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NOBLER THAN ALL.
The glittering, golden sunbeams,
Dance o'er old Ocean's breast,
While scarlet clouds are blazing
Away in the fiery West.
The song-birds shrill soprano
Rings out above the breeze,
Whilst lazy, lingering vapors
Float o'er the sun-fiasbed seas.
But we may dream of vernal groves,
And Orientskies of blue,
Of the wine-red tint of sunset,
With its deep, deep crimson hue.
Of bright Aurora's russet robes
But dreams will never do ;
We must by actions prove ourselves
To God and country true.
We maj have brave aspirings
For the chivalrous and grand ;
With bold ambitious longings,
To be heroes is fhe land.
But yet one honest actiou
In response to Duty's call,
Despite al! empty vaporings,
Proves nobler far than ail !
Grace L?Mrna's Secret.
A STORY OF #'
TWO CHRISTMAS DAYS*
CHAPTER X.
LOVER'S REWARD.
Seine time had elapsed before Ro?
land Ayre could engage the services of
a very celebrated doctor, who had al?
ready performed several successful op?
erations of a kind similar to that which
alone could restore KateLilburne's rea?
son.
The injury wlrich had reduced Kate
Lilburne to a condition little better
than that of idiocy was, as we know,
caused by her fall, the skull being fract?
ured.
A piece of the skull was pressing up?
on the brain, and only by relieving this
pressure could tbe organ of reason be
made more capable of acting in a nat?
ural manner.
The dancer was very great, and
Mrs. Fairfield over and over again en?
treated that Mrs. Lilburne should be
consulted before such a terrible risk
was incurred.
But Roland's argument was that to
do as the nurse wished wouldbe to give
him unnecessary anxiety and pain with?
out doing his daughter one particle of
good,-while the accounts which lie in?
directly obtained from Silverton Castle
described Mr. Lilburne as generally
uncheerful and resigned, though
sometimes sad and anxious at the cer?
tainty of his daughter's fate. .
"Ker father would not hesitate for a
moment," he said confidently; "and J
wish to spare him the terribie dread
of failure that haunts me day and
. night."
As her son was of the same opinion
as Roland, Mrs. Fairfield was obliged
to yield, though she did so unwillingly
and against her judgment.
The news of Grace Lilburne's con?
templated marriage with Victor Gay
heru did more to reconcile the nurse to
Roland's views than anything else, and
even when she heard that the wedding
was not to take place until after Christ?
mas Day, her feelings on the subject
underwent no change.
From this time she quite fell in with
Mr. Ayrc's plans, and lent him her
hearty co-operation.
So the day was fixed upon when Kate
Lilburne was to be restored to reason,
health, and happiness, or was to depart
without further delay to that land to?
wards which we sons' and daughters of
mortal race are ali slowly but surely
traveling.
Two of the most eminent surgeons in
Europe had undertaken to assist the
great Sir Felix Ferris in performing the
critical operation, and even their "cool
heads and practised hands must have
felt some extra strain upou them as
they began their work with the con
scouness that only the thinness of na?
per stood between their patient and
eternity. >
Tiie case was so critical that no one
was allowed in the room besides the
operating surgeon and his assistants.
In the adjoining apartment Roland I
Ayre paced slowly to and fro, his hands
tightly holding his head as though it
would burst with feverish anxiety.
At this last moment he began'to re?
gret that he ii ad 3ent for -Mr. Lilburne.
But it was too late now, the die was
cast, and as he looked at Frank Fair?
field and his mother, and saw that their
anxiety was scarcely second to his own,
he felt that he already had companions
enough in his misery.
To the three watchers the minutes
that pass are like hours before the dooi
they watch so eagerly gently opens, and
one of the surgeons with a smiling face
beckons tl^em into the room.
"We have succeeded. Her reason is
already coming back to her, said Sir
Felix Ferris in a low,tone.
And just then Kat? lifted her head,
and extending lier hands in terror ex?
claimed:
- "Grace, I won't hide hero; I tell you
I am afraid."
She looked about her," but the room
was strange, so were the faces until her
eyes lighted upon that of her lover.
Then the first smile that had wreath?
ed her face since that fearful night
came over it, and she held out lier
hands to him as she asked:
"Roland, have I been dreaming? I
thought it .was Christmas night, and we
were ail playing at? hide-and-seek, and
Grace was persuading me to hide in the
turret-chaml-:. in the old tower, and
suddenly I thought I was falling down
some awful chasm, and then I woke
With the fright. But where am I? *I
don't know this place, and who aro
these people?"
She asked this in a low tone, not wish?
ing to seem rude, but Mrs. Fairfield
came forward and asked:
"Don't you know me, dearie?"
'"Of course I do-Nurse Fairfield, my
iSoster-motber; but that isn't Frank?"
"It is Frank," was the reply.
But now the doctors interposed and
suggested quiet and an absence of all
excitement. The operation had been
Completely successful, but it was well
not to put too great a strain upon the
newlv ;iwakened intellect.
So Ivate was persuaded to try to sleep
for a wiiiie, having previously boen as?
sured, that everytn?ng should be ex?
plained to her in good time, and Roland
and Frank went away with the doctors,
while Mrs. Fairfield alone remained to
guard lier nursling.
"The young lady should bc taken to
so?v quiet place bv tho sea, and excite?
ment of every kind should be carefully
avoided for some time tb come," said
the great surgeon who had conducted
the operation.
"For several months!" repeated "Ro?
land in dismay; "do you mean that sev?
eral months must elapse before it will
be safeforher to ninny?"
"Most decidedly" was the reply; "un?
der very favorable conditions, and pro?
vided she is kept free from ali trouble
and anxiety in the interval, it may bo
safe for her to marry in December, but
certa?nlv not before," and it is now the
end of July."
So the matter was decided, though
Mrs. Fairfield shook her head over thc
arrangement, but she did not refuse to
take her foster-child down to the quiet
iisiling village, and remain there with !
her while Roland very reluctantly went
for a short tour on the Continent, and
on Iiis return to England he embraced
a girl who was strangely like the lost
Kate Lilburne.
Strangely like her indeed. The bloom
of health had returned to lier cheek; the
fearless queenly dignity that had: de?
serted her wit h thc loss of reason, but
for which she had boon distinguished
'... ? . s
before that terrible fall, had come bat
to her now, while she was as winning
and loving as she had ever been.
No trace now remained of the terri?
ble ordeal which she had recently pass?
ed through.
Next to her delight at meeting her
lover, and the near prospect of Deing
united to him, was the desire to be em?
braced by her father, and to dissipate
the grief which she knew he must feel
at her loss.
"I hope we have not been selfish in
not sending to papa." she said anxious?
ly, as she talked to Roland about her
father. "I shall never forgive myself
if our silence has injured his health."
"You need have no fear upon that
account, dearest," he replied somewhat
bitterly; "your absence from Silverton
will be celebrated this year with rejoic?
ing rather than be mourned over with
tears. A wedding narty is to be as?
sembled, the castle is to be filled with
guests, and I am among the number of
those invited to the Christmas and wed?
din? festivities." .
"Yon!" exclaimed Kate in surprise.
"Yes; and I have written to your
father to say I will come oh Christmas
night and bring my bride with me. I
thought my letter "would prepare him."
"Do you think he will suspect who
\your bride will be'?" she^asked with
blushing cheeks and downcast eyes.
"I should think so," was the answers
"for I told him when we parted that I
would never enter Silverton Castle
again unless I came to meet you 01
brought you with me."
She said no more; his devotion touch?
ed her deeply, and all her past suffer
; ings seemed as nothing in presence of
the life of perfect love that lay before
her.
It was soon after this and about the
middle of December that a quiet wed?
ding took place in the parish church o?
the village where Kate L?burne had
for some months found a home.
He was a young man though his hair
was white, who gave the bride away,
and no one but himself knew how by
this act he crushed out the last linger?
ing hope that he had uuconsciously
cherished in his heart.
But Frank Fairfield gave no outward
sign of his self-conquest, and he wrote
his name in the register as a witness,
without a tremble in the signature.
The marriage had been conducted
with all possible secrecy, but the names
of the contracting parties could not be
kept from the officiating clergyman or
the clerk, and it was from the former,
that Miriam Hindman received a liint
to the effect that Mr. Lilburne's eldest
daughter, whose unaccountable disap?
pearance had caused so much consterna?
tion a year ago, was still alive.
More she could not learn, but she
shrewdly suspected that . Christmas
would not pass by without witnessing
Kate's return to her father's house.
This expectation went a great way
towards inducing her to accept the in?
vitation to be Grace Lilburne's brides?
maid, though at that time she had no
intention of bringing the bridegroom as
L truant lover to lier own feet.
The strength of their old love, how?
ever, proved too strong for Miriam and
Victor to withstand, and they were
both resolving that his marriage with
Grace must be prevented, when, as al?
ready narrated, the doors, were thrown
open and Hr. and Mrs. Roland Ayre
appeared on the threshold.
CHAPTER XI.
RETRIBUTION".
.Mr. Lilburn? caught Kate In his
arms, and expressed his delight at see?
ing her, then he grasped Roland's hand
and bade him also welcome.
"You see I have taken you at your
word," said the bridegroom gaily.
"Kate and I were married more than a
week ago."
"A week! But where has she been
all the past year?"
"That is too ?on.ir a story to tell now,"
was the reply; "but where is Grace?"
In the general, delight at welcoming
back the lost heiress and the new bride,
Grace had for the moment been forgot?
ten.
But they had not far to seek for her.
There in their midst she lay like one
stricken with death, and people looked
at each other curiously as they lifted
her, for this sudden swoon looked more
like the consequence ct fear than the
effect of joy.
"Take her to lier room, she has only
fainted," said Mr. L?burne to the ser?
vants who were called.
The order was quickly obeyed, Vic*
tor somewhat carelessly" giving his as?
sistance.
But her father and friends noticed
that Kate showed no sympathy for ker
sister, neither did she ofter in any way
to help her.
This was very unlike the Kate of
former days.
Then she had been the first to hasten
to the side of the suffermg and to try
to assuage their pain.
.But now she only looked after her.
sister with an expression on her face of
wondering pity not unmixed with aver?
sion, and she neither tried to caress uor
to receive her.
The curiosity of the guests, however,
was not to be restrained, and so many
questions poured iii upon our heroine
that sho at length brieily told her
friends that mounding a ?iidingplace
the previous Christinas, she had fallen
down a trap-door in the disused tower,
and would have remained there, and
perished, if her foster-brother had not
rescued lier.
And then Roland told the rest of the
story, even down to the present day.
"There is something she has not told
us," said Miriam Hindman to Victor
Gayherd; "she has not told us what
hand Grace had in her disappearance.
Depend upon it, we have only heard
half thc story."
Miriam's curiosity was not satisfied,
however; only Mr. Lilburne was ever
told how Grace had consigned her sis?
ter to what she believed would be her
tomb.
By this time a servant came to say
that Miss Grace was conscious, but
would not leave her room again that
night; though she requested lier guests
would not let her absence interfere with
their amusement.
They took lier at her word; the danc?
ing to commenced, and no one seemed
to miss thc girl who had been hostess
un till now, and who to-morrow was to
bc a bride.
In view of thc ceremony of the mor?
row, tl io party .broke up soon after tho
arrival of Mr. aral Ivirs? Roland Ayre.
Those guests who were not staying in
the house toole their leave, and those
who were went oil to their own rooms.
Victor Gayherd alone lingered. Ro?
land was his* cousin, and he tried to rind
out from him tho motive which had
made him keep even lier fattier in ignor?
ance of her existence for so long a time.
"I cannot tell you why, but we had a
very good reason," was tho evasive re?
ply.
"Had Grace anything to do with it?"
was the next question.
"Grace did not know that her sister
was alive any more than you did."
"Probably not: she assured me she
was dead; but that is no answer to my
question. Did Grnoe know that her
sister had fallen through tin's trap?
door?"
"I cannot tell you-I can tell you
nothing."
"I think it ven- unfair of you not to
tell me; do you know I am expected to
marry the giri to-morrow?7'
"I would rather you than I; but ques?
tion her yourself if von have any
doubt."
"Oh, I know what her answer will
be; she is not too careful of the truth,
and though she is not tho gceat heiress
she was supposed to li?*, still, as I have
gone so far. I wouldn't draw back now
ifbTwere-convinced that she was inno?
cent of nil guilty knowledge of what
had befallen her sister."
Roland made ho reply.
He felt sorry for his kinsman, but he
had promised Kate not to expose he?
sister, and he felt that he must keep
his word to his wife whatever happen?
ed to his cousin.
"I'll ask Mrs. Ayre herself," exclaim?
ed Victor passionately.
"You will do nothing of the kind, my
dear fellow," said Roland firmly; "my
wife has had quite enough to sro through
without being cross-questioned about
her sister.
"Use-your own judgment in the mat?
ter. If I loved a woman I should
want nobody else to tell me whether to
believe in her or not."
"And what if you didn?tlove her?"
asked Victor grimly.
Boland shrugged his shoulders, then
he held out his hand, and said:
"Good-night."
Though he did not say so, he knew
quite well what his cousin's decision
would be.
When he joined his wife and her
father in the study of the latter, Kate
asked nervously:
"You have not said anything against
Grace to Victor, have you, Boland?"
"Certainly not," was ?the reply; ' 'but
he is suspicious, and has been question?
ing me."
"1 shall not allow the marriage to
take place to-morrow," said Mr. Lil
burne decidedly. "Grace is unfit to be
the wife of any honorable man."
"I think she must have been mad
that night," Kate said gently; "I nave
often thought so since."*
"She was thoroughtly bad," returned
her father gloomily; "she is only too
like her mother."
Soon after this they retired to rest,
Mr. Lilburne grateful and satisfied at
the recovery of his best-loved daughter,
and she happy beyond the power of
words to teil m the blissful possession
of her husband's love, and her restora?
tion to her father.
The only cloud that cast a shadow
upon the perfect contentment of both
was the treachery of Grace, and the
question as to what would become of
her.
. When the cold grey morning dawned
the snow rustled at the windows as it
had done a year ago when the eldest
daughter of the Lilburnes was lost and
could not be found.
Grace sat up in bed, and wondered if
the past year liad been a dream; but the
sight of her wedding-dress spread out
on a couch at the further end of the
room convinced her of tue reality of all
that had passed.
But she would not or could not think,
neither would she allow herself to real?
ise the possibility that Kate's return
would in any way interfere with her
own marriage.
She meant to carry everything with a
high hand, to deny any charge made
against her, and to def y her sister and
her sister's husband to prove anything
against her.
In this frame of mind she rang for
her morning cup of tea, and the maid
brought the tray, on which, besides the
tea and toast, there was a carefully
sealed note.
For a second or two she did not break
the seal, but when the waiting-woman
had left the room, she tore the letter
open wildly and read its brief contents.
"Your own conscience, Grace Lil?
burne, will probably tell you why I re?
fuse to fulfill my engagement to marry
you this morning. I offer no further
explanation or excuse for the step I am
about to take, but am ready to bear all
consequences which you or anybody be?
longing to vou may tliink fit to inflict
upon me. "Dy the time this reaches
youl8hallbe on my way to London,
where, as soon as the law will permit,
Miriam Hindman will become my
wife."
This was signed "Victor Gayherd,"
and had evidently been written with a
total disregard for the feelings of the
wretched girl to whom it was address?
ed.
lier reason had been tottering on its
throne for some months past, though
neither Grace nor her friends knew it,
and now the last bolt liad fallen, and
she started up madly from her bed a
wild and dangerous maniac.
The servants met her as she was on
her way, shrieking and gesticulating
frantically, to the disused tower.
They secured her and a doctor was
sent for, and all that care and skill
could do for her was done, but nothing
could save the unhappy girl.
For a few days she lingered in great
pain and mental agony, but as the old
year was dying she likewise drifted
away into the unknown.
Her death was a relief to all who
were connected with her.
Another year swiftly passes by and
Christmas Bay is again upon us.
But this day is the brightest of all the
tluree for Kate and her husband and her
father.
To Mr. Lilburne a grandson has been
born who will bear his name, and he is,
if possible, more proud of the tiny boy
than are his fond parents.
Nothing indeed is wanting to com?
plete Kate's perfect happiness, though
even now she sometimes remembers,
with a shudder that awful moment
when she was a victim to heartless
treachery.
THE END. j
"Where would wo be without wo?
man?" asked a writer. We would be
all right; hut tho little pug dog
where would it bc?
Things one would rather have left
unsaid: Dearest friend (admiring the
new portrait)-"How sweet! How
charming! How pretty! And yet so
like!" ? 1 * 3
A Connecticut man had to entertain
his own mother and his wife's mother
for a week at tho samo time, and he
says ho is now ready to join any show
as a lion-tamer.
Mistress to new cook: "Wednesdays
and Saturdays I shall go to market
with you." New cook: "Very well,
mum; but whose a goin' to carry the
basket thc other days, mum?"
A Louisville lady has sued lor a di?
vorce, asserting that her husband has
not done any work for fourteen years.
There are some women who want a
man to be on tho jump all tho time.
"What will the coming woman
wearP" asked a fashion magazine. If
she's anything like thc present woman,
and you take her word for it, sho will
have "absolutely nothing to wear."
"No," said Sylvia, "Hattie would
not admit that she had young Mr.
Bonniface at her feet, though ho is a
singularly handsome man and very
popular. You seo hois a chiropodist."
Stylish young ladies aro wearing lit?
tle gold kangaroos on their watch
chains. Oh! tho artful things. Tho
moment a man sees a kangaroo ho
can't help remembering that it is leap
year.
The man who can thoroughly enjoy
himself at a fashionable reception after
discovering that the bow of his whito
tie is under his left car is superior to
tho pomps and vanities of this wicked
world.
"I hope," she said to the now boy in
school, "that you do not indulge in tho
wicked and filthy habit of smoking
cigars?" "Naw," replied tho new boy
in a burst of proud disdain, "g?mmo a
clay-pipe nnd sonic niggerhead tobacco
when you want mo to enjoy comfort
Nono o' your fancy smokes for me."
And then she knew that tho new boy
usod to clerk on a raft-Burdcitc.
Mr. do Browne-"May we ask in
what direction you ladies arc going?"
First Young Lady-"Wo aro goin^ to
look at some poor people's dwellings
near hero." Algernon (aghast)-"Just
fancy! Oh! 1 couldn't manage
'slumbering.' I shouldn't be wide
enough awake, you know." Second
Young Lady-"Ah! 'Sluni'-bcring^ is;
moro in your line, then.!'! .
BILL ARR
i ?
He Feels Good, Then Sad, Thi
Feels Good Some More.
: It is carious how a roan can ft
himself. Two or three days befe
the election I had made up my mi
and became reconciled to defeat, ?
I had been reading both sides pr?t
close and had given it up. So I mu
tered up all my philosophy and ii
agined I was prepared for anythfn
But I wasn't, I was fooling myself,
wouldn't go to Atlanta Tuesday
see the Constitution's jack o-my-la
tern, I went to town and voted ai
came back home early for I dide
want to stay and hear bad news. Ne
morning I went out on the big ro:
to fix a broken gate and I thoug
maybe somebody would come aloi
and tell me the news without u
asking, but nobody came but a dark<
and he didn't know anything. I we
to the house and ruminated and tri?
to be calm and serene but I coulden
and kept looking down the big roi
for somebody to come and break tl
news and I was afraid someboc
would come, and the news would 1
bad. I've been to the dentist's afoi
now to have an aching tooth pull?
and was glad to find the door locke
and the dentist gone. So I waite
another hour for somebody to cou
from town and ihen went off to tl
field to work. About noon a ma
came along in a buggy and bailed u
with a hurrah for Cleveland, and h
hurried on before I could ask him tl
news. But it sounded favorable an
hoped me up some. At two o'cloo
another man came by and said Cleve
land was elected ; but I wasent sath
fied and so I dident cut up nor eve
lute, but by and by when I got m
mail and read 'Victory* *in great bi
letters at the head of the column,
was overwhelmed with a thankful an
a joyful surprise. There was nc
a soul at home but me and thc do
and the cat, and in as much as the
couldent understand any gymnastic
I just kept my seat placidly by th
fire and felt good all over all by my
self as I read the crowing and th
chuckling and the rejoicing that fille
the columns of the Constitution.
was just thinking about going over t
tell the news to nabor Munford for b
said that if Cleveland was electe
he knowed he would have a fit and
wanted to sec what kind of a fit i
would be. General Young told rn?
that the first thing he would do woul<
be to indulge for a day or two in som
artificial elation and then subside ant
reform and join the church, for reforn
was the watchword of the party, an?
we all ought to reform out of grati
tude.
But it docs look like the gooi
things of this life dont last long. ]
hadent rejoiced very long before I go
to feeling sorry for tbe other side
Sorry for some clever men who wen
in office and would have to step dowe
and out. I was even sorry for Mr,
Blaine. The good book says we must
rejoice with those that rejoice ace
weep with those that weep, and I wai
trying my best to do both. I don't
care so much about thc men but it
hurts mc to see their wives and chil?
dren disappointed and distressed.
When a good man is in office and
needs it for thc support of his family
I don't think 1 could turn him out. I
don't think I could and that is one
thing that made me like Grover Cleve?
land, for they say that when he was
first elected Governor of New York
he never turned out but one man.
Well, that may do in New York but
it won't do at Washington. Thc ras?
cals must all go and there are lots of
them. Mr. Cleveland will be doing
enough for them to pardon them out
of the penitentiary when they get
there. Beform is what the nation
wants. The tariff is a little thing com?
pared with it.
But while I ruminated on these
things and was feeling comfortable
and complacent over my own gene?
rous feelings toward a falles' foe, a
feller came along with the news that
New York bad goue for Blaine, and
so I just collapsed and wilted and
felt as bumble as a dead nigger. I
lost all my philosophy in half a min?
ute and felt like I dident have a friend
in the world. Mrs. Arp was away
off in Borne and tho girls were in
town and the children were at school.
The dog come creeping in to the fire
and I kicked him out and then I got
sorry for him and called him back
again. When the children came
; home I dident indulge in my usual
I loving greetings nor ask who was
head and bow they got along but. I
moped around and looked solemn until
Jessie said, Tapa, you are sick aint
you Y
\ By and by nabor Freeman dropped
I in. I knew he would come if Blaine
was elected for he is sorter on that
side of the fence and I never join
issue with him in an unpleasant way
about it, for be is a good nabor, and
that beats politics, and he has just as
much right to bis opinion as ? have
to mine, Bot I knew that if be found
out that Blaine was elected, he would
come down to jubilate a little and see
what I had to say about it. So I never
let on but brightened up and made
out like it was just what I expect?
ed and it dident make any difference
either to bim or to roe. ? never
gave him any chance to crow over me,
but I was home-sick all the same. I
cant bear to be lifted away up yonder
and have all the props knocked from
under. I dont mind coming down
on a sliding scale but it hurts me to 1
fall so far and so heavy of a sudden. 1
Now here it is again, another paper '
and the same old 'Victory' at tho j
mast head and both sides claiming it.
But my faith is now shaken and I'm 1
going to stay down on the ground un- k
til I know more than I do now. Fm *
sorry for nabor Munford for they say 1
he has a fit every morning because (
Cleveland is elected and another in 1
che evening because he aint, and Gen-1y
eral Young is in a bad fix, too, and 1
nobody knows when he will be ready a
to join the church. c
But there is no sense in mourning c
and cavortiog over politics. If Blaine 8
is elected I'm going to make the best c
of it and be like the feller who swam v
around old Noah's ark and asked to be 8
let in and when old Noah shook his
bead be ?warn off to a floating log and
Btraddled it and said he dident be?
lieve there was going to be mach of a
shower no how. Roland told me to-day
that politics dident bother him
much in time of peace, but he heard
that Bob Toomba said there would be
another revolution before long and
he reckoned they would let a poor
man fight a little when it did come.
That's so. They will let a poor man
fight. BILL ARP.
Cleveland's Ancestry.
It ls not generally known that the
bones of one of Gov. Cleveland's dis?
tinguished ancestors lie mouldering io
New Haven soil, and that he was for?
merly well known and highly esteemed
here. Such is the case. In a bright
nod cherry room at No. "125 Wall
Street a Register representative was in?
troduced to the widovf of the late Abijah
Cleveland, of this city. She is a pleas?
ant spoken elderly lady, and a daugh?
ter of David Breed, of this city, who
very many years ago lived on George
Street. Mrs. Cleveland is a life?
long resident of New Haven, and Pro?
fessor Dwight and Bishop Coze are both
cousins of hers. Mrs. Cleveland has
an excellent memory.
'Yes,' said she, in response to an in?
terrogation, 'Grover Cleveland's great
grandfather died in this city and was
buried in the Grove Street Cemetery.
His name was Aaron Cleveland, and he
was a Congregational minister and a
poet. The Cleveland family descend
from good stock. The first Cleveland I
knew_ of was Rev. Aaron Cleveland,
who was pastor of the Congregational
Church at Hadcam, in this State. This
man was Grover Cleveland's great
grand-father He afterwards conform?
ed to the ch arch of England and be?
came a missionary and went to Dela?
ware. He died at the house of his
very dear friend Benjamin Franklin, in
Philadelphia, in 1757. He was a
Harvard graduate.
His son Aaron the one I started to
talk about and who is buried here, was
a minister in Norwich for many years.
There be roamed into thc then numer?
ous and famouMamily of Breed's from
which Breed Hal! there is named.
This woman was his second wife and
she was my grand-mother. When I
was about two and a half years old my
father moved to New Haven and my
grand-father Cleveland came to live
with us. This was in 1815. I was
sick and he used to take care of me,
and soon after be also sickened. He
died September 21st of that year? and
he is buried in what ia now Wm. Frank?
lin's lot, in the old cemetery.
'Grover Cleveland's grandfather, the
son of the above, was William Cleve?
land, a deacon in the First Congrega?
tional Church on the old Norwich town
green. He was a goldsmith.
'This man's son, Richard F., was
Grover Cleveland's father. He lived
in Norwich for a long time, graduated
at Yale College, and used to spend
much time with bis New Haven rela?
tions. Then he married'and went oat
into the Middle States. 'Yes,' contin?
ued the old lady, 'Grover Cleveland's
ancestry is such that he can well afford
to bc proud of it.'
In the work entitled 'The Poets of
Connecticut,* published in 1843 by
Rev. C. W. Everett, extensive mention
is made of Mr. Cleveland, the clergy?
man who died there, and his collection
of poems are published. Among them
is one on slavery. Mr. Cleveland was
a clever and social man, very quick at
repartee. The mother of Wm. E.
Dodge, thc New York merchant, was
a child cf this. man.-New Haven
Register.
Gen, James W. Moore.
Legislative biographies being in
fashion, the Hampton Guardian gives
the following sketch of the IiTe of Gen.
Moore, :
Gen. Moore was born on the 25th of
February, 1837, atOoosawhatcbie, then
:hc county scat of Beaufort District,
South Carolina. He received bis pri?
mary education at the Beaufort District
Academy, located at Gill ison vii le, nuder
;he tuition of such able wat ruc to ra as
Wm. Correll,Francis W. Fickling and
[jeRoy F. Yeomans. His collegiate
course was taken in the University of
Georgia at Athens, from which'institu?
tion he graduated at the agc of nineteen,
akin g the highest honors and acknowl?
edged thc most accomplished and finish?
ed scholar of his class. In January,
1859, he was admitted to thc bar, and
loon after began thc practice of law in \
copartnership with Francis W. Fickling
it GUlisonville, then the court house of.
Beaufort District. He had scarcely got
airly launched in his profession when
be war broke out, and he at once laid
lown the pen for thc sword and voran
cered for ser vico with toe Beaufort
District Troop of cavalry, of which
Troop be was a member, and though
roly a private had shown andi thorough
icqua?n tance with military matters as
o bc appointed drill master. This
Troop wcut to Virginia as part of the
lampton Legion, carrying with it the
?ame officers they had at home. The
lighest vacancy was for First Sergeaut,
md to that position Gen. Moore was
appointed. He performed the arduous
ind difficult duties incident to bis office
o tbe satisfaction of all, and was elected
lieutenant on the first vacancy. On the
ame day of his election he was appoint
d by Gen. M. C. Butler (at that time
dajor commanding thecavalry of the Le
;ion) Adjutant; and when tho com
oana1 was raised to a full regiment
inder the name of Second South Caro?
ma Cavalry he was made Adjutant
f that regiment. He was an active
articipant in all the great battles of
firginia, Maryland and Peunsylvania
ip to the spring of 1864, when thc
Second Cavalry was sent back to South
Jarolina to recruit. He was exceeding
y beloved by his regiment ; they would
o anything for him or follow him any
rhcre. An instance of their devotion
ras shown at Uppcrville: Adjutant
locre having ridden some distance in
dvance to reconnoitre thc ground
ver which the charge was to be
lade, his horse was killed by the sharp
bootcrs of the enemy and fell on him,
rushing him underneath it. It was
nth thc greatest difficulty that thc first
quadron could be restrained from rush
og forward io a body to His rescue.
Co!. Lipscomb sent oat a Lieutenant and
five men, who succeeded in bringing
bim off. Again at Brandy Station,
while in advance of thc command, be
became engaged, single-handed, in an
encounter with six United States dra?
goons. His horse was killed tinder
him and himself desperately wounded.
A small detachment of bis regiment
seeing bis danger rushed to bis aid and
brought him from the Seid. From this
wouod bc never fully recovered, his
bridle band being enter?ly useless iii
service afterwards, but be was back iii
the saddle in six weeks and remained
there to the close of thc war.,
When the war was over Geri. Mooro*
resumed the practice of law, has had a
large and lucrative practice, and bas
been for some time regarded as tbtf
leading lawyer of the Hampton bar;
In his practice bc has been noted, id
addition to his legal ability, for his lib?
erality and fairnesss and for bb success
everi in the m?st desp?rate cases. Ho*
was a member of the House of Repre?
sentatives of 1865-6, bot Reconstruc?
tion suspended his political life fdr d
time. Being In Beaufort, His brilliant
talents attracted the Republican leaders'
there, but to all bis overtures bis an?
swer was an indignant refusal. Ho
neglected no opportunity to make ari
effort for a return of good governmetii{
and in 2870 be canvassed Beaufort
county in the interest of the Reforrri
party. In 1876, as county chairman1
of the Democracy, he made a most com?
plete and exhaustive canvass of Beau?
fort county, after having thoroughly
organized bis party from the Barnwell
linc to the coast. He spared t?o labor
or expense, laid aside his professional
duties, and gave himself up entirely td.
the work. He had the gratification ot
seeing'every vote polled that could b#
for the Democracy, but overwork ana
exposure caused an illness from which'
be did not recover for months and
which came tiear putting a pre?attfr^
end to his useful life.
He was more than any one else in?
strumental in th J creation of Hampton
county. Since the county bas been iff
?existence he bas represented it as Sens
tor, sod io that capacity bis distln*;
guisbed services are well known, both '
to the county aud^the State. -
Saved by a Load of H?#
A Bradford (Penn; j correspondent o/
the Philadelphia Times writes : ;I telt
you what, boys. Tve railroaded it foi
years and beep mixed up in ail kinds of
disasters,. but I hope to croak righi
here if X want to be the eye witness
again of such an awful sight as I was ?
day or two ago.'
The speaker was a brakeman on tho*
Brie.
.A day or so ago,' he continued, '?
tall and handsome woman got into tho
ladies' Car at Dunkirk. With ber wai
a bright and interesting boy, possibly
two years of age. The child languid
and crowed and played with the pas?
sengers. When the train left Cat ta?
ra a gus the woman, who seemed nervous,
got out of her scat, picked up thc
baby and started for. the rear end of thc*
coach. A short distance east of Cattai
raugus is a long, deep gulf over which
the railroad bas built a high trestle.
The distance from the top of thc-trestle
to the wagon road below is perhaps ono'
hundred feet. A sharp and short curve"
leads to the trestle. Ab the trait?
rushed over the gulf a woman's piercy
ing shriek was beard. I looked and
saw an object leap from the pktfonif
into the rocky gulf. That object, sir;
was the lady passenger, and in her arm*1
closely clasped to her breast waa bar
infant. I pulled thc bell cord aad tbe
train came to a halt. Ho? it happened
I cannot say, but at thc time thc lady
jumped, a Toad of bay, drawn by %t
pair of oxen, pasee? under the trestfe/
Mother and eh?? landed squarely in
the center of the hay and were thus
saved from a horrible death. Tho
farmer was so horrified that he jumped
from his wagon and darted up the hill.
The woman, win was not-burt nt ttei
least, said ber name was Mrs. Adan*
Scell and ber home in Michigan. S?re
was on her way to visit friends in the'
Oil country. Hers was indeed a mirac?
ulous escape. Mrs. Scell said that afro
could not explain her action. When
near the car door she was seized with'
an insane desire to jump from the train/
The farmer, as be drove along, waif
thinking pf his dead wife and daughter.*
When the visitors came through tbe
clouds as it were, and landed on bis bay
be thought that the dear departed barr
come b&ck to earth to revisit h tte.
The Baneful Cigarette.
Says the Boston Herald : *Too muclr
cannot te said agate st cigarette smok?
ing by boys,' said a well-known physi?
cian, wheo asked his opinion upon the
subject, '?ad we mean to have more to"'
say about it in the future. The evil is3
certainly growing rapidly, 1?& is ?oe*
that we find bard work in combatting.
Boys have every means of smoking'
without the knowledge uf.tfeetr poxgnts,
and oftea have their full consent. Cig?
arettes may bc obtained by them at any
little variety store, at two or titree for a*
ceut. These arc sure to be made of thc'
vilest tobacco, or no tobacco at all.
Well recognized brands are not much*
better, and I have good authority for'
stating that one brand of cigarettes,
which is perhaps more extensively'
smoked than any other, is largely man-'
ufactured from clippings from b!ockr
paper soaked in nicotine. The paper'
wrappings in the best brands are per?
haps net injurious, but in others add
another feature to the harmfulness/
*What remedy would you suggest?*
.Let a law be passed prohibiting thc'
sale of tobacco' in' any (brtn1 to boys"
under a certain age . Such a law is iff
effect in New Jersey, though of course"
the difficulty is in its proper enforce?
ment. Parents should always keep s'
sharp eye on their sons. When a boy'
slinks into the house for bis supper try?
ing to look unconcerned', yet very fishy"
about thc gillis, and not eating anything,
you may be sure li? has been down the'
back alley wrestling with his cigarette.
A Massach usctts paper says that alF
Texas citizens wear their hair overbneir
ears. How do you suppose they'd look
if they wore them under their ears ?-'
Burlington Free Press.