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Irennyeon Made et Buren.
Baron Alfred Vere de Vero,
O uo you Win- no /law renown;
Ton tliellglit to daze the country folk
And cockneys when you came to town.
Bee WordswOrtb. Shelley, Cowper, Burnet
Withdraw io scorn, and eit retired!
'Hie last of Somesi nindred. Earls
'Is nota place tu be desired.
iteron Alfred Vero de Vero,
)77e thought you proud te bear your flame.
Tour Pride is yet no ;note for ours, .
'Too proud to thiak a title fame.
We hail the genius -not the lord; •
I Welove the poet'a truer charm%
Ji•_airoPle stager with his dreams
..f.smorth a hundred coats of tame.
Baron Alfred Vero Ue Vere
I Bee yearch, 1 isear 3,
ti m 4 say,
"Bow, bow, ye lewer ruiddie classes!
Is all the burden of your lay,
We held you flint without a peer„ ,
1 And princely ity your noble words -
The Senior Wrangler of our barrio
as now the Wooden Spoon of lords.
Baron Alfred Vere do Vore,1 At
tou put strange Memories in my Head;
For just five deea*lee now have down
Since we all mourned young Arthur dead..
Oh; YOur wet ppm, your low replies!
Durtears have mitigfed with your tear :
To think that all such agony
Should end in makidg ton a_yeer
Boson Alfred Vere Vere, • • °
Our IIngland*lias had.poeta toe ; -
They oang some grand old sonde of Yore, -
But never reached ouch heights aft You.
Will lihakapeare was a prince of barde,*
Qur Milton was a king to hear.
But had their matt -nen that repose* • • _
Whieh stamps the caste of Vere do Verel'
Baron Alfred Vora de Verb, • _ _
Robe, now your' bai: a are sore and spent:
The King of Suobs is at your door,
e To trace your long (and deep) descent. '
A Man'is a man for a' that,
And ;Joh on forty pounds a year;
If rank be the trne guntea-stamp
To win Parnassus -die a peer I
Trust Me. Bar onyalr0 de Vera
When nobles eat their noblest words;
The grand old gardener and his wife
Smile at the airs ef poet lord,s,
Homier it be, it seetus to me, •
'Tis obly•noble to be go•d.
Plain souls are More than coronets,
And simple Wee than Boxonhood.
• .
' I know you,Raren Vere de Von: •
You pine among•yourhalls and bays ;
The jaded light of yeuriyain oyes
Is wearied with the flood of praise.
In glowing fame, with boundless wealth,
But sickening of a vague disease,
Ton are so dead to simple things, , .
You needs must play such pranks as these.
Alfreck-AlfrocinVercrde-Verer,
la Time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no, toilers in our streets, •
Mn. any poor in adthese lands?
of many a newspaper paragradh In the
PI flush" times gone by ihoula now be
Bleeping in a oheap lodging house,
Without a °Oat in my pocket; and no hoops
Of armed next morning. But .00 it was
and flO Aeoustomed had 1- beisane to ;Meet,'
'of late that it scarcely troubled Me to
realize it; uot enough at alledente,taddrive
bleep away ; for in a very few Moments
Itad dropped iuto that delightfully demo.
°ratio state which, like tdeath, pita us all
upon a level.
bad a Orane dream that. night: I
thought I was beteg carried through the
air by a great bird, a, ooft, downy kind of
bird, that made a great rustling with its
wings; and r &bought that it wail such a
• pleasant, kindly oreasure, and curled me
go gently, •that I would juot let it have its
own way with me, and finally it dropped
me only upon something as ooft as itself,
when I fell into a will deeper oleep that
was altogether dreamleee.
The little lodging -house room seemed to
have expanded when I awoke next morn-
ing, and, what was stranger still, goose one
had cOrae in the night and 'Severed the
ceiling with 13ettutitu1 frescoes. And the-
bed,tod, how wide end soft it was! I wail
willing to swear that when I got into Hiatt
night I had to lie very straight, or my poor
sore feet were in the cold air; while now I
might scramble about at my svieet will, and
118 orosswitie'even if saw fit to do so.
Then again, the room was filled with beau-
ful furniture and objects of all kinds,
Prominent among which was a highly ideal-
ized portrait of myself, beneing over the
OfLEVed wpoden mantel.
But the prettiest Whig of all in the room
was a pretty little ladyWnot a girl exardly,
but about the age my Wife would have -been
if Iliad ever had one. Tbere •the set, as
placidly as though idwas all right and real,
working at a piece df embroidery in a coed
armchair by rey bedside.
This was another dream, of course, but
snob a pleasant one thet I feared to speak,
lest I should awaken and lose re all. So I
lay there, turning matters over in my mind, •
and wonderiug if this were the way With
meet drone', sad if the distinctness.
faded out of them when we swim, and left
only a blurred trapreeeion behind. •
" Would *Janke your breakfast now?
The. doctor says you may eat, anything you
• like that is Moe and digestible, said the
pretty little -voice that seemed, tuned ,to
titter only kind and cheerful words,: • "
Madem,"I asketdwith as.much roped-
ful dignity •as rey position- permitted,
"would you kindly inforna me who 1 am,
and what I am doing here? how I got here,
Who you are yourself,•ttnd any other facto
df a personal nature thatoocur to you? I
edoettthat at. preseet I feel a little bewil:
-dewed." „' '
•
• " Your mi
na
e s Richard Rollins," -said
tato little lady, in.a sort of reproving tone,
finch as she might haytused in speaking to
a, wayward Ohild7r . • . , •
"Yes, ;that Ono with. my • Ideas, at
ieast,". • -' ,
And,"• she condi:due, "you are a othel,
wicked man, who runs away front hentie
and pretends not to know hie own wife
when he is brought beck again." .
• Then you, I suppose, are my *He, and
• this is My house, and I never was anageut
for -the Universal Instructor,' and I did
notgo to bed without a cent in my pocket
list night in theEconoray Howie?"
"Now. dear Dick, you' talk in such a
.•
-Ohl teach the weak to strive and hope,
Or teaoh the great to lielpthie low,
Pray heaven for a noble heart,'
And let the foolish title go. , •
4 • -pal/ riiOesofts.
•
A. 11.,enp.4'ear Dillelnalr4s •
Miss Jennie is a WinSOme girl— '
The faireat loss of many;
And 1 would be a heartless churl,
Did I not lovIS Mies Jennie.
But when intcriny list'uing oar
Her tide ef Rasion gue.hes,
• 'scream ami run away; for fear
•kinell see my tell-tale blushes, .• •
•
Mise Susie is so aweet-and
' And loves me; oh! eo dearlY,
• I can't 'reject the little child--
'Twould drive her crazy, nearly, '
But as she bulge uncut the gate . '
And sings her hopeless Borrow,
I murmur YItis get Aug late;
Please conift around tb-morrow.7
And there is rosy, romping Belle- •
. .
. And thiire is proud Ophelia4- •
And pensiye,. iofty-minded Nell, *
____ And prattling little Delia;
•And I am wdoed byBibiSe. •
And Courted; tee, by Jesaio,
While Magsie fallo upon her knees,
And ditto charming Bessie,
,There's anether-honielyshe-
. , The gaunt,' uncouth Eliza- • •
•Vir•
--lostrlirro •gWarift %mooing me, ,
Oh, bow I did despise her 1 .• '
But•as she fondly liugere4 noar,. • '
There fell, like dripping hon°71 •••
This sweet' assurance on my eff,r--4
• She hada heap of:money
So, lliongh I eigh for /finnio's curls
And Delia, so impaesioned,
And'hanker for the other girls
• So eweetly, grandly fashioned,
It seems decreed that I phould part
Fro:anal) these charming witchee,
And sacrifice my.manly heart •
• To gaunt Blizo.'s riches,
••
Lite's Story.
Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born
A. helpless babe; to greet the liglit__. -
With a sharp 'wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep atiaina_
With.ounny emiles betweeta-auVRen
• •
•
And then apaeo the infant growa
-To be a lalighing, sprightly bo,g„..
nanny, definite his little woes, •10*
Were he but colithious of his joy I
• • To be, in short, frees two to t,
A merry, moody child --and enUM?
And then, in Oat and trousers (gad,
To learn to -Bay the-decalogue;
And break it, an unthinking lad,
• With mirth.' and inisehief at agog;
A truant oft ny field and fen, _, .
And capture butterflies -and then? •
" Take owe," /added.* isyou. tempt Me
too far you may Maltt•PlYOUr hie a torture of
Olathe and renaorse when you really learn
the truth. Liateri to reason before Nis too
late. Owe moth I say I am not yoUr hits.
band. God knowe be is a man that avy
one in the world Might envy. But I atm
not he, Think, think of some nark by
*hick your husband might be positively
identified-001Se War, some boyish mark
in tattooing."
She started up at the laat words.
oho said," you have a little blue
star upon your arra jatit above the
,wrist. Don't you, reMensber how you used
to feel ashamed of it, and tiaid naughty
words about the big boy who induced you
to put it there?"
She had no need. to pull up my them
and point to the telatale weak; my face
must have been proof enough that She
would and it there.
And then, increased in strength:1nd size,
To be, anon, a youth full grown ' •
A hero in lila-mothers eyes, •:
' A young Apollo in his own;
To imitate the ways of men
In•faehionabl siii-aud then?
And then at last to he is Man,
. To fall in lovO to woo and•wecl I "
With seethiug brain to scheme and plan
To gather gold or toil for bread;
To sue for fame With tongue and pen,
And gain or lese the prise -and then?
And then in grey.atel wrinkled eld
To mourn the speed of life's decline;
To praise the sceses our. youth beheld,
• Afid dwell in twittery of• tang syno ;
To dream awhile of darkened ken,
To dusti.into,his grdve-o.rut_thert ?
• •
• -
AN'IMPOSTOR IN STITE OF HIMSELF.
1.)
A story of eiyear.
"Now," the said, "Will you. give up your.
foolitth delusion? I cannot behave that
you %rail:wane. You are only otuel and
hateful, and want to break your poor wife's j
heart. Year voice sounds uet as it used to
before you were taken via your eyes do
not wander now. I believe pee have got
another wife somewhere, and want to get
rid of me IV pretending not to know me.
What have I ever done that you should
treat rue so?. 411 the long tithe that you
were deranged I watched over you and
oared for you. When they wanted to take
yOu away, I refused to let you go. And
after you wandered off that time and loat
yeurself, I might baye been .free if
wished it. put7L did not wish it I have
searched for you, and waited for you and
been as faithful ate thongh you had you,
well and with me. And this le my return
for all," And she walk sobbing -63 the eofet.
"Howwas I to cenvinee her that. she -and
•not:I was laboring under a delusion. After
cogitating this 'volition for , some time, I
oame to the oonolueion that ray best and
safest plats was to give up the attempt;
evidently a hopeless one, of explaining
matters, and simply leave the . house at
once. It was all very well to make the
restitution', but when it ottme to carrying it
out I dies:pi:mired that I Was not a freelagent.
Ely attempt t� get back my own Olothee
proved fruitless,so I resigned myself to the.
necessity of walking through the streeta..in
clreeeing.gown and slippers. But bere again
I was thwarted the loiter windows were
• all barred, the doors looked and the keys
hidden from ram •
Now, what waI. to de.? Wait until the
doctor celled and try to get hie help ? That
seemed a feasible plan. So when, a little
later in the Morning; the white-haired toad
• benignandmedical than mede his appear-
ance, I appealed to hire ili the mostearnest
• and straightforward manner to reliede me
from my false and etribarreasing position.
He.blandly agreed •with all I paid, and
ilpoke in terms of the hiehest ,cominenda-
Cott of my -good taste and honorable feel.
ing, but conoluaeil by saying " I think,
however, that you had better remain -of
course, you understand, ander oath condi.
time -as will' save your enforced resideime
here from atid tippeare,nee of Impropriety.
Your wifiedi beg your pardon, thie • lady-
reight,send for some elderly female relative
or friend to aot aa her companion, and any
other Mich expedient as you approve might
be made nee of. But I think on the whole
you had better remain." Here I caught
1411 glancing meaninglY at thy pseudo wife,
never forget the anguish of that remnant.
But at last I nerved Myself, bat Eauth an
effort as the victim of the inquisition moat
have made when he acknowledged the
beregdathat conderanedlsim to the torture,
and Itald te a faint and hollow, but distipot
tone:
"1 aan not your hothead, Farewell!"
Sadly I arose, and with downcast head
left her presence. I had opened the door,
• and was about to cross the threshold when
• I heard the rustle of avowal:de dress com-
ing Own the stairs, and before I bad inade
•another Meld a pair ot Bolt, warm arms
were clasped tightly around my neck.
0' Don't leave me," pleaded, the sweet
voice that I had loved so well. "1 cannot
bear to part with you. You ate mad, you
are my husband I"
•Firmly but gently 1 vailoosened her
clinging arms.
"Friend ot my soul," 1 said, "1 love you
toe mach to Wrong you. You kow that
am -not your husband." •
.The red blood of thame rusisea into her
face, and she sank into a seat and covered
her face with her hands.
Without another word*I rushed into the
street, utterly exhausted by the effortl had
made, and almoat hating myself for the
cruelty that honor had demanded of me.
I had insulted the woman I leved, and new
the would despise me, perhaps. "Well,
better eo," win my conecience but "No,
no," said ray veretohedand tortured heart.
Fortune seethed to turn in my tearer after
this time. "Seemed," I say, for it was, in
reality, the moat wretched period of my life.
etI ran across an old employee of Mine, now
a wealthy man, thanks to help I gave him
in ray da,ye.of prosperity, and. ne proved to
be possessed of the rare human virtue of
'gratitude. • He took • me into his employ,
and plawd me in a position of trust and
• dignity. But I was gloomy and epiritless,
for the one being who made hfe of interest
to me seemed separated from me forever,
and. I believe I should, indeed, have gone
mad, but for is sitange oiroumstance, which
suddenly altered the whole complexitth of
my life, .• '
One morning,jast as I wet about to leave
My lodging for the office, a letter, was -
handed to me. I knew the handwriting at
once. It was from -her. I hastily tore open
the envelope,and three letters foll-out upon
the table. '
The one that firet caught my eye was in
the saMe hand &Bathe addrese, and I eagerly
seized wad read it. It contained only these
few words• .
*" MISR Fitthee,-1 reoeivea the two
lettere, here-eta:dosed, and send them to
dou without comment, as they seetelt for
themselves.
"With kindeot wishes for your he.ppineee,
I mamba -Your friend, • . E.B.
. .
. The next letter I picked, up was in a
strange hand 'andsran as follows;
'• GREEN Co.•INsANE Admen.
moe, reasonable way that I can scarcely
;;;it; g intently to pew word
believe' you are ,riot quite Well again,. Do, nle•
look so hright and !Clear; and your voice
Yon oath:ma he we uttered. ' . ,
beyond enduranee, 4' do you all yourself a
darling, try to remember. " My God, man ,theuted, provoked
very wrong in your head now., Year eyes •
sotinde so nice and quiet. When you Went PhYsioien and g.o not know that I am a
perteetly sane Man. Look in any"eye, feel
ray you thought the Fenians aud: the.
. Millets had formed a league to murder*„mrrialse 1 "*.ratiti. Bea' that / 'an not4e-
you, and that 1 was
the member appointed "A"de"." ' ' '•
".0h, not at all.„ Not • at all," sada, the
to immix& the crime. You; have got all
old &utter, in a tone of the deepest earnest-
• over that, you see, and yob, -now ; you -pre.
." . a • nese, " I only' thciuglittt might relieve the
tend notto know me
lady's feelings.
. I began -Co see light' now, though dimly: . She .is ar little un -you
understand," and he . teethed nieforehead
'I had been mistaken foreoome other man •
-wileso.nablewod,appairance were ideutical. with a. little twirling geatuee of the fidger.
with. Mineand had been lirmight here while It was hopeless:1 saw plainly thisbouse
the deep sleep of complete
' liz exhaustion. -„was to beany please of residence.whether , I.
soft bird of my dream had been wished it or not, and until the real heed of
The big
it was disecivered, ' if, he ever was. r should
produce:al:I the motion Of the carriage or
have to 000tipy his place'. Sca after a few
whatever means liadbeentoted -M convey
;moue, , . . : a • • . . t.. mere fruitless attempte. I gave up . the
. I determined to Bet myna right at once; struggle, ,Land UlloWed .to be otterie.d.
"Madam,” I said, " . you Will kindly alorif by the tide of' oireumetheces. .a•.
-waive the question �f our relationohip and dlertain things, however, I insisted Jappn
allow me tctget .up and dress, I will be its the only a -auditions upon which 1 would
pleased to .go down to • breakfast and •remain:passive. The,dootor's • suggestion
dalk the -whole Matter • over ,witla :you he to .a companion .for •the lady' moat be
quietly.": • • •ditraied out at Maid, and I muitt be treated-
- d Oh, de yonfeel well_eneugh to get uPd.'" merely.aa a gueatin the • house. •
she , .* , • • . You had better humorixte,"•I said;
"Quito. quite. I only desire a. little"for i.thight•-heeome • violent, you know, it
privacy atia a little time,' to,mak e mdeold I theuld be thwarted." • .
presentable:I, • ' The Odor Opened :his eyes 'at this lest:
Thatei a good:boy," she said, Stoopingremark of Mine with axx•expression of tiara
over and pressing it pair pf .soft, pool lfpe prise ttad intereptabut be did net alter hie
on my forehead. "1 will humor you thte menner_towards Mein the least. I learned
time," and the slipped quietly out of the that 'my a case" :afterwards formed the
. room with a smile of indulgent pity '.on her. sabjeot of a rod- intereating-artielo-inaa.
medical joernal, foe Which the doctor
The-garnet:nth that lay waiting for too *Caved great Oredit in hie traternity, •
aWere certainly mot those I had worn the .• For :e..whole year lived in this traneo
preeioue night, bub they fitted.= perfect/y; ahd,false. positidn, .growing day by day
and when 1 had slipped IOU the embroidered' .more deeply attathed to the dearaaffeation.
deciding gown andsena warm slippers,. I ate little woman who eat befere me at every
seamed to; baye, gobe bach. to the old, meal, who sang stveet, simple little sedge
luxurious days again: • • . .• • or me in the. Motherly
' dainty little breakfast awaited me in old: Aunt Sarah limning inherethicheir by
the sweet, 'Werth -looking dining -them, the fireside. • . • • •
Where everything Wasso freehand pre* • •We:used to drive out together' in the
and in such perfect theta, that it looked faroilyeottoh, notin the' afternoon:parade
like Bogie &Ai nty §cnts pioture :by Lidoir. • through the park and beak -spin; but out
Ouly two itheirs were placed at the table into. the acoontay, where we wild see
aud in ono theta "my wife -1'. WC looking Nature, not yet . Made coparnonplaeo by
like the sushi:till:molt otalomeetio oweetneas. eneympathetio.orerede. In everything our
dlet rayedlf forget the,truth, and aroppecLataites agreed. • • •
into the pleasurable delusion anal I had Every day some new point of eynipathy
finished myabreakfast. 1 felt like 'a Miser- Would develop itself. • • •• a. •
. .
able ewinciler, sitting there in. Some other -• :Sonsetimee, when rtliorighl that all this
usan'm platie,:oating lag food and chatting mind Med week rayheartwouldlieein to rise
with his wife, but the temptation WasTtoe Uplfl my throat and choke DM Ilthe tete
great fcia a poor devil well SS I was at -the htithand.ever retarnerl , 1' .00nid facie him
time. And then .1 thought, " it hi only for with a 'older :commieece, for not by one
an hour or two; 'after that, poverty. loneli- action had I 'Wronged him. Ea might foi,.
nese and' fatigue ones mote, and perhape
worse thinge, for aughbl know.""Bot .Wheu
we bad firlibhed our Meal, 1 pushed batik
iny their from t aa table and plungedboldly
late the su,bject 'of the strange mistake
whith brought me there. , '
"tritairaun•Eildati," the truth- must be
told, and told at once, and I can only beg
that when you know it you will forgive ray
involuntary mntrustcflion yeur kind h,otipita
alilda • You have made is grave ann terrible;
mistake in having brought me here, I am
Richard Bodies', aed from yotir Words &Lid
actions- 1 paeduaie that 1 resemble in a
marvelleue degree Smaller well who bears
the eauie name as myeelf. . But I eari not
our husband. I em a poor dean without
afrieud or relative in the weed.. It you
will kindly rettirn Me the Moan garmente
whitth 1 warie yenterday I' will leave youa,
house onoe. You Will adinit thetd.have
treated you With atedied moot, and 'have
only peoeumea to far epee...your ether as to
Oat a meal at your table, a taeal•whith I
confess Ttlzould othearnee in all probability
have heed obliged to forego," „a
DV OTOROD _
1 Economy flouB, - 'Rooms 25 cents a
night. For geetlemed only. Clean 'beds."
Such was the ineeriptiou that Stared at Me
irons over a lattalookiog. doorway ail
tramped. wearily up' ono of the great
•thoroughteree of the metrokolita •
The very ward " bed" souaded Anna
otisla as I read it; toed had „tied is hard day,
01in:thine Wile), deoradepewith my "book
that sells doi eighea awl then sadly °Noah.
ing gloWe agate,' without havivg sold ib;
and r was utterly teorn telt felt in my
• poOkets. '1 had no :leo& to feel 'there ; I
• knew Well enough what they cialte.hlerl—
jUilb a, quarter of a dollar, uot another cent.
Sheuld r Bleep and anwithout is break,
fast, or breakfast aud go without sleep
My heeyy eyes 'ilia weary body won the
battle, end a few mernetitS Ater I 'MIS
strsteli.:i out Ivan a little iron bed in is
little waitewashed them, very -MU& like a
cell to e (prison. The mattress was rather
hard, I rimembet, ana the coverings nob
over antrin t but they Were infiuitely pre-
ferable to a cold bench; with the eight fog
for 0, blanket. • •
, Yes, it had Wine to the I How tatraoge
It was to realize that 1, whose proaperous
busineW enterprises had Wilde my name do
even known throughout the bountry that it
was &tenter to every Child in -every little
tillage in the laud, and Whoaequipage and
).
" d • °creme 3rd, 18-
a
-TUC PAPUA or lIdeflint
ardr Twain on the Da,tigoint of
FaVelltUR.
WHO MOST NEED ACCIDENT INSURANCE,
ai:Vaari in the ticket Ofdoe eald: A .1
d Have an accident insurance ticket
"o," I geld,, after studying the matter,
over a little. "ND believe nob; I AM
golug to be travelling by rail all day to-daY.
However, to -morrow I don't travel. Give
me one for to -morrow."
The man.dooked puzzled. Be said:
"But it is for awident ineuranue, and u
you are going to travel by rail--"
"11 I am going to travel by rail 1 alut'udi
need it. Lying atehoree in bed is the *tug
dm afraid of"a
I had been looking into this matter,
Last year 1 travelled 20,000 miles, cilmoet
enttaely by rail; the year before 1 travelled
over 25,000 miles, half by sea. and half by
rail; and the year before that 1 travelled
in the neighborhood of 10,000 miles, ex-
clusively by rail, I mapped° it I put in all
the little odd journeys here and there, 1.
May say I have travelled 60,000 miles dur-
ing,the threaveare I have mentioned. And
never an Accident,
bier a good while t Maid to myself every
morning: 4' Now I have esos,ped thud far,
and so the chances are just that ni1101)
increased that I shall °etch it this `time. I
will be ohrewd, and buy an awlident ticket,"
Aod to a dead moral certainty
oaaw thane • •
and Weal to beddhatnight without a jOint
started or a bone splintered. 1 got tired
of that sort of daily bother, and fell to
buying awident ticketthat were gooth for
a month. I said to nlyeelf, '4 A. man can't
buythirty blanks in one handle." But I
Was Mistaken. There was never a prizs in
Le lot. I could read of railway accidents
every,cley-the newepeper attatoephere was
foggy with them, but somehow they never
came my way. I found I heal vent tt.good
deal cif money in the aceidettli business, and
had nothing to show for it: My suspicions
Were aroused, and I began to hunt for
somebody that had won batiste lottery. I
• found plenty of people wise had indested,
-butanot an individeal who had ever had 11.0
accident or made a cent. I stopped buyied
aeoident tickets and went to ciphering. The
remit wb,s astounding. The peril lay not
in travelling, but in staying at hem&
• t runup •or STATISTICS
DEAR Maxpatt,,•The enclosed packet was
banded me by a patient calling.himeelf
Alfred, Landis, juit a' yetar ago, with the
request that I should keep it • for a year,
and then send it to iteaddrees.
The patient, Landis; had been suffer-
ing fthin aoute ' mania, imagining himeelf
the .victira of a donepiraoy. A littleawhiled
before Ms death, however, he had a, lucid
inNeavel, se frequently 000urs in suoisacasee;
sod it watt in this brief time *et he -wrote
and handed me this paokedwitla the iequeet
mentioned.-Yery respeotfully,
.hs BUDD, MB., ,
Inssite Asylum.
d.Tcedire.. Eleaner-Rollies, New York.
1 -opened the other note With ttgreen a
hand, and recedes follow.: ' •
"Oh, Dick! Dick 1" di:totaled the little
lady befote mei burating into ',team "I
thought yob bad entirely recovered, 0„to
here you *1r talk:died/sore wildly than -ever.
Ob,iny heart will break with this diettp-
poiatment." •
Flow I•louged to Itiett away thd teeth
from those ktudly bright 431t113 eyee, and
take the sweet little, women.10 tny atlas
household- itixtirtee had formed the sebjeot and hash her grief to red open My bosom.
Eritatuade-When yea theeive this
shall hear° been dead for is year, and:
beyond the reach of aldworldly geprCagh: I
cannot bear to think of your having suth a
shook aa this letter. must give yett,iiintil
abilence has had time to obitipeeate in some
degree .your affection for me.
-", Day_name a not Rolling.: Thati•is% the,
name of an 'old _playmate ,mine, Whinier
:strong resemblanee tramyself used to inmate
a great deal of commeat. • ,
" As grew to' niatilthOd '1 fell into
temptation. and &dratted myself and my
I was asharcied of my,nanse, and
Emboli:idea thalhaege it and leave the natio&
Of country where I was known. Richard.
Bodine a,t this time Was growing. wealthy,
' and his name and !woven known -all over
the country. I wininenced, a eyetem • of
.swincliirig by pawing myself off wider his
name,. imitating the out of hie beard • and.
hair -and even his trioke of apeech.
was a sharp game, and meny time . I was
on the brink of detection% •
" When I. met you I had already ola.
tainad aninimense sum of monedby this
-means,.a,nd had ootioluded to live a quiet
.a.nd' Weedy life, if I could do do. • You will
rethembee how careful I was to live
privately after we were married: I' was
afraid of your heating. the eeporte • about,
me, and I studiously keptevery newspaper
from you that contained any allusion tO
me; for •at that time they. were full of
tinware at 'the poor bankrupt, Who
ts now living inluxury," ete. The anxiety
mid strain of those days brought oh" the
brain troebles;whiohl have never been free.
from until the preoent tircie, when .they
tell me I must die in a few hours. Try'to,
forgiv,e. the for my deeeption, and forget me
as SOW as you can. ALSAND LANDIS." '
. .
and Wae amazed to find- 'that After all' the.
glaring ' newspaper headings coucerning
milioad disasters, less than 300 people had
reallyalost their lives by those disasters in
the preceding ttvelve months. The Erie
road was set down as the moot murderous
ha the list. It had killed 46 -or .26,. I de
not exactly remember whigh, but I know
the number was clindidb that of iny other
road. But the fact straightway seggested
iteelf that the Erie wita•ati inamensely•long
road, and did.more bueiness than any other
line in the oountry ; the double number
of killed ceasedlo be matter for eurprise.
By further figuring, at appeared that
between New: York and •Roohester the
Erie ran eight petelenger trains eath ay
everdadttreasixteen-altdgethei=aiddamtra-
ried a dally average •,..of '6,000 . per-
sons.. This is about a minion :in six
Menthe, the population . �f New Yprk
city. Well'athe Brie kills .from thirteen to.
tweattathree persons out of its 1,000,000 in
six maths ; and in the seine .time 13-,000
mit Of New Yeall'a 10000,000 died in their
bean I My flesh crepe a my hair. stoolon
end a "This is appalling," I 'said.: The,
dander isn!t• in travelling by mil, but in
trusting to those deadly beda, I will never
sleep in a ,bedagain." I had figured•on
ciOnsiderably leas than one-half thelength
of the Erie road. it was plain that the
entire aoad must transport -at least 11,000
or 12,000 people eaerY. cle,Y,„ There are
many Alert roade-funaing,-- outof-riestond
that do fully. half as ranch ; a great many
'etch reeds. There are . many roads float-
tere(1 abdut the Unton that do '
.7-11 . - //AT, ,f
FOlt TER •
KIDNEYS, LIYER AND URINARY 0 AU
WI= BlIX87r 1E11.001i Utfelltf
Teere is only one way bywhielailea &demeans ' •
be mired, and that js by removing the cause- .
whatever it may De. The great medical author*
ities of the day declare that nearly every disease
is caused by deranged kidneys or liver. To,rastore
theft herefore ie. the enly way bi_which health
can be scoured. Ef ere is where avrtruerat Sete
Cure has achieved its great reputatlod• It ado ,
directly upon the kidueys and liver and by 'plea
them in healthy condition calves &settee
and pain from the system,. Por Lithe
and 'Urinary troubles, for the distrese.ng
dis-
ordero of women, tor Malaria and physical
tronblee generally, -this great remedy has no
woo. c.awarc of impostors, imitationi. and
conoucticrei said th be Just tee goo& •
For Diabetes ask for %yammer% nage Vbs.
hetes ("etre.
For sale by all dealers.
c, ILL H. Watild/dElit (.10.,
Termite, Club. Ithehester, Y 1.1ondon Eng.
-.W'hat a flood of light was let in, dpon, my
Mind by this revelation. tementhered
Ilandift very .well 'now, as a boy who bad
been' very like me in eppearance and who
had afterward turned out Way and.diettp-
peared from 'our native town.
Hoeg too was an. eiplanittion of I be nue-. ,
• teriouti .paragraphe about me Which -bad
'plizzled me eo mu& from time to time,.
and ..the, -mysterious tattooed star was a
mystery no longer. •
For Landis and ,I had taken the freak, ae
boys often dor of lanitating the markt; we
altad-weti-on dadore, and had uaed the Waite
give me, but fot my part e d star of needle•pointe to do the work with,
C. 3.
enArrei
"Malden Mass., Fet). 1, 1880. Gentlemen -
1 suffered with attaeke of sick headaehe,"
Nenralgia,• female troubles, fdr yo,ers in the
most terrible and exornotatiugmaneer,
' No medicine or dootor could, give :ne relief or
cute me until I used Hop Bitters.
" The first bottle •
Nearly clued me;P
Thu second made me as well and thong all
when a &ail&
"And I ho,Ve been so to this day."
My husband was an invelid, for Yeev
With a *erious *
"Hidney,•liver mut urinary cemplairit,
," Pronounced by Boaton'e best
"In curable I " , •
Seven bottles of your bitters cured hien and
know of the •
Lives ef 'eight pereons " • -
In ray neighborhood that have hew saved
your bitters,
And many more are using them with gni)
benefit. * •
. " They aimed
• Da nuraclek? " • -Mez. MD. Slack.
. A PRODDIXOUS
thothfore it Was Polito presume that an
average of 2,500 passengers a, day for each
-road in the country would be about dorthot.
There are 846 eailwaye ia our country, and
846 times 2500are 24115,000. So the. rail..
.witys of America move morn than 2,000,000'
peep1eaderylaay-650 000,000cif peeple is
year, without counting the Sundays. They
do that -too --there is -no question about it -
though where they get the raw material is
not °tear beyond thajdriediationof my saitla
radio ;for I have hoisted the census through -
and through, and 1 fitul, that there are not.
that many peopledn the United States by a
matter ,,of 610,000,000 • a,t •the.very least.
They must use some of the same people;
over again, likely, „ ,
a . San Francisco ia one-eigh bh as populous
'as New York; thare ere 60 "deaths a week
in the former. and 509 a weekin the: hater
-if they have luok. Thea is 3,120 deaths
aye& an San Francisco, and eight times
as Many in any/ York -say 25,000 -or
26,000. The health of the two places is
the samd. So:We will let it stand as a fair
presumption that this will hold good all
over the. country, and. that oarteequently,
25,000.out of every million of people we
have mast die every year. That amounts'
-to one -fortieth Of our total population.
ONE trrilfoo 0C t78 Dili DIE. AMTUALLT.,
I lost the oompamonehip 0 e
kindred soul would acid for me the poesibil
lity of happiness in life.
Towards the end cif. the .year I eats' is
singular change come over • the mender' of
my friend 9.nd commtnime. She beosate is
little less fardiliar and. eonietinieel die..
covered a look of doubt and terror in her,,
odes. eAb last one day I found her weeping
bitterly. Tremblingly 1 asked her to
explaiu the 0.0,1114 of her tears. .
At firstathepould "-only sob, *but at laet
elm whispered:
-It is only the old question -of your delu.
It yeas the &et tiMeitt many months' tnitt
either of us bad" alluded •to the subject.
Heaven knowahow Iwas tempted for is
motnent to lie to her, and deny my identity.
.110 1 wiped the unmanly suggestion of
my own Weaktittee* and. said .'!
" no not let us apealt of that."
"NO," she burst out, in a ,thise aimed
of defiance. "1 have not told yOu the
truth. I am begiritting to doubt thyself,
and not you, Selxietinsea 1ocean, to see a
4Ifference, met in yoar face or form, not in
iy outward thitigs. but in your soul. I
never lovekteni before yell left ma DA- Ido
now. r elmost doubt that I loved you
truly. Then it was entirely affeotion, now
tale tioteathing deeper and etrOuger.a Look
in my dyes,e,n4 tell .the truly. Are .you'
my husband'?"
If 1 shOuld live for 00U:tries, X" thotild
•
-
NalartelThow dew to the side of het
I loved and from 'whom nothing but death
Was, ever again to part Me ?
. All these things happened many. years
age, and I am now getting on in life with a
tweet and good.Wife tied as fide a pair of
boys as any man in the lend: But I shear
never forget' how ter one .year of my life I
was au -impostor in spite of myself. a
• t •
Perished its the filnow:4-•
paring the night of 'Fridity kat a man
battled Gilbert Germano started for bin
hoine, some five miles distent frora a tavern
at Little Mille, near Leurenoeville, Que.
Being lame and in liquor, be could not re.
Kist the severe cold, as web as the blinding
storm, mud's° periahea When Within Mateo
acres of his own dew. A mittened hand
above the snow Was the only mark that
led.. to the lidding of the frozen body
by neighbor, The &cowed was 50
yearn of ago, and leaves teaviife and three
hfidren. •••
The coated
The comet is in the northwest, and early
in the evenieg is about half Way between
the horizon !Ma the zenith. Look for it
between the Northerneroes and.the Greet
Square of regattas, and • nearer the latter.
Ituumni not be likely to find it withont is
glass althoUgh it is vieible to the naked
Ode. rda good Opera glass will allow. it
teOTIES BET F1707.14%
tFrom the Boston 01014.1
• • • •
leases, Editors.
The abiive ls a good likeness of tIrs, facjia,11
ham, ot Lr.m, Oilman ethcir MUD= L -,P1101
truthfelly callcdthe 'TieenFriond ottoman,"
...is some • of her correspondents love to :tidy:ion Ohs
is reals•ze:y x:.voted to.her work; which Islas onteom0
tit a '111 a-nilay, And le olCgod to keep six 14..dy
asidetrzets, to he:ober answer the laroo 0OrfesPOndtmcir
daily liners iriupoia cacti' bearing its dada,
_lteatraot_eeepaine„ on joy at rafeas_cfrom :it,: Tien
Vegetable Cem2otttid is a medicine f or' good and no
perposes, have 'personally inVestlgated It an
tun satisfied of the'tinftli•of the* • .. •
Ca amount of ifs proven merit:Alf is. reetheneed
cod presoribed by the best physicians in the conn
One says: "It works like a Chaim' e:tst sates
pain.. It will care raitirety as worst toed cf.f
of the literia; LesoOrrhtes, irregular r=6;
Yithsteuetion, all cve.rinii Treallee;•Itillen=tatt
ullieratien, Vomit's!, an DiSpiacoments ene.
'Sequent spinal weskr_eze, c.,,t1 is es:peck:4%v alis
'thfet°rberallingeaet.ebtsre'vtfeaye'." po.r'tioiabil the gratz=, 80
DOW life and vigor. It rim:levee faintnees, esti
destroys all Cravir.gfor rtirdedatte, and ;shores
:noes of the storeaoh. 0117,01 Blosting,, Heat
NervoueFrostration, General Deldlty, Sleep:
: Depression and ',ziligr.stion, not teelini
'down, caneng ltd-^, weight:and rackachs,
permanently erzed by Us pea It will at al
under all tirruinstalicee; act in harinonY
that governs the tamale Banana'
It costs only ;timer liettio.or Six fer ;
:dreettate Ana Settee requi red as r
the nainok many who have been xr
oatien:etrthboymthosine:ormer,t,:se mapige.ta.a. ie
obtained. by addreteinplirti:F.,,with
. For Kidney Complaint of etthcr sok t!
MistirpAssed as'nbundant testirionisis sh,
.Finktam's Liver 0378 000
CabtIst in world tor the cure Of (
TOoninesa and Tornitilkf Of the 1
Prifileiweaksivonfiegzin its sPecial Dnan.
tnemial
11.11 land rosiic et Ater:I:of 11P.A.,/ T
exibit'on tO do good to other:, • •-
rodeereateata, • . ara,
•
• Out of this thilliod ten or tvielve
thdditand are stabbed, '. shot, ' drowned,-.
'hanged, poisoned Or , Met • similarly
violent death in . some other popular
way, . each . iis perishing by. kerosene,
lama and hdoptikirt coefiagratton, getting
baried•in coal mined; *41114 off housetops,
breaking through chu.rolx orlentureoroo*
floors/taking patent inediaines or commit-
ting suicide in other forms. The Eric Rail..
way hills from twenty-three to forty -six ;
the other,845 dailroede kill an .aserege •ot
one.tbird of is man each; aed •the reat of
that 1,000,000, amounting in the aggregate
to theappalliegdlatire of 981,631 oorpsee,
die neutrally it their hede I • You will
exouse me from • taking any
moth chanties on those • hells. The
rafiroadra are good aenengh for mo.
And my advice' to all peeeile teadonli stay
isonse any: more than you can help; but
when you 'hare' got to stay home a while
hay a package of these 'insurance tiokete
and sit up eights. YOU °Linnetbe too
flatitionS.
[One oat Bee now why I answered that
ticket agent in the manner recorded at the
top of this sketch.] *
The moral of this 'composition is, that
thoughtlefis people' grumble more than is
fair • about railroad management. - When
we consider that every day and night of
the year itilly 14,000 railway trains ot Yard
oils kinds, freighted with life and -armed
with death, go thundering oter the land,
the marvel is, not that they kill 800 human
beings in a tevelveremitha but that they do
not kill 300,titrthe 800.. ,
Solloodeoinreitteensantizaminingeohdar
'Where the north pole ? " don't
-know, Bit," "Don't know! Ate you not
ashame4 that yeti don't knee/where the
north 'pole is?" "Why, sir, if Sir dolm
Franklin and. Dr, liana °Ad Captain De.
Long conidn't lind it, how should / know
tvber6 it lad" '
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e a• blsaoes tbis Oatani of DO acrid poison
to that 03 1885 :Do drocleal_saifferitkr, which
ea only ID, vidtbatlf ItheamatL>rc Cam. realize.
4 . , THOUSANDS OF CASES •
or 00 womb' fora* of this, temble disco,*
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