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THE HERALD.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
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On Main Street, between 4th and 6th,
Second Story.
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NEBRASKA
EJRA
I'ERSEVERAXCE COXQl'ERS.
VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875.
HENRY BGECK,
DEALER IN
Ut x- xi i t tup e,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables,' Bedsteads,
ETC., ETC., BTC,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden Cofliris
Of all sizes, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash.
With many thanks for pax t patronage, I Invite
all to rail and examine my
LARGE STOCK or
Jui-nit 111-0 nnl Collins.
janW
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale ai.d Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
.Varnishes. Patent Medicines.
Toilet Articles, etc.. etc.
ty"PKESCRIPTIONS carefully componnded at
all hour, day and night. 35-1 y
J. VV. SHANNON'S
Feed, Sale and Livery
stabiji:.
Main Street, PJattsmouth, Neb.
I am prepared to accommodate the public with
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A No. I Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
inp, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
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First National M
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SIC'CESSOR TO
Toot lo, Tltmitti Si OIjii-Ic.
John FlTZOEItALD
K. li. Dotkt
A. V. Mfl.AI-OHI.IN..
Joll O'ltOL'RKE
President.
Vice-President.
":ibier.
. . .Assistant Cashier.
This Bank Is now open for hniness at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds. Gold. Government
and Local Securities
BOUGnT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN".
Available in any part of the United States and In
all the ?rinci'pal Towns and Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
MAN LINE an! ALLAN LINE
OF KTVSXISrtH.
Persons wishing to brine ont their friends from
.Europe can
rVUTHASI TICKETS FK TS
Tlironerli 10 Tliittfmoiitli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. BOONE,
.THain Street, opposite Brooks House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting liillrcii, ami ladies'
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon In a
O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER IN
Drugs, Medicines
-AND
WALLPAPER.
AllPaperTriiieiFree of Charge
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
MAG.iZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
iff Prescriptions carefully rompontidcd by an
experienced Druggist.fcJ
REMEMBER TDK TLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
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THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
PKALKR IS
: irf -5SS J- Mi -
Main St., bet. 5th and Cth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And hns on hand a large stock of
Metallic Burial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. 1. WATERMAN & SOX,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles,
SASH, DOOES, BLINDS, ETC.,
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
OO TO
J. V. Weckbach,
Cor. Third and Main Sts , riattsmouth.
(Guihmann's old stand.)
He keeps on hand a large and well-selected stock
or
FANCY GROCERIES,
Coffees, Teas. Sugar, Sirup, Boots,
Shoes, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
Also, a large stock of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Queensware,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Prire Paid for Country Produre.
A full stock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
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GO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
. J. STBJEIGHT, Proprietor,
Ton TOCK
Boots. Stationery, Pictures, Music
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc
On Slain St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEB.
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Das on hand one of the largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
I Invite everybody in want of anything in
line to call at my store.
my
South Side Main, bet. 5th & (Hh Sts.,
And convince themselves of the fact. I have as a
specialty in my Retail Departments a stock of
i: . -i . 1. : . I . . ...... it . . .... .. v. : t. ..... tn
r luc iukutnt( iui ."ii ii 1 1 i uujs, iv nuivu ui'
vite those who want goods.
I also keep on hand a large and well-selected
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jarlyl
PHILADELPHIA STORE
soumox &. XATIIAX,
EPITOME OF TPJE WEEK.
Condensed from Teleirams of iecomtanjinj Bats-
SEALERS IS
Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Laities' Fonffinz Gools.
Largest, Cheapest, Finest and Best Assorted Stock
in the city.
We are prepared to sell cheaper than they can
oe purcnasea eisewcer,
GIVE TTS -A. CALL
And examine onr Goods.
C!r"Store on Main St., between 4th and 5th Sts.
Plattsmouth, XseD. 16tT
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
rLATTaMorrn, neb.
l'LATTSMOlTII MILLS,
PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA,
Cokbad Heisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL. FEED.
Always a hand and for sale at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn.
Particular attention given to custom work.
31 on day, May 3. French and English
gunboats have been ordered to the banks of
Newfoundland, to prevent the threatened
trouble between the fishermen of those na
tions this year A portion of the Carlist
forces on the frontier of Navarre are said to
have revolted, demanding, peace and therecog
ition of Alphonso. . . . A Madrid dispatch
says the blockade around the provinces occu
pied by the Carlists has been re-established
....The Secretary of the Treasury has given
directions to the Assistant Treasurer in New
York to sell $5,000,000 in gold during the
present month. ...The Agricultural Depart
ment reports that the area of land in winter
wheat this spring is 7 per cent, above
that of last year. The appearance
of the crops in the North and
West is below the average of last
spring, but in the South it is better. .. .The
official returns of the Connecticut State elec
tion give Ingersoll (Pem.) for Governor a
majority of 0,521. The Democratic majority
in the State on Congressmen is 2,857. . . .The
Philadelphia Pre states that all hopes of the
ecovery of Charlie Ross have been abandoned.
The British 6hip Niagara arrived at New
York the first of last month with a cargo of
salt, arsenic and other merchandise. The
salt was stored in the hold and the arsenic in
between-detks. It has been discovered that
some ol the arsenic packages wuicb. had
broken open on the voyage had become mixed
with the salt, and such of the latter
as had been sold in New York has been
ordered returned to that citv for examination.
.A petition has been filed by the Attoruey-
General of Louisiana in the Superior District
Court, upon the information of John C. Mod.
cure, claiming that said Moncurc was elected
and is legally entitled to the office of State
Treasurer, now held by Antoine Dubuelet
under an alleccd illegal commission.
Tuesday, May 4. Telegrams received
by the Carlist Committee in London an
nounce that creat victories have been
achieved by Don Carlos' forces at Breda.
Another victory is also rejwrted at Armgon.
The Alphonsists are said to have lost all
their artillery and many prisoners The de
cision of the United States Supreme Court
in the case of the State of Maryland against the
Baltimore ifc Ohio Railroad is to the effect thttt
the capitation tax provided for in the charter
of the road to be paid to the State is a valid
and constitutional contract. In this decision
the opinion is expressed that a State cannot
impede commerce in its efforts to regulate
it, and that Congress has the power to
regulate inter-State commerce; that commer-
ially this is one country, and the progress of
merchandise must be unimpeded. While no
local interests can be permitted to interfere
with the due progress of commerce the rights
of the State must also be protected, and hence
the decision that the charter of the B. it O. R.
is a legitimate, reasonable and constitu
tional contract with the State.... In the
Beeclfer trial on the morning of the 3d Mrs.
Tilton.who was present, sent a written com
munication to Judge Neilson, which she re
quested him to read aloud before the opening of
tlio proceedings of the court. After reading it
the Judge said the matter would be consid
ered, lie refused at the time to intimate
what the note contained, but it was under
stood to refer to the question of Mrs. Tilton
being allowed to testify. Several additional
witnesses were sworn who testified to the ef
fact that Mr. Tilton was not in the com
pany or .Mrs. wooanuu in me com
munistic procession. Albert Martin, Super
intendent of the Mission Sunday-school
of Dr. Storrs' church, testified that he
was at Mrs. Ovington's last summer on the
day that Bessie Turner went before the
Church Committee and that she (Bessie) was
In the back parlor with Gen. Tracy for over
two hours; witness could hear them con
versing together but could not understand
what was said; he (witness) after tea tok
Miss Turner around to Mr. Storrs' in order
that she might testify before the committee.
Franklin Woodruff was recalled and testified
to two interviews with Mr. Tracy, at which
he (witness) told Mr. Tracy Mr. Tilton's
charge against Mr. Beecher was for the
greater crime alleged, and that Mr. Beecher
had advanced $500 for the relief of Mr. Til
ton's family.
Wednesday, May 5. It is said that
Moody and Sankey, the Chicago evangelist,
are listened to in London by over 200,000 every
week.... The Berlin Xorlh Cermnn Guutte
denies the truth of the statement in American
papers that a company had been organized to
facilitate the return to Germany of emigrant
of the Uuited States In her letter handed
to Judge Neilson on the 3d Mrs. Til
ton protests her innocence and claims
to have been for five yars past the
victim of cruel and unfortunate circum
stances. She says she would like to tell
her whulo sad stry truthfully, and ac
knowledge the frequent falsehoods wrung
from her through compulsion. She assumes
the entire responsibility of this request,
claiming that it was made without the
knowledge of friend or counsel of either side.
Judge Neilson returned this letter to Mrs.
Tilton with a note saying that he must de
cline to introduce it in the trial proceedings.
Further rebuttal evidence was given on the
4Mi, Mr. Joseph II. Richards being among the
witnesses examined. lie testified that he
was at Mr. Storrs' house last summer on a
summons to appear before the Investigating
Committee, and that Mr. Tracy 6aid to him
that he appeared as Mr. Beecher's counsel,
and that if he (witness) testified before the
committee he would be asked if his sister
(Mrs. T.) had ever confessed to him the crime
alleged against the defendant. Witness re
plied that he would not answer that question,
and Mr. Tracy told him his refusal to do 60
would be construed as an affirmative answer
He (witness) then refused to go before the
committee A Logansport (Ind.) telegram
ot tne 4tn states mat uon. 1). D. I'ratt, ex-
United States Senator, had accepted the posi
tion of Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
tendered him by President Grant the day be
fore.
Thursday, May 6 According to the
Paris correspondent of the London Time un
easiness prevails in well-informed circles in
France and a war between that power and
Germany is deemed not improbable.... Over
3,000 persons have been converted in Lor
don by the labors of Messrs. Moody and
Sankey. .. .The importation into Fin
land or Russian territory of American
potatoes has been forbidden Stephen
Pearl Andrews testified on the 5th
that distinguished personages, such ss Will
iam Orton, whitelaw Reid, Benjamin F. But
ler and others, were in the habit of visiting
Mrs. Weodhull s residence while -witness was
stopping there in the summer of 1870. Wit
ness often saw Mr. Tilton and Mrs. W. to
gether, but never observed any undue fa
miliarity between them; she sometimes called
him Theodore. Witness said he was in one
sense the author of the scandal article, at
though Mrs. . composed the original, wit
ness preparing it for publication ; so far as
witness knew Mr. Tilton was entirely Igno
rant of the preparation of the article, and it
ws a surprise to him when it appeared. Mrs
Martha A. Bradshaw contradicted a portion
of Bessie Turner's testimony, and Mr. John
wood, a printer, testified with regard to the
publication of the Woodholl scandal that it
was put in typa tne last Tre;k ta October
Henry C. Bowen was called and testified that
he knew the contents of Mr. Tilton's note,
which he took to Mr. Beecher (and which
witness says was delivered at the residence, of
Mr. Frcelad), but that Mr. Beecher did not
ask him if he did; Mr. Beecher did not say
anything to witness about discharging Mr. Til
ton from the Ind,jendetit, but witness told him
(Mr. Beecher) that he had canceled Mr. T.'s
appointment as editor. Witness said there
was no connection between the tripartite
agreement and the payment to Mr. Tilton of
the $7,000; witness was always willing to
arbitrate with Mr. T., and did not know that
Mr. Beecher had anything to do with such
arbitration; the arbitration was concluded on
the 3d of April, 1S72, and the tripartite cove
nant was executed on the 7th Gov. Bagley,
of Michigan, has appointed Juiia S. Suther
land Commissioner of Deeds for Michigan at
Salt Lake City Indian raids are reported
in Western Kansas, and Government troops
have been ordered for the protection of set
tlers Vice-President Wilson left Louisville,
Ky., on the night of the 5th for Nashville,
Tenn. On his recent visit at Lexington, Ky.,
the Vice-President called upon ex-Vice-President
John C. Breckenridge.
Friday, May 7. A. Bombay dispatch
says the cholera has made its appearance in
the city of Baroda The Spanish Govern
ment has paid to Minister dishing, at Madrid,
the balance due on the Virginius indemnity,
thus anticipating the payment several months
... .In his cross-examination on th 6th Mr.
Boweu adhered to his evidence given on the
direct examination. John M. Longhi, an
employe at Dehnonico's, testified that there
was no restaurant on the upper floor at the
time Woodleigh swore he saw Mrs. "Woodhull
and Tilton lunching there Dispatches
from Pottsvifle and Wilkesbarre, Pa, Btate
that outrages by strikers are on the increase,
aud there Is no prospect of the strike ending
for some time The Ohio State Democratic
Convention is to be held at Columbus on the
17th of June Judge Morrieles, of the
States District Court, Eastern
of Texas, in a recent charge
Grand Jury reviewed the Civil
law, and expressed the opinion
persons have legal rights to equal
privileges in hotels, public conveyances and
other institutions of a public nature, while
they d not thereby acquire any social rights,
lie views the act in question s not intended
to affect social rights, but civil and legal
rights, and he would instruct the Grand Jury
to find a true bill against any person violat
ing its provisions Ben Hill has been elect
ed to Congress from the Ninth Georgia Dis
trict to succeed Garnett McMillan, deceased
James B. McCreery has been nominated
for Governor by the Democracy of Kentucky.
United
District
to the
Rights
that all
Fiiblic Debt Statement.
Washington, May 1.
The condition of the public debt to-day
is as follows:
Six per cent, bonds
Five per cent, bouds
Total coin bonds
Lawful money debt
Matured debt
Legal-tender notes
Certificates of deposit
Fractional currency
Coin cerlilicates. .
Interest
Total debt
Cash in Treasury
Coin
Currency
Special deposits held for the
deniption of certificates of
posit, as provided by law
Total in Treasury
Debt less cash in Treasury
Decrease during April
Decrease since June HO, 1874... .
$MM,177.0.V
5S0.3 2.7.V)
81,713. sati.SUO
$i4.78.ono
i.r.r,i to
37H.liJ.4iy
47,tt).rj.K0
4:(.S0iUH5
i.4(.:iO
3.i,8-J.l.8
$2,274,7!H,475
l,(KKi,375
re-de-
47,Hi5,OO0
S1ft.587.fHJ
$-2,131. :m.4M
2.3J5.31H
11,78.f
Bonds issued to the Pacitic Railway
Companies, interest payairte in
lawful money, principal outstand
ing .
Interest accrued and not yet paid...
Interest naid bv the L nited Mates.
Interest repaid by the transportation
of mails, etc
Balance of interest paid by Uuited
States
lA.li40
5,!6,4:J0
20.318,4.;8
POLITICAL ITEMS.
tSThe new Attorney-General will do
his duty faithfully, and will leave a good
name behind him that much we believe
we may venture to foretell trus early in
his official career. N. Y. Times.
tW The New York Timet thinks Mr.
Schurz' position somewhat peculiar:
"It is not unlike that of the Irishman,
who, climbing a rope, let go to spit on
his hands. Where or bow he expects to
get hold again, we do not know."
tW The Indianapolis Journal says:
" We defy any person to point to a single
act of practical reform ever accomplished
by the Democratic party. Its instincts are
all selfish, and its natural tendency toward
corruption. This city never had so in
efficient or so expensive a government as
during the last year of Democratic re
form rule."
X?T " A Georgia Republican" writes to
theNew York Tjbwjj: 44 No intelligent
man can remain long in the South and
not learn that the 4 irrepressible con
flict' has not wholly ended. It is a
great mistake to suppose that the leaders
of the slave power will not attempt to
control the labor of the negro because
slavery has been abolished. The name
has been abolished, but not the thing."
ZW The municipal elections in In
diana Tuesday were remarkably and un
expectedly in favor of the Republican
party. In Indianapolis the victory was
complete, although every inch of ground
there had been thoroughly canvassed,
and the Democrats had the advantage
of possession and of somewhat lax no
tions of honesty, so far as the election af
fairs are concerned. Chicago Tribune,
May 6.
t3? The Philadelphia Prernt says there
never was a time when the Democratic
party deserved less to be trusted than it
dogs now. In order to secure the per
manence of the Union and to preserve
the integrity of the Government the
White House and the United States Sen
ate must not pass into the control of the
men who believed in the vindication of
Southern right must not be occupied,
the one by a majority of Democrats, the
other by a man in sympathy with them.
THE MARKETS.
Lat 8, 1873.
NEW YORK.
Cotton Middling npland, 16f16!4c.
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $10.7j13.25. Hoirs
Live, Sheep lave (.nnsiiorni, jD.-o
S.oo.
Brbadstuits. Flour Good to cnoice, 5..ia
6.00; white wheat extra, Si.0&n,..M. nncat-u.
8Chlcago,$1.10.-&.1.21;No. 2 Northwestern, $l.ll
e.1.21'4; No. i Milwaukee spring, $l.l',-il ';
UyeVesteru and State, Jl.Ws41.ut. isanej
$1.500,1.55. Corn Mixed Western, ft'aJ'ic.
Oats Mixed Western. 7lr.76c.
Provisions. Fork New Mess, $22.0tx.?22.iJ',.
Lard Prime Steam, 13&15!4c. Cheese nu,
lUc.
Wool. Domestic fleece. 48itOc.
CHICAGO. ' '
Ltvb Stock. Beeves Choice, fti.(H);tJ?.2J;
good, $5.80.00; medium. $...W&o...i; bnt.c.n-
ers' stock, S4.00a5.50: stock cattle, j.i.f i.
Hogs Live, $7.NK&8.G0. Sheep Good to choice
(uorihorn), $5.5KJ6.50.
Provisions. Butter Choice. 283.5.1c. Ks
Fresh, l'3!4'&14c. Cheese New lork factory,
ltiHUc; Western Factory, lfilfi',4c. Pork-
Mess, $.5nffJi41 55. Lard S15.3515.40.
BKKAnsTurrs. Flour White Winter Extra,
$(.007.50; sprinf extra, $l.7i(.oo. wneai
Spring, No. 2, $1.02!, '&1.02. Corn No. 2, VZ
V25,C. Oats No. 2, 6Hi'i2c. Kye No. 4,
$1.0 4&1.07. Barley No. 2, fl.3431-31.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4 t.)tc: lleecc, wasnca,
40(&50c; unwashed, 2737c.
Lumber. First Clear, $48.OJ0-'.O.OO; becond
Clear, $44.(XX&47.0U; Common Board. flo.SKiS
11.50: Fencing, f 12.0tai3.'0; A bMnglcs,
$3.00413.25: Lath. S2.CKK&2.25.
CINCINNATI.
BREADsnrrrs. Flour JS5.8"S6.00. Wheat-
Red, fl.33&1.34. Corn 7i)c. Kye Jl ti
1.25. Oats 370c. Barley No. 2, Jl.dK&l.w.
Provisions. Pork $22.0022.25. Lard la'i-tf
13c-
SI . LUl 1J.
Live S-rocK-y Beeves fair to choice, $.Yb".?i
6.12-4. Hogs Live, $8.bi,H.l..
BREAusTurrs. Flour XX Jail, s.).o.53"-
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, .-lVSA.y. orn
No. 2, 73'W5c. Osts No. 2, 64&05C. Kye
No. 1, $l.lWi,1.10. Barley No. 2, I.2o1.to
Provisions. Pork Mess, $21.9022.00. Larn
l&Q.loVic.
MILWAUKEE.
Brsadstcfps. Flour Spring XX, $4.90(5.20.
Wheat Spring, No. 1. $1.07S(&1.08; No.2,$i.uJ
at.03i. Corn No. 2. 73'.45i:74c. Oats No. 2,
MHSivic. Rye No. 1, I.1C&1.17. Barley M
2, $i.:S.l.3s.
Ur.lliUll.
BREAT8TtjrF. WTieat K xtra, S1.321.-:i-
Corn No. 1, 79"4281c. Oats No. 1, tiiii.fi7,4.:.
TOLEDO.
BREADSTtrFrs. Wheat Amber Michigan
$1.3231.32'4; No. 2 Red, $l.i8 51.28'4. Corn
High Mixed, 77 -.'Sc. Oats No. 2, M5-4'?.H7c.
CLEVELAND.
Breadsttfts. Wheat No. 1 Red, tt.33'43
1.34: No. 2 Red. Sl.iSKfiM.' 9. Corn Hih
Mixed, 77g,78c. Oats No. 1, b3,70c.
BUFFALO.
Live Stock. Beeves $5.50 6 75. Hops
Live, $7.253.8.00. Sheep Live unshorn), f fi.50
7.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Lite Stock. Beeves Best, $8.C0a7.00; me
dlnm, $5.7c6.fO. Hogs Yorkers, $7.507.75;
Philadelphia, $3.408.50. Sheep Best, $5.75
6.00; medinm, Jl.tO.00.
SENSE AM) 0XSESE.
A doctor of music A fiddle D. D.
B-a-y C-c-R, baker. That is the way
they spell it in Kansas City.
Tun first iron steamboat built in St.
Louis was recently launched.
If you write down the figure five and
twenty-one ciphers and call the units
tons, that is, they say, the weight of this
world of ours.
44 la that clock right over there"
asked a visitor the other day. Right
over there v" said the boy, 4"tain't no
where else."
A one-kted San Francisco girl adver
tises for a husband afflicted in the same
way. She don't mean to be twitted on
her deformity after the honeymoon.
Whenever you read this sentence,
44 Being a man of means he escaped pun
ishment," mike up your mind that it
shall never be so again if you can help it.
To an ordinary Massachusetts man his
home is now as nothing unless he has
hanging behind the stove "the 'riginal
llint-lock that grandfather fired the first
shot o' the reverlution with."
44 Now let us talk about your business
affairs," said a sharp Connecticut girl to
a young. fallow after he had proposed
marriage to her in a long address filled
with expressions of passionate love.
The Detroit Free Pret asks: 44 What
will the public t'o without Spinner's
signature" For one, we can do without
it very well, provided we get plenty of
his successor's. 2i"arritown Herald.
Oke Westbrook, of New York, bought
a barrel f sugar from his grocers, and
finding it eighteen pounds short pub
lished a circular styling the grocers the
44 champion light-weight firm of the
country." Whereupon the aggrieved
grocers brought suit, and Westbrook is
under bonds.
At a church in Reading, Pa., recently,
44 young men interfered with the service
and blasphemed the name of God to such
an extent that policemen were called in,
a terrible fight took place, ladies fainted,
young girls screamed, and a terrible
scene followed. It was necessary to
stop all services for the evening."
The gold in the Black Hills is of
Siouxperior quality." Kxpre. 44 But
the hunters must take their Cheyennces
of rinding it." Burlington Hawk-hue
Comeinto the rinc, gentlemen, and
evinceyour further Ingunuity. There's
abundant room. St. Louis Republican.
The sitrns of the times point to a rapid
increase of immigration to Alabama from
abroad, and al-o from other portions 01
the country. Two large German colonies
alreauv estaonsnea in tne
GIVE AND TAKE.
Don' r ever jro hunting for pleasures.
They cannot be found thus, I know;
Nor yrt fall a-diggicg for treasures,
Unless with the spade and the hoe!
The bee has to work for the honey;
The drone has no risrht to the. food;
And he who has not earned his money
Will get from his money no good.
The ant builds her house bv her labor;
The squirrel looks out for his mast;
And he who depend on his neighbor
Will never have friends, first or laot.
In short, 'tis no better than thieving.
Though thief is a hard name to call,
Good things to be always receiving.
And never to give back at all.
GREEN GRASS UNDER THE SA'Oir.
Tns work of the sun is slow,
But as 6ure as heaven, we know;
So we'll not forget,
When the skies are wet.
There's green grass under the snow.
When the winds of w inter blow,
Wtiling like voices of woe.
There are April showers,
And buds aud flowers.
And green grass under the snow.
We find that it's ever so,
In this life's uneven flow;
We've only to wait,
In the face of fate,
For green grass under the snow.
Svrin.qJUld JdjmblUan.
THE R1XG WITH TWO LION'S.
I bought it in Venice, on the Kialto. It
was a very curious old nieceof jew elry, with
two lions' heads in bold relief. They were
in profile like those of royal personages, and
were evidently intended as a Roman satire
on some Emperor and Empress a satire! a
great improvement upon tome of them, no
doubt.
The old king lion, bold and imperial, had
diamond eyes, those of the lioness were ru
bies. 80 cunningly had the artisan buried
the diamonds that the old lion seemed to
wink and flash on the gazer; sometimes in
contempt, sometimes in sympathy. I gave
it next dav to Mary Jessamine, my friend of
platonic intentions. I do not say what y
intentions were hers, she had said, would
ever remain platonic. That last evening on
the canal by moonlight had seemed to me to
modifv her views. But I did not know, the
did not look displeased as I put the ring on
her linger if perhaps I held hc-r white hand a
trifle longer than was legally necessary to
see the effect. Her hand did not eo hack to
her till I hud kissed it. If the old lion
winked at me as I did so I winked hack. I
was in a courageous mood, and not at that
moment afraid of lions; but I was afraid
of Mrs. Jessamine, Mary's grim and
terrible aunt, an old woman eaten up
with avarice, wise in her own conceit
and in nothing else. Mary was an enchant
ing and most accomplished girl, winning
everyone by her beauty and wit, bringing
her aunt nil' the nice people and good soci
ety, speaking several languages, playing the
part of courier and purchase-maker, while
her aunt stood behind bullying and abusing
her. It was a sight to make one's blood run
cold, this angel in a galling harness, slave to
a miser.
Mary had had repeated opportunities to
change her service for a better, but she
seemed to hug her chain. There w as a pa
tience under ' her unnecessary yoke which
was sublime.
"I feel the spirit of a murderer within
me," said the Kcv. Mr. Ainsli. as w e came
home from an expedition with the ladies.
" I shall push Mrs. Jessamine into one of
the dark corners under the Bridge of Sighs.
Did you see her refuse to pay for the little
lace handkerchief Mary had bought"
"Alas ves!"
44 And Ylary bears it so patiently. I sup
pose she has" 110 alternative?"
"She has me," I answered plaintively.
"Oh, yes, she has you, Charlcton, and
could haVe me were I not as good as mar
ried to a dear girl in the British provinces."
" She has Baron llammerstein too. lie is
ready to put five centuries of German nobil
ity at her feet."
44 Bv the way, here comes Mr. Handysidc
Marburv. Do vou know him, Ainslie?"
"That seedy old fellow with such a gor-
geous name? Jo, 1 00 noi. vne 01 our
countrymen V
"Yes, one of our few impecunious ones.
Americans are so vulgarly rich generally. I
met Mr. Handvside Marbury at Alexandria
and had the pleasure of lending him a few
pounds pending the arrival of his letters. I
imagine lliey never nave urnvcu, as ue uas
not 'mentioned it."
"And does he not show some awkwartl-
. . . ; j ' ,
ness and desire to avoid juu
"CHi.no. In the words or the popular
...... .,r ,i- II.. t I 4
sonar, 1 1 nougni lie nouiu chuh .111, i-ui
he does not. I suspect he belongs to the
noble army of borrowers who are described
by Charles Lamb. A more amusing old
fellow I never nut a scholar, a poet and a
van rim. Come and be introduced."
It was a great pleasure to hear -Mr. JWarbu-
ry anil Ainslie lulK. History, imu poetry
and romance were all at their linger ends,
and as they rambled on I could not but ob
serve a sort of resemblance between the
shabby old ruin and the dapper young cler
gyman, who was as correct as his own
church clock, so far as I knew. Yet I did
not know Ainslie well, nor did 1 quite be
lieve in him. He and Iliad met, traveling,
and, as he was most brilliant and agreeable,
we soon became friends. Sometimes it oc
curred to me that his opinions were some
what fluctuating and shallow, and his prin-
V..i,rA t.oAn olrctnrlir AQt J nl iclipn in
State, and numerous inquiries are coming vrJV were fleet!
fmtn ull mirtr from names desirous . ihh..ikvi.i 1 ,
inir clouds. 1 Knew an aooui ms lamm, t-i-
from all quarters from parties desirous
of settling in Alabama.
Do not allow a grindstone to stand in
water when not in use. Clean on all
grease from tools before sharpening, as
grease or oil destroys the grit. When
you get a stone that suits your purpose,
send a sample to tne ueaicr 10 seieci oy ;
a half-ounce sample 13 enough, ana can
be sent by mail.
Tins is what comes of exhausting the
supply of body servants and women who
banded him glasses of water: Joshua
Warne. of Denmark. Tenn.. shook hands
with Georce Washington. Think of
that! Shook hands with him! Where
is the man who owned a hole that had
once been in the heel of the Father of his
Country's stocking?
The New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad has 1,300 "miles of tteel
rails. 5G0 locomotives, 000 passenger
mail, baggage and express cars, and
1.300 freight cars. I he road passes
through twenty-rive counties and seventy
cities and incorporated villages, which
contain four-fifths of the taxable prop,
rtv of the entire State.
It was 44 dumpling day" at Treyor
Hall, and the boarders were fast appeas
ing their inordinate desires, when one of
them discovered a long hair issuing from
his dumpling. He tried quietly to re
move it, but he soon discovered that it
was no loose appendage. He then handed
it to the waiter with:" 44 Pleaje remove
this and give me a bald-headed one.
A report of an Omaha spelling-match
savs: 44 The audience felt gret-.t interest
in the spelling of Mrs. Fisher, who,
though nearly seventy-five years of age,
was among the last to go down, and
when she did miss a murmar of regret
wm heaj-d all over the house. The word
that she missed, however, was spelled
correctly according to her dictionary.
Journalism in Mississippi is conspicu-
cial position, and so on these are things
easily found out and he had told me that
he was engaged to be married. Rather a
singular engagement, he said. But the man
as yet remained a mystery. It was one of
those characters not read in a minute, per-
bitns not in vears.
A beautiful and svmpatneiic woman use
Miirv .Iess:nine is not so easily found as a
traveling companion, nor is she to be readily
dropped, even if she has a dreadful aunt;
so Ainslie and I for two months had dogged
the footsteps of the two ladies. A certain
intimacy, had crown up between .Mary and
Ainslie at Rome, where she had shown, 11s
most imaginative and not altogether happy
women do 6how, a great leaning towaia
what Ainslie called liomamsm. And Jus
clerical as well as his natural turn or argu
ment bad led him to take an immediate 111
tcrest in her continuing in the faith of her
fiitbers. It sometimes "seemed to me that I
should be a little jealous if I were the en
criio-cd vounir lady whom he told me lived in
the British provinces. But, after all, provin
cials have verv few rights
Our traveling party had been augmented at
Florence by Mr. and Miss llammerstein, very
nice (Jerman people, who spoke English bet
ter than we did, and allowed us to drop their
title in addressing them. Bertha Hammer
fctcin was a very beautiful Marguerite
sort of a girl, and her brother the tiandsom
..Rt Tt-iiton I ever saw. They knew every
thing, were amiable, well read, and ate with
tliir knives.
We bad made their acquaintance at me
house of our Ambassador at Horence. M
Mary said it was all right nigii-norn icr
nians tlo eat w ith their knives. It looks a lit
tle odd at tirst, but you soon get to feel that
the fork is a mere prejudice. Both brother
and sister played and sang delightfully, and
were great cards on tne canal iy iiiooniigiii
for that very reason. We could all join in
the chorus if Bertha's high, clear, exquisite
voice would fly out on the strong winds and
show us the way.
llammerstein immediately lew lniovewiin
Mary in the most violent fashion. His tier-
man blood sianeu 011 wnii me imj ii a
mountain torrent, and he made no attempt to
disguise his emotion, as an Anglo-Saxon
TEEMS: $2.00 a Year.
VTTl fllTMl "
to Mrs. Jessamine, and fell In love at once
with 44 hit beaux yrnx dr i caxwltf," for our
dear friend was very rich, and " still," as
Carter observed to me, "a tine figure of a
woman."
She was desperately fond of ndrniration,
End I now saw that half of her sternness to
her niece had been the result of Jealousy.
The gay deceiver was an angel. He took off
Mrs. Jessamine, and Mary bloomed like a
sweet-brier.
I use the simile advisedly, for there was a
certain prickly self-defense about Mary
which always reminded me of that delicious
and odorous shrub. She was impenetrable
and mysterious. At once the most trans
earent and truthful of human beings, she
had mvsterious absences, little Journeys by
herself with the maid, and queer, abstracted
moments which 1 never could fathom. Peo
ple who travel together, and are as intimate
as we were, become curious about each oth
er's movements.
What business was it of mine I often
asked. What right had I to feel curious or
to iuquirv why Mary went, came or had tits
of absence of mind Simply that I was
in love with her, and could not help it.
She and Bertha Hamtncrstcin got on won
derful well together. They were two clear
eyed, bright girls, with no morbid elements
about them, and always seemed to suit each
other. How wonderfully they dug up old
Ferrara, and with what delight and intelli
gence did they study the frescoes at Raven
na. They were both great and diligent
readers of T. Adolphus Trollope, and his
beautiful Italian novels of "tlcmtna." " Le
onora Casalori," " The Sealed Packet," and,
better than all, "A Siren," were our guide
books through these enchanting spots.
Mary wore the " ring with two lions," and
grew kinder to me every day. Never can I
forget one day in the Picetta, near
Ravenna, where we had gone to verify our
T. Adolphus. I(lo not intend to tell 'what
occurred, but I know that llammerstein
came home blue with jealousy, and
that Ainslie, who had been talking elective
affinities with Bertha, looked back quite too
often as we wandered through the pines.
Often at our hotel we found Mr. ilandv-
side Marbury. He was not a man to present
to the ladies, but Ainslie and I, over our
evening cigar, had many a good talk, with
him. lie seldom chose any subject less
erudite than the Merovingian" Kings, and he
and Ainslie would discuss Charlemagne with
as much interest and with scarcely less avid
ity than two politicians show talking over
(iencral Butler. Mr. Marburv Jikc many a
good-for-nothing whom I have known, was
entirely above gossip. Ills your respecta
ble man, with mi interest in the country,
who wishes to know if you have heard that
Mr. A is a little too attentive to Mrs. B, and
that C is rather shaky on his commercial
legs. Handvside Marburv lived in an at
mosphere of great principles, grand ideas,
magnificent conceptions. He had a contempt
for Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, because the
religious honesty of that prelate was ques
tionable. Handvside Marburv, in a thread
bare coat, and with five borrowed dollars in
his pocket, sat in judgment on Tarquin, last
of the Kings of Rome, and I think Tarquin
had the worst of it.
So I was very much surprised when he
broke off suddenly in the midst of an elo
quent essay on Roland and Oliver, Paladins of
Charlemagne, and asked me about Mrs. Jes
samine and Mr. Carter. Had those worth
ies stepped down from the facade of the
ithedral 1 should not nave been more
moved. Ainslie said I blushed: why, 1 do
not know, except that incongruity affects the
mind somewhat as outraged modesty is said
to, and anything more incongruous than
our seedy old Turveydrop and the highly
respectable Mrs. Jessamine I could not con
ceive.
So your elderly belle is the one to be
matched, I see," began Mr. Marbury.
" I thought you cared for no belle since
Cleopatra," I answered through my blushes.
" 1 love fools whenever I see tlicm. llicv
shall inherit the earth," said Marbury. " I
have looked on occasionally at votir party
(although I confess the present is the only
age of the world that I do care for), and I
have seen that elderly flirtation w ith pleas
ure and interest. It amuses me to see types
reproduced. Here in Mrs. Jessamine I see
am Octavia, and aw the stupid, lormal
fools who have their weaknesses underneath.
Do you think she will marry Carter V"
1 do not kuow tne stale oi 3irs. Jes
samine s nuceiions, nor iht matrimonial
intentions," I answered, in a voice which
whs intended to be severe.
She is very rich. He will get a great
deal of money. He has nothing. She is a
fool," said Handvside Marbury, growing
flushed and excited, as he scarcely had done
since he defended Hypatia.
Ainslie and 1 walked away astonished.
What should he know or care for these peo
ple ?
V erona is a very poor piace to maKe love
m, in spite or Komco una .min i, v crona is
the Amazon of Italian cities. She has stood
at the foot of the Alps, baring her beautiful
breast to the storm, defending the softer
dames who live further south, for many cen
turies. I think it has madt her hard and
unsympathetic. She is beautiful, clear, and
cold, like Diana. How splendidly she wears
her coronet or rortincations how goocicss
like she is as she lmthcs her feet In the blne
watcrof the Adige. She holds the tomb of
Juliet in her bosom, not as a loving sister.
but as a cold moralist, saying: "Oh, ye mis
taken children of passion, see, see. to what
dust and ashes, red sandstone bath-tubs
and dried leaves you too are coming, if you
love as did this foolish Juliet! Be like m
cool, warlike, bristling; wear sandals on
your feet instead of high-heeled slippers ro
setted. (Jo and look at my Amphitheater
where lions and tigers ate up the young
girls. Better for them, I assure you,
than matrimony. (Jo shake the chain
armor around the tombs of the
Scaligers. Do you see any monuments there
to Case Grande's wife, or to anybody's wife?
No, we have never cultivated the softer emo
tions in Verona; a mistake of Shakespeare's,
who was no historian except when he delin
eated our little tampers. I strike my shield
and call to armsj not in the tender but in the
Amazonian sense."
Such is the atmosphere of Verona. It
struck across me, after the gentler impres
sions of Siena, Parma, Bologna, like a
breath from the unyielding snows of the
Alps. From all of which tine writing you
may draw the simple truth, which I might
have told three paragraphs back if I had
chosen when we got to Verona Mary
snubbed me.
In vain did I take her to walk, to the Cy
press Gardens, the tomb of Juliet, to the
haunted shades of the Amphitheater. She
was absent-minded, sad, cold, troubled. The
dear abandon to smiles and girlish coquetry,
so suited to her age and to our relations,
growing, as I thought, more naturally lover
like, which had made me so happy in the
Pincta, were all gone, and a totally unsympa
thetic being sat by my side.
We were alone in the Amphitheater; no
spectators but the ghosts of the buried r.m
nernrs looked down on us: and I determined
in sneak out. I cleared my throat alas!
was m v nhrase properly to be like that of
those ioor fellow who' came out a housand
venrs airo. and said: " Le morituri salu-
t.i nt."
"Mary." mid I, stretching out my hand
for hers. " why are vou so sad and cold to
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" Then promise notto nsk whv I do any
thing; where I go; whyfl am sad. Let our
acquaintance be the generous and unques
tioning thing it has been, or let us part."
I put the ring on her hand, and kissed It
once more. As I did so'the old lion caught
my eye. By Jove, whatj.i splendid express
sion that old fellow had! He looked ut ma
as one of his kind may have looked at ft
muscular Christian. Was it warning or en
couragement ?
She walked away alone, and I sat an hour
dreaming in the silent Amphitheater, and
then I walked not into one of the dens of
w ild beasts, but the next thing to it I went
to see Mrs. Jessamine.
Why had I not thought of that before?
Perhaps Mary's pride was alarmed at my In
formal wooing. Perhaps, poor, slighted de
pendent that she was, she had the pride and
the sensitiveness of poverty. She had been
so much of a queen to me that 1 had never
thought of that view of the subject. It
seemed to me as If Mrs. Jessamine w as sim
ply a hateful chain, to be shaken off when,
ever and w herever Mary chose to take me as
her second self. Men as absorbed as I was
may well make such a mistake. Then I had
my'natural Jealousies of Ainslie and llam
merstein. Ainslie made bis engagement ti
another woman a sort of shield to his plu.
tonic attentions to Mary; us much as to say,
41 Come, go w ith me I am safe, vou know."
But Ainslie w as far from safe. His brilliant
talents, his enchanting manners, his devoted
service a something about him which im
mediately confessed to a woman that he felt
her power his remarkable beauty and his
utter unserupulousness, made him a very
dangerous man. Ainslie hud no lonsclenco
as I hud found out and no verv exacting
attachment to the lady in the British prov.
inees. He amused and interested Mury, as
whom did he not?
Then llammerstein, a noble gentleman,
was a dangerous rlvul, with that Continental
gallantry which must be pleasing to any
woman. I am sure, accustomed to our sel
fish American way of wooing oh, what
would I not have given for Hainmcrstcin'a
jtft it toin ' I could no more achieve his
incessant politeness than I could have built
CasctJrande's monument. I have often said
to myself, "Louis Charlcton, you uie a bod
third in this race," and had gone off with
dear Bertha llammerstein, who was all
that was sweet, unexacting, sympa
thetic, and what a woman should be
in such a case. Once or twice I
had come verv near observing that Bertha's
lips were deli'ciously fresh and her figure a
charming contour, when Mary would throw
a smile at me, and the old lion in her ring
would give me a mysterious twinkle of tho
eve. as much as to say, " e nuvu jou -,r.
if vou please: do not falter in your
giance!" So, like many n fool before
The Baptistsof Catskill, at communion,
recently found themselves without wine.
A thief had, somehow, stolen it, and the
Recorder adds: 44 Any man who would
rob a church will slide down hill in his
grandmother's coffin."
A North Carolina householder dis
covered that the burglar he had killed
wa9 a woman in male aitjre,
v -. ta obilito tit make two I would have done
bies" o .rherVr VprominenT citizen Perhaps Ainslie, and certainly I, loved her
of Vicksburg recently disappeared mys
terionKlv and the newspapers noted the
fact and commented upon it. After the
lapse of a few days they bgan to speak
of the mule that mysteriously disap
peared at the same time. St. Louis Globe.
Tnir Rftltimorfl Gazette, in rather a crit-
iriinRririr. savs: 44 We of Maryland
rather reioice. in this day of centennial
effusion, that we have no particular spot
or date to commemorate." This is iiot
paying high honor to the memory of the
fathf r and martvrs of the Revolution,
and reminds us of the man who thanked
thp. rrrl that, although he had been a
member of the churci.' for twenty years
t hadn't cost Mm . pent. AT. Y. Oh,
quite as much, but we scorned to show it.
wont wanderinc alnnc totretr
through the Italian cities, with nothing to
chain us to earth but Mrs. Jessamine. She
was the plague to our Decameron, and a
most terrible rore. one was ioonsmy iouu
of attention, and had an unnatural and im
aginary rivalry with her ncice, wnicn was
most ludicrous. We young men treated her
with civility because she was a woman, and
with something more because she was me
aunt of the sweetest and most reSncd
woman on earth; but she would have been
glad to believe that her charms alone
brought her our unwilling homage.
It was at Ferrara tbaF we met Carter, the
angel of our deliverance. Great and excel
lent and polite Carter, how much didst thou
absorb and carry off!
Carter was an elderly beau called the gay
deceiver by his frrends. He was introduced
Arc vou not my love my darling my
life? Has" llammerstein stolen you from
me, or has Ainslie won you away, with his
glittering generalities ? Tell me, Mary, you
have not mi-understood me, I am sure. Ha
I misunderstood vou?"
She looked ine mournfully in the face.
"Charlcton," said she, " I can explain both
inr. except that this acquaintance of ours
must stop here. Forgive me if I have given
vou nnv reason to hope. I ought never to
be vou ii sr. and loving, and frivolous. I am
culled to other Paths. Nav. I should not
have taken your ring, given though it was
in a light moment ol friendship not at all
as a love gage."'
Here she blushed deeply; and she took off
the ring with the two lions she as red as
the rubv in the eve of the lioness. I looked
at her long and earnestly. She did not look
at me, nor relent one moment from the cold,
sad, abstracted gaze on the grouad; her
blushes died away into a cold pallor. It was
chilling enough, but it did not entirely
freeze me. I saw, if she did not love me,
that 6he loved no other man. Her absorp
tion was of another kind.
" May I ask if your aunt has anything to
do with your present feeling, Mary?" said I.
" You may ak me nothing," said she.
41 Yes, I shall ask you to keep the ring, if
but for that day in the Pineta."
She looked at me a moment, with a gleam
in her eye which gave me hope, and extend
ed her hand.
"Put it on again, if you please, Mr.
Charleton. 1 shall be sorry to part with it
I have a superstitious regard for it. That
old ring has a power in it; and if you will
respect my conditions I will keep it."
" I will promise anything you say," said
I, for by this tine her smail white hand was
in mine.
alle-
me, I
had dallied and doubted, had been cowardly
and self-Involved, until my pearl came very
near escaping me. I would now be deter
mined would go to Mrs. Jessamine nt once.
I broke up the. sweetest tete-a-tete between
herself and Carter that you ever saw. Mrs.
Jessamine had treated her best brocade to an
ui ing, and looked very handsome in her way.
Love is verybecorning even elderly love.
" Mr. Carter, may I have Mrs. Jessamine
to mvself two minutes?" I asked, in the
most foolish voice I could summon.
Carter evaporated kindly, and 1 sat down
so near Mrs. Jessamine that I think 1 sat ou
several breadths of the brocade.
"Dear Mrs. Jessamine," said T, " I am
Louis Charleton, as vou know. I have a
very respectable, rich father, and a very nice,
mother. I am quite ready to take care of a
wife. I want to marry your niece, Mary
Jessamine. May I uddress her?"
I paused, recollecting how much I hud
been talking ike Sir Charles Coldstream.
An angry flush overcame Mrs. Jessamine's
face. Noinei tion of Mary wus ever agree
able to her, ex( pt w hen she was spoken of
us the recipient of Mrs. Jessamine's bounty.
"Mr. Charleton, my niece has received
from me everything food, clothing, educa
tion, a mother's lovi all in profusion.
When give I give bounteously of rny
means, my affections all. But like all such
petted children of rare good fortune,
Slary has no gratitude absolutely no
gratitude. She will take everything
from me but advice; that never. J should
advise her to marry you, surely. But
advice is nothing to Mary. I have Just heard
that she hns refused the Baron Hammerstcin.
Such a match, such a match, Mr. Charleton,
for a penniless girl! And I have no influence
w ith her, Mr. Charleton. She does not seem
to remember ahem! that I am not o?f, and
that I ahem! may enter into new new
and unexpected relations, which may
ahem 'alter Mary's lu xurious position very
much." Here Mrs. Jessamine s aiiempi u
blush was alarming. It looked apoplectic.
So Mary had refused Hummerstcin ! I
could have kissed Mrs. Jessamine.
" My friend Carter has then succeeded in
winning the object of his devoted affec
tions?" said I, looking sideways at Mrs. Jes
samine. "Well, Mr. Charlcton, since you are such
n dear friend of mine, and I believe thor
oughly derated to me, I may as well say that
I think he bus. I have not given him entire
reason to hope yet; anil, Mr. Charleton, there.
must be ante-tut, tinl settlements, you kiiow.
Here the old miser s eyes gioweu iikci.
" My large fortune must be secured to my
self. Kor, though I have jierfet t confidence
in Mr. Carter, I think that is no much nicer,
don't you, Mr. Charleton?"
I assured her that 1 did. and alier anvising
the most stringent arrangements I usk d her
if she would tell Mary of my offer.
" Keully, Mr. Charleton," said she, " 1 have
very little to do with Mary lately. She, of
course, is not pleased with my engagement,
and we say very little to each other."
Miserable old woman: Knowing a.
word of French she could not ask for a cup
of tea without Mary, nor could she get a
Louis d'or changed, or effect a single tran
saction of life (except to flirt with Carter)
without this accomplished, devoted nic e.
However, Mr. Charleton, 1 win o aiary
the honor you propose. I will tell her of your
offer. Hood morning." Ahd she returned to
her Carter. . ..
Handysidc Marbury had turned up In V e-
rona, and 1 met liim inai evening.
"Could vou would you, my dear young
friend, go with me to the tombs of the Scal
igers? I am very anxious to identify Case
(.rande with the Prince In 'Borneo and
Juliet' who says: ' Put up this neighbor
stained steel' (you rcmemberthe quotation).
And could you "lend me the ridiculous small
sum of a hundred francs? When my letters
arrive I will also repay you the small sum
vou so kindly lent me in Alexandria. I do
'not forget these little things, you see. I
often sav I would rather pay five francs than
five hundred. So manv people have a mean
way of forgetting tt.-vi'll debts! I never for
get them, I assure you. They impress mo
as much as large ones do."
And he looked ut me hungrily. I think
that Handysidc Marbury, friend of Leo X.,
Charlemagne and Joan of Arc, enemy and
contemner of Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria,
defender of Hypatia, and deep student of
the Merovingian Kings, wus hungry and
thirsty too. He certainly was very seedy, so
I sent my hundied francs after my twenty
pounds, "not knowing what waters would
bring them back to inc.
Marv came next day to bid me a hurried
good-by. They were going over the Alp.
and Mrs. Jessamine and Mr. Carter were
be married in Paris.
" It was very good
formal proposal for
Charlcton," said she;
with some respect for
my sufferings."
'" Ah, Marv. when will it alleviate mine?
said I. Mieshook her head, and disappeared.
K.ader, it was not fickleness to Mary
which induced me to accept the Hammfr-
tcin invitation to their superb castle, not
far from Baden-Baden. Ainslie, too, was Invited.
1 he family had lived there since the d ays
of Charlemagne, or near that time. 1 am no
archwologlst, and I began to wander in my
mind as they went back through their gene
alogy. But the castle. It was feudal
enough to be romantic; wooden enough to
be comfortable altogether, and perfectly
charming.
Here the voting Baron presided over hi
estates with something of princely rule.
Bertha, who had her own very pretty for
tune, was his dear delight, his pride, and his
sister princess.
An old grandmamma, replete with titles,
wittv and original and eccentric, playing on
the violin for her amusement, gave at once
piquancv and dignity to the circle, and two
maiden aunts, dressfng In the habit of a re-li-ious
order (for the Ilammersteins were
great Roman Cutholics), gave point and
background to the picture.
We need costume in this country, find I
am not sorry to see it creeping in. 1 hese
elderly women were happy in their self-im-posed'duties,
and dignified in the dress ol
iir eriU-r. A charming foil to the youuy
and fashionable niece. There was no in--.cn
sate rivalry here, as in the Jessamine
to
of you to make that
me" to my aunt, Vr.
" it has inspired her
me and has alleviated
case.
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