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JiaiL'liJUUBKP TO'PO ALL KINDS OK
J oT> I?i4iatmg;
I , , ^ Apron-Strings. f ..
' ?Young girl, what has become of
the apron strings of your niotliers?'j
' ~-2?twsj)a2)er Query.
"What indeed! Rare]y does one
It eecv now?a-days, the beautiful solici
tude gjifj lender ,'cure qf n yquug,
daughter which characterized the pe
riod of our mother's and grand-moth
'.'or's days. Milien,invoider to make'
,tlio ncquaintau^p of c, yquug |ady, il
was first necessary to be introduced
.to the parents, abd i f limy saw fit, the
young gentleman was,ilimited to call.
^JNo^w a girl hi),sx but |,o meet a young
' moAi-oncc br twice tit a friend's House,
or on. tho street, perhaps, o,;)d she
feels (it perfect liberty to ask him to
come and sec.her, ami oftentimes the
acquaintance is r.oL made by the hon
orable means ol'an introduction either.
Muimrm may possibly ask the next
morning after the first call.:
. fJ-?Vb.Q" was'.here uo late, and laugh
. cd so loudly last night, Minnie?"
And Minnie will ?nbluslnngly re
.......
ply:
?'Oh, Tom," (his given name quite \
put upon :her giddy tongue,) "Oh, i
Tom Collins, and he is just loo lovely
for anything ; such sweet heeklies and
tiny lilllc boots as ho wears 1"
Mamma smiles at the girlish enthu
siasm, and with no more' enquiry into
his-character or morals Mr. Tom Col
lins is allowed.to visit little Minnie,
lie'meets her on her way home from I
school ; carries her books, puts fool
ish thoughts into her liend, and stu-1
dibu's . onep out, and iii a sjiort time !
.lie takes her to the theater or matinee, j
perhaps, with ice-cream or oysters
after. This goes unhand bifbre Ahn- j
nie is out of the "?'JSortnul" she is cn-'j
gnged/surrepliliously may be, but it!
ends in innrijugp with a man about1
whom hei- parents know little or noth- ;
ihg; or else results in some wildly,
talked escapade whicji mars and soils
the whiteness of her maiden plumage;
Oh, 'gills, what ha6 become of the
apron" strings of )our mothers? And j
ypt G'hou'd we condemn or blame the |
poor children of the mothers V Oh, no, I
i '????? n... ? :
}pt us rather find excuse and pity for
thctn in our chari able hearts. What j
potter do they know ? Jndecd , the j
mothers of to-day?not nil, Heaven j
be praised, else we iqighl cry pi^ctdj
with bitterness, "O temporal 0.
mores!" the mothers of v*>oui' girls")
to-day are often as'lighl'andTrilliilg
as their daughters. What wilii their J
art of dressing and beautify ing, and
making youthful that which is p
it is difficult sometimes lo tell mother j
from daughter. Apron strings, iu-i
deed! who hears of them now? it is
jaunty hats, bepojning costumes, and
bewildering coiffures; as for strings,
the only kind they think or prate of,
are those they tic their pull-backs
back und pa nie is !
Oh, mothers,.pause aq instant. Tot
jyhal end will this lax fiecdorn in limcj
drift your daughters? It is fair and :
pleasant and right lo give them your
conGdence and trust ; but wo pray
you, put on some aprons once more,
and fie your girls fast to obedience,
dulj*, dignity and honor. Let ns
have the old time reign and fashion
of aprons?and apron strings !?JJ<m
prtBt.
I_
, < "Counting in."
Honor is honor?right is right?
fairness.is fairness?in any man or
party. That which wc condemn in
others wc should not do ourselves.
While it would iifford us pleasure to
sec the Democrats in power in Maine
and all the other Stales, as well as in
ihe national councils, it grieves us lo
have to confess that it is quite appa
rent to every man that in the recent
Maine squabble there has been too
much counting. As a Democrat, out
molto has been, is, and will over be;
a fnjr vole and an honest count. The
political stream is muddy and needs
fjllerijig-- needs purification. Can we
jipt get back lo first principles in this |
mittler? |f things do not take a
change ip this respect wc fear that;
before jEbsfiy -years have parsed wc
shall sec our boasted republican fab
ric, built on and supported by the
will of Uiic people, full into nothing,
and be lost.? Yiov.m?.
Sigismund K-aiU-paian, Republican
Candidate for |>n uiennnt-Guyernpr of
Ijcw Yoik |n l?7tJ, is out with a vig
oroii8 nildrpss to hi'3 l'ellpw-( Jerinan
Ke'pubUcuns, calling upon Ilium lo
Sternly oppose.a third lenn of Grant
?'.'I pules;, they wish to repeat the history
pf the decline and fall of Republics.
"If we must have a strong man and
a strong Government," lie says, "let
\)9 return to Bismarck out) lo bid iron
rule.''
Cooked Alive.
One.of Uie most sickening affairs', if
Indeed it is not ,the inoat horrible,
which It 1ms been our duty to croni
cle, happened last Saturday on the
premises of Mr. Solqp Kelly, about
eight mites from Huntsyille. There
was a hqg filling io progress and
two colored men, Hubert and Dennis
Patrick, brothers, got into a dioppte
about each other's shure iu the year's
crop. A large kettle filled with wa
ter was near by. Tho water iu the
kettle bad been heated to such a high
degree that they were waiting for it
to cool a little in order to scald hogs
iu it. The water ;\yus bo hot i,hat
they were afraid it would.'-.set" the
hair of the hpgp. This was the high
'temperature of the water when the1
brotbprs began the quarrel. Dennis,
who was the oldest, told Rubel t that
he would put him jn the kettle if he
didn't shut up, apd Hubert, the
preacher brother, told Dennis that if
j he put him (Hohei t) in the water, be
uDciujis) would have to go with him.
Dermis caught Robert and pressed
'him backward in the direction of the
kettle. 'He pressed him, both of them
having their arms locked meanwhile,
until they both went headlong into
J the kettle of seething ;.v.:iter. Their
piteous and awful sereams and moans
jsunn attracted others to the place,
who finally cxli Seated (hem froiu the
boiling cauldron. They retained their
! senses when first taken out and their,
' intense agonies were simply beyond
i description. They at once complain
ed of their hoi clothes, and \\hcn.J
j these were taken from their limps
gicut flakes pf boiled flesh went with
them, leaving tbsif bunes exposed.
The beards fell out and their hair fell
from their heads. They bad literally
been cooked alive. The sight was
such that those who witnessed it were
well-nigh paralyzed with hurror. All
possible means of relief were tried
during the night, but Hohei t died near
.day, and Dennis died on Monday.
Wo copy the above from the Uunts
ville, Ala., In<lcpt!wJeu}>
Knights of Honor.
From a recent paper wc learn that
this order is nowr.only ?ix years old,
but from an humble beginning has
made remarkable progress. It has
now in this country .1,0.0, J lodges with
GQ,000 active members. Within the
si.\ _\e?*rs of , its existence the order
bus distributed and paid in benefits
from its widows' and orphans' fund
82.0gT,930..(>! , and its average annual
distribution und payments amount to
8100,000. Tho Knights of Honor is
a grand, organized, systematic chari
ly, with its members chiefly from the
middle classes cf ?oeiely. It is also
of great advantage by elevating
its ipcipbprs socially and morutly, ami
is most bcneliciul in its relief of suffer"
ing and prevention of poverty, and is
therefore a benefit to the whole com
munity even uutside of ils own organ
ization. Its ptabilily and soundness
have been thoroughly tested, and the
pledgee p? iia numbers c|pi be relied
on, as lias been amply proved, The
Knights of Honor's s)stem is much
more economical and reliable than
the established systems of life insur
ance. Ttie Knights paid ??? the yel
low fever season of 187b', $500,000 in
benefits without difficulty.? Yeoman.
Death of Bishop Haven
Rev. Gilbert Haven, D. I)., one of
the Bishop of the Methodist Kpisco
pal Church, died January 3, 1880, at
the home of his mother, Mulden,
Mass.
Bishop Haven was abundant in la
bqrs, specially zealous in the inter
ests of the colored people in the South,
He hud few equals as an off-hand
speaker and writer. His ultra views
on the race-color problem, vnd his
out spoken manner of presenting
those vievs, barred greatly bin ac
cess to the whites of the South gen
erally. His professed convictions us
an anti.slavery and race-equality
man, were doubtless held in all sin
cerity ; while men in the South were
equally sincere with a different faith
and conscience-Trhpth vtlic result of
?ir^Jl j-V.-tS. .>?. ...Vi. -frivw ? grist <lv
education. Here is the only ground
from which roenpf differing faith and
conscience can judge each other with
out contravening the greatest of all
laws or principles?charity.?Heigh'
bor.
Fno&i an explosion of celluloid in
Newark, N. J., on l||o 6lh inst., the
building in winch it was stored was
destroyed, three men were instantly
killed and two other sp badly rpanglcd
tUqt they puunqt reepvpr.
Grantism.
There is a desperate effqrt ,ljeing
made to give a little notoriety to tlie
tact that a lew mulconlontp at the
South have, in a wild sort of a way,
said that they would bo willing to
have Grant rather thau a Radical
President. It is more and more up
parent every duy that Grant is the
willing candidate of the Radicals in
1SS0, hut it is cquully more and more
certain every day that there is no
such thing as a Grant party at the
South. There is tio choice for a Pres
ident from the South, cither among
Democrats or ' Republicans. Roth
parties in this section await the ac
tion qf their conventions, which will
be lef/t prc.tty much to the dictation of
the North. As to the Democratic
preference among Radical candidates
the South, as a section, is opposed to
one of them as urstrlher. To us, Grant
is particularly obnoxious and pecu
liarly antagonistic to everything
Southern. Morally and socially he
is nobody, and incapable of ever be ?
ing made into anybody, for he has no
instinct upon wh,ieh to ,build a decent
set of ethics. Ho is VUlruipin'mg" the
South, and appears hoio npd there to
strike a community conspicuous for a
turn .out of a dozen or so prominent1
inen-r-most of them Northern men or
West Pointers. Tho town of Benu
fort was unique in its welcome. It
was our native place, and we are
pleased to note that, though Klliolt,
Stuart and Yetdier were in the throng,
we saw no Burnwcll, .Gibbes, Hamil
ton, Means, Rhett anil many others
that we might mention. The duties ol
the present may call upon us to bury j
many thoughts of the past, but why j
Beaufort geuljhiino^ should turn put j
with Stpalls in a Grant procession on j
an emancipation anniversary passes:
our comprehension.?liiiujslrw iStitr. '
American Aristocrats.
Twenty years ago Ibis one made |
candles, that one sold candles und
butter, another butchered, ? a fourth
carried ou a distillery, another was a
a contractor pncanals, others wercj
merchants and mechanics. They are
acquainted with bc|.h ends of society,
and their children will Uo ?fter them,
though it will not-dp to say so out
loud. For often you. lind these toiling
worms hatch butlciilies?aud th^y
live abc-u'. a year. Death brings a
division of property, and it brings
new'financiers. The old gent ia dis
charged, the young gent takes reve
nues, and begius to travel?toward I
poverty, which be reaches before
death, or bis chilidien do if he does
j not, so that, in fact, though thero is
a sort of moneyed rank, it is not here
ditary ; it is accessible to ull. The
father grubs and grows rich; his
children strut and use the money.
The children in turn inherit pride
and go shiftless to poverty. Nc3?t
their children teinvigoialed by fresh
plctiian blood un by the smell of the
clod, come up again. Thus society,
iike a tree, draws ils> sup from the
carlh, changes it into seed Sud blos
5hju1s, spreads them aronnd in great
glory, sheds them, to fall to the earth
again, to mingle with the soil, and at
length to reappear in new dress and
fresh garniture.
Sixteen Sons in the War.
Rev. Duniel S. Helton, a Baptist
preacher of Roane county, Tenn., ia
eighty eight years old, anil is as active
as most men of fifty. He recently
walked three miles to give testimony
at the counlv seat and returned the
same day. He suya; "I pan sight a
l i?e-guu as I could sixty years ago,
ami can bring a squirrel Dearly every
lime, and only for a slight tremble in
the hand would not miss one shot in
u hundred." He had sixteen sons in
the war?fourteen on the Federal sidp
and two on the Confederate side. He
has been twice married, ami is the
falber of twenty-four children. He
served in the war but draws no
pension,
It is authoritatively statpd here
that ex-Senator Sprqgue, who has
been for some wcaks engaged in
taking privalp depositions for use in a
divorpe Spit which he shortly contem
plated bringing against his wife, be
corpe satisfied yesterday that he could
adduce no substantial proof with
whicji/lp sustain his former allcga
tiorfl ngalnsi Mrs.' Sprrtgoe, and in
structed his lawyers to proceed no
further in the mutter. A 1 reconcilia
tion between the husband ;\iul wife is
looked for as the eventual result of
I this.?- Washington Post.
Acknowledgement.
Editor Oravgeburg Democrat:
Tdicrc io a line old air beginning,
"XjJirLci,m;is comes but once a year."
&c., nduch most of. your renders bave
beard and doubtless appreciate. But
we,do not pi oppose to say much on the
musical subject Just now. We re
ceived a bandsomc sum presented lo
us during the CUriBtruns holidays as a
token of appreciation of our musical
service a3 organist, and wc take great
pleasure to acknowledge ,tbc same
through your valuable columns ; and
herewith return to Mr. ?arncj) II.
Haigler, our young friend and bi/jlh-,
er, for the active part he took in this
spontaneous effort-, our earnest, sin
cere and heartfelt thanks for his kind
remembrance.; and through h*m to
express the same lo those who have
so generously aided him in this work
and labor of love.
With love and gratitude my heart is llilcd
And those w ho thought of my toilsome
lot,
. S||;|11 never, never be forgot.
Wc also received some months ago
the sum collected by Mrs. K. K. Oli
ver, for the same purpose, and return
to her and those who assisted her the
same grateful thanks. We have often
feit o.ur inability as an organist, yet
under the ciruuuistjapcca wc feel n
conscience .clear th^it wc have done
y.hft w,e cohM. It is extremely grat
ifying to know that all, from the gray
headed lathers lo ihe little children,
and ihosc also whtaRd'o not belong to
our grand old Lutheran Church, had
us in kind rcmci&Urancci, May the
God of love and infinite wisdom rich
ly reward them alj for this liberal
gift. We had on lud Ja und ay a very,
pleasing auii interesting Sunday
school sei vice at Moupt Lebanon
Church.. A large and attentive con
gregation being out 'Lo witness the
happy children recejyp tj,ie,ijr pri^e
books. The sweet ami tender'similes i
that played o'er their faces bespoke
the joy and happiness within, llev.
o. T. Holluian addreBsedtbe children
in his usual plea&Tfl^^ifhiincr, giyln'g
them some very beuutiful illustrations!
s.^itajblc on such occasious. Then
our faithful und fatherly superintend
ent, who often gives ihe children a
Sunday talk, did not fail on this joy
ous season to once more warn and en-;
courage his sehooj, in a ypry interest
ing manner. Then the sermon.
Words fail us heic, and we had better
lay our pen away or close our article
It was a rare treat and kept us chain7
ed till \vo hud paid a short visit to
Bcthlcherm to sec the sweet and inno
cent Christ-child wrapped in swad
dling clothes lying in a tnapgpr.
With a hearty wish IJiaL the editors
of J-hc PEMOpitAT had a merry Christ
mas and a happy new year, wo bid
you adieu. A. M. It.
Oak Guove, Dec. 29th, 18711.
Luck and Labor.
If the boy who exclaims, "Just my
luck !" was truthful, he would spy,
?'Just my lay/tncBS \" or "Just my in
attention!" Mr. Cobden wrote pro
verbs about "Luck and Labor." It
would be well for boys to memorise
Lhem :
Luck is waiting for something to
turn up.
Labor, with keen eyes and strong
will will turn up something.
Luck lies in bed and wishes the
uostinau would bring him news of a
legacy.
Lubor turns out G o'clock, and with
busy pen or ringing hammer lays the
foundation of a competence.
Luck whines.
Labor whistles.
Luck relies on chances.
Labor on character.
Luck slips down to indigence.
Labor strides upward lo [ndenend
juce.
Mrs. Meekcn's Horriable Slory.
Cincinnati, January C.?A special
[Vorn Altunosa confirms the horrible
rumor that tho Meeker women were
outraged while in the custody of the
Ute Indians. This fact was given
with details to thp commission, but
Llic women begged thut it be not
oiado public. Mrs. Meeker now pub
lishes a letter telling the whole story,
from which it appears that the choice
was given them of submitting to the
ilcsigns of their captors or of su fie ring
ilcalh. 'lbp examination further dis?
closed tl.af.they wero permitted, as a
lufjt alternative, with the exception of
Mrs. Meeker j to choose from among
thp phiefs whp should cohabit with
them during their captivity following
the massacre at the agency.
Putlo Death -by-Pirates.
Chicago, January 2.?A dispatch
rrohi Battle Creek Mich., announces
the dcatli of an old sailor in the poor j
house at Cassopolia, who,,in Iris last
moments' told a most remarkable
story of the mysterious fate of Aaron
Burr's daughter, Theodoala Burr
Alston, nearly three-quarters of a cen
tury ago. Mrs. Alston was the only
daughter of the Slatesmdti-ss-tt woman
of beauty, refinement and most, amia
ble character. She eailecj from Char
leston, S. C, on December 30, 1812,
for New York, in the Patriot. The
vessel was never heard1 from again.
It .\vas never known whether she
w.cut ?iO\v.i at fea or was captured
and destroyed by pirates. The death
bed confession of Benjamin' F, Beri*
driek, the sctl?r mentioned, solves
the mystery, Berulick, who has been
an inmate of the Cassopolis poor house
for some time, died yesterday. .Just
before lie died he sent for the keeper
and other pcrsonsiohncctcd with th.e
establishment and told them he bad a
So'cmri confession to make. His
statement, which was taken in detail
by bis nsttiriiihed hearers, was in ef
fect that the Patriot was CRpt.ujed by
a crew of pirates, of which he was a
member, on January 3, 1813. They
took possession of the vessel arid
forced the captain, crew and passen
gers to walk thi plank'.
Mrs. Alston was one of the doomed
passengers. She begged to be spared,
but her entreaties were unavailing.
She dressed herself all in while, and
with a Bible in her hand, waited calm
ly, but with a 'blanched face, for the
fatal order. When it came she mov
ed silcntlv' and with a steady step
from the group on the deck, clasping
her Bible to her breast. She stepped
upon the death plank without n tre
mor. It was Benedict's lot to pull
the plank beneath her. The dying
sailor BttjS the scene has haunted him
ever since. The white face of the
doomed w.oman walking calmly to
her death 1 was present in all his
dreairs, and scarcely ever loft his
thoughts. He expressed penitence
for his part in the crime, saying he
was fprced to obey the decision of
the J.Q.t at tho peril uf his |ifc,
1 : ? A Beautiful Thought.
W hen the summer of youth Is sipw
ly wasting away on the nightfall of
agej and the shadow of *'ie path be
comes deeper and life wears to its
close, it is pleasant to look through
the vista of lime upon the sorrows
and felicities of our early years. If
we have had a home to shelter, aqd
hearts to rejoice with us, and friends
have gathered round our fireside,' the
rough places of wayfaring will have
been worn and smoothed away in the
twilight of life, and many dalk spots
we have passed thtough will grow
brighter and more beautiful. Happy,
indeed, are thpse whose intercourse
with the world bns't changed the tone
of their lighter feeljugs, or broken
those musical chords of tho he^rl
whose vibrations' are so melodious, so
tender aijd so touching in the eve
ning of their Jives.
Bloody Mexico.
Bio Gkandk, January G.? Rumor;;
of a resolution in the State of Durun
go, Mexico, have reached here, par- ,
ticulais, however, are meagre. Some
time ago General Trevino waB order
ed from Monterey to suppress the in
surrection in Durango, and news was
received yesterday that he had been
defeated by revolutionists and was
calling for assistance. All available
troops at Monterey have been sent to
his aid and the government is raising
incn. The prevailing opinion is that
lips revolution will be general, us it
is well planned and extends, it is un
dcistood, throughout the greater part
of Mexico and will have gained im
mense proportions by the jst of
March.
TiiERK were neaijy five hundred
"mystciipus disappearances'* in the
United Slates last year, and in many
eases no trace of the missing party
was ever found. In connection with
these statistics is tho statement, that
a largo majority of thoso who disap
peared and left no clue behind were
married Ittf-Pi Vut whether this addi
tional fact is simply intci)cd in Ihc
way of information or is meaut to re
lieve the police generally pf responsi
bility for not unravelling the myste
ries by insinuating that most of the
cases were hen-pecked benedicts fieo
ing from broomsticks and pokers, is
j left to conjecture.
insolent und Unfounded,,
Tho following article from the New
York Sun deserves unqualified con
demnation, .for it is both insolent to
the South and without justification ?in
the facts. It the Sun is only as true
to Democracy as tho South is there
will be no complulnt as to its course.
'1 his paper, however, scams to lake
pleasure in abusing tjhcSonib and our
people whenever opportunity affords,
and has done tho Democratic party
and the country as much harm as-any
paper in the country by its persistent
abuse and misrepresentation. The
article given below is n fair sam
ple of the fabrications which em
ntnito fi;o.m its columns: MMr.
Don Cameron was made Chair
man of tho Republican National -Com
mittee, not only because he is bold,
rich "find powerful, but because be is
personally' on tho best terms with
many of the Southern lenders. This
j.s remarkable, but it is also true.
lf.o .wjnes and dines them, and trans
potts Uie).h free lo horse races and
other entertainments. Resides, Mr.
Cameron is always ready, as his father'
was before him, to grind a little axe
for any of them ii? a strait'; to get an
appointment made, a contract protect;,
ed, or a railroad pass provided.
Those who think these relations of no
importance may remember how be
shouldered iplo. the JJppuldican Sen
ate Gen. liutlcr, of South Carolina,
when all ihe organs were denouncing
inm ns the author of the JJamburg
massacre. The conspirators of the
third term look forward to a period iu
their game when they may need
Soulhein support, and in case It should
be , necessary to count Grant in, and
6cat him by force, they want the Con
federate long-swords on their side*
This is the meaning of the Grant dem
onstration among the worst of the late
rebels. With the existing Administra:
lion, with the regular army under
Sherman and Sheridan, and the Sow
er of the Confederate brigadiers, the,,
conspirators think they* would .'be
strong enough to defy the people,
North as well as South. The Confed
erates traded with Hayes, and why
should Ihcy not trade with Grant ?*'
Concealed Weapons.
If there was a luiiv in the State pun
ishing men for wearing concealed
weapons, says the Georgetown Times,
the practice would be checked, if not
entirely stopped,and our courts would
have fewer of those blood-euidling
crimes to deal with, which are so re
volting to human nature, and which
generally brings sorrow and distress
Lo some household, it matters not
how poor or humble the unfortunate
victim may be. The editor of the
Abbeville Medium, writing cn the
same subject, remarks: "Every at
tempt made by the Legislature to
prohibit the carrying of concealed
weapons has been a failure. Why
wp cannot tell. It is no sign of
bravery or manhood to go through
life with a batttery under your coal
tail and it is not much of an achieve
ment to kill a nigger or shoot a bad
dog, but the General Assembly seem
to think there is no use for lagisla
tion on this scoie. Public spntimenl
pould t fleet a cure of this abuse if it
would take proper hole) qf tpp sub
ject. There is absolutely no necessi
ty for any firearms at all in 03 peace
ful a country us this, where the laws
arc in force, and the courts are open
for the trial of every offence against
one's person or property. If we were
desperadoes or all our neighbors out
laws, liiere would be some sense In
going around like walking arsenals,
but it is a slander upon our civiliza
tion and a disgrace to our ru.anhood
logo through life armed with pistols
and murder in our hearts. The Leg
islature should make it munslaughtpr
for any man to even carry a pistol, or
pass an act requiring every man de
siring to go armed, to get a license
from the clerk of.the Court, paying
therefor twculy-fivo dollars a year
lo bo turned over to the County
Treasurer for the benefit of the public
Bchools.".
Nothing like a family quarrel to
disclose family seercts ! Hero arc the
Brooklyn Republicans accusing each
other of treachery and bargaining with
the enemy in the late election and in
the"heat of lue light up rises c.x-Sherill
Dngget, who is ireasp cr of v!?e Re
pubiioan organization, he djscloses
the details of a bargain with John !
Kellcy by which the Republicans
gave seven thousand dollars to Mr.
Kelly j and kept the independent Dem
ocratic ticket iu the field.
Sad-Hearted.
As a sample of the-strange things
Hint often,find their way into a-news,
paper office, we append the following,
sent to us by a lady with the state
ment that it had been found among
some old letters of a lady who died
of hasty consumption about a year
ago: *tf would to God I had never
met your! Then the deception you
have .practiced on me would never
have taken root so deeply in this
poor, sore heart of mine?you, who
knew well that your heart wasguveu
to another ; you, who knew the .weak
ness of human nature, having boon in
my company three .or four limes a
week for the last two years, knowing
my disposition and nature aaoniy one
who baa won the coincidence and trust
can know. Still, you would go on
day by day leading me to believe
you thought mere of me than any
j other of your many lady friends,
j Once I believed you all honor, and
^ that rather than give another pain you
would deny yourself almost any en
joyment \n Hie world, J wish you
joy with your new love, but I pray
\ou will once in a while let your
memory drift back to days gone by,
when you and I woudercd over hills
and through Acids with ouly one
thought and that for tho welfare and
happiness of. the other. Pray do not
strive to forget jthem. I pray God
to forgive you. I will try to. As for
me, I shall go on day by day, work
ing as .though not a care or a sorrow
ever troubled my weary life, and no
ooo wiJU ever know a paor^ tired,
brokcK heart lies buried in my bosom,
When i think of the many, many
times you could have told me of,your
love, for another, that J might liavo
mastered my.own he?yt rind schooled
myself to believe that my pjace in
your affections was only a small bit
compared to the tender feelings you
cherished for another ! IJuc still you
led we blindly Qni HuQwing dip while
yp^.wcre duing mp a wrong tbaVyou
could neVps remedy. But1"we'fpu'stf
livp and learn. Perhaps the lesson
yap have taught me I may profit by
in years to come. One thing : I will
never place the confidence in another
man that I have in you, even though;
he were ray husband. J find ih;\t
even ray best friend would not liesU
talc a moment to gratify his own
pleasure at the risk of wounding my
feelings. You, v, ho alone could have
savpd me this pain, have taken all
the brightness out of my life. Qoil
grant that you iqay ever he happy,
arid never know the pain J have suf
fered."?Exchange.
How a Colonel Won a Bridle.
The Hartford (Conn.) correspond
ent of the Springfield Republican tells
the following story of Gen. II. W.
Birge, formerly of the Thirteenth
Connecticut volunteers: Birgc was
over a fine horseman, and it was
while he was recruiting his regiment
that the incident occurred. The colo
nel?:as ho was then?was riding down
the street when hb saw in the secoud
story window of a harness shop on
elegant bridle. "What will jou take
for that bridle 1" said $irgp to the
propriptor. "You may have it frep
if you will ride tip [here apd get it,'*
was tho reply, 'j'his was. no aopuer
said lliau the pojqnel turned his
horse's head and spurred him up the
wooden staircase that led to the sec
ond story, seized the bi idle, tu med
and rqdp down again?this last being
as Birgc phrased it, "the only tick
lish part of the job." The horse that
performed this feat was very highly
valued by the general, and was tcn
de:ly cared for as long as he lived.
Defalcation and Suiojcje,
Frauds on the Produce Exchange,
New York, to the amount of ?31,000,
have been discovered. The defaulter
was Benjamin F. Bogert, Avho bo^
been Ticasurer of the Exchange lor
many years and was a highly res
pected merchant in whoip geneial
confidence was felt. Bpgpft did upt
appear at the Exchange or nt his
office* alter the discovery was madp
and died very suddenly on the 8th
inSt. at the house of a friend in that
city. U is thought that, unable to
bear his disgrace, lie may have com
mitted suicide,
There dipt) feepnf,|y in Kansas Nich
olas Wyk er, vi hp used to he a cleigy
tnan in Burks county, Pa. Ho mado
it a ruble cany $1,000 in cash around
with him in an old carpet satchel,
keeping up the habit until his death.
He had read the Bible through from
beginning to end just ouo hundred
times, and knew much of it by heart.
