u u
-AclvertiKiiigr Hates.
The lanre and reliable croaluoa tu Cbe Cam
Bui a fiiaifx am eoiiitnends It to Uie favvmole oon
etdrratliA of adrertisera. Ma lavora will tia
serted at the loJidwlxiy low ratet :
.. lui.linbeJ Weekly at
1 moll, t times
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on
8.U4
U.00
t.00
1.01
10.0i
a. a
Sft.&o
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W.0O
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6 motitua...
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l yew
6 moo .!...
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. . If not
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Rtialneri Iter1, first Insertion lOo. per line; eaon
aUsequenl inieTUoa &c. per line.'
Admiuinrator s and lutecavor f NttlocS S.MJ
AndKer'i Kotlrea... .. ...... . -oO
!Str7 ahd sue liar NetioM . 1.M
XV Raolnlum or prociiMr of any corporation
or tocity,mJ commimlatftant dettonra to eU ft t r rri
turn marer ot hrtttm or tarftwiuaj intmrtt
mtutbcoouijm ucAfrtunmli,
Job PaisTtseef all kind neatly arideaipetn
ousiyexocated at ioweet prices, lioc'tyoa iutk
i0 . . . -.. terms be de-
JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Publisher.
U IS A rKUHiX WHOM Til THUTH M1U9 FUX, ABB UL AM SLAYXa ESJIDi.'
SI. SO and postage per year In advance.
..mu nr I'S?1"" "......imnutliiiMWlio
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VOLUIiIE XXIII.
E13ENSBUEG. PA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1SS9.
lr?trZ dootherwu..- ,
NUMBER 42.
.,3 I
ill S&totofo
liif (lliS
V J if 1 !ri ri ,A
r& b,
...... dollar c n D" w"v
v!. .rnnI.V hUeKki. tf.e f I
ufW "Hln ate nol vry Mtlnfe-
to eric i"d appearance, but at
""wlnl tfll'e' luliHes
.. . .... m..b-
- rirWy !rp'ir"-
Tve lots re all spertnl fortunate pur.
-of. l'Kf quantities at cut prices and
n ..mmoiiJ them "tra qualities
l0 rf ei-nf. better than usual
...'itirtsliJ vitlu-.' sold
' . . llrnln hi IkB. Ill
Ji rW-rUMIkr!!!' . rr..e.lM. 1
.rh - " al
I inch
,a.-hf..i8lala.s. Whatot the finer
-".ltlM? Tn? are M too In these ex-
.ve i4 mas 1 ute9 " 11 lo
pjopt-t jard M.my fancy weaves this
on In H ai-k
Colors to tn irrai a.-mT,.
jWCMMiKHl'MI-K AKMfltK.-.
,rw rni.ouK.i' sit.iv KHAi)raES,
f,W ri'l."i;K!isrKAlH,
JitW ( (il.i'ttHiOno.S (1KA1NS,
ill tdo u'tja !:aJe I r .street aud tou.-us-
. V. .. .! j
4.1 III rl'"'"k fUB'jra.
WKM'K
Our Mail Urder Depart
ment
r,f iiiiipli" of these spec's,! fl values men-.
liuBfl aw' i lld ,!'0 r ntr'tf1tt e'e In
(io.iiii I'm may ( Interested lo from
st.llu'a to finest nuslitit-. Then comrMire
fP.'ion fur like n'ulltlei. This exten-
tiTf NislnivH an htilidlns and adding, to
illj-on the bsN of ft" all profit and In
jravil i it'.ii.ni;'" : at. J old Idea, but none
X'ler.
Our li'a oiiue and Kr.h!in Journal too
Sir a:d you III urirr ninint iu inroijira
cl rubric in your Kali and Winter pat-
BCGGS & BUHL,
C. Ii;. IR CI FEDERAL STREET,
ALLEGHENY, PA.
Jhe Favorite
M!.i-!n. f ir Throat and Lung Dlf!l
cal'.tn kaa loni? l i n, and still is, Ayer'a
O.trrT lv.-tT:d. It cure Croup,
Whooping Couh, JlroncbltU, aud
aitliaia; r.!!.cJ irrHatiun ot tho
Larynx nn I Faiiees; ntri r.thtns tli
tot'.d Orceins; aH.iyi soretieia of th
Luniri; prwT.T.t.H cnsuiKptlorv, and,
fn In alvnr'd ttt:o's if that disease,
r'.i.-ees Cmi;Mn and ln.lu. c Sleep.
7;.ro U iu ii'.!nT i rrjuiratioa for Ui
to'' t-f t'ic thmur, aad lu:it; U bo coto-
rr -l t.-J.i this r-'
"My w:;,. t vl
.-vi fj.n i i'i t'i(.
tr-..- t in uh rr: ,
I'T ar.y I
K i.r'j i.'l..Trv I'. '-U-r.
A i.. i- ,!t,
t"ili"i, ;ui. tlu- .
u , f a ., , '.
a lUtrr.siii z cuch,
!! and br;ist. W'rt
.': but nonn did
:.l I );.it a hottl ot
r-il, hi. h cured
Mri. t ilHiin, Lad tho
outi w:w rt.'liuTrd bv
l ii-rrv I'ft tsr:l. I
ni. n in rei:..tiiUieuUinjr tLu
Cough
Medicine
: -t. no iir'H. t.'il." '".(.iHTt ITiu-toti,
' '''U.'jKt, M .r:illton. Ark.
''I !' nfi'.U-t.-d with (wthmA
i-;vi. Iist Hpritiij I wv taken
:ut:..Wnt eotitrli, wlu. U thr.-ut.'tiod
V ttrai:u.a my d:tyv Evnry on prow
: unsl nio in consumption. 1 ilHtfr
in! to try Ayor's I Urry Vix-toral.
S c! i rs uiacW nl. I waa iiuiutMli.
rf!-.iv...l ant continued to improve
p 'ti'lri'l v recovered." Joel liuIUrd,
u-.'.Iwril, Conn.
"5 1 r.Ktahs ao I li.vl a aovero hem
of tli lun, brontrlit on by an
'wi:t r -muh which tleprirml lur) of
I 'T ir', r it. I tried varion rrue-
. i.jt o! THinod tio rdi-f until 1 Ixv.
r,:; '' iV A i-r's Cherry lVftir:il. A
v" .' '' ' tl. Tri'd)'ini cured me."
Jri- t. Cgbi.ru, l'j ticcoud at., lowcll.
"f.r ,-i,ii.trrtn nnicted with
T ro thr-Mt. or croup, 1 .
cold,
lo li. .t
' riiiedv whti.h will jjjv
r. n r,.t...f ,)mn Avr'i Cherry
r'f.r.rd. 1 hu f.,.,Q,t it, aU. tralu-
-a fu,,i t wi
ipiuij Couirh."
Boston. M.s.'
i-'i Wiuihiugtou atroet,
ya"s Cherry" Pectoral,
', . rnkrAjiao by .
Cfi J. 0. Ayer i. Co., Lowall. Mass.
: JMI'r.i.Vsu. Vrkell; si botlks,
! OILS!
milir.l Oil rompany, of
. l'.i., make a specialty
turin for the tlomes-
aJ LnbricaiiEi
Oils,
T'Ml can be
niOH FETRQUOU.
'huUcnc' COlni.-nriv-.n will,
7
known i.ro.Iuct of petrol
11 youwUh the most
atisfictorj : Oils
'it!
ni irket n
fir onr5
STANDARD
C-fL COMPANY,
I'lTTSMUUO. Ta.
12 . 1.,'.-j1 r so:,i5. J'tttebaru.fa.
WE DO NOT FLEDGE
Ourselves to krep ibre.t. lut to ketfi tU .led
oerH tttert In leilinK you
pi kf, ::.iwutiTrLV pike, ad
WILL MtriREU, RIPE VT1IIM.
KIM AD WIN EH
Atrie( bat nuke all other dealers nuetle.
Jum think ot It :
ilvarholti A Vo.'t I'ura Ky. B8 year olJ.
Fall qurt tl.CO. or Slu.uu per Uoien.
Still brtt.r !
rinc.V (Golden: Wed JlDK.taa ycartlold. ;"U
qaxrta or 12.00 per.ituien.
K.tter Hill !
K.nturky Hnurbnn, ten yean" old. 1'ull
qnart! or ri 00 per dozen.
And one vt the moat falealile.Whinktp ftn oor
Uil la
Tb Pura EUht Year"OH Exp rt luckechtm
r full quart $1 00. or tlS per doxen.
There UnoWnlnky that batterer been told
taat has Hrown in favor with the pulillo ao rapid
ly aa our old KilKjrt. and the aimpla reuauq la
that It utterly lui)joiIM to dat-llcate It.
There will nrer be any let up In the purity
and fine flavor In an; particular ot the Pnrw Call
loraia Wtuea we are; bow iollin at Ntuu per
bottle. Full qaaru.'or IS 00 per dor.eu."
In making up your order please ;eocloee P. O.
Money Order or iJralt. or Keglaur your order.
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WHOLESALE) AND RETAIL
DRUGOISTS.
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II J MARKET T. Cor. of the Dlanead.
Jan. t. lsw. lvr
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CREAM : BAMKirAM Bml
riei
Xaaal
Alliawa Pal. ma
. tiy
Ml e avarea.rVf
Hsslerrs the
Ksnstl of Tasls
el sinell.
Try the Cure.HAY-; R
A particle Is applied Into each nostrils and Is
acreeahle. Price au cents at Orucicltl ; bf mall
reaistered. ftU eU. ELY BK W, M Warren S L ,
Mew York.
ST. CHARLES
Charles S Cill, Proprlctor.-
Table unsurpassed. Remodel
ed with office on ground floor.
Natural and incandescent
light in nil rooms. New steam
laundry attached to house.
Cor. Wood St. & Third Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pa;
1704. 1J15-40.
Polletee wrtttea at short notice la the
OLD RELIABLE "ETNA"
Asil wltier FiraS Haas f empanles.
T- AV. DICK,
1E.T FOR THE
OLD HAUTFOHI)
F1RB ILVSURAaVGB GOirr.
tMJMMENCEI) BlM.NL.ss
179-4.
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WATURE'Sr.ci'ck"""
CURE FOS
for Tare 14 Ll.er.
Bllleaa Headache.
eatlreaa.
Tarrant. LtTrrTescaal
CONSTIPATION,
Sltxr Aperient.
It Is certain In Its effect.
It la gentle la its au n.
It la paL'.eable le the
taste. It ran be relied
upon to rare, and It cures
ty attiifme. ml y outrair
lac. BAiare. 1 tot Lake
ideal punratives yvr
sel.es or allow your chil
dren to take them, always
use this elegant phar
maceutical preparation.
ESSE
Sick-Heatlsche.;
AHTs which baa been lor more
wa lorty year, a puniie
ewa a.s ws n e cveryirarre.
ESSENTIAL OII,
WlSTIROREEX, 1'ErrERMEXT, I'EX-
ntrotal, Spearmint, Ac
ef prime quality, boocht la any quantity tor caih
oa delivery, tree brokerace, eomuitssion, .toraae,
"i)0DGE & 0LC0TT,
apoctr and Exporters, M WlllUtn St.. N. y.
I V; VlLK. Attorn et-at-LiAW
J i?. r ;,b.".ri' F- ffle ' balldlna: ol T
WO aVd eallJ! bniln" attended te satlslac
wry aaj c.UeaUoai a ipoclalty. lO-ii.-
4
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TTfiTTr
REUBEN BARABBAS.
' A.xit per cent.," .d Keubcn to my lord.
"To save your honor! 'Ti not much to pay,
I'd make it only Orty it I could;
liui mouay a avarce. and life a lottery.
And your old father may outlive h:a son.
You can' t afford It? Weil, no mora cu I
Afford to run the risk on lower terms;
And If you can't, you cuu't; and ao Rood bye."
11 y lord iooUi J an pry, but was young and raah, '
And lingered on his scat, and bit hi. l'P,
And launched at Koubca word of halo and
acorn
With fearful meanings. But be signed the
bill.
And took the hard-won and degrading cash;
Hard-won, but lightly palled wlin la beta and
play.
And jewelers and milliners accounts
Tr'or the Aspaaia of the puaslnn hour
That held his laucy and h s purse In thrall.
Till his mind changed or her, mora likely
still.
In favor ol some newer fool than he.
That night. In bed, Itarabbaa had a dream.
Halt-wuUmg aud halt-elecplnrf, a he Voaaed
la Ievcriti restlessness, utter a toait
T'M pros, and heavy for his body" health.
And draughts too many ot the sparklinr wine
That fraudulent iradora a all lor Vouvo
Cllquot
Pteaaant to sip, but poisonous to quaff.
U.a umiu ccenl brain waa filled with
thought.
That hOA.1 ted it by night as well as day;
or gold that ho had clutched, and bills as
good
That, bo bad straightened out, and piled in
sheave.
To ripen :r.to pulneas In their timo.
And placed tK-aeatn his pillow ere he slept.
lie dreamed he labored In the mine, of hell.
N.ikrd and feeble, with a truldea crown
rat fLX' d npon h a bald and shiny skull.
U'.ta wo tht msuScrubie; va:al; he strove .
To cat It from him in the arony
That burned Into his bra:n, right throusrh the
bono.
F xed to hi ankle by a golden chain
tie tra:l-d a g. Men ball, a. round and hupo
As the d atii-l-alinir bombs that iron ships
HcUh liom their ponderous and g gautic jaws
To battle hotktilu flecla acd rniaui.ata.
Antl rr. w d wn mou as mower, mow the corn.
This he drew ntwr him at every step,
Uoad.'d by frantic Honda with itoltlen prods
Down to the iufern.il everlUug minea.
To wield the pic'.t-aio on the atuboorn rock;
Seourired, If he atoppvd a moment la hla toil,
lly gr.nnmg deviLa, eacer and alert.
Fair murmuring streams of limpid water ran
Tncilir.g beatde bom; bur, whene'er he
stopped.
As oft ho d d, to rulp the cooling draught,
1 he treacherous llcjuor thlckenrd Into gold.
U rapes tn ripe clusiera, or what seemed like
gra pea.
Hung, red and white, from overhanging rlnes;
And when be plucked them to refresh his
mouth.
And bore tLcm to hla palpitating lips.
Some cleviluh trick would harden them to
gold.
The mocking Sends that followed at his heels
Slabbed him with golden Ci-ycr atiarp us
steel
Until the blood drops trickled to h:s feet
As lird a ha 1 In hyperborean storms.
Itattling l-.ke pebbles on Uie burmug ground.
!! yelled for mercy. Hut tho lnaafato flend.
Lashed liiia tho hanler on h'.s quivering loins.
Tiien th-y cried "llilll" and threw him fierce
ly tlown.
Back broUeu, on the hard and scorching marl.
And tarncbsed hiru, ad it hu were a mule.
With ',oldeu chains, and yoked him to a wain
Cumbrous and bug-, high piletl with granite
roc its.
Through which the Infernal nuggets peeped
and shone
In the full radiance that Illumined hell.
And made him drab It. But his Limbs lor-
bade.
Until a atorm of 1U. came pouring down
On ha nude bhouldcrs and b. &:ncwy lolas.
Ana KOaJed hna t actioa. It endured
liut for one hideou uiotueut, till he fell
Unconscious and exhausted. When he woke.
With shrieks of pain, ho found himself alive
Upon the earth which he had done his best . '
To turn Into a bell for other men. .
When sense returned he ralaea himself In bed
And took one long, long gulp of water pure
That atood beside the couch, and thought the
draught
Was worth more gold than usury ever
scraped
Out of the pockets of despairing fools
Since cruel usury became a trade.
Barabbas still has chamber, near Pall Mall,
And cat ea on as bn...ly as before
H:a profitable business. Clients come.
In tcrat ot their need and recklessness.
To clamor for his brief aud perilous aid.
For sake of pleasure in the passing day,
Ilousht by the woe aad wail of fuluro years.
Sixty per cent, la still hla minimum;
As for his maximum, why. that's as wide
As the va st ocean, and his vaster greed!
Hut fate Is Just, and dally makes him feel,
AruUly as ho felt it In his dream.
That gold Is not the chief of earthly rood;
That health and strength, and wholesome
appetite.
And sound refreshing sleep and human lore
Are worth far more in honest poverty
Than all the treasures mother earth conceals
In her vat bosom, bleep deserts bis bed.
And food di&lreaacs h in. Itbeumatic pangs
Torture hla boi.es, and natural forces foil
To do the commonest behests ot life.
Sixty percent.? Ala! if Ave per cent.
Of all the common blessing of mankind
Who lnhor honestly for dt'ly bread
Could be h a t ort Ion, he'd be rich Indeed.
Kate cutnlier methods with the evildoers;
With her r k'lu haud she pours them out the
wins.
But with her left puts poison In the cup, .
( r from her seeming favor. to. ta-es away
More thau .he fives. This truth Barabbaa
fee la.
The rich Barabbaa, envied of the poor;
And will not ceae to feel it until death
Kindly il imiuci him, without his gold.
To the oblivion of the living tomb
And the Futurity that lies beyond-
London World.
THE HOUSE OF FERINE.
A Little Child Sot In tho Mldat of
Them.
That fprinj day dawned aa calmly
upon BurnsIJo as all other days, giv
ing no warning' of tho stir that it was
to bring1; and astir waa hold In a hor
ror ol disgust by tho entire household
at DurnsiJc That each day should
follow all other days in an unvaried
regularity thia was living; any thinf
elso waa a mere scramble for ex
istence And if thoro were any com-N-r.3.-itions
in tho lived of those who
thai scrambled, tho threo MLaos
IVrino and their brtcbelor brother. Mr.
Middletoa Perine, did not know it.
"We may congratulate ourselves
upon living ia tho country the year
round." remarked Miss Gertrude, the
head of tho houso of Perine; "I am
sure I foel sorry for tho people who
aro beginning now to hunt for summer
boarding places. Just think, sinters,
of the tliea at such places, and the
children."
Flies would not bo pleasant fol
io w-boardors, to bo sure," replied Mins
Putty, who, being the youngest of tho
threo old maids, gave herself frivolous
airs, "but as for the doar little chicks
In b'uo sashes. I wiah I w.-.t -aarJ-ln
in a house fuL."
This childishness was leniently
overlookod in Patty; what discretion
could one ox poet at forty T M
Mr. Terino stepped Into his shining
drar at precisely nine o'clock, lie was
never a quarter of a minuto out of tho
way, and women along tho road set
their cottage clocks by his appear
ance, lio drovo tho two miles to
his city office in exactly seventeen
minutes, as he had done for twenty
five years. The ladies Perine betook
themselves to their several feminine
occupations, for they were industrious
women, in a way. and quiet reigned
in the hall and parlors. The few flies
that had braved an entrance through
the shaded windows felt lonely and
subdued, and meekly promenaded the
ceiling, with no thought of buzzing.
The sound of whools on the graveled
drive about noon brought three heads
instantly to the oriel window of the
upper ball, and two woolly ones ap
peared at the side porch.
"Who in the world is coming to see
us in a hack!" exclaimed Miss Louisa,
in ditrust-
And s-uch a hack!"
Extraordinary!" cried Miss Ger
trude, "there ia a trunk, and the
wretch is throwing it on my grass as
if it were a dirt road. Here, you fel
low, there U some mistake; that trunk
dooa not belong here, especially on
tho grass here, listen."
But tho elouchy hack-driver had
evidently gotten his fare, and paid no
attention to the shrill, unintelligible
voice.
Survent, mlstis;" the old gray
headed butler showed signs of excite
ment about the whites of his eyes;
"dar is a young pusson in de parlor,
marin. 1 melts bole to epose she axes
yo" comp'ay."
"Is it a lady, James?"
"Well now. mist is, she mought be a
lady, by do look of her, and den agen
she moughtn't."
Did she give her name?"
Lord love yer, mistis," cried tho
old domestic forgetting his decorum.
de po' thing cough so she ain't got
bref to say nuttln; "pear like she gwine
faint away fo' she could get any word
outen her mouf. and I tink I boa come
and let on 'bout her."
Before the words were fairly uttered.
Miss Patty was at the parlor door.
The poor young woman had Indeed
fainted; the stained handkerchief, the
rod lino on her lips and her ghastly
pallor telling the pitiful story. Seat
ed on the rug at her feet was a sturdy,
three-year-old boy. in short skirts and
bare legs. lie was fearlessly investi
gating tho eyes and teeth of the leop
ard's head, and evidently had no con
sciousness of any thing unusual in his
companion's condition. Perhaps, alas!
it was a sight familiar to him. All was
confusion and terror in the usually
still house. These old maids had never
been 6ick In all their woll-regulated
lives, and, except for a s,ortol woman
ly instinct, had little conception of
what ought to bo done. A bed, a
spoonful of brandy, a cool spray in her
face, a doctor and presently tho sunk
en dark eyes opened, but thero was not
strength for a single word of explana
tion, and before sundown another hem
orrhage carried off the feeble lifo that
had so suddenly and strangely come
into the Burnside household that morn
ing. The child was too young to toll any
thing except that his name was
"Wiin." Ilo prattled of too-loo cars,
bridges, of Mamma sick, of itterb'ack
doggie at our's home, of tandy in 'e
tunk, and such objects of baby in
terest. Fortunately he did not pine
long for his young mother, hidden
forever from his sight in a hasty, un
wept grave. Doubtless she had been
too feeble to givo the child much at
tention, and ho seemed quite able to
bear tho burden of his own existence,
finding vivid amu&ement in evsry
thing around hLn. There was not tho
faintest clew to the Identity of the
dead woman. In her pocket was not
even a purse, only a coarse unmarked
handkerchief. The shabby little trunk
was almost empty, except for a few
suits of neatly-made clothes for the
boy and a few carefully darnod articles
of femalo underclothing, not a letter,
not a book, not a scrap of paper any
where. "We will keep the child, brother."
said Miss Terine. "until you ask ad
vice of soruo experienced person as to
where to placo him."
Yes." assented Mr. Middleton
Porlnc, laughing uncontrollably over
Wim's persistent efforts to sit on the
smooth convexity of tho leather sofa.
But, as far as any body knew. Mr.
Perine never made a single Inquiry of
the aforesaid experienced person.
The very day after he camo to Burn
side Wiin climbed up, at the risk of
all his bones, into the drag, possessed
himself of the reins, and gravely an
nounced: "Mo dwive 'ou, mo big
boy," and from this time forth, ex
cept when his small humanity was
overtaken by measles, or chicken pox.
or some of those Infantile jailors, not
a day passed that small William, as
his baby name came to be translated,
did not go into town with the old
lawyer, coming back with the careful
coachman.
There was never a word said
amongst the sisters about parting with
tho child. They even ceased to specu
late about his relations, Becretly hop
ing that there were none. I am not
sure but that they avoided reading the
advertisements under "Lost, Strayed
or Stolon." In Wim's tantrums, and
ho had now and then violent tan
trums, he was turned over to Miss
Louisa, who was steady in voice and
manner, and who. the little .fellow
soon learned, was master of the situa
tion. Miss Gertrude undertook to feed
clothe him, and did both parts so
well that his rosy cheeks stood out for
fatness, and he was likely to outgrow
more clothes than he could wear out.
But Miss Patty was his playfellow,
and Mr. Terine hia special chum and
confidant. And ah! how strangely the
staid, somber, unsociable old houso
was changed. Pets of various sorts
accumulated in yard and stable.
Every member ol the household re
signed soma cherished prejudice for
the aake of this little stranger, who
so quickly learned to say our's
house, me horsie, Wim's Auntie Trude
an' Lou and Pat"
On a warm day, later ia tho season,
one of the few visitors that ever
eoughttho society ot thoBurnaide
ladies might have been soon turning
into the groat lawu in a coinforti-bla.
old time rock-a-wuy. One, did I say?
There were, two, as far as a man and
his wife can bo counted two people.
It was the pastor of tho little village
Presbyterian church which the Perine
family attended, to which they con
tributed with genteel liberality, but
with whoso members they did not af
filiate in the slightest degree.
"Now, Ruth," said Pastor Mott,
who had recently oL&oged his widow
erhood's gravity for tho cheerful bear
ing of a bridegroom, this visit is one
of the trials of your lot, to be endured
bravely, but fortunately not to bo boon
nor often reiKaited. Those queer peo
ple will invite you into a dull, quiet
bouse, hand you a glass of wino and a
homeopathic bit of cake, talk to you
in gentle, patronizing voices about
their family of past gonerutlons, but
they will not show any interest in you,
or mo, or our work, or our neighbors.
You will come back into the sunshine
feeling as if you had paid a visit to
some old family vault."
Tho new wife twisted up hor sweet
faco into a wry expression, as one
does when swallowing a spoonful of
bitter stuff, but hastily smoothed it
out again as a sudden curve In the
carriage road brought them up to the
front porch.
"My husband must be absent-minded,"
said the new Mrs. Mott to her
self; "this 'Is not the family he has
been describing to me." For the
whole household was out on the front
porch. Wim had turned one ol the
carved oak chairs down on its arms,
and was tilting astrido its venerable
back, though the short fat legs could
not quite make out to turn the cor
ners. "Pat" was kneeling in front of
him playing horsie, her long, heavy
plaits of hair serving for re in a Miss
Louisa was protending to read, and
Miss Gertrude was knitting a brightly
striped little sock, but all three ladies
were enjoying tho gamo fully as much
as the young driver.
In some oonfusion the chairs were
righted. Miss Patty's braids hastily
knotted up, and small William sont
out to James, who waa watering flower
bods on the lawn. Of course, the
story of the child was told and list
ened to with doep Interest by the visitors.
"Oh, I'm so glad the poor thing got
here Ix-fore she died." cried tender
hearted Mrs. Mott. "Do you think she
knew how good you were going to be
to her children when she was gone?"
"She knew how kind they were to
her, Ruth," said the pastor, gently.
"You do not think we are doing
wrong to keep the darling?" asked
Miss Patty, eagerly. i
'Wrong P" said the preacher; "I do
not think anything about it; 1 know
that inasmuch as you have done it unto
one of the least of those, you are fol
lowing your Master's commands."
There was a little silence, and then
Miss Gertrude said, rather huskily:
"Of course Brother Middletou put a
notice In the city papers, but wo were
sure from the littlo fellow's talk that
they had come a great way, and thero
was every evidence that the poor young
woman was In a very friendless condi
tion." ;
Then followed eager talk upon a
wide range of subjects connected with
babyhood, boyhood and young man
hood, until Miss Patty cried with a
merry laugh: "Well, I don't think we
need set our baby's wedding day yet!"
Our baby" had boon monarch of
all he surveyed at Burnside for ten
years, when one day a faded, grizzled,
unhappy-looking woman, feeble with
disease, came to the house and asked
to see Miss Gertrude. Burnside was
very unlike the secluded, inhospitable
place which was first introduced to
the reader. That lively, wide-awake,
hail-follow-well-met Individual who
still called himself Wim, but who now
had a right by act of legislature
to the title, William Thornwell
Perine, had gradually brought Bum
side and all its inhabitants into frater
nal relations with the whole neigh
borhood, high and low. This very
woman. Sally Rice, was one of his
village acquaintances, through her
cake and candy shop, and so waa
known to Miss Gertrude.
"Well, Sally," said the lady In the
gently-cheerful tono ono always uses
to a hopeless invalid, 'how aro you
feeling to-day? Did my boef tea set
you up any?"
To Miss Gertrude's surprise, the
woman burst Into tears. "If yer
knowed what a mizabla sinner I am.
Miss P"rlne," sho sobbed. . "yef
wouldn't take no count of ma" And
after a little soothing, Sally told her
story
"Yer know. Miss F'rlne, yer'sent
for mo to lay our that dead woman,
what came upon you bo euddent.
Well, you saw mo turn her pocket In
side out. and 'twant nothin there, but
when I come to strip her, I finds a pus
fastened in her bussom. It had ten
douars In it, aa' a letter." -"
"A letter," gasped Miss Gertrude,
turning faint.
"1 was orful hard pressed them
days. Miss P' rine, and the devil
whispered to me I could jes' borrow
that money of the dead woman, and
nobody bo hurt; but oh, you don't
know how't has brought me down
since." Sally began to weep again.
"I 'low It has cost me my souL I
have slaved day and night to make
it up. so I could confess my ein and
get yer to pray fer me, but I's never
been any loss hard pressed than I was
that day. It's a'most too lata now
I'm feared." She counted out the
money with feverish haste, aa if it
burnt her fingers.
Ton years before. Miss Gertrude
would have tent her to a preacher for
spiritual comfort, as being none of
her concern, but great depths had
been stirred in the old maid's heart
since then. Gently, as one might
speak to a foolish, frightened child.
Miss Gertrude showed poor Sally where
pardon was to bo found, and after a
long visit, tho woman went away
comforted, leaving tho tea dollars and
the letter.
Oh! how Miss Gertrudo dreaded tho
letter. She felt unaUo to open it her
self, acd thankfully recognised Pastor
Mott's now familiar voice in the hall
below. He would open the letter and
counsel and guldo them. But the let
ter held no sting; on the contrary, it
proved the respectable parentage of
their boy, without taking any rights
from them. It was from an old ac
quaintance ia the West, and dated ten
years back. The bearer, it said,
was a poor young widow of good
character, whose failing health made
it iinjiossiblo for her any longer to
tupport herself. Sho was going back
to her brother, who would be kind to
ht-r if sho could find him, but eho had
Lot heard lrom him for years. "I
fivoher this letter to you," wruto
Miss Gertrude's friend, "begging you
to placo her in some charitable insti
tution, at least until I can hoar from
her. In case she fails to find her
brother. She is alono In the world
except for this brother."x
Tho pastor fin'shod reading and
wiped his glasses. "To think," said
ono of tho sisters, 'that we should bo
finding out, ufterall theso years, how
our boy camo to us."
"I knew all along," said tho pastor,
significantly.
"You knew!" the sisters cried to
gether. M
"Not about poor Sally's letter," he
replied; "I only know this: 'And Ho
took a little child and set him in tho
midst of them.' "Elizabeth P. Allan,
In Interior.
HAYTIAN VOUDOO
ORGIES.
Horrible Kites anil rcritice4
I' met iced
In the Negro Jtepublic.
At duk of Christmas Evo many of
tho lowest of tho blacks left Port au
Princo on foot for the valley at tho
foot of tho Laseello mountains, pomo
twelve miles south of tho town, where
several thousand of tho believers in
voudooism wero found assembled, the
greater portion being from tho
vicinity of Jacmel, the most barbarous
portion of tho island. Tho correspond
ent, difguised and blackened, under
tho protection of a liberally paid
guide, arrived on the spot just before
midnight. Thero each of the per
formers put on a pair of sandals and
fastened around his otherwise naked
body a number of red handkerchiefs,
tho King of tho Voudoos having an un
usually large number, with a blue
girdle, and red handkerchiefs bound
around his head and worn as a dia
dem. The Queen, clothed in the
charming simplicity of a single broad
red sash, was seated with tho King on
a large box, where the f angless ser
pent representing the Deity was kept
Then began tho horrible adoration
of tho serpent, lasting about thirty
minutes, and ending in a wild satur
nalia of delirium. 'ITie scene, amid the
glaring of burning torches and bon
firen, can hardly bo described. All
present took part in dancing around a
large altar, erected in the center of an
open space. Between tho dances
abundant potations of the vilest native
rum and gin, flavored with herbs and
roots tending to increase the delirium,
wero indulged In by all. After tho
dancing the crowd separated and. ac
cording to seniority, approached tho
perpent in tho cage. Dropping on
their stomachs they crawled forward
imploring the aid of tho voudoo for
blessings on themselves and friends
and maledictions on enemies, known
and unknown. The answer to these
appeals was interpreted to tho im
becile crowd by the Queen, they never
doubting the most monstrous absurd
ity, and only knowing how to obey
what ia despotically dictated to them.
They then bound themselves by themot
execrable oatha to obey the dictates of
tho Queen and minor priestesses until
the next annual assemblage. On
thia occasion a whito goat was sac
rificed, but my guide Informed me that
last year he was present at tho same
assemblage, four miles north of Jac
mel, where a femalo child was stupe
fied by drugs, its veina openod, and
tho blood sucked therefrom by the
King, Quocn and minor seniors, while
tho rabble tore the corpse limb from
limb and devoured the flesh, still
warm, the bones and adhering slips of
flesh, with the head, being thrown
into a kettle of boiling water with the
bodies of small snakes. The broth,
seasoned with herba and rum, waa
eagerly partaken of by all present.
Thia seems incredible, but well au
thenticated cases where recently burled
bodies have been exhumed, oooked
and devoured by the almost complete
ly barbaroua Inhabitants of the south
ern department the brutalized de
scendant of the lowest tribe of
Africans havo been heard of.
In February, 1831, at St. Marc' a
cask of so-called pork waa 6old to a
foreign ehip. Fingera and fingernails
being discovered, further investiga
tion proved all the flesh therein
to be human. An English colored
clergyman near Capo llaytian re
cently found that hia wife had pur
chased human flesh instead of pork in
public market. Four people wero
fined in tho cape for eating corpses.
Cor. N. T. World.
A celebrated divine, who was re
markable in the first period of his
ministry for a loud and boisterous
mode of preaching, suddenly changed
hia whole manner in the pulpit, Rnd
adopted a mild and dispassionate
modo of delivery. One of his brethren
observed it, and inquired of him what
had induced him to make the change.
He answered: 'When I was young I
thought it waa the thunder that killed
the people; but when I grow wiser I
discovered that it was the lightning;
so I determined to thunder less and
lighten more in future."
"Papa," said Amy, hesitatingly,
'I I must confess something. Harry
and I had arranged to elope to-night,
but my conscience troubled mo, and I
just had to tell you and spoil it all."
"It need not bpoil it," replied the
fond parent; "go ahead and elope,
but never tell I knew of if- It will
tavo tho expense of a wedding."
I
The midnight hour is here, and silenoe brooas
W 1th folded wings o'er all the sloeping world;
The whippo'wul within the sedgy lea
Hath hushed his querulous song, and the dull
owl
Sits calm and voiceless in the darksome wood.
Impelled by sloe picks care I walk abroad
Through the moist meadows, whore tho breath
ing Cowers
Send forth sweet Incense to tho stooping hills.
Whose shadows hold the vale In loved em
brace. Softly the breeze eomes from the groves afar
Aad gathering from the meads a thousand
sweets
Bears them away in silence to the stars.
Whilst earth sits weeping tears of pearly dew
For the dear loss, but epeaka uo evU word.
Out of the moonless skies the luminous stars.
Circling in wondrous harmony and grace
'Round tho great central throne of majesty.
Flash down sweet words ot peace and truth
and love;
Peace tn the perfect motion of the spheres.
Truth in the light that stream. uion the world.
And love in the firead power that holds them
stui
Unswerv.ng la their way through the blue
deeps.
I bow my head in silence as I walk.
And saddening cares nnd wearing toil forgot;
I listen to the voioe. of the .tars ;
For oh, they spcalt with no uncertain sound.
And ia their moUon s rig Thy praise, O Ood,
Thy praise and love. Thy majesty and mlpht.
In such a h.csood hour gr.uf flics, and leaves
The soul rojoicine, lor the glory ot God
Falls down in golden rays upon the earth.
And truth and beauty live In the sweet light.
1. J. Donahoe, in Springfield (Mu&s.j Re
publican. HUjIBLE heroism.'
An
Incident of tho Flood In tho
Alabama River.
Negroos frequently exhibit a won
derful degroo of heroism in times of
danger. An instance of thia I wit
nessed in the spring of lSJ'G, when a
freshet in the Alabama river caused
the country on each eido to be over
flowed by water for many miles.
The negroes on the river planta
tions were the greatest sufferers.
Their cabins would bo under water
almost before they knew that danger
threatened them, and hundreds of
them were sometimes found huddled
together upon some knoll sufficiently
elevated to be above tho water. Thero
they often remained two or threo days
and nights without food and exposed
to a soaking rain. Fortunately, tho
weather was not cold.
Many relief expoditions wero sent
out from the neighboring towns to res
cue them. Theso consisted of ono or
moro boats, manned by export oats
men and swimmers, and filled with,
cooked provisions, blankets, etc One
day the news camo that tho negroes oa
a certain plantation hud sought refuge
upon a corn crib, around which tho
water was rapidly rising, and so ren
dering their condition exceedingly
precarious. Two boats started out at
once to their assistance. In ono of
theso I went, accompanied by another
whito man and a negro.
An amusing occurrence took place
not long after our starting. In the
middle of a submerged field, about one
hundred yards to our right, we saw a
littlo, woolly black head, with a
frightened black faco beneath it, pro
jecting from tho wator. We
rowed hastily towards it and drew
out of the muddy water a negro boy
about eight years old, perfectly naked,
and held him up among us.
"Here, Moses," cried one, holding a
tin cup with whisky in it to hia mouth.
"hero, take a drink.
"Tako a bite of thia bread, Moses,"
cried another, trying to crowd the
broad into his mouth.
"So; let Moses have some of thia
fried bacon. It'll do him the most
good," said the negro oarsman. .-
But Moses shook his head and turned
aside from all tho offered food.
"I'so erbleeged to yer, marsters,"
ho said, while hia white teeth shone
and his eyea rolled wildly. 'Teo
erbleeged ter yer, but I hain't sot down
in two days, by tryin' to keep my head
out' n do watab, an all I wants, ef yer
please, is to set down."
He was promptly wrapped in a
blanket and set down, whero for an
hour he sat without moving, enjoying
the perfect rest of hia jiow position.
At tho end of that time ho began to
eat. I draw a vail over hia perform
ance in this lino. Wo feared we had
rescued him from a watery grave to
kill him with corn bread and bacon,
although tho negro oarsman insisted
that he never heard of a "niggah boin'
hurt by too much to eat." Meeting a
returning boat soon after, wo put
Moses in it and sent him to town. I
never heard of him again, but presume
he survived, both hia unusual bath and
banquet.
We resumed our journey, and ju6t
before dark sighted tho corn crib.
upon which a mass of black hu
manity clustered like a swarm of
bees. A heavy rain waa now falling,
and daylight beginning to fade away,
their condition become most distress
ing, as they sat In perfect silence
watching our approach,
But we did not appreciato their ex
tremo peril until, aa the boat struck
against tho frail log-houso, which waa
in tho water to the edges of tho roof,
it visibly shook and tottered. The
poor crcaturea began to clamber hur
riedly down to tho boat. .
"Stop!" I cried. "The women and
children first,"
The men obediently resumed their
seats. Wo took in first tho children
and theu tho women, getting them all
in safely, acd were about to push o2,
telling tho men wo would1' hurry back
for them as quickly aa possible or send
the first boat we met, whon a very old
woman (I noticed sho was tho laat to
ge.t in tho boat and had done so re
luctantly) seized the corner of tho
house, and, looking anxiously into my
faco, 6 did:
'Marster, ain't you gwino tako my
01 "No,Dauntlo," I answered, "the boat
is too full now. Ho must wait till we
come back."
The words were hardly out of my
mouth when with a sudden spring eho
nma i'T nnd on tho roof again. It
j shook aa she scrambled on all fours
upon it and took her beat by a Line,
withered old black man, whose hand
sho seized and held aa if sho waa afraid
UNDER THE STARS.
we would tear her away from him.
"Come, aur.lic," I cried, "this
won't do. We can't leave you here,
and we can't wait any longer on you."
"Go on, marster," sho answered.
"I thanka yer, en I pray de good
Lawd to fetch you all safe Lome; but I
gwino stay hyah wid my olo raao. Ef
Sirhou got to git drowndod, Lyddy
gwine git drownded, too. Wo dun bin
togedder too long to part now.".
And wo had to leave hor, after
throw ing them somo blankets and si
lot of provisions.
As wo rodo oft in tho rain and night
a high falsetto voice, treiirulous with'
age, came across the waters from tho
crib, w hero wo left the almost certain
ly doomed group in tho bluckness of
darkness. They dared not have a
light, for fear of setting fire to their
frail support. We stopped our oars
to listen to tho song. It came clepr
and distinct. First Lyddy's trembling
voice, and then a chorus of a dozen or
more of tho deep bass voices of the
men:
We're a clingln' to de ark.
Take us in, taken, in.
Furde watab a deep in darli.
Take us In, take us In.
Do" de flesh Is po' en weak,
Take us In. take us in.
"Tis do Lawd we gwin'.er seek.
Take us in. take us in.
Den Lawd, hole out dy baa'.
Take us In, take us In.
Draw de slnnahs to do lau.
Take u. in, take us In."
We could wait and listen
weird sounds no longer, but
to tho
struck
our oara into tho wator and hurried
away.
Most fortunately we camo across a
boat, bent upon the samo errand as
ourselves, which went immediately to
the crib and 6avod all of its living
freight. Tho crib had, apparently,
been hold down by tholr weight, for,
as the last one left it, it turned over
and floated away to tho gulf.
Their rescuers told us afterwards
that, as they neared the crib, tho first
Bound they heard waa an old woman's
voice singing:
"De Lawd l byah'd our cry,"
Answered by the men:
"Take us la. take us In.
En He'll 6avo us by cu b7.
Take us in, take us in.
To this simple-hearted old creature
divoroo courts and separations were
unknown. With her it was "until
death do ua part." Detroit Freo
Press.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
They Form a Completely Vnltcvl Isody,
Enterprising and lltiriuouious.
No Stale of the Union is a tuition,
though several States exceed F.jro-
peaa nations both in eizo and popula
tion, the Stato of New York, for ex
ample, being both larger and moro
populous than tho whole of Switzer
land; and no Stato represents a his
torical nationality. Honco tho ex
perience of America, it may bo ob
served, throws no light on the possi
bility of using "federalism and local
autonomy aa convenient methods
cither for recognizing and giving free
scope to the sentiment of nationality
which may exist in any part of un em
pire, or for meeting tho need for local
institutions and distinct legislation
which may arise from differences be
tweeen such a part and tho rest of the
empire." The States, looked at as a
whole, make up the United States,
but the United Statea aro nothing but
the political form into which circum
stances have molded tho constitution
of a single nation. Tho Americans
aro as much one people as tho
French or tho Italians; they form
a more completely united body
than do tho inhabitants of tho
United Kingdom. 1 he men you moot
at New York differ less from the men
you moet at Chicago than Londoners
from tho citizens of Edinburgh or than
both from tho citizens of Cork. Tho
difference, indeed, between whites and
blacks ia of course fundamental, but
tho aim of tho negro is to imitate to
the best of hia power the ordinary
American citizen, and thero does not
exist at present, and, as far as one
dare prophesy any thing, thero ia not
much likelihood thero will exist in tho
Union any thing like negro national
ity. Meanwhile and this ia of pri
mary importance tho division into
Statea does not correspond with dif
ferences of religious creed. An En
glishman who goea from London to
Edinburgh enters Into a now moral at
mosphere. Who can pass a month in
Scotland without hearing of the dif
ferences w hich divide tho Freo Church
from the Establishment? What sano
man living in England cares to recall
theso subjects of division? Tho Ro
man Catholic 'citizen of Ticino is a
different man from tho Gorman Ro
man Catholic of Lucerne; each differs
from the German Protestant of Berne
or tho French Protestant of Geneva,
A citizen of the United States ia an
American; he ia not a Californian or
a New Yorker. Edinburgh Review, j
A Young Cook's Ready Wit.
Louia XL, of France, once took it
Into his head to visit the kitchen and
boo Dwhat waa going forward. Ho
thero found a littlo fellow about
fourteen years of age busily en
gaged tturnlng the spit with
roast meat. Tho youth waa hand
somoly formed and of so engaging an
appearance that tho King thought him
entitled to some bettor olUco than the
humblo one which he then filled. Ac
costing him, Louia asked w honco he
came, who ho waa and what ho earned
by hia occupation. The turnspit did
not know tho King, and replied to his
interrogatory without tho least em
barrassment: "lam from Berny; my
namo ia Stephen and I earn as much
as tho King." "What, then, doos the
King earn?" rejoined Louis. "Hia ex
penses," replied Stephen; "and I
mine." By this bold and ingenious
answer ho won tho good graces of tho
monarch, who afterwards promoted
him to the situation of groom of tho
chamber. San Francisco Argonaut, j;
" "Ail thlng3 come to him wha
waits." appears to be tho motto of a
majority of waiters. Chicago Inter
Ocean. "