VOL X. THIRD SERIES
SJU3SBTTCY. N. NOVEEJBER 21. 187a
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(From the Springfield Republican.
A wall grown up between the two
A strong, thick wall, though all unseen;
Kone knew when the firjst stones were laid,
Nor how the wall was built, I wjeeu.
Anil so their Jives were wide apart,
Althof they shared .one JUoa wl, one bed j
A careless eye eav naogltf.auAiss, -Yet
each was to the other dead.
lie, much absorbed in w,Qrk and gain,
Grew soon unmindful of his Joss j
A hard indifference worse tlian hate
Changed love's pure gold to worthless
dross,
She suffered tor t unes H ntold j
Too pwud to njojirnJttO strong to die ;
The wall pressed heavily on her heart;
Such wajls are growing day by day
Twixt iiaii and wife, Jtwixt friend ami
friend; -
Would they could know, who lightly build,
' ilow sad and bitter is tl;e jed,
A careless word, an unkind thought,.
A sljglt neglect, a taunting toneV .
Such things as the, lM'foie we knov,
Have laid the wall's fbundatioiustgone..
Ye bow to ghastly symbol,
To crpss anil scourge aiid tljorn;
.Ye seek his Syrian manger
Who in the heart is born..
For the dead Christ, not the living,
Ye watch the empty grave,
Whose life alone within you
Has power to bless and save. -
fi blind ones, outward gippiiig,
The idle quest- forego;
Who listens to hid inward veice
Alouo of him shall know.
Wittier.
A-SURPRISE.
"Am I thus nearer and dearer thine own,
Since thqu hast taught me tQ love thee ilone."
Such ye?e the words which theele-
gantly festooned vyalls and deep cur
tained recesses of a handsome drawing
room were made to echo. IJut whence
came the sound that preceded the
echo.? Enter softly lest we disturb
the fair singer J- Where is she rvas
it.an angel? But "the low sigh, the
language of the heart, belays what
the twilight's darkening gloom tries
to conceal. We start ! Seated before
a richly carved rosewood piano, her
head bowed as if -by some impending
trouble, we see Pyditli Lacv. Rocked
in the cradle of luxury; blessed by the
gifts which Fortune drops as the wheel
of Ti;hie revolves, do we wonder that
we find her as she is ? 2o, not as to
the distinguished air which lingers
around even the folds of hey dark
velvet robe, but as those dewy tears
which glisten in eyes far more pie-rev
ing than eycji the little god's winged
darts. Hark, the door bell peals!
How quick-she starts, but the lopk
of joyous expectancy is gone; down
rests the hpad and the lips half mur
mef the words, 'Surely Paul is not
gone" without biddings nje good-bye."
- . The door slowly openl just in time
to make her sentence audible to Paul
Raymond, who has since- his father's
death resided in the family of Esmond
Lacy. His position in the family is
pne formed by the closest business ties;
his father being, during his life, part
ner in the firm of Lacy.
Paul Raymond was tall and com
manding in appearance, with a brow
shaded by dark chestnut curls, a
mustache over lips and teeth perfect
ly suited to make him, as he seemed
to out IJditlf, an unequaled Apollo.
As-her whispered sentence conelu
dpd l.
, ticai cuuujru iMOue tO-
fold her m his arms, and, if he had
followed the dictates of hi heart, to
clasp-her to lusr manly breast and
declare the new story that his wait
ing anxious heart had so often wish
ed to reveal.
The time has cqme when he must
speak the 'sweet old word, good-bye
when he raust drift on Fate' broad
current, wafted by the gale of Duty
a distant port, on business for thn
firm in which he hopes,' by diliigencc
anu persevennwc, , some day to hold
the place of hisjfother.
i Alas ! the fraiSyf human desires !
But we mqst not lift the vail of fu tu
fty too far we l0SG the interest of
our fair readers, for methinks thev
dl b4he only ones whq yil pause
"ieiy io peruse a love tales,
"Edith," the low, softly whispered
name seemjngly intended only for the
ear yet reached the heart, and lo ! yhat
Biyraidsof tqraqlts rusljed through its
hidden chmbeps.
Gently she arose an yassuficient-
JV Wntrifln nf 1 l n
v ,.11C uiu loponceai nom
il3 glahoe what ye hve sceu, the
steerage of her poor troubled heart
tliroilirh iia Uf1i rp.... ...
-"o- vauiu ui icars. .- Arc
- - - . .... .. 1 T , . -7 ' i it o fS!: ii( .f lil i if. Slili; i MiJ .i'l.'U- '
you not yet gone ?" she finally suna
monel courage to ask, as she, handed
him her hand which he, followtrfg the
style of his day, well knew how, to
brush with his "dainty iiiustache."
"And not see my childhood's friend ?"
IJis tone rnade her eyes seek his face j
and then-but be gave- her not time
f,o draw her-inference, for still hold
ing the jeweled hand he geutl drew
her towards him. i'I$ditb, the hou
is near at hand in which J se sail
from my native Lincolnshire, giv
roe but the right to feel while away
that I leave one whowill dream of
a-futuro happier bur on my return.
Oh if you knew how fondly," how
ardently I Jong to call this dear
hand mine,, yo would yield jto my
entreaty ! . My absence njay be brj
yeiare, but , ,
"Tltnij will the impression deeper make,
As streams their channels- vear." -
L6ok up my dith, my. idol, let me
lipar from those precious lips the words
that can render your Paul earth's hap
piest mortal' The other hand was
placed with its mate. One step nearer
and her proud head, as if like the bird
of Thrace whose pinions knew n other
resting place, she laid on his shoul
der. What an Elysium on earth i
But human joys are but transitory at
best, jnd the cry of the watchman
warns hirii the hour has come when
theMEIsie" must sail. One more kiss
from the ruby lips and repeated pro
mises of fidelity and he tears himself
away, leavings his queen, where he
fondly placed her on a small divan
before thje grate with only his diamond
solitaire to convince her that Jinagi
uatioii has not been weaving her fan
tastic web uncorrected by" the organs
of sense. She aroused but to feel the
full force of her desertion. Patheti
cally she raises her imploring hands
to the ruler of the New Jerusalem and
cries, "Savfriiim, oh God, and a life's
devotion shall be offered as a sacrifice
to thee."
Day after, day glidad by. Edith:
was still reigning queen the loveliest
of the loyely. t s&emed that,
"Time's win? In stealing o'er,
Butieft Uer lovelier than before.''
yet, it-was a beayty calmed by , the
canker of despair gnawing at her
heart.
Two years had passed since the de
parture of the gallant bark "Elsie."
Six months aftej the night of her be
trothal, Edith was gladdened by tire
receipt of a white-winged messenger
of loye from Paul. A letter such as
only the noble man in whose keeping
her heart's pearls, almost totajly un
awares to Tier, had found their way,
could write. A letter so hopeful,.
cheerful and loving, so beautifully
and vividly picturing their future that
U.ipheal would, on reading, have been
tempted to give his pencil a depreca
tory hurl and a farewell benediction
of "Depart ye, useless rubbish, since
lovo has ceased to color your work ye
are become as your master old and
good for nothing."
fimc's tireless pinion had swept an
other almost endless six. months be
hind him, and Edith, while casually
passing through her" father's studio,
glanced at a paper which seemed as if
waiting for her perusal. Why did
her eyes search first the columns of
marine news down past the A!s, B's,
C's, D's but why that deadly pallor?
One wild shriek, and she falls, but
into the arms of licr father, who en
tered in time to receive the inanimate
form of his daughter. Calinly as pos
sible he used every art iri his 'power
to restore light to those brilliant eyes,
which now seemed closed in death
gently he chafed the icy hands, till a
slight pernor betokened her returning
consciousness, and committing her to
her ever faithful nurse, a watchful
Achates, he proceeded to look for the
cause of her fright. chance step
ping on the-paper that had cjrqpped
from Edith's hands, he was in the act
of restqriug it Jo the file on the table
when his eye noticed the hjtherto un
marked lines -
"WRECK OF TIJE ELSIE-zALI qN BOARD
ijer;siied.0
This was the k.ey to the mystery
and it unlocked for Edith her father's
warmpst sympathy, for he too felt sin
cerely attached to his old-time friend's
noble son Pauh He 'also knew his
motherless child's happiness was hur
ried with her lover in his watery bed,
where the Peris of Ocean would deck
his pillow with gems of jtUe -deep.
Gradually Edith appeared among
ker old associates, but like the mag
nolia shows the touch of the human
hand, she-bore the impress of orroW,
though endeavoring to conceal from the
world her heart's best treasure. SuU
ors were not lacking for the hand of
the heiress to Lacy Hall, yet she still
clung to her solitaire and iu the soli
tude of her own boudoir dreamed of
"The Und rest tor (ttioewhvJv a$d ne'er fOFr
get."
Imbibing comfort from the thought
"Well meet In that ble3t region yet."
fhu passed another year, and
Edith, fti 11 Miss Laey. To-night the
anniversary of her Paul's-departure,
she, at tliM earnest exhortations of
Annie St. ,Clair, her jcbUdhood's ear
liest playmate, has laid aside her sab La
robes, that she persists iu wearing,
and is to stand pre-eminently first iu
the group of lovely bridesmaids. An
elegant white satin perfectly a la T0(le
has just received the finish iug touches
from the deft fingers of Fashion's most
skillful moditte. Her raven hair deck
ed with a single white rose, the favor
ite of her heart's hero and a cross of
untold value clasping the rich lace at
her snowy throat, form the only orna
ments of our queen, and such she
looks as majestically she descends
the corridor and kneels before Mr.
Lacy to receiye tbe farewell kiss she
never leaves without. No wonder
her escort seemed paralyzed; for nev
er has her regal beauty been so re
sjjlcndcntfas now.
They reach the St. Clair residence.
"Every thlntr young, every thing fair,
From the East to the West Is blushing there."
But Edith must still receive from
"Priam" the "golden apple."
But why that dreamy look ?ber
thoughts; on this night are "linked by
many a hidden chain" to the past.
She is aroused fronl her reerie by
the indirect question Who waits
with Edith." Never till that inoment
had it occurred to her, there must
be some one. Silently she turned as
if expecting Anie to give the an
swer,' when suddenly all attention
was directed toward the half open
door, when a waiter of elegant flow
ers' was beinc: handed in for Miss
Lacy. Taste and elegance was breath
ed out in the aroma, but the white
rose held pye-eminence. Jfa card, no
name what a bundle of unsatisfied
curiosity the room contained! Each
guessed, as usual with the sex, but
Annie premised it from the handsome
stranger who reached Lincolnshire the
day previous. Poor little flowers, your
fate is scaled ! A handsome stranger
and a rosebud are but poor balances
when weighecj in the scale of woman's
curiosity,
Edith alone thought of her treasures,
and not suspecting any guest to have
yet arrived, descended to place her
floral tribute in a vase suitable for its
reception, She had placed the "last
bud in its prope nook and corner,
when thinking perhaps "distance woqld
lend enchantment," she stepped back,
her mind busy with conjectures as to
the doner, when the same low "Edith"
was borne to her ear. She starts and
is clasped in the embrace of J?aurf
Has the sea given up its dead. So it
seems, for there is no Edith as brides
maid that night but twp brides
Edith and Annie. A few moments'
delay ip which to receive congratula
tions fioni assembled fripds, they
then hasten for the blessings of Mr.
Iacy to his children Paul and IJdith
Raymond.
Vive Beate ! '
North Carolina Gold,
The arrangements recently perfect
ed by the Treasury department to pur
chase the gold bullion deposited at
the United States assay office at Char
lotte, N. C.,- at its value, less the usual
u'mt charges at the expense of trans
portion, to Philadelphia, are meeting
with great successr The annual gol4
yield qflfortb Carolina is only $0,
000 but the producers were com. pel led
to disposed of their golv to bullion
dealers at a heavy discoquh Under
the present management they can ex
change it at par with legal tenders or
silver dollars, thereby greatly increas
ing the production. Since the order
was issued from the Treasury depart
ment there has been a very noticeable
increase in the gold recipts from this
section. Washington Pout.
A SiD STORY OF THE' YEL
LQWFEYER. A few evenings ago a welhdressed
girl baby; one year old, was left on
Jthe doorsteps of Mr. Newcomb, of
Providence, L and , by its side a
letter, in whie.b the heart-broken moth
er who had left it there stated that
she had lost her father, mother, broth
&X, husband and three children by
yellow fever in New Orleans, and that
she fled to Cairo to escape the plague,
with her baby; that botl were attack
ed with the fever in that place and
recovered, though the writer felt as
though she was losiug her memory,
and no doubt would soon be a raving
maniac. She urged tjieui not to look
her up, as she was going to New York
on the midnight train, "there to die
unknown," and gave instructions for
the care of the child. She signed her
self Mrs. Josie Hall. Mr. Newcomb
Was great'y affected, for he had knowi
the lady's family, who, he said sto'od
high in the South, Mrs. Hall being a
beautiful and accomplished lady. Two
days after a telegram was received by
AJr. Newcomb from Boston, stating
that Mrs. Hall was in a dying condi
tion at a hotel in that city. He im
mediately started for Boston, and ar
rived in reason to receive the dying
woman's instructions. She begged
him to be good, to her child and to
send her body to New Orleans for in
terment. She left some money to pay
her funeral expenses, and also some
for the cre of the child. The remains
were forwarded to New Orleaus. A
letter received from the latter city
throws some additional light on the
sad affair. Mrs. Hall, it appears,
while deranged with grief, had fled
from the city in her father's carriage,
accompanied by the faithful coach
man, and went to Cairo, where the
coachman died. After her arrival
there her uncle and aunt ajso died,
She immediately left Cairo and fled
North. The babe will be tenderly
cared for.
A Fresh Cubarp Outbreak.
Letters just receiyed from Cuba
show that the E)astern part of the is
land is as far as ever fronj the pacifi
cation so loudly proclaimed at Hav
ana a few months ago. In addition
to the bau()s iu Las Villas and the
Easteri) ppnarttuent, there is positive
information received from Cuba, that
Col, Arias has taken the field in Las
Yi)las at the heat of a force number
ing oyer 300 men, well armed and en
thusiastic. Spanish forces have start
ed ifi hot pursuit from Villa Clara and
Cienfuegos. Large bodies of slave
negroes from all the adjoining estates
are flock lug to the insurgents. The
situation is f "urthr complicated by ne
gro revolts throughout the depart
ment. N. Y. Star.
In New York city a suit has been
begun by Drf Wm. A. Hammond,
formerly surgeon-general of the army,
agaiust Dr. John P. Gray, of the State
Lunatic Asylum, for 50,000 damages
for allcdged libel. The asserted libel
was in au article in a periodical con
trolled by Dr. Gray, which was after
wards reproduced in pamphlet form,
in which Dr. Hammond says that his
skill iu what has become his specialty
nervous and mental diseases was
assailed, and his honesty in testimony
given by him in several murder cases
was impugned.'7 This is the same Dr.
Hammoned who was so decently flay
ed by Dr. Grissom of Raleigh.
The Columbia Register of yesterday,
after remarking that itseeras probable
( that the prosecution of ex-officials of
that fatafe s to be revived, says that
the grand jury of Richmond county
Yqesday returned true bills against
Daniel H. Chambtrlaiu, Hiram H.
Kimpton, C. P. Leslie, Niles G. Park-
er and J. L. Neagle, who are charged
with conspiracy to defraud the State,
iu connection with the infamous trans?
action of the land commission, !
With pleading eyes she looked up
from the piano aud sang, "Call me
yourdarliugagaiu." But hcrefqsed, as,
there were wituasscs around, and there
is no telling when a man will be in
troduced to a brcach-of-promisc suit
in these day?.
THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO
DISSIPATE.
Tlve Rev. Dr. Talmadge of Brook
Jyn, recently visited (atuight) many
of the low dance houses and sinks of
perdition iu New York City, in com
pany with Policeman, for the purpose
of observing the frequenters of such
places and how they behaved. He has
been giving horrible accounts of what
he saw,jnd on Sunday last spoke as
follows in his Church iu Brooklyn
"Standing within these pavilions of
death, I was as much surprisedjat tba.
people whom J missed as at those
whom I saw. There was one class of
persons that I missed. I looked for
them up and down the galleries and
amid the illuminated gardens and the
scenes of death, I saw not one of
them. I mean the hard workinjr cla&
ses the laboring classes of our great
cities. Applause. You tell me they
could not afford to go there. They
could entrance tor women, nothing;
entrance for men, tweutyftv cents..
Laughter. Hard work is the friend
of good morals. Men who have toil
ed from morning till night, are glad
to sit down and rest or go to some
quite place of amusement where they
are not ashamed to take their wives
and daughters. The places of dissi
pation are chiefly supported by those
who begin buisness at 9 or 10 o'clock
and go away at '3 or 4 in the after
noon. They have plenty of time to
go to destruction in, and plenty of
money to buy a through tipket on the
grand trunk railroad to perdition,
stopping at no depot till they come to
the eternal smash-up.. The most for
tunate and divinely blessed young
men arp not thqsp who have breakfast
early and supper late, and have a
pocket case full of the best cigars, and
dine at Delmorjico's and dress in tip
top fashion, and have their hat set
further oyer on the right ear laugh
ter and who have boots of most ex
quisite torture fitting the foot, an$
who have handkerchiefs soaked with
musk, and patchouly, and white rose,
and new moan hay and balm of a
thousand flowers. Laughter. There
is no chance for the morals of that
young man who has plenty of money
and no occupation Those are the fort
unate young inpn who have to work
hard for a living. You do not fiijd
them in these places of iniquity. Qivp
a young man plenty of wine, and plen
ty of cigars and plenty of fine horses,
and Satan has no anxiety about that
man's cominsr out at his ulace. He
ceases to watch him, only giving di
rections about his reception when he
shall arrive at the end of his journey."
Apples jox Europe.
The- export of apples this year
promises to be the largest ever known.
The apple crop is enormous; the qual
ity is excellent, and prices are ruling
low enough to give excellent promise
of profit in foreigU markets. The
Boston correspondent of the New Yfk
Bulletin says that already some vessels
have taken as many as 3,000 barrels,
but the "Canopus " of the Warren
Line, which sailed October 16, took
5,000 barrels, which is the largest
cargo yet, and, as near as he can find
out, no such shipment was ever before
made.
A female elephat in the Philadel
phia Zoological Garden was greatly
fri" htened bv the recent gale, and
when she cut one of her feet on tlp
glass of a broken window, her terror
was complete. She sat on her haun
ches, held up her wounded, foot, and
bellowed long and loud. When the
keeper entered, her male companion
had WTtrunk wound round the foot
as though trying to comfort her.
An hpnet igupramus, whq had es
caped a great ppril by au act of hero
ism, was. much coinplimeuted for his
bravery. Que lady said ; "I wish I
could have seen your feat." Where
upon he blushed and stammered, and
finally, pointing to his pe4al pxtremi
tics,said, "Well, thpretijey be, mum."
It is they whq glorify, who Khali enjoy
Ilira; they who deny tbeuiselvea, who
shall not bt denied ; the who labor on
earth, who shall rest in heaven ; they who
bear the cross, who shall wear the crown;
.t... iw. w.x.L- tit lilies others, who shall
! lilC UU own "
I be bh&setl. Dr. Guthrie.
WHO SUCCEEDS.
Evidently the man who tries! Try is
. , , "
the golden key that unbolts the strong
iT anT, TTTr t GeW0t
and rhnuph in conflict ' It spans trac
the deepest -chasms, bridges the largest, and Miss Wna Sailed eenh
nrers, tunnels tjhe highest monntai, and j vus employed M a means of SS
by ny connectin. wires brings eontiuentW Mrs, ElJis started 2
within a few Reroiid nf J- u . . ueanesuay
has given to the world the createst disco
. t .Mk.vji HPT
ries, the xaosi wonderful foyejjtions, and
tue most useful men. The world will
n-er forge jsawry of its worthies who!
1 - - i
XI . "vu;uumuW auuiigt to a :
! BnToi wnu uesu
lloxrer Sherman, who wn n n,c.K. ex
the first Congress, was once a shoeiuakar. '
i iuuikiiu, tue pnuosopiier and statesmaw
was a poor priuterboy. Ehhu Bofrit,
the mathematician was a blacksmith.
These men beeamw gi-eat by diut of their
own etfort. They were self-made men.
And, is not every great man a self-made
raauf He kuows, better than any one
else, how he climbed the ladder. Some
begin on lower rounds than others, bat
all go up the same way, "round by rouud."
Hen do what they waijt to do. iVbet&
there's a will there's a way." None ever
make life more of a success than they ex
pected jto make it. Then how important
to keep tup courage up! keep trying!
What purpose have you t
"Life is real, life is earuest !"
Aim high, Ieep your ideal above you.
Look towards it, aim at it, hit it. There
can be no failure. When his boatmen
despaired of reaching the land Cajsar in
spired them by shouting, "Never fear, you
carry Cipsar," Have confldeuce in your
purpose, yourself and your Qod. You
have a better, higher bjspjraton than Any
general could bring to bear upon his men.
Be true. Be good. Be right. Assert
yourself in all good thiugs. A slave is
known even by his songs how full of
bondage his plaintive minor airt
Let the sunshine, the genial air of hap
piness pervade your whole life ! Develop
mind and body. Educate yourself. Men
tal discipline makes superiority. Seek
wisdom, aud remember that as the body
so the mind does not become fully grown
in one day. It was after six defeats, that
the seventh battle gave Bruce of potlaud
the tinal victory.
f'lf at first ypir dpn't succeed,
Try, try again !"
"Get wisdom, aud with all thy getting,
get understanding," and remember, there
$ no success without effort. 1'ftftl.
Singular Diphtheria. The diphtheria
a round Company Shops has proved fatal.
Iu the, family of Albert Mitchell, foqr miles
fjpm the Shops, four children were lost
and then the father. Mr, Hughes, a la
borer in the rolling mill, buried ouo child
to return from the funeral and find another
dead, and by the time the second was bu
ried, a grfVTP was dug to bury the third
one the next evening. Seme doubt it is
diphtheria. Willis Sellers says he remein-,
bered the same kind of disease around
the country thirty years ago; Dr. Mike
Holt pronounced it some port of paralytic
affection of the blood, he forgets the techi
pica! name. Some of the victims have
been taken in the tp and it runs in a streak
all up the body and ends right HMdpF tnP
threat. Iu the case of MrTljpinpson's lit
tle boy his foot cracked open under the
bottom and a red streak ran up each side
of the leg, one streak taking up the stom
ach fo the boy's neck and the other run
ning up his back. Mr. Thompson works
in the foundry at the Shops. lieuUrille
Times.
Don't Quarrel.
People talk of lover's quarrelg as rather
pleasant episodes because they are not
quarrels at all. It is half-play; and they
know it. Matrimonial quarrels arc an
other thing. We dpubt seriously if roar;
lied people ever forgive each other after
th6 first falling put. They gloss it over,
they kiss and make it up ; the wound apr
parently heals, but only as those horri
ble wounds, given in battle do to break
out again at some unexpected moment.
The man who lias sneered afiuj said
cruel tjijpgs to a sensitive woman never
has her whole heart again. Tlje wpmaji
who has uttered reprpaches to a man cau
can never be taken to his bosom wjth the
same tenderness as bjjfore those words
were spoken. The two people -who must
never quarrel are husband and wife.
One may fall out with kinsmen, and make
up and be friends again; but love, ouw
banished, is a dead and buried thing.
4 S.lran(jc Fih Slary,
A day qr twp, siflce, immediately after
aq explosion jiuder water at the blockade
above this, city, the government employ
ees djspovercd a large number of fish ris
ing to the surface of the water, apparent;
ly dead, and commenced gatherjrig them
up. They had collected qnjte a large
number of them when they found that
others, which had bee floating about on
the water. we.rp "coming to life" aud
swimming pff. The explosion had stuu;
ned them al. and after a short time those
: which Jiad not ajready been gathered lip,
came to aud wero yuabled to make, tlieir
ec"iie. The others were dresse au pre
pared for the table. Xcicbcrn Nut Shell.
7 jterrml hphXM
diug took place Tneiov'iiffinWA
pbx 'Tacr'afternooti ftt
I (wvwjt vuse, uuio; at least
jth W wwiLlhe JCT.
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.asrforii'by
ev i homo jaadi Wsband ii 1 (h
Wst The wadding day ;hal beelfap
pointetl, but Mr. EUig c.uld 'rVo...
business engagements, be ou luuid".. The
young lady's juwtbercould not allow her
O "tJ
daughter USo away fttm :l,ome ttiimkr-
ried; so, at the saggesUouef thdjojlilsier,
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grapluJEr TJt
DriiJil'ejtiictf no Palliation.' "
It is more than thirteen centurti'ife
when Bellisarius on his way tdAfrica
gibbeted two of his soldiers for au act of
violence. And wheiii this summary pun
ishment aroused sone mutiny among the
comrades of the executed men, the ' Gen
eral explained that the crime alone
not have been visited by this terrible re
tribution if it had not been aggravated
by the fact that the perpetrators wer
drunk. This is pretty sound law to-day.
Surely a man will not be held less guil
ty of crime because he deliberately pre
pares himself for it by sMflfug all that i
iu human nature, aq.d stimulating all that
is brutal. He should rather be held mor
ally resppnsibjo for ali the other possible
crimes which the alcohql he swallows
would drjve him to commit if opportunf-.
ty offered. '
Yquikj Girls. A girl in HillsbonvN; t,
poisoned a young man because he refus
ed to make love to her. Young meu run
a fearful risk in refusing to make love' to
young women. But, per eoutra, wo real
that iu auother town a young girl shot the
top of a young man's head off because e
Imdsted in making love to her. There
fore young men also yuu a fearful risk in
making loye to a young woman. The
safest plan would bo to start on au expeT
ditiou to discover the North Pole. ' There
are no young omeu there: St. LoiiU
Evcn 'my Post. '
When pins were first iutroduced into
use iu England they were very expensive,
and only attainable by tlib rich. So pre
cious were they considered to lie, that the
maker was only allowed to sell them for
two days in the year. Owingto these
circumstances, the custom arose for base
bands to give their wives money for the
purchase of pins, ami hence the term
"pin-money" was applied jv. term which
is still used when speaking of the money
allowed by a husband for his wife's pri
vate expenditures,
NEWSPAPERS.
Newspaper law says if a peraori 6r'
ders his j)aper discpyfipued he must'1
pay all arrearages, r the publisher
may continue to send it until paymenf 4
is made, anJ cyllectthc whole amount'
if the paper is taken from the office, ,
Also an action of fraud can bo instI-?.
tuted against any person (whether bp i
is responsible in a financial yipw of
not) who refuscs4,o pay a subscriptipp. "
Gentleness at JTome.rBe merciful 11 ,
your judgment of pne another.. Do hot ...
encourage fn yourself the habjt f eritiefc.
sjng and commenting upon the foible
and faults of any members of your owy
family; Tjjere i pfljlng gained b,y it,
and a great deal is lost. L,ove its.ef if "
often choked back and hindered n its
gi-owth by the rank sturdiness of weeds
which spring up against it, unchecked, iu
houses where people say all manner of
ungentle things tp ea'plj oJICf;
Wonders will never cease. Grant has
said once iu his life, when fomet!.iug w&s
offered, "Xo, I thank you." Kiug Luis ,
of Portugal, ofTed to confer on Ulysses,
the highest decoration of knighthood, anj
Grant actually declined. He was proby
ably afraid it wqql4 cost spnjething.' If
the King had sent it by express, charges,
prepaid, Grant would have takeu a freslj
cigar and said yes. Wilmington Star.
The signs all pojut Jo a cold winter.
Wild gpese ly higher and honk louder
than usual. Squinels arelaying up a
largo wjnter supplyi- Ground:rat dig
deeper l)ples. There are lqre niarrjageg
than usual. Dogs turn their hqds to th
north when they howl at night, and heif- ;
ers curTtheir tails" higher wheir- frisking.
E. City Economist.
fJEMS.
Consider wejlj then thicide positively.
Dare to do l igljt i to do wrong.
Endure your V)hds patiently.
Fjght lift;'. Uittle bravely, manfully.
Gto not to the Hticiety of ih vjuious.
I Jod your moral hitegrUysaeraJ.
Jnjilie not auwther's )eputatqq or bojj;
jues. :
Jiiu Ipuuls nly witj) ihe-irtuons. '
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A man who has no bills against him bj;
longs to the nobility of the highest ran,j;