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PREPARING TO GO. that it be granted as a special personal flOHG OF THE INDIAN ,MA^Dir. an ventured to remark, as she saw but somehow as I got nearer I felt EEMMSCENCES OF GBAOT. favor to himself. In the January him making out the figures, "though faint-likeandwell, that cost me a I lTontreai Gazette. i An Aged Man Predict* the Day of His before he was inaugurated President, when J'"came here ,tnis morning, "it quarter. Still it helped mehelped Gainesville (Ga.) despatch .to New York moon, A Wooo-red ring Hung roun for the first time I paid him a passing Death and Arranges For Is. seemed but yesterday." jfJ. me a good deal. Well, let me see," she Times. A blood-red ring, ah me, ah me! friendly visit. He then said to me: Nyack, N. Y., Journal. "Then this is your husband's said again, and pulling out the old "He was the truest as" well as the I heard the piping of the loon, 'Longstreet I want you to come and Valley Cottage is a way station on grave?" said Carroll, not so much silk handkerchief, she untied from one bravest man that ever lived," was the A wounded lodh, ah me! see me after I am inaugurated, and let corner a few small bills and some I now with the wish to know more as the West Shore Railroad, midway between And yet the eagle feathers rare, 1 remade made by General James Longstreet, me know what you want.' After the change. Slowly she counted each to keep back the bitter recollections I trembling wove in my brave's hair. this place and Rockland Lake. when he recovered from the inauguration I was walking up the avenue piece, and laid it carefully by itself. over -which he had so little control. It takes its name from the hamlet, and He left me in the early morn, one day to see him, when I met emotion caused by the sad news of "Yes, that's all. I did think it was "Yes, sir, this is my 'husband's The early morn, ah me! ah me! the hamlet from the farm of John Ryder, a friend who informed me that the a dollar or so more, but that certain-1 General Grant's death. General Long- grave," shereplied andpointingtothe *The feathers waved like stately cornSo President had sent in my name who was long the most prominent street lives in a two story house of smaller ones, "and these are my ly is all,twelve dollars and sixty-five like the corn, ah me! for confirmation as surveyer of modern style about three miles from nftin in the place. On the 11th inst. children's-" cents. Well, I don't know p'r'aps 1 A fierce inu swept across the plain, the port of New Orleans. For several Gainesville, where, amid his vines and The stately corn was swept in twain. Mr. Ryder died, and under circumstances 'Are all your family here, then?'' continued never shall go, but it helps me to think i weeks the nomination hung in the shrubs, he was seen by the Times correspondent. Carroll, his heart touched once I may, some time. i that caused widespread com senate, when I went to Grant and begged They crushed in blood the hated race, He was dressed in a long more, now the unpleasant surprise was "How much do you think it would raent among the vilagers. Mr. Ryder The hated race, ah me! ah me! him to withdraw the nomination, and many colored dressing gown his over. cost you?" asked Carroll. died after prophesying for three days 1 I only clasped a cold, blind face as I did not want his personal friendship white whiskers were trimmed after the "No, sir, not all there is one left. "Oh, I don't know. I never dared His fold, dead face, ah me! that June 11 would be his last day on for me to embarrass his administration. pattern of Burnside's. and he looked We had but two when he went away to ask for fear 'twas a good deal. The blood red hangs in my sight, 'Give yourself no uneasiness eart h. Mr. Ryder was a wealthy farmer little like the stalwart figure which a girl and a boya fine boy. Thebaby Sometimes I have thought, p'r'aps I hear the loon cry every night. about that,' he said 'the senators was ever in the thickest of the fight and a high official in the Methodist he never saw, but he wrote often then, sixty dollars. Do you think 'twould have as many favors to ask of me during the bloody battles of the late Church at Rockland Lake. He was and always of coming back to see it." cost much more?" as I haw of them, and I will see that ATOUCHOFMTUEE. war. "Was it long before the battle that Carroll asked her the exact station seventy-six years old} and his ruddy you are confirmed.' "Ever since 1839," said he, "I have, you heard from him last'?" asked Carroll, she would leave, and the one to which cheek and clear blue eyes gave no indication "From what I have already told been on terms of the closest intimacy still struggling with his feelings. she would go. Then he thought a little, of approaching dissolution, From the Youth's Companion. you," said General Longstreet, in conclusion, with Grant. I well remember the fragile "Oh no the very night before Shiloh and looked up, the faded eyes to boast he had never been She stooped a little, and the few "it will be seen that Grant form which answered to his he sent a long, hopeful letter'twas so were so expectant, so mixed with a i a ill a da,y in his life. Up to within a use was a modest man. a simple man, a name in that year. His distinguishing locks isible beneath the deep bonnet good! andthen it was the last. Somehow, far off hoped-for happiness, that he l man believing in the honesty of his fellows, trait as a cadet was a girlish modesty few weeks ago he worked on his faim, I feared it was the lasthe spoke could not find courage to say one hundred 4dGu!d hardly be called less than halfgray. true to his friends, faithful to a hesitancy in presenting his own going out to plow at daylight. One so often of the babyandandso dollars. She watched him closely A faded shawl covered her narrow traditions and of great personal honor. claims a taciturnity born of his modesty tenderly ofme." for a few seconds then, as though day he returned to the farmhouse and shoulders, and this, with a calico When the United States district but a thoroughness in the accomplishment half afraid to speak, asked if it would Carroll did not look up. He had seated himself in an arm chair. When court in Richmond was about to indict of whatever task was assigned dress even more faded, completed her be very much more. stooped down again, and was busy i asked if he was ill he replied that he General Lee and myself for treason, him. As I was of large and robust humble attire. with the sods and stone. "Well, I will tell you," said Carroll, was not, but said, "I have plowed my General Grant interposed and physique I was at the head of "'Twas in that letter," she continued, reluctantly. "I find first class fare Her steps were slow, but not hesitating, last. Now I feel that as I have passI said: 'I hn-ve pledged my word for most larks and games. But in these after a little, "that he first with good meals all the waythat and judging altogether from her their safety.' This stopped the wholesale young Grant never joined because of ed beyond my threescore and ten the seemed to fear how his life would end. makes it a little larger, of coursewill indictments ot ex-Confederate his delicate frame. In horsemanship, outward appearance, one would scarcely cjood Lord allowed me, I shall not Somehow it seemed that he could not cost you about one hundred dollars." officers which would have followed. however, he was noted as the most conclude her aged outline was due to end that letter but finally, in one corner I live to see this harvest. God, Thy The flat bosom raised quickly, as he He was thoroughly magnanimous, proficient in the academy. In fact, away along the side, he spoke of spoke, and as it sunk slowly back, a I will be done." years. Still there was about her a was above all petty things and small rider and horse held together like the the names we talked of for the baby, resigned but inexpressibly sad look His farm work fell into the hands of worn look, that caught the eye of Jim ideas, and, after Washington, was the the fabled centaur. In 1842 I was attached and thenthere was'Good-by.'" took the place of the hopeful one. Before his hired men, and he mechanically receh highest type of manhood America has to the Fourth Infantry as second Carroll, and held it. she could speak, Carroll went Her voice faltered here, but the ed their reports. All day he walked produced." lieutenant. A year later Grant on, We may say, and without fear of trembling hands kept on placing the up and down the veranda, his head joined the same regiment, stationed "Now7, I will run up again on the i stones. contradiction from any one who knew sunk on his breast, deep in meditation. in that year at Fort Jefferson. 12 A New Knsrland Ghost Story cheaper plan." "War is cruel, madamtoo cruel," Mm, that in all Missouri there were miles from St. Louis. The ties thus He turned around a little, and again Carroll could not help saying, as the "I am tired," he would say, when The inhabitants of Seymour, Conn., formed have never been broken but few larger-hearted men than this same opened his book. Tw bills were there, sad story brought all that terrible past anv of the neighbors or his relatives and vicinity are much exercised in there was a charm which held us together Sim Carroll. But it was also true that his last month's pay, just one hundred before him. "It must have been very rallied him onhi^actions "Ishallnot mind over the existence in that town of which the world has In all that region there were not many and fifty dollars. hard for you then, and none to help live long. Soon I will tell you beforehand of a veritable haunted house, and never heard. My kinsman. Mr. Why shouldn't he? He had never you." the day on which I shall breathe who *ould be less charitable to their those who have occasion to pass the Frederick Dent, was a substantial given much to anything. Many a man my last." On Tuesday, June 9, he farmer living near Fort Jefferson. place after nightfall do so with quickened enemies, or, Avhen injured, longer hold "Oh yes, sir and then it camewhat gave that amount to a church or minister, called his family around him and sent He had a liking for army pulses and a fear that they may I had dreaded from the time he left. resentment. and thought little of it. He hesitated a servant after the farm hands, meanwhile officers, due to the fact that his son see something that would cause fright To be sure, they did not tell me how but an instant, then, tearing a Carroll was a single man. He looked preserving a calm demeanor. was a pupil at West Point. One day I at least It is believed that in the little badly he was shot, but oh, I knew' leaf from the book, wrote, i When all had assembled he said in received an invitation to visit his young for his years, for although he brown house where John Sullivan and I left the children with a neighbor deep impressive tones: "My friends, "This money shall never miss. Take it house in order to meet young Fred, and his wife were found dead last winter, was but four years short of fifty, one and started for the camp. When I and go to your daughter. Please do not ask my time is drawing nigh. My sands who had just returned, and I asked after having been undw-o\eivdfor came into the hospital tent he was saying, would hardly take him to be forty. me to take it back, or ever try to pay it. 1 of life have nearly run out. But two Grant to go with me. This he did. and at least thirty-six hours, there is some 'Helen! Helen!' and I thought he can sympathize with you, fori, too, have days more and I shall not be with you. Me had fought bravely during the of course was introduced to thefamily, strange and terrible secret, and that knew me, but he didn't. He had been watched by the dying. The very morning I have recehed a warning, and it portends the last one to come in being Miss war, and was a bitter politician aft^r instead of its being, as some supposed, your hi.sba,nd fell at Shiloh, my only brother saying it all along, they told me. death. My friends, I leave you Julia Dent, the charming daughter ot wab shot theie, under the other flag. i a case of double suicide, perhaps both the errice. After leaving the army Well, the doctor could do no more, with a life. I hope, clear of crime, and our host. Ilittleneedless is to duringthat say "Yours in sympathy, JAMES CARROLL." Sullivan and his wife were murdered they said, and so they left me with but of Gran the lie had divided his time equally between with a hope and belief in the infinite sawr we Into this he put the money, and rolled in cold blood. him. All that long night I held his locating long lines of railroad tenderness and mercy of the true and rest of our visit. He paid court, in it carefully. I hands, so white and cold, and I thought For some time past timid people living God." Turning to a farmhand, fact, with such assiduity as to give tine fa-r West, and shorter ones nearer "Here are the figures," hesaid, turn-' of the little ones, and of the empty have hinted that all is not right in the he said, with energy: "Harness up my rise to the hope that hehad forever gotten ing to her, "all down plain,so you can home. home there, andbut I cannot tell you! lonely little place. Two or three fainilies hoi-s.e and buggy. Do it quickly." over his diffidence. Five years make no mistake. It will cost you Just now he was on his way to a Somehow it all came back, every little have occupied the place since the When the vehicle was leady he sprang later, in 1848, after the usual uncertainties much less, I find, than we first supposed. prelmunary survey, which he. with thing he had ever done for me. tragedy, and they at once move out in unassisted, and drove to the little of a soldier's courtship, Grant Please do not take time to othovs, wore making near by. His assistants and away, and are reticent as to "It all seemed so plainI could see burying ground near by, owned by a returned and claimed Miss Dent as his look them over till you are on the had preceded him a few rods, the causes, only saying that they him doing up the chores at the barn I few of the old families in the neighborI bride. I had been married just six train." I and he was hurrying to overtake them, do not care to live there. Finally again, and then coming up the path hood. Arrived at the graveyard, he months at that time and my wife and when the woman took his attention. "Thank you, sir. 'Twill be a sort it transpired that the first family were with the pails in one hand and leading I looked around, and, runniug to a I were guests at tine wedding. The spot he was passing, and in which of comfort to know just what it will' annoyed by strange noises. The second little Walter with the other. When he mound where there was a pile of *Tte stood, was a small enclosed opening cost, though since you spoke, I fear family heard all sorts of supernatural came through the woodshed and into stakes, he marked oft' the space in "In 1844 the Fourth Regiment was in The pines, which served the purpose 1 shall never go." sounds, and so did the third the kitchen, I could hear his steps so which he wanted tobe buried. Driving ordered to Louisiana to form part of of a country buryingground. Perhaps "But perhaps you may. Sometimes family, and it would be extremely difficult plain, and the door open and shut S home he did not spare the horse, and the army of observation. Still later two dozen graves were in it, some things are in store for us that we least now for the owner to get a tenant. just the same rattle in the latch. i when his dispatchedsa house wa reached the imme1 we formed part of the army of occupation laegiected. some with bright flowers pro'&isely diatel servant Nyac expect. Ishallhavetogonow. Goodby, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Here, "Oh, I thought I should die! And growing above them, while othersa- and may God bless you." Very recently a young man was riding for a lawyer who had done legal business removed from all society withoutbooks when I cried out to him they told me few onlywere marked with As he passed the edge of the trees, along company with a young for him before. In the note he or papers, we had an excellent I must go away if I made a noise. So stones. These were all of a humble Carrol eould not resist the temptation lady, when she suddenly gave a shriek said he wanted to draw up his will. opportunity of studying each other. I kept htill, though it seemed my heart pattern, and near one of the plainest to look back. of terror and convulsh ely seized him i He also ordered the maneto undertakenagbrin I and every one else always found would burst. was the woman. undertaker with him Th She stood as he left her, looking down 1 by the arm. He hastily asked her Grant resolute and doing his duty in a "Well, along towards morning, as I The grave by which she stood, and at the smallest grave. After that she came, and jokingly measured the old simple manner. His honor was never what she meant, and as soon as she sat looking at his paleface, all at once the one which the stone marked, was a put the paper away carefully, and I gentleman. "Now give me your bill, suspected, his friendships were true, could regain her composure she said he opened his eyes and smiled, just'as Song one, moss-grown, and till very recently walked slowly around the graves, one I want to pay it now," he said to the his hatred of guile was pronounced, and that she saw the form.of a woman on he used to. Then his lips moved, and neglected. Close beside it was a after the other then for a moment undertaker. The surprised undert aker his detestation of tale bearers was, I the roof wildly waving its hands. I could just hear him say, little grave, and just beyond it, another, leaned on the solitary stone. He saw obeyed with reluctance, and the old may say, absolute. The soul of honor Her companion tried to make her believe "Y c, I have come I always told not so small as the second, nor her take out the old handkerchief and gentleman id the money down. The himself, he never even suspected others that there was nothing in it. but you I would comeback. "Now, where nearly as large as the first. i [i pass it over her eyes for a moment. lawyer came after a second messenger either then or years afterward. He she insisted, and still insists, that she is the baby. Helen?' Then I held my The woman had evidently been there Then she turned away, and her tottering had been sent for him. The will was could not bring himself to look upon saw the startling specter. He made ear close to his lips for a long time, some time, for little handfuls of weeds steps disappeared among the duly drawn up, and after the instrument the rascally side of human nature. up his mind that he would sift the but could hear no more, and when I were lying between the graves and along pines. had been signed, giving the proportions While we remained in Corpus Christi an mystery to the bottom, and the next looked again, he lay so still" the path near them. Besides, a small Some six weeks after this, as Carroll to his children and grandchildren, incident illustrating Grant's skill and night, company with three or four Carroll could not see the stone he handful of bright wild flowers lay even he invited the lawyer to glanced over the pile of mail left at his fearlessness as a horseman occurred. reliable friends, he visited the spot. was trying to place still he kept his 3y along on the centre of each. come to his funeral, as he was an old tent,asmall white emelope,postmarked The Mexicans were in the habit of While they saw nothing, they assert head bowed, and worked on as well as Just now she seemed busy rolling friend of the family, and also to act bringing in wild horses, which they at a town in Southern California, that they heard many noises that in he could. two common stones to the heads of as a pall-bearej.'. The lawyer laughingly would sell for $2 or $3. These horses took his attention. their opinion must be ascribed to "Well, I brought him home," she the unmarked graves. One she had assented to the- proposition, camenear costingmorethan one officer As he eagerly opened it, he noticed supernatural causes. There are but continued, "and when they laid him already placed in position, or nearly thinking it was but a whim of his old his life. One day a particularly furious the writing inside was less cramped few agncsstics and but a few more optimists in our little front room it did seem as ffOy&nd was now working at the other, client. Mr. Ryder then named the animal was brought in. Every officer and uneven than on the wrapper. La Seymour. They are mostly though the children would wake him, which was apparently too heavy for three other men he wanted to act as in the camp had declined to purchase "Dear unknown friend," it began, pessimists and many firm believers in but of course it couldn't be, and we her. When Carroll saw this, lie at pall-bearers. In the lawyer's presence the animal except Grant, who declared "can I ever thank you enough for your ghosts and hobgoblins. What will be laid him here. And that winter we once laid down his transit, and stepped he named all the other details about that he would either break the horse's kindness to poor old mother? Four the outcome remains to be &een. brought the baby here and laid it beside up to the fence. the funeral, and made disposition of neck or his own. He had the horse short weeks ago she came here, with a him. I was so tired then I wanted "Can I help you any, madam?" he his personal effects ajid. mentioned his blindfolded, bridled and saddled, and heart overflowing with gratitude to to hug the poor little thing up to me, asked, putting his hands on the top friends. Titer Snapper's TriumphA when firmly in the saddle he threw off you for helping her to come. Though and lie down there with them. But it rail. the blind, sunk his spurs into the we then fondly hoped she might be hurjgry-looking and unfortunate wouldn't do there were two left, but 'The woman started as he spoke and horse's flanks, and was soon out of i i On the following-d'ay Mr. Ryder sat with us for years to-day she is gone. sea snapper, with bloodshot eye- lay they must be fed. So I did the best I 'turned a half-frightened face towards sight. For three hours he rode the in his old arm chair on the veranda One joyous week of seeming health, and on its back on a bench outside the could for them tilloh, it don't seem Yosk oyster house, on the west him. animal over all kinds of ground, Newr most of the time. During the following then almost before we knew it she began so long! No, but then it is yes, it is through field and stream, and when I thought maybe I could help you night he got up several times, and to fail rapidly. We did all that side of Ninth street, below Locust, seven years ago to-morrow since we horse and rider returned to camp the with the stone," he continued. "lam his family heard hhn walking through could be done, but nothing would help says the Philadelphia Press! The brought little Walter here. He was horse was thoroughly tamed. For sorry if I startled you." the house. He was in his place in the her, and yesterday, with her head animal had been there for three days, such a little manso like his father!" years afterward the story of Grant's "32vcuse me, sir," she replied. "I morning, and appeared to be in his I resting in my arms, talking of you and a fit object for the attention of the society Here the wrinkled hands stopped ride was related at eveiy camp fire in 't'htnight I was alone, but if you can usual health. Toward noon he* called my father, she quietly breathed her fosrthe prevention of cruelty to laying stone, and when Carroll looked the country. help me, 3 shall be greatly obliged, his family around' him, saying: "My last. animals A crowd of children meased up, one was holding the worn handkerchief Lhottgk I would not wish to trouble friends, I am now going. Good fey all, "You will never know how badly we it by tickling it with sticks and throwing under the old bonnet, while "During the Mexican war we were you." audi God bless you." He then lay felt when we found she had to go, nor pebbles at it, and the hapless animal the other pressed hard against the poor separated, Grant having been made "Nothing could give me more pleas- back in his armchair, and, gazing tenderly yet how thankful we are that she came rolled its eyes around as if anxious palpitating heart. quartermaster of the Fourth regiment, reT at his family,, gently closed his madam," and with this the warmhearted to us to die. She seemed perfectly fo death to come and end its miseries. while I was assigned to duty as "Well, my dear woman," he made man came up to the grave, eyes. His lips nuoved in praver, and happy from, the moment she Presently a man with long hair and adjutant of the Eighth. At the battle out to say, "your lot has been a hard and with ease tipped the stone on one once again he opened his eyes and reached us till the last. She held of Molino del Key," however, I had occasion a slouch hat, accompanied by a lady one, and I am very sorry for you, indeed dsse at the head ot it. smiled, and again the eyelids closed the baby as long as her strength to notice his superb courage with asage green umbrella and a yellow I am. May I ask if you live near "What were you going to do with and all was still. Those around him would permit, and after that we kept and eoolness under fire. So noticeable dress, came ambling down tha- street here now?" those?" he asked, pointing to the thought he was steeping, but when they it near her. When shefound she could washis bearing that his gallantry was seeing sights. The man's eyes.fell on "Not now, sir," she answered, as smaller ones, evidently freshly taken oaUed him hedid not answ er. He was not live, it did not change her at all. i alluded to in the official reports. the snapper. "Hullo!" he exclaimed, soon as she was able to proceed. "I tjafc of the ground. This he asked dead.New York Journal. She only seemed the happier to think going' up to it. "Here's a snapper! "During the war my immediate command nurse some in the city. I could ill afford partly from a desire to further assist she came, and the more grateful to you What fun! And he borrowed the saaegreen had engaged the troops of Grant the time or money to come here iiert raid partly from an undefined for helping her. umbrella and poked thepoor fish but onceat the battle of the Wilder- now, but I so longed to, and lately I en. Nicholas Darnell, whodied near something that made him wish to ."The morning after she was taken im. the- ribs. thought so much about them, I had to I nsss. We came into no sort of per-- Fort Worth, Tex., recently, was a nofaable fcnow more of the humble graves and "Tliie great thing about a sea-snap- come. 0 sir, I had to come!" ill, she directed this envelope, but figure ia Texas history, having *their mourner. 8omti relations, however. In the per/' he continued, with amaair of wisdom,, Then you came here this morning?" finding she had not strength to *ntered public- life as a meeaoer of the Thank you, sir, but if I hasten, I 0f 1865, one day, while awaitletter sprm "is its docility." "Yes, sir on the four o'clock train." write, asked me to be sure to let you first congress" ot the old republic of thi*ik I shall have time. I wished to frotm General 'TherGrant, Gen- in know she came, and thank you for your a eral Lee said me, is nothing Then he adjusted his spectacles and "So early, and do I understand you Texas. He was a member of the constitutional! lay them along the grass, so if I never kindness. ahead of us but to surrender,' It was stroked the animal all over,, punching leave soon?" convention e 1845, and. comae again, 'twill show the plainer "To-morrow we shall lay her in the as one of the commissioners appointed it hs the fat plaaes. "I promised to be back on the next figured in adl imnortant vents. -where they are. Perhaps 'twould do little graveyard close by. We enclose to arrange the terms of peace that I Snap! train." nohasnn, sir, but it seems hard to a draft for what was left of your kind-1 A writer-an the Tnbuia?saysthat oa mefc General Grant at Appomattox The philosopher gave ai Utowl. His I "It seems a pity," said Carroll, with have them stepped upon." gift, and believe us, we deeply appre His whole greeting and conduct toward was firmly grasped! iin the snap- the evening of March 111 an astrology feeling, "that you should be denied even "li your time be short, allow me to ciate and thank you for it. Hoping us was as though nothing had ever the privilege of visiting the graves of per's mouth. The snapgwar clinchcil called at General Grantfs house to see help you, please. I shall be only too God will bless you more than money or his teeth andUhe man daiaeed. Pre* happened to mar our pleasant relations. him and! Sam the ex&et hour of ~4is your family." glad, and without waiting further, Carroll our poor thanks can, we are most gratefully ently the end! fthe finger eame offaiad I In 1866 I had! occasion to visit birth. He was not alliowed to see uhe "Yes, sir still I have much to be picked up an old basket and hastened yours, the man, cowered with, Wood, dashfrd Washington on bi^iness and' while' patient, hut prophesied that the general thankful for. It is a great pleasure to to bring the stones to the graves. to the Pennsylvania &jpital, wlwre there made a call ot courtesy on General PAUL AXP MARY BROWNEI/E^" woqttd not die ir* March, but snat be able to come here for a few hours In a short time he had them all there, "Indeed," said James Carroll, as he the stump vas trimmed and dresstsd, Grant at his office. As I arose to on certain days he arould be worse. even, to look on them, and fix them and together they laid them along the brushed a few damp spots from the He gave tite- name ot Joseph Magftn. leave he followed me *nt intoi These ii!ays were M&arvh 12, 23 2%, 28 up a little. Then there is my daughter, sides of the little graves, and at the writing, "and are we not all one family, said he was. 30 years. Id and livaS at and 30 and at these- times his ndition the hallway, angl askesh me to away out in California she is married fcSoot of them. now?" 304 Lociwt street. srasi accordance with theprophecy. spend an evening with his. family. I now, and just getting a nice little home, &.t tirst the woman seemed not a The swapper lay n the bench for thanked him, promising *omplianee, MILLARD GREIXEY. she wrote me. So some day, though 'little embarrassed at the stranger's the remadiader of tb* day. It calmly and passed a most enjoyable eveming. I I can barely pay my way just now, I |regence, but as he kindly assisted her President Porter, of Yale Oelteg^ is Paper made in 1433 was recently rolled tlue- piece of Mr. Maglin'ss anatomy When leaving, Giant agaim accompanied hope, by saving all I can, to see her *mth the stone and sod, a brighter engaged in supervising a revision of between its teftth, and after it had examined by a gentleman, ^ho says me into the hallway and said, again." took came into the inexpressibly sad Webster's Dictionary. The work is ground it all up sat there chewing the that it is in the most perfect condition, "General, wouM you like to have an As Carroll looked at the frail form, face, and she spoke freely to him of the conducted in his New Haven residence. end. It looked happier than before strong, flexible, of a pearly white amnesty?" Wholly unprepared for he wondered how she could hope even past. and has been in progress for several the incident and there was a humorous color, and on looking through it is this, I replied that I would like to to pay her way much longer. Just now Carroll for the first time weeks, although the fact has hut lately twinkle in its eye. An hour after the have it, but had no hp of getting it. s?en a water mark, beautiful lor its "Pardon me," he said, after thinking noticed the writing on the stone. As been reveated. President Porter occurence a sad-eyed oyster-opener He told me to write out my application clearness and delicacy. The paper is a moment. ''May I ask ifyou have lie did so, a change came over his face, came out of the saloon and uDaugeiousa pasted assisted by several gentlemen, among and to call at bis office at noon as white as can be desired, and has a much laid by for such a purpose?" ..td his lips shut tightly. placard bearing the word them being-Professor Ralph Williams, the next day, and in. the meantime he surface such as is not seen now. The "Oh, not much I don't know exactly Jj memory of Walter Raymond," it over its beneh. But the snapper's contented Frederick Allen, Yale class of '83,and would see President Johnson and question is will a moderr handmade how much. You see, I am unable -iron, "'who fell at Shiloh.iApril 6th, look did not abate. Mr. Dorsey Gardner, of New Haven. Secretary of War Stanton on my behalf. paper stand the test of an aqe to work long at a time. I hoped to 1862." Several months will be required for When I called he had already Mr. Magiinset up all night, occasionally of 400 ye^rs with equal results? The have twenty dollars left when I got Beneath was a simple inscription. i seen those men* and assured me that the completion of the work, and there yeUing with pain and wondering gentleman thinks not, owing to the back, but let me see -the fare was a -which showed that he And Carroll had I: there was not an obstacle in the way. what there was about a seasnabperto will be many more additions than in little more than I expected, and then presence of ehlorvde of lime in the modern Sought under opposite nags. have pjooipted bis curiosity.. the last revision,, indorsed^lny applitation by asking the coffee. Idi&notantendto getthat, article* ^t "It was a long time ago," the wom- "l* Ok ^-^Ja%wteaa,^'tlim*