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VOL. IY.-NO. 28.
MORGANTON, N. C SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1879.
WHOLE NUMBER 184.
THE BLUE RIDQE BLADE.
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SCHOOL
Still sits the school honae by the road,
A ragged beggar sunning ;
Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within, the master's desk is seen,
Veep scarred by raps -official ;
The wsrp ng Dorr, the battered seats,
The jack-knife's carved initial.
The charcoal frescoes on its wall ;
Its door's worn sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping slow to school
Went storming out to playing !
Long years ago, a winter's sun
t Shoos over it at setting ;
Lit op its wesRrn window panes,
And low eaves' icy fretting.
u It touched the tangled golden curls,
sr SfcAjMl brawn eyes fail of grieving, .
- - when au the school vera leaving. ' -
Tor near her stdod the little boy
j , . Her childish favor singled ; ' ;
His cap palled low upon a face
Where pride and shame were mingled.
Fosh'ng with restless feet' the snow
To ri ht and left, he lingered ;
' As restlessly her tiny bands '
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes ; he felt
The toft hand's light caressing,
And heard. the tremble of her voice.
As if a fault confessing.
I'nl sorry that I spelt the word ;
I Bute to go above yon, '
Because" the brown eyes lower fell
" Because, you see, I love you I"
Still memory to a gray-b aired man
That swei t child-face is showing.
Dear irl ! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing !
He lives to learn, in life's hard school,
How few wh i pass above him "
Lament their triumph, and bis oss
Like her because tbey love him.
Only Flirting.'
" I am only flirting with him aunt," said
Grace Burrows, lightly. "You're not
afraid of our getting . married, I suppose?
Pshaw ! The idea is ridicufous ! "
" I am not afraid or concerned for you at
all. you are very safe. .Nr am I alarmed
for any suffering you may inflict upon Mr.
Leton, for he will richly deserve it alL I
ami anxious about one who is worth more
than both of you together Helen Dene,
his betrothed wife."
Miss Burrows looking round quickly,and
! astonished. ,
j "His betrothed wife ! " she repeated
! sharply. " I was not aware of that."
' 1 knew you were not ; and what honor
; or glory can ypu possible th'tiva fraro-tfu
icon. meat or a man wuo aireaay tx:.
! another?"
The beauty's proud red lip curled with a
scornful smile.
"Another's'" she repeated, contemptu
ously. " Why. he would throw her over
;for me if I gave him he least encourage
'nient. He is completely infatuated."
! And, with an air of supreme indifference,
the petled belle and beauty swept from the
room at the same moment that one of the
window curtains was pushed aside, and a
lady stepped in from the balcony a lady at
sight of whom she who had been addressed
as auntie rose to her feet and came forward
with a little cry of distress.
"You have heard our conversation? Oh,
Helen!"
i She took the new-comer's hand, and led
her, for she was trembling violently, to a
' seat ; then, still tenderly holding her hand,
sat down beside her.
" What can I say in excuse or apology
for Grace ?" she began, anxiously ; but the
other stopped her gently.
"I have nothing to say to Grace in this
matter, Mrs. Warren. But for him I feel
contempt and scorn unutterable ? I am re
solved upon my course, and nothing can
change me!"
i That night Charley Leton led his lovely
nartner. flushed and Dantins. from the
waltz, to rest awhile in the cool, green,
perfumed solitude of the conservatory.
. She sank, with languid grace, into a seat,
and Leton sank upon his knee beside her,
' and caught and pressed her white hands to
his lips.
! "You know," he murmured, low and
earnestly "you know how I love you!
Oh, Grace, must it be all in vain?"
: She did not answer him she did not
draw her hands away. In her. heart the
fair coquette admired this man. He had
gone nearer than any other to touch her
fickle, selfish heart. And he gazed upon
the heaving bosom, the teftTful eyes, and a
thrill of triumph moved his heart. Was
this the flirt against whom he had been
warned this soft, sweet, yielding girl ?
' " You could love rue, Grace ? " he whis
pered; and his arm stole round her waist..
! " Have you the right to ask ?" she mur
mured. '
; A faint and sudden rustling in the
branches beside them the niasnolia blos-
l .soins stirred as if '. shaken by a summer
wind, and" some of their perfumed white
leaves fell into the fountain's basin but
the pair who sat there paid no heed.
" Yes ! " he answered, firmly. " You,
-and you alone, possess my heart ! It is
true I thought I loved. Oh, how we may
deceive ourselves ! You have taught me
how great was my mistake. For your sake,
Gracie, I will ask her to set me free. I will
implore her "
" It shall not be necessary, sir !"
! As;ain the magnolia blossoms were stirred
4 were pushed aside, and Helen Dene
Stood before them.
i They started to their feet in confusion.
"I am not here by accident," said Miss
Dene, with a lofty scorn. " 1 saw you lead
this lady to the conservatory, and deemed
it my right to know what mv
, husband had to say to her.
heard and I am satisfied.
as in the hour in which he learned that she
was lost to him.
Some wild wish to return to his alle
giance, some instinctive conviction that his
love for her was real love, and that bis heart
would crave for her through all the time to
come, urged him to seek her and implore
her pardon. But then Grace sweet, ten
der, childish Grace who had shown him
so plainly that she loved him, too, and who
had not Helen's strength of mind or bouT
could he abandon Grace? He hesitated,
and. the chance was Jost, for Helen "left
next morning.
It was all for, the best, he toldWraaf.
Helen would not break her heart for him
like an ordinary woman; she had resources.
She was a writer of considerable promise,
earnest and ambitious in her pursuit of
literary excellence and fame ; doubtless she
would be easily consoled. With something
of pique and regret mingling in nuj exulta
tion, renewed hj pBfsuitfJrace, ;
the next day he hastened hkfaotstep. to
the house.' ' . f ,$.; ,
He sent up his card to Miss Burrows'
rooms, and waited for a summons to follow
it. To his surprise, Mrs. Warren came
down to him instead.
" Grace begs to be excused to-day," she
said, very gravely. "She has company,
Rupert Walton you have heard of him
the railway millionaire. Grace has been
engaged, to him for six months past, and
will marry him m the autumn. "-
"And for this coquette I have lost
Helen?" - ;
" Yes," said Mrs. Warren coldly, "you
have lost Helen. Heaven gave you a pre
cious pearl, and you flung it away for a
stone. I loved Helen ; I can offer you no
sympathy, Mr. Leton. You have merited
your punishment." .
And, bowing coldly, she left him.
And Helen Dene what of her?
Helen's work in the world saved her.
She had a young brother dependent upon
her exertions had no time to sink down
beneath a great despair. But all the same,
the sweetness had gone from life the mo
tive had been stolen from her labor.
Still she toiled on, ough no longer
hopefully. And so three years passed on.
The boy of eighteen, over whose life she
had watched with aimer, a moilnr's care,
was twenty-one now, and had chosen his
career, that of an artist.
He had much talent, especially for por
trait painting, and his exultation knew no
bounds when he got a portrait of his sister
placed on view at the Academy.
They went to the Academy one night at
an hour when they could avoid the crowd.
Right in front Of Ralph's picture, and ap
parently oblivious of all beside, sat a gen
tleman who gazed on it with a troubled
face and earnest, mournful eyes.
' " Reminds him of somebody he knows,I
suppose," whispered Ralph to Helen.
The stranger rose as Ralph approached,
and seemed about to turn away. Then,
hanging his mind, he said, in an agitated!
"A charming face, sir. I haven't a cata
logue. I wish I knew the lady 8 name.
"I can tell you," said Ralph. "Miss
Helen Dene, sir."
. An exclamation from the stranger startled
him.
"I was sure of itl Oh, Helen, Helen!
Helen Dene still ? Not married !"
Ralph glanced at his sister, and her evi
dent agitation bewildered him. The gen
tleman addressed him again.
"Pardon me, sir I surprise yeu, I know;
but the Bight of that face! Young .man, I
loved her years ago have never ceased to
love her! I have sought for her every
where in vain. Help me to Una her, ana
my deathless gratitude shall be yours!"
Before Ralph could reply, there was a
little soumd behind them, the sound of a
stifled cry a fall.
The stranger darted forwatd.
" Helen ! " he cried. " It is Helen her
self!" He lifted her in his arms before
Ralph could interfere. " Helen, my dar
ling, have I found you at last ?"
She opened her great dark eyes and fixed
them on her lover's. he read his peni
tence, his pain, and nestled to his bosom
with a sob of joy.
" Forgive me ! " he whispered tenderly.
Soft and thrilling came the gentle answer.
' "And Miss Burrows?" asked Ralph,
when the story had been told him, and they
sat together discussing their new nappiness.
"Pray, what became of her"
The old wound, almost healed how,
thrilled faintly in Helen's heart, and even
ij.tnn'i amile ws somewnat crave.
" She is a wealthy widow, he answered,
"and gave me some flattering marks of
favor only a few days ago. As great a co
quette as ever, I suspect, but let us not
speak of her. To her I owe the suffering
of the last three years to her and to my
own weakness. I am wiser now. I know
rby own heart at last. Long ago I found
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out who was my true love. i es, iic.cu,
before you had gone from my sight I
mourned the madness that had lost you I
But I have found you again, to part no
more, beloved."
. No more till death ! " she whispered.
The Governess.
"It's the new governess, sir 1"
Old Winifred, who had occupied the posi
tion of housekeeper in Mf. Carrick's house
hold for at least a dozen years stood before
the desk in her master's study, plaiting the
borders of her apron with nervous, wrinkled
fingers, and eyeing, not. without awe, the
half -completed sermon upon which he was
engaged.
Cleve Carrick laid down his pen and
looked up in some surprise.
"The new governess, Winny? what of
her?" said he. "I hope she is not ill?"
"Well, sir, not to say ill, exactly," hesi
tated the old woman. " but she aint no ap
petite for her food, sir, and she pines."
"I hope the boys.are kind and considerate
to he Winny?" said Mr. Currick.
"That they are, sir, bless their little
hearts, "cried the old housekeeper. "And
I know she loves 'em as,iadeed, how could
she help itP
"Then what is the trouble? "
"That's just what I don't know, sir" said
Winny.
"I must inquire into it, " said Mr. Carrick.
"That's just what I wish you would do,
sir," and with that old Winny curtsied her
self out of the room.
The Rev. Mf s Carrick pushed aside the
heap of sermon papers, laid his pen on the
rack, and went straightway into the little
schoolroom, where Mary Neville was sitting
poring over a child's exercise book a tall,
pale girl, with bronze-brown hair clustering
in natural ripples over her forehead and
great hazel eyes fringed with curling lashes
She started nervously as her employer en
tered. "Miss Neville. " said the clergyman kindly
"you are not happy here?"
Mary Neville shrank back like a fawn
brought to bay.
"No," she cried wildly, " I am not!"
"May I ask Why?
For a second the girl was silent, while the
pennons of white and red fluttered alternate
ly in her cheek.
"Are the children troublesome?" the
young wtdower asked, kindly. "Is there
anything that I can do to make your position
here pleasanter?"
Mary Neville rose to her feet and clasped
her slender hands.
"Yes," she cried out, wildly; " you can
forgive me."
"Forgive you, Miss Neville! " repeated Mr.
Carrick in surprise, "And for what?"
"For deceiving you," said the governess.
" Oh Mr. Carrick, it has been on my con
science ever since, especially since you have
been so kind. They told you that I was a
graduate of Mme. Lesiarde's school, but they
never told you that I was brought up there
as a charity pupil; that I washed dishes in
the kitchem and scrubbed floors in the gar
ret to earn my tuition. I was only a servant
there a drudge and when at last Mme.
Lesiarde discovered that I had a talent for
music, and determined to educate me as a
governess
' 'Stop jsaid Mr. Carrick, half smiling, "is
"On, un.1-
ceived you, I have"
"Nonsense," said Mr. Carrick; "you are
a refined lady in manner and education. My
boys love you dearly. You have not de
caived me, for I ask no questions as to your
antecedents and desire no information. I
am more than pleased with the success you
have had in my children's education ; and
now let us dismiss the subject irom our
minds forever."
And as Mary Neville lifted her pleading,
graceful eyes to the clergyman's face, he be
came conscious all of a sudden that his boys'
governess was a beauty.
At the end of the month he came once
more into the school-room.
"Miss Neville," said he, " I want to speak
to you.
Mary n us tied ana grew paie, aiier uer uiu
nervous fashion.
"Have I done anything wrong, sir?" said
she, all in a tremble.
"Yes, " said the clergyman, smiling. ''You
have stolen my heart away. Nay, smiling
Miss Neville, don't start so guiltily; you must
uuiureu s governess ; at au events, certain
it was that the Rev. Mr. Carrick fell ill of
brain fever, and old Winifred trembled for
tne result.
And in the lapses of delirium he raved of
auss JNeville night and day.
In the first stages of his convalescence,
when he was able to sit up, gaunt and Dale.
with pillows at his back ana wine and nour
ishing broths at his side, there came a soft
tap at the door, and Miss Neville herself
entered.
Thi clergyman stared, with a vague fear
inat ne was sinking once mow into the
iever dreams of the past.
tsut she laid her velvet-soft palm on bis
use the cool touch of a snow-flake.
"Do not look at me so strangely' said
sne ; "i nave neipea to nurse yon through
all your illness." - ''
4T"hen it was no vision of my disordered
orain, 4 criea Jnj. Camck, 'TOjrour dear
face bending over, me flicS" -
"YYere you glad to see it said She,
with a soft radiance brightening her face.
"Are you glad, to see it I"
"My angel from heaven," said he. ten
derly closing his thin fingers over her hand,
"if I could only keep you always, " -
"I have come to stay with yon always"
she said, kneeling at the side of hia chair ;
'l have come to be your wife ; you asked
me once, but I was a poor girl then, with
shadows laynig darkly over my birth.
They are all cleared away now I am rich
and independent, and my own mistress
and, oh my dearest, I have loved you all
along."
The Rev. Mr. Carrick was not long in
getting well after this.
In fact old W inifred declared that Miss
Neville was the best medicine he had taken.
And the clergyman's young wife was the
pride of all the parish,
"Anheire8s," said old Winifred, "and a
beauty ; and only nineteen. Well, I always
said as nothing in all the world could be
oo good' for Rev. Mr. Carrick."
ftelllnc a SSIm la Wall Street
Polonlus' Advice to His Mn.
Grandfather Lickshingle started up from
a doze in his easy chair and remarked :
"And so you never hard the advice
that Polonius, an old chum of mine, gave
to his son?"
The family said no one had said any
thing about Polonius, neither the son of
Polonius.
"Ah, very well then," said grandfather,
"I I'll tell you about 'em. You see
Polonius' son Charley I think his name
was Charley was going to Europe on a
little splurge. Charley had engaged pas
sage en a Cunard steamer, an' they were
about to pull in the gang-plank. The boy
had come back to kiss the hired girl eood
by. Yet here?' exclaimed his father;
'aboard, aboard, for shame; the wind sets
heavy in the shoulder of your sail, au' if
you don't leok out you'll get lei. Here
my blessin's with you ; here!T'feen cents
more for pocket money, 9t few pro
cepts in thy memory kC9Give thy
its easy to digest an', besides,! tl one of
those things that admits of Kttle or no
culinary doctrin'. The .friends thou hast,
and their adoption tried, grapple them to
thy soul with hooks of steel, for you don't
know how soon you may want to borrow
some money from 'em. Beware of entrance
to a quarrel, but bein' in, an' you see no
chance to get out, then, my son, hump
thyself. If thou canst get one in on thy
opposer's stomach I'd have thee do it. If
it he that thine adversary has a sore place,
hit him on it. Throw sand in his eyes,
and never lose an opportunity to seize him
'round the legs an' trip him that his heels
may kick at heaven. Give every man
thine ear, unless he be, like this one, thine
oppostjr in a quarrel, who naturally would
have an object in biting it offn your head.
Costly thy habits as purse can buy, for l m
blamed if 1 want to run around an' pay
your tailor bills any more, an' I file notice
now that 1 will veto 'em irom tnis lime
forth. This above all to thine own self
h trim that, in tr sxv always keeD a sharp
be aware that you have been the sunshine of logout for Number One, then it must f ol-
Vi!a hnuw pvr since vou entered it. 1 am i- th nio-ht t.h ddv that, a man must
not a gallant young lover, like the knighUj ol get up tolerably early if he would get the
romance, but i am not, an oiu mauja. icu
me, Miss Neville, do you think you can learn
to love me?"
But Miss Neville shook her head.
'You are the parish clergyman, " said she,
" and I am only a poor girL . I am not wor
thy of vou, Mr. Carrick."
"Suppose you let me be judge of that?
anirt TVTr Carrick. smilinz fondly.
"1 could not let you saennce yourseii 10
nvnaU.. ootd Mioa I PV1 MR.
your owu geucivmtj, wuu.
vi ou refuse me-tnenr
"T refuse vou!"
Tt was srarcelv a week after this strange
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.dialogue that a lawyer came to see air. ar
bulge on you. Farewell, my blessin' with
thee goes; and also be careful of yer
money, and sleep with yer watch under
yer piller.'"
Mark Twala's Musket.
You see, the -old man was trying to learn
me to shoot blackbirds and beasts that tore
up the young corn and such things, so that
I could be of some use about tne iarm, oe
cause I wasn't big enough to do much. My
gun was a single barreled shot gun, ana tne
old man carried an old Qneen Anne musket
that weighed a ton, made a report like a,
rick's governess, accompanied by a bronzed thunder clap and kicked like a mule. The
Not many months ago a man pretty well
known on the Comstock went East to sell a
mine lying in the Pyramid District. He
had a map of he claim and its underground
workings, all done up nicely in pink and
blnj ink, and it was as fine a piece of
draughting as one would wish to see. He
took his maps, traps and samples of ore to
NeW York and began to "lay for a cus
tomer." I
Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall
street manipulatot, who got him on a string
and wanted to get him a customer on com
mission. "Now look here, old man," said
the Wall Btiteeter, "you are from Nevada,
and probably a little green in the ways of
the. street. . You will meet some awful
sharp men here, and you must manage to be
a trifle sharper or you can't do anything.
Let me manage this thing, and give me all
I can get over $10,000 for the mine."
The Nevadian agreed, and t4e Nw
Yorker took him into a room and began to
give him some confidential advice.
"Now her'8 the way to manage this
thing. Of course if you have a really good
mine, it wont be at all out of the way to
make it look bfg. Now, take this map it
is a good map, but ain't big enough. I'll
get an artist to put in some extra ore bodies
just scatter 'em through like plums in a
pudding and that'll half sell it. The buy
ers will be sure' to discover those ore bodies
afterwards, all the same."
"This don't j look to me hardly to be
square," said the Nevadian with a deep re
ligious expression. "I want to sell my
mine on its merits. I never sold a thing in
my life on false representations and I'm too
old. to begin now."
"Now don't get riled, old fellow. You
are not supposed to'know what I do. Give
me the maps and the ore and let me attend
to the business.:. You can't be too tricky
when you sell a mine."
After a considerable persuasion, the mine
owner turned over his maps and ore samples
to the Wall streeter, and that astute opera
tor went on his way. He was to get an
assay of the samples, and they showed up
$1,500 to the ton. This set the New York
chap thinking, and he went back to his Ne
vada friend and asked him how high the
samples would run to the ton.
"Well, I hardly want to say," replied
the Nevada innocent, "I guess them sam
ples you've got now are good for 35 or 40
dollars a ton. Of course 1 just took an
average from the different parts of the mine.
I don't believe in picked samples. 8uch
frauds are bound to come out sooner or
later, and as I've got more mines to sell, I
concluded to act pretty square and get a
good reputation for business on the street.
The New Yorker drew his conclusions
and thought it would be a sharp thing to
take that mine in himself.
"I've found a customer, old fellow," he
said, and eagerly jdrew a check for $10,000,
professing to have found a customer and
made a neat turn on commission. "Bring
along some more mines and let me sell 'em
for you," he qdded. "You see J have fa-
The Nevadian took the theck, folded it
up, and remarked:
"Now, I hope you've sold that rfine on
the square and not got too much for it. Its
worth $10,000 as a fair speculation."
The two men parted for good a couple of
days afterwards, and the New Yorker came
out last week with experts to visit the rich
property he had so shrewdly acquired. Ar
rivine at Pyramid he asks for the Gold
Run Consolidated.
"No such a mine, was the reply he got
everywhere.
' 'Great Caesar I , I've bought the claim and
paid $10,000 for it."
"Got bit, sure."
"A man showed me a map. Here it is,"
and the New Yorker pulled out the map
which he had received from the seller. A
crowd of Pyramiders gathered round and
laughed uproriously.
"That's Old Sawyer's work. Oh, he's
a smart one. !
Just then old Sawyer, the foremost citi
zen of the district, and as innocent an old
t .1 . -AnaA
came up and looked over the map.
"It ain't sorrect, old hoss," he said, ad
dressing the New; Yorker. "Too many ore
bodies put in 1" i
" "But there's no shaft, no machinery, no
mme ! ' roared thfe man from Wall street.
"Well," replied Old Sawyer, reflectively,
"I don t see how you can scour. The fel
lows who bought it are the ones to. kick.
iou got a handsome commission, you
know."
"But the samples run up to $1;500!"
"Salted." !
"I'm swindled!"
"Don't vou know you said a man couldn't
be too tricky in selling a mine on Wall
street ?" inquired Old Sawyer, and only a
this operation he placed it over the fire and
washing oil his raft proceeded to spread hia
table, not even omitting a tiiy call-bell.
He then set forth his desert, coiri sting of
oranges and watermelons. When every
thing had been arranged to his satisfaction,
aad his fish was nicely browned, he com
menced his repast and enjoyed his meal re
clining at his ease. After dinner he lit a
cigar, and spreading a parachute over bis
head ; produced a newspaper and a fan.
Having taken his ease in this way for a few
minutes, he laid aside his umbrella and
cigar and proceeded to exhibit bis sailing
apparatus. His first set of sails was sloop
rigged with a mast some six feet high and
he afterward put out a high lateen
sail. These masts were inserted in a socket
between the navigator's feet white his body
corresponded to the hull of a vessel The
wind, however, was very light and ih3part
of the exhibition was not so $uco-8Si. ,.a
otbere. Captain Boyton then tit
advantages of his dress for aquatic hunting.
Taking a double-barreled, breech-loading
shot gun he discharged it in various posi
tions with great rapidity. He loaded and
fired twelve times, the whole operation oc
cupying not over a minute. Besides the
tender, "Baby Mine" two other small boats
were lying at anchor near the shore. Cap
tain Boyton now paddled rapidly up to the
first of these, a small metalic boat named
"Addie." This he towed out some distance
from the shore and took from it a snow
white kitten decked with a blue ribbon.
Stroking it gently with his hard, wet glove,
the captain swam to his raft and offered his
pet the remnants of his luncheon. Leaving
the trembling pussy on the raft, Captain
Boynton paddled ashore and taking a rope
swam several hundred feet from the shore
for the purpose of showing the utility of his
suit in case of shipwreck. He next exhi
bited his method of giving night signals,
and using his cigar as a slow-match, dis
charged several rockets and bombs. He
then showed the floating powers of his suit
by taking a well-grown boy on his chest
and conveying him about the pond. The
last feature of the exhibition was the de
struction of the second of the tw rafts be
fore mentioned. She was six feet or more
in length and rigged as a brig. She bore
the familiar name of "Pinafore." By
placing explosives about her she jwas
blown to atoms, pieces being shotXjnto
the air higher than any of the rockets
had risen. Captain Boyton shows that
by this same method torpedoes can be at
tached to any vessel without danger of
discovery by those on the ship, and
claims that the rubber armor is destined
to be an important instrument of naval
warfare.
BRIEFS.
Houston, Texaa; has repudiated her
public debt, which amounted to 12,000,-000.
i"Frecklea."
"Your wife going to the country ?" asked
Green as he met Brown.
VI guess not. I offered her $50 to get
ready, but she declares right up and down
that she won't go."
"Have you worked the ill-health dodge?"
Devey&ldMerhaltf'n
"Can't you make her believe her nerves
are relaxing ? That generally works pretty
well."
"Can't do it. She sleeps like a brick,
and her nerves were never stronger."
And she doesnt want to see her
mother?"
"Her mother is dead."
"Digestion good ?"
"Splendid. She eats everything, from a
radish to hmburger cheese, and I can't talk
change of diet to her.
Green fell to musing, and by and by con
tinued :
"Mr. Brown, you have been a good
friend to me."
"Well, I hope so."
"Yea. vou have stood by me like a
brother, and now I'll do you a favor. My
wife left for her mother s, to be gone ten
weeks. I tried every dodge I could think
of, but she was bound to stay home. At
last I hit it She has freckles."
"Ah! Egad! So has mine."
"Nothing but the country air in June
will start freckles."
'Tree true. Peels 'em right off in
from four to eight weeks, leaving the com
plexion as fair as a babe s. and without in
jury to the most delicate eye-brows."
"You see "
"Mr. Green, I see it alL I shall never
forget your kindness. In less '.ban a week
my freckled wife will be in Berrien county,
and you and I will stay out till two o clock
in the morning, and then go to my bouse
and sleep in the best bed with our boots on!
Mr. Green, Lor' bless you shake I Any
time you wana favor you may rout me up
at midnight and command I
"Alters Ahead."
Peculiar People.
wish you both all happiness."
A moment they stood, amazed at the
spirit and beauty that flashed upon them,
and the next she had turned and passed
from their sight.
Grace caught at her companion's arm.
"Follow her! "'she cried, eagerly.
"Pacify her. I shall never hear the last
of this from auntie."
: And she also fled, leaving Leton standing
there like one bewildered,
i He was free. But strangely contradic
, tory u the human heart. Never had Leton
admired and valued Helen Dene so highly
Most people, whatever their condition or
race, are so homogeneous now-a-days,
through long exposure to the same influen
ces, that it is enlivening to hear of a people,
even though they be savages, altogether
different from the common. The natives of
Botel-Tobago, an .island in the China Sea,
are curious and Decnliar in most respects.
Thev excited the wonder of a number of
American naval officers, who recently visit
ed them while surveying a rock east of the
South Cape of Formosa. These aboriginals,
who are of Malay stock, knew nothing of
money, and could not be made to understand
the object of its use. They had never lasted
tobacco or rum, nor had they any substi
tutes for these. ' Nevertheless, the females
liked anything and everything of an orna-
proiuised mental or decorative character. They ad-
Well, I have I n.ired brass buttons, tin vessels or anything
Meanwhile I , briehU freely eave coats or pigs for them,
old man wanted me to shoot the old mus
ket sometimes, but 1 was afraid. One day,
though, I got her down and took her to
the hired man and asked him to load ner
up, because it was out in the field. Hiram
said : -.-
" Do you see those marks on the stock
. ..... .
an a and V, on eacn side oi tne queen
crown! ' Well, that means ten balls and
five slugs that'a her load."
"But how much powder I " ...
"Oh," he says, "it don't matter: put
in three or four handfula."
So I loaded her up that way, and it was
an awful charge-I had sense enough to
see that and started out. l leveled, ner
and could not get enough for their delecta-
1 tion. Any shining object they were eager
: to obtain, and they would dive tor a button
or a coin if thrown into the water, and often
seize it while it was sinking. They played
! in the canoes about the ship for hours,
watching for tht opportunity to dive for the
. . 1. N . ..: . 0 T1!. n-;Wni nk
Vu me uj j prriuus uius uc uhutcb iu
! as primitive as they can be. They wear
only breach-clouts; they live ontaro and
yams ; they have no other implements than
axes, spears and knives, made of common
iron ; but the females employ shells and the
beards of goats for ornament.
anri hparded man of middle age, and after a
long interview with these unusual visitants,
Miss Neville knocked at her employer's study
door.- '
"Mr. Carrick." said she, with wet eye
iahA and cheeks crimsoned like the ripen-
iaifp of a nectarine, "do you know how it
is that people sometimes live like a novel in
this world.
"I don't undersand you, Miss Neville,
Ytt vmifv)
Alts IVnvw ... y
TWanaA." she went hurriedly on, l,
aaom the transformed into a heroine of ro
mance. Mv uncle has just come home from
China my uncle who has been lost to us
it for twenty years, ana ne is ncu. yu,
Mr Parriek. it all seems like a dream !
Vfv child. I coneratulate you," said the
Wn-.n.r. kindlv pressing her hand. I nd winked. I was afraid
"T hall lose mv boys' instructress, but you Towards sundown 1 retched up
l 1 1 li 11 I , 1 .- I
will gain a newer ana a uruauci
Tt oo q1s tnmpr. awav. there was a
anmpthintr in her wistful eyes that
v- a .... . -i.;w
made the good man rack his Drains io mm
if he had forgotten anything that he ought
tp have said, and on the bright October
when she drove away from the
door in her uncle's carriage, with a little
.-nr nt ovmnthi7.inr friends and ac-
auaintances eathered around the doorstep,
the same pleading look was in her eyes as
her little hand lay in the good clergyman s
irrasn.
"ttond-hv. Miss Neville." he said cor-
..Ullv "and nd bless VOU !"
And the narsonaee seemed darker and
more dreary than it ever had done before as
he crossed its threslnld and saw Mary
VotriiiA'a mntv chair beside the school -
rr.m rittlk.
"God help me 1" he murmured to him
oif 'T loved her. and she is (tone 1"
Perhaps it was that sickness prevailed in
true Christian, such as are reared in Pyra
mid district, can understand the feelings
of pious elation which Brother Sawyer ex
perienced as the gentleman from. Wall
street, accompained by his experts, drove
furiously off for Reno, blasting the blossom-
int. aaaebrush alone the route with tneir
.fiery language, j
' In the Water.
Cantain Bovton recently gave an exhibi
tion of his skill in the water near Portland-
Maine. The captain is a strong, well-lmilt
man ; his face is darkly tanned, . and is
tinirpfl with red beneath the eves, which are
noar r rlnaMl Willie ne IS gwuuniuili. 1110
A party of young men traveling in Eu
rope bad among them a citizen of our great
republic who was so thoroughly patriotic
that he could see no excellence in anything
in the Old World as compared with his own
country. Mountains, waterfalls, churches,
monuments, scenery, and all other objects
of interest were inferior to what the United
States . could show. His companions be
came somewhat tired of his overweening
boastful n88, and determined to "take him
down a peg." The party spent a winter in
Rome ; and one evening, having all things
prepared, they induced their Yankee friend
to join a drinking bout, and so managed
that they kept eober while he got gloriously
luaiTuu1K: w JT. ZmU V t instrument with i round drunk. Thereupon they took him into the
on a goou many um..ux.-, . - - - - o catacombs, laid him carefully down, with
the nariah lust then, and the eood man
wore himself out with faithful vigils per-
hans it miirht have been that he missed the
sweet face and gentle presence of hit
on
either end. At his usual rate of working
in still water he makes f"ur miles an hour,
and seems to accomplish this with very lit
tle effort. After giving a short exhibition
of the various methods of swimming with
or without a paddle, the captain commenced
to collect scattered beams and boards which
were floating on the water, and in an incredi
bly short time had constructed a substantial
raft. He was attended by his little tender,
"Baby Mine," a boat made of metal, witn
. nin..flitinff lid. Clambering upon his
raft, he illustrated his
sitmallinir with a flag, torch,
horn. He then commenced his prepara
tions for lunch. Hauling his tender along
side, he took from it a fire-pot, shavings,
bellows and matches, and having n de
tr;-n.r.ir w(w. nf some strav pieces of
boards soon had a brisk fire going. He
then poured water from a canteen into a
baain, which he placed over the fire. While
this was boiling, he took his pole and went
fishing for something for hia meaL Lean-'
tag quietly on his paddle be waited patient
ly for a bite. Soon be felt a nibble and in
a moment hauled out a full-sized perch.
Out of 436 missionaries in China I Taking this to his raft he stood alongside
310 of them are women. and proceeded to areas . naviag uiuou
I went to pull the triggerJE shut my eyes
was airaia oi ner kick.
to the
house, and there was the old man waiting
on the porch.
" Been out hunting, nave ye r
"Yes, sir," says 1.
"What did you kill?"
"Didn't kill anything, sir didn't shoot
her off ; was afraid she d kick t knew
blamed well she would.
"Gimme that gun! tne oia man said, as
mad as sin.
And he took aim at a sapling on the
other tide of the road, and I began to drop
k,v nut of danzer. and the next moment
I heard the earthquake ana saw tne vieen
Anne whirling end over ena in me air, ana
the old man spinning around on one heel,
with one leg up and both nanas on ms jaw,
and the bark flying from the old sapling
like there was a bail storm. The old man's
shoulder was set back three inches, his jaw
turned black and blue, and he had to lay
u for a week. Cholera or nothing else
can scare me the way 1 was scared
that
time.
a candle within reach, and retired a short
distance out of sight to wait for the devel
opments. After a while their friend roused
np, having slept off his first drunken stup
or, and, in a state of some astonishment,
began endeavoring to locate himself, at the
same time muttering: "Well hie this's
little strange. Wonner hie where I am,
anyway." He got out his match, lignted
his candle, and began to study his surround
ings. On each side were shelves piled with
erinning skulls and niches filled with akel-
methods of ! etona, -while all about were piled legs, arms, i
rocket and nbs, and vertebra; a ghastly array and al
together new to him. He nodded to the
skulls on one Bide with a drunken "How de
do hie ?" and on the other with "How
d'ye feel anyway?" took a look at: his
watch, and once more at his surroundings,
got on his feet, took off his hat, and hold
ing it above bis head, remarked, loud
enough for his friends to bear: "'S all
right ; ' hie all right. Morning of resur
rection, by jingo! hie. Firt man on
the ground 'rah for the United States I
A Uer i ahead. 'Bah for me tpeciallyF
The Arnold print works at North
Adams, Mass., now make 125,000 yards
of prints a day.
The receipts of the English rall
s have been rapidly declining for
months.
The sugar crop of uba Is larger
than that of last year a kandred
thousand pounds. . "
In twenty-eight years New York
has sent 43,000 frlend:8 children to
the West and found hom-s for them.
The fleece ot the common sheep
will average Vss titan ofte-bali In
weight to that o a Mpio or Cou wold.
Compulsory f'iYontiu i is suggested
for Wisconsin. -Vily one-thlrU. of
Wr schiol iMpulaCfS-0faF--B
last year. J
The new City Directory of Boston '
for 1S79 has just been publiisbed. It v
contains 134.971 names, against 93,000
in 1870.
The United States' Imports of Cu
ban productions are upward of $70,000,
000 per annum.- while her exports to
that island amount to but $15,000,000,
The average consumption of wheat
for each individual of the population of
Great Britain is eight bushels per an
num. Between 1874 and 1878, both years
inclusive, 3.86.1,000 persous were em
ployed in British mines, and 905S of
them lost their lives.
Ihe recent State census shows that
the population of Nebraska is about 336,
400, or nearly 100 times greater than it
was 25 years ago.
New towns are laid out in the oil
region of McKexn county, Pa., almost
every week. No less than five .were
surveyed in the month ot Juue.
The total contributions to the relief
of the wives and children of the Glou
cester, Mass., lost fisherman amounts
to $28,0b3.
The excess of exports over Imports
for the vexr endinr Mav 31. 1879. was
she LWas I $269,709",876. ui.d for the year ending
May 31, 1878, $241,859,939.
Henry King, colored, aged 73 years.
residing at Salisbury, Md., claims the
paternity of 41 children. The oldest is
50 and the youngest Is two weeks old.
Lumber shipnieuh are gradually
increasing at Lock Haven, Pa. The
Republican ssys that, up to June 25th,
they were 440,000 feet greater than at .
this time last year.
The Department of Agriculture re
ports that the losses to sneep owners
by the ravages of dogs reach one mil
lion dollars annually in the mutton and -wool
actually destroyed.
The first two days of the sale of the
late Mme. Muiard's jewels at Paris,
produced about $180,000. The seiisa-
The blossoms of the ailantnu tree
are said to be poisen to young fowls.
Recently Mrs- Jane Taylor, of-Cecil
county, Maryland, lost sixty-one small
ducks, it Is believed from this cause.
Mr. Henry, Inventorof the Martini-Henry
rifle barrel and ammunition
is vainly seeking for adequate remun
eration frorn the British War Office for
the use of his patents by that Govenir
ment.
Mrs. Judith Mitchell, a sprightly
old woman in Ohio county, Ky.. born
in1 1786, has six children, 54 grand
children, 116 great-grandchildren, and
10 great-great-grandchildren. All are
living.
A statue of Marshal Von Moltke is
to be erected in Cologne, the city or his
birth, and the Firit Burgomaster has
offered three prizes, of 1500, 10X0. and
500 marks respectively, lor the best
models.
The King of Denmark Is suffering
much from ill health, lie has felt
deeply the loes of his last daughter,
Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland, ajid
the incorporation by Prussia of North
Schleswig was also a trouDie 10 mui.
Gardener E. Sisson undertook late
ly In Providence, R. I., to make 100 -pairs
of India rubber boots in 100 con
secutive hours, or forfeit $5,000. He
pertormed his task four minutes Deiore
the expiration of ms time.
Mechanics get$60 a day, ana com
mon laDorers i a uay,
Ayres. Bookkeepers get $J.uw a year,
and extra zeal as a maniger Drmgs
175,0.0. The paper dollar is worm
tbree cents in gold. A loaf of bread
costs .3.
A har nhot. suDnosed to have been
thrown from one of the English frigates
which came up the Penobscot mer in
1814, has been found on the premises of
Jonathan Pitcher. In Bangor, Maine,
some three feet below the suriace oi
the ground.
Mist Elizabeth Lelbesberger, or
Berks county, la., aged vi, is one ei
the wealthiest maiden ladies in mat
State. She owns seveial large farmi.
She has silvery gaay hafj 1 neat and
trim in appearance, ana, consiuer.-ig
her great age, Is quite afctive and alert.
A wooden doll which William renn
brought over from England as a pre
sent to one of his daughters Is still
cherished by a Washington family.
Ills known as Letitia Peun.the name
of the great Quaker's daughter, and is a
faded beauty, twelve inches high, with
out a joint in its body.
There is an eccentric tramp in
Litchfield county, Cnn.,-known as
"the leatberroan." He lives in a cave
In Roxburv during the winter, and at
other seasons wandert from town to
town .begging his way. His entire
dres, hat Included, consists of old boot
leg tied together with leather strings,
France is a large Importer of for-
.!.. .It In 1S77 tl iuJDOrt-d 10.-
000 black cattle, 1,500,000 sheep, and
120,000 pigs, all of which are exammcu
in the froutier custom houses by veter
inary surgeons. To maintain the nec
essary staff of veterinary official. the
expense being 125.000 francs yearly, a
small tax is exacted per head of stock.
During the six months ending
June 30th. 366 failures were
in TSw York cltv. wltn toiai "
The Baron Rothschild's personal
estate foot up $65,000,000.
of $11,682,656, and total asset ot t5"
.J '. .. ' .-,.rw..wlini? six months
V87 there wV 1 failure, u with
lla-liiUe. of $39,030,7-5, and m-m
$11,012,662. T..e failures yw bM
been mainly confined to the small traders.
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