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CHAPTER x.
uNExpEorED INrERvIEwe.

ONhAThOfhD INTERVIEWS
1t was one month after the mysterious
disappearance Of young Chester from the
jamestown jail. Night had succeeded a
pleasant day, and shortly after its sable
curtains had been drawn over the colony,
Chiron sought the dwelling Of Roswell
Berkley. Upon tho brow Of the old hunter
there was a stamp Of deep suffering. and his
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CONTINUED
sSXTOU won't do anything at that dis
tance >, said the nantain
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does not kill me, and nowI have ta-
ken poison. I have no .reproach to
make to you, but I could not live
without your love. When ], am dead,
look at my heart. You yill,see your
name there. I have two requests to
make of you. Go to my solicitor and
take what he has for you, and then go
off for a holiday to Italy for few
months. The other request is that
you never ask where I am buried and
never come to my grave"
There was post-mortem examina-
ton made of the young lady's body.
On her breast, over her heart, deeply
imprinted in the flesh, were the in
itials of the doctors name. The
characters seemed to have been made
there two or three years before.
They were probably imprinted by her
own hand on the day when she first
saw him.
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THE HAUNTED PALACE.
BY EDoAR 4. FOE.

In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted
Once fair and stately palace
Radiant palace-reared its head.
In the monarch Thoughts dominion
1t stood there.
Never seraph spread pinion
Over fabric half 80 fair.
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow;
This, all this, was in the olden
Time, long ago]
And every gentle air that dallied
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid
winged odor went away.
Wanderers in that happy valley
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute's well tuned law,
Round about . throne we're sitting
[Porphyrogene
In state his glory well BETTING
The ruler of the realm was seen.
~AAAo GA "AVA poAIA ouu TuDy glowing
Was the fair palace door
Through which came flowing, flowing, fowin,
And sparkling evermore
A troop Of Echoes whose sweet duty
Was but to sing
In voicesof surprising beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things in robes of sorrow
Assailed the monarch's high estate
IAN, let US mourn, for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolatel
And, round about his home, the glory
That blushed and bloomed
Is but dim remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
And travelers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To discordant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door,
hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh-but smile no more.
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GLUE AS A CURE FOR Cf1TS.

A correspondent Of the Scientific
american writes as follows "For the
last twelve or fourteen years I have
been employed in shop where there
are over three hundred men at work,
and, as is the case in all shops of this
kind, hardly day passes without one
or more of US cut or bruise our limbs.
At first there were but few who found
their way to my department to have
their wounds bound up; but after a
while it became generally known that
a rag glued on a flesh wound was not
only speedy curative, but an effectu-
al protection against further injury.
| was soon obliged to keep a supply
Of rags on hand, to be ready for any
emergency. I will here cite one
among many of the cases cured with
glue: A man was running boring
machine, with an inch and a quarter
auger attached. By some means the
sleeve of his shirt caught in the au-
ger, bringing his wrist in contact with
the bit, tearing the flesh among the
muscles in a frightful manner. He
was conducted to my department (the
pattern shop), and I washed the
wound in warm water, and glued
around it cloth, which, when dry
shrunk into rounded shape, holding
the wound tight and firm. Once OF
twice week, for three or four weeks
dressed the wound afresh, and il
was we'll. The man never lost al
hours time in consequence. The
truth Of this statement hundreds car
testify to. I use, Of course, the best
quality of glue"
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GEORGE ELIOT AND SHAKESPEARE.

Now George Eliot, within her
range,-and her range, though, un-
like shakespeare's, it may have def
mite determiable limits, is still very
wide,-George Eliot, l say, within
her range is every whit as dramatic
as shakespeare. So natural is the
dramatic method to her genius that
her novels are often conceived in
succession of scenes, instead of in the
continuity of narration. But when
ceasing for the moment to be dramat-
lc, she uses the privilege of the nov-
elist to beexpressly psychological, her
analysis Of character and motive be-
comes subtle and searching thatmere
dramatic exhibition seems almost vul-
gar IN comparison. Hamlet's solilo-
guy is greatly admired for the depth
and subtlety of psychological impli-
cation which it contains. But there
is many and many a passage of clari-
voyant vision and revelation in the
sphere of human character and mo-
tive to be found in George Eliot's
works that makes Hamlet's soliloquv
superficial and tame George Eliot'S
knowledge in the deep things of the
human heart. in short, is hardly Sec
ond to anything elsewhere exhibited
in the whole realm of literature.
There are marks enough in her writ
ing of varied and watchful observa-
ton. But the knowledge of the hu-
man heart that George Eliot displays
is not an acquired knowledge. 1t was
born with her and in her. It is geni-
us. 1t is a gift which is Shakespear-
can in quality-one might, perhaps,
as we'll be frankly true to himself and
out with his thought-it is finer than
Shakespeare. In quantity it is less,
but in quality it is .Scribney.
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MIR. BEECHEIpS LECTURE TOUR IN
NEW ENGLAND.

MIR. Beecher's lecture agent in Bos-
ton publishes a letter in which he says
"Mr. Beecher lectured in Boston on
Tuesday night to the largest audience
OF the season. Nearly 1000 evening
tickets were sold-the largest sale for
years-and yet the price was doubled
81 each. During the last six years,
to my personal knowledge, no lectur-
ers excepting Cough, Clemens, Geo.
Mcdonald, Thomas Mast, and Anna
Dickinson have even approximated
to such sales. At Chelsea, where Mr..
Beecher lectured on Wednesday, the
Opera House was full ; large evening
sales. At Brookline, where he lec-
tured on Thursday, the audience was
double; at each place the price Il
tickets 81 admission. Mr.. Beecher's
reception at Boston was enthusiastic !:
so at Chelsea and at Brookline. The
absurdity of trial by lyceum is only
equaled by the absurdity of trial
by newspapers can see no sense
in such tests; but if such tests are in
sisted on, then the fact must be men.
toned that never a day passes in
which l do not receive applications
for Mr.. Beecher to lecture in New
England and elsewhere. The mean
fling that Mr.. Beecher is taking ad-
vantage of recent events to make
money is answered by this fact: l
offered him the largest fee ever ten
dered to a lecturer for a series Of en-
gagements long before-months before
the scandal was published, and he ac-
cepted my terms without any publ
cation Of it. He is simply keeping
his contract with me entered into
early last summer"
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Why is the comet like. a cows
tail? Because of it's close proximity
to the milky way.
"A barber is no longer simply a
"tonsorial artist" He is a "profes-
sor Of cranicultural abscission and
genealogical tripsis."
"A Cincinnati young man sent a
note to bis girl asking at what time
he should call, and received in return
the following brief billet doux:
"DEER JoS-Comet afpastate.
MARY"
"A New Orleans darkey drivinga
cotton float, hearing the flagship FIR
Ing a salute, screamed, "Dar dey is at
it agin, an jis war dey was befo'.
Good Lor! Git up, Susan!" and
away dashed mules, float, and darkey
1or the back OF the town.
"A poor vagrant was about being
condemned to Imprisonment because
he had no "visible means of support"
"Wisible," cried the astonished defen-
dant' as he pulled from his pockets
section Of moldy sausage and a hard
old crust Of bread "Wisible! judge,
amt them visible %
a lecturer, wishing to explain to
a little girl the manner in which a
lobster casts his shell when he has
outgrown it, said, "What do you do
when you have outgrown your clothes?
You throw them aside, don't you %
"Oh! no." replied the little one: eve
let out the tucks.'
"A Genesee county man, says the
Detroit Free Press, who wanted to 90
ou' Oh the train yesterday, but miss
ed 1t, walked up and down the depot
IN high state ofexcitement, berating
himself and every one else. II know
just what my wife will say!" he ex-
claimed, as he walked up and down.
''When that train gifts thar and she
don't see me, she'll git right up and
Jump over chairs, and smash crockerv.
and swear that I'm off on another
drunk :"
One night, recently, a Detroit
policeman passing a certain house
about ten o'clock, saw a man drop
from a window, and heard smothered
cries inside. He seized the man for
burglar, but soon found that he had
the owner Of the house in his clutches.
"Well,' said the officer, ssit looked
suspicious to see you drop out of a
window that way" "Well," replied
the man, heaving sigh, "when the
old woman gets her dander up amt
particular about what road l take to
get out of the house."
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The body Of Lady Dixie, who
died recently in London, was burnt
on October 10, at Dresden. The GER
emony was performed in the furnac e
recently invented for burial purposes
by Herr Siemens, and the relatives of
the deceased lady permitting strang-
ers to be present, a large number Of
scientific men attended the expert
ment. When the company had COM
piled with Herr Siemen's request to
otter up a mental prayer, the coffin
was placed in the chamber of the fur
mace; six minutes later the coffin
burst; five minues more and the flesh
began to melt away ; ten minutes
more and the skeleton was laid bare :
another ten minutes and the bones
began to crumble. Seventy-fve min
utes after the introduction of the cof-
lin into the furnace all that remained
of Lady Dixie and the coffin were
six pounds of dust placed in an urn.
The brother-in-law of the deceased
was present.
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From the London Spectator

From the London Spectator
Guizot's will contains curious con-
fession Of faith, in which the old states
man declares that, born Protestant,
he had used the liberty which the
Protestant Church gives of inquiry
and doubt, and that for some time he
had held that the unassisted reason of
man is competent to furnish him with
a solution Of the great problem of
duty and destiny, and that his un-
assisted will is equal tothe task of reg
ulating his life according to the NOR
al law. He had, however abandoned
this belief: He was convinced that
we are children in Gods hands, un-
able to penetrate to His motives or
ultimate designs, and declares himself
quite resigned to $50 large share of
ignorance and weakness" IL. be-
lieve in God, and adore Him, without
attempting to comprehend HIM." He
confesses a profound belief in the
permanent government of the universe
by God, as we'll as Of His imminent
action IN the soul Of man and he re-
cognizes God especially in the histor-
les of the Old and New Testaments,
which he calls monuments of the
divine revelation and action, by the
mediation and sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus Christ, for the salvation of the
human race" He adds that he care
fully holds aloof from the scientific
discussions, and the solutions offered,
of the mysteries Of revelation: 81
trust that God permits me to call N.Y.
self a Christian, and I am convinced
that in the light which we are about
to enter we shall fully discern the
purely human origin and vanity of
most of our dissensions here below on
divine being"
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The Rev. Phillips Brooks has
refused a salary of $4,000 a year
from Philadelphia, said to be the
highest salary ever offered to an Epis-
copal clergyman in this country, and
one Of $4,000 from New York. He
loves Boston.
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Mark Twain is one of the Di-
rectors of an Accidental Insurance
Company, and in recent speech
spoke as follows of the inducements
held out by his company "A man
is bound to prosper who gives it his
custom. No man can take out poi
icy in it and not get crippled before
the year is out. Now there was one
INDECENT man who had been disap-
pointed so often, with other compan-
les, that he had grown disheartened,
his appetite left him, he ceased to
smile-said life was but WEAKNESS.
Three weeks ago I got him to insure
with US, and now he is the brightest,
happiest spirit in the land-has good
steady income, and stylish suit of
new bandages every day, and travels
around on shutter"
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az cheerfally as he did the parson
who married him; WHARF you kant
find the landlord unless yu hunt in
the kitchen; WHARF servants glide
around like angels ov mercy; WHARF
the beds fit mans back like the
feathers on a goose; and WHARF the
v'ttles taste just az tho you're wife or
yure mother had fried 'em.
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AT the National Science Con-
gress in Breslau, on September %, a
trial was made of DR.. Reclain's ap-
paratus for the cremation of the hu-
man body. The result was that half
an hour after the corpse was placed
in the furnace the soft parts of the
body were thoroughly consumed, and
in one hour the bones were reduced
to q fine white ash.
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There is a quiet courtesy and
modest unobtrusiveness about a wise
advertisement that create a certain
responsive feeling of sympathy in the
reader. We all like to be solicited,
and it is natural to suppose that he
who most politely, clearly and per-
sistently solicits us stands the better
chance for our trade. The familiar
advertisements of local papers often
cover these points with great tact and
ingenuity.
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damages have been

11e1Hplary uamages nave been
given by a Baltimore jury, in a case
in which a man shot another by acci-
dent. The defendant playfully took
up a gun, entertaining the common
idea that no gun can possibly be
loaded, and playfully pointed it at
his friend. AS it always happens in
such cases, the gun was loaded and
he shot and almost killed his friend,
only in fun of course. The jury
showed their appreciation of such
genial humor by giving verdict for
$4,000 damages.
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The Boston Transcript says: Those
who witnessed the horror at Revere,
and hosts Of others, will be glad to
see that the Eastern Railroad has
paid $4,000 to Jefferson c. Rowe,
the heroic brakeman who lost.his legs
.lDy by staying YIN at his post between the
two cars which were crushed together.
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Mr.. Medill writes that in the
Alps English ladies may frequently
be met with climbing the mountains
on foot; but he says, "Whenever
meet q woman carried on sedan
chair by four Switzers up mountain,
to see glacier, an avalanche, or a
cascade, it is not necessary to look at
her prodigious mass of back hair to
know that she is not English, but
American
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Strayed or Stolen.

From the premises of the subscriber, in
the town of Rockville, about the 7th of
September, large YELLOW OK; horns
not very high and pointing outward :;
is about six years old. The finder will
be suitably rewarded by calling at A. Hen
nemann's Hotel, St. Cloud, or at P. Lom-
meps Hotel, Rockville.
eJOHN EBERLY.
i Rockville, Sept. 28th. 1874. 4w
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Boston Post estimates But
ler's wealth at 81 ,25O,00O.

1el wealth. dL 81 ,LoU,UUU.
Last year the hereditary pensions
IN Great Britain were e11,36O, of
which $4,000 was to the heirs and
descendants of William Penn forever.
The biggest locomotive in the
world is claimed by the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad company. 1t has twelve
driving wheels, and weighs seventy
five tons.
castor beans are proving profit
able crop in Kansas. They will, on
the poorest ground, produce twenty
bushels per acre, and bring 50 per
bushel.
The decision Of Boston Court.
hat if woman lends money to her
husband she cannot get it back, only
confirms in law what has long held
good in practice.
In an ordinary open fre-grate,
- per cent. Of the heat resulting from
the combustion Of the fuel goes up
the chimney, and is wasted, only 25
per cent. being radiated into the ap-
partment.
-Santanta and Big Tree are like
ly to get their deserts at last from a
Texan Sheriff: The military author
ties, it is said, have decided to turn
them over to Gov. Davis, and recon-
mend the execution of the sentence
suspended at the time of their release
from confinement. It has been prov
en- that those chiefs have violated their
paroles.
1t is estimated that the people
who have fallen victims to the famine
III Asia Minor number oyer 10000.
As an instance of the terrible deyas-
tation among the cattle and focks, it
is stated that in one village out of
l,6O0 sheep and goats, just one sheep
and one goat remain, and of 100
COWS two remain. Ir another, from
flock OF sheep and goats, eight are
reported and from another flock in
the same village, numbering 800, of
which 700 are mohair goats, the same
number, eight, is reported.
A young girl in Paris named
Marguerite Belief, who had been un-
fortunate in love affair, resolved to
commit suicide. Before going to bed
she filled her chamber with the most
odorous flowers, and having complete
ly closed the room, covered up her
head and went to sleep. She was
found in an unconscious state about
noon the next day, and although by
great medical skill she was recalled to
life, her reason had fed. She imag-
ines that she has been transported to
the kingdom Of flowers and has be-
come a marigold. II remember that
[ loved butterfly" she murmurs
"but he has gone away"
| If you wish to see Colorado. come
to Denver; and, if you wish to retain
a good impression, don't go outside Of
Denver. Not but there is money in
stock and the mines, but romance
fades when confronted with the stern:
reality, and cactus, alkali, and Span-
ish bayonets are not calculated to in.
crease ones veneration. But the cl;-
mate, ah! that is charming. the
steaks are delicious, and the wild
game abundant. There is no use
one cannot help admiring Denver
but he must be careful and not lift
the n :, curtain up too far.-cdr. Chicago; <;
Tribune. ~>'s
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THE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF MILL An
GUIZOr:s j.
From the New York Tribune.

From the Nep York Tribune.
There comes q strange rumor from
England as to John Stuart Mills re-
1igious belief: It is said that his
posthumous essays, which are prob
ably published by this time, will show
that he was more orthodox than has
been supposed since his death. He
makes in them, it is declared, pro-
fession of Theism.
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One Of the sad things connected
with the sealing trade is the indis-
criminate slaughter of the seals, old
and young, for it is at the breeding
season, when they land to breed and
foster their young, that they are at
tackled !; and although the large male
seals are considered the best, as yield
ing most blubber, neither the clap
matches nor the cubs are spared; and
thus like killing the goose that laid
the golden eggs, the seals are being
gradually exterminated, and that,
not from necessity or profit, but from
sheer wantonness and cruelty.
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The schools of Vo,,,,o,

The schools of Vermont are far
from being in prosperous condition.
More than 700 of the school houses,
or one-third of the whole are reported
as unfit for use, while cheap teachers
are everywhere sought for, the ordi-
nary wages being $3.50 to 81 a week
for women, who constitute a majority
OF the teachers, and 81 and upward
tor men. There is no high-school
system, and it is optional with towns
whether to maintain graded school
or not. In the rural districts the
number Of school children is decreas-
ing every year, and the population
has drifted from its old localities.
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"A Springfield (Mass.) firm have
undertaken a contract to supply 20,-
900 pistols for the Russian Govern
melt.
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INTERESTING PERSONAL HISTORY.

About thirty years ago, the Dela-
ware Bridge was just as it is now,
much in want of coat of good paint.
AS the job at that time was pretty
large one, several painters were en-
ployed, and among the party was a
young Jew, who received 62* cents
per day for his labor, and his broth
er was then employed by Asa Packer
at 500 per annum but low wages
and salaries did not stamp out their
indomitab energy and perseverance,
for shortly afterwara they both went
to California, where there was then a
wide and profitable, field for energy
and enterprise, just such as they
possessed and used to great advantage,
which secured to them large amount
of wealth. In due time they return
ed to New York, which gave them a
more suitable field for employing their
large capital for time in mercantile
pursuits, but latterly prominent bank
ers in large financial operations on
their own account, and agents for the
Messrs. Rothschilds. Now, readers,
who do you think these two young
Jews are whom we have hastily de-
scribed? Why, none other than the
Messrs. Seligmans, so prominently
connected with Uncle Sans $780,
100000 Of five per cent bonds.
IN. D. Conway attended the
meetings Of the Congress of Oriental
lists in London, and there met lady
who had just returned from China,
where both her husband and herself
had been missionary laborers. This
lady feared that, were she to tell all
she knew about Chinese missionary
life, the contributions from Sunday
schools and other sources would be
greatly diminished. The fact was.
that the great mass Of the Chinese
were in less need Of missionary labor
than the same classes in England.
In addition to this, the general i'm.
preston that missionaries were subject
to hardships was entirely erroneous.
Her own life in China had been al
most luxurious. For society she had
had English and American merchants
and their families, learned Chinese
scholars, and travellers from all parts
Of the world: The stories of hard.
ships and privation narrated before
missionary meetings, and instilled in.
to the children at sunday-school
might have been true once, but that
time was long ago; ,....
I<,r~ - IN
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~ The The. cotton Q! ! mills i generally Of
Rhode Island have commenced run
finlp ;at two thirds time, 2 ,''~z::. -
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All Orders by Mail Promptly Filled.

A:LLBEPAL DISCOUNT TO DEALERS.
Office and factory on Washington ave-
nue., next door to the bridge, St. Cloud
Minnesota.