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My lady walks her morning round, My lady's page her fleet greyhound, My lady's hair the fond winds stir, And all the bird make songs 'for her. Hor thrashes sing in ltatbburn bowers, And IUthburn side is gay with flowers ; Hut ne'er like hers, in flower or bird, Was beauty noen or nmnio hoard. The distance of the stars is hers ; The loast of all hor worshippers, The duxt benoath her daiuty beol, Htae kuows not that I Bee or fuel. O proud and calm ! she cannot know Wboro'er she goes with her I go ; 0 cold and fair ! ahe cannot guess 1 knoel to sharo her hound's carex ! (lay knight besido her hut and hawk. I rob their ears of hor sweet tilk ; Her suitors oome from east and west, I steal hor smile from every guest. Unheard of her, in loving words, I greet her with the song of bird, 1 reach her with her green-armed bowers, I kiss her with thslips of flowers. The hound and I are ou her trail, The wind anl I uplift hor veil j As if the calm, cold moon she were, And I the tide, I follow her. s As unrebuked as they, I share The licensa of the sun and air, And in a common homage hide My sroriihip from her soorn and pride. Nor look nor sign botrayeth me j 1 serve her in my low degree, Content in humble ways to prove lie serveth well who serves for love. And still to her my service brings The reverence due to holy things ; Her ma don prido, her haughty name My dumb devotion shall not shame. Inlrpenrinit. The Express Train. Two or three of us had lounged out of the club one night, into Santley'a office, to find out the news coming in by cable, which the sleeping town would not hear until the paper would be out to-morrow. Sautley wan editor of the Courier. He was scribbling away at driving speed, his hai on, an unlighted cigar in Lib mouth. " You're at it lnte, Ben." . " Accident on a western road. Sixty lives lost," without looking up. We seized the long white slips which lay coiled over the table, aud read the dispatch. 44 Tut, tut 1" "Infamous I' " Nobody to blame, of course." 44 1 tell you the offi'ers of a road where such an fcccidcut is possible should be tried for murder 1" cried Ferrers. Sautley shoved his copy to the boy, and lighted his cigar. " I think you're wrong, Ferrers. Instead of being startled at such casualties, I never travel on a railway that I am not amazed at the security of them. Just think of it. Thousands of trains running yearly on each, with but a minute to spare be tween safety and destruction, the safety of the trains depending on conductors, telegraph clerks, brakesmen, men of every grade of intelligence, the braius subject to every kind of mood, disease and temper. The engineer takes a glass of liquor; the conductor sets hia' watch half a minute too fast; the fhignian falls asleep, and the train is dashed into ruin! It is not the accident that is to be won dered at, it is the escape that is miracu lous 1" We had all dropped into seat by this time. The night was young, aud one after another told some story of adven ture or danger. Presently Sautley said, " There was an iucident which occurred on the Erie road a few years ago, which inado me feel as I do in the matter I happened to be an eye-witness to the whole affair." What was it, B-n ?" " It's rather a long story " " No matter. G. ou. You cau't go home until vour proof comes iu any how." 1 44 No. Well, to make you understand, bout five years ago I had a bad break ydown night-work, haak-writing and poor pay. You know how fast it all wears out the machinery. The doctor talked of diseases of the gray matter of the bruin, etc., und prescribed, instead of medicine, absolute rest and change of scene. I would have swallowed all the nostrums in a drug shop rather than have left the office for a week. " I'll take country board and send in editorial,' said I. " 'No; you must drop office and work utterly out of your life for a month, at least. Talk and think of planting pota toes, or embroidery anything but news .papers and politics. ' ' Well, 1 obeyed. I started on a ped estrian tour through Pennsylvania, s'ud ied oil stock in Alleghany county, and ate sour-kraut in Berks. Finally I brought up footsore aud bored beyjnd bearing in Williarasport. While there I fell into the habit of lounging about the railway station, studying the con- struction of the engines, and making friends with the men. The man with whom I always fraterniz9 most readily is the skilled mechanic. He has a degree of common-sense a store of certain facts which your young doctor or politician is apt to lack. Besides he is absolutely sure of his social standing grouud, and has a grave self-respect which teaches him to respect you. The professional lad just started ou his career is uneasy. not sure of bis position: he tries to climb perpetually. I tell you this to ex JlilijiJUiy iutimtu'Y with many of the offi cials on the road, especially with ah en gineer named Blakeley. This man attracted me first by his ability to give me the information I wanted in a few direct sharp words. Like most reticent men he knew the weight and value of words. I soon be came personally much interested in him. He was about forty, hia hair streaked with gray, with a grave worn face, which hinted at a youth of hardship and much suffering. However," Blakeley had found his way to the uplands at last. Three years before he lind married a bright, o'leerful woman. They had one child a boy. ne had work and good wages. and was, I found, high in the confidence of the company, Ou one occasion, hav ing a Sundayott.he took me up to Jersey Shore, where his wife and child lived. He was an exceptionally silent man, but when with them was garrulous and light hearted as a boy. In his eyes Jane was the wisest and fairest of women, and the boy a wonder of intellect. One great source of trouble to him was, as I fouud, that he'was able to see them but once in three weeks, it was necessary for the child's health to keep them in the country air, and, ind-vd, he could not afford to have them elsewhere; but this separated him from them almost totally. Jane was in the habit of com ing with Charley down to a certain point of theood every day, that Blakeley might see them as he dashed by. " And when I found out this habit, it occurred to me that I could'give Blakeley a great pleasure. How often have I cursed my meddling kindness since. January 25th was the child's birthday. I proposed to Mrs. Blakeley that she and Charley should board the train which her husband drove, unknown to him, and mn up to Harrisbnrg, where he had the night off. There was to be a little supper at the Lochiel House. Charley was to appear in a new suit, etc., etc. Of course the whole affair was at my expense a mere trifle, but an af fair of grandeur and distinction which fairly took Jane's breath. She was a most innocent, happy creature; one of those women who are wives and mothers in the cradle. When Blakeley fouud her she was a thin, pale little tailoress a machine to grind out badly-made shoddy clothes. But . three years of raaraiage and petting of Charley had made her rosy and plump and pretty. HThe littlo'Highland suit was brought complete, to the tiny dirk aud feather, and very pretty the littlo fellow looked in it. I wrote down to order a stunning supper to be ready at eight. Jane and lb loy were to go aboard the train at Jersey Shore, a queer little hill village lear which they lived. Blakeley ran the train from Williarosport down to Harris burg that day. His wife being iu the passenger car, beforo he took charge of the engine, of course he would see and know nothing of her until we landed at llarrisbnrgh at seveu. I had intended to go dowu in the smoking-car as usual, but another fancy, suggested I suppose by the originator of all evil, seized me. No need to laugh. Satan, I believe, has quite as much to do with accidents and misery aud death, as with sin. Why not? However, my fancy, diabolical or not, was to go down on the engine with Blakeley. I hunted up the fireman and talked to him for an hour. Then I went to the engineer. 44 4 Blakeley,' I said, 4 Jones (the fire man) wants to-night off.' " ' Off ! O, no doubt 1 He's taking t drink, Jones, ne must have been drinking when he talked of that. It's impossible.' "I explained to- Blakeley that Jones had a sick wife, or a sweetheart or soine tliing.nndfiually owned that I had an un conquerable desire to ruu down the road on tte engine, aud that knowing my only chance was to take the fireman's place, had bribed him to give it to me. The fact was that in my idleness and the overworked state of my brain I craved excitement as a confirmed drunk ard does liquor. ' Blakeley, I saw, was angry and ex ceedingly annoyed. He refused at first, but finally gave way with a grove civili ty, which almost made me ashamed of my boyish whim. I promised to be the prince of firemen. Then you'll have to be treated as oue, Mr. Sautley, said'Blakeley, curtly. 4 I can't talk to gentlemen aboard my engine. It's different harefrom on the platform, you'll remember. I've got to order and you to obey, in there, and that's all there's of it. ' " Oh, I understand,' said I, thinking that it required little moral effort to obey in the matter of shoveling coal. If I could have guessed what that shovel ing cpal was to cost me ! But all day I went about thinking of the fiery ride through the hills, mounted literally on the iron horse. " It was in the middle of the afternoon when the train riiBhed into the station. I caught a glimpse of Jane on the pas senger car, with Charley, magnificent in his red green plaid, beside her. She nodded a dozen times and laughed, and then hid behind the window, fearing her husband should see her. Poor girl ! It was the second (treat holiday of her life, she had told me. the first being her wedding day. " The train stopped ten minutes. It w is neither an express nor an accommo dation train, but one which stopped at the principal stations on the route Bel' insgrove. Sunbury. etc. 44 I had an old patched suit on, fit, as I supposed, for the service of coal- heaver: but Blakeley. when I came up. ejed it aud my bauds sardonically. He was in no better temper, evidently, with amateur firemen than he had been iu the morning. All aboard 1' he saiJ, gruffly. You take your place there, Mr. Santley, Yulljut in coal junt as I call for it, if you please, and not trust to your own judgment.' " His tone anuoyed me. ' It caunot require much judgment to keep up a fire under a boiling pot, and not make it too hot. Any woman can do that in her own kitchen.' ' He made no reply, but took his place on the little square box where the greater part of his life was passed. I noticed that his face was flushed, and his irritation at my foolish whim wan cer tainly more than the occasion required. I watched him with keen curiosity, won doing if it were possible that he could have been drinking as he had accused poor Jones of doing," "It strikes me as odd," interrupted FerrerB, "that yon should not only made an intimate companion of this fel low, Santley, but taken so keen an in terest in his temper and drinking bouts. Yon would not be likely to honor any of us with such attention. " No. I have something else to do. I was absolutely idle then. Blakeley and his family for the time made up my world. As for the friendship, this was an exceptional man, both as to integrity and massive hard sense. The knowl edge that comes from books counts with me but for little, compared with the ex perience and contact with facts for forty years. I was honored by the friendship of this grimy engineer. But the ques tion of his sobriety that day was a serious one. A man in charge of a train with hundreds of souls, aboad, I felt ought to be sober, particularly when. I was shut up in the engine with him. " Just as we started a slip of paper was hauded to him, which he read .and threw down. " Do you run this train by telegraph ?' I asked, beginning to shovel vigorously. "Yes. No more coal. " 4 Isn't that unusual?' "Yes. There are two special trains ou the road this afternoon.' " Is it difficult to run a train by tele graph?' I said presently, simply to make conversation. Staring in silenoe nt the narrow slit in the gloomy furnace or out at the village street, through which we slowly passed, was monotonous. "No, not difficult. I simply have to obey the instructions which I receive at each station.' " But if you should happen to think the instructions not right ?' " Happen to think 1 I've no business to think at all 1 When the trains run by telegraph the engineers are so many machine. in Hie hands of one controller, who directs them all from a central point. He has the whole road under his eye. If they don't obey to the least title their orders, it is destruction to the whole.' " ' You seem to think silent obedience the first and last merit in a railway man ?' " 'Yes,' dryly. " I took the nint aud was dumb. " We are out of town now. Blakeley quickened the speed of the engine. I did not speak to him again. There was little for me to do, and I was occupied iu looking out at the flying landscape. The fields were covered with a deep fall of snow, and glanced whitely by, with a strange, unreal shimmer. The air was keen and cutting. Still the ride was tame. I was disappointed. The excite roeat would by no means equal a daah ou a spirited horse. I began to think I h.id little to pay for my grimy hands and face, when we slowed at the next station. One or two passengers came aboard the train. There was the inevi table old lady with bundles, alighting, and the usual squabble about her trunk. I was craning my neck to hear, when the boy ran alongside with the telegram. " The next moment I heard a smother ed exclamation from Blakely. " ' Oo back,' said he to the boy. Tell Sands to have the message repeat ed. There's a mistake.' " The boy dashed off, and Blakely sat waiting, coolly polishing a bit of the shining brass before him. Back came the boy. " Had it repeated. Sands i'b rnging at you. Says there's no mistake, and you'd best get on, thrusting the second message up. " Blakeley read it, aud stood hesitating for half a minute.- I never ahull forget the dismay, the utter perplexity that gathered in his leau fiice as ne looked at the telegram, and then at the long train behind him. His lips moved as if he were calculating chances, and his eyes suddenly quailed, as if he saw death at the eud of the calculation. " ' W hat's the matter ? What are you going to do ? l asked. "Obey." "The engine gave a long shriek of horror, that made me start as if it were Blakeley sown voice. The next instant we rushed out of the station, and dashed through the low-lying farms at a speed which seemed dangerous to me. " Put in more coal,' said Blakeley. " I shovelled it in. " We are going very fast, Blakeley,' I ventured. He did not answer, nis eye was fix ed ou the steam gauge; his lips closely shut. " More coal !' "I threw it in. The fields and houses began to fly past but half seen. We were uearing Sunbury. Blakeley's eye went from the gauge to the fase of the timepiece aud back, ne moved like an automaton. There was little more meaning iu his face. " 'More,' without turning his eye. " I took up the shovel hesitated. " Blakeley! We're going very fast. We're going at the rate of sixty miles uu hour.' " 'Cool 1' "I was alarmed at the stein, cold rigidity of the man. His pallor was bo- coming frightful. " I threw iu the coal. " At least we must stop in Sunbury. He had told me that was the next halt. " The little town approached. As the first house came into view, the engine sent out its shriek: of warning ; it grew klouder, louder. We dashed into the I i i ii i.i i sireei, up 10 lue bihuod, wuere a group of passengers waited, end passed it with out the halt of an instant. I caught a glimpse of the appalled faces of the waiting crowd. Then we were iu the fields again. "The speed now became literally breathless ; the furnace glared red hot. The heat, the velocity, the terrible ner vous strain of the man beside me, seemed to weight the air. I found myself draw ing long stentorious breaths, like one drowning. I heaped in the coal at inter vals, as he bade me. " 'I'd have done nothing of the kind 1' interrupted one of the listeners. 4 The man was mad.' " I did it because I was oppressed by an old sense of duty, which I never had in my ordinary brain work. I had taken this mechanical task on myself, and I felt a stricture upon me to go through with it at any cost. I know now how it is that dull, ignorant men without a spark of enthusiasm, show such heroism sometimes, as soldiers, engineers, captains of wrecked vessels. It is this overpowering sense of routine duty. It is a finer thing than sheer bravery, to my notion. However, I began to be of your mind, Wright, that Blakeley was mad, laboring under some sudden frenzy from drink, though I had never seen him touch liquor. "He did not move hand or foot, ex cept in the mechanical control of the engine, his eye going from the gauge to the timepiece" with a steadiness that was more terrible and threatening than any gleam of insanity would have been. Once he glanced back at the long train speeding alter the engine, with a head long speed that -rocked it from side to side. You would catch glimpses of hundreds of men and women talking, reading, smoking, unconscious that their lives were all in the hold of one man, whom I now strongly suspected to be mad. I knew by bis look that he re membered their lives were iu his hand. He glanced at the clock. " 4 Twenty miles,' he muttered. 4 Throw on the coal, Joues. The fire is going out.' "I did it. Yes, I did it. There was something in the face of that man that I could not resist. Then I climbed for ward aud shook him by the shoulder. 44 4 Blakeley! I shouted, 4 you running this train into the jaws death !' 44 4 1 know it,' quietly. " 4 Your wife and child are on it.' "MvOodl are of 44 He staggered to his feet. But eveu from the then he did not . move his eye gauge. " 'In 8 miuute ' 44 4 Make up the fire, he said, aud pushed in the throttle valve. 'I will not.'. 44 4 Make up the fire, Mr Sautley,' very quietly. 4.4 4 1 will not. Yon may murder your self and your wife and boy, but you shall not murder me.' 44 He looked at me. His kiudly e'yes glared like those of a wild beast. But he controlled himself in a moment. 44 4 1 could throw you out of this door, and make short work of it. But look her a ; do you see the station yonder ?' 44 1 sa'w H thin whisp of smoke against the sky, about five miles in advance. 4 4 4 1 was told to reach the station by six o'clock. The express train meeting us is due now. I ought to have laid by for it at Sunbury. I was told to come on. The track is a single one. Unless I can make the siding at the station in three minutes, we will meet it yonder in the hollow." 44 4 Somebody blundered I' 44 4 Yes, I think so.' 4 4 4 And yon obeyed ?' 44 He said nothing. I threw on coal. If I had had petroleum, I would have put it on. But I never was calmer in my life. When death has a man actually by the throat it sobers him. 44 Blakeley pushed in the valve still farther. The engine began to give a strange panting sound. Far off to the south I could see the bitnminous black smoke of a train. 44 1 looked at Blakeley inquiringly. He nodded. It was the express. 44 1 stooped to the fire. 44 4 No more,' he said. 44 1 looked across the clear, wintry sky at the gray smoke of the peaceful little village, and beyond, that black line com ing closer, closer, across the sky. Then I turned to the watch. 44 In one minute more "Gentlemen, I confess; I sat down and buried my face iu my hands. I don't think I tried to pray. I had a confused thought of a mass of mangled, dyiug men and women, mothers and their babies, and, vaguely, of a merciful God. Little Charley with his curls and pretty suit 4 'There was u terrified shriek from the engine, against which I leaned. Another in my face. A hot tempest swept post me. 44 1 looked up, We were on the sid ing, and the express had gone by. The hindmost cars touched in passing. 4 Thank God 1 You've done it, Blake ley ! Blakeley 1' I cried. 44 But he did not speak. He sat there immovable, and cold as a ston.. I went to the cars and brought Jane and the by to him. and when he opened his eyes and took his little woman's hands iu his I came away. 44 An engineer named Fred, who was at the station, ran the train into Harris burg. Blakeley was terribly shaken. H't we went down aud had our little feast, after all. Charley, At least, en joyed it." 44 What was the explanation? A blunder of the director, or the telegraph operator ?" 44 1 don't know. Blakeley made light of it afterward, and kept the secret. These railway men must have a strong esprit de corps. 44 All I know is that Blakeley's salary was raised soon after, and he received that Christmas a very handome 4 testi monial for services rendered,' from the company." Interesting Facts and Figure. A ton of coal yields about 8,000 feet of gas. President Hayes receives 100 letters a day. New Orleans claims a population of 200,000. There are 11,000 men on the London police force. San Francisco has About 100 gam bling houses. England fed 606,392 out-door pau pers last year. Texas would make 210 States equal in size to Rhode Island. There were 1,593 buildings erected in San Francisco last year. Tennessee's tobacco crop is estimated at 60,000,000 pounds. Europe expended for telegraph mes sages last year, $15,400,000. Members of the Mississippi Legisla ture receive $500 per annum. One thousand polygamous marriages took place in Utah in 1877. Nebraska raised this year 25,000,000 bushels of com and 175,500 hogs. The railroad rioters cost Pennsyl vania 8700,000 for military expenses alone. The Cherokee Indians are enough civilized to possess a public debt of $187,000 Of 369 members of Congress only 193 are natives of the States which they represent. There were ighty-three murderers hanged last year among a population of 50,000,000. Boston people eat eaoh year about 120,000 beeves, of which the West pro vides 38,000 to 40,000. Iu Hale county, Ala., licenses to marry were issued last year to forty four white and 202 colored conples. Dnring the year 1876, 108.771 Italians came to America. Of this number, 89,000 ore set down as tomporary tour itts. The population of Australia, at the last census was 1,742,291. The popu lation of the capital, Melbourne, is 210,000. The ship-yards of Maine have turned out a tonnage of 76,308 tons for the year 1877, which is uu increase of 2,734 tons over 1876. There are estimr.ted to be about 350 match-girls. 700 bootblacks, 100 sweep ers and 250 flower-girls daily oud night ly busy in New York streets. The London Dust-Mint. There are more than 300,000 inhabit ed houses in Loudon, consuming more than 3,500,000 tons of coal a year, aud besides the ashes from this great quan tity of fuel, the dust-man gathers the other refuse of the houses. He is em ployed by a contractor, who agrees with the corporation to remove the ashes, etc., out of the city, and the coutractor divides every load into six parts, as fol lows : Soil, or fine dust, which is sold to brick-makers for making bricks, and to farmers for manure ; brieze, or cin ders, sold to brick-makers for burning brick ; rags, bones, and old metals, sold to marine store dealers ; old tin and iron vessels, sold to trunk-makers fer clamps ; bricks, oyster aud other shells, sold for foundations-and road-building ; and old boots and shoes, soli to the manufacturers of Prussian blue. Some times much more valuable things than these are fouud, aud the readers may remember the romance that Charles Dickens made out of a London dust man Our Mutual Friend. It is iu sift ing the different parts of the load that the men, women and children are em ployed ; they are busy as ants ; mere babies aud wrinkled ol 1 dames take a part in the labor, aud all of them are so covered with dust aud ashes that they are anything but pleasant to contem plate, though, as a rule, they are use ful, honest, aud industrious members of Bociety. "Diistie" is what the Lon doners familiarly call the dust-man, aud only a few know in what ignorance and poverty he lives. One would think that he would work himself into a bet ter occupation, but his family have been dust-men for generations, and the gen erations after him are not likely to change. AY. Altiolas, The World's .Borrowing. Borrowing was done on a grand scale iu 1877. A Belgian statistician has compiled a lint of the issues made in various countries in tho world, and sets down the total amount as $1,580,975, 000 against $725,000,000 in 1876, and $330,000,000 iu 1875. Of this enor mous amount, $1,154,650,000 was bor rowed by governments, national, State and municipal, and the balance by rail way aud industrial companies and in stitutions of credit. The excess of the world's borrowing last year over that of previous- years was mainly due to the conversion loans of the United States. The French loans have amounted to $375,000,000, over two-thirdB of which have beeu issued by railway and indus trial companies. The large loans of Russia were paid chiefly in the paper money which the government iteelf had isHiiru. Items of Interest. True to the last : a well-made boot. lilan, Italy, is preparing for an inter national exhibition. Eighty-lhree murderers, all men. were hanced in the United States in 1877. u - - The Colorado mines produced $7,879, 432 worth of gold and silver ore iu 1877. It is absurd to suppose that a man can ' speak above his breath, since his mouth is below his nose. Life, young man, Is only '; A slippery sheet of ice ; No girl there it's lonely ; One girl there it's nic. Why is the money some people are iu the habit of giving to the poor like a newly-born babe ? Because its precious little. A traveler met in Japan a woman who didn't know the use of a pin. Her be wilderment when shown a pin-cushion was amusing. The United States utilizes in agricul ture ten per cent, of its area; Great Britain, fifty-eight per cent., and Hol land, seventy. In anoient days the precept was, 44 Know thyself. In modern times it has been supplanted by the far more fashionable maxim, 44 Know thy neigh bor and everything about him." What the Rochester Express calls 41 a machine to save swearing " has been invented by a man in Lockport N. Y. It consists of an arrangement by which stovepipes are joined together like a telescope. An Indiana man has died leaving a collection of 100,000 beetles. Yet there ore some men light here among us who will not leave a collection of even a dozen beetles when they die. For shame 1 Worcester 7Yet. At bedtime littlo Willie was saying the usual prayer at his mother's knee, and, Laving got as far as 44 if I should die be fore I wake," hesitated. 44 Well, what next?" asked his mother. 44 Well, I 'pose the next thing would be a fune ral." The strength of the French army is as follows : Active army (five classes) 719,336; reserve of aotive army (foiu classes), 520,982; territorial army (five classes), 594,736; reserve of territorial army (six classes), 639,782; total, 2,473, 866 all trained men. The total number oi juetnouisis mx the United States is over 3,315,000; in U.uada, 161,172; iu GiSeat Britain and . her co'onies, 607,404. In all the world . they number 4,383,888. The increase in lay' members for 1877 throughout the world is given as 211,309. John noldeu, a surveyor, of Perry connty, Miss., has dug up h treasure of $o5,6(X in coin, to which he wns guided by au instrument of his owu invention. The money was buried during the war by guerillas, who quarrelled and killed each other off, leaving only general iu- structions as to the neighborhood where it was concealed. A lady resident of Boyortowu, Pa., -the other night had a desperate fight with a mad dog in her bedroom, aud filially, having hurled a $120 set of false ' teeth at him, was pleased to see him dis appear. She awakened to find tbat it was all a horrid nightmare, but, that the room was wrecked aud her teeth shat tered beyond redemption. The niesquite gum ol Wcsteru lexas is almost identical v,ith gum arabie. Duriug the past j oar it has become au article of export, some 12,000 pounds having beeu gathered iu Bexar county, and as much more bet ween that and the coast. The gum exhudes from the btem and branches of the niesquite, a mimosa, several species of which grow in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. K POOR FEIXOVV'8 UKFIAMK. I'm diiveu to the wall, aud the world i uiy foo, Whatever I do is a failure mont flat. -Yet my soul is my owu, Aud I'm not ovtvt rowu ; What signiiies that V ay, what siguities that ? I've nothing to-day for to-morrow's great needs, I wait upon fortune that uever oomts past; But if, though I'm poor, I can laugh and endure, What signifies that? ay, what signilici. that y Pel-sous about to go to Hot Springs, Ark., for health, may be interested iu the following item from a local news paper : 4 'On Thursday James Cooper, the merchant, mortally wounded Nead Gillis. a well-kuown eitizeu. Gillis has defied and bulldozed the civil authori ties, and threatened the life of Cooper, who, seeing him come up the hill s though to carry out his purpose, stepped out and fired into Gillis person the con tents of two double-barreled shotguns." Maxime du Camp, tho historian of the Commune, has been inquiring iuto the stories of the wholesale massacre of Communaids after entrance of the Ver sailles troops iuto Paris, and instead of 25, (KM) to 40,000 corpses, " including 10,000 women and children, lie lliuls mat from May 20 to May 30, 1871, there wen- -5,839 interments in the cemeteries, aud from the 24th of May to the 6th of Sep tember there were exhumed from graven on the highway, etc., 1.328 bodies, mak ing a total of 6,667. The two United States Smators who served the longest terms were both North Carolinians by birth Benton, of Missouri and King, of Alabama, 1 b former served thirty, the later twenty nine years. It is related, in reference to Mr. King's extreme courtesy, tin wheu he presided over the Senate t two senators from Arkansas prououv the name of their Citote uuiereuuv that hepuuctiliousy observed tin- euce. He invariably recogui.- ' 41 the gentleman from Aik-an the other a tlho gentleie kau-eas."
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