Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1874, Page 6

“CORN IS KiNu OF THE WEST.* His mighty battalions Are marshaled to day! Standing up, one by one. High m the gleaming sun, See the chi 10" sa) Away and ~ I quite a, No gans or canacnade nasty sh Marshaled on dress-parade,— tats Only the gleaming- biade: Mark you that gleaming blade de,— Banner Deep their bright folds recovery said. It appeared that “But I saw the g “You mean that “Saw? Who?” I at * he he did mean that, lass fall,”’ [ said. ‘you saw her throw it down?” Se unconsciously A cornucopia adopting the interrogatives of Hamlet. Each soidier's hands bold. “Arabella!” I oe him wandering in his mind. I Long since their march began; knew nothingof Arabella. I could not remem- er will their march be dose ber that I bad ever encountered, out of works , Beath the setting san, Bow their heads, one by one,— Row in the sunshine, The Ocean to greet Know neither pause nor rest, ngs upon & fded on human bi ion he cheers of them? the peers of them, the earth, ding defiance es and giants ‘These are “our country’s pride, Reaching out far and wide, Far to the setting sun Gleaming their crest: All through Its vast regions Long may the fair legions Of Plenty and Peace Stand guard o’er the West. [Lettie M. Rose, in the Prairie Farmer. +<e-- THE STORY OF STERICKER, {From All the Fear Rownd.} Of course it dosen't really matter in the least, but J have a distant recollectton that the opera of the evening was the oft-repeated Trovatore of Verdi. I had been wondering yet once again at the peculiar circumstances attending that crime of infanticide of which the gypsy womn, Arucena, had been guilty. Having resolved up- on burning the baby of her deadliest foe, it was certainly, to = t, @ stupid mistaks | to make that roasting of her own child instead. I had arrived at the tri ion that really shs had not deferved to be a mother, in regard to her proved incapactty for taking care of her off- | epring. ‘The in e teuor—i rather think it | was Tamberlik, for | sm referring, or about to | refer, to <0 ng that hay rince— ered his fam | prison app! am the stage, by | special P n, Rs it Were,or upon some sud- den reletting of bis f , the Count Di Lunt, to bow gr. ve farther con- ations en to return to captty might pri ed in the u: | ad gone through very com- | We had roally enjoyed our | trombones; the soprano hed | T scaring notes seeming to ring the very eciling of the house, | upon a& counter; the basso had tones from strange depths, as a forth luscious and | subterranean re; the ong n°, now ai shrill he line, that hsd lodged in our ears, as though it had been @ barbed ther the representation had been zal even to sung her bes Sousically aga! like good co! ibed to Verdi or his | 2 of a gasp was audible— the sound of semething fall- ing, of people rising from thetr seats, and qu ing in burried sentences, ra tons of the stage. | n from one of the up- vate boxes on to the head of a gentieman ng in the st Now I had seen the gises fall; had seen s round, white. braceicted arm and a gloved hand stretched ont to arrest, as it seem: to me, its descent. But, of course, it was a'l done in a moment; 0 rapidiy, scarcely time for tue 4, that there was ng to impress itaelf upon my wind, and,the ! fter it had happened, I began to doubt whether I bad really seen what I had seen. It was so much more as though | I bad imagined the thing than actuaily wit- it However,that the accident had occurred there could be no question. The gentleman uzon hose cranium the giase had descended had be: carried into the lobby. He was said to bs stu ned, if not killed, by the blow. A beltef pre ed that bis skull bad heen fractured. In a ¥ wound bat been intticted upon bis be way, was bald. excep! for = eat the back, and a few he crown. The ng and dis- fs blood bad § figuring his w' ravat and em >roldered shi front. ‘It was really, altegether, a very shock- ing thing. There was no attending to theopera aiter it. The tragic mattere happening upd stage were qui nched by this serious Gent ip the stalls. Who the Count Di Luna’: brother, er Az dicats, O max rade wae of rm to make tn He was clear. In f othe | t dead. was pr . he Was gradually recov sciousness. Some one was loosen. ard tie; ome one e'se was dal nis woa with awet cloth. He had jnst risen from sent, I learnot, when the opera-giass r ak his nim and he had fallen back as though bi shot. But I distrusted saat afterward, | when I ascertained that he bad been seen to stoop forward and which. indeod. he « He was breathing b fro, and moaning up the opera-glass, | tis in his hand avily, rocking a little toand ntervais. He wasa middie- fe, with taxuriant whisk- | bing of theirrich brown ef, a8 it were, by a ing actoas his up- = branch line of mstache per lip, and deterence to fancy ot the fortunate rm military service of my ed, lifted his head, and Immediately, bat to country. turned an wy great surpri It was Stericke he turned sn eve towar t closed , seemed, | into bis bead. ‘Then he moved a trem jon. He knew me, it it was some tive pus band in my dires- med. He tried tospeak; e he could utter any t woe ¢ overad thing which he j and by-standers to tt but m4 om sired us, search tor. Search was instituted accordingly. After a while, very near tothe stall he had oceupied, there was picked up—agliasseyo! it wiea new fact to me, though of course it was not a con- venient opportunity for pondering upon it, that Stericker wore or possessed a glass-eye. 1 had never percelved auy deficiency 10 his organ of sight, nor even suspected it. The glass-eye had always seemed to mo a genuine article,—by i mean one that be could really see good as gratified at the recovery of his glass- ee. le was well enough now to dust it with bie handkerchief, and—bat this he did not ac- complish without considerabie difficulty—to re- — tn the socket it usaally filied. Certainly aspect of that portion of his was visage benefited by the more tenante and furnished character it now again assumed. He then took from bis pocket a miniature mirror, not much larger han & crown piece, and gazed at the artificial organ. Brewing,” There the bis He to see that it was jasted, and what artists cal! in with regard to his other features. was something Curious, I thought, about severity with which his real eye scratinizad sham one; while yet, as it seemed, the sham more importance ‘was of ‘im; to i. by him, than the reatone. ee; But something elee was missing. A shirt-stad. this also diligent search was made, and tte iokbye cur It was foandon the fivor of | startled me. of fietion, any woman of that name. And then I came to ack myself what, alter all, did I really know of Stericker himself? In trath, it was | very little. “It was Arabella’s doing, of course,” tinued. “I know that very well. , for the matter of that. oj 1 gave it her.” he con- I know the I ought to. ‘bere I had first met Stericker I am by no means clear. Tam almost certain that I was mover formally introduced tohim. But 1 had seen bim at various places upon namberless oc- casions, until I seemed to have acqutred qaite a habit of seeing him. So at last—the thing was becoming quite absurd—there was no help for it bat to reco, nize bim as an acquaintance,at any rate. Finding each other so frequently face in the same place, bereath the same 1 to roof, and even at the same tsbie, what could we do eventually, but laugh and Pe hoot “What! you here’? And then we shoo sunt hands. rotest that | knew little of him beyond what he told me. But then what does one really know of any man beyond what he tells ons of bimeelt? And certainly that is not alwa: I did not, I may add, like be relied on. to ter- icker; still less did I respect him; although [ had perbaps no spe cial reason fur not respact- ing bim. beyond mer~ prejudice of a fanciful, &nd possibly of an unwarrantable kind. Me was by no means, however, t! man I should have selected for a friend, or even for an acquaint- ance, had choica been permitted me inthe mat- ter. But it wasn’t. was doomed to met Stericker incessantly, and so it chanced that we came to be almost each other. intimacy with me. on terms of intimacy with At loast he came to be on terms of And he called me old fellow. I did not approve of this; indeed I thought it a Uberty; but what could I do? old, at avy rate not so ve 1 ved at that Iwas not really ry old. Bat no donbt lod of life when the question of age in its relation to one’s self is rather to be avoided than discussed, lest there should arise personal application which could hardly be otherwise inconvenient. And pow bad occurred this accident at the opera-house, confirming as it were my ee tance with Stericker, and converting into a friendship. He expressed assistance I for th in truth, and agal it had been little enough. nhe thanked me, an almost it gratitude had rendered him, although, ‘But again ; presently, his wounded head having bean skilifully dealt with aud relieved by the application of stri; ter, I found myself at bis lodgings in of plaa- alf-moon street, sitting in an easy-chair, smoking a cigar te and drinkin, gnd-water, where a acetdent. thing. Buthe did what I said. “and ter Cu lived. d you saw her throw down the opera- ” he said, returning to the subject of the J corrected him. perate m'xture of brandy- n Lbad never really known Thad seen no such not pay much attention to how did she look? Handsome of course. | She was always that; though she certainly is not new and loved her. love ber’ paintul memories preferred to give I to be ; they bh been asleep and very still for a good many years. in sont # tit of from both afilictions. nbt abont it, Skid Stertcker, or: s stake about an attack of love any mora ‘on never “There can the gout. I have eufiered Ip my time I have toved & good deal, and i have, in retfirn, been lored very much indeed. But he eaid ir wit! I objected. I say it without vanity.” h vauity, and it was to that He ontetretcned bis right arm, bringing an expanse of wristband into view, aud raised his hand to his head as though about to pass his fingers throogh his hair, and crestit up, after the invariable manner of the self-satistied and vain glorious, gctten how bald he was! too, the stripe of pi For the moment he had for- He had forgotten laster that cross-barre<d crown! In discovering auew these infirmitives he evidently experienced consideracie mortiti- cation. 1 bad heard Steri cker described as handaome, but that had never been my opinion of him: No, he was never bandsom he never could have been sive, ant, therefore, arather, vulgar display of the jeweiry he possessed. but I was never natural product His teeth, it is true, wera superb, s of his own gum: s of that iarge, fleehy, Koman form which has ys obtained, tomy thinking, ite convinced U nD extravagant measure of admiration from the world in gever- al. (My own nose, of swatier dimensions, and of a to: pattern.) posing about his 1 may mention, is altog: ily ditter at ‘Then he was very upright, carzying pefore him his protruding waisteoat with con-id erable dignity. Moreover, there was something aspect and manner, arising, 1 think, from his impertarbable and deeply rooted self-confidence, and his fixed resolution to exact from others, or enforce upon ther ifhe possibly Still there was expec’ wicked siulle, that produced strange tints and a dark flush up } his forehead, and brought down the inner ¢ nets of his eyebrows close to higeyes, after a cidedly ominous fasbion. I have joved and been loved,” he repeated, A owning I have in my tim? ‘and, don’t miu jitted and been rly objec nor me either. She’s talr s more pear fale. Women are say alwa: | _ Ideprecated sach an aseertion. My experience it was f ceeded that 1 was right, possibly. to the labby anni sir that { thought par: 9 mile. sumed, “and bas never forgiven herself for it, How fair sue was in those da; » for that matter, though she uses powder now than she did. Fair bat that he despised me You remarked this stud stud we had searched for at his re: | found could, his own estimats of himseif. something decided! about the expression of Stericker’s Tac y when hesmiled. It was = singu ly sinister face, and nkled his noss eurions! ited.""" He said this wi “‘Arabella jilted mo,” he often that, you know. Shall hoot alags He cou- et, it seemed my m>derat He produ of the opera-house. It woul a bave pained me very much if { had lost it. | regard it asa precious relic beila once. tenth fro: belonged to Ara- ip tact_why should I disguise the you?—this stud is formed out of ons of Arabel!a’s front teeth! i His emile ashe said this was not pleasant to contempiate. Hig confession had There was certainly dreadful something about it. aud he had the airof an Indian brave exbibitin of Arabe ascalp. ia’s front E toot loried in the possession ! How bad he obtained I ventured toemand. Was it a pledze of aifection’ Coald they possibly hare exchanged teeth ae ordinary lovers exchange locks of hair? Lbardly knew what I was s wae thinking. | “1 was a dentist in those a he had been before that, ani | fession he followed dressing me, I real was one of my nary patient. She patients, or of what [ 3 " heeaid. What ince; what pro- at the moment’ of bis ly had noidea. And Arabella Bat she was no ordie was something more mach than that. She was for awhile my aifianced bride. 1 loved her “And you aida “Well, we didn title deceived. hado Ww Thad as a Aral tem from patient; the | —a& curious-looking stud; a pearl, I thought, in the frst instance; but it was not pearl exactly; no, por white cornelian, which was Tay second sa; ition. It was of an oblong ‘te, and semi-trans; ina or ex- [ med og: if in @ rather inoo- way, that the stad bad been found. He clearly prized it—if not for tts intrinsic worth, which, without doubt, was considerable, how- ‘ations, ever—then, as I jadged, for some associ possibly of a tender connected with it. He was reco: that he was letteolely opera was over. [ forget in those days, was ambitious, Add, Svaricious and deceitful. She trifled with matter bow—and { knew all. andshe loved me—at least loved each other, as it happened, love each other quite so much as we thought we did. ia fact, both were dissppointed, and perhaps a She thougut 1 had mon i "t. I had been told that she was an h , She was nothing of the kind. Still, lama man of integrity, though you may not think 11. omised ag 1 fully proposed to be ae my word. The id gement did not come from me. But s | eiress. ea of terminating was imperfect; she was far and, I must me. She still heid me enchained, but she en- cot @ addresses of ano! and @ wealthier suitor. She desi; to employ me merely as & means of irri brag Sg of stimulating him to declare himself. Then { was to be flag aside as leas, it served her pi , and was dove with, In time I vered her treac I bad intercepted her letters—no But of that she entertained nosort of suspicion. She had al- wa) a and fal wi a} “5 = ‘water would | suaded that [had me together as much as yi, ad him equat fo ine | not ventured to hope for eo | Exod upon a bat what it was a nasty shock to a fel- | that it must have been a very —& most unfortunate accident. e laughed rather wildly. you call it, don’t call it th: «You mean that it was not an accident?” | | | | up Most violent. She had th yn the br: How Hor @ screamed! What hysterics she went into! However. the tooth was out, there was no mistake about that.” Here he smiled again, most malévolently, as it seemed to me. Her treachery toward me was punished, al- — asl have stated, by pure accident or error 0} —— which you please. But Ara- a vel raves aguant me. In that re- spect I am bound tosay, has been as goodas ber word. It’s no thanks to her that [ am living to Of these things, to-night.” “Then you really Tealleve that she let fall the 0 on pul “¢ sii aan quite’. led of it She meant m: death. She knew I was theri. I had neti her before leaning out of her box, and taki note of = don. I was just thinking o! changing it, suspecting what might happen, when I was struck dowa, Arabella isa woman who knows what she is about. She was always that kind of woman. know her. I've good reason to. And it’s fot the first time she’s lanned to punish me as savagely as she could. ‘ou did not know until to-night, Portes re that one of my eyes was artificial? No! naturally you didn’t. Well, that was her doing.”, “What! ‘Tho artificial eye!” _ ‘Don’t be stapid,” he said, radely. No doubt Thad been rather obtuse; bat [ hai heart of ladies painting on glass and doing potichomanic and o4 “No,” Stericker continued, ‘but I owe to her the necessity for wearing an artificial e It happened: at the flower show in the B. gardens. There was a dense crowd. It was in the tent where the pelargoniuma ara exhibited. Not that I care about such taings, batitso hap- pened. A lady advanced with her parasol he! in frontother. Sudden!y she seemed to thrust itat me, as neermighthislance. Her aim was wonderfully true. The sight of my lst eve was gone forever. [t was quite @ mercy that the spike of her parasol did not onetrate to my brain. That was Arabella’s doing, of course. Part of her revenge.” «And she said ocr “She said, calmly, ‘i beg your pardon. It was an accident,’ and passed on. She looked very handsome. She was superbly dressed. How- ever, that she always is. Her husband is old, but amazinglyrich. He labors to gratify her slightest whim—so I'm told. But her only de. sire—the sole passion of her life—is to wreak her vengeance upon me. Ifeclthat. Shs cannot forget, much lesa forgive the loss of her front tooth. You see, she’s reminded of that pnhappy business every time she looks in the glasa,w! she does frequently, of course. She was al vain. And she means, sooner or later, tobe the death of me, that’s quiteclear. She’s madetwo ico f good attempts; at the Botanical gardens and, to-night, at the opera. The third time per- haps she'll succeed.”” But doren’t the thought horrify you? “1 accept my destiny,” Stericker aatd smiling, and with rather an affected air. “It would ba something to fall by the hand of such a woman as that; that would be my consolation; really a fine creature, you know, although no longer in the bloom of youth; indeed, removed some dis- tance now from the bloom of youth, but still siand and beautiful, and soresolute! If she hai loved me as she hates me!”? «You love ber still, then?” “Well; not precisely. But 1 admire her, jast as Tadmire the Bengal tigress in the Zoo. If t Seryrtomds T should like Arabella to be caged like he tigress; but as that can’t bo—weil, I woar early 90 young a8 when T first tact hee. | this stud as a memento of her, and for tue rest [ For what could I do then but Have yoa ever been in love, old tei- | low?" he demanded abraptiy. I said 1 thought I had. For I felt at the mo- | ment that it was not a thing a man could bo | juite certain about, and I rather objected to the | | question, and on that acconnt | & somewhat evasive ani take my chance. Now, what will you take? Another jcigar? N. Some more brandy ant water?” No. I would take nothing more. I had, in point of tact, already taken more than was a)- folutely necessary to me. I left S r. Iwas much frapressed by my experiences of chat night, by what had happened at the opora, and his ax- traordinary narrative touching the vengeance of Arabella. Was it true? 1 w: eally uot ina state of mind to determine. Even now Ihave a a@ificuity at arriving at any distinct conetust. on the subject. But I know that Stericker’s face wore, tomy thinking, a very remarkable ex- pression as I quitted him, His smile was simply awful. And strange tos east, I thinkso, though it may not strike others in that light—I never saw Sti He died shortiy af- terward, a3 1 read in the newspapars, the victim of a street accident. He was knocked down and ror over in Hyde park by a pony phaeton driven bya lady. There was, of course, an aquest upon his remains, the qr. deciding, however, that he met his death ‘by misadvenfure.’’ Som2 attempt had been made to bold the lady res ° sible, and to charge her with furious driving But nothing of the kind was sustained before the coroner. Various witnesses gave evidence, ac- quitting her of al! blame in the matter. Her von- ductin court was said to bo most becoming. And it was reported that, attired in very deep mourning, she had followed Stericker’s body to its last resting-place in Brompton cemetery. Now, was this lady the Arabella of Stericker’s story? She may have been. But I havano cer- tain evidence of the fact. Nor, indsed, hava I anything further to communicate touching the life and death of my acquaintance Steric! Whipping a Suake. “The next day we went on up the vailey the ‘Tchurish, crossed the dividing ridge wii marks its head-springs, and thence dessea upon & wide desert steppe, intersected b; rocky ridges, which, like great s¢ ceeded each otter for more than firty “On these bare ridges we began t» see serpents. They glided away from before us w angry biases. ‘They were of several vari ‘The first we saw were of a slatey-grey color, or three feet long, and rather slugg:sh. I don think that these were poisonous. The horses did not shy from them as they often do from venomous shakes. Wetrod many ander foot. But on one of the succeeding ridges we fell in with a larger sy) t black in color, more than a yard in ien nd very active. Thess, however, ran swiftly away at Our approach. “Farther on, a ditterent and very beautital species began to rear their heads and bias atour approach. They were of a pale green hue, cloal- ed with Diack and had deep crimson spots on u des. They were as large as the black variety, but not nearly #0 active. The horses shied slightly from these. Neverthsles, we made our way without bindranee, till on coming tothe foot ofan unusual high and stony ridgo my horee saddenly stopped short, snorting violently. In a second I saw the cause of its alarm. On a rock, half a dozen yards away, a wuch larger serpent lay coiled. It had seen us. Slowly it raised its head a foot or more. Its eyes were red, like live coals. tongue playedant it began to higs furiously. ‘The Cossack shout- ed to warn me that its bite was sure death. They knew it welland dared not go near it. feared lest it might strike tho le; and drawing one of my but missed it. 1 was at £ pistol, when littie Tehampin, who had stippad down rom his horse, stole past iny side, whip in hand. +1 will soon Kill it to draw my ott » barin,’ he asid. “His alr was so confident I determined to let him try. His whip was of the fashion iu use wit Tartar teamsters—a he: vy. ashen stock, to which is fast ash, or throng, of jeather. y suring the distance with his eye, the boy whirled the whip around is head in a circle, then struck out at tha biss- ing reptile. The thong enapped almostas loud- ly a8 the pistol shot as the tip of it fell on tha suake’s crest, causing it to fall at fall length off the rock. Bat it was only stunned. Before it could recover itself, however, Tchampin took stone, and throwing it, made so deft a cast 85 to nearly sever its head from its body. Two of the Cossacks, whobad dismounted, now as- sisted him to tvish the reptile. On stretching out thisserpent’s body { found it to measare an inch over two yards in length, and its body was rather thick in proportion. it had two ven. mous fange. Its color wasa deep brown, with red and green spangles on its sides. 1 havesince learned that the celebrated cobra of India is not more fatal in its bite than this parti-colored serpent of the steppes. “After this adventure, Tchumptn went ahead with his whip for several versts, and killed sav- eral serpents of the same species, but none so large ag the firet.—From “Tchumpin,” by C: A. Stephens. St. Nickolas for November. Eve Diseases In THE PUBLIC ScHoOLs. Edward Curtis, M. D., Consulting Microseopist of the Board of Health, ina Paper on the sub- ject of eye diseases among children in the pub- lie lore ick gpegerony yesterday to the board aud referred to the sanitary committee, says: “In @ general way the following have been found to be determining causes for the develop- ment of myopia, or short-sightedaess, and they are manifestly conditions that obtain largely in schools and are amenable to sanitary regula- tion: Prolonged continuous use of the be od tor near work, as in reading and writing. Bad or insufficient light to work Too — ‘nese or indistinctness of the object to be worked at requiring ap effort for the eyes to see prop- erly, as is the case with fiusly or badly printe1 books and bad! es, re- y 'e~ ot the eyes of Incluie the tes for fore, ur, them for myopia” party em for myopla— individual cases of the its fart (From the Danbury News. jurder will out” is ss sure E fate. and pod nothing so inevitable, un‘ess it is plan- ette. The other day I had s conversation with Mr. —, well, a eye pi isa = personage, and deciares that the following ia- cident 1s of actual occurrence: By the way of prologus, let me mention that Mr. G. (that init.al looks as well as any other) is a firm believer in mesmerism, snd even dabblesa little in that ‘mysterious science”—1 the extent of tipping tables, moving chairs, and other — = Lise ped by Rong Saag ol sence,” or ree w led by perfect ashe bath it. = . Some year ago, when planchette frst made its bow before the American public, Mr. G. be- came oo interested in its management— had it entirely subject to his will, and mau: were the startling disclosures made throug! e “‘capsheaf” was this: announced to his more skeptical acquaintances that he would hold a seance at his house, when the doubters might easily be convinced of the errors of their way,or belief. The hour arrived, and with it those interestad —deepite skepticism—in the workings of the wondertul bit of wood. Among the guests was family, who may be called, for convenience sake. the B.’s—fathers, mothers, and married daughters. Various questions were put and answered, satisfactory or otherwise; but gener- ally otherwise. Then the were observed in close conver- sation, little aside from the rest of the guests. By the way, this family were recont arrivals, and of theit past history but little was known, even by the most curious of the goasipers. They appeared to be respectable people, and were greatly liked by their new acquaintances. Mr. B. then advanced andsaid he would like to testthe powers of phanchette. He was told to ask a question inhis own miud, id plan- chette would endeavor to answer it, throigh the medium of Mr. and Mrs. G., whose fingers were pressed upon the wooden heart. All was silence for a few moments. eye was raised upon the instrument. began to move, and revealod a hage figure i “Wrong!” shouted Mr. B., clapping his haads gleefully: “Wrong!—she’s only had three! His test-question was: “How many husyands had his wife buried?” As the entire company had been strangers to him and his untila year past, he felt assured that planchette must speak entirely of its owa knowledge. This question was the last one propounded, and the company soon after dispersed; but it was noticed the lively Mrs. B. was strangely sub- dued,and that she and her daughters whispered together very earnestly. ‘he next day Mr. B. called upon Mr. G., aad after a little talk, abruptly said: “I want to buy that phanchette thing of yours, neighbor, or = you to promise not to work itany more. You know I thought you made a fool of yourself last night, but instead i find was fool—and have been for the last thirty years past. What d’y’ think wife said to me aftér we got home? You kuow I ssid your figure was one point too high—that she'd =i had three. I didn’t know 1 was lying until wife said, says she: Father, I do believe the very Old Boy himself is in that plagaey thing!’ Saysl: ‘Whatdoyou mean? Ic guessed wrong. it said that you'd had four husbands.’ Says ‘father, the pte Thad one th at, Every Then it le Case. ice of the Chicago Tribune.) October 16.—1t does seem, in Edward Judson, the architect, that the vital spark lingered iong, and was slow to quit its mortal tenement. As announced in the dispatch to yesterday's Tribune, Mr. Jud- son died—or seemed to die—last Taesday erea- ing at 9 o'clock. ‘The body was buried at tha village of Kolling Prairie, Thuraday, at 3 p. m. It was observed that the face retained a re- markably life-like appoarance, and many were the comments of the good people on this fact. Indeed, so much was said, that the family of the deceased decited to have the body taken from the ground; and, in accordance with their wish, asmail body of men repaired to the vil- lage cemetery on Thursday night, at about 10 o'clock, and teck up the e body. n containing the © it was conveyed to the M: the lid of the coffin was re- Not a muscle of the man withia had been changed; the hands were peacefully fold- ed, and everything went to show that the figure bad lain as silently as the clods above it; but, as it seemed to your corres- pondent, and others who knew Mr. Jud- son well, there was a singular absence of the general ‘features of death. The thumbs of the hands were not turned inward beneath the fingers, as ie nearly always the case in death; the face retained the exact expression and color Tn doe ti ot tite; and a prominent vein in the forehead, | when pressed upon, would 1mmediately fill with Diood. ‘Phere was at this time no special rigidity of the limbs, nor glassiness to the eyes, which were partly open. But the doctorsof the village made au examination, and pronouaced that lite was entirely extinct. A fire was kin- ied in the room, and & guard lett to sit up with the body; but no effort toward reanimation was made. On leaving the village this (Friday) afternoon I called at the hall, and fouud that the coftin Was egain about to be closed, and tuat prepara- tions bad been made to take it back to its now final resting-place. There was still the same absence of the death pallor on the face; the lips were lightly closed, and red, and the expression ofthe face was that of a peaceful sleeper. At times, watching the face,.one would fancy that & breath of life still lingered there, and I pro sume some such fancy as this gave rise in the first place to the terrible idea that Mr. Jadson lad been buried alivi Mr. Jadson was a prominent man in La Porte, and an architect of more than moderate abilicy. Many of the finest mansions on the Hadson are his handiwork; and, since coming west, he has been courtantly employed in this and other cities at his profession. He has left a number of unfinished buildings. A troublesome at- tack of the chills resulted, two weeks ago, in what was at first pronounced intermi t bilous fever, but which proved to be a case of typhoid, from which he died as has been stated. Was he at firet really dead? Did there linger for hours, after ho was first pronounced deal, some latent principle of life? These are ques- tions which, foolish or not, will never be satis- factorily answered. Mr. Judson leaves a wife and four emall chil. dren. Forty = of a noble and useful life were his, and his sterling worth will long be re- membered aloug with the gloomy episod of his material resurrection and second burial. Obituary Poetry. AS GRRUND OCT BY A PHILADELPaIA PAPER. The Philadelphia Ledger easily leads the press of the country in the number and quality of its obituary notices. The colamnotDeaths” | is always well filled, and to the announcements in the usual form a piece of poetry is frequently appended, which is sometimes a stanza from & familiar bymn, but more frequently an origi- nal elegy written by some one who is kept for the purpose in the Office of the Ledger. Occa- sionally, however. this elegiac bard finds his re- sources exhausted by the incessant drain upon his intellect and his emotions, and then he sometimes makes the same device serve several mourners. On last Wednesday, for exampie, the following notice stood at the head of the column of deaths — widow of the —, in the 49th year of ter age, anguisbing head ia at rest, Her thinking and aching are o'er, er ot, immovable breast Heaved by aitiiction no mor: This was soothing to the relatives and frien 1s ne doubt; but they must have experienced some slight wixture of emotious when, about six inches further down the column, they read the following: — “On the 4th inst., aged 23 years, 4 monthe, 26 days. «His languishing head is at rest, His thinking and aching are o'er, His quiet, immovabte breast is heaved by affliction no more.” The coincidence of experience is certainty re- markable; but when the tear-tilled eyes of buth these households chanced to fall upon the fol- lowing notice, only about four inches farther down the same column, they must have had a w realization of the poet's meaning whea he said, or came very near Lei, ec @ touch of sorrow makes the whole world kin:— “On the 5th inst., after a a ill- » wife of ——. in the STth year of her age. “This lan, ‘ing head is at rest, Her thi and aching are o’er, Her quiet, immovable breast by afiliction no more.” ‘at variation in 5 ich the parties who = for them are, we trust, Fro nap gp bat it must be owned that the *« king and aching” of these three families has been ‘The italics are ours. Could the peaceful term'- ation of a life- struggle be more patheti- call ooaeet rj Gur Fence System. Ever sines Nick Biddle, we believa it was, leulation which proved that the the fences around farming Iw eet = tae + O© per! ‘iucipal, of public debdt, the question Eas agitated as to the Propriety of such a change in our system as would 0 away with a Jar; jon of this ex- and ye i { j cowards or arrant demagogues, and fear- | ing to give offence te that large class to be found in every community, who have votes to give though no taxes to pa: be adopted by legisiati every owner of « hog or to fence im their stock from running on the highways, or search- mpg out the weak spots in their ‘neighbors’ fences, by which they are enabled to get into their flelds of grain or grass which look s0 in- viting to the half-starved creatares. The same ‘il has been felt in regard to the innumerable army of dogs running at } which must not be touched for fear that owners, who in eases are not able to feed them, to keep them at home, and thus they are permitted to invade the sheep folds of their neighbors, be- cause, for the owners of these worthless curs may not be willing to cast their ballots at the ensuing election aim who shall have | | faithfully performed his duty in abating the nuisance. ‘These evils must be corrected, and will be,we are confident, in dae time. But as for the for- mer, the laws in existence are already safficient to meet the case, if properly carried ont. Tae law of the state, as decided by some of our courts, and the decision is carried vat in Mont- gomery county, is to the effect that stock has no Tight to ron at large upon our public roads turnpike or county); that in taking from the jandholder the Gnantity of land for the pablic bighwaye, the right alone ix parted with that the original owners enjoyed of securing to the Objects of the road the freo aud unrestricted use of the bed thereof for the purposes of travel by the public. And any disuse and condemnation of the same, for such public purpose, entitles the original proprietor to resume his entire ownership thereot; in the mean time he has every other right to the premises, with the ex. | ception named, and the pastursge and other privileges belong to him alone. A case was tricd in one of the courts not lon, since by which a turnpike company attempted toeject a wheelwright from the premises in- cluded in the ‘number of feet claimed by the company, and which was used by the mechanic for the storage of vehicles brought to his prem- ises for repairs. And the decision was in accord- ance with the views above stated. In Georgia the people are to be called upon this fall to decide upon this fence question; aud General W. M. Brown, a vice-president of the state agricultural » bas written a long letter on the subject, in compliance with the request of several leading farmers of Clarke county, where he resides, in which the follow- ing startling facts are presented for the consid- eration of the public: He says that in that county there are titty thousand miles of fence, making, at eight feet to the panel, thirty-three million panels, costing, at 40 cents per panel, $15,200,000, and, as fences have to be renewed every seven years, involving an annual outlay of $1,885,714, and all this to keep out of the crops 8 few cattle, sheep and hogs, worth, at the outside, #200000. The fences of this coun- try are valued at nearly $2,000,000,000. In Lili- bois alone $2,000,009 Will hardly cover the expense. In Nebraska a a, adapted to the needs of the country has nm adopted. ‘The law throws upon every owner of live sto-k the onns of keeping bis stock from straying into his neighbor’s crops The owaer need not build fences about his crops, because the law “fences out” siock. This is done by herding eo ‘e have already alluded to the dog nuisance. A correspondent ot s colemporary in a distant state, arguing upon the same subject, jastly re- marks that unti! our legisiatures have the cour— age to pass a dog tax of three or four dollars per dog, it is vain to hope to establish sheep uebandry. It woul! seem to be easy to justiry such a tax and to persuade all classes as to ite usefulness. In these cays of univereal taxation we can well submit to @ dog tax. Those who find itimpossib’s to exist without their dogs, should not object particularly if te proceeds of the tax be applied to reimburse in part, at least, the owners of the sheep which the dogs have destroyed. If the state legislatures could be induced to pass such a law, sheep rat would soon become a large and profitable ins try; but while dogs are more numerous on plantations than sheep, no one will invast his money in expensive sleep which a freedmau’s | cur niay destroy in a night.—Balt. Amer. Tee Prince oF WALES’ In plementary Financial Resources of the Roy | gal Scn.—Over and abovethe sum of £16,900 | voted annually by Parliament, the Prince of | ‘Wales derives considerable pecuniary income | from the Duchy of Cornwall, the resources of which largely accumulated during bis minority, | It may be interesting now to state the income | of the Duchy of Cornwall for the year 1873, ine | cluding a balance of €6,93! from 1572, amounted to £91,107. These receipts consisted of rencs and profits accrued to His Royal Highne-s of £ 3 Toyaities on Somersetehire mines, | ¥ royalties and reservations of dues and | rents of mines in Cornwall and Devon, £6,-"4 annulty from uties, post groats, £16,218; and dividends on | £4,903. There isno return under the | head of cacuai profits of the office of H Havener (wreck). | penditure commences with payment: 6 use of bis Royal Highness, mt: | ing to £62515; outlay for the benefit of the es- \ | | OM B—The t stock tate, £2,208, By deductions under varions acts of Parliament, 17,415, principally in lieu of rights surrendered. Disbursements under sev- eral heads, chicily superennaations, annuit donations and charities, the total expenses of management, bursements were, therefore, (81,: I cash balance at the end of the year of < 5 ‘The capita! account on the receipt sid2 stood thus:—Cach, including a balance st the com. mencement of the year of 18 893, amounting to £ Stocks, viz:—Three per cent. con-ols, (79,156; reduced three per ceat., £20, new three per cent., £62,467—making capital (196,554. Three years ago, both yea jeaving 8 | 1 ly revenue and the capital were less than now. ‘The revenue, including the balance in 1570, was £58,095, and ‘the recelpt of capital 13: nearly £64,000 less than during the past The ‘capital then was thas invested stock, three per cent three per cent., £25,635 per cent., £23,012; 80 that £51,000 of the in. | crease is in stock and £13,000 in money. “At ths same time the payments to the use of the prince have not increased, being now rather less than in. 1870, when they were <62.574. It should to added ‘that the balance to credit of capital » the close of 1573 was £177,048; the item cash” had diminished by £17,305, principally by pur- chase of land and by investments of stock. | Trith Dublin Ti AN APPALLING SRIENCE AT SEA.—The toughest nautical narratives regai ‘ding the freaks of burri ss and kindred windy dem. oustrations sre about eclipsed by the actual experience of the British ship Chrysomene, | Captain Browning, from Newcastle, in New South Wales, for San Francisco, befure re ported at Sydney in distress. Reference to iact that the ship put into Sydney on the 12:h of August, having encountered a hurricane on the Ist of that month, and shortly after leaving port, has already obtained in these colamns, but the details of the thrilling disaster which befel the vessel have only juet come to band. | The account of the hurricane and its work is told in a few, simple words, but is none the less in- teresting for want of eiaboration. [At the height of the gale, while on beam-ends, the foretopma t | Was carried away, and in its fall ted all the stays securing the mainmast. This, in tura, carried away the rigging of the mizzenmast the ship being on the starboard tack. tue fal! ing epars crashing in the port bulwarks nearly down to the covering board, and the whole oi the top hamper falling into the sea. The wain iH yard fell through the after hatch, smashing it to pieces. The main- ant yard went through the main deck, making a hole some three feet ansing large quantities of water to get The pump — was completely de- er with all the boats. tor sensational int “No. Ninety-Six.” Tae Trax River Herald the of 44 yin, rH Buse 3 pyfl i 3 | if | 2) i : A é I i i i E : E i ai fe He i i Bi i & g gi j 5 : q i $ i iF i i i i ‘ f in fi tt if ae He i eee 8 | Mk incipal. | lath of September, 1874, | 24.270 Ose Gifts, amounting to... | himself, heroicall GOAL AND WOOD. NEW Coal AND WOOD DEPol, of \Corner Located as above, wooo co, the enbecriber voltae hare frieece avd the Coal of ail Gheics sualiti-s Gak: Pine, ichory Wool, sewed wot sp i and is tbe stick. Wotuoe kan.” stick. Orders teft with Kidder & Bc: 11 7th st_,wilt recetve prompt WOOD AND COAL. THOMAS W. RILEY & SONS, Wholesale and Retal! Dealers in COAL AND Woou Snestion. ax CUMBERLAND COAL DEPOT AND YABD at T. W. Riley's Wharvee, foot of Nth and 2%. td = BRANOH OFFICE, 0 street, between 4 32 Streets northwest. = aii, OAS 3S9).4F $2, AND PINE Woob ®t $6 per cord, delivered tn any part of the eave your orders with BRAD. ADAMS, corner md them to AtLee's and F stresis, or se: whart, foot of “GOODWIN Y. ATLER. E.Zve, Dealer tn best eartoties of ANTHRACITE AND OUMBERLAND OOAL, Also, WOOD tn the stick, OF sawed and split, Pricer moderate for cas Offices and Yar of K street and Bhote ‘oot Istand avenne, between $tb and 10cb streets. Orcers also received through Messrs. HAM PEARSON hand D ste. jyR0- YOAL I! COALT Cc Woop! woop! JOHNSON BROTREKS, WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALERS, stantly arriving, both by vessel and rail Which we are selling cheap, for cash. Als J lots of Baker's Pine and Oak Wood. Facilities au- warpaseed by any firm in tho District, Sad pounds Siways guaranteed to the ton. Depot at our wharves foot of 12th street. Ofices: 140% F etroct, and LILY Sth street Rorthwest. apll-on ad, Bo WAL COAL: .We invite the attention of consumers to our stock of COAL, embracing ail the choice malities, to Which we are making additions daily, which we oer St lowest market rates. CAR sed FINE WOOD, sowed and split or tn CAK and PINE KINDLINGS, tx bundles or by ne Coe eae ee eT H ER. oe wania Avante, Mill and Depot, Beventh-sreet Wharf jeatr EDUCATIONAL. _ V ocak tnstnugrioN Ar M4 Hart. MAESTRO ETTORS BAKILI, from Phiistel- phia. has the honor to announce that he wii! cov mence his LEFSUN| 2. MOI . Hovember 20.1 SIN SINGING on NDaY For particulars sce circulars, to be hal at music etores, {Heralc | oct: MePioan DEPABT™ NT EORGETOWN COLL! \DICAL 0 =74—"75. G@ EGE 26TH ME! JON, oplLaee BUILDING, COR, TENTH A Nv KEETS, WASHINGTON, UD. sn nbe, Course will begin OCTOBER) Gru, ‘and end Faculty—Noble Young, M. D., Professor of Prin- cipics end Practice of Medicine General Pathology aud Medical Ethics. Flodoarto Howard, M Professor of Obstetrics, Purperal Diseases of W men and Diseases of Children. Johnson Eliot, M D., Professor of Principles gad’ Practice of Bur: ECEy. ames B. Morgan, M.D., Profesor of Ma- erin Medica and Therapeutic fedical Juris- prodence. J. Harry Thompeni » Profeavor o ‘of Women, and Clinical Surgery... i -b- ert Beybarp, M. D , Professor of Histology, Micro- scopy and Olinical Barger. Ben). 8. Hedrick, # A. Ph D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicaltey, Warwick ‘Evans, MD. Prefessor of Anatomy Baiph Walsh, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Diseases ot the Ere and thot nenford, ” -- Ol inte jarer ou Orthopedic Bureier, Hiward H. Barker, M. D., Charis ¥. Bearase, Parke G. Young, M. D For farther informs 2 ‘TOHREO: TM. D., Dean ret, N. W.. _Sep2z-eolm — [Bep.} - Washington, D.0 AME SCHLIECKES and Miss PLUG NCE SCHLIECKER have returned to tye ity end are prepares to receive thelr Papils tn the reoch language in Music, (Piano Forte «: Singing. Besidence, 526 Mth street. sepag Im" ESQUSE FRENCH, AND CLASSICAL IN ¥ BTITUTE for young ladies, avenue northwest, Beventh 916 Now Fork Mrs. ANGELU JACKSON, sppual session begins on the ang2s-iy ALBWICK SEMINARY FOR YOUNGLADIRE darses M.A. TYSON & SISTRS, waris iy” Contee’s FeO A prince Georer Gon Co JSST GRAND GIFT CONCERT, FOR THE BENEPIT OF THE Montpelier Female Humane Assoctat! AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. ovember 23, 1874. LIST OF GIFTS. w= 1,900,000 Number of Tickets, 100,000. PRICE OF TICKETS. Whole TICK CS ereenceerone Baives Quaiters.. Rights or cach Goupou Gr Tickers f Eleven Tickets, The Montpelier Femalo Humane Association, chartered by the Legislature of Virginia and ce Circuit Gourt of Orange county, proposes, by & series of Grand Gift Gonceria, to establish aml en dow 8 «Home, for the Ot, knfirm, and Demiture irginia”’ at Mont; jer, 6 former dence of President James Madieon, ‘The Associntivn is under the control of eign: trustees, six of whom are elected biennially by tne stockholders and two sppointed by the Governo: Bemitiances for tickets may be made by expres Bre-peid, post-office money order on Washiugtou D.C., oF by rogistered letter, addressed to Hon. JAMES BARBOUR. Pret M.F.H. A., Alozandria, Va lesion: Hi r, Governor of Va.; i rt O. Waiker, Ex-Governor of W Hihere, Li For full particulars, testimonials, &e., send for cireuiar, Hon, JAMSs BARBUUR, E. Address Pres’t M. F.H. A., Alexandria, Va Reliable Agents wanted everywhere, _806-00ly DR. ROGERS’ Vegetable Worm Syrup. A brave man ray suffer pain, when inilicted upon 3 but he CANNOT SEE HIS CHILD SUFFER. There is no other malady, incident to childhoot, that is sccompanied w: more indescribable ‘wretchedness to the little sufferers than that PRODUCED BY WORMS; ‘and when the parent faliy comprehends the situation ‘be will not delay moment in securing the most prompt and efficient remedies to insure the expulston of the intraders, The Bemedy may be found in DR. ROGERS’ VEGETABLE WORM SYRUP. Please bear in mind that nogaae’ wonm SYBUP is the reliable prepara- ROGERS’ WORM EYBRUP is a palatable prepars- BOGERS’ WORM SYRUP is liked by children. s0gEns WORM SYRUP positively destroys BOGEES’ WORM 8YBUP leaves no bed effects. Peay ratris ecw i fae ONT 5 cents, For sale by all Draggists, Price JOEN F. BENSY, OURRAN &00., Proprictors eopls-W At Sand 9 College Place, New York.) Piensa csenetnn cement haeatiliedaee TO Maryland avenue street j whe Tangs and Sell setecten RAILROADS. Basmoss 257 oe eae, ‘oy Stations ck ville, Galtbersbarg and of Bocks, Martinsburg, BUNDA Balemore and Way o,and 74 For Baitynors and ™. lay —7 2 apply at owe, Washi ngto: nd es lvante avence, © « bere o wed be ee Folen RARER to be checked aad revolved “ 0 city. _ Fiige? i SMABP, Master geoa uu 10. BALTOMORE & PoTOMAG RAILROAD fe PUR FO. 8. KOK LT Durer connex 6tu axd Be Teast: N.W Aer Sept. 2h. 1874, trains will run as follo TRAINS LEAVE BOK TRAINS ah KIvE PALTIMOK WASHINGTON, 230 m,,.Now York Ba- : % pa fon Live m., Limited Bx- 10:48 m.,Actornmota- for New York, too @ Po eliy Ox, Bu; '. .4e@ ». LJ pepgerrata sn” PY SG Bultadotpane nex Ww a, 4-4 ox. Bondar. m.,for Pittaba Be p.m dally, ij, for Phitaces- 11-05. 2. dafty, Now ore Bight B= Wort'ang Berth urday leaves ax 8:6 m. for Weet. ing W. na Heiday, aad fac Sp > 2. m. on m. dally, except Sunday, counect at Bowle with trains for Pope's Oreek line, Traius leaving Waedinston at 5.40 p.m, cvs * napolis, rains arriving at Washington at 10:40 a.m. vue Connect at Bowte with traine from ne, leaving thetr orders ai Ticket Office Ith stret aad F ©0; Der Bh street and orth caspenes Lockein te ate on Be £. 8. TOUNG. Gex"l Pose kre 1874exsxsntistt novre m THK GREAT DOUBLE TRACK oD clement Scenery, Paince Biate-rov S ght Cars with mondere traprovementa, Hoe Vinulred tiles caved te Wester ait Contras ° KEOOBNEOTIONS __ through from WASHINGTON to the WAST and NOBIH without change. ‘Tickets By this route oui, be prowared at the offices corner Of 1S strect aud Penusyivante evoute, and 2oruer of Oth street and Ponnayivanta avenoe, Gucer tical Hotel, vuformaticn will be s riven st all times. Pi procuring tickets yy Si Dou scd Bette sits ALEXANDELA © MAseINGTOR RE 4LELANDELA & FREDERIOKSBURG RE. Corner OF 8 axp BixTs Stawers, Loce! trains leave for Alexandria a fotlods:—®. 8,9," 10, 11 + 453,4," 6,6, 7 9. m5 8 Gaily, ail other rains dehy except Alexsudria arrive a followe— 9-33, 20-23, 11:33 7 3.33 35,0:35, 9:33 9m. The ag ‘trains daily exespt Bunday. ~ we a m, ae tal My Nmmenachanaed tretus cu b BICHMOND FAST BX PRESS cept Bunday, at leaves dally. ex- +0t6 p. m., arrive at Richmond 10:46 . 2. * Giza SOUTHERN EXPRESS, ria 5 loaves Wi 11:33 p.m. daily ‘Buoday_ vets to all pointe Bouth aud " MISCELLANEOUS. “i “RYDRAULIC CEMENT.» . ‘The undersigned are now pre) above celebrated UEMEBT to deaiors sud contrac: tore at low rates ia J, 0.43. M. WATERS, Bo. 89 High etree wa red te farnisn the the York styles of, Park aod Pony Phetgas, Top ard Ne Buggies, Beeb and Low Door and .. Second-hand Oarriaces takes . Cail before porchasing cisewhere, D. SCHMIDT & O0., No. 31 ith st tween O and D, Washington, aut 94 W Mreet, Baltimore. Ba La LINE Lime WOOD-BUBET LIMB 90 cents per barrel. THOMAS FAHEY, B street, bet. 0th and Hith o press CEMENT, jal Stove oF any kind of Goncrete waster work", pavements, bul co strength te desirabie, The op2s om ORTLAND porn work for orliars, ings, bridges, &c., beet ‘Cement ir tht world. Boe aayitr 6s STATENS ISLAND, 8. ¥.. D¥ZING KETAD- S™ Tens ait sis TABLISHED 1919 tay be in the word ¥c mai Ds Lovtetana avenne. OLE PRO tes Dresses cleaned without taking them apart Hentiemen’s Clothes cleaned w suriaking Grease spots removed efectually, wo Umet they vever we ¥ ‘fi oe, \e zu ose caernell ga short notice, Pric« mn @ E*t48eissee aeer | BARTS: wo, eR Sees, Ladies Dresses Cleaaed and Vwithont betas Gentienes's Garments Cloased ané Dyed withoet aa Shoes, Fars, ete., Cleaned st shortens GE oscy ror cas, GB