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I t renew or rem i . ratio-i" taininx items of local Dews , FollcitM. , .ni ii.. I hi- held respoDaibla for Tlewi ,i! '1 .xpres-d hy rorresjionr'enla. ot-nilHi f,.r publication must k in ? nliieof t e paper only, and accom bu name ol tba r, aa a guarantee oi ed by i auto. The last thing that a man wants to do js the v.-ry last thing he does die. I .M.riANCE has no light; error follows a tike one. . A fink coat may cover a fool, but never conceals one. There is no grief like the grief which doea not Bpeak. He "ho blackens others does not whiten himself. The Chinese are said to have used beer four thousand years. A cuff on the wrist is worth two on the ear. American Punch. THE way some farmers put up corn is thgeking. New York Herald. It's poor land thatcan't hold its sown. I 'iiidnnafi ( 'ommercial. A had little boy calls himself Com paH, because he is boxed so often. A draft will bring on a cold, cure A cold, and pay the doctor's bill. In the vegetable race, who ever saw the tomato ketchup? A Da v en port lady is about to sue for a divorce on the ground that her husband " haa.no style about him." Kkep your eyes open while traveling. Better let in a cinder or two than noth ing at all. Jane Pie, of Columbus, attempted to drown herself because she could not get enough watermelon to eat. In this season every young lady will take the veil, unless she has a prefer ence for freckles. The day after the recent tornado in New England, a Boston firm sold sixteen thousand panes of glass. I. a UK County, Miss., has formally de land for JefTDavis for United .States Senator to Buccced Senator Bruce. The Albany Journal knows of a Mrs. Shoddy who invited a friend to come and see her horse and phantom. There is one kind of canned goodB that goes off quicker than any other . Gunpowder. A man may be so wrapped up in wience that he forgets all things else, bul he never fools with electricity and powder more then once. Cooking soda, dissolved in water to saturation, is as f..tal to potato-bugs as Paris green. The Newburyport Herald knows this to be a fact. Ma j. Poole, of Tallahassee, Florida, set a tray of poji-corn in the sun re cently, and in a few minutes the corn popped as if over fire. Two naked cherubs, over the portal of a new court-house at Rockford, 111., so offended the moral sense of the city that they wet 3 chiseled od'. Do ladies use hair powder when they blast theirhair? and what kind of powder h i s a man use when he " blasts hie eyes?" The contented rustic. "Well, Peter, your crops must be ruined by this un timely rain?" "Yes, your honor, but thank Heaven, so are the neighbors'." It was Sidney Smith who retorted upon some one who called him an every day man: "Well, if am an every-day man, you are a week one." I'hii.adelpitia steps to the frontwith im affidavit that a hogshead of molasses is liable to explode any time in hot "rather. .SriK was a modest little girl, Her name was Mat lie Gordon, Hut on tin lire ahe notircH some oil, Anil sin 's sailed the river Jordan. Puck. Navy blue parasols arc getting to be ;dl the rage. The rage is confined prin- ipally to the husbands who have to pay lor 1 hem. A'ew York Star. "Cunning men," says Josh Billings, " always git beat in the long run, because they are just az dull on one side az Uiev. are sharp on the other." (Jeoiige Washington made Mut one pun in ali bis life. Anil forgot that be lie he could tell it. This is what endears hi- memory to the. American people. bonis Kossuth says that there are only two countries in Europe where the wa.rd home'' is thoroughly understood, namely, England and Hungary A Chicago editor shouts: " We have killed eight hundred and four thousand hogs since the first of March." The Waterloo ( bserver says, if that's the case, it will hardly pay to get out a directory this year. Our inventor is at work getting out forty-four millions of fancy cards, bear in : the words, " You can jiir-t bet your sweet life it is." They are intended to be worn on the lappel of the coats of all men in the United States in answer to ihr query, " Is it warm enough for you?" They will meet a long felt want, and oiitjht to have a tremendous sale. Whetting leader. Somes person move through lifeas a band of music moves down the street, Hinging out pleasure on every side through the air to every one, far and la iir, that cares to listen. - 1' y w ith donkey " Go for a ride, sir? Jones " Nice figger I'd look on a donkey !" Hoy" Yes, sir; cut hout foi a donkey, I should say, sir." 1- rkouent disappointments teach us to mistrust our own inclinations, and puiank even from vows our hearts prompt. may Emerson never packed more sense into a sentence than when he wrote, "tiood manners are made up of petty sacrifices." 1eacos Richard Smith is responsi ble forjthe observation that " the great beauty of hantrine a murderess in tli.it it prevents her from lecturing." Picnic baskets are now p.vthorie with cast-iron doughnuts, basswood cheese bologna and hard-boiled eggs, pleasantly suggestive of fun, frolic and nocturna cone. AUdical Adviser. Some one in Boston has invented a ! new style of hoy's trowsers, which is ! highly recommended. They have a copper seat, sheet iron knees, are riveted down in the seams, aad have water proof pockets to hold broken eggs. Beware of little things! A black j seed no larger than a pin point will grow an onion that may taint the breath enough to break up a betrothal, ruin a school, and shatter the good intentions of a sewing circle. The grape crop of Ohio will not paa out first-class this year, but don't vou imagine, savs the Detroit Free Press, that this will make the least difference w ith the number of gallons of wine de manded. Grapes are not necessary to wine. The tails of nearly all the mules seen in Middletown lately, according to the. Press, are closely cli'pped of hair, with the exception of a little brush left at the end. It is said this style of clip is 1 sure death to all flies who take up their summer quarters within reach of that brush, Winston VOLUME I. Find out what men lam-h at and know exactly how refined and inte you ligent they are. Aew Orleans Pienivne. A ood constitution in lit, o box its full value is never know n money till it is broken. A frog was killed in the Maitland Kiver, at Wingham, Canada, iBrhich measurea sixteen inches from tip r : i i , , ... r to tip im iiiim icgs, ana thirteen frm head to toe. New York dealer- threaten inches tf put up the price of ice. Thev say th has been badly mildewed. The tiling you know some fellow w ill i a bug or a worm that will attavi chew up half of the harvested crop il ' - r . i . - I eroj) nex t vent anil i bout uiis ume oi me year. Ice is a bo ut the oniy crop raised now that l-n t by a bug or worm of somrj kind jured nd it can t expect to enjov tim immunity niu.-li longer. Aorristotcn llerald A PHYSICIAN, havinrr n rlnol hands, requests two of his friends . . Til 1 t on his to ar- range, wim nis adversary the hn.ii r ol uieir meeting. "Make it to- morrow. be says, "but not in the forcnoo ii le- cause 1 must visit four patients Hefore going to the ground." 'I see." murmurs one of the seconds, "he wants to gfct his hand in." There was a band-organ grindino the "Sweet By and By." Then forth theie came a heavy dash of rain, and then the vigau mopped, it was a very matter, but it is beautiful ' simple thiik of. And people who think we have hi riiii... ... , n . 1 . . I too """ " "uu in me pasi monin an to look more hopefully on the D anbury News tlv n.g subject. Tuk session was verging on July, When Uamar to CoiikEng says, " You lie, Diys O.nkling to Lamar, "Y on Southern defamer, If 'twant the Sinale, In one holy minute, I'd II you a ehuckle-hendp,! knorV-tnui! ehieken- oreaatea, crookod-baclced. shad-U-llird. h-.k wanible-cropped, ireazoii-faeed, lxw-lfrK d eyed, tt k-marked. lop-eared, lantern-jawed, f'itid, bald-headed snipe of the valley; 1 would, as sure as I'm going nowid, blear- splay- K no next rresidentl" lEa WhUvtan A CONDUCTOR on a local train 1 1 r , .... saw a iauy ineno, a sweet-looking young g'ri, on nis tram, and stopiH (I tor a inohnent to chat w ith her. He leaned on the arm or the seat m front, oeeuoied bv a near- sighted, rather deaf old maid, with cork- screw curls. I be conductor hadn't more than two words before the occ .... sjoke "1 iant oi tne i rout seat veiled in a voice that sounded through the car like a base arum: loung man, if you wait to flirt with me you've got to speak loiider uit L icy vemcic. The man who wants his name kerjt out sses of the paper is just the man who professes lot to believe in the virtue of ad vbrtis- ing. Ask him for a local notice and he Will tell vou no one renria th rn per but just let him get found flirting RA TVl l ritlia-r man'a urifrt nr 1 r n y-v ( with with iunas mat ami t belong to mm, or to ifld 11 n n Imtti is-rwiwt. sttia Hnrlr trvi inir ght, j- 1' jr - w:t RIKl ifMI rlimii Si'Vonrppn noir rf ni and beg on his bended knee that! stairs the item snouiu oe suppressed, it m difference in the minds of a great ikes a iny men whose ox is gored, when an aitielo is to appear vi public print. Elm torw. Are All Americans Selfish When They Travel by Rail? Rftltimnre iazrtte. mi 1 . m m it mere is no relation ot lile in w hich the natural selfishness of man comet out so strongly as in traveling. People Hvho, when at home or among their friends, are not only polite, considerate ofl the comforts of others, but even self sacn- ficing in trifles, often become gras repeiiant, morose, when ttiey get railway train to go traveling. Too on a often they seek their own comfort to the die- regard of the rights of others. A will enter a train and take a whole man Iseat, and so arrange his baggage as to cover the whole ot it, so as to keep any ond else irom occupying a part of it. He only pays for one seat, and he knows per fectly well that he has no right to occupy two, yet he does so frequently, until forced to yield, and then be does so he ia with as bad grace as possible. It matters not that other men may be standing the cars; he rarely has the grace to up in ite inv one of them to sit by him. He sita and looks as forbidding as possible, or tiurns his back and gazes out of a window bo as to prevent, if possible, any one from re- questing him for a seat beside him. The ladies are in this respect no better ihan the men, and they are more per fectly masters of the situation, nhe is p ro und tected by her sex in her selfishness her disregard of the comfort of her sis- ters. A gentleman does not like to ask ner ior a seat, though he has a p erfect right to do so. Even another lady a disadvantage in asking her for a Ss at teat. A cold, haughty, insolent manner and an intrenched air of possession in enables her to hold her double ally seat against all comers. The politeness oilmen to women rarely fails in America, arid it is no unusual thing for two gentlemen to rise to give a ladv a whole double seat because another lady fails to offer her a seat. Now in this case each lady secures a double seat at the price ol the discomfort of two fellow-travelers. When it is a man who behaves thus the rei iedy is comparatively simple. There is sven a sort of pleasure in applying it. The passenger who on entering the car finds nil the double seats occupied by men who refuse to make room for him is often tempted to pick out the most exclupive- lookinsr of them and go up and coollvt and business-like tell him to make room, and then sit down bv him in as roomy and spacious a stvle as possible and then hum or whistle some slow, plaintive air kind o' sad like. This inflicts agonies upon the exclusive travelerand gives to) the newcomer that calm inward repose which comes from the infliction of rigbtieous punishment Yet how much better it would be for the ladies to make placp for their fellow female travelers and hi ex change the little courtesies that brighten the lournev: how much better it w buld be for the men to promptly make itoom for the newcomers and get into friendly j chat by the wav. This selfish exclusive- ness in traveling does not pay. does not get the moat out of the" v that way. One oyage A:, old man fell dead in Mansville 1 a.. One Sund.1V nirrKt rt.r-t.ntlv while z j O" " Sitting in the Parlor where hia dan hter and her young man were sparking' It may oe mat me conduct of the couple sickened the old man and youn cause his death, but it will do no harm and perhaps much good, to cut this paragraph out ana snow it to the old tolks who are on addicted to sticking in the parlor Sunday evenings when their daughjt er s oeau wants to ten her a great many Becrets and o forth. JSorrutou'n Herald. " Sing, sweet bird," was the deceiving plaint of a man who was wondering around in the high grass, hunting I or a tost turkey. -ii airany man aavertises for " al A 4 11 . . girl " ,vo,rK m hair. He is evident y a oacneior. E NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WE LABOR FOR 1TELLT. T isniv bcsselU Kot long aeo perhaps not long My wmiI lieanl no diacrjrdant ton- tor lore and youth's iweet malm sool It harkened to, and that alone; But now the song la hushed, p heart htrange music, in a harsher key tor every sound a dirge appear Since Nelly died, who lied or me. The summer of my life Is past Eternal winter reigns i n. stead -Z-."w' me couW summer last Yi hen she, my only rose, is dead ? Sweet Nelly ! would thou conldst be yet As once, my day, my only light! 7 But thou art eone-the sun has set And erwy Say, to me, is night. Yet be the darkness e'er so deep, Eet no more suns arise for me Wot night can soothe my heart tosie. And, Nelly, then I'll dream of thee! Afidiummtr JiolUlay Scrilm cm v MOW MRS. BENNIO.VS DISAPPEARANCE. London Wek. " Did your mistress leave no word as to when she would be in?" asked Mr. Bennion comparing his watch with the drawing room clock and addre.-sing his butler. Both master and man looker! very uneasy. " No, sir. ' Missis went out after luncheon. She ordered dinner for even, as usual, so we supposed she would be in." " It is 8.30 now," said Mr. Bennion, endeavoring to look composed. " You are sure no card or note was left for mef " Quite sure, sir," replied the butler, who had been summoned up four or five times within the last hour and a half to answer similar interrogatories. "Shall I serve up the dinner, sir?" " Yes, you had better; probably your mistress has gone to dine with her parents. I dare say she sent me a note to my chambers, and it must have been miscarried." Mr. Bennion sought to quiet himself bv saying this, but he was ill at ease, lie was a barrister in large practice who had been married about a year, and this was the first time that there had been the lightest hitch in the clock work regular ity of his home life. Except on Sun days, during the vacation, and when he was absent on circuit, he was accustomed to leaye his home at 9.30 every morning and to return at 6.45, when he would find his wife dressed to receive him and the dinner ready to be served. He w as a methodical man and she a social little woman, who knew her husband's liking for punctuality and took care' that he should never be disturbed by anything amiss in her domestic arrangements. He sat down to his solitary dinner in the large handsome dining-room. He lived in Ilussell Square, where all apart ments are spacious; and being a prosper ous man, his surroundings were luxur ious. The table, spread with taste, was decked with flowers and silver, and the soft light shining through globes of white glass shed on it an air of festivity. But the chair of the young mistress of the house remained empty; and gazing on that vacant seat, Henry Bennion could neither eat nor drink. He had never realized till that moment how very dear his wife was to him. She had f raced his home and made him happy, rom the first day when she had sat in that place of honor at the head of his board a still blushing bride after their return from the honeymoon tour from that time until that very morning of this day, when she had presided as usual over his breakfast, Henry Bennion had been accustomed to find in her the most cheerful companionship. He called to mind how often he had glanced across the table and met the beams of her smil ing eyes, how often he had been en livened by her merry prattle and touched by the interest which she expressed in his work, his pleadings and growing fame, of which she appeared so proud. No cross word had ever passed between them ; no coldness or sulks had ever marred their intercourse for an hour; on the contrary, in the smallest matters as well as in great ones, dear Mabel Bennion had made her husband constantly feci that she was a helpmate on whose loving devotion and entire frankness he could rely wholly. Abruptly a presentiment fell upon him that all this was past and gone and that his wife would never more it in her place at that table never! He pushed away his plate and stared at the empty chair with a haggard glance. A creeping of the flesh came upon him aa if misfortune had entered his home and were standing near him with her chill shadow. He had started several times at the sound of cab-wheels and even bells, and now a loud knock at a neighboring door made him jump with the reflection -that it was past nine and that every moment added to his just cause for alarm. He walked into the hall, put on his hat, and left the house without speaking to any of the servants. At the first cab stand he hailed a handsom and told the driver to take him to Eaton Place, where Mr. Kurrlicw, Mabel's father, lived. Mr. Kurthew was a wealthy solicitor, having a large family of sons and (laugh ters whom be had all settled comfortably in life with the exception of one daugh ter, an invalid, who resided with him. Julia Kurthew with her father and mother were all in the drawing-room when Harry Bennion arrived, and to the anxious question which he stammered out, "Have you seen Mabel?" they answered in the negative. Julia at once saw that there was something wrong, but she was not the person to ofler any com fort. Her general occupation was to lie on the sofa and say snappish things. " Has Mabel left you'?" she said, arching her eve-brows. "She has disappeared," answered Bennion, addressing Mr. and Mrs. Kurt hew rather than Julia, whose tone hocked him. " I hoped she might have come here." Mr. and Mrs. Kurthew both grew much alarmed. They were too proud to attribute their daughter's disappearance to any scandalous reason, and concluded she must have met with some terrible accident. Perhaps she had been run over in the street, or been injured while riding in a cab. Mr. Kurthew said he would accompany Bennion to Russell Square to see if any news of Mabel had vet arrired ; and if "not, they must go to Scotland Yard. They left the house accordingly, but at Bennion's residence they learned nothing new. So in silent consternation they drove to the police -jaayrl-fciwJgis""'Jr'BaBv ; BjBfBtffBrWalaai,laaaa ' ,r I.I y-4Jaal BTjT " lal feMaaSk I Saflfi iBbiM HI lr- aVI hbA WINSTON N.C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. office and saw one of the heads of the department, who took down a description of Mabel and obligingly promised that inquiries should be instituted that night in all the hospitals and olice stations, so that the afflicted husband might at least have tidings of some sort on the morrow. But neither on the morrow nor on the day following that could any intelligence be obtained of Malxd Bennion. Her servants were greatly agitated, but in answering the cross questions of their master and of detectives, they all agreed that nothing was noticeable in their mistress appearance the last time they saw her. Henry Bennion had now put aside all professional work and spent all his time in driving alout to police stations and hospitals. When at home he employed himself in examining all Mabel s drawers, her dresses, desks, and papers to see if happily some clue to the woeful mystery might be discovered. But he found nothing at all not a single line of a compromising character noth ing to shake the melancholy belief at which he had arrived that his wife's dis appearance could only lie accounted for by her death. As a last resource, just a wee alter nis loss, Henry Uennion caused this advertisement to be inserted in the papers: MtSTBSIOUS IHSAPPKARANCE FROM HE houae in Hussell Square, on tho 5th inst., a married lady, nged 21. Slight in figure, wavy chestnut hair, blue eyes, small mouth, with very pretty teeth. Was dressed when last seen in a dark-blue serge walking dress, a sealskin jacket, and a hat with a red feather. Linen marked M. 11. A reward of ONE If UNIIRKD POUNDS will bo paid for information whirtt shall disclose this lady's whereabouts, if living, or lead to the recovery of her remains if she be dead. Apply to Scotland Yard. By this time Mrs. Bennion's disappear ance had been reported editorially in all tlie papers, and had become the talk of the kingdom. It had been converted into a sensation affair, insomuch that some of the daily journals printed two r three columns full of letters every morning from correspondents who had explanations to suggest most of them opining that the missing lady must have been decoyed in to some thieves' den, and there murdered. Henry Bennion him self received heaps of communications from persons who had seen ladies answer ing to the description of bis wife, and he was summoned a dozen times to identify dead bodies that had been found in the river. At the end of a month he put on mourning, feeling convinced that lie was aw blower. Among all his acquaintances there was but one person who did not believe Mabel to be dead, and that was her sister, Julia Kurthew. Lying on the sofa, in her languid way. with novels in her lap, this girl, who would have been pretty but for a hard look and trick of sneering, took no part in the discussions that were held in her presence as to Mabel's probable "fate, but she occasionally shook her head and smiled as if incredulously. When Henry Bennion had seen her do this several times, he one day lost patience and turned on her abruptly: "Julia, you don't seem to agree with us about your sister's death," he said, looking sad at her. " Can yau say any thing to enlighten us?" "No; I don't believe she is dead," answered Julia, coloring. " Then do you imagine she has left me purposely? What could make her wish to bring this sorrow on us?" " I don't believe Mabel was happy with you," replied Julia, coldly. ii. Time assuages grief, for men must work, and no tribulation falling upon a man who is not of weak nature will pros trate him for long. Henry Bennion left his home in Ilussell Square because its memories were too bitter; but he went to live in his chambers and rallied to bis work at the bar. His practice lay in the criminal courts, and the habit he acquired of working very hard to drive sorrow away began to earn him exceptional renown in his profession. He had always been a successful pleader; buthis trouble seemed to have a refined effect upon him, so that instead of being a jocular, often blustering, advocate, who made no scru ple to rant or to bully witnesses, he be came remarkable for his gravity and persuasiveness. He was one of those lawyers who are said to "have the ear" of juries and judges, and it was predicted that he would himself be in due time elevated to the bench. So it came to pass that about four vears after his bereavement Henry Bennion, going on the Home Circuit, was retained to defend a man accused of accidental mauslaughter. There was nothing peculiar in the case at its outset, but in the course of the trial the prose cution procured information tending to show that the prisoner was a desperate criminal who had been convicted of uttering forged notes two years pre viously, but had escaped from prison, and these facts had a direct bearing on the c'mrge t f manslaughter, for if proved they would demonstrate that the pris oner had long known the man whom he had killed, and that far from slaying hit by accident, he had executed a deep planned murder. Henry Uennion, whose client had leen out on bail before the trial, had reckoned on an easy acquittal, and of course he did his utmost to rebut the theorj which the prosecution had suddenly started; but after the trial had dragged on for several hours, the counsel for the Crown a young barrister of no high stature rose and said: " My lord, we contend that the prisoner will fully disfigured himself by scarring his features with vitriol. I will now call two witnesses as to his identity the landlady of the lodging-house where he was arrested four years ago when charged with forgery, and the woman who was sentenced aa his accomplice and who ia still undergoing a sentence of five year:.' penal servitude at Woking." It was a hot summer afternoon, and the court was densely crowded. The blinds had been pulled down to shut out the hot sun, and there was but a dim light, which made the red robes of the Judge and the scarlet uniform of the sheriff stand out in bright relief. The atmos phere was stifling. The first witness who appeared the landlady had not much to say. She could not identify the prisoner because of his scars, and would like, said she. to hear his voice. Henrv Bennion objected, and the Judge agreed with him that the prisoner ought not to be made to speak. ' Well," said the Crown counsel, excitedly, " this witness has broken down, but I don't think the cext wilL The prisoner was her husband or her para mour; at all events, 6he was convicted under the name of Maria Burt." Two policeman cleared the way through the court for a woman in a blue check dress and an ugly poke-bonne' af brown straw, who was attended by a wardress from Woking. The convict was ushered into the witness lox. and the Clerk of Arraigns was about to admin ister the oath to her when Henry Ben nion. who had caught sight of her fea tures, started up with a torrent of blood sufl'using his face and leaned right across the solicitor's table to get a closer view of her. " Great Heaven-:" he was heard to falter. " Who is that woman? Mabel " The prisoner stood perfectly collected. It may have been that her lips tw it, bed for a moment, and that in the eye -he bent on the counsel for the defense there was a flash just a thi-h and no more. Then she righted her- If and t.H.k the oath. My name is Maria Hurt,'' she said, calmly. " Now, tell me w hether you know that man,'" said the prosecuting counsel, punt ing to the prisoner. " I have never seen him lcforc," she answered, after a minute's steady gaze at the occupant of the dock. " Were you not convicted with him nearly four years ago ot uttering forged notes?" "He is an entire stranger to me," repeated the convict, quietly. "Why, heavens! it is her voice. There is no mistake about it!" exclaimed Ben nion, who had sunk back in his seat to hear the prisoner speak, but now rose again, pallid and trembling. " Mabel, look at me. How is it you are there?" " What is the matter?" asked the judge, leaning forward in his astonish ment and beckoning Bennion to speak to him. " My lord, it's my wife!" gasped the Darrister, and struggling forward to leave the place, he uttered an awful wail and fell across the solicitor's table senseless. The trial was adjourned amid a scene of indescribable confusion. in. In the cell numbered Al 12, at the Female Penitentiary at Woking, Maria Burt sat, some hours later, with her head buried in her hands and her elbows rest ing on her little deal table. It was a dismal place that cell, with its white washed walls, red floor, and odor of oakum, and the prisoner who was caged in it looked neither graceful nor pretty. Perhaps she had been comely once, but four years of penal servitude had lent her a gray, sickly complexion. Her hands were coarse and wrinkled from occupation in the laundry, and the locks of chestnut hair which protruded under her white cap were short as a boy's. A blue check gown, thick worsted stockings and heavy-nailed shoes formed her costume, which was covered with a number of broad arrowheads and had nothing in the way of ornament but a red badge on one of the sleeves a good-conduct badge. Maria Burt had almost completed her term of servitude, for she was to le dis charged in a few days witli a ticket of leave. Apparently the recollection of this oc curred to her, for, starting from the table, she walked to the corner of the cell on which hung a card bearing a record of her conviction with the date of her coming release, and she took a long look at it. There were no tears in her eyes, but she pressed a hand to her brow and a sigh escaped her like a moan of pain. Suddenly a wardress, who had leen watching her through a peephole in the door, turned a key in the lock and entered the cell. "Tell us the truth, 'Twelve,'" she said, brusquely. " Was that gen tk man your husband?" " I've told you no," answered "Twelve," indifferently. " Well, he and another gentleman and two ladies have come to the prison about you. They are in the Governor's room now, and they have asked to see the clothes you had on when you were brought here." "And have they seen them?" asked the prisoner, whose cheeks became over- l spread with a faint tinge of color. iNo, tor convicts' clothes are sold ; you will have a new suit when you go out." " What sort of suit?" " Ah, that interests you," laughed the wardress, who was a bouncing sort of servant girl. " Oh ! the clothes won't be anything very grand, but they'll do to find a situation with. Nobody will sus pect where they come from. But hark! there's the Governor's bell. I expect you are going to be sent for." The surmise was correct. In another minute the matron appeared, jangling a large bunch of keys, and ordered " Twelve" to follow her. The pair pro ceeded down the broad wing of the prison, so unsightly a spectacle, with its black iron galleries, and scores of nail-studded dixirs, till they came to a private part of the building, where the Governor s office stood. The matron knocked, and in a moment the prisoner was Ashered in to an apartment divided from roof to floor by a railing of bars. Behind these rails Maria Burt and the matron stood alone; ir the other part of the room was grouped the Governor, Mr. and Mrs. and Julia Kurthew, and Henry Bennion. The latter was leaning dejectedly with an elbow on the mantelshelf, but when the prisoner entered he would have ad vanced toward hei had not Mr. Kurthew checked him. " Let me try to identify her first," said the solicitor, coldly. "Julia, come with me." There was a moment of deep and solemn silence. The father, with his daughter berade him, gazed through the bars, endeavoring to detect the linea ments of his other child in the shame stricken figure before him. Maria Burt put up her hands before her face and quailed. " Take down your hands, Twelve." said the matron, curtly, and glaneingat Mr. Kurthew, -he plainly -aw that beads of perspiration had pearled on his forehead. Yet. after a moment's hesitation, the solicitor said hoarsely, so that he had to clear his throat in the midst of his Sentence, " I do not know this this jktxiii do you, Julia?" "No o," faltered Julia, with her handkerchief to her mouth. " And you. Mr-. Kurthew?" said the Governor, addres-ing that lady. " I do not know her.'' repeated Mrs. Kurthew, almost inaudibly. She had not left her place, and had only cast one fearful glance toward the railings, then turned her face away and burst out cry ing: under any circumstances her tears seemed natural. Henry Bennion now stpfcd forward, and the gaze which he bent on the pris oner made her cower. His eyes gleamed as in fever, and there was-no uncertainty in their expression, yet his voice was beseechingly low and pathetic almost a whisper, as he murmured. " Don't you know me, Mabel? Whatever horrible mystery may have brought you here, don't be afraid to confess it. You re member how I loved you." " I don't understand you, sir," mur mured the prisoner, w hose features were convulsed by spasms. IK.k at m-: give me your hand," pleaded Henry Bennion. " See how mine shakes, Ik you think I,could mis take my own w ife?" " I am not your wife, sir." muttered Maria Burt. Then suddenly trying to retreat from him. she placed her hand over her eyes, whilst her features worked Leader. ITS INTEREST. 1879. in a convulsion that ended ,n a hysteric laugh. " No, I'm not your wife, i say but if you like to adopt me when I come out of working. I d-m t mind. No. no, if you're inclined to it. I dare say ou could give me a good home." No. that'- not my wife." .-ighed Ben nion. dropping the pri-oner's hand. " Mabel wouldn't have spoken like that." No. Mabel wouldn't -p-..k like that," repeated Mr. Kurthew. drawing Ins son in I iw away by the arm. " Now come along: this scene i- too trying for my wife; she is ready to faint." .Mrs. Kurthew had already fainted. She dropp. d on the floor in a swoon as the prisoner vanished from !ehind the rails without giving hei a look. It went forth to the world that Henry Bennion had been deluded by a case of mistaken identity. Nevertheless a few mornings after this a strange scene might have been seen enacted w ithin a ntone'a th row of thegatesof the Woking Prison. Maria Burt had just been released. Dressed in plain clothes, like those of a servant girl, she left the penitentiary and walked hurriedly down the road till she came to a corner where a cab stood, She halted a moment as if uncertain which way to turn, when her progress was barred by Mr. Kurthew appearing before her, holding the cab door open. " Get in, Mabel," he said with a mourn ful composure. " I did not choose to recognize you at the prison the other day because of the scandal it would have caused, but " " I assure vou you are mistaken, sir," answered the discharged convict, retreating. " Come, vou need not le afraid of me," said the old map, wistfully; " vou can't deny that you are my daughter." " Yes, yes; you are quite wrong; please leave me," faltered Maria Burt, and darting from him she crossed the road, turned down a corner and was lost to view. " Can it be possible?" murmured Mabe Bennion's father, and he stood stock still, gazing in the direction where the woman had gone, as if he had seen an apparition that was not of this earth. IV. Five vears passed. During that time Mr. and Mrs Kurthew both died, and at length Julia's health, which had always been so bad, broke down, and she lay in her turn at the point of death. On the day when the doctors had pronounced their verdict concerning her, and when it was evident that she had but a few more hours to live, she sent for Henry Bennion and made him a confession. "That woman in Woking was Mabel, your wife," she said. " I knew it when I saw her, and I have ascertained it for certain now." "Ah!" exclaimed Bennion, rising, with a look of unutterable horror in his eyes. "Yes; don't scold me, but listen," moaned Julia. " You and she were not made for each other. Yon used to leave her alone for hoursand daySi She could not bear that, for she loved to be made much of. She made the acquaintance of a man an ad venturer whom she used to visit. His true character was unknown to her but one day while she was with him he was arrested for passing forged notes and she was taken as his accom plice. Sooner than let you find out her infidelity she preferred to let you think she was dead. That is the whole secret." "And where is Mabel now ; sked Henry Bennion, with a fatal sort of calm. "She died in Australia six months ago," said Julia, "and she sent me this for you a lock of hair, with a prayer that you would pardon her. Here, look at the hair: Maliel was quite aoung, yet it has gray streaks in it. l u do forgive her, don't you?" . " Yes!" murmured the wretched wid ower. Brie-a-Bre. A correspondent says that abroad on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, at almost every station the station-master has a staring or parrot, so trained that whenever a train draws up at the plat form it commences calling out the name of the station most distinctly, and con tinues to scream it out until the train starts. This is found an economical mode of informing the passengers where they are. The wild English Earl of Rochester, who was nevertheless a man of genius, once for a wager maintained himself royally as a doctor on Tower Hill and made money by some vile compound. Not only citizens ami jor eople came to the noble quack, buthis court com panions, and it is said his ow n countess, who consulted him for a lovephilter to re gain her husband's afl'ections, and yet failed to recognize him under the paint and patches of his disguise. Some Chinese "fans" are not fans at 11. The "steel fan " is simply a bar of metal, shaped and painted to resemble an ordinary closed fan, and carried sometimes as a life preserver, bv the roughs, swells mobsmen and rowdies of China, to le user! at close quarters with murderous effect. Of the same sjecies is the well known " dagger fan," which eonsi-tsof an eleirant imitation in lacouer ... ,17 r t n Piim nuiti ii. iitn.tr i -i n rnr i i-i-'i v aa " , ". s ..". v, - ior intermediate ends. A man or un- sheath conta.nmg within its fair exterior fathomable resources, imicrsonal ss a a deadly blade, short and sharp like a j public functionary, he has evinced inex BUMUl Malay kris. J haustible patience and a concessive Adu-t contractor in the dayaof George Bpirit on alf srC(1,i.-,ry ,K,int. but an tm IV left instructions that the procession j movable firmness where real issues were following him to the grave should com- ! at 8Uke prince Gortchakoff has neve! prise twelve boya carrying links; twelve , flowed foreign politics to cripple inter men carrying dustman swhipaand sbovela nal interests, as did nearly every one of renCRKU , a latuuic miw, iiouieo sim cloth spatterdashes; a dust cart covered with black baize, the coffin in the cart surmounted by a very large plume of white feathers;, twelve dustmen and brick-makers .is pall liearers, all clad in white flannel jackets and leather breeches; the whole wound up by a long string of carts filler! i t h dustmen, cinder sifters, and chimney sweejx-rs. Singular Instinct of Scorpion. There is a species of stingin found in the river bott. n o B scorpion m of Western r the birth of icea them in a on her back, !i themselves L Of course, - to this un- Texas. Immediately i her young the female ba-sket-sha-red recepta where they at once and liegin sucking her the moth'-r soon sue filial treatment, and begins to lro..r. The young ones are hy this time suffi ciently nourished to demand more -uls-atantial food, and they kill their motbt r and devour her. Should one of the young ones become detached fn.m the living nest.it ia at once killed and feasted upon by its mother. Thus it seems that ! while the female willingly sacrifices her life to her offspring, yet she does not he-itate to kill them should they he devoid of instinct as to r.-fu-c to "reman. 1 where she places them after bil . I While this i- going on the male pan nt stands around. Lost. Mine plaek tos:. mit vhite footses urid ret ear: whoefer finds rre j dot tog out, trill gif me three toliars. NUMBER 34. The CadhpheDs. 'Satlooal Bepovtlery v as eat 1 Te history of the Campbells in Scot land is both curious and interesting. The old Scotch guidwife, who, upon find ing in the book of Job the story of his three thousand camels, exclaimed. " Then the caumels must be an aula clan," was not quite right, for in fact the Campbells, by that name, are indeed among the most recent of the great clans of North Britain. The atory runs some what after this fashion: Among the ad venturers who followed the Norman con quemr into England was Gilespic la Camile, who afterwards engaged in the service of the King of Scotland, and in that service he al-o. with the good for tune that is characteristic of bis adopted Countrymen, Won Ue Iji.1t e the N.-rth. The daughter ol Ma.aHum More," a chieftain than whom there was no greater in all Scotland, and the leader of a elan second to no other in prowes and renown. And to the honors of that for- midable chieftain, "the adventurous Norman," his son-in-l.-.w, succeeded. From him the clan received the'name of Oampliell, bv which it has since been known. our readers must iro to their books of history to learn the details of I ' the process by which the leaders of the Campbells who still cherish the name of Macallum More became Dukes of Argyle, with the wild and extensiye regions of Dumbartonshire and Lime, and I the Western Islands for their terri- i . tories. During the times of the civil wars the Campbells were found co-operating with j the Parliamentary jarty. and in the ' ign of the second Jauies the head of i tne clan became com prom ised in the at- . j tempt to make Monmouth king. Arehi- ! I bahl ( ampbcll, niuth Pake of Argvle, whose father had been put to death after I the restoration, himself a rigid Presby- I terian and Covenanter, with great diffi- ' ; culty compelled himself to accept the ! j new order of things; and when the stan i dard of the Pretender was raised in the i ' Highlands ho threw himself unrcsorv- j cdly into the conflict. The failure of j that ill-conceived and unfortunate en- ' terprise, and his capture and execution followed in quick succession, and it was tin connection with the tragedy of hit death that the name of Argyle received j its highest renown. The jnsiM'ct of I death caused him no alarm, lie asked i j no clemency of the government for him ! self, but spent most of the few days al- j ; owed him between his condemnation and ; his execution in efforts in behalf of his' I clansmen. The day on which he was to j ! die he dined at the usual time, converts j ! ing freely and cheerfully with those ! I about him; and, as was his' custom, after j dinner, he lay down for a brief slumler. i A privy councilor came to bring him a i message, and demanded to be admitted to his chamber, where he was astonished i 7 , ...,"..vi to hnd tho great man sleeping in hm Irons as quietly as an infant in ita cradle. This event, " The List Sleep of but also let'em larv r.ti.1 il. ini.u .t.. "por, nun urn oiuv oecome Historical. a 1- . l.. i i . . aries, painters and poets, have found in it an appropriate subject for their sev eral arts, and the world, with one accord, does honor to his name and memory. The present duke is not only the worthy representative of the ancient adn renowned stock of Mac A Hum More (the great Mac Allan), who was the friend and supporter of Bruce; but he is him aelf at orce the head of the British aris tocracy, and also a mar. of remarkable personal qualities. He is the recognized leader of the LiU rtv partv in the House of Lords; the friend of Gladstone and Bright, and. of course, the opponent of xteaconsncia, whom, though his jerr, he cannot fail to look upon as the parrentt, who has won his place simply by the arte of the adventurer. True to his inherited religious instincts and to the traditions of Jlis family, he is a Presbyterian ; we have heard it said, but cannot vouch for its truth, that he is a ruling elder. Prince (tortschakoff. At1 C. . Quatafton, in August Allsatie.J Prince Gortsehakoff thoroughly knowa Russia, her history, needs, prejudices, and weakness as well a strength. He has been utterly loyal to the throne, but without servility, all hi acts " bearing the stamp of I'ritics Gortsehakoff, and not of the Czar." Without a parliament, he has ruled Russia with Russia's ex press wish and consent. He has been a staunch defender of the sanctity of treaties, and no treaty to which Russia has been a party has failed of the fullest and most honorable interpretation and support, Isith active and passive, by Prince Gortsehakoff. Frankness, dignity, morality, and the most exhaustive knowl edge pervade all his official transactions, and he has throughout proved himself a sincere jwtriot, the unselfish friend of Russia's welfare and fame In the lie ginning of his foreign ministry Prince Goruschakofl seemed inclined for a French alliance, but Napoleon's vacilla tions, and esjiecially bis hostile attitude during the Polish revolution, rendered it impracticable, and with masterly skill Prince Gortsehakoff ha maintained Russia's complete freedom from all formal engagement and alliances, wiougn no "M i though he has used temKrary unions e . i m jjjg j,rcdecejors Like avour, he believes in liberty, in the liberty of " a regular system of public guarantee impartially applied arid patiently worked out, as free from subterfuge as from violence." Though Prince (iortachakoff has not had an opportunity to display his skill for parliamentary leadership, his numer ous dispatches j.- such a grasp of knowledge, such a quick and keen per ception of the pith of any question, at once elevating and simplifying its an swers, without breaking the order of ideas; such subtle reasoning, and occ aionallysuch incisive sarcasms, that it ia clear that had the routine of parliament ary practicw- Wen hi he would have atood in parliamentary leadership a he now stands among stitesmen, as the dip lomatic mentor of the nineteenth cent ury, whni rnreer splendidly illuminates Prince Lieven'a simple text, Un Hommm Capatde! Is families where the dairy is small, for firm butter without ice, a good plan is to get a very large-sized, pomus, Earthen-ware flower-pot, with an extra large-sized saucer. Half fill the saucer with water, set in it a trivet or light stand; upon this act your butter; over 1 the whole invert the flower-pot, letting the tep rim of it rest in and be covered by the water; then close the hole in the bottom of the pot with a cork; doth water over it frequently, and the butter will be as firm and cool aa if from an ice house. 11 WINSTON LEADER, THI PEOPLE'S PAPER. Hat a lart aad dally lacraanc rouotlaaof Krrth. Si t n - i K- wan. I mi I. O..I ,.r I .ran. i:. n. I - r iji tw I iMlr,v flk- il ra .. .Klw . '.r a Ma tni Aarr-li kri t..il- 4 r-., kw lr. Ia al N li. r, ib r nt. a !r . arh lajaartl ja. Xarriacv and lSaih X ...-i,rr. JOB PRINTING aaa dispeich. aa4 as tae Wcrl toileted. it- Il tatre were bluer, Ai.l taca were few, r. And (ewer the s'.w-aaa am land and i W'e-e sb ny summers Perpetual caner What at, Utopia this wan Id hei If I ale were longer. Ami Kaith wee -lr nier ....1.1 .i4w II "arc w.i.i l Hew ii n If eeeh w, .e br- ioer To all the net tr a lb.Se would be ' What aa t M ere tiieed abuliahed. And t.aln deasutlimk-!. Were S'avere rhatned . i I V ftw If a I e-i.th.lr. uM" (tila ed like bubble What an Klyaui.a this wou'd l-e 1 . . . , , . - , i . I o' gjes lu.Mght, and imwghi - i K,v"" fwrrbo,,nK j Hatred is like fire it makes 1 light rubbish deadly j Reason i- the nsaeter power of i mind, but in--iou depute iu sway ften th Mas cannot resist thought, bu may regulat- that which come, to llIK man who knows himstlf never be impudent to hi 'cllow l Happiness consist- not in j-.s-e will much, but in beipg content w bat we posses. Ik a man ha traiistrreiwtd one law, and peak Ins. and at anoihei world, there i no evil he will not do. ' Rkki si: to be unhappy " i- one' iu'e among oilier given to leach bow to keep well. TlIK chain of habit ate generally b o small to lie left till they are bo strong to be broken. BUN'ii sometimes alindt-r heighten., friendship. 'I he greater taue of the frtquent quarrel Ix-twtcti relative i their being mi much l cetber. The habit of resolvii.g without acting is wore than not resolving; at all, inasmuch a it gradually -under the natural con dition belwefii thought and deed. It is wondt rful bow silent a man ran be when he knows hi cause is ju; . ami how Isn-tt roils be b comes when lie know he i in the wrong. A man sensitive to everything that i Iteauliful in nature can have more enjoy ment in looking tip into the sky than witnessing the lie-t wf pLy on the mimic -tate. Thk sudden paleuet which sometime oveispread a young man's face in church may be caused by qui ki ni d conscience, but ihe rhat:ce are that be ha swallowed some tobacco juice. i i you w ant lo k m w the man againt wnom Vl)1, i,.Hve mo-t reason lo yoarM,I ? Your hk wi a very fir )ikrlll4 of his ! "m,,,,., ' whom you hare guard y I UK minister akcd the .-.il.halh school, " With what i cmarkahlt- weaj on did Sam-oii at one tune -'ay a imii.lw-i of Philistine?"' For a while there w.i no answer, and the minister, to aist the children a little, commenced tap ping his j iw with the tip o in-, linger, at the same time saying, ' What ibie w hat'- this Ouick a thought, a lit tle iellow quite innocently r. j ' The jaw-hone ol an a, sir." A woman wanted to remove n from her lot in tin u melerv at Sp Led, held, .M.i-- to make room I ment, but the authorities refti Lmi ion. She went home and that the Ixird won id t..ke tin- ti ar.il within a f e hours a torn it over. The same wind d damage thr u.l.iut Massaibu k lied many p r-n, yet the firmly believe i'. wai s-til in a her prayer. Dt'RIM. the coming Vienna )e-a il i p oj- aeon I in i d th in a consecutive sein- all t Mozart, to be prt sen ted in order. Sara Bernhardt ha sti an actress, but she can't h a -nee-s- in thin country lllll. ss -he bring along a I. us! and Ik unhappy with HOBtim J'"t PaIT. i AoI.KiM, brother ol the om e celebrated dan- use, gi bim-ell )i rector of tin- ballet t the Berlin i-ra House, has ju-t c-lt l.rated his eolilea wedding and liftit th anniversary of his debut. Thk Philadelphia 7V. ay M' I. L. DivenMrt ha learned from Berlin that her daughter Blanche hs signed a contract with MratoMh losuii- Imdon ami America, teml-er 6. I gin Ml.l.K Sa!A lil KMI Alt! guislied Krench act ret i the New York Tribune's respondent that she has de to tins country not later tl next. onibly next year. Mauv AxitKKSOM has b dence at Syracuse, in whi fee re mem.'-red extensive i located Did be select cause si, me of er critic) her too fresh.- M--lit.il Jtn TlIK eaeon at the Fifth ater. New York, will in- 4 thro. managers, tirau. Strakoftcb. who. respectim trol Freru h iqera. Engli I alian ojiert. The sn hare made joint arrange opera in other nie- th An unpublished Ms act, by Hadn. ha ojera. fx ec ! among a lot of old motk longing to the late Theatre Paris. The fiuder was M the Conservatoire The t opera i " Vera Costal za nrieinailv eomi-o-ed h Hi Vienna Opera House. A ovi i' drarra, entitled " 'I Gentleman." which I barb wrote wIkd he wa- known and tshich we played in 13;. when Pickwick reached il ixlh mo 'lily i a reprinted in fc simile. I ed.tion is low rare and i la I a PV twenty dollar h. of it. A iF.VF.RAl ! S -en (fiven for a that "Pinafore" for thre hu-. r. and will read M Z da - "f, ma nee, can no more rrt H it could read a runt i(..riB if It will read alut Homer awl ree-d als.ut a cuneiform insc'; will crowd to see a f w '- w! ahlv came from 'be i.e .'l h Trow.- - Friirrvl far? Pom with tat a " 3' j nig fit y.
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