HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
YOL. IV.
EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST G, 1874.
NO. 23.
The Landlady's Daughter,
Throe BtndentB one da; crossed over the
Rhine ;
" Dauo hostess, hast thou good ale and wine f
Aad where is that beautiful daughter of
thino ?"
" My ale and wine are fresh and clear. '
My daughter, she lies on her funeral bier !"
And when they entered the chamber there,
w,. .
j.u euriue no uiacK lay tne maiden rair.
The first from her face the veil did throw.
And npon her he gazed with a look of woe :
" O wert thou yet living, tbou maiden fine,
. From thU time forth should Hit love be
. miiiA f "
The second, ho covered her face once more,
And turu'd him away and wept full eore :
' Alas ! that thou dead art lying here 1
For thee have I loved this many a year !'
The third from her face lifts again the veil,
And softly he kisses her mouth bo pale :
' " I have loved thee always ; I love thee to-day
Aud love t'jee I shall forever and aye !"
A BAD HABIT.
" Indeed, Walter, yon are doiDg very
wrnnir tn ilplnv bo mnnli in Tnnr hnai.
ness, said Mrs. Applegate to her bus
bnnd, one Tnorning, as they sat later
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ijjuu usum over me urcH&iuBt xaoie,
" I kr.ow it's a bad habit, my dear,"
Hfi.l(i ft Arrtlonrnta " linf li nn if.
does'o't hurt any one but myself, and I
VUV, VUlM, w
oar. ntiord it.
. Yon can afford it, Walter?" ex
claimed bis wife, in astonishment,
' " How you talk this morning I Surely.
yon do not know what you are saying."
i J. assure you I do," said herhuB
band, laughing, " I am perfectly wide
. awake and I know what I am saying."
V Indeed, you are doing wrong," per
eisted his wife. " You promised ttf
Vrtpffc "MY. flnv nt rnnr nflinA tliia mnrn.
"lug at nine o'clock, and if yeu do not
start nt once you will not be able to get
there in time.
" Well, then, Mr. Gay can wait for a
few msnutes, said her husband, bal
ftoicing his spoon on the rim of his
eoffee-cup, and looking at her with a
anaile. " Ho can afford to wait awhile
"for me, as the matter he wished to ar
range to-day is entirely to his advan
tage."
" Still it is wrong to make him wait
if you can avoid it. lie has his busi
ness to attend to, and after all may npt
have as much time to spare as you
think he has. Besides this, if yon da.
lay too much in your business atlam
you will lose the confidence of yqur
friends, and you will be sure to suiter
by it,"
' lou ought to have been a man,
Jennie, said her husband, laughing.
"You would have made a splendid
merchant. However, to please you I'll
go down at once.
So saying, Mr. Applegnte rose from
the table, and in a few minutes was on
his way to his place of business. But
he did not reach it promptly. Meeting
a friend in the street, he stopped to
talk with him on some unimportant
matter ; and when he started again for
his office it was nearly half-past nine,
He reached his place of business three
quarters of an hour later than he had
promised to be there, and found Mr.
Gay waiting for him with great impa
tience. " Good morning, Mr. Gay," he said.
as ho entered. " I hopo I have not kept
you waning.
" I am sorry to say you have," re
plied Mr. Gay. " I have a great deal
before me to-day, and cannot well
afford to lose a moment."
Mr. Applegate's conscience smote
him, but he said, lightly, ' Really, I am
sorry, but I could not help it. I was
detained on my way longer than I had
anticipated."
The business between them was soon
transacted ; and Mr. Gay took his de
parture with a very poor opinion of Mr.
Applegate's habits of punctuality, whioh
trait is, after all, in a merchant, a car
dinal virtue.
Mr. Applegate was a young man, and
had uot long been in business for him
self ; but he had been more than
usually successful in his transactions,
and had fairly laid a foundation for
what promised to be a lucrative and ex
tensive business. He had one great
fault to contend against, however. He
was extremely careless and was apt to
delay too niuob. He took but little
trouble on interest, and was too neg
lectful, even of matters of importance.
Ti .- 1 : . . i i l
'what can be done as well to-morrow :
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nuu iuo iiuuiia wiiiuu uo jjuu lormeu ill
is early youth grew upon him every
y mr. His wife remonstrated with him
frequently, but to no effect. Mr. Ap
plegate had not yet seen the evil of his
way, and was too careless to attempt to
change it. He had not experienced any
inconvenience from it, and he laughed
at his wife's fears as the effect of her in
experience and overcaution.
It was not long after the occurrence
related above, that Mr. Applegate had
occasion to see the justice and foroo of
his wife's views.
In the course of his business an op-
portunity was presented to him of
making an unusual speculation. A lot
of goods were offered for sale at a low
figure to any one who would take them
all at cash payment. The sum demand
ed was a large one for him to raise in
twenty-four hours, the time given him ;
but one that he could have raised in a
week or ten days without much incon
venience. Still the transaction seemed
to offer so many advantages that he de
termined to make the effort.
'. Among his friends was a merchant of
great prominence, who had taken a de
cided interest in Mr. Applegate at the
beginning of that gentleman a career,
and had frequently ' offered to assist
him if it should ever be in his power to
do so. Hitherto the young merchant
had refrained from asking any assist
ance from- Mr. King, aa his friend was
named ; but now he determined to avail
himself of his friend's offer. He ac
cordingly called upon Mr. King, and,
after' laying the matter before him.
asked him to lend him the amount for
ten days. -
" I am perfectly willing to lend the
amount," said Mr. King, " if yon are
sure of returning it within the time
named. I think you have an opportu
nity of making a handsome speculation
in this matter ; but I would like to
have the money again by the twentieth,
as 1 have a heavy bill to meet on tne
twenty-second."
Mr. Applegate assured mm mere
would be no difficulty in the matter,
and added that it was probable that he
might be able to pay the money before
the expiration of the ten days.
Thus the matter was settled. Mr.
Applegate received the amount he
needed, made his purchase and con
gratulated himself upon the extraordi
nary good luck that had befallen him.
When he told his wife oi it, sue urged
him to at once set about collecting the
money to repay the loan.
" Oh, there is time enough for that,
Jennie," he said, good-humoredly. "I
have only to lay my hand on the money.
Thero is no difficulty to bo experi
enced." This did not satisfy his wife, who
gave him no rest until he had deposited
the sum in the bank, ready to be paid
out on the appointed day.
The nineteeth f the month came at
last, and as Mr. Applegate was sitting
in his office in the morning a friend
came in and asked him to go that after
noon a few miles into the country on a
fishing expeditition. They would re
turn alter nightfall. Being very fond
of the sport, Mr. Applegate at once
consented. As ho left his office for the
excursion, he thought of the money he
had to pay the next day, and his better
judgment told him it would be as well
to send Mr. King the cheque for it that
day ; but as he was pressed for time,
he decided to put it off until the next
day.
The fishing was unusually good, and
a pleasant day was spent. Mr. Apple
gate and his friend were so well pleased
that thoy determined to spend the Light
there, and try the sport again the next
morning. Mr. Applegate's conscience
reproached him as he made this de
cision, for he remembered that he had
promised to repay the borrowed money
the next day. He quieted the inward
monitor, however, with the thought that
Mr. King would not be inconvenienced
if he did not pay the money until the
twenty-first of the month. That gen
tleman's bill did not fall due until the
twenty-second, and the amount he owed
him was already in the bank to be
drawn out.
He felt so little satisfied with him
self, however, that he determined the
next day to spend only a few hours in
fishing, and to take the twelve o'clock
train, which would enable him to reach
New York before banking hours were
over, and fulfill his promise. He did
take the train ; but, soon after leaving
the station, the locomotive broke down,
and they did not reach New York until
nearly dark.
The next morning he hastened to
Mr. King with the check for the bor
rowed money. Mr. King received him
very coldly.
" I have come to repay the money I
borrowed from you," he said to his
friend. " As your bill is not due antil
to-morrow, I hope the delay will not
cause you any trouble."
As he spoke, he laid the check on
the merchant's desk.
" No," said Mr. King ; " it will not
inconvenience me in the least ; but I
am inclined to believe that it will do
you harm."
" Why ?" said Mr. Applegate in
surprise.
" Because,"repliedhis friend, "I have
determined never to lend to you again.
I know the cause of your delay in this
matter, and cannot afford to risk my
money by putting it in the hands of
one who shows so little regard for his
commercial obligations. Believe me,
Mr. Applegate, you will end in ruin if
you continue on in this bad habit of
yours."
Mr. Applegate left the counting
house in silence, heartily ashamed of
himself. He felt that he was justly re
buked, and he deeply regreted having
lost the good opinion of such a man as
Mr. King.
When he went home that night, he
told his wife all that had happend, and
promised her to try and do better in
the future. The next morning he saw
Mr. King, and made him the same
promise.
He kept his word ; and though it
was a hard struggle, ne succeeded
finallv in conquering his bad habit,
and in after years was known as one
of the most trusty and punctual mer
chants in New York. The result waa
that Mr. Applegate died a rich man.
An Innocent on the Cars.
The other dav in a Michigan Central
train coming East, was an old lady who
had never traveled a great deal. She
wasn't used to the ways of the book
agents, the peanut boys, and the prize
package nuisances who pass through
the train every few minutes. When
the peanut boy came along and drepped
a big African peanut into her lap, she
shucked it, opened her mouth and
dropped the kernel down, instead of
regarding it with silent contempt or
pitohing it out of the window. The
book agent came along and dropped a
book in her lap. cue said sue was
"much obleeged," snd she carefully
locked it np in her valise.
The prize-package boy came along
and dropped a sample, and she wonder
ed how the road could afford to give
away bo much. When he returned she
had opened it, and was wearing the
breast-pin and eating the gum-drops.
The book agent came back and wanted
his book, and, before she would give it
np she called the conductor to see if it
was right. The card boy wanted pay,
ard she appealed to the passengers.
When she understood that he was right
she handed over twenty cents, with this
remark: "Well, ef 1 haint all-fired
turned romnd I I wish I'd Btayed tn
hum I"
Discharge of Compositors. The
Cincinnati Gazette Company dismissed
all their compositors, and supplied
their plaoes with a full force of men not
members of the Typographical Union.
Three or four old printers left the
Union and were taken back by the Gazette.
Are Detectives Useful t
Over a year ago, says the New York
Sun, the discovery was made that near
the small town of Cherryvale, in Kan
sas, a series of atrocious murders had
been committed. In a rough building
situated out on the prairie a family
named Bender lived aud thrived, the
main element of their existence being
unwary travelors who, from stress of
weather or other adverse circumstances,
were compelled to go to their hut in
order to protect themselves from the
storms. We have no account of the
manner in which this singular hotel was
conducted, as it was a peculiarity ol
travelers who stayed there never to go
further, in consequence of winch they
never had an opportunity of relating
their experience. From the local jour
nals, however, whose remarks upon this
subject we have watched with interest,
it seems that one at least of the family,
an elderly lady called Kate, who had a
gift of fortune-telling, grew gaunt and
lean, while her brothers, her father,
aud especially her mother, wasted away,
as it were, iu person, although they
suddenly became plethorio in pocket.
How long this kind of thing might have
gone on in Kansas, the Bender family
getting leaner and their pockets get
ing fatter every day, nobody would
have known if it had not been for a re
markable discovery. The brother of a
Kansas Senator happened to partake of
the hospitalities of the Bender family
one night, and was never afterwards
heard of nntil his brother, with some
officers of justice, plowed up the Bon
der farm and found not only the re
mains of the particular missing man
they were in search of, but also the
skeleton of a large number of individu
als of no marked characteristics, who
had disappeared from society without
causing a ripple upon its surface. This
created great astonishment among the
neighbors, who soon began to whisper
that the Bender lamily was no bolter
than it should be. The result was that
the Bender family fled, and though
nearly every day the telegraph brings
news of the arrest of one of the family,
no one of the murderers has yet really
been seized. Neither has the murderer
of Nathan ever been brought to justice,
while even now the police of Philadel
phia are pretending to hunt out the
mystery attendant upon the kidnapping
of a small child. These and many other
mysterious things lead to the conclu
sion that the detective police service of
the different cities in the United States
is woefully at fault. Large rewards
have been offered for the apprehension
of the interesting Bender family, the
members of which even now. may be
enjoying the facilities for pleasure
afforded by 'our flrst-olas3 hotels.
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Apples In Massachusetts.
Complaints come from Massachusetts
that the young fruit is falling from the
apple trees. On this subject the Spring
field Jicpublican says : " There may
be enough left upon the trees to make
a fair return, if they were safe and cer
tain to mature in good condition. Un
fortunately the fruit already upon the
ground contains within itself sufficient
larvae of insects injurious to vegetation
to insure not only the ruin of this year's
crop, but of next year's, too. Anybody
who will examine these little apples
with a jack-knife will find inside of
them and devouring the seeds the larva
of the apple-moth, a tiny, pinkish
worm not more than one-half inch
long. The egg from which this worm
grew was laid in the blow of the apple,
almost as soon as the apple was set
after blossoming. The larva eats the
seeds, and soon pushes out of the apple
to fiud a new nest, usually under the
scales of the bark of the tree itself,
whence it issues as a moth in season,
according to Trimble, for another raid
upon the fruit this year; it will get
back, at all events, to spend the nine
inclement months under the bark-scale,
whence it will issue next summer to re
peat the process. The remedy is first
to pick up the apples as they fall and
treat them in some way to destroy their
inhabitants ; second, lest some of the
larv havo already left the apples, to in
tercept them on their way up the trees.
This may be done, according to the
same authority above mentioned, by
binding the tree two or three times
around with hay-withes, in which the
worm innocently nestles, and where it
may be found and killed by removing
the withes occasionally. Now is the
time to do it. Most of these fallen ap
ples also bear the mark of the ouroulio,
a little crescent-shaped discoloration
with a dark dot on the concave side.
Careful fruit growers jar these insects
off the trees upon sheets in tho early
mornings of June and kill them one by
one. The best that can be done now is
to lessen the next generation by de
stroying the apples in which their eggs
are planted, if the worm has not already
bred and descended into the ground. A
drought like that of last summer is
supposed to endanger those insects near
the surface of the ground by parching,
but there is manifestly no lack of them
this year. The curculio, it is well
known, ruins the plum completely, and
it destroys the natural beauty and much
of the flesh oi the apple and the pear.
Little can be done in battling with
either of these pests, unless whole
neighborhoods will combine to pursue
ine wanare.
Hovr they Get a Horse Up.
When a horse falls down, says an ex
change, fourteen men put their hands
in their pockets and ask each other why
they don't do something. Fifteen other
men advise the driver until he is half
mad, and two small bovs stand bv. with
their hands clasped and an expression
oi determination written on every unea
ment. Then several men ask why
somebody don't hold hia head, until
one old gentleman volunteers to hold
it. He steps forward calmly, bends
over the prostrate animal and puts one
nana gently on his ear. The horse,
getting tired, raises his head suddenlv.
the crowd laugh, and the old gentleman
seems to take n further interest in tie
proceedings. Then the horse, having
bad all the fun he can have, rises
like a tidal wave, and the crowd dia
perses.
A Sad Fate,
A Missouri paper tells the following
sad story : A family consisting of a
man and wife and three children passed
through Sedalia, slowljr wending their
way northward to their old home in
Ralls county. Mr. Ressler was a well-to-do
farmer who in an early day went
to the State of California, and by hard
work amassed what he considered a
sufficiency for a good start in farming
life. He returned home to Missouri,
married and settled down to regular
fanning life. This spring, when emi
gration commenced Texasward, the old
fever which had taken him to California
in 1851 began to rage, and although he
had a good home he grew restless and
concluded try his fortune iu Texas. He
was looking for cheap lands, and passed
through Grayson county west into
Cook, and out into the western portion
of Montague county. This country,
though wild, and subject to frequent
incursions of the nomadic tribes of In
dians that infest the western border, is
rather rich, and full of game. Mr.
Ressler pitched his camp on a little
stream, near a good spring, some four
or five miles from any habitation, and
little dreamed of danger. On the fourth
day of their stay there, the oldest
daughter, a young lady of seventeen,
went to the spring for a bucket of water,
but, alas I she never came back. One
scream, like that of the surprised
panther, was carried to the ear of the
mother, who was at the camp, the father
being out hunting. The mother rushed
to the resoue of her first born, only to
hear the receding footsteps of the
Comanches' ponies. The mother was
paralyzed with grief and fainted away
as soon as she realized the fate of her
daughter. The father returned in a
few hours and examined the locality of
the spring, and found that about fifteen
ponies had been hitohed hard by, and
the Indians had evidently crept up to
the spring, and were lying in wait for
their victim. Mr. R. cared for his wife,
and at once started for the next neigh
bor, and the alarm was given that a
young lady had been stolen. The fron
tier Texan is ever ready to jump into
his saddle at a moment's notice, and a
party of ten determined men were soon
on the trail ef the red fiends, which had
taken a westerly direction. The su
perior horses of the Texans rapidly
gained on the poor ponies of the In
dians, and after traveling all night on a
warm trail, came up with the Indians
the next morning, just as they had
come to a halt, and a hght ensuea, in
which the object of the chase lost her
life, and was scalped, all of the Indians
getting away but three. One of the
three killed had- fhe gory scalp of the
young girl attached, to-his belt. They
had killed her just as soon as attacked.
The father was almoBt distracted and
absolutely frenzied with' grief, aud
when 'the chase was given up by the
others, he could hardly be kept back.
The young lady was buried where killed
in the western wilds of Texas, and the
family could no longer remain in the
country that had caused them so much
misery. The reporter asked what be-
camo oi the scalp, ine tear-dimmed
eyes of the mother lookod in the direc
tion of a substantial chest in the wagon,
and she said, " It is there." We asked
if they had any objection to showing it.
Thev said no, and the father unlocked
the chest and produced a long lock of
dark hair, cut from the crown of the
head, with about an inch and a half in
diameter of the scalp. When this was
produced the entire family gave way to
loud sobs, and we wondered why so
ghastly a memento was kept, that would
ever keep fresh in their memory the
tragic end of their beloved daughter
and sister.
Brignoll iu Bliss.
A writer in the Chicago Timet says :
" I saw one day in the dining-room of
a watering-place hotel, a bevy of young
ladies fluttering around Brignoli like
moths about a candle. They were not
parvenucs. not ill-breed, not under
ordinary circumstances particularly
shallow. Un the contrary, they wore
of the sooial elect ; they were naturally
rehned, graceful, elegant, among the
best speoimens that the metropolis can
boast. But when I had observed them
zealously competing for his awkward
attention, blushing when lie spoke to
them, smiling up at him, making pre
text to get near him and touch his
coarse figure, they were suddenly trans
formed. They appeared ugly, con
temptible, disgusting. I reddened tor
my country and her daughters. While
the foolish nyinhs were purring over
him, he appeared more ungainly and
forbidding than ever. Too lymphatio
to bo moved by the situation, too dull
to appreciate the animated picture, he
labored to smile, very much as a
shoulder-hitter does when he comes up
on the thirteenth round, with his face
battered into a jelly. At last I saw two
or three of the prettiest girls putting
bon-bons in his mouth, and caressing
his chin with their taper-fingers. That
was beyond my endurance. I walked
hurriedlv awav. and am conscious that.
then and there, some of my ideals were
rudely pulled down."
A Dig Wood-Drive,
OI Mr. Jones, the well known wood
dealer of Empire City, says the Nevada
M,nterpri8e. we have the following par
tioulars in regard to the big wood-drive
now in Carson river : At a point above
Markley ville a large boom was stretched
across the river, and above this was
about 100,000 cords of wood, filling the
channel of the stream for a distance of
eight or ten miles. At night the boom
broke, allowing the wood to rush into
the river below. The wood went " boom'
ing" down the stream at a terriflo rate.
It is said that iu plaoes a single stick
would lodge against a rock in the center
of the river, and a moment alter there
would be accumulated a sort of winrow
of wood extending np the river forty or
fifty yards. Thia would suddenly
swing round against the shore, when
in a few minutes the channel would be
gorged from bank to bank. Some of
these gorges held so long as to dam np
the river for a great distance and inun
date the land on each side. When they
finally broke there was a tremendous
commotion and rush till another gorge
was lormeo,
SIGNS OP HYDROPHOBIA.
Result! of Dr. Durdon Sanderson's Ob
servation. Symptom! which Precede
and accompany the Disease.
The following remarks on hydro
phobia, coming from so high an au
thority as Dr. Burdon Sanderson, may
merit attention :
Persons are liable to be bitten by mad
dogs under two sets of eiroumstanoes
first, when a rabid animal escapes from
home and is at large ; and secondly,
when a dog not supposed to be in
fected is caressed by his master, or
those who have to do with it at home.
Consequently, it is quite as important
that the publio should be aware of
those slight indications whioh afford
ground for suspicion that the disease is
impending, as that they should know
the characteristic signs by whioh it may
be reooguized when it has declared It
self.
The premonitory indications of rabies
a dog are derived almost entirely
from the observation of changes in its
demeanor ; consequently, although
they may be too trilling to be noticed
by a casual observer, they are fortu
nately sufficiently striking to arrest the
attention of any one who is about a
dog, and is familiar with its habits and
individual peculiarities. A dog about
to beoome rabid loses its original liveli
ness. 10 mopes aoout as ii preoccu
pied or apprehensive, and seeks to with
draw into dark corners. From the first,
there is usually a foreshadowing of that
most constant symptom of the disease
depraved appetite. Mad dogs devour
filth and rubbish of every kind with
avidity. Along with this peculiarity of
behavior, it is of equal importance to
notice that an infected dog from the
first snaps at other dogs without provo
cation. This snappishness in most
does is very striking. If a dog previ
ously known to have no such habit
snap indiscriminately at the first dog
i i 1 1 -l it. l t :i i
ic meets in u yaru or uiu nvioei, m
rirobablv not safe.
So lar l nave naa in mina cnieny
what is to be observed in dogs tied
up or at home. A dog which is at large
is also to be recognized if in a danger
ous state by its demeanor. A healthy
dog in its progress along a street or else
where shows at every step that its at
tention is awake to the sights and
sounds which it encounters. The rabid
dog. on the contrary, goes sullenly and
uuobservantlv forward, and is not
diverted by objeots obviously likely to
attract it. This statement, however, is
subject to the important exception
already referred to that it is excioea
both bv the sight and sound of an
animal of its own species.
Of the symptoms which accompany
the final stage of the disease, the most
important and characteristic are those
whioh relate to the organs in which it
localizes itself the mouth and throat.
Attention is often drawn to the condi
tion of the mouth in an animal supposed
to be healthy by the observation that it
tries to scratch the corners of its mouth,
as if attempting to get rid of the ropy
mucus which is seen to be discharged
from it. In dogs that are tied up, it is
noticeable that the bark has entirely
lost its ring, and acquires a peculiar
hoarseness, which can be recognized by
the most unobservant. As the disease
advances, the discharge increases, the
lower jaw hangs, as if paralyzed, and
the animal has evidently difficulty in
swallowing. Along with this there is
often a loss of power in the hind limbs,
If now the dog be watched, the pecu
liarities of behavior which have been
already noticed are seen to present
themselves in a much more maiked
degree than before. It is observed,
hrst, that it is subject to paroxysms oi
excitement, in whioh it makes often re
peated efforts to bite or gnaw all objects.
such as wood-work, straw, etc, within
its reach ; and, secondly, even during
the remissions its excitement is at once
renewed by the sight or sound of an
other dog.
It may be well to note that the dis
ease occurs at all seasons ; that the mad
dog continues to recognize its master,
and to manifest pleasure when kinily
spoken to ; that it does not shun water:
and that, in many cases, from first to
last, the wild fnry whioh is commonly
supposed to belong to the disease, is
conspicuously absent.
The most enectual means for check
ing the spread of hydrophobia are
First : To circulate information on the
subject. Second : To enforce existing
regulations as to licenses, and as to the
destruction of ownerless dogs, it is to
be regretted that the wise proposal of
Mr. Fleming, that a short description of
the disease be printed on the back of
each license, has not been adopted. The
disease originates, whether in man or
beast, exclusively by oontagion. The
carriers of contagion are the ownerless
dogs of large towns.
The writer of this, Dr. Uurdon Han
derson. is one of the most accomplished
physiologists in England. The article,
it is proper to sav. was tne result oi
consultation with other soientifio men,
At the Morgue.
There are many romances of real life
that nnd their denouement in tne raris
morgue; but the strangest yet hap
riened ouite recentlv. The body of t
girl exposed on one of the dreadful
slabs was of suoh surpassing beauty
that the morgue was thronged ail day
with sight-seera, and one poor lunauo
actually drowned himself in order, as
he took care te explain in a letter found
in hia lodgings, that he might rest for
a time next to the only creature he had
ever admired, and whom he had Been
too late. No less than 700 bodies are
annually exposed at the morgue, and
the establishment is conducted with the
greatest order by five officials, some of
whom are always at their post day and
night. Of these the chief man, the
greffier, enjoya the magnifioent stipend
of 2,400 francs a year $180 by no
means teo exhorbiUnt a Bum for bo
horrible an occupation.
It is so. The Waverly (N. Y. ) Enter
prise says : " When a man discontinues
hia local paper because he feels ag
grieved at something in it, he merely
transfers hia name from the subscrip
tion list to that other list quite as large
those who borrow the paper every
week ; he never stops reading it,"
A Wide Awake Man.
Manv of the old residents of Terre
Haute, an Indiana paper says, will re
member an enterprising and very in
dustrious barber, whose name was Ed
ward J. Roye, who left many years ago
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lur Ainca. xu mttiLlug uin hid. wp t
took his goods out on freight, he being
a passenger, ine entire vaine oi nis
invoice was not more than S3. 000. In
the
was
time he sailed from New Yotk, he was
back with six thousand dollars' worth
of oil. dyewood, ivory and gold dust.
Spending but little time in shaking
hands and telling stories, he chartered
half a brig in eompany with a white
man, and about tho time his friends in
Africa looked for a letter from him, ne
anchored his brig in the bay of Mon-
- mnf D,1.M of. Ha nwn
WHO ail til Ft U U1U1UCUU Dtliwuiv nil v u
rates. This was the beginning of the
career in Africa of the most remarkable
man, in many respects, the little Re
public ever had within her borders.
Following the tidal wave of his good
luck, he put off to England in the
monthly steamer, where he purchased
Euglish goods. He could go wherever
the English held the trade and furnish
both kinds of goods HiDgiisn and
American. Crossing from England to
America, he made the acquaintance of
the great house of Fhelps, Dodge &
Co., of New York city, with whom he
deposited a sum of money, and by
whom he was introduced among the
first-class merchants, which resulted in
his purchasing a vessel and loading her
for Liberia.
The isolated colonists of Liberia had
not been aooustomed to see a colored
man thus march up the ladder of suc
cess; therefore all eyes were turned
toward him.
The poorer class broke loose from
both the old parties and elected this
man.
At the house of ex-Governor Hicks,
where he often dined, was the adopted
daughter of the Governor, the pretty
brown-faced Hannah, without kith or
kin in the world. So in his business
like manner he courted her three weeks
and married her. Hannah was born in
Liberia, and could speak five or six of
the native languages. Leaving his
wife to manage home affairs, he bought
an Eoglish vessel and cargo out and
out, and made his first trip to the Gold
Coast, where the Ashantee war had just
been fought. This was another twenty
thousand stroke in less than thirty-
four months. Returning, he landed at
home in Monrovia, and sent vessel and
cargo to England for Bale, and both
sold well.
J. J. Roberts, the first President,
and now the sixth one. has been a life
long enemy of Mr. Roye, and the feel
ing was entirely mutual between thorn.
Mr. Roye was three times nominated
and defeated for the Presidency before
he succeeded in taking the chair. He
was also Senator and Chief Justice of
the Republic
Mr. Roye was elected 1'resident in
18G8, the term at that time being two
years, liis party being strongly in tne
ascendencv. tnougnt tney could enaci
a law by which be could hold his seat
without an election. Both he and all
the heads of departments were im
prisoned for usurpation. He remained
several weeks in jail, made his escape,
and in an attempt to get to a British
steamer, then lying in the Bay of
Monrovia, was drowned. The body was
recovered and delivered to his family
and friends, and decently buried under
the waving palm trees in his lot in
Evergreen Cemetery. The Govern
ment confiscated some of his property.
Mr. Roye was the wealthiest man in
Liberia, and his family will not want
unless they become extraordinarily ex
travagant.
Devoured by a Lion.
Some years before tho French army
conquered Algiers, two highway rob
bers, brothers, and men noted for their
strength and daring, were caught, tried
and condemned to death. The day be
fore the one fixed for their execution,
they contrived to make their escape out
of prison. They were cnainea togeiner
by the leg, and thus in forced company
crept through the woods and thicKets,
in the hope of gaining a Bafe refuge.
Toward the middle of the first night
thev met. straight before them in the
path, a large lion. They were un
armed, .knowing the cnaracter oi tne
animal thev shouted boldly, and threw
stones at him; he very likely seeing
through their mock courage, lay down
before them and would not stir. Losing
heart at last, the robbers changed their
tone, and began to implore the lion, in
piteous language, for mercy. In an in
stant he was upon them. The larger of
the two he seized, killed and began to
eat. while the ther pretended to be
dead. In the cause of the meal the
lion came to the iron chain which bound
the robbers' legs : after examining it
for a moment he bit the man's leg off
above the knee. Just then he lelt
thirsty, and walked to a stream to
drink. The surviving robber crawled
off for his life, dragging his brother's
leg with him, and contrived to squeeze
himself into a hole in the ground.
When the lion returned he missed him.
Roaring loudly, he ran backward and
forward several times over the ground,
passing close by the hole, but strangely
missing it. soon after day dawnea.and
the lion went off. Out of the hole came
the robber, more dead than alive, and
was about to cut his brother's leg from
the chain, when a party of the Bey's
horsemen rode np and seized him. He
was taken before the Bey, to whom he
told his storv. His brother's leg was
still in the chain to confirm it, and the
Bey, in consideration of his wonderful
escape, awarded him an unconditional
pardon.
T.TnwrwTwn Th inordinate number
of people killed by lightning within a few
i 1. . AA Bntnlt,
weeKB revives uibuubbiuu us vu duickj
during thunder storms. It is conceded
that there is no place of absolute safety
in a shower, for the electrio fluid is er-
ratio and goes where it pleases. It is a
wise precaution, however, to avoid cur
rents of air and to sit in the central por
tion of a room, away from parts on which
the lightning may descend.
Items of Interest.
The Delaware rjeaoh crop is expeoted
to fill 800,000 baskets.
In Turkey, when a man tells notorious
lies, they blacken the front of his
house.
A Pennsylvania man dislocated his
jaw in laughing at a joke in a borrowed
newspaper. The moral is obvious.
Blueberries, whortleberries and wild
raspberrries are not only exceedingly
plentiful this year but also of remark
able size.
It is cackle-ated thot the poultry in
dustry of the United States amounts to
$31,000,000 annually, besides the home
consumption.
California has 77 Baptist churches,
Oregon B3, Washington Territory 5, and
Nevada 1, making a total of 130 on the
JTUCinO COUB6.
The strongest propensity in woman's
nature, says a surly editor, is a desire
to know what is going on, and the next
to manage the job.
An Iowa paper predicts that in five
years every pound of Western flour will
be sent East, in barrels of paper made
from the straw the wheat grew on.
A Western woman shot her husband's
horse rather than have it sold. She
took care of it after it was shot, and
held its head in ber lap nearly all day.
The Superior Court of Cincinnati has
just deoided that a man who is surety
for another on a legal bond or obliga
tion is responsible for defalcations
which may exist before he was on the
bond.
Statisticians have deoided, we believe.
that a sentence to the penitentiary for
life substantially means, under the easy
conditions attaohing to pardons in most
of the States, an average imprisonment
of from four to six years.
It is now proposed to flood the Desert
of Sahara and turn it into a great inland
sea, 250 miles in length and 45 miles in
width. The Scheme, which originated
in France, is pronounced quite practi
cable by competent engineers.
If vou have been picking or handling
acid fruit and have stained your hands,
wash them in clear water, wipe them
lightly, and while they are yet moist
strike a matoh and shut your hands
around it so as to catch the smoke, and
the stain will disappear.
A lady who had been teaching her
little four-year-older the elements of
arithmetic, was astounded by his run
ning in and propounding the following
Eroblem : " Mamma, if you had three
utterflies and each butterfly had a bug
in his ear, how many butterflies would
you have?" The mother is still at
work on the problem.
Tho Missouri State Lottery was ori
ginally planned forty years ago to build
a plank or macadamized road from the
town oi JNew .t ranKiyn to ine luissoun
river, a distance of three or four miles.
Millions of dollars have been placed in
this lottery, and still the New Franklin
road is not built, though tho grant will
probably continue for years.
There is required to be built in
Louisiana, before tho country is
safe, 1,500 miles of levee or fifty mil
lions of cubio yards. The necessary
repairs at crevasses will alone take S3,-
000,000, which, if paid for, tho govern
ment will nave to assume iwo-iuirus oi
it. It is not likely to do this, and
henoe the repairs will be left un
finished. Dogs.
How much of what is said among
people is understood by dogs ? On ono
of the hottest days the unfortunate
dogs confined in a city pond appeared
to sutler intensely irom tne euuocaiing
air. A gentleman, desirous of pur
chasing a watch-dog. went there, and
after some examination ueciueu to Duy a
young black dog, for which he paid the
regulation prioe of three dollars. When
the pound master went to tie a rope
about the dog's neok m order that the
gentleman might lead mm away, ii re
allv seemed as if he knew he had been re
deemed. He jumped up as the master
approached him, aud leaped and fawn
ed on him, and put out his head as if
desirous of being tied. When his new
master led him out, all the other dogs
seemed to go frantic, and broke out
into a series of hDwls and yells that
were painful to hear, not only beoause
thv were almost deafening, but be
cause it seemed as if they knew they
were being reserved for a worse late.
A Triple Suicide.
A triple suicide lately took place at
Vienna under sad circumstanoes. Three
ladies, the eldest appearing to be the
mother of tho two, tooK a Deciroom at
the Kummer Hotel The next morn
ing they went out for a short time, and,
on their return, after having taken a
light repast, retired to their chamber.
Shortly afterward several detonations
were heard in that apartment, and on
the door being broken open the three
women were found lying dead on the
floor, each with a pistol in her hand,
and their skulls f raotured by the bullets.
Subseciuentlv thev were recognized as
Mme. Uvorgv. tne wne oi a irauesinau
of Tordy, in Hungary, completely ruin
ed by the late financial crisis, and her
two daughters. No rings or jewelry
were found oh them, and tne oniy prop
erty they possessed besides their clothes
was the sum of forty-seven kreutzers
(three and a half centimes each) in the
mother s purse.
Didn't Want the Ticket
A conduotor on the Pennsylvania
Railroad tells the following : At an
eastern station he received on board a
fine-looking Bpeoimen of an old country
gentleman. When he passed through
the cars, the old gentleman handed np
his ticket, whioh was duly punched and
returned to him. Alter passing the
next call station, the conductor again
called for the old gentleman s ticket.
He looked np in surprise, and very
honestly informea tne puncher ol tickets
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that he had thrown it out of the win
dow. " Why did you do that ?" asked
the conductor. The old man replied,
" Why, I thought if you didn't want it,
I didn't." The face of the old man
was so honest, and his knowledge of
railroad traveling evidently so limited,
that the conduotor accepted his word,
and carried him to his destination.