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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1874.
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Miss Esterly's Fortune.
liY II. S.
George Hallowell dietl at the ae
of eighty, worth one hundred thou
sand dollars. ' '
People generally thought ho had
lived a long time; but they could
not deny the fact that he had im
proved the time, and got together a
very respectable fortune.
' Early in his young - manhood he
had married Estelle Cleaves, the
daughter of a poor actor; and some
incongruity of taste or temper, no
body ever knew which, for Hallowell
kept his own secrets, and death had
long ago sealed the lips of his wife
had seperated them after about ten
months of married life.
The wife had gone forth, nobody
knew whither, and Hallowell had
lived on his sour, crusty and monot
onous life in the old lome where he
was born, and where, before him,
were born his father and his grand
father. He never went into society; he re
ceived no compary; he had no
friends; aud it was a matter of great
wonder to whom he would give hia
property when he was dead.
And when the announcement came
that the old man was gone, every
body pricked up his or her individ
ual cars, and the wonder grew.
Three old servants, nearly as old
as himself, a man and two women,
had always been with him, and con
stituted the only family he had.
The old male servant was named
Gilbert, and in his hands Mr. Hal
lowell had left his will.
The funeral was largely attended
by the entire neighborhood; and at
its close, Gilbert requested all those
interested to remain and hear the
will read.
Of course, in a matter like this,
everybody was interested, and old
Gilbert had a good audience.
Lawyer Secors read the will.
It seems he had drawn it up a
year before for the testator.
Divested of its formalities, it be
queathed handsome life annuities to
each of the three servants; two thou
sand dollars to each of the- two
churches in the village; two hun
dred dollars for the support of Jim,
a large, striped cat, which the old
man held in high regard; and money
was bequeathed, without reserve, to
Marian Esterly, the village school
mistress. The people were all stricken dumb
with astonishment, and Miss Esterly
was, perhaps, more surprised than
any of them.
A few words in pencil, in old Hal
lowell's own handwriting on the mar
gin of the will explained his reasons
for this disposition of his property.
"I have been friendly with no
body," so ran the marginal reference,
and people have looked upon me
as a being destitute of the attributes
of humanity; and it was my own
fault. I make no complaint. Only
one of all my towns-people has seen
deep enough beneath the surface to
surmise that old Hallowell might
have feelings of his own and she
never passed mo without a kind good-
lay. And once, when I passed by
jer little garden, she gave me a
bunch of pansies. One I loved in
youth was fond of pansies; and I
think of her alwavs when I see them.
nd so, because Marian Esterlv has
treated me as if I had a soul, I be
queathed to her the property it has
taken me a lifetime to gather; and
may heaven bless her in its posses
sion. All the villagers were jealous of
Miss Esterly, and all thought she
had been very well repaid for a few
kind words and a bunch of pansies.
But none could dispute old Hallow
ell's right to do as he choose with
his own; and so the poor school
mistress passed peaeeably into pos
session. Miss Esterly was an orphan, and
twentv-three years of age, tall and
fine-looking, and with more charac
ter than is generally given to one in
dividual. .
Xow that she had the power, she
asserted heraelf proudly.
The Hallowell home place was put
under a series of improvements,
which soon changed its entire aspect.
Decaying trees were cut down;
fresh ones were planted; spacious
flower garden," with extensive grap
eries and greenhouses, where had
been only a sketch of dismal heath;
the stock in the stable was overhaul
ed and great changes made; Hallo
well House was rebuilt and remod
elled .until it was the finest residence
n all the country round.
Miss Esterlv kent the old servants
who soon learned to adore her; but
she added new ones to the menage;
and entertained the visitors, who
hastened to honor her, in gracious
and liberal style.
As a matter of course the mistress
of Hallowell House was not long
wanting for lovers; they came thick
and fast, some few. nerhans. won bv
her beauty and grace, but more of
tnem after old Hallowell s cold.
But Marian Esterly had sense as
-neu as good looks, and sho was not
deceived by their pretensions.
Sho remembered the time when
the poor schoolmistress might have
sat evening after evening at parties
and social gatherings unnoticed and
neglected by all of these obsequious
line geuuemeD, wuo now professed
to be so deeply in love with hjr; and
so she treated them all with a rnrd-
ness which drove them to the verge
of distraction.
She had been just a year mistress
oi nanoweii, when one day old Gil
Dart came to her with a troubled
face and asked an audience.
She bade him sit down, and speak
'.Minuui, restraint;; Dut the old man
made a blundering work of it.
Marian had to question and en
courage him continually; but at last
ais story was told:
In effect in was this:
When Estelle Hallowell had died
years and years before, in an obscure
village, she had left a son, George
Hallow-ell's child, born three months
after her separation from him.
This son had hated his father for
the wrongs he felt he had inflicted
upon Estelle, and he never made
himself known to him; and Mr. Hal
lowell . had lived and died uncon
scious of the fact that he was a father.
This son had died two months
previous, leaving one son behind
him, George Hallowell's grand-son
and heir-at-law.
Clement Hallowell, that was the
young" man's name, .was now a clerk
in a bank in a neighboring city on a
salary of one thousand dollars a
year, and all unconscious of the fact
that, by right of kin, he was the heir
to one hundred thousand dollars.
These facts old Gilbert had just
learned throngh a friend of Estelle's
an old man who had strolled to the
village picking up a living by strum
ming on an ancient harp, and sing
ing a few old ballads.
He had been a player in company
witli Estelle's father, and had always
so to speak, kept on track of the fam-
ily.
Some women would have doubted
the old stroller's story, but Miss Es
terly did not.
She saw him herself, and got out
of him every minute particular.
Old Gilbert was greatly distressed.
" I thought it my duty to tell you,
ma'am,' he said to Marian, 'but I'd
rather cut my head olf. I said to
Polly, said I."
" I thought it a wicked, burning
shame to go and disturb the dear
young lady's peace now that every
thing is flowing on so beautiful.
And said Polly to me:
'"Gilbert, always do your duty,
man, and you will be happy.'"
" You did perfectly right to tell
me, Gilbert," said Miss Esterly,
kindly. " I should have been very
sorry if you had not. There has
been a great wrong done. Thank
heaven, it is in 1113- power to right it."
" "What will you do, ma'am?" ask
ed the man, though from his knowl
edge of Miss Esterly's character, it
was no difficulty for him to guess.
"Never you mind, Gilbert," sho
said; " I will do what is right."
So she. made a confident of lawyer
Secors, and caused him to set on
foot' inquiries relative to young
Hallowell.
The information which he gather
ed settled the matter beyond the
shadow of a doubt that he mos
George Hallowell's grand-son aud
also that he was a young -.man who
had lead an irreproachable life, .and
though very poor, he was respected
and esteemed by all with whom he
had come in contact.
Then Miss Esterly caused a con
veyance of the Hallowell estate to be
drawn up, and by it she gave every
thing into the possession of the heir-at-law.
Her commands that he should
come at once to attend to his inher
itance were imperative; but it was
some time before Clement Hallowell
could be induced to take advantage
of his good fortune.
It was not until after Miss Esterly
had delivered everything into the
hands of lawyer Secor, as agent, and
had herself left for a distant town,
where a school was offered her, that
young Mr. Hallowell came down
from the city and took possession ot
his own.
Shortly after Marian's school had
began in Westlake, she became ac
quainted with a young man named
Burke, a poor artist, handsome and
cultivated, but without money
friends or influence.
He secured board at the house
next to the one where Marian lodged,
and he always waited until her school
was out for the day, before he took
his walk around the park by the
beautiful lake; and she always went
with him.
As a natural consequence, they fell
in love with each other, and Marian
was so happy in her choice that it
never occurred to her to lament the
splendors she had lost in renouncing
the Hallowell inheritance.
Tonncr Burke was verv eager for
the wedding not to be delayed; and
one summer morning they were mar
ried quietly in the little church at
"Westlake, and then they set out to
gether for her husband s home.
About this home ho had never
told her anvthiner. neither had she
inquired; so you may understand
she was very deeply in love with him,
for now-a-days the " establishment"
is often of infinitely more conse
quence to the young lady than, the
man who goes along with it, by way
of incumbrance.
Marian was a little puzzled about
one thing.
As she had stood in the church and
listened to the solemn words of the
marriage service, the name of the
bridegroom, though uttered by the
clergyman in a very low tone of
voice, had sounded new and strange
to her.
She had not understood it; never-
theless, it had not sounded nfa.e piain
John Burke.
Seated in the train by her hns
band's side, she asked him about it
" The name is all right, darling,
ho replied, squeezing her hand under
the folds of the shawl, " new hus
bands will do such rooiisu tilings
you know; don't trouble your head
about that.
So Marian dismissed it from "her
mind.
nnd bv shfi saw thev were near-
.'nn'rimWn fluo town where her
frrTiTifi Tiad ren found tna lost.
MVq laand r.rf nf the WlndOW tO
get a look at familiar object.
ITer ViTiftViaTi Vent OTST her.
"Did you like Elmsboro, dear?"
" Very much. I was very happy
here."
"I am glad. It is my home our
nome, t& said, quietly.
Surprise made her silent; and the
stopping of the train at the station
15 re vented any further conversation.
A . handsome carriage , and pair
awaited them, and in a very brief
space of time Marian and . her hus
band were driven to Hallowell House.
. And there drawn up in array on
the lawn, were old Gilbert and Polly
and all the rest of them, waiting to
welcome back their old mistress.
Marian turned to her husband,
who, with a smiling face, was pre
senting his wife to the servants.,
" What does all this mean ?" she
asked in a puzzled tone. "
" Nothing, except that my whole
name is Clement Burke Hallowell,
and yon are my wife. Pardon iny
deception, Marian, but I fell in love
with you before I saw you. I knew
that no ordinary woman would have
sacrificed what you did, from a sense
of honor, and I resolved to know
you. I felt sure you would not
prosper my suit if I was known to
you as the heir, so I was a poor ar
tist instead; and, my darling, I am a
very poor artist, for I never drew a
thing in all my life. You know you
used to task me last summer with
miserable laziness, but I was on en
tirely different kind of a business
from picture making. And you say
you forgive me ?"
She could do no better, she said,
seeing that he had already settled
everything his own way; and she slid
gracefully into her old place as mis
tress, and Hallowell House had all
itsown again.
The Widow's Protest.
Tiy Mark Twain
One of the saddest things that
ever came under my notice (said the
banker's clerk) was there in Corning
during the Avar. Dan Murphy enlist
ed as a private, and fought very
bravely. The boys all liked him;
and when a wound, by-and-by, weak
ened him down till carrving a musk
et was too heavy work for him, they
clubbed together and fixed him up a
sutler. He made money then, and
sent it always to his wife to bank for
him. She was a washer and ironer,
and knew enough by hard experience
to keep money when she got it. She
didn't waste a penny. On the con
trary, she begau to get miserly as
her bank account grew. She griev
ed to part with a cent, poor creature,
for twice 111 her hard-working life
sho had known what it was to be
hungry, cold, friendless, sick, and
without a dollar in the. world, and
she had a haunting dread of suffer
ing so again. Wellat last Dan died ;
and the boys, in testimony of their
esteem and respect for him, telegraph
ed to Mrs. Murphy to know if she
would like to have him embalmed
and sent home; when von know the
usual custom was to- dump a poor
devil like him into a shallow hole.
and then inform his friends what
had become of him. Mrs. Murphy
jumped to the conclusion that it
would only cost two or three dollars
to embalm her dead husband, and so
she telegraphed "yes." It was at
the "wake" that the bill for embalm
ing arrived, and was presented to
the widow.
She uttered a wild, sad wail that
pierced every heart, and said: "Siv-inty-foive
dollars for stoofin' Dan,
blister their sowls! Did them divils
suppose I was goin' to start a inusi
uni, that I'd be dalin' in such expin
sive cariassities!"
The banker's clerk said there was
not a dry eye in the house.
Scintillations of Wit.
The Danbnry Xeics man says:
"There is nothing that "will change
a man so much as great grief, unless
it is shaving off his moustache."
Domestic young lady (making a
pie)" Frank, the kitchen is no
place for boys. Has dough such an
attraction for you?" Clever youth
" It isn't the dough, its the dear."
A drummer, who was greatly ad
dicted to whisky, was asked by a re
viewing officer, what made his nose
so red. " Please your honor." said
he, " I always blush in the presence
01 a general olhcer.
" If this jury convicts my client,"
said a Missouri lawyer rolling up his
sleeves and displaying his ponder
ous fists, " I shall "be compelled to
meet each one and hammer justice
into 111s soul through his head.
There is a Danbury legend to the
effect that a partv desiring to trans
act some business with another was
invited to step into a neighboring
store. "But we will be disturbed
there." said the first nartv. "Oh
x. f
no," said the second party; "they
don t advertise. l)abury JSeics.
The woman of the coming time
.Shall man to vote appoint her?
We.l, yes or no your bottom dhno
She'll do as she's a min'ter,
We know she "will" or else she
"won't"
'Twill be the same as now;
And if she does or if she don't,
God bless her anyhow.
A gentleman who is afflicted with
remarkably long ears, overheard the
jocular remarks of a neighboring
young man, to another, which were
by far too loudly expressed at the
theater the other night. The owner
of the ears turned around thereat
and sharply said, " It is true my ears
are very large for a man, but yours
are very small for an ass."
To thoroughly understand the
Rule of Three it is said to be necessa
ry to live with your wife, mother and
mother-in-law just one week. If
that don't give you n insight, call
your mother-in-law a fraud and then
study astronomy.
Probably. "Lot's wife," says
the Cincinnati Times, "got into a
d re ttv pickle." Yes. Shewasprob-
ably the original Mistress O'Brien.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY 0 P.&T.TVnPMTA.
The Wool 3Iarket.
, From the Salem Record.
When at Portland on Tuesday wo
took considerable pains to enquire
concerning the wool market. We
were informed that one buyer offers
to contract for 30,000 " jiounds and
from that quantity up to all the wool
raised in the Willamette and Ump-
qua valleys, to pay therefor '2'J cents
per pound delivered in Portland,
and intimates that he might do even
better. Parties in the interest of
the wool producers would not enter
tain any proposition for less than 30
cents per . pound and, expected the
offer would increase to that price.
A gentleman down from the Pa-
lous country, was in Portland with
his wool clip 2000 lrs, and was offer
ed 2fi cts., but held for 27 cts.,
which he probably received. Nv ool
from east of the mountains does not
bring as much as that of this valley.
While in Portland we visited the
Oregon Wool Grading and Tacking
House, situated near the Clarendon
Hotel, which is large and roomj' and
has ample accommodation and facil
ities for the business. Mr. Seymour,
agent for the company, was receiv
ing and grading some lots, but the
business does not equal expectations.
Here is an important branch of bus
iness, commenced by men of' enter
prise and experience, in which our
producers have an immediate inter
est because it offers them a direct
profit of probably two cents a pound
on all wool raised. At the present
time men are apt to rush their wool
into market in a state of poor prepa
ration, and make haste to sell it, fre
quently because they need a little
money, and they therefore take what
they can get, whereas they could
have it sorted and repacked at a tri
lling expense and could realize on it
in that state at least 2 cts. more
than in the rough Heece without care
or selection.
This packing house is Avilling to
do work at the most reasonable price
and as cheap as it can be done in
San Francisco, but our wool now
goes to that place and is graded aud
repacked there. If it was only to
encourage homo institutions Ave
could find a profit in having this
Avork done in our own State, but as
our avooI is more valuable for being
made marketable we cannot afford to
lose by letting it go abroad in the
rough". Still another point of im
portance is that Oregon avooI is much
sought for at the East, and Ave can
only preA-ent imposition being prac
ticed and other avooI put on the
Eastern market as from Oregon, by
having a responsible grading aud
packing house here Avho.se brand
shall be known and respected in all
markets. Next vear Ave can ship or
have for sale 5,000,000 Jhs of wool,
which can be graded and repacked
in the best manner for 25,000 and
will bring the producers $100,000
over and above that, as premium for
being in proper commercial shape.
It will not be many years before
the avooI clip of Oregon will make
its mark in the wool markets of the
world. Our flocks rapidly increase
and the profits of this branch of in
dustry are assured. Continual care
is being taken to -improve the breeds
and quality of wool v and our country
is so Aveli adapted to the business
that fleeces grow heavier and fiber
grows finer instead of deteriorating.
The Eastern plains and uplands, and
even the mountain sides offer ast
areas for sheep husbandry. Our
cattle market is so limited that stock
has become cheaper than ever before,
with no outlet for our great surplus.
Wo can raise horses, but Ave cannot
find ready sale for them; but the
fleece on the sheep offers a sure re
muneration and Ave are in no danger
of oerstocking the markets of the
Avorld. Hence, sheep husbandry
promises more for Oregon in the fu
ture than even our wheat fields, and
there is no branch of business con
nected with it that avc can afford to
neglect.
Mr. Seymour suggests that it is
time a Wool Exchange Avas establish
ed in Oregon, at which all avooIs can
be sold by sample in open market.
That would perhaps insure a freer
competition from purchasers, though
it might answer another purpose, to
give them a better opportunity to
combine. But Ave incline to the
opinion that the establishment of a
avooI exchange would result in much
good, and the variance in quality of
the avooI raised in different sections
of Oregon and Washington, Avill soon
require it.
"Is You a Fbiehd?" "Here's
your nice roast chicken," cried an
aged colored man as the cars stopped
at a North Carolina railway station.
"Here's your nice roast chick'n 'nta
ters, all nice and hot," holding up
his plite and walking the platform.
"Where did you get, that chicken,
uncle?" asked a passenger. Uncle
looked at the intruder sharply, and
then turned away crying: "Here's
your nice roast chicken, gentl'm'n,
all hot; nedn't go in do house for
dat." "Where did you get that
chicken?" repeated the inquisitive
passenger. "Look-a-yer," speaking
privatelv, "Is you from the Norf?"
"Yes." " "Is you a friend ob de cull
ed man?" "I hope I am." Den
don't you nebber ask me where I got
J A -.l.TT-'.-. Atin 1 1 n rn a i-nr ninck
roast chick'n, all hot.
The train
started.
In a riot in Shanghai the Chinese
mob attacked the French quarter,
near Ningpoo Joss-house, maltreated
M. Pereeboisi and family and burn
ed his house. Four Chinese were
killed. The mob also attacked other
houses in the same quarter and
injured several persons severely.
The French police finallv mielled
the riot with the assistance of a
squad of English police. About five
thousand Chinese W6re engaged in
the riot.
r
Mv Advertisement.
Young physicians waiting for prac
tice oftimes become disgusted with
life. They cannot be blamed for
that, for the most wearisome of all
existences is the one where, to be
successful, many years of embarrass
ment and almost fruitless toil are
required.
It was while passing through my
period of such service that misfor
tunes accumulated around me, and
forced the alternative of disappear
ing betAveen tAvo days, or of seeking
some channel by which a visible sup
port could be obtained. 1
Utterly unfit for any purpose saA-e
the practice of medicine, and mostly
incompetent for that, it was with feel
ings of dispair I one morning awoko to
find that my landlady had during
the night seized all my properties
for rent. What a position to be in!
Nothing left but breeches, boots and
gown.
I lay in bed till dinner time, cogi
tating upon the pass to which the
loss of the articles reduced mo.
Then a bright idea appeared. Spinn
ing up, I hastened to the table ; wrote
an advertisement; rang the bell and
handed it to the landlady, requesting
her to publish it in the morning pa
per, after which her bill should bo
settled.
Next morning it appeared among
the personals, as follows:
ITtOR ADOPTION. A fine healthy male.
; All claims surrendered to reliable par
ties. Inquire, Doctor Zajicel, 110 Jones st.
Putting on the garments remain
ing to me, I awaited developments.
Soon the door-bell rang, and a fat,
puffy man, with a fat, puffy woman
clinging to his arm, Avas ushered
into the room.
"Where's the boy?" shouted the
man, dropping into a chair, as his
Avife sank breathlessly into another.
I surveyed them through my eye
glasses, waiting for them to cool off.
"Good hcaA en! can't you show me
the boy?" impatiently inquired the
man.
"Yes, somebody else may come,"
whispered his mate, as she wiped the
prespiration from her broAV.
I arose, and Avith both of them
eyeing me eagerly, took my stand
before the fire-place, my soul too
full for utterance. Glancing from
one to the other, I noticed their cur
iosity was fully excited, and then
mournfully said, "I am the male!"
The sentence took away Avhat breath
was left and they sat and stared at
me until the effort become painful.
At last the old man recovered' suf
ficiently to start to his feet and make
a bee-line for the door, Avhither he
Avas followed by his better-half, Avho,
as she reached the step, turned and
with a look of contempt remarked,
"Don't you think you've done it?"
The next comer Avas a tall, rough
man inquiring for that hoy, as though
he were a package of merchandise.
He went straight to his purpose, and
could not be induced to temporize.
Upon being told it Avas myself, he
rose in wrath and groAvled, "Durn
your eyes, if I had a cowhide I'd
horsewhip you!"
Glad Avhen the door closed upon
him, I waited with some curiosity
for the next visitor. 'Twas an old
maid so deaf that she could not be
made to understand the non-appearance
of the "baby boy." For half
an hour I tried to acquaint her Avith
the fact that it Avas myself wished to bo
adopted, till at last, 'fondling her ear-
trumpet as she Avould have done a
veritable baby, she turned upon me J
a bland and child-like smile, saying,
"Bringee outee goodee pootee lttee
boy." Falling upon my knees beside
her, seizing "her hand in mine, I
poured out my heart before her, and
again told her I was the boy.
, Judging from my position I was
making a declaration of love, her
face assumed a fiercely savage expres
sion, and she launched into the most
volubal refusal any man eAer had to
sustain. Expending her breath and
vocabulary, for she rapidly talked
herself into a towering rage, she
rushed to the door, screaming as she
went, "Did I ever! Mahala Falcon in
a strange room Avith a strange man!"
I went to my chair Aery miich discouraged;-the
hours had sped rapid
ly by, and barring the bread and
Avater Miss Smith alloAved me, I had
tasted nothing for two days. Many
straits had I Aveathered, but none so
narrow as that. What was the use
of living, of struggling for food and
clothes, and then to die, just as old
age had brought success? Why not
end all at once, and find in oblivion
the rest denied me on earth?
Thoughts of suicide had been long
familiar to me; now they swept OAer
my brain Avith redoubled vigor.
Finding in my drawer a lancet, I
whetted the point on the back of a
book, and prepared for the final exit
by tracing the course of a large ar
terv I propossd to divide. All pre
pared, I Avas about entering the bor
der land of death, when the bell rang
with a merry peal and stayed my hand.
A young and handsome woman en
tered the apartment. Seeing me,
she hesitated for a moment, and I
had time to notice, in the dim light
of tho CA-ening, her mourning dress
and the pale, sad countenance, that
told of sorrows experienced and re
membered.
"Is this the place advertised?" said
she, holding out the morning paper.
"and can 1 see the child?
There was that in the quiet twi-
1 1 m t -w-T- a .
ngut 01 tne inter evening and the
low 8veet voice of tho speaker pro
claimed me saved.
"What is the color of his eyes?"
"Blue."
" Of his hair?"
" Hair and whiskers light."
" Hair and whiskers light?" repeat
ed she, looking at me strangely.
"Yes, miss, hair quito light; fine
bov, miss, fine boy."
" O, yes " she said, "but I forsrot:
i what is his age?"
It was now or never and I answered:
"Thirty-five." , - -
" Thirty-fiye; you amaze me!" and
she started up, looking at me as
though I were a lunatic.
I Rendered desperate by the situa
tion, I requested her to listen, and
recounted how for ten years I had
struggled to obtain a living by prac
ticing medicine, and how I hadail
ed, until all my patrimony was ex
pended, and, with nothing but debt
and starvation ahead of me, I had
advertised Avith the hope that some
thing, I knew not Avhat, might come
of it. She had resumed her chair,
and . listened intently while I pro
ceeded Aviyii my narrative; her veil
Avas throAvn back, and as her interest
became aroused tho beauty of her
face became exquisite. When I fin
ished, she drew from her pocket a
purse, and taking therefrom a num
ber of bills, handod them to me, say- o
ing, "These will suffice your present
wants, and as t is late you may re
deem your things and escort mo
home. I suppose I shall have to
adopt you in lieu of the infant I ex
pected to find.
Her commands were obeyed with
alacrity, and from that moment tho
world has gone easily with me. Six
months later I led to the altar the
woman who is noAV looking over my
shoulder as I write this article, and.
whose loving Avords and kind atten
tion to the infant of her adoption has
made him bless the misfortune that
caused him to insert the advertise
ment that brought him so much
happiness.
Remarks of Judge IJonham.
Judge Bonham, in passing sen
tence on Thos. J. Gerrand, made tho
following remarks:
"Thomas Gerrand, you have had
the benefit of able counsel for your
defense, and have had a fair and im- O
partial trial by a jury of your coun
trymen and peers, and after solemn
and due deliberation, the verdict of
guilty as charged in the indictment
has been returned against you. No
other verdict, in my judgment, could
have been returned under the law
and testimony in your case. And
while the jury in your case, for somo
reason which" I do not fully compre
hend, saAv proper to commend vou
to the mercy of the Court, 3-et, under
the imperative mandate of the law
which I haA'e sworn to faithfully ad
minister, there is no other alterna
tive left me but to pronounce against
you that judgment which the law
has provided as the penalty for the
great crime of which ymi stand con
victed. All that I can do is to com
mend you to the mercy of Him who
has power to grant it, and before
Avhose august tribunal you will soon
be called upon to ansAver. Whoso
sheddeth man's blood by man shall
his blood be shed, is alike the law of
God and of this State. And it only
remains so far as the duty of the
court is concerned in your case to
perform the painful and solemn Aluty
of pronouncing against you that
judgment which the verdict of tko
jury warrants and the law directs.
It is therefore ordered and adjudged
by the court that you shall now be
taken from this court room to your
place of confinement in the county
jail of this county; that you there
be securely guarded and kept in
close confinement until Friday the
11th day of August, A. D. 1S74, on
which Jay, and between the hours
of one and three o clock, m the after
noon thereof, vou shall by the prop
er officers be taken from your place
of confinement to the gallows to bo
hereafter erected for that purpose,
and that yon be then and there hang
ed by the neck until you are dead.
And may God have mercy on your
soul.
For What is a Wife Wanted.
It is not to SAveep the house, mako
the bed, darn the socks and cook tho
meals. If this is all he needs, hired
help is cheaper than a wife. If this
is all, when a young man calls to see
a 3-oung lady, send him into the pan
try to taste the bread; send him to
inspect the needle-work and the bed-
making; or put the broom into her
hands and send him to witness its
use. ouch things are important,
and the Avise young man will quickly
look after them.
Bnt what the true man wants with
a wife is her companionship, sympa
thy and love. The way of life ha3
many dreary places in it, and man
needs a companion to go with him.
A man is sometimes overtaken by
misfortunes; he .meets with failure
and defeat; trials and temptation
beset him, and need one to stand by
and sympathize. He has some hard
battles to fight with poverty, - ene
mies, and with sin; and he needs a
woman that, Avhen he puts his arm
around her, he feels that he has
something to fight for; that will help
him to fight; that will put her lips
to his car and whisper words of
counsel, and her hand to his heart
and impart inspiration. All through
life, through storms and through
sunshine, and conflict and Victory,
through adverse and through favor
ing wines, man needs a woman's
loA-e. The heart yearns for it. A
sister's or a mother's love will hardly
supply the need.
Yet many seek nothing further
than succees in housework. Justly
enough, half of these get nothing
more; the other half, surprise be
yond measure, have got more than
they sought. I heir wives surprise
them by bringing out a noble ideal
in marriage, and disclosing a treasu
ry of courage, sympathy and love.
Temper and Moxet, The differ
ence between a man's being out of
temper and out of money is, that
when he's out of money he shows
the least of it, but when he's out of
temper he shows the most of it.
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