THE *. 7 .
VIQNTROSE-.DEMOCRA'E
E. B. HAN'tLEY, Proprietor.
tointoo gado.
DR. D. A. LATROP,
tlas opened a 4 office, et the foot of Chestnut street. our
the Catholle Church, where he eau be consulted et all
times.
Montrose., Aprtl 26, 3971. ly
CROSS ON & BALDWIN,
ATTORNLIPS AT LAW.-01Ree over the store of Wm
J. Inborn, on Public Arenas, Montrose Pa.
W. CIIOSSION. B. L. DeLtosur.
Montrose, March I, WTI. U. •
3, D. VAIL,
110)1V)PkTITIC PIITSICIAN ANTI Surtozon. Was permanently
located himself in Montrose, Pe.., where he will prompt.
. ll attend to all calls in his profession with which he may
be favored. Office and reeldence went of the Court
Moose, near Fitch d; Watson's office.
Montrose, February 8,1311.
LAW OFFICE•
PITCH & WATSON, Attorneys at Law, at the old °Mee
of Bentley & Fitch, Montroee, Pe_
•. mat. Dfan.ll,
CHARLES N. STODDARD.
Dealer In Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. Leather and
ndl.Ry. alai* Strops, tea door below Botd`a Shore.
Work wide to order, and repairing done neat/y,
Mohtrose, Jan. 1, 18:0.
LITTLES & BLAKESLEE,
Attorneys and Coen•ellore st lAw. Often the one
heretofore occupied by B. B. & G. P, Little. on Stain
street, Montrose, Ps. [April
R. 11. LITTLZ. OLe. P. LITTLIL IL L. BLUE/MLLE.
E. Meltmcats. C. C. reenoe, W. H. Mceent,
RcRENZIE, FAUROT & CO.
Dealers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies and Misses
fine Shoes. %leo, agents for the grcnt American
Tea and Corea Company. [Montrose, Pa— op. 1,'70.
LEWIS KNOLL,
SHAVING AND HAIR DRESSING.
Shop to the new Postoffice Imildinc, where he will
be found ready to attend all who may want anything
In hie line. Montrose, Pa, Oct. 18. 1869.
P. REYNOLDS,
ACCTIONEER—SeIIsDry Goods. and Merettanize—also
attends at Vendnes. All order. left at my house will
receive prompt attention. [Oct. 1, 1849—tf
0. M. HAWLEY,
DEALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. CROCKERY
Hardware. Hata, Caps, Boots.Shoea, Ready Made Cloth
ing, Palate, Oils, etc., New Milford, Pa . tSept. '69.
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
PUTSICIAN & SURGEON. tenders his Ferrite' , I
the citizens of Great Bend and rig nity Office •t
residence. opposite Barnum House, Crt.
Bend villa;
Sept. lot, 160. ll'
LAW OFFICE.
CHAMBERLIN S MeCOLLEM. Attorney.. and Conn
venom at Law. Utica in the Brick Block over the
Bank. (Montrose Ang. 4. HMO.
A. CILLIMLIMIR. J. B. McCoaaux.
A. Ac D. R. LATIEROP,
DEALERS in Dry Goods, Groceries,
crockery and giaaaware,tattle and pocket cutler,.
Paints. 011•, dye atutra. Data. boot. and •hoes, bnl
leather. Perrnolcry be. Brick Wont:. adjoining lb
Itank. Montrose. I /magnet :1. isra.—tr
A. Livrtritor, - - D. It. LAtanor.
A. 0. WARREN.
ATTORNEY A. LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Partition
and Pam on Claims attended to. Office if -
nor below Boyd's Store, Montrotie.Pa. [An, ],'6A
M. c. surToN,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent
eta Ott Priendevllle, Pa.
C. S. GILBERT,
.46.1.a.cptiCirL41540X°.
Great. Bend, Pa
In al.
anal G9tf
ASIII ELY,
V. 9. atkimatlco32.43er.
hue. 1, ISOII. Address, Brooklyn, Pa
JOfl GROVES,
rAsinoNAnts. TAU 7R. Montrose, Pa. Shop over
Chandler's Store. Ah ordere Slld in first-rate style.
Crating done on ehort notice. and warranted to St
W. W. SMITH,
EfINET AND CHAIR MANUFACTURERS,—Yow
of Mete street, Montrone, Pa. Isng. 1. ISM.
IL BIJIIUITT,
DSMAR le Staple and Pane; Dry Goods, Crockery
Lterdsrare, Iron, Stores, Dra MD, and Paints
Bcartsand Shoe, Rats& Caps. Fars, &UP, Robes
Grocerles.Provislons. c.d., New tillfcrtd, Pa.
DR. L. P.
Liss permanently located at Filendsvltle for the par
pose arpractidag medicine and surgery In all Its
branches. He may be bound at the Jackson Haase.
Office Wars from 8 a. m., to 8. p.
Frienderille, Pa., Ang, 1. 1867.
tYTUB & BROWN,
FIRS AND LIFE 1:737.1ANCS AGENTS. Al'
hat-Mess attended to promptly. oo !My term.. Office
firet dour north of ' Montrone Hotel," nest elde or
Public !Cronin, Montrose, Pa. [Aug. lOWA.
Bitirsou STnorn. Manus L. Bsomit.
it L D: LUSK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ito trove, Pa, Office 0706.
v I re the Tarbell House, seat ttre Cot`it 'toast.
Am. 1. IS6O.—Et
AkUtLt TURNELILii
DEALER in Drags, Parent Medicines, Mei:Meals
Liquors, Paints, 0110.Dyc Stuffs; Varnishes , . Win is
Giese, Groceries, Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa,
per, Stone.ware, Lampe. Kerosene, Machinery Oils.
Trusses, Gurni, Ammunition, Knives, lipectacles
Drusbes, Fancy Goods. Jewell 7. Perfa ry, &t•—
being #one cdthe Mast numerous, extensive, and
valuable collections of Goods in Stisquehanna Co.—
Established In 1848. Ifiretroeu, Pa.
D. W. gRAIILE,
ATTOTtMEY AT LAW. °Mee over the Store of A.
Lathrop, in the Brick Block, Montrose, Pa. [affr 119
DR. W. L. RICHARDSON,
raTsiciaN a fiCRGEON, tenders his professions
services to the citizens of Montrose endricinity.-
0 dice at his residence, on the corner east of Sayre @
Bros. Fonndey. Aug. 1, 1.6"39.
DR. E. L. GARD-lIIIE'R,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Montrose. Pit. Giver
impede) attentlon 10 diseases of the Heart and
Lange and as Surgical diseases. °Mee over W. 13.
Deans Boards at Searle'. Lintel. (Aug. 1. 1869.
SLIMS & %ICIIOLS,
DEAL .07.9 in Drugs, Medicines. Chemicals. Dye
et.tla, Paints, Oils, Varnish, Liquor/. Spices. Pam
sr: ties. Patent Mediekres, Perfumery and Toilet Ar
tim es. tir Prestrlptlobs carefully compodnded.—
?Italic Avenue, above Searle't Hotel. Montrose, Pa
A. B. Bruns, Ago! Nrcinne.
Ang. 1, 1869.
DR. E. L., 1114.1tDRI€141
E SURGEON, respectfully metro hlr
professional services to the citizen of Prlendsrflle
and vicinity. EfrOffice babe office of Dr. Ltet
Boards at J. Dastard's. &dg. 1.1569.
PROF. 11101tR19#
The Hayti Barber, returns tds thanks for the kind pat i
ronage that has enabbal him to met the beet re
he ! havilt time to' tell the whole story, but come
and see for ycnireeres arat the Old Stand. '.Co hod
laughing allowed in the chop. (Aptil ta,
H UNT BROTHERS,
SCRANTON, PA.
Wholesale A Retail DesDIM
HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL,
NAILS, SPINES,. SHOVELS,
BUILDER'S HARDWARE,
JUNE BAIL, co&HTESSVEMd T AILBPLSEb
BAILEBBD:4 AWING' BDTPLIBB.
CANBLANE BMW'S% . AXLE!, BEZINS AND
BOXES. BOLTS „gm axe Irfilles,
PLATED BANDS. MALLS
M BE AT BERMES.
FELLOES. BEAT BERMES. BOWS ete.
I.NVILS. VICES, STOCKS gold. DEES, B
KAMMKRS. SLEDUM PURSe. Re.
CIRCULAR AND ICILLSAWB,BOLTING. PACKING
TACKLE BLOCKS PLASTER PARIS'
Cali o rP. HAIR
PURISM W GLASS.LIMiThiLDERIS
A=ANKIIISDATAB.
fronton. Itareb94. le
Agricultural College, of Poustelvturia.
THIS INSTITUTION will reopen for the
ERRING TERM OF 24 WEEKS,
On Friday, February 10, 1871.
For genes' Circular, catalogue and other In-
formation, Address,
THOS. IL BURROWS, President,
Agricultural Coge, P. 0.,
Jan. 25, 1870.—tf. C lle entre Co., Pa.
redo olorittr.
Some Mother Child.
At home or away, in the alley, or street,
Whenever I chance in this wide world to meet
A girl that is thoughtless, or a boy that is wild,
My beat echoes softly, " 'Tis some mother's
child,"
And when I seo those o'er whom long years
have rolled,
Whose hearts have grown hardened, whose spir
its are cold.
Be it woman all fallen, or man all defiled,
A voice whispers sadly, "Ah I some mother's
child."
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No matter how far from the right she has strayed,
No mater what inroads dishonor has made;
No matter what element cankered the pearl—
Though tarnished and sullied, she is some motfi
ees girl.
No matter bow wayward his footsteps have been:
No matter how deep he has sunken in sin L.,
No matter how low In his standard of joy,
Though guilty and loathsome, he Is some moth
er's boy.
That bead has been 'Allowed on tenderest breast,
That form bas been wept o'er, those Ups have
been pressed ;
That soul bath been prayed for, In tones sweet
and mild;
For her sake deal gently with some mother's
child.—Phrenological Journal.
There came to Port last Sunday night
The queerest little craft,
Without an inch of rigging on—
I looked and looked and laughed,.
It was singular that she
Should cross the unknown water,
And moor herself right in my room—
Illy daughter, oh, my daughter
Yet by these presents, witness all,
She's welcome fifty times,
And comes consigned to hope and love,
And common metre rhymes,
She has no manifest but this;
No rag floats o'er the water;
She's too new for the British Lloyds—
My daughter, oh, my daughter.
Ring out wild bells---and tame ones too—
Ring out the lover's moon,
Ring out the little worsted socks,
Ring in the bib and spoon,
Ring out the muse, ring In the nurse,
Ring in the milk and water;
Away with paper, pens and ink—
My daughter, oh, my daughter!
The Slang of Our Day
The slang of onr day is a puzzle,
Invented by—ah, who can tell?
A drink is a " smile," or a " guzzler'
A swindle is merely a " sell,"
One tells you a tale you can't " swaller,"
He tells you, "by thunder" 'tis true ;
You bet him your last " bottom dollar,"
" By thunder," that's all you can do.
They aka you " How goes it I .'" on meeting,
" Take care of yourself" is adieu ;
They substitute " beating" for cheating,
And sometimes combine both the two.
If foolish, your " head isn't level,"
Or, maybe, your " head isn't clear ;"
Instead of saying, " Go to the devil,"
They tell you " walk off on your ear."
To praise you they say " You are bully
For honest they nickname you "square,"
Although please to understand fully,
There's not many that way " I swear"—
While robbing they call " going through you,
And " go for him," means an attack.
When &Jauntsl troubles come to you,
They say, " 0, he's on his back."
"Fusil oil" is the name for whiskey,
" Spondulix" cognomen for pelf,
" You'v been there," when charged as too
frisky ;
Well," You know how it is yourself"
And if a reproof you should offer,
They tell you that "game is quite played,"
Say, " walk oft, you big, dirty loafer,"
For large, " Mansard roof" will be made.
Then sometimes you're " cornered," Sr " eu
chered,"
That is, if you get in a " fix ;"
They call yOu "gsloot" if untutored,
In every galoot's knavish xicks,
There are " That's what's the matter with
Hapnah's,"
And " dead heats" on every side,
It the " skunks" Will not alter their' Manners,
I don't care a " cuss," " Let 'em
—Woodhull & Clatlin's Weekly.
vitito an i VCiliciomo,
—The most fashionable muffs, are said
to be made oat of monkey skin&
—Alice Cary bequeathed all her prop
erty to her sister Phobe.
—Queen Victoria's private fortune is
estimated at 816,000,000.
—The fashions are now coming from
Brussels and Vienna instead of Paris.
—A secret warranted to keep in any
climate—a woman's age.
—There is in Pittsburg "School of
Designs for Women:' "The dear crea
tures," says an incorrigible old bachelor,
"don't need one I"
—lt is said the reason why stofe clerks
stare so much at pretty women is because
their' business requires them to have an
eye to figures,
—Fun understands that a popular com
poser is about to eomposo a new song,
"The Fisherman's Chorus," with a cant-a
net accompaniment,
--The maw at the corner has lust seen
a letter of a life-pill proprietor, to one of
his best customers, w - hicli was ominously
signed," Yours till death?'
—Modesty asks "What is the best
method ofTopping the 9nestiour It is
a god. diedi chanspaigne—if it don't
pop Ilse% tame is something wrong
about it."
—A devoted Radical, who warded Grant
to be as much like the Father of bin 000 Z r,
try as possible, prayed that the " mantle
prm Washm&nu• might fall upon
him.
DT 1 1 2.61 , 1C19 L. ILEtELR
A New Arrival.
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESD4Y MAY 10, 1871.
Pioctlintuono.
TIME STAGE BABY,
BY CELIA LOGAN KELLOGG
The stage baby is thrust upon the stage
as soon as it can walk and understand
that it must not cry. In the morning,
instead of being sent to school like other
children, it is taken to the theater to re
hearse its "part." At night it is not al
lowed to sleep and build up a constitution
for after life, but the weary puppet must
go through its tricks before a crowd of
whom it is afraid. The stage baby is
forced to do without food for many con
secutive hours, to be up late, to face
storms, endure cold and fatigue, to tax its
memory, and to be beaten if it forgets.
The applause of a large audience, so
gratifying to men and women, is simply
terrifying to a child. The stage baby
leads the life of grown people, undergo
ing the hardships of the hardest profes
sion in the world, without any of the
compensation which older theatricals ex
perience, such as money, gifts, applause
and celebrity. The reward of a stage
child is abuse. Its education is begun in
fear, and perfected by blows. If a child
falls from a horse in the circus it is beaten.
If it fails to perform a feat properly be
fore an audience it is made to repeat un
til it does accomplish it, though at the peril
of its life. The training of stage babies
is most severe. Their limbs are tortured
into difficult and unnatural positions
when being taught dancing and acrobatic
exercises. There is no innate talent for
or love of acting in any stage baby; that
which seems like talent to the public is
simply the result of severe training, be
gun lung before the child understands
anything but that it must obey orders on
pain of punishment ; they are taught ex
actly as animals are taught, through fear j
of the whip. Girls, being more tractable
than boys, are preferred in theaters ; in
the circus, where physicial courage is re
quired more than docility, boys are usual
ly the infant prodigies.
There is never any playfulness, fresh
ness, nor gaiety of childhood in stage ,
babies. They are men and women of
smaller growth—as they say themselves,
"old before they are young."
The stage baby's theatrical life is one of
fear—of punishment in the morning, of 1
the audience at night, the lights, the
bustle, noise and confusion behind the
scenes.
When the "White Fawn" was in course
of rehearsal a few years ago in New York,
numbers of children were daily for six
weeks kept swinging five and six hours in
the air as angels. Ou one occasion a lit
tle girl fainted from want of food and
fatigue; she fell from the framework
which supported her and broke her arm.
llttring the sum. Kftvern
one—a boy aged eight had a part to play
at the then New lork Theater. He ap
peared only in the. earlier scenes, which
left him time to undress and dress for the
street, hurry to Niblo's, undress and dress
apin for the transformation scene, in
which his sister, aged six, also appeared.
The curtain never MI till midnight; after
which,.liand in hand, these two stage
babies waded through the snowy, deserted
streets to the extreme limits of the city,
arriving at home about two o'clock in the
morning, there to nod in chairs by the
side of a bed-ridden mother, a widow
whom they supported on their hard won
pittance, fifty cents, or at most a dollar a
night.
The play of "Pizarro" contains a sta"e
baby. The youngest child that can walk
asselected, because its mother says, "I am
sure he will speak soon." It is a very disa
greeable and trying part for a baby.
Every body, Cons, P izurro, Alonzo, and
the soldiers in turn pull, drag, and twist
it about. Rolla frequently sezies it by the
hair of the head nearly scalping it. lie
bawls in its ear, froths iu its face, and
slobbers over its little naked, shivering
bosom. He jerks it off its feet and by
one arm slings it over his shoulder, where
it must strike an attitude in air, held by
' one arm. It dares not cry when he fright
ens it by sprinkling false blood on its face,
nor when, still holding it by the arm, he
rushes at breakneck speed across a shack
ling bridge, with shouts confusing it and
shots flying fast and thick. The bridge
crossed, he tosses the baby down anywhere
behind the scenes, reeking not if he breaks
every bone in its tender body ; he thinks
only of staggering on the stage and dying
effectively. The blood, the danger, flight.
pursuit, and shouts, are all real to the
stage baby ; and mental distress is thus
added to physical pain.
When children are not available dwarfs
play their parts. A very heavy, thickset,
but remarkably small dwarf was once
obtained to act the child in "Pizarro,"—
usually called "Rolla's child"—though
Pizarro is the father and Cora the mother.
That's the proper parentage. The audi
ence noticed nothing strange about the
dwarf except that he was a trifle heavy for
a obildwho was expected to "speak soon."
He spoke sooner than his theatrical moth
er antidpatedy for when Rolla seized him '
and flung him with some difficulty in air,
he grasped the actor by the hair, ensitap
ped him in the manner known as "pick
aback;" and in tv deep: gruff voice tattered
an oath that curdled the blood of the
ladies present, and roared out, "If you let
me fall kick you I"
More recently a dwarf was engaged to
play a child's part in a drama of Enoch
Arden. In the coarse of the play an
actor inquired how old he was. He
should have replied "four years." Instead
of which he gave his own age—"Torty
fonr."
The actor was demtformded foi' a Mo
ment, but recovering himself he patted
the dwarf on the baelt, and gazing intent- -
ly into the old, weazened face, he said:
'You look it, me boy, you look it."
A little girl was sent on the stage' to
play Fleance in Macbeth. Forrest 398.8
the star. lie had placed on a small table
'at the "wing" or side scene a cup of
something to wet his throat with where
he came otE The child stole up, and
finding the beverage palatable, drank it
all.• She bad just time to squeeze between
two flute,- when he came tearing up for
his &Ovand o - seeing the cup empty, be ,
gan to stamp' and rage as Only Forrest
could. lie need to earn Strong Mtn au.
women in his passions.' How terrible he
appeared to this pilfering stage baby!
She, thought he was the veritable giant,
smelling the blood of a little girl, and
that her grinded bones would make his
bread. Further and further she shrank
back out of sight, but not of hearing.
The prompter blew his whistle. The
scene, in being shoved forward, took her
with it, and rolled her on the stage. The
shout which followed frightened her still
more, and she took to her heels, rushed
out of the theater, fled through the dark
streets in her boy's Highland costume,
reached her home, and Ind herself in the
kitchen cupboard, where she was found
hours after nearly mad with terror and
half suffocated. The child's nervous
system was shocked by the fright, and
ever since that time she declares she has
been "in a hurry all over”—or nervous.
A certain actress with a child in arms
used to take it to the theater with her
every night and make it a bed, on two
chairs, of the actresses' "walking dresses.
Mrs. Merrywood was prevailed on by a
gentleman to give him a glimpse behind
the scenes, he supposing it was a species
of fairy land. Grant was Captain Brown's
astonishment and bewilderment as he
stumbled up against piles ci scenes in the
dark dismal labyrinth. "Flats" (scenes)
were suddenly pushed against him, pin.
ning him to the wall; sceneshifters swore
at him for getting in the way ; "styes,"
representing the invading army, ran him
down and nearly trampled him under
foot; actors brushed scowling by him;
the prompter shouted at hen not to block
up the wings, or entrances; the call-boy
bawled in his ear, and the property-man
thrust a lighted torch in his face. Fear
ing his awkwardness would bring a repri
mand on her for introducing a stranger
behind the scenes during a performance,
Mrs. Merrywood sat him in a chair in a
safe place, and enjoined upon him not to
move from it until she came back; she
being called to appear on the stage.
Iu this particular theater the dressing
rooms
were up several flights of stairs,
so the actresses had had some scenes stood
up, like screens, behind which they dress
ed. Those who know how rickety every-1
thing is in theaters, touch nut, taste not,
handle not.
Captain Brown was utterly ignorant of
theatrical mysteries and insecurities, and
for a while sat quietly where Mrs. Merry
wood had placed him, outside the tempor
ary dressing-room; then he tilted his
chair back against a "painted ocean,"
immediately behind which reposed the
sleepy baby. At the same moment, from
afar the "heavy Niihau" hearing his "cue"
given to appear, came tearing alonr , with
his false whiskers in his hand. The' stage
was waiting for him! Stage wait! stage
wait! the words ran around. Wondering
what that meant, Brown tilted his chair
further_back to zive the actor room to
pass. Jole overbalirecew lemma; me umin
gave way; it was touch-and-go with every
thing—scenes, chairs, man, stage baby
and all. Brown fell flat on his back and
lay waving his feet in air and crying for
help, for the baby had been thrown three
feet off and buried under a hill of canvas ;
and Brown on top cf all. The child's
screams struck terror to the heart of its
mother on the stage, plighting her virgin
troth to the youth at tier side, who felt for
her, being a family aim himself. With
an answering shriek the darted behind
the scenes, followed by actors, supes,
scene-shifters,and sour of the spectators,
who scrambled over the foot-lights shout
ing "tire! fire!" A terrible uproar suc
ceeded. The manager went on the stage
and tried to quiet the alarmed audience.
In vain—there was a general stampede,
though no lives were lest; not even the
infant. It was uninjured, and so was the
captain, who says he don't like to think
how Dear he once come to killing a stage
baby.
- ---.11.- 4111.
Ancient Time Time Pieces
Bowls were used to measure time, from
which water, drop by drop, was discharg
ed through a small aperture. Such bowls
were called water-clocks, (clepsydras.)
It was then observed how much water
from such a bowl or cask, from sunrise
till the shortest shadow, trickled down
into another bowl placed beneath; and
this time being the half of the whole sol
iar day, was divided into six hours. Con
sequently they took a sixth of the water
which had trickled down, poured it into
the upper bowl, and, this discharged, one
hour had expired. But afterward a more
convenient arrangement was made. They
observed how high the water at each hour
rose in the lower bowl, marked these
points, and counted them, thus finding
I out how many hours there were till sun-
I rise. With the Chinese, the water-clocks,
or clepsydras, are very old. • They used a
round vessel, tilled with water, with a lit
tle hole in the bottom, which was placed
upon another vessel. When the water
in the upper vessel pressed down into the
lower vessel, it subsided by degrees, an
nouncing thereby the parts of time elaps
ed. The Babylonians are said to have
used such instruments; from them the
Greeks of Asia Miner got them, at the
time of King Cyrus, about the year 550
before Christ. But the Romans did not
get the first water-clock before the year
160 before Christ: But; though the hours
of the clepsydra did not vary in length,
they still counted them from the morn
ing. When the clock with ps strikes
seven, the ancients counted one; when
the clock with us strikes twelve, the anci
ents counted six, and so forth. This
method of counting the hour was, accord
ing to the New Testament, also custom.
ary hi Palestine at the time of Christ.
The water-eloeke led that advantage,
that they could be used in the night; and
the Romans used them to divide their
night-watches, which were relieved four
times, both summer and winter. Cow
forrmably to these four night-watches,
time was counted, not only in Rome, but
where-ever Roman garrisons were station
ed; consequently, also in Palestine, after
she had become a Roman province. The
first. night-watch was called "vespers,"
(evening,) from sunset to - 9 o'clock the
second, "media nor," (midnight,) from 9'
o'clock to 2 o'clock; the third, "gallicini
um," (cock -crowing, from 3 to 3 o'clock;
and the fourth, "mane," (morning, ) from
4 o'clock to daybreak.-00 and . ay.
The Story of an Amateur Ball•Figth-
A distinguished Mexican gentleman
told us one day of his experience at bull
fighting in one of the larger cities of the
Republic. It is the custom in bull-fight
ing conn tries, for the young bloods of the
first families who wish to distinguish
themssives, to appear in the Plaza de To
ros as amateurs on important occasions,
and fight the bull. •
On such occasions the amateur is us
ually allowed a companion, who is posted
in the ways of the ring, and is called a
"padrino." The padrino directs the am
ateur how to carry on the fight, and, in
fact. acts as his chaperon and next friend
throughout. Out acquaintance was
crowded into the fight against his will;
but I will let him tell it himself as he told
it to us.
"I said, 'No, no, the bull has done me
no insult; ' You are a brave youne man,
and want to make your way in the World,
and be popular with the ladies ; it is bet
ter that you begin now that you have so
good time, and fight the bull. So 1 let
them put my name on the bills. Well. I
liked this matter not very much at all,
but I could not get tint of It, and so they
kept me in. When the day comes, I went
in with my padrino, and said to myself
when I see the bull, will keep over on
the other side and let the others do the
fighting.' But afters time the audience be
gan to get excited, and to encourage me
on, they commenced to throw oranges
and sncli trifles at me pretty lively. Then
my padrino comes up to me, and he says:
" Look you; this will not do very well
at all! If you do not fight the bull there
will be a row, and it is better that you do
not disgrace yourself!"
"So I told him, I will fight the ball
sooner as to dodge my head all the times
from the oranges an bananas which the
audience throws at me. He looked at my
saddle and said :
" The clinch is loose, and it is better
that you get off and let me tighten it be
fore yon go into the fight."
"So I got off and stood by the aide of
my horse looking at him to clinch him
tighter. This time I was stooping over,
and saw not the bull, which I was think
ing was on the other side of the ring. As
I so tood I teel myself lifted up into the
air, and when I came down, the bull was
on my top, tramping me, and using his
horns on me, so that when they got him
away I could not stand, and was confined
to my bed for six weeks.
"'then they told me, when I was well
again, that the judges ad awarded me the
highest prize, because I had expose my
self so bravely to the bull, and not try to
get out of the way when he come for
me.
"I said, 'that is all very well ; I wazal
ways a brave man and care not much for
th V" Wain e T itirget t l i fe v t bull out alive,
and decided that when you recover, and
the bull should recover, you should fight
it over once more again together. Yon
are well, and the bull is very well indeed.'
said, no, I have no desire to hurt the
bull. He has receive much aggravation,
and I forgive him fur what he did do to
me r
They said that such language would
not do for the judges, and if I did not like
to fight the bull again I was disgraced for
life, and it was better I should leave the
city that evening. Now, there was aYoung
lady there which I thought of very much
and I concluded it was better to fight the
bull than to loose the lady.
"When we went into the ring again, I
see the bull looking very mad and ugly,
and I concluded I Would go over on the
other side and wait a little while proba
bly he might get better-natured or afraid
to come at me. But pretty soon, the
people they commenced to encourage me
with fruit and such things as I don't eat,
and cry out to me to go in and fight the
bull at once, or come out of the ring. So
I told my padrino I would fight him a
little but do not feel very well.
He said: 'lt is better you should throw
the bondarillas into the bull's neck. I will
attract the attention of the bull, and when
you are ready to throw, you call out, and
1 will jump aside.'
said, t would do so, and my padrino
went up to the bull, and begun to dance
around before his nose. Then I ran up to
throw the bandarillas, but I was so exci
ted that I have forgotten to call out to
him to get out of the way, and, when I
let them go they strike him in the back
instead of the bull. Then my padrino he
bellow louder as ever the bull should do,
and began to dunce like a tarantula and
catch at the bandarillas. At last be got
hold of them and tore the barbs out of
his flesh. Then he runs over to me, and
pulls me down, and begin to beat me over
the head and the back trith the at side
of his sword and his foot, and he says:
" Look here you, now! It is better be
fore we go any further, that ono thing
shall be understood immediate. Are you
the padrino of me, or the padrino of the
bull?'
He was so veil angry that I could not
say an explanation, and so I told him I
would go home, for I like not the sport,
and it might make us bad friends or
something if we kept on. Some of the
oranges and applessed things which they
throwed at me as f went out were Very
solid, and I left the town that night.
Since Wen I' have hml no quarrel with
the bulls, and I lace not to have Amy more.
—From "Our Sister Republic," published
by the Columbian Book Company,
--Seasonable advice front John Ci; Saxe :
"In going to parties just mind what you're
at, beware of your head and take care of
your hat,• lest yen find that a favorite son
of your mother has an tithe h the one
and a brick in the other.
—h. learned adored America* legisla
tor in the Louisiana Bone of Bepresen
tires, on being reprimanded for a "breach
of decorum" for snying of (mother mem
ber "dat des niggah is a dam liar, and 111
frow a boot down his frimt if he opens
dat bay of gattlallit again," indignantly
replied, "du is no britches off de KOrIIIII:
It am ertilf yittin, ready to do business."
Send hint to Congress. He's wanted
"up higher."
M - Subsoribe for the Draocun.
Travelling instinct, in Afiimidt;
The French "pigeon post" has recalled
attention to a subject that has long had a
deep interest for naturalists—the power or
instinct animals exhibit of finding their
way back to a spot from whence they may
hare been taken, by a road never before
traversed by them.
Pigeons carrying messages or rettfrrring
long distances to their "cutesy" most cer
tainly find their way back by rTieans of
sight. This is evidenced by the fact of the
long training required, and their inability
or disinclination to fiy during a fog. But
this means of finding out a distant local
ity cannot apply in the cases we are about
to record.
At Vandotiver's Island agentleman had
a house on one side of Esquimalt Harbor
wherein he and his family resided. They
had a favorite cat which was 'always made
a great pet It so happened that the own
er of the house had occasion tochange his
residence to the other side of the harbor.
The distance in .a straight line was quite a
mile, while to reach the house by making
a circuit of the harbor a distance of quite
four miles must be travelled, and that
through a dense forest of pines thickly
uudergrown with brushwood, When the
family removed from one house to the
other, pussy was fastened sccurley into a
basket and taken in a boat across the har
bor, and was not let out of her prison un
til she was secured in a room at her new
residence.
It is quite clear in this ease the cat could
not have seen anything of the route fol
, lowed by water from house to house.
Strange as it may seem, she made her es-
I cape during the night, and when on the
day following her removal some of the
family returned for articles left behind,
there was pussy, somewhat dirty and tir
ed, but in perfect safety. Now she could
only have retched the old residence in
two ways—either by swimming the har
bor, which is by no means probably, or
she found her way through the forest,
where she had never been before, and
through thick underbrush, without any
trail or path to guide her; and what
makes the matter far more \vonderfal is
the fact that the cat must have passed
close to an Indian villiage round which a
large number of half-wild dogs were al
-1 ways prowling.
There is another story of somewhat
similar character told of a cat, which, I
believe, well-authenticated. "When . liv
ing." says the writer, "at Four Paths,
Clarendon, Jamaica, I wanted a eat, and
had one given to me, which was nearly
full-grown; it was brought from Mogan
Valley Estate, where it was bred, and had
never been removed from that place be
fore ? The distance was five miles. It was
put into a canvas bag and carried by a
man on horseback. Between the two pla
ces there was two rivers, one of them eigh
ts feet broad aud two and .a half deep
running strong; the °trier is wilder, arid
more rapid, but less deep. Over these
rivers are no bridges. The cat was shut
up at Four Paths for some days, and when
considered to be reconciled to her new
dwelling she was allowed to go about the
house. The day after obtaining her lib
erty she was missing, and upon my next ,
visiting the estate she was brongt from, I
was quite amazed to learn that the cat
had come back again. Bid she swim
over the rivers at the fords, where the
horse came through with her, or did she
ascend the banks for a considerable dis
tance in search of a more shallow place,
and where the stream was less powerful ?
At all events, she must have crossed the
rivers, in oppbsition to her natural hab
its."
I myself once bad a farotite spaniel,
called Sport. fie wag lent to a friend,
who came to fetch him. Sport was placed
in a dog-cart, and driven to my friend's
residence, a distance of over twenty miles.
The cart was so made that air could freely
get in for the dog to breathe, but by no
possibility could any part of the road be
seen dtrring the journey. Oir his arrival
Sport was tied up' with a ropb finder the
manger in the stable. During the night
the dog gnawed his rope, Made his escape
through a btokerr window; and he was
discovered early in the morning succeed
ing.his departure sitting teary; hungry
and bedraggled outside the doot of my
own residence. Now the question which
naturally presents itself is, how did the
dog find his way back along a toad, not
one foot of which he had ever seen before?
The remembrance of particular objects
noted by the way could not have guided
the dog, simply because he had no impor
tunity afforded him of seeing them.
I once, while living in the Far West,
rode a horse from my camp across a pra
irie to an encampment of squatters ; a dis
tance of more than twenty miles. A riv
er of some width was crossed on the route,
the horse being ferried over in a large
boat. The animal- had neref travelled the
road previously, nor had it ever run upon
the prairie; and yet during the night it
contrived to break its tether line, and in
the dark to find its way back to our camp;
and what is more strange, the horse ac
tually swam the stream it had, thlring the
day, been ferried over in a boat. By what
means, it may be asked, did the horse con
trive to find its a'ay over a grassy waste,
never trodden by it previously, to a given
point so far distant ? There was nu path
or taiat and in' the dark the horse' could
not, except by smelling / have retraced its
own footprints.
Many similar anecdotes are On record,
to which the following authenticated case
may be added: A horse was turned out
in some marshes adjoining the Thames.
The distance in' a straight line from' his
owner's house was only a few miles, but
he had to be sent a long way arband to
orbs!. the bridge. In less than twenty
four hours he made his appearance at the
stable door dripping wet, having swam the
river and taking a straight line home.
During the life of the celebrated sports
man theists Sir' Richard Sutton, a draft. ,
of youm hounds was sent op to London, 1
by wagon, from the kennel near Lincoln,
and there pot on board a vessel to go
abroad. While the ship was dropping
down the Thames one of theta *aped
overboard andewani ashore. Some weeks
after it made its appearande at the kennel
half denied, and covered with Ws be.
stowed upon it by its 'more fortunate fel,
!owe: I regret to have to add that it was
VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER; 'l9.
killed ittimedintely; ao mak* I , ll.ltribis
hounds baring recently been destrOfed in
that pack by madness, that the huntsman
was afraid to take it in.
Scone pecks since a dog fox was rats- to
ground on Efatfield Eleatis, near Ashford,
Kent. When dug oat he wets found td
have some remarkable white spots about
kirk thertfore the Earl of Thaver bad
him sent to his .seat in Westinoteland—
Appkty Castle—a distance of 3Off
and turned down. A fortnight after
wards the same fox was killed near Hata
field—his native place.
" Not very long ago," sap; orte writers
" I saw a cow bought at a feral titration:
About six o'clock m the evening she was
sent off home by the purchaser, and was
placed in the yard, a distance of fifteen
miles from her former borne: At ail
o'clock the next morning she was found
back in her old shed, quietly chewing the
end, and waiting to be nfilked as nimal.,
" I once purchased a brood of duckt.T
Hugs, abouta mouth old, without the bin
that hatched them. I took thettt homer
and placed them, as I thought safely, ii
a pig-pound. In the morning I found
they were all gone,
and I discovered them
snugly huddled together at their old
quarters ; at the (Abet end of the village
in the nest in which they were hatched:
A laborer told me ho had met them in
the street ; homeward gonad, at four
o'clock a. m., as he was going
. to work;
They had not been off the premises where
they were bred before."
There seems no doubt that Providence
has bestowed on animals en instinct Which
we do not posses, and can thereforis. with
difficulty cortferehend or explain. By
this instinct birds of pasange find that
way to the remotest regions, and fetintt
to their old haunts, guided by seine' pew
er beyond that sight or other outward
senses.
It was predicted that the bailee . of the
present war between France and Frani*
would from the deadly charneler of the
new weapons, he the most destruCtive
known in history. Bat such has as yet
been far from the case: There has net
been a battle in the last three. centuries
that at all compares in slaughter with
many of the engage, Meats of the ancient&
Some one; posted to history, publishes the
following statistics of a few of the noted
battles ; in some of them the losses ort one
side alone are given i
Date: Battle or Seige: Losses,
479 n. c Metres 400,000
333 B. C. ISMS • 120,000
70 A. D. Jer8U8L118M....1,000,000
1314 Bannockburn ....40,4A)
1529 .Vienna .71:4000
1704 • Blenheim • 50,000
It is estimated that nearly sever; haiku
dred millions of men have perished et the
battle fields of the world.
A Left-Handed Introdniftoni
We would a little rather, had we been
in the Teeturer's boots, that the miracle
of Sampson had not at that moment bees
remembered:
One of the partieularlyplesisant stories
by Mr. Gough of his experience in Eng.-
land; is that of his once being “nearly
floored with an PI," thodgb it vas not 20
much the misplaced H that hit him, as
that which accompanied it. tie WitS
about to address a large audienCe on his
favorite theme of Temperance,. and the
chairman, a rotand under";
took to inttodnce him. Happening td
recollect the miracle of Sampson getting
water from the janbotte With Winelt
had slain the Philistines, and thinking to
turn it to account, he said; "Ladies and
gentleman, I have the boner to introdnce
to you the distinguished lectdrer,
Johns B. Gough, who will address us on
the subject of Temperance. Yon know
that Temperance is thought to be rather
a dry subject; bet to-night, al! We &tett
to our friend, the horator from hover the
hocean, we may 'ope to 'are the miracle of
Samson repeated, and to be refreshed with
water from the jawbone of a hum!'
A gentleman who favors ns with, some
reminiscences respecting the early set ,
tlement of old Detlyfield, N. E,—relates
the following anecdote!
When my grandfather resided sittioffs
town and Derryfield, then settled by the
lte hire?, a wild gni of an' hist/Mart
to work on his farm. One day soon after
his arrival, he told him to take e bridal
and go out in the field and catch the,
black colt. "Don't eon* withont
said the old gentleman. Vatriek started
and was gone some time, but at last re.;
turned without a bridle, with his &beetle
hands badly scratched, as thOngh ho had
received bad treatment.
" Why, Patristic; what it .the matter?
what in the world ails Sod ?"
"An' faith, isn't it me, your honor that
never will catch the old black colt erguitil
Bad luck to himl Au' didn't he all but
scratch the eyes out of my heat Ark,
faith as true as my shoulder's my own:1
had to climb up the tree after titre' Colt?'
"Climb a tree after' himl Nonsense
Where
i s the beast?"
" An it's tied to the' tree he is to be-
shnre, yet' fanor."
We all followed Plat** ter the spot to'
get a solution' of the eiffleulty, and on
reaching the field ate found, to' on an
small amusement, that he had been the&
ing a young black bear' which be bad
succeed in catching after w great deal of
rough usage on both sides, and• actually
tied it with a bridle to en old tree:
Bruin was kept for Owl sta
ever after known as Patrick's dolt:
—"Changing the bteatli," . is the !stoat'
if not tare "ladled, name fot imbibing
whiskey:
—Eon. 3mm X Mason, Wen
tea Senator from Virginia; ami more
recently minister to En Toad; Intdor. the
so-called, Csniederato Ikied
at lviaraddanse,slear diexandrik Waco
Friday nigllt,
Destructive Battle*
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