.A.tlvt;iti!iiifr Untos.
The lrre and reHa'de rir'u'n i n 'if tbetr
Rtti A r'p.rKiAN rorptnenri It to tt:.-rnvf.-it-ie r n.
deration of advert leer. v.hoe in rnrs w.l: be i
sorted lit the following low rat-ej :
1 Inrh. S time.
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I 8 month?
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" 1 Tear r.f. 00
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1 1 year 7.B
Adtn!nH:ratT"i and Kxecutur'e otices M
Auditor's Notice 1 OC
Stray and Fimilar Notices 1 H
P.us:ne-. item. tirM Inper't-m 1 jc. per line ; aah
(ut'sega'-ut insert iun he. per l-ne.
f Ja Firxoluf tons Or frOTfJait rf r.y COJ-C .!
or sorirfy. id ro-n-?' rK'iorj i.(-nij" to c tr.7 :f 'm
imi to ary intwr o lii':tfLi or 'i'i"t:vai irA'mt.
must be j'did for frer.'uemrr;f.
Job PristO'g of all kind neatly an.l cx:e1itt
ou1t cxecutr at lowest j rice?. lut't tnu l. ritit
It.
-A
H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher.
"HK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.
SI.50 and postage per year, Fn advance.
r t neet to i " ilai? 1 on the same t out in if as tnoe
wii'-i do. bet n i tact be distinctly understood
ff i-n tli: 1 'i -n- forward. .
1 - i- . ........ . rw.r V.of ,-ive vrtll alnn it. 11
VOLUME XV.
E 15 ENS BURG, PA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, ISS1.
NUMBER 43.
I ,tn it You miist. None hut geab'twusra do nth-- t
eT Hoe. I) n't no a scal-nra.. -lilo's too -hort. )
4HE CAIflBRIA FREEMAN
4 ! InMItiel ekly at
1j:ySH 1RG, Cambria Co., ra.,
JJY il. A. MI'IKE.
a watted Circulation - l,OGS.
.e.ipy. one year. cb in advance. M.riO
. .. ifnt't p'ii wiininJmos.
.i if not n'd within 6 mos. 2.nn
" " if not p'd within year.. 2.25
-J-,, norsnn) residing- outside the county
v rt a-Mitionl per year will Uc cbared to
J-l.i'tif. event will the above terms be de
- j 14-1 r! i.. an 1 livi'e who don't consult their
a io'r -t- by piyinr in advance must not
- i
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701
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Cl. 1
1. L:
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5
Scrcft!f". Jfrhhia and Srahf Jlu- j
irt'rs nf 1he S'. tti, Sffdp and I
' r.fnnd Cured.
MTiiACi Lors crni:. J
I will -::it" that 1 mndp a niini' iil"ii? cure ;
..f ffoi ti:e it 1 "?t cii's .f kin -lir-i'e known. ;
, I ifi i i'i-in tortv ve-.r "M : hnd ntf.?red
ii ji- irj H a "vi-. mt. and ne.-riy niJ en- :
mH i
ii!t.' I a triyrhtf'il :'.T.:r.-p. nan ,
i i.f tw-'lw di'i-re'it iliv?icl.m, f
1 the . t r""i"-!- Known t i the ',
i ) I I;- i-iiini. nreni'. eor- ;
t.- . -ir il. I'ii'J. I't." if:ld (I'lid .MK
: ittti-'iit with t"it little re'.ff. I pre- 1
f 4 e i
w.i.i preio
r:r.of.ion.
Milt" !!
! r medical tr
vai!e4 opon him to thelTTK-t n MtwiM
Internnllv an I the 'i ti r;t and 'ri htm oap ,
etjmallV H- ) 1 and wa mm I'-t'lu ntrrit.
The tkin'on head. fa-e. and m m -t'ler pirt? !
of hi? hody whi -h j.n-":ited a m -"t i..-it'i.me an
Prt ranee. IK now -i- :., :,i 1 -m..,.th i an infant ,
with no 9m- - tr.e of the ,!i---e !e!t hehmd. .
He has row i-. -.-ri '!' ! tw.-lve nv.iith.-. ,
Kepnrted ., ,, i
K II. Hi'.o-.vv, K .. H nwrll.S. f ,
scnoFt LA soni:.
R-r. Fr.
th- 'i--'Tcr
rrivi. .ne-'
prT-ofnlou
b' HU t .
and f'trrt
The poowi
iy driren
-. in d'-aiti
T C rXO-rior,lP With i
. km i.o ; : . i i ' t: r ;-rh f vine
. r ' : i i;- -1 '' i I'lired of a :
.-i-. tt'i: h w-w r i i 'iip. awav
:!.. ( 'i ro i i? h' r -"T vk vt i nrrm i ly
a -in ! "t tt. : v Sup externally
i; i : .14 i !! t? w.i eomplete. :
t
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;j;p,(, n n r i ;-r r 'Ti rkt nt on
r :-! 1 1 1 r : i 1 to c Kx
1 tui.r--ir p.iin :m.I :inr.'tyiin.
-Tn'Ji'-j Tith no e "-! re-'tilrj. n
t " ' K.-i r.'.' r uf'rn:i U am!
"iT'cri'.A S.)T pc,n tMy, whifh
1 - t.i.it in v j-km : - :i 5 mo. ft h ami
my Jear n-i t. M:
?ti. anl !:-
I tr;e i rn--: .
til l u- t'.f :
Cl TP TRA ; ; t .
CTtf. iroi y r -1 i : :
natunl -
5it:i
H:1tinnre.
CVTICt It. I.
i The Ctn'-u":! ?-i-:irn-nt for tie enre r.f Skin,
! S-'aip r ri Hi . .. i : - -: i - -. !:-:-- in the internal
e of Vv t.'O' !.' !-:-ol-'knt. ihe new Blood Ihiri-
i and tl '. rn.il -" of i'i rirrn v and Tti-
Sof. Mi- ?n.-at Skin ures.
' 0 of 'rs i :r.r . 'nal! l ox.'. .",;,h. : larje box
' Soa i'. 'j'.e. i'n:ir':i Smvrsi SinMac"
i'epot. KKKS x !')' fi,!;. Hi.n.n. Mi..
CATARRH.
1 RADICAL CURS!!
Compieta Treatment
For SI.OO.
' f r h- t I and voi-e. t-.i-v 'roat'iiri, .weet 3
hre.ad . I -erf -t stni-!l. last" and h arinsr. no 3
-iiv,h ii ' :-li. '.i;r.:i . no r.n hatipy !
,.(p
Toil.; ht. .'I
int in ;iie evorest 2
,.a.'il r 1'itaTii ly that :no-t a u'"e."iro.. eeo- .
ni.tnif il. - !'t' -dy ..a.e and i. vo.r 'ai 1 1 iikr ii'aMhi, 5
! !' Kai'VM. Ti:b. : .:n;d"t ann i
in ainv tr''trno-i:t. e.ni-irin s of one hottle
of th It il Ti one box of ' r arihia l .
SmvFvr an I on-' I m :m:iivko Ihlkh. all
wrai'P" d .il m:"ka.. with treatise and di-
reetiot and .... by all .trnyar-M!' lor 1. A-k a
Tor S a "in - I-.' ! 1 1 l t.'fi.i'.. !
rtii'til A- !'fTTER, 1
I'.o-rox, Mass. jj
K A TS, M
V-s '.' and Hla.'k
'3 'KLV-'tJiii'V !'KSiN'-s KXTKK-
M I N I'm. and die
No f" ir id t.-i.i rneil''.
It n-. ur inari'1? and
a-M'-hol.'- o ven el" are I in a inrle niirht. Ket
id eB" -t "ii'i k'H'r in t'le World. No lllil-i-.
in jti , .-a". F.v.-'v l.ox w rnnre.l. Sold by
I yra.-' and I r i l' " -' . A k lor PARSONS.
WI.T'.KS .s. I'dlTK.H, H '-1'in. "UaJ.
H. tRr 1'..
i For ttio e I " l" w e e U . In
SILK DEPARTMENT.
r.r, i,,t pia-k Ria
rne. 1.fv. VTS and
wo,.- Lo.... nl'io that any
. .;! . . r., oiifdiaie.
4r) ti:(- ,'ol.d.rare.l (Inini't
'i. These tro".1
who exa i" i o."-' '. "
1. ur.jw.iu i . i r-. i : -
i t Bonnet. Ilia.-k Silk-, tr. :n tip to the Itneet
- w 't'l.mn S.'tri Vert-ei!!enT. Sttin S tl rah.
A'.. nw .tii I'1r;.i.'nn V ..rv e!"" an t at ''IHI
. f2. ' ind i' "o. ttev er hef re slmivi in t'rf. market..
'ft't f 'i n e v "it i'T J. in"oo tti i c. i n it 1 1 ine
.e,io r,le ., i-i -j. a? '.o. twin e'.weand heavy.
JV., V -r Ula k onme Velweti". -7 inehoi wide, at
liltuf - ;, r-r" l':ir: tin.
I - fV. -"lie Velvets irt ffl tip to W.nn jiPT y'd.
1 i ;,; 4 i-ieh Fonie. all pure wool. In twe've
y Ji .-j. r. at .ye. a yard, open" I to-day, and the
'lw '. I .'vtT .-.t-na rv v a 1 'te evr 'oiwn a n vwhere.
- J "i-h hne Vre.ieh p---a (tor.., reeejved
It in ne it 'hek and J':.abM. at .on and
ah'" ..r full Siiif an I foreionatom".
: it l.ot ao.l eT:l'or-'e Strio ,1 ' Vovel t ie
' i : ri tuf -". Pre.-, (tood at 1"'. a vnnl no
A- - .- .
f V-rmsr !'i lto-iaetc" 'n-jr ron.! Tow.
V. k and T-t.!-.-.-: r- .... ;n Napkinn at
:" er-- an l.'ri'-n. w.-th a 1 never 1 under
r4 ' :-'i: ?en N uk nJ -'t 1 r-5
i ' II-a w 1 1 a-k IJe.j Hnr.I.'r-s. ?lze, a
1- 1 .- worth it. .-O.
K : t ;1.i 1 a . T"'. o: to f". :ier doen.
. v it v.irb of fierrrtfi Tal-l" I. in "n at "e ir
I ' -ne letm i-k T'ttrtoroa - a too-1 hnriain.
I s "f-ierv In V.tt..n. Mer'no. t't-hniere and
. n rt-.T'i and d.i'in'c!. tn.i tm ft nure. in a
f i vlety of hii..ime fy!-.-. from lOe a pair
v extra I'swlii in T.a Ct?htr.era Hoe,
-. t 4f'-. a I .air.
'Si-ret. Fo-t"- t o k. 1 fT.'t and 2: 4
TTi d-et.'.i K: 1 i i ..te--. -.1. yn'.i line Par-
Of.-ri S'na ,1 at V -pa ! I r rir'eoa.
'ai. I. -j a-me--t w ..f-ntn-ie tti hnw New
i verv .lav in r1."- no I'.il i T'lateri'tt
Z,. . f '' ':te. Jce.. n i;"w and -rai e'iil ha;ie". at pri
t I amjlnii from .1.;- up.
5;J C L ' t :. d-Hy ..p.'i..rif n-w t'.;ns in Silk. SaMn
r-B " r' -r n. Men "i i!"aa x a n I Kh .dame ' I arm en t In
1 tht new y!e and -' io ir.,a n thev fili-
3 ' i",r- ''rilroi' o! Far. I 'Pi di. Silk and Satin.
4 f. I A (!." l It artn-nt w ni v ,.f r.-a," ia :t Satin d'
Lron Ikduiot. new -! ':.. ar t- n.'iiinir, ver
fciikr: rte v,-j. w..nh - : i7 s to 42 ineh bn.t."
i Seal :.. -one-. Vr. : -7-" W : leni,th.
.t- lo. to " In.: ia.i'ii.1" u' li'in'oi. I tad prte a'.
' JP ! the lowest. p Pi-n-tir.t.,::, !' an exami
efi"on. t. '':T t-. C, T W -ear TT
Hi a,! Frdoral St.,
.! Tj Ti Eft IT EAT,
.,'1 c
S. MARTIX & CO'S.
6UPBHIQR CHACKER8
AND
.Pan Cake Flour.
Ve F'ntir i-.i'.T't trV .it name ininlior. (lonr
'ae. The di e -'.i . f .r u-e are wi h rolrl
: -i itiase a b:f..r and K.keat once
tr- If'i Tin seaH-ui its in.n h cbeairer
t he.it : . :r.
T'.fK 'R'V-KR FOS IT.-5
' i'A .Vi.fcr f'racliors,
? : ' 1 . f I : ' : ; ; S I ; f "KACKEII.S
n .s f.i: ( i; c Kia
h.i a !Af ki:rs,
v. im: ( kfiks
f -is
1 . n r..i; hny erat ker,
d- It- '; ' aT .tl T (of
:'.!. V r. .
t. . u 7 i,i)Mrly Street,
M'l.tl.-.elit,
-? IH I iril Avenue.
"2 . L " A LL GROCERS.
aelf f
I
o ni-.ttil flantiarr..
t r.p--iii'i ti.i
. I-".' - V O.kbl. cilr
.-' V. firm 1 Ark.
' i-l-!l..rW,'; Twn- Terinaand-Moatat:
I ; f. -iH 4-f-., Portland. Me.
RULING THE SPIRIT.
"He that In slow to anger l herter than the mlhrr,
and he that raleth his spirit than he that taketa
a city."
" Ilurruh for Bill ! " "Give it to bim! "
"Go it. Bill serve him riirlit! "
Thse exclaniatioup t ame from the CTonp
whitli liar el'istereel around Tom Stern ami
Bill Jones when the nc-s of a fi.rrht sproail
over the phty-frrounil, summoning the boys
to the scene "of action.
"There!" said Bill, planting a finisliinj
blow o:i his opponent's brea.-t that sent him
reeling to the ground.
The" com hat was over. Tom's mouth
was blei'tlintr; one rye was bruised and
swollen that would tell the tale for a
wet k to come.
" Bill Jones is a recular brick."
The larger boys ?v.d so, and the smaller
ones, putting their hands in their pockets
in imitation of their example, tried to loik
and believe that bein-j; a 'retrular brick
was a rood thing, though they, perhaps,
would have exchanged places" with Tom
very unwillingly at that moment when he
was picking himself up, rubbing the dirt
from his soiled clothes, and wiping the
blood from his wounded face. There was
little sympathy for him; the boys were
busy eyeing Bill and criticising Lis per
formance. Tom was slinking oil' quietly;
none of them offered to go with bim. Bill
turned, and, seeing him walking away
alone, he shouted, " I say, Tom."
Tom slopped only an instant; when be
saw who had called him, he went on, dizzy
and faint, and ran against his teacher, Mr.
ymith, before he knew what he was doing.
"What is this?" Mr. Smith asked, stern
ly: "titrhtine again, boys? Who are the
offenders this time?"
No one answered. There is a sense of
honor among boys cs well as thieves, they
say; a teM-i:tle is not tolerated. Iu this
case Mr. Smith's question was unnecearv;
Tom's disordered appearance and Bill's
torn linen co.it and red face pointed out the
combatants plainly: it was more difficult
to discover how the quarrel originated.
"Come with me, Loj-s."
Mr. Smith look r.n arm of each and led
tnem away to tits M'.Kly. leaving the others
.looking on in fiience until they were in
the house out of sight.
"Won't they catch it! Mr. Smith said
he would make tin example of the first
fellows he caught at iL"
" My father snvs every boy ought to know
bow io fight. Itow's a fellow to take care
of himself if lie doesn't "
" 1 gtiess II; !1 will be put up the spou)
this time, if he is a favorite." said another;
and each 1kv gave his own ideas on th
rtbject, and xvondered what punishment
was i:i -,ire for the delinquents.
Mr. Smith sat down in his easy-chair in
the -'u iv. teliivg the two culprits to stand
bel'iT.- him "c he could see their faces.
" Now. V. :V I'n, you can give rue an ac-
!t t 1 i.jiit. 1 tin. I 1 tiM:-' ni.ike an
up'", but it pains me exc- '".ingiy tc
h tw: of i:v tno-t jtnT.tis'tig toys.
( X
to:
ar.l thesf. two r ;',!) :-. -e 1 were linn lneiuls.
ll.r-v did it b- - ir;?''
Hill v s aa l hvtiiii time: the aulhori-
t i'iv touch '!' h's k
":) IH T s li.'ip.'l ami
his ste:i!v eve I':v
upon is mi raun'-n ins
ac -'-r; now J." "-food in silence ami siiame
before him. looking at his f.-et and the
carpel anywlp-re except in Mr. Smith's
i'ac;'.
"Out with it. I have only five minutes
to spend wiili yoii; let me hear the whole
story quickly, virhont hesitation Twill
not shv p'cvaYication. for I think neither of
you vie.", 1 1 deceive, though you ltpve dis
obeyed me."
" I think it w.;s my fault." Tom oegan.
" No, no," interrupted Bill, his rice red
dening as he spoke hastily; "I hit bim
first; I commenced it."
" Let me hear the story from you. William.
Silence, Tom." continued Mr. Smith, as he
saw Tom making preparations for a speech.
Bill looked at the carpet, then at Tom ;
he pulled t.ie sleeves of bis coal down and
his pants up; then he rubbed bis hands,
and finally burst out, " I was running over
the ball-ground; Tom saw me coming, and
tied a string jii".t across my path."
" I r d.i't." siid Tom.
"Silence!'' cried Mr. Smith. "Go on,
William."
"Then I tiir ped up, of course, and fell
down. I thought it was a mean trick I
went flat. 1 jumped up and said, ' Who
did tint?' Tom said, 'I did.' Then I
said, 'Take ihn:,' so I gave him a hit
Then he .out-led up his fist and ran into
me; ihen 1 got the best of it; that's all."
" I put t'.ic string there I didn't see him
coming I didn't mean to trip bim up,"
said Tom, quickly. "But he never a:-ks a
fellow any thing, but turns round and gives
him a lick. And how's a fellow to stand
being hit? W hat can he do if he's, got any
spirit ?"
" For shanie, boys," said their teacher.
"Here are two good friends fighting like
angry be-t.-ts l'.r nothing, wasting their
s'reugtii and iii-tc-.nper, not showing spirit,
but busing it. and teaching the younger
boys to regard this disgraceful exhibition
as a proj.tr : uow of spirit. If friendship
comes to this you are no better than ene
mies. The f.'iiit was yours. William."
" I was mud; I didn't know Tom didn't
niea-i to trip tl;0 up."
' All, it was not Thomas, but the evil
-liril which t;'kes possession of you 3-011
yieid to iis power. Some day it will gain
a frightful control. W ithin the last month,
i.i int ii.it n;s of passion, you have thrown
a stone at one boy because you fancied he
was hidinT 1h hiial a tree in order to play a
trick u; 0:1 you; an lr.kst.ind was knocked
. over some hooks when you were beside
Jotirself with r.age, and you destroyed the
! drawing-book r.f a triend. imagining he
had been making caricatures of you. This
: fiend will ruin body and soul if not
: checked. I have olf.cn spoken of this, and
yet each day I hear new proofs of your un-
governable temper. Ileuiember, my boy,
the Bible tells us. ' lie that rnh th his spirit
is bitter tii.iti he that taketh a city.' Goon
your knees and ask strength from Heaven
to overcome, this besetting, sin. I will let
conscience pnidsh you. I think it must
when you look at your friend, who will
carry the marks of this passionate out-
1 break lor some time, I imagine. In future
I shall tise harsher measures."
! Tom w as a delicate loy ; he felt faint and
dizzy. Bill's heart smote him as he glanced
j at his friend's pale face, made more so by
i the bruised eye and ghastly cut. It was
all his own fault: he had used his friend
badly enough. He pushed a hand toward
him as he muttered, " I'm sorry I didn't
know I didn't mean it"
' You never know what you are doins;;
when in passion. Go with Tom to your
room, ami strive fo gain the mastery in fu
ture over this fault"
1 The boys left the room. Mr. Smith
sighed as they closed the door. Notwith
standing William's fearful temper lie was
, a tuvoi iu; scholar, possessing many noble
characteristics, tliotieh they were ofien con
! ceajed si,. 1 overbalanced by his besetment.
Daily complaints were made against him,
which, whtij inquired into, could ail be
traced to the same cause. Mr. Smilh'scon-
j r-tant reproofs were apparently unheeded,
: but he did rot despair of convincing his
: pupil thai this dangerous enemy could be
, coutrolli d.
Tom went to his room. An hour after,
, w hen his class was called for recitation, be
, was absent, and his teacher fovnd him suf
; firing with a racing headache. When
i right came he bad a high lever, and Mr.
i t'olh appointed Wiliiam to w atch by his
; beusidc. J-Jis conscience was speaking his
; conilemn.-tion loudly as he sat there ; fear
- lid tl,' uhts were forced upon him. Sup
. po?e Turn should be very sick, or, more
j terrible yet. suppose he died ; could he ever
; forrive lomselt for his rash violence? He
j tl'otight not; we are very tender-hearted in
j cur most repentant momenta. Bill thoutrht
now he would willingly take the evil con-
hi.inNHii.. the tii.iit, anu change places
w ith his frie nd, who tossed restlessly in his
uneasy sl:mb r. His face had been band
aged, and Bill's self-reproaches cut him
most keenly wheni Tom, reaching out his
hand for a glass of wafer, said in a taint,
but kind voice, " Thank yon. Bid ; I know,
old fellow, yon didn't mem it.''
A cold shudder ran through William as
he held the sick boy's hot hand. How
vain and useless would all regrets become
if if ! I le dared not think of the w orst ;
be was learning a bitter lesson by txpe
rit nee, and resolving to take it to heart be
fore he left Tom that Dight, whosaid again,
"I'll he all right in the morning. Bill; I
know you didn't mean it."
Bill passed a sleepless night. Fortu
nately Tom was all right in the morning;
that meant his headache was over, and be
could go around with the boys, and study
as usual, though the black eye and scarred
lace remained, suggesting to Bill painfully
the incident and encounter of the previous
day.
Mr. Smith noticed Bill's contrition, and
whispered gently when he saw symptoms
of his being on "his guard, " He "that rnl
eth his spirit is greater than he that taketli
a city."
Mr. Smith noticed Bill's contrition, and
whispered gently when he saw sympdoms j
of his being on his guard, " He "that rul- I
c-th his spirit is greater than he that taketU i
a citv."
He had several sore straggles during that
day; h" hunted high and low for his slate,
and finally discovered that it had been
taken from his desk by a boy whom he
OisiiKeii. it was scratchert, and lett in an
out-of-the-way corner. This was particu
larly annoying to Bill, who was pressed
for time. When he found it his first im
pulse was to hurl it at the offender's head.
This he restrained with a great effort, and
Hie little boy escaped. Bill' held the slate
in his hand, and walked up to him with a
flaming face.
" See here, do you know whose slate this
is?" he asked fiercely. The little boy
quaked in his shoes. Bill intended add
ing, with a smart box on his car, "Take
that for your impudence."
The boy expected something of the kind
and shrank away with a frightened face;
others who were standing near, evidently
were as much surprised as the delinquent
when Bill, after a moment's hesitation,
with a great effort, only said as he walked
awav, "See that you don't touch it again,
then."
His knees trembled, but the victory was
won, at least for that time. As he was
going off he overheard one boy say in a
low voice, " Mr. Smith frightened him yes
terday, so it's taken all thestarchoutof him."
Bill's temper rose; in a moment it was
aflame. That boy should repent his speech,
be thought At that instant Tom entered
the room; Bill glanced at Tom: he was
trembling so that he sat down, with bis
back toward the boys; he dared not face
them at that moment.
Tom sat down by him; he looked at Bill.
"Uow white you are! What's the mat
ter?" he asked.
" Nothing, nothing," returned Bill. lie
could not have confessed then that the
sight of Tom's face had deterred him from
executing immediate and violent vengeance
on that boy who had roused his temper.
"Kuling the spirit" is no easy task, a
city may be taken much sooner; easier far
is it to indulge the impulse of hasty pas
sion, though it leaves us a life-long regret
These first victories were won, and Bill
began to congratulate himself upon his
success; he had overcome his temper.
When the temptation was passed it seemed
.a comparatively simple task to kcej) it
under control. It had only been the work
of a moment; but a wonderful change may
be made in a moment's time. "And let
him that standeth take heed lest he fall."
His old enemy had held him iu thrall too
long to give up his captive without a
severe struggle.
Mr. Smith saw with pleasure that Bill's
outbursts of anger were less frequent; the
lion was not changed into the lamb sud
denly, and the old spirit leaped up fiercely
at sudden provocations, battling sorely for
dominion, and was not always subdued
until Bill learned by experience that onlf
constant and careful watchfullness kept
him on his guard.
It was very hard for Bill to hear in
silence, and bear with meekness, the covert
j allusions and sneers of the boys regardincr
' his changed conduct; they were not said
; bc'.ore him, but he knew that tiiey attrilt
' uted it to cither lack of spirit, or fear of
1 Mr. Smith. This galled aud irritated him
. greatly, and bo longed for fin opportunity
of showing the fellows that he was no
; coward, a feeling which is commendable
! in any boy.
"Yes. he's ns tr.ine as a frog; he dosn't
j dare say boo to a lei low since he had his
I fight with Tom."
Bill overheard this remark one morning
as he came suddenly upon a group of boys
standing at the top of a broad flight of
stairs. His blood boiled, and turning
; quickly, he seized the speaker by the neck ;
' another moment and he would have hurled
hiin down the steps. Happily he was ar
rested lefore it was too late a band was
laid on bis arm, and Mr. Smith's voice
; said, " William, w hat are you doing? Do
; you wish to break George's neck?"
', If he had come an instant later some
! bones might have been broken. William
Stood in silence.
" I thought yon were gaining the mastery
j over your temper," added Mr. Smith, lead
' ing him away. " This one rash act would
have undone the bard work of months."
1 "The fellows think I'm a coward," re-
plied William savagely. " I'd like to show
them once I'm not one."
i " By throwing a boy down stairs, and
; maiming him, "perhaps for life, bringing
1 unavailing regret and life -long repentance
: for one passionate outbreak? No, my boy,
that would not. win their respect, and your
; "conscience will soon assure yon, if it is not
' doing so at this moment, that it is cowardly
to yield to the temptation, and give your
enemy the at! vantage. 1 do not cToubt that
, opportunities will arise when you can
I festifj' that physically you are no coward."
! "That's true enough," thought Bill,
when he was calm, and he could reason.
"What would have been the use in break
ing a fellow's arm or leg, and getting ail
the blame for it, and no credit either?
: Very brave it would have been, to be sure,
; to push a little fellow like George dow n
: stairs."
He was very much disheartened, and less
! self-con lident for some time after this. It 1
was pood for him, and put him more on j
. his guard than before, since he had felt his 1
own weakness; but the word "coward " j
still rankled in his breast as it must in j
; any boy w ho has true manliness of char- j
acter and he longed more than ever for
some opportunity of showing the boys
that he was not iudced deficient in spirit
' It soon came. One pleasant half-holi-:
day, the lioys obtaining permision to spend
! it in the woods, they resolved to go straw
, berrying, as they had been told that in a
: certain field the hemes were very plentiful.
: So they started off in fine spirits, hoping
' to find" wild strawberries as plentiful as
blades of grass. But they were disap-
pointed; there were more tiny white bios,
j soms than red berries, and searching a few
i momenta thev discovered some one had
' been ahead of them. It was evident what
were left were not worth looking after, so
; Bill proposed fishing in the brook that ran
, through the middle of the sloping field.
The proposition was well received, as
most of the party had brought their fishing
apparatus in their pockets; and as they
ran down the hill they saw sitting by the
side of the brook, under a large tree, a lit
tle girl. She seemed to be a poor child;
her clothes were very plain ; she wore no
shoes, and her old hat was torn and soiled.
" Hallo, what's tip?" called Tom.
' - She rubbed her eyes, jumped up as if
she were frightened, and was walking away
when Tom, going nearer, said kindly, " We
won't hurt you, don't run away. What's
the matter what are you crying for?"
" He's took my berries," she"said, while
the boys followed Tom to hear what she
was saying.
"Who?" asked Tom. "Who was it
took 3'our berries ? "
" There he is now, over there." She
pointed to a great boy in another part of
the field, who was stooping down, huntii"?
for strawberries on the other side of the
brook.
"Wait a minute; tell us how it hap
pened," said Tom eagerly.
" I came here early to pick some berries
for mother; she is sick and likes someThi::r
nicetoerJt. I tried all the morning sn- l
nearly filled my basket and then that big
boy over there came, and said I hadn't any
right here, the berries were on his unclt'i
field.
" It'3 a lie," exclaimed one of the bovs.
That's Mike, the butcher's son."
" So he took them away, and said i could
hunt for more one 'his side of the brook, if
I pleased, but I mustn't cross over on the
side where he is now."
"The stingy, mean fellow!" exclaimed
another boy,"Vbile the others looked at
each other, and indignantly at Mike, the
butcher's son, who quietly went on gather
ing his berrtes, and adding them to the
store he had taken from the child.
" I say, Mike," called Bill in a very lov.d
voice, and with a very red face. The l.ig
boy stopjted his work and looked over il
the group, who eyed him suspiciously. " I
say," shouted Bill, "you bring those berries
back to this little girl, or I'll make you ! "
"Will you, now?" said Mike, with a
broad grin.
"He's an awful big boy," observed the
smallest of the party, apprehensively, look
ing at Bill with alarm.
" Yes, I will," cried Bill.
Mike stood up; he put hi3 Lands in bis
pockets.
"Come on, 3-oungster; if you want 'em,
why, come take 'em."
It seemed something like the combat
between Goliath and David. Mike was such
a big burly fellow and Bill was very slim
and much younger. He did not wait to
think of this difference, or the odds against
bim; he sprang over the stones iti ;he
brook, and in a moment more he was aU
tacking the giant boy nimbly enoutrh, but
with very little chance of success.
"Won't he get it, though!" said the
smallest boy, trembling, and very much
excited.
From their post of observation the group
on the opposite side saw that Dili would
probably get the worst of the battle, lor
Alike dealt out blows like sledgehammers
with his thick fists, and, though Yjii I danced
about him and doeiged them, esi ;.t in;r
pome, he felt the full weight of others "and
fairly staggered under them.
" I'm going in this too," said Tom.
Taking off his coat, he jumped over the
brook and ran behind Mike, making an
attack in the rear just as the butcher's son
was saying, "Ah, youngster, you've got
most enough of this, haven't you, I'd like
to know, now? "
"No lie hasn't," screamed Tom; "what
one can't do two may be can."
The unexpected assault from an unpre
pared quarter startled Mike, and threw him
oil" his guard and on the ground in a few
moments, when the two boys, securing ihe
basket of berries, returned to the opposite
bank w ith their spoil, the trophy of their
victory.
" Three cheers for Bill! three cheers for
Bill! "called the little boy, while all joined
in heartily. He bad not been cheered
since the day he fought with Tom, and the
Bound was not unpleasaut to Bill.
" And three cheers for Tom ! " he added.
"Ah, you little wasps," cried Mike, shak
ing his fist at them angrily from his seat
on the ground ; "come on one at a time,
you votin g scamps, and I'll shake you well."
" W'e an't coming one at a time" though."
called the small boy, as Tom handed the
berries to their owner, antl, fearing -Mike
might wreak his vengeance upon her, they
formed a guard and marched with her un
til she was safely home, Tom calling oi:1
to the crest-fallen Mike as he left " If you
flare to touch this little girl I'll tell Squire
Morse you said he was your uncle."
Mike made no answer. He was a boy
who, if once put down, did not get up
again easily.
Mr. Smith did not hear of this occur
rence until long afterward, and then he
said, " I have heard of your fighting again,
William."
, There was no severity in the tones of the
' voice and no reproach in his glance, when
j Tom added, " Yes, and I helped him field
: that battle too."
1 "Aud by this time yon have learned
i that a violent spirit and passionate temper
I Can be curbed and held in and not broken :
a violent temper can become a furious, im
perious master, but if controlled may be
trained into a useful servant. Let us al
ways try to be very certain that we are not
on the side of wrong before we indulge in
1 vlia' we may ct iuer as righteous zeal."
; "ile wasn't on the wrong side in that
i battle. Tie fellows ail call bim the cham
pion of flic school ever since his rig't.t with
i Mike," said Tom.
"The champion of right would be a br-t-trr
antl more dcsin;l!e"tite for oi)-," an
rwered Mr. Smith, kindly. " In this case
! lie honestly earned it, however; we will
, not dispute his right to the title, and trust
' be may always lie able to maintain it
throughout lite. When we have gained
j the great victory over ourselves, and have
: learned to rule our own spirits, we wiil
find ourselves better prepared to battle with
. the wrong and protect the right" the en j
The Inrlian "vTho Did It.
A den!
nier 111
liar 1 war
on J'-ffe. aan
avenue, says the Detroit Free Pi'.,
has iiad a straw cutter standing- on he
w alk in front of his store for som- da s
past to catch the public eye, and yes
terday forenoon two boys liseove"P ! it
and had considerable sport f e-Hn r
papers under the knife. They were
still at work, one at the w heel and the
ot her feeding- all the old paoers he 0. 'til l
find, when along- came three (1: nada
Indians with something less then a
thousand baskets bitched to them. Tbey
werc evidently father, mother and
son. and when they saw the straw-cutter
at work they came to a dead liali
and exhibited gTeat curiosity to know
how the old thing c' ewed up papers in
that manner. After some conversation
between them the Indian put dow : is
basket and made a closer in-peet "u.
The lxiys fell back to give hitn a f ur
show, and as he picked up a long s rii
of paper the squaw began turning- toe
wheel in about 4-6 time."
The machinery worked beautiful, and
a grin of quiet delight had just cotv-mt-nced
to spread over the red man's
face when the end of the paper ;
reached and the knife sliced IV the
end of his forefinger. There was j.?st
one how l, neconipanied by a jump three
feet high. When the Indian lan l'-d ho
was as silent as the grave und ns
straight as a bean pole. He looked
from his finger to tint straw-cut er and
back, took in the general lau;ri) from
the sidewalk without giving himself
away, and with the ttirrnity of a S :i an
he walked oyer to his baskets, resinned
his load, and marched off witM his
wounded hand in his pocket and his
nose set on a bee-line for home.
Liver pads nr of recent inven'ion
but foot pads bare been known for
nir-.nr rears.
PATTY'S SURPRISE.
HOW IT WAS THAT TiOB CAME BACK HOME
AT LAST.
Among the bills beyond the eastern line of .
the corporation limits of the city there are !
very many quietly picturesque bits of
scenery. Narrow lanes wind down the steep j
slopes of the hills, or stretch through the lit- :
lie valleys. Th-y pass by a low-roofed ram- j
bling farm house ; just beyond they cross a j
merry, rippling brook or a mnre pretentious .
stream wi'h all the dignity of a plank bridge: f
past thrifty orchards and well cultivated
fields ; through tracts of heavy woodland j
bearing all the evidences of being the ;e- i
mains of the great forest that once robed all :
these gToat bills : in among the houses of '
little village and then to the country side ;
again tl. roads and lanes go on intermin
gling and crossing each other, but leading
further and further away from the bustling .
town. ;
In the summer time, a couple of hours' '
drive in this direction will show the weary
city man that be has close- at band an Area- '
dia. where fhe bees hum so busily amongst
the clover, the birds sir.gso sweetly, and the '
wild flowtrs are as lovely in the umtramel- ;
led grace as in the primitive, imaginary land
that Sir Philip Sidney snr.rr of in the days of !
gorl Queen Bess. Nature is pure and com- .
parativelv undefiled here, to be surp, but
mankind is ,y no means pastoral amongst ,
the vallt-v. ne is too near the city not to !
be contaminated by the lesson it teaches, and
if is of tb's discordant element in the other-
wisp harmonious scene that this brief story
is to be told.
On rue of the country byways that have
been spoken of which of them and where ;
it is located on the map matters not is a
wp bit of a cottage, a perfect nest of a home.
An orchard that ante dates by many years
the house, sprrounds it on two sides, and on
the others are a garden, and a neat piece of
lawn with tiny flower beds breaking the
smoothness f the sod. Bachelor's buttons,
maiigolds, 1 g, purple-eyed pansics grow in
the bees, ns do also several largp bollyboeks
and dwarf r.sters, which bear their burden of
white hooms until the heavy frosts blight
them. Mort.jng-oinry and nasturtium vines
grow tin around the windows of the house
end cling to the pil'ars and railing of the lit
tle porch that loons out upon the road.
For years this lias been the home of n mod
est fnm:!v mother, son and adopted daugh
ter. The husband and father died more
than a dozen years ago, leaving his wife a
btt'e farm and a sum of money well inves
ted in stocks and securities. With the aid of
bet s.oi Hob and a hired man. who bad heen
upon the place for a number of years, Mrs.
Lonely ( which is not her name) managed to
live tpiite comfortably. Rob was restless as
a boy and ''isoonrentod as a youth. Like
thousands of others, be did not care for the
'arm, v.-pb its simple, unpretentious home
life. lie visiter", the ojty as often as oppor
tunity to, st nted itself, and grow to long for
the eveit. tio.nt which he found there. Af
ter he wa - of age, one day be came back to
the f.-rto from town in a state of great ex
citement. A friend of his. hp said, bad gone
to a great F. ' stern citv, whore he bad secur
ed a ocsition in a niercbnntile establishment.
He bad aect mpli-bed much in the way of
s(.'r--iilvanc"inent, ami he had come back to
Pitt-i nrgh on a short visit. He met Boh
and told him that Iip too could pcnre a po
s:,i"n under the Eastern firm, and if it was
was d'-sired. arrangement would be made at
once. Poor M rs. lyonely protested and pray
ed that R"b would not leave her, but be in
S'sti'il upon trying the new life and it was
final' v settled that he should go. Only a
short tiw- before this a little girl bad been
bft f-iVr! ss and motherless near the farm,
and M,-s. Lonely took her as her own. She
wits only fi-nr or five years old and was call
ed Patty because it was not thought right to
, fisk the elii'd to carry about the widght of
the name id Patricia, which was the only en
during II ing her parents had given her. be
; sides life. Rob told his mother that Tatty
i would take ' is place and that he would pay
flying visits home as often as possible. He
1 went awav one chill afternoon in November
I ai d the mother's eyes were filled with tears
I that a el.ib Xovem'.ter rain could not have
1 dimmed to r sight more completely. Rob
wrote fiotn his new place of residence as
soon be arrived ami liis letter was full of ad
j jcetivi'sni'.d nthusiasm. Roh had been sup-
piied wi'h c oney when be left, but promptly
i wrote for more, sayinalthat unusual and un
expected expense? had exhausted his stock.
From one ;i week the letters from Robdrop-
; ped off to 01 ce a month and then once in
' three mot tbs. When they did come they
! spoke r.f the writer's prospects being bright,
1 and then crme descriptions of rich friends
; and foshi.insble girls, and invariably at the
S close was a request for money. Several
i years went 1 v and Rob did not come home,
1 When the no ther wrote to ask Hob why he ras greatly startled as the wheels made '
j did not pay the promised visit to the farm he , no noise : but at once I took about half a
j always gave some excuse. The reason most : dozen steps toward the eariiaoc to see w hat
i frequently given was that he was so haul at. , it meant, when I distinctly recognized the
1 work that it was impossible for bim to leave occupant as my grandmother, whom I had
j without sacrificing his position. He said he left perfectly well at Cht Iteiihatn a few days
! bad been persuaded into making some in- ! before, also her eo.icliunn ami footman 0:1
! to making s me investments, and this had ! the. box. I at once vaulted over the tails op
j taken all the money be had made in the bus- j posite the carriage. At the same moment it '
I iness and n.ore too. The mother cried at struck me as most out of the way that an old !
J night when sin was all alone, but she sold i lady of K4 should bring all her belongings i
! stocks and mortgages and sent the money to j from Cheltenham to Brighton without in- j
i Rob until In r income was s cramped tnat forming her relations of the more. As I j
j she could send no more. Little Tatty bad j touched the ground I made one step forward !
! dim and misty recollections of Rob, but she ! to greet her, when to my horror the whole '
j heard so much about hiin from the mother ; thing vanished. 1
! that she often asked wc.ndeiinE;!y when i When I recovered myself I went straight !
j ' Wi.li" vv uid come home. Ar.d then the 1 home and told the whole circumstances of j
I mother would say that be would soon come, j the case. Of course, every one laughed at ;
i although her heart often asked the same ; nie, and told me that it was fortunate that ;
! question am! her fears in answer responded 1 there were witnesr.es who could speak to my '
j "lb-never will come." i perfect sobriety. I was very put out, and '
1 One day a 'etter came from Rob asking for j hardly slept all night. Early next morning '
a large mho i f money immediately and say-
ing that be had the most urgent need for it.
Mrs .Lonely was irightened and went to the
citv to see t! e old lawyer to whom her hus-
band h;ni a. 'vised her to turn in time of need.
She did u 1' lo to him for advice as to wheth
er to send it or not, for it never occurred to
her to refuse it, but ready money in so large
an ainoi.n, was not at her command and she
wanted to know how to get it. The l.iwver
listened to 1 er story quietly and then ad
vised her not to send the money. He talked
so earm si 'y and t. -'.'.oh good purpose that at
last Mrs. Lonely agreed to refuse to send the
money until he told her why he wanted it
The only r.n-werwas a hasty note written
by pened tr- m Rob, saying lie was going
away on a business trip and could not write
for some time, in conclusion Rob asked his
mother not to write as tie might miss the let
ters. This seemed very strange to the moth
er h; her qui.t borne, but she supposed Bob
kr.c-V best ar.d she kept the trouble locked
up in her own breast for many weeks. Not
more than a couple of months ago a letter
came to Mrs. Bonely addressed in an unfam- !
iliarhand. The exact contents of the letter :
are known only to her who received it, but
the purport was to the effected that for a long
time Rob had been leading a fast life, bad
gambled and associated with men without ;
principle and woman without morals. He
sank in this way all the money he had earn- ;
ed and all his mother had sent him, and fin- '
ally losing some money at cards, which he
could not pay, be had taken several hundred :
dollars belonging to bis employers and had
disappeared. The firm did not care to push :
the case against Rob, and if the amount of 1
the defalcation was paid nothing further
would be said. The lawyer in the city who !
had been called upon by Mrs. Lonely for ad
vice, received a letter from her ordering him
to a send a certain amount of money to an
Eastern firm at once. For a week the neigh
bors thought the widow was away from
home, because she was notto'te seen. Then
they found she was sick and had grown thin ;
and pale and nervous. Patty was very much
worried about the mother's il'ness and her
changed appearance, and as sue was quite a
big girl she wondered why Rob did not
come home to s,.p bis sick mother in spite of
all the demands of business. When she ask
ed why Rob did not come, the mother began
to cry and put her arms around Putty and
sobbed and sobbed: but did not answer.
One morning last week Pnttv came run-
, ning into the kitchen with eyes wida open
j with terror and said a strange man was ly-
ing on the front porch. Mrs. Lonely went
; to see who it could be and found it was only
a tramp. Tie was so dirty that one scarcely
tell his original color, his shoes were full of
holes, his hat was w a'her-benten and bat
! tered. A muddy, drabbled, ragg", eoatand
: vest were all the clothes he had and they
i smelt strongly of liquor. II" lay with his
bead on the threshold of the ih-or and his
1 bat partly drawn over h's f ice. He wassnor
i ing loudly, and was evidently sleeping 01T
. his potations. Tatty followed Mrs. Lonely
I and she thought the stranger was the ugliest
and dirtiest man she had ever seen She
saw the mother bent over the man and then
beard her scream, and saw her wind her
arms around him, and lift his head un and
; kiss him. Poor little Tatty did nrit under
stand it until she heard the mother say "My
boy. Oh, my poor, poor boy. My dear Rob !"
and then she opened her eyes wide and said:
" Roti has come at last." Pirtahurn Pus'..
Takinc His Fathfh's Advice. Not long
ago a young man in Carson got married and
started for California with his young wife.
As hp boarded the train his father bade him
eood-by anil gave him bis paternal bltssing.
"My son," said the aged sire, shaking with
emotion, etc., "remember these wojds if you
npver see me again. Never grt into a place
where yon wouldn't take your wife."
The couple settled in Mariposa county, anil
last wpek the old man went down to visit
them. They proposed a bear hunt, and they
were fortunate enough to track a grizzly to
his lair among some boulders in the chnppar.
al. As the two approached, the bear roused
up and sent forth a growl of defiance that
shook the 'roes.
"Go in th"te and kill 'im," sail the old
man, excitedly.
The son held back, further acquaintance
with the bear seeming in some respects un
desirable. "Count me out," said he.
"Have 1 crossed the seas and settled in
America to raise a coward?" said the old
man, brandi.-hing the gun.
"I recollect your advice when I left Car
son," was the reply. "How can I forget
your sage precepts? Didn't you tell nevfi
to go where I couldn't take my ife ? Now,
how would Sal look in there with that bear ?"
The old man clasped his dutiful son to his
, bosom, ami as the bear issued forth he ex
claimed :
"Speaking of Sallie, let us hasten home.
Our prolonged absence will cause her need
; less alarm."
I In about fifteen minutes they had reached
the raiie'i. the old man a little ahead, and the
distance was about four miles.
A Srxori.AR Ghost Stout. prcv;..us to
Nov. T, lSiib, I ahviiys laughed at the l-are
idea of ghosts. I was staying lit Brighton on
the day mentioned with some friends who
were about to proceed abroad. Two ladies,
a cousin, and myself went out to dine at
Keniptown. It beinga most charming moon
light night I told mv friends I sh-utld prefer
waiking home to Brunswick square (the
other end of the town ). I accordingly pro
ceeded on the seaside of the E-planade.
When just opposite the Bedford hotel a car
riage and pair of horses drew up abingsidt
: the rails with two men on the box and an el-
j derly lady inside. ;
j We received a telegram that my p:or old i
j grandmother had been found dead in her bed j
j at 7;,,r) o'clock that morning. i
. n
1 Don't Mention It. A citizen of Detroit
j entered a Michigan avenue grocery the oth
i er day and said be wanted a private word
j with the proprietor. When they had retired
to the desk he began : 'T want to make coti-
' v
fession and reparation. Do you remember
1 -
of my btiyinc sugar hero two or three days
ago?" "I do.
i.11'tl ' -a.
lien, 111 pi.yi.ig utr li. t
worked off a counterfeit quarter on the clerk,
It. was a mean incK, aim 1 come 10 tenner
yoa good money." "Oh, don't mention it,"
replied the grocer. "But I want too make it
ah right." "It s all right ad right- W e j
knew w ho passed the quarter on us, and thaj ;
afternoon when your wife sent down a $1 j
bill and wanted a can of sardines, I gave her
that bad ouarter with her chance. Don't let
you're conscience tiouble yoa at all it's ail
"right. Detroit Free JVcss.
MEN OP I P,Ol'Mi:i STOM Vl'IIS.
True gluttony, like "true charity, hath no
locality, no tone provincial, no peculiar 1
garb." From the period of the Roman Em- ;
pire down to the present day there 's a i
bright roll of magnificent or niere'y mighty ,
feeders, a glance at which is not without in- ;
terest. It is not very easy to classify the ;
gluttons of classical times, for between the
man who merely feeds and corisnmos an im
mense amount of provind r an 1 the man ;
who squanders a largf fortune on expensive !
meals there is or may be a vast difference. j
For instance. Vitelline who Mr. Silas Wegg !
very properly named Yittle-us spent t nod- ,
000 a month for seven months on bis table.
When the number of convives is considered
and the pricp ,f the dishes a ton of rare
fish and three and a half tons of rare birds at
one banquet, in days when fanciers ta:d
?oJ" for a rnd mullet and St- apiece f or iig
eons, the expenditure may not seem exces
sive. A man plight eat r.f a S'.vnon dis'i of
birds' tongues, yet not be. in the strict sense
of the word, a glutton, and nighfptica'es
tongues. th- brains of pheasants and pea- ''
cocks md the roes of the rarest and most
delicate fishes were not only favorable, bnt
common dishes among the elite and imneria!
Romans. Heliogobalus is ereditpdw ith spend
ing fioii.ooo at one sun-rer and Nero with
eating a dis'i cotina j -i.orwi and washing
it down with a bumper still more costly, but
this roves nothing, unless it be the sheer ;
idiocy and wastefulness of the convives. A
different aspect is touched upon when the
question is approached flow did they rat ?
And when it is stated that Vents increased
the number of guests from nine to twenty,
and made his supper coterminous with the
dark, that Nero sat at table twplve hours,
that Tiberius and Vitellius sat there all the
time they were not in bed that Commodus
nto in his bi'h. and tbnt Domifian carried
round a c!assic:.l t-s-roUvjeb to stay his hun
ger between meals, it must be admitted that
most of tliett noble iiiner wete gluttons.
Maximinian, who ate forty pounds of meat
and drank five gallons of wine at a r"past,
could, at least, allege his size. Not so the
average glutton not so, indeed, the modern
glutton. Thus only a few months ago there
died at Kingston, in this State. Mr. Alexan
der (irant. familiarly known as fhe "Kin
derhook glutton," who without any incon
venience would devour twenty pounds of
solids at a sittinc. washed down by not less
Iban a gallon of milk and coffee. We read
1 that "five pounds r.f beefsteak were regarded
, by him as but an appetizer, and unless such
side dKhcs as a half peck of potatoes, a
whole boiled cabbage, a h"g pie, and a com
plete pudding were provided also be insisted
that he hail only lunched." Though be has
; left us, ar.d his loss we deonly feel, we are
not without some consolation in the fact
that 'Squire Carey still is left us 'Squire
farcy, of Walki!!, whom his admiring
friends dub "the man with the rubber stom
ach." A despatch of recent date informs us
that the squire "swallowed a half-gallon of
ovsters anil four laige p'ates of crackers.
lie then offered to eat six quarN more of
oysters if any one would pay for them, but
his offer was not accented. It is said that at
tine sitting Carey lias eaten 4oo clams and at
r.notlier a half barrel of sheii oysters." As
compared with him maybe cited Mr. "Rom"'
Lawson, of Aliens-.ille, N. C, who on elec
tion day last year ate "lb; quarters mutton.
1 biscuits, 1 pound ean-lv, g half-grown
chickens, ."i herrings, 1 loaf corn bread and'a
piece of shoat supposed to weith about 1
pound, drank .1 quaits of water and said lie
hadn't cat half enough. He then (Tered to
bet be could throw any man or lift more
with a hand-stick than any man on the
grotiTid, In order to show his strength he
took a man that weighed 200 pounds and
carried him about over the ground in bis
teeth. lie then went up to another table
and called for a .".."-cent snack." Mr. Law-
son has an honorable rival in Mr. .Tolma
Joynes. a gentleman weighing fj.'-o pounds
and owning to sixty summers, wlio list
summer sat down to dinner rt Onancock.
Acccmao county, Va.,and ate fifteen pounds
of pork, twelve links of Bologna sausage,
souse from one large bog, one large goose,
one full-grown chicken, one peck of sweet
potatoes, one dozen I arc.' biscuits, one iarge
mince-pie and six cups strong coffee. Mr.
Joynes sat down fo this repast at 1 o'
clock, and at i 1 had disposed of evcry
articie nntned. picked the "nones of the fowls
and taken a glass of egg-nog. Not long ago,
in Tatis. a gentleman known as the J.ickal,
on n wager, ate 4' j feet of blood-pudding in
twenty minutes, washing it down with half
a gallon r.f win", thus proving himself wor
thy to sit down at the Gargantuan n-na? in
Fiji, at which, according to Miss Gordon- ;
Cnmmiug, one see? served twenty pnddines, ;
the largest leing twenty feet in circumfer- !
eiice. 1
James 1. treated the question of c'nttony
from a harshly practical standpoint, when a ,
distinguished citizen having been presented
to bim who ate a sheep at a meal, but could
do no more than folk who contented them
se'ves with a solitary cu'.b t, be de.-ired the '
execution of the man as "one that eats as
much a twenty men but cannot do the work
of on"." What could be have done w ith
Clociius Alpinus, who devoured a oushel of
apples at once, and for a breakfast rendered
account of finn figs, ion peaches, 10 melons,
20 pounds of grapes, 4tX oysters and loo
gnat-snappers 0 Or with Tbagon, that dis
tinguished subject of Aurelianus, who man
aged at a single meal to eat a bear, a sheep
and a pig, with loo loaves of bread and three
gallons of wine? Hardicanute, James's
predecessor, earned honorably the title of
Swinestnoulh, though be sa'i-fied himself
; with four meals a day. One Mallet, a coun-
sellor-at-la w of the time of Charles I., quite
ecTpsed Haydn or the riii-cr customer of a
Paris cafe mentioned in a recent issue of
: 77e irerW, as on one occasion be ate a din-
1
j r.er provided in Westminister Hall for thirty
1 people, and, his practice not proving equal
j to hi desserts and the preliminary courses,
had in l is old age to content himself with
I banquets of beef-heart and liver. Nicholas
, Wood, of Harrison, in Kent, was justly incb.i
j ded among Fuller's " Worthies," among bis
claims to fanip being the deglut ition at one
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1 meal of a whole sheen, at aipdher of e'0
pigeons, at another of sl rabbits, at another
..;,..,, ..rovided for thirty me;, at
j ft f)fth of ,.lK,.,u.pn yards of blood pudding
and at a sixth of a whole hog, accommodated
w ith three peeks of da:n-on plume. Master
j xu.,1( ,,as h;ul n w f.0B.SM,n a very narrow
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escape. According to Taylor, the v ater
Poet, if he had not been scrupulously an
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nointt-d with oil and butler ne wonm un-i.
) i,ave iiei1. but Sir Wartiam St L ger nursed
him round, and then put him in the stocks.
"Two lclns of Trr .tton and one torn of rea
i - J
were but as three sprats to this eater " Af
ter all. he was perhaps outdone by the ':s
tinguished boor who vis.'ted tue camp of
Charles Gu4tavas, offerim; to eat a pig by
way of pa ing bis fm.t ire, and when t.etier-'
al Komgsnnuk denounced hitn as g sore, rer,
volunteered to at the General would h" but
lay o;T his sword and spurs, opening so large
a mouth that the General, one of the heroes
fif his time, took to hi hci N and ran. .V. T.
H'ori.
THE BAMvEirs ( I.f Ilk.
There is a eiy amusing story told of a
bank president who ued t have hisch tks
watched by a detective after office hours, so
that be could keej himself properly posted
as to any fact which might render any out of
them liable to approptiate funds H-longing
to the bank. He had hauled, up several of
the clerks about their improper and trav
agatst expenditures, and was, as the tory
goes, sitting in bis private office waiting the
appearance of the new at -si-tant receiving
teller. Ferdinand Algernon ere de Yere,
who had been duly shadowed and repotted
on by opt -rativrt P. ., of Judas A Ge!.ai's
secret service. The clerk having ent-ted
the president' office, was accosted with :
"Voting man, wh it is your salary ?"
"Nine hundred, sir, and 1 can st Jt. ( ;y
live on t bat."
"No. I should guess not. I suppose you
know I am a cautious man, and now 1 will
say that from inquiries made touching your
habits, 1 have been led to form the opinion
that you are spending lm ni-y aitogcthtr too
fast for the trusted employe of a wealthy
bank. Now, do not defend yourself. Let
me tell yna where you went last evening.
You left this oillce at tour p. M , and with
the messenger waiktd into the 'Pearl' ami
drank brandy smash. You played billiard
fioiu thirty-seven minutes pnst lour to forty
two minutes past six r. m., and dined on
Blue Points and prairie chickens and Impe
rial. You went to see Aimee itn.peraboi.8e,
went out several times between the not-,
and before the piece was through ymi walk
ed down and lost tr,.j at keno. Yuu -al 1
keno was a foolish game ami you could not
see any fun in it, nftt r which you drowned
your sorrow in several juleps, and took the
thirty minutes past one owl tar for your
room on North E cu-nth street. Now, I
want to know if vwi think tiiat proper con
duet for the servant of a bank like tin-
Now. the other clerks, 011 arriving at this
point, laid one an 1 all admitted the truth (if
the operative's report, and, after lagging
fornivene-s, bad premi-ed immediate and
s'.ib-tantiiil reform. But this eleiia. was
uinde of different stuff ; and sai 1 :
"I don't think anything at 11 -i about it.
That report i- a tissue (.f idi-ciioods from
beginning to end, and a- I happen to know
was made by Jim Muggins, au ex-convict
and a son of a thief.
If jou want to know bow I -j.end uiy
evenings 1 shall be plent-d to inform you,
sir, at any aud ail limi t., but uow this rua'.U-r
of fidelity to the corporation l as conic-up,
let me read to you, sir, mv -.peeiai agent's
repoi t of how you -pent e-; ld.iy afternoon.
At two o'clock jou met the notary ol the
bank and told him to send around the re
bate on hi- co!ii:uis-!oii b...r the j ear, aud he
met yen at the Jim Lruw -a.oon a line i.iter
and gave y ou t i;.li;, for w hi -li y on thanked
hiin, and told bim the !:r-tor wci'.-.i not
change ti;eir notary (or the pre-eio. Then
on leaving the bank y ou met Betti -sm, the
contractor for the -done and brick work of
thrf n 'w bank buiidinu, and he handed you
a parcel and said 'here's jour whack of the
divvy,' at which you siuiicd und invited him
to drink. Ile declined. At seven p. M. you
toid your wile that there was a luceting (if
bank jirer-ideiits at the Liinlell that night,
and you wouldn't be home t;ll lute. But in
stead of going to the hotel, you went to a
bouse (.11 Walnut street, near Twcn'y second,
where you passed the evening w ith the pret
ty widow you cell Lena,' first giving her a
watch and chain, isith the observation that
you had promised j our w ife a watch l-.-ng
ago ami hadn't given it to her yet. You
reached home about half past twelve A . M.,
and hud to ring ' bell because you had
dropped your larch V."y on Lena's carpet.
You were surj tised dining the night by
burglars, to whom Lena h.ni given the key
to your house, and while they h nothing
(tf value because your dog -cared them off,
you weie so angiy timi you complained to
the Chief of Po.ice that the poiie"uiiiu on
your beat was of 110 account, whereas yoa
were yourself to blame. And then "
"That wiil do," said the president '1
see you are a smait young man. It is not
nect'--aty to discuss these trivial matters.
By the way, what did you say your salary
was?"
"Nine bundled, sir."
"Weil, it wiil be 51, Son after this, and IJ
make you cashier as soon as old Kie;ter
goes on his m xt drunk."
"Thank you, sir."
"Oh, that's nothing to be thankful for.
Ju-t go along and attend to your woik, and
1,11 take care ol you. And by the by, y.or
, needn't say anything to the other clerks
: alniul my foolisliue-s with that widow."
And the clerk sailed out.
' Local Papei-.s. The Frimrr' C.tch'ir
' makes the following sensible suggestions
concerning the important institution, the lo
cal newspaper :
i "A large portion of the people do not Ling
to support tin ir local papers, yet reap ti e
bent tit every day of the editor's w uk. A
' man will say, "Advertising does n..t pay in
: bii-ine-s : I "nave to keen men on the road,
and get uiv custoineis t,v ui-i oc alter tuem.'
And yet tne fact i- that ihe town iu w hich t
does "business would be unknown, the rail
road ovt-r whi h he sh.ps his goods would be
unheard id, if it were not lor llie newsjiaiter,
: which he says does liiui uu good.
"The l.x'al paper is ot advantage to every
' nun in the coinm ju'.'y, and when a msi re
f j-es to contribute to'the s ipj- rt of the pa
per on the .round Unit it -din-- him i; g
be might iti-t a- well refn-e to pay iu- tn'-
lor the support oi the court- am! Hie jto,na
to-ce. on the ground that be doe- not break
the law and d-H-s not need any j.oav-e oiheers.
' There are men who beueve themselves t" be
hone-t and piou-. who ate doing Itu-.ntSs m
every community, and every day appro;. nav-
ting to
nu n's I.1
new spa;
their own u-e i:;e nun- in ecirr
purs iy reaping the benett of the
1 without con'.riautum a --n to
.rt, ami yet they would te terribly
I o- -ti'i" '
n.v, ted f tnev slioum lie cuargeo wi n-iesi-
big weed from tiieir neigboots. T. at ihe
iii7ncip e is just the same, tne only d .TVrem-o.
bei'i" that in one ca-e the law can icii -li
theim and in the other it cann-d : but. moral
ly, it
v...ir
it is just as d'.-honcs t- steal the fiu::ot
ir iieigiiuor's enterprise a- ' st-.ii In- lutvl
or chicken's. Too mueU cre.ui canuin it
given the weekly p.-.p-r f-'r the w-rk it has
done and is stiu doing for the belief:! ol tne
country."
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