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Z. P. H. FARR,
ATTOF.NET AT LAW,
L1TTI.E ROCK, ARKANSAS.
RORT. S ANnF.ltSMf, WM. J. THOMPSON.
Jatkrm-parl, Ark. All'jmla, Ark.
Amlerwon «fc Thompaon,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Ark.
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ATTORNEY.AT LAW
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SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
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of Prairie. White, .Jackson, Woodruff and
Mom Particular attention given to the
collection of claims any where iu the State.
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C-itton Plant, Arkansas.
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attention to all business entrusted it his
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UES klU, IRKIVSVS.
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Auj/tuta. Ark. JatkioHporl, Jr’.
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Jackseupert am! tagima. Arkansas.
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JONES * TOTTEN.
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BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
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CLARENDON, ARK.
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SOL. F. CLARK. SAM W. WILLIAMS.
JOE W. MARTIN.
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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
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COTTOy PLANT. WOODRUFF CO. ARK.
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Pcs Arc tin0 vicinity in the practice of j
medicine. Thankful for past favors,
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.40 share .1 liberal prlremage.
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L Cii\ieu# ol’ D*s Vro and surrounding
country, in the practice of Medicinefinvl Ob- '
stetrie*. He hopes from on experience i>!
over fifteen yours in (Southern practice* to,
merit ft share of public patronage.
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J. M. BtUIVEY.
tot. n. coot*y. mO'Tiak i
COODY & McRAE,
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SI'.ilU Y, tor TTY,
A n ItAXSAS.
Will practice in all the 40 arts of Arkansas.
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F*. LEPTIEX,
WiiteliHiakcr and Jeweler^
1
DES ARC, ARKANSAS. !
rAM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
kinds of work in my liue. Mead
! iug, Cleaning. &c. *
-Thankful for past favors, I solicit a
cootinuanoe of the patronage heretofore be
stowed on me. f«b2$-ff
milB UNDERSIGNED HAVING ArA
1 opened a VIoilst> of Enter- JiijL
lalnilirnt, on Buena Vista Street, near
the Steamboat Laudiug, for the accommoda
tion of .
TRAVELERS AND BOARDERS,
By the day, week, or month, solicit, the p»t- '
ronage of those rieiliug Des Arc. The fere’
! will he a. good aa the market affovda, and
Items moderate.
) Give me a trial, and 1 will endcarar to give
! eatiBfaetion.
BKXJA IX 1IAYLEY
ft,., \rr Vr)c . March 1**7 —1-rn
D4ttK\i;SS.
BY AGNES LEON ARD.
When the twilight curtains fluttered
Slow adown the shadowed sky,
In my heart a groan was uttered
For an idle dream gone by.
And I fanoied that the suDset
Trailed its banners o’er a cloud.
With a motioti in the night wind,
Like the rustling of a shroud.
Day bath faded and the darkness
Seems of my deep soul a part;
Darkness, and no hope of morning
For the midnight in my heart
Ah ! the wild tumultuous paspion
Of this angry thwarted pain ,
Ah! the many bitter fancies
Heeling ever through my brain.
Dream I cherished, Hope I nurtured.
Falsest of all falser things.
With .the grasp of tiend-IUt^ tortures
To my heart thy memory clings.
Memory that stern pride is crushing
In the ashes of despair.
Bluttedout Love’s golden record
From my life-page blank and bare.
Blessed Sorrow fold me closer,
Thou at least art not estranged;
Thou at least arc constant ever,
All but thee grim Time hath chang'd
Strengthen me, oh patient Sorrow ;
Gourage, Peace and Wisdom lend
For the lonely, coming morrow,
Oh most faithful earthly friend.
Thou hast taught me many lessons,
Teach mo now one lesson tuuri,
Lead me by thy rugged by-ways
PI carer to Inc Heavenly snare.
Patient teacher, pallid sorrow ;
blessed angel in disguise,
Thou wilt teach my spirit-pinions
High and higher yet to rise.
A DESPEItAI'E CHANCE!
lit Charles Porter Scmxek.
CHAPTER I.
•'The infernal serpent.' he it was who. ■ guile.
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived "
—Paradise Post.
Why 1 have non- resolved to disclose
a secret buried in my own breast for
thirty years it boots not to tell. Per
haps it may be from mere recklessness,
for I am ft desperate man. and, though
none have suspected it, l have been so:
for more than half my Jile. lie the
motive tvhat it may, I alii resolved, ai.d,
if the effort result in tortures potent to
[-end asunder the Inst (Votl Miro»A oi*mg
ife, 1 will fulfill that i impose.
That I am guilty this confession will |
imply prove, nor does it palliate my
guilt that I was tempted. Vet K m i it ,
well to state £hc nature of my tempta- i
don, for I solemnly believe that uo
mortal ever suffered the same terrible '
L-xperiene*. It. is, in fact, my deliber
itc conviction that a veritable fiend,,
.'ommissioned by Satan himself for |
Ibis very design, encompassed my de
struction. Not in the spirit did this !
demon haunt me, but as a human be-,
ing like myself; warm, broaching,
baudsothe, flesh and blood—but none 1
the loss a devil! h'or half a score of
years lie was niy bosom friend. I
fairly worshipped him, and fondly be
lieved that his love for me was as a
shield of triple bra>s. And yet J killed
him !
Let me tell my tale.
* * * * * *
IS'y name—or rather tho name 1 j
choose to use in this confession—is i
Walter Carlisle. Left an orphan at an
early age, 1 succeeded to a moderate
inheritance, and was adopted by my
maternal uncle, Jason Wilmer. My
guardian was a childless widower, and
pleaded with me in infancy, determin
ed, when 1 thus became dependent on
his protection, to educate me as his
heir. He was a merchant of great
wealth and high standing, and, beside
my sell', loved nothing on tho earth so |
much ns the good name of his comnier- j
cial lionse. In this, however, there
was nothing sellish or miserly—for he 1
was charitable to a fault, and all who
knew him blessed him for his kind
heart and open hand—but he was jeal
ous of the honor ills firm had acquired
in the business world, and regretted
bitterly, till ho adopted me, that he had
do direct descendant who would per-J
petnato its probity and importance |
when he should pass away.
When I came to him he fondly hoped
that, at last, lie had found a fitting sub
stitute for a son, who would fulfill his
cherished ambition. Accordingly he
resolved, oven in my boyhood, that 1
should succeed him, not only' in bis
wealth, but iu ids name and business.
I was to be Carlisle Wilmer, when 1
dime into possession at his death, and j
tiie name of the firm was to remain
unaltered ; his will, which he executed
when he adopted tue, expressly provi
ding that I should not inherit unless I
carried on the business.
A new life opened to him when lie1
had thus decided on educating me for ,
the position which lie hoped I would
worthily till when he was gone. My 1
youth was one of fair promise, and ere
long lie grew to love me as if 1 had
been, indeed, his son. In those days
ot innocence—In fact until the tempter
and my crimes had changed my very
nature—I returned his love. I rever-!
euced him as my father, and as a bright
example whose course I was to follow.
Had any prophet whispered in mv ear,
while I was thus grateful and free from
sin, that 1 should one day be the asp in
bia cup of joy to stiug him unto death,
1 should have laughed the oracle to
scorn and considered him a madman !
Time passed ; my school education
was completed, and I was introduced
into the counting-house to undergo
that thorough course of mercantile
training which wits to tit me for ni>
important position in the future. No
pains were spared to induct me com
pletely into the mysteries of commer
cial science; but my adoptive lather
was a shrewd man of the world and
knew full well that youth was the time
for enjoyment. I was, therefore, by
no means closely confined during the
first years of tuv probation, Mr. Wil
mer justly arguing that my love for
business must be gradually imbibed,
that I might never consider it irksome
through the memory of any hardship
in ray apprenticeship. Accordingly I
shared freely in the pVcnsures of those
youths of my own age whom he per
mitted me to know, bis only censor
ship consisting in the choice of worthy
companions for me, and my allowance
in money was more liberal than that of
any of my young friends.
Those were halcyon days indeed, and
until I attained the age of eighteen I
never know a care. At that ago I was
fulfilling his utmost wishes; I had
never done a wrong wilfully; 1 was
steadily acquiring a taste for mercan
tile life and became strictly attentive
toils duties; and, as 1 have said, I
loved and reverenced ldm beyond all
the world. There seemed to be no
single cloud upon the bright horizon
of my life, and could I have chosen ray
own lot ere I was born, knowing and
feeling what I did then, I would not
have chosen differently. Tint the dark
(Jays wore swiftly coming nevertheless,
arid 1 must turn from the only pleasant
retrospection in my life to chronicle
their advent.
llow and when I first met Arthur de
Chargin' is briefly related. It was on
the occasion of the celebration of my
nineteenth birtl day. 1 had been din
ing at my uncle’s country-house, and,
when returning to the city at night,
my horse took fright at a passing wag
on. Taking the bit between his teeth
ho dashed furiously down a steep hill
at the foot of which ran a mountain
torrent, swift, deep and impassable! I
gave myself tip for lost and shut my
eyes to meet niv death blindly. The
frantic steed mailed on; there was a
sudden check to his career, a violent
slioek to mvsclf, and a loud shout ring
ing in iny bewildered ear. When I re
p,,.;,,,..! .»}• suii'-uasii: triou 1 found n>>
self lying on the bank of the furious
torrent, and bending over me 1 saw,
by the lig' : of a small lantern which
he held in hi. Land, the Ilian who had
save I me .Vom a cruel death. Saved
me, ales! from mortal peril only to
condemn me t Immortal lortiient!
I never knew uxaolly how ho had
preserved mo; tlio simple tact wa
cnoujfh. and from that moment 1 vow
ed to him an eternal friendship. That
it was e.-eie w irh no little peril to him
self. was manifest in a broken arm,
w'yicli hung helpless at his side, and
the mangled body of niv steed, which
had plunged to its death upon the rocks
in the bed ot the stream. Recovering
myself almost immediately 1 became
his assistant, and in due time we
reached a roadside tavern where the
services of a surgeon were obtained
and his injured arm was set.
1 imu nun .mf'j'jdmiumv vi uowi v
ing llie personal appearance of him
who had thus rescued ino from de
struction, and found much to com
mend both in that and itis manner. * He
was evidently a gentleman, plainly but
richly dressed, and having about him
that air of savior-vivre which denotes
birth and high-breeding His person
was ot tlie middle bright, well-formed
and graceful, though possessing great
strength. Ills hate and military whis
kers were coal black, his eyes of the
same hue and of piercing brilliancy,
w hile the rest of his features were per
fectly regular and striking, lie was,
in fact, a very haul, some man, in the
prime of life, and in every way calcu
lated to please. His most singular and
inipressive attribute, however, was the
wonderful variety of expression of
which iris face was capable, and 1 tun
at a loss either to describe this charac
teristic or.lo explain its extraordinary
influence upon myself.
lit ordinary moods this expression
was one of gentle seriousness; lie
might thru have been deemed a phi
lanthropist wtiosc only cure was the
welfare of his fellow-men. In his
hours of love and tenderness his lace
became that of a seraph,; ids soft glan
ces intoxicated; his smile was ravish
ing, and his whole aspect a potent
spell to fascinate and enthrall the ob
ject of his regard. When rage flamed
upward from his fiery heart, oh, lieav
cu 1 w hut a transformation! still
grandly beautiful, his countenance be
came the epitome of wrath. Light
uiugs flushed from Ins glowing eyes,
bis delicate lips were the seat of a
scorn unutterable, and his lofty brow
the throne of a frown us majestic and
ominous as that of dove himself. None
who incurved his anger over forgot
that baleful look, and few bad the
courage to withstand it.
But though these sentence*may seem
exaggerated—and rather to depict the
attributes of a god than a man—there
was one other expression that he often
wore which changed hia countenance
to that of a very •end I It never lost
its beauty or its fascination, but in this
mood that loveliness became demonlao
—the unearthly splendor shilling from
the visage of the i’riuee of Evil! The
truth was that this seeming seraph was
»b stheis' snd scoffer! No religion of
any kind ever found a [dare in Ids set
ish, icy heart, and Ids whole life was t
continual and deadly battle again*
: God and virtue. Nothing of hollneei
or good could he mentioned in hi:
presence without calling that awftt
look to his face, tliat daiiiuiug sneer t<
Ids scornful lip. It transformed him
as I have said, to the immediate like
1 ness of the. star that fell from heaven
the semblance of that arch-angel, who
in his pride, rebelled against Omnipo
tence, and became a serpent to fasci
nate and destroy mankind!
It must not be imagined that I dis
cerned this fearful phase of his eharac
ter at once. Many years passed ere 1
guessed it even, and I never knew bin
thoroughly until the moment ot hit
| death at my hand I In the meantimi
he had ensnared my soul through hii
supernatural beauty and his winning
subtle tnanner; so that I believe 1
should have been his slave even bad I
realised the full extent of the evil ir
liie nature. I have been thus magnilo
quent in endeavoring to describe bin;
because the greatest words are too fee
ble to convey an adequate idea of hit
extraordinary attractions, and the ter
rible power of the enchantment which
pervaded his whole being. Even when
I was fully aware that his counsels anil
his example wore leading me to mortal
sin, I was powerless to escape the mys
terious influence he exercised, and,
with my eye? wide open, l deliberately
followed him to my doom ! God grant
Ih.-it earth mav never more he visited
by such an incarnate devil I
During his convalescence from tlie
injury he had received in reselling me
from death, on the night when first we
met, I learned all that 1 ever knew ot
his birth and previous history. Ac
cording to ilia own story—which I
never had cause to doubt—Arthur de
< hargiiy was Tiie only son oi i French
noble who had been guillotined during
the Hcign of Terror, and whose family
had been forced to fly from France.
Ar'tiurnnri bis mother alone reached
the United Suites, anil within the year
after his arrival lie iv i» left an orphan.
They had been able to bring with tbelli
a lew family diamonds, tho ile ot
which had produced barely enough to
provide an income adequate to supply
a miserable subsidence. At his mo
ther s death this small inronio reverted
to him and; as he said, lie bad found ii
Midicicnt loV bis Wniirs. i it .ii in o at
terward that tbi« pittance by no means
formed bis sole resource; what be re
ally depended upon will appear soon.
Ile was but an infant when bis mother
fled from Frame, and when ! met him
lie had reached the age of thirty. The
particulars of liis intervening life 1
,it cCl- learned, hut what it had been
may lie conjectured from that which I
sill about u* l"!is|c of bis suscijiiirnr
career.
From the hour of our first acquaint
ance we became inseparable. I have
already shown wliv l became devoted
to him ; his motives for cultivating' »u
great an iufimney with a mere boy, as
I was llicit, will shortly bo painfully
apparent, 1 need not dwell on our
earlier intercourse, further than to say
tl. it I introduced llilll into UlVOWUcil'
ele of friends. and even to my uncle-.,
house and table. In every situation he
made a favorable impression and gnin
ed friends. He was too consummate a
hypocrite ever to allow the most virtu
ous to suspect his real character.
Among bis most extiftordinary quali
ties was that of au inexhaustible pa
tience. "Featina lente’ was ids motto,
and he never attempted a coup do main
when cunning subtlety would answer
his purpose. ) have reason to suppose
that he coolly determined to use me as
his tool, and effect my ruin while hr
built up his own fortunes, almost in
the very hour we met, or at least as
soon afterward as lie discovered my
position in society and future expecta
tions. Nevertheless he neither by hint
or action ever allowed me even to sus
pect such u design. Through many
years of the close intimacy between u
iiis only effort was to gradually under
mine my morality and corrupt my
ideas of religion and sin. Not openly,
not even frequently, but by a long, pa
tient course of sophistry, the sly cam
ping of which would have done ltonot
to the arch tempter himself.
It was a masterly plan, and at last hit
untiring perseverance hud its reward.
By degrees I began to scoff'at straight
laced morality louder than lie cvet
dared to do. Gradually the restraints
of religion gave way before the assattlti
of a cynical phi losophy that was tin
creed of n fiend, and, finally, though I
knew it not. I was worse than tin
•
tempter in my utter infidelity »tid con
tempt of all that was virtuous and in
uocent. The change was very slow
but not the less real and complete, am
in secret my destroyer, doubtless, sun*
pawns of triumph as he exulted in my
certain downfall. Thus nearly tei
years passed away , ami then, tlndini
me ripe for his terrible purpose, my
evil mentor prepared and presentee
before me my first temptation!
Helena Montlordl daughter of tin
Graces, twin sister to the sirens—-lhoi
Circe who betrayed y et loved me—how
shall I describe thee?
* Oh, cuauiag enemy, that to catch a salat
With saint, didst bait tby hook’ most dan
fpvrous
is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin. in loving virtue!"
And to me she was a saint; will al
ways be one—In my memory. Foi
though 1 knew her now to have beet
the viWt of the rile most false of at
things treacherous—I also know that
site was tempted, ruined, and betrayed,
even as 1 was, by that subtle devil:
and in my heart 1 hold her, as 1 held
her at first,
"Fairest and loveliest of created things,
by our great Author in the image formed
Of ills celestial glory, and designed
To be man's solace."
Yes, she was beautiful, hi ore beauti
ful than tlie Homan s queen, for whom
he lost a world! fairer than psyche,
whom the god of Love himself adored!
more witching than Ontphale, for the
love of whom the god of Strength be
came an abject slave and twirled the
distaff! Her eyes were crystals cut
from heaven's azure,gleaming with the
light of radiant stars ; her tresses were
like threads of ruddy, woven gold
flowing around a brow and throat of
snow-drift whiteness! Her cheeks
were peach-blooms scattered on that
self-same snow-drift, and her lips!
"The upper one was thill.
Compared to that was next her elliu,
Some bee had stung it newly."
Imagine such a goddess, perfect in
every outline of a graceful f orm, in ev
ery lineament of a heavenly face, and
wonder not at my enchantment; for
j such,Indeed, was the Dejaniru destined
' hv my destroyer to enfold me in the
poisoned tunic of the Centaur Crime,
and well was she chosen for the fatal
task. Thoroughly trained in every po
lite accomplishment, her wonderful
talents enhanced and developed by all
the resources of education, perfect in
p VP I* v art of fiP(1fit'tin:i Mini kii norm* 11 v
powerful iu the majesty of tier glorious
beauty, she dazzled and intoxicated me
from »he very first, and ere long held
mo enchained in bonds l was impotent
to resvd rounder.
Nor did I desire to escape Iter thral
dom. Having brought us together—in
such a way that I never dreamed he
bad aught to do with her beyond a
common friendship—he soon saw that
I was at her mercy, and left her to com
plete the evil work he bad -o patiently
begun, t.'ontldeot that she would not
fail him—for lie held Iter bouud in
stronger chains than she held me—lip
was content to resume his devilish pa
tience and look silently on while the
work of death went forward !
1 was fully aware, from my first in
troduction to her. that she had parted
with her brightest jewel, houbr-though
1 knew not that he was her seducer—
but, as 1 have said, virtue bud already
hoeti made to appear a mere name to
me, atid her unfortunate position in the
world only hastened her triumph over
me. It did not surprise me, therefore,
to tin ! that she was leagued with game
sters and knaves in her struggle with
the world, and before long my blunted
COUse'cti.'c uttered no warning when I
beheld her joiu with them iu acts of
; fraud, "be did not let me .see this till
l was helpless in her toils, and then I
did not shudder at the revelation.
When I became her acknowledged
lover, L>e Chargny threw off the mask,
and I knew, for the first time iuo.ur in
tercourse, how my friend really lived.
He w as ail accomplished and most skill
ful gamester, a robber of dupes, a cheat,
and an arrant knave. Strange to gay,
| even this knowledge lessened not my
friend-bin or rnv a .1 in i ral ion fur him
Uis sly. patient corruption of my mor
al nuttii'c had been so thorough, though
so insidious, that 1 was not shocked at
his turpitude, blit rather exulted in ids
cleverness, lie had blinded me with
fair-seeming sophistry till 1 deemed
sin merely a cant title for superior
shrewdness, a bugbear hv which hypo
crites endeavored to frighten fools from
following in their footsteps. Uis fear
ful work had been well done, and now,
unknown to me, lie began to reap the
harvest!
I l'p to this time t had suffered neith
er in purse or position through my in
timacy with him. Before the world he
bore an immaculate character, and he
had taken special care uot to allow a
whisper of iiis real lile to reach the cir
cle in which I moved. He had never
tempted me to neglect my business du
ties, but rather cucounag'ed nte to per
severe iu them, and iu my uncle’s eyes
De Chargny was the very guide, of all
the world, to be chosen for his adopted
son to follow. How doubly blind we
are us to the motives and real charac
ters of our moat intimate associates!
But now the cloak was thrown aside,
to me at least, and the reward he hud
so long toiled for within his grasp.
Even now, however, he did not let me
perceive tliut lie had aught to do with
niv ruin. Through all, until the very
last, i believed him niv true friend, and
honored him more and more for the
advice by which he appeared to endea
vor to arrest ray downward course,
though In reality, by arousing iu my
breast a foolish spirit of opposition, it
tended only to accelerate my fall, lie
was a patient fiend, as 1 have said, aud
did naught without design,
f I cannot dwell on this period of my
Ufe, nor it there need. Mere worldly
ruin is blit an atom in the mountain of
evil my awful story must yet disclose.
Let it be br.efly said that, led on by the
triple fascination of my dearest friend’s
example, the enchanting lures of the
divinity I worshiped more than aught
iu heaven or on earth, and the terrible
pa -ion which gaming ever excites iu
its votaries. I became a gambler iu the
most desperate sense of the w ord—and
at llio age. of thirty, ten years after I
first met De Chargnv. I stood before
the accursed altar of chance, stripped
: of every farthing of niv paternal iiihcf
itunre, and ripe, in my freuzy, to fol
low any devil's counsel that should first
salute rny ear!
Nor was that counsel wanting. At
my elbow stood tbo fiend himself, and
by bis side a siren only too ready to
confirm bis atrocious Jesuitry, and sing
my startled conscience into sleep by the
melody of as angel’s voice issuing from
the lips of an accursed sorceress!
[to be continued.]
Strung* Unman Monstrosity.
From the Nashville Union we take the
following :
A medical lrlcnd reports having seen
within the past week, while travelling
through the southern portion of Lincoln
I county, a most wonderful human monstros
ity.
It is a well developed white child, of
some' ten years of age, walking, talking,
eating, etc., in the most approved juvenile
| manner, with a third arm growing from
its back, immediately between the should
ers This arm, as it is called, is no flabby,
useless excrescence, as is common in such
freaks of nature, but a healthy, well de
: fined limb, with separate and appropriate
l bones, joints, muscles, etc., and applied by
its little owner to a number ol strange
uses. In the center of a plate of bone
! permanently uuiting the shoulder blades,
is the socket or first joint, permitting the
limb to be moved freely in all directions,
by means of several powerful and strange
ly complicated muscles. From the socket
extends a largo triangular bono, or three
small bones combined—perfectly straight,
and about 5? inches in length, terminatim?
in a short, flexible wrist, upon which close
ly fils the hand. This hand, is somewhat
in the shape, and about the size of an or
dinary funnel, with d fingcr-like projec
tions, at equal distances about the rim
The lingers have claw-like nails, joints,
etc., and possesses the power of opening
and closing as in the ordinary hand, their
grip, however, being much more powerful.
The palm, which seeds already hardened
by use, recedes into the wrist, leaving a
small opening, from which constantly
oozes a dark mucus discharge entirely de
void of smell.
At a word from its mother, the child
bided and carried about with its strange
member a small chair, and other unwieldy
articles—susnemled itself from the doctors
walking stick, and went through a num
ber of evolutions, which would put to blush
a well-trained monkey.
The doctor candidly declares that he
deems the case not deformity, and that the
limb, being perfect, and harmonizing with
the entire body, is nothing more nor less
than a designed addition to it, by its great
Author, ami this little boy’s birth has cre
ated a blank in natural history. That he
is not of the genus homo, is certain, but
wh»‘her his strange species will lie per
petuated or not is a question for the learn
ed to di cuss, and for time to determine.
Very lew are aware of the existence of
this wonderful being, even in the neigh
borhood where his parents are said to re
side,
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Jo.sti Ultliugsiuma.
It strains a man s philosophee the
wust kind tew latl'when lie gits beat.
Awl uv us koniplain uv the short
uuss uv life, yet wo nwi wast more
time than we uze.
Don't mistake arrogause fur wisdom,
meuny peple hav tho’t tha wuz wize
when tha wuz onla windy,
j The mau who kan t git ahed without
; pul 1 in others hack is a worry limited
cuss.
The principal differtneo between a
luxury and a necessary i* tlie price.
Wheuover tho soul is in grief it is
i taking root.
“(live the devil his due," but be care
ful there ain’t much due him.
I Afler a man lias rode fast oust lie
j never wants to go slow agin,
i Faith that is founded on an earnest
and a truthful eouvickshuu is beautiful
10 behold, hut luith that is founded
i siinplu by courage ain’t euuythiug
| more than good grit.
Evra joy lias its twin; the fun uv
1 scrulchin almost pays for having the
eaeh.
I Those famllys who are really fust
I class never afraid that tha shall git
cheated out uv their respeektability,
while the eodtish family* are always
nervous lest tha mite.
it won’t do to stir up a man when lie
is thinking entiy more than it will a
pan uv milk when the cream is rising.
F is easy enough to "raise the devil,
but he is a hard crop to l eap.
The only sure restpee tew govern
mankind with is lire rod j you may fes
toon it with flowers and case it with
velvet if you piezo, but it is the rod af
ter awl that does the business.
tVe ar told that a contented man is
! happy, and we might hav bin told at
the same time that a mud turtle could
1 tly if it onla had wings.
|*jr“\Vhat are you about, you black
rascal? Twice have you roused me
; from my sound sleep to tell me that
breakfast is ready, and now you’ve
awoke me by Attempting to pull otr the
bedclothes 1 What the deuce do >ou
mean? “"Why massa, if yon isn’t going
to get up. I mu* hah de sheet anyhow,
“ease dey’r waitin for dc tabl# clof!’’
*aj-Au old lady, hearing somebody
say that the mails w ere very irregular,
said; ‘it was just so in tuy young
days-T-tio trusting any of them.”
A conservative stndeut in a
Western college, discussing the ques
tion of negro suffrage iu a public debate,
closed his eloquent argument with the
remark :“If yon choose to marry blacks
you may do so ; but as for myself, when
I marry, I shall marry one of my own
sex.”
«3rWhat a poor world this would
be if it had no women and newspapers
in it. How would the news getavomid.
tni'A young man once told Dr.Beth
une that he had eYi listed in thfi Aditiy of
•Zioft. ‘tn which Church ?’ asked the
Doctor, ‘In the Baptist,’ was the reply.
•I should ’call that joining the navy,’
was the Doctor's response
S-ajrAt a church in Scotland, them
was a popular call; two candidates of
fered to preach, of the nanieR of Adam
and Low. The last preached in the morn
ing and took for his text, “Adam, where
art thou? ' He made a most excellent
discourse, and the congregation wero
much euifieu. In the evening, Mr. Adam
preached, and took for his text, “Lo>
here am 11” The impromptu and his
sermon gained him the church.
8*3?"A town in Iowa has the poinlo®
name of Semicolon ville. This would bo
a capital place to make a full stop at for
a short period. sw
ftyjrlu a village ‘away down East’ so
the story runs-, an exhorter at a revival
meeting became envious because a
brother was his superior in singing and
praying. So lie got ftp and said : ‘Brother
-can sing and pray; but there is
one tiling I can beat him at —I can fid
die his shirt off.’
Sisf-Dr. Johnson was one day dining
at the house of an English lady, when
she asked him if he did not think her
pudding very good. “Yes," growled
the great moralist, “it is very good
IVI IJHiWl l II . J UU iw UllUbUVI
plate ful?" was her instant reply.
fle£““Ill teach you to play pitch and
toss! I'll (log you for an hour, 1 will!”
“Father!” instantly replied the incorri
gible, as he balanced a penny on his
thumb and linger, “I’ll toss you to
make it two hoUrs or nothing.”
StarMen, in looking at the faults of
women, should shut their eyes.
Our gallant “devil” says they have no
faults, and that there is no use of shut
ting your eyes at all.
H»a5“Uunging a mackerel to your
coat tail and imagining yourself a
whale, constitutes codfish aristocracy.
S-2-Oencrally observed-tilting skirts
and pretty ankles, chignon?) short
dresses, pretty busts and other people’s
business.
S«j“A petite blue-eyed maiden, who
was nursing lier fifth Christmas doll,
and listening to her mother and some
female friends talking about domestic
broils and Chicago divorces, created
rather a sensation by remarking;
“Well, ilia, Fm never going to marry !
I m going lo be a widow !”
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How lieu «iot Cross-Eyed'
J.ittlc Beany Butler
Sat up iu his chair
Looking o’er the tablo
r If any spoons were there
Ou each aide of Benu}’,
Careless, a spoon was tossed ,
Ho tried to watch them both
And so his eyes were crossed
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SaTA handsome young widow ap
plied to a physician to relieve her ot
throe distressing complaints with
which she was afflicted. In the first
place, said she, I have little or no
appetite—what shall I do for that?
For that, madam, you should take
air and exorcise.
And, Doctor, I am quite fidgety at
night time, and afraid to he alone—
what shall I do for that ?
For that, madam, I can only recom
mend that you take a husband.
Fie! Doctor. Hut I have the blues
terrible. Have you any panacea for
that ?
A sovereign remedy, madam.—For
that I recommend that you take the
Des Arc Citizen, published at Des Arc
\ Arkansas,
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gtjy-A good joke was told us the
other day of a preaeherop in Nebraska
who had dined with a friend just be
fore afternoon services. As it happen
ed, this friend occasionally luxuriated
in a smile of the ardent and sometimes
carried a morocco covered tlask in his
overcoat pocket. By mistake,the min
i istcr toot his friend’s overcoat for his
j own on his departure, and walking in
to the pulpit, began the exercises with
out dofflng the garment, it being rather
, chilly in the room. Looking very
■ ministerially over his congregation
j from behind his spectacles, he begun
drawing from his pocket, as ho sup
paaed, liis hymn-book, with the intro
ductory remark that the congregation
would sing from a particular page,
i which he had selected beforehand.
The minister held the supposed book
up iu full sight of the congregation and
attempted to open it sideways, hut it
was no go The situation was realized
in a moment, but ulus I too late! His
reverence was dumbfounded, the nu
dieneo giggled and the w hole scene
! was made lndlcroiis by a fellow iu the
back part ofthe congregation, not alto
; gather too sober, who drawled out—
, ‘"Hay, mister, kin we all (bie) jine in
that ar hymn ?”