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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
4 Happy but Unexpected Meeting.

The San Francisco Bulletin, of No.
vember II, gives the following:
Fifteen years ago, a man left hi.
home in Philadelphia for the Pacific
coast. Among the many relations he
lett behind was brother, then only
four years old. In California the
young adventurer, after many hard
trials through which he passed, sue
cessfully accumulated considerable
fortune. But like many others, his
correspondence with the old folks was
'rried on at long intervals, so that he
gradually lost the course Of home af-
fairs. One day last week, while stand
ing at the door of his establishment in
the business portion of the city, he was
accosted by a young man who desired
to sell him a work for which he was
agent. The storekeeper examined it,
and at the same time discovered some
thing familiar in the strangers features.
Finally he asked his name, and was
considerably astonished to find in the
book agent, the young brother he had
bid adIeu to fifteen years before in
Philadelphia. Of course the meeting
was happy one, and the book agency
is likely to be abandoned for position
In the wholesale store
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
CLAIMANTS THANKSGIVEN.
A STORY OLE NEW ENGLAND

BY EDNA HENDERSON.
"Dear love, am / dreaming did YOU
do this ~
Il can't tell lie, papa" answered
Edna, demurely, 81 did it with my little
gold pen!"
He turned toward her with seraphic
face. YOU'RE -"
Don't call me names, but try it on
had nothing but your chest measure.
I'm awful afraid it wont fit"
David tried it on, chuckling like a
boy with his first boots. 1t fitted per-
fectly.
"Ah, this is what has been coming
over you all this time !" he exclaimed,
clasping her SO tightly in the arms of the
new coat that she involuntarily gasped
for breath.
"Then you did notice it? twas
afraid you would. And yet / tried to
behave as usual [ YVES such long
aboutit, too. And baby took it into his
head to cut tooth when [ was in the
most romantic passages. And had to
write to one of our editor-chums to
learn how to prepare manuscript-and
| had to study the rules ofproof read
ing-and L had such struggle to keep
from killing my villain-and-I think
it IS Uery serious business-a literary
career! Still, [ should have managed
nicely but for the insane habit you got
into of coming home off time. You
remember the afternoon you caught me
in the parlor with papers and things in
my lap! They were the proof sheets,
and-don't interrupt me-and with
them came q genteel little draft fo1
sixty-fve dollars Sir, kiss your gifted
wife!"
CANCEL let me kiss the hem of your
garment! !" (kneeling at her, feet, nine
tenths in earnest.)
CD. H., heare Jane coming with the
cakes! Get upl [ am ashamed OF
you! Well settle this business over
the Eperna, by-and-byl"
She spoke merrily, yet two great
tears FLASHED from her eyes upon his
hands-the tears through which the
deepest happiness sometime utters it.
self David kissed them away and
rose to his feet just in time to present
tea-tray.
Happiness has an appetite" and
the rice cakes were very enjoyable, In
the midst of them Edna remarks Dc
you know, dear d. H., that OUR CHRIST
MAS is the happiest one in the whole
world 2"
"Do you know, dear Ed, that ALI
our Christmases are going to be hap
Ply 2" replies David.
And then the two shake hands across
the table, after their odd fashion. And
we leave them. EMILY H. MOORE
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
An Improvement.

The Titusville Herald says: Among
the new improvements in poultry
houses in this city is the introduction
of hen-roosts made of gas or water pipe
which are kept warm by steam passing
through them. 1t is said that when a
hen once tres these hot roosts they will
never use any other, and in fact the
chief objection to their use is that dur
ing the cold weather the hens find them
SO comfortable, that they keep right on
roosting through the daytime, though
we understand this is to be remedied
by club worked by steam, which can
be set to operate at any hour required,
and when this time arrives, flies up
and knocks every bird off from the
perch.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
BY PHOEBE CARY.

Fond mothers who hush on your bosoms
Your babes tender cries,
And sing them to sleep in their cradles
With soft lullabys
Proud fathers, whose children are sheltered
In the home of their birth;
Who see their fair heads morn and even
Still safe by the hearth;
When the merciless winds of the winter
Are cruel and bold;
When even the sheterless spa rows
Are crying for cold;
And you listen safe-housed, to the falling
OF the snow and the sleet,
And hear On your roof-tree, all harmless,
The Wild tempest beat;
When you gather, circle unbroken,
Your firesde about;
And shut in your children, remember
The children shut out
Think of wanderers abroad in the darkness,
The tempest and rain;
With no hearthstone abiaze for their coming,
No light in the pane
Children shiveriug in horrible places,
The earth for their bed
Wretched groups, huddled close in the darkness,
And crying for bread
Think of orphans, and worse-babes deserted,
Whom 'twere well if the earth
To her pltylng bosom had taken
In the day of their BIRTH
Ay think of them tenderly, kindly
Poor homeless, astray;
Fer the sake of the holy child Jesus
You worship oday.
By all the proud hopes that encircle
Your sons, brave and bright;
By your love for the tender-eyed daughters,
SO fair in your sight;
BY the blessings unmarked, and unnumbered,
You hold so secure,
While You are remembered in mercy,
Remember the poor.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
The Last of the Lash.

Despite of all that is put forward to
the contrary by jealous writer's, civiliza-
ton is progressing steadily in Russia
under the enlightened and liberal di-
rection of Alexander Ii. The Gear has
just appointed a commission of jurists
to examine and report upon the feast
bility of abolishing corporal punish
ment in the Muscovite domain. Under
the harsh law of the Northern Empire,
as it at present stands, any criminal
judge may award penalty of one hun
dred lashes on any offender that may
be brought before him. There is little
doubt that the barbarous penalty of the
knout will be interdicted in Russia as
soon as the Committee just appointed
to investigate the matter make their
report.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
The Origin of Christmas Gifts.

Christmas gifts had their origin in
the Roman Paganalia, which was in
stituted by Servius Tullius, B. c. $50
On these festivals, celebrated at the
beginning of the year, an altar WAS er-
rected in every village, and to the box
placed upon it every man, woman and
child was expected to contribute coin.
Aubrey speaks OF pot in which Roman
coins were found, and supposed to be
one of these Paganalian vessels. The
Christmas box naturally arose from
this Pagan New Years box. There is
an impressive propriety and tender
beauty, however, in thus commemorate
ing the event which gave Divine Re
deemer to a lost world-the greatest
gift that is conceivable to mankind.
1t is, moreover, an equally appropriate
custom which makes the season one,
not only of composing and forgetting
old quarrels, and renewing and CON
firm1ng friendships, but for universal
manifestation of generosity and charity
from the rich to the poor-in olden
times this beneficence being extended
even to the lower animals, practice to
which Burns alludes in 1.-The Aud
Farmers Address to his Mare
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
Voluntary Starvation Through Fear of
Hanging.

A singular case of terror occurred at
NOrristown, Pennsylvania, last week. A
German named Chas. Burke was con-
victed of the murder of Adam Oswald,
and sentenced to an imprisonment of
eleven years and eleven months. Since
that time he has refused to eat morsel
of food, asserting that he believes the
authorities intend to hang him. On
Thursday he was called upon by Chas
Hunsicker, Esq, one of his attorneys,
Rev. Mr.. DAILY, and Judge Jaco-
by, the latter acting as
an interpreter. He declined to
make confession, insisting that he
was to be hung, but gave a history of
some of his experience in this country,
of his arrival from Baden, Germany,
at Castle Garden, New York, in 1869,
his journeys with his murdered com
panion, Adam Oswald, their arrival
more recently in the upper part of
Montgomery county. and visit to Nor
ristown, thence to Manayunk and Ger
mantown, begging their living, and,
finally, how he and his companion, on
arriving at the fatal spot near the
Wheel Pump, this county, got into an
alteration about money, which, he
says, Oswald tried to get from him,
throwing him to the ground in the at
tempt, during which, he alleges, he
stabbed the deceased while the latter
lay upon him.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
Foreign Miscellaneous Items.

THE first number of Gambettas Jour
nal, La Republique Franchise, sold
$4,000 copies.
1t is rumored that owing to the state
of seige the French government will
not allow the masked balls to take place
this carnival.
WE have now the authority of the
University Of Cambridge for saying that
English women are generally in state
OF intellectual semI-sta1vation.
The French commission, appointed
for the revision of military grades. has
decided to hear all officers before
taking resolutions affecting them.
IT is said that the theatrical critics
ofthe London newspapers have entered
into compact to discourage all kinds
OF burlesque as much as possible.
An attempt has been made to assas
sinate the Greek Bishop of Kissico,
who resides in the island of Halki, near
Constantinople.
The French government has bestow
ed the decoration of the Legion
Honor on DIR. Cormack for his services
in Paris during the siege.
Apparently corroborative of the
above, correspondent OF the Russian
st. Petersburg Gazettes writes from
Zarizyn that on the Goth of October,
artillery had passed through the town
en- route to the Australian river, where
the kalmucks are said to be In a state
OF instruction. We have no nearer
details, but according to the best ac-
counts on hand the insurrectionary
spirit is active among the whole of the
wild hordes of the Klrghis Steppes,
though it has not yet broken out to its
full extent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
CHAPTER III.

The first serious shadow appeared
to be stealing into the nest under the
Elm, No gallant sea-captain ever
fought more valintly to repel piratical
boarders, than did David Henderson, to
repel the pirate doubt, that began
slashing awayat his staunch heart.
Something was looming over" his
wife. She was either distracted or else
wildly gay. The self-possesslon ard
quiet, genial humOr, OF the former Edna
seemed disappearing. On one occasion
he found her Disconnected, which was
terrible. How could a wife be Discon-
certed who was so loved and trusted 2
What was the matter? Was she get
ting tired of being mewed up there I'M
der the Elm? Was his society all that
such an intelligent woman needed {?
Had he been ass enough to think
that? Yes, he had. And for the first
time, it struck him how isolated her
life was, literally stranded there, in the
big strange city, with nobody but him
and baby and the servant, and two or
three patronizing neighbors for assoc
ciates. And now, since baby had come
she had so little leisure for her books
and painting, and so much additional
drudgery in nursery and kitchen. Heav-
en- help him he had hoped to make
her life happy one. Was it begin
ing to be clouded already? And
here the selfish Old Adam set in-was
her life really much tougher than his,
shut up IN musty old den of an editor
ial room, cudgeling his brains to make
them brilliant, when they sometimes
wanted to be dull and noble and phi
lanthropic, when at times they were in
clined to be just little bitter and Gym
ical
For several weeks before Christmas,
this something was coming over his
wife, and it depend and increased, I'M
til she was almost in eclipse. Twice
he came home unexpectedly hardly
owning to himself that he was playing
the part of spy-and the results were
distressing.
The first time she was only slightly
confused. The second time she ran
out Of the room as he entered: and as
she went, she gathered something has
tilyin her apron, and flung a remark over
her shoulder to the effect that she was
IOohIuS Ike At lIlSub All envelope
tiuttered from her apron UNDECIDED by
her, as she disappeared. Did he pick
it up2 Of course. What husband of
you would MT? 1t was addressed to
Edna Henderson" in mans bold
and rapid hand, and bore the city post
mark.
Poor David. He cursed the thought
that came into his head, and cursed it
SO vigorously that it skunk away He
could not and would not entertain it,
Nevertheless he could not help thinking
that Edna had no male relatives in the
city. That was fact.
Well, 1T might be a note from a ply
sican. She might be suffering from
something and keeping it from him.
He remembered, with thrill of fear,
that her sister had died of consump-
ton. But she could see physician
Correspondence was uncalled for. Ina
word, David was tortured, and the tor
ture must be secretly borne. He tossed
the envelope. where it had fallen He
covertly watched his wife pick it up
and slyly put it in the CRATE on her re
turn to the parlor All, he could at
least look in her face and question it
with his eyes.
"Come here, DEAR" he said
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
Three Negro Children Burned to Death.

A note from Scale Station, Ala, says:
"On the 10th inst, on the plantation
of janet Bennett, deceased, eighteen
miles west of Columbus, in Russell
county Ala, negro woman named
Ellen Bennett left home for some pur-
pose, after ordering her children to
give the calves some shucks. 1t seems
that they took fire with them and left
it near the crib door, and when they
began to throw out the shucks they
caught on fire, the wind blowing the
flames furiously into the crib. Some
hands in an adjoining field heard the
children screaming, and ran to the
the place of disaster, but were too late
to save them. Their bodies were re
covered after being dreadfully scorched
and disfigured.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
The Children's Stockings.
ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
nv MRG G. NJ a pIATT


He will see sweet stockings cunning and new,
Warm in scarlet and dainty in white
Stockings that never have crept In shoe
Waiting his mornings enchanted hight.
And other glad stockings that he should know,
Grown larger, perhaps, than they were last year
In many pretty, half sleepy row
They wonder, no doubt if he is near.
This Saint of the Children, who loves them go,
FAIRLY filling each colored space,
Will touch clear dreams with his kiss-s.nd gCs
With tears, | think, in his tender face.
All spite of his furs, he will SILVER, fear,
At the thought of stockings, bright ana small
Whose curious looks no longer here,
Awake for him by the lonesome wall!
Oh you whose little hands reach no more
Toward his gray, kind beard, in their dmpled
play.
Whose little feet passed through the great dim
door,
With never a step nor a sound away
Have You found Another who lights with love
His Birthday Tree tor your charmed eyes?
Do Won see in its branches the snow-whlte Dove
LIS it fair with the Towering and fruit of the skies'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23

The total amount of the subscription
for the reconstruction of the Palace of
the Legion of Honor, as announced in
the Journal Officiel, is at present 4O1, :
540f.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23

You RELIEVE YOURSELF from great anx-
iety about the future welfare of your
family when you insure in the WASH
INGTON.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23

FROM recent statistics it appears that
the German "hells " gave the budget
about $4,000, 900, Homburg, Baden
Baden and Weisbaden along figuring
for So, 600, 900 per annum.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

Fen Thousand Miles Marrow Gauge.
The British government appointed, I'm
1861, q commission to consider what gauge
should be adopted for the Indus Valley
and other projected railways" Amer more
than q year Of careful Investigation, this
commission has reported, and within the
last month tho Indian authorities have
decided ON the width of three feet three
inches for all State lines. This action ex-
tends the narrow gauge sytem 10 lines
nearly ten thousand miles in aggregate
length; Intended 10 give all needed facili-
ties to vast AREA of territory and immense
populations. II Is the most lin portant In
dorsement the narrow gauge system has
yet received, and will greatly influence de-
cisions as TO the width of gauge the world
over.
American enterprise has also undcrta ken
the solution of the narrow gauge problem
on grand scale, and will probably have
moving neighbours. Last autumn n COM
pany was formed TO build a railroad from
Denver, Colorado, along the base of the
Rocky Mountains and through the valley
of the Rio Grande to FL Paso, In Mexico.
This com pany has adopted-n grade of three
feet. and Is pushing construction as fast as
possible. II the iron Is not delayed, the
ration in thirty DAYS. This line Is nearly
200 miles long. and, Ms II Is to depend
largely on through business, will have to
meet all those questions OF construction,
equipment and maintenance that cannot
even be known until actually encountered.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

THE editor Of the Mckenzie Times
after speaking In praise OF our late
Tobacco Fair, thus concludes his ar
ticle: May complete success crown
the efforts of her enterpIising Board
of Trade TO establish In that city
"a first class tobacco market. We
have no doubt but that the tobacco
growers of Carroll, Henry and Weak
ley, aud other contiguous counties OF
easy access 10 clsrksville, would find
that market equal to any other, and
would recommend them to give 1t
trial.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

AS EVERY evil is said to have some
attendant good, the riot In New York
is likely to lead to suppression Of pro-
cessions, except military and funer-
al. In large cities, no matter what
may be the character and object OF
professions. they always disturb the
social quiet and business pursuits,
and often result In loss Of life and
property. The good they do has
never yet been apparent aud, every
thing considered, it will be the part
of wisdom To forbid them, and II AS
sociated bodies deem them necessary
to the furtherance of their objects,
there is room enough in the country
for the idle display.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

Iris disgusting to read the headings
Of newspapers, setting forth i'm s,ar-
ing capitals, every variety of crime
that the devil can instigate and man
execute. Does this studied effort to
familiarize the public mind with
atrocious deeds, tend to promote pub
lie virtue? If.not, as nothing Is mega
tive, its tendency must be to debauch
and brutalize. The intention is to
make papers more readable and pop
ular--the effect, to demoralize by
abating, horror of the blacklist crimes
of which man is capable. Familiar
ity with crime never yet abated the
proneness to commit it, on the con-
trary, there has been u steady in
crease in the number Of criminals
since systematic notoriety has been
given them and their deeds through
the columns of the papers.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

THE Radicals are trying hard to
throw the blame OF the late riot, up
on the Democratic government Of the
city of New York. II the truth Is
ever found out, It will appear that the
Radicals are the authors Of the trouble,
and hence their haste 10 fix the re-
sponsibility upon the Democrats, To
injure whom the train was laid and
fired. Should Grant seize the oppor-
tunity To enforce the ku-klux bill, In
that city, the secret will out and the
story lie told.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22
Tennessee Rress Asxociation--Excu
sion lsOsJIssnel.

The Committee Of ArranEemonts
having failed to complete their work
In time for the proposed excursion Of
the Tennessee Press Association to
leave Nashville OH the LIST of Au-
gust, MS heretofore announced, the
time OF dep rture from Nashville Is
postponed To August 10.
IRA. l.. JosEs, President
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

AcoIoREp Radical, in a,ate speech,
said he advocated the privilege Of
obtaining Immigrants from Africa,
where better citizens, than the Dutch,
can Ike found. This II not the first
time u Radical preference for the ne
gro over the Germans, has been pro-
mulgaie'l. II 10 moi for us 10 resent
tho hlsull.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

MOuumeutS, TOmDS, IuDlets, uurucu
Figures, Vases. Mantle Pieces, ETC.,
all of which will be sold as low M the low
est. Persons wishing anything in this line
Will save money by giving NEE call before
Against expenditure In honor of the
dead, Heaven has uttered no prohibition,
and Garth Is not injured, but benefited ny
adorn the many tombs around which we
| love TO linger, assure us we are In world
| of warm and loving hearts. The adjoining
| of the sepulchres of the Flowed ones" ale
vates our grief and soothes the wounded
heart. IL also cheers the bereaved to Know
! that an additional enbe lishment of the
rest the attention OF the stranger. and
causes him to pause and learn he name OF
one who has shared 80 largely In the love
We have not discharged the Office of
friendship and affection which we owe to
the departed, when we have consigned
their remains 70 the tomb. amid the So
! IDENTITIES which the occasion demands
There are other duties which we owe them,
which, Ii neglected, will seriously reflect
upon our piety "a Christians.
70 give them "a Christian burial IL simply
duty-to cherish their memory Is marx
OF esteem. There Is "A desire Implanted In
all humanity to be remembered by the Nv
ing, when they shall sleep In the dust.
There can he no expenditure OF labor or OF
means that Will more richly compensate
mankind than thu which Is bestowed up
on the sepulchres of our departed.
Attractive AMI beautiful cemeteries will
assist our piety AMI promote the refinement
ana elevation of society. IL Is abundantly
,naniiest from the many moi.iais that
KIND feeiingsarc fostered and that the most
tender recoilections OF them linger In the
minds Of the living. This is Illustrated by
nose ellie. OF our many dead, Green wood,
Laurel Hfil, AMI many other attractive
places, where the efforts of the living are
g perpetuate the memory OF those that
they have Lowell. l
The erection OF Marble IL the last work Of
respect which we pay to the memory OF de-
parted friends. IL IL u custom which has
been fnliowed from the remotest ages OF
antiquity. We can judge OF the advance
ment Of civilization by the promotion oil
art, and there l. no higher type OF art than
cemeteries,
July p, 1l-ts.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-07-22

Clashsvil1es New Provsasnce and
princeton, ~.
ple ~ the Court-hOose, IN CLsrnssiiie, on
Monday, July x1fn, " put TIE hall Ia mo
ttou. Tome one, come ALT Books will he
opened Tor stock ami address, made by
several distinguished geiaticincai.
The North sad vi this cssulity are portic-
ulariy Interested Just NOW, aud we hope
II. II. Posrox,
n. y. PETrUs,
H. w. HuMPifREYs,
JOHN ]. THVAAs,
Il. Y. GRACEY,
J. ID. kxNDRiCK,
VIM. NJ. DASIEL,
n. HERxDOS,
T.. II. LEWIS,
July 81. is7i.