1 Want to be a braneor.
Western papers hve amusement over the
aaiietr of politician* there to learn ways agri
ealtnral. Hers is some poetry one .of the p*
per* publishes. Uie verses supposed to hare
been sang by a Vocal politician :
I want to be a granger.
Aud with the grangers stand
A horny-headed farmer.
With a haystack in my hand.
1 toneslh the tall tomato tree
I'll awing tl>e glittering hoe
And smite the wild potato-bag
As he skips o'er the snow.
I've bought myself a lhitiham rain
And a gray sljwca cow.
k lock-stitch Osage orange hedge,
And a patent leather plow.
The Shoemaker's Sting.
The shoemaker eat at his leathern bench.
And sang as lie pegged hie shoe;
lie worked and sang aud sang and worked.
While he drew the war ends through,
Perchance his song was not SO weet
As the nigliliugalc'a sweetest trill;
But he worked as he sang and sang as he
worked.
And sang and worked with a will.
was not of iove and t upid's jwcsr
Thai the shoemaker gaily sang;
But he worked as he sang and sang a he
wMrke.l.
While the shop with the echoes rang.
Uo did aot sing to Italian strains—
Thoss words that none can tell 1
But he beat the tune to his own heart • rhyme
With the hammer that rtse aud fell.
The words that he sang are known to all.
Aad are known the old world through ,-
But hule he dreamed of his cowing fame
As he sang and pegged his shoe.
He had left the door of his shop ajar.
For a breath of ooohug hreese.
That niurmtiring sighed in the forest wide.
Of the gently whispering trees.
From the clover red ui ita cnuis.ni bed.
The fcrcwas us fragrance bore.
And swept it along with the stream of song
That flowed from that opea door.
And this was the song that the shoemaker sang.
As he sang aud pegged his shoe.
While a fly lit on the end of his nose
As he drew the wax ends through.
His han.is were full and he could not stop.
So what to do was he ?
Than he sang ut the words that echo yet—
"Shoo, fly I don't bother me."
And be beat the time, in a of ehime.
And hts hammer that rose and fell;
And the words of his song were borne along
Wherever the brceres swell.
When now so soon ths sun of June,
And summers sultry sky.
Shall work em man the curse and ban
By hanging back the fly.
Then whereso'er the breezes swell.
On land or o'er the sea,
His sang shall nee in countless cries -
" Shoo, fir ! don't bother me."
AN UNINVITED GUEST.
It was nearly three o'clock on a hot
summer's day ; the long polished coun
ters of our "bank were crowded with
customers ; money was flowing in and
running out in the usual business-like
manner. From a raised desk in my
E'vaie room, I, the manager of the
yal Domestic Bank, looked out on
the busy scene with a certain pride and
Eleasure. The Royal Domestic is net a
>ng established institution, and, with
out vanity, I may say that much of its
prosperity and success is attributable
to the zeal and experience of its mana
ger. In corroboration of this statement,
I might refer to the last printed Report
of the directors—laid l>efore the share
holders at their annual meeting—in
which they are pleased to say But
after all, perhaps I might be thought
guilty of undue egotism and conceit,
if I tepeat the flattering terms in which
they speak of me.
A elerk puts bis head inside my door.
"Mr. Thrapstow, sir, wants to speak to
you."
" Send him in, Roberts," I said.
Charles Thrapstow I had known from
boyhood. We had both been reared in
the same country town. The fact that
his parents were of considerable higher
social status than mine, perhaps made
our subsequent intimacy all the
pleasanter to me, and caused me to set
a value upon his good opinion greater
than its intrinsic worth. Thrapstow
was a stockbroker, a very clever, posh
ing fellow, who had the repntation of
possessing an excellent judgment and
peat good luck. At my request, he
had brought his account to our bank.
It was a good account; he always kept
a fair balance, and the cashier had
never to look twice at his checks.
Charlie, like everybody else in busi
ness, occasionally wanted money. I had
let hum have advances at various times,
of course amply covered by securities—
advances which were always promptly
repaid, aud the securities redeemed.
At this time he had five thousand pounds
of ours, to seenre which we held City of
Damascus Water Company's bonds to
the nominal valne of ten thousand.
My directors rather demurred to these
bonds, as being somewhat speculative
in nature; but as I represented that
the company was highly respectable,
and its snares well quoted in the mar
ket, and that I had full confidence in
our customer, our people sanctioned
the advance. I had perhaps a little
uneasy feeling myself about those
bonds, for they were not everybody's
money, and there might have been
some little difficulty in finding a cus
tomer for them in case of the necessity
for a sudden sal a.
Thrapstow came in radiant. He was
a good-looking fellow, with a fair beard
and moustache, bright eyes of bloish
gray, a nose tilted upwards, giving him
a nancy, reaolute air. He waa always
well dressed, the shiniest of boots, tiie
most delicate shade of color in his light
trousers and gloves, the glossiest of
bine frock coats, a neat light dust-coat
over it, a bine bird's-eye scarf round
his throat, in which was thrust a mas
sive pin, containing a fine topaz, full of
lustre, and yellow as beaten gold.
" Well, I ve got a customer for those
Damascus bonds waiting at my office ;
sold 'em well, too—to Billing Brothers,
who want them for an Arab firm. One
premium, and I bought at one dis
count. **
" I'm very glad of it, Charlie," I
Mid, and I felt real pleased, not only
for Thrapstow's sake, but because I
should be glad to get rid of the bonds,
and the directors' shrugs whenever the
bonds were mentioned.
" Hand 'em over, old fellow," said
Charlie, " and I'll bring yon Billing's
check up in five minutes. * You won't
have closed by then ; or if you have,
I'll come in at the private door."
I went to the safe, and put my hand
upon the bonds.
Chatlie stood there, looking so frank
and free, holding out his hands for the
bonds, that I hadn't the heart to say to
him, as I ought to have done : "Bring
your customer here, and let him settle
for the bonds, and then I will band
them over." I should have said this to
anybody else, but somehow I couldn't
say it to Charlie. There would only be
five minutes' risk, and surely it was no
risk at all.
The thing was done in a moment; I
was carried away by Thrapstow's irre
sistible manner. I handed over the
bonds, and Charlie went off like a shot.
It wanted seven minutes to three, and
I sat watching the hands of the clock
in a little tremor, despite my full con
fidence in Thrapstow ; but then I had
a" thorough a knowledge of all the
ruleß of banking, that I couldn't help
feeling that I had done wrong. A few
minutes, however, would set it right.
Charlie's white and glittering topaz
would soon put in an appearance.
Just at a minute to three the cashier
brought me three checks, with a little
slip of paper attached. They were
Thrapstow's checks, for fifteen hundred
—twelve hundred and three hundred
odd respectively, and his balance was
only five hundred odd.
FRED. ICI'HTZ, KiUtorand 1 •ropriotor.
VOL. VI.
I turned white aud mid. "Of course
yon must refuse Uiom," 1 said to the
cashier.
When he went out, 1 sat in my chair
quite still for a few moments, bewilder
ed at the sudden misfortuue that had
hap(HMi<Hl to me. Charles Thrapstow
was olearlv a defaulter ; but there was
this one chance he might have given
the checks in the confidence oi selling
those bonds, and placing the balance to
his account. In due course, these
checks, which were crossed, would have
been brought to the clearing-house,
and have been presented on the mor
row. llut it seemed that his creditors
had some distrust of him, and hail
caused the checks to be demanded out
of due course.
The clock struck three. Charles had
not come back. The bank di>ors chscd
with a elaug. I could endure the sua
peuse no longer. Telling the bank
porter that if Mr. Thrapstow came, he
was to l>e admitted at the private door,
and was to be detained in my room till
I returned, 1 went out, aud" mads my
way to his office, which was only a few
hundred yards distant. He wasn't
there. The clerk, a youth of fifteen,
knew nothing about him. He wa.-, in
Oapel Court, perhaps anywhere- he
didn't know. Hail lis been in withiu
the last half-hour ? Well, uo; the
clerk did not think he had. His story,
then, of the customer waiting at his
office was a lie.
With * heavy heart, I went back to
the bank. No*; Mr. Thrapstow hadn't
been in, the porter said. I took a Han
som, and went off to the office of Mr.
Gedgemouut, the solicitor to the bank.
I asked his advice. " Could I get s
warrant against this Thrapstow far
stealing the bonds ?"
" Upon rnv won.!," said Gedgetnount,
" I don't think yon can make a crimi
nal matter out of it it isn't larceny,
because you abandoned the possession
of the bonds Toluntariaiy. No ; I don't
see how vou can touch him. You must
make a bankrupt of him, and then you
can pursue him, as having fraudulently
earned off his assets."
But that advice was no good to me.
I think I was wrong in taking it 1
think I ought to have gone straight off
to the police station and put the affair
in the hands of the detectives. Digni
fied men of law, like Gedgemouut, al
ways find a dozen reasons far inaction,
except in matters that bring grist to
their own mill.
I went home completly disheartened.
How could I face my directors with
such a story as that I had to tell ? The
only excuse that I could urge, of pri
vate friendship aud confidence in the
man who had robbed ns, would make
the matter only the worse. Clearly, at
the same time that I told the circum
stance to the directors, I should be
bound to place my resignation in their
hands, to be put into force n they
thought fit. And there could be little
doubt but that they would accept it
How damaging, tos, the story would be
to me, when 1 tried to obtain another
appointment!
I had promised to take my wife and
children for an excursion down tin
river, as soon as the bank closed, and
the youngsters eagerly reminded me
of my promise. I replied so savagely
and sternly, that the children made off
in tears ; my wife, coming to see what
was the matter, fared little better. 1
must have had a sunstroke or some
thing, she told me, and brought ban
dages and can de Cologne. I dung
them away in a rage, and went out of
the house. I must be doing something,
I felt, and I hailed a cab and drove to
Thrapstow's lodgings.
Mr. Thrapstow wasn't coming home ■
that night, liis landlady told me. She j
thought he was away for a little jaunt;
but she didn't know. He occupied the
ground-floor of a small house in Eceles
ford street, Pimlioo—two rooms open
ing into each other. I told the woman
that I would sit down and write a letter.
She knew me well enough, as I had
frequently visited Thrapstow, and she
left me to myself. Then I began -to
overhaul everything, to try to find ont
some clue to his whereabouts. A few
letters were on the chimney-piece ;
they were only circulars from trades
men. In the fireplace was a consider-1
able quantity of charred tinder. He
had evidentfv been burning papers re- '
oently, and a qnuntity of them. I
turned the tinder carefully over, spread
ing it out npon a newspaper. I found
nothing legible except one little scrap
of paper, which the fire had not alto
gether reduced to powder, on which I
saw the name Isabel shining with
metallic lustre. Then I went to the
bedroom, and searched that. Here,
too, were evident preparations for
flight; coats and other garments thrown
hastly into the cupboards, boxes turned
out, an odd glove or two laying up
on the dressing-table. I carefally
searched all the pockpts for letters or
other documents, but I found nothing.
The keys were left in all the recepta
cles—an instance of Charlie's thonght
fulness for others, in the midst of bis
rascality.
Lying upon the washstand was a
card, which was blank unon one side,
but on the other had the name of a
photographer printed upon it The
yard was wet, as if it had been soaked in
water; and near the upper end of it was
a round irregular out, which did notquie
penetrate the card. It had evidently once
bad a photograph fastened on it; ac
cordingly, the card had been wetted, to
facilitate the removal of the photograph,
whilst the face of the portrait had evi
dently been cut out, in order to be
place'it in a locket or aometbing simi-
It struck me at once that the photo
graph, about which a man on the eve
of a flight would take so much trouble,
must be a person very dear to him;
probably his swhotheart. Although 1
nvl been intimate with Thrapstow, he
had always been very reserved as to his
own friends and associates, and I had no
cine to gpide me to any of them except
the photographer's card.
Re-entering my cab, I drove off to the
photographer's. There was no number
or distinguishing mark upon the card,
and the chances seemed faint that he
would be able to tell me any thing al>out
it. Indeed, at first, when the man
found that I was not a customer, he
seemed little inclined to trouble him
self about the matter. The promise of
a fee, however, made him more reason
able, and he offered to let me see bis
books, that I might search for the
name I wanted to find. It was unlikely
that the photograph had been done for
Thrapstow; if it had, there would
probably appear in the l>ooks only the
useless record of bis address, already
known to me. Then the man shook his
head. If I didn't know the name, it
was no use looking; the card was noth
ing, he said ; he sent hundreds out
every month. What information could
he possibly give mc ? Then I tried to
describe the personal appearance of
Tlirapstow, but again ho shook his
head. If he hadn't taken his likeness,
he wouldn't be likely to remember
him; hardly even then, so many people
passed through his hands.
All this time*he had been carelessly
holding the card in his fingers, glan
cing at it now and then, |na suddenly
an idea seemed to strike him. " Stop
a bit," he said, and went into his dark
chamber, and presently emerged,
smelling strongly of chemicals. " Look
here," he said, triumphantly. I looked,
and MV a very faint ghostly impres-
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
•ion of a photograph. " lt'i* printed
itself through," said the man "they
will sometimes aul I've brought it to
light. Yes, 1 know the original of
that." Agwiu he dived into a closet,
aud brought out a negative with a
number and lal>ol to it. Then he turn
to his ls>ok. and brought out a nega
tive with a number and label to it.
Then he turued to Ins book, and wrote
down an address for me- Mrs. Maid
wont. Larkspur road, Netting Hill.
Away 1 went to Imrkspur road. Mrs.
Maidmont's house was a small com
fortable residence, with bright wiu
dows, verandahs, gorgeous window
lanes, and atri|ed sun-blinds. Mrs.
Maidwont was at home, said a very
neat, pretty-looking maid; and 1 sent in
my card, with a uiesssge: "On most
important business." The maid came
back to sav that her mistress did not
recognise the uame, but would I walk
in?
I was showu into a prettv drawing
room on the first floor. An elderly lauv
rose to greet me with old-fashioned
courtesy, st the same time with a good
deal of uneasy curiosity visible ill her
face. This was uot the original of the
photograph, who was a young and
charming girl.
•• Madam," I said rapidly, " I be
lieve that my friend, Charles Thrap
stow, is well iiuowu to yon; now, it is
of the utmost importance that I should
ascertain where lie is at this present
time."
" Stay !" said the old lady. " Y'ou
are laboring under a complete mistake.
1 know nothing whatever of the gen
tleman whose name you meution—a
name I never heard before."
Was she deceiving me? I did not
thiuk so.
" Perhaps Misa Maid snout may know
him," I said eagerly.
" Miss Maidmout is not likely to
have formed any acquaintance without
her mother's knowledge," said Mrs.
Maidmout with dignity. There seemed
to be uo alternative but for me to retreat
with apologies.
" I am very busy, yon see," went on
the old lady,* with a wave of the hand;
and indeed the room, now I looked
about me, I saw to be strewed with pre
parations for some feative event, a ball
perhaps, or, from a wreath of orange
blossoms that 1 saw peeping out of the
milliner's box. more likely a wedding.
1 was about to take my departure reluc
tantly, when a young girl, a charming
voung girl, bounded into the room,
khe was the original of the photo
graph.
*• Oh, mamma ! she ened, " here s a
letter from poor Charlie to say he can't
posaiblv come here to-night. Isn't it
provoking ? And 1 want to consult him
about so many things."
" Well, my dear Isabel," said the old
lady placidly, "yon'll have enough of
his company after to-morrow." From
which I judged that my surmise as to
the wedding was correct, and that
Charlie was the bridegroom elect.
" By the wav," alie went on, " here's
a gentleman, Isabel, who insists that
we know a Mr. Charles—l forget the
name now."
" Thrapstow," I interjected.
" A Mr. Charles Thrapstow. Yon
know of no such person, Bella ?"
" I know of uo Mr. Charles but
Charles Tempest," said Isabel.
"It is singular, too. that the initials
of our friends should be the same.
May I ask if yon have given your por
trait, taken by Blubore of Kensington
" Upon niy won!," said Mrs. Maid
mout, rising, and sounding the bell,
" this is rather ton much from a total
stranger. We don't know your friend,
and we don't know you. fcusan, show
this gentleman out."
"But a gentleman," I cried, " with
blue eyes, and yellow t>eard aud mons
taclie, and turned-up nose."
"No more I" cried Mrs. Maidmout.
"Am I to repeat onee more, we know
nothing about him ?"
What could I do under these circum
stances but take my leave ? In Snsau,
however, I found an unexpected ally.
She had heard my parting words of de
scription, and she tnrued to me as we
were descending the stairs, ami said :
" Miss Isabel's young man is exactly
like that." Ualf-a-crown and a few
blandishments, which, under the cir
cumstances. I think even my worthy
spouse would have condoned, put me
into possession of the facta.
Miss Maidmout was really going to
be married to-morrow morning at St,
Spikenard's Church to a Mr. Charles
Tempest, a very gaod-looking young
man, whom thev had not known long,
but who seemed to be very well off. My
description of mv friend tallied exactly
with Susan's of tlie bridegroom; but the
coincidence might be merely accidental.
" Had Miss Maidmout a photograph
of her lover?" I asked.
She had, in her own room, it seemed.
Susan couldn't get at it now without
suspicion; but she promised to secure
it, and bring it with her, if I would
meet her at nine o'clock at the corner
of the street.
I was punctual to my trust; and at
nine, Susan made her appearance with
a morocco-case containing an excellent
likeness of my friend, Charles Thrap
stow, massive pin with topaz in it, and
all.
Now, what was to be done ? Should
I go to Mrs. Maidmont, and tell her
how she was deceived in her daughter's
lover ? That would have been tne way
best adapted to spare the feelings of
the Maidmonts; but would it bring
back the five thousand pounds ? I
thought not.
" Miss Maidmont," I soliloquised,
"will find some way to warn her lover.
Even robbing a bank inay not embitter
a girl against her sweetheart, and no
doubt she's over bead and ear's in love
with Charlie." No; I determined on a
different plan.
I roue early next morning, dressed
myself with care, put on a pair of pale
primrose gloves, donned my newest
beaver, and took a cab to Bt. Spike
nard's.
The church-bells were iinpling merri
ly as I alighted at the church-door ; a
small crowd hud already gathered on
the pavement, drawn altogether by that
keen fort-right of coming excitement
characteristic of the human species.
"Friend of the bridegroom," I whis
pered to the verger, and I was forth
with shown into the vestry. The cler
gyman was then already, and shock
handß with me in a vague kind of way.
" Not the bridegroom ?" he said in a
mild interrogative manner. I told him
that I was only one of his friends, and
wo stood looking at each other in a
comatose kind of way, till a little con
fusion at the vestry-door broke the
spell. "Here he comes 1" whispered
some one ; and the next moment there
appeared in the vestry, looking pale and
agitated, bat very handsome, Mr.Charlos
Thrapstow.
I had caught him bv the arm and led
him into a corner, before he recognized
who I was. When he saw me, I thought
he would have fainted. "Don't betray
me," ho whispered.
I held out my hand with
gesture.
" Five thousand," I whispered in his
ear.
" You shall have it in five minutes."
" Your minutes are long ones. Master
Charles," I said.
With trembling fingers, he took ont a
pocketbook, and handed me a roll of
notes,
CENTRE 11 ALL, CENTRE CO., RA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1873.
"I meant it- for you, Tom," ho said,
l'erbaps ho ilid, but we know the fsle
i of good intentions.
It didn't tnke long to count over those
notes ; there were exactly five thousand
JHlllluls.
" Now," said I, " Master Charley, take
yourself off!"
"You promised," he urged, " not to
i betmv inc."
" N'o more 1 will, if you go."
"She's got ten thousand of her own,
he whispered.
"He off, or elae
" No, I won't," said Charley, making
up his mind with a desperate effort,
" I'll not. I'll make a clean breast of
it."
At that moment there was a bit of a
stir, aud a gcucrul call for the brid< -
groom. The bride had just arrived,
people said. Ho pushed his way out to
the carriage, and whispered a few words
to lsaltel, who fell back in n faint.
There was a great Jfuss and bustle, and
then some one came aud said that there
was an informality in the license, snd
that the wedding wouldu't come off that
day.
t didn't wait to see anything further,
but (Misted off to the bank, and got
tliere just as the board were assem
bling. 1 BupiMJSe some of the directors
had got wind of Thrapstow a failure,
for the first thing 1 heard when I got
into the board-room was old Venables
grumbling out: " How about those
Damascus bonds, Mr. Manager ? I
rode roughshod over old Venablea, and
tyrannised considerably over Ute IMUU\I
in general that day, but I couldn't help
Uiiuking how close a thing it was, aud
how very near shipwreck 1 had In-eu.
As for Thrapstow, 1 presently heard
that, after all, he had arranged with his
creditors, and made it up with Miss
Maidmout. He had a tongue that
would wind mnud anything, if you only
gave him Umr, and 1 wasn't much sur
prised at hearing that his wedding-day
was fixed. He Hasn't sent me au invi
tation, and 1 don't suppose he will, and
I certainly shall not thrust myself for
ward a second time as an uninvited
guest.
An Auerdote of Harrison.
Colonel Chambers, of Kentucky, au
intimate personal friend, who bad serv
ed ou the staff of General Harrison m
one of his campaign* against the In
dians, was under an engnguicut of mar
riage with the widow of his son. Cham
tiers accompanied him to Washington,
at his request, and the arrangement was
that he should have the sppuiatment of
Hegister of the Treasury, and after the
marriage he was to reai.fe at the White
House, Mrs. Charoliera to be the pre
siding lady of the executive mansion.
She was an accomplish wl, elegant wo
man, greatlr caressed in Washington
society. The finished gentlemen by
whom she was surrounded at the seat
of government contrasted so strikingly
with her Kentucky lover, who was a
plain man, of brusque manners, that
she Anally declined to fulfill Ler en
gagement. General Harrison was much
concerned at this unfortunate contre
temps, and perceiving that Chambers
would be uncomfortably placed in
Washington, offered him any appoint
ment elsewhere that he might select.
The unlucky suitor asked for the office
of Governor of the Territory of lowa.
The place was assured him sa a matter
of course. Meantime Mr. Webster hsd
promised the office to his friend General
Wilson, of New Hampshire. At a cabi
net meeting Mr. Webster informed the
President that it lugl been decided by
the gentlemen of the cabinet that James
Wilson should lie Governor of lowa.
"Ah ! that is the decision, then, is it ?"
said General Harrison. The gentlemen
of the cabinet reolied in the affirmative.
Without making any further r. mark,
the old gentleman wrote a fsw words
upon a piece of paper and handed it to
Mr. Webster, requesting lilm to read it
aloud. The Secretary of State looked a
little embarrassed, but there was uo al
ternative. and he read, in an audible
Toice, "William Henry Harrison, Presi
dent of the United States." The gen
eral, rising to hi* feet, said, "And Wil
liam Henry Harrison, President of the
United States, tells you, geutlemen,
that John Chamliers shall bo Governor
of lowa." Of course that concluded
the subject, and Chambar* was ap
pointed.
A Printer'* D.
Colonel Forney, ia his now series of
"Anecdotes of Public Men," lots us in
to A little of bin |>entonnl history. lie
says : " I claim to know a little* nlwut
newspapers, for I wm fairly reared in
a printing office, having served us
' devil,' apprentice, and journeyman ;
as compositor, copy-holder, proof
reader, prcssmau, reporter, and finally
editor. I have worked with the buck
akin balls, and pulled the old wooden
Homage ; have made and pushed the
glue roller; have worked off large edi
tions on the Washington iron press,
and have finally owned an eight-cylin
der lightning Hoe, which, with* it
modem rivals, more than realizes the
tiction of the Arabian genii. Harnessed
in steam, with lightning couriers, they
'strike the earth breathless* with their
thunder, and fill the very heavens with
their millions of messengers. I have
seen many a small sheet expand into a
a great blanket, and fold itaelf, and die;
and I have watehed the few firstlings of
a penny paper till they camo to tlions
ands of households, like so many morn
ing intelligences. What a school is a
printing office ! What a short space in
history is a generation, and vet what
revolutions arc crowded into It! The
hours I spent at the ease and the press
were made delightful by the reading of
the times. Wc had comparatively few
newspapers, and so wo read "them
through.
Specie Payment.
Mr. Amasa Walker, of Mass., is out
in favor of a resumption of specie pay
ments. His plan is the issuing by tho
Government of conjponnd 6 per cent,
notes, convertible after two years into
10-40 bonds, nt 5 per cent, to l> issued
at the rate of five millions a month,
and paid out for all ordinary expenses
of government. These notes being put
in circulation, would, he thinks, bo
gradually hoarded, and finally funded,
and thus the currency would in five or
six years bo contracted to itß natural
limit, when it would, of necessity, be
at par with gold. This scheme post
pones the resumption of specie pay
ments for five or six years, and it as
sumes a " natural limit" for the cur
rency of the oountry, which limit is not
defined or specified.
1.1 ME AS A PnESERVATIVK OF WOOD.—
Certain facts havo been made known
which show that lime is a good preser
ver of timber. Bhips and barges used
tor the transportation of lirao last much
longer than others. A small coasting
schooner, laden with lime, was cast
ashore and sunk. Hho was raised, and
set afloat once more, and remained in
n ound condition for thirty years. A
plu'form of nine planks was used to
mix mortur on during three genera
tions, then, being no longer required,
was neglected, and at length hidden by
grass that grew over it. Bixty years
afterward, on clearing the ground, it
was discovered sound emd well pre
served.
Au Old flea.
It is aliout thirty years ago I think
it was iu IM4 that t'lark Hcftou wns
indicted and tried for uturder. He had
hocti a public character, and had many
and lanMßlill friends. Of the fuct Of
the killing there could be no doubt ;
snd it would bo difficult to set up any
thing like due justification. The pub
lic was indignant, and it wan evident
that if the case eaute to *|M-edy trial
conviction would be sure, Ho the
friend# tried to slave the trial off till
the public feeling should be cool ; but
ill this they were foiled. The east was
to eoinC on at the very qpxt session of
the court. The friends - two of them—
went to Philadelphia and consulted Cy.
Carpenter,one of the liest criminal law
yers of his time, and a boon eouipauiou
of H. H. Prentiss. Thev told him if they
could gsin time if the trial could be
put off three or six months they were
confident Hcftou could be cleared. Haid
Carpenter,—
" Keeli quiet, and leave the case in
my hands. Hut don't, on any account,
mention mv name. Y'ou know Helfrish
McDonald?"
"'Yes."
"Hire him to defend Hcftou at Uie
approaching trial."
" lint," cried the friends, in amaze,
McDonald is ——"
" Never mind," interrupted Carpen
ter. "Doas I bid you. Hoc lire Hel
frish McDonald for chief coiinael of the
accused, and await the result."
The friends, trusting Carpenter,
though much against their better judg
ment, engaged Helfrish Mclhiuald to
couduct the defence in behalf of Clark
Hcftou, and the attorney entered upon
the work with a magnificent flourish.
The trial came off, aud Clark Hefton
was declared tSmltv.
Then Cy. Carpenter came to tlie res
cue, and made a motion for a new trial
in the case of Clark Hefton, accused of
murder, on the ground of thr inutility
of hi* coututi .' The insanity of McDuu
ah* was proved to the satisfaction of the
Court, and a new trial was grautcd. In
the next trial the jury disagreed, and
in the end Hefton went clear.
Another case transpired of like char
ter that of Marsh, accused of mur
der and convicted, at Newark, New
Jersey, about the same time (1K44.) In
this case, as m the other, a motion was
made for a new trial on the ground of
insanity of counsel, and argued before
Judge Ilornblower. I forget bow it
terminated, though doubtless aomc of
our friends in Newsrk will remember.
Inconrrnient Loyaltj.
The I.r t an/ Time* narrates an extra
ordinary adventure of Qu*en Olga of
Greece, sister-in-law oi tho l*riureaa of
Wales, resulting from the exuberant
loyalty of the Hellenic colony at Galatx.
Ou pausing that town ou her wsv down
the Danube, a deputation of Hellenic
resident* came on hoard the royal yacht
and begged her Majesty to lamf and
show herself to her luring subjects,
(iiving her arm to the Grand Duke
Nicholas, the queen lahdr.l at the court
yard of the Danube Steamship Gumps
iiy. Queen Olga had hardly stepped
ashore when a sudden rush was made,
and she was separated from the Grand
Duke and forcibly carried by the surg
ing crowd out of the yard into the
street. Here their loyalty broke all
bounds, ami laying hands on their sov
ereign's dress, they began to divide it
amongst them as relies. The queen,
however, did not loac her presence of
miiul, but forced her way into a baJbata
shop. As it was, her Majesty escaped
with her clothing in the same condition
as thst of France at this moment, whose
mantle, according to M. Hugo's latest
rhapsody, has its skirts torn off. Her
Majesty was then escorted on !oard by
the geudarmvs, and hail hardly placed
henu If in the haml* of her Mistress of
the Robes, when theory was raisd that
the hops of the llelUnea, Prince Oon
statine was missing. A scaeh was made,
and his lioyal Highness was soon found
hoisted on the shoulders of a stalwart
sou of Hellas, who had managed to slip
on board, aud who was exhibiting the
little Prints' to an admiring crowd of
hia countrymen on shore.
How It Arose.
The disturbances between the whites
and negroes in Colorado county, Texas,
arose from a very trifling cause. A
deputy constable named J. R. Hone ar
rested" a frectiruan who was charged
with stealing a l>c*f, and the prisoner
was rescued by another of hia race.
The officer then got hia revolver and
arrested the negro again, aud in taking
liira into enstody lie struck the freed
man who hsd interfered with the pris
oner on the head with his pistol, which
at the same time went off. That night
a party of unknown freedmen tired fif
teen shot* into the house of the officer,
but fortunately his family, apprehend
ing danger, had left. The next night
two freedmen. who lived near the scene
of the disturbance, were murdered by
some unknown persons while on their
way to Eagle Lake. This aroused the
whole colored population in that re
gion, and some four hundred of them
armed aud marchndon Eagle Lake with
the avowed intention of taking the
place. The persuasions of the Sheriff
of Colordo county, however, and the
knowledge that one hundred armed
white men had come to tho assistance
of the threatened villagers, led them to
renonnc* this intention ; but at the last
accounts there was an extremely bitter
feeling existing between tho two races,
and fears were entertained of serious
trouble. •
The Death of N'a|wlcon.
The following incident from th* pen
of the celebrated ecclesiastical histor
ian, Abbe Ronlbacber, oontrndicta the
irreligious stories that have been circu
lated in reference to the death of the
great Napoleon : "When near his end,
nfter having received the sacrament, he
aaid to General Montboln, 'General, I
ain happy ; I have fulfilled all my re
ligions duties. I wish you at your death
the same happiness. 1 had had need of
it. I am an Italian—a child of the
rank of Corsica. The sound of the bell
affects ine ; the sight of the priest gives
me pleasure. I wished to make a mys
torv of all this, but that would not be
right. I ought to, I will, render glory
t:> God. I think he will not be pleased
to restore me to health... .There is
nothing terrible in death ; it has been
the companion of my pillow during the
pnat three woeka, and now it ia on the
point of seizing me forever. I should
have been glad to have seen my wife
and son again, but the will of God be
done.' On the 3d of May he received
tho second time the holy viaticum, and
after having said adieu to his geuersls,
he pronounced these words, ' I am at
peace with all mankind.' He then join
ed hands, saying, 'My God !' and ex
pired on the sthof Muy at aix at night."
POISONED.— The widow of Benjamin
Bellew of Wilmington, Delaware, haa
been poisoned nearly to death with a
seidlitz powder purcbaaed at n drug
gist's. The physician thinks that
there was corrosive sublimate in the
powder. The circumstance derives ad
ditional interest from the fact that the
Rev. Mr. Mann, of Raleigh, N. 0.,
whose daughters were arrested on a
charge of having poisoned him, nnd
were honorably discharged, died from
corrosive sublimate taken in a seidlitz
powder,
The llenton Family.
Tit* ll#H|hlti* at •' (>M Uulllsw" Itr.
ilNittf l !* rrlf--SlugMlsr Mltfvr
luue* ol Mr*. ftriKuMl, Mrs. lialtlrau
tint Mi*. Juutt.
" Aaron ltoilleau, who was aciitenocd
to imprisonment by a French Court for
his i-oiuieetioo with Ute Memphis aud
F1 Paso llailroad affair, is oonfiued in
the Conoiegerie. lief ore bis trial M.
Hwilleau had abandoned all liiu fortune
and that of his wife in fsvor of the
stockholders of the Memphis aud 111
Paso llailroad. Mine, lieiiloau f* at
Boulogne. Hhe and her six children
live through the generosity of their
frieuda."
To many people of Missouri, says the
Ht. liouis this brief paragraph
will convey more than a passing inter
est# Nine or ten years ago Huron Hoi!-
leau was the French Consul st New
York city, trusted aud respected by his
government aud popular aud accom
plished iu his intercourse with the peo
ple of America. He married, w hile
Consul st New York, Husau, a daughter
of Colonel Thomas 1L Benton, having
met this lady in Washington city s few
mouths previous. The movement was
a moat happy one, and between the two
there existed only the utmost confidence
and perfect H flection.
liarun lloUleati waa iifU rwnr.lt. HJ
puiuted Minister to Ecuador, South
America, ami it waa while performing
the function* of hi* office in thia locali
ty that he was recalled ai.d disgraced
by the French authoritiea. During hi*
stay in New York he had become in
volvtd in railroad achemca, and had
been induced in an eril hour to recom
mend, in hi* capacity a* an official agent
of the government, the negotiation of
the Memphis and El Paao railroad
bouda. In thia he violated the plain
law of lna country. Rigid in all *uch
mattcra, and forcibly in oontraat with
the known indifference or colluaion of
the Unites! States, the French govern
ment carried out the law to it* utmost,
and imprisoned him whom it before
honored in the Oouciergerie or debUir'a
prison, thus mak.ng the example all the
more suggestive. It will also tie remem
bered that Fremont ia a brother-in-law
of the Baron, and that the same Court
which tried and found liia ■ connection
guilty, also sentenced the General to
aerve a term of year* in the same insti
tution. He made good hia escape from
France, however, and, in the absence of
anything like an extradition treaty, will
probable keep it good.
Time bring* about strange event*
There was otic* a period in the affairs
of Missouri when Colonel Beutoa was
its political autocrat Thirty years ia
the Senate gave him something of the
intense individual imperialism of the
Human, lie tolerated no opposition,
compromised with no resistance, and
died as he had lived, with the war har
ness on. Troubles not s few have come
U> those whom he nurtured and loved.
Mrs. Fremont ia the wife of a man who
has been declared a felon, because of a
speculation which has ruined his broth
er in-law, bankrupted hi* family and
consigned his wife and children to
charity. Another daughter, Mr*. Wil
liam Gary Jones, now a widow residing
in San Francisco, Cal., has felt also al
most terribly the misfortune# of life,
and. though enduring all the privation*
of extreme poverty, is supporting her
self and children on the small wage*
paid to her as a teacher in the public
schools. The many friends in the State
of three estimable yet unfortunate ladies
will read of their late afflictions with
feelings of the most sincere regret
A Strange Shipwreck.
The new* of the wreck of the steamer
Agra off Oolnmbo has already been
noted. The details of the disaster are
quite exciting. It appears, according
to a letter to the London Timt s, that
the rsptain, to sare fuel, sought au
chorsge outside the port.
The pilot let go the anchor too near
a well known rock, and the sea, tum
bling in aa it knows how to tumble off
Gal It- in the southwest monsoon, caused
the chain cable to part, and the vessel
to surge heavily on the rook. The work
of destruction was rapid ; those on
board were startled by the metallic
sound of the ripping iron sides of the
steamer a* her hull wss torn in shreds
by the piercing rook. There was no
time to l> lost. The vessel was fast
filling, and to save paasengers' luggage
waa hopeless. They hiul barely time to
escape into the boats as the ocas came
tumbling over the sides, sweeping
everything before them, carrying away
one "jtoor invalid sailor, and bursting
open the cages and dens of an extensive
menagerie on board, going home for
the Zoological Gardens. The escape
and striking out amid the waves of
crowd of tigers, elephants, etc., and
their roars and screams, added to the
terror of the wretched passengers. One
elephant managed to swim ashore.
Our Present Duty.
Tho way to make easy times is as
clear as daylight.
Lot every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once, if it is possible.
Bo willing to make a sacrifice in order
to meet promptly all your engagement*.
Stop grumbling at the faults or mis
takes of others, and attend faithfully to
vonr own affairs.
Deal fairly, leniently and ebeerfnlly
with all persons who ewe you or are in
jxvuuiary trouble.
If you an* oat of debt, thank the
Lord ; and then go mutid among your
friends, and enemies, too, if you nave
them, and render them all the assistance
in vour power.
Don't hoard vonr money ; bnt loan
it, or use it to relieve the needy, on the
same principle that you would give
bread to the needy in a day of famine.
Do what yon can in every way to re
lievo pecuniary distress, to check the
current of financial cmbarraasmcuts
and restore public confidence.
If yon are a bank officer or director,
don't l>e cross a minute. Smile, as a
Christian duty, from morning till night
flive an encouraging word, if poariU*.
to all .and by all menus strain every
nerve to help all who need it
A Mixed Mess.
In Han Francisco a Chinese chop
house was noted for its unequaled jx>t
pies and sausage. Becoming auspicious,
the authoritira investigated and found
after John had left for parts unknown,
that his guoata had been eating a
strange mixture. The delectable pork
pie and a sausage of incomparable pro
|K>rtiuus were found to be compounded
of marmot, owl, and aucket, and stuffed
in the inside skin of the domesticated
rattlesnake. The industry throve
rapidly. The outer skins of the snakes
were tanned into a sort of shagreen for
covering fancy boxes ; marmot fur was
made into felt, the skins into imitation
chamois, i'acksges of the pies were
regular! shipped Eastward, to New
York, (Chicago, and Boston. At the
time of the exposure the Chinaman had
twenty-Beven hands employed, and
worked a steam - engine of twelve
horse power, so great was the demand
for his pies and sausage.
It is said that a bar of iron worth five
dollars is worth, when manufactured
into horse-ahoes, $lO 60 ; table knives,
$180; buttons and buckles, $4,035;
springs of watches, $300,000.
Term*: a Year, in Advance.
Bursting of a Bo*.
• irauaii< areas of UtrnUlUii la Ira
laud.
Mr. W. L. Treuch, writing to the
Loudon Vim's to appeal to the chari
table (or aid (or some uu(oituttate
families, give* this account o( the
bursting of au Irish Iwg. Ha ays :
" I have just returned (rom inapeo
i ling one o( tha moat pitiful aoene* of
tha sort it haa laan rar (ala to witneaa
; since i aa w the remains of tha village
of Visp, in the Rhone Vallay, Hwitxer
land, after its destruction by flood
some years ago.
'• The scene to which I refer ia the
result of the bursting of a lg, situated
about three miles cast of the town of
; Duumore, in the northern part of Gal
way county. Heretofore this t>g waa
' connected with the Duntnore Itiver, at
Duumore, by a small stream called the
Coml>el River, flowing through a con
tinuation of pasture and tillage lands
in its course. The level of the upper
surface of the bog waa formerly 2flo feet
above the sea, and that of the water at
Duntnore lUO feet, allowing a fall of 70
feet. Up to a fortnight ago this bog
presented the usual appearance of most
of our undrained Irish I >og*, i. e., its
skirts, adjoining the arable Laud, con
sisting of high turf bauka, being ex
i oecdingly wet and apongv.
"On the first of OeuAmr the farmer
occupying a farm on the Corrabal
stream, near the bog, was digging his
potatoes, when he suddenly observed a
brown mass slowly approaching him.
He left his spade in the ground and
went for the neighbor* ; on bis return
the mass (which waa the moving bog)
had half covered his potato field, and
completely bidden from sight his field
of corn, with the exception of a few
1 ' stocks' situated on a knoll; they atill
remain au island in the middle of a
scene of desolation. This waa bat the
commencement; since then the bog haa
continued to advance in a rolling mass,
continuing its course right down the
valley to Duumore, burying on its way
tbiec farm houses, and covering at
least one hundred and eighty acres of
pasture and arable land to a depth, in
some places, of six feet The unfortu
nate occupiers of the three farms have
been turned, by this visitation of Pro
vidence, f armless and hotneleas, with
their families, on the world.
"At Dnnmore a small bridge baa
been removed, near the junction of the
Corrabel stream with the Dun mo re
Kiver, to afford relief to the lands np
the valley, and a bog-laden torrent ia
being discharged into the latter river.
The worst may be said to be over, but
the discharging powers of that river
will be materially affected by this influx
of solid matter. ' The source of thia dis
aster presented a wonderful appearance.
The aubnidenee at the discharging point
cannot be leas than about 35 feet. The
cxteut of the bog affected is most clear
ly defined by a aeries of black * crevas
ses,' where the upper crust of the bog
has. by the oubsulenee.beiow, been torn
asunder. The whole assumes the form
of a crater half a mile in diameter.
" With considerable difficulty we
piloted our way to the centre, where we
found Uic brwwn liquid bog boiling out
like a str -am of lava and feeding the
moving mass in the valley below. At
the noint w here the bog burst, the turf
bana* were forced right over and round
on cither aide, and assumed somewhat
the appearance of ' moraines.'
" This and similar disasters to which
this country ia liable must be attributed
to the ilaeuc* of a complete and good
system of arterial drainage. A similar
catastrophe occurred a couple of year*
ago, occasioned by the backwater of
the River Suck, near Castlerea."
A Young lrl Dream* the Day aud
Hour of her Death.
The following remarkable story ia
vouched for br ao less s peraon than the
venerable Bishop of Gloucester :
Hit Charles Lee, by his first wife, had
only one daughter, of which she died
ia childbirth: and, when she was dead,
her sister, the Lady Evorard, desired
to have the education of the child, and
ahe waa verv well educated till she was
marriageable, and a mitA wss con
cluded for her with Sir William Perkins,
but was prevented in s most extraord
inary manner. Upon a Thursday night,
she. thinking she saw a light in her
chamber after she was in bed, knocked
for her maid, who presently came to
her, and she arked why a candle was
left burning in her chamber. The
maid said ahe left none, and there waa
none but what she brought with her at
that time. Then she said it was the
fire ; but that, her maid told her, was
quite out, and ahe said she believed it
was only a dream, whereupon she said
it might lie ao, and composed herself
again to sleep. About two o'elock that
night she dreamed that a little old
woman appeared before her and said
that she *a* ber mother, that she was
happv, and that by twelve o'clock that
day slie should be with her, and then
the old woman vanished.
The young lady immediately awaken
ing, looked at her watch and note*! the
time, and then knocked again for her
maid, called for her clothea, and when
ahe was dressed, went into her closet,
and did net come out again till 9 o'clock.
Then she brought out a letter which she
had written to her father, handed it to
her aunt, the Lady Everard, told her
what had happened, and desired that as
soon as she was deed, it might be sent
to him. Bat her aunt thought that she
had suddenly lost her reason, and
thereupon immediately sent to Chelms
ford for s physician and surgeen, who
soon after arrived ; bnt she conld not
discern even the indication of loss
of reason, or of any indisposition of her
body. The young lady then desired
that the cliai>lain might bo called to
read prayers, and when they were over,
she took her guitar and sat down and
played, and sung so melodiously and
exquisitely, that her music master, who
was theu "there, marvelled greatly. -At
about the stroke of twelve, she arose,
and. seating herself in the great arm
chair, gave a great gasp or two, and
immediately expired, while the bell was
yet striking twelve. She grew so sud
denly cold, that the physician was at a
loss to account for it. She died at
Walthaui, in Essex, three miles from
Chelmsford, and the letter sent to Sir
Charles at his house in Warkwicbshire,
contained the full particulars of his
daughter's dream, which was so pain
fully realized. She was buried at her
own request by the side of her mother
at Edmmton in the year of IW2.
Scorpion In a Ladj's Hair.
"A lady in this city," says the Nevada
TYanm ript, "a few evenings since, was
startled in a most shocking manner on
discovering a scorpion on her head
dress. It appears that, daring the af
ternoon, she had been ont to the grave-
Jard, where the bug probably got on
ker dress, thence to her head-dress.
During the evening, when she was
about arranging her hair, she felt some
thing singular about it, and oommenced
to assertain the cause, and no sooner
had she placed her hand on the bug
when she received a severe and painful
sting ou one of her fingers. Her hus
band, who happened to be near by,
rushed to her, and, seeing the situation,
folded a towel together, and took the
bug from her hair, and, while doing so,
received a sting through the thickness
of oloth to his hand.
NO. 48.
The Policeman's Bog.
In the riots of July, 1868, a patrol
man vu oarryiug Sargent Buckley,
badly wounded, on a stretcher to tlie
('barlea street police station, A blank
French poodle with stumpy !•>! followed
the stretcher into the station, and there
fore became the pet of the house.—
• Jim," as ha was called, was supposed
to have belonged to soma colored family
which bad fled from tbeoity. The men
taught him many tricks. At r >ll call ha
invariably headed the platoon and took
his position by 'the sergeant. He was
taught to distinguish one baton from
another, and as be liked to fetch and
carry, the officers let him bring their
locusts. Beta were once made by the
men that'Jim'could not distinguish
between a genuine officer and a sham
one. Officer Wiaeburn, 'Jim's' warm
est friend, changed clotbee with a fire
man, who, taking the locust is hand,
walked up and down the street. 'Jim '
noticed Lim, darted out of the station,
snuffed at the clothes, eat down for s
moment, looked straight in the faoe of
the disguised fireman, teeming puttied,
sprang upon him, caught the club be
tween his teeth, growled and nulled,
until the fireman allowed himself to be
led into the station, where he dropped
the elub. 'Jim' carried it to Wiae
burn, who was in the firemen's clothes.
Jim's good nature won for him the
love of all the children in the neighbor
hood, and he beeatne their playmate.
He knew hit friends, and never failed
to resent any injury. There were two
butchers in the rear of the station, one
a good-hearted Irishman, who kept in
the basement, the other a German on
the avenue. For some time every morn
ing and evening he entered the stores
and invited the butchers to feed him.
The Irishman never failed to give him
e hearty meal. The German rarely gave
him a morsel, and ones drove him out
of the store. If any ladies knowing him
had been accustomed to allow bun to
carry their baskets to markhti Jim on
reaching the Irishman'* store ran in,
compelling his patronesses to follow
him thus materially adding to the Irish
butcher's trade.
Jim's jumping feats were so extraor
dinary that the officers took a pride ia
showing them off. One day, while he
was exhibiting to a crowd of admirers
by jumping on a pile uf lumber, one of
the Leanest boards tipped over and fell
upon him, breaking one of hia legs.
With a bowl of pain be hobbled off to
Officer Wiaeburn'a port.
-What's the matter, JimT* naked
Wisoburn.
The dog tried to show hia broken leg.
Wiaeburn, stooping, saw the nature of
Jim's injuries, and teoderly bore
him to the station. The police
snrgeon pronounced Jtm'a wound
fatal, and advised hia being shot.
Wise burn would not suffer this, so he
bandaged Jim's leg, put him into a bas
ket filled with sell hay and warm
clothe*, tied him up, and cared for him
with a tenderness which seemed to win
Jim'a heart. It was many weeks before
be was allowed to walk out.
Two yean after the accident, on#
night aa the officers were preparing to
g<< on patrol, they saw Jim in Charles
street, hobbling by the aide of a small
bulldog which he was supporting. Jim
had picked op a dog that had been ran
over. On reaching the station he
nought Wiaeburn, who picked up the
wounded dog and took care of him.
The Woman la Black.
Begins Pauline Beakle haunt* the
Monev Order Department of toe New
York iPoet Office. Begins is a thin old
woman of about fifty years of age, very
poorly bat cleanly clad. Her gray hair
! is carefully smoothed over bar forehead.
Mho wears a faded black bonnet and
dreaa. There ia nothing in her general
appearance that would cause her to be
singled out in the crowd that constant
ly tumngs the office; in fact, abe had
been in the habit of coming and going
for some time before abe was noticed
by the officials. She fancies that she
has a grievance.
One day the clerk whose duty it la to
issue money order* for Europe observed
' her walking up and down in the apace
allotted to the public ia an absent mind
ed sort of way, aa thongh looking in vain
for something or somebody. He beck
oned her to come to hia window. She
responded with amazing alacrity, and
lie replied in the affirmative to her
i " Sprechen *ie Dentch." She told him
her storv. She had had a lover in Oer
many wto had deserted her; then abe
married another man, and immigrated
to this oountry. While her husband
lived the wolf'was kept from the door,
bnt now she ia old. and poverty pinched.
She imagines that her Sorer sends her
money regularly, and that some scoun
drel draws it. On that very day a man
had collected money which ahe claimed
ln-longed to her. The clerk explained
to her minutely the trutdLu* operiumU of
the money order system, deviling par
ticularly on the safeguard* which were
used in'order to render the improper
iwvment of an order almost an impossi
bility. She listened attentively, and
went SWST apparently satisfied. A day
or two subsequently ahe again present
ed herself. She was sure that money
had been from time to time sent her,
and that certain parties had collected
it, that the swindle had for a long time
been going on, and that the guilty i
wretches were amassing wealth and oar- i
rying on an extensive business at her
expense.
Every few days ahe return*, her eye* !
sparkling and face aglow, and in vigor
ous German denounce* the clerk, the
postmaster, and the entire service, aa
well as the police of this city, as being
banded together to defraud her—a poor,
lone, old woman.
The Tarantula la Kaunas.
While Mr. Samuel Yellier, Chief of
the Qoapaw Indiana, living three Bailee
south of Baxter, was going about his
farm, be was bitten on the toe of one
foot by a tarantula. He immediately
started* for the house, but a short die- j
tanew, and by the time he reached it the
pain from the bite was ao severe that
be was unable to ait up and he threw
himself across the bed. The insect
had crawled np hia clothing, and soon
after he lay down it gave him the
second bite in the regien of the small
of the back. This, with the other bite,
charged his system with the poison al
most as quickly as if by electricity.
Medical aid waa immediately summon
ed, bnt before it reached him he was too
near gone for it to do him any good.
In the most intense agony he lingered
nntil abont ten o'oloek that night, when
death relieved hia sufferings.
Cash ou Hani—lts Trine.
The value of cash on hand has been
very forcibly illustrated daring the re
cent period of pecuniary embarrass
ment. The richest men have been
short of it; many of them have been
quite destitute of money that they
oould have put their hand on any day.
Now we wish to give a word of advice
on this subject to all young men. It is
this : Lay up ten per cent of your in
come—no matter what your inoomo is—
and keep it where you can put your
hand oa it at any time, for the remain
der of your lite. There ia not a day
that yon do not see the necessity of
having money that yeu can lay your
hands on. While you have an oppor
(tnnity, save it,
§ Item #f laMeml.
The (uDneWIMWhM been sent
to England. We expect to hear from
! tet igtin. v ' let ffy '
A little boy et W*iebsei-, Ya., lately
fell heed foremost into apot of boiling
molasesa. •-' ■* r < ®*t
A number of youuf ladies of Maeoo
O*. bvo attended the State Fair elad
A i degree* from Calcutta aaya a m
Ten. femine is tltfwtewd to the pro
viooe of Bengal.
A men la Wisconsin recently ruptured
bis 1 tinge with e lnng-tetfng machine,
and died la e few boom.
A Kentnekiaa an* married hie .tap
root her, which is said to be e step far
ther then the lew allow*.
A i'enneylrania farmer be* held en
eagle captive tar thirty-dx yeaia, and
the bird U es nntamahta (merer.
In lffTL two penooe were hilled
England ly the sting of e weep, and
two mora by the bite of • rat
Itiaeaid that e new penal code by
which the death penalty laetoUshwi,
will be introduced by the Italian Oov
in went
The Indiana near Omaha ere arid to
here contracted a smgabw habit of
chewing patty inetead id tobeooo or
gam.
A carious animal lrne been captured
near Tnlara. o*l. It loohe like a bear,
hut has a* front lags, and walks upright
Uke a man.
Etot peraon in Brannerrille, Toon.,
baa died of yellow fewer, and not a man
woman nor eteid n left to perpetuate
: the town's existence.
1 It has been definitely aaoertained
that aixty-eix lire* wow lout by UM
| Milking of the Intraamgaate vessel,
• Fernando at CatoUoo.
A Trenton (Iff. J.) women dreamed
; of being surrounded by blaring anakea,
and ate- struck oat with snob force as
to break her arm against the bed
poet.
There ia a time at wbiah lamb W
oomm mottoo; there ia a time at which
the mint canoe of flirtation baa to be
discarded tor the currant Jelly of aertotia
intentions.
It ia aaid that the Pfcnnsyteania Rail
road Company, baring now a complete
through line, willaend pnasi-nt-jare from
Sew York to New OrUans la sixty-tour
boors, without change of ears.
The vexed qneetton whether the Jews
in Oermany can beeompeUnd to appear
iMifora a magisterial! enmooned to at
tend on the Habtoath, bae ooce mora
breu brought on the iapfcand decided
. in the adlmatim
Thera ia nothing plemiantor, wh
the destining yearn of We. than to
bare the boy who used to catch ell the
flah and And an the Wrtoa, come to
you for the loea of a half dollar. Time
works its revenges.
The euHteorion of oreages ia eaet
Florida haa hwl the aflwt of enhancing
the ralue of real estate on all the nari
irftble itmiDft. In bmm unto** laul
has gone m from Are dollars to one
{ hundred dorian per sore.
Whi tiler, one of the par rat and
swerirat pacta in the Euglh tongue,
haa the baieat competency for his
bachelorship, and ear where, awe ia
Sew England, would he regarded m
only round *be corner teem penmy.
California farmeru are up in ennf
against what they teem tee samrral
ninaance, and at a ooowaetion held ra
i San Francisco recently, they demanded
some legislative cnactmeat that wouid
raanit in exterminating the peat
When a traveler, seeing a driver fold
, an extraordinary comforter round faia
neck, remarked that he took very good
care of hinmelf. the man replied :
I "T® be sure I do, rir; what's all the
world to a man when his wife's a
widdyr
I A Hdishorn', HL, philoeopher, tamed
Jeff. Yokum. after listening to ranoua
exploits of early days narrated by a
party of geutleiacm broke in with :
" Well, fellers, I tell you It seems to
me that as men get older fun gets
skceiser r*
An old fanner arid to his eons:—
"Boys, donl you ever spekerlate or
wait for aomcthing to Sara up. You
might just as well go and sit down on s
atone in the middle of a madder with a
pail "twixt your logs, and wail for a cow
to beck up to you to be milked."
It ia stated thai partem in London
hare offered to pay a premium of 14,500
to the Inventor of the cheapest little
iron cook-stove for tmall housekeepers'
and laborers' families. by which the
fasnily meets may be prwpersil with the
smailcri possible ooaeumptioß of
ooeL
Last spring Mr. Sam Hemphill, of
Warsaw, In£, slipped a small potato
orar the end of a grapevine which he
had trimmed in order to to p it from
bleeding. The potato sprouted snd
grew all summer, and the ahoota it sent
i forth are neither grape nor potato Tinas,
I but bare a peculiar look and formation
of their own.
i Aa a part of the history of the ravages
! of the aoourge in Memphis, the fate of
! the inmates of a boardlng-booae is
> given. The landlord ia Joe Sacford.
i whose family consisted of a wife and
two children. In his house were 18
' Imarders. Of all titeee there were only
Joe riant ord and ana boarder who sur
vived; all the rast (SO) died.
At au early hour, a aaaa standing on
; a wharf at Cincinnati .observed a dog
swimming around in a circle in the
river. The ebearvwr mm* to rescue the
. dog, sad diaooverad rear him the body
j of a man who, aa the Coroner * request
proved, bad committed suicide. He bad
• been the dog'e owner, and the latter
1 clung to hla master to toe teat
1 A tragic love story comes from San
• Francisco. One Bnrque, a policeman,
j baa just committed suioida in that city.
I He wsa a man of same ability and had a
nob sister in Russia—a nobleman's wife
—who had sent for him to jo there, but
he was in love with aSaa Francisco girl
and would not leave her. Her parents
refuaed consent to the marriage and he
settled the matter by killing himself.
"Gentlemen," aaid an anetioneer,
who was selling a piece, of land, " this
ia the moet delightful land. It ia the
easiest land to cultivate, iAia so light,
so very light. Mr. Pssker here will
corroborate my statement, he owns the
next patch, and be will tell you how
easy it ia worked." " Yea, gentlemen,"
said Mr. Parker, "it ia very eeey to
work, but it ia a plaguey sight easier to
gather the crops.
The True Woman.
"The true woman," says a late
writer, " needs to be sougfit. She does
not parade herself as show goods. She
is not fashipnahle. Generally she is
not rich. If yon gain her lore, your
two thousand are a million. She'll not
ask you for a carriage or a first-class
house. She'll wear simple dresses, and
turn them when necessary. She'll keep
everything neat and nice in your aky
parior, and give you such a welcome
when you come home that you'll think
your parlor higher than ever. She'll
entertain tree friends on a dollar, and
astonish you with the new thought, how
very little happiness dependaonmoney.
Now do not say any more, 14 \ can't af
ford to marry. Go, find the true wo
man, and you can afford it Throw
away that cigar, burn up that switch
bo sensible vmuself, and seek
your wife in a sensible way-".
Step that Hoanttag up of Your Money
•"<PoiL Your B"util BUI*.
If every person were able at once to
pay their small bills when presented
for payment, times would be much
easier than they are now. Collections
on even the smallest accounts are dif
ficult, because hoarding currency is al
most universal. So soon aa a bill is
presented the debtor say* "wait," even
when be has the money in his pocket to
pay the bill. This ia a bad practice
Hoarding should be discontinued now
because gold haa touched a low point
and the currency ia slowly depreciating.
So in a few daya the absurdity of hoard
ing will be apparent to every one.