Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1878, Page 7

Q tr THE PRODIGAL TO THE EAR Laura, T have never loved another —,, _ shback, you forget Y From «-Ftudies in Verse,"* by Charles Quiet.) | Teresa, the sister of the Sil ae whom ne O mother, wait until my work is done! Loose thy strong arms that draw me to thy | breast ‘Til! Tam ready to lie down and res Grvdge pot to me the kisses of the sun. Fiar not, foud earth, thy strong lové holds me brother Reginaid is now making love on the lawn.” Laura, how mistaken you ‘was with her you looked for blackber- ries. a hhever knew you to find any—not with 1e, sir.” | _ “Laura, how blind you were! I sought her | society only io be near you. I declare, upon | my word and honor, I lingered by her side for hours and hours in the hope that you would fast; Thou art m/ne heir—I shall be thine at last. ©, cousin roses! thirst not for my blood To dye your paling cheeks. ©, rank, wild rass, ( lateh not with greedy fingers as I Pass. And you, great hungry gisnts of the w Let not ) our roots for my rich juices yearn. mise Shall be yours, but you mast wait your urn. join up for a moment or two during the time, and w en you did, in that moment or two was ntrated the joy of the whole day. You Were so proud, so cold, so reserved, I did not | dare to approach you save through your friend, and— : “And you did not bury yourself in seclu- | sion for two years after she jilted you and mar- ried Frank “Huntington?” ‘she asked, as he pauses. “Great heavens! how preposterous! Laura, I swear—" But, as he is about to swear, enter a proces- sion of small nephews and nieces and attend- ant friends, the leader of which carries an odd- looking box. “See uncle!” the bright eyed little fellow calls out as he approaches. “I found this old phonograph on the top shelf of your closet, where I was looking for pour fish-line to play horse with, and it talks like everything.” With this he begins to turn the metal crank, and a voice—a somewhat shrill young voice, the voice of Teresa, sister of Bella—whilom friend of Laura Pesrasley begins to speak :— “Yes, Leon, my own, I will grant your im- —— passioned prayer, and breathe the words you The Phonograph and Other Things | '0ng to hear into this magical casket, and then in the 20th Century. when you are lonely or incline to doubt me [From Ha: per's Weekly > ealous one, you can call me forth to bring A day in June, 1 nd one of the loveliest | back the smiles to your dear face, and joy to early summer da‘ e world ever beheld. your dear heart. Ido return the love you so floudless sky, golden-bright sunshine, soft, | ™dently avow, and I will marry you when ma, feasrant air, joyously sweet songs of'birds, | adh tne lips made sacred by your kiss, no faint musical murmurs of brooks and plash- | [ouch the iach the Baad thot wears ee soe crignaains delicately green grass. ling. | (vey diamond fing, But, oly Leon dear’ wey oO the Cae te ae kee ccant — tolove Laura a little for my sake. T ktow she of Leon Fishback, Esq. a pitty of nouge | isall that you say she is—atfected,cold-hearted. pron ach S Rarty souek | haughty, and disagreeable (I am’ just naughty people are playing, ° Follow-follow follow-me” | coouer to be pleased When you tel ee —a game somewhat resembling (so their | fRoUs! nuch ‘admired by others, pritree mothers aod grandmothers tell them) Huntington fades into ulter insie. ©, roses, grasses, trees! [am your kin— - Your | predixal blood-cousta, now grown strange With many wanderings through the lands of change You lent me of your substance, and I*ve been A wasteful steward; yet I shall bring back My who.e inheritance—you sha:! not lack, Divide my all amongst you! ‘twas but lent To mea while to use. Part heart and brain, ‘Matter and force, unitl there shall remain Of me no shaaow; I am well content. Order and chaos wage eternal strife; The end of living is to bring forth life. @uardian of thoughts, immortal memory! Keep thou immortal some good thought of mine; Which, tn oblivion's dark. may softiy shine Like the pale fox fire of a roitiug tree. If thou do keep but one song ehlid aitve, In its sweet body shall my soul survive. THAT FOICE. game called ‘Puss in the corner,” pla: : - ’ o Sago Only. nee beside that of your own little Tere- bats x Of atury e iere a ot te yk. | $a)—but, my Leon, try. ol’! try, to tolerate her, z ‘on toa groud of me. | fF; strange as it may appear to you, disliking bails. around which they stand ina | Beh as you do, J am quite fondof her. Good: night, beloved. Dream of your Tess: | _“That"—something or other “ponograph ! | said Mr. Fishback ; “I thought I destroyed it | longago,” as he angrily snatched it from the she who proves to have most re the balls follow with a rush, While the re of the F Wildly in their efforts to secure the place left | jureaew, as he angri the flying one. | “Wha idl One + moment the ‘alls are rolling pell- | 4,., pa @e@our humdrum ai Other oak nage, Enocking against each | Miss Laura,as she quietly fainted ayer ine other with a pretty ringing sould, after a | the nist and cals aie cee ne BIg TS SHE pees aT iden, whose little feet, | ““ireyer you go prowling around my room Ecld, fash in the sunshine beneath her tine | again,” continued. Mr “ishback—addressing Satin Turkish trouserlets as she springs lightly | B!S unfortu and supporting Miss mag murmured over the green sward amid the exquisite | Peardsley with one hand, while he lung the modulated laughtet—no one shouts loudly ia | tell-tale on pipeen mie re it broke inte this refined twentieth eentury—ot her merry | 3407 ue toe mpl the Tn the back garden, on a green clover-sweet giass-piat, stands abroad, deep basket of newly Washed. snowy-white linen, and a ha ing-out machine. planted firmly in the midd of the plat, is industriously raising and lower- ing its wooden arms, grasping the various | pieces in its wonderfully constructed hands, and hanging them upon the stout no-clothes: pins line, which is slowly revolving around it, | ito Which they adhere without farther In the dairy the rosy-cheeked da reading a * poem while the | double back-action self-action spanking ma- | chine until you roar for_ mere The procession, considerably demoralized, started on the double-quick for the door, and Mr. Fishback, looking upon the inanimate form he held in his arms, cried out as he truck his forehead with his clinched hand, “she will never, never look at me again But she did, and what's mote. she married him a month after. And—oh, the marvellous progress toward perfect womanhood to the wonderful twentieth century !—aithough the y j have been man and wife for some twenty years,she has never one said to him, “That ice ry maid is automatic The Shetland Islands. | Asin Orkney, soin Shetland, not | be seen. Tue eye may nder where it will, | and find no shade from the summer heat, no | wayside refuge from the stormy blast. Long lines of undulations, here rough and abrupt, | there waving and continuous, cleave the sky: great tracks of barren and uneultivated land on all sides. In this, Shetland is very differ. ent from Orkney. There you have semi-culti- vation: not smiling plains and rich corn-fields, | but plains and fields that would be smiling and rich if they could, and attempt it. In | Shetland very little cultivation is vi ft are to smooth and thin enoug and a small servant-boy, with his hands in hi pockets, lounges against the wall in one ¢ ber near a tall stool, isting softly to himself as he waits unili the pair of shoes the electric blacking-brush is polishin ereon attain the proper degree of brillianey and mirror-like. | Less This Is a prosperous place, this domain of con Fishbac ,and Leon Fishbaek him- self isa handsome, energetic, positiv man of one and-thirty—a bachelor, Who gives a home to his widowed sister and her four half orphaned children, and in return is taken care of by her, with the assistance of the old house! per—to tell the truth, with a great deal of assistance from the old housekeeper— zs Ss wells any brotber was ever taken care of | . Hills and hollows undulate around. bY anv sister. | ear r ¢ i by 7 j. \a PB ‘red wit rich pu e SUull. people, as people will—especially people | Siuitens the Se ny gener bt game that tare Trib srown up single daughters wondered | forms the sole delight and resource of the thal Be bad never married, It not for | Sportsman. You may wauder over many and Want of eprortunity he had not doneso—oh, | many a mile of hil and dale. and plunge ho indeed (“for a dozen lovely girls, half 2 | through the gorse, and now and then. get dozen more or less charming widows, and sev- | swamped in a morass, and sometimes for your eral ladies of neither ¢ asa, ad, ane ‘his com- | reward come home at night with your bag full. Has dnt the property of his uncle and god- | and sometimes return empty-handed.” An father, Ma ta is ne ip. (Ww ier ashe ue id you may roam from early morning to the fast- solid gold casket stood in a sort of shrine, | gathering shades, when the birds have gone t) made of a hundred rare woods, in the south | roost and are too cunningly nested to be seen drawing-room). intimated to him. in. every | or disturbed, and by chanee never meet a soul, Way that the shrinking sensitiveness of wom- | Mile after mile of Solitary moorland, and No at hood would allow, their perfect willingness one to exchange a word with: no sound to batt Pat lear meng the role of mistress | break the silence save the popping of your ack ar =10n- own gun, or the shrill clang of a gull. wingir But Jeon had walked calmly among them | {is tight across the island, watching: sous dispensing hospitality, kind words and fa" | every motion with its Keen’ litle eyes, and cious smiles with the strictest impartiality, keeping wisely and well out of shot. distinguishing none by the slightest prefer: denly @ raven Starts across your path with a gnce, until a few weeks before this beautiful | hoarse croak, and spreading his otreng buck June day when b © gung suests merrily call- | wings, looks a magnificent creature as he tries od; * Follow follow follow-me,”" to their highly | to eseape. But you are ready for any surprise Polished admirers on the closely shaven lawn. | nq belore he is out of range, dowivhe couree Then came to visit his sister aa old school | and turning over and over falls with a duil friend, Laura Beardsley by name, who had | thug upon the earth, that knocks the remain been residing in a far distant siate, but with | ing life and breath out of him, and terminates Whom the sister had kept up a warm corres: | nis wild career. But it must bea bad day's pondence ever since they parted at the college sport that permits you to drop upon the fine door the day on which each was publicly hail: fellow; sad want of a shot at something, or ed with loud acclamations as “ Mistress of | perhaps the necessity of discharging a barrels for gulls and ravens are scarcely legitimate rey, unless wanted for such purposes as mount. ng or winging. All this heathery moorland in autumn turns toa rich brown in the process of i d in every direetion the tints of a de- ear meet the eye. In your walks you ‘rom the brow of a hill, how harmoni- y this purple or brown heather blends with ‘a—for there the si i: You cannot, at any time, get very far away from it in these islands: if You are turning your back upon it in one direetion it is only to meet it in an other ; there itever is, calm and placid and of exquisite tints, or restless and raging, accord. ing to its mood. And its mood on one side or the other is, more often than not, angry and disturbed ; So that the waves beat themselves against the rocks with a noise of thunder, and whirl and seethe around the skerries, aad rush into the caverns as if they would shake their very foundations. Woe betide the craft that at such times ventures too nearshore. But on a bracing, breezy day, with plenty of sun to gild the sky and water and tip the gorse with | tense solitude are eg of the utmost repose, though joined t slight | suspicion of monotony. Long stretches of | moorland with rich blooms that blend wonder- fully with the blue sk: id the white floating a feeling Arts.” Miss Beardsley is a lovely woman of eight- and-twenty summers, looking at least five summers fess, with an exceptionally sweet woice, an exceptionally bright smiie. an ex. ceptionally graceful Saure and exceptionally winning Ways. And to this bewitching woman has Leon Fishback, the hitherto apparently unimpressible bachelor, devoted himself since the moment he tuok her slender little hand in his and bade her welcome to his home. And itisby her side he loiters, untempted Dy the merriment without. in the deep. pleasant, Yine-enwreathed bay window of the library asthe fair- irl comes flying across the garden, the tinkling balls. her seat with a blush, and, window, entreats, ‘Coax y, Belladear. They are daneing on the flower bed.” Andas the girl obediently ds in the opposite direction, she draws back her pretty head, and, looking at her companion, says, “ How much Bella is ‘esa—that is, when Teresa Was only ! : 2 a 3 e gold, from these hills how clear and sweet the Pe a Mi geedie hn ays the lady, | iif. Around you nothing but solitude, nothing ; hy, don't you remember?” says th cin. | butearth and sea and sky; “le grandair,” as Go net." Fephes Mr. Fehoack, with ent | the Vr ly put it, in an untransiata, hake ; + me pI sion, | can render ** ran Sliss Laura makes two interrogation points Laine hoor a iol equiva lant. its’ perfect n eyebrows, opens her mouth to ks better of it, closes her red oe nd turns to the window again as the llow-follow-me-ers stop playing and gather in a group, with their eyes fixed upon Mwrial car, gayly decorated with flags, nis gently swaying between heaven and as it slowly deseends toward the lawn. | \ a few moments it touches the ground, and | @ hand-ome young fellow leaps out, and is greeted wich many exclamations of pleasure and surprise. P brother Reginald,” says Miss Beards. And here in Shetland a th of nature and coloring seems to have made for you, and for you alone. The e earth, sea, aud air are yours, to breathe and revel in with a full sense of keen enjoy. ment. Every nerve in the body responds to the appeal: drinks in the al almost fragrant breeze. ch day the brain and the sineWs seem to gain fresh tone and Strength, to return home like a giant refresh- ed.—[ The Ary CLEANING BLACK SILK.—One of the things this ost intoxicating, ley. “So scon returned from London? Why, | “not generally known,” at least in this coun. he only si ed a few days ago." t ‘the Parisian method of eleaning black “Yes: ting ship American Eagle—fastest | sik; the modus operandi is very simple, and of the Alr Line. I heard of her arrival just after breakfast this morning, when it was | shouted by the telephone at the station be- ow the result infinitely superior to that achieved in any other manner. The silk must be thor- oughly brushed and wiped with a cloth, then laid fat on a board or table and sponged well with hot coffee, thoroughly freed from sedi- ment by being strained through muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intended to show, it is allowed to become partially dry and then ironed on the wrong side. The coffee removes every particle of se, and restores the bril- lianey of the silk without imparting to it either the shiny appearance or crackly and papery stiffness obtained by beer, or indeed any other liquid. The silk really appears thickened by the process, and this good effect ispermanent. Our readers who will experi- “Thirty miles away?” yu! that's nothing. We expeet to be able | news froma hundred miles away be- | hy years are past . I not be in the immediate vicin news is shouted!’ says the lady, oluntary movement of her pretty ds toward her pretty rose-tipped ‘or should expect to be deaf for ever- e Never fear, my dear—I mean Miss Beards- y. Such a misfortune as that shall never -and had otherwise THE TYRANNY OF LEITRIM. An Unprejudiced English Account of the Worst of Irish Landlords. (From the Loudon Mayfair. } In speaking of the late Lord Leitrim it would be difficult for the most active imagination and the fullest charity to say anything good. The most that can be promised on the nil nisi prin- ciple is, that the line shall be drawn some- where in discussing his evil quaiiies. The House of Commons was properly shocked when Mr. O'Donnell suggested, under the transparent disguise of a Cumberland en that the murdered earl was a systematic lib- ertine, and had made use of the compulsor’ clauses in the sacred rights of a landlor to gratify his passions. On this point we know nothing, except that the charge which aroused the indignation of the House of Commons is too familiar in Ireland. It is made ovenly in the newspapers, and with a certain circumstantiality that courts the dis- proof ithas never received. But it does not need a reference to this portion of the charge against the late earl to Brove that he was a crushing load upon the life of thousands of helpless men and women; that his presence was a blight over a large tract of country; and that pious men, who were eye-witnesses of the deeds that were done, might well some- times stand still and doubt that there could be a God in Heaven and these things be. The pulation who, by the will of an inscrutable Providence, were subjected to the uncontrolled despotism of Lord Leitrim were not, be remembered, the shiftless, thriftless peas. antry who people some parts of the south of Ireland. They were of the finest Celtic race, not afraid of a day’s work. This characteris- tie is shown in the history of Milford, the town the population subject to Lord chiefly centered. Fifty years ago Milford” was a_ collection of miserable hovels. By the industry and “mana: “’ qualities of the tenantry, who gradually improved the place by building stone houses and reclaiming land, it geada- ally gained an air of prosperity. Under the predecessors of the late Lord Leitrim these tendencies were encouraged, and the industry of the people was cherished by generous treat- ment. It was true that, about ISH, a revalua- tion took place, when the landlord benefited he labor of his tenants. But, though there was then some grumbling, the rise in the rents was acquiesced in, and all went well till the late Lord Leitrim came into possession. A change was speedily effected. hard-natured, cross-grained, imperious man, whose tenden- cies to mar ism had been impreved in the army, Lord Leitrim went to Donegal prepared to “stand no nonsense.” By an accident of birth he became the possessor of vast tracts of land. There were in conneec- lion with the land, in addition to the worms .in the ground and the vermin on the surface, four or five thousand hu- man beings, whose presence was desirab: ely inasmuch as they produced a cert: rent-roll. Lord Leitrim had heard something of the obstinacy of this sort of creature. It sometimes murmured when rent-day came round. It presumed to argue with its land. lord. ‘It whimpered that it must live; and i id even been Known to have this tendency in mmon with the other worms referred to, that, when trodden upon, it would oceasion- ally turn—a process that took the form of fir- ing off rusty blunderbusses, which, if it did not burst in its hands, sometimes killed the landlord. Lord Leitrim, todo him justice in the only possible direction, was a brave man. ‘ear Was unknown to him, and he took a sav- age delight in facing danger. He did not pa- rade this feeling, That would have beer much trouble to take in connection wit! iderate a thing He w i 1 up under his military kK; and if there was a worm in his path he trod upon i A very fair sample of hi tenants is supplied in a k twenty yeal £0, by one ¢ Mr. Lay ins, The Lavins family were among the old- est and most respectable tenants on the estate. The younger Mr. Lavins had built a good house mproved his holding, and When it was finished Lord Leiirim gave him notice to quit. There was no help tor it, and the most the Lavins could expeet was compen- salion for improvements, a matter not then compulsory, for as yet the land act, against which Lord Leitrim |, was not on the stat- ute book. Mr. Lavins’s simple narrative ap- red in all the Irish newspaper at the time, atd is beyond contradiction. Here is an ex- tract, Which will do more than a volume of o ption, to show how this heir to the Don- fe treated the tenantry whose inter bequeathed to him: ” “some time terward,” writes Mr. Lav the mouth of April, the Earl of Leitrim visited his Donegal estate, and I addressed him by letter, ‘hoping his lordship would take my case into consider- tion, and allow me for my improvements.’ I ‘asin Milford the same day I forwarded my application for payment, and got a message that Lord Leitrim ted to see me. Imme- diately L went to the office, and there found Mr. Buchanan, Constable Hughes, and two sub-eonsiables. When I entered, Mr. Buchan- an went to the inside office, and’ I heard him say that Mr. Lavins was waiting. Lord Leit- rim and his agent, Mr. Wray, came out, and his lordship addressed Constable Hughes as follows: have sent for you, sergeant, to hear the following communication read,” and turning to Mr. V he desired him to read my letter, after which the Earl of Leitrim ad- titude toward his ter, written about 2 EI occur, even though you should chance to be at the very side of the shouter. Edison is at this Moment perfecting an instrument that begins todeliver its me: es ina Legere gf oud Voice, which inereases in volume as it ls car- orward, until it reaches the most distant “int it is intended to reach, thus maijntainin » tone all along the route. How glori- all these Edisonian inventions are!” he tinues, with a glow of enthusiasm, “and hat humdrum times our ancestors must have had without them! Why! they are the very life of the age. There's the phonograph, for mentalize on apron or cravat, will never again try any other meth ADTICE TO THOSE WHO Owz.—Make a full | estimate of all you owe, and of all thatis owing to you. Reduce the same to a note. As fast as you collect pay over to those youowe. If you cannot, renew your note Crary year, and et the best security you can. Go to business ditigentiy and be industrious: waste no idle moments; be very economical in all things; discard ail pride; be faithful in your duty to | God by regular and hearty prayer morning instarce- ‘ I beg pardon; you are looking | and night: attend church and meeting regu- Icannot expect you to take as much | larly every Sunday; and do unto all men as t in these seientifie subjects as Ido. Is | you would as they Should do unto you. If you nald coming this way?” | are too needy in cireumstances to give to the > “answers Miss Laura, demure | poor, do whatever else is in your power cheer- ¥ “he is still holding Bella's hand, and total- | fuly, but you ean, help the poor and anfor- ly ignoring all the other welcoming hands ex- | tunate. Pursue this course dill gently and sin- tended to him.” cerely for seven years, and if you are not hap- Le old, old story that is ever new?” | py, comfortable and independent in your cir- Qtotes Mr. Fishback, as he peeps over the | cumstances come to me and I will pay your Shoulder of his fair guest at the new arrival; | debts.—[Ben Franklin. aud then, suddenly rising and confronting her, he exclaims: ** You must have heard that story Yery, very often, Laura. forgive my calling | present, and the boys were mean and would 3ou so. but you used to ‘permit it in the days | hot introduce him. He finally plucked up We Went black berrying together some ten years | courage, and stepping up toa young lady re- 7 egjand foreive nie again, but, upoa my Word, | quested the Pleasure of her company for the januot heip asking you, impelled as fam by | next dance. She looked at him in surprise, Some mysterious power, Why have you never | ‘and informed him she had not the pleasure o! ae his acquaintance. “ Well,” remarked Caze- A blush rises to her cheek, but she looks up | hovia! you don't take any more chances in his face calmly, and replies: “Idon't re- | ]aq%_| wrember the biackberry episodes, and I have | i ——— read remained unmarried beeause I vowed whena | #g-Col. Robert Ingersoll denies that he is a young girl never to marry unless convinced | communist. He is making too much money only love of the man | * a lecturer to believe in dividing it.—[ Phila. mes. He Was AN ENTIRE STRANGER to the girls that f Was the first and Whose wile i became.” dressed me as follows: ‘Now, sir, I know you well, and not one foot of land will you ever en- joy under me. I do not care, sir, whether you area Ribbonman, a Molly Maguire’s man. a Tenant Right Man, or a White boy. I care for no man. I will do what is right, and evict you after some months. You made the matter pub- lie; this is my answer for the present.’ After his lordship had delivered the above commu- nication, he turned out of the office, and did not give me an opportunity of replying.” Mr. Wiay, then Lord Leitrim’s agent, was so shocked with this unparalleled tyranny, that, after vainly attemping to move his lordship to do justice, he resigned a lucrative post, rather than be a party to the transaction. It cannot be said that Lord Leitrim was unmoved by the execration which the act called forth, not only in Donegal, but throughout Ireland. Mr. La- yins’ father, an old man, had spent his life-time in improving his holding, and had brought it up to the value of £1,540), Lord Leitrim’s an- swer to the entreaties of the younger Lavins, and the remonstrances of the press was, that if more was said, he would turn out old Lavins. More was said, and the earl, faithful to his romise, turned out the old man from the home fe had built, and banished him from the land on which he had been born, and which was hallowed to him by the grave of his fatuer and mor her. We cite this case, not because it is worse an any other, but because the evidence sup- porting it is documentary and has never been dicted. What Lord Leitrim was to the avins, he was toevery man and woman on his estate. Cruel, relentless, remorseless, he paid no attention to the oy of strong men in Tete a ony, and turned with impatient ejacu- lation from the whimpering of women and the sobbing of children. To a simple, sober, in- dustrious people, bewildered by his impetuous purpose, and appalled by his iron will and strength of character, he Seemed to be a curse of God which passed all understanding. - Just twenty years ago, some poor feilow, after long brooding over the tyranny of the oppressor, broke forth in artless, but for that reason all the more impressive, Song:— +-Tenants from their homes evicted, Built by ancestors of yore, Scenes too sad to be depleted, — Who would not such enes deplore? r yle, niry isa Traitor, Thana highwayman more vile, cme who knew the howored father ‘Of this fiend, whom widows curse, Thinka witeh'in stormy weather Changed him when he was at nurse,** This rude rhyme accurately depicts the feel- ings with which the peasantry regarded this terrible man. They had known landlords who were equal to the average hardness of demanding their rents when due, and even going the onath of dispossessing when the money was no longer forthcoming. They had heard of landlords down in the south’ who rode rougieshod over their tenantry. But this handsome looking man, with his neat- ly trimmed beard, his military stride, his abrupt gestures, his commanding mein, and his heart harder than any millstone, was su- pernatural in his inhumanity. On the night when the news of hisdeath reached Westmin- ster, and was told to a noble lord who knew Lord Leitrim personally, and had full opportu- nities, as a neighbor, of realizing his Rosition, he said, after a moment's pause, “Well, the only hing I wonder at is, that he was not shot long ago.” That the tragedy was so long delayed was due to the earl’s dauntless intrepidity, and the personal terror which surrouded him as an added atmosphere. He carried his life in his hand. But he also carried loaded in his belt. Men who, driven desperation, meditated — assassina- tion, had to take into account the prob- able consequences! Eighteen years ago the hatred that dogged Lord Leitrim’s footste; and the curses which poisoned the air breathed, found expression at the mouth of a blunderbuss. Lord Leitrim had, so the sto runs uncontradicted th oigh Donegal "varied the fierce delight of Dat. tling with the fathers of the households on his estate, by debauching one of the daughters. The girl’s uncle constituted himself the aver- Tr of the family honor, and fired at Lord itrim as he rode Er. The shot missed, and Lord Leitrim, looking round, saw smoke issuing from a house on the roadside. ‘Without a moment's hesitation, te jumped off his horse ran into the house, and, sin- gle-handed, seized the would-be assassin, and handed him over to the custody of the police. This was the sort of man fo be feared as well as hated, and fear kept murder back, till the fair April day just gone by, when the long curses of twenty-five years’ heartless oppression came home to roost, and the man who had bestridden a town like a hideous night-mare, died a dog’s death on the roadside. ‘John Taylor .has been sentenced in seston tobe imprisoned for life for wife-mur- it should | eceipts For The Tab! Pea Sour.—Take a piece of shank of beef, what is commonly called a 15-cent soup-bone: pour over it three and a half quarts of cold water ; let it simmer five or six hours, orlonger if the meat be not then tender; take out the meat; set the soup away until the next morn- ing, when the fat will have hardened and ean be entirely removed ; have ready a pint of split peas which have been thoroughly cooked and then mashed through a collander and add to e stock ; I have found it a Food plan to then 8 the whole through a seive before return- ing it to the soup-kettle ; now add two onions halved or quartered, a half teaspoonful of cel- ery seed ; pepper and salt to taste; place the soup over a good fire, and let it boil until re- duced one-third, taking out the onions when they shail have seasoned it sufficiently; the peas should not be cooked down too dry, and the soup while boiling should be stirred fre- quently, say with a skimmer, to prevent the peas thidt will settle from burning. I add this or the inexperienced cook. This makes a soup tureen full, and will last a family of three three or four days. Two slices of bread toast- ed and cut in small squares should be served with the soup. CLEAR GRavy Soup.—Take the remnants of Sunday’s roast, (after using for Monday's din- ner cold ;) either beef or mutton wiil do; break the bones well and cut off the remaining meat; put both into your soup pot, with one onion, a sprig of parsley and celery top or a teaspoon- ful of celery seed; cover with boiling water and simmer gently all day, skimming off all fat as it rises: about linch-time add three tur- bips and same each of carrots and par- Ips ; pepper and salt ; half ean tomatoes. BAKED CaLr’s HEAD.—Wash the head well and let soak for a short while; take out the brains and tie them in a thin cloth and boil them with the tongue and head in cold water, adding a little salt; let it boil for three hours, removing the scum; cut it all up together in fine pieces, aud add a little onion, one tea- speonful of allspice, pepper, and ‘salt, two tabespoonfuls of butter, and two wineglasses of wine :cover all with bread crumbs and eggs well beaten, and bake until brown. BaKED Ham.—Cover your ham with cold water and simmer gently, just long enough to loosen the skin so that it can be pulled off; this will probably be in from three to four hours, according to the size of your ham ; when skin- ned put in a dripping pan in the oven, pour over ita teacup of vinegar and one of hot water, in which dissolve a teaspoonful of Eng- lish mustard; bake Hey basting with the liquid every few minutes for two hours; then cover the ham all over to the depth of one inch with coarse brown sugar, press it down with your hand firmly, and do not baste again un- ii the sugar has formed a thick crust, whieh it will soon doi very slow oven; lei it remain a full hour in after covering with sugar, until it Lecomes a rich golden brown, When done, dr: in from the liquor in the pan and put ona dish to cool; When it 18 oul, but not cold press, by turning another flat dish on top, with a weight over it, You will never want to eat ham any other way when you have once tas ed this, and the pressing makes it cut firm- 1, ches or slicing. KI MILK POTATOES.—Take good, soui d poiatoes, cut them in slices, (raw,) and put tle milk, according to the quantity you wish ton e, in pudding dish, then, aiter you have put the pc i ik put it in the oven for about 2) minutes, then and put the potatoes with the Same saucepan to boil until done ; season betore you put them to boil. SARATOGA slice and pare six good-sized potatoes with a potatoe-slicer—a knife will not do, for if they are not yery thin they will not beerisp. You can buy icer fe > cents at any hardware store, “Let the slicer remain in coid water all hight; in the morning drain them through a colander: wipe them dry and drop them into boiling fat as you would doughnuts; do not let them brown too much ; sprinkle a little salt over them as you take them out with a skim. mer. You can make a large quantity of these and warm them by putting them in the oven as you Want them, LPOUGHNUTS THAT WILL NOT SOAK Fat.— One egg, one cup sugar, one cup milk, one tea- spoonful melted lard, a little nutmeg and salt, two teaspoonfuls of ‘baking-powder, sifted in flour enough to roll nicely, but not too hard; cut in round rings and fry in hot lard. CREAM PUF¥FS.—One-haif pound of butter, three quarters of a pound of flour, eight eg; Stir the butter into one pint of warm wate set it on the firein a saucepan. When it boils stirin the flour and boil one minute; take it oft and let it cool. Beat the eggs light separate. ly, and stir into the cooled paste. Bake on buttered tins, dropping a spoonful at atime and not let them run. together. Inside Cream.—One quart of milk, four tablespoon- fuls of corn-starch, two eggs, two cupfuls of white sugar; wet the corn-starch with milk enough to make a smooth paste ; boil the rest of the milk ; to this add the corn-stareh, sugar, eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, lemon of yanilla to taste. Boil and. stir. until smooth. Set it aside to cool. Split the cakes with a fork and fill with the cream. PotaTors.—For family of four 3 Present Condition of Russian Lite- rature. At the present time the literature of Russia is very largely of an ephemeral nature. Jour- nalism has given a superacial character to the literary cultivation of the people. The liberty accorded to the press by the present emperor is more favorable to the dissemination of gen- eral information than to the generation of profound intellectual creations. The news- pepe, reigns supreme in Russ Birrature 10 e in- ws before it, or is yoked to its car. tellectual cancer of Russia is eclectism. The new generation of writers has drifted back to the old methods, abandoning the purity and truth that Pushkin instilled’ into the Htera- ture. Withal there are poets who haye shown originality and keen sense of the beautiful— Maikof, modeled on the Greek school of Ba- tuschkof; Fet, a disciple of Heine; Acsakof, a follower of Khomiakof. . The most distinguished names among the modern poets are those of Count Tolstoi, dead but a few years; Rosenheim, Pleseteeief, sa- tirists. Ostrovski stands at the head of' the Russian dramatists. Of contemporary novel- ists, lvan Poursncnel stands foremost. The works of the elder Acsakof, a follower of Go- fol, who died some twenty years since, still keep their place in the world of letters. Prince Odojevski, Pavlof, and Solohubd are writers of successful novels.’ Grigorovich is one of the most national and representative of all the novelist Goncharof, Vissemski, Potiekin Leone Tolstoi, Saltykof, Melnikof, Selivanof are amaoug the most prominent novelists of the day. The ‘field of fiction is largely occupied by women. Some of the most truthful and artis- tic studies of Russian life are found in novels published by women known under the names e! Crestoyski, Voveek, Kokhanovskaia. Ii no ovher country are the conditions of literature so favorable to women as in Russia. The Rus- sian women possess remarkable perspicacity und insight, a keen sense of humor, exquisite tact, the art of embellishment in action and speceh, a suavity of language that they owe to the large part played by the French tongue in their education, and the atmosphere and social grace in which they are trained. No women in the world possess such advantages of obser- vation and experience. They are born diplo- mates, and are important factors in the gov- ernment of the empire. At this moment the mos: dangereus element of socialism is found in the women of Russia, as the novels of Tour- guenefl show us. This incendiary element, this under-current of the empire, is at least the strongest safeguard against the elegant eclecticism that would benumb the intellect of polished, still half-uncivilized, Russia. And as this robust revolutionary force gains in power and strength, it must bring about a re- actionary school of literature that will carry those whio are witness to its results back to the youthful power and beauty of Pushkin and the martyrs of Siberia and the scaffold in the year '25.—[ Charlotte Adams,in Harper's Mag- azine for June, Crops IN NORTHERN NEW YoRK.—A special dispatch to the New York Times, from Troy, says: Cold and rainy weather, with frequent frosts and ice, is reported in the mountainous districts of the North. The apple, grape, and fruit crops of Northern and Central New York and Vermont have not suffered perceptibly as yet, however, and the general effect of the cold snaps for several weeks past, it is be- lieved, will not be disastrous, but rather has checked too rapid development and toughened all growing vegetation. Plowing is delayed all over the State from the excessively moist condition of the soil. Winter wheat promises an enc rmous yield. A WoMAN WHO MARRIED A Woman.—The unbappiest of her sex lives all forlorn in Tus- carora, Nev. To begin with, her Christian name is Marancy, which of itself is an over- whelming affliction. Next, she and her rela- tives are not on speaking terms, for she fell in love with a gay young stranger, whose looks they did not like, and in spite of their prayers and threats eloped with the same and ‘was married. Finally her husband has turned out to be a woman, and made her the laughing stock of the town. The real name of the de- ceiver who tricked her into this mock-mar- Tiage is Sarah.—[ Western Hrchange, MvcH as the starry heaven with its in- numerable worlds fils man’s soul with won- der and awe, making him feel his own little. ness, yet there is something within him which eleva‘es iim above sun and stars, above ange’s and seraphs, and this is his moral na- ture.—[ hler. 4@The Norristown Herald insists that no mau likes to hold a girl baby in his arms unl she is seventeen years old. ‘#@TI don’t like to talk much with peop’e who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo a little while, but one soon tires of it—[Carlyle. 4%-John Whilidin, out at Nevada city, en- tered a bairoom, drew his gun, and said, I’ ike ol pped and John didnt i welve pi po} an ol im ive Idng enough to regret that he made his propo. sition so broad. THE COURTEOUS HOUSEWIFE. How She Politely Received the Omni present Dealer in Small Arti A There is no man lives inthe suburbs Of the metropolis, Knoweth pot the licensed vender's howl— ‘Though many its furms, | wis, cis It was an excellent woman Who when on the daily breeze Were borne the accents, ** @iaz pud Int" *- Mackrelllll! * and ** Strorbereeeazzz!"" When the twenty-seventh grinder Of scissors knocked at the door, In_a modest manner, ladylike— ‘What's the feminine of ** swore?! Excwable ts he. At home a wife he may have, le may have children dear, refore his merrs howl!he lots ‘Vibrate the atmosphere, Suppose I were a widuw ‘And destitute of pelf, Quickly, Ttrow, then inight I know Flow that it was myself. Wherefore whatever pedier ‘Bingeth at my front-door dell, Right softly will I speak to him, ‘will not give him—fits; For he hath bard words that pedlor, At each door where he doth ring, And ‘tis for his wife aud children dear That be doth how] and sing."* mt So spake te herself that housewife ALIO A. M. oF s0 And took the bread-board unto her And kneaded of the dough— She bad no Lrish servant-girl, Her own work she did full well When, ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-lingt A ring came at the bell. With beating bosom she hastened To the door, er did say, ‘Any ice-cream freezers or mousetraps?"? ‘No, sir, thauk you; none to-day.’ v. She had been back in the kitchen Ten minutes and no more When some one did ring like everything All at the good front door, She wiped the flour from her fingers Avid went to the portico: ny mackerel to-day, ma'am? My good man, thank yi She went back towards the kiteh Tiggealing chat bel dtd Fi ng-a-ling-a-lng! that bell did r Re ht lus! tly again, = She hastened to the front door; “Of sewing-machines is none With the: Whinger & Seelson can compare’’— “Thank you, but 1 have one,** ve She had got to the head of the basement Staircase, but no step mere, When ting-a-ling ling! camé another ring ‘Allat the good frout door, And the dgaler had scarceiy uttered His humble ** Any old clov* When the door was vehemently shut to With an emphatic ** No.** Ten minutes later a de: Tn the magie fountain pen Was told, No, no! Want none! Go! ‘Don't You come here again!"? Five minutes thereatter ihe agent Who in parts a Bible sod Had the merry front door shut in his face Ere his mission he had tole And the merry saitor who dress goods. Had smuggied by the piece, ‘Was bid with a sneer walk «ff on his ear Or she"d summon the polic Vi. Next a stuttering life Insurance and remarked + D—do'!— ned the door like a whirldwind: dog on you."* Then a vender of diamond jewelry Atcighty cents a set Did hear her say, ‘+ No; none to-day, You just get up and get. ** ext came a dealer in—what ‘twas He ne‘er had a chance to show For thi jent hou-ewife heliowed “*No! No! Not NU! NOL sy vin. About 21. M. the clergyman, ‘Timid, and thin, and tail, Rang at the Courteous Housewife's door, ‘To make a pastoral cail. He had hardly toucbed the door-bell, It had not answered its note, When the Courtec ‘And seized him : By the choker white she seized him, Down the front steps went hi And his head she vigorously di ‘Against the linden tree, Right vigorously she jammed tt ‘Til down the blood did pour; “Will you bring anything here again? yy Will you ring again at the door? ‘ou — — (Put in some blanks) Jam — — — (Some more!) ore still!) — —- (More still!) hen add about a scors : Ebi —? — vor ‘There is no man lives in the suburbs Of the metropolis. Kuoweth not the licensed vender’s how! its many forms, I wis, ra a LM. ¥. World, The Yankee Privateer. A STORY FOR THE MARINES. The steam-schooner Coon, her snowy cloud of canvas contrasting with the dark cloud from her funnels, was cleaving the water like a thing of life at the rate of fifteen knots an hour. The crew, consisting of some fifty des- Beradoes of all nationalities, had cleared the eck for action. Her guns had been crammed to the muzzle with shot and shell. Every man of her picked crew carried a rifle in his pene and a revolver and a cutlas in his pone cried Captain Scudder, pointing to a ship under English colors in the distance, you see that darned Britisher? There floats your fortune. You've sailed and steamed a couple of thousand of miles, and you've left the august shadow of that glorious bird of freedom, the American Eagle, but there’s your reward. It’s a tarnation fat prize, and darn me if we don’t chaw her up in the twinkling of a handspike.” . This eloquent speech was cheered to the echo, and part of the crew went below to sit upon the safety-valve of the engine. The Coon flashed through the waves with redoubled speed, and soon was alongside of the unfortunate Britisher. “Now, my lads!” cried Captain Scudder, waving his Gatling gun over his head, “one well-aimed broadside, then lay alongside, and boarders awa: “Stop, massa!” exclaimed the black cook, “Sambo see some British genelam a coming off in ihe Jolly-boat. Golly! now dey make her “Avast, my lads!” shouted the Captain, after verifying the black cook’s assertion through his marine binocular. “As Sambo says, we have visitors. Darn me, but we'll teach them manners.” By this time the boat from the Britisher ap- proach the Coon, and two of her erew, in the porous, of her Captain and Barriste ad presented themselves befure the Y Commander. asked the Ameri- “What do you want?” cal if To We vy what you want,” replied the Eng- ish sailor. “Guess I'll tell you that considerable slick,” said Capt, Scudder. “We are going to blow you out of the water i. eae you can’t,” returned the Englishman, irmly. We have letters of marque.” ‘Won't do.” “We have gota crew of the greatest scoun- drels unhanged, and I don’t mind telling you that they are small pumpkins to me,”” “That doesn’t matter in the least.” ‘Then I guess you are stronger than I sup- posed. You mean to show fight?” we don’t. Weare too weak for that.” “Then what isto prevent me from blowing you into the middle of next week?’ “This!” And the Barrister-at-law (at the re- quest of the Captain) read the treaty of Wash- ington to the American Commander. “Bout ship!” shouted the bafiled Scudder, turning deadly pale. “Ofcourse, you and I, my lads, are not at all the sort of chaps to break the law of nations,” So the Sagieomen returned to the British- er, and the Coon put her head about for the nearest American port. Upon their arrival, the crew of the Yankee privateer got religion to a man, and spent the remainder of their days in pious respectability, listening to.the orthodox sermons of the Key. Parson Scudder—once their Captain, now their pastor.—[London Punch. ASEXTON As A MARRIAGE BROKER.—Cole- man Newman, sexton of the Synagogue Beth Israel, in Brooklyn, has begun a suit in Justice Bloom’s Court in that city to recover from Mrs, Sarah Jacobs $75 as commission for. arranging a marriage between her daughter Fanny an Frank Morris. Mrs. Jacobs ig the widow of a dealer in second-hand clothing, and, as well as Morris, was a member of the Synagogue Beth Israel. By virtue of his position Newman was able to introduce Mrs. Jacobs to Morris’s father. He claims that he informed Mrs Jacobs that he knewa nice husband for Fanny, and that she told him to “go ahead.” Hesays that the mai 6 was solely due to his efforts, and that when Mrs. ve her daughter $2,500 at the wedding Mr. Morris gave him $30 as commission. The suit will be tried in afew days—[{N. Y. World, ¢2d, Ae It was a 3d democrat who ob- district served on Saturday, “Of course it’s right to in vestigate those scandalous doings it ori ‘ id Louisiana, but I do oo “ it could have re-elected Dean.” nson (after a lo-g Its i Riown. What will 8a) Brown (in a whisper): oie much, you know—‘Good something 0’ that sort. She'll say [Bunch. . STEAMERS, &c. POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.— Heat apes pee ach week, sv.0 0 NOMI NT PRREY" wd one te LEONARDTOWN, at Inter- Mediate landings going and revurstngy For turcher fo mation inquire at G. L. Sherlit’s Goal and Wort UMoe, 1114 and ¥ i Sos, Uaes: 328 Pennsylvania avenue, swift, el t iron Steamer LADY 0) THE LAKE, ied J. Born: VILL Jeaves 6th-street wharf, further notice, evesy MON. DAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 5 o'cl"x ‘with steamers for Boston, Provi- orthern Points, Returni: eaves Norfolk every TUESDAY, THUBSDAY snd SATURDAY, ai 4 o'clock p. m. FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, Bteamer JOHN W. 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Aigeriay Weds, July St » July ‘edn om New York. jteerage, $80and 100 gold, Europe at lowest rates. ‘Through bills of ladiug given for Beltast, Gias- A Pavre, Antwerp ap other ports on the Con- fiear and for Mediterranean ports, oft treight and passage apply at, the Company's cabin, to OTIS BIGELOW, 606 7th street, Wash- iy CHAS. @. FRANCKLYN, Agent,'N.¥. BANKERS. $10. $20. $50. $100. stocks z ‘ in the United States; has nothing WEDNESDAY? | THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS, THE EVENING STAR. THE WEEKLY STAR. The proprietors of Tuk STAR present to the Public its daily and weekly editions, reapes tively, as not only the completest and best, bat also the cheapest epitome of events occurring at the national capital, and of general news ag well, to be found anywhere. How well the Public understands this is conclusively showa. by the exceptionally wide circulation they both enjoy, not in the City of Washington alone, but throughout all the States and Ter- ritories, In order that the reader not now familiar with the paper and its strong hold on the pub- lic may understand at a glance upon what elements its great popularity is based, the opinions of some of its contemporaries as te its merits are appended. It is needless to add that no person is so good a judge of the value of any given newspaper as the men who com- duct newspapers themselves. | What Other Papers Say About The Star, Eo.) Decidedly one of the best newspapers published pa in common witt the rabid partisan press, with which our country ts At this Ume unfortunately overstocked. A sprit of frankness, candor and fair ‘aling gives charac- ter to its articles and adds much to its dignity an@ value, Asacompendium of the current events of the day, it is wit 8 rival ‘cwhernian (N.C), yearned its present prosperity by tte taining news and the abi ity which it in the treatment of all current toptos, Lis solid eritsare sufticiently testified to by fact that it occupies so prominent a place tn Waste ington journalism it roves as its years im— crease, and Was! id hardly be W. ton without It.—Ballimore Americone: 6 atta New the oldest paper in Washington city, an@ q | one of the most valuable, as a living picture ef Metropolitan and Congressional life; has earned @ continuous and prosperous existence ly sagacome ce of popular sentiment and papular wan all its original compeers who were leas capable, and lees enterprising .— Hille recorder, One of the mo { Interesting and best edited ad atest Tesh Washi anxiously pa in the handsof every pubile for reliabie information nation.—Parkersburg (W. Everywhere recognized ag th of Washington, as it leading newspaper is decidedly the most newsy, racy and readable. Its weekly edilion is a come newspaper, and is unsurpassed In variety and eteness of news by any paper in the Uat Gallatin (Tenn) Exumiuer, ? Ute as near to being au independent paper ag le; the journal of no party, but essential the organ of the District of Columiia, and as sack has made tself the favorite Washington newsja+ Salt per, nesessary to everybody in the cay pital, Lake (Utah) Herald, ooo The one conspicuous success of Rali-m der the able managemet proprietors more prosperous thi oud hewspaper in Its own Meld: pusiness diligently, and makes. 1 ¥. Tribune, The leading paper of Washington, and one of the most prontabfe tn the country unier its prosemt management it is ably edited and alw: bri and newsy,—Indianapolis Journal a) Sree A bewspaper that can thrive whe and sixteen journals have falled since 1790, does net nee certi good character from its ce- temporaries.—Baltimure (azetle, One of the neatest printed and most readable pers that comes to our table, “The low subscription rive places It within the reach of every fainhy. Warrenton ( Va. ee Index, A splendid newspaper; filled with everything of capital of the nation; so cl interest from the athe country can ‘have it,— Pe own —*. pmey by it, two hundre@ Bi ul, public-spirited journal, accurate news and present anus acceptable to the family citcle-—Pred- rick (Md.) Examiner. One of the best papers published in Washingtom city: we advise aft oar friends wishing the incase bews from the nat nal capital to subscri Surry (N. C.) 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