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rest, that dear little crystal and gold flask of
altar Of roses. How it has scented every
thing!"
She bent over the tiny box: tenderly touching
the shabby old odds and ends. and the rose
scent seemed to rise and fill the ROOM ''And
Josiah threw it in the fire. said he hated the
smell, and would like to have thrown my little
box after it. He was angry. all because he
found me crying over poor fathers wrist bands.
had been stitching them the very day he was
taken i'll with the fever that killed him. 1t was
unkind of Josiah. and think he felt ashamed
of himself afterward. for he brought my fine
new workbox home the very next day. If he
had known all | was crying about. Not poor
father only. l was thinking Of Hugh Lowder
How handsome he looked and how Kind, when
he came in to say goodbye before he went away
to sea again! He took my hand sewing and
all. q could see the marks. years after where
had pricked my finger when / heard him come
1n) and he said. oh. so tenderly, Bella, have
you courage to marry poor man. or patience
to wait till come back Il rich One!' and had
neither. God forgive me, as he has punished mel"
She held the little box tightly in her hands. her
whole figure shaking " th emotion. God for
give me-" she cried again, and sank forward on
the table, sobbing among her diamonds.
There was tlmid knock at the door. but she
could not hear it-then another She rose from
her chair. looking strange and bewildered as the
door softly opened and Dora stole in Her poor
little face was all flushed and swollen out of It's
prettiness by hard crying, and her hair in u woe
BECOME tOuZe.
.Auntie, I've come to say-please forgive me
If was rude to you this evening": and please
don't leave us! COr-cor-nelius and are not
g-gOing to be engaged any more!"
Here came a breakdown and a burst Of stormy
sObbing.
Every one says-rm Sacrificing the whole
family by my seliishness, so I've given him up,
oh! oh Oh!-forever.'
Lady Paulett made no sign-only looked with
half-terriiied air at her niece, her old lips
working nervOusly.
But l won't marry any one else Never"
broke out Dora with sudden energy. ''I'll do
anything else | can to please you, auntie
can wait and wait, and perhaps, he says, If
some day he comes back rich enough to please
you"
"YOu little fOol!" broke in Aunt Arabella in
her own sharp tone; then suddenly changing to
piteous shaky little voice:-''Why are you all
80 quick to take up an old womans hastY words?
I'm sure I've never been unknd to any of you
yet. Don't let him 90, Dora! Can't you trust
your old auntie? Rich enough to please me-
Child! child! to think that some day might
have had to answer for two more spoiled
lives"
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Dora looked all Monderment-

DUId All NOnUeflnenG.
There! there! 60 to bed. and if the others
want to sacrifice YOU to their own interests
never you mind them. I'll let them know to-
morrow what l think of such wicked selfish
ness"
She gently pushed her amazed little niece out
and shut the door.
Parker! are those letters gomez"
eyes. my lady,
''Then let some one take two kilograms first
thing Tomorrow
Eyes. my lady,"
'And Parker! Have you finished packing for
tO-night?'
eyes, my lady"
"Then put everything back in its place di-
rectly. I'm not going''
Eyes, my lady."-7emple Bar.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22
HEADQUABTRRs ARMY OF THE)

WAsHINGToN, d. c., Dec. 6, 1881.
Col. HERBERT Z. HILL, Atlantic. ave. Bos.
ton, Mass
My Dear Sir Yesterday the Hon. S. b.
Bowman called with your letter of Nov 30
asking the loan of the sword or sabre l wore
during the famous march TO the sea-" for
exhibition at the fair in the interest of Sol
diers' Home, to be held at Boston December
Z, inst, etc, etc.
l explained to Mr.. Bowman that the truth
was did not have a sword or sabre during
that march, nor at any time after succeeded
Gen. Grant in the command of the western
armies at Nashville, March, 1864. The only
honest relic possess OF that march is my
saddle, Grimsley, which l value for its real
goodness. use it now when have occasion
to mount horse still, for the purpose you
name-to please several thousand old sol
ders"-I have sent it to you by Adams Ex-
press Co., and hereby certify that l actually
used that saddle during the war, from about
July, 1862 till the end. rode that identical
saddle from Corinth, Miss, to Chattanooga
to Atlanta and to Washington.
have several swords hero-dress swords,
never used in war; and also possess, in some
old chest at st. Louis swords worn by me as
colonel brigadier- general and major general 4;
but reiterate that l did not wear any sword
at all during the march to the sea-only oc-
casionally an old black belt, long since thrown
or given away.
When you are done with my saddle, please
send it back to memo. 8l7 10Th ST., Wash
ington, d. Gas have confidence in this
saddle and propose to use it as long as 1 am
able to ride.
Wishing you all success in your laudable
and noble enterprise,
Your friend and servant,
W. T. SHRRMAN.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22
who i. the Grea.e.t EngIl.h xoyeII.,r

Now that George Eliot is dead, some Of the
English critics are trying to determine, to
their own satisfaction, who is the greatest of
the surviving British novelists. Their opin-
ions differ, of course but several of them
agree that Thomas Hardy deserves the hon
or, although he is among the youngest of liv-
ing writer's of fiction, and one whose reputa-
tion has been very recently made. Hardy, q
native of village in Dorsetshire, is but 42-
he was born June ., 1840-and was educated
at divers schools without any thought of be-
coming an author He was designed. indeed,
by his father for architecture, and was ar
ticled at l6 in the country town to an archi-
tect of some local renown. He received at
the same time careful instruction in the clas-
sizes, and after serving his apprenticeship,
went to London, where he advocated the
modern Gothic school, and added to his
knowledge and experience under the we'll
known Arthur Bloomfield. His first attempt
of literary kind was in the direct line of his
profession, being an essay on colored brick
and terra Gotta architecture, which received
(1S63) the prize and medal of the Institute
of Architects He then decided to become
an art critic, and fitted hmsel6 for the call
ing by further studies, though he published
nothing, general literature appealing to him
more and more. After hesitating several
years between architecture and authorship,
and steadily inclining to the latter, he put
forward, when he was 81 his first novel, It
was as much censured as praised, but, he was,
naturally so Influenced by the praise that he
determined definitely upon his vocation. The
year following he put forth a rural story,
'Under the Greenwood Tree, and, within a
twelvemonth, appeared "a Pair of Blue
Eyes" both of them being well received. 1t
was not, however, until he had produced, six
years ago, Far from the Madding Crowd,
that his reputation became national or trans
atlantic. 1t was published, like its predeces-
sors, anonymously, aud was attributed to va
rious authors, to George Eliot among Others
Since then he has occupied foremost place
among English writer's of fiction, though he
has not equaled that effort by any subsequent
work. Hardy is the reverse of sensation
alst His scenes and characters are quiet,
but closely and skillfully drawn. 1t is evil
dent that he has observed carefully, and he
is generally considered truthful to life and ma
ture. Persons that like high-colored, sharp
ly-contrasted melodramatic plots and situa-
tions do not enjoy Hardy, who is very dull
to them. Charles Reade ranks himself, as
may be inferred AZ the greatest of English
novelists, and did SO long before the death Of
Thackery Dickens or George Eliot. He can
not understand, it is said, how Hardy has
| gained so much fame II would be difficult
| for him to understand how anybody not nam
cd Charles Reade should win any renOwn, SUI
preme egotist that he is to the core of his be-
ing.-Nei0 York Times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

The famous Masonic mystery is recalled by
the unveiling at Batavia, N. T., of Il monu-
ment to William Morgan, the man whose name
was for many years in everybody's mouth.
The monument is nearly 40 feet high, sur
mounted by a statue of Morgan, and was built
by subscriptions collected in all parts of the
country. The principal inscription smacks
decidedly of the excitement which followed
his disappearance "Sacred to the memory
of William Morgan, a native of Virginia,
captain in the war of 1872, a respectable citi-
zen of Batavia, and martyr to writing, print
ing and speaking the truth. He was abduct-
ed from near this spot in the year 1926 by
the Freemasons, and murdered for revealing
the secrets of their order" Morgan was a
blacksmith in Batavia, a Mason, and seems
not TO have borne the best possible character,
in spite of this inscription. He published the
secrets of the order, and while engaged in
getting out the book was abducted. He was
arrested on a charge of theft Sept. u, 1926,
and taken to Canandaigua. Four days later
he was released-both arrest and release were
strange-and Immediately conveyed in car
riage by Masons to Fort Niagara. There he
was confined few days, and then all trace of
him disappears. A body found in Niagara
river some time after was believed to be his,
but the fact as to that was never established.
MHsons claimed that the only object in alb
Quoting Morgan was to prevent his eommuni-
eating with Miller, the man who was publish
ing his book, and of course could suggest
many ways in which he might have disappear
ed but the outside belief was that the man
who told secrets had been murdered by men,
bers of the order, and there was the widest
excitement. Eli Bruce, sheriff of the county,
and several others were tried for murder, but
there were no convictions, although Bruce
narrowly escaped. Then anti masonic asso-
Citations were formed, the thing got into poll
tics, feeling on the question ran 30 high that
regular party lines were for time complete
ly lost sight of, and even here in New Eng
land some of the masonic campaigns" about
the year 1880 are remembered as the hottest
ever known. Through it all the Morgan
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22
Miscellany.
Country Life.

Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.
Swords cleaye to hands that sought the plOw,
And laurels miss the soldiers brow.
Me, whom this city holds, whose feet
Have worn the stony highways,
Familiar with its loneliest street
Its ways are never my ways
Ny cradle was beside the sea,
And there hope my grave will be-
Old homestead! In that old gray town
The vane is seward blowing,
Thy slip Of garden stretches down
To where the tide is flowing:
Below they lie, their sails are furled,
The ships that go around the world
Dearer that little country house,
Inland, with pines beside IL;
Some peach trees, with unfruitful boughs
A well, with weeds to hide ~
No flowers, or only such as rise
Sef-sOwn, poor things, which all despise.
Dear country homel Can forget
The least Of thy sweet trifes7
The window vines, which Chamber yet
Whose blooms the bee still rihes2
The roadside blackberries, growing ripe,
And IN the woods the Indian-pipe7
Happy the man who tills the field,
Content with rustic labor;
Earth does TO him her fullness yield,
Hap what may to bis neighbor.
Well days, sound nights-oh, can there be
A life more rational and free7
Dear country life Of child and mani
For both the best, the strongest,
That with the earliest race began
Aud has outlived the longest;
Their cities perished long ago;
Who the first farmers were we know.
Perhaps our Babels, too, will fall;
If so, no lamentations,
For Mother Earth will shelter all,
And feed the unborn nations;
Yes, and the swords that menace now
Will then be beaten by the plow.
n. II. Stoiddrd.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

The North American Review for October opens with
au article "The coming revolution In England, by
H. NJ. Hyndman the English radical leader, giving
instructive account Of the agitation now going on
among the English working classes for reconstruc-
tion OF the whole potco-soca fabric Of that country
o. b. Frothingham writes Of "The Objectionable In
Literature and endeaYors to point out the distne
that which is simply coarse. DR.. Henry Sohliemann
tells the interesting story Of years. "Diseoyeries
at Troy Senator John l. Mitchell of Pennsylvania
treats Of the rise and progress Of the rule Of "POt
cal Bosses" Prof George L. VOse of the Massachu-
sets Institute Of Technology, contributes article
of exceptional value on "Safety in Railway Trayel";
and Prof Charles 8. Sargent, Of the Harvard College
alboretum, contributes instructive essay 'Tho
protection of forests" The Review is sold by book
sellers and newsdealers generally.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

HAY FEVER, like malaria, is gradually ex-
tending its habitat and driving its victims out
of some of their most trusted refugees. Dur
ing the last two years scores of sufferers,
whom the White Mountains had ceased to re-
lieve, have found their way up Mt Killington,
the highest peak of the Green Mountains,
1880 feet above the sea, and there bid defiance
to sneezes and snuffles. That retreat possess
es further advantage in the fact that it is a
capital place for balloon ascension, if, in
course of time, still greater elevation should
prove necessary.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

"A Jersey milkman turned pale when Sow
eral of his customers dubbed together and
made him present Of scarf-pin in the
shape of pump.
"A German who was lately married says;
''It vas easier for needle TO walk out of a
camel's eye than for man to get der lasht
word init womRns."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

mystery" remained unsolved, and so II is to-
day Robert Morris Of Kentucky has for 80
years been trying to got at the facts Of the
case however. and it is said he will soon pub
lish the results of his labors
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22
Cen. shermnn,. Mnr R.IIc..

General Sherman in a letter to Col. II. E.
Hill of Boston, last winter, responding to the
request for the loan of the sword or sabre
worn by him during his famous march to
the sea, for exhibition at the soldiers fair,
gave some facts not without interest as mat
ters of personal history. Here is copy of
the lalter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

The attendance of young ladies at the Har-
ward annex promises to be greatly increased
this year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-22

That terrible scourge
fever aud ague, and its
congener, bilious re-
mittent, besides ahec-
tions Of the stomach,
liver and bowels, pro-
duced by miasmatio air
and water, are both
eradicated and pre-
vented by the use Of
Hostetter's Stomach
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by physicians, and
more extensively used
as a remedy for the
above class of disor-
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others, than any med
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TheSecret

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LAKE AUBURN
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-20

The lnltiatory movements Of a new
telegraph company are matters of public
interest, since telegraphy has entered so
largely into the essence of all CONNER
cial transactions as to be now an abstract
necessity. There are reasonable hopes
that the freshly iedged institution an
pounced from Chicago will be enabled to
maintain its independence of previously
existing corporations, and by healthy com.
petition reasonably reduce the rates for
messages. So many experiments have
been made, however, upon the purse
strings Of the Western Union, that some
thing more than a flourish Of big figures
in the way of capital stock will be need.
ed before the average citizen will feel as
sured that a legitimate enterprise has been
toated. There is a field for such an IN
d~ertaking, and it will command, when it
comes fairly to the point, ample moral
and material aid. Let us hope that the
Postal Telegraph Company will fill the
ell
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-20

President Arthur, having entirely
ignored the people of Utah, Gentiles and
all, in selecting the Commission for that
Territory, the Salt Lake Tribune, with
excellent cause, is. very indignant. In
the course of one Of its characteristic
eloquent articles it says:
It is q little hard to bear this assumed
superiority Of a people who, while strong
in the aggregate. Individually are so weak
that it would take a thousand of them to
supply manhood enough for one gray
haired miner of the West,
To which the Virginia Chronicle adds:
"One of the qualities in which the men
of the West far surpass their pigmy
brethren Of the East is modesty."
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-20
THAT "CIRCULAR. SCHEME.

1t is gratifying, when in the course Of
political discussion it becomes necessary
to make plain statements of the truth in
regard to our friends on the other side,
to have our always charitable and we'll
meant utterances substantiated by the
Republican press. Hence we give the
following candid article from the San
Francisco Call a place in our columns to-
day
1t is apparent that some measures must
be taken to prevent a party in power, by
the use Of money, from perpetuating itself
from term to term. Governor Tilden said,
in 1876, that the party in power could not
be displaced by less than two-thirds Of the
voters Of the country. He did not mean,
OF course, that a two-thirds vote was re-
CURED to elect opposition candidates, but
that the corrupt use OF money would at
tract q certain portion to the party in
power. There are now between 90, 900 and
100, 900 Federal officials in the various
States and Territories. The bulk of these
are salaried so they can pay political
assessments. From five to ten per cent
can well be taken from q yearly salary, to
enable the incumbent to pay a liberal
assessment. The Custom-house clerk who
receives from 81, 900 to So, 600 a year for
work that would not command more than
two'thirds az much in private business, is
quite willing to contribute five per cent o
year to keep his party in power and him
self in favor with the dispenser Of patron
age. The aggregation of these contribu.
tions is enormous. A fund of $40, 600, 900
might easily be collected during a four
year term. with which to carry the quad
rennial election. The relatives and friends
Of ofice-holders would add materially to
this large fund. Perhaps Mr.. Tilden was
right when he said that it would take a
two-thirds majority to dislodge the party
in power.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-20
Gureka Dailp Sentinel.
TUESDAY. So. ........ June ~, 1851.
GOVERNOR

Scalawag ex.Governor Moses of South
Carolina is in the Tombs for a term. He
is dressed in striped clothes, but his hair
has not been cropped in the usual prison
style, his physician prescribing for the
notable prisoners health that it should
be trimmed short. There are many per-
sons who will be deceived by such no.
tices Of this Ex-Governor Of South Caro-
lima. They are not usually told in the
newspapers that Moses is politically and
every other way q scalawag and a scrub;
that he is the natural outgrowth of the
condition of things which prevailed I'M
der the so-called regime Of reconstruc-
ton, but which was really a system OF
shameless robbery aud oppression of
those who happened to be of the white
race in the South. Moses should not be
regarded as a South Carolinian. He is
OF that class of creatures by whom nc
locality should be disgraced for the acct
dent Of being his birthplace. He is nc
more to be compared with the Govern
ors of South Carolina who held that
office before the war without pay and fol
the mere honor of the place, than a mon
key is to be compared to a man. He wal
ostracised from the State in which he
was born, and not being able to endure
the contempt in which he was held there
after his fall, had to go North and seel
companions among those with whom he
had concocted the villainies by which he
swindled and completed the ruin of hi
own people. He howled for the honol
and glory las he called it, Of being the
man to pull down the stars and stripe.
when Fort Sumter surrendered. We do
not remember whether Governor Ben
ham allowed the hoodlum, then his pri
vate secretary, to perform that serious
duty which nobody but a true soldie
should have been entrusted with. VIVA
we wish to emphasize is, that this turn
coat, blatherskite and thief, is not
South Carolinian. All the notoriet,
that he has acquired belongs to him ant
his crowd. South Carolinians have n
interest in him nor in any of his ilk.