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VOLUME XXVL-NUMBER1.S
TROY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1882.
HVnOLE NUMBER, 1,301.
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THE BINDOOSSE&KCHJ FOB T&tfTH.
AD the world orrr I ler, in Undt that I h-t bare
Are tbiwpte eternally -rtklnjc fr lb ! fl- f
Ttawwd sen the n. and "orta " Z
Do they all Und fiwiiifc " errr, and what tbe "
kMWI
nrw In tbl WTtiral India, tU dtiea l"".
Like th wlblXtM hard In the trw-lon-, or tin. svu of a
Io tbSS!bS?Sia toU, their frrt the iVi are
Tet wTa5saT, "Wbenre I the jaMwas. 1 what my
1 woodrr mn t
A minion hriDeJi atai! pm. and errr tWenor wins.
Aa theyUnr to n.ytlcal ijiaboU. or the CSurr. of aKKot
And tbfiiur rUes ever, and rises tbe cadleM fry
Of tboae who are hrarj laden, and f coward krtb to die.
For the denOny drirei ua tocrthcr, like dew in a Jaiui of
Atorelstneakr, and arooDd l the sound and the hot
Tuned by power we ere not; and struck by a power nn-
T pray to the trrea for shelter, and preaa or Upa tu
attioe.
Here are the tomU of my kbaaMk, the first of an ancient
Chiefawbo were iJaia en the war-field, and wmnen who
died In flame; ...
They are fod. the? lines of the furttime, they are aptrita
whe ffukle or race
Ercr 1 wikh and worship ; they ait with a marble fare.
And the myriad Idol around me, and the legion of matter.
The rerrU and nt nnboly, the dark, un-pt-altalile feat ;
What hare they wroag fruut the Mleutei Hath ertn a
wbfcper rome, , ,
Of the errrt mbence and whither! AUa! for the pod
axednmb.
Khali I lUt the word of the EnslUh, who come from the
miurnneMt m I
The aecret, hath it been Ud you. and what fa Jour mea-
aasetomef " , .
It U naught but the wcM-wideUiry, haw the earth awl
the heat ena began.
How the coda are glad and angry, and a IMty once wa a
man.
I had thought, Terchance in the rifle, where the rubra
of India dwelt .
Whoie order tla-h from the far land, bo pnlle the earth
with a unell, ,
They hate fathomed the depth we float on, or meanred
the unknown main."
Sadlj tbry tarn fr-m the venture, and nay that the peat U
Main.
la life, then, a dream and delaftion, and where hall the
dreamer aw aVet
Ii the w.itbt aeen hke ibadowa on water, awl what if the
mirror break 1
Wiall it paM a a ramp that I struck, aa a tent that lagath
errd and Cne
Yttm the Mintla that were Uniplit at ere, ami at monimg
are let l and lotte t
I there naaeht in the heavens above, wbenre the bail and
the levin are hurled,
Hut the wind that in awept anmnd na by the ruh of the
roUinc woildf
Tb wind that fthall ncatter my asb-, and bear me to
alienee and aleep.
With the dlrpe, and the wrund of lamenting and voire f
women w no weep i
j$dsd
Mm
IN A THOUSAND YEARS.
I wa dead and buriwl.
At least I was dead, and was citi to 1ms bur
ied, I died riglit nuddenly. One afleriKKtit I
hal a piece of work to do, which bad to bo fiu
inbed off lM'fore dark tlint nifbt, or the sky
would fall. 1 wad working nith wilit ami
tiiaiu, with rimhI Uom that I ciilil coniiIrte my
tatk and le happy, when who should drop in
hut Itoni. Ibirns ih a chronic doukey. Somu
tiuieN I'd like to crack IlornV t-knll, I feel ko en
raed at liiui. lie comes to our Iiouet and Mtt
the day out, if we happen to all Ins very lni3
iude'd. I don't tliank anjlwnly for coiiudk to
my hoti.', im evcuiut ami Sunday. I hate a
few, very few, soml old friend, whom I partic
ularly ask to come. I expect to waste my time,
for them, and I don't mind it; hut life isn't long
enough to waste any of it on that lloru. I'm
hut a dreary nIow-jMike, anyhow, and although
I race a hard a I ran, from morning to night
erery day, feall that I'm about tvo years be
hind the rest of the world. I'm a constitutional
poke, a great a ioke as the Constitutional Con
ention. Itorus knows all that; bnt Horns doesn't care.
Not he! Kvery once in a while, he come in
and wpiats himself for a day's talk. When Mo
ras cornes, or any other chronic visitor, I can no
more write thauif I were trying to make a com
ic almanac with the hangman's rope anmnd my
neck, and lie standing over me waiting to tight
en the loop under my left ear. Yea! I can no
more write with that stale, stupid, staring IIo
rus in thehon.se, than if Old Nick was sitting
on my writiug-denk, waiting tolly away with
nte as soon as I finished. On the whole. I thiuk
1 hate visitors. Yes, I'm snre I do. That i. to
ayt I like visitors rent well, if they'll only stay
away from me, I hate no ill-will to them, per
jte. Rut my living depends on my having my
precious, golden daylight week days to do my
work in. When people come and steal tboe
golden daylight week da s, or any part of them,
from me, then those people steal just that much
of my Jiving, and It doesn't do them any good,
either.
Drat that Boras!
Ilorns came and stole my afternoon, and car
ried it away with him. I didn't get my work
half done, I was ho overcome with rage and
disappointment thereat, that I fell down in a tit,
nu d before I could take off my false hair, I was
dead. Itesides that, when I fell over in the fit,
my belt-buckle fell uppermost, -and the weight
of it crushed the breath out of me. That is the
simple story of my sorrowful termination. I'm
half inclined to think that life is bnt a vapor.
So I died, and was going to be buried. I was
dressed in my coffin costume. I must say they
didn't dress me as nice as I thought they might
have done, all thiugt considered. Hut the
friends bought my husband a beautiful black
suit to attend my fuueral in. I beard and saw
all that was going on, as I lay there dead iu my
ofliu. I never knew that was the case with
dead folks in general, but perhaps an exception
was made in my favor. I must say again that I
didn't feel flattered by the carry ings-ou oer m
iu my coffin. The p'artner of my late Joys ar
rayed hiuiNelf in hishhiny new black suit, and
in the intervals of his shedding tears, peeped
ulyly into the looking-glass, to nee how it fitted
him. I tet ween ourselves, he didn't shed more
than half a many tear over my dead body as I
always thought he would. And I heard an old
maid say to a widow : .
"Skimmins is a good-Iookin man, ain't he I
Aud if he takes care of them clothes, they'll do
for his wedding suit, when he gets hi second
wife. I wonder w ho tholl le V
It has always lteen a fancy of mine, that I'd
like to go aloug with the folks to my funeral, to
nee whether they gave tne a big funeral, and
particularly to hear what they Raid, and m-
whether they cried much or not. (I always
wanted a big fuueral.f Well, mv whim was
gratified in one resjiect. at least. I heard what
they said abont me. The people whom 1 ptr
ticularly didn't like, while iu the lMdy, nil came
to my fuueral. Old Mr. Wigger, who had ,
slandered tne behind my bark, aud hated me '
mortally, was the firt one to come. She perch
ed herself at the head of my coffin, and gave a
history of me to everybody who didn't know all
about it already. J mt before the fuueral was
ready to start, the old hypocrite went into the
closet, took down my new bine cloak, which I'd
never worn, aud put it nu her own old back,
and coolly strutted off with it. She umed
around a little while among the monmerswith
her ugly crocodile face, and then sneaked off
and sat down by the kitchen ctove, and smoked
her pipe. A spark or two dropped down from
her old black 'baccy pipe, and burnt a hole in
my new clo.ik. How I did arhe to jump out of
my coffin and tear her cap off for her, the old
thing!
The Hypothenuses were out at my fuueral in
full force. They whispered together, and I
heard one of Vm say;
Thank heaven, we have heard thelavt of her
clack r
One woman gazed upon my inatuutate corpn
with all the malignity of a gray-headed mosqui
to, aud remarked :
"SkinimtUft'U have some peace now, I s'poe.
He looks as if he needed it, poor man.
Thev several Hypotheunses remarked in cho
rus: 4Xow weH have peace all round."
My relations looked serenely at my cold clay
it was atonishing how compoM-d they all
wen and murmured :
Natural as life ; know it anywhere. Always
had that smr, rll-na tared look poor thing!
Borus that coudeuinable old sticking-plaster
who bad finished me Ilorns was there, too, in
the corner, with the Hypothenuses, to one or
another of whom he would remark, eeryuow
and then :
Queer creature, that E. A. Hadn't manv
friends. I used to pity her. Sometime, from
sheer compassion, I used to drop in and talk to
her a few minutes. She told me, the day she
died, that my society was an unspeakable cou
solation to hrr.w
The corps could hardly keep its face straight
in the coffin, after that. How dead folks are
lied on! The corpse never wanted to do any
thingiuits life as badly as it wanted to choke
that'Korn, after it was dead. How the corpse's
fingers did burn to pull Bora's nose! I always
wanted the Wicked Parsou to preach my funer
al. I know I shouldn't have to goto the bad
Mate if he preached It. That's why I wanted
mm. But old Mr. Wigger was Ikm of ceremo
me at my funeral, aud idie had a .ptte at me.
Sl Ti Tked wa"u l Mmmoned at
witty, ad wise, and hright as I was, jnt w he
could fan the blazes all the hotter and higher
forme down there iu that bad place That's!
favorite dodge of orthodox parsons, wheu they
are preaching alwnt dead sinner, I've notice!.
I've heard fifty-nine such sennous about Iord
Byron, in my time. An expression of heavenly
satisfaction t npou the couutenance of Old
Wiggers a the preacher proceeded, and beamed
out like a snnburst when finally he conveyed
thi, our aister, down to that bad place, and
laid her ujMin a shelf, to wait her turn fur roast
ing. I tell you, the corpse was furious!
Nothing was aa I wanted H, and nobody cried
half as much as I expected. I was disgusted.
Next time I had a fuueral, I thought I'd prefer
not to know about it.
For reasons already stated, my residence in
the tot-morta worldwas mostly a kind of con
fused bewildennont to me. However, I found
myself able to answer a question which I have
heard asked an immense number of times in
Sunday School chorus, as follows:
Shall we know each other there r
Shall we know each other! Shalt we know each
other t
Shall we know t Shall we kuowf
Shall we know each other f
No; and I'm glad of it.
For what seems to me a very indefinite time. I
lay buried. For all I could remember, it might
have been an hour, or it might have been a mil
lion years. I had no longer any consciousness
of the Higbt f time. Ail was mostly a blank to
me, uutil I had a sudden consciousness of a dig
in my ribs. Dig! dig! it came again, twice and
three times, now at the other side, and now at
the back of my neck. At the same time, I heard
a curious murmuring, which at length cleared
itself into the sound of a soleiuu, pompous voice.
My eves oned a little, and I heard and mw
that the voice proceeded from a dignified, owly
geutleman, who looked like a professor of an
cient languages. He held a ennous sort efbook
in his hand, and Holemuly read through his now
a lot of fctuff, fn which I could hear, ever and
anon, wonls about the Mystery of Wooden Men.
At the same time was kept up that ferocious
dig! dig! at my ribs. I struggled wrathfiillv
to give utterance to my feeling, and at length
found voice enough to exclaim:
'Stop punchm!
Kind reader! It was in tlieyearS&l. and I
had len in a trance one thousand jcar. You
remember the legend of the Seven SIeeiMrs in the
Catacombs of Kome seven young and beautiful
Christians who went to sleep one day, and slept
a hundred years, until the persecution of Chris
tian had 'long since ceased, aud the Set en
Sleepers waked at the end of a hundred years,
as young and beautiful as ever. So it was with
me. I had been asleep a thousand year, and
had jiiit waked up from my ten centuries' tdum
Iter, jiifct as young and tteautiful as ever just
exactly. I had awakened in the llerealter,
among the people of the Hereafter. There was
but one person among the Hereafters w ho under
stood my talk. It was the owly-lookhig gentle
man, who appeared like a ptofessor of ancient
language, lie had spent years and years in
acquainting himself with the olisolete aud bar
baroiiK Knglish language, for the particul.tr
purpose of deciphering certain ery ancient m
Hcription, and a1ove all, in Ihim he might
somehow wdve the mystery of the WimmIcii Men.
Tor fifty year, says the Professor, yiu
and certain other similar relict hate been a pro
found puzzle to the scientific world. All t bene
relics wire found together iu a cave."
"Am I a relief says I, mournfully.
Ye," says the Professor, you are one of the
Wooden Men."
No," says I, "I'm a wooden woman, and my
name iK.A. In your acquaintance with an
cient literature, dhl yon never hear of a distin
guished writer of the name ofJ A.!" ,
'No, says the Professor, '! net er did.
I sighed.
"You mnst know, co iu passionately toutiu
tied the Professor, "that your language is tbr
language of the pest."
"What, then, i4 he-language of the future f
"We converts wholly by o til -reading. One
tuiud thinks a tlmught, and wills that that
thought shall pass into another man's skull; the
other mind talc en the, thought up, an4 answers
it. That's how we converse altogether now.
It'squickas Hglrtuing, and the adiautageof it
i, that two mind can converse just as well a
thuusaud miles apart as they can in the same
room. Distance makes no difference.
"Don't youhae any posf-offiresthen '
"No, for we don't need Vm. Our new Mteiu
of soul-telegraphing does away with nil that.
Soul reads soulj aud face auswers to far in a
mirror."
'Can a soul read another nocI all the same,
wheu that foul is abusing it like fury behind its
backr
'Partly, ye Aud that makes people careful
what thoiights'they have of thcirabseut friend.
It i a uni vernal safeguard against that habit of
talking slander which used to be so widely prev
alent among the ancients, particularly their wi
men." "Yes," said l "how nice it mnst be! But I
don't see how the women exist without it."
My friend, the Professor, continued: "It must
have been infinitely fatiguing, when people hail
to talk with their tongues aud hear with their
ears, to have a long-winded talker tackle jon,
and worry your ears with a'u everlasting string
of trash. I wonder yon were not talked to
death."
Yes," says I, "I was just that."
Now," nays the Professor, "it's all different.
The gabble of the human voice wearjing unwil
ling ears i hardly ever heard."
"What," exclaimed I; "don't you ever iug
any operas f
'No, thank God! It is an incomprehensible
mystery to me, how the ancients ever endured
what they called an opera. I make out, from
the study of some old aud scarcely legible rec
ords, that they used to hire what they called a
prima donna, aud pay her a fabulous price for
btretching up her neck and screeching theatre
play at the very top of her voice. The higher
she vtretehed up her neck, and the higher she
screeched, the more delighted these savage
wen. I gather from the ancient records, that
our heathen fathers used to sit in a state of rap
ture for two or throe bourn, aud listen to this
barbarous and uunaturaljonling. Curious wirt
of ear they must have had. I don't think their
brains and ears could have lteen like ours. It is
with hope nf understanding this heathen game
or amusement called au opera, that I have so
long eagerly desired to solve the mystery of the
Wooden Men."
Why," say I, "they're not so much of a
mystery. I knew scores and score of wooden
men iu my time. Sticks, you know."
The Professor didn't appear to understand,
aud I went on with my questions. I tried to
tnni over first, however," beiug a little tired with
having Iain on one side for a thousand years.
Bnt I conldu't, I found, being so stiff and lame
iu the joints. So I mildly hinted to the Profes
sors "Don't you think von had better send for the
doctor f
"Doctor f What is that f Ah! I remember;
a sort of magician, who pretended to charm
dead people back into life by stuffing little balls
and powders down their throats. 1 ratili tbe
idea, do I not t Did yon realty have doctor, iu
the age of the Wooden Men! There has not
lteen one on the earth for fire hundred icar.
The world outgrew its superstition- Itclicf in j
doctors centuries ago. People don't get wrk ,
ery often now, aud when they do, they are all !
wist enough to enre thrmseUcs."
"D-u't yon even hate kurceon. anv mom?"
'Surgeonsr Were they the magieiaui who;
cut off iteopItK leg and heads T No ; there int ,
one left. Such touderous volume of rubbish
a these magicians had! Ve read a few of
them. Frequently Pve come nnon accounts or
what they called beautiful surgical operations,
and on reading about any one of them, l'e
found that it was unusnally sure eitongh a most
Ieautifnl operation, but unfortunately the pa
tient nearly always died after it. S snrgeons
fell into bad repute, aud we don't have any
now."
"But in case of accident f
"Accidents belong only to a barbarous age.
In the Mate of civilization there are no acci
dents. AIo I read that the Wooden Men had
other magicians called preachers, who professed,
if they were well paid for it, to lie able to lead
other people to heaven. One of the writers of
the age of Wooden Men says that religion was
necekftry as an instrument of goremment, and
therefore it was necessary to foster what tlie rn
lerskuew to lie superstitions, iu order to keep
their subjects under; where people do not Ite
lieve, they do not obey. Accordingly, the
preachers went hand iu hand with the ruler,
and so essential was their assistance regarded
by the ruler, that ofteutimes thee preacher
magician were maintained by the State. But
people gradually ceased to have any faith in
them, ltecan.se, with the exception of a few pnre
aud devout men, their lives were no whit bet
ter or less selfish than the lives of nthericoplc.
and they didn't seem to do the world bit of
god any longer. Wheu people naw that preach
ers didn't seem to know any more altout the
road to heaven than they themseh ea did, theu
they refused to pay the preacher-magicians any
more money, and then, of coarse, preaching, as
a regular trade, fell into decay. Now we all do
the hest we can. and r,very man goes to heavcu
by his own road."
"You've settled the business of the doctors
and preachers," aaya I ; "now for the lawyers r
"es, I remember. At first, in my investiga
tions of ancieut literature, I thought that the
lawyer was a kind of monstron Wast, a sort of
land-shark, who devonred men, women.'' and
children. Bnt a I studied on, and became more
familiar with the manners and custom of the
Wooden Men, I discovered that the lawyer was
a half-civilized man, like themselves, who pre
tended to settle their disputes. So far from do
ing that, however, it seems that he really fer
mented disputes among these ignorant people,
for the sole purpose of enriching himself. Grad
ually the savage tribes came to understand the
lawyer's game, and then it was harder for him
to get them in his clutches, and so he was oblig
ed to resort to downright steslingto enrich him
self. At the same time, the tribe of lawyers in
creased so that they all hail to go to stealing, in
order to live at all; aud at it they went, steal
ing wholesale, right and left, mitil the poor,
mblied people arose in self-defense, seized all
tbe lawyers, every blesMed lawyer of them, and
pnt them in the State prison for life, all togeth
er. Thi wa the. end of the tribe of lawyers
and the trade of law. The doctors, lawyers and
preacher all disappeared during the same cen
tnry. Civilization advanced with wonderful ra
pidity, after that."
"Soon Id n't be surprised, indeed. But tell me
I used to live in a place called Cincinnati.
Did yon eyer happen to hear of that town p
"Tradition points out the spot where It used
to lie. There is much discussion among anti
quarian a to its true history. Some faint,
queer, sort of tracks remain in the spot where
the town used to he two faint parallel lines,
rnnning along for miles, in some directions.
They are jnt discernible now, and learned men
have discussed the nature of these lineV'for
years. It is conceded now. however, that they
are the tracks of the beast Kilichnsgorus, a mon
ster who s devoured the ill-fated' city. There
were, two "tremendous beasts tho King beast
and the beaet Kilichnsgorus. The 4ting beast
ate np all of Cincinnati that the beast Kilichns
gorus ft; and the KilichusgoniR. who had
been lying in wait, made a meal of the King
beast, and finished him. After that, Kilichns
gorus himself died in a fit, iu the futile attempt
to swallow the Ohio Itiver. That's all we know
of the history of the ioor towu."
"Dear! dear!" says I, sorrowfully.
Presently I roused up from my mournful re
flection, and asked:
'What do yon do with bores who visit you,
now-a-daysP
The Professor smiled with a pleased look, aud
then laughed outright.
"They were the lafct, sorest, most nncouqner
ableevil that civilization had to fight against.
Centuries and centuries long ago, social science
congress, aud all the wisest heads among both
men and women, studied the hanl problem,
what to do with the bores who visited working
people, aud bothered them, and took up their
time, aud ruined their days and nights. Only
withiu the last five year, has civilization solv
ed the problem. Five years ago, a genins in
vented a beautiful maw trap. It consists of a
very sharp knife working tioiselessly in a nar
row groove. It is set in motion by noiseless ma
chinery. A sheltered post of lookout i built
for the master aud mistress nf the house, where,
thenisehe unseen, thev can see every soul that
rings the door-bell. When they hear a knock,
they look quietly out, and if it is one of tho
dreaded, hated tribe of Bores, a tpring in the
wall i softly touched, when, lo! out jtops the
sharp knife like a flash of lightning, and slice
the Bore's head off before he knows he's hurt.
There never was au invention equal to it since
the world began. It bus stopped the Bore busi
ness entirely. People have learned to stay at
home, and mind their own bnsiuess now."
"Dear mc! If I'd only known of it in my time,
I'd lteen living j'et."
"My friend," continued the Professor, "mighty
changes have been wrought since your day. In
onr day, street were lit with gas, at night.
Now we ute electro-magnetic light, a maguiti
cent illuminator, only dreamed of by the Wood
en Men. Steam is done away with. People
travel by electricity, have themselves shot out
of a battery, and get there before they start.
We don't have wars any more. The I.ist great
war on record was the Women's Whiskey War.
By mean of a latent power in a man's soul, rid
iculed by the Wooden Men, a man's mind is now
able to travel through space to the remotest re
gions, and discover what his frieud are doing.
Clairvoyant iu every house can look in a globe
of mesmerized water, and seo into the middle of
next year, and tell jou what is to happen.
Folks don't have to keep house anymore. It's
all done by machinery. Yon have onlv to turn
a crank in the morning, and set H going, and
then your whole housekeeping goes on lteauti
fully till next morning, when you wind up ynnr
clock-work, and set it going again. That's all
you hae to do."
"Thank heaven for that! I exrlaimed, in the
fullness of my heart. "And now, if you'd lt
pleased to show me the latest fashions. I'm dy
ing to know how tlrr civilized ladv dresses her
self." "Here is a fashionable lady just approaching
n."
I looked. It was a hot summer day, and the
lady wa barefitot, for comfort. She won a sort
of meal-hag," with a hide in the top to poke her
head through, aud two holes iu the side to put
her arm out. Her hair was cropped short
a'tout her ears, aud she hadn't a peg, or a pin,
or a screw, or a crimper, or a frizzle, or a ribbon,
or a whirligig in it.
That was the fashionable rig of Anno Domini
two thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
isfallancDu.si.
BY THE STREAM.
Sweet fancied basis, where ox-eyed daisied Tow,
And rarl-t poppiea j-leam -Sweet
changing light, that erer come ami ro
ClMMt the quiet stream !
OnreWtre-I aee the flub of sph-ndid wings,
A ilraguu flies Sit bv
Once more fur tne the amall alj:y warbler slog
IS? Death a sapphire aky.
Oitre ntore I fd tbe aimple, fresh content
I ftmnd In atresia ami soil,
When roMen Stammer slowly came and. went.
And mine a all their bjioiL
I And amid the turoevnacVle flowers.
And shy forget roe-not.
Old Unvish menwtnea of lowly hour
i'asHol in thia aihmt spot.
), flod of Nature, how thy klmloea keep
Some rhangehsM thing in earth !
And he who roam far off, and toils and weep.
Come home to h-drn their worth.
Ray Tision Tauhdi, wurldlr scheme may fail,
Hope pnire an idle dream,
Bnt still tho bluMMom nuariU, red aud pale,
Iteo'sle my native stream.
A BASHFUL KAN.
The Great Mcaaatian He Prdored in i
dal Chamber.
Krl-
Senator Sebastian, of Arkansas, was a native,
of Hickman County, Tennessee. On one oeea
Ktou, a member of CougresM wan lamenting his
bah fulness and awkwardness. Vhy," said
the Senator from Ilackensack, "you don't know
what bahfnlncs8 isf Let me tell you a story,
and wheu I get thmngh, X will stand tho boh if
j ou don't agreo that yon never knew anything
altont baahfnlnesH aud it baneful effects. 1 was
tho most bashful boy west of the Alleghauies.
I wouldn't look at a girl, much lew .sjteak to a
mniden; bnt fttrall that, I fell desperately iu
lore with anweet, beautiful neighbor girl. It
was a desirable match on both aides, aud tho
old folks saw the drift, ami fixed it up. I
thought Itdiouhldie, just thinking of it. I was
a gawky, awkward country lont, altont nine
teen yeara old. She was au intelligent, refined,
and fairly well educated girl in thecountry,
aud at a time when the girls had unncrior ad
vantages, and were therefore superior iu cnl
turc to the boy.s. I fixed tho day at far as I
could have put it otT I lay awake in a cold per
juration, an the time drew near, aud-hhivrrrd
with agony an I thought of tho terrible ordeal.
Tbr dreadful day came. I went through with
the programme, tuuuehow, in a dazed, confused,
mechanical aort of way, like an automaton
booby through a supper where I could eat noth
ing, and through such games as ''possum pie,
'sister riHrbe, and all that sort of thing. The
guests one by one departed, and my hair began
to stand on end. Beyond the awful curtain of
I-ds lay the terrible unknown. Jly blood grew
cold and boiled by tnms. I was in a fever, and
then an ague, pale and flmdied by tarns. I felt
like fleeing to the woods, upending the uight in
a bam, and leaving forthnWeM, never to re
turn. I was deeply devoted to Sallie. I loved
her harder than a mule can kick; bnt that
dreadful ordeal I could not, I dared not stand
it. Finally, the last guest was gone, tbe bride
retired, the family gone to bed, and I was left
alone horror of horrors alone with the old
man, 'John,' said he, yon cau take that can
dle; yon will fiud your room Just over this.
Good uight, John; and may the Lord have mer
cy ou your noul; and with a mischievous twin
kle of his line gray eyes, the old mau left tho
room. I mentally said 'Amen to his 'Heaven
help yon and, when 1 heard him close a distant
dwr, daggered to my feet, aud seized the far
thing dip with a nervous grasp., I ,tood for
some minutes, contemplating my terrible fate,
and the inevitable and speedy' doom abont to
overwhelm me. I knew' that it cqnldiiot be
avoided, and yet I hesitated to meet my fate like
a man. I stood so long that three love-letters
had grown on tbe wick of the tallow dip, and a
winding-sheet was decorating the side of the
brass candle-stick.
"A hanpy thought struck me. I hastily
climbed the stair, marked the position of the
landing, and the door of the bridal chamber. I
would have died before I would have disrobed
iu that holy ehamlwr, where awaited Tne a trem
bling and beautiful, girl, a blushing maiden,
clothed, upon' with her own beauty and mod
esty, aud ber snowy "robe de nuit. I would
make the usual preparations without, blow out
the light, open the door, and friendly night
would shield my shrinking modesty and bah
fulness, aud grateful darkness at least mitigate
the horror of the situation. It was soon done.
Preparations for retiring were few and simple In
their character, in Hickman, altogether consist
ing of disrobing ; and owing to scarcity of cloth,
in tho&e days, man was- somewhere near the
Adamie state, when he wa preparedto woo
sweet sleep. The dreadful hour had come; I
was ready. I blew out the light, grasped the
door knob with a deathly grip and a uexvous
clutch ; one moment, and it would be over. One
moment, and it wasn't over, by a d d sight.
I leaped within, and there, around a glowing
hickory fire, with candles brightly burning on
the mantle and bureau, was the blushing bride,
surrounded by the six lovely bridemaids." 4i7
soirri JtfjtvlUtun,
SHE WANTED A DIVOBCE.
TbtNlrrfaUmaa WheIIubnd vraa
Jiner."
She was abont forty-five years old, well-dress
ed, had black nair, rather turn ana tlugcu witu
gray, and eyes in which gleamed the tires of a
determination uot to be easily balked. She
walked into Major Hose's office, in Patten's
block, and requested a private interview, and,
having obtained it, andsatiidled herself that the
law-students were not INtcuiug at the key-hole,
said slowly, iinpresshely: "I want a divorce."
"What for? I supposed you had one of the
be.t of husbauds," Haul the Major.
"I B'pose thai what every! tody thinks, but
if they knew what I've eutfered in ten years,
they'd wonder I hadn't scalded him long ago.
I ought to, but for the sake of the yonugones,
I've liorne it. and said nothinr. I've told him.
Ltuougb,,,w.hat he might.depcnd on, aud cow the
time's cornel wont stanu it, young ones or no
jtmng one. Ill have a divorce, and if the
neighbors want to blab themselves hoarse about
it, theyinayv- fori won't stand it another day.',
"Hut what's the matterf Don't your husband
irovide for you f Isn't he true to jonf Don't
to treat you kindly T pnnued the lawyert
' ''We' get'vlctnals enongh, and I don't know
bnt lie's it true and kind manlo 'general; and
he never knocked none ofns down. 1 wish he
had, then I'd get him into jail, and know where
he was nights," retorted the woman.
"Then, what'i your complaint against him f
Well, if yon must know, he'a one of them
pbgueyjiners."
"Awhatr
"A jiuer. One of them jtesky ftols that's al
ways jiuing something. There can't nothing
como aloug that! dark and sly and hidden, bnt
he'll jine it. If anybody houldget up a socie
ty to bnni his house down, he'd jine it just as
t-oon as ho could get in ; and if they had to pay
to get iu, he'd go all thosuddeucr. We hadu't
lteen married inore'n two months before ho jin
ed the Knew-Xnthin's. We I i veil on a farm
then, ami eery Saturday night he'd come tenr
kiu' in ltefore supper, and grab a fistfull of uut
cakes, aud go off gnawing 'em, and the last I'd
see of him till morning. Andetrry other night
he'd ndl and tumble in his sleep, and holler,
I'nt none but Americans on guard, George
Washington V and rainy days he'd go ont iu the
corn -barn, and jab at a picture of tbe Pope with
an old baganet that was there. I ought to put
my foot down then; bnt he fooled me so with
his lies altont tho Pojte's coming to make all the
Yankee girls marry Irishmen, and to eat up all
tho babies that wasn't born with a cross on
their foreheads, that I let him goon, aud kind
er enconrnged him in it. Theu he jined the Ma
sons. P'raps; you know what them be, but I
don't, Vept they think the Yo the same kind of
ritters that limit Solomon Temple, and took
rare of his concubines; and all the darned non
sciiho aud gas altout worshipful masters, and
squares and compevses, aud sich like, that we
had in the house for the next six mouths, you
net rr see the beat. And he's never outgrown
it, ii at her. What do you think of a mau.
'Sipnire, that'll ilrcsH hisself in a white apron,
'bout big euntT for a monkey bib, and go
marching up and down, making motions, mid
talking the foolishest lingo at a picture of
George Washington iu a green jacket and a
truss on his stomach f Ain't he a htouttirk?
Well, that's my Sam, and Pre stood it a long
an I'm going to.
"The next lunge the fool made, was into tho
Odd Kellers. I made it warm for him, when lie
mine home and told mr he'd jined them; hut he.
kinder pacified me by telliugthat they had a
sort of branch fchow that took women, and he'd
get me iu as soon t s he found out how to do it.
Well, one night ho come home and aid I'd been
proH)ed. and someltttdy hail black-balled me.
Did it hissi-If, of course. Didn't want me round,
know ing of his goings on. Of courso ho didn't,
and I told him so.
"Then he jined the Sous of Malta. Didn't sar
nothing tit me altout it, but sneaked i!f one
night, pretrnding he'd got to set up with a sick
Odd Keller; and I'd never found it out, only he
como home looking like a mau that had hern
tbrough a thrashing machine, and I wouldn't do
a thing for him till beuwued up. And so it's
gone from bad to wus, and from wits to uusser,
jiuiu thisand that and t'other, till he's Wor
shipped Minister of the Masons, and Goddess of
Hojtei of the Odd Kellers, and Sword-Sttallrrrr
of the Kinnigaiis, ami Virgin C'ereus of tho
Grange, and Grand Mogul of the Sons of Indo
lence, and Two-Edged Tomahawk of the United
Order of BlaclT Men, and TaliTlIearer of the
.Mercuui JianniKins, ana Mvipteroftue liinM or
Catherine Columbus, and Ilig Wizzard of tbe
Arabian Knights, and Pledge-Pavsernf theKe
fonn CInb, ami Chief llugler of the Irish Ma
chinists, and Pnrso Keeper of tbe Order of the
Cauadiati Conscience, nud Doiible-Uarrellcd Dic
tator of the Knights of the Urass Circles, and
Standard-Hearer of the Poyal Archangels, ami
Sublime Porte of thoOnhm League, and Cham
bermaid of the Celestial Chernbs, and Puissant
Potentate tf the Petrified Pig-Stickers, and the
Lord only knows what else. I've ltome it, and
Itomo it, honiu' he'd get 'em all jined, after
awhile, luit 'taiu't no use; aud when he come
home last uight, aud told me he'd gone iutna
new one, and been made Grand Guide of the
Knights of II mi or, I just told him I'd quit; aud
I will."
Here the Mayor interrupted. Raying: "Well,
yourhnsbaud is pretty well initiated that v a
fact; but tho Contf will hardly call that good
cause for a divorce. The most of the srtcieties
yon mentioned are composed of honorable men,
and have excellent reputations. Many of them,
though called Lodges, are relief associations and
mutual insurance companies, which, if your
husband shoulddie, would take care of yon, and
would not see you or him sutler if you were
sick."
"See me suffer, when lie's hick ! Take care of
me, when Tm dead! Well, I guess not! I can
take care of myself when he's dead; and, if I
caii't, I can get another! There's plenty of Vm;
and they needn't bother themselves when I'm
sick, either! If I want to ltesick andsnti'er, it's
none of their business, especially after all the
suffering Pie had when I ain't sick, because of
their carryin'a on; and you needn't try and
make me believe it's all right, cither! I know
what it is to live with a man that jines so many
lodges that he dout's never lodge at home, and
that signs bis nime: a Yours truly, Sam. Smith,
M. M.. I. O. O. K., K. O. II. of P., P. of IL. It.
A. H., I. IC K. of X., X. of C, L. K. T., H. E.
K..R.I. P.,X. Y.Z.,'etc."
"Oh! that's a harmless nmnsementH replied
Mr. Una.
She looked him square in tho eye, and said:
"I do believe you're a jiuer yourself V9
He admitted that he was, to a certain extent ;
aud she rose, and said: "I wouldn't have
thought it. A man like you chairman of a
Sabbath School and Superintendent of the If e
publicans! It's enough to make a woman tak?
pizen! lint I don't want an thing of ton. I
want a lawyer that don't Wlong to nobody nor
not hiii! And she bolted out of the ofhee", and
i ii in i red where Captain Patten kept.
AU Sick at Wichita.
The female doctor who lectured to the women
of Witchita last week, did a valuable) sert ice for
the physicians aud druggists. Women who
were hearty and healthy before tho doctor's ar
rival soon discovered that they were dreadfully
sick. Ladies who did not dream of doctors aud
drugs, arc now full of aches aud pains, and are
valuable patrons of the medicine men. It w
strange wliat a power there is in preaching.
There is nothing like it. One lady living on
Luiporia Avenue went to hear this female doc
tor lectnrr, and is now a helples fnvalid, with
fifteen different kind of diseases preying on her
frail body. To our knowledge, she was full of
health and strength ttcfore this f. d. commenc
ed preaching to her. But now she lias lumbago,
rheumatiMii, tumors, dropsy, sciatica, lly-at-ou
and various other maladies too numerous to
mention. Ten dollars have already gone down
her threat in the fchjipe of poisonous drugs, and
others are to follow. This all comes from a lit
tle preaching oa the subject of diseases and
stroptem. This rule holds good iu morals. If
yon want to make invalids, talk about diseases.
If you are anxious to make drunkards, keep up
an everlasting racket abont temperance. The
'more the temjterance question is agitated, tho
larger the increase of intemperance. You can
take any sixteen year old girl in the community,
and let her friends and kin-folks keep np an
everlasting preaenmg orcuastityto her, and
Triveher to understand that yon are afraid she
will lose uer virtue, aumu uiuety-ume caws out
of a hundred the girl will lose confidence in her
self, aud go to the bad; aud so on and so forth
to the end of the chapter, with all classes girls
boys, men and women. The devil gets a good
deal of free advertising from both pulpit and
press. The fact is, that tho devil is a weak,
contemptible old devil, and none ofns are as
sick as the spiritual aud physical doctors would
make us believe. There are very few wicked
people iu the world. In all the city of Wichita
tbe re are not perhaps more than a hundred per
sons, male and female, who are really wicked.
A good tnany.are naughty, bat if brought to the
test by famine or pestilence, and required to
ahav their manhood and womanhood, one would
be astonished to find how few of them would
shrink from noble dnty and genuine worth. A
good deal of this reforming business is ou a foot
ing with our travelling female doctor's trash.
It is mere advertising balderdash pnt out for
business, and to make money. Denut deceived.
A pain in the breast is no sign of consumption.
Even m because a man swears, and plays cards
and billiardvisnotign that he is the child of
tbe devil, and on the road to hell. He may 1
full of true manhood. SltUon.
AKTKtt eDdnrihgthe storms of several centu
ries, the venerable building at Doljjelly known
as Gwaln GIyudwrs Parliament House, one of
tbe few relics of bygone ages, and a mouumeut
of the time when the Welsh nation made a final
stand for liberty and self-gOTernment, has been
razed to the ground. Tradition assert that the
building was erected about l-2 aa a gentleman
boose; in 1403, Gwaln Glyndwr assembled the
last Welsh Parliament.
THE PBICE OF A DMNE.
bt jofxrtusE rotuiiu
fTr (mil a gtat$ .' Does any one think
That that ia really the price of a drink i
"Irt tnU m jrt, I bear joa mj j
w"by. that in't very tnnrb to pay.
Ah, di, indeed i 'tis a very small iam
Yon are pawing orer 'twist finr and thntnb;
And if that wrre all that you gare away.
It wouldn't t very much tu pay.
The price f a drink f Let Mm deride,
M'bu has k4 hi eonraje and lont hla pride.
And lie a stotfUuic heap of rlay,
X far rctnoTed from a beaut today.
Th priic ufa drink 1 Let that one tell,
T-Vbo Rlerp to-niht in a marderrra cell.
And feel within him the Ores of heU.
Honor and TirtiiA, loe and truth.
All the glory and pride-of jonth.
I"peof manbuML. the wreath of Came,
IIihendeatorandiHMeaiitt
Them- are the treaarr thrown awar,
Aa tbe price of a drink, from day today.
MVr eemti a glau . How Satan lancbed,
A orer tba bar the yunnj man qnaoVsi
The beaded liquor, fur tbe denma knew
The terrible work that drink would do i
And before the tuurnin the victim lay
With hi hfe-Uuud swiftly fl,bin- away ;
And that was tbe price he paid, slaa !
fur tbe pleasure of taking a aerial ejaaa.
t The price of a drink! If yoo want to know
tVbat Mane are willing to pay for it, ro
Throat h that wretched tenement orer there.
With thnT windows and broken stair.
Where fool dieae hka a vampire crawls.
With oaUtretrbed wine, o'er tbe mouldy watt.
There poverty dwell with her bnnry brood.
Wild -eyed aa demon for lark of fuM
There bame in a corner crowhe low ;
There rhdeore deals it rrnrl blow ;
Aud immrent ones are tbns aeeured
To pay the price of another's thirtd.
Trermidofcw.'" Oh, if that were all.
The Marritie would Indeed be mll !
Hut the money' worth i the leat amount
We nav. awl whouTer will keep account,
Wllf learn the terrible wate and blight
That follow this rninua appetite,
W rents a gU4 ! " I any one think
That that i really the prue of a drink t
PUUiTS IN JUNE.
Neptune is morning star, and wins the first
pljce on the roll, as he is the first of the trio of
morning stars to make his appearance above the
Imriznu. His course must be traced by the men
tal eye, for he is never seen with the naked eye,
and is now too far away for the telescojs. llut
thoe who are familiar with the position aud
movements of the planets soon learn to know
the exact place in the heavens where they may
bo found, and can fid low their steps in the in
visible star depth almost as accurately as when
they are shining brightly from a clear sky.
Xcptuue Is so di-tant that the diameter of the
Min, as seeii from his domain, is only a little
larger than that oi enus wiien in Iicr Urigutctft
phase, as seen from the earth. It is, hmvever,
unit neresMarv tu knnur bis rilit nwMwinn nnil
declination, in order to find his exact tositiou.
Thus his right ascension is now 3h. lm.; his
declination is l Ki' north. Any good star-
ciiart win snow inai uis place among tne start
is in the sign Taurus, and near the Ismlcr of the
constellation Aries with no visible star near
him. As it takes him nearly fourteen years to
travel through a constellatiou, it is easy to keep
track of him. He is uow travelling from con-
junction with the stuij which he reached on the
Ub of May, to opposition, which ho will reach in
November. Xcptune ris now a few minutes
Iteforo half-past '! o'clock Iu the morning; at the
cud of the mouth, he rises at " minutes before '2
o'clock.
Saturn is morning star, aud keeps near Nep
tune during the whole month, Neptune now
passing the meridian at eighteen minutes past
10 o'clock, and Saturn following at twenty-live
miuutcs past 10 o'clock. They arc almost as
lira rat the close of the mouth, Neptune making
his transit at thirty-one minutes after d o'clock,
and Saturn following at forty-four minutes after
e o'clock. At present, Saturn is not of much
account, but in the latter portion nf the mouth
he will lc au object of interest to observers, for
lie rises nearly three hours before the sun. His
right ascension is 3h. Sim., aud his declination
is 1G -M' north. He will 1ms found in the con
stellation Taurus, forming a triangle with tho
Pleiades and Aldebarau. He possesses an ad
vantage over his distant brother, forbecaulte
distinctly seen in the beautiful June, mornings.
He is coming towards us, travelling, like Nep
tune from, conjunction to opjHtsitiou, and though
comparatively small aud faint, we know that
his aspect will change, aud before the summer
clyses he will bo worth seeing. Fatnrn rises now
a few minutes after half-past 3 o'clock in the
nlorning; at the close of the mouth, he rises a
quarter before 2 o'clock.
Jupiter is morning star, and is an hour behind
Saturn iu the time of rising. His movements
are of little account during the month, for he is
now too near the snn to be visible, ami though
far enough away to put on a lovely appearance
iu tbe morning sky at the end of the month, he
is not of much importance on the records. Hut
he will become an ojltect of absorbing attention
wheu he comes uear enough for a good view.
Telescopes, both large aud small, will then be
poiuted to his Warning face, to discover if any
change has come to the mysterious markings on
his disc, whose purport in his physical economy
no one has yet been able to determine. Jupi
ter's diameter now measures thirtv-oue sec
onds of a degree. At his opposition, in Decem
ber, it will measnre forty-hve seconds. Jupiter
rises a few minutes before half-past 4 o'clock in
the morning; at the end of the month, he rises
at 3 o'clock.
Venus is evening star, and aftei; the compan
ionship of Mercury for a week or two, reigns
supreme in tho western sky, the fairest aud
brightest amoug the twenty-tive hundred stars
that sparkle in the azure vanlt ou clear, moon
less nights. No directions am required fur end
ing her position in tho sky. The observer sim
ply needs to cast his eye upward in the north
west, soon after sunset, and he will quickly
discern her shining face before auy other star
has pnt in an appearance. She will grow bright
er, as the shades of evening gather, while crowds
of shining attendants come forth to bear her
company until she slowly sinks below tbe hori
zon, and the evening sky loses the brightest star
that ever beams from its fathomless depths.
Those who wish to trace her conrse on the star
maps, will find her present place in right ascen
sion Gh. 27m., iu declination tM3 41' north, and
iu the vicinity of a third magnitude star in the
constellation Gemini. She has now reached her
extreme itoint north, and is moving rapidly
south. Instead of being two degrees north of
the sun, as at present, she will be, at the end of
the month, four degrees south of him. Any ol
server can note the chauge by watching the
point at which she sets, night alter night. She
is travelling from superior conjunction to her
eastern elungatiou, ami is therefore getting
farthrr from the sun and nearer the earth, as
may bo easily seen by noting her increasing
brilliancy and size, aud the increasing length of
the time she is above the horizon iu the even
ing. Nothing disturbs the harmony of her
course during the month, for she pursues the
even tenor of her way without drawing near to
any member of the planet, try family. Venus
sets at twenty-three minutes past uiue o'clock
iu the evening; at the close of the month, she
sets at half-past V o'clock.
Mars is earning star, and gets np a special ex
hibition fur the IteneRt of star-gazers during this
mouth, strikingly free from events nu planetary
records. On the 27th, at 2 o'clock in tbe morn
ing, he is in conjunction with Kegnlus, or Alpha
Leon is, the leading brilliant in the constellation'
I.eo. At the time of conjunction. Mars is forty
live imuutrs north of Uegulus, but is then Inf
low the horizon. The most favorable time for
observation will le at 1 o'clock, or near that
time, ou the evening of tbe 26th. Planet and
star will then be nearing the horizon, though
the moon, three days before the full, will inter
fere with the exhibition. Kegulos is the first
magnitude star in the handle of the well-known
sickle, and can le readily found. Man is a red
star, a little more than forty-five minutes north.
This distance may be estimated approximately
by remembering that the average diameter of
the moon is abont thirty-two minutes. Kegutus
is one of the few bright stars whose path lies
near tho ecliptic, being only half a degree from
it. As tbe planets move in a belt extending
eight degrees each side of the ecliptic it is not
uncommon for them to pass near its track.
There is nothing else noteworthy on the Martian
record, except the conjunction with Kegnlus.
He pursues his slow conrse towards conjunction
with the sun, travelling so slowly that he will
not reach it until December, and is meantime
dwindling to his smallest proportions. Mars
bets now at half-past 11 o'clock fn the evening;
at the end of the mouth, he rets twenty minutes
pat 10 o'clock.
Uranus is evening star, and has traveled far
away from our territory, so that he can no
longer be seen with the naked eye. His monot
onous conrse is enlitcned by an incident. He is
Is in quadrature with the sun on the 5th. at 3
o'clock in the morning. He is then half-way
between opposition and conjunction, or ninety
degrees from each. He is on the meridian about
6 o'clock in the evening, and nearly half his west
ern journey is accomplished w hen it is dark enough
to see tbe stars. His right ascension is lib. 4 in.,
and his declination Is &"Jr north ; it will there
fore be seen that hit position in the sky changes
slowly, for It takes him seven years to pass
through a constellation. Uranus sets about a
quarter before 1 o'clock In the morniug; at the
end of the month, besets abont 11 o'clock in tbe
eveniug.
Mercury is evening star until tbe28tb, and
then becomes morning star. He continues to be
In an nnnsnally favorable position for observa
tion daring the first ten days of the month.
On tbe 1st, at 9 o'clock f n the morning, he f;
es Ms greatest eastern elongation, being 2 30
eat of the sun. As his northern declination is
at the same time 2fc V, be can be seen more dis
tinctly than when, as sometimes happens, he u
lJ33 from the snn at his eastern elongation, and
much farther south than at present. He may be
readily found on any clear evening, for nearly
two weeks to come, being now about three de
grees farther north than the sun, and setting an
hour and three-quarters after tbe snn. Venus
wilt be a guide to his position, for a few day a,
Iwing a little distance south-east of hint- But
tbe paths of the two planets have already bugun
iu uitcrge, Jicrcurj uating reaciieu uis greatest
limit eastward, and retracing his steps, while
Venus still keeps on her eastward course. Mer
cury is again close to the sun on the 2th, when
he reaches inferior conjunction, passes between
tho earth and the snn, aud reappears on his
western side as morning star. - It takes this
swift-footed planet ouly eighty-seven days to
revolve around the snn, aud only one hundred
and fifteen days to complete a synodic revolu
tion, from inferior conjunction round to inferior
conjunction again. Mercury sets now at a quar
ter after 9 o'clock in the evening; at the end of
tne month, be rises at bait-past 4 o clock in tue
morning.
The June moon fulls on the 1st day of the
month. The wauing moon pays her respects to
the morning stars in the order of their rising
to Neptnne on the 12th. Saturn on the 13th, and
Jupiter on the 14th. The slender crescent of tbr
old moon, only thirty-seven minutes sonth of
jupucr, will matte a lovely picture on me
morning sky. The new moon of the 15th is
near mercury on the ICth. She is in conjunc
tion with Venus en the 18th, and, though pass
tag more than six degrees south, the silver cres
cent and the brilliant planet will present a
charming aspect in the early evening sky. The
moon is impartial In the distribution of her
favors, and is near Mars on the 20th. and Uranus
on the 22d.
Jnne is a monotonous month among the plan
ets, but by no means devoid of interest. The
planetary brotherhood are equally divided as
morning and evening stars, Neptune, Saturn
and Jupiter grace the morning sky, Venus,
Mars aud U ratios hine in the evening sky.
Mercury divides the honors, being eveniug star
at tho commencement.' and morning star at the
close of the month. The starlight sky in Jnue
presents themes for study that are full of inter
est to those who would keep track of the plan
ets and follow closely the wanderings; of the
brother and sister spheres that are ever chang
ing their places as they move In oIndience to
the simple and symmetrical laws that govern
the material universe. The peerless Venns
stands first on the list as eastward bound she
appears each night in tbe glowing west, grow
ing fairer and brighter all the time, as she ap
proaches the earth. Mercury comes next in in
terest, for every pains taking oWrver will lie
sure to find him, and will never forget the pe
culiar brilliancy that marks his appearance, un
like that of any other star iu the heavens.
Mars and Kegnlus, side by side, form another
feature of interest, and, at the clo of the
month, the early riser will greatly enjoy the
serene aspect of Saturn and Jupiter as they an
ticipate the summer dawn. There is reason to
Iiojkj that the new comet will shine forth iu the
northern sky iu grand array during the first
week of the month, Itefore reaching perihelion
on tbe 10th. Tho ordinary movement of plan
ets and stars, fur a few nights, will then, jter
haps, Ite surpassed iu interest by the visible
presence of the celestial visitor, which, circling
near the sun, will reutre on its own fantastic
presence tho attention of every terrestrial ob
server, as its nurlens glows with incandescent
name, and its gossamer train spreads over the
depths of azure space, aud veils with misty
light the stars lying in its path. Vroridmre
Journal,
NOT QUITE CLEAR.
Tbe Average llroeblrH 7Iane Idea of Nljle
laud I-'atahion.
"Is the gentleman who knows everything iu V
stammered a vision of golden hair and sea-blue
eyes, as she stissl timidly lteside tbe managing
editor's desk, yesterday aftenimm.
"Everything altout what r asked the editor,
clawing around under his desk for his shoes,
and trjiug to hiite his stocking feet under him.
"Ujioii w Inch particular branch do you seek in
formation!' "I don't exactly know what t do pouted
the strawberry lips. "Pa says I can ouly have
one dress, this spring, and I don't know how to
make it up. I thou slit the gentleman who an
swers questions could tell inc."
'Ilemr muttered themauagiug editor. "He
has gone np to Maine, to find out why geese al
ways walk single file. An 'Anxious Inquirer1
wants to know. What kind of a dress had uu
thought of getting V
"That's what I watit to know. I want some
thing that would look well with terra cotta
gloves."
"Yes, jes," murmured the editor. "Then yon
should get oue of thee green things with Iteads
that turn all kiuds of colors, ami some fringe
aud fixings of that kind."
"Would you have it cut princess, or wear it
with a polonaise F she inquired, htokhig at him
searehingly.
"Yon you might have it princess around the
neck, and a row of polonaises at the Ixittom
suggested the editor. 'That's going to be very
fash iou able, and a couple of hip junkets would
set it off royally.
"I don't know, murmured the lieanty. "I
haven't seen any of that style, po you know
whether panniers are worn bouffant, this season,
or whether the skirt is tight V
"Oh, certainly!" replied the editor. "They
are made with all the Itoutfants you can get ou
'em. Some have even sixteeu-buttou Itontfauts,
aud there was a lady here yesterday, who had a
pannier that came clean np to, her neck. I
should have it pretty bouffant, if it was my
ilress."
"Well," stammered the blnshing blossom,
"would you box plait the skirt, or shirr it f"
"Shirr it, by all means!" exclaimed the editor.
"Shirr it straight up and down, and fasten it
with these loops of black tape."
You mean frogs I" asked the beauty.
"No, no. These big loop that slip over two
buttons. That sets oft" the shirr, and gives a
sort of lout to theraxrm&oyand the editor leaned
hack, and smiled superior.
"Don't yon think revers of a lighter shade
would look pretty?" she inquired.
"They'll do to fix up the back, but I wouldn't
(tut 'em on the front," answered the editor, sage
y. "Kevers are very well to trim a hat with,
but they don't set ofTa dress front."
"How would you have the corsage f"
"I wouldn't have any at all. You would look
much 1 tetter without one."
"Sir!" she exclaimed, rising.
"Oh, if yon insist, you might have a small one,
certainly not over three inches long, for short
dresses are the style now."
"Yon yon don't seem to understand " she
commenced.
"Oh, don't I !" he retorted. That's what I'm
here for. 1 think there's nothing so lamentable
as to see a young lady dragging her corsage
throngh the mnd and dust. Still, if you want
one, you should have it so yon can take it off
when yon goon the street, ami only wear u at
home. They are hanl to handle, aud not one
woman in a'hnudred can kick her corsage grace
fully." "1 I am very much obliged to yon," she mur
mured. "You are ery good, I'm sure."
"Don't mention it," replied the editor, isilite
ly. "I think, when jongtt it shirred, and rever
ed, and polonaised, and princcsscd, you'll like
it very much. You might get a sash and some
big buttons to pnt on Itehind ; or, if you'd like
another style Iiettcr, you might trim the whole
front with Itouffants, and wrar the pannier for a
hat." ,
"Oh, thank yon, sirT exclaimed the blnshing
bnd. as she scuttled down stairs.
"Swipes!? roared the managing editor, with a
complacent smile, and a glance of approval at
himself in the glass, "Swies, you may tell the
foreman to send me a pnsifof the fxshiou notes,
as stton as they come iu. I have observed that
a great many errors have crept in, lately.
Brooll Eagle.
The Story of a Battle Pla?.
A New York paper has the following relating
to Colonel I'rown, Superintendent of the Sol
diers' Home:
In the sharplrcontested battle of Cedar Moun
tain, foacht on the 9th of Anirust. lG2"the
Twenty-eighth New York Volunteers, after los
ing nearly nail oi its omcers ami men, including
its Colonel, was captured, together with Its reg
imental flag. The tlag bore no name or iuscrijt
tiou. but the man who carried It cut a piece out
of one corner before it passed out of his posses
siou, so that it might be identified. It was nev
er seen again by any member of the regiment
until a lew nays since, iroionei . r. mown,
who was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twenty-
eighth New York at the battle of Ceilar Moun
tain, who lost an arm in their action, and who
has, since the war, been the custodian of the
piece cnt from the flair, accidentally discovered
the Hag itself in this city, in a collection of re
captured Union colors found in Richmond when
mat city was taken, m itx. lie at once wrote
to tbe Secretary of War on behalf of the surviv
ing members of the regiment, asking that the
rlar be restored to them The rennest was
granted, and, in pursuance of an order issued
yesterday by Adjutant General Drumthe flag
was tunica over to uoionei iirown, ana wiu ue
presented to the snrvivins members of the reci-
meut, at their next annual reunion, which will
take place in a few weeks.
Gcjut Cities. There are five cities in the
world having each a population of over 1,000,000
inhabitants one each in Britain, United States,
Germany, France, and Austria. There are nine
havine more than 500.000 Inhabitants three in
Great Britain, three in the United States, two
in It ussi a, and one in Turkey. Vf cities Having
between 200,000 and 500,000 inhabitants there
are 25 six in tbe United States, five in Great
Britain, fosr in Germany, four In Italy, three in
France, two in Spain, and one each In Russia,
Austria, Belgium, Holland and Portugal.
President ARTircit's attendance at recent
horse-racing at Washington, calls to mind the
fact that he is tbe first President since Buchanan
who has thus honored the turf. General Grant.
with all his love of driving, never attended
a race while be was President not even at
Loug Branch.. Bat of the asffettim Presidents,
Buchanan, Pierce, Tyler, and Van Buren, were
very fond of the tnrf, and frequently went w
races, duriog their terms of office, Stw Tort
Tr''.
GOOD-BYE, PEOUD "WOSLD.
BT KXLtU W1DO KXERXI.
Written In &S.
Gdbye. proud nrU! I'm coins lxwne;
Thou art Uut my friend : I ani nut tUue .
Tim Vug thrwn-h weary crowd 1 nam-
A rirer ark on the erean brine j
Tuu ln 1 am Ur like tbe drirrn Ann :
Hut now. proud wurld, 1 u pna- home!
til bye to lllterra fawnln fare.
To GranUenr with hi wiM grumee ,
To upMtaxt AYealth' averted eje.
To supple irfttve. Itw an4 fai-b ;
To crowded halts. V court ami atreet.
To froaen heart and Uaatiof fret j
To thoe bo r and tb-e ho come,
(lond-bye, proud wiwst, I'm coins hmne.
I CO to seek wy own hearthstone.
IttMMicDrtt tn yon pwn hilU alone
A eerrrt ldce in a tdnnunt land.
Wboae rrorea the fnJic fairies planned.
Where arrhe crem the lieli day
Ebo tbe bUrk-Urd'e ronndrlav.
And eril men hare never trod
A spot that la arrrd to thought ami ftoj.
Oh, -when I am aafe in my sylvan Iwme.
1 mock at tbe pride of Greere and Koine ,
And when I am Mtrrtrhed beneath tbe pinea
Where the evening star no bolr abine.
1 lanca at tbe lore and prsle of man.
At the aephUt arboiU. and tbe learned elan ;
, F.r what arc they alt in tbetr hitch rooreit.
When man la the bah with -! may meet f
THE LIES OF THE SEASON.
What (Will be Fa.hloamblc The Old Fa
Torltre. Vhat is the style of spring lie, this seasou P
sl r I a one-eyed man, a he dropped down by
the exchange editor's fide. IIaie they re
t rimmed the interconvertible Mi.iLe that breaks
up into precincts, and comes together at the call
of the presiding link f
"Haven't seen anything of it, replied the ex
change editor, plnngiug hi shears into the ac
connt of a tornado that idiifted a State line a
hundred feet, and landed a river in a cotton
wimmI grmc, without disturbing a ripple.
' I'm glad of that," aid the otie-eted man,
rubbing his hands shinty. "I never liked that
lie. It always seemed far-fetched and unwhole
some; besides, you couldn't help thinking that
a frog might swalloi a quorum of the suake,
aud not leave enough to transact buMiie. Do
jou see am thing of that lie a'tout the dragon
out iu I Ilium, with wings like a corn patch,
and a smell of brimstone?
"Haven't struck hint yet," answered the ed
itor, eliminating tbe profanity from a far West
ern account of a mine explotittit, in which forty
men were blown through the sido of a mountain
seven miles thick. "If he's around, he's Ijing
very low.
"That pleases me, too," Moiled the mie-cyed
man. strokim; his chin. "The uiily objection I
eer had to tbat drngou wa- the smell. It nev
er .sounded reasonable. If they hail aid lie
Miielled of hriuodoue and iini!jts-, it might
have worked in a girl's Utarding house as a
f.iircpring lie; bnt they couldn't lix it to do for
men, uiileiis t bey perfumed hiiu with blue pills.
It was a great mistake. Hate ou struck any
fresh particulars altont the nea-serpcut, since
the thaw V
"Too early for him, returned the editor, writ
iug a new heud-lim to an account of a baby who
fell out of a window tdty feet, and honnded
back without split, hrui-e. or chip otf. "He'll
W around by the 14th of July.
"The 11th of July," murmured the one eyed
man. I reckon j otf re right. Yet, you're
right; 'with a head like a barrel, and eeIiko
rotTee enps; estimated by Mr. William Jennings
of Tobago Township, to In at least two-third
of a mile long.' Ye, that's his date, July 14.
I like to read altont him. H'liere a always miu-e-thing
breezy aud fresh abutit tbat iterpent,
though he must 1 getting ou in years uow.
What's become of the two old people that were
born at tbe same moment, ami died withiu ten
minnte of each other, at the advanced age of
KM T Ain't they diug, this reason?"
"Not that I havo heard of," rejoined the ex
change editor, pruning down a long article ou
n boy who wa cut in half lengthwise by a
steam grindstone, ami whose recovery was con
fidently anticipated by the eminent local pbid-
CMtl.
"I hope they haven't quit tho business," ob
served the one-eyed man, with anxiety. "I've
kind o wanned up to the) two old chumps.
There was something unanimous about Vm that
caught ine, aud I count on getting around to
Vm "regularly, if I am going to keep my health.
May lte the backward ncaoti lias lteen against
Vm. What's the news altont the skeleton found
in the tree, with a bag of money tied to his
piiie? Let. nee, he's a spring product, isn't
her
"Xo, fall," replied the editor, glancing oera
report of a man who had jnst Wen relieved of a
live lizard that had fed on hi kidneys for forty
years. "He'll come around about the 3d of
October."
"Just so; juytsq, I wa misled on him. He's
au old friend of mine; seem like oue of the
family, and if they should go over hi season
without finding him, appears as though I should
commence to pine. Is there auything new, thi
spring any servant girls making Greek poetry
in their sleep; any live frogs found concealed
in a Philadelphia brick, and sprnging eight feet
In the air, after an imprisonment of eighteen
thousand years f Anything of that sort I"
"Nothing," sighed the exchange editor, put
ting suit-head a into an account of a whale climb
ing to the ton of Abttecon light house, to borrow
a match. "Nothing fresh, except thi ou alxttit
the payment of a church mortgage ont in iv
cousin. Ilut that wont be popular among tlte
Christian."
I supitose not; I support not. murmuretl
one-eyed man. "Well, I'm much oblige!. So
long! It warms me np to see the old one come
around. A man of my age would mis Vm, if
they let up, and I ltegan to be a little ticklish
about thesentent and the skeleton, until you
explained the date."
Auil. as lie wrnt out, tne exciiange euiior
tumed over an article on au old woman of Do,
who was riittinir her eighth set of false teeth
and fonrth head of hair. ItrooUy Ewjtr.
OLD SCAN WITH AN TJMBBE1YLA.
When the world is so full of yonng people
who are too smart, and who are continually as
serting thenisehe, and showing that they want
to haie something to say, it is pleaitant to oc
casionally meet a real modest jonng person,
wno nan raiiier miner mewm emeu au ui
tnre, even, than to make any fn. Thi was
noticed more itarlicularlv during the last rainy
day, when the heaven seemed to Ite weeping
oer the loss of tho tin, which bad not lteen
seen at its accustomed haunts for over a month.
An old man got into a street car, with his Bin
lirellaa wet a it ipo-ioie lor au ninoreiia in
be. The seats were all full, and h r!otrt hi
umbrella, and put the Miut donn on the Hour,
ashesupitoseil, biitin fact he put it right Into
the low ahoe of one of these sweet, modet girls,
right on her stocking, and the dirty water
more than nonred down Into the shoe. At first.
she looked a though she would move her foot
and call his attention to what ho was doing.
but she see in ed to relent, ami with a resigned
expression, as though she hoped that he was not
ily wuulil crt ont anil cite him a neat. Uo
Iwikrd ont of the wimloir. Once nhn movtnl lier
brail an though fthe wonM Inrk ilnwii at ber
ulioe auil we tow near full nf water it wm; Int
again Iie thought better or it, ami looKeaacroM
the ear at a man with a wart on hi. none. Af
ter few minutes he hegan to uhlirer, which
was eonclnftire evidence to Home tbat tbe water
wacomiDniiannnd herinslen, and gradual
ly orerdowin tbe 1suLa. tibe looLeil as though
she feared that if she roke to the man abont it,
he wonld think he was very forward, and that
she was guilty of an impropriety in niK-akinj to
a Mtranc-rr witbont au intmdnctioii. Finally.
he became nerven and when a girl gets nr-
ronx. umiethlng has got lo le dune, oue
blilftbed. and touched him on the baud that held
the umbrella, with her little, tlnttering finger,
andaaid:
"ilay I ak yon, ir, without eeiniug to be
impolite, to do me a favor f
Wlir. certainly. mtM." Maid the old man. E
he looked down at ber as though be had made
a mab, "what U it!"
"Will yon jileaw take year nmbrella ont of my
hoe, for a moment, and "let roe take the ihoe off
and empty it."
"For ijcaveu Kake, mi, was my umbrella In
your shoe f I leg pardon," awl be took it out.
"It'ofnoeonieiueneeatalI,"iaid the little
lady, aa be turned np her thee on the side and
let the black cambric water ont. "There, yon
can pnt it right back ; or. if yon wonld prefer a
dry shoe for your umbrella, jou can put it in
this other one."
Itnt tbe old man hlnnhcd, and moved off to
the other end of the ear, and stepped on another
girl's foot. The other girl was not tbat kind of
retiring child of nature, and she looked np at
tbe old blnnderhnss with fire in her eye, and
every red hair in ber head meaning business,
and said:
"Can't too keen off nf people's feet! Ion
had better ride in a wrinkling cart, when yon
go anywhere. Why don't yoa look where jon
are walking! I don't ace what tbe city bought
a stoDe croiher for, when yoa conld walk on a
stone quarry aud famish cobble atones for pave-
lent.
The old man nnlled the bell rone, and patting
his umbrella under bis arm, he walked to tbe
other end of the car. knocking off several hats
with tne umbrella, bnt he didn't masn any leei,
for all the passenger pnt their feet under tbe
seat. It beats all what a difference there Is In
girla. reefs 5.
i iai .
A mrrcBAV wstehmuker at Vonrrr. Switzer
land, claims to haTe Invented a process by
which watches will run for yeara without wind
Ing np. A sealed box containing two watcbea
intraltetl to the municipal authorities on Jan
nary 19, IfTO, has Just been opened, and the
watches were found going.
Thz London AOunmm savs Darwin had tho
greatest intellect of tlie nineteenth century-
SIcPHERSOITS DEATH.
Ilia OrJcrlr TelN the Whole Mtory ferine Flrsl
Time.
Many of the soldier who mav hanpen to read
this account n ill remember jovul Jack Thomrw
ton (his name ii Andrew Jackson), who, for a
whole year rodo as orderly for Major Willard, of
Xcrberons staff, and who. as a peeiall de
tailed orderly for Col. Kooboy, also uf MePber
son's staff, bad the honor of carrying tbe Unicfn
flag into Vicksbnrg. He wji afterwards ap
pointed orderly to (ieneral McPherson, in which
capacity he served nntil tbe General's death.
3!r. Thompon is a man of honor, and aside lroui
tho fact that he can sub&tautiate every impur
taut circumstance counectetl with the aflair, is
to be lielieved on his own word. I give tbe sto
ry in his own language.
'On theli-M uf July, 1501, Oencral Merbersou
had command of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Army Corp, unilcr Sherman, before Atlanta.
The Seventeenth Corps had been dispatched to
destroy tho Atlanta and Kastem Railroad. Mc
rherson. fearing that Hood wonld pnsh in be
tween the corps, set ont with three of his staff
(Ien. Hickeulooper, Gen. Steele and Capt. Oile
and myseir as orderly to Gen. Smith's Division.
Just as we went to cross a small stream called
lVachtree Creek, we were met by a nnmber of
teams crossing towards us at full speed, and in
the greatest confusion. McPherson, turning to
CaptainGi!e,said: '(iIe,rtoptboseteams: they'll
get npa'grneral stampede, upon which onier
tiileleltus. We rode on about a hundred yards,
when we were met by a large drove of cattio le
louging to the Union army, and which were
stampeding right into onr line. McPherson
here ordered either Steele or Hickeulooper. and
I think it was tbe latter, to stop them. Geuef
al Hickcnlooper has stated tbat he was sent to
order up tbe artillery. This may have Ieen the
case, as both of these officers lett us at tbe same
time, leaving ouly McPherson and myself lo ride
on toward
THE 1IIHUEX ENE3.IV.
We rode alsmt a quarter or half mile, and hat
ted when near the wood. McPherson gazing
anxiously to the front and sides, to discover
where the bullets were coming from, tbat were
whistling around us. While wc wero halted
there. Captain John It. Raymond, of Gen. Leg
gett's Mart, come gnlloping up, antt said - "Gen
eral McPherson, General l.eggett wants to knoo.
what he shall do; they have crowded him back "
General McPhersou nnswrred, "Tell General Lej;
grtt to straighten his lines parallel with this
road, just a quick as God will let yon.'' Cap
tain Raymond w heeled aud rode back at fui
speed, followed, at tbe distance nf perhaps lift
yard, by General McPhersou and myself. In A
few mouicuts w were in tho wood, and as Cap
tain Ravmond rounded a slight bend in the reai
just ahead of its, we heard a roar of musketry
anti saw t;jpl.iiii l.iymoni s norse iau, ami hi
ridrr tumble off in tbe leaves to the left. Jus
at this moment tbe shrubbery liecame fair'
alive with gray uniform, and more than on
hundred muskets were leveled upon McPherson
and myself. "Halt! haltr rang out from the
trout ami left. McPherson checked his horse mi
quickly that it slid upon its haunches fortwents
feet, and lifting his hat in a polite salute, wheel
ed sharp tn the right, and gavo spurs to his
horse. Just as tbe horse made the second leap,
M'rilEIlSOX IKLI.TII THE tSCOUNH,
pierced throngh the back with a mnskct ball. A
whole volley followed at thi time, aud not
a single shot or a few shut., as I have read there
was. I was leaning far over on my horse's neck,
tn escape tbe fire behind, aud just as I beard
tho volley, and saw McPherson fall, I either
struck my bead against a tree, or was dragged
offbv a heavybougb; whichever it was, I be
lieve" I lay senseless fur a few monents, but
quickly recovering, rose up and went to when
McPherson lay, about ten feet from where I fe'l
1 stooped to raise him. and asked: 'General Me
Pbcrson. are jou hurt T and McPherson answer
ed: 'Oh, Orderly. I am.' ISeforn I called his
name, the rebels did not know whom t liny bad
Viltinl. In the account e-ivcu iu tbe Enquirer bv
j Confederate Captain Richard Heard, be ay
'Right by Ins (xrelTierson 1 Slue lay n man w u'
ifat all hurt, was bnt slightly wounded.
Pointing to tbe dead man, 1 asked: "Who isthi
man 1 ing here!" He auscred, with tears iu Iu
eje, "Oh sir, it is General McPhersou; yonbave
killed the best man in the 1'nlon nrniy." On
to the fact that I was rather confused by the
blow I luul received ou tbe bead, I canuot re
uieuilicr whether Captain Beard asked me this
oruot. If he did, I must have made him tho au
-werucarlya he gisesir.
Almost immediately after McPherson bad spo
ken to mo he tuniednver on bis face, straight
cued himself out, and clutched the leaves con
vnlsively with bis band. For a short time bis
whole body trembled awl quivered, and ou Its
growing quiet I made up my mind that
Hi: WA. IEAI.
While looking at him I was jerked aronud
pretty rongbly by an able-liodied rebel, and
thought mv hour had come, for I heard cries of
Shoot him! Shoot the s of a b V accompan
ied by the click of several' musket. I was
marched immediately to tho rear, where I found
l,0ofonrmen, who wero prisoners. Among
them I found Captain Ravmond, whom I bad
seen fall from his horse. I told him that Mc
Pherson had been killed. I have reeoived sev
eral letters from Captain Raymond since the
war, and if"he is alive to-daybewillsabsiantiate
what I am telling yon.
"When I was forced away from where Mc
Pherson lay, I am confident that ho was dead,
and the fact that be was at that time sarronn
deil by at least WW rebels, who bad discovered
his rank and name, makes it highly imprtbablo
that George Reynold, of the luwa Volunteers,
stumbled npon "McPherson as he lay dying attbe
base of a tree, etc. Tbe account or the Confed
erate Captain spoken of above, tallies tooclosely
with my own, to allow this to lie believed. I
was taken toAudersonviile, and kept thero nine
months and six days. Iliad been there nearly
four weeks when
liE-V. PLAin' ORIIEIILr
was placed in the same vile pen, and be told mo
that he, with General Illair was riding after Mc
Pherson, General Blair, wanting to ask for some
orders, and they were about a hundred yards In
our rear, and bad us in full view, when McPher
son was shot, and I Tell from my hone. Gener
al Illair turned back and reported at McPhersou s
headquarters tbat 'General McPherson and or
derly bad been shot all to pieces." It was this re
port that sent the war-cry down the lines, 'Mc
Pherson and revenge.' Ibis orderly was nincli
surprised to find me alive. He also told mo that
McPherson's Imdy bad lsren recovered aud sent
"North; that Logan hail to make several hanl
charges before it was recovered, and this account
I have seen in several histories since. It s
foolishness to think of three men coming and ta
king tbe bodv of a Fedcrol General, aud tbat
body surrounded by at least five hundred ton
federate soldiers. He also told me tbat General
Iilair had told tbat McPherson and his onlenv
hail been shot to pieces by a volley of at lea-t
five hundred guns."
"Tbe Philadelphia Ttutt has it from a Texas
correspondent, that private Bohcrt 1. Compton,
now living in Waco, Texas, was the man who
dealt the death-blow, while Confederate Cap
tain Beard says that Corporal Coleman was tbe
mau who killed the hero. I leave the public lo
judge which, if cither, is correct in bis state
ment." Vor. Cicili Commercial.
LEE'S STJBEENDEE.
He Yielded Oolr Wfcal "" AlreaJf hee
. Kslrrdierir Assertions fcr !.
lag I'siperef lrlnl.
The sentiment which the State proclaims was
as strong in Lee and his followers, on the day of
Appomattox, as it can possibly be in the hearts
ofinyto-dawyetLee and bis Uttered heroes
made a virtue of necessity, and surrendered.
Tbe contest had not been merely a political cam
paign, and tbe victory was not a mere party one
at tbe ballot-box. It was vastly more, and t
eonqncrors;and conquered it meant and means
the complete overthrow, as far as oar Federal
Government and our National politics are con
cerned, of tbe Confederacy and confederate
tbins. Lee so understood it, and upon that
con7ruction of tbe surrender, be lived and died.
""'? . . .
If that is your reading of tho surrender, it Is
not onrs. We see much more between the lines.
It was not unconditional: nor did onr greatest
General for a moment think he was disbanding
his army only to place h's people at the raerey
oftbo mo't embittered and cruel partisana of the
North. He hoped and believed, relying on the
promises from that section, tbat ho was bring-in-peace
to the country, long racked by war.
ami that bis own people wonld be restored to all
their rights, save only which they had already
lost in the adverse fortunes of war. He bad no
premonition or the fearful woes to which the
conquered people wonld be subjected, after they
had laid down their arms, throngh the Pnnie
faith of tbe North. Ho trusted Lincoln and
Grant and their promises, and believed tbey
wonld be fulfilled, and we, too, think that had
the former lived, Lee's confidence would not
have been betrayed; but his sad death was , the
excuse for our punishment, and their violations
or all the terms and undersUodings of the com
pact made-with Grant. Then, indeed, didtha
CTTgoftrtb, 'To. rirfJ.'" and for MTcnteen
years we have been groaning nnderthe nUnt
h increasing hardens that have been aided, one
by one, to tbe first and greatest penalty taP
3. Si, no! Had General Lee foreseen tfiese
things, there wonld have been no Appomattox,
but thi battle wonld have been fonght on to nt
ter exhanstmn, or wMbttau Hf "r 0,
have surrendered. Hiclmod(ra.)ltate,M(ill:
m isbi
Holt-wood Hocme, where the Queen stayed
durinathe Edinburg review, w,h.e"jSSmSX
herself called QneenorScotswbileshe remained,
L.Tvr ugly place, jnst fitted for the treasons,
outrage?, wJipoila'to which In its day it has
been nWe than once witness. Thogroundoa
i!.i. .1.- .Uw wss held was ofTveCT'sanui
ri the length and breadth of thST,lliS
.Sailer than the enclosure tytilif?i!'&v.
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