. -'v^ Whenever one of them was
?cated the arm was op for show', and if
they were standing.up this incompar
aWe'orna ment ^was brought into re
quisition, if possible. A picture of
Fornarina stood on a pedestal in . a cor
ner of the parlor, and there was the
r .matchless>rm standing out in basso
relievo in the foreground. There was
? frivolity,, moreover, about Fornarina
waich. did not appear, to me to* consort
welf with , a good wearing character.
Her eyes lighted up and her face ?ush
ecl too perceptibly at the approach of a
. arranger, cr even a casual acquain
tance*: and in her efforts to entertain
she exhibited too evident a desire for ad
miration. I forgot to state that J ach after
ibaving worked^for three months steadily
in the grocery-store, was offered and
had accepted^ very high position in a
prominent'mercantile house, and was in
receipt of splendid salary. For
weeks he bad fallen into his old gene
rous habits, and the amount of cara
mels, fruits,'candies, oysters and ?o*
ers that were consumed by the Hac
Fhersons, and paid for by Wattles,
was something marvelous. He was
a?sa by degrees regaining his place in
the hearts.of the better class of people.
He bad been to several musical enter
tainments, where he had renewed ac
quaintances suffered to lapse several
years back, and iuvitations were begin
ning to drop in from some of the best
houses in the city.
It /was ?uder these circumstances
that he came to my house one night
with the exclamation : 'Torn, I am the
Happiest man in the world ; Fornarina
haf*t last consented to take me on
trial F VTake you on what?' said I.
'Tbat girl take Jack Wattles on trial ;
a boarding-house belle put Hyperion on
v pwd^tioiK. by Jove ! Old fel Lo w, if you
don't break with her or make her apolo
gise for her infernal impertinence, Fil
cat your aequantance; 1 will by Jupi
ter f I was in a flaming passion, and at
the-moment I hated Fornarina as cor
diatfyas I ever hated anyone in my
Jifc^.almost as much as I despised her j
afterward ; but here I go anticipating
as?^aual. % *Hcld up ! Tom,* said Jack,
ia ?s^mild way ; she was right perfect
ly-right; she is the' noblest woman I
ever ^w^?nd I -am''not fit to dust her
?E?^^JpU you how it was, I
took; a walk out in Howard's woods
with her a< night or two ago, and I told
fcWwbftW;!. loved her, and how I had en
tertained hopes f&t some time that she
Ioved*nj?.; She*sard my declaration came
upon. |(0r so suddenly it almost took her
bfeaar^?yV and she must have time to
con?deik ^matter of such vital impor
taoc?C^.^ got an opportunity the next
nighty and we walked but to Belvidere/
i and uuder-theshadow of one of those
big trees my fate was* decided:" She
said at first that it was impossible ; that
she could not marry a man that drank.
T p?e?deo! with her and told her. that I
had never befor? loved a woman,!
and .that a true woman, such as I
Jknew iier" to' b?, ; cbuld so influence !
A mau asio.prevent his drinking alto- j
gether: ' We swung the question back
ward and forward until at length my
reasoning seemed to prevail, and she
consented to marry me at the end of
two years if I convinced her people
that, I was an altered man ; and there,
I under the shadow of those old trees, I
pressed ber to my heart and ratified the
bargain. By George.! Tom, I was so
happy I went down town and bought
ten pounds of caramels,* enough to
last the house for two or three days.
For a.few days Wattles was the hap
piest man in the town, and the way he
did cram the capacious maws of those
MacPhersons with "every conceivable
bon-bon and trifle can-be more readily
imagined than described. Nothing was
too extravagant for him, and 'the clan
with its long lineage was in clover.
^Suddenly it began tof dawn upon the
obtuse intellect of one ofth? old cormo
rants that something had happened out
of the usual rountine,--and had not been
communicated-to the chief-of the- clan ;
that a-member was indulging;-tub rosa
t in a pleasure from which nature had
emphatically debarred ber, and after a
comparison of notesr Mrs.. MacPherson
was called into counsel.
I have said nothing of that lady yet..
Jack thought her perfectionrbut I en
tertained ^a different opinion. If -ever
"there was an electroplated, galvanized
hash-dispenser,-she was that individual. '
; Her face was seamed and scarred with
! many a hattle she had fought with
obdurate boarders and lodgers. With
I - - ? O
[ her keep gray-, eyes, -ensconsed under
^shaggy-brows, she"5 could pick out a
boarding-house beat with unerring ac-.
I curacy. . I.never saw her do it, but. I
know shecould. I Lave no doubt the
old lady, had endured many trials in a
life hot too b'irtght for the ... most, of us,
and;that ; at times her burden-; w?s al.-.
most" more than she could Tear."" "What*
? terrible struggle: hers .must have been
with all thafeArood of cbildre&'-io bring
op properly on the scanty pittance eked
out from a.. lodging-house. fifty! ' years
ago! But she had done it. If she
could not make an equitable distribu'-.
feion of beauty ahrong^thenr; she had at
least made, them-alHadies i% the . truest
and best sense of tBe term, and praise
can gano^farther.^But'-the:. traces of
her great work were; indeUjbjy marked
upon her face and character. She "was
shrewish, supicious, violently preju
diced, and.allowed,;.the.latter to* sweej?
away all sense of justice or fair play.
These things "I-h ad noticed in my in
tercourse with her, and now poor Wat-*
ties was to-?r?ap fherb?ne?t'"'of them.
None of heigboarders had:held a . high
er place in her esteem than Jack until |
this unfortunate denouement. &h a- had -
repeatedly told him she' would Kk?. to
have'an hundred such, bufr '-alt* Jack's"
efforts to please w.ere.now tortured- into
'springes" to catch woodcock.' She
gave him'/cre'dU foh not a single virtue'.
He was the vicious giant with his d'ou
ble^ged.s-word who had -come to cut*j
all their heads off and bear away the I
priucess to bis dark cavern in the moun- !
tains.
"The first intimation of the coming ]
storm was given at supper ou Saturday j
night A cantankerous old colonel |
boarded at the'house who was forever!
placing a chip on his head and politely
requesting somebody to knock it off.
Jack from sheer fun sometimes accom
modated him, and the old lady never
failed to applaud bis hornless wit. On
this occasion the co^on?' had been argu
ing some question in morals or ethics
with his usual dictatorial vigor and
wound up with- his customary assertion
'that he knew he was right, because he
.was thoroughly posted. Jack, wifch no
malice, but with a sly twinkle in his
eye, said : 'Colonel, is there any sub
ject upon which you are not thoroughly
posted ?' 4Yes, Sir; jackasses!' with
an unmistable motion of his body to in
dicate the direction of his shot. Says
Jack : 'Colonel a careful study of your
self wilf give you all the information j
you need on that subject.' Mrs. .Mac- j
Pherson withered Jack with a glance j
and apologized to the colonel for the j
rudeness of her boarder. Jack did not j
take the rebuke much to heart ; he ran
out of the dinning hall into the parlor, j
followed by half a score of iadies and
gentlemen holding their sides, and
nothing more was thought of it until" he
asked Fornarina to play a game of pi
quet, which she gently but firmly de- j
clined. This surprised Jack, for that j
had been one of their greatest pleas
ures ; but no time was given for expla
nations, as immediately afterward the
cormorants entered and took seats on |
opposite sides of tbe fire. This -un- !
usual proceeding awakened a sense of !
danger. They sat there like mutes at !
a funeral and if anything were likely i
to reconcile a corpse to the repose of I
the grave their woe-begone visage j
would certainly have accomplished it. j
Jack stood it for a few moments; he!
even made a feeble attempt to arouse !
the rapidly drooping spirits of some of
the boarders, bat a chilliness as of ice
enveloped the room, and, fairly beaten,
he for the first time in ten weeks spent
Saturday night away from home.
Sunday he dined at the house of one j
of his swell friends where I met him, j
and discovered that at! was not as it
should be. - I acc rnpanicd hinxto Mrs.
MacPherson's a^d b^ard him ask For
narina to go to church. At first she
declined, but seeing that he was anx
ious and that nobody was iu the room j
to oppose it, I heard her say, 'I will j
slip up stairs and get my .wraps ; meet j
me at the door.' They were out and !
away before any effectual opposition t
could be interposed, but the terrific
scowl upon the old lady's face wbeu !
told of it indicated that she would make !
short work of Jack if she ever got him j
in a tight fix. At the time I knew j
nothing of the result of Jack's pious j
visitation, and as they both returned j
with countenances thoroughly composed
and brighter than when they left, I con
cluded I had made a mistake, but he
afterward told me he had a tough pull
of it, to use bis own expression, and
that be thought at one time bis bark j
bad gone to the bottom with all sails [
set a?d colors flying. As soon as they j
had "left the house behind them she an- I
nounced that this would be their last
meeting alone, as they were watched
and their every movement noted, and
! she thought they had better break off
their engagement as there was little
likelihood of its consummation. Jack,
with all the ardor of his nature, cora
batted her. objections, continuing his
pleadings on his knees in church, and
finally, when they. had" nearly " reached
home she yielded, but said they must
be exceedingly cautious. When he re
turned to the house at supper time on
Monday frowns and scowls were his
portion from every member of, tbe fam
ily and Foroarina was not present.
She did not come into* the parlor until
the dragons bad taken their stations by
the fireside, and an appeal to Miss Jen
nie for one. of those extraordinary musi
cal olla pod ridas was met with a snap
pish rebuff, which, coming from her
gentle self, sent a cold ehil| to Jack's
marrow. He hurried to his 'room and
wrote a-brief note, imploring his love
to meet him the next afternoon at. a
bookstore in the centre of the town, a
place of-resort for-the wealthier classes
to chat, examine prints and books and
learn the current news. As has al
ready, been * mentioned a young, iady
j from the Ea'stern Shore was boarding
in the house. She was of a sprightly.
j disposition, with a iheatt bigger if pos
sible than the average of her sex, and
Jack in his perplexity called her out of
the parlor and asked her to see that his
note reached its destination. He -then
took a turn through the woods to collect
! his scattered faculties, and came home
saddened, it is true, but.full of hope.
The'-cves of his sweetheart gave him
'no sign and I may as well remark here
that to my mind she was.'the most per
fect pieco of statuary, the coldest speci
men of animated nature it has ever been
my fortune or rather misfortune to en
counter. Jack, in reference to this
point, would always say,.'Tom, she is a
woman, of the deepest and truest feel
ing, but it is coupled with an unusual
amount- of discretion and"' good "sense.
She has wonderful self-control, and can
disguise'-her real sentiments better than
any woman I ever saw.-' For my part-:
I would rather she had shown less sense,
and more passion ; statues are not to
my liking unless hewn out of marble.
T never saw a human' statue that was
really of much . benefit to the commu
nity. . ...
It rained the next day in - torrents,
and Jack, rejecting upon the. mud;and
muck >he would have to walk through,
regretted, . the ^engagement he. had
made-aisdjhoped she would' not come.
He;tried$o^hit upon some..expedient to
warn her^such as sending" ?'boy with a
bouquet or a- boxj-of- caramels, .-with a.
uote inside, but th? Argus-eyed dragons '
always loomed up in such a contingency
and rendered the scheme dangerous,
He repaired tb the book store at the
appoiuted -.time, and to his astonish
ment saw her coming to meet him
through the driving, pelting storm, as
apparently unconscious of the weather
as though, it; was. the brightest day in
April. I was bhithe qui vive, you may
be sure, for love of Jack bad by that
time become a passion with me. I saw
her pot a letter into "Jack's hand and
some hasty words passed between them,
after which she turned and rapidly re
traced her steps. Jack offered to follow
her, but she waved him away and my
friend returned to the office. He met
me during the evening and was in high
glee. 'Tom/be said,'I told you she
was the noblest girl oh earth-. She
knows what she is about. Everything's
all right. I wish I could show you her
letter, but at her desire ? destroyed it.
She says we must be cautious and
that there must be no more scenes like
that with the colonel the other night. We
are to appear as friends before the peo- ;
pie of the house until this violent preju
dice has subsided, when we can safely
resume our old relations.' !
To.my mind this savored too much of
prudence and calculation. Had the '
suggestions come from Jack I could !
have understood them, but for a woman
madly in love to display'such craftiness
and subtlely seemed to me uunatural and !
I was on the poiut of suggesting to my
friend to allow me to step in and man- !
age the affair, but remembering some 1
old proverb about meddliog with other ]
people's business I coucluded to let mat- '
ters take their course. Jack fortified 1
himself this evening with bonbons for *
the whole boarding-house, and, accom- .
panicd by Spriggs and myself, struck
out manfully through the mud for home. 1
He rallied us on our complaints about '
the walking, saying that if a delicately- 1
nurtured lady could make *>uch a jour- I
ney merely to keep an engagement as- 1
suredly we need not complain. I was '
unable to see the cogency of his argu- 1
ment, as I was not going to meet the
adorer, but I forbore to say anything
that might arrest the delightful frame *
of mind into which Jack had worked j
himself. Spriggs was always humorous !
and pleasant aud fonder of Jack if pos- J
sible than I. I don't think a care ever
ruffled his manly brain, unless it was '
some slight imperfection in dress that 1
could not be immediately arranged. He '
was in high feather to-uight and very 1
amusing. We were pleasantly received, .
and after drying ourselves and burnish
ing up somewhat, were shown into the
supper room. " The earlier part of the 1
meal went off well ; Jack said little and !
Mercer spread himself. Suddenly the
conversation turned on marriage, '
Spriggs, with his usual liability to faux 1
pas, having stumbled on this unfortu- '
nate subject. The cormorants took it j
up, aud like the three sisters of lloxi
beile, each said in turn that no man of
pioper self-respect would marry into - a 1
family where he was not wanted, even '
tbe mild little Jeunie, the Sco'eh lassie,
helping to swell the chorus. All eyes '
were directed to Jack, and his face as- ^
sumed the changing hues of the charnel- 1
eon. I saw that his temper was getting 1
the better of biru, and was about rnak- '
ing a move to retire, even though it I 1
might be solecism in breeding, when he j 1
blurted out, *If I were going to marry j <
a girl I certainly should not expect to j '
wed the whole family. Oue member of | '
some families ought to be enough for {
a mau of moderate desires.' 1
The long-pent-up storm burst upon
hisdovolod head. "The cannon's open
ing roar was terrific ! He was stormed '
at with shot and shell j boldy he rode 1
and well ; only the other line was slight- j
ly chaDged, for the old lady as much as
told him to go to hades. At its height {
Fornarina, her face io a blaze and her
eyes fairly sbootiog sparks of fire, left
the table. Jack unable longer to ward
off the missiles which fell like June hail,
fled in a panic. I followed soon after,
and as I opened the parlor door I heard
a voice which I knew to be Foroarina's :
'I told you to keep your temper. What
do you mean by placing me in such a
position ? Is that the kind of love you
have told me of? To make me the
scapegoat of your witticisms and jests
-' Just then I entered and found
black care brooding over Jack's brow.
He was unmistakably angry, a condi
tion in which I had seldom seen him,
and he sat apart on a straight-backed
sofa, the only kind they had in those
days his eyes glaring, and the nerves
of his mouth twitching convulsively. I
am confident that if a respectable op
ponent had presented himself at that
moment Jack would have damaged him
considerably, but I endeavored to pour
oil on the troubled waters, and Spriggs'
smiling face and pleasant ways aided
in patching up the hollow truce. He
sang . some of. his best songs', 'The
Quaker.Courtship,' .'The Quarrelsome
Wife,' and 'The Mistletoe Bough,' and
for a brief space fun and sentiment ap
peared to have erased all traces of the
storm in the dining-room. Mercer and
I left while this, good humor prevailed,
and never but ence afterward did I en
ter that house. ?
IV. .
What.X learned subsequently I learn
ed from.Jack himself,-not directly but
through hints which he dropped from
time to time. Things went from bad
to worse. Jack redoubled his contribu
tions of caramels, confectionery and
flowers, but while their appetites ap
peared, to grow by what they fed on,
they seldom relaxed their vigilance or
their hostility. Jennie in a measure re
lented and I discovered later in life
that she possessed a depth of feeling
which did honor to her woman's nature.
Wattles was seldom alone with Forn
arina. Slights were put upon him in
every "way. Once by some accident he
secured an interview with his idol and
it was not a pleasant one. She told
him they must be friends only. There
may have been misconstructions of lan
guage ?nd I trust for her sake that
there were. W-attles was impulsive?
too much so Tor his own good. He
sent her a note through the old channel
in^wbich he said that, entertaining .the
feeling h? did forberT&imple' friendship
was an absurdity. She affected to take
it as a dissolution of the engagement
and replied.accordingly, saying that she
had never felt very -strongly .toward ,
him.; it was only the- beginning of a'\
love which in time, might have ripened
into the.closest affection.; and- wishing
all kinds of good " things;. &c: You
know how it is yourself?th? old; old
story, going back almost to the garden
of Eden.: '., / - -
Poor Jack ! he was; like the king
whose son .was drowned in.the English
channel; 'be never smiled again.' He
corrected Fornarina*s error, if it was an
error, and for a few days there was
some sort of arrangement between them.
The persecutions,'however, continued..
There was a fellow in the house
named Sooozey, a kind of peripatetic
vendor of patent notions. He was ter
ribly noisy and had. a laugh that might
have suited a negro.quarter,.but was al- "
together out of place in a drawing-room.
His boorish- manners and habits always
jarred.fearfully on Jack's nerves, but
he was willing to endure almost any
thing for the sake of Fornarina. Snoo-.
sey about this time had the impudence
and . the double-distilled meanness to
put in his oar. He was awfully smit
ten with Fornarina himself, but his low
nature could not comprehend the mean
ing of a generous rivalry ; he preferred
to play the spy. Under cover of his
nostrums he invaded the better class of
houses?by the back-gates?and learn
5d from old footmen and butlers, some
5f Jack's youthful escapades in the
lovemaking line. These he rehashed
with the minimum of brain he possessed
and gave to the MacPhersons. He
builded better than he knew. They
made good use of them, and Fornarina,
instead of indignantly repelling such
testimony, swallowed it voraciously.
She bed never replied to- Jack's last
note, though often pressed by him to
io so.
A little entertainment was given to the
boarders, and Jack pressingly invited,
probably because of his.power to amuse
and entertain. Either Jack suspected
their motive or he was out of sorts ;
it any'rate he spent the evening with
me until 11 o'clock", and I walked out
is far as the house with him, but did
not go in. He told me afterward that
tvbe^ he found himself in the,, midst of i
;hera, he determined to do the correct
;hing, so he singled out the wa^flowers i
ind danced with them, Fornarina was
having a high old time. The waltz had
ust then come into fashion, and she
was never off the floor a moment.
About 2 o'clock Jack found himself
near her with nobody to listen, and he
asked her to dance. She declined, and
?f course he wanted to know the reason
why. She said she couldn't tell him.
He tbeo asked for an answer to his
note She said she couldn't give him
that either. He was somewhat persis
tent, and she very coolly turned her
back on him and threw herself into the
arms of some whipper-snapper and away
they went whirling around, the room.
Justly incensed at the insult, he went
to his room aud penned a note, which
he intrusted to his faithful confidant,. ?
and then retired from the party. She
met hi m ou the stairs the uext day and
?ave him the following reply:
Mr. Waffles: You ba\3 asked me
For some time to give you an answer to
your note of a week ago. I .in quite
ready to do so now, as your note of last
night has decided the question. I
know now that there can never De auy
lh;"g between us, and it is best that
Acre should not be. If my previous
;ouduct has in any way led you to be
lieve or justified you. in believing I have
oeen 'funning' with you, 7 shall not
icoy it aud you are at liberty to think
io.
January 12, 1332.
I fouud that note among a lot of
rthers in the inside pocket of Jack's
rcaiscoat when we laid him away. It is
yellow and discolored, but you will I
notice that the handwriting is singular
ly bold for a woman and very regular.
Jack may have.written hastily and may
bave said something that savored of pet
ulance, but he was always a gentleman,
with the tenderest heart in the world,
and what is more she knew it. That
great brown eye of hers read clear
through to his very soul ; she knew
every pulsation of his heart and the
motive 'for every action, but like the
woman whose name Jack gave her in
one of bis romantic moods, she had no
heart. She had taken him up on her
hook and played him as a skillful
angler does a trout, and when she tired
of the toy she threw it away. Such I
veritably believe was Fornarina.
Jack straggle manfully for a brief
space. He endeavored to undo any
wrong he .might have unintentionally
have done, he apologized, wrote beauti
ful and penitent letters, and few could
write better than Wattles, but it was
all to no purpose. She laughed in his
face, taunted him and actually, T think
took a pleasure in prodding the wound,
just as some Indians are said to torture
their oaptives before putting them to
death. The end came fast enough. One
night Suoozey, in his intemperate zeal,
gave one of his coarse hyena yells and
Jack throttled him. He immediately
apologized for his display of temper, but
he was politely requested to leave the
house. He held up for a few weeks
longer, and his employers said that
during that time he was more attentive
to business than ever before, but a ter
rible sorrow was brooding over him, and
they, almost dreaded to lose sight of
bim.
One gloomy day in February he dis
appeared from his accustomed haunts.
Inquiry was useless. He had scores of
deeply-attached friends who sought him
in vain. About a week after his disap
pearance a boy rushed into my office
and said that his mother wanted me to
come to her immediately. Hoping and
fearing I knew not what, I hurriedly
caught up my hat and followed the
rapid footsteps of my young guide.
He soon reached one of the smaller
streets, and I was let into an humble
but neat dwelling, occupied by one of
the former dependents of the'Wattles
family. I was greeted with the excla
mation, 'Oh ! I am so glad you have
come: Mr. Wattles has been here, ill,
for' a week, and he wouldn't let me
send for a physician ; l am afraid he is
dying.' I was shown into a comforta
ble room and there, stretched upon the,
bed, was : all- that wm left of my old
friend Jack Wattles. 'Worn to. a skele
ton, his bright hazel eyes shining iike j.
balls of fire, his chest heavi?g spasm od- j
tcally in strained efforts to breathe,
rwith the old kindly smile faintly glim
mering on his death-stricken face, he
feebly tried to put out his hand to take
mine, but the effort was too much for
him and he fainted dead away. I has
tily dispatched the boy for a physician
and for some mutual friends. Mrs.,
Lanham told me that he had come to
her about a week before - and told her
that he thought he .had about reached
the end of bis tether (his very expres
sion.) and that he would rather die in
the house of one of the bumble friends
of his family than elsewhere. She said
she was only too glad to serve him in
any capacity ; that he had been the
truest friend she ever bad : he had kept
ber from want and suffering when she
knew he was depriving himself of the
necessaries of life to do it, and she put
him to bed and nursed bim tenderly.
To all appeals for a physician he turned
a deaf ear. He could eat nothing, and
absolutely refused to touch stimulants
of any kind. Tbe result was inevi
table.
A doctor was soon by his side. A
stimulant was administered, but tbe phy
sician said there was not half an hour
oMife in him. He regained conscious
ness, and taking his hand I leaned over,
and asked if he had any request to
make or directions to leave behind.
He squeezed my hand ever so gently,
and with the ghost of his old roguish
smile playing over his countenance, he
said : 'Tom take her a box of caramels,'
and the light faded out of his eyes for
ever.
We buried, bim in the old church
yard, and between tbe hours of 11 and
1 o'clock on that day, by a tacit agree
ment, business was suspended. The
box of caramels was duly dispatched to
its destination. On the following Sun
day after church I strolled over" to ;
Jack's grave. As [ neared the spot I
observed two ladies in stooping postures
and in the act of planting fresh spring
flowers. The frame of the younger
and slighter of the two appeared to be
convulsed with sobs ; the taller and
finer looking maiden paused in her solf
i m posed duty and leisurely drawing a
caramel from her reticule, abstractedly ;
plac*ed it in her mouth, I forebore to
intrude further upon their grief.
Capt. Kidd.
William Kidd was born in Scotland,
and executed in London in 1701. He
followed the sea from his youth, and
was 6ent out by England, in 1605, to
cruise against pirates. The king, the
shareholders in the vessels, Kidd and
his crew were to divide the booty
obtained among themselves. After
he had been cruising about three
years news was received in England
that Kidd, himself, had turned pirate,
a:,d orders were given the New Eng
land colonies to arrest him. He was
persuaded to land at Boston, where
he was seized and sent to England,
and, after an unfair trial, in which he
was allowed no counsel, condemned
to death. lie had concealed treas
ures on Gartner's island, but there
are no grounds for the popular belief
that other treasures somewhere lie
hidden which have never been dis
covered.
Tomato Catsup with Caxxnkd To
matoes?Oue- large can of tomatoes,
half ounce of salt half ounce mace, one
teaspoonful of black ground popper, half
teaspoonful cayenne, oue tcaspoouful
grouud cloves, t hree tablespoon fuis
ground mustard, one tablespoouful cel
ery seed, tied in a brq ; boil all togeth
er with a half pint of vinegar, and con- |
tinue "boiling until of the desired con
sistence ; strain through a sieve ; keep
in a corked bottle.
From the Enterprise and Mountaineer.
How to Add to this Year's
Corn Crop.
Mr. Editor?I have a bit of experi
ence in corn raising which I will give
through your columns which will doubt
less interest some of;your readers, and
if my plan is adopted generally, sorrie
thousands of bushels of corn will be
added to the present year's crop. For
several years I have made it a rule to j
save all tbe manure possible about my
place from cotton planting until harvest I
time for the benefit of this extra corn I
crop: My plan is as follows: As soon j
as tbe oat crop is harvested, move the
oats from the field or shock them to one
side so as to be out of the v:aj. Then
take a long narrow shovel or* scooter
plow and lay off rows for corn, giving j
good distance (4? or 5 feet between i
rows) and letting the plow into the |
ground well. Drop tbe corn about 4
feet in drill. Now load the wagon with
manure, which is best if composed of
stable manure, cotton seed and salt
(about one-half bushel of salt to 25
bushels of manure.) Let one hand
drive and fill the boxes or baskets from
the wagon and two or more hands fol
low behind putting a single handful of
manure to each hill of corn Six or
eight rows may be taken at a time in
this way and no waste of manure. The
wagon should be moved forward twen
ty or thirty yards at a time. When the
field has been gone over in this way;
cover the corn with two furrows which
should be run with long scooters; deep.
When the corn is six inches high, go
through with hoes and thin to one stalk
to the hill, chopping out all weeds about
the corn (there will be but little grass)
and lastly, when the corn is half leg to
knee high, sow one-half to three pecks
of peas broadcast per acre, and plow |
out the middles with narrow scooters,
and the crop is made. I have pursued
this plan for several years with very
satisfactory results. The shattered oats
thus plowed io will give ? splended
stand fur another crop, and my experience
has invariably been that the'second pat
crop was better than the first and ear
lier. The (peas shade the land and im
prove it. Tn my opinion it is not crop
ing that impoverishes th? land but the
exposure to the hot sun, and I believe
that land will bold its owu, if not,act- j
ually improved, under this system .of j
two crops a year. The resee'ding o(
the land to'oats pays for all the work, [
and leaves the*corn and fodd?r'as clear j
profits. Let those who read this try a I
few* acre's and be conviheed.
?- .. x. -.Very respectfully ' '
; ' " ??:'^~^^^soy. n
Any More Like Him ?
" One of .the lumber dealers in . Micbi
gau has for tfce past three years been
supplying a dealer in Albany. For the
first year everything went .well, but at
length the Albany man began to com
plain. He found a shortage of 'culls'
in every car-load sent him and demand
ed discounts therefor., and last spring it
was impossible to please him. No mat
ter how carefully lumber and shingles
were 'culled' and billed there, he was
sure to write Hack that they weie not
up to the standard. A few weeks ago
a car-load of 'star' shingles, were sent
hjm. The 'star'-shingles beat anything
made in the country, and they knew it
in Albany as well as'in Michigan, but
as soon as tbe car arrived the shingles
were hardly .'clear butts,' and he could
not unload the car until assured of a
discount of twenty-Svc cents a thous
and. The Micbigander bad suffered ]
Ions but the end was nigh. He had
inspected every bunch of shingles on
that car, and he made up his mind to
go to Albany and inspect them over
again. The dealer had never seen
him, and the Wolverine walked into his
office as a would-be purchaser .of some
extra fine shingles.
'I've got exactly what you want,'
promptly replied the Albanian 'I've
got a car-load of Michigan 'stars' out
here, which lay over any shingles you
ever saw.'
'Are they all perfect?'
'Every one of them.'
'No culls in the center of the bun
ches V
'I'll eat every coll you find. I got
them from a Micbigander who is as
straight as the ten commandments, and
he has never sent me a stick of second
class stuff. Come and see'em."
The Wolverine quietly pulled out his
business card and laid it down on tbe j
desk. The dealer took it up, read the i
name aud sat down with a queer feeling j
in his knees. There was an awful |
silence as they glared at each other, i
aud it was a full minute before the vie- j
tim slowly extended bis band aud hoarse
ly whispered :
'Did you ever see a man make such
an infernal ass of himself? Shake.'
Ill I II IImm -
Domestic Life in Texas.
'It wasn't ! that !' exclaimed Mr. j
Sanders, indignantly. 'You see, I !
didn't say a word at. all.'
'How did she find out theu ? asked |
one of the party.
'Why, I went home, and she asked j
if it was me. I told her it was. Took j
the chances on that, you know. Then j
she asked me if I'd been drinking. I ;
told her no. And there I stepped. !
Never said another word.'
'But you say she caught on* some- ;
where. How was it !'
'Just a blunder I made. When I!
told her I hadn't drank anything she':
was satis God, but when 1 came to get to '
bed I put on my overcoat instead of my !
night shirt. That excited suspicion.' j
A poor mechanic from Canada was j
paid a ?50 bill by mistake for a $1 j
bill by a storekeeper at Graiiby, Mass. I
He hastened home, resolved to keep ;
the money ; but within a week he re- j
turned, gave up all except what he \
had spent for cur lares, and promised j
to pay up the reitaiuder as soon as he j
could. Iiis experience with his con- !
science, he said, had boon unpleasant, j
Will some or.c who is versed in the I
science of souud please get up and ex- ]
plaiu why a hotel waiter, who can't [
hear the call of a hungry man two feet j
and a half away, can hear the jingle of j
a quarter clear across a dining-room ? j
A Potent Sp?cifie.
"And you say that you are a doc
tor?" said the justice, regarding a
squatty looking colored man who had
been arraigned before the court..
"Yes, sah, Pse a physician, an' my
name is Dr. Bliss."
"Why do you call yourself Bliss ?
?because?"
"I knows what yer's gwine ter say,
but yer needn't say it. Yer's gwine
to say I calls myself Bliss 'case a man
named Bliss doctored President Gar
field. Dat is a mistake, Jedge ; my
name was Bliss 'fore President Gar- j
field was born. Pse a old-timer."
"You are charged, Dr. Bliss, with
poisoning Thomas Hendricks, a high
ly respectabje colored man in your
neighborhood. What have you to
say in your own defense ?"
"Nothing sah, 'case do case needs
no defense, l'se a regular physician,'
and course I doan hab ter spla:n my
self."
"We'll show you about thafr, Dr.
Bliss. Now, sir, this witness states
that you made your living by skin
ning, rabbits and scaling fish for a
steamboat until you heard that Dr.
Bliss'had taken medical charge of the
wounded President ; then, as your
name happened to be Bliss, you be
gan to practice medicine, declaring
to the colored people that Dr. Bliss,
of Washington, was your uncle.
What have you to say to this ?"
"I say, Jedge, dat de black man
what circulated dat report is a liar
frum de right Lan' ter de lef ban'
corner ob his system."
"Make use of another such expres
sion, sir, and Pll send you to jail
You poisoned the man. Explain'or
go before the grand jury."
"Wall, you see, de man, Hendrick,
V? powerful sick. He sent fur me,
au' when I got ter him he was most
gone I gin him a dose of my double
gin ted, re vol vin' action syrup?"
"What is it made of ?" demanded
the justice. "The chemists have declar
ed their inability to discover the se
cret of its concoction."
"Dem is putty big words lor a jus
tice ob de .peace, and. mighty, nigh
settles in' my mine dat yer's fitted jur
de S'prerne Bench. De. medicine is"
made out?n roots ah'bafk. Dat's what
it's made on ten. Weir/1 gin de man
a dose ob de medicine,- an' -it lifted,
him up; in de bed at once. 1 neber
seed a man. rise .outen sickness with
sich action. I left a bottle ob deTmed
icine wid instructions 1er de nurse
not ter gin him anuder dose till de
naixt day, splainin' dat anuder dose
would make him. too-strong all ob a
"sn4d?utly. Arter I left, Jedge, dat
patient axed fur more, an' de nurse
gin' him fcnuder^oser**-^
. "Well.??7~~said ' the. Just?ceT'?rr**
waiting a moment.
"Why, salade patient got outen
bed, went out ter de wood pile an'
chopped wood till'he fell dead."
The doctor is now waiting action
of the grand jury.?Little Rock Ga
zette.
He stood?
The fool,
Behind
A mule,
And then,
Ere long
He sang
A song . *
In streets
Of gold
* Inside
The fold.
?Texas Siftings.
Numerous peculiar weddings are
happening nowadays. A girl at Coul
tersville, N. C, was locked in a room
by a father, who chained a savage
bulldog under her window; but her
lover poisoned the dog, pried open
her window, and carried her off to. a
clergyman. Mrs. Boeder, on the
death of-her husband, in Baltimore,
received, the following letter from
Franklin Broillar of Carroll, Mo. : "I
have just received the news. Will
you marry me now ? Enclosed find
?100 to bring you and your children
liere." Broillar and Mrs. Reeder
had been engaged before the war;
but an uncontradicted report that he
had been killed in battle led her to
many another man. When he. learned
that he had lost her he went West
and waited twenty years toieuew the
courtship. She said yes. Old Ed
gerton of Bellevuc, Iowa, decided to.
get rid of his wife, and marry a
younger woman. This he accom
plished my means . of an irregular
divorce and with the consent of the
original wife, who remains in the
Edgcrton establishment as housekeep
er while the bride plays the idle lady.
A Nashville girl, being forbidden to
marry her lover, promised obedience,
but one day requested her father to
hand their pastor a note on his way
to business. Thus he was unsuspect
ingly led to deliver an invitation to
the clergyman to -call at once and
perform the prohibited ceremony;
and the latter, presuming that parent
al consent had been obtained, readily
obej'ed the summons. A couple were
viewing the rotunda of the Capitol of
Ohio when it occurred to. them that
the place was a good one to be mar
n?e! in. A minister was employed,
aud the Governor gave away the
bri<ie.
A Love-Struck Senator.
Mary Maddox, a beauty, visited the
Senate Chamber of the Kentucky Leg
islature a few days ago. Senator Stan
ton's eyes fell upon her for the first
time 'In less '.ime than it take to copy
them,' says the Louisville Courier
Journal correspondent, 'he dashed off
the following lines:
"With June-like lips and autum hair,
With sunset cheek and brow most fair,
With eyes like stars th.at haunt the skies,
When in the West the evening dies,
A woman with an angel face
The Senate Chamber came to grace :
A moment there she filled our sight.
Then passed without, and?all was night/'
'Why does a donkey eat thistles?'
asked a teacher of one of the largest"
b~ys in the class. Because he is a don
key I reckon,' was the prompt reply.
News and Gossip.
-0
Jobn S. Newhouse,.a wealthy man
in Chicago, died in abject misery Son
day last, his wife refusing to give bim ft
pillow to rest his head.
Honey made entirely by machinery
is on sale in New York markets, and
an exchange says h looks 10 per cent,
better than any bit of work ever at
tempted by bees. - -
Never before in the history of tbe
oldest inhabitant says the* News and
I Courier, have blackberries been as plen
tiful as they are now. They can be
bought on the streets at 2? cents a quart.
It was Longfellow wbo slyly describ
ed the lady as wearing flowers 'on the
congregation side of her bonnet.*'?
Springfield Republican. .
The French press refer to Sara Bern* M
hardt's husband as 'Monsieur- Sara.' An
American wag says although she copld
furnish no flesh of her own, she-was/
able to 'annex Greece.*' ? .
The Marquis of Bate started a daily/
paper in Wales, and,-sinking about
?400,000 in the concern -, shut np the*.*\
shop. . As a Marquis h? is-?li" tight, f
bat in journalism the Bute is on the <
other leg,- . - i
Argument upon defendant's bill, of
exceptions in th?'Guite?u case began
Tuesday before the District Supreme
Court in banc, Chief Jristice<Carterpre
siding. Charles A. Reed for the de
fendant opened the argument.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was as
cending the steps leading Jo the House \
of Representatives, Tuesday morning,
leaning on the arm of his servant. His
crutch slipped and he felt' to the *
ground. His ankle was painfully
sprained, but he was not seriously -in
jured. s?*i
Rev TBos, O. Summers, D.^D?,"LL. ,
D., Book Editor of the Pub??sh'fug '
House at Nashville, and Secretary to.,;
the General-GonfereneeV-die^ :
brief illness, on Saturday' last air*(r ;
o'clock A. M., in tbe seventieth jettjilt
his age. >Hc--'wnsyh6M**e^f(ffi*:^.
Castle, Dorsetshire, BnglanoY'Oc^^ v
11, .1812, and emigrated to ttis-connrry
in 1830. He was * Professor 4n/thV
Vanderbilt University, ana^w^-oire^&f '
yihe most .profound scholars and foteini- ~
nous Theological wrhers^in th^ltetb^^
dist h urch. South. . . - v- ?2; V -
? A g?n>1e?Tau4of Columbus^ Ohio* ';,ej
[ rather an eccentic turn, Yint?efc Kt?rw -
York and w?nder?d 'on? Sal>bat||?an^,ftc''i
fashionable 'cirarcV/ and complacently *:
seated - himself rm' a 'vacant
Shortly a^gentlem^ and nis wife Mganie^*
in and sat down in the same*p?w;?0'-^e^
gentleman eyed the stranger'cnti'^y':>
for a minute and then-wt?te on t?i?'?f?
leaf of his prayer book, ?My pe>,'*:i?rnflFv*
spassed it over, to the intruder! riTh?tf
O??^man read it, smiled: sweetly and^
wrote , un^^kT~^i?.--d nice pew,:^
What did yoa pa.y for it^-Tfee J?ew^;
Yorker learned that he was
man an invited him to "dinner; -
A coiTous match was maderrewntrrj^
in Paris between a horse and a snail
for ?20,000. The owner of the for^ '
mer, a- yotrng Count, well known' in..
sporting circles,, in backed himself ', te''A'
to ride the animal from th? Pont'oV la "^t
Concorde to Versaille's^and \ bac??'" '
thirty-eight' kilometers/*, or nearly -
twenty-five miles, in two hours, while ft
wealthy Burgudian backed tbe'shnil in :
the same period to'crawl two meters an.d' *
four fifths?-say eight feet?upon * tire 43
cusbion%of a.billiard tabl?. Accor(E**i*g f;
j to the conditions of the mateby**fhe back* t
j er of -che snail is at liberty to stimulate %
and steer it. with one fresh cabbage jeaf \
sprinkled with powdered sugar. - Snail
| races have been run in England before _
now, in the 'fierce gambling times, of ?'
just a century ago,1>ut'the contest bt- <
tween ? horse and a snail is something' *
! newi'-i. / "X* ' <.* '
.From, certain proceedings held before .
Judge Dohoboe in New York,"last
week, it appears that Mr. Scovill? thinks
his wife insane because she had 'the
presumption to believe that she was as
likely to-draw forty people at fifty cents
apiece to Bear her lecture on the Presi
dent's assassination as her husband'was
.to draw eighty people at a dollarapiece. - v
Mrs. Scoville's brother John objects to
this, and considers his sister sane, and
fearing that Scoville intended to place
her in ati insane asylum, has taken her
under bis'"protection and refuses all of **
Scoville's attempts to know her wherea
bouts,.and out of the squabble a habeas '
corpusiwjne evolved. Now we'-suppose*
we sbalr<have'a letter from the assassin
which he will doabtless be allowed to
write and publish by the complaisant
jailer .at Washington, who. continues
withottfaoy remonstrance from *the Con
gressional committees on the "District of .
Columbia to allow Guiteau.to hold daily
levees and to convert his cell into ? " *
photographic bazar. ;
Meetiing of the ' Trustees -of the
University. .
The Board of Trustees of the Uni
versity met in the. Governor's ofiice last
nigHt at 8 o'clock. The following
members were present : Governor.
Hagood, Colonel H. S. Thompson,
Superintendent of Education, Hon.,
Andrew Crawford, Chairman of the .
House J""onmittee on Education, Hon.
Johu Kinsler, >?hairroan of the Senate
Committee #,on Education, Judges
McGowatL 3lclver, J. W. Simpson,
Messrs.*J. F. J. Cadweli, J. F. Izlar,
R. W. Boyd, Charles Stmonton, J. D.
Blanding, J. H. Rion, F. W.
McMaster, and N. B. Barnwell, Secre
tary. . -
The Board resolved to abolish the
chair of Physics, Mechanics ah4*! As
tronomy, and merge these studies into,
thc^ofher departments.
The following is the result of the ?*
election to-fill the five chairs: Ancient
Languages and Literature, Prof. E. L.
Patton of Erskine College; Political
Economy, History and Constitutional
Law, R. Means Davis, Winnsboro, S.
C. ; Modern Languages, Prof. Robert ]
Joynes, Oxford, Miss. ; Agriculture,
John McBridej Mental and floral ^
Philosphy, IteV. W. J. Al'ex"an<J?r, J
Da-fling ton, S. C.?Colamhia Register
May 10. ~
It is a great^virtne to restrain tho
tongue, to know hoWto^be silent evett"
thought w? know we are in the right, - ,.