r
ii
Jsi in l fin s FrM.'man
l I'liblUlirit Hrfkl at
KtMUIKJ, A 71 HIS I A CO., PIAX.t.,
n jamf... hanm.
Aclvertifiintf lintoH.
The larv. and reliable cirrolatloo el the Caw
bkia rKA eomujentli it to tbe Uvnrah
eoo'lderatlou of 1 vert Hern whooe favora will ie
innerled at the follow lug low rate :
1 lorn. 3-lmeji . .....t I aO
1 Inrh, 3 month. ii.M)
1 I Deli, e month. .o
1 Inrh I year 6 KJ
it lurliea. 8 oiunibtt..... e.oo
Xlurbn,l year Mi "0
S I tx-1' en. e inotitbf t'.OO
a lurhea. I year U-uU
i oomtiiti, 6 muntha.... 10. uo
; ooluina.e montbi... on
Jrolunjo, year SV00
1 roluuio, njoiittn 40 wi
1 column, I year.......... .00
Kaalne( Itets. tlrot tr.certlon, Ute. ftvr lioe
(Ul-rriiuent lDfcrtloria, fx. -?-r line
Ail mtnu-trntor'a an2 .Kxreutor'f Notlrea. fi Hi
Audilnr'i Nutlrev t.lAi
Stiay a nil miliar ti Mr.t null
-I.o"olution or ir.-ie--ilnKii ol any hitu r
tloo or m-riety and oonjiiiUui'-atlona dexlKi" 1 to
call attention to any matter ot limited or mdt
tiiloal lLter-t tnum l-e aid l -r at ailvertiftnenn.
Hook and Job Printtn of all kimU neatly and
ezeaiouaty txermcd at tbe lowevt rlrea. And
Ion tyota lorKet It.
l! uaniuteed t :ireulati-n.
I. "CI!
in i
fc-i s .g r i
Stt "iscripi Ion lintc.
I !!, "!". 1 i' ', --!! 1U ll'lvat!.''' ft ''''
,1., .to i i n..t paid 1; tun moiit I'-. I "."'
,o dt fi ii.. I p t: i t u'ii'iit ii iiii'iiilij. .M'
do l! iit .n i I witliiu tlic year.. :6
St I i per. on res. iu in.it!.:? . r the nmn1;
i ct t-' i.Mitionnl per year will be eli:.re.l K
f..l" i.I"MO
ar-in no evo'it !!! the above terms he "e
. arte.! iT' ui. and tro-!'" ''on i .tor-suit in--ir
i - ti i mereies re- .ai lu a-r. ui:i' uiu -i i.ot ox
.,e.-l i.i bo i.Ih.t'.I on th? - i mo 'wlrifj) I :. who
,1... !. : t" ti- i ""' 1 diiitnetiy utidsrt-tood rim;
.r .i- huso rurm:.i.
" - r,,r '"'ir t' t'r I'Ptore d'U f!"li It. If t"
tt t.'U ii-'iK f nr.e hi t ne: la wn ? ! ot rterw li--e
.,..11 t a HCI;tW.U ltf" ta KIllTt.
JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor.
'RE IS A FKKRNAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FKEE ASD ALL ABB SLAVES BESIDE."
SI.CO and postage per year In advance.
Yr()LUME XXVII.
EBKNSBUKG. PA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. IS93.
NUMBER 4S
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OILS! OILS!!
The Atlantic IMinin Co., 01
Pittsburg, I'm.., uniko :i spc-i:ilty
of inanufai turinu' l'r the Imes
ti: tralc the 'finest bran-Is of
I!l!iiiiiii.itinj; ami Luhricniin Oils,
Nai!ith;i and (iasnJim4
Mi FBQB FEPLEOa.
We challenge romparison with
every known proiluct of petrol
emn. It yuii wish tiic most J
Most : niiilcrmly : Satisfactory : Cils
in the market ask for ours.
ATLANTIC REFINING CO,
i ii rsiit i.ii ii:i-r.,
riTTSUURU, TA.
ort 15. nt-lyr.
From Pole o Pole
Atfu'i Saiisat.-. hi i t. v la 1. n; n-itrt ii ita
power of luri' !'-ru:l vlw-;c-l . f Il'.-J tli-od.
' The Harpooncr's Stcry.
..!? iv 'or., -;.- 1, IS $3.
Pn. J. C. Aye n l Cn.-ra.-tit) yfars nc.- I
wa a hrrrMx;.:.T in tin; N.jrt'i ra. i:.'-t whi-n live
cthr-i of tli cr-w n:td my.' If wi rf l;iil tip vi:h
leurvj. i Mir io(iu-- w.r ti!"a;. .1, -cunin nu-oiU-a
ami I'lwiiins, toctii li.-) , i.!'r;h- l-ioi.-'irs ail
e.-r u, anc ir l-rt-rith --. :::. -d r.'tt' ri. 'I'j.ku it
by and lurgi wo vi-re pr-.-t:y lnul y l-'J'. Ail out
liiiu juire w . a v:io:it:iiiy d. Tr-yoi!, but tiie
cipmin had a c..in!i; ii ii-n t,ttii f AVEK'a
(-AKVAPAI.lt. I. A Rr-J k-riVL' U-l thai. rtH'OV-
r. .1 on it q;:ii'ki-r t!.:.;t I I: iic -rrr -rtt ni.-n
tr..-:-.-l-tu!i.ut t.y anyot'.. rtr. .itim-nt f.-rS.-iirvy,
:..! !'-. t-.-.-n .- i'.i'i.i d :il i-i it. S-t inir tt i i.i. ti
ti. n i-i i.:.r A It.i.iii.ic of yottr ;--:r!-:i;'Ari.iii In iti-i
g . .1 1 V !- urvy, 1 1 iit.iici't. y u oi iilil to know o
ll. ai:.l n'. p-:id y.'U 'uc f.i'-tt.
K.j . . tf'illy yuura, "-ai.pii T. Visoat.
Tho Trooper's xpcrion:e.
M.'nrrf, .ntsu(ot.:n.l . S. AfrU-tt,) J.'.:r.-Ai". '.W.
I'll..!. ('. AVEit & Ci. G.-titVr.H-n : iii.iv-
n.u-h j i'Mniirn t.-'-':y i:! -at v!t: t (
?....r t-ar.i!-ar!:i.. Vc l.uv '.--t.- ftuti-.nrd
i--r.- f ..v-r two vriri". d : vl.:ch f.ni- we
l.i-.l to iivi.- 1u l.-ot-i. l--.ric umlr cai.vapi f..
:. h a t!-n- hrr ,ii;lit on ! ii tilled in this
eomitrr v-lilt-arc I Ki.il iKono a-jrea fit
. .-I." titn.-. 1 v.a-i adii-.-d t. ti! c yjtif Sr,
ji irii'i.i, two V..-tl.- of via h !:'.. my oraa
dnu;.ivtr a.'..l!y, an 1 I am ti 'i t.tf wtil.
Your. :ru v, '1'. K. I'-iMirv,
7w'7'-r, 'if M junii J J.'ijlrmfn.
Aer's Sarsapariila
! th c.r a thornm-Tily 4-".-r1iv porifiT.
II . fiilv uu .ii' if- tv..t" ru.i: rtt' ! tlu T-oion o
llt lia llur ly -U III.
rREPAP.FI) BT
Dr. J. t Ayor A'-, o., Lowell, Mm,
4jia by .-ill Ir:ii:sri-tJ: Prico 1;
to.i botui tot -9j
ScleniifiR An-srican
A
.gcicy for
CESICM FATEWTS,
CC'?y!CHT3, tc.
For 1nformntn ntiil fr.i; I hinill-.V'k to
Ml NN .i '.. -1 Ii;:.; ' l - v. i..y ii.Kit.
1.' t. hiir.Mii : T '-i:-!i'..' i-ai i-i.t . in Atti-irru
h'Ti ji-M.-i.T t.'.:i.'i i-i.r ; y t: . Iti-o .-l:t l.-f-iro
the oiiuke oy ix ot .ce iv i r..-i .-i tli iuu 1:1 1I10
"A'-riO. ; ;-n 4 itt i v- !iu. t r:iu?i. ' if.''li.'fi.i,
1'i.m T'ii:o 1'.; v.:Mm,il it. Work Ir, i a
T.-.ir; L-'-i!JX Pl-.i;! A.M:f- AM N N ,v i
II
TRY THE FRFEMAN.
ill
4 'ivorit-. .met Trn'io M nrVm ol't :i: ti-. r.Trl .-ii 1 j
flit bii-'fif--! (ri''U'-!.'! fr Mff1frae Fp-, j
nn-1 we r-ni .TTin- v.iT- i.r in i "-. ? tine than t hie I
P llloti- fr"Tt :i-hj(r't'n. ;
v.-i in.-.ti-l. lra-.WT. or ph'itn.. v. i' h r'-'T'p- i
'n. W nijv iaf. if Kitrlit:i'h!o op !)..'. fr'i! of
rn ir -ir f...- ;,,t it:;. TiJ t- 'it ---i ;irr'l.
A Tmptilit. -Mow to Ot'T-i.n !' i"n:-.'" with
Ti:im "f -i:! r si. nt in your State, county, i
town, . riL frv-f1. A !c--.
c.A.sow&ca
Opposite Patent Office. Washington, 0. C ;
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v.iii-tit-f. Uciir.. I'r.n.irv tr LKer I n-e. --.
ki.ijn t.y a t.rrl. lunuioj !; . : (ii;i..i..i, .it
ttt kii-,.yw w,,ueiHH:n! .i-":, ,s IK i.'o.hI, ,r:.(
in. it-. ,- ,,! rnjinvcl y.m -niin.t li;i4- -; it ri .
'r 1 tun uv ir ti rJii .tajo o 11 ri ti I ft I r.irt
Hfi-I lro;.y - Mrs 1. is Mil. iKi:. th IlIumii.
I . I . oo oi t, r : i. it rtitiiioir u-tiiJHint.is. I'ry
It. Cure itu.iiu: i (
Miiaw Iil4lttr 4 tar 4'
T.o V t i.e. -t rt i'iiil.Kli-lj.to.i I'.i.
Niiil y nil retiiille oruit. 4.2L..C
Eteasiiarii Fire liisarasce Atestj
rr. W. DICK,
General Irsurance Agenl
KftK.SSitlKU. I'A.
A' A VI Hf.-lir'iiit.W- iiitn t. i-ell our rli-ii. e
I 1 aial l.itr.l) Nutr-I lo.W. an. I Se.-. 'o
t.l. f. lull hi.iI fo.i.ulrie Ulir. .Many V;.m lim
at. only t.r ( t.irtlnr.l IhrouKli iik. 'oiiiiiii-Moti or
aaliiry . ai.l w.-. kiy ait I iTon.ptly . Kn-Uin.
an.l chuii-e oi trrritory uuen. mm t iln...
V rite at oiw e lor tt-rtn.
AM.tMSriiSKIIV Co.,
July 2, -AL
FOf? ARTISTIC
lis ? I
.. - I---..I art
-.. , . I .. I; ...--v liar...-.
1 il l iiiaf. I'.icc 1
.ii"- infill i .
fiefs'
Sri
I "! K " 5 f
t!.
-C3
.Lrsi
c:lc TIr.ia.irh--' end -nr lirve all tho trr.-abl- lnf--r.rut
to ftVitiaus PtaLo of thi gysii'in, uuch a9
2 iTa-ss, N;ti.-.r3, Jrow:-.i?ai-ifl, l'iHtr-H rtfirr
' in ;:, l uia i:i iuo f-:.U .--;c. V!nlo 'U-irrms6
rui-iukajlo tiictc-.- lii'.a liN.-a alioTvn ia ccxinj
ITriflar.c, yft Carter's LiUlo tivfir PHtfi om
c-'iually T-Mlualiioin Const ion. run naiul pria
v nlii;;; t.LifinnL'oj'iiiTroiaiilaiiit,whiio th y ulso
r An:rtall tlii -.riK rcf thos'.ciiiiv.li.i-'LiTTMiIritoth'j
I.vtr aua roitiiito tho bowoiri. iLvii if tlacy cni7
fr: li3f";if;f rr -sinn corniilaint; butforia-
V. .-Jti-j1 tlicni will Iintl tlu-ao brtlopilN valit
r. in ?'J iii'ry vr y? t hat ihoy will not bo wil
iitg to Uo u ituout tUem. Bui. aler allaiclt hca4
1.; IKc lr.tc r.f r.c tn-.r.y tUat liotv in wbrro
v.'.: :.: .'. c r s-Tosit buast. curpillacuroitwliila
C'in i.'.i-)M.
fa J. :t!o I.;Trv ri'.la aro -rrry rmnll ani '
r --y r.--. -y : ..a j. C;.o or twc ilia m:;lioa dnso.
.. ;. . : ; r. . :y v.aii faKie a:i-l do not fripe or
i : . r .-.1 t u.' i- p. utlenrtiL-n X'la-o all vho
I .. J: y:.:i ,a -iacrtiM; hv-ir.irfl. Soiil
; . v: ' .!. t viJ"V. ti a or srit ly luuiL
v-."vr.-i;R i;src!-.i:.s 60., New Tor.
L:1L ALDOSE, SMALL PRICE
GO PER
4 utoSsal 4 &
t l:ln r sex, :in n !1 piir! ff tn ci:ntr
li.c -i: i j'Nyi ut.t wiiirli v.'t farni. !i. Y-'n lu .1 j
; in- tiway irmn home rvt r niIit. Yon r ; v o
: r - vtiolot inir tor h work-ro;1; vm:r : i -m
A r;.it .il is imr r1' y - ir. . 'it run : r! .
suij-Iv y.ii wi'h ti.:ir 1. J- v- ;!i
. yt.,1 n-itiiiiiir t ry tU'- t m- i . -. A: y fu:.
: '.: ttn- worl;. K-:- ini.t-r n:;ii i rno'ii v lr- ,l
; : t I'. iltiri' is iii.t- tmvii ':; i( ()l;r rr.. r-.
. ; !:'tir you l;i'or you r.ui t :i- :iv i-i.-.Kt- ;i ilrl..r.
i-'r vli't ij v, ii.ii..! to '.o:!; l.ill-!. ui:.k m- i"'
i! -V ch rv i!:1. I hri'i vr.n K- t; (!- jri t 1 1 i..
:-iv -'i ii.rr . t ii'- !"' lit. .S'-ihI fur ii v bucL
ii. t.-' r : i J I s ;-i:Kirio.i.
TLAr;D,
1
Notliiii- 0:i I- arth Will
Bf E
RJ1 rs
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y"- Aii, .
,i-',(:rr;t.;!;:.s ( Mi.iitioii IVwder!
K-U'-G YOUR CHICKENS
Stroit,.; a:-..! H-:.;KKy ; r.-cvrr.ts all Disease.
f.'oo.f f't r M ittf ! i Ittj Urns.
Ir : t rif... H.'I.U.-.a (.t..t.-l. Tr -o'in-
i . 1 1 .1 , .--.I 1 ila. .-ti.. 1 ..!..- f Ik -h ..
t 1 st t all -1. . . .1 ma
1;
I 1x1 - 1:1' tt' it "ioii t tm. Aik unl.
. . i, -., - ...:.u'...-i. H 1 ... -! I -o t I
. , . I M - ! tr .- . it,. ; . . la , - . .. . .1.1.
. . 1 i o- 'Ir-l t'ooliri I'mii't .-ill :'r.
i-....-tfl H" ! ' ' l.:i-l lal ' ill PI 'I.
........ 1 .V . 1 .'.' ' i-ton 1 C..-.W - t.. 1 ito i, .M a
TO HVC HtHlTH THC UVrn MUST lit I X PlO'Jt.
Cures thonsnnds nnnnallyof Liver Com-
plaint"?, biliousness, Jauii'lice, Dyspon
8ia, Ctmstipation. 'TalanH. Mora Ills
result froman TTnliealthy LivertLanany
other cause. Why" suffer when yon can
li? ctred ? Dr. S.infor't's Iiver Invigor
n!nr ii a celetiratetl f. irmly TnerMcine.
VOl Si Uia tiVlitT WILL. fl'lTLV VOC.
Steel Picket Fence.
CHEATS . THAN WOOD
A i i i i n n 0 '"""
T.-. : I .LIU Li-tm?! ill
ii : ii
R.-f titi J ku ( a-.- 1 n Ir.in -r W.Hfl i-'.ia. rh- n writl'i .-r
pr-.-. ! iV" !'titT. Nuih.-r i f (Jm- i, ro-ii.l- au-l .s,n.;,
W'tntfl. Wr itlxi ni.auf?i'Tijre hi-kvy Ir.m Kenlny. fr-rtin.,
S:.-. 'i Kitti ;!, fir hutLTl ar.d FlCfcl KSr.ll'VS, (Ml.tr
1... ,i-s. i Ki'inj4, Brain n4 Irou GrtP. MI l:K If i lOttASID
WiM0 .V SC.;- r VS. ttr.i -ill k'tiUjir M'lKK WUKiVe
TArLOR DF AN.
?0I. 293 & 205 Market St. Pittsburgh, Pm.
"i fT- Ml I I V?
r L3L ( K.ia.-j-y " Vio-li.-iimii
i V .i." J i ' . t . :mii ' - I.rolU.
) -wr M..rv:oi S;. .t. lie, ?l fi.. CatV'u Fn-j
-W . . - u at I a .' A t lT I Ik
- .Jjjl . Ill ! x w .
I H'iki.iiU
Wn n-ri'l tlirt mtim'l"ti TrrnrTi
K.'iti. - ly CALTI OS I n . an.t n
I.':' tl lllllirntlt-. tllHt I Al TIO.K Wli!
M I)!' llWburera 1 n:l-l.,.
1 III. SfM-rmntorraM. urUiprlr
and Hl I otil-. 1..1 lfur.
L'cilarut fay if satis fi-t.
A.llri-w. VON MOHL CO.,
Hoi. lairrlna AgraU, llsrluali, Okie.
ALESMEK WANTED
In m-II MUKKV Mm K. Weitrowall
l.u l..-t v rl.-t!e, oi l ami new. rupUi'e all atoeli
tout .lif. ami -t uuriwiti-n pal iHlii(t ion. Illicticst
r.tl ir or i.-tjitii;.-f.i!fu pnol from tho aurt. VVrile
for tertfi.
M. K iliwWer i 'o.. Murirrytnen, Koohci'ter, N.
K't.il.lli-he.l Incorporutcil IS!.
l' AN I Kl
T f i-ui-liiti
A SAI.KSMAN. KNUKDKTKl,
K an.l l.ria-l.t to rei.re-.i-nt tne Kont-
r 1 1 1 rur-i rii-! ni ;annl a. the larm-nt la tlie I K
iniiiioii. I lv.-r 7"0 Mi-reii ol i-hi ii-e it(Mk. I'oMtion
i.orinaent i.t.il liii-rulive. Iiiirh trtiy Cnnailltia
uri.wn nt... k .:lln readily whore (ir".erly tntro
ile."l. ctil lor li-riiii ii-iw r..l puenre eh..l.-e of
terrl't ry. Mll.NEk W KI.1.1M I I t .N ,
aua 6tn. '1 oronto. .'anaila.
fnlCTlIT SAMPLES FREfe
lUIOLIl ldtM.thM-iea.Wnu. now
WM.a.M'WTTJIw VorkCiU
taffu
'i ii 1 1 1 ' ;i ,, ii H ii ; I I ' ' I
! ! rr CUGGiES at Prite-sTl
, " i rL.-;.- ' a.:ih ,v ii viiwi.
a ' - . i ' , 0 1 : l I. ... . t.l ITII'lS ""'l. KS J
- .- . .- T W. 4 I. .Mirr.).?; ..llxll A I.I.
- j TX-y'-y 'i u ..a.l dirou. caiuii.-tit.'rH.
FALLING LEAVES.
Aro'ati.l uu Ry the f.illincr loaves
l i van. tin ir f it- my -inrit grieves.
Kor ir.iture grunts us no n. jirii-ves.
Tliri.tifliout the- worl I t.lie holils her sway.
II. r htis intit men an.l l.-uves tl-y,
l'r. .in .ilia t tln-y xiiriiii?. to ilutt Ut-i-ay.
Yet while this requiem we slnir,
;or faith looUs lumanl to the spring
That shall the Kesurrectiou lirint;.
Haek to the earth for earth"s own sake
The fulllln' leaves ttu m-n lves Ik lake.
Hut s.K.n in iM-auty ehall awake.
Awhile they minple with the soil.
T.li nature's uiintiiittiii toil
liall reprtxluee with nought of moil.
As fall the leaves our h-ar ones fall.
When Comes to e-.u-h the silent call;
Nor lout; the grave snail them enthrall.
Ah. why bet-Tiule them nature's sleep'
Why Ueem the irrave so dark, so Uect),
tr tear of hojieiess sorrow wcep'r
For sleepier mortals comes the spring
Anil jo wttli morn's aw a'.-enintr;
Immortai life the Jay shall bring.
K'en tleith Is part of nature's plan.
AnJ hath ln-en siiu-e the worl 1 bepan.
Sweet iteath, unerring frii-n.l of mau.
Such are the thoie-hts my fancy weaves
With liri'htest hues of falling leaves
No more in; t h nt. u-lit tul .-.pirit i rieves.
Koliert M. Ollor.l, in N. Y. Observer.
JENNY LIND'S J;()3LaCE.
The Lovo AEFciir in the Life of tho
Nightingale.
No ime cnnlil ste Jonny Lind and not
full under llie charm of her p.rf'ct
tint t.ral ness, freshness and iririn;ility.
Alllioiio-l. l., r fesit nros wore irrefj-iih.r,
siu- ivi.s u ti yt hiti"; 'iit jilain; h-.-r 'it:i
j.lexiim was fair; she had aluindarit
llaxoM hair and the must wonderful
k'ray eyes, a beautiful liiruro and ha nils
aitd arms a ml oraeof 11! movements, iters
wa not iho sh.w, sinuous uraov, uhieh
lias its own eliarm; lier inoveiiieiits
were ii'!it, tleeii'.ed and o.prissivo.
S'no always soemi',1 tf do oveiy thin ,
m iv ii it-lv !y- than anyuie olsu. At
this tine.- she was :.t tidy the lart of
"Sn-aima" a ".sv.o.-t part" site said it
was, an.i l,;:d the partition of the
"Ni;7i:" al ways on the Knee. In the
i-. .lii-o; she santr her Swodi.sh song's,
and ihe'i we ;-.ll went out to list'-n to
tlu ni'.'Iitinjrale's sitiin- under tho
n::t .'mlo-crit ol.l U-.-ehes. She had a
i.;s-,i.n f ir tiie son?r of these "little
.-.i-.lers"' of hers, and used to mimic them
an.i ov-'ito tli 'ir rivalry, so that the air
was iiiled with nu!ie.
Jt was stranvro that it should have
l'.'i-nthe fate of itiy fat her. writes ('.
M. Si;n;)s..n ijithe "New Iti-viov.," who
was elitin-iy ihstittite of ntusienl sense.
: K of use to tho most eel.-tn-;: ted
nirer .f t !ie day. It was in l-l'.t r he
had reslveil to (five up the .sta-e and
I-ml atHaneed herself to Mr. Claudius
Harris, a youn I ndian oiTirer. brother
to Mrs .I:.-,-ph (irote. whom rdo mot at
llie I'alae.', INorwieh. .My mother au-1
! had ju-.t returif-d from :utr drive oiu
i' id aftet-f iooa in April, and I found in
h;- hall a note from Mi.ss Lind for mv
i t. ,iei-. a-hii.or hor to I my fa! her to
a ! I on lt.-r nei iitiy to moot m r irnsii i-s
ah. ut her marriatre settlements, eilluT
at three, or, if that wore not possible, at
lii'te, p. m. It so happened that he was
not fro-' at three, so ho went to Herat
nine. She did not i-xpeet him, and w as
ije.ito alone. They entered at once
upon business, and my father soon
found out that she was very half
hearted about tho matter altogether.
Indeed, she eouhl scarcely have found
a part :ier less suited to her. Mr. Har
ris and ids family wore intensely l..w
elnire!.. and they thought that tho re
mainder of the fjroat prima doiui.i's liie
ei mid not be more appropriately spent
than in atoiiino; for hor theatrical
riiri'iT. Tin attraction to Jenny was ia
her lover's .-oodnoss. She said he had
such a "pure mind."
Hut w hen she was first introduced to
li i i,i she said to Mrs. Stan ley: "What a
dull yiiiiiih' man!" Nothing could 1m
more true. He was heavy ami stupid,
hut tall, fair and pood looUiny;. The
Stanleys supported Jenny in her reso
lution to jive up the sta;e, and so in
deed did Mrs. (iroto from a different
reason, for. in spite of her intense sym
pathy with her yoiin"; friend's artistie
ul career, she saw that tho strain was
too yreat. Jenny was worn out by
fatigue and emotion. She threw her
self into every part as if she herself
were sull'eriii;f the woes of the hero
ine, unlihe other trn-at actors and
actresses, who succeed in malzinr their
representation to a certain doyroe me
chanical, lint her essentially truthful
spirit could not do this. The tears she
wept in "La Sonnambula"' came from
her hearL We had more than once the
sta'e box, ami could see that she was
almost overpowered by her feelings.
Siie had led this trying1 life for upward
often years, and she longed for rest
and the poaee and regularity of domes
tie life. The manager of Her Majesty's
theater, Mr. Lumley, was in despair.
It was almost ruin to him to lose her.
and he ur'ed for at least a few fare
well performances; she offered instead
a series of dramatic concerts. Only one
took place.
A lthoti'rh tin? "Flan to Map;ioo," which
was chosen for the first performance,
would sec ni to be independent of acl
injr, the libretto is so eminently stupid
and uniiramatic, yet, in spite of Jenny
Lind's splendid singiii";, the whole af
fair fell ilat, to her groat disappoint
ment. Never lefore had she met
with a cold reception. Mrs. t; rote and
Lumley entreated her to five the oper
atic performances hut she would not
yield. At lontrth my father succeeded
v. hero they faih-iL They sur?;esttd that
Harris could not object if lie really
loved her; lu? urjroil the unfairness of
di.-appointin; Lumley, ami linally the
unsatisfactory termination which a
failm o would put to her whole career.
S. slit? promised to (five six farewell
nights. Lumley was overjoyed, and
sent us Imixos for all six. The entlui
!.iasm of the audience knew no loa:i.ls.
Yet no one could lndieve that tho sing
er, in the very p'cuittide of her powers
(she was t.nly twenty -eirht), really in
tended these to lie tho last of her tri
umphs. Hut it was so, and after the
curtain fell on the last of tho si she
never appeared a;'aiu :i any slajre.
Mr. Ibrr;s had consented f t-
1 TTormai.ccs, ami lie and Jenny were
once more on km1 terms.
She lived at this time in a little house
very near us It was called Clulrviile
cottage; it was covered with roses and
creepers; it had a pretty jrardon, and
was thoroughly rural. The hacks of
the houses in llrcchin place now oc
cupy tho ground. She und Claudius
Harris often joined our country rs. les.
He generally loll to my snare.atid 1 did
not lind him excitinr company. Lord
Lansdowne sometimes joined us and
also came to moot them at dinner, but
we diil not venture to invite anyone
else, except t lie ; rotes anil one or two
others of Jenny's intimate friends. All
seemed to be froing1 on swimmingly, and
Mrs. (Jrote wont off to l'aris:, followed
soon after by my father, but before he
went ho said to Jenny Lind: "Some
thinir tells me that your marriajre will
not take place. If it should be broken
off again, write no letters ami have no
farewoil inti r iews, but join Mrs.
t Jrote in l'aris immediate! v."
Affairs had not been goin on so
snioothlj- as apju-ared. Mr. Harris had
asked Jenny to insert in the settlements
a promise that she would never act
again. To this my father objected, and
he also insisted that Jenny was to have
uncontrolled power over her earnings.
Mr. Harris said this was unseriptural,
and the engagement was nearly broken
tiff, but renewed in consofpaeuee of the
despair Mr. Harris exhibited. He also
torritied her by throatsof torment here
after if site broke her word; and last of
all, when in the joy of reconciliation
she was singing to him, she turned
round and saw that he had gone to
sleep. Not longafter Mr. Senior reached
l'aris there was a tap at the thnir of
Mrs. (Jrote's apartment one evening
about seven o'elock, and in came .Jenny.
The ill-assorted marriage was finally
broken off.
Tho emotions of the last few months
hail told heavily upon Jenny Lind, but
with tho sense of lrectlom the Kwer of
enjoyment soon returned, and she rode
in the Uoisde iloulogne and walked on
the Ik.u iovards and in the Tuileries, and
listened to tiie nightingales. One day
she took my father to a house in the
place d'Oriean... near the lino St. Laz
are. It was bulit round a courtyard,
with a fountain in the middle. Jenny
ga.ed at it without s peaking. After
ward she said: "J was so miserable in
that house; I envied tho fountain bo
cause it was not ohlig.sl to sing."
Tiie house had been the re-ideneo of
Manuel (Jarcia, the most celebrated
master of singing in Le.rope, ami she
alluded to the time whin, in despair
at the loss of her voice fr mi fatigue
and bad management, she slowly ri
gained it by moans, first of rest, and
then f skillful practice under tiareia.'s
touching.
The domestic happiness for which she
had so long sighed was soon to t.e hers.
After sinking in concerts and oratorios
in licrmany, Sweden atid Liverpool, ho
sailed for tin- I ' it it d States on August
-I. 1 ."). II. -r .Micce-,.s iii t lie Now U orld
was as bri.'iia.it as it had Ik-.-ii ia the
"!, a:i. I her charities as mumtii-ciit.
Her ei.uipany was j..ined i:i by .'.ir.
i : I iohl.-cLmidt, v ho succeeded I tone
diet as piatii-t. .A ileep ami true attach
ment r-praiig up between t lie t iv. y on i,g
artists, and thi'3" were marrioit on i'ei
ruary. 1'Z.
Her in t ri r of being lionied led her
sometimes to reject overtures which
were made in j rfectly oo.i failh la
expro s the respect and :n ! miral i" ti felt
for her; h :i.-e she was isot always pop
tilar. She delighted in giving i!l
. Iron's part - I re'iietti b.-r one I i Is.'....
al h. r hoi.-.,- in imbl.-dot!. and lier
joyous par I iei patioii in the atinisemetit
she had proviiietl. and agtiin i:i More
tons gardens, w hen she waltzed like a
girl w ith her eldest son. Tho last time
I heard her sing was at a concert she
gave at her ow it house in I sSjfor t he
prince of Sweden. She hail Ix-eomo
very nervous about hor voice, and it
was not eorlain whether in the end
she would summon tip courage. At
last she yield. -.1 to tho persuasion of her
irictids and sang the splendid cantata,
with violin accompaniment, from Mo
zart's "lie tore." It was a tiling to
remember for the rest of one's life.
In her later years she look a little
house called Witidspoir.t, w hich she ar
ranged ami improved till it re:s.'mlled a
Swiss cottage on the top of the hills
above Malvern Wells. We had. in the
summer of 1 !!, a house just WIow
hers, and we saw lier much more fre
quently than was possible in the tur
moil of London. We often used to sit
with hor in the pardon enjoying the
magnificent view. She was always un
easy lest she should ho stared at. and if
any presumptuous wight peejHtl in at
tho gate, she would instantly shoot up
a large red umbrella and shelter her
self beneath it. My cider daughter,
who is devoted to music, freipiently
wont to see hor alone, and one day
ventured to ask her to write her name
in her birthday liook. They were in
the draw ing-room. Jenny Lind rose
up. saying: "Well. I did not think you
had been a commonplace person," and
walked through the window into the
garden, leaving1 my daughter to repent
her indiscretion. 1'rosenlly her hostess
came hack and gave her a K-antiful
rose, and went on talking as if nothing
had happened, ami when C.aynor was
taking leave. Airs. iohlsohmidt said
cheerfully: "Now, where is your birth
day ltook?" and w rote her name in iL
It must have cost her more than many
an apparently greater sacrifice.
I like to think of her as she stooil in
the hanging balcony of her cottage
waving good-by. the sun setting be
hind her picturesque figure. It was at
WindsjMiint that she died in lss7. At
the very close of her life, as she lay ou
her death lod at Malvern, in weakness
and misery, once, a her daughter
ojK'ned the shutters and let in the
m. -ruing sun, she just let her lipsshaie
the lirst birs of the old song she loved:
"An iten Sonnenschein." They were the
last notes she sang on earth.
Ilitxt in the Air.
Natural science is not only occupied
with great and important problems,
but devotes considerable attention and
thoroughness to wry small ones.
Angus Iiankiti lias (rivi-n two j i-ars i(
ardent study and research to the prob
lem of ilu-.t part icles in the air. ami the
result of his examination is that in
mountainous regions six liuminil anil
ninety-six particles of dust are allotted
to each cubic half-inch of air in one
year. In Imdoii one hundred thou
sand particles of 1 list fall tocach cubic
half-inch of air during the same sjKiee
of time, and other large cities are not
likely to fare ltetter than this appnxi
ination. Customer (in bookst ro) "I would
like to get s.niii p.Kxl b:olc on faith."
Clerk "Sorry, sir, but our rule is to sell
nothing to strangers except for cash."
When (jticen LMizaiioth, of Austria,
entered l'aris in 1"."1 she dragged after
her a train seventy feet in length. It
w as borne by thirty-five pages.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
How Mrs. Vranklin Secured lier
New Clothes.
When Saturday was over and Mr. and
Mrs. Yranklin were alone by them.- elves
in the clean kitchen, sitting les'u:e the
stove, Mrs. Vranklin rose, went in'.o her
liedrtxim and brought out a bum lc of
clothes.
"I w ant you to look at these things,
Jeremiah," she suid, mildly.
"What are they?" said he.
Shi- spread them out on the floor.
"That is my U'st dres.,," she said.
"Those are my best shoes. That is the
only iKMinet I've got in the world but
my calico sun-bonnet, and that is my
Sunday shawl,"
Siie uttered the words quietly, and
waited.
"Well?" said Mr. Vranklin, still.-inok-ing.
"Well?" she answered.
lie said nothing. She g-athered up the
garments with a look of disdain, and
piled them on a chair.
"You're a rich man," she sai.L
"Uieli, for a farmer. You are sixt,' and
1 lifty years old. Our Ixiys are ma -ried.
I haven't ha.l any money to spend for
five years. 1 111 a sight to behold. If I
were a servant I should get wages and
not have to beg. No, I don't leg,
Jeremiah. Since you don't olfer it
yourself, I'm going to toll you t lat I
want money. I want a hundro. dol
lars to buy me some new clotl es to
feel decent and comfortable in. I'm
really destitute. Why, I'm out of flan
nel: Mi calico gowns are patched at
the ellniw. My shoe heels are twisted.
I can't go to church any more, fi.r I've
turned my black siik twice, and the
back breadths upside down. I've
washed my lmnnet ribbons. I've done
ail I could ralhcr than ask for what
you didn't offer; and there's no need.
You're wt-U-lo-do. I want to be de
cent and take a little comfort wi.ile I
can. 1 must. I here, now! It'
right !"
my
She had spoken her mind, ana Mr.
Vrankiia felt that a el max ha I ar
rived. He ha 1 "laid by" a large sum.
He was growing d. I and had no ne.-d
t phich. but the awful demand for a
hundred dollars all in alunipwai t.j
much for him. Ho had li.vom ' .l to
Li a .Maria's quiet way of incudiii-; her
oid clothes and asking for 110 m ney,
and it had never occurred to him that
silo would some time come down upon
him like this.
He stared silently, and puffed s cross
the stove tiie smoke of tho chc.p to
bacco ho burnt in a common e r :iul
;.:pe. The. .Id rag carina was 1 Iran.
The old chairs were iiu.:;.li-il tvilli r:ir
pet iitt.-ms. It was all tidy, but .n.ti.-!:.,-
was new. Nothing pretty but the
: ,-arlot geri.nitims in their big v ts on
the v.ia. low-sill. He had givot. his
v. il'e very lit lie in their thirty ye: rs of
married life: for all tiie furniture was
his mot her's. She had helped him itake
ids fori uii.. selling butter an.logiT- and
pot-choose and ll iwer ro.ts, feedm 'the
I-.. ire's cheaply and well, weeding -ego-'i.'ihlcsaad
even riding tiie mowing ma
chine, now and then inougn not very
lately. Conscience told him that he
ought to pull from his vest pocket the
crisp hundred dollar note ho h;d re
ceived that morning for some hay at
tho landing ami say: "Here. LvalVuria,
why didn't yotl speak Wfore?" Lut
w hen greed takes possession of the
heart of man, it holds on like a leech.
All he said, after the silence had re
mained unbroken for some minutes,
was:
"Well, Kva Maria, I'll think it over."
To some women there is no agon
like asking a husband for money.
They want a love-gift, not alms.
Generally tiiey have to ask at last.
Kva Maria had nerved herself $t last
in the misery of hershahbinoss to make
the speech above recorded, but it
seemed a fearful thing to do. She lit
kle guessed that she had frigh eued
Jeremiah almost out of his senses
"A htindritl dollars!" he said t him
'lf. "Mie must know what l'v. got
alx.at me. She must mean to hi ve iL
Fifty, now, I'd give. Hut a hunlred!
I'il get the money cha 'god, and give
nor lifty."
Ik'nm-ncl thcil.Hir of the passage,
roused it ami went into the parlor. It
was a col. I, neat place, kept sacred for
great occasions. It had a grate in it.
but it was doubtful if a tire wou d lie
lighted there that winter. It hat loen
inconvenient U take it down that sum
mer, f-o fringed pink paper hail Ik -11 a r
rairj,od between the polished bars and
the rug drawn across the hearth.
Photographs of several uiomliors of the
family liun,; by red cords from tht wall,
dotted mu iin curtains with 1 eatly
Hated rubles covered the green paper
blinds. A di .h of wax fruit, c vered
by a glass shade, ornamented the center-table,
and the horsehair furniture
had been so little used ill two genera
tions that it looked almost new. The
vases 011 the mantle were old-fashioned
blue ware, for which a china-worshiper
would have paid a great price.
Kva Maria should have lifty d liars,
but she had said she hail a right to a
hundred. If he gave her the bill in his
pocket she would send it. It wsjs Sat
urday evening; he could not set it
changed that night no, not unti. Mon
day. If he looked it up, she would
.iiiow. and t:.-ke it out, perhaps, and do
as she pleased with it. Siie had de
clared l.er "right" to it- Kva ?Jari;i,
humblest of the humble, meekest of
the meek, had spoken so! Could it be?
"This con.es of these here strong
minded moctin's," said Mr. Vranklin.
This was not logical, for Mrs. Vrank
iin had iiob.attcnih'd one of them.
"Women used to le biddable. They
are kicking over the traces now. X
b .dy soliloquized Mr. Vranklin,
growing more and more tingrammat
ical with his wrath "nolody ain't
goin' to ri le over me, 'specially a wife
of mine. I must hid the money ifitil
I can change it. She might lool: into
ray pockets. She said she had a right
to it, and :.he looked determined.''
At this moment he heard a movement
in the kitchen. lie lielieved it to be his
wife almut to come in search of him and
tried to think faster.
The vases! Should he hide the note
I here? No; there w t i e sun snue as.,
in the garden, and Kva Maria might till
the vases with In rnqtiets, as she some
times did on Sunday aftemo nis. setti.ig
them for the nonce 011 the kitchen man
tel. No, the vases would not do. The
ingrain carpet was tacked down tight,
the surely there was a step in the
passage! The grate! There, under the
fringed paper, it might lie safely all
night.
He drew his pockot-lxk from his
bosom and stuffed it lictwccn two loose
bricks at the hack of the grate. The
pink fringes of the patn-r concealed iu
All was safe. lie creaked across the
passage into the kitchen with a con
sciousness of great meanness in his
heart. Mrs. Vranklin, having executed
her terrible intention, had taken llight
to her bedroom, w here she sat it; th:
cold with a little shawl over her
shoulders, trembling. He said some
thing aloud about seeing Jones about
those pigs, ami fled the house, and the
two held no mor; conversation until
breakfast time. Then Air. Vranklin.
with unusual piety, went to church,
while his wi.'e stayed at home to coos
dinner, 110 one else Wing at hand to do
it.
Just as the beef was so far done that
she could open the oven doors there
came a knock upon the door, and o- -i-iug
it she saw upon the porch l.crO.;.-.-in
llrov.n and tiie minister. C'rarcii
was out, and Cousin 1 irow 11 had brought
the reverend gentleman to his friends'
to dine. Mrs, Vranklin received b th
liospitablv, anil hastened to usber them
into tho parlor. The ycilow artemi.-.-ias
shone bravely in the big bin" vaso.
Mr. Vranklin had Invn wise not to hide
his money there; but it was cold very
cold.
"I'll light a fire." said the pood wotn
an. "It won't take a minute. It's the
liYst fire of the season, or I'd have the
grate fixed.
She t neked the paper down into the
grate, the easiest wa3' to be rid of it.
piled on wool and placed t lie scut t'.e
ready. As she struck the match she
gave a little cry, but repressed it in
stantly. The flames blaz- 1 up merriiy
and roared lehinl the blowc-r.
When Mr. Vranklin returned the
blower was down and the two men
were warming their feet at a compact
mass of red 11..1L
He looked at his Kva Maria, Hercohl,
composed New Kngland face, with its
high nose and close-cut mouth, Wt rayed
no emotion.
"She don't know what she has done'"'
he said to himself; but lie ili L
The ghost of that hundred dollars
stared at him from the o:nler.-- I'e
could not talk, he could :it coniix.se
himself. Cousin ISrovvn o".in."l h" was
not welL The minister remarked t'tiat
''in the midst of life wt are in death.''
and seemed to prophesy his funeral. It
was not a gay dinner, but then it was
Sunday.
That ni-rht Mrs. Vranklin missed lier
spouse fro. 11 his lied. She went to hud:
for him, and found him p.dJ:ig in the
ashes of the dead fire w ith the tongs.
He looked up with a very red face.
"1 don't think these here coals kin 1k
good." he said, confusedly.
"Did you get up in the night to look
at them?" siie asked.
He made no answer and returned to
beit
Next morninghis wife again attacked
him.
"Have you thought that matter over'.'"
she asked.
Indeed he had. and it had occurred to
hi:n that Providence had prepared a
special judgment for him in destroy
ing that money, lie felt that his wife
had spoken the truth. She had a right
to decent clothes she who had served
him so weil for so many years.
"I've thought it over, Kva Maria," he
said, and arose and went to his desk, a
queer, old-fashioned one built in the
house walL When lie returneil, he
brought with him a blank checlc
"'et what you like, my dear," he
said, ' and gtt it nice. Fill the check
up just as you please,"
lie had not called her "my dear" for
years. She smiled ud at him very gen
tly; tears were near Ids eyes.
However, she used the chock to dress
herself comfortably. It was the first
time for many years that she had in
dulged in the luxury of shopping freely.
At night he met her at the dejxit,
loaded with parcels, tired but smiling.
He had not seen her so bright for many
a day.
After tea that night they sat together
beside the stove as before, and she
1 Miked at him in a peculiar way.
"You didn't seem to feel cheerful
Sunday afternoon, Jeremiah," she re
marked. "What ailed j-ou?'
"I don't want to toil you," he an
swered. "I'.ut 1 11 tell yon," she said "You
thought I burned the p-n-ketbook you
hid in the grate. I didn't."
She put her hand into her work-basket
and drew it oit intact, with the
money in it-
"I was just in time, she said "Jh:t
I understood at onee when 1 saw it
sticking between the bricks. If you
hadn't given me the check, I should
have spent the money. There's a con
fession for you, Jeremiah!"
He li Miked at he", half angry, half as
tonished She arose and came to him.
and put her hands on his shoulders.
"15ut I should never hare enjoyed
wearing them," she said "I should
have hated them, 1 think. These that
I Ixiught to-day, with your free gift, 1
shall love while there's a rag of them
left."
The man looked at her with a feeling
that a strange revelation of feminine
human nature had been made to him,
but all he said was:
'Why, Kva Maria, I want to know!"
and he drew lier down upon his knee
and kissed her.--N. Y. Lodger.
Ilen'a t'KK Oil
Kxtraordiuary stories are told of the
healing properties of a new oil which
is easily made from the yolk of hens'
eggs. The eggs are first Ixdlod hard,
and the yolks are then removed,
crushed and placed over a fire, where
they are carefully stirred until the sub
stance is on the point of catching tire,
when the oil separates ai.'i the oil may
lie poured off. One yolk will yield
nearly two teasjxKinf uls of oil. It is
iu general use among the colonists of
south Russia as a means of curing
cuts, bruises, etc
A llnrelar'a Outfit.
Over one hundred tixds and processes
tave leon invented by safe burglars,
vhich are marvels of ingenuity anil sci
ntitie knowledge. A recent burglar's
uttit captured by the police consisted
f a little giant knob breaker, a dia
nond drill and a high explosive of the
lat ure of dynamite, but put up in the
!trm of a jxiwd'-r. It would ojH-n the
itrongest bank safe in a half hour, and
Aithout noise enough to disturb people
ill the next house, while the entire out
fit could be carried in the pocket of an
SECRE rs.
I am tin- sua
Out of the -t mi's s.:v r l-J
1 lift the cr.-st of :i poMeti li. ail.
Ami my y. Ut.w UkUs ar sprciiU and curled
Over the Mi t.Ui- r-i of the .101 la;
Yet there are u 110 sirh anil think
'1 mil 1 ott'.y r.M' to sn.kl
Shall I tell yo'.i a secret 1 Setting here,
I riot- in another hemisphere.
I am a wave.
Out of the ocean's level plain
1 ltl ana s .. oil to iiic su..ie aain,
An.i my Uu-til waie.-s lace ut:J liy
Over the lu.uii.ls of the U-ich'-s high;
Yet there are i.l.u we. p to know
That the chl. at t nils the How :
Sha'l 1 t- ll you a secret ' With the tide,
I t lib ami !1"W on tuej oilier Hide.
I am a man.
Out of the i.i.-ht ot a Million imst
I a .lake to the li'ht of the world at last.
And my cai'er spirit yearns to tlimb
l'p to the height of a joy si.tilirne;
Yet there are v. ho doubting cry
That 1 cn'.v live tod:e'
Si:a!l 1 tell ot: a secret O.kI Is love.
I shall uie to live lti ti.'- land a!.oe.
Nina F. bayard. In 1 !ari r's Magazine.
WITH THE DEAD.
The Siphtb One Sees in a New
Euyland Graveyard.
There Is n rK"J deal of comfort to he gathered
from these little old scraps of poetry . . . and.
somehow, thi y set at To stretch to suit a great
grief :u:d shrunk to lit a small one - Jiit'.vt home.
Cfadlod among the loveliest of hills,
resting in their very center as iu tiie
hollow of a hand, lies a New Knglahd
graveyard with an unpretentious en
trance a time-worn wooden gate, and
an earth roadway striking in unex
pectedly from an old elm-lined street.
Clustering about the gate, tho spread
ing branches of other elm trees screen
the road's destination, their small
leaves clothing yet not concealing tbe
strong lxiughs outlim-sjisa diaphanous
robe might tli.i po a graceful form. Near
the gateway stands a rude shed, from
which the tow n hearse has k-oii rolled
int the stin.-hint for a funeral t.wl.iv,
perhaps. Tho thought of a now grave
seems an impertinence among these
ane'ent torn lis. as a new- patent of no
bility among those long ennobled. The
summer rains have softened and the
winter storms have Waton down the
mounds to a grass level. You may
walk among the worn headstones with
a lighter step, jK-t haps. but earth has
b.-en earth too long to hold part sacred
The grass has grown tip long and thick.
You read that "Mrs. Thankf nil,
wife of Jiltlah Ihckson, died aged
twenty years," but your bead must
lie as low as hers and y.ni must
part a green veil of verdure ln-lore
learning that "of four children she
alone survived infancy, and from in
fancy she was an orphan. To the sym
pathy due to one thus early Itereft of
near kindred ami home siie imparted
peculiar interest; for she was equally
amiable and intelligent."
All these stilted phrases and barely
twenty 3'cars old only just a wife,
perhaps! The minister of the village
wrote that epitaph, Ix-yond a doubt,
I.ut those two linos W-low, so worn
that to decipher them yml must trace
the letters with your linger, as the
blind read who wrote these words of
quaint pathos?
Though all the world forget t-sine
'Tis nj.-et that I retnt-mlK-r still.
How pleasant to lie in the eojl
grass with the warm sun shinoig
down from the warmer blue above,
and. with your chin propped on your
hands, vivid life without ami within,
your b'uxxl quick iu jour veins, reat
how another lived and breathed and
lovetl and ended, pixjr thing, a hundred
3'oars ago!
Tho next stone stands so near that
you may reach it without rising. The
feel of the earth is gixxl. as the crawl
ing In-asts of the tield know. Move
forw ar.l as they, and part the veiling
grass to read Martha Fryor'a. message
to the world she left:
lie-.i'l- r, you also shorly muf t
He f'.ripix d of life ana turned to duft.
Let the grass spring back. Martha
is not the geutie Thaukfull. Vou will
think of all this some day; yes, but not
at Martha's bidding, with its spice of
venom not with the sjh-11 of the joy of
living on 3-011!
Move on to that stone near which a
small, three-leaved, clover-like plant
ntxls a negative with you. shaking its
wind-swung head from side, to side on
its slender stem.
"Sufa Ingraham" lies here her
tomlistone rough-hewn from the hills,
its back unfinished as the cut-off life
which the carven front tells of. The
stone has sunk sidewajs into the
ground, which adds to its look of de
crepitude. The inscription can lae read,
but with difficulty:
The lil.ximitig cheek, the fl
arkiing eye 1 rom Heath's ar
rest could not save me.
Youth and lx-auty
are where the rest of the inscription
is hid. doubtless. If under the mold
there "Sufa," as Martha, compares her
state with ours to be, kindly .Mother
Nature has taken from her Martha's
privilege, anil stopped her lips with
earth.
How denunciatory they are, these old
torn I is aggressively warning in their
cr3" of d'x.m!
Daniel Koswell, from under his
carvern urn, draped with a switch of
drooping willow, sterul3" sounds his
note of warning:
Vain man, thy fond pursuits forbear,
Kt-N-nC thy nd is nigh.
Death al the furthest can't tie far,
O lh.uk before thou die!
And Klijah Warner, bnxxled over by
a watchful cherub, iinix.ssible and
drearj', with eves bulging from their
sK-kets. tolls of his Vhj early death in
the same awful voice:
Youth. i-Hti'st thou heedless view
Ti e r lies of the dead:
O tk'hk: 1m t.ealh your feet
Th. re lies your ow u likeness.
And then, nast awfuL
Kli-iha '.rev Snd.
W To t;u t tl.i . ih'.flty
Stage in the xjta, year
of his age. Which ,
was onO. tr IS
My children near, this place draw near
A Father's grave you f.-e;
Not long u?o I was with you
And loon you'll lx- with me.
There is iu all these a note of ghoul
ish desire to bring the warm and living
to the cold dead, and "soon 3-ou'U Ix
with me rimrs with it creeping-. It
rouses a spirU of revolt. You " turn
away sharply to a stone a little apurt
from the rest, sot on a grassy hillside
sweet, short grass, irn ti and soothing
to the eye and touch. This is a double
stone. "Anliel 1 So! ton' lies here; lie
side him, Jane, his wife. Stooping, you
read this beneath his name:
Tendi r wi re hi i feelings,
Ti." Christian wis his friend,
lion, st were h's ilealaigs,
Aad iH-acctul waa In etui.
And Wncath her name:
The lM-ut .-licence of her heart, the dllirenceof
her hai.'ls, the pious Inr.aence of her hps, and
her liberality to the p-or will Ik- remembered
when th.s monument has yieid-d to the
The last wortis have already yielded,
as all must yield in time; but what
need of more? Lying here, a little
apart from those others, the pious in
fluence of her lips and the tender
ness of his feelings still live, healing,
restful and strong.
Dnl tht.v suffer a little, this, tender
pair, among their iieighlxirs? Did they
sometimes speak of it together, lament
ing gentry that Martha had a biting
tongue or Klisha a hard heart, and then
repent their lamenting1.' You move
away softly, leaving them together in
their iM-accful end.
A little higher up the hill lies "Abra
ham I lean, "a baby almost two hun
dred j'ears old! His motiudh-ss grave is
the softest resting place, and you sit
there, leaning your lack, wearied with
Wilding, against his little carved foot
stone. Poor baley! did 3-011 find Now
Knglahd two hundred j'ears ago tixi
harsh a sjx.t for you? Wits the soft
earth kinder?
Catherine 1 race, wife of the Itev'd F.tiem zer
Oracc and relict of Nathaniel Ware.
You move to your feet to read the
rest of this inscription, and find a
strange story in store. Oh. cold, tin
jealous grave! Catherine lies rigidlj"
Wtween the man to whom she was wife
and the man of w hom she w as rclie
The three stones stand there upri; lit,
harmoiiiotislj , unfeelingly together.
Three stones! there are four. Ah.
Nathaniel Ware, j-ou do not lie tin-re
unavenged. Catherine, ymir relict, lies
at Klx-nezer race's left side, as at j-our
right. truK'; but whose name is that at
KWnezor's right hand?
Ju'sa, Is loved w :fe of the
KcVd F.bciiez'T 1 race.
Last of the four to die. Were the
valley of dry lmms to live, what then?
Out there in the town they will tell
you the stor3- of the minister's second
wooing. Others of his calling, passing
through Itoston Town, spoke much of
a Mistress Julia, finding her amiable,
sprightly, j et pious and delectable to
the sight. LIxMiezor Orace made a
trip to I lost on Town and sought her
father. Mistress Julia 3'et unseen.
What an iiiilammable generation it
was! Wo of ti-da3 call them staid, se
rious and cold, but who now lives 11 a
description and wxes by faith in it?
Perhaps it struck much-courted Mis
tress Julia's father as liiqx-tuous. or
this quiet minister's pretentions may
have amused him somewhat. Ho had
110 encouragement tut ffer To his per
sonal know ledge Julia had made three
vows. She would never wvd a man of
the countrv'. a widower or a clergyman.
"I am ad throe." otiotb i."'-.1",. ; 7
I trace, "and so I will cuter, with your
IH-rmissioii." Thus it came aliul that
Mistress Julia lies, with a certain de
mure complacence to one who knows
her story. st KWnc.or 'race's right
hand in the little village churchyard.
Wandering in and out among those
ancient stones, you find a few inscrip
tions which, escaping the Puritan stern
ness, kurnnv as the grave, rise atx.ve it
to a certain grandeur of thought.
Hero, for instance, is one w liieh
reads as a rude litany and rings
with the triumph of a certain lailh:
lng 1 vi' behoved
tied s pov. t r to fave
Cheerful v hen culled
Go to the grave.
My fl.-sh in duft
Sha.l lv h.s care
Atn. he ii ill ra:so
Me ft rung ui.d li.ir.
In the geiitie. musical ph rases of Lois
Levin's epitaph there is but the voice
of a natural regret for a young life
laid down in its springtime. She had
known but eighteen J'ears one hun
dred springs ago w hen this was writ
ten. Stay thoughtful mourner hither led
To we paint mingle wita the dead
11 ty the m-iui who slumbers here
And pay the tributary tear.
1 ty feet must w au.ler far to lind
A fairer form, u lot ellcr ii.'.nd
An eye that lams a n wetter smile
A txsom more estranged from guile
A heart v r,h kinder patrons w armed
A hie with fewer stall s deformed
A death with deeper sighs confefsed,
A memory more Is .. veil and l.lefsid.
Hut there is one inscription which
stands widely apart from all the rest
in spirit, or rather soars high above
them, thoughtful among the narrow,
spiritual among the sordid, calm mind
ed and just. He who lies Wheat h held
a fair anil well earned post of honor
among his follows, as his tablet tells:
This modest stone w hat few vain marbles can
Mav truly say here lies an honest mau
I almly lie liHintil on either life and here
Saw nothiiig to regret, or there to fear.
From Nature's temp rule fcatt rose satisfyd
Thauk.-d Heaven that lie had lived and that he
died
Fanaticism has striven to darken your
day an.l dull this sunshine, this joj- and
pride of life in 3'our veins. You have
smiled as the-dead warned gruesomel
of doom and worms and tombs, and
then one word of honest, wholesome
thought strikes like an arrow in the
gold of your mind. Has the lightest
mind its gold hid away somewhere,
awaiting the well-feathered shaft?
"Nature's tcmp'rate feast" 3'ou feel
the tempered splendor of the sun. In
the softness of the muuy-blendod hues
tif green, iu the girdling circle of undu
lating hills held in a strong-drawn line
on the horizon's edgc,i,thc calm power
of the unbroken laws of life and na
ture. Turning thoughtfullj aside, you see
again the diaphanous, graceful leaves
draping j et not concealing the strong
boughs of the elm-trees clustering
alxive the gravej'ard gate. Margaret
A. I'rcscoc, in Outhxik,
A Oueer Wager.
An American acrobat in Vienna late
ly won a queer wager, lie Wt a con
siderable sum with a Vienna strong
man that he could not endure to have
a liter of water fall drop bj' drop from
a height of three feet uxm his hand.
When three hundred drops hail fallen
the athlete's face W-came rod and ho
ltxiketl as if in pain. At the four hun
dred and twentieth drop he gave up,
saj ing it was impossible to War the
pain anj- longer. The palm of his hand
.was swollen and inflamed, ami in out
place the skin had broken open. Only
a small portion of the liter of water
had gone to make up the four hundred
and twenty drops.
An Ant-lent S I T it
Signing with the cross was first
practiced bj- Christians to distinguish
themselves from the pagans.' In an
cient times kings and nobles used the
sign -of the cross, whether they could
write or not, as a symlx.l that the x-r-son
making it pledged himself, ly his
Christian faith, to the truth of the
matter to which he affixed it.
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