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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-15, Page 7OR"AME14. BY ANDREW /Muerte The following story is partly from the prone of Mrs. Sigoureny wherein it appears that Coton Mather, for some supposed injury,egged on the Mohfoane to exterminate the Fequods, The latter, holding a leafea4 in a feet in the State of Vermont, were surprised during the abeenoe of their young chief On- tologon, Only the maiden Oramel escaped, She waa oared for by a missionary near by ; bat tee poem expiates the rest ; At night within their fortress wall The Pegaode hold a feetival. Ah, little thought they even now Their watohdoge balled the wary foe— "Owanux," ebrieked the sentinel, Then many.r nding heart was oti11; As fire the b me forth with din, From Pale Pdoe, and from Mohican, A handred homes of whirling flame Inscribed on high the glaring shame. Among the tent flames to and fro, The fierce, the tender fought, in woe To save their weak onea ; vain eseay, From flies that flash, and swords that slay ; Nor had the Christian carnage maned When morning lit the misty east, And lit the writhing hosto who ory On all their gode to let them die, While free dom bayouets agonize The hosts they sought to civilize, Ah, to the heathen stained in thought, Who grieves to find his home is not, What 'saintly samples priestcrafts prove Of Him whose symbol wee the dove; Yet ono retired apart to pray ; That God might cave what man would May. While faith his gentle spixit ewayod, There came a rushing in the ahade— The Pegged maiden heard his prayer, And jaagod there might bejuatioe there. Faint as a floated rose, and still, Forth Prem her wounds a orimeon rill, In wandering ripple, bright and warm, Flowed freshly o'er her neutral form, For one abort swooning moment she Was bathed in brief tranquility ; And from her fade one scarce could tell What fate was her's, if i11 or well : A mingled march of peace, or pain; Her years had gained that confluence when The maiden's faith, the woman's fear, So marvellously mixed appear. Anon hor lips essayed to speak, The blood to tinge each tender cheek ; Beck from the secret dream which hath The still phenomenon of Death ; So passed the trance of peace away, And reason,reaseumed its away, She eaw the Christian standing by ; The Fort that could no more defy; Tho blood becrimsoning her breast Showed wretched memory the rest. Tho ghostly guide with tender hand Suetned her, striving to manage Her fear"Q/lwifh-honea all'underatand, The brllhhte, the savage. and the cage. Five yearn rolled on, yet she remained Encouraged by that Christian care, And every summer added grace; And faith made nature yet more fair. Her glossy looks of raven hair In excellent profusion spread Around a face of tenderness For love dissevered and the dead ; A joy the worldly never had.. Oae eveningwhen the mottled sky Glows orioue in the einkiag sun, When hese, n's serene immensity Seemed throbbing forth the words, well done; And emceed superhuman hoes Adorned each dim declivity Aud shaped the intermingling views As fair as Edens landscapes be, Oramel wandered forth alone To dwell in thought on other days ; And many a vivid vision gone Arose on memory's magic gaze. There flashed in all their fervid force The vales by which those waters came 1 Far by the river's reedy source She naw her early forest home ; The foliage flashing in the breeze, The sparkling stream beneath the trees Melling its beaming waves away Of azure, coursing gorgeously To silent lakes of holy hues All mottled ore with white canoes. Again the dnn deer bound along, Again she hears her sister's song, And tears bedim those sable oyes To view her brother's form arios,, So rudely severed in their glee ; And he hor chosen where is he ? Proud Oatologon, he whose soul Could all her destiny control? He of the darkly beaming eyes, The laet of Prquod royalties: Who sought the freoklcd fawn for her, Whose words would strange emotions stir. What sudden step arrests her ears ? A real form from vanished years Close to her longing sight appears ; Quick as the memory of the heart, By tender intonations stained, The remnant of war's fatal art Stood gazing on her form preferred. As when an eagle high above The orag containing all hie love, Pols a,hia wing a transient while, e if aught has dared despoil nurslings in their gentle nest, So galled he forth from yews of quest : " Oramel, thou remombrest me, I saw It by thy flashing gaze, When on this hilltop suddenly I atood, thy friend of other days ; nee it, for thy oheek'e blood spoke Ere yet thy lips the words out make." " 0, living lover, every tone Of thine renews the gladness gone ; Once more below our cedar tree 1 feel thee wooing even me, As oft before my mother's home 1 watched thee with the evening come. When from the vine the grape was shaken, When from the snare the game was taken, Thy footstep passed' each maiden t door To lay them all mind own before; And 1 was glad to gee thee bring Bright flowers, and birds of vivid wing," " Where is thy pother new ? and those Who fed the vengeance of thy foto 1 Where is thy home eo peaceful seen, Still thro' thy memory glancing green 1 Not in our groves, not on one tree A leaf remains to obelter me ; Bleached bonne, and rub black can tell How fierce the white mania fury fell, And from all rest below the blue Thy foe my footetepe still pursue; And even now, should it bo known My feet were on my father's sod, There le no Cbiletian but would own My death a duty to hia God. I come to lead then to the laud Where men are brave at my command, The Pale Faroe has no portion there, And none to follow ue eliall darn, Our moons will move in skies serene, And, thou shalt be a warrior's queen. Help ;no to harbor mighty braved To kindle war, as swelling waves Roll down the mountain and destroy All who those vales and honor enjoy.' Oramel raised her humid eyen, As mists bedim soft enure seise, " The desolation of our raise Finds tears familiar to my face ; Bat, 'till thin hour, I did Dot know Our fathers' gun had net so low, Andnow another grief is mine, Thiel homelosc lonetinees of thine 1 Yet curse not those who might have brought but e A blight on me, peace have given a g , They taught my apirit life, they taught Patience, and hope, and faith, and heat/ en," " And is the white man's God and thee At peace i" the gloomy chief replied ; " And can our wrongs forgotten be By us whom they have sundered wide, Butchered, and burned 1 and const thou thus Requite our race's wretchedness ? Their (softened lies have filled thy ear Till truth can find no entrance there. Their hateful hearts have hardened thine, Once fall of tenderness for mine. Wore not thy love to me as light, The only moonbeam of my night, I could have spurned even thee, when thou Didat own thy willingness to bow Before their God who lets them do Deeds mournful to our Manitou," " 0, Ontologon, I could leave The kindness of my Christian home, Once more the freo-horn air to breathe, And follow where thy feet may roam, To be the solace of thy fate, Au dwells the wild dove with ite mate. No tones like thine my heart has heard Since sitting by my mother's knee ; She knew not how my soul was stirred When listening to her praiae•of thee ; And atilt I hear my bosom tell Its willingnese with thine to dwell. Oft bave I longed to hear thy voice Fall eddy over early air ; Oft in my dreams, which hold then choice Our infant innocence I share ; Surely thy mire than friend can be God's servant true, and true to thee 1 Aud oft when gazing on the sun Shed his last beams from hill to hill, I wished my day, like his was done, Then bade my aching heart be still ; For I have at Hie altar sworn, And from my vow I dare not turn 1 Yea, Ontologon, I have sworn My feet may not forsake His road ; And tho' with thee I gladly turn, May He not be our guide and God ? Oar faithful love He will not mar In when high charge our omits are," Aa when by winds an ash is shaken, Ere fall, of many leaves forsaken, More storms can bear when these have left, So etood he still of love bereft. " Meet me, Oramel, yet once more 1 I cannot leave thee to thy fate, But for thy safety yon dim shore Shall hide me, near the haunts of hate Then turn again thy tenderfeet And meet me where those waters meet ; When in the stream its star iseieen To gild the gloom of reedy green, My birch canoe ehallwait for thee Below yon shady alder tree ; And we will rail to safer climes, Unknown to Cheistiane or their crimes." He turned, and vanished in the shade, And night returned around the maid. You who have br:rnethe blame, and blight, Of acorn for love of God and right ; Tortured by levee incertitude Which is the sail's most fatal mood, Have found enough to make a fate Unutterably desolate, if not upheld by that which given Thy heart the hope wherein it liven. He who had planted fn her breast The thrilling raptures of unrest; Whom she in thought, to death resigned, Had suddenly returned to find Elenoeforth her ism and his must be The sunset of their destiny, Again another day has gore, And silent evenings florid glow Is lovely in the sky above, And lovely in the vale below, As from her orient abode The moon moved up her mottled road. Again another day has gone, Tho hosts of starry space appear ; Each smiling from his ancient zone, As if there were no sorrows here ; Again the waving groves receive The silver veeturee moonbeams weave. And, hail revealed by light and shade, So eoftly sifted o'er the scene, Stood Ontologon and the maid Beneath an umber alder soreen ; Ho held her hand but gazed apart, To hide her beauty from his heart, "Ocamel, since I saw' thee last, DI y way with clouds was overoaet ; Tho' time is gracious in the nun, My hours like streams of midnight run ; My hopes as withered blossoms baro To no thee in the serpent's snare. Maddened by fears of losing thee To him, my hated enemy, I spoke the strong and stormy words, FIerce as the goaded forest herds, For thou alone art leit to blears My recollection's wretchedness, I think how dark my moons will move, With none of all my kind to love 1 There lives no feet but thine to come In Ontologon's lonely home ! 'Tia thine to fill ire vaaaxit place, And aid me raise my fallen raoe. But now thine eyes tbo answer own The way shall not be trod alone, For thou shalt be the eummer beams To my chilled spirit's icebound streams. The hills, tho streams that wo behold Spread forth in moonlight mistily, Our butchered brethren ownedef old, From, all their octanes to rho sea. On many 'an ancient mountain brow The oouno£l fires aro quenched, and now No Pegnod speeds his pine oanoo Along the lanes of liquid blue, Gono, like the fish when floods are dry, Like flowers when rain forgets the sky Gone are the liege when frosts begin— Oar white foobribod the Mohlebn To hide by night amid the brake, As spiders tartare the prey, or snake, They, 'prang among us in our sleep, And none rernained at morn to weep, The;Unuas joined tho Christian foe, And gave ua words which end in woe;. They brought us fire; drink, and they gave The red mendraughts to make them rave ; They roused our pawaione into wrong, Then aleughtored ue when they grew strong. But now the *shadows longer grow, And Ontologon too must go, An outoast in another land, Witlt none to take him by the hand,. With none, when sick, to give him bread, Or over him the blanket spread ; With noneto bury him, or tell Where Oatolcgon's ashes dwell." "I will go with thee, yea, forsake My home, thy future path to make Lens desolate o'er many a hill ; But hinder not, 0 let mo stili Bow, tho' I bow alone, to Him Whose eyea with love were often dim, 0: where the western rivers roil, To keep his S abbathe in my soul ?" "'Oramel, I must not deceive Thy spirit, tho' my answers grieve, For wall I know the white mane vow Is vacant as this moonlit glow; His word is fair bat never binds More than the pausing summer wiz de. My heart is happier in its gloom Than thou could'et make it, if to come With thy foe's plague spot on thy breast To break my father's future rest. If thy green pathway joins with mine, The Christian God ehatl ne'er be thine, Maid of the darkly tender ego, Our days aro rolling ewlfftly by ; Drone as a shrub forsaken plain, A leafless landaeapo in the rain, Agc•bendod man, with moonlit hair, While waiting in the valley where Death's sea receives' the troubled stream, Look back and call it all a dream 1 How oft we find the crooked path A sudden termination hath 1 Oramel, hear ! our hunting grounds, Beyond the midnight thunder sounds, • With all their herds, or fields of light, Without thee, would not nut my eight, Oramel, onc3 again I plead - 0 lead me, let thy white feet lead Back to the Manitou, my guide, In this world and the next, my bride. He will forgive that thou didn't speak 01 wandering, for the heart is weak. Yon moving moon begins to lower, My bark is swaying near ashore ; My home beyond the hilly is thine, Then place thy faithful hand in mine," " Friend of my spirit, freely take My lowly future ; for thy sake More than this life I could resign, Or all the seasons that wore mine, Since last we parted by the still Green valley of our village hill. The waterlily doth not give Much shadow to the willing wave. Then why refaso that I may live In love her and beyond our grave ? Do rills e•ffand their fountain source, For refuge rolling to the sea/ Surely to shape my coming course In peace can scarcely hinder thee, When hunting with thy loving bride ? Christ's lovers death can ne'er divide, For after such our souls shall go Where ever -flashing rivers flow. But, in my soul I dare not be False to my God for even thee." "Then cleave to thy deceiver's side, And be a base betrayer's bride. A slave to his luxurious lust ; His boast, who never kept a trust. Was it for this my heart has borne Dark days of every solace shorn, Save the one hope my memory held Of the—too suddenly dispelled ? Was it for this I bowed my pride ? For thee, near hateful foes to hide? Crouching, when dawn his flag unfurled, Until the daylight left the world ? Risking my hated life to share Unseen near then the selfsame air. Then came when misty starlight rolled Bright stillness where thy footsteps atrollod Once more to hear the only voice That said, or e'or can say, rejoice 1 For this I dragged from day to day The life I longed to cast away, When on these hills estranged I strode To view afar thy dim abode ; Yet seemed to hear the lone wind sigh, " Oramel liveth, wherefore die ?" So have I yearned thy tones to hoar ; And when thy words fell in my ear : "I will go with thee," sudden light Burst in upon my soul of night. But we have met• to part, behold 1 My coming moon is doubly cold ; I' hear tho,mldnighttempeet moan, I meet my murdered rano alone, cannot boar that thou shouldet be ,Pained by the heart that leveth thee lapine its pawls to beguile, And teach !hy solitude to smile. I pray thee, Outologon, near My transient Moly, many a tear Refused to leave its dried heart, Since first from mine thy path did part. When last I eaw thee leave our home, Afar o'er threat hilts to roam, I did net think such years of pain Would peso before we met again : But they have fled my early friend And all that are to come will end ; And each year's solitary flight Seemed to contain lese day than night, Until a more than mortal joy Came down my darkness, to (loamy, Then my glad spirit's holy glow Vowed heaven au enduringeaves And gladly would I read to thee Those words of rapture, "pardon me.' The words are wise of which I epake ; Bat shellbe•ellent for thy sake," At length, hie teething somewix•st aped, He slow addressed the suffering maid ; His voice seemed mild, nor did unfold His desolation unoansoled. "11 thou wilt make my future thine, And be forever wholly mine, Not even dreary death will dare Thy trusting soul from mine to tear ; But choose tey fathers' rnurderer'a God, And take a separated road," And she must speak her lover's doom. Tho' with heehoart's blood words must come -- How in her faithful apixlt strove Her love to God, her human love 1— A glance o'er life, the hopes that meek— Anon hie fate the silenca woke— " Ontolagon, spare my woe 1 I dare not from my Saviour go 1" Then with a gesture slow he drove Hie still bark from the reedy cove Of alder shadows whore it swung Tho moon -forsaken waves among. But soon he ceased to row, and still The boat went drifting at its will ; 'Twee that reaction which succeeds The struggle when the spirit bleeds. (Unmet stood there on the hill That overlooks the bending shore ; Sho watched her wavering hope, until He vaniehed, to return no more. He did not raise his head or hand, He sought no signal from the land, No tenter aign to check the pain Of parting, ne'er to meet again. A parting farther than the grave, The wreck of all she Bought to save. And o'er her soul the feeling came That she must bear hia blighting blame For all their future's wreak and doom ; And, 0, the thought 1 his life of gloom 1 And memory all hie words retraced In fondness ne'er to be defaced, And round her spirit's tissues wove Hie last and words of grief and love— A fearful tumult of the brain 1 A mental whirl where naught was plain, Save that he would not come again. No sound awoke the silence save The ripple of the reedy wave, A rustle of a rising gale Among the willows of the vale. Andwhen tie misty moonlight ceased, And morning lit the misty east With emblems of returning day, She homeward took her weary way, 1138O14'AL ;POINV'8. King Theebaw is an expert poker player, Sir Maine Dlike lives in the. old hems of Charles Reade, oalled by the latter ''N sboth'a Vineyard," Ironyle the chemist whose experiments led to the diseovory of the modern match, has just died at k'eath, The oentenaey of the birth of Ludwig I of Bwaria will be calobrated elaborately at Munich on July 8, 9 and 10. The late Prince "Torronia left a fortune of $20,000,000, to be divided equally between Inc only ohild and. her eldest eon, Although •Kosanth is eightmfonr yours old, it le maid that he entered withspirit into the recent carnival festivities at Naples, Lord Wentage has given twenty acres ot land at Blewbury, noir Willingford, Eng• land, for the Bite of the Gordon Meraerlal Industrial Schools. Mra. Mary Granb Cramer, sister of Gen, Grant, le lecturing in Mmeaobueetta under the auspices of the Woman's Chriettan Tani• pannier Ualmn.. Den Rice, the one-time famous Shakes- pearean circus clown, ie lecturing in Texas and la said to receive $500 a week for hie oratorical ground ana lofty tumbling. Queen Victorle'a repent attend ne:a of a performance of "Mora et VIta" at Albert Hall, London, was to a day ten years after her last previous visit to that building, Cope Whitehouse, the American expert in Egyptian lore, has left Naples for the Nile. He claims to have discovered in Ceuta' Egept the basin of auclont Lake Moeda. Professor J. H. Siddone, a grandson of the great Sarah Siddone, died in Washing- ton recently. He waa born in Calcutta in 1500, and built and managed the first theatre in that city. Ha was at one time editor of the London iirmy and Navy Gazelle. Prince Louie Napoleon is having a good time in India. On the 13.h of January- be went into the jungle and shot his first tiger. The next day ilia contribution to the bag was a rhinoceros, and a few daye•later, in a hunt after wild elephants, he brought down a fine old " tucker." A young New Englander recently mar- ried a full-blooded Indian girl. He may wear the trousers flu that family, but the chances are even that` before the year is out she will wear moat of the hair. A wild hog la northern Alabama has become the acknowledged master of a large tract of wooded country. Hunters give the plane a wide berth. A few days ago the animal Iacerated a pack of hounds so badly that they will never be of service again. A. J. Holland of Mason Valley, Nev., has raised three kittens that be obtaiued from the nest of a wild cat that he had killed. They have become thoroughly dcmoaticated, and, though now but four months old, aro good ratters. Fifty members of the engineering de- partment of Columbia College will occupy barracka next enmmer on Bantam Lake, near Litchfield, Conn., taking their meals at a neighboring hotel. An instrument house be being built, and a course of prac- tical study will be followed. A son of Jay Gould f'- one of the class. TILT T44ME-KILN OLV When the meeting had been opened irk lie form Brother Gardner said; "D has, bin suggested by seberal memberit tat dig alai) orter hey u watehword. We. tarted out wid one, bot It some how got oat n es an' edody ewn aaok to lookdebushfur it, Whiirso I has nobur portieo}t ler objeokahun to a watchword, my export - sate twd'em has taaghtme dot dey has got . to be put up in a good deal of sugar to be. f guy'count, 'Liberty or Death' am a good watchword, if picked at the right season of de year, but t won't prevent butes from wearing out noir ahillin' from oryin' fur bread, r "1 once knowed a man who took de watch word of 'Dar Am Room at de Top.' He kept it in hie pocket all day and put it under his pillar at night,, In two y'are he was in de pro' house. He found room on de top floc'. "1 knowed anoder min who 'dopted de watchword o N r p itch ord f . obs Despair.' It `hit elm exaetly. When his wife was b'arfut, ale ehill'en hungry an' hie rent two months behind he put on a rennin' face an' thought of his watchword. He sat on de fence in de eummer, ars' not by de saloon stove in de winter, an' de las' I heard of him he was in jail fur six months fur plekin' up property oelongin' t o anoder man "It.Mn't in de motto sn much as in de man. You kin shout : `Upward an' On - weed 1' an' atiIl go down hill all de time. While I has no Ultimatum, of bein' personal I would inggest de folierin' personal watch- words : "S Lemuel Shin : 'Let Policy Alone.' "Whalebone Howl=: `Sell Off Some o' Yer D�ga,' "Pickles Smith : 'Laziness am de doah to de State Prison v "Trustee Pullback : 'De man who 11bn off his naybu'a shouldn't growl ober de fare.' " Rotunda Jackson : 'De man who has too much gab am wags off than e. dumb man.' "Da euujiok am one which will keep, an' any of you who am deeply interested kin br ng it up at de next meson'." Tne Secketary of " The High Old Boys" branch club, at Louisville, reported that his organization ter s a bad way. The Presi- dent had skipped the city, the janitor was in jail for fa'se pretenses, and the Treasurer tai started for New Orleans, taking the club monay with bim. Tae rn=_mbers had be rime civil ed on the question : "le a paper collar goed enough for a • colored man ?' and at the last meeting thirteen pee.— pie were crippled for life. Under these circumetancee he believed it his duty t¢t turrender the charter. " De Sackretary will wrl4•e him to mail rte de charter at onee," observed t he President, " an notia will be sent out dat de Louisville branch am no mo'. I neber'spected much from dat branch. Fac's am, de cull'd popn- lashun of dat city am a auras lot au' not to be depended on. Day nebber did stan' up .. agin advaraity worf a cent, an' if dar am any mcetin' on hand everybody wants to bee bean" President Cleveland denies that he has the marvelous memory his flatterers have ascribed to him, He says his memory is very capricious, often retaining trifling de• tails regarding some cross-roads postoffios while letting slip matters ot the first im- portance. Countess Irene Taaffe, wife of the Austri- an Premier, recently told a friend that she would be obliged to sell her wardrobe to give a marriage dowry to hereldest daughter. There is a question whether she is alightly deranged or was merely giving her friend a little taffy. Mr. Henry Irving'e oldest eon, having been euccenaful in amateur dramatic per- formances, is determined to go upon the pro- feseional stage, but his father, although anxioue to do so, declares himself unable to aaeiet him in doing so, on account of the pre• sent system of organizing theatrioal cora- psalm, A winder€ul Chinese boy is mentioned in the report of a misaionary at Pekin, At a recent examination he repeated the entire New Testament without missing a single word or making one mistake. He is now committing to memory Dr. Martin's "Evi- dences of Christianity," a task which he will soon accomplish. Alexander H. Stephens' grave is still un- marked, but above the grave of Harry Stevens, his colored servant, a stone has been erected bearing the legend : ' He was for many years the faithful, trusted and be- loved body servant of Alexander H. Ste- phens,. Like him he was distinguished for kindnese, uprightness and benevolence. An a man he was honest and true. As a Chris- tian he was humble and trusting." It le said that the head of a great dry - goods store in Perla. M. Jaluzot, was about to marry recently a lady of high position and noble family. He requested the head of the Orleans family, the Comte de Paris, to serve as a witness. The an±wer returned by the seerotary of the Prince was "Monseigneur cannot render such a service except to a ti- tled person." This answer ie about the most unpopular statement that the Comte de Paris, who pretends to be something of a democrat, could have sent to a Frenetarean. Princess Ypsilanti, whose bankruptcy has excited so mach gossip in Vienna,and, in fact, thoughont Europe, is a daughter of the celebrated banker Baron Sinn, and widow of the late Grecian Minister. Prince Ypsil- anti was an ins rrigible gambler, and before his death had spent aoveral fortunes, mort- gaged his estates, and induced his wife to sign heavy bills guaranteed by her personal property. At the death of the Prinoe his creditors immediately bosiegad the to for- tunate Princess, who, to protect herself, was obliged to declare herself a bankrupt. Her health broke down under this strain. " BELIEVE THE HORSE SHOE TIIEoBY," SAYS BOGGS, " EVERYTHHING SEEMS TO 00 BETTER ; ItVSINESS sEExS naroreeen, YOU'RE Amon were ER," 1•itiT A srDDEN MUCH OP THE STEr'tADDER SOMEWHAT a oim'IED ins VIEWS ON THE SUBJEOT, FOR THE musEr k. The Keeper et the Sacred Relies repor ted tie receipt of the following valuable addi- tions to the museum : From Boston—A kereeene can carried by one of the American army as Washington crossed the Delaware. Also, a table -leg sup- posed to be 3,000 years old, and to have once belonged to an Egyptian King. From Memphis— A batcher-knife with the name of "Plato" engraved on the handle, HE DOES. The Secretary announced a communication from Chicago asking if the President of the Lime -Kiln Club believed in hanging for murder, end Brother Gardner replied : "Dat an' de Bsptiat religion am two of de things I believe in veld all my heart. I go funder. I believe dat, ebery convicted b rg- lar should be treated as a convicted rap er- er, an' also be made to pull hemp, De man who cemmite crime veld his eyes wide open merits de full punishment of law, an' it am no mo don a lost law which demands an eye fur an eye an' a tooth fur a tooth. When it eomea to gittin rid of red-handed murder- srs an' murderous burglars, nuffin' am so oalkerlated to give de public satlsfackehnn as de knowledge dat de hangman knows hie. bizeese an' has a noose waitin'." TO THE BITTER END, A postal Board iron a lawyer at Montgom- ery, Ala., gave notice that he had been re- tained by the Han. Free Soil Chivington to begin a suit against the Lime -Kiln Club, lay- ing his damages at $50;000. Mr Chivington •.pplihd for membership a few weeks ago, end was rejected on the ground that he atilt carried a lot of bird -shot fired into bim five years ego by the owner of a watermelon patch near Opelika The plaintiff declares the statement to lee Woe, and will sue for the amount named. The Secretary wasinstruotad to reply tr the strict that the suit would be contested to the bitter end. MORE II.IPOSTOBS. The Secretary announced that three different impostors were traveling through the country at the preeent time personating members of the Lime•Ktln Cub and duping many innocent people. The worst of the trio -is a chap who claims to be the Rev. Pen - stook, who is operating in Missouri and Kan- sas. He is bowlegged, blind of one eye and talks through hie nose, and bas been Belling memberships in the club for $1. Oa motion of Waydown Bebee, the Presi- dent was authorized to offer a reward of $25 for the dead body of ons of the three. , WHY NOT, Judge Chews() arose to ask for informa- tion, He bad heard dozens of people inquire` why the-olub did not celebrate Washington's birthday, and he would now ask the rem- ota; --Mo' dan two y'are ago, sah," replied the President with considerable austerity, "die club resolved to celebrate bat once a y'ar, an' it was funder decided to combine Thanks- givin', Chris mag` an' New Y'ar'e into one ginoral holiday an' call it Thankechr ieyear'e, if members would post up on purceedin's it might save 'em mo' or less emberraseme nt." "Doan' we celebrate Fo'th of July ?", asked the Judge. "Not as a body, If anybody wants to drink lemonade, eat cokernuts an' foller a brass band aroun' town der am no objeok- ahnna, but eioh of we as prefer to sot down:. under de plum tree in de back yard an' feel eorry kin not be deprived of de privilegeOby any aekalinn of do club, We will now escape horuewsrds." Accurate information. Wifa—Mrs. Smith is an awfully slovenly woman. She leaved ieverything to the) sem v' ate, and her three children just rug wild, It's a shame, mereband—How do you knew all this, my dear? Wife—How do I know it all ? A:trE' I not over there half tiro time ? unit e-*+ ------- The increase in membership in heathen lands is thirty times greater than at home in proportion to the number of ministers employed, althoughh the tests of disciple. ship are of tho most trying nature.