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C. ! i I nd adjoi: lection LAW, ! i- I! irfreesbor i . i i it I '! I ! i i i LAW, . jrfreesbc ! - 1 Supreme I 1 I I j LAW, Mbeesb), N. Cf. HdJoinlni sral cours on. - LAW, HarrellSTtlle, N. O. tor the 8: if --- ' . - I C. F. CAMPBELL, ?t ; u leaver seek to tell Iby loTe, j H JLove that never oid can be; h . , Itox the gentle wind doth more t ' Bilently, invisibly. I told my love, I told say love, -I tojgher all any heart, t ; .if , Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears i , Ah, ! she did depart, Soon after ehe was gone from me A traveller came by,. Silently, invisibly ; t j j He took her with a aigh. . ut - tBy Kidriight Express!. Now, promise me, Royal ! Please pro mise Grace Arden looked up into her lover's face with wistful eyes, and cheeks stain ed with faint crimson, while the sunny tendrils of her dark-brown hair were brushed back from blue-veined temples as lair and winning a little pleader as ever uttered the words of entreaty. Royal Meriam looked at her with the laugh of conscious superiority. "What nonsense, Gracie ! As if there were any real danger!" "There is always danger, Royal, in vour business, and with with that habit!" "Habit, Gracie? Now, you are going a little too far. I don't drink any more than other men. It is not a confirmed habit with me, and never will be." "There, Royal," she drew closer to him and laid one appealing hand on his arm, "you surely will not refuse to pio- mise me never to touch another glass of liquor?" "Nonsense, Gracie ! You talk as if I was a confirmed drunkard ! Let me go now, I've only just time to get to the Shepherd's Arms to meet Lee and Del- mar." The tears sparkled in Grace's eyes. "Then I have no influence, whatever, over you, Royal?" "Lots of it, little woman ! Now don't look so sober. Onlv you know, it's follv Uo ask anv such unreasonable pledges. Good-by." "Good-by, Royal." "You won't kiss me ? You are vexed." "Only sorry, Royal. Because I know that papa never will let me marry a man who drinks." i Roj-al Meriam turned on his! heel, while a dark frown contracted his black brows, and he strode away muttering fools, who expected every man to be cut aftertheir own pattern." But he had walked onlv a littlfe dis tance when the cloud cleared away from his face, and the old careless, good natured smile once more came back. i "Dear little Gracie," he said to him self. "Perhaps she is right, after all. I believe I am getting to be more fond of a stray glass than I ought to be ; but of course there's no' danger. A j man can always control himself. Still I'll go back to-morrow and makepeace with the little blue-eyed kitten, and if the wants me to promise, why, I'll pro mise." The( Shepherd's Arms" was an un pretending little village hostelry, through whose drawn red curtains the evening lights shone cheerfully, and Royal Meriam 's boon companions wel comed him uproariously, "Your coming to the end of your rope old fellow," said one. "The Superin tendent is going to strike everybody that drinks a social glass off from the list. Says it ain't business-like can't afford to run any risks." v "I don't know 'what the world's com ing to, for my part," said another, look ing into the bowl of his short black pipe. "A man might as well be a slave and done with it." I've heard something of it before," said Meriam, carelessly. "I don'tknow I but what it is a wise enough regulation, on the whole. But there's one thing certain ; I'll drink the Superintendent's health to-night, if I never do again," A general laugh echoed this assertion of Royal Meriam ; and in the hour or two that followed poor Grace Arden's piteous request, Grace Arden's tear brimmed blue eyes were entirely for gotten, i "Drunk 1 drunk ! Never was more sober in my ltfe. Yes, yes, I know that l's time to start, and here I am fresh as a cricket." Reyal Meriam swung himself to his place on the glittering fire-throated lo comotive with the careless ease and lightness of a mountaineer. "Go ahead," he called tut. : The depot-master looked curiously at him. L . j " "You may not be drunk," said he sotto voce, "but you've been drinking, my fine fellow, and you'll get reported at headquarters before theworld is twenty four hours older." ! ' So saying,' he drew a little leather memorandum book out of his vest pock et, and wrote down the words,"Meriam engineer Flying Dart," upon it with the slow, mechanical accuracy of one who considers in his own mind. Meriam fully believed his own asser tion that he was not drunk. He had bn drinking a great deal, but then he knew his head could stand more than the average of brains. He felt a sort of lightness, a jocular content, as he sat there at his post. The lights ale-ng the road f sparkled more prominently than usual ; the stars seemed to shine with unwonted brightness ; sncl once or twice he caught -himself huskily answering some one who had not spoken. . What's that you're saying, Mr. Meriam ?" said the fireman at last. , "Saying?" Royal laughed aloud. "I didn't speak. I was only coughing." All of a sudden he grew sleepy his brain seemed to become confused. "All right," said he "all right! I'll back theFlying Dart against any engine on the road ! Why, she couldn't go wrong if she was to try ! Are we are we far from the drawbridge?" The fireman suddenly started to his feet, with a hoarse, gasping ery. "The signal !" he shouted. "The red light! Stop her, for God's sake ! Sound down brakes ! We are on the bridge, and the draw is open !" In less than a second the mists and drowsiness and fatal lethargy, seemed to clear away from the engineer's brain and he had fully comprehended the awful terror of the position the ex press train rushed at dizzy speed toward the yawning gulf, beneath which lay the black river. The signal ! And he had not seen it ! Pretty Grace Arden, with the words of warning that he had laughed at the cozy hearthstone of the Shepherd's Arms, where the liquor had sparkled redly against the firelight all his pre vious life seemed to riseip Defore him in that second, with death beckoning darkly beyond. Mechanically he sound ed the whistle, sharp and shrill two brief, unearthly shrieks and then sprang out into the darkness, through which the red light streamed like an eye of sullen fire. He had done what he could to save the fated train, and he grasped blindly at the one chance in five hundred for his own life. It was just possible that he might in the rush and darkness chance to alight on the coarse wooden trestle work of the bridge, and even if he were precipitated into the water, why, it would only be a second or sooner, that was all. He sprung, and striking with his shoulder against a beam, lost all con sciousness in the instant that the train skimmed by him its long array of lights gleaming and vanishing, and faces here and there looking out of the windows, all unconscious that they were going to death. A bleak December day, with the snowflakes clicking against the window panes, a wood fire crackling on the hearth, and Grace Arden's light figure coming and going like a little brown robed Sister of Charity. Royal Meriam's eyes vaguely took in these things, lying among his pillows, before he remem bered Remembered ! Remembered that he was an outcast among men a murder er! "Grace." he gasped, "tell me! How came I here? How was I saved?" "They found you on the bridge, dear. Hush! You must not talk much. You are very weak and feeble You were quite unconscious,and ten ibly bruised." "And the train ! Was it totally wrecked?" "It wasn't wrecked at all," said Grace, with brightened face. "For the draw was not open." "Not open?" "No. It had been, but was just closed again, and the men had not yet taken down the open-signal when the express rushed on without any warning what ever. They stopped it on the other side, and missed you." "No oue was killed, then?" he shud dered, feeling as if a mountain of horror was lifted from his breast. "No one." "Grace," he whispered dra wins: her down to him, hoarsely, "I was drunk!" "Royal!" "Yes, I was; and if that train had been wrecked the blood of all those helpless passengers, men, women and children, would haye been on my head. God be thanked that He has not pun ished me as I deserve !" r Grace put her- hand softly on his throbbing forehead. "Don't think about it, darling," she said, in a low voice. "The past is gone but the future is all our own." And in that future, Royal 3Ieriam a prematurely old and crippled man, lived to atone for all the faults and fol lies of his youth. He never re-entered the old profession lie had not nerve enough for that, he was wont to say, even if they would have trusted him again-; but he worked hard and hon estly for his Dread, with Grace his wife standing loyally by his side. And never in all the long years that follow ed did a drop of ardent spirits ever pass his lips. f r" ' ' : ! I i r ' ' : : ; : z 1 1 1 7 "I have had my lesson," he said, "and it is not one of the kind that men readily forget." An Infant Has Its Arm Bitten Off by Alligator; jur. irniiDricic, or Florida, among many other living curiosities, possesses an alligator about half grown and an infant which is old enough to crawl and go about the yard unattended A strange attachment existed between the alligator and the infant, the former be ing so docile that the friends frequently spent hours during the day in playing with each other. The alligator would amble clumsily to his tank, take a sport ive dive, and, returning, he would em brace the little one, so to speak, and give unmistakable evidence of delight in receiving tender caresses In return. So secure seemed the friendship between them that Mr. Philbrick never thought of harm, and left the playmates to them selves to pass the time as suited their inclination. The friendly relations did not last long, however, for Mr. Phil DricK was startiea aDout iu o'clock on Wednesday last by agonizing screams coming from the back yard, and rushing out, he found to his horror that the alii gator. had bitten the little fellow's arm almost entirely off, the fraction of I limb dangling by a slender bit of cuticle. The poor, suffering little thing moaned and wept bitterly, and the alligator, seeing the distress he had created, crawled up to his victim and shed copi ous tears oi sympathy, nis expression less countenance giving him the ap pearanee of a subdued and sentimental ass. Mr. Philbrick severed the lacer ated memDers, dressed tne stuD care fully, and the animal is now able to waddle about on three legs. We have often heard of "crocodile tears," but until Mr. Pbilbrick's statement our faith in their existence could have been easily shaken. Joe Jefferson's Nap. While Joe Jefferson was playing Rip Van Winkle at Chicago last spring, he went to the theatre very much exhaust ed by a long day's fishing on the lake. When the curtain rose on the third act it disclosed the white-haired "Rip' immersed in his twenty year's Five, ten, twenty minutes passed, still he did not waken. The aud still nap. arid ence the began to grow impatient and prompter uneasy. The great actor doubtless knew what he was about, but this was carrying the "realistic"! sort of thing entirely too far. The fact was that all the time Jefferson was really sleeping the sleep of the just, or rather of the fisherman who has sat eight hours in the sun without getting a sin gle bite. Finally the gallery got to be uproarious, and one of the "gods" wanted to know if there was'going to be nineteen years more of this snooze business." Here Jefferson i began to snore. This decided the prompter who opened a small trap beneath the stage and began to prod "Rip" from behind. The much traveled comedian began to fumble in his pocket for an- Imaginary ticket, and muttered drowsily : "Going clear through, 'ductor.." The audienee was transfixed with amazement at this entirely new reading, when suddenly Jefferson sat up with a long shriek. The exasperated prompter had "jabbed' him with a pin. The play went on then with a rush. A Courageous Toad. One would suppose that ore dose of such hot food as bees would satisfy a reasonable toad, but the following story though hard to believe, is said to be au thentic : The toad in question squatted down near the bee-hive, and when a bee flew near him, out went his tongue quicker than sight, and, with the sucking in of his breath, he drew the bee into his mouth and swallowed him. It seemed as if the bee made its mark on the toad's tongue and in its throat and stomach, for at each "gulp" Mr. Toad would rise on his haunches and blow put his breath, a3 if he were cooling a coal of fire in his mouth. And at the same time, he would feelingly press his fore feet (so like hands) against his throat, and pass them down outside his stom ach making two or three passes each time, as if to quiet the swallowed bee, and ease some inside pain that was burning worse than stomach ache. Having thus cooled his mouth and soo thed his pain, he would squat down again and catch another bee, each time repeating the blowing to cool j the mouth, and the soothing pressure to quiet his inside troubles. A new electric battery has been ex hibited before the French Academy. The plates are of zinc and plumbago; the liquid, a solution m water of the substance known to druggists as un vitrified salt. It is claimed that the battery is more powerful than Bunsen's of the same dimensions, and that the constancy of the currency is remark able, j Sound moves in the air at the rate of 1,100 feet a second ; sound -In water moves at the rate of 4,000 feet a second. Two Beautiful Mnrderetsesi At an early hour on the morning of the 17th of May, 1817 the Inhabitants of St Denis, one of the suburbs of Paris, were startled by the discovery that the corpse of an aged woman had been found in the Rue Vaugirard, the only aristocratic and the most quiet street of the place, under circumstances which left no doubt of the fact that she had been murdered. j She was taken to the Town Hall, and exhibited to public view just as she had been found. ;-; : ::.' '.; ' The corpse was almost entirely naked. Only a part of a fine cambric chemise covered the upper) part of the body Her head was terribly bruised, appar ently from the blows inflicted by a blunt instrument. From the shrivelled con dition of her skin, and from the fact that she had but few teeth left in her mouth, it was evident that at the time of her death she must have been at least sixty years old. Who was she? And who had murdered her? At that time even Paris had but few- clever detectives, the best of them hav ing been dismissed on account of .the services they had rendered to the Em peror Napoleon the First. Hence, it was not to be wondered at that for two days no clew to the perpetrators of this crime was found. nil . m -m - . ne corpse or tne murdered woman was buried early on the third day, and It was a truly strange coincidence that at the same hour there was furnished to the authorities of St. Denis Informa tion which enabled them in the course of a few hours to ferret out who had committed the atrocious crime. It was a letter addressed to the Com missary of Police i that furnished this important information. No name was signed to the letter! which read as fol lows : i If you will go to the young ladies' boarding school at Bevernay, you will find out who the murdered woman is, and, if you a: e sagacious enough, also her assassins. Thev are at the house." The Commissary; of Police immedi ately repaired to the place indicated, where he was received by Mme. Chests nay, the Principal of the school. He said to Mme. Chestnay : "Is there an aged woman missing from this house?" "An aged woman?" she exclaimed. "We had only one aged woman here my housekeeper, Mile. Sustenne. She Xor- is now on a visit to mandj''." her sister in ' When did she leave?" "Three days ago!" "Can you tell me what kind of a chemise she wore at that time?" The lady looked at him in surprise Then she said : "Mile. Sustenne was always very par ticular about her undercloths. She never wore anything butfvery fine cam bric chemises, "How about her teeth ?" "3Ionsieur?" 4Excuse me; I have an object in ask ing this question." "Mile Sustenne had very few and very bad teeth." "Did she have any enemies here?" "Enemies? Yes,' monsieur She was rather crabbed and sourv and hence all my young girls hated her." "Did any of the young girls hate her particularly?" "Let me see. Yes; Anais Lenor and Sophie Breston had, the other day a bit ter quarrel with her. But tell me, Monsieur, why do1 you put all these questions to me?" "Because Mile. Sustenne is undoubt edly the old woman who was found murdered at St Denis three days ago." "Mon Dieu! Mon .Dieu !" cried the lady, wringing her hands. "Please send for the two girls whom vou named last. The two girls made their appearance They were only sixtee.i, tender, grace, ful and hpndsomeJ "What do you know about the mur der of Mile. Susteiine?" said the Com missary to them. I The girls turned deadly pale. They made no reply. "Did you murder her ?" thundered the Commissary. . 'They burst into tears, and confessed that, having had a violent altercation with Mile. Sustenne, they had beaten her on the head until she was dead. Then they had stripped hetf of her clothes and carried her in the dead of night to St. Denis.l The two beautiful murderesses were sentenced in a few: days afterward to be branded on both shoulders with a red hot iron, then to stand in the pillory for three hours, and to be confined In the House of Correction for life. Ohio's Enoch Arden. The history of William Ralnes'xlife Is fraught with fully as much pathos as the hero of Tennyson's beautiful crea tion, "Enoch Arden." Raines worked at his trade, that I of carpenter, until September 18C9, in St. Clatrsvijle, Ohio. Fortune bad dealt kindly with him, and biassed blm with a loving wife and one child. His uncle who was the owner TT and captain of the bark Mary Ellen, pre vailed on him at the time above named to make a voyage to Cape Town,. Africa, with him. The cargo was to consist of farming! implements and live stock. He drew two months wages and gave the money jto his wife, and the Mary Ellen smarted with her crew of thirty, men about the middle of September. They progressed finely until they reach ed the We6 coast of Africa, jwhere they met with contrary winds and bad weath- er, and one morning about daybreak, storm, the : to pieces from the In the Jnidit of a terrible snin sirucK a reel and wen KAtU U .1 1 t auuut iwui uuuureu varus shore. Six of the crew reached the shore in safety. The remaining twenty fours perished. The names of the six escaped are: Wm. Raines, the narrjator; Burrell and Thompson, given names unkfiown, but both Americans ; I Hook, an Englishman ; Feider, a Ger man!,: formerly of Ohio, and J. W. Lang, captain of the bark. The ship having attracted the attention of a war party of negroes, who had .come from the Interior to fight one of the coast tribes, jtbej .watched all nigjht through the i torm. jand when she broke up and the men reached shore, the negroes took possession of them and (distributed them among the tribes as 'curiosities They had rever seen white men before, and regarded them as something more thanj human. The negroes separated. Raines! was carried about 50C miles Into the interior, where the tribe that the war party pronged to HvedJ The king of the tribe took a great fancy to him, and made a royal pet of him. He was allowed to go around of his own free willj without guard or check of any kind whatever. The tribe had no knowledge of the cultivation of the soil ; theiii principal food was the irult, which everywhere grew abundant roots,, herbs and monkey flesh. The country occupied was high and sandy in some places, but the water wa3 exceU i -! a mi ' ; . J lent, cooi apu ciear. uie rivers were muddy had no -. i and! scarce of fish. The natives knowledge of water craft of any kindf t iThef langnage was a series of sounds! accompanied by gestures. One sou nl with appropriate gestures could haveja dozen different meanings There was no sickness or malaria of any kind, there being but seven deathsj by natural causes jjilring his whole captivity. This he attributes to their manner of living. Tbelf principal weapon was javelin, which they could t a ipear or irow with marvelous dexterity and for a great distance. I The only covering which they worewas; aj breech-clout for the males, and a sborti skirt reaching tq the knees for tlie j women. The dress was made of the fibre next the bark on a tree, the name of Which he never heard. He also speak 8 of a medicinal plant, which the natives use as a purgative, and whlc i they call cutch caw. After being with them come years, aud having gained (their confidence, they allowed him to wander away from the camp and stay away for a day at a time. After a while these hunting trips were length-' ened jto two das, then three, and one fine morning found him on a camel nurrying to Cape Town. At the end of the second day, the camel having been driven i day and night, dropped dead from jexhaustion, and he had to finish he distance on loot. He arrived finally at Cape Town, where, with difficulty, he could make himself understood, and passage to San Francisco was furnished him. Here, through a lodne of which he is a jmember, he found that his name had been on the death list for six years. But t tie saddest part of this story comes how, after reaching St. Clairsville. Upon bis arrival there, he found that his wife, despairing of h!s return, and believing that he was dead, after he had been 5one three years, had re-married to a worthy citizen of that place. HU meeting with his, wife, after hla return, can te better imagined than depicted. With a noble self-denial, which his long captivity may have made easy, he re fused Child to assert his claim to his wife and Whom ne sun loves ueariy, our; he has left to his wife the privilege of choos ng between her two husbands Progress of Botany. In the Bible about 100 plants are al luded; to; jllippocrates mentioned 221; Theophraetus, 5C0: and Pliny, 800. From this time there was little addition to ourj knowledge until the Renaissance In the beginning of the fifteenth cen tury Gesner could only enumerate 800. but at! its close Bauhin described 6,000 Tournefort, in 1694, recognized ' 10,146 species; but Linnaeus, In the next cen tury, w;orkIng more cautiously, denned only 7,294. 1 Jn the beginning of this century m aouo, jrersoon uescriDeu z;, 000 species,; comprising, however, num erous minute fungi. In 1819, DeCan dolle estimated the known species at 30,000V London, In 18:i9, gave 31,731 species and In 1846, Prof. Lindley enumerated 66.435. dicotyledons, and 13,952! monocotyledons in all 80,3S7; but in 1853 these bad Increased to 92,- 920, and In 1863 Ben tiey estimated the known species at 125,000.
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