Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1871, Page 2

CHRISTMAS CAROLS. had been wrapped, and rushed to the ‘Th- children sung 2 thie Christmas morniaz As she reached it, David rose slowly. “ Well, % rad clast_ omteute my chamivar daar u're bound to go, I reckon I'll have Of unforgottes Christsae i jut mind ye this; e the light o° shelter this one might, but never more—never more, remember.’ “« I'm her mother, David; I remember that.” said the old woman, her affection for her child overcoming even her wontéd awe of her hus- band. “And I remember it else to-} it.” ighbor's Beretly t oy Tron e ove glad by on ele sing for Eweetly they sang but. sh’ their ch erful voices my mead s deep fotumte of bids " David made no reply. ing the co re against the pikes” | door, the old couplestartedomtheit qeest. David Trent overflow. | was ie frst to speak. 3 «We're on a wild-goose chase, missus, I reckon. : sage needs or bgp ag How are we to tell which way the wilful wench Bel when the joyfal melaly was ended. ) Bas gone 2" Heid up her sweet mouth @ Christmas ise vod darling reams areome white-robed amd jo¥! in » Christmas somg. “<The Lord guide us!” said the old woman, dexpairingty. | etwe Tiooa will on the wild moor, uncer- ;, | taim which way to turn; all around them, far as the eye could see, a broad white sheet of snow. | Their own cottage was the only dwelling near Oats ene € Ere my Lisped of dear Santa Clan Only one Christmas m Lifted her cl ary them, and the uses. ot the ¥ wall | lay «lit, quite in the opposite direction to 2 eelyiutad wisi trusting sii" N**4 | that whieh the object of their pursuit had taken. | They gazed around them in all directions, bui | the Griving snow obscured their vision. Not a trace could be seen of the object of their search, and there seemed to be no alternative but to | give up the quest. But the quick woman's wit, Outetripping the man’s slower sense, leapt to a solution of the difficulty. With the eagerness of renewed hope, the old woman exclaimed— “We'll find her yet, Davy; wi’ God's help we'll find her yet. Back to the cot, maister, let entirely. cam destroy tmas morning, sing for joy" FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW. A CHRISTMAS STORY. Before a cheerfyl fire, in the best kitchen of a they ne: the porch. the old woman tet the and a wom wore nyears. Allarouad ingthe snow. After a few momen’ she exclaime: search, OT mere orna- = 1 air of homeiy comfort : € was little. but the furniture, though Here tis, sure “nough, the print of Ally’s Plain a¢ covkt be, and bearing the marksof loug itue feet; Fd know them ina handred. Now. service, was good andsolid; and itstrimarrange — maister, we're in the right track, thanks be ment andspotiesscleantinessspoke highly forth the guod Lord that sent the show: good hou-eke f its owners. A square o Holding the lantern low, and guided by its uncertain light, they followed the track of the small footsteps, already becoming blurred and indistinct unaer the still falling snow. Fearfal of losing the trace before they could overtake the wanderer, they pressed on, weary and pant- ing, but never haiting, never wavering in their onward course. They bad reached a considera- ble distance from the cottage, but still no sign, but still the advancing foot-marks of her they songht. SUll ‘pressing onward, David spoke with a strange tremor in his voice. “Tell ee what. missus, there's some'at whist about this—where can the maid be going o’ this side of the moor’? 4 with crimson braid, wa glazedor Dutch earp spread upe cane gtispl of scriptural subjeci and the lattice window was haif hidden imson curt The whole aspect of the cottage betokened competence and modest inde- pendence. Nor were the inmates belied by ap- pearance, for few among the inhabitants of the village were more universally respected than ‘There's never a house for miles.” David and Mary Holt. Inthe samecottagethey "His wife made no reply. Still they pressed had lived for thirty years, paying their way.and | onward, onward. Each could hear the other's asking no favor of any man; and for five-snd- | breath, as they panted through the driving wind, twenty of those years David had been parish | which blew in their faces, and buffeted them clerk and schoolmaster, and in the estimation of | hack, as though opposed’ to their errand of the young parishioners, little, if at all, inferior Suddenly @ cry came from the old im dignity to the parson himself. His wife, with | woman’s lips, a shriek 40 shrill, soagoaized, that no le-® respect. won more affection; for David fur the moment it alone was heard, and the Holt was a stern and hard man, always just, but | joaning wind seemed, by contrast, hushed into seldom generous, while Mary was ever tender stiliness. She clutched her husband’s arm. hearted. with a Kind word and smile furevery. ':: Oh, Davy, hurry on! You're the swiftest. body. To her the school children came in all} Hurry’on for dear life. O God in heaven? their troubles, whether arising from blow of ,he's making for the Black Pool!” cricket-ball of the perplexities of the ruleof "“With @ hoarse cry, like that of a wounded three, and rarely failed to receive some measure animal—a cry hardly icss fearful in its subdued of consolation. aes anguish than his wite’s agonized shriek—David Such were the couple who sat, one Christmas fuifed the light and bounded forward, the oll Eve not very long azo, by the cosy cottage ‘ire side. A long clay pipe, a real old-fashioned rdened, just put aside. lay upon the deal table, and David Hoit was read- ng alow rous family Bible, while his good wife. her hands crossed upon het knees, sat reverently listening. As befitted thei eccapation. the faces of bot qaiet, but that quiet ow inte stronger reli woman following as best she might, ler hand to her side, and her gray locks fluttering nm the night wind. The feeble glimmer of the lantern became dimmer and dimmer in the dis- tance, and Mary Holt felt her strength fas leaving her,when a shout was heard from David, and the light came to a stop. With renewed energy she pressed forward, and in a few mo- ments was kneeling with her husband on the snow, supporting the insensible form of her lost daughter in her arms. With passionate tender- ness the mother chated the cold hands and kissed the death-white tace, striving by close embraces to bring back the spark of life. But all in vam. The unhappy girl lay, as David had found her, a black heap on the snow; so still, so motionless, it seemed as though (od had saved the wanderer from the last great sin—that awful sin whielt shutting ont repentancs, shuts out merey too— ing to Himseif the lite she Wwe wonld have cast away. Still the father and mother, clinging to the ci deep-set keen forgiving. theem willed and ragged pride; ks we events (hapy who have known none such) which, coming a human | ve behind them a shadow nesecond glance at these two know that some such event—some o: shame, or sorrow—had passed over But as natures differ, so the sears shadow of hope, relaxed not their loving Wrapping the warm woollen cloak about their child's iitelecs’ form, they halt dragged, half carried her along till they reached the cottage. n, while David hastened for the village doc- great si their lives. lett by the fiery trial differ, too. In Davit tor, the mother essayed such simple means as Molt’s face the shadow bore the Imp 2 hettameety exyevionte suggested to recall the h ide; in Mary's, that of wounded ripen tes. goth Mace ‘smile on the old woman's lips, 2Prkol life, ir perchance it might not have faded into utter darkness. After @ little while her loving pains were rewarded by percefving the beat of a feeble pulse, and the appearance Of a faint flush of color on the white ch kindly smile that had rested there from that old age could ndt wear away, though still sweet, was sad as well; and the eek; and kind voice, that had so often spoken courage | 9 tittle later her eats were gladdened by ‘the and cheer to others, had now a tone of wearl- * obsds ied, “ i iB sae gad eves grestat The tugged nas | UBdof a well-known voice, thoug’ uttered in the ravings of delirium. ut her happiness was of short duration. the good” : ture of David, on the other hand, scemed to - doctor came, and, with tears have hardenod under the rod the hard features | had become harder, the cold gray eve colder | standing in his eyes, spoke words of doom. The aud sterner than ever. Even now, whileread- f:aii form had suftere more than it could bear, ing the smeet Christmas idvl, the sweet story | and the littl life left was but the fire of fever, whose burden Is the song of the angels, “ Peace | which might, or might not bura through the on earth, good-will to hus harsh voice lost ht. For a little while the light of reason might none of 1 rshness, but uttered | Qifle phen F cred wor,ls deflantly, in tones suitad rather | for po eaiayon nae owld so come, it would be some tale of battle and violence, than tothe | quenched forever. - ad tidings of everlasting peace. | | Aud meanwhile, all unconscious of its mother’s Slowly and eee bere eee Se 1 le ebbing so fast away—of the wind and snow from the sacred page, David Holt read on; but | without, and the rain of tear within—of life or even above his loud Rarsh tones could be heard of sin or sorrow—the little baby lay sleep. le sounds of a storm raging with- | ing before the lire; @ dimpled arm supporting a 1 howled and roared over the | iS, < ickeri n | dimpled cheek, on which the flickering firelight wild west-country moor, straining against the |“ “ ‘ aioe 7 ‘Ottage eaves, wrestling with door and c: cast rosy glory. And the cuckoo-clock on the Soo went, and piling heaps of snow high ‘against oe ek ee ee ae va eee tat he Pe oo. aie = ay night’ in ' into the ocean of eternity, ringing @ stronger willingly have been Out of dove: Sone we wt | throts to the life just begun, and stealing one willingly have been out of doors; any shelter, even the poorest and roughest, would have been eferable to exposure to that pitiless storm, and t,out in the cottage garden, under the full ry ef the bitter wind and driving snow, a ‘oman stood. bareheaded and motionless, gazing rt} the lattice with wild, longing, hangr: €yes at the scene within. After a little while she erept into the porch, but not to ask for shelter. One knock at the door, as though dealt with a feeble or timid hand, was heard; and tm,» Waiting not the result, she came forth again and fled swiftly, her long hair streaming inthe wila 7ind, toward the open moor. auore rulse from tie life that’ was passing away. With quivering lips and streaming eyes, th father and mother sat by their daughter's pil low, listening im silemt anguish to her delirious moaning. Her dying fancy seemed to hover hither and thither about her life; straying far | back into the past, and recalling incidents of her childish days—ineldents long forgotten, but re~ turning now with strange vividness under the influence of her broven sentences. And then a sadder page was turned, and the parents knew (too late!) how their darling had been drawn | aside from duty; and the father learnt, with bit. After a momeht oF two the door opened, the eo eee ‘autre ight from within costing = beond bs Op bere | risen to his child’s lips; and which might, under into the outer darkness; and Mary Hoit shading | Heaven, have hindered that bitter ending. At her eyes with her ‘hand, peered forth into tug , “6 seman oie fancied herself with her b storm. She caught sightof the flying figure anq | 9H€ momen! sian calling to her husband, the two gaz>jarter it tiil.. ayer, and ing as though she had just left fe disappeared altogether iB ye darknee Dasat | home, for his permission to (write to her parents. was the first to re-enter the . saying as | And here the listeners noticed, with « strange ke didso.** Come in Missns, come in wil’ee ? | fecling of sarprise, that no thought of shame it’s some foolish prank 0” one o the village | “Cemed beta gh pode = degned wenches. She thought to fright us, I reckon.” | #8 though for leave to communicate joytu tls wife turned to follow him, but as she did so, stambled against a bundle lying at her feet: * She's left some’at behind her then,” said the | old woman, stooping to examine it, when a faint ' =e, Father than to confess her sin, and sue jor ‘Oh, Robert, darling, if you would let me tell father and mother they would be so giad and wailing ery was heard, and she started back Proud. They would be a little vexed af first, of an instant. then hastily tuatchiug up the bundle thoy wlilsoon forgive that’ And Wf te onorns rushed into the cottage. “Ob, Davy, did "ee | yt 'S secret at it, on account of your ever—it’s @ child!” As she spoke she laid her | untie why, I don’t think they would: noma ue burden on the tabie. and letting fall tho thick | jexct'no¢ very ‘very mach. Gad or than woolen cloak in which it was wra; eed, disclosed | aid say hard things of me in the vill: # baby of three or four months old, whose wide | Dear that for yourrake, dat Pies open eyes seemed to testify the utmost astonish- | Perhaps it would be only for # ment a+ to how he got there. With motherly | Pron Toa' cet your unci’s consent cael ¢ instinct the good soul took the child In her arms , you will, because you make ev: pressing it to her bocom with murmurs cal | i se, darling.) why thei dearment. But David's brow was blac secret any longer, need it? And Ishould be so night. “A pretty thing, the shameless, to saddle | soldier Robe: i honest folk wi Ker he brat; bet Pl find ber = A nn Reg Brion 4 please your little pet mind about anybody else, but I ean tfeel quite happy till father and mother | know that 1 am your wife.” eat, Pwarrant—ay, that I will, if it costs me | 4) “Nay don't Yee be too hard on the poor soul. There's bever a sin without a sorrow, and | *™ PEE SS SE EL arg Spirit, exhausted Dy even soshort a flight, replied her down again; and the suiferer’s eyelids mstice in the | : . —_—e a — seemed to Cg yes 1 Prisently, however, started again, wi a ore nether | vig cry and mut Gb te oe bade zing with eh “ And serve her right, a “Tt there's Jaw or 1 have her in the stocks anes ; Bxed aid dilated pupils, and pressing her thin Desig ppaetek Os gent white hands upon her forehead-— Uk, Hobert, - | don't say that. Even in fun, darling, don't say " | that. You don’t know how my heart is beating, | even now, when I know it'sa joke. Just put your hand against it, dear, and feel. Why don’t you look at me, darling; why don’t you turn | away? Robert, it ien’t, can’s be true. arriage! Oh, Kobert, can you do it, wien ceived she gasped, “Oh, | ™ Robert, Y : David, David, loo! It’s hers, it's Ally’s, | | trusted you so’ our own child's!” The loud passiopa she sat wringing ‘A flash of indescribable ‘emotion passed for a | tro in her delirious sobs of ‘ing girl, her hands Sod rocking ona grief, disturbed the slee; Svelid quivered. But it was only for mor | child, which awake. with cay. The ment, the stern face hardened again, a to another c! wal he ceased her shade pater, perhaps, but dark and ‘as | S0bs and listened, smoothing her hair back from ever. When be spoke it was slowly and dise | ber some- tinetly. ~ thing. Her Smother, with, womanly instinct, pat “I don't know of whom you speak; I had a | her herarms. A look of sweet content child o” that name once, but she tshame | came over the faded fsc0, ond she sunk beck upon us. ‘Take her who will, she's mane o° | Upon her pillow, nestling ttle one to her mine.” bosom, oes baby head with her blood, David,” | wasted fingers. Then the wandering mind roved an oF tears. | inte another track. ‘ ned ber ord never § ore tro propia 4 will he ? and out inthe | Poor all with baby in "t you fetch her } Whole a "t sullenly i the fire. man. the door such a ‘own child it a place to daredn't face seek shelter o' door, was torrent of valiant in Dehsit got ya diam nr ne ata ine | neg end aa pee : ae T'm but a z shan’t die woelatfaain toped with the old woman fetched a pil- | ed life might come with low. and placingit uj laid the <a teem to oo) CoRR Se Sew retorts | Sheth tho pean cee ig gE ont, she lighted ‘tad rowing iz 5 i k replaced thter bearty—a beauty so spi- uy it seemed as though the had off. and the soul alon: sleeping , bidding the summons to its wings and take fight to heaven. At last, when thesun oe in the heavens, aye morning glory far and wide over fire of hite snow, the sleeper awoke. The had given place to the calm light of reason im her eyes, and she gazed around with an inquiring look. “Have I been ill, mother ”* she said faintly. “Yes, iL” tc] don't remember falling il.” said the dying girl; Pipe toe ere = from as A'tin Mm baby's lips supp! mise ing link. The white forehead crimsoned the biue eyes filled with tears of grief and shame. “I remember now. Oh, mother can you ever forgive me?”” A rae Kiss was the mother'sonly answer. But it said enough. Secs he know! Will he forgive “And father, me too?” David Holt cose and stood by his daughter's bedside, looking down upon her with ineffable love and tenderness. The old love for his onl: child repressed so long, now swept away all barriers; pride, self-will, resentment, all were — in the deep emotion of that bitter our. “ Mydarling, may God forgive meas freely asT have forgiven you allthatI have to for- give!” “lt you and mother forgive me, I can feel almost apy a ain. Ob, how nice itis to be at | heme! at how Who brought me here 2” ‘The father and mother interchanged glances. “ We found you on the moor last night, Ally and brought you home.” , “Last night! last night! It’s all gone from Lseem mazed bi ob so weak! Mother dear, am I dyin The old woman tried to speak, batgrief choked | her. David answered for her, himself little less moved. “My child, life and’ death are in the | Lord's hands. His will be done !” “Nay, David,” said his wife, with an e‘ort, “ dor e the child @ false hope now. Alli dear, we fear—indeed. we know that—that—” | The mother’s voice broke down, but her choking sobs told all the rest. There was the faintest quiver of the drooping | eyelids, and a single tear rolled over the wasted cheek. Be: Are you afraid to die, Aliy?” said her fa- | er. “No, father dear, I don’t think I'm afraid; I've longed for death many and many atime lately, and prayed to be ready to meet it; and now it has come I don’t fear much. But it’s | hard to leave you and mother so soon after I have Rot you back, and my poor little baby. May I have him now, please mother? It won't be very long, I think. There is such a strange | feeling of numbness coming over me.” ‘The babe was placed in her arms, and she kissed and fondled it with passionate tender- ness. “Oh, my baby! my baby! it’s very, very hard to leave wy little wee baby all alone!”” i “ Not alone, darling, not alone,” sobbed her mother. Hi “No, not alone, said the dying girl, smiling through her tears; ‘not quite alone, after all. Mother, dear, 1 give him to you, the last gift of | your poor wayward Ally.” “My darling, I take him not as a gift, but as recious trust--a trust to keep for his mother in eaven.”” There was a long, quiet pause, in which noth- ing was heard save the heavy breathing of the dying girl, and the hard tick of the clock on the mantel-piece counting her lite away. The solemn stillness was broken at last by a | voice so faint «und low the listeners had to bend torward to catch the parting words. ‘* Mother, dear, where are you? I can’t see you! How dark it is getting. Hark! they are calling to me.” The doting arms drew did I come here? I don’t remember. embrace. a God bless—' with the bi its loving pr: | Throne. | A corner of the window curtain had fallen | aside, and through the opening a stray sunbeam | crept in, and fell, quart-red. by au | of the lattice, upon the white Coverlet anomen? Was it chance? with a smile on its sile the shadow ot the cross. And now, as the freed soul shook the earth from its wings, and spread its pinions for its heavenward flight, the church bells burst forth. with their chimes of joy and gladncss, in honor of the Christmas morn. The sound of the joy- ous peal floated into the death chamber and brought » hope and peace to the aching hearts within. The mother’s face was sad, but the lock of weary longing had passed away. Z on its lips, and sped to tinist, Yor at the foot of the great white Was it * God kno t,Davy dear. Without this bit- ter cup, mayhap we wouldn't have had peace «1 good-will in our hearts to-day. The Lord Blessed gag and the Lord hath taken away. His name!” Amen’ Amen! +20e- Condition of Women Rassia. ‘The Journaldes Desbates publishes an inter- esting correspondence on the condition of women in Russia. After obser that the | most striking feature in Russian history isthe | © abruptncss of the changes in the condition of the country, it adds that the position of women { offersone of the most salient examples of this | abraptness. In the early legends of the Russian | eople woman represents the principle of evil. | he popular songs warn men against her in- fluence, and the effect of her charms is attribu- ted to sorcery. The Mohamedan despotism of | the Tartars rendered her position still moré de- | graded, and she was confined to her own apart- ments, which were known as the terem. Poter | the Great made a sudden alteration in this asin | other Russian usages, and fore:d the ladjes to live in the world. “In less than a century four Women occupied the throne of Russia, and one of them, the daughter of the great reformer himself, conferred on women civil rights. Un- der Catherine II. the Princess Dashkoi was President of the A Sciences. The new institutions of self-government confer the right of voting on the female holders of real property. This vote must be given through a male deputy, but he can be freely chosen, and no law o| liges @ married woman to delegate her husband. In spite of all these privileges, the Russian women are profoundly discontented with their condition. ie Dips’r Kerr 918 Promise.—The Woon- socket Patriot says:—A short time ago the rela- tives and friends of Mr. John Eddy assembled at his dwelling-house to attend the last sad rites te his mortal remains, and were somewhat aston- ished to find Mr. Eddy not only alive but well, and he in turn was very mach surprised to earn that he was to be buried that day. A hearse, and also a hack from Woonsocket, were in attendance, ordered by some one by letter. Upon inquiry into the facts ot the case, and the obable cause, it was ascertained that Mr. Nady wascwing © euell dete, ant apen: being yressed for payment said, ‘if God spares my Kites t wit pay diat bill by Thursday next,” and as the bill remained unpaid on Friday morning, some one supposed that Mr. Eddy had « that bourne mm whence no traveler returns,” and therefore appointed his funeral, notitied bis friends, ard engaecd the hearse and hack, as before ‘stated. Madame Rumor says that the anthor of this mischief has been discovered, and that the gentleman that furnished the hearse and hack will probably be paid for his services. Tue Mysterizs oy a Haik Brvusn.—A writer in the American Journal of Microscopy has been exploring the forests of bristles ina hair brush surreptitious!y purloined for a lady’s toilet stand, and though it contained nothing which we are accustomed to regard with unqualified horror, the results of his investigations prove tbat there are mysteries oridnarily undreamed of in — ———- of his toilet. There are concealed in the damp lint of hair brushes, un- less kept clean by the use of bicarbonate of po- tassa or corbonate of soda, many living things, too small for detection by the naked eye,someof which, we are told, are of more than suspicious character, being known as the originators of seald-head and other diseases of the scalp. The author concludes bis article ty, a caution against wetting the head, recommen: nk. dry brashing.| instead. He also recommends the use ofa weak | solution of carbonic acid or sulphate of soda as a cleansing material ‘ushes. F A ple Expevtovit, oa reading. a a: H i¢ story in one. ie papers ly, not in { memorandum book as follows: ‘Somebody | whistled. Teacher calls up big boy on suspicion. me Big boy comes be out his hand, suilen andsavage. Noble little boy comes manfull; forward and says: ‘I’m the that wi . ,’ at the same time extending his hand. simmers down and lets them both o} jem.—Noble little boy thought teacher him if he tok ‘woulda’ id the truth, and knew the big he "6"? ‘no Neck-tie socials” gre the rage at Indepen- ieee of the St Louis Republi. canto get the next democratic nations? ton. fame jourrals ettcmpls to provest any ue convention anywhere.” B7-On the 6th inst., Mr. Enoch Riley and Mr. Cotton. old citizens of Pine: Monroe 3 with shot guns. Both were the first BFA Troy detective received a letter rh the post-office a few days contal: of je iy Pale oa | most effectual’ means of | a terrible winter storm near | substance of his de | se | settlers in that part of A Eflling Widow. ‘This is what a correspondent of the Chester (Pa) ican recounts of a curiously fatal Widow, native to the town of ‘Washington, in his state: for m in to a young mon equa hetero ee in her mercantile father’s warehouse, she was 80 effectually dis- cor from the alliance by fyi sod and pride as to diseard the clerk at last and give her to @ gentleman boasting his own car- ria, By a kind of poetic justice the suitor who had actually taken horse to win was destined to for, after but three short.| heck,” and his young wife's face looked prettily out upon the worl ain through yD widows | woods. “Now,” thought the clerk—Roberts—“is my ime to Providence favors m: in. constancy,” afr Must court the widow. By gradual ap} hes, then, he sought to re- gain his old place in the ladys favor; but through excess of caution and a too dip'omatic dala xt. the momentuus question, he conveyed an idea of indecision proving fatal to his After two years of coy strategy, he was doomed to find his lady-love engaged to another once more. The second marriage took place, and in a year ahd a Halt thereafter the happy pair re- moved to Syracuse, where epidemic cholera —, made the lady a widow aque. Mr. ‘oberts, still in his Washington clerkship, heard the news, and he ees a revival of kuightly oonraee. For a third time would he seek the be- witching prize, with more speed, but no less cir- cumspectiy than before. His’ plan was to Jet just one year of the usual mourning elapse, and them write the fair mourner a terse but ardent offer of his hand and heart. At the end of atwelvemonth he did write thus, and his answer was an invitation to attend the wedding ot the widow with her late husband's busines-partner. The \ady had contracted this third marriage, it was understood, chiefly as the riding a damaging depreciation of her late lord’s involved estate, and, not long after the ceremony, departed with her new liege for Detroit, in Michigan. Twoor three more years passed away, and husband and wife were in a steamer w! ent down in ‘alo. Amongst the many of the lives lost was that of the hus- band; but by the gallantry aud good swimming of arich young merchant from Pittsburg the widow had her sorely imperilied lite preserved to her,and ina few months evinced her gratituae | to her preserver by. marrying him. It was gone conclusion, of course, that the deadl: should survive this gentleman too;and she does 30. Une day recently a tierce of rice falling through a hoistway in his store killed the merchant of Pittsburg like a rat. Amongst those attracted trom the street by the catastrophe was Mr. Ro- berts, who had come from Washington on busi- ness and chanced to be passing atthe time. Si- multaneously the oft-baffied wooer realized his new hope, and that a fleet clerk had already started to apprise the bereaved wife of her fourth widowhood. Reseived not to be beaten again, and by a clerk, he tore frantically awa’ toward the home of his old love, at break-nec! speed, and reached the fatal presence in ad- vance of all other messengers. He was recog- nized, told the lady of her loss, and begged te be considered her truest and most constant friend on earth. So he won her at last, and they were married within a year. The Appletou Divorce Case. One of the most singular divorce c: brought before a New York court i entered in the name of Samuel F. Ap his brother, Daniel S. A leton by publishing house of Appicton & Co. The striking eingularity of this case is the fact that the plain- tifl sues, not in person, but by proxy, and the reason of this is Samuel F. Appleton has been for some tlme non compos men u i lunatic asylum. married a Mrs. she was marri in 1811, had gou in 1856, and as he had not been heard from for | some years, was believed to be dead. move all cbstacles to a second n Warner obtained a diver in an 1 though the decree was not grante month atter she was married to Mr. Apy Within three years atter the marriage Mr. Appl ton became iisanc, aud his brothers seat him to an asylum in Connecticut; but in the meantime the first husband of Mrs. Appleton turned up in New York, whither he bad come trom California. Shortly after Mr. Appleton was sent to the asy- other, Daniel S., commenced proceed- ings for the annulment of his marriage, on the ground, I believe. onthe part of hiswite. James T. Brady tok up the case of the latter, and was very zealous inher behalf. The question to ve first decided was, whether, under the peeuliar cireumstances, the plaintif' could sue by proxy; and this ques- tion has just been decided in the affirmative by Judge Cardozo, who has had it under considera~ tion for over a year. Judge Cardozo finaily found a pri a lunatic min such @ case, and the sion is that Daniel S. Apple- ton has aright to carryon proce the name 9f Samuel F. Arvieton for a divorse trom the woman who was married to him while sha had another husbend still living. The pointof law involved in this case is one of great impor- tance, and constitutes the chief interest of the suit. ‘The probabilities are that the case will be arried to the highest state court before Mrs. Appleton, or Mrs. Warner, will submit. Tux reorie oy Marne are fact thata huge land mongpuiy is established in their borders. It appears that in 1864 the icgistature of Maine made a grant tothe Eu- Topean and North American railway of all the public lands on the waters of the Penobscot and t. John, reserving only such as had beer set apart for the purpose of settlers and ls. ‘These lands were in the counties of Penobscot, Arodstook and Somerset, and em- braced 800,000 acres, or 1,250 square’ miles, an area almost equal to the state of Rhode Island. But in 1868 the railroad demanded still_more, and it is understood that a change was effected in the wording of the grant, so that the timber and lands which the state had held as subject to reservation were transferred into the clutches of the corporation, though the latter got its deed from Goy. Chamberlain through a misrepre- sentation of the facts by a land —— The rail- road has now sued a settler for cutting timber on lands which they claim, and the decision affects the 1,500 Swedes in Arostook and many other the State. WatErrroor Givz.—Ordinary glue can be rendered insoluble in water b: ing to the water with which it is mixed, when required for of biel use, & small quanti mate of potash and exposing the articles to which it is applied tothe light. Chromic acid has the of rendering glue and gelatine insol abass on AS the operation of heating the glue-pot is usually conducted in the wre no special exposure of the article to which it is attached need be made. It —_ that paper could be rendered im- to water by pasting the sheets with this glue. The bichromate is said to render ularly hard and unattackable by hot water. The proportion of bichromate to be taken must be ascertained by experiment; for most purposes one-fifth of the amount of glue employed will be found sufficient.—Exchange. Mn. Beecuer on THE E1cut Hour Law.— Henry Ward Beecher said in his annual sermon to young men: ‘Work. There is a tendency aneea! laboring classes to reduce the hours of work toeight. I like it, and I abhor it. I like it, because it is a sign of the growing intelilgence ot the working classes; and I abhor it because it would seem that work was hateful. I don’t be- lieve that common people are going to work out their fortunes by collusion, except by hard knocks. I don’t believe that the majority of them will be able, at eight hours work, to edu- cate their children aud to leave their families in a better condition. Ido not wish to say any- thing against the workingman, I who have the bh of blacksmiths in my veins; but I want to praise work.” If 1s Not Exovodg, in this burying age, to send little folks to school as soon ‘as they can fairly speak and safely walk, and stuff them with pg oe ache. The ver, le @ in. fusion of scientific ‘instruction {nto the minds of babies through the medium of nursery rhymes! For example: « Sing a song of acids, Base and alkali— Fout-and-twenty Baked into a pic; When the pie was opened, Wonderful to say, gen and ni ez lows schools are adopting five-dolar bills as ‘‘rewards of merit.” BZA dyed-in-the-wool democrat declares that since the government took hold of the weather it has in no way improved. leton, of the celebrated | of fraudulent representations | lowing the next friend of | ‘ing up to the * ‘The Sailer Earl of Aberdeen. Ss SIAL NOTICES. | The a few. months since, were filled SPECIA —— en | with details of the eaneeref this young Scotcish lea & Sauce. | nobleman, ‘we need goover bat little of th Pronounced by Comnoies waa witty Pen tee tec sume toe “THE ONLY G00D sac! a resident of |, Where he wor! at pt eR peeed> ates. ant & & ae day labor. beng oocepled daring the of | Weare directed by Mesere, LRA & PEBRINS to 1869 in cutting fee on the Kennebec; he prosecute all partieg mak = ‘counterfeius. Richmond for’ Boston to take tho position of SON DUN SONS. first officer of a three-masted schooner, bound, eult-etm Agents, New York we ve, to ——. and it was from this —— ‘Yeas@l that he wa8 washed overboard and lost, | whe Cause amé Cure of when only 8 few. out from port. ‘Toe ts doraage- His family. emdeavoring to track | men in derangement | of him for or four years, and with that jon. By eaten Saree ete | view, after a clew to his wanderings had been * | discovered, a comtmesfon of three gentlemen —- pect wpe | ee 4 | (one the tutor of the young earl, and @ second ® | ths impaired. having the slightest pre-diepesttion | ch officer.) came over to this country to | to pulmonary discase, or if they take oot. gill be look up the evidence, not only to the identity of | yery liable to have of the Lungs ia the earl with Os! but to procure evidence | some of its forme; aud I ho it will be impos- of his deat! sible to cure any ha point of great importance te the rn —d | thing to be done Ie to cleanse vow are, the heir bad | stomach and bowels from all diseased mucus and died and he stood next in right to the posses- | {lime ¢ these orcame 0 that they Some a fact of which he. died fo | * tine, oe ng oe sia em "oon | The co: m visited Richmond and ob- | and iver toa healthy action. For this | tained very conclusive evidence that Osborn | purpose, the surest and tost fumedy ig Schenck « and the earl were one and the same person. eae ap ot TBy = = 3 ‘When Osborn was about to leave Richmond | Sowa le rid for Bos‘ou, being short of money, he went to an acquaintance there, Re a man by the name of Randall, and asked the loan of #20, and pepe 5? re with —_- gee Ran- Gail to hold it for redemption unt born’s return. The ofter was accepted. Upon the ponent pen eg | arrival of the commission at Richmond, and | jj forpid andthe appetite poor, Inthe bowels the when their business was made known, of course | lacteals are weak, and requiring strength and sap. parties ing any knowledge of Osborn ap- reid It ig ina condition like thie that Schenck 's peared before them, am: em Randall with weed Tonic to be the 7 ‘They will clear out the liver of all « accumu! ere. aud ronee if a | bealthy action, by seg! > toa new aad which natural and Ithy bile is stomach, bowels, and liver are thus cleamend | the ritle, which was fully identitied as tae prop- , f°" erty of the missing Earl. Another party had a | Siineutrslize sll ex | give permane @ 8 good hearty app iret process of a althy. living it, What re small trank belonging to him, and in this were found letters trom his family, written some gears | ; A young Indy to | whom Osborn paid some attention brought forth a pioture presented to her by the Earl. The commission took the rifle, trunk and pic- ture, giving to the young lady another picture Tlent organ, sud c1 prepare the system for the readily absorbed into the circ the blood, and is nN of the Earl, and making handsome compensa- | tion,and thence distributed to the diseased lune tion to parties who gave its members any in- | There it ripens all morbid ma whether in the form a es or tubercles. ad then assets Nature to expel all the disease: a ye | teats ee Falm Syrup, that all al cavities are my red <“Phe cesential thing to be done in curiny formation. To Randall the commission prom. ised as good a rifle in return for the one he had given up a> could be made in England. About two months since that rifle was received, and parties who have seen it describe it as an ele- gant piece of workmanship, probably as perfect in its shooting qualities as it is in its exterior souna, and j i a in digestion, ornementation. The object in taking the rite tion is to get upa good appetitoand ag ane plsare wag fr evidence, and doubtie: the | $7 "erent at Sallie cad sae parties surrendering them made depositions to | there-—the cavity cannot heal, the matter cannot the facts In the respective eases. Osborn created @ favorable impression while in Richmond; he deposited money in the savings bank, the cashier of which isan old friend of | ours.’ This officer at one time, when Osborn came in to deposit, pleasantly remarked to him, “You will one day be somebody.” How so 2” queried Osvorn. “A young man, unlike others . ( cr your age, you ate taking ‘care of” your | fs eatrely gone, if there italisy left i money,” wis the reply of the cashier. Ofcourse, | . - ene oan | Osborn’s signature to the pass-book was taken | 4, Hays seen, Mauy persons cured with, only om in evidence This ts what Se edicines will do to cure | nothing was ever dropped by Oxborn in Kich- | Consumption. “Phar. will clean out tl yetem is below par. Want is ‘ipen, 80 long as th bece ew order of things,—a good necessary to cure it Consumption, and if = person is very bad. if the i are not entirely destroyed, or even if one lang JUDE ie mond to lead anyone to sajy that he was it, get np a good di toy other than he appeared, except upon one occa- | and give Nature the assistance she needs to | Sion, when after words’ which he hal ‘with a | evetem of ail the disease that over the form maybe It is important that while asing Scher j cines, care should be exercised not to take cold; keep ia-goors to cold and dump weather: avoid night air | nd take out-door exercise ouly in a gonial aud | warm sunshine temper—he remarked, “1 could buy and sell you two or three times.” At the moment the remark made no impression.—Brunswick (Me.) | Telegraph. | AT A concent in Bosto | who was disturbing those of tl | near her by incessant chattering, was summar | silenced Ly a gentleman who handed her a piece | | | well-known ship-owner there—probably in soma | | a young woman | audience seated | more liable to @ relapse than one whe has been entirely cured, and Lis precisely the sume in regard to Goneumption. So long as the Jungs are aot perfectly J. JUS $0 i ere knmtaeatdangerof a fall reearivot the disease. Hence it is that I ao strengously caution pulmonary patients against exposing themselves to | An atmosphere that Is pot genini and pleasant. Gon firmed Consumptives’ lungs are a mass of sors, | Which the least change of atmosphere will inflame. | The grand secret oi my success with my Medicines ility to ewhdue inflammation instead of paper on which he had written the suggestion | that she might not be conscions that she was revealing family secrets to a large auditors. le of 1P PARTtES.—The young folks of i, lowa, have started something now, called ‘sheet and pillow-slip parties.” The | Cedar Rapids Observer says that the Young | | America of that town got a license and eallin.a | 3 ns many of the acuity do.” An ia. | harson, instead of fooling away their time in | Ein, paved op See pattens, be | 7 ‘Aaiumn. It should be carefulls | Warerrarts Revivixe—T fashioned | from all irritating influences. The w | neem, mont are coming in fashion again, where | Caution should be observed iu this particular. ne an impossibility ‘The person should be’ kept on nutritious diet, and ail the: Modic until the Les vty ime restored to it tity of ‘stron, _ T wae myself cured by this treatment of the worst kind of Consumption, and Bere lived to get fat and hearty these many years, with one lung mostly me. [have cured thousands since, and very many fave been cured by this treatmoeat whom 1 hare Lover seen. m About the first of October Lexpect to take sion of my new building at t henst conor. of Sixth and Arch streets, where 1 be pleased to give advice to all who may req Full directions accompany at aay circumstances 1s creped and drawn d ton and covered with a fine silk net. is style is pretty in golden hair, but not in dark, brown or black. Poor LittLe FELLow.—A little boy just old enough to talk was fatally burned in Cambridge, Mass., last week, hisclotheshaving canght fire, In the midst of his sufferings he said: **Wasn't ita good thing I didn’t have om my good clothes?” 87-The Roman women are subscribing liber: Jy for a monument to Garibaldi, but he wo: take the bint, at my Remedies, 80 canbe readily | smiled, murmured “1 don't smoke,” and | t | B2-Tne latest London announcement isa nose | | cured by # strict observance of the sams. machine, by which homely noses are pressed | “7 "3 H-USCHENCK. M j Eidindotehte, | into the most fashionable shape, according to | _ Price of the Pubmonic Syrup and Seawsed Tonic, | | the taste of the owner. 1.58 a bottle, or $7.00 8 half dozen. andrake ts = ‘Me, 25 cents @ box. For sale by ail druggists and | s-When a Connecticnt deacon nadged a | 4a somnolent worshipper with the contribation | THOMPSON LILLY & CO., 26 Hanover street | box, the sleepy individual awoke partially, | Baltimore, Md., Wholesale Agents. se4-#.t.th,tr | | bs off again. { Batehelors ‘By a decision just rendered in Oregon | ,Thssplendid Hair Bye every foreign half-bréed as well asevery native | Jiaimless. reliable, instantaneous taeephnwen npg } full-blood Indian is excluded from the ballot. | Jcatn, Aveid the vaunted and dclusive prey | Several indians have been in the habit of voting, ear phar de Bree. gentine | but the courts have decided that hereafter {¢ | A hae LJ e had thirty years | must be stopped. | page ang © 5 wo & eee & | ##'The Menasha (Wis) Preae says: “While | f° § at 18 Bond street. Now | on @ tour through this locality, the other day, | Yon ‘te8-tf | we saw something that no other Wisconsin | editor ever looked upon, It waa two youn, THURSTON’S IVORY PEARL TOOTH Pow. ladies with shot-guns on their shoulders ani DER is the best article for cleansing pt recersing i bh Roid by all ais. Price, aoe renee Mento Seiding of to the woods | “TU yvyNe IWODOROUS KID GLOVE CLEAN spn 2 ER restores soiled gloves equal tonew. Sold by all 87-A young lady in Springfleld, Mas., a few and fancy goods dealers Price, 25 nights ago, awoke in her sleep and went to the | eents. deS-ly premises of a neighboz, three she was discovered sitting very composedly in a chair on the porch, arrayed without any special reference to the condition of the thermometer. She was excessively frightened when awakened, and says she will be afraid to go to sleep again. ep tela fd nied Dh oe ee CASES and LaT- RICHARD B. MONUN & 00.8, Lt Pennsylvania avenne. _ de6-w 3.3 Be @BALSANINE?! 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