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JA KHS A CO., Peterelsarsr. Vss. C-OM " Week can te made In any localltv. F '-'I'rWY 1 s'f t5r ai 3 r J 1 STOMACH lKj S r1E?3 'eF F 5 outlit ft... . W. ttf,, BoItCB, HZi entirely new for auents ASi THE 80XO OF POTERTT. A jolly ol.l fellow am I, boys, AH sfaaons to me are the Same ; Soft clothint and jewel are folly and toys Which ot'ten are purchased with shame. Bad1 nick and Miss Fortune, a lone while ago, Were wed a good people should be ; They loved one another, I'd have you to know, And I am their offsprine, yon see, ha! ha ! And I am their offspring, you see. The Church and the State may connive at mv fall. Their prayers and their laws won't avail ; I'll ha- e my existence in spite of them all And many true saints I'll assail. The bench may arrest me, condemn me aa vile. And cover my body with scars ; Then put me in prison, but there I will smile. And beat a tatoo on the bars, ha ! ha ! And beat a tatoo on the bars. The greatest of prophets. In speakinsr of me. Said : "TTie poor will be always with you." So make up your minds and bid brave char ity And love do the most that they can do. I'd rather be lord of the homeless and free Than Pres'dent. Czar, Kaiser or Kine ; They're always in danger of death, don't you see ? While I in mv rags dance and sine, ha! ha! While I in my rags dance and sing. THE THREE KNIVES. "So you want me to tell yon a Btorv about a ghost, do you, children ?" said Farson Goodharts, looking up from his book, with a queer little twinkle in the corner of his dark-gray eyes, as his three nephews and twe tieices came trooping around the snug arm-chair in which he was sitting bv the fire. "Well that won't be very easy, because I never saw a ghost myself, and I've never met anyone else who has, either. Hut I once knew a man who thought he had seen one or felt one rather and a very serious matter it was for him, as you shall hear. "When I first came here as a young curate, long before any of you young folks were born, every man. woman and chiid in the villaee believed as firmly in ghosts, witches and all that nonsense, as they believed that the sun shone or that the wind blew. "I've seen a strapping fellow six feet high, big and strong enough to knock a horse down, go half a mile out of his way rather than pass after dark a spot where a hichway man had been hanged in chains ; and more than one old woman was scared into fits by a cow suddenly getting up from behind a hedee, as she was going home through the fields in the twilight. "As for the church-yard, all the money in the Cottonborough Hank wouldn't have tempted any of our vIKaae folks to go thro' it after nightfall. And certainly it was a dismal place there's no denvinn it. "Our pretty little new ehnrcli over the way wasn't built then, and the old church stood right out at the very end of the village jnst where Farmer Thomson's big barn is now. "It was a grim eld building, all of dark gray stone turned almost black by the weather, and fast crumbling away. The tower was one mass of dark ivy, and the church yard itself was full of gloomy firs and cypresses, growing together in thick clumps, which harbored owls and hats with out number; and when the moon glimmered through the clouds upon a stormy night, making the white tombstones whiter and the black trees blacker than ever, it certainly I . . . . i did look as ghostly a place as ever I saw in my life. "But as if all this was not enough, the spot had a legend attached to it, and a very grim one too. Just at the further end of the church-yard, the ground fell steeply awavto a dark hollow, through which ran a stream. "This hollow bore the pleasant name of 'Dead Man's Gnlley,' and the traditions of the country recorded that a great battle had been fought in this place in the days of King Alfred, and that a number of wounded Danes, who had crawled to the stream to drink, had been cruelly slaughtered by the Saxons, despite the entreaties of a good mo.ik, who tried hard to save them. "Ever since th.t day so ran the legend on the anniversary of the massacre, any one who passed the spot after nightfall would hear the shouts of the slayers, and shrieks of the sjain, mingled with the hoarse rush of the water, and would see if the moon were bright enough to show it to him the stream running as led as blood. "So, what with this nice story (which ev ery soul in the district knew by heart), and what with the gloominess of the place itself, the village people were as shy of it aa if it ! had been a fever hospital "Of course, I was very much put out at seeing my parishioners making such geese of themselves ; but what was to be done? "Talking to them would only have made them worse, for they would have told me that they, who had lived iu the country all their lives, must know more about it than I, who had only Just come there. "At first I tried to shame them out of their terrors by constantly going about haunted spots myself, by uijlit as well as by day. "But it was not a bit of use, for thev were accustomed to consider it a part of the cler gyman's business to deal with ghosts, and held out that I ought to be a match for any amount of them, if I did my work properly. "So the only thing I could do was to leave their beiiets alone, and trust to time to wear them out. "It was toward the end of my first year in the village, and the nights were getting long and daik, when, one evening, as I was coin ing home in the twilight from visiting an old laborer, who had fallen ill, a man came fly ing down the lane, full speed, and ran bump egainst me so violently that be almost knocked me down. " 'Gently, my friend,' said I, 'I'm not made of iron.' " "Be that thee, parson ?' answered a shaky voice, which I recognized at once as that of Dick Grimes, the miller. 'Stand by me if thee be a Christian mon I' "'What's the matter?' asked I, wonder ing not a little what could have happened to frighten a gr-at sturdy fellow like him for frightened he evidently was so badiy that he could hardly speak. "'There be a boggart (ghost) after me,' panted Grimes, 'rattliu' a chain and shroik en. Try if thee can stop him, for the love of heaven. I cannot.' "htire enough, at that very moment I heard a sound of patteiing feet approaching, minted with the clanking of a chain; and through the darkness I could just make out something white coming swiftly toward us. Grimes, who seemed loo much scared even to iuo away, got behind roe as if I bad been a wall, while tbe gliot came on. "And when .the terrible hobgoblin got rltfbt op to n, wbat do joa tbin it tamed out to be ? Why, neither more nor less than the miller's own white donkey, which, hav ing been carelessly tethered, had managed to break loose, and was enjoying a moon light run by itself, dragging its chain along with it? "I took care to keep the secret, but the story leaked out somehow, and you may fancy what a bard time of it the poor miller had in the village for a eood while after, al though many who laughed at hini would have been no braver themselves in his place. "Xnw it happened that the hardest of all upon him was Sam Barton, the butchei a great, brawny fellow, with laTge red whis kers, and a hand like one of his shoulders of mutton who was fond of boasting that he feared nothing above ground or under it. "One night, when a lot of them were hav ing a sort of holiday-supper at the little inn, yonder. Barton made fun of the miller so un mercifully that at last the poor fellow got quite angry. "Ab. any mon can talk big when there be no danger !" cried he, bnt if thee'd be I' my place, thee'd ha' done jit as I did." "Would I, though?' shouted the butcher, fiercely. 'The mun get up early to catch Sam Barton playin craddint (coward.) I ben'tafeared o nought about ground, nor under it nei ther.' " 'Well, then,' said Grimes, looking him full in the face, 'will tnee go through the church yard now? "Aye, that I witl.'eried the butcher, jump ing up at once ; 'an' ye may a coom with me if ye loike, and see that I do it fair !" "Well, hark ye tome, lads, put in the land lord, I'se te llye how we'll do it. Sam shall tak' these three knives, and stick one i' the ground by the stile where heM go in the choorch-yard and another bv Squire Tlawk er's moniment i' the rmiddlo, and a third at the gate on t'other side. Then we'll go round to gate and meet him, and see that a's fair.' "The plan was at once agreed to, and off started the val'ant butcher, whistling defi antly, and clinking the three long knives In bis brawny hand. "But as he began to leave the village lights behind hfm, and to approach the dark, dreary church-yard, bis whistle grew fainter and his step less brisk. It was a chill, gloomy night, and the wind moaned dismal ly through the leafless trees while the dis tant roar of the torrent that ran through Dead Man's Oiilly sounded unnaturally loud in the grim silence. "Every ghost story he had ever heard in his life seemed to crowd into the unfortu nate bntrtiPr's memory at once, and hy the time he reached the stile he would gladly have given all the money in his pocket to be j well out of the whole business. But it would never do to give in now, so over the stile he scrambled, planting his first knife, and went on. "T!:e church yard was dark as pitch, and he got more han one tumble over the graves, which made his nerve none the steadier. "Jnst as he was sticking the second knife beside the 'Squire's monument f which loom- j ed white and ghostly through the darkness,) the church clock struck twelve. "The deep, hollow sound, amid that dead silence, started him from a walk into a run. On he went, scratching himself against pro- thB Vomt ct rl 7 I , . 7 T f the tombstones, till at last he came down on bis hands and knes, close to the white gate. Just then an old owl overhead gave such a scream that Sam, too scared even to look round, struck the third knife at random be hind him, and tried to rush off. But, lo ! something seized and held him fast, and poor Sam, frightened out of his wits, howled, shrieked, kicked, struggled, and finally fainted outright. "Meanwhile, his comrades, who were waiting outside, heard his cries, and fearing something had gone wrong, ventured in, keeping very close together. And what do ..'""""' ll,, y ,ouna ' hy, that he had biulu me Knire through the skirt of his own coat, and pinned himself to the ground ! And that was all the ghost there waa about the matter." A Tale of a Shirt. Apropos of General Sherman's visit to Denver, a story is told of the General's experience with nenry Clay Dean. The two had been friends for years, and when Sherman became General and Dean happened to be in Washington, the latter, naturally enough, felt a desi ire to re- nPW the ol(1 acquaintance. So he called at Sherman's house, and the General received mm with open arms. They talked over old times, and nothing would do but Dean must stay for dinner. "But, General," remon strated Mrs. Sherman in her husband's ear, "I can't have such a dirty-looking man at my table j can't you spruce him up a little?" The General said he'd fix that, and so at an opportune moment he hustled Mr. Dean up stairs, ransacked a bureau, and produced a clean shirt for him to put on. Mr9. Sherman was mollified, and the dinner was really a charming affair, for there is no more delight ful, entertaining and instructive conversa tionalist than Henry Clay Dean. One year after this event General Sherman was at the Lindel! notel, St. Louis, with his family. A card was brought up bearing nenry Clay Dean's name. Mrs. Sherman was very much pleased. "He is such a charming talker, we must have him to dinner. Only you must see that he looks presentable." These were madam's words to the warrior. Se Sherman welcomed Dean, and, just before going to dinner, slipped him into a side room and gave him a clenn shirt to wear. Dean doff ed his coat and vest, and, after a brief strug. gle, divested himself of the shirt he had on a soiled, grimy, black thing that looked as if it had seen long and hard service. Then they all went down to dinner, and Mr. Dean was more charming than ever, and Mrs. Sherman was in ecstasies The next, day, as Mrs. Sherman was getting her husband's anas and clothes together, preparatory to packing them for the onward march, she gave a wild, hunted scream. "What is ir dear?" called the General from the next room. "Just com. here a moment," replied Mrs. Sherman, between faint gasps. The General went in. There stood Mrs. Sher man, holding in her hand the begrimed shirt nenry Clay Dean had left. With her right hand she pointed to certain initials on the lower edge of the bosom. The initials read "W, T. S." It was tbe identical shirt Gen eral Sherman had loaned Henry Clay Dean in Washington twelve months before. A sew -wat to compliment a mean man is to say : -'Tie is a pretty mean man in some respects, but then, after all, be is meaner in other respects." This sort of lets the man down easy, and makes bim tbi ,v ha i. . confounded, allfired meaa after all. A WASTED LIFE. THB BTORT OF AN IRISH ELOPEMEXT. Toward the close of the eighteenth century there liyed in the county of Kilkenny, Ire land, 9 handsome, dashing young gentleman of considerable fortune, named Fitzpatrick Knaresborough. lie belonged to a highly respectable family, and possessed an excel lent education. Tie was very popular in the adjoining counties of Carlow and Kilkenny, and was familiarly called Fitzy Cranesbor oueh, a perversion of his right name, which is also called Nasboro. As Knaresborough was approaching man hood, an incident occurred which, had he paid due heed to, might have saved him from committing a deed which laid waste his whole life. This Incident was that three young ladies, sisters and heiresses, were one day seized and forcibly carried off by three young gentlemen of fortune residing in Car low. The abductors and their victims were pursued and overtaken. The girls were re stored to their friends, and the young men were committed to prison. The unfortunate offenders were brought to trial, and all three were hanged in Carlow. Instead of being warned by their terrible fate, hardly had Kanesborough arrived at manhood, with all the world opening before him in which to choose a wife, than he fell madly in love with a yonng heiress. She professed to return his love, and as nsual her relatives refused their eonser.t to her marry ing a man of inferior fortune to her own. Tn this extremity he carried her off presumably with her consent. Nothing, however, more strikingly Illus trates the waywardness of women than the abduction cases which were so frequent at that time throughout Ireland. If an heires gave her consent to the abdnction, a man felt secure that he could not be punished for what was then made a hanging offense. Only the woman'3 testimony, however, could save his life. Quite as often as not a girl wo-ild give her admirer every encouragement, even go ing bo far as to secretly apprise him aa to when it would be most convenient to herself to be carried off, and then, when he was ap prehended and brought to trial, calmly sweat his life away by denying that she was a con senting party to the abducting. Knaresborough abducted his heiress, but her family started in hot pursuit of the couple and succeeded in recovering the girl. Knares borough made his escape. A reward was offered for his apprehension, but' without effect. Word came to him, however.in his placeof concealment, that the heiress would give tes timony in his favor even at the risk of offend ing her family. When a woman took this part, marriage inevitably followed, and in the majority of cases, the runaway couple lived happy ever after. Accordingly at the the approach of the next assizes, Knareshor ough gave notice that he would surrender and stand his trial. lie kept his word, and returned to the town of Car'ow on horseback the day before that appointed for the com mencement of the assizes. When near to Carlow, he reined in his horse, and walked him, looking about as if in expectation ot some event or person. At last he beheld the object so ardently desired a carriage, and in it the young lady he had abducted, lie drew up and sooke to her. She greeted him cordially, and after laughing and joking together they parted. He was most light-hearted, for she had kept her ap pointment with him she had smiled upon bim and confident of acquittal, he rode straight to the jail of Carlow and surrendered himself. The next day he was put upon his trial. The young lady appeared smiled upon him as usual but -testified against him, and so proved the case against him. This most unexpected circumstance turned his gayety into anxiety, and his astonishment and horror rose to the highest pitch when he was convicted and sentenced to death. Sure ly the great bard had some show of reason when he said : "Frailty, thy name Is woman !" Knaresborough's family and friends par ticipated in his natural surprise and alarm. They had interest in high quarters, upon which they thought they might rely for a re versal or a commutation of the sentence, and they took every means in their power to in sure his safety. They entreated the concur rence of the jury by whom he had been con victed, in an application to the government for mercy in his favor, but found them inex orable. The friends of Knaresborough further as certained that the finding of "guilty" had resulted, not so much from the view of the evidence taken by the jury, or their horror of the deed proved, as from a determination to retort upon Kilkenny, the conviction and ex ecution of the three Carlow boys for a similar offense to that of Knaresborough's. Dis friends then resorted to other expedi ents to save him from tbe scaffold. Among other proceedings was a memorial to the judge by whom he had been tried and sen tenced, to recommend the young man to mer cy, and they judiciously accompanied their memorial by a sum of six hundred pounds. The money was not returned. The judge reported favorably, and the sentence of death was changed to one of transportation for life. Even this sentence was further commuted, or at least tbe execution of it was indefinitely postponed. It was accompanied by the con dition that Knaresborough should be brought into.court at every assizes for the county, for the town or city, in the prison of which he should happen to be confined. He was sent to Dublin to undergo punishment at New gate. Knaresborough was condemned and imprisoned in 1790. ne was then a band some stripliug. He remained In prison so long that bis real Dame was forgotten by all but a few of the old-time prison officials. He was called bv the manv prisoners who came and went "The Mysterious." Even the crime for which he suffered imprison ment was forgotten, but was Ivelieved to be some political offense. He passed from youth to middle age, and it was remarked that al though he was always dressed with the dis regard of appearances observable in prison ers generally, he must have belonged to the upper classes. For years Knaresborough submitted with out a murmur to the required exhibition of himself in court, but at length he protested against being so paraded, and refused to obey the summons diiected to the jailor to produce bis person before the judge in com mission, it happened that Norbury presided over the commission when Knaresborough's refusal to appmr In court was aunonneea. When informed that Knaresborough was de termined to yield only to force in being pro duced in court, Norbury, with that blood thirsty promptitude to hang a man which ob- tained for him the name of "Xero," imme diately said, "Let the original sentence be executed !"' The alternative was announced to the un happy prisoner. He chose rather to live, wretched as his life was, and submitted at once to the order for his production in court. For years after this Knaresborough was "trotted out" at each comm iss'on court, but the form was at length discontinued. More years passed, and Knaresborough was released, an old and decrepit man What his exact fate was is a matter of conjecture, various statements being made in regard to It. home say that he crept back to the haunts and homes of the friends and relatives who bad befriended him in bis long-past youth, only to find that they had preceded bim to that bourne whence no traveler returns ; that his means having been exhausted by their efforts to save him from tbe gallows, be bad not the wherewithal to procure a crust of bread or a truss of straw to lie upon, and that he subsisted by begging in the streets. One day, it Is related, that tottering with the feebleness of age and semi-atarvation, be opened the door of a carriage at the curb stone. A white-haired matron alighted and flung him a penny for his pains. It was the woman whom he had carried off as a girl ! She had married the millionaire for whom she had been designed by her parents, ariri bad passed her life in luxury, while his had been worn painfully away in a prison. Not a word of regret or sympathy from her bad ever reached bim there not even a flower to cheer his solitude. ELEPHANTS MINDING THE BABT. There is nothing by any means uncom mon or incredible in the stories wbi?b have been reported, says Bnckland, abont the children of a mahout being cared for by the mahout's elephant. It is always expedient to employ a marrifd mahout if you can, w'th a hard-working wife and two or three chil dren. The whole family become, as it were parasites to the elephant by whom they earn their living. Tt is only a question of degree to what extent an elephant may be trusted with a baby ; but I have seen a baby placed by its mother systematically nnder the ele phant's care, and within r-ach of its trunk, whilst the mother went to fetch water, or to get wood or material to cook 'be familv dir.ner. No jackal or wolf would be likely I to pick up and carry off a baby who was ' thus confided to the care of an elephant ; j but most people who have lived a life in th , jungles know bow verv possible it is for a ; jackal or wolf to carry off a hntv, even when ! lying in a but, when the mother's back is 1 turned. j The children thus brought up in the enm i panionhip of an elephant became ridicn ' lonely familiar with it, and take all kinds of ! liberties with it, which the elephant seems to endure on the principle that it does not : hurt her, while it amuses the child. Ton see a little naked black imp abont two feet high, standing on the elephant's bare back, I and taking it down to the water to bathe, ' vociferating all the time in the i.iost nnbe j coming terms of native abusive language.. I On arriving at the water the elephant, os j tensibly in ohedience to the imp's command, ; lies down and enjoys Itself, just leaving a part of Its bodv like a small island above ! j water, on whicb the small imp stands and ' ! shouts, and shouts all the more if so be that ! he has several companions of bis own age, ' also in charge of their elephants, all wallow ing in tbe water around him. If tbe imp slips off his island, the elephant's trunk I promptly replaces him in safety. These little urchins as they grow np become first I mates to mahouts, and eventually arrive at the dignity of being mahouts. j The wife ot a mahout is almost always a . great favorite with her elephant, and I re : member a case in which the wife of a ma j hout who was killed by bis elephant (I be i lieve more by accident than from actual ma lice) succeeded in quieting the beast, which seemed to understand tbe poor woman's an guish at the death of her husband, and en deavored in the elephantine way to make amends for his offense. It is nothing new to say that the elephant is tbe most sagacious of animals, and those who have the most to do with them cannot helD liking and admir ing them. A Novf.l Wat of Raising Chtrch Wrsr). Up at Clear Lake, the churches be came tired of tbe old stereotyped plans of raising money, and after a long discussion it was decided to bring about the desired end bv putting all the girls of the church np at I ' '1 auction to be disposed of to the highest bid der. The time came around, and every yonng man in that part of Iowa in or near Clear Lake who had any money or could possibly borrow any was promptly on hand, eager to bid to the fullest extent. But there were some of tbe girls on whom it would have been impossible to obtain the bid of an old fashioned copper cent, while there were oth ers for whom the love sick swains would willingly have bid their last dollar, and, in the spirit of Artemns Ward, the last dollar of any of their relatives. So to Rive all the boys an equal chance, the girls were wrap- ped up in sheets, so as to be completely un recognizable. Each young man was posi tive that beneath the snowy folds of the sheet he could discern Mm outline of the girl on whom he doted, and when from fifteen to twenty of the yonng fellows singled out one particular sheeted object on which to stake their fortunes, excitement ran high and mo ney ran out of pocket books like water down a slanting roof. After all the fair ones were disposed of the order was given to "haul up the sheets," and then ensued an indescribable scene of mingled happiness and disappointment. Maidens who bad been purchased for a mere song, owing to a lack of bidders, turned out to be the best looking girls in the town, while beings whose sylpb-like appearance under a sheet bad excited the greatest ad miration and drew bard earned money from unwilling pocket-books were found to be most commonplace creatures in.lned. But all made tbe best of it, and the disappointed ones bore themselves bravely. It has lately been discovered that tobacco ends make good manure. Tramps can now drive a lucrative businest by lying out In a corn field and chewing tobacco for agricul tural demands. Farmers are reminded that as compounds are sometimes efficacious, it would be well, when the tobacco was all re duced to rulp. to bva a few alligators, or something of that sort, on band, to chew up the tramps and utilize them as fertilizers. They are composed of good material for the purpose. THE FATFD SISTERS. A EOMASCS OF REAL LIFE IX THE SOUTH. The sequel to a strange story of Voudoo superstition was recently brought to public notice by the death of a lady who has lived in retirement for the pat ten years. The outlines of ihis sketch from real life in the South are given as they were received. The De Courey family is an ancient one, and is universally known to all old residents of Louisiana. It was one of the wealthiest and most influential before the war. T)e Courcy, while young and wild, took for bis mistress the favorite grandchild of Marie La von, the famous Voudoo Queen, who died iti Louisiana about two years ago. In her rage and indignation the Voudoo Queen uttered a terrible curse. lie was to have no male heirs, and h's line was to die with bis daugh ters. Of course the curse of the old negress was laughed at and ridiculed, but it became a familiar household story among the firyt families alone the Gulf coast. De Courcy marrried and had three daughters, who were afterward known as the fated sisters. The last of these ladies died in San Francisco under an assumed name early this year, as the following brief announcement in the New Orleans Picaxiine of February 165 indicates: Pied In tin Francisco. February S. TVTadame Joan Maria Hienvenu. the last of the" fated sisters. This is why they were called the fated sis. ters : The three danehters. Louise, fyieafe and Joan, were tre belles of Mobile and New Orleans, and held undisputed sway over fhe hearts of manv of the gallant voting planters of the delta. On be death of their father, who left his three daughters immense wealth in real estate, money and slaves, these three orphans became the belles, so to speak, of the Gulf coast socl-tv. Ravishingly beauti ful, aceomnlished and gav, these three girls reigned like a trio of queens, and the Voudoo Queen's cure was almost forgotten when Louise, the eldest, married Dr. II tint, of Ala bama. While the honevmoon was still bright, her husband, excited hy jealousy at a ball in Mobile, challenged a eentleman who had been one of her old suitors. The duel came off, and Dr. Hunt was killed. This was tragedy number one. The year following this tragic episode the second daughter. Celeste D Courcy, married John Forsrthe. Jr., son of J the noted journalist and editor of the Mobile , tt'msimr. his marriage proved to be even more uniorrtinate man mat ot the elder sis- ter. Young Forsvthe was proud, brave and rather exacting. Tflis wife, on the other hand, was a born coquette. She was gav, beanti i tifnl and careless of pnhlic criticism. She ! defied public opinion, and, notwithstanding ; the protestations (if her proud, revengeful and jealous husband, continued to furnish food for scandal. In his gri.f and despera ! tion Colonel Forsvthe, Jr., conmrt'ed sui , fide in Mobile. His father, in the bitternt ss of a father bereft of a favorite son, headed his editorial obituary in the Mobile R'iter ' with The bitter out sigtiifi-ant title. "Killed j bv His Wife." and denounced the fa-l iona . ble sirens through whose influence two men i bad gone to untimc'y grnves. This nme fa ! tal destiny was for the third sister. Thefair ; est of the threi sifters was J.ian Maria, the j'onnjest of them all. She was one of thoe , brilliant beauties who make men mad in their : adorations. Her eves were like flashing stars, ber hair black as the right ami luxuriant in ; profusion. At last she surrendered to the wooing of a rich young Creole of New r i leans, named Edward Dienvenu, who led the j last of this fated trio to the hvmenial altar. Like her sisters, she cared nothing for what I Mrs Grundv Might say, and after her mar ! riage with Hienvenu continued her flirtations with her old admirers. I was the social ed itor of the New Orleans Picayune at the time the last tragic episode in the De Courcy fam ily nistorv occurred. It was in the month of Februaryv 174, and the Mardi Gras festivities were in full blast. I was standing in the conservatory of the ball room of the Mvstic Krewe, one of our prominent social organizations in New Or- leans, and talking with a brother journalist, . wnen 31 ana me Kienvenu entered the conser vatory with a fine looking young man. a law . yer named Phillips, as her escort. They took ; seats upon a tete a-tete in a corner, and were , enjoying a pleasant and almost loving flirta ; tion together, when Edward Bienvenu en j tered the place. As her husband approach ! ed, his eyes flashing with rage and jealousy, j his wife, half rose to ber feet, and then sank , back in ber seat in some confusion. Her ; husband, a tall, handsome Creole, waved his j right band deprecatingly as he smiled grimly upon his wife, bade her keep her seat, that ; he had no desire to disturb her ; he had mere . ly come out to smoue a cigarette. Then, i turning to Phillips while lighting his cigar I ette, he said : I "By the way, Phillips, I am going to-morrow on a little excursion to Hav St. Louis ( tbe famous dueling ground). I shall take a friend with me, and would be happy to have your company. Bring a friend with you." "I shall take pleasure in joining vour par ty," replied Phillips, gravely. "What train do you go on ?" "On the 12 o'clock train." "I will meet you on the train, then," said Phillips, as he accepted a cigarette from the jealous husband, who offering his arm to his thoroughly frightened wife, walked out of ! the conservatory and shortly after left the j ball. Thus was the challenge exchanged. I jl v n - ft.iv, -11 aiki onriiiril fill r I(?ssi , PV " Pa a c,K","f- "T? "r.r. tn ftn.l it n-ac n..t tintil A nr. St 1 fiTl that Bienvenu and Phillips were aide to carry out their intentions. On that, dny I accompanied them, with quite a number of friends of both parties, to the dueling ground at Bay St Louis. Buth men fired simultaneously, a"d the husband fell dead at the first shot. He never sp.ke a word after be fell. Phillips turned from the field and walked away with his friend, after throwing his smoking pistol on the ground. He disappeared, and 13 sup posed to have gone to San Francisco. Thus was the curse of the old negress, Ma rie Lavon, the Voudoo Queen, li'erally car ried out. All three hushands of the fated sisters died violent deaths, leaving no chil- j dren behind them to keep up the De Courcy race Madame Bienvenu brought hey fash- j 1 sh),ni, drove ,)Pr mto retirement, from wbieh she never emerged. In the summer of 1S74 she took passage on a Panama steamer by the Isthmus to San Francisco. There she changed bet name and lived on ber wealth in the strictest retirement up to the dayof her death. It is not known efinitly whether Phillips joined her there, but gossippers in New Orleanf reported that she had married the man who had shot her husband. Whether she did or not I cannot sav, but I think it likely. The Deut 10 Mothers. Mothers live for their children, make self-sacrifices for them and manifest their tenderness and love so firely that tbe name mother is t!j sweet est in the human language. And yet sons, youthful and aged, know but little of the anxiety and tbe nigbtsof sleeplessand pain ful solicitude which their mothers have spent over their thoughtless waywardness. Those loving hearts gi, down to their graves with their hours of secret agony untold. As tbe mother watches by night." or prays in the privacy of her clovet, she' weighs well th woids she will address to her son in order to lead him to a manhood of honor and useful ness. She will not tell hitu alt the griefs and deadly fears which beset ber soul. She warns bim with tremblinz lest the says over much. She tries to charm him withoheerv love while her heart is bleeding. No worthy and successful man ever yet knew the Dreamti and depth of obligation which he i under to the mother who guided his steps at the time when hi character for virtue and purity so narrowlvbalanced against a course of vice and ignominy. Let the dutiful son do his utmost to smooth hi! mother's path way; let him obey as implicify as he Can her wishes and advice, let him do everything that will contribute to her peace, rest and happiness, and vet he will part with her at the tomb with the debt to ber not half d is-Chnrgetl. AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR. "Soldiers, won't you kill this enake?" Thus spoke In a feeble voice a wounded Confederate Brigadier General to a falf dozen Federal cavalrymen who belonged to the command following bis retreating bri gade, ne bad been shot in the charge tbo Union forces had made upon bis lines, and was, when he called to tbe si.'d!or, crrlb'y wonnded and weak from tbe loss of blood. A piece of shell bad struck bim in the thlgb and a minnle ball bad carried away bis rigbt arm. ne had craw'ed beneath the shadow o7 a gTeat rock in tbe edge of tbe woods, tn ordoy to escape from tbe fierce ravs of the sun, which was beating down one July day in 1SG4, and he lay prone upon the ground, to keep as much out of tbe range of flving br iefs as be conld. A nake rtawled from ' o. neath tbe ?tone and leisurely drew Ita sVtyt length over bis face Just as tbe vlctorh'V cavalrymen came np. For a fw mom"- the soldiers were puzzled at bis request aid thought that bis sufferings had made him de lirious. Tbey soon, however, perceived the reptile that bad glided over tbe forehead of the heTplcss man and stopped just beron.. Three of them alighted. Two'of the soldier raised bim up. so that bis shattered bortv might not be made a pathway for the snake's return, while a third killed it with bis ("word Then they carried tbe wounded officer back In tbe yard of the farmhone near which thi charge began which bad resulted so disas trously for bim and his cause. It had not been a great action, simply a hot combat bt-tweon two small bodies r' troops. It might be called an Incident of the war, when viewed in the light of many great fights, tbe story of which books record. But these incidents really make up the Interest ing part of the history of tbe great struggle. Short and decisive encounters ird sharp skirmishes very often bad much to do with tbe rasnlt of tbe great battles wblcb tbey preeeded. They rarely get in print, howev er, except through the pewspapers, and are seldom reviewed except when tbe soldiers or officers directly interested meet and talk about them. Only a few davs go two gentlemen sfoc In the rotunda of the Girard nonce, and re told the story of tbe Carter's Farm fight, which took place on tb afternoon of the COth of Ju'y, 1B4, and recalled tbe shove In cident. Bo'h men were alike in ope sense, as their erect figures and martial bearlns told that the bad been soldiers. One of the gentlemen was stent, of medium height, with a large round fi"-. ' ?n shaven, with the exception of n ar' -cn'r-e and mnus tr.clie. A por rif - is 'indr 'iw and the pen etrating gl.incs fzi,.v ? vir of l:cht b";ie eyes he'i.kenel pniiT. -mis qnalities of tbe man. Hp V - nd on a cane n such t manner as to show htt ts traces of the dan gers, exposures 'sr.d bit','l Ips attendant on war, sni rerra'ned wi'h bim. In drees b" resembled a man from tbe North, one who had Ilvei there all bis life and was weddel to its customs. The other gentleman yrs also of medium height, but slimly bmilt. n; wore a fu'l set of dark brown whiskers, thicklv strewn with gnv. A broad brlm- ed bat, of cch a s'ze and style as to 8t once proclaim the fact that the wearer w- of Southern lineage, covered bis bead. Ti e right sleeve of bis coat was pinned to th lappel and it was empty. The larger man was Major General W. T. ' Averi'l, of the Federal army, and the other Brigadier General Bobeit D. Lilly, who In ' the late war succeeded Genera! Jubal A. Early in ?o,omand of tbe old brigade be first I organized and commanded for the Confed eracy. I I joined tbe group and found that these I men, who bad opposed each other so often j during tbe late war, bad met by accident af- ter this lapse of time, and were engaged In ! fighting the battle of Carter's Farm over ; again. Tbe arm which belonged in the ! sleeve which hung empty on General Lilly's I breast bad been shot away in the figl.t by I tbe troops which Averill commanded, and was tbe officer who lay in the shadow of t!r rock wonnded, whi'e the L'nion forces, wb. j had inflicted the injuries upon Mm. wen j pushing bis troops beyond the woods. Thil- adelphia Prrtt. Saved et Starvation. No regiment from New Hampshire suffered more in ac- i tion than tbe Twelfth, and a rarrower j squeak for life than that of Captain but i bettfr known as E'der Dnrgin.is pnt often ' recorded. In one of the manv engagements ! that the Twelfth participated in be was . struck by a bullet, which literally bored a ! hole through bim just ab"ve the stomach. ; ne fell amid a heap of ki'led and wounded, j and was left for dead on the field. A col j umn of the enemy advancing with a quick 1 step moved directly over the gronnd, and. as they were marching by. be was barely able to make a motion sufficient to attract tbe attention of a Confederate captain, who stopped, looked at V;ri ritving'v. and said : "Poor fellow ! your rue booked through. I can't help ynu. bnt I'll at leat put yon ont of tbe way of further barm ;" so suiting the action to t' e words, be took bim tenderly In bis arms, carried bim some distance to one side, and placed bim in ft fitting posture, with his back against a tree. This saved his life, rs be was shortly aftortvarda found, trr r-ted for bis wound, and nltimately recor ered. The snrgenn said that had be bad his breakfast that morning be woald as suredly have been killed. Thirty-six hours' abstinence, being short of rations, bad con tracted the stomach and saved bis life. So the Elder lives, and is the life of the annual reunions. 3fmchr-ter, 2?. 17., firror. A Tpek of Iro-. ..uniMa (S. C.) letter to th S;ric -eo .t - dart says : Ti e iron palmetto is t'.e -rtf-st work of art In the Statebonse yrd. This is a casting of iron, eommcTPO'-s.t.v the r. itb of mary r-f Carolina's slain, w? se rarrsare found la raised letters on two t rasa tablets at the baae. Th? success of the casting consists in Its per fect Imitation of the living palmetto the fa vorite tree of South Carolina. We bad j heard of this statue in other places, but had never been able to believe tbe stories of the flexible leaves bending In the bree, sup posing this phenomenon an optiael delusion, but such is really the case. Tbe long, thlr leaves of iron, life-like even to tbe balr-lik -fibers of tbe twigs and branches, war tremolonsly In every yphyr, and the wboU. tree, painted artistical'y. has so close a re semblance to t,he real tree as to deceive fba acutest observer at tbe distance of v. rodi. If ran make vour youth a s-vlngs bank yoa will not need anyone's charity In t'd age or adversity. 1 f- ni 3r It i'
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