TRAE WORLD 18 Wink, WL will say the world is dying? Who will say our prime is past? Sparks from heaven within us lying &1ash, and will flash to the last. Teals 1 who fancy Christ mistaken, Bian a wol to buy and sell, Baath a failure, God-forsaken, Axte room of hell. |e the race of hero spirits # ass the lamp from hand to band; Age from age the world inherits— Wife und child and fatherland. #eill the youthful hunter gathers iery joy from work and wood; Ee will dare as dared his fathers, five him cause as good. hile a slave bewmls his fettera A% hile an orphan pleads in vain; Wikile an infant lisps his letters, Ble rs of all the ages’ gain; WW ide a lip grows ripe for Kissing, While a moan from man is wrung, now, by every want and blessing hat the world is young. EPL RST THE LAWYER'S SEURET, Tt was in a luxuriously furnished women, where a glowing grate threw geil Iaght and warmth upon the ocou- pests, that Gerald Langton, lawyer so millionaire, listened with bated Geenth and pallid cheeks to a low aad mealodious voice that told a story of a file, Tae speaker, a beautiful woman of slsout thirty, yet ten years younger them Mr. Langton, reclined in a low, comhioned chair. her attitude bespeak- mg the esse which wealth gives, but wer face was full of the deepest anguish aw Wer Lips recounted the story, ““You love me,” she paid gently, yet andly, “and I love you as I never loved say one before, although 1 am a widow, That you know, but did not know my hosband’s name. By my uncle's re- quest 1 dropped it and took his with tie property he lsft me. Do not look at me tenderly, Gerald, do not shake my woice or my hearf, for when you fimow who I am you will not repeat ¢he offer you made me, and which, fweayen is my witness, I tried to avert.” “Let your conscience be at rest there,” said her listener, in a grave yet fender voice; ‘you have never given me ome hope, Mande. By what mstinet 1 know that you loved me I gan never tell, something in your eyes—some Sane of your voice betrayed you, If, es you say, something in your past lile does separate us, you have Detn no coquet to torment me with false hopes, But, Mande, tell me Agim, | whatever stands between us, you “1 love you,” she said gravely, *‘and %& is because I love you that I will not fot you link your honorable name with Ghat cf the wretch who was my hus. band. I was very young-—not sixteen— when he came to make a visit to some friends living at Grassbank, Uncle Richard has a country seat near the village, I first met Alexander st a picnic, where he was the very life of the party, everybody's cavalier, cour- feous to all, full of wit and animation and service to all, I believe every gurl on the grounds thought she had capti- vated him, his attentions were so well divided and so impressive to each one, He claimed to be po more than a sales saan mn a large wholesale house with a #ood salary, but he had the manners of a genilemsn of good education, avd the most perfect beauty of face and form éhat I over saw ina man, If was not jong belore it was evident he wished to win my love, and he had an easy task, Sach love as a child of sixteen can give I gave him, He was the impersonation sf every hero of poetry and fiction with whom my limited reading had made me familiar, Scheol-girl like, 1 had made an ideal hero, and fitted this, my first admirer, with all his imaginary perfec- tions. “From the first Uncle Bichard dis- liked iia, Jeonouncing him false and hallow, assuring me that my por- sonal attractions had not won his heart; out the fact of my being an heiress 1 4 lags Ju had gained me the in w I so firmly be- Neved, “jt is a paiofal story to me now, dkerald. Let it suffice that I had lived én a world of pleasant dreams while Alexander remained at Grassbank, When he lefi me he caniied my promise mim fast, idle, and just the mau to be a fortune-bunter, Even then my ded have protected my fortune by settling it upon myself; but with the wockless generosity of exireme th, 1 refused to have this done, “For a year after the splendid wed. ding which made me Alexander's wife, i was very . 4 was too ignorant at waluo to living far to the utmost fhe ooustant faom which 1 bad been released, ob Thea bigan: life of a a luxuries around me— # line, “re wes four when I wae th der asking me to from Uncle 2 loan of a “Long iy dE BBE mg when I knew the dissipated life he was leading, and foolish as I was 1 could not continue w love a man whose actions were so despicable. I refuted the er- rand, and brought Gown such a torrent of such t abuse that I really expeot- ed that Alexander would end by striking me, “Day after day the reques! was re- newed, but I would not yie:d Upon my marriage, Unele Richard had sold his city residence and took up & perma- nent abode at (3rassbank, where, know- ing my husband to be an unwelcome guest, I never visited him, I wrote oc- casionally, but the love of years, like that of father and child, had been so gadly strained by my persistence in marrying Alexinder that cven our cor. respondenos was languid and common- place, “I would not, therefore, write to lum to ask a favor that I knew would not have been necessary without criminal recklessness of expenditure, and each refusal made my husband more furious, Then came an overwhelming blow, Al- exander forged a check, and drew £2,- 000 of Uncle Richard's money from the bank. I don’t think my uncle would have prosecuted him had he guessed who was the forger; but he handed the whole thing over to the law as soon as it was discovered that the check was forged, Ii was then traced to Alexan- der, and at the same timo it was found former employers. He had given up all work for himself upon his marriage; but when he found himself without money, his knowledge of the business enabled him to forge the note of Derkiss & Co. Even if Uncle Richard had spared lum for my sake this other for- gery would have entitled him to penal servitude, He was sentenced to seven years, and uncle took me home, full of heavenly pity and forgiveness for the child ho had treated him so un- gratefully,” “Then your husband is in prison?” said , in a hard, strained voice, “No, no, he is dead! He died within the first year, Uncle Richard saw the death in a paper and sent the money for his barial, o, I am free; bus none the less I am the widow of a convicted felon.” “But none the less,” quoted Gerald, ‘““the weman I love and honor above all others, and hope still to make my wife,” It took, however, more than one in- terview, full of love's pleading, to win Maude from her resolution. Bhe so honored her lover, and was so proud of his good name and the position he had attained by his talent, that Ler sensitive nature shrank from even the shadow of her misery upon his life, But the victory was won at last, and the lawyer walked home one evening full of a proud, glad joy, for Maude had then promised to be his wife, “II you are willing to take Alexander Hull's widow to be your wife,” she said, “I will not oppose you any longer, tor I love you with all my heart.” He had no thought but of that glad triumph when he tarned up the gas in his office, He wus in the habit of making » last visit there before going up to his bed-room, in case notes or messages were left for him, Oe iay thers on this evening, s shabby looking envelope, but directed in a bold, handsome hand, which he recoguized a8 once, . He tore it open. Aller a fow wotds of introduction, the note ran: “You did the best you could on my trial, but the facts were too strong for you. 1 die, as you know, af noon to- morrow. You, as me at any time. soon as yon receive this and win the gratitude of the man you know as “James Fox?” “The men 1 know as J Fox," muttered the lawyer; “ithe smooth, i who actually made to meet the extreme penalty of for the worst ot all crimes, Yet there was nothing revolting mn the appearsoce of the criminal. His was neat, his hair ewrefully ar- ranged, his moustache faultless, is ° last request of a dying mean, Mr, Lang- ply. This,” said the murderer, ‘‘is not my first offence against the law, Some Bo it 1s not for Mre, Alexander Hall on must ask, but tor Miss Maude emple,” Was the room reeling—the ceiling falling— the wall closing around him? Gerald Langton felt as if they were es the name fell upon his ears, Mande his Maude—the wife of this cool villain who talked of his hideous crimes as if they were ordinary events? Well, he knew that to carry this man’s message was to separate himself from Maude forever, Never would she let him mar- 1 the widow of a murderer. Very rap- idly all the terrible facts passed, one after the other, and he said: *It you love her why add misery to her life? Bhe may live down the old pain you caused her, Why, for a selfish gratification, will you make her whole Iife a misery?” “She was my wife, farewell,” “She is no. your wife. Your own crimes have relessed her from any al- legtance to you,” “You know her?” “Yes. Iknow what she has suffered and beg of you to let her still believe you died years ago,” “She is bappy?" “Bearcely tht. Such wounds as hers never heal entirely, but it is cruei- ty to tear them open when they are quiet,” “*Has she married?” “*No, She 1s still your widow.” “It is hard to deny myself one more sight of her face, and the hope I had that she would say she forgave me.” “Think of her, not yourself,” There was a long silence in the cell, Every throb of Gerald Langton’s heart was pain to him, but Alexander Hull sat in moody silence, evidently re- luctant to give up his wish, At last he spoke, ‘You have been very good to me. Tell me, now, if you have any personal reason for your request, Perhaps you love her?” “I do,” was the brief reply. has Jromidd to be my wife.” “Then it will be James Fox who is hanged to-morrow. I meant to give my real name, but I will earry my secret to my grave, It may be in an- other world that the little last self-denial will be a plea for me,” He kept his word, and Gersld Lang- ton his secret, When Maude, a few weeks later, became his wife, she little guessed the terrible ordeal which he had spared her, or the added disgrace that belonged to the name she had given hum, RIS ITE I would bid her ‘She Defences of Lower Auntmals. Bome of the higher animals illustrate the manner in which nature contrives to farnish special measures of precaution for its hittle-gifted, unalert, unarmed and helpless creatures, The absence of teeth in the edentates is offset by shields or scale-armor; helpless beotles are fur. pnished with hard wing cases; the phea- sants, quails and larks of the fields are hidden trom the keen vision of birds of prey by their earthy color, birds of the river aud seashore by their resemblance in color to the sand and shingle, Protection is required by the lower animals chiefly aguinst the weather and against parasites and other external enemies, Frequently tho place of their abode is their only and ordmarily a sufficient protection, as is the case with earth worms and burrowing larve, wood worms and fruit-borers, But such ani- mals appear to be ail oted with partica- lar enemies poculiarly fitted to hunt them out in their otherwise secure fort resses—in the shape of moles, moie- crickets, long-nosed hedgehogs, shrew moe, and swine, hook-billed lapwings, and sharp-tongued woodpeckers, Fre- quently, also, cach: animal is defended by some special relation to ils species. Insects, while in their comparatively brief state of maturity are secured by their powers of fight, haye to be guarded, in their three previous condi- tions of egg, larvee and pa, against hosts of enemies to w they would otherwise be an easy prey and a pals able food, In the n of the parently lifeless and really helpless they are covered by their obscurity littleness, or by being deposited holes and cracks, or covered with slime or hairy or silken veils and cocoons, under which they escape ali but the sharpest search and rare accidents. Barvum’s Weolly Horse. “That is the same old woolly horse that Barnum had a great many years ago,” gad Mr. Bennett, of the Chicago museum, as a shaggy quadruped, with only enough features visible to define his specied, When Mr. Deming died the horse was given to his son-in-law, Mr, Wiley, by whose estate he was sold to Peter Simon, who brought hun here,” A Virginia Horror. On a pretty little farm near Rector. towh, Fauquier county, Virginia, there has resided tor some years past one John Glasscock, aged thirty, the son of Thomas Glasscock, one of the wealthiest graziers in that section of Virginia, John, sbout seven years ago, married a lovely woman, who has borne to lum three children. He has always been considered rather weak mentally, and for a year or two past has indulged in dnok, 10 conse. querce of the reputation his wife obtained for fondness of attention from gentlemen and gay astemblhies. The want of hare mony in Glasscock’s household arising from this had been nouczd, but no one dreamed that the difliculty would end in a fearful tragedy. Recently a colored man met Jobn Glasscock going towards a piece of woods a short distance from the farm. Glass- cock requested him to go to the house and see what he had done. The colored man did as directed and found the bouse on fire. This he quickly extinguished, snd then discovered Mrs. Glasscock and her three children, aged respectively one, four, and seven years, lying cead on the parior floor, each shot thromgh the head with pistol Lalla. The neighbors seeing the smoke hurried towards the farm house, by some of whom John Glasscock was noticed on the edge of the woods intently watching the house, On beisg approached he shot humseif through the head, dying in a short time. Those nearest hurried to the scene of the suicide, and, conveying him to the house, the five bodies were all lald together in the parior oa the foor, making a ghastly spee tacle. The innocent victims of tis terrible tragedy must have died mmstantly. Oa the little baby’s face was a sweet amie. It was found in the arms of its mother, but whether she had it in her embrace when killed, or whether she clasped it to her bosom after being shot will uvever be known, The most intense excitement exists throughout the neighborhood, and people have since Bunday morning been flocking to Glasscock’s house from every direction. His venerable father 18 bowed down with grief. He had only two children, another son being absent 1n Florida, in the last stages of consumption, It 1 reported that, owing to the dissipated habits of John Glasscock, the father made a great difference 10 the trestment of the two sous, sl'owing Bedford great privileges, with his abundant wealth, and restnictiag John to short rations; compelling bum to practise the strictest economy. It is also sald that be bad made his will, providing that the portion of his estato left to John should be kept in the hands of the trustees. This condition 1s ssid to bave worked upon Joba's mind and led hum still deeper nto dissipation, Mra. Gissscock was a Miss Frazier, of Lommans eounty, of & most respectable family, and the neighbors say that Glass. cock has been filled with jealomsy fora long time; but they also assert, upon the most positive terms thal her coasduct as a wife will bear the closest scrutiny. She was always food of society and ambitious to make a dwsplay; sod her husband, sourea by the lack of confidence from his father,” became morose and suspicious, The scene of the tragedy 18 withan Lhree miles of the piace where, one wesk before, the remains of Dr. Ambler, of the Jean- neite expedition, were [ad to resi AI Aylesford in Exile. A correspondent from Hag Springs, Texas, says peopie who read ihe foreign despatches sod keep posted sbout what is going op scross the sea bave doubticss mot forgotten the Ayleslord scandal, winch raned such a8 commotion mm Eog- land not long ago, and will be interested to know that the netorious Earl Is just now trying to hade himself in Texas, I do not mean that be 12 a fugitive from justice, or anytlung of that sort, but after a career thal was brief, brillant, and disastrous, he is now seeking the seclusion that 8 ranch in Texas grants. Fhe Earl has been here since last Au- gust, and the people have become quite wall soquainted with bim. The Barl of Aylesford 1 an old title, and hes been worn by many able and famous men. It was first bestowed upon Heneage Finch, one of the greatest Jars Eup land has ever koown, and his . ante until the present generation have all been distinguished for thewr leaming and cloguence. J was supposed hat the present Earl would follow in the footsteps of his illustrious progenitors, and be took high honors at Oambridge, but people say he came ato his property 100 toon, for itis not well for a young man to have an in. come of a couple of million dolls uatil he has earned it. He was born in 1848, and twenty-two he married Edith, the daugh ter of Colonel 1eers Willmme, MM. P., of Temple Court, Berks, Eagiand, aod had by her two deughters, Hilda Gwendolen y a'lowance of $50,000 & year, with which he came to America last summer for rest and much needed recuperation, At New York he made the acquaintance of 3. Gould, who at the Earl's request, rent Dr. Ennis, the Land Comumesioner of the Missouri Pacific Rauroad, all over the West with him, looking for a ranch, His Lorashup found at Big Springs just what he was hucting lor, and selected a tract of land twelve miles north of the village, where he commenced the crection of a ranch-house last August. The houss is a plain, unpainted board structure, a story and a half hugh, merely comfortable, with. out any mgns of luxury, convemence, or decoration. 1t only differs from tho or- dinary ranch headquarters by being plas. tered, and having the walls huog with & preity patterned paper of chocolate and gilt, The location 1s a fine one, but there are many just as good and still unoceu- pied north, south, and west of thus point, The Earl bought 57,000 acres of land, on credit, but so far hes no cattle. When he arrived here in August last be deposited £50,000 m cash at the Big Bprings Bank, but is this very nearly ex- hausted. On the 2d of January last he deposited for collection a draft for $50, 000 on his solicitors in London, which is supposed to be his pocket money for this year. The Earl had hot been here long be- fore two brothers wmived, Clement and Damel, the former about twenty-seven sod the latter about twenty-one, They brought with them five servants, thirteen dogs, & couch and dog-cart, and twenty or thirty horses, besides a lot of miscellaneous bag- gage for his Lordship’s modest castle, Clement very soon returned to England, but Daniel remained ia the rasch and still there. The most imposing and important feature of the remdence is the hall-way which runs through the centre of the house, and is entered from each of the eight or mine rooms. It ss formidable arsenal, and contains one of the most valuable private collections of guns sod parsphernaiis in the United Bintes. The walls are covered with rifles, shot-guns, revolvers, deringers, cartriage-beits, spurs, game-bage, snd other articles of the same sort in bewilder- ing numbers, and it requires the entire sitention of one man to keep them in order, Opening off the hall are the iving-rooms, plainly but comfortably furnished. The dining-room and table service 1s quite frugal, there being po plate or chins, hat ordinary pisted spoons, steel knives, and ironware crockery. in the kitchen there was a foreign-look- ing individual surrounded by curious snd uncommon-looking brass kettles and pola He shoots a great deal of venison and good many buds, bul the etceterss are all imported. The most conspacuous thing about the premises was a pile of empty botlles as big #8 a haystack in the rear of his house, which were inspected as carefully as pus. sible with » view of determining his Lord- ship's tastes. There were quite a number of parer-gle bottler, and mary that had once held spolinans, but champsgne labels were scarce, and if be used other wines, he must Lave got them by the cask. The consumption of beer had been very large, but three fourths of the pile were empty whisky bottles, and we came to the con- clusion that the Earl generally preferred to take it straight, and that is his reputa- tion in the community. LHe was {li the day we visited the ranch, so we did not see him, but hws brother Dan did the bonors of the establishment very grace. fully, and his hospitality was genuine, for although the Earl is not fond of having strapgers visit the place, and pre- fers to remains unkpown sod in retire- ment, his younger brother pines for more society, and welcomes the few guests that wander that way with great cordiality and good cheer. We learned in town that his Lordship was subject to frequent sitasks of loess wheeh lsd him up for a day or two, and they were pot brought on by the excessive use of \ epart nightly earnival in its All kinds of miraculous stories £ = tr BE ESEF ; Highs “Trying' Sewing Muckines “Taking sewing machbinss on trial has become A mania Mong the ladies,” said the proprietor of au agency to a repor- ter £3. bad called to make sone 1n- quiries concerning the busivess, “Von know guy one is considered pretty smart who can ontdo a sewing-machiue canvasser, and any means to that en! are looked upon as justifiable, even by people who are perfeciiy honest and up- night in every other way. “But what has nuscrupulous dealing with agents Ad do With Jour fat state- ment regar she ng of mackines on trial?” was asked, “Everything. You see, of late years this system of leaving machines at all the places where they are suspected of being required aud afterward bought hus become so general that they are sold, 1 might say, in no other way; at least it is extremely rare for a customer to enter a store and buy a machine out- right before having tested it af home, What has led to this practice—a perni- cious one, I must say-—bas been the anxiety of new makers to rush their manufactures upon the market, and, of course, ss the system becune general among the more recently estavlished firms and sgencies, the old sewing machine men bad to follow or lose a great amount of trade. It has been at- tempted frequently within the past year to introduce some new method of selling sewing-machines, but the ladies will not hear of any other plan than that whick now rules and which cau only be chavg.d by the united action of agents and deal- ers, which is au impossibility amoog the jealous riyais they have made of each other through malicious misrepre- sentations of competitors’ machines in the aliempt to put their own as far for- ward as possible.” “How does this tnal system interfere with the workings of a good sewing- machine buriness?” “I'll tell you. There are a great number of women who take machines on trial, never intending to buy them. We allow a lady to use a machine two weeks, and then call on her, and if she makes an excuse for not purchasing, we must eart our machine back to the store. In the meantime, perhaps, this seme person has made an arrangement with another agent to try one of a different manufacture, with no more inteation of making a bargain than in the first in- stance, At the end of two weeks that machine goes, another takes its place, and so on for several months, Why, have known private sesmstresses to do & whole year's sewing on different ma- chines without paying one csut toward their purchase or ever having the slightest intention of doing so. A good machine costs about $60 and they run as high as $00—quite an outlay of money fo some persons of moderate means, you see; but this expense is os- eaped by many economical people in this aty in the way I have men- tioned.” “Persons of the poorer class?” sug- gosted the reporter, ‘That's where you raske a big mi: take, sir. This scheme 18 resorted to ty ladies of considerable means, among them wealthy people, As Iraid before, they thunk it all nght to make such ar- rangements with canvassers and cannot be made to see the wrong that is done. Machines are often marred and broken, and we can do nothing in the way oi peyment for our ouble in varnishing and repairing them.” “But is it not considerable trouble to ladies, this changing ol sewing ma- chines?” “No trouble at ali, and no expense, as we handle them ali and lifi them from place to place at the will of the person who takes them to try.” “And all dealers nowadays allow ma- chines to go out on trial?” “Yes; as said before, they are forced to do it or suspend business operations, as no suocess will attend an enterprise of this kind where the trial system is pot permitted, A number of mauuiac- turers have made machives jor the ex- purpose of sending them oul Ww be tested by people who talk abut boy- ing them, and this, in its way, is Dot a bad idea, for the same machinery can be made up in an unfinished shape and the wooden may be ol cheap material, Then, if the wmachine-iryex really intends an article of the same pattern and finished in good shapc may be sold. 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