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SOMEIiSET. PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1881.
WHOLE NO. 15 15.
A J CASmCKK. Wm. 11. FKEASE,
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CHAS. J. HAKKISOX. J.S. HAKTZKLL,
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37 aa3 Faralss lEBleaati
Tii.! c;!ctratcJ
HARTZELL PLOWS!
I-et use sit down a minute,
A stone's got into my shoe.
Ilon't you commence your cu. in
I ain't done nothing to ma.
Yes, I'm a tramp what of it ?
Folks say we ain't no j;ooil
Trumps have got to live, I nvkon.
Though jieoi'lt' don't think vr shou'i.!.
Onoe I was youiif: and lmr.dsomi-.
Had plfiity of rash and clothes. -
That was before 1 got to tipliu'.
And gin got in my nose'
Wgy down in the Lehigh Valley
Me and my jKviplc grew ;
I was a l;;u:k:;mith, cnpta!n.
Vm, a:ij a jrood one, too.
Me and lay wife and N'ei'.ic
Nellie was just sixteen
And she was the pootii-st errtnr
The valley had ever seen.
IJeain ! whv she had a dozen ;
Had 'cm from near and fur ;
I5nt they was mostly farmers
Xoneof them suited her.
I'ut there was a ci'y chap,
H.iTidoi:in, yo;i:i and ta!1.
Ah, rar.-sc hint ! I wish I ha 1 him
To stranjrer against yonder wall.
He was (he m.t.i for Nellie
She didn't know no i!l ;
j l'nt yo.i kn v. a youn? girl's will.
: 1 saiJ, "let him have
: pcrhiiiis she has come
It is c!ia;ire;
out, at 12113 !
, beast was, roHinR over ami ovcr.and
! O' . 1.
iiu:c senseless :
, early hour, hoping lo uicot him ; I, "xou know the rest. 1 tried to
trust s.io has. V, ilii these words, j rouse her, and thcu ran for water.
. I turned, und wov.t noi.'i k.-ly in at and ju.-it as ehe was coining to, I saw
i a side door. . J'011 "
: x saw no more ol cither until we lie broke ou. Ihen begam im
i Liountcd for the meet, when Jack ! mediately.
jcMine out, and rode by my side.
Laily Alice liad gone ahead, nttend
: ed by the duke. V"; drorned a
ind. TIi-.'.i Jack said, cx-
nre mtnnfae'.urM nj kept en hard.
Hue of
Aim a full
COOKING a:;d HEATING STOVES.
AU kia.I- R EPAIKIXtl will bo pruinpily done.
Tt.f pul'llc la Infirmed that all kinda of wurk gen
erally d e at a
FIEST-CL4S3 FOUNDRY .
AND
MACHINE SHOP!
li. r;ih
:y-at lw.
c'.l !
T. COi
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COtiiT.3, tL--. t'l-
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ppjca"
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edat ,:C-.s:icUT Nt.TICE.
I.I.1T..KI
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n.iitvi
-::yat law,
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to r;y enre at
n uu.l tt!ity.
Y AT LAW.
I Tviisf to tl.e ruliii".
:tted. ar.'t ail ciier lriral
li prempintM an.! li flay,
lluaL.'j.
WOOLEN MILLS
F.sTAiiMsin:i) leicj.
V"eM, its tii.- ':ne oid story
t'omnion c.io.i,'h, yon say :
IJut he was a .ifi tonued devi!.
And ot her to ran away.
More than a inoti'.h or later,
We heard from the poor yonii1; th:n
Ife had ran nway and left Iit
Without any wed riie:!
lkuk to her home we hrouyht her
Hack to her mother's side;
Killed with a racing fever,
She fell at my feet and die ! !
Frantic with shame aud sorrow,
Her mother bepm to sink,
And died in less than a fortnight ;
That's when I took to drinlt.
Come, jjivc me a glass, no'.v, ('jlon -!.
And I'll bs on my way,
Ami I'll tramp till I catch thalse.oxid.-v!
If it takes till judgment day !
r;t;voi his ukach.
i . . i i
imifl ue
citedlv:
''Congratulate me, old fellow. Af
ter all, 1 half believe kIic cares for
me. You saw our meeting this
morni::-'. I kept my word with
Gwendoline; I did'nt seek Alice ;
it was pure accident ; but I wasn't
going to refuse what fortune threw
in my way. .Still, it's no use, they
will never lot me have her. Hut it's
hard lines." lie took olt his cap, as
he .poko, and wiped away great
drops of per.-psration, which had
started out on his forehead.
j Yc found a ix at Decchy llol
j low. The run that followed will be
j talked of for many years ; and one
j of the formost in that run was Lady
j Alice. I have seen scores of fine
I horsewomen, but never one her
equal; fho sat linn, yet supple;
I and went like a Diana. The chase
lied ivs first to Crosscut lane;
then by Alder copse; and so across
j the country for milcp, as straight as
i the crow Hies. It soon threw out all
j except the most daring ; but among
j (Iiese was Alice ; and, of course the
1HKC lltt'l TO lOilOW iicr.
"Hang the fellow," said Jack, ' lie
rides like a cad: but then he's su
perbly mounted. On such a horse
as his. any follow could keep un
with Alice."
The huntsman and two others
were in front ; Alice ar.d the duke
close after; and Jack and 1 sonic
distance behind. Suddenly
man came to a stilt" fence
I'.Y fiKonGi: f. MAXWELL.
hunts
with a
iXJr.
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S-.irKTi-t, Ta.,
T!tt sn.l a.ii.iuina;e'-.a!it.
to tneui will 1 pr:uip:ljr
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Dtl a to t.nflm-M entr.it-
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A TTO iX E Y-AT-LA W.
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. ;-ri'icj)'iit'B9 and lidlity.
V. M. HICKS,
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Mi i rvir to fh r!iy.fr. nf S'lH
ii.Me in r-Mt:iir vu Ma in
.ihT.T:it.
iM: 1A. kit E3EON,
' S m: a l'.n4. XtiM-vot, where
:.'.! AM ( OI.T.TXS.
!.;i-r.s"v.tifSET.rA.
-''h!r.l:. nNtre IV.rd'a limy
. h,mp f-.tint prrt'ar-
.:...( t -rii. aa r.ltlmr. r-ti-
' &, Ar!.-ial tartli all Vitn'a.
- i..fr:.tl lrjhfrtci!. -.t-raliima
HsTtra; for liif put year or twn. tiecn entirely
nnui.leto fut.plv ilia iiK-reatina dmnaid uh my
k-kj la 1 have Wit an a.idiUuu lo my iu:ll and put
iu a Ihtkk aweutit of
KEW AND EPBCVn EACEISERY
and t!;eny alniol Ounblcd my cjipiclty for man
n'Afturlni:. I Ii.ltc au OB hand a linre atock conBlttlaa; of
JILAXKETS.
tIASSITuEKES, SATINETS.
JEAN'S. K EI ELLA NTS, ' FLANNELS,
COVERLETS, CAKl'ETS,
YAIINS. fc.C
wlJcii 1 wt'h to
Wlicn I was in England,
i a?o, i went uown to w ai tvi
with Jack Ainslie. His si:
a year
ckshirc,
ter had
romiers I have the kind of froo-lf you need. I
jat ur
W OOL!
"iMtJllT IX TOUR OWX COOTV,
ard lo orter to reaeh all my customer! In rooJ
li:oi, 1 liavi e-r.iituje.1 the Fame aitenta 1 had laat
rear, tin.! In addition Mr. Joaeph L Daaaheur,
fli-rt lntrodueeU my guala Into many parta of
th! e..ur;tv.
1 will strive, as In the part, to give firat claea
and tuilviilneto all.
A-.'ew eiistomcra and those we failed to find
lut Mar, wii! please addrctt card to
VM. S. MORGAN,
Quemalioninz, I'a.
Apr 7
married one of the f county mag
nates there and we had been invit
ed for a week's hunting.
I had known Jack in the United
States, which Ire had visitil to try
and forget a hopeless love a.Tair.
"You see, she's beyond my reach," he
said, after we had become intimate.
"I might as well aspire tothe moon.'
Anil then he went on to sav how the
ladv in question was the only child
11 jt f BiT"ll
ana neiress 01 me r.ari ci r.sKuaie,
who had a rent-roll that mounted
into the hundreds of thousands,
while he himself had nothing but
his commision in the Guards. "1
don't mean to say that my family
isn't as good as his, at least, as we
count those things in England," lie
added ; '"but for all that, as I am
hedge, and a bit of water beyond.
It was worth a month out of one's
life to see him t ike that fence, fol
lowed by the other red coats. The
duke, as he and his lair companion
approached it. was a tri'.lo iu ad
vance, liut his horse, somehow, as
he took the Iea, caught its foot in
the top rail, and came down the
fence crashing after, his Grace being
iicl)ed, ht 'el-fonnort into thewa-
r bevond. Lady Alice, following
be;
she's bevond
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iecled and eashe l. Eoalera and Western ezebanga
alaayi on hand. Remittances male with prompt
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absolutely a
my reach."
So now I was in England, and the
train was rushing towards Cromlie
Hall. I could hardly believe it, till
I saw Jack, sitting so woe-begone,
in the opposite corner.
"She's to be there, you know
Lady Alice, I mean," lie said, dolor
ously. "Only it's no good. Gwen
doline,"' that, as I knew was his
sister, "has made me promise to be
have myself. 'You're a detriment
al, Jack,' she says; and heaven
knows that's all I am. I wish I was
a cattle-driver in Texas."
Then, in a little while, live poor
fellow began again.
"When I first knew Alice," he
said, "I thought Fhc cared for me,
at least, a little. We were down at
Cromlie Hall, alone, together. But
just as I began to hope, she grew
distant; they'd been talking to her
and bullying her; and that drove
me to the States."
Cromlie Hall was a fine old place,
built about two hundred years ago.
The great hall, sixty feet square,
and as many high, was in the cen
tre; two spacious drawing rooms
being on one side, while the dining
room and reception room were on i
the other. 1 found the ladies and ;
some of the gentlemen, drinking five
o'clock tea in this hall when we
arrived. Lady Alice was not there,
however; she'was not yet in from
the hunting field, it was said. Lut i
at dinner' she appeared, lovely
enough to justify even Jack's eulo
gies, a very miracle of beauty. In
the evening she sang, and sang di
vinely. Later, I was presented to '
her, and found her charming, full
of archness. We had ejuite a chat
in the nrncr, and I fancied she
blushed a little, when I mentioned
Jack, which I did purposely, to see
what she would do, or say.
I told this to Jack, when we were
alone in the finoking-room, after
everyboJv else had retired. ''Per
haps, she" likes you, even yet, Jack,"
I said. ' Go in, and try. Never
mind what they say. In my coun
try, you know we don't consider any
one out of reach."
"Ah, but it's different here," sigh
ed Jack; "and then I've partly j
Mven niv word. Did you see that
young fe'llow, a bit of a dandy, who
took her into dinner? Well, he's the
new Duke of Grasslands; just come i
into title, with a million a year.!
Thev are going to marry her to his
Grace. He's dead in love, as fyou
see, and I," savagely, "I'm going to
thedevil'
"Gwendoline has been at me
again," he said after a pause. "She
made rue promise not to go near
Alice, on hunting days; his Grace,
it seems, is always to be her escort;
I wish 1 had the fellow," emphatic
ally, "out on one of your western
plains; I'd pound his sheep's face
for him, confound." him
A day passed. Jack, loyally,
avoided Lady Alice, though his
eves were constantly following her.
Jlorc than once I thought I detcct-
tccted her, on her part, watcinng
t
close be
For just one in
about to pull up.
the duke had :dn
fee', ami was unhurt, si
gay nod. and dashed on.
"P-y Jove, he's had a spill. Don't
he look like a drowned wafer rat?"
went over like a bird.
tant, she seemed
Put seeing that
recovered Ids
gave a
as the duke.
laughed Jack, grimly,
dripping, and woe-negono, s
looking disconsolately, aft
rapidly receding
can't blame me.
ler
tood
his
mistress. They
now, for "joining
Alice ; it would never uo to let her
go unattended ; good-bye old boy."
Ho gave his marc her head, as he
spoke, and was off like a rifle shot
The powerful animal had been re
strained with difficulty, all along,
and now rushing on, as if- knowing
exactly what his master wished.
Jack reached the stream while the
duke was still stauggling to pull his
horse out of the ditch. With a care
less nod, Jack wa3 over. I thought
I saw Lady Alice look back, and
slacken her pace, when she recog
nized Jack. At any rate, Jack was
soon up with her. The last I be
held of them, they were taking a
tremendous fence, at the top of a
hill, far off, side by side.
I had made a detour, so as to avoid
the water, for I was not particularly
well mounted, and now I glanced
behind me. The field was quite de
serted. Most of the hunters had
taken what they thought would
proved short cut to where the fox
would be probably killed. Even
the duke, who had now got his
horso out of the ditch, had turned
off, apparently satisfied that Laoy
Alice was loo far ahead to be overta
ken, ar.d was obviously going home.
I resolved, however to keep on.
Jack and Iidy Alice had long been
out of sight, but I pounded steadily
ahead, and so came, at last, totlie
huie fence, which I had seen them
take together. As my horse was
quite unequal to the leap, I turned
aside for a gateway, which I obscrv-
el to thi left. I! had just passed
through, however, when to my hor
ror, I beheld Lady Alice to the
right, Iving at full length on the
turf' alone, and seemingly lifeless,
her hair all loose.
I was about to hurry up, when I
noticed Jack running, with his hat
foil of water. Evidently he had
been to a spring somewhere near,
lie fell on his kjices by Lady Alice, !
sprinkled the water on her nee, and
chaffed her hands at intervals ; all
the time imploring Ler. in the most
passionate accents, to look up, to
speak, "only to let him know she
wasn't dead." A dozen times he
kissed her, as he addressed this im
ploring language to her. At last,
she began to stir, and, with quite a
shiver, looked up; and then smiled
in Jack's face. Shall I ever forget
the rapture of that lock? "I am not
wanted here," I said, with a shrug
of the shoulder?, and turning my
horse's head, I rode noiselessly back
through the gate, and away.
That evening, as I was dressing
f:r dinner, Jack burst into my room.
Tiy Jove 'old boy," he cried, "you
are a trur.ip. I saw you at the gate,
iust as vou stole off" Alice don't
know vou were there. Give me your
hand. "Any other fellow would have
blundered in. to ask what he could
do to help. You've made me the
happiest man alive. Alice won't
marry the duke ; she's loved me all
the time, she says ; shell wait for
me, if necessary, for years ; yes, till
doomsday. Something, you know,
must turn up bonanzas you call
'cm, in your country, that make
poor devils rich in a day !"
"You know how I caucht up
her," he went on, after he had taken
breath. "She had smiled at me,
over her shoulder, with a sauc,
meaning look, as much as to sav
"I don's care now, he said, "for
all of them. I didn't break my
woru. iioouluck, or rroviuence.
rather did it, I'eahaps, if Alice
had had time to think, shcwouldn
haye betrayed herself, They'vi
bullied her beyond words. But she
was surprised, vou see ; she say
with blushes, she hardly knew what
she said, or did ; only .thank God,
the truth has come out ! Now that
I know that she loves me, I'll defy
the whole crowd. We'll trust 'to
heaven. There arc clerkships, aren'i
! there, in the gift of thw stupid old
government of ours ? Places at
Somerset House, and other beastly
holes ? I know fellows, who belong
to my club, v.ho live in that wav
T Tli . , . t ... "
i win write lo my uncie tins very
night, and see if he can't set me
clerkship ; and then I'll cut the ser
vice ; and we'll marry, and live in
a two-pair-back. My lord has in
lluencc " ,;
"i our uncle ? my lord ?" I inter
rupted, with some surprise, for
tnough I liad known Jack so well
I had never heard him talk of such
a relative. The fact is, thorough
bred Englishmen, so far as I know
never do.
"Oh, yes! Lord Arlington. Didn't
you know? One oftho best old boys
V a
going, uut you see lie nas two sons
and any quantity of daughters, and
so no money to spare ; and J
wouldn't ask him to help me, ex
cept in someway like this ; and 1
never thought of a clerkship be
lore'
J ust then one of tho most extra
ordinary thinjrs happened, so extra
ordinary that it altogether cut short
Jac s sentence. So extraordinary.
uiat, u i nan not witnessed it,
would not have believed it. There
w;i3 a knock at the door, and a tele
gram was handed to Jack.
"(Jrcat heavens !" he cried, as he
read it. lie was pale as a corpse,
I lie paper rattled in his shaking
hand. "The poor, fatherless girls !
r.o will console them ! I must be
oil to-ni-'ht at oneo " .
"What is it ?" I asked.
"Head it," ho answered. "No,
can tell you quicker. My uncle and
ins two sons think of it have been
lost in a gale, in his yacht, off Snez
zi.i. All three bodies were washed
ashore. The girls, his daughters,
are at Xicc, alone ; fur their mother
is dead, you know. It will kill
them."
"Are you the nearest relation ?
Can nolnnly cW, buTVelu, go r""'I
asked this with a sudden thrill.
v ny, ot course, there s none
nearer : but I'd go all the same, if I
wasn't ; poor dears !"
"Then you are I,ord Arlington," I
said.
He stared at me in a dazed way
for a moment. Evidently, up to this
instant, he had not reinenibered that
he was toe heir. Ilia entire sympa
thies, big-hearted fellow that he
was, had been enlisted for his poor
C0US111:-.
"Why, good God, so I am," he
cried, and sank into a chair, shak
ing all over.
After a few moments he rallied
"I take heaven to witness," he
said, "that I never thought rf this
I'd go back to j'esterday's despair,
and you know what that was, soon
er than that my happiness should
be bought at such a price. Yes ! I
must start to-night. But I must see
Alice. She promised to meet me in
the conservatory. Oh! my poor
cousins."
I h ave not much more to tell. Of
course, in d-ie time there was a wed
ding. Of course, too, it was a very
splendid one, as became that of so
great an heiress as Lady Alice.
There were eight bridesmaids, and
among the guestsi were six dukes,
though, alas ! his Grace of Gross
lands was not one of them.
Jack, with the liberality that had
always distinguished him, generous
hearted fellow that he was, even
when poor, settled a competent in
come on each of the orphaned daugh
ters of his uncle.
Only the other day I had a letter
dated Arlington Castle. It was from
Lady Alice.
"Jack 1m hurt Ids right hand by
a bad fall in the hunting field," she ,
wrote, "ana nsks me to no ins aman
uensis. He savs vou must come
over this winter ; he will take no
denial ; and I also lay my commands
on you. We arc as happy, Jack
bids inc to say, as it is possible for
any two poor idiots to be; in all
which I concur, except tho idiots.
Do come ! I shall never forget that
you had the good sense to tell him
foolish fellow that nothing could
be Beyond His Beach." rtterxoa'
Aaron Burr's Love Lettrr.
Circ 'Em Away.
fashionable lady in San Fran
cisco, whose lovely daughters are
regarded as the most elegant belles
of the city, having become disgusted
with the arrogance, lies, and neglect
of the "colored gemman" whodeien
ed to wait upon them, suddenly
discharged that personage and em
ployed a Celestial, who had been
strongly recommended to her for
his strict attention to ms duties ana
perfect truthfulness. Soon after his
installation his mistress determined
to give a formal "hop," and on the
afternoon of the day on which tho
party was to take place shet old Lung
to suy iot at home to anyone who
called. As chance would have it,
one of the young ladies' most fasti
dious bcaus. and one on whom thev
to i ..11 wnntpd to mute a favorable im-
c . . . . ... . .
. . . T ' I ti 1 . . wj.tt. i....n!iT I,. -, . 1 I I
him On the third morning, a rose jsoc u ucvu nuui,; imipyju; ?i""
" i. r.. t i,i n't. slpr.t. well the duke. But she didat say a
CPCiril, a , , ... , ... j-
and rroinz out on the terrace, was
suppriscd to see Lady Aliee, dressed
in her hunting-habit, feeding tae
peacocks, in fron't of me, when I
saw Jack coming around the furth
er end of the house. "Poor fellow,"
word. We kept on, thud, thud, up
the hill I never knew horses to go
so before till we reached the fence
at the top. My old mare went over
all right, but hers stumbled some
how, and great heavens, there the
pression, came to ask permission to
bring a friend with him im the even
ing, and on inquiring for the ladies
was told by the truthful Lung :
"They tell me to say all going out
but old woman she in kitchen washee
dishee, the young misses they up
stairs painteo faces." It is needless
to say the young man did not put
in his appearance that evening, and
the truthful Lung is seeking another
situation.
When I knew Burr best he was
well advanced in years. He was
one of the worst men that ever liv
ed. He had no scruples whatever
about a woman, and he chose the
loveliest m the land for his victims.
About the time of his duel he had
disgracful intrigues with a dozen or
twenty ladies st once in New lork,
Albany. Providence. New Haven
Boston, Baltimore. Richmond and
smaller towns between. Some of
these were kept up for years, but
most of the ladies had speedy sue
cessors. I speak of them as "ladies"
they were the wives of brilliant
lawyers pr wealthy merchants, or
the young daughters of the fashion
11 1 1 f 1 reri
ame old lamuics. 1 here was an
agony of fear among these when the
duel was lough t, lest the guilty gal
lant should tail and their terrible
secret be betrayed, and this fear deep
ened into consternation when he
died at last Many of the oldest
families in New York, Pennsylva
nia and ..New England trembled
then. And well they might. It
had been rumored around that Burr
had never l" desroyed any letters
from ladies. And this shows, bet
ter than anything else, his lack of
any moral sense whatevor for he
refused to protect those whom he
had enevonsiv miured. when thev
could havo been protected without a
moments thought. He used to
boast that he had never destroyed
one letter. And with devilish meth
od he had folded them all carefully.
and filed them regularly in pack
ages each lady's letters by them
selves.
When Burr died at last, Matthew
Davis, about his only friend, who
became his administrator, sent for
me. 1 went over. There was noth
ing to administer but the expressions
of tenderness which the scoundrel
lad cajoled lrom respectable women
and filed away. There was the will
which he made tho day before Ins
duel with Hamilton. In that he
said to his daughter Theodosia, his
only legitimate child, then at sea:
"In a blue trunk in the attic you
will find something to amuse, more
to instruct, and still more to re
gret." That blue trunk which he
had thus coolly bequeathed to his
only child, and that child a lovely
daughter, contained the carefully
treasured love letters, from a dozen
women at a time, proofs of her fath
er's depravity ! Does not that show
that Burr was without any moral
sense whatever? Theodosia was
swallowed up b' the waves, and
never saw the blue trunk.
We opened tho bluo trunk, which
Davis had partly examined, and I
never shall forget mv astonishment
and disgust at what T saw. It was
nearly lull of letters from women,
Lied in packages. v e looked at
the individuals letters. Most of
tern had been signed with initials
only, or oftencr without any name,
or with some ict name ; but Burr,
with a nialiguity whose motives I
cannot yet understand, had written
out each name in full. He seemed
resolved that others should share
ris infamy. Some of the names bc
onged to some of the most honored
families in the land to have reveal
ed them would have been to cause
terrible anguish, and in several
cases probably the breaking up of
families. I used to go over and
ook at them when I had a spare
hour.
They were strictly guarded by I
Davis. He was a queer man, but he ;
ad a high sense ot personal honor.
Why Mordecai M. Noah offered Da
is $20,000 for that blue trunk and
its contents, but of course the offer
wa3 spurned and the insr.lt resent
ed. Matthew Davis, too, had his
eccentricities, and one of these queer
notions in regard to these captured
ove letters was that they should all
be rcturncel to the writers ! That
seemed to me to inflict needless pain,
and I argued with him about it, but
he said the writers would be better
satisfied if they had a chance to de
stroy them themselves. Some of
them were old ladies then, mothers
and grandmothers, but Davis un
dertook the grim task of returning
all the packages of letters by the
hand of trusty friends. A good
many he gave back himseii. lie
gave me one of these delecate pack
ages to deliver when I was going to
rovidcnce one day, but I told him
would see hini hanged first. lut
knyw that General Scott did ac
cept one of these packages from
.Matthew Davis, and returneu it
with his own hand to a lady high
in society in Richmond. He told
me so. I always wondered whether
she thanked him or not, but I for
got to ask him. But think of the
moral nature of a man capable of
deliberately leaving all those letters
to his own daughter as a legacy!
Burr was quite a small man ; very
graceful in movement and courte
ous in demeanor ; a small hand and
foot; not spirited or dashing at all,
but his manner was full of repose
and his voice was soft and musical.
He would strike one at first as being
slightly effeminate, but he was not
so; hewas.abold, strong, capable
man. In conversation, till the last
ten years of his life, he was brilliant.
But, to return to the subject of his
wickedness toward women. When
he was in England he was greatly
assisted and lie-friended by a learn
ed professor of Oxford University,
whose name I must not mention.
In return for this friendship Burr
ruined his wife. Six years
afterward Burr obtained a po
sition for this professor in a New
York college, for obvious reasons
and when they came over to this
city Burr also seduced their daugh
ter, a lovely girl of seventeen, whose
confidencc he had won when she
was a little girl during his visit in
England. Indue time the profes
sor d:.l, and Buir became a penni
less outcast Then this mother and
daughter, instead of hating and
spurning him, took him and sup
ported him during his last years by
keeping a boarding house down
town. This was on the well known
Keene place on Broadway, just be
low Wall street. Here his food and
very medicine were paid for by the
two" women on whom he had in
flicted moral injury fifteen years be- J
fore. He had no sense of shame or 1
of gratitude. He was almost uni
versally hated during his last years.
and was really an object of pity. I
remember being on an Albany
steamboat oiTe night, and seeing a
crouched form out on deck, I went
out and there was Burr in the cold.
I asked him why he did not go in.
He said he was not very cold, but
we went in together. " There was
Governor Morgan Lewis whom I sa
luted. I noticed that they did not
speak, so I seated myself between
them. Finally Burr rose and mov
ed off. "Don't you know Colonel
Burr?" I asked him. "Yes," said
he, "I know the d d reptile!"
Tlivrlow Weed to a Xcw Yuri Corrt-
pontlent.
Our Daily Ureail.
A Stranger in the School.
A large school of boys and girls
were conning over their lessons. The
teacher tried hard to keep order, to
make all take to their studies,
help those who needed aid. and to
make all happv. He opened the
doors and windows to give them
fresh air ; but all would not do.
Some felt discourajred with their
lessons, some felt sleepy, some felt
cross, and everything 6eemed
drag and linger. By and by the
heavy tread of a foot on the door
step was heard, and, without knock
ing, in walked a hard-laced man
somewhat old, but with a firm step.
The children at first felt afraid of
him, but they soon found that be
neath his hard looks there was a
bright eye, a pleasant smile, and a
kind heart. But, instead of sitting
down and staring at the school, he
6at down by the side of one of the
little girls who was trving to get her
spelling lesson.
1 here were tears of discouragement
in her eyes.
Well, whats the matter with our
little one?"
"Oh, sir! I can't jret my lesson. It's
so long, and so hard, l can never
learn them !"
"I,et U3 see. How many words
are there in one column ?''
"Fifteen, sir."
"And how many columns in you
esson ?"
"Three, sir."
"Very well. That makes forty-
five words to be learned. How many
are easv, so that vou can snell them
at once ? Count them."
"Twenty-five."
"Then you have twenty which
you call hard. Now, take the first
one, look at it sharp, see every letter
in it, count the letters, see just how
the word looks. Now shut your
eyes : and see if you can still see
just Jhow the werd looks. Spell it
over softly to yourself. 1 here, now,
you spelled it rinht' Now do so
with thr iMxt wrd. and tho next,
tiii you nave them an.
Uh, sir, that is verv easy. 1 can
get ray lesson now."
Thus he went from seat to seat,
and helped all. The scholars forgot
the heat They all had their lessons :
the teachersmiled and pralseel them,
and all were happy. Just as he was
leaving, the teacher thanked the
stranger, and hoped he would soon
call again.
"Oh," said he, "just send for me
at any time, and i will come and
give anyone a lift."
"Pray, sir, by what name shall we
ask lor you I
"Mr. Hardstudy, sir, at your ser
vice. John Todd, in tie Household.
Booth and the Ioril'? I'rayer.
When the elder Booth was resid
ing in Baltimore a pious, urbane old
gentleman of that city, hearing of
his wonderful power of elocution
one day invited him to dinner, al
though always deprecating the stage
and theatrical performances. A large
company sat down at the table, and
on returning to the drawing-room
one of thenasked Booth, as ajspecial
favor to them all, to repeat the
Lord's prayer. Ho signified his
willingness to gratify them, and all
eyes were fixed upon him. He
slowly and reverently rose from his
chair, trembling with the burden of
two great conceptions. He had to
realize the character, attributes and
presence of the Almighty Being and
he was to .transform himself into a '
poor, sinning, stumbling benignted,
needy supplicant, offering homage,
asking bread, pardon, Jight and
guidance. Says one of thecompany
who was present : It was wondertul
to watch the play of emotions that
convulsed his couutenance. lie be
came deadly pale, and his eyes,
turned tremblinjr upward, were wet
with tears. As yet he had not spok
en. The silence could be felt, it
became painful, until at List the
spell was broken, as if by an electric
shock, as his rich-toned voice syla-
bled forth, "Our Father which art in
heaven," etc., with a pathos and
fervid solemnity which thrilled all
hearts. He finished; the silence
continued ; not a voice was heard,
nor a muscle moved in this wrapt
audience, until from a remote part
of the room, a subdued sob was
heard, and the old gentleman (the
host) stepped forward with stream
ing eyes and tottering frame, and
seized Booth by the hand. "Sir,"
said he, "you have afforded me a
pleasure for which my whole future
life will feel grateful. I am an old
man, and every day, from my boy
hood up, I have repeated the Lord's
Prayer ; but I never heard it before
never !" " You are right," replied
Booth, "to read that prayer as it
should be read caused me the se
verest study and labor for thirty
years, and I am far from satisfied
with my rendering of that wonder
ful production. That prayer itself
sufficiently illustrates the truth of
the Bible, and stamps upon the seal
of divinity."
While Elijah tho prophet was
driven into the wilderness by the
hatred of the wicked King Ahab,
he was fed by ravens, which brought
him bread jind meat morning and
night We do not know where the
ravens got the food, but the same
Being who told them to tike it to
the prophet could show them how
to get it. Thus God gave Elijah his
"daily bread." You pray for your
"daily bread" every time you re
peat tho ix)rd 6 Prayer, and he gives
it to you. Father pays for it, mother
prepares it, but ( iod shows them
where to get it
A girl about 11 vears old lived
with her grandfather. He was a
very good, but a very poor man, and
he was too old to work and so get
his living. His little stock of money
grew les3 and less, till he had spent
his last shilling in buying bread.
Soon that was ail eaten up ; and one
day, when dinner-time came, there
was not a bit of bread or anything
to eat in the house. The child be
came hungry and asked her grand
father for. some food. He told her
he had none, but promised her some
by dinner-time. He made her set
the plates and knives and forks as
usual, and she did it, wondering
what grandfather could mean. Just
before dinner-tima he and the little
girl knelt down, and the old man
prayed for "daily bread," and trust
ing the promicc : "Bread shall be
given him, his water shall be sure."
Just as lie finished, a lady came
in, bringing a bountiful meal with
her for them. God put it into that
lady's heart to wonder whether the
old man and his grandchild had
enough food.
The lady who brought food to
these poor people was a Christian,
and we do not wonder that God
should have viseel her to relieve his
servant's wants. But sometimes
God sends food to his children by
the hands of bad people, and even
by tlios- who are fond of saving all
they can, and rarely or never help
their poor neighbors. Naturally the
ravens would keep all the bread and
tlesh they could get for themselves,
but God" made them carry it to
Elijah ; so now and then God puts
it into the thought of miserly nif-n to
give to those he loves.
V poor man, named Thomas
Hownham, lived in England. He
earned his living sometimes by car
rying coals, and someti: ii s bv sell
ing brooms made of the heath that
grew on the moors. He was a rjod-
y man, and believed God would
always care for him. Ii e.tp'-cted
some money one dav for his work
but the man that owed it did not
pay him. He went home at night
penniless, and found there was
nothinnr in the house evt. His
children cried for food, but lie could
give them r.ne.
He put them to bed and they
went to sleep, and tneir mother fell
asleep too. Then he went outside
the house, in the moonlight, to a
ilacc where no one could hear him,
and prayed that God wemld supply
his need. He stayed, thinking of
God s promises, for an hour and a
ialf. When he reached his home,
he saw on a stool a large loaf and a
joint of meat ready roasted.
ho God answered his prayer.
How did the food come there?
That is tf.e most remarkable part of
the storv.
A farmer lived close bv who was
so niggardly mat ioiks nan nick
named him" "Pinch-me-near." Be
fore he went to market he ordered
. 1 a 11
his Housekeeper to roast a wnoie
joint of meat and bake two large
oaves.
The reliable man is always there
when he is wanted. You do not
have to send twenty different
i places after him ; if he is not at
' home, his wife can HI you where
: he is. Th reliable man always
tells-his mission to 1:L wife. He is
! not fool enough to marnr a woman
! he can't trust. He is not much of
! a talker, but he thinka a great deal.
He looks at a subject in all it bcar
ings. J lis judgment1 are unbiased.
If he should be elected governor, he
' will carry Sttte affairs with a just
land firm hand. In private life he
will always havo plenty of kindling
wood ready in the morning. No
running round ia tho cold for him
before he b-.i made his toilet He
won't lc liieiy to whip the chddren
when they don't deserve it He can
bear allusions to a religious or polit
ical belief which doe3 not accord
with his own without going into
tantrums. He can give advice, and
keep his temper if it is not taken
and followed. He knows there are
people in the world beside himself,
llelielieves that this plannct will
continue to be run with a moderate
tlegree of sucx-ess after he shall sleep
with his fathers. He never tells
what he would have done "if he had
only been there." I:' hinakes you
a promise, you know he will keep it
unless he dies before the time for
it3 redemption. If he states a fact
for a fact, you know that you can
credit the statement. If he sella
you a horse and warrants him sound
you need not look for a spavin cr a
ringbone after the first day '3 hard
driving. His word is as good as
his bond. He is honest; you can
trust him to do as lie agrees. You
need not watch him ; he will do
just as well without it He has re
spect unto himself, and would b
ashamed to have his own soul con
vict him of dishonesty. If you arc
in trouble, you know you can ex
pect help lrom him. If you are
down in the world, he will stand by
you. If other friends have forsaKen
you, lie will support ami uphold
you. In society the reliable man is
worth his weight in gold. In tho
church he is invaluable, he will pass
the contribution box when the war
dens are laid up with bad colds ; he
will takecare of the minister's house
when he goes away for a days pleas
uring ; he will help the ladies put
down the new vestry carpet, and
he is ready to stir the oyster stew,
or tend the elevator from the kitchen,
when the society have an "old folks
supper." All the girls like him and
all the boys respect him, and his
wife is proud of him, and lay3 great
emphasis on what "my husband"
says for she know3 he is reliable.
And we devoutly wish there were
more like him.
The Omen of Garllel.l' Nomination.
The editor of the Cincinnati Her
ald Prcl'iitcr called upon General
Garfield at Mentor lately, and the
subject of the omens alledged to have
attended the next iYesident's nomi
nation was discussed :
The flight of the eagle in Wash
ington on the day of the nomina
tion was referred to, and we asked
him if lie knew the report to be
true.
"Yes," said he. "I investigated it
carefully. It was strange, indeed.
Eagles are not often seen away from
forests and mountains, but that day
a large one was seen in Washington,
swooping about over the city, and
at last lighting down on my house
Ul lllU Wry fim. o ( tliC llonatwniion,
a3 near as we could judge of the
difference in the time between Chi
cago and Washington. There is an
other thing I have not mentioned,
but I will tell it to you. gentlemen,
for I know you will like to hear it.
The night before the nomination
we eat up long after midnight, try
ins to asree on something and tret
out of the deadlock, but all in vain.
and we took a little rest, expecting
to go into the struggle again the
next day without any light or pros
pect. As I went into the conven
tion hall the next day I passed a
man, one of the Moody and Sanky
men, who was actively handing out
leaves to everyone passing him. I
took one, thinking it probably an
advertisement of a patent medicine
or something else, but, glancing at it.
j I saw it was a leaf of the Bible, and
II thought I would l ot throw it
n, -... 1 T ,... ;. ; ,-. nent .w.l-, .f
He came home from market in a ! ,L t,f mnm ; v-
bad humor, and soon went to bed ?wm the nominat;ori wa3 ma(lo aru,
Two hours afterward he got up and dL tche3 came thick and fast t
told the servant to take tne meat L, thcm anJ t thcm in tLe
and loaf to Thomas Hownham s keL Aftcr the &lloUTn
cottars. The man did iishe was tT' ,ir,M uii .i
- . v 1.1 1 ,1 t I II till X .lib IV 111 7 HVtVl (.Halt wn.
old, opened the door the poor man dismtchrg camo in" t nVLmhm,
had left unbolted, and put the L- to be awered anJ T
breadand meat on the stool, not ,,f tl,.m oli
. . 1 al 1 ' P i ll'l'l 111 T 0.l.lt,lUl T T UU UAVIAl CA-A Alt
iking to disturb the sleeping fam- m . - . . . wo hnmn
The farmer was vexed the next T iram ?.. -
morning at what he had done, and t.M .,v:' j, a;.i
1 , .1 IT 1 1 . UHVl LUiklKAm AIM l'i sVS lllili. all' Ttl't
xplamed it in this way. He had ; ..... . . th73 ? It . . .
Don't kiss any person who has
taken poison, and don't kiss a corpse
under any circumstances, unless you
want to contract blood poisoning.
Grand Rapids woman took some
strychnine, and her convulsive
movements alarmed her pet poodle
dog, who jumped up into her lap
and licked her face. He licked
enough poison from her lips to kill
him, and she recovered.
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leaf of Scripture, and it was so fold
ed that only a verse could te read,
viz : "The stone which the builders
rejected, the same has become the
head of the corner. This is the
Lord's doing, and it Is marvelous in
our eyes." It was noticed with sur
prise, but I cannot consent to ap-
i ply such a passase to myself."
Pennsylvania Lands;.
meant to invite some acquaintances
to supper, 'who often teased him be
cause he was a miser. He thought
he would wait till they passed his
door and surprise them by the un
expected invitation : but a sudden
shower of rain fell, and they went
home another way.
This is what put the farmer into
such a bad temper. i
When he got to bed, he dreamed ;
three times that Thomas Hownham j , , , . , .
and his family were starving, and A few weeks figo ui a business
therefore had sent the fool. ! fj8 0nc
He regretted his generosity, but it j of tnem deeded the other ot)0 acres
was tw late to recall it.-AWy I f. nd m Penna .. and the ; other day
uie ouyer ecierea tue tiiei a omee.
! "I have just returned from a trip
! to Penna., to Pee the land 1 got lrom
i vou.
How many girls and bovs know i -'Ah ! As I never saw it myself I
how the jingling Ik-IIs are made ? j have some curiosity about it"
How do vou think the little iron i "It i3 a swindle, sir a barefaced
ball gets " inside the bell ? It is too ! swindle !"' exclaimed the other,
big to be put through the holes in j "Is that pa9ible ! Didn't you find
the bell, and it is inside. How did it j the land
o-ct there? i "Yes sir; but it is nothing but a
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1 III? 1ILL11? irUU LMll 1 ViOitl.1 iliC : .
The Jingling Bells.
jinglet." When you shake the sleigh
bell it jingles. When the horse
trots the bells jingle, jingle. In mak
ing the Ml this jinglet is put inside
a little ball of mud, just the shape
inside of the bell. This mud ball
with the jinglet inside in placed in
the mold of the outside, and the
melted mettle is poured in, which
fills up the mold.
When the mold is taken off you
sec a sleigh bell, but it would not
ring, a? it is full of dirt The hot
mettle dries the dirt that the ball is
made of, so it can all be shaken out
After the dirt is all shaken out of
the holes in the bell, the little iron
jinglet will still be in the bell, and
it will ring.
It took a fiood manv years to
think ont how to make a
bell.
"A hill? is it a real solid hill ?"'
"It is ns solid a hill as ran l e
made of rock and dirt."
"Any chance for any part of it to
slide ovtr nn other man's land ?"'
"No."
"Seems to be solid on it? pins, dots
it?"
"Yes, sir.'
i "Then let me congratulate you
! on your bargain. I've bought and
' ..11 nnmnnt e Puflnnavtrnnl
land, and the great draw back has
been to bny and sell a big hill
which would stay in one spot for a
week. The last one I sold slid a
mile and a half while the buyer
wa3 going from here to Iittsburgh.
You have made a great investment,
sir, and I sincerely and honestly
. . . : n
sieisih eonzramtave? you.
l A Ci-om Baby
Ones while Dr. Samuel Johnson,
the liicrary bear, was talking very
learnedly one of the company laugh
ed. Thoroughly indignant John
son turned on him and said : "What
f revokes your risibility, sir ? Have
said anything that you can under
stand ? "If I have I ask pardon
from the rest of the company.
Nothing is so conducive to a man's
remaining a bachelor as stopping for
one night at the house of a married
friend ancljbeing kept a wake for five
or six hours by the crying of a cross
baby. All cross and crying babies
need only Hop Bitters to make them
well and smiling. Young man re
member this. Ttaxeler.