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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-06

The ParnelD Com m issiOM's Date
 LONDON. July 6.-The Parnell commis- sion will adjourn August 9, and the clos ing speeches on the part of tho Parnell- ites will be made on that day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-06

Total at all lanGes. 1,U68.
 Against this the South London club put in total of 1925, thus leaving tho American boys victors by 43.
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DOES THIS SHOE FTP

We saw a poor farmer receive a check
for $500 Monday. It cost him a mortgage
on 200 acres of good land, worth 81, 600
He paid a 800 mote in bank" paid his
taxes, paid the loan agent $25, bought some
groceries and he had fully $500 left, that
he had no use for. He hadnever had this
much money before and he felt good. His
family were with him and he spent 500
more in fnery for them. He bought q
fancy cultivator and another 500 vas
nearly gone. In three hours he told us
that he had only $50 and she couldn't
see where the rest had gone" He owed
over 500 in scattering debts and of course
could not pay out with $50. He looked
at the c~ultivator and cursed. He rebuked
his little girl for telling him that he had
forgotten to buy a pound OF black pepper:
He cursed the loan company and offered
to take 81, 900 for his land. He cannot
He simply gave that mortgage company
$500 and perhaps, some interest in the
future. Poor mani He is just now en-
tering into trouble and the end is certainly
ruin. Farmer, does this shoe fit you p
Paris Tdtngs.
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A TRAMP.
SYLPH.

His once erect form was bent his eyes
and tongue bespeak intelligence. He
said: My home is thousands of miles from
here. I have travelled hither and thither
and am nearly through with my peregrina-
tons and sightseeing. I have thirsted
for k~nowledge-a knowledge of the world
and of the ways of people who inhabit it.
[ have traversed seas and lakes and gone
up and down great rivers. l have visited
cities, towns, hamlets, castles, palaces and
homes of the lowly poor. I have been
the guest of distinguished and honored
ones; whirled in the dance with bellies
and beautiful women in tilted circles;
have slipped wine at the festal board with
nobility and drunk the health of kings
and queens.
I have roamed the plains of the West
in pursuit of the antelope, the elk and
buffalo and smoked my meerchaum in the
wigwam and by the campfire Of the noble
red man. I have hunted the tiger in the
iungles Of India, pursued the wolf over
the fields of Siberia, chased the elephant
over the burning plains Of Africa and
speared the hipopotamus in it's native
rivers. I have harpooned whales IN the
OOuCu dC1uC, GnLoWu Iuc oOOuleFdnS WIN
the wild Australian and raced with the
riders of flying steeds of Tartary; have
eaten the pig and the puppy with the
heather Chinee, rode in the jinrikisha of
the japanese, captured monkeys and las
seed wild horses in South America, ex-
plored the ruins of ancient cities in Cen
trail America, revelled in the halls of the
Montezumas in Mexico, gathered gold by
the handful from the pebbled beds of
rivers in California, and wrestled with fur
clad seals on the coast of Alaska, but in
all my rambles I have found no place like
home-"Home, Sweet Sweet Home"
Thither my totterlng limbs are bearing my
aged form and I will be obliged to you for
a bit of bread and meat and a nickle to
help me on my way.-Erch0nge.
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raking the cream from the highest white
a
To Orion the situation was a terrible
one, for a reason entirely eXtrinSic Of the
question Of danger. He saw at once that
the Lily would out-sail his sloop, which
meant that n of two things must come
to pass very oon Lalie's gun would
kill every n on board his vessel, or Lalie
herself must be killed. Neither alterna-
tive seemed at all bearable. But for the
thought of Felicie weeping down below
and of the fate that would be hers were
he taken from her at this crisis, he would
have given little thought to the chances.
The sioop was sailing as well as could
be expected, beating against the wind to
wear round the western curve Of the bay
shore. Orion let his glance sweep over
the scene again and again while in his
heart memories and emotions were ming
ling in a bitter tumult. For the moment
ne felt himself a criminal, a devil who
had come into an Eden and worked it's
destruction. He saw the strange luxurious
cabin home of the Garcins as it was when
he first entered it; he saw little Lalie,
dark, sweet full of health and ~bubbling
over with animal happiness, and then
he saw Felicie going about at Rochon
place contented and serene. What a
change since he came! Had he caused
all this? Had his coming into this lovely
and beautiful nook of the South set SIMS
ter influences to work by which had been
engendered a resistless impulse of evil?
Every scene of the past few weeks flashed
before him with the vividness of reality.
He saw the spinet in Lalie's room, her
fantastic little hat lay on it; he heard her
singing an old French ditty. His rambles
in the verdurous and odorous woods, his
satisfaction in sketching scenes so new
and strange to him, his portrait and
sketches of Lalie, all these and then the
battle and his hand to hand conflict with
Rochon came up in his memory. 1t was
as if he were living them over again.
The breeze freshened as the sloop
passed from the lee of the bluffs and Or
ton gave orders to the sailors to keep well
away from the now fairly flying little
boat. He saw the shore begin to sink
and assume its true proportions, the masses
of forest with marshy openings between
taking on fantastic forms under the in
fuence of motion and the brilliant moon
light. The Rochon mansion, with its
thanking rows of out-houses, doomed
heavily against the almost purple sky, the
pointed roof and tower-like chimneys ap-
pearing to almost touch the low-hanging
clusters of western stars. Curiously
enough, Orion, at sight of the house, felt
a deep touch of regret for old Rochon.
| Somehow the man with his master will,
his giant form and his gusty humor had
impressed him and won upon him as some
old heather hero might have done. To
the young mans Imagination the doughty
and stormy old outlaw had presented
himself in the attitude of a figure of ro-
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days before she was able to resume her

days before she was able to resume her
course.
1t would not be a pleasing part of this
rapid and imperfect sketch if the suffering
of Mile. Rochon should be described here.
Her wound was deep and must have been
dangerous to her life under the most
rived at New Orleans in a delirium and
tor two months the balance between
death and recovery waved pathetically,
while Orion fingered about, like the ghost
OF his former self, a prey to all sorts of
romantic qualms of concience and haunted
by the memory of the strange scenes
through which he had been hurried. Nor
was trouble at an end when at last Felicie
was pronounced out of danger. The yell
low fever swept over New Orleans that
summer with dreadful effect. Orion was
one of the first to contract the malady In
the most healthful part of the city, and
when he arose from his bed his fine ply
sique was completely shattered for the
time.
If I now tell the reader that this story
is not iction-that it is little changed IN
the writing from the tradition which any
body may find On the spot-it will not, I
hope, detract from its interest. Orton's
letters, still in the hands of his descend
ants, agree quite well Gin their statements
of facts) with the legend as it is told by
French-speaking g~randmothers to dusky
listeners under the vines and fg-trees of
the west coast of Bay st. Louis. Strange
enough it is to find that Lalie Garcin es-
capped being drowned and was picked up
by one of her fathers boats. She is said
to have lived to a great age, probably a
little crazed; at least she was very eccen-
trio and a fortune-teller in her later years.
Orion and, Felicie were married, and
were afterwards for a long while residing
in one of the chief cities of Europe where
he was an official representative of the
United States. They kept the romance
of their first meeting and the Incidents
following it as much hidden as possible,
but a story so picturesque and so out of
the common order of life, could not be
kept forever from the public.
Near the site of the old Rochon man
sion the action of the spring or autumn
storm-waves often lays bare for awhile
the remains of a rude brick-oven, and the
legend runs that in this the old king of the
coast used to roast his refractory slaves
and cook brown his most dangerous mu-
tineers. A grim relic of such a character
and the few fragments of beautiful old
china picked up by tourists are the only
remnants left of the household belongings
of the most noteworthy outlaws ever
resident on the coast of Mississippi.
E---1
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| doubly dreadful, still she did hesitate to
| take a step which appeared to be the only
| safe one left for her. Ii the deadly enemy,
| whose shot was the constantly brooding
terror of the household, had been a man,
Orion would have taken heroic measures
at once; but to his chivalrous nature the
thought of killing a girl, even in self-de-
fence, was revolving, and especially so
when the girl was Lalie Garcin. More
over, he felt in a degree the justification,
from her point of view, of the desperate
course she was taking. 1t was impossible,
Of course, for a person like Lalie Garcin
to philosophize, she could see only the
facts as they appeared, and to her the
household at Rochon place stood respon-
sible for the desolation in which she now
found herself.
The Rochon slaves began to disappear,
betaking themselves to the freedom and
the woods. There was no one now to
follow them with gun and blood-hounds
scurrying after them and hurrying them
through marsh and swamp until they
were caught, fogged and brought back to
intenser slavery. 1t was but natural, in
deed, that all the negroes should feel in
sympathy with Garcin; many of them
Joined him on Honey Island, where they
became free-booters of the most desperate
kind. But Lalie Garcin, making her
home with a miserable old crone (who as
a fortune-teller and charm doctress dwelt
in a cabin in the midst of a swamp on
Bayou Galere) evaded her fathers au-
thority and pursued the dark purpose
which had become the one thought of her
life. The tradition of her killing Rochon
and of the other acts in the tragedy she
evolved is still the common property Of
the French speaking negroes of all the
Bay st. Louis region.
Orion at length prevailed upon Felicie
to set out with him in a small sloop for
New Orleans. He found five faithful
sailors to man the craft and preparations
went forward rapidly but with greatest
secrecy, as it was becoming more and
more apparent that sooner or later the
destruction of Rochon place would be &C
complished by Garcin and his coadjutors.
Indeed it had come to Orton's ears, and
he felt the force of it, that Garcin now
thought Orton's mission, instead of being
directed against Rochon, had been for his
own destruction, and that in fact the
young artist had treacherously connived
at Rochon's murderous raid upon his
premises. Such a condition of things left
Orion no alternative but flight and ever
this would be attended by extreme dan
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gers. Anything, however, was preferable
to the awful suspense, doubt and dread
that hung about the place; it was as if an
invisible and invulnerable foe were be-
hind every tuft of palmetto or yelled by
every festoon of Spanish moss in all the
forest.
Felicie Rochon had been reared in the
midst of startling incidents and lawless
proceedings, but she had seen very little
of the worst features of the life around
her, no had she ever before felt the pres
ence of real danger to herself. At first
she was dazed and helpless under the
effect of old Rochon's shocking death and
even the attempt upon her own life
scarcely reused her to a full realization Of
her situation. It was not till a second
shot aimed at her had grazed Orton's
temple, as they were walking through an
open hall, that she became quite willing
to sail for New Orleans and leave behind
h%erforever the dreary, shady, bird-haunted
and bloom-covered old home by the bay.
They embarked at midnight, just as the
moon, a heavy silver crescent, had cut
through a bank of scudding gray clouds.
Their little sloop already had her canvas
up and although the wind was not favor
able they hoped to make their way out of
the bay before daylight.
Rocking idly on the water near by lay
the little white sallboat which had at
tracted Orton's attention on the day Of
his arrival, The yellow stern-board with
its delicate lily cleaned brightly under
the moons rays. 1t wa a beautiful YES
sci, graceful in lines as a swan, riding the
bubbling waves with a lightness that fore
said the speed with which it could sail.
This boat had been Felicie's own and to
her it was as dear as if it had been en-
dowed with life and with the power to
return her affection. AS the sloop's sail
began to draw and the vessel to move
slowly away, the girl stretched forth her
hands owe the gunwale as if to take the
little craft in her arms.
"My beautiful Lily" she murmured,
and my dear old homel"
Orion had discovered before this that
it was the little sailboat and not Mile. Ro-
chon that had real title to the name of
The Lily of Rochon. In truth he had
found out that nearly everything that
Victor had told him was merest fiction
woven out of the plentiful films of the
| Creole Imagination.
The lovers stood upon deck watching
the familiar landscape on shore fall slowly
away from them. It would seem scarcely
reasonable that, at such a moment and
under such a stress of circumstances,
Mile. Rochon could regret leaving the
place; but the reader must not forget that
home, no matter how isolated or how
different from any other, has about it the
Ti?aring imagination of s~acredness.
EeanA cept despite the protestations and
Pes;So hon the faithful maid-servants
! Come below, RIcie," whispered Or
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ton, "you will be much in the way OF
the sailors here and they need all the
deek-room they can get"
She and her maids followed him down
into the cramped little hold called the
cabin, where the air was stale and close.
eve may have to fight for our liberty
yet" he said, and here is the only place
of safety for you. Garcin's boats and a
schooner lie just around the point north
ward; If they sight US we shall have a
chase for life. 1 know you are brave,
Felicle, therefore you will keep your self
command. Do not come on deck, no
matter what happens. Icannot stay with
you, L must help to man the vessel. Be
courageous for my sake" He kissed her
hand in the good old chivalrous way and
went above.
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CHAPTER TX.
A BATTLE FOR LOVE.


AS Orton's little vessel drew away
from where the Lily lay at anchor near
her own landing-dock, two persons came
at a swift run down the path that zig
Jagged from the top of the bluff to the
sand beach. The bright moonlight shin
ing full upon them made the guns they
carried CLEAN sharply. They were a man
and a woman, or rather a boy and a girl,
rushing IN furious haste to the slight plank
footway that led out to the landing-dock.
1t vas evident in a moment that they
were going to take possession of the Lily.
Orton's first thought was that some of the
missing household slaves had returned
and were DESTROYS Of coming aboard his
sloop and following their young mistress;
some movement of the girl, quick and
slight as it was, told him that Lalie Gar
Gin was n Of them. Then instantly he
recollected that the Lily was the fastest
craft on the bay and he knew that a very
dangerous and difficult problem was be-
fore him. The wind was contrary, making
it necessary to tack, and the bay being
quite narrow here, progress must be very
could not keep so close to the wind and
fly along as could the Lily whose mainsail
was now going up.
1t was but the work of two or three
minutes to put up every inch of canvas
and set the Lily bounding in pursuit, yes,
bounding is the very word, for a little sea
was running in with the breeze, foaming
and %chopping, so soon as the point was
cleared. On these short brisk waves the
little boat fairly ~gaIloped, the foam leap
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gdEtrg.
OUR OWN

Among the foremost of all lands,
Behold old North Carolina STANDS,
Colossal mountains pierce her SKY
Delightful valleys among them he;
Entombed beneath her surface deep'
Full mines of precious metals sleep
Grand, grand, magniicently grand
Her noble hills majestic stand;
In rich luxuriance covered DER,
just like the tabled field OF yorei
Ken the delightful scenery round, und
Landscapes more grand noWhere are Io"HO
Majestic groves of forest trees,
Nod gently to the passing breeze;
Orchards and fields in rich array,
PIenteous fruit and grain display;
OueIingevery want and need,
Rendering man happy indeed;
So LET all with heart and hand,
TTy to improve our goodly land,
Until each hill and vale shall be,
Vocal with life and industry;
We car then boast a State, l VOW,
x 10 times as great as she is now,
Yontb. noble youth, with hearts elate,
Jealous be for the good Old North State.
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| THE End

DR.. Hale's new story, 'East and West"
will begin with our next issue. The mere
announcement Of this writer's name is a
guarantee of the quality of this serial. Do
not miss it by allowing your subscription
to lapse. The label on your paper tells
when your substitution expires.
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Johnny was the son of a paragraphiSt
and when he saw his mothers sister, or
uncertain age, f~reshening up her appear
ance by rouging her cheeks, ne said:
"Aunt Jennie, you're decorating an an
tique mug, amt you?'-Drahs's MGgG-
ziae.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

THE LILY OF ROCHON;
A LEGEND OF Bay ST, LOUIS,
Maurice Thompson.
Copyright by the Author)
The Portland daily press., 1889-10-24
Monograph of Ellsworth,

Mr.. George ii. Haynes of Camden, the
well known tourist-wrter. has published a
pretty little monograph, descriptive of Els
worth and its surroundings. 1t is one of the
best works of the kind ever issued in Maine.
he fully describes Green Lake, the tourists,
anglers and hunters paradise. 1t is finely
illustrated by Harrie B. Coe of Portland.
Among the illustrations are pictures of Sem
ator Hale's magnificent mansion, the resi-
dences of Judge Wiswell, Judge Emery,
Hon. +. b. Aiken, e Fl. Greedy, Esq, Col.
G. G Burrill and Col. John Black, and sew
SERIAL choice bits of scenery.
MIR. Haynes is now engaged II the fourth
edition OF the Sportsman's PARADISE, the
Rangeley Lake book, the Fra ii. lin and Me-
gantic and Bigelow Lake region, and a new
work devoted to Dixfeld, Weld Pond and
the Four Ponds. All these will be hand
tist Harrie ID Coe .
The Portland daily press., 1889-10-24
PERSONAL.

Mrs. G. g. Kurdish formerly teacher in
the public school in Portland, returned to her
home in Eliot yesterday.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, d. d., while in
the city will be the guest Of Mr.. ana Mrs.
Charles B. Strout of State street.
Rev. e. o. Stevens and family, returning
to Burmah. sail with other missionaries from
New York on the Germanic, Wednesday, Oc-
tober %.
The funeral services of the late Mr.. Or
vile Woodsome took place from his late res
idence, 652 East Sixth street, South Boston,
on Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. j..
]. Lewis Of the Broadway Universalist So
ciety. Of which the deceased was member.
Mr.. Woodsome died very suddenly of heart
disease at an early hour on Saturday morn
ing. He wos of the firm of R. g. o. Wood
some, truckmen. He was a native of Water.
boro but had lived In South Boston for many
years. He was 46 years Of age, and leaves a
widow and four children. The burial was
at Mount Hope.
The Portland daily press., 1889-10-24
Lease of the Northern Road.

At a meeting Of the directors of the North
ern Railroad, held in Boston Tuesday, the
report of special committee was adopted
by the full board providing for the leasing
eff the road to the Boston & Maine for 80
years, the annual rental to be IS per cent for
seven and half years and per cent for the
remainder of the term, the lease to take eff
feet on January next. The Boston &
Maine directors met in Boston yesterday and
formally accepted the terms of the lease.
The matter will be sub nitted for the APPROX
al of the stockholders of both corporations
at special meetings soon to be called.
According to the News Bureau, Eastern
Railroad stockholders will soon be asked to
assent to the Northern Road by the Boston
Il Maine. Eastern Railroad stockholders
do not propose to assent to this lease in so
easy manner as they did to the lease of the
Boston & Lowell Railroad Company and
there is to be something said soon upon the
relation of the Eastern to the Boston s.
Maine system. Boston 6 Maine may get its
10per cent dividends and Eastern its per
cents 1-S is bid for the next Eastern divi-
dend-but Boston 6 Maine is shouldering
heavy obligations for Eastern and the whole
system, and Eastern is sharing in risks that
did not originally belong to it. There is on
ly one solution of the whole problem-con-
solidatiOn.
The Portland daily press., 1889-10-24
BRIEF JOTTlNCs.

Cold weather yesterday The mercury was
down to freezing. t.
We have received from Stephen Berry the
Masonic Token for October.
The Ladies Circle" will give social
dance at the Red Mems Hall tomorrow eve
ming.
w. d. Irish is covering the steps of the
city building with planking. preparatory to
winter
The Horse Railroad Company is laying in
its winter supply of hay at the Spring street
stables. ka
The repairs to the tower of the Fist Ma
tional Bank are completed, and the staging
is being taken down.
Captain Isaac Knights was displaying YES.
terday some fine, ripe oranges raised in the
town OF Deering by Morton, the florist. :
Payson Tucker has presented to the city
sufficient granite curbing to complete the
sidewalk on ST. John street from A to c
streets.
Driver Miles of Casco has built small
steam engine, which. when attached to the
heating apparatus, huns at the rate of 60 or
more revolutions a minute
Officers Firth, Phillips and Granville
Frank have returned from their hunting trip
at 0lamon and vicinity. They brought back
six deer as trophies of the trip.
Rocky Hill Lodge, K. of p, Woodfords,
will work the third rank this evening Bust
r ness of importance will come before the
lodge eand large attendance of its members
Is desired.
Fhetrastees of the State Reform School
visited that institution Tuesday on their
regular monthly inspection Hon. Stephen
w. Carr of Bowdoinham represented the
Governors Council.
Mr.. o. L. Hannaford. of Cape Elizabeth.
has purchased Of C. l.. Yates, of South
LimiDgton, his promising yearling stallion,
Wyoming. Although the price is not made
public, 1t is understood to have been a very
large one.
The bridge which leads to the top of the
new reservoir Is being removed, and here
after the public will not have an opportun-
tunity to inspect the vast basin. A fierce is
to be built around the reservoir~similar TO
that which encioses the ssyseryoir on the
Western PromeasfrsE.s when all the work is
-.coiaPlsted there will be but one entrance to
the summit Of the wall, through the gate
house on Walnut street.
The Portland daily press., 1889-10-24
Medal Found.

4. K. Morrill,, while engaged on the Stony
Brook bridge work. unearthed copper med
al. probably one of a species made and cir
culated during Jackson's administration as
a political weapon. The medal is about the
size OF half dollar, and bears on one side a
representation of "Old Hickory" with bis
drum and sword, and the inscription, 81
Take the Responsibility" in capitals. On
tho roToroo sfue is the inquire OF donkey
Win tne words, Roman Firmness" above.
the motto Yeti" below. and 1.-The Constitu-
ton as Understand it" inscribed around
near the edge.