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A SONG OF OCTOBER.
October strews the woodland o'er
With ninny a brilliant color;
The world Is brighter than before—
Why should our hearts be duller'.
Horror• and the scarlet leaf,
. . . .
Sad thoughLa and Runny weather
All me! the glory and the grief
Agree not well together.
This Is the parting season—this
The Uwe when triends are flying
And lovers now, with many IL l oan
Their long farewells are sighing.
Why In earth en gaily Brent
Thin pomp Ghat Autumn beareth
A funeral seems. where every guest
A bridal garment weareth.
Ruch one of us, perehance, may her.
On some blue morn hereafter,
Return to view the gaudy year,
But not for boyish laughter.
WP then shall be old wrl nkled men,
Onr brows With sliver laden,
Am! thou thin glee may'st seek again
But never inure a Midden I
Nature, perhaps, foresees that Spring'
Will timeh her Ireined bosom,
And that a few brief months will bring
Thd bird, the bee, the blossom.
All! this, wild forests do not know—
Or would less brightly wit ll,
The virgin 'that lolorns tits!, so
Will neverrollse hither.
I+llscrltancou.%.
Tallorlana; Or Scintillations of the
Shopbuard.
Ercc• -Eavles, and I 1,1 , :t II EftS lern
" Landlord, MI our t.tlassos, 'till they all rtm
For Ltl l.v night we'll 111 , 1,3% Inerry he, and to
morrow well lie solp,r,"
Forty years ago, " Free-and-Easy"
organizations were elanish, eonvivial
assemblies, among median ics find work
ingmen. What we mean by elanisli iv,
that they were excittxire —each mechan
ical or laboring occupation having its
own, and in which no intruder of a dif
ent prolessiOn would be allowed. There
were, however, - free-and-easy sovieties
of a mixed character, in SOllll, of which
the qualifications wore loteilectual and
literary, in. others merely social, and
perhaps, in some, only animal. The
social and unisieal elements, perhaps,
predominated in ;ill of them, for a tra
dition had come down to the back-shop
that one or tilt standing rules was that
each mein her must "
.sing a song, or L It
a tale, Jr drink a pint af salt waar."--•
They usually ovetipied a secluded
upper 110111 ill 51/1111' in
which was a 10Ilt! table, 11.1111 " (.11:lir, all
round ;" and had it President, Secreta
ry and Treasurer. The President either
occupied air Linn-ehair at the one end,
or iii the cen Ire of the table, and with a
gavel in hand, announced the routine of
bus' !WHS. The hill of fare was different
in different clubs, according to their re
spectability and pecuniary means; hut
the business vonsisted mainly in eating,
drinking and smoking, interspersed
with songs, anecdotes, tales, toasts. Wit
and repartee. The wily alternative from
Lire above reviled rule, was to retire from
the remit, unless the party was exile'-
crated by the whole club, or the throe
fourths of those present on any occasion ;
but it Was rarely that any (me drank the
saltwater, or retired; tor, if all could
not sing, they could generally "Spill a
varn," especially, among sorb roving
blades as tailors and sailors then were.
So popular, so well-organized and sir ef
ficient were these free-and-easy-assem
blies at one time, that songs, interludes
and farces representing them, were of ten
enacted on the stages of theatres and
concert rooms; and songs and recitations
illustrative of the Free and-Easv-Clubs,
found their way into the popular sting
books of the day.
'fire st2iigH' usually sung, were either
sentimental, comic, melodramatic, or
love-ballads, and some of them were
most excelleyily rendered. It is true,
that the meetings would sometimes open
a little still' and constrained, but when
the members had about. three "rounds"
and a few whl fs of their pipes or cigars,
the avenues of sociality would be open
ed, and every one would become free
mut easy in the truest sense of those
terms; and limier such circumstances,
we have heard singing, recitations and
dedlamations, on the stage, where we
paid from fifty to seventy-live cents fur
the privilege, teat fell fur below the
quality of these heard in the free-and
easy clubs.
As a general thing, the rooms occu
pied by the free-and-easy clubs were fur
nished rent free, and well they might,
for often these meetings would be con
tinued as long as there was a shilling in
the pockets of any of the members, all
of which ultimately found its way into
the till of the landlord. l'opularity in
the free-and-easy required a peculiar—
indeed we may say a very peculiar kind
of talent 47 and therefore we might often
find men who could "shine" there,
who were as inefficient in any other
sphere of life, as a " 11. h out of water."
A good talker, a good singer, and a
good &hiker and smoker—especially
the latter two qualities—were generally
held in the highest esteem. (if course
the word good is used here in its free
:it'd-easy sense, and meant he who pos
sessed these characteristics in the great
estexcess, Without regard tomoral, civil,
or domestic worth, or even to artistic
skill. The President was generally
noted for the above qualities, and. if to
these he ridded a large and portly form,
$lll.l the power of prolonging these orgies
until the gray streaks of Morning be
gan to appear, he Was considered the
very perfection of an officer, and - one
whom the members 'night honor with
credit, to theinselVeS. As a moderately
convivial and social organization, the
free-and-easy, no doubt tilled up an im
portant Vllelllllll ill the crganic struc
ture of human society, so fur as it related
to tnech (ides and workingmen. But
,there is reason to believe that they all
became excessive in their In anifestations
—that men contracted a hankering after
them—spent there, not only all their
(tine, not devoted to labor, but also their
',unity, to the injury of themselves, tun I
their families, when they had !Lily.
A. n u ll eXcill,iVely I ail./f iSI
I 1, , 11 1),..•-alodeasy possessed soine
ry p e culiar phases. Sometimes the
• lurk-steip )wail be temperarily con
verted intos , a free.and-easy—especially
where such n club had not an.indepentl
eta or separate existence—on holidays,
or when a "big footing" Wilt , called in,
or when a popular jour was about to
leave fur other parts, ituil the ocea,ion
Was honored by a gl':11111 "I,IOW out."—
On some occasions, the tailor's society
—where one existed—after the t
thin of the ordinary business, would be
converted into an impromptu free-and
easy, and spend the balance of its ses
sion in singing songs, relating anec
dotes, drinking toasts, and discussing
debatable questions, more or less pro
found, and often considerable ability. in
these exercises would be exhibited by
the members. At these gatherings each
member would take at least one drink,
for, on paying in Iris weeklydues, whtuh
wan generally twelve and a half cents—
but called by different nanies in differ
ent localities, such as a "Shilling," a
' Bit," an "Eleveripence" or a "Dime"
—for which the member would receive
a "check," which was "good for one
drink at the bar." Although these so
cieties, as u.general thing, us we before
intimated, paid no rent for the rooms
they occupied, yet, like the game of
Keno, the financial arrangements were
such, that the landlords ultimately got
all the money, for nothing could be con
summated without being baptized in
"another drink." ' These drinks were
various in composition and name, and
the old stagers knew exactly what and
how to drink, to enable them to hold
out the longest, but novitiates were often
compelled to "knock under," and make
au inglorious retreat from the field.—
Brandy Smashes; gin cocktails; apple,
lemon, or plain toddies, either hot or
cold; blue mountain; gin or whiskey
slings; whiskey, brandy, rum and
other punches; plain old rye; Irish
whiskies; old Jamaica ; old port ;
brown stout; Scotch and other ales ,•
porter; ogee; Tom and Jerry; and
dozens of other compounds, villainous
and otherwise, constituted the fluids
freely Imbibed on these gala occasions.
Now, lucre is just where the great
moral 0 rule" comes in. The human
family seems to be so constituted, that
• it needs relaxation, recreation and
Amusement. The what, the when, the
where, and the how, has been a subject
that has exercised the efforts of moral
reformers for the last fifty years or more
and it is exceedingly doubtful whether
any real advance has been made or not.
Man cannot live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth or God," and if he cannot
legitimately avail himself of this, ,will
•• he not resort to that which " proceed-
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VOLUME 72
eth " out of the mouth of Satan? If
man's 'twat mature has not been culti
vated, th%re will be no security for him
in the mere cultivation of his intellectual
nature ; for the world has witnessed ten
thousaud times over and over again,
that intelligent people have succeeded
to very little more, in subordinating the
sensual principle to the mental, than
ignorant peoplehave. Indeed their intel
ligence often hasafforded them addition
al opportunities to indulge iu the more
sifctle and refined sensualities, and has
produced a greatermoral fall. The inter
diction of rational amusements,whether
by family government,thecivil law,pub
lie opiniou, or the church, drives man
into those extremes which exist outside
of the pale of all these restrictions, and
he feels that he may as well suffer the
penalties for the theft of a sheeP, as for
that of a &ant. We have been writing
of the abuses of forty years ago, but sup
pose we bring the matter down to the
present time, and how does it stand?
to'the libraries and reading rooms of
an afternoon and evening, and then go
to the eating houses and drinking sa
loons, and mark the difference.—
Don't stop here, but mark the contribu
tions made to the advancement of
'science, of literature, of benevolence,
and of the church, and then cAnpare
them with those made to the stomach,
and to "the lusts of the world the flesh
and the devil" and note the difference
again ; and then it will only become
manifest what advance has been made
in forty years.
But we have been inadvertently di
gressing, and our digressions have been
forced upon us by the peculiarities at
our own experiences in relation to our
subject. We have to mine extent, been
"a stranger in a strange land," where
no door of social ingress was open to us
hut teat of the " baek-shop " and the
" fret-and-easy." Yes, perhaps one
other door was open—the church-door--
lint that was only Open on Sundays, and
ttn Sundays there were no meetings of
the " free-atid-easy." • Man, at a certain
period of his lite, is a gregarious being,
and, when in a normal (onfalon, is ut.
ways more or lees of a social being—and
especially so when he is" far, faraway''
from home. Unless he is one of those
" whose mind to hits a kingdom is "
or has t.upplanted an old alfection by the
" expulsive power of a• new one," he is
likely to fall Mto one or more of those
social and convivial traps which are set
for him so numerously and so blandish
ingly throughout the civilized world,
and therefore it Was not to be wondered
at that the tailor or other mechanic
should 'have made, so frequently his
orizonslat the shrine of the " free-and
easy." lie could even find an excust:
for the frequency of his potations there,
us the following anecdote will illustrate:
A"free•and-easier" having returned to
his home, in the morning afterithe sun
had risen, thoroughly saturated with the
previous night's carnival, his wife re
proached him for his excesses; and while
doing so, a cow quietly left her pasture,
went to the brook, took a drink, and re
turned again. "See there," said the
woman, "you haNdlit us much common
sense as that cow, Mr she takes a drink
and then gots about her business. "Ali
wife," said he, "that's all you know
about it. Suppose another cow had been
there, and she Lind said—here's to you
Mrs. _Brindle, do you think she would
have been content with one drink....
That contains the whole philosophy of
duplicated drinking, in a nut-shat, and
that was the philosophy of the free-and
easy party years ago, nod perhaps is the
spirit of all convivial occasions at the
present day. We know not what the
character of the free-and-easy may be in
modern times. Perhaps the changes and
innovations of forty years may have
rooted them all out of our land.
lint suppose they l o ire, modern ideas
of relaxation, recreation and anmsement
not having been elevated, or made any
special advancement—like the fabled
hydra of old, for every head that has
been lopped off, it is to be apprehended
that ten others, even more dangerous,
have sprung up in its stead.
From what we have seen of the gastro
nomic assemblies of the present day,
they are not so much a " feast of reason
and a flow of soul," as were the free-and
easies of the olden time except it may
be those of purely literary or collegiate
institutions. The contributors to the
free-and-easy were less selfish, and had
more regard to the social enjoyment of
others than themselves. None of the
members had "axes to grind," and if
they were bent on having a " high old
time," they meant" a high old time „for
all around," and at the common ex.-
pense.
Even Tree-and-easier, we think, might
have been reclaimed and elevated, and
we know that there were some of a pre
dominating intellectual character in
days of yore. On proper subjects, and
with proper sentiments, the sone, the
anecdote, the recitation, the declamation,
arkd the repartee and wit, are inure phy
si&ally and mentally healthy than spend
ing all the time,,lit eating and drinking
and gossip—but even gossip, when sub
ordinated to charity may be socially and
morally useful. True reform consists in
elevating and purifying th ngs essential
to man's nature, and not in totally de
stroying them. GRANTELLUS.
•
System In Brain Work.
A correspondent of London ,SJcidg
says: " I know a remarkably able and
fertile reviewer who tells Me that, though
over his midnight oil he can lucubrate
orb cles'with a certain' sharpness and
force, yet for quietly looking at a solo
ject all round, and doing justice to all
its belongings, he wanted the quit
morning hours. Lancelot Andrews
says, he is no true schidar who goes out
of his house before twelve o'clock. Sint- •
ilarly an editor once told me that though
his town contributors sent him the
Brightest papers, lie always detected a
peculiar mellowness and finish about
the men who wrote in the country. I
knew an important crown official whose
hours were from ten to three. He had
to sign' his name to papers ; and as a
great deal depended upon Ins signature,
he was very cautious and chary how he
gave it. After three o'clock struck, no
beseeching powers of suitors or solicit
ors could induce him to do a stroke of
work . . He would 11,01,COlitalllillilie the
1111,1104 or his work by doing too much
of it. He would not impair his rest by
continuing his work. And so he ful
filled the duties of his office for exactly
fifty years before he retired ou full pay
from the service of the country. And
when impatient people blame lawyers
for being slow, and offices for closing
punctually, and shops for shutting early,
and, generally speaking, the wider :Map
' tation of our day to periods of holidays
I and rest, they should recollect that these
things are lessons of experience, and the
philosophy of society and life."
Wonderful Preacher
A correspondent or the St. Louis Ad
vocate gives the paragraph following,
concerning a new star, which has just
been discovered in the galaxy of South
ern Methodist luminaries:
" On Saturday there came to the
meeting from a mountain circuit, On
which he is a ' supply,' a man of most
wonderful powers. Born in the
mountains of North Carolina, the
son of a Methodist preacher, surround
ed
by no other refinements than the
true refinements of religion, he grew to
manhood without education. At twen
ty-one he purchased his first English
grammar. He studied it and mastered
it. Rhetoric, logic, natural sciences fol
lowed. God called him to preach. He
refused. Affliction came—long, severe,
intense. It passed, and he yielded to
the call. lie began his ministry. Prov
idence threw him in the mountains of
Georgia, on missionary ground and there
he has a circuit. He came to our camp
meeting. Plain, unassuming, deeply de
vout, he catnet to work for his Master.
He preached for us three times, and of
thet, three, two such sermons I never
heard. The writer has heard Punshon
without enthusiasm. Ele,,bas heard all
the modern peachers of great note in
our Church ; he has heard Bishops Elli
ott and Beckwith and Johns. Has
heard Stephens, Toombs and Douglas
in their palmiest days, but never did he
hear from mortal lips eloquence that
thrilled like the eloquence from the lips
of that mountain missionary. Without
a single grape of elocution; without any
pretence to polish or elegance, his grand
thoughts were like huge nuggets of pure
gold thrown out by the rude miner from
a California vein. The very remem
brance of some passages of the sermon
on the spirituality of man's nature, and
God's response to it, causes my nerves
to tingle even now."
General Butler, in an address at Phil
adelphia, on Monday night, tartly criti
cized the great treaty of Washington.
The General denounced the omission in
that celebrated instrument.
"Muriel, Muriel !" ,
The tone was sharp and authoritative,
and Madame Thorne's smooth white
brow contracted into a half-frown as she
leaned out of the window and repeated
her imperative summons.
A foam bubble sparkling on thebreak
er's brim—a butterfly poising in mid-air
—a thistledown careering in the breeze
—how shall I describe the airy lightness,
the perfect grace of Muriel's motion as
:she came dancing, floating upthe broad
lawn, and stood before the open win
dow!
"Well, auntie?"
"Come in, Muriel: I wish to have a
little serious conversation with you."
The limpid gray eyes shot one rebel
lious flash from under theirsilken lashes,
and the rich red mouth took on an un
mistakable pout.
"Is it about Lawyer Grant ?"
"Yes, Muriel. That worthy gentle
man has magnanimously overlooked
your scornful reception of his avowal of
love, and renews his offer of hand, heart
and fortune."
"And if I refuse?"
"Then the mortgage which he holds
on Buckdale will be foreclosed immedi
ately, and you an'tl.. I will be homeless
outcasts."
"And so you propose to sell me to
Lawyer Grant
Even madame's well-bred composure
was not quite proof against the bitter
scorn in the question, and she flushed a
little as she replied:
" Don't be vulgar, child. That ques
tion showed the tint of your Irish blood.
Mr. Grant oilers you a .home, riches,
and an honorable name."
" An offer that I despise and reject."
Madame Thorne's snowy eyelids went
own, and her snowy hands went up, in
token of her horror.
" I ngrate! Traitor! I sheltered and
cared for you in your infancy, kept you
from the almshouse—and now you will
not make this trifling sacrifice to save
my old age from want."
Not to save your life of mine !" the
gray eyes glittered now, and the quick
blood burned like a crimson stain iu
either girlish cheek. Not for \ our
sake, Aunt Muriel, mir tosave the whole
world, would I thus degrade myself."
Mrs. Thorne's cold blue eyes fastened
themselves on Afuriel's glowing face in
iitiless scorn.
" Will you tell me, Muriel Vance,
how you propose to support yourself?
You have no money, no accomplish
ments, and no special aptitude, that 1
have yet discovered, for making your
se!f useful in anyway whatever,
Muriel gave a littl sigh.
" I am a sad silipea . race, aunty—l or
knowledge it. But it is said there is a
special Providence tha t watches over
fools. On that I place my reliance.
But there, I see you are angry, so I will
say no more.''
And to Mrs. Thorne's infinite disgust
she began caroling a wild, rhythmic
melody, her little slippered feet keeping
time, as she whirled down the long
piazza in a perfect Melee of whirls, pi
rouettes, and impromptu "pai de ftm
einatiun," till at last, with a grand
flourish, shestood before her aunt, flush
ed, panting, and smiling.
"I have danced away all my ill-hu
mor, dear auntie—"
"Encore! encore!" etled a wheazy,
cracked voice behind her, and Muriel
turned to see the wrinkled face and
leering eyes of Lawyer Grant.
" A light heart makes light feet," he
said, chuckling and rubbing his with
ered hands in ecstasy; "eh, Miss Mu
riel
But Muriel had fled to her room, a
secluded little retreat in a remote wing
of the great rambling farmhouse.
Whemafter an 'Sour's patientwatching
from her window, she had seen het all-
Opiate(' lover disappear down the shad
ded path that led to the highway, she
prepared to go down to the parlor to
practice smile new songs. But to her dis
may she found the door fast locked and
herself a prisoner.
That night, while she slept, a plate
containing food was placed iu her room
and with it a tiny slip of paper, bearing
these words:
"You shall never leave this room un
til you yield to my wishes.
I.llcamr, TitousE."
To which she returned this character
istic answer :
' Without wishing to be impertinen
I may say that there is a fair prospect
my outliving both of you. 1. defy you
until your death shall release me.
MuntEL VANCE."
For four days she bore her captivity
admirably. She leaned from her win
dow and sang snatches of gay songs
when she was sure that her aunt was
where she could hear her, and affected
the utmost nonchalance when she saw
Mrs. Thorne and Lawyer Grant watch
ing her from the lawn.. But on the af
ternoon of the .Tith she • began to give
way, and longed with all the intensity
of her nature for freedom.
bile saw the shining river, free and
unfettered, winding between the feath
ery willows that lined its banks, and
could almost hear it as it gurgled over
its pebbly bed where the cool woodland
shadows lay thickest; and the words
of the bravpra she was singing died in
all illartitulate sob, though her aunt
was ill full view, strolling among the
flowerbeds on the lawn.
At last she wiped away her tears and
clenched her teeth firmly together.
" All's fair in love and war," she said
resolutely; "and a masterly strategy
must accomplish what resistance would
fail to do, even if it does 'involve some
deception.''
She watched long and anxiously for
Lawyer Urant that night.
Finally, when the shadows of the
gloaming lay thickly among the tre •
she saw a tall form coming up the p th
toward the front door.
. _
She leaned from her window, and calf:.
ed to him in a suppressed void::
" (Jo to the kitchen porch and get the
long ladder you will find there. Climb
to the balcony under the window at the
back of this room ; I wish to speak to
you."
A few moments elapsed, mid 111 oriel
Beard cautious footsteps on the balcony,
and then a light tap tm the window.
rihe gently opened it, aml stepped out.
Without raising her eyes, she began
iii a faltering voice:
" Lawyer Grant, when I requested
your presence here, I intended to pro
pose an elopement, trusting that an op
portunity of regaining my freedom
might occur. But I cannot do it. Not
even to regain my liberty will I sully
my lips with a lie. But, oh, sir, think
of my cruel punishment, and pity me.
Think of one who has always been free
aud,untrammeled(as the very blrds)con
demned to this captivity—and if you
have a human heart, intercede with my
aunt. Think —" but sobs and tears
finished the prayer she would have ut
tered, as she threw herself at his feet.
The tall form came out of the shad
ows, and as the light from the room be
yond fell upon Lim;. Muriel started to
her feet in mute surprise.
It was a stranger's face she gazed up •
on—a face which invited confidence,
nevertheless. There was something
about the mischievous gray eyes, cloud
ed, just now, with a slight shade of ser
iousness—au expression about the finely
cut mouth, which, though parted at
that moment with a smile of blended
amusement and pity, seemed to her ir
resistibly attractive.
"Do not distress yourself, I beg," said
he, as he gazed upon her agitated coun
tenance; "and believe me when I say
that I will willingly afford you all the
assistance in my power. But before you
accept my assistance, let me explain my
presence at this house. My name is Fen
ner Rossmore,and I came here to-night
to see Lawyer Grant relative to :certain
unclaimed estates in Connaught, Ire
land. If one Michael Vance, who came
to this country , some twenty years ago,
since deceased, died without heirs, the
property reverts to me, as next of kin.
I have written to Grant repeatedly, but
failing tozet a satisfactory reply, came
over to see if I could not find more defi
nite information regarding the heirs of
this Michael Vance, who had the honor
of being sixteenth cousin to my step
mother—God rest her soul!"
" Michael Vance ?" oried Muriel, her
embarrassment lost in surprise; " why
that was my father's name,"
" And his birth-place?"
" Killaroy, Ireland."
" Accept my congratulations," said
Rossmore ; " for you are not only the
most beautiful young lady in America,
but the richest heiress in Ireland. And
I hope," he continued, as he saw the
rosy flush upon her cheek, that since
you have deprived me of my inherit
ance, you , will at least grant me the
liberty of a kinsman's kiss. By my
faith, it would be cheap as the price of
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 25, 1871
Rossmore estates even. I assure you it
is a national custom."
8 Muriel's refusal was accompanied with
a laugh of mirthful incredulity, that was
so irresistibly contagious,that the blend
ed tones of merriment reached the two
Plotters below.•
We pass over madame's incredulous
scorn and final belief, Lawyer Grant's
gratitude at escaping the cowhiding he
so richly deserved, and the details of
the courtship between Rossmore and
Muriel.
But when the sumachs burned like
firey torches in the woodland glades she
loved so well, and hickories and maples
shone golden in the uplands, Muriel,
her claim to the Rossmore estate duly
recognized, became Mrs. Fenner Ross
more.
And I am bound as a veracious chron
icler to record the fact that neither party
ever regretted it.
flow to Get a Berth In a Sleeping-Car.
I never left a depot yet that somebody
was not put in my care. I don't know
why this is; I suppose it is something
in my countenance ; if I knew what, I
would have it extracted. I don't like
having unprotected females and school
boys and girls turned over to me. It's
a little hard on a man. And what is
the good of it? Nobody needs protec
tion ; if any one does, it is a benevo
lent, good-looking, innocent sort of a
man—such as the writer of this.
I was reminded of this by an adven
ture that happened to me the other night
in New York. I was about leaving on
the nine o'clock train for Washington
when a man who was in search of me
approached. I knew he was in search
of me. He was in search of some re
spectable, benevolent individual to put
a woman under his care. And he did.
She happened to be rathergood-looking,
and I didn't object in a violent way,but
I was neither very graceful nor gracious
over the compliment. When I came to
secure a section in the sleeping-car, I
found that a delegation of pious people
was going to Washington on some char
itable business and had taken nearly all
the berths. I secured two—at least I
thought I had--and marched my female
with her two carpet sacks, strap satchel,
a mocking-bird, and a silk umbrella,
with a waterproof and two slyxwls done
up in straps, into 161. When we ar
rived inside, I learned for the first time
that my unprotected female could
not abide the sleeping cars. She said
she felt like sufficating, and I wished
secretly she would suffocate; but when
we came to occupy our berths, I made
two disagreeable discoveries. The first
was that the two tickets called for the
same berth ; the other, that this berth
was the upper one. My female friend
said positively that she could not get
into that berth. I informed her that it
was her only chance to sleep, and she
told me that she would rather sit up. I
then gave her the fuRDIE information
that that was all very well, but in a
sleeping car there was no place to sit
except on a wash-basin, and that I
thought would be rather inconvenient,
At last, with the aid of a step-ladder,
the steward, and two pious old Pumps,
my unprotected female was boosted into
her roost and the curtains closed over
her for the night.
Then came the question as to what
had become of the undersigned. I con
sulted the conductor and the steward,
and had the satisfaction of hearing the
fact stated that if I had told them ear
lier the blunder might have been reme
died. But as it was, the pious delega
tion had retired for the night, and all
the berths were occupied. The conduc
tor, however, told rue he would try and
makesome arrangement, and then went
off about his business.
A drunken man had been captured on
the platform as we started, where he
was found addressing the stars in a vo
ciferous way, the sleeping-car ticket
fished out of his packet, and the inebri
ate fellow chucked into an upper berth.
I was leaning against the washstand of
the car in a very melancholy way some
time after, when this intoxicated fellow
stuck his head out, and, addressing me,
said :
" I would like to have a drink."
" Water ?" said I.
• " No, darn water! I want some whis
key; I am dry as a chip."
"Well," I responed, "I am sorry to
say that I haNk none about me."
" Ain't,you the conductor ?"
" No," I responded, " I don't believe
I am."
" Nor do I. IP you were the conduc
tor, you would havesomething to drink.
Where is the conductor?
I told him that be was in the next
car.
"Nell," said he, "I have a great
mind to get up and hustle round till I
get a drink."
"My Christian friend," I said, "there
is nothing in the Constitution nor in
the Sixteen Amendments that prohibits
you from getting up and hunting a
drink if you want it."
"Whereupon the inebriate individ
ual rolled out of the berth. He rolled
into several others and was promptly
ejected, and at last, getting his legs, dis
appeared at the further end of the car.
I took in the situation at a glance.
Here was a berth vacated. Above it was
a white hat. I immediately removed
that white hat. I carried it along and
put it over a Christian Association, who
. _
was lost in the sleep of innocence and
'Aare and then returning I ensconced
myself in a berth vacated by a man who
had a constitutional right to a drink.
I was dropping into a slumber, for I
always sleep on a car devoted to that
business and invented by Mr. Pullman;
the motion has the same effect upon my
brain that rocking has upon a child,and
I not only sleep easily but profoundly.
In a few seconds I should have been be
yond all disturbances, but it happened
I was awakened out of my first wink
by a row in an adjoining section. There
seemed to be a pitched battle going on
between one of the delegates and a gen
tdeman who claimed the berth to be the
one he had just vacated. I heard him
say, "Is;ow get out of that; " and he
called the goodman the- ottlipring of a
female dog , adding thereto some very
profound language. The conductor
came to the rescue of the weary dele
gate, and when the man called atient ion
to the fact of the white hat, he puzzled
him sorely by showing him two or three
white huts further along in the same car.
At this the inebriate passenger desisted,
but as soon as the conductor's back was
turned, renewed the tight with the next
white hat, insisting just as positively
that that was his berth, and with the
same profound and violent language and
scuffle. He was repulsed only to begin
again, and he kept righting these good
Christian gentlemen who were so unfor
tunate as to have white hats, until I fell
asleep and dreamed till morning of my
earlier youth—of the church not around
the corner but in the glen, where the
forest trees brushed against the windows,
and the sunlight came down as if in re
sponse to the prayers of the beautiful
maidens, dignified matrons and snowy
headed fathers of the land. I only awoke
when entering the sinful city of Wash
ington.—Donn Platt.
The " World" on Women
A Chicago girl last week had a young
fellow beforeaJusticeof the Peace for im
posing upon her, and the official, by way
of improving the occasion in the inter
est of good morals, remarked to the af
flicted damsel that she should remem
berthe maxim, "Familiarity breeds con
tempt." "Alas, sir," she replied, "if
that Was all it had bred I should not be
here."
Such perfect love as this is seldom
witnessed in this selfish world. It was
developed last Summer by a conversa
tion in a dark corner of the West Point
Hotel piazza. The Interlocutors were
a young married couple. " Who's
tweet ?" "Why, oo's tweet." "No!
oo's tweet." "Whose little birdy is
you ?" "Oo's little birdy." The re
minder could only be expressed onoma
topoetically.
.Tbe Devolution, having learned that
pretty lady canvassers for woman news
papers are going about hugging the
men in order to obtain subscribers, says :
-" If any one connected with this paper
ever resorts to such a course to obtain a
subscriber or an advertisement, we beg
to be apprised of the fact, that her con
nection with it may be cancelled at
once." Thus It is that poor girls are
checked in every attempt to help them
selves. But why couldn't a fortune be
made by starting out some of the long,
lean, bloodless, scraggy woman-women
with directions to threaten to hug any
man who refuses to " come down."—
There's money in the idea.
A women-woman who has started a
paper at Portland, Oregon, opens her
salutatory with this sharp broadside:
" We have served a regular apprentice
ship at working—washing, scrubbing,
pat Ching, darning, ironing, plain sew
ing, raising babies, milking, churning
and poultry-raising. We have kept
boarders, taught school, taught int.sic,
written for the newspapers, made
speeches, and carried on an extensive
millinery and dress-making business.
We can prove by the public that this
work has been well done. Now, having
reached the age of 36, and having
brought up a family of boys to set type,
and a daughter
. to run the millinery
store, we propose to publish a newspa
per.
(From the Kansas City TM",
General John B. Magruder.
This old warrior sleeps the sleep of a
soldier in a rude Texas grave, over
which there is no monument. The grass
was growing about it in the early Sum•
mer, and there were some flowers there,
withered and faded, scattered by a wo
man's hand. A votary at the shrine of
nature and a finished diplomat at the
Court of Venus, it was fitting that there
should be largesse of green-growing
grasses and love-flowers. If roses are
the tear-drops of angels, as the beauti
ful Arab belief puts forth in poetry,
then is the lowly mound a hallowed
spot, and needs not the sculptured stone,
the fretted column, the ivy and the
obelisk.
Magruder was a wonderful man. He
stood six feet four inches in height, and
had a form men envied and women
adored. His nerves were all iron. For
eign travel and comprehensive culture
had given to his wit a zest that was al
ways crisp and sparkling. He never
lacrerated. To the sting of a repartee he
added the honey to the clover. He
could fight all day and dance all night.
In the morning a glass of brandy and a
strong cigar renewed his strength, and
caused the cup of his youth to run over
with the precious wine of heailth and
high spirits. He loved magnificent
uniforms, and magnificent horses, and
magnificent women. Gifted and grace
ful in conversation, he was a poet in the
boudoir and a logician in the barracks.
He had studied French in Paris, Italian
in Rome. and Spanish in the Halls of
the Montezumas. The sabre exercise
he learned from a Turk. His horse
manship was of the English kind, that
is to say, not graceful but impossible to
be surpassed for firm riding and endur
ance. He wrote little love songs that
were set to music—one of them, " lino
gene," had in it the plaintive melody
of a lover, and the sad rhythm of buried
bugles.
In the Crimea, he astonished the
French officers by sleeping at the front
with Chasseurs under tire. In Mexico,
he sent back to the Archbishop a lady's
perfumed glove lie had found in his
palace when the city was won, and NV ith
it a note which read : ''lt is pretty
enough to have belonged to a Queen.
Would she have pardoned me if I had
appropriated it ^" As the Archbishop
sent him the next day a basket of deli
cious wine, it is supposed that the
fair owner of the glove must have
looked leniently upon the handsome
American soldier. „Later, he was
riding with General Scott down the
long street of Iturbide, General Gar
nett joined them, and Magruder drew a
little back for his superiors to confer to
gether. A white puff of smoke curled
out from an open window, a sudden re
port followed speedily, and Garnett and
horse fell hard and bloody. An ounce
ball, intended for Scott, had broken
Garnett's thigh and killed his charger.
Fearing another fire, Magruder gallop
ed to the side of his chief and covered
his body with Lis own. The old man's
eyes never drooped nor his voice
changed an intonation. " HOW long
will it take you to batter down that;
house ?" he spoke curtly to Lieutenant'
Magruder, pointing with a sweep of his
linger to the one nearest and from which
the bullet came. "An hour by the
watch, General." "Then open fire at
point-blank range and leave not oue
stone upou ‘ auother!" It was done, and
well done, and those who saw Magru
der soonest afterwards noticed that lie
had another bar on his epaulets—he had
been made a Captain. War was his
element, the bivouac his delight, and
the battle his perfect happiness. Reck
less, prodigal, fashionable, foolishly
brave sometimes, a spendthrift, geuer
ous,true friend and staunch comrade,the
surrender of Appomattox made him au
aged man in his prime, and wrinkled
the features which had before resisted
all the attacks of time.
One who wandered far and long with
him in other lands, in sweet and sun
shiny weather, relates how, from Vera
Cruz to Chepultenec, he went with Ma
gruder all over the battle-lields of the
Mexican war. The light came back to
his eyes and the fire to his face when
telling of Contreras and Cherulausco,
and Perote, and Molino del Rey, and
the Belden Gate, and Chepultepec, and
the City of Mexico. His talk never end
ed of Scottand Twiggs, Wool and Worth,
Smith and Pillow, Taylor and Quitman
-and all the young subordinates who
afterwards played such bloody parts in
the greatest of American dramas. Of
M'Clellen he told this incident, among
a thousand : "The fire from the hill of
Chepultepec was terrible. Fifty pieces of
heavy artillery were maased against
my fourteen battery at a point-blank
range, and in the valley below a
regiment of Lancers were forming for
a charge. Our fire had been slackened,
and the men were lying down. A young,
man sat beside one of the guns amus
ing himself with picking up pebbles
and shooting them out from his hand.
The Lancers came nearer. I called to
the young officer, whom I had noticed,
and he sprang up saluting. " Your
name .. ." "Lieutenant George B. Mc-
Clellan." " Very well, Lieutenant.—
Take command of one of these guns
and disperse those Lancers." Thegu LF
tiers rushed to their pieces. All the
great cannon about Chepultepec went
to roaring. Tke battle began anew.—
Worth was sweeping up the acclivity,
the Lancers were routed, and the next 1.
saw of McClellan he was smoking a
cigarito iu the palace of Santa Anna,
his face as black as a powder keg, and
an ugly wound in his arm."
What a book his life would make in
he hands of t , ome men. He once M
ended to write an auto-Mography.
Whether it was begun cr not, we do not
know—most-certainly it was never fin
ished. The brave, fond heart is pulse
less now. The form of the stalwart sot-
dier is dust In its far-away - grave. The
laurels that he gathered . and wore
so well are faded and gone. Back
from the unknown land no voice
will come to tell of what rank
he takes in the spectral columns,
closed up and silent, waiting the resur
rection-day. Yet God deals gP , itly with.
a soldier. When,he is brave, and noble,
and courteous, and merciful, he has
those attributea which assimilate heaven,
and,therefore,is he fore-ordained to hap
piness after death, It may be late in
coming; the bivouacs are right cold and
dreary, we know, for some, but after
the night the morning,
and after the
Judgment Day the New Jerusalem.
What Becomes of the Coln
In the reign of Darius, gold was thir
teen times more valuable, weight for
weight than silver. In the times of Plato,
it was twelve times as valuable. In that
of Julius Caesar, gold was only nine
times more valuable, owing, perhaps, to
the quantities of gold seized by him in
his wars. It is a natural question to
ask, what has become of the gold and
silver? A paper read before the Poly
technic Association, by Dr. Stephens,
recently, is calculated to meet this in
quiry. He sr - vs of our annual gold pro
duct, fully fifteen per cent is melted
down for manufacture; thirty-five per
cent. to Cuba, fifteen per cent to Brazil;
five per cent. direct to Japan, China and
the Indies leaving but five per cent. for
circulation in this country. Of that
which goes to Cuba, the West Indies,
and Brazil, fully,fifty per cent. finds Its
way to Europe, where, after deducting
a large percentage used in manufactur
ing, four-fifths of the remainder is ex
ported to India. Here the supply, how
ever vast, is absorbed, and never re
turns to the civilized world.
The Orientals consume butlittle,while
their productions have ever been in de
mand aMOLIE the Western nations. As
mere recipients, therefore, these nations
have acquired the desire of accumula
tion and hoarding, a passion coaimon
alike to all classes among the Egyptians,
Indians, Chinese and Persians. A
French economist states that in his opin
ion, the former nation alone hide
I away $200,000,000 of gold and silver
annually, and the present Emperor
of Morocco is so addicted to this
avaricious mania, that he has filled
seventeen chambers with the precious
metals. :The passion of princes, it is
not surprising that the same spirit is
shared by their subjects, and it is in
slittictitqat&
this predilection that we discover the
solution of the problem as to the ulti
mate disposition of the precious metals.
This absorption by the Eastern nations
has been uninterruptedly going on since
the most remote historical period. Ac
cording to Pliny, as much as $100,000,-
000 in gold was, in his day, annually
exported to toe East. The balance of
trade in favor of those nations is novr
given as $50,000,000.
flow Young Rattlesnakes ire Born
Interesting Studies In Nashville
About the 10th day of May last, Doc
tors Cardwell and Westmoreland cap
tured, at Prospect, in the lower edge of
Giles county, near the Alabama line, a
rattlesnake four feet three inches in
length and five inches in circumfer
ence. The snake was sent to the Expo
sition, but the managers not deeming it
proper to receive it, It was sent to the
Drug Store of Messrs. Berry & Demoi
ville, who declined to give it quarters.
It was then sent to the Drug Store of
M. C. Cotton, in Nashville, where it
has been since the 15th of May. When
captured it had eight rattles and a but
ton. Since that time it has been con•
tined in a glass case, and has not partak
en of one particle of food, though it
has been tempted with mice and other
small animals on which the reptile is
accustomed to feed. The snake mani
fested no inconvenience from its con
finement, nor did it lose any in size or
bodily vitality. Its eyes continued to
glisten like maahetic steel, and its Is ll
cinating tongue ready to protrude at the
appearance of any one near the case.—
Dr. Cotton thought all the while it was
a male. Though small rats and mice
have been confined in the case with the
snake until their own hunger urged
them to bite at its scaly hide, the ser
pedt refused to give them notice or to
partake of food. On two or three occa
sions it has taken small quantities of
water. On Thursday, at 1 o'clock, 011
going into the back-room of the store,
where the case is kept, it was dis
covered that the snake had given
birth to four young ones, and by three
o'clock she had given birth to three
more, making seven in all. The
young snakes made their appearances
one at a time, and in a coiled or striking
position, their eyes glistening and their
envenomed tongues continuously dart
ing out. The young ones are each from
nine to fifteen inches in length, and in
a state of perfect development. They
are quick of motion and possess no or
dinary spinal vitality, as they crawl
readily to the top of the case and move
with celerity across and around it from
end to end. What is the most singular
and contrary to all the resolved notions
concerning the reptile, each of these
young snakes has a full button on the
end of the tail, which clearly refutes
the idea that they have to be six
months old before the formation of the
button. The old snake was lying in
her cage in a lethargic state with some
indicationsoas the Doctor thought, of
increasing the coiling family. The
young snakes coil around her, and un
der and over her, and she seems to have
for them the natural maternal affection
of instinct. This snake has been in
captivity nearly six months, yet during
all that period of time she has partaken
of not a morsel of food, and has brood
ed her seven young. As to exactly
how long from inception the process of
gestation or incubation has been going
on, there is no means of ascertaining
as we can only date from her captivity.
Dr. Cotton informs us that he once
before kept in the same case a large
sized rattlesnake for three years and
nine months, and that he studied
closely its various moods and changes.
This snake, he says, did not partake of
a particle of food for the first nine
months, arid but little water. He then
gave it mice, rats, &c., putting the
same into the case alive, and it com
menced devouring them voraciously.—
It never would touch a lame mouse or a
dead one, fresh as it might be. When
a young rat was put in the case, it
would plant its unerring fang in
some part of the limbs or body,
and then wait until It died from
the thorough Inoculation of the
poison. When quite dead it would
turn it over, take it head ,foremost and
swallowed it, evidently drawing nutri
ment from the poison its own fangs had
infused. It shed its skin twice a year,
each Spring and Autumn, a new rattle
appearing at each shedding, which ex
plodes the popular notion that but one
rattle comes a year. Yesterday morning
the Doctor took the case and placed it in
the sun. From the effects of the sun
three of the young snakes died. Two
others became stupefied, but recovered
their vitality on being removed into the
shade. The circumstances of the birth
of the young snakes, and the time of the
captivity of the old one, attracted large
numbers of visitors to the drug store to
see the venomous family.--Vashrille:
American.
The English Langnage
The words of the English language
are a compound of several foreign lan
guages. The English language may be
looked upon as a complication, both in
words and expressions of various dia
lects. Their origin is from the Saxon
language. Our laws were derived from
the Norman, our military terms from
the French, our scientific names from
the Greeks, and our stock of nouns
from the Latin, through the medium
of the French. Almost all the verbs in
the English language are taken from
the German, and nearly every noun or
adjective is taken from other dialects.
The English language is composed of
15,784 words, of which 6,735 are from
the Latin, 4,315 from the French. 1,095
from the Saxon, 1,669 from the Greek,
691 from the Dutch, 211 from the Itali
an, 106 from the German (not including
verbs), 90 from the Welsh, 75 from the
Danish, 56 from the Spanish, 50 from
the Icelandic, 31 from the Swedish, 31
from the Gothic, 16 from the Hebrew,
15 from ihe Teutonic, and the remain
der from the Arabic, Syriac, Turkish,
Portuguese, Irish, Scotch, and other
languages.
A Miniature Skeleton
A physician in Nevada is said to have
au imitation of a human skeleton' only
four inches in length, so perfectly form
ed by a Japanese workman 'that closo
examination is needed to discover that
it is the work of a carver. The Virginia
Enterprise says : So perfect is the skele
ton in every detail, that at the first
glance even a physician is liable to be
deceived by it. The teeth, the mark
ings of the skull, the curved and flatten
ed form of the bones of the fore arm, the
pelvis, and, in fact, every part is fear
fully and wonderfully perfect.
The doctor:says the carving must have
been done by a person well acquainted
with anatomy. In its right hand the
skeleton holds a staff which reaches as
high RS its head, and around the bottom
of this staff is coiled a serpent (the well
known emblem of the healing art),
which rests its head upon the knee of
the figure ; its left hand holds a string of
beads. Those acquainted with the hand
iwork of the Japanese carvers can read
ily imagine how hideously minute in all
its details is this bit of fancy work. The
doctor declares he would not part with
it for $5OO. Accompanying the present
was the following note from the gentle
man who sent it: "What I would have
been but for you." The doctor carried
him through a severe attack of paralysis
some three years ago.
The Old Times
The "Fat Contributor" has seen a great
deal of this world during the past three
thousand years, and his personal recol
lections of men and things are interest
ing, if not valuable. In his last con
tribution to the en:tell:mat! Gazette he
tells what he knows about Alexander,
Nero, Diogenes, Socrates, Columbus,
and Shakespeare, from personal ac
quaintance. Of the Bard of Avon he
writes :
" I knew Shakespeare as long ago as
when he tended store for the Merchant
of Venice, and sold the Prints of Den
mark by the yard. He was an honest
lad with the yard-stick, giving Measure
for Measure. He always wanted to be
an actor, and was perpetually quoting
Shakespeare to customers. People used
to Lear at him for it; I have even seen
the King Lear. Shakespeare only laugh
ed, and said they were making Much
Ado About Nothing, adding, ' you can
have it As You Like It.' He was so fond
of the ladies, and popular scandal, asso
ciating his name with certain Merry
Wives of Windsor, that his employer
raised a Tempest about his ears that he
ran away and joined a variety company.
He made his debut as first grave dig
ger in Othello."
A Backwoods Adventure
A Virginia banker, who was the
chairman of a hotel infidel club, was
once traveling through Kentucky, hav
ing with him bank bills to the amount
of $2.5,000. When he came to a lonely
forest, where robberies and murders
were said to be frequent, he was soon
lost, through taking the wrong road.
The darkness of the night came quickly
over him, and how to escape from the
threatening danger he knew not. Inb Is
alarm be suddenly espied in the distance
a dim light, and urging his horseonward,
he at length came to a wretched-looking
cabin. He knocked ; the door was open
ed by a woman who said her husband
was out hunting, but would soon return,
and she was sure he would cheertully
give him shelter for the night. The
gentleman put up his horse aud en tered
the cabin, but with feelings that can
betterbe imagined than described. Here
he was with a large sum of money. per
haps in the house of a robber whose
name. was a terror to the country.
In a short time the man of the house
returned. He had on a deer-skin shirt,
a bear-skin cap, and seemed MU3il fa
tigued, and in no talking mood. All
this boded the infidel no good. Ile felt
for his pistols in his pocket, and placed
them so as to be ready for instant use.
The man asked the stranger to retire to
bed, but he determined to sell his life as
dearly as he could. His fear grew into
a perfect agony. What was to be done?
:At length the backwoodsman aroseand
reaching to a wooden shelf, took down
an old book, and said :
•' Well, stranger, if you won't go to
tied, I will, but it Is always my custom
to read a chapter of the Holy Scriptures
before I go to bed."
What a change did these words pro
duce ? Alarm was removed from this
skeptic's mind. Though aVOWilliz him
self an infidel, he had more confidence
in the Bible. He felt safe. He felt that
a man who kept an old Bible.in his
house, and read it, and bent his knees
in prayer, was no robber or murderer.
He listened to the good man and dis
missed his fears, and lay down and slept
as calmly In that cabin as he did under
his father's roof. From that night he
ceased to revile the good old Bible. He
became a sincere Christian, and often
related the story of his eventful journey
to prove the folly of infidelity.
A Beautiful Incident.
On a beautiful Summer's day a clergy
man was culled to preach iu a town in
Indiana, to a young Episcopal congre
gation. At the close of his discourse he
addressed his young hearers in such
words as these:
"Learn that the present life is a prep
aration for and has a tendency to eter
nity. The present is linked to the fu
ture throughout creation, in the vege
table, in the animal, and iu the moral
world. As is the seed, so is the fruit;
as is the egg, so is the fowl ; as is the
boy, so is the man ; and as the rational
being in this world, so will he be in the
next ; Dives estranged from God here,
is Dives estranged from God in the
next, and Enoch walking with God
here, is Enoch walking with God in a
calm and better world. I beseech
you, live, then, for a blessed eterni
ty. Go to the worm that you tread
upon, and learn a lesson of wisdom.—
The very caterpillar seeks the food that
fosters it for another and similar state ;
and more wisely than man builds its
own sepulchre, from whence in time,
by a kind of resurrection, it comes forth
a new creature in almost angelic form.
And now that which crawled flies, and
that which fed on comparatively gross
food, sips the dew that revels in the
rich pastures—an emblem of that para
dise where flows the river of life and
grows the tree of life. Could the cat
erpillar have been diverted from its
proper element and mode of life, if it
had never attained the butterfly's
splendid form and hue, it had perished
a worthless worm. Consider her ways
and be wise. Let it not be said that ye
are more negligent than worms, and
that your reason is less available than
their instinct. As often as the butter
fly flits across your path, remember that
it whispers in Its flight, ' Live for the
future.'
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"With this the preacher closed his dis
course, but to deepen the impression, a
butterfly, directed by the Hand which
guides alike the sou and an atom in its
course, fluttered through the church, as
if commissioned by Heaven to repeat
the exhortation. There was neither
speech or language, but its voice was
heard saying to the gazing audience—
" Live for the Future."
New Eendering of an tpd Text.
Spending a Winter as invalids at Ai
ken, South Carolina, the Hon. Thuriow
Weed and Mr. Thos. C. Acton whiled
away one Sabbath afternoon by attend
ing negro church, and were accompa
nied by Mt'. John A. Kennedy, who was
on a visit of a few days to Mr. Acton's.
When they entered the primitive tern
pie the preacher, who was a pure Afri
can, was grappling with all the fervor of
his race with the old, old, subject of the
fall - of man. Sketching that day in the
garden with its terrible results, he ex
coriated Mr. Adam in this fashion :
" Now, brederen, when the Lord calls
Adam to 'count, did he stall' up like a
man, confess his sin and ask forgiveness?
He didn't do nutlin o de sort, brederen,
but he say :
" Lord, de woman dat Doti gubest me
gub me for to eat."
Then again :
" De woman dat Dou gubest Inc gub
nie for to eat."
" Dar, ' brederen, you si.ie dat mean,
akulkin' Adam was a tryin' to sneak out
of it by frowin' all de blameon the Lord
hisself!"
'rids new idea of an old question was
too much for the distinguished "white
trash " who had fortunately taken seats
near the door, and they retired into the
fields to indulge in irreverent laughter.
—"The Club Room" of the Calory fur
October.
A Remarkable Blind Man
Jas. Richard Golliday, of Bowling
Green, Ky., is now thirty-six years of
age. When two years old one eye was
put out by a piece of rock, and soon after
the other was put out by being struck
with an acorn thrown by one of his lit
tle playmates. He grew vigorously, and
has always enjoyed good health and
cheerful spirits. He was educated at
the Blind Institute at Louisville,
graduated with distinction, becom
ing especially proficient ; in math
ematics. Determined to support
himself, he became a traveling ped
dler of books. He invested his gains in
a book store in Bowling Green, and was
thriving until 1862, when his store was
destroyed by Federal soldiers. He af
terwards traveled with a panorama, and
four years ago resumed his store. He is
noted for foresight in business, accura
cy in counting money and the admira
ble system of his store. He recognizes
persons whom he knows by their foot
steps. It is said tnat he goes from his
store to the railroad, buys his ticket,
rides to Louisville, ttavels all over the
city without a guide, and returns after
transacting his business. In spite of
his total, life-long blindness, he has
q
Made a small fortune, bei one of the
most remarkable illustrat us on record
of the power of will and to r
ent in tri
umphing over the most malignant de
crees of luck.
A. Modern Daniel Boone
A Yanckton (Dakota) paper has this
account of a famous hunter: "Louis
Kelly Is perhaps the most daring and
successful Indian hunter in the great
West. He travels alone, wears a com
plete set of buckskin, and has a turban
around his head when out on the
prairie. He is said to be a graduate of
a college and hails from Virginia or
South Carolina. It Is thought he was
a rebel officer. He is about twenty
two years of age, handsome well
formed, and muscular. Thelndians
dread him as much as they ever did
Kit Carson or Daniel Boone. He never
misses his mark. An Indian is as good
as dead the moment he draws sight on
him. He will travel weeks at a time
through hostile Indians, and never ex
press a thought of danger. Kelly is
now on a trip to the head waters of the
Yellowstone, a country never yet visit
ed by any white man. He is alone.
He has been known to dare a dozen
Indians on the open prairie to fight
him in a body. No Indian will ever get
within reach of his deadly rifle."
Eovlnn and Feline MaHeyde'
Some curious recent London statistics
show that three hundred horses die weekly
in that metropolis, and that there are 700,-
000 cats in that city which are largely fed
from their carcasses. These facts came out
in the course of an investigation of the
horse-slaughtering establishments of Lon
don.
NUMBER 43
IM2=l
Maraging a Ma
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 13.—David Kent
ley, alias James Wilson, ended his eventful
life to-day at half-past one, after a most
desperate effort made a few hours before to
cheat the gallows. Ile retired to rest at 10
o'clock last night, with the eyes of hie keep
ers, Deputy-Sheriffs Finch and Lord, upon
him. The former of these remained on
guard until 2 o'clock, when he was relieved
by Lord. tip to this time the condemned
man had lain quietly on his bed, and was
believed to be asleep.
With Deputy-Sheriff Lord came Jailer
Fenn, who entered Wilson's cell to see if
all was right. The prisoner was then
awake. He raised hie head and said:
"hood morning, Mr. Fenn."
Fenn replied, " It is rather a sad day fur
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Wilson answered, " Yes, it must be so."
A few general remarks were made, and
then Wilson asked.
" What time is it?"
"Two o'clock."
" Ah ! I've four hours yet to sleep."
Mr. Fenn passed out.
"GooMby, Mr.Fenn," said Wilson quiet
ly.
'Good-by, Wilson. -
' Mr Fenn," lie said again, as
MM=M=
A short time after this the deputy on
guard thought he heard an unusual breath
ing inside the cell. Wilson seemed rest
less, and gave other evillenCeS of pain. The
watcher at once called Mr Fenn. Together
they entered the cell, and found Wilson
lying on his back, his right hand clasped
over his breast, the fore finger pressing
hard against his heart. On examining him
they found a small wound over the heart.
Front this hole, no larger than a shirt but
ton, had oozed three or four drops of blood.
Pressure on the spot seemed to cause pain,
and the body shook convulsively. Dr.
George F. Hawley, the jail physician, was
at once summoned and found the pulse
very weak, so low, in fact, that it could
hardly be felt. He could decide upon noth-
ing to relieve Wilson until a further exam
ination was made. Later another physi
cian visited the cell, and it NVI49 decided„,to
hold a tnedical consultation at 9 o'clock.
During all this dine Wilson was lying
perfectly quiet, and to all appearance per
fectly insensible. Ile breathed regularly
and strong. Ills eyes and mouth;reinained
closed, the eyelids slightly twitching. Ira
tly lit upon his face the muscles would
twitch, but this was the Wily sign of yen
sciousness he showed trout the (line he was
discovered up to the examination of the
physicians, at a quarter to 10 o'clock.
Soon after the medical consultation, the
physicians' report was submitted to toe
Sheriff. It was as follows :
The physicians decide not to perform any
operation. It is evident that the uncon
sciousness is roily a dodge of Wilson's;
he feigns it. The wound, however, is mor
tal, and he would die from it if he had
time.
Moon after the physiolans left him, how
ever, Wilson showed signs of conscious
ness. He opened his eyes, and after a few
minutes motioned with his hand for water.
1-1 asgiven hun, but the drinking of it
seouted to cause great pain. Ile then nod
ded to his keepers, who were now watch
ing him with the intensity of cats, and
pointed to his breast. lie measured on his
linger about three or four inches, as if to
say that the weapon used was that length.
He then pointed tinder his pillow, and on
looking there the keepers found a letter
addressed to Sheriff Russell. It was as
follows:
To •S'lLe7,:iT Russell never intended to
be hanged. For fear that you may blame
some of my friends, I will say that the wire
used to interfere with your arrangements,
was procured by me In the State Prison
two months ago. I took it from my ration
pan and sharpened it on the stone floor. I
then wrapped it in a piece of leather torn
from the Bible and hid it, where I have
carried it ever share, taking it out at night
only. It is prober to die in the cause of
humanity, but it is exceedingly improper
to be hanged in any cause. Vki f Lso:v.
In a few minutes Wilson spoke. lie
said:
_
" Man is a strange being."
After this he made coins other remarks,
and finally explained how he got the wire
and how he used it. lie said he did not
push it all the way in at first, but felt
around with it for his heart. lie finally
touched the heart, but as ho supposed a
little too low down. lie thou depressed
the wire on the outside so as to bring the
point higher up, took his Testament in his
hand and with the book drove it clear in
till the skin closed over it. Ile thought he
would be dead in two minutes, and as ho
said this he remarked with a sigh:
"It is too bad; I didn't iluieb the job."
He states that while in the State prison
he had several means of killing himself,
but chose this as the elm plest, because the
instrument could be best concealed. The
pressure on his chest, a few moments after
the infliction of the wound was very great,
and the agony intense; but.afterwards the
pressure stopped, and the pain in the heart
began. This constantly increased, so much
so, that he could hardly bear the agony.
He thought that he would not be able to
got to the scaffold, even with assistance.
Wilson remained in bed all the morn-
Mg. Ile refused to eat anything, but from
time to time took a drink of weak brandy
and water. Ile would not turn over in
bed, but groaned and writhed with the
pain, and would grind his teeth. lie in
sisted that ho should say a 1 . 91 w words upon
the scaffold. At 121 o'clock'his pulse had
increased to IS.
At 1 o'clock the Sheriff an .I his party ar
rived. Thoy were ushered into the jail
through the police and by the brainless and
gaily caparisoned militia. The Sheriff at
once went to Wilson's cell and told him
that the hour had come.
"Thank you," was the reply ; " anything
to get out of this torture."
Wilson at once arose, put on his coat and
a tall silk hat, and said that he was ready.
He was asked if he could walk. "He said
"Oh I yes; I'll try it anyway." A proces
sion was then formed, Sheriff Russell and
Dr. Hawley supported Wilson on either
side, while the deputy-sheriffs and other
physicians brought up the rear.
Slowly they Caine around the corner of
the prison, and for the first thne Wilson
saw the scaffold. He looked up coolly, but
never flinched nor moved a muscle. Ile
placed his feet on the steps, but his strength
was not sufficient for him to get up unaided.
The Sheriff and one of the deputies sup
ported him, and sldivly the three 11101114 ((RI
the platform.
Here a chair was offered and Wilson sat
down and looked at the crowd. He was
an elderly man of about 50. He says he
was but 48. Ills hair was very gray, and
his face entirely free from beard. There
was nothing at all vicious in his counte
nance, although his dark eye was roving
and unsettled. He smiled upon the crowd
. . .
below and on the galleries above. He was
quite pale, but. nrin as rock, and entirely
self-possessed. As he took his seat he cast
a glance above at the rope, the noose of
which the Sheriff had kindly lowered to
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within a few inches of his head. Not a
muscle twitched or a nerve shook, but the
look he gave it was as unconcerned a s
though it were a bouquet of flowers.
Wilson arose from his chair. As he did
so his head struck the rope. He did not
notice it, but advanced to the railing, and
in a clear, firm, gentlemanly voice said :
" I suppose most of you know why I
shall not have much to say. A man with
three inches of iron in his heart can't be
expected to say touch. It was not my in-
tention to appear before you to-day, but
the fates willed it otherwise; not that I fear
death, but .each a kind of a death—not fit
fora dog or a murderer. lam not a mur
derer. I killed William Willard in self
defence, and did jest right. And I hope
his fate will be a warning to all other ty
rants like him."
lie then paused.
" Are you ready ?" said the Sheriff.
"No, sir ; " arid he stepped back and
seized the rope, advancing to the rail again
with the noose In his hand. He continued:
" When a man puts this over his head,
in the cause of humanity, it is not a die
grace! In that cause I put it over mine.
Mr. Sheriff, you may tighten It up, if you
please.
He then bowed to the crowd, and walked
around the platform with a stately air, bid
ding every one good-bye. Soon he stepped
under the pulley, arid looked at the Sheriff.
Chaplain Wooding asked if he should offer
prayer.
"Oh, yes, I don't mind," was the reply.
The chaplain kneeled down but Wilson
evidently did not hear a word, lie looked
at the crowd, and up on the gallery where
the reporters were. He seamed much in
terested in their mote-books, and watched
them closely.
The prayer finished, the pinioning be
gan. Under this ordeal he never flinched.
He quietly took the chaplain by the hand,
and said :
"I hope, If you have the opportunity,
you will tell the wardens of 'Wethersfield
prison, that they may profit by the example
they have had, to not oblige any other con
vict to murder a warden for humanity's
sake."
The gentlemen then left the platform, and
the Sheriff advanced with the black cap.—
As he adjusted it, Wilson said:
"Don't delay any longer. lam suffering
so terribly [and he put his band upon his
wound] that I won't be able to stand much
longer."
The Sheriff pulled over the cap, stepped
down the stairs, and as he took his foot off
the last step the platform gave way. Wil
son fell at least seven feet, and being a
very heavy man, his neck was instantly
broken by the fall. Not a muscle moved
after the drop. The man died instantly.
The pulse and heart beat very rapidly
for several minutes. In five minutes the
heart ceased to beat, and In a moment the
pulse stopped. In fourteen minutes he was
pronounced dead. Five minutes after
ward he was taken down, and in five min
les more the doctors had him under their
knives.
The post mortem which was made by
Dre. Jarvis, Crary, Jr., Hawley and others,
revealed the fact that the sharp-points
wire had penetrated the left vertlele of the
heart, where it was firmly embedded. It
was three and a half inches long and about
the sixteenth of an inch In diameter.
In his last will and testament, he be
queaths his body to the Medical College
at New Haven, to be used for the advance
ment of science, on condition that the said
Medical College shall agree to pay compe
tent counsel to solicit the next General .As
sembly holden in, for this State to pass
laws providing against abuse of prisoners
by officers, except in self-defence, and
proper punishment for so doing; also,
against the use of the lash ; prescribing
rules for visitation by Prison Directors,
and the general conduct of officers.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Lease Case.
In this case, to the decision in which, by
Chancellor Zabrisko, we alluded yester
day, the reasons stated are as follows :
the conclusion at which the Chancellor
arrived were stated as follows:
First—That the Act of 1870 gives author
ity to the United Companies to lease to
Corporation of another State.
Second—That their works form boll.
"connected" and "continuous' lines will.
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the works of the proposed lessee.
Third—That the DireCtors of these Coin•
panies have power to sell or otherwise dl--
pose of all the property or the Compank
except the roads and canal, and the Iran
chises granted without the consent of the
State, or of all the Stockholders.
Fourth—That they have power, by con
sent of the State and of a majority of tin.
Stockholders, or of any other proportion
required law, to Rea or lease or other
wise ditipMe of these works, or to abandon
them.
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Py(th—That a lease made by virtue t f
sucli authority is within the power dek.:
led to the Directors, that no expressed or
implied contract in their charters is viol a
ted by it, and, therefore, the act authoriA
ing it Is not unconstitutional.
Sixth —That the purpose for which tin—e
works are released, the benefit and adviiii
tage of extended public highways controi
el and operated by one head for regulm
and easy communication froth and through
New Jersey and other States, is certainly
" a public use," for which property ton
be taken on compensation.
Seventh —That even if the Directors has
not power to lease for a term so as to lit, i
the Stockholders or their Successors. tI,AL
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tho leasing and delivering the woi ks to ti.o
lessee, with a stipulation and obligation to
have the shares of d Issentipg Stook holds
valued and paid for, is not a tak lug
property without first limiting emnpoh ,,
don.
Eighth That the Penns:ilvania Raitrend
Company, the proposed lessee, has by os
charter and supplements, and the pulite .
Taws of Pennsylvania, as construed by ths
courts of that state, power to take tholes ,
and bind itself to all the etipulatioe+
thereof
The concluding portion of the deeision
stated that ninny reasons against making
the lease had been urged by counsel with
great power and eloquence which were
proper subjects for judicial consideration,
but for that of legislators, of the companii
themselves, and their stockholders
Among these was the consideration as to
State piney and State pride, which should
not allow these works to be placed .unch•r
the control of non-residents or of II foreign
corporation; as to the expediency of per
-
matting an overgrown, gigantic corpora
tion, like another Colossus, to place 0 1.,
foot on our shores, with another perhaps oe
the Pacific: also, g as to thin lease for M.:.
years impairing or destroying the right m
the State to take the works at coot in IfiNf.
These matters were Mr the Legislature
the State.
For the reasons ho had stated, the ('hai
cellor announced that the injunction won hi
be denied, and the order restraining the
defendants from executing the lease Nil
eated.
etToot of lids Is to remove all. oh
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stain es to the early consummation of the
lease, though the decision of to day is an
jeet to review in the Court or Errore
Appeals, to which the whole ease will
eventually ho taken.
Chicago Reviving.
The Timrs re-appeared yesterday niers.
ing in a sheet neatturinted. Ths leaders
deprecate the attempt of interested panic-•
to take business below Twelfth street In
South Division, and says there can be no
question about the return of business hi
this district. Meantime, the majority of tics
inhabitants should be consulted.
A despatch from New York soya the
President of a bank in Chicago, which cor
responds with .the Metropolitan National
Bank, of this city, telegrapha to-day an
follows: "Everything goes well; dopos
its largely increased to-day, and money
abundant. Shall need no currency from
you, and our remittances will be large to
your city."
Every day brings fresh occasion for en
couragement. The city is orderly, and re
lief for the poor comes in abundantly. Busi
ness is resuming, and building going on in
every direction. A much healthier fooling
prevails than the mrentsanguine could have
anticipated. The reports from all the banks
are substantially the same as yesterday.
Very little money ban been called for, and
the deposits quite large. The insurance
companies that are solvent aro paying their
looses without requiring policy-holders to
go through the usual formalities of adjust
ment.- The American Central Company, of
St. Louis, commenced paying to-ninny.
The Executive Board of the Republic In
suran co Coll3Fany, of this city, at a meet
ing to day, resolved to wind up: Their
losses aggregate $3,600,000, and cash assets,
$900,000. The Company will pay twenty
live per cent., on demand.
The Timr.l figures the total loon by lire
at 150,000,000. The business of the Board
of Trade ban been fairly resumed. The re
ceipto and shipments of grain aro very
heavy. A survey of the Tribune building
warn made to day by architects, who report
the walls and most of the floors good, and
the building can bo repaired fur $50,000
'the original Coot WILY $210,000.
Curious Como of lileptomitola.
A curious case of kleptomania has come
to light In Lawrence, Mreis. A burglar
after breaking Into a house way captured,
shot, and carried to the lock-up. Although
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his wound was slight, was agreed that
the surAlion should toll lin that he would
not live more than an ho r, in order to draw
a confession from his The burglar, after
exacting asoiemn promise from Iris captors
that all the money In his possession should
be handed over to his wife, confessed that
he was the author of many burglaries that
had been conunitted in that region, and
that he had secreted In Ash Grove Church in
Albany, under the pulpit, two tin boxes till
ed with gold and silverwaro,and in his room
on Arch street in that city several hundred
dollars in bank notes around the wainscoting
of the windows, and in other places; also,
that his real name was Carrel Sanborn, and
that he worked for a Mr. McDmitild In Al
bany. lie then handed over $l,BOO in green
backs, saying that according to the agree
ment that sum, with $BOO in a savings bank
in Albany and some WO more secreted
in his room. should be given to his wife.
He had not robbed for money, ho said, but
for the pleasure of It; it was a mania
which came over him at times, and which
he 20Uld not shake off until he broke Into
some place. Tho dark lantern found In his
possession is a marvel of perfection, and
was made by himself. Sanborn's wife, who
resides in Bristol, N. Y., was chocked when
she heard of his arrest, as she supposed that
he was at work In Albany. All the money
and property was found concealed in the
places indicated.
Flearelty of Wheat
The wheat crops aro short thin year in
Great Britain, France, Belgium and the
Rhenish Provinces. This deficiency has
excited fears of a famine, and speculators
in grain have seized upon it and greatly
exaggerated it. There is no doubt, how
ever, of a serious deficiency. England
will need at least 9,000,000 quarters, Bel
gium 700.000 quarters, and P rance 12,000,-
000 hectolitres. This is conceded by those
who protest against any danger of famine,
and who contend that other countries can
easily supply the deficiency. The United
States is credited with a surplus of 7,000,-
000 quarters—but the other countries which
are to supply the rest, are not named.
While there is no good ground to appre
hend anything like famine, It is quite cer
tain that the price or wheat will rule high
for the next year. Such Is ever the case,
when England and France are both buy
ers of breadstuffs at the eame time.
El=
Indian women, in some tribes, are no
longer treated as bearers of burdens only
and made articles of merchandise, worth so
much to their parents from the husband
who bought them. As an evidence of the
advance of civilization among the Western
Indians, it is reported that on many of the
reservations the courting of wives is car
ried on In the same way f 1.9 among the
whites ; the marriage ceremony is perform
ed before a missionary or an Indian agent,
and the wedding certificate Is taken, framed
and preserved carefully. Only one wife is
allowed, and no price is demanded by the
parents or given by the husband.
Washington nuttily and Relics
Col. Lewis W. Washington, the head of
a branch of the family to which the first
President belonged, died on October 1,
alter a brief illness of congestive fever, at
his residence near Harper's Ferry, West
Virginia. Ho will be remembered as the
most conspicious of the gentlemen who
wero seized and held R. 9 hostages by John
Brown in his famous raid on Harper's
Ferry in October, 1859. He posssessed a
valuable collection of relics of Washington,
among others the elegant sword ;sent by
Frederick the Great with the inscription
"From the oldest gentleman in the world
to the greatest."
Bovine Pinch v. Engine Strength.
The Bulls along the line of the Perkio
men creek appear to have a decided dislike
to the innovation of railroading in that val
ley. Twice have the engines, on the Per
kiomen Valley Railroad, been attacked by
these bovines. The last one made the at
tack at Rahn's Station, on Friday last, and
through it lost his life. The engineer gave
the animal duo notice by whistling, slack
ing up his train, etc., but the Bull mistaking
these warnings for cowardice,plunged head
formost into ths 'engine and landed along
aide the road a dead Bull.
Billiard player Perished.
It is reported, and generally believed,
that John McDevitt, the celebrated billiard
player and ax-champion of the United
States, perished in the flames of the late fire
at Chicago. Mr. McDevitt was asleep in
Thomas Foley's billiard.room, and caught
by the fire before he could escape. Mo-
Devitt made the largest run ever made In
a public match, 1458.
It is also stated that Gamier, the celebra
ted French player, was injured by the fire.
His place was burned out.