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Sooner or Later.
Sooner or later the storm shall beat
Over my slumber from head to feet,
Sooner or later the wind shall rare
In the long grass above my grave.
I shall not heed them where I lie—
Nothing their sounds shall signify,
Nothing to me the headstone's fret of rain ;
Nothing to me the dark days' pain.
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Sooner or later the sun shall shine
With tender warmth on that mound of mice
Sooner s or later in summer's air
Clover and violets blossom there.
I shall not feel in that deep laid rest
The sheeted light fall over my breast,
Nor ever note in those hidden hours
The wind-blown breath of the tossing flowers
Sooner or later the stainless snows
Shall add their hush to my mute repose—
Soulier or later shall slant and shift—
And heap my bed with their dazzling drift.
Chill though that frozen pall shall seem,
Its touch uo colder can make the dream—
That wre-ks not the sacred dread
Shrouding the city of the dead.
Sooner or later the bee shall come
And fill the moon with its golden hum ;
Sooner or later, on half-poised wing,
The bluebirds about my grave will sing—
Sing and chirp and whistle with giee,
Nothing his music can mean to me.
None of those beautiful things shall know,
How soundly their lover sleeps below.
Sooner or later, far out in the night,
The stars shall over me wing their flight;
Sooner or later my sparkling dews
Catch the white spark in their silent ooze.
Never a spark shall part the gloom
That wraps me 'round in the silent tomb ;
Peace shall be perfect to lip and brow
Sooner or later, 0 ! why not now?
(4t *foul-Erik.
THE MIDNIGHT CRY.
BY T. C. lIARBAIJOII
In the early days of a certain Western
State a crime was committed which has
gained a place among the annals of dark
deeds. It was murder ; but the circum
stances surrounding it are so notewiirthy
that we shall here transcribe them. They
present the most remarkable instance of a
young man sealing his lips when his own
life was in jeopardy, in order to conceal a
petty vice—the must remarkable instance
of the kind on record.
One night in March, IS3I, a farmer
named Buskirk left a thriving town where,
during the day, he had disposed of a lot of
hogs. He rode a sorrel horse, and carried
the proceeds of his sales in heavy leathern
saddle bags. The money was mostly in
silver coin of the dollar denomination, arid
the amount, therefore, was quite weighty.
Buskirk, a fearless man, did not go armed,
but rode unconcernedly from town a little
under the influence of liquor, but not
drunk enough to call attention to the fact.
As he lived but twenty miles from the
market, be expected to reach home about
midnight. But when the morning dawned
Zimri Buskirk was still absent from his
farm. His horse stood at the stable door
neighing for admittance. The well known
saddle hags were tnissing. which fact im
mediately gave rise to suspicion of foul
kiay, and search for the farmer was at once
instituted.
At a distance of five miles from home
the body of Buskirk was found lying by
the roadside, and not far away lay the sad
dle bags, rifled of their contents. The vil
lain in his haste to get at the money had
cut his way to it, instead of unbuckling
the heavy straps. The farmer was found
to be quite dead ; one side of his skull had
been crushed as if by a blow from a blud
geon, or some murderous weapon of that
sort, and his pockets, like the saddle bags,
had been despoiled of their contents _ _
The excitement from the moment of the
discovery became intenFe. Zimri Buskirk
was one of the most influential farmers of
the neighborhood, and a man universally
liked. Ile was not known to possess an
enemy, and no one ever dreamed that the
murder had been committed for the sake
of anything but that of subsequent plunder.
Though the country was scoured for the
perpetrator of the deed, no traces were
discovered; but a clew was suddenly fur
nish,d in a startling manner
The body of the farmer bad been die
covered not far from a faun house occupied
by a family named Mdligen, which con
sisted of the parents and two children, son
and daughter, who bad passed their mi
nority. While the excitement still raged,
Ellen Milligen came forward and desired
to make a statement which she said had
tortured her ever since the night of the
murder. She said that she was the pox
sessor of a guilty secret which she could
no longer keep; she could not sleep for it,
and it was the spect4 of her waking hours.
The girl then proceeded to state that
she was up at the hour of half past eleven
or thereabout, on the night of the —th,
awl that she heard a horse coming down
the frosty road from the direction of P
Not regarding the sound of any moment,
she was about to re enter the house, when
she heard an oath, followed by a dull thud
and a groan. Then.she heard a name ut
tered twice in a tune of mingled agony and
supplication.
A moment later the sound of hoofs e;ime
again to her ears, atld the seethed to
be galloping toward the Bu'kirk farm
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The excitement that fbllovied Miss Mil
ligen's narration may be in,agined, for pen
cannot describe it It was believed that
the name which she had heard was that of
the murderer, which had fallen from the
lips of his victim before insensibility or
death followed the blow. The young girl
visibly hesitated when asked by the mat
istrate to pronounce the name. She cov
ered her face with her hands, and in all
probability would have fallen if she had
not been supported by her brother Itiram.
She did not like to utter the name that
might doom one of the young men of her
acquaintance to the gallows, for she could
not believe him guilty, yet she had heard
Zimri Buskirk call on him to spate his
life on that awful night.
Ellen Milligen was pressed to mention
the name, and further the ends of justice,
in which the whole country was interested,
and at last her lips parted.
"God help him and pity me 1 ." she acid.
"The name I heard was Abner Tenney's."
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If a thunderbolt had fallen into the
breathless crowd, astonishment would not
have been more complete. Men started at
the name, and women uttered cries that
added to the confusion.
Standing near the witness was a young
man of five and-twenty, the only son of a
minister who watched over the little flock
of believers that worshipped in the church
hard by, and a youth of exemplary habits
to the outer world. His face was as pale
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FR
as death, and at the mention or his name
he started back with a cry and round the
eyes of all fixed upon him.
His name was Abner Tenney. _
Ile made no effort to fiy, and when
stn.ng hands were laid upon him, he
smiled and 'old the people he would face
the accusati
The young man was formally arrested on
Ellen Milligen's statement, and brought to
the bar of justice. He denied the crime,
but astonished everybody with his answer
to the inquiry concerning his whereabouts
on the night of the crime.
"I :Admit that I wets not at home, but
where I was I will not tell !"
This answer was twitcd, as it could
c ., sily be by the excited community, into
broad strands of guilt, and the young man
was remanded by the magistrate for a
regular trial at the next term of court.
There were a few who believed that he
might be innocent When it become gen
erally known that he had been a suitor for
Eva l3uskirk's hand without the sanction
of her lather, revenge was added to the
motive of the murder. Ellen Milligen's
word was believed ; she was a girl of vio
lent passions, but her veracity in this case
was not dragged into question. She ac.
knowledged that she loved Abner Tenny
—hence her reluctance to testify; and
after the preliminary examination, she said
that she regretted having revealed the se
cret.
But it was out now, and the young man
lying in the county jail reiterated his in
nocence, but still he refused to make known
his whereabouts and occupation on that
night.
It was strange that Ellen Milligen's
testimony should remain uncorroborated
in its essential particulars ; but there were
several parties who had seen the accused
near the scene of the crime at that late
hour of the night.
He did not deny this, but persistently
refused to explain his presence there.
His father visited him and begged him
to unburden himself; but to him he in
variably returned the same reply
‘•Were I to tell you, you would feel as
badly as though I had committed the
murder "
The young man was visited by many ac
quaintances, to whom he would not reveal
his secret, and it at last became more than
half su,pected that he had accomplices
who had con&aled the money, not one dol
lar of which had as 3 et. been found.
Ellen Mil cot tinned to re affirm her
statement. t.7:he was confident that she had
heard Buskirk call on Abner Tenney •in
tones that left no doubt iu her mind that.
he addres , ed his murderer. As the time
for the trial approached, she lost her re
luctance, and openly declared that she
knew that the accused had committed the
crime
Her Mother not having been at home on
the night. of the murder was not summoned
as a witness. It was known that he, too,
bad visited the Buskirk homestead as a
suitor for Eva's hand, but that of late be
had turned his attention to another lady,
to whoa. he was paying his devoirs.
The excitement consequent upon the
farmer's violent death and Abner Tenny's
arrest. did not for one moment abate during
his sojourn in jail. To a young man who
visited him, he said :
' Spare me, John You know where I
was that night; you know what I was do
ing. If I escape this time I will be a bet
ter man. The murder of my honor would
send my father to the grave as quickly as
the shedding of my blood by the law. Do
not come forward and try to save me by
sacrificing my honor !"
"They will hang you if you do not tell
all," was the reply. "Let us swear to the
truth. Do not let Eva believe that you
killed her father."
The last sentence drove Abner Tenney
to the wall of his cell with a groan. It
seemed to unnerve him.
'.She will never believe it !" he cried, a
moment afterward. "In her eyes I will
ever remain guiltless of her father's [our
der, even though they hang me for the
crime."
The young man's visitor left-, and joined
twl other men of his age in the corridor of
the jail.
"What dies he say now ?" was asked
with eagerness
"He is still obdurate, and declares that
we must not expose him."
"Can we save him without the expos
ure ?"
"We must ! We shall 1"
The trio were youths of respectable
parents, but considered fast y..ung
They had of late been Abner Tenney's
companions, much to the regret of the tew
pious people who bad noticed the familiar
ity.
"Look here," said one, addressing his
companions, I hold myself in part re
spornible for Abner's present situation. We
led him into the habits that have fastened
themselves upon us We must save him !"
The spokesman of the dissolute party
was a young student of medicine, and it
was not long afterward that a learned med
ical gentleman of Cincinnati came to the
county. Tie body of Ziwri Buskirk was
exhumed and examined.
John French stood by and watched the
•'Well ?" he said at last.
"You say that she swore to hearing Mr.
Buskirk cry out after the thud uf two
blon s
"So she swi,re
"Tbe first blow mu-t have produeed in
stant drat h. It dr , ,ve pit ees of skull into
the brain A stab in the heart could not
prove more instantly fatal than the it itial
blow."
"That is your opinion ?"
1. will swear to It.'
The young wan wa4 satisfied, and tht•
body, minus the head, was returned to the
grave.
"If he will not, saer&e him honor to
save his neck, I will save it tor hint, and
his fa , her need cot, know the truth."
These words passed from John French's
lips as he passed from the house with the
professor.
From that day the young student and
his two friends were nut idle. They made
many trips from the c9unty, and corn
pared notes on their retui n
The trial came at last and the accused
plead "not guilty," in a firm voice.
Ellen Milligen repeated her testimony,
so damaging to the defence, and adhered
to it through a rigorous cross questioning
to which she was subjected. She had
heard the crys after the blows ; she was
positive of this.
The other evidence offered by the State
was merely circumstantial. The defence
introduced the professor, who explained
the nature of the wotinds, and swore that
the first blow had produced instant death.
This produced a sensation in court. It
staggered Ellen Milligen's testimony, un
til that hour believed invulnerable. The
DAY FEBRUARY 28, 1879.
blows that now f .bowed from the defence
were hard and telling ones.
No alibi was attempted. The accused
had forbidden such a plan, on the ground
that it would reveal the secret he was
guarding so closely ; but the derenc , be
came aptessive. It proved that Hiram
Milligen. Ellen's brother. Wa3 not where
he said he was on the nir , ht of the murder.
As the 3oung man was not under arrest,
the court forbade the introduction of such
te..timonv, when John French arose and
exclaimed :
"I do now acouse hint of the murder of
Zimri Buskirk ; my affidavit is in the
court room ; the sheriff holds it at this
moment. Look at the man ! Guilt is
written on his face. He is trying to leave
the house. Catch him !"
The confusion that now ensued was in•
tense Ellen Milligen, with a loud shriek.
fell forward on the floor where she was
permitted to lie, for all eyes were turned
upon her brother
Pistol in hand, the young man was
clearing a path to the door. No one
dared to lay hands on him, for he threat
ened to shoot the first one who touched
him, and thus he reached the door leading
to the street.
On the threshold he paused and faced
the excited occupants of the court room.
'You will never put me in Abner Ten
nay's place !'' he cried. I did kill
Zimri Buskirk,•you shall not prove it and
hang me !"
The next moment there was a loud re
port, and a human body, after swaying for
an instant, fell heavily upon the floor.
Hiram Milligen had taken his own life!
This tragic occurrence as might be sup
posed, put an end to Abner Tenney's trial.
It established his innocence in the eyes of
all, and the guilty was beyond the punish
ment of au earthly tribunal.
Upon her recovery, Ellen Milligen un
folded one of the darkest plots on record
She confessed that her testimony was but
a tissue of falsehoods; that she knew that
her brother had killed the farmer for the
purpose of' g,tting his money, and accused
young, 'Penney. in order to prevent him
from winning Eva Buskirk. Ellen, piqued
at Tenney's refusal to court her, had en
tered into the plot with revengeful spirit.
But the game had failed.
Of course the winist er's son was released,
arid Elleu Miliigen left th«t e,,tultry be
tween two dlys. She did several years
liter in a den of infamy in the South.
Abner Tenney lt-d Eva Buskirk to the
altar several months after his release. and
became one of the men of the South.
I believe he is still living, but his father,
the minister, is dead ; and the secret which
he guardei so zealously at one time is no
longer one.
It was simply this : Dtspite the holy in
fiuences under which he bad been raised,
lie had depared fr.ini the paths of recti
rude and became a gamb!er, alutu with
John French and his companions. On the
night i f the murder of Mr. Buskirk, the
quartette were in the midst of a carouse
which the youth refused to conress fur the
sake of his father, who never dreamed of
his wild life.
But John French had saved the young
man whom he had led into vice, and kept
him from the gallows. Tenney's secret
was told by him after he had made a man
of himself; but it puzzles many people who
know it not to this day.
ceirti Visa'lann.
For Young Men.
Young men do you realize the fearful
responsibility that rests upon you, as you
foul away the precious hours of your youth ?
A few years hence and the men who are
of your age to day rule the land. You will
be one of them. What position will you
take ? You have the mind and the ability
to be a leader; to be one of those who by
pluck arid culture shall be lifted abve the
mediocre herd, and placed with the solid,
substantial business men, or the honest,
upright statesmen of your land. But the
course you are pursuing to-day is nut
calculated to bring about such an end.
The hours spent in idleness and leafing
would go far towards fitting your mind for
a sphere of usefulness If you are not ed
ucated, you could educate yourself in the
time you fool away. if you have a fair
education, you could be burnishing up the
rough diamonds in your wind by careful
study and by reading useful books. Du
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around some store. It' you have nothing
to do borrow some good book, useful and
instructive, and spend your evenings at
home. If a business man wants a clerk he
will not go to the crowd of loafirs on the
street corners, and select one as he would
a man to dig post holes; but he will take
one whose character will bear scrutiny.
and whose associations are not those of the
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young man for any place of trust or con
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eyes of the community are upon you,
though you know it nor, and your daily
conduct is scrutinized and commented
upon by men that you do not suppose even
know you by sight. If you wish to sue
teed and rise io the world, you must cut
loose from low and vicious associates, arid
go only with persons that you will intro
duce to your m ether or your sister, and
not be a-hawed to si.e thew associate with.
Be saving and do not spend your money
fi.otishly. Instead of a spree, or splurge
of some kind that cannot benefit the mind,
save your money and buy sonic good arid
useful book that will ad l to your mental
store In short, be temperate; be Indus
trious ; be studious; be frugal ; he clierul
in selecting your associates, and or will
have the confidence and steew of all god
men, and lay a tiundation fir a life of
happiness and usefulness —askaloo3c, 'Ter
Chief Joseph's Wonder.
In his interview with the President, the
other day, Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce.,
was asked what of all the wonders or civi
lization he had seen in this, his first trip to
the East, impressed him the most. It was
expected that he would name the great
"tepee," the Capitol, but he replied with
out a moment's hesitation that the most
wonderful thing he had ever seen or dreamed
of was the bridge over the Mississippi river
at St. Louis, and he went on to explain
that he could scarcely believe his eyes
when he looked at it. He could build a
mountain of stone like the Capitol, he said,
but he could not build a spider's web that
would stand alone in the air. lle was
afraid to cross it, but he saw that the pale.
faces were not afraid, so he wrapped his
blanket around him and trembled as the
train was going over.
Comedy on Ciphers.
A SCENE FROM THE LATEST PARTISAN
DRAMA.
Dramatis persona :-1. S. J. T., (Lord Gram
eroy.) 2. Reporter of daily paper.
Scala 11, Act IV.—(S. J. T. at his office. lies
just returned after giving his testimony before
investigating committee.)
5..1
. 7., (soliloquizing.)—What do I sigh for!
Nought.
What's nought ? A cipher.
But ciphers are not always naught.
Their being so depends on how they're used.
[Enter Reporter.]
Rep.—What ails you, good my lord, you seem
cast down,
And sigh for—
S. J. T.—Ciphers! They have done me brown.
My mem'ry is a total blank. I know
Nothing about them. Tell the people so.
I'm sick and tired of all this talk and fuss.
And wish the devil had those who rs ised the muss.
Rep.—l meant, my lord, why do you sigh—
s. J. T.— I hear
And teil you, sirrab, that I have no ear
For such converse. 'Tis scarce as sweet as honey.
This "cipher" talk, and that d-d "bar'l of money."
Besides the language used is rather graphic ;
"Coparceners" and such—'•the cipher traffic"—
I tell you, strrah, that I've had enough
Of this infernal cipher. It's d—d rough
That I can't have a single moment's quiet
Unless I "gobble" it, which means, to buy it.
Rep.—One moment, good my lord, you do mis-
take.
I prithee hear me for your conscience sake.
I do not mean a cipher, thus (0 , , a nought,
But "sigh" for blessings, or from heart o'er
wrought.
S. J. T.—l tell you ciphers are the same to me
Whether from heart o'er wrought or Florida,
I have no knowledge of them. lam dead
To all dispatches under such a head.
Rep.—(Aside). (He seems determined not to
. .
understand.
I'll try again,) My lord, at your command
I called to-day to have an interview
Concerning matters pertinent to you.
I saw you looking sad, and heard you sigh—
S. J. T.—My nephew did it. All the rest's a lie,
I'm ignorant of what he, Weed, and Marble,
Did in the case. The papers only garble,
'Tie said they sent dispatches to the Park,
Where I reside. If so, they kept it dark.
I was the one most deeply interested—
The one whose "bar'l of money" was invested—
I was the President—that was to be,
And so they kept those matters all from me,
I never heard a word of hopes or fears,
Or what was being done. The truth appears,
Nay, more, when those d—d telegrams were sent
I was in "Russia" purposely intent
On keeping dark, till each "Returning Board"
Should make report and t« , 11 whose "ox was gored,"
How, then, could I know aught of this new
"Moses,"
Or "Gobble," and the other truth discloses?
It is impossible howe'er you view it,
Thus say I, Tilden, so says Abram Hewitt.
Rep.—l heard your sigh—
S. J. T. I tell you 'twas agreed
Between my newphew, Marble, me, and Weed,
That I shout nothing know. Tnat in my breast
No "cipher" knowledge e'er should find a rest;
Therefore my menfry's gone—clean gone away,
The people won't believe me—but—good day.
[Exit.)
[Exit Rep., singing "Oh, I sigh for the rest," Ao.
J. S. S.
Trichinosis.
This is a parasitic diseas,, caused by
eating pork infested with minutest Irtir
like worms, called trichinae It is only
since 1860 that the disease has been fully
investigated and understood, but it can
now be traced back, under other names,
at least two centuries. Since the above
date it has been reconized wherever park
has been eaten raw or imperfectly cooked ;
and there have been many epidemics of it.
The trichinae after passing through
the stomach rapidly multiply in the in
totines, and thence they work their way
into the substance of the muscles gener
ally, and of the internal organs, where
they soon roll themselves up in coils, like
worms in the earth.
If comparatively few trichinae are taken
into the stomach, either because the pork
is slightly diseased, or is eaten sparingly,
or the meal is not repeated, the diseaso is
light and soon over.
In severer cases there is vomiting ;
diarrhcea, followed often by obstinate con
stipation ; profuse sweating ; fever; great
pain in the limbs; difficulty of chewing,
swallowing and breathing; hoarseness,
often with entire loss of voice; neural , zic
attacks and sleeplessness, except in chil
dren, with whom the opposite condition
of stupor prevails
In the milder cases the patients begin
to recover
.in five or six weeks ; in severer
forms convalescence is deferred for four
months, while the full strength is not re
stored for a much longer time. A fatal
termination is very common, generaHy
from paralysis of the respiratory organs.
In children recovery is the rule No means
have yet been found to destroy the
trichinae.
American hogs seem to be especially
liable to the disease. They should be sold
for the market, home or foreign, only
after legal inspection. Bat thorough
cooking kills the trichium. Lard of
course, having been subjected to a high
heat, cannot contain thew.
A Parrot's Piety.
Capt. James Etebberger vouches fur the
following bird story : About thirty years
ago, when in Honduras iii command of
the bark Eldorado, his wife then accom
panying him, he was presented with a par
rut, a sprightly bird and a fluent discourser
in the Spanish language. The bird was
brought to Baltimore, where, after being
domiciled in the house of the captain's
family, it soon acquired a knowledge of
the English tongue. The next door neigh
bor of the captain was a garrulous woman
—an incessant scold—forever quarreling
with some one or something. Polly, bo
ing allowed full liberty, was pit ased to take
an airing on the yard fence, and in a short
time had learned to mimic the scolding
neighbor to perfection, and finally Lemme
aggressive. Polly not infrequently rued
her impertinence by being knocked off
the fence with a broomstick This brought
f;irih a torre.it of abuse from her injured
feelings upon the head of her assailant
Finally, the bird's language became so
abusive that the captain was obliged to
send it away. and Polly was transferred to
a good Christian family in the country,
where in course of time she reformed and
became to some extent a bird of edifying
piety. Some time ago, while she was sun
ning herself in the garden, a large hawk
swooped down and bore the distressed par
rot off as a prize. Her recent religious
training came to her assistance, as at the
top of her voice she shrieked, 0, Lord,
save me! 0, Lord, save me !" The hawk
became so terrified at the unexpected cry
that he dropped his intended dinner and
soared away in the distance.
Two lawyers in a country court—one of
whom had gray hair,
and the other, though
just as old a man as his learned friend, had
hair which looked-suspiciously black—bad
some altercation about a question of prat
tice, in which the gentleman with the dark
hair remarked to his opponent. "A person
at your tines of life"—looking at the bar
rister's gray head—"ought to have long
enough experience to know what is custo
mary in such cases." "You may stage at
my gray hair, if you like. My hair will
be gray as long as I live, and yours will
be black as long as you dye !"
The Game of Chess.
SOME CURIOUS FACTS AND CONJECTURES
REGARDING THE "ROYAL GAME."
A correspondent . of the New York Ere
ning Post thus entertainingly writes about
the mysteries of the game of chess :
The origin and history of the game of
chess form a most curious and interesting
study, upon which an immense number of
volumes have been written, in prose and
verse, in Latin, in Hebrew, and in nearly
every living European tongue, and by
authors of various degrees, including at
least one King (Alphonso X of Castile),
and, tradition says, one Pope (Innocent
III). The different questions, to the so
lotion of which so mtvzh I tbor has been
given, arise with respect to not only the
ganme itself, but also the name and origin
of the queen. the bish,p, and the castle or
rook, the other pieces—the king, the
knight, and the pawn—having remained
9ubstanlially unchanged, except with res
pect to their moves, since the earliest time
to which the records of the game extend,
to wit : about 4,000 years befbre the com
mencement of the Christian era.
One of the most interesting and instruct
ive books upon this subject is the Syntag
ma Dissertationum of Thomas Hyde, LL.
D., Professor of Arabic in Oxford Univer
sity, published in 1694, which contains,
besides the author's own contributions to
the subject, copies of manuscript works of
very early authors, among them three cel
ebrated Hebrew treatises, translated into
Latin by the learned doctor, in two of
which the Fiece under consideration is
called by a name which he translates
"elephas." This book, and the Ot erva—
tions of the Origin of Chess, etc., by Dr
Duncan Forbes, published in London in
1855, contain the fullest and most trust.
worthy accounts of the subject under con
sideration easily accessible to us moderns.
These works agree in attributing the
origin of the game to India, whence it
passed into Persia and Arabia about the
sixth century, and from the latter coun
tries into Europe two or three centuries
later. It has undergone many modifica
tions since its introduction into Europe,
but the game has remained substantially
as we now play it since the sixteenth cen
tury, which is doubtless the reason why
that was supposed to be the time when
the pieces which move diagonally were
first called bishops.
The game, as imported into Europe from
Arabia, represented a battle, the piece now
called the queen being the king's vizier or
commander in chief, the rook being a war
dromedary, and the bishop a war elephant.
Accordingly, the eastern name of the latter
piece was "phil," signifying an elephant,
or, with the Arabic articles added, "al
phil." This name was Latinized into "al
philus," often corrupted into "alphinis,"
which, perhaps because its origin was f;t.
gotten, gradually came to be regarded as
a propsr name. Dr llyde says (I trans.
late somewhat freely from his Latin): —The
Europeans change the game from the rep
resentation of a battle to that of the court,
and thus have introduced the bishop and
the queen, who have no business in a bat
tle; and they have given them the second
and third places in accordance with the
etiquette of the court."
1 cannot ascertain precisely when this
change took place, but it was probably
about the twelfth century, for one of the
Hebrew treatises contained in Dr. Hyde's
work, in which the old names of the piece
are given, was about that date, for the
author was born and died in that century,
while in the Latin poem already referred
to, which Dr Forbes thinks is the same
century, the second piece is called "regina"
and the third "calbus
But in nearly all the works of that peri
od, and for two or three centuries later,
the third piece, notwithstanding the change
in its symbolism, still retained the name
•'alphilus" or "alpinus," which became in
the vernacular of many European coun
tries, converted to •'alfin," "auphin,'•.fil,"
and other similar names, and thence un
derwent several variations of sound and
weaning, some of which are yet preserved
Thus the Spaniards call the piece "alferez,"
the Italians "alfiero," which are evidently
derived from "al phil." On the other
hand, the Russians and the Swedes have
preserved the original name as they still
call it the elephant. I confess myself un
able satisfactorily to account for the Ger
man name of the piec:,—"laufer," the
hound or runner; but the origin of the
French name "fol," modernized into "foe,"
the fool or jester, is very clearly traceable.
Here I will let old Dr. Hyde—quaint and
insular as he is with all his learning—
speak again :—"The French," he says,
"finding in this place a •fit,' and not know
ing what it was, substituted something
better known to them, 'for which signi
fies a fool, who cannot have a place either
in war or the political economy of a king
dom, unless perhaps they foolishly thought
that the jester or mimic of the king was to
be introduced here. The Germans placed
kere a foot runner (pediseequum) or, worse
yet, a dog, which shows how little they
undestand the game. The Italians placed
here an 'alfiero,' who is the `alferez' or the
Spaniards, that is the standard bearer,
which is wore to be approval.
As regards the name 'bishop," as we
call the piece in English, in which Dunes
and Portuguese agree with us, it was doubt
less given to the piece as a consequence or
the change in the theory of the game
which Dr. Hyde mentions, in recognition
of the ecclesia.-tical element, which is also
recognized by the word "calvus," applied,
as already stated, to the piece in the Latin
poem ()vied by Dr. Hyde. Bat I have
very conclusive evidence in my own pos
session that the piece was thus named long
befire the moderniz ition of the game in
the sixteenth century, and in the country
where it is tow regarded as symbolizing a
standard bearer. In an illuminated man
uscript of the thirteenth century, belong
ing to me, which came from Italy, with
which was exhibited during the past year
in the Loan Department of the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, is a treatise in Latin
hexameters upon the game of chess, in
which, after describing the pieces and the
mcves (the bishops being designated as
"alphynus"), the author states that the
chess board represents the sky ; the squares
the constellations; and the pieces the plan
eta, among which, of course, the sun and
moon were then supposed to be iccluded.
He then says :
"Rex est sol ; pedes est Saturnus; Mars
queque miles; regia virgo Venus; Alphy
tins Episcopus ipse cst luppiter ; et roccus '
discurrens tuna."
I translate thus, using the modern and
English names of the other pieces :
"The king is the sun ; the pawn is Sat
urn ; the knight is Mars; the queen is Ye
nus ; Alphynus the Bishop is Jupiter;
and the castle (rook) the wandering
moon."
The Last Dollar.
BY J. L. MERSEY,
Ile gave it to his wife with a sigh, yet
vitt] a look of resignation. "It is our last
dollar," he said. "but the Lord will pro
vide." The Reverend James Heath was
a minister in the little mountain village of
Canaan. Ile was poor and hie congrega
tion was poor; often before he had been
near his last dollar, but to-day the last
dollar was to be taken to buy the necessa
ries of life.
"So you've been always saying," sobbed
his wife, "bat what is to become of us
when this is gone ? They don't trust us
any more at the store, and your salary
won't be due these three weeks, even if
you zet it then Why do you stay here,
Jams, when the people are so poor ?"
•I have no other place to go to, nor
money to travel to it, even if, the Lord
opened the way. My work for the present
is here Ile feedeth the young ravens, and
lie will surely lied us."
"I with I had more faith, but I haven't,
and it won't come to me. 0 ! what shalt
we do what shall we do !" And she wrung
her hands despairingly. "My poor chil
dren ?"
" 'Once I was young, and now I am
old,' " solemnly said her husband, in the
vords of the Psalmist, " 'yet have I never
seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed
begging broad.'"
And in answer to this pious ejaculation,
there came a sudden kneck at the door.
All the while the minister and his wife
had been talking the storm had been rais
ing outside. On opening the door a trav
eler, wet through. entered. The minister
and his wife were timid about entertain
ing a perfect stranger, when so many
tramps were about.
"I was coming through the forest from
Moultqnborough," he said. "and ventured
to stop at the first house that offered abet
ter. My horse is in your shed. Do I take
too great a liberty ?"
"Not at all," answered the master of
the house; "we have but aloor shelter,
as you see, but such as it is you are wel
come to it."
There was a good fire at any rate, for it
was in the kitchen that this consultation
was held. Indeed, the humble home
boasted no parlor, and the kitehen was
dining roam, drawing room, living room,
and all. The stranger proved to be a man
of education and intelligence, and in con
vers ttion with him the minister forgot his
trouble and was reminded of early days,
when trouble had not come. The cloud
seemed to have a sil:ery lining, and the
stranger joined heartily with him and
most earnestly did he invoke the great
Head of the Church not to forget this
branch, to water and feed it. The minis
ter and his wife felt, as they retired for the
night, renewed cqufi fence to trust Him
for His grace, fur though prudence seem
ed to frown now, the dark cloud might
soon break away and the smiling face of a
Friend be seen. The morning dawned
bright and beautiful, and the stranger pre
pared to go. James went with him to the
gate and watched him till a turn in the
road hid him from view.
"See here, James," cried his wife, eager
ly, when he returned to the house, "E
found this on the table where the gentle
man sat."
It wai a fifty-dollar geenback, wrapped
Hastily in a bit of paper that looked as if
it had been torn from a pocketbook, and
on the inside of the paper was written the
verse of the Psalmist, which is now appar
ent that the traveler had overheard.
"I thought he was writing the direct.
tions he asked for," said the minister.
"He means it fur us—thanks be to the
Lord. Did I not say, my dear, He would
provide if we only trusted implicitly in
His mighty arm ?"
His wife burst into tears. "God forgive
me," she said; "I will not doubt Him
again. The Lord surely sent this stranger
to our aid."
"Aud He will still provide," replied her
husband. "Whatever my lot may be, here
or elsewhere, in Him I trust."
Days fi2w away on noiseless pinions, un
til one month from the time the stranger
tarried over the night a letter came di
rected to the Rev. James Heath, Pastor
of the Church in Canaan, and while his
wife and lovely daughter stood by his side,
be broke the seal and read aloud its con•
tents, which were as follows :
L 4 REV. AND DEAR SlR:—Tbe Cis arch at Maul
tonborongh has unanimously called you to its
pastorate. The salary is fifteen hundred dol
lars and a good parsonage house, quite a coo
trast to that in Canaan."
The letter concluded by saying : "The
writer of this first came to know you by
your hospitality to him during a storm, a
Few weeks ago. Ile overheard you in a
moment of distress speaking with such full
faith that he feels yuu are just the person
for this charge, and at my recommenda
tion this call has been made."
Mou!tonborough wai a rich, thriving
town, n,stled away among the breezy hills
of the Granite State It was a far better
sphere of labor f - )r a min of the minister's
abilities than the little village up in the
mountains.
So a young min without a family took
the chinch among the Ossiper range of
mountains, and the Rev. James Heath ac•
cepted the call.
But in his better circumstances he does
riot target the past, and often when people
show a want of faith the story of the last
dollar is related, and how God sent one of
His servants with the needful, and the
dart cloud rolled away. And so, dear read
er, may you trust in a kind lielvenly
Father."
A CLE3I4YMAN wits annoyed by people
talking arid giggling. lle paused, looked
at the disturbers, and said : 'I am always
afraid to reprove those who misbehave, kr
this reason : Some years since, as I was
preaching, a young man who sat before
me was constantly laughing, talking, and
waking uncouth grimaces. I paused and
administered a severe rebuke. After the
close of the service, a gentleman said to
me : "Sir, you have made a great mistake ;
that young man is an idiot." Since then
I have always been afraid to reprove those
who misbehave in church, lest I should
repeat that mistake and reprove another
idiot !" during the rest of the service
there was good order.
"MRS. SPINKS," observed a boarder to
his landlady, "the equal adjustment of this
establishment could be more safely secur
ed if there was less hair in the hash and
more in the unattressei."
A PERS(•N who was sent to prison for
worrying two wives, excused himself by
saying that when he had one she fought
him, but when he got two they fought
each other.
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