A KEBPER SAND-BAGGED
DARING ESCAPE OE CONVICTS FROM
THE NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON.
TWO FIREBUGS SERVING LONG TERMS
GET AWAY WITH 8800 BELONGING
TO CAPTAIN PARKER,
TRENTON, May 28.—~Henry Jackson
and Thomas Thomas, two thirty-year
colored convicts at the State Prison,
escaped to-night. They sand bagged,
with a stocking full of sand, Charles
Parker, the night door-keeper, in the
office eof the prison clerk, and left him
senseless on the floor. After tying
him securely and gagging him
with an apron, and taking from
bis pocket the keys, two revolvers and
$300 in money, they left,
It was one of the most daring deeds
ever perpetrated in the New Jersey
prison, They were both sentenced in
February, 1884, for 30 years. They
were in the gang of firebugs which so
long infested Hed Bank,but which was
at lust broken up by the Incarceration
of a number of them. The two men
who escaped were both Intelligent
young negroes, and they were trusted
servants in the private apartments of
head keeper Patterson. These apart.
ments are located at the front
entrance of the prisom on the left,
while on the right are the office of
the clerk and the room for the re-
ception of visitors, A wide corridor
leads to the centre, and the entrance
to this is through heavy iron doors.
Nene but trusted prisoners are
allowed outside of these doors.
At balf-past 7 o'clock In the evening a
portion of the prisoners pass through
the centre up stalrs to the school room.
At that time the doors leading from
the centre to the corridor are always
locked, It was during this period that
the convicts escaped. When the doors
were locked to-night one of the oldest
and most eflicieut deputies in the
prison, Captain Charles J. Parker,
was on guard on the outside of the
doors in the main corridor. The two
convicts who escaped were engaged, or
were supposed to Ue, at their dutles
about the head keeper’s department.
They were usually allowed to stay out
until the prison was lighted up inside;
then they were taken to their cells,
When Captain Parker had locked Lhe
doors, be turned and walked down to-
ward's the clerk’s office, which isin a
little extension of the building, to the
right of the malin cntrance, and
entirely isolated from it, As
he was entering the office, and
while his back was towards the
keeper's apartments, the two ne.
groes pounced upon him. One of
them was armed with a stocking filed
with sand, and with this struck the
keeper on the back of the head several
times, knocking him upon the floor in
a senseless condition, They then tied
his feet and hands with cord which
they had in thelr possession, and knot.
ted a big apron around his neck and
mouth so tightly that he could not
make an outery. They then took time
to search the deputy’s pockets and
found a roll of bills amounting to
$63 or $70, and notes which
it is believed will aggregate
$300 in all. Captain Parker was so
dazed last night that he could scarcely
tell the exact amount. They also took
his revolver and keys to the entrance,
and with the other plunder escaped,
The keepers in the centre wondered
why the doors were not unlocked by
Captain Parker, and, when an Inquiry
lying on the floor where he bad been
knocked. He was still unable to speak
coherently. The deputy was unbound
and carried into the head keeper's
apartments. Dr, Rice was summoned
and treated him. He found that
he was severely bruised about tte head
and shoulders, but did not pronounce
the wounds serious, The captain was
in a dazed condition up to =a late hour,
Investigation showed that the convicts
had not gone out mn the prison garb
alone, They had each taken a pair of
trousers and an overcoat, the garmenta
belong part of the blue uniforms worn
by the cfllzers, One of the overcoats is
a light, and the other a heavy garment,
Word was at once telegraphed to New
York, Philadelphia and all the cities in
New Jersey of the escape.
it 13 not believed that the convicts
knew about the money In the posses-
sion of the keeper, Jackson is a light
colored man, about 20 years of age, five
feet six inches in height, with a number
of scars on his head, Tbomas Is also
light, about 25 years old, with scars on
the back of his left hand and on his
neck and face,
A
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
~James Hinds, a policeman in
Madison, Indiana, shot and fatally
wounded Carlos Aulte on the 206th,
Aulte had been paying attention to
Hinds’s daughter forsome time, against
the wishes of her father, Ie 1s said to
be an estimable young man, and the
shooting, it is reported, has provoked
intense indignation against Hinds.
~John Williamson, 60 years of age,
a laborer oa the farm of Jeff, Moore,
was found i# the public pak in Se-
dalia, Missouri, on the morning of the
26th, almost dead from the effects of a
dose of strychnine, taken with suicidal
intent. He was given medical aseist-
ance and will recover. Soon afterwards
a farmer in the vicinity of the Moors
farm reported the discovery there of
the dead bodies of Jeff. Moore and his
son Charles. He also reported the
place deserted, The Moores had been
killed with aii axe, and It is supposed
Williamson committed the crime, in-
tending to rob the house, and, finding
nothing of value and fearing detection,
attempted to commit swelde, John
Straling, living near Selma, Johnston
North Carolina, was sur-
rounded by a party of masked men
while on his way Lome on the
evening of the 24th, tied to a tree and
shot to death, His neighbors accused
bim of murder and arson. A. N. Kim-
ball was murdered in Jackson, Missis-
ball was receiver of Publie Moneys.
A despatch from Albuquerque, New
Mexico, says that on the afternoon of
the 25th, a great crowd of Mexicans
assembled at Tondri Brothers' Vine-
yard, near Los Lunas, to witness a
hosre race, Wine flowed freely and
nearly every one became intoxicated.
Vincent Artig: and two brothers
named Conway became involved in a
quarrel, when Artiga shot and killed
one and fatally wourded the other,
A passenger train on the Atlantic
Coast line was wrecked pear Columbia,
South Carolina, on the evening of the
26th by a washout. Several pergons
were injured, but none fatally. A
freight train en the Louisville, Evans-
ville and St. Louis Railroad broke into
three sections near Huntensburg, IM,
‘I'he middle section ran back into the
rear cars, striking cars loaded with
race horses. Several cars were derailed
and the horses were thrown against the
partitions. Of the occupants of the
cars, F, W. Hay had a badly bruised
ankle, Pat Duffy's face was badly
bruised and others were slichtly in-
jured, Among the horses Dlarney-
stone and Consolation were bruised.
The body of Arthur Davis, aged 10
years, was found floating in the Sus.
quehanna river, near Berwick, Pa., on
the 28th. It will be remembered that
the boy was blown into a creek at Ed-
wardsville and - drowned, during a
heavy rain storm. Adolph and Gustav
Wilke, aged 20 and 18 years, were
drowned near Sheboygan, Wisconsin,
on the 26th. Their boat capsized. Jas,
Quick was killed in a mine at Tanner,
Minnesota, recently, and, when his
young wife was informed of his death,
she became violently insane,
—A despatch from Fresne, Califor.
nia, says that San Joaquin and Kings
rivers are higher than ever before about
Elkhorn. Many thousands of acres are
inundated. The bridges over both the
rivers have been washed away. The
snow in the mountains has only com-
menced to melt,
— Ernest Koch, 19 years of age, was
shot and instantly killed in Spring-
tleld, Illinois, on the evenlog of the
27th, by Policaman Laurer. Koch was
one of a crowd of bovs raising a dis-
ing a disturbance and the officer ar-
rested him, and, followed by the crowd,
went to the box to call a patrol. Koch
took advantage of his temporary re-
lease and started to run, The offizer
commanded him to stop, but he kept
on running, whereupon the officer shot
him. The Kimber mystery was cleared
up in Montreal on the 28th by the find-
ing of the young Eonglishman’s bedy in
the reservoir. His throat was cul,
Foul play is suspected. G. W. South-
wait, an artist, was on the 28th found
mm his studio in Des Moines, Iowa,
fatally stabbad, His pockets had been
rifled,
— Jessie J. Jones, a farmer of Convoy
township, Lancaster county, Penna,
was killed by being caught in a steam
thresher, on the afternoon of the 27th,
While Mrs, George Graham and Mrs,
Lucy Burger, with their children,
were out riding near Urbana, Indi-
ana, on the 27th, their horse began
kicking and struck the little son of
Mrs, Graham, who was sitting down In
front, fracturing his skull, Mrs, Ber.
ger then leaned forward with her In-
fant, and the horse struck the child in
the forehead, inflicting fatal Injuries
Mamie Lovely, aged 14 years, and Lillie
Maine, aged © years, were drowned at
Minneapolis on the 28th, by falling
from an unsafe foot bridge.
—Jacob Epstein, aged 27 years, a us-
sian cigar maker, in New York, on the
20th, shot his wife in the back and then
fired a bullet into his mouth, Epstein
demanded money for drink which the
wife would not give him, She was a
hard working woman, and earned moua-
ey by washing and scrubbing. The
couple was married about eight years
azo. The doctors at the hospital said
that the man’s wound was not neces-
sarily fatal. The woman Is in a critl-
Epstein said he discov-
ered acts of infidelity on the part of his
wife, and that was the reason he shot
her. Several days ago Leon Barlow
and MM. Goudipe, prominent young
wen in El Paso, Texas, had some
words about the latter’s attention
to Barlow's sixteen-year-old sister.
The affair was patched up and
nothing more thought about it until
the evening of the 27th, when the two
met in front of the Gem Theatre, when
QGoudine pulled a gun and shot Barlow
twice, one ball passing through the
Jungs and the other through the liver.
The wounded man died four hours
after. When Goudine fired the first
shot the firing became general smong
the crowd gathered in front of the thea-
tre, and three disinterested parties were
slightly wounded,
~The equestrian statue of General
Lee was unveiled in Richmond, Vir.
ginia, on the 20th, There was a pro-
cession in which it was estimated 20,000
persons participated, An oration was
delivered by Colonel Archer Anderson,
—A block of frame buildings in Seat-
tle, Washington, was destroyed by fire
on the morning of the 26th, and 200 of
the 300 inmates barely escaped with
their lives, It is thought that five per-
ished, The loss on property is about
$50,000; insurance, $15,000.
«The Coroner's inquest into the case
of the Longue Pointe Asylum fire in
Montreal has been concluded. The jury
could not say how the fire broke out,
and made several recommendations
bow such buildingsshould be construct.
ed, Astatement was also submitted by
Rev. Sister St, Charles showing that 91
inmates were missing, instead of 50, as
formerly reported, viz., 6 men,b Sisters
and 80 women patients,
At St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 20th,
Gerhard Thaden and J, B. Toll, prin-
cipals in the great real estate forgery
case, were sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten and eight years respectively.
Partello, the other principal, was sen-
tenced last March to eight years and
five months, All had appealed to the
Supreme Court, but without avail,
Two burglars broke into the store of
Thomas F, King, at Drakesville, New
Jersey, on the evening of the 26th,
secured in Mr,
bls: uNGHESS.~ z40 S28sion
SENATE.
—In the United States Senate,on the
26th, Mr, Carlisle was sworn in as Sen-
ator from Kentucky for the unexpired
term of Mr. Beck, Mr, Ingalls intro-
duced a Wage Workers’ Alliance bill
(which he did not endorse) *““to abolish
iandlordism,” Mr, George, from the
Judiciary Committee, reported a bill
subjecting National bankand Treasury
notes to State taxation, and it was
placed on the calendar. Adjourned,
In the U, 8. Senate on the 28th, the
bill for the adjustment of accounts of
workmen under the Eilght-hour law
and the bill providing for a register of
labor were reported and placed ou the
calendar. The Original Packages bill
was discussed. Mr. Carlisle was ap-
pointed a member of the Committees
on Finance, Territories and Woman
Suffrage. A conference report on the
bill to simplify the laws In relation to
the collection of internal revenue was
agreed to, After an executive session
the Senate adjourned.
In the United States Senate,on the
28th, Mr. Sherman, from the Commit-
tee on Forelgn Affairs, reported an
amendment to the Consular and Diplo-
matic Appropriation bill, providing for
the appointment of three Commission-
ers to represent the United States in
the Inter-continental Railway Commis-
sion, and also providing for a detsil o!
army aod navy officers to make surveys
under the commission, The Onginal
Package bill and the conference rej ort
on the Army Appropriation bill were
discussed, but neither was acted upou,
During the debate on the Original
Package bill (which was taken up a
second time) the Senate, finding {Lael!
without a quoram, adjourned,
In the United States Senate, on the
27th, Mr, Teller introduced a joiut res
olution declaring the determination of
the United States Government fo ad-
here to timetallism, It was laid on the
table and ordered printed. The Origi-
pal Package bill was considered, and a
substitute offered by Mr. Gray
adopted, The bill was then passed.
yeas 34, nays 10, The River and Har-
bor bill was received from the House
and referred, After an execulive ses-
sion the Senate adjourned,
HOUSE.
In the House, on the 26th, Mr. Bur-
rows, of Michigan, was elected Speaker
pro tempore during the absence of Mr.
Reed. Senate bills were passed for a
$100,000 Public Building at Canton,
Ohio, and iocreasing to $275,000 the
cost of the public bullding at Jackson-
ville, Florida. After passing several
District of Columbia ills the House
adjourned,
In the House on the 28th, the con-
ference report on the Customs Admin-
istrative bill was agreed to, Speaker
pro tempore Burrows counliog a
quorum. The River and Harbor bill
was discussed until adjournment,
In the House on the 28th,
Vaux was qualified as a member from
the Third Penusylvania District, and
took his seat, A bill was passed ap-
propriating $125,000 for the establish.
ment of a military park on the battle-
field of Chickamauga, The River and
Harbor bill was finished In Committee
of the Whole, reported to the House
and passed. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 29h, the Sen-
ate bill for a general forfeiture of land
grants was reported with amendments,
ordered printed snd recommitted, Sen
ate bill for the relief of the widow of
Rear Admiral McDougall was passed.
he House went into Committees of
the Whole on Public Buliding bills, A
number were reported favorably to the
House, but, pending action, the pont
of no quorum was made by Mr. Tur.
pin, of Alabama, and the House ad-
journed,
How Patti Keeps her Good Looks,
Mme. Patti is a philosopher as well
as an artiste. “Good looks, which are
nothing more than perfect
health,” she says, "are Womans stoc
in trade, while her talent, whatever it
may be, 18 her capital. 1 have treasur.
od both, but in doing so 1 had to forego
many of the pleasures that the multitude
of women enjcy. When I do not sing
I go to bed as early as an infant, and I
always sleep in a room without a fire.
1 have the window wide open, because
I do not think it wise or safe to breathe
again the same air.
supplies for my lungs I frequently ex-
perience bodily discomfort. Then I
rest, not momentarily, but whole days
at a time. Our clothes and furniture
are protected from wear by not usin
them. As I don't eare to wear out
adopt the plan of a good housekeeper
and save myself. I don’t rock, 1 don't
fret. I never read or allow people to
tell me about the horrible or grewsome,
for those things distress and worry me,
which agitation can do nobody any
good, and does me a great deal of in-
jury. I not only believe but know for
a certainty that women fret away their
youth and beauty. Care is a disease of
the mind, and as insidious as any that
preys upon the body. I have no home
cares to bother me, and I don’t permit
my friends to provide any. Mind, I
like women and 1 love society, but one
can pay very dearly for social inter.
course and friendship." Home Jour.
nal,
Ranta
““A Doctor's Don'ts."
Don't read in omnibusses or other
jolting vehicles. Don’t pick the teeth
with pins or any other hard substance.
Don't neglect any opportunity to en-
sure a variety of food. Don't eat and
drink hot and eold things immediately
in succession. Don't pamper the appetite
with such variety of food as may lead
to excess. Don't read, write, or doany
delicate work unless receiving the light
from the left side. Don't keep the
parlor dark unless you value your oar-
pet more than your children’s health
and your own. n't endeavor to rest
the mind by absolute inactivity; lot it
spook its vest in other channels, and
thus rest the tired part of the brain,
ts beware of the candy
JUVENILE ATTENDANT CA -
LIERS. VA
A Mighty Useful Being for the Fash~
fonable Married Woman.
Among the products of modern soci-
ety there is none more remarkable than
the juvenile attendant cavalier, A dozen
rich and highly respectable New York
matrons now provide themselves each
with what she 1s pleased Lo eall *‘a useful
boy,’ and, todo her justice, it must be ac-
knowledged that she compels the young
man to earn his qualifications, Mrs,
Grundy has accepted him, and the hus-
band heeds him not. Indeed, he is
rather regarded by that individual in
the light of an understudy,as he relieves
monsieur of many of the social duties
which would otherwise interfere with
his own engagements, whether of busi-
ness or of pleasure. There was a time
when a married lady of personal attrac-
tions would scarcely have ventured to
go about anywhere with a good look-
ing young man who was not her hus.
band,
Nowadays we look for the harmless,
necessary ‘‘tame cat.”
ble matron takes much pride in the ap-
for the position he must in a measure
be ornamental as well as useful,
grmore he must 10 no wise be awkward,
madam’s shoulders as well as ber maid,
ruffling her halr,
15
and all such impediments, it
ering. while on no account must he per-
iy's orders, which may range from a
box at the opera to a box of pearl
der, he is required to be In attendance
when she makes the round of dry goods
emporiums,
To the onlooker the value of his pres-
ence on these occasions, appears limit
ed, for it seems that he does nothing but
balance himself on the edge of chairs,
adjust his tie in every available mirror,
and occasionally make mildly facetious
and frequently impertinent comments
on the goods, At the restaurants he se-
cures luncheon, and being well drilled
in madam’s likes and dislikes he thus
saves her the trouble of choosing her
own fare, and the infliction of getting
what she detests,
ie is useful, too, in finding the car-
riage after the theatre or afternoon par-
serviceable
pow-
these
if not exactly intellectual qualities are
the advantages that he can be snubbed
at will; that he never dare grumble
like husbands; and that he never bores
with ths wearisome attention of older
men. To what end do these perfumed
dandyetles run errands
men if not play
tharios? Their rew:
taken everywhere an
and act as foot-
being gay Lo-
that they get
everybody Las to
Then
there is the train of a pretty, or atl least,
of a popular woman,a distinction which
all youths envy, They live on the met.
aphorical milk and boney of the land,
they bask In luxury,and revel in all the
best entertainments, pick “good
tips,”’ and eventually, if they are smart.
secur a rich bride,
wo
at
av
ed
ard is
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Whittier's Advice to a Youth:
My acquaintance with the poet Whit.
noon just before my fifteenth birthday.
I shall not try to describe the tall, no-
ble figure and delicate yo! commanding
features with which weare all familiar,
nor attempt, either, to1epeat thespark-
ling conversation which ensued,
One thing especially impressed me at
the time and will never be forgoiten,
says a contributor to the The Writer,
Mr. Whittier sald that his early ambi
tion had been to become a prominent
politician, and from this ideal he was
persuaded enly by the earnest appeals
of his friends, Taking their advices, he
united with the persecuted and obscure
sect of Abolitionists and to this course,
he sald, he attributed all his success in
after life,
Then turning to me and laying us
hand on my head, he remarked, in his
gentle voice: “My lad, if thou wouidst
win success join thyself to some unpop-
ular, but noble cause,” My father
chanced to mention before leaving, that
1 had occasionally written scraps of
poetry, Whittier kindly asked me lo
send him some verses on my returns and,
armed with his autograph, I retreated
to the carriage happier, I dare say, than
I have ever been before or since.
Some days afterward I mailed to the
poet a few rhymes which had seen light
in a religious journal published ia Bos.
ton. The reply, as dear a treasure to-
day as it was then, spoke flatteringly of
my effort and closed with the following
advice:
“I would not advise thee to publish
much for the present. In two or thres
years much will have been gained by
thee, Study, experience close observa
tion of nature and patient brooding over
thy verse will do a great deal for thee,
1 would, however, advise no young man
to depend upon poetry. A profession
or trade Is needed; and brave work must
ing. With kind remembrance of thy
father and with all good wishes for thy-
Heartless,
BY ANNIE L. DRAKENRIDGE,
Men say, “She has no heart” and pass her by:
“80 cold and passioniess,” but ask not why
I know the secret and will tell it you,
A wentle merry mald, she had a heart,
Of her Jolseanions rich. the richest parts
A heart that, true itself, thought all were true
The hand that reached for it looked strong and
white,
Yet foul its purity and weak its might;
Khe knew uot aud she gave all, trustingly.
Wearing of toying with it, dealing pain,
The hand that sought It tossed it back again
All bruised and plocding Laughed she-—bit
terly.
And now within the darkness out of sight
she hides it close, lest some new grief should
blight,
Call her not heartless, who has borne such 111
You say she mocks you? Nay, she would but
ry
If what you speak for truth be truth or lie;
Her heats is healed but scarred; she hides it
still,
Call her not heartless who for light doth pray:
Pity her—help her heart to find the day:
Be true, that she her truth need not conceal,
That love may find and all her worth reveal.
UNDER THE CHESTNUT TREE.
TRA NELATED FROM THE FRENCH,
BY ISABEL SMITHSON,
1 believe that there is no spot on
earth where chestnut trees grow, blos-
som and fruitify as they do at Bt
jestically above the few rye and buck
and border the three
ponds, the still blue waters reflecting
on chestnuts for six months of the year,
while the greater part of their income
the form of stakes, planks, poles ana
barrel-hoops, or even as fire-wood.
A few years ago, 1 was commissioned
to go to the cure of Bt. Leger, and give
iim the sum of one hundred francs,
or the poor of his parish. The money
had been sent { n Paris, by the
Lik me
W
“Baroness de Vircourt,” with a let
and desired to bestow al alms upon the
poor of her native v illage.
It was a beautiful day in the begin:
ng of Beptember, and 1 determined
to kill two birds with
:
ni
{ the
& money to the pastor, and
in search of game, a
partridges, or a rabbit,
ingly, I set off, gaitered and armed like
few
aven
few miles which separated my he
from St. Leger.
ne
bered about one
found the pastor, a robust though ven-
erable man of sixty-five years, seated
in a plain Lhime-washed room on
ground floor of his tiny b
}
the
se,
Iju iged from the appearance of the
surroundings that the money I brought
would delight the good man. To my
surprise, however, the sight of the
bank-note produced no ef-
fect,
“We have very few poor in this par-
ish,” said the Abbe Roussely, “in fact
there is no one in want at present.”
“No poor?’ 1 exclaimed
ment, and he renlied with asmile,
feel
iatlee or
+
ers are what you would call poor, but
they are so acc
that they are unconscious of it,
therefore, content. In their opinion
a diet of chestnuts and polatoes with
black bread, and cold water is quite
sufficient for weekdays, a:
ion of pork and cider on Sundays, con-
stitutes luxury. Nevertheless, Madame
de Vircourt’'s money will be very use
nedicine and wine, for the
inter comes.”
tunately, that will not do,
my friend
the all
like to have her money used without
care and discretion,” returned the pas-
tor, “extend the time to forty-eight
hours and 1 will go about and try to
make good use of the hundred franca.”
“Very well,” 1 replied, “I will return
here the day after to-morrow, to learn
the result of your efforts. And n
hood I am most likely to find game?”
“Keep along this road till you come
and it will lead you to large flelds of
heath, and if yon do not see some grey
partridges there you need not exposes
to find any in this part of the world.”
I took leave of him, found the heath-
Then I went back to St. Leger for news
of the bank-note.
tered his house, *I have been able to
and here are the remaining seventy-
five."
seemed incredible, that in a community
few poor.
“Perhaps you would be more suc-
cessful,” added the pastor, seeing my
poor home, and possibly you might, in
your ramblings, find means of using
the rest of the money.”
“I accept,” I answered promptly,
“for your parishioners are such origi-
nal, and interesting people that I should
be delighted to make their acquaint.
ance,”
he hen morning, 1 took my gun
and set off in quest of game an ve
orty. After ais walk, 1 nad
n arconl burners cabin; it stood in a
that was so
thick, one wonld almost have thought
it a forest, and its owner, a man of
cepted his offer, and seated myself on
a treestump which did duty for a
chair, and while my bost, and I con-
versed I glanced round me curiously.
In a corner of the poor room was a
which eviden
sorved as u bed; and I said to myself
that poverty was to be found here, if
anyw The charconl-burner was
called Mistonflet, and when I told him
my name and profession he exclaimed
that be had known my tether. Speak-
ing of him with such artless expressions
Se ————
to buy himself a mattress and s quilt,
and was making up my mind how te
introduce the subject, when the old
man ssked suddenly.
“Will you do me a favor, Monsieur?”
“Certainly,” I said, “‘as many favors
as you like.”
“You are very good, Bir.” [havea
niece in your town, whose husband
died three months ago, leaving her to
support four children, and the eldest
can hardly tell its right hand from its
left. I want to give her a little help,
and I have some money here that
have had no means of sending to her.
Providence must have led you here to-
lay, for you will not object to taking
this packet to her, ten francs, for
Jeanne Vanthier 19, Coq street.”
I took the packet from him with one
hand, and with the other returned to
my pocket the twenty franc piece,
which I had just pulled ont to bestow
on him. How could I offer alms to a
man who was giving to those still poor-
er than himself?
When I left Mistonflet, chance led
me to a cottage, which, though larger
than the charcoal-burner’s eabin, was
hardly less poor-looking. 1 entered
into conversation with a middle aged
woman I found there, and learned that
her busband had died a few years ago,
leaving her with three children, one an
infant in arms. If the had
not inherited from their father delicacy
of constitution which made 1t necessary
for them to have all kinds of expensive
fare, it would not have been so hard for
her to bring them up.
“Just think, Bir,” she
“1 was
said gravely,
6 point of begging
read tor my Little ones! B thanks
of time is
able to live on our
4 (3 ¥
instead of o hanty v
once on
(rod,
assed, and we are
earnings
eldest boy makes twent)
and my second, makes ten.”
Again I put the twenty
back in my pocket.
ed vy Yor V7 3 wr or
‘Surely,” 1 said, “every
be glad of a little help?”
errand with whic
“No, I do not know of any one in sc-
ual want,” she said at last, “‘the
lady's money would only be
$e Od
wasted,
: it, and
the girls, finery and gewgaws,”
“It is to be given only to the p
people,” I said, and was about to take
my leave of her when she J
y
ores’,
eXcialineq
have remembered the
Old Bourdon broke his leg
and as wife
“I ought to
Bourdons!
he has a
aske i ab-
“Where does be live?” 1
ruptly.
“At Martissons, only a little way
from bere Sir,” was the reply, and 1
in the direction she
The “little way”
or four
ni
proved to
miles across
i.
ii
be
freshly
At
the
knees.
sottage before
“] want to see a man named Bour-
mn,” I said,
“J am Bourdon.” was the answer.
“You have lately been so unfortunate
paps
de
“No, it was a sprain, that is all.’
“But it must have caused you to lose
a great deal of time,” 1 suggested, and
the man answered cheeril
“Oh no, not much, I have to go
bed a little eariier and get up a lit
later than usual, but that does not maka
much difference.”
It was evident that he did rot
and I turned ay
A little
on
x
ie
peed
rom,
later ¥ ~cached
the most magnificent chestnu
tree I had ever seen. At the foot of
the tree a woman was crouched, a poon
old creature clad in rags and shivering
aii over
“Are you ill, my good woman?’ 1
asked.
“Yes, I have had chills and fever for
she gasped, and
into her shaking hand my
“Buy some quinine!”
She called down a thousand blessings
riumph-
ant to the Abbe.
“Well, are you satisfied?” he asked.
“Perfectly,” was my reply, ‘I have
found a rabbit, three partridges and a
pauper.”
When I told him about the old wo-
man with chills ha laughed merrily.
“Is that how you oarry out your
friend's orders?” he asked.
“What do you mean, Monsieur?” 1
said in return, “do you not think that,
poor creature a fit object for charity?”
“Yes indeed, I do, but you were to
whom
you met on the cross-roads belongs to!
That very evening I wrote to Madame
poor of my own town.
Her reply was favorable and I had
to dispose of the fifty-five francs. Alas]
if I had bad three or four times the
in getting rid of it, there were so many
poor. Itis true that these people did
not yp less than the inhabitants of
St. Fager: indeed most of them Lad a
great deal more, but their small wretch-
ed homes were within sight of palatial
mansions, and they saw people living
on rich meats and wine while they
themselves had only bread and vegeta~
bles. It was the contrast that made
their poverty so bitter and unbearable.
I have lately heard that St .
has become the happy of two
factories, and ht iat PrOSPa prospects for
the future, but I am afraid that if I
were now to go back to the little ham-
let under the ohestout-trees, I should
find there more want and misery than
would be able ts relieve,
Recrive (wealth or prosperity)
without arrogance; and be ready to let
it go.
condition of the cone.
Tax wretched
viots {a the mining camps of Alabama
oh a woman to fort, Mis
&
mppi, on the evening of the 24th.
y ep oat the murderer. It
is suppesed the crime was committed
“for the purpose of robbery, as Mr, Kim.
‘of affection and esteem that 1 could
scarcely
which the children purchase as they go
of it restrain my tears
1 resolved to give him enough mongy
back and forth to school. Some self, I am truly thy friend,
is ofte flavored with
is oftas sitongly brandy Joux G, Warrrizn.” |
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