LirtT Utterance.
On# day a low aonght to gain
An ttiivw to hia lova ;
The tntid was eoy, ami ha in vain
To win her anawar atrove.
Hevday, how sad' Tie* maid waa shy.
And Eluhed but male him no reply.
Tie ■ ni • he aleo felt lova'e flam*,
TV. o. n!d not tall him ao;
Bha oaied not answer " Tea " for aharn*.
Nor dramt of ana waring "No
So, growing more and mora eonfnaed,
Bhe sighed her lipe Us a,<aak refused.
Now Cupid saw the iiemhhng maid
Beeel hy ha'hftil f- . r.
So, genlly coming to her aid.
He whispered in her ear,
Whan straightway beaming from her eye
She looked what lie dared not reply.
Suppose.
Bf Suppose,
Padctte, that I, icataad of keeping Irvat
With you Uvmght, had rtaid away to doae.
Or oall upoa Mir- It ant, or play at whist
Supj oec ?
She. Suppose
Ton had? Think you 1 ahould have eared?
Indeed,
Aint you a tat eoneai don't take my rate- -
A gift to tue Firm whom? Wall—-Joaeph
Mead.
Suppose ?
lit. Suppose
Iti*? Then Imto un ier.-taud, P-Jette
If I murt re.l yo. r wocda tut plaineat
prose-
My presence matter* uot to you—end—yet.
Suppose -
SV. Suppose
Ton are to understand tue ao ? Ton'is free ;
IV. if you wish! And-oh! the nvsr'a
froas ;
What rkatrng wo rhall have ! To-morrow
we—
That'# Jose-
Be. And Joee
Be hanged! 1: *r*m to me, Miae Lowe,
that you
Are acting rather lightly : rumor goes
1 hat he—hut sioee 1 reem to bore, adieu!
SV. Suppose—
B*. Suppose
Wt say good-night.
.CV. Good-tight, sir. and good-bye !
Be. What does this mean. Fadette? Are you
-sw. We'll close
Tt i# areni at or*. My wot da are plain, air. I
Ruppiaa?
B a Compose
Tourse!f. Fadttte.
5V My mute. rh. la Mute Lowe!
lit. Come, Cv tue, Fadette, do hxk beyond
Tour noes,
And—
FNs. Here's* ir nng, air!
lie. I rtc* ire it, though
S pi-oo
.*. Suppose
Ton Jo, air ?—yoc—
Et. Enough, Mim Lowe. Farewell!
Tie bee:. I've been deceived in yon, God
knows !
Coquette' a heartless flirt! a haughty belle
Who choee—
-SV. Suppose—
Oh -oh! let's part as fr.euia! 1 hate yon
—there!
Ha. Fadette '. why, eacet. in tears . This
surely shows
Tohll pardon me, a brute!
She Aud—Frank—we'll ne'er
Suppose.
Scribner /er SrpUinber.
MY FIRST CLIENT.
1 bau been called to the bar not quite
a year, and was seated with my friend
Frank Armitage in oar chambers in the
Temple. Frauk had been called on the
same day as myself, and we bail agreed
to tar ke" our professional start together.
To that end we had become joint pos
sessors of a set of chambers at No.
Figtrea court, and of a boy named
Blobbs, who was known as our "clerk,"
though his tender years and seedy gar
ments made the dignified appellation
sound almost ironical. His style of
dress was peculiar, and gave one the
idea that he had several brothers of va
rious f-iZ'S, and had borrowed an article
of apparel from each—his boots belong
ing to the eldest and his trousers to the
youngest. There were sundry other
boys on our staircase, with whom
Blobbs was constantly having little dif
ferences and lighting them out U(*>n
the landing; indeed this, with occasional
expeditions to Proaser's for commissariat
purposes, formed the staple of his pro
fessional occupations. When he first
undertook his duties we had started him
with a pint bottle of ink, a ream of draft
paper, and a gross of ]>ens, and wo had
enjoined him to employ all h ; s leisure
time in copying precedents. He begun
with great via or, and copied abut a
page and a half in a large schoolboy
har.il the first morning, but he never got
any farther. The ream of pap r dwin
dled somehow, and the ink disappeared
to an extent which even the numerous
little black devils, with which Blobbs
had embellished his domain, failed to
account for, until one morning I detect
e.l him in the act of blacking his toots
with it, and polishing them with the
penwiper. Still, as buys go, Biobba war
not a very tad specimen; and as we
really had no work for him to do, we
were Dot disposed to be extremely angry
with him for not doing it.
Fortunately, Armitage and myself
were both to a considerable extent indie
pendent of our profession, for, to all ap
pearance, our profession was quite iude
pendent of us. We hail been called, &,*
I have mentioned, very nearly a year,
and i.either of us hail ytt lieen favored
with a brief; nor did there appear to
be any particular likelihood that we
ever should. We hail a friend, Charley
Larcoiabe, who hail recently been arti
eled to a solicitor, and who had prom
sed that when he was out of his arti
eiea (which would be in about four
years) and had passed his examination
(which might be forty) he would "give
us a lift" This rath-r vague prospfnrt
really appeared t> be ouroulychai.ee;
but with the natyrai sauguiueness of
youth we still looked for briefs, though
we had not the faintest notion where
they were to come from. In truth, in
the very early days of our professional
career (when we hid only b en banisters
for]a week or two) we used to watch
with anxious solicitude any person of
legal aspect who was seen to cross the
court in the direction of our utairivuv ;
but we found that the person of legal
aspect invar'b!v stopped short at tie
chambers of Cocksure, Q. C., which
were immediately below ours, and the
approach of a tr itiger had now ceased
to excite more than a casual luterest.
Our personal habits, too, hail degener
ated. At the outset of our career we
had unanimously agreed that ev< ry
thing of an unprof< seioual character in
our belongings should lie rigidly talioo
ed. In particular we had decided that
our breakfast should always lie over snd
its remains cleared away before nine A.
M , and that smoking should not on any
account be permitted in the room des
tined for the reception of clients. In
accordance with these virtuous resolves,
we were (or I should rather say we hail
been) always to be found by half-past
nine, each seated in the rigidest of arm
chairs, wearing the blackest of frock
coats and the stillest of shirt collars, at
tentively perusing ponderous law Fjooks,
and making copious notes with the as
sistance of a gigantic pewter instaud,
jiolished to a positively dazzling bright
ness. But this halcyon state of affairs
was too good to last. We had screwed
up our virtuous resolves to too extreme
a tension, and they had gradually sunk
down again. Who was the first to give
way is a mooted jioint. My own idea is
that all would have gone well bad not
Armitage insidincdy suggested our al-
Ey ourselves just, one cigarette after
f ist; while he will have it that the
lid of the wedge was iutroduoed
r surreptitiously reading an occa-
F/vuch novel under cover of
kon Littleton." However this
oe, we bad speedily fallen away
rar original high standard,
having been troubled with that
KHED. KURTZ, Kditor and 1 V* M tki.t.
VOLUME IX.
frantic rush of eUi>ot which wo nad
origtnally Miwlud, wo had become
muoh loss part icular in our habits. Tho
larg. law Ihki k wort" loft unopened, th*
hour of bmtkfost hail become gradu
all* lator, ami abort aud tw<ed
jacket* had become tho order of tho
da* until luuehvoti, and sometime*, I
foar, even until diuuor time. In our
oarlior days wo had uiado it a point of
honor that ouo tr othor of us should al
ways rouiaiu in chainbora, a*" as to Is"
ready for auything that might turn up,
but now wo uiado nothing of putting up
the dolusivo notice: "Return in live
minutes," and dopartmg together for the
real of the day. In order, however, to
keep up the pleasant fiction tha* we
still expected to have clients some day
we had made a let. Each of us had
ttacked himself for £5 to get the first
brief, with tho proviso that (if over the
bet should bo divided) the winner to
stand a dinner to the loeer, in order to
commemorate tho event. Imagine our
emotion, therefore, when on the nioru
iug of my story, soon after ten, a heavy
step was hoard to aaoend tho staircase
and pause at our door ; and when Bloblw
(who had been, according to his usual
habit, settling a little difficulty with
Cocksure'* boy upon the lauding) rushed
iu, and in a hoarse whisper said, frantic
with excitement:
" A gcntloinaEi for Mr. Browne ! And
he've got * bundle o' }|>er."
I must say that Arm:tape's behavior
did him ortVht. My landing the tirst
prize must naturally have l>eeu a disap
poiutment to him ; but in the most mag
nantmous way he exclaimed :
"Good for you, old man ! Go in and
win. I'll hook it into the next room
and leave the coast clear for you."
And he bolted accordingly into his
bedroom. 1 would have given much to
have been able to assume a more digui
tied attire, ami to straighten things gen
orally, before the entrance of my client,
but it was out of the question. 1 had
only jus! time to pitch the end of my
cigar in the tire, open one of the big law
books (upside down, as I afterward dis
covered), and to compose my features
into the most professional expression
compatible with a flannel jacket and
carpet slippers, when the visitor en
tered. He was a snort, puffy little man,
middle aged, and of a good uaturedly
uuintellectual cast of couuteuance. He
wore a shabby white hat and greasy
black gloves, and his trousers were
shorter and his umbrella fatter than is
genera ly considered desirable in those
articles; but, notwithstanding, there
was an air of snug respectability aliout
him, and the bundle of {<apers, tied
with red tape, which he carried, had an
eminently business like apjiearanoe.
He U'gan:
"1 must apologize for disturbing you
at this early hour, Mr. Browne" (he was
evidently not a high-class practitioner);
" but the fact is, I nave come to beg
your assistance in a very urgent case."
I tried to look as if very urgent cases
were matters of the most ordinary oc
currence iu my professional experience.
"Ah," I said, "quite so. Take a seat,
Mr. "
" Ward, sir; Gibbous A Ward, of
High street, Bloomsbury. You have
heard the name, I daresay. Gibbons is
dead—has been dead soma years, in
fact ; but we keep up the old name, you
know."
I didn't know in the least. I hail
never to my knowledge heard of Gile
bin* A Ward, but it would not do to ad
mit tlie fact. Not to know U.bbous A
Ward would clearly IK* to argue myself
unknown. 1 took my cue accordingly.
"Oh, ves ; Gibbous A Ward, a most
eminent firmi I am delighted to hive
the pleasure of making y< ur acquain
teuoe. Mr. Ward."
" You are vi ry kind, sir. Well, sir.
as I was saying, or rather as I was about
to say, I have become connected with a
case, a very peculiar cure—indeed, a j
most peculiar case ; uud hearing of you
from my old friend Mr. Wiggins, I
thought that, though I'm a stranger
you myaelf, I might venture to call and
ask you to assist me in it."
" D.-ar me," I thought, "whoever
would have thought of old Wiggins (my
hair dr<neer) sending me a client!" And
oa the principle that one good turn de
serves auoth- r, I mentally resolved to
go and have my hair cut the very next
day. I replied :
" I shall lie very happy, Mr. WsrJ.
Have you the particulars in writing I"
•' Well, not xactiy," said Mr. Ward,
depositing his bundle of papers in bis
hat " I have a few roim h memoranda,
but 1 11 tell you iu but a dozen w >rds
the stale of the case. The party I rep
resent is a Mrs. Podgers, and I think
you'll agree with me that she has been
very badly used. The fact is, she was j
the daughter of an old fellow named
Glubb, in the oil and color trade, a
man reputed to be worth a mint of
money. When she married Podgers, j
who was a pork butcher iu a small way
of business, Podgers naturally wanted
to kuow what the old man would do for
them. A little ready money wonld have
l>een very acceptable, and as they knew
that Hunan (that's Mrs. Podger's) was
the only daughter, and would come in
for all the old mau's money a' bis death,
they didn't see why he shouldn't give
'em a little at once, on account like.
But old Glubb wasn't to be had in that
way. • No,' be says, 'if you marry
Susan, when I die you'll have all I've
got, which may be ten thousand or it
may lie twenty; but I'm not agoing to
undress before I go to bed, as the say
ing is !' So npon that, and quite relying
that the old man would keep his word,
Podgers goes ami marries. They all
kn<*w the old man couldn't last very
long, no on the strength of bis expecta
tions Podgers puts iu a new shop win
dow and starts a pony trap. Trade was
balaad Podgers found himself outrun
ning the constable a bit; but he didn't
iniud, feeling sure it would le all right
when the old man went off the liookH." \
I le-gari to see my wa . Podgers ha I
married on the strength of the old g n
tleman's promise, and the old gentle
man hal subsequently charged his
mind. Here was an opportunity of im
preasing Mr. Ward with my legal acu
men.
" Exen°e my interrupting yon one
moment, Mr. Ward," and 1 rung the
bell. Bloblw entered. " Blobbs, give
me Cbitty on Contracts,' and theu go
and ask Mr. Cocksure's clerk to oblige
me with the loan of the sixth volume of
' Meeeon and Welsh*.' I think 1 can
give you a case just in point, Mr.
Ward." Blobbs handed me " Olutly on
Contracts," which in point of fact was
on the mantelpiece immediately la-hind
me, and departed to execute the re
maiuder of my order. I referred to the
ind x, murmuring audibly: "Con
sideration—good—valuable—marriage—
page 18. Then turned to the passage
and silent]* perused it with mnch atteu-
I tion. " An, yes, I thought sol"
Blobbs here returned with the lwr
rowed volume, in which, with an air of
deep reflection, I turned to an iroag
; inary anthority. " No, that won't do.
I had forgotten for the moment that
that case was overruled by Jones vs.
Robinson. Pray proceed, Mr. Ward."
Mr. Ward had more than once at
tempted to qoutinue his story, but, with
a gentle wave of the hand. I had ~our
t? ously yet firmly dcprecat* d interrup
tion. He resunit <1 apologetically ;
"I'm afraid I'm giving you a deal of
trouble, Mr. Browne."
" Not at all, Mr. Ward, I aaaore you.
I always like to maks sure, from the
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
out** t, as to tho briad principles appli
table."
" Quite st>, ir; very true. Hut lam
afraid there is a little misunderstand
ing."
" I think not. 1 have followed you
with great attention. A married IPs
daughter C on tho faith of u under
taking by H that he will, on his death,
leave C the whole of his property; B
(that's tilubb. you know) dies, ami he
doce not leave tho properly to 0 (that's
Mrs. P odger-), but to aomotiody else.
Isn't that your easel" And 1 loaned bunk
iu my chair and eyed him witua deny that
if you "Mil sort of expression.
"Just exactly so, sir. If you'd been
one of tho family yourself you couldn't
have got it more pat. They all went oil
as comfortable as possible till one Sun
day the old gentleman dined with the
Hodgerses, ami he found a caterpillar m
the vegetables, lie would have it they
did it on purpose, lie went home at
once, tore up his will and made anoth
er, leaving every penny of his money to
the asylum for incurable clearstarchers.
The excitement brought on an apopleo
tio fit, and he died the very same night.
Personalty sworn under £25.000; and
Podgers all but iu the
1 iwgun to fear that the case would
prove to be a Chancery matter, and that
my share in it would be limited to giv
ing Mr. Ward an elab>rate opinion to
that effect. But it clearly would uot do
to make any suggestion of the kiud at
the present stage of the proceedings.
"Ah, just as I thought, vou see." ±
tried to look as if I had anticipated
every detail of the case, even to the cat
erpillar. " Well, now the quetion is,
what evident"*" have we, first of a dis
tinct agreement on the part of It (other
wise tilnbb) to leave all his property to
his daughter, and, secondly, that A
(otherwise Podgers) marri d on the
laith of that promise. You hear what
C'hitty says: ' A valuable consideration
is such as money, marriage, or the like,
which the law esteem* an equivalent
given for the grant, and is therefore
founded on motives of justice.' T hat's
the law; but how about the facts. Mere
assertion won't do, you know; we must
have evidence.
" Well, as to the evidence I'm afraid
there isn't much in a legal sense. Mr.
Cocksure has advised upon the case, and
he says that we haven't any evidence;
in fact, that we haven't a leg to stand
upon."
It was flittering and at the same time
a little alarming to he consulted iu a
case in which Mr. Cocksure had already
expressed ail adverse opinion. If Mr.
Cocksure was timid I had better be at
least cautious.
" You will have np-hiil work before
you, I'mafraul,an 11 should recommend
you, Mr. Ward, as a man of buniuees
(that is, of course, l**tween ourselves)
to see your way very clear as to your
costs out of jxieket. The incurable
clearstarebers will tight hard, sir, you
may depend on it."
"Oh, dear, yes, sir; no donbt they
would. But we've quite made up our
munis not to go to 'aw ab >ut the mut
ter. It would only be throwing good
tuouey after bad; lea-tway* it would if
we had any to throw; but wo haven't.
Podgers ran iway to America last M<xi
day, and his p >r wife and five young
children are this moment living in a two
pair tack m Camden Town, sustaining
i miserable existence on the scanty r<
mains of the stock in trade."
A horrible migi*iug crowed my mind,
ul I shut up t'hitty.
'' 1 thought 1 meantosay I supposed
1 re-iily don't quite see, then, IU what
- 1 . M'J :• • s.-rvic •ii th • e.l-*-, Mr.
Ward."
" Well, you *ss, Mr. W.ggins told rae
as you was *n uucoium u kind hearted
gt-utl- b J 1 made bold to call and
sk if yon woul lu'tput ilown your name
for a trtle for the widow ami orphans—
not that Mrs. P. is precisely a widow,
nor yet the children exactly orphans,
but rather worse if anything, in my
• •pinion, and another CXIMKUHI almost
immediately, Kir."
I wi< fairly caught. Not f"r world*
would I have let Mr. Ward know that I
had been tailoring under a tuimtpprr
henmon, and had leeu meutali v wel
coming hirn at mv first client. On the
other band, after the extreme interest 1
Usui exhibited in the case, I could not
do less than give him a handsome dona
tion. Hmiiicg amiably, but inwardly
breathing the most awful imprecations
against Wiggins (and very nearly vow
ing. on the spur of the moment, never
t > have my hair ent again as loug as I
lived), 1 ixnrt sed my extreme gratifies
;ion at having the opportunity of con
tributing a sovert igti to the ii>oeeities
of the Podgers family. Mr. Ward
•itemed with delight, and pressed on my
acceptance his card, assuring mo that,
if I should at auy time require anything
in 1 is line, it wonli l*e his most earm-st
endeavor—these words, l y the way, be
apparently spelt with ou h—to give me
satisfaction. He insisted on shaking
bauds at parting, and appeared to find
considerable difficulty in tearing him
self away. At last, however, he de
parted, leaving me still holding his card.
My one absorbing thought as soon as
F could think at all was how on earth to
conceal the facts from Arruitngo—what
possible fiction to invent which should
save my dignity from the exposure of
the horrible truth. What dreadful false
hood I might ultimately havo given
birth to I cannot say, for I was saved
from the ordeal by hearing a burst, or
rnther a succession of burnt*, of frantic
Uu.-Liter from the room to which Armi
t.igc ha<l retired. I pushed the door,
which yielded to my touch. My worst
f.-ars were realized ! he knew all. He
was lying upon the bed, his feet con
siderably above his bead, cramming a
pocket handkerchief in his month, and
every now and then breaking out afresh
into A peal of maniac laughter.
" Well, Brownie, old boy, I hope
you've given the new client n good
sound lee >1 -pinion. Oh, dear, my poor
rides ! Win n shall we have the dinner,
eh, old man''
"Come, Frank,'" I Raid, addressing
him more in sorrow than in soger,
"don't add insnlt to injury. You're
had the door ajar, you scoundrel ; HO J
needn't tell you any particulars. lint at
any rate promise to ki-ep my secret."
"That I'll !• hanged if 1 do, old boy;
the joke is a great deal too good to keep
to myself. How about ' Chittv on Con
tracts' and *6 Meesou and Wolby I'
Oh, yoti old impostor ! I'll bo hanged
if I don't tell the Rtory to every fellow I
meet."
Ho, for fear that fho facts phonld l>e
misrepresented—l hate misrepresenta
tion—l determined to tell it myself.
Tout: It on the Hal her.
A sea captain of jocose humor, in a
seacoast town, met an acquaintance the
other day who was rather noted for not
very cleanly habits in person.
"Well," said the latter," "I have
just been in bathing."
" You don't say so ! Iluthii.g, do you
say?" asked the other. " And where did
yon go t"
" Ob, down to tbo beach."
"I am afraid, then, some of onr ves
sels or boats will run fonl of a new bank
formed there of which they never heard
before."
In 1852 the English Parliament voted
for education, art and science an p-
Kopristion of 82 853,810. This >< ar
c amount was 818,890,198.
* *
CENTRE IIA EE, CENTRE CO., PA.. THURSDAY, ISKITKMBKK fifT I^(s.
Fearful Iccldcnl—The Uejeetrd UH
patch.
AKutt this timo the circus agr-ut
bursts into the county newspaper office
timl says, breathlessly;
" You tho rxtitor f"
" I am, sir."
" Oorre*poudeut for some of tho mo
trupolituu pr> ? '
" Y"s, sir,"
" I've got the biggest itcuoation you
•v*r saw, and 1 want you to send it off
by special to all the big pajx>rs."
The editor get* out hi* pencil ami u
quire of priutiug pajx*r, and ay: "Pile
in."
The circu* agent saya: " Put down
that H tow hard s (iigantio Mammoth
tlolden Megalothasallurian Circus it's a
big tiling, I tell you, and i am agent;
Burmim's is a sideshow to it, and Lout
would have to burst up and go home on
fixit only our old man lent him inouoy—
have you got that down f"
" 1 have."
" Well, add that we have lxx*u tenting
up in the Northwest and tx*eu coining j
money everywhere, while all the little
one-horse concerns that g<t up big pus
ters and obtain money uuder false pre
tenses haven't IH*-U taking iu stamps
enough to pay for their licenses—houses
pa|x*revl, all of 'cm."
" Go on."
" Well, lout week while we were rnov
ing the show from Oshkosli to Howvilh*
iu m*veu s|x*clal trams and lfi3 cars, the j
train carrying the Zoological t'armvori
nui ran off the track ami all the dens j
were swashed to pieces and the animal*
got hxxie."
" Bteas my aoul, you dou't say no J"
" The anacouda swallowed the only !
real African giraffe in this country, im
porte-tl sfxx'ially for us at a cost of
jlfW.soo. all but ten or fifteen feet of its
neck. The jxxir animal'a effort* to *
cajx> fremi its living tomb were frantic,
and the look of dumb, almost human,
agony in it* large, lustrous black eye*,
moved the sternest advance agent to
tears.' l
" l>ear me!"
"Then th* royal Bengal tiger, the
Humatrau lion, and the big horned rhi
mxx-roa got into a three cornered fight,
and the way in which the air was full of
howls, and dust, and blood, big chunks
of meat like sirloin steaks a whizzing
round—it mak< s me shudder to think of
it."
" It mud have Ixxm terrible."
" Terrible ain't no word for it. Theti
the Chiaspian gigantic orang outaug and
the blue foctxi gorill* came up with
clubs formed of saplings sixteen feet
loug, and a* big r<>uud as your log, and
sailed in like policemen into u primary
mtx'tmg, ami iu - 14 y they hud flattened
out them tigers, ami lloua, aud rhiuoc
t-nees, till there wrosn't one of them
dared say his soul WHS hi* own."
" Wonderful! wonderful! '
"You're just talking. Then the
phnut, Mereutio, turne! wild with fear
ami rage, ami trumpeting like u thunder
storm, rati into a fold where farmer
had a flock of lOO.tHK) merino sheep, and
such mtitt a jiggling I never -uw in nn
life. Ha'd just yank up a sheep with !
hi* trunk, and give him a j-rk, aml
z-.p! that sliep would go shooting
through th> air, and come down fiat as a
pancake *ix huudrcd or s> veu hundred
yard* off. It wis jn*t old chain light
nit g, and it would have made y ur eye*
out to sax- it. Why, once h<- had
seventeen sin* p in the air at once."
*• How many lives tost I"
" None, thank Heaven. We !way*
have ast-am fire engiue filled with
chloroform on the train with us, and a
- x>n a* we could get it out ami g-1
steam up we begun pi.tying ou then),
ttud. of course, wtn n tiny wirestu) -
fled, it was the cm-ieet tli-ng in the worn
to catch them ami put them bu k in th.
**
"I understand; but how atant that
jxror giraffe I"
"Oh, wc gave the anaconda a barrel
of emetic*, and the giraff came up kit
ing, hut the a -tiou of the anaconda's
ga-t-ic jiii(X ha* taken all the color of
of hi* hindquarters and balf-melted ofl
lii* h'Xf."
" How wonderful are the works of
nature !"
" You tat. Now sock it to them red
hot and lively, and I'll ante up ail the
ticket* to the show you want."
Th cxlitor doe* ao, ami goes to bed to
dream that be ia an anaconda trying to
swallow a long necked circus, marked
" special complimentary," w hen he is
wakened by the telegraph lxy, who
brings biro the followiug: *
" Your special about circus accident
refused, l'lease pay bearer (£3 14."
The I'rcddcnt* of the United States.
The following table may prove useful
for reference as showing the political
sentiment* and th* club" of inauguration
of each President, the lengtli of tune he
lived aflor that event, arid his age at the
time of his death :
1. George Washington, Federalist,
inaugurated 1789, lived ten years, age
sixty-eight.
2. John Adam*, Federalist, inaugu
rated 1797, lived twenty nine yearr, age
ninety.
3. Thoma* Jefferson, Democrat, inau
gurated 1801, lived tweuty five years,
age eighty-three.
4. J * roes Madison, Democrat, inau
gurated 1809, lived twenty-seven years,
aged fifty-eight.
5. James Monroe, Democrat, inau
gurated 1817, lived fourteen years, age
seventy three.
6. John Q. Adams, Whig, inaugurated
1826, lived twenty-three years, ago
eighty-one.
7. Andrew Jackson, Democrat, inau
gurated 1829, lived sixteen years, age
seventy-eight.
8. Martin Van Huron, Democrat, in
augurated 1837, lived twenty five years,
age eighty.
9. W. H. Harrison. Whig, inaugu
rated 1811, lived one mouth, age sixty
eight.
10. John Tyler, Vioe-Pro*id nt. In
dependent, inaugurated 1841, lived
twenty-one years, age seventy two.
11. James K. Polk, Democrat, in
augurated 1815, lived four years, age
tilt v-tonr.
12. Zacliary Taylor, Whig, inaugu
rated 1849, lived sixteen months, ago
sixty six.
IH. Millard Fillmore. Vice-President,
Whig, inaugurated 18.0, lived twenty
four years, age seventy-four.
14. Fraukltu Pierce, Democrat, in
augurated 1853, lived sixteen yraus, age
sixty-five.
15. James Buchanan, Democrat, iu
iiugurated 1857, lived eleven years, age
seventy-PCTCn.
lfi. Abraham Lincoln, Republican, in
nugurab'd 1861, lived four years and
one and a lmlf months, age fifty six.
17. Andrew Johnson, Vice-President,
Independent, inaugurated 1865, lived
ten years, age sixty seven.
U. H. (hant, Republican, inaugurated
1869.
Tyler was elected Vice President as a
Whig, ami Johnson as a Republican.
Their "Independence" followed their
inauguration as Presidents.
HITTING BOIX.—In our fight on the
Rosebud, says a soldier writing home,
we oouid see Hitting Bull stauihng on a
high poiut, ont of gun-shot, directing
the movement* of his warriors with a
small looking glass. It was noticed that
wherever he throw a reflection with the
glass, there the ImlUai would iuatoutly
oUnrgA iu for##.
St'HPENDEH ANIMATION.
A r. 18.U.81. M IH'MKMI ULE •
b ( k.t1.1 lb. NUIW.
A journal called the lx>* Augeloa .VStar
re<v>r.lt*J the following mordent *i the
tuue it occurred :
A gentlemau iu the city had a very
Urge Mini Uwutiful torn oat, which he
had reared iroiu U kitten. It WAX now
five year* old, and the two auiwaU were
mutually attached. Every morning,
when tiie Mirvitut brought tu the water
lor hia master's tub. puna used to couie
in and bit at the aide of the tied, aud
guse with admiration at his employer,
and sometime* iaew him out; hut re
tired iuto a corner during the tubbing,
which he thought irrational, and came
out agutu when the biped wan clothed
ami tu hia right miud.
Oue day the cat was seen in the gar
den tumbling over and over in strong j
convulsions, which ended in it crawling ;
feebly into the house. The master j
heai d. and was very sorry, and searched
for the invalid, but ouuld uot tlud him.
However, wheu ho went up to bed at ,
night, there was the poor creature ;
stretched upon the floor at the side of i
the btxl. the very place where he used i
to sit and gaze at his master, and mew
him out of btxl.
The gentleman was affected to tears
by the affectionate creature's death, aud
his coining there to die. He threw a
handkerchief over jxair torn, and passed
a downright unhappy night, lie de
terurim-d, li iwever, to bury his humble
friend ; and no tuue was to be lost, the
weather tx-iug hot. Ho, when the servant
came IU to till his tub, lie ordered a lit
tie grave dug directly, and a box to ta
{ .... i of u suitable MXo to receive the 1
remains.
Then he got up; and, instead of tub 1
lung, as usual, he thought he would ;
wash poor loin's Ixxty for interment,
for it was all stained and dirty with the
inold of the garden.
He took the body up, aud dropped it
into the waU r witL a souse.
That sous.* was soon followed by a fu
rious splashing, that sent the water fly
lug in his face aud all about the room,
and away tlew the cat through the open
window, us though |>ossos.se.i by a devil.
.Sordid the poor body forgive tl.s by
dropathic treatment. although sueoees
ful. He took a perverse view, an ! hod
never returned to the house "up to the
time of our going to press," says the
le* Augelos Star.
The cat is not the only animal subject
to suspension of vital |xiwcr. Many
men and women have Ix-eu buried alive
in this condition, es|*cially on tlie con
tiheut, when* the law enforces sjxxxiy
int-rtneiil. Even in Itritam—where they
do not shovel one into the earth quite
as fast—live persona have been boned,
and others have had a narrow cecal*. 1
could give a volume of instances at home
and abroad. One of them an arch
bishop, who was actually being curried
iu funeral procession on an open bier,
w hen he came to, and objected —in what
terms I k* ow uot; but the Scqfcb have
an excellent formula in similar It
runs thus ; " ltnle ye yet, inon; i hue a
deal uiair mischief to do tirrrst!"
Two nxvt.t English case 1 could cer
tify to lx* true-one, n little girl at
Nun* utou, who lay several days without
-igi.s of life; another, a young lady, not
known t-> the public, but tome. She
was dead, in mediciin ; but ber mother
refused to let her lx buried, b.waiuso
there was no sign of deoumposition, and
she di I not g< t so d adly cold as others
tia 1 whom that uiotlur hn.i hst by
death.
This girl rcnia; 'd uuburied mmi*
1 ays, till is . t ii r<f ii si's creature* put
m hi* word; a fly th night lu-r worth bit
ing id blood trickled from the bite.
[Y turned the *.-aie of opinioi , n 1
th- g.rl was rixxrvcrcd, and is alive to
this day. However, the curious reader,
who d sires to work this vein, need go
no further than the index of the Annual
/Irf/utrr and the OtntUman't St ay a
jine. As for me, I must not be tempted
outside ®y immediate subject. The
parallel I shall confine a very large
theme t > is eixrt.
At the npeniug of the century the
public facilities for anatomy were less
than now. Ho then robbing the church
yards was quite a trade; and an egotist
or two tiid worse; they kilhxl people for
the small sum a dead body brought.
Well, a male lxxly was brought to a
certain surgeon by a man he had often
employed, and the pair lumped it down
on the di sii*ti?;g tilde, and then the
vender received his money and went.
The anatomist set to work to oper the
body; but, in handling it, he fancii d the
limbs were not so rigid as usual, and he
took another look. Yes, the man was
dead; no pulsation, either, Aud yet
somehow he was not quite cold about
the region of the heart.
The surgeon doubted. He was ahu
nnuie man; and so, instead of making a
line transverse cut, like that at which
the unfortunate author of " Manon I*w
eaut" started out of his trance with a
shriek, to die in right earnest, he gave
the poor body a chance; applied harts
horn, vinegar aud friction, all without
success. Still he had his doubts;
though, to Is* frauk, I am not clear why
he still doubted.
lie that a it may, he called in hia as
sistatit, and they took the laxly into the
yard, turned a high trip on, aud dis
charged a small but linrd hitting column
of water on the patient.
N effect was produced but this—
which an unscientific eye might have
parsed over—the skiu turned slightly
pink in one or two places, under the fall
of water.
The surgeon thought this a strong
proof life was not extiuct; bnt, uot to
overdue it, he wrapped the man in
blankets for a time, aud then drenched
hint ngain, lotting the water strike him
bard on the head and heart in particular.
He followed this treatment up, till at
last the man's eyes winked, and then he
gasped, and presently he gulped, aud
by and bve he groaned, and eventually
uttered loud aud fearful eric, as oue
battling with d> ath.
In a word, lie came to, and the sur
gixm put liiiu intixa warm bed, and, sn
medicine has it< rfcliion*, and bleeding
was the panaccn of that day, lie actually
took bloo 1 from the poor body. Tliia
ought to have sent him back to the place
from whence he imiue—the grave, to
wit; but somehow it did uot; and next
day the revivor allowed him with pride
to sewnd visitors; and prepared an
article.
llivmrrectna was well fed, and, being
u pauper, was agreeable to lie iu that
bed forever, and eat the bread of
science. Hut, as years rolled on, bis
preserver got tired of that. However,
ho had to give him a suit of hia own
! clothes to get riil of him. Did I say
years ? I must have meant days.
He never did get rid of him; the fel
! low ns d to call at intervals, and demand
; charity, urging that the surgeon had
taken him out of n condition in which
he felt neither hunger, thirst nor misery,
aud so was now bound to supply his
natural needs.
However, I will not dwell on thinpain
fnl part of the picture, leaf learned and
foreseeing men should, from the date of
reading this article, confine reanscita
tion to quadrupeds.
To conclude with the medical view.
To riwuseitato animals who teem dead,
but are secretly alive, drop them iuto
water from —or else drop water on thom
from—a sufQciuut height.
I'etcr Cooper'* Early Hay*.
A gentleman who has ku *wu the vu*
erabl Peter Cooper, a candidate
for the presidency of the United
State* tver niuoo he came
V. .1 k oily IU .1 i" ■!/
IJlZaut of Ills busiues* reverses tlgd S U*
censes, said a few days ago in c<pff I a
tiou : A great many people seem tilt think
that Peter Cooper was always success -
ful and that everything he ever attempt ]
ml turned out profitable. This i* not
so. Mr. Coojer hail a hard row to line j
when ho first came to New York. I j
knew him whoa ho first cauie hero from j
the country. A tall rawtaned young
uan with any amount of energy. He
was full of new ideas, however, and
some led to disappointment, others to
prosperity.
He started a grocery atant where the
oxiH-r Institute stands now, with all
kinds of truck in it. All groceries sold
whisky in thoao day*, and uothiug was
thought of it. His wife tended the |
store, dressed in a homespun |x?ttiooet,
with u white cotton short gown. The 1
eomx.ru was very popular, and Peter
made considerable money. Then one of
1 his brilliant progressive ideas took pos
j he* iou of him, and he went tu work with
i a will to execute it.
His scheme was to provide rapid tran
sit from the foot of Ortley street (East
Eighth street now) to a point where
Hellevue hospital stand* at present.
There was a clear stretch of water from
oue point to the other, and Peter
thought a ferryboat run by an endless
chain would be very profitable. He
bought a great ferryboat, purchased an
enormous chain, about two miles in
length, and started busmens. At first
the concern was a great novelty, and
was well patronised. But by and bye
accidents happemxl, by which the
farmers and people using the ferryboat
were detained in the river. The traffic
grew lighter, and one fine morning the
sheriff ixiunced down upou all of I'eter
! Cooper s possessions.
The next day he hx.k a walk early in
the morning out of town, up where the
Murray hill residence* now stand. In
the midst of a pasture stood the old
powder house, uwxl for the storage of
ammunition during the Revolution. He
thought what a flue building it would
ta to occupy for the manufacture of
glue. He went home, ex insulted his
wife, got hi* breakfast, and, calling upon
some of his friend*, obtained the
requisite means. Iu that place the foun
dation of his immense fortune was laid,
and when the growth of the metropolis
obliged him to abandon the building as
a glue factory, he was a very wealthy
; man.
Anon) ma.
A singular story of social jealousy and
intrigue in related in a letter from \\ ash
ington to tin New York Herald. A1
though then? were hints of this thing
before, it was never publicly known that
a serii** of anonymous letters written to
int-mlx*ra of the cabinet, and even to
Mrs. Chant, and attributed to Mr*. Wil
liams, wife of the attorney general, had
IMX-U made the subject of an investiga
tion, and that Mr. Williams' forced re
tirement from the minuet was due <>n
tirely to the roult of this inquiry. The
fact.*- printed, the Herald say S, come as
s revelation not ao much of the official
and jf reoual corruption which underlies
public life at Washington as of the ao
ciol auilntion* and jaalouiea which form
ao strong an element in Washington ao
riety. In reviewing these revelations,
we would not n*k unkindly of or deal
har.dxly with the vc man to whoa hand
them anonyms were traced. At the hot
t< m there was truth, probably, in most
of tfie cliargcs, and a vast outlook of
ootijo litre is opened up by the mere
-uggestiou of a cause for a course so re
markahle in a woman ao distinguished.
There is till a mystery behind it all,
the nnrav. ling of which would prob biy
IH gin with cirtun newx]fl|x r c me
|x indent. These oorresjxn.i*ut*
(female*) have Ixx-n trying to teach tin
"official lmlie*" at Washington that
tin y ought to bo something more than
gtxxl wives and mother*.
In a citv of Ix.ardiug lMMdtreaa
; ury ch rk* they have been trying U. set
' up law* of mx-ial preotxieucx*, atul witliiu
a few y. :ir* there have lx*en " first
lailuvi " and "second ladies," "diplo
matic la.lns" aud "cabinet ladies" tn
Washington wK*iety. The puffery has
I Ixx'u dutguating, and many events of
late have shown the results of the puf
f.*ry and rivalry to have been disastrous.
Mr*. Belknap and Mr*. Williams might
Lave lxx*n rival* in the I vail room and at
receptions without much liarm, but both
aspired to lead and each tried to crash
the other. In these rivalries Mr*. Wil
liam* vw detected, or *n*|>ected in cer
tain acts, and in consequeuoe the at
torney general loxf hi* place in Uie cabi
net. In her efforts to Rhine in a place
where moilestv wo* her tx**t rcommen
dation, Mrr. Hclkuap hxl ber husband
into a jx>r*ib nt arid ayatemntic accept
ance of bnlxv*, and hi* downfall i* her
*hame al*o. In all thi* social rivalry
and tomfixilery—these effort* to l>e first
ladies in society aud to get cuff* in the
newspajx r* there can bo only shame at
last, aud how terrible is the disgrace
I which is sure to follow !
Truthful and Obedient.
" Charley ! Charley 1"
Char and sweet the voice rang out
over the common.
• Tint's mother," cried one of the j
boys, instantly throwing down hi* bat
and ;<i -ting up his cap and jacket.
" Don't go yet 1" " Have it ont 1"
"Just finish tin* game!" orhxl the play
ers, in noisy chorus.
I "I mu*t go, rigid off, this minute.
I told mother I'd oomo whenever she
j called."
" Make Relieve you didn'thear 1" they
' all exclaimed.
" Hut I did hear."
" fvie'll never know you did."
1 " Hut I know it, and"—
1 ! "I, t .him R<," said a bystander.
1 " Y<m can do nothing with hiui. He is
' tied to hi* mother's apron string*."
" Yes," said Charley, " and there is
where every I >y ought to belied; and in
1 : r. hard knot, too."
1 I •' Bnt I wouldn't be such a baby
us to run the minute she called," said
1 one.
'I "I don't call it babyish to keep one'*
' word," said the obedient boy, n lx*anti
ful light glowing itt hi* blue eye*. " I
call it niiiuiy for a fellow to keep his
• word to hia mother; and if he dg>sn't
keep hia word to her, yon see if he keeps
> j it to any one else."
Hon't Ho.
A correspondent of the I'ittsfield (III.)
i | Old Flat], writing from Dead wood, it
- the Black Hilln, says: Wages for com
mon lalxir are from four to five dollars
per day, bnt a great many are complain
I | ing that they can't get work. I would
1 uot advise any man to come to the Ililla
i this fall, as there will not lie any great
, amount of work going on this winter ;
i bnt I would advise them that are doing
well to stay whero they are, for a man
- will have to travel further than I have
1 to find a better plaon than old Pike, tak
[ ing everything into consideration ; but
■ still, this is a great deal tatter conn try
to make money in than I expected to
find it. To them that have money and
, leisure I would *ay, thi* is the place to
> spend the summer and breathe the pure
i air, and driik the clear, cold watr, and
ehaaa the rad daar over th* hills.
: a Year, in Advance.
A PI K1 LOI N FOMITIOR.
r*Mtaa lk I'm Klver ea a W ire T
llaad.vd wad KWHlldll feet tram
iSr U Kter.
Tho maii ilariug enough to tie the first
to cross tho East river on the Wire
Stretched from New York to Brooklyn,
says the .Sun, Eiiwiu F. Farriugtou.
Ho in a waiter tnechauic, and, it is said,
has no peer iu Uio putting together of
tho wiro work of *upcu*iou bridges
He gained a reputation at Niagara aud
Cincinnati in thoooustruction of hridgon.
Ho is about fifty ytmra of age, and i* as
brave m a lion.
The working rope is endleaa, reaching
from pier to pier, and is 6, WW feet in
length. It is the longest Mingle belt oon
noctiug machinery in the world. A
" boatswain's chair," not unlike an ordi
nary liUlo awing usetl by children, was
attached to the wire. The board seat is
about two feet long and eight inches
wide, and the ropes were lees than four
feet long and joined close together around
the wire at the top. Mr. Parnngton
wore tight fitting buckakui gloves, aud
wheu lie took hia seat his grin on the
cable was firm. Then he folded Ins arms
around the ropes, and the red flags on
the Brooklyn and New York towers were
waved, and the wire U-gan again to re
solve. A gun was flr.-d on the New
York side and Mr. Fornugton waa on
his perilous ride to the Brooklyn tower
from the anchorage. The people in the
streets and ou the housetop*, near the
Pulton ferry, luathy cheered, and Mr.
Farriugtou swung Lis hat aud waved
kisses to the lad lea. He took his watch
and noted the time. Five minutes after
ward he approached the tower. T hen
he waa standing in his seat. This, Mr.
Martin, who was superintending the en
gine, explained, was the only point at
tended with peril, and he felt some anx
iety about the working of the engine,
for, in case it went too rapid, the chair
might be dragged over the pulleys aud
ita uocupant thrown out. He watched
the signal ' anxiously, and when he
learned that the chair was within ten
feet of the tower he stopped the engine.
Then he ordered it to work very alowly,
and to atop again as the chair touched
the tower. Hia caution led to a moat
perfect result.
Mr. Farriugton was touching the
granite pier when the engine *top|ed. Ho
was pale, and ui* hps quivered. He
held tight to the cable, baring work
meu reached for him, and he was drawn
upon the pier. He trembled somewhat,
but said that he was not nervous. He
shook hands and spoke to the bystand
ers, one of whom encouragingly said :
" Well, old boy, you carry your life in
your Laia i iu crumiiiig thjtf nm. I
wouldn't make that trip for a million
dollars."
The little wmg or boatswain's chair
wa* made fast to the cable on the river
side of the pier. Mr. Partington said
that he was ready to start. He stroked
hi* short gray beard, and looked
curiously at those about him, and then
with rciU hravorv and much nimbi an—*
he swung over the side of the tower and
clutched the ropes of the cluur. He
waved hi* hauiL The spectators cheered,
the rod flag* were held aloft, and the
journey across the river was tagun.
All the ferryboats, tugboat*, and
stoam< rs iu the river set up a screech
ing. Every pilot seemed nimultaiieous
lv to have seen Mr. Farrington cm the
wire. Home of the ferryboats were
stopjxvl in the middle of the river, and
the ladies on the boats, on the piers,
and on the housetops frantically shook
their handkerchiefs. Men aud boys
shouted and swung their hat*, and Mr.
Farrington, seemingly enjoying hia ride,
held hi* handkerchief to the bioeze.
When near the center of the crossing be
clapped hi* hands, and e-m*d immense
ly j leased. While roaring the New
\ <>rk pier the wire aa* tan', so that the
trip wa* almost [•er;x*ndicular, and Mr.
Farrington itood in his seat, .and was
U it safely carried to the top, and "the
fl. t man wlio crossed fie great bridge
w.i* greeted with terrific cheer*. The
trip from pier to pier wa* made in *ix
minute* aud forty-flv* seconds. The
ride from the New York pier to the
anchorage was aoompUahed in four min
ure*. Mr. Farrington said be had a de
lightful ride. Many per*uns applied at
the bridge company's office for permis
sion to cross in the same chair used by
Mr. Farrington. His trip was merely to
wtisfy the public that the win* is se
cure. Ho was the first to cross the Cin
cinnati bridge and also the Niagara one.
This is the only unbusiuess venture in
the work of the bridge, and the other
Irij * are to ta ma do for useful purposes.
A new working rope is to ta lashed to
the npjx>r cable and pulled across, as
wa* the boatswain'* cbait. After it is
stretched from anchorage to anchorage,
two buggies, one from New Y'ork, the
other from the Bnxklyn tower, are to
ta started down the rope to the anchor
ages Each will descend by its own
w. ight, and as it goes tho workmen in
side of it will cut the lashings, thus free
ing the workiug wire. This done, the
bugoie* arc to ta returned to the two
towers, and adjusted to the cables in the
same way. Tbcy will descend to the
middle of the stream, from opposite di
rections, by their own weight, and the
la*hings will ta cut a* they go. They
will meet in the center of the
nrer—it is hoped without a violent
collision, as there will ta nothing to re
strain them in their course. The men
iu the buggies arc to lash them together,
and then tie them firmly to the endless
cable. They are then to swing the new
wire free, and are to ta pulled to the
Brooklyn tower by working the endless
rope.
Who he Found.
The Chicago Tribune ha* intercepted
s letter sent by Stanley in Africa to the
Herald . describing a great battle ta
twoeu himself and 25,000 natives. He
ssya: " I have previously mentioned
in my letters that reports were currant
among the Wsgandn that Gammonbauia
gara was occupied by race of white
negroes. Having this in mind, I
watched intently during the battle for
some of these strange people. Discern
ing a tall, fleshy, white faced man, who
seemed leader of hi* fellows, miugling
iu the thick of tho fray, I captured him.
After the battle, remembering the cap
tive, 1 hastened to hi.*u, wishing to learu
something of the strange pheuomenon—
n whito black. Upon coming into hia
presellco, 1 looked intently at him, when
suddenly a thought flashed through my
brniu, my feelings overcame me. I
thought: Ha* fortune reserved forme
this crowning feather in the cap of dis
CO very f I advanced, a thousand emo
tions swelling iu my bosom, lhe cap
tive arose. 1 said: ' This is . * I
am,' said the s.vmiug apparition. It
was Boss Tweed."
A Solid Dinner.
Home of the hotels have bills of fare
with the fly-leaf covered with cards of
various business houses. An Oregon
man recently took a scat behind one of
them, when a waiter appeared with
"What will you have, sir?" To the
utter confusion of the waiter, he leisure
ly remarked: " Yon may fetch me a new
wt of tooth, in gotta peroha; an im
orovod sewing machine, with patent
I, **k ftitch, a tax of Brandreth s pills,
a „ d a pair of number seven French ealf
„k, n taote." fn a moment the waiter
replied; "Wc haven't got any of
the "Then what have you got them
on the bill f fare forf" retorted the
etut ymav
NUMBER 38.
LIFE OX THE PLUM.
.Vtaalaea el a Traveler la tbe WeMara
Or*rl—A TraiHe lertdeet.
AM for me, MAYA a correspondent of
the World, crossing the plain*, I hk to
get out on tbe platform, late at night,
when the mooti i* ehedding her radi
auo over the awful, desolate, yet beau
Uful ms 'lie, and think the thought* aud
recall the legend* which are appropriate
to it. Onoe in a while tbe tract* of an
old trail appear. llow many a white
mat), how many a white woman croaeed
tbi* dreary country long year* ago, never
to return to or even to hear from home
and frirnda again I How many night*
were panned by plonecra here I How
many tragedian, aa gloomy aa that do
acrihed by Cooper in "The Prairie,"
have been enacted in these aotitudea,
unknown to Eastern men and Eastern
law ! What epiaodra of teuderneaa and
honor, of grief and plea* ore, have
aUrrod the heart* of thoaewbo perished,
or who have ainoe triumphed in the
great struggle upon the Pari Ac ouaat f
Looking out toward the pale bluff* that
aerrale the aootharn boriaoo, the apae
tera of wagon train* ariae, and voice*
from midnight ramus. Distant Area
flicker. The coyote a cry—the " wotf
muaic " whose only grace was that while
it lusted it aaaurod the abaenoeof hostile
Indians-—offends tbe listening car. Tb
coyutm were the natural watch dug* of
the white man's oivouac.
Sfam ago, before the railroad or tbe
overland stage route, or even tbe over
land pony express M thought of, a soli
tary lamiiy of seven persons, aooom
panied by three men, started from Il
linois to erase this waste, They bad
wagons, mules, provisions and house
hold furniture in abundanoe.
The family *•* of good origin. Jt
consisted of the grandfather, father,
mother, three daughters (the eldest,
sgod nineteen, being very attractive)
and two little muscular sous. Of the
three men outside the family two were
past their prime. The youugest, the
lover of the eldest girl of the party, and
by her beloved, war befriended by lur
grandfather, her sisters and botii her
brothers, enooursged by his elderly
male companion*, and oordiaily hated,
on account of an hereditary feud, by the
girl's father (the chief of the expedition)
an l his wife.
One night the young man was missed
in camp. Bo arbitrary wa* the rale the
chief pioneer had established that no
allusion WH> made to the circa maUnoe
during his silence at the evening meal.
Next morning the girl was gone. Btill
the father said nothing; nor did the
mother make one sign. The rest of tbe
i rain were admit and subdued. Toward
noon it was noticed that the grandfather,
whose affection for tbe absent girl was
well known to amount to devotion, had
likewise quitted the camp, carrying bis
weapons. This discovery was tbe sig
nal for tbe pioneer's action. Shoulder
ing his rifle he commanded his two sons
to stay in camp, and then started off in
an eastward direction at a pace that in
dicated his perfect knowledge of the
whereabouts of the alwenteea. The rest
of the story I give as cloeely as I can
recollect it in the language of one of the
two elderly men who soon left the camp
OQ the trail of the departing pioneer;
• We didn't like the looks of old
Ham 1," said tbe narrator, *'acd so we
followed him. It was abont a seven or
eight mile stretch, and just afore we
come to the place we Itegun to" sort of
snspicion where it was. It was a 14uff
like. We walked fast, and got around
where we could see what was goin" on,
afore old Bam'i come np. It seemed
that old Sam 1, the second night previ
ous, had 'tioed young offn tbe
trail around by tins here bluff and shot
him ihiougo the ckbt and left Lorn for
a goner. The girl had watched which
wy they \r at, and when the boy didn't
cot tie back next day she skedaddled the
next night. So when we got there she'd
got him down by tbe brink of a little
water hole; and there they both was,
eho S'hoMuT hi* bead on her arm and
keepin' the sun off his face with her
apron. Pretty soon old Sam'l eome
along the other side o' tbe btnff. He
looked around s second or so, and get
his eve on the gal. 1 seen him raise his
rifle and p'int it at her, and I raised
mine and p'mted it at him. We both
fired at the same time, for just as he
keeled over I looked, and the girl was
a-lying face down, tht across ——'a
body. The old granddaddy—he just
then ris np 'longside o* ♦he water hole.
But I didn't stop to see an* more. Me
and my partner both lit oat, and only
stopped long enough in camp to git
awy with onr blankets and a little
grub. I never iiearu of any one o* that
fam'ly sence."
A China Boy's " COMIBS."
A "Chin* boy" hu no end of
•' cousins" (sounding the i fts it ftounds
in pin). From one to half ft dosen
Chinamen will loiter round ft kitchen if
tbey dare, ftnd one my feel certain that
every Chineee of them is hungry. To
be hungry see me, indeed, their normal
condition. for they live by scores in
their washhouses and other haunts, sab-
Mating on the smallest modicum of food,
in ordr to save money. When they
drop into our kitchens to cftll on ft com
rftde, therefore, one may be certain that
those bright little sloping eyes are on
the alert for forage. We have happened
suddenly down stairs and found anoh a
visitor in the cJoaet. his hand in the
sngar bowl. A neigh hot met another
emerging from her pantry, eating pie.
When thus confronted, they langh and
leave immediately. Not a word is said
in aelf-defeuse, and the housekeeper's
coueolation ia, that they do not dare to
uke any bnt small quantities But it
makes housekeeping with them not a
state of entire confidence. It is quite a
a question whether or not to put tilings
under lock and key. If trusted, they
aeom to put themselves somewhat upon
honor, not to allow, at all events, auy
largo amounts to be abstracted. This,
aud the fact that no drudgery of locking
can really prevent theft, determines
most housekeepers, we think, iu l'avor
of open closets. Whether this ingrained
habit of pilfering is at once eradicated
in those who accept Christianity, wo do
not kuow; but we have been told by re
turned missionaries that they have to
settle the same question, with about the
same solution. —Scribncr for Septem
ber.
A Flu In His Bark.
The Albany Timet says : On© of the
dodges of the innumerable multitude I
which is always .-driving to live without j
work is thus described by a resident: A j
strong, healthy looking man raug the
door bell and asked for a few pennies to
buy him some bread. They were re- j
fused on geueral principles, aaS then
the sturdy beggar begun writhing Ml if
in misery, and explained that he had
pin sticking in his back, which hurt him
severely. He would like to go into the
house a minute, in order to remove the
tioubleaome thing. In the case re
ferred to, suspicion was aroused, and
the man with a pin in his back was
ordered to move on. In others, how
ever, the impostor has been allowed to
go into a room alone, when he has helped
himself to whatever he conld lay his
hands on. The trick was qnite common
a few years ago, and in one instance the
lady of the house, who was alone, was
rudely insulted. Our readers will do
well to beware of the man with ■ pin in
bia back.
I> Lm.
Lann 0. Redden. or " Bmnrf Olyn
dou"—the lady wboae marriage was
coupled in the newspaper* with an ao
count of her learning to talk after being
a deaf mat# nnttl sixteen yearn of age—
pnbUahea I Hi* poem. Doubtless it
wan written during the honeymoon, for
it oontaiua thia renie ;
Thar*'* a beautiful country that gleams from
ths duteoos, <
Kiorading the ecrantry thai MOM looked <*e
When bla aad, dying (yss, with palbetnrper
aiatenra.
From Piogah'a high top eoeght the f*
hovicuti.
Ti* the land the I <• loved of the iow-leanlag
lover ;
Tie lb* lend that la loved of the laea he
leeiis over;
For the eueke never hldM In the eweet aeentad
clover
And cloud* never darken the bine of the sky
In the aweet by and bye I
A Woman'* Wit,
A g ottoman connected with the press
wss in Hi. Louis recently, and con tided
to a friend the detail* of an adventure
m a lloaton hotel. The story ia brief,
but with an immense moral as showing
how, in some things, lovely woman will
ul way* ooine to the relief of s sister in
tiiotrea* to outwit the tyrant man. The
journaliat above referred to, stopping at
the hotel, a private one where the guests
were accustomed to tbe entire freedom
of the bouse, felt, one night, the im
; permtive necessity of esting nome frmt
[ (a-fore tetiring. It was too late to send
out to buy any; be did not want to
arouse the servants of the house at ao
late an hour, and yet fruit or preserve*
or something toothsome of the kind
aeenied to him s personal necessity. He
knew where the storeroom was, knew
thai the door was toft open, and finally
resolved to go down quietly and prig
-nongh sweetmeats to aatiafy his need.
No sooner was the thought ewnoeivea
than acted upon, sad, within five min
utes, he mas in the storeroom hooking
preserves out of a jar aud enjoying him
self immensely in satisfying the craving
which had come upon him.
For a few minutes the enjoyment of
the man at the praaervre was complete.
Then be was startled by a light, swift
atep in tbe hall, there was a whiab and
rustle of garments, the door opened sud
denly and some one bounded in moth
such suddenness as, coming aqqaiely
against tbe form of tbe midnight raider,
to knock him half way across tbe room
and fairly off his feet. Leaping op at
once be dosed with his uneonaaoua as*
aaitont, to be startled by s subdued
shriek and to find that be had raptured
a woman! Farther, he discovered that
the ladv, who had wanted something to
cat as well a* be. was only dad in a
night dies*. Still, though trying, the
occasion was not one of unmixed hor
ror by any means, and in a moment the
gentleman's nerve returned and his curi
osity roue to fever heat.
"Who is this?" he demanded. No
answer.
" Who is it I" he repeated. " ton 11
not get out of thia until you tell." Still
no answer, but a struggle in the dark
ness, the lady trying to get away.
Again tbe query wa* repeated, with
equal lack of response, but this time a
rebounding slap in the lace from a hand
(hut was doubtless pretty bat which hit
With decided force, was the reward of
the questioner.
He wa* put mi his mettle at onoe.
"Ton think you'll get off unknown!
We'll see about that!" he exclaimed.
"I've a device that'll work, I think."
And then, after a titont but determined
struggle, he caught a little bit of the
lady 's right cheek between bia teeth and
bit it—not ao badly as to break the vel
vety skin, but sufficiently hard to leave
a mark which be knew could nut diaap
i war for a day or two. Then he retea*d
his unknown* prisoner, and she flew like
the wind along the passage, disappear
tug in some room impossible to hade
in the darkness.
Tbe next morning the gentleman with
a mvsterv to solve *me down to hruai
/ ant "early. No ladies had yet appeared,
but at his table were one or two inti
mate mal- friends, and to them be con
fided the story of his adventure in the
might, relating also the means he L*d
taken to secure the identification of the
unknown lady. The most intense curi
osity at onoe prevailed at the table, and
tbe advent tf tha todies was awaited
with an impatience (scarcely to be con
trolled. Five miuutee later the door
opened aud the belie of the hotel euter
* i demurely, glided across the room
I and seated here If lor breakfast. Eager
crew, followed her, and aa her face was
fairly exposed, there was a sensation
among the gentlemen. Upon her right
cheek was a strip of eoartptoster an
inch long! The men exchanged glance*
and whispered and smiled. The mystery
wis Derived early.
But just then another tody entered,
this time a dignified matron. As she
seated herself there was disclosed upon
her right cheek s piece of cocrtplaster
identical in apqwaranee with that upon
I tbe face of the bsllet Another and an
other ladv entered. Upon the right
cheek of "every one of them appeared
a piece of oourtptoeter. The tab>es
filled up and not a tody at ono of them
but wore eoartptoster on the right
cheek ! And then the gentlemen look
ing confidently for a revelation wilted.
They comprehended the situation. The
tody who had been raptured in the night
had confided ber extremity to her
friends, and they had come to the res
cue, to outwit male humanity. They
had succeeded, too. The discomfited
men at that particular table knew that
Iwnrath one of the many pieces ot oourt
plaster in the room were hidden the
marks of teeth, but which was the iden
tical bit of oourtptoeter they oould not
tell And they never learned.
Commodore Taoderbiit's Children.
Commodoro Vanderbilt has ten living
children, two sons and eight daughters,
some thirtv odd grandchildren, and half
a donen greot-grmidchildron—tine, a son
of William H , being ft man grown.
The probable shape of the will ia being
discussed. It is understood that Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt, the elder son, will
be well provided for and endowed with a
large part of the railroad interests, which
his father has managed with such con
summate skill.
New York is full of gossip concerning
the probable provision thmt will be made
for the other son, Cornelius J. Vander
bilt Those who believe the oemmodore
to be a man of stern justice think the
second son will be endowed with some
important railroad interest while others
accept the current rumor that he will lie
Classified with the daughters, at*l, like
them, receive only a small portion the
vast estate. Cornelius is a man of per
haps forty. For thirty years of his
life, beginning in infancy, he was the
victim of an affliction which entirely in
i capacitated him for any exertion. Home
eight years ago he began to throw it off
! and his constitution lias now acquired
uearlv its normal tone. He is tall, about
: six feet, ana a slight stoop of the shoul
tiers betrays a mark of the disease which
ihe has conquered. He lias a thin, high
i head, clear blue eyes, facile speech, an
j earnest rnanuer, and quick, expressive
! gestures. He dresses with neat plaiu
: ness, and looks like a Methodist minister
i without ft pariah.
A Malay Female,
: Li. Maria Child says, in ft letter to the
j Woman' Journal : Poity years sgo I
: met in a stage mi elderly man, the
j thumb of whose right hand hung down
as if suspended by a piece of thread,
and some of the passengers inquired the
! cause. H -replied : "A Malay woman
j cut the tendon villi her saber." "A
Malay woman I" they exclaimed. " How
came you to lie fighting with a woman f"
, " I didn't khow she was a woman, for
they all dress alike there," said he. "I
i was on board the Potomac when it was
[ sent out to chastise tfee Malays lr
i murdering the crew of a Salem vessel,
i We attacked Quailabattoo, one of their
i fortified towns, and killed some two
, hundred or more. Many of them were
i women, and I ean tell you the Malay
women were as good fighters as the
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