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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-07-04

you. The cruel blows that william CAV,
dazed her, and she wondered of to find
friendly shelter. When she lived IN
our quiet street she had puor cOlOred
woman who did her washing and loved
her like child. How she got there
don't know, but she did, and when old
John the Whitewater, opened the door
of the miserable rooms where he andhi'
wife lived, she fell fainting on the floor
Those good people, God bless them, did
all they could for her. That night she
raved and wandered in her sleep, and
bit by bit they gathered her sad story
from her lips. Next evening she be.
came calm and tranquil, and old John
said to his wife, "Lize, de lamb is bet
ter But when Lie looked in the pale
face she knew that the call Of the Mighty
Master had come, aud told her husband
TO run for the minister.
"The nearest minister was a man
whom / will call Mr.. Passover. lie
had large and wealthy congregation,
and there was a dinner party at his
house that night. He waited until his
dinner party was over, and then took
his time about coming. Ny poor girl
was growing weaker and weaker, and
at last feebly put her hand in that Of
the old colored woman. She smiled and
said, Il wonder, Aunt Liza, if lie will
forgive me?' Old Aunt Liza held her
up in her arms and said Sure, honey.
Oh John deah, see de glory shinin'
in her face There was step on the
stairs-that Of the Reverend Mr.. Pass
over. He had come too late, for, sup
ported by those trustful, loving hands,
my poor darling had past into eternal
rest. Uncle John was on his knees
praying, and when the minister opened
the door he heard old John say Il am
de resurrection and de life, and, as dat
sun, now gone down, shall tomorrow
rise in de east, and light de world, so,
alter de night OBJ de grave, de soul oh
de just shall rise, and shine in de new
day dat shall nebber end. Amen
The sergeant took small case from
his breast pocket and handed it to me.
1t was the miniature Of a Young girl,
and twined beneath it was some bright
golden hair. When | handed it back
noticed the sergeant pass his hand
kerchief over his eyes. They were not
unmanly tears, and | honored him for
them.
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A Man Who Never Told a Lie.

Yesterday aftei noon an old GILMAN,
with crude petroleum dripping from
his clothes and legs inclosed in high
boots, entered the Derrick Office and
said:
"Want an item? I've got the biggest
item you ever heard tell Of. | struck
an lie well on my lease Monday, 'an
she flowed a stream Of lie 100 feet high
straight up for half-an-hour. Then
she kinder died down. One Of my
drillers was standing over the hole,
when she suddenly spurted up again,
and if ii didn't take that driller right
up with it. The stream was a power
ful one you see, an he went up a hun
dred feet. You've seen those little
balls as dance about on the top Of those
little spurtin' fountains such as they
have in the cities? Yes, waal that's
the way this ere thing acted, an there's
that air drilier right up on top of that
hundred-fut column Of crude lie, an
he's dancin' about like chaff in fannin'
mill. What do you think of that un 20
Glow long has he been up there?"
"About four days and four nights. .
she must be very hungry by this
time. Doesn't be come down to get
something to eat?"
"Why, we 'uns just put a plate OF
hash in this stream Of lie, and it takes
it up to him, you see. An it's mighty
handy, as be finds his vituals already
creased, an he doesn't need butter"
His face was as innocent Of deceit az
piece Of tanned leather, and when he
asked to have his name put down as a
deadhead subscriber for information he
had given, we didn't have the heart tC
hurt his feelings by refusing
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the father after pause, glancing fond
ly at his new-found daughter.
eyes, though never knew my name
until to-day"
After the happy congratulations were
over, Wilmot asked:
"And what is my answer, Adrian
have waited long"
"It will be yes, ," she answered, blush
ing sweetly, "for have always loved
you"
Two years later, and all three were
living together in their happy English
home.
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Insertion
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hsemegts for four Insertions or over.
Transient advertisements always payable
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Marriages and obituary notices, over one
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All local notices 10 cents line for each In
Bertion.
No notices inserted for less than fifty
eentA
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TRUE LIFE.

live for those who love me
For those know are true,
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too
For the human ties that bind me
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that can do.
l live to learn their story,
who've suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake
Bards. martyrs, patriots, ssges'
The noble Of all ages,
Whose deeds crown histOry's pages,
And Times great volume make.
/ live 10 hail the season,
By gifted minds fOretold,
When man shall rule by reason,
And not alone by gold
When man 10 man united,
Aud every wrong thing righted'
The whole world shall be lighted
AZ Eden was Of old
l live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is q union
'Twi1t Natures heart and mine.
To profit by affliction,
Reap truths from fields Of fiction
Grow wiser from conviction,
And fulfill each grand design.
| live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit. too
For the wrong that needs resistance
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that / can do.
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He Was Correct
Nui


door. Ok times as large as u
Mashed by theTaun3e was the brief
reply.
Train struck you, eh?"
"Well, kinder. / had on load Of
fenee-posts, and when ! reached the
crossing the train was right at hand. /
put the whip on to Sarah, and / give
Bill yank on the lines, and then
figgered on my chances. I'm whole
four hoss team on mental arithmetic,
am, and | WANT minute calkelaung
that that air locomotive would strike
the of hind wheel Of my wagon. Bill
reared up, Sarah SHE'D, and the engine
footed over four hundred times min
ute, but had them fggers right down
fine"
"The engine ran into your wagon,
did it?"
"Of course ii did-struck that hind
wheel exactly as 1 calkelated, lifted me
lust as high as calkelated, landed them
horses and fence posts where l calkel-
aied. and now / calkelaie that you want
about $40 TO repair the busts on this
vehicle"
He was right on that, TOO. Nothing
like arithmetic.
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Mrs. Pamela Brown, widow Of the
late Major General Jacob Brown, died
or sunday, May u, at Rye, N. Y, aged
% years.
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A Fatal CarOuEe.

There are evidently medical students
in Berlin who are as great idiots as our
Princeton students. A few days ago,
says the Burgerzeitung, a candidate
who had just finished his studies and
was about to begin practice, invited a
number of his colleagues to festal eve
ming. The hero Of the solemnity devo-
ted himself with such energy TO Gam
brinus that be found it far more easy
to sing than to speak, and tumbled
home in uproariOus excitement. When
he arrived at his lodgings, he threw up
his window and leaned out in order TO
.reathe the cold winter air, and TO ex-
s1n.@nnam, 'ng Bacchic heat. After a
was struck with violent
+. .Ah Egnariing in the eyes He
III NJ I1Y M n ji'ktg dow and went 10 bed d.
N " w " NJ || y the next morning be
darkness and con-
a still be night. He
x x ~ 4 N sleep again. After
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pale anNs1old Rebecca y Y! i =! 4!
tion-housc wonua As Re*
matter with me. Tor the o, n 81 NJ
walk in the old street, snip ORIG y
ferred up town. There, 1ats. 'gOO
her. Nd. >, - -
'-It was two years after, VI - Si a.
bitter, rainy nightin January. here ag5
to the end Of my post, and was 4. their
a couple Of doors from the cornei'u burn
avenue, when heard woman scream.
She ran round the corner IN the gas
light. 1t was my own girl, my own
Annie, but so changed! There was
blood on her face where scoundrel had
struck her. / tried to stop her. Jut
she darteG away from me. and passed
on into the darkness Of the night. The
next moment / was round the corner
and stood face to face with him. wou d
have murdered him that night, the sane
as be murdered her. When my side-
partner came running up, be was lying
on the sidewalk, with his face battered
IN and was standing over him, with
my club raised up in my hand.
! what became of her; Well, IN tell
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chill bimselr watch than anis, howe
window. Tbpartlght1e Swiss exhibit
wrought upoB the young pot spAs.S
he fell into a violent fever, which car
ried him of 10 the following week.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-21
Our Intercourse With Europe.

The great inventions and discoveries
of the present century have facilitated
intercourse with the nations OF Europe
to such an extent that our intimacy with
some of them is closer than that between
some portions of our own country sepa-
rated but few hundred miles. England
eats our fresh beef, oysters, bread and
cheese. Our opulent citizens spend time
and money in the luxurious capitals OF
Europe, and our afternoon papers furnish
news few hours old from the centres of
trade on that continent. We must ad-
mire that wonderful intelligence OF the
human mind which has made the accom-.
plishment of such things practicable;
bat is it certain this close, easy and cheap
intimacy is benefit to us2 Are the
morals, the fashions, the ideas and the
civilization which are got from beyond
the ocean good for us9 Do our rapid
communication and transportation bring
us wisdom, prosperity, good manners
and happiness9
If we consider the circumstances con-
nected with our foreign intercourse, we
shall be compelled to admit that our
neighbors on the other side of the Attain
tic have much more sagacity than we
have, or, to use a popular phrase, they
are much too smart for u.s." The grand
object of desire in all commercial and
business affairs is the omnipotent dollar,
and in this great truggle for money they
manage to secure all the prizes.
The resources Of this country are i'm
mensely greater than any one of the
European States, and some of our own
products are indispensable to them while
they produce but little that we need.
They manage, however, to get us deeply
in debt to them, in addition to the profit
they have from trade with us. Is not
this a humiliating confessions Is it not
true? We hear much of the smartness
of the "Great Yankee Nation" but when
our rivals can win our cotton, tobacco,
provisions, grain, gold and bonds, while
we accept their fashions, amusements and
luxuries, and toll for their profit, is it not
time to stop Boosting and to ask if we do
not present very ridiculous spectacle to
the civilized world?
New schemes to render our communi-
cation with Europe more complete are
constantly urged upon us, and very few
stop to think of the consequences. An
honored proverb tells US that 'evil COM
munications corrupt good manners" and
it is certain that our manners are not i'm
proved by our too easy communications
with Europe. One of our most venerated
statesmen once expressed wish that
there were an ocean of fire between US
and the Old World. An entire cessation
of intercourse would benefit US, but as
this is not practicable, we should strive to
use little prudence in the matter of
commerce and morality - Philadelphia
Press.
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Loves Queen.
BY WILLIAM WINTER.

He loves not we'll whose love is bold
would not have thee come too nigh.
The suns gold would not seem pure gold
Unless the sun were in the sky:
TIE take him thence and chain him near,
Would make his beauty disappear.
He keeps his state-do thou keep thine,
And shine upon me from affair
SO shall bask in light divine
That falls from Loves own guiding star
SO shall thy eminence be high,
And so my passion shall not die.
But all my life shall reach its hands
OF lofty longing toward thy face,
And be as one who specific stands
In rapture at some perfect grace.
My love, my hope, my ALL shall be
To look to heaven and look to thee.
Thine eyes shall be the heavenly lights;
Thy voice shall be the summer breeze,
What time it sways, on moonlit nights,
The murmuring tops of leafy trees;
And will touch thy beauteous form
In June's red roses, rich and warm.
But then thy self shall not come down
From that pure region far above;
But keep thy throne and wear thy crown,
Queen of my heart and queen of loye!
A monarch in thy realm complete,
And l a monarch-at thy feet!
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A Fine Gentleman.

Here is somebody's idea of him in
1903; Some one has writ to me out of
the country very civil letter, and has
desired that would let him know what
| mean by gentleman.
II Degin-any one that is much in
company will observe that the height of
good breeding is shown rather in never
giving offense than in doing obliging
things; thus, he that never shocks you,
though he is seldom entertaining, is
more likely to keep your favor than he
who often entertains and sometimes dis
pleases you.
THE most necessary talent in a man
of conversation is a good judgment. He
that has this in perfection is master of
his companion without letting him see
it; and has the same advantage over men
of any other qualifications as one that
can see would have over blind man of
ten times his strength.
by the light of his faculty he acts
with great ease and freedom among the
men of pleasure, and acquits himself
with skill among the men of business
He neither is nor appears cunning; bu,
he does good office with readiness and
alacrity.
His judgment is SO good and unerr-
ing, that the equality of society is per-
fectly kept up, and makes his compan '
desired by women, without being envied
by men. He would be just as he is il
there were no law; and be as discreet as
he is if there were no such thing as cal.
umHy."
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Brooks Anecdotes of Lincoln.

Unless very much preoccupied, he
never heard any reference to anything
that he did not understand without ask
ing for further information. "What do
you suppose makes that tree grow in that
waya" he would ask, and he was not sat
isfed until he had found out. Or he
would take one of his boys toys to pieces,
find out how it was made, and put it to-
gether again. "Tad," as his youngest
boy was called, on more than one occa-
sion had cause to bewail, loudly, his ia
theirs curiosity. One day we were look
ing at photograph of the President,
taken in a sitting position, with the legs
crossed. Lincoln's attention was attract
ed to the foot of the leg which was crossed
above the other, and he said, "Now,
can understand why that foot should be
SO enormous. It's big foot, anyway,
and it is near the focus of the instru-
ment. But why is the outline of it so
indistinct and blurreda l am confident
did not move it." l studied it for a
moment, and told him that probably the
throbbing of the large arteries inside of
the bend of the knee caused an almost
imperceptible motion. The President,
very much interested in the discovery, as
he called it, Immediately took the posi-
ton of the figure in the picture, and,
narrowly watching his foot, exclaimed {:
That's it, that's it! Now, that's very
curious, isn't it9' Similarly, when some
body told him of the somewhat fantastic
derivation of word, he said, Nov, that
is very queer, and shall never say Ca
PRECIOUS again without thinking of the
skipping of goat"
The story of the Gettysburg Grafton
has been told again and again, but has
never been told before in this way
One Saturday night the President
asked me if had any objection to &C
companying him to photographers on
Sunday. He said that it was impossible
for him to go on any other day, and he
would like to have me see him "set.
Next day We went together, and as he
was leaving the house he stopped and
said, "Hold on, have forgotten Everett y
Stepping hastily back, he brought with
him folded paper, which he explained
was a printed copy of the Grafton that
Mr.. Everett was to deliver, in a few days,
at Gettysburg. 1t occupied nearly the
whole Of two pages of the Boston Jour
nal, and looked very formidable indeed
AS we walked away from the house Lin
coin said, at was very kind in Mr.. Ever
EFT to send me this. l suppose he wa:
afraid should say something that he
wanted to say. He needn't have been
alarmed. My speechisn't long"
$50 it is written, is it, thenl" l asked
"Well, no." was the reply. at is moi
exactly written. 1t is not finished. any.
way. have written it over, two or three
times, and l shall have to give it another
lick before | am satisfied. But it il
short, short, short"
found afterward, that the Gettysburg
speech was actually written and re-writ.
ten q great many times. The several
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-03-21
A Protest Against ClOthes-lines.

Come, now, what internal barbarity is
this-leaviDg clothes-line out after
dark A great deal OF funny comment
has been made upon the custom by
thoughtless people, but it is most Sc
rious matter, and it is high time the
tomfoolery was abolished. We are just
as ready as anybody to see the funny side
of thing, but We have ceased to observe
anything amusing in being unexpectedly
sawed across the neck, or rasped across
the face by clothes line. 1t is time
there was Legislative enactment to
either hang clothes-lines sixty feet above
the earth, or make leaving them out after
nightfall State Prison offence. 1t is u
most incomprehensible fact that clothes
line is always hung across garden path.
If the yard was ten miles square and
path two feet wide crept along close to
the fence, and the woman had but eight
feet of line, she would manage to cover
the path. Whether this is because she is
perverse, or cannot help it, we do not
know. We only know that it is SO, and
that it is an appalling evil. No home cir
Gle is safe where this custom prevails. 1t
matters not how good Datured a man is,
it matters not how carefully he has been
educated, it matters not how lofty and
noble are his aspirations-th moment
clothes-line catches him under the chin,
especially if he has pan of ashes in his
arms, that moment he sinks with awful
velocity to the level Of brute, and pro-
ceeds to act out the conditions thereof at
once. In its proper place clothes-lina
is valuable companion, but across q
path after dark it is simply a brutalizing
force.-Ddn6ury Neics.
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draughts and interlineations Of that fa-
nous address, if in existence, would be
an invaluable memento of its great au-
thor. Lincoln took the copy of Ever
ett's grafton with him to the photogra-
piers, thinking that he might have time
to look it over while waiting for the oper-
ator. But he chatted so constantly, and
asked 80 many questions about the art of
photography, that he scarcely opened it.
The folded paper is seen lying ON the
table, near the President, in the picture
which was made that day.
Mr.. Lincoln had some doubts as to his
ability to punctuate correctly, but he al
ways felt sure of the semi-colon. On
this point he said to Mr.. Brooks: "With
educated people, Isuppose punctuation is
q matter Of rule; with me it is matter
of feeling. But must say that l have
great respect for the semi-colon; it is
very useful little chap"
Several stories are told to illustrate Mr..
Lincoln's delight in telling stories, but
we have space for only this:
Lincoln particularly liked ajoke at the
expense of the dignity Of some high civil
or military official. One day, not long
before his second Inauguration, he asked
me if had heard about Stanton's meet
ing a picket ON Broad river, South Caro-
lima, and then told this story: General
Foster, then at Port Royal, escorted the
Secretary up the river, taking a quarter-
masters tug. Reaching the outer lines
on the river, picket roared from the
bank, who have you got on board that
tug9' The severe and dignified answer
was, THE Secretary of War and Major
General Foster Instantly the picket
roared back, We've got major generals
enough up here-why don't you bring US
up some hard-tack?" The story tickled
Lincoln nightly, and he told i. until it
was replaced by new one.
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A Russian officers Picture of the
Death of His Friend.

Coming to place where the road sud-
denly widened, about two miles from
Tells, we halted, and, after driving away
and cutting down in n short skirmish a
party of Turks who were busy robbing
our dead, we stopped to form before 60
ing on. AS rode along the front, shout
ing out orders to my men, an agonized
cry for help arrested my attention.
looked around. Nothing but heaps of
dead everywhere. OF these none needed
me. But bark once more, and again
and again these piteous cries. Hastily
dismounting, threw the bride over my
sound arm and ran toward some bushes
from behind which the sounds proceeded,
and there, in a small pool of clotted
blood, lay that which l at first failed to
recognize as human being, though hu-
man it certainly was in its piteous cries
and the seemingly gloved hands that
clutched air and earth in their agony.
The rest, from the waist upward, was one
mass of raw, quivering flesh-the face
featureless, eyelids and eyes cut out, the
man flayed alive, all but the hands,
whose white skin at first gave the i'm
preston of their being gloved. This
CHASTITY object lay few steps from a
dead horse, one of our own regiments
golden bays. Faint at heart bent over
the sufferer. evidently one of our own
men, but now mangled beyond recogni-
ton. He prayed for death with his poor
torn lips, and in minute more W., Our
surgeon, and two more of our officers
were by his side. | made room for W.,
who stopped for few seconds over our
comrade, and then rising, sadly shook
his head, murmuring mo help
A sudden impulse prompted me to
seize the poor, helpless hand in my own,
and pressing it, whisper few words OF
comfort. At the sound of my voice came
the sadder appeal: "Nicolia, for old
friendships sake send bullet through
my heart" This voice sounded so
strangely familiar, and yet could not
recognize it. "Who are you" alexis
s." Alexis, my old schoolmate, who had
a few hours ago shared my breakfast by
our bivouac fire, and then rode away,
handsome and bold, at the head of our
gallant first squadron. He had fallen
wounded, helpless, his horse shot from
under him, and the fiendish Turks were
slowly torturing him to death when our
approach drove them away. Clasping
my hand in his, he still begged for death.
My revolver was empty, discharged in
the scufile few minutes before. l looked
at w., who silently drew out his, and
shuddering in every nerve, placed the
muzzle against SIS breast, and with
averted face, fired twice in succession,
while l still pressed the poor hand in
mine. We wrapped him up in my cloak,
and placing him in the shallow ditch,
rolled bowlder over him, and then,
with our hands still moist with his blood,
we swore to each other never to empty
the last chamber of our pistols, but al
ways to reserve shot for ourselves and
friends, should any Of us, wounded, have
to be left behind. May quick death
a soldiers death-be ours.