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He Holds the Fort ot' Heaven.
ords by Mrs. D. M. Jordon; music by Charlie
Baker, in horor of P. P. Bliss, who was killed in
the Ashtabula bridge horror.
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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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.