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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. '. h ttzzzz: ' ????? BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1877. NO. 18. VOLUME XXV. "Why He Kissed the Haby. watched as thov stood together there, And I couldn't help pausing to wonder he, with his wealth and stylish air, Would marry that widow down yonder. She did look pretty, and happy too; (If I were a man I'd love her !) Her hair shone like gold, and her eyes were As the summer skie." above her; Her baby sat crowing upon her knee, A bright little year-old prattler; And now if I tell what I saw that day, You must never call me a tattler. I saw him stoop down, clone, close to hor face, I was almost too curio.is, maybe, I thought he was going to kiss her, I'm sure, But he only kissed the baby. I saw him again, as he came one day, And they went to the church together; I watched from my window over the way, 'Twas beautiful, sunshiny weather. Bbe bad a pink dress ana a bonnet or wmte? She didn't wear black any louger. Ah all this burst forth 011 my wondering sight, Curiosity kept growing stronger; And *0 I just put on my bonnet and shawl And went down, although 'twas hot; The church door was open,and when I got thcro The parson had just tied the knot. ? I'm sure I don't know how it all came about, But it might have been just this way, maybe: I think that sometimes he made a mistake, And kissed her instead of the baby. anIllusiox. .X * ~ ,1 jc **". y * . ^ fcA If Lefebvre's two sisters ami his aunts had not treat d the whole thing so su* perciliously, and his cousin Laurn, in spite of her generous behavior, had not every now and then looked large-eyed disapproval, very lively it would have ' * come to nothing long before. But of coarse those/women, and a host of other female relations, were not going to be ? 'J -wiser than He Lucian Lefebvre, captain of the engineers aud colonel by brevet, of. flia Aanifol or?rl nniorilinn r\f ??.-.DtfaV*WJUVU UU UUU CU^iUU, tKilivu V* the nation's citiulel?dancing duty, Bell called it. "Introduced to that doll?" said Bell, when he came up to them, at the secretary's, proposing the introduction. Bell was tho mamed sister ; Helen was unmarried, and a little passcc, but a person of diguitv. "Why, does she talk ?" " Q lite a pretty piece of mechanism," said his aunt. ""Very well put together." Lefebvro looked at them in amazement and indignation. "Really," said he, "it is wonderful what women are made of." " Not this one," said Helen, deliberately putting up her glass. "She is false from the crown of her head to the solo of her foot. How can you be so taken in ? . I don't know what you are made of Lucian, to think of introducing such a creature to your 6isters, nor how she made her way here." He was just turning on his heel in i speechless anger, but remembering he had left the side of the lady in dispute [ for the avowed purpose of bringing his < sisters to her, he exclaimed : " Who',-1 ever she is, some of you must com>i ^ :th j me and be presented to her, as I ar here ; for that purpose, and I will not have her insulted." "Indeed!" said Helen, looking over the top of her fan iuto iufiuite space, but not stirring. " I will go, Lucian," said Laura, who had not spoken. " Come, Bell, help me out." " Well, Laura, for a little goose! However I will never desert a companion in arms. Do you suppose she has observed our council of war ?" as they moved off beside Lucian, with his chin well in the air. "She is a fine picture. A person should go on the stage that can make up as well as that. I should like to see her in the privacy of her midnight retirement. How old should you think? Forty?* "Forty!" cried Lucian. "I heard her myself arranging for a picnic on her twenty-third birthday." How touching! In the life to come. Her twenty-third ! She'll never B?e her forty-third again in this life." ""Bell!" "Oh ye3, Lucian; if you choose to force unwelcome acquaintance ou your \ family, at least they must enjoy freedom j of opinion concerning it. The very set j the woman is with speaks for her. Good evening, general. What a crush ! All because of this young Russian hero?a beauty, isn't he ? Ah, you too are making for the cynosure, I see; all the world is being presented. It will never do not to : follow the fashion." And directly Luciau was presenting his sister, Mrs. Gamier, and his cousin, Miss Laura Nelson; and Miss Nelson had behaved exactly as Lucian wished; and although he could never have said what was wanting in Mrs. Garnier's behavior, ho kuew that a challenge of defiance was iu her very air, and that her mere manner had told the other woman what she thought of her. Perhaps Bell presumed that that was the way to manage him. He would shortly let her know. Colonel Lefebvre came clattering down stairs next morning, his horse waiting at tue door. "Whither bound, Lucian?" cried Helen, from the library. "To ride with Mrs. De Berrian." >* ." Oh, your new widow," jihe said, gnyly. "Have you called yet? No? How very accommodating in her to ride with you first!" "She jb not a punctilious fool," he muttered, drawing on his glove. "Cer'ain punctilios," put in Aunt Susan, "are only self-respect." " If you will go and call with mo, Nell," said Lucian, "I've no doubt she will postpone the ride." " Now, Lucian dear, yon know I hate not to gratify you," said Helen. " But reallv the last thin" Bell snid was that it would not do. She should not call, nor, could I, if for nothing else, for littlo Laura's'snke, who is too young and innocent to have anything to do?" " Just as you please," he said, angrily, and had slammed the door behind him. You can imagine his surprise when, as he reined his hurse up at the steps of the house where Mrs. De Berrian was visiting, he saw his cousin Laura coming down with Mrs. Vaughn, a leader of the fashions, with whom she sometimes went out; for Laura was an heiresB, and but little gaiusaid in her wishes. "I thought you would like to have me," Laura said, timidly looking up with her brown eyes, as he dismounted. She ? never did have any spirit. " It is just like yuu, Laura," he said fervently. " I?I don't think you will ndmire her so much by daylight," she said, again timidly; and ho had laughed and liauded her into the carriage and disappeared beforo she knew she had ventured to say so much. i3ut ft more judicious curtain bad bei j dropped within the drawing-room; ai i ns Mrs. De Berrian sat pensively leanii i her head on her hand that bore a gleai j iug sapphire, a dark curl straying ov j he contour of the white hand set in i | lace ruff, and the damask shadow of I great vase of roses on the table, tall j than herself, falling round her, Colon I Lofebvre thought that he did admi ! Mrs. De Berrain quito as much by da ! light?although it occurred to him lat | that Bell would have called it rose-lig ! or curtain-light instead. He was co firmed in his admiration before he le her. He was not sure but that by tl tima he saw Mrs. De Berrian again 1 should be really in love with her. Ai liis little cousin Laura ? Well, thai Heaven, he could afford to marry whe he chose. She was rather an enchanting womi after her kind. ''I will tell you abo' lior " eni/l T.mirii tn liprVrmiflinfi wlif ' " * ? 1 she had endured their reproaches. "SI makes it a vital point to please?in h person, her manner, her voice. Her fat can only afford smiles, so she nevor r sents, not even such a look as Bell' She was charmingly dressed. She visiting people just on the verge i society, Mrs. Vaughn says, but si doesn't seem to belong to them. It my belief that she has had money, rv through nearly all of it, and that is In last throw for station and a husband." " Laura, where in the world,*' cric her displeased aunt, " did you pick n such "? "French novels," said Bell, who he run over. "I must say, Laura, I tliii: you took a great deal 011 yourself. No she will return the call." "She?she would like to be respect; ble," stammered Laura. " Aud yc know very well that if you waut Lucia to go and marry such a woman out < haud, you have only to persecute her. "Persecute her! You do use sele< ' terms. We let her alone?which yc had better have done." " I?I didn't want Lucian to be mo tified." " So you mortify ns." Aud by the time Lucian came homi Laura was in a flood of tears, and sobbe out, in reply to his amazed inquir " Oh, they are abusing me so !" Au then every one laughed at the idea < their abusing little Laura, the darling ( the house. "Well, well, Laura," said lie. " I' not abuse you. Iiuvite yon to ourpicn; to-morrow to Great Falls. Mrs. D Berrian will chaperon you." "Mrs. De Berrian !" rose the choru: " Madam Arroyo, the Spanish miuii ter's wife, invites her." "Well, to be sure," said Bell, catcl ing her suspended breath, " nobod knows anything about her either?an at venturers, all the legation say." "The Count Zara escorts her. suppose nobody knows anything aboi him." The Austrian attache?yes, ho h Nell hard then, he thought. " An the young Russian duke that enchante you so?" " Oh, men, all of them!" " Very fine men,and some of the fine: ladies at the capital. ['11 take caro ( you, Laura, if you'll go." " I'll go, Lucian." " Perhaps she'd best," said Bell I Helen, at the door. " I shouldn't It him out of my sight, if I were she." It was ft month later when Bell ra over one evening, as usual, now the gayi ties were so few, and sat talking gloomi] with Helen. "I never would have believed it < our Lucian," said she. "All but ei gaged, as ho was, to Laura, and wit her fortune,that would have just double 1- J 4.1^ mo uwu, uuu out; nu guui/ic?uuvt xx\j perfectly lost and infatuated over tli French doll." " I can't imagine that it is the satr brother who turned pale when we cair down with carmine on our cheeks tl: day after we first saw the French pla^ and who expostulated with us so." "Our turn now." "He would have made Laura sue a good husbaud," said one. " But now this demoralize woman "? And while they were bemoaning h decline and fall, the subject of their con plaint was whirling away in a palace*ca: surrounded by wraps and rugs aud !unc baskets aud periodicals aud Freuc candy and Mrs. De Berrian, the wa: lights shining softly down from above o the charming picture tho lady made, a, having removed her hat, she leaued bac among her cushions under the sheltf of the rose-colored scarf passed over h( dark curls. Mrs. Do Berrian had bee summoned to New York on importai business; Colonel Lefebvre had sin denly found that he had business thei too. Mrs. l)o Berrian perhaps meant t give him some business before he r< turned. Neither of them was aware tin behind the curtains of a neighboriu j section, whose births had been made n ! aud occupied just as tho train startei j teposed one of his aunts and his cousi j Laura. If simply an infatuation over me: I beauty were in case, no one could marv at Coionel Lefebvre'B infatuation. I candle-light at night, behind a veil on doors, in the dim, deep-curtained dra\ ; iug-room, Mrs. De Berrian was wort! ' a painter's pencil?delicate feature scarlet lips, deep dimples, pencilc brows, the sparkle of teeth, the so dark glow of great eyes, the snowine of the forehead under mnltitudiuoi waves of shadowy hair?beauty cou hardly bo better imaged forth, althoup possibly one might tire of it, and of tl set, unvarying smile, for all its swee j ness. Luc-ian had not tired of it yel once or twice there had crossed his mil a suspicion that its owner was not alt gether a woman of. high principle, bi whether lie had put the thought away i treasonable, or had felt with a not u: usual masculine vanity that he cou change all that, or had not just tli< cared so much for high principle, it d j not hinder liis own color from mountii j when he looked at hers, or his pnli [ from quickening when this womi | touched his hand. As for Mrs. De Be rian, she was beginning to feel a toler ble assurance that at last her penduloi position on "the verge of society" w i to be exchanged tor the lixed and sol | station of a mem er of the Lefebv j family, with all their wealth and ran ! their respectability, consideration, ai fneuds. And when it should be -wh then she meant to show the women that family who she was ! It came near being a settled fact th night as they rolled comfortably alon almost all the rest of the car behii ! their curtaius, tho soft light, half glooi ! half light, falling softly on the love face, a setting moon traveling wi them and looking in at the window every turn. Colonel Lefebvre hi changed his seat tor one at the ladj side, that the sleepers might not 1 troubled by their voices?his voic sn rather, for it was ho that talked; she ad listened, with the lovely smile, the I jg musical word. Hiti arm lay along the ! n- back of the seat, his face was bending er over hex's; her great eyes were cast up its at him in the dim light; her lips seemed a to tremble. He was noting the gentle er rise and fall of her breath, the charm of ;ol every outline of the beautiful head restre ing on that hand with its gleaming sapy phire, aware of a strange quick throb er with the thought, half a certainty, half a ht fear, that all this was doubtless his u- should he choose to take possession? >ft " Tickets !" said some one at his elbow | le ?the conductor, who had come aboard le at the last station, and who mistook id them for a portion of the gay party that lk had been taken on with himself. re It broke the spell for that night. | Colonel Lefebvre started to find how in late it was, and went away to his birth, nt leaving Mrs. D. Berrian, ill pleased, to 3u order the porter about as lie made up ie her own. er Colouel Lefebvre woko very early on ;e the next morning from his fitful slume ber, restless with feeling and with heat, s. and looking from his window, saw that is they were rolling along the green flats of of New Jersey. Then he half parted his ie curtains, and took an observation down is the car. Some one was up before him in ?some young girl; he could not see er plainly, with all the obstruction of drapery. There was a familiar fling of a id scarf. Good gracious! was that his ip cousin Laura ? The sight of her made him fall back on his pillow and begin to id recall the events of the evening before, ik It was just then that some one came rusw tling by his closed curtains?a lady who wished to make her toilette before tho a- rest of the car was astir. The sound >u stopped short; the person did not go on. m Instinctively Colonel Lefebvre glanced sf through the crack of his curtains. A " netting of the lady's fringe had caught Jt on the hook of some projecting valise? ?u the porter was disengaging it?an oldish, frowzy sort of wonfan. One uplifted r- baud grasped the curtain for support; upon it shone a gleaming sapphire. The drops started out on his forehead. Was et it?Impossible ! He sat up and glared sd at her. She held a*toilette-case in her jr: other hand. She was making for tho ;d little dressing-room. There was tho ){ same bronze green luster silk, tho same black lace about the throat, the lapel of the same rosy scarf of woolen gauze had II been that instant thrown up from her ic face. But that face ! No; it was an able surdity. And yet? It had been a horridly hot night; tho best of paint would s. run; the best of powder would cake and i. roll off; the penciling of brows would rub all about; the pigment that so darki ened and increased the eye would smear y here and there raggedly. What had j. happened to that mouth ? Or was there no mouth there. There were no teeth I there; they were in her hand. The it dimples?they were two long furrows; the scarlet of the mouth had somehow it streaked them. And as for the dropping id curls?they were dropping off. The id beautiful Adelaide De Berrian had gone out like the blown flame of a candle, and left only the ashes?had left only a worn 5t and withered woman with white lips, )f and a wrinkled pallor that was blotched and bleared, whose face had a mask, " whose mother was her painting.' o " 'False from the crown of her head it to the sole of her foot,' " he repeated, in Helen's words, and shut his eyes ; and n there sat Laura, brown-oved and fair. c- with her smooth hair, n little Madonna iy of a face, as he opened them again. An hour afterward, the other women of the )f car having clamored in vain the last i- third of that time for admittance, an eleh gant lady issue:! from the dressing-room, d crimped and curled and powdered, a w blooming, smiling picture, seated heris self in her re-arranged section, and awaited her cavalier. She waited a long ie while. While she was in the dressingie room that cavalier had stepped off the ie t ain at Elizabeth. jt As Colonel Lefebvre sat in his auut's room in the Brevoort that night, he replied to her query concern:h i?g his gloom: " Let me be. I have a right to be a little disturbed. I g have lost a friend. I have escaped a terrible danger. I have found an inis valuable possession that I had mislaid, i- What did you bring Laura here for ? r, Her summer finery ? I am going to take ;h her a long drive in the park to-morrow h morning. Say, Aunt Maria, don't you c- make any purchases till we come back, in And, Aunt Maria, don't you think it s would be stealing a fine march on them k all nr. home if .Laura and I went back on ?r one ticket"? ;r "One ticket?" :u "Well, no, not exactly. Husbands it and wives are not ono financially, are 1- they ? Railways lmvon't any sentiment." e ?Harper*? Bazar, o ? 3Proverbs.?A Home Amusement. l? One of the company who is to guess lP the proverb leaves the room ; the remaining players fix upon some proverb, iu such as " All is not gold that glitters '' A bird in the hand is worth two in the re bush ;" "Birds of a feather flock toel gether " Train up a child in the way iy he should go ;" " A miss is as good as a &* mile." A proverb being chosen, the v" words are distributed in rotation through *y the company, each player receiving a | 8> word which he must bring in the answer | he gives to any question asked by the ; " guesser. We will suppose the proverb, j bs <l Train up a child in the \yiy he should j go," to have been choseu. The first j person will receive the word " train," >h the second "up," the third "a," the ie fourth " child," the fifth " in," the sixth j "the," and the seventh " way," and so j k j on. The person who has gone out is i u' now called in, and begins his questions | ?" with the first player, something in the j ll* | following manner : <}. " Have you been ! a8 out to-day ?" A. "No I must train J1* myself to iike walking better than I do." \ h? He turns to the second player. Q. are : ^ vnn !i mpmhpr nf fliA 'Nn.t.irmfl.l (rlliird ?" 1(* A. "No I gave itw^Borae time ago."i The third player 1ms an evtsy task to 3e bring in the word a, but the fourth, m with the word child, finds his work r" more difficult. Q. " Arc you fond of a" reading?" A. '"Any child might1 118 answer that question." Now, the 118 guesser, if he be a sharp reasoner, will j K* see that this answer is evasive, and only j given to bring in the word child. He will, perhaps guess the proverb at once ; j u* and if he is a cautious personage he will go on and finish the round of questions ,y before committing himself by a guess, for lie is only allowed three. If he sue-1 coeds in guessing the proverb, he has to j o> point out the person whose answer first "I set him on the right track, who must then pay a forfeit, and go out in his turn to have his powers tested. at " " nd ! Fon Starching Linen.?Use one r's j tablespoonful powdered borax to one ' be 1 quart of boiling starch; it will improve , :e, I the stiffness and gloss. I Words of Wisdom. It in the admirer of himself ftiul r the admirer of virtue who thinks liims superior to others. Ignorance, simple, helpless ignoram is not to be imputed as a fault; but vc often men are wilfully ignorant. Men are found to be vainer on accor of those qualities which they belie they have than of those which they rea possess. Wherever there is much to offer there is much to pardon; and when the is anything to pardon, be aesured the is something to love. However many friends you have, not neglect yourself. Though you ha a thousand, not one of them loves y so much as you ought to love yourse No character will please long which uniform. To bo always jocose is bi foonery; always pathetic, silly; alwn wise, sententious; always grave, tii some. The truly great consider first how th are to gain the approbation of God, a secondly that of their own conscienc< having done this, they would, then wi ingly conciliate the good opinion of tli< fellow men. I look upon every man as a suici from the moment he takes the dice b desperately in hand, and all that folio in his fatal career from that time he only sharpening the dagger before ] strikes it into his heart. It s tho temper of a blade that mi be the proof a good sword, and not t gilding of the hilt or the richness of t scabbard; 60 it is not his grandeur ai possessions that make a man considei ble, but liiB intrinsic merit. No man can be the friend of anotli unless he loves that other better th himself; and to be able to love one n other better than yourself is to emp yourself of selfishness that you becoi better toward all the world and in all ] lationships. Like a morning dream, life becom more and more bright the longer 1 live, and the reason of everything a pears more clear. What has puzzled before seems less mysterious, and t crooked paths look etraighter as we a proach the end. It is no small commendation to ma age a little well. He is a good wagon who can turn in a little room. To li well in abundance is the praise of t estate, not the person. I will stu more how to give a good account of r little than how to make it more. Meanness and conceit are frequenl combined in the same character; for who, to obtftiu transient applause, c be indifferent to truth, and his own di nity, will bo as little scrupulous abo them if, subserviency, he can impro his condition in the world. Knowledge of the world must be coi bined with study, for this, as well better reasons; the possession of learni: is always invidious, and it requires cc sidferable tact to inform without a displ of superiority, and to ensure esteem, well as call forth admiration. Garrulous men are commonly cc ceited, and they will be found (wi very few exceptions) to be superficial well. They who are in a hurry to t< what they do know, will bo equally i clined, from the impulse of prevail! habits, to tell what they do not know. Child-love and Faith. The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise saj About three years ago a gentleman this city went East on a visit to his r home. One of his brothers there had bright and beautiful little son, not 3 two years of age. The boy?little B? ny?soon became strongly and strange attached to his "Uncle Ben, from W shoe," whose namesake he was. Un< Ben often took the little fellow in 1 arms in the summer evenings, and, sei ed in the porch talked him to sleep, such times he would point out the ei ning star, telling the boy that far, i away, just under that star, was his hon The child would look long at the st) then for as long gaze up in the face his uncle, as though thinking of what bright and beautiful place his home mi he. At last the day came wnen um Ben was to leave for hie home in the j West. Little Benny knew this as w as any one about the house, and, wi both eyes and ears, was on the alert. 1 would not allow his uncle to be a mini out of his Right. Several attempts the part of Uncle Ben to steal away : suited in such fits of crying that he ^ obliged to return and soothe the chi! However, the child wearied with cryi and watching, at last fell asleep in 1 uncle's arms. When he awoke Uu< Ben was far away. Long the boy look for his unclo. and often called his nan Many times of evenings ho was fou gazing earnestly at the bright star tl stood as a guard over his unclo's lion As he grew, his love of the star deepem and he talked more and more of i? and his uncle, both so far away at the ed of the sky. * Even when three yearn li passed, and Benny was nearly five yei old, his belief in the story told him his uncle continued. Poor boy! anotl year was never added to his age. it w his fate to die a fearful death. By ac dent ho was scalded over nearly 1 whole body and lived but four hours. ] seemed to read in the faces of the d( ones about him that he must soon d He bore his pain manfully, only ntteri an occasional moan. As the shades evening deepened he -was soen to til his face anxiously toward the window liis room. At last ho asked: "Is there?the star?" He was told that t star was there and sliing brightly. F< bly he said: "Take mo to the windov He was carried to the window. A sm lighted up his face as he said : " Now can find the way to Uncle Ben?I c see his star!" Ho closed his eyes though wearied. The smile faded out his face. One moan, as ho wnb laid his bed, and the light of his life hud go out and up to meet and mingle with tl of the star he, so long had watched a loved. To Clean Black Lace.?Plnce i lace on a clean table; have one teaspo< fill of powdered borax dissolved in quart of hot water; take a soft brash a use the borax water freely; after all" i grease spots or soiled places have be removed, use plenty of warm water w a sponge ; go all over the places so as rinse off all the borax water; place t lace?while damp, and after picking c nicely?between pieces of old black s or cashmere, and press with a warm ii until dry; be careful not to use a 1 iron. Little Emma, from Washington, \ sent on a visit to her cousin, who was officer at Fort Monroe. She beca homesick at last, and said: "Con: , please put a postage stamp on ] forehead and send me home in the cari A ROMANCE OF ARIZONA, lot I elf ' A Tale of Principles nnil a Pony vs. Beauty and Gold Untold?How Mountain Joo Bought tlie Rennt and Won the Beauty. A correspondent, writing from Tucson, 1 Arizona, to the Pittsburg Telegraphy tells the following interesting story of int; frontier life : !ve '? There comes ' Mountain Joe' on "y hiB pony," said my friend, CoL Fleance Fitz Roy, to-day, as we were seated in id, the shade of a spreading mulberry, in ire the Grand Plaza. The person referred :re j to was a handsome-looking yoong man of perhaps thirty-five, something above the do medium height, of graceful carriage and ve agile appearance. He was armed with a ou lialf-carbine, half-navy revolver, that If, hung in a belt by his left side, and was 8 clad in a buckskin suit. j?_ "' Mountain Joe,' as you call him, " colonel, seems to be rather a fine specimen of the frontiersman, but I don't see anything remarkable about his pony, to which you particularly refer." aj " Tllereby hnngs a tale, which I will unfold if you feel like listening to it." . 11- " on' * ^ ^ mean0*" ~ " ' Mountain Joe.' as he is called, was born somewhere in the Eastern States, and, infatuated with the Indian stories "e he had read, ran away from his parents ox and came to the Southwest. But he has ^8. had some Lard knocks since, and the 18 hardest were received in earning that lie pony, or rather 85 worth of it. You Bee, a few /ears ago old Senor Romuldo, ist whose ranch lies out along the Pinto he road, owned that pony and one of the he loveliest daughters in all these parts, ad He was immensely wealthy and owned a- several valuable mines, and there was no telling how much gold and silver buler lion he had stored away. an " Now, all the young fellows around n- here were crazy after the girl Inez, but ,ty Joe set his heart on'the pony, and wanted ne to buy it. He is a fellow who always :e- has his own way, and- it is a blessed good thing that his head is always right, ea otherwise somebody would get into ive trouble. But when Joe tried to buy the pony everybody thought he was balked ll3 for once. jie " The Senor asked $65 for it, and Joe dug around to raise the money. He raised it, all except $5, and wanted Romuldo to trust him for the rest of it 11 till he would come back from a hunting ?r expedition. This the old Spanish curraudgeon refused to do, and Joe vainly ,ie appealed to his friends to loan him the ^ other V. Failing, he got mad and swore J that he would not live in such a community. One day he left and was not heard from for nearly a year. he " Iu the meantime a band of Kickapoo an Indians swooped down upon Romuldo's S- ranche, during his absence in town, ran ut off his stock and carried the pretty Inez ve away into their mountain fastnesses. Several parties wcjnt ont in search of the m- captive, only to be ambushed and whipas ped. Then it was that Senor Romuldo og began to bewail the absence of ' Mounin tain Joe,' for everybody had faith that ay he could have rescued the lovely Inez as from the dreadful fate in store for her. " Finally, just as the unhappy Span,n_ iard was giving up in despair, Joe sudth denly put in an appearance. 'If you jjg will recover my child,'said Romuldo, ' I will give you a half million dollars. Yon may have half my property, and n? whatever else you may ask.' ' I am not particular about the reward,' 6aid Joe, ' but I'll try and rescue the girl.' " And then he set about making preparations for the undertaking. Several 8 . gallant young fellows volunteered to go 0f with him. but he declined their services. >1,1 Ho oiled up that overgrown revolver of his, stowed away about 500 cartridges pf and about ten pounds of jerked meat in !n_ his clothes, and taking the trail of the Kickapoos, set out in the early morning. ra_ He followed it all day cautiously, and by jle night was far up the mountains. The ai8 uext day, near noon, as he reached the at_ brow of an immense precipice, the redAt skins opened on him in the rear. ;e_ "He was completely trapped. All far means of retreat were cut off, and there ie< was death both before and behind him. m-' But Joe made up his mind to die game, of Dodging behind a rock, he opened with ; a his shooting-iron and made it lively for 18t the arabushers. Every shot told, and jle soon a dozen dead Indians were stretchfar ed out on the mountain top. But their ell comrades were undaunted, and nearly a ith hundred of them made a dash to seize 2e him. He had already killed twenty-six of them, but ho saw that he must soon on be overpowered. re- " Fight was impossible, aud preferras ring to kill himself rather than be torId. tured by the fndians, he rushed to the ng precipice, fully 2,000 feet high, and lis leaped into space. -je "But during his fearful descent he 0(1 UlU JUUt IUOD mo ?rx,cociiv;u ui muiu. uc ie. was going down near the face of the nd rocks, and observed that stunted pines lat nnd hemlocks grew out of the frequent ie. crevices. He began grasping in the tops >d, of them, which first bent and then broke, of but he found that he was breaking the ge force of his fall. For the last 300 feet ad the bushes were thick, and Joe was soon irs going down, dropping from one to the by other in perfect safety. ier " At last he reached the bottom, sufus feringfrom a few bruises and several ci- rather serious wounds received in the lis contest with the Indians overhead. Just B[o as he was congratulating himself upon >ar his wonderful escape another pack of ie. red d6vils broke the chapral and opened ng fire. Another hand-to-hand contest took of place and Joe killed nine of his enemies, rn He then started to rim along the base of of the cliff, when on a sudden the earth it gave way under him and he fell into a he deep fissure. The Indians were immeie diately upon him, and fired two or three j." volleys down the hole and then covered ile it up with immense boulders. r I " Joe had fallen twenty feet, and re:an alizing the danger from shots from as above, got under the shelving of the , of rock and thus avoided the balls. The on Indians, supposing him dead, made no >ne further investigations. Realizing his lat | desperate situation, Joe set about extrind ! eating himself, and found that he was in a vast cave with a large number of rami! fications. In the midst of pitchy darklie ; ness ho began his exploration, which ?n- contiuued for four or five days, but which a I to bim seemed as many years, nd I " The jerked meat on his person satis;he fied the cravings of his appetite, and he ien found plenty or pure water to drink. At ith last he gave up, and lay down to die to Listening intently he heard what seemed i ,lio like human voices, and this once more >ut gave liim heart. Crawling in the direcilk tion from which the sounds came, he at on length reached a point from which he lot I was able to look into a vast rotunda, ! fitted up in barbaric splendor, and j lighted with pine knots and sputtering ras 1 lamps, and there, reclining on a couch an of bear skins, he beheld Inez Romuldo me talking with an old Indian squaw, who ; sin apparently was her jailer. ny j ' At length the old hug withdrew iiuan, b." oppobite direction, umi Joe speedily % made his presence known to the fair captive. A hurried consultation followed, and the whole situation was taken iD. " Inez explained that she was held a a prisoner by the chief of the tribe, Ked c I TTlnxrlp wlift -wiis tlfltermined Bhe should 1 marry him. Red Eagle was a half- { blood, his father being a Spaniard. The F entrance to the cave was narrow, well r concealed, and its existence known only e to a few of the Indians. They still f swarmed in the mountains, but in two ? weeks were going south for a raid upon 1( the settlements, and only a small guard e were to be left in the cave. f " All this Inez hurriedly explained to n Joe, and it was agreed that he was to lie c concealed in the unexplored portions of h the cave to the rear, recover from his e wounds, and wait till the Indians left g before attempting a rescue, while Inez r was to furnish him with provisions from a her own allowance. c " The chief, Red Eagle, in the mean- g time treated her with distinguished con- ti sideration, offering her no indignities, c and ordering that nhe should have what- i* ever she called for. After three weeks a of weary waiting Inez learned from the c old woman that Bed Eagle and his tl braves had gone south, and that four S braves had been left to guard her night c and day. They took up their places in e the far corner of the great hall, and Joe n waited impatiently until they should go g to sleep. Day and night were the same y in the cave, but finally the braves e stretched themselves out one after ii anotner to Bicep. xiiat eieep wan weir last, for four shote from Joe's revolving 1 carbine fired in rapid succession killed 1 them all before either was aware of his a danger. q " The old woman was forced to guide y them to the entrance of the cave, which h was found after many and tortuous wind- e ings, and Inez and Joe emerged from o their living tomb just after sunrise. Joe E then saw that he had passed entirely f< through the mountain. b "Romuldoani his friends had long F given them both up for dead, and their o feelings may bo better imagined than c described when they returned safe and t sound after their miraculous adventures, o Ever since then Joe has ridden that pony n and has been perfectly happy." a "But you do#t mean to tell me, e colonel, that Joe got no other reward than ij that miserable little piece of horseflesh, a He married Inez, of course." a "That's the way the story writers g would fix things," said the colonel, "but e they never deal in facts as I have doue. g Tho Senor was as good as his word, and 8 got a surveyor to divide the ranch into d two equal parts, and showed Joe about a fifteen cart loads of gold and silver bul- f' lion as his share. 8 " ' No, sir,' said Joe, 'I want none of y these. I want that sorrel pony. Here i< are the 860, and I want to know if you t' will trust me for the other $5.' b "'I'll give you the pony and any- v thing else you want,' said the Senor. o ' You deserve anything that you will ask f< for.' p " But with ?11 that the Senor could do s or say, Joe made him take the 860 and a let Ihim have the pony with 85 due v on it." t, " Well, that in the most unnatural a ending to a wonderfully romantic story c I ever heard. Col. Fitz Roy, there is e something wrong with the sentiment and S civilization of Tucson," b "Now, don't deceive yourself there r again," put in the colonel. " ' Moun- t tain Joe' and Inez Romuldo are to be a married next week, and we will both go v to the wedding." t 0 Love's Defiance. fl Mr. Charles Reiche is a well known a importer of wild animals and one of the o principal owners of the New York q Aquarium and of the one at Coney t: Island. He is reputed to be worth ii 81,000,000, and his residence at Hoboken t is probably the finest in Hudson county. 1 It is situated at the corner of Tenth and ii River streets. The grounds are elabor- e ately laid out and border the Elysian Fields. Mr. Reiche had among the members of his family a very pretty a daughter, aged seventeen. He had o lavished large sums upon the education ^ of this young lady, who is a fine linguist and very proficient musician. Miss Q Reiche Bome time since formed the ac- ^ quaintance of a Mr. Gustave Kessner, a v clerk in a New York mercantile house and recipient of a salary of ?3,000 per year. Mr. Kessner is something of a beau, well educated and of pleasing manners. He is of medium height, a I blonde, with curling hair and mustache, d With t.lia nr^ttv ATiqs Reiche Mr. Kess ner soon became a great favorite, and h they grow to be so much together that s the neighbors believed him to be her ac- a cepted suitor. When at la-.t Kessner told his love Miss Reiche softly murmur- a ed an acquiescent response to his plead- o ing, and they were for a time very I happy, at least this is to be supposed, a But just at the critical moment Mr. c Reiche appeared and ordered the young L man to leave the house and to darken its portals no more. Mr. Kessner left the (] angry father and his tearful lady love, v and on the next morning ho might liuve c been seeu pacing the deck of a Hoboken c ferryboat on his way to business, look- n ing as calm and collected as though c nothing had happened. Arrived at the { house where he was employed he walked t straight to the private office of the a senior member of the firm and asked a E leave of absence for a month. The same day Kessner, it is alleged, purchased tickets for Europe for two, and sinco b then no trace of his whereabouts can be ( found. Strangely enough Miss Reiche c disappeared from her father's house on e the same day, and it is believed she g married her Romeo, and that they are s en route to the Rhineland to enjoy their E honeymoon. The affair has been kept t very quiet in Hoboken.?N. Y. Herald, x \ Crime in Jt'rance. \ _ The statistics relating to the administration of criminal law in France during i the year 1875 have just been made pub- s lie. The number of persons tried at the f assizes during the year 1875 amounted c to 4,701, as against 5,228 in 1874. Of ' the accused 1,547 were described as i; wholly illiterate, 3,042 could read and a write, 202 had received a superior edu- r cation. The men were 4,008, the women 1 783. The acquttals were 947, or over I twenty per cent. Of the persons con- t victed thirty-three were sentenced to n death, 141 to penal servitude for life, j 975 to limited terras of penal servitude, a and the remniudcr to simple imprison- \ ment, excepting three, who were only I fined. Out of 3,815 individuals con- c victed 1,818 had previous sentences re- ! f corded again?t them. With respect to ! c the nature of the offences, there were j d 369 prosecutions for crime punishable ; v by death. All the accused under this j tl category were found guilty, but 336 f "with extenuating circumstaucea." Of ; o the thirty-three condemned to death only ; v twelve were executed. I h FA Kill, brAKUiiJ nuuar.nuLii/. Feeding Cows with Grain. When our farmers learn to look upon , cow as a piece oi -wonderful and deli:ate mechanism for the production of dilk, and when thej can realize that the >roduct of any improved machine de ends upon the quality of the raw mateial furnished for manufacture, then we aay expect a revolution in the matter of Beding dairy cows. A manufacturer of I irst-class woolen fabrics cannot feed his ooms with shoddy. A manufacturer of xtra family flour cannot fill his hoppers rith sprouted wheat; neither can a aanufacturer of prime milk, butter and heese obtain the best resulte by feeding is cows with hay and grass alone. The xperience of many intelligent dairymen oes to prove that the additional profit esulting from the feeding of cows with reasonable allowance of grain far exeeda the whole profit cf feeding from rass and hay alone, while other imporint elements in the reckoning are inreased value of manure, and the diminihed quantity of hay required. The verage yield of all the cows in Mnssahusettfi (and this is higher in quantity ban the vield throughout the United tates) is but four quarts, showing of ourse that there are many cows that give ven a less quantity. Now we have in lind a herd of twenty grade cows that ave 133,562 pounds of milk during the ear 1873, averaging a daily yield Jto ny?Vi mw <->f R fin nnnrtfl: 145.296 DOunds I i the year 1874, averaging each day er cow 9.16 qnarts; 141,976 pounds in 875, averaging 9.05 quarts; while in 876 they gave 133,306 pounds, yielding daily average to each cow of 8.50 uarts. To produce this remarkable ield the cows were fed for ten months "i the year with a daily allowance to acli of one peck of bran and two quarts f cob meal, costing for the year $494. Tote the result: twenty ordinary cows sd in the usual way, according to Masachusetts average, giviug four quarts ter day, and calling the average value f the milk to the farmer two and a half entft per quart, would yield a gross reurn of $750, or $36.50 to each cow; while n the other hand our more intelligent lanufacturer, by the use of better cows, nd $494 worth of grain food (without stimating his gain in manure and savag in hay), gets from his twenty cows, t eight and one-half quart per day, nd at two and a half cents per quarts, a toss result of about $1,550, or $77.50 to ach cow; or deducting the cost of the rain food, $494, from the total yield of 1,550, we have $1,056 as the gross prouct of the milk of twenty cows, as gainst a $720 product from the cows ad without grain, or a clean profit of 336, on an investment of $494 in grain, rith the original outlay returned. Nor i this all. If the product of these wenty grain-fed cows was converted into utter instead of being sold as milk, it rould yield twenty per cent, more cream r butter than the milk from the poorlyad animal, and command at least ten ier cent, higher price on account of its uperior flavor, color and grain. Results s compared with the average return rould be 5,310 pounds of butter at thiry cents per pound, equal to $1,593, as gainst 2,400 pounds at twenty-five ents, equal to $600, or showing a differnce in favor of the cows that consumed 494 worth of grain of $993 iu the sale of utter. Since it may be claimed by aany farmers that their cows are far beter than the average, and hence the bove comparison is more striking than rould appear in their case, we have only 0 advise such to make the experiment f carefully feeding grain to one cow, nd test the difference in the quantity nd qurflity of her milk with the average 1 the herd, and if a result of only one[narter the gain claimed in our illus-.Ui/vn ?a /vKfoina/l fliof nf lfofllf tPAtll/l LUI/1UU ID UUWIU1UU) vuuu V4 icrease the present average income of he dairy fully seventy-five per cent. ]his important matter of feeding grain 3 worthy the careful investigation of very dairyman.?American Cultivator. Household Hints. To Polish Flat-irons.?If flat-iron^ re rough or smoky, lay a little fine salt n a flat surface and rub them well. It all smooth them and prevent sticking. To Clean Furniture.?A shovelful f hot coals, held over furniture, will ake out spots and stains. Bub the place rhile warm with flannel. To Prevent Door-hinges Creaking. -Rub them with soap. To Color Pickles or Preserves.? Jse grapevine leaves and a little powered alum. To Keep Milk Sweet.?A spoonful of orse-radish in a pan of milk will keep it weet for several days, oither in the open ir or in a cellar. To Cleanse Jewelry.?Use hot water nd a clean brush; rub a very little soap n the brush, then dip it into powdered lorax and scour well; rinse in hot water, nd rub dry with a clean to? el, or hamois is better; silver bangles are irightened quickly in the Barae way. Baked Apple Dumplings. ? Each iumpliug is formed with a single apple, rhich should be peeled and have the ore removed. Put into the place of the ore a piece of butter and little sugar nd spice. Cover each apple with pierust as Rmoothly and securely as possi>le. Bake in a moderate oven, turn hem frequently, and eat hot with sugar nd crcam, or what is called "hard taucc." Opthnlmln in aitfnre. C. M. F. S., Kenton, Ky., writes : " I iave a mare that has very weak eyes. )ne of them has turned that white, milky olor that usually attends very weak yes, (that is, when the eye is almost ;one,) and the other eye haa a similar peck in one corner. Can the eyes be aade all right again ? If so, please give he remedy. The mare is only four ears old, and is all right in every other pay. If you will give a remedy it will >e received with many thanks." Reply.?The disease is opthalmia, and s doubtless constitutional. Many of tich diseases occur through the very requent and very injudicious practice if breeding from unsound mares. That 'any mare is good enough for a colt," b a very wrong though prevalent idea, ,nd the effect of it is seen in the vast lumber of horses with diseased eyes or imbs, predisposed that way hereditarily. a this case procure a discharge from he eyes by applying burned alum. Take , piece of alum as large as a forty-to-the >ound rifle bullet. Put it on a hot stove ,nd let it boil until it comes to a dry ehite powder. Take this powder and >low half of it into each eye through a [uill. Do this .twice daily for three or our days. If the eyes are not then leared of cloudiness, give the mare a lose of eight ounces of salts, and after -e l Irani one ounce oi iijjjusui^uho wi num. laily for one week, and bathe the eye? rermently with a solution of five grains if chloride of ziuc to one ounce of pure ,-ater. Keep her in ft moderately dark table for a time. iicius ui iJiiticnu The heart is a crystal palace?if once broken, it can never ba mended. A tumor weighing one hnn tred and two pounds was recently successfully removed from Mrs. Tenbush, of Highland, Mich. The forests of North Carolina produce twenty-one species of oak, eight of pine, nine of spruce, seven of magnolia, eight of hickory and five of each of elm and I birch. An agricultural society offered a premium for the best mode of irrigation, which was printed irritation by mistake. An honest farmer sent his wife to claim the prize. The thirsty skeeter folds his languid vrings. Draws in his auger, and no longer sings; No more artesian wells he tries to sink, Or comos up to the bar to get a drink; In sleep he waits another season's sup; He's comatose; his pomp 1b frizzed up. A citizen of Somerset county, Ky., has an apple tree that -bears different kinds of apples on the game branches, and now and then an apple one-half of which is sweet and the other half sour. Mr. Daniel Ward, of Sticklevville, Va., has just died at the age of 110. He was a wealthy farmer, and he himself superintended his business during a part of every day up to tne ume 01 am aeam. The number of pieces required to finish a camel's hair shawl is from five hundred to four thousand. Often twenty men have worked daily for twenty years in order to finish a first-class camel's hair shawl, the highest average of wages being four cents per day to the most skillful worker. A wedding occurred recently in Arizona, the surroundings of which are thus pleasantly described by a correspondent: " The bnde in white, the happy groom, the solemn minister, the smiling parents, and from twenty-five to thirty shotguns standing against the wall ready for use, made up a panorama not soon to be forgotten. No Indians admitted. No cards." A countryman passing over the Pon; Neuf at Paris, and seeing, among a heap of shops full of merchandise, that of a banker in which there was nothing but a man sitting at a table with pen and ink, had the curiosity to go in and inquire what it was he sold. "Asses' heads," replied the banker. "m They must be in great request," said the country, " since you have only your own left." A very sensible man is fond of a good horse, the following quotation from an old English publication on "Whitestockinged Horses" will be read with interest : If yon have a horse with four white legs, Keep him not a day; If you have a horse with three wmie legs, Send him far away; If you have a horse with two white logs, Sell him to a friend ; And if you have a horse with one white leg, Keep him to his end. The Pittsburgh (Fa.) Post says that under the adjusting plan of ascertaining losses by the riots, similar to that of insurance companies, it is believed the final awards will not vary much from these figures: Railroad company, ?1,500,000; freight destroyed, $1,000,000; elevator, $150,000; Keystone Hotel Company, $100,000; Pullman Cor Company, $80,000; private individuals, $100,000; total, $2,930,000. The Auburn (N. Y.) News prints the story of the marriage of an Auburn girl some years ago to a circus man while the company was wintering there. When summer come the fellow went off with the show, and his wife heard nothing from liirn until he recently sent for her to come to him in a Western town, where he was dying. She went, attended to him in his- last moments, and received his bank-book, in which he was credited with $35,000. A Dog Bringing Up Chickens. A little friend of ours, writes a correspondent, possesses, among other pets, a fine pointer dog and a couple of pet chickens that have been deserted by their mother. The other day he fell asleep while playing with the chickens. As he lay upon the floor, with his long, golden curls streaming out upon the carpet, the chickens nestled beneath them, as tbey would have nestled beneath their mnaway mother. The pointer dog was near, and for some time had watched the proceedings with evident interest. Finally he approached the sleeper, poked the little chickens from beneath the curls, took them gently in his mouth, and carried them to his kennel. Their juvenile owner was much alarmed upon awakening and finding them gone. Alarm was changed first to surprise, and then to pleasure, upon discovering their whereabouts, and the pen tie mauner in which they were being cared for. The dog seemed perfectly carried away with / 1 .Autfinn fnr Vlin flllfirffe. Ho WOllM lUiiU <?ULd/tflVU AV* ? gently caress them, and look upon them with eyes beaming with tenderness, for three or four days the little chicks thus resided with their canine friend. At night they would repose beneath the hair of his paws, and during the day ho was their constant companion?attending to their very wants with a human care and solicitude. Finally, this unnatural mode of existence seeming to disagree with them, the chickens were taken from their strange protector, much to the latter's sorrow. The dog's conduct could hardly be ascribed to instinct; he I rather seemed to be impelled by a hu| man impulse and affection. I ???i A i'lucKy uceu. Some repairs being in progress to the roof of a house in High street, Barrstiple, Eng., by Mr. Stocker, builder, a ladder fifty feet long, was roared from the roadway. A mason's laborer, named Charles Jones, when nearly at the top of the ladder, but not sufficiently so to deposit a heavy load of mortar on the roof, was observed by George Cross, the mason, who was waiting to take the load j from him, to suddenly stop and bo in a j fainting condition. Cross immediately j went down the ladder, and removed the j load from the fainting man's shoulder I on to the roof. He then descended to j the assistance of Jones, whom he found I in a fit ready to fall, but this lie happily ! prevented by getting across him, and holding him tightly by hand and leg. Jones, in his tit, fixed his teeth iu i Cross's arm, and trembled violently as well as struggled to get free. For fifteen minutes the people below witnessed the struggle, afraid to ascend, until another brave fellow, named William "Richards, a driver of a van, ran up the ladder to the assistance of the | mason. Iii the meantime the fire-escape ladder, was brought to the spot, and in the nick cf time the police ns-cendod. and the leather belt belonging (o the escape bciup fastened round Jones, lie was lowered, still in the tit, to the ground unhurt, The mason, Cross, was much exhausted, and when he regained the ground fainted.