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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-11-27

until at last Fate rewarded his per-
sistance.
One night, when Speranza was
coming home from the theater, sud
denly found her carriage stopped by
crowd of shouting men and boys,
and rattling engines collected to sup
press a fire. The din and confusion
frightened the spirited horses they
began to rear and plunge so fright
fully that the lady became alarmed
and jumped out of the carriage to be
received in the arms of Lord Darrell,
who, as usual, was lowering his
beloved-the most faithful of knights
His strong arm kept back the push
ing, excited crowd, and kept her
from being overthrown and tramp
led. The old grenadier and the mil
itary-looking driver were meantime
too busily engaged in quieting the
horses to perceive that their charge
had escaped from the carriage and
was under the protection of a hand
some cavalier.
He calmed her fears and soothed
her agitation in language as respect
full as it was tender. Also, being Il
man Of ready action, he found time
to press his suit.
"Do not tremble so, beautiful
Speranza. This is moment l hard
ly dared dream of. | touch your
hand, you lean on me-you, who
have looked so coldly on my love,
who have taken no notice ofmy let
ters. All, how cruel you have
been w
Did she respond by the faintest
pressure of her delicate hand? Lord
Darrel thought so, and kissed the
little member rapturously as he
handed her into the carriage.
The next night attached to his
gift of flowers, there was a small en-
velope containing a diamond ring
and the penciled words:
"Forgive me that once more I lay
my heart at your feet. viii you ac-
cept it? l have never loved a wom-
an before shall never want any
other for a wife. VIII you wear my
name, and permit me to call you
mine by the tenderest and most sa-
cred of ties ?"
The next day he received his ring
back, in a note that ran:
81 thank you for the honor you
have offered-still more l thank you
for the honest love you have proffer-
ed. l believe you are sincere; your
eyes tell me so but l cannot take
what you so generously give. |
think too well of you, my friend, to
join your lot with mine. A fatality
follows met sword of Damocles
hangs over my life. VIII it never
be removed? | pray so, but l hard
ly dare believe it. If it should be
you shall know. Meantime take my
name for your motto-SPERANzA."
"ITer name--her beautiful name
means hope. l will continue to hope
and love " cried the impassioned
young man. 81 willlive in the hope
that the obstacle, whatever it be
shall beremoved.n
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JOHN S MosBY.

am told that John S. Mosby,
the guerilla general and ex-Consul
to Hong Kong, has agreedto deliver
fifty lectures, for which he gets $500
night. This will make $4,000 for
fifty lectures, or for fifty utterances
of one lecture, and it is byno means
bad pay. "John Mosby," said an
old Confederate friend of his to me
last night sis as poor as a church
mouse and he will give these lee
lures because he wants the money.
He came out of the war without
dollar and I don't think he saved
anything abroad. His son gradu-
ated with high honors at the Vir-
ginia University this year and !
think he has other children. His
beautiful and talented wife is dead,
and l doubt whether he has a home
he can call his own.
"John S. Mosby is a slight, bent,
blonde man, with cold gray eye
containing no more expression than
a boys marble. He talks slowly,
never gets excited, and does not
know what fear is. He loves his
friends and hates his enemies, and
he carries his fight to the death. l
lately heard a story from a captain
in the Union army of scene in
which Mosby took part during the
war. A Union regiment had driven
him with a small body of his men
into a ten-acre field about which
was a high fence. They could see
him plainly withinit, and they sur
rounded the field and began to CLOSE
in upon Mosby. They wanted to
capture him, as he had already kill
ed nearly half their regiment
They closed in upon him slowly,
his handful of troops still firing.
They had backed him up close to
fence, and they apparently had him
in their grasp, when he drove his
spurs into his horse and went over
the fence like a flash, and as he did
so, turned in the air upon his saddle
and shot a soldier through the head
with his revolver. There are few
such shots as Mosby, and during
war eshot to kill.
SAT the close of the war Horace
Greedy wanted Mosby hung. He de-
nounced him as a guerilla and mur-
derer, and published article after ar
ticle calling upon the President to
hang him. Mosby fled to the
mountains and he told me he in
tended to fight to the last. General
Grant was in Washington at the
time. Mrs. Mosby came here with
sucking baby on one arm and
these papers of Horace Greely's un-
der the other. She called upon
Grant and laid the papers before
him. Grant told her to go to her
husband and to tell him that bo
would protect him if he would sur
render, that he should 90 to the
nearest station and give himself IN
and he would protect his parole rs
much as he would that of General
Lee. Mrs. Mosby carried this news
to John S. Mosby in the mountains
He surrendered and Grant protect
ed him. Mosby never forgot it and
when the campaige of 1872 came A.
round, in which Greely was pitted
against Grant, Mosby stumped the
State of Virginia for Grant. He car.
ried Greely's papers around and
told the people how Grant had
treated him. The result was he
carried Virginia for the Republicans
the first time in its history.
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LOST IN THE LABYRINTGIIAN MAZE
Dom Pedro's venerable aunt. the
esteemed ana beautiful Princess Isa-
bella Maria Conception Jane Char
lotte Guaiberta Anna Francis of
Assist Naviera Paula d'Alcantera
y Antoinetta Raphaela Michaela
Gabrielle Joachina Gonzaga-eh p
where were we?-what was it?-ob.
yes-is dead.
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A GEORGIA MANS AWFUL Drssr-
p4TIoN'-A leading Prohibitionist
OF Atlanta, Ga, was drowned the
other day in his own well. There if
is again. Why will people always $
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ARTISTIC HAIR WORK.

with Switches
to
Flowers Dolls
an36y Mrs. A. s. ROIIO 7o9 King St., Wilmington
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20
UNFULFILLED.
BY WILL HUBBARD-KERNAN.

Once in my fair, fresh morningyears dreamed of day to be, When out ot the infinite inner soul a passion would come to me, As the day spring comes to the dreary world, as the blossom to the tree. When the one sweet soul of all other souls would certainly find nay own, When the one true heart of all other hearts would certainly find my own, And never again in all the world would wan der it's ways alone. Ohl was a boy in that bright old time, that seems like dream to-day; That seems like the dream of an alien life, in an alien land away. A land in a star, in an orbit far where gods in their glory stay. Yes, was boy, and thought our life was a beautiful life-ah, me The gliding drops from our gods divine, and the terrible truth we see, That our world is a world of rot and dust-no matter how fair it bel A touch of time in my raven hair, yet never the one rare thrill Went out from my heart to another heart, and know that it never will, For age is coming apace, alack and, oh! 1t is calmly chill. Under green magnolia tent, in the golden moonrays, Saw the ghost of myself, one nameless night, in a summer that has swept by; Saw the ghost of my old, old self, and sank to the sod with a low, quick cry; For I stood before me just as was in the sparkle and bloom of life, Before had broken my battle sword in its cruel, uncanny strife, Flushed with a rosy, immortal hope-instinct with a radiant lifel The vision vanished, but, oh the dull, mad pain that it left with me, As thought of the thoughtless and thrillant boy-the boy who had once been mel He was dead with all of his hopes divine the boy who had once been me 'Twixt my life that is, and my life that was are the roses and frost of time, The gods dethroned that worshiped once and festered with serpent slime, The shrines despoiled where brought my flowers in that old, old folly time. 'rwixt my life that is, and my life that was, is many green, low grave That marks the place where bade goodbye to the beautiful and the brave: Ah The whole wide universe centers at last in the grave--in the cruel grave! On through the empty and awful years go where we all must go; Back of me blossom the fairest field that my feet will ever know Still here and wonder a star shines out. or a cluster of lilies flow. Still here and there is hand outreached, and kind voice calls to me, And gleam of the olden glory falls like a flash on the sod and sea, And my heart goes out with glad, sweet throb to thee and to friends like thee
 -New York MercHyy.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20
T1[ee DleetiDgS.
BY JESSIE MACLEOD.
CHAPTER I.

It was a cold wet night in November. Having piled up my fire with logs, drawn my table closely to it, spread open my books of reference, l was just commenc- ing a treatise from notes made at lecture at PHopital St. Antoine, Paris, where was studying surgery. was settling to my work with delightful sense of com fort as heard the rain dashing against my windows, when was disturbed by a sharp ring at the outer door of my apart ment. Who could it be on such a night at this2 Jacobi, perhaps, come round to smoke cigar. Of all my comrades this young Italian was the only one with whom had fraternized but as felt en- thusiastic in my task, it was vexatious to be interrupted even by him. Lamp in hand, opened the ante-room door. A stranger stood at the threshold.
 Have the pleasure of addressing MT. Philip Secretan2" inquired he in unmis- takable English.
 "That is my name," replied, not a little surprised. May l ask your busi- ness with mel"
 "lt is professional"
 "Then it is useless. l am not as yet practicing, being student at present."
 know it; but you have been recom- mended to me as the cleverest and most skillful English one in surgery at the hos pital, and prefer countryman. Can l come in2
 Certainly" 1 replied, admitting him, wondering what he could possibly require, and how he had heard ot me. When he entered looked at him more attentively. A tall man, holding himself erect, in age about thirty-eight, from what could see of his face, for he wore peaked travel- ing cap drawn down over his eyes and a scarf pulled up over his chin, he was cov- cred with rain-drops, and placing a soaked umbrella in the stand, he divested himself of an old plaid ulster, and con- ducted him into my sitting-room, placing chair for him near the fire. Taking off his cap, saw a we'll featured man, of pale, worn complexion, deeply set light colored eyes, fair hair, and neglected beard, dressed in a travelling suit very much the worse for wear. He was self. possessed, his voice clear, with a metallic ring it. We regarded each other atten- lively.
 "To whom am indebted for this in- troduction, and in what manner can be of use to you2"
 "That is immaterial."
 "Pardon me, do not think so."
 "You, and also young ltali an named Jacobi, were mentioned to me as being already expert surgeons ; as said before, give the preference to an Englishman require your services for sn operation ,
 "An operationr' exclaimed. "Where2'
 "Here. On myself"
 regarded him from head to foot with astonishment.
 "Yes, on myself. If you arc disen. gagged, now"
 Again looked at him in amazement Was he In his right senses? l wondered for he appeared perfectly well.
 "I will pay ten napoleons for your fec. , he said.
 This is most unprecedented pro, ceeding. You must please be . little more explicit"
 For reply he laid finely shaped white right hand on the table. ldislike man. hand to be very white itis unmasculine @Wellf" 1 asked.
 sYos see this hand; wish to have 1, amputated inst above the wrist"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20
Hoods SarsapanMa

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 "Hood's Sarsaparilla did mo great good. I was tired out from overwork, and 1t toned me ur." MRS. G. E. SIMMONS, Cohoes, N. Y.
 "I suffered three years from blood poison. took Hoods Sarsaparilla and think am cured" MRS. M. J. DAVIS, Brockport, N. '.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20
Puri1fes the Blood

Hoods Sarsaparilla is characterized by three peculiarities 1st, the combination of remedial agents Id, the proportion; sd, the process of securing the active medicinal qualities. The result is medicine of unusual strength, effecting cures hitherto unknown. Send for book containing additional evidence.
 Hoods SarsapariIla tones up my system, pnrlnes pIa. my blood, snarpens ny appetite, and Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
 Floods Sarsapari1la beats all others, and Is worth it's weight in gold" I. BARRMGTON, 13o Bank Street, New York City.
 Hoods Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. q !; six for eS Mads only by c l. HOOD 6 CO, Lowell, Mass.
 100 Doses One Dollar.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20
CHAPTER II.

Two years afterwards found me in
 partnership with a well-known doctor at
 Hampstead. had passed my examina- ton in London at the College of Surgeons, and commenced practice. should have preferred Savile Row to Frognal :; but had resided in that orthodox medical locality, the chances are l should not have had chain of events to relate that form a strange narrative. It was my cus- tom on fine mornings to go for a con- stitutional up to Hampstead Heath, where the air comes uninterruptedly over five counties. had walked to the group of Scotch frs, descending from them to
 the turf sxirting the ride. The heath, golden with blossomiug furze, seemed . solitude. had at that early hour met no one, and imagined had 1t all to my self, until my eyes chanced to fall on a figure seated on rustic bench in front of the miniature lake. It was that of a fe- male; her attitude 50 suggestive of affiic- tion that softly advanced behind her to within short distance in order to ob-
 serve her. She sat with dropping head and hands clasped before her she wore . gray dress, with close fitting brown straw bonnet and veil Suddenly she arose, wildly threw up her arms as If ap- psaling to heaven. then rushed down to- ward the water. By instinct rather than thought, divined her intention; with . bound l caught her with . strong grasp inst a she reached the watef's edge. SAs struggled violently to hse hessslf,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20

p&SnCtlC VOACS rang III my cAKS-nSr OSAu- tiful dark eyes seemed ever before me When slept dreamed she had thrown herself into the pool and l was powerless to save her life.
 It chanced at this time that l had to call at my surgical instrument makers in the Str and. A block of vehicles having occurred in that crowded thorouehfare, l waited at crossing, and chancing to glance into cab immediately in front of me, what did see but the brown bon net, and through its gauze veil the ex- quisite profile l longed again to behold A gentleman was seated beside her. Glancing at him, a feeling possessed me that he also was not unfamiliar to me :; but it was not until the cab began to move that identified him. It was my nocturnal visitor of Rue Ste. Marguerite He, of all men in the world, to be that poor girls companion Without mo- ment's hesitation determined te follow them. A crawling hanson was passing (never again shall they be mathematical by me sprang into it, telling the dri- yer to follow the four-wheeler in advance of him. Its destination proved to be Fenchurch Street Station. Avoiding ob- servation, 1 watched my Parisian acquain- tance take tickets for Ongar. Ithen took one also. Following them to the plat form, noted that the young lady as cended the stairs wearily, looking neither right nor Left. The man, on the contrary, seemed Ill activity; he was we'll dressed nov, and had shaved off his untidy light beard, wearing black moustache instead dyed. ot course.
 They entered carriage l its neighbor, and the train started. Beyond Stratioyd, Essex begins to get pretty, and at Ongar
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char and Grain.

each story of a soul is great; bnt who
Shall write it, for who knows what
makes the greatness?
Or, who can sift it and bring out the
grain,
Winnowed and clean from the conceal
ing chaff?
Who can the dross discover from the
gold?
Who can estimate the little and the lit
tie or the great
Even in one human word? Or who
shake out
The folded feelings of a human heart ?
Or who unwind the one hours raveling
thoughts
OF one poor mind even in its idlest day?"
'The balance of man are all untrue /;
His weights and eyes deceitful. He may
write
The story of a pebble or a rock,
The annals of beetle or a worm;
But the great story cf his own vast being,
The hills and valleys of his life, he can
not;
A life made up of but few short years,
And yet containing in its troubled round
Tempests and tides and changes, failures,
conquests
In daily hux and re6ux without end"
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But Milly had bruises to show, as
well as her torn shawl and disorder
ed dress, and in moment more the
old man was striding up and down
the room like a tiger in a cage.
"On my own land In my own
woods My own daughter" he
gasped, at intervals. And thenstop-
ped in front of her, with "Did you
say Gil Morse knocked him down ?"
eyes, father"
"And saved YEP"
eyes, father; and he brought me
home in his cutter"
"And | drove him away like dog
or tramp this very afternoon" roar
ed the squire. "I'll drive them all
away. I'll shoot 'em on sight.
They'll burn me out of house and
homenext
Milly's mother had her arm
around her almost hysterically, but
her excitement was calmness itself
compared to the all but ludicrous
frenzy of the old man.
Lack of love for his own had never
been changed upon him, whatever
were his other faults.
The events OF the afternoon had
not, moreover been of q sort to in
duce any unusual quietude in the
blood of young fellow like Gilbert
Morse.
His expected supper and evening
at Squire Van Vleeck's having been
so unceremoniously put out of the
question, his after-thoughts equally
forbade an immediate drive home,
for that would be ten miles at least.
Just over the hill, and less than
three miles from the Van Vleeck
homestead, was pleasant country
hostelry, and there Gil naturally be-
took himself for supper and horse
care.
This attended to, he said to the
landlord an old acquaintance;
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Continued nert a0eek.
An Endless Snake.

One day last summer, while the
U. S. troops were being brought into
Fort Reno, l. T., to be ready to sup
press an outbreak among the Chey-
enne and Arrapahoes, they found a
great many snakes in the prairie
grass. In one day the soldiers kill
ed thirteen large rattlesnakes. A
young cavalry officer gave his ex-
perience with an unusual specimen
of the snake family. After goingin-
to camp about dark, he started for
the spring in little ravine near by.
When not far from the ravine he saw
the object, which was about an inch
in diameter of Shiny green color,
dragging its length across his path
with a rapid movement. Quick as
a flash he drew his sabre and slash
ed itin two. This only had the
effect of qnickeningit in its mad race
for the ravine. He made another
and another slash, cutting off two or
three feet a number of times, but
still was not able to find its head OF
check its speed until he got to the
edge of the ravine, when he saw, just
below him one of the company
horses, whose lariat he had been
chopping.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

An exchange contains an article
headed "How Journalist Out-wit-
ted a Queen The journalist, we
suspect, swung the king. We have
seen it done frequently.
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100 Doses One Dollar.

Is inseparably connected with
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and is true of
no other medicine. 1t is an unan-
swerable argument as to strength
and economy, while thousands testi-
fly to its superior blood-purifying
and strengthening qualities. A bot
tie of Hoods Sarsaparilla contains
100 doses and will last Il month,
while others will average to last not
over week. Hence for economy,
buy only Hoods Sarsaparilla.
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Editors on Horseback.

One or two of the newspaper men
who went up into Montana to write
up Gaul's version of the battle ofthe
Little Big Horn, at which ten years
ago, General Custer and his entire
command were killed, were not the
most expert riders in the world, even
when in practice, and had not been
on horse for many years. They
did not feel perfectly at home in the
saddle. In fact they felt just about
as awkward as they looked. The
200 members ofthe party were oblig-
ed to go from Fort Custer and over
the battle field on horses.
The newspaper men were close up
to Chief Gaul as the latter rode over
the battle ground and pointed out
where the Indians and Clusters COM
mand were first located, in fact mar
reted his version of the great massa-
ere. The journalistic riders were
not alone. They were attended by
orderlies from the fort, who followed
very close behind them.
II wonder" said one of the news
paper men, "why those soldiers
stick so close to us?"
"a courtesy to the press" replied
q second.
Nothing of the kind gentlemen" "
remarked an old army officer. "We
are afraid you might fall off, and
directed the orderlies to watch close
ly, so as to prevent such an accident" "
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-31
PAPER MACHE.
How This Material IL Made and the Pur-
poses for Which 1t Is Used.

How This Material is Made and the Pur-
poses for Which 1t Is Used.
The name papier machc is applied to
paper pulp mixed with glue and dried.
or paper sheets pasted together and
nodded. The cheaper articles of papicr
mache are made of paper reduced to q
pulp with water and glue and prcssedin
oiled molds. Better articles are pro-
duccd by pasting together sheets of
paper, and when a proper degree of
thickness is attained it is pressed into
the shape desired. When moist this
substance may be made to take any
form and when dry may be planed into
any shape. 1t may then be vanished.
several coats being applied. and any in
egualit;es remaining rubbed off with
pumice stone. If ornamcnted with
gold, bronze powder, or colors thin
varnish of shellac must be subsequently
applied, and then dried at very high
temperature. A brilliant surface can be
had by polishing rotten stone and oil.
Papicr mache is much used to make
architectural ornaments, both for eX-
terror and interior decoration. The
sheets of paper. placed in layers with
glue, are pressed into metal molds for
some hours. Then they are removed,
and composition of paper pulp, mixed
quite thin with rosin and glue, is poured
in, and the paper impressions are again
put in and subjected to powerful pres
sure. This causes the composition to
adhere to the nodded articles and give
them the rough surface that is desired.
Papier mache can be made waterproof
by adding to the pulp sulphate of iron,
some of the silcatcs, and firc-proof by
mixing with clay and boraX, phosphate
of soda or any alkali. Papier mache
is the substance used to take impressions
from type in the process of stereotyping.
1t is also used to make cheap statuettes,
and also ornamental boxes. To initiate
marble, whiting is added to it in large
quantities. Chicago Inter Ocean.