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For Better or for Worse. I"

Husband and wife were they. Chill
dren at home called them sspapa" and
mama" They were still at the ante
meridian side of life, but the man at
deaths door, so to speak. His face was
OF ashen hue, his lips purple and his eyes
looked like far distant stars rejecting
IN pool of stagnant water. His brow
was clammy, his hair dank, his poor
limbs shrunken, and his chest hollow.
his hands nervously turned over and
"tddled" with an old army discharge AID
some pension papers while he gazed at
the court with smile that was more
distressing to see than a frown. Pain,
anger, despair and breaking heart lurked
IN It's corners.
What do you want nae to do with your
husband, Mrs. Bradlev?" asked Judge
Otter.bourg
ITO send him to some hospital or
asyl um !" reioined the wife, trim and neat
beside the sinking man.
do you want TO so, Mr.. BradleyI'
asked the court.
mo! no! your honor I want the care
and attention of the wife I love and the
kisses Of nv little children, whom they
won't let me see!' replied the poor fell
low IN wavering tones of mingled love
and sorrow
"How's this? WAC are 'they2'"
My mother-in-law and my wife's
brother, judge. / am pensioser, your
honor, and have always been a good hus-
band. Haven't I, Brunner2" appealed he
to one of the clerks sitting beside the
Judge.
"Of their family relations I know moth
ing. your HONOR responded Drummer,
taking off his spectacles, "put l have
been acquainted with him long time >
Eyes, yes, Mr.. Drummer; you have often
heard my voice raised in the house of
the Lord, haven't you, sir?" exclaimed
Bradley, clasping his poor thin hands
fervsntly together.
Mr.. Drummer sat down with SIGH.
sob, judge!" continued the sick man
81 want my dear wife home with me and
my babies, my little ones" He broke
down completely.
sWhy, Willia1nr' said the wife to him
aside. Then turning to the Judge, she
remarked: "The doctor SAYS he ought
to be sent to the hospital"
"Where are you living and who is the
doctor?"
with my mother; the doctor'a name
is Hattcn.'
Why don't you keep away from your
mother and brother if they make trouble
between you and your husband, who is
SO sick that he ought to be III bed now
instead of being here, where you have
summoned him2 He doesn't abuse youg
No; he's almost bed-riaden, and he loves
you and his little ones"
"Oh yes yes! My little ones, judged
my little ones!' gasped the poor fellow.
go home, madam, and treat him
right. He needs your best care, and I've
no doubt deserves it. will not help
any one to shut him up in hospital to
please wife or mother-in law"
The wife bowed and left Jefferson
market court with her friends. Bradley
tottered feebly home alone-New York
Herald.
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A Lady's Wonderful Nerve,

Mrs. lsadore Middleton, a very beauti
full woman, and one of the acknowledged
leaders OF fashion in Mobile, can GER
ualnly boast of the possession of as much
nerve and true moral courage as are often
vonchsafed to any Of ner sex.
On the evening Of Sept. 10Th, she was
III her boudolr putting away some arti-
cles OF jewe,ry, when she noticed that
the peculiar position of library lamp.
that was burning upon chair in the
back part of the room, had thrown upon
the floor, almost directly at her feet, the
shadow Of 81 man who was crouchinp I'm
der broadtopped ornamental table in
the center of the room She also re-
marked that the open hand of the shad-
CIV hal but two fingers, and remembered
that several desperate burglaries had re-
Gently been committed in the neighbor-
hood, sappositiously by negro despe-
RADIO who was notorious as having lost
two fingers of bis right hand.
Mr.. Middleton was absent from the
city, and besides herself in the house
there was bat single maid servant. In
stead of tainting with fear, or shrieking
for help, the brave lady seated herself al
the very table, underneath which the mis-
creant was concealed, and rang for the
servant.
"Hand me the writing materials,
Bridget" said she, with perfect calmness.
II want you to take note this instant to
MI. Forfar, tie jeweler, and have him
send you back with my diamond neck
lace and ear-drops, which l left there for
repair several days ago. Bring them with
you, no matter if fully repaired or not.
They are by twenty fold the most valua-
bic articles Of jewelry that possess, and
L DO not wish to pass another night with
out having them here in my bureau
drawer
The note was at once written and dis
patched, but instead Of in the tenor that
she had signified Con purpose for the con-
cealed robber to overhear, for she had no
pieces OF jewelry under repair), it was a
hasty note to the jeweler, an intimate
friend, IN which she succinctly stated her
terrible position, and urged them to hast
en- to her relief, with the requisite police
assistance, Immediately on receipt of the
missive.
The agonies which that refined and
delicate women underwent when left
alone in the house, with the conscious
ness of that desperate robber, perhaps as
sassin as we'll, crouching under the very
table upon which she leaned, and per
haps touched by her very skirts, can only
be left to the readers Imagination; but
her iron nerve sustained her through the
ordeal.
She yawned, hummed an operatic air,
turned over the leaves of novel, and in
other ways lulled the lurker into a sense
OF perfect security and expectancy, and
waited, waited, waited, with wildly
beating heart, and her eyes fastened upon
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Anecdote of Prof. Morse.

When Prof, Morse was in Washington,
trying to interest Congress in his great
invention of the electric telegraph, he
was guest of Mr.. Ellsworth, at that
time Commissioner of Patents.
The Professors money was all gone.
His friends, pleasant home, and family
were, doubtless, enjoyed the more by this
honest man, who must have felt that in
such a cause as his, it was no disgrace to
bepoor.
The Professor was using all the in
fuence he could bring to bear to secure
an amendment to the Civil and Diploma
tic Appropriation Bill Of forty thousand
dollars, by which the telegraph could be
put up between Washington and Balti-
more.
Judge Leonard, afterwards member
of Congress from New York, and now a
distinguished resident of Brooklyn, met
the Professor at the house of Mr.. Els
worth, in company with Mr.. Ferris, then
the member from New York.
After many rebuffs and disappoint-
ments, the great inventor was still as
calm and unruf1ed as ever, explaining
the minutie Of the construction of the
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Her Thilk StOckingth.

Lady Caroline Lamb was fond of saying
startling tnings, to which a slight lisp
gave additional piquancy. William
Harness was dancing with her at great
ball, when she confounded him by de-
handing, ''Gueth how many pairth of
thilk stockingth have on?'' His wit not
being equal to the divination, she raised
her skirts ). above We, a pretty ankle e. and;
When old enough to disregard the doc
tors embargo on study, Lady Caroline
had learned with avidity. thoug Oh without
system. She soon acquired French and
italian, music and painting, could write
an ode of Sappho, or dash off a spirited
caricature. She rode and wrote as fear.
lefsly as she talked. No wonder William
Lamb,once attracted by gill so bewitch.
ing and original, found all others common
place. he again proposed, and, unhap-
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PLY, he was not again acknowledgements
she says, 81 adored him.n-1emnls Bnr
A Scotch Effort with the Iong-Bow

Concerning the long bow, no American
effort can surpass one that comes to no
from Scotland:
ut was told that Colonel Andrew
M'Dowall, when he returned from tbe
war, was one day walking a long bv the
Myroch, when he came on an old man
sitting greetin' on a muckle stane at tbe
roadside. When he came Up, the old
man rose and took off his bonnet, and
said.
"'Ye're welcome hame again, laird
"'Thank you,' said the colonel; addins.
after pause, q should surely know your
face. Aren't you Nathan M'Culloch2'
"'fere RIGHT. decd says Nathan, SITS
just me, laird
"s1ou must be good age, now, Ma
than,' says the colonel.
"Iim no vera auP yet, laird was the
reply; I'm just turnt hummer
ga hundred says the colonel, musing;
well, you must be all that. But the idea Of
man Of a hundred sitting blubbering
that way! What ever could you get to
cry abeut?'
est was my father dashed me, SIR
said Nathan numbering again; 'an' he
put me DOT, so he did,
"'Your father!' said the colonel; is
your father alive YETI
"Leeyin! ay,' replied Nathan; Il ken
that the day tae my sorrow
"sWhere is he?' says the colonel. What
an age he must bell would like to see
him.
"'oh, he's up in the barn there says
Nathan; AN no in horIid guide humor
the moo, aither.'
"They went up to the barn together,
and found the father busy threshing the
barley with the big fail and tearing on
fearful. Seeing Nathan and the laird
coming in, he stopped and saluted the
colonel, who, after inquiring how he was,
asked him what he had struck Nathan
for.
"'The young rascal!' says the father,
there's nae doom wi him; he's never cot
o. mischief. lad tae lick lam this morn
IN for throoin' stanes at his grandfather! nn
: Editors Drasoer, IN Harper's Magazine
for December.
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Doctor and Theologian.

In the same town with very orthodox
divine, Rev. DIR. Eumons, lived the very
unorthodox and Universalist physician,
DR.. Bugbee. One morning they CHANGED
to meet upon the highway. Good
morning, DOCTOR" said the physician,
refining in his horse. The theologian re.
returned the salutation, and the physi-
clan continued: 81 had a remarkable
dream. dreamed that died and went
straight to hell.'' The follower of Calvin
smiled approvingly, as though that de-
nouement was just what might have been
expected. 81 knocked at the door, not
doubling that should be promptly ad-
mitted; but you can judge of my surprise
when the door keeper said to me, You
can't come in, for we are expecting DIR.
Emmons every minute, and when he
gets here we shall have our hands full"
Without another word the hard-headed
physician picked up his horse and rode
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the hands of her little ormolu clock
Eouor;nh

the hands of her little ormolu clock
with greedy, feverish gaze.
At last, however, came the prayed fol
relief. There was ring at the door, and
she strolled carelessly into the hall and
down stairs to open it. The ruse had
been success. She not only admitted
Bridget, but also Mr.. Forfar and three
stalwart policeman. The latter passed
stealthily up stairs and into the boudoir,
where they suddenly pounced upon the
concealed burglar so Unexpectedly as to
secure him with hardly struggle.
The prisoner proved to be negro
criminal, named Chaplain, but mostly
known as 1.-TWO Fingered jeff" who was
in great request about that time for
several robberies committed in the
short time before, and
he is now serving twenty years sentence
in the Alabama State Prison.
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deceit, he tastefully arranged therein
what he had purchased under the hum
bier label, and hied away at eventide to his
lady, to whom he carelessly tossed the
box.
In their happiness the sweets were for
gotten, and he went home mussed and in
ecstacy.
Next day brought to his eager fingers
note and box. The box contained
MS candy, "of which," said the note, che
might eat the entire twenty-five cents
worth, and then return the box to the
red haired girl who had before kept her
conbings IN ~
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Farm Notes.


OF tea plants there are nearly 500 600
acres under cultivation in India.
Colorado did not produce nearly as
much No. l wheat this year as it did last
season.
Colorado sweet potatoes are said to
equal the South Carolina product in sue
culence.
Bury your dead animals at the root of
your fruit trees. You will find that it
pays good percentage.
Rub little soft soap on the creakinp
gate or barn door hinges, and stop the
unnecessary noise and wear
A characteristic of good farming is
that every thing shall be in its place. and
that place for everything be provided.
"Farming don't pay" says the farmer
who spends half his time loafing about
town instead of attending to his crops
and stocks.
Kerosene lan,ps which are trimmed
daily rarely explode. The carelessness
of the housewife can be blamed for
most of the explosions.
Learn well your calling, practice it,
thoroughly, that it may be made profit
able to you. Stick to your business. Do
not be beguiled away from your farm. A
venture in other pursuits might lose your
all.
1t is mistake to expect to succeed at
farming without plenty of good honest
work. Some men may have made money
without work, but no farmer ever made
a crop without good deal of that in
dispensable article.
In the most of our farmers homes
when the days work IS completed, what
has the farmers son to interest him? Too
often there is not a book or newspaper in
the house. Progress and improvement
in the farmers calling do not mean the
improvement Of the farm alone. while
the MIND is starving.
Spongeis an expensive article in the
stable, for when constantly in use it soon
decays. To employ it to the best advant-
age double supply should be always or
hand. one piece being in use for week,
and then put by to dry for similar
period. In this way soft, fabby and
nearly Worn-out spongue RECEIVERS its text
ure, while sponge treated on this plan
will last fully as long as if it is constantly
| wet from first to last
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Do you feel sore this morning, dear7v
SAID thoughtful wife to her husband
last Sunday. 'Sore2 Mop he said, loftily
What would make me sore2" "Why, you
rolled down two pairs of stairs last night
when you came home from the ratifca-
ton meeting, and I had to get James to
help me carry you up. | thought you
felt sore, maybe" "Rush of blood to
the head" he said. ''I'll go and get some
medicine right away, before eat bit of
breakfast. I'm glad you told me, Cath.
arine."
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Old Cato, the Roman senator, was not
only senator, true republican, but also
farmer. He wrote book upon farm
ing. sour ancestors" said Cato, regard
ed it as a grand point of husbandry not to
have too much land in one farm, for they
considered that more benefit came BY
holding little and tilling it we'll" Virgil
says, and that was after the empire was
begun: 1.-THE farmer may praise large
estates, but let him cultivate small
one" And GURUS, the Roman orator,
went so far as to say: "He was not to be
counted a good citizen, but rather a
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Bitter Sweets.

He bought a pound of the twenty-five
cent kind, and then, seeking to hide the
economy of the purchase under the ap-
pearance of reckless extravaganza, so dear
to the fair ones, purloined from his cardi-
nal-haired Sisters room an empty box
that had contained candy of the dollar
kind.
Chuckiing bit over the harmless
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question, "Well, julia, what are YOU
thinking about?' When the child let
loose ten acre lot full Of crude philos-
ophy by answering: Il was fnkin whey
yer, when growed up, "I'd teat stool or
OF have baby.r-C Cincinnati Tires.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-19
TENsAs AND THE SEQUEL

Since our comments upon the Ten
sas trouble were in type events have
eliminated in a dispatch from Vi
dalia, signed q. York, which the
Picdyune accepts as a summary of
I" the situation of affairs" This sit
nation is placarded in display head
lines to the effect that ''the troubles
in Tensas are ended-the negroes
return to the plantations-the State
troops dismissed = one gin house
and seventy-five bales Of cotton
burned-casnalties small, three or
four killed-Fairfax yanishes from
the scene.
We learn from the bulletin Of Mr..
o. York that "the State troops from
the adjacent parishes are en- route
home," and we may presume that
the same authority which called out
Captain Peck and the State troops
have countermanded the orders to
his excenency Governor Nichols,
since the forces ordered to report for
transportation Thursday evening
were ordered back to their homes.
On the other hand dispatches have
been received by A. s. Yarner, mayor
Of Waterproof, at st. Louis, Missouri,
dated the sixteenth instant, which
say
That about $500 negroes were engaged
in the reported outbreak there. Fighting
began to-day. Judge Cordova, ]. P. Har-
Eison and JEFF. snyder were wounded.
The burning Of buildings is also reported.
This discrepancy renders an. inves-
LEGATION especially necessary in order
to establish the extsnt and the re-
spOnsib ility Of this deplorable affair.
So much for the smothering Of these
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-19
AN AWFUL SHOCK.

The result of the Ohio election, if
it shall ever come to the ears of the
Democratic masses at the South
must occasion CONSERVATION among
them. To be sure they are pretty
well quarantined against knowl-
edge of such an untoward event by
the studious perversiOn of political
intelligence, and by a threat of
accommodation if they listen to
the intelligence from Republican
source. 1t will never be known to
those who are taught to believe that
they stand where Andrew jackson
once stood, that the Ohio Democracy
have demanded a diluted and dilap-
idated paper currency, and has re-
sisted the return to the hard money
currency which jackson and Benton
said was the only proper medium Of
payment for an honest mans labor.
1t would never be believed by our
Democracy that the Democratic
Thurman had apOstacised from the
doctrines of Silas Wright, or that
Sherman and Hayes, Republicans,
have realized exactly the doctrines
of jackson and Calhoun.
We are especially gratifed that
this issue has suspended for the mo-
ment the Southern question. It
proves that the Western people are
more interested in obtaining employ
ment for their industry and sound
money for their products than in
waving the sanguineous sark on the
one side or in hearing the clank of
the. mellihuous fetter on the other.
This signal vindicatiOn of the sagacity
of President Hayes, proves that he
well knew the temper of the Western
people when he subOrdinated the
sectional to the national issues. We
would gladly encourage him in this
policy. We trust he will in his
forthcoming message give these
brave people of Ohio who have stood
up so firmly to the honor of the
national pledges an adequate return.
What shall it BET Only to recon-
mend to Congress a little taste Of
Republican progress: Build our
levees, and Cincinnati will sell her
steam engines, plows and furniturei
Indiana her corn, hogs and -four,
Build our Pacific Railroad and the
Western and Northern merchant and
manufacturer will have access to Q
new field of supply. BestOw some
subventiOn on our Gulf steam lines
and the products of the tropics will
be distributed from and through
Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and
ST.. Louis, as from business centres
These measures may cost $70, OO0,'
600. An enormous sum IL it not
About equal to the cost Of sixty daT.
Of civil war. The people stand by
President Hayes until he resumes
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-19

! : = "a ! =.
means ef ascertaining The facts
in such cases of domestic violence as
the newspapers. Apparently very
little regard is paid to his authority
'or to his solemn pledges. He seems
to be regarded as King Log, whose
permission is not necessary to the
legality of publications. Not only can
estate troops, be szmmoned to the
scene" by the people Of village, but
q subordinate takes the responsibility
of Otifying q candidate for Congress
that the State troops are prepared
to sustain the parish authorities"
Nor this all. We learn that a call
for armed assistance had been made
on the city of Natchez, in the State
of Mississippi, and "that one hun
bred men left there on the ferry boat
to aid the whites at Waterproof, in
Louisiana" Does his excellency
hear nothing! Is the appeal for State
aid made to captain of militia to
turn out the State troops, and an
appeal to an adjacent State fer armed
men to keep the peace in louisiana
This is really "local self-govern-
ment" with vengeance.
We fear the Democratic pro-
gramme for this campaign grows too
plain even for pretense at conceal
ment. 1t is to intimidate or dispense
all Republican organizations in the
parishes. a.F@
tits to drive away or kill all col
ored Republican leaders bold enough
to stand by their principles and
maintain the representation of their
party.
We do not feel sanguine that this
programme could-be defeated by the
joint intervention of the Federal and
State authorities, yet it is the duty
of both to put stop to this violence,
and we should hope the conservatism
of the State would support and sus-
tain these authorities in their efforts
to. make good the joint pledges of
both. Should no such effort be made
the American people win see that in
consequence of the violation of
pledges deliberately and sOlemnly
made by the Democratic Legislature
and Governor on behalf Of the people,
the Republican party as an organ
ization will have become extinct in
this State, as it has evidently become
throughout the rest of the South.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-19
THR " STATE FROops.D


The color line war which is waged
By the Democrats Of North Louisi-
ana dgainbtthe Republicans he's been
the means Of Introducing . new no
menclatufe into the language. We
read now Of employing 8" State
troops to suppress Republican
meetings. The recent tragedy in
Tensas seems 70 have been percipi-
tated BY the hasty visit Of captain
Peck, the commander Of the nearest
company Of State trOopnS TO the house
of the Republican nominee for Con-.
gress. Captain Peck and his troops1
approached the house with arms in
their hands. They gave no signs Of.
their alleged peacsable intention
merely to knock at the door and
have talk with Fairfax. Tho me-
groes inside certainly understood the
visitation to be hostile in its char
aeter. iThey5Rred upon what they
supposed to be an attacking party,
and Captain Peck fell q victim to
their fears and his own temerity.
The " State troops " immediately re-
turned the fire, and wounded three
of the people inside the house. 8. "
We all remember the recent diff
Guilty in Toronto, where a, rough
crowd Of Irish assaulted and insulted
a company of Canadian troops and
wounded several of them. In their
haste and anger, the troops fred
upon the mob and killed q number.
The result was that the commander
in chief ordered a court martial to
inquire into the facts of the case and
report for severe punishment the
guilty parties. If it were found an
officer had ordered the troops to FIRE,
then the responsibility was to be
fastened upon him; but if the troops
fred without orders, then they were
to suner LOT gross preach OF d1scl-
pline. r.tr.... -7tr 81 .,s..-!
Without stopping to ask how it
happens that Louisiana maintains
troops in time of peace, and by what
authority they are brought into ac-
ton every time the Democrats of any
locality wish to break up Republic
can meeting, we reanxiOus to know
whether Governor Nichols. himself
a soldier, will pass over the recent
attack by the State troops upon the
house of a prominent Republican,
who is probably the choice of nine
out of every ten of the people of his
parish for Congressman. ~