CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. I. NO. 12.
Earlj Morning.
Withontmy window in the purple light
I hear the sound of birds among the trees ;
The rustling of wings prepared for flight,
From the soft nest built underneath the
caves ;
The low, far-reaching meadow-lands atreatch
white
And dewy in the dawn :
Cm furled above them o’er the clustered
sheaves,
The pearly mists are drawn.
Hie breeze blows sweet that blows at break of
day,
Rich with the soft, delicious subtle scent
Os honied clover, gathered on the way
O’er pasture-land, and fields of flowers that
lent
Their thousand perfumes, over new moan-hay,
Fresh, cool upon my brow,
With all the stolen odors strangely blent,
I feel it blowing now.
Long shadows fall across the long wet grass,
As through the breathing and mysterious
hush,
The opal tints grow brighter on the mass
Os clouds hung in the east; a sudden gush
Os song from wild birds as they swiftly pass
In their glad flight,
And nearer, clearer carol of the thrush
Breaks with light.
THE TWO MISS AMBERLEYS.
Within the vine-clad window two
charming girls, in the simple attire that
fashion prescribes for traveling. With
oat, a long, well-knit, masculine figure
lies in the grass, face invisible, being
cevered bj the owner’s hat. To him
there saunters another gentleman, dark,
stylish, wide-awake.
“Hullo, Kingston! Wake np; got
something to tell yon;’’ and he unkindly
draws away the sheltering hat, disclosing
a handsome, angry face.
“Confound yont What makes yon
pester a fellow so in this warm weather?”
says the victim, sitting np disconso
lately.
“Did I spoil your nap? Have a cigar,
instead. I wanted to tell yon of the
new arrival, Aggie Amberlev, the great
heiress, with her cousin and oompanion.
There’s a chance for yon to get a rich
wife, my boyl”
“Don’t want one. Hang this cigar!
it don’t drawl A poor man like myself
can’t afford to marry a rich wife.”
“I should say that he couldn't afford
to marry anything .else,” langhed the
other; “and Aggie Amberley is a beauty
as well as an heiress. Ton don’t often
meet such a prize!”
“You had better make up to her
yourself,” said Kingston, dryly.
“Perhaps I shall, and leave you the
cousin, who is also a beauty in another
style. Hanged if I’ll tell you which is
which, though! And you’ll never know
from the manners of our hosts towards
them. There are no worshippers of the
golden ealf in this house.”
“Humph!" said Kingston, and smoked
a few minutes in silence; then he broke
out: “The man that marries a women
for her money is the meanest oreatnre
that crawls on the earth! Yon have
money enough of yonr own, Preston,
for yonr motives to be above suspicion;
bnt as for me—by Jove! I would not
marry a rich woman if I loved her ever
so well. I have no fancy for the name
of fortnne-hnnter.’’
“Bravo, Don Quixote!” langhed his
friend. “Now suppose we go and take
a swim. Yon need some cooling off.”
They strolled awsy, nnconseions of
fair eyes watching them.
Then said one young lady to the
other, —
“If that fellow does not marry a rich
woman, my name is not Aggie Am
berley I”
A few days later Mrs. Conrtney and
her guests wore gronped on the lawn—
the ladies with some dainty needle
work, Mr. Prpston reading alond to
them, Harry Kingston in his favorite
position, flat on his btek in the gTass,
working a certain problem which had
been troubling him for some days:
Whioh was Aggie Amberley? That tall,
stylish blonde in lilao siik, with proud
lilies on her bosom, or this graceful,
dark-eyed fairy in fluttering white
rnnalin?
“The fair haired one for money! She
looks more like a fashionable beanty,
ns Jim Preston said the heiress was.
Not that charming little gypsy. Provi
dence would never bestow a fortnne
upon a girl with such a bewitching face.
It would be too mnch partiality. Bnt
she doesn't look mnch like a poor re
lative, either. I'd give a good deal to
bear one of those young ladies call the
other by her Christian name.”
Said the fair Miss Amberley,—"Aggie,
have you a needleful of violet silk?”
Said the dark Miss Amberley,—“No,
Aggie; bnt I can get yon some np
stairs ” /
Harry fairly gasped. Later be learn
ed that the blonde was called Agnes
and the brnnette Agatha.
Then be began to notice that Miss
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG CO., N. C., SEPTEMBER 9, 1882.
Agatha dressed more simply than her
cousin, and that she was ever ready to
offer small services, which the other ac
cepted calmly. And one day the young
lady expressed it as her opinion that
riches mast be a gnat burden, althongb,
to be snre, Cousin Aggie had snch a
mind for finances! Bnt for her part, she
hoped no one would leave her a fortnne.
This was said in a confidential way,
with her great eyes looking earnestly
into his.
“And what eyes the little thing has',
they look a fellow's heart right ont of
his body,” thought Kingston.
After that, Kingston considered his
first problem very happily solved. An
other had taken its place. How mnch
money was necessary for the lnxnry of
marriage?
Jim Preston was conrting Miss Agnes
Amberley without any attempt to dis
guise. Perhaps his example was a little
bit infeetions. At all events, Kingston
and Miss Agatha were thrown together
very much, and their confidential talks
increased in number and interest On
the last day of Kingston’s visit he took
a farewell stroll with Agatha. They
stopped on a little rustic bridge thrown
over a hollow. They were telling each
other their first impressions.
“So yon thought my oonsin looked as
if she were bom in the pnrple. And
pray what did yon think of me ?”
‘■You’ll be angry."
“Oh, no, I won’t.”
“Well, then, I said to myself,—
What a dear little gipsy.’ ”
Os course Miss Amberley was not angry.
She had said she wonid not be; bnt she
strnek her hand hard against the rongh
wood-work.
“Take care, yon will hurt yourself.
And now, may I ask yonr first opinion
of me?”
“I thought—that is, I said to myself
—‘There is a man I shall jnst enjoy
making a fool of,’ ” she answered spite
fully. “Oh 1”
She had rnn a great splinter into her
hand. It was very painful. Harry
worked forgivingly to get it ont. Jnst
as he succeeded, Miss Amberley turned
alarmingly white, and mnrmnred,
“Don’t be frightened—how foolish I
am—l feel like—’’ And but for his arm
she wonid have fallen.
Kingston was too mnch bewildered to
do anything bnt hold her tight and
cover the wonuded hand with kisses.
Strange to say, this peculiar method
of reviving a yonng lady succeeded.
She opened her eyes, and the color
returned to her face.
“Mr. Kingston I” pulling her hand
away.
“Oh, if yon wanted to make a fool of
me,”hesaid, gloomily, “yon have entire
ly sneoeeded. I love yon I”
He expected her to draw herself coldly
from his hold, bnt she did not. She
seemed quite contented where she was,
only a rosy glow overspread her face,
and she whispered,—
‘ ‘Are you snre—very snre ?”
“I wish 1 was quite as snre of my
eternal salvation I”
“Oh, Harry I No, yon mnst not say
that! Do yon love me enough to oare
whether I am rioh or poor ?”
“Ten thonsand times yes 1”
“And—and yon want me fir yonr
wife, anyhow?”
“Os course I do I”
“Then take met And yon may kiss
me now, Harry.”
And he did.
“Os conrse it makes no difference to
yon,” said the yonng lady presently;
“bnt yon have offered yonrself to the
rich Miss Amberley. Yon needn’t start
so. Yon can't throw me over now, sir 1”
For a moment that was jnst what
Harry thought of doing, bnt the quick
tears in his companion’s eyes brought
him to his senses.
Voices below. Mr. Preston passed
through the ravine in company with the
other Miss Amberley. He was holding
the yonng lady’s hand, and her stately
composure seemed for onoe somewhat
milled.
“No more of this, Mr. Preston I” she
exclaimed, in an agitated voice. “It is
right that I should tell yon it was my
consin’s whim to confuse our identity.
You doubtless think yon are addressing
Miss Amberley, the heiress—”
“Not at all,” interrupted Preston. "I
have known the troth all along. It is
only Kingston who is deceived, and if
that is all the defence yon are able to
make—"
They passed ont of sight
“It is too fanny I” declared Agatha,
leaning on her lover’s shoulder to laugh.
“That will be a match, too.”
And it was. And the following winter
the two Misaes Amberley passed ont of
existence, bnt Mrs. Harry Kingston and
Mrs James Preston became the bailee
of the oitv.
A ehsrk was recently eanght on the
coast of Southern Californio, and upon
being oat open thirty-one little efaarke
were fonnd. Old residents my they
have seen nothing like it arnoe the last
oommenoement at the lev school.
FOR TUB FAIR SEX.
News ri4 Nmn.
Metal threads—gold, silver and
bronze—are woven in the new woolen
staffs imported for sntnmn.
Levantine, satin de Lyons, satin
dnehess, satin merveiileox and heavy
repped faille are the silk fabrics that
will be worn for autnmn and winter
dresses.
Large single flowers are in favor on
sateens, foulards and surah, and their
size is so great that only one blossom
can be seen on a sleeve and five on the
back of a dress oorsage.
A New Orleans girl, suing for a breach
of promise, places her damages at one
dollar. She allowed him to hng her
bnt once, and then he spoiled a new
lace collar.
Somebody says that “women would
never do to run railroads, *3 the trains
wonid always be behind.” Yes, but
they fire up mighty quick.
It is a noticeable fact that a large ma
jority of the births this year in the west
have been girls. Onr girls are of a su
perior quality and are in demand. The
West believes in regulating the snppir
by the demand. We can raise a good
crop of anything, bnt th< re is nothing
the great West takes more pride in than a
crop of blooming, healthy, sensible live
girls.
Early Autumn Cuutumru.
Readers are advised to select for their
earliest sntnmn costumes solid colors,
and use the simplest designs sent over
from Paris. For instance, get sieil
ienne, ottoman wool reps, or cashmere
of a dark shade of brown, green or red,
for the oorsage and drapery of what
ever appears to be a princeese dress, bnt
really is a cuirass corsage with the skirt
entirely separate, and attached below
the hips by great hoops that catch on
loops sewed to the waist. If the waist
is sicilienne, the skirt may be of plash
or velvet of the same shade, and for a
bride’s visiting costume, or her travel
ing suit in whioh she is to be married,
this will be best of golden brown, darker
seal brown, or the new electric bine.
The basque should be fitted smoothly
over the hips wikhont any pleating
added in the back seams, and she old be
a “round basque.” that is, of even
length all around, instead of bring
shortened on the hips or lengthened in
the back. This basqne of sicilienne
has a Breton vest of the same laid in
very fine pleats as far np as the top of
the first dart, then let fall in a loose
soft pnff, gathered in at the neck, and
finished there with a donble standing
raffle that should extend all around the
neek. This Breton vest, it will be re
membered, begins on the right side and
laps to the left, hiding the buttons that
fasten the fronts of the waist. On the
edges of the vest, concealing where it
begins, is a plash reverse that extends
all the way np around the bock of the
neck; the edges of this reverse meet at
the waist line, and are scalloped on the
inner side and corded with sioilienne.
For this vest sioilienne five-eighths of
a yard wide is rued, and the fine pleats,
flatly pressed, and mnch lapped ore
twenty in nnmber. A drooping fringe
like ornament of passementerie bolls
falls below the throat across this vest,
and similar ones are on the plash caff*,
directly over the back drapery, and on
each hip below the plash pockets. The
plash skirt, with one side gore, a front
and straight back breadth, is eat around
the lower edge in deep narrow scallops,
six inohes long and two inches wide,
and these are bordered with sicilienne;
these scallops fall un a box pleated
plash balayease. The hip drapery of
sioilienne represents short 101 l paniere
in three lengthwise box pleats, with
the edges turned under In a pafl. On
the plain part are pockets of plash—
long, narrow, with bias comers—and
the fringed passementerie below.
General Gordon in Paris.
A distinguished American, General
Gordon, of Georgia, who has ge ned an
eminent reputation as a brilliant soldier
and statesmen, has arrived in Paris. In
an interview with a friend jnst before
sailing for Europe, he said that “he re
garded the Booth now as a finer field
for legitimate investment and specula
tion than ever California presented, end
that all his energies and whatever tal
ent he possessed wonid in fat ore be de
voted to Southern industries.” He ia
now in Europe to spend four months,
and, bringing with him letters from Mr.
Belmont, General Grant, President Ar
thur and ell the leading Senators, he
will be able to pat the material interests
and the vast possibilities of the Sooth
before the capitalists of Europe as they
have not before been put, and this is
the main object of hie trip to Europe.
The attractions of the South, as present
ing a neh field for investment and Mi
gration are very great, and no onn more
worthy of raspeet and confidence could
have been selected to have presented
the claims of the “New South ’ than
General Gordon.
Snake Stories from Par and Near.
A Sock of busaards attacked a large
rattlesnake at -Brady, Texas, and
killed it.
Near SL Clair, Mo., Laster Crawford
killed a rattlesnake that bad twenty-one
rattles.
A Urge copperhead snake lay coiled
in the oat field of Thomas B. Campbell,
of Perry county. Pa. He killed it and
found in its* body twenty-four of its
yonng.
Ex-Sheriff Decker, of Sullivan county,
with a scythe cut in two a rattlesnake
that was five feet long and had sixteen
rattles. It liad breakfasted on two
rats.
In Winona, Minn., the haymakers in
the field of Thomas Laird ent a big
ball snake in two with a scythe, when
forty-one young snakes began running
around the grass.
When Mrs. Andy Sommers, living
near South Bend, Ind., went into her
kitchen to prepare dinner she saw a
large bine racer lying nnder the stove.
llt took her and Mrs. Col. Frank, her
neighbor, an hoar to kill it. It was
fear feet long.
A New Jersey snake entered a cabinet
organ that bad been toted into the
woods for use at a picnic. At the first
notes called forth from the organ at
Sandav school on the following Sab
bath the snake crawled ont, causing a
good deal of commotion.
A oosehwliip snake, eight feet in
length, was e"n crossing a field near
Madison, La . with its iijad raised and
a half-grown rabbit in its month. The
old rabbit was following the repii'e and
jumping at its bead to recover nor
yonng, bnt did not encoeed.
Chester county, Pa., has been visited
this season by great numbers of venom
ous reptiles. G. S. Mishier, of Coventry
township, decapitated seven snakes in
ratting two swathes in his ten acre
wheat field. The horses became so
frightened that they could not be driven
np to the standing grain, and farm
hands with cradles'undertook the har
vest alter a promise of donble wages.
Before half an acre had been cut the
men had killed nineteen snakes. The
grain was alive with them.
A working party of mountaineers on
a North Carolina railroad, while clear
ing away the brash on a siding, saw a
five foot rattlesnake. One of the party
cat a stick with a forked end, and pin
ning the snake to the earth at the head,
seized the util in his right hand, ran
his left down the snake’s body, and,
grasping it firmly jnst back of the head,
held it np at arm’s length and called
on the others to “look at the varmint’s
month.” After holding it a few mo
ments for general inspection, he sud
denly swung the snake over his head
with his right hand, letting go the hold
of the left, and dashed it against a rock,
killing it instantly.
A Change of Mind.
“There is a certain man in this town
whom I’m going to lick until he w on
be ont of bed for six months after, and
I want to know what it will cost me ?"
So said a man who entered a Griswold
street law office yesterday, and it was
plain to be seen that his dander was
way up.
“Let’sseer mused the lawyer. “I’ll
defend yon for $lO. If yon lick him in
a first-class manner yonr fine will be
about $25. Then there will be a few
dollars costs, say enough to make the
whole thing foot np S4O. I think that
I can arielv promise that it won’t cost
yon over that.”
“Forty dollars! Forty dollars for
licking a man! Why, I can’t go that 1”
“Well, prill his nose, then. The last
case I bad of that sort the fine was only
sls. That will reduce the gross sum to
thirty."
“1 want to tear him all to piece*, bnt
I can’t afford to pay like that for the
fan. How much wonid it coat to spit
on him?”
“Well, that's an aamalt, yon know,
bnt the fine might not be over ten
dollars. I guess $25 would see yon
through.”
“Lands I how I do want to crash that
man! Suppose I knock his hat off f'
“Well, about S2O would cover that.”
“I can hardly hold myself, bnt S2O is
pretty steep. Can’t I call him a liar?”
Oh, yes. I think sls would cover
that."
“Well, m see aboat it I’m either
going to call him a liar or else teLl
everybody that he is no gentleman, or
else give him an awful pounding. * Til
see yon again "
“My fee ia $5,” observed the lawyer.
•What for r
“For mv advice.”
The pulveriser glared at him for half
a minute, and then laid down a “V,”
and started slowly ont with the remark :
“I'm going straight to that man, and
beg his pardon, and tali him that I’m
the biggest tool in Detroit 1 Thank
Heaven that yon didn't get bat one
otaw on me(Free IBM
W. C. SMITH, Publisher,
The Schoolboy.
We bought him a box for boobs and toys,
And a cricket bag for his bat;
And he looked the brightest and best of boys
Under his new straw hat.
We handed him into the railway train
With a troop of his young compeers,
And we made as though it were dust and rain
Were filling our eyes with tears.
We looked in his innocent face to see
The sign of a sorrowful heart.
But he only shouldered his bat with glee
And wondered when they wonid start.
’Twas not that be loved not as hertofore,
For the boy was tender and kind ;
Bnt his was a world that was all before,
And onrs was a world that was behind.
Twas not his fluttering heart was oold,
For the ohild was loyal and true;
And the parents love the love that is old,
And the children the love that is new.
And we came to know that lore is a flower
Which only groweth down ;
And we scarcely spoke for the space of an hour
As we drove back through the town.
VARIETIES.
Somebody once said : “Nothing is
impossible to him who wills.” We
wonid like to see that chap bnild a bar
rel aronnd a bnnghole.
Traveling on a Mississippi steamboat
is apt to make even the humblest vain.
When the boiler explodes all the passen
gers are uplifted.
Mrs. Enoch Reed, of Bath, Me., was
attacked by a spotted adder while at
work in her summer kitchen. It was
killed, and fonnd to be three feet lODg.
A Jersey milkman turned pale when
several of his customers elnbbed together
and made him a present of a scarf-pin
in the shap? of a pnmp. It was a cow
herdly act.
Over in New York they are calling
Sullivan and “Tag” Wilson the light
ning pugilists because they do not strike
twice in the same place—the police
authorities will no’.'allow them. -
"Beecher says there is no harm in
card-playing.” Just wait, Henry, until
yon plank down yonr last chip on the
strength of a bluff, and yon will change
yonr opinion.
Tjiere are some men in politios who
ought to be set to work to revise the
Decalogue. They wonid have a great
many more than ten commandments
when they got through.
Archbishop Whately was one day
asked if he rose early. He replied that
once he did, bnt he wob so prQnd all the
morning, and so sleepy all the afternoon,
that he determined never to do it again.
A codfish was recently eanght on
Georges, and inside him was fonnd a
wallet containing a horse-car ticket.
As the tioket had been punched it was
of oonrse no farther nse to the fish.
The Kentnaky penitentiary nnmber*
among its inmates ten ohilaren nnder
the age of fifteen. These children
associate, as do the other children,
with the abandoned and the virions.
The census shows that the nnmber of
persons in a family in the United States
is a small fraction over five. In some
families we know the husband is the
small fraction over.
They don't have rains ont West. A
ciond jnst saunters np and examines a
town and then collapses right over it.
Nobody escapes bnt the newspaper
reporters and the book agents.
One of the Western society papers
asserts that a Miss Trent is the reigning
local belle. Wonder if it would be con
sidered complimentary to speak of Miss
Tront as a “speckled beauty.”
“Which is the girl from St. Louis]?”
asked a Coney Island visitor, gazing at
a hole in the sand. “Thst wasn’t made
by a St. Louis girl,” was the reply;
“that’s where a yawl was beached.”
“If it were onetomary in this country
to confer titles npon individuals of rank
in literature,” asked a shallow bnt con
ceited journalist of an old one, “what
wonid I be?” “Barren of ideas, son,”
was the response.
A hygienic commission has been
appointed to visit the insalubrious
lodging-houses of Paris. All old hontes
will be carefully examined, and tho
proprietors compelled to undertake
snch alterations as may be ordered.
The voice of gambling is everywhere.
Yonng men meeting do not hesitate to
■hake for drinks in saloon*. Yesterday
two ague-looking chape were in Alex,
ander Finlay’s drag store shaking for
qninin*.
Veneers of wood ore now ont by
machinery, varying in thiokneot from
one-ninetieth to one hundred and sev
enty-fifth of an ineh, and requiring to
be booked with paper. The catting
apparatus weighs thirty tons, and with
every revelation a knife twelve feet
long comes in eontaot with the log.
rolling the veneers off in sheets,