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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12

you come this EVENING"" half-con-
mand, half-entreaty; and, before Jack
recovered from his astonishment, she
had placed card in his hand and was
gone.
He never remembered how that
drive was finished.
Some recollection came of narrow
escape from arrest at the depot, and
he had vague impression of being
abused by some passengers who seemed
to have passed their destination, and
threatened by others who resorted to
jumping off while his horses were be-
ing urged to their utmost speed.
But he did not roticc anything par
ticularly until darkness found him in
Miss Trente's presence. There was a
certain constraint in her greeting that
troubled him.
After while she showed him fa-
miliar envelope, saying:
"See, the number is wrong-two in
stead of three; and it did not reach me
until you were gone, and you left no
address"
His face grew bright as new brass
preserving-kettle.
"Then you did not send me away,
and you will not now"
"If you still mean all this"-with a
shy glance at the letter whose eloquence
had been SO nearly wasted-"I would
not send you away for the world"
Evidently Jack was sure of his
meaning.
"Even knowing my position he
said, presently, with a queer smile in
his eyes.
II cannot bear to think of that" she
cried, eagerly. Don't 60 back tc
those horrid cars ever again. Indeed
l cannot bear it, while | have so much
Jack"
"My DEAR" cried Jack, with a light
hearted, ringing laugh, 81 have beer
growing rich, not poor, and now | an
the richest man in the worldw
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A fine fellow-The judge.
Agricultural item-Never cultivate
an acquaintance with a ''rake."
A man in the hands of drunken
barber should be glad when he gets
out of the tight scrape.
A new song is entitled, 1--WE Never
Speak AS We Pass By" Probably
they are both courting the same girl.
"Let every man add good name to
his other capital" quoted the forger
when he fixed up ten-thousand-dollar
check.
1t is said that inhaling the fumes of
sulphur cures catarrh. The course
that many people pursue in this life
gives promise that they won't be
afflicted with catarrh in the next.
A gentleman had his boots blaeked
by one of two boys and gave the
sinner a two-dollar bill to get changed.
After waiting some time he said to
the other boy, "Where's your partner p
"Oh,' said the youth with grin,
"he's bust UP, and I'm his assignee"
Travellers in Canada have not failed
of noticing the number of shop
keepers. from chow-chow builders to
undertakers, that are purveyors to the
royal family; but it remained for a
Dundas barber to fling to the breeze a
gayly-bedizened banner with the awful
device: "The Queens Barber Shop"
There are sixty-six thousand locomo-
tives in the world. And yet, when
you have waited for a train at some
desolate way station for five hours you
wouldn't believe there were half so
many. Sixty-six thousand! And still
a man can miss a train as easily as
though. there was only one engine on
the whole continent.
(Which is the deepest, the longest,
the broadest and the smallest grave in
this church-yard?" said pedestrian
to his companions, while meditating
among the tombs in cemetery.
"Why," was the answer, 'it is that in
which Miles Button is buried, for it is
Miles below the sod, Miles in length,
Miles in breadth, and yet after all it is
but a. Button-hole."
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

A good character shines by its own
light.
They that govern most make least
noise.
Life is but short, therefore crosses
cannot be long.
In jealousy there is more love of
self than of any one else.
People do not need to know more
about virtue, but rather practice what
they already know.
If there is any person to whom you
feel dislike, that is the person of
whom you ought never to speak.
He who can irritate you when he
likes is your master You had better
turn rebel by learning the virtue of
patience.
Poetry is the blossom and fragrance
of all human knowledge, human
thoughts, human passions, emotions,
language.
Whosoever lends greedy ear to a
slanderous report is either himself of a
radically bad disposition or a mere
child in sense.
Speak the truth; yield not to anger;
give, when asked, of the little thou
hast; by these three steps thou shalt
go near the gods.
1t is little troubles that wear the
heart out. 1t is easier to throw a
bombshell mile, than feather
even with artillery.
Be willing to do sod ssspur own
way. We need none of us be disturbed
if we cannot WELD another's weapons;
but our own must not rust.
In misfortune one may know a
friend, in battle hero, in debt all
honest person, in decaying fortunes a
wife, and kinsmen in affection.
Let us be careful only of the quality
of our work that it be thorough,
genuine, imple-hearted, the best that
is in us, the best that can come out OF
U.S.
1t is neither safe, respectable, noI
wise to bring any youth to manhood
without regular calling Industry
like idleuess, is matter of habit
No idle boy will make an active, in
dustrious and useful man.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
VOL. U---NO. 43.
Sowing ana Reaping.
Sow with generous hand,

Sow with generous hand,
Pluse not for toll or pain;
Weary not through the heat OF summer,
Weary not through the cold spring rain;
But wait till the autumn comes
For tho sheaves OF golden grain.
Scatter the seed and fear not,
A table will be spread;
What matter il you are too weary
10 eat your hard earned bread;
Sow while the earth is broken,
For the hungry must be fed
Sow while the seeds are lying
In the warm earth's bosom deep,
And your warm tears iall upon it
They will stir in quiet sleep;
And the green blades rise the quicker,
Perchancc for the tears you weep,
Then SOW Tor the hours tre fleeting,
And the seed must iall to-day;
And care not what hands shall reap it,
Or if you shall have passd away
Before the waving corn-fields
Shall gladden. the sunny day.
Sow, and look onward, upward,
Were the starry light appears
Where, in spite OF the cowarls doubling,
o. your own hearts trembling fears,
You shall reap in joy the harvest
You have sown to-day in tears.
-.adeiaide A. Proctor
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
III,

"Stand from underv' She was pass
ing under the scaffold Of an unfinished
building three days after the posting
of Mr.. Cartons epistle, when this cry
and an ominous crashing overhead
brought her to a standstill of terror.
She was still undecided which way
to fly, when figure stepped quickly
from the doorway near and lifted her
within.
When the crash was over and the
dust clearing, she found her senses suf-
ficiently to recognize Jack Carlton.
"This way, Miss Trente. can in
sure you safer return" said he, qui-
etly, leading the way to the rear en-
trance of the house.
Miss Trente gave shuddering
glance at the still vibrating timbers.
"They would have crushed me to
atoms," she murmured, fearfully.
81 was very fortunate to be in time, ;"
Carlton said, after brief pause. "The
house is one of my uncle's, and hap
pened by with directions from him.
There was kind of stern repression
about him that Miss Trente noticed
with surprise.
II hope my silence has not led you
to believe me unappreciative," she
said, hesitatingly, as they reached the
sidewalk. 81 am very grateful, Mr..
Carlton, and"
"And sorry, no doubt" Mr.. Carlton
interrupted, bitterly. "But compassion
and gratitude are what l never desire
from any woman least Of all from
you, Miss Trente."
The little hand that had started to-
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
A Chapter of Accidents.
Little things on little wings
Bear little souls to heaven"

He wrote, and wrote, and wrote
Not exactly from "early morn till
lewy eve," but from the cricket's first
Shrek to the rattle of the milkman's
equipage. He told first how he loved
her, and, being a slightly sensible man
and thoroughly in earnest, that did not
require much space; but then he had
the story of an old love to explain
how he had been bewitched by other
smiles, and only escaped their thrall-
dom when the fair enchantress had
proved herself unworthy by marrying
some one else. Moreover-and this
was difficult point-those chains had
: been rive ted not before he met the OBJ
ject Of his present devotion, but under
her eye and with her encouragement
as confGant.
He felt kcenly the delicacy of this
position, and it is not unlikely that his
brain and pen did also. Then there
was another troublesome point. The
mighty dollar had most pertinacious-
ly evadod his grasp, and while thai
fact alone offered brilliant suggestions
for eloquent pictures, viz, "love in a
cottage' and strong, devoted arms, it
shrunlz disagreoably when coupled with
the knowledge that Miss Trente was
an heiress.
He spent a large portion OF the
night dreaming on this situation re-
versed. How glorious to possess every
thing, and say, "All yours, my queen
But while there was a latent relief
that she never know privation for him,
the waking was bitter, and had his
affection been one iota less, he had
flung his letter into the fire, and his
love as far as possible into Lethe. AS
it was, he wrote on, ending in an i'm
petuous, heartful fashion, thus:
al you send me away, let it be by silence;
cannot bear NO from your lips"
Then he fastened to sign, seal and
deliver to the corner post.
It was on deserted corner, and a
gray morning; so perhaps no one saw
that he touched the letter to his lips
certainly no one knew that he
breathcd a prayer toward the tiny
streak of silver that Aurora was push
ing over the eastern chimneys.
Being a sensitive, reserved young
man, he considered this Ignorance on
the part of humanity laudable; but If
some kind busybody could have hint
ed another glance at the direction on
that envelope, how doubly grateful he
would have been!
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
BEAUTIFUL CORALS.
What They Are and How They Are
Fished Out.


Coral, as an ornamental stone, was
appreciated centuries before its real
nature was known. At first it was
thought to belong to the mineral king
dom, and then it was recognized as
marine plant, the coral beads which
were first brought into Greece being
thought to be berries, which had red
dened and hardened by exposure to
the air. 1t was centuries after its first
discovery that an Italian naturalist
called these supposed flowers or berries
"Corallium rubrum, and scientific men
accept this definition as conclusive.
But it was French doctor at Mar
seilles who found out, not much more
than hundred years ago, that these
supposed flowers were in reality ami
mails, endowed with the power of vol
untary motion. When, however, he
communicated his discovery to the
French academy of sciences, his name
was concealed, in order to protect him
from the derision that was expected to
follow his declaration persuaded
were even the men of science that
corals were merely petrified flowers
The French doctor, however, was
right. Corals are sea anemones, that
have secreted calcareous skeleton and
have become compound by budding.
In living state, the coral branch we
see in commerce is covered with a
leathery coating of a bright red color,
studded with small holes, out of which
protrude white polyps, with eight ten
tacles, looking exactly like flowers,
which deceived the Italian naturalist.
Well, it is these colonies of soft-bodied
Zoophytes which secrete the lime OF
which the valuable stone is composed
Now, although coral is one of the most
abundant substances in nature-entire
islands and reefs being formed of it in
tropical seas the particular variety OF
red coral is comparatively rare and is
almost entirely confined to the Medi.
terranean sea. 1t is there found in
reefs, few miles from the shore, and
at depths varying from one to hun.
dred fathoms. The greatest coral fish
cries are those off Naples, Sicily, Sar-
dinia and Algiers.
Almost every year new bed is
found somewhere along the Italian
coast. A rush is then made to tht
spot and the bed is soon exhausted
The rush used to be so great, indeed
that it frequently took aman-of-war t6
keep the fishing feet in order. Now
however all this is changed; for, by the
new fisheries act, the discoverer of q
new coral bank has the exclusive right
to fish on it for two years. The value
of these banks may be estimated at ar
average yearly rate of eight thousand
tons of coral, rendering several millions
of pounds sterling! The coral fisheries
off Algiers are under the control OF thu
French government, which exact
heavy duties for the right of fishing
and in order to prevent the exhaustion
of this fishery the reefs are divides
into ten portions, ten years being tn
time which the coral is supposed I
) take in order to reach it's full growth
} thus, by fishing only one of thes
. divisions at a time, provision is mad
for an uninterrupted fishery.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
REEFING A STEER.
The Story OF the Old Settler From A""S
Back In Pike County, Penn.

The Story OF the Ola Set'ief ro"'
Back In Pike County, Penn.
"We heerd that Phil Boyer, who
lived six mile back on the ridge, were
goin' to beef a steer o his'n, when
wore little too obstreperous to be
handled for work. Ez none of us had
ever heerd of beefn' bee, we ruther
calc'lated ez 'twere bout time to get
one up, an so we jest throw'd together
a high ole party, an started to give
Phil s'prise.
"For mile or so fore we got to
Phirs we heerd fearful yellin' and
howlin', but we thort 'twere only
cattymount singin' over in the swamp,
an we hedn't time to think about a
little thing like that. The moon were
bigger'n washtub, an we could see
Jest tbout ez well ez if the sun were
shinin'. 1t were colder than Greenlan'.
The howlin' an hollerin' got louder ez
we got higher to Phil's, an when we
struck his clearin' an come
up to the house, we see sight that
jest nigh on to killed us a laughin'.
Thar were Phil on the roof O the
cabin, straddle o the ridge pole, a yell
in, Help! help ez if some one were
butcherin' on him. A prancin' an
bellerin' round the cabin, fust on one
side an then on t'other, were the
steer, a PAWN the snow wus nor If a
noreaster were gettin' in its work on
a drift, an actin ez if 1were havin'
more'n barrel O fun, an 'twant cost
in of him IA cent. 1t were a funny
sight, an we Jest howled.'
"'What a. ye doin' up thar, Phily
we hollered. AN how'd ye git VI
tharp'
Lord, but want he bilin' mad?
"I clumb up the chimbly, o course
ye dodblasted galoots,' said he. II
was so blamed hot in the cabin that
clumb up yer to git cooll'
"'Come down, Phil. We've come to
give ye s'prise. We thort ye was
goin' ter beef yer steer to-day. Amt
ye goin' ter beef itT
"'Do ye see or hear anything o that
steer, consarn yer said he. An can't
ye see it's only a question whether I'm
agoin' to beef that steer Or whether
it'll beef me? and the odds hez al
been in favor O the steer all day. Tht
| Internal. crittcr gently boosted INT
onter this ridge pole at 10 o'clock this
mornin', an I've been yer freezin' an
yellin' fur help ever sense. My ole
woman an the young uns is locked in
the cabin, an I've seen EN- try twice tc
git ont to the wood pile, but that steer
has took good keer that they didn't, an
cz l haint heerl nothin' on EN- sence
reckon they'm either freze to death OF
gone to bed to keep warm. That steer
hez been havin' tho properest kind O.
a Fourth O July celebration all day
an if some O you fellers can git ava.
with him yc kin send for the corner
fur ri be frozc stiffer'n Christina
goose 'forc mornin.'"
$50 we he'd to tackle the steer. b
pluggin' it full O pistol balls, al
, poundin' it on the head with an a
for half an hour or so, VIC split h
: little fun. Then wo got Phil dowI
, an thawed him out
"Well, we had high ole time a
Phil's that night continued tn
ranger "Thc ole 'ooman an tn
young uns had gone TO bed to kee
warm. sure enough, bua we soon he
'cm in good shape. An that beetir
ICE closed the season."
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12
BY BEN. S. GILMORE.
The Wind Blows.


Uaik!
The wild blows, and sleet and hail
f. stiollow on the edlying gale
The winter secthing In the SHOWS;
The sweeping storm, from hight TO hight
Bents buck the huge, devouring night;
The wa.chdogs bark
And the wind blows
faikl
The wind blows, the hills grow brown,
The snow melts and the rain comes down
Tie swollen current dips and flows;
The water loans, the bridge gives way;
BY night the horseman drinks the spray;
The watch logs bark
And the wind blows.
Hank!
The wind blows, the nights grow brief,
Tie savage forests bur ST leaf,
Tho time o planting comes and goes;
The waters inll, the sand drifts d,wn;
Suns pass and no man thinks thereon;
The watchdo. bark
And The wind blows.
Dora Read Goodaie.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12

ward him returned hastily to its fellow
in the shelter Of dainty muff, and
Miss Trente's pretty brows raised a
triho with dismay.
"Ohp' she gasped. Then, with gen
tie dignity: Il will not offend so far
again''-and passed on with a slight
bow.
But Jack cried, "Forgive llep' in a
tone of trouble and contrition, that
stopped her as effectually as an iron
grasp could have done.
Il did not mean that. Forget it,
and say good-by"
His hand was extended entreating-
ly, and hers met it without hesitation.
"Are you going away9' she asked,
gently, wondering at the white shadow
on his face,
what else?' he said.
Her eyes fell, and her color changed
slightly as she murmured:
81 hoped you would learn to forget. y
"In death, perhaps"
She looked up then with quivering
lips and world Of compassion in heI
eyes.
"Good-by. You know what that
means p
"God be with you.'
And she passed on, an expression
mingling with the pity in her face that
puzzled him; for had she not sent him
away?
| 1t puzzled him SO much that HI
would have followed her but for tht
flash Of her diamond earrings.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-12

IL was "nlpplng and an eager air,
that almost froze the breath upon ones
lips--a bitter, snowy day in January.
Carlton had taken a horse-car, din
ner-ward bound, and, finding it full,
took his stand beside the driver.
That farewell blessing of Miss Tren-
te's had proved very potent one. In
the year since, "CarltOns luck" had
become trite phrase among his
friends. His face was fortune in it.
self, they said. Not that he was pc
culiarly handsome, but there was a
light of steadfastness in his eyes, and
irmness Of purpose in the curve of his
mouth, that must win, soon or late.
Some said he had changed with his
changing fortune. There was a GER
tain brightness wanting in his glance,
and somehow his read was less CHEEKY,
but he was no less generous or brave,
and only fractions critic could have
found fault in him as he stood there,
facing the shower of snowhakes with
strength and good-nature written un-
mistakably in face and figure, and a
CLEAN of compassion in his eyes when
they rested on the tired horses or a
thinly-clad passer-by.
allow are all, Mike?" he began, be-
slowing a genial smile upon the driver,
whose family history had become fa-
miliar to him in his rides to and from
his Office.
"Sure, the wife's worse, and two of
the childer have the masles, and there
/ was only one little creature, wee
mite, sure, scarcely able to climb into
Il chair herself; left to nurse them, and
provisions were scarce, the doctors
charges terrible" ETC., etc. The ad-
denda were unusually serious and pa
thetic to-day. Evidently Mike was
mot aisy in his mind"
"Why, you ought to be with them,''
said Jack.
"Ocl, how could l be? I'd lose me
place entirely, sir" said Mike, ruefully
But Cartoons sympathy aroused; he
never failed in possible service.
"You know me as friend of your
employers. l will make it all right
with them. Just step off here and &c
home," he commanded, peremptorily
"An' what1l become of the horses ?"
"I'll drive on to the depot and ex.
plain
!. Sure" cried Mike, enthusiastically
''you're the foinest gentleman l iveI
see, and if you're not gineral, ye
oughter be-
"All right" Carlton laughed, slip
ping some coin into his admirers hand
"Give it to the little ones, with my
love-"
That was how it happened that Mis-:
Trente, taking car in front of Browne
& Co.'S, found herself face to face will
Jack Carleton.
She stared incredulously as hi
flushed, lifted his hat, and then quietly
turned the brake and started hi
horses. A>a,
'Mr. Carlton, is it possible?'' as'
He gave silent glance toward thu
crowd looking on. The old look ol
wondering compassion, mingled with
something else, CLEANED on him for {
moment, then she silently passed in
side.
"a delightful position" though
Jack. rather regretting his quixotism
Then came the reflection. What dit
it matter? What was he to Hecuba
or Hecuba to him? And he grount
his teeth together savagely, and forgo
to take up any more passengers. -
A gentle touch upon his sleeve re
called him suddenly, and he stoppe'
the car without meeting her eyes.
'I am visiting a friend here. vii
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The Edinburgh Medical Journal en-
1eavors to show that badness Is prob
ably contagious,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-04
Guardians Sale of Real Estate

Notice Is hereby given that In pursuance OF an
order OF sale OF the Superior Court Of the county
OF Los Angeles, State Of California. made on the
10th day Of January, 1883 in the matter Of the
estates and guardianship Of Francisco Leon Reyes,
Maria Antonia Cristina Reyes, Juan Manuel
Reyes. Juan Rnnulfo Reyes, Maria isidva Reyes,
Adela Reyes and Rosaura Reyes, minors the un-
dersiened, the guardian OF the persons and es-
tates Of said minors, will sell at private sale, to
the highest bidder, for cash, and subject TO con
hrmation by said Court, OH OF after the 1lth day
Of December, 1888 all the right, title. interest
and estate OF said minors In and to the following
real estate, situate In the city and county OF Los
Angeles, State Of California, described as follows:
An undivided onehalf interest In lots No. 4, r,
g. O. 10, H. 12, 49, A. Is. 10, H. 49, 10, 20 and q,
as laid down and designated on n map thereof
made by Albert 5. Ruxton. and filed as an exhibit
10 the petition Of the guardian In this cause 10
which reference Is made, said lots being a por-
tion OF the tract allotted TO Pablo keyes, In the
partition Of the Maria Antenia Maehado de
Reyes tract, on east side Of Main street, made
December LIST, 1866 see Miscellaneous Records,
Book l. page 25s.
Terms Of sale; Cash In United States gold coin.
Deed at expense Of purchaser
Bids or offers In writing may be made at any
time after the first publication Of this notice. and
before the making OF sale, and left at the Off e
OF VIM. D. Stephens, my attorney, at room So
Temple block, in the city Of Los Angeles, or de-
livered to mt personally.
REFUGIU DOMlNGUEZ de REYES,
Guardian OF the minors above named
nova I'd