o' his goods was gone. An' he never OLD CRIME? IS DEAD. "It reminds me," said one, "of how The Official Record of the J&el PARTIGEPS GRIM1NIS. Capturing a Schoolmarm. knowed what hit him." he looked the day he hung Seth Jones, lion. (This famous ballad was written by A. The speaker paused, expectorated the nigger." Boston Courier. "1.1 J. Green, born at Providence, E. I., 1802, freely and deliberately, smiled affably The publication of the official records wSw "Yes, said the yoong man as hfl The sheriff evidently regarded Brady -died in 1868.] on the listening crowd, and resumed. of the war of the rebellion is £!*-*& ZJ*&>.\ as a dead man, a man under sentence, threw himself at the feet of the pretty Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, "But it created no big stir in them $• "Now, you're not a bit afraid, Mollie?" whose life ease was shorter by weeks steadily going on and the nineteenth schoolteacher "I love yon and would We ne'er shall Bee him more times. Lord, no! Folks know'd in "Afraid—of what? I'm not a baby." Ti I than h?s late companion's. If a poll volume has just been issued. When JEIe used to wear a long black coat, go to the world's end for you." reason ol' Gabe done it, 'cause he "No, indeed you're a handled," mocking- of the five hundred heads then assembled All buttoned down before. completed it is expected that the number were terrible flush, an' his young wife "You could not go to tne end of the &^ could have been taken, there of volumes will have reached eighty, —she were a han'some gal, w'en he •His heart was open as the day, 'And if I've traveled all the way from Cincinnati world for me, James. T&e 'world, or ,|| were probably none who would not and these will comprise the full of'ial His feelings all were true married her—she come to church in have concurred in the opinion that to New York by myself, I don't know the earth as it is called, is round like ~V Jlis hair it was inclined to gray, a red silk dress as most o' the town records of the confederate ai?d the person of many aliases, in his desperate why I can't go from Leamington to London." He wore it in a queue. a ball, slightly flattened at the poles. rc folks rec'nized. Many a woman had aion armies during the late war. It grasp at liberty, had signed •Tea, but this isn't America, you know. a-wanted to buy that piece, but the is not easy to comprehend the immensity One of the first lessons in the elementary And girls are BO silly. I don't see what can 'Whene'er he heard the voice of pain his own death warrant. And he tbieven' Jew he axed too much fur it. of the works which the publication happen to you, unless you put your head out His breast with pity burned geography is devoted to the knew it. You might read it in every An' he sold it mighty cheap at las'. of tne window too far and get it knocked off. "The large round head upon his cane of these records entails. An average shape of the globe. You must have 5 line of his blanched face, in his shrinking Now, don't be dignified. I'm telling you this r$ Haw! haw! of thirty men are kept busy From ivory was turned. figure, as he clung to the law he to keep my spirits up. I'm afraid maybe the studied it when you were a boy." copying manuscript, reading proof 3Qnd words he ever had for all, "Thar come new people inter the mater might'eut np about my leaving you, but had battled against all his life, personified "Of course I did, but and indexing from one year's end to I can't let this chance for shooting slip, and He fcnsw no base design, place with new idees 'bout 'law an' in the quiet officer who could "And it is no longer theory. Circura' .the fellows won't wait Hello' here's the SELIB eyes were dark and rather small, the other, and at the present rate it order,' an' 'state development/ an' give him no protection. When the tram' First-class to London, guard Nobody navigators have established the iact.'r His nose was aquiline. is expected, that they will publish five 'night school,' an' sich, an' the sheriff in the campartment? All right, Polly, jump deputies passed with Wilkinson in "I know, but what I meant was 'or ^ix volumes a year. The worki3 He lived at peace with all mankind, in. Make my peace with the mater if Bhe is as were sheriff then he weren't 'lected —f custody, the condemned glanced only that I would do anything to please In friendship he was true, done in a fine old mansion west of the vexed. Tra-la-la," cned mj brother, giving no mo'. A new man come in once at his betrayer, but in the look yon. Ah! Minerva, if you knew the me a hug and a kiss. S is coat had pocket holes behind, white house, which has been used by an' 01' Gabe went on the there was a world of malice and exultation. aching void Hia pantaloons were blue. The door slammed- I was going to London 'the government for years, and. which 'quedow'—dodge, yer know. He's bin He passed out the heavy "There is no such thing a«3 a void, all alone, when it opened again. A man rushed •is now wholly devoted to this work. ^Jnharm'd.the sin which earth pollutes on it ever sence. He were run down doors shut behind him, and as the pell-mell—gun, bag and fishing tackle. James. Nature abhors a vacuum The files of papers are brought here He passed securely o'er, like a javelina in the brush three "Just in time, guard? last straggler left the room, Brady but admitting that there could be from the war department in wheelbarrows fie never wore a pair of boots month ago, an' he made what yer "Here's a shilling for your trouble. All turned to the sheriff and said huskily: such a thina, how could the void you For thirty years or more. alone, eh!'" and carefully searched, and the might call a good game fight but' "My hoss is hitched back o' the speak of be a void if there was an "No, sir a young lady, sir." 'matter needed copied by pen. It takes wer'n't no sorter use" Never is. Some courth'us sher'ff. I must be ridin'. S at good old Grimes is now at rest, This time the door slammed securely, the ache in it?" about a peck of manuscript to make say as thar were er nuther man it Nor fears misfortune's frown I wanter put fifty miles betwixt me key was turned and the guard disappeared. "I meant to say that my life will be one volume of the official record. it was half past four o'clock A damp, dull He wore a double-breasted vest, the kilin'. Kinder helpin' Gabe, an' an' this place by sun-up." lonely without you that you are my rft Each volume contains on an average afternoon I looked at myself in ihe httie mirror The stripes ran up and down. the officers is keepin' him low. I dunno. "Bide last, my boy," said the officer, daily thought and my nightly dream. opposite It reflected a tall, brown-eyed, 1,000 pages of printed matter or about Gabe never needed no help I "and keep your eyes skinned." brown-haired girl, with a pretty complexion and I would go any where to be with you. He modest merit sought to find, 3,000 pages of closely-written foolscap. take it." neat traveling dress. A very young person, Together the two men descended the And pay it its desert If you were in Australia or at the The work on the record in regard to eighteen at best, and a very strong and healthy The hum in the court house had He had no malice in his mind, steps and walked to the south side of North Pole I would fly to you. one "We, my bi other and I, had been to Warwick, accuracy is wonderfully complete. Nor ruffles on his shirt. ceased. Night came in the windows the plaza, where a powerful black I Stiatford, etc., and at the last moment Every name, whether that of private and the dirty lamps were lit. The horse idly champed the bit and moved he received a telegram fiom some college mate? "Fly! it will be another century His neighbors he did not abuse, soldier or major general, must be bidding him meet them in the north they had crowd leaned over the benches, and his head up and down in recognition before men can fly. Even when the V„ Was sociable and gay, spelled right and its proper initials formed a shooting party which was to start the from the dark back ground their of their coming. Me wore large buckles on his shoes, laws of gravitation are successfully! next day. My mother was London so we given. A single name often consumes faces glared steadily. It seemed to "He's a good uu," said Brady, stopping And changed them every day. determined, rather than destroy his pleasant overcome there will still remain, says' days of research and is found at the the lonely man, sitting constrained trip, that I return to her alone even then to stroke the tangled a late scientific authority, the difficulty end to be far different from the one it His knowledge hid from public gaze and still, that they were all rising to mane and purposelessly adjust the The tram was going at full speed, fifty-five of maintaining a balance was originally supposed to be. The He did not bring to view, miles an hour. I could scarcely, in the dim the celling to fall "on and crush him. stirrups. "He's'bout alll'vegot left." "Well, at all events," exclaimed the Hfor make a noise town-meeting days, indexing is very complete and full of twilight of the December day, distinguish the The women were paler, and the baby's His face was very pale and his lips youth, "I've got a pretty fair balance As many people do. rapidly moving trees and houses as we skir ted labor. The card, system is used in the cries were hushed. The officers were trembled as he climbed, stiffly, into along After a little, turned mv eyes on my in the saveng's bank and I want you work, and the third part of volume alert. When any one opened the S is worldly goods he never threw companion. He was a tall, raw-boned man, the saddle. He turned, as he gathered to be my wife. There!" thirteen took alone 12,376 index In trust io fortune's chances, with gray eyes and long red hair heavy red door and tiptoed noiselessly in, hat up the reins, and held out an awkward "Well, James, since you put it ir whiskers covered his face He wore a snooting cards. The work of printing the record He lived (as all his brothers do) in hand, the sheriff's head turned and hand. that light, I jacket and a loose flannel blouse. He In easy circumstances. is done by the Government printing he watched the intruder with steady "I did it to save my life, John," he fixed his eyes on me for live minutes without office, and the men in charge of preparing eyes until be melted into the crowd. speaking At a certain station the guard, our said. "Won't yer shake ban's?" Thus undisturbed by anxious cares the manuscript tell me there guard that was, got out and passed the window. Theodore Tilton's Family. The droning unimportant witness His peaceful moments ran, The sheriff stood a moment with I saw another official get on. Our guard touched is another volume which should have And everybody says he was stepped down from the stand the folded arms peering up into the dark his cap and boarded an out-going tram. New York etter. been out before this. This record of A fine old gentleman. judge straightened UD and looked face above him. We started off with lenewed rapidity. I was A yourA. nan with a head of light the Rebellion embraces both the official eagerly over his inclosure the young feeling almost lonely, and the shghest degrea "I've shook hands with a murderer wavy hair and clear-cut profile passed papers of the North and of the embairassed by my close proximity to my unsociable lawyers at the stove, pretty well filled afore he went through the trap," he STATE'S EViDEHSE. companion, when he got up from his rapidly into the Erie Railway office. South, of the Union and Confederate with stimulants by this time, took rejoined slowly, "an' I've clasped a seat, opened his traveling bag, took out a oair It was Carrol Tilton, son of the famous armies. It will, when it is complete, down their feet and stopped whispering of shears, and putting hia hand on my shoulder, many a hand as were red with crime, editor and poet of years aeone, disclose many unknown facts of history, said two deputies stood calmly the & Legal Incident of the Rio Crande. but the man as I hung were a brave and one of the principal figures in the and will form the most valuable lean, wiry prosecuting attorney arose, "I want you to cut my hair man, though he were a nigger, an' he Vram the Atlanta Constitution. historical reference book that has ever great Beecher scandal. He is an expert '•Cutyoui hair?" I cned, too amazed to be cast one swift, triumphant glance at never went back on his linen's. No, I The prisoner at the bar was an old ciazyJ alarmed. "Aie you Cut your hair?" been published about any war or any stenographer and typewriter, and the jury, another at the judge, one won't shake." "Yes cut my hair immediately." Jtnan with wrinkled skin and tanned period.—Washington Correspondence is employed as secretary ol the Erie more at the, nervous little attorney With a muttered oath Brady stooped "I will not'" I exclaimed. "Guard,- guard, of Cleveland Leader. company. He is a very steady and feathery hands. He sat in his low for the deEense, a last, long, searching come to me' This man is cia?y'" in the saddle and shot out into the I rushed to the door. It was locked of course intelligent young man, and spends all one at the prisoner, turned to the men chair and looked at the jury with haggard darkness. The sheriff watched him and the guard I knew, and who knew us, was \4 his time attending to his own business. and said: Advice to Young IVIen. musingly a moment, then, shaking his eyes. His spare gray hair rose miles away, having changed at the last station. The question is often asked, "What "Bring in Si Brady, alias John head, walked slowly away. "It is useless to make disturbance," said the Remember you have to work. straight from his crown in front, and Thompson, alias William Parker." fellow. "I intend that you shall cut my hair! If has become of Mrs. Tilton?" Without It was a cloudy ni^ht and there was Whether you handle a pick or pen, a you do not, I will kiss you •ISell jagged and tangled on the dusty The effect was like a knife wound on in any way seekins to tear open the no moon to cast shadows. On the wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging Trembling, I took the shears the man at the bar. His dark skm great wound afresh, I may say that •coat-collar behind. There was a nerv,-ous wide, white road that led away from "Wait. Put a towel around my neck there. ditches or editing a paper, ringing grew sickly areen, his small pale blue she is living quietly with her mother the town there was only dusky stillness. Thanks, very much Now, carefully." twitching in his tobacco-stained an auction bell or writing funny eyes turned inward, his lips drew For a half hour I cut away It had grown and two sons on Pacific street, The sand glimmered laint^', lips and shifty aspect the way he things, you must work. If you look quite dark, only the dim light ot the railroad slowly back, displaying the huge and the ragged fringe of hushes Brooklyn. She has never been in around you you will see that the men lamp illumined the compartment. amoved hxs long neck and turned hurriedly yellow teeth, and his powerful stood a dwarfed and silent want as so many persons have been "Is it all off''"' he asked, producing his glass who are most able to live the rest of to confer with his counsel. He hands gripped the chair spectator of the race against death. and peering at the cropped crown. led to believe. Mrs. Maree, her mother, their days without work are the men arms till his knotted veins rose in "Yes jwaa the Eocus of five hundred pairs of A slow wind went abroad thet is wealthy, and her beautiful home that work the hardest. Don't be "Not bad for a beginner. Now for my whiBkers throbbing rebellion and the wood murmured softly over the lonely has been her daughter's abiding place «yes. He seemed to shrink and shrivel afraid of killing yourself with work. It I can't shave, you see, foi my arm is creaked under the strain. As he sat stretches, as if crooning a whispered broken." since the great trial. Ralph Tilton, is beyond your power to do that. Men under their scrutiny. His face said huddled in the chair he looked like warning. Sitting low in the saddle, For the fiist time I saw that this member her second son, is a go-ahead young can not work so hard as that on the at he was a hard man a man of some tremendous incarnation of murder hung helplessly at his side. every pound of him disposed to the sunny side of 30. They die sometimes, fellow, and is employed in a commercial not9" "But I will not''" I screamed "I will crouching for the spring. His deeds against the law and its officers best advantage crouched so as to afford house. Her two daughters are but it's because they quit work at 6 "Yes, you will," said my persecutor. You faded wife half rose from her seat, the least possible mark fo»- a bullet •of lax regard for the rights of others will do just what I tell you Kneel down hero P. M. and don't go home until 2 A. M. married, and have five children of screamed faintly and dropped back. with slouched hat pulled over his in front of me and cut my bearl" of the intense selfishness so promiaient It's the interval that kills. Work their own. And Theodore? Where is "I will not!" I will not!" In strange perversity, she wore even eyes with quick glances roaming to gives an appetite for meals it lends he? In Paris. A frequenter of the "Very well and he advanced toward me. a part in the make-up of the true then a stained, discolored scarlet silk and fro, ahead on either side starting solidity to your slumbers, it gives the "Instantly I was on my knees cutting away cafes and boulevards, a prematurely ^criminal. He was a common man, gown. at the slightest rustle, glaring apprehensively at the forest of undeigrovvth appreciation of a holiday. There are old man, without money* or friends, An intense silence followed, broken at the black stumps of decayed "As close as you can my dear. You will too, of the lower order of mind, lower young men that do not work, but the an exile from his own land, a veritable find the shears sharp. I don't believed you've only by the the rapid beating of the trees praying that the dark order of society, which, by th3 way, world is not proud of them. It does left a hair on my head wandering minstrel, for his own prisoner's foot on the floor and the might last and no starlight come not even know their names it simoly This took me longer than my previous job. lie called—when he mentioned it at all gifted pen is still employed versewritins, quick rustling of papers in his attorney's stealing a hand down now and Lhen The beard was stubborn, and monsieur very I speaks of them as old So-and-So's although little of it finds its —"sassiet and in utter contempt. trembling fingers. A measured to feel the Winchester hugged closely particulai. boys. Nobody likes them, nobody way into print. tramp ascended the stairs, the door "Ail must go," he said, pensively all mv under his knee, State's Evidence One hand grasped with nervous hates them the great, busy world long love-locks and my lady-killeis. But swung open and the two officers appeared, sped along. The perspiration rolled doesn't even know that they are there. '.hold the scattering beard on his chin, "necessity"—drawing a sigh—"cruel necessity their hands resting firmly on from his freckled forehead and fell on knows no law." and his under lip was slightly swollen So find out what you wantto be and the shoulders of a figure between them. An Officious Young Papa. the wetter withers of rhe horse. The He threw me a kiss with the tips of his bonv do, take off your coat and make a and scarred from the discolored teeth All eyes were bent on him and he fingers. saddle creaked under the rapid motion, The St. .Louis Critic relates the fol which he had pressed against it at dust in the world. The busier you knew it. With shuffling tread and I shall always dub you Cruel Necessity and it seemed to the fugitive lowing true story of one of the mos -various periods of the trial. Over by are the less deviltry you will be apt to my own mind." hand to his face he was shoved that the roll of the hoofs might be His face being as clean shaven as mv implement eriective rebukes that a mild andlov ijhe rusty, unused stove in the corner get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, rather than led into the witness heard for miles. The cactus sped allowed, he bade me turn my back. -a group of young lawyers sat, hair the brighter and nappier your holidays, ly woman ever administered to vai chair. He was the pariah of his "I will not! oh, I will not!" I wept "You past him in grotesque shapes, and the thrown back to expose theirforeh ads, and the better satisfied will the and lordly man- Two-young matro elsss, the detestation of criminals will kill me! Oh, have mercy'" thorny overhanging limbs clutched at feet tucked comfortably on vacant world be with you.—Hawkeye. were in a horse car. "Well," said onje "You will turn your back immediately," said the frequent instrument of tLe law, him with murderous, detaining fingers. my tormentor "But first help me adjust my ^chairs, shirt collars and cravats awry of them "I wish Charley wouldn't alt the nameless vicarious avenger— «&—*-o~.—^» arm in this slmg and crumpled, eyes tired and sleepy, as if he thought that—that—because state's evidence. There was scorn of Like a whipped slave, I meeklv tore the linen "When I reach the Matte de Osa," What a Vassar Gir! Did. laughing and jesting in a whisper. him in every heart, loathing in everv it is my first baby I didn't know how handkerchief he produced from the valise he whispered, "I'm safe." into two parts and bound it about bis arm At The judge, old and hard with many look, from the judge on the bench tb A Vassar g-rl tells, in the Boston to take care of it. H6 never interfered The thickets has grown denser and least he was brave, for the diops stood on his winters, many weary miles of arid the small boy in the rear industriously Morning Journal, of the curious ways so with anything before. But the road harder and dimmer. He brow, but he did not quiver. cracking pecans. Only the district desert circuits, many nights with the in which some of the poorer students now when be is starting off in the "IN ow take this lead and pencil under my could almost number the miles behind attorney encouraged him with a boys, closed his ?yes and, by force of at that institution earn their pocket eyes, and shadow my eyebiows not too deeply, morning he begins: 'I wouldn't take him by the increasing wildness and smile as the disgusted clerk arose and but as you would do your own, my dear, long practice, heard every word, while money. "Some of the girls who come baby out if it turns cold and desolateness of the land through were you dressing for a ball profiled him the Bible to kiss. He hia thoughts were a thousand miles up to Vajsar,"she says, "are as helpless don't put that wool veil over which he was passing. His horse, as Itiembled. "Themaaman"' I whispered, touched it lightly with his dry lips and away. The blue flies hummed against as babes. They are the daughters of below my breath "Oh, the madman'" ButI her eyes again and you had he had said, was a good one, but it muttered an affirmative to the rapid the dim windows and the jury, one millionaires, and never brushed their did as I was bid One faltering look, and I better try the water in the bathtub was flesh and blood and was failing formula. From first to last he carefully and all, seemed intending suicide. A felt his arm ouid be around me. own hair or sewed a button on their under the strain. There was no longer before you put her in,' and so on and avoided looking at the prisoner, "Now look out of the window Mmd, if you pale, tired woman, with an old sunbormeb boots in their lives. They are only the buoyant feel beneath the saddle. so on." "Yes, I know," rejoined the so much as move that pretty little head, on my who, with rigid face unchanged, glared set crookedly on her aching too glad to have some one do these The gallant neck drooped the eais honor as a gentleman I must take my revenge. elder lady philosophically, "they all venomously at him. No leading questions bead and a snuff-stick in her mouth, were rigid and pointed forward. There things for them, and this is how the do so till the novelty wears off. To. were necessary. He told his lield a suckling baby and gazed steadily For twenty minutes (ov was it a hundred was labor the heavy breath and poorer girls make pocket money. hear the rooster crow, one would story glibly, rapidly, as if anxious to years'') I sac gazing into the darkness without. and drearily at the prisoner. fast coming exhaustion "in the weakened Last year a pretty blue-eyed girl came The lightning rapidity of the tram as we rushed think it was he who was doing the incubating. have done with it and escapefrom the There were other women too, presumably stride. Ahead was an elevation, to college, and stated during the first along made a leap through the window suicidal. I stood it as long as 1, inimical atmosphere that surrounded relatives, all weary, allinter•ested, just a gentle rise, and clothed with I thought of my mother and my homo, week that her tuition and board were him. could with Harold, but one dav when and, poor child, of my girlish BIDS and negligences and all dipping snufi. A hum tangled chapparal to the summit. paid by a kind relative, but every I was too frightened then to cry. too, he was struggling into his overcoat arose from the spectators, who watched penny for dress, car fare, and the Yes, his right name was Si Brady. "I will walk him to the top," said Etunned to make any lesistance. and leaving numberless charges about with flagging zeal the le^al tragedy He had known the prisoner long. He thousand and one little incidentals 'Look, my pretty dear'" said a gay voice. Brady. baby's food, and flannels, and medicine, laefore them. The blare of a brass I heard the window open, and a black bundle saw him murder the peddler, "Jew she must earn herself." He checked the sobbing brute, and and wrappings, I said verv fell Was I dreaming or mad' There, under fand floated into the room with the Levy." He shot him in the head Soon after her arrival the following plodded slowly upward. He reached the light of the little oil lamp, a breviary in sweetly and dutifully: 'You may rest «ries of hawkers on the streets—for it while they were walking side by side. the ridge, glanced hurriedly around, announcement appeared on her door: his hand, with downcast eyes and reverential easy, dear, while you are in town &t\ was court week and the town was full The Jew did not speak after the shot. air, was a young priest, the full flowing hung outlined for a moment against Gloves and shoes neatly mended for your business. I will take just a of people. Outside the sun rioted on vestments of a fellow of a Jesuit college. The He and Wilkinson divided the booty, the dark sky—and dropped from the 10 cents each. fishing tackle, the gun, the valise, the shears, the white sand and unpaved walks good care of baby as though she were^ Wilkinson taking the larger share. saddle dead. Breakfast brought up for 10 cents. the towel, with the bundle of hair, were all my own child.' -Your own child!' he and the weatherbeaten fronts of the He had given some of it to Wilkinson's gone and with them tho thief, murderer, assassin—I Two spiteful snaps of fire preced3d, Hair brushed each night for 25 cents houses. There was strength and hope replied, gaspingly. He looked at me wife. WTilkinson had also given knew not what he might have been. a week. two sharp reports were simultaneous he'J" and freedom in the swooping shafts of some of it to the woman. The red a moment, then he saw the point. He "Where is I said presently, hoarsly— with the passing. A horse in terror Beds made up at 10 cents a week. the heat and the soit breeze that came was it my own voice issuing fiom my bloodless silk was given by Wilkinson. He believed kissed me good-bye in silence and then, "That little freshman made just thundered down the road. So sudden hpsv "What has become of the man—the from over the leagues of prairie. the woman then had on the went off, but he has never since tendered was it that man and beast seemed to $150 the first year." continues the murderer? Knots of people stood in the dark dress. It looked like it. They told me any gratuitous advice on "You have been, sleeping dear child," said account, "and that paid all her expenses have melted into air. There was a a^jares, or on the corners, eagerly• 'diseasing her they had bought the goods. the father, gently. "No one is here but myselr. that subject." and a good part of her tuition rustle in the undergrowth, and the You are under the spiritual and temporal the progress of the case, arid Wilkinson had planned the murder fees." wind that blew softly was all that care of the church.' and had committed it unaided. He the ehances of the man who was on moved. No form approached the He smiled and moved a little. I recognized (Brady) had simply followed his leader. trail for his life. the lately denuded crown and rudely shaven dead thing. Far on the breeze came Death of a\ Remarkable Hen. The American Dukedoms. For it was the state of Texas vs. beard. The bandaged arm was hidden under the short, excited barking of the night his flowing sleeve. From the Boston Transcript. •Gabriel Wilkinson, indictment for Norwich Bulletin. "You lie!" yelled the prisoner, fox. A mass of vapor overhead rifted "Lonnon, sir! Ay, ay! all right, sir. Firstclass? The old titles of general and lieutemaoat fjnurder in the first degree. Among the burials in this- city re springing to his feet, his gaunt frame for a moment, and a star shone on Yes, sir one gentleman and a lady. cently was that of an old and honored general, extinct while the serious "Tell yer,"^ said one man, as the shaken with passion. "You did it This way sir," cried the guard. the hard face that was still forever. business of war was being transacted,, shavings flew from his virulent pocket Laurel Hill avenue Plymouth Rock yourself." I heard the door unlock, and two policemen rushed in. They gazed at us in blank surprise. were revived at the close-of the wwv knife, and he looked around in enjoyment hen, who had flourished ten years under For the first time Brady looked at "Certainly, your reverence pass by. There'sa Confession of a fault works more of his superior knowledge, "tell the name of "Splend," which is in order to bestow a distingui&hu'jfc him. "I tell the truth," be said. mistake somewhere. Where's- the warranty yer, he a hard old citizen, an' had orterswing. effectually than any mere act of penitence short for Splendid. "She was a giant rank upon Grant and Shermaafr' BUt'J "Your folks has threatened my life to 'Tallfellow in fishermen's get-up long,, and is always followed by forgiveness They're the tuffest crowd bird, weighing about fourteen Bounds, red beard, red hair, gun, vahses fishing tackle These titles iwere the Republican, duke* keep me from telling. I b'lieve they'll the county, an' that's sayin' lots. and a love feast. In general got on at Leamington.' By George! he threw and had made a big egg record. Had doms that we cave to our greatec thaa kill meyit." himself out the window." You uns don't recklect mebbe what it will be found that words, which are her owners been speculating zoologists Marlborousfrs or Wellingtons. When With a smile of triumph, Wilkinson Andthey rushed to the side of the compartment •ol' Gabe's in the hole iur, but I does. as it were, the minute-hands of the they could have sold her eggs for ostrich Grant became President, and Sherman sank into his chair. "Y'are right/' he I were seven years ago the killin' soul, are of greater importance than eggs to collectors without much muttered. "But this young lady was here all the tmae. succeeded bim, he toak tho title General, -were done, out Lord, it didn't make deeds, which only mark the outstanding Say, young lady, did you happen to see a tali danger of being detected. She knew It was some hours later when the and Sheridan stepped up into fellow answering this description get on at xnuch stir in them days. dates. In the tender relations jury, pale but a unit, brought their when it was meal time as well as a that of lieutenant General. But that Leamington? TheguarddaaagedatA. He "He were a Jew peddler, an' he ot cultured men it is but seldom regular boarder, and came regularly announcement of guilty, as charged. was as far as the common consent of 18 iitaibiiaJ, tiio lid.iiuii.mg ud,^ju. uieiii x.« came 'long hyar with a big pack o' that deeds can compensate for words scooped Ltst week with £10,( 00. He was ti aced The condemned stood the verdict and for her food, calling for her" meat public sentiment, as represented in to Leamington torday they wired us from there. notions. He sold goods right in this or a stone for offences of speech. Besides, once a day. Of a brood of forty she sentence unmoved. He seemed to Congress, proposed that thedukedoms Say, your reverence, didyoskhappon— Hellow! town, Jots o' 'em, an' one mornin' he we owe to all men the same breathe more freely now that the strain was the hen altogether lovely. She where's hiA reverence?"* should go. And so it was decreed left for the Tordillas settlement to duties of action but not of speech.— was over, and his eyes no longer fervently always wanted a chat with her mistress When I came to myself, I -waa lying on my that the two new ranks should become -take the folks down thar. He were Jean Paul Richter. intent upon the proceedings, daily, and when she was not own little bed in the London lodging-house, extinct with their then—and their j&nown to hev stopped at ol' Gabe's and my mother told me slowly and by degrees roamed restlessly among the faces feeling well would tease to be held in present holders, and be succeeded to that when she entered the carriage a moment &ouse, an' he flashed a big roll. He seeking his betrayer. Brady had slunk Ah! it is such a thrice bleBsed thing her lap and rocked by pulling her afterward I was in a dead famt, lying on tho by no others and thus it happens were known to leave thar nex' mornin' away after a merciless cross-examination, mistress' apron. She was appreciated, to have a praying mother a mother floor, and that I was til a long time afterward. the grade of general is not inherited by with ol' Gabe fur pilot. Jesus! An' and now stood half sheltered behind They found the gray vab.se, and shooting who does not merely say in set form not only for what she did,* but also Sheridan, a»d that the commanderin-chief lie weren't seen no mo'. That is, he clothes and my bundle of hair on the rauioavl the sheriff. That functionary and speech, "Go to Christ, my child," for what she knew. When she departed of the army, when General track where they had been thrown but hia tinwilling weren't seen no mo' selhn' goods. was very grave. It was noticeable this life one Sunday the queen of but in her daily life, full of sweet experience acoomphca had rendered such .good Schofield finally steps up'm^o jth«t They found him in the woods torerd that his treatment of the state's witness of a at is involved in it, the brood was dead, and a royal service to tbeir quondam owner that 'jeithor rank, if he lives to do so4 wj^bJJte/ the eveniu'. All his money an' most was gentle. -, we nor his detractors oyer heard of or in any burial was accorded her.* vj,' •l -*J says, "Corns to him."—Mrs. Prentiss. way traced hua again. plain Major General. YP*V iimmnrifliMii