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had concluded, he cast it down, clasped bis
hands gratefully, and sank tearfully on his
knees and thanked God.
The good doctor laughed, rubbed bis hands,
snufed eagerly, wiped his eyes and kept muir
muring "good, good |"
He had broug ght confession, which he had
taken down at the request Of dying man in
the hospital the man who had been so treach-
erously attacked and stabbed by his comrade
in the cavern. The substance of the confes-
sion said that Harold Stanly had hired him
self-the dying man-and another, to watch
Edward Harris, and to involve him in some
difficulty, which would eventually get him
out of the way. That they had followed Ed
ward into the gambling house on the night of
the murder, and were witnesses to bis trouble
with the gambler-heard the threat of Har-
ris to "6x him." and knowing that Edward
must take the same road home, they followed
the gambler from the place, attacked and
robbed him, and left him dead on the ground.
That they had seen Harris from distant
hiding place, leave the gambling house, and
stoop over the body of the dead man; and it
said, furthermore, that if the watchman had
not suddenly appeared, they would have seized
Harris for the murder.
The confession also told of the abduction
of Marion Lee, and her place Of imprison-
ment. The confession was taken down in the
presence of a number of witnesses, and short
ly afterwards the man died.
1t was placed before the proper authorities,
and shortly afterward Edward Harris was lib
Grated. The police,in company with Ed.
ward, old Mr.. Harris, and Mr.. Lee, went
down to Ann Street, broke into the place
where Marion was confined, and found the
bravehearted girl on her knees, and in tears.
In moment Edward was at her side. She
looked up, and with joyful cry, was clasped
in his arms. He kissed the poor maiden's
cheek, but her face was cold. She had swoon-
ed upon his breast. When she returned to.
consciousness she found herself at home, and
by her side him to whom she had, through all
his trials, proved 80 faithful, Edward Harris.
Marion and Edward were united few
weeks afterwartls-a joyful ending to all their
SORROWS.
Nothing was heard of Harold Stanly, but
it was rumored that, on the discovery of his
villainy, he had entered the army, and fell,
bravely fighting, at the memorable storming
of Vera Cruz
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

The OLD Folks STUPID1TY.-t is rela.
ted that when tea was first introduced from
China into England, some great mistakes
were made in the use Of it. Some persons
stepped the leaves in hot water as they were
directed; but, instead of drinking the infusion,
they threw this away, and tried to eat the
leaves as vegetable. Of course, there was
great disappointment and the new vegetable
was set down as an unmitigated fraud and
humbug by those etupid old folks. Well, the
stupid old folks are not dead dead yet. Some
are still left that we may be amused by their
mistakes. Suppose farmer piles bis manure
up in his yard or leaves it soaking in rain
water, while the strong, dark liquid is thrown
away on the roadside, or flows away into
some brook or pond and the drained, dry,
useless stuff left, is spread upon the fields in
place of good manure; might not such per:
son be thought as stupid as our good old
great.grandmothers who threw away the tea
and tried to use the worthless leaves ?-Rural
New Yorker.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

Too MUCH ScHooL.-The following ideas,
from the Philadelphia Press, are correct:
"When the doors of the school-house close
in the afternoon upon the school children,
they should literally close out from them all
that pertains to school until the opening next
morning. A teacher should be teacher,
not simply hearer of recitations. Lessons
should be learned and taught at school
never at home. The teacher has no right to
impose upon parents the most annoying part
of her work. She has no right to take from
the child a single moment of the few hours it
has out of school"
To which the Cincinnati Star wisely adds: /:
"The hours of an active school day are
not over long, it is true, but they are as
many and as long as the average mind of
child should be kept at the tension of learn
ing. The lessons of school should be learned
as we'll as recited in school, and the home
hours should really be home hours, unbur-
dened with school tasks. Childhood needs
its recreation its sleep, its rest, quite as much
as it needs, its arithmetic, grammar and geog-
raphy."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

like, this count was taken with the spirit and
courage and brilliant cleverness of the girl
whom he had once sought to deceive. He
would have liked to begin second wooing
before the second marriage, and would have
been glad, no doubt, the match once settled,
to be devoted husband to such a rare woman.
But he was very coolly received, and an un-
mistakable intimation was given that he need
not present himself until the day Of the cere-
mony, and then at the church. The day
came, and the half married maid appeared,
dressed wholly in black her mother also in
black. The sombre bride met her husband
at the altar, for she would not even walk up
the aisle with hin. The ceremony was per.
formed. At its conclusion she made him q
stately salute, walked down the aisle and out
of the church; stepped into the carriage
which was in readiness for long journey,
and set out at once for the frontier. She has
never seen her husband since
"AhW says some, "what romantic story |
What pity it isn't true But it is true.
1t is romance in real life-where all the ro-
mances are that are worthy of the name.
Miss Ward belongs to an old and highly
New York family, and her father
is the famous Sam Ward of Washington
Ne,o York Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

VALUE OF SM1LEs.-Some people go
through life with a frown, or seowl, or a
gloom in their countenance. The very sight
Of them is chilling and repulsive. Others
wear cheerful expression, and thus tighten
and bless all around them. The value of q
smile is beyond estimate. 1t costs the giver
nothing, but is beyond price to the erring
and repenting, the sad and cherries, the lost
and forsaken. It disarms malice, subdues
temper, turns hatred to love, revenge to kind
ness, and paves the darkest paths with gems
of sunlight.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

No MORE SLEEpLEss N1GHTs.-Somebody
who seems to have tried it, says: The latest
method We have heard of for curing cases of
pure sleeplessness, when unaccompanied by
disease, is the following Get out of bed and
take linen bandage-although handker-
chief, neatly folded longwise, will do as well.
perhaps better. Dip one half of the handker.
chief into water; pass the wet portion around
the wrist; over this lay the dry half, and tuck
in the ends 80 as to make all secure. Lie
down again. The wet bandage will be found
to exercise most soothing influence on the
pulse; this will soon extend all over the ner-
vous system, and calm and refreshing sleep
will be the result.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

The DEAcoNs PRAYER.-A good story
is told of deacon in Tennessee, who was in
the habit of riding bucking mule-that is,
a mule that can make camel's back of its
straight one, and, by spasmodic movement
Of its four legs and hump, discharge its rider
like cannon ball. The other day they came
to the edge of the worst mud hole in the
State, and the mule gave unmistakable indi-
cations of bucking. The good deacon knew
that he was about to be thrown and his mind
skurried about for prayer. His table grace
came easiest: "Lord, for what We are about
to receive make us humbly grateful" he ex-
claimed, and the mule bucked and he was in.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

INSANITY AND ITS CAUsEs.-Want of nu.
tricious food, stimulating drinks, dreary
monotony of toll, muscular exhaustion, do.
mestic distress, misery and anxiety, account
largely, not only for the number Of poor who
become insane in adult life, but who, from he.
reditary predisposition, are born weakminded
or actually idotic among the middle class
es, stress Of business, excessive competition,
failures, and also in many cases, recklessness
and Incorporate living occasions the attack
while in the upper classes intemperance still
works woe-and under this head must be
comprised dipsomaniacs, who are not confined
in asylums. While multiplicity of subjects
of study in youth and excessive brain work in
after life exert certain mount Of inju-
rious; influence under work, luxurious hab.
its, undisciplned wills, desultory life, pro-
duce a crop of nervous disorders, termina.
ting not unfrequently in insanity. Children
of feeble intellect, who are delicately reared,
are apt to become imbecile when brought in
contact with the cares of adult life. A consid-
erable number of insane persons have never
been whole minded people; there has, it will
be found on inquiry, been always something
little peculiar about them, and when their
past life is interrupted by the attack which
has rendered restraint necessary, it is seen
that there has been smouldering fire in
the constitution for lifetime, though now,
for the first time bursting forth into confagra-
ton. Lastly, modern society comprises q
numerous class of persons, well-meaning, ex.
citable and morbidly sensitive. Some of these
are always on the borderland between sanity
and insanity, and their friends are sometimes
tempted to wish that they would actually
cross the line and save them from constant
harass. When they do, it is easy to make
allowance for them and their vagaries. Of
tentimes the line between sanity and insanity
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

The READY REPLY.-A pretty long list
might be made of men who have owed their
advancement in life to small answer given
at the right moment. One of Napoleon's vet
Grams, who survived his master many years,
was wont to recount with great glee how he
had once picked up the Emperor's cooked hat
at a review, when the latter, not noticing that
he was private, said carelessly, THANK you,
Captain" I'm what regiment, Sire ?" instant.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

How LONG TO SLEEP.-The fact is, that as
life becomes concentrated and its pursuits
more eager, short sleep and early rising be-
come impossible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, because we want more. Six
hours sleep may do very we'll for mason or
bricklayer, or any other man who has no ex-
haustion but that produced by manual labor;
the sooner he takes it after his labor is over
the better. Bot for the man whose labor is
mental, the stress of work is on his brain and
nervous system, and for him who is tired in
the evening with day of mental application,
neither "early to bed nor early to rise" is
wholesome. He keeps letting down to the
level of repose The longer the interval be.
tween the active use of the brain and his re-
tirement to bed, the better his char . for
sleep and refreshment To him, an hour after
midnight is probably as good as two hours
before it; and even his sleep will not so
quickly and completely restore him as it will
his neighbor who is physically tired. He
must not 60 to bed later, but lie longer. His
best sleep probably lies in the early morning
hours, when all the nerYous excitement- has
passed away, and he is in absolute rest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

ly asked the ready-witted soldier. Napoleon,
perceiving his mistake, answered with smile,
"In my Guard, for see you know how to be
prompt" The newly-made officer received
his commission next morning A somewhat
similar anecdote is related of Marshal Suvor-
off, who, when receiving a dispatch from the
hands of Russian sergeant who had great
ly distinguished himself on the Danube, at
tempted to confuse the messenger by series
of whimsical questions, but found him fully
equal to the occasion. "How many fish are
there in the sea p asked Survoroff: Gall that
are not caught yet," was the answer. "How
far is it to the moon p 1.-TWO of your Excel.
lency's forced marches" "What would you
do if you saw your men giving way in battle?"
"Td tell them that there was wagon.load of
whisky just behind the enemy's line." BAT.
fled at all points, the Marshal ended, with,
whats the difference between your colonel
and myself?'' my colonel cannot make me
lieutenant, but your excellency has only to
say the word" II say it now, then," answer
ed suvoroff, land ghtgoed officer you'llbe."
BIG WoRDs.-Big words are great favo-
rites with people of small ideas and weak
conceptions. lney are sometlmes employed
by men of mind, when they wish to use Ian
guage that may best conceal their thoughts.
With few exceptions, however, illiterate and
half educated persons use more "big words"
than people Of thorough education. 1t is
very common, but very egregious mistake,
to suppose the long words are more genteel
than the short ones-just as the same sort of
people imagine high colors and aashy figures
improve the style of dress. These are the
kind Of folks who don't begin, but always
commence" They don't live, but "reside."
They don't go to bed, but mysteriously "retire."
They don't eat and drink, but "partake of
refreshments" They are never sick, but "ex.
tremely indisposed; !" and, instead of dying at
last, they "decease." The strength Of the
EngliSh language is in the short words
chiefly monosylables of Saxon derivation;
and people who are in earnest seldom use any
other. Love, hate, anger, grief, Joy, express
themselves in short words and direct sentences;
while cunning, falsehood and affectstion de.
light in what Horace calls eerba sesquipe
dalia-words "a foot and a half long.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

They then passed up a narrow flight Of
steps, and in a moment more found themselves
in a long, narrow entry, lighted by large oil
lamp; they moved down this passage for a
few yards, and at last paused before door
Here the man took key from his pocket.
which he handed to Stanly, and then, with a
sinister grin, he wished him luck and depart
ed for the place where he had left his broth.
er rufian. Harold Stanley, placing the key
in the lock, turned back the bolt, opened the
door, and found himself face to face with Ma.
rton Lee!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
Montreal Herald.

1t is verv curious fact that Just as
the Americans are getting up such a
furOre over the peculiar English styles
the English are beginning to adopt
some of the most prominent American
ideas as to road gear. 1t is well-known
that English carriages have been noted
for their bulk and weight, while the dis
tinctive characteristic of American car
riages has been hghtness. The fact is,
English wheelrights could not turn out
light vehicles because their native woods
are Of an inferior quality. 1t is said
that they are now importing American
timber. AT the same time American
manufacturers are in many instances
increasing the size and weight OF their
vehicles to satisfy the wants of those
Am orleans who have got the idea that
a coach or carriage to be elegant must
be heavy. In England the heavy vehi-
Gle was more appropriate, for it cor
responded with the great r weight of the
English horses, as compared with
American stock. But American in
genuity has met this want, and vehicles
are now made in this country to show
fancied heavy appearance without be-
ing in reality heavy. There is another
curious fact in connection with this
part of the case. 1t is we'll known that
in Great Britain for great many years
there has been heavy tax on all four
wheeled carriages, while the tax on
two-wheelers has been little or nothing
at all. This had the effect OF bringing
two-wheeled vehicles into popular use
wherever they could be made to answer
the purpose. Without the excuse of
economy, two-wheeled vehicles are the
ones most favored in this country at
present day, In Europe these two
wheelers are used for any purpose, even
the transportation Of dogs to the hunt
or the slowing away OF potatoes or
market stuffs. Yet this is the kind Of
vehicle that has become popular and
fashionable of late in this country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
Denied Her Own Record.
New Orleans Times.

A statement developed at conversa-
ton in the Mayors parlor recently
seems calculated to throw doubt upon
the authenticity of almost any record,
and leave the litigant powerless to prove
fact, however notorious. In the year
1S49 there was registered in the proper
book the record Of birth of a female
child. The hour and date of birth, the
number of the house, and street where
it occurred, were all noted down, the
person filing the information and OBJ
tanning the certificate claiming to be
the mother ofthe child This child was
reared and educated by its ostensible
mother, the lady exhibiting toward it
all the afectionate attention which char
acterizes a natural parent. If any
points of resemblance exist they have
not been stated, but it is certain that
the relationship of mother and daught-
er was preserved until very short time
ago. The younger lady contracted a
marriage which did not meet the ap-
proval, and it is alleged that the older
lady now denies that she is the mother
of the child, and declines to make any
provision for her in her will Her at
torney contemplates showing by medi-
cal jurisprudence that it is impossible
for any one of her physical organization
to have become mother. The ques-
ton which suggests itself to the defend
ant in this somewhat novel suit is,
What value can be attached to the regis
try of birth, and what is necessary to
establish authentic proof of ones origin :?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

TOWARD the end Of the last reign il
Russia, a native official OF high rank
having questioned their reputed skill liz
tracking down any one on whose trail
they might be set, was challenged by
the minister of police to test it in his
own person. Accordingly, the Russian
left the capital, and returning to it a
month later with the utmost secrecy, in
a seemingly impenetrable disguise,
took up his quarters at an obscm e
tavern in the poorest part of the city;
but he had hardly been there an hour
when he was astonished by the arrival
of a courier with a card from the
minister, inviting him to dinner that
evening.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
SIandered Clergymen.

The New York Methodist is indignant
over the frequently expressed opinion
that Mr.. Vosburgh's day of usefulness
is over, SO far as the ministry is con-
cerned; and that although he has been
acquitted he should cease his pastoral
functions. It says that the notion that
suspicion condemns wives and minis
tiers is devils trap, in which enough
honest people have been caught and
killed. The world is old enough and
civilized enough to have little COM
mon sense. 1t adds: About one-fourth
of our population believe any and
every charge against woman or a
clergyman. If the innocent accused
man must retire for the honor of the
pulpit, it may some day occur to the
devil to clear out the pulpit altogether
by SANDER. i
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA. -AWay among tn,

A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.-Away among the
Alleghanies there is a spring, so small
that an OK, in a summers day, could
drain it dry. 1t steals its unobtrusive
way among the hills, till it spread out
in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretch
es away thousand miles, leaving on its
banks more than a hundred villages and
cities, and many thousand cultivated
farms, and bearing on it's bosom more
than half a thousand steamboats,. Then
joining the Mississippi, it streaches away
and away some twelve hundred miles
more, till it falls into the great emblem
of eternity. 1t is one Of the great tribu-
taries of the ocean, which, obedient only
to God, shall roll and roar till the angel,
with one foot on the sea and the other
on the land, shall lift up his hand to
heaven and swear that time shall be no
longer. So with moral influence. 1t is
a rill-as rivulet-a river-an ocean.
boundlefs and fathomless as eternity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

the gravity of deacon, "dont be I'M
reasonable. can't stay in this room all
the time, | give you everything you
want, don't %
eyes, but"
81 cook you all the nice things l can
think of, and keep you supplied with
literature and tobacco. [ have to work
hard in the house all day, and when
evening comes want little recreation.
You know all my friends. l do not go
anywhere that you disapprove of and
really don't see what any reasonable
man can complain Of. Don't let me
find you cross again-that's a dear fel-
low"
This after long silence and in very
low voice
Yes, dear"
"Bella, was it really as lonesome for
you as it has been for me-"
"Oh, Harry, could never tell you
half how dreary it has BEEN
"You have given me sharp lesson,
little woman, but you won't have to re-
peat it" # .rr ....
And she never did. The bachelor
! friends found all their destinations pow
erless when Harry was out again, and
in a very little while the young husband
found there was no place, SO pleasant as
home, no companion SO charming as
Bella.
| But he never knew where the little
woman spent those evenings, which he
passed viewing the evening question
from " the other side" -.l..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
There is Trouble in Store

For those who neglect to rectify Irregularities
Of the stomach, liver. and bowels, which they
foolishly imagine will sc ONE right of them
selves" OF this silly error such persons are
usually disabused by the development OF
some serious chronic maledy, traceable to
what they were pleased to consider trifine
disorder of the above named associate organs
Such elimination is easily avoided. A
course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters ,invari-
ably has the effect of renewing the Secretive
action of a torpid liver. restoring healthy di-
habit Of BODY periect1y reoular The aetiyity OF
these ali important functions beiog restored,
and the entire system toned and regulated by
no danger to the general health is to Be ap-
pretended from causes which, if rot eradlca-
ted in time, will assuredly undermine it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
RUUOR'S GROWTH.

Says Gossip One to Gossip Two
Will shopping in the town:
"sOld Mrs Pry to me remarked.
Smith bought his goods from Brown
Says Gossip Two to Gossip Three.
When buying her gown: - r
i've heard it said to-day, my dear,
Smith got his goods of Brown
Says Gossip Three to Gossip -Four, 81
With something of a frOwn:
I've heard strange news-what do you think
Smith took his goods from Brown
Then Gossip Four to Gossip Five,
Who blazed it round the town;
I've heard to day such shocking news:
Smith stole his goods from Brown"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19
ssKiSSOgraph.n

A Nevada electrician has invented an
Improvement on the telephone, which
he calls the " kissograph." 1t works on
a principle of magnetic attraction, and
by Its means an absent husband can
kiss his own wife at q distance of a
thousand miles. To make use of it
for kissing another mans wife disar-
ranges the instrument and creates a
current which sets the steam whistles to
blowing and the fire bells to ringing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-19

The most venerable couple in Texas
perhaps in the country, are Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson, of Mountain city. He
is reputed to be 1O3: and she 1O2 years
old: and, they were married in Ken,
lucky 50 years ago. Mr.. Robinson says
he never swore but one oath, has never
borrowed but 80 cents, and never gave
a note. He and his wife are like chill
dren in their devotion to each other
and after any separation shed tears on
meeting. Recently they were present
ed with a comfortable house by a gen
erous neighbor.