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TFrom the Oriental Casket.] . :'. ...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 briHc--'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?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