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oLUMK VIII.
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1S74.
NUMBER 27.
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STCRY CF FEARGUS OCHTERLCNY.
l'.V W A. TAYLOR.
i rfO 'l'-tu-tions of early boyhood days
;,:,:i-a!!t ones by any means, and I
5 j try to forget them; but now and
'.,vcfu:o back to mo like an echo.
,;y a:e associated with tho dismal
,:tir.a;lie sijuallor and the naked pov
:,ie Five Points in their palmiest
i I. . v I managed to pick up a living
; va,::y ..Hiring tiio nrst ton years
O'e is a uiysieiy to me, and how bo
; uiuiken ai'i'lc-women and fish
v ;u:,-il au is, rough carmen, boozy
iii:in'y cars, evil companions, and
!.-s j.-ilicemen, 1 maiKiged to live at
;.:ite as nuich of a inyV.cry.
r remember my i;!"l!ier a patient
l::.ery like an ai gel who with my
: a:.J myself occupied acellar in a
r.w of tenement houses, living for
Tjc.irs ;uu:d the fumes of bad whisky
T.:-t"biceo upon tho ragged edge of
7 it:- n.
i'.w very clearly remember that one
try uie i' and Tim Looncy were on
i.ia dr.uken brawl at the head of
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. a:.rl I'.at I.ooney sti uck my father,
(''' 2 tot be bottom of the steps was
t!i or.e groat shriek of fear
u;-i4.ii. my mother fell lifeless across
":':c; father's corpse as it lay in the
;k.-? v. as a dreary funeral, and two
t-' wtre hauled away in a cart, and
,; in 'lis great unexplored
' '.!. r.:L:r, ipol-s.
iKMbb.irs, none of whom
1 'A-an ownership in me,
':"! 17,0:1 pretty much as a stray
i- d'.'i never come to any good,
acc'iidingly.
-1: I wa:,ilereJ listlessly down tho
'":te?s. iased the dingy Miojsthat
like luxurious bazaars, until
' Kast liivcr docks, and scat-
; u;...n a coil of cables, looked out
-f--:.Kli waters of the river, dotted
:l::tc-sailed ships that came and
'" the distant seas, dancing their
!-nsnie and nodding and bowing
1 aitners. I wondered how
'T "i'd was and what I was made
-';-r. i!ii:.kii:g of my louelinoss and
;i:!-t into tears.
n:o y-.ii crying for?" inquired A
:-.'t wlm'.'.y unpleasant voice.
I am starving and have 110
i:'--po:.('ed.
'K'el'.ent reasons, I should say,
' Do vou think vou could earn
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l":-.v, your honor," I replied.
,!i m;ght have been anywhero
10 Slx,y, short and wiry, with a
,ci and half-severo face, seemed
-u !!:y reply, and asked me my
6 :s Vlteilony, at your sorvice,
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t"l's r'"'' you wash your hands
sL. d your rags, you will fit
a;'J"- and wo will see."
i'l'ii t j No. Beckman street,
)ivv"l; a;,J the way be told me
." " "" I ever knew; that his name
'"'lah. and that ho had no
"."V:!'S in all tli M-..-i.f
in'Jti1
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!P and Confetioner' and
( .; b' i Mid boy. Tho fact that
, " ' "-'' i', mother, nor relatives
v. 'J :tet recommendation.
i-CHcud that to bo uttorly
'Let l ll 1"'fl i,,,uled. as lie t-.ld
- Jud ful'.j- mac up lji3 n,mJ
a"y 0,,-e about his promises
i,, r tin living.
1 ',irc' ",cal 1 ever ate was at
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"1 h5 and the house.
'.v Hto.inded at iny gas-
lut by degrees 1 came
ike
a f ivilizd being, and
I was rather a spruce
-lit:
-'I U.d
I do say it myself.
';;,'i''ar ai.d peaked
As timo wore on I grow in stature and
the good graces of my master. My stipend
was increased from ono to two, three, four
and then to six shillings a week, and i had
daily lessons from n competent tutor, in
oui private room over the shop.
When I was sixteen my mother had
taught me to remember my birth-day Mr.
Darragh called me into his private office,
gavo mo a twenty dollar gold piece, and
told mo that from that day henceforth I
was no longer to bo his errand boy.
He said this in a half cold, half laughing
way, but with such a look of meaning, that
my heart -was in my throat in a moment,
my eyes ran over with tears, and I sobbed
out
"O ! Mr. Darragh, what have I done that
I must leave you ?"
"Who said that you had done anything?
Can't a free man dismiss hid errand boy
without being catecliised ?"
"Certainly he can," I replied, "but I
always tried to please you, aud I don't
want to qait your service."
"Who said you was to quit my service ?
I discharge you as my errand boy at six
shillings a wesk and employ you as my
chief clerk at sixteen shillings, board,
clothes and washing thrown iu, so long as
you are worthy my confidence, with a
chance of promotion. Now go and dress
yourself and take a holiday, and waste no
words in thanks and nonsense."
With that he kindly took my hand and
dismissed me. I strolled about town tho
whole day ; walked up Broadway till I
breathed tho country air, where Stewart's
great marble store now stands, and chased
tho butterflies iu tho fields, where the prim
, and muddy gutters of that i lawns of Union Square are now guarded
by tho metropolitan olice.
I regarded myself as the happiest boy in
New York and on the threshold of fortune.
Then I wandered down town into the hum
aud bustle of business, and aimlessly bro't
ap at Castle Garden. A number of emi
grants were landing, and among them a
fair-haired, blue-eyed, handsome little mai-
beautin;!. and aliased woman, J den of twelve or thereabouts, plainly and
poorly clad, who was weeping as if her
heart would break.
I pitied her, and kindly inquired of her
tho cause of her grief.
".Both of my parents died at sea," she
replied, "and I am alone and in a strange
world, with no one to care for or take cai-e
of nw,"
"But I will take care f you," I replied,
impulsively.
A look of hope came into hor face and
eyes as she asked, beseech iusjlyc
"Will you take mo to your mother and
let me live with her?"
"I have no mother or living kindred that
I know of."
Hor eyes full and th bright sunshine of
hope faded from her face, arxl fcho fell to
weeping again.
I took her by the hand ami told her my
exact situation, assuring her that my mas
ter would welcome her to oar happy litUw
homo. Hor rough fellow passengers seemed,
willing and anxious enough to get rid of
her, and it was not difficult to pcrsnado Jici
to go with me.
I felt assured that she would meet with
a warm reception from Mr. Darragb, and
upon the strength of this assurance I paint
ed some very highly wrought pictures as
we made our way up Broadway.
But my own dreams and thoso I bad in
spired in her own sorrow-sore bosom were
doomed to a rude awakening. Mr. Dar
ragh frowned, and stamped, and declared
that his house was not an almshouse, and
that I had presumed entirely too much in
bringing her to him for protection.
I bogged las pardon for w hat I had done,
and pointed out how very like our situa
tions had been, and that I was only follow
ing his own kind example. But still he
was not satisfied to fulfil the promises I
had made to tho little stranger.
Finally be consented to let bcr remain
aud tiuthes and a shilling a 1 until a placo could be found for her.
I cl.rt 4-..K1 tfnrv a verv brief one.
Her name was Amelia Vanderson. She
was a nativo of Manchester, England, but
of Flemish ancestry. Bridget McNary
soon fdl in lovo with littlo Amelia, and by
tho end of the week, Mr. Darragh, to my
great delight, dropped the subject of seek
ing a place for her.
She was shy and timid, but so frank and
confiding that she soon became the favor
ite of the neighborhood, aud when she in
sisted on tending shop to earn her living,
Mr. Darragh, though pretending to remon
strate, was secretly pleased, and let her
have her own way. Her pretty face and
winning ways brought many new custom
ers and retained old ones, who were not
Ho kept 1 alwas inclined to excuse tho rough man
ners that Mr. Darragh now ana iuu in
dulged in when a little irritated.
But with all his faults Amelia and I
n-rccd ho was tho purest and best man
in the world, lie was a father and more
too.
Our business increased, aud our stre
mom was enlarged, and show windows
were placed in tho frout, gaudy with flow
ers and fiuits and sweetmeats. Mr. Dar
ragh was not selfish, and private tutors
were employed to perfect Amelia's educa
tion, which all could sec had been careful
ly looked after.
Her parents had been woa'.thy, f-ho said,
but met with reverses, and started as steer
age pafcsengers to America, to escape pov
erty aud starvation. Wheat they died and
were buried at sea, there was nothing left
her but some clothes, a fuw dollars aud
the lovo correspondence of her parents.
This she carefully preserved, as something
too sacred even for her own eyes.
It is not necessary for ma to detail tho
fact that I fell deeply, nay, desperately in
love with Amelia. You all understand
that. We had never spoken of love, but
we both perfectly understood the nature
of our feelings. When she was eighteen
and I was twonty-two I began to think
of speaking to her on the subject of matri
mony. Mr. Darragh no louger treated her as a
child, but with the deference and courtfy
consideration due the perfect and glorious
woman that she was. He seemed to grow
younger as the days passed, and dressed
with the taste becoming a gentleman who
had an abundant faith in the good inten
tions of mankind. But his attention aud
deference to Amelia never gave me an
uneasy thought.
Our business had grown from a retail
establishment into a very respectable whole
sale house, and wo began to import our
own stock of fruits. I had been promoted
to bo confidential clotk, with a partnership
connection in the near future. My salary
was $1,000, which iu thoso days was con
sidered princely.
One day I told Mr. Dauagh that I had
thought of marrying Amelia. He looked
up suddenly and a spasm of pain convulsed
his face.
"Have you agreed between yourselves ?"
he asked with forced calmness.
"Not yet," I said. "Wo lmvo never
spoken of it, but with your permission and
blessing, I will."
"Not for tho present," he said quickly.
"I want you to go to the Bahamas to
make arrangements for a stock. Wait
till you come back, and tin you may
marry."
His veh emeuce rather surprised me, but
I attached little importance to his words
then. I was glad to mako the trip, and at
onco began my preparations for the voy
ago. In a week I was ready to go with full
instructions and a letter of credit to our
correspondent and agent at Nassau.
Amelia accompanied mo to tho dock, and
as I bade hor farewell before embarking, I
said :
"I havo something to tell yon when I
come back."
"I will wait till you come and whisper
it in my ear," she said with a smilo.
We perfectly understood each other, and
I scaled tho bond with a kiss.
Tho schooner on which I took passage
glided over the bright waters and down
into the summer seas of tho tropics, aud
tho whole voyage was to me a happy
dream. Amelia smiled to me in every
star that looked down from heaven, and
whispered to me in every brce.ethat play
ed about the ppars and rigging. Time
passed so rapidly, that ere I thought of
it, we let go our anchor in port, and I has
tened to our correspondent and delivoi-cU
my lettoi-a
Our agent, alow-browed, linister looking
man, with business air and shrewdness,
after glancing over Mr. Dariagh's letters
and scrutinizing mo closely, asked me to
call tho next morning.
I socurcu lodgings for my expected stay
of three or four weeks, and then gave my
self up to pleasaut dreams of Amelia and
the future, and strolled till far into the
dusk of the evening among the tropical
luxuriance and beauty of the place.
Everything seemed like a highly colored
dream to me, and proved to bo one too
beautiful to last.
The next morning I cailed upon Mr.
Simmonds, our correspondent, according
to my appointment. After some common
place remarks, ho said :
"Young man, I am very sorry, but it
will bo necessary for me to give you into
custody. You are too plausible a sharper
to be permitted to escape."
I could scarcely control my sudden in
dignation at his uucxpected and insulting
words, but restrained myself sufficiently
to calmly ask him to explain himself.
"Well," said he, "tho explanation is
easy. Your letter of credit is simply a
clever forgery, and "
"You lie !" I exclaimed, starting to my
feet ; but a strong hand seized me from
behind before I could move a step, and I
found myself in tho grasp of an pfiicer. I
raved wildly, protested my innocence, and
my ability to establish tho genuineness of
my letter of credit.
"WelL prove it, then !" sneered Sim
momds, as tho officer led mo away to
prison.
I was told, after being confined, that be
fore I could bo released it would be necess
ary for me to procure proofs of my inno
cence from New York.
I immediately wrote a long letter lo Mr.
Darragh, and another to Amelia, detailing
the whole story of my wrongs and awaited
patiently for the proofs of my innocence,
which 1 felt sure would speedily arrive.
But thrco month passed, and no answer
came.
I wrote again and again, with no better
success. A vague and dreadful apprehen
sion seized upou me a terrible far that
i I could not understand, and when my im
' priaonmt-nt had lengthened to ten months,
I and still no word from New York, I gavo
! way to despair, and felt that I would seon
die.
Ono day a mulatto named Jack, who
years before had been a porter in our Beck
man street store, came into the prison, and
beckoning me into an angle, whero wo were
unseen, told me in a whisper that ho had
heard I was in prison, aud that for more
than six months he had been trying to ob
tain a moment's interview with me. llo
said that he was a servaut of Simmonds,
and slipping a letter into my hands, whis
pered :
"Keep that close, and read it when you
can. Maybe it will interest you. My mas
ter lost it, and I picked it up."
He was gone in a moment, and as soon
as the opportunity offered I opeued the let
ter and read it. Judge of my horror when
I saw the following in the well-known
handwriting of William Darragh, my bene
factor :
"New York, April 24, 1R3G.
"Mr. Simmonks My Di-.ar Sir: Mr.
Fcar;,'"s Oehterlony will deliver you a let
ter of credit signed by me. Arrest liim for
forgery, anil keep him closely confined, so
that he can communicate with no one until
I request, hi release. Enclosed find ray
check on the Hank, New York, for your
trouble. Your obedient servant,
William Darragh.
"No. Beekmftu stroet."
Then I cursed my benefactor as tho vilest
reptile on the faco of the earth.
On the blank page Jack had writton out
a plan of escape, which, by feciuj oue of
the keepers, could be easily aceomplished.
The truth Hashed upou me iu a moment.
My old master had fallen in love with
Amelia, and I had b6en sent to Nassau and
to prison that he might accomplish his end
in marrying her. No doubt she thought
me dead. Perhaps even now she was his
wife. Tho thought nearly drovo mo mad.
In less than a week Jack and the bribed
keeper had me out of jail and smuggled on
board a schooner bound for New York.
How slow it sailed on its journey. Tho
days lengthened into years and tho weeks
into centuries as tho lazy breeze wafted us
onward. I paced the deck and scarcely
slept.
At last tho voyage was ended, and I
leaped upon tho pier and hastened to No.
Beeknian, to denounce Darragh and rescue
Amelia. Pushing my way into the front
shop, I inquired for the inmates.
The girl in attendance glanced up in a
frightened sort of a way, and exclaimed :
"Oh ! Mr. Oehterlony, surely you are
dead. They havo gone to church to
bo married."
I did not tarry to explain, but flew to the
church, and bursting open the door, hur
ried up the aisle. There stood Amelia, the
ghost of her former self, and there stood
William Darragh, her expectant husband.
The clergyman had just begun to repeat
the marriage services.
"Stop !" I cried.
Amelia turned and saw me, gazed at me
for a momeut, and then pronouncing my
name, fll in the arms of tho minister in a
dead swoon.
William Darragh did not utter a word,
but Hed from tho church, his face blanched
with tciTor.
By the time I reached tho altar, Amelia
had recovered consciousness, and threw
herself into my arms with tears andsobsof
joy. It took me but a fow moments to
make a satisfactory explanation to the cler
gyman, and in fifteen minutes Amelia and
I quitted the church husband and wife.
We loitered along Broadway and in the
park in tho bright April sunshine, while wo
detailed our strange experiences during the
past year.
As I had suspected, "William Darragh
had told Amelia that I was doad, and show
ed her a letter from Siinmouds detailing
the circumstanses of my death and burial.
Heart-broken, it was but rii easy matter to
induce her to marry her benefactor. My
timely arrival had saved all three of us from
a life of misery.
But could not go back to the houso
of our mutual benefactor even for a mo
ment. I sought comfortable lodgings iu
Varrick street, where Amelia and I began
the voyago of life together, and very bright
was the beginning of our new life journey.
Our honeymoon was not over, however,
until William Darragh found out our hid
ing place. He came to us in the gloaming
of the evening. How ho was changed.
His hair, which a mouth before was but
slightly frosted, was now white as the snow.
Ho was bent and his face boro the marks
of a more than humau grief aud remorse.
Ho told us tho whole story without the
slightest reserve. How his jealousy bad
beeu aroused when I spoke of marrying
Amelia, an how he had arranged to keep
mo imprisoned at Nassau until he aad Ame
lia were married.
We both felt instinctively that his lovo
had crazed him, and when he begged us
to forget and forgive, and ge home with
him as his dear children, wc kissed him
reverently, and went without a word.
Once more wo were back at our dear old
Bookman street home, but business no long
er prospered with William Darragh. The
crash of '37 came and swept away all he
had, and with it my own little fortune, w ith
which I had tried to save his.
We were turned out of house and home
well nigh peuniless, and I secured humble
lodgings in Little Jonos street, where by
dint of hard labor I managed to furnish tny
wife and our mutual benefactor with the
! bare necessities of life. It was hard to see
! Amelia deprived of the comforts and luxur
'. ies she onco enjoyed so much, and see the
kind eld aian eating coarse aud scanty food.
One morning I picked up a city paper
and read
"Charles Vanderson, who sailed from Liv
erpool to New York about th year Is.",.), in
the bark Ellen, will learn something to his
advantage by addressing the undersigned.
If he is dead his legal representatives are
equally interested. Wm.Ciiah. Lykue, So
licitor, Manchester, England."
I showed this to Amelia, aud sho was in
a flutter of excitement. It could refer to
none other thau her father. We wrote to
Mr. Lynda, and ho informed us that if
Amelia could prove the death of hor father
and her heirship, she would at once be
placed in receiptof 0110 hundred aud fifty
thousant pounds bequeathed to her father
by an uncle.
Then the old lovo correspondence was
brought to light, aud among it was found
more than the required proof. So that in
less than six months we were possessors of
a fortune of three-fourths of a million dol
lars. I bought a county scat far out of tho
noise and bustle of tha city, and we settled
down the happiest trio on Manhattan Is
land. Tea years later William Darragh,
our true and loving father, after dandling
four laughing, happy grandchildren upon
his knee, and telling them how ho found
his children, bade us all good-bye, and we
!aid him in his grave with many tears of
genuine regret.
Wo no longer live out of town in our
once quiet country retreat. The great rest
less, hungry city has swallowed us up, and
wo live in the very centre of the town,
where we receive our friends.
My dear old friend Jack, who opened the
prison doors at Nassau for me, nowj opens
the door for our visitors.
"TnE Scalp-Snatcher." A TIVy to
Make the Red Man JJajipy. A man named
Grubb came into my office the other day,
and after introducing himsef, he said he
would like to call my attention to a little
invention of his. Grubb said that ho had
long been impressed with the fact that, as
baldness is becoming so general, the time
must come when au Apache Indian, for in
stance, would be unable to scalp three out
of any five whito men whom he happened
to kill, unless something wero done in be
half of tho red mau. Naturally, being of a
philantrophic turn, Grubb examined the
subject to see if ho could deviso any kind
of a machine which would placo bald men
and mon with hair upon a footing of equal
ity, and enable the Indian to obtain his
rights. After years of patic'nt investiga
tion and thought, Grubb succeeded, and
ho had dropped in to obtain my infiuenco
so that the Interior Department could be
induced to accept the patent and recom
mend it to the Indians. He called his in
vention "Tho Patent Adjustable Atmos
pheric Scalp-Snntcher," and he offered ex
clusive territory for agent!". Tho device,
consists of a disc of thia lcat?;er about six
inches in diameter. In the center is a hole
through which runs a siring. When the
Indian owner kills a man with a bald head
lie merely wets the leather, stamps it care
fully down upon the surface of the scalp,
slides his knife around over th earn, gives
the string a jerk, and off comes the scalp
as nicely as if he had been adorned with
hair a yard long.
"TI10 machine, iu fact," I said to (Jrubb.
"is simply a 'sucker,' such as is used by
the boys."
"Precisely," he replied, "I merely claim
a patent for the mode of application. I
want to make tho red man happy. I wish
to bring joy to the wigwam of the Kicka
poo, and to mako tho heart of tho Arapa
hoe glad."
"Did it ever seem to yon, Mr. Grubb,
that the baldheaded wbite man iu such a
situation needs succor just as badly as tho
Ind ian does?" Then Grubb Sttid that if I
was going to joko about it ho would go
home. But he stayed, and before he left
I accepted a general agency for the valua
ble invention. Persons wishing to exam
ine it cau apply to mo, and if any one de
sires to test its efficacy he cau do so by
bringing a ba'dheaded corps with him. Ex
periments free of chargo when persons fur
nish their own cadavers Max Adder
Thb only Tom Collins joke worth print
ing was perpetrated at a New England col
lege. Mr. Collins was announced to speak
in the chapel. The president, angry that
the arrangements should have been made
witliout consulting him, placed an injunc
tion on tho lecture, locked tho door and
stood guard over it for a somewhat lengthy
season, to tho infinite amusement of tho
boys.
Not far from the city of Bangor there
was recently a baptism, and among the con
verts was a black girl of great size. All
went off smoothly until the colored woman
was immersed. Just as the minister was
putting her under tho water the choir on
shore saug, most innocently :
The morning bcht is breaking,
The darkness disappears.
"Dear George," said an Indianapolis
young woman, "I am willing to marry you
if we have to live on bread and water."
"Well," said the enthusiastic George, "you
furnish the bread and I'll skirmish round
and find the water."
A Western- journal describes a widow
as being unmanned by the los of hey hus-
Hard Times in the Siuilh Family.
It hivs been a hard year in the mountain
of East Tennessee, not t!'t work has been
particularly scarce, for w. rk is worse than
starvation with many of tiictn in that Je-nighte-1
region ; bat whUky regulate tho
market, and tlmt has !,t.0n high rutd brought
many a proud family l.iv.
Now the Smiths were one of the proud
families of that region. They lived on a
ten-acre patch at the fojt of the mountain ;
They had an old, poor hor-.- that wouldn't
make a shadow in the sunshine, and a
knock-kneed cow, with a horn broken off,
while the rest of the family coii-i-ted of
Caleb Smith, his wife, and nine red-headed,
freckle-faced girls and boys, after the pat
tern of the mother, beside seven Jogs an J
five eats.
The Smiths would fK-mloh in n. Ikt'.e corn
each season to carry to the still and the mill.
and make up the re-t of the living by fi-h-
ing, hunu'nir, mil lounging round the
tavern, while the small-.r children would
phiy mumbiey peg," and it k:j,t Mrs.
Smith busy cooking, smoking her J-ip-'
spanking the chihh-en, and lay i-.g it d,iwn
to Smith. Wa-hing was a laborious
task that it was only done oisee a month,
at the creek, an J then it was only J.. n,-? in
sections, so that one washday the boy
would go without their pants, and on the
next without their shirts, and the girls like
wise. The Smith mansion was n t a pre
tentious aifair, nor were they particular
stuck up over it, although it was not to lie
sneezed at. It consisted of an elaborate log
structure of one :ooin. and a l.,ft lloored
with ronfring Kiards, with n Judder, up
which the young suiiths would go to root
at night, when they didn't s.h-ep in the corn
er) h to keep old Bill Ilohmson from making
off with their corn. The Monotony of this
up-stairs jjfe was occasionally reuered, when
they had company down stairs, by one of the
hoards tilting up and dropping one of tho
girls partially through the f! .,r.
liiis was the status of the Smiths when
the hard times began. Th.-ir corn had not
turned out well, an J. the di-tih'ery increased
the toll, so it did riot leave much to go to
miil, and the stone that they balanced the
coin with in the other end of the sack was
too hnavy, and pulled the Smiih boy, corn
fin 1 all, off into the creek ; and. you see,
such, things as this play.;J smash with tho
Smith family. They had to eat ju-t like
lolks who worked for their living, and, to
make matters Worse, Smith didn't kill anv
wild-eat that season to bounty on its
scalp, nnd it didn't lake long to bring them
down to their last hoe-cake, and Smith
couldn't sing that soul-inspiiin funj any
more: "Oh, Sally, g.t your hoe-cake don-."
Smith had au offer to chop cord-wood, but
never liked chopping no .
Now Smith started out one evening aJhiut
sundown witn his rite, and there was deter- j
initiation in his eves any one could tell he I
meant business. Was he going to pop the 1
oM dlsu.'ier over, an 1 run the whi-ky mill :
himself? or was he g.)in' to lay fbr some 1
traveler with a saddle-bag full of lunch? 1
Smith, however, relieved all anxiety on this j
point by returning alter dark with an old, j
poor hog across his shoulder that bore deacon
Snogglu's car-mark ; nd, as Smith was out
of salt, the nest morning found the hams,
shoulders and sides hanging up in his smoke
house with a coh-lire round them. There
was joy in the Smith family, but, of course,
with so many mouths to l.-ed one bwg
wouldn't last long; luidwhen Smith returned j
next time with hi ri:!e, aivj Couldn't find a
single porker at large, matters began to look j
desperate; there was only .;ie little slice of j
fat bacon left, and that had to go as far as j
possible, so Smith studied all night, nn-1 had i
the problem solved by breakfast time next j
morning. He just got Mr.-. Smith and the ;
nine children all in a row. and he took that i
slice of bacon and tied it on t a string, and j
he went through from the old wom-u down
to the youngest chil l, and let them swnllow 1
that piece of fat baeon, and then he'd pull j
it lr.u-k wit!) the string for the next one s ;
breakfast; and, poor, sclf-sacrilicing man,
wlien they had all breakfasted off it, he then
took the string off. and it went down his
own throat never to return. That day be
killel a wild-cat and got the bounty, and
the fish began to bite, arid the Smiths again
revelled in plenty.
Hereditary I iiiliu'iiccs.
rarer. ts aware of their own tendeticy to
infirmities of body or mind should be un
ceasing in their vigilance over their children,
so ns to prevent predi-position from becom
ing a habit. For example, a cliil I of parents
prone to epilepsy, apoplexy or insanity, and
who displays precocity of mind and great
vivacity of feeling, should b? kept from all
irritants, either in the shape of food, or
drinks-, or applications to the outer senses-,
from strong appeals to the feelings, and be
encouraged to lodi!y exercise lather than
to book-tastes, to hasten the development of
the intellec tual faculties bf yo id their
strength. The very early netiity of an or
gan, the consequence of its premature de
velopment, so far from being a reison for
tasking it to greater exercise, should, on the
contrary, be the sign fur diminishing the
supply of stimuli or agents capable of still
further cxiiting it. But howeu-r good and
perfect the home tii-cipliue, it cannot be
successful without the hearty co-operation
of the sensible school in-truct r, who not
only ought to under-tan I Unman nature,
and know the parent by t' cir children, but
be as able to teach the full use of th.- limb3,
and how to wear a graceful can luge, as to
lad the pupiif ti.ro.igU all the steps of a
Chul.Vs flock.
ChnbVs clock got out of crier tho ot! t
day and began to strike wrong. That v
the exu-e of the fearfid excitement at ! m
ho.!se 0:1 Wednesday night. They ww a I
in bed -oan 1 a-Ieep at midnight, wp"n t !
c'.o.-k s;;d :c;:'y struck ftv?. The new I,ir--l
irir!, happening to wake just as it b. g .1,
hea:d it and bounced out f.f bed, nnd -.' ti e
imprest. .n that !!i.,ri!ir.g had cotao ; and -0
it is as dark nt 5 A. M. iu winter as it i- t
midnight, sV;.- did not perc-ive hcrmb:.:'
b.:t went down into the kitchen and I ...,. :
to L-.-t breakfast.
While
was batllr:" a'vr.t i:i a p
iiy
H'-. -.y m-r.r.er. Ch-iVi !..'.; ;.. ::-! to w:-ke.
a ?v I lie hear 1 the n -lsr. He opene! l.i.
r x--::i door captiously, -and crept s-;ft!y to
the l.r.i.l of the stairs to li-ten. He enri 1
d;i!i!c;!y hear s, ,:jlo one moving about t'.j
j ktctt:n nn. dlning-r-m :u, and apparently
J packing no the chin:'.
! Accordingly he w.-rt K-.ek to his ro-' i
"id woke Mrs. ('!,!,',, - l c,vo ).r :a
t spring the rattle o-it of the front v. i i i j.v
tho Moment she heard hi- gun 1:0 oil'. T.'vn
Chubb si-ied Jus . , ling-pi, -,-e, ar.d g ,ir,g
down to the uii.inir-roo'.u door, where J.o
could h.-nr the burglars at work, lie cock e I
the gun, aimed it, pu.-hed the Jour pe:l
with the muzzle, and lire 1.
Instantly Mrs. Chubb -prn:?:r the n-'t'e,
mid, lK'.'l.re Chubb cvuld pick up the 1 nvr::
ted hired irirl, the iro-.ii Joor war- bur.-t oi- '-i
by two po!ivmo:i, w ho c.i:n.- into the Jin-ing-rooM.
Seeing Chubb with a iran.ru, 1
a 1 i!ce. Hug worn. m on thr floor, tl.y im.i ;in -1
that murder bad been c .mmhted, an -1 000
of them trotted Chubb . ft' to the station
house, while the other ixmaiucl to iuve.-Li-gate
things.
Just then the clock struck six. An ex
planation en-u.-d n-oiii the giri. who ..n.'y
had tt f.-w bird-liot in her leg, ind t':e
policeman left to b; ing Chubb homo. II
an i' d at about three in the morning, j.i-1
:is the clock was strikinc eight. When th.
situation was urf .Med to J.i:.., his ff
action was to j uu thebutt of his g :n through
the clock, w hereupon it immediately -tr;:ck
two hundred and forty-three, ai:l then
Chubb pitehcl it oertlie fence. He has
a few clock now, and things arc wyrkinj
better.
Illval Journalists.
They l.;uc in a certain town in Northern
Peim-yixania two rival newspajwrs, whi.-fi
are publi.-hed upon the same d.iy of tho
week. The editors make de.-perate attempts
to get ahead of each other in procuring
items, nnd the en--.-1.ien.-,.s are often auiua
i.'ig. l-a.-t we.-k they were serious.
'llic cd;: r of th. ?,1.ruth- ihj.iu demised a
scheme which he calculated would lay tho
.'I :!-A r out cold. lie employed a man to
make on attempt to aNsa-inate him jusf aa
l is jHijr was-going to press. c bought
this man a six-barrXc-.l revolver, nnd In
structed liim to rash int . the ofHee of the
M-mh-Oiyin 11 1 a certain hour, and lv-gin
to bang away at the editor, taking g od care
not to hit him.
The editor intende 1 to pern: it tho villain
to escape, and then he proposed to sit down
ari l run out a sensational local, with half a
column of head-lines, rdM-e.it a 'Dastardly
Attempt nt A-sa nation, ' ' A Biow at a
Free Press,' etc., etc.
The Mini with the revolver Fernicl renily
cnthu.-i.e-tie about it. When the appointed
J.oiir iirrivi d tl- t-Iitoi f,,ok n po-ition ne;:r
the door. Iii dashed the villain of tho
piece, with murder written ail over his
countenance, and began to bom!ird that
eminent jouruali-t at once with re. ki.--s
ferocity. The first shot took elicut in the
editorial calf; the second grazed lis elbew ;
the third tore a channel across his sea'p.
'Hit- editor howled .'or the assa.-.-in to stop,
but the a a-.-in thought it was n j.ilI t ,,r
the play ; so he emptied three more barrels
t him, scratching him a little every time.
Then the editor fainted from loss of blu' d,
the a-sassin was arre-tel in real earnest;
the elit .r of the M.at-Ai rus'ie.l around,
wrote a stunning account of the tng-?-!-,
and got his paper on the stnvt, - lli-er Ilkj
wild, befoye the M '-ulli-Ojon mrai revived.
But lie i- -!; now. He say- the it ss: is-in
Must have mi-umW-tood his instructions
somehow, or else he was bribed by the pro
prietors of the M-at-Ar to play falst..
he does not care to organize any more
schemes fur getting in nhead with sensa
tional item-. He thinks now that a news
paper ought to be conducted upon a calmer
basis.
A church in Prussia wits used as a maga
zine for provi-iuns for soldiers, but great
care was taken of the high altar on account
of the beauty of its construction. A rumor
spread abroad that the a.'t:ir was mysteri
ously illuminated every night, and throngs
of people gathered about the church. The
commandant ordered the key and with a
lantern he explored the church, b ;t noth
ing was found to clear up the mystery, bat
as soon as the church was empty the n'tar
nnd the whole church was illuminated. Ti-j
commandant i-sued a proclamation offering
a reward to any one who could unrmcl the
my-tery. For two days no one claimed the
reward, but on the third a common soldier
belonging to the fortress requested a private
audience with the commandant, an J expViio
cJ to him that he wa- occasionally cmp'- y, J
to put frames to mirrors and burning gla.s-cs,
and one evening when at work at n large
Concave gla-v, it happened 1 1 he ... 1 lc! ..s
to throw a light into tuc church, when
ing public C-urio-ity e.v he 1 he t '"o -a thicvv
the light from the aitic to tie altar. 'I ho
commandant cxo'ai' el t- '!' : -t '
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