The Corvallis gazette., October 24, 1879, Page 4, Image 4

WEEKLY C0RYALLI8 GAZETTE
CORVALLIS, -
OCTOBER 17, 1879
MARRIED THIS
MORXINQ.
"Married this morning" how charming that
sounds;
How splendid that look3 in the paper;
"The bride wore white satin" how perfectly
"And av'etl like soft silked vapor."
"No cards" how exclusive that sounds, does
"No'cake" they're well un In the fashion;
And to prove to the world that they are true
millionaires, .
"No presents received" puts the dash on.
"Abroad for a long wedding tour"--that Is nice!
We maiiens do envy them truly;
"We're all in a flutter awaiting our turn.
For we can't for our lives Wke it coolly.
What letters the fair bride sends back to her
friends,
I've read Arabella's and Sallle's;
8he writes that just think of it in the Old
World - , .
They're dining with lords and with ladles.
"Returned, Colonel , with his beautiful
bride,
From France" how the Journals do laud
her;
'Their elegant mansion thrown open to-day
Retention will now bo in ord?r."
wnai a recnercne nine 11 wui uo.
"Easy enough ; he is your height to a
hair's breadth, very dark, and effeminate
to a last degree."
"Are you certain he is at Beamis
Point?"
"Certain as I am of my own existence.
There is but one tavern at the place, and
at it he is domiciled. It is highly proba
ble he -will be disguised and under an
assumed name. But you must ferret out
his identity, aided by the information I
have given you, and the fact that he has
been in the place just a fortnight come
Tuesday. Here's enough money to cover
your expenses. In event of your failure,
I warn you never to come my way again.
I If you succeed, your future is assured.
Now go."
i And John, stowing away a generous
! coil of bills in his innermost pocket,
obeyed Mr. Biggerton's peremptory bid-
I dine
j Now, Beamis Point was an aimless
i province of unfertile soil, somewhere
ftl one- the Massachusetts coast: of which
one predicted at first a seantineas of pop
ulation and a general poverty in the way
of human comfort. There were pre-
ci'hpIs sfiven ramblincr farm houses, an
eouallv ramblinc church, and
more
True, trne
Her sei win De iruiy ueiiguieu, " ; ? , , . ,
The grand double parlors will bcarcely hold pretentious than the rest, a heap of DriCK
all. . , . ' J t
all:
Dear, dear, shall we girls be invite-?
.
"But two short years married and now a di
vorce!" Law nakes. dear, who wouldn't have known
it?
I thought from the first 'twas a very poor
match,
But somehow I never would own it.
She's no longer the bright shining star that she
was.
The social horizon adorning;
Miranda, uiy love, here's the paper just come,
Now tell me who's married l his morning.
WATCH IN A 1FAL"LTEK.
by "Willis quibble.
No doubt ingenuity is the first element
that combines with tact and energy to
make a good detective. But once in a
long stretch "good lnck" is sure to gain
a supremacy over these three virtues. At
all events, there is an episode on record
wherein luck not only gained the su
premacy, but atoned for the absence of
the other three.
To be sure the case was not a compli
cated one. There was no mystery that
called for the keen instinct of an adept at
unraveling to ferret it out. Instead, it
was a most simple chain of circumstances.
One Philip Brashear had been suspected
of appropriating the funds of his employ
ers, and while the firm was busy summing
up the total of their losses, he had de
camped, carrying with him money and
bonds to the value of half a hundred
thousand. A futile search of the city
and environs followed ; but to all appear
ances the culprit vanished, leaving no
traces that might be followed up to the
epoch of his apprehension.
At least that was the popular verdict,
expressed by every one having a special
interest in the aftair. With the exception
of Mr. Americus Biggerton, Chief of
the United American Detective Service,
whose men traced Brashear not only to
the place he adopted in his flight, but to
the house where even now he lay await
ing a favorable opportunity to quit the
country.
Mr. Americus Biggerton was of himself
a diplomat, who, though loving honesty
and square dealing much, loved the fab
ulous possession of Midas more. Hence,
when a beggarly pittance of "two hun
dred dollars, dead or alive," was offered
for the apprehension of Brashear, Mr.
Biggerton dilated his widespread nostrils
and whispered he would await a higher
fluctuation in the market of reward.
So it happened that one afternoon, as
he sat conning over the entries made by
his head clerk, Sligffins, in his " Docket
of Criminalities," the dusty door of his
dustier office revolved on its creaky hin
ges, and, looking up, Mr. Biggerton spied
the well-known form of his nephew, John
Liiel, standing abashed in the shadowy
aperture.
""Well, it is you, is it?" quoth Mr.
Biggerton, ungraciously enough.
" Yes, sir." And John Liel walked
unsteadily forward. " I hope you are
glad to see me, uncle."
"I can't say that I am," grunted the
chief. "I suppose you are out of work
again. Idleness has become a chronic
malady with you, John."
John Liel stood twitching the frayed
end of a not immaculate handkerchief
through his rigid digits.
"I hope not, uncle ; leastwise, I "
" Happily, we don't see our own faults,
John. But let me tell you that one of
yours is laziness ; so don't stand on the
defensive."
"I have not endeavored to defend my
self, nor could I conscientiously do so,"
with a short, faint laugh.
Mr. Biggerton replaced his gold-bowed
glasses and sat looking for a moment or
two at his nephew. He was a short, cor
pulent old fellow, this uncle of John's;
close shaven, keen-eyed, alert, and dress
ed with scrupulous care in a suit of shiny
black broadcloth.
" "Well, what are you going to do with
yourself?" he finally interrogated.
"I hardly know;" and John looked
down appealingly into the round, ruddy
face of his kinsman. "I had entertained
a faint hope "
"And what did you hope?"
"That there might be something in the
service that you could offer me."
Mr. Americus Biggerton let fall his
docket of criminalities with something
very much like a smothered gasp.
"You?"
"Certainly; why not?"
""Why not? For the very sufficient
reason that you are not qualified to fill
any position beyond the counter of a
country shoe-shop. It takes a deal more
than a good-natured dolt to fulfill the
duties required by a detective."
"For all that, you might put me to
the test."
Just then a sudden thought revealed
itself to Mr. Biggerton.
"And so I might, he conceded. "I
suppose it's against the code of human
nature to let one's own flesh and blood
starve outright, and I have a kind of half
notion to try you anyhow. There,
there!" he rejoined, cautiously; "don't
rush into a vortex of avowals before you
are certain of my intentions, which are
these: You've heard of Brashear, the
clerk who decamped a week or so ago,
leaving Killop fc Carr a considerable
sum the worse for his flight. Well, very
confidentially and strictly between our
selves, the United American Detective
Service has tracked the fellow to a little
manufacturing center in Massachusetts,
where the afore-mentioned service in
tends to keep him until the reward
offered for his apprehension is colossal
enough to recompense them for their
.pains. Now, John, here's your chance.
Go up to Beamis Point, and keep a clear
eye on the fellow; then, when the time
arrives to expose him, I'll come up and
arrest him and pay you well for your
trouble all with the proviso that yon
do your work in the right way."
"But how will I recognize the culprit?"
queried Leil.
and mortar, stigmatized, for brevity s
sake. "The Tavern."
John Leil got to this place on the sec
ond morning after his departure from
Biggerton's office. Once there, he set
about his duties with all the system and
remilaritv befittinsr them. Going di-
rectlv to the tavern, he ordered a room,
I and, while subscribing himself upon the
battered register, took occasion to scan
1 the names enrolled thereon.
j In most part they were good, sensible
Yankee names, such, he argued, as might
I be, and probably were, the possession of
the itinerant peddlers who predominated
! in that section. But two names were
! one iot out of the stereotyped category
these were Miss Spear, New Haven, and
Oliver Pierce. Brooklyn. He closed the
book suddenly when he saw the date
subjoining them, Tuesday, April 12
: That was the day on which Philip
i Brashear had come to Beamis Point
He went to his room, there to await
the sounding of the dinner gong. It
ranc at last, and with a strangely flutter
ing heart, John repaired to the dining
room, and the first person to be intro
duced to him was Mr. Oliver Pieree, of
Brooklyn.
The fellow was manifestly in the last
epoch of respectable intoxication, and as
he lolled about the room, eating, gestic
ulating and talking all in a breath, John
had no meagre opportunity to study his
! rum-blossoming physiognomy.
His intuition told him the fellow was
the one he sought. His face was cov
ered by a straggling beard of several
i weeks' growth, he was quite dark, and
John's height "to a hair's breadth."
i That afternoon John telegraphed Big
j gerton substantially as follows:
"Uncle Americus: Everything is in
j excellent order, and awaiting your
pleasure. John."
It was twilight when he again entered
j the room, and scarcely had he done so
than he heard some one fumbling at the
! door-knob. A second later the door
; swung quickly open, and leaning against
i the panels was a woman. Quite a tall
j woman she was certainly several inches
I above the accepted height of her sex.
Her face, outlined by the dense shadows
j of the hall was strangely prepossessing;
; she had full, regular features, a damask
' rose sort of complexion, and pale gray
i eyes, under dark, curling lashes.
Mr. Liel was the first to regain his
: composure.
"Is there anything I can do for you?"
At the first sound of his voice she
1 shrank back still further in the shadows,
j She had not seen him until he spoke.
"Yes," she articulated, faintly, in a
velvety contralto voice, "though I should
never have intruded had I known you
were here. The door of my room has
become locked during my absence, and
your key and mine are counterparts of
each other."
John stooped forward and wrested his
key from its lock, then passed into the
hall accompanied by the lady. Her
room lay directly opposite his own, and
it was the work of scarcely a moment to
insert the key and turn the lock into its
rightful -position. Then, with a faint
murmur of thanks, the lady passed
within, closing the door behind her, and
making to him an impromptu Peri on
the outer edge of a modern paradise.
He stayed there a second or two listen
ing to the fall of her receding footsteps,
then turned about, and was sauntering
across the narrow hall, when suddenly a
man staggered with drunken force against
him. Just then a momentary shimmer
of light burned upward from the fitful
flare of the hallway lamp, and, lying half
senseless in his clasp, John Liel saw the
figure of Philip Brashear.
He led the fellow a few paces, then set
him on his feet, and watched him with a
keen sense of satisfaction stagger against
the door of a room farther on and sink
into a heavy sleep across the threshold.
John felt more interested in his myste
rious visitor next morning than he did in
either Brashear or his breakfast. He
watched for her until his eyes tired of
their vain expectancy; and, despairing at
last of seeing her, he questioned mine
host about ber, and had his trouble for
his pains. Mine host knew absolutely
nothing beyond the meager fact that her
name was Spear; that she came from New
Haven ; that she paid her bills with un
common regularity, and kept exclusively
to herself.
So John had to content himself that
day with watching the movements of
Philip Brashear, and congratulating his
vanity upon the conquest he had won
over his old enemy Fate.
Towards evening he saw the door of
Miss Spear's room slightly ajar, and ven
tured in with a neatly -worded pretense of
having mistaken the apartment for his
own. Miss Spear was manifestly sur
prised, and unquestionably displeased.
However, she went through the formula
of a half-hour's chat with a becoming
show of good nature. "When he went
away, she told herself that she must sub
mit to his well-meant overture; for suspi
cion was a precedent she did not care to
establish j'ust then.
So time ran blithely away, and spring
merged itself into summer, and John
stood in hourly expectancy of orders
from his chief. He had been at Beamis
Point a month now idly watching the
movements of BraAeir, and playing the
agreeable to Miss Spear.
Even to himself it seemed strange that
he had never told her of the mission that
brought him to Beamis Point; fear of the
shock upon her nerves that would most
probably attend the revelation had alone
kept him from making it. No woman
had the strength of character to maintain
a strict composnre knowing herself to be
beneath the' same roof with a criminal,
he urged.
And so things coursed along very
pleasantly, until over the wires sped the
following words:
"John Liel: Will be with yon to
morrow. Uncle Amebicus."
The miasive set John to thinking, then
to planning. First of all he decided that
Miss Spear must not be compromised by
so much as a sight oi tne anair. ne
would tell her everything and have her
leave the house until all waa over. He
slipped out of his room mm along the
hall until he faced the doSFbf the cul
prit's room. Peering in, he saw the fel
low lying prone upon his bed sleeping
off the effects oi his spiritual poiauons.
Quick as thought he snatched up the key
lying at his feet, and quicker still locked
his prey securely within. That done, he
went to Miss bpear.
A stiff wind had crept up over tne sea,
over which a storm was brewing. " Miss
Spear was leaning before the window,
resting her head upon the jam. He found
her so as he entered the room in answer
to her bidding. There was no time to
lose, and he told her everything of Bra
shear's crime, of his flight to Beamis
Point, and, lastly, of his being even now
an inmate of the house. He meant to
tell her. too. iust which inmate he was,
but she did not ask, and he thought it
needless.
A transient cloud flitted over Miss
Spear's face; then she paled to the roots
of her dark hair.
"And you yon have been watching
his movements all along?"
"All alone:."
She put her lips together rigidly, as if
to stifle an utterance that had risen to
them.
"And they are coming to arrest him?"
"Preciselv."
The wind crept still higher, though
the storm had abated somewhat in its
fury. Miss Spear, reaching forward,
mished down the window, then crossed
the room in a blind manner, and paused
before a table under whose cover an ob
lone: parcel lay hidden. A second later
she turned about, retracing her footsteps,
her hands mnioned at her bacK
"You shall never live to see Philip
Brashear taken!"
She sprang Bnddenly forward, a world
of hatred erlowing in her steely eyes
With one hand she tore the dark strands
of hair from her head; with the other she
levelled a weanon at his heart.
"You shall never liye to arrest me, I
. .. .... 1 x I
swear! mere was a long moment oi
silence then a sharp, muffled report, and
a pool of vaporous smoke eddied upward
toward the ceiling. Another space of
silence ; meanwhile the smoke of the shot
was clearing, and, looking forward, jonn
Leil saw the form of Miss Spear, other
wise Philin Brashear. at his feet, and
that of Uncle Americus at his side.
"Was it vou that fired?" John asked
faintlv.
"Not at all; I merely turned Brashear's
weapon upon himself; he is in an emi
nently aerreeable condition now to be
taken back to the city. As for you
John well, I ain't much on talking, but
you're a hero, and we'll settle the rest be
tween ourselves."
"Without an utterance John sped along
the hall to where the supposed Brashear
slept, unconscious of his incarceration
Afterward he learned that he was a con
firmed drunkard, who had migrated to
Beamis Point simply to finish his exist
ence in a trance of ecstatic collapse. As
for the resemblance between himself and
Brashear. it was purely an accidental
one.
Of course, John prevaricated outrage
ously in the matter of his encounter wilh
Brashear. It is not on record what his
version of the affair was. No doubt it
was absurdly incongruous with the real
facts: but it answered the purpose, and
the defaulter was sent to Sing Sing, and
the reward given to Uncle Americus, who
shared it generously with his nephew,
and died sounding that young mans
praise.
"Nothing succeeds like success," says
John Liel, who is chief of the United
American Detective Service now, and
wears gold-bowed glasses and glistening
black broadcloth, in direct imitation of
his distinguished predecessor.
AGRICULTURAL.
Fannin That Don't Pay.
It don't pav to be caught in the spring
without a wood pile large enough to last
twelve months; or to open the gates and
let your stock into the fields as soon as a
few Dare spots appear, or to Keep won
short rations, so that when it does go to
grass it will take half the summer to get
thrifty and strong.
It don't pay to leave the work of
mending your tools and selecting
and securing your seed until the day you
want to use them, thereby causing costly
delay.
It don't pay to sow or plant poor seed
because you happen to have it .on hand.
It don't pay to plant more ground
than you can manure and take good
care of.
It don't pay to leave weak places in
the fences in the hope that the cattle
won't find them; and, if you keep sheep
it don t pav to let them run at large m
the spring until they become tramps and
cannot be kept at home by any ordinary
xence.
It don't pay to neglect cows, ewes or
sows when they are dropping tneir
young.
It don't pav to let the spring rains
wash the value out of the manure that
has accumulated in the barn-yard in the
winter.
It don't pay to let the hens lay under
the barn, steal their nests and be eaten up
by skunks.
It don't pay to put off any kind of
spring work until the last moment, nor
does it pay to work land when it is too
wet.
It don't pay to leave turnips, cabbages,
beets, or even apples in the cellar to rot
and breed disease; for if you have more
than you can eat or sell, the stock will be
profited by them.
it don t pay to summer a poor cow
simply because no one comes to buy her.
It don t pay to sell a heifer calf from
your best cow to tne Dutcner, simjuy
because it will cost you a little more to
raise it than you can buy a scrub for
next fall.
It don't pay to leave the banking
around the house until it rots the sills.
It don't pay to be stingy in sowing
grass seed, or try to live without a gar
den.
Finally, it don't pay to provoke the
women by leaving them to cut the stove
wood or to carry it in from the door
yard, or to remind you every morning
in haying and hoeing that you must saw
enough before you go to work to last
through the day.
A Lono-Standino Feud. The mutual
hatred of the Persian and the Afghan is
of considerable antiquity, but its highest
development was reached in the early
part of the last century, under Nadir
Shah. This extraordinary man, who may
fairly be called the Napoleon of (Jentral
Asia, began his career, like most Asiatic
conquerors, as a robber-chief, for which
the disturbed condition of his native
province of Khorassen offered ample
facilities. After a time, however, Kull
(slave) , as he was then called, earned
his pardon and promotion from the reign
ing Shah, Tamasp, by his vigorous and
successful co-operation with the royal
troops during an Afghan invasion. From
that time his fortunes advanced rapidly
Entrusted by his master with the com
mand of the army, he inflicted a series of
crushing defeats upon the hitherto vie
torious Afghans, whom he hnally ex
polled from the country in 1730, with
such slaughter that his very name be
came a symbol of terror in the proverb
"Deadly as Kull's sword." In 1832 he
deposed the incapable Shah in favor of
his son Abbas, and himself succeeded to
the throne upon the latter's death in
17!36. under the title of Nadir Shah
Still insatiable of conquest, he swept the
whole breadth of Afghanistan with
powerful army, and sweeping down upon
India, through the passes of the mma
laya, defeated the Mogul Emperor of
Delhi, captured the city itself and brought
home a booty so enormous that, to quote
popular saying, "the rupees of Hindu
staii were as common as pebbles." But
his growing tyranny at length alienated
the affections of his subjects, by whom
he was murdered on June 20, 1747. With
his death the power of Persia declined
and Afghanistan speedily regained all
she had lost.
Keeping the Head Clean. The fol
lowing suggestion is worth heeding.
distinguished physician who had spent
much time at quarantine, said that a per
son whose head was thoroughly washed
every day, rarely took contagious dis
eases; but where the hair was allowed to
become matted, it was hardly impossible
to escape infection. Many persons find
speedy relief for nervous headache by
washing the hair in weak soda water.
have known severe cases almost wholly
cured in ten minutes by this simple rem
edy. A friend finds it the greatest relief
in cases of "rare cold, the cold symp
toms entirely leaving the eyes and nose
after some thorough washing of the hair
The head should be thoroughly dried
afterwards and avoid draughts of air for
little while.
1 he liampa.
This is a very common trouble in the
mouth of horses and colts. It is where
the gums or bars rise to a level with, and
sometimes beyond the level of the teeth.
They are evidently painful, as the ani
mal will frequently suffer for food before
he will eat. The common term for it is
lampers spelled lam pas. It is from vari
ous causes inflamation of the gum?,
shedding of teeth, from a febril tending
in the constitution, or from the change
of green pasturage to dry food. Of it
Youatt says: "A few slight incisions
across the bars with a lance or penknife
will remove the inflamation and cause
the swelling to subside, indeed, this sac
rification of the bars in lampas will sel
dom do harm, although it is far from be
ing so necessary as supposed. The
brutal custom of the farrier who sears
and burns down the bars with a red-hot
iron is most objectionable. It is tortur
ing the horse to no purpose and render
ing that part callous, on the delicate sen
sibility of which all the pleasure of rid
ing and driving depend. It may be pru
dent, in case of lampas, to examine the
grinders, and more particularly the
tushes, in order to ascertain whether
either of them is making its way through
the gums. If it is so," two incisions
across each other should be made on the
tooth, and the horse will experience im
mediate relief.
More tsK
The reason why we have no more eggs
in the winter is that the hens have not
comfortable quarters nor requisite food.
The hen is a tender animal. She is an
exotic in this cold climate, and wants a
warm bed room and a comfortable
nursery. If we compel her to sleep on
a fence or on a tree, and to lay her eggs
where the snow can sift upon them and
the frost will crack them, she will lay
very few. Under such circumstances
she has little energy in this direction,
and knows too much to waste what little
she has. Comfort is the concomitant of
egg production, and food the great fore
runner. In summer, hens, if allowed
the free run of the farm, can scratch for
a living, and pick up seeds, grubs and
perfect insects enough to support all de
mand for the raw material from which
eggs are manufactured. In winter this
supply fails and the eggs of course fail.
An egg is essentially animal food ; in fact,
it contains the elements of a perfect ani
mal, the chick. Hence it requires for its
manufacture in winter some substitute
for the insects which the hen eats in sum
mer. Comfortable quarters and a mixed
animal and vegetable diet are therefere
the greatest secrets of egg production in
winter. The animal food is best furnish
ed in the form of animal meal. This is
made at our large abattoirs in great
quantities by steaming the bones and
refuse parts of the animal, and then dry
ing and grinding them. This meal costs
but little more than corn meal, and a
quart of it mixed with three or four quarts
of corn meal and wheat bran, will lur
nish hens just raw material for making
eggs. We have tried it, and know.
Some recommend add to this mush a lit
tle red pepper. And this is good stimu
lant, but we have not found it necessary
Poultry World.
The Parson "I'm very sorry to hear,
Mrs. Brown, that you were present last
night at a 'Plymouth Brethrens" tea
meeting. I have often told you that
these doctrines are highly erroneous!"
Mrs. Brown "Erron'ons, sir, their doc
trines may be; but their cake, with Sul
tany raisins, is excellent." Punch.
What Came of Quilting. Among
the pretty romantic stories of these later
days in an unromantic land, was the
marriage of honest John Simon and
pretty Mary Walker, at Camp Spring, a
few days ago. Mary s mother gave a
quilting, and there came to it among the
guests, Mary's lover, John. For several
years he had wooed in summer among
the fruit and flowers in the orchard, and
in winter beside the hearth but, like
Miles Stan dish, was a bashful boy and
never told his love. At the quilting, the
guests, with the bluntness that is born of
low degree and affectedness, twitted the
blushing pair and said: "Why don't you
marrv?" John stuttered and stammered
(so they say) , and, with a face as red as
the calico square Mary was stitching on
the quilt, blurted out: "I will, if Mary
will. It was sumcient. Mary said no.
but looked yes, and young Squire Beady,
of Uoone county, who was present,
prepared the papers, and then and
there united them in the bonds that
make one of two, and all sat down to the
wedding supper that had been prepared
for the quilting party.
Sabbath Singing at Seaside Hotels.
Tea over and the weak-day machinery
cleared away from the parlors and piazzas
in all the houses, the piano is opened, the
"Carmina Sacra" got out, and for an hour
or two the whole village is vocal with the
sober strains of "Hamburg" and "Mear,"
or the lilting inspiration of "Hold the
Fort" and "Pull for the Shore." As mu
sic, it doesn't touch the highest artistic
mark, certainly, but it is soothing and
sympathetic. Thoughtless misses and
stalwart young swells, who for six days a
week know little melody but "Conasci
il suol" or "Madame Angot" feel the gen
tle infection, and those who came to sneer
remain to sing. Quaint, isn't it, to see
young Biceps, just arrived with all his
blushing, Springfield honors thick upon
him, roaring away like a sturdy, red-faced
six-foot sucking dove, and rasping his
manly larynx with an intractable chro
matic, as he looks over the book with
sweet Nelly S , the daintiest little devo
tee who ever carried a poor fellow's
thoughts skyward on the wings of earth
ly sentiment. But there is nothing like
proximity. Biceps won't be the worse for
a little vicarious devotion; and u JNeiiy
can make him available in "convertible"
(or other) bonds, why shouldn'i she?
So none of your scoffing, you cesthetic
heathen! If you don t like the music or
the spirit of it, light your cigarette and
take a stroll down the promenade, jjy
the time vou sret back the singing will
be over, and the crowded piazzas in much
the same tide of unsatisfied gossip and
flirtation as on ordinary evenings
The Most Mabbied op Women. Ben-
lamm Abbott, one of our oia citizens,
died m this town recently m the eighty-
second vear of his age. He was a
nephew of the Rev. Benjamin Abbott, the
erreat Methodist revivalist of the early
part of this century, and came to this
State from New Jersey when a young
man, and settled in the "Neck," east of
this town, where his active life was
mostly spent. But the notable feature
in Mr. Abbott's otherwise uneventful
life is the remarkable fact of being the
seventh husband of his widow, who sur
vives him. This much-talked-of and
much published event (for it went the
rounds of the press of the nation) , when
he for the second and she for the seventh
time bowed before the altar of Hymen on
June 30th, 1875, he then being 78 and
she 82 years old. Mrs. Abbott's history
in the martial relations of life stands
perhaps without a parallel in the records
of the nation, and tradition has it there
is to be yet another. It is currently
stated without contradiction that some
years ago she had a vision in which
eight men stood before her in a pecu
liarly impressive manner, which she has
ever regarded as prophetic of the num
ber of conquests she was to make. The
eighth is just as likely and as reasonable
as the seventh, and already public gos
sip is beginning to mark this and that
man as the victim of the next conquest.
Her maiden name was Williams, and she
has been succesively, Mrs. Traux, Mrs
Rices, Mrs. Farrow, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs
Berry, Mrs. Pratt and Mrs Abbott. In
every instance, save the first, she has
married widowers, some of them with a
good number of children, and on one oc
casion in her early married life she went
to the almshouse and took therefrom
three children and raised them. She
never had any children of her own. All
her life has been spent in this vicinity,
and all her husbands were buried by the
same undertaker. Smyrna (Del.)
Times.
An Otteb in a Well. A week ago a
nesrro went to draw a bucket of water
from a well on the premises of Mr
Liedensdorfer. at Carondelet. As he
leaned forward to empty the bucket he
naturally glanced downward into the well.
No sooner bad he done so than he sprang
back in affright, and turning about in
continently fled. A boy whom he passed
called out, "What's the matter?" "J
seen de debble " was the gasping re
sponse as the affrighted fellow kept on
his way. Mo explanation could be ob
tained from him except that he firmly be
lieved he had seen the devil. People
living on the place kept watch of the
well after that and soon discovered the
cause of his trepidation. It was nothing
more nor less than an otter which had
taken up his abode there. Every night
and morning it can be seen. It will also
frequently appear when the bucket is let
down to the water. How the animal got
there can only be conjectured. Many
years ago they used to be quite common
in the sink-holes near the city, but are
very rarely seen anywhere near here
now. It evidently did not get in from
the top, as it seems to be in no danger of
starving, though it could not find food
in the well, certainly. Mr. Leidens
dorfer tried to catch it with a hook and
line baited with a piece of meat. The
animal bit, but when he had hauled it
out about ten feet the hook broke, so
great was the weight. Since then it will
not take the hook. Some think that the
well connects with some of the numerous
underground channels which are so plen
tiful in the limestone under the city, and
the animal came in that way. The well
is about fifty feet deep. St. Louis Re
publican, September 9th.
Virtue 'and "Vice in Contrast. "Vice
is most revolting when seen in contrast
with virtue. A profane man, belching
forth oaths before those who never swear;
an atheist, pouring forth blasphemies in
the presence of reverent and holy men;
an inebriate, filthy and coarse, mingling
with persons who never touch the debas
ing draught; the vulgar libertine, cor
rupting the air with unwholesome
speech, to the disgust of those whose
minds are pure ; in every such instance
vice is not alone as a sin, but as a horrid
deformity. It not only brings death, but
also shame. It is not only wicked, but
vile; it is not only wrong, but unspeaka
bly mean. How lovely, by the same con
trast, does virtue appear. How sweet the
lips of chastity; how pure the breath of
reverent piety; how blessed the example
that hides the erring, rebukes the unholy,
impresses the young, guides the wander
er, and strengthens the weak by its silent
power.
Living With a Broken Neck. Thore
is living in the Virginia town of Marion
a twelve-year-old boy with a broken
neck. According to the Enterprise,
published in the neighboring town of
Wythe ville, the little fellow's neck was
broken several years ago, at which time
iron and steel bars were run along the
spine and clasped on both sides of the
face. The head is thus held in one posi
tion. Some days ago the framework
broke and the head fell to one side, cut
ting off the power of speech. The moth
er put the head in a natural poise until
the clasp had been mended, when all
went well .as before. Philadelphia
Times.
If the fall of Adam was as cold as the
one this year, we don't wonder Eve
hunted up a dry goods store.
A Fbvjnch Father in a Quandary. A
Paris newspaper prints the following:
"Monsieur, the editor: Yon ask if it is
just to re-establish divorce. Can the
question be seriously put? I have three
daughters, monsieur. It was my duly to
without trouble. At last it is done. I
marry off all three. This is not done
thought I was about to lead a peaceful
life. But it was otherwise. I am told
that divorce will be voted by the Cham
ber of Deputies; If this is so my daugh
ters, who are unhappy in their homes,
will get divorces that is certain; and
when they are divorced they will wish to
marry again Behold me compelled to
furnish them with three new husbands.
I trust that your journal will receive this
protest of a father of a family."
Little Freddie was undergoing the dis
agreeable operation of having his hair
combed by his mother and grumbling at
the maneuver. "Why, Freddie," said
mamma, "yon ought not to make such a
fuss. I don't fjtfs and cry when my hair
is combed." Wfes" said the youthful
party, "but ytrar hair a'int hitched to
your head."
One man's power in journalism is be
ing illustrated with pathetic emphasis
in the office of the Memphis Avalanche.
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RUPTURE
CURED!
From a Merchant.
Davto.v, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
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