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Ever greeto tile;
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Itliscfllancous
Nlnette, the Oneen or the Ring
The Manager latil lemkred the Yervi -
eel" ul• the eouap:ua)• lar
lutspil. • d 1111111 M, and then..
WWI Wier)" pr o ep e et (1 I..shiomo.ll•,
well as :11•11) , A,11•11114.11,... N !let Li., our
equestrian queen, had entered more
fully into the spirit of scene llutti
ally of um, wa' were all mute
Ulna 1111Xkls.141 taake I I alr.iir a gi.eal
Havve,S.
1111 W I loved N Melte! So oddly, too,
that. St/1111•III110,1 1113' OW II love 011111111
lIW ; its persistency having
till 1101/e lu it, yet 111/ISIINSIIeSA hav
ing no despair. I I was a love that
1112V1•1 . was 111111'1'11 hy tier indill'renee
or liel/rll, 11.0.1 never N1,111(1.111.11 by her
contempt. Nhc \vas proud of her titvii
bemily and or 1,,r and
she never attempted to hide this--never
domineering over (110
ers, lio tvero :ill older and plainer than
herself, 11111 domineering most despoti
eally over every mule performer in the
circus. Ilia she did it so prettily and
110Wi11 . 11111gly 11111.1 I was MIL the only
one tvhu Intd laid his love at her feet to
Ist trampled ton al her girlish pleas
ure. I hail 11111 poor health then, 10111
this \vas 0110 SOllll, a ls; invite's merry
sarcasm.
NVe moved into the• dimly-lighted
building which surrounded the tent,
mid looked in ut. Illy pe•rfurnuuten.
" TIII! crowded," Ninelde
whispered, as She Mlllllliered 11111, with
1111'. ••' I hardly over reuu•wter our
lIILVIIIg such a crowd, Kin:ll,lm"
" And I hope Met never :ilia!l haVe it
again," I panted, unbullniling illy coat.
" plane is stilling."
"Oh, I hope we she laughed,
merrily; •' I HllOlll , l like 11/ sue 111111-
Ilfelk turned mvay li ant ihe doors, and
110 1110111 lel•t insill even fur tolle child
more."
I went into the ring amid the deaf
ening applause of the crowd, Milt bow
ing slightly, walked molly across the
ring. I. thought nothing of the MUSS
rising ill I'ONVH, lint 1 remember
ed that Nitietie could see me, and that
site had said I wits helping in a good
cause. I fell that. I had performed MS
I had hardly ever performed before,
and the long applause was again and
again renewed 111 1 loft the ring. \\Ad
would N Melte say Would she con
gratulate me? Passing through the
dimly-lighted building outside the lent,
where the horses waited, I caught sight
of two figures standing aside in the
shadow -Nitwit,. and a gentleman, an
army ollieer whom I lad met that
morning—talking low and earnestly.—
I had often noticed him in the circus,
and noti c ed his evthent
N Melte, still I had never semi him out.
there among us heMre, and I started as
I came up to them in the gloom. Is; in
ette carelessly turned her eyes upon me
for a moment, then went mi talking;
coquettishly and flippantly iL seemed to
me. I took her horse from the loan
who was bringing it liirWarti, and my
self led it. toward Intr.
"Are you ready,. Mlle. Ninette'?" I
asked, my voice trehibling against. lily
will.
" Itemly \\'hy s h e i nqu i re d ,
‘eith slow contempt.
" Allow nla. 0, pray allow ute, \tad•
1,1111/1:11,11e, " exclaiuud the stranger,
slitrting lor‘vard. And Ninette,
put tier foot into lIIS hand.
sealing herself in Lilo saddle with the
it ulost 1 . 1L . 11 . , site carelessly,. as it seemed,
bael:ed Mack Hawk against toe. "Sig
nor iticardo," she said haughtily, " is
this the split ct llPrn the gentleiln•tl of our
company usually rest het \veett their ex
ercises in the ring '2" An 41016V:11 an
swer rose to nty lips, but I withheld the
It'ords.•
" Stand lark, if you pleu-n, Signor.
Must you always follow ❑,e7 always
Daunt ? Stand hank."
With a quirk change of voice and a
bright, shy smile, she bent to take her
little gilded %%di ip as Ille onkel' handed
tto her. . .
"Thanks, Monsieur h. Capitaitio."
And while she bent gracefully,
seemed to be only stroking the neck of
the splendid black horse, she reined him
in, skilfully and impercepably, until he
touched my shoulder.
I turned away withoutanswering;
and for the first tinte X inette performed
without, lily eyes following her graceful
motions. Thu strange gentleman 'unw
ed to the opening into the tent, but
when she. node h a rk, flushed and tri
umphant after her success, he came for
ward again eagerly. She drew up her
lithesome little figure with a dash of odd
pride, and turning' Polack llawk rapidly
aside, sprang to the groand unmsisted.
lEer part was played for that night, and
while the loud clapping within was con
tinued, she walked slowly out into the
darkness;
her long crimson habit over
her arm, her little cap pushed front her
tonight, excited face, :old her eyes raised
to the young °nicer who walked beside
her.
After that, all k a burning confusion
in my brain until one evening when I
awoke to comsciousness in the hospital
for which I had been performing. and
heard the physicians who had seen ine
fall, 111111 111111 attended 'pityingly upon
me ever since) wh kiwi. that all would
be well in time.
" Ricardo, dear fellow," said the man
ager, coming forward softly, and bend
ng to whisper to me. "Thank (lod all
will be well. The worst is over.”
I hardly know when the knowledge
dawned upon nee, or how; but as 1 lay
there—my old companions clustering
round nie—l knew that l had perforat
ed among them for the last, time. I
knew that life had most wonderfully
and mercifully been spared me ; but
that I should never walk again. I do
not remember that the knowledge came
with any sharp or bitter pain ; I think
it Was a quiet, hopeless conviction from
the lirst. They had given me a small
room iu the hospital to myself; perhaps
to spare others the sight of my suffer
ing; partly, perhaps, because I had
hurt myself i s n their cause.
• So the days and nights passed on ;
and slowly brought me a little ease at
last.
One morning, Monsieur, entering my
room with a brighter face than usual,
told me Ninette had come to see me. I
felt the blood rush into my wan face as
I took her little warm hand in both my
own.
"Oh ! you are so much better, Ri
cardo," she said, her small lips trem
bling a little as.she looked at me. " We
"shall soon have you back in your place
among us."
I shook my head slowly. " Never
again, Ninette."
otx 3ljantiOtet
VOLUME 72
" Why ?" she asked in feigned aston
ishment.
"I shall never walk again anywhere,
I think, Ninette ; certainly not on the
vibrating wire. I know I must be a—
be lame all my life; and I'm trying, as
I lie here, to get accustomed to the
thought, and to feel prepared."
" No! no!" she cried, quickly.
"Don't try to get accustomed to it, Ri
cardo. Try to think of getting well,
and that will help you to do so."
" Will it? Then I will try," I an
swered, struggling with my sadness.
"When do you leave here .
"Leave here? 0, I don't know. Not
till you are well, I should think. Why,
Ricardo," she added, as I smiled incred
ulously, "don't you know that to-night
we are all going to perform fur your
benefit? You've not heard, you say ?
Why, what has Monsieur found to talk
to you abort, then, for he talks to me of
nothing else? I wish I could have
brought. you one of the enovious bills,
headed ' Ricardo's Ilenetit,' in letters as
large as inytielf. You always were fond
of reading your own name in the bills,
weren't. you
" Yes--with yours," I answered, in
tently watching the bright tar.•.
" Well, you would have seen elit.,
too, to-day, in letters 51111t151 larger, for
I'm going to ride."
"llf eourse," 1 answered , Willi a
While I wondered 11 hide al the
',widen change in licr voice. " What
audience would there be i !Lk' not,
Ninette'."'
" Nit Ill•," 1-110 1:01.41101. " Yttll 11111,1
wish air slll.t.esS Itefltre Igo awttS.. Ittit
liere',l lonsieur cnine to dismi,s
aeon telling 1-;ignor Iticartlm" she
added, its the 111:11Inger jitllll,l 11+, "Vtai
olls telllnts Ilin 1,1.111.111. I I.W Very
willing %Vtttli giro 0111* SerVit•cs. Ilnw
:111 the 1,1 111 1o:11M/64111g us.,,
'. 11,1 111.1 she It'll t”. 4.01
, it•tl 1 oIIL tt pleat-I•11 and excited tool:,
- littiv I Mimed to 111,111J11. rhr price it ad
any tam would prmnisca 1111V
lly Mid huts She 111.1'Self
ttlot.seil Itt Itel•rt)1.111 her :\lottrish feat
I'll-h. t, tat talent' Hat luuuiailln. Ileac
it I,', "AIM.. N the 0111eS1 11,111
qlll.Oll, 1.11 her magnificent steed Itlacli
1 1a 11 I:, will "
"U, uu, nit! yon nitcd iatt Itt her,"
cxelainied Intsly lear. ! Mltti•
:dem., it 1, must rat.ll mid datigertms."
EMMA
\I ruairur smiled :LS It, }MI b:uul-
Lill burl: his prekt•l, and Ninplte
:t•..° %dill a v,•xed him.
" It) d.. I ,•11,•d
" stioll a 111 41.
horse-‘vttinitti," the inaliagt•rsaiil,
if she feels she van aissunplisli it safely
tunl brilliaialy, 1 feel iL ht. Anti it %vitt
wake iwrittralatits, ail
litit•VeSS. Sill' II:151101W IL Iwittro,
you anti a g,.0ge1.11 , plV
t•edelltt`,l trillllll.ll i 1 trn
" It is a willful risking of I fat
lort•tl, the tears starting in nic ut•al,-
ne.•,tt. "I shall lie illisvratilt.."
" I shall 1111(, " 1:01V:1101i :\ll.llSli'lll s ,
"I haV, l.) n,urle ci/1111111•111, in
" think aimlll it ill
N Metle said, giving me her
luau( nv stns 1111 4 11:111•41 " I
silolllll never have 11:1:1 you myselr,
I know 110 W Val ilk
‘1'01.1.3. I I HMI-
Nt. I vt.A about the safest :old most trilling
ilthigs. 1 have 111:1111` up my mind to
do it, and /:/oe/.. /hoc/, understands that
same entirely."
" !, do not venitire it, Nil:elm," I
whispered, appealing In her in hiller
earnestness. " Say you will not."
" No--for
laughing light ly, though,he srolu. with
odd, stt , ittly 4illiet !less.
Then I covered my eyes with my
feelde hands, and let the Mars 11,:w on.
" I shall I . ollle ill and Ht , t , you liefor:•
the performanee," Nit:elle said, :trier a
little dismal pause. " Will you,in
'etle'."P I asked eagerly, us I halt led with
my cowardice. " ill yeti conie in just
as you go'."
I hardly know about, that," slit• an
swered,with a quaint, shy sni
lonsivur 11:1,1 left the room Ilwn, and
Nine! to w:tsglawling(TN.,itt.ino,:thout
In folloNv
" Ninene," I said, slowly, as I fend
ed Illy eyes 011 tier H‘Vea face. " VllOll
saw you llrsl you wore an Ohl black
habit, quite misty, I remember; and plc
had :1 hal ill your hand, a. long
scarlet iducle almost lonehinu• the
ground. And however I have seen you
since, you have always been to 11, as
you were that day -arci you al %rays trill
dear."
" I remember Illat old Velvet habit,"
she laughed. •' IL is a. superannuated
arriele now; and—what did you think
of me then, Iticardo•."'
".lust what I think now."
She laughed again, but her step was
soft and lingering when she left me.
Until evening I lay and thought of
her; picturing the beautiful little figure
that (0011111 come to toe in its gorgeous
theatrical dress. The twilight glided
slowly into my silent room, and then I
lay and listened breathlessly, for I knew
she must come soon now, Yetso noise
lessly she entered at last that even my
waiting ears could scarcely catch the
lightstep. Without :1 word tine shut the
door behind her. Then shelstood look
ing ai me ; her red lips parted with an
irrepressible smile, :11111 her eyes brim
ming over Null II fun. llut she 15115 1•11/11
in no gay, unusual dress; she stood
there holdin , ' - up in one hand the old
black habit ;froin the other dangled the
little hat with its scarlet plume; :111:1 her
her head WILS u(lIV crowned with its
bright, fair curls.
" N 'melte," 1 said, breaking my 151110
dering silence, "seeing you so, I feel as
it, through all the years that I lie help
less, I could dream that you have been
Lo ine :ill that I dreamed you
might be when I saw you for the lirst
time. Thank you Mr coming as you
:ire; but you will have to change your
dress again, you ride in such a dilferent
costume."
'I he color rushed to her cheeks, and
her eytis grew hot and dark.
" I'es, very different; but cannot you
think of me always as you see me 1111 W,
Ricardo —lts you saw me tirst
people are passing the hospital gates in
crowds " she \vent on turnlng and look
ing through the window ; I expect a
fuller house than we ever 11:111 in Eng
land. It is for your sake, Signor."
" I wish I thought so," I said very
earnestly ; " I wish I did (lilt !WOW
they go to see your Nvild and daring
leap, :\linette, llow terrible ii will be
to witness—Mr those who hive you!"
She laughed ,u low, quick laugh, but
did not turn to ow.
Von :u•e thinking of Captain At lend
ant, I dare say, Ricardo': Ind you need
not, for I have never spoken to him
since the night you—toll ; and I never
shall again."
A wild, proud joy sprang up in my.
heart. "N inette;" 1 cried ," my darling,
turn your face to me. I ant so helpless
here, :idol shall so soon lose the have I
love. Come to nu• for these few precious
moments."
Very gently she came up to me, and
laid her cool hand on my forehead.
She bent her heal, alit' as I laid my
weak lingers on the soft curls, one deep
sob shook the little kneeling figure, but
when she rose her eyes were very bright
behind their glistening lashes. She did
not say a word of farewell to me. With
a strange, brave, struggling smile, which
would have vanished with a word, she
hesitated a moment ; her cheeks flush
ing, and her lips wistful. Then guile
suddenly, with just the slight gesture
with which site acknowledged the plau
dits of the crowd, site left me.
I lay and listened as the carriages
rolled past the infirmary gates; and
presently, across the river, I could hear
our own band strike up merrily. I
could follow in fancy the whole per
formance as I lay with the programme
before me, and the well-known airs to
guide me. At last, with a quickened
beating of my heart, I felt that the time
was conic for Ninette's appearance. I
knew the very tune with which the
band would greet her. Alt! there it
was; but drowned almost in a loud pro
longed applause. Then—knowing she
with performing—flay there quivering
in every limb.
It was just as one of the hospital phy
sicians and a nurse came into my room,
that a great shout rose on the other side
of the river, and rolled joyously across
to me. My blood bunted in my veins.
" That is to greet her after her leap,''
I said, speaking aloud and rapidly in
my intense relief. "Thank-God ; it is
over."
" I, too, am glad it is over," said the
physician gravely; "such a feat should
never have been attempted."
" And yet every one has gone to see
it," I answered passionately, as the
nurse turned my pillow. " Why did
they encourage her ? "
" Such things would be done in any
case," he answered, " at least we judge
so; though perhaps we do not try it;
for certainly every one has gone to see
this leap to-night; all our own house
hold, like every one else's. Yet how
can we help disapproving such a dan
gerous act, performed too by a young
and beautiful girl, whose life must be
one long temptation to display—if to
nothing worse?"
" Listen !" I cried, in sudden terror,
pushing away the nurse, and starting
up with panting breath. " Did the band
stop then—suddenly? Hark! it is all
silent."
I remember faltering incoherent ap
peals to be taken to the. circus ; and I
remember how they tried to soothe me,
laying me back upon the bed, and draw
ing down the blind before my wild and
staring eyes. But in that hush across
the river I knew that I had had my
death-blow.
They brought me no tidings for days.
They kept me in darkness within and
without. But when at last my brain
was calm again, and lily eyes hail lost
their restless fever, they told me smile
few particulars of that fearful night.
Ninette had performed her dauntless
feat with dauntless success. While she
Mood daintily upon his neck, Black
Hawk took his leap smoothly and safe
ly. Put the astonished crowd had not
been satisfied with this; with a persis
tent cry ihey.had sumimmed her in my
mime.
" the seats for to-night have been
taken at ‘louhle price," she had said
laughingly, to Mansieur, "I owe the
audience a double appearance."
And in she had ridden in again tri
umphantly, and springing lightly upon
the neck of her horse, had prepared
again for her wonderful leap.
Then value the hush—though 110 one
ever could toll ine exactly how IL had
; some saying N inette was uu
u'su:illy excited her brilliant feat
and some that she was tired. She fell
fell with :1 light, sudden hill, which
would not have hurt her, perhaps, hut
that her temple struck the boards
which separated the front l'i/NV of spec
tators from the ring.
Thank (oil that there had been no
struggle! There Wll,l one deep red
strain upon the tuft, fair curls ; but 110
anguish uu the young !lead l'ace when
they lifted it so gently.
In the rite, sweet dreams which visit
ine as I lie hire, I always see Ninette
jitst as I saw her lirst—just as I saw her
List. And when I awake, I am al.nost
glad to see; in the fares round me, that
the time isidrawing very near when I
shall see her once :Ig:int.—Loudon A",
Baron Ilunchausen In Callibrtila
The following is s 'a very fair represen
tation, somewhat enlarged, or the " big
talk " about the agricultural produc
tions or the piwio,,,ast whichone hears
in those parts:
'"l'wo weeks ago I slatted nn a visit
to the V.( Semite Valley. I arrived :it
the wharf a moment too late to get on
board, and instead of waiting until next
(lay, 1 determined to go immediately to
Stockton on horseback. I accordingly
crossed the bay to I lakland, or us it is
better known' Little l'eddlinglon,' pro ;
cured a lairs(' and rode over to the Liv
ermore valley, where I stayed all night
with a rancher, who was known in the
valley as " Clamps." They call him
that because lie got rich by holding on
to his money with a degree of fortitude
not universal in the country. As sup
per-time approached Clamps' asked
me if I would like smile eggs, and how
I preferred it, hard or soft, boiled or
fried. I told him I would like sonic
eggs, and that it would suit me best to
lave them soft.-boiled.
"In a few moments there came
Clumps and his wile, rolling an egg the
size of a flour-barrel, which they boiled
in a short time in a large cauldron, and
then set it up on end by madam's chair
at the table. A hole was made in the
top of the shell, and the egg was (lipped
out with long. handled ladels. I was
astonished at the size or the egg, and
observed that his hens inlist be enor
mously large. " Its no means," he re
plied. You will not be so lunch sur
prised when I tell you that one hen
'did not lay this eggalone; it took seven
or eight hens almost a week to lay it.
It was a joint-stock production of the
chicks, but stilt it is better than 11m in
dividual responsibility plan."
"At breakfast the next morning we
had more egg, :ind then 1 went on the
road to Stockton. 1 reached San Joa
quin river at noon, and wite ferried over
1111 unique-looking craft. NVldle the
ferryman was tugging silently at his
big ores, I inquired whether the ferry
(vas profitable.
" Doesn't. scarcely pay for the
boat," he replied.
".Itaising the boat ?" I replied, ((hut
do you mean by raising the boat
" Mister," said he, resting for a while
on his one, "yOll he a stranger iu these
parts, bean't you '2"
I replied that. I had not been Itlog in
the muntry.
"'Then," said he, pointing to the
shore, •'this ere hunt. growed in that
1)1111)1:in pateh over yonder."
"Grown in that lannpkin patch 1" 1
exelniou•d.
" irown ill that pumpkin patch, on a
pumpkin Vint, this
1111111likill :Tholl, rut in Ili,. 'l'lllll patch
is where it gnawed."
" \\ • here, over by (11l harp t'''l in
quired..
"''Phut ain't no barn,
' lmlras you choose to call it sip. Tina's
a pumpkin too. But I made a hole in
the end on't let the stock inside,
and when the wet seasons set in, why
yell Set', I 1111,14 tip tht• hole and let em
Whiter there. They coin(' out awful
lit in the Spring. That big green look
ing squie , ll over yonder 1 ant
out to live in.'
" ' Are these the growth of the sea
son I asked.
" ' We don't have no shill difference
here on the San Joaquin as growin'
seasons and them others; things keep
iin growin' all the time till we pull
or they die.'
" As I was taking leave of the ferry
man he gave me a pumpkin seed, with
the remark that. I might astonish the
folks in the East with it; but before
t welly-four hours had elapsed I came
near haviug a calamity by reason of it
myself.
"IL was in this wise: Alter riding
several hours in the sun I was so over
collie by drowsiness as to find it impos
sible to keep in the saddle, and dis
mounting, lay down ou the ground, in
tending to take a short nap. I had the
pumpkin seed in my vest pocket. Dur
ing my slumbers it fell on the ground
and I rolled over it. My great fatigue
caused mute to oversleep myself, and I
awoke in the morning by being roughly
hurled over the ground in my prostrate
position, with what seemed to hen rope
around lily body. I howled lustily for
help, and my cries attracted the atten
tion of two men who were on their way
to the harvest-field.
" On being relieved front toy perilous
position the mystery became clear. The
varnith 1,1 toy body caused the pump
kin seed to sprout and begin growing,
and one of the tendrils of the new vine
had coiled itself around my body, drag
ging me along in its rapid growth a dis
tance of more than haif-a-mile before I
was awakened. My deliverers had a
hard run to keep pace with me in t h e
clutches of the pumpkin vine, and fi
nally arrested my progress by cutting it
with their scythe blades. I gave them
the vine for their reward, and we count
ed on it less than three hundred young
pumpkins, ranging from the size of a
hen's egg to a Hour barrel.
"'there is but one more thing I will
notice. Six years ago a gentleman re
siding near Stockton planted a grape
vine by his house. In two years the
building watt completely enfolded in the
branches of the vine, and the gentleman
was surprised at seeing his dwelling
starting from its foundations. The vine
grew with wonderful vigor, and carried
the house unharmed up to the height of
sixty feet in the air, where it remained.
The gentleman now reaches his front
door by means of a winding staircase
around the trunk of the grape-vine, and
anybody who will take the trouble to go
and see, will find it just as I have said."
Washington experts pooh-poohed the
specimens from the Utah " tin "-mines,
but the possibility is the newly-discovered
metal is cadmium, instead of tin, makes
their judgment of small account. If the
mineral deposit is really cadmium, it is a
valuable discovery, for that metal is rare
and costly. To be sure its price isienhan
cod by its rarity, but if it can be found in
considerable quantities, it can be used for
precisely the same purposes as tin, and is
even more desirable than that useful metal.
It takes a high polish, does not oxodize, is
ductile and easily worked or fused. no
minee were well enough in their way, but
mines of cadmium would be a genuine
treasure-trove.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 6, 1871
Disappointing a Landlord
A landlord by the name of Screwier
had managed to have the stage stop at
his house for the passengers to dine, by
allowing the driver, Lewis, a lip a head
fur each dinner eaten, and the assurance
that Lew's grog should not cost him a
cent; but as the tavern ;was ten miles
from Parker's, where the passengers had
formerly dined, and they did not reach
it till half-past three, the landlord dis
covered that, what with the per centage
to Lewis, and the keen appetites of the
passeugers,who had tasted nothing from
six o'clock, he was "advancing back
wards" instead of improving his purse
by the operation.
The two worthies held a consultation,
in which it was agreed that Lewis should
be behind his time in arriving and the
landlord late with his dinner, so that as
soon as they had fairly commenced op
erations the horn should be blown and
the passengers hurried off on the plea
that the stage could wait no longer.
This game was played for some time
with success; the hungry passengers
grumbled and scolded I.ew for an hour
or so each day; but he pocketed thefiv.4
and laughed in his sleeve.
It happened about this time, that as
the grumbling passengers were about
leaving Parker's, the old dining house,
a stout, hearty-looking man, comforta
bly dressed, presented himself at the
coach door and took a vacant place on
the middle seat. There were three la-
dies on the back seat, three men on the
front seat, and now, that an additional
passenger had buen taken in, three on
the middle seat, making it a full stage
load. The new passenger was quite
chatty and soviable, and well acquaint
ed with men !Lild things, and full of
anecdote. Ile proved quite an agreea
ble companion. But even his Vertiatil
-11 3' and good nature failed to interest
his fellow-suirerers long. I longer was
too keen.
At last Serewler's lifth-rate house was
gained, and after a long and tantalizing
delay dinner was announced. The gen
tlemen with ladies had barely found
time to help them, and then got clever
ly agoing themselves to the tune of the
fork, when
N=9
orn al the door of the knifing-room, ful
)Wed by hie loud
" Coach right oil', genllenien ! Take
Jur seats, quick 1"
Up sprang the passengers and scram
'ed otr, some swearing and some too
uch under the fear of being left behind
to think of anything eke but getting
inside the stage.
But there was one among them who
way so murk engaged that lie (lid not
seem to hear or see anything of all this
until another blast rang into the door
and Screwier touched him on the shoul
der, with
" Thestage is going, sir."
" lint I've not hall finished my dinner
yet," returned the , passenger, woo prov
ed to be the one taken in at Parker's,
looking up in surprise and sputtering
forth port ions of food from his well-tilled
month as he spoke.
" Ihn sorry for that, sir, returned
Screwier, blandly. " Itut 1 can't help
The driver will be oir in a moment
Ile k behind his time now, and must
be in by iu certain hour, or he will be
discharged."
" Tcm-tun•too-o-o-o !" st.reanied the
horn, louder than usual, followed by .
" All-on-board !" front the driver, who
instantly disappeared.
" He's getting on his box now, sir,
and will start in a moment," urged the
landlord.
" And I've paid for my dinner: Too
Lad, too bad! Well, hand me leek my
money; I never pay for wind I do not
receive."
" 1 can't do that, sir. Sorry for you,
but the fault is not mine. My dinnor
has been all prepared, and you're wel
come to eat it."
As the matters were thus pressing, the
passenger did not stop long to parley.
Drawing front his pocket a clean white
handkerchief, neatly folded as it had left
the ironing table, he hastily Spread it
open on the table, and turtling into it a
fresh dish of boiled eggs, then two or
three plates of bread, with sundry little
nicknackeries, he tied it on quickly,
muttering to himself all the while in an
undertone. Then seizing a ,turkey in
one hand, two roasted chickens and his
well-tilled handkerchief in the other, he
bowed to the landlord and said --
" Mod-day, sir ! I'll finish my dinner
on the road !"
Screwier was too much surprised
confounded to interfere.
Thus equipped, the passenger made
his appearance at the coach door, and
crowding in, took his place on the mid
dle seat; the ladies twittered, the num
laughed or looked grave according to
their humor, hut our hungry passenger
seemed in no way disconcerted.
" Won't you have a dish, and a knife
and fork *."' asked the landlord who had
recovered his senses, and came forwaid,
a few moments after the traveller had
seated himself, with the :krtieles, pre
senting them as he spoke with a mock,
polite air, intending to dash our hero.
limit he wad not to be thrown ow his
guard.
"Thank you kindly!" he said, bow
ig as he received the dish and carving
istruinents. " I had forgotten these."
As soon as the pair Of chickens and
lie turkey were adjusted on the spacimus
bp, which the landlord already re
q..nteil having put in the incorrigible
raveler's way, the latter sang out at
he top aids voice:
" All right, driver! (.o ahead !"
le stage, leaving Boniface vexed, an
ry, and yet :unused at the ludicrous
ess of the whole scene.
ks for the passengers, all shrunk in-
stinctively from the meat, bread, etc.,
which had been so liberally provided,
while the ladies turned up their pretty
noses, and ejaculated in a soft, low
voice :
" Disgusting!"
" Hold on here stranger, will you?"
said he of the chickens and turkey.—
"This confounded stage jolts at such a
rate that I can't carve my turkey." In
dicating with his lingers as he spoke, on
one side or the spacious dish upon which
reposed his provender.
The individual thus addressed could
lo no less than obey the request; and
hen the same was made to his other
mighbor who lent the required aid.
"_end now, stranger, do you hold this
,real bag extending his clean, well
illed handkerchief to a passenger before
aim. lie WWI, in answer to this request,
ailitely relieved of his bread, eggs, etc.
The dish was now supported on his
;mes and firmly held there by his next
lour neighbor, who began to enjoy the
oke, as did [noel of his other fellow-pas
.engers. In dissecting the turkey and
pair of chickens, under all the disadvan
tageous circumstances, he showed him
self a skilful carver. The different parts
were nicely separated, and laid about
the dish neatly and quite temptingly.
awakened into keenness the unsatisfied
appetites of the whole company, who
were only waiting for an invitation to
help themselves. In carving, the ac
complished stranger had surrounded the
edge of the dish with the pieces of tur
key and chicken. leaving quite a space
in the centre. Into thistle emptied the
contents of his pocket-handkerchief,
consisting of a dozen or so of boiled eggs,
with bread.
"Now, ladirs," Le Said, lifting the
dish and partly turning round so that it
rested on the taut leathern strap that
formed the moveable back of the seat,
and thus was fully presented to them—
" Help yourselves, I know you are hun
gry."
The ladies looked at the tempting ex
ihition, colored, and hesitAted.
" Don't be afraid," he urged. " Ne
cessity knows no law.''
The temptation was too great for one
hungrier than the rest, who, hesitating
no longer, took the wing of a chicken
in one - hand and a piece of bread in the
other, and forthwith commenced opera-
tions, not however beforeshe had smiled,
bowed, and said a courteous
" Thank you, sir."
The other two ladies followed suit
quite naturally, and then the men to
work in right good earnest, nor paused
until turkey, chickens, bread, eggs, and
all had vanished. Of course, the sauce
for all this was good humor, jokes and
funny sayings in no small quantity.
After the eatables had fully disappeared
the empty dish was cast overboard, and
all hands composed themselves, in the
best temper possible, with themselves,
each other, and all the world, Boni face
not accepted.
Two hours and a half afterwards the
stage brought up at Grimes' for tea. For
some time past the late dinner arrange
ments had not affected the appetites of
the passengers as it had done at first.
much to the surprise of the landlord and
"agent," and not a little to his regret.
On this occasion, however, his guests
seemed more inclined to laugh than to
eat, and finally left the table after hav
ing taken only one cup each, with "fix.-
ns' " in proportion. The secret of this
leaked out before the stage moved, to
the great merriment of Grimes and the
coterie in his bar-room, to whom one of
the passengers related the joke. Among
these was the editor of a country paper.
On the next morning the whole story
appeared in print, with names, places,
and all detailed with much humor. This
account, Parker, who most people
thought knew about as much of the
whole matteriis anybody, had put into
the form of a hand bill, two or three of
which were circulated among the pas
sengers in every stage. Of course Screw
ier became aware of this fact, and did
not venture again to cheat the passen
gers out of their dinner when they con
sented to eat at all. But it happened
two or three times a week that a whole
stage load would refuse to dine with
him, and thus he came Of the loser.
Finally lie abandoned the profitless
business of dining the stliges, and fell
back into his old ways.
Whoever -goes that road now gets a
comfortable dinner, in good time, at
Parker's, and should the old man feel
in the humor, will have added, by way
of extra fare, a graphie sketch of the
sayings and doings at Screwier's, with
which our readers have just been made
;Lewin inted.
A Novel l'alr of Stockings.
" I believe a woman will do a good
deal Mr a dance," said :1.11 Old M. 11.,
" they are immensely fond of sport. I
remember once in my life, I used to
flirt with one who wax a great favorite
in a provinvial town where I h veil, and
confided to me 11011. she hail uo stock
ings to appear in, and without them her
presence at a ball was out of the .ples
lion."
"'flint was a hint for you to buy the
stockings," said a friend.
"\o; you're out," 'said the Doctor.
"She knew that I was as poor as her
self ; but though she could not rely on
my purse, she had every confidence in
my taste and judgment, and consulted
me on a plan she formed for going to
the ball in proper twig. Now, what do
you think it was!"
" To go in cotton, I suppose," return
ed the friend.
Out again, sir—you'd never guess
it; and only a woman !mild have hit
upon the expedient. It was the fashion
in those days for ladies in full dress to
wear pink stockings, and she proposed
painting her legs 1"
" Painting her legs!" exclaimed his
friend.
" Fact, sir," said thedoefor, " and she
relied upon me fu,,}}• telling her if the
cheat was successftil."
And was it'?" asked his friend
" Don't he in a hurry, friend. I con,
plied on one condition, namely—that I
should be the planter."
" Oh, you old rascal," said his friend
" Don't. Interrupt, me, gentlemen,"
said the doctor. " I got sonic pink Ile
conlingly, and I defy all the hosiers ill
Nottingham to make a tighter lit than
I did on little Jennie; and a prettier
pair of stockings I never saw."
" And :;he went to the ball."
";-4he did."
" And the trick suee, , ded ..'
"So completely," said the doctor,
"that several ladies ltsked her to recom
mend her dyer to them. So you see
what a woman will do to go to a dance.
Poor Jennie! she was a merry minx ;
by the by, she boxed my ears that night
for a joke I had made alum( the stock
ings. "Jennie," said 1, " for fear your
stock logs should fall down while you
are laming hadn't you better let me
pains a lair of garters on them '."'
Sunday-School Lltcralurc
l'rarhy nook» IILI4II M 111.411.
There is hardly any other subject re
specting which so nun•h folly and hail
taste are shown as in the preparation of
Sunday-school musicandSunday-school
hooks. When we remember, says the
New York Sun, that the impressible
minds of millions of children are more
or less toned and warped by the crude
music and pernicious books which are
imposed upon them in Sunday-schools,
this subject becomes one of exceeding
importance. Imagine flabby souls and
vulgar imaginations which children
must have who arc brought. Lip i n sorb
Sunday-school slop as this:
T., lon Cr Him I. Kalil;
And .It,IIS wrought with .1.e..1.11
Willi chlsel, and
•' I nelltlensl live Cur Julius,
Who was a 111101h.11'N 5011;
Ito ;Mt it lit, p111 . 1..1m,1 gentle,
.\nll perferi grave begs,-
This hymn was recently sung to a
tune correspondingly detestable, by a
choir of a thousand Sunday-school chil
dren, at the Brooklyn Rink, on an oc
casion when "only music of a higher
character and of greater excellence and
usefulness than is usually taught in Sab
bath-schools" was to be given. On the
same occasion a hymn containing these
stanzas was sung, as another Ligher
character specimen :
" \l'e trend In the might. ”f the I "NI of Ith,
And we fear lan! mob nor devil;
Fur unri•uplain liiinself guards well our oustsTo klefund his church limn evil.
"And the choir (q . angel, with song aWitilS
Our ;march to the gulden Sion;
For ,me Captain hats broken the brazen gates
Anal burst the bars it troll."
These samples do not exhaust the tri
umphs of the inventive genius of the
Sunday-School music, as witness the
following comfort for cripples :
•• The poor cripple has a chance for glory
As goad a chance irs yap or 1:
Christ will Ilsten lo his story,
lie will hear the cripple's cry.
'• lie always pities poverty,
And seorns not those who have to beg;
Hig grace for every touch sutliciru t.
Inc can go to heaven with a woo,len leg
This is indeed consoling, but we are
afraid it is not orthodox. Paul says
that llesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of heaven. How then can a
wooden substitute for flesh and blood
inherit it? We suspect that before the
author of the above hymn can make
his " calling and election sure" he will
have to show that one can go to heaven
with a wooden head
'Poo many of our Sunday-school books
are as insane, sapless and silly as the
above specimens of Sunday-school
hymns. Those who write them know
nothing about boys and girls, nor hu
man nature, nor human life. They as
sume that there are oily two classes of
children extant—the execrably sancti
monious and the iniqualilledly wicked.
Their good girls are always too sweet to
be wholesome, and their good boys are
usually so mean, sneaking, hypocritical
and detestable that one of them could
not survive half-an-hour in a play
ground filled with real boys. Ile would
he and ought to be inexorably put to
death. 'The wicked boy of 'Sunday
school literature is as great a caricature
its ille good boy, lie goes on for years
committing all manner of atrocious
crimes, and then, in the last page, he
is suddenly converted, and goes straight
to heaven for doing something which
no decent boy would be guilty of doing.
It is time Sunday-school libraries were
purged of such villainous stuff.
.1•1.
How People Are Paid In Germany.
There is no civilized country where
work is so poorly paid as in (lermany,
or where the earnings are in such dis
prwortion to the expenses of living.—
The average earning of a workingman
is four thalers per week, (a thaler is
cents of American gold,) while it re
quires for a family of six members at
least eight thalers. The result, says a
Berlin correspondent, is a series 'of ef
forts at cheap living, cheap enjoyment
and general self-denial. It is only a
master workman that commands one
thaler per day. I know of one who, to
secure this sum, which is absolutely re
quired for his family, rises at three in
the morning and manages a steam en
gine till nine o'clock at night. Occa
sionally he must work through the
whole night and all Sunday without
any additional wages. A common day
laborer, who has mastered no trade, is
glad to get employment at twenty
cents per day. Waiters in the hotels
and restaurants do not average this
Male " help" gets about $4 a month.
A servant girl earns $l5 a year. Higher
work gets gradually better paid, yet
only in comparison.
A teacher in the common schools gets
$l5O to $3OO a year. In gymnasiums, or
what corresponds to our colleges, the
professors, who are required to be grad
uates of one of the great universities,
get, on an average, $6OO. A professor
in a university gets rarely more than
$BOO, besides the fees of his hearers. Of
course, the great leading lights in
science, and the profenores ordinaire
generally, who belong to a special class
sittctligeiter.
of which I shall speak presently, get
better paid. Tutors in the wealthy fam
ilies, a position which the great Raid
and nearly every German literateur has
filled, rarely got more than $4OO a year.
One, who is a graduate of a university,
who speaks, besides his own language,
French, English and Italian, and can
read not only Greek and La. .1, but also
Hebrew and Russian, and Wi!O is, h.-
sides, a professional historian, and has
made original investigations in the lit •
erature and times of Hesiod, ou whir-It
subject he is no mean authority, re
ceives $2OO a year in addition to his
board.
The tiovernment Counsellors, as they
are called—lawyers, physicians, school
directors, etc.—who have the manage
ment of the matters pertaining to their
several departments in the different
districts and wards, and are endowed
for life by the Government, get an an
nuity of $1,500. This, however, is the
commencement of the aristocracy, or
of a class which, front hereditary pos
sessions or large perquisites, are enabled
to live in a style quite distinct from the
"people." Front these upward there
is a rapid increase in the salaries, or
endowments rather. This class, in
cluding the army and police officers and
the nobility, have all the wealth, While
the laboring classes have none. ,
A Mormon Audience
lit a sketch of the trial of the Mttrou.n
Hawkins at Salt Lake, George Alfred
Townsend thus daguerreotypes the au
dience present on the occasion :
There stand the guilty fold, without
the bar of the Court (the most look as if
they wanted a new razor and a square
meah,the Mormon rank and tile. (leave
and listening, and so respectful as to ir
ritate the prosecuting-attorneys very
much (so that they would like to make
premeditated good behavior a conspiracy
punishable by law) ; these Mormons,
could they speak aloud, would swell a
chorus profuse and unintelligible as on
the eve of the miraculous Pentecost—
Dane and Welshman,,Norwegian anti
Finn, Westphalian and Belgian, bard,
nasal Yankee, and witle-mouthed Nor
thumbrian—lads front the collieries of
Newcastle, the purlieus of London, and
the mills of Bradford, they look upon
the ['lilted States in a blue coat with It
lead pencil in its hand as if it were the
Man of Sin, and confined under the
same baldish sconce the peculiarities of
Guy Fawkes and Judge J effreys. Sim
ple people in the main, who, with all
their regard to the command to increase
and multiply, feared the United States
census-takers as partners in their perse
cution, and cut down the returns of their
population by sheer shyness front 130,0n0
to Sti,ooo odd. Docile people, as well,
though not without the courage of the
poor, so that when on the late occasion
of the great Methodist camp meeting.
Brigham said to them its the Taber
nacle, "I want you all to go to this
camp meetingand listen to what issaitk"
they filled it to overflowing every day,
but themourners' bench remained empty
as a lion's platter. And when, on one oc
casion only, at some harangue upon po
lygamy, a mutter arose over that great
congregation, Brigham himself present,
stood up and waved his finger and the
complaint hushed to titter peace. Peo
ple, also, who dance and waltz between
religious benediction, and yet can listen
for hours in ardent delight to dry dis
sertations and discussions in their Tab
ernacle, which might make nature snore
in her processes. How Infinite are the
possibilities of our nature when we re
flect that theta grave, unrebellious peo
ple, the wags and findings of all lands,
many of them dignified in apparel
and culture, and steadily ascend
ing in the scale of comfort and
possessions, hold still with • the te
nacity of a moral purpose to the
loose and spreading life of polygamy,
lreferring this fantastic reproduction
ike the Banyan's branches, to the
straight and peaceful unity of the Euro
pean family. From the windows of the
l'ourt the rolling or serrated line of
mountains enfolding a valley like the
lawn of Paradise, suggested far different.
men and women, and a life bounded by
fewer necessities and a wider opportun
ities for them all ; a life consonant w ith
the literatures of all these people, Clin-
Hontml with Christian art, and promis
ing a period of rest between labor toil
death.
The Road to Dathrolt
There is nothing so funny as the new
ly arrived son of the "Green Isle of the
Sea," who is sure he is not going to be
done, and determined to show the Yan
kees that lie is as sharp as any "wan
'ern." One oftthis class stepped into one
of the ticket offices in the International
Hotel block, at Suspension Bridge, the
other day, and the following dialogue
ensued :
Pat—Shure is this the road to Do
throit ?
Agent—Yes; send you right I lirmigh.
Pat—Shure it's the rale road I mean,
an' none o' thins ehatin' turnpikes.
Agent—You want to go by the l; real
Western from Suspension Bridge or the
rand Trunk from Bullitlo
Pat—Divil a bit! I've no clothes for a
trunk, let alone money for the huyin'
u V WUXI.
Agent—Well, you want to go to De
troit and . M-
Pat—Shure I do.
Agent—AVhiell line will you take?
Pat—Oeli ally line, shure nu
fur a throut or two, perliai,9.
Agent—No, no, how would you like
to go—which way
Put--How would I like to go? Shure,
like a gentleman, an' the same way me
cousin, Mike Dolan, whit.
Agent—And what way was that
Put—tilture lie said it was a mighty
quick way.
Agent—Then you want a ticket on
the express line ; give toe ten dollars
Pat—Tin dollars ! What wud I give
yees tin dollars fur?
Agent—For your ticket by the ex
press.
Pat—Shure it's no express I warn t at
all ; its the way to Dathroit.
Agent—l know u n it; but there are
throe " ways," as you call Ex press,
Trunk, and Central; what line will you
take"
Pat I puzzled
Agent (leaning over the eminter)—
Cottle, my giiiiil tel laic, what will you
take?
l'at t glancing at a big ink bottle that
stood on the counterl--Shure I'll take
a Wimp o' whiskey, it it's the same to
yore honor,
(This reply elicited an explosion of
laughter front half a dozen other ticket
agents who were in the same °flier.—
One of them thinking to better matters
took Pat in hand.)
Agent—you want to go to Detroit
Pat—You may say that.
Agent- -Aid you want to buy a ticket
Pat—Divil a bit.
Agent—What do you want, then ?
Pat—Shure i warnt to know the way
to go to Dathroit.
Agent— \Vett, buy a ticket, and that
will show you the way.
Pat—ltut wouldn't yore honor show
me the way ?
Agent--Ilut how van you get there
without the ticket?
Pat—Shore I inane to walk.
There were two ticket agents hot nu
ticket sold by this operation.
Brigham's Adieux
I=II
Brigham Young's most noted wife is
called Amelia; she is a vivacious, spir
ited woman, about :l years old, Amer
ican born, and without children. An
other of the President's wives is Mrs.
Decker, who still retains indications of
much former beauty, and her daughters
are the handsomest of Brigham's chil
dren. The old gentleman looks out
well for avocations for his sons-in-law,
and it is said that in his will he has di
vided all his property into seven hun
dred shares, giving the bulk of it to the
church, and distributed the rest
equally among his families. I saw
Brigham at the Social Hall, on the
occasion of my last visit here, bid four
of his wives adieu. The old gentleman
had been dancing, but had fatigued the
legs of 70 years, and he approached the
cluster of his helpmates, buttoned up in
a blue overcoat with a white vest under
neath,a red woollen comforter around his
neck, and a.worn silk hat in his hand.
He looked very large, square and bland,
and he said with tenderness and dignity,
shaking each by the hand, "My dear, I
bid you good night." The wives crowded
up, with apparent emulation, asked if
it was his wish that they should also ac
company him home. "No," said Brig
ham, "stay as long as you please. I will
have the carriage come back and wait for
you at the door below. Good night I"
They were all middle-aged women,com
mon place but cheerful. Brigham is said
to object to his, wives dancing round
dances. It is wonderful that a Mormon
with half ado ozen wives can be jealous or
fastidious about each of them, and yet I
have heard people here Hy intoa passion
because their wives were spoken to on
the street by strangers or stared at. The
Only ease of assassination, chargeable
with any degree of probability to the
Mormons, was that of lia.sstield, a team
ster, shot dead in the streets of Salt
Lake for selling a Mormon furniture,
and proposing to elope upon the pro
ceeds of it with a wife. tioodbe, who
hates Brigham Young sincerely, has
four wives, besides one divorced. Singe
he has been ' cut oft'' front the Church,
he has contemplated setting the exam
ple of radical monogamy. " And yet,''
says Goodbe, " I hove all my wives so
equally, and they all love me so harmo-
II loudly, float I cannot pick out the one
to stay or those who must go."
100 of a Ducal Mansion
One tiue autumn day in the year
17:s], as his Majesty George the Second,
surrounded by hls escort, was entering
Hyde Park on horseback, his eye was
attracted by the figure of an old soldier
resting on a bench at the foot of the
Cromwell Oak, that still stands in vig
orous age close by the Achilles Statue.
The King, whose memory of faces was
remarkable, recognized him as a veter
an who had fought bravely at his side
in the continental battles; and kindly
ac2osting hhu , the old Luau, who was
lame, hobbled toward
•' Well my friend," said the mon
arch, " it is now some years since we
heard the bullets whistle at the battle
of Dettingen ; tell ate what has befal
len you since."
I was wounnded in the leg, please
your )lajesty, and received my (lie
charge. My wife and I are living on
the pension I receive, and trying to
brine Up our ()Illy SOIL"
tt Are you comfortable? Is there ally
thine; you particularly wish furl"'
" Please your Majesty, if I :night
wake bold to speak, there is one thing
that would make my wife, !Hair wo
man, as happy Its a elueeu, if she could
Only get it. I surge, ourson —we named
him after, your Majesty -is a bright
htiy, and as we are anxious to give him
a good edllealioll, we try every means
to earn an honest penny; so my wife
keeps an apple stall outside the Park
gate. But it is very hard—the sun and
dust spoil the fruit., the ruin keeps her
home, the Park guards sometimes drive
her away, mid liar Ranger says we have
no right to lie there. Now, please your
Majesty, it' you would have the good
ness to give her the waste bit of grOlind
outside the hark gate, we could build a
shed for her fruit stall, and it would be
I may say, :in estate to us."
14.,;0d-tiatured smiled, and
said, " Vott shall have it lily friend,"
and rode on."
Of course the King hail no more con
stitutional power to bestow :L nlOll or
11 3 d, hid; upon peer or peasant, at that
day, than the Queen has now. lint the
Second I toorge Wile arbitrary. Pelham,
his Prime \linieter, was t ie d of the
crown. Parliament seldom failed to do
the hid ding of the King; ion! the peo
ple, though jealous of their liberties,
forgave and forgot usurpations fn the
splendid successes which crowned the
British arms by sea and laud during the
thirty-three years' reign of George 11.
Whatever, scruples, therefore, may
have been suggested to the monarch's
parting with any portion of the public
domain, did not stand long in the way.
The King's word had been given to the
old soldier, It was the Minister's duty
to see it kept. In a few days a formal
conveyance of the bit of ground to
James Allen, his wife, and their heirs
forever was forwarded to their humble
dwelling.
One morning of the Summer of 170,
nineteen years after good King George
had nude the soldier's young - wife "hap
py as a queen" by hisgift —Aunt Betsey
arriving from market, as usual, at her
place id . merchandise, was startled to
perceive the space around her fruit-stall
and cottage tilled with workmen and
teams. Excavations Were being made
in the ground ; blocks of underpinning
stone were being unladen; bricks and
material for mortar almost hindered her
approach ; carpenters, with axes and
saws, were ready to demolish the apple
stall and cottage.
" Come, old woman," said the fore
man " move your things out of this !
Look sharp! We can't wait all day
for you! The men can do nothin , till
the shed is down "
" My house cued stall, that good King
ieorge gave me nigh twenty years ago!
Tear down my cottage and shed ! No,
no; There's no law in the land can do
that! Who sent you here to destroy
my property ..'
" \Veil, well, any good woman," said
the first speaker, "you must settle that
with the tLurd Chancellor. If you're
wronged, he'll see you righted. Earl
Bathurst is no tyrant. But your house
!mist come down ; su move your things
out last as you can. There is a palace
to be built here somewhat grander than
your applestall.
The poor woman's tears and lamenta
tions were in vain ; her asseverations of
ownership were treated with ridicule.—
The little house and shed were leveled
to the ground, and Aunt Betsey return
ed home heart-sick and desponding.
Misfortunes, it is said, never come
singly. 'flint evening eorge Allen en
tered his mother's dwelling wearing a
countenance almost as dejected as her
own. Ile threw himself on a chair, and
without noticing, her gloom, said:
"0 toothier, I fear we are ruined. Mr.
Elliott has failed for au immense sum ;
there is an execution on his house and
goods, and all the clerks are turned
adrift. Resides, he has till the money
you have laid up, and I fear can never
repay a shilling of it.. Nor is that the
worst ; for how is a fellow to get a new
place when the city is full of unemploy
ed clerks. I shall have to go into the
apple-stall, mother, and give up all hope
of marrying sweet Lucy limy."
" tieorge," replied his mother, "what
you tell me is bad enough; but, my
poor boy, I have still worse news for
you. Our living is gone. The apple
stall, out of the earnings of which* we
raised you when an infant, before your
father saw the King ; the cottage which
the King gave us liberty to build, and
the ground which he made our own
over his own name and seal, are all gone.
The Lord Chancellor is building q pal
ate; the cottage stood in the way, and
the workmen have torn it down to-day.
There is nothing left to us, my boy, but
clod and the wide world."
" tiring me the deed, mother," replied
the son. "The highest in England has
no power to oppress the very lowest. Let
his Lordship build on ; he cannot seize
that which, is yours by the (treat Seal
of England. Were he ten times Lord
Chancellor I will see him to-morrow.''
lie did see him and was heard pa
tiently. The claim was admitted and
the Chancellor hired the site of the old
apple woman for the annual rent of
tip to May Ist last, this sum was
punctually paid to the old woman's de
scendants.
And here Comes in the last link of our
story. England is a country of lease
holds. A few thousand of the aristocra
cy, in common with the established
Church hold the fee-simple of all lands.
London is built, and Liverpool, and
Birmingham, and Sheffield, and Man
chester, and every town, great and
small, within the Kingdom, on ground
leased for ninety-nine years. The
rents on these leases constitute one
great element of the wealth of the he
reditary land owners. Upon the expi
ration of a lease, it is the univi rsal cus
tom to renew it, no matter what may
be the enhanced value of the land, to the
holder, at the same annual rent, for a
future term of ninet3 -nine years, with
what is called a line. Thus, the Mar
quis of Westminister, who holds three
quarters of the West End of London ;
thus the Duke of Bedford,whose proper
ty includes Covent Garden and all that
labyrinth of streets, and squares, and
places, and inns of the court that sur
round it; thus Lanbeth Place, residence
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, that
receives its princely revenues from
docks and right of ferries on the Thames
renew old leases at the same annual rent
to the holder, with atne. The amount
of the fine, to be paid in ready money,
represents the increased value of the
land. To John Allen, the barrister,
upon the renewal of the apple-woman's
lease:in 1870, the line paid by the pres
ent Duke of Wellington was £70,000.
The fee-simple of the ground upon
which Apsley House stands, granted
by law or favor, under the sign-man
uel of George the Second, remain in the
hands of the descendants of the old ap
ple-woman, one hundred and twenty
years after the King passed his word to
the wounded soldier.
NUMBER 49
Like ON Like Man
It is told of Henry the IV., of France
that he twice whipped his son, Louis
the XIII, with his owa hand t the first
time because be had taken such a dis
like to a gentleman, that his servile at
tendants could only appease him by
pretending to shoot with a pistol with
out ball the object of his aversion, the
second time for crushing the head of a
sparrow. Though small in comparison
with the unjust punishment he had in
dicted, his mother objected to this dis
cipline of her son. " Pray to (toil,"
replied Henry, " that I may live, for
when I'm gone, he will ill treat you."
The experience of the king had taught
him that cruelty seldom knows any
elis
tinetion, and that he who begins by
crushing the heads on sparrows in sport,
world end by directing hi' VVIIOIII
against the mother that bore hint. The
prediction was verified to the letter.
A Little Heroine
It is but seldom that the beautiful
deeds of unselfish childhood lied a place
in our daily newspapers. Itevord-, of
patriotism, of phianthrophy, of variety
and of :crime are her aided with elabo
rate carefulness. Quite recently the
Providence ../oura.d mported a touching
incident of a little girl, only eleven
years of age who applied to the super
intendent of a Rhode Island cotton
mill Mr work. She pleaded for em
ployment that she might aid her sick
father. :-the had been in the mill but a
few days when her hand caught in
the machinery and so severely injured
as to lose several of her ringer-. On be
ing released by the stopping of the ma
chinery, instead of indulging in cries,
the little heroine eagerly asked " Will
this stop toy working G,r my -Mk lath
er."'
:lily one in curiou, to It.arn tlu• etiquette
observod Ly tlu , Prin, in a hall
rumn, ho call he grattilocl Icy thr follswpiv
report of it •louldtts at 1111 , Cis% vrttor',
and entortaitiniont on Saturday :
The kill W11,1(penoll by I iii. rtl Nlcl iow
oil a nd the ,; rand Dulto Miss Nellie NI lir
phy being the first partner selected forlhe
'rho band struck op .i lit cIY glop
and the leneital, with his partner, started
un' ill good time. The Prince ~ssayeil it
start, but hail scarcely turned
fOrtl Iris feet slipped iond threw him out of
time, 80 very smooth and oily was the 1104/r.
lie quickly recovered himself, and then
with 50010 caution lie proceeded in good
style. On returning his partner to her
friends she complimented the Prin.,
on being a good gentleman U, dimes
with. l'he Grand Duke, as he appeared on
the ball-room floor after divesting himself
of hat and lung chink, revealing his prince
ly head mid dark, golil•stuildeil uniform,
was entirely becoming to his high rank.
Had any stranger stepped into the place,
and been asked to point out the 111051 (111,
Linguimhed looking man lii the flour, he
would have certainly truth srlcofcd the Inns!
Duke. Isis was the tallest figure there,and
his perfect self-possession gave hint a
graceful bearing, and there seemed to be
harmony In every gesture. From till that
has been seen of the (Irate! I Alexis,
It Is evident that he Is not a " lady's man."
While acting as escort lie is always polite
and occasionally t ay. I tut he never
As soon AV the ceremony ,if dancing Is over
—fur It is little more than a ceremony hir
him—he relieves his 'leaner or his ono
puny and goes his way, leaving her to go
hers. If he can steal away he will walk off
alone, got in it back room:, roll a cigarette
and smoke it.
Trouble glib Niutlii
'rho Worfit has a special despatch from
Washington to the effect that our troubles
with Spain are likely to lead ail war unless
an apology and redress Is !nada It says:
Last week mention was made in the World
despatches that an impormot diplomatic
correspondence was in progress with the
authorities at Madrid with regard to the
non-fulfillment of promises made by thin
Spanish Government or the protection of
the rights of American citizens in Cuba,
and also of the status of nomeoin Isamu
Cubans. It - has progressed no far as to
show that Spain., instead of heeding its
promises, line violated then, iu the boldest
manner. There is the best reason to be
lieve that this Government has taken a
most important step, which, if not net in a
apologetic spirit, nay lead at once to the
gravest consequence. ludeed a United
States Ilea much larger than is required to
protect the inoffensive Hornet at Port-au-
Prince will suddenly appear in Cohan ven
ters,
MA DRI D Nov. 27.—iieneral Sickles was
married to Miss Creach to-day, Bitch started
for New York immediately. 11 is visit is
an object of mystery at present.
Wilkes Booth has again been seen alive
in the flesh. 'Phis time a Chieago actor is
the man that has set eyes on the murderer
of Lincoln, and a Fort Wayne reporter has
interviewed him. "'fell your readers," says
Luis veracious actor, "that .1. Wilkes Booth,
the murderer of Abraham Eineolfl, passer,
through the city to-day. I saw him myself.
I cannot be mistaken ash, his indentity.
knew him intimately fora number of years.
I have supported him behind the footlights,
and I au willing to make lily affidavit that
he was on board the eastern bound train
on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 1. Chicago
Railroad thisafternoon. I was standing on
the platform waiting for a friend, wi, stul
denly my attention was attracted by a pair
of eyes looking intently at 1110 through the
ear window. The sight riveted iso to the
spot, for I immediately reetignizaid is the
person hefu ro nu. 11111 of a Presi
dent," IVC., 1!.
This thing is getting tiresome. I f Booth
is really alive, why don't s , illll. of the en
terprising managers engage him liir a low
nights. Be WOlllll draw likes eof oxen.
I=lllll
The New York 7YiloOo- says licro
must be some sulitile relation between
matrimonial rows and divan of elocution.
Else, wherefore Mi SO many ktilios,
reputations have been perfumed with am
atory scandal, feel called on to give pub
lic readings? Mrs. Vet vertiiii read—and
she was of a numerous class. Mrs. Bige
low-Taylor-Montgomery w.e, very lately
announced for the rostrum. And crow we
hear of Mrs. Adelaide I todrick, "whose
'lamellas been so long before the public, in
connection with the divorcoMurt, and who
is engaged in giving a series of dramatic
readings and costume recitals." Evident
ly the course of true love, when it was
rough, rolls directly to public gab. Mrs.
Ilodrich, we are told by it London paper,
" looked the proud scornful beauty to the
life"—which, possibly, account., for her
intimacy with the divorce court.
The fribesc has taken suck strange
freaks recently, in going hack on nearly
everything it formerly adhered' to, that it
may not be strange to see it thus abusing
Mrs. McFarland Richardson, liver I.IIC
shoulders of other female "readers."
Rumor has it that these persistent wo
tnan suffragists are to be spesially honor
ed by the Russian 1/11ke Alexis. It is
stated, on what appears to be good author
ity, that the Cv.arovithil of :d I the 'Bassi.
has requested 311 Interview with the wo
man suffragists, labor reftriners and spir
itualist of America oft his arrival in this
country; and that the Itussiao Minister,
Mr, Catasazy, has made arrangements with
Aire. Visioria Woodhull, President of the
National Reform Party, to hold the inter
view at her residence foi Thirty-Eighth
street, near Fifth Avenue, New fork.
It is known that the Emperor', Govern
ment ha.s manifested great interest in the
elevation of WOlllall, 111111 granted her
many privileges not accorflefl in this
country.
Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Clallin her
sister) aro of Russian and tiernmn ances
try, and speak those languages fluently.
This will be quite an event in the visit of
Alexandrovitch to America;
- -
Internal lievenne and the Income Tax.
It seems to be admitted on all sides that
as soon as Congress begins the work of re
forming the internal revenue the income
tax will be abolished. The product of this
most odious imposition under the amend
ed law is so pitifully small that the tax
cannot safely be retained in the presence
of a general popular demand for its remov
al. It should have been abolished last
Winter, for the outcry against it was even
stronger than it is now; but our refire
eentatives will be rather more sensitive to
public opinion during the coming session,
in view of the fact that they will Gone
home when Congress adjourns to solicit
the support of their constituents in con
tests for re-election. Mr. Bothwell will as
suredly find himself in the minority Ilion
this subject, this Wither.
==l
The linona Mine is not the first of
Schenk's successful financial operations
on a small capital. The N. Y. II er(eld re
ports that General Schenck's house In
Washington, was given to him by M.
John A. Griswold and other tariff-lobby
ists. The protectionists made groat efforts
to favor General Schenck on every occa
sion, Because he was ono of the ablest of
their advocates in Congroaa_.--
Factional Serenely In Alalu
A convention of Republicans in Alabama
a few days ago adopted resolutions ap
proving the course of Seuator Spencer in
Congress. Ex-Senator Warner fought
against the resolutions and was defeated.
Senator Spencer has criticised the action
of the administration lately in the Alabama
appointment.
Democratic Opiolon--No New Party.
From the Columbus statesman.
While there is hardly a proposition set
forth in the Schurz platform that does not
meet the earnest approval of the great mass
of the Democratic party, yet we haven° idea
they will consent to all üband.nunent W'
their organization at the outset of the Pres
idential can vase and go to work to form a
now party It is too much like swaPPing
horses while in the stream. Pules. tinder
the impetus of some mighty 11116th - a rev.,
lotion, like that of lall or Ihlil, a sew par
ty could not be organized next year as
Mr. Schurz proposes, in time to do any
effective work at the Fall election , . --
Tho result would then be a demoraliza
tion of 010 Opposition to I rant, the
November election would go lay default,
and his majority would exceed Um hopes
of his most sanguine honehmen. We be
hove a majority of the people are opposed
to Gen. tirtint's re - cleetion, and are Ii1111:411'
agreed in their support of three or fonr po
litical propositiOnS that 01111saly about all
tllOl - 0 is or vital hillitortalitio at this 111110 m
the preservation of constitutional liberty,
the inauguration of honesty in the public
service, and common Sells. , anti Lair lead
ing in the Federal reventia system.
A Protest Against PatrNlyi•.l.,
From the Boston Post.
It is not progress anti growth for the
party which is the inspiring motive of the
passice proposition, so much its it is a
gambling fontinass liar change, a tralliek log
attachment to both the party anti its great
principles, and a timid and con inset video •
Intern of chances that pays far more regard
to the personal profit than the popular ad
vantage. Ally politician of ordittar.v pent , .
trillion must understand that a negative
position for a great party is sure distule•
g,ration and death. Defeat outright ,scull
not bring on the catastrophe se sudden]) .
It would be a general disbanding without
even the usual oontlition of external com
pulsion. NVliethor weakness Itr treacitery,
hike judgment or cool design, the result
would bo no it., thorough and com
plete. enliine, progressive Del:menus,
determined on tut expansien e 1 the patty
doctrines and methods to the utmost
limits of liberalism, but rosols ed le pre
tact their faith As their only footing in the
general mlll'll , loll, honestly lad hove that the
liberal element call be
brought into co operative po.ition Withom
Waking this eonlession that they must lode
their principles in order to vindicate them.
Supposing the proposed sellout is d'iNtssi v isle
to be possible 01811venss, it still remain: to
be shown in what way the I mutocratic crissl
has been liberalized, or Whitt mew
tee of its operation in the I;eyeruittent it
will have revetved. To win a triumph for
a cause by refosing to mention the cause.
is sti idle :LS a proposition as lit /Mike it
ii~,.sitry to attempt it as an experiment.
11e , lime.
.k gloat party I,nnot be blotted out of ex •
iNtefire inade to dimappeat truth the
1/t/111.1E.1‘1 %Vl,lllllg 1;1'
re ,, )lVillg that it ',hall ice co. In ether
,Voris, Ole prol_lll , lll 1.. fine which will most
probably solve itooll. If thulium is ripe for
tho formation of a 11110 party or the
peanut,' of an old 01111, or tor that ohl one
to take upon fl a nary forte of growth and
expanNion, and Itl enter upon a new pha....0
HI its eareer, wo need not iliNturbottrhelVi•s
;11,1.111, the 11VIIIII, which hap
pen a., , oriling to the worlcing of the gener
al la,v ‘Co have 111411rill.11;10‘11ii Wiiit'll,lllllll ,
..r lair own country, bass
11,1011 verified and illustrated in the
6+olll I11001;1 ROlllll/11c.11.111illti Fetier,tl
parties, the Whig, the linto..ratie, and a
A e t ,Ti t i Itopiildhlin party having nothing
in cuuufion with ifs prodeve,,,or but the
11;11111,,
TI,, . /1011. 1/assist W. IllOriset, uts MC
Situation.
TERRI: Marra:, Ind., Nev.27.--The !lon.
Daniel NV. Voorhees in a card published
in '17,1. .I,lrrn, I of this city, ',reposes an
important Democratic !tarty movement.
Ilesays
I keenly appreciate the importaime Iti un
unithorative expression ut the pi Mewl.,
which 111, In wild° us in the future no In
the past. It should he made, too, at an
early date, in order that an organization
shall be I“.rftitited, and t•tuitlitleinie restored
by the time the approaching vain ',alga is
upon tin. This, iIOWVVIII . , shl,llltl butthe
work (4 . a National l'onvontion, embrating
delegates From all the States. I am ill
ravor of vatting such a convention at some
ventral point in the Went, on a day not
litter than the 25.:(1 of February nest. The
tiall shotild lie Issued by the National li:x
koutive Committee, and delegates should
75(1 appointed by SLate and district conven
tions. The business it' thls body should
be to carefully and patiently weigh all
views laid before It, and to agree upon and
publish a clear, dolinile declaration of
principles upon all matters allecting the
political welfare of the people, end the
safety of our free institutions. This tieing
done, it should adjourn to a duty fixed for
the nomination of a candidate for the Pres
idency.
In the meantime, the people of thin States
(inn discuss, approve or disapprove of what
has been done. It would lie the duly ui
all Democrats taking part In politics to sub
mit to the voice of the majority. I t there
are such iLs prefer their own convictions,
(Wen to the platform of a !stational Clinvoin ,
Lion, they can step aside in (Inlet, widowl
einbarra.ssim; anybody else. Let its, how
ever, have political, as well its. personal
hariumay, and SUCCOHM IS Within till r reach.
If the entire Democratic vote can be
ron
sultdatod, inspired With
brought le the polls, lien. lirant cannot be
re-elected. It was the voters In our !tarty
that stayed at Lento tun the days or the late
election which wrought such wide-spread
dereat. There is no increase of the Itepult-
Heim vote.
• I make the above xu ggeotlo t, knowing
that It is entirely pritetititible,Atod that it
Meets an Urgent of rho prem.:it
crisis. I shall respectfillly urge it upon
the attention of the National Executive
Committee. and ask for it the favorable
contiiiieration of Conservative mon every
where.
'l' he Philadelphia lent says, "The (lii
liernatorial succession in Pennsylvania is
being agitated by the parties most. directly
interested, and already we have 1110111/ then
an average (Toil or candidates aoroono.o.i.
'rho thus far announced are
mnorals H artran ft and White, Colonel
Peunypacker, Messrs. ( I. Dawson Coleman,
Ketchum, Moorehead, Packer, and Fran
cis Jordan, present Secretary or the Com
monwealth. The gentlemen in this list
who are most waive, are Herb-unit, White,
and, perhaps, K (admin. r. Jordan will
have the earnest support of (loverival Mary,
and the Executive Department will be ac
tively used this NVinter in his interost.—
\ this support will lie Many service
to him in questionable.
I emeriti Ilartran ft is raring with the sol
dier element, and has (aided much hi his
popularity by 1,1.4 Mule administration of
the Auditor- , Imend's (I icing the last
six years. Con. Harry White is Senator
from the Indiana (mil Westmoreland dis
trict, and is working with determination
awl earnestness. Several clubs have 1101111
formed 111 his interest in this city. Mr
etelnitu, of Luzern., is well known
throughout the State 'as a gentleman of
eminent ability and large experience in
public, alrairs, and will unquestionably be
it strong man. NVe have nut heard of any
organized movement in his interest.. r.
Ketchum was the opponent Of I ;Clary for
1.1111111,11111131.1,/11 111 Psi(i, James K... Moore
head, of Pittsburgh, will be strong 111 the
west. 110 is well knee., as all able repro
sentativo in Congress.
During the next three 1/11/111.11, 1.11(1rt, will
bo considerable manosivering oil the part
of the vitriol', candidates and their parti
sans fur the advantage of position. liar
rinlairg, during the coming session of the
Legislature, will be the principal base fur
operation, and Legislative favors will be
contended for with it view to this nomina
tion. IL is 11101 - 0 than probable that, com
binations will be made in Ilarrisburg (lur
ing the session of the Legislature that will
be instrumental iu determining the con
test. At the present time Philadelphia is
riot very decided fur any particular candi
date, but the feeling seems to bepretty
equally divided between I I artranft, Writhe
and K etchuni.
Ml=
'rho Lynchburg News says
The late war in Europe has vindicated
old ago from the imputations of iniliocility
and Inefficiency which it has been the
Young America fashion of into to cast upon
it. The stalwart and victorious Emperor
of Germany, the peerless General Von
Moltke, and many other leading lierman
officers, are all old men. Itimmark, the
giant statesman, is by no means a youth.
Disraeli and tlladidone of uul aro no
chickens. Tillers, at the ago of seventy
four, holds the helm of France. It would
be better for lids country If It paid more
respect to the counsels of age and ox pod
enee.
A Illottomnialtsc'x Will
Mr. Horace newel+, whose lwil l is now
contested In the Probate Court at San
Francisco, appears to have been a very
disagreeable and profane mongiumniac. II c
accused his wife of every crime, and com
pared himself to Jesus Christ as a benefac
tor of the race. In making his will lic
practically disinherited his wife and daugh
ter, leaving a large fortune to his son, and
the remainder t 6, found a " Mount Eden
University," but under such conditionn as
to render the project impracticable. The
widow contents the will on the ground that
the testator W flu insane, and the general
opinion in that it will be:broken.
Another Republican Down on Gram.
Governor \Yarmouth, of Louisiana, a
Republican, in a speech on a recent excur
sion down the Mississippi, said that Orant
and his party cured nothing for the South,
except to annoy and persecute the people
and to turn their misfortunes to account
for partisan capital. They have no Inn r
est in the vast' rich valley, and are all ab
sorbed with their whole resources in the
chase fur imaginary Ku-Klux, and aro de
populating the country, arresting women
and children suspected of designs against
the Union. The New Orleans Timex COM
mouting upon (boy. \Yarmouth's speech,
says it is impossible to construe his mean
ing in any other way than as a bold and ag
gressive assault upon the present Admin
istration.
Let the Reform DO Extended.
Secretary Robeson is doing a good work
at the Naval Academy in his vigorous ef
forts to stamp out the infamous custom of
hazing. lie sayit that the evil shall be cor
rected, if it becomes necessary to expel
every cadet to do it. The Secretary of War
has shown HOMO disposition to, observe a
similar course at West Point, but there is
little reason to expect much from hint,
since his contemptible snobbishness In
shielding the President's son from merited
punishment.