1881-06-23; Saline Observer

              •OTSUJCPlSf
KHIM,OFLYHH,MASS,
"HR*-st,
EKERQI1
IPIKKHAMN
COMPOUND.
oidafcrU and AVecIaiessej
fcst female population.
Worst farra of Female Com.
|s.Inaammatian and tlcera.
ensetfts, and the consequent
bortieularly adapted to tha
K terrors from the cterns iq
pent. Iha tendency to can-
Lice i-rery srteedOj-hy its nso
fc&iseyy destroyscil craTim;
Js weakness- of tha stomach
Kiss, Serrons Prostration
|secss, depression, and Indi*
Setra. erasing- pain, weight
-mascntj-/ cared by its use.
12sr aa clrcnmstances act in
■t goTcm the fesiale system.
-cf-Iamts of eit&er sex this-
;■§ VEGETABLE C03T-
and 235 Western Avenue
»«les£wS3. Sent^yjnaiJ
i tie fenn ot lozenges oa
I for either.  JIrs. KnSiham
liaopixr.  Send fop pasush.-
tni:xi this Paper.
laatiTBIAK HSSBAAPS
csnstipatijn,  bilicrasnessi
■^ceatsBsr bos.
(ISES & CO., CileagD, 111.
nr'ir m i   !■ i ii s-^aeniw nini
Io on say mmi
Ie same time on
fSSBOWMSA
we sick?1
'"■--.« £«vrf organs lot
'Si
:ly cure
LSES,
pfflPLAINTS,]
fc -WEAKNESSES,
| MS0RBERS,
i'.i:-i €rffms enclt
Irsic (^disease.
J pains and aclipsj
files, CoiKilpatiaal ]
lisorderel Kidneys"* I
|or sick JjeadacliesJ
:friRea3h.i
;etaWe Form, in tin;
1 rorffl, -very €oscen-|
:r;3;rcai.',y irc-psxeitf
" is e: ZZ.3T fcrm. 1
pisr.  r-2ucE, $x.eoj
I03T& Co.. Prop's,
|"i>    SOrtEGrOSrTr. j
iii Hi, u«
|il" !J5 s«n*/*'<??, address
23 X,. COrOSY,,
Icy >iHwa.nfeee, "Wis.
QUICK tosen the
.**■
Siifes
' '?1fii-'!i!e edltr/'l. X.OW
|3 -or;:.   lirnri'l harresi
^.f «**•£: SOc.   Ace
BK'Ji-".. CLicsgo, IU.
sber llageas
i 2? o;-«2a_ t»> 5o.:d, are
li!*^.--, •.•3vas"lTaT-i.I.' ti.
■ I..I*.Pittiiir.D.xor,IK.
l:ary j-t-Si'EgQueen City
lrtc*rs,«-*<\ frtffijrte oittjtl
lu*peMd€rCo-,C'a.. f>.
\i-tfm. Goods guarant-
157 W&basli av,t"iiicagot
1«'-B"s: asd "Fastest-
;:m-.-tles. Prices r?d»ced'
fct'jr., (.'!*:€■■-_.<, Iii.
ly arrl ears fjg to $100
Irai* .v-i a ikjIes* sitna -
Imager?, Jac e;>yi lie. Wis.
•in a very
J acting' on.
Eor a coixt-
lit postage
Iraore, fflDrl,
Il }/e w< I pay an ac-
'.*   ."Jl'K-IIJiU'CStO
W>i<*:.'u.asi'l(-xjirn.-je* to
I**'** '♦"'I"■«■«"!• /--a-' »V
1 »'.' J. tv** trifr* ^"i wu y
Ir < *..;.- trajz-i. Sample
■* „.■'•-■: i' ■■utramjne.
• ■• PC fj.!<-,
lX<fe ir--.. ."ly.'li'.on. Wis,
Jf- :r. :.-ie «-orM; a eam-
1%-sOA. I^troit. Hich.
NomcthinarKc.rrot
|'-f ".,~t.J>o?i*-;,Mo.
f>jf. Clisii*e"is .iVew
,■' f '<:^ dand f-n-
aC'j.,Tj.- do.O.
\-i-zk'VFHm:inent
I
I
:i?».-e-.* r *,- •
,f^^   'E   '"
sn
1-35WSSWS3
...  f ..-.   s.
15SW W-   issi V
■*"!<',',
BE BARON & NISSLY; Proprietors.
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JUNE 23, 1881.
VOL. I.-NO. 32.
EF
Important Intelligence from AU Parts,
^ g» ■:■■__» Domestic.       ...:...
SecbMaks" "VYEfDOM positively refused,
on the 15th to give ont for publication the
report-of the committee that investlgatea
Pitney, thi Custodian of the. Treasury I>'e-,
partinent v.t "Washington. "Mr. "Windom
said the report was made up and submitted
to him ior his private ^information, and
while he intimated that he- would acfrj upon
it very soon, IKe-emphatically refused to give
oufi anything of its contents. Itwas stated,
however, that the report sustains the charge
of irregularities and of reekless manage-,
menti and even worse, and that thejse ir--
regularities nad heen going on for Several
years. '       .
A "WiSHD-'GTO^" special of the loth says
it was probable that the Government would
notbe prepared to lay its case in the matter
of-the prosecution of the '' Star-route"
thieves before the Grand Jury until'about
th^hrse'bf July-.-.; .All the Avitnesses jieces.-
sary to secure an_ indictment would be
brought to that city before the prosecution
opfhed. ' \[' .
'BHEpatipUalrBepartment of Agrieiilture
placesJhB wMat.cropat Sfa'per* cent, lof last
yeaVs yieldior spring,and *T6 for jpinter..   >.
Silas "SI. "Waite, ex-President'"^f the
First ^rational Bant of Brattleboroj Yt.,
pleaded guilty on the 15th to the charge of
making false returns under the Nat'ional-
BanMngiactj-and was sentenced to sixjyeaj.'s*"'
•uMnsdnment inthe House of Correction."
Two OF the Pierrepont warehouses in
Brooklyn, If. Y*, were burned on the loth,
eausjrig'damage to the amount."of . nearly
;*\L,00Q,MQV -One man was burned j alive,
and another fatally injured. Henily E.
Pierrepont, Jr., was severely burned'
The firm of E. P. Cutler & Co., engaged
extensively in" the iron business at Boston,
has failed, owing to continued depressipn in
that branch of trade. The liabilities ,-are
estiiiiated at from ii'G00,000 to $700,000;.  •
Eighteex furnaces in the Lehigh and
Schtiylkill Yalleys, Pa., stopped operations
on the I5th, on account of the low pr'ice^of
pigiioh. It was said more would follow
unles'sT prices should improve within the
next ten" days.
Ix the suit of Mrs. Elkins' against a Chi-
c^go Sglpon^-keeper and the owner of the
building in which the saloon was located,
for damages for having, in spite of her protest, sold intoxicating liquor to her husband, a well-known artist, causing lilm to
squander all his earnings and neglect to
support his family, the jury failed to! agree
and has been discharged. Mrs. Elkins has
instituted another suit against Darius' Cud-
ney, brother of the other defendant, for
$25,000 on the same grounds. ;
Dckikg the three days ended on th|s 18th
the-weather at New Orleans was excessively
hot, and thirteen cases of sun-stroke,; seven
of which proved fatal, occurred. AtYlcks-
burg the thermometer reached 101 ;in the
shade on the 16th. !
It is alleged on the authority of a responsible Tsew York grain merchant, wlio has
^nadeextensive use of the cable -to jobtain
the facts, that the crop prospects in Erance
are hne, and that the Russian harvest will
be the best for twenty years. It is asserted
that Europe will not only be independent of
American wheat, but that Eussia will offer
considerable competition to our grain-growers. Germany, Austria, Eoxtmania and
. Switzerland send out the most encpuji-aging
.reports.     _      - - '■
ALAi>at Canton, Ohio, named Edward
Shumafcer, was dying on the leth-from lockjaw, caused "by a wound from a toy pistol.
During the month, of May of thi| year
117,482 immigrants arrived in this coimtry,
and during the eleven months ended May
31 the number of arrivals was 534-, 29jl. Of
the latter number 175,306 were Geifmans,
110,611 came from Canada, 61,"796 from ire-
land, 57,861 were English and "Welsh,! 12,628
Scoteb^7,4:43 Chinese, and 138,6*9 came from
all other countries. - j
The United States steamer Alliance; sailed
*rom Norfolk, Ya., on the 16th for a four-
months'cruise between Norway andSpitz-
bergen in search of the missing steamer
Jeannette. |
Two stages running between Alma and
'■fayetteville, Ark., were recently stopped by
firmed men, who robbed the passengers and
"^IffMl-bagB. :     ...-
''-' A:few days ago a resident of Newark,
Ohio, was fined $75 for putting a split stick
on his son's tongue.
The one hundred and sixth anniversary
of the Battle of Bunker Hill wa3 celeprated.
in Boston on the 17th. A specially Interesting feature of the day was the formal,' dedication ot the bronze statue of'„Colonel' "Will-
lam Prescott, the hero of the fight- of 106
years ago. The Governor and other dignitaries were present. Ex-Mayor Lincoln
presided, and the oration was delivered by
IiobertCWinthrop.
Theeb were four fatal cases of sun-stroke
in New Orleans on the 17th.
Is a recent base-ball match at New Haven,
Conn., between the Yales and Amhersts,
f the* pitcher* of the former,"'Hxttchinson,
* irlipifed and sprained the tendons  of bis
knee, and Gould, the Amhersts'pitcher, had
bis left arm broken by the ball.
THE number of names in the Chicago City
Directory for 1881 Indicate a population in
the city of over 600,000,
BY the explosion of an oil lamp the Swep-
son Mills at the Fall of Feuse, N. C, was
set fire to and destroyed on the 17th. The
mill gave employment to 207 operatives, and
was valued at $200,000; insurance, $70,000,
GiaiBNirrE«>,lne Syracuse wife-murderer, Upon whose prosecution $40,000 has been
spent, and who has endured imprisonment
for five years, has for the eighth tihie been
sentenced to death, the date fixed being
August 5.
ItiCHAKP BVTMZJt, a Detroit grave-robber, has been sentenced to live years instate
Prison.
Martix Maoib, an Elizabeth (N. J.) lunatic, recently fired two shots at Miss Fannie Walker, because she declined to marry
him, and then killed himself.
A SEVERE storm swept over a portion of
Northern Ohio on the night of the 17th.
Trees were uprooted, buildings were blown
down or unroofed by the wind, a id considerable damage was done by lightning and
water.
" Two-Ti&jros of the busiiiess portion of
Warrentoh, N  C.J were 'destroyed lly fire
' on the 18th.   Loss estimated at $40,000.
Captaik Paxm". Boyton, who left St.;
Paul May ffl, to float down the Mississippi
Itiver to Cairo, arrived at St. Louis on the
evening of the 19th, and was received by an
immense crowd of people, who thronged the
levee several blocks and nearly filled the
bridge.  Boyton was not In good health, and
would stop over in St. Louis two or three"
days to recuperate.
A prolonged earthquake shock was experienced at Newburyport, Mass., on the
morning of the 19th, but no serious damage
was done.
The exports from this country of domestic
breadstuffs for the eleven months ended
May, 1881, were $244,955,370, against $253,-
876,82S the corresponding period last year.
"With the object of creating a sentiment
opposed to the existing rigid Sunday law
the Liquor-Dealers' Protective Association
of Paterson, N. J., on the 19th caused seventy-five arrests of barbers, cigar-makers,
newsmen, restaurant-keepers aud street-car
employes. An attempt was made to prevent the cars on the Erie Railway from running, but it was unsuccessful.
Personal and Political.
The Ohio Greenbackers held their State
Convention at Columbus on the 15th, about
150 delegates being present. The following
ticket was nominated: For Governor, John
Sietz, of Seneca; Lieutenant Governor,
Charles Jenkins; Supreme Judge, Joseph
Watson; Attorney-General; E. M. Tuttle;
Treasurer, "W-F. Lloyd; Member of Board
of Public "Works, H. L. Morrison. The
"platform adopted declares the right to make
and issue money is a sovereign power to be
maintained by the people for the common
benefit; that all moneys, whether metallic or
paper,*Khould be Issued and controlled by the
Government; that the United States bonds
should be paid as rapidly as possible; that
legal-tender currency should be substituted
for notes of National Banks; that the National Banking system should be abolished,
and the unlimited coinage of gold and silver
established by law; demands equal protection for labor and capital; opposes all subsidies; declares that telegraph' and transportation companies' rates sbould be regulated by legislation; all property should bear
its proportion of taxation, and a graduated
income-tax should be provided- for; denounces all attempts to restrict suffrage;
etc., etc.
The "Wisconsin State Prohibition Convention was held at Madison on the 13th and
14th, and was quite largely attended. A
declaration of principles was adopted favoring the prohibition by State law of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors,
and a Constitutional amendment, organization and the distribution of documents to
bring about such a result, and pledging Prohibitionists to the support of fellow-
sympathizers and workers as members
of the Legislature, and requiring pledges
from such, members that they will
vote for a Prohibition Amendment to the
Constitution. A committee was appointed
to take into consideration the advisability of
calling a State Convention for the nomination of a State ticket after the Republicans
and Democrats shall have made their nominations and ignored the Prohibition element.
The Pennsylvania National-Greenback
State Convention was held at Pottsville on
the 15th. R. W. Jackson, of Mercer County, wa3nominated for State Treasurer by
acclamation, andE. S. "Watson was re-elected Chairman of the State Central Committee. The platform adopted indorses the
National platform of 1SS0; denounces the
aggregation of real estate by corporations;
denounces monopolies; censures the Legislature for Its failure to pass an anti-Freight
Discrimination bill; demands protection to
American labor and produce; denounces
National Banks for their attempt to
coerce Congress by the withdrawal of their
circulation; indignantly denies the charge of
a subsidized press thatthe Greenback-Labor
party favors an unlimited issue of currency,
and declares that only such, volume of currency as business requires shall be issued;
denounces the National-Bank system as
legalized robbery, and indorses "Weaver and
Chambers. Resolutions were also adopted
expressing sympathy for the Land League
of Ireland and America.
The Bribery Investigating Committee at
Albany, N. Y., finished with Senator Sessions on the 15th, and heard two or three
other Witnesses. Mr. Sessions maintained
hisf version of the Interview with Mr. Bradley to the end, claiming that he had not
sought to bribe the latter to vote for Mr.
Depew, and that he did not pay him any
money to secure his vote.
,The New Hampshire Legislature on the
15th elected the following State officers—all
Republicans: Secretary of State, Ai, B.
Thompson; Treasurer, Solon A. Carter;
State Printer, Parson B. Coggswell; Commissary General, George E. Lane.
The Iowa State Democratic Convention
metatDes Moines on the 16th. Judge L.
D. Rinne was nominated for Governor;
Captain G. M. TYalkerfOr Lieutenant-Governor; Hon. H. B. Hendershott for .Judge
of.the Supreme Court, and Prof. "W. H.
Butler for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The resolutions reaffirm the National
platform of, 1880; declare for tariff reform ;
oppose sumptuary laws and the proposed
prohibition amendment; favor an appropriation fbr the improvement of the Mississippi and its tributaries; etc., etc.
"VV".' "BT. Dudley, United States Marshal of
Indiana, was on the 16th appointed Commissioner of Pensions, vice J. A. Bentley,
resigned, and Judge Noah C. McFarland, of
Topeka, Kan., Commissioner of the General
Land Office, vice General "Williamson, resigned.
Secretary "Wi"nt>om on the 17th summarily dismissed Custodian Pitney-from the
public service, and abolished the ofliee of
Custodian of the Treasury. A "Washington
dispatch says: " There never has been any
law authorizing the placg of Custodian. The
position was created in the Treasury Department some years ago, and the
Custodian's salary has been paid out
of-the appropriation for janitors, messengers and superintendents of public
buildings;; Secretary "Windom . ascertained this, and has abolished the place,
saying it has no right to exist. The duties
heretofore performed by the Custodians are
imposed by the order of the Secretary abolishing that office upon Chief Clerk Power,
who has been diligent and persistent in
working up and exposing the frauds of the
Custodian ring. Pitney is likely to escape
any penalty, except that of his dismissal, as
he will not testify. The committee go right
ahead with the investigation."
Moke evidence was taken before the Bribery Investigating Committee at Albany,*N;
Y.j on the 17t0, at the. conclusion of which
the committee adjourned to the 21st.
Ex-'PltEsrDENT Grant and wife reached
New York City on the 17th from Chicago.
The Washington correspondent of tho
New York T'mcH stated pn the 19th that the
collection and classifieatipn of evidence upon which to base the prosecution of the dishonest Star-route contractors and their confederates   in   office bad been  continued
quietly, but vigorously, during the previous
week. The force employed was small, but
excellent progress had been made. Evidence was coming in from all parts of tbe
country, and the investigators had had their
attention directed every day to previously
unknown cases of fraud.
Ex-U. S. Senator Henry S. Lane died
at his home in Crawfordsville, Ind., on
the  18th, aged eighty years.
Tmz Intir Ocean representative in New
York City stated on the 19th that General
Grant had declared that he would not be a
candidate for United States Senatorfrom
New York. The ex-President had a conference with Mr. Conkling on the evening
of the 18th.
The Republicans of the Second Congressional District of Maine have nominated ex-
Governor Dingley to fill the vacancy in the
National House of Representatives caused
by the election of Mr. Frye to the Senate.
President and Mrs. Garfield, accompanied by their children and Colonel Rockwell and Mr. Boynton, arrived at Long
Branch on the evening of the 18th, where
Mrs. Garfield expected to remain for several
weeks, if the location was found to agree
with ber.
Prominent Greenback-Labor politicians
gave a banquet and reception to General
James A. Weaver in Boston on the evening
of the ISth. .
         ^	
"Foreign.
An insurgent tribe in Algiers has been
annihilated by native troops, wbo captured
fifteen hundred camels and found sixty-six
dead men.
An attempt Avas made on the 15th to blow
up the statue of Thiers at St. Germain,
France.
The newspapers in Uruguay have been
forbidden to discuss politics or create obstacles to the Government. Two papers
have been suspended and three have been
raided.
Spain has offered an asylum to the Jews
expelled from Russia, and expects that 60, -
000 of them will settle within her borders.
It is stated that of 1,733 sailing-vessels and
861 steamers which passed through the Suez
Canal from September, 1879, to Atignst, 1SS0,
not one carried the American flag.
Mullen, who shot the boy Farrell in the
streets of Dublin on the 1st Of May, has
been sentenced to penal servitude for life.
Abdul Frassarie, the leader of the Albanian insurrection, has been executed by
the Turkish military authorities.
Rafael, the editor of the leading journal
of Havana, was recently arrested because he
indulged in some scathing criticisms on the
Cuban Judiciary.
Boehm, the noted London sculptor, has
been commissioned to execute a statue of
Beaconsfield for Westminster Abbey.
The military authorities of Great Britain
haAre forwarded ambulances, stretchers and
lint in considerable quantities to Ireland.
Religious processions having recently
been prohibited at Nantes, France, an immense crowd made its protest on the 19th
by marchiHg through the principal streets,
singing hymns and stopping before various
churches. Another party sang'the "Marseillaise" before the Church of St. Nicholas,
creating a riot, in which the police made
several arrests.
At one o'clock on the morning of the 20th
Rowell and Weston started in London on a
tramp f pr„ the pedestrian championship of
the world.
Marseilles, France, was the scene of
several fights between parties of French and
Italians on the evening of the 19th, growing
out of a hissing bestowed by the latter upon
the soldiers returning from Tunis. Three
persons were killed and many wounded.
All the cafes were closed, and the streets
were patrolled by troops.
There were found on the 19th, beneath a
"bridge'over the Catherine Canal at -St. Petersburg, two rubber bags, twenty-one
inches in diameter, containing one hundred
and fifty pounds of dynamite. Each bag
was provided with a fuse.
LATER   "NEWS.
The vote for United States Senators in
the NeAV York Legislature on the 20th was
asfolloAvs: For successor to Mr. Conkling:
Jacobs, 24; Wheeler, 24; Conkling, 23; Lap-
ham, 16; Cornell, 3; scattering, 3. For
successor to Mr. Platt: Depew, 87; JTer-
nan, 25; Platt, 21; Cornell, 6; scattering, 4.
No choice in either case.
A single highwayman stopped the Stage
twenty-five miles from Galveston, Texas, on
the night of the 18th, and compelled the two
passengers to alight and assist him in rifling
the mail,which lasted a couple of hours.
The robber is supposed to be the same Avho
rObbad anotber stage tAvo weeks before.
Secretary Windom stated on the 20th
tbat he kneAV of no reason Avhy Assistant
Secretary Upton should resign, or bis resignation sbould be demanded.
A fierce Avind and rain storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, SAvept
over Baltimore, Md., on the 20th. In ten
minutes one and sixteen-hundredths inches
of rail, fell, and more than two inches fell
during the storm, which lasted only-.half .an
hour. The wind blew at tne rate of thirty
miles per hpur. The sewers in many parts
of the city burst,, and the streets were torn
up. [it
The London Times' Dublin correspondent
stated on the 20th that the Land League had
had a, series-of "heavy blpws, and* that it was
tractable and tolerant. The anti-rent strike
was checked, and the landlords who bad left
the chuntry were returning.
In the Britisb House of Commons on the
20th Mr.? Gladstone stated that he had no
reason to think that there existed in the
United States organizations for committing
outrages in England, but at the same time
he was aAvare that there Avere printed in
newspapers published in the United States
incitements to outrage and murder, and that
the Government had made representation
to the Government of the United States on
the matter.
Senator Windom issued a circular on
the 20th giving notice that United States
registered bonds of the five-per-cent. funded loan of 1881, respecting Avhich the Department Avas notified on or before the 23d
of May, and Avhich, through no fault or negligence of the owners, failed to reach the
Department before the limit Avas reached,
would be accepted for continuance if transmitted to the Secretary's office in Washington on or before the 1st of July. At
the close of business on the 20th there had
been $48,400,000 of five-per-cent. coupon
bonds received for continuance at 3K per
cwit., exclusive of those presented for continuance at the London agen* y.    .
The Chicago faster, Griscom, began the
twenty-fourth day of his abstinence from
food at noon on the 20th. His weight Avas
167 3-4 pounds, iiidicatihg a gain during the
preceding twenty-four hours of thrce'-quar-
ters of a pound, and a total loss since the
beginning of the fast of 29). pounds. His diet
during the twenty-third day consisted of 48
ounces of water. He looked pale and careworn, and his pulse was growing weaker.
ADVICE.
"I must do as you do?"—Tour way, I own,
Is a Arery good way; and still,
There are sometimes two straight roads to a
town-
One' o\-er, one under the hill.
You are treading the safe and well-worn way
That the prudent choose each time,
And you think me reckless and rash to-day
Because I prefer to climb.
Your path is the right one, and so is mine.
We are not like peas in a pod,
Compelled to lie in a certain line
Or else be scattered abroad.
'Twere a dull old Avorld, methinks, my friend,
If we all Avent just one way,
Yet our paths will meet no doubt at the end,
Though they lead apart to-day.
You like the shade and I like the sun;
You like an even pace;
I like to mix with the throng and run,
**  And then rest after the race.
I like danger and storm and strife;   ,
You like a peaceful time,
I like the passion and surge of life;
You like its gentle rhyme.
You like buttercups pure and sweet,
And crocuses formed in snow;
•I like the roses, born of the heat,
And the red carnations glow.
I must live my life, not yours, my friend,
For so it Avas Avritten down.
"*We must follow our (riven paths-to the end,
But I trust we shall meet—in town.
: .« Ella Wheeler, inN. T. Sun.
UNDER THE MIDMGHT LAMP.
Founded on Fact.
I am a doctor, a busy professional
man, whose time is money; Avlienever,
therefore, I can save it, I do. Many
and many a night have I passed in the
train, counting the hours thus gained as
a miner does' his gold. Upon this point,
unfortunately, my little Avife aud I do
not agree; and it is, I think, the only
point upon Avhich Ave do not. Eight
hours in a comfortless railway compartment,, rolled up in your plaid like a
snake in its blanket, instead of in your
comfortable sheets, stretched over a
comfortable spring-mattress—no, she
cannot be made to see the propriety of
the exchange, ndr will she believe that
I sleep quite as well, if not disturbed,
in the plaid as in the sheets.
The train Avas just off as I sprang in,
and the shock of the start landed me in
my seat. Being of a slow, placid nature, 1 Avas in no hurry to recover from
the shock, and Ave were fairly ofl", speeding away as only an English express
can speed, before I looked round. I
had not the carriage to myself, as I had
at first supposed; a lady occupied the
further end, and at the first glance,
spite of the dim light and the fact of
her veil being down; 1 saw that her
eyes, unnaturally large and intense in
their expression, were fixed upon me.
1 at all times prefer a carriage to myself, and if a companion I must have,
let it be a gentleman, not a lady; but
there was no help for it; the lady was
there, and moreover, she was looking
at me. "So she may," I said to myself;
"that shall not prevent my making myself as comfortable as circumstances
will allow." Slowly and deliberately,
therefore, I removed my hat, substituting for it a cloth cap, Avhich I drew well
doAvn over my ears; then I folded my
arms, and composed myself to sleep.
But in vain; the eyes of my fellow-passenger haunted me; I saw them as distinctly as if-my own were open.. -Was
she watching me still? Involuntarily I
looked up and round j and mylook met
hers, full, burning, intense, with far
more of meaning in it than I could at
all fathom. It was getting decidedly
unpleasant, and I was growing decidedly uncomfortable; try as I might, I could
not keep my eyes closed; hers were on
me, and meet them I must.
In her attitude, too, as well as in her
look, there Avas something strange and
mysterious. Huddled up in the .corner,
she seemed to be holding' something
close pressed to her, beneath the long,
loose mourning cape, bending Ioav over
it in a crouching posture. Once or
tAvice, her eyes stul fixed upon mine, I
saAV her shiver; but for that slight convulsive movement she sat perfectly motionless,   s     .
Was she cold ? I oftered her my plaid,
glad of an opportunity to break the
ominous silence. If. „ she Avould but
speak, make some commonplace remark, the spell might be broken.
" I am not cold."
A. commonplace remark enough; but
the spell Avas not broken. The mystery that lay in her eyes lay also in her
voice.
What should I try next? 1 looked at
my watch—11:30; our train speeding
ou at a furious rate, no chance of a
stoppage for some time to come, andthe
full Avide-open gaze of my motionless
companion not for one moment removed from my face. It Avas unpleasant, certainly. If I changed my position, faced the window, instead of her,
she must remove her eyes from my
face at last. But there Avas a sort of
fascination about* her and her look,
Avhich I preferred meeting to shirking,
knoAving it was on me all the^time.
There was nothing for it, then, but to
five up all hope of sleep, and make the
est of my position and companion,
whom I now observed more closely.
That she Avas a lady there could be little
doubt; there Avas thafein her^dress and
appearance that was unmistakable.
That she was pretty, there could be little doubt, either; those great, dark, intensely , dark eyes, the thick coils of
'Warm burnished hair, the small pale
features, seen dimly-beneath the veil;
yes, she Avas young, pretty, a lady, and
in trouble. 'So far I got, but no further.
Hoav came she to be traveling alone at
that time of night, and Avith that look
on her face? What could it be that she
Avas holding so closely pressed to her,
and yet so carefully kept out of sight?
"From the size and uncertain outline, I
should have guessed it to be a child;
but, then, there Avas not the faintest
motion, nor could she have held even a
sleeping: infant long in that position. I
think, that something of curiosity must
have been, betrayed in my look, for her
OAvn darkened aud deepened into a perfect agony of doubt and fear.
i. Ashamed, I withdrew my gaze at
once, and draAving out my note-book,
Avas about to make a memorandum,
Avhen, with a sudden forward movement,
she fell at my feet, arre'stiug my hand
by the agonized grasp of her OAvn, its
burning contact sending through me a
painful thrill.
"Don't betray mej Don't give me up
to him! O don't! Fam so frightened!"
Tt Ayas but a, whisper, breathed out
rather than spoken, yet it shuddered
through me like a cry.
"I cannot always hide' it! I cannot
always bear it about with me; it breaks
my heart, and—I am so tired."
And letting the hand which still held,
pressed closely to her, the mysterious
burden that had so raised my curiosity
drop heavily to her side, there lay at
her feet and mine a little dead baby, a
tiny creature evidently not many weeks
old.
Then the woman threw up her veil,
and, Avithdrawing her eyes for the first
time from mine, clasped her hands before her, her figure throAvn slightly
back, and looked doAvn upon it. A pretty picture; the poor youug mother, Avith
her pale child's face ana deep mourning dress; the Avee baby, gleaming so
white in its death and baby-robe against
the heavy crape skirt on which it lay—
a pretty picture certainly for a railway
carriage, and lighted by its dim midnight lamp.
"Dead!" was my involuntary exclamation.
She stretehedher clasped hands down-
Avard toward it with a despairing gesture, speaking with low, wild, rapid utterance.
"lt was not his look that killed it,
but my love. He hated it, my baby,
my first-born; for all the love I gave
him, he hated it; and that Ms look might
not kill it, I held it in my arms, so close,
so close, till it Avas dead. O, my baby,
my baby!"
The outstretched hands had reached
it now, and raised it from the floor to
the seat, folding it around until the enclosing arms and the down-bent face
hid it once more out of sight.
Was ever luckless traveler more aAvk-
wardly placed?—the dead child; the
prostrate woman; the scene, a public
railway carriage; the hour, midnight.
I am of a blunt nature. Mrs. Merton
often scolds me for my blunt, straight-
forAvard speeches; but then she "has
such a pretty way of beating about the
bush, which it would be as absurd for
me to imitate as it was for the ass to
mimic the tricks of his master's lap-
dog. I must go straight to the point as
soon as ever 1 see it.   I did so now.
"How came you to be traveling
alone, and with a dead child? Are you
going home?"
The question   seemed to rouse her
once more to a perfect frenzy of fear.
She turned tome as before, clinging to*
my hand with small hot fingers, and the
old heart-broken cry:
"Don't betray me; don't give me up
to him! His look Avould have killed my
baby; it will me if I had to meet it.
She is safe, for I killed her, and she is
dead; and he hates me, and I have no
home—no home!"
I Avas in a perfect maze of doubt.
Could the pretty soft young creature at
my feet be, indeed, a murderess? and
could it be her husband of whom she
seemed in such abject terror? My blood
boiled; I felt ready to defend her against
a dozen husbands; but hoAV?
It Avas midnight now; we could notbe
far from London; the guard might be
popping his head in at any moment. I
jumped to a sudden conclusion.
'•"Were vou going to any friend in
London?" "
" I know nobody in London."
" The poor little thing is mad or her
husband is a brute," was my mental exclamation.
" Then you must come home with me
to my Avife."
An upAvard glance of wild agonized
supplication:
"She won't betray me, or—take baby
from me9" And once more the Avee
dead thing was lifted up into the arms
that seemed almost too frail to hold it,
and hidden away beneath the long
mourning cape.
I took her home. Mary received her Avith
a broad look of amazement that made
me smile, but that found no expression
in words. When, taking her aside, I
told her all I knew, she Avrung her
hands in sympathizing pity.
"Murdered her own baby—her firstborn! O, hoAV sad, how dreadful!" And
involnntarilyshe glancedtoward the door
that hid from us our own little ones,
safely cradled and asleep. Then she
Avent back to our strange guest, Avho sat
huddled up in my own big easy-chair,
the dead baby .still" at her bosom.
"I must get her to bed," said Mary,
with a quick, determined nod; and she
really did contrive to do so by soft, tender, cooing Avords, and solemn assurances of safety for herself and baby,
whom she kissed and cried over, and
considered as she might some living
object of solicitude, much to the little
mother's comfort.
"And you Avon't betray me; and he
Avon't come and take her from me, or
hurt us with his angry look? O, dear,
how nice it is to lie down! I am so
tired, and baby is so cold; but 1 think I
can sleep now a little and—forget."
She Avas half asleep already; the
heavy lids had dropped together, the
small pale face had drooped dowmvard
upon the little downy head that lay
against her bosom.
"Her husband must be sent for," I
said resolutely when Ave found ourselves
once more alone; and I glanced at an
envelope I had taken from the stranger's pocket: "Mrs. Tremayne.Grantley
Lodge, Grantley."
Mary stared at me aghast.
"Her husband, who hates her, and
Avould have killed her baby! O, John,
you would not be so cruel! She seems
so frightened of him, poor little thing!
You may be sure he is some horrid
wicked tyrant. And if she really killed
her baby—oh, dear, hoAV sad it is!
Whatever Avill become of her!"
"But, my dear, if she has a husband
or friends Ave must restore her to them.
Why, she is little more than a child!
It's yery strange, very, and sad; but
the mystery must be cleared and the
baby buried."
" Mary still pronounced me cruel and
unfeeling beyond anything she could
have conceived.
"Of course her husband is a madman,
who will murder her as soon as he gets
her into his hands. You know, John,
that husbands are always murdering
their wives."
" Middle-aged Avives, dear, or elderly,
■whose lives are heavily insured. I shall
telegraph at once."
"Then her death Avill   be at
door, sir—mind that!" and
nant to Avaste upon me more words,
away went Mary to take a last peep at
our own sleeping babes, at the dead
baby about Avhich there was so much
mystery, and the poor young mother
whom she had doomed to a violent
death.
She Avas still bending over her, and
had called me up to the bedside to notice the extraordinary length of the
lashes, and the beauty of the face in repose, Avhen we Avere startled by a knock
at the front door.
"It's the husband. I know it is. O
John, don't betray her, don't give her
up; you wouldn't be so cruel."
"Nonsense, child; watch by her till I
return. If she awakes say nothing
about "
"Her husband.   As if I should!"
Our household having long since retired, long, indeed, before my return, I
myself opened the door.
The street lamp lighted dimly two
figures; one tall, stout, and muffled,
"Mr. Merton?"
I answered in the affirmative.
"You have kindly given shelter to a
lady?"
"Just so."
. The speaker nodded to his companion, Avho,touched his hat and vanished.
The other stranger had uoav entered
the hall, and grasped my hand.
"Mr. Tremayne?" 1 asked hesitatingly.
"Captain Tremayne.   How is she?"
"Asleep, under my wife'scare; sleeping as peacefully as a child."
" Thank God! So young—at such an
hour—in such a state—-;"
your
too indig-
I saw a long shudder run through the
tall powerful frame.
"And the child?" he added, after a
pause, in a horror-stricken whisper.
" She had it with her?"
I hardly knew Avhat to ansAver; but
he had thrown off his heavy ulster and
traveling cap, and noAV stood before me
as handsome and pleasant and* honest-
looking a young felloAv as I ever saw,
and my heart warmed to him. He was
no assassin, or ruffian, or coAvardly
bully, whatever Mary might say. The
shadow of a great horror that lay in the
blue mellow eyes had been laid there
by terror, not crime.
" The child is dead," 1 said softly.
"It died two days ago, died suddenly
in convulsions in her arms, and the
shock turned her brain. She was doing
so well, poor little thing; but afterward
she grew delirious, and in her ravings
she accused herself and me. I could do
nothing; she would not have me near
her, but beat me off AA'ith her hands, as
she couldn't bear the sight of me. And
I Avas so fond of her and she of me!"
Here the man broke down. He walked
to the window, then turned and asked
abruptly: "May I go to her?"
I thought of Mary and hesitated.
"She is sleeping so peacefully just
now; and if she awoke sudden! v and saAV
you "
" She shall not see me,'* he broke in
eagerly. "I will be so quiet; but I
must see her. I nursed her through a
long illness a year ago, and she would
have no one near her but me; and
uoav "
Under the heavy military mustache I
saAV his lip quiver; he paused, then added: "I must go to her!" not in command, but yearning appeal, both in
voice and eyes.
"Will you wait here a minute? I
will see Avhether she still sleeps,"
She still slept, the heavy peaceful
sleep of a tired, child, Mary keeping a
stern watch and guard over her. I
beckoned her out of die room.
"Well!" with fretful impatient eagerness. "You have seen him? What is
he like?   Is he horrid?"
"Judge for yourself; he is in the
dining room. He says he must see her
—he must come in."
"That he sha'n't, the cruel Avretch; or
it shall be over my prostrate body!"
tragically.
** Well, go and tell him so."
"I Avill!" And aAvay, nothing daunted, Avent Mary.
I smiled. "She Avill no more resist
the pleading of those handsome blue
eyes than did her husband. He Avill
■Win. her overAvithalook." iAvasright,
she soon returned an not alone.
"He Avill be very quiet, and she need
not see him. I thought it would be
better;" all this apologetically.
He crossed the room as noiselessly as
a woman, stooped over the bed! in
silence, then sat down beside it. Mary
shaded the lamp so that the room was
in twilight, and so A\-e all three sat down
to wait.
For more than an hour we waited,
then Mary stole out. Captain Tremayne looked up as the door opened
and Closed; then, Avith a quick sigh,
laid the brown curly head down upon
the pilloAV as close as possible to that of
the young Avife without touching it, and
his hand moved up toward hers where
it lay on the coverlet, but Without
touching that, either for fear of awaking or disturbing her.
It was not until the first gray streaks
of daylight Avere struggling in through
the windoAv, beside which I sat, that
there Avas a slight stir; she Avas awaking at last.
" Hugh!" she breathed—dreamily at
first, then urgently—"Hugh!"
"Yes, dear."
She turned her face toward his where
it Jay beside her. She was only partially aAvake as yet. her eyes Avere still
closed; but the hand on the coverlet
crept up softly toward him, fluttered
over his face, rested one moment caressingly on the brown curls, thei^Avith
a long contented sigh, her arm stole
round his neck.
"Husband, kiss me!"
"His presence has saved her,'' Avas
my mental comment^ "there is nothing
now to fear;" and, unnoticed, I left the
room.
Chilled and cramped Avith the long
Sitting after the night's journey, 1 was
not sorry to find the sitting-room bright
with lamp and firelight, the kettle singing on the hob, breakfast as comfortably laid out for two as if the hour had
been nine instead of six, and Mrs. Merton as neat and fresh and trim as if that
midnight tragedy had been alia dream.
Let cavilists sneer as they may, there
is nothing for a man like a wife, if she
be a good one. I myself may have had
my doubts on the subject—wiA-es are
but women after all, and must, therefore be trying at times, even the best
of them. But I certainly had no doubts
whatever as I stretched out my feet" to
the blaze and resigned myself cheer-,
fully to being petted and waited on.
"Well?" questioned Mrs. Merton,-
when my creature comforts had all been
duly attended to, and not before. I
told her how matters stood; she was de*
lighted.
"And so they are fond of each other,
after all; and his being unkind to her
and her poor little baby Avas only a de-
lusioa. How dreadful! How delightful, I mean! Poor fellow—so young and
handsome and nice! I felt so sony for
him."
"He must have traveled doAvn in the
same train as she did."
"O no; he told me all about it. He
had been summoned up to town on business, and left home yesterday morning. In the evening the nurse.left her,
as she thought, asleep, to fetch something from the kitchen."
"Have a gossip there, you mean."  -
**John," solemnly, "you don't like
nurses, you knoAV you don't!"
"My dear, I am a married man,, and
moreover an M. D. A well-balanced
mind must hate somebody or some class*
of bodies," and, as a rule, medical wen
hate nurses."
"Nonsense,  John!   Well, Mrs. Trey
mayne got away while the nurse was
downstairs, and,  being  traced to the
station, Avhere she had taken a ticket.to
London, Captain Tremayne Avas" telegraphed to, and was stopped as he got:
into the train on his way home.    Somes
one must have seen you leave the station." . ■    i
"As he came to look for her here,
somebody must have brought him; two
came to the door."
'' It will be all right now that he has
found her, and is fond of her; she will
get quite Avell, and he will only have to
comfort her for the loss of her poor little baby." -
I wipe my pen, blot the MSS,,,and,
rise.    My -story is done,  and, as it is
the first, so will it probably be the last
of which I shall be guilty.
Mrs. Merton looks up from the glove
she is mending. "The story done!
Why, all you have Avautten is only the'
beginning of the end! You could, not
aurely have the heart to break off*-in
that Unsatisfactory manner... Not. a
word about Captain Tremayne's gratitude, or the hamper they sent us at
(Christinas, or the birth -*of their little
son last year, and the, pretty way in
Avhich she coaxed you to be god-fattier,
though her uncle, the duke, was. only
wailing to be asked; or how she insisted
upon our bringing baby and Johnny
and Freddy, and how baby—r^"       r  ,?'*
But  I seized  my hat  and  gJoves>
Mary is, as I have said,  the best of
wives, if just a little trying at times,,;,
and her'baby the most wonderful of alF
created babies—but I have an appoint-**
ment at twelve!—Tinsley7s Magazine..   ,
Tribulations of a Funny Lecturer.
When  the   train rolled away from.
Kenton, the Jester announced his calm ,
determination to run away from all his*
engagements. • " ■
"I am tired to death," he   said.   ."I
have talked   about  six   nights -every
Aveek, ever since the 9th of January; I
have sat up until one or two o3 clock a. m.
entertaining people after the lecture,
and then been called up forsix o'clock
trains; I have visited 32 coal mines, in-,*,
spected 53 coke ovens, gone through 67  .
iron works, visited 93 schools, admired
118 handsome churches, gorged myself   •
at 120 banquets, walked through i 174"",,:*
Avagon. shops and 29 pump factories
Avatked up and doAvn and up and down
the long streets of 198 toAvns and admired everything! saw; 1 have climbed•■*"'
86 endless hills to gaze.at 86 views that
'Bayard  Taylor  said, Avhen he    was .
here, Avas far superior to anything he
saw in Europef I have taken my "nose
in my hand and lounged through two*
glove factories, five tanneries and-three
fertilizer works;   three  Aveeks  ago zl *y
lectured Saturday night,  sat  up. aud *
talked with friends until two a.m.,got up "
to a seven o'clock breakfast, went to *«
church with friends at 10:30 a. m.,lunoh- j*..
ed with some other friends at twelve^
went to Sabbath sehool at tAvo; satin ,
the    Bible     class    and     made"'' * a "
nice little speech to the children, dined "7
with some other friends at five, attended-;-*•
evening services   at   7:30, went to,.a,
friend's house after service, and wheu ^
we broke up at 11:30 because I had ifo*"
take a train at  4:15  a. m.,'a good Old-3
brother shook my  hand Avarmly and <?
said, "Well, Avell, Ave's all glad tohave,..
met you.   And you've had a good long ".
rest here with us and you'll feel fresh *
for your ■week's Avoi-k."    if 1 felt as
fresh as his remark* I would be even aa
a June cucumber.    [ have umpired at
two base-ball matches*, rode at a horserace, have Avritten two commencement _
-"essays for high school girls, held! the*"
eat in my lap (and I love the d'evil-a
little better than I do a eat), heard .the «
children say their prayers and taken.?
hand at draw-poker to please the boys.
I don't complain," the Jestor saidtuek> a
ing   his   cap and   bells   away  in hjs
valise.    ''I don't complain a bit."   *Afl
the people I haAre met are lovely ^,ndi
lovable people and they do their best
to make me have a   good* time,'but
seven good times a AA-eekfor sixmpnths;;
is too much for one man to standi; I am,,
all broke up; I am clean gone, and the '
setting sun to-night shairs.ee. me*flying
away from the rpstrumed field, _ headed^
for  the  National   Surgical Institute,*
Philadelphia." *   * :
And headed that way he Avas, and
fly m that direction he did. followed in
his homeward flight, by a long el5ud»*of*
wrathful imprecations from disappoint-j
ed audiences and impotent pretests, of
indignant committees and long and im-'
porfcunate bills of  expenses ifrom the
same, and earnest, but
postulations from the Bureau
"Let 'em howl," the Jester chuckled,
as he tucked his head under' the "Pullman blanket, "Let 'em howl|.TI yvpl
sleep Avith sealed lips frdm here "to
Philadelphia, and if any man AA'akes* me
tip at three o'clock in the morning and
asks me to tell him a funny story, ^
Avill tear out his quivering heart and
feed it to the monkeys at the Zoo.
That's the kind of a funny map I aiM."
Andthe train rolled o,n,~-^B*«;£?e^eJ4*i^
the Haioh-Fye. .'....'       1    .;"
—Caleb Ferrisu.of Galway,0S7.Y*i rfel
cently celebrated his 100th bii'thdi\Vu-h,Y
Walking one mile on a wager.
.unheeded ^ex-j.
-"t
iiBirflL'-p*r"fiT^
'™wSW|tMW?Jft*v^,.;'rl,^u'   ■ *■» ..n*-"*1 ■ '''I', '$^8!flffWiI§Mi!$^(|8|js fr.(
i^ rr-fl-rir-drif rf^^
iWt^jr^'«J-|^*H^gl*'l'*^N'-*^^ ■■
"WM
e
,.iVi-it,,'.^M|.«r)MiThri'.-.^