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MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 7., 1885.
The Grizzly's Pocket.
''That's a pretty little girl you got
with yon in the Pullman, Cap. Grand
daughter V"
''No, she ain't no granddaughter,"
said '"Cap.," looking at the conductor
with an injured expression. "I ain't
no spring chicken, and yit I ain't no
grandad."
"Daughter, perhaps ?"
"Nary daughter."
"Nieco ?"
"Nur yit niece."
"Child of a friend, may be V"
Cap. gave two or three savage pulls
at the long cigar, which had beguiled
him from the side of the little girl in
the Pullman into the free and easy at
mosphere of the smoker, helore he saw
fit to answer the conductor's, last ques
tion. The express (en route to El
Paso) had entered on the long run be
tween Oakland Pier—four miles out of
San Francisco—and Lathrop, ninety
one miles distant, and seeing several
hours without a stop before him, the
conductor had strolled into the smoker
for a chat.
"See here, young feller," said Cap.
at last, "did I pay that little gal's way,
or didn't I V Did you punch her cow
pon with that silver pistol of yours, or
didn't you ? Do I owe this yer road
anything ? Ef I do, present yer hill ;
ef I don't, what makes you so all-fired
keen to know the whole history of the
case ( I ain't a kidnappin' her ; you
kin bank on that ; hut all the same
she ain't no kith nor kin er mine, and
she don't belong to no friend. I'm a
takin' her to her mother in St.Loucy.
Jest hrft that pile."
He twitched a red cotton handker
chief out of an inner pocket and thrust
it into the surprised conductor's hand.
"Jest heft that pile," he continued
"it's pure,solid twenty four karat gold;
every grain of it belongs to that little
gal, and I'll bet ths drinks you can't
come within a hundred of its value.
Jest heft it once."
The conductor held the handkerchief
by its ends,and gravely "hefted" some
thing of about the bulk of an ordinary
fist, which was knotted in the center
of the rag.
"It weighs about two pounds, I
judge," he said, after some little hesi
tation.
"What is the figger ?"
"Well, if it is pure gold, aa you say,
it may be worth $500."
"You are jest a hundred out. She
is worth $402.23. A greasly bear played
St. Nicholas' game last Christmas eve
and throwed that handsome little trib
ute into the little girl's stocking. He
killed ber dad at the same time and
died himself—which was two of the
whitest deeds as ever a greasly done, to
my way of thiuking."
To the conductors way of thinking,
as well as that of every passenger with
in hearing, Cap. was altogether too
light-beaded to be trusted with his
own superintendence while making his
five day's run between San Francisco
and St. Louis, much less to be the pro
tem. guardian of a seven year-old girl.
He saw the incredulous smiles excited
by the remaik, and seemed to under
stand the pitying glances which went
with them.
"Of course, you think I am crazy,"
he said, simply. "They can't be no
such thing as that happen. All the
curious things has happened already.
There ain't no gold in Callforny no
more, and they ain't no greaslys in the
Rockies, and they ain't nothing odd.
nor outlandish in the whole world.
Eveiything is dead open and shet.
What you don't see you don't believe!
But all the samee it's true, and ef I
told you it happened back in '49 you'd
believe it ; but becuz it happened last
Christmas eye, and becuz I'm here and
the gold is here and the little gal is
back in the Pullman asleep it seems too
much like bringing miracles home to
you, aud you shake your head and say :
'All a lie* the old man's crazy.'
He had the knot in the handkerchief
undone by this time, and gave the
conductor, as well as two or three of
the passengers, a satisfying inspection
of the pound and a half lump of dull,
yellow metal which it had enfolded.
The conductor pronounced the metal to
be, without doubt, genuine gold.
"You see, it was this way," said
Cap. turning about in his seat so that
he could speak to those in the seat be
hind him as to the conductor in front—
"me and the old ladv alius calc'late to
give out children a little candy and
things every Christmas ; but when,
the day before Christmas, I came home
from the store down in the village with
a pound or two in this pocket, and a
few pounds in that, and a sack full
slung over my shoulder, and a wooden
elephant with a leather trunk and a
Noah's ark, and a doll baby that would
cry 'mamma,' a bursting out of a pa
per sack in my arms, and mea-sneakin'
around the back way so as the children
might not catch me and tumble to the
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
racket, I telt like a full growed St.
Nicholas and ray heart was jest a sing
ing 'Peace on earth aud good will to
ward men.'
" 'Abner,' says ray old lady when
she sees my pile, 'I don't believe that
little gal down to Jake Pearson's ranch
is got a blame thing. Jake is that
mean that he'd never squander a dol
lar for fool toys, and it jest natchelly
makes me tired to think of our brats
rolling in goodies and that little yoller
haired gal without even molasses."
"I saw her bluff and raised it.
'Gimme that there doll, old lady,' I
sez, 'and a tin horse and about two
pounds of that confectiuery, and we'll
see if she don't have a Christmas yet,
all the same.'
"I put 'em in a sack and waltzed a
long the roatj tell I kem to the place
jest above Pearson's ranch, which lies
at the foot of the mountain, aud after
stumbling down fur about a hundred
yards I could almost look down Pear
son's chimbly, directly underneath me,
and all at once I beard the little gal
scream.
"Pearson hadn't lived in them dig
gin's more'n six months,and we neigh
bors didn't kuow a great deal about
him ; but our wimmen folks they'd
a spied out the land a little, a9 wim
meu will, and they 'lowed that Pearson
was a-liying in the shanty all aloue,
'cepting fur this little seven year-old
gal, and they swore up and down than
he didn't treat her right. They knew
he was a rascal the first time they seed
him, and once or twice he was seen a
whippio' her with a luther strap. We
men didn't take much stock in their
talk ; but we laid low and 'lowed that
the first time we ketched him red-haud
ed a-whippiu' ary gal with a luther
strap 'ud he a mighty unhealthy time
for Pearson.
"Well, sir, boys, he wus doing that
very thing when I lit down on him—
with the buckle end, too, mind you ;
and if I hadn't been a law-and-order
abiding citizen, I swao I'd a shot him
then. But I 'lowed it wuz best to have
witnesses, and ef I'd a killed him
'tbout no one by to see fair play, it
might have caused talk. So I jest tuk
the strap frum him, and kinder scared
into decency with a touch or two on
his own shoulders, and then I tuk him
to one side and guv him the kuick
knacks.
44 4 You put them in the kid's stock
ing to-night so she will And 'em when
she wakes up in the morning,' sez I.
'lt's Christmas morning, and we are
all Christians up yer in these diggins,'
sez I, 'and if you don't I swear I'll
smash your head.'
44 11e snarled and showed bis teeth,
like a bull dog that wants to bite but is
afraid to, and I swan to man, gentle
men, I wuz downright put out that
we'd a let that little gal live all alone
so long with sech a human hyena.
But, as I sa ; d before, I didn't like to
take the law into my own hand all a
lone, so I waltzed off and hunted up
some of the neighburs, and told them
jest how the land lay, and asked their
advice. They all said the same thing.
44 ' We'll go down and talk to him
right off,' 86z they.
4 * 'Bring the little gal up to our
ranch, after you get through with,
him,' sez my old lady ; 'she Kin have
a home with us so long as she pleases.'
"Thet druv the uail home and clinch*
ed her on the other side. The wim<
men wuz with us. So we tuk along a
stout lariat, with a running noose in
one end, Kinder handy fur talking to
sechj carrion ez Pearson, and jest as
night wuz beginning to sot in we got
under way toward his ranch. They
wuz six of us—Hank Fletcher, Cale
Bledsoe, Stumpy Bluebaker, old man
Basset, Injun Pete and me—jest e
nough to be judge, jury and execution
er."
Cap. paused here to light a fresh ci
gar ; but before the flame of the
match had taken on the tobacco
he tossed the burning match aside.
"Jest excuse me fur about two sec
onds, gentlemen, whilst I waltz in and
see ef my little gal is a-hankerin' for
anything that I kin get her."
The girl was contentedly cuddled up
in a corner of the green plush covered
seat fast asleep, with her head resting
on a solt black and white plaid shawl.
With her delicate features and beauti
ful yellow hair, she would have been
considered lovely anywhere, and after
seeing her it was easy to understand
thb look of tenderness which lighted up
the old ranchman's face whenever he
mentioned his "little gal."
"Well, sirs," he contiuued upon
gaining his seat in the smoker—and by
this time every man in the car was a
listener, —"well, sirs, we didn't say
much, becuz our heads had a I powerful
sight of thinking in 'em and our feet
wuz busy climbing over the rock to
ward Pearson's. It wuz a long time
sense we'd a ben engaged in sich
ness ; but we knowed Peaisou deaerv
ed, and we meant to give him sich a
talking to a3 he would'nt have no
chance to forgit.
"But the cards wuz packed agin us.
In the centte of the road, jest where
we meant to leave it, "to climb down
toward Pearson's, an' old ;greasly bar
was camped as cool as you please, dig
gin' among the rocks fur worms. I
hadn't seen DO bar In those diggin's
fur years, and I begun to think that
things wuz happening powerful brisk
all at once, and thet it never rains fun
hut it pores, when clip went old man
Bassett's lifle and clip went Pete's aud
the greasly started down the hill to
ward Pearson's, with a bullet in his
forehead and another in his chist.
"You remember I told you that I
could A'most look down Pearson's
chimbly from the road. Well, that's
what the b'ar did, an' more. He jest
natchelly tumbled down the side of the
mountain and gave one big hound jest
above the shanty and went kerplump
onto the roof, smashing in the rafters
like they were straw and knocking the
mud chimbly seven ways for Sunday.
"When we got there the little gal
wuz in her night dress, standing in the
middle of the floor and rubbing her
eyes.
" 'ls it Christmas ?' she sez, and is
St. Nicholas come i And what woke
me up V
"I ketched her up in my arms and
wrapped my coat all around her, eo she
couldn't see what had waked her up,
tod I sez, sez I:
•* *lt ain't quite Christmas, yit, hon
ey,* sez I ; 'but St. Nicholas is come,
sure and he's got a whole raft of things
fur you, up to ray ranch.*
"'I want my stocking,* she sez,
kinder struggling to git away from me.
'Father don't know I hung it up, Lut I
did, and I want it.'
"Well, sirs, jest to quiet her, I found
out where she'd hung her stocking,
way up the chimbly, where her father
couldn't see it, becuz she knew power
ful well he wouldn't hev no sech fool-
ishness, and I got one of the boys to
kinder hunt around fur it, jest, to quiet
her.
"Well, sirs, gentlemen, that thar lit
tle stocking—with more holes and
patches and places where she had cob
bled it herself with cotton sti ing, than
stocking—wuz a laying in the asbes jest
where the bar had knocked it when be
broke down the chimbly, and they wuz
a nugget of gold as big as my three An
gers right on top of it. Two or three
smaller pieces|was scattered around,and
it wuz plain to the meanest intellec'
that in falling the greasly's paw had
clawed out a pocket of gold in the rocks
just above the shanty, and the whole
had jest natchelly gravitated down
with the bar.
"He was dead, of course, and when
the boys kem to lift him, Jake Pearson
wuz under bim, smashed so that he
had jest breath enough to tell me where
to And the little girPs ma before he
went.
"The next day-Christmas day—we
sashayed around there with shovels
and picks, and, after some little troub
le in tracing it, we Anally located the
pocket and dug out th 9 balance of the
gold. I had every crumb of it- melted
into this yer brick in my handkerchief,
aud when we get to St. Loucy I hands
it over to little girl's ma, and I sez, sez
I :
"Four hundred and two dollars and
twenty-three cents as a Christmas gift
for your little gal, from a greasly bar,
who wuz a whiter Christian than ever
Jake Pearson wuz, madam, beggin'
your pardon,' sez I."
"Lathrop—twenty-five minutes for
supper I" sung out the brakeman, as
the train slowed up at the suppsr sta
tion, four hours and fifteen minutes
out of San Fransic o.—Detroit Free
Press.
The Frog and the Peasant.
A Frog who had long Dwelt in a
Pond near a Peasant's Cabin was one
evening highly delighted to hear the
peasant remark to his wife :
"Have you ever noticed bow beauti
fully that frog sings ?"
The speech tickled the frog amazing
ly, and he at once began his tune and
kept it up all night long. At day-light
the peasant came down with a club and
called out:
"If you dou't leave here forthwith
I'll be the death of you 1"
"What have I done ?'' asked the as
tonished frog.
"Kept us awake all night with your
croaking 1"
•'But it was only Last Evening that
you complimented me on my song."
"That is true, but I heard only brief
songs and at long intervals."
Moral-It is a dangerous thing to
compliment a man who makes the o
pening speech at a ward caucus. Nine
times out of teu he'll want to go to the
legislature.
If beauty is only skin deep, the rhi
nocerous should have the inßide track
at a beauty show.
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. .
Advice to Smokers.
The Sound Advioe of a Wise and
Experienced User ofthe Weed.
From the New York Sun.
The deadly illness of General Grant
is ascribed to cancer and it is said that
the cancerous growth was caused by
excessive smoking. The distinguished
character of the patient has made the
case conspicuous, and many veteran
smokers have already discarded the
use of tobacco.
We believe that the poison of can
cer is distinct from the poison of nico
tine. There are, however, a few sim
ple rules commending themselves to
every physician which will tend to
make tbc use of the weed less injur
ious and which it is well to inculcate
at this particular time.
In the first place, smoke light-color
ed cigars. They are less strong than
the darker shades. Select the boxes
marked Claro and Colorado Claro and
avoid those marked Maduro or even
Colorado Maduro.
Secondly, never smoke on an empty
stomach. Smoke after luncheon or
after dinner or supper, but do not
smoke long after you have taken food
or early in the morning. A light ci
gar after a hearty meal frequently
aids digestion, but if one smokes just
before eating,the appetite will be less
ened and food will lose its relish.
Thirdly, do not smoke the whole of
the cigar. Sacrifice a fourth or fifth,
because in the stump the poisonous
oil or nicotine of tobacco becomes con
centrated. Fourthly, do not smoke
more than three or four cigars a day.
and in the last place, after smoking
cleanse the teeth, and thus avoid their
discoloration and impregnation with
the fumes of the tabacco. A moder
ate and careful use of tobacco does
not harm the teeth, but when excess
ive it causes the gums to recede and
covers the teeth themselves with the
blackening X)il of the leaf.
These rules are few and simple, but
if followed they cannot fail to be of
lasting benefit to every smoker.
Washed Ashore.
How $39,000 were Recovered by a
Dead M&n's Relatives.
A Halifax [N. S.] 'dispatch tells this
strange story ; A romance has come
to light connected with the ill-fated
steamship Daniel Steinmann, which
was wrecked at Sambro a year ago,
when 124 lives were lost. Previous to
his leaving home Peter Andreas Mich
aelson, one of the passengers, deposited
$39,000 and some valuables for safe
keeping with one Ilerschird, of Hasle,
Denmark, andjtook a receipt therefor.
Probably Imagining that no legal evi
dence would ever be forthcoming that
he had the money,Herschird refused to
return it to the dead man's relatives.
Thereupon the Danish foreign minister
communicated with Mr. Tobin, the
Danishconsul at this port, requesting
him to spare no effort to dnd the re
ceipt. The bodies and wreckage wash
ed ashore from time to time had been
carefully searched, and the divers who
have been working on the wreck for the
past year have kept a sharp lookout for
the missing document, but all without
succees. Recently a small trunk was
washed ashore containing a uumber of
letters and papers. These were turned
over to the consul. They were~ water
soaked and the writing almost oblitera
ted, but among them was the long-look
ed for receipt, which, after much diffi
culty, Consul Tobin deciphered and
translated. He has cabled the good
news to Copenhagen.
What is Good Breeding.
Genuine good breeding is simply a
general walk in life which always avoids
giving unnecessary pain, which sinks
itself, and which is uniformly kind to all
people. A factory girl in this sense
may be, and often is, as well bred as a
princess. The very height of good
breeding is to behave one's self proper
ly, and there are millions of hard work
ing matrons and maidens who can do
that, and much more than that. The
flowers and the fun, the frolics and the
fairy like abundances of enjoyment
which wealth can purchase, are often,
it may seem unequally divided. But
good breeding, the art of always being
frank and yet dignified, of patient self
control, thought for others, of kindness
to all,is as general as the gift of a heart
A duchess,in the best sense of the term,
is no more well-bred than a milkmaid,
if the latter has a gentle mind and dis
position.
A spring poet sings : "Will they
miss me, I wonder ?" If they do, they
ought never to fire another gun.
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A Silent Man.
'" ■*
Among the reminiscences ofthe war
the following extract from an inter
view with an old Virginia Methodist
preacher is interesting:
'Yes, my house was full of your
generals last night. There wat Sher
idan, Humphreys, Meade,Custer,Ord,
and quite a number of others,and they
were a lively set and full of fun, and
all'were quite jolly with the exception
of one officer whom I noticed sitting
in a corner smoking and taking but
little part in the sports Jin which the
rest were engaged. They al! went
out of the bouse but tbis solitary,silent
man, and as I was going out be asked
me where the pump was, as hq would
like to get a drink. On offering to get .
him some water, he said ; * 'No, sir ;
I am a younger man than yon, I will
go myself,'and as I passed out be came
up behind me. When in about the
middle of the hall my little grand
daughter came running toward me,
but the silent man,spreading out both
arms, caught her, taking her up, fair
ly smothered her with kisses, said .*
'This remiads me of my little girl at
home, and makes me homesick.' To
the question, Where is your home? bq
replied .* 'Galena, 111., but I have my
family at City Point, and am anxious
to get back to them.' I said 'Will you
permit me to ask your name, sir V
'Certainly; my name is Grant' Grant,'
exclaimed I; 'Gen. Grant?' and I
stood there awe stricken and paralyz
ed with astonisbmeut, while my heart
went out after this man. I thought
to myself, here is a man whose name
is now in the mouth of man, woman
and child, throughout the civilized
world, and yet withal he exhibits no
emotion and seems unconcerned and
unmoved until the little child reminds
him of his loved ones at home # and I
fairly broke down, as General Grant
had been pictured out to us as a bloody
butcher and I had looked for a man
looking as savage as a Cain ache In
d'ian. To say I was agreeably disap
pointed when I saw Grant expresses
my feelings but feebly.
How Jackson Got His Title "O'd
Hickory."
Ben Perly Poore, in his reminiscen
ces,'says rJGeuenil Jacksonjwas known
among the sdldiers who served under
him as 'Old Hickory,' a sobriquet given
him during the Cieek war. His bri
gade was making a forced march, with
out baggage or tents, to ths
Indians in one of their yillages, and
were for several days and nights expoa
ed to the peltings of a March storm,the
rain freezing as it fell. General Jack
son got a severe cold, but did not com
plain, as he tried to sleep in a muddj
bottom among the half-frozen soldiers.
Captain Allen and his brother John
cut down a stout hickory tree, peeled
off the bark and made a covering for
the general, who was with difficulty
persuaded to crawl into it. The next
morning a drunken citizen entered the
camp, and seeing the tent kicked it o
ver. As Jackson crawled from the
ruins the toper cried: 'Hello, Old
Hickory ; come out of your bark and
jine us in a drink!' Therefore the gen
eral was known in camp as 'Old Hick
ory,' and wheu he was talked of as a
presidential candidate, the nickname
was adopted by his supporters. The
'liberty tree' of the revolution was re
vived in the 'hickory tree,' planted &t
every cross-road and village by the en
thusiastic Democrats, while they sang :
Freemen, cheer the hickory tree,
Long its boughs have sheltered thee.
The White House.,
The White Honse covers about one
third of an acre, aud it has cost—up to
the present time —about $2,000,000. It
is modeled after a castle iu Dublin, and
the architect,who was a South Carolina
man named Hoban, got SSOO for draw
ing the plans. When it was first built,
awayback iu the nineties, it cost $300,-
000; but the British bumed out its in
sides and its cost has since added to that
sum about $1,700,000. In it all of the
Presidents (since Washington) have
lived, and each has added to its beau
ties and its expenses. I think it was
John Quincv Adams who brought the
first billiard table which was used in it.
But in John Adam's time it was only
half f urnished;and Abigail Adams used
to dry her clothes in the big east room.
Year by year, however, the furnishing
has gone on, until now it is a sort of a
museum of art and beauty.
It is said that bee 3 and wasps will
not sting a person whose skin is smear
ed with honey. This, of course, may
be perfectly true, but the trouble with
the blasted insects is that they won't at
ways wait until a fellow can smear
himself.