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levvis >r. grist, proprietor, j ^ii Jndfpcndcnt ^mily gkuspapcr: <^oi; the promotion of the folital; Social, ^gtitultural and C^ommci-riat Jnttmts of the ?outh. V f)0 A YEar ' vot, 41 r~ ~~ ' yoekville, s. c., wednesday, maech 20, 1895. =======^==i^,^c^<fc -? ? Xrrv~. ' A SEQUEL TO CI BY CAPT. P. A. MITCH Copyrighted, 1894 by American Press Associa SYNOPSIS Of' tHAriAiiinnjAi I _ I \ Private Mark Maynanl is sent by Gen- | v eral Thomas from the Union camps in . central Tennessee scouting toward Chat- ! 1 tanooga and barely escapes capture by e Confederates through the cunning of "a r native girl?Sonri Slack. He gets a suit l of citizen's clothes at Slack's, and Jakey Slack, a lad of 13, goes with him to help I 1 disguise his character. Souri gives Mark <] !**"? a silk handkerchief as a memento. ^ Mark and the boy beg supper and lodging at tho house of Mrs. Fain, a Southern woman married to a Northern man, who il _ is absent in the Union lines. Captain f< Fitz Hugh, C. S. A., a suitor of Laura Fain's, drops in and suspects that the , strangers may be Union spies; but Laura wards otfinvestigation, and the travelers B resume their journey undisturbed. D Mark reaches Chattanooga, is captured . and condemned as a spy. ! " Jakey sends Souri's silk handkerchief V home bv friendly Negroes and Souri takes i' a hint, hastens to Chattanooga and helps Mark to escape jail. Mark reaches the Fains' house and is * protected by Laura. I The remaining chapters show how j Laura decides between Captain Fitz Hugh ' and Mark, compelling the Confederate . to shield his Yankee rival. Mark travels | 8 toward the Union lines with Mrs. Fain i t and Laura, is recaptured and again spared c by Captain Fitz Hugh, marries his fair j protector, reaches the Union camp with J e valuable information about the enemy j I and is rewarded for his exploit by ap- 1 I pointment as an officer on the staff of ? General Thomas. b ? - t CHAPTER XVI \ "you shall not die. " Scarcely had tho conrt martial brought 1 in a verdict when an order came to 1 Colooel Mayuard to move his brigade | across the Cbickamauga creek by way | of Dyers' bridge, to bo ready early the following day to make a reconnoissance v beyond the Pigeon mountains. He or- | derod an ambulance for his prisoner to ' ride in, since ho had no option but to j take her with him. The distance to be traversed was but a few miles, and al- j though it was nearly sunset before the command broke camp it was barely dark when the tents were pitched in the new ' situation. Luckily a house was found for the reception of the prisoner, and s> the headquarters of the colonel oom- j manding were established near it As soon as Maynard's tent was pitch- j ed he went inside and shut himself up j from every one. The matter of the life in his keeping, his desire to save his prisoner, the impossibility of his doing so except by betraying his trust and conniving at her escape, were weighing terribly upon him. A desperate struggle ! between his duty as an officer and his repulsion at carrying out a sentence ! upon a woman which had once been | passed upon himself was driving him I well nigh distracted. One thing was , i u ?J. I 1 certain?no cuaiu uut wvu iuii? i ? without sacrificing himself. Ho was ' 1 ready to sacrifice himself if he could do 1/ so honorably. He might even consider W the matter of doing that which he hactf no right to do, but since tbo devil uiaf 1 1 care days of his scouting a new woc/rf | 1 had opened to him, which made tbo ' 1 struggle more complicated than it wiuld jyt w^s. ' thru have l>een. He had a wife Tjnom | } he loved devotedly, and any obloujy' ho 1 might tako upon himself must be cared by her and his son. Ho knew thp if he s could conceive it to be his duff, or if 1 i he could make up his mind wipout the approval of his conscience to connive lit at the prisoner's escape, lie w6nld have / n a fair chance of success. Ho was charg- j b ed with the execution, and this would | give him power over her person. On tl the other hand, such a violation of trust h was too horriblo even for consideration, J a and if he did not so regard it the pen alty he must suffer?disgrace, if not death?would well nigh kill hfe wifo. f For a long while he revolved tboso con- j siderations in his mind audatlast came ; 1: to a decision. He would suflbr the tor- 1 a ture of carrying out tbo sentence. Ho J would do his duty to hi%country, his , $ wife and his sou. f L*b Ho had scaroely arrived at this deci- for sion when a message darno from the/ gl prisonef asking to see Jim. The racking of hp whole nature^ j fr ^ which had been partly allayed by hit ai decision, camo baqr to him with tip- j d? summons. Ho (Lauded an interview, a He felt that tp resolution he hid j formed was of too little inheonl a I strength tc^\3rcan^ptaci^g i rm under so fprwJn temptation. But/his C memory tookmim back to tho jfi in m v which ho iyn been confined on the eve ^^B of his owntntcuded execution alChattauooga, 4d ho thought how hfwould ai ^^B have rogjroed any one who wodlrefuso b< him suaf a request at 6uch a time. Ho e< ^^B got uuond walked over to ?e house 1 it ^^B whyrathe prisoner was confined. Hepaused a few momentrfceforo en- a' H teriw, in order to collect hiaself, then ti H waied slowly up the stejw.j.The guard M stead at attention and broojAt his piece \S ^Bv to* "present," but Ma^uif did not see^^fl bin, did not return bis Jfntc. He op^^BH edthf door, eutcred titfhouse am^^H^B few minutes was in *Toom the prisoner was coatned standing by a window. As ho^H^H^B she turned and stoodjvith hc^HHJ^H hanging ckvspedbe/ore her, fnl IATTANOOGA, J EL, LATE U. S. A. ition. oords, there was a grandeur in Ms tone, ! lis flimre. the lines of his countenance, he light in his eye, strangely incansistmt with a resolution he bad made the I noment before they were uttered. Ho tad on the instant reversed bis decision nade not ten minutes beftsre to do his luty, in the ordinary acceptance of vhat that duty was. He bad determined j o save the woman before bin* even If t were necessary to take upoa himself i or greater ignominy than the death to rhich sho was sentenced. There was si- i once betwoen them, during which Miss I 'itz Hugh stood lookiug at him in adoiration, mingled with inquiry. She < new that some secret charm was at j rork within, butshedid not know what t was. "How can my deatk be prevented?" "I aiu charged with your execution, j will tako yon to your lines myself this | What was that stJtn^influence, far i tronger than battalbna of infantry or | wtteries of artilleW which gavo it ton mo not present, unc&acions of his poW- I ir, to hold Mark Menard over a pr^tice and to cast hi^ into a black gulf telow? Was it cirtfmstances that tt?d t year before led Itz Hngh to aocept he very part Maynurd was now culled } lpon to play? it lovo that had jiven Maynard theirido Fitz Hugfcwas o have possessed? Was it 6omehivisi- I tie fiend that had tiade Maynard a rob- , ter of that brida from the man towhom | ie twice owedJbis life and wis now wringing on bis janishmont? Theso ivere indirect, canses, bnt the/ cannot explain that Jnexp-essible, istangiblo tense of hon? which will lead a man, to speak jyfadoxically, to commit a nirne auci-fcacriBce himself u tae same time for mother. The expression ouMissfltz Hugh's face as ate heard Maynard ipeak words which would save her from death and jive bar- liberty underwent a change. For a moment after they were spoken there fas a delighted look, bat us she I realiad what they meant to the man I who would save herat wis transformed Intovan expression which can only bo I iestfibed as bordering on the confines j of ingel land. There was a holyiook tnier eyes, a radimceof purity from tht soul expressed ia every feature. Itcro was the supehmnan attribute of j ahoosing/ieath befce life and liberty f tho prico of wrog. r-Ncy-colonel, wiFitz Hughs cannot iocept sacrifice, ad especially wrong, roraothers. We.jve; we aro not acmsfcmed to receivi" Jfaynard stood gzing at her with a [g?k as if in refufflg the sacrifice she fd stabbed him "What then,"-hsaid at last, "caul lo?" / "Send the i?ws if my condition, of ny cxpecte^"?sbi shuddered at prolouncing tl? word-"execntiou to our inca. Kafwing tbtl am coudomued, hey cafrasg whainfluence they may ie able to s?ve mo.' "IgVftfiTvhit uotthg. ?*"Fry it Fate, luo, Providence works tnmgelyat times, ^et us push on and save the rest to a hjher power." The colonel lookgfat his watch. "It 1 3 novf half past 9. We aro but a few '* *1 1 i ?ao mesirom mo LWiotuon nuco, rotharis"? ; "In 's cavihy division and on ho Cbufedernte rgit. I beard from iim only a few dnjsaga. Ho was then t HiagoUl." "0?at is not farfnm here." 'Thero may be tiie," she said hopeU^ionio one luustBteal through tho fE. If not sbot, b may accomplish (ething. In half aihour I shall bo"? "you?M "Yes, I! I will nt trust this only road on which youilife liaugs to any o else, though I cofoss," ho added ooiuily, "I have iiojoufidenco iu it." "No, colonel, I cimot accept this om you. You are thjeommaudor hero j id are all that standFbetween me and iath. You must rem n hero and send | messenger.' "Who woald I darontrust with such message?' "Send fcr the man ho captured me, | arporal iatigan. L ! him boar tho essaga " "He?" Tho cvlonel looked a her a moment, if to question why ^is man shoul^J t so rusted, but her there become seud If 11111 branches of the serrico aro represented in one continuous line. Consequently tho corporal had n for better chance to get through than under ordinary cir- ! cumstauces. Passing over the Pea Vino ridge, ho descended tho other sido sloping to a small Etreani called Pea Vino creek. It was essential th?4 1>? slip through between tho Union vedettes unseen, for if observed ho troold bo taken for a deserter and either shot or sent in to tho headquarters of his regimont. Tho vedettes were principally on tho roads, and tho corporal, believing that they would be look"'!? for an enemy on routes i over which cavalry could best advance, selected one least advantageous for a horse to follow. Wherever he could find a thick clump of trees or low growth, ? knoll, a ravino, indeed anything difficult for a horse to pass, he would go over or through it. Now ho would *t?P t? listen for some sound Buch as a be?6 is liable to make, and now K-nnId Steal on his hands and knees or crawl.on his belly over soiue cminenco 1 wberft f lio should stand upright, his i bodfwoaM make a silhouotto against ! the ?ky- Ou crossing a bit of lovel groand he suddenly heard a horse's ; -"flutter." He was near a clump of j btfhes in which ho lost no timo in con* j onling himself. A cavalryman rode by | tithin oO feet of him, walking his j horse slowly, tho butt of his carbine i resting on his right log, and in a posi* J tiou to bo used rendily. Ho was patrol- ; ling a beat. Ratigau waited till ho had ; gone past, then darted onward to trees which, from their irregular line, ho j judged grew besido the creek. Ho was ' not disappointed and was soon standing in shallow water, resting for a few minutes under a low bank. Once past tho creek ho felt that one- . half his danger waa ended. He had doubtless got beyond tho range of his own comrades, and now came a great danger of moeting the Confederate pickets. Leaving the creek, he ascended a slight ominouoo and mado a survey of the surrounding country All was si- J lent, except that ho could hear an occa- ! i sional sound liko a distant burst of ; ' laughter, era shout from the direction i i of Ringold, in his front. Presently he heard tb? unmistakablo rumble of a train coming from tho south. "It will pass right down there be- 1 hind that clump of trees and go through tho out," said the corporal. "Oi wonder 1 wouldn't it be a good plan to tako ad- , 1 vantage of its noise when it passes to j 1 slip through the outposts. They'll be < thinkiu of the train, and Oi can follow in its wake." 1 Ho advanced cautiously to the trees beside the track and waited for tho j train. Presently tho headlight of a locomotive shot out from around a curve. J The corporal had forgotten that its light would reveal him to tho engineer. He ' crouched down out of sight with a high beating heart, and none too soon, for had he staid where ho was tho light : would have shone directly on him. He 1 waited while the engine puffed slowly ' by. It was drawing a long train of mix* ( *vn?AI)na. on/1 nloffnrm rnrc ! J UU pa.-V}CilgOi| VHVViV UUU VM.H, | every car crowded with troops. ; ' "They're preparin to give as a brush in earnest. Like enough these are re-en- ; forcemeats," muttered the corporal. Ratigan determined to follow the rail- 1 road north to Ringold, which he judged | to be only a mile distant. The train 1 loaded with Confederate troops having 1 just passed, tho guards ho might meet would probably not be very suspicions f of an enemy. Ho walked on the track < for a short distance, expecting a chal- 1 lengo with every step. Ho received one suddenly, just before ! entering a wood. A man on horsoback | < aimed a carbine at him and gave tho < customary: "Who comes thar?" Ratigan at onco threw up his hands, 1 which his challenger could distinctly ' see, and cried out, "I want ye to take 1 TT?;TJ?,?u ?* mu to v^uioiioi ciu ixu^iii "What do you want with hiin?" "Do yo know him?" j ( "Ho commands a regiment in our bri- j < gado.'' Seeing that the corporal held his J hands above his head, the man permitted him to draw near. Ouco hero, Ratigau ! informed him of the nature of his mis- ; sion and bogged him for Colonel Fitz ! * Hugh's sako to send him to Riugold at j ' onco. The vedetto was convinced from I Ratigan's earnestness that ho boro a message of importance, and calling his | 1 comrades ordered one of them to dis- j mount. Then, taking the precaution to 1 blindfold the stranger, he mounted him, aud placing a horseman on either side of him sent the threo clattering toward Riugold. It was not a long distance to tho town, but all distances, all periods I or waiting, seemed Jong 10 uio I'urpurai. I Was not the terriblo event to tako place I lat saiirise? And now it must be near i [midnight. is the time?" ho asked of his j j^^^Kenty minutes to 11." Hhb go faster. Colonel Fitz Hugh as anxious for me to got on as H^^ftnoself if he knew me errand." | B^^Bright. Let's light out, Pete." ^^^^Kgan felt the motion of a gallop , he rode. And now came j |^^^^^Kom a guard and an answer, 1 'Advance and give the the men goes forThen the party what pass or vno^?L suit corporaPS^. There Is* ^If tho corporal lu * voico which Ho vainly endeavored to icep steady, "that Miss Fitz Hugh, psssin under the namo of Elizabeth Baggs"? Fitz Hugh put his hand on Ratigan's arm and stopped him, whilo ho gathered his faculties to bear what he knew was coming. "Was pursued by a contemptible cur of a Yankee, wbo.deserves to bo hanged for chasiii a woman"? "Yes, yes. Goon." "Was captured and"? "0 God!" "Condemned to bo Bhot for a spy tomorrow morniu at sunrise." Pitz Hanh sank back on a camp cot ami covered bis face with his hands. For n few moments tho corporal respited his grief by silence, bnt time was precious, and ho soon continued. "Thinkin yo might exercise some influence to save her, Oi'vo come to inform yo of tho? distressin fact" Tho last two words were spoken in a broken voice. "By whose nuthority?" Fitz Hugh rose and stood before the corporal. Ho had nerved himself for whatover was to follow. "Colonel Mark Maynard, commanding tho ?tli cavalry brigade." "Do you mean to tell me," said Fitz Hugh, with a singular, impressive slowness, "that my sister is at tho mercy of Mark Maynard?" "Ho is charged with her execution." Colonel Fitz Hugh shuddored. "That man is my Nomcsis," ho cried in a voice filled witli a kind of despair. " 'Tis ho that sent mo to ye." "He?" "The same." "Does ho wish to save my sister?" "He does." "Why, then, does ho not do so?" "He can only savo her by his own disgrace. Yer 6ister will not accept tho sacrifice." "A truo Fitz Hugh," said the brother proudly. "Then Miss Fitz Hugh suggested that ho might seud me to inform yo of tho situation, that yo might hev opportunity to uso any influence yo would consider wise and honorable to secure a reprieve. " Fitz Hugh thought earnestly with his head bowed, his oyos fixed on a spot on the ground. "There is nothing that I can do," he said at last. "Threatened retaliation is ""'w rannnran nnrl Fhnf. nnnlH tint h? Bffected urnlor the circumstances without implicating Colonel Maynard." "Then yo see no way open?" asked tho corporal despondently. "It is impossible for mo to act intelligently alone. If I could see Colonel Maynard, perhaps togother wo might bit upon a plan." "Would ye meet him between the lines?" "Thero is not sufficient time." "There's five or six hours." Fitz Hugh stood pondering for a few moments without reply. Then, suddenly starting up, he said: "Go toll Colonel Maynard that I will meet him as you suggost Let the point Df rendezvous be?let me see?where do pou consider a feasiblo point? You have just como throngh." "Oi would uaino the bank of tho creek it a point duo west of this. " "How long a time will be required Before the meeting can take place? It is low a littlo after 11." "It may be an hour; it may bo longer. If ye will be there, colonel, at 12 I'olock, we'll meet yo as soon after as possible." "You will find mo thero at 12." "It would bo well, colonel, to consert a signal by which each should know :he other." "Suggest one." "Oi'll doubtless be with Colonel Maylard. Oi'll cry 'Oirelaud,' and ye can respond"? "To tho rescue." Colonol Fitz Hugh called to those waiting outside, who had brought in Corporal Ratigan and directed them io blindfold him and tako him to tho Federal lines, and, if possible, insure bis getting through without injury, rhoy wero to report the result to him In any event. Ratigan knew nothing bqfc the gallop sf the horse on which he ipat, with a handkerchief about his e^jf, until tho party conducting him drew rein and ho was directed to dismount Then ho was USKeU II newuaiil uoc?;uik;u ill M xjuavia vedetto known to bo on a road leading around tho north end of tho ridgo or whether ho would go alone. "Oi'll go alone," ho said. "If yo go with me, they'll think it a midnight attack. " Starting forward, tho corporal trudged over a short distanco botweon him and the vedette. As ho drew near he began to sing a few lines from a play popular at tho time. Thim's tho boys What makes u noise, Is tho R'ytkl artlHerlc. "Wtio comes mere.'" cneu uiu todetto, cockiiighispiecoas Katigan camo in sight. "Friend with the countersign, to bo sure! Who d'yo 6upposo?" "Advance, friend, and give the countersign, '' called the man. He was a good deal pnzzled at hearing tho Irish brogne coming from that direction, but it roassured him. Ho did not have much fear of an enemy unless it wore a trap to net him at n disadvantage. Katigan j^S^ear and whispered, "Carnifax ^edtoeW doiu* out thore?" I r^^iiL^out for-taeftty.. ... loadea7"^||fc-|]ne jjj hairv^tokci!' ?1U "You gettiug in re-onfoh^S^^ietj they're "I believe ye, me boy1^**, ^ ^ Rnticnn v?nlke<l Qn PtercUattcows parting. NOT AT ALL AN UNLUCKY DAY. | Friday Huh Ilecn Prolific In Hnppy Kvcnla. j lie was an Englishman, as history I informs us, who, being iconoclastically J inclined and the enemy of superstition, j risked both his fortune and his life, and lost both, in an experiment to ; prove fallacious the moss-grown super- j stition concerning Friday. It is relat- i ed of this Englishman that lie laid the j keel of his vessel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, christened her j Friday, and took for her a skipper named Friday, and never was heard of ! after thut. And yet, in spite of superstition, Friday is not an unlucky day. In fact, it can be proved by the most important happenings in the history of this and other countries that Friduy is the most fortunate day in the week. For 13 years past I have been collating such important events ns have UnnnnnAfl An 1?i<i/lnifO TllirfftAn llU|)pi;iicu VII A ? IUUJ Q, A tlttkvvu years ago I put in print a short list; but' it is now complete. I venture to say that stronger proof Cannot be submitted and ask you to cut it out and paste it in your scrapbook, where you may find it when your heart weakens ] with an attack of superstition. Friday, August 21,1492, Christopher Columbus first sailed upon his great voyage of discovery from I'alos, in Spain. September 11, which happened upon a Friday, while in raidocean, to the consternatiou of his officers and ; men, the needle of the compass fluctuated and fell off in an unexplainable manner, and it was then that Columj bus lost all but faith in the enterprise. | It was Friday October 12, 1492, that Columbus first discovered land. Friday, January 4, 1493, he sailed on his I return to Spain, where he landed in safety. Friday, November 22, 1493, he arrived at Hispa'niola on bis second voyage to America. It was Friday, June 13, 1494, that he discovered the Continent of America. Friday, March 5,1496, Henry VIII, I of Englaud gave Johu Cabot his comI mission which led to the discovery of ! North America. This is the first ! American state paper in England. Friday, September 7, 1505, Menendez found St. Augustine, the oldest ! town in the United States by 40 years. Friday, November 10, 1020, the I Mayflower, with the Filgrims, made ' the harbor of Proviucetown, and on I the same day signed the august com' pact, the forerunner of our present ! constitution, Friday, December .22, ! 1G20, the Pilgrims made their final landing on Plymouth Rock. George Washington was born Friday, ; February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland | county, Virginia, near the banks of the | Potomac river. Bunker Hill was seized and fortified i Friday, June 16, 177G. Friduy, October 7, 1777, the surrender of Saratoga was made, which had such power and influence in inducing France to declare herself in favor of our cause. Friday, September 22,1780, Arnold's treason was laid hare, which saved us and our country from destruction. The surrender of Yorktown, the crowning glory of the American army, occurred Friday, October 14, 1781. Friday, July 4, 1776, the motion was made in congress by John Adams and seconded by Richard Henry Lee that the United Colonies were, nud-of__ right ought to ho, n?c and" mittpendent. The first Masonic lodge in America wn? nrinini'/pd Fridav. November 21, 1721. Bismarck, Gladstone and Disraeli were born on Friday. Friday, April 8,1G4C, the first known newspaper advertisement was published in The Imperial Intelligencer, in England. Thomas Sutton, who saved England from the Spanish Armada was born on Friday. Friday, July 1, 1825, General Lafayette was welcomed to Boston and feasted by the Freemasons and citizens, and attended at the laying of th'e corner stone at Bunker Hill of the mouument erected to perpetuate the remembrance of the defenders of the rights and liberties of America. 1 Friday, December 2, 1791, the Albany, (X. Y.) library was founded. The Panama rnilroad was completed on Friday. Friday, June 30, 1461, Louis >'VI humbled the French nobles. Charles, "the Bold" of Bur^ndy, ; richest sovereign of all Europe was I l.VI.lo,, T???orv 10 jronrrnnuj, U u 11 | The Hudson river was dscovcred i on Friday, March 25, 1G0!>. | Friday, March 18, L77G.'he "stamp H act" was repealed in Kng&nd. Friday, November 28-1814, the first newspaper ever prints by steam, the : London Times was ptuted. i Alexander von H<mboldt, in climb j ing Chimbornzo, replied an altitude of 10,200 feet on Fri/ay, June 12, 1802. ' Friday, Janua'y 13, 1775, General H i Winfield Scott fas bom in Dinwiddie I county, Va. ' j Friday, Mar 14, 1586, Gabriel Fuh I renheit, usually regarded as the invent or of the citfimon mercurial thermomI eter, was>orn. It was ho who first noticed that water boils at diflj'r ent degrees of temperature, recording to the weight of the atmosphe ic column resting upoi it?thnt is,: requires less heat to rrnke it boil oi. ' summit than at tie foot of a high Tgoijjii^k^v^^bereverthe English lan 1 reah^i^r^llkM^3 tfiaduation of Fah 1. Q-ffgWajy LT^^8^Lf,ft'ferred. 1T:ic 1752, ia terine would prevent half of the contagious diseases that afllict the country. It is believed that many cases of fever and other serious ailments can be contracted by a floating germ coming in | contact with the abraded skin. Once ! snugly lodged in this most congenial dwelling-place, the germ multiplies with amazing rapidity, and soon overruns the entire system. Therefore, whenever there is a bruise or scratch, or any injury of this sort, germicidal " ? 11 1- - -A J appucniions snoum oe at uua- rcauncu to. Some physicians recommend the use of courtplaster, but this is rank poison to so many people that its general use can scarcely he commended.? Health. THE ORIGIN OF "HOME, SWEET HOME." John Howard Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home," was already an old man when he came to Tunis as United States consul. Nothing suited the poet better than such a post, both on account of its isolation and the Oriental habits of the people. He was fond of telling the story of his life, and particularly the circumstances of his writing "Home, Sweet Home." Mr. Payne has the reputation of being dissipated. This is borne out by incidents hinted at by him in his early years. An actor by profession, its temptations were never completely overcome. The poet's greatest confidants in Tunis were the Chapelie family, and to Mr. Alfred Chapelie, then a young man, he often remarked : "Nothing makes me so happy as an old friend, a good book, and my pipe." Mr. Payne, as reported by Mr. Chapelie, was a man of quiet and retiring habits. He was a great reader, for, as a writer, he had done his work. The old fire kindled in his eyes when he told his career. His tradegy of "Brutus" was bis favorite, and placed by him higher than his poem of "Home, Sweet Home." The collection of scraps was a mauia with him. His Moorish study was littered with papers and magazines in several languages. Large drawers were filled with his literary treasures. Verses which the poet had jotted down on scraps of paper during his rambles, were thrown in like pearls-hi the sands. Whether at a coflee-nouse, or on a jaunt to me ruins of Carthage or the palaces of the Beys, the inspiration never forsook him. At the poet's death, this collection was gathered into baskets. It took 20 to contain it, and a Tunisian basket holds fully a bushel. Correspondence was then opened with the poet's relatives. Sketches, poems and episodes from Mr. Payne's life warranted the preservation of this material. No answer came from America. The baskets were stored in the "Magazin." Here they lay for many years. Such lack of interest by those most deeply concerned would justify the belief that original matter of enduring merit from the pen of the poet was thus lost to the world. "It was in the Garden of the Tuileries that the words of 'Home, Sweet Home,' first came to me." In this wise spoke Mr. Payne one day to his friend, Mr. Chapelie. "I had been pretty much over the world. Actors get accustomed to a Bohemian life. I could see it was beginning to tell on me, so in time I drifted to Paris some way ; how, I've almost forgotten. But as I wandered alone and without a penny through the city,*I became thoroughly homesick. I took a great liking to the Tuileries. The song of the birds, the sunlight ?>r inoorrTichf rnininir throueh the trees, the perfume of those flowers?how they all reminded me of home!" Whoever has been in Paris, especially in the springtime, will appreciate these words of the poet. A lovelier park than the Tuileries could not be found. Here the little girls wheel their dolls around in the tiniest of carriages, and the boys tloat their balloons. Over there a fountain is discharging a thousand showers, a rainbow converting them immediately into diamonds, rubbies and sapphires. The sparrows?how tame and friendly they arc ! To get on good terms with them one must tarry. Bring along a bun fro" the breakfast table; suspicion dSappears. But at first only two or /liree of the dainty creatures approach?probably scouts sent out by the aerial tribe. A dozen now come up, and soon it would seem as if all tho birds of Paris had learned of the picnic and were hastening hither as fast as their little wings could bear them. They do not stop at one's feet; but perch on one's hands, heud and shoulders. There never were heard such cries of joy. The air is full of song. in SUCH U JIIUCC US tills is it it nvuMt. that a poet should be inspired ? "Yes," continued. Mr. Payne, "the sentiment had been running in my mind for some time. I could not hit on the rhyme. One evening as I was resting in the Tuileries, and the stars were venturing out from their hidingplaces, the strain of a beautiful melody was borne on the air. It was a Sicilian tune. I had heard it years before. It was exactly what I had been waiting for. With a heart full of home, I hurried hack to my lodgings in a remote part of Paris. Before the night was over my work was done. The tune made the poem. I was getting desperate by this time. I had hardly a sou in my pockets; hut one or two friends helped me. My passnge to America was paid. At last I got back. There were sad changes. A few only were left. After all, there is 110 place like home." IN A MATRIMONIAL BUREAU. "I waut to find a rich wife." -gtjia the introductory remark of fished 'iThiiniiii i r l n uu gentle- | TTic in'.""r^"nmivlyj-Mt?1>i"i, I'^yr iWf"iiiiy, ^* 11 ^pT/ueriei1. \^J #100,000," V hotiest^n ^^^^^^^^^pthmisaud ilollnrx/'sftiil with (j/1mnn much uiohik'. ( any of tbnt sort. / down your ideas ^^ P's the l>c."tyoii can do?" I ^^ fII. we have an old (iermnn wid- I ^^Mlw says she is wohIi #50,000, lait I uwful cross and ugly. I'm I you wouldn't like her." I ^^KSevev mind about that. Has she I o-ot #50,000 ?" - ??ok place in (he I ^^^^R^onvcrsatiuu ivv wtment of a '>arely furnisnw., , ^^Hhebking /irst ,loor ?" a *' e^ycen the Bowery and Broada\ ^' \ ^'it wc always require ft cash \ $10 in advance beforji<-**r <v'case of ,1Yi.^.^P^ntage on the 11 ?"?a '|fl^to c^at-" - Ods buftiness pay ?" ?(ot4Pe> splendidly. There are this character in Berlin. ^KP(j??^PT1 ll,c principal lirm in the made $100,000 out of it." pre ^c>tis the condition of the inatriW>v r, P?rmarket just now f" F^t^'erygood, indeed. We've got r poor girl without money. We have a clergyman who says he won't take one of his parishioners in the country, and has come tons to supply his need of a wife. Oh, there are such cases." "But these ire exceptions ?" "Of course; most men want money ; lots of money.' "And the wnnen ?" "They arc not sc particular about it; they are gcnertUy more anxious about getting married than about the money. Money or no money, they all want to get husbands." "Does the prevailing taste among the men run toward the brunettes or blondes?" "Brunettes, I should say decidedly. Most of our gentlemen consider blondes insipid." \ "And the tastaamong women?" "Oh, they are not so fanciful about beauty as the mcr^re. All they want is a good husband and just enough to keep them nicely." "Where do you arrange for a meeting?" "Either here, before or after office hours, or outside, if the interested partits prefer."' ? "And for the ?10 forjt^va^flflfeJiML keep up the search"tor t rich old ow ?" "For six months.', "What nationrditte dc you find use a matrimonial bureailhc most?" "Americans, Englib ami Germans. You hardly ever fimkn Irishman going to one?they alfceem to arrange their own matches.l The old man added resignedly: lTs economy, I suppose. They wanjfto save the fee." HE HAVE I UP. A mau with a saull valise and a persuasive voice invaded a house on the West Side the othekday, says the Chicago Tribune, and ftroduccd himself as follows: "I have secured th< agency for this city, ma'am, of a work which I should like to show you. It \ entitled 'The Modern Housewife's F lend, Companion and Guide.' It co tains upwards of 27,050 receipts, iniuding specific directions for " "Isn't your name Plu^ett?" interrupted the woman of f b house, who had been studying hislteatures as if trying to remember where she had seen him before. "No, madam," he replied, "my name is Harris." i ? "You look like a familyused to know down near Faitview. The Plunketts were related to the Van Arsdules?everybody calltd them Van Osdolls?and I'm not suje but they were second or third cou>ins of the Gaddises. Ever been in Fairview?" "No, ma'am. Now, thit work, as I was saying, contains directions for doing all kinds of needllwork, all descriptions of?" 4 "Well, it does beat me! If I'd met you anywhere on the slreetjl should have been just us sure you w^re Aaron Plunkett as I am that I'm standiag.., here. Your vo:ce is exactly like hi^ you're about his size and heft, you wear your whiskers the same way he used to, and?" "I dare say. I don't think I ever heard of him, though. No?" "Never heard of Aaron Plunkett? Why, he was the man that kept a tavern on the road to?oh, I forgot. You said you were never iu?" "No, I never was there," broke in the caller, becoming slightly impatient. "You will find in ,tHist ivprk full and comnMf1 niiuutUTTTS ron-..soap?" "I've tried that. It's a good deal chenper to buy it. When I lived in Fairview there was a peddler came round one day with a receipt for making toilet soap. He claimed he had sold it to the Suydams, and the Pumyeas, and the Sperlings, and the Shreveses, and the Piersons, and some of the other neiehbors, and I boueht it of him, and it cost me $1.75 to make a lot of soap I could have bought for ?" "But that's only one thing out of a thousand in this book, madam. You can make your own confectionery?" "I've tried that, too. You ought to have seen Sime Powelson laugh at a lot of candy I made once by following directions in a book ! I can make as good molasses candy as anybody ; ItV when I wunt the fancy kinds I alwi 'l go and buy 'em. It's the cheapest i best way in the long run." "In this book you will learn how make and fit children's garments?1 s "Land ! We haven't any child c but what is able to get their o* p clothes. There's si* of them, a d they're all boys. Tht youngest is * a teen, and he clerks in n clothing sto f< He was comjng home the other nig 31 and slipped and fell. You know r< awful slippery on tie sidewal 8< Sprained his kuee, and it swelled ^ that big I was afraid it was going be so stiff he never corld use it aga 11 I rubbed liniment and goose grease ? his knee for more/than an hour the watch, and it got better. I t ro you, there's nothing like goose gret J1 when you want to take the soren ,ri out of a swelled joint. But you ^ got to bo sure you have the gent thing. There's lots of stuff they^ 111 grease that's nothing but lard. '! best way is to render it out youie m (Jo and buy a goose. Pick out I re one. It won't make an) diffefn how old it is, so it's fut. Taketlt th goose and?" ".Madam," gasped the man wA * J11 valise, backing hastily out of thder, in "I give it up." I1 _ I . m 01'T OF WORK. J \ " A good many people are Uf because Ihey do not like wf?'? ^ ?r( bunt for work, but they treLt\L Ac anxTofc0 IInd it. Thejg? f | ft] -Xfe^"beral. /" 51 ?:?k on taftcehon^ ^'J^TAII f J'ead comeWrom tlic s?n/Tbe l'ft* ) 'hCrJtJafer, buuitner, I r;iTnp and strikgT e **mW >? o..t rr?n, ,i.\ f Rv must diir nnii rai.s?. ilio brij2jij^jLj| S ?ii tlmt have never been | Sls?'KSrns .r ivnvk. as . rule. Will not W Ill I Ul ?f )ii the soil. Better men tliau mey # i toiling and diggings get the food which they must oat. Hotter men ] than they arc have fellofl the trees, I broken the sods, lived in roU^h cabins, and made themselves homes, but they will not do such work. They will march, tramp, beg, steal, lie outdoors, commit crimes and go to prisons before they will do the healthiest work ui the face of the earth and hecooe strong, faithful, independent, usdul men. Says a doily paper: "The unemployed of Indianapolis, Ind., who had been supported at the public expense all winter, and who reiueed to shovel snow, break stones, 01 do anything else but draw their ra tions, arc now demanding to knov why the work, which was promiset them in the spring is not forthcoming. Such men want work; but som one must find it for them, pay thei for doing it, and take care of it whe it is done ; and it must be easy worl choice work, and the price they d mand, they will beg or steal rath than work. The Boston Journal, of May till gives this fuct: j i "A prominent Boston business m i has recently had an experience wlii I has ^im a little skeptical in 1 gnrd tole 'woes of the poor laborii man.' 4Part of his plant was recer ly burn*! After the fire a chimnt was torwown, which contained aboi (^000 br? 8. Many of these would c again afi cleaning. 1 "So w I men came along who sai 1 ^ey wa I work he said to them 1 "Oh, ye aere '9 work right hert I I'll giv? Ou thirteen cents an hou 1 for cleaifc bricks." 1 Uponp day, out of six men wht jcame afe a?d said they wantec work, fofrirned up their noses at tht Iworkanpy- The other t.w? ?? ? v if v ivui K* ed for odour, then quit and invested their ?ngs in liquor." The 1 f??d such men get for nothing better for them and others h the lo un. And while it is right h reliev stress, and deal our bread L the hi y, and be kind to the evil ad unt! :ful> it is vastly important tht we h such men righteousness ad hot, and faithfully preach to I tkm th ipel of hard work. "For I e*n wMe were with you, this we camaw" i that if any would not wflLfjJter should he eat." IL 1 TjJPjPl-?-J-Jule Pap??f I'HllBATTlES OF THE LATE WAR. iGeiral Marcus J. Wright, who is in harp of the Coifederate records in Pttlilgton, has firniihed to theMemW iraraercial Vppeal, an article 1 Wcli ;ives the lumber of battles 1 Ujy i each Stat phey were dis- | |t\bvt as follows j I St^ ooiumbia;;::::;:;::::;:.:;2} I Gen s 50 -cz:::::: 2 ? 1 cl 140 Z ... '208 na "\W?t Inli ^=?F;::::: 1 ijHyor i; i* ,, 4?)li/?farick ^lerei late of an l iY.ril fnrm,yA^hi3;"PPle- 80 r o %rd f'Mili- ofl Uiy A<*the Civil Var,' gives iitionitf^ ?U "i^Goents, D -J^i^fi1mter'l)ril 2 and 18o?dlng with |ft sirren- > de^ro^l Ki rby siirrende^^^JSP^en^t7 ^ and he surmeeting3(jropposing forces whLpated in% mkny . ~ or few, ath think heikasomit- C'KI ted some igagementa on both e sides of tAjppi river, of wbhh no official l.ere furoishtd. ae The actfc61 were 156. ? " The actSgo were 564. ? The acti|63 were 627. *''J The ucti|64 were 779. The act J 65 were 135. f*?1 The yea! ^ the bloody year, ?>? i -not only bji ^ greatest number L < of battles Jt because of the great campaign^ an(j Lee in Virginia, and the; operations in Ten- J* nessee aneo a The ea'mo by States are fig- al u red by FJQVi3terer as follows: i 5 i5wm5luufc 1 ^ westja,...x;;;;;;;;;; so c Lv lrguj.... NoSia,;: ^ gsg?*-S> * Misslrf p ^Ollisia 110 <s Texas, J 1 ] Arkam Tennes .>q^ * Kentuc ( Ohio,... 1J2 . Tndiaui 4 Illinois 1 1 Missou 044 1 Kansas 7 1 New M 10 . Indian 17 This (t include the engage- 1 ments 0; ^ gtates troops with the India le Western and North- ! western 1 ndTerritories, for they 1 had no c< on with the Confeder- 1 ates; am no^ inspired by them. *ta|?^yproximately corthough^^^/^lated, some always near the end he war may be mitted. "Hekk's Youb-VLK."?Sevew tories are told t?ccoun^, *or ry, "Here's you nr," which w*. _ lopular with the Cfederate so? IP_ ^ uriug the secessi?war. Tbiljfac j utbenticated of tie is thatJ s ill of 1801, after tattle ofC u_ ; is, a farmer cameJO day |%je jn | Jgard's camp, cr Cc"jfe Of'tho ' Jarch of a stray lie. sr mule ir, t oys swore they h *ej?ion half a > ie camp of ano*r*d the ol(1 a ule away, but l^hev shouted: 1 cLo'T^ "fir. here'3 y?Ur 3 2K u*C < >etrace his steps. iule. He turne^ camp kn0w- " nmediately tbf* n wa9 0n foot ?ok??py ttiatcry:,Mi9ter' they ""^t ^ toPy^unrsy; f ris mule"-a ?"ffi?orth Carolina*34 the troops fi^tiifhTO-s^ tlie di-nc ouotains. a t he ??.-?liuiledse iction of thi, wtb, "Xo, om still a jjere's y0"" mule." hi iey liuve?hnle army jo> (I and ud9? Aered country chang. I'? ld Lhc lnZ Z the cr.^me from w< g his iarse ?<ere's your "J tarter W* ' ,-ht on after th ule." xne put..? e indent of its ori^^as forgot- " nd was every?"ng "Vented I so or; all sorts of occt k /always ready for ?re_8o than those ^ j BW-^cin^V^^Ptont ranks, | ?? 5 - | rl.u) ?y^VwhZsetbe shout^tn up .riSJ-A phrasetrJSof * some of tTu>/w-^>Tr^' seek "shudojf oflicefP rat> 1 duty.?Exchange. ... An Extraordinai: ^xsk.?Auo er change has been rung ^ . ' bells which jingle out of tunc onl\ the case of married people. Thisv cornea from a young man who away last .summer on his bridal t( The newly wedded couple had stop . for three or four days at a quiet spi I hotel with a large park about it, the regulations prohibited cou ' 'JMinu in this park after ni *" * *?- 1. '??" r, full. The young man dian i * about this rule, and in the evenin and his bride, after a pleasant 1 along the banks of the near-by r strolled into the park and sat d In a very few minutes a watcl approached them. "I am very sorry to disturb ; he suid, politely, hut it is again rules for couples to sit in the - after 7 o'clock." i "But this is my wife!" oxcl I the astonished trespasser. " The watchman fell back as e -had been hit with something. II "Well," he said, in great dot n don't know just what to do in {, case. I never had one like it I c-* but I guess I'll let you stay ? r rules don't say anything about n people, and I suppose the foil st, made them never thought ai like this would ever happen, an evening.'' And the bride am! ch were left to wonder. c- A MIGHTY IIUNTML^* "8 It is the custom, in France, . 'I* the fashionable world to go shca" Jy in the autumn. Every possessor78 landed estate invites his friends frl '? Paris to visit him at this season, an every visitor is expected to distinguish d himself with the gun. : When Adolphe Thiers, the petit bourgeois statesman of France, became r president of the republic, he was invited one autumn to take part in the > sports at the country estate of M. ' Casimir-Pcrier. He accepted the in! vitation, and consequently had to appear on the hunting field in shooting dress and armed with a gun. The whole entertainment was really in his honor. M. Casimir-Perier was aware that his old friend, now the president, knew nothing whatever about hunting. But he instructed his game-keeper to follow M. Thiers about, and see that, in one way or another, the great guest of the occasion "bagged" more game than any other person. The game-keeper led the president to a certain spot, and said to htm UV/.? . v/ur excellency, the game will all be driven past this place. You have nothing to do hut remain here, and if you shoot at all, you are bound to kill something." But the president, to his credit, declined this opportunity, and insisted upon traveling about with the other hunters?except that he never went to the right place, and never got a shot it all. The game-keeper was in deipair. The distinguished guest kept iim hopping about from place to place, ?ut always out of range of the game. Nevertheless, by collusion with there, the game-keeper so managed i that, when the day's sport was ver, M. Thiers, who had not discharg1 his gun all day, found a large lot ' game at his feet, wjiich was deared to be his "bag." Tim'i ifttWiii"*"' 8a'^ "CertainlyTyoep'w^^WBy^ The president' looked up witn rinkle in his eye. v "Ah, I see," he s*d. "I never shot vthing before I bicame president; I suppose this was killed by the ice, not by the man!" ate combinations and disaster. The old rhyming prop^cy tells us severy futur^A-ear of our Lonl, figures Is tweiU>-flve, ,me warlike n7fl^rin^wtT.e*wonl, it peaceful natloi&j^pM? WllUh^e. ine thousand etgnt huutj^^^nd lty-eight was the fifth yetfg^^Tbdtimes in which the agg**r*ce P' figures was 25, and it was th first in series wnieli extends over a period early 200 years, in which the preions of the prophet were not literfulfilled. In 1G99, Russia, Poland Denmark formed the alliance nst Sweden, which inaugurated great war, which ended in the dis>us defeat of Charles XII, at Puli. tie year 1789 is one of the dark s in the annals of time because of eing the year in which the French huion broke out and raged until r ty Reign of Terror. ie yur 1798 witnessed the famous iVaWaof Napoleon into Egypt, and leytVjiton of the second European 6^h?t?Knst France. i f?^te uPon w^'c^ ^e sum J^g^res in ? combination o? ^ not witness my formal dec\ of ^ but it ,vas one of tlidi' disastrous of nodern times, as\ ^ sbipwrecks, nine accidents, raiv" ^ and general mishaps are IP , One thousand eig*"^ ftI1d aiuety-seven will be V dat in which the combined fift le 25, and there cannot p^ but three others of the same \ .vveen that time and the opening T r orj99._Dispatch. \J "Girl Wanted."?The nj, "Girl Wanted," c-used troubfl ^ music store the ether day EaVQ the morning e young lady can? and asked M a position. >he * followed }S another and another, u\ til bv t/>n fifteen girls had applieit for pi/*3- The proprietor was amazed^ ^run of girls, for there was \ /vacancy in his force of clerks. The fternoon brought a fresh relay of iris. There were big girls and little iris, short girls and tall girls, fat girla nd thin girls, and girls with homeiade complexions and "blondined" air. Finally the proprietor thought e was the victim of a practical joke, ad he fairly thundered at the last aiden, who said, iu timid tones: "I called to see about the position iu wish filled." "By thunder, miss!" he roared, lere hasn't l>een a vacancy in this ore for six mouths. No one has ed, got married, nor run away. I >n't want a girl, and I'm tired of this rnsense. You can go to the fool who nt you here and tell hira so." ^B The maiden opeued wide her china ue "Well, if you don't want ii sure uo decent girl w irk for such a cra^^B^^ 7&K&* ?'e'e rr? . ,.,. *o,,t "MM,.-ro. >>> bl* ^jnVnir^^;,,i rf ^ '"T Animals Tit at skk Both Ways.? Nature has enabled some auimals to see objects behind them as well as those in front, and that, too, without k burning around. The common hare * ULrabbit has this power in a marked I *(iree. Its eyes are large, prominent U" 1 011 l')e s'^e l'ie ',ea^' 's a|,other example of an anima ,j)is cjass fj,e p0Wer of^-^ to see thiniJ^r th- I 1(*?r w VT> noJq Ij coursing, for, j dog is mule while on thecml^^^^^^^H j0t. ; rabbit is able to judge- to a nicet^ro^Q^^H ,vus exact moment which will be best fo )Ur j 'doubling" on the trail. The deer, petj too, can run at high speed and tell ring j Just exactly when to increase its gait aud ! to full speed without once turning to pies | measure the distance between itself ght- j ai>(! the mute pursuer. g he | Hhjii 1'kaisk.?The great excellence walk j of preaching is to be intelligible to all, ' ". ?n to the most unlearned, t'ardi iver, ? own. nal Cheverus, after preaciung ...a ...... iman sermon in the English language, was in some doubt if he,had made himself vou ? I understood. st the Wishing to ascertain the fact, lie nark ! asked a laboring man, whom he had j noticed in the congregation, what he aimed thought of the sermon. The man reI plied : if he I "Your sermon was not like most j others. There was not a single dicibt "I tionary word in it. Alb the words such a I were easy to understand.1 ,'efore ; Cheverus was satisfied with the The reply. ??d in telling of the incident [lurried j would say that it was the highest is that i praise he had ever received. lything ' ? ? . Good- | There is more solid comfort in r I groom | smile than in a whole gross of frow*" I It is good economy to smile.