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{-1113 RODl-IJIEYER, Jr. - Associate Editor.
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My love is not a transitory name,
Which idle romance clouds or kindlt‘
llurnlng at first with intense name,
And then in dark gray dwindled.
All, 110! My love immortal is—dlvine--
The same to-day, or o’er the morrow:
l worship at thy saintly shrine,
And share thy every joy and sorrow.
By the dear life'and by the cruel crou
0f Him who ever reigns above-
By present good—by every mournfui losa
I plight thee now my constant love.
By hope of heaven-by dreams of future bill-
By fear of evil-by the dread of death.
I seal the bonds with one long, lingering In,
And name thy name with my expiring breath.
in;
A.
How Birdie Escaped.
“ You have good looks, you have youth.
you have address. Come at once, and
will introduce you to a young lady whose
fortune, with her hand, will repair what
you have wasted."
Rolfe Rathburne‘ threw down his uncle's
letter, lighted a cigar, and elevated his feet
to the table. He knew very well, bebo-
lieved, whom his uncle referred teen ward
‘of his, Miss Elinor Chauucy, who must by
this time be of marriageable age, he con.
sidered. V
“I’m not a marrying man,” muttered
young Rathburne, “but when I saw that
girl, eight years ago, she promised to be a
beauty; and “nan might do worse, per-
haps, than to take a pretty wife with plenty
of money.”
He was a dissipated-looking young man
of fivennd-twenty, with a black moustache
and curling hair, which be made the most
of. He had a fair proportion ofbraina-
bnt no morals to speak of. He kept afioat
in good society, however, having a know].
edge of good-breeding and a rich uncle—
the Honorable Christopher Brudenel. The
Honorable Christopher Brudenel had writ-
ten him the nbo'vtlettcr. He was pnrtlttl
to his nephew.
Soon the French hotel where Rolfe
Rathburne boarded knew him no more.
He left these congenial quarters and be-
took himself to the fatigues of Irnilwfiy
journey.
It had been some years since he had been
at Ashdon, his uncle’s country-house. Eight
years before, when he was a rather vicious
lad of eighteen, his uncle, in a fit of pas-
sion, had forbidden him the house; but
that was one of the many bygones which
Mr. Rolfe Bathburne's relatives were
obliged to overlook.
Ashdon, with its white front pillars, its
green lawns dotted with flower-laden stone
urns, its fountains and whispering ash-trees
~Ashdon looked familiar.
He had walked up from the station,
leaving his baggage to be sent for.
“Let me see,” he soliloquizcd, viewing
the place from a rise in the road. "The
girl was thirteen. when I saw her last—a
charming little brunette—and they called
her Birdie. She must be twenty now, and
fascinating enough, I'll be bound! Lonely
here] Uncle keeps her secluded, I fancy.
Good ideal A beauty with a fortunate
rather dangerous property to be lying
around loose. Wonder what her fancy-is
in men i’ Girh always have some notions
of their own. As she’s a brunette, I sup-
pose I ought to have a big blonds beard to
be killing.”
He had reached the gates of Ashdén by
this time, when a man with a big blonds
beard suddenly approached him. He had a
package of letters in his hand. Apps!"
ontly he had just arrived, and was inn
hurry.
“ Were you going in i’ " he asked.
”Yes," said Bathburne.
The man, who was well-dressed and of
fine appearance, solcaed a letter from the
number in his hand.
“ I have a letter here for Miss Clnuncy.
Will you be kind enough to deliver itto has
personally?”
Rathburne, in good humor, assented
civilly, and the man passed on, walking
rapidly.
“He’snot the postman. A tradesmen,
probably,” mused Bathburno.
The letter was simply addressed, in Q
clear uniform chirography, “Mist Chauna
cy Ashdon." He put it in the mm.
pocket of his coat, and, turning file.
handle of the iron gates of Ashdon, walked
Ill.
C Q I U . O O
Rolfe Bathbnrue had delivered that letter
with kindling eyes. Birdie's dark eyes and
rosebud month were more shaming than
anything he had ever seen'before.
“Yes,” said the Honorable Christopher
Brudenei, “my ward is very pretty, and so
far she haslived a very secluded life. I
have thought it best.”
“Has she no other friend or gnardhn,
Uncle Chris?”
Uncle Chris, florid and portly, elmngcd
color.
"She is an orphan, quite alone, butter
—well, in fact, she has another gurglin—
Aubrey Mordaunt. The rascal wlutcd h
marry her—for her money, you know."
“ Of course. What did you do? "
“Told him I had sent her abroad, and
sent him posting of to search through all
the convent schools of France to find her.
Meanwhile, I have sent for you. I want
you to marry her-I give you this last
chance. Remember, I shall pay no more
of your spendthrift bills.”
“ I shall be very happy, my dearun-
cle."
Meanwhile, Birdie, though it was past
midnight, sat in her chamber, looking out
into the moon-lighted .garden. It . had
been a year since 'she thad-been outside
those garden walls. How tired she had
grown of its wearisome walks and monoto.
nous stillness. only the bright young thing
knew. Her dimpled checks looked pale in
‘he moonlight; her chin rested in her little
1 and.
E ”Bill ll 1 could only SOB him once more,
[would come back and stay nyear con-
tented. I would, indeed! He loves me;
he 1s tender, gentle, kind. I only live, I
think, when I am with him. When I am
not, I seem to be dying by inches, day by
day. Do people ever die for love, when
they are young and healthy as I am, I won.
der? No, Ithink not," sadly my! pretty
little Birdie.
1 And then she turned her mind intently
upon other things. Birdie could not _
sleep that first night of Rolfe Bathburne’a
coming.
He could not sleep very well himself,
when he first sought his chamber. Here
was an unexampled piece of good fortune.
Birdie was so beautiful and bewitching.
He would marry het, pay those tormenting
debts, set up a city house and enjoy life.
He would like to allow Birdie to the men
of his set—so fresh, so pretty and charm
ing. Wouldn‘t they grow green with envy!
He laughed in the darkness with thinking
of it.
Fresh and sweet as '11. half-blown rcsebud
Birdie certainly was , but Mr. Bath-
bnrnc, to his surprise, found her also a lit-
tle thorny.
No, she didn t care to walk in the garden
and she did dislike cigar-smoke, and all!
wouldn’t trouble him to carry her pfilfld
or fan for her.
But wouldn‘t she show him her gold- doll,
and perch ?
They were in the pond, Birdie said, and
the maid would give him some crumbs“
call them up.
Mr. Rathbume retired, discomfited.
“Birdie, ” said the Honorable Christo-
, pher, the next day, “don’t you like my
E nephew?"
“Not particularly,” answers Miss ‘Birdic,
with rare courage.
Volume LXXXVI.
' little one: “any.
' pied Birdie's rosy checks all day. Though
The Honorable Christopher stared.
“ Hoig’thLtoighiyl Such airs are not
becoming to you, miss! I have invited my
nephew here to pay court toyou. I require
you to treat him civilly. You will do so, of
course. You are not of age, remember.”
“ I will be in two months,” replied Bir-
die, quietly, who seemed to have “stitched
her eyelids down to her sewing."
The Honorable Christopher was amazed.
Was it possible the girl was no longer
afraid of him? It could not be. Where
had she found courage? No influence
averse to his own could possibly have been
brought to bear upon her.’ He took no no-
tice of her last remark, but passed grandly
from the room.
But days and weeks passed, and though
Birdie would sometimes converse with
Rolfe Rathburne, would sometimes let him
attend her in feeding her birds in the aviary
and her fish' in the fountain,he ever felt the
little beauty’s disdain.
In vain he oiled his hair and concealed
his tobacco. Birdie's lovely eyes looked
him over from head to foot coldly. Some-
times, when she was very weary of idle-
ness and dullness, she would consent to
play a game or two of chess with him, and
she allowed him to teach her to ride horse-
back—by the Honorable Christopher’s idi-
rections, taking the most sequestred roads,
and attended also by his favorite servant, a
fellow with rain-like black eyes, who, riding
after, watched her like a ferret. But Bit.
die did not try to run away, and nobody
communicated with her.
“ These rides—I suppose they are safe
enough,” said the Honorable Christopher to
his nephew; “1 but I feel obliged to be a
little careful. sMordaunt is. a determined
fellow. When he finds that he has been
deceived, and comes back from France,
there is sure to be trouble. But I hope you
will have safely married Birdie by that
time. Let me see—he will ransack éthe
eonvents in the shortest possible time, and
you understand, I refused to give himzthc
q
1 name of the school—and will probably be
back here, fierce as a lion, this fall. Birdie
seemed to droop this summer. She needs
these horseback rides, no doubt; othefiise
I should not allow her outside the garden
walls. No outside communication with;her
has been possible for six months."
“ You have full control of her money, I
suppose?”
“ Yes, until she' 1s twenty-one, unless she
marries before that time. Mordaunt could
take every cent any time, for she always
liked him better than she did me, from a
child. But you see if you cut him out—”
“ I see—I see."
But Mr. Bolfe Bathburne did not look
hopeful.
V “ Well, for heaven's sake, get on a little
faster! " grieved the fat honorable, who
was privately in misery lest certain little
liberties he had taken with Birdie’s money
should be disOOvorcd by Mr. Aubrey Mor-
. daunt.
Bathburno thought he was getting on a
A happy smile dim-
she seemed loatin her own thoughts, and
did not pay very strict attention to her
companion’s conversation, she allowed him
to walk with her, and was far less thorny
than usual.
“It’s going to be a fine night—moon-
light,” remarked Mr. Rathburne, when they
went in to tea.
Birdie assented.
“ It’s cooler out of doors, and the foun-
tain will look very pretty by moonlight."
“So it will,” returned Birdie.
“ There is a very comfortable seat—that
rustic one, by the fountain.”
Mr. Bathburne’s heart rose with a
bound when Birdie, with a dazzling smile,
hid:
“Wait for me there.”
At tea he refrained from eating his
favorite salad with onions. He rushed up
to his room,. after hurriedly whispering
hishoposto his uncle, and drenched his
handkerchief with German cologne. Then
hastily scribbling a letter to‘ a pressing
~radiior. to the elect that his Eb-ill shon]
as settled soon, he went 'down and Bough ht
the rustioseat by the fountain to wait for
Birdie.
He waited until the fountain had flung
up and the basin caught a hundred gallons
of water—until the whip-poor-wills had
whistled themselves hoarse and gone to
bed. Weary from a sitting posture, sleepy
and stif from the dampnem of the heavy
dew, Mr. Bathbnrne rose, at last, and aban-
doned his post in despair.
Birdie had not come—certainly was not
coming, for (Mr. Rathburne looked at his
watch in the moonlight) it was past ten
o‘clock.
He moved stifily along the path, entered
another, stooped to pick up a letter which
lay there. It was addressed to Birdie.
Mr. Bathburne thought it looked familiar,
sn'fehcw. He had no scruples about road—
it:
"Mr Dun Damn :-I know now where
3 1.1a 'aro, and I am near you. Donoi. grieve
any more. Be happy, all will soon be
well. As soon as I have taken some steps
to ferret out a wrong which is being done
you, I will take you out of Brudenel’s care.
A carriage will wait just beyond the south
gate at Ashdon, at ten o ‘clock, on the night
of August 30th, to bear you away with me
to become my own beloved little wife. I
will place you safely in my own home with
my mother, while I return to fight Brode-
nel in his own den. I shall take my
chances of getting this to you by asking the
favor of his good~for-noi.hing nephew to
place it in your hands. He comes courting
you. I think he will do it. In haste,
“ Annular."
There came before Bolfe Ralhburne a
vision of the fine-.looking man with a big,
blonds health. He looked up, and stood
slarin . blankly at the open gate of Ash-
don. There were the marks of carriage.
wheels without, and a handkerchief of
Birdie's in the dust.
He rushed into the house—to the honor.
able’s bedside, and pounded him awake.
Peleell they tumbled lip-stairs to Birdie‘s
meal. The cage was empty; the bird had
flown.
“ The letterhhow did she get it i " yelled
the honorable. “ I have not a servant who
dares accept a bribe] "
“I suppose,” confessed Birdia’s would.
be suitor, that I brought it to her when I
came. He was a businessolike locking man
with a big, blonds beard.”
E “Mordauntl " yelled the Honorable
Christopher. “ We are lost.”
As, indeed, they were]
Ancient and Modern Wonders.
The seven wonders of the world in
ancient times were the Pyramids of
Egypt, the Pharos of Alexandria, the
walls and hanging gardens of Babylon,
the temple of Diana, the statue of the
Olympian Jupiter, the mausoleum of
Artemisia, and the Colossus at Rhodes.
The seven wonders in modern times
are the printing press, the steam engine,
the spinning jenny, the. telephone, the
phonograph, telegraph and electric
light. The so-called “seven wonders”
of the ancients were more tribes com-
pared with those of the present time.
The whole put together would sink
into lnsignificanee could their builders
have seen a lightning express train at
full Speed.
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It is the habit of human nature to run
from one extreme to the other.
W
Some men are always trying to begin at
the top, unmindfnl of the fact that it is folly
to shinglefthe house until after the cellar
has been dug. ’ .
To kill one man is murder, to kill thon-
sands is hcsglsm.
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ESTABLISHED 1800.
The Curse Eof‘ Speech.
Articulate speech is thought to hi
the distinguishing acquirement of man-
kind, which more than any other so
quirement .or faculty lifts man above
the other beasts, and propagates intel-
ligence and soul and all that sort of
thing. Its beginning is obscured by the
mists of antiquity. Probably it yrs:
the invention of the devil, to whose
ever-running account the custom is u
charge everything. It may have been
the very thing that turned the Garden
of Eden out of grass, and that mad!
the creation of man a total failure, as
that quickly. the race had tobe droWned,
and as soon as it began to grow numer-
ous again its speech had to be con-
founded with a thousand different
tongues. If Eve had no articulate
speech until the. serpent taught her,
that settled it. '
The invention of speech has imposed
on the human race the dreadful :burden
of conversation; of talking merely for'
the sake of talking; of keeping up con-
versation when there is nothing to say;
a terrible burden, which extinguishes
freedom, forbids repose, makes the so-
ciety of our kind a weariness, forces us
to fly to solitude for :rest, supplant:
thinking, and dwarfs the mind to the ‘
little and empty things of, the forced
talk. Where even two or three are
gathered together they are not allowed
to do as they please, andtokeep silence
if they have nothing to say. They are
forced to talk, consequently the talk
runs to inanity.
Thinking stores the mind, forced con-
versation exhausts the store. Then it
runs to emptyiugs, as we say in New
England. The stress of talk keeps on
after the mental store is expended, and
that which is not inane or utterly frivo-
lous is evil speaking of persons, or the
most minute inquiries into their pri-
Q:
1vate affairs. The questions that are
put; by each other are wonderful in
their display of the littleness and mi-
nuteness of this conversation: It is not
curiosity. At least, neither would be
curious in such little things if alone.
It is the; pressure of the dreadful con-
versation demon, who forces them to
glean the barren Wastes for something
to keep talk going, as hens scratch a
barnyard, to pick up worms and un-
clean things. ‘
Who can hear without pity Eand
shame-facedness the talk of a. woman
who has to carry the reputation of a
fluent conversationalist, who can en-
tertain a circle of men with ta]k,who
keeps it going without pause?‘ How
evident her consciousness of-the 116'
mand to keep it up. Like a workhouse
treadmill'the talk must be kept 11.-going;
although it grinds nothing. The pres,-
sure to keep talk going will not allow
thought. The impression given to the
Observer is of an incessant whooping
it up. __
, . Preference of‘CottonE Seed 011.
Cotton seed oil,a good hausekéeper
tells us, is better, purer and cheaper
than either lard or butter. Its price
varies with the price of lard, but it is
always cheaper than lard. lIt makes
fine rolls, biscuits, muffins, cornbread,
gems, batter cakes, tea cakes and ginger-
bread. In some of these compounds it
renders eggs necessary, and in others,
where they are indispensable, lessens-
the number. As it boils at a lower
degree of heat than the animal fats, it
is pro-eminently fit for frying, and as
the frying-pan, notwithstanding the
anathema maranatha of the hygienists,
continues to be the American escutch-
eOn, it behooves us to use it wisely—not
to burn our food in it. In a certain
kitchen, where a belief in this oil is
part of the culinary creed, Oysters
and eoquettes are fried to perfE tlon ill
it. Saratoga chips and wafers emerge
from their oil plunge the very poetry
‘of potatoes-the golden- -morsels are
crunched with thankfulness. Thus do
its Works praise it. Its humanity from
burning is one of the strongest argu-
ments in its behalf. The orthodox
Jews, have, for well known sanitai'y
reasons, never used lard. They will
have, only butter or olive oil. The
Latin races have always been oil prodi-
gals. They were the first converts to
the cotton seed dispensation. In
Southern Louisiana this oil is largely
used for cooking, and in New Orleans
every grocer keeps it, selling it under
its own name to every housekeeper
who values economy and purltyoflood
stuff. Food prejudices are hard—r. to
conquer, and the more provincial a
community, the stiflemecked they are
in this respect.1It is difilcult taper-1
suede them that other foods than
those used by their mothers andgrundo.
mothers are also palatable and whole-
some. The best cotton seed oil is
nearly colorless, tasteless and odorless,
but when just delivered from the press,
varies much in tint, smell and odor,
and is filtered, clarified and deodorized
by the manufacturers.
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The Wonders of an Egg.
Mr. Matthieu Williams, in one of his
lectures, says: “Every one who eats
his matutinal egg eats a sermon and a
miracle. Inside of thatsmooth, symmet-
rical, beautiful shell lurks a question
which has been the Troy town feral]
the philos'Ophere and scientists since
Adam. Armed with the engines of
war—the microscope, the scales,'1 the
offensive weapons of chemistry and
reason-they have probed and weighed
and experimented, and still the ques-
tion is unsolved, the citadel unsacked.
Prof. Bokorny can tell you that albu-
men is composed of so many molecules
of carbon and nitrogen and hydrogen
and can persuade you of the difference
between active and passive albumen,
and can show by wonderfully delicate
experiments what the aldehydes have
to .'do 1n the separation of gold from his
complicated. solutions; but he can't
1111an from one egg comes :‘a‘tlittlo
;rld hin.’ and from anotherJ-bantam.
You leave your little silver option an
' hour iii your egg-cup, and it‘ is coated
with a compound of sulphur. Why is
that sulphur there? Wonderful, that
evolution should provide for the bones
of the future hen! There is phosphor-
ous also in that little microcosm; and
the oxygen of the air, passing through
the shell, unites with it, and the acid
dissOIvcs the shell, thus making good
strong bones for the chick, and at the
same time thinning the prison walls.
Chemists know a good deal now about
albumen; and, if they cannot tell us
why life differentiates itself therein
and thereby, they can tell you how not
to spoil your breakfast.”
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Who Made Congressmen?
Once upon a time a good man took
his little boy into the gallery of the
house to show him the great men of the
nation, when they listened eagerly to
the able effort made by one of them.
When he had finished the father turned
to the boy and put his hand on his
head.
“ My son,” he said, “ an honest man
is the noblest work of God. ” ‘ ,
The boy looked into his We face
mthhisgrefitmteyu. .
“Pap ” he inquired simply, “who
made 0.0
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An Enterprmmgifiepnbhcan Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
RWALK CONN, TUESDAY OCTOBER, 12 1886.
,. .111a10m-rerom'cm.
"11 The delicious and-palatable American
dish known as ice cream is frequently
~ charged with. ‘beingthe cause cf not
only poisoning entire families, but
often large, -aseemblies, such as church
sociables, picnics. parties and other
summer: gatherings, where this tempt-
ing delicacy is the queen of the menu
card. It lsheld in like esteem by rich
and poor, and is‘ the summer dish 'of
the city couple who lazily lounge about
the sea-shore, as well as the» rustic lov-
ing pair that haunt the ice cream parlor
in a rural town on aSunday night. Its
exceeding pepularity makes it a potent
Ldanger when: tinged with impurities.
cause of many reeling in the agonies of
being poisoned, can not be denied, but
the trouble is not in the flavor used, as
is generally suppoud, though too much
care can not be exercised in keeping
the fiavorlngs pure. The symptoms of
1 the poisoning closely resemble arsenic
poisoning. and it is often supposed that
the cream has been adulterated. Dr.
' Vaughn, of Michigan University, in an
article in the Medical Era, claims to
have discovered the .. substance 'that is
productive- of such terrible results. He
gives it the name. tyrotoxicon, and as
ptomaincs are produced by putrefactive
changes in the dead» body, so tyrotoxi-
con is a product of the. ‘decOmpositlon
of milk and cheese.- This is brought
about in milk when in an impure atmos-
phere, or placed in unclean vessels. The
; cause has oftefiE-Ebconi attributed‘to the
use ofslnc cans and freezers, but-there
are few, if any, establishments which
use zinc, tin being almost the universal
metal of which cans are made. Many
‘ caterers and restaurant men are careless
in taking care of the canst for milk
and cream, and it is not unfrequent
that when cans are returned from a
festival orfweddin'g‘ with a portion of
the ice cream not used todispose of it
by turning it into a fresh can of cream,
it probably having stood over night and
been exposed to an impure atmosphere.
The poison is thus generated. A small
portion of- tyrotoxicon introduced into
pure milk will 1 set up ,fermentative
changes which-will cause itto inpreg-
note the entiremass. This also brings
to light another important matter,
which will be useful to physicians in
:1t1he1 treatment- of diseases. The taro-
toxicon is undoubtedly a cause of chol-
era-infantnm,a11d, while no new remedy
has been discovered, it is a great help
to know the cause. Ice cream is one of
the most delightful summer dishes
used on the American table, and is cer-
tainly as less harmful as any when
properly made. Any other dish would
be as. productive of bad :results if the
same carelessness was manifested in its
making, and public establishments
guilty of carelessness are criminally re-
sponsible. The public' is dependent upon
the caterers and restaurant men; for
this palatable article, and a firm should
not be patronized that is not known to
be respons_i__bie. ' ‘
oo—Qw-oe—
.“The Good Old Times.”
In olden times many pious individu-
als considered it a-good work to set.
apart part of their worldly wealth for
keeping the members of the congrega-
tion from sleeping during divine service.
On the seventeenth of April, 1725, John
Budge bequeathed to the parish of Try-
sul], in ShrOpshire; twenty shillings a
year, that a poor man might be em-
ployed to go about the church during
the sermon and keep the people aWake.
A bequest of Richard Doyery, of Farm-
cote, dated 1659, had in view the pay-
ment of eight shillings in the church at
Claverly, Shropshire, for a similar pur-
pose. At Acton church, in Cheshire,
about thirty years ago, one of the
church-wardens used. to go round in the
church, during: service, with a huge
wand in his band, and if any of the
congregation were asleep, they were
instantly awakened bya tap on the
head. At Dunchurch, in Warwickshire,
a similar custom existed. A person
bearing a stout wand, shaped likeahay-
fork at the end, stepped stealthily up
and down the nave and aisles, and
whenever he saw an individual asleep,
he touched him so eflectua lly that the
spell was broken—this being sometimes
done by fitting the fork to the nape of
the neck. Amore playful method is
said to have been used' 1n another church,
where the beadle went round the edifice
during service carrying along staff, at
'one end of which wasa fox’a brush,
add; the other a knob.. With the
former he gently tickled the faces of
1‘the female sleepers, while on the heads
of their male compeers he bestowed
with the knob a sensible rap.
SIGNATURE OF I'll]! CROSS-MARK.
' The mark which persons who are unn-1le
to write are required to make instead of
their signature, is in the form of a cross,
and this practice having formerly been fol-
lowed by king and nobles, is constantly re-
ferred to as an instance of the deplorable
ignorance of ancient times. This signature
is not, however, invariable proof of'such
ignorance. Anciently, the use of this mark
was not confined to illiterate persons; for
among the Saxons, the mark of the cross,
asan attestation of the good faith of the
person signing, was required to be at.
tacked to the signature of those who
could write, as well as- to stand in the
place of the signature of these who could
not write.
In those times, if a man could write or
even read, his knowledge was considered
proof positive presumptive that he wasin
holy orders. The word clericus, or clerk,
was synonymous with penman, and the
laity, or people who were not clerks, did
not feel any urgent necessity for the use of
letters.
The ancient use of the cross was, there-
fore, universal alike by those who could and
by those who could not write. It was, in-
deed, the symbol of an «111me its holy
associations, and generally the mark.
On this account Mr. Charles Knight, in
his notes en the‘ " Pictorial Shakespeare,”
explains the expEssiOn of “ God save the
mark” as a form of ejaculation approach-
ing to the character of an oath.
in the plays of Shakespeare, but for a
long time was left by the commentators
in its original obscurity—Philadelphia Sat-
urdoy Night.
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An Editor’s Knowledge. V
“ Ah,” said the Summer tourist, lean-
ing over the fence and addressing the
farmer, “ may I make bold to inquire
what that great quantity of green vege-
tation over there is ‘1’"
“ Cert’nly, mister, that’s corn."
"Ah,thanks. And those large animals"
over the fence, they are, er—-"
“Cows, my friend, every one of ’em
cows. Say, you don’t seem to be very
wellposted on these ’ere things.”
“ Perhaps not." " The fact is, my busi-
ness has kept me so closely confined
that this is the first chance I've had to
go out in the country. ”
that?"
'._‘No.sir; Iam auedltoron anagri-
cultural paper. I have held that
position for thirtyyears.” ‘
t
That this favored delicacy has been the '
This phrase occurs three or more times:
“Runninga bank, or something like
Gray’s Inn and Lord Bacon.
0f the many eminent men who have
been members of Gray’s Inn, London,
Lord Bacon is, of course, the most illus-
trlous.
building now known as Gray's Inn-
square. From the gateway of the Inn
started “ the procession of Earls,
BarOns, knights, and gentlemen which
accompanied him to Westminster when
he became Lord Keeper." After his
impeachment he returned to his old
chambers and “busled himself Ealto-
gether, about books." We read in a
letter of' 1622-3: “The :Lord of St.
Albsn’s-is in his old remitter, and come
to lie in his old lodgings'at Gray's Inn."
Whether Chief Justice Gascoigne was
a member or not is a question of dis;
puts between the society and the men
of the Middle Temple. There is, how-
of Burleigh and Holt; o‘l’ the learned
Sir Antony Fitzherbert; of Sir William
Staunforde, of “a fragrant fame that
filled all round about, and would not
easily away;” and of the sturdy Welsh
Judge David Jenkins, whom Isaac
D'Israeli described as ‘i’a mighty athlete
in' the vast” "arena 'of “the first English
revolution.” An excellent address do-
livered byahis' Honor Judge Russell in
1881,93 President of the Library Asso—
ciation, keeps alive the local traditions
of these famous men, and of other emi-
nent lawyers,_such as Powell, the honest
dispensing power, and Romilly, almOst.
our first law reformer, and others
nearer to the present time, who have
society
1 , Etc-berg Castle.
Behind a soldier selected as my guide,
and provided with a huge? pine torch,
which he held in- one hand while retain-
ing in his other an unllghwd one in re-
serve, I accordingly made the descent:
into this feudal inferno. As we pro-
ceeded into the depths the torch
appeared only as a dazzling spot against
surrounding blackness, its rays seem-
ingly effectual only to heighten the in-
tense gloom ofthe place. The eye became
at length accustomed to its lead, how-
ever, and by its flicker against the mas-
sive pedilnents and Walls upholding the
superstructure of the fortress I was
conducted, now through wide, open
spaces, and now through narrow, tor-
tuous galleries taward the nethermost
recesses of these dungeons lying below
the level of the sea; Their silence and
chill, aided by their darkness and re-
moteness, suggestive of their ghastly
uses in former days, were oppressive
and almost appalling. ' From the walls
oozed in places a trickling slime, while
tions of centuries. “Every step of the
advance was haunted by the thought of
possible experiences in these isOlated
vaults in the event of. the sudden extiné
guishm'ent of the soldier‘s torch That
this region of the castle was in earlier
:eenturies the scene of- the terrors of
extreme human suffering there is evi-
dence in the existence of the familiar
torture-chamber within the castle’s
limits; and that horrors even greater
than these of the Ordinary mediaeval :
torture were enacted here I was not
left wholly without reason to suspect.
My guide suddenly stopped at a broken
wall partially closing one end of a nar-
row chamber, whose apparently earthen
fioor was raised about eighteen. inches
above that Of the surrounding passage-
ways. “ Try this floor with your cane!”
said the soldier, addressing. me. Fol-
lowing his directions I prodded the
bottom of the vault in a dozen places,
and threw up from? its black surface
with every movement of my walking-
stick a fragment of bone. Wherever,
indeed, this surface was pierced the
stratum underneath was discovered to
be a compact deposit of decaying bones
and animal matter.
“Look at the opposite wall, yonder,”
said my guide, speaking again. “Long
ago,” he continued, f‘ this was the place
' ofEtElEle last confinement of certain pris-
oners capitally condemned by the State.
They were thrown into the chamber en
masse and walled' 1n from this end. A
pitcher of water was set' 1n the aperture
of the wall there, and that was the last
they received of food and drink. They
died of starvation and madness, and
fell in a. heap, making this floor a bed
of human bones, as you see, this wall
falling away long afterward making
the fearful discovery.” Whether the
soldier‘s accounts of what I saw were
in any part true I was unable then or
afterward to determine. The horrors
described were not inconsistent with
the existence of thctorture-chamber in
another part of the castle, nor with the
methods of the age to which the struc-
ture itself owes its origin. V
W
Lincoln’s Simplicity illustrated.
Without attempting to record with
any degree of consecutiveness the occur-
rences that followed each other, like
the quick reports of a Gatling gun, I
will illustrate the simplicity of Abraham
lack of what we recognize as discipline
that obtained' 1n those days by an inci-
dent immediately after the battle of
Bull Run. It was either the day after
the battle of Bull Run or the day suc-
ceeding that—a bright, beautiful day in
the latter part of July, 186l—when Gen.
McDowell’s troops were drawn up some
distance from Washington, that Presi-
dent Lincoln and Secretary of State
Seward visited the encampment. The
soldiers were what were known as three
month’s men. Their time expired prior
to the battle of Bull Run, but with an
esprit that was characteristic of the
times, they decided to remain, and did
so, sharing in the great drawn fight
known throughout all time as the first
battle of Bull Run. The troops were
drawn up by companies, the President
standing in his carriage, Mr. Seward
and Gen. EQDOWell not far off, address-
ing them, thanking them for the loyalty
which led them to remain rather than
return to their homes, complementing
them upon their gallantry under fire,
and, in the name of the niatiou, assur-
ing them of the respect and regard of
their fellow-citizens. That was all very
well. Imagine the scene that followed.
Drawn tip in double line, face to face,
stood the troops. Leaving his carriage,
the President of the United States
started at the head of the line, and,
withaEGOd bless you” to each, shook
1 hands' right and“ left withé everyman
until he reached the endrof the first
company. Turning at the end of the
second, he did the same with them,
. 1mm onthrough hudredsg andllun-
dreds. Therewasanarrowline bean
the sublime and the ridiculous, but
Lincoln didn’t cross it, and although
under ordinary circumstances such pro-
cedure would be absurd and indefen-
precisely the right thing“ iii; the right
time, and nine-tenths of those men
whose time had already expired re-en-
listed for three years.
”OW
The world and all its judgments will
pass; the poisonous tonguewi will one
apology for its evil speaking.”
”-1,--
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HENRY TILLY',
CARRIAGE MAKER.
SOUTH NOR WALK.
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to the Great King. for the labor inc
volved in their construction certamly
points to a dynasty more magnificent
in its undertakings for the royal pleas-
ure than the Parthian, Sassanian or the
Arab. Near the top ’of the precipitous
hill there yawna an opening, perfectly
rectangular, about eight yards by six.
which is the mouth of a well going
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mountain. The shaftls cut in the live
rock, the sides are as mum:-
the plumb line can make them, and the
depth something under four hundred
feet, the bottom at present beingdry.
Within, fifty yards on the same hill are
two smaller wells; and local tradition
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when a pistol is fired at the mouth of
one of these wells todisturb thtpigcons
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frOm the perpendicular shaft without
coming but at the upper mouth, though
therein no evidence that theirexit takes
pfiin th'rbiglf either 6: the other two
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indeed wells, or walls they filtended as
passagesforthesuddenexltof t'roOps?
'In'the latter case, some sort of spiral
' staircase would have been attached to
the walls of the shaft. Unfortunately
for science, no traveler has yet visited
flfiraz sufilciently enterprising to go
down with rope or ladder. Curious
E relics Of bygone times mightcertalnly
be found there, but without. a proper
Windlass and a better rope Ethan those
now made in Farathe risk of a broken
neck would cool the ardor, of the most
venturesome anthuary; and soup to
sight of the treasures which possibly
lie at the bottom of these. astounding
shafts. There is now no vestigc left an
1_ ; thehillto indicate inanywaythedae
1 of their construction, nor is there any
..3.tnscription apparent on the sides of
anyof thewalls to aid on incur in-
vestigations. Trad1tion, as usual in
.Persia in the caseof anything outof
the common, ascribe the work to Su-
leiinan lbn Daub and lns J inns.
,‘ CicerOE’s Letters. ,
Cicero’s letters are thoroughly genu-
ine, and when they are meant to be
read by the world at largathe style is
altogether different from that which he
- uses in the simple confidence of friendly
intercourse. Yet there ; is one abom-
inable practice which is extremely ob-
Ajectionable in‘ these letters. Cicero is
always putting in little scraps: of «Greek
and Greek words—Gmk slang,- in fact.
His letters swarm-with theme—exactly
"as some people new never seem to be
‘ : :ableto get on without some scraps of
Breach or German, which might just as
well, onbetter, be expressed in homely
English. There was, someexcuse for a
Roman doing this in Cicero’s days,
for the language was inadequate for
the wants of a large minded man then,
. and there .were new ideas and new hab-
its and new experiences for. which the
‘1j‘meagre Latin vocabulary of the time
did not sufiice; but there' 13 no excuse
for this kind of thing now. The habit
of putting in tags and rsgsof French
at every page is only one of those crafty
devices whereby a person with a small
vocabulary endeavors to conceal pov-
erty of style. It is a confession of
weakness and a preténce on the part of
the writer that heis master of a foreign
language, whichhe can usewith greater
facility than he can his own mother
tongue. That usually means that he is
very imperfectly acquainted with any
language, his mother tongue included.
M..—
A Susceptible Pocket.
A new excuse for pocket picking has
been invented at Berlin. An old gentle-
' mampossessed of a very ample share of
this world’s goods, had purloined in the
course of a few months no less than
seventy-five beautifully embroidered
handkerchiefs. He was finally discov-
ered when pursuing the same operation
' {‘unter den Linden”on the emperor's
1 last birthday fete. TWO! with a
number of other gentlemen of the same
profession he appeared the other day
before the magistrate, who sentenced
him to ten days' imprisonment. And
here Dr. Friedman’s (the lawyer) art
steps in; for, while admitting that his
, cheat was not suffering ifrom the con-
venient ailment known as kleptomanin.
he urged that the old gentleman was
subject to a morbid state of mind which
compelled him. whenever he saw a
beautiful woman, to tryand obtain as a
souvenir some object which had be-
longed to her. The old pickpocket was
acquitted, but whether the high court
was moved to compassion with the
‘1 prisoner' s homage tobeauty,or whethel
‘the “beautiful women” were touched
by it and demanded his releue, thi
chronicle does not say.
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Locating a Widow with 11 Coal Mine.
He entered the office of a capitalist
in Richmond the other day and quietly
inquired:
“How much would a vein of coal
half a mile long, a quarter of a mile
broad and fifty feet thick be worth?"
“I should say $25,000, but ifyou want
more'exactfigures andwill'givemetbe
location I think I can—"
"Oh, no, you can’t colonel,” inter-
rupted the quiet man. “I am going
tomorryhermyselfas soonesthecars
can take me. out there."
E And he'hpstledout as if fearful that
the capitalist might locate the widow
and the spot. . ‘
Old Sol’s Extra-o Rent.
In 1303 and 1304 theRhinaLoire and
Seine ran dry. The heat in several
French provinces during the summer
ofl" lfifiwasequaltothatofaglassfur-
pace. Meat could be cooked by merely
exposingitto the sun. Notasouldare
venture out between neon and P. It.
Notadropofwat’erfelldurlngsix
‘inOnths. In 1718' many shops had to
close. The theatres never opened their
doors for three months. 11111138 thb
- thermometer rose to 118 degrees. In
E 1178 the heat at Bologna was: so great
that 'a number of people wereistified.
There was not sufficient air, for the
breath, and people had to take refuge
under the ground. In July, 1193, the
heat again We intolerable. Vege-
tables were burned up,and-frait dried
on the trees. The furniture and wood-
work in dwellingdlouses cracked and
split up; meat went bad m an hour.
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The multitude who moan belco
”magnum:-
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Norwalk Chronicler