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order that orders for theaccruod interest may
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A. D, Ciusxri, St-c'y. I Sept. 1S73. oi.J
EBEXSHURG,
JOIIX JAXKIX'S SKliMOX.
millister last w
f i t . ...
ion t ue at raid ot givin ;
If your life ain't notliiu' to other folks,
Why, what's the use of livin'?"
"And that's what I say to wife," says I,
There's Brown, the tniseralile sinner,
He'd sooner a beggar would starve than give
A cent toward buyin' a dinuer.
I tell you our minister's prime, he is,
But I couldn't quite determine,
When I heard him giving it right and left,
J ust who was hit by his sermon.
Of course there couldn't be no mistake
When he talked alto it t lone-winded nravin
For Peters and Johnson they sot and scowled
At every word he was sayin'.
And the minister he went on to say,
"There's various kinds of cheatin,
And religion is as good for every day
As it is to bring to meetin'.
I don't think much of a man that gives
The Lord aniens at my preachin',
And spends his time the followin' week
In cheatin' and ovcrreachin'."
I guess that dose was bitter enough
For a man like Jones to swaller ;
But I noticed he didn't open his mouth,
Not once after that to holler.
Hurrah, says I, for the minister!
Of course I said it quiet
Give us some more of this open talk ;
It's a very refreshiu diet.
The minister hit 'em every time ;
And when he spoke of fashion,
And a riggin' out in bows and things
As a woman's rulin' passion,"
And a-comin' to church to" see the styles,
I couldn't help a-wiukin'
Aud a-nudgin iny wife, and, says I, "That's
you,"
And I guess it sot her tbitikin'.
Says I to myself, that sermon's pat,
But man is a queer creation,
And I'm afraid that most of the folks
Won't take the application.
Xow if he had said a word about
Iy personal mode of sinnin",
I'd have gone to work to right myself,
And uot sit here a grinnin'.
Just then the minister says, says he,
"And now I've come to the fellers
Who've lost this shower by usin' theirfriends
As sort o' moral umbrellas.
Go home, said tie, and find your faults,
Instead of hnntin' your brother's ;
Go home, he says, and wear the coats
You've tried to fit for others."
My wife she nudged, and Brown he winked,
And there was lots of smilin',
And lots o' lookin' at, our pew ;
Tt sot my blood a bilin'.
Says I to myself, our minister
Is gettin' a little bitter ;
I'll tell him when meetin's out that I
Ain't at all that kind of critter.
THE VIO TAX.
AVo were sitting' one summer evening in
the window of our reading-room at Llan
liowell, looking out rather sadly on. the
scene before us. The coach had just come
in from Morvaen, and its passengers were
dismounting and its smoking horses were
finding their own way stableward.s, whilst
the stable-helpers were busy harnessing in
the fresh team; and we looked at this rather
sadly because it was the last day of the old
coach. The new station of Lyndenmaen
was to be opened on the next day, and the
coach was to cease running and to be su
perseded by the railway 'bus, which was
now standing in its bran new coat or paint
drawn up. against the side of the hotel.
'"Deed, it will be a fine thing for the
town," said the doctor, who was of the
party.
"Yes, my boy, indeed it will," cried law
yer Evans. "I shall do all my business
now in London. Xo use waiting for assizes
and circuits now. I shall take you all up
to Westmitister now, my boys."
"Devil doubt you !" said the Captain,
making a face. "What ! as if you didn't
ruin us quick enough the old way ! Ah,
well, I liked the old way the best. You'll
be a shabby outskirt of Manchester by and
by."
''O, but, Captain, consider the motion of
the iirnes!" cried Joues Dxybella, who was
a manufacturer and a radical ; "consider
the progress of intellects."
"Pooh, intellects !" cried the Captain,
contemptuously; "why, you aren't a patch
to what your fathers were. Why, Jones,
I've seen your father drink forty glasses of
ale, and then cheat a sober man in a bar
gain." "Well, yes, he was a wonterful man, my
father was wonteiful !"
"And there was lawyer Iioberts, who
robbed everybody right and left, and lived
like a fighting cock for fifteen years ; aud
wasn't found out till after the funeral,
when all the parish followed him to the
grave. Oh, don't talk about intellects:"
"Indeed, he was very clever; yes, sure."
"Wei?, now, and where can you show me
a man like Sir John ? Do you remember
what Sir John did at the time of the Cri
mean war?"
"Xo, iudceJ, I forgot."
"You'll remember, I dare say, that
whilst the war was going ou, the Govern
ment put on a shilling income tax. 'Shil
ling in the pouut!' cried Sir John ; 'shil
ling in the pount! W by, that'll be a pouut
a day out of my pocket. O, tarn! I can't
stant that.' Aud lie came down from
Loudon, where he had been attending Par
liament, in a very bad humor. The rent
day was 011 just then, and the tenants' din
ner ; and, at the dinner, Sir John made a,
PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1873.
speech, as usual. 'My friends,' he said,
'we are engaged in a tremendous struggle
in a very big war. We must all put our
shoulders to the wheel for the sake of our
Queen and country. If need be, you must
rally round your old chief.' You should
have heard the roar there was, for they
were all very fond of Sir John; and indeed
his strong ale was something to be remem
bered. 'But,' he went on, when silence
was restored, 'we must all make sacrifices
you, and I, and everybody. I have to
make 'em fust of all. Do you know what
the war costs me, my fiients and tenants?
I'll tell you more than a pount a day !'
'Dead anicyl!' cried all the tenants; 'a
pount a day ! Think of that, David ! Sir
John paying a pount a day to the war.
Dear me V 'And now, my fjients and
tenants, it follows that you'll have to make
some sacrifices, too,' went on Sir John,
'but trilling ones nothing to what I have
to do. My frieuts and tenants, Vie rained
your rents fice per cent, all around. Xow
shout for your Queen and country, aud for
your landlords and protectors !' "
"And they paid it?"
"Of TJourse they did, and were thankful
to get off so cheap. Wasn't Sir John pay
ing a shilling in the pound for the country
all the time ? O, you're a very loyal race!"
"And so we are, Captain, and very font
of Queen Victoria; and we don't mind pay
ing for her, too, Captain only what we've
paid before ; it's the new things we don't
like, Captain. And what did Sir John do
when the war was over?"
"He forgot to take off the five per cent."
"Dear me! that was clever. Yes, I give
in to you there, Captain ; Sir John was a
very clever man. But we've got clever
men in these days, too, Captain."
"But we were talking about intellect,"
said the Captain, after a pause, during
which the coach had driven off, and the
square in front of the hotel had assumed
its normal quietude. "Xow, to my mind,
as far as intellect went, I never knew any
body to beat old David Gaur, of Penllyn."
"Oh, come, Captain, now, that won't do.
Why, David was half an idiot."
"That may be," said the Captain. "I
don't say he was clever all round. The
finest intellects have a few somewhere;
but, in his particular way, David was the
cleverest man I ever knew."
"But, indeed, what win his way, Cap
tain? I never knev him to do anything
but run about at fairs, and earn a sixpence
where be could."
"What ! did you never hear of David
Gaur and the pig tax?"
"Xo, iuteet."
"Then you don't know half the tradi
tions of jour countiy. Why, Jones, I,
who'm half an Englishman, and have fol
lowed the colors half over the world, I'm
a better Welshman than you are. Why,
I thought everybody knew about David
Gaur and the pigs."
"Tell it to us, Captain ; tell us the
story."
"You know," said the Captain, hem
ming and stroking his moustache medita
tively, "that David had a peculiar gift.
How he acquired it nobody ever knew; it
was said he was taught it by old Morris
Morris, who lived to be a hundred and
twenty, and that Morris's father had it
from the farics. But however he got it
doesn't matter he had it; and a& he never
iliiuitvU &o ty ii KvU -w i 1 1 Inn. X
ottered him a sovereign once to show me
how he did it, aud swore most solemnly
I'd keep it a profound secret. But no, I
wish I'd bid higher now; it would have
been something to fall back upon in one's
age, something that lawyer Jones couldn't
lay his claw upon."
"But what was it, Captain? What was
the secret he had ?"
"It was the a;t of frightening pigs,"
said the Captain solemnly. "Ah, now
don't go away with the idea that that's
nothing I don't mean ttartlinj 'em; any
fool with an umbrella can cry 'Shoo!
shoo!' and do that. But what I mean is
downright frightening them, infecting
their very souls with fear; making them
mad, so that they'll jump out of their
very skins with tenor. Xow, you know,
they're very imaginative beasts are pigs,
and at the same tinio they're very cun
ning. They're not to be taken in; aud if
you were to make all the horrible noises
you could put your tongue to, they'd
quietly whisk their tails aud cock their
eyes, aud thank you for your pains. But
this was how David went to work. You
know that Penlyn May Fair is a tremen
dous fair for pigs. They all come from
the north side of the county, and must
cross the bridge over the Dulas to get
there at all, and when they've crossed the
bridge there's a long straight piece of
road, with grass on each side of it, and
high stone walls beyond the grass. Well,
here it was David would take his stand, j
or seat, rather, for he squatted himself
down in the grass, and then he made him
self a round hole, like a basin, a foot
deep, at the side of the road; and there j
he'd sit from early daylight collecting his
tax on the pigs. If there were less j
than ten he charged a penny, and so
David's tax; and a very good tax-gatherer
he made. He wasn't always altering it,
moving it up and pulling it down; but
he puton a reasonable figure, and stuck to
it."
"But suppose the people wouldn't pay
it?"
"That's just what they made up their
minds to one fair-day. The principal pig
! proprietors held a meeting on Llander
I Green; and came to a resolution that they
I wouldn't pay David Gaur any more,
j You see, his reputation was traditional
j only; they'd none of them seen his powers
I exercised; and those modern views of
yours, Jones, had got into their heads, I
suppose. Anyhow, they came to the reso
lution, and stuck to it, with fear and
trembling. Everybody remarked how
beautifully the pigs marched that day
from Llander Green. There was a good
body of them together, and you'd have
expected they'd have given some trouble;
but, no, they walked as orderly as so
many Christians, as if they'd made up
their minds to show bow pigs could be
have for once. Well, the bridge was
crossed, and the advance guard of pigs
1 came to the front of David's redoubt
the hole he'd dug in the ground. David
held out his hat, as usual, for the toll.
The master of the pigs shook his head.
'Dim tally. Xo pay to-day for pig.'
David understood the thing in a moment,
saw through the plan of the revolt. Down
went his head into the hole. Gentlemen,
it's impossible to describe a noise. If you
can imagine the most diabolical din in
nature, and then make it twice as tad,
j'ou'll have a faint idea of the roar that
came out of the hole in the ground."
"Wheio weie the pigs? You must
imagine a whirlwind of pigs, a simoon of
pigs, a tornado of pigs ! Little pig, big
pigs, blue pigs, white pigs, flying about
like sky rockets in every direction. They
Hew over the stone walls, they dashed
over the parapet of the bridge; away they
went east, west, north, south. In a few
moments the county about for miles was
spotted with Hying pigs. And their
masters, David and Morris, and Richard
and John, and all the rest of them, where
were they? Flying, too, across the
country; bursting out their best trousers, A
barking their shins, and spoiling their
gaiters over the stone walls. And what
was the use of it ? Did you ever try to
catch a couple of hundred of mad pigs,
careening across country? The fair was
pretty near a failure, I can tell you.
Only the few people who'd stopped be
hind, and paid David his toll, and brought
their pigs in quietly, they had the pick of
the- buyers; and through there being so
few pigs in the market, they got pretty
nigh what prices they liked.
"And then the poor fellows who'd lost
their pigs came to David, and besought
him, with tears in their eyes, to call the
piggy-wiggies back again, and gave him.
double toll to do it. But I fancy lie
wasn't as successful at that as he'd been
at sending them adrift. Anyhow, after
that, he always got his taxes paid in peace
and quietness.
"Ah, don't tell me," saitl the Captain,
getting up and putting on his hat, "of
your railroads and nonsense. Where will
you find another chap like David Gaur?"
A Sixr.ri.AU CifAniTV. The Xew Ha
ven j Conn., Palladium says: Several
kind-hearted gentlemen of this city are at
present wearing upon their naked arms a
device of singular description. Our read
ers have uot forgotten the terrible accident
which occurred four or five weeks ago at
.lo Biibb rip v" o'. v '. Xsnvies t5 CO.,
in Court street, by which a woman had
the entire scalp and a part of one ear torn
from her head by an entanglement of her
hair with some machinery. Though a
great sufferer, it is possible that the life of
this industrious and unfortunate woman
may be saved, provided a sufficient num
ber of persons present themselves to the
bedside, in company with the surgeons
w ho have charge of the case, and consent
to the removal of a little bit of their cuti
cle for transference to the skull of the pa
tient. The surgeons are hopeful of saving
the woman's life, but they do not have as
many generous offerings of cuticle at are
desirable. A number of transferences are
doing well, the new skin taking on a
healthy edge.
The operation of giving in this singular
sort of charity is exceedingly simple and
almost without pain. The surgeons, at
nine o'clock in the forenoon, meet a few be
nevolent gentlemen at the side entrance
of the shirt factory. After reaching the
sufferer's bed room coats are taken off and
shirt-sleeves rolled up. With a surprising
delicate manipulation one of the surgeons
segregates a bit of the desired commodity
uot larger than a half dime from the be
nevolent person's arm, no blood being
drawn. Another surgeon immediately ap
plies a round patch to the place where the
skin is not, and a strip of adhesive plaster
is put on over it. Iu a few days the be
nevolent, who has perhaps been a little an
noyed at the irritation, removes the surgi
cal cheyron, and he has the pleasure of
knowing that he has contributed some
thing of himself (the truest charity fn the
world) toward relieving a dreadful distress
and prolonging a useful life.
A young man in Indiana county, who
thought it would be nice to marry a well-to-do
wife and live at home with her, pro
pounded the following query to a farmer
with several lovely daughters : "If Miss
Mary marries, will she still live at your
home to make your life bright and happy?"
"Xo, sir," responded the old man, "when
one of my gals swarms s!c nuu-'t hunt her
own lave,"
THE SA CK OE BALTIMORE.
A LEG ESD Of THE IRISH SEAS.
Soft shone the summer sun on Car
berry's huudred isles, and its last golden
rays brightened the rocky peaks of Ga
briel's rough defiles.
The crumbling ruins of Inisherkin
bathed in the mellow light shone liko a
moulting bird.
In a calm and sleepy swell the ocean
tide poured its light green wave, crested
over with the snowy cap, relic of the ice
berg of the far northern sea, upon the yel
low sauds of the shelving bay.
Peace and rest had come with the
evening tide to the quiet town of Balti
more. On the bosom of the swelling water
across the bay came a fishing-hooker, pro
pelled by a single oarsman.
Ilackett, of Dungarvon so the boat
man was called was no stranger to the
inhabitants of Baltimore. A descendant
of an old family, he had squandered, in
dissipation, the red gold of his fathers,
and now a single solitary tower on Dun
ashod's rocky side, was all that Ilackett,
of Dungarvon, could call his own.
There were dark rumors, too, of wild
and lawless deeds done under the cover of
the night by the chief of Dungarvon, but
none cared openly to press the charge ,
home to him, for the landless lord was re
puted to be a dangerous foe.
Dungarvon drove the prow of the hook
er upon the beach and sprung to land.
As he drew up the boat out of the
reach of the tide, an aged fisherman ac
costed him.
"Saw you aught of the pirates, my lord,
from your tower at Dunashod ?" he asked.
"What pirates?" questioned the chief,
in some surprise.
"Two long, dark barques were reported
hovering oft the coast this morniutr. and
some say that they are the Algerines and
threaten our town," the fisherman replied.
"I remember now," Dungarvon said,
thoughtfully; "at' daybreak I saw two
large galleys, with double banks of oars,
steering to the north ; then the mist fell
upon the waters, and I lost them in it
but have no fears of Baltimore ; tbe Al
geiine docs not live who could pilot a
war-galley through the reefs of Dunashod
without leaving his bones on the rocks."
And then, with hasty steps, Dungarvon
passed on. Straight toward the Castle of
O'DriscoH he bends his steps.
Full well the meanest retainer of the
sept of O'DriscoH knew the errand of the
landless lord.
Geraldine O'DriscoH, the only heir to
the ancient line, had not her equal in
beauty or in grace, within the Emerald
Isle. Right great streak of fortune would
it be then for the chief, who lacked both
gold aud lands, if he could win the hand
of O'Driscoll's child.
A desperate man wis Ilackett, of Dun
garvon, and, like all desperate men, he
set his fortune upon a single cast.
Threw boldly, and as boldly lost.
The lady said him nay; and when, in
hot and sullen rage, he questioned why
his suit was rejected, in haughty scorn
the Lady Geraldine pointed across the
sleepy waters to where the towers of Ban
don gleamed golden in the suulight.
"Go a sL- PW-i. TJ...J , -e 1 1 ,
whom in six months I shall make the chief
of the O'DriscoH sept," she said.
Dungarvon withdrew in silence, his rage
too great for words.
Spurning the dust of Baltimore beneath
his feet, he sprung into his boat and
turned the bow seaward toward his own
lone tower.
Borne along on the bosom of the rush
ing tide, just changing from flood to ebb,
he floated over the dangerous reefs that
guarded the town of Baltimore from hos
tile attack by sea.
Shaking his clenched fist at the haughty
tower of O'DriscoH, which had lately wit
nessed his rejection and despair, lie swore
a bitter oath that he would not die until
he was avenged.
Around the rocky point of Dunashod bo
glided, and, there by his lone tower be
saw anchoied the black galleys that were
gliding shar-klikc through the Irish seas. !
The lazy wind that stirred the pendent j
streamer from the masthead displayed the
crescent of the Algerine.
And then in the breast of the desperate
man came a wild thought of vengeance, j
Here Was the weapon with which to crush
the proud and haughty girl who had re- j
jeeted his love. i
Straight he steered for the black galleys, j
and within the hour stood on the deck of
the Algerine, face to fac"e with Achmet j
the Red, the terror of the southern seas, j
and who bore at his masthead the green j
banner, as token of straight descent from
the Prophet.
Short the speech of the desperate lord,
and quick the reply of the Algerine
Ilackett, of Dungarvon. would steer the
! '
fTillevs ot the Algerines through the beet- .
gauejs ot tue
1: , ,.r iVnrtisliotl Strain-lit, to mc
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sands of Baltimore Harbor, and neither j
fr-dlev keel nor blade of oar should graze .
the tearing roc; ana one uims '" -claimed
as reward the person of Geral
dine, the Lady of O'DriscoH.
Achmet the Red gladly acceeded to the
moderate demand.
And when the litrht faded in the sky,
and the cl':ni of the night clouded sc
Number 34,
and land, while the massive Capes ami
ruined towers seemed conscious of the
Calm, and the fibrous sod aud fttmited
trees gave forth their balmy perfume,
round Dunsshod glided the two long, dark
barques.
. Steadily the ore-blades rose and fell;
lon and dangerous pull against the ebbing
tide.
With his hand on the helm of the fore
most galley, Ilackett of Dungarvon steer
ed the Algertne. Through the winding
channel, amid the dangerous reefs where
the Water Kelpies dwelt, until at last the
keels of the1 galleys grated upon tbe yel
low sands.
In the golden sunset, the town of Balti
more had seemed to sleep, but a deeper
sleep, a stony trance had come with mid
night. All, all asleep within each roof along
that rocky street, and even the aged
warder on the donjon tower of O'DriscoH
Castle had allowed sleep to seal his eye
lids and bind his senses as with a leaden
chain.
A stifled gasp A dreamy noise, and the
sabre of the Algei ine was crimsoned with
the fresh, warm Irish blood. From their
beds and to their doors the ptartled vic
tims rushed, to meet upon the threshold's
stone the gleaming steel, and the swarthy,
bearded face of the 3Ioslem.
An hour after, the smoking ruins sprink
led with blood, and the bleeding victims,
told of the dreadful work of Achmet, well
sitrnanicd the Red.
The old and help'e tlie pirates slew; the
young and strong they reserved for a fate
even worse thau death, to serve the cruel
Turk iu the arsenals by beauteous Dar
danelles, or in the caravans by Mecca's
sandy plains.
The Lady Gcraldine, pale as the marble
white, stood a helpless prisoner on the
galley, from the masthead of which floated
) tbc Preen banncr sacred to the descend
ants of the Prophet.
Again Ilackett of Dungarvon steered
the galleys of the Algerine through the
narrow passage leading to the sea, until at
last they lay beneath the shadow of dark
Dunashod and the fiee waves of the ocean
washed their 6ides. Then the traitor to
his country and his kin claimed bis prom
ised reward.
Loud laughed the pirate chief at the re
quest. "Memory for service done by Christian
dog to the followers of the true Prophet
lasted not beyond the execution of the
deed. This dainty maiden I have marked
for my own; iron the slave aud cast him
in with the rest !"
The brow of the desperate man, who
had risked all for the prospect of revenge,
grew dark as the clotted blood upon his
blade; but Moslem hand ne'er touched
him, for as the turbaned warriors ad
vanced to execute their chiefs behest,
quick as the plunge of the salmon, the
renegade darted into the foaming wave
aud the ocean's green mantle shielded him
from all pursuit.
"Let the dog go !' cried Achmet the
Red, in supreme contempt; 'the wave
his tomb, his fate, just reward for
treachery."
And then, with the light of conquest
shining in his dark eyes, the Algerine ad
vanced toward Hie hpleR fii-l.
A single second be clasped her by the
arm, and then she snatched a dagger
from his belt and stabbed him to the
heart. With a single groan, Red Achmet
lay dead upon the deck of his galley.
Limb from limb the pirates hacked the
Irish girl, but she died with a smile upon
her lips; with a single blow she bad
aveneed the slaughter of her sept.
And Ilackett of Dungarvon,. cast up by
the ocean ou to the land, fell into the
hands of the men of Bandon, led by
Patrick Burke, burning to revenge the
ruth and slaughter. Upon a gallows-tree
they swung the renegade, the wretch who
had steered the Algerine and given unto
inin the city of Baltimore.
j A Pjiivate Still. A Wisconsin paper
tells a stcry of a revenue officer who was
sent into an illicit whisky-distilling district
! in Kentucky. He knew illicit distilling
j was going on, but he could get no basis to
work from. Coming to an Irishman who
I was toleiably drunk, the officer tapped him
' on the shoulder and said :
"My man ! do you want to make tea
dollArs?"
j "Is it ten dollars ?" said Pat. "Sure,
and I do."
I "Then," said the officer, "show me a
private still."
I "I'll do that same.
Follow me, yer hon-
! or!"
The officer followed across lots and fields
to the eamp of a company of soldiers that
had been snt there to aid the revenue of
ficers. The soldiers were in line dress
parade.
"Da vou see
that red-headed man?'
oerioii iir. nointimrtooneof the soldiers.
..y.," reol ed the officer.
"He is" id pat, "my brother. TTe's
been in the service twelve years. He'll be
a corporal hfter awhile, but he is a 'private
still.' "
"Ten dollars gone no illicit wVWky
foutid'" morsUeed the officr as he wend
ed his way back to hv hotel,
Xi-.w name for tighl-l.ctb Corn-crib.