ge > ba IR Nh IN THE FAR-AWAY, Never a word is said, But it trembles in the air, And the truant voice has sped To vibrate everywhere; And perhaps far off in eternal years The echo may ring upon our ears, Never are kind acts done To wipe the weeping ayes, But, like flashes of the sun, They sigual to the skies; And up above the angels read How we have helped the sorer need Never a day is given But it tones the after yoars, And it carries up to heaven Its sunshine or its tears; While the to-morrows stand and wait The silent mutes by the outer gate, There is no end to the sky, And the stars are everywhers, And the time is eternity, And the here is over there; For the common deeds of the common day Are ringing bells in the Far-Aawy, Harry Burton, WAS IT A CRIME? It was with that question on his lips that Corporal Jack fell out of rank in the march of life and deserted to the | majority. He has been answered by now, but for | me it 1s still a questicn, and as such I | tell my story and in my turn, ask my | readers * What It was during year of the war | that John Holliday enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Georgia Infantry, of which regiment I was Chaplain, and from that | hour until his death, two years after, at | the battle of Antietam, the Confederacy gever had a more daring, reckless de fender. He was a stern, his conversa is a crime! th [2410 or reserved man among their fire, © Companions, in ions around the taking par n th ing battle In appearance Jack was no ing-—ove aificent b of a soldie agly. out from under a brows, while his high, daverous complexion, second bush of reddish beard, which the rest of his face, and left an impenetrable mystery. But if mouth Jack himself was cepted own part, until afte the riddle Jack always met me with the same re never joining r eir {rol ALI t in heig , he was the very beau i positi Small. dee t oray eves looked his face was bush of reddish eve thin nose and ca { emerged from his m Jack's an 1s such by his i $ rf several iu spectful manner and same blank wall of reserve, but it was owing to those } ] mine, that wledee of if mistaken efforts of my present Kne The year of suffering passed, and it was the eve of Antietam We had had aod I had thrown worn out with fatigu hen 1 was He had pushed open the fly of my 18 story nd hardsi if the i 1ip had battle a busy day, myself down, a little by Corporal just ' 0 to sleep, v roused Jack tent, limly outlined light sky “Beg your pardon I have & word saluting rae respectful I bad by no means lost interest in regiment ‘‘enigma,’’ as called, and signified my assent, motioning to a seat on the ground by my side He took it in silence, and in obstinate silence I waited for his confidence. 1 knew my man too well by this time to attempt to hasten it The result proved my wis dom. After apparently a last, sharp struggle with his habitual reserve plunged in one sentence into the heart of his st “Mr. Bot years ago | would calla justice. Will you hear my story, judge between the law and I sat up, startled out of was a story with a vengeance and stood in the opening, his wrninst the summer twie Mr with vou, the wis him Jack vi ry wy he said hoarsely, ‘‘three itted what the act doteler law of | and rime I call it an me?” he re But imi tating his conciseness, | said quietly “1 am ready to hear fatigue; the case, Cor- poral “To make you understand my story, | must go back Jack, calmly. ‘‘Atthat time I was aboy of twenty, superintending home plantation for my father, who was a suall planter in Melntosh County. There | were only three of us father, brother James and I. “My mother was dead, and for years we had seen no white woman in our | house, except our housekeeper, an elder | ly maiden lady, sand distant relative of my father. You can imagine the revela tion it was to us then, when Aunt Millie Payne died and her little orphan daugh- ter came to live in our quiet old house. | Dorothy -—her name was Dorothy-—was | only ten yeam old when she came to | us, a lovable, headstrong little creature, with great brown eyes, and a mass of un- | tidy, red-brown curls, that were the trial | of the child's life. “She was not pretty then; her face was too thin and brown, and in manners, I am afraid she was a tomboy, but even then I loved her and thought her bean. tiful. She was fond of me, too, ina oy and was always with me, indoors out, When my father wanted to send her away to school, it was through my persuasions that he was ipduced to engage & governess for her, a thing very annsual with people of our class. But nothing was too for my darling.” + e off suddenly; his fifteen years,” resumed the n his ordinary tone must excuse me, sir, for dwell. | was very happy, | have {and did © | Saw “The ten years that changed Dorothy from a pretty tomboy to a beautiful young woman, were ton years of quiet happiness and innocent pleasures, and at twenty Dorothy was as unconscious of the nature of my love for her as she had been at ten, and I, like sn weak fool, hesitated to trouble our peaceful life by declaring it. “I deserved to lose my prize, and 1 had my deserts. We had a neighbor, a Mr. Brereton, the owner of a large plan tation, and one of the proudest men I] ever saw. He would have considered it | the wildest nonsense if anyone had fore shadowed a marriage between his son and a Holiday. If he had lived all the misery might have been prevented, but he died two years before his son came of age, and left him in sole possession of his estate, “Paul Brereton the handsomest man I ever saw, after a rollicking, dare devil fashion. Young as he was, there were stories about him worthy an older reprobate, and report said he already showed signs of following in his father’s footsteps, and becoming drunkard. “It was to this man Dorothy gave her heart. about I don't ings at neigl dance, or boating party, and one morn- ing, young Brereton demanded Dorthy's hand of my father. My expostulations were utterly in vain, and only served to estrange Dorothy from me. My father, immensely flattered by Brereton's prefer ence, was a confirmed that my little How it came quite know; a few meet hors’ houses, an occasional consented at once, and in a month they were married “For awhi all went le Dorothy apparently, and I was well; glad, ves, sir.” fiercely, *‘I was glad.” ‘My heart never brute enou and when [ went to see her for the first ti her marriage re peated the Corporal was broken, ness, her little me 1 which was natura member how | opposed | he never IAT 1 i witl with some of t thers, to last I had some him “For Dorothy’ iy | trouble I night after ni persuade be too drunk to with me to le I more than ot x rushed he stru i wked him d me 0 never fear of that after making I had that Srvania asl «c ps whenever she heard me toxicated, “Things went on from bad to Paul used to weeks at Savannah gambling oh Hy a time, mince was morteaged up ¢ : hig slaves were all sold viv the necessaries of baby died some ¢ just before it d RCAC her enddenly ow hildish disease ied a doctor, but she just said, No, John. it is too father ¢ with and wanted quietly pl y go this morning, but late n asked his and that the boy he was in a hurry to go to Savannah told me it was all nonsense ; was well enough.’ ““The child died a few minutes after I it first, and all I Dorothy's ‘mammy,’ could do was to whom I had and send | bought when Paul sold her, to her young mistress, and then I put my fastest horse into a light wagon and drove as quickly as possible to the station. 1 was de termined that Paul should not annoy his wife that night at least, “f arrived as the train pulled into the station, and giving my reins to a lad to { hold, jumped out and went to look for Breretca. He was not in any of the passenger cars, and [ was just making up my mind to go to Savannah in search of him, when I saw two of the hrakemen | carrying a man out of the freight ear “One glance showed me Paul Brere. ton. He was talking, raving and swear. ing at one moment; the next whispering | to hirrself and staring about with fright. ened eves, his hands moving incessantly the while. I did not need a doctor to tell what was the matter with him, and my heart sank when I thought of Do. rothy watching by her dead boy. “The men handed Paul over to me as a matter of course; people had come to consider me a sort of keeper for him. 1 took the precaution of tying his hands and feet, and put him into the wagon on 8 hed of blankets, and after sending off | a lad for a doctor to meet me at Beaview, I dre ve him home. 1 would have wished to take him to my own home, but | knew Dorothy would think it her duty to nurse him, wherever he was, and that it was no use trying to spare her, “By the time we resched Seaview his delirium had increased terribly, and it was as much as I could do to keep him, bound as he was, from pitching himself of the wagon, | time ' to enrage Brereton, and before we could prevent it he had wrenched his hands loose and sprang after her, crashing the | sprang : ‘ door behind him. Dorothy lying senscless on the floor, blood streaming from a terrible gash in | her forehead, while Brereton over her, a heavy ruler in his upraised hind. ‘We sprang upon him in time to pre- vent a second blow, and earried him, | struggling from the room. It was somo before we could bind him again, and in the meantime, Charlotte, Doro thy's nurse, had come to relieve our mirds about her. Her mistress was bet. ter, she said, and had sent word to the! doctor not to leave her husband until he was quiet, assuring that her wound was slight, “For the next half hour it was much we could do to keep the maniac we guarding, from killing Twice the doctor injected mor The and momet- h. wd fal dilem- us own ns were us or himself, phine without any apparent effect delirium was, if anythiog ful form, INCreast d, death in its most fright tarily drew I'he If he n it would very probably prove fatal, while nearer the stricken wret in an dre administered morphine agai doctor was mA. on the other hand, to permit the delirium to run its course uncontroled, meant cer- death rreeable tain ar % 10ALhisot ‘In of pred nt situation he that pres 1 administered a tl this the some slight hope an (lisa ANGL "naive morn its effect was almost thing From a wri became, sudd there cam next r n faint ymy lips My watch lay hands marked three mov slowly, the was utes pulse grow ! per fen min The dox in his rem flut ing mpidly weaks ceptible now pine minutes i I gave a sudden ory! hed in and raised Brereton on me for the pulse had Not the bring mn lead! ceased IX ARIng. Tod wl before ir, verdict arms g franticalls lie 2 tor cain It was Lise : } ~ i faintly, and ceased whole Hege of surgeons could him to life again! Brereton was The Co mp ral from his seat “1 have stated the the andl wie me he said, was IL a Case, quietly, ‘what crime?” The nes Corp ral Jack fell unded I reached him only in time to soothe his last agony Just before he died he murmured faintly y “Don't forget, sir, that | Dorothy again, though 1 might, because ; Remember that, sir, Atlanta at sundown MOrtally wi nevYer maw no One Supe ted and tell me if it was a crimel” Constitrlion Counterfeiters Who “ Ralse™ A great deal of counterfeiting is done by ‘‘raising.” Genuine bills are used for this purpose. By erasing the figures in a two or & five and substituting the de- nomination desired the work is rendered very simple, although readily detected by any close observer. Hevenue stamps of every description have been counter. feited, but postage stamps have never heen Smitated, Some very good counterfeit paper was shown, for the crime of manufacturing which the offender has fifteen years at hard labor, Foreign notes are frequently counter. feited in this country. Bank of England notes are easily counterfeited, as they are very simple and printed on plain white | paper. — Washington Star, ——— Bills, —— Perlodieal Incendiarism, The prevalence of incendiarism hat been found to vary with the seavon. Iv the four years ending with 1886 there were more criminal fires in J an increase in L] As we burst open the | door to follow him, we heard a scream | of terror and the fall of some heavy body, | and our first view of the room showed us | stooped | | anchor and end of the cable, CABLES UNDER THE “BREAXKS" IS MADE, SEA. | Ingenious Devices Aboard the Repair | Steamer for Recovering Sunderved Lines Two of the big transatlantic eables, | When direction. Then an attempt is made to | call the operator in the foreign office, If Sa | no answer is received, the direction at | HOW THE BEARCH FOR REPORTED | i least, of the trouble is known. Then | the little instrument known nas the | galvanometer is attached, and the exact | location of the trouble is determined. the break is reached, if only a | fracture of the inner wire lias occurred, or which parted off the Flemish Cape dur- | | ing the recent terrific cyclone, are now being whipped about in forty fathoms of water. The work of ‘picking up” and splicing the sundered strands is an intri cate and hazardous task, which requires a wide experience on the part of those identified with the dangerous undertak- ing. There are two boats fitted up for work | of this character--the Ponyor-Quertier and the Faraday. Both are equipped with similar apparatus for laying cables and remedying any disturbances The skipper of the a thorough me 1 trician,. Wher the break is mitting, work wil + begun st The first step tot cordance with the chart which sho th of irse by the wind, he sorthward or south war line of # not only spert elec hes the cape-—if weather pers ones is tke bearings in @ wi the the cables, and, de terpuning huis Pe ints of the two pre vi steams a mile to the Mt cab e or rig the position, and Th WIres is ix o the hen drops his hooks ory we search for the in earnest, These hoo of 1 linr about ¢ desig: about ind red PV the bottom, weigh There are five of which nine 5 What 1» on ¢ termined alter up an it als ng cal i" sirgm winch as bh tacked to cle Then the end in Graws ly sealed But by ping into the be overboard sed dr pped back Sea. it it provision sunderstood hat thrown it any for it One of the enormous buoys made of iron is floated to mark the spot. The buoy is anchored with a chain long enough to reach the bottom, the exact course, being known from the previous operation of dragging, To the chain is attached a “mushroom” anchor, as it is called, to which the end of the cable is secured. The buoy is fitted out with warning flags and lamps, the latter be ing provided with sufficient oil to burn a week or ten days, Then a second dragging is made and the other portions of the cable recovered This is brought on board and new eable is spliced to the end. The *‘joint” being 1s must not mi is with easily recovering length, of well secured and properly covered, the | , " : | enltivated in this manner | floating vegetable gardens them are also steamer starts in the direction of the | buoy, perhaps fifteen or twenty miles away, paying out the new cable as she goes. When the buoy is reached it is hoisted on board and with it the chain, There the two ends are spliced, and th messages that the fracture has been repaired are sent in both directions. The work of splicing is the most deli- | cate part of the undertaking. Many yards of the cable have to be uncovered | were placed m a flooring, and when the | rice shoots were ready for transplanting some defection in the covering, the wire is hauled aboard and new material is sup- | plied in place of the old. The breaking of a cable is & very rare accident, under ordinary weather con- ditions. One of the first marine cables ever manufactured was laid lish Channel in 1851. It i condition for service, — New York Star. in the Eng- in good s still —————— "- SELECT SIFTINGS. ish have been esught in ifornia at a depth of 140 A lady at Wallula, W. T stands seventeen Princes : DEIN « tian ducats bod tons Philac Compan nized in The nigl hat ix t} " When 1 each one Chior was batized mth of I A 3 10 twelve feel lor 1" broad. is prepared, sa hd. The poles Are of Over this a layer of interstices an inc N N sl . SICH is spread, and then a co inch thick of adhesive the bottom of a canal or pond, which receives the seed. The raft ism the bank in still water, and requires no further at. tention. The straw soon gives way and the soil also, the roots drawing support from the water alone. In about twenty AW ah Inch Wing two mud, taken from wed to | davs the raft becomes covered with the creeper (ipomaa reptams), and its stems and roots are gathered for cooking. In autumn its small white petals and yellow stamens, nestling among the round leaves, present a very pretty appearance. In sotoe places marshy land is profitably Besides these floating rice fields. Upon rafts construe. ted as above weeds and adherent mud LANCER Accounted ror. Husband I saw quite an nnususl gight on the train to-night, my dear, The brakeman sctually sssisted wom to carry out her bundles when the train stopped, Wife-~How nice of him! Ard it an old lady ? Husband Wan no; 1t was a pretly gird A a ————— Dy, Hammoxp says that drinking water chills the solar-plexus. What makes the statement more deplorable is the fact that hundreds of thousands of water-drinkers never before knew that they had a solar-plexus. 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