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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL. DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
-VOL. XII.
IlIDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. JUNE 8. 1882
NO. 16.
A Ballade or Toll.
Not for tlie world, but all for pain,
I sing this song of sore dismay,
Wherein is neither hope nor gain,
Nor j".r that groweth day by day,
Nor love, for love's delight the py;
Only a moan that toil must be,
And Borrow, come like storms that stray,
jiiunu iar aiong a irouung sea.
Swept Herce'y down a gloomy plain,
The clouds of winter, dim and gray,
Against the mountains toe in vain,
And tnrn, and seek that endless way
Wherein they miiBt forevorstay;
80 toil, reenrriug, comos to me,
And life grows like the bitter spray
Blown far along a frothing sea.
Ah now the Ices of wine we drain
With hearts that are not lWht nor gay;
No subtle warmth thrills soul or braia.
We hear no glad, sweet roundelay,
Amid the growing shadows piny,
For toil claims from each life a fue;
Fled is the beauty of our May,
Blown far along a frothing sea.
ENVOI,
No rest we win by noble fray,
Only long-toiling waifs aro we,
Bad wrecks, who for death's darkness pray,
Blown far along a frothing sea.
Thomas 8. Collier,
A WOMAN'S MISTAKE.
Mis Miii f ha Bailey luiownfhrough
ont Rosei le fimulj as "Miss Ma it ha''
eat by one of tho windows of her cozy
sittinp-rooni, putting the last stitches
into a flanDel skirt for old Mrs. Bo lley,
wl o suffered terribly with the rhi-um
tiBW, wb:ch was not improve 1 by thp
wreniy si-ruDtiings sue gave the office.-
in the buck block on Main street.
Miss Martha hud just Rewed a stcrr
horn button on the waist belt, and wa
about to fold the skirt np, smiline a
the thought of tho ol 1 woman's dn'iirht
when she should receive tho gift, wh -i.
me saw ooor op tied without the cere
monvcf a preceding nock, anda neigh
bor, Mm Maish, came in.
" You -.n .lit not t sew by twilielit
M n Martha," she said, as she eater, d
the roc -m; "you'll ruin your eyss. Bi
that's not wlat I came here to sy:
Mrs. Norrro" Hied an honrao."
The smile fad.'d fiooi Msi Martha's
face, and ln-r e;es grew hnm'd.
'Poor woman I" she Paid, in her low
sw et voi.-e. "So i he has gnue. at las
She rmllv stiff n A a reat deal.''
"Yes, and nue wa gial to go. Bit
she h d i very atten'ion in sp'te of he:
bein a Mr ng r here. Dr Etgeconr
visited iei ev. ry dv, and never h .re.
aenn', ( til(,w; aid hll ih.i neitb us
ssnt tln'm Rto eat. Cat cor are terull
thin s. Slia wah a mighty pa'ienr, wo
war! P. or son l I But now." will
sudile i eh .r a. of to .o, "what's to b
done wi'b Ev.i ?'
" Ha s'm n r- luives at a'l ?''
" N'o ot e S e is toi rprned anc
pretty to do lmuewrrk, ev n if she a
st nnij enm h, which sho isn't. SU
can't po to the pooihonse. of ciuvse
and she hasn't a dollar - thorp's to be i
subscriotion to pay the burial ex
penses."
Mns Marthn stro.l smoothing tin
flan e' svirt wi h Iit white, thin hand-,
her f ci wearing an xp'es ion of 'e- p
thoni'lit lr.icpbd with snu'ey. O ic
she onened her lips as if to Rpeitk, th n
be-itated nnd closed thim sprain. Outfh
shi to rrake this sacrifics v'hich fieniei
urgd u on be ? It. would be selfish
nor, to d i so. S'ie raited her head, and
said 'n a fiim, set voice:
"The girl m et como to me, sincp
theieis nonce e'se to take her. I hv.
! plenty f ir one I c n make it enough
far two by exercising eonomy."
" That's j sMi e you, MUs Martha I
l tuew youM m ke the offer. The gir
has g it a tiist raie education, and sh
can stud r up enomh to take a schi o
by next fall. Of couise. you won't want
ner round niter you are married.
A de -p flush came into M ss Martha's
naturally pale face, she dropped her
eyes, tnd iumd away from Mrs. Ma-sb,
with some mutm irel exense bb mt
makin the flannel skirt she heldinta a
bur die to be sent awav.
Th nichl ors agreed that Eva Nor
oross could r.ot have fnund a bet'er
homo than she had at Miss Mar. ha s.
The little c va?e stood in a lare pa--dei,
well tilla.i with fruit treei and
shrubs. In tho fuimatr it was gay
with flowers nt Vf rv many varietii a.
an 1 swdet-sm' 11 n? hnneysuckle wan
dered over and neirly concealed tho
fence and front piaz?a.
Miss M irtbahnd lued in the cottiRe
ith eld Hannah for twelve years. For
hree of th' se .leaf the Lad been en
gig dtD Dr. Tom Eigecjurt, whose
practice was ai yet too small to enable
him to nurry. lie was a Tear younwr
than Miss Martha, ajd this fact often
stung htr very keenly. She nomn
times etond before hfr looking-frlass
aud attentively studied her face, wish
ing t-he was twenty intread of thirty,
and had the bloom of ten years before.
Her hair w.s still glossy and abundant,
her e?es t-t'U bright; but the plump,
nesssnd bloom cf early girlhood had
fled forever.
Occasionally she wondered if Tom
would always love her, arid tortured
herself with imagining it a sacrifice for
him to mrry her. Would not a youcg
girl suit biru better? S'ie started like
a guilty thin? when Hannah's tap at
the dorr or call from tho hall below in
terrupted these meditations. She was
provoked with herself that she thought
so much of departel pettiness and the
diflerenca between Ler age and Tom's.
Yet she could not drive away her
harassing doubts, nor wonld the try to
set them at reht by speaking to Tom.
She was shy and sensitive and so was he.
and they were both very proud.
Eva Nororohs fonud her new home a
very quiet but, not unhappy one. She
was gentle and timid, aud did not care
for the society of i)ls of her own age
She liked nothing better than to lie in
an easy-chair all day with a book or
some embroidery in her white pretty
bands, which Miss Martha was never
weary of admiring. The dead mother
bad indulged her child, and never taught
her to make herself useful. There was
no need for ber to be active in the oot-
tago. At the outset Miss Martha had
told her that she would be required to
do nothing but study, Hannah being
fully competent to do the entiro work
ol the smal. establishment.
'Y u mnsteduoateyour-elf to leash.
Mr. Marh si d, ore mornin r, at nl e
entered the cottage in h-r abrupt wnv.
and found Eva embroidering a cushion.
"You onu't live on Miss Martha all your
U!e. .Next fail we will try to get you
into the district school at Dodd's
0rner."
E a - huddered and grew a little pale,
while me wniK feu from her band
'I have hard that the children at
Dodd's Corner were very rough
With the last master," tho said, in her
low, sofr, voice.
"A woman ii)ifh. hove more inflnenre
with em than a man, said Mrs. Marsh
"Amh.iw, it won't hurt von to try it s
pell. Hiss Mavtha,' as that, lady came
tu fiom the kitchen, where she had been
making "quaker" for old Mr. Green's
"Id, "you nU"t get the doctor to give
hia some strengthening medicine.
Vellow dock tea would put new life into
her."
Dr, Edgecourt cslled that afternoon
f r u moment, on Lis way to make a
professional visit and Mi-s Martha told
tiitn what Mrs. Mar.h had said.
The young man sat down hy Eva and
took ler hand in his. Mis MartLa
watched him closely, wondi r ng if he
uot iced how round and whi e was the
wrist on wLich he pressed his fingt r,
' She is not sick," he said, "all she
of e In is fie-h a'r anJ exeme;" aud
.hen h - propose 1 that she s'iruld wrap
np and get into his sle ghat the donr
uid diive with him to the house of his
tjatient, two miles away.
"Ctu't tou po too, Martha?" he
isk6d. "We will crowd you ia some
where." "I do not care to go," she said J and
rum thontht her manner lather ct 1J
ind dcpteH'ng. ne did not nrsre the
ina'ter, for he was easily wnuiidd. ond
uever tisSed her a secoud time to grant
mui a luvo?. lie was not a demouhtra-
.vh ljvcr, pcrh ips because Miss Martha
lever ereouraged caresses. Sae did
io. think it modest or woreanly to do
o, yet sho ofien caught herself wishing
hit Tom would be more BllVctionate.
i'liey had bc u engage 1 for three je;rs.
i) it ha.t seen couij aafivtly little cf
m m oh r, owina to lum s studies and
oor patients of which there were
nauy and thty had never grown fa
uiliar, as is the case with niont lvets.
Miss Martha watched tho couple drive
i way. lom b-n' to arran'o the buffilo
note closely ubont his companion, mid
a d soniHirj ng wl ich made them both
a-ith. and 318 Martha turned auieklv
iom th" winilow with a pain at hii
art. Thegiili-h fiica framed ia the
e cy voul of tho blak he o.l was so
'cry Jovtlv 1 Would ho inariitbe didftr-
arjce, aud re.ret "
Sho t ok xi ) her work and began to
urn down a liem : but she c iuld not
five away the haunting thoughts which
riijented ner.
" Ihroe years !" sho murmured. " It
a long engagement ; and 1 havo heard
r. said that m' n lire not uatient waiters.
I wonder if he Las ever wished to be
i'o a?ain V
X he ride proved of much benefit to
Ea, who was briah'er and cavf r for
iays aftir. Seeing this, Tom took hor
th him froqunitlv, never thinkine
hut he was CAii-inir his betrothed paiu
iv so doinir. He came oftener than
ver to the ottae, playinit chess am
rtbbago with En at ihe oenter-tabln ia
he evening, wtnle Miss Mirtha sat. with
ler sewing, and wished sho wtro Eva'
igo.
uo vou tmnK l win stand anv
hnncH of CMttintr the school at Dodd
O irner next fj.ll. Dr. EJeeconr;?''
asued luv i one evening.
. ...... .
-- iou sureiy don t ti.mtt ol applying
tor it y cried iom. Why, the children
are nine neaiuens. rney throw ink
bottles and spit balls at the teacher,
and swear like troopers. No, no, wo
must not let you go there."
" I must wort for myself," the pirl
said. " 1 cannot, consent to remain de
pendent on any one."
" Waif, till next fall comes before you
begin to wur y," Tom s lid. " It is only
Much now, and something better may
turn up jor us an in tne next tu
mouths "
Eva, as was her custom, left the room
as soon a) the pamo of chess was over
Turn always had a few minutes alone
with his betro hed beforo leaving tho
cottage.
"1 am so tired of baarding," he said
when, after some u important conver
sation, he rose to go. "I wish I had a
home," acd he sight d.
Now was Miss Martha's chance to say
something te der and cheeiful; but the
Wor.is refused to form themselves on
her Jipi. bhe whs very shy, aud lately
she and Tom hud seemed to be drifting
very far apart.
Tom locked at her a moment as if ex
pecting her to speik; bnt as she did not
do so, he turned almost angrily from
her, a dark red flush of wounded prid.i
dyi ing his frank, fair face. Ho wished
he had not uttered tuat longing for a
home.
Oh, I forgot to tell vou." he said.
as he reached tho hall door, " that my
brof er Arnt 11 is coming to Rosevill
to morrow. He has sotno affection of
the head and wants to put hiu.Sblf un
drfr ray care for a mouth or two. Be
will leave his law business entirely in
his partner's hands. Poor Arnold I He
has other than physical troubles !
There's an old saying that women are at
the bottom of all mi-chief, and men are
such fools sometimes ! Good-night,
Mirth a;" and the hill door closed
londly.
For some minutes Miss Martha stood
where he had left her, one hand bear
ing rattier heavily on the small hull
table. 0. u!d he on'y have known what
stress she la d upon hii carele-s words I
Sho mochantciliy repeated over and
over the last sentence he had uttered,
and remembered th bitterness of bis
tone. Tien she walked slovtlv into tin
small pailor aaaiu, and dtopped on her
knees by an ea-y chair, baiying her
face in the sjtt ca-hiom
" 1 am io long r ycuog," she said, in
a hojr .o vo ce. "be seei hU mistake,
no that Eva is here to point out a
comparison. And yet how can I give
him up I How can I offer him his free
dom? Conld 1 live on without the hopi
that I held so cloe to my heart lor
three years ? But I must decide. Not
n jw. I will wait, just a little while, to
b s-ure he has ceased to love me.
Eva noticed tht Miss Martha was
verv pale and distrait the following day.
and was not looking her best when
Arnold Edgecourt came with Tom
ca 1. She had never seen this brother
before, but he was so like Tern ia every
way that she LkeJ him at once. H
was, however, more a man of the world
than Tom, and wh'le Tom s face wore
look of frank good nature, Arnold's was
clouded by an expression of melanoholy
and diBCODtent. This Miss Martha as
cribed to those secret troubles of which
Tom had spoken, and she wondered if
some woman had jil;ed the handsome
lawyer.
Several weeks passed by, and Miss
Martha was no longer her former
bright, cheerful self. She did not know
what it was to be without that sharp
pain at heart, and the estrangement
between herself and Tom seeme 1 to
grow greater every day. He withdrew
more and more into himself, and she
made no effort to restore the pleasan
re.utions between them. She watched
him closely, ond saw that he seemed
annoyed aud distressed at Arnold's de
cided attentions to Eva. Once she
heard him remonstrate with his brother,
but Eva s name was the only word she
caught distinctly. She thought Tom
jealous, and atraid that the girl's heart
wonld be won from himself.
"It must come," Miss Martha would
murmur to herself. " I must offer him
his freedom. Why cannot I be brave
and do it at once? He loves Eva, bnt
he is not free to win her, and Arnold's
attentions pain and trouble him. But
how can I give him up ? I will wait just
a little longer.
Thus from day to day she put off the
pvil hour in which she was to see her
dearest hopes crumble to deal ashes.
Sbe shuddered when she thought of
spending the rest of her life without
Tom's love.
One evening the two young men came
nv invitation to the cottage to supper.
.Uisri .Martha sent them into the gaiden
co smoke, while she, with Eva's assist
ance, was busy la.unur the table with
'he best damask and china. Presently.
fhe went into the parlor to get from the
1 1 cabinet which stood between the
windjws some silver spoons which hid
belot'srsd to her grandmother. The
shutters were closed, but the windows
were open, and the low murmur of
voicas came to her ears. She knew the
rotherj were just outside on the rustic
bench, and she was about to close the
abinet and speak to them when sho
iieard Tom s voice uttering words which
seemed to fall on her heart like drops
ui molten lead.
"It is a great mistake for a man to
engage himself to a woman older than
iiimsclf. He i snra to repent soon or
lute. 1 was a fool, and now that love
Eva with all my heart, as I have con
fessed to you, I wish the other was in
Guinea. And what am I to do? My
hooor binds me to her confound it
all!"
Miss Martha did not wait t'j hear
Arnold's answer. She walked slowly
and faltering ly from the room, and went
upstairs to the spare chamber, where
she locked herself in.
The young men wondered why sup
per was bo late, but juat as tueir pa
tience was cntirdy exhausted, Eva came
to call them, aad then went in to find
Miss M irtha alieady sealed at the ha i
or the small table laid for four. Sat
mad3 no excuse for delay, and the sup
per was so excellent that the young men
(O'-i-'ot all about tuoir vexation
The evening passed very quietly, Miss
Maitha evidently making an tffort to be
entertiniDg; and seeiug this, Tom and
Arno'd lefi very early, the latter, as
Hi-s .Martha uo'iceu, having hardly
spoken to Eva since supper. Shethought
this was out of respeet for his brother's
feelings, which hud sj lately been re
vealed to mm.
Th next day Tom was surprised in
uts finoe by tue appearance of old Han
nah, who quietly laid a letter on his
de-k and went out again,
The young doctor's face grew very
wnite asne reaa wnac jiiss -Hiitna liad
wri ten. Without explanation or ex
cuse, sb.9 requ .sted that their engage
meat niipht be at an end; and said that
as it would bo better that they should
uot meet for a while at least, she was
oing to an aunt's in another town, to
stay Beveral months. Eva would re
main at the cottage with old Hannah.
For some time Tom sat gazing at the
letter, Q3 if turned to stone. Then he
touched a lighted match to it, and
wa'ched it burn away to ashes.
" That is over," he said aloud. "I
have been expecting it. I have seen it
iu her face, and yet I had not the cour
age to ask her abuut it."
It was a sultry July day, the railroad
journey dusty and fatiguing, and Miss
.Maitha was very glad to step out of the
cars at Iioseville. She walked slowly
up the dusty road leading to her cot
tage. It was nearly three months since
she had left home, and during that time
she had neither written nor received a
single letter. Sao had not given Eva
her address, and no one knew where she
had gone. She had wished to cat her
self loose from the past, hoping to for
get it, but she had not forgotten, and
her heat t had not lost its dull pain.
Recollections of Tom stun? her as she
saw tne familiar streets and stores. Per
haps he and Eva were married.
" You don't mean to say that s vou.
Miss M irtha," cried a familiar voioe,
and Miss Martha paused beneath the
shale c f a spreading elm as Mrs. Marsh
came hurrying toward her, Well, you've
cjme too late. Love laughs at lock
smiths, you know. It's all ever Eva's
gone ou with htm, and thoy ro married
by this time, I haven't a doubt
Miss Martha staggered back and pat
her hand over her eyes. The shook it
waitoher to hear of Tom's marriage
showed her, to her mortification, that all
hope had not been crashed from her
heart, as the bad thought.
"I 1 ex i eoted it, she stammered.
"Well, it's morethau any one else
did. He went off soon after yon left.
and no one thought to see him again,
But baok he came again yesterday and
eiopca witn uva late last evening, ub,
it was wicked; it was scandalous; and
the whole story is all over town.
wonder now if you know about Miss
SomerbA?"
"No," said 5Iis Martha, white to the
lips.
"Well, it seems as if he was engaged
to this Miss Somerby, a rich old maid.
She is mad e iongh at being jilted.
Somebody telegraphed to her father,
and be was here this morning to asotr
tain the facts of the case."
"What! Tom engaged?" cried Martha,
in amazement.
"Who said anything about Tom?
You must be wandering in your mind.
It is Arnold EJgejoutt I am talking
about."
Without another word, without tho
slightest excuse, Miss Martha broke
away from the hand of the friendly eos
sip, and almost ran down the street.
When nearly at her own gate she
rushed blindly against somebody, and
loosing up witn a named excuse, saw
Tom.
"Martha," he gasped.forgettingfor the
moment in his excitement the gulf be
tween them. "You have heard it all;
i see it in your taca uome right in;
you look really ill. I did not know vou
cared so much for Eva. Bat the scan
dal will die out, and I know Arnold
will be good to her. He sent me a
telegram saying they were married at
Brierly early this morning. He was to
marry Miss Somerby next month, but
ne never loved ner; fie was tempted by
ner enormous weaitn.
By this time they had reached the
cottage and gone into the little dark
ened parlor, where the shutters had
been carefully closed by old Hannah to
keep out dust and flies.
"Tom," said Miss Martha, laying her
uuuu on uis sieeve; "can you ever lor-
give me ? I see everything very plainly
now. It was not you I heard say a man
wus a iooi io engage nimseii to a
woman old r than himself. Your voice
and Arnold s are so much alike, and I
did not know of his engagement."
lhen she told him all she had heard
when she had gone to the old cabin for
the spoons the evening of the supper.
"Maitha," said Tom, iu his iLanly
way, " I never loved any woman but.
you. I did not know you were oiler
than I, for you never spoke of your age,
and it would have made no difTerer.ee to
me anyhow I thought of Eva only a
a child, and knowing of his engage
ment, of whioh he bad forbidden me to
epoak, it distressed me to see his atten
tions to her, for I saw that sha was
learning to love him. That evening in
the garden I gave him a long lecture,
and pointed out to him the harm he
was doing the cirl. . He promised
to see her no mora; but though
he went home a few dav
later, he corresponded with hoi
and ended by eloping with her yester
cay evening. 1 did not imagine'for an
instant that you thought me in love with
ISva, We both labo'el under a mis
take. Martha. I notioed vour crowine
coldness, and thought yju were becom
ing weary or your engagement to a poor
village doctor. You did not seom ti.'
care for lovemaking or caresses, and 1
could not, of course, wish to force my
affection upon you."
" I was wrong, Tom, for I do love you
dearly," and then, as he took her in his
arms and pressed her to his heart, kiss
ing repeatedly the soft cheek ou which
thero was now no lack of color, she
added softly, "and our eneraeemeui
need not be of longer dnration, Tom.
Ion hesit.tted to murrv mo while I had
so little and you nothiu.? ; but you wib
not hesitate now that I am rich. Yes''
as he glanced at her bl.u-k aies "mv
aunt U dead, aud she left ine forty thou
sand dollars. 1 have suffered enough
for my mistake, aud what is mine is
yours, dear Tom."
And lorn s tender kiss gave cheerful
absent to all she said.
Arctic Exploraiioti.
Arctic exploration is not a new thin sr.
Jt begins with Sebastian Cabot, who
discovered Newfoundland and landed
at Labrador. Henry Hudson f nnd and
gave his name to the great bay which is
one of the most striking features of
British America. There a mutinous
crew put him in au opeu boat with a
few faithful adherents and loft him to
his fate. Vitus Behrmg, the Danish
explorer, who found that Kamschatka
did not connect with Japan, succeeded
one hundred years ago in pushing
his ship through the straits that
bears his name ; but his vest el
was wrecked, and he died
on a desolate island. Captain Cook
reached these straits thirty-three vears
afterward, but was forced biok by the
ice to die on the Sandwich Islands.
Boss and Parry made a few discoveries,
but at a terrible expense of suffering and
ribk of life. The story of Sir John
Franklin is a familiar household tale
how he set out in the Erebus and the
Terror with 138 picked men, and all
eprished; and eight expeditions wtre
sent out to find and relieve him at great
cost, but no roturns. The Grinnell ex
pedition, sent out by Henry Grinnell
and George Peabody in 1853, under the
heroic Kane, was more fortunate thau its
predecessors, and brought back the ac
counts of the Open Polar sea which
have stimulated the ambition and curi
osity of hundreds of navigators since.
But, though Kane lived to return, he
died of the effects of the exposure. Sir
Hugh Willoughby and his crew starved
to death, and Barentz, the Dutch ex
plorer, perished in the same way. These
are only a small fraotiou of the human
sacrifices to that Arctic idol whose icy
altars are covered with the debris of
wrecked ships and the bmched bones
of brave and devoted men, sent up into
the jaws of destruction to discover noth-'
ing.
Mnch elonnnnnA h&4 been YnAni'ai'
noon thA mineral wealth of fVlifnvniti
bat, after all, her golden grain i her
reai weaun. According to omoiai fig
ures the cold and silver mines of that
State during ten years, commencing
hu ioa, produced io ouo.zi'j, Dur.
the wheat fields during the same period
produced 278.908,000 bushels, the
market value of whioh amounted to
1318.231,036. Wheat, nd not gold, is
king in California.
A WATCH WORN BY JESSE JAMES.
How It was Tnkrn frmn Its OwuerIt.
Uoatornl.
There was recently on exhibition in
St. Louis the watch worn by the late
Jeat-e .lames for nearly ciuht years and
taken by him from i(s owner, Hon. John
A. Burbank, of Richmond, Ind., at
Malvern Junction, Ark. After the no
torious robber's death the watch was
fount' among his effects and returned
to itt owner. The story of the robbery
as told by Governor Burbank is as fol
lows: "In the spring of 1874 1 was going to
Hot Springs, Ark. At that time per
sons going to the Springs left the rail
road at Malvern Junction and travel, d
acros the country by stage. We
reached Malvern in the morning and
left there eatly in the forenoon. There
were fifteen or sixteen persons
going over, one lady and the rest
gentlemen. Most of the passengers,
some ten or twelve, were placed in a
six-horse stage coach. I and a gentle
man named Taylor, from Connecticut,
and a sick man whose name I do not
know, were in a hack together, while
the lady occupied a third hack by her
self. The distance to Hot Springs was
about twenty miles. The stage coach
led the way, our hack followed and the
lady came last. The road was rouh
and we made rather Blow progress, the
vehicles being several hundred
yards apart. Between 3 and
4 o'clock in the after
noon, when we were within about five
miles of Hot Springs, and just after
crossing a little stream where the horses
were watered, five men on horseback
rode up from the front and passed
ns to the rear. They were all well
mounted; two or three had on long
overcoats and perhaps one or two had
shotguns, bull there was nothing sus
picious or remarkable in their appear
ance. I thought there might bo a shooting-match
or something of that kind in
the neighborhood.
In a very short time the same nieu
rode back again past our hack to the
front. We paid no particular attention
to this. In a few minutes we heard
great shouting, cursing, etc, and look
ing out saw the coach had been stopped
a short distance ahead of us. We drove
up as fast as we could, supposing that
a sheriff's posse had stopped the coach
to make an arrest or something of that
sort. The coaoh was stopped while
ascending a little hill, and where the
road was quite nariow. Wlieu we
not there wo found it surrounded
by five men on horseback, the
same who had passed us, all h avily
armea and with revolvers leveled
m the coach. One had a Win
chester riflo aud the other four each
had a seven-shooter in his hand and
r,wo in his belt, making twenty-one
ihot.s in sight to each man. When we
iot up they ordered us all to get out
and form in line. I was at the head of
.be lino. As it turned out there was
jut one weapon iu our paitv. and this
i small pocket pistol. Another was in
a hand bag, but was unavailable. When
ve were in line Jesse James, the cap
tain of the gang, said 'hands up.' We
out up our hands Then one of the men
d .smounted,and while the other four kept
us covered witn tueir revolvers he went
hrough ua. Coming to me first he
said, Til take wuat you've got.' Ob
-.oiving my diamond pin, he went for it
without ceremony. While doing that.
ue.ciisijovered my watch chain, a very
heavy one, which I woro under mv vest.
and jerking it out threw it over mv
i. ail and then pulled out the watch.
Ha then went in my pantbloons pocket
ud goi my poauetbooli, which oon
'ained about SGO The diamond pin
-vas worth from $250 to $300, uud tUo
walch and chain 45u0. All this time wo
werecovured by the revolvers, aud beint?
unarmed had no choice but to submit.
Oar handu were still np. I had on a
heavy seal ling, aud the follow said:
xoud: better put your gloves oil or I'll
take that ring. I put mv hands down
long enough to put my gloves on, and
ho kiud.y overlooked the ring. When
tie got through with me he took the
next in order, and so on through the
lino. From my Connecticut frien I they
got an old-fashioned watch, which was
an heirloom iu the family, and $500 in
money. Me otldi ed a big ransom for
the wutch, but they refused to nego
tiate. Fiona the rest they only got
small amounts. When they got through
witn us Jesse James called ont to the
driver: 'Throw down that mail baa.'
The driver made no motion at first,
and James leveled hh pistol at him and
eald affain: Throw down that mail
bag.' The driver obeyed. The pouch
was cut open, the contents poured
out on the ground, and the
man who was on foot began to
fumble over the mail. He first tore
open a large official envelope, which had
notmng but olhcial papers m it. See
ing there was no monev, Jesse James
called from his horse, Put that letter
back,' and the man obeyed without a
word, rney found no money in the
mail and soon stopped opening the
letters. They then broke open the ex-
pre is trunk and found two packages of
greenbacks, amounting to about 5500.
ill the time the sick man and 'the Jadv
remained in their seats. W hen the man
who went through us looked inside the
hack and reported a sick man, James
called ont, We don't disturb sick men!'
and when they came to the lady he said,
vve ciont disturb ladies sit still
raadame.' While this was going on one
of the mounted men rode around the
coach onoe or twice and examined
one of the wheel horses verv
closely. It was a fine sorrel horse.
Af er eyeing the horse all over he
called out to the driver, who was still
holding the lines, 'Get down and uo
tarness that off horse. The driver was
slw about moving, and the fellow
leveled his pistol at him and said : I
say, get down and unharness that off
horse.' The driver did as he was
ordered. When the hoisa was un
harnessed the robber dismounted
and. placing his own saddle and
bridle on the staie-horse rod) him
up the tojd a few hundred yards
and back at a rapid gait. Coming
back to the coach, he said : ' You
can hitch up that other horse,' and the
driver piooeeded to do so. That was
an Arkansas horse trade. I forgot to
say that the man who went through ns
took r. fancy to my fur overcoat, and
told me to hanl it off, bnt Jesse James
heard him and said 1 'No yon don't ;
that would lead to our detection sure.'
l this occupied about hlf an hour.
When the robbers not throne h thev
told us we could wo, and they roe off
together, We afterward heard of them
in the direction of Texas. They
looked like sturdy younn formers
and were not masked beyond
wearing slouch hats well pulled
down, and Jesse James had a woolen
oomforter wound round the lower part
of his face. During the entire per
formance they affected a kind of polite
ness with all their roughness, and tried
to create the impression that they were
gentlemanly highwaymen. After they
left we gathered up the mail and scat
tered baggage and continued on to Hot
Springs. The news of the robbery
created intense excitement there and
the whole population turned out to pur
sue the robbers, but nothing ever came
of it."
Governor Bnrbank has placed the
watch with the Eugene Jaccard Jewelry
company for exhibition, and it will
doubtless be inspected by hundreds of
curious ones. A replevin bond had to
be given the officers at St Josephs, as
Mrs, James threatened to sue for its re
covery. It is not likely that she will
though. The watch is in perfect run
ning order and shows good treatment
rom its quondam possessor.
n rates of the Past.
As the archipelago east of Greece had
sheltered the hordes of the Turkish
corsairs, so the many islands, crooked
channels, reefs hidden from all but the
looal pilots, small harbors and abund
ant food of the Antilles, made the West
Indies tho safest place in the world for
pirates to pursue their work. To these
new and will regions, in the sixteenth
century, had flocked bad men and ad
venturers from all over the world.
When the wars and their chances of
plunder died out after the campa-'gas
led by Curtez, Pizirro, Balboa and the
rest of the Spanish conquistadores,
many ruffians seized upon vessels by
force, or stole them, and turned into
robbers cf the sea. As a lule they had
farms aud families on some island, and
only Wtnt freebooting aporti m of the
year, at first. Tho large island of Hayti,
or St. Domingo, was then settled by
colonists who were of three distinct
classes formers, hunters and cattle
men. The last class of men spent their
time ia the wild interior of the island,
cartuiing, herding or killing wild
cattle. They came to the settlements
only now and then to get supplies, and
then returned to the wilderness for
several months of absence again. Final
ly, a war having; arisen between this
and other islands, the trade of the
cattle-men was destroyed, and larg.j
numbers of them joined the freebooters,
who then became extremely numerous
and formidable; and so largely was this
due to their new friends that they lost
t'jeir old name, und were known by the
uamo of the cattle-hunters Buccau
neer. St. Domingo became the headquarters
of thi buocanners, but several small
islands were also owned and controlled
by them. They were made up of mon
of all nations, but were chiefly Span
iards, Dutch and negroes They were
thousands in number, possessed large
fleets of shios and boats, well armed,
and had their regular chief and under
oflijei's. The most noted of these
cuiofs, perhaps, was Morgan, who was
ati Englishman.
They had two niellio-ls of work. One
was to patrol tho sa in tho track of
vessels bound to and from Europe and
Brazil or Spanish America, and seize
them. Wry often the cicws were will
ing, or were compelled to joia the
pirates; but sometimes all were killed
or carried into slaver. Merchant ships,
therefore, all went heavily armed in
those waters, and many were the bloody
battles fought.
This work, however, employed only a
portion of the buccauneers, and was
too uncertain a means of wealth to suit
them. They would, therefore, equip a
great fleet, onliut men under ceitaiu
strict rules as to sharing the spoils, aad
sail away to pillage some coast. There
was hardly an island in the West Indies
from which, in this way, they did not
extort immense sums of money under
threat of destruction of the people. The
mainland also suffered from the
marauders. Great cities, like Carta
gena in Venezuela, Panama on the
Isthmus, Merida in Yucatan, and
Havana, Cuba, were attacked by armies
of buocanneers numbering tens of
thousands of men. Sometimes their
fortifications held good, and the enemy
was beaten back; but sooner or later all
these cities, and others, smaller, were
captured, burned or partially burned,
and robbed of everything valuable that
they contained.
" Why did the citizens not hide their
wealth?" They did; but the buocan
neers put to the niobt dreadful tortures
men, women, children, slaves every
body until they would tell where
their money and jewels were buried. It
is sickening to read of the crimes aud
suffering committed by these wickedest
of men. For years and years they
were the terror of the whole Car
ibbean region. Nor did their enormous
riches do them a particle of real good,
for they wasted it all, the moment they
got home, in wild rioting, so that the
spoils earned by months of hardship,
and exposure, and wounds, and danger
of death, would be spent in a week of
carousing. Before the end of the cen
tury, however, the combined naval
forces of all the nations interested in
the ommerce ot th-j new world broke
the power of the buccanneers. and their
depredations ceased. Their story is one
of the wildest, most romantic, but most
teriiblo pictures in the history of the
world. Wida Awake.
The next total eclipse of the suu to
he seen in this country will be on the
28tli of May. Astronomers say the
central line of the totality will be from
NowOrliaos to Norfolk. There is no
need of hurrying np with that piece of
smoked glass. The eclipse will oocur
on the 28th of May, 1900.
I Plekinff ltirrlp8.
Away to ths hillsiiln on swift little feet,
Trot quick through the meadows In shadow
and sun;
Broad hr ids and daep crosvns over brows tha
are sweet,
And round rosy cheeks that are dimpling
with fun.
And home from the hillside on slow little feet?
With baskets as heavy as faoes are bright;'
And who will be first the dear mother to greet
And see her surprise and her look ot delight
But she never will dream, by the berries
they bring,
Of the millions thoy left where the sweet
berries grow,
Away on the hills where the merry birds sing,
And tho brook dances down to the valley
below.
Hargaret SangUtr.
HUMOR O THE DAY.
Underground work An earthquake
Can a shepherd's crook be termed a
ram rod.
The strongest men is rarely strong
enough to hold his tongue at the right
time.
" Hard-np " asks : "How can I tnrn
an honest penny ?" Suppose yon try
putting the other side up ?
There is a complaint from England
that leather is found in American
sausages. Good gracious, do they think
we can stop to take the collars off the
dogs?
Kmpp, the cannon maker, now em
ploys 13.000 men, and yet complains
that he is behind his orders. Ho is
safer behind his orders than in front of
his cannon.
" Yon are as full of airs as a musio
box," is what a young man said to a
girl who refused to let him see her
home. " That may be," was the reply,
" but I don't go with a crank."
SECOND-HAND OIItLS.
"I want one servant cirl," he said,
" One maid, to onlor, so to speak."
The employment ageut scratched his head.
And told the muuto call next week.
Next week he came as per request
The clerk could furnish no such grade,
But quickly put In- niiinl at rest,
By giving him ouo ready maid.
" Lend me five dollors. Joe ?" ' Can't
do it; in fact, I am just going over to
try and borrow five from the doctor."
" Well, then, you might as well make
it ten and I'll take five of it. It will
make it easiei to pay, you know, if it is
divided np between us."
Professor to classical stndent: " If
Atlas supported the world, who. sup
ported Atlas? ' Student: " The ques
tion, sir, has often been asked, but never,
so far as I am aware, satisfactorily
answered. I have ulways been of the
opinion that Atlas must have married a
ricli wife, and got his support from her
father."
The Cow Was Tteated Like a Lady.
A man came into the office on Thurs
day with a black eye, a strip of court
plaster across his cheek, one arm in a
sling, and, as he loaned on a crutch and
wiped the perspiration away from
around a lump on his forehead with a
red cotton handkerchief, he asked if
the editor was in. Bjing ansivered in
the affirmative, he said:
"Well, I want to stop my paper;"
and he eut down on the edge of a chair
as thouph it miht hurt it. " Scratch
my name liht t ff. You are responsible
for my condition."
Can it be possible?" we inquired.
" Yea," said ho. ' I'm a farmer, and
keep cows. I recently read an article
in your pnpoi! about a daiiymeu's con
tention, whore one of the mottoes over
tho door was, 'Treat your cow ns you
would a lady;' and the article said it
was coiitended by our best dainmen
that a cow treated in a po.ite, gentle
manly manner, as though she was a
companion, would give twice as much
milk. The plan seemed feasible to me.
I had been a hard man with my stock,
and thought maybe that was one reason
my cows always dried up when butter
was forty cents a pound, and
gave plenty of milk when but'er was
only fifteen cents a pound. I decided
to adopt your plan and treat a cow us I
would a lady. I had abrindle cow that
never hnd been very mu:h mashed ou
me, and I decided to commeuce on her;
and the next morning afcer I read your
fiendish paper, I put cn my Sunday
suit and a white plu hat I bjught the
year Greely ran for President, nnd went
to the barn to milk. I noticid the old
cow seemed to be bashful and fright
ened, but, taking off my hat aud bow
ing politely, I said: ' Madame, excuse
the seeming impropriety of the request,
but will you do me the lavor to hoist ?'
At the same time I tapped her gently
on the flank with my plug hat; put
ting the tin pale unJer her I sat down
on the milking stool."
"Did she hoist?'' said we, rather
anxious to know how the advice of
President Smith, of Saeboygan, the
great dairyman, worked.
"Did the hoist I Well, look at me,
and see if you think she hoisted. The
cow raised right up, and kicked me
with all four feet, switched me with her
tail, aud hooked me with her horns at
once ; and when I got up out of the
bedding in the stall, and dug my hat
out of the manger, and the uiilking-
stool ftom under me, and begun to maul
that cow, I forgot all about the treat
ment oi horned cattltf. Why, she
fairly galloped over me, and 1 never
want to read your paper again."
We tried to explain to him that the
advice did not apply to briudle cows at
all ; bnt he hobbled out the maddest
man that ever asked a cow to hoist in
diplomatio language. Chicaqo Tribune.
Charged Up to liOiigfellow.
Blanche Roosevelt, iu her new book,
" Longfellow's Home Lie," gives a bit
of information not generally known
when she asserts that the little absurd
nnrsery rhtme, beginning:
There was a li'tle irl
Who had a little ourl
That hung rilit dowu on her forehead;
Aud when she ws good,
Bhe was very, very good,
J And when she was had she was horrid
was written by Longfellow, lhe gonial
poet wrote, it for his little daughter
Edith.