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L Thro' clouds of storm and darkness, And the crash of fearful doom, When the shroud of flame enwrapt him For a chill and watery tomb, His soul above all anguish Its song of triumph bore, And shining angels meet him Beyond the shadowy shore. Cnonus—Shining angels meet him Beyond the shadowy shore, Ile "holds the fort of heaven," A conq'ror evermore. 2. Among the hosts of heaven A glad new voice is known, And sadly from our songs we mis. A dear familiar tone, We sing with trembling voices Ine songs we loved of yore, The voice that thrill'd us sweetly Will sing to us no more. 3. Oh faith that thro' all trials Can lift the soul on high, And light the martyr's pathway To realms beyond the sky, Beyond the flame of terror Triumphant sounds the song, He "holds the fort of heaven" And waits the coming throng. Copyrighted 1877, by F. W. Helmick, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4 . c WINNIE'S FORTUNE. The handsome dining-room in the May berry mansion was all a glitter with floods of gaslight and the genial glow of the fire —for Mr. Josiah Mayberry was a very "queer man," according to his wife's opinion, and this fancy of his to have nasty, ashy fires all over the splendid man sion before the weather became cold enough was one of his "eccentric freaks," Mrs. Mayberry called it, with a curl of her lip, a toss of the head and a smile, almost con tempt, directed at the hale, hearty, honest faced old gentleman who had married her for her pretty face, ten years ago, when he was an immensely rich widower with his handsome half grown son for a not un desirable encumbrance. They were sitting around the handsome table, discussing their 7 o'clock dinner, with the solemn butler and his subordinate, in silent, obsequious attention—these three May - berry's, father, son and the haughty, well-dressed lady wno was wearing a de cided frown of displeasure on her face—a frown she had barely power to restrain from degenerating into . a verbal expression of anger, while the servants were in wait ing, and which, as the door finally closed on them, leaving the little party alone over the wine and nuts, burst forth impetuously : "I declare, Mr. Mayberry, it is too bad ! I have gone over the list of invitations you have made, and to think there is not one —no not one—of our set among them, and such a horrid lot of people as you have named :" Mr. Mayberry sipped his wine content edly. "I told you, didn't I, Marguerite, that it was my intention to give an old-fashioned dinner I And by that I meant, and mean, to whom it will, indead, be cause for thank fulness. As to making a grand fuss, and seeing around our table only the people to whom a luxurious dinner is an every-day occurrence—l shall not do it. As to the guests on my list being 'horrid' and 'com mon,' you are mistaken, my dear. None of them have a worse failing than poverty. There is not a 'common,' vulgar person among the ten names on that paper." Mr. Mayberry's good old face lighted up warmly as he spoke, and Ernest May berry's handsome face reflected the satis faction and pride he felt in his father's views. Mrs. Mayberry flushed, but said nothing. She knew front experience that, kind and indulgent as her husband was, there were times when he suffered no appeal from his decision ; and this was one of those times. "We will have dinner ordered for 12 o'clock, as it used to be when I was a boy. We will have roast turkey, with cranberry sauce, and mashed potatoes and turnips, boiled onions and celery, all on the table at once. For desert, pie, cheese and cider, and nothing more. Marguerite, shall I give the order to Lorton, or will you at tend to it ?" Mrs. Mayberry twisted her diamond rings almost roughly. "Oh, don't ask me to give such an in sane order to him I have no wish to appear as a laughing stock before my ser vants, Mr. Mayberry. It will be as severe a s:,rain on my endurance as I am capable of, to be forced to sit at a table with such people as the Hurds and the Masons, aLd that Thyrza Green and her lame brother, and that little old Wilmington and his granddaughter, and"— Mr. Mayberry interrupted her gently : "Old Mr. Wilmington was a friend of mine before he went to India. - - since he came home with his son's orphan daughter and lived in such obscurity—comfortable although plain, for Winnie earns enough as daily governess to support them both cheaply—l regard him as more worthy than ever. Er: est, my boy, I shall de• pend upon you to help entertain our guests, and especially at the table, for I shall have no servants about to scare them out of their appetites." And Mr. Mayberry dismissed the sub ject by arising from the table. * * * * * ~. m m . 0 ' P. , "Would I like to go ? Oh, grandpa, I should ! Will ae go, do you think ?' The little, wizened old man lo , ,ked fondly at her over his'steel-riamed classes. "So you'd like to accept Mr. Mayberry's invitation to dinner, eh, Winnie ? You wouldn't. be ashamed of your c:d-fashioned grandfather, eh, among the fine folk of the family ? ReniarkalAy fine folk I hear, for all I can remember when Jo_ was a boy together with myself. Fine folk, Wiunie, and you think we'd better go ?" I would like to g o, grandpa. I don't have many recreations—l don't want many, for I think contented, honest labor is the grandest thing in the world, and the best discipline—but, somehow, I can't tell why, but Ido want to go. I can wear my black cashmere, and you'll be so proud of me." "Proud of yea, indeed, my child, no matter what you wear. Yes, we'll go " And thus it happened that among the ten guests that sat (town at Josiah May berry's hospitable, overflowing board that cold, blue-skied day, Winnie Wilmington and the old man were two—and two to whom Ernest Mayberry paid more devoted attention than even his father had asked and expected. Of course it was a grand success—all excepting the cold hauteur on Mrs. May berry's aristocratic face, and that was a HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1877. failure, because no one took the least no tice of it, so much more powerful were the influences of Mr. Mayberry's and Ernest's courteous, gentlemanly attentions. "I only hope you are satisfied," Mrs. Josiah said, with what was meant to be withering sarcasm, after the last guest had gone, and she stood a moment before the fire ; "I only hope yo 2 are satisfied—par ticularly with the attentic.. Ernest paid to that young woman—very unnecessary at tention, indeed." Mr. Mayberry rubbed his hands together briskly. "Satisfied ? Yes, thankful to God I had it in my power to make them forget their poverty, it for only one little hour. Did you see little Jimmy Ilurd's eyes glisten when Ernest gave him the second triangle of pie ? Bless the youngster's hearts, they won't want anything to eat for a week." "I was speaking of the young woman who"—Mrs Mayberry was icily severe, bat her husband cut it short. "So you were—pretty little thing as ever I saw. A ladylike, graceful little girl, with beautiful eyes enough to excuse the boy from admiring her." "The boy. You seem to have forgotten your son is twenty-three—old enough to fall in love with, and marry—even a poor, unknown girl you were quixotic enough to invite to your table." "Twenty-three ? So he is. And if he wants tc marry a beggar, and she is a good, virtuous girl—why not ?" A. little gasp of horror and dismay was the only answer of which Mrs. Mayberry was capable. * * "Grandpa!" Winnie's voice was so low that Mr. Wilmington only just heard it, and when he looked up he Eaw the girl's crimson cheeks and her lovely, drooping face. "Yes, Winnie. You want to tell me something ?" She went up behind him, and leaned her hot cheek caressingly against his, her sweet, low voice whispering her answer : "Grandpa, I want to tell you something. I—Mr. May—we—Ernest has askr..,d—he wants me to—oh, grandpa, can't you tell what it is ?" lie felt her cheek grow hotter against He reached up his hand and caressed the other one. "Yes, I can tell dear. Ernest has shown his .uncommon good sense by wanting you for his wife. So that is what comes of that dinner, eh, Winnie ?" "And may I tell him you are perfectly willing, grandpa Because willing,l do love him, you know." "Are you sure it isn't his money you are after, eh ?" She did not take umbrage at the sharp question. "I am at least sure it isn't my money he is after, grandpa," she returned, laugh ing and patting his cheek. "Yes, you are at least sure of that; there, I hear the young man coming himself.— Shall I go, Winnie ?" It was the "young man himself," Ernest Mayberry, with a shadow of deep trouble and distress on his face as he came straight up to Winnie and took her band, then turned to the old gentleman. "Until an hour ago I thought this would De the proudest, happiest hour of my life, Sir, for I should have asked you to give me Winnie for my wife. Instead, I must content to only tell you how dearly I love her, and how patiently and hard I will work for her to give her the home which she deserves—because, Mr. Wilmington, this morning the house of Mayberry & Thurston failed, and both families are beg gars." His handsome face was pale, but his eyes were bright with a determination and braveness nothing could daunt. Winnie smiled back upon him, her own cheeks paling. "Never mind, Ernest, on my aceount ; I can wait, too." Old Mr. Wilmington's eyes were almost shut beneath the heavy frowning forehead, and a quizzical look was on his shrewd old face as he listened. "Gone up, eh ? We'll, that's too bad. You stay here and tell Winnie. I am just as willing she should be your wife when you want her, as if nothing bad happened, because I believe you can earn bread and buttar for both of you, and my Wianie is a contented little girl. I'll hobble up to the office and see your father ; he and I were boys together ; a word of sympathy won't come amiss from me." And off he strode, leaving the lovers alone, getting over the distance in a re markable hurty,and presenting his wrinkled weather-beaten old face in Mayberry & Thurston's private office, where Mr. May berry sat alone, with rigid face and keen, troubled eyes, that, nevertheless, lighted at the sight of his old friend. "I am glad to see you, Wilmington.— Sit down. The sight of a man who has not come to reproach me is a comfort " But Mr. Wilmington did not sit down. He crossed the room to the table at which Mr. Mayberry sat among a hopeless array of papers. "There is no use wasting words, May berry, at a time like this. D'd you know your son has asked my Winnie to marry him ?" Mr. Mayberry's face lighted a second, then the gloom returned. "If my son had a fortune at his com, !nand. as I thought he had yesterday at this time, I would say : 'God speed you in your wooing of Winnie Wilmington.' As it is—for the girl's sake, I disapprove." 'So you haven't a pound over and above, eh, Mayberry?" "There will be nothing—less than noth ing. I don't know that I really care so much for myself, but Ernest—it is a ter• rible. thin; to happen to him at the very beginning of his career." Mr. Wilmington smiled gleefully. "Good. Neither do I care for myself, but for Winnie, my little Winnie. I tell you what, Mayberry, perhaps you will wonder if I am crazy, but I'll agree to settle a quarter of a million on Winnie the day she marries your boy. And I'll lend you as much more if it'll be of any use, and I'll start the boy for himself if you say so. Eh ?" Mr. Mayberry looked at him in speech less bewilderment. Wilmington went on : "I made a for tune out in India, and it's safe and sound in bard cash in good hands—a couple of millions. I determined to bring my girl up to depend on herself, and to learn the value of money before she had the hand ling of her fortune. She has no idea she's an heiress—my heiress. Sounds like a story out of a book, eb, Mayberry ? Well, wiil you shake hands on it, and call it a bargain ?" Mr. Mayberry took the little dried-up hand almost reverentially, his voice hoarse and thick with emotion. "Wilmington, God will reward you for this. May He, a thousandfold !" Wilmington winked away a suspicions moisture on his eyelashes. "You a e it all comes of that dinner, old fellow. You acted like a charitable chris tain gentleman, and between us we'll make the boy and WHinie as happy as they de serve, eh ?" And even Mrs. Mayberry admits that •, was a good thing that her husband gave that dinner, and, when she expects to see Mrs. Ernest Mayberry an honored guest at her board, she candidly feels that she owes every atom of her splendor and luxury to the violet.eyed, charming girl who wears her own honors with such sweet grace. *dal nibretiang. Industrial Items. The "block system" in use on the Penn aylvanis Railroad is of English origin. Glamorgan Furnace, which had been working rather badly for a week or two, was blown out on Saturday evening. The Hadley Company, Mass., have begun working their hands on a new time table, giving them 10i hours' work each day, except Saturday, when they have 6'f bours. thus giving them all Saturday afternoon to themselves. The Amosleag, (N. H.) Manufacturing Co., which have heretofore manufactured fire en • gives, have sold their entire interest to the Man cheater Locomotive Works, and are preparing to turn their attention to the manufacifiring and re pair of cotton machinery. In Pike township, about 14 miles from Reading, Pa., an experiment is to be tried, which, if it proves successful, will result in the establish ment of an industry entirely new in the United States. The attempt will be made to manufacture pun China porcelain, something never attempted in America. American pottery at the centennial aa toniEbed those who had not given attention to the development of this interest in this country. The surrriee was greatest among the foreign visitors and judges, and it culminated when the jury of judges and the English Board of Arbitration both pronounced them superior to any in the world. State News. A bear was shot in Cumberland county recently• The liabilities of the Allentown bankers who failed recently are about $900,000. Sheriff Guffey of Westmoreland county, is the president of a base ball club. In three days last week the Bethlehem iron company shipped 155 cars of steel rails. The Oil City Derrick wants the drill stopped before oil gets down to a dollar a barrel. The residence of Judge Wilson M'Cand less. of Pittsburgh, was destroyed by fire on Tues day of last week. Hon. Charles M'Candless. a well known lawyer at the Butier county bar, is being pressed for the chief justiceship of Washington territory. Joseph Doan and Thomas H. Windle, ex perienced cotton manufacturers, are about to form a stock company at Coatsville, to start a cotton fac:ory there. During last month the Columbia con duit company ran out 85,163 barrels of ell. Its stock on hand the first of this month consisted of 301,733 barrels. Mr. Finkly, of Newville, recently kill ed a full grown black bear at the foot of the moun tain near that borough. Thu animal apparently was a tame one making no effort to elude the hun ter's rifle. Elizabeth J. Blond, of Allegheny coun ty, has recovered a verdict of $5,000 damages for the death of her husband, who was killed on the railroad while intoxicated. The defendant, George W. Boyd, had sold him liquor after he had been notified not to do so. A gunner in Westmoreland county climbed a tree to get a shot at fish in the streara below. While changing hisposition to get a good view of the fish, the limb on which he eat broke, and he was precipitated to the earth headforemost, a distance of fifteen feet. He was saved from death by plunging into a sandbank. Samuel Keisinger was arrested a few days ago in Luzerne county for furnishing tavern keepers with illicit whisky. The United States officers found Keisinger biding in a loft, where he had drawn a revolver. He at first swore he would defend himself to the death but soon surrendered to superior force. Personal. A Graham Bell, inventor of the speak ing telephone, is a Scotchman by birth. Bastiate's "Sophisms of Protection" does not contain a single citation of fact or reference to history. The Agent of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, at Spartansburg, Mr. W. IL Crawford, bas died of paralysis. Bob logertoll has carried his heathm lecture to the Rocky Mountains. When last heard from he was at Denver. Senator Christianey's son was one of the tint iccessful candidates ext.mined recently for a pc—ition in the Pension Office. Mr. Edward H. House, formerly con nected with the Boston Courier and New York Tribune, is now editor of the Tokio Timed, Japan. Walt Whitman and Fred. Douglass sat side by side at the opening of the permanent Ex hibition at Philadelphia, and made a picturesque pair. Ex• Governor Hendricks has returned . from California, and will go to Europe in June. After his return he will practice law at Indianap olis. Fifteen students of Princeton college are preparing to start for the Black Hills. The lead— era of the expedition are Professor Cyrus F. Brack et and General Barge. The lUchmond (Va.) Dispatch claims that Mr. Randall is a friend to the Texas Pacific Railroad scheme, and, believing thus wants him re-elected Speaker. Dr. J. C. Ayer, with a fortune estimated at $15,000,000 is doomed to spend his time in an Eastern insane asylum. Counsel on both sides have agreed to his retention there for an indefinite pe— riod. At a special election in Chester county, S. C. on Monday, Gen. W. A. Walker, Democrat, was elected Senator by 1,000 majority. Hayes had 500 majority, and Chamberlain 400 in that county last November. Colored men did not go to the polls. It is stated that Minister Pierrepont, at England, has actually petitioned Earl Manvers, the head of the so-called Pierreponts, of England, for permission to use the family crest on his car riage, and has availed hims"lf of the Earl's gr..cious reply to his request. Snob ! Thomas Belton, clerk for Claffin & Co., who was arres.ed. had been stealing from his em ployers daily for six years, and had over $lO,OOO deposited in different savings banks. Whea ar rested, thirty-five packages of thread and 86,000 needles were fastened about his legs and body. William B. Waugh, Chief of Civiliza tion Division of the Indian Office, and son of the late Bishop Waugh, of Maryland, died yesterday. He was the olde , t and one of the most faithful clerks in the bur •an. He entered it in 1846, re signed in 1857, L ad re-entering the service in 1865 has been continu ,ualy in the bureau ever since. Most of Gail Hamilton's victims squirm, but Medill seems .o suffer the most. The du af ter he had formally replied, his paper contained one leading editorial over a column long, and four editorial paragraphs amounting to half a column more, all devoted to the offending lady, and each of them crushing her with the argument, more or Less directly put, that she is an old maid. His Imperial Majesty Dom Pedro wore a black cravat at an Imperial reception in Berlir. The chamberlains, ushers, doorkeepers, lords-in waiting, atd masters ',of cermonies were struck aghast at this democratic innovation, but H. I. M. did not appear to care two Aram' for their con sternation nor for the leading articles upon the subject which appeared in the court newspapers. A Handsome Step-Mother. GOETHE'S THr' , RY OF THE SEXUAL AF FINITIES-AN EARLY MARRIAGE AND A DREADFUL DISAPPOINTMZNT. In the spring of 1839, the 'Wessels fam ily was the richest and most respectable in Staunton, Virginia. It consisted of Mrs. Melia Wessels, the second wife of the lamented Jackson Weasels, who had made a fortune in the grain trade, when there were but a dozen houses in Staunton: When he died in 1837, he left an estate worth $300,000. It is said that the de ceased had made a will, constituting his three sons-in-law, Arnold Baker, Edward Jeffries and Barnard Burkhalter, husbands of his three daughters, Anna, Emma and Jenny, his sole heirs, leaving his second wife, Adelia, only a few hundred dollars a year. The document, however, could not be found among Mr. Weasels' papers, and the notary public, John Andrews, who was reported to have drawn up the will, having died a few days after Mr. Wessels' death, there was no possibility of ascertaining whether such a paper was in existence or not. There was, as a matter of course, considerable hard feeling between the step children and their husbands on the one hand and Mrs. Adelia Wessels on the other. Mrs. \Vessels was a handsome, amiable wo man, not more than thirty years of age. She was a strict member of the Methodist Church, and generally beloved. In her quarrels with her step children, public sen timent was entirely on herside. Her sweet ness of temper was almost proverbial, and the spiteful comments which her step children made upon her were most unfa vorably received by the people of Staunton. On the 2nd of September 1839, a young lawyer, Charles Fredericks, a native of Bal timore, came to settle in Staunton. He had a letter of introduction to Mrs. Adelia Wessels, and on the day after his arrival in the place he called upon her, . and the handsome young man instantly fell in love . with her. If Goethe's theory of the sex ual affinities was verified, it was between these two persons, who, five minutes after being brought face to fa.ce, had become de clared lovers. The mystic bonds of passion captivated both him and her, although she was at least eight years older than he. Next day the people of Staunton were startled by the utterly unexpected news that Mr. Charles Fredericks had married the Widow Wessels. The latter was evidently supremely hap- H. "I have never felt as contented as I do now," she said to many persons. "My husband is the best of men." Alas ! Alas ! Four days later, during the temporary absence of her husband, she was found dead in bed. There was at that time but one physician in Staunton. He was an ignorant old wan, and said that Mrs. Fredericks died of heart disease. Upon his certificate, the coroner of the county issued a burial permit. The remains were about to be removed when the young husband of the deceased arrived. He had not heard of her death until he bad reached Staunton. Upon seeing her, dead, stiff and stark, he stood for a minute es if spell-bound. Then be threw himself upon the corpse, wildly lamenting, and covering her cold cheeks with the burning kisses of despair ing love. His burst of passion almost awed the arsons present in the room. When he arose at last, he passed his hand over his forehead, and asked, as if dazed : "Who killed her ?" The Coron er replied : "Dr. Barnes says she lied of heart disease." "He raust be a fool!" cried the young widower, indignantly. "Look at this !" lie pointed wi several black spots upon the neck of his dead wife. The Coroner and the other people in the room looked at the spots. Her mouth was opened, and her tongue was found to be al most black. "Heart disease ?" said the Coroner scorn fully, to the old doctor. "Death by suffo cation, I suppose." The Coroner's jury gave the following verdict : "We the jury, find that Mrs. Adelia Fredericks came to her death by being strangled by some person unknown." No more heartrending scene could be imagin • , ed than when the young widower was gent ly removed from the remains of her whom he had loved so well. "It will kill him," said the people of Staunton, as on the next day be stood at his wife's gaping grave. But who killed her ? All efforts were made to ascertain who had been with Mrs. Fredericks while her husband was away from Staunton. Not the slightest clue, however, was elicited. The husbands of the three step-daughters claimed the estate left by her, and the courts awarded it to them. The young widower left Staunton a few weeks.later. In 1842 a quarrel broke out among the three sisters, and in their fury one of them charged Edward Jeffries with having strangled her step mother.— This statement created a profound sensa tion in Staunton, and the three daughters and their husbands were arrested. Fred ericks then reappeared in Staunton. He followed up the case in every particular, and, having promised the women perfect immuniq from criminal prosecution learned that Jeffries had gone to Mrs. Fredericks' house, when he knew her to be in bed ; that he had made dishonorable proposal's to her which she indignantly rejected; and that he thereupon encircled her neck with his hands, and choked her till she was dead. Jeffries did not deny his crime, but he meanly attributed it to his amorous passion for his wife's step mother. The strangest thing of the whole affair was that Mrs. Jeffries testified, under oath, that her husband had always been secretly in love with her step-mother. As a matter of course, the wife's evidence was not ad mitted, and Edward Jeffries was found guilty of murder in the first degree. He was hanged on January 5, 1846, A Drunkard Takes Fire. An inveterate drinker, named Harley in San Francisco, is said to have taken fire and burnt to death. He drank three hours stead ily and went to the gas jet to light a cigar. The bar-keeper heard a low moan and no ticed a flash of fire, and, turning around, he saw Harley falling to the floor, his head enveloped in black, thick smoke, while flames issued from his mouth and ears. A houible smell of burned flesh filled the air. Not a moment was lost in attending to the sufferer. He was beyond relief, however. Hia face was perfectly black, partly charred and perfectly covered with moist soot. His eyes were open. His mouth was completely roasted on the inside; but, with the ex ceptions of his head and hands, no part of his body born marks of his horrible death. A BAD BREATH—The breath of calum ny. A Prehistoric City. THE REMARKABLE RUINS DISCOVERED ir THE ALLEY OF THE I NIMAS, IN COL- ORADO Prof. Hayden has given southwestern Colorado a new interest by discovering and describing the ancient ruins in that sec tion, and in southeastern Utah. The stories told about these ruins are very in teresting. The fertile valley of the Ani mas was densely inhabited and highly cul tivated by an enlightened race of people centuries ago. The ruins of the houses, corrals, towns, fortifications, ditches, pot tery ware, drawings, non-interpretable &c.,writings, show that many arts were cultivated by these prehistoric people which are now entirely lost. Their houses were built of most every kind of stone, from small boulders to the finest sandstone. The finest of these ruins, and the near est perfect, are situated about thirty-five miles below Animas City, in a large val ley fifteen miles long by seven wide, on the west side of the river. This valley has been covered with buildings of every size, the two largest being 300 by 6,000 feet, and about three hundred feet apart. They are built of small blocks of sand ' stone, laid in adobe mud, the outside walls being four feet, and the inside walls from a foot and a half to three feet thick. In the lower story are found portholes a foot square. There are rooms now left and walls fisr about four stories high still stand ing. About the second story, on the west side, there was once a balcony along the length of the building. No signs of a door are visible in the outer walls, and the ingress must have been from the top, in the inside their being passages from room to room. Most of them are small—from 8 by 10 to 12 by 14 feet the doors being two by four feet. The arches over the doors and portholes are made of small cedar poles two inches wide, placed across on which the masonry is placed. The sleep ere supporting the floors are of cedar, about eight inches thick, and from 20 to 50 feet long, and about three feet apart. A layer of small round poles was then placed across the sleepers, then a layer of thinly-split cedar sticks, then about three inches of earth, then a layer of cedar bark, then another layer of dirt, then a carpet of some kind of coarse grass. The rooms that have been protected from exposure are whitewashed, and the walls are orna mented with drawings and writings. In one of these rooms the impression of a hand 'lipped in whitewash, on a joist is as plain as if it had been done yesterday In ano her room there are drawings of taran tulas, centipedes, horses and mules. In some of the rooms have been found human bones, bones of sheep, corn cobs, goods, raw hides, and all colors and varie ties of pottery ware. These two large buildings are exactly the same in every respect. Portions of the buildings show that they were destroyed by fire, the tim bers being burned off and the roofs caved in, leaoinrs t' the lower rooms entirely pro tected. The rock that these buildings were built of must have been brought a long way, as nothing to compare with it can be found within a radius of twenty miles. All the timber used rs cedar, and has been brought at least twenty-five miles. Old ditches and roads are co be seen in every direction. The Navajo Indians say, in regard to these ruins, that their forefathers came there five old men's ages ago (500 years), and that these ruins were here, and the same then as now, and there is no record whatever of their origin. A Daughter's Love. In the hour of punishment, love always has a last effort to make for human blame. And this is often its happiest effort; for affection may save at the last. those who have been brought to repenteuce for sin only by sin's bitter results. About forty years ago, an elderly man living in Western Connecticut, who had sadly reduced his estate by habits of in temperance, found himself threatened with an execution for debt, which would de prive him of his old home, and leave him in friendless poverty. His daughters, with one exception, had grown and gone away, the one remaining at home being an in valid, and his wife also quite infirm. That his needy but loving family, who had often pleaded with him to cease his indulgence in strong drink, must be turned out of doors, was a prospect cruel in the extreme ; and the thought that he alone was to bh. roe, added remorse to the sor row that sobered him now. _ _ There was a mortgage of eleven hundred dollars ou the place, and the holder wanted his money and would not wait. In vain the aged debtor had begged foT a little extension of time. The creditck had no symrathy for a borrower who madd and kept himself poor by his own vices. On the morning of the day when the mortgage was to be foreclosed, the unhappy old man unbeknown to his family, to whom he had never told the desperate state of his affairs, called at the office of the lawyer who had the business in charge, and made one more pitiful appeal. But nothing could be done for him, and, certain at last that the threatened blow must fall, he sank in to a chair, completely overcome. The lawyer, who could not help feeling some compassion for his misery, did not disturb him, and he sat then: two hours like one stunned. At the end of that time a car riage drove hastily to the door, and, a mo ment after, a lady entered the office. She stopped and gazed tenderly at the old man, who sat still with his face buried in his hands. "Father !" _ _ The old man suddenly raised his bead. It was a long absent daughter, returned to him in his distress. "Oh, Margaret, you have found me in a sad time. Everything looks dark. Your poor mother and sister will be turned out of doors. I can't go and tell them—l—" "There, there, father, hear me now," said the lady, the tears gathering in her eyes. "Do you. think you could live the rest of your days a temperate man if this mortgage was paid off, and you had your home again ?" "Oh, yes, I could, and would if it would do any good, but—" "Then sign the pledge, father. I have it here, and the money, too." The delighted old man at once put his name to the pledge, his debt was paid, and his daughter accompanied him back to the old home she had redeemed. It was the happiest day of his life, for it was the day of his reformation. Margaret was herself poor, but she had saved the eleven hundred dollars out of her own earnings while working in a mill, and, hearing of her father's extremity, she gave it all as an offering of filial and Chris tian love.—Youth's Companion. SPECIAL TlE9—Wedding cravats. The Wickedest Town in America. I have seen wicked cities in my time. I have seen agreeing at the Esler in St. Pe tersburg,seen fellows "make a night of it" in the Orpheum in Berlin, seen the wick edness at Nijni Nevorod during the Sep tember fair, seen the Mabille packed with depravity v'hen the empire was at its mer idiac, but I never expected to see hell. sauetered out. on the streets of Cheyenne at midnight. Fifty saloons and a dozen licensed gambling houses line the princi pal street, all thronged and gaily illumina i.ed till the morning sun puts out the lights. What makes Cheyenne the wickedest city the world ? 1, Cheyenne is the metropolis where the rich owners and the buckskin clad drivers of five million dollars' worth ()f eat de rendezvous for a weekly spree 2. It is the nearest point where the Black Hillery can sell their gold dust and nuggets and then gamble and spree awry the proceeds so as to go back to the mines. 3. It is the point to which all the Indi an fighting army officers come as a place where they can spree away a hundred dol lars in a night and make up fir lost time on the Big Horn. 4. It is the stopping place for all swell demimonde from San Francisco, St. Louis and Chicago. In a word, it. is the Ameri can paradise for licensed drinking, fighting, gambling, & c.. . _ _ Valk withme into one licensed house on the principal street in Cheyenne at o'clock in the morning. The house is a medley. It is a Parisian Varieties on Six teenth street, John Morrissey's . c...:aratogit gambling house, the Argyle rooms on Siath avenue, and the Alhambra, with its waiter girls in London, all crowded into one. The building is perhaps 50 by 130 feet, and two stories high. On the ground floor is a theatre stage, room for three hundred cow boys, soldiers, ranchmen and waiter girls, and just ont of it are the gambling tables and bars. At the tables every known game is played. Among the dealers are several French wo men dressed in silks and diamonds. Utter ly devoid of delicacy they shuffle and deal the cards and handle the chips for the swearing drinking crowd which throng around the tables. On the stage there is a constant variety l of shows going on. Skillful variety actors are employed, and there the tight rope walkers, the song and dance women in tights, the low necked ballad singer, the clog dancer, the nigger minstrel, the mod el artist, and the female bathers, come out in a continuous stream from ten at night till morning. On the first floor e ,, ery drink is 25 cents, and about thirty English, French and American waiter girls keep the crowd con stantly drinking. Above this motley crowd of COW boys, ranchmen, Black Hills freight ers, miners, and soldiers, is a row of pri vate boxes filled with rich ranchmen, offi cers, tourists, and fellows who have come down with gold dust from the Black Hills. These boxes all communicate with the stage. Twenty or thirty waiter girls sup ply the boxes with champagne, the price of which is $5 for pint bottles. Al! drinks in the boxes are 50 cents. It is a common thing for a man after selling a thousand cattle to come here and spend a thousand dollars on a spree. A Colonel in the army who had been fighting up in the Big Horn country came in the other evening and' spent $l,OOO and finally left his watch on the red, and lost that too. The pro prietor of this gambling and variety saloon is a very generous man. Everybody likes him, and he is considered a good citizen in Cheyenne. Clergymen shake him by the hand, and bankers churn with him like an old schoolmate. The profits in the one building are $l,OOO per day. I suppose there are a dozen houses on one block where gambling goes on day and night with open doom. Sometimes the marshal and the police take a hand. The Judge goes out and "bucks the tiger" while the jury are agreeing on a verdict. You will see Colonels in the army standing by private soldiers, and see cow boys in buckskin di viding chips with a Cheyenne Indian—all in the most enterprising border town in America and the wickedest city in the world. To-morrow I'm off for the Black Hills. • ELI PERKINS. Death in the Dishcloth. A lady says in the Rural World: When some of you are sure to be down with typhoid fever ; when neighbors are neglecting their own work to nurse you; when doctors are hunting in cellars and old drains for the cause ; let me whisper in your ear—Look at your dishcloths. If' they be black end stiff and smell like a "boneyard," it is enough—throw them'in the fire, and henceforth and forever wasii your dishes with cloths that are white, cloths that you can see through and see if • yon have that disease again. There are sometimes other causes, but I have smelled a whole houseful of typhoid fever in one "dishrag." I had some neighbors once— clever, good sort of folks ; one fall four ,if them were sick at one time with typhoid fever. The doctor ordered the vinegar barrels whitewashed, and threw about forty cents worth of carbolic acid in the swillpail and departed. I went into the kitchen to make gruel—l needed a dish• cloth and looked about and found several. and such "rags !" I burned them all, and called the daughter of the heuse to get me a dishcloth. She looked around on the tables. "Why," said she, "there was about a dozen here this morning ;" and she looked in the woodbox, and on the mante!-piece, and felt in the dark cerner of the cupboard. "Well," I said, "I saw some old, black, rotten rags lying around here, and I burned them, for there k death in such a dishcloth as these, and you must never use such again." I "took tarns" at nursing the family four weeks, and I believe these dirty dish cloths were the cause of all that hard work. Therefore I say to every housekeepei, keep your dishcloths clean You may only comb your head on Sundays, you need not wear a collar, unless you go from home— but you must wash your dishcloth. You . may only sweep the floor "when the sign gets right ;" the window don't need wash ing ; you can look out at the door ; the spider we . o on the front porch don't hurt anything—but, as you love your livee, wash out your dishcloth. Let the foxtail get ripe in the garden (the seed is a foot deep anyway,) let the holes in the heels of your husband's foot rags go undarned, let the sage go ungathered, let the children's shoes go two Sundays without blacking, let two hens set four weeks on one wooden egg—but do wash out your dishcloths. Eat without a tablecloth ; wash your faces and let them dry; do without a curtain for your windows, and cake for your tee— but for heaven's sake, keep your dishcloth clean. NO. 22.
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