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VOL. 10.
fhe 'Wilson Advance
FRIDAY.
JUNE 4, 1880
etry.
Away From Home.
liit in tl lonesome twilight, .
' And lit-ar, in the-treeU below,
Srange voices and hurrying footsteps,
Rut never a ono I know.
Here, in the great wide city,
A Granger, I stand apart,
As lonely a if a dweller
. In tlie dis-tant di.-serl's heart. ?
Rur the din dies out of the twilight
As I sit arid think of home,
Wliere father sits in the firelight
With thoughls of .the ones who roam.
I can see thf red lijht playing
Strange freaks with his silver hair,
As hi-' whispers tlie dear names-over
In a way that i half a rrayer.
fla is 'sitting there with his Biblo
Open upon his knee,
And I know that the dear old chapters
Are blent with Lis thoughts of me. '
Oh, thought that is sweet as Heaven!
Wheruver iny feet may roam,
There is one true heart to love me
" And pray for mo at home.
I know what he pccs in the firelight
With that strange and far-off look,
As he thinks the sweet word over
! lie read.s in the dear old Book.
Close by the? gates of heaven
He sees my mother stand,
And to him, in the llesh of the firelight,
S'r.e waves a beckoning hand.
Oh, tenderest, heart and truest!
Your thoughts "are in heaven, and
here;
Of the friends in the two worlds, father
The heaven-friends '-arc most near.
I ( annot sea in the firelight
The 'face that I long to see,
For thinking of home and father,
Swift tears have blinded me.
Rut I know that his lips are saying
A prayer for his boy to-niht,
And aking tliat God will guide me
In the paths that are paths of llht.
And he prays that when life is ended,
And no more our f ?et niay roam,
In the world that is ovrr yonder
Tie may have us all at homo.
The miles may be long between us;
But be they many or few,
His lore will o'er reach all distance,
And help me to be true. .
Aud the thought will be sweet with
comfort,
Whcreyc r my teet may roam.
That I've one true heart to love mo
And pray for me at home.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.
"Luv, the root is on the new house
at last. Will you walk over with nie
to see it?"
"Certainly, George. But hadn't we
belter call sister Kraily ? She is in
the parlor, with Tora Miller, They
may wish to go with us."
"No ; I want you only you, Lucy !'
said George Burns, looking, with a
frown on his brow, at the group ou the
piazza, who were watching the result
of his .conference with" Lucy Etnmons
at the gato.
"Coras now, as'j'o.u are," he urged,
'It is hut a short distaece, ?nd days
are growing warmer. Throw that
shawl over your head and take my arm
Don't go back to them."
Lucy Emmons hesitated but a mo
ment before she complied with his re
quest. "A regular elopeniont," said Farmer
Etr.iaons, smiling at his wife. 1 -
"Oh, she is only going to look at his
new house, father," was the "reply, ''I
i; -sfcr i this tnorumg that the roof was
on." :
"And it is a Mansard roof, too,"
CQi.l t'nM X.-- r
' V r"Min. . vcuiSe uunis
men to keep, house iu good style,
v.. I '.
aiiii iiMnv ; i
many a gul in Uentrevillo would
be very glad to be asked to keep it
with him," she' added, robuishly, for
the benefit of Tom Mil'er, who' was
j Nuking after the retreating pair, with
j no "A-jleasant expression on his
handsome face.
"Is Lucy one of those girls?" he
ask d, speaking his thoughts aloud.
"You had . better ask her," was
Emily's saucy reply.
"Emily I" reproved her mother
But Tom was gone !
Down the garden-path he darted,
Si ill $1 ISflMW
"Lp ALL THEEDSTUQC
1 : 1
WILSON,
and out ivpon the plank-sidewalk after
the young couple, who halted and
turned toward him, as he called Lucy's
name.
"I came after you, Lucy, to ask you
tpcmember that you have promised
to sail witn me on the pond, as soon
as the moon rises," ho said lifting his
hat politely tp the young merchant,
who returned the salutation rather
stiffly.
"1 shall be
lack before dusk,. Cousin
Tom," replied
Lucy looking rather
surprised.
"Oh, very well, if you are sure of
that ! But I cannot give up my sail.
ring safe?" he added, in
a lower and mjore confidential tone.
T.ucy turned crimson, a she caught
the staited glance that George Burns
bent upon her.
"I have it safe in my pocket-bock,"
she said.
" "All right. But you should wear
it, Lucy dear!" end Tom, as he vaul
ted away. " :
'Lucy dear !"
George Burns bit his lip as he heard
the familiar a
nothing.
bpellatioa. But he said
They walked on again toward the
new house. But half the rdeasure of
the walk for h
ni was gone,
substantially -built and
It was a
handsome cottage, standing in well
htid-out "grounds" of three acres in
extent.
Lucy had played often, in her child
hood, amoDg the great, brown rocks
that Imd been jlcft, by George's order,
upon the lawn. ' -For ' the land had
once beeu pasture-land, before Cen-
treville expanded from a viilage into a
town. And the old farm-house that
had been Lucy's birth-place, stood, in
uins, on the side of this very cottage,
when the young merchant purchased
it. ,'; ! -
1 ' J. "
He had looked forward to bringinc
her here, on this memorable daj' ; had
intended to sa'v to her, "I give you a
new hpme where the old one stood
i -
only 'share it with me !"
In thought, jhe had looked ' forward
to the time when other children should
sport :airad those dear old rocks, while
ne ana iLucy looked .smilingly on.
Well, thev were here at last, in the
new home toge ther ! But something
was wrong between them.
Lucy was silent and embarrassed.
She admired the rooma and the pros
pects ; she thanked him, prettily for
saving
ser old playmates, the moss
grown recks.
But to lr"a there seemed to
be a
shadow over over everything !
"Lucy dear !" 6eemed to sound con
tinually in his ears. And then that
moonlight sail, with that presuming
coxcomb, upon tha pond ! From these
uncomfortable musiigs, he was roused
by a cry of distress from Lucy :
. "Oh, I have lost it ! What shhll I
do?" . !
It was her pretty purple-and-gold
diary ; and it. had been his owu birth
day gift to her.
i -
But he forgot that. All that he re
membered was, that her pocket-book
contained Tom Miller's odiou3 ring.
"Yon had better have worn it, as he
said," he. remarked, at last, after they
had searched the building through aud-
through in vain.
"Worn it? How could I?" she be
gan, and then she burst into tears.
I will come again and search, when
I have seen you safely home," he said,
"Oh, I beg you do not ! Donlt come
or Tom will-rAny one any one but
you!" she said, wringing her hands, as
if She was gping almost distracted.
"I should return the ring safely. I
am sorry you trust me so little: But f
will notEearcjh as you desire mo not,"
he said, stung to the heart's core by
her implied distrust.
She did not answer ; she scarcely
seemed to hear him. She' was iustears
all the way home, and in tears when
i .
she parted with him at tho gate ot tne j
! : i
Emmenii farm.
i
"She loves, that fellow-that is very j
plain." thought Gebrge Burns, bitterly j
as he turned .towards homes "There is j
no hope for me." , l !
H'bk paeu on. ruining ;
seen uf the
farm.
young merchant
at
I I ; 4. i
E:ul) heard, in the village, that he
had
New York, and tbat all
work upon tile new house was stopped
by his order,
The next month, a stylish stranger
. - i !
"' w'v wun )ucv wi i
thriving store which George Burns 1 on a patent newspaper, in w inch every ;
iurMuifr More, vtiucu uiur0t uuiiv p t t i ;
had disposed of to him at a dead loss,
Iwiardpd
i S
up, and the property p!aced in the care,
AUPST AT, BE THY CCTTrRPS,
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N. P., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880
of the ablest Iajyer in. the village.
George Burns, it was said, would re
turn uo more. ; '
.
Sixyears;wept by, and Lacy Em
mons lived still in the old stone farm
house with her parets.
Emily had been, for five years, the
prosperous and contented wife of Tom
Miller, in h3 far.off Western home.
Against the spring twilights, with
long-drawn-out, , melancholy light,
shonedown upon the shut up house
in the old pasture grounds.
And, for the. first time, in six long,
sad years, Lucy Kmmons turned her
step that way, in her louly afternoon
walk.. .. ; j .. 1
She was surprised to seo the : front
door of the cottage open, as she ap
proch it. She stole in, expecting to
fiud the aged lawyer, its care-taker
there. A man was there.
His tall, strongly-built figure stood
out in bold jrelief against the white
western light, that shone through the
unboarded window of the dreary room.
il head ; was bent over a small J
i book; bound in
tarnished, mildewed
purple-and gold.
With a scream, Lucy Emmons dar
ted upon him, and snatched the book
from him hands.) j
"It is mine !"j she panted. "I lost
it here, six years ao."
i j. i
A flood of crimson dyed her face ;
for it was George Burns who stood
the.ro before her !
"Did you read it?" 6he gasped.
"Lucy, don't blush don't turn
away!" he said, taking both her hands
and turning a radiant, happy tace upon
her. "I was a fool six yaars ago.
Don't punish me for my folly now 1 I
thought-it was Tom Miller's ring that
you were so j anxious about. I never
dreamed that it was your diary, where
3'ou. had written your love for me, my
darling. Blessed little book ! I found
it behind a pile of rubish.in this room.
Lucy I brought you here that day to
ask you to be my wife. I . heart of
Tom Miller's marriage l&3t week, from
his own lips.; ;I saw your sistej and
their two; children. I heard that you
were unmarried, and I came ctraiht
on here to ask you now to share ' this
horns with mo. Wiil you?"
Half an hour later the reunited
lovers walked back to the . farm togeth
er. And then they were married, the
very next evening, with the lawyer for
the "best man."
"Better late than never,' eays
George Burns, as he watches his chil
dren playing among the old pasture
rocks., j :
But fondly as he Ioyb his wife, uo
one has ever heard him call her "Lucy
dear l' . i
A rrent-li Romance.
Eleven years: ago a youDg French
man, Gilbert by name," and j a very
ardent Republican, fell in love with
the daughter of an Imperialist, and
as the father of the girl; refused his
consent to the marriage, the roung
couple determined to commit suicide.
They repaired to a small town near
Paris, and Gilbert, after ! shooting his'
betrothed, attempted to blow his own
brains out. i In neither case did the
wounds prove ' mortal, .and the war
breaking out scon afterward, Gilbert
was not prosecuted, as he had left
Fa-is to eerve in the army of the
Loire. lie returned to Paris at the
outbreak ot: the commune, served in
the National Guard, was made pris
oner when the Versailles j troops en
tered the city, and transported to
New Caledonia!. During his absence
his betrothed hadA been induced by
her father to marry a wealthy mer
chant, and she is now the mother of
i-
a numerous family, her husband hav
ing had no suspicion of the antece
dent events! ;Gilbert was included
iu the amnesty granted a few months
ao, and he: returned to Paris, the
Ail.,f)i. rrilr In lir irpoatA,1 rvn tlio
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charge of attempted homicide. It
, . . tl . . . ...
appears, however, tnat the trial will
tQ an thc pubHc
prosecu(or he of opinion lhat the
procceaing3 j cannot be carried on
without putting into the ; witness box
rii!1wrt attemntl to
, , I u iiynj " v. ; -
. !
Kill
To do this would be to blast her
character, and perhaps to bring about ! goes a tiny pair (f cream colored po
her separation from her husband, and j nje3 drawing a fairy like phaeton, and
so the Minister of Josticej has author- a sweet little blonde manipulates the
ized the public prosecutor to desist j
from further proceedings.
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hard
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man advertisement ou uc piaceu ai
the head of the column and
next to ;
reading matter. ;
THY GOD AXD TRUTU
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1'roni our CtTMixaliat. :
Pen-PIctarea from tUs Capital
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One of the most brilliant and at the
same time, enrious sights to be seen
herein Washington, is the one which
greets the eye some bright sunny af
ternoon between the hours of thtoe
and six and known in local parlance
as 'taking the avenue in" Start! ait
the corner ofFifteenth street and prom
enade up towards the capitol bull
and, within this small scope one
see a veritable microcosm on foot
will
ev
ery class in society, every department
in trade, representatives from every
State in the Union, from every nation
on the globe are there all revelling! in
a cosraopolittaH existence and to make
it more vivid and life like to the un
acquainted eye of the reader,jhe shall
accompany -me - in imagination down
this Champi Elysoe's of the American
Capital.. , ' '. ' . i
Donned in our walking costumes
we begin our inspection of this veri
table Vanity Fair, In front of us are
an elegant!' dressed couple. He, with
light Spring "ulsterette," with pants
to match. A dainty "Fifth avenue"
silk hat caps the remarkably diminu
trve 'cocoanut, which lor dignity's
sake. I suppose he calls a,4,head." In
hie right hand, if we examine clokely,
we'll find an almost invisible wisp Of a
cane which he twirls much to the un
easiness -pf the old lady with the huge
brisket just passing.- She, his com
panion, is arrayed in one of those de
testable, but fashionable, "buttercup"
dresses of a rich maroon color, with a
tiny "love of a bonnet" saucily poised
on her head. Just here we are either
inquisitively asked -to "buy a Critic,
sir?" by ah inconceivably dirty speci
men of the small boy genus, or a rude
and unreasonable boot-black impedes
our progress with the information that
he charges only "'five cents to shine
'em up, boss," which piece of news is
accompanied by his pointing a long
dirty finger with embarrassing effect
at our partially soiled understandings.
In far less time than it takes me t-o
describe hundreds are passing U3 f p
both directions, and now approaching
arc two of the beau-monde. Pretty
blendes too, with bright golden 'waves'
and bewitching 'bangs,' the falseness
of which are lamentably ! perceptible.
Here comes two young 'bloods'; in
brown 'tweeds,' each swinging a car.e.
(one a bludgeon the: other a straw.)
Gorgeous red 'chancellors with horse
shoe scarf pins piercing the silkeu
folds, endeavor to get above stilTj high
collars of clerical cut, which look as
though they are - choking their inno
cent but, fashionable wearers. Closely
following these two is a saintly look
ing darkie, labeled T am blind,' but
whoseblindness' does not seem to in
terfere with his picking his way through
the thick ma-ss of people
Next we meet
a tall leisurely p'rome
age, whose narrow
essib'e cigar," books
nader of middle
forehead, irrepi
and documents,
man who thinks
don't, proclaim!
land general air of the
he knows it alic bat
I -
him at once to be
a congressman, as such he is ; further
on we. see more jjf. this species of hu
liianity, '-of different bujld and of still
more owlishly assumed intellectual ex-
j pression, all wending their way home
ward, there to puzzle their dear j little
liates in concocting pBome dialiolical
'what is it'" known as a 'bill, proba
bly to give a pension to the j aixth
cousin of John Smith who jaught cold
in the war of the Be volution ; or. for
the appropriation of an enormous sum
to clean out Myth river. V j j
But I di2ress. j Here comes a dain
ty little brunette in black satin with
just the sweetest little bonnet imagina
ble, trimmedin oil gold ribbon and
cardinal red flowers, by her side, her
beau, with 'saulbbnry' coat and ! 'mut
ton legged' breeches, looks through a
pair of window pane eye-glasses, and
occasionally draws at Ue stump' of a
Vanity Fair' which be holds carefully
between thumb and forefinger of a kid
covered hand. For . wonder jLe i u
j
sine cimr but the next couple we
meet make up for Lit unpardonable
deficiency.
Between the curbs are momentarily
passing handsome turnouts. . (There
ribbons. Not many yards in her rear
comes a gay young fellow dressed j in
i skull cap and tight legging , seated
'upon a picycie, noi iar Dentnd are
, 4-' L
more of these creatures dressed im the
; same uncoming costumes. ext; comes
! a family can iaje ith th father and
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mother on the back seat, daughter and
soni on the front, and . the driver and
footman both gaudily arrayed in their
handsome liveries are j perched upon
the box. This turnout is followed bv
! t
two young sports in a ' single seated
drag.' lead by a dashing little na,
There whip rests in its place, proba-
blyj the better to disply the red bow
and ribbon fluttering half way up it
length. But here our attention is at
tracted to the pave again. Just here
wejare passin Ihe 'Nation?! Theatre
and those who j attend, the Matineo
crowd forth, this is no Ismail number
either, as these afternoon perforra-
- i i . i
ances are very popular, and are at
tended by the bon-tons.! The avenue
in front of us is literally one mass of
moying hnmanity. Next wo pass
Ford's Opera . Ilouse ai few blocks
further down, whSch is also disgorgiti"
itspjfof an equally large and fashion
able audience. It Is with some difii
culty we move along and it is also ut
terly impossible to" observe the prom
cnaders as minutely as we would de
sire) As we cross the avenue at Mar
ket paco the crowd suddenly becomes
smaller, and from thence to Third
street, we meet I with comparatively
few promenadersj and at that street
we turn around and 'do the ave over
again. As we paiss the National; Met
ropolitan and St. Marks hotels we are
again besieged by the newspaper and
hoot-blacking fiends from whom we
emerge after much internal 'cussin.'
As we retrace our steps tho same
sights greet our gaze only with not so
much brilliancy and eclat, as manj
have ieftthe gayinass and are now
prying into the mysteries of five
o'clock dinner. . - ' j
The class of peoplo on the avenue
from! this time later on,, are- those
mostly of the 'street walking' persua
sion, land when darkness fully sets in,
the bmu inonde, of thi city in all their
siren' splendor literally line the avenue5
there to decoy into their treacherous
meshes the green and uninitiaten.
'i. -
i
Makdlow.
Scitndul.
What "they say" is beneath your no
tice. What's the use of lying awake
of nights with the: unkind remark of
somejfalse friend running through. your
brain like forked j lightning? What's
the use of getting! into a worry and
fret over-gossip thit has been-set afloat
to 3'Our disadvantage by some meddle
some! busybody i who has more time
than character f !Thse things can't
possibly injure iou, unless, indeed;
you take notice of them, and in com
batting them give them character aud
slanding If what is said about you
is true, set yourself right at once ; if it
is fa
it dies of inherent weakness.
A !oieab!e DlfTcrmer.
smart young 'than asked a gentle
from Cape Cod: 'What's the dif
A
man
ference between ryou and a clam?"
thinking that the Cape .Codger would
say he didn't know, aud then the young
man1 would pity' Lira for not being able
to see, any difference . between himself
and la clam, but the thing didn't work.
The; Codger tcok, the young man and
brushed a path across the street with
himi s.:u then, after crowding him into
an erupt' fish barrel and j4nktng him
out again, said : 'A clam wouldn't be
playing with you this way! That's the
difference 'twixt me an' a clam 1' The
youug man had too morej questions to
ask.
There is a bill before the Iowa Leg
LslatUrelo make treatins' an offence
punishable by fine and imprisootnent.
The author of the bill urgea in its favor
that if a man will . make a "hog" of
himself he ought to h"i prohibited
from dragging others doh to the
same low estate. This legislator wants
to establish by liw what is known as
the ''Arkacsas treat" every man pay
for Lis own rsfeshment.
"Whales are becoming numerous in
the ocean," says an exchange. We
like a statement that gives the full
factsj as this one does. It relieves one
of thje suspicion fhat whales are be
coming numerous j on the prairiaa, or
that jtLey are infesting the woods or
hiding in caves in the mountains.
People now know where to' be on. the
outlook lor whales. .
Mrs. Partington, in illustration of
the proverb, A soft answer turneth
away! wrath,' saysit is better to speak
paregorically of a person than to be
all Hie time flinging epiuphs at him.'
!The Wilson Advance.
One Siiare S Months,
One piare Moiiths,
nr
One bquarU Months, J. wlu
Liberal deductions made torlairayaee
Transient AdveriLieiiteats lnsertd at T
Cents per line.
j-.'-' Tight lAclAff. '''
The ciicamferenca of the wift fa
woman of medium height dj dimea
slons measures, on an average wbea
not cramped and distortedabout SO
inches; but m thoso who bar long
adopted tight lacing it may measure no
more than 20 inches, and sometime
even much less. Now', what tecomea
in' these. latter cases, of the aeteral or '
gans contained within th cheat and
abdomen? 1 They are, of course com
nrcssed and mirhed and a-tntiA.l mil
t 77. ( wwww.
of tho natural shape, and made to-
protrude Into places in which Ihey hsve
no business,' because never tncaot to
occupy such places. It waa intended
by nature, hi a matter of. course. that.
the chest and abdomen should respect
ively hold their "various contents in,
their allotted and relative posiUoru-
occupying certain portbna of spece.
and having ample room for the dae-
performance of their individual duties,
without that jostling, and Interference
with one another which necessarily ac
companies disorder and bad arranji
rnent. j But, on the other hand 'there
is no vaccum or empty space In- either
of the two cavities- there is. no-rirgioai
without its own particular organ ot
part; and each organ, or part, though,
provided by nainre with ample roomi
for thai need fut and uruobstraKtkdl dls--
charg.e of its special . function, ha not
yet much to spare. When, tben,. any
one paticular organs, by the "jetem.
or tight-lacing, & unduly iresstd
upon and pushed and squeezed, ! ii
must like a man in a. crowd since-it
cannot get out of the way be serious,
ly hampered in its movements, and is
important duties imperfectly discharg
ed, to the no smafl injury and suffer in
sooner or later of t he foolish self tortu
rer. And this in proportion to the un
natural pressure and squeezing to
which the organ has bad to anbimlt. -
The excessive crushing,
which results from this
however,.
much-to-be
deplored custom, as well : a the con '
sequences arising from It, is not con
fiod u'onfLorgau only.ut it is trans
mitted to those lying in its immediate?
proximitj- these having to hear' tbe
presitire from the o'rgans which are
directly implicated, though they them
selves may be entirely removed from
the direct load. The practice of tight,
lacing brings about this crushing and
displacement pf organs moat complete
ly and elTsctually hampering! and
thawarting them in the performance or
their assigned and indispensable du-
ties; aud with the eousequent produe
lion of a whole host pf very aerioua
troubles, and not a few real and grave
diseases. yTbere are few oaturaX
diseases, indeed, which so thoroughly- ,
displace and jam and wedge tegethtr
so great a number of the i inUraal i y
organs, and so generally disseminate (
among them incapacity for the. db
chargt? of their multifarious duties1, a
does this positively sinful practice of
tight lacing. Shortness of breath, cob.
gestion, and even Inflamation of tor
Inngs, congestion of the liver, of the 1
kidncp, tc. palpitation and tubae "
quent disease of the heart ; faintbgSr
bronchitii. indigestion, Jaundice, ob
struction of the bowels, rupture; Ac
are a few only of the many evile aris
ing from the1 custom which' wo j are ao
emphatically condemning; a list one '
would thiuk', quite formidable enougti
to caue the most thoughless aod the
most faahior bedrid Jen subject I to im
mediately renounce all allegiance to a
practice so fraught with mischief; and
one, moreover, which Jas not a single
redeeming point, even iu titer occa
sionally foolish ejes of tho sterner sex.
in lib favor.
- A little mite of a down-towner was
visitirg another of about the eameaixc
and being &cco3tad-by one of this mem
bers of the family with, Hello.
Louie?
haven't seen vou in a lonr
time
Wtere've you bcen?,, "Had tb
measles ; that's where I ben. IIiL
.
measles, eh ! how many did you baveT
I didn't tount them.'-' -
Cremation is growing a a ensfora.
of the country. Dri Dahn, a Uanzari-
an who-died In New1 York recently, !
tho latest case. He was reduced to
ashes in the Washington. Pa., crema
tory last Slonday. If thU thiog goea
on incineration will soon become tbe
supreme happiness of the crenie de la
creme. 1
Mark Twain is worth about I50.00f ,
which he made from his booka, Je .'
tures, and interesis in insurance co -
paniesi 51 Hartfurd.' ..Wbicb
"f.ans
he made it all by hi cssuraace.
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