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EBENSBIIRG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1877.
NUMBER 33.
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FOIl THE
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1 , i .,. w;i iit circled tv the peo
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: , .r4i..nt effort tor th? correc
' " ' ...r wi-nra- Hint tor tun punuh.
j"'ty, to be enforced through the
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';ii!:s "unvr;:lieled political swin-
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;;VV'm. ini- liMi.-, with hypocritical
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BY R. II. HTODDARD.
AVo have a younRster in the honac,
A little tntiu of ten,
"Who dearest to his toother is
Of all God's, little men.
Indoors and out he clittRs to her,
He follows tip and down ;
lie steals his rlemler hand in hers,
He plucks her hy the gown.
"Why do you clinn to me so, child ?
You track me everywhere ;
You never let me alone."
And he, with serious air.
Answered, as closer still lie drew ;
"My feet were made to follow you."
Two years hefore the hoy was horn,
Another child of seven,
Whom Heaven had lent to us awhile,
Went back again to Heaven.
He came to fill his brother's plaeo.
And bless our failing years ;
The good (od sent him down in lovo,
To dry our useless tears.
I think so, moth-'r, for I hear
In what the child has said
A meaning that he knows not of,
A message from the dead.
He answered wiser than he knew,
"My feet were made to follow you."
Come here, my child, and sit by me,
Your hea-i upon my breast ;
You are the last of all my sons,
And yon must lie the best.
How much 1 love you you may guess
When grown a man, like me,
You sit as 1 am sitting now,
Your child upon your knee.
Think ot me then, acd what I said
(And practiced when I coul.l),
"Tis something to be great and wise,
'TiS better to be good.
O, say to all things good and true,
"My feet were made to follow you."
Come here, my wife, anil sit by me,
Ami place yoni hand in mine
(And yours, my child) ; while I have you
'Tis wicked !o repine.
We've had our share of sorrows, dear,
We've bail nr graves to fill ;
IJut. thank the go mI (Joi overhead,
We have each other s'ill !
We've nothing in the world Ix.'Side,
For we are only three ;
Mother and child it wife and child.
How dear yon are to me !
I know ivdeed, I al vvavs knew.
My feet were made to follow you?
AGKD JJA CJJl"J10S.
A MhT OF IKOrt.F. ONE HI NltltED YEARS
OI.IJ AM) UPWARD.
Of the year's Centennial birthday cele
brations, baps the most notable wnsthat
of Mfs. Hannah Cox at I loldentess, N. II.
IJoTii at I'lestott. Conn., Juno 2H, 1770, her
parents removed in 1 7S-1 to Fa nice, Vt.,
and soon after to llohlentcss, where she
married in 1798 Hubert Cox, who died in
lf?22. Uussell Co.v, aged 77, and a Mis.
Colley, both of Ho'dciiiess, are the sole
sin vivot s of her seven childten. Herfath
er, Isaac XV. Stanton, was a captain of a
company of Connecticut volunteer in the
war of Independence. Cotumcinvr.it ive
fxetciscs were held in the uf einoon in the
old Kpiscopal chinch, and afterward a large
company assembled at the Cox homestead,
white the cettieiiai ian liceived Lei guests
in the best of health.
Mrs. Mary Mollis White, widow ff Na
thaniel White of Weymouth, Mass, with
her many iclalives and descendants, cele
brated the 100th anniversary of Iter birth
February 25th, at the residence of Mr.
White of liiaintree. She is the third of
nine childten of Capt. Thomas Mollis, who
served with his three brothers in the war
of Independence, and hei dcscendents num
ber six childten, twenty-six crandchildien,
thiity seven oreat-giandchildien, and iil
tceu great great gtandchildren. Her two
snivimig t'.augiiteis aitj wives of Gen. Na
than Heard and George M. Nice of Wor
cester; and George White, judge of pro
bate court of Not folk county, is one of her
grandsons. Site was personally acquainted
with .John Adams and John uiiicy Adams,
and tho principal events of I be nation's his
tory are vivid in her mind. Sue is Mill pos
sessed of her faculties, is able todo sewing
and has not been ill for noio than fitly
3eMrs. Martha F. Morey of Strafford, Vt.,
completed her one hundredth year the thud
week in April, when three generations of
her descendants were present at the anni
versary dinner. Horn at Gill", Mass., mar
ried at twenty-five, bhe lived with her hus
band seventy years, fifty of them in hei'
present abode, and bore him eight children,
or whom live suivive, the oldest being sev
enty, and llm youngest fifty eight years of
sge. Her mother, Fatly liarllett 1? nzzell,
lived to the age of 101.
Dolly Sexton, one of the members o. the
Shaker community at Mount Lebanon, ..
Y whose lUOth birthday occurred -May b,
took her first rule in a railroad car several
weeks aiteiwaid, and expressed lieivcir
'very much disappointed' ut the st-cerf and
con.'foit of the same.
Mrs Hariict llawley, who celebrated her
105d birthday at IWon Highlan.is, Aug.
r. I.ni at Si rat ham, N. II., and lost
her husband in the war of 1S12. Her fath
er Jotham Rollins, was a lieutenant at
Hunker Hill, andjstood beside Gen. rtai.en
hcti he fell. She never attended a thea
tie or rode in a steam car ; is of cheerful
convention, possesses all ber facu 1 es,
and occasionally cooks her own dinner
without assistance. .
Mis. Mary Good ale of IVrjnonnoc ..ridge,
Connecticut, who was one hundred and two
years old June 21, visited New London m
August and had her picluio taken in com
pan wi lt her grandson and hei gieat
greaVcrauddaughter. She is stdl abl to
go up ami down fctaiis without assistance
and to call upon hei ncighlMrs unattended.
An Irish resident of the Hist ward in
Sp.inKheld claimed in August the title of
oldest inhabitant, by virtue of having pass
ed his lOOlh birthday, and a UalMinoro pa-,
iter mentioned in July that Ib v. Dr. Lov.ck
Fieice, of the Sou hern Methodist church,
mill occasionally occupied his pulpit.lhougli
on the verge of completing bis 'lu,;
A v".e.a..,f 1812, aged 3, who cal e d a
I eiaiuuv, w nwii'iHj'
iaged 1U4, who was too old to enter the
a,Af triune of the death of Mr,. Marga
ret Went wot th, aKed 1)0 at Home, N . l
in May, she was said to have left behind
her four brothers and sister, tho youuyest
aged SO and the eldest 101.
In April Timothy Crmim, aged 101, was
.aid to' be living in Chesire. and 'qui i a
lively,' and Gen. Sabeit Oglesby, ol the
lively, - aHed m d vision 1111-
oer Jackson at the battle of New Culoaus.
i was tJaid to be liviue iu lexus.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reuter, a native of Luxemburg-,
Germany, completed her 109th
year at, Baltimore last Christmas morning,
and was mentioned a month later as still
able to superintend the housework.
A woman of 107, who went out market
ing at New Brunswick, N. J., during a
February snow storm, was rescued from a
snowdrift by the police: and the public was
told next month of an Omaha woman aged
100, who for fifteen years has had her grave
clothes ready, and given them an annual
washing and ironing.
Mis. S. Williams, of Steiling, Mass., was
repotted iu January, two 'months after
completing her centennial, as in excellent
health and spirits. At the same time were
noticed two Philadelphia centenarians,
John Smith, who says he was born in Eng
land, Jan. 2 f, 1772, and Mrs. Susan Hague,
I'M, who remembers Washington and his
wife, suffered in the city's fu st yellow fever
epidemic when her mother died, and has a
child need seventy-three and a grandchild
aged fifty-two years.
'L'nc'.e' Ben Gieer, a negro of Marshall
county, Kentucky, who had some docu
mentary evidence iu suppott of his claim
to be 113 years old, married a young wo
man of 57.
John Charles La Mont, of Fort Kent,
Me., 107, was noted in May as the father of
twenty-thiee children, and an inveterate
user of tobacco.
On the 11th of that month. Lady Smith,
widow of Sir James Edward Smith, presi
dent of the Liuiuena society, entered on
ber 104 h year in perfect health. She in
vited Mr. XV, J. Thomas, the disbeliever in
centenarians, to dine with her on the anni
versary, but he declined.
Nancy Marshal!, who was born at Green
wich, Conn., August lbth, 1770, and mar
ried in 170") an cx-Revolutionary soldier
named Ira Mead, was still living there in
September, as for thirty years past, with
her grand-niece, Mrs. Joseph JelVersoti.
She occupies an upper room, from which
she can get a view of the surrounding
country; ami she sits by the window all
day, though no infirmity obliges her to
keep still. She has never been ill in her
life, and her memory of remote events is
very clear.
A Frenchman named Shcppard, aged
111) years, left the town of Washington,
Mass., in July, to make a home in Michi
gan with his daughter, aged seventy five.
He still walks without a cane, has upward
of fifty great-grandchildren, and is trying
to get a pension from the Fiench govern
ment for his services in the old Fiench
wars.
Somo of the newspaper not ices of cente
narians ate wiitten with a mocking spiri."-.
as is the story of John Allen, who appeared
at Cincinnati in June, whither he had
walked from Pitt county. North Carolina,
4(H) miles, on his way to his relatives at
Shelbyville, Ind. He said he was born on
a vessel oft" Xewbern, N. C, on the 9th of
October, 1771, and that his father was kill
ed in the war, and his mother died when
he was six years old. Sweet potatoes and
colfee Inid been his chief aficles of diet
from his youth up ; he had chewed a little
tobacco all his life, but had rarely used liq
uor ; he had never been sick, never 'got re
ligion,' and never mairied ; and in hot
weather he would sleep leaning against a
tree in preference to taking a bed. When
ahoy he heard Washington say : "Squire
Wootcn, if you ever break this constitution
you are gone.'
In Febiuary St. Louis was said to be
boasting of a champion centenarian, who
could stand on his head ; and if anybody
should tell an Effingham county Georgian
that he didn't believe Jcanette Wheeler
was 120 years old he would die before
morning.'
Barnwell, S. C, was said in July to claim
the oldest couple in the country, John Jo
Peoples and wife, aged 120 and 12:. In
May it was said that Mrs. Melia Dodd, of
Howling Gieen, Ky., 1H5 years old, was
going to the Centennial to see if she could
keep her daughters twogiils of S3 and i)i
out of mischiff; and in June came the
report that Eulalia Peicy Guillen, 133 jcars
old, having descendants in seven geiteia
tions. had been kidnapped at Los Angelos,
Cal., for exhibition as a Centennial curios
itv. A daughter of ninety nine had start
ed to take her to Philadelphia the month
before for purposes of exhibition, but a
granddaughter of seventy five prevented
the project, only to have the old lady car
ried oft by a speculator. !t was at this
same Los Angelos that in May 'Jose Maiia
Lueelle, aged 110, walked in a very spright
ly and agile manner, in a Roman Catholic
procession.' Tho editor of tho S'tn, of
Claieinont, O., said in August of a man of
his acquaintance 12" years old : 'His age
is not the most remarkable thing about him.
He never voted for Washington. In fact,
he never voted at all.' The editor of the
Uf jitter, of I ronton. Mo., reported an in
terview with an old negro named Uncle
Isaac who is 110 or 200 years old, and who
keeps in his cabin the identical hatchet
used by the youthful Washington.
Gi-ttino the Best of Him. The New
Bedford (Mass.) Mercury relates that not
long since a gentleman traveling by rail
fntiii neighboring city to Boston, pur
chased a glass of soda at a refreshment
stand in a way station and gave the attend
ant a quatter. The latter apparently pur
posely delayed making change, and his
customer was obliged to bin ry on board the
train with a feeling .r having been cheated,
and consequently "out" fifteen cents. At
the next stopping place he inshed to the
window of the telegiaph office and dedica
ted a message to be sent to the sida water
man, and paid Tor by the recipient. It was
as follows : '! yn sell foam at twenty
livecentsaglass?" At eveiy station where
there wis a chance he repeated this mes
sage. Upon reaching Boston, having thus
revenged himself five times, he glided out
of the depot and set off about his business,
with a quiet smile of satisfaction irradiating
his placid features that was refreshing to
look upon. A "- ,ie 8Kl;t w:Ucr man
that night after shutting up he drew up a
little balance sheet on the fly leaf of his
diary as follows : "Expenses of telegraphy
1 5 ; extia profit on soda, fifteen cents ;
ou't f i.io." Patrons of thisestablishment
won't have !o wait so long for their change
after this as they did.
' "Frank," said an affectionate mother
the other day to a promising boy, "if you
don't leave off smoking so much you will
I get so lazy after a while that you won t
care anytniug auou wm.. .. .
replied the hopeful, leisurely removing a
very long cigar, "1 haTe got that way already."
tjii: ghosts or tub gulf.
A PHANTOM CHIP AND CREW SF.EX P.Y
ST. LAWRENCE FISHERMEN.
THE
A special Quebec correspondent of the
N. Y. World says that tho Wcstport and
Balina fishermen have been for centuiics
ready to make oath that the wild Con
naught coast theieabouls is haunted by
lights not of this earth. Iu the days of
old,
When Fcots came thuuderin? from the Irish
shores
And the sea foamed, struck with hostile oars,
or, in other words, when the Irish squad
rons invaded the seas of Britain, & great
fleet left the Connaught shore, and the le
gend runs that many of the galleys were
lost off the mouth of the Moy, or Munadas,
and that their signal lights ate the iden
tical lights which to this day alarm the
western fishermen and arc visible even to
pilgrims on tho top of Minbrea, Mount
Nepbin and Croaghpatric.k. The old men
say that on that night in Angus', 'OS, when
Humbert and the three French frigates
sailed into Killala, these phantom lights lit
up the coast for miles, as though houoring
the bold invaders.
It is probable that ships of that Irish
Armada were driven across the main into
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, for phantom
lights are thicker here o' nights than on
the Mayo coast. The most singular of
these phenomena in the Si. Lawrence wa
ters is that which appears iu the 15 lie des
Chaleurs. It has been seen by the Fiench
fishermen these hundred years and more,
and there are scores of witnesses now liv
ing who will swear to it. The best descrip
tion of it ever given was tl at by tho editor
of the Miramichi Time (of the 12lh No
vember, 1SGI), who saw it clearly. He
says :
"On the night of Monday, the 17lh ult.,
while in Caraquette, a line settlement about
forty miles below Hat hurst, iu the county
of Gloucester, we saw tins famous light,
apparently a short distance below Point
Mizzetiet, but far out in the bay. It ap
peared as if the hull of some little craft
was on fire, and the devouring lenient was
sweeping through the rigging anil consum
ing everything within its reach. Such, of
course, were the first, efforts f I he imagi
nation in endeavoring to give outline or
shape to an indefinite something that was
far beyond the powers of closer investiga
tion. It was pointed out to us by John
Mcintosh, of that place, in w hose company
we were at the time of its appearance.
Tho light in itsappearance and movements
is totally different from the ; Fat u us,
or Will o' the Wisp. It piecedes a north
easterly storm, ami is a sure forerunner of
it. It is not confined to one locality, but is
seen from time to time at different places
by the inhabilantsof Caiaquette, Grauance,
New Handon, Salmon Beach ; iu fact, by
the whole population between Miscou and
I'.athuis!. It is not confined to summer
nor to the open water, but is as frequently
seen on the ice during the frost of winter.
In the summer season patties have gone
out to examine it in the boats, but as they
approach it it disappears, and after they
have passed ihe place where it had lieen to
some distance, it reappears behind them,
giving the curious but li . tic chance of a
close investigation."
Some say that they have seen the illu
mined craft so distinctly that they could
even see sailors of wild aspect moving to
and ftoou board, and distinguish the row
eis ; while others declare they have heard
voices speaking the old Irish tongue ! I low
do they know it was the Irish tongue ?
Because in '48 and '4'.) hundreds of fugitives
from the plague and famine came from
Minister and Connaught to the St. Lavv
lence, thanking God in their Iiish that
they had been permitted to escape the two
lies; roving angels. This is a matter wor
thy the attention of Boston ami New Yoi k
Spit itualists. The matci ializa'.ioti of the
ship, the crew and the Irish language is
perfect, and, beyond question, honest.
The craftiest of Blisses or Katie Kings
could not play such tiicks.
Oil" Pointe Magdeleine, in the Gulf, the
French fishermen hear the cry of an un
bnpti.ed infant. Near that pleasant wa
tering place, Tado'isac, the wail of a wo
man, believed to have been the wife of a
wicked seignior in the feudal days of Que
bec, makes hideous the Descent e des
Feinmes, and is often heard on River mix
Canards, on the south bank of the Lower
Sagucnay. A phantom boat is seen in the
fall in Lac St. Jean, and when the first ice
of w inter is forming in tho Ashuapmouch
oun River, ii the Parish of St. Louis
Roberval, a boat appears toiling for bonis,
while the ghostly ciew strive in vain to
break through. There is indeed a rich
harvest in these regions for those who Com
mune w ith the "other shore."
A monk of the Benedictine monastery
at Raigei n, bi t ween Biuun and Vienna,
has completed a mechanical curiosity iu
the shape of a self-moving terrestrial globe,
1.4 metres iu diameter. A combination of
wheels gives it a motion similar to that of
the ear:h, and when once set going it will
revolve for three weeks. At the noith pole
of the axia aie dial plates, on which tho
days, months, ice, aro indicated, and over
these is a smaller globe, by means of which
the motion of a planet round the sun is ex
hibited. The larger globe sets the smaller
one iu motion by the agency of twelve
wheels. The construction of tho mechan
ism took more than ten years' patient ajt
plication, and was only completed after
numerous exei imems. As regards gco
giaphical details, the map on tho globe is
carefully drawn, and shows all the latest
discoveties. The steamei routes, railway
and telegiaph lines, the heights of moun
tains, and the depths of the ocean are all
distinctly show u. The maker of the glolie
is a self taught mechanician and artist, w ho
dining the past thirty yeais has adorned
the monastery with numerous examples of
his skill and ingenuity.
An old horse which has for years been
used to drag a market wagon around dur
ing the week anil be diiveu to a stand near
the old market house of a Saturday was
turned out to die of old age on last Friday
evening. Yesterday morning he was found
standing at his post iu the market place iu
his old position, and about far enough from
the sidewalk to make up the distance a
wagon could occupy. Ihe maiket men
who recognized the old veteran let him
alone, and he stood there until the usual
time for leaving, and then walked !eisuiely
i ff to his old stable door. If let alone he
w ill be baok at the maiket place next Sat
uiday niotuing. Lcuvcntcorth Times.
A "ntlllMH.Y WAY."
RY QUFF.IIQU1LL.
Keep your distance with a stranger,
Is a maxim that we know ;
Keep your temper with a woman ;
Keep your balance with a foe ;
Keep your secrets, if you have them ;
Keep your money if you may ;
And, sub rosa, keep your eye on
All who take the "i'lieudly way."
There's the "friendiy" speculator,
Who has millions at command
He who sways a mystic market
I?y some wondrous slight of hand ;
Ah. your little pile is nothing
mill, 'twould double in a day;
If yon clmse, he will invest it,
Merely iu a "friendly way."
Then the "friendly" chum of Imyhood,
Whom yoti Ixiasted of at school,
When he soared, a budding genius,
While you grubbed, a plod. ling fool
Now you meet him, looking seedy,
Somewhat ruby-nosed and grey.
"Could you hem ! dear hoy oblige me
Twenty iu a ''.Viendly way?"'
There's the "friendly" best of fellows,
Who has asked you out to dine,
Where yon grow a trillo mellow.
O'er his somewhat heady wine.
Such a band-grip as he gives you,
When you meet the following day !
"Ah, this little note you'll sign it,
Siuiplyiu a 'friendly way.'"
Then the ladies heaven bless them !
(Ami defend us from their arts.;
They who dare attempt defy iheiu
Must electroplate their hearts.
From the chaperone. whose smiling
Is a warning, watch and pry
All the sex combine against you,
In, of course, a "friendly way."
There's the "friendly" miss, who shows you
VA11 the prizes gained at school ;
There's the "friendly" belle, who fools you.
Till you know not you're a fool. .
There's the widow Lord preserve us!
We have nothing more to say.
When the winsome, watching widow
Meets you in a "friendly way."
,1 COLJLllCTOirS STOJll.
"Good bye, dear," I said, after I had
put on my coat and gatheied up the reins.
She look hold of my wrist and detained
me.
"Wait a moment, John."
Then she called to Mack, my great New
foundland dog, and he came out of the
house, and. at a motion from her, jumped
into the sleigh and culled himself at my
feet.
lie was a noble fellow, my brave Mack.
I really think there never was such another
tlog. I had brought him all the way fiom
New Hampshire, and we had grown to feel
perfectly secure in the house with him, so
watchful and faithful was the noble dog;
but it never oceuued to me to take him on
this trip, in a sleigh.
Belle," I said, "you are a silly girl. The
dog will only be a botheration to me, and
ten to one you'll want him heic before 1
get. back."
"Now, John, please do take him forme!
Please do take him, John take him, just
because your silly little wife is afraid to
have you go without him."
Of course the girl had her way. I Ttas
never able to understand how a man can resist-
this kind of persuasion. I never could,
and never expect to. So I kissed her and
chirruped to Chevalier, and he bounded
away throuh the settlement like an arrow.
It was the depth of winter and an unusu
ally heavy snow had fallen, filling in the
roadway to the depth of four feci. Theie
had been tiavel enough to pack it hard, so
that I found the sleighing excellent. Chev
alier's hoofs glanced nimbly over the snow,
and iu two hours I had made more than
twenty miles, nnd had ri.-.ched the sub
stantial log eabin of one of our best and
most intelligent customers. lie received
me with a heaity welcome, and when 1 told
him what my mission was, he invited me to
make his cabin my headquarters while 1 re
mained iu t he lieighbot hood. I lhaiikfuiiy
accepted the invitation, stayed ail night,
and I in; next morning under the guidance
of Dick, my host's youngest son, a clever
boy of thiiteen, I started out to make my
first experiment in collecting. It does not
concern my story to describe everything
that happened to me dining my stay with
our fuend, which lasted lather more .ban a
week.
When T began to realize that I had col
lected about as much money as my employ
er expected from this I rip, 1 sat down to
count it up. I had been out all day, and it
was now just at the edge of evening. Sup
per was almost ready, and I made up my
mind that if my portmanteau contained as
much as 1 thought. 1 would only wait to
appease my hunger before returning to the
settlement. 1 pound out the money on
the lloor and counted it. Il was all iu gold
and silver, for bank-notes would have been
despised among us then, and there was the
I sum of eleven hundred and seveniy-three
dollais. They were all sorry to have me go,
J and made me promise to come again and
bring my wife before the winter was gone.
I put on my coat and mnftleit up my cars,
ami started.
The sleighing was still excellent ; the
ii'ght was clear and cold, and the full moon
made it as bright as day. Wc skimmed
along for a mile or two, my thoughts all the
time on Belle and the happy meeting we
would have iu a little lime, w hen the extra
orilinaty conduct of Mack attracted my at
teii.ioit. Ho had been lying quietly at my
r.-cf, with tho lug which enveloped them
also covering him. lie suddenly shook it
off, growling savagely, and began to smell
around the bottom id' the sleigh.
Had it beeu Mimmer time, I really believe
I should have thought the animal was go
ing mad. Never before did I see him be
have thus ; and his conduct troubled me so
that 1 shouted to Chevalier, and away wc
skimmed. About sixty rods ahead 1 saw a
till, blasted tree, which I bad been told was
half way from the suUlement to Mr. Scl
kiik's, and, pulling out my watch to observe
the time, I saw to my sin prise that I ban
been an hour and three-quarters coming
twelve miles. 1 think 1 was nevel so aston
ished Hi my life. The capacities of Cheva
lier were so well known to ne, and I w as so
sure that his ordinary gait, w ithoul the fre
quent urging I had given him, would cany
Mack aud me a mile in six minutes, mile af
ter mile, that I could not comprehend that
he had beeu so slow, while apparently tiav
eling fast. I called to him again, and be
stepped off smartly ; the dog grow led, and,
I am heartily ashamed to say it 1 kicked
! him hard iu my unieasouable auger. 1 had
cause to repent of those kicks be.ore muotu
er ten minu en bad passed.
I passed the blasted live andcutercd up
on the last half of the way. Hefore ie now
lay a long, level stretch of road, w ithoul an
obstruction or turn for several miles, and
one dazzling w hite s'liface of snow upon it.
I looked out ahead, and just as far as I
could see to distinguish anything from the
snow, probably, not less than a mile away,
I saw a black speck. It did not hold my
attention when I fust saw it, but as Cheva
lier sped on, rapidly lievoiuing the dis
tance, it took form ami size, until when
within thiriy lods of it, I could plainly see
that it was a man. There he Mood tip
right in the middle of the road, without
speech or motion, apparently waiting.
Whs he waiting bu' me'.' Did he know
that 1 was coming with eleven hundredil.il
hirs in cash in a portmanteau at my feet '.'
And, if so, what would he do? Fortbeliist
time since my absence fiom the settlement
I began to feel nervous, anil thought it
would only be safe to take out. iny pistols
and have them ready. I felt in my light
hand oveicoat pocket, and found nothing ;
I felt in the left one and found nothing.
They had been removed, and at Selkiik's.
I wasceitain 1 had iheiu when 1 iclunicd
there at night.
A horrible suspicion of intended murder
anil robbery flashed upon me ; and here 1
was st ripped of my weapons anil defense
less. The horse was now within four rods
of ihe motionless figure in the road, and
bearing down rapidly upon him, and with
the desperate idea of running over him, I
shouted to Chevalier, and lashed him with
the reins. He bounded like a bolt up to
the man slopped in his fright, swerved,
and was instantly seized by the bit, and his
head brought dowu by ihe powerful rulhan.
Before I had time to think, thcic was a
shout, which I distinctly hcaid : "Your
money, quick !" and then came two pis id
shots in such rapid succession that 1 could
not have counted two between them. One
ball passed through my hat as 1 atterwaids
discovered, wi bin an inch of my head, tho
other went between my right arm and my
body, culling the skin iu its passage. Al
most at the instant Mack gave a ferocious
growl, and dove under the seat upon which
I was sitting. I heard him snapping and
growling, and heard a humau voice, half
sutlocated, trj ing to say : Oh, (Jed ! Oh,
God !" and then I fniiy realized the situa
tion. Tho man who had stopped me was
desperately struggling w it h Chevalier, striv
ing to keej) his head down, when a happy
thought came to my deliverance, and I
quickly jci ked the lines, one after the ot her.
tTuick as thought the noble biute broke
away from the lufuans' grasp, and learcd
straight up in the air above his head, com
ing down again instantly. I saw that the
man was lying motionless beneath Cheva
lier's hoofs, and, at a word fiom me the an
imal flew onward, nil le I lashed him into
greater speed, 'i he growls of Mack under
neath me had ceased, as well as the cries of
the miserable being wh'jw.is suQeiing iu
iiis jaws ; and in a f w moments the glorious
dog came out again and put his bloody
paws upon ir.y km es, while he whined as if
requesting some recognition of what he had
done. I was teiribly excited I could not
help it ; the awful tiial I had just passed
through was enough to work upon stronger
nerves than mine ; but I put my aim round
the noble fellow's neck, and hugged him as
if he had been a woman. The last half of
the way was passed rather i.U ckcrthan the
first, and the gallant Chevalier wascoveied
with sweat when he Mopped at ihe door of
my einplojer's house.
I tumbled in upon my wife, and her pa
rents sitting around the li.e, and I was juM.
about speechless from cold and tLe icactioii
of my excitement. I found voice after a
w hile to sa v I hat I wasn't hurt at all, and
to ask my father-in-law to look under the
scat of ihe sleigh. What he found there all
of you know by this time. The man -a as
stone dead, Mack's ;ceth ha ing tot n and
mangled his neck frightfully. Selkiil; came
to 'ihe sett lenient tiie next day, and with
his help the web of villainy was completely
unraveled. Both men had been at his
house th? afternoon pu-viousto my return,
but had left about an bom bv f. re 1 came.
Both might easily know lhat I had a laiL'e
sum of money with me, for no secret had
been made of'my business, and it had been
talked of in their hcaii.ig. After talking
with Mr. Selkirk, I i enietnbet ed for the hist,
time that I had left my oveicoat in the
sleigh after coming back that afternoon.
Hen, then, was the oppo: tiiu.ty which 'he
intended robbers and inuidctci s embraced
to steal my pistols, and foi one of them to
secrete himself under the sl. igh scat. In
the woods, near the scene of the encounter.
Mi. Selkirk found one of their louses, sad
dled and biidlcd, ami hitched to a im ;
and he had no doubt it had been li.hi.n
there that night by the man whom CLea
ller had killed.
Rh.M viiUAUi.i: Rt-.t ovi.i;t::s.
A Con fed -
.....I.. v..'if!iei tl..m the valle of !! ''!M I, 111
one of tb battles of the late civil wai, w as'
struck in the head by a minio ball. 'Ihe
ball passed thiotigh the skuil. and the sui
.'eons, afraid to piobe the wound in sciich
of it, left the man to die. In li.e comse of
time he recoveicd, but hail lost his uasou,
and was sent to the insane as bun at Staun
ton, where l.e remained for eleven yeais.
At length Dr. Fia-mtlcioy, an eminent
jdiv-siciau of that city, obtained jiermission
from the asylum authoiities and friends of
the insane man to make a stngical examin
ation of the head with the hope of finding
the ball. He was successful, and found the
. . , , i .i... ..r .1... clntl
nail iii.oeiKicu on i
and pushing against the brain. L liable to
extiact it -Aith iinv inst i iinient at liaml, lie
took a chisel and mortised it out. As soon
as the bali was removed, reason resumed
its contiol, nnd the deranged n.o i was in his
right mind. Iles-ijs that be is not con
scious of anything that occurred dut ing the
iiil'-tval of eleven ears from the time be
wasstiuckon the battle field to the n.o- ,
nient Hie pressure was ieiiiot-u .o.u u.
brain, all was a blank to him.
Another case iu the same county r An
fiisin was lhat of a boy whose gun binsted
while shooting, and droe the lock intotho
biain. The piece was taken out by a .skill
ful surgeon without serious injury to the
patient. T
But the most remarkable case tnat I
hear of was in the same neighboi ho.l. It
was that of a woman subject to fits of men
1,1.1 del. alignment, and while in a sj U of
lunacy drove an eigntpenny nan iut ."
top of her head, penetiaiing uno tut- .....
the nail having o.-eii oinc. r "
head. The nail was oiawn out, ano inc
woman has been iu sound utt-ntal condition
ever since.
The woman who lieglectsber husband's
shirt flout ia not ihe wife of bia boaotu.
LOST -l.Vl FOI A7.
Henry Claik. cf the -.c'.l known film of
Claik iV: Tiiuible, came to California six
teen yeais ago, a! the iv.jucst of an elder
bioihei named R.-bitt, who h.;d already
located in the Golden Slate, and who
wrote home to Canada such flattering let
ters about ihe chances a oung man had
ft.r making a foil it no that Henry finally
t o: sciitcd to his bi.vl.er's . ishes, and in
Piil he set sail for New Yoik; bound for
the modem Mccc.i the Eldorad- of tho
woild. California. His brother Bob ha-l
one of those adventurous spiiits that in
eaily days chaiactci izvd the pioneers and
Hetny becoming imbued with his brother's
spiii! the two started for the Coiiistock
mines that were in their infancy.
They both wmked iu that place for somo
time, until Boh, who had hcii J of Idaho,
wanted to pack up and move into the Ter
litoiy: hot Homy, who was doing very
well, would not, listen to it, and consequent
ly Bob started off by himself, determine!
to "make or br ak'" in the new ly-diseover-i-d
mines. Letteis frequently passed be
tween the brothers until the uprising of
the Indians in the Tcir'timy, when all
comnittiiicatiot'.s ceased. Finally a report
came that Robert Claik was killed while
hading an attack on the ltd fiends, the
rumor being confirmed by 1 1 tnitftits of his
company who saw iiim f.dl, and many a
stoiy was told of the gallantly displayed
by their itob!e leader, whom ihey all loved,
for his valor. Henry w rote home to the
old folks in Canada, sending ncwspatei-s.
also, describing the tight in which Robert
fell. Father, mother, brothers and sisters
shed many a tear over the loss of the bravo
youth who fell piolceting defenseless wo
men and children. Henry w rote to Idaho
to try and recover the bdy of his brother,
but without ii'.ail. He hail been buried,
so the i.nswer said, with the rest of tho
slain in the fo.tst whcie the battle was
fought
For long yeais the memory of his broth
er has dwelt in ti.e mind of Henry, who
w.is wont to look upon Bob i;h the same
confidence that a son looks upon a father.
Imagine the iuiptise of Mr. Clark tho
other morning when he received a tele
gtaphic dispatch fiom an old fiivnd in
San Fiantico, which said : "Your brother
is here. Come down. Havestnt ton a
letter." Last evening sine enough, a let
ter came telling all about the adventures of
Bob in the last thiiteen eais. How be
was dang rously wounded, captured by
the sr.vagcs, kept pi isoner for ears, final y
taken to Arizona, and how he made his
escape from them, lie is iu San Fiaucisro
at picsent. getting a miil to woik quaitz
fiom a mine which ho ili-coveied in the
Terriiiuy. His relent less spirit will not
allow him to remain ill. in the bounds of
civilization, and ho is ilctci tuitiid to go
back and work that mine if it. bteaks him
again. Henry left in the morning for Sau
Fiancisco to sec his brother, realizing the
old adage that tiuth is st i at-.ccr than lic
tiou. -'H 4ti:u nl'j C I ixniiclc.
a i 'En y j.a i: g i: fk o g.
The Detroit rcc IVitt tells the following
frog story :
It was remarked afterward that be had
sneaking, low down look, and the Imivs were
sorry that they didn't arrest him as ihe Na
than mnrih-rt-r. He called at the Ninth
avenue n.piarinui and asked if :h.-v didn't.
want a Like iSt. Clatr frog to put iu it, and
he a.hh-.l
"Gent hot
n, it is a frog which I caught
myself, and lie really ought to lw on exhibi
tion. 1 never saw a frog .f his size before."
"How I .tree is ii '.'," lt.ijiiir. d a seigeatit
instinctively glancing toward the top of the
coal stove.
"Gentlemen, I hate to gi ve y o:i t lie figures
because I'm a Mranio-r," replied the man.
'There's somo oil! wh'.opers up in the
lake, put in one 'ii tin n-,i t sipiad, "I'
ve
seen cm as
'ig as a stove cover, and
eve a
bigger.
We'd, some one ought to have this frog
who can te ' him we,;,'" said toe slander.
"1 ulii't mm h m militia! scene.-, and I've
Seen about I! i ! III. re is to see, lo; T J, i jk frog
gieat h.av.t.s.' S..nie man ought to take
hltti ntotli.d the count:- ; '
'How viiil vim cat' li hini'." r.sked tho
captain.
" I - it n him down with a tiij, ami threw a
fi.-li net ov. r tiitii "
' A i ol he, a t.ioestor, i h
"A monster '. Well. I don't wnnt to give
you d;iin-nso.i,s. Three i.p..tteis were at
my house ia-t niht to get leogtli over
;.':!, breadth of beam au.t canving capacity
I'll! I :,IO I I- I I II--IU 111.
I .!!. t jtre tor
t he c lot v .! I he a o : . '.
r- .- I
I he a.i v ate . niclit of
u sin. ply desire
1. 1 lai interest of
I'o
til. S':
" ! have hcaid si'.!,.rs t. '. ; r-j K.ehig frogs
up then a- hog.- a i.aj, U, g. Inn I thought
they Wete I. lug." ld e 'et tile SlTgennt,
"Nail keg! Why, d'ye t,iipHi I'd ronm
arons,, lo-le with a liv,; w loch you could
put iMo a nail ) :
'I-suppose he'd eo tiito.n barrel," trenj-b'il-g!
leuiaiki .1 the sergi at.i.
"G.-i.r,ciii.-n. you may hav.- sailed across
Lake S: . t'la-ir," ci c.i ; . r-:i! i.-d i he stranger
l. nt it's plain to . e you never shoved a boat
l hi oitgli t be mai'slicK. v'.o.wd I fool away
time ..ii a frog no bigg,-.- than a barrel"?
WifuM a ttigln.at lia.s.- m.i-!i a frog?"
'I shoiil.ln't lie :i hit S'irprise.1 if this
frog was as large a- h gMi.-al," said the
ciplaiti. "I've si-en 'em up there even
larger than that."
"A hogsli.-'ad ! G-n' Vnioti, I see that you
don't care, lor the ti. g ; i.u are willing that
1 slioi.'.il hip it a-.vay m souih other tow n.
t f. mm t-live, p.-nt li-tiii-ii.
i "Hold on ." cri.-.l i be captain, holding out
I ,s , ls ,.i;;ar ..w,. ,M.H,.Jt. '
It von -ant thisfiog wis ts lr as a wagon
bov, I should Ik'Iii'Vh vim, for I've seen 'etii
up th.-re fniiy as huge as that. 1'iease give
the dimensions of this frog."
! The man lit his ciy.ir, look a pill lmx from
, his pocket, and shaking out a fr.,g tint three
' tlays traiistoruieii lrotn a poiiyweg, quietlv
I obset Veil :
"Gentlemen, get out ynr tap lines !"
i U lien tin y rose up he hud Vanished.
I Not a single baton met him.
I - "
T it f. Convict's Pi.t. A convict in the
Richmond (Ya.) i-ctuteot my has a rat
which he has tamed and d-urn-st Seated until
. be will cotiio to It is il when he whistles, and
' follows its mastci about like a d'. The
little ni.i'i) ! sleej s by the piisotiei's side
at night, and w ill never Ik: away fu.ru hitn
longer t !ia:i he can help. When the niau
gics to bis win k in the morning, it matter
i lod what -itio'i of th.- pi imiii lot it may
I l .1 - f. ..I f t 1...1 . -.. - . . - 7
x fa,..fui ,M1. Cf.lt!,i,,iv f-.U
, i,,w and it-main near him. The miiml
knows all of the prisoners, ami does not
; exhibit the slightest feai w hen any of them
1 approaches him. but will dart away into hi
i-oiiiOt in Lis master's c 11 at the sight of.
any one who is clothed diflereully frvui the
4 iuiuates of the piitKtu.
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