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NEWS SUMMARY.
Im|)ortant Intelligence from AllParts.
DomestiCa
• Sxow fell all day on the lTtb. at Little
Sock, Arlr.,*an event said to be -without parallel in thati region.
DiPHtHERiiprevails to an alarming degree
3n various sections of the Union. Whole
families have been attacked at Petersburg,
"Va., and Eacine, Wis. In the latter city four
children -were buried from one house.
According to statements made in the daily
newspapers manufacturing butter out of lard
by means of chemical manipulation has recently become a regular business in Chicago
and other Western cities.
Two tvomek- and three children in Cleveland -were recently fatally asphyxiated by the
gas from a base-burning stove.
At a conference of magnates representing
all the Pacific Roads and every Mexican
grant conceding a railroad, held in Neiy York
on the evening of the ISfch, and presided
over by General Grant, it "was unanimously
resolved to fuse in one scheme all the interests represented, and a sub-committee was
appointed, with General Grant as chairman,
to perfect a plan at once.
There is a fuel famine in San Francisco,
and in some portions of Iowa school houses
have been closedior the lack of something to
burn..
Three more of the inmates of the Minne-
•sota Insane Asylum died on the 18th from
the effects of exposure and inhalation of
smoke the night the building burned. The
known deaths f rom   that   catastrophe num-
• bered twenty-nine up to the morning of the
39tb, and eighfcof the inmates were still missing, and there was little doubt they perished
jn, the flames. Governor Pillsbury had offered to advance, out of his private funds the
money required to rebui Id the Asylum.
The report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture for ^November gives the total amount
of'the wlfeat product of the State for 1SS0 as
53,532,794 bushels, an average yield of 18 3-10
bushels per acre. The yield for 1S79 was 41,-
053,120, -averaging 17 7-10 bushels per acre.
• The exports of breadstuff s from the United
States for the ten months preceding the 1st
inst. amounted in value to $331*333,038.- For
the corresponding period last*year the aggregate value was §20S, 005,344, the increase for
1S80 being §23,333,694.
The attendance at the Patrons of Husbandry Convention at Washington on the
ISth; was the largest in the history of that organization. Thirty States were represented.
The officers' reports show that the association is gaining in numbers and otherwise.
Jons Shufeldt, of North Adams, Mass.,
was tried about two years ago for the murder
of hfs wife. The evidence against him was
not sufficient to convict. The Sheriff at
North Adams has recently made the discovery that. Shufeldt's wife, for whose murder
he had been tried, was alive and well.
The new census of St. Louis was completed
on $he evening of the 18th and shows a. population of 350,915, a gain of 17,333 over the
iir§6 enumeration.
A North Gauoltxa young lady recently
committed suicide because her father was
defeated in his race for the Legislature at the
late election.
The St. Louis Smelting Works were burned
a few days ago.  Loss about $10.1,000.
The' Chicago Grain and Provision Exchange, a '-bucket shop" of more than ordinary pretensions, has sustained a loss of
about §100,000 on pork and stocks during the
last ninety days,, and failed on the 19th.
The census of Philadelphia is officially reported at 846,989, divided as follows:   Males,
405,899;   females, 441,0S1;    white,    815,182;
colored, 31,798.   The colored include 80 Chi-
. nese, three Japanese and 25 Indians.
Bedford anx> Queexax, colored, were executed at Washington on the 19th. for the
murder of George P. Birth in January last.
It is said that these are the first persons ever
executed in the District.
The town of Jamison in Plumas County,
Ca1., was destroyed by fire on the 19th.
A dispatch Was received at the Department of State in Washington on the 18th announcing that a treaty on the subject; of immigration had been concluded between, the
United States Commissioners and the Government of China. In the absence of Secretary Evarts from the Capital the State De-
• partment declined to make public the text of
the treaty. It was understood, however, that
the Secretary regarded the provis ons as
highly satisfactory, and as covering the whole
subject of Chinese immigration into this
country-
There .was a|; frost in Louisiana on the
niejht of the I9th, which inflicted but slight
damage to the sugar crop in the river par-
wishes, but injured the cane in St. Laundry.
A New Orleans telegram says the sugar crop
of the State, partially estimated, will be 237,-
000 hogsheads, an increase of 71,000 hogsheads over 1879. The molasses yield will exceed that of 1879 by 810,000 gallons.
Wabh, who was sentenced to oehanged at
. Indianapolis on the 26th, was granted a respite by Governor Williams until the 24th of
.February. His execution was postponed that
lie might be used as a witness against his accomplice, Mrs. Brown, the wife of his victim.
Fodr men were killed and four others
wounded by the explosion of a mill-boiler at
Stevenson, Ala., on the 19th.
I.Nare'cent footrace at Brockton, Mass.,
Kearns, of Natick, and Hoppeng, of Boston,
each running half the distance,- got over
twenty miles in 1 hour 53 minutes 26 seconds,
defeating the Englishman, Wurburton, who
ran the entire distance.
Dow,   682.   Total
plurality,   53,238;
The vote of Massachusetts, as officially declared, is: For Garfield, 165,198; Hancock,
111,960; Weaver, 4,548;
vote, 2S2,388. Garfield's
majority over all, 48,008.
General Garfield celebrated the 49th
anniversary of his birth at the house of his
uncle, Thomas Garfield, at Warrensvllle,
.Ohio, on the 19th. It was also the 79th anniversary of the birth of the uncle. The
only participants in the affair were members
of the family, of whom about thirty were
present.
Sigxor Blitz, the famous ventriloquist
and sleight-of-hand performer, was killed a
few days ago by the accidental discharge -of
his gun while duck-hunting near Little Ferry,
N. J".
Rev. J. Hxatt Smith, member of Congress-
elect, Rev. Justin D. Fulton, Rev. Theodore
Cuyler and other prominent gentlemen of
Brooklyn, N, Y-, have signed a petition praying President Hayes to restore colored Cadet
Whittaker to his former position and place,
on the ground that no act of wrong-doing has
been proven against him.
The official vote of Oregon gives Garfield
763 majority.
. At the municipal election in" Chatanooga,
Tenn., on the lSJh, Hart (Republican) was
elected Mayor by 117 majority. Of the five
Aldermen elected three are Democrats and
two Republicans.
The aggregate vote of Wisconsin for President this year was 267,162. Garfield received
144,399; Hancock, 114,653; Weaver, 7,9S2;
Phelps (Anti-Masonic), 91; Dow, 3?. Garfield's plurality, 29,746; majority over all, 21,-
636. The total vote of the State in 1S76 was
257,312.
The total vote in Virginia at the late election was 212,606. Hancock received 128,5S6
and Garfield 84,020. Hancock's majority, 44,-
566.
Foreign.
SanDomingo has invited all American
Governments to contribute toward a monument to be erected over the remains of Christopher Columbus, found there three years or
so ago.
The Pope has appointed Cardinal Jacobin i
Pontificial Secretary of State.
The schooner Abraham Lincoln recently
foundered off the coast of Liberia, thirty persons finding graves in the sea. t
A Dublin telegram of the 17th says there
was no cessation of agrarian outrages in that
country. On that day the owner of an extensive estate in County Cork was reported
to have been shot.
A Teheran dispatch received on the 18th
says that a great battle took place at Ourmiah
on the 13th, the loss being" heavy on both
sides. The Kurds were repulsed, but burned
the village and massacred two hundred citizens.
The natives in Northern Cashmere, India,
have rebelled.
A Galway landlord was recently tarred
and feathered by a band of infuriated peasants.
A London telegram of the 18th says Par-
nell, the Irish Land agitator, had announced
aliberaLreduetion of rents to his tenants.
A British regiment at Halifax has been-
ordered to sail for Ireland.
A heavy snow-storm prevailed throughout
Scotland on the 18th.
It is stated that the Irish Land League has
converted its funds into foreign securities
and deposited them in a Continental bank to
forestall seizure.
Eighteen families were evicted from their
holdings during a recent snow-storm at Durham, England.
The statement is made that since the deposition of Ismail Pasha and the departure
of General Gordon the Egyptian slave trade
has flourished with all its old-t:me vigor.
Count Karoli, of Vienna, who killed
Count Zichy in a duel, has been sentenced to
three .months' imprisonment.
An explosion of fire damp at Mons, Belgium, on the 19th killed twelve Then and injured fifteen others.
Twenty-three lives were lost by the re- •
cent foundering of the British steamer Mildred off the coast of Ireland.
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Personal and Political.
Governor Davis, of Maine, has issued a
proclamation declaring that 57,015 votes were
castin favor o", and 35,402 against, the amendment to the State Constitution, making only
a plurality of votes necessary to elects a Governor, and that the amendment has become a
part of the Constitution.
The New York  Grand Jury on the 17th
- found ari indictment against Kenward Philp
for libel against General Garfield.
The official vote of New York* City for
President is: Hancock, 123,015; Garfield,,
8J,686;_ Weaver, 610; Dow, 26. Total, 205,-
337. Hancock's plurality, 41,329; majority,
40,693.   Total vote of the city in 1876,171,091.
Salvini, tSiegreat actor, reached New York
on'the 18th.
The Alabama Democratic Legislative caucus on the 18th nominated James L. Pagn for
United States Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator Houston.
The official returns in Kansa? give Garfield
118,368 votes; Hancock, 58,684; Weaver,
1$,945. Garfield's plurality, 59,684; majority
over all, 40,739. For the Prohibition ameiirt-
,: went there were 89,072 votes cast, and 82,525
votes against; showing a majority for the
' amendment of 6,547.
The Grand Jury at San Francisco on the
19th indfeted Mayor KalJoeh for securing the
appointment of a. clerk and demanding and
receiving a. part of hie salary.
LATER ISTEWS.
An employe of a sausage factory at Wee-
hawken, N. J., was recently caught by the
hair in the belt of a fly-wheel, and whirled
about until decapitated.
William R. Grace, Mayor-elect - of New
York City, took the oath of office on .the 20th.
Washington telegrams of the 21st state
that it had been ascertained that the :new
treaty with China is a modification of that
made by Minister Burlingame, and its scope
is mainty to restrict further immigration to
this country—an object said to be equally desired by both Governments. It was believed
at Washington that the new treaty will satisfy all but the most extreme *of the anti-
Chinese element on the Pacific coast.
Secretary Ramsey estimates the expenditures of the War Department for the next fiscal year at $43,627,055. The Eads jetties in
the Mississippi are pronounced a success.
The expenditures of the Department for the
past fiscal were $39,924,773. The Secretary
concurs in General Sherman's recommendation that the number of enlisted troops of
the line be increased to 25,000 men.
During the week ended November 20
there were distributed 422,987 standard silver
dollars. The number distributed during the
corresponding week in 1879 was 346,491.
Immigrants to the number of 61,312 arrived
in this country during the month of October.
Field Marshal General Sir Charles
Yorke, a veteran of the Peninsula and
Waterloo, died suddenly in London on the.
night of the 21st.   He was ninety years old.
One of the missing lunatics at St. Peter
was found on the 20th in a pile of straw in a
P'g"6^'. nearly dead from cold.
The official vote of Mississippi for President is as follows: Hancock, 75,842; Garfield, 34,844; Weaver, 5.783; scattering, 670.
Total-vote 117,139. Hancock's plurality, 40,-
998; majority over all, 34,545.
Governor James D. Williams, of Indiana,
died about noon on the 20th, at his home in
Indianapolis. He was nearly severity-three
years of age. He was elected to Congress in
1874 and Governor of Indiana In 1876.
Sir Alexander Cockburn,- Chief-Justice
of the Queen's Bench, died in London on the
night of the 20th, of disease of the heart. "He
was seventy-eight years old.
Five persons were arrested near Loughrea,
Ireland, on the 20th, for aiding in the reinstatement of an evicted family.' Land meetings were held at many points in the country
on the 21st, the- parish priests in many instances taking an active part.
A. B. Meacham, the Ute Commissioner,
has been arrested by the authorities of Colorado as accessory to the murder of Jackson,
the freighter.
During the past year 00 boarding and 150
day schools have, according to the report of
the-Indian Bureau, been maintained among
the varions tribes, exclusive of the-five
classed as civilized in the Indian Territory.
The number of Indians in the entire country
is set down at 255,933, over 70,000 of whom
J are colonized in the Indian Territory.
General Sherman's Annual Keport.
Washington, November 15.
The annual report of General Sherman to the Secretary of War is given to
the public to-day. After calling attention to varions subordinate reports, the
General says:
"I agree withGeneralSheridanthatthearniy
is too small in enlisted men to fulfill the heavy
duties now imposed on it, and is overworked.
I, therefore, renew my recommendation of-
last year that Congress be asked to give 35,000
enlisted men specifically to the troops of the
line of the army, and to make a separate provision for detachments 'of advance men,'
'engineer battalion,' 'hospital stewards,'
'commissary sergeants,' 'West Point detachments,' 'detailed clerks,' etc., in the same
manner as has already been< done for the
Signal Corps. In this connection I will venture to call your attention to the fact that the
Revised Statutes, edition of 1878, Sec. 1,115,
defining the organization of the army, limits
the strength to 'not more than 30,0DJ enlisted
men,' but subsequent appropriation bills by
provisos have limited the expenditures to 35,-
000 enlisted men. Still the legal strength is
30,000 enlisted men, aud that number is the
least possible at which we can maintain the
present organization of forty regiments in
anything like good order, discipline and economy, and I infer this end can be reached by
simply omitting the provisos in the next appropriation bill.
" The prosperous times and easy financial
condition of the Treasury way now enable
Congress to provide suitable Armaments for
the forts which guard the chief harbors of the
country."
Speaking of the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, General
Sherman says:
•' These, railroads have completely revolutionized our country in the past few years,
and impose on the military an entire change
of policy. Hitherto we have been compelled
to maintain small posts along wagon and stage
routes of travel. These are no longer needed,
because no longer used, aud the settlements
which grow up speedily along the new railroads afford the security necessary, and the
regular stations built for storage at convenient distances afford the necessary shelter
f or stores, and for the men when operating in
the neighborhood. We should now absolutely
abandon many of the smaller posts hitherto
necessary, and concentrate at strategic points,
generally near the National frontier or where
railroads interect, so as to send out de*
taehments promptly to districts where needed. *     «. * * * * *
"In my judgment the time has now come
for the military authorities to select a suitable strategic point for permanent occupation
and improvement, whence detachments can
be sent out for special service. As long as we
pos36ss and must care for these small posts it
is impossible to abandon them to waste, and
we ate forced to hold them, butif Congress will
designate to the President, the Secretary of
War and a Board of Officers the right to sell
these posts and appropriate the proceeds of
sale to strategic points, I am certain it will result in great economy and enable us to maintain large garrisons With increased discipline
and better service. For similar reasons and
because the conimerce'of the world is carried
on in ships of 3,000 tons and over, and because
of the heavy draft of war vessels, most of our
sea-coast defenses are superfluous. We now
have 50,000,000 people, and the idea of any
hostile force landing on our coast is
preposterous; yet our great commercial ports
should be made so safe that even an apprehension of danger would not be felt. Portland,
Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia,
Hampton Koads, Port Royal, Key West, Pen-
sacola, New Orleans, San Diego, San Francisco and Port Townsend should all be properly
fortified and garrisoned. All minor forts
should be sold or abandoned. An annual appropriation of §1,000,000 would in ten years put
these forts in good order, and another million
a year would properly arm them, and the Secretary of War and President should have discretion in the disbursement of this money,
Artillery officers should also be associated
with engineers in constructing, altering and
repairing sea-coast defenses, because the men
who have to fight these batteries should have
something to do in their construction."
Referring to the reports of General Schofield
and Colonel Getty relative to West Point and
the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, General Sherman says:
" In my judgment both these institutions are
in a3 good order as possible, and both are an
honor to the country. Education must always
be the surest basis of National security and
honor. The education and manly training imparted to young men at West Point have repaid
the United States a thousand times their cost,
and have more than verified the predictions of
General Washington. „ From time to time
periodical complaints have arisen to its prejudice, such as occurred last year in regard to
the colored cadet, Whittakerl -A thorough,
patient, close investigation in the midst of a
tumult of abuse resulted in the perfect vindication of the authorities of that Academy.
Every cadet at West Point is an appointee of
a member of Congress, each member having a
cadet of his own nomination there, with
only ten appointed by the President at
of cadets is . there-
counterpart of our
Representatives. The
same laws, the same regulations, the same instruction books, clothing and food are common to all, and a more democratic body never
existed on earth than is the corps of cadets.
Prejudice is alleged against colored cadets.
Prejudice of race is the most difficult to contend against of any in this world.- There is no
more such prejudice at West Point than in the
country at large, aud the practice of equality
at West Point is in advance of the rest of the
country. The authorities at the Academy
have no voice in the selection of candidates,
and must receive, train and educate such as
are there, regardless of nationality, color, or
previous condition. To discriminate in favor
Of a colored boy by reason of his color is as
much a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as to discriminate,
against him, perfect impartiality being the
rule, and that, Ibelieve, the authorities at West
Point have endeavored to follow. In this connection 1 desire to state that in my judgment
the requirement that all enlisted men of tho
Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and of the Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry shall be colored men, while the officers are white, is not
consistent with the amendment of the Constitution referred to. All men should be enlisted
who are qualified, and assigned to regiments
regardless of color or previous condition.
Such has been the law and usage in the n avy
for years, and the army would soon grow accustomed to it. No body of men on earth has
more reverence for the Oonstitutjonjind laws
than the army, and I pledge my own and the
good faith of all in the service to enforce faithfully every part of the Constitution of the
United States, and every law made in pursuance thereof. General Scholield is abundantly able to enf orctf the laws and regulations of
the academy."
The report concludes as follows:
" In conclusion, I beg to state ttiat the en-'
tiro army is, in my opinion, as patriotic, as
patient, as willing to encounter danger and
bard service, as at any former period of our
history, Tho rapid extension of railroads and
mails has much Improved the general condition and oontentment of tho officers and men,
and they simply suffer the usual fate of peace
in slow promotion and the apprehension of
changes which never come. The country is so
large that regimental transfers and changes
are costly, and the coiisoquenc6 has been
many regiments have remained longer in remote quarters than seemed fair: but I have
endeavored to make the regimental ohanges
as fast as possible, consistent with the annual
appropriations,"
large. The corps
fore a youthful
National House   of
THANKSGIVING.
What time the latest flower hath bloomed,
The latest bird has southward flown;
When silence weaves o'er garnered sheaves
Sweet idyls in our northern zone;
When scattered children rest beside
The hearth, and hold the mother's hand-
Then rolls Thanksgiving's ample tide
Of fervent praise across the land.
And though the autumn stillness broods
Where spring was glad with song and stir,
Though summer's grace leave little trace
On fields that smiled at sight of her,
Still glows the sunset's altar fire,
With crimson flame and heart of gold,
And faith uplifts,- with strong desire
And deep content, the hymns of old.
We bless our God f or-wondrous wealth,
Through all the bright benignant year;
For shower and rain, for ripened grain;
For gift and guerdon, far and near.
We bless the ceaseless Providence
That watched us through the peaceful days,
That led us home or brought us thence,
And kept us in our various ways.
And it the hand so much that gave
Hath something taken from our store,
If caught from sight, to Heaven's pure light,
Some precious ones are here no more,
We still adore the Friend above,
Who, while earth's road grows stee'p and dim
Yet comforts us, in tender love,
And holds our darlings close to him.
• Thanks then, O God! from sea to sea
Let every wind the anthem bear!
And hearts be rife, through toil and strife,
With joyful praise and grateful prayer.
Our father's God, their children sing
The grace they sought through storm and
sun;
Our harvest tribute here we bring,
And end it with, " Thy will be done!"
—Margaret E. Sangstei; inS. S. Times.
WILL'S WILL AND HIS TWO THANKS-
GIYINGS.
"He's got the dreadfulest will, Parson Roberts ! I'm e'en-a'most afeard of him ef he says
he will do anything, for he'll do it, whether or
no; and here I be, a widder, and next to nof h-
in' left In the way of means;" and then the
poor little woman burst into tears. Mr. Roberts was a young man, and an honest man, so
he did not say anything; his repertory of spiritual consolations was as yet small, and strictly conventional. There was nothing in it fitted to this particular distress of a willful son,
which really seemed a greater trouble to Mrs.
White than the death of Joel, who had just expired in the lean-to bedroom. Joel had not
been a help or a comfort to her for the last
ten years. He had at last died "of the tremens," as "she phrased it, and left her with
only the little brown house that had three
rooms and a loft in it and a half acre of garden ground.
It was a bleak November day, the air sour
and dark, the trees leafless, the earth sodden
with chill rains and a dreadful silence
and peace settling down on this small
shelter by the road-side that had for
a week past resounded with shrieks
and groans, Mr. Roberts had been sent
for at the last moment, with that vague idea
of ghostly help at the very extremity that we
all feel, whether we believe in it or not; but he
had come too late for even an attempt at healing the sin-sick spirit;'it had fled far away,
and now he stood gazing- out of the window at
the dreary landscape, listening to the wind
that cried in the spout and the widow's moans
in the kitchen, with about as much idea how
to exhort the one as the other; but he did the
best thing after all; he knelt down at the next
chair and praj-ed fervently for a comfort and
belp beyond man's power to give, and Mrs.
White's soul grew calm with the very lifting
of her thoughts into a purer atmosphere. Two
days after, the funeral was held. A scant assemblage of neighbors came in to listen to the
reading of Scripture and singing, which was
purposely made as inappropriate as possible,
for to utter that which was really the right
thing, as far as honesty- went, would have
been a gratuitous insult to the living and useless to the dead; but Mr. Roberts grew fairly
eloquent in the fervor of his prayer for the
mother and her son and Will White bent his
handsome curly head lower still to hide the
real emotion that glittered in his eyes and
flushed his face as Mr. Roberts asked of the
Lord that he might be a help and stay to the
old age and weakness of his remaining parent.
The widow rather resented the terms in which
he alluded to her age, for she was " only
forty-seven," as she said to herself and felt
Quite competent for all future emergencies if
Will would behave himself; but of course this
little chagrin could not express itselt and Mr.
Roberts was not aware of it; so the pra3'er
didherno special good in its utterance, but it
wOke up Will to a sense of manliness and re-
sponsibiltty that answered the petition while
yet it was spoken.
" I'll do it," he thought. And when betook
his place behind the coffin, with his mother on
his arm, there was a, look of resolution and
Courage on his boyish face that struck the few
who saw him, though they did not understand
it/'
In the village, not a mile away, fires were
bright, pantries overflowing, families gather-
ing'in the old homes, children laughing, tables
spread with every homely dainty accordant
with the season; but the widow White and
Will sat down to a dinner of boiled pork and
potatoes and a pot of sage tea.
"Mother!" said Will.
Mrs. White jumped. She had just seen her-
,»self dying in the p»or-house and Will lost at
^sea: no wonder she started.
"Why, Will, how you scart me!" she
chirped: but Will did not apologize.
" Mother, we won't ever have such a mean
Thanksgiving again, now-I tell ye. When I'm
ten years older we'll have as good a dinner as
Squire Hall, and we'll have it in a good house
too."
" O, William White, how youdo talk! Why,
we're mor'n likely to be in the town-house
afore that time comes."
"Now, mother, you shut up! I tell you
we'll have a good house and a good dinner this
day ten years, as sure as I'm alive."
rt But mabbe you'll die, Will."
" No, I Sha'n't. I know I sha'n't. I ain't
goin' to make no calculations about that. I've
sot my mind on that dinner, and we'll have it."
" O, Will, you're awful presumptuous. You
ain't nothin' but a mortal boy and you're leav4-
in' the Lord out of your calculations entire,
seems to me."
" Spelliu'-book says the Lord"*helps them
that helps themselves, and it looks sensible,
and I'm a-goin' to try it on."
" Well, I hope you'll fetch it, dear," sighed
the widow, hopelessly.
"I will," was the confident answer; and
though the widow's soul recoiled from the audacity of the boy's speech, jrct its courage
thrilled her. She turned away from the storm,
lit the tallow candle and put another stick into
the stove—small symptoms of the cheer that
was kindled within her; but then the cheer was
small and frail, it might not last.
The first fruits of Will's resolve were shown
the next morning with commendable promptness ; he shouldered his spade and went into
the village to clear paths. It was not a very
lucrative piece of work; he got a hot cup of
coffee at one place, half a pie at another, a
dime here aud a ' few cents there, till they
counted up to twenty-five and when he came
home at night to a supper of cold pork, rye
bread and "baked potatoes, he was hungry
enough in Spite of the pie and coffee, to enjoy
his meal heartily.
This was only the beginning. His quick wit
and ingenuity devised plenty of small industries that would pay; in the long winter evenings he carved fairy sets of furniture with his
pocket-knife out of red cedar and sold them in
a Dartford toy-shop; he snared partridges
and sent them to the hotels; he- caught rabbits in traps and many a good woman in
Crampton was glad to buy these for a pie or
stew, and sell her chickens at a profit, instead
of eating them. Then when he had made a
little money* he invested it in a basket, a bundle of papers and half a bushel of popping
corn and sold various small wares besides corn
mnd papers On the Dartford trains, driving
quite a heavy trade, wheu the time came, in,
Christmas greens, for the winter Was mild,
and severe frosts held off till January, and
Will knew well where the ground-pine trailed
its verdant wreaths along the hill-side, and
the coral pine laid soft lingers on the dead
gfass. Toward spring he hunted the spicy
berries of the winter-green and sold them in
rough baskets of bircn bark; and bunches of
the fleet arbutus blossoms brought him a
quick return in silver for their fragrant bloom.
He not only helped support his-mother, who
helped herself meantime in doing whatever
came to her hand about Crampton—washing,
ii oning, sewing, or even sick nursing—but he
had laid up* ten dollars in the Dartford Dime
Savings Bank by the first of June and then he
obtained steady work.
He was handy and helpful on the train always; more than onte he had "spelled" a
brakeman who wanted to go home over a train
and with quick perception he had learned their
duties. Now a conductor had been promoted
to a longer line and better pay, a brakeman
took his place and the vacancy at the brakes
was offered to Will. Steady wages and steady
work; this was more than he had hoped for so
soon and he knew well it was worth far more
to him than 'his precarious earnings in the
cars, so he jumped at the offer. He was almost sixteen now, large for his age, well built.,
active and handsome; even his rough dress
and dusty face and hands could not disguise
the rich curls, the sparkling e3'e, the merry
laugh aud regular features that made the
widow White so proud of her boy. Everybody that worked with him liked him and he
made himself agreeable whenever he came in
contact with any of the passengers. Civility,
cheerful aud helpful, invariably smooths the
way of this world and Will was always ready
to help, an old lady down the steps, to carry a
bab}- for some tired mother, to take a schoolgirl's books while she gathered up her skirts
daintily to enter the car, or to give
some stout old gentleman a lift with his
strong young arm. But wheu Annie Hall
began to go to Dartford Seminary and
went in and out daily on Will's train,
he began to think he liked to help her better
than anybody else, and between the stations
cast many a furtive glance through the end
window at her, though ordinarily her position
only afforded a view of her heavy braids of soft
light hair, the slender throat below and the
jaunty hat on top of them.
Will began to look for her with a beating
hr art to find things very disagreeable all day
if she failed to come and to hate Saturday as
the worst day in the week.
In short, he fell heartily in love before he
knew it, and whereashis ambition hcjd hitherto
b en to be rich now he wanted also to be distinguished. Butcould he, a brakeman on this
little local road, ever be or do anj-thing that
should put him on a level with _Squire Hall's
daughter? Luckily for him he had been born
an American, and what is the use of a republic
if everybody can not be as good as anybody
else?
But though he forgot i*, there were other
Crampton people besides Judge Hall's daughter who came and went-on the Dartford train,
and among them a maiden cousin of the
Judge's wife, old Miss Cynthia Swett. Her
youth had never been disturbed with love affairs. Proud, poor and homely besides, nobody had ever approached her with any pretension of affection or passion and she had
not'a spark of sympathy for such weaknesses;
but she had very sharp eyes^to perceive them
and an equally sharp tongue to interfere.
Business—for she was the Crampton milliner
—took her in and out to Dartford frequently
and very soon she observed poor Will's devotion to Miss Annie, marked the shy greetings,
the gracious response, the berries, flowers and
apples, that she knew Annie never gathered
for herself, and with the perseverance of a
spider she waited for more positive evidence.
Nor was Miss Cynthia the only observer.
Lovers are like ostriches, which hide their
heads in a bush and think nobody sees them.
Will's love was already a matter of jest to his
comrades on the train; the conductor smiled
grimly when he saw hint Avait anxiously till the
last moment at Crampton Station for the
slight figure that lit up his face like a burst of
sunshine when it appeared, and more than one.
frequent passenger exchanged mild jokes about
the brakeman's love-making. One day Miss
Cynthia chanced to overhear a few remarks of
this nature, which made her mistress of-the
situation. The very next morning she posted
over to Judge Hall's and walked into the sitting-room brimful of portentous news. Now
the Judge's office opened from this . family
room, and on a chilly day like this—one
of those June days that belie 'the season:—
his door was always left open to get the
benefit of the wood fire blazing in that sitting
room fire-place; for nothing less than a coal
stove warmed the office in winter, which, was
taken down in summer of course; but the
Judge was terribly rheumatic and loved the
dry air of the fire on a damp day, even if it
were in August. This Miss Cynthia knew
very well, so she did not follow up her cousin
to the dairy or the kitchen* or the garden as
was her wont, butwaitcd patiently for her to
appear.
It was not long before Mrs. Hall came in,
and Cynthia proceeded to unfold her budget.
She sat very near the open door into the office
and the gentle, anxious mother, as soon as she
perceived the communication concerned her
Annie, rose to shut it.
" Leave that door open!" growled the Judge
who sat suspiciously near.
And trembling Mrs. Hall whispered to
Cynthia: " Speak a little lower Cynthy."
"Speak a little louder!" thundered the
'Squire. " What are you saying about Annie!"
And nothing daunted, the resolute spinster
proceeded to lay before these parents the
shocking fact, extenuated and set down in full
malice, that their precmus daughter was flirting openly and wickedly with a brakeman on
the Dartford train and that their love passages were the scorn and ridicule of all the
passeugers, far and near.
The "Judge was furious and Mrs. Hall
drowned in tears.
"Now, ef I was you "suggested  the
spinster.
" Which you ain't," severely snapped the
Judge, but to no purpose; she merely resumed
the thread of her words like an echo:
"Ef I was you I wouldn't say nothing to
Annie; she's awful romantic and sentimental,
and all that and it'll only set her ou'tright off.
She's jest the one to keep it up ef she knows
you don't favor it none.. Efl was you "
"You wouldn't be a fool!" growled the
Judge. " I haven't been married twenty-five
years for nothing, Cynthy Swett. I know
women-folks by this time."
" Well, I shouldn't wonder ef you did,
Judge; but it does beat all things to think of
her takin' up with old Joel White's boy."
"I dono but what he's a decent-behaved boy," gently chirped the weeping
mother, anxious to excuse Annie. "He
was real good to Sam, you know, husband; he
set up with him more frequent than anybody."
"Well, Well, that isn't to the purpose, wife.
-I paid his mother more'n wasreally reasonable
because of that; we're quits as"fur as that
goes. I won't have him foolin' round Annie,
anyway; but I Iraoiv how to manage it. I
don't say but what I'm obleeged to you,
Cynthy. I'm glad to know of it, but lein
take care of it myself now." And' with a
majestic wave of the hand the Judge dismissed
the subject and the two "women-folks" retired to discuss it after their own fashion in
Mrs. Hall's bedroom.
The Judge, it must be owued, went about
the matter very caunily. He said nothing, but
used his influence among the officials—for he
was a director and heavy stockholder on the
Eastern Railroad, of which the Crampton and
Dartford lin« was a branch—.and in a week or
■two Will was promoted to the.conductorship
of a freight train, which never even passed
the morning express, or was passed by it-
He was pleased and pained both. His wages
were increased but he could not see Annie;
and though he was conscious that thus he
made one step toward her he was actually
thrust away from her sweet presence. Only^
Sundays could he be at home, and the very
first Sunday sTie was not in church. She and
her mother had gone to Dartford shopping,
Mrs. White said, and staid over to hear, a
wonderful preacher.
But the second Sunday he found his usually
placid mother boiling with indignation. For
all his boasted knowledge of women the 'Squire
had not reckoned On Miss Cynthia's tongue,
or the power of gossip in a little country village. Filled with alivejy view of her own penetration and importance, the spinster had revealed her discovery and her counseling with
Judge Hall to at least three dear friends, under vows pf secrecy; but each of "them found
out that the other two knew as much as she,
and indignant at Cynthia's want of reticence,
concluded not to keep such a general secret
any longer, and of course a *fnend felt it to
be a duty that Mrs. White should know why
Will had been removed to the freight train
and Annie sent to the boarding-school, for
such Cynthia had been sure would be the next
move. And from hand to hand the suggestion
had grown into certaintj', the school selected
and the date of Annie's departure fixed—all of
which would have been as much news to'the
Hall family as it was to the widow White. But
grief and indigaatios overpowered the poor
Woman afresh as she poured out the story to
Will.
" How could you think dn't, William? Why,
'Squire Hail wouldn't source let an angel out o'
heaven have his girl. Now did j-ou expect he'd
so much as let you look at her?"
Will's face darkened with resolve and a certain righteous anger. " Judge Hall is nothing but a man, anywa}T, mother. I sha'n't ask
him whom I shall marry—not muehl This
is a free country, if it's anything. And now
my mind's made up; I will many Annie Hall
before I die, whether or no."
■' O, Will! Will! now don't you be so masterful. O dear! I had ought to have broke your
will whilst you was a-boy, and you'd ha' been
spared lots." Dear me!"
" I shouldn't be worth a cent, mother, if I
hadn't a will of my own; and as long as I
don't set myself to do anything worse than
make a good home for you and marry Annie I
don't think you had ought to complain. I
haven'tforgot about that Thanksgiving-day."
And Will laughed out in such a cheery, brave
way, his mother almost smiled, but-she shook
her head withal, for her common sense stood
in the way of her sympathies.
But Will was not to be daunted. He slept
precious little that night; his brain was busy
with plans for the future. He recognized it
as the first necessity that Annie should not
be allowed to forget him. For the present he
must keep his situation. Next winter a series
of evening schools for adults was to begin in
Dartford, and his train brought him there for
the night. He must attend" these and work
hard to lay the foundation of an education,
for the fruit of the tree of knowledge is the
hereditary longing of man, and the end of his
repose, even unto this dajr. These two things
he Was set upon; and ascertaining that Annie
was still at home he rose long before dawn on
Monday morning, walked over to SquamPond,
and coming back by early daylight, hung on
the side door of'Squire Hall's mansion a basket
of dripping water-lily buds and leaves, fragrant
and pure as the ideal he carried in his heart,
and directed on a rude label of bark
to Annie. This was the beginning of
his siege. Scarcely' a week passed but
some token of a watchful affection
reached the girl, if it was only an exquisite
flower from a hot-house, or a bunch of speck-
less and translucent grapes, for even these
small gifts bore heavily on Will's small means
though he grudged nothing to attain his object.
In the mean time Will Improved his opportunities at Dartford; he studied with unflagging zeal, and his naturally quick mind,
stimulated by the ardor of passion and the force
of that will his mother so lamented, seemed to
defy obstacles and literally devour the way. Ina
yearfromthetimehe'was made conductor on
the freight train he gave up his situation, and
went into a physician's office, where what
work he did was taken as an equivalent for his
board, and he was allowed time .to recite! in
certain classes at the Dartford High Schbol-
the lessons he learned while he mountedguard
in Dr. Hyde's office.
But however strong a will may be, or however eager a lover's wishes, time does not
speed the faster or delay the longer for, wish
or will; peace is for the heart that can steady
its own beats to the great pendulum, not for
that which throbs fast with fever or lags heavi-
lj" with pain. The slow years went on, and at
last Will had studied and slaved enough to get
into the DartfordMedical College as-a student*
paying his way partly by certain services in
and about the buildii?,;,-. He loved the profession he had chosen, and bent,all his soul to acquiring it. The professors regarded him. with
favor, for he evidently was in earnest. If they
had known how he longed' sometimes to join
the other students in their frolics and wild exploits, those grave faces wouldhave darkened.
Will was a boy at heart still, and ready for fun
as the wildest of his companions', but his
strong resolution held him with iron bands to
the work he had set his life on. Success meant
Annie for his wife, and a home for his mother;
it was not to be periled for an impulse of the
moment or a passing gratification. So he
studied on, and-bj^S&rt of applying his native
common-sense to" the theories of the books
and lectures through which he plodded,
he learned far more than the rest of his
class, and in .three years was Installed
once more in Dr. Hyde's office, as his assistant. Five times Thanksgiving had come and
gone since the sad day he hadmade that promise to his mother and he seemed little nearer
its fulfillment; but he did not despair and
suddenly the sky brightened for him. "An
elder brother of Dr. Hyde had long ago gone
to California and acquiring a forture had settled in one of the southern towns and made
for himself a beautiful and luxurious home-
The doctor had alwajrs wanted to visit bim,
but never found the time; and about six
months after Will came to help him, a letter
from one of his nieces arrived, saying that" her
father had been seized with paratysis, and
though he had rallied from the first shock, life
seemed so insecure to him he must see his
brother as soon as possible. So Dr. Hyde,
who was a childless widower, made liis few arrangements rapldby, put his practice into
Will's hands and obeyed the summons.
This was indeed as roke of fortune. Dr.
White had made already a favorable impression in Dartford and when on one or two occasions of grave importance the celebrated
Dr. Packard, of New York, was Called to counsel with him, he expressed himself with great
urbanity and strong approbation of Dr. White's
treatment of the cases, adding that he himself
could have done no more. This, indeed, was
a feather.in Will's cap, and did him more good,
than a year's experience with the rather distrustful clients among those left to his care.
He took courage and whatever time his practice left him he devoted still to study, for
which Dr. Hyde's fine library offered him every
facilit}-.
In the meantime Annie Hall had grown up
into a beautiful young woman and plenty of
lovers "came down the glen;" but to each
and all she turned a deaf ear. If she was
romantic, her heart was faithful; and though
she would not own even to herself where its
constancy belonged, she still felt very positively that no other man moved or interested
her, and though Judge Hall sometimes wondered what made his little girl so very fastidious, he did not want to lose her and she'had
her-own way in peace. Through all these
years the slight and "nameless tokens of remembrance had never ceased; no festival of
the year was unmarked by them and never a
Thanksgiving passed without Will White's
appearance in the village church, beside his
mother, and one deep bow and eloquent look
always awaited Annie at the church door. The
Judge never went to church on Thauksgiving
day and Cynthia invariably spent it inDart-
ford, so Annie had her bit of romance in peace.
But it was not always to be so. The Judge
was seized with a severe attack of pneumonia
the winter after Dr. Hyde left Dartford and as
the Crampton doctor was helpless with a
broken leg, Dr. Hyde was sent for and his substitute, Dr. White, came instead. Judge Hall
was too ill to recognize him and Mi's. Hall too
glad to have a doctor at all, to thiuk of past
misfortunes, and Annie received him with a
blush that was exquisite and a smile radiant
enough to illuminate any man's soul. Will
went about his task with skill and energy.
The Judge was very ill indeed, and for several
days hung between life and death; but at last
the balance turned toward this World and,
weak as a.baby, the. pompous old man crept
back into life bj' the slowest progress; but it
meant living and that, was enough. Mrs. Hall
blessed the doctor over and over and cried
herself into joyful hysterics. Annie went to
him with both hands out and- a face speaking
far more than her words.
"I don't know how to thank you, Dr.
White," she said, softly.
"Shall I'tell you?" significantly inquired
the doctor.
Annie did not answer, but I am Inclined to
think he took* her silence for consent, siuce
half an hour afterward Miss Cjmthia, who had
arrived in the nick of time to soothe and scold
away Mrs. Hall's hysterics, burst into the library, when that congenial task was over, to'
find Annie, and found her, indeed, with her
head on Dr. White's shoulder and his arm
about her waist.
"For mercy's sakes!" she screamed and
fled, slamming the door behind her.
Annie laughed and Will whistled; they were
both aware of an enemy, but did not care'to
acknowledge it.
The Judge recovered well enough now without further need of a doctor, but as soon as he
was about again, Miss Cynthia felt it her duty
to tell him of her new discovery. He had almost forgotten Will White in the last few years
but now he was furious, to think this " fellow"
should, not only have been his physician, talcing
advantage of his uncooeeidUB condition- to
establish himself there, but that he should
actually have had the impudence to make love
to Annie, and she the audacity to accept it—
this was more than flesh and blood could bear I
He-stormed at his wife, and raged at Annie.
Mrs. Hall cried, of course; but Annie stood
still, calm, though very pale, and looked
straight in his face. This was too much; he
could not bear it.
"Doyou hear me, miss?" he roared. "I
forbid you to speakto thatfellow againl Marry
him, indeed! indeed you won't."
"I shall," said Annie, tranquilly.
The Judge turned purple. If a pin on his
table had peeked up in his face, and gone off
like a pistol, he would not have been more
astounded; never before had his will been de-
fled by anybody. '' Wh-wh-what do you mean,
you little huss3T?" he stammered, fairly choked
with fury. ;
" Just what I said, father. I have promised
Will White to marry him, and I mean to keep
my promise."
The Judge swore a loud and mighty oath; It
was not his habit, and Annie was both shocked
and startled. He saw it in her start of surprise and look of dismay, and went on: " Don't
you dare to look at him again, much less to
-*-"■ His head began to swim, and his sight
grew dark; he fell to the floor insensible.
-When he awoke the scene was changed; he
lay on his own bed, weak as a man could be,
unable to lift hand or foot, even to fully open
the lids from under which he peered doubtful-
I3' about him. Annie and Dr. White stood by
a little table, the doctor dropping some medicine, and Annie looking on. Presently she
spoke, in a guarded voice; but the Judge heard
her.
"Will he live?" she said.
The doctor looked up at her tenderly. "Yes,
dear, he will get over this attack, at least, and
he may live for 3Tears; but he will have to be
careful; apoplexy is not a matter to trifle
with."
" But I am so glad he is better!" earnestly
answered the girl.
" And so am 1, Annie. I want him to hike
me, you know."
The Judge could not believe his ears; for
years he had hated this youn g fellow—whenever
he happened to think of him, that is; within a
few weeks past he was conscious that his most
fervent wish had been to get him out of the
way in some manner—neither death nor exile
wouldhave been objectionable-andyettheman
wanted him to live and had been doing hisbest
to save him from death. The Judge shut his
eyes and feebly meditated the matter, but* he
said nothing. "Night brings counsel," says
the proverb, and so may sickness, for it has
the night's silence and leisure for thought.
When the Judge got better and crept about
with a staff, he found he had learned a lesson
from the death so closely faced. He did not
say an3'thing to Annie but it was significant
that he keptsilence. -
A year went on nowln quiet. Will was not
yet ready tp take Annie awa3' from her home,
but letters went constantly back and forth, between them. The Judge grew more and more
gentle and gracious from weekto week. Annie
loved him as never before, and Mrs. Hall gazed
at him with a mild and tearful awe that found
broken expression to Miss Cynthia:
" He's a-rlpenin' for heaven, Cynthy, he is.
He's a changed man. Why, he's jest like a
cosset lamb about the house; he don't take
me to do as he used to—not once in a week."
"Well, I told ye he'd got a warnin'.
Folks that is so masterful as he was has
to get a good knock 'most always before they
die. I dono but what the Judge was a Christian before now; he was a professor, I know,
but he didn't seem to he no great fist at it;
didn't make a business on't, so to speak. But
now he's seen his latter end clus to, as you
may say and it's quite affeetln' to Mm, I
shouldn't wonder but what he's exper'enced
religion over agin."
" Dear me.'! j do hope he ain't a-goin' to die
jestas he gits real pleasant to live with,"
quavered Afrs. Hall.
"Law sakes, Sophrony! why don't you take
it t'other eehd fust? Folks ain't noway fit lor
next world ef they ain't fit for this—leastwa3Ts
not for the heavenly part on't. I should think
now, you'd have ree'lected his immortal soul
fust thing."
Mrs. Hall sighed, self-convicted. Poor little woman, her first natural thought had been
of the years she had been in bondage through
fear and the sad recall of what might have
been had the Judge been kinder and more
reasonable. She could not excuse herself to
her own simple humble soul; so she let C3rnthla
bristle up withher superior spiritual consciousness and" said no more.
When Dr. Hyde had been away almost two
3rears, he wrote home to say that his brother,
after lingering beyond any precedent had at
last died, his wif eliaving preceded him to the.
grave but a*few weeks, and both had extracted
from, the doctor a promise that he "would stay
with his four young neices and manage their
large property for them till their marriages
should take place. He wrote to offer Will his
house and practice on terms that were reason-.
able enough, and only demanded partial payments year by year. There was no doubt in
Dr. White's mind that he ought to accept this
offer; and when another year of patient economy and steady workhad passed by he was able
to send even a larger sum to Dr. Hyde thanhe
had promised and to keep half of the house,
which hitherto he had leased to two families,
andinstall his mother as housekeeper-
It wanted "now a year of : the ten he had
promised himself to achieve a home. He had
succeeded beyond his hopes. But before
Thauksgiving day came he was called again to
Crampton. Judge Hall was stricken once
more with apoplex3'". This time he rallied
more slowly than before, and Will spent his
Thanksgiving away from his mother for the
first time in years, watching the faint spark of
life flicker, tremble gather strength and at
last burn up in the old man's bosom. The
Judge returned to this world's affairs more
humble and grateful than ever. He knew his
time was short; and a month after, sitting by
his bedroom fire, the wreck of his old pompous,
dogmatic, ruddy self, he called Annie, ina
broken whisper." She dropped her work and
came.
" Annie,"" he said, feebly, "you've been a
good, patient girl; but I don't suppose you've
given up that fellow!"
" No, father."
" Well, you haven't fretted and pestered me
a bit; and I'm free to say I think better of him
than I did. If 3tou will have him, why I don't
sa3r but what I'm willing now."
Annie bent over and kissed him tenderty.
She could not say an3Tthing.
" But, Annie," the Judge went on, "don't
never set up your, will against his as you have
against mine.. If 3*ou do, I tell ye 3'ou'll come
to grief; his is the biggest; he's rightly
named."
"Perhaps I sha'n't want to," laughed Annie
shyly.
" Don't lot on that; you're a woman and
they all want their way, from Eve down."
muttered the old man with gentle sarcasm.
*■' Then I'll make his way my Way, -dadd3',
and we shall both be suited."
'' Hm!'' said the Judge, contemp tuously.
^ But he did not live to see it. The will that
orders us all, even our willfulness and our
resolves, sent the third aud last summons before spring ripened into summer, and the
Judge was gathered to his fathers.
When the tenth Thanksgiving after that
solitary feast ih the kitchen came about Will
White, his *mother, his wife and his wife's
mother were seated around the table in Judge
Hall's dining-room, for the house belonged
now to Annie, and Will had taken the Crampton doctor's place, as the Judge's mone,y was
enough to set them far above want, and Annie
loved her old home too Well to leave it, besides
which Dr. Grey had six children and an ailing
wife, and was good enough to exchange Crampton for Dartford.
The dinner waa abundant and elegant, but,
with a touch of unconscious poetiy, the widow
White had placed before Will a covered dish;
he lifted the lid and saw before him a piece of
boiled salt pork and a few potatoes.
Will's e3res dimmed as he looked from the
dish to his mother. ■     -
(' Itold you so, mother!" he said, with a
thrill in his voice.
"O, my dear! mv dear! 'twa'n't all your
will, Will; don't lot on It; the Lord helped
you, my son, or you wouldn't have been here
to-day."
" The Lord helps those that help themselves,
mother," said Will, reverently; and then he
bent his head and-gave 'fervent thanks to Him
who had worked it in him both to will and to
do, and given them allsuch great causeto keep
this second Thanksglving.^-^M^w'fi Maga
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