Dixon Weekly Herald (Newspaper) - May 13, 1868, Dixon, Illinois AT liee O. one Door of made to 1. MAY 13, 1868. 14. fc AKD AT P. V. at Office In Exchange AND COUNSELORS A f K. W. B. B. Convenient to I. C. R. R. open at all for the of the ac and AT Poet at 118 Randolph ' AND Jones A corner Main and Hennepin ir AZt with of to 8. W. H. Van E. W. J. A. C. Joriah Jr. made and promptly 1. C. B. OP 8CHOOI.S, In the office fnr the of and the of tn 9f the a. m. to 4 p. IN AND Maio Quaker City 111. It in Office one block enst of Street the I 6it, Idly to and th. come and Asking asking why By fate we're you and I I why 2 it There are few Half to half to trae In heart and loal allied as we an unkind Destiny Bears ker barriers By our paths together had treaded Valley deep and mountain In or bnt alas Down divided hills they We are you and to what have been unveil my seo What can never be For beneath closed lids I tee Fate has parted you and sudden And through our We forget that tears of pain Blossom into smiles again That our to We are yon and oh will time golden rales And beyond this dark Shall oar lips Say Thy will be Fate parted yon and Murder at the w The l Is in tlie part of the and new superior 1. el thc V. iii Room j J occupied and on with A at OF AND Chilena Street two J. and Domestic and cheaper than the Agent for 1 Howe's Galena three doors south of Book A. r. A A. M A. I L. 8. Uvic J. W. 8e-reliry ations Thursday or full of moon each 56, KOYAL Alien M A. It. 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Water Residence fS Dement opposite the No. IT Galena | J Armies of the the present day the armies of the world aro larger than they have been the groat wars of the first The army of the United States now men in Fur the of oar territory this is the smallest army in tho and we have reason to congratulate ourselves upon the The cost of our army is or nearly per 1,000 The army of France been fixed at 750,000 men in the active and 550,000 in the the latter being named the National Guard 1,.300,000 men available for A contingent of 100,000 men is annually available to recruit the British army numbers about 200,000 The bulk of this army is at Ireland absorbing about 25,000 good Of the colonies of foreign India largest body of the Dominion of Canada Australia Prussian army numbers about 60^,000 Italian army now numbers 215,000 and is a very In one of itn the or rifle it excels tho French whose Zouaves were supposed to be the first light infantry in the Austrian army numbers alMut 700,000 its cavalry is to be very The ment breeds its own and thus secures good Russian army numbers about 800,000 men it could be quickly increased to 1,200,000 in time of It IS spread all over the from the Baltic to the Spanish army is not 80,000 men but is very well and It is also reviving up am the hills of at a whore the streams jx had by which lliu huge hemlock and were made Growing rich small degrees hu gathered about him many who did his labor for As his wealth increased he built up additions to his until he became for the extent of his and men Hocked to for Among an pressed by left his and began to work for the lie was a careful and hia knowing his at last gave him charge of the and began to gather and live more happily than he had done for lie had a a wife and the latter a girl ho came to the She grew more beautiful by and was loved by every one who knew were rough men about the Mills of but every one a kind word for David Carter's child when tho men were at woi she would comedown to the and watch Everything was to the which tho logs were dragged to thc upper H to bright up and work so seemed to know their .as well the hea l sawyer and his The saw dust to the floor under the sharp teeth of the and made a lillle hillock The roaring turned the busy Madge had a time of it ill tho Mills of men always had for her a seat of the which Was a blanket or She was their the rough fellows and they Avre ready to do anything for No one ever tired of answering questions when Madge and all put themselves in her way so that she could ask because she had such a winning way about Sometimes she would go down to the yard Dutch John loaded the little car with and throned triumphantly on the topmost she up to the very top and be lifted down by the head an old man with gray who had been in the mill ever since it was But she loved most to be with Asa the boy who the new lumber in one of the rooms Ho was a handsome with black hair and looking like a but a day He was for little world about and used to study hard at night by the light of the fire and pine for he was too poor to though the fat pine sputtered and made a groat it gave a good light and he got on had not many few an and some other school It was for when lie got to a hard place no one was there help him and he had to master it as best he But he had worked and now his fellows thought him a great men came to him with their little and lie settled them Every one trusted Asa but they thought him too honest for a as he thought of Asa said a lawyer might be as honest as any other if he ever was he would show them that it was what took Madge to the bench when he worked so much was a trick ho had of telling which ho made up as he went for he had To Madge this faculty was and she never tired of sitting there and hearing him Such strange stories as he repeated And yet he he told them in such a way that they appeared real even to when her father came for her in the midst of a she begged to be she did not want anj Bnt Asa would and send her promising the rest of the romance at another But as she grew older she did not often to the What Nothing very except that the child was growing up into a apd began to learn the tenor of human that she was born for dome on 3 to and that it made her cheeks grow hot to think who that one might bei It was to and for a long time she did not know it was that made hir so Fhy of Asa and yet so happy when he came into her presence j yet wishing to where and hide her burning cheeks from all the She did not know that that was was at length and Asa He bad improved in these four he had iu the He had given up the idea of being a lawyer long because a path to fortune had opened for him at the He was the confidential clerk of the and they held out to him the hope of a partnership at flo distant He could not afford to throw away the chance for any object of his own which did not promise so David Carter was still He had amassed a and in a so Asa had the real management of the whole knew that he loved From the day when she usf d to come and sit upon his bench and listen to the stories he used to ho had loved and always set before his eyes purpose of asking her some day to be when lie had gained to make it for him to And ho saw great hope by the ho was one and twenty he could make her a home and take hrr Ha had never it had been upon his tongue to ask her if she could love and Avait for him until be had made enough for and as often he grew tongue tied and could not But one night they went to walk upon the hills at They passed up the slope of an from bare crown they could look down upon the mills and the little which the enterprise of the lumber firm had built up The sun was going down in a blaze of and they turned to look at the isn't it Asa she looking at her was looking at and not at the and Are you going to to-morrow she asked she knew not All the girls will be I not care for that if one was replied cried her black eyes that tell me who it You have any secrets from I am a he looking into her Don't you know the girl 1 love above all you Do you think that it has gone for nothing this in love you best of all living If my senses of sight and were I know your see your dear may say that you cure for me but I shall never cease to love to worship to the last of my was going on still in this impassioned when she put a little hand on either and looked into his face with her honest Do you tell the Asa Am I the girl that you love As I love was the gave him both If I have any I am glad of it for your I see the purpose of my life I am if you care to take threw his arms around her and kissed her with passionate eagerness She hesitated a and then returned his first lover's Sorrow might come to them after It is the lot of Doubt might fling its shade upon and it But he thought of that the thrilling pressure of the touch of tender never could leave whatever else they stood there in that fervent they did not see that a young man stood behind them in the with hard-set teeth and livid struggling to keep down the passionate cry which was striving to make its way have you loved me long said still looking trustingly in Asa's you first came and sat upon my my you set your image in my I loved you But my love has grown with my growth and with my until it has grown too mighty for me. I must have spoken But hear I will bind you by no vows but by those which your own heart shall shall be to me as you have as you grow older and you meet any one you love better than knows no one love you better than I shall not be base enough to stand in your I could not taki you with a divided My happiness teems too great for me. I can hardly believe in Believe in for it is My poor heart is given to I have not why I was shy of you till It was because I loved unseen listener bent forward for the while all the time his face grew more and his your coming and going for dear into his palms until the blood started from the He older thin Asa by like worked in the His name was Darrell He loved Madge and now his life's hope was taken out of his to the of thwarted his thought was kill him unconscious of his sat down upon a knoll and looked o it at the glorious as Enoch Arden and his Annie while Philip watched them from the Tennyson made his watcher a ing like a woman for his love wid never thinking of taking vengeance on his while Darrell Gage had murder in his He held a light fowling piece in his for he been and had upon the lovers Twice in the delirium of his rage he raised the and as many times lowered it. At length he strode out beside Both started and unclasped their Where have you been Darrell said looking at was frightened at the ness of his you he have been so has I He has brought down a and I have was an unearthly is the asked you are not never was and to think that I should find you here and Madge along with you I tell be the greatest game come of- this you ever heard of. The village will ring with shouM think you would have something better to do thau to tell everybody you said what you have got to tell I can't except you found me here with And it shall not be the last said looking at her I don't care who knows She is my little wife that is to I reason to be proud turned away his head and struggled Avith his passions for a He could not That livid palor had ere over his face as if the sou him was sick unto When he spoke his words were short and as if they Don't that Til tell it in the If I were you I wouldn't make a brag of it. And little he looking lier in the are I- God's curse upon he broke you think a man's blood is watiT Do you think I seen you kiss and make not knowing I was Do you think I will Sooner a coffin for you than a bridal bed I swear that you never see the day that makes you the husband of You shall see the say and you shall own the Don't and say you gave me movement of every from your has been up by and see the and he looked like one whose lifo a blighted said You shan't frighten poor little Say your say to me we are and don't be cowardly enough to frighten a go about your and leave us to go our own would do your said stepping aside to let them And take my curse along I hate you said the weeping I never gave you speak to me or I shall kill cried the young clinching his get along as well if you do not make me more angry than I am. Take Don't taunt the chained for he may break his left him standing on the leaning on his with that look of fierce hate deepening on his When they were out of sight he followed slowly and turned to his own His mother had prepared some supper for and was sitting for his Striding in without a look at the mad youth cast his gun into a corner and stood moodily in front of the looking into the the mother asked him to but he looked at her as i if not comprehending At last i he sat down to the table and quickly ' swallowed four cups of strong hardly knowing he was or hearing a word his mother was until he heard the name of Madge Then he raised his What did you what's the matter you You frighten a speaking so short and it's in everybody's mouth that Asa is making up to and that they are you believe he you know Not before Who told you demanded Mrs. Avas an inveterate He started up from the dashing his clinched hand down upon it with a force that made the dishes you Avant to drive me mad he Do think I was born without a heart Curse she Every I deceitful and I wdl have if I die for for she has robbed ine of iny happiness It Avas the pitiful cry of a mother in sympathy with her only sun. Is it n Did love her my poor My Can I help I can't do can I My poor boy my poor boy woman had sunk down upon the clasping her with her and rocking herself to and fro in a paroxysm of It made him almost wild to see her there and to hear her My poor boy I my poor boy again and get be said You can't do any I suppose you are sorry for but I can't have it thrown in my fice all the time that I have trusted in woman and been Get rose and looked at him with all ihe mother in her heart prompting her to throw herself upon his but he looked too savage and standing there wuh the of unavailing sorrow sprinkled upon his Then he Avent out to his for under a pressure of business the mills were running night and and he bad supervision of the night k. All that night the what had come over he was so stern in his commands and At daylight he Avent homo and lay down upon his haunted by tlie murderous thoughts which would If thoughts and wishes could then Asa would have died All the miserable as the young man lay tossing upon his bed at a host of fierce impulses fired his prompting him to Once he in bed to strike savagely at some imaginary and woke to find himself clutching his knife and driving it at the He rose at and went down to the As he came near it lie saw Asa standing on a a raft of logs in the talking with had been upon some errand took her past the She had never looked so beautiful to the frenzied man as at that Her hair fell away from her white forehead in an unconfined floating back in the summer for she had her in her hand and Avas striking Asa playfully with it. Darrell went by Avith a set which drove the light out of Madge Carter's as it brought to mind the threats he had uttered the night at she said in a sad Did you ever see a face like that? If I am to I am But 1 afraid of not fear replied I know Garrell His bark is worse than his I am coming to see you I wonder if you Who said you I like to 1 am going to charge you so much an evening for if you come too I'll pay lowering his I hope you Avill put lip the Where do all these logs come she laughing I thought you They are cut iu the twenty miles up the and floated down by I am picking out the logs to saw this there goes the horn f I want it bad Wait until I get my and i will walk down the road scrambled got his and they Avent towards the laughing followed by the congratulations of every one saw for the good people of Glencoe long had these two for and certainly a braver and handsomer young or a more and girl was not to be found in that lumber That's a said one of the speaking to and if matches are made as they say they then that will be a good What match do you asked you no eyes Asa Sanger and little Madge but they You think they Avill be married Course I There we When the sun no longer shines in yonder when the rivers ran up and the Adirondacks can be leveled with a then you may expect to see them Don't look for it I suppose you have all to say about muttered the he turned Would like to marry her I Perhaps you but I don't think went out upon the timbers of the and looked down upon the falls dashed over the rocks at his The temptation was strong upon him at the moment to dash himself down into foaming and thus end his white foam sprang as if to meet him half He found before he had time to bending so far over the dark that he recovered his balance Avith and drew back with a Not that he if he would only die day long he wandered aimlessly about the and aroused the ire of the by getting in their tlie afternoon he went and Asa kindly promised to take charge of the though h had promised Madge that ke would come to licr that So he the working clothes which he always wore in the mill and set to work last glimpse Darrell had of looking he was buttoning the wristbands of the Jersey which he a garment lil e else worn in the went refusing to any of the which his mother brought him from time to telling her ho only wanted a little and was to lock the Once she came up and called but he did not Thinking him asleep she left h m to and whan she he was sitting on the edge of the with his shoes in When all still he stepped to the floor without and raising the window of bis went ont into the It was and he nothing to guide him but the lights of the like Cyclopean eyes further up the Crawling steadily he came near the and peeped into them as be At length he saw the figure for which he was in stalwart clad in the blue standing near the head speaking iu a low ground his teeth hard and slipped his hand into the bosom of bis shirt to look for something which he had placed there half an hour His eyes Red gleams danced before though his gazed never moved from the form of the man he had In a moments the latter left the placc where he had been and came out of Darrell fell prostrate a and waited until he passed A little way off he met a who asked him where he Avas To see that the lashings hold on the large was the We shah have that over the falls Lend me your man did and passed The other took the lantern aud went carefully out upon the great stepping on the rolling surface as only a man can do who has passed his life iu such As he close behind him came a creeping with glittering in its right Over the raft to the outer the doomed man made his and close yet the dark first man walked along by the outer and stooped to examine the That gleaming something in was raised on and came with deadly was a a muffled and the body of a murdered man was floating away in the in the of Black murderer put up the knife flung the lantern into the retraced his in at the still open and lay upon his But all that fearful night a was ringing in his he heard the sound of the Better for him if he had plunged that soon as light came he rose and looked at his to see if they bore anything of the bloody The shirt he had Avorn Avas bloody at the He took a knife and his so as t be able to account for the That would account for the blood upon his but he could not Avash the stain ont of his rose and from the Some men were going by to die they were day and could know nothing of the He dressed himself and went out into the and sat down to He that his mother did not see the Avord written on his and cry He tried to eat The stuck in his was dry and pan hed and yet he could not was belter than so he Went out of That moment a boy came running from the Mr. he have you seen Mr. Carter replied what do want of him Is there Store clothes Asa was knocks ing about a little down in the for you see he had promised tip The boss knew what the matter and as he wants to see match go he put on Jersey and staid in his The of him he stood near by and was talking about the big He said that he was afraid the lashings would get loose and Ave should loose some of the Then he Avent and lohere he went I don't he as another workman came have you seen the Not since last said when lent my lantern .to go ont oh the hig what's the with Dare eye Avas turned upon He Avus at his and gapping for The next moment he dropped into a dead Take care of some of cried the I'm out on the big Come Avith out together and ran across the rocking logs to the place where the blow had been A few minutes showed them the blood on the is Let the picked which lay upon the log it to his He Put that in pocket until I call for he went back to the called the men and Avent below iho and the eddies had up the and the small splinters in a great they found David Carter lying dead Avith a in his hoarse murmur ran round among the The deceased was a general and they felt his death They lifted body and laid it on the and Who did Avas the universal head whose name was standing at the head of the pointed to Darrell crying There stands the ' A dozen hands laid upon He crying that he would not ba Give mo yon the head us go something and at the mill Is any one stopped the mill last said the and they can't find I am going up to hie ran Darrell Avas Where David He hoped that no harm had come to him for Madge's It would be hard enough to lose her He could not resist and went down to the The men were scattered about in talking as he came He Avas in the mill said comes have you seen anything of Mr. Carter We are afraid he is When did yoit see him queried one of the I don't know anything about I was sick last Asa took my is demanded last I'll be He stay here at any You Darrell He did stay He took my Don't tell me I cried the other can't know i was done you j were ick I say Asa Sanger I stay here last At any i rate he was at Carter's at ten for I saAv said held it up in his and all saw it a boot recently torn off. at his said see if the heel is not him down upon bis back and fitted the heel to his It Avas easy to see that it was the I cried tlie lying in the blood which dropped from tho of David He is a murderer in the sight of God and I tell you I had nothing against Davi said the still struggling to free himself from the hands of who held go A Hr. ' d or it of i to many kf I hive iti a Son of and if I a of this fhis had often what a. Mason any and again wUd out Regarding it was Sum was Those could and who would for further information I was advised to go I had a of Uny a Mason was a of regular ring-tailed with horns and fe could down the or get in the and disappear hke a could knock out of a iV the devil was is one singular th iig Connected with you are it out said you think Ave don't know you thought you had killed Asa Madge Garter loved and and that you you have killed her Let me get on my he said in a hushed I may as well I meant to kill Asa I thought I him by the Jersey aud me. I killed I am sorry for nothing but did not strike the one for whom it Avas Ah I lake struck the man was holding him a fearful blow in the and ran up the rocky path by the side of the Half a dozen men rushed after him until they saAV that he could go no for Asa Sanger and two other men were coming down the He turned aside aud ran out upon a limestone platform hung over the one hundred feet think he Avas for flinging up his he uttered a cry which rang out the limestone and leaped There Avas a circle in the Avaler his body and he rose his body went when once buried beneath the whether it remained sifting to and fro in the depths of the he never rose to They lifted the body of David Carter reverently and took it Next day they buried and all the men in the mill mourned for him and execrated who had gone to the death he had meted ont to year after there was a festival at the Mills of and a joined hands with Madge at ihe and SAVore to honor and protect while her life He will keep his remember thine like the ocean never but not have moral but don't bristle with living in the activities nineteenth is a condensed less a man makes of himself the more of a man he is the silken string know hoAV it said the running through the chain of all the head not the deadly pallor which began to show itself boss came down here about eight us go always beyond the duties marked and keep them within the pleasures this and fraternity respectfully to his but it is all a big swindle gotten up to throw into the of ihe The coffin is stuffed of and deposited due iu tlie the brothers are over tha grave the dear aud the dear enjoying himself in the back room of Bome preparatory to leaving for parts Ii Masons never They may and move off to other spheres aa for they don't do it It is supposed by aftet transacted wickedness enough on this they are into comets and and g kicking up and the devil snid a great many suppose that the last meteoric display was nothing nor less than a free rival each other's path the lights betokening the degrees they bad Masonry is of ancient as proven by the fact that during the wet season Noah used to hold meetings in a corner of his ark. He was obliged to give it owing to the curiosity of Mrs. notwithstanding tho that her placed a couple lions and a big crocodile ut the door as outside came pretty near finding out the secret and a female lodge on her oWn must you of and perils I had to undergo to a - On evening in question I presented myself at the lodge room sign of the skull and I was conducted to an where five or six chaps in sashes and napkins re to receive me. On my entrance they all got up turned aud then A big sal in aud who seemed to bo the then said the outer world advance I Will you give up to join if 1 I said there's wife and Another party here told to say as it was merely a matter of So I I give up The fellows in the towels then and 'tis Do you swear never to reveal anything you may see or hear this evening to any human nor your wife 1 sai my word 1 will They then examined my teeth and felt my and made me put out ray then groaned I If you feel well 1 have got b here The took the bottle from ine and told me to shut He in a voice of said forth tiie fellow theu camo with a big to blindfold me. you Mr. I tricks on if you I believe in playing blind man's bluff with a TU ride the devil if you but 1 don't go it Slaud or I knock you into They were too much for so J had lu submit and be The goat was than led and I could hear Uim making an awful racket among the I begad to feel mat I was needed at but I was in for and could not help Three or fellows then seized and AVith a demoniacal laugh pitched me on the animal's telling at the same time to look out for I have been in a great many Mr. I have been in an election I've been pitched out of a I've gone down in a railroad and up in a steamboat but this little excursion was ah .ad of them The thing must be all wings and It bumped me against the tables and and ihi and the but I hi ng on like a I turned front and rolled over till I thought it was all over with me. I was just on the point of giving up the bandage fell from my and the goat bounded through the ayell likea Indian giving up the 1 was in a Lodge of They were dancing a war dance around a big and playing leap and and the big fellow of the ante-room Avas on his head iu the finishing the of my little Order was soon and I was led up to a desk and toUl to stand at my Chief Engineer of the establishment then put bis to his and out
