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MORE OK WARD'S DEVILTRY. yean ol age, a lawyer of Hyde Park, Chicago, VOUX-YKAR AGO. yourself get chill orfaint then" he said hard struggle to us, and yon behaved and somewhat nervous in temperament. paper," was all he said as he pointed softly, standing over her, glass in kindly to me, I would have laid down to the check. Further DeTelopments In the Caae of the Prom Erery Other Saturday." hand. ^Z'^ my life a make you happy. And I Nw York Swindler{temples of His Again the door closed, and this time Last year, under the chestnut trees, She just sipped the wine, and put was ever^a true wife to you, John, you Book-keepingCol. Grant's Letter. he was indeed gone. Sheheard him go Settlers on Disputed Bailroad Indemnity Under thechestnuts white, back the glass, smiling gratefully. He cannot deny that. Do yon remember to his closet on the same floor and Lands. Two of us walked, two of us talked In the statement recently made by Ferdinand returned to the sideboard, swallowed when we kept our little shop, how I lock himself in that was a sign also VI ft. Would it were 'so to-night. Ward, which purports to be an exposure Washington, Special: Bishop Ireland, in the remainder of the wine, then sat used"to sit up till past midnight iron- she had learned to understand. Nothing ol the dealings of that firm and of company with Father Stephan, of the you shirts anAd an "mending I"wo were the voices, tremulous, sweet the men who made money by them, is some down in his old place by the fire. oi, remained but to do as she was .A^i: Catholic Indian bureau, called at the interior Two were the heads,bent low Just then the door was tapped lightly interesting and new matter. Ward declares your clothes? And the first time department on the 13th inst., to bid. After all he was master in his Two were the hands, together clasped,, that the $1,000,000 wffich he eays W. S. and an elderly, homely woman-servant consult Land Commissioner Sparks on the you were summoned to sit on a jury, own house. She might weep, remonstrate, One white as the flower-snow.*yvL.. Warner got out of the firm -was, in his status of the settlers who are on the debatable made her appearance. I was so proud to have you go. I implore, she could not stay WJmft opinion divided among a number of persons. indemnity lands of the Manitoba road. "H you please, sir," she said," without never told you that I sold my father's against his will, One year! But a year, when all is told, He says Mr. Warner in making an They found Gen. Sparks disposed to do looking at the girl, "mistress is watch, the very watch he left me, to Twelve months and a day! No more investment and receiving in return therefor Humiliatiou, mortified vanity and all in his power for the settlers. He said he herself again, and asks tor you." bu^ Yet my footsteps flag, and my youth seems ~._.~...u& your black coat, and turn you Out dismay were succeeded by other feelings. had. receiptspli.t vuviviu i receipt, would have that was sorry ndniiamnifiiorlimit powergeneraleprinciple the XLesaiane- cancella al Such a summons unwelcome like a gentleman. And now- up into nine other receipts each of which om On the whole, perhaps, her sudden tio indemnity +s should do honest 8 UD into nine other receints. eanh nf wViirV +i^-n ii x,., And my seared life feels fourscore. although it might be, was imperative would be signed by Grant & Ward. When Yet one tremor more as she got out settlers any possible injury I such departure would not create much 7- Wit+i, i .:Jrlooik. i at. _J xu. these receipts, or promises to pay, were returned a lingering the vision of the rest of the sentence cases all the power of the office, within talk in the neighborhood and in the Two were the hearts that together beat,' for payment they would bear the the bounds of law ar.d justice, life, youth and jollity left behind, Mr. And now, had you treated me with Two were the hearts, yet one kitchen. She was young and no relation. endorsement or initials of certain parties. should be extended to protect Harden followed his hushed conducttor Two were the figures that, interlaced, consideration due to a wife, had you Would it not be quite natural He gives these sample entries of payments the settlers. There are about two hundred i into the chamber of death. Strolled, 'neath those trees, in the sun. cared for me at all, I should be the for Mr. Harden, in the eyes of the to some of these persons. Irish farmers around Graceville in whose II. first to say to you on my dying bed J. McNamee, $334,940 Charles McNamee, welfare Bishop Ireland is interested. Beside world her benefactor only, to send her Those trees, those leaf-laden, bloom-strewing It was a strikingly luxurious room, 'Do not fret, my dear marry some $59,540 E.G. Clark, $111,540: these, there are said to be o\era thousand away? And certainly, as far as her trees, J. H. Work, $34,650 J. H. Work, $5,600 hung with rich arras of crimson silk, settlers along the road in the same pligh*. I good woman try to be happy for my That glorious sun of June! own feelings and inclinations were concerned, P. B., $77,450 Hooker, $2,200 J., Their lands are held under a contract from and carpets to match, in which the sake.'" Now they strike the golden chords of my she would rather be anywhere the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad. $520,560 Joseph S. & Son, $31,900 W., soul, feet sank noiselessly. On each side of Then she did indeed look at him, than in a house with the blinds down, The indemnity decision puts the $144,640 F. B. W., $84,600 W. A. H. Sound sweet on it love's own tune. the Venetian looking-glass were handsome penetratingly and with a startling and the hush of death reigning over it. right of the road to these lands in doubt. $34,650 C. P., $66,000. French candelabras supported by fixedness that seemed to search his The law clerks in the land office, however, In her heart of hearts, but for the errand, C. P. B. and F. F. W. are Charles P. Ah, leaves, ye fall, and grow green again, little Loves in tinted porcelain. On very soul. Clenching her hand as if found a provision of the law passed Britton and Frank F. Wood, two of the she was really glad to go. Nor mourn for the spring-time fled Jan. 13, 1881, of which Gen. Sparks the dressing-table glittered silver-topped between himself and her stood her creditors preferred in Ward's assignment. Ah, trees, ye bloom in another June, And. lastly that check, when she was unaware, that covers the case F. W. W., E. C. J., B.L. H.are F. W. Wilmerding, scent-bottles and a woman's small deadliest foe, she added: But the life of my life is dead! grew calm enough to think about it, not only of settlers in Minnesota, E. C. James, and B. L. Herrick. watch set with diamonds. The fire "Do I not know what will happen as altogether altered the aspect of things. but on p.il similar grants throughout W. A. H. is probably to be read W. A. P., had been allowed to burn low, and soon as I am put in my grave? In the United States. It is so precisely to She had no idea of Mr. Harden's real THE MESSAGE. or W. A. Parrington. only one small lamp lit up the silent the point that it will afford relief to thousands spite of your qaution, I seewell enough wealth, but the sum he had just given Of Fred Grant, Ward says (and proudces room and its solitary occupanta of bona fide settlers who have been who is waiting to take my place. Grant's receipts for the securities) that he her in lieu of a wedding ring seemed to worrying over their titles. It is as follows: worn, whitehaired woman whose life borrowed the securities of the firm to borrow Marry that ungrateful girl we picked her simple eyes enormous. Whatever i. slow-paced United States htatute at large, volume was nearing its close. money on, and invested the money out of the gutter. Ring the joy bells a happened, she was a great personage anhd 21, page 31. Be it enacted, etc.: It was midnight, two women with the firm, receiving the fabulous profits elder It was easy to see that, like her husband year hence at the birth of a son and now. It was characteristic of the girl, That all persons who shall have on it, as well as on money otherwise awaited different messengers under one th Mrs. Harden had not been born heir. No good will come of it. Conscience settled and made valuable and per as she deposited the check at the bottom procured. With an intimation that the to such luxury as this her physiognomy will crush you, unclean heart, of her trunk, and sullenly made lot manentimVrov7m7ntsupTnany"od"d-num- "contract" buiness was not unknown to as well as his own indicated a homely perjured tongue! You will tremble her preparations for departure, that some of his partners, Ward produces bered section of land within any railroad hours were bringing death to the origin. Her thin hands still showed when Death stands near you, beckoning this letter: she never for a single moment regretted withdiawl in good faith, and with the per- younger abridegroom. Thefadedmis- evidence of laborious toil. The heavy NEW YORK, May 17, 1883.Dear Fred- I as he now beckons me, and tremble mission or license of the railroad company the affection of this man or hat had tress of the rich parvenu's home had am going to Philadelphia to-day, to be back for whose benefit the same shall have been silk curtains of warm red, and downy in vain passed muster for his affection. Sheonly to-night. I have same contract [contract quilt covered with satin, were in made and in the expectation of purchasing lain down to die, facing the doom of White as the dying woman, the husband thought of his rough flatteries, underscored] money coming in to-morrow of such company the land so settled upon, strange contrast with the look of the leaned forward with a word of his unfigurative compliments, his all with the stoicism of the neglected and want to reinvest it. Don't forget it. which land is so settled and improved.may mistress. Twenty years of opulence exculpation, an entreaty for pardon homely admiration. But all these, Yours, and unloved. Ready to take her place, for any cause be restored to the public had never familiarized her with it. To on his trembling lips. But it was too and much more surely, awaited her in BOCK. domain, and who at the time of such restoration impatient to clutch at the gauds the the last, she looked, as indeed she felt, late. The force of e.bbing life had already the triumphant future. Why should may not be entitled to enter and Mr. Purrington, who is counsel for the a stranger in her own home. other despised, and to parade a spent itself. Mrs. Harden fell acquire title to such lands under the preemption she shed a tear for one who could part Grants, said: "Go away, Anna," she said gently homestead or timber culture acts, Coi. Fred kept a minute account of all his back unconscious on the pillow, and as from her without a handclasp, a smile, triumph which should have been her shall be permitted at anytime within three transactions with the firm, and what Ward to the faithful peasant woman who he caught her in his arms, he saw that a fond look? She almost felt that in dishonor, was her rival. Baid at the time This shows his losses conclusively. months after such restoration, and under had grown old in her service. "Leave the end had come. The faithful Anna time she would learn to hate him. A short time ago Ward was such rules and regulations as the commissioner She was a young woman of course. us alone." hearing his cry for help, hastened to True enough, punctual to the moment, claiming that Col. Fred had taken out of the general land office may prescribe, Subtler feminine charms than bright The husband realized at a glance the bedside to find her mistress dead. $250,000. I asked Col. Fred about it, and to purchase not to exceed 160 acres William waited in the porch what had happened. She had remembered III. received this letter: in extent of the same by legal subdivision eyes, rosy lips always parting in smile, with thebroughman' a moment later something, been reminded at the price of $2.50 per acre and to receive COL. GRANT'S LETTER. and a woman's trunk was placed on a slender figure, and audacious, girlish So enticing the warmth of that luxurious patents therefor. of something she wanted to say to NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 1885.Dear Sir: the top, a slender, girlish figure earing fur-lined cloak, so soft and easy ways, were hardly likely to fascinate a him at the last, and as will often happen Your letter asking me about a rumor that a small crimson hat with whitefeather, the arm chair in which her patron had Ward has stated that he paid father $206,- in the case of the dying a brief return man of John Harden's charactera Elections in 1SS5. and tight-fitting crimson mantle settled her, that Constance Emery telt 000 in excess of what he (father) put in the of consciousness was accompanied man who had risen from the meanest bordered with fur, stepped in, the The state elections of the current year firm of Grant & Ward, and paid me $250,- ready to drowse. But her brain was by a momentary recovery of door was shut, and as if divining his are not many, but some of them are important. 000 in excess of *hat I paid deposited ranks of life, spent his years in too busy with the future to indulge in physical strengthlast, bright, evanescent Following is the libt. with, or loaned to him Waid) has been master's wishes, the old manservant sleep. She must, would keep awake, money-getting, and shunned rather flicker of the flame of life. received. As to father's account, I have Arkansas will elect at a special election on drove the carriage swiftly, toward the in order to think out the future as it only to say that heputin the firm of Grant than sought good company in the true Nov. 10, an associatejustice of the supreme The servant withdrew, and Mrs. lodge gate. opened itself to her enlarging gaze. fc Ward $100,000 of his own money, and court tofdl the unexpired term of the Hon. Harden now beckoned the shrinking, sense of the word. To be put out of Perhaps the girl was not deserving ot rv. deposited theie $90,000 of my mothei's J. R. Eakin, deceased. Colorado will conscience-stricken man to her bedside. countenance by no one, had been a ($40,000 belonging to th fund raised wholesome condemnation after all. elect, on Nov. 3, a judge of its What the rich man did with his in Philadelphia to pay for the house supreme court. Connecticut will elect, Vulgarity may indeed be a piece of illfortune, leading maxim of the money-maker's They had hitherto been no leavetaking inner life from that time, none knew. 3 East Sixty-sixth street, $25,000 from on Nov. 3, one-half its state senate as much as a wry nose or misshapen career whilst therefore surrounding pale of the Long Branch cottage built while between him and the faithful Outwardly it was clear for all to see,. for one year only and the members of its foot only to the rarely endowed father Ajas president, $15,000 from the partner of well nigh forty years. house of representatives. Florida elected, a model of austereness, rectitude and himself with all the glitter of opulence, ones is it possible to burst the Ij XV sale of Anglo-American bank stock that on May 5, the members of, constitutional From the beginning of her illness, rigid adherence to duty. Mr. Harden he remained the blunt, plainspoken, chains of custom, bringing up and heredity. mother had owaasd some years, and $10,- convention, which met in Ta'lahassee on greatly to his relief, she had avoided made no affection of piety, of com ersion, 000 from savamgs from-her income and all Tuesday, June 9, and framed a new constitution homely John Harden of early days. anything approaching to close, confidential, as the phrase goes, lie did not advances that father had given heri, and for the state, and provided that it I u'-, He was just sixty, and the girl busied In the midst of foolishly bewildering talk, any allusion to the $150,000 he had obtained from Mr. Vanderbilt. take to reading his Bible, or excessive Should be submitted to Ihe vote of the people dreams of silks and trinkets, carriages past or the future as they more immediately church-going. The exactions of witih. such affectation of demureness Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1886. lo^a will and lacqueys, boudoirs and. fashionable concerned themselves. He conscience and custom in this latter elect on Nov. 3,governor and other state officers My father's expenses were about $ ',000 oja some foolish boarding-chool beadwork, ft receptions, she was aroused by had taken care that everything money and legislature. Kentucky elected on respect had ever been fulfilled by a month, $1,000 of which he allowed my could hardly be twenty. The Aug. 3 the Democratic -candidate for state mother for maintainingttheir home, $500 the abruptest intrusion. Rising to her could do was done for her. A London him. treasurer and rejected a proposition 'to he gave in -charity, and $500 he kept for paii- sat opposite to eac other by the feet, for she well knew who the intruder physican had been summoned in But in his lonely, remorse-stricken hold a convention to srevise the constitution his own uje but gave most of this away in must be, she was fain to clasp his consultation all the concern that decorum fee, only interchanging a word from widowhood he took to good company. of the state. Maryland will elect on presents. hand, to whisper an endearing word, exacted under the circumstances father1* incemp andlprofits outside of Alike in look, dress and manner, he Nov. 3 controller and clerk of the court of time to time, betraying nothing of My to greet him fondly as she had done had been testified by him he was constantly appeals, Massachusetts will elect on Nov. affected the air of a gentleman. As if the firm of Grant & Ward (after the $250,- iheir secret thoughts to chance eavesdroppers surreptitiously scores of times before. in the sick-room. But the 3 governor and other state offkeis and 000 was raised) was greater than the to challenge the world, moreover to at the door. Yet despite But at a glance toward her patron, solemn confidence, the final understanding, legislature, and vote upon a proposed amount he perit. Father made no investments say a syllable against his character, amendment to the -constitution of the her heart stood still. Clever she was wihileiin the firm except those the Supreme valediction that uch guarded speech, a quick observer he generally had to reside with him ptate pro\iding for precinct votingin towns. he left with the (firm, and Mr. Ward had not, feminine tact she po&essed in a might be looked for from two human some needy clergyman, or young man must have seen at a glance how it Michigan elected oa April the fusion candidates charge of the seaurities. moderate degree, yet she realized in a beings who had passed almost a lifetime preparing for Holy Orders, with horn, for supreme judge and regents of the As for myself, I took from the firm of stood with both the girl's flushed moment, without knowing the cause, together, had never been uttered. he took his meals and spent his evenings state sasaiveisity. Mississippi will elect on Grant Ward about less than I put chee and sparkling eyes, the man's the nature of the transformation that Nov. S governor and other state officers over chess and back-gammon. Now it became clear to him that they in. What Ididitake outuwas paid as profits nad come over him. She stood aghast, and legislature. Nebi aska will elect on Nov. look of suppressed satisfaction, told to those whose money was using, except He gave clerical dinner-parties, too, were not to be separated thus. The 3supremcjudgeandircgentsofthe state university. not venturing a step forward, lacking so much as it took to support my delighting to assemble round his luxurious opportunity for a last word had come, their own story. The dread messenger, New Jersey will elect on Nov. 3 part courage even so much as to utter his family in a becoming way. I had $57,000 board all the clergy of the? and she clutched it with almost frenzied of the senate and the assembly. New York whose name is Death, as he passed when I first knew Mr. Ward, now I owe name. neighborhood, well pleased also, in eargerness. The expression on her will elect on Nov go-vernor and other state $500,006 through his treaehery. through this hushed house, made way turn, to accept invitations to their face he could not misreadshe was office-re, five justices of the supreme court, He came close up to the table by I have nearly. every check I ever drew isa for a joyous successor whom, under houses and be initiated into what is determined to say what she had to and brh branches of the legislature. Ohio my life, a 3nll history of every transaction which she stood, holding in his hand a elected on Oat. 33, governor and other called good society generally. The say. She felt confident that death 1 ever entered into, and if anybody who various guises, men call Love. strip of paper barred with pink. state officers a n9'legislature, and \oted upon has any right to inquire into my world of course welcomed th& would afford her this graceconsent c' i Hairs "Constance," he said in that brief, The hand of the costly time-piece onthe two'proposed.amendments to the constitution wants to (know about -unjr or all of my millionaire into their ranks. He to hold aloof a little while. ate to the hard, unanswerable voice she knew so re1 of the tate, which transactions, my books a's open to them. mantel-shelf pointed totwelve,and might have married half a dozem "John," &he began,gathering fire and well, though now used for the first election of township officers and change If youae lit to make public my transactions times, to his social and moral the mere sign seemed to chill the air. force with every word, ail the pent-up time to her"Constance I cannot the time of the biennial elections of state with Ward, do sothere is nothing 1 advancement, had he pleased. From indignation of years poured forth at officenE and legislature to the first Tuesday marry you. I shall never mairy Mr. Harden rose to make up the fire, wish to 'covoriupon the contrary, I would the first, however, it was evident toall after s/he'ifirst Monday in November. Penn- the last, "I have had something to say like everything known. again. Here is compensation for a as he did so,' lettingtonegrowing han~ fall on that, whatever John Harden might "I have done nothing am ashamed off, sylvaffiKawinelettonNov.3,statetrea8urer i companion's~. to you for years past. Now I must "I is late broken promise." except that il.dealt with such men as Fish Rhode Island elected on April 1 the repub- do for the Church and society, he speak or not at ali." He turned up the lamp in order that and Ward, ,and there is nothing I am sorry lican candidates for governor and other and cold. Better go to bed, Con would never marry again. Clerical ladies "You ought not to agitate yourself, she might see what he had given her. fo for except the^uffering which has befallen btate officers and legislature. Virginia will stance,--he sai-d might get money out of him. No in a voice of tender Bessie," he said nervously "It will do There, it was plain enough, nothing innocent ipecple through my confidente Lu elect torn Nov. -3 governor, lieutenant governor, woman would ever persuade him to concern. you harm." could be plainer, a check for five thousand these men. was not aemember of the ,nd.attorney general and legislature. purchase a wedding-ring. These distractions The girl, allowing herself for a moment "Harm!" she reiterated with a gesture firm, but I foelieve I couMt have been deceived pounds. Wisconsin re-elected on April 7, without relieved the tendium of solitude, to be carried away by impulse, just ae my father and brother were opposition, the republican candidate for of contempt. You speak of harm The astounded girl was dumb, and associate judge cf the supreme court. and if he did not look cheerful,' iiad I been one of the partners. I can truly leaned forward, her bright brown curls to a dying woman! But do not interrupt he hardly knew whether as yet she 6ay that I regret that I did -not occupy the at least he invariably wore an expression just touched his scant gray locks, her me. My time is short." fully understood the meaning of the place nay father had in this firm, for I believe of satisfaction. He mit?ht well softly rounded cheek just came in contact Soooeas ot:Rptlblicau in Ohio. "John, I am not afraid to die. words. Something else he had to say, his disease was brought on and hie look satisfied! He was satisfyinsjhimself, with his own, lined and corrugated have never been what is called a religious however, unmistakably clear to the The Ohio election resulted in the provable death hastened'by the treechery of these in other words, as he thought,, A\ith care. "Should I leave you woman. I was never so tenderhearted election ofrtlre whole republic an ticket, purpose also. men. Very tifilty your friedtl, balancing his moral affairs, and \rntting alone at such a time?" she whispered. as follows: to the poor and afflicted as I "It will be better for you not to himself on the right side of the. Governor, Joseph! B. Foraker Lieutenant He said nothing, but kneeling before Mr. Ptronngton-said he ha* crossed out see now that i ought to have been. stay here any longer. I have ordered banking book. the amountilost because Gel. Grant had Governor, JRobert P. Kennedy Treasurer the fire, making it up after methodical But I have done my duty. As a wife, coffee to be readyby six o'clock, and mistakenithe,amant. Thecmoney which' of State, Jiohn CiBrown Attorney General, fashion, contrived at the same time as a woman, I have acted uprightly. the brougham at half-past in time to Col. Graffltiputiittto the firiauras distribut-! Nor was the widower forsaken in Jacob A. Kohler Supreme Judge (long to transfer from hie waistcoat pocket When the same moment comes to you, ed as foIltajVKs: catch the early express. William will moments of sickness or when infirmities term),T.J8L. Minshall 48upremeJudge (short to her not unwilliag fingers, a mincte when the door stands open before you, drive you to the station, and giveyou a term), W. T. Spear Board of Public Works, Col. Grant :$57,000 overtook him. The devoted Anna, Mrs F.SX Grant 6,000 .box of crimson leather lined with velvet. as it does to me,between life and dea^h, Mrs. Cramer. .7(800 Wells S. Jones. first class ticket. Mind and be ready.'' U.S GraEtn'ph'w.5,000 whose heart had once turned wholly T. B. Madary... ISyOOO Within gleamed a wedding-ring, and you know yon must go the dark The Republican pkarality is from 10,- "against him, whose feminine instincts Still not a word from the scarletcheeked, Mrs. Corbm 25,000 Total ii5,aoo and as Constance Emery gazed upon 000 to IS/OOO. way, can you say even so much for had revolted againsts the mortified, trembling girl. 9* this money "Mad ary gottock $5,000, a While no positiv statement caann be it furtively, her lover's face showed yourself?" sunamen coe slights put upon her mistress, now Had any one half an hour before as- and U. S. drant $2,500. The loss drove made ae *o\hepolitical complexion of the exultationddin equarin'VTt"'i"\ tolher own She leaned forwad, not looking ex meant everything testified even affectionate solicitude m"7r.iTn ..ic wrwau iiouooKingex- sured Constanc Emer that she .'Madary ceaay. Col. Grant deew out 15, legislature, fais more than probable that the ll,^er.,we.shallow tOOO as profits, leaving a loss a $100,000. for the changed repentant man. And nothing,s thi gisl the first glimpsg actl laty a him behinde could havand borne should thus stand silent and abashed Hepublicuub will ha*'e a goodPowell, working, possessed- ol mothing the rin what the grave was scorn. 'is iasurerthn Mr. Purrington ,.aid that t&ol. Grant's majority, whieh will re-election if there was one person in the world her wedding rina meant evervthins that better, but peering as if into in the presence of this man, she would a c: to"tfcei rH erageatthe time rti the failuce was something f John Sherman senate. A Colum- "that life itself could tmean. She was futurity, seeing, so he seemed to think nave i to whom he ever opened his lips onthesubject have laughed the prognostication to 1 terrible. Jfed&id notcareSor himself Sff n!^ of the past, it was to his wife'a Nbut only for ihis father. Herald: "It cost lh Democrati committee (concede the lhe Democratic committee, (concedes the her bs al alll she-set. sWvcof ofX k*r would giv store by, aanSd -.^u veile^d t*.^ from his own and from all mortal's A n.Il faithful servant and only friend. But with that quick, unerring instinct 0 ttOO.OOO lives tobu*i up his imputation, ejection of ithe.,Republiran state ticket by Tender her T'exactly" w'feat she wished to gaze. The meanness, the homli- Temple Bar. of the dull, the instinct born of .and now it is sail undone by this scoundrel." foom 15,*)GMJ tic 20,000, and thinks they fDecome. It wouldtbrow theresponst- ness of the woman vanished indeed fear and self-preservation, shenowrec 2t would havie^one'feard with Ward if Col. hf.ve oari ied tmMi bra nck-es of tits legislature. then ihility of her le own existence upon an another'ssyshoulder's, then. r,rrr,irta Grant had met Jiuc. Ward feared this, Gv Hoadley t!iinks '-tie Democrats may ognizeA ^u *4. i as1children'e mi the fact for herself. Ther A Georgia Samson. J--wa over anT ordinary naturem that heSomething dvmsr eves morean hit.* a.lirmar. would all proveJ ineffectual *3 had a powerful ij&jputy shew,!* accompany h&we sawd t&e senate. The rneKepubiicanexs-!j Republican ex bread-winninfroaffor relieve her the vvci**euw4eenare. VVMGI BUUUIUC S relieve ne iromtn indignatiothan personal feel[- was nothing she could sa to soften ptet of odiou burden of ing the born of silently him even wire she mistresy oto herself soften, was nothing she could sa turn 601 him in order -to protect laiKO. Ward ecutive Perhaps the strongest man in theState w'i .atliol.a enuure endurea wrong, 6 SSr hvTrS^mSfV^ sl PO^- wrong, almost flashed from blandishments, exhortation, Sai SJ2^iM" ws a great coward. &Vhen he ci*e to Mr. owiai 'i'-'vi mt is Mr. Beussee, the blacksmith o, oi.pj ~i riI de,._=tnhfe iS ~L~I i ^urauty^h SStSSiS^SSi jPliwintrton's office, -fitfon after tfoe failure J!.Tf at Mr. T. E. Birchmore's shop, Maxeys. mtr^^ ^^P her dying eye!' antdwas white,t almost women is made to do duty for spectral features. I no the in Ihesaid, tearfully: J-1-- I I He is about six feet ten inches tioi from all the doubtful1 doubtful counties,^ counties and dams to keep out the tides 'IRo you think fcne o3onel willpasmd me? tiorn from all the and jure d wife the outraged woman so high, stands erect, and his muic!ea I disserve to be gaaunjied. This .stentf is electe,d. '_. affection. ^The ring, short, was to have their representatives. They Something had happenedshe pse^Stf strong, and lieilldefend me.* much that spoke now to John Harden's claiaa a majority ae. joint Fallot, tutside of open wide the portals of A career after 1 prominent. He stands and with onehand vaguely guessed the truthto shut Haiiailton count*}'- guilty soul, as the voiee of conscience unattain-1 her,own heart, without sit, raises a hundred and twenty him from her, to harden him toward itself, of awful justice,-of awarding afole.as a crown. To the man also the aOCurder at Vatg t*&-City, Astk. her forever. pound anvil out straight for a minute, doom. ring symbolized the aspect of life most and takes a large cart wheel in onehand Whilst she stood thus, shrinking, irresolute, Death of CoL Ca&rJc W.trhompson, Kanr^r L. Barnetfe Gliicago fatally shot I I have been a hypocrite to you all agreeable to "him. In ne resDect, by one spoke and holds it out unable to get out a sylable, WiEfiam W. Morgan! Q*on ville. Morgan Col. Oar W. Tl^nnpson died at Wells, tiiese yearc. I have never cfiee opened money-Eiaking had not nsndered'him formerly lived in Big Sfcjeme City witih his yet feeling that she ought to say horizontally at arm's length. On Paribamlt county. Mini*. 31ho death of Col. my lips to you on the subject of your callous. To lfes mind, a aertain feminine mot&er.iwho was, foctwc years, landlady Thompson has awafcssed a deep feeling of something on her own behalf, another hearing of his wonderful muscular of the St. Charles hofeel. he is at present conduct to me," she went -on in a regret io the southern ptotrtion of Minnesota, typp ever remained irresistible. significant act told her clearly enough, power we went over to witness in .A-njelos, Cal. Baufcett, with bis wSJe as weHaserithhis frieswU ana .acquaintances sujpernaturally strong, clear voice. Of ideal loviinesc, of spiritual or intellectual were proofs still wanting of what was some of this modern Samson's and HttUeffcoy, lived in fchejiiotel, boardo elsewhere. There is, pejikaps, no single individual "But do you suppose I was blind or a iheauty, it was not ac all likely in Mr. Harden's mind. The rich furlined strength, and when we asked him with i&e Morgans for #bout a year. living south of Sib. Kauhwho hasfbeen fool? Those long, long vinterevenings cloak in which hehad so tenderly Whether apjr difficulty resulted from tbhe about it"Yes," says he, "I think I so intimately connoted'im Ihe g^^th centi^ I dragged out as best I could alone, enveloped her just an hour ago, lay on /former Mgiintanc or not Jhas not devdl/oped. W of the southern portion MiiuieBotfas he. gSS2 S^e S A am as strong as any man in this country. ^"CS girlhood, the easy assur- did I not know how they were spent Barnett claimed th*# he had done South-! yMUlg handsome, Jseckles the ground. In her startled surprise, And the paaple along the Gse ofthe I can take this anvil and throw by ywa I was not going to flaunt myself tthe deed iu seM-defense, and .did not d*a anc ern Minnesota, railroad feel th*t in kis it had fallen from her shoulders. She f. it from here to that wagon (a distance before the world as an insulted fibe shooting The pres et trouble death they nave lost a friand and benefas-' women. To surfam charms ofitook Or now saw him pick it up, and, with a of fifty yards) I use the hammer with ft mtfth Baruet* commenced .^rer a year tor. Thoughfcisddenlyand ffjoienthystnck-j manner, he was ^ver ready 1* do wife, tourt the neighbor's pity for gesture not to be mistaken, lay it carefully .rfyio, when tfc latter, with hfe my right hand, but I believe I am n down in the midst of bis oeighbors and homage. But the ring had other And the slights put upon me by my hpsband. folded,onhiswife'8 favorite chair childless.* Th S (WiJ?, boarded in .the hotel of jfoe former's Jwende, and at time when he Jw,d the Braver moaningu fm- im Hi fii-af stronger in my left. Here, feel of thisarm been W ft,,, ETo I sat alone amid all this hd 5a at the extreme end of the room. That another. Burnet**i wife had a, nete belongAnglic least occasion to Apprehend danger oft lis I S?I^iJ S^ and the muscles measure it if you show s hateful to me, with unspoken :marna cloak she was not to touch again. Then him which tfoe gave Morgan contrary L^^iismindwa^clear.histoitkunclouaed norniOUS wealth amjwsed SO Labori- want to. When I used to shoe horses curses ia my heart. What right had fcothewishennfhe husband. Wke trouWewfcich and he looked forth into the great tuture I he left her,in a moment more to return. I never encountered one that I led to the-feitnl act wasthfiimme^fateojntgrowt you to treat me thus? Was I the only witfc an unfaltering trust. To the mo-' ously lacked an heir. Might not Constance Emery looked up, and of Burnett efforts, to get could'nt manage. I could hold them one of us two to grow old and wrinkled? men* of hia death he was calm and serene young bloomingmake wife him thepronfoltehidj*r "fV*d fathe once more her heart stood still. He of children. unsigned this note back, but is supposed by many to AIsmi did1 even if they were wild. I have never our marriage was not blessed with he did not murmur or complain nor had repented of this cruel abruptness, carriage cloak lnied Jiav beep heightened by &u undercuraejit of i ft found a man that was as stout in tho children, the misfortune was mine as Dy this undeserved coldness, and was Th jealousy in regard to improper mfciimacy nernlef Mm ^L^tZ WuHM?^ I etched from the perplex blm. knewell that the end I plaC(J well as yours. These things rest with arms as I am."Lexington Echo. come to whisper a tender word in her clos between Morgai and Burnett's w$fe. Be Harden fetched from the f'^*bJfy aMe was nigh, and he waited like a hero for the the Almighty." this as it ajiy, Barnett appears to have ear, to console her for what he had l0 hour of his departure to eoiue. He was been smarting under some intense feeling of perhaps been forced into by a death buried with appropriate ceremonies at La' "^thrarefur, and bestowed it care- For a moment, a moment only, her The crown prince of Germany, fearing ex wrong done hjm when he wrought himself fully thfe girl's shoulders. He scene,- ,He came back to the table, CroBse Crosse., a very large nuaibsr o'* friandV pert burglars, put nil the family jewels and voice swayed to real feeling as she continued: a verv lnrtra niimhon nf frion/tc i fullv abon crirl'a fihrnildora TTA rjv to tlic QesDemte deed. IJeJs thirty-six in attendance. valuables in the vaults of the Imperial next went to the sideboard, and halffilling leaving the door ajar. bank in Berlin, before he went to Switzerland rS* a glass with wine, "Do not let "There was time, when life waa a "Take good care of that aieoe of