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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Alas! Things got worse and worse
and one day. after ten miserable
months, he was sent for from the
works in haste. Laura was raving and
shrieking in the widest paroxysm OF
brain fever.
where are the children? Save
them from that man! Henry. please
take him five pounds-no, he wants
ten pounds now, and l can't get it!" !.
In such piteous, moaning ejacula-
tions she revealed the secret terror
that vas killing her. :
But perfect love casts out fear and
jealousy, and Laura's husband did her
40 injustice. Tenderly he nursed the
poor, shattered wife and mother back
to life again, though it was an almost
hopeless task with that nameless hor-
ror ever beside her. One night, when
she was a little stronger, he led her on
to talk of the past, and he was so low
ing and so pitiful that in a flood oflife-
giving tears she poured out to him
the whole miserable story. Then the
burden fell from her life, and she
dropped happily into the first sweet,
healthy sleep she had had for nearly a
year. She never asked again for her
~tormentor; she only knew that he had
disappeared from South Staffordshire,
and joy and peace came back to her
heart and home.
But one day, after the lapse of four
years, she received a dirty, anonymous
letter full of threats and ~insolent de-
mands for money. This time she went
at once to her husband with the
trouble.
Don't be frightened. Laura" he
answered. II know the fellow. He is
one of a gang of four who have just
come to Sackett village. He will be
in Jail before tomorrow night. This
time he shall not escape my venge-
ance."
He had scarcely finished speaking
when a couple of men a up to the
house, crying:
"Measter! Measter! Here be Dim
mitt's height slewered away and
there's a browning inn"
The iron master leaped to his feet
and vas SCOT following the evil mes
sengers to the village. He knew that
Sackett wa all undermined with pits
and workings, and it was possible the
whole village was in danger. The dis
aster was right in the center of it, and
he was not long in reaching the grea'
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

ATTEST sites OF the famous
hill. 1t had once been the residence
of a noble family. but it was at that
time only a celebrated school for
young ladies. The house itself was a
plain, substantial brick one. and there
were plenty in the vicinity that in
every point excelled it; but nowhere
was there a garden of greater lowell
ness than its high brick walls shut in.
This was especially so in the morn
ings and evenings, when the alleys
and the hazel walks and the woodbine
arbors were full of groups of beautiful
young English girls-girls with flow
ing brown hair and eyes as blue and
clear as heaven, and faces innocent
and fresh as if each face had been
made out of a rose. But even where
all are beautiful. some one will be
found loveliest of all, and Lanra Fall
coner was the acknowledged belle of
the upper class.
She was nineteen years of age, but
she still fingered at Nine. Mere's
school, partly because it had been her
only home for five years and partly
because her guardian considered it to
be the best place for her until she was
t~wenty-one, when she would receive
her fortune and become her own mis-
tress. So Laura remained at madame's,
studying a little, but still having a
much larger amount of liberty than
that granted to the other pupils. This
liberty permitted her to shop with a
proper escort and also to pay frequent
visits to acquaintance resident in
Richmond and London.
On one of these excursions she had
met Ernest T~relawny, and it is of this
gentleman she is so confidentially
talking to her chief friend, as they
walk in the Ion eliest part of the gar
den together.
Il am SO glad, Clara, that we met
him this afternoon; l wanted you sc
much to see Ernest. Is he not hand
Some?"
Il never saw such eyes, Laura. And
figure! And his stylish dress! Oh, 1
think he is so grand and so-well. so
MISUNDERSTANDING, as if he were a
poet or something"
"And then his conversation, Clara!
He talks as / never heard any one else
talk-so romantic, DEAR"
''Oh. l think you must be a very
happy girl. Laura! often wish l had
some one to love me as Earnest loves
you"
Laura sighed and looked up senti-
mentally.
You have a father and mother,
Clara. l am quite alone. Ernest says
that is one reason he at first felt as if
he must love me-"
"What would Mime. Mere say??"
Madame must not know for the
world. Clara. She would write to my
guardian. Oh, Clara, l am going to
tell you a great secret! Ernest and l
have determined to run away to Gretna
Green and get married"
''Oh-h-h-h! Laura, how dare you?
Madame will be sure to find it out.
She never looks as if she knew things,
but she always does. When are you
Going?"
Tonight. Ernest will be waiting
with a carriage at the end of the gar
den wall. ] nave bribed cook to
leave the kitchen door unlocked, and l
shall go through her room and down
the back stairs"
Thus. until the nine o'clock bell rang,
the two girls talked over and over the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

yawning chasm, where the earth had
given away and down which two cot.
tages, with their inhabitants had gone.
AS Don as the master appeared the
pitmen and ironmen gathered round
him, though all knew that succor CT
help was perfectly hopeless.
Where is Bumby??"
"Here l be, measter."
What mine was under this??"
"Dimmitt's, measter, worked out"
as it deep?"
six hundred feet"
"Dry or wet??"
Deep water"
The master looked blankly at the
black abyss.
Its the third browning in i my
time. T. last were in to Cavill's mine.
Six decent families went down at mid.
night; they were dashed to bits on t
rocks at bottom"
DO You know who lived in these
two c~ottages?"
Zone were empty, thank God. Four
strange lads that worked i Sackett's
mine, had t'other; they nobbut worked
there a week, they wor glad to get
shut on them at end of It."
do you know their names?"
81 know, measter," said Michael
Raine, the publican, for they owe me
for a weeks beer and 'bacca-the score
is set ag'n' John Todd, Tim Black and
Bill Yates"
"sBill Yates? Are you sure?"
Sure to certain of that name
measter. for he said he VOL come special
to get upsides wi you"
Then the ironmaster turned thought
fully home. and as he kissed his wife;
said:
bill Yates is dead, Laura. My
vengeance has been taken from me by
Him to whom vengeance belongeth.
You may rest safely now, darling"
but, oh, Henry, what a destiny
might have been mine!'
Don't say destiny Laura. Our
choices are our destiny. Nothing is
ours that our choices have not made
ours"
This is a true story, and l tell it to
many thousands of young girls with
Just as much earnestness as Laura told
it to her daughters, to show them that
clandestine love affairs are always
highly dangerous; for a passion that
is Graded in deceit is pretty lure to
end in sin or shame or sorrow.-Amelis
T. Rarr in n. Y. Ledper.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Women are Mndoubtedly the largo
majority Of the readers of America In
n % other country is reading 70 wide
spread in practice as it is here,
Mime. C~asimir-Perier is an accom-
plished charming woman devoted ia
her children, of whom she has two-a
daughter of fourteen and q boy some
what younger.
George Manville Fem, the novelist
of adventure, is now sixty-four years
old. He does not look his age, how
ever, for he has a tall. light, active fig.
ure, thick, fair hair and beard and keen
blue eyes.
Berry Wall now has charge Of an
uptown brokers' Office in New York and
solicits trade among his acquaintances.
The 'ex-king of the dudes" has devel-
open into a business man of consider
able ability.
While a student at Oxford Mr..
Gladstone was one of the competitors
for the Ireland scholarship, but failed.
''Desultory beyond belief" is what the
principal examiner wrote on Glad
stones paper.
"A brothcrly tribute which is credit
ed to the prince of Wales, is his reply
on one occasion, when he was asked
who was the ~cleverest woman he had
ever met. His answer was prompt:
''My sister, the Empress Frederick"
The only sister of Thomas Carlyle
is living near Toronto, Can. This is
Mrs. Janet Carlyle Hanning, the widow
of Robert Hanning, who came to Cana
da and became a railroad man after
having failed in business in England.
"A Partisan amateur book collector,
M. Georges Solomon, has the largest
collection in existence of the smallest
books in the world. In the entire list
of over seven hundred little volumes
none of them IS larger than one inch
wide by two inches high.
The new dictionary of the Bible,
planned by the late Prot. Robertson
Smith, is to be edited by Professors
Cheney and DR.. J. Sutherland Black.
Professors Toy, G.. +. Moore and Fran
els Brown will represent the United
States on the staff of contributors.
Prof. Guides book ''Caligula,"
which is supposed to refer to Emperor
William, has had a wonderful sale in
Germany. Over $50. 900 copies have
sold already, and three printing estab-
lishments are kept busy supplying the
demand. The work is now in its twenty
fourth edition.
The Third Folio Shakespeare sold
recently in London brought the highest
price, 81, IFS, ever paid for a copy of this
particular edition. 1t is stated in En-
gland that this copy is unique in the
possession by the seven doubtful plays.
of a separate and independent title
page, dated 1864.
-Behanzin, the king of Dahomey, is
said to have a high and intellectual
looking forehead. CLOCKS every inch
like a royal parsonage, and is usually
dressed in a flowing blue-and-black
striped gown, a Venetian hat and yell
low sandals. His meals are prepared
in European fashion, roast fowl being
his favorite dish.
Julian Hawthorne, who went with
his wife and seven children to Jamaica
several months ago, writes back that
he has concluded to pass the rest of his
life there. He is located on a planta-
ton near Kingston, and growing orange
and citron-trees and coffee, and incl
dentally writing something which he
hopes will interest our great-grand-
children even
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
RAILROADS IN A
They Grant the Traveller Abundance o.
Time to View the Scenery.

LIMO 70 Wow the scenery
A Boston traveller in Spain writes
"The Spanish people are the most am.
liable and obliging people in the world.
Their courtesy Is of a genuine nature
and touches the heart in the way Gal.
lie suavity never does. We have often
stayed at inns where no language but
Spanish is spoken, and, with a very
limited vocabulary, have got on ex.
tremely well, owing to the quickness
of sympathetic understanding and
pleasant tempers of the people. You
can not order about or bully even a
Spanish servant. They all are
conscious of descent from the old
Christians who drove out the Moors.
and that is. in their notion, a rather
more ancient and important lineage
than coming ove in the Mayflower.;
But call one of them you instead OF
thou in his native tongue, address
him as 'senor.' give him a cigar. If
you're a man, or a 'Gracias' for thanks,
If you are a woman, and the service is
faithful and devoted, almost too de-
voted at times for people not accus.
toned to take off their boots to have
them cleansed after a walk at ten
o'clock in the forenoon. Travelling in
Spain is a matter of increasing IA.
cility.
1.-The trains are slow according tc
our rushing American ideas, but why
should one wish to hasten too rapid.
l. through beautiful or pictur.
esque scenery? 1t is worth while
to take ten minutes to pass a love
ly waterfall or mountain gorge. The
railroads, and their slowest trains are,
at all events, a vast improvement both
in speed and in comfort over the dill.
gences of the days when there were no
railroads in Spain. For out-of-the-way
travelling they are still common
enough. In Granada we saw the dill.
gence come rolling in from Lanjaron in
the Sierra Nevadas one day, and il
looked old and time-stained enough tc
be the one that Granada knew. in the
days of Washington Irving, sixty years
and more ago. The first-class carriages
are all good On the railways; the Sec
ond-class vary, apparently according to
luck. from the quality of an English
fourth-class up to the upholstered
comfort of a German second-class.
For night travel land the long
journey over Don Quixote's plains
of La Mancha, between Madrid
and Cordova, is usually made at night
in the express t~rains) there are nice.
funny little sleeping-cars, or the pas.
senger may have a private belina-a
sort of half coach-for 10 per cent. of
his fare extra. where two people. with
traveling-rugs, may sleep in elegant
and secluded comfort. This is over the
Madrid, Saragossa & Alicante road, or,
rather, the Zaragoza road, as they spell
1T or the spot, and the initials of the
NJ, u. & A. constantly remind the
American who knows the west Of the
NJ, X. & T., though how perverse the
association which bitches the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas. even in thought, tc
the line from the wonderful picture
gallery of Madrid to the battle plains
of SaragosSa !'-Boston Transcript.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

The knight of rest slipped into the
backyard rs if he had been guilty of
some oftiense, and putting an empty
tomato can out of sight under his tat
tered coat. he approached the portcul-
lis of the kitchen and tapped on it with
his hai;dom. In response. a wiry-haired
girl, with n towel tied around her head,
made her appearance.
.'Well?' she said interrogatively, as
she took his measure with her eagle
eye.
81 just thought Ia strike you for
breakfast" he answered apologetically.
"We don't believe in strikes in this
neighborhood," she said emphatically
ab:i slammed the door with a bang that
hooked the dust put Of his toga.--De-
sroi! Free Press
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
A Night Alarm.

Madame Solomon - Laws amussy'
Isaac, Isaac, don't you hear? There's
somebody snoring under the bed. II
must be a burglar.
Mr.. Salomon-Hush! Rebecca; nc
noise. let him sleep; we'll charge him
for his lodgings tomorrow morning.
La Chroniuue.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25
Kind Hearted Maiden Fishing TO,

a stray penny in her purse)-'.I sup
pose you poor blind people feel your
misfortune keenly." Blind Mendicant
Yes, indeed. The Lord only knows
how I miss the pleasure of being able
to look into the beautiful faces of the
handsome and lovely ladies who are
kind enough to donate" Kind Hearted
Maiden FISHING out a quarter)-'Here,
poor fellow, take this. I'm sure you
are Observation-Disclosures Thomas
Cat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

$50 she Tilted you," said the sym
pathetic friend. Yes" Ibid she give
any reason?' ''She did. She said it
was because of her philanthropic ma
ture; that it was better to make a great
many men happy by being engaged to
them than to make one miserable by
marrying him."-Washington Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

why do you suppose everyone
stares at us 500" Madge-''I fancy
they're trying to read the cost Tark
that you forgot to take off your hat
Inter-Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Lulu d. George, a wall paper de-
sigBer in New York, drew a Chinese
pattern which proved SO popular that
30O,O 900 rolls of the paper have been
yold
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

Miss Frances E. Willard has re-
ceived the degree OF LID. from the
Ohio Wesleyan university.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-25

HIRTY years
ago there was
a grand brick
house, stand
ing in t h 9
m IL S t of a
sweet old gar
den. on one
of the pleas
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-11-29

field, are they to be condmnea to be
abused? Is condemnation or abuse
truth? Religion, and there are many
varieties. is a mode Of exemplifying
truth, but very often abuses it. For
the preservation Of the government
and ofssociety, it's right and proper,
without considering trnth, that the
citizens should abide by the laws
made by man, and they are often the
best modus vivendi. There is where
the distinction between truth in the
abstract and truth as laid down by
men, as they consider it comes in. Ii
it was necessary that the race horse
should be shorne Of his speed, that is
if the means justified it, it should be
done. So man without considering
the question Of truth in the abstract,
is deprived Of his liberty OF a portion
Of it for the welfare and good of the
society as a whole. The church and
the established religion Of a country
are the right hand bower Of the law.
The code of morals as taught by any
religion must necessarily uphold the
law of the country of its adoption.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-11-29

writer remembers well in 1880, when
at college in Boston, how the day
was celebrated. He was member
of the Y. N. G Y. gymnasium, ana
often attended the lectures in the
main hall, which was great feature
both Of the Y. NJ. G. AZ and the
Union. On the day to which we
have reference the main hall and
stage were beautifully decorated.
Upon thc~tage were seated galaxy
of abolitionists, DR.. Hale, Phil
lips and other promoters of the war;
All of them discoursed upon the
causes Of. the war,villifcd and abused
the South galore. Mrs. Jnlia Warde
Howe, the author Of the s'Battle
Hymn of the Republic who had
sung it in Washington to Lincoln
and his coterie Of statesmen, was IN
troduced, and rendered in a charm
ing manner this beautiful song SO
soothing to Southerner. After vii
flying the South these martyrs OF
yore, ended by singing the Doxology.
That night the writer attended SER
vice at the old South church, and
heard repetition Of the same abuse
of the South.
I'ney celebrate Thanksgiving day
by abusing the South in places con-
secrated to the service of God, then
retire to their puritanical .couches
and pray for forgiyncss Of their sins.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-11-29
Cook, McRcrv ct al.

Cook, McRcry ct al.
The oh; Get of this suit is to recover
Judgment against / Cook, i v Mckcly
and f NJ Hardin, i'll the sum OF T3VO, WIZ
interest thereon from Octobe BIRD, 1857
until paid, and the costs of this SUIT, anl
to enforce the same By foreclosure OF INC
vendors lien reserved in deed, date'
October 23rd, 1889, from Big Stone Cal
Improvement Company and Intrusion
Trustee. to J l. Cook on lots II and Is o.
block 10, Improvement Cos Plat No: !,
Of Bic Stone Gap, Va, and affidavit hay
ing been made that J LCook,R W McRery
E N Hardin Alfred r Mullins, Llewellyr
n Creigler, D " Botts,J NJ Hardin, par
ties defendant in this suit, are non-rcsi'
dents OF this State, the said defendant:
are required to appear within fifteen days
after due publication of his order, in the
clcrk' office of our said court, at rules t(
be holden therefor, and do what is neces'
sary to protect their interests. And it Is
ordered that copy of this order DC forth
with published once week, for four sue
ccesiYe weeks, in the Big Stone Gap Posr
newspaper printed in the town OF Big
Stone Gap, in the county Of Wise, Stare
Of Virginia, and posted ut the front dool
of the courthouse of said county, on the
first day Of the next county court Tor the
said county after the date OF this order.
A copy: reste:
W. +. kILGoEE, Clerk,
Bv G. A. JOHNSON, D. e
II. G. Mellow ELL, JE., pa. Fvo lo-t.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-11-29
CHAPMAN WINS
1000 and Costs. tbs Verdict O.
the Jury in the
Celebrated Case of Chapman, VS. TIL
Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company.

One of the biggest land-suits ever
tried in South West Virginia, was
decided at Abingdon last week
There were about 200 witnesses. in
the case and the trial occupied more
than 9 month.
Mr.. Chapman contracted to deliver
to the yellow Poplar Lumber Com.
pany 50,O00,0 900 feet of logs to be cut
in Wise and Dickinson counties, va.
after operating five months, work was
stopped. The Poplar CO, maintained
that Chapman had been advanced
large sums Of money, while Chapman
claimed that the Co. refused to meas
ure logs, when delivered and made a
breech in their contract with him.
The suit was brought September
1893, in Wise county, but was re
moved to the United States court.
SIr. Chapman's attorneys we're ]
+. BulIitt, Jr., A. H. Burrough, Of
Lynchburg, Jos. l.. Kelly, Chase and
Dawron and Judge d. M. Fulton
The Yellow Poplar Lumber Co
was represented by Hon. G. I. Trigg.
Col. Z. n. Ross, ot~Ohio, Geo. E
Penn, Judge w. A. Ayers and NJ. T.
Browning.
Mr.. Chapman came to Big Stone
Gap two or three years ago and has
had his headquarters here ever since.
He is very popular with our people
and the verdict Of the jury was just
whatthey all wanted. Chapman
WILDE here very soon, and his many
friends viii be glad TO welcome bin
back.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-11-29
INCOME TAX NOTES.

Commissioner Miller, of tic intcnal rev
cEue bureau, quietly perfecti!nGs arrange
mems for tge execution of the income
tax provisions of the tariK lay, bat no Sc
cret is made Of the belief that the enforce
ment Of the law will be impraeticable
without large increase in The service.
1t is understood that Secretary Carlisle
will ask congress for an immediate appro-
priaton Of SOC, 900 for the employment OF
additional deputy collectors, etc Nor the
purpose Of putting the machinery for the
collection of the income tax into practical
operation The law takes effect January
next, but all the machinery, for its cn
forcement must be prepared in advance of
that date.
apteyaal revenue officials who have been
figuring on the sqrjeci aye INCLINED to the
belief that the congressional estimate OF
the annual tax on incomes at S3D, 6Ge,0
will be exceeded in the actual returns.
They estimate that the amount to be real
lied from the earnings of corporations
will alone reach 10000, 600, possibly So
900 900