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Published everr Thursday by
tBBOTHEB & SAOEEE,
Pronrietorst
f o. 7-4 3Ir Plicrson's Block, np Stairs,
iOWNVTLLE, NEBRASKA.
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IG MATTER ON ETEItYTAOEJ
AT THS ALTAU.
;by EiinK r. jiexpobw.
maij snt In the doorway
; the sun was going down.
ml tho laugh of the chiiarn
Fhitno of bells from tho town.
5
r like burnished silver
all about his face,
irgaVf to t:lC OKI limn iuwiuv;
ook of saintly grace.
rsunset faded from orlmsdn
i the twilights gray;
k the Liugn of the happy children .
ce the suiibt, died away.
a silence fell about him
i he sat there all alone
Bre the moonlight, like a blosblng,
y over the threshold-stone.
" he murmured softly,
"Are the children all nslcep?"
lie fancied he hoard her answor
the shadows grown so deep.
Wish yon would read a chapter
im the bible before I pray ;
'thine about the city
.God, and the last great day."
sitting thorcin the twilight,
Ib fancied ho heard her read
. the Book to which, all his lifetime,
i had turned, and given hoed.
;!ed the voice of his Mary,
10 for years In Heaven had been,
i reading the dear old chapter
rer to him again.
. then, when he thought it ended,
st us pray," the old man said,
; knelt In the beautiful moonlight,
id bowod his reverend head.
pty found him there on the threshold
lefllng le-lde his chair,
. 1'ie white throads of tho moonlight
re re tangled In his hair.
,Ke.iid not stir nor answer
i Ui words his children said :
at the dear God's altar
ercutltlii the moonlight dead!
American Home.
y.
DEA59 BROHK.
is dead broke."
)v much dees ho owe?"
;Qpae week, to-morrow, over the
&," said the clerk examining
"ger.
fhew" whistled the landlord,
e no friends to pay for him ?"
Menty of friends now, hut let
fcfei fin J out that lie is broke and
( ttMpll be off like a covey of birds."
'Hmust see him ;" aud tno hotel
' proprietor, walking out upon the pl
Mjlggapproaebed a young man leau
! lgjgainst one of the pillars.
J "Mr. Watson, your bill, I see, Is in
arrtarono week over the settlement
daj Why is it?"
ffe young man flushed at first as if
ger; then a smile overspread his
some face. "I know I am a de-
lent, Major Snow, but I can't
it present."
' you expect money soon?"
sell, really, I don't know who
tend me anything from their
BfBt of cash,"
lieu I am to understand that you
)tonly unable to pay, but you
expect to be able ?"
ldoubtedly, Major."
rry, Watson, for you have been
rito of the season, and I don't
turn you out before the break -
fisor wnl l. II you can give un
rooms and take up with one
to your circumstances, I will
iu remain the senson out, trust-
)j to pay mo in the future.''
)u are very good, Major, and I
Fl'll have to consent."
the baggage of Robert "Watson
mi
Ifted up and borne from the ele-
I
Buit on the second floor to a llt-
W
ren by fourteen on the fifth
flSSft
B"y' quickly it became known that
tSpauge had been made! Every
ergyt In tho house betrayed the
kMyffedge in the absence of the us
dKference paid to the possessors of
"punters." At dinner, the "boy,"
WSiad been only too eager to antic
IpaJjjfl&Ir. Watson's wants, suddenly
be oblivious to those wants, and
wxrTjswereii nitertropeaieu oruers.
Tfc
bier and register clerk, always
m
uious, grew dignified and in-
,d
t. Only the urbane Major
V
ed a kindly greeting for the
gue&
poor to pay his bill, and re
by suiTrance.
ma!
"Qgjer," thought the hotel propri-
tordBf"He certainly had monev
MoaA when ho came, for ho deposit-
r
ty ed yyi live mousaud In the safe.
HeJgD't been fast, lam ceVtain, and
11 bls'kakits have been so good that the
yoasflbloods have rather played off
froalkiro. But he has been a favorite.
2fotTO; belle in the room but would
hawfropped her best friend for his
attMrifcance. Hang me if I understand
it. a
Ifjateon. hailing from Baltimore,
a season guest at the Cas-
riends he had in plenty. He
rteous, well-bred, good look-
lligent, and, apparently rich
ore could be asked ? Among
he had moved quite a prince ;
iiy were tho gossamer webs
w1
coils to capture him, but to
al
oved a very incorrigible re-
he -would not be any one's
px
The exquisite charm of voice,
and sentiment, the beauty of
the elegance of attire all
reeable to him deeply so, for
ed toenjoy them all immense-
not the brilliant, poetess, Miss
oy, nor the coy and artless Miss
not the rattle headed youug
ambert, nor the haughty, ele-
nd exclusive Miss Percy, nor
r rich Miss Oromanes, appear-
onimand him. He was to all
the agreeable companion, the
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candid friend, the shrewd resistant of
all arts to lead him into love'a labyr
inthine mazes.
How would all these beauties of the
salon receive the announcement sure
to be made of bis "altered circum
stances," as the Major expressed it.
Evidently Mr. Watson was not in
different. He ftill frequented the pi
azzas and narlors, giving every friend
male or female, ample opportunity to
"cut" his acquaintance, or otherwise
to express themselves. It was some
what curious to note his decline, not
his fall, for Watson had that in his
character construction which, even in
his poverty and trial would preserve
him from a sacrifice of personal digni
ty and self-rdliance. But that he was
on the decline became to him a sor
rowful fact.
Sorrowful, did we say? That Is,
judging by the usual standards of hu
man felicity or misery. To lose one's
friends, to behold your position in so
ciety gradually slipping away, to re
alize that no longer you are held in
coveted consideration by a chosen
few, is, ordinarily a source of sorrow.
But in Watson's case it wa3 difficult
to determine how keenly the knife
cut to the quick of his sensibilities;
for, while every acquaintance was
giving full facilities for doing the dis
agreeable office of giving the "cold
shoulder," the Baltimorean appeared
like an Interested spectator, and was
unmoved when passed by a supposed
friend without the slightest notice, as
if he was a newspaper reporter anx
ious to see the act and note the fact.
Into the parlors in tho evening he
particularly pressed his way. If a
bevy of gay fellows surrounded M133
Mountjoy, he worked his way into
the circle, and, at last, 'received from
the lady of Sappho like lips his dis
charge. She did most gracefully and
crushingly turn her back upon him
not three days after his removal from
the second floor.
Miss Dumain he sought, confident
that one so artless certainly would be
above the hollow hearted crowd, and
still give him her kindly greeting.
Vain conception! The artless girl was
coy indeed : and when at length he
cornered her, it was to his discomfit
ure. She suddenly turned and forced
her way past him, without even one
of her downcastglances. On the con
trary, her eyes were fixed fully on his
face, and plainly said, ''.Sir, we are
strangers."
Next ho tried rattle-headed Miss
Lambert, and she rattled on quite as
usual ; but Wat3on soon discovered
that the rattle wa3 not for him.
Strangely enough, the proud and
exclusive Miss Percy unbent some
what from her lofty carriage, and
gave him a welcome; but over it all
was a shadow a fear, apparently,
which made iliss Percy shy rather
than haughty; and Watson began to
catch glimses of a character beneath
all that conventional veil which be
had not expected to find.
Of course the wealthy Miss Oro
manes would scorn his further friend
ly relations. Her rooms were near
his own second floor apartments ; she
daily, all the season, had encounter
ed him in hid walks through tho cor
ridor, and must have been one of the
first to learn of his fallen fortunes.
Indeed he half surmised that her
dressing maid had made special In
quiry into tho case, seeing her in con
fidential confab with the floor stew
ardess and room girls. So Watsou,
with a reserve or pride not entertain
ed with others, kept apart from Miss
Oromanes.
On the third evening of his chang
ed fortunes, when the Sappho of the
Cascades annihilated him, greatly to
the pleasure of the young "bloods"
around her, Watson wandered away
at length upon the piazzas ; then up
through the long, deserted halls, rest
less, thoughtful, digesting the notes
which he had been taking of human
nature, and trying to fix the relative
value of a man without money. It
was the crystalline truth that he was
learning, not the truth in mere solu
tion, sometimes clear eometimes opa
que, but always thin, but tho precip
itated, hard, angular, clear-cut crys
tals of experience, mind in unexpect
ed places. Had he remained upon
the second floor, never would he have
obtained the gems; the mere solution
only would have repaid his keenest
search. But that migration to the
upper spaces had given him a won
drous lens; his horizon was immeas
urably extended that, barring the fact
that his bill was. unpaid, he was hap
pier, because wiser for the upward re
verse. Suddenly In his solitary promenade
1l A inn 4 KH J 1.1. r-..
" wjuuumeu tue ueiress. one was
walking arm in arm with young Ev
ans, or her "set," in confidential com
munuication it -would appear, else
why should they have been in that
long hall? asked Watson; as with a
glance, he took in the situation. The
meeting was a surprise to both par
ties, and the inclination of both men
was to pass without recognition. Ev
ans, indeed frowned : Watson flush
ed in anger, and with head erect bore
down and passed his enemis, like a
suspended or cashiered officer of the
line, conscious of his soldierly quali
ties, but equally conscious of his "al
tered circumstances."
Too high he held his head, In fact,
for he caught no soft glance3 from the
lady's eye, and trod so firmly upon
the trail of her elegant eveuing dress
a3 to cause a perceptible cracking of
eeams at the skirt pleats. Evans
turned with a sudden anger.
"Dolt!" ho hissed.
Watson passed on, staying to make
no apology, but he heard the lady
say:
"Fie, it is nothing" and he was
looking at him wonderiugly.
An hour later Watson was down on
the piazzas again, evidently on the
quest 'for some person, and he found
his man ere long,
gentleman wanted.
Watson said :
Evans was the
Going up to him
"Mr. Evans, what was the word
you used at tho time I tread on the
trail of Mis3 Oromane's dress?"
"I said dolt. Sir! and I say it again.
We have hitherto supposed you to be
a gentleman, and now learn that you
cannot pay your bills ; and he laugh
ed, half in acorn and half in humor of
the fact so opportunely given him to
crush another.
The hot blood flew to Watson's face ;
his hands wero clenched as if to
strike ; but by a strong effort he mas
tered his passion.
"Evans, no gentleman ever would
have uttered that sentence. Only a
coward would fling another's poverty
in his face. Miss Oromanes, educated
as she has been to give virtue to
wealth, might find in my inability to
pay my hotel bill a justification for
dropping my acquaintance; but I
doubt if ever she would have counte
nanced incivility. I owe her an ap
pology for my seeming rudeness, and
will give it to her, but you I hold in
too supremo contempt even to ex
change more words with you. Here
after do not speak to me, for if you do
I shall slap your face, even in the
presence of the ladies." And the
speaker went his way to his attic
room.
This scene, overheard by several
gentlemen and ladies, soon was the
talk of the rooms. Evans, being a
recognized leader of a very aristocratic
circle, soon convened others of the
set; and Major Snow wasj ere long,
summoned to be informed that he
must "clear out Watson" Evans of
fering to pay the delinquent's bill.
And the news flew throughout the
parlors and promenades, that Major
Snow was to give Mr. Robert Watson
of Baltimore, his walking papers in
the morning.
An observer of the scene between
the two gentlemen on the piazza was
Miss Oromanes. Having at once re
tired to her room to repair the acci
dent to hef faklrt, the lady donned an
other dress, and, to enjoy half an
hour undisturbed, stole out upon the
pleasant open weather promenade.
She thus waa a witness of what trans
pired. She, too, retired in evident
excitement, to her rooms; and when
her maid, half an hour afterward,
brought the news that the Major was
to clear Watson out in the morning,
the heiress, with perfect deliberation
but with brighteued color Iu her
cheeks and a clear sparkle in her
beautiful eyes, sat down to her desk
and indited the following note:
"Major Snow will please take no
action in the matter of the difference
between Mr. Watson and Mr. Evans.
I overheard every word that passed
between the gentleman, and I fully
justify Mr. Watson. Were it not an
insult to him, I would oner to become
responsible for at) amount which he
may not now be able to pay,' but I
know that ho is a thorough gentle
man, and would equally acorn to
wrong you or to leave your house at
the dictation of others.
I am. Sir, yours,
Helene Oromanes."
This the maid was instructed to
place in the Major's hands at once.
The maid had not far to go, for she
met the proprietor advancing up the
stairway. Ho glanced at the billet
and laughed; then paused and said:
"No use of my trip up five pair of
stairs. Mr Robert Watson has the
freedom of this house for tho next
five seasons."
And down stairs ho went again ;
while the open-eared maid, having
lost not a word, returned to her mis
tress to find her absorbed in penning
another note. This was written with
great care and many pauses. It was
finally finished and read as follows:
"Mr. Watson will please excuse the
boldness of this note ; but having been
a witness to the meeting between
yourself and Mr. Evans on the piazza,
Y feel it incumbent on me to say that'
I fully justify your proceeding and
vour words. I ask no apology from
vou. Indeed, I will be pained to re
ceive it. Believe me, I am exceed
ingly pained at the inference you
have drown, namely : that I could
find a justification in dropping your
acquaintance in the fact of your tempo
rary embarrassment. Alas for my
riches, if they compel me to bear such
imputations on my sense and motiv
es! I am, Sir, yours sincerely,
Helene Oromanes."
Thi9 missive the maid bore to the
fifth story. It found the romantic
Robert in bed, but the letter was
flung over the door-ventilator.
"A letter for Monsieur Watson from
my lady," said a voice at the door,
and Watson sprang upas the envelope
floated down to his feet.
"A note from my lady !" What on
earth did that mean ? Another rum
pus brewing, of course ! Turning on
the gas he read astonished, pleased,
delighted, as the rich color mounting
to his temples testified. And then,
foolish man, he kissed the note.
So very preposterous for one in his
circumstances!
Many were the guests who "turned
out" fully two hours before their us
ual ten o'clock breakfast next morn
ing, In order to see Mr. Robert Wat
son depart. To their surprise there
was Watson cheerful and content,
promenading up and down the back
piazza arm In arm with Miss Oro
maunes and Major Snow looking on
admiringly. To Evans and his set it
was a declaration of war ; but who
would dare to take up arms against
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BROWFVILLE, NEBRASKA,
the spirited heiress to a million ?
They all retired, resolved to let events
take their course.
And they did take their course of
course. In three days' time a mag
nificent equipage drove to the stand
Watson soon appeared with the beau
tiful Miss Oromanes for his compan
ion in the morning drive.
"Whoso equipage is that?" de
manded Evans of the Major, who had
escorted his guests to the carriage.
"Oh, that's Watson's to bo sure!"
was the reply. '
"Watson's be hanged ! Say, Major,
has he paid his bill?" asked Evans,
maliciously.
"Paid his bill? Lord bless you, he
is rich enough to buy the whole con
cern, and to hire you and me for call
boys !"
"Explain yourself, then, sir !" de
manded Evans iratelv. "Did vou
not inform the guests that he could
not pay his bill, and that you had
sent him up stairs out of his second
floor suite?"
"Not I ! Some of the clerks may
have said something, to which oth
ers added more ; but I really thought
too much of the gentleman "to men
tion the matter to aiiy one. Now it
turns out that it wa3 all a little game
of his own."
"Little game? What object could
he have in playing such hide and
seek?" demanded Evans again, in
tones peremptory.
"Well, In part, I suppose, to test
(he value of friendship in general,
and the power of money in particu
larboth of which I have no doubt
he has done to his entire satisfaction.
Ha, ha, ha! What do you think of
it, Mr. Evans?"
"Think of it? Why, it was It
was "
"What!"
"Why, a Very artful dodge noth
ing less."
"Capital dodge, that's a fact, seeing
that as a poor man he won Miss Oro
manes, and "
"Now, what do you mean?" fairly
shouted Evans, in his excitement.
"Mean ? That beforo 10 o'clock on
the morning of the day when he was
to have had his walking papers, by
your orders, he was dead in love with
the heiress, and "
"And what, sir?"
"And she dead in love with him ?"
"It's false, I know !" cried the man
now white in face the from some inex
plicable emotion.
"False, eh? Going off in that car
riage together to tho preacher's looks
like it, don't it?"
"Good heavens !"
Tho Major's conjecture was prema
ture, as he well knew ; but the shaft
had struck Evans to the heart, and he
fairly staggered to a seat. Evans had
played a long and deep game to win
the heiress. He had long been her
recognized suitor ho bad discounted
her possessions in his gay life ; and
the result was he was dead broke !
He left the watering place that day.
A JfiWIR. TUU3T.
"I understand, Mr. Jones, that you
can turn anything neater than any
other man in town?"
"Yes, Mr. Smith I said so."
"Ahem ! Mr. Jones I don't like to
brag, but there Is nobody on earth
can turn a thing as nice as I can whittle."-
"Pooh, nonsense, Mr. Smith ! Talk
about whittling what can you whit
tle as well as I can turn?"
"Anything, everything, Mr. Jones.
Just you name the articles that I
can't whittle that you can turn, and
I will give this dollar if I do not do it
to the satisfaction of these gentlemen
present.'!. (Here Mr. Smith tables the
dollar.)
"Ahem! Well, then, Mr. Smith,
suppose we take two grindstones just
for a trial, you know, you whittle
the one, while I turn the other."
"A fair sell!" Mr. Smith stared
for a moment, and vamosed. The
forfeited dollar wa3 quickly disposed
of by those present with great glee.
Writing of General Custer, a cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial says : It may not be forgot
ten how he demanded certain things
of Generfil Lougstreet. Sayd Custer
of the flowing locks :
"General Longstreet, I demand a
surrender of your army to me, Gen.
Custer, and to Gen. Sheridan. I'll
give you twenty minutes to decide;
after that I'll turn my boys loose on
you. I can hardly hold them now."
Gen. "Lctngstreet "Dou't hold
them, Gen. Custer; I've got enough
men to eat you and your 'boys' up,
and we ain't very hungry either."
True, Longstreet was not very good
at devouring the boys in blue, yet
the retort was good, and Custer saw
it.
Time was when Brigham Young
was wont to descant eloquently upon
the sinfulness of 6ilk dresses. Yet
now he has a card in the Salt Lake
uewspapers telling the sisters who
wish to rai3e silk, that he has forty
ounces of silk-worm eggs and anjr
quantity of mulberry trees, and they
are welcome to help themselves to
both.
While a youthful couple were being
joined in wedlock in a justice's court,
in New York, the damsel rather as
tonished a number of spectators by
suddenly breaking out with, "I want
to know whether we are to keep
house or board, before going into this
I thing!"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874.
CAURTf ME BACK.
Virginia's woods were clothed in green,
When from my home I turned;
With hope to win undying fame.
My youthrul genius burned,
I'm dying now Ina foreign land ;
Life's cherished dream Is o'er;
Oh ! carry me back to Old Virgina,
To old Virginia's shore.
I'm dying, dying, all alone.
And not a friend is near;
No brother's voice, no sister's sigh,
Falls on my dying car.
Oh! for a heart that loves mo new.
Ere life's wild dream is o'er.
To carry me back to old Virginia,
To Old Virginia's shore.
If It may be 'neatli Ilalla's sky,
O let me gently sleep,
WTicro sparkling Tiber's yellow waves
To ocean's bosom sweep ;
And there, In slumbers soft, I'll lie,
And dream forevermore,
That you've carried me back to old Vir
ginia, To old Virginia's shore.
OUK NEW YOEK LETTER.
Something Abdiit tlie Police Tiltdii-Beecher-Bowen
in tlic Field Glcnd-eunlng-An
Excellent Charity.
Correspondence Xebrnskn Advertiser.
New Yokk, September 5, 1S7J.
Go where you will in New York,
you will aes strong, stalwart men,
clothed iu a blue uniform, and armed
with an exepedingly serviceable club,
each with a silver badge on which 1
a number. These men are the guar
dians of tho city's peace, known by
respectable people as police, and by
the class who most fear them as
"cops" and "Charlies." The great
majority of them speak the sweet Ir
ish brogue ; but they are, notwith
standing, as a rule, good, fair men,
who conscientiously and bravely per
form the duty assigned thorn.
Some facts as to the cost of keeping
the metropolis in order may be of in
terest to your readers. To properly
police this city requires an army of
2,500 men, besides the number requir
ed to officer them. There are forty
captains, besides inspectorsf and an
additional force of detectives, whose
business is the hunting down of
criminals and the finding out of
things dark and strange that require
more chrewduess than ordinary mor
tals are supposed to be gifted with.
To support this force requires the neat
sum of $3V000,000 annually.
Each man on the force has a certain
territory which it is'his especial. busi
ness to protect and care for, and hU
duties are multifarious. It is his bu
siness to see that no row3 or riots oc
cur in his beat, that drunken men are
kept from disturbing the peace of tho
neighborhood, that no unruly or dis
orderly crowds congregate to the vio
lation of the peace, that doors are se
curely locked, and, in short, that law
and order is observed. Each police
man is compelled to stay on his beat
six hours ; then he sleeps six, and is
on six more, that is, twelve of the
twenty-four hours he is walking up
aud down, keeping his eye on every
body and everything. Is there a
fight? The poor policeman grasps
his faithful locust and sails in. He
tears apart the combatants, puts them
under arrest, disperses the crowd, and
takes the chances of having his own
brains knocked out, by that terrific
class of outlaws whose highest pleas
ure it is to kill or maim one of the ha
ted class who stand between them
and their crimes. Does he see a sus
picious looking person about a build
ing? It is his duty to watch him, to
catch him if bo commits an act which
the law takes cognizance of, and to
get him into safe keeping. Is there a
child lost-? It is his duty to find it,
and, by passing the word and descrip
tion it is generally found. In short,
the policeman is the general guardian,
but for whom the city would be de
livered over to the hordes of soulless
scoundrels who infest it, and would
be a place which no peaceably dispos
ed man would live in for a "minute.
And for this service, for the risk of
being knocked on the head, and shot
or stabbed any minute, ho get3 the
magnificent sum of $S0 per month,
with no pension if he be maimed in
the discharge of his duty.
When you come to New York, and
feel like cursing an Inefficient police,
think of the work they have to do,
and the miserable pay they get, and
withhold your maledictions.
tilton-beecher.
Forgive me for writing this head
ing, but I can't help It. Tho fact is,
the air is full of Tilton aud the earth
of Beecher. Elizabeth, Moultou, Sus
an B. Anthony, and ail the rest of
them are revolving in everybody's
mind like the bits of colored glass in
a kaleidoscope, and you can't get
away frora.it. There is something so
interesting in wickedness that one
must dwell on it.
Since I wrote you last Moulton has
made his statement, aud, presla, pub
lic opinion, which is about as steady
as the wind, has shifted to the Tilton
quarter, and ta-day he is the injured
man and Baeche? the injurer. To
day, ninety per cent, of tho people of
New York are satisfied of Beecher's
gnilt in tho matter. Moulton asserts,
in the strongest possible way that
both Beecher and Mrs. Tilton con
fessed to him the fact that they had
been guilty of adultery that the fa.
mous letter to Tilton referred to this
adultery and nothing else, that It had
beenvdiscussed by them times without
number. On this statement, public
opinion veered to Tilton and against
Beecher, and to-day the great preach
er is down and the great writer and
speaker is on the top wave. But this
is not all. Tilton and Moulton are
making a supplemental statement,
which they propose to publish in a
week or two, which those who have
seen it assert will so clinch the matter
as to leave no loophole for Beecher to
escape. It Is said that Tilton and
Moulton have not exhausted their
magazlnesof ammunition in the shape
bf letters, by any. means, but that
they have a stock on hand sufficient
to sink their enemies. That some
thing of the kind i3 feared by Mr.
Beecher's friends is evident from the
fact that since Moulton's statement
appeared thev have mellowed down
wonderfully. Nevertheless, they
keep a good front on it, and aver ihat
the legal investigation which Tilton
has commouced will completely flat
ten him out, and leave tho pastor in
belter shape than ever. Let the
whole world hold its breath and wait.
In the mean timo,
henry c. bowes,
the proprietor of tho Independent,
has got into it. The Brooklyn Argus
published a statement from a Western
man to the. effect that Bowen had
stated that his late wife had, on her
death-bed, confessad to a criminal in
timacy with Beecher, and that Bow-
en accepted from Beecher a sum of
money in settlement of the matter.
Bowen and his two sons sue the Ar
gus for libel. This will be remember
ed as the old scandal which was set
afloat by Dr. Patton, of Chicago, who
received it from parties here. What
family is next to be dragged through
this mass of filth ?
GLENDENNING,
tiie Jersey City pastor who was accus
ed of ruining Mary Pomeroy, stoutly
denies the charge, and remains at hi
home awaiting the legal investigation.
What a pity it is that the Beecher
matter could jiot have been so man
aged. CHILDREN'S CHARITY ST. JOHN'S
GUILD.
Ono of the curious sights of city
life nowadays is the sailing oTthe
floating hospital of St. John's Guild,
on its excursions for mothers and sick
children. Noone whohas never tried
to rnise children in a crowded city,
even with command of unlimited
means, khow3 what unwearing care
it demands, and the children of the
poor seom literally born but to die.
How can it be any other way, when
the air they draw from their first
breath is as thick with foulness as the
Mississippi with silt, and they are
nursed by overworked mothers, worn
to skin and bones with care, drudg
erj, and miserable food. The saddest
sights of the poor quarters of the city
are not women in liquor plodding the
frozen ground with bare purple feet,
as I have seen them in the dead of
winter, or tho crushed white-faced
men, whose features were shrunken
as death with worse despair, but the
woeful, wan faces of the babies, lift
ing weary eyes to the sky, as if won
dering why distant heaven left them
so long to such a fate ; babies haug-
iug to the overdrained breasts, from
which every scanty drop they drew
came straight from the mother's fail
ing health. I have seen a large fram
ed Scotchwoman, built for strength
and brought up iu the qpen air, cry
ing with weakness, because the food
she couldget could not nourish her
and her "child. Another time I saw a
white, poorly dressed man sitting in
Central Park with a baby covered
with sores held tenderly in his arms.
Every other day, as often as he could
leave his work, he brought it from
Mott Street, one of the most squalid
in the city, five miles, that it might
have the fresh air for two or three
hours before sundown. Ho said the
child's'illness was caused by bad air
poisoning its blood, aud he looked at
the little scarfaced creature a-j if he
would gladly have opened every one
of his own poor veins to save its
drooping life.
The sturdy members of St. John's
Guild are men of the working classes,
who see and feel tho wants of their
poorer neighbors, as those removed
from them cannot do, and, headed by
the Rev. Albah Wiswald, whose
name is another word for prompt and
sagacious charity, they wero not slow
to devise help for the helpless ones.
First of all a steamer chartered a3 a
hospital aud provided with every con
venience for sickness, makes frequent
trips up the river, taking poor moth
ers and sick children away where
they can have a long day in cool and
pure air justsuch treatment as weak
ly children of the rich receive, who
send them daily on the North River
boats for an airing the nurses tak
ing lunch and only bringing them
home at night." One would say-
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hospital boat must be a sad sight, fill
ed, as it is, with the sick and perish
ing. But the patience of the chil
dren of the poor has something hero
ic in it, and the suffering faces grow
wonderfully calm and sweet in the
reviving air, and wailings are hushed
as soon as the boat i3 In mid-stream.
A ward full of poor sick children
will not make a3 much noiso as a sin
gle nursery of home darlings. One
wishes they could get over this awful
inbred restraint, and cry and fight
like babies with the common rights
of humanity, but thanks to their self
control, the hospital boat is far from
an unpleasant place even for dainty
nerves. The clean, white cradle3 are
ranged in the cabins, and cots, the
rocking-chairs aud camp seats on
deck are filled with plainly dressed
mothers, each with a white slender
baby in her arms, babies and mothers
alike glad of the soothing sail and the
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good hearty dinner of beef, bread and
milk they get on board, happy with
one holiday out of their hard year,
and getting life out of their clear and
fair surroundings, as well as the bless
ed air that blows about them.
Herp a pair of great dark eyes looks
up from a white face on its mother's
shoulder a shy unused smile of pleas
ure creeps across it, beautiful to watoh
as it is tho first flaah of happlnness
the little soul has ever known. Those
heavy brown lashes rest on a pale,
sallow cheek, as if the heavy lids
would never open again, but as it
sleeps In its crib a tinge of color steals
into its cheeks, the breathing stirs its
bosom and the eyes of the mother
watching it fill with a look that is bet
ter than a prayer. "Two weeks ago,"
she says in' a low voice, fearful of
waking the little sleeper, "I made up
my mind she was going and poor peo
ple like me and the father has no
right to have a baby at all. And I'd
began to put her away from me, and
feel hdW the house would seem with
out her, nud how my arms would be
empty. She's never had a color in
her cheek before in her life, and the
doctor says the air is raising of her,"
and the voice sunk with the burden
of its hopes and fears. Asyou breathe
the next free waft from lake or prai
rie think of those whose children fall
away from their bosom3 for want of
decent air the common heritage.
Bless the Guild of St. John with its
carpenters and tailors, who leave the
work which earns their living, to
watch nights beside the sick, and look
for those who are perishing, and
whose generous efforts first set this
hospital afloat, to comfort heart-broken
mothers and suffering children.
Pietro.
MISSOURI BAXDITS.
THE JAMES ASO YOCXGERS.
DAItllSG
ROiSBEllY AT
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From the Lexington Begisicr, ex
tra, of August 31, we copy tho follow
ing detailed account of the robbery at
North Lexington on Sunday even
ing: On yesterday evening, at 6:4-5 o'clock
the celebrated James boys played
one of their be3t tricks at North Lex
ington. They had been in and about
this city during the day. In the af
ternoon Mr. Henry Turner saw two
of them down on the river bank,
near tho soap factory. They had
hitched their horses aud were resting
upon tho ground. About tho same
timo a strange heavily armed man
halted above town at Smith & Ham
let's slaughter house, ajid stayed for
half an hour or more. The omnibus
goes over about half-past five in the
eveuing. These three armed men rode
upon tho boat with tho omnibus, and
wore carried over to the other side
of the river. The omnibus was driv
en to the depot at North Lexingtou,
where it awaited tho coming of the
train. In the meantime, several citi
zens noticed the armed trio aud talk
ed with them.
The train came and nine passengers
got into the omnibus. On tho return
trip when almost in front of the large
house whoro the recent atrocious
murder was committed the three men
camo out from behind the house with
kerchiefs over their faces and drawn
revolvers, and commanded driver
Gibson to stop. He stopped. The
commander of the three ordered all
that were in the omnibus to get oat,
and hold up their hands, and ordered
one of the three to ride on down to
wards the ferry boat and pick up tho
stragglers. He found walking leis
urely along Mr. George Nance and
and Miss Mattie Hamlet and half
dozen other ladies, and ordered them
to return to tho omnibus. Miss Mol
lio Newbold was of the party, and
declaring that she would not return,
started on a run towards the ferry
boat. The robber called out that he
would shoot if she did not stop, but
sho ran on nevertheless to the boat,
and gave the alarm. The boat im
mediately pulled out and steamed
towards tho other shore. The alarm
spread over tho city with the cry of
fire, and before the robbers were half
through, there wero in the neighbor
hood of a thousand people on the
bluff looking at the operation.
Miss Mattie Hamlet immediately
recognized the robbers as the James
boys, '.vhom she knew well. She
called them by name and told them
they ought to be n3bamed. Mr.
Nance, seeing the situation, pass
ed his pocket-book secretly to Miss
Hamlet. In the mean time the pass
engers wers assembled in a squad on
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third stood guard. They "went
through" the pockets of all the gen
tlemen except the driver Gibson.
They did not disturb the ladies, say
ing to them to keep quiet and not be
3cared, for no one was going to be i
hurt.
When all the pockets were rifled,
the robbers turned their attention to
the baggage. Tiiey opened and look-1
ed through the contents of all the carpet-bags,
and took such articles as
Lthey wanted, leaving the refused con
tents of the satchels and of the pock
ets scattered upon the ground.
The following named parsons were
victimized :
R. J. Holmes, of the firm of Camp
bell & Holmes, of Kansas City, $35.00
in money aud a valuable watch.
W. T. Singleton, railroad agent at
jLMorm juexingion, s-i.ou anu a waicn.
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF TIIE COUNTY
J. C. Young, proprietor of tho om
nibus line, $14.50 and a watch.
Capt. L. Bergan, State Swamp
Land Agent, $23.00 and a handsome
watoh
D. B. Allen , $50.00 in money. One
of the robbers fancied Mr. Aliens
coat and vest, and courteously request
ed a swap. Mr. A. gave him 0 hand
some coat and vest for a linen duster
well worn and very dirty.
William Brown, colored, $52.00 in
cash out of his pockets and a revolver
out of h.1'3 satchel.
An employe of tho St L., K. C. &
N. R. R., name unknown, $5.00 in
money.
They wore evidently disappointed
at the meagerness of the spoils. They
doubtless expected to find tho mail
and express matter on the omnibus.
The Sunday evening train carries nei
ther. When they were through and pre
paring to mount, Miss Hamlet appeal
ed to them to restore Mr. Young and
Mr. Singleton their watches, which
they did. As a parting injunction
they told Mr. Singleton to make a
correct report of the affair that they
did not want any lying about it. If
there were any they would hold him
responsible. With a "good-bye Mat
tie," toMiss Hamlet they rode delib
erately away.
That th30 who are not well ac
quainted with the surroundings may
not have a bad opinion of the courago
and enterprise of the people here
abouts, we explain :
North Lexingtou is on the north
side of the Missouri river, immediate
ly opposite Lexington. Besides the
railroad buildings there aro but threo
or four houses iu the village, only one
is occupied. Th8 houses are built up
on the river bank, on the edge of the
woods, and thero aro no fences or oth
er improvments. Tho timber is very
thick and extends up to the river
bank. The road from the depot skirts
westward for about 200 yard3, and
then turns southward across the open
sand bar to the ferry landing. Tho rob
bers appeared and called the halt.
Every foot of the road from tho
depot to the river, and all tho houses
in North Lexington are plainly visi
ble from the bluff on this side.
Tho consequence was the last half of
of the robbers proceedings were seen
by a large number'of people. The rob
bers were in no hurry, but did their
work deliberately and well. The fer
ry boat was a slow affair, and after
leaving the other shore floundered to
to the middle of the river, where it
was when the robbers had finished
their work. It then returned to the
northern shore for the omnibus and
passengers. There were several amus
ing personal incidents connected with
the affair, for which we have not
space.
In his speech at Wellington, Gov,
Woodson said he did not have the
James boys arrested because no one
can make the proper oath charging"
them with anjr crime. The editor of
this paper has this day forwarded to
His Excellency .an account of thi3
robbery and an offer to furnish, when
demanded, the proper affidavit mak
ing the formal charge. Tho Govern
or can have a chance to show his zeal
in the matter if he desires so to do.
now vq FIXD WATEIJ.
Mr. George Macy, of Ghent, was in
thij city a few days ago for the" pur
pose of finding streams of water (if
possible) on the rjoel T. Simpson
farm, this gentleman haviug recently
erected several dwelling houses on
the farm, and being desirous of locat
ing wells for tho use, of his tenants.
Mr. Macy brough. to his aid tho fork
of two united branches of a peaclr
tree, the ends of whioh he clasped
tightly in each hand, and thus walk
ed about the premises in search of
water. When a stream was cro?ed
tfre peach tree rod wwld bend for
ward until tiie butt wtts perpendicu
lar, and when Mr. Macy took a step
over the stream t't and would quick
ly.return to its origisal position. It
was quite an interesting sight to us to
see the rod work in Mr. Macy's
hands, a3 it was the first time we had
ever seen this kind of manifestations.
The gentleman informed us that ha
had found hundreds of streams in va
rious parts of rhis County aild in the
State by the U3c of the rod, and had
never been disappointed with the re
sult of his discoveries of streams of
water, as in every case good wells had
been secured. The rod will not work
in avery person's baud ; indeed, there
tire but few who are gifted with a suf
fioieut electric action to have the rod
designate where streams of water are
located. Mr. Maey relates many in
stances whers.iie has been tested se-.
verely, but in every ease he has con
vinced skeptiesj that they were no$
too old to learn the fact that there are
a great many mysterious things vt
the world, .and that a simple peach
tree possesses astonishing, powers.
Hudson Siar.
Abraham Czopey, who died lase
week in San Francisco, was noted fotf
hi.s gormandizing propensities, hav-
ing some time before his sudden de
mise performed the interesting feat of
eating st one meal of a half hour's
duration-, a 14 pound turkey and a
loaf of bread. Upon another occasion
he consumed five glasses of lager beer,
ono glass of whisky, two bottles of
claret, two glasses of gin and of bran?
dy, in all, aggregating 10 liquid: rneas-' ,
rrre a gallon and a quarter. "
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