nc, IT--' HENRY A. PARSONS Jr., Editor and Publisher. ; NIL DESPERANDUM. ' .. Two Dollars per Annum. - VOL. XII. IlIDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. MARCH 16. 1882 NO- 4- " ' - " .... ,.,,..-.,,,. i. i - .. -, .. m -,. .. - . -- , ... .... . ... i i -' - ,. . . - .... ( Fate. , Two shall be born the whole wldo world apart Ami speak in different tongncs, Bud bate no thouyht Each of tho other's being, and no heed. . And those o'er unknown seas to umtnown lands Shall cross, escaping wreck, dofying doath; And, all unconsciously, shape every act And bend each wandering stop to this uuo end That one day out of darkness they shall meet And read life's moaning in each other's eyes. And two shall walkBomo Darrow way of life, Bo hcai'ly tide by side that should one turn Ever so little space to left or right They needs must stand acknowledged face to face, And yet, with wistful eyes that never meet, With groping handB that never cla?p, and lips Calling in vain to ears that never hear, They seek each other all thoir weary days, And die unsatisfloil: and this is futo. A Romantic Marriage. She 'was certainly a lovely girl, such as any man might well be proud of knowing; at least bo seemed to think her companion, Cecil Courtney, for he gazed and loved and loving, gazed again. "Cecil," she murmured, "Cecil.it seoms strange, nay, almost impossible, that you should love me, poor Grace Gardner, a lonely orphan, without friemlH or fortune, and more than alt, yonr sister's governess." The manly face beside her flushed with a loving look as he replied: " Strange, my darling, it may bo, but not one whit' the less true, that I love' you with au intensity that shall outlive every evil or ill that a cold and unsym pathetic world can possibly pour upon us. For. you, my dearest, I can glory in relinquishing every wish and am bition of my life home, friends and fortune and williug commence to laboi for the daily bread that your love uud presence shall turn into veritable manna." " Oh, Cecil," she exclaimed, "it seem bo terribly stilish to allow you to give up so mucn lor mei Ana who knows, you may some day regret so great t sacrifice? Nay, rather let me ko awar nnd try to fiuu peace away from yon; lutpfunoNs were lmpossinie, "Darling Gracie," he exclaimed, in a'urru, '' for my suke never mention such an id;:a again I What pleasure do yon suppose ail the riches of earth could afford me unless I had you t" f.have them ?" " Then, dear Geil,I will say no more, only to beseech jou to press mo ni more to to " " To marry me?" ho asked, laugh inily. " yes," Ehe replied, blushing, "until you have avowed to Colonel and Mrs. Qjurtney your preference for my hum ble self. Who can tell what might ollow? Mrs. Courtney has been kind and considerate to me during the short time I have been here; perhaps they may not despise my dependent position, and consenting to our union all may be bright and joyous." ' I will do us you wish, love," he re plied, fondly, "thonph I have little hope of success, for jou do not know her as well as I do. But if I fail, dar ling, will you promise to faco poverty at once with me and become my bride ? I have a hundred a year left me by an aunt w io my parents cannot touch or interfere with, This will keep us from want until I can meet with em ployment. Say, Gracie darling, shall it bn so ? You do not fear poverty with mo?" ."Fear!' she exclaimed. "I fear nothing with you." fie would have been less than a lover had he not fervently pressed those rosy lips to Lis owu in truo lover fashion. It was the afternoon of the next day, while Grace Gardner was giving a mu sic lesson to her. affectionate and pretty little pupil (Cecil Courtney's only sis t3r), (that tho school-room door was thrown r pen in an ominous manner, and Mra. Courtney tall and stately, with robes fashionable and flowing walked into the room. One glance at her haughty and angry countenanco told Grace her cr and. She sent little Mabel away to her nurse, and then, turning to the governess, said : " ALd now, Miss Gardner, I have to request that you will find it convenient to leave this house this afternoon." " Scarcely this afternoon," replied Grace, quickly. " It is now too late to reach my friends to-day. To-morrow morning I shall have no objection to comply with your request." " Intolerable your insolence is in tolerable I" exclaimed the lady, walking angrily up and down the room. ' I tell you you shall go at once ! You do not sleep another night under this i-oofl" " May I be allowed to inquire the cause of so sudden and urgent a dis missal?' asked Grace, iu the same quiet tone. " Ask !" said Mrs. Courtney,- scorn fully. " Your conscience must tell you well enough ! Here, you have not been in the house two months, and you have laid your snares to cleverly that you have succeeded in entrapping my only son; and so skillfully and slyly have you played your part that 1 had not a suspi cion of what was going on until that be witched youth, fascinated with your doll's face, has dared to ask our con sent to his marriage with you you, who may be the daughter of a costermonger for all we know I This comes of taking girls on a lady's recommendation, in stead of applying to thoso wto had pre viously engaged them I I shall take care to let Lady Powis know what kind of a protege she has recommended 1" Grace's face flushed as she replied, with dignity: "Truly, madame, you might bave stated your cause of complaint in gen tler terms. Since you confess yourself ignorant of my parentage, does it not occur to you that I am as likely to prove the daughter of a duke as of a costeunonger, in which case, I presume, yon would consider your eon honored by an alliance with me f" k "The daughter of, a duke, indeed I Ton are toothing but a hardy adventur ess; and let mo tell you, miss, never presume to see my son again I Should be dare to continue to address you in defiance of his lawful guardians, he will be disinherited; and as it is the money and not the man you want, I have no fear as to what course jou will pursue with regard to fcim I" So saying she swept from the room. Grace thou wrote a short note, as fol lows: " Dear Cecil : Your suspicions were correct I am turned from' your mother's house because I have dared to love and be loved by you. "It were better for us to part now, though I can scarcely bring myself to write such dreadful words. Let me at least see you once more to say farewell, I shall stay until to-morrow at Mrs. Jonoa' cottage in the village. Yours, "Gracie." She then left the same address with Mrs, Courtney's maid, in order that her boxes might be sent to her, and wrap ping a dark cloak around her end don ning a lace hat, she set out for Mrs. Jones', who was an old woman to whom she hail given money and kind words during her short residence in Lindon, not.however.beforesbe had stolen silent ly and unobserved to a sequestered part of the grounds, and carefully laid her note to Cecil Courtney iu a holo beneath a large stone, which hole to judge by the careful manner iu which it was m-i.de and arranged had already been the receptacle of similar messages. It was a glorious evening toward the close of July when, in a handsome room in a fashionable hotel of the Lake dis trict, Cecil Courtney sat alone with his beauteous bride. The evening sunset was lighting r.p lakes, mountains and woods with silent beauty. Grace had been busy writing, but her letter was finished, and as she raised her lovely head she exclaimed : " Ob, Cecil, how perfectly enchant ing this mneet is I My darling, your love is to mo what the setting sun is to nature; it fills me with a bright, rosy hap piness, which changes my whole being, and makes it as bright as the setting sun makes yon lovely landscape I" " Heaven bless yon for saying so, darling wife I Nothing on earth could add to the beauty of my beloved's faco, that is already perfect 1" She him bed in silent happiness, and for awhile they watched the glowing -cone' with a joy too deep for words. Presently he said, playfully : " And whom has my dear wife been vrii ing to ?'.' " To Lady Powis," she replied, promptly, ''though I must ask you iu bis cue instance to excuse me from showing you the letter. Lady l'owis is m old friend of my dear dead mother, ynH to her I owe more than words can i xpress. She is immensely rich and "ery influential, and it was entirely nr. own fault that I took an engagement as governess instead of remaining with her. I hava now written to inform ber of my marriage, and it is just posbiblo that she may be ablend willing to find you ome suitable appointment." "You dear, kind, thoughtful wife I cannot say, but I hope she may for your sake; for I fear, love, that unless something turns up, I shall have to forego the pleasure of seeing my dar ling attired in such costly raiment as this, and this," ho replied, touching al most reverentially her rich black silk dress and tho beautiful, lace .she wore around wrists and neck. " That would rever grieve me," said she, lightly. " I shall be a-) happy in serge as iu satin, if dear Cecil only loves me. Ilowever, before we make up our minds to poverty, let us wait and tee what Lady Powi.1 has to say." ' Tho return pose brought a letter from Lady Powis, congratulating her dear Gracie upon tho happy marriage she had formed; and then went on to invite the young couple to come to her on a visit as soon a? their honeymoon was ended; wishing, however, that they would come on the morning of th flwt of Au gust, as on the evening of that day the was to give a grand ball the last of the spason in honor of the return of her niece, Lidy Gertrude Gordon, from a three months' visit to a cousin in Ger many. " There now!" said Gracie, claprrine her pretty hands. " Hut you must order a ball dress. my love," said Cecil ; " my pearl must be set in as fine . gold as anv other at this ball." "Oh, leave that to mo, dear." said sho. " Only you must promise me not to fall in love with Lady Gertrude." " Is ehe very pretty, then ? ' " You shall tell me if yoa think her so when you see her," 6aid Grace, laughing. Tho morning of tne 1st arrived, and found Cecil and his brido with Lady Powis by noon. Grace was received with a loving welcome by nor friend, who said that Lidy Gertrude was rest ing for the evening, until when she would fcot appear. There was to. be a plain dinner before the ball, at which two old friends were to dine en famille. And then, after awhile, with an apology, the lady left the young couple to their owu resources until evening. The ladies were to dine in their ball dresses to escape the fatigue and hurry of a second dressing. When Graoe ap peared attired for the evening Cecil could not but marvel both at her won dious beauty and the graceful splen dor of her apparel. She wore a dress of white satin, trimmed with real lloni ton lace and bunches of clematis and lilies-of the-valley ; but more than that. there glittered on her neck and arms diamonds and pearls of great value. "See, sue said, approaching mm, " these are Lady Powis' bridal gifts- are they not lovely V" "Lovely Indeed," eaid Uecu, intoxi cated with her beauty ; "but not half so beautiful as my darling wife, who is, I feel fiure, to be the belle of the ball to night," and he pressed her fair form warmly to his manly breast. Proudly he gave her his arm and descended to the drawing-room. Who can-picture bis bewilderment when, in the two friends who were to dine with them, be saw bis own father ana motner I Mrs. Courtney's heart had beaten with proud triumph when she received the invitation to the ball, and above all to dine eti famille with Lady Powia pre viously, for her social position scarcely entitled her to such an honor. She was aghast with amazement when ehe saw her son entering tho room bearing on his arm the " hardy adventuress." But her humiliation was truly pitiful whtn Lady-Powis, taking the hand of tho lovely and smiling bride, led her to them, saying ! "Mrs. and Colonel Courtr.ey, allow me to present to you one who, until lately, was my dearly loved niece, Lady Gertrude Gordon, but who is now the wife of your son, nnd consequently your daughter-in-law." "Good heavens I" exclaimed Cecil, " what mystery is this ?" Grace, or . rather Lady Gertrude, broke into a merry peal of silvery laughter. "No-y," said she, gleefully, "this denouement is simply charming; have I not played my part well ? and has not dear auntie kept my secret and carried ont my plans excellently ? This is, I am sure, a most romantio marriage, and I believe will be as happy as romantio," said she, turning fondly to her hus band. "But, my darling," said he, with pain ful embarassment, " I cannot under stand this at all. Have pity and explain." "I think I had better do that," said Lady Powis, gracefully. "My niece, like myself, is of a romantic disposition. She was the belle of the season, and her beauty and wealth brought her many admirers; but the refused them all. She told me often that she wished to be loved for herself alone, and not for her wealth and title. Yon," said she, turn ing to Colonel and Mrs. Courtney, " had but just returned with your son here from a long residence abroad when we saw you at a concert. Ger trude saw you then for the first title," continued she, addressing Cecil, "and on returning home she remarked, 'Auntie, if I ever marry it must bo such a man as that.' Tho next d-iy came Mrs. Courtney's letter, asking me, as an old acquaintance, if I could recom mend hor a governess. Suddenly Ger trude declared her intention of playing the part and accepting the engagement. 'Now, auntie,' said sho, 'I will see if there is a man in the world who can' love Gertrude Gordon for herself alone.' It was stipulated that sho should never be invited into the drawing-room, to prevent her recognition by any who had seen her iu her own character. How fur her plan has succeeded is seen by the fact that the is now Mrs. Cecil Courtney." "Yes," said Gertrude, turning to her mother-in-law. "It happened -that Cecil aud I met the first day of my resi dence with you whilo I was wulking out with Mabel after that wo mot every eveniu- under the old elm trees. Tho pleasure of those happy hours made joyous the duties and restraints of my new position, which would other wise have proved irksome." Then up pr aching Mrs. Courtney who was weeping ters of shame and mortifica tion said, sweetly: "Pardon, dear madame, tho deception I practiced upon you, and in a mother's anxiety for the welfare of her son I can cheerfully ex cuse your apparent harshness to me. I have no mother; let mo find one now." The haughty lady bowed her head, murmuring: " You overpower me with your good ness; I am not worthy of it." Gertrude kissed her affectionately, and then passing to the colonel, said: " I see I need not plead here for a father's kiss." "Good heavens! no. I'd no idea there was such a beauty in my house, or I should have taken the young gen tleman's part and let him marry you, governess or no governess;" and he took her in his arms and saluted her heartily. She then approached her husband with a timidity new to her, saying: "And Cecil can he, too, forgive my deception?". He bent forward, and raised her jew eled hand to his lips, saying: " Forgive I My darling, what have I to forgive ? Bather, what have I done to deserve such love, such goodness ? With the devotion of my life will I re pay your love, my darling, my wife 1" The ball was a splendid affair, and the lovely bride far outshone all tho beautiful girls present. Great was the surprise that the belle of the season should have suddenly gone abroad to return with a youug and handsome hus band. But though gossip was busy for awhile, the affair remained a mystery and was soon forgotten. To a very few indeed was it ever known that the lovely wife of Cecil Courtney was ever his sister's governess. Iho Michigan Fires. Tho part of lower Miohigan scourged I y the forest fires of last September was, iu one measure, greatly bonefited by the fearful visitation. Land that before was worth but 5 an aore, since the fire sells at $15, the down timber and brunh having been swept away and tho land left clear for farming purposes. A railroad is being constructed in Huron county, and several others are project ed. Since the tire has cleared the land speculators have discovered it to be of treat value, and many of the stricken nnd discouraged settlers are selling out to new occupant", who will improve and make the country very different from what it was before the fire. Here is where the law of compensation sug gests itself. A Hard-Headed Passenger. On the International train that left yesterday for San Antonio, there was a darkey who kept sticking his head ont of the car-window. "Keep your head inside," said the conductor, angrily. "Whaffor?" " For fear you will damage some of the iron work of the bridge, you fool." Texan Sithigs. In eold WRtnr fmaa will TTVAallia an" tirely by the skin, and cannot be killed iy immersion as long as meiv are pro- viueu whu lopn. I0WL1FE is Sew ions, Hccncn In ihe .tiler and Tenements or trie Simns-Tlie 111 rCillim l'lacrs 01 Crime. . . Strictly speaking the name "OliPTry Hill " applies only to a small locality; but usage has given to it a wider sig nificance. The main part of the Hill is embraced by tho part of Cherry street between Koosevelt street and Pearl street a dingy and ill-kept block almost in the shadow of the bridge an choragewhich maintains during the greater part of the year a melancholy activity. A number of years ago, when the number of transatlantic sailing craft coming into the East river was much greater than it is now and sailors with salt spray clinging to their clothes were everywhere seen rushing ashore, panting for the excitement and new life of the city, this Cherry Eill district, which includes all that is set down upon the maps as the Fourth police preoinct, presented a somewhat striking contrast to its present aspect. Then sailor-boarding houses, with greasy wooden benche at the doors, swarmed with Portuguese and other foreign sailors, who spent their money as freely as circumstances permitted; stevedores, ship-carpenters, caulkers, stowers nnd others indigenous to the wharves formed the greater part of the population; the tenement-houses were crowded by a rough class diverse in nationality and occupation; drunken ness and crime permeated the whole region, which the police regarded as one of the most dangerous localities in the city; patrolmen traversed their posts in twos ; cries of " murder 1" would frequently be heard, and many parts of the distiict fairly reeked with infamy. Like the once famous Five Points, this troublesome corner of lower Now York has undergone a change. It is no longer looked upon as in any very pronounced degree a criminal district. Petty crime is born here, as it must necessarily bo in such a crowded district. Drunkenness is as common, however, as of old. On a Saturday night in summer, when every one is out of doors, and there is no reason for closing windo wa and shut ting in the sounds, the brawling drunkard swells the noises of midnight' and half-dressed children run from the clutch of drunken fathers and mothers. Here is " Mullen's alley," piercing the vitals of the block bounded by Cherry street, New Bowery, Oak and Itoosevelt btretts, like a great ritt in a rock; "Connor's alley," opposite, a vile, F.uf focating place, with a triangular court ; "Murphy's alley," bewilderingly snarled in a network of clotheslines and fire escapes; and "Single alloy" and "Double alley," adjoining each other. The two latt named are, perhaps, as Ktriking in their rs -any iu New York. A five-story building running back more than half the dej.th of the block, fronts on both alleys. "Single alley," or East Gotham place, as it is set down on tome maps, is open on the east side; the other is shut in on the wett by a high gaunt building, making the place dark and gloomy. These differing characterif-t.c-. (five the alleys thoir names. The largo building is divided through the middle, parallel with the alleys, and also at right angles, forming eight Louses. Each house has n rattling staircase, with landings, from which the low- cciiinged rooms open on either hand. bach family, however large or small, has only two rooms in whioh to livo and move and have its being. On the left one may live in comparative comfort ith a wife and infant. Another on the ruht, howover, who makes eight or nine dollars a week alongshore, may have a wife whom he thrashes when an empty pocket leaves him in want of other pleasurable oxcitoment and seven children, large or small ; but he has only two rooms, and must stow them away as best he can when night corned. Little, dingy apertures in each landing, like windows in on Italian vrison, permit the passage of air from one alley to the other. Four dollars an 1 a half a month is the highest rent, and is paid for rooms on the second floor, where the air is better than on the first floor, access to the street easier than from the rooms above. Teu years apo this building is declared to havo held 800 families, or rather, that num ber of different rent payers. Every alley or tenement house is in charge of a " housekeeper," a man who keeps the place in -good order, and whose, emolument comes iu the shape of free rent, with a small additional "consideration." He invariably in spires with awe the numerous ragmnf fins who play baseball on the sidewalk, impale themselves on nails and railings, give convincing proof of tho theory of heredity by fighting in the gutters, squeeze themselves through small win dows, and emit profanity with an un checked volubility that is almost blood curdling. A frequent visitor to this region says that he has found much to interest him here. He has almost come to have a nodding acquaintance with certain queer nld women who become faintly visible in odd doorways; and some of the street boys, marking his repeated presence, have commented quietly but profanely on tho circumstance. One of the most melancholy characteristic? of this district, and other such districts in different parts of the metropolis, is the forlorn and neglected condition of the eld. With all the foul air, scanty food and exposure, people are found here who live too look back over fourscore years and ten; wrinkled, yellow and stooped old women, perhaps tottering about with a stick, holding a dirty infant in their' bony arms, or heaping curses on wretched yonngsters who annoy them. Occasionally there is seen some decent old woman, a somewhat re spected "granny;" but most, with their oaths and dirt and rags, seem as if they had grown up and had some mysterious association in character with the crumbling, sooty and unsavory walls about them. The old men are seldom seen in the immediate locality. In the morning they become the motive power of band-carts and disappear in the din of the city. Or perhaps I they are dodging the coal wagons Willi shovels over their shonl 1 derfK. Bellini leaa pencils or brooms, or announcing in some busy thoroughfare the superiority of certain Crticles of merchandise by means of the popular contrivance which shields them ns with armor before and behind, and hides alJ but their heads and fee from the vulgar gaze. There are many suggestions of loW London about Cherry Hill, especially at night, when a muffled sound comes irom the n!ley, en occasional footstep clatters on a creaking stair, distant doors bang, greasy streams trickle here and there into the gutter, and the sound of clicking glasses and drunken mirth rises from the dismal bar-rooms. The whole district is doubtless destined to be rebuilt before a great many years. The success which has attended the speculation in improved tenement houses, it is thought, means death to these rookeries, which year by year be come more unfit for human habitation. New York Tribune. Rnsilan Exiles in Siberia. Much that is erroneous prevails as to the character of prisoners sent to Siberia from KuBsia, as well ns in regard to their condition and treatment in that land of bondage. Every year the prison ers sentenced to Siberia are collected at Moscow, or some other central point, and thence sent forward to their desti nation in parties of various sizes. They go to the penal territr ry in the summer months, ' or from May to October. The vast crowd that assembled last May at Mosoow aggregated about 12,000 persons, and yet it was affirmed by careful statisticians that probably not more than 1,000 of these were sentenced to hard labor. There are several facts to be borne in mind in regard to the criminals who are banished to Siberia, the nature of the crimes for which they are con victed, and the character of their pun ishment. In Russia there is no capital punishment, except for treason or crimes of that nature. The oourts sentence criminal!) to the mines in Siberia, to service as laborers at for tresses, to imprisonment at home, to banishment to the colonies in Siberia, or to lighter punishment in reforma tory institutions. The convicts sent to the mines in Siberia are the most hardened persons, such ns murderers, etc. The life led by that class in the mines is eaid to be deplora ble beyond anything in any other country. Persons who have been con victed cf ordinary penitentary offenses are sent to the penal colonies, and their families have the privilege of accom panying them. It is stated that many vagrants are sent to these colonies. There the colonists, as be prisoners may be called, are under the supervision of the government, and are given land and allowed the proceeds of thoir own labor. It is claimed that this system has been attended with excellent results, these colonists becoming prosperous and forming orderly, thriving settlements, and doing much todevelop the country and-civilize the natives. More than one half the population of Siberia is com posed of banished llussians or the de scendants of exiles. A few facts may bo of interest in reference to tho crimes committed aud the number of convic tions secured. Of the persons arrested for or accused of crime, about seventeen per cent, aro convicted and sentenced. Of the number of convicted, about two per cent, are sentenced to hard labor m Siberia, about four per cent, to exile iu the Siberian colonies, about twelve per cent, to labor in forts, about twenty- live per cent, to imprisonment, and the remainder to lighter punishments. It should be added that, besides the families of pxiIoh, tome go to Siberia ns volunteer emigrants. Origin of the Pansy. This mcdest little flower, ono of the favorites of the florist, that dons tho purple almost unaware, has very appro priately been called the Cinderella of the Bibterhood. Lilies may wave and smile in their stately grace, roses beckon by their flame and iragrance; but "them flowers that have faces pansies lor- thoughts are the admiration of the country. From the humble heart's-ease, or three-colored violet, has sprung up one of the most popular flowers known in floriculture. Half a century ago there flourished, on a bank of the Thames, n lovely garden; the owner of it, seeing tho interest his daughter manifested in tho work, gave her a share of the grounds for her own. One of the heart-shaped flower beds this lady of the Thames filled with pansies, wisely selecting the choicest plants from other parts of the garden for her especial culture. Soon this little mound of the purple heart began to attract the attention of professional florists, end the pansy, no longer an humble forget-me not, blos somed into royal favor. No flowers are more companionable and life-like, and none perform their part more worthily in work of floral ministration. Its simple legend, You occupy my thoughts, is one of the most beautiful testimonials of love or friendship in the language of flowers. While in Europe Professor Silliman called on Madame Agassi z; the mother of the great naturalist. His account of the brief intetview closes with this touching incident: "She was grieved when she learned that our stay was very brief, and would hardly be denied that we should beoome guests at her bouse, or at least that the senior of the party should aocept her hospitality. The next morning she came walking alone, a long distance in the rain, to bid us farewell, and we parted, evidently with deep emotion and not concealed, for we had brought the image of her favorite son near to her mental vision again. She brought for Mr. Silliman a little bouquet of pansies, and bid ns tell ber son her pensecs were all lor mm I Thus our thoughts go forth in mes sages of love and gratitude through the heart-reaching dialect of flowers. Mr. Frosb, an Englishman, boa bought 20.000 aores of the -Disston lands in Florida, and will get out vine yards on the largest scale, Forced to Eat His Writ. Tho Dublin (Iroland) Irish Times says: At the usual fortnightly petty sessions held last week tho presiding magistrate being Colonel Stuart and T. D. Wilson three young men ramed Corbett and a man named Sona were oharget? with having murderously as saulted a process-server named Sheedy. Patrick Sheedy deposed that he re sided in Carrick-on Suir, and was process-server. He got a number of writs to serve on the tenants of Mr. Scally. The writs were for rent duo. In the discharge of that duty he proceeded to Ballynenl and served some of the ten ants with writs. ' " While you were serving those writs did anything happen to you?" "Yes." "What was it?" " I had them ull served but two one for Mrs. Shea and another. I got as far as Shea's house, and as I entered the farmhouse, Shea, the prisoner, met me. He eaid 'Sheedy, I never thou s;ht.I would see you nt this dirty work.' " "Did nnything happen to youthen?" " Yes; I heard voioos in the kitohen, and I became frightened, and turning, ran; but boforo I got twenty yards I was seized by three or four persons, nnd dragged back into the kitchen." " Wer9 the writs taken from yon ?" "Yes." "After you were taken to the kitchen, did anything happen to you?" " Yes; I was knocked down on the broad of my back, and several parties shouted, shove the writs down his throat.' " "Can you say if the prisoners were tho parties who shouted: " Shove them down his throat?" " I was too terrified to know who did it." " Were the prisoners there at all?'' " Yes; they were all in the kitchen." "You Bay that you were knocked down in the kitchen. When you were down did anything hnnpon to you?" " Yes." "What?" " As socn as they shouted, 'Shove the writs down his throat,' I pleaded for mercy, but it was no use, and one of the party stuck a writ into my mouth and I was held down until" I swal lowed it." " They made you swallow the writ?" " Yes-; Shea's writ." "Did any of the prisoners take part in this?" " It was not they that shoved the writ down my throat, but they assisted in holding me while it was being pushed down my throat." "Did you swallow more than one writ ?" " I was kept down until I swallowed the other." '.'Did you got any water to wash them down?" Liughter " Yes ; after I swallowed tho first writ somebody said to give me a drink of boiling water, and after that I got some dirty water to drink." " And after you got the water they made you swallow the second writ ?" "Yes, sir." " Did anything else happen to you ?" 'Yes ; I was cuffed and beaten, and threatened that if I was ever got at such dirty work again I would not get off so easily, and just as I was going ont of the kitchen running, a kettle, of boiling water wpxi thrown alter me, but it did not do me any harm. "Had you to promise that you won!d never again go writ serving ?" " I had." Queer Advertisement. Some one has forcibly said that . the culture of a nation can be determined from its advertisements. What, then, must be the status of New York, which gives us, through a daily paper, the fol lowing:. WANTED Irunieiiatelv male or female in fant bv a welthy lady from ten months to two yc-ers old. Or this announcement that the well- known furniture dealers, Messrs. Smith k. Brown, make under the firm name: THEIR PATlLOIt FURNITURE IH ELEGANT. THEIR BEDROOM FURNITURE IS 1U(JH, THCillt MAI l KIiSWitt 411K IJUAi, TUElli COFFINS ARE COMFORTABLE. The last line was surpassed by an un dertaker who appended a postscript to his advertisement oi funeral turniture: Call earlv and secure one of our now mahog any collius, they are going olf like hot cakes. The following ill spelled advertise ment had a method in its madness whioh does not appear at first reading : FOR SAIL A black horse, epriugy in gate and hi uvey in harness. The price appended being very rea sonable) a purchaser soon appeared, and tho animal changed hands. When the man who bought him put him in a wagon he found he was utterly unfit for use, having the heaves in the worse form, and being utterly unmanageable when his new owner attempted to drive him through n gateway. He sued tho former owner but could not collect any damages as the man pointed to the ad vertisement, "flenvey in harness." "But I thought'that was heavy," eaid the distressed purchaser. " It don't spell heavy, does it? any more than g a t e spells gait. I said he was springy iu gate aud he is no two men cau bold him through one. If he'd had a glass eye I would have advertised that, too," eaid the man of fine distinc tion. A recent advertisement in an evening paper announces "A sum of money lost in a canvas bag." It must bave been a very large bag. There are many Bad domestic episodes revealed through the advertising col nmns of the daily papers. Here in De troit, some time last fall, appealed this notice: The publie are forbid against harboring my daugbtor, Blanche N , a nirl of sixteen years; dark hair aud eyes, brunette complexion, mo-dium-sized, dressed in dark clothes, who was enticed away irom tier Home by lll-auvisera Oc tober 1, i P. M., during her mother's absence-. Any information of her, or her recovery, can be lett at Trumbull avenue station.. lUauche, come to father, mother will die. O W Fourth street. Detroit. Can anything be more pathetic than the appeal to the wayward Blanche.who, i is hoped, did not fail to respond. jjiroit rut. General Skobplcff. ' In connection with General Skobe- ' leff, the prominent F.ussian peneral whose epeoch against Germany has ere-. ated such & sensation in Europe , , the London Pall Mull QazeUe repro duces some interesting reminiscences : of his career. The story of his exploits in the Bulgarian campaign includes all that was most exciting in the war" which brought the Russian army within R?$ht of the minarets of Stamboul. From ' the day when, "to show the stuff be. was made of," be swam bis horse across the Danube while General Dragominoff was forcing the passage at Simnitza to the time when he could with difficulty be restrained from marching into Con stantinople as soon as the British fleet entered the Sea of Marmora, he was the most prominent actor in the drama. He became the legendary hero of the campaign, and in the minds of the com mon people be almost monopolized its glories. He was always in the fore front of the hottest battle; four horses were shot under hira in ten days, but be was only wounded once, and after being in constant expectation of death, for months he returned homo safe and sound. His white uniform was to his soldiers as the white plume of Henri Qnatre nt the battle of Iviy. " I have heard tho soldiers speak of him," says Lieutenant Greeno," rvs a general under " whom they would rather fight . and die, than fight and . live, under another. They had often to' die sometimes fifty per cent, of Lie' command perished; but ho spared no exertion to minister to their wants and to enpply their needs. His division was the best fed and best clothed and. best armed in the army. He was always with them in the most exposed posi tions of the field, sleeping with them in the trenches nnd looking after nil ' their necessities in the camp. In short," says Lieutenant Greeno, "he succeeded so thoroughly in making; himself one with his division that his men responded to his thoughts ns read ily as the muscles obey the will. I doubt if a more thoroughly ideal rela tion between a general and his men has existed since tho days of Cromwell." His custom of wearing white, ns if to court the bullets of his enemies, bis reckless personal bravery and the Btrnnge custom of his of always " going into battle in his cleanest uniform nnd fresh underclothing, covered with por fume and wearing a diamond-hiited sword, in order that, ns he said, he might die with his best clothes on," train ed him the reputation of a wild dare-devil, which somewhat obscured bis real capacity as a general. In re ality they only showed how thoroughly bo had divined that secret of powor which lies in fascinating.thoimaKination as well as of appealing to the reason of men. When "he was sent to take Geok Tepe and subdue tho Tekkes many shook their heads and predicted that his impetuosity would be his ruin. Co far from that being the case he dis played the utmost caution, acted with the greatest deliberation, refused to move from July to December, until he h id made all his preparations, nnd after he had carried on camels to the trenches no fewer than 1,575,000 rounds of ammunition, to say nothing of several thousands of shot and shell, ho laid siege to Geok Tepe and captured that hitherto impregnable strcnHhold. He had 10,UOo troops against 40,000 A Nation, aud he nchieved the conquest of the Akhal Tekko country with u losn of 937 men. Only once in tfcat cam- pa gu did Skobeleff display his usual recklessness. After tho fortress had fallen he was riding through the coun try with his escort when Lo met (several Tekkes. He askod who they were. fliey answered, "Friendly Tekkes." 1 How can 1 believe vour word?" he asked again. "Tekkes never lie," was their confident response. " Well," re plied Skobeleff, " if that is the case I will send my uccrt home and will re tui n accompanied by you." He was as good ns his word and his trust in the word of the nomads was not misplaced. Spring Cluihiug. In years past, ns spring approaches, wo have cautioned our readers in reaard to the too early adoption of spring or summer apparsl. We might well set this down as a good f.ubjcct for every writer in March. " The appearance of green lawns, bright sunshine aud sing ing birds is quite calculated to allure one to adopt light flannels nnd less protecting covering. Bear constantly in iniind that air in motion is colder than air at rest. With March winds, tho thermometer above the freezing point may entirely misrepresent the ef fective tompeiature. We havo before illustrated this proposition by referring to the habit of using a fan in bummer. When the thermometer is in tho nine ties and the faco is. bathed with pers piration one is ablo to keep comfortable cool by air set in motion by that little device we call a fan. It is questionable if in the New England and Middle States the clothing should not be thicker and warmer in March than in January. It certaii ly will not do to throw aside the winter overcoat nor the sealskin cloak, nor even the heavy un derflannel. When finally the change is made aid winter garments aro put aside they cannot safely be laid away for tho summer until all the chilly days and still more chilly nights havo entirely passoa away. Always Dear in mind that when one experiences a chill, or when for a long time one feels an uncomfort able sensation of coldness a cold in being contracted. Dr. Fuote's Health Monthly. An Exploding Flower. In some seasons nature's greatest blos soming effort astonishes and delights the traveler in presentation of tie talapat tree in bloom, which marvelous flower, it ia said, appears only at inter vals of many years, and then bursts from its sheaf like a rocket, with a report like a small cannon, sending out im mense feathery sprays of a pale yellow or white oolor laden with an oppressive perfume. Ceylon (huli'i) Later. . i. Bank cashiers are generally smart fellows, bat they ' are frequently flighty. n
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