Chatham Record
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H. A. LONDON, Jr.,
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VOL. IV.
PITTSBOKO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOBER 6, 1881.
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True or l'ule.
Vuilcrneath tiir la'tiisvl porch
Kit slio of the 1 eaiuv vyi'H ;
Firefly lia lit M tor-li,
Htarry glory I'll- the s!.iei ;
At L r feet tlic mnonlilil lii",
I'liicVeicil buss ill iI.mI. mill bliK'.t,
All the sunnier night.
Iiroway rntirnitirinp from l.ijnint.
Where tin- trectopa brush t In- ky ;
Frum his rank awl Mtvil-rmui poml
Comes the bull-frog's cpi.il.iii; cry,
All uilit I'H'K Strang living- l!y,
t'liirp ari l limn hii I l"i ami l.n. uu,
(iivin;; voie'j to glooui.
lint she IicciIh nor firefly's li,;lit.
Nor the i:cKiiilieani at Iht f- t ,
Jlt'UrH no YoK'i'H in the lii,;'ll
rat!Boiii" wor-la lei ti iu(:lit npeat,
(lions of c"lln ill' Kin ami )1 I -
Echoes of nuiim far-nff iIhjh
Cat in pleasant wav.
Ami her heart fay?, "He i tru ;'
Ami tlic Mn.a t 1 1 j 1 1 1 1 -1 -. rj'iin' ;
I.iclitinn li"r '.i!. f :i urr i Iliruiili
Willi the liuppiiicKK il 1 iiiu,
And her until, a t'la 1 -l.il I, iHK'i
Aluayn nitli i:ii i1 I ii Tia.n -"1U'
will ci'iin- Kgiin !"
Hide thy doubting face, iii'mhi,
Kivher eye may r n l lie- tru'li !
Crnukiu;: f cjr, thy ilinnal Onci
In Mark miihii y, III south,
I'nr II. e lmif il heart .if Minlli ;
All tin' miri I lii .I. ill. wiiul.l liii
If In r ilri ini biiiiiil l tin-.
If...-, j. . .I.W.I.'mO.
DOUGLAS HALSTEADS WIFE.
"Am I going to di.i?"' Tlio ductorV
keen gray vr dimmed suddenly as lie
looked down into the wan, girlish face,
fcO thin and ji do from 1 1). wasting dis
cusu that bufll 'd 1i!h skill, ut (ho white,
nervous Lands that lay crossed in Lor
lap, then Lo tried to char Lin throut,
but answered, hu.kily,
"Dear child, no, we hope not. You
Lave been very til, and I niu-t talk up a
change witL iaj a. Bo liojiofiil, Eva ;"
and Le smiled cheerily as ho turuoel to
Mrs. Campion ttLilo he stood buttoning
his glove.
Eva only lifted great-, solemn even in
a Bad, que itioning way thut haunted the
honest old iiiiiu lis he Went, porturhedly
thinking, to obey the variijut 'callitRx
of disease and distrchn. ( )nce he gravi ly
shook Lis Lend mi l i-ihod. Ho whs
thinking of Liu dear littlu itieiit, so
P'Je and so f.tudlv loveil, only j-iiteen,
yet ho womuuly for hT yen s ; hI.ij hud
been the light of the home Leforo the
was btricken by thih mysterious illticnn.
She was generous mid iuij.ul.-ivo to u
fuult, warm-hearted, with a imre, c'lild
ibh mind that even thonph bhe ranked
among thes brightest (students ut the
academy, retained tho guiklcm Kim
1'licity of an infant.
Jest before the blighting disease had
fallen upon hei, new Loiies und usiiia
tions Lad coino. The eccentric bachelor
uncle across tho seas whose name the
bore, who Lad loved her frjm her baby
hood, died, willing to Ler Liu thousands,
and Lis store of exqnidte foreign treas
ures, the inuch-i'rized accumulation of
years.
"As tho ono person who loved Tuele
Jessie.' I beaneath to Evu Worden Cam
pion my entire fortune and personal
possessions, sure that (ho will prize
thorn, tho whole to be her husband's in
case of her death, otherwise to descend
to the State National Hospital, in case
of her decease while single."
It was peculiar ; every ono admitted
that ; but Undo Jessie Worden had al
ways admired the poor, struggling,
fctudent-cousin, Douglas Halatead, who
loved Eva so dearly. Hidden under the
crusty exterior thero was a warm heart,
and a tender little romance he would
have blushed to own twined about the
lives of these two.
Douglas Halstead, only nineteen, pale
from Intense application to the few
books Le owned, pursued the torturing,
useless, ever fleeing ambition of his life,
and cursed the grinding poverty that
debarred him from tho hopo of year.
Restlessly ambitious, life becntno n
burden by reason of tho never-' utihlied
longing that possessed him.
"No one but Eva uuderstuuds mo,"
Le told Limsolf as Lo went toward her
house that afternoon ; "sho always helps
me."
He echoed the doctor's Bigh ; there
was an undefined fear in his heart as
with Lis wonted freedom he opened tho
heavy outer door, Lnng his hut in tho
hall and went in softly to the bright
room where, in her cushioned chair,
Eva leaned back, white as tho pillow
beneath her Load. Hhe started a little
as Le stoodjby hor chair and said,
softly,
"How are you to-day, Eva dear ?''
"I wanted to see you," she said, ex
tending her cool little hand for his warm
one to clasp in greeting, and failing as
she did so to answer Lis question. "I
was thinking about you."
"And I came down here to lie talked
to," he said, tenderly; "you always
help me, littlo cousin."
His voice shook ax he said the last
words ; ho was thinking what a short
time was left for her to help him, she
looked so fragile and unearthly.
"Eva," he said, despairinRly, "it is
the old story of ambition at war with
bitter, grinding poverty. I have studied
all I can hero ; books do not prow like
wild flowers would to Heaven they
did! I have tried to forget my dreams,
and resign myself to the inevitable; but
ob, I want to pet a way from this and be
something. Tell me what to do, little)
girl," ho concluded, in a softer tono.hi
white face bhowing the inlen-.ity of his
fierce btrugglo with hin dearest wish.
"Talk to mo if you are ablo you always
calm me."
"Poor bnv!" The tone had that littlo
cadence of protection and pity in it com
mon to living women. "It is hard, I
know, )ou(,'las," tho stopped sud
denly, and thou weut on "I am going
to Bay i-omething strange. When you
runic in I was thinking of yon remem
ber Uncle Jesse's will?"
"Yes," he replied, wondering-
"I want you to have your wish to bo
a scholar," bhe continued, gravely. "I
know you will bo a great one I feel it
hero ;" and she laid her baud upon her
heart. "1 want tho money that dear
Uncle Jesse loft niotodogood. I meant
to make it if I lived." She spoko seri
ously, with only gentle uffcrtion and
pure uiiHoltlshneHS looking from the soft
even, wiih not a tremor of womanly
feeling, nor uQush of self-conscioui-ness
dUtmbing the serene grandeur of her
act. "Douglas, look at mo ;" Ler gaze
infinitely sad and sweet met Lis. "I am
going to die ; will you marry mo and
take my money ?"
Douglas looked ot Ler dumbfounded
for a moment. As Le realized her good
ness, the depth and beauty of this in
nocent act of chihiliko devotion, he
buried his faco and groaned uloiul.
Don't 1 Oh, Eva darling, 1 can't let
you go! I could not accept jour dear
sacrifice."
"1 want you to have it," she pleaded ;
'not because ours would bo like other
marnsges, or that we lovo one another
as men and women do, but ouly lo help
you when I am gone."
Douglas Bank on Lis knees reverently
by her side..
"Littlo girl," ho said tenderly, "you
are an angel 1 I cannot take your roouey
in tli it way; it. would bo u cousuuiing
fire to dovour my whole future life ; the
toin li of it would burn we. Lvo, you
shall not do this. You deserve tho best '
gifts of earth and heaven. You shall not
de, au I you bhall bo mine, when you
can be proud of me."
"Oh, no, no 1" sho cried, bhrinkirig
timidly. "Not unless I die. I did not
moan because you loved mo." The first
feeling thut bhe had done wrong touched
her puro miud. "Of courso I would
not murry you in any other way. You
will take it and use it for me ? Tlease,
Douglas, let me do some good before I
die 1 I shall uever enjoy it."
Tho pleading eyes were dim with
tears, thero was a faint flush in the pal
lid face. Pride melted, and Douglas
Halstcad baid in unsteady tones,
"As a sacred debt of honor I will take
it. Heaven bless you I You are my
good angel. On you rests tho crown of
my future success." And he went away
thinking of hor words "Of courso I
would not marry you in any other way,"
with a pniuod.'fc-eling in his heart that
he could not fathom.
ne went to college luter how none
could conjecture with a littlo mystery
brooding abortt him, but none know of
the girl wifu ai home who as yet did not
love him, and who would permit nothing
but that ho go ut once. Hut Eva uuac
countably lingered was taken to the
scashoro, aud across tho water to sunny
climes. As if by magio she wos raised
to better health. Always delicate fhe
would be, something of an invalid, but
the disease was gone ; so said tho fa
mous physician under whose euro she
was.
Eight years bloomed nud faded, and
Douglas Ilalstcad's name blazed like a
star in public life. His talent amouutcd
to genius. The newspaper world courted
and f'-ted him, and fortuuo smiled upon
him. Ono goutlo hand had opened tho
store-house, so it poured out faith's
choicest benefits upon him. Ho hud
repaid Eva's littlo fund long since.
"Tho greater debt," ho wroto, "I
never cau repay ; I havo you to thank
for all I have and am. I urn so glad you
are well, littlo girl."
"Littlo girl" never "wife." He
meant her to fool her exact position,
she told herself with sensitive pride,
forgetting who had placed the ban of
silen 'o upon him. Sho never thought
her girlish error "sin," she mercilessly
called it without a sense of heart-broken
misery.
"Oh, how could I?" she would ago
nizingly ask herself ; and the grandeur
of her offering was lost in the intonse
mortification and sorrow that never left
her.
Twice Douglas Hal stead had sought
her presence. She avoided him. nis
earnest, manly appeal in his letters to
Bee her had been nnnoticod.
To-night she was alone, and- sho was
thinking after a remorseful fashion that
she had not been quite just, when, in
the same quiet way that he had entered
eight years before, Douglas Halstcad
stood by her sido.
"Forgive niel" Le said, hnmbly.
"They told me you wre alone, and I
must see you. Eva, my oulpr love wife'
this once though that is forbidden me
dearer with every hour of life, gar
nered into my heart and treasured as
the grandest, jiurost memory it ever
knew, don't send me from you ! May 1
not hope some day to win your price
less heart ?"
For answer sho only covered her face
and wept piteonsly.
"Have you forgotten ?" she sob' ed.
"Is it because you are honorable, bo
cause you fancy yon need be grateful,
that you pain me thus? '
'I'ain you ! ' He sprang to his feet
in vehement passion. 'I would die
sooner than give you pniu ! I have for
gotten even thing save that I want tho
purest, sweetest woman in the world to
conio to her rightful shelter, my heart. '
Ho waited eugeily ; thero was no re
sponse. "Shall I must I go hopeless?" he
pleaded at lust.
"No f " tho words wore very faint
und low "if oh, Douglas!"
Tho voire died in a broken little sob.
"Jfy proud darling, my wife !"
He had her in his uniis now ; tho
great deeps wero broken np. Hoki.sed
passionately the pallid face, and held
tho trembling hands.
"What have you thought?" sho asked,
timidly, at last.
"That you wero too cruel to bo tho
dear little girl who honored me, as
never man whs honored before, years
since."
His voi'o was low nud reverent.
"Oh, I dil not mean to be," she cried,
in tender remorse. "Forgive me, won't
yon ?"
"The clear eyes met his ; he bent
low.
If yon will tell mo you love me."
As sho said the words shyly ho held
her close, saying,
"Thank yon, dear love! Oh, may
heaven reward yon aud bless you even
ns I am Mest 1 You have been first in
my heart ever biuae I can remember,
and now nt last you are all my own."
Tho pride in her face mode him smile
fondly, and Eva, won at last, was silent
from purest joy.
The world calls Mrs. Halstea 1 an in
valid, so delicate sho is, so fragile, and
it wonders as usual if sho bo not a bur
den to the grand man of nu"li superb
physical and mental mould that she
calls husband. It does not soo tho fond
caro and tenderness which never fails
her, nor yet does it know that its idol,
its king, will carry to death, embraced
in his heart of hearts, his wife.
Inconvenience of llolng a Humorist.
Bret Harte's peculiar horror is the
poem that made his reputation "the
Heathen Chiueo." To a friend who once
mado a quotation from it in his hearing
he said : "If yon lovo mo never men
tion 'Heathen Chinee in my hearing.
If I die young it will bo of that miser
able washerman, no is my nightmare
and my daymare. I cannot get rid of
him, go where I will, and ho springs up
like a jack-in-a-box. With some people
I have to be polite and listen to all they
havo to say on tho subject ; but I feel
that I know you well enough to cry out
'spare mel' I am willing and pleased to
talk of any of my stories, and even any
other poems aro not unpleasant to my
ear; but tho Mongolian will kill mo
yet. Why, do you know, they havo ac
tually sot it to music a frightful dirge I
A young lady insisted upon chanting it
to me, tho other night, and I had to
listen patiently instead of following my
inclination, which was to tear tho music
into a thousand pieces, and dance up
aud down on the key-board of the piano.
It was enough to drive mo mad. My
friends think that thoy aro paying me
a huge compliment by mukiug constant
quotations from the different verses.
They will poke mo in tho ribs and say,
"That for ways thut aro dark,' and wink
at mo as thoy say, 'His smile it was
childlike und bluud.' I thought I would
get away from it all bycoming east, bat
th" pigtailed nightmare pursues me."
woitns OK WISIMM.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Nothing mukes men sharper than want.
Fly tho pleasure that bites to-motrow.
Tho man who knows the most is not
an owning man.
Worldly faces never look so worldly
as at a funeral.
Proud hearts and lofty mount jins are
always barren.
A man may suffer without sinning, Lo
cannot sin without suffering.
liagged clothing cannot debase a man
as much as a frayed reputation.
We shall be free from evil desires
only wheu we are pure in heart.
He who can suppress a moment's
anger raay'prevent a day of sorrow.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill.
The faculty of reasoning seldom or
never deceives those who trust to it.
When a friend corrects a fault in you,
he does yon the greatest act of friend
ship. In ourselves, rather than in material
nature, lie the trno source and life of
the beautiful.
Tho power to do great things gene
rally arises from the willingness to do
small things.
FASIUO.VK lOniLES.
Fringes of great beauty nro now seen
in importers' sample bcoks.
Buds on bonnets are about lo bo
superseded by full-blown flowers.
The most recent novelties in lace aro
vivid scarlet und old gold colorings in
Spanish lace.
It will be good news to some that
silk velvets are likely to be sold at very
low prices this untnuin.
Button rloth is a new kind of chevoit,
with raised threads scattered through it
which look like buttons.
1'Imh flounces that aro as rich us fur
Rnd havo pilo as lon(? lis fringo will be
tho supremo novelty at midwinter.
Foulurds and pongees having excoll- d
"stayiug" powers will bo tlio rulo for
autumn toilets at tho seashore.
Pokes with square proje ctions aud
somewhat short sides, leaching to the
top of the tar only, have reecutly ap
peared. A trimming to bo used for scarf and
bonnet draperies this f ill is uu cnibroi
derej guuzj, uccompinied by a border
ing to match.
Scarfs, iiehiisa.ul collarettes have by
no moans exhausted the iuvontiou of
designers, but are, if possible, luoro
beautiful than ever.
The newest Mother Hubbard drosses
for littlo girls nro of Turkey red oil
dressed calico or serge, or tho oft dark
blue flannel called beach flannel.
One of tho richest noveltios promised
for tho fall is sealskin cloth, a material
embroidered with gold or silver, und
designed for enrriago or promenade
wear.
Squares of linen batiste and linen
lawn are now tho fnvoritos for legiti
mate handkerchiefs or "nosewipeu,-' as
our Teutonic brethren would say.
Gowns of ono solid piece, brightened
by a small quantity of rich trimming,
continue to bo recommended m by the
best French dress makers.
The small, fluffy curls, which have
for some time been worn nt tho nape of
the neck, are be'comiug somewhat
larger wheu seen with evening toilets.
An eminent artist declines to paint
the portraits of ladies who "fritter away
their forehoads and cover their brows
with a smothering fringo of hair."
Fluting and knifo-plaiting lake the
lead iu frills nud ruches for tho neck,
as they keep their form better and stand
away more firmly from the throat.
Satin finished beaver hats, with
crowns that may bo either broad nud
low or high and pointed, but of which
the brims aro in nil cases immense, are
among the stunning novelties.
If you see a caterpillar on tho bonnet
of a lady in front of you at the theater
next winter, do not bo uneasy, for the
sweet creature the caterpillar, that is,
and not the lady will probably be
made of silk chenille.
CreBconts, stars and circles of metal
set with stones, closely imitating real
jewels, will be seen on full bonnets, tho
tendency being to display moro showy
and costly ornaments than have been in
use heretofore.
French hair-dressers uro now import
ing hair braids two yards long without
stems. These are called lioniau braids
and with the accompanying flat ripplo
for the forehead vnry in price from forty
to fifty dollars.
A Fiery (.'rave.
The Westphalia papers give an ac
count of a terrible catastrophe which
occurred in the northwestern part of
that province on tho 1Mb ult. There
has been for some time in operation iu
the neighborhood of Solingen, not far
from Barmen, a strungo phenomenon.
A part of the soil of a hilly heath be
came excessively hot, so much so that
somo people living close by availed
themselves of the heat for domestic pur
poses. The explanation suggested was
that some inflammable subterrauenn gas,
or perhaps petroleum, had been acciden
tally set on flro. Somo water had been
brought to the spot by au artificial
channel ; but its contact with tho burn
ing soil had only produced violent ex
plosions, which bcemod to shatter all
tho ground urouud. Recently somo
persons drovo out in a carriago from
ltonischt-id to inspect the spot. When
arrived at a distanro of about a quarter
of an English mile, they heard a strange
rumbling noise, which so terrified the
horses that they had to alight aud send
the carriage back somo distance. They
walked on, discussing the likelihood
of any danger, when suddenly a space
of the hillside, about 100 metres square,
opened, disclosiug a gulf of liquid firo
and throwing up flames. The house
whero the family mentioned above lived
was at once surrounded by the flames
and was, before their eyes, swallowod
up in the liquid fiery caldron at their
feet, apparently feeding tho flames. It
is known that several persons were in
the house ; none wero saved, but it has
not been ascertained how many per
ished. Londitn Times.
The story goes thut Mrs. Comwallis
Wett, the far-famed "professional
beauty," is coming over with the ntw
British Minister, a kinsman of her hus
band, to grace the legation establishment.
A tiondiila Procession.
W. E. CrofTut thus describes, in the
St. Paul Pitmen- Press, his experiences
in a gondola at Venice: At eijht
o'clock we started in three gondolas for
tho rendezvous half n mile off. Here
we found innumerable boats surronn 1
ing tie queen's private bark, which was
a clumsy, stately barge, sadly lighted
up with a sort of Chineso lantern, bav
in j noropes from the deck to tho top
of the shoitmast. Thero was also a
yellow canopy hung round with lights,
which seemed to be tumblers of oil
suspended in blue mosquito netting,
perhaps )(K) lights in all. It did not
make the royal craft very bright, and
the radiuneo did not extend more than
twenty or thirty feet on either sido. In
a few minutes wo started, and spite of
the darkness, for, ns usual, the ini'fli
rial gondolas were prohibited fioni car
rying more lln.ii one light, and th..t re
quired to be bbuut as dim us a fire fly
ths scene was q iito impressive. Theru
wero raid to bo 1,500 gondolas in tin
crush -for crush it liteially was, the
black beats jam mod tightly together,
and tho innsic.il gondoliers pushing
their eiatt uloiig ut the expense of ad j.i
eout bout.", or swinging their futile, pad
dles high in utr und luiicin,T in lvgo on
the prow, and swearing at ndj.icent gon
dolieis, und calling them dudhiuged
grandsons eif tho pestiferous '-mu in the
sweet syllables of tho South. After
going half u mile iu this way, emr gon
dola, perhaps lot) feet from the royal
hunch, suddenly stopped in front of
tho palace and a slight form e'lad ill
white silk throughout, stepped upon the
oveihauging balcony. It was tho young
queen, first cousin of her husband, King
Humbert. Her faco was fairer than
that of most Venitiaus, and the chestnut
hair, slightly "Lunged" over the eye
brows, was drawn straight back and
fixed in a Grecian knot bohiud. She
bowed lo tho right aud left.
Hill Ani's View or Lire.
We had a good, old-fashioned country
danco last night, and don't feed any
worse this morning for it. Wo Lad
young peoplo aud middle aged people,
and old people, and those of us who
didn't trip on tho light fantastic too sat
in tho broad phzza and talked and
looked on and enjoyed ourselves all the
same r.s wo used to'do when the gush
and vigor of youth wero upon us. What
a blessed thing it is that kind nature
takes away our desire for frolic as we
grow older, and begin to wear the sere"
and yellow leaf. 1 don't caro to dance
now that tho spriug in my extremities
is gone and there's lead in my shoes,
and I don't lament that old age is cre ep
ing on me, for I havo many new pleas
ures, ami ono of theso is to look on and
see other peoplo happy. Enjoy your
day, whether it bo in youth or old ago ;
enjoy every day, make most of it ; get
all out of lifo you cun. It won't pay to
always bo hankering aftef something or
grieving over troubles that haven't
come, and may nover como. I know
peoplo who let tho dark sido of life
cheat 'cm out of every day's happiness,
who ponder and fret over little troubles
until they rwcII up like dried apples
and got to bo big ones, und they can't
cat or sleep io any peace.
Life to them is a grindstone, and the
grit of it is always cutting away little
by littlo until there's nothing left. En
joy tho elay ; get somo good out of it
even if it's nothing but contentment for
good health and being out of jail. An
old gentleman of three score years and
ten was Lore last uight came five miles
just to beo tho young people happy
und ho was bright us the full moon, and
it was a pleasure to see him and listen
to him d iscourse upon lifo and how to
livo and Low to farm, and so on. llo's
seen trouble enough, goodness knows,
but ho never took it to heuit or sum-n-deredhin
manhood. -Jiill Arji, inMlnntu
Vumliluliim.
The Considerate Tenant.
I'nclo Knee owns several bhunties oh
Austin Avenue, that uro rented out to
olored tenants, among them Sam John
sing. Nifciht before last Sam knocked
at Uuclo Nueo's eloor, und woko him out
of a sound sleep.
"What's de matter ?" said the old man
sticking his head out of the wiudow.
"I jess como ter tell yer elat I cau't
got a wink ob sleep. I has ter pay yer
de rent ob de house next Saturday."
"Dar's no need ob yer staying awake
at nights, and worrying on dat account.
Dors no hurry about de rent."
"Yes dar is. I jess come ter tell yer
dat I aint got no mouoy to pay do rent,
and I has done moved my tricks out, so
you is bound to loose elo rent. Now,
you kin stay awake and do de worrying
and I'll go home and do de slcepin now.
I has got dat offen my mind." Sitiny.
General Gordon, of Georgia, is said
to have acquired a moro than comfor
table fortnue sines he loft the Semite.
It came through the sale of coal lands
in Alabama, for which ho and hi two
brothers and Governor Colqnitt re
ceived 700,000, together with $1,000,
000 in stock of the Richmond and Dan
ville Extension Company.
CKI.ML IX VIKt.IMA.
Thr Tmo;iI nlm Killeil Ihrir I intirr A
Horrible iirj'.
Thpfwo Williams girls who killed
their father near Wl.itnell, Pittsylvania
county, Virginia, recently ae in cus
tody. They uro very ignorant, and the.
youngest is half idiotic. It seems thoy
nicked up a living bv Catherine berries
and chostuu's, which the ir fa'her com- Philadelphia aro conjuring some of the
polled them to exchange for whiskey j Catholic clergy for taking part in mock
for his eiwn use. The oldest daughter baptismal and marriage ceremonies at
says that on the evening preceding the 8 I'"'1110-
murder her father H-nt her lo Whitnell I Tlio Sj;:n:f!'!'l .V".tvm holds that
to purchase whiskey with money she had 1 tbo higher education of women renders
earned with ln-r own bauds by drying i them avorso to matrimony. Such be
fruit, and that sue procured the i-nun- 1 ing the ease, ought that sort of educa
tity of whiskey dc: ire 1 and invested the i tiou to be Udorutcd ?
remainder rf the money in a few yards After tho preifn :e ki-si-ig that went
if calico. When sh returned home j on bolwcou the Our untl Emperor Wil
her father become enrasj.'d abont the J Hum, i.t 1 ii.tic, it would not be unpre
purchase of the eilici, und having tied ' eed-uted in history if they should pro
ber to :i tree, beat her nearly to death ; i c -ed to fiej.t each other,
that he tin n choked hi r mother until! The owner of n large cranberry farm
she was 11.uk in tho face; that Le-r ' at Berlin, Wisoon.-in, employs u hiwi
nioth'. r us f:o'.ii us she was rele-ased, rfred girls, and he promised to marry
wfiit for tho warrant, and that sho and j the ono who picks the most berries this
her sister, fearing for thiir lives, took j se son, provided sho wants him.
both of tho axes end hid tnetu In! I
their fa'her demanded tin m, sayir j
that he inteu led to kill Lis entire !
family und burn them up ;.f:ei ward.-;, j
She denied emphatically all liiiowled.-j.
of the murder, but this part of her 1
story is not credited. At the time of
the discovery of Williams' body the
culico referred to by the gill was found
by his side, und it is believed that he
took it away from Hie girls, und that
the-y waited until he was asleep and
killed Lira asulrcadv reported. Ther
were two axes use d instead of ono, and
so deeply were they imbedded, thut iu
drawing them out the head und shoul
ders were lifted from the gronml. One
of the girls, who appeals half idiotic,
wonld make no statement, but indorsed
thut of her sister. A horrible story is
circulated in tho neighborhood that
Williams a few days before the murder,
had instructed two of Lis daughters to
earn money by leading vicious lives,
and said that after killing his wifo ho
wculd tako tho third daughter in her
stead ; and there is a surmise that the
murder origin iteel in an attempt on his
part to carry out this purpose.
Short Word".
Wo must not ouly think in word--, but
we must also try to n:,e tho best words,
and those which ia speech will put wLut
is in our minds into tho minds of oth
ers. This is the givut ait which those
must gain who wish to teach in the
school, tho church, ut tho bur, or
through tho press. To do this in the
right way thoy should use tho short
words which wo leurn in early life, and j the waves of Spanish invasion surged
which have the same souse to all classes j over 1 rn, there were no pages of his
of men. The English of our Bible is j tory to turn luck lor a faithful picturo
good. Now and then some long words : 0f ti,0 Uiitin ,i j;rc ; uo possibility of
are found, and they always hurt the tracing the" successive steps which led
verses in which you find them. Take j n,o Incas from their cully .seat eif civ
that which says: "Oyo generation of i nation to tho shores of tho Pacific
vipers, who hath warned you to flee f,(.t..ul-
from tho wrath to como?" There is one j Tradition says that the first homes of
long word which ought rot to bo iu it ,.11S ur,. to bo found on the shores
namely, " generation ." In tho old all( Ha,ls of the sacred lake, Til icaca ;
version tho old word "brood" is used.
Rend the verso ugaia with this term,
und yon will feel its full force : " O ye
viper's brood, who hath warned you to
flco from tho wrath to como?" Crime
sometimes does not look like crin e
wheu it is bet before us iu tho many
folds of a long word. When a man
steals, aud we call it a " defalcation,"
wo are at. a loss to know if it is a blun
der or a crime. If ho does not tell the
truth, and we nro told that it is a case
of ' prcvur. out ion," it takes us some
time to know just what we should think
of it. No man will cat cheat himself
into wrong-doing, nor will Lo Le at u
loss to judge of others, if he thinks
aud speaks of nets iu clear, crisp terms.
It is a good rule', if one is ut a loss to
know if nn act is right or wrong tow rite
it down iu a short, straight-out Kiig
lii.ll. Hiirtttiti Siynmr.
Jiairvmplo, tho great Northwestern
farmer, is sai l to bo moro used to the
pen than he is to the plow. His hands
aro soft as those of a girl. Then, is
nouc ed tho "horny-Ustoii" about Liiu.
A Midi-Killed Postal ( aril.
A month or so ago, a gentleman in
California received a postal card from
his brother in Iowa, eontaining over
five thousand words. It was written to
him as a letter, and the writing upon it
so line that it required a magnifying
glass to read a portion of it. Ho tando
up his mind thnt ho would not bo out
done, aud four weeks ago ho made
preparations lo reply in the same style.
Ho wroto during his leisure moments an
answer, which ho finally brought to a
close, tho space on his carel having be'en
entirely consumed. When his task was
completed he counted the number of
words, and fennel that he had six thou
sand fonr hnndreel and seventy-one, a
number exceeding tho ono ho had ro
ceived bv over ono thousand. It vas
written with a steel pen, and can be
read w ithout the aid of a glass.
Chicago and New Orleans are tho only
American cities thnt license gambling
Louses. St. Louis is about to follow
their example.
ITEMS OK IMLhEST.
Tho one wife of tho present Khedive
is a woman of European education.
The business men of Baltimoro uro
taking steps to niuko the Oriolo n per
manent local institution in that city
every year.
Some uf th' Protestant elorgv of
A rich ' .lal.in OHpilali.-f, lung resi
dent of Onliu, died theie recently, nud
is reported to have left his fortune of
.-;l'.!,0ii(11t)(M) to be divided among four
negroes:, iorncrly his slave", who once
saved Lis life from u wildat while he
w-as out lmntii.g.
M. Komaii, a French ongineer, states
that the cultivation of tho into? esting
plant, the .'; iir'-y, has been largely
deveiopt d in Hungary and in vurious
parts of Franco, lie thinks thut it may
in the future breo'uo us important an
article ed food a-, the potato. It grows
in uny soil, even the dryost, and tho
plant is nn excellent fodder for cattle.
The seeds are very nutritions, and havo
the form of nmull kidne'y beans. An
agrecablo soup neiy bo made of them.
The Chinese use them for various kinds
of cheese, to niaku n condiment with
oil, etc. In Fi'itno?, the seeds havo been
reasted like coffee, and M. Roman says
tho decoction ef tho S ija bean is very
similar to that ef average colVoo
Tlio I iii-us.
Perhaps some of tho most reuiarkablo
of ancient dwelliin'-pLteeH nro tho
ruim d homes e f the lncussiill scattered
, llb.,. L,u ,, ,.lvai ,.0.)tincnl which, by
j a htwj, ,in..;.' of t.-rms, wo call tho
' v .,v vrld. Iu the' e vestiges of iialaee-i
d larg - eili , on the w jin stones of
grand cud massive uionuiueuts, lies I'm
Ulldecipliered history e:f that motley
empire, in whi.-li fragments of surround
ing races con.piered by the Incas wero
! n,i-0a ., ju a high doiae.; ; for, before
and among tho ruics there many ob
oe ts of interest iu gold and silver and
potti ry have be-cu discovered. Somo ed
the lew rare .specimens of pottery pre
sent fair repivsen'ati ns of tho peoplo
of those far-oil' times, which show thut
they were identical iu feature with thoir
descendants of tho present day. But
nt tho period when this race eif kings
are firs-1 met with in history, their em
pire extended for two thousand five
hundred miles, und included thepresent
states of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and
part eif Chili. It was traversed by the)
two great mountain ranges of tho Cor
dilleras. A great portion of this vast
kiugelom was practically unhabitable.
On tho plateau of tho Dospoblado,
which lies far above the limits of eternal
snow, between tho mountain ranges,
there is no trace, of hiinvin habitation,
excepting small huts oliefngo built by
the Incus on the main road between tho
northern and southern parts of their do
minions. Ami in tho ilosolato regions
urouud tho lake I'uiuyo tho only dis
tingni.shiiig features are the innumera
ble e.i.'i.ts or burying towers, which
stand singly or in groups upon tho
desert plaiu. Rounel or square, these
tombs are solid structures, with ono
e'avity at the base, entered by a narrow
hole iu the sido. Some ore in ruins ; a
few us perfect as wheu first eoniplatcel ;
many, elonbtless, as completely vanished
as tho ashes they we're meant tocvor.
Chmnlieri Journal.
A Toad Fight.
I always koep a number of toads in
my orchid houses for tho pnrpeise of
destroying vermin. The other morning,
while watching two males, I was highly
amused ut seeing them have a regular
set -to light. The-y went at each other
in a regular scientific manner, sparring
and 1 oxing with their fore paws and but
ting with their heads. After a while
they seemed to get tired, coolly sat
down and viewed (ack other with great
complacency. From my earliest days I
havo been in the l.abit of watching the
ways of toads, and never saw them fight
before.