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T H E PUBIiIBHED EVERY WEDEESRAT. c . C . W I T B L E K S T J E N E & S 0 2 f , EBITORS ASTD PBQERIETOES. The H eukikbi ! per^ii in the C(ounty. T E K i i V r S s .R E kmoceat will he w n t to an: r ...... ....... . — O for one year', for $1 & in advance. I f not paid strictly in advance *20 will be charged. Xo those living out of tfa( County it will be sent postage paid, for $160 it advance. No paper will bo sent out of thi County unless paid for in advance. No nape discontinued unless all arrearages are paid, ox eept at the option o f the publishers. Hates of Advertising: ------ 200 __________ ____________ ___ - ......... . ..... 3 00 One sauare, two months ................... . 4 . 00 Ono sQuare, three months....*,.................. 5 00 One square, six months,,........................ . 7 00 One square, one year .......................... . 12 09 ( twelve I,mES MAKE A SQUABE.) liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year, for any greater amount than a square. C. 0 . ‘W ITHERSTINE & SON, Proprietors. The Union and the Constitution. T E B M S :-$1.50 A Y E A R I3X ADVANCE. TOLUME I X I Y H . H E E K IM ER ,’ W E D K E S M T NOTEM B E R 7, 1877. . NUM B E R 13. Book and Joh Printing. Book and Job Printing, in all its Ijranches, executed with neatness and despatch. Orders hy mail, from responsible parties, will receive Prompt attention* THE CmCTlS CLOWN. ^ThfM^owd’s rou^^ia^^h his senseless Jest. ^That m^Kes”tlie 1 dttle 0 ^^ Till you deem his lile hut a merry change From laugh to laugh, and devoid ol paliu But rollow me, upon lancy's wing; To the aim tent corner he swiftly seeks, \When he tumbles off from, the lighted, ring , For a respite brief. Lo! his painted cheeks etandft ‘ What queen of the saddle or spangled prince _ Calls forth those plaudits that once were hen 3t to her lungs that since ir downiown withith Itss subtlebtle —rse ■e the Illness ere Hath, dragged hi But hush r Theg w It su cu m In those eyes return? ’ith his dead! Now, dazed appalled. 3bs burst forth—he would voice his grleL tiie - sJs there again, lells, In tae cirque’s ex- But no, his name from the flies is called; ^Hls^neteon—there Is the relief!. ----------------- - j.nd heife With the cap and hell pense; Though little they guess with wnat awful strain Quip, Joke, and Jest for their laughter glance. And how many and many there are, think you In the world’s arena, whose heavy task Is even hidden from searching view , \^y the Jester’s garb, as a laughingmask, ; t o and faces together go; ill would It fare with us, rich or poor. To unveil the heart, with the secret woe, The cares and troubles that most endure. Nathan D, Eraer. I know not where thou dost abide— It alien skies above thee bend; What leagues on leagnes us twain dlvlde- The world, dear heart, is wide—so wide— ■ These things I may not comprehend. U well I know: nor space, length of years, nor any chance. Can rob ms of thy dear embrace; I shall behold thee, face to face. But this ft Nor leng Can rob ibrace; ________________. ____ 0 face, - And learn, to read thins svsry glance. As yet, I know thee but In dreams— A vague, toysterlous presence sweet; U nreal, and yet so real, meseems, lly soul doth catch deUclous gleams Of life and love, full—all complete. May be~I must await thee long; But soon or late thon’lt come to me; I go my way—I sing my song— And though I mingle with the throng. One dim, sweet face is aEI see. So here I wait; but not In vain Shall be my natlent loyalty; Come scorching heat or blighting rain, Come falling pulse or reeling brain— That which is written, It shalll be. Rose StandlSl A DHEAM STOEY. attendance up: ill of common sore thj idies were recently i their brother, who wi Two English ladies considered danger- me one of thei a fem e m ale le frier borrowed a watch of a f a consequence of her own beinj pairs. The watch was one to ticular familT eing under re- The watch was one to which par- ?alue was attached, on account of assooiations, and some anxiety s e'xpressed that it might not meet with any inj'ury. The sisters were deep* ing in a room ccAamunicating with that of their brother, when the elder of them awoke in a state of great agitation, and, told her that having aroi she had a frightJ ed,” she said, “ i 5 d the other, t fhtful dream. \ I dream- , “ that Mary’s watch stop ped, and that when I told yon of the circumstance, you replied, ‘Much worse than that has happened, for Jai breath has stopped also !’ ” naming t brother who was ilL To quiet her tation i got up, quietly. the younger sister immediate and found the brother sleeping and the watch, which had been ’ally put in a drawer, going correct- The following night the very same red, followed b y smular ag- quietly, and the watch, carefalli ly. dream occurred, fol itation, which was again composed following break- n composed . the same maimer, the brother beinj again found inn a quietuiet sleep, and e maimer, the ind i a q watch going, well. On morning, soon after the family br fasted, one of the sisters w as sitting was prO' lose the a note in the adjoiningroom . note was ready for sealing, she coeding to take out for the purpt watch, which had been put in he ing-desk, when she was astonished to find it had stopped, and at the same in stant she heard a scream from her sister in the nest room. The brother had been seized with a sudden fit of suffoca tion, and had just breathed h is last. A j N obij B B o o —The following is the record of a brave dog that lately perish ed: In 1862 a man with delirium tre mens jumped overboard from the schooner Hero, on a voyge to Eabrador. The dog bounded over the taffrail, and for half an hour held to the man with his teeth fastened in the cellar of his ■woollen shirt. The delay was occasion ed b y the capsizing of the first boat that was lowered. In 1861 the dog saved a baby that had fallen through a sewer hole in a wharf at Catalina, N. F. He jumped-through the hole and was too large to swim between the posts of the wharf, but h e held the baby’s head out of the water and swam briskly in every direction in search of an opening. In 1869 he saved the life of a Swedish sai lor, who, while drunk, walked into the landwash at Bonavista,. ST. E. Between 1870 and-1873 Billy saved three ehfldren and one grOwn boy. Thenceforth his strength failed, and aU lus fangs fell out one by one, until last winter ho had nut one left. He was a huge, genuine Newfoundland. JE.SSB AT WnrosoB C astx M .—^Wben visiting at Windsor he ot-\*'''* lowly place assigned him and, rising in hia seat, claimed, “ H I don’t take my s other table, I quit.” Eventually one of the Queen's guests gave place to thv irate youth. Afterter dtotmrinB Her Majesif d was conversing with (general Grau| som ewhat apart, w h e n up cam e t h e irr4 pressibie Grant minor, and thus address ed his astounded s ire: ** I say, fath< just introduce me to the matter, a joke; ifiScifity her countenance when he I'm about the away.” Her Majesty took as it could only well b e take , but she must have had some \ \ ifmdffa TBE POACSER’S BBEAM. A n E n g l i s h story* It’s many years ago, now, s i r ; and of course all that time deadens'your feel ings and makes you hard, ’specially if it’s been passed in a prison. I can talk i & time 1 ithont get- it’s been j about it n< ; W there m n think o f i t i : even think ^ ting so mad that, if I had been one theta foreigners, I should have g ot some [lorcoal a n d sm oked Vou see it i Jenkins, and >ked m y s e lf dead, all along of that keepe 3 was a s bhiQk a sooundi as ever gpt people to believe him an honest inan. \We alw a y s hated each- other, after something as happened one day. It was one evening, and I wi ing home from work—that w£ up some one’s garden; for I’ve been a gardner, ’cept when I w; tread-nnll. I was going through the. field that’s at the back o f Squire Watts’ preserves, ah he calls them—^the old squire, it’s h is somthatV squirsf now- ’ r I hears a sort of a cry that was, doing for I ’v always was on the the. lencame, wnt iper, to tak< Not long after I got back two police* le, with Jenkins and the other y. I did n’t make any bother about i t ; what was the good ? ‘ “ You won’t believe it, Mary, wifi yon,” I says, no matter what they ^ “ No, darUng, I won’t,” she says, clinging to me, and trying bo hard to keep back the fears and look as though she wasn’t afraid, that I felt rather soft myself.. So X says: “ I ’m ready.” • A n d th e y took m e off to the station. 'Mary was there when the case came on, the little thing lying in her arms. Even then, standing in the dock, Icould not help thinking how she was altered were married—^from a fresh, >oking girl, she had chi when I hears a sort of a cry tl ed like “ Help I” come out of only a hedge b( I S( There was the field, and and ran to where Bonnd- the wood, ledge between i t and imbled through, a gap, b s sound had ( 3 Jenkinsenkins andnd a young ■om, and there was J a a y irl I had seen once before. He'd got his arm round her, 'and was holding her, while she was fighting hard to get away. Just as I come up she gave another cry, and I didn’t stop to say any thing tc him, but just knocked Mm down, when he lay quite still on the ground, pretend ing to be stunned. “ Thankyou,” she says quietly, \but trembling a little. “ I am very much obliged to y o u a n d she gives me her hand, smiles, says “ Good-evening,” and goes quickly away. As soon as she was quite gone he picked himself up, looking as black as thunder, and says h e : “ Jem Smith, I know you, and I s h ^ ’t forget you. And I shan’t forget And he touches h is forehead where I ’d hit him. “ I hope you won’t, and that it’ll b e a lesson to y ou,” I says. And then, knowing as I was trespass ing, I thought it best to be off home. After that I never met Mm but he glowered at me, as much as to say, “ Wait a b it.” The name of the girl was Mary Ben.- nis, and she was house-maid at the rec- toi de ini house- tory. I-often imed to meet her by aeci- was always willing k, I got into the way of i irpose to meet her eveiy' any other girl I ever saw. Well, one i she told me that the keeper chap 1 been following her again, that he 1 rry her, and, when'she re- id been mde, and threaten- 3 r repent it. iry,” says I, “ I ’ll tell you what be the b est thing to d o .. Be Mrs. wanted to man fused Mm, had ed to make her rep< “ Mary,” says I, would ....................... Smith.” was lying in. the churchyard, with one baby on her breast and the other sleep ing by her side.* * - * * * I had some sort of an illness, but I don’t remember much about it. Those pe w i e in .our cotf age took core of me, andmursed me through it, and as soon as I could I went to my mother. From what she told me, I got to feel so that I could have murdered Jenkins. He had got me out of the way, and then he could persecute my poor |^ 1 as much as he chose. H e had determined to make her repent of saying “ No ” to him, and spread things abroad.abont her, so that she could get no one to give her work of any Mnd. She was told to apply tc back a s : she had we had 0 we’d settled i month ivlth me and mother. I saw her far as the rectory gate, and when gone in I turned round,-and there was Jenkins looking over the .stile on the other side of the road. It wasn’t too dark to see who it was, nor yet to sea that he shook Ms fist at me. W e were married at the time we fixed; and, as we rarely saw Jenkins, forgotten Mm befoi months were gone. We were ver;y that mothi fiiss over. But after that things began I had three to wcrk for and yet I couldn’t get ’orfc aa I used to. Peo- lar to do leir gardens took to having a different man when they could get him, and only Ith me when they couldn’t. I ler work, but no I became sure at tMng—that was, tl ' ~Ie bad toll ) ver happy for a whole year, i little bit of a baby came, >r used to make a tremendous Bt to go wrong, instead of one r so much work as I used to. who used to have me regulai [r gardens took to having a d 1 when they could get him, ai put up -with me when they could tried to get other work, but 3 would take me. I became sure _____ off onene tMng—thatn was, that it was Jen- o o t Mns’ doii pie thiat¥wwas i H e bad told different one o f the poachers bags of had been making good squire’s game of a night. And BO it came about that one day, when it was broiling hot, I was going home at about twelve o’clock to get some dinner, through the very field where I had heard Mary call out for help. I had been thinking about what I had heard, of people going out to America or Aus tralia, where they say i t is as easy as possible to g et a living, and was wonder ing whether we could get out there, whqn I began to feel giddy, the sun was so strong. I had som e distance t o walk yet, and so looked round for some shady place, where I could s i t down for a few' ' lutes. On one side of me was the J, glaringly bright, with scarcely a foot of shadow; on the other side was the wood, and it looked so cool and shady under the trees that I wouldn’t think about not having any 1 there, but j u st g o e s and g ’ sleep in about a m inute ing all kinds of things. I w a s wandering thro Iugh was wandering thro a forest, like [ling ■wife and imethingto take home little one, because I thought re starving. But, though all kinhs of strange animals ran past me, I could not raisemy gun to fake aim. The place seemed full of living things, but something seemed always to keep me from firing. At last I came to where, from the branch of a tree, hung a fine kind of a short-horned deer or a roebuck. “ Someone has been here and shol it,” I says to myself, “ and they’ve hung it there, meaning to come back and fetel it in a day or two. Well, whoever it be longs to, I ’E have i t and take it home, sooner than they rfialL want food any “ W b y .it’s The next minute some one says, ' i Jem Smith!” with a start, and there was lers standing looking miotber, one as 1 ■i jumps up two of the gamekf at me—Jenkins dn’t know the didn’ “ So it’s you, i e i t , kins, with a sort o f si Smith?” said Jen- meer—“ it’s you as «efe wires for the hares?” “ No, it isn’t,” says I ; “ being herrf (lofisn’t make me a poacher.” * “ ‘What’s this then ?” says the other, and h e picks up ahaca from just where I ’d been lying. ** You’re caught this time, my friend, says Jenkins. “ So you’ll take it home, will you, sooner than they shall want for food?” it. Mid used Tt against me afterward eiwdenee. , ' I-went home then, sad told them ail about it. ** Tinn^l: anva TVliirv j happy-looking girl, sh e had changed, into a pale, thoughtful woman. I hasrd- lo heard all the evidence; but I knew that Jenkins swore that h e had suspect ed me of being one o f a gang of poach ers for a long while. Every thing went against me. I pleaded not g u ilty; but the magistrate said he thought the case clearly proved, and h e sentenced me to six months’ hard labor. I looks at Mar^, feelmL and sees her looMng after me so pitiful and despairing that I thought I should ’ How the]-------’ — ‘ — back home.- It was June when I went, it was B e- cembet when I came back. There was snow everywhere, and it was snowing when I got to onx cottage. I see the window while I was some way off, the light shining out of it so bright and w a r m ; but all the same, I felt kinder afraid to go in, for it didn’t seem likely as I should find them as I left them. Well, when I got up to the door, in stead of knooMng, I went qnd looked in at the window. Thei playing ahoi ' before. ■ ■ad ■ stop sill, and then I door and asks for Mrs. live there. * * 3 a man and and childrei woman sitting tog( m t; but I ’d never seen them I h to stop a bit and lean against the window sill, and then I goes to the Smith as used to My mother was in the Tjorkus, ^Mary the parish, and—well, you can guess the \ can’t talk about it, evei two after I rest, s i r ; I lome f^ o w s asked me Squire LOon that teen ready tking m e; to knock a man down for as) but then I said I would at once, I thought I should see Jenkins. Wc had oMy just got into the wood, when we found some one had been peachiing on uB—they said afterward it was me, but I hadn’t thought of such a thing, else perhaps I might, for the keepers were on the watch. There was a regu lar fight. Some of the men got o ff; one or two were caught. I had knocked one of the keepers down, and was trying to g et off before I was recognized, when some one seizes me by the collar, and Not so fast, my fine fellow.” I knew the voice directly, and then, 1 don’t hardly know how, only that in less than a minute Jenkins was lying quite I didn’t move or just stood still and My sentence that time was fourteen years, for Jenkins was half killed. I’m out on tioket-of-leave now, and just get enough gardens to do to keep me out of th e workus. B u t, as yo u say, sir, it isn’t every one would have me, if they’d heard my story. MEN. -WOMEN AND FUENIIUBE. • W o maintam, too, that, in reality, man has no need of furniture, and that every- tMng h e dbes worth doing could be done without these adjuncts. In the highest stege o f civilization men will not need either a bed, a table, a stool or a candle stick - t h i n ^ wMch, just now, he con siders to be of absolute necessity, but which one people, the most refined, the rnost intelHgent and the most highly civilized that has lived on this planet ii historic tim ipanese, t Avit, have dispensed ., . the more ined the race the less has it thought furniture necessary, and it might even .be asserted, without muoh fear of con tradiction, that a- people that need a great deal of furniture to be comfortable and happy is in a state, so long as that need is felt, that can only be;termed bar barous. Man proper, man in his high est condition of Spiritual — ^ developmenl, is absoluteli of farniti ; sits on his heels, sleeps on the floor, eats with Ms Augers from (or, if exquisitely lac- ired) placed on the g round; avoids dishes made of gourds and loaves he prefers it, of wood exquisil and physical independent I, sleeps on igers from ives (or, if the necessity of candlesticks by using lanterns or by going to bod early and sleeping £^late, and writes on his wrist bands. All the noblest art, the most exquisite decorative design, all the im mortal books, have come from people or from individuals to whom things ” ■ been unnecessary or unknom ite ----- - — , to clothes, however, w e find the case a dif* Clothes seem to g o hand in an’s development as a social being, and every high-tide in civilization has b ^ n marked by great inventiveness, splendor and even luxury in dress.— Clarence Cook in Scrtbncn having furniture ia not to say a 1 some tMng about him, but to dert, from h is dignity. W hen we com< ithes, ho* - - ferent one. hand with man’s development as a sooi being, and every high-tide incivilizati< icause, unlike mei greatest trials in silei Julia. If a Ms foot, he’ osb m y asa while a woi will 3 Sft up head, 'nches I f a man has a boot that pine) he’ll keep the recording angel a boy in the preserve-cloaet, woman suffering from the same cause will never m j a word about it, and, it she is caught unwarily limping, two to one she’ll tnm around with a sweet smile of innocence irradiating her countenance, and ask if an insole would n’t jprevent her shoe from flopping at the heel and wearing out her stooking.— _________ : _____ EVE: A D o m estic Story* She had promised Mm that she would mend the lining of Ms new overcoat, if he would wear another and leave that at home. And so, as he had left it, she took it from the rack and carried ^t into her sewing-room. She was Mrs. Wilton, and she had been married five years, and never— never—during that time had had one unhappy moment. Mr. Wilton had been very attentive, very kind, very generous, and never make her jeidpus. She had often said she was the happi- ^eat woman living, Now, as she looked- “at the lining and compared the silk with wMch she was about to replace Kile tom portion, she was tMnking these thoughts. They had never had any children, but when people are aU in all to each other that is no very-great grief. All her care was for him—ail his for her, “ And he is jhst the dearest, best, truest fellow in the world,” said herself. “ I ’m' not half I wonder ■what If good this is Wilton to herself. enough for him. ______________ in Ms p ocket; it bulges it all out shape.” She put her hand into the breast-pock et as she spoke, and drew out a little wrapped Up in silver paper and aiing he has bouj “ I wonder w i t for 3 at i t 3 think T won’t open it until he comes home.”home.” Thenhen shehe laid ' ............ the hole lai the silk across out and basted it T s 1 the h and cut it “ I wonder what it is,” said she. Tom did mean to get me an opera- jlass, I know ; but that is not the shaj theparceL ' It does book. It migl card—real lace. seem like i be laoo wound on a She looked at the package again. hat It is,” said si ich down,. she, and loved Ms mother so.” Then she began to tremble a little, for the letters did not begin “ M y dear son,” nor any thing like it. She cast her eyes over them, love-letters.ove-letters., M y de£ were l ^ “ Tom has loved some other woman he met me,” she said, beginning dish crea- 10 she died, I t was all before he met me,” she said, be to <foy. “ O, what shall 1 do ?” she cried out, “ O, foolish, foolish cr« ture that l■ a m !! Of course she du and he only o*^er before we met. But the] ■e lut, ** O, fouxusu, JL a m O f cours( r loves me now. we met. I must not mind.” sh paused, gave a scream, and threw the letter from her as though it had been a serpent and had bitten her. It was dated the past week. It was not four days old. * O ! O f ” cried Eve- “ O, what shall I do ? 0 , where shall I go V” At every cry a thought pierced -her brain like an actual stab. “ Tom, my Tom. What shall I do ? Tom I T o m ! H e to be false—^Tom I O, I have gone m a d ! N o ! There they are! They are really there—those letters! Why do I not die? Do people live through such things as these?” Then she knelt down on the floor and fathered up the letters, and steadily 'read them tMough. There were ten ot them. Such love-letters—such as aTo always produced in court in cases of breach of promise. And they called Mm “ P opsy Wopay,” and darling “ Par- lingy,” and “ Lovey Dovey,” and “ Own Sweetness,” and “ Angel of my soul,” and they were all signed “ Your own Nellie.” [t is all have ever beard. i ed Mm so. I believed in hir Tom—minei” ^ Then she wiped her eves. i the letters, packed the My lathered up >, wrapped I, tied the blue ribbon, put them back in the awfnl breast-pocket of that dreadful over*coat, and hung i t on the hall rack again, “ Tom shall never know,” she said. “ I will not reproach him. I will never see M m again ; -wlien lie com es bom a I shall be dead. I will not live to bear th is.” Then she sat down to think over the best means of suicide. She coidd hang herself b y the chandelier vdth a window- blind cord. Then she would be black in the face, and hideous. She could drown herself, but then her bo( go floal but drown* than str loison tha n stra n gled o of fir* d y would the sea; en worse S h e w a s too m n ch ,rms to shoot herself, itraifc. She would take n th e river to th e sea lople looked even woi Yes, that would be b e s t ; and though could never see Tom again, he would her, and remorse -would sting m. Here she made a great Mistake. A man who is coolly treacherous to women never haS; ;imy remorse. ^ B e- morse in love-affairs is a purely feminine quality, and even the -worst of the sex are not without it. However, it is nat ural to believe that remo3rse ia possible _____ , iook a little miserable in the thought that Tom would kneel be side her c o ^ and burst into tears and passionate exclamations of regret, which perhaps she might see from some spirit* ual post of observation. So having put on a hat and a thick veil, Eve betook herself down the street and rpund the corner to the nearest German d3mggiet. The druggist was an old benevolent- looking one, with red cheeks and a smil ing mouth; and when she asked for poison for rats, • ho said, “ So 1 ” and beamed mildly upon her. “ I want it very strong, saidHva, “ S o l ” said the douggist. “ Bnt not to give more pain than is necessary,” said Eve. “ To the rata ?” asked the druggist. “ Yes,\ said Eve, “ of course; and it must b e quick and not make one black in the face.” ' “ S o ! ” said the druggist, slowly. “ Well, what I shall giveive youou shalli not g y s the face.” intenancehecom- handedit across Eve took it, passed the few cents he w^ked the^ asked, aud v ^ Once home )om, and undressed . to bed, taking the she went to her rooi ^ herself and retired 1 powder with her. Once 03c twice she tosted it with the tip o f her tongue; hop* “ I wonder whi hemmed the paicii uwwjj “ There wasn’t much to mend, after all. 2 thonght the tear muoh longer* He caught it on a nail at the oJBce, I know. Now I do wonder what there is in that package.” Eve put the coat over a chair and took up the little parcel, “ Tom woifldn’t mind,” she said. “ I will^ just take a peep. I ’m sure i t is for Then she undid the riMjon, unfolded the paper, and saw letters. . “ Bear Tom,” said she, “ h e must keep my old letters next Ms heart, and he never has told me.” B u t the writing was not h e r s ; she saw that at a glance. His mother’s letters,” she said. “He r so.” ing it was not disagreeable. Then, finding it sweet, she bravely swallowed it. “ I t ia over,\ she said. ‘ ‘ O, Heaven, .forgive me and forgive Tom. And then she laid herself down upon her pillow. Just as she did so the fa miliar sound of. a latoh-key in the door below startled her. Tom never came home at nooh—but there he was now ; no one else but Tom would walk in in that cool way; and now he was calling “ Eve—Eve—Eve—where are you?” Never before had she refused to answer that voice. “ Why had he come to tor ture her dying moments ? -\Hark—” Now he was bouncing up stairs. He was iu the room. “ What is the matter? - Are you ill,’ Eve?” h e c r i^ , ”^ o , ” SSid^ she, faintly; “ only * “ Ah ! You look tired,little one,” said h^. ^ “ I came home to get the overcoat. I suppose yon have found out by this time that tliat in the hall is liot mine. I wore Johnson’s overcoat home from. the Bee ^ t night by mistake, and he is ■He asked me if there tonse who would 1 anxioi|s about it. ^ was any one in the ! apt to'meddle with papers or, any thing in the pockets. I said I thought not. I hadn’t a je^ous -wife—eji! What's the matter, Eve?” “ Of, Tom ! cried Eve, hysterically. “ O, 'I'om, say it again 1 It was not your coat ? O, Tom, kiss me.” “ ’^ y , what is the matter. Eve?” cried Tom. ‘ ‘ You must be ill I ” Thm Eve remembered all. “ 0 , 1 am a wicked woman, Tom ! ” she cried. “ There were letters in the pock4—love letters. I read them. I thongit you false to me. I—I—took poisonl, Tom, I ’m going to die—and I longj) live so. 0 , Tom, save me I ” “ YfS, yes r” cried Tom. “ O, good Heavm! what poison?” “ M . Hoffman irill know. I bought it of Inm. Perhaps ho can save me 1 ” cried Eve. “ The lady 1 ” he g who bought poison here an hour ag She took it by mistake! Can you S£ her? Have you an antidote? She dying I ” The lady hour ago! “ No, n o ! ” said the old German. “ Be calm! be at rest 1 No, no I She cannot die of z a i , , When a lady ask me for poison zat will hot turn a rat black in ze face, I say to myself, So ! I smells cOuld take a pound. Gn home and tell her so. I never pcison to womens dat cry and do not v i ^ ze rat to become black in ze face.- So*-be calm.” ‘n, id Eve re- , ____ , __________ „ _ _____ __isonwas a single man, who admitted himself to bo engaged, she did not rip ' the patch off Ms coat a s she had at first intei face.' So*-be calm.” So Tom flew home agai and I joiced; and hearing that Johns* patch inded. AMBEICAN GIELS ABEOAIi. V lictr D r e s s e s C o m p a r e d TVitU Bug** - MsSit w A y d r e s s ' f l m i r D r i t i s h S isters. in why tracted in watering places by r Englishnglish girls?rl The than b y E gi that American { ” ' and Englii of tMs most lent. I am le reason is how to dress of aU notion ■thy accomplish- Tiiese girls seem, however, unable to understand that what suits duty^ toward the male sex. unable to un 6 __ one person does not necessarily suit everybody. I f a tall, thin English girl sees a short, dumpy girl in a dress that sets off her charms to advantage, she appears soon afterward in an exact copy of this dress, and then indulges in the pleasing delusion that she looks well in it. T h u s it is that dumpy girls go about in clothes befitting tall girls, and tall girls in those befitting dumpy girls; that long faces have hats m ade for -fat faces, and fa t faces hats- made for long faces; that blondes array themselves in colors that look well on brunettes, apd brunettes in colors that well on blondes. Now, American ' 11 into these errors, day, at Hamburg, I was standing near the spring, talking to an American girl, who looked like a picture, BO harmoniously did all colors in which she -was arrayed match, and so perfectly did she seem to make one with her clothes, like a bird in, its feathers. “ How do you manage it?” I asked. “ T h e root of it sJl i s , ” s h e answered, “ that we each study onr own style,. We never wear a drees as it comes from the dressmaker, but we drape it ourselves, know what colors match, and we iaire n o t to producie discords. Na- iss notot madeade uss allll perfect.< If we We ture ha n m u a p have too lon g a neck w e reduce i t by tying a piece of lace round it. If we are short-necked w e don’t dress lugh. If we have lo n g ' faces we don’t wear a toll-peaked hat, but if we have round faces we do. Most of ns have small feet, but if onr feet are large we don’t utterly neglect our shoes and stockings. Then we never forget smaller details. We know where to put a bow, and we don’t have too many of them. If our fore heads are high we don’t draw our hair back, and itth e y are low we don’t drag our hair over our eyebrows. W e don’t wear outlandish jewelry because we hap pen to have it. Indeed, we very seldom wear any jewelry at all, because i t looks vulgar. When we are tall we wear a quantity of petticoats; when we are short we hardly wear any. Our petti coats, too, have their f^ n e s s in the back, so\ our figures are always well draped, w h ile th e petticoats of th e Eng lish girls have their fulness in the front, and tMs is w h y their dresses seldom Now, look at that Indy,” '\^bS ribbons and her gloves there is a very disastrous interval of red skin. Then why has she tied that queer bow at the back of her neck, wMch makes her look from behind as if J on the wrong way “ Of course, as she is tall, she has a very small parasol. Now, do just, watch her. She knows that she’s got good teeth, so she’s always on the broad grin. If she would just keep to smiling her teeth would come in well, but she opens :e a horse and shows her ;ums in a Way that’s quite lamentable. got g o o d eyes, but that is uo r eason she should glare in that bpld and gui Sh. who resembled a handsome giraffe, so tall, so awkward and gawky did she seem. “ She’s got no petticoats on n to speak of,” continu^ the American, “ Sho makes her face Ion; “ She’s g that hat, and sho makes her low b y wearing lo n g earrijrrings. dress is n straight piece 'back, and she has no overdress. H e r of cloth tied 'e the edges she has looped it up over r petticoat, wMch is much too shoirt. ‘As the dress ispurple she must needs wear red stockings, and as she is flat- footed sh e makes h e r f e e t s t ill w o rse b y her low heels. Her neck is ugly, for it is long and thin and tho skin iq,crinkly, flo she shows it at its ugliest by having I open cut dress. Her arms ain’t much, id her wrists bony:, and quite horrid. her mouth like a horse and shows t h j I ar short, squat English girl. “ Observe how that fat g irl,” she said, “ brings her hair down on her forehead,, like a Mal tese dog. Look at her round hat, wMch makes her face still rounder. She’s co ered that green dress ail ovei and beads and ruffles, by whi pounds and pounds to her natural fat, and its lumped up round her neck so as to make her head start out direct from her shoulders. She’s got on a black vail with yellow dots on it, as if she were a brunette, and, as she has only fixed it with one pin, it hangs all awry. Her hdir Ml dressed out behind, much too Ip g e for her style. She’s got on half a 'ticoats ticoats at least to swell her out. has quite a number of obat- id to it; Her parasol is hind, [east to Bwe Her parat m, and, to take y even a soupoon of a waist, she’s on one of those round, short Norfolk dozen pet a Her belt has qu elaines attached to big and covered with b( so long her, one ca 1 your ’’You have a fashionable leans spend more mom toilets than E n ^ s h girl: carte blanche at some French dressmaker’s, audit is no wonder that you cut us out.” “ That’s just the mistake you English make. “ I t is not money that gives us'the ad vantage, but good taste. There are not five American girls in a thousand who_ ever have a dress from Paris. ‘What doT you think of my hat ?” I declared that it was charming, but that any hat, with such a face, would probably be equally effective. “ That’s nonsense,” she said. “ I don’t say are hats that that I ’m ugly, but there )uld make me look a seven marks are hats that would make r perfectfright. Well, I gave se (seven shillings) for this hat aud I trimmed it myself befo 3 out.. .for English girl goes into a shop, tries a hat which takes her fancy andtoen puts it _ on straight over her eyebrows, just as the stupid hatmaker has told her to wear it. B o I look as weU like this V' she added. Os she pulled her hat for ward. I had pulled to confess that it was not _____ ,, ___ nt. “ The way you wear your hat,” she continued, warming with the subject,’ “ is just as important as the hat itself. Costly feathers don’t always make fine birds and all feathers don’t su it all birds alike. I knew an English family in Paris. The amount those girls spent on thoir dress was perfectly fright- ful, and they were never fit to be seen. Sometimes they wouldallcome out dress ed alike, as if the family had bought a web of cloth. When they were not dressed alike their things seemed to get mixed up, the effect was most disastrous. They had no idea of neatness, I never saw one of them -without somethf— wrong about her.” ’“ Wore they pi ty ?” I asked. “ Yes, very pretty,” she replied, “ and this prottiness is what spoils English girls; they are flo proud of their looks that they think that it does not signify what they wear.—Acn- don Truth, GOVEKKOS PICKENS. A very picturesque story is told by a White Sulphur Springs correspondent of the Courier-Journal, regarding the kens, of South f S Caro- ■widow vof Gov. I lina. “ Sho was says th is correspon newspaper article wM oh 8Dok( ens eign mission. She said that it appeared so mercenary and calculating in a girl of eighteen. The truth -was that she was only a child, and the mission to Eussia was the mother’s objection to the mar- lina. “ Sho was very much grieved,’ th is correspo n d ent, calm ly, “ a ta ing the onld t letter posals, h e w o u ld m e e t hier Orleans and let the steal a farewell letter to his lady love, but before concluding said it was not too late for her to change her mind, im after re- accept Ms pro- him. She did accept, and a f afterwards they sailed togethier marriage pro* r intern in N e w ainer sail ‘iritliout and a f e w w e e tj tug but ie o f trui fch as man ived haiipy, •upting the ue love. Governor and Mrs. Pickens returned to South Carolina about the time that State seceded. Du ring their residence in Europe they had many purchases of pictures, statuary, furniture, rare laces and jewels. These arrived at the Fort of New York in a sailing vessel, a month after their arrival. Everything was confiscated Among the articles were busts of the Governor and his wife by Powers. A NewYor' \ - - - - the sale. srnor and m s w ife b y Powers. A York gentlem a n purchased these at lie, and after t h e War was o v e r sen! to the owners in South Carolina.’' QUEEN VICTOSIA AND LABIACHB. 1 gawky <3 icoate o nerican, ' than it is by wearing' cheeks hol- j Queen. Many years ago h e gave Her Majesty lessons in singing, and she ever afterward pre served a warm friendship for her old maestro, and not only hnug a splendid portrait of him, taken in one of his fa vorite characters, which she had com missioned the famous artist and Court painter, Winterhalter, to do for her, up among the portraits of her own partiou- Inr Mends, but used to send for tbe great basso not infrequently fora friend- hewas a chatty ;e and fun, and royal hostess with lat about everything and eveiy- body, which was just exactly what she alw a y s e n joys, a ^ h a stood deservedly high—fop he was a perfect gentleman— in t h e Queen’s good graces. T h a t this is true the sequel to my story, a strictly true one, is proof. When the dear old man died, Tiotoria, “ without saying anytMng to anybody,” had ^ an exact copy of Winterhalter’s portrait made and sent it as a kindly present from herself and as a memento o f h er friendship for the dead man to the Lablaebe family. In the drawing-room of the great singer’s son it hangs to t t o day, wh< often enlivened 1 chitchat about e ishavQ often seen it, and where the leasing anebdoto was told me b y one of her wrists she has tied a bit of ribbon, | toe recipients o f ih 0 zo^lg^,—J^ndon QUEEE THEFTS. A D o s ton Xea; fllercSi^int’s HXamier o£ R e p len isb iiig h is Sioclc, In Boston, on Thursday, William J. Fannce, Jr., of the firm of William J. Faunce, Jr., &Co., tea merchants and grocers at 158 Blackstone street, was ar rested for breaking and entering the store-of the Formosa Tea_ Co. (F. M. Pearce, manager), Shawmut avenue, and too larceny therefrom of a quantity of Fauco is a young man, an active mem ber of the Y o u n g M an’s Christian A sso ciation, and has relatives living iu New B e d ford, H is r esidence was in the same building and directly over Pearce’s store. By means of a false key h e could enter too latter’s place of business at pleasure, and usually did so about midnight. The object of his depredations seems to have been tea alone ; that wMch he stole hi would conceal in a portion of the cellar under the bujjding which was leased With his tenement, and repacking the goods in different shape, whenever op portunity offered carried h is plunder to i store and there disposed of it. in g first e n v y and then the suspicion o f his brother tea merchants, whose appre hensions led to his being shadowed, de tected, arrested, and induced to partially confess. Others besides Mr, Pierce ‘ were vie* timized similarly, but that gentleman was the heaviest loser. Several weeks ago Fannce brought a quantity of tea to tMs city on speculation. Om ■ ■ stion h e chest at private cers around town. Learning these facta Friday, Detective Harding of Station 4, Boston, was despatched hither to iuves- these facta tigate detailed did satis] i Officer Adams was ■ that itisiactory results were achieved. At the China tea store, 80^ Purchase reet, were found five chests of tea ^ Two of these Mr. Pierce (who accompanied the officer) identified as being some of Ms missing property, and concerning two other chests he was almost as positive, Mr. Warner, another Boston merchant, iden tified the fifth as ha-vtng been stolen from his otoro. a * x>o.trinic Daly’s ern~ aery, on toe east side of South Water street, betiveen Howland and Grinnell, t?as found another chest sold b y Faunce, svMch was identified and claimed by Mr. Pierce. As tbe present holders had purchased the tea in good faith, Messrs. Pierce and Warner imbnrsed them in fuU, and tooJ y thus recovered back to Boston, the evi- eery generously re- fuU, and took the property thus recovered back b where it will be introduced, in dence against Faunce. Another chest of tea stolcfi in Boston by W. T. Faunce, Jr., the jyily tea mer chant, has been discovered. It was shipped by him to John Carroll, grocer, at the noitlieast corner of South Water and Hovdand streets, but being ^ent 0. O. D. remains at Hatch & Co.’s express 3 Mr. Carroll has closed up for a requently i Belling b y sample. Considerable dissat isfaction was expressed by his customers, as the goods received often were quite different from what was ordered. One in particular. The proprietress of a boarding house at the south end, order ed a dozen bottles of extract of lemon ; when the package came, it contained a dozen bottles—ono of lemon, and tbe others other extracts. Again, she order ed a box of^aleratus, and received wnsh- and this and other circui similar nature furnished ground for a suspicion, quite generally that some if not all Ms orde entertmned, i s orders were filled time and surrepti- ablways One a n d the same team ster has a taken his goods from the depot to the custom ers, aud on several occasions told Mr. Faunce that much fault was found b y the recipients. Faunce told the teamster, in cases like these, to always let the customer have his way, aud not enter Into any defence or dispute con cerning the' goods, instructions which tbe teamster thought rather peculiar, and considerably at vai’iance with tbe di rections usually given by drummers and traders.—iVeiy Bedford Mercury. A BEAVE GIEI. M iss R ic lia r d s SavesaB o y a n d G iv e a a Beer a Suively Xussle.* ____ Em m a Eiebards, of Akron, a girl verging on twenty yeara o f age, was w ith her m other -visiting at the residence of Mi’. Timothy Loomis, in Lodi, when a son of Timothy, surnamed Phineas, roposed that he shoi Liall herd of door that _ enclosure on their premisi lady consented, and Phineas stai the brush to scare them up, the young lady meanwhile standing at toe gate to await the appearance of the mpnagerie. ' murder ” of Phm - (uld show her was kept in an The young ’Mneas started into ) s om ewhat juvenile voice o f Ph i eas. Never thinking of fear, Miss Rich ards started in the direction of the n o ise, and after going a few rods discovered the b o y pinned to the earth, w h ile an angry buck stood over Mm, with the _____ ________intly gras; went for Mr, Buck. He paid no atten tion to the first and second blows, but when she gave him the third ornck he turned and went for her. Unable to ward off his approach w ith tbe club she dropped'it and grasped him by the ant lers, at the same time calliug to tbe boy to arise and put for the fence. He was either too much hurt or too badly scared to mind her, and so, disengaging one hand, she lifted the b oy to his feet, at the same time crowding the deer •back ■with the other. Once on his pins young Phineas found his speed, and put for the fence like a streak of lightning on a d, while the brave girl gave all ion to kir. Buck. to the ground. Still holding on to horns she backed o ff gradually, am that manner reached the fence, but till her clothes were badly torn, ajad 1 the id in without reqeiviing was a close caH, 1 luldn’t hi a man coi day.— Cleveland..header. getting i any serious injury. It I, but the spunk that many *iave furnished won the \. FouRpoundsof b eef lose one pound by boiling,ig, onene ijoundjound five ounces by o i roasting, and one pound t>y b i& ing; four pounds of mutton lose fourteen ounces by boiljni six ounces byToaating, a iS four ounces % baking. iree ounces one pound one pound SHE V/ANTED TV/0. T h e G rievous M istake Made by a Ca.tzm:JU Rem.ed)’' mCa.n. There i s no reason w h y the inventor of a remedy to “ cure the worst case of catarrh inside of fivem im ites ” shouldn't feel it his duty to place a bottle oi the same iu every person’s hand—“ price twenty-five c e n t s ; no cure no p a y .” Therefore, toe long-legged chap who pulled a door-bell on John R . street y e s terday had none of that tim idity in h is bearing which characterizes rag buyers, lightning r o d m e ii and solicitors for th e fire sufferers. He had a good thing and kne hard-featured w om an abi of age confronted Mm he pleasantly w ent to business and ask e d :— “ Madam, is your husband ever troub led -with the catarrh ?” “ Can a man who has been dead seven be troubled with the catarrh 1 ” she ...J replied. But the children are liable to be ate tacked at any hour this season,” he re marked. “ Whose children ?”j “ Yours, m adam .” “ I never had any, sir 1 What brought you here, anyway ? Why do you come asking these questions ?” “ Madam, I have compounded a :fem- ly for the catarrh. I t is a good thing. [1 warrant it to Imock any case of tarrli sky-high in less than five m in- “ W ell, sir, w h a t i s all this to mo ?” “ Why, madam—why—” he stammer- grimly the catarrh, but I suppose the fa: lovely can be attacked as well i strong and braye.” ' “ And what have I got to do -with ^ that rigmarole? Wlio are you, sir, an what do you .want?” “ Madam,” he whispered, baokil down one step, “ I have a compoui^ remedy for the oaLai-rh.” | “ Whose catarrh, sir?” t “ Madam, I am selllug my c.atarrh—i “ Where is your catarrh-*-where is it] . she interrupted. Ho got down on the second step an\ softly began :— 1 “ Madam, I have a sure cure for t h i ’ h and I am selling lots of it. ” ’ 'ell,ell, whathat doo I careare? ? Mostust 3 catarrh a “ Y/ w d I c M yod ring my door-bell and tell mo'that yod are selling lots of catairlrmedicine ?” S He got down on the walk, clear of thqj^ steps, aud he tried hard to look, beautT .............................................. \ k : -atarrh?” “ Yes, sir, and didn’t I reply that l4;-'r was dead? Do you rzant to fee . grave, sir ?” . “ No, madam. I do not. I am sorri* \'W w he’s dead, but my catarrh remedy cam ■ help him any. Goodby, madam.” i * C ?v “ Here, sir, hold on a minute!” shj - called; “ what was vn«** tousmess wit| - . / “ Why, I have a remedy for thi catarrh.” i , “ So you said before.” i “ I asked you if you didn’t want tc purchase and—” “ You are a falsifier, sir—you nevei asked me to purchase!” I, ' “ Do— you— want— a --- bottle?” hd slowly asked. “ Yes, su*, give me two of them; here’s your money ! Next time you want to sell your catarrh remedy don’l ‘ begin to toik. about the discovery oi America by Columbus. Here you’ve red me fifteen minutes and put a good for yi bring the broom to ,’t: door!” Ho retreated backward through the gate, his left eye squintc ' mouth Open. Ho slmt th_ over it and looked leng at the ft By and by h e said :— “ Darn ’em ! You can never tell where to find ’em l”—Detroit F ree P ress. FORT MANCHESIER. D e s c r i p t i o n o f t h e M o st I n t e r e s t i n g o f X e n n e s s e e ’s A n tlqU iesi. On account of toe inclement weather, the m em bers of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science went direct to Chattanooga yesterday in stead of visiting the “ Old Stone Fort,” as had been intended. So much was said about that interesting spot during the'sssssion of the association that wo descriptii American by Williamson The stone Clarke, county: 1 fort situated near Manches- r, between the east and west forks of Diiok river, has been a study for the ;iquarian since the settlement of Ten- isee. It certainly takes precedence of all other remains of the aborigines in the State, and com es nearer to the style of ancient European fortifications than any found among the Indians. Its age is left to conjecture, but iu 1819 Colonel Anderson having cut down, a large oak, and dressing off the end, counted dis tinctly 357 rings. This tree, began gro'VTing forty years before Columbus discovered America, and, judging from the known habits of cleared places to take on the surrounding forest growth t must have been eight hundred or ona tlionsand year.s before that -when, the place was used or inhabited. That i t evinces a kno-wledge o f the art of self-defence far in advance of any In dian knowledge -will not admit of a doubt. Haywood gives a lengthy account of it in his “ ilneient Monuments of the Mis sissippi Talley,” and his account was ad ded to by Messrs. Sqaier and Davis and Doctor David Jones, in the '“ Antiqui ties of Tennessee,,” a work of which ivei-y Tennesseean should f e e l proud. No stone, graves, or relics have been dentified as having been found in or lear the fort, though numerous accounts are current in the neighborhood. The wall incloses fifty-four acres, three rods and thirteen poles. It is made of loose rooks brought from the bed o f the creeks near by, thrown up without regard to any system. It is now from four to ton feet high and has a large quantity of soil freely intermixed-with it. No mark of any metallic instrument is to be found on them. The wall is not continuous, but in s o m eplaces -’ ----- “ - ------- - - ...... - lUUd Wild AJUtoXUOULd. X» itone lies to the south of the the precipice seems to surround the inclosure. A high ridge of limestone lies to the south of the fort and is separated from the latter by a huge ditch that is supposed to have once lonveyed water from creek to creek. lortant feature in it. The ends of I facing toeoe entrancetrance higher so os to serve for t en are thrown up an outwork or igram is an wide. The is on the inside and toe entrances are nearly cut in by a ditch so that not more than two men can walk abreast over it. A large oblong m o u n d 600 feet in circumference and 30 feet in height lies three-quarters of a m ile in fron t of the main entrance. This mound wan opened b y Dr. Joseph Jones, but noth ing was found in'it except the grave of a white man, one of the pioneers of 'tha country. — N a s h v ille A m e r ican. T he only consolation a man has who finds that h is green grapes and unripe stolen from'the yard at 30 that they will g ivetha laohache* ight, is the h tMeves thastc
