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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPEItANDTJM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. VI.
KTDGAVAY. ELK COUNTY. PA., THUIISTUY. FEBKUAKY 1, 1877.
NO. 50.
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The First Party.
Miss Annalsl JtcCnrty
Wng Invited to a parly,
" Your company from four to ten," the. invilti
tion Haiti j
Aud the maiden won delighted
To think she wi invitid
To,sit up till the hour n lieu the big folks weut
to bed.,
Hie crazy little midget
l!an mid told the news to Ilridget,
Who clapped her- hands, mid danced a Jig, to
Annabel's deli lit,
And said, with accents hearty,
"'Twill be the snntest party
If ye're tlie.-n ycrsclf, nie durlint ! I wish it
was lo-night !''
Tin great dispfdj if frilling
Was positively killing
And, oh. the little booties ! mid the lovely sosli
so wide !
And the glove so very cunning
Sho was altogether "stunning,"
And the whole Mel 'arty fninily regarded li
with pride.
They gave minute directions,
With copious interjections
Of "sit up straight!" and " don't do this or
that 'twould be absurd !"
Hut, what, with their caressing,
And 'lie agony of dressing,
Miss Annabel McOarty didn't hear a
word.
single
There was music, there was datu-iiij
And tho sight was most entrancing,
As
if fairyland and floral band were holding
...,.!, .
juimee;
There was lauglnng there was poutmg : , x j (1()Ut it. reil!)(nm, ,le , plunder. The story they told was a cu
lhere was singing, there was shouting s i i.f -i... ..V' 1.1 t ..l I ,.!,, 1Im 'I'l.o -bfih. .r.iinr m.t r.mn,1
nd old and young together made a cariuvid of
p
Aiiiiiibel Jlef.'srty
AVas the youngest at th P1 flf
And eviry one remarked tlmt she was beauli
fuli. dressed ;
Like a doll she sat demurely
On the sofa, thinking surely
11 would never do for htr to run and frolic niili
the rest.
The noise kept growing louder ;
. The naughty boys would crowd her ;
"I think you're very rude indeed!" the little
lady saiil ;
And then, without a warning,
Her home instructions scorning,
She screamed : " I want my sujiwninj J
want to go to btd!"
Now big folks, who are older,
Need not laugh id her, nor scold her,
For doubtless, if tho truth were known, we've
often felt inclined
To leave the b:.U or party,
As did Annabel McCarty,
Hut we hadn't half her courage and we couldn't
RHRk our mind !
'oM-phiite I'vilanJ, St. Xieholtwfor February.
THE BURGLAR-PROOF MAN.
A DETECTIVE'S STORY.
I don't suppose you feel much interest
in burglars, nor are their habits n very
choice theme in polite literature ; but
then that occurrence at Glen Spring was
really nn extraordinary affair. I was on
the police force at the time and knew
Calico Charley well. His father was one
of tho best machinists in tne country,
aud he took more pains to make a man of
his boy than the fellow deserved. The
old man had a little machine shoji and
had the boy Charley with him a bright,
smart chap he was then. When he was
tweiitv-one he got to bo pretty livelv
about town, for tho old man hini wived
up a handsome property and let Charley
have more money than was good for him.
Ihen they got up a new safe lock, nnd it j ate n sandwich she hail given hun, and , they would haul the whole pile, as we
made a big stir, and I believe they went ; nsked her a lot of sly questions, lint he ! say. Charley, who wns a careful worker,
into that sort of thing pretty heavy. ' couldn't get much out oi her, simply be- i went at the tiling systematically, got his
Any way Charley weut over with the lock cause she didn't know anything, so he tools ready, sent Frost off to reconnoi
to the first world's fair in London. I made up his mind to interview the old ! ter, nnd talked very little. Thev were
There he got tripped up. I never heard
exactly how it was. They put up a
wicked job on linn of some kind, and got j "V ell, now then, what do you want,
him mixed up with a pretty bad LAidou . hay?"
"mob." Tho story that we heard was I "Nish gloves, necktise, soaps sheep,"
that he picked a safe lock for a party tlmt i says Ketchuin, pushing up.
shouldn't have been picked. Any way, ; " Didn't you read tho warning to ped
ho got in with the wrong crowd and thwy . dlers on the fence. Aint yon afraid of
wouldn't let go of him. He stayed over
there about live years and got to be a
regular first-class sneak, and worked half
a dozen jobs in the most scientific man
ner. Wo got word from Scotlund Yard
that ho was coming back, and I dropped
in nt the old man's place to try and rind
out something. Old Calcott (that was
his name) had got rich. What 'with his
bank lock and his other inventions, his
menu way of living, and his luck in buy
ing some down town ! property before
mg some down town property uelore
people had an idea how big the city was
going to be, he'd come to be a regular
nabob. I couldn't get a word out of him
about his boy. He said he'd given him
up, and was going to retire from bnsi-
ness. .Money must have come in pretty
fast then to the old fellow. He showed
me half a dozen patents that he was
going to sell out ; any one of 'era miist
I 1
jmvo ouen worm u 'lie ui uoiiarH.
Now l think of it, it iron Calcott who
put the first Frnnklinite iu au iron snfe,
an 1 he invented the rubber flunge which
prevented the thieves from using the air
pump when the wanted to blow np a
safe.
It seems that when young Calcott
started for America he'd made up his
mind to cut his London acquaintances
and tricks, and live honestly by going
back to the old man. None of us knew
it at the time. Well, when he got here
a curious thing happened. We had a
man In the central office by the name of
Meehan, who was in with an east side
mob. He was broke about a year after- j eye and wondering whether he was in- j being could escape. Bo he jams the
ward. Median had got word from the j snne or just the smurtest man he'd ever ' jimmy upright into the groove to keep
London gaug, aud he met young Calcott i met. He had au idea that it was just the ! the irons apart, aud calls out to Frost in
on the dock with facts enough to send him I easiest thing to knock hiua over as he 'a hoarse w hisper to come back. Jack
up;anl he made a straight offer to him to stood there and walk off with thepluuder. j was in tho upper hall, and, getting
stay with the east side gaug if he didn't ! But that hint about the telegraph stopped scared, makes a bftjd rush down the
want to end his career for usefulness, and hiin. Then the old man showed him out, ! stairs, catches his foot iu something and
Calcott, frightened at tho prospect of I aud when ho got into the hall he savs : I lands ull in a heap at the bottom, knock
going to prison, forgot his g.xxl resolu- j " You're the first pediller I ever saw that ing Charley's light into smithereens and
uons, una joined the thieves.
It was in the whiter of 'C5 that the
places along the Hudson river were
broken into by a river gang. You may
recollect.it. Judge Hchermerhorn's
house ut Glen Spring was entered one
night and robbed of 850,000 worth of
property. The papers made a good deal
of fuss about it, and we had three or
four aieu working at it. . One day Matti-
wm comes into the office with it copy (if
fl, m..., u. l. i ..
1 hip ttien Jtpring licrriui. unit suv
"Look nt this. Here's a go. Bead
that." And he pointed out nil advertise
! luent. This is the way it rend:
"All burglars, house brenkers, sneak
thieves nnd assassins nre hereby notified
, that I have over $60,001) worth of coin,
j jewels nnd silverwnrc in my house.
which they are welcome to if they will
come and take it. No dogs, servants or
laborers about the pluco. The house is
a mile from any other residence, and the
only occupant is nn old man, not in very
goon iienun, oy tne unme ot
"John Cawott."
" It's simie old lnnutic," says I, " who
I hasn't got money enough to get credit."
"No," snys Mnttisou. "They say up
; there he's worth half a million. He lives
' in a fine houso nil by himself about two
! miles from the depoL"
It was a three days talk in the office
! and then we forcot it, Hut the adver-
tisement was kept in the paper, and one I Calcott should be shot at sight if he in
I day it seems Tony Frost, down atDobb's i torfered.
" '' Ferry, struck it. ' That was the wav it i There was a good deal of anxiety in
got to the gang. Xhoy pooh-poohed it
. as " chaff," but Frost'it seems went up
to Glen Spring, poked about, sifted the
i thing, reconnoitered the premises and
1 came down to the city with a big yarn
; for his pals. His report was that' the
! old " luny " had got a sign on his fence
'informing everybody that passed that
j here was the unprotected house full of
i vnluablcs that the river gang didn't dare.
to walk into. He was sure, too, that
' there wasn't unv irammon about the
; stl,ff: f,,r ht!' f"V"fl ,mt, 1tll,,t,U1 C!l
i was immensely rich and kept, nearly all
i i.J. ui. :.. i.:.. i 1
unit 111,111111 IVniUIVU OlJVf 1 1 111 I'llt1 111
, nv 8IR.h i)ait lH m hnt T()UV yrnf,t
: Kent ookinn' nwnv nt it nmi line iv
somelxxtv in the
in the amiu sine I it wns too
: much to have the profession insulted in
i that way, unless tlicy were all afraid of
the old duffer. After that Tony Frost
; weut to the house, pot up as a trump,
and tried the back door. The moment
. ho knocked it rlew open, and an old
i lnnn's voice hailed him over the stairs:
: "Hullo there, what d'you want ?"
" Stimmat to eat, if yer please," says
Tony, shulHing in mid taking a good look
1 around.
! "Go down and tiT the kitchen."
shouts the old man, "nnd don't stand
gaiiing round that. way. There's bread
j down stairs. If you want to examine
j the house, come up when your belly's
full, nnd I'll show it to you."
With that Tony goes down the way he
I came and walks into the kitchen, where
j n little girl was washing dishes. She
j gave him some bread and meat aud talked
1 quite freely. To his astonishment she
told him tiint the old man had lots of
I money in the house. she d seen it.
I She told told him that she lived in the
village and went home every night. He
must have made a favorable report, be
j cause it wasn't long after that wlv.'U Hill
! Ketchum, who was the rin'detider of the
river gang, thought he'd take it look nt
i the house. Soup he goes, playing the
l part oi n peddlei. &nd drops the neatest
little pack in front of the place when he
sees the sign. Ihere it was sure enough, :
nicely lettered in red on :. white ground,
nnd inviting all burglars, house break- ;
ers, sneak thieves and assassins to come j
and take what they could get. The '
house stood a good ways back from the
road, and as Hill went np the wide path
he had a good chance to take in the j
dwelling. It was a large brick house J
with a high stone foundation and an iron
stoop. Thwre wasn't a shutter, a pair
of blinds, on the place. And if anybody
hud tried to set it afire he would have
given up the job as a bad one.
Ketchuin got in through tho window.
He had a lot of thiuers in his pack that
! tickled the fancy of the girl, and he let
I her amuse herself With them while he
, man and pokes about till hegot upstairs,
! and was hailed over the balusters :
the dogs shouted the old man.
" Wiuiiiu' !" says Hill, giving himself
nwav.
"All right," sings out the old man,
quicker than lightning. " You're no
peddler. You wunt to see my property.
Come up. I'll show it to you."
Well, this stumped Bill a good deal,
but he plucked up and followed Culcot tin-
; to nn upper ris mi, keeping one eye round
him and taking in everything but nink-
, mg a great snow ot rr;Me.
: " This room," says Calcott, " is w here
j I sleep. There isn't nny lock on the door,
i and thin room is where I keej) my money,
j There's the safe I never lock it. ' Here,
j I'll show you what's in it stand still
i Decauso when I pull the door open it
! starts a telegraph machine, nnd three
' of the best men in the county start from
i the village they're officers,
! 1 1 1 .1 . ..
With that
he jerked the door open.
Bill wns a little nervous, and he
couldn't help showing it.
' If any of your gang should come
here at night I'll put you up to a trick
cut the wires first, they run across the
road below tho big gate. Don't bo
nervous. Do you see that? its gold.
Feel the weight of it. These are dia
monds. Can you tell a real spark when
you see it? I should say they were
worth, in the market, between $30,000
and $10,000.
Thtt old man Vent un ttnn Vintl .if finf.
i ter, standing there iu his old calico wrap-1
tier. Bill Ketchum watehin? him with one
carried a revolver in his breast pocket."
Bill suited a little, for he had an ideu
that Coleott must have seen it.
"Ho, ho !" Mtya the old man; " so you
have got one ?"
The last thing he said to him as be was
nv-vlnr. tlm .tuna W' " YOU'rO
not smart enough for this job, my man."
t'..k. ,.i.i l.io foil that he was
uever so clean winded in hie We. "I
i felt ho moan when I was coming nwnv,"
! i - i. i i -i . . i i.. ...
says he, " that I'd half a mind to reform
nnd cut the profession."
Well, not to make the story too long, the
upshot of it was that Ketchum, a fellow
by the name of Welter and Jack Frost
put up the job to crack the old nuin's
place. Kitchnm and Frost, I think,
went into the business from a kind of
pride. They considered they had been
challenged Hiid it was n point of honor
to take the old man at his word.
They got up there one dark night in
May niid laid by till long after midnight.
Then they got over the fence nnd sneaked
up to the' house. They were all heavily
armed, and, I forgot to say, were delayed
some time looking for the telegraph wire,
which they couldn't find, of course,
there not being nny. rnncy their sur-
! rw when, after crawling round the
j place for a. spot to break in, they found
that the front door was unlocked and the
hnllJfclark. It had been agreed that old
I "P iieiuiqnariers oi rue gang nun nigiu,
' for this job had been tidked about for a
' Rol while, and Ketelmm had staked his
! reputation on it. Dutch Morley was to
be at a point in the rond about two miles
: north of the house with a fast team to
i ""'' " the "swag," and arrangements
had been made at Dobbs FciTy to divvy
and cut.
, Dutch Morley waited till day begun to
! break, and then only two of his men
! tinned up. They were covered with
j ,U' an'' ' u.f J1''
I broken. M elter hud be
tli em had Ins arm
: -Iwnl.UI 'n,nv rf a ti.,
i -'' r"M O ' "
them when they reached their ilive, and
i oiu. mo t uesiions to ineiu inwi nun
thick.
" But you fixed the ol.l fellow's flint,
anyhow ?" said somebody.
"We. didn't see him at nil," answered
Ketchuin, dolefully. " No, we were in
the dark. Why, u lamp wouldn't burn
miv more'n a stone. We liked to suffo
cate." "Oh, that's thin," snys aMother;
" why didn't you go out into the air?"
" Because we couldn't get out; we
were fastened in like rats. Every win
der and door closed up with a steel
j shutter on the inside as tight as a rich
man's pocket. There was only one way
out down a back staircase outside,
about twelve iuahes wide; only one of
us coidd go at t time, mud when we
reached the bottom something fell on us
in turn."
That was Kctehum's account of it.
Frost, was the only plucky one of the
lot. He didn't believe in witchcraft.
and he vowed he would get ppiar on
"Id Calcott.
Willi thai lie sets out to mid uiluii
Charley, who was the best man in the
business where there were irou shutters
concerned.
The very next day but one after tliih
attempt on Cnlcott's house, the GleL
! Spring Jlrritld had another notice like
! this :
" Ihe attempt to rol) niv house on
Thursday night, which failed so com
pletely, should not frighten other thieves
from making the trial. For the next
thirty days there will be more gold and
silver on the premises than ever before.
"Jonx Cawott."
Frost got hold of Calico Charley and
explained the whole thing to him. None
of the gang knew Charley's right naine,
and I don't think he was told the. name
of the man they were to rob. Frost ex-
plained to hi in that it wns the steel (shut
ters that "knocked them, and he
thought now they knew the trick one of
them could wedge the iron aud keep the
exit open while the other Kccuivd the
property. At all events, the two men
cooked up a new job and made sure tlmt
! about two weeks getting ready. In
! spite of all their pains to keep it dark.
the gang got wind of the affair, and of
course they were all very anxious to see
how it would come out.
Charley and his pal went up to a litth
station about three miles north of Glen
Spring, and started down at night i
loot. It was so dark when they got to
the house that they could not see the
sign. There wnsii t the glimmer of a
light, about the place. They were to go
softly and try the front door. If it
opened, tlrey were to step inside quir k
ly. One oi thein wns to stay at the
dc Kir to keep the egress open ; the other
was to go up stair and secure the valu
ables. They had two jimmies, a could
: chisel aud a lot of other traps of Char-
ley s, that you cuh see down there at tho '
central office ill a glass case. '
They found the front door unfastened j
as before. Ohiu'ley pushed it open, and :
they Iwvth stepped quickly and stealthily i
into the hallway. " Wait a moment,' i
he wliispered to his companion, and !
striking a match; "T want to see how
i this thing works." With that he struck
a lierht and took a uood look at the door-
way. " I see tho trick," savs he; " give
I me that screw wrench mid be quick." Iu
; less than two minutes he had the groove
j in which the steel shutter moved so
pinched thot no earthly power could
have made tho thing work. " Now go
' on," says he, and with that Frost crawls
up tho stairway. He hadn t any more
than got to the top when the iron shut
ter begun to appear coming up through
tho floor, and to Charley's astonishment
it ennio down from above ulso. He snw
in a minute tluit he was beaten. The
two halves of the t-hutter would come to
the pinch in the iron and leave not six
! inches snace throucrh which no human
! making a most infernal noise. Calcott
was smart enough, though, to hold his
jimmy steady so as to keep the shutters
. aoart
auart. and ulter Frost had picked him-
self up and they had both listened, with
i oat hearing anythiug, one oi era savs
with an oath: "We rem u box; let's
; get out. " It was
i don t, says the otli
trost. "No, you
icr. e ve come
for the stuff this tunc. I never was
benlen yet at this sort of a gams, nnd I
ain't bent. yet. Take your shooter, fol
low me up nnd show me tho way."
They got up to the top of the stairs.
It was still as death, nnd Calcott lights a
bull'seye. Frost was getting pretty
shaky. So Charley says : " Show me
the room," and with his lamp in one
hand and a pistol in the other he pushes
iu, leaving Frost there in the hall watch
ing, the square hole in the door, between
the shutters, aud expecting every minute
that it would close up. It must have
been ton minutes before Calcott came
back. He had the lamp in hand yet, and
Frost saw that he was ns white as a sheet.
All he said was : "Come down it's no
go."
When they got to the laittoin, the shut
ters separated nnd disappeared, and the
men walked out. " Where's the plun
der?" asks Frost, f." I bnv'n't got it,"
says Charley ; " I tell you it's no use
the man is burglar-proof. If you don't
believe it, go back and try it yourself.
I'm off!"
With this cock nnd bull story they got
back to their rendezvous. And it was
never known, I don't believe, till I inter
viewed Calico Charley up there at the
prison, that he had met his own father
that night. According to Charley's story
to me the old man said he was a-wait-ing
for him. And so struck was the son
with remorse that lie lost nil his pluck
und coolness. Whether he ever went
back to the old man after he got rid of
his pnl I have never heard.
It was nil fixed hy the old man's in
genuity. The house w as all wires and
levers from one end t'other. Ho could
turn n crank up in his bedroom and shut
the whole house up as tight as a drum.
Then he'd slip down into his cellar, turn
a half ton of charcoal into his fnrnaoe
and kill everybody in the place, unless
everybody crawled out of the one exit,
and then the old fellow had them at his
mercy, one by one.
The last time I hoard from Charley
the warden said he had invented a new
catch lock for the cells that could not be
opened by any one but the keeper with
out its ringing the alarm bell. World,
Upturn ot Jews to Palestine.
The Cincinnati Commercial savs :
The year 1S77 is likely to do more ttmn
the astrologers find promised in its two
lucky figure sevens; it will probably
witness the birth of several new na
tions. They may, be born amid the
pangs of war, tlvongh to-day the signs
are more auspicious; but they will be
born. Not only will one, more probably
two, constitutionally aud maternally pro
tected nations be orn within the limits
of Ottoman suzerainty, but Egypt will
be remade by England. The new
scheme of wideiring the Suezcamd really
means the coloiu'jiinnpf .Egypt with
many of tlie ablest I'.iigh'shiiien and the
renovation of the khedive's government.
The keen instinct of tlie Jews has fore
felt what is coming. I wrote you some
time ngo that a remnrkidile immigration
to Palestine was going on uniong that
people, and that the feigns of it, wpve
observable iu many closed Jewish
home.i in Loudon. .i traveler who has
just returned here writes that he found
the whole region from Pan to Berrshe
ba crowded with immigrant Jews from
all parts of the world. Whatever may
have caused the gathering of Jews to
Palestine, the fact is certain. And the
traveler who has remarked it no doubt
represents the hope he found among
them in his intimation that Englatld
might well assist in the restoration of
Jerusalem nnd the foundation there of a
Jewish republic, or other liberal govern
ment. The prowsition is one likely to
spread bke wihllire. The average' or
thodox Christian world w ill at once rec
ognize tho Divine hand stretched forth
to fulfill prophecy, und any amount of
money could be raised here for such a
purpose. When Egypt mid Syria nre
taken in hand it will become' at once
necessary to reduce Arabia to order. The
world has .been so absorbed in nearer
Turkish affairs as hardly to have noticed
that Arabia is at present the urenu of
civil war.
Mot Bait tor a Shark.
Looking over the bulwarks of the
schooner, says n writer, I saw one of
these wretched monsters winding lazily
backward and forward like a long me
teor, sometimes rising till his nose dis
turbed the surface, and a gushing sound
like it deep breath rose through the
breakers; at others, resting motionless
on the water, as if listening to our voices,
and thirsting for our blood. As we were
watching the motions of this monster,
tho cook suggested the possibility of de
stroying it. This was briefly to heat a
fire brick in the stove, wrap it up hastily
iu some old greasy cloths, us a sort of
disguise, and then to heave it overboard.
This was the work of a few moments
nnd the effect was triumphant, The
monster followed after tho hissing prey.
We saw it dart at the brick like a rlush
of lightning, and gorgo it iustantcr.
The shark rose Jo the siu-fueo almost im
mediately, and his uneasy motion soon
betrayed the success of the maneuver.
His agonies became terrible; the waters
appeared ns if disturbed by a violent
squall, and the spray was driven ovr
the taft'rail where we stood, while the
gleaming body of the fish repeatedly
burst through the dnrk waves, as if
writhing w ith tierce nnd terrible convul
sions. Sometimes we thought we heard
a shrill, bellowing cry, as if indicative
of anguish nnd rage, rising through the
gurgling waters. His fury, however,
was soon exhausted; in a short time tho
sounds broke away into distance, and
the agitation of the sea subsided. Tlie
shark had given himself up to the tides,
as unable to struggle against the up
proach of death, ana they were carryiug
his body unresistingly to'the beach.
(old Water on his Eloquence.
" Amelia, for thee yes, at thy com
mand I'd tear this eternal firmament into
a thousand fragments I'd gather the
stars one by one lis they tumbled from
the regions of etherial space and put
them in my trousers puckels; I'd pluck
the sun that oriental god of day, tlmt
traverses the blue arch of heaven in sm-h
majestic splendor I'd tear him from the
sky and quench its bright effulgence in
the fountuiu of my eternal love for thei"
Amelia" Don't, Heury, it would lie
so very dark"-
LcHsens to Unships Mm.
Dr. Taylor, nt the Broadway Taber
nacle, New York, made a Fhrrt exposi
tion of the first seven verses of T.
Kings, fourth chapter, the basis for
promulgating and illuntriilitig n number
of lessons to business meti nnd others.
The passage is the well known account
of the increase of the poor widow's oil,
by a miracle through the prophet
Elisha. The woman's sons were about
to be taken into bondage by a creditor,
and the oil was miraculously sent, that
its sale might supply funds for the liqui
dutiou of tho debt. Dr. Taylor said :
A good mnn may sometimes bo hope
lessly insolvent. Bnnkrnptcy in busi
ness is not neeessnrily connected with
bankruptcy of character. We have no
sympathy with those who are too indo
lent to exert themselves adequately for
their own support, nnd who, in Thack
eray's words, seem to be continually try
ing to solve the problem of " How to
live upon nothing a year." Of such
hungers on, we would say, with Paul :
" If a man will not work,' neither shall
ho cat." A mnn may become bankrupt
ull of a sudden, because he has not
taken care to look into his own nffairs,
and has therefore calculated upon condi
tions which did not exist in his own cir
cuuistances. " We cau vindicate such
a man's honesty only at tho expense of
his intellect." But some men are made
bankrupt, from no fault of theirs, by
the sudden failure of a once prolific
source of income; or by "strikes" of
employees, after contracts have been
made; or nu importer, who by his Hue
of business is doing the public a service,
may lie ruiued by a sudden fall in
prices, or a man advanced in years may
invest his savings in a bank, which,
through the dishonesty of some officer,
becomes a quicksand to swallow them
up irretrievably. Such a bank officer,
or trustee, who has misapplied the funds
of a ward, should have only one place to
go to, and that n prison. But the un
fortunate investor, or tho deceived ward,
should have a place in the sympathies
and practical regard of a well disposed
community. " There tire bankruptcies
and bankruptcies." But the most pain
ful and irreparable kind is bankruptcy of
character. There is no resurrection out
of the grave of character buried beneath
a fallen fortune.
A creditor should be considerate. Tlie
law allows a creditor to deserve the
name of "Mr. Hardtist " or of a "Shy
lock." But the law is made for the law
less. "Do not treat a man us a rogue,
because he happens to be in your
debt!" Remember the golden rule of
the Master, for you may be in that man's
place before long. Do not either,,as n
member of a corporation, lose your in
dividual conscience, or let that corpora
tion be "a shield behind which you will
do a thing which you would not daro to
loon jour own responsibility!" Let
kindness be the rule toward the unfor
tunate, and reserve tlie exception of
harshness for the criminal. God was
merciful to ns when we had nothing
with which to pay our debts. We lesm
tho importance of providing in some
way for those dependent upon us, so
that iu the event of our being removed
from earth they may be less ill off than
were this widow ami these children.
Dr. Taylor holds it to be a religious
duty for those who cannot save money
otherwise to insure their lives. But to
be of reul service the insurance must be
reliable. So look before yon insure.
Let there be no delay ! It is no valid
objection against life insurance to say
that it shows u want of tmst in God for
a man thus to secure a comfortable fu
ture for his children. "Tie up your
camel nnd then trust to Allah!" " No
corruption is so base us cheating
those who invest in life insurance.
Vaiited"Eaniiiles of Plain Lhiug.
A letter to the editor of the New York
.Sim says: This is what we need: That
our wealthy people, whether enriched by
inheritance, good fortune, or honorable
industry and frugality, should make the
not very difficult or self-denying sacrifice
of living in the community in such a way
as will commend itself to nil for its sim
plicity, its economy, nnd, at tho same
time, for its elegance, and relineuient ;
thus presenting tlie highest social station
as a thing easily within the reach of all
hi morable and honest pei ple. This would
produce a healthy, hopeful striving for
the station which is ever allied with gen
uine moral development and progress.
But, instead of this, our rich people,
for the most part, set un example, by
their stylo of living, which reacts upon
the great body of the people, exciting a
restless, despairing envy that finds con
solation only in the hope of vying with it
by menus oi' some lucky hit, or in gloat
ing with uuhealthy relish over the duily
recurriiig instances of the finauciul and
moral wreck nnd downfall of some hither
to envied neighbor. These instances
show that the so-called upper class is so
impregnated with the qualities of rascal
ity and infamy that it is only u question
of time, and that short, how soon the whole
vicious thing will come down with such a
crush and ruin, accompanied by such a
blow on tho great moral nerve of the hind,
as w ill render forever hateful tho very
name of social station as now misapplied
and abused.
The Commodore's Advice.
Tlie following characteristic anecdote
is related of the lato Commodore Van
derbilt : At tho beginning of the panic
of 1873 a reporter of a city jouruul waited
upou the commodore to get his views of
the situation. The experienced journal
ist plunged into the subject as soon as
ho was shown into the commodore's
presence.
" Good-morning, commodore," said
he. " What do you thiuk of the panic ?"
'I don't think about it at all."
" What do you intend to do about it,
then ?"
" I don't intend to do anything."
" Well, haven't you got anything to
say about it ?''
. '" No, bir, not a word."
The poor repoitcr was just leaving the
j room in despair, when the commodore
: turned full upon him and said : " Look
I a-here, sonny, let me give you a little
! advice. Pay ready money for every-
thing you buy, and never sell anything
: which you do not own. Good-morning,
' Bonny, '
THK TU1PLK IU KL.
A mry Tulil i' liic (I'lioriimii uml (til? if
Ms Pranks.
The O'Gonnau Million, an Irish gen- ,
tlemuii, a blood relative of Marshal i
McMahon, Wits member of Parliament
for Ennis, Ireland, and descended, like ;
the Marshal Duke of Magenta, from one .
of the ancient kings of Hibemia. Tl" '
O'Gonnan Million lived in I'ai'is with his !
family, during portions of the reigns of
King Louis Philippe und the Emperor '
Napoleon III. His cards read "Tho
O'Gornuin Million." Ho caused his new I
cards to be placed in the letter boxes of
each member of the club to which he be
longed. In the following week lie vimted
it at about dinner time, and many mem
bers arose, shook hands, nnd saluted
him respectfully by his name of rnnk.
Some of them, however, laughed nt the,
curd of grammatical regal distinction,
O'Gornian was a dead "pistol shot."
Having selected three of the most promi
nent members of the club, who had re
fused to recognize his new distinction,
he slightly struck his glove across their
faces. Of course they forthwith chal
lenged hini, and he ns quickly accepted.
O'Gormun insisted, by his second, upon
fighting them ull on the following morn
ing, one ufter the other; tlie first ut
nine o'clock, another at ten o'clock, and '
a third at eleven o'clock. Tho field
selected was at the eud of n long lane in
the country lending to nn orchard dell,
some distance from the farmhouse.
O'Gormun resolved, ns he snid, not to :
kill, but simply to "wing" his men, ',
like so many birds, and he was sure to j
do it, and fire first, with his hair trigger
pistol.
He had arranged with his second and
surgeon to hire nnd to have three burial
henrscB and horses on the ground, with
coflins nnd funeral pall, as for dead men,
and to be in place before the parties
arrived on the field. All were to walk
down the long lane, leaving their car
riages some distance from the field.
The throe parties were to follow each
other, ns to the hour neither before
nor after. Of course O'Gornian was
to continue on the field to fight the
triplets as they consecutively arrived.
The nine o'clock duel duly took place,
and O'Gornian did "wing "his oppo
nent, and was himself unharmed. There
upon the wounded man, having been
attended to by the surgeon, was placed,
in the coffni nnd lifted np into the
hearse, the death pall over him, and
.driven down the lane, and when about
half way, met, ns wns expected, the ten
o'clock party. They all paused, and
piously raised their hats in respect to 1
tne comneit oouy neiore them.
"Driver, whose corpse is that, with no !
mourning conches following? they in- ,
llu'1?!, . . . , , .,, , . :
' V 1, latlii'k I "1 "',vr '
.?lR' 11 1H tJ',0 11ilrt-vi '. w ,0"1 ;
4 'M, 1'J. JlltlJl into nnii' hf illPV IfJllpi,
home. Maybe you are party No. 2.
Good luck to you ! but vou'll iind your
i,...o.. .. ..;:,.,. t.... '
hearse waiting for you.
On went the second party sorrowfully
to tho field ; they fought, he was winged,
as had been No. 1, nnd in like mnnner
he was coffined nnd hearsed us the former
duelist hud been. When nearly out of
the lnne. No. I), the eleven o'clock, who
had already met No. 1 hearse, now met I second use of stamps. To cheek
No. i, witli the second supposed dead i the practice a new three-cent stamp, so
body. i made ns to show any attempt to efface
"'What ! O'Govnimi successful in both j tlt' canceling murk', is soon to be iu
duels ?" . ; sued.
"Yes!" responded the driver, "and,
if you do not admit him to be Tin'
O'Gornuin upon the field, you will re
hearse the same tragedy at eleven
o'clock, as the others did' ut nine and
ten a. it. Your hearse is waiting for
you !"
This second dialogue caused the last
party to reflect before they reached the
field, and enpecially when they came in
sight of the third henrse, tho coffin on
the ground, and tho black pall waving
in the wind.
The seconds conversed ; apology was
proffered. "To whom does my adver
sary apologize?" inquired tho kingly
descendant, himself in stature u luim
nrch. " I npologize. to Tltv O'Gornian
Malum," was the response 'of the op
posing principal. "1 am satisfied," he
replied, " nnd here's my hand in amity,
I was always attached to correct gram
mar when at college, nnd I will maintain
the definite article ' The. ' throughout
my life. "
They returned to tlie club, before
which the hearses had been purposely
driven nnd delayed. The members not
desiring to bo similar birds of passage,
flocked around the victor, and with oiien
hand sal utod him as "The O'Gormun ! to market by u low stage of water on the
Million !"' Chattahoochee river until tho price ad-
, viinced so that ho realized S2,50O more
Testing Their Capacity. j than he would have received had his coK
The Clinton (Mass.) Cuiirunt prints I beou w,rri,ul tl,rmgh iu tl,c UM1"1
the following : At a reunion on Tlniks- ! ' , , .
giving day of the family of one of the old i . ilic shipments of petroleum
residents, in which there was four solid ' trom "l0 I'cunsylvania oil regions dur
soiiH nnd one solid daughter, three aver- i iu8 187,5 amounted to 10,000,000 barrels,
age daughters-in-law, and a medium 1 Iu Jaunilry t'ie price was 1.47 per bar
sized son-in-law, with grandchildren j rel ' March it had reached 2; in Au
enough to make the number who were j V it averaged $3.55. Crudo oil is now
selling at .3.f0 tier barrel at the wells.
tifctics were taken: '
7'oioi"(,
United weight before dinner.. . .
United weight after dinner
Net fc-aiu
Average gain er person
(treatest gain of any person....
Smallest gain of any person.
Greatest weight before dinner. .
Greatest weight ufter dinner....
Smallest weight before dinner..
Smallest weight after dinner...
85
2 7-2U
185'
ISM! f,
in ,
The dinner was pretty thoroughly set
tled by nn hour's ride perpendicularly
upou tho buy rack, which, we believe.
was prescribed hy the medicine man of
the family, and fully indorsed by all.
Miss Linney, of Sacramento, was in
clined to marry Mr. Roberts, but she
snid that sho could not become the wife
of a poor mnn. She would wait a rea
sonablo time for him to make a fortune,
and whenever he was in a condition to
support her in elegauce he might claim
her. He weut to San Francisoo, em
barked iu mining speculations, und made
money rapidly. A few months a jo he
told her that he jiossessed u hundred
thousand dollars. She said that the sum
wns satisfactory, and mentioned a date
that would suit her for the wedding.
Then he coolly told her that he hud
.changed his mind, nnd had no idea of
marrying her. She h is sued him for
breach of promise.
Hip Old Story.
I have loved thee fondly, truly.
With nil my trusting heart,
And like n dove in search of rest
Ilavn wandered where thou art ;
I've lingered round thee day by day,
Till by thy bands enresset
I've laid my weary, onhiuB bend
I'pon thy loving breast.
lint now my dream of love is o'er,
Its memories bright are past.
Vnd recollections but recall
Tlifc "enos that could not last.
Like snowilakfs which descend on oartt
They melted one l.y one.
And disappeared like drojst of dew
IU fore the. morning sun.
I would not cast, reproach upon
That fnitlileis heart of thine i
For conscience must give pangs nun c keen
Than burning words of mine ;
And as the hiind of time engrave
Its furrows on our brown,
May memory bring bi fore thy vivw
Thy false and perjured vows.
No, no, I would not have thee think
That I a thought would cat-t
tnon the happy sce nes of yore
Now buried in the pnFt ;
For though I loved thee once, yet miw
I tear thee from my heart.
And to their fountain backward scud
Tlie burning tears that start.
Hems of Interest.
'Die man who thought friends should
be informed of their faults is now de
void of friends.
A general reduction in the wages of
agricultural laborers has beeu made in
most parts of England since the close of
tlie autumnal season.
T. K. Booehor, of Elmira, refused n
pnss from the president of u railroad re
cently because the president wns not.
sole owner of the road.
Isaac Friedlander, the wheat king of
San Francisco, sold from his farm Inst year
18,000 tons of wheat for i(i48,()00 in gold.
Ho is certainly in a flourish-lug condi
tion. Tho leaves of coffee, are now used to
make a beverage not much different
from tea. Tho new drink finds favor in
LondoiT; nnd has been introduced in
Boston.
A man in New Orleans advertises that
he will give tuition in law, religion and
journalism. " fittintr anybody to become
an able lawyer, clergyman or editor in
one year.
lt wlh Rn oM but tl f.00(1 Klli(1 hy
Frml(.i, .mgmj.lier lately to the effect
that he hides a girl when she is trying to
be n woman and n woman when sho is
trying to be a girl.
It is stated tlint several species of ca
nary seed are now used as food for race
horses ou account of the. large propor
tion of nutritive matter which such seed
contains, unmixed with any objectiona
ble substances.
The postal officials believe that the
government is swindled in the nggre.-
gnte to a large amount by the washing?
Scene ou steamer of the line:
Passenger " Can you tell ine, sir, how
many miles we've come from New York,
and whether we've crossed tho Gulf
Stream yet, and" Captain "Madam,
I advise you to nsk the cook." Passen
ger " Excuse me, sir, I supposed I was
addressing Unit person."
Au old gentleman, wishing to be at his
case on lmrschnck, look his horse to u
riding master to bo taught to amble.
Two or'three trials were made upon the
a nml with but partial suceossi. " Conic,
sir, do you call this an amble?" said the
owner. " No, sir," replied the eques
trian; " I call it a preamble."
The Fort Worth (Texas) Standard
says tho slaughter of buffaloes is im
mense. On au average one thousand
will approximate clopely to the number
killed each day during tho pleasant days
of the hunting season, fifteen hundred
men being on the range engaged in kill
ing aud preserving tho hides and meat.
The proverb that " it's an ill wind
that blows nobody good " has received a
striking verification in the case of "a
Georgia planter, whose cotton crop, four
i hundred bales, wns detained on its wny
i ,lU(l refined oil at 12.00 per barrel ut the
seaboard, netting the rehuer a prolit of
0 per barrel !
Two men sentenced to death in Cata
lonia, Spain, were lately subjected to the
garrote. The lirst was executed, but
owing to some peculiarity in the neck of
the other, tho instrument did not press
the locality intended. After repeated
trials by the executioner, resulting in
horrible agonies to the condemned, the
latter was recoiuTtiittod to prison. Infor
niation of the event having been, in the
meantime, telegraphed to King Alphon
so, he remitted the man's sentence.
Dou't be a loafer.
Young man 1 pay attention. Don't be
a loafer; don't keep loafers' conipnvj
don't hang about loafing places. Better
work than sit around day after clay, or
stand about corners with your hands in
your pockets bettt r for your own
health and prospects. Bustle about, if
you mean to have unything to bustle
, uMut lor. uuny u poor physician has
j obtained a n-td putient by riding after an
: imaginary one. A quire' of blank paper,
: tied with red tape, carried under a law
: yer's urui, may procure him his first
case, nud rnuko his fortune, Such is tie
I world: "To him that hath shall be
; giveu." Quit dreaming and complain
i ing; keep busy and mind your chances,