THE OLD MILL.
Here from the brow of the hill I look
Through a lattice of boughs and leaves
And the moss on its rotting eaves.
I hear the clatter that jars its walls,
And the rushing waters sound,
And I see the black floats rise and fall
As the wheel goes slowly round.
I rode there oft when [ was voung,
With my grist on the house before,
And talked with Nellie, the miller’s girl,
As I waited my turn at the door.
And while she tossed her ringlets brown,
And flirted and chatted so free,
The whee! might stop 6r the wheel might
BO
It was all the same to me,
"is twenty years since last T stood
On the spot where I stand to-day,
And Nellie is wed and the miller is dead,
And the mill and I are gray,
But both, till we fall into ruin and wreck,
To our fortune of toil are bound,
And the man goes and the stream flows,
Aud the wheel moves slowly round.
SL TS
A NIGHT OF FEAR.
were samphng the punch several per-
dance.
There wus but one young and fresh
face, that of the daughter of the house.
increased minute by minute. ‘‘Poor
have fallen into a trap!
not have allowed themselves to
caught by it!"
They danced until midnight,
be
The
fifty
the
was
guests, The punch
danseuses were strong,
demanded—the students
At midnight, however, they wished
“Not if I know it!” cried the master
“Supper’s ready;
at Montauban, having the good looks
and accents paculiar to that locality,
entered the omnibus running from the
Madelaine to the Bastile in Paris.
At the station of the Passage de
"Opera a passenger with a high color,
carefully dressed, uneasy in the stylish
seated himself beside the student.
Glittering charms hung from his
handsome and grave young girl, whom
he installed in front of him upon
1ast seat remaining vacant,
The passenger, so brand new in ap-
pearance, did not seem to pay any
self solely to staring at the other pas-
sengers, striving to make their acquaini-
ance or recognize them. After a re-
peated examination of everybody in the
omnibus he suddenly turned toward his
neighbor, and, slapping him on the
knee with his broad, firm hapd, ex-
claimed:
“It's
youl”
Even though one is from Montauban,
and has brought from his province an
opinion in regards to Paris that pre-
vents him from being amazed at any-
thing, one cannot be slapped on the
knee and spoken to in this way without
giving a start.
“I don’t understan
dent.
“Tell him, girl,” responded the man
with the charms, addressing his daugh-
ter; “tell him I like him, and perhaps
be will understand better.”
The youug girl blushed, 1g her
head, confused, supplica and the
student then perceived that she was
very pretty.
“How can I serve you?" he demanded
in a softened voice of his neighbor.
“All right, I'll explain,”
man with the new garment. “To
morrow night I have a house-warming.
1 said to myself, as soon as I saw you,
that you should be there, Oh, no cere.
mony with me; you needn’t come alone
if you're afraid, A young man so
0
astonishing how well I like
3
da,
or
=
hu
ii
+4
Erie
i,
friends, Select half a dozen of them
and bring them with you. It's agreed
upon, isn’t t* Here's my card.”
rassed; every eye was fixed upon him,
The people in the omnibus laughed and
whispered. The only way to escape
from the dilemma was to accept the
card and get out.
stop, hut leaped from the omnibus,
the Latin quarter, the young student
we won't!”
the address given,
Through a magnificent iron gate they
The supper was for three hundred
in the festal hall. They drank, they
laughed.
omnibuses stopped running, the guests
again strove to withdraw, The old
gentlemen and old ladies were per-
mitted to depart, but the host made a
new barricade before the young Inen.
“You shan’t go!” said he, in a louder
voice than he had vet used. “You
would be robbed on the way home!
You are fatigued; so am I; let’s go to
bed! Your chambers have been pre-
pared!”
At once, and in spite of appearance,
our young friends stared at eaeh other
with a certain fright. The ambuscade
was undeniable, What were they to
do?
Qur rash heroes consulted together,
accepted with good grace, demanding
ments t
turn in the garden and smoke a cigar.
jailer pushed his irony so far as to offer
them some excellent Havana cigars,
which they lighted with hypocritical
gratitude.
Once in
gate, It was fastened. Impossible to
awake the concierge; he was without
doubt an accomplice in the prepared
crime!
They concluded
their escape with the same uvanimily
that they had concluded the night
before to go to the rendezvous. They,
herefore, searched the garden for a
tree that might help them to scale the
wall. They found one, It seemed to
been planted there expressly
against the wall, with the branches that
reached over into the street,
They climbed it one by one, and after-
ward let themselves slip down the wall,
But, unfortunately, three sergeants de
ville, who chanced to be on the spot,
received the young men in their arms,
refused to believe the incredible story
they stammered out, searched them,
found very little money upon them, were
nevertheless suspicious of them, and
took the seven rash fellows to the sta-
tion-house.
Next morning, when our seven stu-
dents were taken before the commissary
they must make
have
supper guests, the husband of one of the
“Parbleul is it you, messieurs?”
house?”
They were then compelled to confess
the suspicion, the terrors that had pre-
sided over the scaling of the wall, Al}
most choked with merriment the com-
missary gave the following explanation:
The individual who had invited them
to his housewarming soiree was an hon-
est omnibus conductor who had just
walks,
had made a mistake and
timidly.
A lackey In grand livery informed
them that it was the right house, and,
after having conducted them up the
wide, marble front steps, introduced
balmy with rare flowers,
“Complete,” cried the host on per-
ceiving his acquaintance of the omnibus
and his six companions. “I was cer-
tain you would come; youth 1s not dis-
trustful. Now you are here you won’t
get away easily,
“There’s my mother, a good old lady
who has had her day; there’s my wife
who 1s now having hers; there's my
daughter whose day Is yet to come, A
fine family, are they not?—and they
don't turn up their nose at pleasure
either,
“It’s singular,” added the master of
House, ‘‘though I sent out at least
three hundred invitations you are the
first to arrive, But it is not yet 9
o'clock. They will come; they will
gome, Meanwhile, will you take a lit-
tle refreshment?"
' They warmed up slightly while re-
freshing themselves, The young men
found the mansion delightful, the
bourse.
“It is not astonishing,” added the
astonishing, therefore, that he should
give his invitations mn an omnibus.’
“Ah, if his daughter had not been so
pretty!” responded the bewildered son
“Parbleu! He wishes to find a hus
“Do you think be will retain any ani.
mosity against as?’
“He will laugh over the affair with
you.”
1 know not if this story will termin-
ate with a marriage. It is possible.
At any rate, the young man from Mon.
tauban now remembers that his father
was a former chief of the prefecture of
Tarn-et-Garonne-chef cook ~ and
thinks that circumstance sufficient to
Exposition of Lock Ploking and Bate-Blow.
ing by an Expert,
A young fellow with a bright face, a
suit of
| clothes, has visited almost all the down
{ town business offices’ during the past
week with the model of a door in his
| hand, the door being equipped with a
strong lock, a bolt and a steel key. A
little satchel strung from a strap
| his shoulder was generally pulled around
in front of him as he deposited the
{ model of the door on the desk of
| person he had selected as his victim,
| and while the latter was regarding the
| door model and the impudence of the
| man, the young fellow selected from a
| bundle of brass wires in the satchel one
| tattered hat and a much-worn
| or two particular ones, with which be
first ejected the steel key from its place
in the lock and then threw back the
| bolt, finally turning the lock and open-
| ing the door, which being placed be-
tween himself and his vis-a-vis illustra-
| ted more quickly than words could tell
| how easily an expert lock-picker can
| enter your room, after the
| been bolted and locked and the key
left in the lock, should he desire to do
80,
fascinating to me,” he sald, ‘‘as the
astronomy is to scientist, I know bur-
glars who are
and apparently well-cultivated men.
Just a little thought will enable you to
see that a burglar must be a man—that
is, & successful burglar—must be
man of good mental quality as well as
of courage.’
“And the safe-blower?
“1s invariably a well informed man.
Of all the fraternity of lock workers
the combination lock-worker 18 the
most expert. The cashier of the Wane
county bank, in Wooster, Ollo, coun-
ted over its securities in his possession
and finding them correct closed the
safe door with & bang and went home,
The next morning, by some freak of
| mind, the combination which
| alone let him into the fire and supposed
burglar-proof safe had slipped his mind.
In vain he endeavored to conjure up
the magical numbers, and in vain
| officers and directors of the bank work-
ed on the turning knob,
“There were $20,000 worth of bonds
and money behind that invulnerable
door, and for two months the
men fretted and struggled to
them. One day a stranger
| into the little town, and the first thing
| he heard of was the dilemma of the
{ bank,
| “He strolled leisurely up to the bul
ing and quietly informed the cashi
that he could open the safe ina short
The cashier, who had fumed for
two months at the same job, looked up-
on the stranger as a lunatic, but as the
case was a desperate told the
stranger to go ahead and doit. The
man walked over to
door, and on one knee began
the combination knob, The click of
mechanism pleased him, for he smiled.
“@
would
$he
wilt
bank
I'ed ch
sauntered
time,
one he
“al
gave the door a pull, and it
slowly on its hinges, and revealed
swung
tha
the
weeks 50 earnestly longed to see,
“You asked me a moment ago about
safe-blowers,
workers who resort to powder to open
a door, Having acquired mastery over
one combination, a safe-burglar is too
shrewd to let his secret out. After en-
or sound, open the combination and
then secure bis plunder,
gins the work of safe-blowing.
first locks the safe deor, and then fills
all the cracks with putty, and through
| a little orfice made in the upper crack
fills the safe with powder by means of a
| little bellows. He then fills the hole
| attaches a slow match to a small orfice
{ mage I e lower crack, and walks off
| Yeisurdi¥ with the fragts of his crime,
| In a half hour the fe fnbas ignited the
| powder, and the sate doot is shattered
| from its hinges. Then the po rush
in, and the next day report al head-
| quarters that the robbery was accom-
| plished by blowing the safe, The truth
is, after beating the combination the
| thieves, to conceal how 1t was done,
| ‘blow the safe.’
“The robber masters a combination
| with almost mathematical accuracy.
| Just as the music teacher 1s trained to
detect one false note in a large chorus,
| 80 the safe robber studies the click of
the ratches within the lock and marks
the drop. The expert safe worker is as
scientifically familiar with the relative
resisting power of the different makes
of vaults and safe doors as he is with
the expansive force of the different ex-
plosives, A pneumatic pump was used
fn the robbery of the Quincy, LiL, bank
in this manner: The crevices of the
safe door were puttied up all around, an
opening was left at the top and bottom
tube which was fixed to the pump, The
air in the safe was exhausted through
the tube in the bottom, and the vacum
i
| followed by lock-pickers, sneak thieves
Among the ho~
{ and hotel plunderers.
three divisions
‘nights’ and the
tel thieves there are
the ‘daylights,’ the
‘mornings.’ The room worker gener-
ally locates at hotels the theatrical
stars, jewelry salesmen, bankers, bridal
parties and all persons who are likely
{to carry valuables or money. The
thief having located his man, proceeds
| in his operations in this manner: At
the dead of night he slips from his
to the door of the apartment wherein
lies his victim, snoring probably, in
heavy sleep. A pair of nippers, or out»
siders, and a silk thread and pece of
wire are the tools needed, He turns
the key inthe lock from the outside
and the lock is opened. He pushes the
key inward and drops to the floor;
waits to see if it disturbed the
sleeper, if all is well he proceeds. He
places his knee to the door and by this
means finds the exaet location of the
bolt. He then fastens a thread to the
wire, making a sort of bow, and after
bending to suit he pushes this instru-
| ment through the keyhole, and by giv-
ing the handle of the wire a turn, holds
his contrivance until it
proper position and tl draws it
slowly along. As the thread passes
along on the inside of the door it catch-
es the knob of the boi
easily from the noosing, and
making the slightest noise,
it
has
reaches
te
en
and draws it
This ts
is known by the profession as a ‘widdie.’
Wis
The thief that enters secures his booty
and returning places the key in
knob of the bolt, and closes the
his thread, using his or
siders, the
it. All this can be
N g ¥2
utes,
nippers
done in five min-
EE ——— itn
Waking ap the Wrong Fasstaear.
In 1830, when visitors
traveled there by stage coach, a famous
old named John
made
West. He was a hard drinker, but in
those days whiskey didn't hurt a man
much. Before leaving Buffalo
made a bargain with the driver that he
was to be waked up every
+
wy
sdoneer Oldershaw
scheme worked well until they cam
within a day’sdrive of Chicago.
were only two passengers in
and they had evidently discovered what
Was going on.
As the journey was neat
its end all hands agreed to ride all night
in order to reach Chic
ing. With
iriver not bargain
i John When
| begun to snore, one of the ot
many
to
went to
i Oi
forget
sleep. he
her passen
gers crowded him out of his piace
sal
own hat for John’s coon skin, and pre-
All ni
kept up, the driver
1
0%T
aiidti
tended tn be asleep.
the deceplion was
stopping every hour, nudging the ma:
that he supposed was Oidershaw and
giving him his bitters, When Chicago
was reached John found himself in his
own corner, but be knew that he had
no whiskey, and be became so furious
that they had to put him under guard.
He sued the stage company {or damages,
and after ten years of Litigation got a
judgment for $15,000, That is what
came of waking up the wrong passen-
ger.
ght long
swallows Attack and Conquer a Hawk,
| Recently a hawk swooped down on a
poultry yard near Youngsville, N, Y.,
{ and seizing a hen, flew with it to the
| top of a neighboring tree. The hen
| made a great outery, and before the
| hawk could kill it and make a meal of
| it a swallow made a dash at the hawk
and pecked and worried it so that it
| released the hen and attempted to fly
| away. The hen fluttered to the ground
| and ran back to the poultry yard, The
| swallow kept up its attacks on the
| hawk, aud it was soon joined by other
swallows, The courageous little birds
surrounded the hawk and assailed it
| fiercely, until the big bird dropped to
| the ground. The farmer on whose
ground the conflict took place hurried
to the spot. The swallows had the hawk
on the ground and were pecking it
| mercilessly. They were so much en-
| gaged in the atiack that the farmer
walked within three feet 4f them before
they discovered him and flew away.
The farmer picked up the hawk, Both
of its eyes had been put out, and it was
so badly hurt in other ways that it died
in a few minutes, It was a very large
hawk, and had been doing much dam-
age to the poultry in the neighborhood
for several days,
Insists MI MIS
California Forests,
It is said that the permanence of the
California mountain forests is seriously
threatened by the herds of sheep and
cattle which are driven into the moun
tains every year to graze. From the
foothills to the highest meadows every
blade of herbage and every seedling,
shrub and tree is devoured. Young
trees are barked and ruined, and the
roots of grasses are trodden out by the
hoofs of animals, The life of any for
SIRT
|
TE res 4 3 yy
NEWSO¥ THE WEEK
a———
~The President on the 18th appoin-
ted the following mternal révenue coi-
lectors: Daniel J, Welch, for Montana:
John C, Henderson, for the Eleventh
District Indiana; Willlam B. An-
derson, for the Thirteenth District of
Illinois, and Thomas Cooper, for the
Eighth District of Illinois, The ma-
jority of the internal revenue offices of
the country have been filled, only nine-
teen remaining vacant.
William B, Webb Las
ept the office Commissioner
the District of Columbia offered hilo
by the President on the 18th, The law
provides that voth political parties shall
be represented in the District Cominis-
and Mr. Webb, who is a republi-
BUCCeeds one that party in the
of
id
decided 10
of
Of
8i0n,
Can,
Board,
~The U. SB. steamer Despatch, hav-
ing on board Secretaries Whitney
Endicott, Generals Benet, Newton
Abbott, and Captain C, 8, Smith and
Edward Magruder, U. 5. A,, and Mr,
Joseph Morgan of Pennsylvania, mem
bers of the Board to inspect forlifica-
tions, arrived at Newport on the 19th.
—J olin Roach, the ship-builder, made
assignment on 15th in New York, The
preferences amount to about $122,000,
and
and
~—Twenty cases of prostration from
heat and five deaths, were reported in
New York on the 185th, Five cases of
prostration and one death were reported
n Brooklyu,
-A violent
wintry around Kalamazoo, Michi
1 19th, At Vicksburg mn
to property, and sev-
3 1% 5 3 4
persons injured by lightning.
Was one
~The court-martial appointed for the
al of Paymaster General Smith of the
on the charge of ‘‘scandalous
mduet and culpable inefficiency in the
avy,
on the
itd
in’ Washington.
—The Governor of Louisiana has or-
the execution of Charles Davin,
ge Wilson and Mathilde Jones {
we murder of Mrs, Henrietta
ow of Judge James A, Cole, in
of Plaquemine, Jberville parish.
¢ execution will take place on Fri-
July 31st.
-The Chief of the Bureau of Stat
tics reports that the number of in
the United States
i #
is
ry
diiie™
880, was 387
fryy tl
{ vier the 1
JUINNE Lt
£21, being 122,013 less
previous year or 401,171
than during the year ending June
#1, 1882 the year of the grealest immi-
~The Dominion Parl
3
ne nn
amen was
¥
snr 1 '
Ruel On
~The present hol wave extends over
he greater portion of the United States
tocky Mou
ratures were report
n Washington, |
»
of the 1
arg, 98 in
101 in Baltimore.
Henry
nted a 8]
and
of North Care
Hal 1 $i y
ial Indian agent.
woial agent
Was ol 14
~-William B. Webb
pmissioned as a Commis
of Columbia,
~-1t is reported from Fort Reno that
General Sheridan has organized
jan police fore composed of
young Cheyennes. It 1s thought
the General in his report will attril
the dissatisfretion among the Indi
chiefly to the cattle leases,
- By the premature explosion of a
blast on the South Pennsylvama Rail-
pear Fort L Fulton
COunLY, Penna, , « 20th, tires 3
were Killed and injured, perhaps
fataly,
au In-
d ©,
road, ittieton,
it m Lhe
two
~The town of Skidmore, Missouri,
was burned on the 19th. Loss, nearly
£100,000, The fire was started by boys
playing mith matches na hay mow.
Since the 18th a fire has been raging
seven hundred feet below the surface
in the Hollenback mine at Wilkesbarre,
but it is now reported under control
It was started’ by a lamp falling from
one of the miners’ hats,
~The President on the 21st, appoin-
ted Joseph K. Bogert to be Postmaster
at Wilkesbarre, Penna, vice A S, Orr,
suspended; A. H. Keller, U, 8. Mar-
shal for Northern Alabama; Edwrd J.
Dawne, of Oregon, United States
Judge for the District of Alaska; M.
D. Ball of Alaska, United States At-
torney for Alaska, and Barton Atkins,
of New York, United States Marshal
for Alaska.
~Secretary Whitney, it is said, hes
decided that the Eight Hour law shall
hereafter be enforced In the different
navy yards—that is, the employes shall
receive ten hours® pay for eight hours’
labor. Heretofore they have received
eight hours’ pay for eight hours’ labor,
*“The general order directing the change
has not been issued yet, but informa
tion of the proposed change has been
received at the Washington Navy
Yard.”
—The trial of Louis Kiel, on the
charge of high treason, n at Regi-
na, in the Northwest Territory, on
the 20th.
— William Wessel, a saloon-keeper of
Youngstown, Ohio, was “badly whip-
ped’? on the 19th, in a fight with his
wife. For revenge, hé untied a bull
dog on the 20th and set it at his wife
The dog tore the flesh from the woman’
himbs, infl injuries which way
prove fatal. easel is in Jail,
~The American Rural Home, of
Rochester, publishes special crop reports
from all the winter and spring wheat
ying states, These reports say that
fi the orthwest the winter wheat site
uation is
Northwest
Oats stand
great. ime
great gain
it. The grass crop of the
will not equal that of 1884,
bountifully. Corn shows
provement, having wade a
in the last fourteen days.
~The Democratic
Lancaster county, Peuna,, 224
elected ten delegates 10 the Plate Con.
vention and nominated a county ticket,
The delegates were not i but
are understood 10 be 1
~All B meeting
State Commities
the 224, George F.
preside at the next
Convention, and Het
as the Chalrman of
Resolutions,
gnyvention of
ii
44
ii a
. o¥ girl
Face,
Hensel.
~ Inspector Armstrong lelegrapis t
the Interior Department the count of
the Indians on the Cheyenpe anc Al
pahoe reservation is progreseing 3
and no further trouble is apprehended,
obtained an a
{
— Biel's counsel has
journment of has trial until
inst., to allow witnesses from
and Montana be produced
Quebec witnesses inclu
experts who are Lo
his insanity.
~The President Wil-
liam H. Moffett, of New Jeresy, 10 Le
Consul at Athens, and John Deviin
of Michigan, to indsor
to
ie two medica
Pots AID ned Lo prove
has appoiuled
W
be Consul at
—Becretaries
are expected
early next week,
—A terri th
over |
Endicott and Whitney
eturn to Washingt
to ¥
'
Ln
nderstorm passed
AMIGETSOTIN Pasion
r
Valiey, Pa., on the
were uprooted
¥ al
the wind
the Catawissa
21st, Trees and fe
and houses damag
while the corn,
were also levelled
submerged by the
throughout the v ]
£50,000, A viol wind
New Britain, Cor ti
nees
oul
he wind
The «
estimate
stor v
it, on the 2180,
devel
ed a wind somewhat of
of a cycione. TI
wholly or
HINNeys
party
blown
Fort Do
out Mou: he her
leader of our armies |
Union, and twice
United States, died on t
McGregor, New Y
of his
stati
eigit
he 23
ork, int
The M
ashington,
dueed 0
viDenis,
et whiel have beer
A
Ter
weme Court
~The President oun the 25d
i Samuel H., Buck to be Pos
8, in place of W.
Mr. Buck
that city, and is
{the New Orleans
o ndge,
chant of
Director
Lion.
~The resignation of Wil
Bunn as Governor 1dalio
accepted by the President.
~Captain J. M. Lee, of the Ninth
Infantry, has been appointed Inc
Agent at the Cheyenne reservalion.
SE —————— ft —————
Too Mashial for Any Use,
In Sumatra there is a very singular
race called the Kubus, who are too shy
to mix with the other races of the island,
and dwell in the recesses of the forests.
They are looked on as inferiors by the
Malays, and thought to bea little better
than beasts. Such is their shyness that
they will never face a stranger. Their
trade with the Malayansis consequent ¥
carried on in a strange manner. The
trader announces his arrival by beating
a gong, and then retires from the place
of rendezvous. The, Kubus approach,
put their forest treasureson the ground,
beat a gong, and retreat. The trader re-
turns and lays his commodities down in
quantities sufficient, as he thinks, for
the purchase of the goods on Then
he retires, and the Kubus reappear and
consider the bargain. And so, after
more withdrawals and approaches and
gong beatings, the respective parties
come to an understanding, and carry off
independently their bargains. The Kue
bus in their wild state do not bury their
dead. They live on snakes, grubs, fruits
and the flesh of any deers or pigs they
can slay. They are skillful spearmen,
and throw stones with marvellous socu-
racy. They know of no state after
death. In some physical respects they
assimilate closely to the anthropoid apes,
of
ian
AIT,
Farm,
Buffalo Bill has the e4t thorough-
bred stock farm in America al North
Platte, Lincoln county, Nebraska. The
ranch consists of 8 acres under one
fence and he claims land is not wild
vernment land, but pad for by him.
fie owns 12 dwellings in the town and
is a Western
our weeks ago, while in Chicago, he
bought 41 head of imported cattle
the: Hereford and Pl Angas he 3