A
—
~The railing supporting the gallery
in the People’s Theatre, in Youngs-
town, Ohio, gave way on the evening
of the 18th, just as the curtain was
about going down, pracipitating the
occupants to the tloor below, a distance
of fifteen feet. The people underneath
heard the cracking in time to nearly
all escape, but Mrs, James Turley was
caught by the debris and so badly In.
Jured about the head and chest that she
may die. Two boys had their arms
broken, and many persons received
painful injuries. A panic was only
averted by the presence of mind of
mewbers of the Baldwin Theatre Com-
pany, which was playing at the place,
—A tornado virtually demolished the
town of Mount Vernon, Illinois, on the
19th, killing a number of persons and
injuring many others. Mount Vernon
is about 60 miles east of St. Louis, 1n a
direct line. The latest reports say that
about 30 persons were killed and 19
fatally injured.
~A war has been waged for some
time past against the liquor sellers in
East Greenwich, Rhode Island, by the
Law and Order League, the head of
which was Rev. QO. W, Still, of the
Baptist Church, Messrs, Stull and
Allen, acting as constables, have made
several seizures of liquor lately and
Lave been threatened with violenee,
On the evening of the 18th, Mr, Allen
found a large quantity of arsenic in his
well, but in time to prevent serious re.
sults. On the 10th a dynamite cart-
ridge was exploded on his steps, but,
owing to the ignorance of those who
placed it there, but little damage was
done. On Sunday Mr. Still, ip his
to lecture against intemperance,
—The Loiler in the shingle mill of
B. Bemiss, in West Melville, Louis-
1ana, exploded on the 20th, killing C.
Hills, John Stevenson and Seymour
Banks, and injuring thirteen others.
~—As Buck Johnson and Arthur
Holland, working in a mine at Mount
Sneflles, near Ouray, Colorado, on the
morning of the 20th, had charged a
hole with four sticks of giant powder,
the powder exploded, blowing John-
son’s body through a sixty-foot tunnel
and dangerously wounding Holland,
—The body of Thomas Burns, of
Delaware dtation, Maryland, was found
in the loft of the boiler house at the
Lochiel furnace, at Harrisbarg, on the
evening of the 18th. It is supposed he
crawled into the shed to sleep and was
suffocated by gas.
~The striking miners resumed work
on the 20th, in nearly all of the col-
Coal and Iron Ce, north of the Broad
Mountain, between Mahanoy City and
Shenandoah. South of the DBroad
Mountain very few of the men went
back, because the work was not ready
for them. Superintendent Whiting
said on the evening of the 20th, that
he beheved the trouble in the mines
was practically over, He thought that
the miners who had gone back to work
would number about 15,000,
~A bomb, containing several pounds
of powder, was found ou the morning
of the 20th, at the Heading Railroad
freight house in Shamokin, It was
placed close against the walls of the
building. The fuse had been lighted
but went out before reacliing the pow-
der.
~The list of killed and injured by
the tornado at Mount Vernon, Illinois,
on the afternoon of the 19th. is offic
ally reported as follows: Killed, 37;
fatally injurel and dyiag, 8; seriously
injured, but may recover, 30: injured,
but in no danger, 67. About 240
are homeless,
-—A passenger train on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad ran into a
freight train at Maple Park, lllinots,
on the 20th. The passenger engine
and mail-car and four freight cars were
was Killed,
undermined a small
Kansas Central
morning of the 19th a freight tran
broke through. The engineer aud
fireman were ivjured, the former fa-
tally. .
~Deanis McGraw and his wife were
found dead in bed in their house at
Lima, Ohio, on the morning of the
21st. They had been suffocated by
natural gas,
—Niecolo Colombo, an Italian rag
picker in New York, found a bundle
of dynamite cartridges in the yard of
the house, 65 Mulberry street, on the
21st. Not knowing the nature of his
find, he proceeded to fille the ends of
the wire conductor, when a terrific ex-
plosion took place, stunning those in
the immealate vicinity, and lacerating
Colomba’s right arm to a considerable
extent. John Sali, one of the victims,
who was cut In the neck and face,
caused Colombo’s arrest, and he was
locked up in the Sixth Precint Station
after having his wounds dressed, It is
supposed thatthe cartridges were stolen
from the new aqueduct and secreted
where found,
~Michael Kinsley, Jr., aged 18 years
shot and fatally wounded his father in
Chicago, on the afternoon of the 21st.
50 futher Suarrelied with and struck
wile son interposed. Dur-
ing the struggle the fatal shot was
~Religious meetings have been held
in the Methodist Church in Iron Moun-
tain, Michigan, for several weeks past
by a stranger claiming to be a Meth-
odist preacher. He made quite fres
with the people generally, and was
looked upon as rather a singular char.
acter. On the 20th it was discovered
that he was a detective in search of a
tridge on
g5 2
F
ry
gEee
ih
at Wilkesbarre, began to move at five
o'clock on the morning of the 22d, At
six o'clock it gorged between Ply.
mouth and Nanticoke, and an hour
later the water at Wilkesbarre was 18
feet above low water mark. The ice
in the Susquebanna at Harrisburg
broke on the afternoon of the 22d and
began to move down without doing
The river was ten feet
above low water mark, The ice at
Columbia began to move on the even-
ing of the 22d, but soon afterwards
stopped and the river rose slowly. A
gorge has formed at Chickies, and
another dangerous gorge is Indicated
at Turkey Hill. The lee broke in the
Delaware river at Port Jervis, on the
evening of the 224, with a moderate
freshet, and became gorged at Ilose’s,
four miles below. he gorge grad-
ually extended to the upper end of
Port Jervis, The ice also broke in the
Navesink river, and that river is also
gorged, flooding all the lowlands for
eight miles up from the mouth to Port
All the conditions are favor-
able for a dangerous gorge similar to
that of 1875, The river is slowly ris.
ing.
—An explosion of dynamite occurred
in a rock cut in Duluth, Minnesota, on
the 22d. Eighteen men were injured,
eight being sent to the hospital.
Three wen died after reaching the hos-
pital, The explosion was caused by
some cartridges fused on the 18th, but
which had not exploded until the men
resumed work about them. A few
taps on Lhe drill served to set off the
unexploded cartridges,
-Thomas Burdett, eolored, on the
child aeross Bee creek, near Paducali,
Kentucky, in a skiff.
stream the boal sprung a leak
commenced to sink,
out and succeeded In saving the lives
of the woman and child, but
himself drowned.
and four children.
raised to buy them a home. A. Linn
was killed by falling from a scaffold in
ard
Ohio, on the moruing of the 224,
-The murdered body of Valentine
Guicher was found on the 2Ist in a
field near the Union Pacific shops at
Granite Island, Nebraska, He had
apparently been robbed. At Pittsburg,
on the 22d, Michael McKenna was
of murder in the second
wife about
ago. The Coroner's jury in
of wilful
Heron, for
murder against
poisoning her
with siryeh-
nine, William Heron, the husband of
Hiram Danlels, a gardener, 68 years of
beat his wife with a shovel in
Wooster, Ohio, recently, and injured
her so badly that she died 0: the 21st.
She was 80 years of age, av: they had
been married forty years, A: Chatta.
nooga, on the 22d, while play nz ball
on the University grounds, J.
Johnston and
dents, quarrelled, Magill broke Johns
ton’s rkull with a base ball bat, causing
death in a few hours,
—ldzzie aged 9; John aged 5; and
Alice, aged 2, the children of Michael
Henressy, died of smail-pox in the pest
house in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the
evening of the 21st. Henunessy and his
wife are sick with the disease,
Abbe Hamel, of New York, was
robbed on the 22d of $2490 on a Dela-
ware and Hudson traln while en route
to Montreal, At Plattsburg he left the
suspected of taking it,
—Charles Wingard and Annie Fox,
Alliance,
Ohio, for running away from Monroe,
Michigan, committed suicide on the
morning of the 22d. CQfficers from
bad just arrived, and had a
talk with the prisoners, who were then
allowed to consult together as to
whether they should go back without a
requisition. It was soon afterwards
selves in a cell and tried suicide, a re
volver being the weapon used, The
girl was dead and Wingard in a dying
condition. A note was left, saying
they had decided to kil themselves
Wingard was
only 24 years of age, and the girl 16,
~-Mrs. Margaret Smith, of Harring-
ton, and her daughter, Miss Mattie
Wright, of Clayton, in Delaware, re-
turning from a visit to Philadelphia, on
the evening of the 21st, stopped over
night at the house of Mrs. Smith's
son, in Wilmington; on the 22d, both
woman were found unconscious from
escaping gas. In the afternoon Mrs,
Smith was reported slightly improved,
while her daughter's condition re
mained critjcal,
~The gorge at Turkey Hill, caused
by the moving of the ice at Columlia
on the evening of the 224, was ful-
lowed by a rise of 14 feet in the river,
which did much damage to the fenn-
sylvania Railroad bridge, one pler be-
Ing shoved 18 inches out of I'me. “All
the lumber yards and mills age flooded,
aud the Columbia Iron Cofipany has
been compelled to suspend operations
until the water recedes, The river is
higher than at any time for 23 years.
A later says the ice is gorged
from McCall's Ferry to Chickles, a
distance of 21 miles, Ag at Wash.
ington, two miles south Columbia,
on the evening of the 22d, piled ice to
a height of over 30 feet and crossed the
Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad
tracks. The Deliware river was
at Port Jervis for a distance of
bug miles, the ios jetug pied io 2
wenty feet. any cellars
heigh basements are flooded, and the
wooden breakwater in fromt of the
abutments of the Burret sus fon
has been d
estroyed, the
breaking of a very large
of logs In Palouse river, near Colfax,
Washin Territory. on the 234,
Moses iS Wis ki in hired § close
men severely injured, An unknown
on the second ballot. The vote desig-
nating July 8d as the time wag reeon-
sidered, and June 5th was substituted,
by a vote of 20th to 17. Bo the con-
vention will be held in St. Louls ou the
5th of June.
~A dispatch from Wapakoneta,
Ohio, says Israel Lucas, the defaulting
treasurer of Auglaize county, who was
arrested in Canada, has compromised
with the county for $12,000. He stole
$31,000.
—Two masked men boarded a train
on the Southern Pacific Railroad at
Stein’s Pass Station, Arizona, about 8
o'clock on the evening of the 224.
When a short distance from the sta.
tion they forced the engineer to stop
the train. They then uncoupled
the mail and express car with the
engine from the other part of the train
and made the engineer move on a mile
and a half further. When the cars
were stopped the robbers then forced
the Wells, Fargo & Co's. express mes
sengers to open the car, which they
riled of valuables, but without disturb-
ing the mail, The express robbery is
reported heavy.
~Near Toussaint, Ohio, on the 22d,
to the house of bivmother- in-law, Mrs,
Tibbetts, to get his wife who had left
him, to go back to bim, Mrs, Tibbets
and her 17-year-old son John refused to
let Mrs. Lindley go back to her hus-
banc, The latter went for a shotgun,
and returning to the house found the
doors locked against him. He broke
the panels and shot young Tibbetts in
the head, inflicting a probably fatal
wound. Notwithstanding bis injuries,
Tibbetts returned the fire, killing Lind-
on the spot. Two children of
Babcock. bridge tender at
New Hapsburg, New York, were
drowned on the 25d. They were plas-
ing on the ice, when it guve way,
throwing them into the water. At
Blowing Springs, Georgia, on the 23d
Mrs, John Willnorte was seized with
apoplexy and fell into an open grate,
and was burned to death. Harlsin
Plautz, aged 18, was killed while coas!-
3
evening cf Lhe 234. Several of his
companions had legs broken and were
otherwise Injured.
~The Newton Skating Rink, at
Peshligo, Wisconsin, which was be ng
converted 1oto stores, collapsed on the
under the weight
Une man was
killed and three others were injured,
perhaps fatally, Andrew Ecklind and
by the explosion of dynamite at Duluth,
Minnesota, on the 224, died on the 234,
making four deaths in all, Two others
are im a precanous condition. The
total number of men injured was 34. A
lumber train on the West Branch Rall.
road ran off the track eight miles west
of Bradford, Penna, on the evening of
the 23d, Tony Whitford, brakeman,
aged 24 years, and John Halpin, aged
17, were killed, Four others were in-
jured, Julia Fangreen was found in
On the bed
lay the bodies of ber two children, and
from all appearances they bad been
dead over 24 hours,
~A collision occurred on the after.
noon of the 24th, on the Pottsville
and Mabanoy Haiiroad st New Boston
Valley pas.
Doth engines
the forward
track. An
passengers
cars were thrown from the
of
—In Richland county, South Caro-
lina, William Myers, a white man, has
been living with a colored woman and
Un the evening
unknown men
barred up all
224 a party of
There was an axe in the house and
with this Myers cut & hole in the door
in time to save himself and the other
inmates, but they were severely burned,
John Johnson, colored, was terribly
cut abut the neck and head with «
razor in the hands « f Annie Carmichael,
in Harrisburg, Fa., on the 24th, She
tried to kill him because of the theft of
a scarf, Two young men broke into
the cottage of Mrs, Clara Hovey in
Chicago, on the evening of the 23d,
Mrs. Hovey Is 61 years old, and lives
alone. Both men assaulted her. A
policeman was attracted by her cries
and be followed the men as they ran,
firing two shots at them, One ballet
struck one of the fugitives in the back.
He was identified as Thomas Krim-
mins. He is now in the hospital ia a
critical condition,
~-Special timber agents have re-
ported to the General Land Commis-
sioner that between the vaars 1880 and
1887, Inclusive, 17,208.000 feet of pine
timber were cut and removed for spec-
ulative purposes from the public lands
in Alabama by the M Lumber
Company, of Pensacola, © manu-
factured lumber is valued at about
$173,000, The Commissioner recom-
mends that the parties be proceeded
against both etvilly and criminally, It
bas also been reported that the Aver
Lumber Company, «f Flagstaff, Ari-
zona, and the Asizona Lumber Com-
pany caused to be cut from the public
lands in sald Territory 10,435,450 feet
timber and 65,177 railroad ties, The
value of the timber at the mill is given
as $143,570, ind oF She ties aa $10,000,
civ! crim procecuings
aguinst the parties named are recom-
mended,
~ As a freight engine on the Ch
and Eastern Illinois Railway caso
ing down a deep incline with 20 loaded
rpssure great that
n went down at terrific speed,
ger train was standing on the
track directly in the way of the run-
- train, A switchman quickly
the switch and the freight train
— Work was resumed at the Reading
collieries on the 24th, Many indivoal
collieries are also propariog to resume
upon an agreement with their men to
pay the same rate of wages as muy be
established by the Reading Company.
It 18 thought this sudden and exten-
sive revival of activity is likely to be
followed by an early reaction, owing to
the gluttiog of the market, and it is re-
ported that already a number of colller-
les are preparing lor temporary suspen-
sion}, for lack of orders, I'urnaces
at Lebanon, Cornwall and Columbia,
which had gone out of blast because of
the scarcity of coal, have resumed op-
erations,
A
50th CONGRESS.— First Session,
BENATE,
In the United States Senate on the
20th, the bill establishing a bureau of
animal Industry was reported and
placed on the calendar. After an
executive session the Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8. Senate on the 21st, Mr,
Sherman from the Finance Committee,
reported adversely the bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to over.
rule and reserve decisions of his sabe
ordinate officers In relation to matters
of account, The bill was indefinitely
postponed. Pending action on the bill
Lo incorpoiute the Washington Cable
Electrical Rallrway, the Senate went
into executive session and when the
doors wera re opened adjourned.
In the U, 8. Benate on the 231, the
bill to license rallroad conductors was
reported adversely. A DbIl was re
ported favorably ald the
Forge celebration. The bill to carry
intergational conven
tion for the protection of submarine
cables was passed. Tbe Senate bill for
an international marine conference to
secure greater safety for life and prop-
erty al sea was passed: also the bill to
extend the laws of the United States
over the unorganized territory south of
Kansas, known as “No Man's Land.”
The Cable Electrical Railway bill for
to
resolution for the appointment of a
board of three army engineers to ex
amine and report as to the removal of
islands, shoals and other obstructions
in the Delaware river, between Pails
delphia and Camden. A resolution of-
fered by, Mr, Callom was adopted, asking
information f the President in regard
to the prob ibition of the importation of
American product into France, and
what steps, il any, have been taken by
our Government to orocure the recind-
ing of such probi | ion: also whether
correspondence had taken place be-
tween the two Governments prior to
the President's message of January 12
recommending acceptance of the invita.
tion to take part in the Paris Exposilion
next year, The bill to incorporate the
Nicaragua Canal Company was taken
up, and was advocated by Mr. Ed.
munds, After remarks by Messrs
floar, Sherman, Vest and Morgan the
tall went over, and the unfinished busi-
ness was taken up, the bill granting
pensions Lo ex-soldiers and sallors who
are incapacitated from the performace
of manual labor and providing for
pensions to dependent relatives and de-
ceased soldiers and sailors. Messrs,
Manderson and Turple advocated the
bill. Without action the Senate wont
Into execulive session and subsequently
adjourned,
HOUSE
In the House on the 20th, a number
bills and resolutions were intro.
duce! and referred under the eall of
States, Mr. Culberson, of Texas, on
behalf of the Judiciary Committee,
moved to suspend the rules and pass
the Hoar joint resolution, proposing a
constitutional amendment changing
the date of inauguration day, ana ex-
tending the term of Congressmen until
April 30th, After debate, the motion
failed for want of two-thirds in the
allirmative, the yeas being 120, nays
128. The House then adiourned,
In tise House on the 21st, Mr. Cul-
berson, of Texas, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported a joint resolution
proposing an anti-Polygamy amend-
ment to the Constitution of the United
States. IL was placed on the calendar,
The bill authorizing the consolidat io 1 of
certain customs districts was also re.
ported and placed on the calendar,
Bills were passed appropriating $125.
000 for a public building at Allentown,
and $100,000 for a public building at
Lancaster, In Penasyivania, The
House adjourned,
In the House on the 23d, the speaker
being absent, S, 8, Cox was unan-
imously elected Speaker pro tempore,
Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, offered
a resolution, which was referred, re-
questing the President, if not incom-
patible with the public interests, te
send to the House all documents and
correspondence between our Govern-
ment and the Governments of Great
Britain and Venezuela, or either of
them, In relation to the disputed
boundaries beteween Venezuela and
the British colonies. Several bills for
the erection of public buildings were
passed, among those for the erection of
buildings at Allentown and Lancaster,
Penna. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 24th, the Senate
bill, to carry into effect the Interna-
tional Convention of March 14th, 1884,
for the protection of submarine cables,
was passed. The Senate bill to ine
crease the pensions for deafness was
reported favorably and placed on the
calendar, Some time was spent In
Committes of the Whole on private
bills, Mr, Cowles, of North Carolina,
introduced a bill to repeal the tax on
fruit brandy. Mr. Springer, from the
Committee on Territories, ad-
versely the bills for the admission of
North and South Dakota as te
States, and Mr, Baker, ork,
presented a minority report on the
of
NEevER place a pleture or a bit of
decoration where It does not serve somt
Courting for the Captain.
‘There was probably no more youth.
ful bearer of a colonel’s commission
in the civil war than myself,
Born in a family of soldiers, ednea~
ted and drilled from infancy as a sol-
dier, I gained high rank as a boy, and
was able to perforin its duties to the
satisfaction ef my superiors,
But, aside from duty, I was ““larky”
as any young college chap in the world.
A box of goods, made by the kind
hands of loyal women, reached my regl-
ment through the United States Chris-
tian commission. The quartermaster
who superintended distribution of the
comforts brought me, one evening, a
note he had fourd pioned on a pair of
woolen stockings. Some fun-loving
girl wrote that she would, through
charity, correspond with the soldier re-
celying those foot coverings. The
latter was signed Dolly Miller, and the
post-office address was given,
I took the slip of paper, and, when
the quartermaster had departed, in-
dited a note in the best style to the
young lady. The name at the end,
though, was not my own, but that of
Captain T, B. Reid, in command of one
of my companies, A fine fellow,
handsome, brave, aud young, was Reid,
~& great favorite also with the ladies,
He won his rank by gallant service,
and was a soldier all through. Though
be could always keep his end up in
conversation, yet his early education
had been neglected; he wrote a villain.
ous fist, and all his ideas froze up
before they reached the point of lis
pen.
I added a V tothe initials of my
oue came) when it reached the adju-
delivered,
Three weeks after there wa
for Captain T. B. V. Reid from a
town In Oblo, Of course the screed
was delivered into my hands, A very
sweel,
written ths original and signed
Dolly Miller's
real young lady said that
she received was so gentlemanly
tone, =0 interesting in contents, that
she, patriotic in the extreme would
carry out the promise made in her be-
“the letler
%
she was willing to
him
ing with her,
what she could
duties and dangers.”
Of course 1 answered and “‘spread
myself.” No fool's letter would do for
his bright, honest Miss Dolly, snd,
being flattered by her high
of my early work, 1 “put in
licks.”
it was not
and went by each mail
interested in the true, kindly maiden
I had never met, and had it not been
“for the girl 1 left behind me,” might
have
gone
to cheer
estimate
my best
in for myself, Asit
rather conscience-stricken
found to what extent my
romance had taken hold on
young lady's feelings, But
up all the same,
As 1 “piled ap the agony’’ on the
miseries of a soldier's life, and gave
utterance to a longing for some tender,
loving womén to reconcile me to the
world and its trials, Miss Dolly's letters
became more and more aflectionate
and suggestive. She wrole that she
was an orphan had considerable money
in her own right, and that she could
love a brave soldier and honest gentle
man such as she coaceived
Reid to be from the tone of his letters,
I sent her Reid's photograph, taken
from my album, and received her own
in return. A very sweel, innocent,
confiding face it was, good girl written
in every feature. Reid spied it soon
after 1 placed it among my collection,
and he admitted it hugely, I did not
hint that 1% had really been sent
him, but I felt more ashamed than
ever,
Still I continued the correspon-
dence, and, forced to reply in kind, 1
dare say that I wrote many words that
conveyed great affection, and used
much language that could easily be
construed into almost direct proposals
of marriage; though these were always
qualified by remarks showing how un-
willing I was, or would be, to bring a
youug wife Lo share the privatious and
hardships of a life in the field,
This interchange of words, growing
continually more tender, was Xept up
until after the capture of Mobile; then
my regiment was seul 10 a point on
the Mississippi river.
During the stirring times of action
and the confusion of change of sta.
tion, our letters were, in many cases,
miscarried or failed to reach us, 1
had not heard from Miss Dolly for
pearly six weeks, and earnestly hoped
she had dropped the correspondence,
for it had grown entirely too warm
for my comfort and peace of mind
under the circumstances,
One day it bhappened-—as things co-
incident do happen in this world —that
I was sitting in the provost marshal’s
office at the landing when a large
steamboat came down the river, It
stopped at port, as all boats had to, 1n
compliance with military orders, 1
saw several passengers land, among
them a lady. These were lett stand.
ing on the levee while their passes and
baggage underwent examination.
In a few moments the lieutenant
commanding the provost guard came
to me,
*Colonel, there 15 & Joung lady here
your reg-
asking for Captain Reid,
iment.”
Of course 1 was all attention and
activity in a moment. I never doubted
but that it was one of 1elkd’s sisters (1
knew he had several) who had foolishly
come to pay him a visit, I was sorry
for it, because our camps were no place
for a lady, and there were rather
pit ob Utvieta agai thelr admission,
Up my coat, gave my cap
A cant over my right ear, and made my
way toward the lovely
gush
the dear
I kept
to
I went forward and introduced my-
self, with all the courtesy of which I
was possess'd, as Captain Bed’s
colone; and his friend,
1 had mentioned myself in some of
the letters I had written, purporting to
come from T. B. V. R., and a blushing
look of plessure came over the girl's
face,
“Caplain Reid has often written of
you, colonel, and while I fully expected
to find him here Lo weet me, I am glad
Le sent a substitute I can feel in some
way acquainted with,”
“Did Captain Reid expect you?”
“Why, certainly. 1 wrote hun three
weeks ago that if certain matters did
not change for the better I would
come to join him here, in spite of all
the discomforts he so vividly pictured,
The matters did happen. [ was tor
mented out of my life by my guardian
and his son. The latter wished me to
marry him in order to secure the for
tune now due me, that has for ten years
been in his father’s hands.
“1 know, colonel, that you are aware
of my correspondense with Captain
Feld, and I determined to trust my
future with him of whom I knew
little, rather than tempt fate with one
I could not like, of whom I knew
everything, and all to his discredit, *
I had to have time for though!
plans,
“Miss? —Miller,~—thank you
Miss Miller, 1 know that the ca
never received vour letter. Wie
been busy at Mobile
arrived here; have bad no ma
fully twenty days. Our camp is
confusion as yet, and there is m
be arranged. Will you try and «
yourself for an hour or two wi
and hav
She consented to wall: the
Was a pretty but dig
left behind me as I rode
worried about my
face
I went straight to camp, sent {for
deal of hard swearing o:
I knew the captain well, he
He was calculated to mak
the case strongly to him. Here 3
but unsophisticated waid
money of her own, ready to
3 his wife. 1 bad saved bim
What more eould
be be ungrateful as to
on bLiw behiald
80
hing?
Besides, he
Was in
had aiwaye vowed
love with the girl, thougi
My elog
a8 my
lady,
uence gained him
terary skill had secured
Over &
I exhibited all ber letters, t«
u
ee
3
#
a
had writtes her, and before
led my gallant comrade
to his happy, willing sweetheart.
That evening they were married by
the chaplain of the —— Massachu.
setts,
Reid at once tendered his resigna-
tion, and was given leave of absence
pending its acceptance. The next
morning our young couple toek a boat
for Cincinnati,
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Reid
the name now) are happy, rich and
contented in Wisconsin. I hear from
them often, bul neither Las ever given
me a hint that any explanations have
taken place Letween them regarding
their woolng by correspondence,
So my lark in that line turped out
0. K. for all parties, but it might have
been a terrible matter for every one
concerned. 1 have never sinee been
interested in any courtships but my
own, and In these 1 learn how serious
such things are.
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The Initial Experiences of PP. Marion
Crawiord, the Novelist
“1 had not the slightest intention of
writing 8 novel; in fact, 1 dia
think I could write one until I wrote
‘Mr. Isaacs.” Lord Beaconsfield was
accustomed to say that it is the unex.
pected that always happens, It is ac-
cident that makes or mars a man’
destiny. Had 1 not succeeded in my
newspaper enterprise mm India, ‘Mr.
Isaacs’ would not have been written.
Native of the land of song, wy first
idea was to become a singer, I tried
to fit myself for a musical career. My
teacher al length told me that I was
wasting my time and money; that na
ture had not given me a voice suitable
for the public stage. I accepted his
decision as final and next tried journa-
ism.”
“Was ‘Mr. Isanc’s’ the result of
your East Indian experience?”
“Yes; when I returned from (he
East, my uncle, Sam Ward, was in
Rome, and became greatly interested
in my adventures out there, He said
I could turn them to account in &
novel. 1 laughed at the idea, for I was
on the pomt of becoming a professe:
of classical philology. My uncle in
sisted, until at last, just to please him
I wrote a novel founded on my Orien
tal adventures and called it “ar
Isancs.’ »
“Of course it was accepted at once?’
- it was not; I sent the man
useript to Macmillan & Co., London.
Weeks and months passed away, and
not hearing from them I thought it
was when one day I received
a letter the publishers, offer!
publish the novel upon the usual
alty of ten per cent. 1 gladly ae
the offer. ‘Mr, Isaacs’ wan
and."
“You woke up one morning aud
found yourself famous,” 1 suggsios.
Wis a very gratifying
success for an author's first book; and
my career was determined by in"
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