Bellefonte, Pa., November 15, 1889.
man
THE FRONT GATE.
An oid and crippled gate am I
And twenty years have passed
Since I was hung up high and dry
Betwixt these post as fast.
But now I've grown so pawerfalj weak
Despised by men and beast—
I'm scarcely streng enough to squeak,
Although I'm mever greased.
"Twas twenty years ago, I say,
When Mr. Enos White
Came kind of hanging round my way
’Most every other Bight. :
He hung upon my starboard side,
And she upon the other,
Till Susan Smith became his ‘bride,
And in due time a mother.
1 groaned intensely when I heard—
Despite I am no churl—
My doom breathed in a single word ;
The baby was a girl!
And ss she grew, and grew, and grew,
I loud bemoaned my fate ;
For she was very fair to view,
And I—I was the gate!
Then, in due time, a lover came
Betokening my ruin,
A dapper fellow, Brown by name,
The grown-up baby wooin’.
They sprang upon me in the gloam,
And talked of moon:and star,
They're married now and live at home
Along with ma and pa.
My lot was happy fora year,
No courting nighver day—
1 had no thought. I had no fear
Bad luck would ceme my way.
Bunt oh ! this morning, save the mark!
There came a wild surprise,
A shadow flitted, grim and dark,
Across my sunuy skies.
A doctor, witha knowing smile,
A nurse with face serene,
A bust!e in the house the while,
Great Scott! What can it mean?
My hinges ache, my back is weak,
My pickets in a'whirl ;
I hear that awful doctor speak :
It is another girl.
—Denver Tribuwe.
THE BITER BITTEN.
One Case in Which the End Justified |p, and Katie, brave and true, left to |
the Means.
There wes death in the house; there
was horror on every face; there was 1
the trampling of men’s feet striking a | smiles
chase, the price being a thousand dol-
lars, which we found in father’s pocket
book. When the fumes of drink were
gone away {irom my poor father’s
brain,when he recalled the ruin he had
wrought upon us all, he took his own
life.”
Here Berta, creeping into her broth-
er's arms, broke into a passion of sob-
bing, and Katie drew both into a close
embrace. .
“I see,” she said, “that you must be-
gin the world again, Karl, but you are
young, brave and strong. Do not fear.
Tell me, who is this false friend ?”
“Herman Schornn, our compatriot.”
The girl's face became very pale
and a look of terror for a moment crept
into her dark eyes. Then it was re-
placed by one of stern resolution, as if
she mentally registered a vow she
would keep till death.
The next month passed in a whirl
of business perplexities. The gentle-
men who had advanced money to buy
the machinery demanded it back ; ‘the
new proprietor flourished his bill of
sale, and forbade the work to go far-
ward until he was ready to direct it,
and then Charles Wurtz had his ve-
venge, and but an empty one.
Not one man in the factory under-
stood the preparation of the material
needed for the invention. This had
been prepared by the father and son.
Withoutit the entire factory was worth-
less. Through a sharp lawyer Charles
Wurtz was offered terms. The money
{ advanced by the silent partners was to
be paid in full, and he was to be taken
into full partmership. Ihe offer was
| peremptorily refused, and the false
friend found himself the owner of ex-
{ pensive machinery he could not use
and a patent he could not sell.
promise, but Charles was offered a
{ home in Germany with her mother’s
i sister. So the old home was broken
{ wait until fortune smiled again upon
her lover.
Bnt women ane hard to undertands,
and sneers when Herman
“I geet! Tt 3s in this
is it not? What a pity it is of no!
use. Would you get me a glass of wa-
ter, Herman ? [ see you have a cool-
er in that corner.”
But as she took the water she hand-
ed him the envelope, which he put
carefully away in the drawer just as
Mrs Hill, mindful of the proprieties,
entered the room. ’
* * * *
“Justa year a go to-day since I
came here,” Charlie Wurtz thought,as
he entered the small room of a hoard-
ing-house that he called home, “and
I am as far from Katie as ever. My
patient, loving darling. But for her
letters I think I should utterly despaxr.
Bat while she is content to wait, sure-
ly I am man enough to work.”
Then he espied a letter, a bulky
«locument, under the blaze of the gas
he had just lighted. A folded paper
dropped as he tore it open, and lay at
his feet as he read:
“At last, at last, Charles, I send you
the bill of’sale that frees your inven-
tion. Don’t blame me for the coquetry
that won my way into Herman
Schornn’s house where mother and I
lunched to-day. And don't think I
stole this. 1 have put into ‘the envel-
ope that held it two five-hundred-dol-
lar notes, part of my little patrimony,
dear, which you shall repay me some
It might have ended in seme com.
«clerkship in another city, and Berta a |
and there were not wanting significant |
day. He has the full price he paid,
| but has not been driven to suicide. I
| saw Mr. Pratt about a week ago, and
i he says everything is as you left it, as
' he and Mr. Warner were hoping that
| either you would sell your secrét or
| Schornn his interest, and they get back
| the money they had imvested in the
| machinery. Burn it! Tear it up!
| It is yours far more honestly than it
ever was Herman Schornn’s. And
| come home, Charlie, to
“Your faithful Kame.”
| Tearit! Burnit! After reading it
| Charlie Wurtz did both and packed
| his trunk fer home and Katie.
{Herman Schornn blustered and swore
| when he passed the factory in full
| work with € harlie Wurtz directing the
men. But when he hurried howe to
| find the document that would shut the
| doors once more he found only the
envelope, tion. Sergeant then yielded and offer®d
to guide them. He was told that if he
| led them into an ambush he would be
instantly killed. With Sergeant at
their head the party ascended the moun-
tain to Pocket gap. This was on last
Tuesday morning.
Then they cautiously made the des-
cent. Having gone three miles they
met a mountaineer. He informed them
that Howard and his men were a short
distance awav, coming in their direction.
An ambush was planned, for in the
mountains any kind of fighting is con-
sidered legitimate. Ieaving the path,
Judge Lewis and his men passed seven-
ty-five yards to the right until they
came to a cave in the side of the mouu-
tain. In the mouth of this cave they
concealed themselves. Sergeant and
the mountaineer were taken with them
and kept under guard. The path was in
full view. There they awaited the
coming of the Howards.
In about fifteen minutes Howard and
twenty-five or thirty men came in full
view. Half of Lewis’ men fired upon
them, and a few moments later the other
halfsent in a volley. Six of Howard's
men were killed, their dead bodies being
left in the path.
Eleven were wounded, as was after-
ward learned from people of the neigh-
borhood, but it is not known whether
any of the wounded have since died.
The names of the killed and wounded
have not yet been learned here :
As soon as the two volleys were dis-
charged the Howard party broke and
ran into the woods. Neither Wils How-
ard nor his lieutenant, Jenmings. was
hurt. With the remnant of their men
they escaped by the way of Pocket gap
over the mountains.
Wils Howard, as soon as he was safe,
rallied a powerful party of his friends
from both the Virginia and Kentucky
side. Twenty men from one place joined
him. He also re-enforced by a number
of tough characters who are employed
on a new railroad crossing the mountain.
He also forced into service twelve or
fifteen farmers, threatening to kill them
if they would net join him and fight for
him. With nearly 200 men he returned
through the Pocket gap in search of
Judge Lewis.
Lewis’ scouts warned him of the ap-
proach of a party three times his own in
The west Virginia Vendetta.
Another Battle Between the Hafrields
and MecCoys— Wounded Prisoners
Tied to Trees and Shot.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—A special dispatch
from Milton, W. Va, says: ‘Reports of
HOME SONG.
By LoNcrenLow.
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Home keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care ;
To stay at home is best.
another battle between the Hatfields and | Weary and homesick and distressed,
McCoys have reached here.
“Fridav night a party of about thirty
of the McCoys came across a Blum-
field camp in the woods about six miles |
from Green Shoals. Both bands were |
bound for headquarters of their respec- |
tive factions and were heavely armed.
“When the McCoys discovered their
enemies they sent out scouts and discov-
ered that there were about a score in tiie
camp. They crawled up though the
dense underbrush and poured in a vol-
ley on their sleeping foes. :
“In an instant it was returned and the
Hatfields, although taken by surprise,
were so much better atmed than the Me-
Coys, having repeating rifles, that they
soon put them to flicht.
“The one volley fired by the McCoys
did terrible execution Halt a dezen
men were wounded and two were slain.
John Blunifield, one of the leaders of his
factions, was instantly killed.
“By his side lay Owen Brown, the
son of the woman who was shot in her
farm house at Fudgy’s Creek. Two
bullets had gone through his body, one
piercing the heart. Six other men were
wounded, one of them, whose name 1s
unkown, being fatally hurt.
“After dawn the Hatfields found two
more dead men and fonr desperatel y
wounded men were captured. Some of
the wounded McCoys must have been
carried off by their friends, for the trail
of their retreat through the wocds was
marked by blood stains.
“The prisoners captured are Charles
Lambkin, John Cain,——Cain and Pete
McCoy. The names of the dead are
unkrown.
“The Cain whose first name was not
learned was so badly wounded that his
captors left him to die where he lay, but
the other three were compelled to march
tothe Hatfields headquarters,which they
reached about noon yesterday. As soon
as the story of the attack and capture
was told a sort of court-martial was held.
“The prisoners were notallow to speak
in their own defense, and after a short |
They wander east, they wander west,
And are baffled and beaten an blown about
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt :
To stay at home is best.
Then stay at home, my heart, and rest;
The bird is safest in its nest :
O'er all that flutter their wings and fly
A hawk is hovering in t' e sky;
To stay at home is best.
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Climbed a Tree in His Slap.
| The Remarkable Feat of a Venango
County Somnambulist.
Nov.
|
| PrrrsBurG. 3.—A
tory township, Venango countv. A
10-year-old son of James McMillin, on
Tuesday night, got up in his sleep and
went from the house to a large oak tree,
which stands near the barr, and climbed
to the top, about forty feet from the
ground, and perched himself ona limb
overhanging the barn. His older broth-
er, with whom he was sleeping, awoke
during the night and, missing his bed-
fellow, at once called his father, asking
where his brother was.. The entire
household was aroused and search made:
for the missing one. After searching for
about an hour. Mr McMillin went in-
to the haymow, when something heavy
fell on the roof of the barn. Mr. Mec-
Millin, ascending a ladder, to his horror
saw his missing boy sitting astride the
comb of the roof. The father crawled
quietly upon the roof to the lad’s back
and caught him before he awoke. The:
boy could not tell anything about his
performance at the time, but on Thurs-
dav morning, while going to the barn to
help feed the stock, he stopped and look-
ing up into the tree,remarked that it was
"a wonder he hadn’t been killed when he
jumped from that limb to the barn, and
related the whole circumstance to his
father. This is the first time the lad has
been known to walk in his sleep.
CI ——
| - ——
! “Bishop” Oberley’s Joke.
strange’
case of sleep-walking comes from Vie-:
chill to the hearts of those whomourn- |/Schornn wasseen visiting at Katie's,
ed. And the mourning was not the making friends with her widowed moth- | price he had paid, and said some words
soft resigmation of grief sent by Heav- | €T sending gifts of flowers, fruits, books | about woman's treachery that will not
en alone, but the despairing agony of | ‘Or music. It was well known in the | bear repetition.
strength, and he retreated rapidly
through the mountains toward Harlan
Court House. Howard followed in hot
pursuit, and continued the chase almost
deliberation a vote on their life or death | They say that when John H. Oberly,
was taken by the entire Hatfield party. | the “bishop,” was a younger man than
The result “was unanimons, and the | heis now he was an irrepressible joker.
shame, herror and ruin.
Herman Schorun had
had died by his own hand, lifted in a {School girl.
passion @{ unbearable remorse. Only
one short.day before, just twenty-four |
hours of time, there had been joyous
hearts under the roof where now sor-
row reigned, and it had seemed as if
poverty and trouble had been set apart
for these now crushed under their
weight.
Iu one of the lower rooms, a sort of
a home work-shop with a beach, tools,
books and drawings scattered about,
Charles Wurtz, the son of the suicide,
sat with his head upon his crosssd
arms, motionless, rigid in the agony of
despair that would have wrung groans
and téars from a weaker man. The
room ws cold, and already twilight
shadows ‘were gathering, but he had
not stirred for hours, and seemed un-
conscious of the lapse of time. He
was roused by a light touch upon his
shoulder, and a yoice full of sympathy,
saying:
“Charlie, you have eaten nothing to-
day. Come with me to Berta—poor
little Berta.”
The young man lifted a face that,
in spite of the wretchedness stamped
upon it, was still a handsome one, and
spoke heavily :
“You here, Katie?
not receisie my letter?”
“I did. We will not talk of that
now. Came,”
Mechanically he obeved the tender
voice, the Tight touch of the little, soft
hand. Skeled him to a small, cozily
furnished dining room, where a bright
fire burned in the grate, a tea table
was spread, and a slight, fair-haired
girl of sixteen, with a pale, awe-strick-
en face, was trying, with all her girlish
strength, to smile a welcome.
“Katie says you must eat, Karl,”
she said, tenderly, in German, the home
Then vou did
{ Gossip saw the whole thing through
thrown him over when Le was ruined.
Herman Schornn was the wealthiest
| and he hugged himselfclose in triumph
when Katie, coyly, and with due maid-
enly reserve, let him see that his atten-
tions were not unwelcome.
She was wery pretty, with
| brown eyes, and rich, dark hair, that
contrasted with a pure, soft eomylex-
ion and pearly teeth. And she wore
man came to spend the evening;studied
the songs he loved to sing with her;
accompanied him to ccncerts, to drive,
to walk, until Charles Wurtz might
desertion by his false ladv-love.
Mrs Hill, Katie’s mother, looked on
and wondered. After all her endeav-
ors to make Katie see the advantage
the tearful scenes, in which Katie pro-
gone.
It was a year sinee Mr. Wurtz had
been taken to his last resting-place,
and Herman Schornn was bustling
about in his own home, preparing
a luncheon for visitors. The house,
his own property, was situated on the
outskirts of the city. where he trans-
acted his business, and where Mrs.
Hill's modest home lay. Often he had
talked to both ladies of his house, his
garden, his paintings, and at last had
invited them to drive out and lunch
with him.
“I will make Katie give me her an-
little circle of society to which they be- |
For Charles Wurtz, who lay upon | longed that
his bed, waiting the coroner's coming, | been Katie’ssuitor since she was a mere
with its usual clear sightedness. Katie |
had accepted Charles Wurtz when for- |
| tune seemed within his grasp, and had |
man, even without his recent purchase, |
large |
her most becoming dresses when Her- |
well have added to his sorrows that of |
of accepting Herman Schorun, after !
tested her devotion to Charles, with- |
ous one word of explanation Herman |
was taken into favor and Charles was |
But Katie Wurtz, the wife of the
great manufacturer, who makes her
happy as the day is long, can never
| be brought tc to admit any wrong in
' winning back what was fraudulently
obtained, by strategy, when the full
price of purchase was paid.
“But she says sometimes to Berta,
once more an inmate of her brother's
home, ‘I really would have to count
to teli vou how often Charlie has paid
me that thoasand dollars,” —Anna
Stields, in N. Y. Ledger.
Kentucky's Outlaws.
« Details of the Battle in Which Six
Howards Were Kille.d
LouisviLLE, Ky., Nov. 4.—Full con-
firmation of the reported deadly battle
| on last Tuesday morning between Judg=
| Lewis party and the Howard faction of
{ Harlem county has been received. Six
of the Howard men were killed instant-
ly and eleven wounded, while not a
man of the Lewis foree was hurt.
Judge Lewis is in command of what
is called the Law and Order party, com-
posed of the best people of the county,
\ while all the outlaws have enlisted un-
der the banner of Wils Howard. The
Turners, who originally were in opposi-
tion to the Howurds, have been nearly
"wiped out, and now the people are en-
| deavoring to secure the destruction of
| the Howards.
| Judge Lewis and his men, with Har-
i lan Court House as the head of their op-
| erations, had been for two weeks mak-
ing frequent excursions into the wilder-
ness surrounding in search of the How-
ards. Last week with a large party he
inspected the camp of the Howards and
their friends, the Jennings, in the
mountains, but concluded that it was
too strong to attack. He then with-
drew without any hostilities and re-
turned to Harlan court house. There
he secured re-enforcements and more
+l ty names.
to Harlan Court House, but could not
overtake the fleeing reculators, who ar-
rived at Harlan Court House on Friday
morning without having suffered the
loss of a man. Howard and his men
then withdrew further back into the
mountains and nothing has been heard
of them since. s
The last battle in this seven years’ war
has increased the death roll to about fif-
But most of those who died
with their boots on fell by assassins bul-
lets rather than in face to face conflict.
Gen. Jackson's BirthPlace,
It has never been definitely settled
where President Jackson was horn.
The Wilmington, North
Messenger, of last weak, makes
statement :
‘We used to believe that Andrew
Jackson was bern where he said he was
born—in Waxhaw Settlement in South
Carolina: We finally yielded to testi-
mony that seemed to fix his birthplace
in Union county, North Carolina. Mr.
James Patron, the able biographer of
Jackson, puts his birthplace in North
Carolina, and he spent some time in
Union county investigating the matter.
He became satisfied that his birtuplace
was in that county and not over the
State line.
The latest biographv of the creat
Southron is by Prof. William G. Sum-
ner, of Yale University. It was pub-
lished in 1882 by Houghton, Mifllin &
Co., Boston, and is one duodecimo vol-
ume of 400 pages. Prof. Sumner says
tthe settlement cailed the Waxshaw
Settlement, was in Mecklenberg
county, North Carolina, but close to the
South Carolina boundary.” He does
not say where Jackson was born. Amos
Kendall. in his life of Jackson, said he
was born in South Carclina, and in
Jackson’s famous proclamation aimed at
Sonth Carolina in 1830, as well as in his
will, he says he was born in that State,
this
Carolina, |
three men will be t'ed to trees and shot
to-day.
“Nothing can save them unless the
McCoys can defeat the entire Hatfield
party and effect a rescue. Thisis not
likely, as they are out numbered two to
one and the Hatfields are better armed.
The courier who brought this news was
shot at twice from ambush while riding
through Linccen county.
No Graves For Them.
Soldiers Lie
Years
Peruvian
: No. 34 South wharves, Phildelphia, is
The bark Edwin Reed, lying at Pier
discharging a cargo of nitrate of soda
brought from Pisagua, Peru, which
was gathered from the battle-field of
Tarapaca, where the bodies of 4000 Peru-
vian soldiers have lain unburied for ten
years. The battle was fought between
the Peruvians and Chillians on Novem-
ber 17, 1879, and the heavy losses sus-
tained by the Peruvians forced them to
retreat, leaving their-dead lying on the
field. Tne nitrate of soda was gathered
among the corpses, loaded on the backs
of mules and carried down to the port
of Pisagua, where it was transferred on
lighters to the bark. It will be manufact-
ured into gunpowder.
CONVERTED INTO MUMMIES.
The bodies of the soldiers have turned |
into mummies, strange as it may seem,
after lying on that desert plain all these
years. Inany other country they would
have been reduced to skeletons in a short
time between the ravages of wild beasts
and the exp sure to the elements. For
over one hundred miles on either side of
the battle-field not a blade of grass can
be seen, owing to the nature of the soil.
The absence of grass and water accounts
for the absence of wild beasts. The
earth is so full of nitrate of soda that this,
in conneciion with the hot dry atmos-
phere, has preserved the bodies of men
and horses from decay.
Unburied For |
IA member of the Jefferson Club, who
claims to know what he is talking about,
| tells us, says the Washington Pos?, that
John was bern at just 1 o'clock in the
morning, and relates the following cir-
cumstance concerning the twenty-first
| anniversary of that event: The entire
| household was asleep, excepting presum-
| ably, young Oberly. At a few minutes
lafter 1 o'clock he went to the door of
each bedroom and with feigned cau-
| tiousness aroused the sleeper, saying :
| “There's a*man in the house.”
| Presently everybody was up and half-
{ dressed. Some ventured out into the
| halls, others stood timidly in their half-
opened doorways. while still others re-
mained out of sight behind locked doors
“Come out here,” said John to those
who had not left the rooms ; “I tell you
there's a man in the house.”
Finally he succeeded in getting evary-
body into the hall, wiere the group
stood, half afraid, half ashamed to show
fear.
“Where is he ?”’ said one.
“Here I am,” answered John: I
am a man. I was twenty-one fifteen
minutes ago.’
Practice Makes Perfect.
Chauncey Depew spoke one evening
during the campaign at a town in the
interior of this State which is not
necessary toname. The next morning the
chairman of the local committee took
him in bis carriage for a ride about the
place. They had reached the suburbs
and were admiring a bit of scenery when
a man wearing a blue shirt and carrying
a long whip on his shoulder approached
from where he had been piloting an ox-
team along fthe middie of the street,and
said . \
“You're the man that made the rat-
tlin’ speech up at tie hall last night, I
guess
~. Mr. Depew modestly admitted that he
had indulged in some talk at the time
and place specified.
«Didn’t you have what you said writ
Jancuage in 41 J. a swer to-day,” he said to himself, as he | arms. He thought he was then strong Our reason for supposing that Jack- out 2’ went on the man.
guag ie family, “and so I have bustled about, drivi 1 : | enough to attack Wils Howard and his | son was born in this State is based main- | UNIFORMS PRESERVED BY NITRATE “No. i stor
had Gertrude get supper for us. There ed about, driving the servants S : fay ; hi No,” replied the orator.
will be 16 ane cise heve, Dr. Taider frantic by his fussy orders. “She has | PATtY; and started on a second expedi- [ly upon'Patron’s examination. We re- FUMES. “You don’t mean Lo say you made
says.”
“But, Katie?” Charles persisted.
And the dark-eyed girl who had coax-
ed him into the room spoke.
“Karl I” she said bravely, though a
deep blush crept to hier cheeks, “if this
had happened one week later, I would
have been your wife.”
His only answer was a gesture of de-
spair.
“Think, then,” she s-id, steadily,
“that it is a week later.” 4
“No, my own brave, true Katie,” he
said, hoarsely. “Yesterday I could
think of yon as the dear, cherished
wife of a man on the high road to for-
tune. To-day!”
“1 scarcely understand yet, Charles.”
“You know, my own, that my fath-
er, after years of study, had perfected
played fast and loose long enough. To-
day she will say yes or no.”
But Katie, as if divining his resolu-
tion, kept close to her mother until late
in the afternoon, when Herman hav-
ing given Mrs. Hill an immense port
folio of pictures, resolutely drew Katie's
hand through his arm and led her into
a small room, half library, half busi-
ness den. Before, however, she had
been a moment in the room she took
from a shelf a small article, which she
examined with a child's curiosity.
“What is it ?”” she asked. “How
pretty it is ! What is it made of!”
“That ic what I would give ten
thousand dollars to know,” was the an-
swer in a quick, savage tove. “That
is Wurtz's confounded patent.”
“Do you mean Charlie Wurtz?”
she asked, innocently. “Why, he was
tion.
‘When Judge Lewis left Harlan Court
House he had under hiscommand sixty-
five determined men thoroughly famil-
iar with the mountains and resolved to
kill. Each carried a Winchester repeat-
ing rifle and a Colt or Smith & Wesson
revolver. He marched first to Briar-
field gap in the Cumberland mountains,
twenty-three miles distant from Harlan
Court House.
This journey occupied two days.
Hence the party descended the Cumber-
lan! mountain into Lee county, Va.
Then they turned and marched up the
valley to Sulphur Spring, which is just
over the mountains from Martin's Fork.
Suphur Spring is the seat of the largest
moonshine distillery in the mountains.
An old man named Longford is the
head and king of the mountaineers of
that section. Howard and his friends
member that the late Mr. Yates, of the
Charlotte Democrat, was a firm believer
in the fact of Jackson's North Carolina
nativity, and published evidence to es-
tablish it. We are unable now to re-
produce it.
We have referred to this matter be-
cause a friend in this city, of South
Carolina birth, is sure that Jackson was
born on his grandfather's estate in South
Carolina. ‘We note that Col. J. C.
Dunlap, in a communication in the At-
lanta Constitution, says that he visited
the spot where Jackson was born, and
that it was 430 yards from the South
Carolina line and in North Carolina.
He writes :
“The following account of Andrew
Jackson's birth was giver. to Massey by
an old lady, Mrs. Mary Barton. Mrs.
Jackson, after the death of her husband,
fled from the Pedee Indians, who were
The scene is a strange one, indeed,and
when the officers and some of the pussen-
gers of the bark visited the place they
were astonished. The fumes arising
from the nitrate of soda have prevented
the uniforms of th: soldiers from becom-
ing rotten and dropping off. On a
bright moonlight night the scene is said
to suggest the idea that the battle had
only been fought a few days. The Per-
uvian Government has not made any
effort to bury the dead. The country
is so podt since its defeat by Chili that
it is as much as it can do to pay the
tributes levied by Chili.
The demand for nitrate for use in the
manufacture of gunpowder has become
so great, though there it no immediate
sign of war anywhere, that thousands of
tons of the articale are brought to this
country annually from Peru by, syndi-
that all up as you went along?”
£7Y ox?!
«Jess hopped right up there, took a
drink o’ water out of the pitcher, hit the
table a whack and waded in without no
thinking’ nor nothing ?”’
“Well, I suppose you might put it
that way.”
“Well, that beats me. You'll excuse
me for stoppin’ you, but what I want to
say was that your speech-convinced me,
though I knowed all the time it was the
peskiest lie that was ever told. I made
up my mind to vote your ticket, but I'd
a’ been willin’ to bet a peck o’,red ap-
ples that no man could stand up and
tell such blamed convincin’ lies without
havin’ ’em writ out. You must 'a’ had
an awful lot o’ practice.” ~[N. ¥. Trib-
une.
Srv paris make his for- an old bean of mme. But I never i bad beenin the habit of visting the dis- | hostile, and was seeking protection | ¢at€ of which ex-Mayor Grace of New Our Lonesome Ballot.
ane. was still a weary time before know heinvented anvihing.” tillery, buying liquor and having a car- | among the Catawba tribe, who were York, is the head. Peru pays a tax to
he could command a sufficient sum to “Ti was His father. AJ ousal there. Judge Lewis learned that | friendlv. After walking 12 miles she | Chili on every ton of nitrate shipped | The statement that Mr. Breed, of
, was father. § {
procure the machirery necessary to
And after he
the Howards were near the distillery
stopped at Mr. McKamey's, her cousin,
from that country.
Lynn, received a vote in the Massachu-
manufacture his article. But that, too, an oi maihs Hab to Salen and he determined to bring on a |to spend the night. Here it was that av — setts Republican convention recalls to
he conquered, and we had two silent | 30d the machinery the old fool blew | fq, Andrew was born, and when a few Yellowy, who is waiting for the Shoe and Leather Reporter the anec-
partners, capitalists, who knew nothing
of the process, but saw money in the
his brains out.”
“Oh, how dreadful! Was that the
Howard had many friends in that sec-
tion, and they warped him and his
hours old was placed in the armsof Mrs.
Barton, then a voung girl of 12 years,
his sweet heart to dress is being enter-
tained by her little sister. “What
dote told years ago of an ambitious
Pennsylvanian named Green, who was
. 3 n NY 1 "ta Ww away?’ . er 1 : 1
invention. After all the years of strug. | T€ASON Charlie and Berta went away?” | men of Judge Lewis’ approach. The | who was on a visit to her uncle Me- Fonnaidl enrline hous wou. hove, girs A Bh, hy He recieved
gle our machinery was built, our patent “1 suppose 80. . Howards were collected in the moun- | Kamev. When the babe was six years Yell io:thelitie aie) 4 © 1 ite 7 one vote. 1 is mori feline aw
e . ? 3 . o hoy - Z y gir) Ke X nr s
upon the market, and now—this day— But if you bought it all, why don’t | tains, nor far from the distillery. They | old Mrs. Jackson moved across the eliowy 1o;the little girl § *'ac curl | and to make 1t more bitter his neighbors
I have orders for nearly fifty thousand
dollars’ worth of work. Darling, it
was not until the whole was an assured
success that I asked you to be my
wife.” :
“I know, dear.”
“But what youdid not know, coward
that I was not to tell you, was that my
father was a gambler. It was a pas-
sion with him. He could not resist
the sight of a card. One of hig friends
—Heavens above! a friend !—knowing
this weakness, coaxed him yesterday
to play; gave him a drink, won mon-
ey from him, and at last obtained his ,
signature to a bill of sale of the ma-
chinery, the entire process of our in-
vention, There was a mockery of pur-
vou make these ? 1 don’t believe you
did buy it,” she said, in a coquettish,
challenging tone.
“Don’t vou?’ he sald, opening a
drawer in a large desk. “Read that.”
“But what is it?”
“It is what Charlie Wurtz would
give his eyes to hold in his hand. It
is the bill of sale his father gave me,
and which I was fool enongh to pay
for without learning the secret that
made it of any value.”
“But it is of value, is ‘it not?"
“No. But if it did not exist Charlie
| Wurtz could work his confounded pat-
| ent without hindrance.
lit. I'll have my revenge for the old
fool's swindle,”
And so 1 keep :
were frightened by the strength of Judge
Lewis’ force, and wished to get back
into Kentucky, but the road over the
mountains was held by Judge Lewis who
decided to attempt the surprise of the
Howard bend in their intrenchment.
reach the Howards.
while scouting captured Jack Sergeant,
a Howard partisan. He
ed men.
timate release if he would pilot them to
the Howard intrenchments. Serge .nt
; refused. He was then threatened with
! death. He refused again, and they be-
' gan to make preparations for the execu-
State line into South Carolina on the
Crawford land.”
North Carolina can with probable
| propriety claim Jackson as a son. If
| correct in
I Jackson,
Neither he nor his men were familiar |
with that part df the country, and for |
some time they were puzzled how te
Three of his men |
this, then three Presidents—
Polk and Johnson—were all
tpative here.” TItis singular that the
three Tennessee Presidents should all
have been born in North Carolina. As
we have mentioned there are some who
| believe. and with some show of reason
was taken: be- |
fore Judge Lewis in a camp full of arm- |
The Judge offered him his ul- |
that Abraham Lincoln was a native of
North Carolina and not of Kentucky as
almast universally believed.
Union county was erected in 1842,
out of Mecklenbers mainly and asmall
part of Anson. This explains Waxshaw
Settlement being in Mecklenberg.
naturally 277 “No,” answered the little
one, frankly, “sister Maud does it up
in papers for me every night.” “And
does your sister Maud do hers np in
papers too ?7 “Nop. She just throws
hers on the bureau and curls it the
next morning.”
——Frea—-You see, Albert, I gave
up my Sunday school class in order to
take charge of a Bible class in the pris-
on. Albert—You must feel a jittle
awkward among strangers, do you not?
Fred-Oh, I know several of them.
One of them used to be one ofmy fath-
all insisted upon worrying him by pre-
tending to suspect that he cast that vote
himself. This annoyed him so that he
offered a suit of clothes worth not less than
$50 to the citizen who would come for-
ward and prove that he was the voter
whose lone ballot was cast for Green.
A Dutchman responded to the appeal,
furnished satisfactory proof that he was
the man, and claimed the reward.
“How did it happen?” asked Mr.
Green, “that you voted for me?’
The Dutchman hesitated and disliked
to answer. Being pressed he said :
“Ef T told you you don’t go back on
dem close 7”
er’s trusted clerks, and another was at
It | one time an old Sunday. School teacher
was in that part that was cut oft in 1842. of mine.
“Oh, no you shall have them sure.”
“Vell, den, I dells you; I makes a
mistake in de teecket.”