The Windham County reformer., October 29, 1880, Page 1, Image 1

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,Let all the. ends thou aimest' at be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's.'
TERMS, $1.60 PER YEAR, $3 IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE.
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BRATTLEBORO, VT., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1880.
NO. 11.
Windham flk ttotm.
t : C, H. DAVENPORT & CO,
' ' SMTOKS AND PUBLISHERS.
To AuvBitTiSKBS. The Rkfohmkkk
. circulation is now larger Hum that of any
other two papers published in Windham
County. Its local circulation, wilhm the
b ounty ami in the towns immediately at
taining on the east, south and west, exceeds
'he combined circulation of all tht other
vapert in the county. Advertising rates
low, considering the large number oj
readers furnished. Send for printed
rates, or call at the office No.' 1 Market
Block, Elliol-st.
, E, M. Wheeler, Dressmaker,
IV .. u ballot N.
JjkVEl 'OUT & EDDY,
L-a.nr and .Collection Offioe.
BltATTLEBORO, VT. ,V
:,Vl nttentt.m (tlveu to the "iLZT
wind to. aud money uniformly remitted the day
MJuwirnr lis emieeuou.
W. iAVKNPORT. J. U. fjDDY,
fravtlers Direelory.
Traf ns leave Brattleboro,
MOVING SOUTH.
For Miller's Fulls and Boston at 4 20 (exoept
Mondays) aud 10 a. ni., and 4 26 p. m
Kor Spring-Held and Now York at i SO (except
Mondays) and 10a. m.; 8 sop. m. :
For New London aud Statlous ou N. L. N. B. Jl.r
at 4 '26 p. m and 4 20 a. m.
Kor New York via. Now London Steamboat.
4 26 p. m. ; :
For Vi hlte River Junction. Rutland. Wells Riv
er, Newport, Burlington, St. Albans. Ogdonsburg,
uonueui. ami nr,iuiwn.iu, ,
For. ulows Kails and White River Junction)
and Riitland, 6 40 p. m. V
for White River Junction. Burlington, 8t. Al
bans, Montreal Ogilennburg, aud the West. 10 201
pm.
Calendar for Ootober, 1880.
M. I T. W. T. a
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OLUUKUN, jUIIAITLKHUKU, V U UlllUtJ HIIU
residence oorner Main aud Walnut tri-el. At
home from 1 to 2, and from 6 to 7 clock: p. M,
I?. HO I, TON, M. D., Physician and
CA. GRAY. M. B., Physician and
Snrereon. Ij.d. hsamiiiiiiKiSurjfuon lr
Pension.. jj.;e Mo. 27, Elliot street, UraUlC'
boro. vt .
FJ. SWIFT. M. D., Physician and
Snreeon, omce and Residence 1st
door east imKreuational Church. Main-st., nil-
mingtou, vt.
r K. POST. Dentist. All operations
V- dune m Uie bucit manner anu warramea.
Otiice ami Residence junction High and Gren
streets, uratueLcoro, vt.
1TM. L. BEMIS, Honse and Sign
VV Painter, ornamental Painting, bum-
coins, GrainiiiKi KalBoming, Paper Hanging, etc
IB ureen street, iirauieuoro, vt.
LEN HOUSE, West Brattleboro,
sCoach to and from every train.
T t, HOIDEN, Attorney and Coijn-
OUioe t residence, South Londonderry, Vt
CIHAS. W. DREW, M. D., Physician
J and Snreaoa. muce ana Residence
with Dr. liulluu, corner Main and Val nutftts,
Are You Insured?
CUDWORTH & CHILDS
REPRESENT THE FOLLOWING RE
LIABLE COMPANIES WITH
$200,000,000 Capital.
Tire.
Insaranee Co. ol North America, Imperial and
Northern, Uermania, N ianara, German American,
Connecticut, Kire Association, Commercial Un
ion. Orient. Westchester, Manhattan, Farmors'
Mutual, Union Mutual, Windsor Co. ilutual.
Life.
Mutua Life of New York, tua of Hartford.
Acoidental Travelers, Knickerbocker.
a'offinjtne'sVSunnaccld
lay tfekels o. ... .
AU Htmert lo,m Promptly, Bqwr&v. ond liber
ally odjusled md VM-
Dealers in Baak Stook and Seal Estate.
OFTIOE, 10 OBOBBT .8I03K,
Brattleboro. - - Vermont.
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BRATTLEBORO
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
C. W. STEWART,
Offers Grand Bargains In Organs aud Pianos. The
Decker Bio's the must perfect Piano known. The
Kstey Organ which leads the word.
Also Pianos and Organs of other manufacturers.
10OU Instruments sold in the last live years.
General Agent for The Eatey Sowing Machine.
I select all the Instruments that I sell at the
Manufactory myself, aud they are warranted fikst
CI.A In every respect.
Heccm.l-haud Instruments taken in exchange for
new.
Address
C. W. STKWAHT,
48 Hraitlcboro. Vt.
Horses for Sale.
Ocb Motto By Fair Dealing we Prosper.
IJOO Heme Mild in llio nat Four
YenrM. Ko VumnrM on the Sabbath.
I shall arrive at my stable In Putney, Vt,, on
rro...,...iu17 ,.nr. stttth. with a car load ol very nice
Horses, weighing from Mil to IBiK) lbs. Call anil see
them. I will try aud make the price satisfacto
ry Remember we are the largest, shippers in
Vermont and our exiieriemie
D ,v.u, itfv -fiiiinetlti(ill.
Parties wishing biforumtloii In regard to Hmaes
bvmail will BdiheBS either DbNISON "AVIS or
tt;
Putney, Sept. Sllth, 1SS0.
Name, Business and Location of the
Leading Business Houses in Brattleboro
trn this out foe rkpeeencb.1
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
wnOD:& MARSHA LI, Exchange Block, Uam-tt.
B. A. CLARK, Tyler's U'mk.
BARBER SHOP.
B. C. fiOLB Y, Brooks Haute.
BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS.
CHENEY & CLAPP, 6 OroHby Block.
F. ( . El) WAKLW.
J. STJCEN, opjwtdtt Brooks House.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A V unvNTftN ' Mnrithalt At Ksttrbrooks Block.
THUS. JUDGE, Judge s utocic.opp American ttimt
CARPETS.
trmmTITON & KEUCIt. Hmahton's Block. Main-
J. RETTISQ & SON, High street, next Brooks Hons
CEMENT DRAIN-PIPE.
IPJf. A. PELLETT.manfr and contractor or laying
CHAMBER SETS.
. RETTING & SON, High street, next Brooke House
CLOTHIERS.
PRATT. WRIGHT & CO., 8 Granite Row, Ualn-sl.
F. A. WHITNEY. 1 Granite Row.
COAL.
r. K. BA RRO WS, office with P. Barrows.
A J. ULEASUA, 01 urcene s lruy oiorc.
DENTISTRY.
DR. A, L. PETTEE, over Tripp's store.
DININO ROOMS.
E. L. COOPER. 1 door noiiin 0. J. Prates store.
SALISBURY'S Dining and Lodging tfooins, 41
Main-si. open at au Hours.
DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS-
B. A. CLA RK, Tyler's Block.
DRUGGISTS.
GEO. E. GREENE, Union Block, Main-st.
M . UREGU. Mam street, ovvosite Hlan.
I. A". THOHN ifr CO.. 1 Orntthu lllm'.k.
U. C. WILL AUD it CO., I Brooks Honse.
DRY GOODS.
F. K, BA RRO WS. Mn4n alrrM. nrm RrAifr. tmui.
N. I. HA WLEY, Brooks Hmur h.
UUIGUIVU f KKUVH, lljmVUtm S Bloc.
rlj lulITUKUf
RETTING 4 SON, High street, next Brooks House
' GROCERIES.
!. DA VENJIORT, S Crosby Block.
W. FROST, i CO., 8 Crosby Block. 1
J. SIMONlix. Exchnmie Block. Main street.
MA R TIN SCOTT & HON. Thompson & Ranger's BCk
HAIRDRESSER.
GEO. F. SPA ULDINQ, Salisburt; block, 1 door nor(
of American House.
HARDWARE, IRON AND STEEL.
B. A CLA RE, Tyler's Block.
C. F. THOMPSON & CO., WiUiston't Stone Block.
HARNESS MAKERS.
HE US TIS A B URN A P, Main street.
ICE CREAM ROOMS.
E. L. COOPER. 1 door south 0. J. Pratt s sort.
MACHINISTS.
J F. VINTON, corner of Main and Canal streets.
PIAN08 A E8TEY ORGANS.
EDWARD CLARK, No. 8 Oak Street.
STOVES AND TINWARE.
A. V. COX & CO.. Main street.
WOOD MARSHALL, UMimnge nuiai, juu-.
UPHOiaTERERS.
e, u rrpwAV nr.,in ilieeL ann. Branicooro nous
J. R KTTIN'I Sc SON. HUih street, next Brooks Hons
Brattleboro Church Dlrotory. ;
Fibst Baptist Main street.
Pastor. Hunday services at 10:80 a m, 7.W)
p ni; Sunday School, 11:60 a m. Missionary
Concert, tlrst Sunday evening in eaoh month ,
Prayer meetings on the other Sunday even igs.
Moi.dayevenlng,youngpeople'sprayermeeting,
Friday evening, prayer meeting, 7:4 SeaW free.
West Brattleboro Baptist-Rot. H. l Davis,
Pastor. Sunday services at li0 and 6:80 p. m.,
Sunday School it 2:30 p m. Wednesday evonlng
meeting at 7:80. Beats free.
Centbr Conoreoatiomal Main street. Rev.
(Jmree E Martin.- Sunday services, 10:80
am -80pmi SundaySchool, 12:00m. Mission
ary 'and Sunday School concerts take the place
of the evening service on the first and second
flundaysof the month, respectively. Young peo
ple's meeting Tuesday evening, at 7:45; prayer
meeting, Friday evening at 7:46. "T3,
Conoreoatiokal West Brattleboro. Rev C"H
Merrill, Pastor. Sunday service Sermon m
the morning at 10:30. Prayer meeting every
Sunday evening. Sunday school follows morn
lug service. Prayer meeting Tuesday evenings,
followed by teachers' meeting. Young People s
meet! ng Thursday evenings.
KnscoPAL-Maln street. Kev W H Collins, Rector
Sunday services Morning prayer and sermon
W-.m a mi Evening prayer, 7:80 p m; Sunday
, school, 12:00 m. Holy days, 6:00 p m. Holy
Communion, first Sunday in the month and on
) all great festivals. The children of the parish
I are catechised on the first Sunday In every
' month at 3pm. .
Mkthoiiist EPiscoPAL-Meetlnspto Ixiwer Town J
Hail, rtev V a fliiuei, wii". . iviu. .j.t-
day at 10:80 a m Sunday school, 12 m ; prayer
Ui(feitv in theeveniiia. sunaayscnooi concert,
founli nunday of every month. Class meeting,
Tuesday evening : prayer meeting, r naay even.
I,,.. u.'.u,a frvn p,.tirtr'fl r,.bldeiice. 48 Hleh Sr.
Rnu.'v c.Tuni.tn Wulimr street. Rev llenrv
Lane, Pastor. Sunday services Highmass,10:30
a m : vespers ana jseneaiciion, i .om m
Unitartam s'rrr fiHiiKcii Main street. Rev.
J. R. (jrnpii. PftMtnr. Services Sunday forenoon
at 10:30 ; Sunday school and Bible Class after the
morning service. Heats tree.
Universalist Church Canal street Pastor, Rev
E. W. Whitney, residence 14 Main street, ser
,,.mi A u. uu.iaut Oul.uO
at 12 m. Sunday Evening Lectures from Deo
1st to April 1st. HUIiaay evening rrayer meet
lng from Sept. 1st to HOC isi. rrayer meekiii
In the church vestry every Friday evening a
7:30 o'clock.
k Hop
Compound
Made by
I. N. THORN & SON,
is a regular
Pharmaceutical
Preparation.
Composed of Malt, Hops, nd many other
valuable articles known to the medical profession
valuable for all complaints for which It Ib rec
ommended. It is a better aud cheaper article
than any of similar name inthe market.
Try it before using any other
S7tf
insurance
in both Stock and Mutual
Fire Insurance Go's.,
may be obtained at
LOWEST BATES
and In the best and most reliable companies, ai
otllue of
SHERMAN & mm,
STARR i ESTEY'S KEW BAM BLOCK,
Cor Main and Elliot Sts., BRATTLEBORO, VT.
, - Mtf -' f -
Icland & Gray Seminary,
TOWNSIIIKND, VT. '
FALL TERM begins Wnln.ular,
-JAth. Four experienced and successful
assistants. Ample opportunities for the best In
struction to those fitting for teaching, college, or
business. -Expenses low. Engage rooms early
by visit or letter, and come Tuesday, rull par-
ucuiars uy uUre,us ,,.,,
THE LARGEST AND NOBBIEST
LINE OF
PAPETEUIES,
PBITS, ITIZS,
Stationery Goods,
of all kiiulB, sellinf! cheaper than ever
At C. CLARKE & SONS'
V WILB0I
WILBOR'S COMPOUND OF
PURE COD LIVER
OIL AND LIME.
A. L. CHILDS,
WILMINGTON, VT.
PKALKR IN
Groceries, Yankee Notions,
?. Tobacco and Confectionery,
Eddy's Tonic Beer!
healthy and refreshing drink. l&-tf
Wilhor'M Cod I.lvvr Oil and I-Iimb.
Tim friunds of pt-rsuns wlio have been rentored
fiutn coLUlrmed CoiiBiiniiitum by the use of this
original preparalton; ami the grateful parties
tneinseives nave uy recnimneniiinjf it ami acKimwi
eilffiiifTita woiulerittl eitlcacy, Kivcn the article a
viwi poimiariiy in tw Kiiifiamt. i ne u-m-L,iver
Oil Ih In lliia mmbltiiilion roi)lel of lt unpleasant
tftNte, ami rendered duuiily elfective in being
uoupied with t!ia Lime, which in itHclf a restorative
tirnunmr. Piimnviiiii uutnre witn mux me aaaim-
ance veiuireil to lienl ami restore I lie diseased
MiiipTrf. A. n. iLBfiu, uoHion; proprietor. oiu
by all drufrK!Bta-
V PULMONARY
ITJiIZSfJCEl.1
IjConglis, Colds, Cronp, Asthma, I
(I And other Lunj Affections, i
Clerermen end public speaker will
Ind H'MHe'l Elixir valuable to lly
irritations of Throat, Chest, and Lungs.
For sale by a" nearer, innmiiuiiw.
TO MILLERS L WOOD MANU-
man who umipr.
T CAN Ol v E. a" - (f , ,lH1M-iju
I stan-w ni. o- -- , m,r
'''"Vhriheldmi Mills," it' ."
...... V,. miles inim iiikw-
'"'l.iVwn ra.le all the way, n tne m. .s.
J". timber c..n.ry of both w. -"'
rheVp-.v jM rhr
miiZ ""',.MJ"U"?.., ,reC,mi",i-;.rr s,w.
M-hine. I "r"'";if,1,l,igiKl Bel'ing. ra
.W' r.'i"-"! I i i t..n Two yean, old. If
r ." ' "I rr. fe, -hH. and J m
leer mri im ,'ut tne Ma":!!!"-'.',
The Mi" ""'i1'" i". .im pawl wler. There
i',ui name. m. - "re .. .,.,n.r.l
. mnlea. an' aiL It
The Mill ha. a 7" ?." f.ff from 1.1 to
f"Mhe "i. FreisnVt" Tunnel de-
pa B.w '" v.. ,i The tenant pan me
ert until Jsnuarv. . ,n,r,m-e. I will
noo next Jann.ry
he niale '
ert until ran"a''',,T7,IW and Irowiram-e.
fcui nr annnm with """ j
m-u nr "- nt ean
mr fl. ",.'"';-h. ,ilTrd ner.
"P?.". ": m r.nnlT t" V, V. BBSWIT.
Ilietsano. ut"ln
l)g turuni.
(Published Monthly, 8 large pages. 40 columns.)
Two of the best publication. In tne country
sent fr!o to any address. J mourn.
hromos, Vhandwme gilt box of
French Paoeier :ie.' 24 sheets fine heavy cream
' Voir money. Aoents
we w ii P"'"V..'.'.,: nnmlums. outfit, terms,
" "c','r ' .. j . ..;irb atone. Thissum
&e- KPv,,u'to deS ct from your Iir8tsut,scrib
er, slide fromou? commissfon. Stamps taken,
S.Lnrf riWer when possible. Register large
amounts.
A:KVr9 WAri'MI lor onr apular NEW
BotIK, the l.idntrial llt.tory f tlie
l'nild KtntebS Its Agriculture, Manillactures,
M iiiiur. Banking, insurance, etc. Ageius inaae
$irto$HI per week. Sun.l lor Sjieeial Terms to
UKNKV Hlt.I. roiu.iinao ' o ,
(ESTAltuaiiEn imi.j i4wj aorwicu, uonn.
Vilniinslou Marble Works
E have a large stock of finished and unfin
Hied Marble, bought for cash before the recent
rls, and are bound to sell tho cheapest as well
,h ssst work in this vicinity.
We emolor e Agents, buy for cash only, ana
have a sjascial contract for freight that enables us
to set work la this vicinity lower than any other
Dartv.
a-Call and see us, ana we win prove wm
sy .....
ROBINSON ft BUEIX.
Wii.isoTo!, Vt., Feb. , lto. ly2C
NEW MACHINE
ion cnrrio ft fRi:w tiirkah-
U Vi lli I.K Al.l.
I have purchaseil the exclusive right to ne awl
..... ... iii,ri I. I.lneo osNew Patent
Marhine for tins worX. AJld am ready to do all
jol In wirxmaiilike shape at my snop on rial m.,
rear nuwuru "'r
v h WALKER. BUckftniith
Dattlohnrn ApiiL t. Hi"). 3m3
FOR SALE.
I am bonnd for the West, consequently offer soy
lock of goods with the gis.l will of the trade tor
sale Mv alnrkennsists of a general assortineut
of Merchandise, such as Is In demand every ilay
hy tne trade. All tr sli ami in good condilKai.
No shop worn or played out goods A good chance
foran. one rte-lriiigto engaire Inthe Mercantile
Rilsiuess. Kor particulars, adilres. or apply to
jl II. C. MILLINtiTON, Kadawga, Vl
Farm for Sale.
Known a thr Wilder Kairmsn pia loru-l In
vnrm.il niift QiiiirttT mile btlw the lfp OO
th MirtN-t r-MMi from trairltHuro in South ertvni,
on of the b fd farms in the f'oiine.-tn iit Valley.
' a.-ri -11-ts.t.lv fllVllleHi tlltd ox w i nil
.t,..i .ml ittHKirmiT. ha a ttinfvv wrliarrt of
mfft Hitbn)f are nt-ar'V nw, in flnrt rt!W
reoair with ila'e nvcrtvil n'T; hiia a line wu-r
K,.r further psrtirUra UH' of MKHAKL
Oirtr.","" ' .
n.0""18! tlnn t. i-roP. aside from which
yu"r lrV month, we make theaKent
l tinJ the larert number of paid jmtaorib.
business ana ubw
days, a present of
Try us.
Hotel and Livery Stable lor
Sale.
Owing to the 111 health of my eH the
wmm
incHteo man - , ..,in
doing a gisKi Dirai. . ' .,V.,r; , i further
is loo well Known w erv
mention. I will sell me s.
cheap. i-t,.tii.-o
Wilmington. VU, Sept. i, issu.
If I Oould Keep Her So.
.Tii ail- a llttis linliv. Ivlntr In mv nririH
Would that I oould keep you with your baby
unarms ; , ,
HetpleHH, clinging nnjferfi, downy, (roMon hair,
WlierothemmHhfiiB UnBerH, caulit from other-
Blue eves HHklujr questlonn, llpH that cannot speak,
Holy-poly shoulders, dimples uu your cheek;
Dainty little blossoni in a world of woe,
Thus I fain weuld keep you, for I love you bo.
Roguish little damsel, ncarcely six years old .
Feet that never weary, hair of deeper ifold ;
Restless, busy lingers all the time at play.
Tongue that never ceases talking all the day ;
tiiiiH HveH ii'flrnkuir wonders of the world about. :
Here you come to tell me what an eHger shout I
winsome lutie uamsei, au me neiguoors khuw ;
Thus I long to keep you, for I love you so. .
Bolter tittle gchool-glrl. with your strap of books,
And such grave Importance in your puzzled looks ;
Solving weary problems, poring over sums,
Yet with tooth for sponge cake and for sugar plum;
Reading tooks of romance in your bed at night,
Waking up to study with the morning light;
Anxious as to ribbons, deft to tie a bow,
Full of contradictious I would keep jou so.
Hweet and thoughtful maiden, sitting by my side,
All the world's before you, aud the world is wide ;
Hearts are there for w liming, hearts are there to
break, .
iin Tf.itf .urn. fliiviim.ilfn. luftt becun tr wake ?
is I hat rose or dawning glowing ou your cheek
'fVllinir iin in hliinhou whut vou Will nut snuak?
kwhy and tender maiden, J would fain forego
aii tne gowen future, jusi to Ktey juu o.
Ah t the listening angels saw that she was fair,
Ripe for rare unfolding- In the upper air;
Now the rose of dawning tiirnn to lily white.
And the close-BimuyelidaveiliheeyeB from sight;
All the nwt I summon as I kiss her brow
Babe and child Hnd maiden, are all with me now.
Oh i my heart is breaking; but Hod's love I know
Safe among the angels, He will keep her so.
Mrs, Moulttm in Indejwulent,
"The Joy of Incompleteness."
If all our life were one broad glare j
Of sunlight, clear, unclouded ; i
If all our path were smooth and fair,
uy no ueep gioom eusnrouueu ;
If all life's flowers were fully blown
Without the slow unfolding,
And happiness mayhap were thrown
On hands too weak for holding ; . .
then we should miss the twilight hours,
The intermingling sadness,
And pray, perhaps, for storms aud showers
To break the constant gladness.
If none were sick, and none were sad,
What service could we render?
I thiuk if we were always glad,
We hardly could be tender.
Did our beloved never need
Our loving ministration.
Life would grow cold, ami niiHH Indeed
Its 11 neat consolation.
If sorrow never smote thef heart,
Aud every wish was granted,
Then faith would die, aud hope depart,
And life be disenchanted ;
And, If in heaven is no more night,
In heaven no more sorrow,
Such unimagined, pure delight
Fresh grace from pain will borrow.
WAS IT BETTER?
BY 8. ANNIE FI109T.
" UMBER.
Th miblcrliieni have constantly on hand aii
kinds of Building Timiier and Finishing Lumtr.
CLAPBOARDS,
SniMJI.ES, LATH,
EAVEKPOl'TS,
LADDERS.
FENCE PICKETS
and in fact everything usually kept in a first
clan lumber yard.
Office and yard on; Flat Street, Brattleboro, Vt,
5 K. A A CO.
BUSINESS STAND
FOB SX-
Desiring to go West. I "honld like to dUpow ol
all my property in Wardsu.tro, Including the well
known "Plimpton rnore," and a good 4-borw
freight team. The .tore l !x44 lu dimensM'B
and Is the best and mostcoovenientoulof Brat
tleboro. Price. fcaiO.
Address. E. 1. PLIKFTOI,
Wardsrwro. Vt
Wool Growers Take Notice.
Vl'AXTEIi lM timi ATFlT . 1. of Wool,
for which I will par W a pound for washed
and au cu. for nnwaahed.
Always pay the highest cash price.
W. W. DAVKNPORT.
Leyden, Hw, gejii. ISO, lwn, tf
F. BICHARDPOS'
Pay, Cash for Hidea, Calf rkma, and
Sheep I'elta.
Brattleboro, Oft 1, 1877.
ON 30 DAYS TRIAL
We will send oar Ei.arTrwvVrs.TAic fttrrrs anil oth
er Kleetnc Aiisnce. nm tnal f.ir as Omtm to
ttione nfferlim fr.u Nsavora ItaatLtTT, Khenma
Uam, paralysis or any diwmwa M the Uver or Kid-
Bey., and many ntner miawn A sure enre gnar-
ranteed or no paf. Aaarn, viM.IAIt HILTO
Marshall, ktlrt
"Better in every way !"
I think if Amy Kiiiidoliih had wiiis-
pered these four words to herself once,
she had fifty times, as she paced up mid
down her narrow hedrootn, trying to
solve the hardest prohlem her life had
offered her.
She was a slender, fair girl of nineteen,
with large, dreamy brown eyes uud nut
brown hair. Her face was one that would
attract little notice from a passer-by ; but
when you knew it well, when the ltirue
eyes and sensitive mouth hail taken every
vary mir phase ol expression, as you touch
ed the girl's poetic mind and tender
heart, the pure loveliness of the coun
tenance grew upon you till it became
most beautiful. , . . ......
And1 to tluy Chester Auiv'i face had
become; so. He knew how the Utile
mouth pould smile or quiver, how the
large eyes could soften or Hash, how win
ing ana lovely every change became.
And he loved her. not as she loved
hitu. with everv thrill of her heart, everv
pulse of her being, but in his ensy-going,
vacillating fashion, as the most perfect
little gem of womanhood he had ever
met.
And he was Guy Chester, heir to Ches
ter Hill, if ah! that little word that
makes or mars so many destinies I if he
pleated his mother. And she was Amy
Randolph, his third cousin, and his
cated at a boarding school, where she
taught younger children in part payment
for her own tuition, and had been otter
ed her choice, when Bhe graduated, of go
ing to Chester Hill as Mrs. Chester's
companion, or returning tu her grandpar
ents, who barely suppoited life upon a
miserable little rarm in i-ennsyivaiiia.
And Mrs. Chester, who was a bad
tempered, exacting woman, had- so thor
oughly cowed aud terrihed the tinnu
girl that Bhe seemed to her a pale, unin
teresting nonentity, useuu m nimu ni
ters, reading aloud and sewing, but utterly
unattractive. She never saw the exquis
ite oval of the voting face, the delicacy of
the features, tne dreamy poetry of the
.... ...
What tTtiy COU1U HIIU to mmuic iu
that washed-out girl," she could not dis
cover. She worshiped her only son, but
she was too innately sellinh to give him
as way when it interfered wan ner
own.
And her own way, at that tune, requir
ed Guy to marry a wife w hose money
would support ins many extravagances,
and leave his mother's purse full for hers.
For they were extra vagani, iivms
vrfr ull U'int..r. in fashionable circles,
and filling their country-seat with visitors
all Summer.
And the very wile Uuy wanted, in m
mother's opinion, was ready to wed linn
for his asking. True, she was loud-voiced
and vulgar, inclined to be fast, with
rather a masculine style of beauty a
sunflower of a girl, as Am; was a violet.
But her father had left her a large mninic,
and she had fallen in love with Uuy
Chester, making no secret or tne met v
his keen-eyed mother.
That Bhe had disgusted him at the
very outset of his acquaintance with her
bV her frankly avowed preference for ins
attentions and society, troubled her hut
little. She had been brought up in tne
belief that money was the uttrac'.ion no
man could resist, and she had money.
If she wore diamond earrings to break
fast, and a velvet riding-dress in the coun
try, wua not her wealth so proven ? And
if her complexion was olteu as red as the
roees i'l her hair, so decided a brunette
could bear a high color.
Altogether she felt herself a prize in
the matrimonial circle, and Mrs. Ches'.er
encouraged her in her delusion.
And when she had accepted Mrs. Ches
ter's invitation to siend a month at
Chester Hill, in the Spring, when the
house was not lull, w;ien uuy nun re
,in..,l nr. home ever since the return
from the city, ami everything promised
well for Ihe mother's scheme, she was
coolly ai-ked to airept Amy Randolph
f,.r M iliiiltrlitt-r-in-laW.
Had ehe been a judicious as well h i
loving mother, she would have at-n that
iJnv un.ler Ainv's nentle influence, was
.lMveliiniiiff nobler traits of character
il.un he ,u,lvnrKhowii in his life before
that he was losing his taste for a life of
whirl and excitement, was iinuKiiig oi
r.ii-1, er mi., a than the tKissessioti of Ihe
fastest horse., and the finest wines in his
set of friends.
But she was blind to all this, and
equally blind to the pros-il that tuy;
at home, in quiet domestic happiness,
lih wir.. an arelesa of finery and gay-
eiy as Amv, could nevi r make the inroads
, -... .... ,l,.t Tawttlt
uHin ner income inai mu, -
extravimant bachelor of his "set," made
annually. She ha.l set her heart upon
tiuy's marriage with Laura Marc V, and
she was furiirtM at the obstacle resented
to her.
But Guv Chester was not the man to
sav "please matiima," and then submit
without pn.Ut4 if mamma did led
please.
He ha.l never len .r..sse.l fn in the
time he shm ke.1 f..r t and c.ndy.ami
it was sx-arc. lv probable he would a.iv.t
the first opposition after twen'y-tivc yirs
of nnche. kef pteaure.
"Youcandoaa you like,' lie said, shrug
ging his atHMildera, as his mother threat
ened to turn Amy out-of-doors; "but I
shall marry Amy, be mire of that. As
for Lura Marey, I should as soon think
01 living Willi a suuue-uoy a greai.
course, blowzv woman !
"With half a million of dollars!"
"Ten millions would not make her it
udv
'And pray, what is supposed to sup
uort vou when vou marry Amy''
Remember, tny rnoiipy bought this
place, though it bears your father's
name, and mv money supports your ex
travagances ! Your own income would
not keen von in irloves slid neckties."
"We can live on very little. Amy does
not cure for gttyety, and I mean to take
up my law studies in good earnest. I'm
going to drop fast horses and bachelor
suppers, mammy, aim go in ior icgui
honors. When I am Judge of the Su
preme Court you cun thank Amy for
rousing my ambition, anu musing a man
of me." .
But Mrs. Chester was1 not inclined to
thank Amv for aTivtliiiieUlijt thwarted
her own plan. St-k-'piot rttsist Guy's
eurj'ss or his perw. JL "mammy, aim
she was shrewd TPlo see that active
onnositiun woulS"orobm.bly hasten the
catastiophy she dreaded. Guy was just
the man to walk oil with Amy to cnurcii
and come back boimtliJife, if he saw
any prospector separation, ou luomoiu
er smiled and said.
"You headstromr boy! You always
have had your own way, and I suppose
you always will j
ihal s a dear mammy, was tne quicK
reply. "Tell Amv it's all right. I'll not
interfere till you settle it all."
Then he walked on whistling, and
Mrs. Chester sent for Amy.
There was no anger upon ner lace when
she bade the shy, gentie girl sit beside
her, only u heavy shadow, as if from ter
rible griof.
"Amy," she began, end her tone had
none of its habitual ring of imperious
command, "I have just had a long, seri
ous talk with Guy, undmade no impres
sion upon him. So I. have resolved to
make an appeal to yonrjjood sense and
generosity. , j
Amy's lips quivered A moment like a
grieved child's, but she made no reply.
"You think Guy is wealthy," continued
Mrs. Chester, "because the estate boars
his name, and I supply his purse from
my own ; but lie has fes than a thou
sand dollars a year! If be marries to
pleare me he can still have a home at
Chester Hill, but his mnrriage with a
portionless bride will not please me.
You imagine love will make poverty
ensy to hear. 1011 do not Know liuy.
He is self-willed aud impetuous. If you
uphold him in opposing me be will mar
ry you, and take you to New York to live
upon a thousand a year and his hope of
being a great lawyer. And I," very
slowly and distinctly,, "will leave every
dodar I own to a charity, for I will never
forgive him. Iiiayearor two you will
bo in debt, Guy will fret, for his club, his
suppers, his horses, and reproach you for
his poverty. lie win tire 01 you, as he
has tired ol a dozen : fair faces before
yours attracted him, and you will be the
burden and torment 01 Ins lite.
But what am I to do?"
'Leave him. Go at once, without
farewell to your grandfather's, and I will
allow your present salary to continue."
"JNo, ' was the quiet nrm answer. ui
I no it will be for Guy's sake. I do not
tequire a bribe!"
"It will be better in every way for you
to go, believe me bettlr in every way.
Guy will forget yott itilaix. mouths, arid
marrv'Liaira Marcy, wfS will be able to
give him every luxury he now enjoys,
ana who worsuips me gruunu uu huwh
he walks! . ,
Atnv's sensitive fin curlea. (jrentte as
she was, she had sufficient spirit to des
pise tho unmuiilenly conduct of her rival.
A latent pride, almost hidden in her shy,
modest nature, wra asserting itaelf und
spoke presently.
"I will tell you to-morrow," she said,
"what I will do."
And Guy will persuade you to marry
him."
I will say nothing ot tins conversation
to Guy. You may trust nie I
But Mrs. Chester did not trust her.
She listened for Guy's step, and, meeting
him in the hull, said :
I wisli you would go to sew rora ior
me Guy."
"Won't to-morow do V
"No: vou can stay over night, and
come down in the morning ; I particu
larly wish "and then lolioweu uie
long excuse for the trip.
"W Here a Amy V was tne expecveu
question.
"in ner own room, uont i "0,
Guy ; she wants to be alone. We have
had a long tain."
"Anil you were good to ner r
"I said no word of blame. She will tell
you herself to-morrow."
nut sue cm come down just a
ute?"
'If she doeB, you will miss the 4:oU
train. Do go! You owe me some com
pliance after this morning."
. And Guy easy-going Guy kissed her
and strode away from alt happiness. It
was noon the next day when lie returned,
and his mother met linn at the door again.
"Guy, she said, "Amy is gone!
"Gone ! Where ?"
"I cannot imagine, unless she tells you
n this."
And a little note in Amy's handwriting
was placed in Guy's gloved hand, iie
turn it onen nuieklv. No address, no
date, no signature only these words :
"It Is better in every way for me to leave you.
.....n n..t. rat,, .n i r win. wek and hnd me.
A penniless wife would lieuoni. a burden to you,
even though you loved her. So it is better to
say farewell."'
That was all :
There was n scene, of course. Mrs.
Chester quite expected a Scene, but' her
fastidious taste was snocgeu at nio ip.au
tiiy of wine Guy drank at dinner. He
wua a gentleman, and it was agaiust all
his former refined idtfW ooiihise his
brain with drink ; but onihat night his
ascent of the stairs to his room was not
easily accomplished. ,
lint tins was not repeal'''
night, nor had it been when JAiura
.Marcy came three weeas in.cr. j
time liuy had worked himseu luto a
state of sulky resentment against Amy.
He had lett no stone uamrucu
her, but having troubled himself very
little about her antecedents, beyond the
r... .hul I.U imither and her own were
cousins, he had entirely forgotten, if he
ever knew of, the existence of her pater
nal grandparents.
She hail never cared for him ! She was
a sly little Hiit! She would have mar
.1... l,..ir ,,f ('hosier Hill, but was
afraid to wed a studont lawyer with a
thousand dollars a year. ne was mer
cenary! So he rang the chauges over the yearn
ing grief he could not smother. And
Ihe ambition that she had roused, the
aims she h id encourage.!, sank back be
fore the reckless quest of pleasures to re
sist the only really deep love Guy had
ever known. '
Just in this state he met Laura .Marcy
half-way, tlined dospemt. ly , T-.de over
the cotintrv rds besidt her, till it was
one of the unexplained emblems what
saved their necks in their headlong rac
ing; sang with her, and found himself
bound bv an ein-ageineiit before be half
realized how far he was ii.volved.
The marriage wa-i hurried ou, Im.Hi the
,i., o,l tl.e mll.iiir bride energeti
cally preparing all thin t,,r Kran'1
wedding, ami within six months Amy, in
her dreary home, readin her consuls
letter, said, w ith a heart broken sigh :
"Sue was right ! Guy ha 'rgoiten me
in I.--, than six months. Oh, if only 1
couid forget!
lint she c uld nut, po r
mo so dearly, he will he faithful, and
when Mil. Chester sees that, she will re
lent and send for me."
She drooped visibly in those summer
days, working over the unaccustomed
routine of housework to keep her grand
mother, having a tender love from both
grandparents, but no mental excitement
to drown her heart's huniier.
Hnd she remained somewhere in a sit
uation suited to her capacity, where
teaching or reading would have insured
some hours daily of forgetfulnes, it would
have saved her. Had she studied, taught,
or even had companionship, the dreary
weight of thought might have lessened,
till the soro heart, its old wounds closed
might nave revived to new love and happiness.
But when she stirred porridge she
eouid thinK 01 (jttiy; when ner dainty
little hands had scoured tins and washed
cups, she remembered her love. Her
grandfather was nearly deaf, and con
stant intercourse with him had reduced
her grandmother to a silence that was
too strongly habitual to be eas.ly broken.
Very- cotiacientiously Amy tried to do
herduty by the old people who had given
her a loving welcome, overtasking her
strength to aid in the daily routine of
work, and ciirelul ot many little ntteti
tions the young can so gracefully oiler
the old.
But there was nothing to feed the
cravings of brain and heart bat memory
and that faint hope. And upon the
yearning cry of the loving heart for love
and life came the letter inclosing Guy's
wedding-cards.
"She s over-quiet for one so voting,
the county people said, "and looks
peuked."
But nobody saw the shadow under
which the girl drooped und faded, her
little leet treading unconsciously in the
valley of death. And Guy. with his en
ergetic and boislerous wile, was plunging
into city life with a rush and fervor that
rather amazed his old associates.
"By Jove!" Creighton Duly said, twirl.
ing his blonde mustache, I always
thought Chester was one of your slow
lazy fellows, who are too indolent to be
vicious ; but lie has wakened up with a
vengeance. lie will break his neck on
that brute he rides. I'm a pretty fair
whip, but I wouldn't be on her half an
hour for half a million. No, by Jove
And he plays so high that even Graiuley
whistles over his stakes. Never in my
life saw a fellow so changed !''
"Somebody said he was going in Ior
law in earnest," said a second voice.
Bah !" said u third : 'Ins mother's es
tate must come to him; and there's till the
Marcy money "
But Guy hud found the "Marcy" had
quite a shrewd commercial head of ner
own, and meant to keep her purse strings
in her own fingem. Every dollar of Mrs.
Laura Chester's fortune w as securely set
tled upon lier.-elf, and she gave her bus
band to understand plainly Unit, if he
would gamble and give expensive sup
pers, he must lax his mother lor the cost.
And so, in a mau seatcn ior lorgetmi
ness, a restless desire to be away
from the ungenial society of his wife, a
dread of the self reprouch of though,
Guy Chester was throwing away all the
finer instincts of his nature, sinking
lower and lower in the scale. Qt true
manliness.
Spring was coming again, and, worn
out, in spite of his perfect phyeique, Guy
determined to run down to Chester Hill
for a week or two. -
"Ifthereare any letters forme, you can
open tlieuC his mother said, rat her, care
lessly, now that her point was gained, of
finy's knowledge, of the machinery that
had been put in operation to accomplish J
it. "I leave it to you to judge if any are
important enough to lorwaru.
Thore was but one, for most of Mr.
Chester's correspondents were suflicie lly
intimate to know thoy must use her city
address between November and May.
But thut one Guy tore open with trem
bling fingers, knowing well who had
penned the address, in faint, wavering
lines. The lotler read :
"Dear Cousin : I have been very slok all win
ter, getting alittle weaker every day, and now I
know shall never be better again. I know I
ought not to love Guy since he is married, and I
trv toremeuiber itia wrong ; but when 1 am dead
will you not tell hhu i left him beeauae 1 loved
him, and you wereso sur? It would be better for
him to forget ine. tllvo him my love my love
that will not die, notwithstanding I try so hard
to kill It. Amv."
He never fainted, anil he did not even
groan as he read the words ; but setting
his teeth hard over a muttered curse that
might have appalled even his mother's
selfish heart, he went back to the rail
way Btatiou and took a train that would
carry him to Ilarnsburg, the nearest
route to the out-of-the way town from
which the letter was posted.
"Will it be to-day? Oh, doctor, not to
day !" said old Mrs. Randolph, when the
doctor turned away from the bed where
Amy lay. .
He only shook his head and passed
from the room, while the sobbing old
woman befit over the white, unconscious
face upon the pillow. For nearly a week,
since writing her pathetic farewell to love
and life, Amy had lain just so, without
any sign of consciousness. She swallow
ed obediently all food, medicine or drink
put to her lips, but she never spoke, never
lifted the drooping lids that half covered
her large eyes. '
"Passing away peacefully, poor lamb '.
the kind-hearted neighbor said, and no
one hoped, ever so faintly, for a return
of consciousness. But, as she lay on that
still April d v, her breath coming with
more labored sighs, her face growing
ghastly with the touch of the great seal,
she suddenly lifted her hand, opened her
eyes, and smiled.
"Hush ! he is coming !" she sid.
"Wandering, poor dear," said one old
crone. ... , . ,
"Guy ! Guv !" the pale lips whispered,
and iu answer u quick treatl crossed the
porch, paused a moment, and came up
the staircase.
One look showed Guy a little figure
half lifted from the bed, arms outstretch
ed, lips smiling, eves radiant. Only one
look! Before he crossed the, room Amy
a.ilr li!lr. ilttad I ' -
When April came again, sympathizing
friends, decidiug which was the most be
coming stylo of mourning for Mrs. Ches
ler, said :
"Verv sad so voung. But. my dear,
he really was most terribly dissuaded.
His mother is half ruined paying his
debts, aud he gambled fearfully, indeed
though, of course, one does not want to
blame ttie dead, it really does seem prov
idential that that brute of a horse threw
him, at last, for his wife is young yet, and
so wealthy handsome, too, in that loud
style and really, you know and sig
nificant shrugs finished the sentence.
But Mrs. Chester, the heart-broken
mother, alienated from her son by his
bitterj reproachful speeches, after Amy
died, impoverished, childless, lends the
life of a recluse, ever tormented by the
haunting question, "Was it better to sci-
arate those loving hearts, remove Guy
from a tender, gentle inlluence, and dig
two early graves, for money s Bake :
Soientiflo Mlsoellany.
ittle crushed.
faithful heart! She thixusM n"
.. .. i..- i..-e of the farm
ri,pi y, . - .,UI wanoVron-
frti.lirery was over sire , ,
. - , j,n n.-r ifivv
ra,n:ver'--iir hr
,h the memory of what btJ'":"l'i
whisiH-r with but a faint, fomt h. pe .
His mother may I wr-le loved
In the Jefferson avenue line recently
a woman of tilty, made up to look aludit
twentv-five years old, got aboard at a
cro-mng to find every seat occupied. She
stood for a moment, and then selecting a
poory-dressed man about forty-five years
of aee, she ooserveu :
"Are there no gentlpmen on this car?'
"Indeed, I dunno," he replied, as he
looked up and down. "If there hain't.
ami you are going clear through, I II hunt
up oil" for V'di nt the end of the line!"
There wasau e njara-sing silence for
a moment, and then a light broke in on
him alt of a sudden, and he roee and
sui.l :
"Yon .an have this seat, madam. I
am alius perfectly wil ing to s and lip
and give my seat co anytHxljr.ol.lvr than
myself. . . '.
'lhat decided her. She gave him
look which he will tint forget to his dv
insdav, and grabbing the s' rap she re
fused to sit down, even when five seat.
had became vacant. Detroit hee Prem,
Prof. Marks recently stated that he had
made some calculations as to the maxi
mum speed at which locomotive engines
could be driven before the centrifugal
force on the tires of the driving-wheels
I would become so great as to cause them
to burst. These calculations, which were
only approximate, gave a limit of speed
in the neighborhood! of 150 miles pr
hour, or this speed, in miles an hour,
or more than half, has already been at
tained. Two alligators, the first specimens ever
found in the Old World, were lately cap-
in rea in me xung-tse-Kiung.
A very simple model enables us to
realize in some degree the vast size of
the sun as compared with the earth.
When Ihe sun is represented by a ball of
.i,.n.. i... .i. i.. .i:.. , 1....
L.i.cc i.ie.tco t.i umujuior, u minute pan
of 3-100 of an inch in diameter must be
placed at a distance of 30 feet from it to
represent the earth and its distance from
the sun, .
' .Probably few persons while watching
iu. iig.ii, oi uto giow-worm or tne nre-ny
have failed to wonder and speculate as
to its cause. A French naturalist, after a
series oi oriservations, believes the glow
worm's phosphorescence to be due to an
omission of phosphureted hydrogen gas.
The Public Health Department of Ger
many has officially sanctioned the use of
tne ionowing coloring matters in confec-
llnnuH.r . LV.- a l. l .
nuuc.,0.1,. jjui nuiie uourauu starcu;
for red cocheniel, carmine, madder-red,
and the juice of carrots, and cherries;
e. ii n. . .
tui jenuw sanron, f-ainower, ana turmer
ic; for blue inditio uud litmus : forirreeu
juice of spinach and mixtures of the
above blues and yellows; for brown
burnt sugar and Spanish juice ; and for
black Indian ink.
Near Beaver lake, in the National Park
of the Yellowstone, a recent party of ex
plorers came upon a remarkable moun
tain ot ousinian or volcanic glass, wlncli
rises in columnar cliffs several hundred
feet in height. It being desirable to pass
that way, the party cut a road by build-
n.igo urus on me iriass to neat ana
expand it and then dashing the cold
water ot the lake against the heated sur
face the sudden contraction thus pro
duced breaking large fragments from the
aide of the mountain. In the grand can
yon of the Gibson river the explorers also
louna precipices ot yellow, black und
banded absitlian rising hundreds of feet.
1 ne natural glass of these localities has
from time immemorial been dressed by
Ihe Indians to tip their spears and arrows.
Some experiments with various soils
as filters for removing organic mutter
irom water nave shown that gravel pro
duces little result, sand being much more
effective in removing the impurities and
fine foam toruiing a still better filter.
The British Museum contains a. wig
which was found in a good state of pres
ervation at Thebes, and is probably 3000
yearsold.
In selecting a location for a house, ad
vices a prominent physician, makea note
of the prevalent winds, that they be from
the house towards all swampy and mias
tiiutii: localities and not from miasmaiic
localities towards ihe house.
Gelose is the most valuable constitu
ent of the substance known in commerce
as China moss. It has the property of
absorbing aud solidying into a colorless
aud transparent jelly five hundred times
its weight of water. .
., The .mtnibor of-olnunoaa (Hjaoo-yorod
constantly increases with the progress of
geographical knowledge highly volcanic
regions being found in the least explored
countries. A. von Hunibokit enumer
ated 407, of which 227 were active. Sev
eral thousand are now known and, ac
cording to M. Fuchs, the number of ac
tive volcanoes known at tne present
time may be set down as 323. It is diffi
cult to draw the line between active and
extinct volcanoes, for the reason that the
greater portion of the former have peri
ods of repose, sometimes a century or
more in length. The ancients considered
Vesuvius a harmless mountain up to the
time of the great eruption of A. D. 79,
when Herculanoum and Pompeii were
buried ; and it was quiet from 130t to
IWJl more man mree centuries.
It was recently remarked by Prof.
Maudsley that one striking feature ob
served by medical men in cases of hallu
cination is that the patient cannot be
convinced that the objects they Bee, the
sounds they hear and the smells they
perceive nave no real existence, and that
the sensations received are Ihe result of
an excited state of their nerves. Hallu
cination often extends to but one sense,
the person affected being otherwise in a
perfectly normal condition. It may arise
either from an idea on which the mind
has dwelt clusely, or trom excitement ot
the sensory nerves. It is said that New
ton. Hunter, and some others of equal
eminence, could, at will, picture forms to
themselves until they appeared to lie
realities.
Life in India.
The following is an extract from au
address by a prominent missionary from
India :
"The girls are married at the age of
five and six, never later than ten, on ac
count of the believed effect that such a
misfortune would have on her ancestors.
She is put into a box, which is closed
up like a coffin and covered with a deco
rated cloth, and in this shape taken to
the husband's house, where she is de
led and left for the rest of her life.
never to go out save on the occasion of
exceptional and rare visits to ner moiner.
In the high caste houses the outer
court, around which are the men's
apartments, luxuriously furnished, is
reached by an underground passage. A
passage leads from this to the inner
court aliout which are the wives' rooms
Or cells. The walls and floor inside are
of brick ; there is no bed, no chair anil
no furniture but a sort of desk and a box
in which the occupant's clothes are kept.
Thev are never taught to read or write,
and'I suppose that when I went there
fir.-t not one in eighty thousand could
read. All of the world they ever see is
this inner court. They are marvelously
beautiful, however, both men and
women, as a race, despite the hard lot
of the wives. EachMady has her own
brick-floored cell, and sleeps on a strip
of matting. The widows are far worse
ftfT hnHv.r. Thev can never marry
again ; can eat only one meal a day, of
rice ; are debarred oy aursuuou cod
tom from receiving any help or any
word of love or mercy ; are compelled
to wear their hair hanging loose, un
cleunsed and nnbraided, and cannot
speak in the presence of their mother,
in-law or sister-in-law without permis
sion. Every three weeks they have a
twenty four hours fast. I saw one little
girl, a" child who was. burning up with
fever, aud whose tongue, black and
swollen, was protruding from her parch
ed li. I asked her if she wanted
water, and she signified feebly that she
did. . I told ttie women to get her some,
but they refused, saying that she was a
willow and it was wrong. She had had
no water for three days, but they would
not let me give her any on the plea tnat
I nnliuteul foreigner, and such an
act would break her caste and that of
the whole house, bhe died in great
agony the next day."
A man who married a Jewess shortly
afterward joined the temperancy society,
and never dared lo kiss his wife from
thut dav lieiaiise he had considered him
self prohibited by the pledge from med
dling with Jew-lips.
A handsome lady entered a dr td
house and inquired for a "bow." The
polite clerk threw himself hack, and re
marked that he was at her service.
"Y.s, but I want a buff, not a green
one," was the reply. The young man
went on nieasnring goods immediately.
Fund Memories.
Pass the butter gently, Mabel,
thore it lightly through the air ;
. Iu the oorner of the dish, love,
You will had a nut brown hair.
What fond mem'rlea tt awakens
Of the days e're we were wed,
When upon my fine coat collar
Oft was laid your Utile head.
Lovingly I stroked those tresses,
In the happy days gone by ;
Now I strike them every meal time
In the butter or the pie.
Centennial Anniversary.
TUB LAST INDIAN RAID IN VERMONT,
The 100th anniversary of the burning
of Boyalton was celebrated at South
Royalton, Saturday, Hon. C. M. Lamb
presiding. Ex.Congressman D. C. Den
nison delivered an ad iress. About 25
descendants of families who suffered at
the time of the burning were present,
and a number of Interesting relics were
exhibited.
The occasion celebrated was the last
adventure of its kind in this valley. In
1780 the revolutionary war was in prog
ress, though its fiek had Qpt spread over
Vermont, since the battle of Bennington
aud the surrender of Burgoyne. Some
years before, Gen. Gordon, a British of
ficer, had been shot by a Lieutenant
Whitcomb while on a scout, and robbed
of his sword and watch. It was deemed
a wanton acl and the British made efforts
thiougli the Indians to capture Whit
comb. For this purpose in October, 1780,
about 300 of the Indians under a man
named Horton, scouted tip the Winooski
with the intention of attacking Newbury
on the Connecticut. They heard, how
ever, that Newbury was ready for them,
and bo passed over to the head-waters ot
White river and aimed for the new town
of Koyalton, which was a wilderness ten
years before but. had growu in that in
terval to have 00 fieemen and 300 inhab
itants. The Indians did not dare to at
tack on the Sabbatb, when the people
were collected for worship, but lny con
cealed in the forest and ou Monday
morning, Octo er 10, commenced their
ravage. Thev rushed fr-m log-house to
log-nouse ot the scattered farmers, tukins
2U prisoners, buining 20 houses, and kill
ing two settlers, 1 nomas feiuber and
Elias Button. They made it a dav of
terror for the lonely valley, and toward
night started their train of captives for
Canada. The alarm spread rapidly and
settlers from the Connecticut river and
all directions gathered in pursuit, but
tuey aid not dare to lollow Dy night
tearing ambush. Another white was
tomahawked to retaliate for the death of
an Indian by the only exchange ot shots
wnicn took place, ami another still Ior
refusing to march. The raiders made
good their escape. Ail but one of the
captives returned the next summer by
an exchange of prisoners, and one of
them, Zadoc Steele, wrote a little book
historical of the affair, which is now
rather rare.
The Indian conduct in this affair was
marked bv some uiiiiuatiugcircu instances.
At one house the women, in their fright,
ran out in their night clothing (naked,
says the story), and "stood motionless
and paralyzed" till the savages, laughing,
brought out their apparel. No women
were taken prisoners. A score of chil
dren had been collected to be driven off
with the other captives, when one woman
boldly importuned the captors for her
boy and secured his release. She then
insisted on others being given up, and fi
nally pleaded her cause so wew that 12 or
15 of the younger children wtre surren
dered. 'A chief set her prizes across the
river, carrying her over finally on his
back as a tribute to her success, and she
returned to the desolate homes with her
juvenile train, carrying something of
consolation.
Twentv-seven vears after the Indians.
the town had an incorporated academy
winch is still in existence. Among tne
more noted men who have been raised
there is Prof. Truman H. Safford, the
astronomer and mathematical prodigy,
now professor at Williams college, who
at ten years of age excited the admira
tion of the late Prof. Peirce. Superin
tendent Stone spent a good portion of bis
boyhood in the town and had for one of
his youthful mates Frederick Billings of
Woodstock, whose lather was landlord 01
the village tavern at Kovalton for many
years. The celebration was mainly the
work ot the women ot the town.
George William Ourtla On Burns.
Poets have sung of him as of no other
poet. The theme is always fresh und al
ways captivating, and within the year
our own American poet, beloved and
honored in his beautiful and unwasted
age, sings of Burns as he sees him in
vision, as the world shall forever see
him, an immortal youth cheerily singing
at his toil in the bright spring moruing.
The personal feeling of Longfellow's
poem is that which Burns always in
spires. There is no great poet who is less
of a meie name and abstraction. His
grasp is so human that the heart insists
upon knowing the story of his life and
ponders it with endless sympathy and
wonder. It is not necessary to excuse or
conceal. The key of Burn's life is the
struggle of a shrinking will tossed be
tween great extremes, between poetic
genius and sensibility, intellectual force,
tenderness, conscience and generous sym
pathies on one side and tremendous pas
sions upou the other. We cannot, indeed,
know the power of the temptation. We
cannot pretend fo determine the limits
of lespousibility for infirmity of will.
We only know that, however supreme
and resistless the genhis of a man may
be, it does not absolve him from the
moral obligation that binds us all. It
would not have comforted Jennie Deans,
as she held the sorrowing Etfie to her
heart, to know that the "lause lover" who
"staw" her rose was named Shakespeare
or Burns. Nor is there any baser pros
titution than that which would grace self
indulgence with an immortal name. If
a boy is a dunce at school it is a foolish
parent wh consoles himself with re
membering that Walter Scott was a dull
schoolboy. It was not Scott's dullness
that made him the magician. It is uot
the reveling at Nansie Poosie's and the
Globe tavern, and the reckless life at
MuiKhline and Mossgiel that endeared
Robert Burns to mankind. Just there
lies its pathetic appeal. The young man
who would gild his dissipation with the
celestial glamor of Burns name snatches
the glory of a star to light him to de
struction. But it is no less true, and in
the deepest and fullest meaning of his
own words :
What's dona we partly may com pate
But know not what 's resulted.
Here then, among the trees and flowers
and waters, here upon-the green sward
and under the open sky, here where
birds carol, and children play, and lovers
whisper, and the various stream of hu
man lile flows by we raise the staiue
or Robert Burns. While the human
heart beats, that name will be music in
human ears. He knew better than we
the pathos of human life. We know bet
ter than he Ihe infinite pathos of his
own. Ah ! Robert Burns, Robert Burns,
whoever lingers here as he same and
muses npon your staiue will see in imagi
nation a solitary mountain in your own
beautiful Scotland, heaven-soaring, wrap
ped in impenetrable clonds. Suddenly
the mists part and there are the heather,
the brier rose and -the go wan tine, there
re the
Itarnies wimplla' dowa your glens
wr toddUa' dla
Or loamta Strang wl' hasty ateaa -.
Frae tut to lia ; 7
the cushat is moaning; the curlew is
calling ; the plover is singing ; the red
deer is bounding ; and look ! the clouds
roll utterly away and the clear summit is
touched with the tender glory of sun
shine, heaven's own benediction. Tht
Oration im Central Park.
When two women with new hats on
pass each other in the street, there is a
pair of hark stares built immediately. I
Hash.
When Sarah Jane, the moral miss,
Declares tla very wrong to kiss,
I'll bet a shilling I aee through It ;
The damsell, fairly understood,
' Keels Just as auy Christian should
She'd rather suffer wrong than do it.
Any fool can make a woman talk, but
It's hard to make one listen.
Congress Is only roguod while Parlia
ment is always prorogued.
It is better to have loved a short girl
than never to have loved a tall. Modern
Argo.
Men are generally like wagons; they
rattle prodigiously when there is nothing
in them.
There is not much danger when it
rains "cats and dogs." but when it Sultz
dogs, look out.
When a Cincinnati man speaks of the
productions of his pen, you never know
whether he is a literary feller or a bog
raiser.
In the first transporls of delight the
happy . futher rushed into the room ex
claiming, "I've got a son ! It's a boy
I'uck.
The young lady who was blamed for
allowing her glove to be discovered in a
young man's pocket, said that she hail
no hand in it.
"Temper in a wife!" exclaimed old
Colonel Firehawk ; "I like temper in a
wife. I like it so well thut I hope my
wife will never lose hers."
An old maid suggests that when men
break their hearts, it is all the same as a
lobster breaks his claws another sprouts
immediately and grows in its place.
Only a Bhort time after a Galveston
politician had stated he was in the bands
of his friends, he was seen escorting two
policemen in the direction of the lock-up.
The angel of midnight the woman
who opens the street door for her hus
band when he is trying to unlock the
bell-knob, and then lets him sleep on the
hall floor.
A rural chap who studied the unload
ing of Cleopatra's Needle says he doesn't
wonder that the dusky queen committed
suicitle by taking a viper to her bosom if
she had to sew buttons on Mark Antony's
pantaloons with a needle nearly seventy
feet long, or make shirts for the dealers
of Eirypt at five cents a shirt.
' One of our wholesale dry-goods houses
has a new clerk, whose father from the
country went in to see him the other day,
anil was surprised to leurn that all the
salesmen hud nicknames. He asked the
floor-walker why his sou was called
"Jury." "Oo," was the reply, he is always
sitting on cases." New iork Herald.
When old Mrs. Bunsby had got through
reading in the morning paper an account
of the last fire she turned her spectacles
from her eves to the top of tier head and
remarked : "If the city firemen would
wear the generwine hum knit stock ints.
such as we make and wear in the coun
try, they wouldn't be a bustiu' of their
hose at everv fire.
A storv is told of General Butler's sar
castic retort upon a Massachusetts judge
wnen lie was teasing tor a ruling iuvoru
ble to a cause he was defending in court.
The judge got out of patience at last, and
somewhat testily exclaimed : "Mr. Butler,
wnai uo you tiuuk i Bit here ior r "
General quietly shrugged his shoulders
and replied: "The Court has got me
now."
"I wish I was a star," he said, smil
ingly at bis own poetical fancy. I would,
rather you were a comet," she said,
dreamily. His heart beat tumultously.
"And why?" he asked, tenderly. "Oh,"
she said, with a brooding earnestness
that fell ujion his soul like a bare foot
upon a cold oil cfoth, "because then you
would come round only once every 1600
years.
A big, fet colored woman came to tne
Galveston Chief of Police and told him
that her Btepson had run away and Bhe
wanted to know where he was. "It bod
ders me to know why he left. He had
everything he needed to make bim corn
table. I done all I could for him," Bhe
observed. "Has he any marks by which
he may be recognized ?" "Well, 1 don t
reckon all de marks I made on him with
a bed slat, while de old man was holdin'
him, has faded out yit." Galveston New
Ihe Pnotophone.
This remarkable invention is own sis
ter to the telephone. It means, to talk
bv light. The idea upon which it is
founded is this ;
Certain substances are sensitive to
light, and change their electrical condi
tion according to the amount of light
that falls upon them. To understand
this, you may observe that colored cloths
fade in the sun, and certain chemicals
change their color iu a beam of light, as
iu taking a photograph. '1 his is called
the actinic effect of light. In like man
ner certain chemicals chat ge their elec
trical condition when exposed to light-
Tbis is a new fact in nature, and upon it
is founded the new apparatus tor talking
by light.
The apparatus consists, first, of a trans
mitter for causing the sound of the voice
to affect a beam of sunlight. . This is
thin diaphragm of silvered mica arrang
ed something like the diaphragm of a
telephone. A powerlul Deain oi sunngni
is directed upon the front of this, and is
reflected through two lenses to the re
ceiving station which may be several
hundred feet, or metres, away. The op
erator stands behind the mirror, and
sneaks ag inst the back of it At the re
ceiving station is a reflector arranged to
receive the beam ol light and concen
trate it upon a curious substance discov
ered a few years ago, and called sereniuru,
aud connected in a peculiar manner with
a telephone.
Now if the operator speaks Deninu tne
mica mirror, the person uoiuiug ine
telephone to his ear hears every word
that is said. To trace the curious changes
the sound goes through from one opera
tor to the other, we must observe that
the vibrations of the air move the mir
ror, and cause the beam of reflected
light to vibrate. The vibrations of the
light affect the electrical condition of the
telephone ; the electrical vibrations are
transformed in the telephone back again
iuto sounds. This truly wonderful in
vention is so new that it is yet impossi
ble to say what may result from it. This
much has, however, been proved : the
sound of the human voice and musical
n .litis may be sent to a distance bv means
of a beam of sunlight or by the light of a
lamp.
A Tkrhible Stobt. The Oakland, Cel.,
Time; tells a horrible story of a woman
in that section. She was paralyzed and
on application of her husband was taken
to the county hospital. A few days after
the husband went to see ner and found
her in the hospital, in a room with three
other patients. He says : They told me
it was no place to leave her, because she
had paralysis and there was bo one to
help ber. They simply left the food by
her and went away. I returned to the
oyster beds, and a week ago last Saturday
my wire s brother, who bad been to the
hospital, wrote me a letter from San
Francisco, where he Uvea, saying my
wife was sick, and anted me to come and
So and see her. I went and found her
ead. The women told me to pull elf
her stockings, and see where the rats
had gnawed her feet while ahe was alive.
I pulled off the stocking and saw that
the flesh was eaten off her feet into the
bone. The rats had eaten her flesh while
she was alive, because the blood was all
over het fret. She cried and screamed,
they said, when toe rats were gnawing
her feet. It was a holy terror to see how
that woman suffered. It would aoftea
Ihe heart of a stone to look at her. I
never saw such a horrible thing betore.
I pray to God I may never look npoe
such a thing again- I never knew there
was such a thing in this country.
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