Son*.
There U lor# for mo in store
In the notes that round mo rinjt;
I would give thorn *ll. and mo**
Once again to be*, him aing.
Gently whispered in mmo oar.
Loving words the hour l<*guiie,
Cheap 1 hold tliom : thi* won* door,
Onoe again to ore him smile.
Hmilo for amilo nor oigli for aigh
(lave he. though I lovod him well
I would bid the world go by
Onoe to hear him aay farewell.
Chicken*.
•'I didn't r any* Chip. •• Too did r say* Poop,
" How do you know t—jom wore faal asleep."
" I araa under mammy'a wing,
Btrotohlng my laga like anything.
When all of a auddeu I tamed around.
For close beside ma 1 hoard a wound ■
A little tip, and a little tap."
" Fiddle-de-dee ' You'd had a nap.
And, whan you were only half awake,
Heard an icicle somewhere break."
•• What'a an icicle ?" *' I don't know ;
Booster telle about ice and anow,
Something that lan't aa good aa mea<,
That drop* down on you and makaa you
squeal."
" Well ! a wallow Rooster's (also, I beg '■
And think you didn't ooina out of au egg !
I Udl you I heard the old shell break.
And the first small noise you ever could make ;
And mammy orvxvtled, and puffed her hreast,
Aud pushed us further out of the uset.
Just to make room enough for you ;
And there's your shall - I say it's true
Chip looked over his shoulder then,
And there It lay by the ok! gray hen
Half an sgg-ehaU. ctupped and brown.
And ha wae a ball of yellow down.
Clean and chipper, and smart and spry.
With the pertast hill and the hlackest eye.
" H'u !'* said ha with a Utile perk.
" That is a wonderful piece of work '
Peep, von silly ! dont TOO eee
That shall isn't nearly aa tog as uie?
Whatever you say. miss, I declare
1 never, never, never could get in there !"
" You did !" aaya Peep. " 1 dslu't 1" says Chip
With that he gave her a horrid nip,
ADd Peep hegau to dance and pack,
And Chip stuck cut his wings and neck.
They pranced, and struck, sud oapered about.
Their Ices turned In and their wings spread
out.
A* augTT as two small chick* could be,
Tul Mother Dorking turned to see.
Khe cackled and clucked, and called in vaiu
At it thay went with aught aud aiam
Tlli, al last, lha old hen used her beak.
And Peep and Chip, with mauy a squeak.
Staggered off ou either aids
With a vary funny skip sad atr.de.
** What dreadful uonaause "' said Mother Hen,
When aha heard the story told again ;
" You're bad as the two-leg* that don't have
wing a.
Nor feather* nor combs— the wrelcned Clung* !
That * the way they tight and talk
Fee what ian l worth a mullein stalk.
What does it matter, I'd like to know.
Where you came from, or where yon go ?
Keep your temper aud earn your food ;
I can't scratch worms for a fighting brood.
I won't have quarrels —I will have peace:
I hatched cat chickans, ao don e be geeee "'
Chip scratched his ear with his yellow claw,
The meekest chicken that ever you saw ;
And l'sep in her feathers curled one leg.
And said to herself—"But he was an egg !"
—Host Terry Cool*, in AS. .YicAoul*.
A DRAMATIC STORY.
The .Vfaaaer la WhicS aa lajared Man
dented Ac-ream* wit* the lleasermdaea.
A gentleman who has lately returned
from a visit to Dallas, Texas, tells a story
which is rather dramatic and may be
true. The story was told to him by an
old hunter, who had become domesticat
ed and was lounging about one of the
Dallas hotels.
" I could tell you a good many queer
stories, stranger," said the old fellow, in
conversation with the gentleman, "but
I don't know of anv that 'ml be more
likely to kind <>* strike you than au ex
perience of Stun L"ng's in Harrison
county, years ago. Texas wuz a tough
place then; yon kin bet on tliat!"
And then the old fellow told the story,
which can scarcely be as graphic in print
aa in his terse idiom:
Years ago Harrison county, in Texas,
was the haunt of about as desperate a
gang of ruffians as ever infested any dis
trict west of the Miw-iaxippi. Their "nnin
ber was so great and their organization
so complete that they set the but haif
administered law at defiance, carrying
on. a career of during crime with impuni
ty and making the region an undesirable
place of abode for ail honest citizens.
Ostensibly hunters or horse traders, the
desperadoes mads stock stealing their
chief occupation, never hesitating to
commit a murder when necessary for
their safety or for the execution of any
of their rascally plans. The controlling
spirit in this desperate organization aas
a giant named 4>iok Keddett, who, from
his exceptional ferocity and daring, ex
ercised almost despotic control over his
followers. A special pride of this man
was in his extraordinary skill in the use
of the rifle, no one of the hand lieing
able to compete with him in what was at
that time considered the chief accom
plishment of a Western mau.
It was a favorite practice with the
band to congregate at some one of the
few small stores scattered through the
country and there engage in shooting
matches, and it wus u|K>n one of these
occasions that Sam Long, the banter al
• ready mentioned, chanced to be present.
Long was a quiet, modest fellow who
lived with his wile and child in a small
cabin in the neighborhood and who made
hunting his constant occupation. He
never appeared at the store save to ex
change skins and furs for provisions or
ammunition, and was widely and favor
ably known for his sobriety and honesty.
Upon the occasion jnst referred to wbeu
Sam Long chanced to come while the
desperadoes were engaged in oneof their
shooting matches, it was demanded that
he should take a part in the sport The
hunter hesitated at first but finally, not
wishing to incur the ill-will of the ruffi
ans, consented, His skill with the rifle
was known to be some-thing remarkable,
and the desperadoes were not greatly
surprised when he defeated them all save
the captain of the band. This man hail
not engaged in the sport, hat when Long
nad vanquished all tne others he came
forward with the assurance of an easy vic
tory. The shots were made, and, to the
surprise of all, Long gained the day.
The rage of the leader of the ruffians
knew no bounds at thus being deb ated
in presence of his followers, and, although
refraining from any violence on the
spot, he intimated darkly to the huuter
that he would yet " get even with him."
Loug paid little attention to the threat,
and soon afterward returned to his
cabin.
At just dusk, some days later, Bam
Long having oome in from a long hunt,
was lying on the floor of hii cabin and
playing with the child, while his wife
was getting supper. The wife, busy
with her cooking, asked Long to go to
an adjacent spring and bring some wa
ter, a request which he promptly com
plied with, leaving his gun ia the house,
a somewhat unusual course with him.
He had reached the spring and was just
stooping to fill the pail he carried, when
he was borne down by an attack from
behind, bound securely and dragged
some yards into the woods. When he
recognised his assailants he knew what
to expect He had fallen into the hands
of the Beddett gang, and the leader
was about to "get even." Long was
stripped and bound to a tree by order
of the captain. A supply of hickory
switches was obtained, and then the cap
tain took one of them up and began the
whipping, announcing, with an oath,
that no man oould beat him or his men
at shooting and stay in the oountry. The
sufferings of the victim were terrible.
The flesh was cut from his back in strips
FHED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor.
VOL. VIII.
by the blown, and when tho leader of
the ruffian* hud gratified hin rage, otliern
of the iiatid continued the punishment.
Hut one man tunoug tlie Dumlwr nbowrtxl
any tuorey aud hi* assertion* that Loug
luul b*x>n punished enough were re
wired with dcrimen. Finally the hun
ter fainted under the miu. and the rnf
flaiia, having satisfied their grudge, de
puted, leaving the object of their spite
still bound to the tree, lu tin* noaitiou
he was found by hi* wife, who tiad be
come alarmed for hi* safety and who,
searching for hitn, had Iwvti attracted to
the spot by a faint moaning. She a*
MsUsl hun to roach the cabin, which he
diil with difficulty, and then nurned liuu
faitlifullv to recovery. It wra* week*
l>efore lie was well enough to move
about.
Scarcely had Loug recovered from hi*
wounds when his cabin was found do
serted, and member* of tho K-xldett
Iwuid, thinking lliut ho had tied tho
country. Insisted opoiily of what Uioy
had douo. At tho same time, thoy be
came ladder than over iuthe commission
of crime, always huutuig or travoling lo
geth.-r iu a company of MAween tweuty
and thirty, and defying attack from any
quarter. One day, as they worn en
gaged on a hunt, a member of tho band
became sejvamte.l from U e rest m the
excitement of Uie chase. He was found,
lvitig dend, shot in the left eye. A few
day* later, one of the ruffian*, riding
alone, was killed. Again the bullet was
found to have entered the left eye. but
uo trace of Uie slayer could be discov
ered. A week or two |*utaod, and an
other of the desperadoes was shot, the
fumie terrible accuracy L iug exhibited
iu a sliot in the left eye, proving all the
allot* to lie from the same source. The
roblwrs txvame alarmed and kept always
together in their raids, but there was uo
escaping the death which seemed always
to be lurking near them. One after an
other fell, until ten* men had died, each
one pierced in the eye. The wo-xls were
scoured by the terrified men in vain.
On oue occasion, when a member of the
I land was killed, the shot had been heard,
and once a gaunt figure was seen run
ning through the woods, but pursuit
failed to overtake him. Accustomed to
face danger as the desperadoes were,
and possessed as they were of a brutal
courage, they trembled before this mys
terious danger. It could uot bo faced,
and it could not be averted.
The result was that some of the band
deserted and tied tin- region. There re
mained only the captain and four of the
more r solute of his followers. These
five hunted and made their raids to
t gether, and for some time esoqxai harm.
It chanced that among the five was the
man who had endeavored to xave Long
at the time of the shipping from so
severe a torture. This man one morn
ing ventured out in the woods without
his commies. He was walking slowly
along, looking for game, when the hrowu
barrel of a nfie projecting from a bush
beside him checked his course. A tall,
lank figure rose from the bush, and the
startled man recognized Sam Long, the
hunter. Long raised the rifle, then low
ered it
" You're the man who said a good
word for me, an' von may go, bad a* you
are. I won't take your miserable life.
Go!"
The man needed no second invitation
to go. He hurried to the ou%p and told
his story. The captain and the other
three men started out in pursuit of
Long, and but two men accompanied
Dick Reddett when he returned ! The
third man had fallen, shot tu the ere,
and no search of the underbrush revealed
the hunter. The next day another man
was killed in camp, and again the hunter
escaped. On the next day the two re
maining men fled the country, leaving
the fleroe Reddett alone. The leader of
the desperadoes dared not remain where
he was. He knew he was the man whom
Long sought aUve ail other*.
Concealing himself until night, he
mounted h s horse and fled for the near
est point on the Arkansas river when* it
would lie possible to take passage on a
steainlioat. Two days later he reached
a small landing in the woods on the
banks of the river, where the *t<-auier
stopped for |>asengers, when there were
any to take. He learned from the ooou
|<ant of the ouly cabin in the i;< ighbor
iiood tliat the liat would In- down in the
afternoon, and so, having put up the
signal to secure a landing of the bout,
established himself on the Isuik and
waited. He deemed himself safe enough
from pursuit, and took no precautions.
Throwing himself on the ground he
slept, until, late in the ilav, he was
awakened by the sound of the l*>ut in
the distance. She would round a |x.int
in a moment or two, anl lie waited ex
pectantly. As suddenly as though risen
from the ground, a lank flgurc stood Ixv
fore him and the muzzle of a rifle peered
in his face. The terrified des|H-rr.ito lyal
no difficulty in recognizing the man as
the one lie hail injured. With the rifle
still held steadily upon the face of the
startled Reddett, Long hissed ont:
" I've got you ! You whipped me !
Whipped me like s dog! I swore I'd
kill you liefore I call myself a man again,
and I'm goin' to do it ! I've cb-aned out
your band, and now it's your turn ! Oh
I've got you I Thank God, I've got
you!'
The ruffian in abject fear pleaded for
his life, groveling at the feet of the hnu
er. He clung to his words as a drown
ing mau clings to straws. The boat was
very Dear. Should she round the point
in time he would le saved ! Already
her smoke stacks showed through the
brush, when the hunger pressed the
trigger, the sharp report rang out, and
Reddett fell dead, shot to the brain
through the left eye. Ixuig slipped away
in the woods, and when the boat stopped
, in response to the signal, they found a
dead man, but no one eise. Harrison
county was rid forever of the worst gang
. of ruffians in the Southwest.
" An' that, stranger," said the old man
in the Dallas hotel, "is a true story of
the way Ham Long settled accounts with
the blackguards."
On the Beach.
A l>eautiful young lady was walking
arm in arm with a young man an evening
or two ago, into whose? eyes she would
sweetly smile.
" It's a lovely evening," said the fair
one.
" Yes," replied her attendant..
They were silent and walked on.
" It was a lovely evening yesterday,"
said the beautiful girl as the came round
again.
" Yes," meekly answered the young
man, evidently at a loss what to say.
They caine around a third time, and it
was his turn now.
"I hope it will be a lovely evening to
morrow," said he.
" So do I," said she.
The eavesdropper arose, looked off on
the water, from which the tints of the
setting sun bad not yet gone, aud won
dered whether all beautiful women were
like this one.
ALL LOST.—A flock of one thousand
two hundred sheep were destroyed
through a strange accident recently,
near the Ban Jose mission, California.
The flock were passing along the edge
of a steep precipice when the leader lost
his footing and fell over the declivity.
The rest of the sheep, possibly suppos
ing this was in the usual wav of busi
ness, jumped one by one after their
leader and were killed 011 the rocks
below.
THE CENTRE REPORTER..
IIOKKOItS OF A TEXAS PRISON'.
I'atl. Kmsr 'a Merer!— The PwaUSwiral.
ml ihr Midair |H IwlulfJ—Tfcr Well.
Inn t'rll KM* Ikr " llwrae."
About a year ago, say* a Washington
dispatch, a }>erumptory order was issued
by Chief Clerk Crosby, acting secretary
.if war, for the iiuiueiliate removal of one
hundred and sixteen military prisoner*
from the State penitentiary at Hunt*
rille, Texa*, to Fort LMVenwurth. Fx
pueurm of the management of the Texas
penitentiary gave rise to a report that
this removal was caused by cruel and
liarharoun treatment of convicts at that
place. Inquiry at the war department
lias confirmed that rejiort. Last year,
in April, an inspection of the peni
tentiary was made by Capt. 0. D.
Emoty, acting jmlge advocate on (leu.
Augur's staff. He found the ventilatiou
of the cells very tunl, anil tlie food insuffi
cient in quantity and deticieut in variety.
The moat striking part of hi* report
relate* to the punishments resorted to
for enforcing obedience. Three of them
are described at length—the dark cell,
the "stocks," and the "horse." The
darT cell is a low, dark, oven like iu
cloanre, barely high enough to allow the
convict to sit erect on the door, and with
no opening for light or air except the
grated floor. The " stocks" are made
by cutting three holes in a lioard, stand
ing ou its edge, and fastened between
two Htakea. The central hole receives
the neck of the convict, and those on
each side his wrists. After tlie man has
been placed in tlie stocks, it is customary
to raise the tsiard ao as to bring tlie con
vict upon his toes, lesviug it so. In
raising it it would often lie jerked up
with such force as to eudlinger the
prisoner's neck. Convicts were often
left in the stock until they became in
sensible. The " horse " surpassed the
others, and was comparatively a now in
vention. It was introduced about uin
months before Oapt. Emory's visit. It
consists of a post six or eight feet high.
About four feet from the ground there
was driven into it a |eir of iron or wood
; an inch iu diameter and a foot or two
long. Refractory oouvicts were placed
astride of tins peg with their back* to
ward the post. Their hands were tied
Iwhind them to the jsist and their feet
the same, so that they could not change
their position or obtain any relief what
ever. The effects of this punishment
were horrible. Cant Emory examined
one man who luul been permanently
ruptured while "riding theliorae, and
others who were suffering acute disease
produced by the same cause.
More than six hundred of the >nvict
were employed by railroad contractors
and on plantations belonging to the les
sees of the penitentiary and other* at
the time of Capt. Emory's visit. Their
treatment was generally cruel. They
were overworked, and if they either
died witlnn a few mouths or broke down
their places had to lie tilled by fresh
gang*. They were insufficiently clad,
and were obliged to work at shoveling in
the winL-r, sometime* with only one
*hoe, sometimes with no shoes at all.
Their food was cooked in Houston and
transports! to them in open cars, and
much of it was spoiled Iw/ore it reached
them. Finally they were punished by
means of the "horse" and by whipping.
Convicts who bad returned from two
or three mouth* of service on the rail
road were examined by Capt- Emory,
and their condition found to l>e horrible.
It is not tit to l>e described. Hut ant
doubt a* to the inhnmauity of their
treatment would lie dispelled by an ex
animation of tlie mortality record*.
These show tliat twenty-eight death* oc
curred in the institution within nine
months prior to Capt. Emory's visit. In
twanty-Uinw case* the disease of which
tney died wa* contract-si whi'e tliey were
at work on the railmgda No record of
ttio*e who died in the railroad camps
were moeessible.
The leasees of the institution were
Ward, Dewey A Go., ami they were re
sponsible for this horrible cruelty. The
penitentiary was leased before the pres
ent State administration came into
power, and one of the leesse* was tlie
' collector of custom* of the port of Gal
vet,ton. When the order for the removal
of the military prisoners wa* issued,
efforts were made to iliduom the war de
jwirtiueiit to onuiibrmjiud its orders. The
United States military prisoners were,
however, nt onco removed to a place
where thev ore treated with some degree
of humanity. In spite of the rebuke
thus given to the lease, *, there i* rovwu
to believe that the management of the
jienitetitinry has not yet l>een reformed,
and at lea-t a thousand convicts there
are still habitually subjected to the
cruelties described.
He Farmed It.
He was A stogy-looking man. one eye
swelled shut, one finger Iwdly bitten,
coat torn down the back, hat gone, and
his good eye having a wild look. He was
a farmer, and he had come in with some
produce, sold it for cash down, and sold
his cash for whisky.
'Found in au alley,ugly drunk,"said
the court.
" Well, I feel mean enough a out it,
rerlie ! the prisoner.
" Wanted to have a good time, eh i"
"Yes."
" And I guess yon had one! Yon
look pretty, you do, Mr. Itarnls)! You
look nice to go borne to your wife and
children."
" I mad a fool of myself."
" And I'm glad to hear yon own the
corn. You were as ugly as a Malay when
the police brought yon in, but as you
are all banged up, re|enU'ut and forty
dollars out of pocket, I'm going to let
yon go home."
" Much obliged."
•• Is yonr wife an innooent minded
woman, Mr. R*ml>o? That is, docs she
always believe everything you say ?"
" Yes, sir, most always."
" Well, now, when yon reach home
yon tell Iter that you were down to the
"ferry dock to sec the little steamers can
ter lawk and forth over the foaming bil
lows, when four tugs and a propeller
ran into yonr bows and almost stove you
to pieces."
" Yes, sir, I will."
" And she'll believe it t"
"She will."
" Well, go out. Put l>eef on your
eye, salve on your finger, run your faoe
for a hat, and when you come to Detroit
again see if you can't keep from making
a fool of yourself."— JFtrmt Free Prttni.
Anls Recognizing their Relative*.
Huber, the younger, one day, took an
ant*' nest to populate one of those glass
contrivances which he used for making
his observations, and which consisted of
a sort of glass bell placed over tlie nest.
He set at liberty one part of the ants,
which fixed themselves at the foot of a
neighboring chestnut tree. The rest
were kept during four months in the
apparatus, and at the end of this Hubcr
moved the whole into the garden, and a
few ants managed to esca]>e. Having
met their obi companions, who still
lived at the foot of the chestnut tree,
they recognized them. They were seen
in fact, all of them, to gesticulate, to
caress each other mutually with their
antenna?, to tuke each other by the man
dibles, as if to embrace in token of joy,
and they re-entered together the nest at
the foot of the chestnut tree. Very
soon they came in a crowd to look for
the other ants under the bell, and in a
few hours our observer's apparatus was
completely evacuated by the prisouera.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER -J, 1875.
About Patent Medicines.
The A i/iern-rtn Affrtrutturiat is doing
gixst work in exposing the hunibitg*
offered to the (leople ill various guises.
In a late nutidior it says: Our objection*
to isiUnit medicines are several, bill first
and mainly lieoause they are secret. We
object to" taking or giving anything
wliaU'ver, the comiiositioii of which is
not fully kuown. We would Lot tfuat a
dumb animal or a iilant witli an uiikuowii
drug, much less a human being. Those
medicine* may lie divided Into two clues
es : those which (HMIWWB really active
pro(erties and have a issutive effect
when administered; and those which arc
practically inert, or consist of some
stimulant or tonic, and act more upon
the imagination through the remarkable
circulars which accompany tlieni than by
virtue of any medicinal agent they con
tain. This last class sre the worst
swindles, as tliey give a stuff tliat Cost*a
mere trifle for a'liigh price, but mauy of
Uiem are so nearly nothing that tlie harm
they do is more to tlie pocket than to
the system. The whole class may lie
net dowu as worthies* trash, and ill tlie
mam arc agents to draw money from tlie
nervous, timid, and credulous, for the
lienefit of a few iguonuit pretenders,
who, with their flashy diamonds, fast
horses, and fast life generally, are a sail
blotch upon our civilization. A* to the
other class, those medicines which have
some potency, we object to these l>c
oause tliey are powerful, and tliuso who
use them are working in the dark. Mor
phine is a useful remedy, but should al
ways be given knowing tliat it is mor
phine, aud just as ihuig< roua as it is use- |
ful. Not one mother in a hundred would
apply a solution of morphine to the
mouth of her teething babe did she know
that it was morphine, but mix it npwith
sugar, and call it aomcttody'a " soothing
syrup," it is used without a question,
aud thousand* of little white gravetdouos
all the way from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific attest its MO thing power. Certain
worm lozenge* were once popular, and
their ailvertisemcnt was lnd<-d ••Chil
dren Cry for Them," and hundred* of
parents who would have been horror
strickeu hail their phnueiau* prescribed
a dose of calomel, fed their children on
these lozenge*. The writer, at a public
lecture, exhibited tlie quantity of calo
mel he had separated from a I*>X of
thivx- lozenges, aiid ha.l tlie satl*fa*tion
of rhtx'king their sale iu that city. Now
while we do not deny tliat in some cases
these remedies may be useful, we em
phatically and wholly object to them ou
account of tlivir wvsrecy. They may be
hurtful, and are always needle**. \S hen
we say poedlesw, we mean in the secret
form in which they ore put up. Xuue
of this active class of secret nnxlicities
contain anything of any tnniicinal value
tliat is uot toW found at all decent drug
stores, or which is not al the command
of every one.
A Mas*ariui*rttH Horror.
Krwlnick i\ Towns, of lVtmlumi,
Maw , ft well-to-do farmer, diap|>aared,
and bis bmthfr-in law, H. J. Frost, mud
that lis had gone to California, and that,
though h left quire unexpectedly to hi*
friends, be (Frost) had known of hi* in
tcntiou* for some Uine ; aim > that To WHO
had left hi* property in hi* (Frost's) oare.
This story aii* readily believwd ty iwt
of the townspeople, though some who
hml hrard of a fierce quarrel between
Towns ami Frost had suspicions Uiat all
wo* not right, and that the missing man
wa* th victim of foal play. Tim* mat
tern wont along for nearly a mouth. The
suspicious elite] tamed against Frost
were lulled, except in the miuda of a
few, though hi* actions liave been re
garded a* singular iu aome respect*. A
few days ago, a mighUir baring some
business at tliat place weut durirtg the
absence of Front to the burn, and seeing
the grarel ap|t-ar.-d fresh took a crow
bar and pierced the earth aome distance,
and on examination a few human hairs
ami hit* of clothing were discovered.
Keeping the matter quiet, except to one
or two tnwtcd partioa, a watch was set
upon tha movement* of Frost, a hen he
was almost detected iu the act of moving
the dissevered portion* of the Ixsly.
Thereupon the party surrounded the
house, ami the selectmen of the town
and Sheriff Bothwrll, of liar re, were
sent lor. I'pon the arrival of the au
thorities a demand for admittance to the
house was made, and Mrs. Frost adj
mitted them. T!w> house was searched
mid Frost was found hidden behind an
old-fashioned loom under the rtsif in the
attic. He made no reaiatanoe, hut asked
tho prot ction of the officers, as lie
feared violence from the people. He
was taken to llorre for safe looping. A
coroner wiis not tied of the affair. and
immediately took mea*ur>e to find the
other [tortious of the body, ami to hold
an inquest. The upper portion of the
trunk of the IMKIY, including the head,
arms and chest, was found in n sack
buried in a cornfield near where the
other sack was buried. The leg* have
not lieen found. At the inqucnt Mrs.
Frost, wife of the snpjmaed murderer
and sister of the murdered man, gave
her testimony, which strongly implicated
the accused, and he was fully committed
to awmt the action of the grand jury.
A Vermont paper tells this story: In
a Sunday school, on a recent Sunday, a
young man—we won't call his name, as
ho is unusually modest —mode his ap
pearance, probably the first time for
years that he hod been in such a place,
and was invited by one of the teachers, a
deacon, to take a seat with his class. In
the course of the lesson the question
came up: " Who were the Sodducees I"
No one in the class answered it, and
finally the teacher turned to our friend
and said: "Brother, can't you tell us
who the Sadducees were P Well, we
suppose no question could lie asked by
mortal lips but what the individual re
ferred to would have some answer ready.
This, however, was a poser, as his ac
quaintance with Scripture personages is
not very extensive. However, after a
moment's thought, he replied: "Idou't
exactly know, but so far as I can recol
lect they were a hard set of ducks." The
good deacon pondered a moment, and
then clutching the meaning of the slang
phrase, replied: " Y.-s, brother, I be
lieve you are right; they were a hard
set."
Itcscntfng an Injury.
Savage nations have curious idea* of
revenge. An unintentional wrong pro
vokes ang)>r a* readily as a deliberate in
jury, ami may incite retaliation. A case
of thin Bort happened recently on the
iHTrdoro of Assam. Just acroee the fron
tier of Aasaui livee a wild tribe of Dow
las. They are very suspicions of their
English neighbora, and are constantly
on the lookout for insult or eiicroach
meut. A party of British subject* pass
ed the border, partly for an exploring
tour and partly for business purposes.
Unluckily one of thetu lnul the whooping
cough, and communicated the disease to
the natives. It spread among them ex
tensively, and not a few coses were fatal.
They resented the misfortune as a will
ful wrong, and would not lie persuaded
that it was accidental. Determined on
revenge, they mustered a strong war
party, and made a raid over the border,
inflicting all the injury in their power on
individuals and villages under British
protection. It is thus possible that a
war may come from a case of whooping
cough.
A Hard Set.
THE qi'EEX OF THE GYPNIEH.
( fctlSrea •( Ik* r<ffS frlsklPsrS OS tv a
KI.IM-.-Tfcr I'mimucs'*! •' •• lairr.
Wsathsr.
A large iiumlwr of young |*>r*otis
gatlieri*! at the gyp*y encampment on
the old Cove mail just beyoml the King*
county peiutentiary, to attondthc corona
tion of the king and queen, who reivutly
came from England to be the hauler* of
tlie Iribc of wanthtmrs tliat every few
years spread their Touts on liolig ishuid.
There were, says the New York Aim, !
only two families iu tlie encampment
near Brooklyn, but about forty wagons
were expected fmm Jamaica, Hempstoad,
and Flushing, and from New Jersey, and
all of these were to choose their king
aud queen. Uriah Wharton, a half- '
breed, lias been king of the trilie for
uiany years, but a ohort time ago lie left
with his family to go off alone. He is
nearly seventy years of age, and lias
leeu in this country twenty five year*.
He gave up the leadership liecause he
was so old, and the gypsy families were
to meet tc attend the marriage of their
new lung and queen. The husluunla of
the families —tlie Bo# wells and the
Sparrow* —were off trading horses.
Sparrow's wife was in the city tolling
fortunes, and Mr*. Bos well was in charge
of tlie throng of bright, funny gypsy
children who were frolicking around on
the gross. Khe *aid tliat Jie was very
much disappointed tliat the other fami
Ilea luul uot arrived, because tliey were
lonely.
Young Wharton, a stalwart sou of the
former chief, arrived early in the ilay, ;
expecting to meet the other families
there, but lie supposed that they had
leeu kept sway hy the threatening rain.
Mrs. Boa well looked every inch a gypsy
fortune toller. Hhe wore long Egyptian
earring* and other antique jewelry. She
said that she had been seven year* iu
this country, and had traveled fmm
Maine to Georgia, ami around to Illinois
and lack. She pointed with pride to
her iloughtor Hevira, a beautiful girl,
who was making bright eves at the youug
men. Hhe wore a coral necklace, with
her name on the gold clasp, and on nearly
every finger there was a jeweled ring.
Her drees was much soiled, but her feet
were covered by bright theatrical shoe*.
Hhe was full of mischief, aud was trying
to make her lovrr, Wharton, jealous.
Hhe said that she liked Wharton 1 s-tter
than any American sheerer saw. If she
married a white man lie must be a splen
did, handsome man, with plenty of
money, and he must have a large park
with a tout in it, for her to live in. " I
won't live in a house," said idn-. " I
was five years at school at Eppmg
lorest, near Loudon, but I loved to be
outdoor* more than I did to lx- inside.
A nurntwr of gypsy girl* were there with
me. I will never go into a city to live,
because my mother and my sisters could
not live with me. They could not stand
it. I have some objections to Wharton ;
he doesn't drink, and isrich, but be will
play quoits. Them he is, at it now.
Why won't he. go into hi* tout and mad
- r< *d poetry and nice thing*.'
The orgauist of l)r. Egg lesion'* church
and his betrothed Lady fneud went up to
liave the eX|>ectatit bride'a fortune told.
Hevira took her behind the tont and first
said that she was very lieentiful ; then
she told her of tlie line of life along the
center of her luuid, and how few mark*
there ware ou it, allowing tliat *lie luul
led au easy life. She would le marrn*!
MMQ, and to sonic one not far of!. Then
the young miws came fmm behind tha
tont and blashingly said tliat she had
tieen told of sometliing tliat b*<l almady
happened, and, looking sweetly at the
orgauist, add*l : " aud something that
is to happeu, t JO." The young man
went to liave hi* fortune told, and came
lack in a sulk, while Uiegyjvy niaiil tip
t.ied behind him, making fac-*, and
laughing out of # hcf eyes. T.e king and
quean did not come, and wuir one sug
gested tliat the report was an atlvertiniiig
job. Then the matron of Uie baud said
very aoberiy: "If you thought Un-re
would le grand sights, yon arc mistaken.
All we do is to gather together and *e
leet our lea<le*, and then more off." A
little gyjwy who ha<l lx*<n busy
making nickels bv playing Yankee
Doodle ou his Ui'th by knocking his
lower jaw against the ujqwr played a
porting tunc a* Uie visitors burned away
to avoid the approaching rain.
A Rebellion in Peru.
The South American States are given
to internal troubles. An attempt at rev
olution has taken place at the |K>rt of
I slay and Mollendo, Peru. The move
ment wa* headed by Arevala, one of
Pierola's officers of the Talisman expe
dition. They attacked the town of Inlay
and robbed the custom house, getting
SSOO or S6OO. After having informed
the half awakened donixeiia of tho place
that Pierola was iu force at Are pupa,
and that the downfall of President Par
do was imminent, the adventurous band
took up their line of march to Mollendo,
the nearest port to the south, and the
coast terminus of the Art-quip* railway.
By this time the ranks of tlie invaders
had been increased, and when they sur
prised Mollendo at seven o'clock 111 the
morning, they numbered nearly sixty
effective men". Taken nuawar.-s. the
few goudnrmcs stationed at Mollendo
found it imjMissible to offer a combined
front to their unwelcome visitors, and
after receiving and returning several
j musket shots the town f -11 into the
hands of the attacking party. Arevalo,
however, only delayed long enough to
couflscato all the arms and ammunion iu
Molleudo, and then oblig.nl the Rtntion
master to put uti a special train for Are
qnipa. When Arevalo arrived within a
few miles of Arequipa ho was met by a
small force of iwilice and mounted
guards, who speedily ronb-d his follow
ers. wounding him and making him
prisoner. Arevalo died of his wounds.
The country in general oontiune* quiet.
The friars of a convent in Arequipa
were actively concerned in the revolt.
Some forty conspirators were captured
in the monastery, and the bishop of tho
diooose has been applied to to close the
iustitntion.
I'ig Iron.
The production of pig iron in the
United States last year amounted to
2,689,413 tons, as compared with 2,868,-
278 tous in 1878, and 2,864,558 tons in
1872. The following Slates made more
iron in 1874 than iu 1873: Maine, Ver
mont, Maaeaolinsetts, New York, Vir
ginia, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, \\ est
Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan.
The following States mode less iron in
1874 than in 1873: Connecticut, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North
Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Missouri. The greatest
increase in 1874 occurred in the miscel
laneous bituminous coal aud coke dis
trict in Ohio; the greatest decrease iu
1874 took place in Lehigh, Pa.
A Novel Case.
A French foundling asylum has set up
a novel claim lately. One of its prote
gee, whose mother was dead anil whose
father had abandoned it, inherited a for
tune from a relative of the mother. At
once the father claimed the custody of
the child, the mother's relatives claimed
it, and the hospital claimed the right to
hold the child and administer the for
tune ; bnt the law gave the child to a
guardian chosen by the relatives of the
mother.
A Crusoe Colony.
Recent revelations liave exciUsl on in
tonse and growing interest in tlie fate of
the fifteen or twenty men who, more
than a quarter of a oentury ago, chartered
tlie scluHJiier Floriud* and set soil for
Uie golden shores of California. For
twenty six years the families of tlie
a.l venturers have mourned them as lost.
The last new* of the Florinda was re
ceived late in Hie year RMtt, from Kio
Janeiro. Hhe lunl pat in at that port
some Ume previous, aud then prooeed<*l
ou her way, baking badlv, it was said.
A vessel toiU'liing At Bio Janeiro shortly
afterward reported having spoken tho
Floriiula in the Pacific, just beyond Gape
Horn. From tliat time forward nothing
more was ever heard of the Floriuda,
aud it tiecame an accepted theory that
she had been cast away and her crew
lost aomewhere on the southern Pacific
coast. No tidings reached the families
of the ill fated argonauts, and twenty
six years alip|M*l by without a waif or
whisper to disturb the melancholy con
viction which lnal sealed the record
of their lives. Their cliildreu have
grown to manhood aud womanhood with
out the knowledge, with scarcely the
memory of a father's love. The hopes
that clustered around them have long
ago been transferred to that other world
in which they were believed to lie. Hueh is
the storv a* it ha* passed current all this
time with the general public and with
the greater number of the relatives of
the Floriiula company. At first, of
course, there were doubts aud fears and
expectations, mure or loss reluctantly
resigned for certainty, but to this con
clusion all eventually came, and the loss
of the schooner with all on board has
fully a quarter of a century lieen regard
ed as a fact about which there could be
no sort of question. The unfortunate
men liave teen as utterly given up as
though their burial* had taken place in
presence of the whole community, ami
to have told any of their families thai
they were still Jive would have beeu to
ask them to believe that the dead liod
arisen after twenty five years of sepul
ture, and walked forth once more among
the living.
However, precisely this projioaiUoU
lias, ill effect, been male. The strange
and startling statement lias transpired
thai Harmon Jones and his fellow voy
agers were not lost, but are now olive ou
some uiuueloas and undiscovered island
in tlie lower Pacific. About a mouth
ago a friend of Mrs. Harmon Jones read
in an English pajer an account of some
British vessel having beau driven out of
her course in a storm and mghted an un
known island. Much to the surprise of
the crew the island turned out to be in
habited. and, still more astonishing, by
men who spoke the English language.
The rest of the aUrv, as given in the
pa| r referred to. IS that the castaway*
told the ship's company tliat they were
the Florinda jiarty who had sailed from
New Urinous in 18411 for California, thai
thev had l***u wrecked on tlie island,
and luul dwelt there evwi since, it being
then more than twenty-five years that
they luul not seen a human face or a
sign of the world from which they were
iso utterly eliminated. The paper gave
the name* of several, all of whom are
know to liave been of the Florinda a
crew, and in many other waya. according
to the version of Mrs. Jones' Jnend, the
identify of the party was established, aa
none tint themselves could have estab
lish*-d it It was fnritier stabs! that the
iiritndi Tcani offered to take the men
on board, but tht y deoltned, saying they
ltml I wen lost for a quarter of a century;
that they knew not in what ailoation
they would find Die farailh"* they hod
left, and that they preferred staving and
• •uding their ilay* there rather than ven
-1 tore back to such a doubtful anil un
certain future. Thi* ia|ier was four
months old when Mr*. Jonee' friend saw
: it, and the events narrated were described
■ as having manured four months previous
|to the issue of the paper. It is nine
mouths, then, since the island was dia
covt-red by tlie British vessel, and at that
Ume all, "or nearly all, of the Florinda
party appear to have teen alive.
Scarlet Fercr lYeveatable.
For xime month* past, *gj* tlie j
Oneida (\rt-uJar, the scarlet fever lias
IKVU circling about in this region; first to
the liouth of us, then went, tlwn north.
When it fir*t appeared onr <k>otora ex
plaiaed to UH the neocsaary precautions
in regard to it. unit since that time we
hnvo a one what we oouhl, not only to
rejwl tin- aiiMW from oar own home,
bat slso to protect oar workmen and
neighbors from it. We liavo ourselves
escaped it altogether, ami the experience |
of little hamlet near us in which nuuiy
of onr hired workmen live deserves to
IM< report* >a. The children of several
families took the disease, and it seemed
to be expected as a matter of course that j
it would have a "run" through every .
family in the neighborhood. But just
at tliat time wo were appealed to, and
Dr. Cragiu and some others went over
and attended a meeting which had been
rolled to consider the matter. We re
commended them hi close their school
until the disease hsd entirely di**ppe*r
ed, and to iaolalo every child which then
had it or which might afterwards take it.
To sustain this advice the community
offered to let any of our workmen whose
children had scarlet fever stay at home
ami take care of them, their wages to
continue as if they worked. The peo
ple accepted this plan and it ha* been
very successful. The disease was sum
marily choked out so that there is no
longer any fear of it there. It still
lingers, however, in some neighborhoods
more remote from us, where the inhabi
tants take it as it Comes, mafing no
effort to prevent it. They do not seem
to have the slightest idea of resisting,
exeept to drug the sufferers in the old- i
fashioned way. One woman witli whom
the writer talked said she gn.-ss.Hl her
children were going to have it, as they .
were " gruntin' 'round putty lad. '
She was eloquent in her praise of the
systematic mourning another mother
had jx-rformed whose children hail re
cently died of scarlet fi-ver. Oocaaion
ally that seem* to tie tlie main care—to
mourn to the admiration and envy of
the neighbor*.
I'nseaworthy Dresses.
The Cleveland Isadcr does not be
lieve tho "pin-back" dr**sses are de
sirable for ladies who ei|xx-t to make a
son or lake voyage. It mentions the oaae
of a yowng lady who entered a strnet car
on the way to take an exeursion steamer
for a lake picnic. After her departure
two boys held a conversation as follows :
" I say, Joe, they'r goin' on the
'scunion."
A nod from the fat boy.
•' It's grin' to be rough, you Va tI"
A nod and chuckle from tlie fat tx>y.
" It'll shake "em up like sixty, won't'
it, Joe I"
A nod, a chuckle, and a grunt from tho
fat boy.
"What la-ats me is, how in thunder
she'll get over it. Bho can't lean over
the gunwale in that there single-barreled
stovepipe no more'n if she was one o'
them 'Gyptian mummies they tell of. It's
too bad to spile that git-up, but I tell
you, Joseph, anyhow you can fix it, the
pins hex got to fly."
Then the fat lx>v weut into a paroxysm
of noils, chuckles and grunts, and his
delighted companion was obliged to alap
his back to keep him from choking.
A fiery charger—A summer hotel
keeper.
Term*: 52.00 a Year, in Advance.
CHOLERA AND FLOOD*.
Kirrlns Irmm Ifcr Neearae-A Oswsfall ml
Hmlm I ■rwwlMl far UramilMM.
A terrible calamity has twfallen Da
maaeua. For mauy weeks it liaa be-u
kuown that a disease, suppoacd to be
cholera, was at work in Jtamath, ami
spaamodie attempts at ourdoini and
iiuanuituisa were made. A man died in
the Christian quarter, aftor a few hours'
illness, with al! the symptoms of cholera.
A woman was attacked and died about
Hie middle of tha same afternoon. Dr.
l'atterwou saw the woman, and, I am
told, theisms the mm to be una of
cholera. One or two other isas worn
reported on the same day as baring oc
curred in the Moslem quarter. There
can be little doubt that the scourge hue
reached Damascus, ami after a terrible
year of Hyruut fever aud ague, it is likely
to find many victims. The cludera is sanl
to be a local kind, not Indian cholera;
but whatever may be its •}ax-tea, it ia
sufficiently deadly, aa the victims only
survive at most ton hours from the time
they am attacked. Thorn ia intouae
alarm in the city, and all who am are
preparing to flee. Many am getting
rmdv to go to Zahley or llastaJya, or
BlutLu, or riaidcnaya, aud even those
whose creed is a kind of fatalism seem
to have come to the conclusion thai it
is dnaimhle to aeek higher latitudes and
I letter air than those of Damascus.
Tin- first of June was a day long to be
mmembered in Damaacaa. The wind
blew fiercely. The sky Lxmme aa aack
<dolii of hair. The thunders roaml in
ooMaiiUy, and the lighUtiaga played
across the black douda, and all the ek>
un-nts seemed marshalled and arrayed
;in stormy strife. As (maaiou aomctunea
seeks relief in toara, ao the thunder
riven elouda pottml out tormuta and
deluged the laud. The French diligence
* tart-*1 in the aftornuou, and tried to
brave the storm, but it was driven back
by the rising flood, and succeeded in
reaching the company'* offices, not with
out peril, but twiore the bndgOß were
swept awray. The river aproad over the
fielda like an angry deluge and awept
before it all ulnrtaeiea. The Dummor
bridge and the company'a bridge both
gave way before it, and it overthrew the
place at *EI- Werdayan and otlmr oppos
ing structures. It raged around the
government offices and through the
houses and abop* and atoms, doing im
mense injury to property, and acme aay
that many human beings oh*, were swept
away. It swept into the office* of the
road company, doing much damage to
(he barley and fodder of the moles, and
as the whole place was under water, the
animal* had to be removed to the Mey
-Un The priaouecw had alao to be taken
from the malefactor'a prison to nave
them from drowning like rata. Tlioae
who were within the city aought for dry
places and those who were without were
oldigwd to remain there. The diligence
from Beyrout waa obliged to atop at the
elevated station Kl-Haniy. The post
was passed into town by tha high path,
and the paaaougv-ra rode into the city on
the following hy. No ancli flood has
been in the (dace in the memory of the
oldest inhabitant.
Training the Indian*.
Buffalo Bill, who traveled with a party
of Indiana, tells ua of his first expon
ent* with the red men M actor*. He
says : On the first night we opened at
Leavenworth, we had no rehearsal and
wheat the hour arrived we knew no more
what the Indian* would do than the
audience. But I went behind the scenes
and told them to go out and do their
heat At the pi Ten signal they went
hooting and yelling on the triage and
commenced a war dance. They had
three trash scalps, which they bad cap
tured from another tribe a few day* be
fore, and as Utey progressed in the dance
they grew excitea, flouittbtd their toma
hawk* and knives, and flung the scalps
into the air, cutting at them with their
wcapous aa they demanded, and licking
them with their tongues whenever they
could get them in their hands. At
length they got worked up to such a
pitch of excitement that, forgetting for
the time where they were, they leaped
over the orchestra and ran yelling and
whooping up and down the amies. The
audience was so frightened that most of
them ran out of the house, and we were
rather soared ourselves, as we did not
know how the thing would eml. Two
of us ran out on the stage and shouted
and gesticlated until we were tired, with
out effect, when oue of the squaw* came
ent and told ns to let them nave it out
or they might do some damage. This
was the last night we gave a performance
without a rehearsal, for the Indians told
us they thought they were to do just as
they had done.
•singular Death bj StanaUaß.
The death of Mn. MftlU.iv, of Watling
ford, Ct, wee caused in e singular men
tier. Eleven veer* ego she accidentally
* wallowed e eolntion of potash, which
canard erosion and inflammation of the
oesophagus, ending in nmttenl oon
striciiou end lessming of its caliber at
e point about two inahea above the *u
jerior end of the stomach. Chi account
of this stricture she wss compelled to
exercise great caution in eating, as but a
small monthfnl of food well chewed
would pass it. She claimed to have
swallowed a cherry-stone about two
weeks before hex death, which she be
lieved lodged in the narrowest portion
of the (esophagus. From that time till
her death no food could enter her
stomach, and she died of starvation.
The examination after death showed
that she was right in her conjecture, #>r
the cherry stone was fouud closely Ailing
up the tube, so that nothing could pass
' it.
A RidlrnloH* Scene.
A ridkmloua neon© occurred in the
British House of Commons on the night
when the subject of the Prince of Wale*'
visit to ludia van debated. Mr. Newde
gato, wlui with Whalle* aud one or two
others, in also on the aide of the laughed
at, va* making an exceedingly solemn
speech, the burden of which wan against
the extravagance royalty imposes upon
the nation, and, desiring to emphasize a
remark, indulged in a striking gesture.
Before him sat another honorable gen
tleman, who, according to the etiquette
of the British Parliament, had lus hat
on, showing that he did not sympathize
with the orator of the moment This hat
WAS a white one, and received all the
force of the striking gesture, being
forced down over the wearer's head.
The effect was disastrous, making the
■peaker the victim of uproarious laugh
ter, which killed his speech.
Their Diamonds.
It is not generally known that the
Mexican women of the wealthier classes
use as ornaments, on extraordinary oc
casions, live tire-flies, which in the dark
emit a bright phosphorescent light.
They belong to the family of leaping or
springing beetles, aud are called by the
Spanish cucujo. They are kept in ele
gant little cages, and fed on slices of
sugarcane and bathed twice a itay, either
by the ladies themselves or by their
maids. In the evening they are put
into little sacks, shaped like roses, and
attached to the ladies' dresses. The
light these little bugs emit surpasses in
brilliancy the reflection of the purest
diamonds.
NO. 35.
My Pet Monkey.
My monkey h s UwuUful little aai
iu*i, with tiny delicate hwdt, bat it vw
very mischievous, u a gr*t many little :,
boys mud girl* an. My brother had j
brought it uvf m a present to me, end I
named it Jeanette. I ni obliged to [
keep my pet up stairs in one of the gar
rata, because slm m o destructive Unit j
I *u afraid to let br sleep in my bed- ,
room, but every day Jeanette wae al- ;
lowed to oome down to dreasrt, and aba
alwaya bad a cbair next to mine, and ab 1
toted to crack ber nuta, and aometimea, |
when aba waa in a vary amiable mood, j
aha would offer ma una, and if I would
not take it aha need to be offended and
would not eat any more herself.
It happened one day when abe waa at
deeaert with ua all that abe suddenly cot
into a bad tamper beoauae 1 pretended
to take one of the nuta off ber plate; aba
took up her plate and threw it at ma It
miaaed me and fall on Ute floor. Of I
oourao it waa amaabed to atoma, and aa i
it waa rather a pretty one my father wae j
angry, and be got up and tried to eateb
my pal; but Jrauette thought that abe
would have a little fun, ao aha ran up >
and down fur about an boor until I i
< might her, but I waa obliged to band j
her over to my father, who whipped ber j
until it made me cry; but Jeanette,
mvohxl to enjoy it, and ran up to the :
top of the curtain* ae tf nothing had
happened. 8o we let ber remain there, j
and took ne notice, until it yu time to j
go to bad, when I tried all I#ould to g* j
her down from her parch; but nothing
would paraunde ber to ease, ao my '
father aatd: " Maw mind, U bar atop
there U>-night I am mm abe wont do
any barm again fen a Long time after my !
whipping." Ho I want to bad, baring
lucked the door ao that my poor little
monkey could not get out
Mow 1 will tell you wbat abe did. Xn
the cupboard wua a box of arrowroot
which my uncle had sent to ua aa a proa
ant When it waa light Jfoaattte got
down from her perch and ftaind the box
of arrowroot; mm put ber Ipada into it i
ami sprinkled it ull over tbf room, and {
when the box waa empty Am abut tha i
cupboard, got up again to bar perch, and
want to sleep. I came dogn about cix
o'clock to let my priaouer out. when, to
my great surprise, I found the room all t
over while, jaat aa if it bad beau enow*
ing, and there uua my monkey looking
m tnnoeeni aa if nothing had naitpened.
I want to op* the cupboard, and there
I found the tin qui* emj>tjr. Wall, I
did not know bow to eateb my naughty
[*at, ao I thought 1 would nit down and |
pretend to be selsep. la* down and j
presently felt something pulling at my
dram, but I would not take any notice
t*cauar I knew it wae Jcamffto ; I watt
ad, and abe pulled again ; (lading that
would not answer, abe jumped on my
knae and put bar little a una around my
nock. Thau I caught la*, and abe
looked ao eorty beoauae the knew I
should scold, that I waa obkged to for
give her, and 1 am aura you would bare
dime the same. j
Aa Operation by PkjsieiatH Wbu da |
not Adiertise.
Since the academy of medicine at
F.raasnlle, LmL, expelled a veteran pby
kicmu few regularly advertising, the :
Joarnat, at that place, triesto carry oat
the rule in spirit by excluding the ir- J
regular advertising, in repotting a case
aa follows: ■ j
There waa an operation performed the
other day—a surgical operation—and if
w did not hare a wboieso* dread of
the academy of medicine before our i
,-yea, we would report the isiw in fuiL
It was an amputation of the leg—the
lower tart-about half way between,
where the shoe stops and the garter be
gins. The patient waa *ak, and could
not afford to loae any blood; die aeedtsl
all she bad to Iwgin the buameaa of bv
ing again, ao the doctm (members of
the Drake medical academy, coua.Hpn*ot
ly cannot be named j agreed solemnly <
that she ahouhl not iuee any at aIL Dr.
—— (are are writing according to the I
"code" now, no we can't name him) ,
produced a sort of robber strap, which
looked Like the doctor's suspender*,
sewed end to end. l>r. —■ (a member
of Drake miylkml academy, m we cannot
mention names ) held the leg up while j
Dr. (we dont poena to be personal. ,
tint it w* neither of the other doctors)
strapped the rubber on. This dime, Dr.
i who, being a mernhe* of Drake
medical academy, cannot allow the use j
'of his name) put something el m cm, !
while Dr. —-(who is nameless because
a member of Drake medical academy) .
took the rubber strap off. A physician
waa present (belonging to Pnlke medi
cal academy, we withhold hia name)
armed with a knife, and began to cut.
He waa ably assisted by a medical gen
tleman of this city (unmentionable here,
as he holds a memlwrsliip in Drake
medical academy). The arteries were
taken up by Dr. (who belongs to i
Drake medical academy, and is thereby
•' nameless here furevermore") in a .
moat skillful manner. When our re
porter left the patient was doing welL (
; The whole operation was reiy creditable
i to tlie doctors (who, being members of
the Drake academy of medicine, cannot
liare their names in print).
A Child's Prayer.
She was hardly able to talk plainly,
iind a policeman had to give her his
hand to assist her up the steps into the j
central station.
" Did you put my mother in jail 1"
she asked, aa she pushed her pink ;
sun bonnet back and looked from one to
another. I
They hadarrestedared-faoed, tangled
haired* woman, who fought the officers
and made use of foul language. Mo one
dreamed that the child wae hers, but it (
was. The little thing waa so innocent
and pure that they didn't want her to '
even see the iron burs, but the mother
heard her voice, called to her, and tbey
opened the corridor door. The child
grasped the iron door, looked into the
cell, and cried oat:
" Why, mother, you are in jail!"
The mother crowded back, ashamed of
herself, and the child knelt down on the
stone floor, clung to the iron bars of th
door, and prayed: J
" Now I lay me down to sleep, and I
hope my mother will be let out of jail !"*
The men had tears in their eyes as
j they gently removed her, and when the
woman came into oourt the next morn
ing to be tried his honor whispered to
her to go home and try for that child's
sake to be a mother instead of a wretch,
i —Detroit Free Frcsa.
A Lessen for AIL
Two young men, friends, left Wor
cester, Mass., for New London, Conn.
They drank a quart of liquor on the
train, and were both drunk when they
reached their destination in the evening.
They staggered from the cars to a wharf,
where, without a word of quarrel, one
killed the other with a pocket knife,
took his watch and small storeof money,
and returned, in the evening, to Wor
cester. In the pocket of the murdered
boy was a letter from his mother. This
alone saved the body from being buried
as unknown, and led to identiflcation.
Then the officers of the law fallowed the
clew and soon stood before the youthful
murderer with evidence of his guilt.
And the poor wretch oould only cry
out: "Bum did it!" This is only one
of the occurrences that are daily preach
ing total abstinence in the newspapers
and the courts of justice.
fiesta of Intercut.
The acale of good breeding—B mU
11 is reported that several horses were
reoautly made deaf by lightning at Lan
4MMHHESg It T E y $ $ ___
Otttaftff* pwpUi drank 16,0*>0,000
glasses of lager beer during the year
coded August lib
The bur wop ot Connecticut will
amount to 887,000 ions, worth f7,Of"Y
000 or pt,000,000.
" Je-amns, did ye ever saw a moose
killed t" " No, Auyimit'i*, but Tv.< saw
a buck shut." if
A Minnesota worn** killed eight.*-*
bustadsof grasshopper* 1U cme Week, and
§fi ;
Not king mm bo said in fteror of soor
ing, ami not <■ person three will
acknowledge that be does snore.
people will have no difficulty
in' gutting shmff well if they alwaya
keep two bear* in the bouse—bear and
> fstVMfi * ,T . f
" Do you like eodflah balls. Mr. Wig
gtosl" Mr. Wiggins, butatngly-" I
nwdlv don't know " I don't roeolk** •*-
tendingottose---.- , .4 ,1
Omacripttou exitta in Germany ; but
tamecripta can't buy Uwmnclvea off from
athtary service, M tn France, and this
makes a big military ttMmencn.
Dulnth doesn't want amy mote real ea
tate A floating iidaod waa washed
.shore thmeltoUnr day, bat the so
thorities had it towed out again.
The gentle cittnawa d De Hoto, Mo.,
i have 1 sewed reeoluttotw declaring that
they will hereafter hang every Wee
thief they can lay their hands on.
The monument of General John Stark
at Manchester, N. H.. has been no de
famed by memento hunters that a new
■ ,ue will probably have to be erected.
"Ah, yea; the West is not entirely
! to the vaet maatmj ot nature,"
: remarked a Bosbmian. "It fttniiahea
, the pork to flavor our beana with, you
| know."
By meant testa it has bean dmnon
! dieted that a train weighing KSO.OOO
i pounds, and moving at the rat.- of Ofty
two milea an how, can be stopped with
in 280 yard*.
" Puta" and • odhi" may be proper
lv defined thus : Yon put your money in
L hand, of a broker for Cjwrpose of
n: and call for the profits in
i vain.
I In the wnatry, now. Maud Midler is
raking hay ewaywhet*. And the judge,
j riding down, iom not aae her at all, but
ia figuring on his chances for a lenonu-
UStIOU.
I never plane much reliance on a man
who w d waya toUiM what he would have
done had be been them. I fc* noticed
that somehow thia kind of people never
| John, I wish you'd done that door,"
aid m irritahie father to hia ton.
IYour laother moat be Moulding aome
bodv at the other sad of the hall, there *
j aach a draft from that quarter."
i The fiddler of a aaiaetxel company ma
away the other day m debt to the mana-
K, who declared that he bad
fellow for a fiddler, but ha bad tak
! m the part of a haae vWhtttt.
Did yon ever meet Alrwo Brown of
Tbgteb If you mm* ddj never
will. Be wm found out Wett, hanging
to a limb, the otLer day, and a
to hia coat read : " He stsde hams.
80 great ia the rapacity of wuifiah.
bses, and pkkawl in lake George that
TfIMS 70,0or8a,* trout pUced tu
thea* water* by Bath Green, acsiwly one
m a tbommnd wiU oome to maturity.
A young man in Lanoatter Pa,, seat a
dollitoa firm in Sew York who adver
ttoed a receipt to prevent bad drmm*.
He iHgnd a small slmof papery m
which was printed: "Don* go to sleep.
A suffering wife baa come to the con
clusion thtt it earner tor a man to
thaai to bring in the kotoiiegs or put up
a clothes liue.
An awful fate km overtaken a Texan
lawyer. The Bonham Emterprue aaya :
Joe Duprwe made his first speech reeent
lv, assisting Capi. Sims in the psoeecu
tmuTf Ale! Rodger* The jury senten
ced him to be banged.
New J*ev is the State for tow taxes.
' Ber whole indelde.fnem oataule ber war
debt ia only ber rcmsin
mg war debt only WtflfMOO.
< xcws of eanapta over expenditures iaet
ymr waa 1^817.27.
Ilia noticed, but not explainable, that
the party who mampulttce the " boas
' fid.fle In an orobeetra is invurubly
1 add-headed, and that if tbs big drum in
a band is a wary big drum, it is always
i powuded by a abort, fat man.
The Froetwumna of lowa are very
much exexei-ed over a receot decision of
the grand master that dancing in the
lodge rooms ia ineooeiatent with the
good of the craft. Two saboedinato offi
(vi* haw been deprived of thrii pom
i tiaua tor acting in violation of the de
ctaaon.
A newly arrived family v*e tatelj g
ing at a shop window tn Bockport, 111.
Little giri—"Oh, mscima! is that a 'en!"'
—" No, my child, that is a
howl- Fatter —"No* my wife and
daughter, that ia neither a'en or* howl,
but* is a beagle, the hemblem <rf thin
| blawtod oountry 1"
Dr. Pmrett, of Mtddletown. Conn.,
j he has discovered the oanae of
hay fever in the pollen of the ambrosia
plant, which matures abffirt August , and,
carried about by the wind, oauaea imta
tion of the nieal passages ; and aaya
that the way toeaeup* the disease is to
go to some town where thin plant is
not found.
At a Meridea reform school the other
day a boy who had been called up fru
chastisement began to wm around the
room instead, the instructor in full chase
with a ferrule, Finding that he oould
< not catch him, be ordered several largo
boys to aeixe the fugitive, which they no
sooner did they were set upon by
the rest at the school, and a free fight
ensued that waa only quieted by the ar
rival at an oflfear.
A real remedy for wwinkness, aaya tho
Journal dm ia said to have at last
been discovered. The formula varies
with the state of the water and constitu
tion of the individual, and the more 01
less liability to suffer from that distress
ing malady. Tha following is the recipe
for vary rough weather : Choral threo
grammes ; distilled water, fifty gram
mes ; currant svrup, sixty grammes ;
French emctice of mint, two drops. Ha-f
the mixture to be taken on enbarking.
Paying Amateurs.
i A London correspondent says it has
lately become the ho>luou for amatenri
to accept money for their services. Tho
writer knows several peisons who go out
to parties and mug pf fearionaUy, one of
them being a barrister, another in the
civil service* and a third the owner of a
vine plantation. Tha host sends a check
next day, with a line to the following
effect: "My dew Mr. So-and-So : A
thousand thanks for your kindness lat
night. You were simply charming, and
we all were ao obliged to you. Yours,
sincerely, Party Giver." One of these
singers recently attended a aoiree given
! by the lord mayor of a provincial town.
He was on the point of leaving when the
lord mayor stopped him (he had not said
a word "to him the whole-evening) and
addressed him as follows : "'Err, young
man, tliis five-pound note ! is for what
you have been adoing for to amoose us,"
People and Saloons.
The Milwaukee city directory for the
II present year contains 33,760 names,
being an inmease of 2,760 on last year.
Allowing a ratio of three and a half to
one, the city new has a population of
I ' 118,160. The directory classifies tho
1 various industries in iwhieli business
! : men are engaged under 451 heads. Of
these the saloons are most numerotc,
1 there being in all 978. Hfctail grocers
1 , rank next in order, to the number of
419. There are eighty-three dry-good <
' dealers and forty nine dressmaker .
1 Physicians and surgeons foot upseventy
nine, and lawyers eighty. There are
t sixty-seven milliners, sxty-four painters,
and sixty-five tailors.