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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-09

lime 22.-It Il all over; they were married
Yesterday. The man9e Is q desert; and sister
judith was never so llngunRcnial companion
10 me o. fcnl her to he now. Her last words
to the married pair, when they drove away,
were: "Lord help You both; you have all your
troubles before you'll"
| had no heart to write yesterdays record
Yesterday evening as usual. The absence Of
Felicia Mt the supper table completely over
cnme me- l. who have 50 often cOmforted
others in their Affections could find no com
fort FOR myself Even now that the day has
passed, the tears come into my eyes, only
with writing about IT, Let me close my
Diary, and open the Bible and be myself
again.
lime 23.- More resigned since yesterday;
more becoming and more piouR frame OF
mind obedient to Gods holy will, and con-
tent IN the belief that my dear daughters
married life will be- happy one.
They have gone abroad for their holiday
to Switzerland, by way Of France. was
anything rather than pleascd when ] heard
that my son in law proposed to take Felicia
to that sink Of iniquity, Paris. H knows
already what / think Of balls and play
houses, and similar devils diversions. and
how have brought up my daughter to think
Of them--the subject having occurred In COLI
versation among us more than week since.
That he could mediate taking q child of
mine to the headquarters Or Indecent Jig
gings and abomnable stage plays OF spout
ing rogues and painted JeZebes, was indeed
a heavy blow. However, Felicia recunclcd
me to it In the end She declared that her
only desire In going 10 Paris was to SEQ the
picture galleries, the public buildings, and
the fair outward aspect Of the city generally.
Your opinions, father, ara my opinions"
she said "and Marmaduke ] am sure, will
SO shape our arrangements us to prevent our
passing Sabbath in Paris"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-09
SIXTH EXTRACT.

September 1G-After more delays than one,
on laEd and sea, ! was at last set ashore near
the Tower, on the afternoon of yesterday.
God help US, my worst anticipations have
been realized! MybelOved Felicia has urgent
and serious need Of me.
1t is not to be denied that / made my entry
into my son-in-law's house In disturbed and
irritated frame OF mind. First, my temper
was tried with the most intermiuable Jour-
ney in the noisy, cOmfortleSs vehicle which
they call cab, from the river wharf to the
West End OF London, where Marmaduke
lives. In the second place, / was scandalized
and alarmed by an incident which took place
still on the endless journey from east to
west-in a street hard by the market Of
COyent Garden.
We had just approached a large building,
most profusely Illuminated with gas, and ex-
hibiting prodigious colored placards having
inscribed on them nothing but the name of
Barrymore The cab came suddenly to stand
still and looking out to see what the obstacle
might be- discovered huge concourse of
men and women, drawn across the pavement
and road alike, so that it seemed impossible
to pass by them. | inquired of my driver
what this assembling of people meant. "Oh,"
says he. barrymore has made another hit"
This answer being perfectly unintelligible to
me, | requested some further explanation,
and discovered that Barrymore" was the
name OF a stagAplayer favored by the popu-
lace; that the building was a theatre; and
that all these creatures with immortal souls
were waiting, before the doors opened, to get
places at the show! The emotions of sorrow
and indig alton caused by this discovery so
absorbed me that failed to notice an attempt
the driver made to pass through, where the
crowd seemed to be thinner, until the offended
people resented the proceeding. Some of
them seized the horses head; others were on
the point Of pulling the driver off his box,
when providentiaIly the police interfered.
Under their protection, we drew back, and
reached our destination in safety by another
way.
My good girl almost smothered me with
kisses. When | at last got fair opportunity
Of observing her thought her looking pale,
and worn, and ANXIOUS. Query: Should |
have arrived at this conclusion if had met
with no example Of the wicked designations OF
London and if | had ridden at my ease in
comfortable vehicle?
They had a sue ulent meal ready for me,
and, what I call, fair enough whisky out of
Scotland. Here again | remarked that Fell
ella ate very little, and Marmaduke nothing
at all. He drank wine, too-and, good
heavens, champagne wine la needless waste
OF money, surely, when there was whisky on
the table. My appetite being satisfied, my
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-09

A Boston lady, who contemplated purchas-
ing homestead in North Carolina, wrote to
an old settler in that vicinity asking II Il was
true, as reported, that the grass In that co,ln-
try was infested with ''jggers' that creep
INTO the flesh. The reply was: Eyes; but all
you have to do is To keep your legs creased
and they won't trouble YOU" She Concluded
not to buy
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,ovrs LtJRKlNGPLACE

Terry you Love
At earliest break. Of day.
mt now. even now, his wings the wanderer
And paased away.
Iaaying his empty bed.
roi We tibet meet the boy-fo such y he.
Full of sweet tears ndwt: % hckie spite,
Laughing aud free.
with wings and culver bright
vat know not on whom To father Love
For earth denies the wanton child his nane.
And air above,
And the broad sea the Hame.
with each and All he lives at feud. Beware
Lest while speak. be- cast
dainty snare
Over your hanrt at Inst.
But see hIs hiding place. his very sef,
Close to my hand. behold, the archer lea,
A laughing elf
Within my lady's eyes.
IMelpnRer
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MY bewilderment Is not to be uttered In
WORDS am like man IN q dream
Before was out Of my room I'm the morn
ing, my mind was upset by the arrival of n
telegram addressed to myself II waa fine
first thing Of the kind / ever received.
tremb'ed under the provision Of some now
misfortune as opened the etIvelope or nil
the people In the world this person eendtng
the telegram WAS sister judith Never hnss
fore did this distraCting relative canf,nnd
me rs she oonfounded mo now Here ia he1
message: You cant come back. An nrnhi
tect from Edinburg asserts his resolution liz
repair the kirk and the mHnsp The man
only waits for his lawful authority 10 begin.
Tho money Is rcady-but who has found ~
Mr. Architect Is forbidden 10 toll We live In
awful times How ID Eelclaw
Naturally concluding that Judiths mind
must be dsranged, / went down stairs to meet
my son-in-law, for the first time since the
events OF yesterday at tho late breakfast
which Is customary in this house. He was
waiting for me; but Felicia was not present
she breakfasts In her own room this MORN
ing, says MaTmadukc: "and / am to Rive
you the explanation which has Alrradv gatis-
ned your daughter. VIII you take lt al great
length, sir, Or viii you have it in ms word2'
There was something IN his manner that I
dld hoL ~ all likei he seemed to he setting
me ut defiance. ! said, stilIly. "BrgyiEv Is
best; will have IL In one word
Here 1t IS then" he answered. 81 am
Barrymore
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THIRD EXTRACT.

May ga letter from Mr.. Marmaduke.
informing me that ! may expect him at
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THE MYSTERY OF MARMADUKE.

lIrxtraeted from tho diary OF tho Row. Nonh
Kilmnster of Cauldklrk North britain
by W1LBIE COLLINS.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-10-15

Nor GENERALLY KNowN.-It
has long been the boast of Britons
that the sun never sets on the
British empire. 1t may be news
to many Of our readers that the
same boast applies with equal
force to the United States. When
tho sun is giving it's good night
kiss to our westermost isle, on the
confines of Behring's Sea, it is al
ready flooding the fields and forest
Of Maine with it's morning light,
and in the eastern part of that
State is more than an hour high.
At the very moment when the
Aleutian fisherman, warned by
the approaching shades Of night,
is pulling his canoe towards the
shore, the wood-chopper of Maine
is beginning to make the forests
echo with the music Of his axe.
From the farthest eastern point
Of our country, at Eastport, Me-,
to the farthest Of the Aleutian
Islands-acquired by our purchase
of Alaska-the distance is one
hundred and ninety-seven degrees
o. lontitude, or seventeen more
than half way around tho globe.
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turning. Julia, who aoould appro.
pirate Herbert, stepped forward
Good evening, Mr.. Halstead.
So you met Kato on the stops
Strange? with a glance at me, as
i'll had planned to meet him.
Not at all, Miss julia said
Herbert. MY wife and l just
called in to receive your congrat-
ulations, and to leave little midget
here for few days
No tableau l have ever seen
was half so comical as the one
those three made. I really felt
for Julia; for I knew she cared
tor Herbert. She gained her SELF
possession quickly, however, and
congratulated me, whispering, as
she kissed me, so you asked him p
Ny husband heard, and an
swered.
No, Miss Julia, she did not ask
ne. Through other means, thank
God, I learned the one [ loved
was unhappy and, as I had
hoped, for more than a year past,
to soon ask her to be my wife, I
persuaded her to marry me at
once. Leap year privileges are
still open Tor those who choose to
use them
We are quite an old married
couple now; for three years have
passed, but Herbert and [ still
often laugh over Nellie's leap-year
proposal.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-10-15
NEWSPAPERS AND KNOWLEDGE

NEWSPAPERS AND KNOWLEDGE.
Newspapers Of the present day,
remarks a New York paper, con.
tain articles upon subjects in
science, literature and art, which
twenty-five years ago no editor
would have ventured to publish.
This fashion has it's Objectionable
points. 1t tends to encourage su-
perfcia|ity, to engender coneeit,
and to lead incompetent persons
to form opinions upon very in-
sufficient knowledge. But on the
whole it's tendency is good. A
little knowledge is not dangerous
unless it is misused ; and oil know
ledge, however great, must be lit
tie in its beginning. The fashion
of administering literature, science
and art in small and simple doses
brings great numbers. of people
under their influence who other
wise would remain without tine
ture of any one of them. People
who would not touch any bound
book but a novel will read a little
paper.bound pamphlet OF a maya
zine article, or if not equal to one
of these, an article in a newspaper
upon a subject in which they
would otherwise remain in abso-
lutte ignorance. In this way
thought is stimulated and the
appetite for knowledge provoked.
This is one Of the means by which
the present time has become one
of such general intellectual actiVi-
ty. The mind of the world at
large has been excited to action
by little books on great subjects.
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gslseteb gtorp.
NeIIie's Leap-Year Propo'
sal.

Really, Catherine, l do not
wonder at Mary's surprise at
your behavior. You forget that
you are Franks widow. You are
too forward
I hesitated q moment, really
anxious to keep my temper; for
| was Franks widow, and the
speaker was his mother.
'Forwardr cried Mary. In
deed, you would have been shock
ed, last night, mother. There
was Mr.. Vance urging her to sing,
and she hanging back, as if she
were a young, bashful girl; and
acting as if Herbert Halstead was
her old friend, when it was only
as married woman-'
| YES interrupted Julia, L think,
mother, if you can't make Kate
realize that she is married wo-
man, with a daughter nearly six
years Of age, you had better
Send me away I broke in, un-
able longer to control myself, it's
| not the first time that hint has
been thrown out; and, if it were
not for little Nellie, poor child, I
would go away to earn my living
| at once. You drive me desperate.
declare I will marry again, and
| get rid of all this and then [
burst into tears.
Marry again How will you 10
it? Oh, yes A good joke ! cried
Julia, with shrug at my tears.
Don't you sec, Mary, it's leap
| year + and she laughed, derisively.
who'll you ask ? sneered Mary.
Herbert Halstead Julia, you'd
better look out!'
You may sneer,' I cried, check
ing my tears l was now thorough
ly angry. But I tell you, if no
one would ask me to marry him, [
believe should ask Mr.. Halstead,
and-he'd have mer
l had fairly taken up their own
| weapons of personalities, which l
| scorned. The moment after,
ashamed of myself, | ran to my
room, to put on my bonnet and
got out of to house. [ looked
in the glass, as I put the Grape
bonnet, with its widows cap and
heavy veil, on my head. saw o
face TO which black was certainly
becoming, though it was not q
remarkably pretty face. 1t looked
not moro than twenty-five, some
said not moro than twenty ; but |
was, really, a little over twenty
four. Married at eighteen to
Frank Stevens, | had been a petted
wife tor four years, and now a
widow for two. The thought of
the happiness of the four, and the
loneliness of the two, as l looked
at the face surrounded by Grape,
made the tears come again; but l
brushed them away, resolutely,
and went out, knowing that q
brisk walk would do me more
good than anything else. l went
out without my darling, my in.
separable companion, my little
baby girl, NoIlie. This alone
showed how troubled | was. Truth
to tell, l was too angry to trust
myself with the little one, who
might have asked to have our
conversation explained, for she
had been in the room at the time
could only hope that, at five
years old, a child did not under
stand me.
Soon after I left, my motherin.
law and her daughters went out
for a drive. They invited Nellie
to go; but she, feeling, per-
haps, that they had not treated
mamma we'll, refused. Soon the
front door bell rang, and, like all
children, Nellie must needs run to
see who was there. She managed
Ito open the door herself, and
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Brooklyn Eagle.

biOOhIyu HdSlO.
The immense height of the tow
ers for the support of the Forth
bridge has created some surprise
and no little wonder, when it is
taken into account that when CON-
pleted they will be the highest
building of any kind in the world.
Science will, therefore, wait with
some anxiety their completion.
The height of the towers on the
island Of Inch Garvie, midway be-
tween South and North Queens
ferry, will be $50 feet, to support
a bridge $50 feet above high-water
mark, but the reason for this great
altitude is that in the generality
Of suspension bridges the towers
are built on the land on either
side of the span, and were this the
case in the Forth bridge towers
of $50 feet less height, or 40 feet,
would be sufficient; but this is
impossible, from the great length
Of the bridge.
It seems that by natural laws
there is a limit to everything on
this carth-that is; that men can
60 to a certain length and no
further, as, for instance, in tele-
scopes nothing larger than Lord
Ross having been perfected tor
many years. In reference to GER
tain buildings, a correspondent the
other day quoted St. Rollox stalk
43O feet high. St. Paups cathe.
dral is about 460 feet to the top Of
the dome, st. Poter's at Rome
48O feet, the pyramids Of Egypt,
at least the great pyramid, is 18O
feet at present in its imperfect
state, but by calculation would
reach 500 feet in height when
finished. When it is remembered
that this structure only reaches
this height with base of about
26 acres, it will be . very difficult
matter to raise the Forth bridge
towers to $50 feet with a small
base. These towers are to be
formed Of solid masonry to GER
tain height, and then by groups
Of iron pillars girded together in
layers upward.
The Niagara suspension bridge
has one large span of82l feet; the
railway track above the water is
245 feet, or 95 feet higher than
the Forth bridge the towers are
only so feet high, being built on
either side of the shore. The AL
leghany bridge has two large
spans Of 344 feet each, and the
towers are 45 feet high. The
Covington and Cincinnati bridge
has a span Of !, ,057 feet; it's height
above low water is l03 feet, and
the towers 23O feet high. The
bridge seems to give the best pro-
portion to the Forth bridge, which
is 1850 feet for two spans, $50
high, and towers Of $50 feet.
Those we have mentioned are fin
ished and in working order; and
we may mention also the East
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River bridge, connecting New
York to Brooklyn. The towers
of this bridge are also built upon
the land, and are 278 feet high.
The single span is 1896 feet long,
or only IS feet less than the Forth
bridge, while the total length is
$3.50 feet. There is, therefore,
no doubt that the Forth bridge,
when completed, will be an engin-
eering triumph.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-10-15
A ROMANTIC APPLICANT.

A man with beer eolored hair
and a soft blue eye haloed by car
dinal lashes walked into the Office
of one of the Boston steamship
lines about two weeks ago, and
approaching the cashier, said:
L have travelled pretty much all
over the world; I have dined in
the golden cafes of Constantinople;
[ have slipped wine in the gayest
salons in Paris; l have smoked
cigarettes at the graves of Ho-
mer, and 7 have bathed my aching
brow in the ~billows Of the blue
Adriatic.'
well, what of it?' ~
what oft! he said, rehectively.
4 want to 60 to Boston =; that's.
what of it,
do you want q hrst.class tick
et?'
We'll, I think I do. Do you
fancy, my dear sir, that the off,
spring Of an Austrian count, who
can trace his pedigree back to the
rebellion, would deign to travel
otherwise than in a manner be-
fitting his rank and social sta
tion ?
The cashier blushed and apollo
gized, when the nobleman con-
tinued:
DO you set good table p.
'First-class,' responded the cash
ier, all the delicacies of the sea-
son, as we'll as wine Of every
brand. Everything is cooked in
the best Of style.' "
you delight me beyond meas
ure,' responded the nobleman,
with a smile, as be drew a tooth
pick from his pocket to scratch his
neck. If there is any one thing
in this vale Of tears that I like
more than another it is an aesthetic
meal. l suppose the walters are
polite and attentive .s
Yes, my lord, they are
DO you have flowers on the
table ... ~
we have
4 like that. My poor mother
the Countess of Hoganpazink was
always fond Of flowers on a dining
table, and I inherit her commend
able weakness. Have you ever
had any elopements, Or suicides,
or anything OF o romantic nature
on your boats ?
No, SIR
DO you ever. race with other
steamers
No, SIR
'Thon I shall have to say good
morning. l am an old cavalry
charger, and 1 don't like none of
your easy going religious naviga-
ton. When I said I want to 60
on regular old-fashionea, slay.
bang, licketty rip ire-the furni-
ture-in.to the furnace and line,
that's the kind Of a Maekinaw
straw hat I am ....>
And then he drew himself up to
his utmost inch and walked out.
Washington Star.
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CLASSICALLY DRUNK.
Providence (R. ~ Journal.

/
| The lights were out, the streets
were still, and all other presences
were silent in the presence OF the
! peaceful night. And at this time
! the soft but slightly unsteady
tread of a man was heard ap-
preaching the station. He took a
chair near the door, dangled his
legs over the chairs arm, hung
his peaked hat on the toe Of his
boot, and in a low voice addressed
the officer: Il was here a year
ago and listened to the song of
your cricket under the mat there,
and want to hear it again. That
cricket comes into my life exactly.
He sings and all his green COM
rades sing of the dying summer.
There ;are million Of these little
mourners under the leaves to-
night, and they all have one song
of pensive sadness. There is a
cricket in my heart. There used
to be summer there. I am a sort
Of an old cricket myself. I crawl
into the natural formed grape
grottoes on the highway and sing
my own sad song there. Speak
ing of cool, wild graperies reminds
me that I am athirst. Say, Ser
geant, can't you send sleutb
messenger to the Club of the Pur-
pie Cluster and tell the vipous
triumvirate that are crcwning
their chaste and marvellous brows
with beautiful chaplets to send me,
not al old Roman punch even, nor
Grecian amaranthe julep, but a
tod, mere modern tod. Tell
them I am always with them, and
I often commune, when on my
prom;scuous pilgrimage, with their
Observation-Disclosures me, I mean
disembodied-spirits I see their
faces rapt and purpling with the
blood of the broken-hearted grape
Of the Garter stream. But say,
Sergeant, my blood is turning in
to the channels Of melancholy.
This must not be. Here are three
coins l put one into wine, and the
world fushes up for me-; a second
coin, and [ own that block there,
l am mayor Of Pawtucket, 81
walk on thrones a third, and I
hear rapturous music, l float on
fair rivers, my old coat becomes
as the garment Of great ruler; l
put my warm heart against the
cold marble of the world, and I
warm it with it's generous glow.
The world is no longer marble
tomb to me. 1t opens, and en-
chanting forms come forth and
embrace me and bid me 60 on.
The gates Of eternity open with a
majestic welcome to the man who
defes fortune and dares to grand.
ly live it out" "But those are
not coins," said the officer, "they
are buttons" "We!l, buttons, 80
let them be-ah! that song again,
the song Of the cricket. Officer,
let me sleep here under the mag
netism of the mighty midnight
heavens, and let the lady crickets
serenade mo-"
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Doetrp.
q
INWARD JUDGE.

The soul itself its awful witness is,
Say not in evil doing, "No one sees!
And so offend the conscious soul within,
Whose ear can hear the silcnces of sin
Ere they find voice, whose eyes unsleeping
see
The sacred motions of iniQuity.
Nor in thy folly say, 81 am alone"
For, seated in thy heart as on throne,
The ancient Judge and Witness }iYeth still,
To note thy act and thought: and as thy i'll
Or good goes from thee, far beyond thy reach,
The solemn Doomsmap's seal is set on each
John G. Whittier.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1879-10-15

There is nothing that so rehnes,
polishes and ennobles face and
mien as the constant presence OF
good thoughts.
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e7Eg9SceEgeg2ee0sSS.
TCEEAPESTAND BEST!H
PETERSOVS MAGAZINE.
FULL-sIZE PAPER PATTERNS

CT A SUPPLENEST will be given in every
number for 1880, containing full-size pattern
for a lady's, or child's dress. Every subscriber
will receive, during the year, twelve OF these
patterns, worth more, alone, than the suoscrip-
on price. -Q