Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1877, Page 3

HOME HURT. 101 had known in thy How wearily hy uld treu Teaid when If went away, I bad been more careful datling Nor given yom pain But we vex look an we For thongh i I may give y Vet it mig TESTIMONY FROM THE TOMB-TRI- MPM OF TRUTH AND LoVe. Miss Hammo 1, ust hardad to her by Maggie; ) our eyes €!, seeing that . and the oun, a pleasant-\ook- r. with abr ow p and sau-ag-curis ov Maggie, a handsome modern gir down aud reads baM—The parishioners of St. Cri-pin, Gig. lesham, in vestry assembled, have de- iermined to rebuild their pariso caurch, }Fon uneced unsafe by the surveyors. iridutons are earresily requested. Tie terations will pm onal many vaults and er eftte Hammond far the er t remnt kK ve vg others. t = the w 2. the wt HOMAS TevscorT, WILLIAM Busxer ‘ mmone tant cousin—al houg calls them es with them. There is alsoa young ph G somewhere about i.e plaee of Whom more anon. Tom Har the father of thet maiden sisters, was bora tn the y and might have seen tbe heads over Barafier the ris 3 1x@. Hehad married late in life, only these two daughters. Thus two ¢ ations bridged over a space of time gener | occupied by many successive live ease of another braneh of the fai fourder of which, Major Richard Han (the ancle of the two old ladies), who bet been at the capture of Quebee woen Gen Wolfe was killed, being the great-grand-‘a- ther of Maggie Lauterdaie and rant. Major Hammond was the elder of th» «o Bec uence. Tom Hammond had done his best remedy his father’s injustice, as far as he to could Without injuring himself and his own. by msking a settlement of the estate, Iu failure of his own tssve, upon the lawful de- scendants o: Major Hammond, his brother providing that if the issue of his elder bro ther should fail, the estate should go to the istue of a younver brother Henry, who, by the way, had been well provided for by the small estate of Eastbury. This broth-r Henry was now represented through the fe- male line by a Mr_ Bootles, of E ies Court, who now also heid the Eastbury estate. The descencauts of Mejor Hammond are now confined to these two young people, Musgieand Raiph. They are both orphans ad without means, their forebears having been mostly in the soldiering aud official lines. Ralph is «lieutenant in the artillery. ardhsbatte:y is now lo Iida: but ha is | home on sick-leave, and be has taken advar- lage ofhis furlough to win the a(fections « bis fair sn. As the Westbury esta’e weuld come to be eventually tween them, If was considered a most forty ome was W lway was married, avd tak + farm. By and t y inte bis p: & Squire: and it WAS arranged that he thould assume the name of Hammox hoping to continue the old live. This amble being necessary. let turn fo the comforiabdle old-iasiioned ing-reom at Westbury. What do you think «f that, Ellen Miss Hammond, baving read over once m ire the cireular to beree f with sublusd empu - sis, Miss Ellen was si!ting looking tuto t! fire, her great woo'en knitting pins aut bright colored woois lying idle ou her lap, + 8 she shook her head while talking gently to herself. “Do you hear, cried Miss Ham- mend more sharp! y. *Whatdo you think o: twat letter from Pruscot’ “I don't like the idea at all, Margaret. No netat all. Why can’t they leave our an- cestors alone? And I am sure I always by ed forward to being buried there my- sel don’t taik about that, Ellen, and is the younger!” said Miss Ham- mond briskly; ‘and as we can’t prevent tts being done, we must make the it of it. Ralph better go and see to it.” aif ery well, sister; as you like,” saii El- | Presently she resumed: ‘Sister, | thi good j you | it this would be a t back Uncle Richard Hammond's ring. «Uncle Hammond's ring?” tel the elder sister. {don’t understand.” “You must have hesrd our father talk about it. The family ring that ought to have gone with the estates—a ruby and sapphire that General Hammond brought home from Cey on.” ht to know all about it, Eilen, I dare- fay; bul you were so much more with my Peor faiher, and bad more patience with his stories.” tried to get the ring, ar give Major Hammond a iar Bat he was vexed with fath: tm, that he vowed he nev t buried with him, upon his her always said that if he had 4d have the coffia opesed to is, and | joined in: “I hope ‘you will, aun 1 do hope you'll have tt looked for.” my dear,” said Miss Ham- rove of viviating tue | mond. “I don’t sanctity of the tor With the elder Miss Hammond a phrase | was everything; she delighted to bring a thing within the compass of a well-rounded phra e,upon which she would then make a sland—invincible. So Magg'e threw up her head tn a kind of despair, and ran off to look tor Ralph, who when last heard of was smok- ing a cigar on the terrace. “Ral sald Maggie as soon as she had found . and had submitted to a very smoky kiss—they were in the heyday oftheir young loves, when Kisses were appreciated, even whea flavored with tobacco—+ Ralph! auntie is going to give you a commission to go and tee about a Vault at St Crispin’s where some of our ancestors lie.” . they are going to AU right; Dll do | Then Maggie went on to tell nim about the ring. and Low M'ss Hammond would not bave it searched Bat it is a very val- too. It would be iv's really there.” mind you look for it, sir; only | don’t say word to auntie, or she'll put & | stop to tt.” “I'm fly, Wink, aud atten: latory process; time, aud ¢ room Window pai her aunts. Since she fire eseaped the @ éfthe family ' hw tall, er with thin, iron gray tar. brnshed of his temples. a were looking rather serioas, not wd both started gt ty «y saw Mage i! , my dear, please,” sald Miss aan mrhy. fe had just caught the words, “No sgeat all,” from Me. Bootles, wno ed to be speaking loudly and excitedly ard she went ont wondering what tt all mrant. Some piece of scandal, no doubt, Boodles was the quintessence of spiteful- e858. “It Is very dreadfal—very,” sald M Hammond Inever had much optnioa of t Richard, you know; but for ihe sake .1 hope you'll let it be et ie earefally the your ept @ pros the young peopl he top of ais harsh voice. Ye oid Boolles? I e of Lext heir, you'll remember, please, through my maternal grandfather, Ham- | bury «stares under the settlement | Splendid ruby worth say $10,000. Mr. Boodle: had come to Westbury to an. nounce an mportant discovery tat he had recen 1, made. In turning over some of his grandfather's papers he nad come across Some 1 tters from General Hammond, in | whieb \twas firmly asserted that his son, Major Hammond, had never be=n legally Marrie! to the woman known as bis wile. “What end Co you propose to serve. Mr. les, by bringing this ancient scandal to : ed Miss Hammond with agitated “Er él” erled Boodles. “This is only the beginning of it. [ am going toa court of law tobave myself declared heir to the West- + in that case, Miss Hammond. rising with diz fy, “you cannot be received on frier dly terms th my house.” “Oh. very well, very well,” ried Boodies, snaiching up bis hat end whip. and sweap- ing out of the room without further cere- mor As soon a& the door had shut upon him the sisters looked at cach in blauk constersa- | always feared there would be difMficul'y. Elies tremul bat on, to uhing of Bodies having diseovered it.” “We must send for Smith at on riage sball goin and feteh him Hamwmor: 4. ringing the ber, Mr. Smith, of Giggiesham, was the fam!ly selicitor, and the carriage Was sent off U» b Ing him up at once for & consul ation. But Stach breasht litle eneouragem pu bad beard from his father that there were ¢ rows circumstances attending Major Hammond's marrage, pot bis finger on the flaw S nth shra.- ged his shoulders for want of words to ex pers: the aw kwarlness of the case “But search mus" be mat every where; "'e evidence of the marriage mas! ba torn, he children musi not suffer, poor things, ant & way- brought up to look upon the properiy aS thelr owr vhy, they could never marry,” cried ; they could never liveon Ralph's e; the car- said Miss Us altogether dreaifal; and not getting fed is the very lightest part of the ;,” said Miss Hammond. undertook thatevery possible search and went away, promising k at ovce. But his inquiries He bul traced out the family 1 been the daugh- living at Milton in Kent: but they had now fallen to the rank of laborers, and hai no papers belonging to then var any fam! y traditions. He had starched all the registries of the neigh- es; no recor} ofsuch a marri covered. He had issued adver- Usemenis:flerug a reward for the produ tion of evisence:allof noavail, Woat more To be sure, there was a pre- on ‘n favor of the marriage; but then M Bocdles had documenta rebutting sach a presumption. Again Mr. Smith shrag- ged bis shoulders, in hopelessness of finding fitting words to represent the gravity of the crisis. “And then,” he went on to say, “the very fact that Boodles is spending money over the case sbows thathe thinks he has @ strong one.” niles did not let the grass grow under his feet; he instituted proceedings at once, ard cited a!l interested to appear. The ting could no longer be kept a s and Maggie and Ralph were told of the cloud that come over thetr fortunes. 1p “| dou’t care ifthe property does go away, said Maggie bravely. “It will make no dif- ference. I shall go to India with Ralph, that's all. I will be @ soldier's wife, and go on the baggage-wi os." Ralph shook bis head. He had never been able to menage on his pay when there was only bimself, and there were ever so many lentenants on the list before him, so that he could not hope to be a captain for many ears. * Plere wes no use In sitting brooding over coming misfortunes, and Ralph took the dogeart, and drove over to Gigglesbam, to see about the family vaultat St. Crispin's. It Was an oceupat.on that agreed well with his u roper; the weather too seemei all in keeping—a dull, drizzling day. “Don't forget the ring,” Maggiehad said to bim at parting: “that Is ours, you know, Ralph, if we find it; and perhaps it may be werth a lot of morey Raiph shook his head incredulously. And Jett Was possible. Thering might be there, and ft might prove of great value. In mis- fortunes, the u ind grasps at the s.aallest al- levialiors, and Ralph consoled bimself in his depression by piciaring the finding of a No more srtillery work then—no ™ re India. Gggie-ham bosst« of several churches, aa St Crspin’s les in a bollow by the river close cothe brigge. A low squat tower and isin ugly nave. But in its nook there—the srk river flowing by, the sail of a barge showing now and then, the tali piles of deals in the timber yerd beyond. the castle-keep trow: ing from the beights, and the big wa- ter-mill with its welr- and rapids, the nolse <fvhieb and of the great churning wheels founded slombrously ail day long—ailed With these things. the old ehureh had some bh) g home'y and pleasant aboat it, hardiy o be ey aced by we finest modern’ Gothic. Work me ‘* Swarming about it now. Th fe riy off. There were great piles of sand acd mortar iu the gravey ord » b. the plumber and glazter, who most lively interest inthe under ne work. even to the neglect of more bostness. was on the lootont for ant, and greeted hii cheerily. »*ve got ‘em all laid out in the vesiry, Cap'n Grant, all ibe whole family; and now the quesiion is, what are you going to have done with them? Would you like’em put in the vaults below, where they'll all be done up in imeard plaster? or would you like oy somewhere else more in the open air like?” “The least expensive way, I should ” replied Ralph grimly. Somehow or po his appreciation of his aucestors was dead- by this last strokeof fate in coreaa hin acrit Jrom his succession. “But look 5 Martin,” he went on, taking the plumber aside; “there is one of the coffins, Major Hammond's, I should ike to have opened. 1t can be done?” “Easy enough, sir,” cried Martin, who, to sey the truth, was delighted at pee pay aad of a little charnel-house work. He's a lead ’vun, he is. I'll have the top off in no time.” Ralph looked gravely down at the last re- mains cfthe Hammonds. The wife, if she bad been a wife,on whom the inheritance bung, was not here; she had died in India. But there was the M: 's » the wool- work decayed, but the leaden envelope as scund as ever. Martin was quickly at work with his tools. The cover was siripped off, and for a mo- mept the Major's features were to be seen as ouch as they had been in life, then all dis- solved into dust. There was io ruby ring—that must have been a fable; but there was something glit- tering among the remains, and on taking it out, it err to be a plain gold hoop. “Well, that’s worth a pound, that is,” cried the practicai Martin, carefully polisli- ing up the treasure-trove. It had probably been bung round the neck of the departed —4 tall, Lony mar—tor the ring was @ sinall one, and there were traces of a biack ribvoa attached to it. It was a disappointment, no doubt; and yet somehow the sight of the ring had given Ralph a little hope. It was the wedding- ring, he said to himself, his great-grandino- ther’s wedding ring. The Major must have been fond of ner to have had her ring always | about bim; ard it had been buried with him. That had given rise to the story about the ruby. He drove home, after giving direc- Uons about the disposal of the coffins, feelin; | lesssore at heart. He was vow convin tbat they had right on their gide, and there Was some comfort in that. ‘When he reached home, he showed the ring to Maggie, who agreed with his con- clusions. “But there is something inside—some let- ters, 1 think,” she cried. “Itis cay the Hall-mark,” said Ralph, having looked in histurn. “But stop. Taat tells us something; it will give us ‘od “How can that be?” asked Maggie. «Because there isa different mark every year. Bec! you cap make itout with & mas: i ng- glass. ing G-orge isa pigtail.” The silversmith at Gigglesham turned u| bis tabulated list of Hall marks, and tol. them at once the date of the ring—1769. “But it most bave been made a long time before it was fret used,” suggested et “True; but It could not have deen used b> fore it was made,” replied Raph. “Tr gives u8 a dale approximately.at ail events.” © At first, the knowledge of this date did no* seem likely to be of much use tothem. Bat it give them the heart to go on and make turther inquiries. Ralph threw himself into. the task witn fervor. He obtained leave !o seareh the records of the Horse Guards: aad ascertained at last where had bees stattonet the regiment that Richard Hammond thea belonged Lo in that same year. Ii was at Canterbary,as it happenel; and that seemed significant, for it was uol so for fiom there to his sweevheart's home at Mil- ton. Raipb went over to Cantervury, aud with the belp of a clerk of Mr. Su vs s arched a'l the parish registers between the iwo places; but found nothiag. outn afew weeks, ‘The trial was comin: and not & scrap of e ‘he marriage of Major Harmmond. Tneothe: de were fall of coafitence, and well they ight be. Ralph bad mate 7 his miad to return home. was walking discons9- lately Cown the High street of Caaterbury one day wi he saw over @ shop winlow ba “Pilgrim, Goldsmith; esta>lished i705” wonder." be said to bimself, “if my rand father brought his wedding-ring A sudden impuise sent him into the shop. A nice looking old gentleman, with long, white hair, was sitting behiad gine coanter, peering into the works of a watea through ane lass. outnisring. “Do you thing | it woold be very troublesome to get at them; | make the bappiness of two He | nd if Boodles had | | transactions as they occurred, with o-ca- | entry: +2: that rirg was boxght aged ed. “How long @go?" asked Mr. Pilgrim, tak- ng up the ring and ooking a’ it all rouad. “About the year I760.” 7 “Abb! Leanu’t remember s0 long ago as that. It was in my fa'ber's time; but fora l that, perhaps I can tell you.” He took up the maguifying-glass, and ex- amined the ring carefu oe more. “Yes,” he said, lookiog up, & myst expression on his face,*tnatriug was bi from my father, I have no do e Ralph questioned him 2s to the sources of his knowlaxtge; and Mr. Piigrina iid nim at fast. It was his father’s practice to pat his ivate mark upon allthe jewelry he sold He could do tt was small and . of changing fash'ous, when mun-hofa J eller s stock ts ou approval, this would be Imposs: bie. Kalph listere! to these explavations with vies Impatience. Hai Mr. Pilgrim books teonging to bis father which The old gen- wiavitted that be had @ lotofhis fa- rigs igut re ght possibly show the sale? Ue me and wh: “Wh. ult be the use’ aid Ralph, ‘you might possibly pang ple, who otherwite may be sundered all their lives.” He explained enough of the cireum- stances to show the old gentleman that it was not an affair of mere idle curiosity; and after that be eutered into the quest with ar- dor. Pilgr m, bis father, had kept each year a <ort of reugh day-book, in whica he entered sional shor’ annotations a long troublesome search, they foant th book for the year tre0and [7oL. Noting was to be made of the first; but in the second they had the delight of finding the following March, sold ring, young Masier Heommond, two guiveas. saw ye wed ling af+rwardsat St Mary's Faversham.” Ti at night all the church bells of Gigzies- bam were set a ringing, for the news oozed out that Ralph Grant had come hi with i pofs of the marriage that would make cood his titleto Westbury. Forthe yeung neople were liked by everybody, while ae was generally execrated deed, the case never came On for trial, as Boodles Wwithe rew the record when he found that there was full evidence to refute bisclaim iph and Maggie were married soon afterwar ls; | and the bride wore as a keeper over the golden circle her own special dower, the long bnried bat happily recovered treasure—Ma- | jor Hammona’s ring —[Chambers’s Journal, And at last, after A SCENE WITH PAGANINI, His Strange Appearance and Marve jou—Eachanting Powe: - (From Gardiner’s Musée of Nature.) The following enthusiastic sketch, written at the moment, conveys an idea of the mar- | velous impression made vpon the audience by Paganint at the London Opera bouse, June 3, 131 1 placed myself at the opera door two hours and abalt before the concert began; presently the crowd of rausicians and viollo- ists filled the eclonnade to suffocation, ail anxious to get the front seat, because they had to pay for their places, Paganint pot giving asingle ticket away The concert opeved with Beethoven’s Second Symphony, admirably performed by the Phtiharmout¢ band, after which Labloche sang “Largo al Factotum,” with much applause, and was enucored. A breathless silence then ensued, and every eye was watching the entre of this extraordinary violinist, and as he glided from the side scenes to the front of the stage an involuntary cheering burst from every | part of the house, many rising from their seats to view the spectre during the thunder of this unprecedented cheering, his gaunt and extracrdipary appearance being more like that of @ devotee about to suffer mar. oe than one to delight you with his art. Vith the tip of his bow he set off the orches- train @ grand military movement with a force and vivacity as surprising as it was new. At the end of this introduction be com- menced with @ toft, streamy note of celes- tial quality; and with three or four woips of his bow elicited points o: sound as brignt as the stars. A scream of astonishment and de- light burst from the audience at the novelty of this effeet. Immediately, execation {oi- lowed that was equally Indescribable, im which were intermingled tones more than human, which seemed to be wrung from the deepest’ anguish of # broken heart. After this the audience were enraptured by a live- ly strain, in which was heard, commingled With the tones of the instrument, those of the vote th the pizzicsto of the guitar, | form lrg @ cCmpound of exquisite beauty. It | it Were possivie to alm at a deseripiion of bis manper, we should say that you would lake the violin to bea animal whieh he is epceavorirg to quietin bis bosom, and which he occasional y, flend like, lashes witn his bow; iis be dashes upon ile strings as | you would whipa walklog switch, tearing | Trem the creature the most horrid «s well as delighifnl tones. die 1 as long Jegs and arms, and the hands in bis pay ng ofiew assume the at tude of prayer, with ihe fingers poluled upwards he bizbest nos cuntrary ty everythin we have learned) are produ-ed as hand recedes from the bridge, overtarni al! our previous bot ous Of the art. Puring these effects a book caught fire Upon one of the desks, which burucd for some time unobserved by the masicians who cou'd neitter sce nor hear, thuagh re- peat dly called toby the audience, any :hiaz but the feats of this wonderful performer. &cme few pieces were played by the or. chestra that gave some repose to the admir- ing audience. He then eniered ma HS ©, tring, in- the alr of “Niel cor piu sento’ tale), 1a which he im- and di that ebvated performance of the sing! treducin, he was s0 cutre—so Comic—as to oceasion the loudest bursts of laughter. This feat was up- riously encored. He then Toa) ly b Fetired to put on the three other strings, and ended this mi- raculous performance with the richest ar- Peggios and echoes, intermingled with new effects, that no gu can describe. Though he withdrew amidst a confusion of buzzas ard bravos that ompaly. drowned the ful] orebesira, yet he was called for to re- ceive the homage of the audience, and was = eet tad’ ns mote that he — ye ro} i he DOL yn Supported ae porte and Costa. = i There was no trick in his playing; it w. all fair, scientific execution, opening to us a new ordeal of sounds, the eee of which ascended two octaves above C iu alt. A German writer observes, “He is the first artist on bis instrument alive. He bas thrown to an immeasurable distance the whole fiddling world of Germany. His na- Uve Italy lays all its bows and strings, with edoring Lomage, at bis feet. Tne French vio linists tembie for their fame as he ap- proaches to their confines; aud the first flourish of bis bow ts dreaded as the earih- quake which is to shake the Conservatoire over the heads of its learned professors.” With a weak organization, Paginini is ore | Of the most jore:bie examp/es of the almost | fuperhumap strength which results from the exaltation of mind a by genius. When he seizes the violin it a that a Star descends on him, and inspires him with fire from heaven. He instantly loses his weakness—a new existence opens {o him; he is another creature; and during the musical action bis strength is more thau quintupled. After baving performed a concerto his symp. tome are those of @ man under ac attack of epilepsy; his livid and cold skin is covered with @ profuse perspiration; hig pulse is scarcely to be felt; and when questioned on any ere he answers only in monosylia- bles. The night after bis concert he never sleeps, and continues in an agitation which sometimes lasts two or three days. These facts have been communicated by Dr. Ben. nett, who attended Paganini during his stay in Vienna. In one of Paginini’s wonderful exhibitions the piece opens with a tremulous sound from the double drum, so faint as scarcely to be heard, but sufficient to arouse the attention of the musician. Ina few the sound returns, upon which the violinist starts and looks behind him, as if he apprehended the be opened of ee ie. Oa the rep- etition of this tremulous but less distent sourd, he seizes his violin, and, witn three or four miraculous and farious strokes of the bow, throws his audience into a frenzy of astonishment and delight. @7 When we are wise enough to know that it is best to laugh, thea we are past laughing. s2The time of French women is much More their own than is that of Anglo 8axoo ladies, becau-e, except among sisters of those 'very intimate, the aw‘al ordeal o morving calling is omitted from their duties. \ 7 In Boston the question of classical education in the free schools is under dixcas siou. Mayor Prince, Charles Francia Adams, Olver Wendell Holmes, and many others publish remonstraness against tre entire public being taxed forth: exclasive benefit of the few. e7-In @ recent orler of the Jesaits. Priaci- 1 Tulloch (Presbyterian), retereiag to tre Exercitin Sptrituclia of ‘Ignatius Loyola, says: ‘We may be sure that Jesuitism. as an institution, could never have beer what it , @ match for all the sp'ritaal con- viction and dogmatic zsal of Protestantisin, without this profouadly religious basis on whieh it rested.” s7 Ina lecture on “War” John Raskin de- clared that the existence of wars 1a ure etvil- ized stats was wholly the fault of women. “ Seng tell you wome 1 this,” sald he, us tthe Sa "houses anid ravaging peatsous v4 ats? ly broke china tor your owa | Sally woz his sister | you kin | dem niggers up ‘fo’ day, an’ de wa | (oWeen my bnees, [Prom the A'umtiec Oonsti u'ion } For eeveral moaths old Unele Remas has been in the country ratsiag, as he m xdestly expresses it, “a baw jal 9° co'n au’ a piller- Cabe 141 "CO! toa yesler- éay with cke sil, and after disposing Of Lis pouliry called aronud to see ne. * Ho way, Uneie Remus? “Poly, boss, poviy. Dese here sudden sSes in de wedder makes de ule uig ger feel like dere’s eump'n outer gear in nis bones. Hitsorier wa ‘ r*mem- Digger wep be wus “stributia’ de wedoer, Tauucomplatnin’. boss, Bay Tm | done wid tarmin’ arcer dis, Tis fer @ fac’. De niggers don t gir I cau’t rest ferum. Dey str s, ain’ dey steal my chickens. No lougeria las’ week 1 waz bleedzd ter fing a hau’.all uy sqaill shotin lera@ nigger what waz ranain off wid (0° puilets an'a rooster. ['m a gwiue ter drap faimin’ sho. P'mgwire dows inter old Pat bam county an’ live alonger Mars’ Je “Somebody was telling me the otter day, Unele Remus, that you saved your young aueer® life during the war” How was that?” * Well, I dunno, boss,” with a grin that showed that be was both pleased and em >ar- ed, “ { danno, boss. Jeems ao’ | Em’ly dey say I did. eit me about it.” You aint got no time fer ter set dar an" hear de ole ulgger rau on wid ’s mout, is | plenty of time” | covbonn 18 JOU ever b.n down to Patmon founty 2" | ou know whar de Brad Slaughter- | Perf ctly well.” | n’ Harmony 2 es. Weil, hit wuz right "long in dere whar | Mars’ Jeems lived. Wien de war come | ‘lovg. be wuz liviu'dere wid ole Miss aod Miss Sally. Ole Miss wuz his ma, an’ Miss Mars’ Jeems w jest eaichin’ ier ter go off an’ fight, but ole Miss aid Miss Saily dey tuk on so dat he couldn't git of de tus year. Bimeby times ‘gua ter get putty hot, ai’ Mars’ Jeems he go up aod sed he jes bad ter go. an’ gohedid. He got a overseér fer ter look arter de place, an’ he went an’ jincd the abmy, Al’ he wuz a fighter, too, Mars’ Jeems waz—one er de war Kine. Ole Miss use ter call me to de big house on Sundays, au’ read what de papers say eems. sez she, ‘here’s wat de papers Fay "bout my baby, ar go on aw read ontweil she couldn't read fer cryin’.’ « Hut wepton dis way year t 1 year out, an’ dey wuz mizhty lonesome times, boss, sho’s you bo'n. De conseripiin’ an comes ‘long One day, an’ he Jes everlastin'ly scoopel up dat overseer, an“den ole Miss she sual arter me ) she say: “Remus, I aint got noboly fer to look arter de place but you,’ an’ I say, ‘Mistis, jes’; pen’ on de ole nigger’ ole den, boss. let alone what I is 1 you better b’leeve 1 bossed dem han wek wuz a caution. Dey had pleuty bread ab’ meal, an’ good cioze ter w'ar, an’ dey was de faties’ niggers i de whole settlement. | « Bimeby, one day ole miss she cail me up @n’ tell me dat de Yankees dove gone an’ tock Atlanty, an’den present’y I hear dat dey wuz marchbin’ down lo'rds Putmon, an de tus’ thing I Knows, Mars’ Jeems he rid up one day wid a whole company uy men. He Jes’ stop longer vuif fer ter change hovses an’ ‘snatch upa moufuil uv sump’n eat. Ole | Mirs tole ‘Im dat I was kinder bossin’ roud’, | an’ he call me up an’ say: “+ Daddy’—all ole Miss’s chillun call me daddy—+Daddy,’ he say, ‘ ‘pears like dere’s — gom"ter be mighty rough times roun’ here. | be Yankees is done down ter Madison, xn’ | *Lwont be many days befo’ dey’ll be all tbr: here. Hit ain’t likely dat dey’li bodder mother er sis; but daddy, ef de wuss comes ter de wus, I spec’ you ter take keer un em.’ | * Den I 'say,* You bin knowin’ mea long | time. aint you, Mars’ Jeems’ ‘Bence I wuz a baby, daddy,’ sez he. *«* Well, den, Mars’ Jeems,’ sez I, ‘von know'd 'twant no use fer ler ax me ter look arter ole Miss an’ Miss Sally.’ * ben ce tars came in Mars, Jeems’s eyes an’ he squoze my han’ au’ jamp on de fily 1 bin tavin’ fer’im, an’ gallop off I kaowd by de way he talk an’ de way be look vat dere wuz gw ineter be sho"nufftrubble, an’ so 1 begun lerfer putde house in order, a-deserip- ter sez. Igot allde cate an’ de hosses to- gedeer au’ I driv'em overtode fo’ mile place. Imavea pou de swamp an’ darI pot hogs, an’ Tbaul nine waggin loats uv co'a an’ Weal an’ fodder tode crib once fo’ mile Place. an’ den I grown? my ax. « Bimeby, one day here come de Yantsees. Dey jes’ kwarmed ali over keration. We | woods wuz full un um, an’ de road wuz fuil un um, ade yard wuz fallunum. Tduse | "sore dey got in sight, tan? wast my f.ce au’ bens, en'den I went au’ put on my Saoday an? by de time de Yankees lied arrove, | in in ole Miss’s room wid my ax © Tem Yankees, dey jes’ ransacked de waole Place bucdey dian’t come in de house, an’ | oe Mis she :e! the hoped dey wouldn't, | wer jes’ den we bear sieps onde po’eh, an’ | Lere come two young feliers wid strops «re shou.ders an’ s’ords draggin’ onde flo’ av’ dere spure rattlin’. I wou’t say I waz skeerd, bo-s, ‘cause I wuzent, but I had a aa fanny feelin’ inde naberhood uv de /zzard. Hello, ole man!” sez one. ‘ W'at you doin’ in here?’ Qle Mise didn’t quro her Sally look t at de fier. ell, boss,” sez I,‘I bin cattin’ some weed for ole Miss, an’ I jest stop fer ter wom my han’s a little.’ “+« Hit ts cgie, dat's a fac,’ sex he. Den I got up @h’ went ad stood behine old Miss and M'ss Sally, a leanin’ on my ax. De man w’al wuz talkin terme, he went up to ler de fier, an’ lean over an’ wom his ban's. Fus’ thing you know he raise up sudden like ‘civieas: — | = i} «<< W'at dat on yo’ ax?” | ' | | “* Dat’s de flier shinin, on it,’ sez I. a we a nena it wuz blood,’ sez he, an’ dea he la. « But boss, dat young feller wouldn't a laft dat day, ef hea @ kuow’d how nigh uato | he wuz. Efhe'd jes laid de weight uv his han’ on ole Miss or Miss Sally in dar | dat day, boss, he'd a never kuowd w'at hit | ’mor wher be was bit at, an’ my ouliest rd would a bin de needcessity of spilin de } ‘skyerpit. But dey dido’t bodder no- y rer huthin, and de like dey had real g tbat. « Weil, de Yankees dey kep’ passin’ all de &n’ It peared ter me dat dere waz « , string uv em ten mile long Den dey con menee gitting thinner ay’ thinner—scacer an’ scacer,an bimeby I hear skirmishia’ goin’ on, an’ ole Miss she say how it was Wueel- «7's cayeriry a followin’ uv em up. I kuowd dat ef Wheeler's boys wuz dat close I wazeot doin’ bo good settin’ round de house, so 1 jes took Mars’ Jeems’s rifle and started out to look arter my stock. Hit was a mighty raw dey, dat day wuz, and de leaves onde groun’ woz wet.so dey didnt make no fuss, an’ w'enever I heerd @ Yankee ridin’ by I jes stop in my tracks and let sm Iwuza stuunin’ dat way in deaidge uv de woods, wen all of a sudden I see a little ring uv blue smoke bust outen de top uv a pine tree *bout baf @ mile off, an’ den mos’ fo’ I could edder up my idees, here come de noise— foe! = boss, was de biggest and de bighe plantash’n, and dere wusn’t a lim’ on It fer mighty — @ hundred feet up, an’ den dey all branch it an’ made de lop look sorter like a umbrill. * Bez | to myself, * Honey, you er right on my rout an’ 1’ll see what Kinder bird is a roostin’ in you!” While I wuz a talkin’ de smoke bus’ out agin and dea—bang! I jes drap back inter de is an’ skearted roan’ 0's ter fetch de pine ’tween me and de roa. I slid up putty close ter de tree, an’ boss, W'at you reckon I see?” “T have no idea, Uccle Rem “ Weil jes +ho ez youersettia’ darlissenta’ to de ole nigger, dere was a live Yaukee way up dar in dat ‘pine, an’ be ia a spy-giass, an’ he Wuz a@ loadin’ an’ @ shooi) ide boys je8 as cool ez a cowcumber, au’ he had ty hoss tied out in de bashes, 'case I heerd creeter trompin’ roun’. While f waz a Watchin’ un ‘im, I see ‘im raise dat spy- glass, look fru ‘em a mipnit, and den ‘em down sudden an’ fx hissef fer ter I forter shifted roun’ so I could see de road, an’ I bad putty good eyes ia dem ar too. I waited a mipuit, an’den whoshoald I see comin’ down de bat Mars’ Jeems! didn't see his face, but, boss, I knowed d filly dat I had raised fer ’im, an’ she wa; a rancin’ an’ dancin’ like a school-ga!. nowd dat man in the tree iz gwinster shoot Mars’ Jeems, ef he . an’ dat Ll couldn'tstan’. [hea nussed dat boy in m: arms mapy ’ many # day, aa’ I n toted "im on my back, au’ I jarnt ‘im bow ter ride an’ how ter swim, an’ how ter rast’e, an’ I couldn’t b’ar de idee uy standin’ dere an’ see Cat man sho»! ‘im. I know'd datde Yankees wuz gwine ter free de niggers, caze ole Miss done tole meso, an’ I diju’t want ter hurt dis man ta de tree. But, bors, w'en I see him lay dat ean ’erossa Im’ an’ setile hisse'f back, an’ Mars’ Jeems goin’ Lome ter ole Miss aa’ Miss Sally, I isremembered all "bout freetom, an’ I jes raise 4 wid de rifle I had, an’ let de man bave all she had His gun drappad dowa an’ come mighty nigh shootin’ de ols nigger w’en \t struck de ground. Mars’ Jeems ha heered de racket. a1’ rid over, an’ wen I tell ‘Im “bout it you never seed @ man take onso Become miguty nigh eryin’ over de | ole nigger, I cclar’ ter grasnus ef he dtin't. Au’ ole Miss—w’y ole Miss f'arly ho, me. au’ w’en I see how glad dey waz my conshuns bin restlu’ easy ever since.” bowed derseit out breedin’—dey did | dead, ind | this upstart would driv | The article states that Row abont the soldier you killed | We had ter cut down dé tree cer ‘@t bury ++ How did be get up there?" © W’y, boss, he bad on a pair uv dese tele- graf +purs—de Kine w’at de fellers clim> de poles wid.” ! i ag Your Mars’ Jeems must be very grate- a rs’ Jeems is got da US wal ma ke me say ter be work- ing ’roun here Mg dese chain gang nig- ers W’en I gota gool home down yander in Putmop. Boss. can't you a thrip fer to git "im som y wal And the feithfal oll dark y went tus way. WIDORS. | ms of Affection — ixed Mouraing Rochester emocrat.} { trignam Young are doing wd be expected, perhapa, Bat that is rot very wil). It is customary in civibzed nations fer the widow to go to the gave of the depart o one al the bour of sun. set, and shedding @ few tears aod arranging the inevitoble floweis, to go away with her handkerchief to her ‘eyes. The widows of | Mr. Yourg é¢opted this beautiful custom as obe Woman, aud, owing wo the absence of the police and a lack of the regulations impera- lively ne€cessary io the premises, there arose | | mech confusion. The first to visit the gr. oddly enongh, was the Jast tost was waided | to the excess.ve husband. She bad batdly settled herself and begun to ooze when there appear-d on te melancholy sceve twouthers, each .rthed With & Watering pot. What do you want herr?” she said to the low voice uueh obstruciet by | ol my grief Sacred from the in- | trust the fellow world? Depart aud | iesve me with my dead” | | The iuvacers hed been weeping likewise; but the surprise they ¢ the unbitden tear + ber, deuce!” y said one Ww 4.0 ty i! How long, pra married to our dear busbar “Two happy, happy year ing widow, sobbing violeut! y always good tome. My b Iwisb you would go away ” “Did you ever hear the like of th * said the intruders ove to anotuer. valy two years; and our dear husbaid was wedded to us nearly a quarter of ac Ant ye us ¥ frow tas sacred sp is Apprentice would say that we, who passed the targer part of our lives With the sweet ¢ 18 passet awa have naught 1s bound respect ” «He was me hollow voice “He was mor back perisnoed de We f you beea said the kneel “Aad he was rtis breaking remine than yonrs!” said the yan a litle dis han any otuer p in this world, I teil you! Tuiriy years ago Wwe plighted our troth, and there Was unin terrupted happiness between us up to the hour of leath. I put the last plaster on hat rebie breast, aud it was this band gave him his last spoontui paregoric. Btand aside and let me weep apoo his grave! “Not 80 fast!” excla! age and fatvess, who had just appeared, bar- rit g (heouward movement of the last speaker with ber tre ing baud. “If inere is any question as to rigbis bere, let my white hairs speak for me. Bear in mind, you sinfal things, the old remark that age should be | eae mec ag g0 belore beauty. He was my husband in his youth, aud [ cannot forego my rights now that he has gone. Let me Weep first upon bis grave, even if you forbid me the sacred privilege of remainiog there for @ continuous gush” “ That fat thing!” exclaimed a still older and very thin lady, pushing her way to the front. + That odious person? Never! never! My dear husband always bated ner. He has told me so repeatedly.” “1 pray that this dis- posure argument tay cease! al fine voie. * My dear husdvand would not like jt. It is not respec ful. Whatever other affections my dear husband may bave bad, it is well ki Own that I was his favorite. As ved a lady of much said a firm uch be told me ail his secrets. Many is the Une he has suid to me, «Amelia, 1 would that they were ail gone but you.” Surely no lacy will bave the hardihood to defile his rave with her tears ufier this. Neither age youth as such can have a place at my Gear bushand’s tomb. Stand back, all of you! JT know my rights.” We draw a veil over the seere that followed. Suffice it to Say that Wars, watering pots, bits of hairand shiieks were painfully conspicuous. The sucred s) OL Was profaved with aclious which Would shame ihe coutending armies of the East, ard peace was resiored only throagh the vigorous intercession of several of tne brethren of the church A compromise was efeeted after a few days, bul Unus far even t! et does pot work satisiactorily. The grave Was divided int loons, eseh disut Ite’ Gistaree off, marked re «Number 1," “Number 2,” &c. These sec- Uops were sold to the widows at auction, the pis to be given to the church. Of course the richest widow got the best seciion, aud so ow: be int. and it may Well b 3 that the best feelings of the uuraan 4} are thereby trifd with, thoaga i 1 imnpossible tw see bow tt ts to be avoided The mourt ing goes on at sunset, mut it is Lo regular ard «asy, aud the proprieties ar ~Get off my Cress!” her e!Low epite ully 1 | | | Often Viole ted | | says number, poking | uw the side of nam ber 5. +S op sopping your tears over on my acc. on!” exclaims 1 umber 7 to number iv. | “Can't you cry without mussing my new silk @ll over?” aks number 13 of buwver 11 “Don't make so much noise with your beastly sobbing! Itsounds like a hore at aseeee trough!” viciously says another “Good beavent} You've smashed my bon- net!" shrieks another, cutting ber grief in two In the middle. “1’ve as good a right here as you ha’ the return. “Iv } as much my corpse as it is is yours. any day Aud so the weeping and mourning go on, and the solemn sunset is regardea all over Uteh as the —2 for smothered thunder, while@ great clasu of arms is continuatly ay; ehended and may come anyday. No worder the new head of the church recently raised his bands in despair and said with a great shudder: “There will be no peace till these unbappy widows are married again, aid pending that event I even would that they were dead. | THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE IN EVROPE.— A Swedish paper just received publisies an interesting article under the heading “Why is the Climate of Kurope Growing Colder?” in the Bay of Kome- nod, near Koma, in Greenland, fossil and very characterisic remaios of palm and other lrees bave been discovered lately, | which terd to show that tn these parts for- elt te rich vegetation must have existed. But the ice period of geologists arrived, and, &S # consequence Of the decreasing tein pera- lure, this fine v-geiation was covered wit ice ard snow. This stnking in the tempera- ttre, which moved in a southerly direction, as can be proved by gevlogieal data, that is, the discovery of fossil plants of certain Species, seems to be going on in our days also. During the last few days the ice has increased far toward the south; thus between Greenland and the Arctic Sea of ice have accumulated. coasts navigators now frequently find tee in latitudes where it never existed before during the summer months, and the cold reigning upon the Scandivanian peniusula this sam- | mer results from the masses of ice which are floating in the region where the Gulf Stream bei Is our coasts. This is a repeti- made in the col: mate of Iceland so cold that corn no longer | rh 5 the Icelanders, in fear of a | coming famine and icy climate, begin to found @ new home in North America.— (Nature. A VERY STRANGE SroRy.—Two singu- lar incidents, which will furnish nuts to crack to believers in the superaatural|, have recently come to iight in England in regurd to the receat loss ofthe Avalanche in the British channel. A lad who was great iriend Of one of the apprentices who was lost made arrargements to pomeeny him down the channel and come ashore with tie | =. but at ibe last moment befure sailing + was seized with such an indefi.: and | ungovernable eee | that hed 0, and thus escs, most i apprentice who was lost hada retriever | dog who was very fond ofhim, and whica answered to a sbrill wohistie which he carried. On the night of the shipwreck his Mother and aunt were in the sithing roo.n and Bw 9 and ladies were startiei by hear- ing a thrill whistle up stairs,in sound re- sewblivg of the dog whistle asei by the zone man. The dog heard {t also, gave his usual recogaizing bark, and bounded up stairs to where he sup) bis master was. Tre whistle was jastabout the time that the Avalanche went down, and I) was heard by two credible witnesses, whose testi- mony was confirmed by the respoase mate Ww It by the dog of ibe lost sailor. 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