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THE ADVERTISER.
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Fifty Cents per year.
MOBEOW & CRAWFORD, Publishers.
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WILMINGTON. DEL., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1879.
NO. 19.
VOL. I.
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THE BBOOK.
1 como from the haunts of coot and fern,
I make a sadden tally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bioker down a valley.
chatter, obatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river.
and men may go,
For men may
Bat 1 go
forevi )
1 1 wind about, and in and out.
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lnst.v iront.
And here aud there a grayling.
Aud here and there a foamy flake
, as I travel,
With mauy a si Ivory water break
Above the golden gravel.
Upon
And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
■ and
forever.
For
limy
may go.
Bnt I go
1 steal by I
I slide by basal covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
1 slip, I slide, I glow, I glance
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Agai .st my sandy shallows.
and grassy plots.
1 murmur under moon and stars;
In bia Dbiy wildernesses;
1 linger by my shingly bars;
by my
1 I-,.
And out again I ourve and flow
To join the brimming river,
aud men may go,
Foi
a ay
But I go
loro vor.
Two Bed Boses.
The golden sun was sinking to reat amid
clouds of purple and red, and its last rays
lingered on the clustering nutbrown hair of
Eunice Dalton, as she leaned against the
rustic gate that led to the old farmhouso,
where her childhood had been spent.
She was very pretty, this slender girlish
Eunice, withe her deep gray eyes, her clas
LKnrtwes, useauf/' complexion' and
eurviug, crimson lips.
And beside her, his face pale and grave
dark eyes drinking on every chance of her
lovely face, Guy Winters stood and pleaded
for her love.
"Eunice," he said, laying his hand on
hers, "must you leave us? Are you not
happy here ! Have w.e failed to make you
contented!"
The gray eyes were raised to his face,
the pretty white hand clasped his.
"Oh, Guy! not happy—not content?
How could I be otherwise with the love
î —me who had
you all lavished on
claim ou you, save that our mothers
friends in childhood. But, Guy, I want to
earn my own living- v
He interrupted her with a low passionate
cry.
"Eunicc, Eunice, darling, do not leave
us. Oh!* my love I cannot let you go.
Stay with me and be my wife. Eunice 1"
They had been liko brother and sister so
long, that Eunice never dreamed of the
possibility of Guy loving her,
brother.
as a
"Guy, you cannot mean this," sho said.
"Tell me you don't mean it."
"Mean it ? Oh my darling ! I have loved
you for years, but I was afraid to speak. I
know I am not worthy of you but I will
learn to be. Give me some hope, Eunice,
and I will wait. "
The girl's face grew pale at the thought
of the pain she must, give his loyal heart,
but the knew It was kind to speak plainly
at once.
"Guy, dear," she said, "I thank for the
love you offer me, but—but—Oh, Guy ! I
—I lové —
"You love Wilson Audrey ?" he said.
A scarlet flush swept
her gray eyes dropped tiU their loug lashes
rested on her rounded checks.
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her face, and
"I might have known it," he said, "for
he is all £ girl could wish for a lover, but,
Eunice! hav^loved you asfg woman is sel
dom loved."
Near to ^hem bloomed ft bush of sweet
rcd*roses, and the girl puUroutJief slender
hand^and broke off one brilliant flower.
"Keep this, Guy, i
she said. *
"Give me the
memory of are, "
at your breast," he
said, "and I will keep it while life lasts. "
She loosened the flower, and as she gave
it to him he bent and kissed her.
"We havo been as brother and sister in
the past, Eunice," he said "and in the fu
ture wo will be the same," and then he
turned away, and Eunice looked after him
wilh tender, wistful eyes.
Looked altor him 'till Wilson Audrey 's
voice fell on her ears, and she turned to
meet him with glad, welcoming eyes and
to
hqr
throbbing heart, completely forgetting Guy
Winters and Lis love,
Wilson Andrey had won Eunice Dalton's
heart and to do him justice, lie believed he
loved her when he wooed her,
for her rare beauty pleased his souses ; her
shy, girlish manner appealed to his heart.
He was handsome, with hiB graceful, in
dolent, yet authoritative mannen that the
girl whose first love he had won, idealized
him into a hero, and almost worshipped
him, never doubting his love, even when
sho saw the change that passed over his
face when she told him she was going to
earn her own living.
"I don't see why you need do so," he
had said ; the Winters love you as their
own daughter."
Her face flushed slightly ; as she replied:
"You must uot forget, that I have no
claim on the Winters, save the claim of
love."
"But darling you must know what a dif
ference it would make to my family, when
they hear you are an underpaid music
teacher of the Winters, and not co-heir with
their son."
A little gasp of pain came from her lips
I —her lips that had suddenly grown white.
"Oh, Wilson—Wilson! cau it be?—
j He smiled.
! "Sweet," he said, "I love you for your
; self aione. Y
darling?"
She was so true and loyal herself, that
she could not withstand his tender, caress
ing words, and when he drew her near him
and kissed her she was content, even happy
again, believing lie meant nothing by his
careless words.
The red rose she had first offered to Guy
Winter was still in her hand.
bay
a
là
at
believe this, Eunice,
"I will take this as a lovotokeu;" Wilson
said, taking it from her, "and if ever the
time comes when I love you less, I will
send it to you, and you will understand.
He spoke jestingly, but her face grew
grave.
"Wilson," she saidj^Mtjiiight be.that iy.
the future you would love me less, and long
for your freedom ; if that time comes, pro
mise me you will send
write me no word, or line, simply send me
this flower/',
"I promis^" he said, "but as my love
will never; grow less, you have
red rose for the last time.
He drew her to him and kissed her.
this red
y darling," he said, and then
"Goodby,
he left her standing in the falling shadows
of twilight.
"Wlmt will you wear to-night, Miss
Leigh ?"
The graceful woman standing at the
window turned slowly around, and ans
wered in a tone of intonce sweetness:
"I will wear black silk and lace, Meta,
with red rosea in my breast and hair."
"But your wlEe silk and prnris?"
"I prefer black this eveniug, Meta,"
the lady answered, gently, and then turned
around to the window agaiu.
After some time she went over to an in
laid desk, and drew out a letter, written in
a clear bold hand, and signed '•Wilson
Audrey."
It was a passionate declaratian of love to
the beautiful woman holding it in her
hand. She read it slowly over, then from
envolope, directed in
the same dashing baud to "Miss Eunice
Dulton. "
Opening the envelope, she looked at
what she bad looked a hundred timelf be
fore, a faded June rose, withered- ^and
you kuow that Miss
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beside she lifted
N.
scentless; and
Leigh, whose wondrous voice
famouB, whose rare beauty and grace had
j turned
Eunice Dalton who had bidden per lovers
farewell at the rustic gate, eight yeas^ be
fore.
ier
's heads wherever she went/was
The change in her life had come suddenly
an eccentric old lady had heard her sing,and
charmed by the depth and power us welj as
the sweetness of her voice, had taken her
under her patronage, and placed her under
the best masters, und two years after had
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the satisfaction of knowing that her 1
^young protege was fated to be one ol the
eàtest singers in the world.
|Y>
he new me began, sod the ptopic were
thrilled by her beautiful voice, and men
infatuated with her beautiful face, aud
when she returned to her own land, fore-j
most among her lovers was Wilson Audrey, .
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There was to be a reception that evening, |
given in honor of her, the creme de la !
creme of society would be there, and Wil- 1
all this had eome the falsity
of her lover and the anguish that mÜr/lv
killed her, and then the news that tfie old
folks at the farm were dead, and that Guy
had sold everything and gone abroad, then
But befo
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he
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in
fu
he
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to
and
who never dreamed of her identity.
Audrey, would be among them waiting
to receive his answner from the woman he
loved.
There were many fair women present ;
but^Miss Leigh reigned queen, by right of
hqr real beauty, and Wilson Audrey
watched her with thrilling pulses, and
wondered he ever believed he loved women
before.
.
grave, handsome
man, whose earnest eyes, had wandered
than once to Miss Leigh's proud pale
He was talking to
face.
They were standing in the shadow of a
bay window, and neither of them noticed
that a slender, stately woman in sweeping
robes of silk and lace was leaning aguinst
a dower-wreathed column a little distance
from them.
"It is good to see you again Winters,
after all these years," Wilson said, "and joj
have come back heart-whole as well."
Guy Winters face grew grave.
"I came as I went, Audrey, he said«
slowly. "Surely you remember I loved
Eunice Dalton./
Wilson Audrey laughed lightly
"Ah, yes, sure enough! Well, Eunice
was a pretty little thing. She
"Eunice Dalton was the one woman on
earth to me," Guy interrupted sternly.
"Had I known she was not your wife—"
"Not my wife! No, thank goodness.
Winters, 1 don't mind telling you, but I
have met at last the woman before whom
my very soul bows down. If wealth and
energy can accomplish it, I will marry Miss
Leigh, the beautiful prima donna."
"I do not understand," Guy said, "how
once caring for Eunice, you can love an
other ; as for me, this is more precious than
the love of the fairest woman on earth,"
and he drew a little sandal box from his
pocket, and opening it, displayed a faded,
red June rose.
Wilson Audrey's face flushed.
"You are romantic, Winters," ho said,
"perhaps were you to search for your lost
y<v: -
là- "God would be kinow to me than I dare
hope, but if I should fiqd my darling—"
A sweet, low voice iiflgjrrnpted him, and
Miss Leigh stood before ti|m, her eyes glow
ing, her lips apart, the red roses clustering
at her breast.
"Guy—Guy ! I am here. God has taken
care of me for you—far bettor than I de
served. "
And then, sheltered by the silken
tains, ho took her in' his arms aud pressed
passionate kisses on her low, wlrite brow,
and smiling lips.
An hour later, when Miss Leigh thrilled
the hearts of her listeners, as lier voice
rang out in the old song, "My darling is
tender and true," only two in the room
know 1 how her heart throbbed at the
thought, for none save themselves dreamed
of the story of the two red reses.
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A 000111118* Creature.
Gurdon Saltonstall resigned his tunctions
as a preacher for office of Governor of Con
necticut. A religious sect arose professing
allegiance to Christ only, and acknowled
ging no authority in the: civil law Among
other peculiarities of their creed was the
right to contract maiyiage without the
sanction of the civil authorities. A man
named Gorton was their leader. He ap
peared before GovernorSaltonstall one day,
us ins Excellency was peacefully smoking
his long pipe, and announced that he was
married to a woman whom he had brought
with him, and that without tho sanction of
the law. The Governor serenely removed
his pipe, and a9ked, "And thou art deter
mined to have this wofoan to be thy wife?"
"I am," replied Gorton.
' *Aud you, madam* have taken tins man
for your husband?"
" That I have, Sir," was the prompt re
ply.
"Then," exclaimed the Governor, "by
the authority and in accordance with the
law of tire State of Connecticut, 1 pronounce
you legally mau and wife."
"Gurdon, thou art a cunning creature,"
replied tho cliscomflttd Gorton.
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Recently an old farm wagon rattled
1 Paterson, N. J., containing a group
A Musical Wonder.
of ili-kempt boys wli> had come from their
home in the mounffjAis for a frolic. The
most illiterate looHig of the boys walked
into a music store, had, picking up
cordeon, made dfiiahttul music, Surprised
at such a perfoi cusice, the merchant asked
h'm, half iu a jokejto play a violin. The
boy said he knew »thing about music
TheuMryid a piano, an organ,
ft durionet, a eorVi aud a flute in turn,
His companions àuiihe was insance on
. music, and that hu c»nld imitate correctly
[almost any music ater once hearing it,
After enjoying the s fprise of his listener
| tiie boy suddenly quijed the store, jumped
! i ut0 the wagon, and Vus driven away before
1 his name could bolaxertained.
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An Extraordinary Dlv«r.
A good deal of curiosity has been excited
in London by the extraordinary exhibition
of a new diving process at the Royal Poly
tocbnic institution. The inventor is a young
Englishman named Fleuss, twenty-eight
years of age, who was formerly an officer
in the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
company's service. He is a short, slight
man, of fair complexion and pleasant ap
pearance. The peculiarity of his process is
that the diver takes down with him a good
supply of air, and is quite independent of
any supply from above, so that there is no
pumping required, and no help needed ex
cept a signal man and a cord. The dress
in which Air. Ficuss descends Is like an or
dinary diver s drees, and consists of a hel
met breastplate and the common water
tight armings and leggings.. I-Io bears on
his shouldere a weight of ninety-six pounds.
At the depth of twelve feet ho rnoees com
fortabiy in the water uhder this pressure
From the helmet there proceeds a light oord
lor signalling to the man above. Before
the helmet is fixed and the mask closed it
is seen that the inventor wen« firmly tied
over ms mouth and nose an ordinary mouth
P'eec from which a breathing tute of an
mch bore proceeds downward. When he
isonthofloorof the tank in which the ex
hlbition takes place, Mr. Fleuss moves
about as he pleases apparel, ly. without
any uupedient. He can pick up corns,
can sit down, and can even he down. He
breathes, lie says, just ns easily as when be
is in the air and quite as freely. The pro.
cess by which the breathing is effected re
mams a secret, hut is, according to the in
ventor, extremeiy simple Dr. Benjamin
Ward Richardson, a well-known London
physician, who sends to Nature a long aç
count of his observations of this experl
ments, says tha in whatever way Mr.
Fleuss gets breathing room under the water,
he has without a doubt achieved a grea
practical aucess He has some method of
getting »id of the produrc of respiration,
winch would otherwise suffocate hing and
he ta able to live a long time shut off com
pletely from all external access to the air.
In so.mo of the exhibitions, Mr. Fleuss has
remained under water a full hour, and has
shown no signs of asphyxia on coming out
ot the tank and but UWe^iango fro... his
normal condition. Dr. Richardson sug- ,,
E st a Uml t ws
I' A th his pockets could go into fire as well
as under water, provided ho had on a proper
lire-proof dress, and that the new invention
will ,be found specially va uabl # e in wells
charged with foul air, or in mines filled
with Ürc-damp or choke-damp.
Ice in the Arctic
water is
A simple smooth sheet of
sooner formed than it hegins to bo subject
ed to a variety of influences, which speedily
converts its smooth expanse into a compli
cated rugged surface, covered with ridges,
valleys and irregularities of ali kinds, ren
ders its thickness everywhere unlike, and
split up with innumerable fissures. Most
important among the causes of these
changes are the variations of temperature
to which the ice is exposed from the varia
tion of that of the water below and the
water above, and which are more or less
local, and affect the ice differently whenever
its thickness varies. From these differences
of temperature ensue complicated strains
in all directions, due to the unequal expan
sion and coni raetiou of the mass, and the
ice is rent by the tension ; to these forces is
a ided the pressure of surrouudingice fields,
driven by the action of the winds or currents;
long fissures
grind together with mighty force,
these changes are accompanied bv a noise.
The unlucky prisoner in the field ice during
the imposing unbroken loneliness of the
long Arctic night, when the wind is calm,
can hear the crackle of the snow under the
s ealthy tread of the polar bear, at
to fishing distance, and hear wbat a man
speaking loud, says at 1,00U meters distance.
It oan, therefore, bo well understood how
th ' sound of the ice pressures must travel
to his ear from enormous distances. "Some
times the noise of the ice movements
scarcely to be heard—a mere murmur—and
came to our ears as does the play of the
Bleep coast from the far dis
formed, the edges of which
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waves
tauce. Sometimes it hummed and roared
closer to us, as if a whole column of heav
ily laden wagons were being drawn over
the uneven ice surface. In the sound
combined all manner of noises, caused by
cracking, grinding, falling of blocks, crush
ing, and many other phenomena of ice life.
It is astonishing how far aud how clearly
• ery noise is conducted over the i .'e. T e
noise at the very margin of the field on
which we were seemed to occur immediate
ly at our feet. If we placed om* ears to
the ice the sound was heard so loudly that
we might liuve expected the ice to open
under
whole dry ice covering was a va9t sound
ing board. Wh. never. as I lay down to
sleep, X placed my eur against the dry wood
en ship's side, 1 heard a humming and buz
zing noise which
su ii of all the noises which occurred in the
ice at a great distance from the ship. Ice
bergs
somewhat the same manner as rocks so
commonly are. They are full of crevices,
into which the water, formed by melting,
penetrates; in winter this water freezes,
und by its expansion all through the glacier
ensues. Itisliigidy
probable that most of the icebergs afloat iu
winter are in such a condition that a vc#y
slight cause is sufficient to make them buxst
because of their state of internal tension.
Every polar traveler can tell how a »not,
The
feet the next moment.
nothing else than the
subject to disintegration after
rupture of the
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Scarcely three month , llave elap8ed iinc8
we recorded the horrible fate of Karoly,
tlu , renowne( | Hungarian wild beast tamer,
daring one of Ills sensational performances
witb a huge boa-constriotor, by which he
waB c ashed to dea lt while enveloped in
in ita coila . We now lcarn that a '' other
tragedy of this class has just been enacted
a t Berlin. William Bice, the "Tiger IHag"
a brother-in-law of Hagenbeck, who is
well-known throughout Europe
pre ssario of Nubian caravans and Zulu
"troupes," opened a "zoological aothropo
i 0 gj ca | museum" in the Thiergarten, just
outside tile Brandenburger Thor. This
"museum" as its title denotes, contained a
collection of rare animals and a variety of
more or )egs 8HVage men and womoni w bci
j,ail teen trained by Rice to go through
elKtorate performan ' 0 wlth diseiplinedcar
n i VO ra. Among others was an eitraordi
nal . ily handsom ? young ne wbo waJ
announced to appear in a "thrillin', scene
of action ., wit V threo full „ g Be ,
ti 8 . 0n th8 ; tt fg lu th , **
Kmu „ bei crowd H ed w f th a * ' , ek .
pectant audience, the curtain r,»e upon a
b u,to whtoh Rice proceeded to
, ead „ ° tigera preparator f to "Black
Helen's" performance Scararly had ho
made his obesiaueo to the public- when one
of tlic ferocious animals sprang upon him.
8lruck hilu oa lbc right p
forepaWi aud faateu( f d witll it8 tromendoU8
f ang8 upou t | lu mu8c ies of his left arm. Ons
of y le attendants, also an Englishman,
ru8hcd l0 U is ^utanee, armed with a '
heavy Iron bar and teat the tiger off. Rico
walkud 8teadll ftfF the 8t jfell in a
,, vnoaJ1 . h-Ji-IUr-o-..A -, 'unn -
Voi Langenteck, the Emperor's body sui*"
goon and Virchow, the eminent anatomist
worL . summoned, and dressed the unfor
tuuate man : s wounds. He was removed
to Langeubeok's private infirmary, where he
received the personal and unremitting at
tention of Germany's tirst living surgeon;
but the shock to his system was so terrible
that at last he died in great agony. The
immediate cause of death is officially stated
to be blood-poisoning. "Black Helen,"
whose real name is Helen Johnson, a native
of New Jersey,
during the performance that took place on
the evening after Rice's mishap, and lies
in a precarious condition. The Berlin Po
lice authorities have closed the "Museum"
aud prohibited any further exhibition of
wild boast taming within the precincts of
the German capital.
the driving in of an ice anchor, or any sud
den violation, has brought about the catas
trophe; cases have even occurred in which
the sound of the voice
An iceberg is always au unpleasant neigh
bor. So many are the causes which tend
to destroy icebergs that no berg exists
which could withstand them
years, and that, generally, the life of a
berg is much shorter. " However this may
be, doubtless the much larger Antarctic
bergs last very much longer, as must cooe»
Barily occur because of the climate to
which they are exposed.
alone sufficient
than ten
the im
•toi
also bitten by a lion
Jim suutlura.
A battered old tramp, up in Judge Knox's
Court for the theft of a coat, facing tho
jury.
"What's your full name ?" demauded the
Court.
"Hey?" shouted the prisoner, putting
one hand to his ear and scratching his back
with the other.
"Ask the gentleman his name, he's deaf,
I see," said the Court to the Constable.
"Jim Sauders!" roared the prisoner;
when Constable Metcalf haa bawled the
inquiry into the unclean ear of the vagrant,
"Do you know this gentleman ?" asked
the District Attorney, when the arresting
officer took i he stand.
saw the gentleman afore. Him
an' another gentleman was hanging 'around
Mulligan's grocery a Sunday night. They
were fired out for stealing off the barkeeper,
sneakin' round the door of the
shebang, and pretty soon this gentleman
dashes in, an' nails the coat that was a
layin' on a barrel. I runs up an 1 makes a
grub fur both of 'em. I ketched this one,
but the other gentleman runs away "
"Wlmt's that?" howled the prisoner,
and when the statement of the officer
shrit ked oat to him, he yelled :
"it's ali a lie!" jggg ,
"You muBn't talk like that," screamed
the Court. Ask the witness any question
you like, but make no comments."
"Hey ?" halloed the prisoner.
"Tell the geutleman what Isaid. " scream
ed the Court.
"I ain't deaf!" howled Constable Met
"I*
air.
"Order in the Court !" thundered Deputy
Constable Endcrs,
"His Honor's two dogs barked furiously,
a crowd began to gather on the sidewalk,
several windows in the luternational
Hotel, on the opposite side of the stieet,
were thrown open.
Several other witnesses were examined,
all of whom identified the prisoner as the
person who stole the coat.
"Ask the gentleman if he desires to tes
tify in liis own behalf," said tho Court.
The ffcntleman declined to testify and
was convicted.
The use of tho word gentleman in our
Justices' courts is not at all ironical. The
Court, lawyers and witnesses, all with the
greatest gravity, apply the title to the moaj.
villainous-looking ruffian® that aver da*
servedly went to jaLi.