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MAS9ACHl'ETT8 BAV. 1T0. 1
t' rohln dn In the (itohsrfl, the fciid", Into bl-
! ot bvimitn lorrow the bni1 nrt the robin
knrw !
Pin tfn 'alien hnnelioW, the poor Fren. U neu,
her loui'some garret fell the Mil of the April
itejr, ..-. - '
LiiiKh the tltiKly wlitilow I'uilniiird liy Iho npl.
nr warp aiui wool,
he Inoee-lald Hunr of hemlock, on oaken lib ot
roof, ...
I he bed qntlt1 feul. it patch work, the tea-cnpe on
I .'. toe stano, .
he whorl with flaxen tangle as It dropped from ker
aire iuuiu I i . .
-.'. t i - -
hat to her waa the aong itf-tueTobln, or wmii
. i murnlna? llirliL 1
.he lay in the trance of the flying, homllesa of
BOKBll or 1
wna the work of her hanrts, ahe had eaten her
iterureaat
rut ni tne anen poopie lay ncninii uit mm
uaoao.
aonl wont buck to lis child. time: ahe law
Hnn o'erflow
Id the Baaln of Minns and act'ilver OaHpe.
The Iff hare tfatx at' tbh tidc, the man of the aea
TT,tov)' Inlet, and creek and river, from dike to "i-
lUpiHNIJ t - , .
She gulls in tlie red of m
and tail,
he drift of the fog In
coastralh .. .
morning, the fiah-haw'a rlae
4
moonshine ovef the daik
Kl.A uuut till, f . K ( ,h ,AB b,a 1. a
i " ahe sang, ' r
iarn, taiutiy, Slowly, Jim Mil tor veapera
, rang!
y her bed the hard fared luiatrena let amootliing
the wrlukleil sheet, ,
Peerlna- Into tbefa ao helpless, ami feeling the
v ive-coia reeu
vitlitvagne remorse atoning for her greed and
tonv abuse.
ly care no longer heeded, and pity too late for uac.
the stairs of the garret softly the son of the mis
tress ateuoed.
Pined over the head-board, covering hit face ulth
Ids hands, and wept.
put-spake the mother who watched bim, sharply ,
wail uiui a.irowii,
What! love you the papist, the beggar, the charge
) ol .the town r. ,
;"Ue ahe papist or beggar, who lies here, I know
i uuii ttuu luinri
I love her, and fain wonldge with her wherever ahe.
gota!
. O Botherl that aweet face came pleading, for love
so athirHt ;
Yon aaw but the town charge; I knew her (Sod's
ne
I ' v.. I l
' m
. ( angei at nrac."
Hhaking her gray head, the mistress hushed down
a bitUjrcry:
And, sued by the silence and shadow of death
1 .hawing nigh,
X .. . '
She murmured a psalm of tins Bible, but closer the
young girl pressed,
, yith tlie last of her life in her fingers, the enws to
linr bitAML
fy son, coma away," erleil the molher, her v;oioe
la jnwi 'ii to Her idols like Kphrnim : let her
lane!"
at he knelt with- his hand un het -forehead, his
, lips to l-i?t ei,
nd he called back the soul that was puKH.'ng:
" Margueiile, doyuu liear !"fc tt. ..
- i- C y. -
She pansed on the threshold of. heaven love; pity ,
aurprlsA, ;; I
Wistful, tender, lit op for an Instant the cloud ot
. her eyes, , .'.,
her cheek rrew red.
na
And the words the living long for he spake in tlie
ear of the dead.
And the robins snug In the archard where buds to
blossoms crew t .-
Of the folded
hands and the still face, never the
obliia kue
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Atlantic Monthly for March.
.V R5.HIXISmCE.0F C.EX. SCOTT.
after our ruiil-er, I sa-M
to the General, " There is one question I
Lave often wishnd to ask you, but have
. ' been restrained by the fear that it might
i . be improper." The General drew him
' '- self up, and said in his emphatic manner,
I i " Sir, you are incapable of asking an im
i proper question." I said, " You are very
kind : but if mv inquiry is indiscreet, I
am sure you will allow it to pass unans
wered." " I hear you, Sir," he replied.
" Well, then, General, did anything re
markable happen to you on the morning
of the battle of Chippewa '(" After a
brief but impressive silence, he said,
" Yes, Sir ; something did happen to me
something very remarkable. I will
now, for the third time in my life, relate
the storv :
"The4th day of July, 1814, wasoneof
extreme heat. On that aay my urigaae
skirmished with a British force com-
aA litr Cicn Thai! frnni an earlv
the morning till late in the at-
en trie enemy
welve miles to
a, where we
army oocu
', the enemy
side of the
iter our tents CtwV" pitcnea,
InA a nag. borne ISNJa man in
t' dress,, approaching my mar.
He brought a letter from a lady
occupied a large mansion on the op
e Hide of Ahe creek, informing me
aba was th wife of a member or
ament. who was then at Quebec ;
t her children, servants, and a young
dv friend were alone with her in the
house : that Geu. lljall had placed a sen
tinel before her door ; and that she ven
tured, with great doubts of the propriety
of the request, to aek that I would place
a sentinel upon the bridge to protect her
against stragglers from our camp. I as
eared the messenger that the lady's re
quest should bo complied with, Edrly
the same morning the same messenger,
bearing a white flag, re-appeared' with a
note from the same lady, thanking me
for the protection she had enjoyed, add
ing that, in acknowledgment of my civil
ities, sJjia begged that I would, with suoh
member of my staff as I choose to bring
with nhe, acoept the hospitalities of her
housat a breakfast which had been pre-
.JQire" witn consider Die attention, ana
w nuiffl rAadv.-JLatinir upon an im
pulse whicn 1 nave never, ieen aoia to
analvza or comprehend, I called two of
J my Aids, Liemta. ; Worth end WatU, and
. return ea wito tne messenger lu iuo aiu
nioa already indicated. , We met. our
iiObWws at the door, wne-usnereu us iuw
the dining-room, where breakfast await.
d ninil whnrdths vmine ladr previ-
-7 TV . ."S ' i.J K
y reierrea to was aireaay aeateu vj
60S ue -urn.- Our hostess, asking: to
excused for a few minutes, retired,
d the young lady immediately served
our coffee. Before we hati firoken cfuf-J
fast, Lieut. Watts roBe from the table to -get
his bandana, (that lieing before the
days of napkins,) whioh he had left in
his cap on a side table by the. window, 1
glancing through whioh he saw Indians I
approaching the house on one side, and
red-coats approaching it on the other,
with an evident purpose of surrounding
it and us, and instantly xclaimed,
" General, we are butrayed 1" Springing
from the table and clearing the house, I
saw our danger, and remembering Lord
Chesterfield had said, .1 Whatever it is
proper to do, it is proper to do well,' and ,
as we had to run, and my legs were
longer than those of my companion?, I
soon outstripped them. ' As we made
our escape" . we were fired at, but , got ,
across the bridge in iihtj,-;. " . ; -
I felt so much shame and mortifioation
at having so nearly fallen into a trap,'
that I could scaroely fix my mind upon
the duties which now demanded my un
divided atterj.tion.I knew that I had
committed a great indiscretion in accept
ing that singular invitation, and that if
any disaster resulted from it I richly de
served to lose 1oth my commission and
mv character. I constantly found my
self wondering whether the lady really
intended to betray us, or whether we
had been accidentally observed. The,
question would recur even amid the ex
citement of battle. Fortunately my
presonoe and services in the field were
not required until liens. Sorter ana .Kip
ley had been -rngaged at intervals for
several hours ; so that when my brigade,
with Towson s artillery, were ordered to
cross Street's Creek, my nerves and con
fidence had become measurably quieted
and restored. I need not describe the
battle of Chippewa. That belongs to
and is part of the history of our country.
It is suthcient to say that at the close ot
the day we were masters of the position,
and that our arms were in no way dis
credited. The British Army had fallen
back, leaving their wounded in our pos
session. The mansion which I had
visited in the morning was the largest
house near, and to that the wounded
officers in both armies were carried for
surgical treatment. As soon as I could
leave the field I went over to look after
my wounded. I found the English offi
cers lying on the first floor, and our own
on the floor above. I saw in the lower
room the young lady whom T had met
in the morning at the breakfast-table,
her white dress all sprinkled with blood.
She had been attending to the British
wounded.. On the second floor, just as I
was turning into the room whore our
officers were, I met my hostess.
One glance at her was quite sufficient
to answer the question which I had been
asking myself all day. She had intend
ed to betray me, and nothing but the
accident of my Aid rising for his hand
kerchief saved us from capture. -. '
Years -afterwards, in reflecting upon
this incident, I was led to doubt whether
I had not misconstrued her startled
manner -as I suddenly encountered her.
That unexpected meeting would have
occasioned embarrassment in either con
tingency j and it is so difficult to believe
a lady of cultivation and refinement 6a-
rjable ot such an aot, that l aui now,
half a century after the event, disposed
to givo my hostess the benefit of that
doubt.
" And now. Sir," added the General,
" this is the third time in my life I have
told this story. I do not remember to
have been spoken to before ou the sub
ject for many years." He looked at me,
and seemed to be considering with him
self a few moments, and then said :
" Remembering your intimacy with Gen.
Worth, I need not inquire how you came
to a knowledge of our secret.
' " Well, General" I replied, " I Lave
kept the secret faithfully lor more than
forty years, always hoping to obtain
your own version of what struck me as a
most remarkable incident in your mili
tary life." ThurUne 1IW, in JTarjttr't
Magazine Jor March.
rlre Insurance Policies.
In the case of Peter Lappin, adminis
trator, against the Charter Oak Fire In
surance Company, just decided by the
Supreme Court ot this State, Fourth
Department, Judge Mullin presiding, it
appears that certain property was in
sured against loss by fire, December 7,
1863, for one year ; that the insured died
July 21, 18011, and the property descend
ed to his heirs at law ; that it it was
burned November 9, 1869, and the plain
tiff was appointed administrator Janu
ary 10, 1870.
The contract of insurance provided
that the policy should not be assigned
without the consent of the company,
and that any assignment, sale or transfer
of the property should work forfeiture
of the policy. No such consent had been
endorsed on the policy in this case, and
the Court held that the ehange of own
ership was such a change of title as
forfeited the policy. " The administrator
could therefore recover nothing upon
the insurance.
This decision is one of many which
have been made limiting the rights of
the insured upon policies against loss by
fire. Such policies are commonly loaded
with conditions which few of the insured
read, but which often some up to defeat
what they have supposed to be the pur
pose of the contract. .Insurers will do
well to study these conditions with care,
and they may often find reason to insist
upon cancelling some pf hew in parti
cular cases.
k The New York Board of fire Under
writers, at a meeting held on Wednes
day,! unanimously t passed a resolution!
that they will severally hold an policies
of insurance in their respective 'com
panies as valid and binding after the
decease ot the ' insured - ana 'Witn ineir
'heirs, as if this agreement had been en
dorsed on each policy." Whether this
resolution binds other companies than
those of the city of New York we can
not say, , But few men iU be oatant
to accept policies "of insurance; which
are liable to be terminated at any mo
ment by their death. All such condi
tions ought to be struck out of the poli
cies before insurers accept them. N. Y.
Evening Pot.
hT. CROWJilXQ OF, TUT EMPEROR.'.
A MpleudM fnirennt In VeraaUlee-Tke
RenllcaiUa of BUmnrrk's Dreani-The
Unification of (Jcrmanjr. - ,
' Ci"rfi!(imfMicf of lh$ Mwtm Journal . x
Versailles, Jan. lO.-i-The ceremony,
or rather pageant,' yesterday, .at Ver
sailles, merits preservation in immortal
fame, and 'tis a pity Germany has no
poet worthy the task. , The day was a
strange mixture of damp, cold, and warm
snnsuine.'the rain occasionally weeping
a little over the heroio dead, and then
the sun chasing away the tears, as un
worthy of so grand an occasion. Toward
10 o clock a very brilliant throng Degan
to assemble in the palace yards, and in
oreaeed steadily in brilliancy and volume
Ontll the atroft of 12, when the King,
preceded by guards and outriders, drove
furiously to the door of the Salle des
Ulaces. : -
Entering the courtyard from the Rue
de Reservoirs about 1 1 o'clock, I found
drawn up in line the King's body guard,
taken from all the best regiments ot the
army, and glittering like a rainbow in
the hundred colors which were so strong
ly contrasted together. Thronging past
them were the invited guests of higher
rank, hastily returning the salutations
of hundreds of hands from every direc
tion, which embodied with the accus
tomed servility the expression of their
humbleness. The Bavarian, Saxon, and
Wurteraberg officers who had been dis
tinguished by the presentation of orders
were very numerous, and, although very
different in type from the now so well
known Prussian, would still compare
very favorably with him. The Bavarians
were especially brilliant in their bright
blue uniforms, and shining helmets ; and
many were men of most majestic pres
ence. The Wurtembergers were wretch
edly dressed hardly a single officer even
attempting at elegance. The Saxons
were, as usual, au fait in appearance,
and were easily distinguishable, aside
from their uniforms, by their jaunty
carriage and mellow accent.
It was evident that all the officers of
distinction, from all sections of the army,
had left their posts to assist at this
ceremony. The tall, gigantic men of
the Garde corps stalking about like
ghosts, in their white uniforms ; the
dark-haired, short, stalwart Branden
burgers ; the real Berliners, with specta
cles on nose and crease under the arm
for book-carrying j the strapping cav
alry man, with the iron cross at his
breast ; and the slender youth, with
long hair combed back under his casque,
and sword buckled on his thighs ; all
hurried forward to the hall, where the
greatest Prussian ceremony of modern
times was, to occur.
Presently the guests began to arrive
pell-mell. 'There was no attempt at
glory of equipages, as in campaigning it
is difficult to obtain. Moltke camo in a
post carriage showing that it had un
dertaken recent journeys ; Bismarck in
a little caloche, hardly large enough to
hold him ; the Crown Prince in his usual
very modest carriage ; and dozens of
officers were compelled to make their en
tree through a rain, which suddenly
visited us, in full toilet, on foot. Wagons
of all kinds were used. Half a dozen
barons would dash in an omnibus, which
they had happily discovered; and the
immortal furniture van, which had such
a. jolly role at the time the delegation
from the Reichtag presented the address
to King William, again came into play.
Great precaution seemed to have been
taken for the safety of the King. There
were even landwehr men wandering
carelessly about in the crowd, with their
guns held as a huntsman holds his when
he hears the deer breaking cover. IIow
did the Prussians know how far French
fanaticism might go V
Larpe masses of troops were disposed
on the Avenue de Paris and the Place
d'Armes about 1 1 o'clock, and toward 1 2
the King left the Prefecture and pro
ceeded leisurely through the line of
soldiers, who saluted him with deafening
shouts of " Hurrah tor the German .bin
peror." Arrived at the chateau gate,
the royal carriages drove rapidly through
the seething mass of soldiers, strangers
and civilian Germans, and alighting as
the chateau clock struck the hour of
noon, entered the Salle des Glaces by
the grand staircase, along whioh were
arrayed, two and two, the guard com
posed of picked men from the various
regiments.
In the middle of the'grand hall, and
with its back to the windows which
open on the park, a grand altar was
erected. Upon this altar, which was
gracefully decorated, lighted candles
were placed, and at each side stood three
pastors, clothed in the sombre habili
ments of their order, and asserting the
support of the church to the new Em
pire. Further down the nail was another
and smaller altar, and in front of this
were arranged the standards of all the
regiments of the third army. ' Between
the two altars, also, were ranged Ba
varians and other soldiers. In front of
the principal altar were several soldiers
who had in times past or in the recent
campaign received the iron cross, and
two of them had their heads bound tip,
and similar other marks of recent wounds.
On the platform at the other end of
the gallery : there were many soldiers
stationed as the standard bearers. - The
King, preceded by the marshal , of. hia
household and the nourt iuarsnai, tne
Counts of Puokler and Perpoaoher, and
followed by hU brothers. Prince George
of Saxony, the reigning xjuko oi oaxe-
Uobnrg, ana tne majority oi m uereui
tary princes. Beside these, as they took
their plaoes in front of the grand altar,
were also the Crown Prinoe, Prince
Charles of Prussia, the King's brother,
and Grand Master of the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem. .The Grand Dukes
of Saxe-Weimar, Oldenburg, and Baden,
the Duke of Saxe-Meinigen, the Duke
of 8ax6- Altenburg; Princes Luitpold and
Otho of Bavaria, ' Prince William and
Duke' Eugene of Wurtemberg, Leopold
of 'Ildhensollern, the Duke of Holstejn,
aud many others. " The aged King, bolt
upright, and from time to time gazing
with an almost child-like curiosity upon
the scene before him, listened intently
to the sermon which one of the divison
preachers delivered with much grace and
! eloquence.' "The aermofl touched npon
the historic and religious character oi
the fereinanjr -now- in progress, and
elucidated its mysterious influence on
the hearts, of the German nation. i
a splendid tribute as well to the
new subject of adoration, the venerable
hero-soldier; and the King was deeply
affected by it.
Bismarck and Moltke, meantime, one
on each, side of ithe platform, winked
sleepily and wickedly, and seemed in
wardly much amused at this parade and
feuthers. Gen. BlumenthaL who was
also near at hand, witlf the commanding
Generals, and officers of all grades
grouped around him, was grimly silent,
and seemed to consider the whole thing
a waste of time. In long rows, down
each side of the gallery, were all the
distinguished military and civil person
ages, Prussian and foreign, of which
Versailles boasts to-day. England was
represented by her Commissioner, Gen.
Beauchamp Walker, and America had a
representative of her army present in
the person of Brig.-Gen. Duff of Illinois,
formerly of Grant's stafl .5 ,i. . i . ... .'
The sermon finished, a general buzz of
congratulation was just springing up in
the grand hall, when the King suddenly
advanced to the platform, and there,
surrounded by the standard bearers of
the First Guard regiment, he pronounced
his address to the Princess, in which he
declared his intention, of accepting the
Imperial German crown. After, with
faltering voice, he had finished his vow,
liismarck advanced tranquilly to read
the proclamation to the German people.
This was the culmination of the war,
the object of the crafty man who- now
held the proclamation in his hands. The
unification ot the German people under
the rule of one man, was accomplished.
No wonder such a gigantic task has
made a diplomat already ripe in years
look as old as his master. ,
After the reading of the proclamation
the Grand Duke of Baden (who seemed
to have been adopted as dm ex machina
on most of these occasions), hailed the
King as Emperor of Germany. A " three
times three, which sent etiquette to the
foul fiend, and woke the echoes which
had been lying perdtt for twb centuries,
answered, and the Crown Prince hasten
ed to embrace his father and to affec
tionately grasp his hand. His example
-was followed by all the members of the
royal family and all the princes and
dukes present. When the ceremony was
finished there were tears on the old
King's face, and maDy of the lookers on
were visibly moved. Amid the waving
of standards, flags which had been in
all the early battles of the present war,
and the echoes of the national hymn
and triumphal marches the brilliant as
sembly broke up, and filtered away in
its hundreds of carriages, splendid and
shabby, to the duty of eating the dinner
in celebration of " orders' day." At the
Reservoirs and Other ' fashionable res
taurants there was the most riotous
merriment, and the word " Kaiser
echoed through the streets, aud in ull
places where uniforms were seen until
long after dark.
Luck.
The man who marries the prettiest
girl ct the place is said to be a " lucky
fellow," and so of him who draws the
highest prizo in a lottery, or, by some
" fortunate " turn in affairs, clears the
gulf between want and wealth in an
hour. And yet the histories of all times
tell us that with a terrible uniformity
and uncertainty the men who become
suddenly possessed of unearned millions
die in misery.
Within hve years a well-to-do farmer
drew a quarter of a million of dollars in
a prize lottery. The whole country en
vied him his luck ; but he has since died
from a style of living induced by his
good fortune, and his only son has
turned out a drunkard.
The main whose first bet on the race
course, whose first deal at the card table,
whose first risk at faro, whose maiden
lottery ticket, brings money largely into
bis pockets, is a ruined man at the very
instant the world pronounces him
'1 lucky." Any man, especially any
young man, who starts out in lite with
the conviction that money can be better
made than by earning it, is a lost man
lost already to society, lost to his family,
lost to himself.
' An alarmingly large number of the
sons of the rich men of New York are at
this moment helpless drunkards. Young
men are they, many of them of educa
tion, of manly qualities, of generous na
tures, honorable and. high-minded ; but
the demon of drink has taken such pos
session of them that a father's breaking
heart, a mother's tears and Bister's agony
avail not to draw them from their deep
damnation. Elegant leisure was their
ruin.
' The best way to save a child from ruin
is to bring 'him np to "help father.
Make children feel that they must do
something to support the family, to help
along; then two feelings arise which
are their salvation those of affection
and pride ; for we naturally love those
whom we help, or those whom we strug
gle together with for a desired object,
and nothing so improves a child as to
make him feel that he is of some conse
quence, that he-can do something, and
that what be does is appreciated. JJaU i
Journal of Jleaith.
Weight of Woman's Clothing.
A writer in Good UqiUh say that the
average weight, the world round, of that
portion of a woman's clothing supported
from the waist is between 10 and 15
pounds ; and that if a woman was sen
tenced to carry such a weight about in
this way for a number of years, for some
great crime, the' punishment would be
denounced as an . Inhuman one; yet
thousands of - women - daily endure such
a punishment voluntarily because it is
the (custom, and because they do not
know the bad effects likely to-follow "it
The : writer earnestly: Counsela "women
b66 to adopt an attire similar to that
worn by men, but to have their clothing
suspended from the shoulders, by which
dangerous pressure on abdominal mus
cles would be avoided.
Woman the Suitor. .
The outcry so fiercely raised against
jurymen who allow their natural feelings
tor influence their verdicts, has been
chiefly instigated by feminine impulse,
miu lutuiiueu to prejuuice tue juuiciui in
terests of self-ay oging husbands; but,
if temporarily accomplishing its specifio
intention, as in the recent case of Dr.
Galentine, in Cleveland, it is also having
its eflect in suits wherein woman make
ppeal to men's sympathies rather than
to the pitiless letter of the law. - If, ac
cording to latest Western exemplification,
the maddened husband .tried tor his lite
pretty sure nowadays of a verdict of
manslaughter at least, the calculating
maiden, suing for a broken heart, stands
but 'poor chance of gaining exemplary
damages. At the Madison (N. Y.) Cir
cuit Court, closed last week, Miss Mar
garet Emerson, a bright and energetid
country girl, about 21 years old, asked of
the chivalry ot a jury the sum of f J.OUt),
to be paid by one Giles H. Shephard, an
old widower, of twice her age, who, after
promising to marry her, had married
another. As reported in the Syracuse
Standard, the defendant met Miss Emer
son, some three years ago, at a church
sociable, and, in the acquaintance ensu
ing from thence, allowed his finer affec
tions to become visible.; With a veteran's
caution, however, he applied to " a friend
of both parties" for his opinion of Miss
Margaret s suitability tor the delicate
office of wife to an old man and step-
motherhood to his young son ; and, being
assured that she would do admirably, at
once addressed to her the following
courtly note of warning, from his resi
dence in " Casenovy :" "Miss Maggery
r.merson having a tew moments time, 1
thot that I would Rite a few lines to you,
have some things that 1 would like to
ay to you when I can have a Chanse
pleas donte show this to Enybody and
it you think it Worth hue pleas anser
this and let me now whair I can see you
thuir is some thing that will to you good
to hear." The answer to this rather
quaint appeal being an invitation to
call, the orthographical sage mane haste
to the home of the maiden, and, with
none of a novice's bashful waste of time,
at once thrust a fatherly arm around the
chair in which blushed " Jmss Maggery,
at id manfully asked her how she would
like to change her situation in life '
" That," returned the fair diplomatist,
" would depend very much upon whom
the change should be proposed by." Of
course old Giles explained that he was
tho aspiring swam. Greatly surprised
appeared Miss Emerson, as is the usage
of her ingenuous Bex, and demanded
time to consider a revelation so moment-
but promised to make known her
decision at their next meeting. .Keter
ence was then made to the widower's
son, and upon that point Maggie argued
with a keen practical wisdom, eminent
ly creditable to her understanding. She
said that in case she accepted the flatter
ing oiler lust made to her, she would
preler that the child should board with
its aunt (where it was,) as she didn t leel
capable of bringing it up, and was afraid
that it the child lived with them there
would be trouble, as Giles might love
his boy "better than his Maggie. She
was also opposed to the child living with
them, because, she said, step-mothers
always are accused of ill-treating the
children of their predecessors, whether
they were guilty or not. Giles, however,
was determined that his little boy
should live with them if they were mar
ried, and the young lady said she would
consider the matter and give her decision
at their next interview. When next
they met, which was about a week after
wards, JNlaggie informed titles that she
had concluded to accept him, and if he
was willing to trust his child to her care
she would try her best to be a good
mother to the little boy. Giles was de
lighted, and wanted to get married right
off, or in the spring at the latest. But
Maggie demurred, and the happy day
was finally fixed some months later, and
in the fall. The remainder of the eve
ning was spent in the pleasant occupa
tion of laying out the route for their
wedding tour. After this Giles called
regularly upon his fair intended, until
be received a note irom ner one aay say
ing that one of the family had been
taken with the scarlet fever, and as she
knew that her dear Giles had never had
it, he had better not call at the house
until all danger was over, when she
would write him again. Then occurred
a separation of three weeks, which proved
fatal to Maggie s hopes ; tor during that
short period the tackle Giles met a widow
of about his own age, rather the reverse
of handsome, with a little house and a
little money, who Buoceeded in supplant
ing the absent Maggie in Giles's affee-
tlOUS, BUU XIX UUltfclUHlg U IB pruuiiae VJ
marry her at once. The forsaken one
met the truant but once thereafter be
fore his marriage, when aha " wished him
joy. Baid uues, nai in Diazes ao
you mean r " W by, replied Maggie,
" 1 beard that you were married to roily
Clark, the widow with the grave-stone
teeth, and I wish you much joy I" Re
torted Giles, " If I knew who told you
that I'd make'em smart for it. Do you
suppose I'd have such a looking thing as
she is, besides she a too old lor me
Nevertheless, he did marry Polly soon
after this interview, and the offended
Maggie at once brought suit to recover
damages for her injured feelings and
loss of protector. All this was plainly
proved in court ; and it was also shown
that, even after his marriage, the incon
stant Giles had responded to an ironical
note from Miss Emerson, in a letter be
ginning with " Friend Maagguy, and
reading : "I received line from you
Stateing that you was gone awa, and I
thot that I would a few lines and let you
now that I still think of you, you Wished
to now when that sute is cuming off,
that is cuming off in Gune. I wish that
I ooult gee you, I will come thair to mor
row if nothing happens and my wife no
xrna
She is vary Kick now and the
tocther says that hecand hold her.. She
has the harde tis seas Maggey. I still
Wa vnn and shall til I am in my grave."
Yet the intensely practical jury, instead
of giving the aggrieved lady the three
thousand she had asked, condemned the
treacherous old orthographer to pay her
only a pitiful $000. Still she was not
without her measure of moral compensa
tion, for, as the reporter adds, ho specta
tor in the court-room could observe the
expression of countenance with which
the defendant occasionally glanced from
the wife he had won to her whom he
had (to meanly lost, without plainly see
ing that he bitterly repented his bargain,
and anticipated stormy effects irom the
Pbhoation of his last vi vftf tons rplstlo.
Artflolnl Limbs.
The history of orthoplastie begins
more than a century ago. Before that
time ke are acquainted with only five
oases in which attempts were made to
supply a lost limb by an artificial sub
stitute. One of the most celebrated of
these is the iron hand of Goetz von Ber
lichingen, which was, after all, only a
poor contrivance. - In 1700, HugoRava
ton, a Frenchman, gave a new stimulus
to this art by inventing a kind of iron
boot, and during the war of liberation a
good deal of attention was directed to
the subject in Germany. The work,
however, was carried on without any
fixed system, and so it frequently hap
pened that those who at first employed
a carefully constructed artificial foot, af
terward abandoned it tor an old-fashion
ed wooden leg. After the war of 1800, a
military commission was appointed to
inquire into the best means of supplying
the loss ot amputated limbs, in conse
quence of which the mechanists of Ger
many showed a warm interest in the sub
ject, and a friendly rivalry ensued among
them. Mr. Fhster, ot Jtteriin, whose
name had frequently been mentioned in
medical journals at a still earlier period,
particularly distinguished himself.
Thirty years ago it was considered an
open question whether wood or metal
was preferable as the material for arti
ficial limbs, and during the Italian and
American wars wood on the whole was
preferred. Pfister, however, employed
tin and German silver, lie won a prize
while still a young man, at an exhibition
in Munich, in the year 184'J, and since
then he has been constantly engaged in
endeavoring to perfect the art. His own
snflerings he himself is obliged to wear
a false leg enabled him to judge of
what is really required, and by unweary
ing care and study, he has at length suc
ceeded in establishing a system which
satisfies every demand that can reason
ably be made of an artificial limb. Du
rability, lightness, and certainty in use.
are combined with the natural form of
the arm or leg. The proper disposition
ot the fastenings, elasticity ot movement
and the determination of the centre of
gravity, according to each individual
case, are the points to which Pfister
specially directed his attention, and in
all of them he has proved himself a true
master. The stump of the amputated
limb, which is frequently very sensitive,
is exposed to no pressure, but bangs un
touched in a cushioned case.
Every one who has been unfortunate
enough to lose an arm or a leg, must re
mark that the stump undergoes many
changes. Artificial limbs made of
metal are more easily changed to suit
these than those made of wood, and
metal feet require fewer repairs, while
their weight is not greater. In other re
spects the works of Pfister are also excel
lent, with one of bis artificial limbs it
is possible, not only to stand working the
whole day, but also to walk for a consid
erable distance without support. Thus
he himself visits his patients on foot,
and ascends three pair of stairs without
any difficulty. When the amputation
has been favorable, his artificial teet can
scarcely be distinguished from real ones
in quiet movement, and except in rapid
ity, almost everything can be done with
them, as well as with a natural foot.
Even patients who have had both feet
amputated use these artificial limbs with
great success, it is, therefore, no wonder
that even foreigners, especially English
men and Kussians, apply to him either
in person or by sending a cast of the
healthy limb. Pfister's artificial hands
are, however, perhaps, his greatest suc
cess ; and they have enabled many, who
were untortnnate enough to lose theirs
in 1866, to retain their positions. They
differ greatly in price, according to the
character of the work required. The
distinguished mechanist is now engaged
in perfecting a new system, which he
hopes will greatly facilitate writing with
artificial bands, though what he has al
ready done in this respect is astonishing.
Curious Facts in Regard to Sound.
The following curious observation in
regard to the transmission of sound have
been carefully verified by an extended
series of experiments : The whistle of a
I avvuu.vi.itv a uvmu. v,vv jn&vto iuivuku
the air; the noise of a railroad train,
2,800 yards ; the report ot a musket and
the bark ot a dog, l.buu yards ; an or
chestra or the roll of a drum, 1,600 yards ;
the human voice reaches to a distance of
1,000 yards ; the croaking of frogs, 900
yards; the chirping of crickets, 800
yards. Distinct speaking i beard in the
air from below up to a distance of 600
yards ; from above, it is only understood
to a range of 100 yards downward. It
has been ascertained that an echo is well
reflected from the surface of smooth water
only when the voice comes from an ele
vation. .........
Other similar - phenomena connected
with the transmisson of sound have been
observed, but the results disagree, either
from inaccuracy in the observations or
irom the varying nature of the circum
stances affecting the numbers obtained.
Such, variations occur to an extent of
ten to twenty per cent., and even more,
The weather s being cold and dry, or
warm and wet, are the chief influencing
pauses. In the first case, the sound goes
to a greater, and, iir the second, to
leaser distance.' - 1
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.1 - ! "' . ! 1 r$., ,
A New Bedford merchant; last week
detected a prominent itizerV fn ; the act
f BteaHng from his storp. HaVing
missed number of articles- of Value
during the past year, the merchant
thought it a good chance to get sauare
and therefore presented a bill of f 115,
which the "respectable citizen" paid
I rather than be exposed.
t :-! : t
The general reports from Illinois are .
that the prospects of the wheat, crop
were never better at this season oi m
year than now. ri i ' : ;..! -''.
An advertisement of Cod Liver Oil
winds up: "Patients who have once
taken it can take no other." A candid
confession is good for the sold. !i .1 j '.
Tha will of a defunct California doc
tor directs that his body shall be dis
sected, and the skeleton shall be Well T
" wired together," and placed in the v
medical college, in case his wife shouldn't
want it as a mumei uninmcui.
Whfln tha treble singers up to the
Union Church at East Litchfield, Conn.,
sing, ."Shall we gather at the river," r
says a local reporter, a teiiow wouia
think he had got a hay rigging on top
of his head loaded with bobolinks., tim.
The population of Colorado has faU'cli.,
off very materially since 1861, owing to
the migration of miners to other states.
It was reported to be sixty thousand in '
1861 ; but according to the recent census 1
it is thirty thousand.
A'recent visitor at Pittsburgh writes :
" Pittsburgh is as dirty as ever. You -get
the dirt at every movement. You
eat it, you drink it, you breathe it; I
don't know how a Pittsburgher would
do without his regular snpply of coal
dust." ,
Philadelphia has bound a man over
for trial on the charge of stealing an
umbrella, and its police are in earnest ..
pursuit of another offender, vaguely de
scribed as the Bwindler with the terrier .
dog.
The latest novelties are evening shoes ,
for ladies, which are made with gilt
heels and a very great deal of gold em
broidery over the instei and gilt caps
to the toes. ,
Honors are being thickly heaped upon
the head of Kaiser Wilhelm. The last
and most touching tribute to his worth
and greatness is his election as honorary .
member to the Charleston fS. C.) Ger
man Schuetzen Corps, and the appoint
ment of a committee to inform nim of
the happy event.
A mammoth fog whistle, which has
just been completed at Portland, Me.,
for the lighthouse department, is the
largest ever manufactured in the United
Stages, and probably in the world. It .
is an 18-inch whistle, weighs some 400 '
pounds, and will require a steam-boiler -
of 00 horse power to furnish the steam
to blow it. , -
An old farmer in the neighborhood of .
Forestville, Conn., who is dubbed by the
Hartford Courant "a cheerful idiot,"
was sledding wood last Wednesday A
morning. Having on a heavy load it '
stuck fast in crossing the track of the
Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Rail-. ,
road. So the old man -unhitched his
oxen and deliberately marched off home, "
leaving the heavy load ot green wood
tanding across the track, ana making
no effort to warn the passenger train
due in a few moments of its danger. ,
The train came on, " Down brakes"
screemed the whistle, and the train and
its passengers fortunately escaped in
MISCELLANEOUS ITE&S.
jury j yet the locomotive struck the load
:iL ii . : i c i. i i. : . j
Ul wuuu wiui euuiviuuii urn iu hjjwii,
and the sled clear off the track. It was ,
lucky for the Btupid teamster that he
was just then out ot reach ot the train
men.
The trustees of a certain church out
West, having fallen in arrears with the
minister's salary for six : months, de
termined to pay him . up " in trade."
They waited on him, and after the fam
ily had gathered around, the spokesman
said : M Mr. Brown, we have a very '
pleasant duty to perform. We have ' "
come to remunerate you for your labors -
in our church lor the last six months ; -in
fact, we have brought your salary.
Mr. Jones, just undo Mr. Brown's salary
and hand it to him." Jones did as re-"
quested, and handed Mr. Brown the fol
lowing articles : Ten feet of stove-pipe,
two papers of corn starch, one felt hat,
three kegs of varnish, one paper collar, ,
four palm-leaf fans, and two bundles of, ,
bed slats. At the Bight of these Brown
became raving maid. The trustees were
ejected through the window sash, and v-
all the family immediately vanished. .
It may be an old joke, but it is a good ' -
one, told of an old clergyman at tha -
East, who has the most unbounded faith . j;
in Watts's hymn. A mischievous son of
his thought it would be a good joke to' . ; ,
test his father's faith. So he took an : -old.
song and pasted it on one of the
pages of the book, over a hymn, so nioe-- 1
ly that it could not easily be detected.-
At church, on Sabbath morning, the
minister happened to open on that very . ,,
page, and commenced to read,
"Old Grimes Is dead." , ' ,
There was a sensation in the audience. '
He looked at the choir, and they looked ;
at him ; but such was his faith in Watts s 1 1
hymns that he undertook it again, com. i
mencing with the same line. There was -1
another sensation in the audience. Look-
ing at the choir, said he ; " Brethren, - it
is here in the regular order in Watts's
hymn-book, and we win sing it any
how." ' ..'- J ''-., ;
Whatever may be the sentiments' of J
the rest of his countrymen, there is at
least one man in Washington who can- ' t
not complain that the - guests, pf our -newly-constituted
Admiral are. sot re. .
ceived with ceremonious honor. On re-,
ception day, it is currently reported that ,
a Chinese servant in the employ of Ad- '
niiral Porter, having to attend the floor,' '
estimated the rank and.consequenos ef '
the visitors, according ta Chinese, cos, .
torn, by the size of their visiting aards,; ,
Of course the one-incb-by-two bits pf , ,
cardboard were thrown into the basket
with silent contempt" " Presently the gas
Art 1 1 aatVM rvMaanlail mstnTtlw J tilT '
collector presented his month! v ' lull
Yellow is tne royal oolorin China.- With At
profound 'arid -reverential:, sai'a'asna the
alrnafcdVeyed , functionary received itb It
lbhg.-yeUQwjriip of paper and, oonflden J(t
that ne w'as" conducting a priAce of tha
blood-royal, ushered the collector into
the presence of the astomsnea lamuy.
It is said that the genuflexions of the
awe-struck Asiatic surpassed anything
ever seen at the Capital since the Admi
ral got his appointment.
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