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THE PALLADIUM.
PUBLISHED ETEBY WEDNESDAY BI
B. W. DAVIS,
H0UOWAT DAVIS. Proprietor.
TERMS.
One year, tn advance
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Mall Time Tahle.
Incladlng all plft? sup-
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wavne B- R- closes at 100 a. m.
iriW SOUTH 1. Including Cincinnati
WOi?.ni DOlnts beyond,closesat5:00 a.m.
" 'nS al?tTaoeTu . pplled from the
Cincinnati Railroad, 60 p. m.
UOIVO EAST Including all places sup-
- nlted Irom the Columbus ft. R-, and
u Eastern and Central Ktates,and via
. lvton and Xenla Railroad, closes
- , . atl2:00m.
GOING WEST 1. Including danapoli8
and all points beyond, OTf 10J0
2. same as above, closes 70 p. m., 8. in
- eluding all points supplied by the Indi
f anapolls Railroad, 30 P-
3"Chlcao and all points west and north-
west, closes 7:W p, m.
To Webrfer, Williamsburg and Bloomings-
i t port, on Tiiesuay, uuiwoj -
aay, at 2:00 pm. 'iI a'
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nati and beyond. . ' " '
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through mails, and from Kay ton and
: Xenla Railroad. -, . ; ; ' '
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Toad, and Dayton and Xenla Railroad.
- At 7:00 p.m. from North, via Chicago Rail
road and Fort Wayne Railroad.-
At 8:00 p. m. from Indianapolis and beyond .
omoe open from 70 ft. m. to 7:30 pc m.
On Sunday, from t:30 to 10:30 n, m.
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Daily .except Sunday.
SUehmoa and Cnicao Division.
Nov. 30, 1874.
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Cincinnati. All other Trains DM1 v,except "'
Sunday. . W. D. O'BRIEN, '
Genl Passengerand MCket Agent.
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VOL. XLV.I
NOT LOST.
A Story of Lots and Constancy.
Let me recount to you a true love
story; a story of love; pure and unde
filed love as it was io the beginning,
ia now, and ever shall be, world with
out end. For love is all things in one
tons. It is hope and fear and joy
and despair; it ia truth and it is false
hood: it ia anything, in short, that you
arc pleased to call it; and it can repre
sent the brightness of heaven or the
blackness of perdition.
; ' "Love is a melting of the soul."
It was late in the afternoon of a
i dull autumnal day that a group of
j young people came chatting down the
door of a cathedral church in an
old
Atlantic 6eaport town., They were
rucmber3 of the choral society attached
to the church, and they had evidently
been there for rehearsal. Within,
this great building yawned black and
lonely, save in the gallery, where,
over the organ, a gas jet sprung rays
of light in the gloom and the sound
of. , softly-subdued voices broke
through the stillness.
The visible occupants were two, a
man and a maiden young, both, and
with the cabalistic word, "lovers,"
gleaming, as did the mysterious hand
writing of old on the wall, on their
foreheads. . Robert Field, the organ
ist, was turning over some sheets of
manuscript music with an absorbed
air, while by his side stood Hester
I leathersleiph, her pretty face full of
anxious interest as she watched his
movements. A little cloud of uneasi
ness wrinkled her forehead now imd
then as she saw the rent edges of an
gry clouds scud by the narrow slit of
window going to the east, where the
gray sea lay tossine stormily. , ,
"Well, Robert,"' she said at last,
droppiDe her slim hand on his shoul-
i der. "Well, Robert, what ia it ?";
' lhe musician s dark,) serious lace
lighted for a moment,gloriouslyy as
i he turned ana, toot ttte little ungiovea
! hand in his. . , -,: , if .
! . ; I asked you to ' stay. Hester, le-
j" cause I wish to play for you some pas
sages irom -my new piece, - l snail
submit it to tho society at Music Hall
to-morrow, andv Hester, I want, your
opinion in advance. - j ' -'-.-
.The young girl laughed a little,
rippling laugh of gleeful enthusiasm.
"My opinion ! Why, Robert, you
know beforehand what that will be.
It would be nothing but a form ask
ing it.!', .-
Robert raised , the little hand ten
derly to his lips., , ...., i--'
"I : know that love makes gentle
critics of us all." he said, wisely.
i "Rut now I want yon to forget who is
'. the author ot the melody ana to ezer
i cise your judgment without ? stint.
rj Remember, itoo, that love is the
theme; love which, wisely or unwisely,
f hopes all things, believes all things,
; and endures ail things unto the end.'
!' And then he turned to the organ. He
v played slowly at first. It was a lovely
as if a soul were waiting somewhere
in the shadow. Then, as brightness
entered, the theme asserted itself.
Those wonderful tones climbed high
er and higher, expressive of a great
faith, of a fond, mad triumph and be
wildering joy." On and on the chords
t swept; it was as if a living chain ol
light ran around the world. .
When he had finished there was
silence (or a moment between these
two. The lingering echoes rolled
back and forth till ouc by one they
too escaped into stillness. Then lies'
ter Fleathersleigh 6tooped, and, with
Quivering lips and tear-wet eyes, rev-
erently kissed the bowed forehead of
1 1 her lover. -: " i ) .
i ""Oh, my darling!" sh5 cried, "it is
! bo beautiful ! I am so proud of you.
i Who taught you to play like that?"
j A proud and satisfied smile curved
j; Itobert r leld s lips as he listened.
-I "My love for you, which is so great,
( so all-absorbing, that my music seems
"! to be put a poor expression of it."
y. Then lifting her head he gazed for
I a moment with wistful tenderness in
, to tbaroserpink beauty of her, small,
f sweet face, t" You think it is a tri
iumph, then, dear? Ah, Hester, are
' you sure you speak for the music it
self, or only out of a tendersniercy
, horn of vour love for me ?"
:j: i:i. ;vt 'A tt,.
preiiy -vioiei eyea out oi ine uruooy
languor of youth's enchanting dreams.
lender mercy ior you, sne repeat-
. ed. Ihen ner roice cnanced. Ah,
. ltnl.rl ;f mv lv ori ,ntfi
. I . . . I . . . I.
I 11 my luve can uiatvc jua
1 write line mat uuw, ineu yuur luiuit
be full of inspiration, for I shall
1
love you more and more the longer J
know you. 1 shall love you more and
more forever!"
j She wound her arm about his neck
nnd with tender, maiden sweetness
kissed his forehead, kissed his wavy
" hair, and kissed the thin, pale hand
. which lay nervelessly, on the yellow
; organ keys.'; And then a stillness
f crept about them a stillness more
fraught with eloquent joy than any
measure of golden speech could have
been. - . ; .
While they thus stood hand in hand
talking, lhe curtain behind them par
titioning off the long gallery parted,
, and a dark face peered through. It
was a man's face, handsome but cruel
in that purple gloom of gathering
shadow. It was no friendly face,
either, that, with its many changes of
hate and jealous anger, and furious
despair seemed, while the lovers talk
t ed, to be playing a dark and etortny
j accompaniment to the idyl of their
love.
' A sudden, sngry burst of wind at
the narrow window roused them un
, pleasantly to a sense of night and the
nearing storm.
Uh, the ram 1 cried Hester, with
a pale face. "How thoughtless of us
i to stay, and vou have that long, deso-
late walk over the cliffs in the dark V
. "Never mind," cried Robert, stout-
ly. "There are such light and
, warmth within me that I shall not
heed a passing touch of wind and wa
' ter. I will see you to your door first,
'.and then good-night."
"My cousin Oonrad promised to
come for me," Hester answered. "I
t wonder what detains him. Iris too
f bad for me to take you all this long
way out of your route."
"I like it better 60," the young man
said, gravely.1 "I, do not like your
cousin, Conrad, and I am not willing
to trust you to his care. Oh, my dar
liog!" he went on, earnestly, "if my
I music but brings me lame and fortune
Mflliiffi
"BE JUST AND FEAR NOT!
Richmond,
there will be no more good-nights, no
more partings in the storm for us."
They passed down the stairs and out
into the street together, unconscious
of the shadow closing upon them, '
nearer and blacker. At the door of
Hester's home they parted with a lin
gering good-by.
"My precious music," cried Robert,
buttoning his coat closer about him.
"No harm must come to that. It
represents fame and fortune and love
and honor for thee and me, my dar
ling." Hester lifted a small,' wet face to
peer into the gloom. "I wish you
could stay," she said. "And oh,
Robert, be careful of the cliffs the
path is eo lonely and dangerous. I
shrill come early to lehearsal to-morrow
for the sake of knowing that you
-"Do!"- he answered.. "I shall
bring you glad tidings. Success ia
too near for me to miss it now. Good
night, good night, my sweetheart!"
And so speaking he passed from her
! into the shadow of his waiting doom
After that night or 6torm the day
dawned clear and cold. At St. Paul's
the Choral Society, just then in the
first flush of enthusiasm over a new
t oratorio, gathered early. One two
t three ! the great bells chimed the
hours, and the singers waited patient--ly
lor their leader. Something had
detained him, most likely; he would
come soon ! - The hour struck four,
and he had not come, and Hester
Heathersleigh, with a heart heavy as
lead in her bosom, fell on her knees
in an agony of prayer. "Oh, my God !"
she cried, reckless of who might hear
her, "he is dead. My Robert U dead !
He has been lost in the cruel storm."
Some one, pitying, touched her arm.
It was her cousin, Conrad Charteris;
he was looking down at her with a
pale face a face paler far than that
with which he had spied upon her
yesterday behind the gallery curtain.
Her piteous cry had touched even his
stony heart. . '
' "'Hush !" he whispered, "here ia
news from him from Robert; come
and hear what it is." 1 '
. A note had been brought by a swift
running messenger,, and a shudder
ran round the waiting circle of listen
ers when its contents were made
known. It was signed by the leading
physician of the city, and stated that
Robert Field had been picked up that
morning at the loot ot tlie clifis and
taken home for dead. lie was now,
at the date of writing, lying in an in
sensible condition, and it was impos
sible to tell what the extent of his in
juries were, or if there were any hone
of Lis ultimate recovery.
A horror-stricken silence followed
the reading of the note, broken at
last by a low, sobbing cry from Hes
ter Heathersieigh's white lips.
, "I must go to him oh, I must go
to .him! Who will take me? You!
you !'-and she caught Conrad Char
teris by the arm. V : - v;
i He shrank away from her with a
gesture, much as if she had pierced
him with a knife. His black eyes
dilated horribly. I? I go with you
to see him?" he cried. "What are
you thinking of ? What do you take
me for?" Then noting her aston
ished look he made a fierce struggle
for composure; but his hand shook
like withered leaves. "Why do you
wish to go to him ?" ho questioned
angrily. "He would not recognize
you and it is no place for you ! Let
me take you home."
She snatched un her shawl and
bound it with trembling fingers about
her shoulders. ' "I tell you I shall go
to him," , she answered. "I was to
have been his wife, and, living or
dead, ray place is now by his side.
You can come with me it you like!"
And she flew down the steps. -
It seemed an age to her, that short
time she was On the road leading to
the lonely house of Robert Field's
widowed mother; and when at last, bj'
dint of her prayers and tears, she was
suffered to approach the bedside, she
looked down on a very different Rob
ert Field from the one with whom she
had parted in such high hope the
night before. ;
. The bruises were chiefly about the
head, the physician said gravely, and
even if he recovered it was doubtful
if his mind would ever be sound again.
Hester heard him, and with a great
sob (ell on her knees by the bedside.
Where now were the brilliant aspira
tions, the tender hopes, the gay cour
ase and stout-hearted faith of one
short day gone by ? Lost! lost ! Suc-
cess so near to him, sud yet to fail.
Triumph so nearly won, and yet to
pass by on the other side.
"Robert, O my Robert! Look up !
Speak to me, or, I, too, shall die!"
Ah ! but love remained. Love un-'
changed and unfaltering. This, then,
was left the blessing of a love which
believes all thinse, hopes all things,
and endures all things unto the end.
The drawn white face on the pillow
did not change at Hester's cry, but
under the half closed lids the dull
eyes gleamed feebly and the slender
hand outside on the coverlet groped
helplessly. Hester took his ha-nd in
hers, ana tl en quick as lightning, by
some strange, subtle instinct rather
than by any demonstration of his, she
felt that the poor stricken senses were
trying to break through the darkness
that enveloped, them, and make their
uuknown want understood.
. 'Robert, Robert! what is it?" she
cried, "what is it that you want to
make us understand?" f
The helpless movement of his lips,
the helpless groping of his fingers
were enough to make one weep. Hes
ter kept her ear to his mouth.
"What is it, Robert, dear? Tell
me what is it you want ?" , ,
Tho stiffened lips strove with a
mighty effort to move, and this time
one word was feebly articulated :
"Music!" s
- Hester looked up with a startled
exclamation :
"Music ! He calls for hs music.
Do you not heai ? Where is it? Who
knows about it? Is it lost?' she
questioned eagerly.
Again that terrible attempt at
speech. The dull eyes opened wide.
The feeble fingers clenched themselves
in Hester's hand, and,-with a last
mad effort of expiring, desperate
strength, he raised himself, and
shrieked : ' - "' '
"My music! Find it! Save it!"
And then he fell back on his pillow
like one dead. .
"You have killed him," said the
?hysician, angrily, and at , the words
lester, with a moan, dropped, down
insensible. ' - -. ;
LET ATT, THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY GOD'S, THY
Wayne county,
Not dead ! But when, after weeks
and months of painful illness, he
faced the world again, he looked like
a shadow out of the past. But bent
and aged, with scarred forehead and
whitened locks, the wreck of his body
was not the greatest avil that had be
fallen him; for of the brilliant genius
of other days not a vestige was left.
Saddest of all, the miserable ghost of
his lost hopes haunted him, and in
the ruined chambers of his darkened
intellect he was forever groping, try
ing to gather up the mystic chords of
tuneful thought which no longer vi
brated to his magic touch. The lost
manuscript music had never been re
covered, and, though his feeble mind
failed to take in the greatness of hia
loss, the shadow of something beauti
ful which was to have been, but,
somehow, failed to be, lay on him,
and gave his face a wistful look,
which was sadder far in its mute en
durance than any wail of speech could
have been. " . . '
Music wa3 to him now something
akin to the sound of "sweet bells jan?
gled out of tune and harsh."
One day in early spring he went to
the church for the first time, leaning
on Hester's arm. The old, familiar
look of the place struck him forcibly
and aroused his dormant wits. He
sat down to the organ and glided his
hands over the keys; a few jangling,
1 discordant chords followed, wander-
; . 1 . .1.1 1
mg and disconnected; men nis lace
changed, and, with a. terrible cry, he
flung his head down on his arms.
"Oh. Hester ! tell me what it is I
have lost. Sometimes I almost reach
it it is my mind, something beautiful
which I almost grasp, and then it
eludes me and fades awaj I have
lost it now. Hester ! Hester ! take
ie home."
She kissed him and soothed him
with sweet womauly words, and when
he wa3 more composed Fhe led him
away. ; - ; -
Soon after that they were married.
In vain ; Hester's friends threatened
and opposed, her. She was quietly
determined. ! . . .; .
"He loved me when friends and
fortune smiled on him,", she answered
them. ' "He would have given me ev
ery great gift which the world; was
ready to bestow on him for love of his
beautiful genius, and shall I .desert
him nowl when misfortune has over
taken him? Perhaps oh, perhaps
some time God may restore to him hia
lost mind." Tears filled her lovely,
soft, pathetic ryes. "If I dared to
hope it oh, if I but might hope for
it, how willingly would I give my life
to have it so." ' t U 5 J ; , .
The day before her wedding she re
ceived a visit from Conrad Charteris.
"It shall not be !" he cried out, ve
hemently.. "Do you realize what you
arc doing? Why, you had better far
die at once, for Robert Field is but
little better than an idiot."
And if he were an idiot, returned
Ilesler bravely hiding-hor hurt-at tho4.anit-d!terrufa4:e wuth a cent.
brutal words, "even then I would
marry him, I love him, and if not one
vestige of his glorious intellect re
mained I , would be Robert Field's
wife and a proud ouo too."
"I believe you would !" answered
Conrad, looking with a fond, mad
longing into the pale face lifted so
undauntedly to his dark gaze. "Hes
ter, you will drive me mad. I would
to heaven that Robert Field was dead.
Why did he not die that night last
winter?" and he struck his hand furi
ousJy en the table in a blind frenzy of
despair.
"God knows it was from no lack of
purpose in you th-it he did not die,"
returned Hester spiritedly. .. i
She spoke at random, but Conrad
shrank away with a white face. The
idle words evidently hit him hard.
They cut close and sharp as steel iu
their unexpected descent, and wheel
ing abruptly about he left her and did
not seek her again.
They were married quietly and after
that, in the tender security of his
modest home, under the fond and
cherishing care of his wile, health and
strength came slowly back to the
shattered frame of Robert Field.
Slowly, too, out of the darkness he
began to wrench, one by one, the se
crets of his prisoned mind. Old mel
odies began to shape thJ-niselves un
der his touch, discordant and frag
mentary at first, but gradually assum
ing symmetry and power.
"Not quite a wreck !" ho would sigh,
wistfully. . "Some day tomc good
genii will unlock my prison doer and
set me free.
In the child that was born to them
a beautiful boy who sang sweet mu
sic in every tone of his childish voice
his pride was great He talked ol
him, listened to him, watched him
and dreamed of him, predicted a fu
ture of which Bertrand was to bo the
perfect flower, the very golden rose of
joy. So the five j'ears passed and
sweet Hester Field's lair face grew
heavenly beautiful to sec, with its
tired look of patient waiting. God
only knows how her heart failed her
now at times, or with what fierce
power she wrestled with her growing
doubts and prayed for strength to
help her bear this cross whose thadow
fell even darker and deeper on her
young life.
Had her love, then, been a sacraSce
in vain? But one day the answer
catr.e ! Returning one afternoon from
a long walk, Robert Field stopped in
the hall, spell-bound by the triumph
ant strains of soma new and beautiful
melody floating through the rooms.
His worn face flashed with the old
light of inspired thought; his eyes
dilated; his whole form shook with a
mysterious emotion.
"What is it? what is it? he aked
of his wife, who came to inest him.
"Beitrand's music!" auswered
proud mother Hester. "He has been
engaged with a long time. He meant
it to be a surprise for you."
Robert Field threw tip his arms
with a joyful cry.
"It is mine mine ! My lost mu$ic !
The music I played for you that long
forgotten day ! Hark ! Hester, do
you not recognize it now?- Oh! to
think that it has slept so long; and
now comes back to me so fresh and
fair. This is my treasure which was
lost to me and now is returned to me
after many years.? Brought back by a
little child ! Our child, Hester ! Oh,
thank God for that r
Rushing into the parlor he swept
Bertrand from the stool, and seating
himself at the organ, with one power
ful sweep of his hands over the keys
he summoned his God-given genius
from the tomb of his vouth and b.nh
it stand, resurrectionized in new life
Indiana, oct. g,
before him. On and on the music
swept; not a note was lost; not a chord
dropped out of the splendid , work.
Shoutingly, exultantly the tones leap-,
ed forth, "and their name was called
Wonderful.' V On, on! Up and onl
At last, from sheer exhaustion, the
musician dropped to the floor and
lying there at Hester's feet, he wept
tears which were no shame to him.
"It is the very same," he cried.
"Bertrand has written it out note for
note, a counterpart of -my, own work.
Is it not an awful thing to think of?
My own work, and yet his! Who but
God can explain it? And oh, Hester!
The darkness is all gone now. Let :
me thank God for that."
Then wrapping his arms about her,
Robert Field kissed his wife's pale
face and kissed her tender mouth, her
wavy hair, and her slim, pale, faithful
hands.
"JJywife! my wife! Oh, what if
your love had failed you, Hester ? If
in those terrible first hours of my
misfortune your true heart had been
one whit less true, then I should have
been lying in my grave to-day, a bro
ken and forgotten man !"
So fame and success in the latter
days of his life came, not unwelcome
ly, to Robert Field. The world wel
comed his famous piece with none the
less. acclaim for its long delay and for
the strange story which accompanied
it.. One truth only concerning that,
fatal night Robert withheld known '
alone to his faithful wife. But Con
rad Charteris had long ago disap
peared from the town and was seen ,
no more among them. ; So he and
Hester buried the secret in their
hearts, contented that it shor.ld be
so for God is his own avenger.
- They had been taught a wonderful
lesson, too, by One who, having lived
on earth, knew what the full fruition
of earthly life must be, and wbo gave,
ere He passed away from among men,
the crowning blessing of His wisdpm
in a last, new commandment
Love ye one another ! r :
NASBY.
Inflation nt the Corners- -The Smnafe
or the nlimltcl Trust ami Confi
dence Company Thrilling Kccncs.
3 From the Toledo Blade,
In the" Swamp, Near Confedrit )
X Roads, Wich is in the
' t State rjv Kentucky. J
' ' September 16, 1875.
. There is a gloom onto the Corners !
Our sun uv prosperity is sot, and my
hopes is blasted. The Onliiuited
Trust and Confidence Company is not
eggsackly no more, but is near onufl
dead to make it safe to bury it on a
voucher. Its eyes is sot. After a
brilvant career of Jive weeks of corrus-
cating along the sky uv finance, shed-
din blessings at every jump, its
iiie
hez gone, its brilyancy hez departed,
We hevnt suspended, nor lailed,
nor closed our doors, nor nothin, for
the simple reason that the bank was
constructed on an ijee that made fail
in impossible and the elosiu uv. doors
onnessary. Ez we don't hev to re
deem, wat sheb we fail for? Ez we
don't perpose to pay nothin, wat shel
we close our doors for? Tber aint
nothin hide-bound about this bank.
The people is welcome to come in and
discuss finance, and put ther feet on
the benches and spit tobacker joose
on the floor, jest cz friendly es they
choose, and they may do it ez long ez
they choose.
No, the Onlimited Trust and Confi
dence Company aint failed, but it's
kinder petered out, ez it were, j It is
expirin of dry rot. : Its notes, wich is
its blood, aint hevin any cirkelashsn.
The people dont take em with that
cheerfulness wich is necessary to a
proper bankin bizness. Legislashen
don't fetch em. The ordinance wich
made death the penalty for refoosin
our ishoos only worked so far ez tak
in em for taxes. . The corporashen
did take em for taxes iu pursooance
uv their own legishishen, and here
wuz where the trouble begun. The
taxes wuz levied on a greenback basis,
and -the entire levy amounted to
8,000. Well, the taxes, ior the first
time in the history uv the Corners,
wuz all pade in full with great
promptness. A more prompter set of
taxpayers I never seed.
The treasurer hed $8,000 uv our
ishoos, when it wuz "necessary to buy
a plow and four spades to do some
work on the roads. .In vane he tried
to git em. The dealers at home
knowin wat currency he hed to pay in
suddenly got out uv plows and spades,
and when he went to Looisville it
took 1,000 uv his currency to pay his
fare, and he offered the hardware
dealer the other 7,000 for tho imple
ments he wanted, but it wouldn't go.
lie hed to come back without em.
Then he come and demanded some
currency uv us wich he cood yoose,
f wich uv course, wo hedut got none,
and he become an opponeut uv our
system.
Two shoemakers, each with ?70,
000 uv our money, coodent buy a side
of sole leather to continyoo their biz
ness with, and hed to stop our rail
roads an 1 turnpike bed to stop becoz,
hevin got to the piut where we hed to
hcv iron and nales and sich things,
we coodent go on; so all tho laborers
hed to be discharged, wich made a
desprit populashen all howlin agin
us. t '
But the wiist wuz yet to come. We
could hev weathered all this, but
alas! Bascom failed ! .
This wuz the finiehin blow the
great stagger from wich the Corners
cood not possibly recover.
Bascom made a lively fite, and I
must say did all that he could to stand
up for us. He raised the price uv
drinks to ?2 per drink, and when he
saw his barls rapidly failin, he tried
to keep the Corners agoin by waterin
his likker, jest ez we hed watered the
currency. ?!
But the expedients didn't work.
The higher the price he put ou his
likkers the more the people seemed
to want to drink of it.' It seemed to
be a delite to em to pay out our money
ef they got anything watever for it.
Jut they wouldnt.do wot ISascom
most desired that
woodent stand his
They sed to him :
aint enuff charge $4.
18 to say they
watered whisky.
"Ef 2 a drink
Its all wun to
us. Set cm up agin.'
An the bar-room full wood step tip
and take suthin, and the man who
asked em wood throw down on the
bar a peck uv our currency and tell
' Bascom to help himself.
COUNTRY'S AND TRUTH'S!'
1875;
Bascom com to us and begged that
we shood let him hev suthin that he
cood yoose to restock his bar. He
said the deelers in Looisville laffed in
his face when he offered em our
money for likker, and he had but two
barls left.
An them two barls wuz vizably
shrinkin every minit. It seemed ez
though the populis got inBane for lik
ker at the very time that; we didn't
want em to hev it. For the first time
in my life I wanted the Corners to be
temprit, for every drop drawd from
the barls brought our bank that much
neerer its end. I sot opposite Bas
com's and saw the crowd go in with a
sinkin sensashen that wuz akin to
death. Drink by drink it went, and
ez ef they coodent eggshaust it fast
enuff by the single drink they got to
comin for it in tin dippers. -
"How does it hold out?" was the
message I sent him at 10 a.' m.
The answer came promt :
10:05 a. m. Wun barrel untutched
20 gallons in the other, and sinkin
every minit. B.
Then I sent this:
10:20. Fill her up with water.
Keep Jefferson Davis a pourin in.
Hold the fort. , N.
And the answer came: ,t
y 10:25. Jefferson Davis is a histin
in water ez fast ez he kin carry it.
Mrs. Bascom is a rinsin out old bar
rels, to which she adds kyan pepper
and camfene. Ef I hed some Scotch
snuff it wood help. Will hold out ez
long ez possible. But it'a. terrible.
A man jist come
gallon.
Twenty minits
in and demands a
B.
thereafter Bascom
sent this :
"Have, jist pu a spigot in last barl,
and the Corners is a howlin'. It
won't last an hour. B."
. Then an expedient sejested itself to
me. I sent this note :
"Time is everything." Bust the
spigot and delay drawin'."
' N.
Wich he did, thus keeping, the
wolves at bay for an hour while it wuz
bein repaired. .'
But why harrow the public buzuni
with the details uv this painful story?
The end wuz inevitable. Drop by
drop, drink by drink, pint by pint,
that likker wuz ebbiii eway, and each
drop weakened the bank. That lik
ker wuz our life-blood, and ez it flow
ed we wilted. Waterin the barl wuz
merely a palliative and it wuz with a
feelin uv relecf that I saw George. W,
throw up his hands and exclaim :
' It's all gone but a gallon, wich I
t-hel keep for my own yoose. It's all
fone, and I can't git another drop in
looisville."
And he dropt his head despondenly
on a pile uv over $12,000 uv our cur
rency, wich he had'nt taken off the
bar, and wept despondingly. ,
"Why can't you git more?" de
manded the exeited populis.
"Becoz I aint got no money but
this, nnd yoo coodeut git a barl uv
whisky in Looioville for a car-load uv
it. i :
I attempted to reason with the peo
ple. I told em that one reason uv
our wealth wuz that we hed it in a
currency that we coodent spend away
from home, thus keepin our capital
among ourselves, but they retoosed to
listen to me. They d d my bank
they d d me. They went for the
bankdetermined ef tlure wuz anr
thing there that cood be turned into
likker Bascom shood hev it. It, is
onneceseary to remark that they
didn't find anything. Antissipatin an
onpleasantnis, we have removed the
valyoobles to a place uv safety; wich
wuz the under side uv my bed at
Deekin Pogram's. ;
Then they ' demanded that the
money they held be redeemed into
soiuethin they cood yoose, but uv
course wo declined to discuss the
matter, referrin them to the terms uv
the ijhoo ez expressed on the note, ez
well ez their own indorsement uv the
skecm.
But this didn't satisfy em..' They
deliberately brought out $675,000 uv
the ishoos uv the various banks, and
pilin it up on the street, set fire to it,
dancin a demoniac dance around it.
This atnoczed me, for uv. course I
hed no earthly objeckshun to their
redeemin nv it in that way, but when
I seed em riggin ropes to the trees in
the visinity. I remarkt to my fellow
ofnsers: Gentlumcn, yoor president
hez pressin biznis in yonder forest!"
and 1 got out ez rapidly ez my poor
wasted lims wood permit. I flatter
myself that I made tollerable time for
a man uv my age, whose strength is
mostly in his stumick. Iudeed, when
I turned : and saw ten or a dozen uv
the foremost men uv the Corners close
behind me, and all shou tin, "Hang
the d d theef I" no gentle gazelle that
ever I heerd uv ever skimmed the
plain ez did.- 1 did not cease run
nin till I got into the middle uv the
big swamp, in a place that I knowd
wua sekoor f roin em. '
Wat bekom uv the other dircekters
I don't know. The last fond look
that I turnod toarda the bank I saw
Issaker Gavett and Dekin Pogratn
strugglin in the hands uv the mob,
with was playfully forcin eia to sit
down on a burnin pile uv their own
currency. . . '
I am in a deserted swamp wich wuz
yoosed by runaway niggers in the old
times, and am fed by a nigger farmer,
who hez not heerd uv the collapse,
and consekently takes his pay in the
Onlimited. .
Ef the nooze erer gets to him uv
the reel condishun uv things, and he
shets off supplies, or reveeb mv where
abouts, I am a lost man.
Wat changes there iz in life! A
week ago a successful fiuanseer, and
the pet uv the populis the savior uv
thi Corners! Te-day a hunted fugi
tive livin 011 corn hoe-cakes furnished
by a nigger! One needs tn be a filoso
fer. Petroleum V. Nasby,
Late President uv theOnlimited Trust
and Confidence Company.
N. B. I have heerd from the Cor
ners. . The ungrateful people after
half killin the officers of the bank,
passed resoloosheus that we wuz all a
pack of theeves, and that them ez hed
sold land and - sich . for our money
shood soo for recovery thereof, and
that they'd hang any judge or joory
wich woodent decide agin us.
Bascom hez gone back onto us and
hez sold back to Pollock and Bigler
the store we boucht uv cm, and hez
got greenbax enuff to get a few barls
uv likker and hez reopened. He hez
put the price down to 5 cents agin,
and refoofes to take anything for it
but nickels or postal currency., He
Tusri NO. 30
sez he ain't gittin ez many cart-loads
nv money ez he did in the inflaBhen
period, but he's satisfied. The most
uv the citizens iz bankrupt and rooin
iz everywhere. Oh, why did their;
faith give oat at the wrong time!
P.V.N.
Astronomical Prediction. ' . ,
Prof. Daniel Rlrkwood, of Bloomlngton,
Ind., in New York Tribune.
To the amateur astronomer a brief
enumeration of the principal phenom
ena to occur in the near future will,
not be without interest. The follow-'
ing. list ; includes the total eclipses of
the sun ' and moon, the transits of
Mercury and Venus,' occulations of
fixed stars by the moon, the return of
periodic comets, the probable dates of
meteoric showers, and the epochs of
maxima and minima of solar spots,
from the present time till the close
of the nineteenth century:
1815. On the morning of November
23, Spiea Virginis, a well known star
of the first magnitude, will be occult
ed by the moon. " The immersion be
hind the moon's bright limb will oc
cur about twenty minutes before 2
o'clock, or a few minutes after the
moon shall have risen. The occulta
tion will continue about one hour and
twelve minutes.
1876. Three occultations of ' the
Pleiades will take place in the last
three months of the year, viz: On ,
October 6, November 30, and Decem
ber 28. The phenomena may be well
observed with a small telescope, i
1877. D' Arrest's comet will return
to perihelion in January of this year.
A total eclipse of the moon, invisible
in this country, will take place on t
27th of February. Another will oc
cur on the 23d of August, partly visi
ble in the Eastern States.
' 1878. This will be the next year of
sun-spot minima. On May 6, Mer
cury will pass over the sun's disk, the
transit occupying seven hours forty
seven minutes. . This, with a single
exception, is the longest duration of a
transit on record. On the 28th of
July there will be an eclipse of the
sun, total in Colorado and also in the
island of Cuba. No other opportuni
ty of witnessing a total solar eclipse in
our country will occur till after the
close of the present century. Encke s
comet and the second comet or lobT,
will both return to perihelion in Au-
lbiy. J5rorsen s comet, or snort; pe
riod, will pass its perihelion about the
last of June.
1880. Winnecke's comet (period 5y.
7m.) will return about midsummer.
' m mm V
The moon will be totally ecupsea on
December 16; invisible in the United
States.
1881. A transit of Mercury on No
venber 7. Faye's comet may be look
ed for in January, and Encke's in No
vember. 1882. The sun will be totally eclips
ed May 17: the phenomenon bing
visible in Egypt and Persia. 7 The
great astronomical event of the year
will be the transit of Venus, on the
6th of December, which will be visi
blo in the United States. ' -
1883. A maximum of sun-spots is to
be expected thia year. The comet of
1812. whose period was estimated at
70 years and 8 months, may be expect- "
ed some time dunag the year. 1 ne
comet of D'Arrest may also be looked
for in June or July.
1884. The second comet of 1867 will
pass its perihelion in April. A con
siderable display of the meteors of
April 20 may be expected with some
probability. The period of this clus-,
ter is supposed to be about 27 years.
A total eclipse of the moon will oc
cur on the 4th of October.
1885. The comet of Brorsen will be
nearest the sun in January; those of
Encke and Tuttle in March.
1886. ;Winnecke's comet will return
iu February. , The sun will be totally
eclipsed August 29. Visible in Gre
nada and on the Atlantic. That part
of the stream of November meteors
which produced the showers of 1787 (
and 1820 may be expected to return
between 1885 and 1888.
1887. Total eclipse 6f the sun, Au-T
gust In visible in Asia and Eastern
Europe, The comet of 1815, accord
ing to Bessel's calculations, will be in
perihelion in February.
18S8. The moon will be totally
eclipsed January 28. : Encke's and ,
Faye's comets will return about mid-,
summer. t
1889. D' Arrest's comet will return
in November, and the second comet
of 1867 in December. A minimum of
sun-spots is expected.
4S90. Brorsen's comet will be near
est the sun in August.
' 1891. A return of Winnecke's com
et in September, and of Encke's in
October. A transit of Mercury May 9.
1892. A display of .meteors derived
from Biela's comet may be expected
about November 24. .
1894. A sun-spot maximum. ' A
transit of Mercury November 10.
: 1895. Encke's comet will, become
visible in January; the second of 1867,
in August; and Faye's in December.
The moon will e totally eclirsed on ,
the night oT March 25.
1896. Perihelion passage of Bror
sen's comet in February, and of d' Ar
rests' in March. A total eclipse of
the sun will occur on the morning of
Augut-t 19. - Visible ; In Lapland and
high northern latitudes. '
1897. Winnecke's comet will be due
in April. . :
1898. Encke's comet will return in
May, and Tuttle's in October.- The
moon will be totally eclipsed on the
night oi December 27.
1899. The maximum display of Le
onids, or November meteors, may be
expected this year on the morning of
the 15th of the month. Considerable
showers, however, will probably be
witnessed each year from 1897 to 1901.
Tempel's comet, which is connected
with thesemeteors, and which prece
ded them in 1866. will probably pass
its perihelion in March, i .
1900. A total eclipse of the sun will
be visible in Virginia, May 27. The
first comet of 1867, whose period is 33
years and 7 months, will return in the
summer of 1900. The solar-spot min
imum will also occur in this last year
of the century. ..
' The foregoing list makes no claim
to ? completeness. " None but- total
eclipses have. been, pointed out, and
even some of these may ierhaps have
been overlooked. The most import
ant celestial phenomena, however, and
especially such as may be observed in
our own country, have been briefly
designated. ...... - ;
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The "Outbreaka" at the Sonth.
It does not appear that the last out
break was political in its nature. It
was prob. bly nothing more than the
outcome of the prejudice against color
an explosion to give vent to the ac
cumulation of bad blood which had
been for some time seeking an outlet.
-Milwaukee Sentinel.
: This in relation to the recent riot
and massacre at a political meeting at
Clinton, Miss. Why does it not ap
pear that the last outbreak war polit
ical in its nature? What single cir
cumstance connected with the oloody
affair should lead anybody to the con
clusion that it was anything but polit
ical in its nature? "Prejudice against
color," indeed! White Democrats
South have no "prejudice against col
or," per ee? It is merely prejudice
against colored men enjoying freedom
and asserting political rights. , White
Democrats nave been brought up with
negroes. Negroes cooked for them,
washed for them, nursed them, dress
ed them, cuffed them when they were
babies, played with them, and travel
ed with them all round the globe.
White Democrats have associated so
intimately with negroes that they pos
sess many of their characteristics. To
be sure, they have robbed the negro
of his labor, of his wife and children,
of his dialect, and last, but not least,
of a part of his color. The negro has
absolutely faded, and hia hair lost its
wooly appearance under . the benign
influence of this intimate association!
"Prejudice against color!" there is no
such sentiment in the heart of the
white Democrat. In the old days of
slavery the Southern 6lave owner felt
infinitely less contempt for the negro
he was surrounded. It is true that
the planter, under the old . regime,
often sent his own yellow children in
to the field to be scourged to their
tasks by the whip of the cruel over
seer. He sold his own children away
from their mothers into slavery, and
worse than slavery. But he rarely
killed them, for they were property
cattle worth so much per head. If he
kills negroes now, it is quite clear he
kills them for political reasons, and
for no other. . The only difference be
tween the slave and the free negro
consists in the fact of freedom and
the enjoyment of political and civil
rights. It is these rights of which the
white Democrat is jealous. It i9
against the exercise of these rights
that the white Democrat entertains
"prejudice." The killing of negroes
is a protest against the amended Con
stitution, a protest against the rights
of man, and a defiance of the spirit of
the age and the authority of the na
tion. Formerly the master whipped
his slave into obedience to his orders;
now the white Democrat kills the free
negro if he dares vote against him at
the polls. It is not "prejudice" that
induces him to become an assassin,
but intolerance, nosunry . to equai
rights, contempt for the Republic,
which" means equal , rights. Inter
Ocean. "
The Vioksburg Herald says; As
an innocent looking old man was go-
ing up w asnington street, yesxeraay,
a drayman nodded at him and asked:
"Want a dray. Mister?" "No o, I
guess not," replied the old man, "I m
too fur from home and can't pay
freight on it. Much obleeged, though.
Vioksburg is a powerful nice-town.
A feller back there asked me if I
didn't want a coat, another inquired
it I wanted a hack, and now you offer
me a dray!- I wish I lived here."
A boy got his grandfather's gun,
and loaded it, but was afraid to fire.
He, however, liked the fun of loading,
and so put in another charge, but was
still afraid to fire. He kept on charg
ing, but without firing, until he got
six loans in the old piece. .His grand
mother, learning his timidity, smartly
reproved him, and, grasping the old
continental, discharged it. - Tho re
sult was tremendous, throwing the
old lady on her back. , ' She promptly
struggled to regain her feet, bat the
boy cried out:, . '' .
"Lie still, granny! There are five
more charges to go off yet!" ; , ?
A Dutchman read somewhere that
money doubled- itself by compound
interest every fourteen years if it was
put carefully away and leit untouch
ed. The guileless Hollander at once
dug a hole in the cellar and buried
four hundred dollars in a tea-kettle.
This was fourteen years - ago last
Wednesday. On that day he rose at
4 o'clock in the morning and "resur
rected" his cash, with the confident
expectation that it had increased to
eight hundred dollars,; .His' disap-
J (Ointment was great, and when his
riends interview him about mathe
matics now, he expresses the opinion
that "Dot arithmetics ish all a lie! '
The Drawer was chatting a few
weeks ago on the piazza of the United
States Hotel at Saratogo, with a bright
.German gentleman, retired from busi
ness who related the following little
anecdote: "Going down to New York,
the other night, ' he said, "I got to
chatting with a German acquaintance,
and asked him what he was doing."
"Veil," he replied, "shoost now I am
doing nodings, but 1 have made ar
rangements to go into pizness." "Glad
to hear it. What are you going into?"
"Veil, I goes into partnership mid a
man." "Do you put in much capital?"
"No; I doesn't put in no gapital."
"Don't want to risk it, eh?" "No, I
puts in - de experience." : "And he
puts in the capital?" "Yes. dot is it.
We goes into pizness for dree year;
he nuts in de capital. I puts in de ex
perience. At de end of dree year I
vill haf de gapital, und he vill haf de
experience.' Harper's Magazine.
Major Barney's discovery in tele
graphing, with some improvements
made by M. Godener, a Frenchman,
was experimented upon in Belgium
lately. One operator sent simultane
ously to Ostend and Antwerp, from
Brussels the same dispatch at the
rate of 600 words a minute," From
Ostend to : Brussels a dispatch was
sent at the rate of 1,092 words a min
ute. " ;' ; - - - -" ' -' : .
The conclusion of a little speech by
Red Dog was as f ollowsi. "There was
a man walking upon the shores of the
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f. That man was Red Dog. There was a
man . wno was walking by the Platte,
ana tne eariu snoot, lie was Red
Dog. r And there is a man who treads
the bank of the WThite River and the
tribes listen and obey, and ho .is Red
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