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Show i 1 t i I U i t j f 0- - L ' ' i THE WORLD. AMERICAN FOKK, UTAH, SATUKDA V. FEHKUAltY 5, VOL. V. .WHO by i. j. r a raw. bit ter day, such a day T WAS fjj jv only as can come the last of December to open the fun on the holidays. Yea, the weather was spiteful, malicious, one of those aggravating when days everybody feels forced to be disagreeable" to everybody else. The cattle collected In the farmyard felt The Brahthe pervading influence. mas hooked the shorthorns. The shorthorns vented their spite upon the mulles. The mulles, though laboring under natural disadvantages, displayed their vindictiveness on the poor calves and butted them into the great mud-hoin the center of the yard, and when they essayed to escape on the other side the fierce, longhorned oxen most ungallantly lifted them back, so they stood In that slough of despond and bleated miserably. Their cries now mingling and now drowned by the unearthly squealing of two bogs, before driven from their snug retreats in field and wood, and now standing and shivering, they made their old haunts Disresound with plutonlc echoes. cordant notes and sounds resounded on all sides. The day was dark and merciless, but the deed to be enacted upon it ..war darker and more merciless. The sun had entered his protest upon the occasion by withdrawing beHeaven hind the brooding clouds. help all its creatures at such a time," sighed the anxious and timid mistress of the mansion, as she closed her doors to shut out what she might. Everything within and without wore a and hopeless look. Even the great turkey gobbler, who had strutted forth bravely, gobbling his defiance to the gathering crowd, had been put to an inglorious flight by a great yellow dog, and now stood In drooping, silent dejection upon the top of the smoke-housPeople came In rapidly from all directions. It was the largest property U1' le half-scar- ed e. that had been a offered for sale for many day In that primitive neighborhood. It was to take place ostensibly for a partition of property, but In reality for a different purpose. his soft, treacherous voles. It made no difference to him whether she wanted it or not, but appearances must be kept up before the wondering eyes of the public. She did not betray him; she did not slap the face so close to hers; she did not utter one reproach; she did not suffer her lips to move. How the rest of the day passed she never knew. She dimly recollected enacting the part of hostess, of seeing thousands of dollars fall into the hands of her greedy husband's kinsmen, and all under the sheriff's hammer and the form of law that coat of mall too often the armor of injustice. She remembered the thrill of remorse and terror at the silvery, happy laughter of her little girl as she glided hither and thither, enjoying the strange scene with childish delight. But night came at last to that long day, and she was alone alone with her grief and Indignation. Never had gathering darkness been so welcome. In the adjoining room she heard the sheriff and administrator as they made out the papers and closed up the business of the day; but at length their tones died out The little prattler In her crib had ceased her wondrous tales of the great day. Ever and anon In the lulls of the tempest storm without she heard the loud, monotonous sounds that told the tired administrator slept well after that days deeds. Not he the one to follow too closely the footHe did steps of his great exemplar. not go out and hang himself, but he got himself to his soft bed and slept soundly, at peace with himself and his work. But bow with the victim of his treachery, lying prostrate on the hearth In her room! From the moment she had felt herself alone she had given up to the passions that had been restrained by a powerful effort ' of pride and will. Forsaken of God and man! she muttered. And this the reward for a course of strictest honor and ed, f WON? The crowd fell back right and left as the sheriff came walking up the avenue. He was a little man, but he steppod firmly, as though treading on heartaffair. The strings was an every-da- y widow's heart gave one sudden bound, with a strong presentiment of coming evil. She rose and laid the rosy little Infant (who had never known his father) In his crib. The presentiment took form in one agonizing question. Had she trusted her all, and that of her helpless little ones, and been betrayed? This was no time for delay or inquiry. She felt the hush In the crowd. She heard the clear, loud tones of the sheriff's voice. She gave one glance at the baby, who was sucking his fist with disconsolate fortitude. She opened the door and passed up to the stand. Just as the sheriff commenced, I offer the plantation to rent, on good etc. Heard and approved security, the administrator's brother as he bid, and saw it knocked down to hiift. Her heart had bounded with fear, but now stood still at the sickening reality. Oh. Heaven, had it come to this? Were she and her babes turned shelterless from their father's house, without one moment's wanting? She A hand was laid on her arm. looked up and met the snaky eye of the administrator, black and twinkling You do not with triumphant malice: want the place, Aunt Ruth?" he asl.- - dark-witch- integrity. ed How proudly she had repulsed their repeated advances to nnlte with them In defrauding the creditors of the' estate, and how, when wearied out with their importunities, she had told them that for all the whole race ever had or might possess she would not betray trust, and to the menaces of her interests she had answered that she would trust in God. She had trusted Him, but had He helped her? Her proud heart, full of despair and wicked rebellion, needed no words to speak its answer. Memory played like lightning with the sunny hours of her past life. The carefully taught child of a pious mother, she could not recall the time when great moral lessons were not as familiar as the songs of her childhood. As she had grown up, caresses and kindness had been showered upon her. One short year ago and those who now insulted and wronged her had fawned around her with honeyed words of flattery, and he who had never opened his lips but in blessing, whose every accent had been love and klndness,was silent In death. How could he lie so still and yet so near that, might the dead hear that days work, it were all known to him. No! he had left those he so loved and cherished with only his unfulfilled promises and the torturing legacy of his grasping kinsmen. How they had gathered around her In the first hours of her grief, with condolence and sympathy. How kindly they had offered to relieve her of the care and burden of her business, until, warning neglecting the from dying lips, she had trusted them and then for the rest she had no words only feelings, and now nothing was left her but to die. she and her babes. What had life left for them ? Go with her revenge, despair and rebellion; tne tempest without was nothing to the tempest within. Suddenly, with loud creaking and groaning, the great doors swung open. The wind rushed furiously In, blowing out the light and whirling the ashes around the hearth. Had the dead listened to her upbraid-Ing- s and broken the chains of death? Timid Bbe had always been, but now she walked unhesitatingly to the door and out into the darkness. She feared neither the dead nor the living only life. She slowly closed and bolted the heavy doors, but as she turned, the dimpled arms of the baby, rosy, in the ruddy light of the reviving embers, were torsed up, and, with a smile on his half opened lips, he sank hack to rest. She gazed long nnd anxiously .it the beautiful picture, nnd. as she looked, she shrank more and more from herself. The actors and deed of the day were forgot ten. and she looked aghast into ihc stirred depths of her own heart. She might have lived ami died, and never known her.-i-but for the trials and temptations of that day. The old half-uttere- f, d NO. 10 1SDS French woman where her children's interests are concerned. This love Is so engrossing that it swallows up every other; they are more mothers than wlveB, and if called upon to choose between allowing a husband to go alone on a foreign mission, or leaving their children, they would not Mes enfants avant tout." hesitate, way of a family clock now chimed the hour ol FRENCH MARRIAGES. four. Oh, that ever (o be remembered night. The little sleeper In the crib, who had all night long been acting IS THE ONE OREAT OBJECT OF over the acenea of the day In her EVERY GIRLS LIFE. dreams, now murmured, brokenly, "and forgive us trespasses, as we forgive Khn Mmdnmolaella Brlieli Net Forced lead us not into temptation." those, to Mary t Men Whom Klin loHlriT She fell on her knees and, with bitDUilksa French 1'arenti Am the ter repentance, confessed the deep Devoted In the World. Must wickedness of her heart and forgave those who had wronged her, and passed out of her thought, their ways and lives, and with sweet promises full of hope and trust stealing over her heart, she sank to rest, at peace with God and man. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. Ktlara'i Tints Oblnlnsd bj n l)lrt Prorass Oat Kxpoanrs of tho Plata. At a meeting of the Royal Photograph society, held in the rooms of the Society of Arts, Prof. Gabriel Lipp-ma- n described his system of color photography whereby a photograph showing the colors of nature is obtained by direct process and with one exposure of the plate, says the London Times. The film, which might, be of any sensitive substance, he explained, was exposed, delveloped and fixed in the usual way. Two conditions, however, must be observed. The film must, in the first place, he transparent and grainless, and. In the second, it must be In contact with a metallic mirror The effect of the during exposure. mirror, which was formed by running a layer of mercury In behind the plate, was to reflect back the Incident colored rays and thus make the incident light waves stationary. These stationary vibrations, falling in the interior of the sensitive film. Impressed their own structure upon it, and by virtue of the structure thus imparted to it the brown deposit of silver, when viewed by reflected white light, appeared clothed with the same colors as were possessed by the image lp the camera. The colors were pioduccify "iutei Terence In the same way thSse of the or moth That this was their caue M. Llppmann said was proved by tbs fact that the tints of a negative changed If It were damped, In consequence of the gelatine swelling slightly, and thus altering the structure of the silver deposit. The colors produeed by this process were true and bright, provided that exposure and delevopment had been properly conducted; they were, horeover, completely fixed and resisted the action of light and time. He had not yet succeeded In taking prints from his negatives, but was convinced that to do so would be possible. In the course of the lecture a number of results achieved by M. Llppmann were exhibited In the lantern, including colored photographs of the spectrum, stained glass, landscapes, fruit and flowers and the portrait of a little girl. A reproduction of the spectrum of argon showed the characteristic lines of that gas in the most beautiful and distinct manner. n soap-bubb- le A I.NHtlng Faith. The most forcible example of a faith that is lasting ever recorded in the southwest Is shown in the history of Capt. George Searles of Tombstone. For eight long years hp has been working one claim that has never yci returned him a cent. With no other assistance than his own hands he has already done 1,000 feet of work in shafts and drifts. His claim is just below Tombstone, quite near the si age road and not far from the famous Contention mine. His faith is that the rich Contention ledge runs through liis claim and that err long he will strike that ledge and jump in a moment from almost a pauper to a millionaire. No one else believes this, but that makes no difference to him and every day lie goes down to his mine he expects to come out a rich man. Sun Francisco Call. Bow enl Arrow In China. Among the backwoodsmen of China, so to speak, the bow and arrow still do duty in removing objectionable persons from the earth. The Chlnesp bow and nrrow are nut trifling, little means for pretty archery contests, either. The how is un riiormouA thing, much higher than the man who uses it, and the arrows are prop'jr'ion-atclaf-fai- rs y big. KiirIImIi a It l Spoke. "That elevator man la very impertinent." (ora "Why, what did he do?" Dora "I said 1 ws; 'gi iiig down.' nnd he told me to hurry up. ltora Philadelphia Record. HOW ELIZABETH The old marlage de convenance, which caused bo much sorrow and consequent evil in former days, when a girl was taken out of a covent to he shown the man to whom she was about to be married. Is now a thing of the past, says the Century. It must be acknowledged, however, that marriages are still made up, often too hastily and superficially, by nicely balanced family arrangements and by the intervention of friends. Nevertheless, attraction and repulsion are now take into consideration, and a girl Is no longer forced to marry a man whom she positively dislikes. I could quote instances in the very highest (historical) aristocracy where, at the last moment, after the trousseau had been sent in (marked, according to custom, with the united initial letter of the two names elaborately embroidered), and all the social preparations made, the marriage was broken off because the bride had declared that she could not "get accustomed to the bridegroom, nor endure the idea of seeing his face In her home during her natural life. In one of these Instances the family lamentations over the Initials of the trousseau were really amusing. Fortunately, a substitute was soon found, whose name like that of the rejected suitor began with an X, and the complications were thus happily settled. The great object of the French girl's life is marriage. From the time of her birth her parents have prepared for this event, and In many cases they have considerably straitened their Income and curtailed their enjoyments to make up her dot Every girl In every class is expected to' have something; those who have nothing are exceptions and constitute a minority of old maids. The girls who from choice do not marry generally become nuns, usually much against the wishes of their parents. The old tales of young women being forced Into convents to improve the position of their brothers are forgotten In these days when, while no child can on any pretense be deprived of a share In the fathers Inheritance, monastic vows are not recognized by law. Nuns and spinsters are exceptions; marriage Is the rule. When a girl is of an age to he Introduced Into society her friends and relatives immediately look out for a suitable husband, whom it la considered highly desirable to obtain before she has reached the age of 21, that she may not be proclaimed fllle majeure when the banns are published. The principal considerations are equality of birth, of position, of fortune; and In the last particular the BC&le Is usually expected to weigh rather more on the side of the young lady, especially if the young man, in addition to sufficient present advantages, ran bring forward a number of relatives not likely to live long. This is called having hopes (des esperances beaucoup If the young lady with a substantial dot can also show a satisfactory background of invalid uncles and aunts then everything is as it should he and the young prole are brought together with every prospect of a favorable conclusion. It happens, however, too often that they do not know each other sufficiently and that they are persuaded to believe that the mutual liking is greater than it really is. Sometimes this sort of undefined attraction ripens Into a deep nnd devoted love; when this oceurs there are no more affectionate wives or more faithful widows than French women. More frequently, especially In the higher classes, a sort, of cool friendliness springs up. where they see hut little of carli olher and freedom is enjoyed or. both sides. The authority rtf the husband is less felt than in an English household. There is a sort of understanding that in her home the wife is queen and settles matters us she pleases. But their liest and warmest feelings nrc awakened by oil that concerns their children. French parents are perhaps the most affectionate in I lie world. The interests and welfare of their children are their first consideration, and wonderful sacrifices r.f their own pleasure and enjoyment ere made in favifr of their sons and daughters by the most worldly men anil women. These nrc taken as a sn.it-tof emir; no one thinks of doing otherwise r.r or seeing merit in such acts. The mothers, especially, are uu.ualid; limbing will stand in the d'es-perance- s). er DRESSED. Never Allowed Any One to Forget She Wne Henry Vlll.'e Daughter. Elizabeths love of sumptuous apparel, Indeed, grew with her years and the leading fashions of the courts of Europe furnished her with designs Queen for new dresses, which she would continually cast aside for others such as her fancy might suggest, says the Nineteenth Century. On all occasions she dressed In the richest costumes, adorned with brilliant, pheclous stones and Jewelry of the rarest workmanship. Even In her old age she continued to dress like a young girl, afraid of nothing so much as of being thought old. Upon the subject of her personal beauty she would smilingly accept the most extravagant flattery, says Carte, however fulsome It appeared to everybody else. When Paul Hentzner saw her, she was in her 67th year. Being a German, he observed her with an eye wholly unclouded by any sense of reverence for the divinity which hedges round a monarch. Indeed he was so ungallant as to Jot down In his notebook that Queen Elizabeth wore a wig, and that red! He goes on to remark that she had In her ears two pearls with very rich drops and that the bosom was uncovered, She was dressed In white silk bordered with pearls of the size of beans and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads. Instead of a chain she had on an oblong collar He adds that of gold and jewels. wherever she turned her face every one fell upon his knees" an act of homage which on state occasions had been paid to her father and Elizabeth never forgot that ahe was the daughter of Henry VIII. Monopolies Troubled Thom. From the Pittsburg Dispatch: The evil of monopolies and rings were known to ancients, ArlBtotle referring to them In his Politics, and then, aa now, It was found necessary to hold them In check by legislation. The monopolist was called in Roman law a Dardanarius, and punished under the Lex Julia de Annona. Monopolies of clothing, fish and all articles of food were prohibited by the Emperor Zeno under pain of confiscation and exile, so that it is certain that the rings of the ancient days were as mischievous as they are now. At Athens a law limited the amount of corn a man might buy. The earliest recorded instance we have was a corn ring. There is an ancient tradition that the king who made Joseph his prime minister, and committed into his hands the entire administration of Egypt, was Apepi. Apepl was one of the shepherd kings, and ruled over the whole of Egypt, as Joseph's Pharaoh seems to have done, The prime minister, during seven years of remarkable plenty, bought up every bushel of corn beyond the absolute needs of the Egyptians and stored It. During the terrible famine that followed he was able to get his own prire, and bartered corn successively for the Egyptian money, h cattle and land, and, taking for Pharaoh, made him supremely wealthy. It was not merely a provident act. but a very, politic one, his policy being to centralize power in the monarch's hands. one-fift- The Ketort Krailjr. A hustling agent for a patent churn invaded the office of a busy merchant ono (lay and proceeded to deliver hla One moment, please, said lecture. the merchant. "May 1 ask to whom I am indebted for this visit?" The caller produeed his card. It contained tha "Barton Zebu ion Day, inscription: for Cosmopolitan Novelty ComAgent pany." The man of business studied the card a moment. Then he looked up. "I am honored by your call, Mr. Barton Zehulnn Day. he said, with a genial smile, but this is also my B. Z. Day. Good day!" Still lliil Them. slippery coining home, "Oh, very." She Couldn't keep your feet, I suppose?" He "Oh, yes, I did manage to keep them; inn they changed places wlU) the hark of nty neck several Votes. Yonkers Statesman. 1I She "Very was it not?" He' |