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DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1878.
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A WIFE'S CONFESSION.
I did not marry for lore. Very few
people do ; BO in thia respect I am neith
er better nor wowe. No, I certainly did
Dot merry for love; I believe I married
oar Reotor, Mr. Cartwright, simply be
cause he asked me.
I ought to bare been very happy, for
he was • most devoted husband, bat I
wm oot a devoted wife, and though I
did not notioe it then, I know now that
for the first sic months after our mar
riage he was not happy, either.
One morning about that time he told
ae at breakfast that ho intends leaving
me alone for ■ few weeks, to stay with
bis mother, who was not very well. He
watched the effeot of this announcement
on me; bat, though I was really dis
pleased, I concealed my ahnoyanoe, and
asked carelessly, when he would start.
He replied the next day, if I bad no
objeotion, and so it was settled
He was more affeotionate than usaal
that day, and I was oolder than ever; 1
onee alluded to his journey, and that was
to ask if I might have my sister Maud
to stay while he was gooe.
The next morning I was anxious (o
avoid a formal parting, so I drove to the
station with him. As the train moved
off I remembered this was our first part
ing sinoe our marriage, aod I wished 1
had not been so cold
Wheu I got home the house looked so
dreary and empty, and there was no one
to meet me. Every room seemed emp
ty, and each spoke of the absent master.
At last I wandered into bis study, where
he spent his mornings, and liked for me
to sit and work ; and now I remembered
bow often I had excused myself, saying
I preferred the drawing room ; and this
reflection did oot add to my happiness
It was full of little remembrances of
me, and everything I looked at teminded
me of his goodness to me, and of my
coldness aod ingratitude to him. At
last I went to bed; where, after worifljgjj
myself into a fever of anxiety lest
should not have reached the end of llfa
iourney in safety, 1 at length cried my
self into a restless sleep.
The aext morning I went down to
breakfast with a heavy heart, for I knew
I could not hear from him till the next
day. My plate, for the first time since
my marriage, wa* empty, as I sat down
to breakfast, for my husband, who was
an early riser, always had a little boqae*
to greet me with every morning. Fre
quently I forgot all aboat it, and left it
to be put into the water by the servant;
this morning I would have treasured it
moat carefully, if he gathered it.
Alter breakfast I determined to rouse
myself, aod go and visit some of the poor
people of the village; so I filled my bas
ket with some little delioacies for the
siek, and set out
Wherever 1 weot it was the same sto
ry, all held forth on my husband's good
ness and kindness, tor all had been
helped by him in some way or other, and
all loyed and respected bim. As I lis
tened, with burning oheeks, I felt as if
I was the only person on earth who had
treated him with cruel ingratitude, and
I was the very person whom he had moet
loved and cherished.
When Maud arrived it the afternoon,
I treated her to a long tirade of abuse
against mothers in law in general, and
my own in particular; and I vented ail
the anger I really felt against myself on
the innocent Mrs Cartwright.
"In faot, Nelly," said Maad, "I be
lieve you are so much in love with your
husband that you are jealous even of hi*
mother; aod you're making yourself
miserable about nothing. Why, Mr-
Cartwright will be baok in a fortnight,
and I dart say you will get a letter from
him every day; so cheer up, aod let us
go for a drive "
I agreed to this plan, and giving tbe
rain* to Maud, I lay baok and thought
of her word*. Wm she right after all f
Was I jealous ? Was I really, a* Maud
•aid, in love with my huaband f Had I
only found it oat now I was deprived of
bis company 1 WM thia the reason I
oould do aothiag bat inwardly reproach
myself for my ootid not to him T And
the looger I thought, the more eoovino
ed I became that Maud WM right, that
I WM j salons, aad that I WM in love, M
•he oalled it.
The next morning I get «p early tod
walked oat to meet the poetmui, »o anx
ious was Ito get a latter from him; it
waa the firat I had ever received from
him aince our marriage, and no girl waa
erer so anxious for, or no pleaded with
her first love letter, as I was over this.
It was a long letter, foil of loviog
messages and terms of endearment, all
of which cut me to the heart, for the;
sounded like so many icproaches. I
spent the morning in answering it, much '
to Maud's amusement, who, of course,
thought I was pouring out volumes of
love and complaints of my temporary
widowhood. Aftor tearing up about a"
dozen sheets of paper, I at last sent a
short note, eool, and with no allusions i
to my misery.
.For a whole weak I went Qa in tbifl
way, suffering more acutely every day,
and every day receiving loog, loving
letters from Mr. Cartwright, and writing
short, cold answers.
At last, when he bad been away ten
days, I could bear it no longer, for I felt
I should have brain fever if I went on
in this way, so I determined to go to
Melton, where Mrs. Cartwright lived,
and see my husband. I came to this de
cision one night, and went into Maud's
room early in the morning, t > tell her of
my intention. I expected she would
laugh at me, but I think she guessed
something was wrong, for she seemed
glad to hear it, and helped me to pack a
few things and set off in time to oatoh
the morning train.
It seemed years to me, for the nearer
I got to biy husband the more impatient
I was to see him. At last we got to
Melton, a large town. Of oourse, as I
was not expected, there was no one to
meet me, so I took a carriage to Mrs.
Cartwrigbt's house, where I arrived
about three o'clock.
I learnt afterwards that Andrew was
in the little drawing room with his moth
er when I drove up, but thinking I was
only a visitor, he escaped to another
room So I found my mother-in-law
alone.
By her side were some of my hus
which she. WM
sofefcs which I had handed to my ser
vttefe to mend, and which I longed to
jiMteh from his mother. His desk stood
open, a letter lo me, which he Lad been
writing, lying on it.
The servant announoed me as Mrs,
Andrews, my voice failing as I gave my
name, so that Mrs. Cartwright held up
her hands in astonishment when she saw
who it was.
"My dear Nelly ! lias anything hap
pened ? How ill you look I What is
it ?" she exclaimed.
"I want my husband," I gasped, sink
ing down on a chair, for I thought I
should have fallen. Without another
word Mrs. Cartwright led the room ; I
feel sure now she guessed all about it>
and oan I ever thank her enough for
forbearing to worry me witb questions as
to what 1 had come for ?
She came back in a few momenta with
a glass of wine, which she made me
drink, saying she would send him to me
at once if I took it. I complied, and
she went to fetch him. In another min
ute I hoard his Btep outside the door, and
then be came in.
"Nelly—my darling, what is it V he
cried, as I rushed into bis outstretched
arms, and hid my face on his breast,
sobbing bitterly.
For some moments I could not speak ;
at last I recovered myself enough to sob
out:
"Oh, Andrew! can you ever forgive
oe? I oame to ask you, and tell you, I
oannot live without you."
I would have said more, but his kisses
stopped my mouth ; and when at length
he let me go, there were other tears upon
my cheeks besides my own.
That was the happiest hour of all my
life, in spite of my tears; and before
my mother-in-law again joined us, which
she discreetly avoided doing till supper
time, I had poured out all I had to tell
into my husband's ears; snd I had learnt
from him that he bad left me to try what
effeet his absence would have on me;
for he had lelt for some time that my
pride was the great barrier he had to
overoome to win my love.
He had judged rigtt. He was too
generous to tell me how much he had
suffered from my indifferenoe, but I
know it must have grieved him terribly.
He Is a different man now, he looks so
happy, and I know be would not ehange
plaoea with any one on earth.
When the world has onee got hold of
a lie, it is astonishing how bard it is to
get it out of the world.
Tried for win Life.
A great criminal trial may be likened
to a great drama. Each of tbe oppos
ing lawyers strives to make a oertain
impression on the twelve spectators io
tbe jury box, while tbe judge presides
to sc? that All is done aocording to the
rule* of Ooe such trial took place
tome twenty years ago iu Indiana. Tbe
lewyer for tbe prisoner was Joseph G.
Marshall, * great orator. The success
ful *ay in which be put the evidence
for the defense, and the power of a sin
gle sentence, are both exhibited in tbe
Krflowing harrative of tbe trial /
Currie was an eccentric old man, who
Ooupled the prof, ssioo of schoolmaster
with that of "herb doctor." One night
Currie's wife being taken violently ill,
he gave her what he took to be calomel,
but which proved to be arsenic. In the
morning she was a corpse.
Alarmed at whit he had done, the old
man looked up his little cabin and fled
the neighborhood. A week later, the
smell of the deoaying body attraoted tbe
attention of passers, and Currie was in
dicted for murder.
Marshall, beNeving him innooent of
any wrong intent, volunteered to defend
him. The only witness called for the
defense was Dr. Coroett, a well-known
physioian of Madison. Mr. Marshall,
without preliminary questions, handed
him two little papers, carefully folded,
and asked him to inform tbe jury of
their contents.
The physioian took tbe papers, ad
justed his spectacles, and oarcfully ex
amined the oonteots. Not satisfied with
this, he took up a little of eaoh sub
stance, sifted them between his thumb
and forefinger, smelt them, and as a final
test, tasted the least bit of each.
"I think, sir, this is arsenio, and that
calomel."
"That is sufficient, doctor," said Mr.
Marshall. The prosecution bad nothing
'to ask. «
| This closed the evidenoe, and Mr
| Marshall, bowing to the court, aod turn
I ing to the jury, thus addressed them :
"Your honor, and gentlemen of the
jury, you have noticed the absence of
- proof showing any criminal intent. Now
jjif, in tbe broad light of day, and aided
iby tbe delieate sense of touch, and of
yasto, and of sight, Dr. Coroett, learned
tin bis profession and skilled in tbe use
of drags, decides with difficulty, and
| with some considerable show of uncer
tainty, whidh is the poison and which is
(he calomel, what can you expect of this
old man, oalled from his bed at
nidnigbt, his eyes dimmed with age, bis
nerves unstrung with fear, bis heart ach.
ing for a wife shaken with a deadly fe
ver, hi* mind overcome with droad 1
Take him away aod bang him if your
conscience* will let you 1"
Tbe effeot was instantaneous and com
plete. Currie was acquitted.
Wbfr Women Should Read.
Laying aside the thought of our own
rest and oemfort, let us look a little high
er. For the ohildreo'* sake we must
make the most of ourselves. Many an
unselfish mother has said, "Ob, I cannot
take all this time, there are so many
thing* to do for the childrea." She
4q«* not realise that she may do more for
them in the end by cultivating herself
than if she spends all ber time on clothes
and oooking. A generosity whioh makes
tbe recipient weak or selfish is not a
blessing but a curse. Have you not seen
grown-ap sons who snubbed their moth
er'i opinion* in tbe same breath with
whieh they oalled her to bring their
slippers f The meek little woman has
"trotted around" to wait on them bo
long, that tbey have eome to think that
that is all she is good for. Their sisters
keep "Ma" in the baokgroand because
the "hasn't a hit of style," and is "so
uncultivated," forgetting that she has
always worn shsbby olothes that they
might wear fine ones; that her bands
have become horny with hard work that
their* mif,ht be kept soft and white for
the piaao, and thftt she ha* denied her
lelf book* and leisure that they might
have both. And there are other chil
dren, too noble for such base ingratitude,
who feel a keen though secret sense of
loss as they kist the dear withered
cheek, and think how maeh more of a
woman "mother" might have been if she
had not *bat herself away from the cul
tare and sweet oompanionship of books.
—Scr&ner.
Fire and Brimstone.
The Rev. J. 8. Furnis, [aptly named]
an English elergyman, has written an
interesting and graphic description ot
hell, "for the instruction of the young "
Hell, he says, is situated 4,000 miles
from here, at the middle of the earth,
and is tenanted by millions and millions
of tormented creatures, mad with fury,
who dwell in the midst of screams, yells,
groans, cries, shoots, shrieks, roaring,
hissing, bowlings, waitings, fearful blas
phemies and thunder, not to mention the
sounds of "oceans of tears running down
from millions of eyes with a groat splosh
upon the floors of hell." Tbe Kev. Mr.
Furnis then says : "The roof is red hot >
the walls are red hot; the floor is like a
thick sheet nf red hot iron. See, on the
middle of that red hot iron floor stands
a girl. She looks to be about sixteen
years of age She has neither Bhoes
nor stockings on her feet. The door of
this room has never been opened since
she first set ber feet on this red hot floor.
Now she sees the door opening. She
rushes forward She has gone down
upon her knees upon the red hot floor.
Listen, she speaks. She says: 'I have
been standing with my bare feet on this
red hot floor for years. Day and night
my only standing place has been on this
red hot floor. Sleep never came on me
for a moment, that I might forget .{his
horrible burning floor. Look at my
burned and bleeding feet. Let me go
off this burning floor for one moment —
only for a short moment. Oh ! that in
this endless eternity of years I might
forget the pain only for one single mo
ment.' The devil answers her question.
'Do you ask' for a moment —for one mo
ment to forget your pain 7 No, not for
one single moment during the never
ending etornity of years shall you ever
leave this red hot floor.' "
Southern Heroism—Tbe War and
tbe Plague
The younger among us cannot per
haps remember the keen, warm sympa
thy with which tbe English of 1861-65
witnessed the heroic struggle maintained
by their Southern kinsmen agaiast six
fold odds or' number*, end odds of posi
tion, resource*, vantage ground, simply
incalculable. Even those who from sym
pathy with the Northern State* were un
favorable to the cause of a great nation
revolting against a real tyranny, oould
not but feel proud of oar near kinship
with that incomparable soldiery—*o des
ignated by their enemies—whioh, on
fifty battlefields, maintained a oonteft
such as no other race has ever ia modern
times maintained, and at last when all
hope was gone, held for six month*, with
45,000 men against 150,000, a slender
line of earthworks thirty mile* in length i
who marohed out 28,000 strong, and af
ter six days' retreat in the face of tbe
oountless cavalry aod overwhelming ar
tillery and infantry pressing them ou all
Bides, surrendered at last but 8,000 bay
onets and sabres. It is this people, the
flower and pride of tbe great English
raoe, on whom a more terrible, more
meroiless enemy has fallen. There oan
be now no division of sympathy, a* there
is no passion to exoite and keep up the
courage necessary for the oocasioo. Yet
the men and women of the South are
true to the old tradition. Her youth
voluoteera to serve and die in the streets
of the plague striokeu cities as rapidly
as they went forth, boys and gray-haired
men, to meet the threatened surprise of
Petersburg—as tbey volunteered to
oharge again and again the cannon
crowned bills of Gettysburg, and to en
rieh with their blood, and honor with
the name of a new viotory, every field
around Richmond.— London Standard.
Few attribute* of character are more
charming than the faculty of acknowl
edging one's error*. The man who
make* a blunder and stiok* to it is a
person with whom argument or contro
versy beoomee impossible. Tbe trouble
and time spent in attempting to con
vince him of the truth are completely
wasted ; for he will still believe that
what he ha* advanced mast be right,
even in the face of actual demonstration
that it is wrong. On the other hand, if
the action of one who will admit with
frank and ready eoarteiy that he has
been mistaken it may be said that it
"blesaoth him that give* and him that
take*"—»teo»er* his own retreat with
graeefulne**. and gives his adversary a
pleasant memory of an encounter with a
generous foe.
NUMBER 19.
A Queer Ghost Story.
A rniher queer story is told and can
t>»>«l*uchei for by over • dot en person*
in Springfield. It appear* about three
ysars ago a young wan living in Summit
got married, and in doe time bia wife
gave birtb to a child, which was a girl-
When the child wa* about one year old
its mother died. About five months la
ter the young widower became lonely
and took unto himself another wife.
But before doing so he took all of his
first wife's clothing, paoked it in a trunk,
locked it up, and allowed no one to have
charge of the key but himself. Among
the clothing put away was her wedding
shawl snd a pillow his wife had made
for her first born, and also some toys she
had bought just before she died. Then
be brought home wife No. 2, wbo, it is
said, made us good a stepmother as the
average stepmothers do. Things went
on lively till one night last week, when
there was a party at the next neighbor's
house. So after putting the babe in ils
little bed, the father and mother No. 2
went over to spend the evening at the
party. Shortly after they loft, two men
came along on their way to the party
also. Tbey saw a wonderful light in the
house as though it might be on fire.
Tbey also heard the cries of the babe as
though in great pain. They went to the
house, and as soon as they reaohed the
door the light went out and all was as
silent as the grave within. They has
tened on to the house where the party
was and told the man what they had
seen and heard in his house as tbey
oamo by. Five or six men, inoluding
the owoer of the bouse, started to inves
tigate the report When they arrived
tbey found every door and window fast,
as tbey were when the owner left. On
going inside everything was found to be
in its plaoe, except the child, which, af
ter a long search, was found upstair*
under the bed on which its mother died,
covered up in ita mother's wedding
shawl, and its little bead resting on the
pillow its mother made for it, last asleep.
Alongside of it lsy its little playthiogs.
On examining the trunk it was found to
be looked and nothing missing exeept
the abovementioned articles. Now, bow
the things got oat of the trunk and the
key in the owner's pooket, and he half a
mile from it, and how the ohild got up
stairs, is a mystery. The above may
sound a little dime novelish, bat, as we
said before, the facto in the case can be
and are vouched for by over a dozen re
liable citizens of Springfield.— Elizabeth
(AT. «/) Herald.
Women as Witnesses.
Noticing the readiness with wkioh
Abby Csrleton has baffled the cross-ex
amination of skilful lawyers in the Van
derbilt will case, and recalling the eaa
ning amiability of Mrs. Cooper, the witty
audacity of Mrs. Jenks, and the suave
astuteness of Mrs. Bishop, we are inclin
ed to asseverate in the most solemn man
ner that woman was not made to be the
helpmeet of man, but to be a witness.
The oertainty with which she oan swear
to faots, the minuteness with which she
oan state details, the easy confidence
with which she parries a lawyer's inso
lence are the envy of all men who have
sat in a witness box and besitsted wheth
er they really oould say on oath that any
thing whiob seems so is so. A man can
make a speech or write a poem or tell a
story to a set of jovial oompanions; but
when it oomes to giving positive evidence
in a court of law, stating a oonolusion
for an occurrence aad sticking to a story,
he is good for nothing. That is woman's
true sphere. Therein she maintains her
self serene, unassailable, infallible. When
her instinct as to how a case stands or
ought to stand has spoken the fertility of
her imagination, the subtlety of her wit,
the oharm of her composure may be
trufted to further the cause of justice—
as she understands it.— N. Y World.
STOP ASD THINK !—Does it ever oocur
to the Republican editors and orators
that if the Democrats sot half as bsdly
when they get into power as these filse
l rophets say they will, the voting popu
late will rise ia their might and rele
gate the Democracy to private life again ?
Does it ever oocur to these glib scrib
blers and loud talkers that Democrats
like offioe as well as other people, and
will naturally try to keep in by doing
their level best ? Any excited Radios!
who will bind a wet towel about his head
and sit down and ponder over these
things will get over his oauselees scare.
Wathinyton