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i.
1
thrill. Removing the glass from his
lips, he held it poised for a , moment,
then lifting it again, he drained the con
tents at a single draught. t
I shall never forget the sudden pallor
and look of despair that struek into
Mrs. Clare's face. -
Pure wine, without question, said
Clare, in a low, charged voice, as he
kept tasting the flavor on his tongue
t'ure
winC, sir! You are fortunate in
getting so. good an article.'
I noticed that he turned himself a lit
tie away from his Avife, still holding the
glass in his hand, and reaching it, I
thought a little forward, as if inviting
me to fill it. " . V; .
Thank you ! , I am glad to know it,'
Iareturned,ff;my Voice betraying tHe
change' in' ray feelings. 5 " ! !
Mr! Clare set the glass down quickly,
and went on with his dinner, .Lending
Iqyyto his plato. , -ThVmeak was. finish
ed in silence and embarrassment. . I ven
tared to look once or twice at , Mrs;
Cjarewho was only, pretending to cat.
Iter face was pale and t anxious. .The
change in her husband's countenance
was '-as marked as the change in hers.
All the old sweetness had faded from
his lips that now touched each other in
a harder pressure ; and the gentleness
had goue out of his eyes.
-ire arose without sneaking, and left
the table, Mrs. Clare folio wine:. Our
chamber adjoined theirs, and thither,
, n(tcr leaving the' dining-room, I went
' yith my wile.
4 Did you sea Mrs Clare's face when
her husband drank that glass of 'wine ?.'
she asked, looking- at "me very soberly.
.'Yes, and I would give this moment
half I am worth to recall the thoughtless
act. But it" never, for an instant, cross
ed ray mind that lie was in danger.'
y. At this moment we heard, through
the partition that separated our cham
bers, the voice of Mr. Clare pitched, to
, unusual tone.
4 Come, lie down and get your usual
nap,' we heard Mrs. Clare say coaxing-'
, ly. ' : - i V;
' 4 I'm going to walk on the beach, ' I
x tell you V was roughly answered. 4 1
Jan't sleep.' ; -
Then rila1k with you,' was the
firm, but kind reply. ", -r ; T
Not if I wish to go alone,' madam !
." :-And Ido!1 -
" We heard no more. Everything was
: silent in the room for some minutes.-
Then the door opened, and the sound1 of
heavy feet .was on the stairs. A , low
cryf like a despairing wail, thrilled up
t)nitheair. ; Afterwards all was as still
as death in the adjoining chamber.
" ' You had better go alter him,' said
my wife, turning on me a pale face.
v It 'will be Of little use, I fear,' w as
my reply, though, acting on her sug
gestion, I went out quickly.
' I looked up and down the street, as I
stepped Yrom the cottage, but Clare was
not in sight. At the next corner, go
ing towards the sea, was a drinking sa
loon. I went in, but did not find him.
Then I hurried down to the beach.
.. thinking he might have gene to walk'
there as he had said. I o my great - rc
lief, I saw him sitting alone in one of
the rude arbors . covered with dead
leaves, that were scattered along, the
shore.
i .' Ah ! . Good afternoon !' I spoke fa
miliarly. 4 Enjoying this delicious
brec ze V r -
Ho looked up' at me with a counte
nance so altered, that I -scarcelyi recog
nized a feature ; stared scowlingly for
a little while ; then, with a fierce impulse
in his Voice, flung out the imprecation
Curse you !'
I staggered back as. though he had
etruck me. ' I was not surprised alone
X -was appalled. '
4 If you had put a pistol to my head,
you could jiot have done me a wofe
service !' He added, in a voico that
"was passionate with despair.
; I sat down beside him and took his
hand, but he flung mine away, glaring
at rae with hate and loathimr.
f 1 I net Inn I' K iZ 1 Mr.l
I turned slowly and went away, ray I
heart like lead in mybosoml i i
30. Clare was absent at tea-time, and I
his wife did not. cone down'ironi her
room. I sat out upon the porch until
nt-arly ten o'clock, waiting for his return.
4 Isn't that him.?' a'sked my.wife, who,
troubled as I was, sat on the porch with
me.
A man, walking unevenly, came into
the light of tW nearest lamp, took hold
of the post and steadied . himself for, a
moment, and then rjioved on towards
the cottage. YeV it wa3 Clare. He
came fi)rward, planting his. steps care
fully, sHiriibu d a ijittle as , he ascended
the porch, but recovered himself, and,
without Fpeakmg,- cajm'e m and went up
to his chamber, making but little noise
on the way. ?! , i -'
We soon followed, anxious and heavv-I
hearted, and sat el own jn our room with
no tnougut oir retiring.. . x lie sounds
m tne nex
or satis faci
was moving about crneasily,-aiid ' either
putting things right jor changing the old
order, r TJ:is went, on stead Uy for . per
haj)3 a quarter of ail hour, without "a
voico being heard.. !Th en we were star
tled by a low, qtiick cry of fear, 'and
kne w the voice to be! that of Mrs. Clare.
A dead silence followed.' We listened
in painful suspense.
that came from the next room were not
intelligible- nor satisfactory. Some one
'I've a mind to dojit,' we heard Mr.
Clare say, and follow ing the sentence
came the clear click iffa pistol lock.
The-next fow niinijites seemed an age,
as" wo '.'Waited for the deadlv renorL
'afraid to sti r or cal 1 ,
1 es t on r i n te r fe r ehce
!' It was the clear,
s. Clare. 4 1 am
should work the fatal catastrophe we
so'.iglit to avert.
' Sluoot if you wil
stead v voice of "M
ready.'
All was Ixiish; d ai death acrain, and
wo sat, scarcely breathing, in an agony
oi dread. hat wbuiu I not have r'v
en to 1
cliai:;bcr,
Know
that
whether it wvvv. -:i
the impenetr;ible
and left. us' in doubt
of an hour. Then t
iran airam, and th
it
was in that
I miirht determine
v to interfere. But
lis i i d eve ry thing,
land irresolution.
ness,' the grv c helpless anguish,
that Vested obTTtf lips, and moulded
the lmelj about her ! gentle raoutli! II
felt theUeara creeping into my eyed. .
Sittinir in a chair beside the bed, was
Mr. Clare, tl.so asleep. One arm was
drawn under and around the neck of. hi
wife, and her white cheek, pressed
closely to his face, that was so much in
shadow that I. could iiot get its full ex
pression. -L : - ; - ' j -s..
, ,1 stood only ibr, a moment just lqng
enough to comprehend the scene and
then went out noiselessly and shut the
door. ! :- " ; r ! ' 'I
On the next morpinac Mr. and s Mrs.
Clare met ns at the t breakfast-table.
Mrs. Clare had. on her travelling dress.
Her face was so changed, I w ould
scarcely have recognized it". T noticed
that she leaned towards her husband;
aa.she.sat. beside him at the table, in the
old .way, and closer than before. His
foce7as that of a man" wdio had sufTer
ed a terrible Iinmiliation. ' Tie neither
looked at nor spoke to any one. : But I
noticed as he drank his"c6ffe,fand eat;
orpretfTlett to eat;, piece- jof. toast,
that his bearing was firm, like that of a
man self possessed and in earnest. ?
They went up to the city by the next
train. I did not seo them when they
left the cottage, purposely keeping out
of the w-ay. ,jf ro-;i,x.r . tiU U
: Once only since then have I crossed
their path, though the thought of them
lone? remained a heavy burden on my
heart, it was a year afterwards. I
met them in the Park, walking togeth
er, she leaning on, his arm, the s weet
ness and love I had .oiiee seen, asai'n
resting on her countenance, and; the
manly strength nd gentleness of his
face as marked as ..when I. first saw him
at the sea-shore. ; - '
They did not observe me, and I pass
ed on," glad to be unobserved, and with
a lighter heart, as I said fervently
'Thank God !' Arthur's Home 3laqa
zine. :
WHO IS ?
9 (f
A DISGUSTING SGENE.
A byia fide prixefightaccording to
theyes of the rinr,. except that hair
nd biting weie allowed, took
veen two women in Somerville,
a week or two ago,
d was witnessed by a large crowd of
j abandoned persons of both sexes. The
Zq contestants, named respectively Sally
nd Chapman and Molly Jones, on their ap-
' " . i . x 1 : ! i . fZ t. ' liiii fo n I i I r !n rr trorn Oil in 1 h f
very miporiam sense it is uui uivveiucr i w , " "w
true. " la so far as this answer makes conventional costume of gaiters, stock-therum-si
Her alone responsible, " it is! ings and drawers, wearing nothing else
entirely filse. The rum teller when to. speak of beyond -waterfalls and
charged with the responsibility of the Magenta curl-. At the very first round
traffic, at'oncejnstifies'hmiself bv saving Chapman became frighteued and
that 4Tlle law sanctions his trade, and! jumped out of the ring, but her backers
The following article, which we copy
from theQnincy(Ilf.) emparanceStan'
rf, 'expresses bur views ;upoii the im-1 fZ
portant sunject aiscusseu :
The casual observer w ho only 1
unon the surface of things, may,
ten does answer this question ,b
'Why ti e rum seller of course
sene this is taie, but in an
Silence ! silence lor nearly a quarter
ie cul sounds be-
umeasy movements
and disturbance went on.
4 I'll throw you from the window if
Clje J'rienb of - Cemjicnuire.
RALpiGII, X. C, MARCH 26, 1369
i acre was some
voice of Clare as he
unguarded voice.
strurcle. I could
vou do' that ajrain !'
thing savage in the
said this, in a loud,
Then wre heard a
bear it no longer5, but ran out into the
,haf, and tried to enter their, room ; but
the door was. fastened.. I rattled the
lock,. and-struck the door loudly two
or three times. ' -: .
,-f.r What's wanted f was growled-from
within. I would never have recornized
the voice as that of (Mr. Clare.
-1 Openithe door,' I said! v
A hand w as laid &pon the lock inside,
and the key began turningirithe wards.
'Don't,, for Heaven's sake1.' I heard,'
in a low cry of terror, from Mrs. Clare,
This was answered bv a wicked ' im
precation, followed by a struggle, a
heavy fall upon. the floor, a groan, and
a silence deep as death.
I threw myself against the door, but
the lock and hingesj were strong, and
did not yield. I wTas about repeating
the effort, when I ftkind myself ' stand
ing face to face with Clare, his eyes
wild and fierce, like the eyes of a mad
f f2T" Letters contaiuicg money must be registered.
W ThoCrosa (X) Mark tclld subscribers tiieirsab
scriiitions have exiired and ought to be renewed.
St"The Tied X informs' you that
this is the last number for which you
have paid, and, respectfully asks you to
renew. -;- - . :
U This paper will be enlarged in
a few acks, -anti .the subscription price,
raised to two dollars; until the enlarge
ment we charge only $1.50 a copy.
The magnificent temperance! story
which we publish this week, occupies
the space which we. usually fill with
editorials.; We fel very confident
that it will prove far more interesting
than anything that we could write. We
offer no apology, therefore, for the lack
of editorial, in this issue.
ESgr .We've had a misfortune at our
house--a dreadful mishap, it was. Some
rascal or rascals, scoundrel or scoun-
man, and his countenance fearfully ds-! drels, with more than ordinary thiey
a , "t XT t 1 1 . I 1 1
toriea. lie neia a pistol in ins nami,
pointing it directlyjat my head. He
did not speak, but looked the personi-
ve
done your cursed Work. Leave md
n All my ciiorts were m vain-4and
Heaven knows I, tried faithfully1 to
soothe him, and so get dow n into his
confidence that I could help him in his
fierce i struggle with an awakened appetite.-
:' ! -
Fiuding that I would not leave him,
. he arose and strode rapidly up the beach.
'I following near enough tp'keep hi in.' in
eight; but he turned" into one of the
streets that came down to the beach,
and: Iiost track of him.
-""Nearly an hour afterward, I found
mm at the bar of one of the hotels with
fi cation of murder.
this apparition, and
statues, for I cauuo;
second or a minute-
I: went back -into
sat down, weak and
I was paralyzed by
we stood like two
say how long a
-when Clare seem
ed to 'vanish like a spectre, and the shut
do'or -was aain. between us. .
beads of sweat roll sncr from
head.
4 1 lark !' scid my
listened anxiously.
my o w n room an d
trembling, ...great
my fore-
wife, and we both
The noise that
came from our nei
like that of a body
floor, and then liftf
shbors' room was
dra2;crcd across the
d unon the bed. It
was the last sound that reached, our
hour we sat ljsten
senses. . Xot ; the
4 Cost what it w
was apparent.'
ears. : For over an
imr with strained
, ; - - v
slightest movenicn
4 They are asleep,' said my wife, in a
hnsky whisper.8 It was 'after midnight.
6 The sleep to one of them may have
no waking in this rorld,'' was my troub
led answer.
! M y wife shuddered.
11,1 must have ih
ish propensities, entered our pantry on
Wednesday night last and emptied it
of all we had to ' eat, which was n ot
much, it is true, but all, nevertheless.
Not satisfied therewith, they then brokp
into the cooking-room and took all the
clothes that were in wash for the w eek.
... -
Our young man, who lost his last . shirt,
has wished some very hard things about
the said thieves. Salt wron't save them.
A. Cr.EEcu, Esq. By reference to
our advertising columns it will be seen
thai he has a legal right to engage in
the traffic.' He at once throws the re
sponsibility of the whole 1 matter upon
the law V ell," who is i esponsible for
the law ? IIiq legislature of the state
of course. Wo then go ; to the law
making power, and charge upon the meu
who compose the legislature, and have
the power to Outlaw the traffic, the re
sponsibility for the' trafiic that .they
have legalized.' What is their plea ?
They answer that they , are but the
agents of the people, elected to enact
laws, and those laws, thev tell us, must
be in accordance with the demands of
public sentiment, thus rolii; g off the
responsibility upon the people, where it
rightfully, bt longs. This at once re
duces the-matter to ono of personal re
sponsibility, and makes every man w ho
holds in his hand that which is superior
to- the law and the law maker, because
it is the power that makes and unmakes
x
both, directly responsible, not on'y for
the law that legaliz.'s the traflie, but al
so for all the legitimate results that flow
from that traffic. -Society, in legalizing
a crime, must bear the responsibility of
that crime, and as society is made up of
individuals,. eaeu exercising a direct in
fluence upon the body politic, the in
dividual members of society must be
personally 'responsible also. The law
of a State sanctions a traiHc and protects
men engaged in it, that i universally
recognized as beimr wronii a traffic
the direct and only tendency of w hich
is to make drunkards, paupers and
criminals, a trafiic that carries ruin and
desolation into every avenue of human
life-r-a trafiic that every mac knows t
be contrary to the Divine Law, and
consequently morally wrong, and yet,
moral, and often christian men go to the
polls and cast their votes for men to
make and execute laws that they know
are pledged to continue the .protection
of law to the traffic.- The nun-seller
stands behind his b?ir, and sells rum to
his fellow man, and sends him to his
family a demon and a brute. While
under the iuflu -nee of that .liquor this
man imbrues his hand iu'the blood of
his wifo or child. Society arrests the
murderer, tries, condemns, and hangs
him for his crime. But is not the man
who for money sold him the rum, ai.d
made him a murderer, justly guilty
with him for the crime? Oh yes, says
society ; morally the rum-seller is guilty,
but then, legally he had the rhjht to sell
the man the rum, and make him drunk.
Ah, but who gave him that right ?
Why society of course. Then if the
rum s- Her is morally a party to the
crime, because he made the man a de
mon, is not society morally just as guil-
t.vr ns; f.lif riuii.Kf-'!lp.r wlion if. ctouc . in
im,1 In- !fo! Miv..h.n.nta (fliv.o ....... iMEnaXCHOI.Y.
seiier the right to oecome a party to
the crime of murder?
But how comes it that society thus
drove ljer.iu aiain and ehe,- eventually
won the fight: At the twenty-first
round her opponent, Molly Jones, both
of them having been severely punished,
beired her seconds in God's name to
take her awav, awd so tho -.. fight an&(
money-Ufifty dollars were awarded, to
Sarah. I This acme of human disgrace
was reserved for Massachusetts, the land
that boasts its progress its isms,
woman's rights and laws against prize
fighting. So says an exchange.
JLL GAZ.INE NOTICES, .
secret of that room! -I exclaimed, start
ing up under the sudden spur of keen
seli-accnsation. i am a aastaru to sit
here and leave a pcor weak woman to
the mercy of a drunken; maniac!'
I would hear to
no .remonstrance on
, but went ont quick-
I
ly. How w as I to enter tne room ?
stood close to the door, canvassing in
thought the ways and means of passing
the barrier that injervened, when, to
my surprise, 'I saw that it was slightly
it Iiavmo''
that Mr. Creech has opened his new
Spring and Summer goods, -which he
now offers to the' public on the most lib;
,eral terms. Mr. Creech is alwTays among
the flrsVwho-bny, and therefore -gets
tho pick of the Goods! He always fills
his house the fullest, at buying time, and
sells mit the closest, in selling-time, of
any merchant we know. This time he
has filled every nook, and corner, up
stairs and down ?tairs, with the finest,
the; best, the most saleable, (because the
cheapest,) goods,' for -both gentlemen
and ladies; and he offers them to his
customers upon terms they cannot re
fuse to accept. He bought the goods to
sell and he intends to sell them. Gen
tlemen can get any kind of Spring or
Summer goods they may , need or de
sire, bv coins; to Creech's ; and the la-
PnTEii's Musical Monthly is tbe
best of its kind we have ever seen, we .
cordially commend it to all lovers of
good miK-ie. It has seven capital pie
ces of music, and some good literary
matter j . .
Tiri2 Three Penny Bit," a book
published by the National Temperance
Publication Company of New Yoi'k is
on our table. It is an excellent thing,
and wo wish we had it in our power to
scatter! such literature broad-cast over
our land. The National Temperance
Publication Company is doing a great
work, and. we hope that it may not be
long before its works may be known
and loved in every home in dur Sontlr
ern l.vud.
u iSIikou Plce," a novel publishedby
E. J. Hale, No. Ui Murray street N.
Y., is on our table. It is written by a
Southern lady, mid -we wi-di ' it tonch;
SUCCeSSl. .i -' Hi'' : f.
TnE Tattle CdnrouAT. eame to ws ft
good time, but we neglected to nu n
tion it-f-as usual, it is filled with goo(i
things for thu children. .
4i A year at riverside famC incrca-f
.es in -interest, and is worthy tho atten
tion of the grown up children. Pul
iihed in J4iicago, III. by, A. L.' Seweli
Ahti; uifs IIomjs Magazine is always
good. Aside from its literary ' excel
lence, it always inculcates a good mort
al. We never fail to hail its advents
w ith gri?at )leasure. ; f
ON:ii a Month is better than usual y
if such is possible. It is rich in high
ton'd njioral literature. Both publish--ed
in Philadelphia by T. S. Arthurs &
'Sons. ' ' -f " '
Ciin. jhen's Houn by the same pub
lisher, ought to be in the hands of eve--
ry child. J ....
The Editor
glass in his hand, drinking. I went up j :D ir not having, btei
to him, and was about to sneak, when he J vvhi?n ha shnt 11 lnlm
bent towards ine with so evil a liht in j l"?hed it op-n, step,-
his eyes, that I felt for the instant afraid
Lifting a warning finger, he said, in a
low,' passion ate voice 4 Keep on vour
own side, sir ! I owe you no good will
-and Pm dangerous He stood, bend
ing forward, gazing steadily at me, with
out changing a mucle of his tace, or
varying its expression in- the smallesi
dies can dress as finely and as cheaply
bleu fastened by Clare j by patronizing Mr. Creech's as any oth-
my face. Softly I ier house in the - city. V e . Have seen
ing noiselessly in- j -r,. rw-ch's stock and we can truly
A lamp stilt burned on j -f, . .invn cnrn n l.nHors:
1 ' i n t-i "rtt I -fit. ic'trt f !it in ar mvr t J -
fAniMnV 1 1 lected one.
legalizes a great wrong thus becomes
responsible for a great crime ? Simply
because the individual members that
compose society vote for men to ex
press in the form of public law their in
dividual wills, that are,elther the friends
of the rum-traffic, or who mistakenly
suppose a system of regulation is better
than a systc m of Prohibition. Then if
society by legalizing'the trafnc becomes
a party to the crime with the rum-seller
and the drunken victim, does not eveiy
man who thus votes to make society re
sponsible, become a.so a party to. the
crime? While w e would ent?r no plea
for' the rum-seller while we would
offer no a-pol2ry for the man, who for
the sake" of money, is willing to poison
and destroy his fellow-man, we woidd
ask m all candor, it tne.re are not others,
and many, of them" good men, who would
scorn to sell the drunkard's drink, that
by thus lending their votes and influence
to the legalizing of this great curse in
of the
Montgomery Mail w-ites from -Louis
ville the following sad paragraph in rela
tion to the great Prentice, whose name
is a synpnjm for genius : .
"Yesterday, I had an interview with
Mr. Prent ice. He is not the man ho
was tenj years ago. Indeed; his genius
is 'gone,j an bis person is a mere .wreck.
His family js broken upwife dead, one
son killed on . the Confederate., sider
another settled on a farm',-down 'the
river ar.d the old man, verging on
three score and ten, cooks his breakfast
and dinner in his little room on the
- third floor of the Courier 1 building,
ana lives only m conversations xioout
the past. This man once wielded an
imperial power with his wit andr his
music, j No wy the world has .whirled
past him, and he. lies on the shore a
mere stranded wreck." V j
This wreck of the talented Editor"
points out too plainly the sad conse--quences:
attending a life of , dissipation,
and its lesson should not be disresard
ed. Here have brilliant talents been'
to the room.
shall never' -to rkxet.
Call on him.
All of which we have written vol un-
. ! 1 it A. a1.
-- - -
Jirs. Uiarc was ijing on tne neu, Iierl tari.y, jet m sincerity, ana .wuuoui ujo
fac. turned: towards' the iightl fShe;wasl promise of reward from , Mr. Creech,
very nale. her ccuntciianccT Javinir the Uith?r in the shape of a new Beaver or
marble fixedness of death. Biith'saw i a pair of Boots. Again wc ay,fcall at
niir lrmd. r.rc inst ns fiiiltvashe. Mon !
cannot possess and exercise the high j dimmed, an active mind been destroyed",
privileges of citizenship in this land of; and a lofty soul been humiliated, throngE
freedom, without becoming responsible ; the excessive use of rum.
to their fellow-m? n and to their , God
for the manner in which they use those
privileges,
and when, through their
votes, crime becomts legal, and ''evil-
Mr. itoberts, the newly accredited
Minister of the provisional government?
the-
uieVu 7;7,Xt of Spain, was ofiicialy presented to th
doors ' arc protected by the lawTs they . . i . , - 1
help to make, they are justly charge- Preside bt Inday. , .
i i .- .-i ...l. ;i "
able foi-i those crimes, and whatever evil
results flow from their commission.
We would then answer thd question by
The postal telegraph system is beiDg:
agitated; the Union Telegraph is giving.
savin" : "Every man who sells liouor, lt anJ is thought by knowing:
ho ma'ics it Ieal to sen ' uue5 maL. ine year ichu win wiwiusa xic-
and cverv man w
' inautrur ition.
degree.
that she was sleo
un sr.
Oil! the sad- Creech's Corner !
Ihiuor."'"