The Democratic Advocate from Westminster, Maryland • 1

$2 PER ANNUM ORDER OF PUBLICATION. NO. 1867 EQUITY. lii the Circuit Court for Carroll County, silting as a Court of Equity. Henry E.

Morelock, William J. Morelock, Josiuh J. Morelock, Anne May C. Byers, wife of David 11. Byers, and Julia R.

Smith vs. Barbara Ellen Converse and Hiram K. Converse. THE object ol this suit is to procure a decree lor a sale of certain real estate, situated in Carroll county, in the State of Maryland, of which Michael Morelock, of the county and State aforesaid, died seized and possessed. The Hill of Comnlaint htules that the said Michael Morelock imparted this life intestate, on the Ist day ol May, in tho year 1878, leaving the following children and heirs-al-law, to K.

Morelock, William J. Morelock, Josinh J. Morelock. Anne Mav C. Byers, who intermarried with David if.

Byers, Julia R. Smith, who intermarried with Joel Smith, now deceased, and Barbara Ellen Converse, who intermarried with Hiram K. Converse, all of whom are adults, over twenty-one years of age, and all of whom reside in Can oil county, in the State of Maryland, except Josiuh J. Morelock, who resides in Union county, in tho State of Ohio, and Barbara E. Converse and Hiram K.

Converse, km kubami, who rssMs in MsPksi ty, in the State of Kansas. The Bill further states that the said Michael Morelock was in his lifetime seized and possessed of the following real estate, to house and lot of ground in the city of Westminster, in the county and State aforesaid, and a lot of ground containing about ten acres, in the county and State aforesaid, which said real estate is nut susceptible of partition among the parties aforesaid, who are entitled thereto, because the most valuable portion thereof consists of the bouse and lot of ground aforesaid; and that the said real estate can only be maintained in its present condition by the expenditure of large sums of money for repairs; and if the same is rented it will deteriorate in value; and that it will be to the interest and advantage of all parties concerned that the same shall be sold and the proceeds thereof distributed among them, under the direction of this Court. It is thereupon adjudged and ordered this Blh day of January, A. D. 1870, that the complainants, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in some newspaper published in Carroll county, Maryland, once iu each of four successive weeks, before the 10tb day of February next, give notice to the said Barbara Ellen Converse and Hiram K.

Converse, the aforesaid absent defendants, of the object and substance of this bill, aud warn them to appear in this Court, in person or by Sulicitor, on or before the 12th day of May next, to answer the premises and show cause, if any they have, why a decree ought not to pass us prayed. FRANK T. SHAW, Clerk. True junll ot Frank T. Shaw, Clerk.

SALE OK VALUABLE REM ESTATE Carroll County, near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, On Saturday the Sth day of February, 1879, At IS o'clock, HY virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court for Carroll county silting us a Court of Equity, passed in cause No. 1675, wherein Jesse R. Oosnel, et. als. are complainants and Aaron Gosnell, et.

als. are defendants, the undersigned, as Trustees, will offer at Public Sale, on the premises, situated on the Eublicroad leading from Harrisville to Wood ine, about 8 miles from the former and 2 miles from the latter plaee, on the day and hour above named, the following Valuable Real Estate, containing 128 6-8 ACRES OF LAND, more or less: 60 Acres of which are very heavily Timbered, and being the2aP oaine tract or parcel of land which Betty Gosnell obtained from Fortius Gillis and wife, by deed dated 6tb February, A. D. 1835, and recorded among the Land Records of Haiti- more county, in liber T. No.

248, folio I 324, At. the improvements consist of a comfortable Log Weather boarded Dwelling 1 House, Meat House, Spring House, Log Barn in fair coiiditiun. Corn House and two To- baeco Houses. The farm is tinder good fencing, and well watered, Gillis' i Falls running through it. It also adjoins the farms of Elisha Young and Jesse R.

Gosnell, and is conveniently located with reference to Churches, Schools, Fostoflice, and is in every respect well worthy the attention of porchascrH. A.v oerson wishing to view the premises can call Francis W. Gosnel. at Taylors- villc, Carroll county, and for further informs- lion address or call upon Smith A McKellip, I Westminster, Md. Terms of Sale.

part of the purchase money to be paid ox the day of sale or upon the ratification thereof by the Court, and I the residue in two equal payments, the one to be paid in one year, ana the other in two years from the day of sale, with interest from I the day of sale, the credit payments to be se- 1 cured by notes to the satisfaction of the Trim tees. WM. A. McKELLIF, FRANCIS W. GOSNELL, I Smith J- Mr Kell ip, Solicitors.

jan. ti SALE OF A VALUABLE SMALL FARM. AIJ4O I.AIUJK Personal Property, near Westminster. THE undersigned, Trustees, by virtue of a deed of trust from Lycurgus Wampler and wile, duly recorded among the i Records of Carroll county, will sell at Public Auction, on the premises, on Wednesday, the day of February, 1879, commencing at 10 o'clock, A. M.

that valuable little farm upon which the said gus Wampler is now residing, containing 47 ACRES OP LAND, snore or less, and situate about 100 yards from the Western Maryland Railroad, about I miles from the city of Westminster, aud adjoining the lands of David Shriver, John Baublitz and the undersigned, Airharl Winters. It has upon it a good Orchard of the best fruits, and well supplied with running streams of the finest water, and which are capable of being utilized into good water power for light timber sufficient for the farm. The improvements consist of a two-story Brick Dwellins in good repair, also Cribs, Dairy, Smoke Housc.H??CTs#, and nil necessary oulbuildinge" recently built and in the best order of repair- Also the following Personal 2 large farm horses, 2 cows, 2-horse wagon, new; 1 NjWdl 2-horse wagon, one 8 horse wagon, new; threshing machine with horse power complete, new; 1 new champion gram drill, new fodder cutter, wind mill or wheat fan, plows, harrows, corn forks, and numerous farming utensils; 20 barrels of corn, 2 barrels of vinegar, sets of gears, stove, bureau, 1 safe, chairs, 1 buggy, wheat growing, rye growing, other properly too numerous to be itemized. Terms of Sale of the. Ileal third cash on the day of sale or upon the ratification of the sale by the court; the balance in two equal payments of six and twelve months, with notes of the purchaser secured to the satisfaction of the Trustees bearing in terest from day of sale.

Terms of Sale of Properly. on all sums under $10; a credit of six months will be given for all sums of and over $lO, secured by the notes of the purchasers, bearing interest from day of sale. AIRHART WINTERS, JAMES A. C. BOND, jan 18-t.

K. C. Auctioneer. JOHN T. DIPPENBAUOH, A UCTIONKER, XXTESTMINSTER, will give attention to the sal.

of Property and Real Eatate. may be made at thia office feb fi-tf Largest size posters printed at thia Office at ahnrt notie. PemucTutii? He Moloal Aid Society CARROLL COUNTY, MD. Home Office, Westminster, Maryland. HON.

JOHN E. SMITH, Pre.idant, DR. FRANK T. SHAW, Vice President. A.

H. HUBER, Treasurer. JNO. C. Secretary.

K. MANNING, General Agent. DU. FRANK T. SHAW, Medical DR.

J. H. BILLINOSLEA, i Examiners. E. O.

GRIMES, WM. A. McKELLIP, Executive Com. R. MANNING, rpilE Society presents the following plan -A.

for cousnioration The payment of I EIGHT DOLLA IIS on application, FIVE DOLL A for fourycars. and thereafter TWO DOLLA US annually during life, with pro-rata mortality assessments at the death of each member of his class, which for Division A as Ibllows KENT. MENT. KENT. A MENT.

i2H 73 41 54 Ifi 61 TJ 74 12 55 ISO 17 2 I 75 56 IVi IH 31 77 144 UH 2 i 70 145 IQII 1 AS 2IS 33 Hi Ij IOS 66 at 3 1 47 1 12 60 240 22 67 85 5 1 IS 61 245 23 68 Mi I'J 124 62 250 24 (IK 37 H7 1150 130 63 2 Aft 25 70 3H HH 51 140 64 260 26 71 wi 52 1 50 I 65 2 65 27 10 VO 53 I (J. Will entitle the member to a certificate of One Thousand Dollars, to be paid at his death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death may occur. The assessments for membership of Two Thousand Dollars benefit are double, and for Three Thousand Dollars triple the amount given iu the above table. I Assessments will not increase with the ad; vance of age of a member, Should a member die before bis four pay menu of Five Dollars each are made, the re maining unpaid part will be deducted from the One Thousand Dollars due his heirs. A class is full when it numbers thousand members.

This nlnn recommends itself to every thinking reader for its simplicity, equity and advantages. Who would not provide for bis family at i bis death when it can be done so cheaply and i without inconvenience or disadvantage? Males and Females, from 15 to 65 years of age may become members. Agents wanted everywhere. Call on or address R. MANNING, General Agent, jan 4-tf Westminster, Md.

SALE. BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias, issued out of the Circuit Court for Carroll I county, dated December 18th, 1878, at the suit of Joseph Hoover, against the goods and chattels, lands and tcnemenU of Joshua L. Smith, aud to me directed, I have seized and taken in execution all the right, title, claim, i interest and estate, at law and in equity, of the said Joshua L. Smith in and to the following nroperty, that part of a tract of land situate, lying and being iu Carroll county, in the Slate of Maryland, containing II ACRES, 30 PERCHES of land, more or less, which was conveyed by a certain George Schaeffer end wife to Emms S. Smith, wifeof said Joshua L.

Smith, by deed dated April 3d, 1878, and recorded among the I And Records of Carroll county in Liber F. T. 8., No. 40, Folio 412, Ac. I hereby give notice that on Saturday, Sth day of February, A.

D. 1579, at 10 a. in. on the premises now occupied bv the said Joshua L. 2miles from Warficldsburg, on the road leading to Stone Chanel, in Carroll county, I will offer tho above property, so seized and taken in execution, at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, for cash.

PETER WOODS, Sheriff of Carroll county, Md jan 18-ts R. C. Matthews Auctioneer Tremendous Stock Dry Groocls, FANCY GOODS, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Groceries. H. L.

NORRIS MAKES A SPECIALTY of First Class Goods for Men's wear, at bottom Prices. Indies Dress Goods in great variety, ancy Goods of every description; Roots and Shoes for Men, Women and Cheapest lot of Blankets, Comforts and Coverlets over sold in the county. Hats in latest Styles for Mon and Boys. Shirts, Undershirts, Drawers, Woolen and Cotton Flannels, Jeans and Kerseys. CARPETS direct from the manufacturers, from lowest price to finest quality Groceries of all kinds as low as any house in Westminster.

Come and see and compare price and quality, at ocl 18 H. L. Western Maryland dip, FOX Students of Both Sexes, IX SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS INCORPORATED 1868. BdT For Catalogue, containing full infor mation as to Course of Study, Terms, etc. address, J.

T. WARD, D. D. President, au 8 Westminster, Md. Machine Shops AT NEW WINDSOR, MD.

THE undersigned, successor to Wm. 11. Harman, notifies the public that he has commenced business at the old stand and is prepared to do all kinds of Machine Work. He has also purchased the right to manufacture the Lion Fodder and Straw Cutter and the Hominy Mill ol Elijah Wagoner, and can supply alt demands for these well known machines. All Farm Machinery paired promptly in the best manner.

iaHcaMF and Plow Work a specialty. Terms for new work, cash, dec 14 1y J. D. RISER. AT PRIVATE SALE.

A beautiful and first-class Farm, located two miles AflIA-'Y north of county seat of Carroll county, 11l acres, lays level, easy to cultivate, well improved in every respect; the House and Barn are large and in complete order also every other building necessary on a good farm in good order. Its proximity to the county seat and railroad makes it desirable in every respect, and it will be sold low and on easy terms. For further information write or call on JOHN H. BOWERS, sep 14-tf Westminster, Carroll Md. BLANKS for sale at this office.

WESTMINSTER, MD. SATURDAY, FEBRU Select THE VILLAGE STORK. iiavAim taylok'h last poem. The old llyrcanlan Forest sent Ills weather on the plain; Wahlwinkel'H orchards writhed amt lient In whirls of wind and rain Within her nest upon the roof, For generations tempest-proof, WAhlwiiikel's stork with her young ones lay. When the hand of the hurricane tore awy The house and the home that hold them.

The storm pamed by; the happy trees Wood up ami kissed the sun. And from tho bints new melodies Came fluting one by one. The stork, upon the paths below, Wont sadly pacing to and fro, With drooping plumes and head depressed, For the thought of the spoiled ancestral neat And the old, Inherited honor. "Behold her now the throstle sang From out the linden tree; knows from what a line she sprang, Beyond the unknown "If she could sing, perchance her talc Might move us," chirruped the nightingale. "Hlng 7 Hhe can only rattle and creak Whistled tho bulflnch.

with silver heak. Within the wires of his prison. And all birds there, or loud or low, Were one in scoff and scorn But still the stork pared to and fro As utterly forlorn. Then suddenly, In turn of eye, She saw a poet passing by, And the thought in his brain was an arrow of Are, That pierced her with passion and pride and And gave her a voice to answer. Hhc raised her head and shook her wings And freed the piping crowd.

"Best service," she said, sings," True honor is not loud, My kindred carol not, nor boast; Yet we are loved and welcomed most. And our ancient race dearest and first, And the band vhal hurls us Is held accursed In every home of Wahlwlnkel 1 "Beneath a sky forever fair, And with a summer sod. The land I come from and there My brother was a god! My nest upon a temple stands And sees tho shine of desert lands; And the palm and the tamarisk cool my wings, When the blazing beam of noontide stings, And I drink from the holy river! There 1 am sacred, even as here: Yet dare I not be lost, I When meads arc bright, hearts full of cheer. At bllthsomc Pentecost. Then from mine obelisk I depart, by something In my heart.

And swept in a line over Libyan sands To the blossoming of Grecian lands, And rest on the Cretan Ida! "Parnassus me as I sail; I cross the Adrian brine; The distent summits fade and fall, iMlioatiau, Apenuinc; The Alpine snows beneath me gleam, I see (he yellow Danube stream But I hasten ou until my spent wings fall Where 1 bring a blessing to one and all. And babes to the wives of Wahlwlnkel?" She drooped her head aud spake no more; The birds on cither hand Sang louder. lustier than TJmjr cpqhl mq understand. Thus mused the stork, with snap of byak "Better be silent than to speak Highest being can never be taught; They have their voices, I my thought; And they were never In Kgypt!" Berlin, Urrmany, November IS, U7B jfcltd JStorjj. TEN DAYS IN LOVE.

It wus a cold uight in January. People were harrying along through tho blinding snow-storm, battling with the wind that howled and moaned out by turns its story of woo. Hugh Remington and his friend Williams, glad to bo out of the storm, had settled themselves in gown and slippers for a evening at home. Tho shutters were closed and the curtains drawn, and on either side of Mm hearth was placed the favorite chair of each- These friends had lived together in their bachelor quarters for more than two years. Kvcrything in the apartment showed refined taste and wealth.

Some said that it all belonged to Hugh, and that ho made it a home for his friend. No one, however, know this to be true. Hugh was quiet and reserved, seldom spoke of his affairs to any one, never laid any special claim to anything, but allowed it to appear that all things were equally shared. After tho evening papers nad been road opd discussed, the two sat talking of days gone by, of little episodes iu their lives. Hugh was io a talking mood, aud had told several good stories of his past life; stopping suddenly, he exclaimed; I ever tell you of my love for the widow replied William.

have said Hugh, taking another cigar, and looking very serious as he leaned back iu his great easy-chair, met her In never mind who. Be content that I uiu telling you the story, and osk for names. I thought of her as It is a sufficient I won'tinlcmipt, (Jo on." So Hugh continued: was calling upon uiy oldfricud Lee, and while waiting for tha aervant lo Uka her my card, an odd piece of bric-a-brac standing in the corner of the room attracted my attention. 1 got up aud went over to examine it. While thus engaged, tho door opened.

I turned, thinking that it was Mrs. Loo, when, oh what a beauty met my small that she looked liko a child, largo deep blue eyes that came out from under a mass of light golden curls, a small nose, and a rosebud of a mouth. She was dressed iu deep mourning, and I thought as I looked ol her, that I had never seen a more beautiful picture, She didn't see mo until I made a slight movement, whioh startled her. Coming forward 1 said, frightened you did I I was not aware that there waa one in tho room. You are wailing for Mrs.

And she gave me the sweetest of smiles, showing a most perfect row of teeth. I could answer, Mrs. Lee appeared, and introduced ua. Mrs. was making Mrs.

Lee a abort visit prior to her departure for America. I was glad of that, as I should then have tho pleasure of seeing her again. evening passed only too quickly, and I arose with an apology for slaying so Isle. Mrs. Lee invited mo to dine with them informally the next day.

She said her friend preferred being quiet, so they should be quite alone. You may be sure that 1 accepted the invitation, and was there promptly at the hour. The widow was more charming than on the previous evening. I longed to atop the hours from rolling ou. Having been in the habit of dropping in at Mrs.

Los's at all hours, my were not noticed as anything strange or unusual. Mrs. Los thanked me for coming to them in their loneliness, and the widow would give nar one of her sweet smiles, and I was thankful in my inmost heart that they were lonely, and it fell to my lot to cheer them. So the weeks passed, until tho time came for tho departure of Mrs. Lee's friend.

1 had intended passing a month or two iu Kngland before coming home, but when I found the widow was to return in ten days, I began to think that my duty called me back to my business. The more I thought of it, tho more important it seemed to mo to go. you know of any one going on the 15th the widow asked me one evening, in her dovediko way. one but I answered. has called me sooner than I delightful from the widow; while Mrs.

Lee exclaimed, Mr. Remington, lam so glad 1 boar the idea of my friend going entirely alone, aud you of all others will know best how to take care of then began to make our plann. Mrs. intended making a visit of a few days to some friends in London. 1 was going direct lo Liverpool.

Mrs. Lee and I drove down to see our friend off, and 1 looked forward to the pleasure of meeting her on board the steamer. My last days in Faria were spent in saying to old friends, and buying presents for sister Nell and the children. I got every nouvenute that I could find, and felt well pleased with my selection. At last 1 was on the steamer, and stood looking at the ship move away.

By my side waa the widow, and I thought that I had never seen her look so lovely. I exulted in the knowledge that she knew no one on board. I was her only friend, consequently 1 should have her ail to myself this wus (so 1 said to myself) wlmt I had for weeks been lunging for. Was I in love That question had not occurred to me. felt supremely happy, aud thought the situation delightful.

I waa ready to do anything for this fair creature. She had only to command; I was all eagerness to obey. 1 soon had opportunities of showing my devotion. following morning 1 came out on deck very early, and was surprised to find my little lady already there. She looked very miserable and very pretty.

The morning salutations over, 1 asked her bow she had slept. haven't slept at she said, in a fretful, childish way, which I thought charming. a noise all she continued, I could not get to sleep; and the smells arc simply dreadful. 1 must have another room. rather sit up hero all night thau sleep in that horrid place again.

you think Mr. Hemington if you asked the captain or somebody, ho would give roc another stateroom aud her big eyes looked inquiringly into mine. I said. will go at once and sec about it, and if there is no other, you shall change with me. Take my room, which is a good one, and as 1 don't mind cither noise or smells, your room will suit i mo well Hero Hugh leaned over his chair to to knock the ashes off his cigar, aud said to bis friend mqst have had it pretty have said that, for you know that I can't endure either a bad odor or a loud noise.

But I forgot everything when under tho influence of those eyes, and when she exclaimed, no; I let you do I felt that my fate was scaled, aud 1 should take the noise and the smells. I next thing I discovered was that my lady had no sea chair. There was only one left, and that had been spoken for; but I paid double the amount, and the chair wfts mine. are so kind, Mr. said, know what 1 should have done without you.

I am not tit to travel she added, in childish tones. longed to press her to my heart and tell of my love; and if she would but let me, it would be the joy of my life lo care for her. I looked all this; I am sure 1 did. But there were too many people around for mo to sptak. She sat with her hands folded in her lap, and looked divine; ly unconscious.

I third day out the weather became I bitterly cold. am almost said Mrs. shall I do? I have nothing to wrap around me, and I shall have to stay below, and, oh dear it is so ble The face turned up lo mine was that of a splendid child. I had a fine English rag, which i Had used at night, for you know every thing at sea is so horridly damp. It had been a great comfort to me, and I knew that I should miss it.

But what of that I sec the woman I loved suffer. So I got it, and tucked her all up in it. Her delicious smsle repaid me for tho sacrifice. i how she said, as she put her hands under the warm rug. I seems to me, Mr.

Remington, that you i have everything la make one comfortable. I never heard of such a man. I am so glad that I came under your was so love-stricken that I did not reflect upon her apparent unconsicousncss of the fact that I hod deprived myself of 1 these comforts in order that she should he i made comfortable. She seemed to take it I for granted that I was a sort of travelling I missionary, with extra wraps, state-rooms, 1 chairs, and anything else that one might need; and 1 was such a slave lo her facinations that, had she asked me to do the impossibly, I should have attempted it. i day I had upon my lips to tell her of my love.

Each day courage forsook me. We walked the deck day after day. She would put her little soft hand on my arm in the most confiding way, look up from under her curls, laugh her low, sweet laugh, and ask tho most childish, in noccnt questions. were walking this way on the sixth day out. I had carefully rehearsed my part, and was about to tell my story.

Her conversation seemed to lead to it, for she said. will come to aeo mo when you are in New York, you, Mj. Remington I said, give me greater will come often? Promiao to dine at our house once a week. You won forget me and tho blue eyes mine. looked iuto them, and my look told what my tongue had refused to say.

I pressed the little band close to my heart, and after a pause said, below my breath, and I was about to pour forth ray love when she gave a little scream, and my There, sure enough, was the confounded blue thing sailing before the wind, and all tho passengers, it seemed lo me, after it. Of course I had to go 100, and make believe try to capture it. I oev sr hated anything so much as 1 did that yard of blue gauxe. I go back and continue my story from where it was so suddenly broken off, and indeed the widow seemed quite shy of me. incident had given the passengers sn opportunity lo speak to her, and when I joined her (without the veil, for had, I hope, struck bottom) she was surround ed by a group of people.

I had no chance that day, nor tho next, to get her to myself. I tried to think of something that I could do or show her that would amuse I and detain her. It seemed as though 1 had exhausted all ray resources, when at last brilliant idea occurred to roc: I would show her the presents I hud bought for sister Nell. They were all in roy little sea trunk, and I knew that she resist their attraction. She came up on deck bright and beautiful os ever.

it delightful," she said, think that to-morrow we shall be at home? I i can hardly wait for the time to come; and her voice dropped into the dearly loved soft tone voyage has been most charming one, owing to your I kindness," she added brightly. longed to launch forth my tale of love, but thinking it more prudent to wait until 1 had secured her wholly in myself, I asked her, in the most ordinary manner, if she enjoy looking at some little trinkets that I had picked up in Paris. Her eyes sparkled. indeed," she said. could be more delightful than to get a glimpse of Paris while at sea." 1 went below and got all all my pretty nouveau tea, and brought them up to her.

Placing a chair iu a quiet corner, and well hid from tho other people, then drawing mine up beside her, 1 began showing one by one my collection of odd things. did you get them, Mr. Hern-1 I ington I hunted all over Paris, and found nothing half so pretty. What exquisite porte bonheurs! and she slipped one after another of ray carefully chosen bracelets on to her little plump wrists, and turned them first on one side and then on the other. I knew taste, and had searched 1 for something uncommon, and was well pleased with what I had bought.

Hut Nell and everything wore forgotten with this bewitching creature by my side, and when she made a move to take them off, i I said, laughingly, of course, i disturb them, they look so well whore they arc, and it is so pleasant, you know, to get a glimpse of Paris while at sen." kept them on, and I opened the other boxes. There were rings, crosses, medallions, cbastcluincs, and many other ornamants of curious design. The widow decked herself, and was in high glee. A i child could not have enjoyed it more. I watched her with loving eyes, told her where each one came from, and help fasten them on.

feel like an Indian princess," she said, ought to have a throne and a crowd of kneeling courtiers, and the picture would be complete. you imagine a throne?" I said, take mo fur kneeling courtiers. Wouldn't my love compensate for the admiring crowd?" looked up quickly, and was about to answer, when one of those eternal old bores that, no matter when you cross, arc always to be found on shipboard, came up, and began telling of his early reminiscences; what the sea was twenty years though the sea had ever how, when he had first crossed, his friends never expected to sec him again. He had made his will, and they parted as though ho were to he forever lost to them. I asj sure you that 1 silently wished in roy heart 1 that He had never turned up again.

Without saying a word, 1 got up, took my boxes, and left my Indian princess. I was oughly angry with the old fellow for interrupting our tete-a-tete, and seriously annoyed with Mrs. -for listening to and I answering him. I made up my mind that that game had been played long enough. I I would ask her the simple question tho first chance I gut, and know my fate at odoq.

hut tho ohauou did not come as soon us I expected it would. wont to her room with a sick head ache, so she said, and 1 paced the deck I alone. Wc were a long way up the bor when she made her appearance the i following morning. She said that she had hurried with her packing, thinking that wc were nearer than we really were to the 1 ty. i Mr.

Remington, I had uu opportunity of returning your jewelry, and so 1 packed them with my things. Rut you are coming, you know, to dine with me on Saturday, and I will then give them to i I said. is no time for us to change them now. Wear them until I sec you again." had fully made up my mind that as I had been baffled so often, I would now I wait until 1 bad teen her in her own home before 1 opened my heart to her, or rather i before I asked her my fate. She already knew my heart.

There was no time to talk; all was excitement; wc were rapidly approaching; handkerchiefs were waving from the docks. The widow was straining her eyes, and suddenly leaving me and going farther forward, I saw her throw a kiss. How 1 longed to catch it! I looked with jealous eyes to see who would take it up and answer it. Foremost among the i crowd was a great big feel, and broad in proportion. It was he who was returning her- kisses.

Could it be her brother, or was it a friend, and this merely a pleasant greeting from a distance? watched him come on board, and what did the big idiot do but catch her up in sweet one, whom, i though loving, 1 had never dared to touch kiss her over and over again 1 I have knocked him down. drawing near to them, I saw that; neither of them noticed me. She had fur gotten my existence. With a heart sick feeling I turned away. Was this to be tho end Why had 1 conic l.omo I i could hear them talking, though too miserable to listen.

They came nearer, and the same soft voice that I loved so dearly said, Remington, I have been talk ing about you, telling bow good and kind you have been, and how utterly forlorn 1 should have been had you not always looked out for my comfort. I have come to thank you, and my husband wants to thank you too." husband Great heavens! And I thought she was a widow, and had made love to her! I listened as i hough in dream, and a deuced unpleasant one it waa, too. I believe ha thanked me, and she praised, and he thanked again, and then they urged toe to come to set them, and she said, forget Saturday." Whether I said any thing, or whether I remained mute, is more than I can tell. I like a man asleep, and had to give myaelf a good ahake to come out of the nightmare that was iq. When I looked around, gone." Here Hugh stopped as though he had finished; but his friend Williams, whose curiosity was aroused, asked you dine with her on Saturday?" I sent a regret." you ever seen her never." became of your nouveates de Paris?" went without them, as I went without my English mean that she never sent them to you never gave hor my address, and she 0 where I was." imams like to ask any more RY 8, 1879 questions, and Hugh remained quiet for a time Then rousing himself and getting out of his chair, he said hove never made love since, with a hitter always avoid women in deep mourning.

And now as tha fire has gone out with my story, I think we had better go to bed." THE PLAQUE. The plague which is causing snob assn, nation in Eastern Europe at present waa first heard of from Aetrachan on the Md of January, when it waa reported that of 195 cases on the first two days of the year 143 had proved fatal, a rate of mortality sufficient to exclude the idea that the disease was typhus. It had shown itself previously, and the occasion of the sudden extension was a thaw. Ita first appearance was in (he Cosaack village of Vatlyaoka soon after the return of two C'uasack regiments from tho war in Asia Minor. Typhus bad prevailed among the men, but their cloth- ing and effccte had been bahly to thia tha disease was traced, being announced as typhus.

1 Sickness began to prevail towards the close of November; in the second week of Do- I comber (he daily mortality in a village of COO souls was 3 per then panic seized the people, who would neither succor the sick nor bury tho dead, and they fled, carrying the infection and terror with them. Even when it became clear that tho disease was not the typhus, but tho plague, tho Russian authorities were remise iu checking it and preparing for it. Thiaremissnesa is the mure inexcusable, apart from the question of international obligations, because of the peculiarly disadvantageous circumstances under which Russia finds herself, a population never notable fur its observance of sanitary laws, and at present enfeebled by the hardships consequent upon war aud partial famine, aud with an extremely limited body of i medical men, which the war has greatly I depleted. The disease has spread along tho course uf tho Volga towards the north and west, till now it threatens Moscow and Europe generally. Expert physicians de-1 dare it to be the plague, and the symptoms which are accompanied by fever and swelling of the glands" those of the plague.

The true plague, according to Mct'ready, aeontagious fever characterized by an eruption of carbuncles and and It Is added that oases in which these glandular swellings appear are with a higher grade of fever, and with profounder depression of the vital forces; headache, restlessness, chills and vertigo are commonly i Ao, Morbid anatomy hitherto has added nothing to tho knowledge of 1 the disease, of which a majority of the die in severe epidemics, oonvaloa- ccnce being tedious io the event of cry. Of tho treatment all that can be said is that local applications have to be made 1 to the ernptiuns; the patient's strength should be supported and the most favorable hygienic conditions posaiblo be rest ia with nature. Tho last appearance of the plague In Europe was to 1844, and thereafter till 1858 it was nut recognized as existing. Since the latter year it has been occurring at intervals in the form of scattered local epidemics in various parts of and Arabia. Three years ago Mr Netten Radcliflc called the special attention of the English Society of Medical Officers of Health to the threatening nature of these epidemics nod the high probability that the disease, if it should assume an active character of diffusiveness, would penetrate not uuly into Europe but also to Groat Britain, the aeala qt the diseaao being in close and constant communication with Russia hy land apd the Mediterranean ports by aca.

There seems little reason lo doubt that the plague has gradually assumed an increasing degree of virulence and of infectivity, and that the outbreaks in Astrachsn and the adjoining provinces are links in a chain of continued progress towards the west. Less than two years ago the ptaguo visited Ucaht, a Persian town at the southwest angle of the Caspian, which iu 1833 was smitten by the pestilenee, 20,000 of its 40,000 inhabitants falling victims in a few weeks aud the city being reduced during the panic to the condition of charnel-house, a city of the dead; no living creature was to be seen in it, and those who had been abandoned by their friends died of sheer Rcsh't was invaded in 1877 from two Persian villages st the southeast angle of tho Cas plan; the plaguu has now from the southwest up to Astrakhan, at the northwest corner. The opinion of a recent English writer was that it was Ly no means unlikely that the contagion would overstep tho barriers 1 erected hy the Russian authorities. It is too subtle and tho possibilities of evading quarantine arc too numerous to allow much to he hoped for from official and even the cordons of troops drawn I i around the infected districts to stop fugi- lives have every prospect of becoming fresh centres from which the disease may be distributed. An absolute and complete quarantine, which would certainly arrest tho plague, is hardly to be established, especislly io these times of the increased complexity of human intercourse.

Still though the disease is as formidable as it was two centuries ago, when it last viailed England, it ia confidently asserted that the I provisions of the British sanitary laws and the powers of the local authorities to deal with epidemics would be found sufficient to confine and loealixe any oases that might occur and render them merely pathological curiosities. London at the time of the Great Plague waa inconceivably filthy, and there was no organisation for the isolation of sufferers from infectious maladies and for the prompt suppression of epidemics. The plagues recorded in history are almost numberless, and in many Instances their ravages, though truthfully set down, seem incredible. Before the groat plague of 542 many disastrous epidtmios had been noticed. The first general plague which visited all parts of the then known world broke out in 767 B.

C. In 534 B. C. Carthage was so sorely smitten that women sacrificed their children to appease the angry deities; in 401 there died at Rome and ita environs 100,000 people. Thucydides has graphically depicted the plague whioh visited Athens C- 430 laying waste also Egypt and Ethiopia.

Pliny records a pestilence in the Archipclago, Egypt and Syria in 188 B. 0 which swept off 2,000 persons a day daring its continuance. Romo thereafter was re pcatcdly scourged. A. 1).

80,10,000 persons are said to have died daily during the pestilence; another plague swept through the Empire in 167-9; still another in 189 while between 250 and 265 many towns were depopulated and many provinces ravaged, the daily mortality at the capital being 5,000. The great plague of 542-5 begun Egypt snd Minor, swept over (syrta, Persia and India, laid waste the north of Africa and in Europe devastated Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, Italy and France, be Alexandria, triune inhabitants, according to Paultu Diaoonaa, this terrible Judgement upon themselves and their innocent neighbors" by their reekless elut- VOL. 12. tooy, bringing on fevers and dangerous In 542 Alexandria is said to have lost 500,000 of her people bpr this scourge, and for miles around the City the fields were covered with unburied corpses. For three months from 5,000 to 10,000 deaths occurred daily at Constan- tinople; whole provinces were abandoned 1 and cities died out, to remain vacant for many years.

From 75,000,000 to 000,000 of victims arc said to have perished in the three continents. But though Egypt, Sjria, and Persia wero scourged, Arabia and the Caucasus escaped; and while Northern Italy suffered severely, but a few seaports in Albania, Morocco and Sicily were affected. Just two centuries later Bytantium and the neighboring coasts 1 were sorely visited, but the next great 1 general pestilence was that at the middle 1 of the fourteenth century. According to 1 the Chinese, the pestilence broke out there 1 about 1333, following great earthquakes and floods with their usual attendants, failure of crops and famine. Ere it reached Europe this pestilence is said to have destroyed 13,000,000 people in China and nearly twice as many in Eastern Asia and Northern Africa, ft visited every part of Europe, from Spain and Italy to Scotland and Russia.

This was the terrible Boccaccio's recalls its ravages in Florence in 1348. Half the population of Italy arc said to have died of it. In London there were 200 burials daily in the Charter House yard. The Jews were massacred by wholesale, the popular rage turning on them as the I supposed authors of the pestilence. No accusation was too monstrous to ho believed of them.

They were charged with poisoning the streams and wells, and many of them oven slew themselves to escape the hideous tortures prepared for them. Bands of Flagellants and other fanatics went from town to town, lashing and torturing them selves to expiate the sins of the peopleand spreading the infection. The terrorstricken wealthy enriched the monasteries with offerings of gold, which they were obliged to cast over the walls and through locked gates. People went to sea to escape the pestilence, and ships filled with the dead and the dying wero cast upon distant strands, there to communicate the oonta- gion. Men took in forests and caves, only to find death there awaiting 1 them.

In the epidemic of 1373-5 four million people arc said to have died in the Byzantine Empire, Russia, Germany, France, Italy and Northern Spain, but as the earlier scourge had spared the Mohammedan countries, where the inhabitants were more temperate and cleanly, so it was observed that this pestilence respected the monasteries of the stricter order and spared the frugal peasants dwelling in the open fields of Calabria and Sicily. In IGII nearly a quarter of a million of people died of the plague at Constantinople, and in IGSC a Sardinian transport laden with troops carried the disease to the fertile regions of Naples, where in six months 000 of the inhabitants were swept away. A ship from the Levant brought the plague Marseilles in 1720, when 52,000 of the 75,000 residents perished in five weeks, among them the heroic Bishop Reliance, who had received at Paris this message from the stricken are dying: come home and die with and paying a courtly compliment to the yraude daw he was visiting, the brave Bishop bade her aw rrvoir and in an hour was posting southward, day and night, to comfort bis people die. It ji nut pleasant to have to sav that the people of Marseilles threatened a Hot a few weeks ago when it was proposed to pay honor to his statue. Yet, though 70 per cent, of the population died, in the suburb of the Catalans, inhabited by abstemious Spaniards, only 200 out of 0,000 perished.

The later plague)) in Kurope ami the Orient were those of 1700, in Syria, which wa very malignant; of 1771-2, in Moscow, of 1773, in Persia, when 80,000 souls died at Bassora; of 1702, in deaths, of 1700, in the North of Africa, when 11,000 per sons are said to have perished daily in Barbery; of IHQf-S, the South of Spain nnd of 1815-16, at Naples. Before 1005 the plague, according to Sydenham, visited Kuglsnd about once in a generation. In 130 the living in Britain. tradition tells us, were notable to bury the dead, and several pestilences arc reoordi ed previous to that of 1111, which cxlen ded to oaltle anti fowls. Xho plague drove Henry 11.

from Ireland In 1172, and swept away a prodigious number of the starving and shelterless Irish in 1204. London was visited again in 1348, 1302 and 1307 year of the Ireland was scourged in 1370 and 1383. In 1407 London lost 30,000 residents; iq 1400 and 1470 a pestilence, following a time of sore famine, ravaged Ireland nnd i Dublin terribly. Neat year the peat visited Oxford, and in 1478deatroyed more people I than the continual wara fur the fifteen preceding. In 1499-1500 the plague drove Henry VII.

and his Conrt over to Calais Leaving out of the list the five epidemics of the strange and fearful sickness" (which was mortal in three boon between 1485 and 1651, we notice the visit of the plague to Limerick io 1532 and to London in iqQ3-4, when 30,578 people diad, and again in 1023, when fill persona perished. With the Great i Plague of 1684-5 moat readers are through the story of De Foe, which, ss meet of doubtless also know, is not the tale of an eye In this viiitation i 595 died; fires were kept burning day and night to purify the air, and it was thought that the infection was never effectually destroyed till the greet fire of 1866. Mother or a Larue loung, of Wcsttown, Chester, owns cow 29 years old, which is suffering from injuries received a few days ago from a fall on the ico. It is not likely she will recover, bat Mr. Young is caring for her in the best manner possible, having her resting on a deep pile of straw in the barn.

She is one of a dairy of twenty-four, and the mother of the remaining twentythree, and, to add to the remarkable feature of the case, all of her descendants are except one. This winter she has been yielding an average of ten pounds of butter per week, Buoou manufacture of jewelry from pure blood of the ox is nourishing i Germany. The blood is dried to a powder, and then molded and polished. The ornaments thus produced ere capable of high polish. Massachusetts Pkughman We know of no belter fertiliser for potlad than a tablcspoonful of Peruvian ptano Hjrred into a pailful of water and ouce we aw told, is a correpttou of wisapelllng Wbrained, 1 tre to have a very small brain and the epithet to tbo same family and 3 4by and Humor.

Fr.N-KTies.—At a rec jnl teachers' meet iug a profetsor made some very interesting remarks upon phonetic spelling. As sn example of one of the coming possibilities in orthography, word from the.professor a vocabulary may be given. To use bis own language you pronounce for me the following No, yon can not answer. Well, it spells potato. Do you see 7 No Then prove it to you.

stands for as find from Urn list letters in stands for as in stands for as in stands for as in stands for as in nod stands for as in And so from that Jumble of letters you ml earth the simple Journal. The Potion Advert iter says amusing incident occurred in ouc of our popular churches last Sunday, that deserves to be recorded. A stout lady during the sermon exhibited of fainting, when a young physician, not much more than half her weight, gallantly put his arms about her waist and dragged her into the aisle, but was unable to take her farther. One of the deacons came to the rescue, and seizing the lady by the pedal extremities, the two carried her bodily out into the vestibule, where she speedily to" and indignantly demanded of her kind friends whit she had done that she should bo so forcibly removed, the truth being that she was only indulging in a good Let Her Detroit mercantile gentleman, while traveling eastward, went to the clerk of one of the Ontario boats, to bo shown his stateroom. The clerk handed the applicant key, at the earno time pointing to a door at some distance, marked B.

The traveler wont in the direction indicated, but opened the door next to his own, marked and discovered a lady passenger making her toilet, who, upon the stranger's appearance, uttered a scream. away! Go cried the lady, yelled the clerk. am not touching her at allshouted the indignant merchant. QUWWUIW with loss ef a hat always felt; if you like sugar, you may lump it; a glaxier is a panes-uking mao; caudles are burned because wicked things always come to light; a lady who takes you home from a party kind in her carriage, and you say, ATmuc etl ridendum" when you step into it; if it happens to be a chariot, she is a charitable person; nests and kingkilling are synonymous, because they are high on; the greatest fibber is the man most to re-lie on; a dean expecting a bishopric looks for lawn; a suicide kills pigs, and not himself; a butcher is a gross man, but a fig-seller is a grocer. then, madam, please look steadily at this place on the said our po, litc photographer, to an old lady, when be had pul her in position the plate io the camera, The old lady looked hard at the spot indicated, then got op and walked across tho floor and mieutaly inspected it, and then, turning to the photographer, gently sec any thine there," A prudent contemporary gives a word of caution to young ladies on a very interesting subject.

It know much about it, but wo have an opinion that the girl who is not fully prepared to support a husband should be a little cautious about matrimony these Girle, do you hoar that? A schoolmistress, while taking down the names tod ages of her pupils, and the names of their parents, at the beginning of the term, asked one little fellow, your father name you needn't take down name; too old to go to school to a was the reply. A bright little boy, who had been engaged in combat with another boy some time ago, was reproved by his aunt, who told him he ought always to wait until tho other boy upon him," explained the little hero, if I wait for the other boy to begin, fraid there be any fight." was Bishop Latimer burned to asked a teacher. a at the bottom of the class. said tho teacher, Joshua knows let him the replied Joshua, looking grave and wise. hen a man is hanging by his toes from the cornioo of high building, and expects momentarily to drop, nothing so completely reassures and so thoroughly satisfies him as tbo sudden discovery that he is safely at homo in bed.

By the time a man has achieved his fifth wife, the Boston Traveler it unreservedly of the opinion that no one can aeouse him of not laying up his treasures in heaven. When a lady, more bcantUUt In her own eyes than in those of the world, was boasting that she had had of men at her feot. Lord Houghton remarked in an undertone, A lawyer who had a moat absurd case submitted to him, on being naked tho action would lie," answered, If the witness will lie too, but not A young lady being asked by a rich not TouredC, who would you rather replied sweetly aad modestly, truly!" have you given the goldfish freshwater." They haven't drunk np in there In the way of worship, in hot weather a man thinks ho la doing well enough when he allows his wife to go to chareh. When a rider is thrown over head the horse the power behind the thrown. hat la It that a man with tan vu eannot boo with eye.

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