ARR
The Poet.
He sings; and such unscornful few as heed,
Say kindly, '*Good, perhaps, but what's
the need 7’
And others mutter, ** Words |
All has been said that there is need to say.
What does he want, this piper bound to
pay
» unlistening herds ?**
dazzled him at
the
dawn
that
dreams
ine, and as the silent night comes on,
Mad pray'r
Yet
and protest cease ;
sickening failure will
ablde,
hope through
heart-—unsatisfied
ILS first peace.
vy the wak ening
inspire
THE WITNESS,
or the
AUT INE ol
month February,
og, Seth Damon, of Acton, instituted
an 1 at law against Gabriel
terworth, of tho same town, for
recovery 200,000, of which
claimed Butterwortn had
defrauded circumstances
were these:
But
pring
he 1
a
said
him. ['he
h owned and kept
store in Acton, and the
ad never been regarded as an ex-
emplary gentleman, his honor in
business had not been impugned.
who had the faculty of looking upon
the und urrents of human act
be was a man bound
who understood the laws
too well to be gullty
meanness in business, What
3 capable of doing on a grand
ot mooted until the occur-
hla bout to speak.
1 bad removed from Ed-
the fall, and bad pur-
; n works, Sbortly after
ling the purchase, he had a pay-
to make, and late on
he arrived from
tarwort
wIWOTLL
Phd
Those
erc ons
hat
that
not
m <
noon
ir the
ites, and part of it in gold.
rived he found that Lhe
to whom the money was to be
d left town, and would not
ill Monday. Mr. Butterworth
only reliable safe vault im
nd to him Damon took the
0, asking permission ge it
vault over the Sabbath, which
was readily and cheerfully
oh
¥ 1
LO IH
nday
11 night the |
vere aroused by the alarm
id, upon starting out, it was
at the alarm came from But-
's store, but Mr. Butterworth
active. He had
}
I
wople of
$
1}
discovered
, and, with the assist-
his boys had put it out before
had been done. U
he premises it
1 Season
age pon
was found
had not only been th
endiary, but that it had
fire in several different
fire a
work of an ine
been
place,
“How fort said tha
“>that I discovered it in season.”
But very soon another discovery was
made. ety vault had been
broken and every dollar it had
sontained stolen! Here was alarm and
(zabriel Butterworth
{it to go crazy.
1 care
dollars was all
my friend had a
inate, owner,
I
lhe Sek d
i '* he cried.
I had
great
nal
no,
i
1 1
area
happened that
evening, or, I
ht, I. John Watson,
11 returning trom my brother’s,
able, 1 had left my hired
the stable, and on my way to
ling house I passed the store
Butterworth. In the back yard
» was the horse trough, and,
vy, I stepped around that
v draught of water.
on
may
As 1
irink at the spout of the
fountain I saw a gleam of light through
a crevice in the shutters of one of the
store windows, Cunosity impelled me
to go and peer through; for I wondered
who could be in there at that hour of a
Sunday night. The crevice was «quite
large, made by a wearing away of the
edges of the shutters where they had
been caught by the hooks that held |
them back when open, and through it
I looked into the store. I looked upon
thie wall within which the safety vault
was built, and I saw the vault open, |
and I saw Gabriel Butterworth at work
therein. I saw him put large packages
into his breast pocket and saw him
bring out two or three small canvas |
bags and set them on the floor by the
door that opened toward his dwelling.
As Isaw him approaching this outer
door a second time I thought he might
come out, and I went away. It was |
an hour afterward that I heard the |
alarm of fire, And it was not until
the following morning that I heard of |
the robbery of the safe.
I was placed in a critical position,
but I had a duty to perform. 1 went
to Mr. Damon, and told him what I
had seen; and also gave him liberty to
call upon me for my testimony in pub
lic when he should need it, Untii I
was called upon I should hold my
silence,
While the officers were hunting
hither and thither Mr, Damon kept a
strict watch upon the movements of
Butterworth, and at length detected
him in tho act of depositing a large
sum of money in a bank in Buffalo,
Butterworth was then arrested,
This is the way matters stood when
1 was summmoned to a before the
grand jury at Wilton urg. I went
there in company with r. Damon,
and secured lodgings at the Babine
house, It was a small ion, well and
comfortably kept, and frequented by
patrons of moderate means, There
were two public houses of more fash.
donable pretensions in the place,
February 14, that 1 took quarters at
{| the Sabine House, and ter tea 1 re-
quested the landlord to build a firo in
| my room, which he did, and also fur-
| nished me with a good lamp.
| 8 o'clock, and I sat at the table en-
| gaged in reading, when some
tapped at my door. I sald
in,” and a young man named
Shaw entered, bringing his carpet bag
in his hand. This Shaw I
very well as a clerk of Gabriel Butter-
worth, but I had never been intimate
with him from the fact that I had
never liked him. Ie must have seen
the look of displeasure upon
for he quickly said:
“Pardon me, Mr.
mean to intrude | have come down
to be present at the examination
morrow—summoned by Butterworth’s
mean, of course—and 1 got there
late to get a room with a stove in it
and, wors ill, I must
Wi
iti anot
Watson, I don't
to-
{Oo
3
at
o 3
her
take a room
and with a
stranger for company. nd so, may 1
warm my fing and toes by vour
and leave my carpet bag und
913
just
tire lel
your bed?
1 when he the
but he did now
faculty his strange rooms-
for and
He laughs
r of
carpet
bag, vel not kK
what sort or
mate might have
walking off 1a the
{1 (
and |
3 i
Le
10
rpttine
RELL ug
chatted
ne wi
ness whicl
YY
pleasant,
he fellow, and
Jf that I had
t him without cause,
arose and bade
and
been prejudice
1748
At leng
! I of what was wanted,
received sn answer from Laban Shaw,
He bade me t to light He
bad only come for his night-gown. Ile
could
e dark. 1 arose and
unlocked my « 1
loor, and his apologies
were many and earnest. Ile always
slept in winter 1n a flannel night-zown,
and he had thougl left it in his
carpet-bag. He was sorry, very sorry.
He had thought to try to sleep witl
rather i
roo was coi
I cut hi
was no need «
be fumbled over his
make doubl!
was all right, I
light a mateh for him, but Lhe s
bad got his dress, and all
He then went out, and
locked the Q after |
got back int«
But I was no
very sleepy w
but an entir
sessed me now,
twitching of my .
feeling, as some express It;
¢ ' trad OER Ost
Li0 InGuces ij
to my Jeg
s 1
Li
amp.
t 11}
y it T
get it in ti
it]
IVIEEDLY
it
it
he
Spins
UW to
th
the {ir
Your
il0 oliere
©
no amour
y and by
upon
™
2. Ar
2 Tr
v ¥
awake, a
po
OrLabie ad
8
tly
ger
i
id
e hanging the cover.
under the bed.
vhich Laban Shaw had left
y open, with the silken line
us from it. wuld it
mean? Had the man accidentally car-
he end of the line away with |
night dress without ticing it?
drew the bag from beneath the
bed, and as 1 held it apart I caw within
a double-barreled pistol, both hammers
cocked, bright concussion caps gleam-
Ig upon t tubes, while the silken
line, with double end, was made fast
to the triggers! And I saw that the
muzzle of the pistol barrels were in-
serted into the end of an oblong box,
or case, of galvanized iron. And |
comprehended, too, that a very slight
pull upon that string might have dis-
i Oe Car-
fe
Yh it ©
ried t
.
18
i
T
no
4
Ou
He
a man outside of my door might have
done that thing.
For alittle time my hands trembled
First, { cut
drew it from the iron case. I had just
heard a step in the
I sprang up and turned the key, and
revealed by the light of my own lamp,
stood Laban Shaw.
when he saw me, and trembled like an
aspen. I was stronger than he at any
time, and now he was a child in my
hands, I grasped him by the collar
and dragged him into my room, and I
pointed the double barreled pistol at
his breast, and I told him I would
gave me occasion
He was abject and terrified. Like a
whipped cur he crawled at my feet and
begged for mercy. His master had
hired him to do it with promise of
great reward. It had transpired that
my testimony before the jury would
be conclusive of Butterworth’s guilt,
and Butterworth had taken this means
to get rid of me. In his great terror
the poor accomplice made a full confes-
sion, and when he had told all, I re
leased my grasp. He begged that I
would let him go, but . dared not-—my
duty would not allow it. I rang the
bell, and in time the hostler, who slept
in the office, answered my summons,
It was on the afternoon of Monday,
| 1 sent him for an officer, and at length
| prisoner led safely away.
On the following day the carpet bag
| was taken before the grand jury and
the iron case examined by an
| rienced chemist, assisted by an
armorer from the arsenal. It
found to contain
old
| was the opinion of both the chemist
terrific explosive agent, had it been
bed, would not only have been sufli-
111
ik
would also have erally stripped and
shivered to fragments all of the Louse
above it.
And a single pull of the sliken string
would have been suflicient to this hor.
rible end! And but for my nervous
waking-—my incubus of foreboding
the destroyer would have come; the
fatal cord would have touched,
the mine sprung and 1 she
launched
Hghtning’s bolt.
And so Gabriel Bu
procure the
mony, but, through
the grand jury found c¢
far
at first been anticipated;
graver charges he was convicted,
Damon received b the full share Le
the false man’s care,
afterward 1 into
with him, and t
Damon and I are part
Shaw came out pI
to Idaho, 1 have not
hiria tart
(rabiriel PUL
been
yuld
il
have been
into ete if on the
rinity
TILILY
destructi my testi-
mony,
ir indiet
tars hand
than had
and of tl
+ ‘
ue
ause fi
' * f PAV +}
ment of graver cuaraclet
O56
mat!
Lu
+1
AUK
entered
tv +1
1851116388 day Seth
ners. l.aban
and went
of him
1
did
A101
SOT
heard
rt}
iii
f mi
Aron
SiiCe, Lerwo Ho
vO Berve
a ——
Fhe Blue Jay
1 @ cast
frame; up
chair, to reach which
webbing, and
springs; in
on my foot;
plaits of a ru
when 1 get
treasures
he 8i f my shipper
nthe loop of a bow; in
fle; under a pillow. Often
up. shower of
jay's falls m various
hidi dress-—nails,
matches, shoe buttons, and others; and
sure that 1 shall not find
ft, milk-soaked bread in r slipper,
But the latest discovery and most an-
noying of his receptacles, 18 in my hair,
He delights In standing on the high
back of my rocking-chair, or on my
houlder, and he soon discoverad sev-
eral desirable hiding-places conven-
lently near, such as my ear, and under
the loosely dressed hair, 1 did not ob-
t
i
a
£1
iio
ng-places about
I am never
soft
tempted to tuck away some choice
never expect to find a key-hole that he
the openings of my waste basket are
usually decorated with
driven in.
ssi AAAI 55555555
Courting in Church,
An exchange reiates that
gentleman happening to sit at church
young lady, for whom he conceived a
sirous of entering into a courtship on
formal declaration, the exigency of the
case suggested the following plan: He
politely handed his fair neighbor a
following text: Second Epistle of John,
verse fifth--**And now I beseech thee,
lady, not as though I wrote a new
unto thee, but
which we had from beginning, that we
love one another.’’ She returned it,
Ruth, verse tenth—‘‘Then she fell on
her face, and bowed herself to the
gecund, and said unto him: **Why have
found grace in thine eyes, that thou
shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing
I am a stranger?’ He returned the
book, pointing to the thirteenth verse
of the Third Epistle of Jolin-—*1 had
many things to write, I will not with
pen and ink write unto thee; but I
trust I shall shortly see thee, and we
shall speak face to face.” From the
above interview a marriage took place
the ensuing week,
HYDROPHOBIA CURED,
The Strange
Among Various People in Days
Gone By,
A French man of letters, M. Ilenri
Galdoz, has just published a most curi-
on
(**La Rage et St, Hubert ’) which de-
not only
madness in the dog,
Dogs, says a writer with
beginning, tried to cure
‘a hair,” or a portion of
the flesh of the dog that bit him. Pliny
in his natural history recommends a
luncheon of boiled dog as the sovranest
thing on earth for hydrophobia, **They
all do iv” in Europe, in India, in China,
and M, Gaidoz quotes Mr. Taylor
the Edna, Notes and Queries
nany other authorities
{ popular
ing on the wound a In
i
is also a good
o Pliny.
the
in
ous Pp ece O
rit
prescription, accord-
Mad dogs are far
and are
olde:
nentioned in the
As to
his wish
: (the explana-
on of Goldsmith), anclents
} had a variety
Richard Burton, in h
‘Pilgrimage to Mecca,” found that
mad when they have
t flesh that falls from heaven.
The foam of the sea, in classical times,
i thought to turn dogs mad :
ink it; but a dog wh '
f auld do any
iain w
alread
mad
liny, !
h book of the Iliad, why
r gees mad, beyond
is private ends”
h), the
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of
io
1168
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W201]
Si
apinion
ral i ys or
Arab GOgS 2
¥
ted of
C ot
y.
arly
Pp PUAL
the 1
ymmend
lower
nothes
HAVE
cient
§
r of a cert
{ haps,
of people possess
l Way i
bh. The
»1 has
at method |
ceniu
.s
the
Tl
elaver
$y
Lil
stvied Ary
allied {a ,
0 the treasury o
elics |
Process is ( ii
is taken int
where the 1 for
that 1s the technical term) be.
fore I who recites certain
formulze, after which the penitent ut-
ters a brief prayer to St. Hubert, Then
the priest, with a pan-knife, makes a
shallow incision in the skin of the fore-
head of the man who has bitten.
The skin is slightly raised, and a thead
or two of the sacred stole that was
brought down by the angel Is intro-
duced,
the head and worn for nine days. The
the bodily in-
sertion into the flesh of a sacred object,
a scrap of a relic.
ie,
kneels
the
ipa
wriest,
¥
¥
¥
,
Ty
il
been
——— "-
The Gamey Blue Catfish,
All my life I have taken great de.
of our waters, Among those which
have furnished the most sport is the
blue or channel cat, Of ail the fish
that I ever hooked it makes the hardest
fight for its life, It differs from bass
open, thus makkg it
much easier to conquer and land them;
mouth and starts for the bottom of the
or lake with a vim that will
with any other fish I ever tackled.
is full of fight from the strike to the
landing net, and requires longer to
bring it to land than any other of its
weight,
i
A forewgn device for cutting stone
consists of a cord of three steel wires
rather loosely twisted together, running
around pulleys like a band-saw. The
swift succession of blows from the
ridges of the cord delivered along a
fustow line disintegrate the stone rap-
dly.
~-Professor Gleason, the horse trai-
ner, will appear at London, England,
July 4 and then **do” the Continent,
FASHION NOTES.
{ =-Jet beads are set in clusters in the
brown straw revers coronet, and thus
Black lace crowns are laid
tulle as a transparent,
| bonnet,
colored
roge, and the tulle 1s bouillonne on a
ti
White lace crowns ith
and colored beaded brims,
—Something quite new is
skirt of fancy velveleen,
with mauve, The overskirt and bodice
of mauve figured delaine, The walst
and bodice trimming of the vel-
veteen, The dress 18 of smoke-c«
barege, with beaded merveilleux
The side of bodice and
ung of beaded mervellleux,
vel buttons
cream muslin,
A very pretty ski
in one,
olored glace silk, plain
one pinked-out flounce
number of superposed
back, reaching
thie whole being pt
band encircling the wals
ple circle of
1
ie
w jet
ure
nored
sleeve
and undersleeve
was oO
from
f dark
Suede and
Are used
spring, and are
riely
ainalp
Jill t
always
worn wits
Both
jackets will
and completed by)
made broad and
else more slender and sharply pon .
Horn buttons, with eyes in the centre,
or else tinted pearl bottons, are used in
two rows on the double-breasted coats;
for single-breasted coats and smaller
lasting or braid buttons.
now
dresses,
breasted
are
f
Ol
many
ff. 1
Fuad,
VEry
~A walking dress has a skirt and
vest of diagonal striped woolen ma-
terial in two shades of sage green,
bodice and overskirt of biscuit delaine,
ming of the bodice, the revers, cuffs,
epaulets and collar are of broche vel-
vet. Another walking dress has an
anderskirt of pale blue delaine,
golden brown velvet
overskirt and jacket of pale
blue delaine, pointed with
brown florets, revers, collar and cuffs,
of golden brown velvet, vest of the
plain delaine. The next is of cigar.
brown cashmere, with panels and vest
of oak and brown brocade, The bodice
is trimmed with large metal buttous.
~ Another is of merveilleux satin of
the now fashionable shade of red
called tison, or red-hot charcoal, such
as one sees in a wood-fire just be-
it 18 consumed to ashes; It Is
trimmed with one deep flounce of the
satin, velled over with black lace. The
front is plain, the back 18 arranged in
a series of gathered puflings, with a
gathered lace border over each. This
underskirt is suitable to wear with an
elegant costume. Others are of plain
blue or rose-colored surah, trimmed
with white lace very discreetly staff.
ened with whalebone, and are meant
to wear either with evening dresses or
else with elegant matinees to match,
The matinee, as our lady readers are
aware, is a long, balf-Otting jacket
which forms part of the coquettish dis
babille of a lady of elegance. The
fashionable matinee this spring is of
light-colored surah, trimmed with
white lace, forming a ruche round the
neck and coming in a quilling down
the front, or else opening over a lace
plastron, There Is often a good deal
of tw.lled lace to match upon the skirt.
HORSE NOTES.
| ==Dr. Marshall should get up some
{ gentlemen’s road races,
~3am Keys wants to sell his pacer
Charley Friel, record 2.18,
Beacon Park, Boston, will
cut up into busding
—#heridan has been mslected as star-
{ ter for the St. Louis Spring Meeting.
What has becoms of the “Dutch
acers?’’ Are there none any more?
—Jolin Madden has purchased the
{ br. g. Pegassus from Robert Young.
y ~—dJdack Phillips drove Mad-
den’s ch. 8, Sortie, 4 half
mile in 1.26 recently.
~ De
i +
iOS
John
year oid, a
Roche has secured the pooling
k >
H ig
> no
Lng
year-old
(ireen A
ihe mp
#
Dan Stron
Now, &
Fav
TAYOD
mare Mayenne,
cara, by Harol
black g
Railey
claime
is
and East
covering
1 3
id, ANG
SAZINAW, W
the date from Ji
SOR £5
a ew
1
il
Noring
offering
8, PACEDS an
~Mambrino Ti
Patchen, Puss 1
Lady Sto J-year-o
died on the 13th inst., at the home
his owner, I. B. Stout, Woodford
county, Ky. Mambrino Time was the
sire of the ch. m. Four Corners: the
Macey Bros. gave her a recorl of 2.28,
He was also the sire of Emmett, 2 20}.
— A dispatch states that a big match
has been made, to be run on the third
day of the Memphis spring Meeting.
It is said that the owners of Montana
tegent, Elkwood, and Jim Gray have
agreed to nominate those horses, and
| that Captain Brown will be willing to
add Troubadour or Blue Wing, The
| stakes are to be $530 each; $1000 ad-
ded by the club, and the distant to bea
i mile and a quarter,
~George W. Voorhis, the ex-ddiver,
| of Detroit, has received a letter from
| A. J, Prince Smith, dated at Vienna,
| Austria, stating that the trotting mare
{ Phyllis, record 2.153, which he pur-
{ chased recently for exdort to Austria,
{ died on shipboard, The mare was val
{ ued at $13,000, baving been bought of
| Charles Wagner, of Dickerson’s land-
ing, Ont. for the sum barely a mouth
| ago. Phyllis was brad and raised and
taught to trot by Charles Wagner and
| was 13 years old, 164 hands high, by
hil Sheridan, dam by Tom Sayers,
| «Ban Fox, by King Ban, dam
MAud Hampton, died at Rancho del
Pash, Sacramento, Cal., on March 50,
from\ pertonitis, Ban Fox was bred in
{ 1883, by Major B. G. Thomas, at the
Dixiagd Stad, in Kentucky, and sold
| at the IDixiana sale as yearlings in 1884
to Messys. Clon & Morgan for §1475
As a 2.yaar-old he started eight times,
winning fjve, including the Horse Tra-
ders’ Stale at St. Louis, in which he
beat Darligupt and Blue Wisg., He
also won Jie Saratoga Stakes, and st
Monmou Park the rich Champion
Stallion after which Mr, Hag.
gin purch m for $20,000. He
had a bad the time, ana in Call.
fornia Ww: pd for it, but was a
great favor the Kentucky Derby,
for which scratebed, and his
mate, Ben od instead,
me
»
. by Mambrin
rall, the dam of
1, record of 2.29
-
ia
Gal
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of