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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-10

Hiram Goldby took the path to the lit
tie white cottage where he had been
born forty.fve years before. Tho sun
had set and the darkness was gathering,
but little CLEAN of light streamed from
the window of the cottage. He drew
near softly, and standing on the seat Of
the porch; looked over the hall curtain
into the neat but poor sitting.room.
/ It was not the grand house, PEARLS
beritagc in New York, but Pearl herself
was there. A slender woman, with a
pale. sweet face, and black hair smoothly
banded and gathered into rich braids at
the back Of her shapely head. Her
dress was plain, dark one, with white
rufnles, cuffs and an apron.
She had been sewing, but her work
was put inside, and presently sbe came
80 The open window and drew aside the
curtain. She did not see the tall figure
drawn closely against the WALL in the
narrow porch, but her dark eyes looked
toward the sea, glimmering in the half
light. -
my darlingp she whispered, 'are
you dead, and has your spirit come to
take mine where We shall part no
more p
Only the wash of the wave below an
swered her. Signing softly, she said !:
"Is my darling comingP l feel him
so near me, I could almost grasp him.
She stretched out her arms over the
low window>sill, aud low voiss an
swered her: Pearl! Pearlp
The arms that had 80 lorg grasped
only empty air, were filled then, as Hi
ram stood under the low window.
do not move, love- she whispered,
pressing her soft lips to his: 4 always
wake when you move.
But now be said, you are already
awake. See, Pearl, your trust was
heaven-given. It is myself, your fond,
true husband, little one, who will never
leave you again
1T is true! You have comet she
cried ct last, bursting into torrent Of
happy tears. Il knew you we're not
dead. You could not be dead and my
heart not tell me- 1t was long before
they could think of anything but the
happiness Of reunion after the many
years of separation, but at last, drawing
Pear, closer, Hiram whispered--t"I
walked from::J-, love, and am enor-
mously hungry
And PEARLS merry laugh chased the
last shadows from her happy face, and
she hustled about the room preparing
supper.
Supper for tvop she cried, elee-
c,.ll
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The grand house in New York is ten

The grand house in New York is ten
anted by its owners, and Hiram goes to
sea no more; but in the summer time
two happy people come for o quiet
month to the little white cottage at
Monkton, and have always to listen to
Davy's tale of the evening when he was
cutting Hiram Goldby's tombstone, and
ended by smashing it into atoms.
'For,' it is the invariable ending Of the
tale, Pearl was right, and we were
wrong, all of US; for Hiram Goldby vas
lost at sea. sure enough, but he was not
dead, and be came to her faithful love
as she always said he would.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-10
THE STONE-CUTTERS
STORY.

He was whistling over his work, care
less, from long custom, of the solemn
significance of the letters he was cutting
in the white marble. A June sun was
nearly at the end of the days journey
sinking slowly to rest upon the bosom
of the broad Atlantic, whose waves
washed the shores Of the little seaport
town of Monktou. A stranger, hand
somely dressed 10 gray, with large lus>
trous brown eyes, came to the fence
that was around the yard where the
stone>cutter worked, and read the let
teriDg, almost completed, upon the
tombstone:
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HIRAM COLBY,
Aged IS.

uS !bSt SiA WIS uC1l Soo' 'P'SsSe. -
strange pallor gathered for moment
upon the strangers face, and then he
drew long. deep breath, and said !:
is not ten years long time to be
cutting letters on tombstone, friend r
sEb, sir p "
The stone.cutter looked, shaded his
eyes with his brown hand, as hs turned
his face to the setting sun.
This is 1876, wac the grave reply,
and Hiram Colby has been ten years
under the waves
well, sir, that's the question is he
there p
is he there? Your stone tells US ne
is and has been for ten years.
Yes, sir, so it does-so it does. And
vet she has ordered it. She came over
a week or so back with worried look
upon her sweet face that have never
seen any thing but patience ir the ten
long years, and she said TO me You
may cut stone, Dsvy,' she says, 'and
put it ur in the churchyard, and don't
want to see it. III pay you whatever
you choose to ask. Davy,' she says, but
he's not dead, and don't want a tomb:
stone 'Lor, num- says l, he'd a
turned up all these years if he was not
Dead But she shook her pretty head =,
the prettiest I ever seen, sir, and said
she MY heart never told me that he
was dead, Davy, and I'll never believe
it till my heart tells me So
His sweetheart !" questioned the
stranger.
his wife, sir-bis loving, faithful
wife, that's had property, and loneliness
and misery, her full share, and might
ba' bettered HERSELF
How was that?'
Mr.. Miles, sir, the richest shopoWnel
hereabouts, he waited patiently for sever
long years, trying to win her. Then hs
said that she was free even if Hiram
came back
'Euoch Arden muttsred the stran'
ger.
What did you say, sir2'
Nothing, nothing. What answe'
did the widow make, Mr.. Miles p
If Hiram's dead said she, I'm hil
faithful wife Maybe you are from
the city, sir. and have heard the stor.
of our Pearl p
What story is that?'
'Woll, sir, it's been told many time
more particularly in the last year, bu
you're welcome to what I know of it
There, that six is done, and III leav'
the Scripture text till morning. 1
you'll come to the gateway and take
scat on some of the stones, I'll tell you
that is, if you care to hear it.
4 do care was the grave reply; :.
want very much to hear the story
Maybe you're some kin to tn
Pearl of Monkton-that's what the
cell Mrs Goldby hereabouts. It's
matter OF thirty-three years back, sir
that thers was a wreck of Monkto1
rocks, that you can see from here, sir
now tides low. Cruel rocks they ar
and many a wreck they've seen, tn
more the pity. You see them, sir ?
Il see Them
We'll, sir, with this one wreck
thirty-three years ago, there was moth
, ing washed ashore but a bit of glr
baby three or four years old, with
skin like lily leaf, and great blac
eyes. Hiram Goldby found her on tn
rocks. He was Toy Of twelve year
strong and tall, and he carried the chill
| in his arms to his mother. You ma
zee the cottage, sir, the second whit
one on the side of the hill
I see it,
well, Hiram took the baby ther
p and Mrs. Goldby was the same as
mother to it good woman, God BILE
her soul-ths Widow Goldby.' .
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The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24
GERMAN CATHOLIC PROSPECTS.
L,xe1pnol olCa;holic Tines.

LiNelpooI IathClc ZINES.
The three great countries of the world in
which Catholicism has to contend against
Protestantiem are Eogland, Germany and
the United States, aud in all of them
Catholicism ia now gaining the upper hand,
though under different cOUditions and
opportunities. In Eogland the war of the
Church ia not 80 much against convictions
as against prejudice, tradition and mar
ried clergy. In the United States it s a
war mainly against Puritanism. In Ger
many it is war mainly against rational
ism. But in Germany the civil power,
having prosecuted Catholicism, has given
to it magnificent energy so that both
on it's own merits and on the merits of
it's snffsrngs it now enjoys the highest
admiration. The ratiopaists, Gearing for
none of these things" and the Evangelicals
being socially eclipsed, Catholicism is the
one throned representative of both princ.
pie and moral stability. The greatest
blessing that could have happened to
German Catholics was the having SP rince
Bismarck for their enemy; he has been
the German Catholics greatest friend. The
superb cohesion and unanimity of the
clergy, combined with the same virtue in
the laity, has made them more than a
match for the cowardice which put priests
and laymen in prison. The grand victory
of the CathOlics has been chiefly seen in
THE: that having the Chancellor of the
'Vi thSil ShS"S IuSg hNNS
the chancellor of the empire. Our German
correspondent-to whose letters we may
refer as being always full of point and
information-has told us, week by week
how consistently German Catholics have
fought, ipch by inch, ard have gained
ground. The very fact that Prince Bis
marck expressed his willingness to meet,
and actually has met, the Pope's delegate,
was in itself the complete triumph of
Catholic resistance over proud and un-
principled persecution. Yet this triumph
was associated with the obviously ap-
preaching decrease of Prince Bismarck's
political power in the empire. The re-
turns of the last elections have been con
elusive; they have been conclusive
because the increase of Catholic power
is in iteef the complete victory
over the chancellor. The degree of
that increase is less a question Of
interest than is the fact that there is at
increase at all. The iron heel of the
chancellor has sowu wheat. The strongest
party in the new Reichstsg is the Catholic
party. 1t is not the strongest party in
point of members, but it ia the strongest
in the amount of influence it can bring to
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24
LOTTERY CRAZE IN FRANCE.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Tel
October 30th, sage:
| France is inst now plunged in lottery
| fever. The grand rattle originally devised
for the purpose of raising money to bring
working men land peasants gratis to the
| Paris Exhibition, has swollen into a mon
| ster nuisance, and is being used as a vehicle
| for the most UnblussiDg electoral cOrrup
ton. Nothing can be more discreditab!e
20 the French Government than their con-
duet in this affair. AT first only million
tickets were to be issued. at one franc
apiece and out ofthe $500, 600 raised, one
half was to be devoted TO charitable pur-
poses above indicated, while the remainder
was to be spent in the purchase of prizes
consisting entirely of art objects. Even
limited to these proportions it was object
ionable; for it would have been simpler If
the Government had asked the Chambers
for grant in aid Of it's excursion projects,
unless indeed, the yet more desirable plan
had been followed of allowing these excur-
sions to be managed by private charity.
The first Issue of million tickets was,
however, soon dieposed of, thanks to the
brisk touting of aIl officials connected with
the finance department, tax collectors, to-
bacconists, etc. Then second million was
pnt forth, then a third. By this time func
tionaries of all degrees, from projects to
postmen and gardes champetres, were in
full cry, pushing the sale Of tie lottery
tickets and demands poured in to such an
extent that fourth, fifth and sixth million
were speedily decreed and sold eff. Now
it has been decided to emit eight millions /; |
but the commissioners will probably not
stop until they have sold their tenth mil
lion, even if they desist then. There is no |
reason why they shonld not so on issuing a |
million tickets week for several weeks |
longer; for the gambling epidemic with |
which they have smitten the country, is |
raging with an intensity that will not soon
spend itself. At every new issue 500 900 |
are set apart for the purchase of prizes, 80
that 5000, 900 has already been applied to
this purpose. But this is not all; for
thousands of trades people, anxious to ad
offerings Of their wares, insomuch that even
q holder Of q ticket will have about one
chance ont of twenty Of drawing something.
Sdmnia;ed by this prospect, and by the
magnitnde OF some of the prizes offered,
neu Hud women of all degrees, and children !
too, for that matter, are stalking all the !
fraccs they can spare on the chance of turn
ing up q fortune. Little urchins in commu-
nal schools are Clubbing their sous, not only |
with the approval, bu with the encourage
ment of their teachers, who dread to baulk
the juvenile rnthusiasm lest they be accused |
of being hostile to grand Republican char
ity. Many village schoo masters have them
selves been made agents for the sale of
tickets. Everywhere these vexatious en-
tcng clips of paper are thrust before peo-
ple's eyes, and all over France there ia a |
talk only of NJ. Krantz's "eross lots" Of
$50 600, and $25 600, which are to be paid |
in jeweiry OF cash, as the ~inners may |
prefer.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24

were General Bataitie, NJ, Michou, Prefect
of the Loiret, NJ. John Lemoiune, and M.
Dumas, First President of the Court.
Among the more distinguished of the per-
sonages in attendance were the Prince de
Joinville, Due d'AudIffcet PaFqnier, the
Due de Broglie, Duc d'Ayen, and General
Charette. Madame MacMahon sent q
wreath OF rare flowers for the catafalque.
At the close of the Macs the five 6beolu-
tions were given by tho 1--WE different pre-.
lates. AT four o'clock the body was con-
veyed into a vault in ono OF the side
chapels. There was no funeral sermon, in
accordance with a clause in the will but
after the Gospel the Abbe Bougaud read
the will of the deceased bishop, which is
dated Good Friday, April 10, 1868, bud is
pronounced by the Francois to be IAN ad
mirable monument of humility, faith, and
piety."
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24
REMARKABLE ECHOES

In the eepulchre of Metella, the wife of
Scyila, in the Roman Campagna, there s
an echo which repeats five times, in five
different keys, aud will also give back
with distinctness, q hexameter line which
requires two and half seconds to utter
it. On the banks OF the Matte, between
Bingen and Coblentz, an echo repeats
seventeen times. The speaker may
scarcely be heard, and yet the responses
are loud and distinct, sometimes appear
ing to approach, at other times to come
from a great distance. Echoes equally
beautiful and romantic are to be heard in
our own islands. In the cemetery of the
Abercorn family, at Paisley, when the door
of the chapel is shut, the reverberations are
equal to the sound of thunder. If single
note of music is breathed the tone ascends
gradually with a multitude of echoes, till it
dies in soft and bewitching murmurs. In
this chapel ia inferred Margery, the
daughter of Bruce, and the wife of Will
liam Wallace. The echo at the "Eagle's
Nest" on the banks of Killarney, is re-
nowned for it's effective repetition of
buge call, which seems to be repeated by
hundred Instruments, until it gradually
dies away into the air. At the report of
cannon, tue loudest thunders reverberate
from the rock, and die in seemingly end
less peals along the distant mountains. At
the Castle of Simonetta, a nobleman's eeat
about two miles from Milan, surprising
echo is produced between two wings of
the building. The report of pistol is
repeated by this echo sixty times and
Addison, who visited the place on a some
what foggy day, when the air was unfa-
vorable to the experiment, counted fifty
six repetitions. At the irst they were
very quick, but the intervals were greater
in proportion as the sound decayed. 1t is
asserted that the sound of one musical
instrument in his place resembles great
number of instruments playing in concert.
This echo is occasioned by the existence of
two parallel walls of considerable length,
between which the wave of sound is re-
verberated from one to the other until it
is entirely spent.-From the World OF
Wonders.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24
THE sun CURE.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SUNLIGHT IN HYGIENE
AND MEDICINE-TuE sOLARIUM.
from th , sanitarian.


| In commenting on the uestimable value
of sunligbt to children DR.. Wins(ow saye: ::
at is system atically ignored at the period
| of life when it is of the highest Importance
it should be brought to bear upon the
publication of the blood, and consequent
ly healthy development Of organic struc-
turee. Children, even at an early age,
should not be excluded, particularly dur
ing the warm periods OF the rear, from the
genial and charming influences OF the sun
"Great benefit" he further ssye, "would
acrue from giving children solar air baths
that is,permitting them to lie naked upon
the bed or floor, free from incumbrance of
clothes, so that their bodies may be thor
oughly brought under the influence of good
air and bright sunlight. The children of
savages, as we'll as negroes who are often
allowed to run about in the open air, freely
exposed to the Influence of light, have
finally developed muscular structures, and
generally enjoy robust health" The fa-
nous Florence Nightingale ranks light as
second only in Importance to the sick to
fresh air, and further testimony as to the
therapeutic value of sunlight is borne by
the Dictionary of Materia Medica" of
Murat and De Lens, which says: "We
cannot donbt that the Influence of light is
one of the conditions most Indispensable to
health, and it may consequently be usefally
employed by the therapeutist."
Among the attractive features of that
excellent edfee, the New York Hospital,
Is the Solarium, situated on the top of
portion of the structure and inclosed in
glass, serving also the purpose of q con-
seTvatory. Here, in sunny days, are con-
gregated many patieats, and they certain |
~ have the appearance of being very |
comfortable. The great hospital of st.
1hn at Brussels has on the roof an ele-
CANT garden, tastefdily laid off and planted
with shrubs, small trees and a grass lawn,
interspersed with fragrant fl lowers. In this
quiet rural retreat patients, particularly
are permitted at certain
hours of the day to promenade, indulging
n the luxury of good air aud bright sun
light. There are few of our hospitals that
night not pro6tably initiate these exam
1les, and not only construct rooms inclosed
With glass, but. better still, rooms without
glass, where direct solarization can be
Employed with the most gratifying and
al alutary results.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24

Fireworks in Japan excel any ytAing of the
kind usually seen in this couptry, and are of
two kinds, ground displays aud rockets Lay
t eot can only be produced by them in the air
and at distance; and as many of them con-
sist of more or less sombre imagery traced in
smoke or cloud. a clear blue sky is the best
background. The full success of this is de.
pendent not oGly pon a clear atmosphere, but
also on calm weather. Some of these strange
rocketI were recently exhibited in San Fran.
cisco. Olt of one of them burst clouds of var
iegated hue, with fantastic sccessories From
another emerged a tricolor flag, which wss
seized by the wind and borne rapidly away.
The rockets are shot into the air from mott lrs.
Perfect accuracy of flight is thus secured, re-
suit hardly a;tainable with stick and self. pro.
pulsiou. The ordnance is made of wood. The
ordinary range is 1900 yards, though higher
elev alton can be attained by afhxing wings to
the missile. A mortar of suitable bore is
Spopged ont, q charge of powder is dropped
into the muzzle, and quick fuse is put into
the touchho!e. The operator lets the frework
carefully do xn till it touches the charge. A
tirestick is applied to the frss, and instantly
the contents of the gun are buried straight in
to the air. The bursting charge is in the glo-
b1lar portion of the bomb, and this part is
lowest in tho gun, so that it's time fuse, com
municstJuR with the detonRn's, may ignite
with the discharge. But the whole oass is so
Weighted that, as soon as 1t leaves the mo zzie,
top and bottom arc reversed, Sitl the result
that the fuse barns, and the explosion or ex-
p'osiurs take place upward.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24
,PBE LAST MOMENTS OF MGR. DJP4S
LOLP-HIS FUNERAL.

The Abhe ChspoD, secretary to the late
Bishop of Orleans, ad dressed the following
highly interesting letter to the present
bishop, Mgr. Coullie, which has just been
published in tho French Journals
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24

Thank God for every slight and injury
you have to bear. An injury borne in
meekness and silence is a true victory. 1t
is the proof that we are good soldiers of
Jesus Christ, disciples of that heavenly
wisdom which is first pure, then peaceable.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24

sad Brown to Parker: say, Parker, what's
he diherence between a ripe watermelon aud
n 70 L II head OF oabbdge'" "Give it up can't
tell. Brown laughed softly rs he said You'd
be nice man to send to buy q watermelon,
you wouldln
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-24

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-12
The EusaiYenf Law.

PORTLAND, Oct. IL, 1873.
Mr. EDIToR:-I do not wish to engage in
newspaper controversy, but do wish to call
the attention of "Justinian" to Section SO of
the Insolvent Law, passed. by our Legislature
last winter. would ask "Justinian" if he
had read that law, particularly Section 50; and
if so, if LIE understood it? 1t is true that the
old law Of imprisonment for debt still stands
on the tatute books but section 80 of the new
law takes the debtor from the jail and dis
charges him from imprisonment after taking
the poor debtors oath.
1t is all true that there are expenses attend
ing this discharge, which the debtor must pay
in case he has any assets, but if he has none,
the new law provides that the expense shall be
paid outsof the County Treasury
1t was the intention of the new law to have
insolvent estates taxed enough to pay expenses
of the County Courts, and not have any fees;
but in the rush of the last few days of the ses-
sion it was thought best to let the Supreme
Court arrange fees for the present, which it has
made very low. Not knowing the motive which
"Justinan had in view, l give him the credit
| of wishing to be just towards the insolvent law,
| and of not misconstruing its language to preiu-
dice the public at this critical time of its ex-
istanee COMMERCIAL STREET.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-12
STATE NEWS
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY.


Notice has been given of petition for the
pardon of Lamb, thu Lewiston abor ionist, who
is now serving out a two years sentence at
Thomaston Lamb is working in the black
smith shop, and is said to be in poor health.
The petition will no doubt be signed by many
"highly respectable citizens"
The total shipment of shoes from Auburn
the past week are 1928 cases, against LAG
cases last week. The season is near its close
and the factories will soon be Stacking up,
although some manufacturers have orders
enough to keep them busy some time yet.
Goods are being shipped as fast as made. Re-
cepts of leather continue about the same.
ARoosTOoK COUNTY.
Rev. Daniel Clubhouse of Hodgdon died very
suddenly at Ludlow last Tuesday, where he
had gone to preach. Mr.. Outhouse was post
master of Hodgdon, and has held several i'm.
portant town offices, aad was highly respected
in the community.
A number of specimens of btuminous coal
have been found on Martin Mains farm in
Crystal, and there are strong indications that a
coal mine exists there.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
At the Naples corn factory, the other day
| seven girls labelled % 352 caus in eight hours
| Two of the girls pasted, and the others put OF
| the labels.
| MIR Whitney and daughter of Caseo Wer
| riding from Yarmouth TO Gray Corner Wed
nesday: La going down hill the wagon rul
on to the horses heels, frightening the ANNA
80 ne ran away, throwing the occupants OF III