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K-T1 M E ‘,AiATC H
OADODS!-
When I si;id "reckless" I did not mean
to insinuate that he was of that particular
stamp which frequent bar-rooms, billiard
rooms, etc, and which are termed reckless
by the public, nor do I mean that this
recklessness itself was visible when he was
idle, rather than a marked air of uneasi•
tress pervaded his whole frame. He was
always on the qui rive fur a mission which
would incur danger ; and though young
and partially inexperienced, yet he was
&limiter in 2120t10, fortiter in re. (Gentle
in manner, but resolute in deeds.)
I like him, to say the least. I chose
him to perform many daring deeds oftener
than I did others, and of it he seemed con
scious although no look or word of pride
ever escaped him. When preparing for a
dangerous mission, he preserved that same
nonchalant air which was his pecular char
acteristic; but let him once get into an ex.
citing affair, and his eyes would sparkle,
his brctad bosom heave with intensity, while
either his hands or his mouth would be
twitching with a nerveusness which was
startling.
Well, one warm afternoon during the
month of August last, I chose Cox to ac
' company me upon a spying adventure along
the banks of the Yazoo river. As there
were two guerilla camps to be passed we
armed ourselves more fully than usual
Cox seemed to he in a sorrowful mood that
afternoon ; a depression of spirits was the
cause to which I attributed it, and for some
time thought no more of it. As night
came on we embarked in a small Indian
canoe and proceeded up the river for sev
eral miles. The almost impenetrable dark
ne,s shielded us from observation, should
any wandering guerilla happen to be around
land thus we paddled silently along until
we reached the mouth of a small creek,
five miles from our camp and thur from the
rabel Col. —'s. acre we landed and
comm.enced to pick our way cautiously for
ward through the dense underbrush and
low wocele which lined the river hank at
that point. We proceeded in this manner
fur nearly three miles ; but then whe dusky
figure of the rebel seniinel warned us that
we were vt ithin a mile or less of the camp,
we sank to onr hands and knees in order
to approach him unawares.
"I'll quie.tly shut off his wind, dress my
self in his clothes, and when the corporal
of the guard comes around, I'll slip into
the camp, lea..rn what I can, and then slip
out. If you will remain here, I will re
turn to this precise spot." So saying, Cox
left me alone, while he crawled forward
towards the unsuspecting sentinel. Hardly
had be gone five rods ere he turned about
and came back.
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"Lieutenant," said he, hid usually clear
voice choked with emotion, "if I fall in
this errand, will you send these to my wife
and child in Memphis ?" and as he spoke.
he drew a package from his bosom, and
gave it to me. "Something tells me that
I will sacrifice my life iu this mission;
that a rebel hall shall cut short my ex
istence in the end, and that my eyes shall
behold my dear wife no more."
"Don't go, then, by all means," I re
plied laying my hand upon his .arm. "Let
us return to camp. lam no man to force
another to his death."
"I knew it, lieutenant," returned he,
starting away again "But this may all be
imagination. Were I to know that by
sacrificing my life to the knife of she sav
age I would render my country any valua
ble service, God knows that I would do it
in a minute," and be was gone before I
could reply.
Noble man : Thy words were full of
generous and noble meaning '• and though
thy manly form is now mouldering in an
early grave, thy memory shall live forever
among the records of the brave in that
great book in heaven, if not on earth.
From my position, at the foot of a small
pine tree, I could not obtain a very good
glimpse of the country before me. Ac
cordingly I clambered into the branches of
the tree, and by parting them before me
I could obtain an unobstructed view—that
is, as well as the darkness would permit.
The form of the sentinel was just discerni
ble through the gloom, pacing back and
forth upon his lonely beat.. But suddenly
he stopped. I stretched my ears to listen,
and distinctly I heard the low words,
"Who goes there ?"
A long moment of breathless suspense
followed I expett to see Cox spring
suddenly from the earth upon his foe; but
not the slightest sound betrayed his Fox
imity. Leaving his gun "half cocked,"
the rebel continued his walk, and in a few
moments he again stopped and demanded,
"Who goes there ?''
Twice this was repeated, and the last
time the sentinel moved forward to the
spot from whence he supposed the m)ster
ious sound proceeded. Scarcely had he
done so when a dark form sprung upon
him from one side, and a glittering knife
entered his heart with the rapidity of
lightning. It was Cox, the scout ; and
arraying himself iu the dead man's clothes,
he pushed the body under some bushes
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1880.
'4_ru.str: Ilotutr.
The Little Grave on the HiII,
There's a spot on tho hilkide far away,
Where, in summer the grass grows green,
Where, beneath a rustling elm tree's shade
A moss-covered stune is seen.
'Tis a quiet and unfrequented spot,
A solitude, lone and wild;
Yet—somebody's hopes are buried there—
'Tis the grave of a tittle child.
In winter, alas! that mossy stone
Is hid 'neath a shroud of snow,
But around it, in spring time, fresh and sweet,
The daisies and violets grow;
And o'er it the summer breezes blow,
With a fragrance soft and mild.
And the Autumn's dead leaves thickly strew
That grave of a little child.
And every year there's a red-lireast conies.
When the month of May is nigh,
Arid huilds her nest in the quiet spot,
'Mid the elm tree's branches high ;
While her melody sweet liy the spot, she trills,
As if by the scene liegulte.l,
Perhaps—who knows ?—'tis an Angel comes
To the grave of that little chill.
Yea, hope lies buried there,
S:michady's lowlier is weeping in vain,
For, thtmgh ytars may e• time and year, limay go
limier b,tek ag.iin.
Yet blesse,l are tho 4 wito die in youth,
The pure and undefiled,
50.., road to heaven, perehance, runs. through
The ! , r.ive of a little child.
Ely,-,? - torn—Erlier.
THE SCOUT'S LAST MESSAGE.
Samuel Cox was one of my bravest scouts.
He enlisted at Memphis, Tenn., and was
about twenty six years of age, tall, and very
powerful. He possessed a reckless nature,
which would exhibit itself in a very short
time, if he should chance to have nothing
to do for several days; and in order to
prevent this, I had to invent something for
him to engage in. _
and took his post. So quickly had this
change been wrought that, had my back
been turned during the transaction and
then turned back again, I could not have
told the difference between the two sena-
It was now about eleven o'clock. At
twelve the relief guard came, and with
mingling emotions of joy and fear I be
held Cox march back to their camp, while
another person took his place. I soon lost
sight of him in the deep wood, and then
anxiously awaited his return.
I believe I have not fully stated the
cause of this perilous Mission as yet, but
as I am now at leisure I will do so.
A rumor, whether to be believed or not
I did not know, was beginning to circulate
in the camp to the effect that a celebrated
guerilla colonel, named -, with a force
of five hundred men, was to march through
the upper country of Mississippi on a
grand imaging expedition, and obtain
enough provisions,etc.,to last them through
the winter In order to do this it woad
be necessary for them to come in uncom
fortable proximity to our little band of
one hundred sharpshooters, especiplly when
we were unprepared for them. So our
colonel appointed me and any companion
I might choose to go up the Yazoo river
to their camp, and by dint of cautious
manceuvering obtain such intelligence as
I could relative to the report, so that be
might be prepared. I started at once as
the reader is aware ; but before we landed
Cox made me promise him that he should
do the spying, etc., urging as a decisive
plea that he was better acquainted with
the country than I.
So far all went well ; how was it to end?
We shall see.
One long hour was dwindling away, but
I had neither seen or heard anything from
Cox. The fear that he had been discovered
and imprisoned came over me, and so
strong did it become that I left my perch
and dropped to the ground noiselessly. At
the foot of the tree I waited neatly half
an hour until chafed with a feverish im•
patience I could stand it no longer, but
determined to go and hunt him up. Cau
tiously I left the spot, crawling on my
hands and knees towards the sentinel.—
For a lung time I did not even look up to
see where I was going; but my mind was
filled with a thousand bitter fancies, and
I cursed myself over and over again fur
letting Cox go alone. In this way I went
forward until I thought I was pretty close
to the sentinel, but when I lifted my head
to see him, judge of my surprise to behold
him gone. But while I was ruminating
upon this strange event, a rustling in the
bushes close by startled me. In an instant
it flashed upon me that he had seen me
and was playing the same game; so I
crouched close down beneath a clump of
elders and waited his coming. In a few
moments he came feeling carefully along,
and when he was directly opposite me I
sprang out and confronted him. We
clenched; there was a deadly struggle, a
groan. a gasp; and then I rose from the
dead body of the sentinel with a small flesh
wound in the arm.
Again I made my way forward and this
time toward the camp fires of the enemy,
which were in plain sight abont a quarter
of a mile distant and through a small piece
of woods. As there was no sentinel be
tween me and the fires I rose to an up
tight position and continued on until the
one within the shadow of the woods be
came visible ; then I resumed the creep
ing posture as before. In a few moments
I came upon a slight eminence covered
with low underbrush. and once on the top
I beheld the camp of the rebels plainly.—
It was not large, considering the number
of its occupants and was situated in a large
depression at the entrance of a grove, in
stead of beyond it, as I had supposed ; two
fires had been built in front of the officers'
tents and around were congregated quite a
number of men, among them Col. -
I saw an immense deal of gesticulating
and running here and there, heard several
angry, contending voices, and noted that
it seemed to be centered upqn one person
who sat in the midst of the crowd. As
they were all about him I had no opportn•
nity to sight him; but suddenly they part
ed as if a thunderbolt had fallen in their
midst and as they did so the light fell upon
:he stern features of Samuel Cox. lle had
been discovered, and they were trying ham
as a spy. The cause of the sudden start
ing soon became apparent. Cox had
sprung to his feet, holding a revolver in
one hand and with the other he swept np
the contents of a small deal table by which
were seated the rebel colonel, a captain,
and a lieutenant, thrust them into his
bosom, and with a regular Indian yell
dashed through the astonished crowd over
the bushy ground directly towards me.
Seeing the exciting state of affairs I
sprang to an upright position and shouted,
"This way, Sam, this way; I'll back you."
Ile saw me, and as he came up he gave
me the papers, saying :
"Take 'em, lieutenant ; they are the
plans of the rebels, etc. If I fall, you can
carry them to our colonel ; tell him bow
I died !"
"Don't go under now, Cox," I replied
cheerfully. "See, they are after us ; come,
follow me," and as I spoke I darted away,
Samuel close behind, followed by a crowd
of mad yelling demons.
The sentinel fired a shot at us, likewise
the crowd, which had no effect save a few
whistling balls by our ear; as I could see.
One, two, and three long miles of the for
est flew beneath our feet, and as I had ta
ken the direction of our canoe the dark
river soon burst upon our sight.
Dashing down to the spot where lay the
canoe, we jumped in and were soon pulling
down the river, the ashen oars bending
until they almost snapped beneath the
pressure.
Our pursuers came running down to the
bank where we were last seen to find their
prey gone, just as we turned the bend in
the river. All the important maps, plans,
etc , were in the hands of . their enemy.
and taken from their very midst by a dar
ing spy.
They returned in chagrin and no very
amiable mood, to their deserted camp.
"Let me do the rowing, Cox; you aro
tired from excitement and running, if
nothing else. Our pursuers have gone
back, so there is no danger," I said, after
we were nearly a mile on our journey.
"You are very pale; come now, sit in the
stern and let me row."
Ile obeyed mechanically, sitting down
in the windl stern or the canoe, which I
was propelling through the water at a leis
urely speed.
Suddenly his pale face assumed a ghastly
hue, and his breath came quick and short
while he gasped forth the words :
"Lieutenant, row hard ! bard ! harder !
I West reach the camp before I die. 0,
God ! row hard, W-."__
"Die ! what mean you ?" I asked, with
unfeigned astonishment.
"One of those bullets went clear through
my brsast, and lam dying. I have stood
up against death as long as I can. O Lucy
my wife, my wife !" was Cox's reply.
Reader, did I bend those ashen oars
any? or was the canoe more than twenty
five miuptes in going over the intervening
four miles ? Ask the grand old trees along
the river bank what lone canoe shut past
them like a meteor on that night ; or ask
the sharpshooters of Col. M 's divis
ion in the Artily of the West, at what ter
rifle speed the little vessel shot up to the
bank, ploughing up the gravel in its head
long career. Reader, I believe f rowed
some that fatal night.
Beneath a stately oak that grew a few
rods from the river banh, lay the dying
spy. Ilis curly bead was pillowed by a
knapsack while a spread blanket formed
the only bed that we lied f. ..r hint. Tie
sharpshooters were standing aronr.d, sue
weeping, and others viewing the comrade
with sorrowful countenances; a minister
was kneeling beside the scout, offering up
a heartfelt prayer in his behalf, while our
surgeon was bathing his temples with
water, thus casing him in his la-t moments.
It was a scene worthy of the reieil of
Raphael or Scott. When the , ohaplai:l
ceased Cox rose to a sitting pature, and
in feeble tones addressed a few f,neourag
log words to his friends. Said lie, at the
conclusion, pointing to me :
"Do not blame him for anything what
ever. lie gave me my own way in the
matter; it is not his fault."
Here he stopped fer breath, and then
proceeded in short sentences :
"Boys, don't any of you ever give up
the glorious Union on any plea—for any
thing on earth. Let the fiercest tortures
be plied upon your body before you will
say one word against it. I have suffered
much at the hands of Secessionists in East
Tennessee, all because I loved our glorious
Union, one out of many. Boys, under any
circumstances, 'Don't give up the ship,
though every man perish "
"Lieutenant," he continued, calling me
to his side and placing a miniature and a
locket and chain in my hands, "Fend these
to my poor wire at Memphis. Write her
the particulars of my—my—my death.
Will you ?"
"I will. Cox, I will," I answered, my
voice husky with emotion.
He was going fast, his eyes were becom
ing glazed, and his breath hard and short.
Once he rallied, and shouted to us all in
tones which we can never forget :
"DON'T GIVE UP OUR UNION—
Never ! NEVER ! NEVER !"
And falling back upon his pillow Samuel
Cox, the scout and spy, was dead.
We buried him 'neat!' the tall waving
oak which was the symbol of himself just
as the golden summer sun was sinkini in
the West. We left the spot with soft
steps and retired to our camp. Darknoss
came on over the grave; all was still save
the quiet rippling of the river and the
mournful sighing, of the wind in the top
of the oak. A ° holy calm pervaded the
whole scene, and the soft zephyrs "song
T
together" over the patriot's lonely
grave.
I have little more to add. The rebels
never attempted their istended raid. As
all their plans, intentions, etc , were in the
possession of their enemies, they knew
that we would be prepared for them, and
they excused thembelves, very wisely, too.
To the brave scout We were indebted
for it all ; and we could only say, Requi
escat in pace
taistritaiq.
Clothing Moths.
SOME I►EFINITE DIRECTIONS FOR PROTECT
IN FURNITURE IN THE SUMMER.
The destruction of carpets and furni
ture in our cities by this pest is fearful to
contemplate, particularly in houses of in
experienced or careless housekeepers. And
even the most careful are sadly troubled
at times, and wonder why, with all their
care, that meths should still be in their
house. Now these good, careful people
should understand that moths do not ne
cessarilly originate in their houses, as the
moth miller can come in through the open
window from a careless neighbor's house
and at once make herself perfectly at
home. She runs less risk in coming in
the evening, for the sparrows are then
asleep. But the inquiry is anxiously made
by many housekeepers, "how can I best
care for the upholstered furniture and car
pets in the summer ?"
Upholstered furniture, where the fabric
is woollen, should be beaten with a rattan
or leather strap every two weeks and par.
titularly those chairs which are not used
much, and in those places where the moth
worm would be undisturbed in his work
on the underside of the cloth by a person
sitting in the chair. This we should even
do in the winter, as, in our furnace heated
houses, they will make two or more crops
in a year. • A disturbance to the moth
worm while at work usually kills him.
But for the summer protection, when
there is to be no one in the house, gather
all the woolen upholstered furniture in
one room, where you can shut it up close
ly, spread newspapers over the seats and
tops of the chairs, so that the tar paper
will not soil it. Take a roll of thin roofing
paper, freshly made, so as to be odorous;
open it and cover all over the furniture
and close the room. This tar paper you
ought to buy for about three cents per
pound. There is a better, nicer and clean.
er article, quite as odorous, called petro
leum paper, made expressly for this pur
pose, which does not soil fabrics. This is
used by the United States Government in
packing soldiers' clothing, and costs from
eight to ten cents per pound. If this is
cut in stripes, say eight inches wide, and
laid on the fl.ior under the carpet all around
the edges, it will be a great protection. Or
the fresh roofing paper will answer by pla
cing sheets of u rapping or newspaper be
tween it and the carpet, and this should
always be done when the carpets are to lie
on the floor during the summer. There
may be come objection to the odor but it
is not deleterious, like black peper, which
irrita . es the mucus membrane. Tile keep
er of a hotel in Florida sprinkled black
pepper all over the carpet, last summer, and
people could not enter the parlor last win
ter without beginning to sticezo. The
carbolic smell, on the contrary, is supposed
to be a disinfectant, and not unwholesome.
If' carpets are taken up and beaten
thoroughly—as they should be—they may
rolled up with some pieces of tar paper
inside, put into a tight sack and be laid
away for the summer. It' all housekeepers
will follow these suggestions they will save
themselves great annoyance and their hus
bands a great deal of money,
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A Little Boy's Thoughts.
EY CAL LOTTA Final-
I thought when I'd learned my letters,
That all of my troubles wore done;
But I find myself much mistaken—
They have only just begun.
Learning to read was awful,
But nothing like learning to write
I'd be sorry to have you tell it.
But my copybook is a sight!
The ink gets over my fingers,
The pen cuts all sorts of shines,
And it won't do at all as I bid it;
The letters won't stay- on the lines,
But g, up and down all over,
As though they were dancing a jig,
They are there in all shapes and sizes,
Medium, little and big.
The tails of the g's arc so contrary.
The handles act on the wrong side
Of the G'S and the k's and the h's,
Though I've certainly tried and tried
To make them just right, it is dreadful,
I really don't know what to do,
I'm getting almost distracted;
My teacher says she is, too.
There'd be seine comfort in learning
If one could get through ; instead
Of that, there are books awaiting,
Quite enough to craze my head.
There's the multiplication table,
And grammar, and, oh, dear me,
Th , •re's no good place for stopping,
When one has begun, I see.
My teacher says, little by litt!o..
To the mountain tops we climb,
It isn't all done in a minute,
But only a step at a time.
She says that all the scholars,
All the wise and learned men,
Ila.l each to begin as I do,
If that's so, where's my pen ?
Concerning Cyclones.
Every one should know what a cyclone
is, but the general ideas of the subject are
rather vague. Take a small butter-pot,
and set it down on your largest map of the
world at about 20 degrees North Latitude,
anywhere in the Atlantic between two
continents, say east of the West Indies.—
Then, with a piece of whalebone twice as
long as from the butter-pot to the North
Pole, bent into a parabola, with one end
at the Pole, the other at the butter-pot,
mark out thus the cyclone. The apex of
the bent whalebone will be somewhere in
the Western United States. Imagine your
butter-pot to be revolving in its own centre
in the direction on the hands of a watch,
at the rate of' a hundred miles an hour.—
Its northwestern edge will be the danger
ous storm rim, blowing a hurricane, lash
ing the seas, and precipatiug the rain; the
other edges will be breezy, but not so
stormy, as they contain less moist air. The
centre will be the low barometer and calm
area, because here the air has less weight
and is flowing upward. • Now move your
butter pot slowly along the parabola, still
supposing it to be turning. By the time
you reach the centre of the United States
exchange the pot for a saucer, with the
same supposed conditions, only by this
time, if wintry, a snow storm will take the
place of the rain. Keep it moving cir
cularly, and northwards also along the
parabola, and about Iludson's Bay change
to a breakfast-plate, and in Greenland to a
dinner-plate, and about the 80th degree
North, before the storm reaches the size of
a buggy wheel, it breaks up. Thus you see
the space over which the storms travel en
larges as it passes North, the winds blow
around its rim, and now the ealmeentre
moves with it. Mariners now carry what
is called a horn-card, transparent piece of
flat cow's horn, with a circle on it, inside
which are several smaller circles, with ar
rows pointing as a watch's hands travel.
Whenever the barometer changes, and
clouds scud by, this horn card is placed on
the chart at the ship's position. Knowing
the wind's direction and the weight of the
air, the horn card tells whereabouts in the
cyclone the ship is, and from this is rea
soned bow to sail to avoid the cyclone; or,
if unavoidable, how to manage in it. Not
many decades ago. ships were driven
thousands of miles from their course by
not having masters possessed of this knowl
edge. Nowadays, meteorological inf.)rma
tion is as necessary,to the navigator as his
sextant. In South Latitudes storms pass
in the same way toward the South Pole,
by way of a western bend, only the circu
lar motion is reversed, and the southwestern
is the stormy edge.
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One Secret of Getting Along.
Young people often make mistakes in
these matters, as it is natural they should.
Money, without industrious and saving
habits, is an unsafe thing to marry on. A
few thousand dollars,
more or less, is easily
spent by people who do not know its value.
But, the habit of earning and saving mon
ey is a source of perpetual income. Some
women will keep house so as to get more
comfort out of a small sum than others
will out of a large one. Some men will
grow rich on an income of hundreds of
dollars, while others will become bank
rupt on an income of thousands.
It is the character and habits of a
young couple which mainly settle the
question of their success in life. If they
are thriftless and shiftless, they will end
poor even if they begin rich. But if they
are industrious, prudent, and economical,
they will be apt to acquire a comfortable
independence, no matter how poor they
are when they begin.
"Come Hune Early."
Simple words, yet what a world of
meaning they contain ! Lips which are
white and still enough now have whisper
ed them some day. Joy and anticipation
breathe them alike, while despair forces
them from aching hearts which have grown
almost to stone in their mighty sorrow. And
yet they are daily murmured in some ears,
and oh, heed theta well. "Come home
early." A dear form waits for you, and
the minutes seems like hours, and the
hours grow to be days in your absence,
and the bright eyes will grow dim, and the
tru:ting, patient heart weary with its
waiting. Then "come home early." Come
while love waits to great you. Come in
from the fierce life battle purer for the
great loco which is yours and the dear
lips which murmur so tenderly in your
ears, "come home early."
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!NE chief result of having the street
lamps lighted these summer evenings is
that most of our young men who hang
over other people's front gates are getting
cross-eyed, as they are obliged to keep one
eye nn the light to see who passes, and at
tend to business with the other.
"MRS. HENRY," said John, the other
evenityz, "why are you like the devil?"
And when she went for him with the
needle ho had hardly time to save himself
by a quotation about "sowing tares"—the
other reason he prudently kept to himself.
WHAT is it that a poor man has and a
rich man wants ? Nothing.
What a Woman Can Do.
As a wife and mother, woman can make
the fortune and happiness of her husband
and children ; and, if she did nothing else,
surely this would be sufficient destiny. By
her thrift, prudence and tact she can se
cure to her partner and to herself a com
petence in old age, no matter how small
their beginning or how adverse a fate may
be theirs. By her cheerfulness she can
restore her husband's spirits shaken by the
anxiety of business. By her tender care
bbe can often restore him to life if disease
has overtaken his powers. By her coun
sel and love she can win him from bad
company. if temptation in an evil hour has
led him astray. By her examples, her
precepts, and her sex's insight into char
acter she can mould her children, however
adverse their dispositions, into noble men
and women. And, by leading in all things
a true and beautiful life, she can refine,
elevate and spiritualize all who come with
in her reach, so that with others of her
sex emulating and assisting her, she can
do more to regenerate the world than all
the statesmen and reformers that ever leg
islated. She can do much, alas perhaps
more, to degrade man if she chooses to do
it. Who can estimate the evils that wom
an has power to do ? As a wife she can
ruin herself by extravagance, folly or want
of affection. She can wake a demon. or an
outcast of a man who might otherwise be
come a good member of society. She can
bring bickerings, strife and discord into
what has been a happy borne. She can
change the innocent babes into vile men
and even into vile women. She can lower
the moral tone of society itself, and thus
pollute legislation at the spring head.—
She can, in fine, become an instrument of
evil instead of an angel of good. Instead
of making flowers of truth, purity, beauty
and spirituality spring up in her footsteps,
till the earth smiles with a loveliness that
is almost celestial, she can transform it to
a black and arid desert, covered with the
scorn of all evil passion and swept by the
bitter blasts of death. This is what woman
can do for the wrong as well as for the
right. Is her mission a little one? Has
she no worthy work ? has become the cry
of late. Man may have a harder task to
perform, a rougher road to travel, but he
has none loftier or more influential than
woman's.
Who Struck Billy Patterson ?
Many persons have heard the question,
"Who struck Billy Patterson ?" without
knowing the origin of it. I propose to en
lighten them a little on the subject.—
William Patterson was a very wealthy
tradesman or merchant of Baltimore, in
the State of Maryland. In the early days
of I,4'ranklin county he bought up a great
many tracts of land in the county, and
spent a good portion of his time in looking
after Ws interests there. Ile was said to
be as strong as a bear and as brave as a
lion, but like all brave men he was a lover
of peace, and indeed, a good, pious man.
Nevertheless, his wrath could be
,excited
to a fighting pitch. On one occasion he
attended a public gathering in the lower
part of Franklin county, at some district
court ground. During the day two oppos
ing bullies and their friends raised a row,
and a general fight was the consequence.
At the beginning of the affray, and before
the fighting began, Billy Patterson ran
into the crowd to persuade them not to
fight, but to - make peace and be friends.—
But his efforts for peace were unavailing,
and while making them some one of the
crowd struck Billy Patterson a severe blow
from behind. Billy at once became fight
ing mad, and cried out at the top of' his
voice, "who struck Billy Patterson ?" No
one could or would tell him who was the
guilty party. He then proposed to give
any man $lOO who would tell him "who
struck Billy Patterson." From $lOO he
rose to $l,OOO, but that would not induce
any man to tell him "who struck Billy
Patterson." And years afterward, in his
will, lie related- the above facts, and be
queathed 1,000, to be paid by his executors
to the man who would tell "who struck
Billy Patterson." His will is recorded in
the Ordinary's dice at Carnesville, Frank
lin county, Ga., and any one curious about
the matter can there find it and verify the
preceding stat e ments.—From the Corns-
vile (Ga.) Register.
Habitual Headache.
Dr. Treichler, a German physician, has
lately made some much noted comments on
habitual headache among young people, a
trouble which he avers is largely on the
inereme. He is inclined to attribute it to
excessive intellectual exertion, often caused
by the fancy of the parents for having a
great variety of subjects taught, and, more
especially, to night work, which, he says,
produces in the brain the same condition
as would be produced in the muscles if,
after a long day's march, a mountain
climber were to continue•walking far into
the night, and were to repeat this day after
day. Dr. Treichler's letter has elicted
from a London physician a statement that
he has sometimes found the brain to be
growing faster than the skull which con
tained it. What seemed like great stu
pidity was for a time the result, but in time
the skull effected its enlargement, and the
brain was relieved. One of the dangers
most likely to occur in schools arises Prom
the fact that the same lessor's are neces
sarily allotted to all in a class, and, while
they entail no effort of intellect on the part
of one, may be a frightful labor to another.
It is the dull, laborious pupil, we suspect,
who oftentimes is the most injured by
school pressure, and it should be the study
of the teacher to recognize him or her, and
afford aid and encouragement.
Little Girls Be Girls.
One of the crying evils of tho times is
the tendency and disposition of girls to get
through girlhood hurriedly and get into
womanhood, or rather into young ladyhood,
without waiting to enjoy the beautiful sea
son of girlhood. Speaking on this point,
Rt. Rev. Bishop Morris says :
"Wait patiently, my dear children,
through the whole period of your girlhood.
Go not after womanhood; let it come to
you. Keep out of public view. Cultivate
retirement and modesty. The Care 9 and
responsibilities of life will COlllO soon
enough. When they come you wii; meet
them, I trust, as true women should. But
oh, be not so unwise as to throw away your
girlhood. Rob not yourselves of this
beautiful season which, wisely spent, will
brighten all your future life."
A WAG, in "what he knows about farm
ing," gives a very good plan to remove
widows' weeds. lie says a good-looking
man has only to say "Wilt thou ?" and
they wilt.
S UMORI B E fur the Joy KX AI..
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