Freeborn County Standard from Albert Lea, Minnesota • 3

ftOiLsoft 'J 1 Ruddiloye that afternoon for' the first time' of hfr eWPPf Willin rtr i uei bweet rrtiaa 1 rt I 4 I I de I i i i ft Whitelaw Intended "Wife Of Miss Tennie Mills who it is reported is to be the bride of Whitelaw Reid 'the New York Mercury says: The young la dy is of medium height plump and grace ful in physique with clear complexion light colored hair large clear beautiful eyes that change in color with intellectual esisrare is measured uy rne estimate or their 'money value in the United Kingdom' which is put atnoless a sum 000000 sterling or over $15000000000 There are 6000000 of inhabited houses hot' reckoning manufactories and strictly business premises and leaving out of consideration thousands of tenements of an estimated yearly value of $100 and under annual increase in the number of in habited houses in London alone is repre sented by a growth of new streets amount ing to thirty eight miles linear every year The owners of this vast property number a million and a quarter But these figures large as they are sink into utter insignifi cence when regard is had to the whole num ber of contingent interests primary and sub ordinate immediate and collateral affect ed by a single dealings with a prop erty so enormous During the last ten years the register of the London Estate Ex change has recorded i sales of houses and lands to the amount of nearly one hundred millions sterling ft UU LUtB during the previous acts doing his best denly comes upon the scene and finding little rjmwwjo tn rlin iT Children of Pions Parents a well known NewYork lawyer read a paper before the New' York Historical Society on the' Late chan crxxur jcmusiuH Benedict ri 14 mxo uivcni4v nxrjjDeuK siui: ao a pvuiuiu? Rcuumiein mat ine cnuaren oi tv go astray ana become atheists or profn sons or clergymen and unfounded perversion of the truths It produce an open quarrel is contrary to reason? toreve1tiinn tn 1 influences and feeling and she wears gold nmmed glasses perhaps to comply with an odd fashion rather thanfrom necessity Mr Mills is well kixntn in New York" Hecante here from Calif oyiiia witty plenty of wealth His assessed personality andre'' ahty is The Millses up their residence at hotel for several year s'" few" months" since Mr Mills purchased a' spacious dwelling on if th avenue and bad richly decoraied with Japanese inlaid work arid richly furn his wife 'She wears a silk gown that will stand alone with its own richness! I can remember when Ruddilove was noth ing but a poor drunken the more credit to him now Mrs Pratlet emphatically to be all of fwitli' white man ties and inlaid floors and put a lot of paperg'and things under the corner one? like theyvlojn tiiat i's natural know yet it seems kind queer that he should put a dollar bill in with the othe? things He must have lots money to? Lxtxuvy ii away in tnat manner Mrs Pratletfelt hercher lte flu unurily he glanced towards the squire? But he never looked around She met Mr since hirretunT to Sequossfit Luke him self savp that the demon of intemperance had been entirely? crushed and his better nature triumphing at last: looked her brightly in the face held out his hand saying but the one word: iv' ft i Tremulously she am elad to see you here again if hen Luke had overcome1 his emotion he continued: you remember thafstormy night when you gave me that dollar hili and begged me not to go to the tavern? night was the "pivot on which "mv destiny turned qu were kind to me when all other gave me but the" cold snouiuer ion trusieu me when all other faces wore averted That nieHf tzw'! JL xAz vow to mysolf toproveworthy of your con fidence and I kept it' I treasured' it up'1 and heaven has added mighty to my little store I have put the bill in the corner stone of my new house for it arose from that dollar bilE won't offer to pay you back for I I A rl hA'UAl1 CITlilinrrlv 1 'A quoth the Squire I'm go from me with itllnt tell vorr Lnnr lli'lhn rm Hisi physicians nronounpA i a zn co emng of the brain' and give little or no tope of his is matter of great grief to his people by whomvhe is greatly gloved tS 1 Er fkie Sudden Appearance for one Night Oulyf ot a Gentleman from Colorado rom the Chicago Tribune The Chicago Trtbnae tells the following with all seriousness: is a legend in theatrical history orthe effect that when1 being per formed upon the English stage' just at "the point where Susan is IfirnPD finer fhn avnvuvu VI Ol UAJU Will! the stony hearted landlord who to turn her out into the co ld cold world alstanch and tine British tar climbed from the gallery oh to the' seand nearlyaodni 1 dered the voracious landlord Historv re peated itself Last night at the Grand' Opera1 house only this time it was not a stanch and trae British tai but a hardy' pioneer from Colorado They are running at this house spectacular play called Voy agersZ The touching story had run wxiere uiue utmime Urant (Miss Rachael Noah) is discovered in the last stages of pathos and cold The heavy villain JSwrcfai (Mr Jordan) who has been during the previous acts doing his best to' make sausage meat of the castaways sud 1 4 41 i kw rj iutiivtc Uli uue xeeoie de i scribed at onee proceeds to ha him liurcke uses a hatchet to accomplish his1 sanguinary purpose and just as he had the insti ument raised a man was seen to rise in uie second circle who shouted The words were no sooner uttered than he pulled off his coat and rushed to the boxes He climbed over and dropped into a lower box breaking the rail in his deRcenf nmi making an ugly gash on his forehead' This accident stopped his progress but an instant He gathered himself together leaped upon the stage seized the blood thirsty by the throat and exclaimed you you touch that boy while here This a square B'tirclic tried to say in a stage whisper all right Get off the exclaimed the brawny man from Colorado eyes? I trust vnn mm Astonishment the audience had passed into an uproarious condition i Thev laughed a juuwieu nuujeaeu at me scene but the riot did not interfere with the purpose of the chivalrous gentleman from tightened his I hold on poor throat and Eave finished him had not some stage hand rushed in and with much difiiculty(he struggled to the last) dragged him off aud thrust him intofthe alley On reaching the street he ivas told that the people on the stage were merelv fooling He explained that he had fallen asleep and woke up just as little Jimmie wa84abouttlbeslaughtered4and forgetting where he was had in accordance with the custom in Colorado sided with' the weak est in the fight iHe apologized forhiscon duct and was allowed to take his the again His fippeafance was the signal for a burst of applause and when thit subsided Bit rekr nrocpwlod ii'b vl hellish plot 1 Things in General The appropriation by congress of $40 000 for the Bennington (Vt) monument makes nearly $80000 obtained by the asso ciation thus far Before building the de sign must be approved by the governors of Massachusetts Vermont and New Hamp nux jv mt prebiiieui oi me tjmted btates the unanimous vote of the directors then by the entire association The Pennsylvania railroad report shows that the net earnings on the main Kna tweem Philadelphia and Pittsburg were $10051485 16 an increase over 1879 of about tvvoand a half millions The Common Council of Baltimore has' an ordinance which has beenap proved by the mayor providing for the re lief from taxation of all mechanical tools and implements whether worked by hand' or steam or other motive power and of machinery manufacturing apparatus or engines owned actually employed by' any individual firm or corporation engag ed or likely to be engaged in the business1 of manufacture in the city A greater gathering of the followers of John Wesley than has ever been held will take place in the City Road Chapel Lon I don England the first week in next Sep tember At that gathering will be repre sentatives of every branch of and from everv nart of the world The fir tree growths of Puget Sound" are astonishing They average 200 feet in height and some specimens have beon cut that measured 320 feet in and T2 feet in diameter at the base with a straight and well proportioned log length of 90 feet tothe first limb The cedar trees are in like proportion 1 1 Mr Scars the young millionaire of Bos? ton has purchased a building lot at BarHarbor (Me) for $30000 He will (erect a splendid edifice the present season It is ro oe buxiuo feet Mr Musgrave of Bos ton has paid $10000 for a lot and Mix Crow of Philadelphia paid the same sum for another lot A large amount of building A Kumg uu at mis iamous watering place rcr 11 S' He listened" with' undiermicAd I VO'T A Alt? i 7 1 tfi1 1 much she had explained bOdIia reasons against multiplyingthe num BuddMetH iand everything to himand in 'a' village like ber of ohdays by including New Suddhist Buddnmts that the children of theirs' so many' unfounded rumors were hnd clectlon The people ue not pining flyingabout thathe a person of for these thinSs dnfact the Legislature tneir xathers yet ridicule sense should pay no attention' to them or astonhes us every year by investigating JiVhJ et i religion thus ingrained his part this determination was 'taken arid an discussing great issues of to witn the earliest thoughts and molded into once formed Mrs Somers ought to know which the Pnblic are eutire strangers No tormative life cambe' a vitalizing ittwno'oaMnm i I bodv snRnpefnd ftwiWarioa I I I AV VT UD 011111)111 J1 If VI IMrll I 1 IIMI I Ml I 111 ILiri 4 mXLUC VJLA llix: llltit III Io When Dr ranklin visited Paris wTIT i TgLite the being character with great attention" I Iv condition tos which the lack of holidays' bassador from the he was asked 1 That the child land the more intimately he knew her tlio reduced our bank clerks" Nobody why it was that a vessel of water weighed b7f fa Rnd hum more he saw to love She had owrieS' to suspected that the people were hungry for ro more after a live fish was put into it than aauy Detore him is the most apt him' that she was formerly veiy much preju I lefriskition to enable? military chill and before? ranklin replied: "Before we try Paterus and to strive udiced against him but now he hoped in calisthenics to be put into the common to account for such a remarkable phendme i mbehiP of our i deed he might sayh'e was sure shetho'ught hoolsw i non let ns see if it is actually' their XaU and Mn Clinton rose "to The Chicago1 Burlington Quincy Rail vessel of water was procured carefully most constant Uo i road Company are bunting clay for ballast weighed a live fish was at and also Lf flsoce 'iupromi6eme netting tid Mrs Soxri mg their road A small fire of bituminous carefully weighed tiie fish was then put in nceJ ers who could scarcely repress a smile at Iowa coal is starting on the surface of the to the vessel of water Th eyesseT of clce And while there theMalvolio like conceit of her old guard ground and when burning freely the fire water upon being weighed wus found to me that if I to I is covered with a layer of lumpv'clay then have increased in weight just the weight of IpKirioter Ik yon her of you' is the" same alternately coal and clay the cool decreasing the fish 5 toJhe falcy now as when you heard that conversation quantity until at the top it is as one to George will'disposes of a personal descendant ofonqfhfln Vdn that you will discontinue your fifteen The mass is' formed like a cone estate of somewhat less than $200000: She would be as absnrdtotMbX Promise that I said Three united cones each eighteen feethigh bequeathes $25000 to Emily Clark $5 000 limon of thr rX? th 1116 3" Mr Clinton smiling Good and containing in all about 1000 qubic yards to Vivian Byam Lewes and an SiuiS hScv of toe I and his k1ow steP was Boon heard on: material have been started neiri Red Oak $200 for life to housekeepS Mary Walk froht of house They will bum for months Six hundred Dowling 4 There is to be' set aside! $62 500 deck of a slave Somers stood for a moment in' defep miles of road are to be ballasted with this in the name of her executor Charles Lee form the best sehSo then threw on hastily her bon crude pottery broken up It resembles Tjftwflfl'W Hat 7 es sc mmis net and shawl aud callinor net irlple 'toina coal cinder1 but is harder Income to be paid to MrsElizaLewesthril power in heretvietuseltim PaIsa careless light John Dwinnelle who died recently in widow of Herbert Arthur Lewes for life 'or and have benefit of it forChristiaif earted fashionable Woman whoseemed to San rancisco perhaps the most distin during her widowhood and on her death'or Zd auX all its power andTte RmUSinSished fn the a second marriage one half "go to frs to be used exclusiveivac iSnst It ansed She had been an old school Itng man with host? of friends a legal au Lewes' son George Henry Lewes and the 1 I compamon and pkiymate of Mrs Dayton thor of remarkable ability upon the peculiar other to her daughter Marian Lewes The a as her 7 and piquant manner of I problems of Calif law made the re residue of the property isgiven to Charles Try tor to Get Ahead of the Maik 1 i aD Mrs Dale they quest shortly before Tiis death that none of Lee Lewes absolutely nJ oi me nails pJtoad been constant correspondents for many the bourts should adjourn on his account The of German officers is so ond iYburyPort (Mass) Hefrald' years and called themselves great friends and directed his funeral to be held at 'an that there is tradesman whoworild Dastaturday night a iHewbtuypdft gen But Mrs' Dale considered her letters far hour when lawyers could attend without refuse to trust a subalterri even if he knew to Boston was asked by a 1 to enjoy alone and as Mrs Somers neglecting their business is no him to be poor The reason is that a Ger PassenS if he would be kind enough a faYOn9Lhersshe often brought good reason he said with great good sense man officer cannot disgrace himself ih anv a iettor in a box when he arrived in reaa to never seeining to the business of courts of record way (and unpaid' debts are held disoince 116 i'willingly agreed to thmk or care thlit she was betraying her should be interrupted for a day because a ful) without losing his commission more do the little errand took the letter and confidence: or layipg lawyer even the most distinguished hap over the (esprit de corps among officers is Peditin a pocket Tuesday morning he most secret motives "to the eye of pens to die'' sol high that a comrades would thaPocket and brought to tot 1sMW6uld not not hesitate' to Day his debts for vHe had returned to New them favorably Tt was in search of this I What Great Britain and Ireland are him after he had been cashiered soon buryPort forgotten his errand Wish Pery Pcket of ietters that Mrs Sorters had worth s'ts are so multiform and wide in debt wherepen resident pJ request that the latter individual hand it to t' 'without a little trepidation and subscription and discharged all his ohliro Bostonround passenger thatf it 'o ine ror part she X7 (ions mignt oe xorwarciea baggage master aeu on ueruen was a most unpleas late senator Carpenter was i native took and handed il totlie first man going ant one? To draw from under a man the of and the old nennle toll wriom he met a perfect stranger Pedestalon which he had been' placed and many stories of him' He wasjnueh ort lThks geutlemari took it make him feel that the hand which had posed to manual i labor when a bov and riptidn and looked surprised? He tried elevated him had acted a part and is said that his father once left home toll to bufc was dnifounded At last 3hlle pretending to desire his esteem had ing the future senator to hoe a certain however he spoke and said: Why I gave been? seeking only her own comfort might patch of potatoes and mvin" him two thls letter Wself to a gentleman on the train Produce effects more disagreable than she shillings with 'which to get some one to Saturday night to post How on earth Tya? prepared to encounter Besides she help him The boy took the monev nd Clme Jou bJ This explanation was had fluahnfj of conscience which she buving a bottle of rum with one of when he remarked that the letter had stifled as they rose about the propriety of shillings offered tit to an Irishman if he was week Thurs' betraying the private correspondence of any would do the job To insure 'the faithful bY a and given to a gentleman the midst of these cogitations she fulfilment of the contract con th the recluest that he Post it in Boston hee at the door of Mr tractor would station himself at one end of He conrteousiy acquiesced put it in his and the next minute was sitting by a row and give the Irishman a drink as he and carried it till Saturday morn bim as she had often been in her girlish got around to him Paddv werked like a mg" thbn turned it over to the narrator days when she had brought him letters from hero? the task was soon done and Caroen I of tbe story wbo very properly cairied it I ber that he might sympathize in her ter was a shillingin pocket without having untilevemng and as he was not then go Witness Now her errand was so differ done a stroke of work himself Boston he turned it over to No 1 en a onb that she might have feared to A San rancisco paper has unnteasanf of nr tale with the results above described speak it if his lair of perfect assurance and information about the health of Rev Dr confidence had not provoked a smile and a manner In the midst nf a nw vm I i aid overflowing I took the letters from her hand and turning ii tyu you wniiE I will do: Ill give money ana words of trust and encouragement toother poor wretches as you gave to The next day Mrs ratict received' from the delivery man at her door a bundle which when she had opened it revealed to her as tonished gaze the most beautiful piece of oilcloth her eyes had ever beheld This naturally attracted the attention and when Mrs Pratlefc told him all he onlv 4ejHiuawiuQ some emotion: 1 on were right and I was wrong ct acte and ancies A few days ago the New Orleans sicay ttne came out with a heading It doubtless intended us a compliment to the jjoston military but significantly sugges tive of Saffron "1 (rt i 7 tiA little anecdote of Mr Carlyle describes him as looking at Holman pictureChrist in the He admired the faces of the doctors of the law but added: dislike all pictures of Christ i yon will find thatsmen never thought of painting Christ till they had begun to Jose the prestsionof Him in their Dr Morgan Dix has been interviewed on the subject of eternal 'punishment' by a New York reporter and is represented as saying that the cardinal doctrine of Uni vert salism not only is tolerated in the pulpits of the Episcopal churches bnf a'fhar freedom is in haimeny with the rules of that church rt: i Official documents recently issued in Co penhagen show the number of suicides in Denmark during tite ten vears 1869 79 to have been 4770 or 3709'r males and" 1061 female Of these it appeara fiftveight individuals were less than fifteen years of age 208 betweeml5 and 20: 549 between 20 and 30 61 7 between 30 and 40 1153 between 50 and 60 818 between 60 and 70 and 405 above 70 As to the mode of pei sons hanged themselves 754 drownedthemselves and tihq next largest numher resorted to firearms' The statistics of the m8gnitude rthe? Chinese opium trade is The total value of imports into China "in 1 1879 $114350000 of which $51'0C 000O or near ly one half was contributed bye opium alone the increase in quantity over' the pre vious year being nearly 1 500 000? pounds The value of opium imported exceeded the value of ten exported by $5000000 and the yaiue oi sitk exported by $10000000 well known hand was a complete history of his court ship from the time that she had smiled a sweet apology to him forbrushing bv him hastily to the day that he had brought her a boqnet of most rare and beautiful flowers and Jtold her that hours would seem like days till he saw her again There it all was with her annotations and comments Sometimes he was called her Adonis at oth ers hei Holofernes and manv other cnhrii quets seem to slip from her pen without at uLa fix miaAu wuikuki nemv Hirn home she intended te of she sbonM 'sSon be able to ie'fte 000 feeThunder cloud fWrt 4Ustful PregeP ts from relatives and the pleasantest place for him and this sis 'ter house the best home for his children about whom of course she could not be expected to concern herself And then' she expatiated on the delights of a large income and a home to which she cnnld fi il weary lhe onfusion of a wa Brdett outts'aril pxw vi luo uubiie oi me cny Without a word the letters were return ed to Mrs Somers who ratepd hot i inquiringiy to the giver The 1 epithet i mioht: will him at that moment and Mrs feared lest the storm should burst bn' het head but after a few moments he thanked her rathert coldly for undeceiving him promised as she requested perfect secresy as to the manner in which he had obtained his information and declared his deter mination to act upon it The letters were safely returned and neither Mrs Dale il earned for what purpose thev had been used But Sirs Dayton is Mrs Dayton' (Still and the presiding of Mr Clinton's home is the blue eved Alice Love is not msie of kisses or' of siglw'1' lOf clinging hatade or of the sorceries And 8ubtilewftchcrftfts of alluring eyes IiOVC: is not mane of brnknn i ln'annro Nor of the blushing cheek whose answering glow Tells that tlie ear has heard the accents low i iv A I i 1 U2 nni TY''vIc f' vi 4 UL nUlUWJj Of quivering lips or of enticing wiles Love is not tempted he himself beguiles This is Irive language but tins is not Love) If we know aught of Loye how shall we dare ou ciiMv it ijove wnen wen aware That these are ooinuion things and Love is rare? A' separate streams mav blending ever roll i vulnv uxuwu SO OI soul to soul i Love is the union mto one sweet whole As molten metale TninwlA aw i swells sweet in harmonv when Love is lord i i 1 wo hearts are one as letters form' a word One heart one mittl one soul and one desire? A kindred fancy and a sister fire I Of thought and potion these can Love his makes a beaveu of earth for this is Love' THAT (DOLLAR BILL How it did ram that None of yqur undecided showers with hes imting intervai ae it wc re between none of your mild pe eristerit patterings ori the' roof but a regular tempest a wild deluge a rush of arrowy drops and a thunder opening floods Squire ratiet heard the rattling up ugiiinst the casemeute and drew his snug easy chair closes to the fire a great open mass of glimmering anthracite and gazed with a sort of sleepy reflective satisfaction ar rue crimson moieen curtains and a gray eat fast aslor on t'fip hiK ra bird rolled into a drowsy ball of vellow zlnvtv iA xx ALB pOX CXI rpi i jl uis jh rant glad I had the leaky spot in the barn fixed last week I don't object to a stormy night oncif' iuyr while when a under cov er and thei is nothing particnlarlv to be Mi fei Pratlet answered She: was flitting about between the kitchen and sit tjng room with a great blue checkered apron tied about waist I am nearly ready to come in now Well 1 sotto voce that was a knock at the door or just a little rush of the She went to the door nevertheless and a minute or two afterwards she went to her Husband cnam Joe dear ns Luke Ruddilove? she said half apprehensively The Squire nevei looked up from his him he has: made a mistake The tavern is on the second comer But he wiute to know if you will lend him a said Mrs Pratlet Couldn you tell him no without the ceremony of coming to me? Is it likelythat I should lend a dollar or even a'cent 4 to Luke Ruddilove? Why a great deal rather throw iv among yonder icd coals No of course Dlrs' Pratlet hesitated looks so pinched and cold and wretch ed Josiah He says there is nobody in the world to let him have a cent 4 7 All the better for him' if she did: but Know it sharply enunciated the old squire If he Lad oome to that half a dozen peihaps he would not have been the'miserable vagabond he now We used to go to school said Mrs Pratlet gently was the smart est boy in the probable enough the but it alto? the fact He is a poor diunken wretch now Send him nhnnt bis business Mary and if his time is of any consequence juet let him know he had bet ter not waste it coming here after dollars And the squire leaned back in his chair after a positive fashion as if the whole nut 1 ter was settled i Mrs Pratlet went back to the kitchen where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his poor fingers over the blaze of the fire his kattered garments steaming as if he wasa pmar or vapor got to starve like any other said Luke Ruddilove turning after all I don't suppose it makes much difference if I shuffle out of this world to day or to morrow Luke no difference to your be better off without me he said 1 downheartedly she ought not to be and is are two 'different things' Pratlet Good night: 'I going to i tho tavern although wager something the squire thought I was rfi it natural enough that he should think so Jl yes Mary I say but what it murmured Luke iu the same dejected tone he used during the interview Mrs Pratlet called to him as his' ft hand lay on tho door latch in a low voice a dollarLuke Mr Pratlet gave it to me for an oilcloth to go in front of 'the parlor stove out 1 wall try and make the gold one last a little longer! And for $the sake of your poor wife land little ones fiat homeland for the sake of old times do gjtry and do better i B' Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly at the linew bank bill in his hand and then at the (J blooming young matron who had placed" it vfthere H' you Mary I will' God he said and crept out into the storm' that reigned without Mrs: Pratlet stood (looking into the kitchen fire dare say I've done a foolish Jibut indeed could not help it If he will gtaKe it noine ana not spend it at tffe tavern shall not miss my i ri And there was a conscious flush on her Checks as if she had done something wrong when she joined her husband in theVtitting room i said Squire Pratlet gone at "ri i'' the Stoke's tavern I hope not Josiah 7 i afraid it's past hoping said the Squire shrugging his shoulders 'But Mrs Pratlet kept her secret in her own 1 It was six months afterwards that the' I Squire came into the dining room where Mis wife was preserving greatired apples in wellri quoth he will 8 lever cease dhe Ruddiloves liave gone I don't know out West somewhere with colony And they say not drank drop of whisky for six months am glad of replied Mrs'P last he suggested pairingly not?" I I don't know I any faith in 'iese sudden reforms Mrs Pratlet was silent she thought iankfully tlyit after all Luke had not toent the dollar for liquor Six months six years the time' sped ortg in days and weeks almost before busy ttle Mrw Pratlet knew that it was gone he Ruddiloves had returned to Sequosset tike had made his fortune so the story ent far off in Eldorado do said Mrs Buckingham he 4 is bought that lot down opposite the urt house and he is going to build such house as never was must have prospered ob rved Mrs Pratlet friends so that she'will have" a good start in life The wedding will be a quiet one at the brides and in the presence of a few intimate friendsXti AND a nt lo?" Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette Speaking of it is surprising how rapidly even the great' fair but of notice Carlyle and Georee Elint A a mllxr wonders and they are already dropping from observation The latter was buried at Highgate? which is alreadv known nc resting place of Coleridge The fact that her husband (John' Walter Cross) was sa much 'younger (twenty years) than herself occasioned much comment This however is not without precedent in literary and so cial life One of the preceding clergy of this city is married to a woman ten years his senior and the union appears congen ial wife was twenty years than herhusband and it is much to the credit of the latter that he honored her to the last He ascribed much? of his success to her assistance and influence John Howard the philanthropist married out of gratitude a woman who was equally his senior She died in a few years "how ever and his second union was one of love It was however also dissolved by the death of his wife and then he devoted himself to philanthrophy5 first wife Jo sephine was his senior by six rears bein" 30 at the time of their while he was twenty five It would have been well for him had he valuedher conju gal lovej whpgej violation was the beginnin0 of his ruin Aaron7 Burr also married a who like Josephine had two chil dren Mrs' Burr was ten venva nton her husband but the union was very har monious She probably allowed that large liberty with the fair sex he had been accustomed and thus avoided domes tic quarrels John Wilkes the famoiis London agitator of the last century married a lady who was tenyears his senior: but yffs notwilling to overlook his larities and hence obtained a divorce Johnson the married the widow Porter who had small property He was acquainted with the tamitv the death of her husband and this helped in the matter of courtship' Mrs Porter was 48 while her husband "was only 21 at the time of the wedding The latter was certainly one of very peculiar character The parties started horseback forthe place where the ceremony was be performed and Johnson thus describes to Boswell: she' had gotitinto her head from old romances rthat a woman of spirit should use her Hover dike a dog At first she told me' I rode too fast and she could not' keep up with me but when I slacked my pace she passed me and com plained thatl lagged I wasnct'to be inade the stave of caprice and therefore pushed on till I out of her sight When she got to the destination observed she Was in tears always mourned the loss of his wife and though he was 'Only 43 at the time of her deathhe never married again How often in his 'subsequent writings he Te ters to his lost companion in the' most af fectionate manner! When only 18 Shakspeare was married to Anne Hathaway whose age was 25 Six months from the wedding day a son was bom to this ill mated pair The husband and father had no means of supporting a family and when the tatter had increased to the number of a son and two daughters he tied to London" The deserted wife supported her children as best she could i andtwenty years afterward her husband re turned and by subsequent conduct strove to atone for his early eiror Such facts as these prove that John Walter Cross in marrying Marion Evans had' some strik ing precedents' TIIE A Romantic Incident of His'Earlv Liff rom the New York Herald Alexander II lately assassinated acquired the rank of heir apparent by the accession of his father Emperor Nicholas to the throne Dee 1825 an event which made a deep impression upon the mind of this hoy of nearly eight years whosqfirst dis tinct memories were connected with the revolutionary horrors of that gloomy month and particularly by a memorable incident of the December revolution The inten tion of the conspirators was to' exterminate the imperial family and divide Russia into petty principalities after the manner of Germany The guards of the palace were largely involved the but one themAvho was devoted to the young prince and cduld not bear to see him killed made known the impending danger at the last moment' ta The Gzar was in his dressing room sip ping a cup of tea one evening of that month wdienthis conspirator who was a seiwant of palace hurriedly claimed admittance to presence bringing' boy Alexander in his arms and accompanied by General riedericks The plot made was revealed then and there The Czar at once comprehended the importance of the statement and the disloyal palace guard consisting of picked menof above six feet in height officered by members of the no bilitv was instantly disarmed and sent to Siberia It was replaced by a battalion of inlanders aken from the line and forming a strong contrast in' their raiment un tanned skins and tall fur hats to the Bril liant crimson and 'gold uniform of 'their predecessors of the morning Nicholas knew that they were to be trusted but resolved to afford them a memorable example of his: confidence Taking the boy Alexander by the hand he led him info the courtyard where the innish battalion was drawn up and placed him in their care The soldier who first received the Prince deliberately removed his fur hit reverently embraced and kissed his future 'sovereign and passed i urn to the arms of a comrade ''Thus' toe boy Prince was passed sol dier until the entire battalion had sealed its oyalty kiss'Leaving the joy in their hands Nicholas then proceeded to order an attack upon the insurgents'1 who were gathered tin St square and within a brief space of time they were driven flying through the capital' and the immediate danger was at an When the Czar returnedrto the palace and took the child from the custody of the royal inns the fate of the Empire was assuiTed A young bride being asked how herh'us land turned out replied that he turned out very late in the morning and turned in very late at night Here is a brief and bright saying of King Archelauswhen a talkative barber trimming lis beard asked him replied the king Jhc daintiest piece of sweetness that I LST i now behind that lace AV ithilraw the curtain softly from its place taay see the eweot it screeneth so Diosiinniest head that ever caught the glow aim8'uneon it the most flower like face Ihat ever made you dream space Of orchards when the blossoms blow Petite piquantand a sad coquet She makes you plead for kisses times untold1 A uu at the last denies you and will fret i PPr8e her mouth and bridle if you scold bhe is my queen and I her slave and yet "This same coquet is only two years old it Irresponsible" Young llotheii 2 'V THE AIR CLIENT dear! Gorrcin tWrtciv ra to marry that horrid Mrs Dayton What shall We said Alice Clinton as she 'ran into: Mrs breakfast room one bright summer morning followed by her younger brother and sister you speak to father Cousin continued she' coaxingly knowyop hve more in jl mm than any one else chimed in George don dare to speak to him about 'it That dreadful woman! I never en dure' her' lam sure we nu never 'cfciv dnf i home if she comes I ill come and live with 'c And so will I sobbed little Alary" cry ing out of pure sympathy for: her brother and sister hat is the asked Mrs Som ers anything happened lately? Only last week your father told me that toe re port of his intended marriage was false 1 It seems to me you alarm yourselves unneces sarily i notiji enlied Alice a fair crirl sixteen ig coming here nexto week and! heard father tell Uncle John this morning that he hoped his house w7ould be a little more cheerful before long for he thought of bringing home a bright presiding genius Thosewere his very and Alice leaned her head on Mrs shoulder and sobbed bitterly well" said tatlast overcome by their united tears and en treaties will exert all mv influence your favor but I am afraid will be use less when opposed by Mrs charms' tioxy ua your lamer become so infatuated by a woman he once disliked so said George bluntly flatter ed him'so much I heard her toll him fhnf he was one of the finest looking men she: ever saw and she called him so statelyand then she looked at Mrs Dale and laughed but father did not see her that reminds meexclaimed Mrsj Somers have an idea in my mind but fear it will hardly be right to act upon said Alice raising her blue eyes filled with tears would be right it seems to me Prav do £1 that vou I dearest rdry your and go home and will think about Mrs! Somers kissing her brow I see your father coming run horiie through the garden and I will speak with And Mrs' Somers stepped into the Tittle grassplat in front of her house and called to Mr Clinton who readily obeyed her sum mons for he had been waiting for an opT portunity of informing his old ward and favorite of his determination and of justify ing himself in her eyes for what he feared she would consider a rash step i Long and earnest was the conversation4 She recalled to his mind the dislike' form himcnl nnrl Speaking of worshipped Mrs Dayton asked him if he I Lr Tt XTTr 4 I 1 1 it i i uuvh luuic tiau rorcToixnn mat ho had nn Vvi 1 I i I recons paxfeta Me more ept then others sons of clergymen It is a fallacy a otoss 7 nJ i iT? the produce an open it was all to yery larSe weaItb investing Thn5Sytolea8 listenedr'with'u ft natural sequence impatience said thatehe had 'been ve Journal presents potent and ni TfcJ tnOr rno I Ani I lwz Tl i 1 vmiuxcu ui UAUHdlUILieil innrh TniKnnrlPrctnnH oha'KnrK ans sffo uld become Mohammedans and of everything to him' 'and im a' village like ber of todays by includin Buddhists Buddhists th if hi hirer mi.