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The Jnmel Will Cane.
Final Decision, After Forty-aliia Yrnra r
Litigation.
An opinion was rendered in tlie Su
)reine Court, April 2d, winch closes lit
igation which has lxen pending since
28. Lawyers see much romance in
real life, but two esjiecially romantic
cases in the Supreme Court have been
Myra Clark Gaines suit for the terri
tory on which the city of New Orleans
stands, and what is known as the Jumel
will case, involving the title to millions
of dollars' worth of property in New
York City. Alma Jumel was a famous
beauty of revolutionary times, and was
the second wife of Aaron Burr in his
old age. She was immensely wealthy,
even in those days, and since her death
the estate, being continually tied up by
litigation, has grown to almost labulous
value. The opinion delivered is final as
regards a large portion of the proerty,
and has been pending in the various
courts forty-nine years. The parties,
who were children when the suit began,
are now in old age. The title of the
'wise reads: "George W. Bo wen vs
Nelson Chase, Eliza Jumel Perry and
her husband, Paul P. Perry, and Wil
liam I. Chase." Eliza Jumel Perry was
the niece and adopted daughter of
Mine. Jumel, and inherited her prop
erty. Paul Perry is her husband, and
the two Chases who appear as the other
appelanls are persons to whom she sold
property inherited from Mine. Jumel
while the will was in litigation. George
W. Bowen, the appellant, who was the
son of an illegitimate daughter of Mme
Jumel, appeared and demanded a share
of the inheritance. Thesuitwentfrom
court to court until, a few years ago,
the Circuit Court for the Southern Dis
trict ef New York decided against him
The case was appealed to the Supreme
Court, and Justice Bradley read the
unanimous opinion of all the Justices
reversing the decision of the Circuit
Court and ordering it to place on record
a decision in accordance therewith.
Inter-Ocean.
Public Debt Statement for 31 arch.
The following is the statement of the
public debt on the 1st of April:
'Six per cent bonds f (tt4,S77,0Ti0
Five per cent bonds Tm&WfM
Four and u lmlf per cent bonds. . fiO,()00,0)0
Total coin ImiimIs 1,088,140,700
Lawful money debt 14,000,000
Matured debt f,('J,:J90
Lepil tendf ra :tl,701,206
Certlllcatehoi deposit :C, 155,000
Fractional currency..
23,440,512
Coin certificate
Total with interest
Total debt
Total interest
4S7,'J!H,000
Hi0,5!,'.00
3,177,802,293
27,020,077
N'.,S18,2S5
Cahh in Treasun Coin
" ' " Currency
Special dejxtsits held for redemp
tion certitlcateof ilfixtMt
Total in Treasury
8,184,b0:j
X,155,000
i:t0,l.S,14S
2,0s8,781,14a
14,107,010
24,705,218
Debt lets cash in Treasury
Decreased debt durim; Miirch ...
Decrease since .Tune .'!0, 1S70
1 torn! s is-ued to the Pacific Kail
road, coin interest payable
in lawful money, and principal
outstanding. . . "
Interest accrued and not yet paid
Interest paid by transportation of
Balance of lute rest paid by U. S. .
04,02.1,512
yoy,3W
8.044,004
25,974,829
Appended to the debt statement is
the following: The large reduction of
the public debt, as shown by this state
ment, arises from the cancellation and
destruction of the balance of the 5 per
cent bonds funded on the loan of 1881,
Jheld in trust for many of the awards
made by the Court of Commissioners of
ithe -Alabama claims.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
A vein of gold has been discovered in
Brown county, Texas.
js The first post-office was established
in America in 1710.
Delaware peach-growers are buoyant
over the prospects of an unusually large
crop.
In excavating for city purposes in
Denver gold was found in paying
quantities.
The first printing office was opened
rfi this country in 1639, at Cambridge,
Mass.
The plums raised in Martin county,
( Minn., this season will be converted
into brandy.
Notwithstanding New York is recog
nized as the Empire State, she furnishes
no residence for- her Executive, and
4tliat official has to rent one for himself.
, The two hottest days ever known in
Australia were the 15th and 16th of
January, when the thermometer regis
tered 105 degrees in the shade in Mel
bourne. 1 The iron mountains of Missouri, ac-
P -cording to Prof. Waterhouse, contain
enough ore above the surface to afford
an annual supply of 4,000,000 tons for
i 200 years.
During January and February 09,
500,000 pounds of cut meats were sent
from this country to Europe. Also,
about 8,000,000 pounds of cheese.
In 1836, when England had a popula
tion of 14,928,477, 10,125 persons were
sentenced to imprisonment and 3,611
to transportation and penal servitude.
In 1875, with a population of 23,000,000,
only 9,282 were sent to prison and 1,629
o penal servitude.
The sum total of rail way lines through
the principal countries of the world
now reach the distance nearly fourteen
times the circumference of the globe,
or one and one-half times the journey
to the moon. Of this total the United
States lines extend 75,585 miles; Great
Britain at home and through her for
eign domains, 66,101 ; Russia, in Europe
and Asia, 34.914; those of France, 30,
779 j and of the German Empire, 18,79?.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Colony & Sons cotton factory, at
Munsonville,N. IL, burned March SOtli.
Los8$50,000. - .The Grant House, Wheel
ing, West Virginia, was totally destroyed
by fire, March 30th. Jys, $100,000; in
surance, 855,000 Collector Patterson
and a Deputy Marshal, assisted by six
men, a few days ago raided an illicit
diHtillery in Watuaga county N. C
They were fired upon. Two men of the
posse were killed, and Patterson wound
ed.... A Deadwood dispatch of March
.",0th, says: Edward Moran,of Chey
enne, with a team was stopped 5 miles
from Deadwood by two armed men who
tied him to a tree and stripped him,
taking from him $200 in dust, some cur
rency, and a watch and chain. Thejlis
patch says a vigilance committee is
almost a necessity for protection.
The State Bank of Harrisburg, Pa,
has gone into liquidation. Twenty per
cent of all the claims will be raid as
they mature, and the balance as soon as
the bank realizes upon its assets, which
are declared ample to satisfy all claims.
. . . .George D. Monroe, a stockbroker, of
New York, has suspended The State
National Bank at New Brunswick, N.
J., closed its doors March 31st Rumors
of its unsoundness caused the debit
ors to withdraw their money freely dur
ing a few days previously. The bank
suffered from the panic of 1873, and in
1875 instituted a suit against the Woods
worth Canet Co., for nearly $1,000,000,
and was defeated. A suspension fol
lowed, but the bank resumed and strug
gled along till the last quarterly state
ment showed the resources C75,000, and
liabilities the same.... A. Oakley Hall,
the missing ex-mayor of New York,
appears to have turned up in England.
....Alfred Cox was shot and killed by
his son, 14 years of age, In church,
March 31st, at West BowUoin, Maine,
fr telling the boy, who was making a
noise, to change his seat It is believed
the boy was insane. . .Joseph P. Clark
son, the eminent dramatic lawyer of
Chicago, who accidentally shot himself,
died on the morning of March 31st. . . .
The Prairie House, at Rhine Cliff, near
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., occupied by Peter
Burns and family, was burned on the
night of March 30th. Mrs. Burns and
four children perished in the flames.
Finding escape by the stairs cutoff Mrs.
Burns threw a bed .out of the window,
and on it dropped an infant child and
another, but a rush of flame and smoke
prevented further saving of life. Mr.
Burns was absent A fire on Green
wich street New York. March 31st
damaged property to the amount of $50,-
000 On the 3lst of March the Rocky
Mountain Quartz Mills, at Georgetown,
Colorado, were totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50,000; insurance, $18,000 By
an estimation from the last annual di
rectory of St Louis, that city claims a
population of 501, 4S9. The deaths last
year were 7.S00.
More than one-half of Monroeville,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the night
of April 1st The total loss approxi
mates $75,000 A great portion of
Xenia, Ind., wais burned on the morn
ing of April 1st Loss, $25.000.... The
business portion of Eminence, Ind was
also burned on the morning of April 1st
Loss, S40.000 to S50.000.
Dougherty Bros. & Co., bankers at
Harrisburg, Pa, have failed. Liabili
ties $111,000; assets from $130,000 to
$150,000.... The glazing house of the
powder mills of Santa Cruz blew up
April 3d, killing one man and injuring
several others in the vicinity. About
nine tons of powder were in the mill.
Loss, $10,000. . . .Austin Sheldon, who
has lived for 41 years the life of a her
mit in the mountains nine miles south
of Dingman's Ferry, Pa, was found
frozen to death ina deep snew drift
near the entrance of his cave a few
evenings ago.... Daley & Gray's block
on Main street, West Randolph, Vt,
and two adjoining buildings, were
burned April 3d. Loss, $40,000; insur
ance, $20,000 The Fredericks block,
Lockhaven, Pa, burned April Sd. Loss,
$37,000; insurance, $25,000. .. .Edwin
A. Howard, of Michigan, has been ap
pointed agent for the Ponca Indians,
Dakota .... Ex-Congressman Christo
pher Morgan, of Washington City, died
April 31, aged 70 years. .. .President
Hayes has instructed the Secretary of
War to issue orders for the removal of
troops from the State House at Colum
bia, South Carolina. The withdrawal
of the troops is to take place April 10th.
....The Fourth Annual Reunion of
the National Union of Andersonville
Prisoners will be held at Hartford,
Conn, April 19th. All prisoners of war
throughout the country are invited.
A. Friedlander. a prominent grain
operator in San Francisco, has failed.
His liabilities amount to about $600,
000. . . .A special from Alma, Crawford
county, Ark, to the Little Rock Gazette,
gives the latest in regard to the Bender
family, as follows : George Keafer and
family, supposed to be the original
family of Benders, of murderous fame
in Kansas, were arrested here to-day by
Kansas detectives, who have lieen
shadowing the Keafer family for quite
a time, and are confident that they have
captured the right parties. The detec-.
lives have been for some time past
working as farm laborers in this county,
quietly watching the movements fit
their "quarry," upon whom they have
sprung the trap.... The fine postoffice
at Jft&sonYille, Florida, burned April
4th The paper mill of Jeasup &
Moore at Augustine, near Wilmington,
Delaware, burned April 4th. Loss,
$100,000. . . .John B. Bruggeroan, an ex
councilman, in Cleveland, Ohio, made
a desperate attempt at suicide, April
4th. lie had been a candidate for street
commissioner on the defeated ticket
His political disappointment and ill
health are the supposed causes of the
act There is hope of his recovery
A Deadwood dispatch of April 4th
says: A courier from Spotted Tail's
band arrived at Capt Vroom'a camp
last night He reports that Spotted
Tail, Crazy Horse and 900 of his war
riors camped on Bellefourche, about
50 miles north, enroute for the Agency
to accept terms of peace. Sitting Bull
still holds out, but has but few war
riors. FOREIGN NEWS.
An Austrian journal, the Neti Frei
PresJte, at Vienna, intimates that it is
possible the question of the protocol
will be separated from that of demobil
zation. In reference to the latter, Rus
sia would formally oint out that she
had already given a promise to disarm,
England would declare herself satisfied
with this declaration, but actual dis
armament would be postponed until the
Porte would likewise disarm. Mean
time it is believed that peace between
Montenegro and Turkey would be con
cluded in consequence ol the signing of
the protocol A dispatch says that the
Khedive of Egypt has sent 2,000,000
cartridges to Turkey, and promised to
send troops. The Bey of Tunis sent
four complete batteries and a large sum
of money The brig Harriet has been
lost near Mistiken Point New Found-
and, with all but two of the crew.
A correspondent of the London Times
s?ys: The protocol, in its final form,
is a sort of solemn call upon Turkey
recommending the well known reforms
which are specified. There is no ques
tion of Turkey's signing it nor is there
any form agreed on to which Turkey
is expected to give adhesion or consent
Russia expresses a readiness to treat
directly with the Porte in relation to
disarmament, and for that purpose to
receive a special commission from Tur
key in St Petersburg, thus removing
the objections Russia had to allowing
the Powers anv. rieht .of interference
in the matter rrrrAttspatch-' uf Mat im4
3lst from London says it is officially
announced that the protocol has been
signed.... The London Times' leader
says: aWe cannot but see Turkey in
the background behind all these fair
arrangements or the Powers, so much
depends on what the Porte will do or
decline to do. and the Russian disarma
ment is promised in expectation of s
many things which may not easily be
fulfilled. On the contrary, the domi
nant feeling in Constantinople is still
defiance.".... Ceylon advices say that
at the end of March 25.000 laborers
were paid off from the coffee estates
and in a month or two there will be
some 6,000 to provide for. Meantime
gangs of starving men, women am.
children are coming over from India.
A majority of the students of Glas
gow University have signed a declara
tion that they desire Gladstone's elec
tion to the rectorship.
A Havana, Cuba, dispatch says Gen.
De Campo has issued a proclamation
promising pardon to every body sur
rendering before the first of May who
have not committed any extraordinary
offence connected with the insurrection.
Prisoners made after the first of May
will be shot if SHch decision of an im
promptu court-martial is approved by
the General commanding the district
wherein the capture was made Bis
marck has resigned the Chancellor
ship, but not the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Peace has not yet been concluded
between Abyssinia and Egypt but
probably will be, because the King of
Shaa has captured Gondar, and the
Abyssinian army has in consequence
withdrawn from the Egyptian frontier.
.The projected treaty will cede no terri
tory to Abyssinia, but will provide for
the reduction of Egyptian export du
ties. . . .The Kreuz Zeitung states posi
tively that Bismarck insisted on being
put on the pension list which is equiv
alent to a total resignation. . .'.The Lon
don Times remarks a lack of elation in
public feeling at the signature of the
protocol, and weighing various influ
ences which might incline Russia to
peace or war, says: "All intelligence
from St Petersburg and the chief cities
of the Empire, confirms this opinion,
but at the same time the actions of
Russia, her war preparations are too
numerous and consistent to be fruit
less.".... The Pall Mail Gatett Shef
field special says a telegram "from
America states that an English firm
successfully negotiated for over 20,000
tons of iron in the face of strong com-
petitio of all American manufacturera
and despite the heavy import duties.
"What are you crying for, Jack, in
that way, with your head agim the wall,
washing all the blessed mortar out
atween the bricks?" asked .one boy of
another, in a back slum. "For father--oo
oh r sobbed .the mourner. "For
your father! Don't you cry for him,
Jack, he was a terribieold thief." "Tee;
yes; I know he was a precious old
thief," replied the affectionate son, still
on full blubber, "but he was a jolly good
father
HOW TOM SAWYER WOJf AJfJUZE
BIBLE. if
Sabbath-school hours went frtai 0
until half-past 10; and then mm cwtch
service. Two of the childr wtfya
remained for the sermon
and the others always rem
for stronger reasons. TntBbureV
high-backed, uncushioned peflbwcmli
seat about 300 persons; the eiatiee was
but a small, plain affair, withTa lost et
pine-board tree box on it for steeple.
At the door Tom dropped beck a step
and accosted aSunday-dressedeeade:1
-Say, Billy, gota vallerttolrtr ',
"Yes." "
"What'll you take for her?"
"Whafll you give?"
"Piece of lickrish and a fish-hook.'
"Leas see 'em."
Tom exhibited. They were satisfac
tory and the property changed hands.
Then Tom traded a couple of white
alleys for three red tickets and some
trifle or other for a couple of blue ones.
He waylaid other boys as they came,
and went on buying tickets of various
colors ten or fifteen minutes longer. He
entered the church now with a swarm
of clean and noisv boys and girls, pro
ceeded to his seat and started a quarrel
with the first boy that came handy.
The teacher, a grave, elderly man, in
terfered; then turned his back a mo
ment and Tom pulled a boy's hair in the
next bench, and was absorbed in his
book when the boy turned around;
stuck a pin in another boy, presently,
in order to hear him say Ouch P and
got a new reprimand from his teacher.
Tom's whole class were of a pattern
restless, noisy and troublesome. When
they came to recite their lessons, not
one of them knew his verses perfectly,
but had to be prompted all along.
However.they worried througb,andeach
got his reward in small blue tickets,
each with a passage of Scripture on it;
each blue ticket was pay for two verses
of the recitation. Ten blue tickets
equaled a red one, and could be ex
changed for it; ten red tickets equaled
a yellow one; for ten yellow tickets the
superintendent gave a very plainly
bound Bible (worth forty cents in those
easy times), to the pupil. How many
of my readers would have the industry
and application to memorize 2,000 ver
ses, even for a Dore Bible? And yet
way it was the patient jrerfc f two
years and a boy of German parentage
had won four or five. He once recited
3,000 verses without stopping; but the
strain upon his mental faculties was
too great and he was little oetter than
an idiot from that day forth a griev
ous misfortune for the school, for on
great occasions, before company, the
Superintendentas Tom expressed it
had always made this boy come and
-spread himself." Only the older pu
pils managed to keep their tickets and
stick to their tedious work long enough
to get a bible, and so the delivery of
one of these prizes was a rare, note
worthy circumstance; the successful
pupil was so great and conspicuous for
that day that on the very spot every
scholar's heart was fired with a fresh
ambition that often lasted a couple of
weeks. It is possible that Tom's men
tal stomach had never really hungered
for one of those prizes, but unquestion
ably his entire being had for many a
day longed for the glory and eclat that
came with it
In due course the superintendent
stood up in front of the pulpit with a
closed hymn-book in his hand and his
forefinger inseited between its leaves,
and commanded attention. When a
Sunday-school superintendent makes
his customary -little speech a hymn
book in the hand is as necessery as the
inevitable sheet of music in the hand
of a singer who stands forward on the
platform and sings a solo at a concert
though why, is a mystery; for neither
the hymn-book nor the sheet of music
is ever referred to by the sufferer. The
superintendent was a slim creature of
thirty-five, witn a sandy goatee and
short sandy hair; he wore a stiff-standing
collar whose upper edge almost
reached his ears, and whose sharp
points curved forward abreast the cor
ners of his mouth a fence that com
pelled a straight lookout ahead, and a
turning of the whole body when a side
view was required; his chin was
propped on a spreading cravat, which
was as broad and aslong as a banknote,
and had fringed ends; his boot-toes
were turned sharply up, in the fashion
of the day, like sleigh runners an ef
feet patiently and laboriously produced
by the young men sitting with their
toes pressed against a wall for hours
together. Mr. Walters was very earnest,
of mein, and very sincere and honest at
heart; and he held sacred things and
places in such reverence, and so sepa
rated them from worldly matters, that
unconsciously tto? himself his Sunday
school voice had acquired a peculiar in
tonation which was wholly absent on
weekdays. He began after this fashion:
"Now, children,! want yon all to sit
up just as straight and pretty at yon
can,andgiveme all your attention for
a minute or two. There that is the
way good little boys and girls should do.
I see one little girl who is looking out
of the window. I am afraid she thinks
I am out there sosmewbere perhaps up
in one of the trees mating a speech to
the little birds. AppUnaivv ttttersj.
I want to tell yon how good K
me feel to see so many bright clan
little faces assembled in a pUcr Uk
this, learning to do right and be good."
And so forth and so on. It is not nrc
essary to set down the rest of the ora
tion. It wai of a patUrn which dor
not vary, and so it is familiar to u all.
The latter third of the nifcii wu
marred by the resumption of fighto and
other recreations, among certain of the
bad boys, and by fiidgetings aud whis
perings Uiat extended far and wide,
washing even to the bases of isolated
and incorruptible rocks like Sid. and
Mary. Rut now every sound ceases
suddenly, with the sabsalence of Mr.
Walter's voice, and the conclusion of
the speech was received with a burst
of Bilent gratitude.
A good part of the whispering had
been occasioned by an event which was
more or less rare the entrance of vis
itors; lawyer Thatcher accompanied by
a very feeble and aged man; a fine,
lortly, middle-aged gentleman with
iron gray hair; and a dignified lady who
was doubtless the latter's wife. The
lady was leading a child. Tom had
been restless and full of chafings and
repinings; conscious smitten, too he
could not meet Amy Laurence's eye, he
could not brook her loving gaze. But
when he saw this small new-comer, his
soul was ablaze with bliss in a moment
The next moment he was "showing off"
with all his might cuffing boys, pull
ing bair, making faces in a word,
using every art that seemed likely to
fascinate a girl and win her applause.
His exaltation had but one alloy- the
memory of his humiliation in this
angel's garden and that record in sand
was fast washing out under the waves
of happiness that were sweeping over it
now.
The visitors were given the highest
seat of honor, and as soon as Mr. Wal
ters' speech was finished he introduced
them to the school. The middle-aged
man turned out to be a prodigious per
sonageno less a one than the ceunty
judge altogether the most august crea
tion these children had ever looked
upon and they wondered what kind
of material he was made of and they
half wanted to hear him roar, and were
half afraid be might too. He was from
Constantinople, twelve miles away so
he had traveled and seen the world
.aVMiJiad Innkarl nnnn thm
nnty Cotu irnouseTwmuu .. rI
have a tin roof. The awe which these
reflections inspired was attested by the
impressive silence and the ranks of
staring eyes. This was the great J udge
Thatcher, brother of their own lawyer.
Jeff. Thatcher immediately went for
ward, to be familiar with the great man,
and be envied by the school. It would
have been music to his soul to hear the
whisperings.
"Look at him, Jim I He's a going up
there. Say look ! he's a going to shake
hands with him He is shaking hands
with him! By jings, don't you wish
you was Jeff?"
Mr. Walters fell to "showing off,"
with all sorts of official bustling and
activities, giving orders, delivering
judgments, discharging directors here,
there, everywhere that he could And a
target The librarian "showed off"
running hither and thither with his
arms full of books and making a deal
ot the splutter and fuss that insect au
thority delights in. The young lady
teachers "showed off" bending sweetly
over pupils that were lately being
boxed, lifting pretty warning fingers
at bad little boys and patting good ones
lovingly. The young gentleman teach
ers "showed off with small scoldings
and other little displays of authority
and fine attention to discipline and
most of the teachers of both sexes
found business up at the library, by the
pulpit; and it was business that fre
quently had to be done over again two
or three times (with much seeming
vexation). The little girls "showed off"
in various ways, and the little boys
"showed oft with such diligence that
the air was thick with paper wads and
the murmur of sen flings. And above
it all the greet man sat and beamed a
majestic smile upon all the house, and
warmed himself in the sun or his own
grandeur for he was "showing off,"
too.
There was only one thing wanting to
make Mr. Walter's ecstacy complete,
and that was a chance to deliver a
Bible-prize and exhibit a prodigy. Sev
eral pupils had a few yellow tickets,
but none had enough be had been
around among the star pupils inquiring.
He would have given worlds, now, to
have that German lad back again with
a sound mind.
And now, at this moment, when hope
dead, Tom Sawyer came forward
with nine yellow tickets, nine red tick
ets, and ten blue ones, and dessanded a
bible. This was a thunderbolt out of a
clear sky. Walters wae not expecting
an application front this seurce for the
next ten years. But there was no get
ting around it here wae the certified
checks, and they were good for tber
face. Tom was, therefore; elevated to a
place with the Judge and the other elect
and the great news was announced front
headquarters. It was the Boat stun
ning surprise of the decade, and so pro
found wae the sensation that it lifted
the new hero np to the judicial one's
altitude, and the school had tworaar
vektogazepoa,inplaeeof one. The
boys were all eaten an wltH envy-bat
lbnp tlwt puflVmi th bitterest rang?
wrre those who percrlvrd. txi la. that
they themstlvm had contribute! o iho
hatrd uplrcdor by U adits? tic Kris to
Tom for tin weal'h h had unaioil In
selling whitewashitu; privilcr. Thw
drspUol ttirOiN-hfa An beinj; the duft
of a wily fraud a j;utlf ful snai.r in the
grass.
The prirc was dehvrmi to Tom with
as much effusion a ihe superintendent
could pump up under the circum&toncea ;
but it lacked omewhl of the true guMi.
for the poor fellow's instincts taught
him that there was a tujsUry here that
could not well bear the light perhaps ;
it was simply preposterous that thbi boy
had warehoused 2,000 sheaves of scrip
tural wbtduin on his premise a dozen
would strain his capacity without a
doubt
Amy lwrence was proud and glad,
and she tried to make Tom sec It In her
face but he wouldn't look. She won
dered; then she wjji just a grain
troubled; next a dim suspicion came
and went came again ; she watched ;
a furtive glance told her worlds and
then her heart broke, and she wma jeal
ous, and angry, and the tears came
and she hated everybody. Tom mt of
all, (she thought)
Tom was introduced to the JudRe;
but his tongue was tied, his breath
would hardly come, his heart quaked
partly because of the awful greatness
of the man, but mainly because he was
her parent He would have liked to
fall down and worship him, if it were
in the dark. The Judge put his hand
on Tom's head and called him a fine
little rnan, and asked him what his
name was. The toy stamniertd, gasped
and got it out:
Tom."
"Oh, no; not Tom it is M
"Thomas."
"Ah, that's it 1 thought there was
more to it maybe. That's very well.
But you've another one, I dare say aud
you'll tell it to me, won't you V
"Tell the gentleman your other name,
Thomas," said Walters. "And say sir
you mustn't forget your manners."
Thomas Sawyer sir."
"That's itl That's a god loy. Fine
boy. Fiae. manly little fellow. Two
thousand verses Is a great many very,
Tery great many. And you never can
besorry tor the UohIiIuJ
more than anything there is in the
world; it's what makes great men and
good men ; you'll be a great man and a
good man yourself, some day, Thomas,
and then you'll look back and say : It's
all owing to my dear teachers that
taught me to learn It's all owing to
the good Superintendent who encour
aged me and watched over me, and gave
me a beautiful Bible, to keep and have
it all my own, always' it's all owing
to right bringing up. That is wliat
you will say.Thomas-and you wouldn't
take any money for those two thousand
verses no indeed, you wouldn't And
now you wouldn't mind telling me and
this lady some of the things you've
learned? no, 1 know you wouldn't for
we are pxoud of little boys that leant.
Now, no doubt you know the names of
all the twelve disciples. Won't you tell
us the names of the first two that were
appointed ?
Tom was tugging at a button-hole and
looking sheepish. He blushed now and
his eyes telL Mr. Walter's heart sank
within him. He said to himself, it is
not possible that the boy can answer
thesimplest question whydld the judge
ask him ? Yet he felt obliged to speak
up and say:
"Answer the gentleman, Thomas;
don't be afraid
Tom still hung fire.
"Now, 1 know you will tell me," said
the lady. "The names of the first two
disciples were "
"David and Goliahl"
Let us draw the curtain of charity
over the rest of the scene. JVem Ma kk
Twain's laU bookuTom 8awyer"
Welsh Bleed in Aaterkaa HMory.
Mr. J. W. Stephens, one of our promi
nent Welsh citizens, sends us the fol
lowing somewhat surprising resume of
the contributions of the old Cymric
stock to American rolls of honor: Dr.
West gives the signers ef the Declara
tion of Independence of Welsh birth or
extraction as follows: Samuel Adams,
John Adams, Stephen Hopkins, Wil
liam Williams, William Lloyd, Francis
Lewis, Lewis Morris, Francis Hopkin
son,Bobert Morris, George Clymer, John
Penn, Arthur Middleton, B. Gwinnett
(bera in Wales). Thomas Jefferson, Ben
jaatia Harrison, Richard H, Lee, Fran
cat L. Lee. Assong the officers in the
Revolution we find the following names :
Anthony Wayne, Charles Lee, Daniel
Morgan, John Cadwallader, James
Williams, Henry Lee Thomas Marshall,
Etben ABen. Presidents of Welsh
origin: John Adams, Thosaas Jeffer
son, James Madison, James Monroe.
J. Q. Adams, William H. Harrison,
james Buchanan. Botton TrwtucripV,
Suet CfccsT. Chop the suet very fine,
add six to eight ounces of it, to a pound
of lour; when chopping the suet add a
little of the flour, as it will prevent the
suet adhering. Mix with cold water,
not forgetting to add a little salt, and
work to a smooth pasts. That crest is
excellent for hot piss er tarta, bnt is not
so good for those whien are to be served
iirxoRom.
A tedy inclined to flirt. y mm ar
like a cojd, dually cau&. bat rey krd
to Set rid of.
A quack a IveXtlw that be can ht
vme jrtUent by tlmpJy Kklr.j l line
He prott4y haa a jM"Ctire practlc.
1 he dtnYreac beiwrcn an editor a&4
h!s wife- -oar article to rifhU, and
the other write article o et
"Her fc Is a gxrdrn of flowerm." U
the title of a new inj, but a conical
man uo,,rtJwer"b erWenlly a mis
print for-TUrnr"
A gTveer In WaUlnffloo adveui
that he has "whUky far sale thai ha
Xxrvxx drunk by all the l'maidenta. fro
General Jackson down to the pteawal
time,"
DAKburr Xtwt : We lumld fel for
the joar in our xrket a el! aa tn our
heart but the pocket referred to la not
where the handkerchief Is carried,
A woman who was Udl Uiat amn
Libit in the KuUn dlrtroeiil wer
made of malachite, exclaimed" "My
goodness' I thought Malachite was one
of the prophets."
-Bridget I told ou to lei me have my
hot water the first thing tn the mom
ing." -Sure, sir," said Bridget -didn't
I bring It up and lave It at the durw
last nl:ht s) as to have It In timer
(Md Dr.Jsuu Johnson knew what he
was tdking about when, tn his diction
ary, he put this definition: "Network:
Anything reticulated or decussated at
equal distances, with InstersUcea b
ween the Intersections."
-I came out of the accident" ld he.
"and who do you think was the first
person I met?" "Whr "Who but
that name eternal prlre-lackage peddler
who had Wed me for 'JOO mllea on the
train, and he was the only one altoanl
who wasn't hurt someway."
"Do you have any 'hoi In Main?
asked a New York Belle, who was drrns
lug for a ball, of a country cousin from
the Tine State. "Oh. yes. lots ; pa lias
40 acres of etn in one field." But the
country cousin soon learned to know
the difference.
At Myoma; a frog Jumied out of one
of the unearthed stone coffins, and lr.
Schleimann in said to have Immediately
soliloqutrcd: "To think that my eyea
have looked upon a living colemporary
of Agamemnon. Hector, and Hecuba,
amTe.TagmMnto .aseasion or
considerable wealth through the death
of relatives!, was Urns addressed by on
of his neighbors : "A y, Jamie, it was a
gweed thing for you Uiat your rich
freena were lorn afore ye." "Werl."
replied Jamfr. "I'm no nae, sure about
that; but It was a gweed Uilng Uiat Uiey
dce'd afore rne f
An Irishman, to whom some wonder
ful story was told on the auUiorlty of a
enny newspaper, decline! to believe It
saying he distrusted all he saw In Ue
"cheap prints." "Why shouldn't you
oelleve Uie cheap pajrs," he was asked,
"as soon as any other T "Because," wsa
his ready answer. "I don't think Uiey
can afford to sjieak Uie truth for Ue
money."
A Kentleinan traveling In Ohio some
years ago turned up at a country tavern
for! dinner. The bar-room was gar
nished with a dirty wash-basin, a piece
of soap thesl7eof a lozenge, and a square
yard of crash, dimly visible Uiroogh
epidermic deposits. Having slightly
washed, the traveler eyed Uie rag doubt
fully, and Uien asked Uie proprietor,
"Haven't you, sir. about Uie premises, a
this year's towel T
LSKFLL RKCIPK9.
Swkkt Potato Pik. To one pound
of potato, three-qnarters of a pound of
sugar, one pint of milk, and six eggs;
flavor with nutmeg and a wine-glaesf ul
vt brandy: line the dish with a crust,
and bake carefully.
Ice Ckeax Without Eos-Take
one quart of cream, sweeten It very
aweet and flavor. Whip it to a froth,
take it off as fast as It rises, and when
all Is whipped, freexe it
Cottaok Pie. In Uie bottom of the
pie-dish, put a good layer of nicely
minced beef or mutton, season it cover
with mashed potatoes, add an onion
chopped fine, if liked, and bake unUl
the potatoes are well browned.
SrosnE Cake. Two cups of flow,
two cups of sugar, four eggs, one-half
teacup of cold water, one teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, and one-half teespoon
ful of soda, The eggs atust be fresh
and the whites and yolks beaten sepa
rately. roTATO Pik Crcst. Put a teacapfal
of rich, sweet cream to six good tlsed
potatoes after they have been well boil
ed and mashed fine. Add salt to taste,
and flour enongb to roll out the enisL
Hamdle it as little as possible. This
paste is excellent for apple dnatpUnc or
meat pies, and may be eaten by the saost
confirtsed dyspeptic.
Hoe Cake, Scald a quart of corn
meal in water sufficient to ssakeatkkk
batter; mix into this two uWeapoen
fok of bnUer.ateaspoonlal of soda, and
two of salt Bake half an hour in shal
low pans.
Wild Ducks. The rank, fishy taste
sosnetiates fonnd in wild dacha may be
resnoved by par-boOisf thean, previews
to reasting with a peeled carret placed
inside. This wffl absorb the had
Where the dressing at to be
1 with onions, tee an
the carret.
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