Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1874, Page 3

A LULEABY. BY J. @. HOLLAND. Kockaby, lutlaby, bees in tha clove: Croen'ng so drowsily, er Nockaby. tuliaby dese! yown into wonderiand— the under land— laud go! Kockaby, tallahy. rain on the clovert Tears on the evel Kockaby, In‘! Down o s Dow he mo car Maby, wont eto wer! Dew Willaparkle at dawa! bi kabr dear little rover! ctober a little eara- D seen toding up a steep y¥ of New York; said caravan urniture truck ‘filled with the erty of Prof. Douglass, and i ning hie wife, a young friend of the faunily, Alexander M’Shaue, and a quantity | e# too uumerous to ment . gone on ahead with bis ousty at the h: roger aid » Fou know, and I'd so like to pou the poor lady so loving a and cheery withal, thac it n face wourerfail lighted up his p “That will be alt right, Mrs. D.,"he said. “We'll have up that stove in the twinkling of an eye, sud we'll make those old cups and san- cers jump. [had an eye on the tea-caddy my- felt, and before you know where you are the have a cup of tex that'll make bis hair stand onend. Aste Maddie, you know n’Lexpect her to bother with these things. . Douglass was silent awhile; then she turned her sal brown eyes upon Aleck. “It's a gret for Madeline,” she s1id, “a very great c She's been used to so tion, and amasement, Ul get on; but it was all You see, it was rainous living in the city; the rent was so high, and there wore s0 | many incidental expenses, and the Professor's sight becoming impaired, he has not yet made vp his mind how to place himselt.”” Aleck listened as respectfully as if he bad been a condensed drawing-room of afternoon ealiere; but Mrs. Donglass at last came back to the consciousness that she was not talking to Mrs. Grundy, but enly to poor Aleck MeShare. “it was all we could do, Aleck,” she repeated; ae Should have starved iu that great hungry eit “Oh no, Mrs. D. quite; no, indeed. individual in my way, bu the wolf from the door w of mine.”* He flourished the puny, bloodless hant of a city clerk m the air, and Mrs. Dougias laughed, y on his shoalder. “You're such a good fellow.” she ssid; a pity you should waste your life here dangling after Madeline. She's so spoiled you can u tell whether she cares for you or not; and I’m sure, the way we are why you should sacrifice “Ab, Mrs. Douglass,” cried Alec #‘tuation now that has the charm 2 you ‘I'ma bambie I could have kept p this red right hand rma. Mad- die, being deucediy lotty, has given all her | porse-prond friends the slip; the fiat has gone forth that veither sich nor great shall be allowed to enter our humble domicile, and sneer at its lwalis, I may thank the good God- erty for the privilege of sharing your a the road here brought the cottage «i they found Madeline enthroned on a pile of mattresses upon the porch, and the Protessor bota: “What a lovely we'e Hine. “I have been hoping you'd get here bi fore the light leaves the saores yonder; it was wonderfully beautiful an hoar ors9 ago, bat said 4 Of a hutry just now to Just persuade it to ted, and some and the tea put to draw. and I'll be on ha: Aleck followed Mrs. Douglass " When be got back to the porch his hanis were rather sooty, and a broad biack bar rested on his nose; but it had grown too dark for Made line to perew Was warming the beart of the Professor. ‘The next morning Aleck jumped o} at suprise, and ran down the stairs tw. steps at atime. He bad determined that the oid kite which bad looked rather cavernous au! g' the night before, should greet its poor t mistress with 9 welcoming fire. What was nis | surprise, his horror, to find Madeline in a helpless attidude upon the hear: Why, Maddie,” he gasped, “what's uw e never awake at th!s bour! * said Madeline, turning ta “But I mean to be. 8%, and greediness, and mean- I will let poor mamma toil like a I lie st ease in bed? I mean to get ¥ ‘ug, and do the work, and all that fort of thing, only I don’t know wh ds where to begin.” Here her voice faltered. think it would be so much better, Aleck, if “0 Lor said Aleck, collecting all the loose the packing, and mak ing a blaze upon the hearth. “Ob think better of yourself presently. T capabilities in this old house that don’t shine out on the surface. Here's this old fre-place, for instance—you don’t see this sort of th & modern dwelling. Allit wants ia wood, plenty re. fit, “An expensive luxury,” sneered Madeline. ‘ow Bre we to bay it?” Bless your soul, Mad: we don’t want to buy it. The common kind of wood that can be bought wouldn’t suit us at all. I'll tell you whot it is,” pursued Aleck. «I didn’t waste all my admiration upon the scenery as I came along; I that for brighter eyes and hand- somer ones to enjoy. 1 was prospecting, Maddie—keeping an eye out for the main chance—and really it seems like Providence. Nou know, people are building, and pulling up trees, and the lots hereabouts are filled with huge boulders of wood. Just the thing for us, $0U see, to surreptitiously cause these boulders to disappear from their present abiding-places, to tumbie them ever and over until they reach our premises, then to lever thei that capacious fire inserting a ¢ to radiate the darkest corner ddie, will be my season of the yaar!” Madeline condescended to smile, the katt! began to boil, a sunbeam stole ivat the window and shone upon the newly-swept foor. When Dirs. Douglass came down breaktast was smok- ing upon the table. “Why, Madeline,’ she cried, insarprise, “and Aleck! I thought you were both aslee; adeline says you're to be a | k, ‘and she’s to be Cindere And you the Prince, perhaps, jady, with happy tears in her eyes. A fortnight afterward Madeline, Glsgusted with rural joys, ¢ Aleck that it was her would be petter if they were all Gead. “If a body bad any ‘sing to amus4 one, “Tl bring you home a parrot to-day,” said Aleck, hastily devouring nls bre fast. hite one, please,” said his tyrant, lan- “Certainl: and he strode away to the store. But Aleck did not know what a rara avisa | white parrot was. Leaving it till after business hours, he went down in search of parrots, and found that such a thing as a nice white one was not to be bad for love or money; the green ones were Cilapidated, belligerent, and profane; a0 he went home pondering over the awkward- bese of pers Maddie that even this miser- abie little req was an inordinate one. He thought of his love for her, and the ot his ever having money enough to offer him- = to Madeline, éven if she'd have him, which wouldn't; of that horrible tread-mill of a Store that was devouring him body and soul; and whether he hadn't better go to South America and tind his uncle: when suddenly be beard 4 low, whini . Itwas so haman And s© piteous that "Reck stood stl honestly and touchingly, and so Scotch that Aleck’s heart warmed to it, ond he bravery to take this maimed lit picture home to Madeline of the “it's fracture,” said the fessor, who bad studied surgery in “The creature is in such p state of gmaciation | with | thought Aleck, | delicacirs; so it became a house-that Jax! articles piled up be- hing heavily, louked at her Aleck, bastily; ‘not | 4 now, I don't see | k, “it isthe | | eyes, wa: ee these imperfections, and she was | togo im aud have a cup of tea that of ped “Deo you think I'm made | | “I've been te seo Madame Chappell: even | § parrot would do,” she added, ‘‘or a monkey!” ; > sy &* any color you like,” said Aleck, | and weakness I don’t think it cay live; bat, if you'll hold it, A! Til set the bones and do what I can for it.” But Aleck’s hand trembled, and an awkward fsintess came over him. Mra. Dc ugies had loog since Jett the scene, and it remained for Madeline to help hor father in | this delfeate and dificult opsration. Aleck held the candle iastead of the dog, sod the wondrous beauty of Madchne, as ber lithe, supple form bent over the lap of the Professor, ber white Seqes hold firmly but caressingly the shattered leg, and her radiant eyes, filled the first tears Aleck had evar seen therain, slLous down upon the lirtie safferer with sab- ued yet glow!ng splendor. “If ] thoaght she'diook upon me in that way,” Id go out immediately and splinter my Jeg in a dozen places. But all Macetine’s sympathy and affection were Invished on the dog; it became the pet of the household; and, beesnse it was so unde- niably ugly, they called it Venus. Aleck bud certainty eaved its life by diga'n it Out of the debris of the wharf, bat this woul bave been’ useless withont the skill of the Pro- frssor in setting the broken bones, and the Pro- fe-sor coaid have done nothing without Mad-- bre’s help and when all was done, the dog wouldu't bare lived if Mrs. Douglass had not come to the rescue with her coditag soups and. Dullt matter of Frgtiiate with Venus, and she loved ech and all of them wi b a limitiessdevo- tion. A long, sad winter closed in m the Pro- fesor’s femily, and .Aleck saw many more teas in Madeline’s beaurital eyes. Mrs. Dougives face wore a look of anxiety akin to despair, an! each and all suffered alona, not daring to oreven to themszives, y threatened them. Only one of them had courage to approach the Protessor when at times his head sank up «nm and his soul shrank from the pit ‘assailed him. Always in the bit- insinuated itself into the drooping hand of the | Professor, and, tarning, he found it the nose of ¥ id he scarcely dared own to himeelf, the inestimable value of the dog ax she cuddied close to his feet by day. half guiding the footsteps that grew more and more distrustfa! of confidence. Ob, the m of getting skillful with the sense of touch, the bitterness of finding the face of bis wife green. dim and indistinet to him— ahazy veil spreading itsolf between him and the eyes of his daughter! Harder and barder became the strain upon his wasted sight as he toiled over the heap of manuscript in his laboratory—many a prayer escaped his lips that he might get his work into shape before the end came. «You see,” he said one day to Aleck, upon whow he had eslled for help in an experiment, “if the book can be published, it will be valu- able in its way; there is in it the patient work of a lifetme.” And at that moment the awkward hand of Aleck jagged the Professor's arm, and out of his gresp upon the table dropped the jar of dis- col) a acids, which liquid rapidly and effect- ually licked up and effaced sheet atter sheet of the precious ecript, while Aleck and thejPro- fessor, powerless to save looked on in @ horror that betook of petrification. Anashy quiver trembled upon the Professor's lips.“ Phis work of a lifetime!” he murmured. “And you can’t———’ gasj Aleck. Then he remembered ail. The blood mounted up into Aleck’s head, he became msu for & mo- ment, and, seizing the heavy crucibie, woald have dashed out his brains, had not the strong arms of the Professor compassed bim about. e comforted,”he said. ‘God ts above us all!” But poor Aleck rushed oat of the labo. atory in hot hasteto Mrs. Donglass and Made- Kine, erying, “I've ruined us all, every one of us. I'm going to find my uncle,and if { make a fortune, you'll see me 3 if not, iebye forever!” “He took M yuglassin his arms | and kissed ber over and over agein, but only ° e did he stoop and touch the white brow of Madeline. As for Venus, she had gone <o the Profeseor. Then Aleck went from the bearth- stone of the little cottage, and it saw him no more from that day. Deprived of Aleck’e cheery boulders, the hearth-stone grew cavernous and cold, the low black rafters no longer echoing his merry quip | and jest, hung ponderonsiy low over the Croop- ing heads of the little family. Days and weeks and months wore by, and not a word came from Aleck. “The vasty sea has swallowed him up,” said Mrs. Douglass. “Heaven forefend!" said the Professor. But Madeline cried out that he had torgott them all. And [ wish she could have =cen Aleck when she said that crue! word—seen him looked into his heart, as he gillopea over the Southern plain, his tawny hair hanging long upon bis shoulders, a Mexican saddle be neath bim biazing with jewels, bis long shanks helf covered with embroidered leggings, bs sombrero hat, and his silver spars! And this gy cavalicr, who would have delighted bor as loyal as when of yore he belonged to her, bedy and soul. His head was fall of echemes for making money so fast that he could fly in search of her, and his heart Fall of bitter- nees for her seeming cruelty and neglect; for he had written twice, and even thrice. He bad tried them esch and atl,_Madeline. Mra. Douglass, and the Profe: y tampted to invoke the gode in be | fer he had gotten no answer, not one How eo id he? His uncle, whose moral edu. | cation had been sadly neglected, abstracted each of those letters trom the matl-bag, an, | after reading them with considerable iutere-t « | and appreciation, had touched them to the aze of his clgar, aud watched them fall into ashes upon the broad veranda. The lad is clean daft,” he raid, shrewdly, “end a word from thig queen would lure hia away just when | want him the most.” As the second winter was closing {n, affairs at the cottage wore an ominous look, for the Pro- fessor’s sight became but aglimmer, and Made- line, going over to town one day, tricked out | with the old eplendcr, looking as grand and yueenly as when her poor father sailed on the tide of prosperity, caused a profound sigh to well np from the heart of ber poor mother, and with it the wish that Madeline was a trill less lofty in style, so that the situation would be less incongruous. But Madeline returned at eventide with a glow on her face that rivaled that in the western tky. “Congratulate me, mamma!” she cried. “Not to order a new dress, surely?” cried the poor lady. “No, dear,” replied Madetine, “but to seek for asituation. They've been dissatisfied ever so long with that homely young woman in tha show-room; they want a figure like mine there, mamma—tall, and graceful, and statuesque. I'm not to prick my dainty fingers with a needie, only wear out all my good clothes in re- ceiving vimtors and taking orders. And we must get to the city, mamma; itis, after all,a ES sheltering old pile for the poor. They erd in there together, and the houses close about them, the streets and alleys hedge them in, and they get comfortably lost from sight in the great surging crowdof hamanity. The mo- ment an impecunious —_ ventures towari! the suburbs, @ melancholy conspicuousness marks them for its own, and — ecome the mere puppets of & malignant notoriety. And oh, mamma, don't cry, please don't, for, now that I cando something, J shall be so happy!” Soin snamazingly short time the Profes- Sor’s family became psrt and parcel of that vague but powerful class known as the workin, mass of the metropolis. And,in God's goo: providence, even the Professor was inspired to take a stand on a down-town sidewalk, for the sale of spectacies and optical auxiliaries of va- nou hinds, Venus guiding him to and fro, eeping & sharp eye upon passin, riaDs, and watching tbe saiss warily. che sad Ho: meric face of the Professor and thi fidelity of Venus becoming one of the landmarks in the | Vicinity, they were treated with the success aud | respect their various excellences merited. So the years went by, and in course of time Madeline's capacity for business developed, and it became a specialty of hers to manage the bridal totlet in a manner marvelous to behold, to loop the veil and arrange the orange-blos- tome, to drape the train, and deftly pin the el lapse all the more painful to those interested. At evening parties and stately balls Madeline was in such Gemand that it became a great fa- land: “Boo-hoo!” whimpered Venus, wi! entable a sniff that Mrs. Dougiass fell to lat ing, and forgot her griefs for the moment. "d cut it diamond mine all and the daughter en- ‘but thander on her , for the her mamma Tenetrated opr sais, dod she sad sunget eagnerness, 2 “Who was that within?” he cried to his fair companian, when she came back to him. “Only mamms,” she replied. “There was somebody else,” he said. ‘Those eyes never belonged to your mother: ‘Whereupon the young iady becam? coldly reticent, and resisted all further entreaty. nes heavily, bade her good morn- ing. *Whst a foo! I am!" he murmured, as he took the reins from the bands of his groom, ‘‘alwars looking for the needle tn the hay-stack. The eyes weren't like Maddie's, after all; too holiow and sa’; ard casting his own upon tne side- walk, he saw @ figure emerge from 2 side door of the house be had lett. The face was veiled, bet the form was p'iant acd graceful, and the welk was like—yes, certainly like Maddie's. He drew up bis ‘horses for a moment, stared wildty after the receding figure: saw it get into astage and vau'eu; then careed bis stupidity for letting it escape. “But can’t,” growled Aleck, “rash up to every woman I moet, and tear the veil from Ner face. Ivan't break through doors in strange houses to look after familiar eyes. What in the hame of Heaven am I to do? ‘At supper that night Madeline told her mamma that she had seén that day the Grand Sultan whose handkerchief was in such de- mend. “He isn’t so very bad-looking, mamma. He wears bis bair long, and bis eyes are eager enough to dart through a deal plank. He watched me till I got into a stage to get rid of him.” Was he insolent?” said Mrs. Douglass, hastily. “No, no,” said Madeline; ‘only 1 think he tionght he had seen me before.” Ter cheeks glowed with the old yermilion; hea eyss shone with the old splendor, and she ate. ota mouthful—not one. Be she was called no more to assist in the toilet for the ball, nor did she get one other glimp e of those eager eyes. She heard of him often .2d1im various ways, At lest, when the seagor ‘as at its close, she learned that the mat- rimonia! prize had escaped the grasp of all those eager competitors, and was about to sail to Brazil to look after his estates. Theone bit of news consoled her for the other. She would rather hearof his going to Brazil than getting married. There was some- thing in the latter Fringe unbearably bit- ter; and 9s to the other, it was better, perhaps, that he shonid be lost to her sight and hearing, for the mere mention of his name had become & matter of nervous anxiety to ber of late. The fact was Aleck had really taken passage in the big steamer that was ramdly lading for the voyage South. He had n so tired of looking at handsome faces and following grace- ful for: only to be dieappointed and batticd to the = of madness, tags Tansy 3 night he declared to a friend, with whom he was walking to his hotel, that not even Venus her- self could tempt him further, when suddenly a little dog enapped the chain that bound him to @ blind man, and rushed upon Aleck, squealing and whining, eyery stubborn bair on end with very joy. “Why, it is Venus herself!” cried Aleck, catching ber in his arms, and gazing with de~ licious ecstacy upon the ‘broken chain that 1 = but tempting way led straight to Made- nm e. Tus friend, having no experience with the canine race, snd @ deadly horror of hydropho- bia, went rapidly across the street, and waved a cordial good-by to Aleck. “We'll meet at the hotel at dinner,” he ad- ded. But Aleck did not dine at the hotel that even- ing. Finding that Venus, atter the first greet- ing, would not remain in his arme, but strug- giedto the pavement again, and, uttering a short, sharp cry, started off on atrot, Aleck foliowed her as best be could through highways and byways, under the poles of carts and the noses of horees. At last she turned down a dingy street, and ran straight along till she reached a litt!~ rickety two-story building, up the rotten stairs of which she clambered, ant scratched twice with her paw at the closed door on the landing. “God be praised,” cried the voice of the Pro- fessor within; “it is Venus!" and a clatter of joyous feet hastened to the door. Aleck fell back and gasped for breath as it opened and a young woman stooped upon the reshoid (0 caress the do; he was in the full light of a dusty sunbeam that struggied through the casement. She was worn, she was wasted; all the brilliancy and glow of herold beauty were gone; but OL! oh! oh! she was Madeline! Finding @ big form looming over her, she Jo.ked up and saw Aleck, with the old yearning love in his eyes—beard him falter oat her nam-. A blue pailor spread over her iace; she clutched tbe landing for support. “Mamma,” said she, ‘there is Aleck M’Shane. I think I'm going to faint.” Then Alec! down on his knees inthe dingy corridor, aud held out to Madeline his trembling hands. “Don't famt, Maddie!” he said; ‘don’t, for God's sake, do anything as cruel as that, when I’ve just found you, after,thinking the earth hud opened and swallowed B ie all, aud the fortune my uncle left me would be of no use, after all, toany of us. For! warn you if we dou't go down there and take care of it straightway, ith disap, like the enow- flakes yonder. Tho India rub) "Il melt, the herds gallop off, the diamonds bide in the wool of the seckers, the stocks go down to zero, aud I'll be the poor devil again yon used to despise!” <-Despise!'’ echoed Madeline, tears of joy, of homanit, Outstretched bands. Aleck kissed them away with rapture, and looked up at a white, wonder stricken free bending over them both. “Ir yon’li let me take supper with you to- night, Mrs. D.,”’ he said, “it'll help me to be- eve in the reality of the thing. I'd be fit to cut my throat if I awoke and found all this a dream.” Then he turned to the Professor. “Could you find it in your heart, sir,” he sai touching reverently the Professor's hand, ‘to o with me to Brazil? As God is my judge, I elieve that your advice and presence there will save mefrom ruin. [t is plain to be seen, sir, that the dog was sent to me.” % said the Professor, “by a higher It was a more frugal meal than ever again was set before them, but I don’t remember a hap- pier one. As for Venus, she sleeps now on a Persian rug, wears an immense diamond on her stubby tail, and fares sumptuously every day; but stretched that night on some straw in the corner, she tasted the rare felicity that is given sometimes to the humblest agent of God. Harper's Magazine. ————— oee~ Tar Witt—Men often speak of breaking the will of a child; but it seems to me that they bet- ter break the neck. The will needs regulation, not destroying. J should as soon break the legs of a horse in Sager | him, a8 a child’s will. I would fica ang and develop it into barmoni- ous proportions. 1 never yet heard of a will in itself too strong, more than an arm too mighty, oramind too mighty, or a mind too compre- hensive in its grasp, and too powerfal in its held. The uction of children should be such as animate, inspire, strain, but not to hew, cutand carve; for l would always treat a child as a live tree, which was to be helped ‘to grow, never as dry, dead timber, to be carved into this or that shape, avd to have certain moid- ings grooved upon it. A live tree, and not = timber, is every little child,—Theodore Parker. OcTongR For1ace.—One of the most notice- able things in the October lan is the marked (riot e 3 or the trees. of the same differ wonderfully in tints of foliage inthe degreeof ripeness which the leaves have reached. Often, side by side, with BT a» $8 a A SENSATIONAL COLORED PREACHER OF VIR- G Wew York Post}! scotcu court. assisved at ceremonies | zn USDER A DECKER OP DIVORCR ISSUED BY A A most interesting case, and one rarely equaled in the courte of this country, was de- cided in Worcester, on Friday afvernoon, by Chief Jastice Gray, of the Massachusetts Sa- ndicial Court. The case was founded on a writ of habeas corpus, brought by Mrs. Mary 8. Symington, (to recover the custody of ve minor children from their father. From the history ef the case it 1s developed as follows: Andrew James S:mington wass manufacturer of murlins in Scetland, a msn of wealth, 6 \l- nd refihement, ® writer for maga: good social po: ition. we the pet daughter of a prominent pbysich m in the north of Scotland, and the equal of her hu - band in social pomtion and mental cultare. Th 17 ‘were married in 1 ¢o1 ns Jacke» river, in frort of the Meetin’ Houte.”” & eneations! preacher. other wise is totally ureducated, and speaks in the broadest negto dialect. On this occasion | there were only fenr candidates for baptism— three women and one man, Zeb Jenkins. | Kins bad jong been looked upon as a hatéeoced born and raised ii was bought by a gentleman fr } and bas for the last ten rious livelihood by working roand here and | = for the farmers in the u} ‘Moses is what one might ca! He can read, bat | per valley of | Of age. There was a sermon before the bapt's Moees is very foud of showing his knowledge of the Holy Book, which he always quotes, verse, er oud page. He apparently thinks this gives importance in the eyes of the simple | people whom he addresses. the Supdey in queton was so rematksbie | take short bores of *Belubbed bruddern and sicters, I take my text, dis day, frou de Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter nineteen, verse twent four: “It is ¢asier tor s camel to go through de eye of & peed'e than for a rich man toenterinto | de Kingdom ot God Gospel of St. Jebn, chapter titth nine: ‘Sarch ye de Scriptores. de cullud mau complain of his hard lot ip dis lite; be say he do notin but hoe corn, split wood | avd plant potatoes, while de white folks dress up fine and ride round de country on horseback a >mobin’ Lone Jack tobacco. Mittin’ thar on de second bench, | wid yer vew bleck coat, rer was a lamentin’ to we bo later Can todder day dat 1 hard all Cer yeat round yer let off n | December dan when you commence in -Jan Yer Cou’t want to be por! yer want to be rich. Why, yer por simple ben poverty is de greatest bressing; we should 3 De por man be go to Heavi out goin’ trou de eye ob # needle, but de must trabel ou dat Whom is pow cleren, and the youn; fou “4 At length Mrs. omtee a- His sermon on | xisting between covered an improper intimacy ber busband snd a narsery maid, and an es- After vain enteavors to | regwin the faith of her husband, she sought a drvorce tp the Scotch court of ressi: | gle ju‘ge devied ber suit, but she carried it to the full bench, which, in 1571, granted her a full divorce and custody of her children, with alimony of £809 per annam. Just before the issue ct the decree, the husband fled to this country, takirg the children with him, leaving his ccunsel to to wake me trangement ensn:d wbich I here gta I often bear ppeal his case from the House of was for a long time ignorant ealment of ber husband Gircovering his place ot residence, to this country, avd, by th detective, found him itv | in Williamstown, You, Bill Fian- aid of a New York gz with the children ass. She went to Worcester | shout two weeks ago, and made application, Messrs, Hoar and Verry, her counsel, apreme Court for a writ of habeas | corpus te recover the custcdy of ber children, under the decree of divorce in the Scotch | court. The parties were brought to Worcester, and, in view of the gravity of the causs and tle fivavcial ability ef the retpondent to command arsistance in another escape, the children were placed in the family of Mr. Hare, keeper of the jail. Messrs. Staples and Goulding appeared 88 counsel for Mr. 5 evidence to show that t custodian of the children. She is aceused of habits of opium-eating and the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, and of immoralit letters which have t were read in court, indicati mer harmony of their dom the culture and refinement of the’ writers. Mr. Verry was too much ghted African, he har ob gettin’ trou de eyeob de needlo. De camel isa berry large animal and is nsed in de Fast, as a beast of burden; when I say East, I con't mean East Virginia, but de tar cast ob which St. Matthew speaks in de second chapter and first verse ob his Gospel, where he | say, ‘Behold dere came wise mep from de East to derusalem.” Many of my hear’s hab nebber preacher was in dat situation birself till he visit ‘Old John Robin- #0n’s’ ’trickly moral show, which pass dis way, laa’ week. Dose of my braddern and sisters who uderstand ie wife is not & proper 5 ie circle, but also hab see de camel in dat show will u difficulty he would hab in de eye of a needle, on account ob por an’ honest an’ truth- ful, he go straight to de Kingdom ob God with- out bein’ troubled by de likewise ‘sarch de Scriptures, tell Bob White, Iss’ Sunday. ‘How can we sarch Scriptures when we done got no Bible, and dono how to read?’ Yes, I hear ‘1m say so. ou think ‘Yaller Moses’ is gwine to criptures for de whole congregation. No, old Mores can’t make yer good; he canonly tell you how ter make yerselts good. But eber} brudéer, ebery sist trace troth from her m: bowlin’ to de light ob day ™m Tw Little Speech. At the complimentary banquet given to Mr. Cornelius Waiford, of London, England, by the Hartford, Conn., insurance men, ning, Mr. Samuel L. Clemens made the follo w- ing characteristic address yentlemen:—I am affected to proces throng of spectators was vi ibly affected. An attempt was made by the respon- in hope of a co: and his counsel suggested the placing of the children in the custody of President Chadbourne, of Williams College, pendin, attempt at settlement, but the wife declared that while she would be delighted to have thetr former relations restored, her ¢: romises had been too in acceding to his proposal. deeply affected, and manifested a der tachment to the children. After a full hearing jf ments. the court de- of the petition Test to ne the decisior ) Lew ‘hall idence and ar, cided in favor of the right ordered the children to be large gathering of the bar and spectators at- tended the hearing, and their generally with the petitioner. novel one, requiring, as it did, of the court a judgment in some measure of the rulings of a foreign court, and it is poseibie that some pointe may yet be raised which will reopen it before the full bench. SHowixre Tue Boys How To Ssoor.— Recently, at a saloonon the Divide, some men were discussing the shooting affray which oc- curred during the morning between the two brothers-in-law, Faliman and Ward. agreed on all bands that it was shocking bad shooting—a discredit to Washoe. At last a Piocbe man bantered 3 Comstock ma he knew to be a good shot with a pisto! out in the back yard with shooting, just to show the “boys” how it should In the saloon was a box of eggs, and rd was that enc! y Jair, and drag her @ case WAS a ‘hursday eve- Jad indeed to assist in wel- coming the distinguished guest of this occasion to a city whose fame as an insurance center has extended to all lands and given us the name of being @ quadruple band of brothers werking sweetly band in band, the Colt’s Arms Company making the destruction of our race easy and convenient, our life insurance citizens for the victims when they pass away, tere perpetuating their memory with his stately our fire insurance compani. monuments, an: taking care of their hereafcer. sist in welcoming Our guest—first, because he 1s an Englishman, and | owe a hi pitaltty to certain of his fellow-countrymen; and secondly, because he is in sympathy with insurance abd has been the means of making | many other men cast their sympathies in the same direction. Certainly there is no nobler field for human effort than the insurance line of business—ex- pecially accident ineurance. Ever since I have een a director in an accident insurance com- any I have felt that I am a better ma has seemed more precious. sumed a kindlier aspect. providences have lost half their horror. upon a cripple now with affectionate interest— as an Sdvertisement. J do not seem to care for 41 Go not care for politics, €ven agriculture does not excite me. me, now, there is a charm about a railway col- | lision that is unspeakable. There ie nothin, dent insurance. Lam glad (o as- Wy debt of hos- what the Piocher pro; two egge off the bare head of the other at the distance of ten paces, the one missing to treat The Comstocker was bound not to @ men from the other end of the e, 80 to the back yard all hands adjourned. h man used his own six-shooter. stocker first busted” his eg; Piocher’s head, which explo’ jauded by all present. turn to shoot, and an egg | produced tobe placed upon the head of the removed bis bat there was a great laugh, for the to) oth as a billiard ball ten minutes all bands tried in vain to make an 28 It couldn’t be done. The Piocher then taunted the Cometocker with having goue into the arrangement knowing th be was safe. The latter told him to set up his | egg and it was all right—he was there. The Piocher went into the saloon, and a moment after came out with asmal!l handful of flour, which he dabbed upon the bald head of the T. and then triumphantly planted in | il back ten steps, avd then knocked tocker then told him to set up oot at it, as he didn’t want to have his head chalked twice during the game. Ibis was done, and the wreek of a second strcemed over the Comstocker’s pate. Piocher row stood ont with bis lust egg on his ad. The Comstocker raised bis pistol and ‘The Ptocher bounded a yard into the air, bounced whole from his bead. id the Comstocker. By aslip I’ve put hal! on the top of the was loudly ap- It was then Distreesing special poetry any more. heed was as ex s.and on bis head. ’s tongue was loosened. He got | more benificent than acci- | have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affiuence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had peo- ple come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, Wo bless the benificent tnstitation. xperience of life I have seen nothing so bic asthe look that comes into a freshly mutilated man’s face when he feels into hia vest pocket with the remaining band and finds his accicent ticket ali right. And I have seen nothing so bad asthe look that came into an- ntered customer's face, when he found "t collect on a wooden leg. mark here, by way of an advertise- that voble charity which we havo named the Hartford Accident Insurance com- pany, !s an institution which is pecaliarly to be depended upon. A man is bound to prosper who gives it bis custom. policy init and not get crippled before the there was one indignant man pointed so often with other | grown disheartened, his appetite left him, he ceased to smile—eaid life was buts weariness. Three weeks ago I him to insure with us, and now he is the bright- piest spirit in the land—has « income and @ stylish set of new bandages every day, and travels around on a shutter. I aminformed by Mr. Charles E. Wilson, fore- man of our patent leg and crutch factory—how- ever, for further information on that head, I will refer you to our other ad will say in conclusion that my share of the wel- come to our guest ig none the less hearty be- cause I talk so much nonsense, and I know that I can say the same for the rest of the speakers ELECTRICITY FoR TooTHAcHs.—A Pari, journal states that Dr. Bouchard of that city finds the use of electricity very efficient in cases of severe toothache, a perfect cure, even where decayed, being not un- and temporary almost invariably ensuing. In numerous in- stances, where alleviation at firet was of short became more and more marked, and lasted longer, as the treatment mursued by Dr. jectricity, is to the current on the ased tooth, and the nega- tive upon the antero-lateral portion of the nec: and, to avoid ulcerations, the electrodes are | acd their place frequently The application is continued for about half an hour, although relief is frequently experienced in ten to fifteen minutes. A battery of about ten elements is used. A capy In Maine had a dream which was not There was a painful reality about it. She dreamed that her husband, who was leader of a choir in the village, was too inti- mate with one of the young ladies who sang in it, Her dream told her that, in a trank in the girl’s possession, she would find all her busband’s So powerful was the intiaeuce bis second egg an y, Of gratitude, of leve, falling on his | come sud take adrink. Bs the width of my bullet through the top of bie left ear!” and soit proved upon measurement,. Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. SUMNER AWD BuREs.—Over the mantel hung ot Edmand Barke at the re- forty, and sixty years. The Burke as a boy is in colors, @ Senator by Lord Brougham while he was the latter’s gu hi | are from portraits by Sir Joshua Re: were engraved, the one by Beindetts The one representing Burke at forty is often seen. The other picture bad a striking resemblance to Mr. Sumner, so much 60 as toexcite remark. On one occasion mn seeing this, “Why, Senator, I didn’t know of that engraving of you; when was “When Dr. Johnson, Oliver Gold- smith and I dropt in on Sir Joshua once at the | Mitre Tavern,” was the humorous reply. The rtraits were so Gissimilar that they would dly be taken for likenesses of th An artist who had heard of the resemblance, ictures, and taking the latter table likeness of the Senator, and knowing the other to be the popular like- comparing the two, said, | & mistake could have been made. This is a passable likeness of you; but I can’t perceive in it any resemblance to '—A. B. Johnson, in Scribner's for No man can take out y N who bad been diss; companies that he three engravin, spective ages o one representin; and was given vertizements. a caller said, the teeth are asked to see the frequently obi picture for a yeri ness of Burke at fort duration, the effect «] don’t see how sui was repeated. The method Bouchard, in applying the el place the positive cheek opposite the IMPRINT OF A BRAR ON A Rock.—At Mr. Guernecy’s photograph gallery, in Colorado aph of the figare of curious impression in- je very large, eprings, there isa = rae e bear on rock. terested the members of the Ha} and the subject came to the at ‘elow we reproduce a co; r. Guernsey's posses- gure, as ehown on the rock, 1s call- ed “a great natural curiosity:”” county of Bent, on the Pargatoire river, eighteen miles from Las Animas, Colo- aado,on the smooth face of a sandstone clit, of rock @ hundred or more otograph, at it note of explanation in overbung by a wall feet high, there is the life-size were, of a grizzly bear. The picturne is not an accidental resemblance to a bear, ture more perfect and life-like than any human | artcan supply. The short tail standing straight out, the ears visible, the claws standing out in | &morous letters. of the vision that the wife searched the girl's trunk, and there found a packet of letters, as eted. The choir numbers one lees than it did; the leader has tried arnica and hajr-restorers in vain, and @ divorce suit is . And all through the influence of an » bute pic- | ELABOBATS Sri7s.—The Lawrence (Mass. Sentinel says that a number of months since a Haverhill man desired some accommo ation of and Maine road, but is action so provoked him that square by some that there was no ue determin- ad at draw in tue wat: ay i 2 ae i | i Hii Herrible Suake Story. ‘TEE PERILS OF PROSPECTING IN NORTE PARK. (From the Denver (Col.) World.) ’ Messrs. D. 8. Perkins, Straley and | Jonn F. » ‘of Chicage tourists, & party ay from a three months’ tr P Grande coanties. They Btted out an outit at Simpam'soorral last | daly, and drove Gown southward, and pros- ected from Gravite to Fort Steele, on the olen Pacific. These gentlemen relate a most ble nake story, which wii! bear repea: | They were encamped in Eik Head mounta'us, in the North Park, on the 1th of last Septem- ber, when they met with a misfortume which cost one of the party his life. Ihe ar- rived in camp late one night after a day's hant &nd rambie over the hills. After a hearty sap- per the party lay down in their blankets around @ fire, which had been built in the cleft of | some large quartz rocks, and all were soon fast asleep. Mr. Straicy was awakened (n the night by a heavy weight apon pis chest At first be supposed it was bis brother's han, | Duj, as it did not move, and becoming norvons And alarmed. he raised ‘his bead, and was bor: - fed Wo fine a large mo ur in rattie=nske colled pon bys chest, wit its beat uestied down in the center of the e It was nearly daylight, | bot Mr. Srraiey was so paralyzed with fear that he could not make a pols>, and dared sot more, He reeover:d bis presence of mind fo far a: be able to draw the blankets over bis f movement startied the reptile moat lided from him te his brother, whe m. Tue snake passed Henry Straiey There was a flere: half-awakened bé fangs in bis right dtime in hi cheek. There wasa horrible scream from H Straley as the poor boy jumped to his fee while the snake from the blankets to a large fat rock pear the embers of che fire. Mr. Jenkins fred bis revolver at the horrilie cres- tare, and at the second shot brought it down Poor young Straley was soon suifering the mort intense agony. Mis brother, at hier» cut outa large portion of the cheek in hy that the poison had not penetrated very deep and a tigbt ligature was bound around the Wrist of the bitten hand, which was bathed in cold water. But nothing the horrified young weN could do availed toxave the poor boy. He dd in less than two boars in the most terrible agony. Had the party been supplied with a plcntifal supply of whisky bis Iie might Lave been saved, but they had none with them. The body changed color within three hours after tbe accident. The young man conveyed the corpse to Fort Steele, whence it_ was shipped ome to Chicago ‘or interment. The snake measured 4 feet in length and had nine rattles, which were taken off, and which were shown to our reporter at the corral last evening. Tae Exrensss oy Tax Faanco-Gervan Waxn—The Paris correspondent of the London Times writes: “A statement of the extraordi- nd 14,160,000 for assisting the needy tamiltes of the reserve and landwher; the total charge- able to the North German Confederation being £4,97,685. The items chargeable to the whos Germany amount to (46,503,647, and inclade £905,000 for the extra cost of Army of Oocupa- Uon, £306,000 for garrisoning Alsace and Lor- Taine, £1,599,000 for the restoration and equip- ment of the fortresses in those provinces, £735,- 0 for compensation for injury to property, £1,082,000 for provinces, ¢ 1,605,000 for the redemption of the floating debt, £475,040 tor the strengthening and equipment of German fortresses, £71,950: yoted for the erection of fortresses, 890,00) for a fand for invalided soldiers, and £1,209,000 for the Reichstag building. A Nove Ext # Comrass.—Protestor Webster toid, at the late meeting of the Amer- ican Association, the story of a party that divided in the great Dismal Swamp, one por- tion of the party having no compass. The Ia’ ter portion of the party was lost. and after long Wandering found their way out by a singular | expedient. They made use of the insect for | which fine-tooth combs were invented. Patting the insect on a fiat piece of wood, and leaving it to its own devices, it invariably began to move in @ certain direction. This direction was followed out by the part) nd they were thus Jed out to the northwat t is suppored that this instinctive movement of the tusect is due to its secking its way toward the greatest light. SB Of the 21 Senators and Representatives in Congrese from Ilinois, 4 were born in the state and 17 outside. 1874 CLorniwe 1875 FALL AND WINTER. 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