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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST G, 1874.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Sates.
Monday, July 27. A terrible land-slide
recently occurred at Alara, Spain. The over
hanging rocks fell upon and utterly destroyed
the village. Up to the afternoon of the 2-"ith
over 200 corpses hud been recovered. . . .The
Prohibitionists of Indiana -will meet in State
convention at Indianapolis on the VA of Sep
tember. ... Lincoln's 'monument at Spring
field, 111., will be dedicated on the 15th
of October The Merchant, the pioneer
iron steamer of the lakes, sunk near
Racine on the 24th A terrible tor
nado of ' wind and rain passed over
that portion of Minnesota traversed by the
Minnesota Southern Railroad on the 2;th,
causing the destruction of numerous dwell
ings and doing considerable damage to the
standing crops A fearful disaster overlook
the mining village of Eureka, Nev., on the
24th. It had been raining with great vio
lence from early morning till noon, when the
cloud burst on a lofty range of mountains to
the cast, and a vast volume of water rushed
down the canon where the town is located.
The eastern part of the town was flooded in
ten minutes by the rush of water, which was
constantly increasing in violence, depth and
impetuosity. The people of a portion of the
place were hemmed in. Every moment
houses were torn from their foundations and
swept away, with their occupants. Ropes
were procured, a line was formed, and brave
men, thus protected, dashed into the torrent
and saved many lives. The part of the town
devoted to dance-houses and other places of
amusement was destroyed. The flood lasted
only half an hour. Dispatches of the 20th
announce the finding of about twenty bodies,
and several were missing who were supposed
to have been drowned.
Tuesday, July 23. On the night of the
20th a heavy storm passed over Allegheny
City and Pittsburgh, Pa., converting the
streets into water-ways, tearing up pave
ments, bursting sewers, inundating buildings
and tilling cellars. Over 200 lives were 4ost
and 147 buildings destroyed. The value of
property destroyed was from $1,000,000 to
3,000,(io0 The storm of the 20th caused
great damage north of Oshkosh, Wis. Sev
eral lives were lost and crops were seriously
injured.... An agent sent to Vicksburg,
Miss., to investigate and report on the elec
tion troubles there has returned with a re
port that it is not a case demanding Govern
mental interference.... The President has is
sued his proclamation ratifying the extradi
tion treaty with Peru News has been re
ceived from Gen. Custer's expedition to
the Black Hills. His command was
about 2K) miles west tf Lincoln, was
in good health and spirits and moving stead
ily forward. Hostile Indians were hovering
about the column ... .A violent storm occurred
on the 20th in the town of Agall, Moravia,
which destroyed many houses and vineyards
and caused great loss of life.... Mad
rid dispute-lies of the 27th say that forty
one Carlists, most of them ecclesiastics or
members of the nobility, had been arrested at
Barcelona by way of reprisal against the con
duct of the Carlists. It was also reported
that the Carlists had recently beeu defeated
with great loss by the Republicans. The lo
cality was not given The International
Peace Congress convened at Brussels on the
27th. Baron Jomini presided over their de
liberations. Wednesday, July 29. It was reported
in Madrid on the 23th that the Carlists had
shot 235 of the prisoners captured in Catalo
nia.. . .The German Government had been ac
tively engaged in negotiations aiming at the
suppression of the Carlist insurrection and
the recognition of the Spanish Republic....
The warehouses and landings upon Great
Prince's dock, Liverpool, were burned on
the 28th. Loss, 1,000,000 On the
21st fifty Kwas and Comanches attacked
and killed five men near the mouth of Ute
Creek On the 28th a train on the New Or
leans A Mobile Railroad ran olT the track
near the latter city, in consequence of the
misplacement of a switch. The engineer and
fireman were killed and several passengers in
jured.... The Delaware State Republican
Convention was held at Georgetown on
th-i 28th. Dr. Isaac Jump was nominated for
Governor and J. R. Lopland for Congress....
The People's Fire Insurance Company of Phil
adelphia has suspended in consequence of the
fact that the " Manager and Treasurer has
left for parts unknown" A New York dis
patch of the 27th says that Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, in an interview with a re
porter, had said that Mrs. Tilton had con
fessed to her that she had maintained
illicit relations -with Mr. Beecher. On the
28th Mrs. Tilton pronounced the statement of
Mrs. Stanton "utterly false." At five o'clock
on the afternoon of the 28th, according to a
Brooklyn dispatch, Mr. Tilton was arrested
upon the charge of publishing a malicious
libel concerning Mr. Beecher, and his bail
fixed at $2,500.
Thcusday. July 30. A motion for the
dissolution of the French Assembly was de
feated on the 20th by S52 to 374 votes Por
tugal has taken measures to maintain the in
violability of her frontier England, Ger
many, Austria and Italy have agreed to
establish joint surveillance over the
Spanish frontier. . ..Nicholas Staaden, one
of the Chicago incendiaries, was
indicted for arson on the 20th.... The
number of Granges in the United States, ac
cording to a Washington dispatch of the 20th,
is about 20,000. Of these Iowa has 1,MM;
Indiana, 1,00S; Missouri, 1,!20; Kansas, 1,321;
Illinois, 1,481, and Kentucky 1,101. The cot
ton and gulf States alone have 4,05, and
Canada has 30. There are now Granges in all
the States The State Democratic Conven
tion of Illinois will be held on the 20th of
August.... A call has been issued for a State
Convention of Michigan Democrats to be held
at Lansing on the 10th of September.
Friday, July 31. An extensive strike
has occurred among the operatives in the
Belfast (Ireland) flax mills. Several bakeries
have been gutted, and the magistrates have
made a demand for 400 additional policemen
. . . .Italy has demanded of France the recall
of the war vessel stationed at Civita Vcccbia
as a refuge for the Pope in case of necessity
Bayonne dispatches of the 30th say the
Carlists had defeated the Republicans
on the frontier. The losses on lnth
sides were heavy. The Carlists deny
the report of recent atrocities Gov. Ames,
of Mississippi, having returned to his post,
has written to the War Department that the
views of the Lieutenant-Governor in respect
to the necessity of troops at Vicksburg are
shared by him.... A company of Texan Rang
ers and a company of United States
cavalry recently fought a body of 500
Indians near Jacksboro, Tex. The Rang
ers lost - twelve killed and several
wounded and the cavalry several
killed, including the commander, and a large
number wounded. The combined forces were
driven back to Jacksboro.... Hon. G. S. Fort
has been renominated for Congress by the
Eighth Illinois District.... The Michigan Pro
hibition ista met in State Convention at
Lansing on the 30th, and nominated the
following State ticket: Governor G. B.
Jocelyn; Lieutenant-Governor T. A. Grang
er, of Van Buren; Secretary of State S.
W. Baker, of nton; State Treasurer
James I. Mead, of Lansing; Audltor-General
Joseph ewroan, ox Macomb Countx; At-'
torny.Gnral Albort "WillUma, of Ionia; '
Cemmiiilc&er cf List Oflee TiM, t. Ikla i
ner, of St. Clair; Superintendent of Public
Instruction .John Evans, of Eaton; Member
of the State Board of Education John D
Lewis, of Bay. The convention adopted the
platform of the National Prohibition party.
Satchday, Aug. 1. A vigorous attempt
is making to secure the pardon or commuta
tion of the death sentence of Udderzook, the
murderer The Secretary on the 1st issued
a circular calling in for payment $25,000,000
of 5-20 bonds of the issue known as the third
series, act of Feb. 25, 1802, dated May 1, 1802
The 100th anniversary of the dis
covery of oxygen by Priestly was cele
brated at Northumberland, Pa., on the 31st
ult. A large number of chemists and scien
tists participated in the celebration.... The
Alabama State Democratic Convention was
held at Montgomery, Ala., on the 3lst ult. B
D. Lewis and W. II. Forney were nominated
for Con gressmen-at-Large. The platform sets
olf with the announcement of the necessity
of the union of white people in self-defcnsa;
rejects social equality, but recognizes equality
before the law; denounces the so-called
Civil Rights bill; views with abhorence the
attempt to take possession of the schools,
colleges, churches, etc., for the purpose of
establishing negro equality; invites white
immigration, and pledges economy in the ad
ministration of the State Government and the
payment of every dollar justly owed by the
State Hon. J. M. Carey was nominated
Delegate to Congress, on the 81st, by the Re
publicans of Wyoming.
THE MARKETS.
Jcly 31, 1874.
NEW YORK.
Cotton. Middling upiatd, lG?il7c
Live Stock. Beer Cattle Sll.2o1ll2.75. Hogs
Dressed, S'J-WX&.f'-S. Sheep Live, $ l.OOtfJJ.OO.
UuEADsTurrs. Flour Good to choice, $5.805i
6.15; white wheat extra, $6.156.S0. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.27(5.1.29; Iowa spring, $1.2&3;1.30;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.32&1.33. Kye West
ern and State. jl.OU&l.OO. Barley
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 8bg;89c. Oats
New Western, 757fi'ic.
PuovistoNs. Pork New Mess, $21.7522.00.
Lard 12!i12iic.
Wool. Common to extra, 45fi5c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $3.73556.00;
good, $5.2j3,5.e0; medium, $4.755.10; butch
ers' stock, $3.505,4.50; slock cattle, $:5.(Xra
4.25. Hogs Live, $6.50(7.00. Sheep Good
to choice, $l.2.-&5.00.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 2tfj!28c. Epjrs
Fresh, l314c. Pork New Mess, $23.00
SJ.10. Lard $12.253.12.37'i.
Bkeadstuffs. Flour White winter extra,
$5.75rti7.75; spring extra, $5.0t5i5.75. Wheat
Spring No. 2, $t.OTf,1.10. Corn No. 2, Wj
&70c. Oats No. 2, 5354c. Barley No. 2,
$1.043.1.0ti. Rye No. 2, 7!ttf.80c.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4552c. ; fleece, washed,
40. He; fleece, unwashed, 3033c.; pulled,
37-J!)c.
Limber. First Clear. $50.00&o5.00; Second
Clear, $ 47.0049.00 ; Common Boards, $10.50
12.00; Fencing, $ 10.501 2.00 ; "A" Shingles,
$:$.25&3.50; Lath, $2.25&2.37V4.
CINCINNATI.
BREAnsTUFFs. Flour 55.255.65. Wheat
$1.08. Corn (oa8c. Rye 91c. Oats 53 65c.
Barley (&
Provisions. Pork $23.0024.00. Lard
llJi14c.
ST. LOUIS.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1.50
6.00. Hogs Live, $6.007.15.
Breaostcffs. Flour XX Fall, $5.005.25.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.151.1B. Corn No.
2, 59(i0c. Oats No. 2, 44c. Rye No. 2,
72 74c. Barley
Provisions. Pork Mess, $33.S021.00. Lard
ll'i12!ic.
MILWAUKEE.
BnEAOSTUFrs. Flour Spring XX, $5.705.90.
Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.181.1; No. 2, $1.13
1.11. Corn No. 2. 64'ic. Oats No. 2, 54
55c. Kye No. 1, 9093c. Barley No. 2, $1.08
1.10.
DETROIT.
Breadstuffs. Wheat Extra, $1.3641.41.
Corn 6'.&70c. Oats 7KR72c.
TOLEDO.
Bueadsti-ffs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.16
1.16'i; No. 2 Red. $1.151.16. Corn Mixed,
6ti!4c. Oats 51 55c.
CLEVELAND.
Breaostuffs Wheat No. 1 Red. $1.151.16;
No. 2 Red, $1.121.13. Corn 7273c. Oats
44 45c.
BUFFALO.
Live Stock. Beeves $5.00(3.6.50. no28
Live, S6.S0G7.o0. Sheep-$4.62",5.50.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best. $6.256.50; me
dium. $5.756.00. Hogs Yorkers, $7.00
7.25; Philadelphia, $7.507.75. Sheep Best,
5.255.50; medium. $4.755.00.
AX INTERESTING NARRATIVE.
Peril of the Brave Ftllowi Who Go
Down to the Sr In Ship The Al
Trnlurci of a. Shipwrecked Crew In
the Indian Ocean.
How many and various are the perils of the
brave fellows who go down to the sea in
ships! Romance cannot add a euggestion to
the reality of their adventures; fact is not less
marvelous than fiction. In February last the
bark Arracan, of Greenock, was on a voyage
from Shields to Bombay, coal laden, when she
took fire from spontaneous combustion. The
crew took to their boats, heading for the Mal
dive Islands. The boats kept company for
three days, when a separation was agreed
upon because the currents offered such ob
stacles to their holding together. The master
in the long boat headed for Cochin; the
mate took the gig; the second mate, and
hero of this narrative, with four of
the crew, had the pinnace. Both mates
continued their course to the Mal
dives, but after a time Webster's boat
was injured by a heavy sea, and unable to
keep up with the srig soon lost sight of her.
Up to the 0th of March the pinnace was kept
working to windward. Then the water and
provisions gave out, and far from land the
crew were threatened with the horrors of
thirst and hunger which must end, if no
Providential aid came, in the awful death
which comes of starvation. In their ex
tremity the crew east lots to determine who
should die that the others might live. The
ship's boy was fated, but Webster, who had
been sleeping during this awful lottery, was
aroused and saved the lad's life. Then when
Webster slept again the crew determined to
kill him, but the grateful lad whom he had
saved thwarted the plan by waking and
warning the intended victim. On the next
day, with his gun folded in his arms, Webster
dropped off to sleep, but was speedily
aroused by the struggling for the possession
of the firearm which was to be used for the
taking of his life. Three days were they
without tasting nourishment, when one of the
men, half crazed, attempted to sink the boat
Webster prevented. Two days passed wearily
on without incident, when the same man re
peated his threat to sink the pinnace, or, fail
ing, to kill the lad. Webster pointed the shot
gun full at the mutineer's breast, and, if the
cap had not snapped, would have taken his
life. Putting another cap upon the gun Web
ster found better game in a bird flying over
the boat He drop! ed it, and the greedy crew
made short work of it, bones, feathers and all.
For five days more the crew just kept alive
by eating the barnacles which attached them
selves to the bottom of the boat. On the
sixth Hay some of them became delirious.
One fell into the bottom of the boat exhausted,
another struck him with an iron pin; the
blood gushing from the wounds was cauarht
by the other men in a tin vessel and eagerly
drank. Then commenced gener 1 tights in
which the men bit one another, Webster and
the boy doing what they could to prevent
serious violence, and keeping the watches,
which the others bad entirely abandoned.
Finally on the thirty-first day out they were
picked up 600 miles from land and carried
Into Calcutta. The other crews were never
beard from. Sale la England Webster wears
u Attrai Bt&aO, t& gift of & Quoea,
U2T AWAKES.
BT KATE ri'TNAM OSGOOD.
I worm not follow, I am not fain;
Yet must I fly with the flyingstraiu!
Whence had the marvelous measure birth f
Was it a spirit of air or earth?
Down in the valley I know a nook
Shut from sight by elm aud willow;
Babbles bewide it a noisy brook.
And dep at the foot is a mosy pillow.
There in the dews and grass I lay,
Idling the Rolden hours away.
Half i-hut eyes, thnt could only see
Heavy heads of the honey-clover.
Brimmed with bees till the blooms ran over.
Swaying aud sinking close to me.
Half-shut ears that could only seem
To hear, as in a haunted dream.
Murmurs among Ibe buttercups pass:
"Who is thin idler, lying here?"'
And the tiny voices of growing grass
Whispering secrets under my ear.
Blindly I felt, for I seemed to'grow
So much a part of the ground below,
A little season of sun and shower
Would make me presently burst inro flower!
Already 1 seemed to be taking root
And felt the clover above me shoot;
When, as a wind that suddenlv
Fills the wide fields of the empty sky.
Out of the silence grew a strain.
Coming aud going und coming again.
Till spirit and sense were rapt and bound,
('aught iu a silver mesh of sound, -That
drew the half-unwilling will.
Though fain for tlight, to follow still.
It wa not wholly pain or pleasure.
But what each holds that is most divine,
A wandering, wild, uncertain measure.
Interwoven as shadow and shine.
So subtly strong, so softly clear.
It came and went ou the wondering ear.
Never the straining sense could tell
Whence it rose or whither it fell.
It was overhead and underfoot.
And wound with the verv hearfs innermost root.
Oh! sharp delight! delicious pain!
I never shall rest from your throb again.
Nor be as 1 was wont to be;
For I am bound by the burning wire.
Strained unawnrjs. to the strong desire
Of Nature's mystic melody!
I would not follow. I am not fain,
But the cord has tightened on heart and brain ;
It ihrilleth so, it draweth so,
Whither it goeth I must go!
y. 3'. Independent.
MR. GRIFFIN'S VALENTINE.
BY KOSE TERRY COOKE.
Mk. Griffin was an old bachelor and
a stock-broker, a man whose soul was
absorbed in money. It stood with him
for all other pleasures and objects in
life. Living in New York, he never
sought any amusement but the roar and
struggle of the Stock Exchange. He
never stopped to look at a picture, a gem,
or a blossom in anybody's window, on
his M ay down-town. He was the terror
of apple selling boys and bouquet girls;
not one of them dared offer him their
small wares, nor did any little boot
black venture to pipe an invitation
toward this forbidding specimen,
however muddy his thick boots
were. As for love or love-mak
ing, they were as far from Mr. Griffin's
thoughts as any other too expensive
luxury. He lived in the third story of a
small brick house, one of a block in a
side street almost up to Central Park.
lie boarded with a widow, a meek and
shiny woman, who, nevertheless, had a
taste for money as well as Mr. Griffin,
and contiived to make him pay a good
price for board. But a day was at hand
when Mrs. lilivins should lose her profit
able boarder. Mr. Griffin, although one
might not have supposed it, had a mother
up in the country. Probably he would
have loved her if he could have loved any
body. He wnt once a year to see her,
and stayed a full week. His traveling
expenses were not quite as much as his
board, so be perhaps made half a dollar
by the operation, got a week's pure air
gralis, and, always taking his "run," as
he called it, in the dull season, he lost
no business. But one day bis mother
died. He had to go home to the funeral,
and staying his week out, ostensibly to
settle her affairs, he made a great dis
covery it really had cost his mother less
to live a week, servant and all, than it
did him. Melindy Barker was a stout,
smart woman of thirty, fresh and pleasant-looking.
tShe had lived with old
Mrs. Griffin five years and done all the
work, beside being, in good-set -Yankee
phrase, " one of the family."
Mr. Griffin owned a tenement bouse in
the city, and just now the fourth story
Hat was vacant; nor had he any applica
tions for it, since it was now July. He
walked up and down the gravel path a
good many times, with his hands in his
pockets, meditating. If he had smoked
he would have fumigated the idea; but
he never smoked small vices are ex
pensive. At last he invited Melindy to
go back to New York and keep house for
him. 1 here was ms mother s furniture,
that would sell for nothing, but was
quite good enough for him and would
save buying. Melindy would have half
a dollar a week more wages for he did
not dare to offer her the pittance that
she had hitherto accepted, though what
he did offer bore but small relation to
the city tariff of wages; but he knew
well that to "better" ont's self was the
intent of all country immigration to the
city. Melindy pondered the request
deeply over her cooking-stove and wash
tub. She had longed a great while to
" go to York." She had been under the
grim rule of Mrs. Griffin in Pcterstown
long enough; that straggling country
village offered no prospect to Meiindy's
ambition or hopes. A vague out
look flattered her with ideas of shops,
visiting, dress, not impossibly matri
mony. She decided to go Mr. Griffin
staid out his week, helped pack the
furniture and left Melindy in possession
for a few days, while he went back to give
Mrs. lilivins warning. V un that excel
lent woman he had a perturbed inter
view, the insisted on a lorinignt s warn
ing or payment ; and Mr. Griffin could
not part with so much money. He
staid it out, and Melindy remained
in Pcterstown till the first of Au
gust, when, after a three-hours' sail, she
found herself and her baggage at the
steamer's dock, one sultry noon.
We pass over in wise silence the scene
of struggle, dirt, confusion and squalor
presented to homesick Melindy by the
aspect of that fourth-story flat in Last
street; but she had good courage and
a deal of " faculty mysterious shibbo
leth of New England speech, that tells
its purport only"to the initiated. She in
sisted on cheap papers, to be selected by
nerselt, ana got them, on condition of
putting them up herself; she "stuck"
for a pail of whitewash and a brush as a
permanent institution; she refused to
cook a dinner till the plumber nad been
sent for to mend a leaky water-pipe. And
Mr. (rifhn growled audibly over the ex
terminators and polishers and powders
of sundry sorts he was forced to buy
Ht the point of the bayonet, so to speak.
LJut the plumber! hen Mr. Griflin,
grinding his teeth, stopped to order that
useful. and unreliable man's immediate
presence, little did he think that he had
laid the first brick of Meiindy's dream-
castle and the corner-stone of his own
disquiet and disturbance. So fate spins
its web out of our own substance, fast
ens it to our own cornices and pillars,
tangles us in the invisible destruction,
traps us in our tracks, and our last gasp
is: " If I could only have known." But
we never do know.
Fate also trapped the plumber : for once
in his life he kept a promise, rather won
dering at himself while he did so; but
August was not his busy season. He was
an Englishman by parentage, though
city born, aud his keen $-e, used to the
slender, useless shapes and pallid pretti
ness of New fork lower-class girls, was
at once attracted by Meiindy's buxom
figure, her fresh cheeks, her britrht.
clear, dark eyes, and her prompt, vigor
ous manners. John Perkins wai a still
man ; but, like ibe Dutchman'! parrot,
h M taougat tfca sort," &&, wailahe
went about his work in a silent and mas
terful manner that struck Melindy as the
right way, she also perceived that be was
a man of goodly presence, took note of
his appearance, and was pleased when he
said he should call again and see how the
faucet worked. He did call again. He
called again. He offered to show Melindy
the way to the Methodist Cnurch nearest
her master's house. He escorted her to
weekly prayer-meetings after awhile as
regularly as Friday came round. If we
are rather hurrying our relation of a
matter w hich seemed to Melindy as grad
ual and as natural as the course of the
seasons, it is to demonstrate that she did
have some small consolations and allevia
tions in her new life, before we relate its
disagreeable features for there were
plenty of these. Mr. Griffin was scarce
established-in his new quarters before he
began to find out what many others
have found before him that housekeep
ing is more expensive for a small family
than cheap boarding. Little expenses
crept upon his purse daily, that wrung
his small soul bitterly, lie could not
well atlord the time to enter into the de
tail himself; but he felt forced to do it,
and, after a series of exhaustive calcula
tion and the experiment of two of the
longest months he had ever passed, he es
tablished a schedule of quantities and
prices for vielindy's guidance that she
both scolded and laughed over, but all
in vain.
44 1 should like to know, Mr. GrifTin,
however you're to have molasses cake
once a week for your Sunday tea, and
sweeteain' in the pies, and sass to your
griddles (dear reader, she meant cakes
fried on a griddle. It is an abstruse
figure of speech) on a pint of molasses a
week!"
44 Leave off the cake, then, Melindy,"
responded the stern guardian of cents.
44 And a pound of butter a week! My
goodness gracious! Your mother and me
used three."
44 Well, you won't here. It is strange
enough how little it cost you two to live
in Peterstown and what you spend here."
44 Land alive ! We jest about lived on
garden sass, 'nd eggs, 'nd old hens 'nd
salt pork. We raised the sass in the
garden ourselves, 'nd the chickens picked
up a livin round the lots. Yc killed on
all but two hens 'nd a rooster, 'long in
the fall."
"Well, well, well!" growled Mr.
Griffin. 44 We've got to live; but I won't
hae extravagance."
44 And I won't starve, neither!" stoutly
answered Melindy. 44 1 c.ra get places
enough where 1 11 get good vittles and
good wages, Mr. Griffin. But I calculate
to stay with you for a spell, if you treat
me half-way decent; 'cause 1 liked your
mother real well and I come here a pur
pose. But "
Mr. Griffin stopped the incipient threat.
Melindy had cowed him. He looked
with horror at the loss of time and
money that would follow on another
overturning of his household gods.
44 Well, well, Melindy, you shan't
starve; only do your best to save what
you can. Living is awful in New York.
I'm not a rich man, Melindy; but I de
pend on you to stay. You promised for
a year, you know."
Mr. Griffin told two lies in this brief
speech; but far better men than he, yea,
men whom I have known mighty in
church and state, men of spotless stand
ing and unimpeachable piety, will lie on
a matter of business. They don't call a
spade a spade, to be sure; lying has as
many aliases as a sneak-thief. And to
lie about buying and selling is probably
a sad but stern necessity. In fact, asniy
very candid washerwoman said to me,
the other day, 44 Sure, we'd niver get
along without a bit iv a lie sometimes."
I feel a strange want of faith in her ex
cuses and pitiful tales ever since. I
also find that I do not believe with alac
rity the siatements of A, B and C. whom
I have casually detected in practicing
the same little necessity; but then I am
an old-fashioned person, out of date.
Yes, Mr. Griffin told two lies. He said
he was not rich. It is true riches are
comparative. He was worth half a mill
ion; but how many men are worth three
whole ones. On the whole, I am ready
to agree with Mr. Griffin's lie, for inspirit
it was true. He was a jwor man, poorer
than the cripple who soli him his daily
paper, for that cripple had a heart and a
home cellar if it were. It held a loyal,
loving woman's heart and the rich prom
ise of a child's joyful, tender life luxu
ries too great for Mr. Griffin. Doubly
poor he was, for he had no wealth of re
source, no true friends, no delight of life
and living, no enjoyment of his beards
except in their hoarding, no keen pleas
ure of the eye that seeing him blessed
him, and the ear that hearing his voice
rejoiced. One day there .hould ring in
his ears, too late, the awful admonition
that the poor of his sort receive :
44 Because thou sayest I am rich and
increased with goods and have need of
nothing, and knowest not that thou art
wretched and miserable and poor and
blind and naked, I counsel thee to buy
of me gol4 tried in the fire, that thou may
est be rich."
The other lie was about Meiindy's prom
ise. He had said 44 1 expect you to stay
with me one year on trial," and, being
busied about some imminent matter, Me
lindy made no answer. 44 Silence gives
consent," must be Mr. Griffin's excuse
for this lie.
So Melinda stayed and economized
and grew thin, but happy; for after the
live o'clock dinner was done her employer
retired to the small parlor and studied
the newspapers, made his plans lor the
next day's campaign, summed up his
gains and losses, gave that which he
called his soul to the utter contemplation
of stocks and bonds, hovered like a very
busy and anxious bee over the respective
morning-glory flowers of Harlem, Erie,
Pacific, New York Central, Air-Line and
so on, nd niwteam, betaking himself to
the deadness of an over-wrought brain
which took the place of sleep with him
about ten o'clock, leaving Melindy free
for prayer-meeting or for home-keeping
the day's one rest for her when some
times a good book John Perkins lent her,
sometimes the weekly paper from Pe
terstown, not unfrequently the presence
of John Perkins himself, come for 44 a
dish of talk," as Melindy said, satisfied
her honest, unexacting soul and kept her
content. For it cannot be denied that at
first Melindy was bitterly homesick.
44 York," as a place of residence, had lost
all the fair aspect distance lent it. Broad
way and its fabled glories were two good
miles away from Melindy. Hie had
neither time nor money to explore its
magnificence; she had not even been to
Barnum's Museum. The ways of house
keeping in a city flat were entirely new
to her and very hard. Her out-doors was
gone, and every country housekeeper
knows what a refreshing margin 4 out
doors" is. Melindy grew pale, sometimes
listless. She began to save her money,
to turn and twist her dresses, old and
plain now, into some vague attempt
at fashion. Sh- would have been spoiled,
washed out, and pressed down into a
drudge of the merest routine but for
John Perkins.
And there was something in Melindy
that charmed John mightily. The rousrh
old proverb that every Jack has his Jill
expresses, like many another proverb, a
radical truth; that in every human being
there is something attractive to some
other of its kind some grain of beauty
that all eyes do not see, some inward
loveliness unveiled only for the true
worshiper, some awaking for the right
prince, some tiny epark from the great
G-od-ahinin? that ctiid us all out of
dvtit tad quUka&ed ? to liriag leult,
I: was rare to John Perkins as an orchis
on the pavement would have been to
find a fresh nature like Melindy s, a
woman of nearly his own age who had
never seen a theater, did not know the
inside of a museum, was not even aware
what a valentine was till John one Jan
uary evening was telling of his last
year s experience in sending a valentine
to a little crippled girl with whose
mother he boarded. It was a new and
bright idea to Melindy. Iler life had
been one long round of duty and work,
with none of life's foliations or blossom
ings; but she had a keen love of the
beautiful, as yet half wakened and un
fed. She loved to watch the scrap of
sky from the kitchen window; she had
loved the whole wide arch in her country
home; and here her strongest longing was
for the springing flowers, the cool, fresh
leaves, the glittering brook she had left
behind. And as February drew near
and the shops glowed and glittered with
gay note-paper and envelopes, costly
valentines and cheap ones, John took
her to meeting early one night and per
suaded her to go by way of the street
cars, in order to take a walk down Broad
way and be instructed in the art and
mystery of valentines. I don't know if
she really went to meeting at all. I do
not much care. There are other divine
influences at vork in this world besides
tne ordinary means of grace, and I am
sure more than one husk-fed citizen that
night got a refreshment to his soul quite
unawares out of Meiindy's simple, bright
face, glowing and smiling with a child's
delight at the brilliant treasures of the
windows. If she did not get good she
gave it, and that is more blessed, we
know.
But who shall paint Mr. Griffin's dis
gust, the next morning, when Melindy,
still absorbed in the novel ani splendid
idea of valentines, while pouring out his
coffee at breakfast, stunned him with
the innocent inquiry:
44 Did you ever have a valentine, Mr.
Griffin?"
The man glared at her. He laid down
bis knife and fork, and forgot to take the
cup she held out to him.
"I!!! have a valentine!!!!" lie thun
dered, with explosive disgust. " Do
you think there is a big enough fool in
S'ew York to send me one? A valentine,
indeed! Nasty, extravagant, idle, use
less things, Money thrown into the gut
ter. Trash! stuff! folly! nonsense! Have
you lost your senses, woman? If any
body should send me one of the devilish
things it woald go into the fire quicker!
Don t be a fool, Melindy!
With which mild remark he seized his
coffee and swallowed it, devoured his
breakfast in silence unbroken save by in
termittent growls, squabbled with his
overcoat, kicked his slippers virulently
nto the corner, slammed the door be
hind him and fled down street to his of
fice much as if the idea of some small
pursuant fiend impelled his footsteps.
Truth to tell, Mr. Griffin once had a
valentine, and more than one, of a de
famatory and abusive character. He sus
pected always and perhaps justly that
they were sent him by a clerk whom he
had discharged, as the easiest way of
venting his spite. There was this to be
said in favor of the idea that the liter
ary part of the missives had been select
ed with an eye to Mr. Griffin's special
failings and meannesses, and inclosed in
a yellow envelope, to make sure of their
being opened. He felt at once trapped
and insulted, and, when his greedy soul
dwelt on the wasted money those gaudy
billets had cost, it added another clement
to his pungent dislike of the whole tribe,
and he swore within himself that if one
ever entered his door again it should
make short passage to the flames.
Melindy was inditrnant enough; but
she was also wise to know that an angry
man had better be severely let alone,
and she went her way and did her daily
duty, hoping devoutly that she should
have a valentine if old Griffin, as she
irreverently called him, did not; also
feeling a certain surety that one would
appear at its season John Perkins had
been so pleased with her pleasure, so
eager to find out which style she thought
prettiesL So the day went on. Mr.
Griffin's growls softened to his normal
state of gi utt'ness. John Perkins came
at his usual rate of twice a week; the
tiny geranium he had brought Melindy
began to show its chilly pink through
the rough green buds; and at last the
loth of rcbruary rose upon the great
city of New York. It has a discouraging
effect to take things in this general way
in the vast idea of a city, with its thou
sands of beating, breaking hearts, its
numberless agonies and delights, its
deaths, births, tragedies, comedies, that
comprise all heaven and hell within their
mighty scope. The tiny segment of
humanity with which we have to deal
dwindles to its germ. How much better
for present purpose it is to say the sun
rose upon our three acquaintances, for
we are not writing the story of a city
but of John. Melindy and old Griffin.
Nevertheless, the 13th was a bright day
for everybody, and Mr. Griffin took his
way early to the office, being vexed in
spirit with regard to a certain man whose
credit he feared to be insecure and who
owed him $10,000. The man was honest,
hardworking and unfortunate three
facts of no more account to Mr. Griffin
than his blue eyes, brown hair and
English whiskers. To be pressed for this
$ 10,000 was a matter of life and death
with him; it was to put all he had to the
hazard of a die; but poor Mr. Griflin
could not risk so much money. All the
long way down town he plotted his cam
paign against that luckless man. The
brilliant valentines that drew his unwill
ing eye on either hand affected him as a
red rag does a turkey. If he could have
gobbled, he would. He did growl half
audibly, and almost scared a weak-minded
old lady on the other side of the om
nibus out of her little wits. She thought
he was crazy, and was afraid to get out
lest he should follow her, afraid to stay
in lest he should attack; so she bore his
presence in a quiver like a mold of jelly
till he got out, and then almost fainted
from relief. Perhaps he was crazy. I
think he suffered from emotional insan
ity myself. I think all insane people
ought to be hung and the wicked ones
put into asylums; and there I take my
stand and leave the pitient reader to
classify Mr. Griflin. All that morning he
hunted his prey like a bloodhound. He
tracked him from one place to another,
and followed him up, determined on a
personal interview, which, after all, he
failed to obtain.
The day was very mild and 3Ir, Griffin
got heated. His head began to ache.
He was as much surprised as a lamp
post could have been to feel a sharp
pain in its lantern; but he was a coward
ingrain and the possibility of a sickness,
with loss of time, expense of medicine,
doctors' bills and watchers startled him.
He believed in prevention; that sickness
might cost him a coffin never came into
his calculations. He was practically an
utter skeptic, with God in none of his
thoughts, but the human aspect of sick
ness terrified him. He dropped a postal
card into the nearest box, telling his
clerk he should not be down again that
day, went home in time to prevent a su
perfluous dinner being cooked and went
to bed and to sleep, being merely over
tired and heated. In the meantime his
clerk, who was a sharp-witted fellow
and had a brother in VY ashington, Con
gressional reporter for a New York
paper, who with a certain fraternal inter
est occasionally sent bim a bit of news
in advance likely to be useful on the
StsEit Exchange, reeeivtd a telegram
that caused him to sit down and write a
small note to his chief, as follows:
Dear Sir: Congress willpsfs a bill to-morrow
for half a million appropriation to build a
general hospital for inebriate Senators, and the
Kanawha Jfc Ileseret Railroad Com pntir own the
laud they have promised to build on.' K. Jt I),
shares will go up by to-morrow night like a
rocket. Quirk fc Quaver have $!i.nui ou hand at
ftTty. I would buy in to-night but they're shut
up and I have to hu oil on the 7 a. m. tiain to
Albany. My father jut dying there. So notiry
you, as time is money. Joseph Joiine.
Now Mr. Griflin kept everything in
h'n office under lock and key paper,
envelopes, and all; lest the clerk should
unlawfully use and waste them out of
office hours. He grudged the pen and
ink; but these might be needed to fill up
a telegram form or file a bill, and he
reluctantly left out certain sheets of
foolscap for possible exigencies. Mr.
Joseph Johnes, having a sweetheart and
not having a disgust at valentines, had
been inditing one that very afternoon to
his Susan, and on the first envelope had
dropped a dreadful blot of ink between
her two sweet names. Luckily, he had
provided for mishaps and bought two,
and the completed missive', neat and gay,
lay on the table ready to send. Biit
when he came to inclose his note to Mr.
Griffin there was no envelope to be had.
It was nine o'clock and the drop-letter
mail for early morning delivery would
soon be closed; there was no help for it.
Unaware of Mr. Griflin's rage at valen
tines, he scratched out Susan's blotted
name as best he might, and, writing his
employer's address under it, stamped
both epistles, dropped them into the
office, went home to bed, and left for
Albany in the morning, as unconscious of
the fire he hail kindled as any other
sleepy m in on the train.
.Now there was another valentine in
that office, dropped before either of these
two, among the ten thousand of its kind,
that was meant to assail Melindy in a
serious and sentimental manner. For
John Perkins was shy and slow of
speech: but bis mind was set upon'
marrying Melindy, and he devised a
valentine as a neat way of making the
oiler of his heart and hand gracefully
and acceptably. Accordingly he bought
a splendid sheet, garlanded with roses
aud garnished at top and bottom with
two fat Cupids, one dressed in the simple
drapery of a red and yellow bandana
handkerchief about his middle, a very
bent bow in one hand and a scroll in the
other, while his brother was attired in an
insufficient American (lag and held a
portly quiver, bristling with arrows, and
another scroll inscribed with a legend
like that above the first verse being at
top, the other below :
There is but only one,
Aud I am only he.
Who loves but only one,
Aud thou art only she.
" Itrquite me for the same,
Aud say thou unto me;
' I love but only one.
And thou art only he. "
But lest Melindy should consider this
declaration as merely conventional and
uncertain, John inserted in the small
garlanded space between the scroll-bearers
a terse but comprehensive sentence
of his own in good set terms:
DeerMemndt
I meen it nil a trne ns deth. Will you mnrry
me? 1 am coin nun to-night too know.
Your Valentine, John I'kukins.
So morning came, fraught with faith.
Mr. Griffin's head did not ache; but he
was cross unspeakably. The tire burned
bright in his grate, his toast was crisp,
his collee clear; but he growled and
snapped 44 like a real live bear," as Me
lindy said. However, poetic justice
overtook Mr. Griilin then and there. Me
lindy had gone on to the roof to take
down her clothes, chiefly to keep out of
reach of that bitter tongue; so be liimsell
took in the letters. Judge of his rage
when he beheld only two valentines.
Unmistakable plump doves aud lorget-me-nots
in the corners, and even shame
less Cupids gumming down the flaps.
One was directed to Melindy; one, al
though blurred and blotted and appar
ently redirected, to himself. This was
adding insult to injury. He had laid
matters in such train the day before
that he fully expected his ten thousand
check by post, and in lieu of it, be
got two paltry, disgusting valentines!
ltage entered into his soul and the fire
burned clear before him. On to i ' s
bright surface went both epistles in one
second from his entrance. He did not
stop to consider till the flames had curled
about theni, devoured them utterly, and
the light cinder floated upward. Then
Mr. Griffin put on his hat and coat and fled
down-town to his office, so disgusted and
vexed that it gave him a certain savage
pleasure to think he had burned Me
iindy's too; for what business had she
with such foolery? First one knew, she
would be marying some idiot, and he
should have to board again. Well, he
knew how much more comfortable and
quiet his home was under her guidance
than Mrs. Biivins' house had ever been;
and, as be had kept estimates down
pretty well, now it was nearly as cheap.
An angrier man hi; was when lie? got to
his oflice than before. His clerk gone,
without a word of explanation; and a
postal card in his letter-box announcing
the failure of bis poor debtor, whose
creditors had taken the alarm from Mr.
Griffin's own unconcealed anxiety the
day before and all closed in upon him.
Let us leave him and go to Melindy.
All the morning shcSvatched for the
postman; but he did not come. In the
afternoon he brought only a circular.
Meiindy's heart sunk. She did not know
before how she had set it on a valentine.
She hardly knew bow much she had set
it on John Perkins. But she was bitterly
disappointed at this sudden fall of all
her day-dreams, and went about her work
with a choking in her throat and a heat
in her eyelids that made this saint's day
anything but a holiday to her. Never
theless, her work was done faithfully, as
ever the dinner cooked and served to
her grizzly and grow ly master and the
dishes washed and her kitchen made
brisht and neat as ever before John Per
kins came; but when he did come she
turned upon bim the coldest of shoulders.
She was a woman who had no acting
about her; her thoughts paraded on her
face for general review always, and sue
had not brooded all day on her disap
pointment and John's shortcomings for
nothing. Sole, little conversant with
the ways of the sex, was hurt past speech.
His simple soul Wok her curt manner for
manifest rejection; he was cut down ut
terly, and made but a short stay, leaving
with the remark, flung back through the
closing door, that he "did wish she'd
have thought better of it!"
44 1 don't know what I had to think
better of !" flouted Melindy, with a jeik
of the head. Then she Hung her apron
over her face and had a hard cry, forgot
to turn off the water, though the night
was down in the zeroes, and went to bed
a miserable woman. I don't knowr w hat
John did do; but I know how Mr.
Griffin used very forcible language the
next morning when Melindy told him the
pipe had burst, and how furious he was
to have to stop at the plumber's on the
way dow n, aud send John up for repairs.
I also know that John went about noon,
and found Melindy sobbing so bard she
did not hear him come in. Like a good
many big, soft-hearted men, a woman's
tears washed down all his defenses. He
fell to consoling her at once. The lost
valentine came out, and he mustered
courage to recollect and repeat its con
tents. I am afraid Melindy was effect
ually consoled, for John quite forgot the
water-pipe for an hour, and her cheeks
were much brighter tbjsu the dying coals
in hit little brazier when at lset he put
her dewn and went to wcrk But great
was her curiosity about Hie lost treasure ;
and at biHt they both concluded Mr.
Griffin probably had it in his pocket, hav
ing forgotten to deliver It.
But w hat words shall paint that hap
less man's rage when, finding his clerk
returned, he demnuded explanation ami
received them? Quirk & Quaver, as well
as all the world, knew to day that Con
gress had passed the appropriation, and
the Kennwha it Dose ret stock had, as
Joseph Johnes predicted, gone up like a
rocket. Mr. Griflin laved, he swore, he
rampaged, he talked of the poor house,
he discharged his clerk on the spot, he
would have wept had he known how;
and w hen at last he went home to din
ner, exhausted and muttering like a
spent thunderstorm, who should re
ceive him but Mt liudy, eager and hurried,
with the question :
"Did you take a vnlentine for me
from the postman yesterday?"
He was not too "far gone to swear a
vivid oath before he answered:
Yes, I did!"
' 44 Please give it to me."
44 (Jive it to you? You infernal fool!
I flung it into the lire, and nine thousand
dollars w ith it."
" I'm glad you did!" blazed Melindy.
44 You mean old thing. What business
had you to burn my letters? I ain't
going to stand being sworn and cussed
at, and starved and stinted, any more. I
give w arning on the spot. 1 won't live
w ith a man like you. Your soul ain't
big enough to lose, nnyway, for you
can't so much as find it, and I've stood it
too long. Find some more help. I'm
a goin' to-morrow. So there!" .
This was the last drop. For once Mr.
Griflin had overreached himself. He had
been too small for his aggrandizement;
and if he could have brought his mind
to persuade Melindy she w as past per
suasion, packing her trunk even now for
Pcterstown. I should like to say that
Mr. Griflin profited by his lesson con
trolled his temper and broadened his
ideas of life and living; but there are
U'ose whose eves are blinded sothatthcy
cannot see, and he was one of them. In
due time Melindy and John married and
prospered. Mr. GriAin went back to
Mrs. Biivins', made useless money as be
fore, was worse cheated by that w ily
widow than ever, but never had another
valentine. N. Y. Independent.
" Flne-Ctil" in London.
I know of no place unless it is San
Francisco which makes more of a display
of its. cigar and tobacco stores than
London. We can understand it in the
former placu where everybody smokes
and many chew, but here in Iondon,
where you may pass a hundred men on
the street with not one smoking, the shop
display is a phenomenon. The pipe is
the favorite, but that is generally smoked
in-doors. I presume the reason Lon
doners do not smoke on the street Is out
of regard for the atmosphere, which al
ready contains about all the smoke it can
stand.
I he prices of cigars are lower here
than in America, but the quality is in
ferior. A twelve-cent cigar is very high
priced, and the six cent weeds are the
highest price in general use. In the
small villages it is difficult to find a
higher priced cigar than four cents.
Their people do not use them, and the
transient trade is not sufficient to pay
the keeping.
Chewing tobacco, excepting the plug,
cannot be obtained in all England. One
tobacconist in London tried to smuggle
some of it here, but, our American chew
ing tobacco being an adulterated article,
his whole Mock was confiscated. He
confidently told me there were other
ways of amusing himself less costly and
injurious than smuggling tine-cut tobacco
into England for the edification of travel
ing Americans.
He had a brand manufactured In Balti
more, tt was pure line-cut. It was like
chewing fiddle-strings.
Then? was a man named Phillips stay
ing at my hotel, lie came from Pennsyl
vania, and was an inveterate tobacco
chewer. Before he left home an English
man told him he could get. tobacco and
everything else in London. He didn't
bring any tobacco with him because of
this information from tin English source.
He told me that sea-sickness was a box
at the o era in comparison to the agony
he endured. Had it not been for the
prospect of getting ,4solace" in London
he would have jumped overboard and
had the company sued by his wife's
father.
When he got here and found no to
bacco his grief was terrible. It was like
the Dan bury boy's ball which fell in a
ditch. It knew no bounds lie paraded
the streets like a specter out of health,
lie chewed bits of cigars, smokingto
bacco, and all the raveling-, out of every
pocket in which he had ever carried
tobacco. He would talk by the hour of
the tobacco he had seen thrown away
because of its being damaged, and dis
tinctly remembered having thrown away
a paper of tobacco himself twenty-two
years ago last March. With equal clear
ness he remembered every occasion he
had emptied his pockets of the tobacco
dust accumulated therein, 44 and," he
shrieked, in a burst of remorse, 44 flung
it away as if it had been so much worth
less sand."
When Schenck, the American Minis
ter, returned to London from bis journey
home for a bride, Phillips went at once
to his house in the almost hopeless hope
of getting a chew just one little chew,
he said to me.
But Schenck didn't use the weed, and
the poor devil came back almost w ild
with disappointment. The next day he
returned to America, solemnly promis
ing that if Heaven spared his life he
would find that Englishman and kill
him.
And he will keep his word. Isntdon
Cur. iMrdtury Ncir.
The Decay of Ice.
Ice, when decayed, is weakened and
becomes soft throughout, scarcely more
compacted than snow. By rains and mild
weather of spring, ice on our Northern
lakes is thus impaired. In this condition
it is said to be "honey-combed;" and,
while yet many inches in thickness and
apparently solid, is unsafe to travel oxer.
The foot of a horse will pass through it,
displacing merely the portions beneath
and without fracture of the surrounding
parts. This arises from the prism-Mic
structure already noticed ; and it is along
the lines of adhesion of the prisms that
the ice first yields to the invasion of heat.
When thus weakened, it will sometimes
disappear from the turface of a lake by
a few hours of heavy norm ; or, if any
portion remain, it will be in the form of
crystals, thoroughly permeated with
water. So rapidly has it vanished in
many instances from lakes that its link
ing was insisted on; but it is now known
that it disintegrates and disappears by
internal liquefaction. Frma l'lnxic of
lee" in Popular Science Monthly for Au-
'J"xt- t . ,
An interesting example of the in
dustries and important results which
have sprung recently from the scientific
treatment of substances long overlooked
or unthought of is that afforded by the
silkv vegetable downs which clothe the
seeds of manv trees. These are now
largely employed in some parts of the
country for stuffing beds, quiltsin the
place of cider down also ladies' bkirts,
aid for other purposep .
Tbe River Thanin i cremd by
evtaUtn bridges,