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HENRY A. TARSONS, Jn., Editor akd Publisher
ELK COUNTY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Two Dollars fir Annum.
, 20, 1871.
VOL. I.
UIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY
NO. 20.
TI1K HWALI.OW.
Ilic following beautiful translation of n lit
tle Italian poem, by Tommaso Orossl, entitled
" The Swallow," lins been prepared for tlio
Williams Review by William Cullen Bryant,
of tlio class of 1813. Grosel was born at Be
lano, in tho provlnco of Como, In 1791. no
Is best known, perhaps, to English and Ameri
can readers, by bis " Marco Viscontl," an his
torical romanco, which has been translated in
to English. As a writer' he is said to be "full
of grace and elegance, but theeo qualities do
not cxcludo force, ''passion, and elevation."
Hu died at Milan in 1853.
Swallow from beyond tlio sea !
That, with every dawning day,
Silting on the balcony
Uttcrest that plaintive lay,
What is that thou tellcst nie,
Swallow from beyond the sea ?
Haply thou, for him who went
From theo and forgot Ills mate
Dost lament to mv lament.
Widowed, lonely, desolute.
Even then, lament with mo,
Swallow from beyond the sea :
Happier yet art thou than I,
Thee thy trusty wings may bear,
Over lake and ellll to llv,
Filling with thv crics'thcnlr,
Calling him continually,
Swallow from beyond the sea !
Could I too I but 1 must pine,
In this dungeon close and low,
Where tho suu can never shine,
Where tho breeze can never blow,
Whenco my voice scarce reaches thee,
Swallow from beyond tho sea I
Now September days are near,
Thou to distant lauds will fly,
In another hemisphere,
Other streams shall hear thy cry
Other bills shall answer thee,
Swallow from beyond the sea!
Then shall I when daylight glows,
Waking to tho sense of pain,
Midst the wintry frosts and snows,
Think I hear thy notes again
Notes that seem to grieve for me,
Swullow from beyond tho sea!
Planted here npon the ground,
Thou shalt llud a cross in spring ;
There, ns evening gathers round,
Swallow, come and rest thy wiug.
Chant a strain of peace to me,
Swallow from beyond tho seal
rirs DIAMOND.
From Chambers's Journal.
Tho pleasure to bo derived from for
tign travel depends mainly upon con
trast; and, toenjoy contrast thoroughly,
reader, eschew, if you can, tho railway
or coach ; eschew the largo town and its
hotels, each one with its extortionate
landlord and parrot-like hanger-on, who,
calling himself a guide, remorselessly
pesters you going out and coming iu j
e schew ease and luxurious living gener
ally ; awake, and be in tho saddle when
tho sun rises ; follow the rough track
through the wood and over the moun
tain j be wet to tho skin in fording tbe
river, and dried again on tho sultry plain.
Let your food bo simple, your chamber
light the stars, and then, when a small
town or village is gained, be able to ap
preciate a respite from toil and fatigue
us much as I did on reaching tho flour
ishing settlement (for did it not boast an
inn, a store, and three hundred inhabi
tants at least i') of (Jan Isidro, in tho
wilds of Brazil.
About four days' ride from San Isidro
Ihere was a diamond river, and dia
monds so said tho natives were to be
found by any ono who chose to establish
himself on its banks, and to explore tbe
deep holes, worked by tho rush of tho
current over rocks, with an iron scoop
and a long handle.
The programmo appeared to me so
simple, the necessary stock-in-trade so
inexpensive, and the prospect of fishing
up diamonds with an iron scoop and a
long handle so delightful, that I yielded
to the siren's song, and determined to
become an angler for procious stones.
Mules I had, so I packed the provis
ions I thought necessary on their backs,
bought scoops of all sines, (there were
some exceedingly tall trees near the river,
I was informed, from which .to cut the
handles), hired a couplo of enterprising
natives as guides and helpers, and set
out one Hue morning from San Isidro,
amid the wonder and delight of its pop
ulation, some of whom were so carried
away by excitement, that they actually
turned out of their hammocks to look at
me, and forgot to puff at their beloved
cigarettes for at least ten minutes.
It did not surprise me to find that, of
thote who impressed upon me most con
fidently the diamond theory, no single
ono had ever reduced it to practice.
When I asked the reason, I got but one
answer, " God forbid, senor." As this
was tho invariable reply to any proposi
tion involving trouble on their part, I
put it down to the inherent laziness of
tbe Brazilian provincial character.
Well, the expedition did not come on
successfully. I established myself on
the river bank, where the scenery was
certainly glorious, end the shooting as
good as one could desire, but, suffering
as I was from a temporary though se
vere attack of diamond fever, neither
sport nor scenery could tempt me away.
Jf my reward had depended upon hard
work, glittering stones tho size of a cricket-ball
would deservedly have been my
portion. I fished up mud and weed in
mfticieut quantities to have gained me
an undying reputation on tho Suez Ca
nal j but tho sweat of my brow, although
I am convinced there was enough of it
to increase perceptibly the height and
temperature of the stream, produced not
the wished for result.
A small party of friendly Indians
were camped in the neighborhood, and
their chief, who, remarkably enough.had
picked up a few words of English, would
fit solemnly upon a rock in the shade,
n ud watch me for hours, whether with
compassion, amusement, contempt, or all
three, I could not for the life of me de
cide. IIo was a short, squat individual,
and his copper-colored, grinning face
had a Hibernian expression of joviality
ubout it which rather invited confidence,
no we occasionally tried to get up a con
versation on the strength of Lis few
words of English, eked out with a ballet
of action.
Arm,'! he would say, ''you makcy
wantey shine-stones ; bem ! you give
Tad dollars Pad 'im bem j good."
Who or what " Pad" might be, was a
sealed mystery to me, but wo always
came round to him or it, and his or its
goodness. The chief . undoubtedly did
not refer to himsolf, for I had many
times offered him dollars in exchange
for " shine-stones," as he termed them,
and always fruitlessly. At last I came
to the conclusion that Pad must be a
mythological being, worshipped by the
tribo, and of this 1 was the more con
vinced that on ona occasion, when I had
by Bigns indicated a strong desire to
know more about him or it, the chief
stalked gravely off to tho river, and re
turned shortly after with his hands filled
with sand of a peculiar rusty-red color,
and, placing it upon his head, repeated,
" Pad," " Pad," with great earnestness.
This 1 took to be the religious formulary
ot his tribe. Dollars, he could not have
failed to notice, were the objects most
dear to the white man's heart ; hence
his desire that I should propitiate his di
vinity by laying what ho believed me
above all things to cherish, before the
shrine.
Soon, however, tho Indiaus moved far
ther away from us, and, having other
things to think about, Pad the mysteri
ous, ceased for a tiiue to perplex my
mind. Tho Palace of Diamonds, a gor
geous transformation scene my fancy
bad pictured, was gradually fading
away, to give placo to tho dismal and
shabby accessories of the farce from roal
life, " Sold again."
Tho sight of the Scoops, and even ef
the long handles in which I had taken
such a proper pride, began to inspire me
with an unmitigated disgust, when.turn
ing out one morning for a last effort, the
pleasing fact forced itself upon me, that
my guides had disappeared, taking, with
their own worthless carcasses, my two
best mules, the greater part of the pro
visions, and all the grog, except what
remained in my pocket-nask. Luckily,
some grains of comfort were left in, the
facts that I otill had the two worst and
weakest mules, and that I knew tho way
back to San Isidro. Time is an object,
when one is rationed for a limited num
ber of days, so I set off on tho return
journey at once, leaving the scoops as a
warning to tho next comer how falla
cious are tho hopes of youth, and carry
ing back with me no diamonds indeed,
but plenty of what was not without a
considerable value experience.
Tho details of that wretched ride need
not be entered into ; it is enough to say
that my mules wero elow, tho track bad,
that my brandy and temper were soon
exhausted, that I lived mainly upon
what my gun could provide often too
tired at the end qf the day to cock it
and the reader will appreciate the joy
with which, on the fifth evening, I mark
ed tho whitewashed ranchos of San Isi
dro in the distance, and will understand
that its dirty little inn, tough beef and
coarse spirits were grateful to me as the
savory meat his soul loved to tho patri
arch, or tho first delicious draught of
champagne to the successful speculator
athirst with tho excitement of Epsom's
great race.
After I had made myself comfortable,
and dined, to speak comparatively, in a
sumptuous manner, I lit my pipe (long
arrears of tobacco had to be pulled up),
and with a contented mind, strolled
down the one straggling street of which
San Isidro is composed, to the store kept
by a Spanish Jew at tbs farther end.
Don Fernando, th( storekeeper, was
the most influential, man, and the big
gest rascal in the pluce, and to earn the
latter distinction, he must have attained
to a very advanced pitch ot rascality,
lie understood and could speak English
tolerably well, when it suited his conve
nience, und, as his conversation was al
ways original and amusing, I had learned
to look upon him as tho redeeming fea
ture, in point of interest, in the town.
Virtually the governor of San Isidro, ho
bullied and swindled the natives openly;
they bowed, but dared not grumble be
neath his yoke. To the local magistrate
he lent money ; with Englishmen he as
sumed a deprecatory and servile tone,
praised their own and abused every oth
er country.
The finest horses and mules were al
ways taken to Don Fernando first. Did
a dispute arise, he was the arbitrator.
If a suitor wished to gain the ear of the
court, ho poured his tale of wrong into
the sympathetic ear ot the storekeeper,
putting, at the same time, a chinking
something into his still more sympathe
tic hand.
As I drew near this worthy's abode,
it was evident that some event of unu
sual interest had aroused the San Isidri
aiis from their accustomed state of
dream-like stupidity. A fair proportion
of them stood outside the store, and
looked in as upon a gratuitous perform
ance, which afforded them intense and
lively amusement. From the inside
came a succession of jerky, screeching
utterances, in no' language known to
me ; and mingled with them, I heard at
intervals a basso-profundo blasphemy
from Don Fernando; tho whole to a
babbling accompaniment of incoherent
bystanders. At hrBt 1 thought the in
comprehensible noise proceeded from
some animal of the monkey Bpecies, and
then from a madman. I was so far right,
that the 6Creecher seemed to possess some
of the chat acteristics of both. He was a
little Irishman, with fiery red hair, and
that ape-like type of face occasionally to
be met with in Tipperary ; and ho was
temporarily insane from extreme and
fruitless rage, which, indeed, did not
surprise me, seeing that his arms wero
bound tightly behind him, and that he
was in charge or two aomiers, who, not
understanding one word he said, seemed
to regard him as a curious and diverting
study.
After a time, ho became a little cohe
rent, and I asked him what he had done
to get into that fix. At the sound ot a
Saxon voice, he broke out afresh. 1
could make out that he accused the
storekeeper of being a rogue, which I
thought too obvious a proposition to
cause so much excitement ; that he, Pat
Molloy, had been cheated also a very
probable circumstance. Here be ex
pressed a pleasant desire to "rip the
soul out of ycz," and this induce! ids
captors, who were getting tired of it, to
drag him to tho guard-houso. Ho im
plored me, as ho went, to pay him a vis
it there, and hear his story.
Don Fernando explained tho matter
in a few simple words. "He is dam
Irish, mister. You English gentlemen
know them. No V Thoy have no relig
ion, you see. Ah 1 well, ho como here ;
want drink, which I not give him. He
say I cheat him about diamond. I have
not seen him never before. He make
noiso ; I go for to shoot when soldier
como and take him away. Bah ! it is
not acting. Have glass brandy, No 'f
Whatl you going away 'i"
Now, if I ever saw a man in earnest,
the Irishman was that man. If his rage
had been feigned, I could never be cer
tain that any one but myself was genu
inely angry in future. I noticed, also,
that the Jew, although he made light of
the matter, was extremely nervous, as
the tremor of the claw-like hand, with
which he kept stroking his beard, testi
fied. Looking into his treacherous eyes,
of indescribable brown and green tints,
and perceiving an anxiety on his part
to prevent my inquiring further into
the affair, I camo to the conclusion that
I ought, at least, to hear the Irishman's
explanation of tho cause of his unmusic
al lament and to protect him, if possible,
from suffering wrong at the hands of the
storekeeper, or of his tool and debtor,
the magistrate.
Accordingly I took a glass of brandy,
and, saying "Good-night," went straight
to the guard-house, where a ludicrous
bribe to the sentry got mo an immediate
interview with the prisoner. He was
lying on the earth in a wretched mud
room, his arms still tied; but ho was
calm enough by this time to toll me his
talo, every word of which I became firm
ly persuaded was true.
He said that he had left San Isidro
some months previously, with a party of
exploiers, who were in Bcareh of a suita
ble place for the settlement of several
families arriving from Ireland. Whilst
a long distance up the country he had
the misfortune to fall ill of a fever,
which made him unable to travel. His
companions waited two days for him,
but finding that ho grew worso instead
of better, they proposed, and ho agreed
to it, to leavo him with a party of Indi
ans, who happened to be camped in the
neighborhood, and with whom they had
become very friendly, ne remained
with the Indians some weeks, regained
his strength, and struck up an intimacy
with the chief, whom he managed to
teach a little English, receiving in re
turn a few lessons iu tho patois of the
tribe.
One day the chinas son, a lad of seven,
playing about in a canoe, accidentally,
or otherwise, let slip tho moorings. Tho
stream was carrying tho child away,
and, getting frightened, he made a
clutch at the bank as he glided past,
missed his aim, fell into the water, and
was being swept out into mid-stream.
Tho Irishman, who was not far off, swam
out to and saved tho boy, thereby earn
ing the father's eternal gratitude. When
he left the Indians, the chief was greatly
distressed, and pulling out a beautiful
shining stone, about the size of 'a filbert
(so Pat described it), told him that it
would bd worth a great deal in the
white man's country, and begged him
to accept it, which he more to please
his host, who had a strong belief in the
stone's mysterious power to avert evil
from its possessor, than because he
thought it of any value did.
Pat found his way again, after many
vicissitudes, to San Isidro ; and craving,
as he said, most of all for a " drop to
dhrink," it occurred to him that the
chief's gift might be the means of ob
taining that drop. The Jew's store was
the likeliest place for a barter, and there
he went, and found Don Fernando
alone. The latter took the stone, exam
ined it, and pronounced it of no value
whatever except to amuse children with.
The Irishman was going disconsolately
out, when the Jew again took it from
him, and carelessly tossing it into a
drawer, and pouring him out a glass of
liquor, told him to drink that and be
off.
He complied with both these direc
tions. Whilst wandering aimlessly about
the village, he encountered, to his great
delight, a countryman, one of tho same
party in whose company he had quitted
San Isidro before. His acquaintance
was in high feather, for he had managed
to pick up or steal a small diamond, and
was on his way to a coast town, for the
treble purpose of waiting for his emi
grant friends, selling his luck, and
drinking off the proceeds with all possi
ble speed. Pat never having seen a
" rale dimon," as he said before, begged
for a look. On his friend's producing it,
however, he discovered that he had not
only seen, but actually possessed, one of
great value and that but a few hours
previously; for he instantly perceived
that his "shining stone" was of the very
same kind as the diamond he now saw,
with the advantage of being infinitely
larger, and therefore worth incalculably
more.
With profound Milesian cunning, Pat
resolved to keep his discovery from the
other, who, impatient for his drinking
bout, passed on from San Isidro that
Bamo day.
Of course, on presenting himself again
to Don Fernando, that astute individual
bade him begone for a drunken villain.
Equally, of course, he lost his temper,
and thus playing into the storekeeper's
hands, was lodged by the soldiers, who
could not understand one word he said,
in his present position. More than all,
of course, the diamond, if diamond it
was, was finally lost to him.
"What was the Indian chief like,
Pat?" I asked.
" Why, yer honor, ho was as loiko a
Tipperary boy, barrin' tho color, as one
pig's loiko another. Shuro he was as da
cent a man as ever I met at all."
Tho mystery of "Pad," the hitherto
inexplicable, was revealed to mo now.
By the performance with the red sand,
au indication of Pad's salient point, his
rusty-red hair, and not a religious cere
mony, was typified. The direction to
give Pad dollars and the disinterested
tribute to his goodness, now became in-
telligiblo evidences of tho truth of his
story ; and the only point of doubt re
maining wns how to circumvent Don
Fernando. Whatever was done to that
laudable end had need be done at once,
before tho bird had flown with his prey.
So I came to a determination, and acted
upon it forthwith.
I went straightway to the magistrate.
a civil (not polite) authority, whose sal
ary a prudent government nad fixed at
such a low figure, that to increase it by
taking bribes from the suitors to his
jurisdiction was evidently expected
i- l it 1 2. 1. . . .1 1
oi mm. xeruaps m ueeu consid
ered that, whatever tho amount of his
remuneration, he would stfll have been
open to corruption, and its smallness
was due merely to a praiseworthy desire
to save the public funds.
This functionary I burst in upon as
he was smoking his cigar in one of the
dirtiest rooms possible, and plunging at
once into tho airt and tho matter which
brought me there, 1 made a judicious
appeal for his interference, supported
by compliment, corruption, and intimi
dation, the three lovers by which most
readily to move the official mind.
At length I was glad to seo his first
distinct refusal, to interfere between
Don Fernando and any one else whom
soever, was shaken ; and then I plied the
assault afresh until the unfortunate man,
who had finished his smoke, and was dy
ing to go to bed, became reduced into
such a state of despair that to get rid of
me ho would have pledged himself to
anything. Happily, iu that uncultivated
region, the fiction, long since dissipated
in Europe, still prevailed, that one of
Her Majesty's Bubjects was a Bacred be
ing, whom it was highly dangerous to
treat with injustice, or even neglect. I
did not fail to work upon thia idea by
drawing a vivid picture of the British
minister's power, and the reward or dis
grace he could insure to the magistrate
by requisition to the Brazilian Govern
ment. I placed before my hearer's im
agination the important service he
would render by restoring an English
subject so rich a priz;. In my zeal, I
even ventured to hint at ray own close
connection and iniluence with England's
representative (he expressed his hope
that I should amuse myself " up in the
country"),before whom, I added, it would
be my instant care to lay tho wholo of
tho circumstances.
It is but just to record of tho magis
trate that ho had at least as much of the
" legal mind " as enabled him to take an
exceedingly clear and favorable view of
that side of tho case which hold out tho
prospect of advantage to himself. It
may also havo occurred to him that any
liabilities ho was under to Don Fernan
do would bo cleared off' in a simplo and
satisfactory manner by shutting his
creditor up. When I left him, it was
with tho promise that ho would ac
company me to tho store very early tho
following morning, and look fully into
the case.
I did not allow him much waking
time to repent of his promise on the
next day ; but short as was tho distance
to tho Jew's, it nearly proved too long
for tho carrying out of my purpose.
Tho spirited officer of Justice began to
quake in tho most undignified maimer
as we approached the potent Jew's habi
tation. But his alarm was causeless ;
wo had not got up early enough to catch
Don Fernando, who, making his hay
and escape before the sun shone, had
carried off, now without te slightest
doubt, Pat's diamond, and all the pro
perty of his own which he could easily
move. Tho prize should be valuable
that mado it profitablo for him to
abandon utterly his store and the large
stock of goods which was left in it. No
doubt ho had watched ma to the guard
room over night, and, foreseeing tho re
sult, had levanted in the night.
Pat, tho defrauded, was released at once.
Ho raved a good deal over his feasible
idea of catching up with his enemy on
foot, but the judge, who was intensely
delighted at the event, which relieved
him at tho same time of a creditor, and
considerable trobble, having arrived at
the conclusion, upon some principle of
equity I did not understand, that the
store and its remaining contents belong
ed equally to himself and Pat, the lat
ter entered into tho notion with amaz
ing ardor and the pair, without the delay
of a moment began their looting, in
which congenial occupation I left them
and San Isidro at the sauio time.
I wrote out a full and careful account
of the whole affair, with a close and ac
curate description of the Jew; and I
afterwards learned that, on its coming
before a member of the government, the
police of coast towns had orders to board
Bbips leaving the ports, and to search
narrowly any one unswering my sketch.
Hearing nothing further on the subject,
1 had almost forgotten the diamond
and unlucky Pat, whom from that day
to this, I have never seen.
My mind was made up to return to
England ; the passage from Bio Janeiro
to Liverpool was taken ; and as the
steamer sailed in the early morning, I
went on board with iny iuggago over
night. When day broke I was ou deck,
to have a parting view of tho loveliest
rcene, I believe, the world can show the
Bay of llio. It was a beautiful morn
ing, and loaning over the side, I enjoyed
to perfection tho fresh cool air. Tho
deep blue water, gemmed with Bparkling
islands, was without a ripple, and a
mist clung round the surrounding
mountain-tops, concealing, yet height
ening, like the robe of a beauty, their
loveliness.
As I stood, a boat containing a lady
passenger came under the ship's quarter,
and the mate, witn sauor-iiKe politeness,
ran down the ladder, to help her on
board. She was a very handsome girl,
of the " magnificent animal " order of at
traction. " Who is the lady '" I asked of the
mate, who had come up again after see
ing his charge below.
' "She is ono, of tho principal dancers at
the Alcazar, sir. bhe is com a- to Lis-
bon. It is a rum start for such as her
to come with us, though, instead of by
the mail-boat Quartermaster, hook ou
to that boat there."
Another passenger, and who but Don
Fernando I He had not altered himself
in tho slightest degree, and thoro was
no possibilitv of mistaking his bird-of-
prcy noise, remarkable eyes, and a silky
beard. 1 saw a queer look in the remarkable-
eyes as they full upon me, but
he coolly wished me a " Good-morning,"
and professed his pleasure that wo wero
to bo fellow passengers.
Without replying, I sought out the
captain, who displaying the noble scorn
of his profession at a miserable lands
man presuming to trouble him, said
shortly that he was up to his neck in
work (which accounted, perhaps, for his
smoking a cigar with his collar off at
that moment); that it was a matter in
which he was not going to interfere ;
there were police on board, and, if I
applied to them, they would, he supposed,
carry out their orders, whatovor they
were.
I am bound to say tho police did carry
out their orders to the letter. The Jew's
baggago consisted only of a portmanteau,
and they searched it and him so through
ly, that I do not believo a diamond the
sizo of a needle's point could have es
caped them. Excited with the hope of
a great find, they prodded knives through
the portmanteau's sides, and ripped the
lining out of clothes with a seiiEO of
duty truly delightful. Even I was com
pelled unwillingly to confess that if ho
had stolen the diamond, he had got
neither it nor its price, for ho had but a
small sum of money about him in his
possession at that time.
Were they going to permit him to
leave the country ' I asked. Certainly,
they said ; why not 'i when I myself,
the only accuser ho had, was leaving,
and tho whole charge rested' only upon
the word of a savage Irishman, not
forthcoming. Their instructions were
but to search, and not to detain the Jew,
unless they found the spoil. So I had
the pleasure of seeing my enemy grin
defiance at me, and of knowing that the
police, who put off in thoir boat, regard
ed me as u lunatic or liar, while the cap
tain in his soul objurgated mo for the
delay I had caused.
To my joy, Don Fernando did not ap
pear much tho first week of our voyage.
There was consolation in the thought
that te suffered from sea-sickness,unless,
indeed, ho had swallowed the diamond,
and might in that unpleasant way re
gain, not exactly the possession of it, for
that would be, as the lawyers say, in him
already, but the power of turning tho
possession to account. As wo neared
the line, however, he began to emerge,
usually at night-time, and the looks be
favored me with would have done a devil
no inconsiderable credit.
One beautiful moonlight night on the
line, finding tho heat below bo great that
sleep was out of the question, I left my
berth ubout midnight, nnd wont up into
the air. The officer of the watch was
dozing in a chair forward of the deck
house, and the poop appeared to be quite
deserted except for the helmsman, who,
save that he gave a turn now nnd then
to the wheel, and the quid in his cheek,
might have been a part of the deck-tit-tings.
I wore slippers, and was walking
noiselessly to the stern, to watch the
moonlight glittering on the ship's wako,
when from out the dark shadow of one
of the boats there came a low, soft laugh,
I turned with surprise, and stumbled
upon the Jew and the danseuse in close
confabulation. Seeing me, the girl left
his side, and went hurriedly below. Her
companion gave me one of his diabolical
glances, took a turn or two up and down
tho deck, and then followed his charmer.
Now, thero was nothing very extraor
dinary between the pijir, but it was
strango that up to that time they had
studiedly avoided speaking to one anoth
er. Neither of them was likely to bo
particularly careful on the score ot pro
priety ; that could not bo the motivo,
Yet here was an evident and confiden
tial intimacy established, and I could
not help in some way connecting it with
the diamond, the sale of which I was as
firmly persuaded brought Don Fernando
to Europe as L wus that he had cheated
Pat Mollov out of it.
At Lisbon, I parted, as I hoped, for
good from my enemy. The danseuse
accompanied him on shore ; and as the
boat put off from the side ot the ship,
the pair waved me a malicious and ex
ulting farewell, which in the sweetness
of parting I boro with equanimity. In
a few days I was revelling in England's
beefsteaks and beer, and, under those
grateful influences, Jew apd diamond
were banished from my recollection a
second time. They occurred to it again
about six months afterwards. A cousin
of mine, who was traveling alone in the
South of Spain, was taken suddenly ill
at Cadiz, and a family vote pitched up
on me to go and look after him there.
On my arrival ho was bo much better,
that the doctor predicted his ability to
undertake tho journey home in a few
days. In this satisfactory expectation,
1 settled myselt iu the hotel and waited,
It happened that my watch, which
was rather a valuable one, had got out
ot order, and I was obliged to trust it,
much against my will, to the hands of a
Cadiz practitioner. I selected one who
seemed quite a chatty and conversation'
al person for a Spaniard, and who paid
me compliments upon the excellence of
my timepiece nnd my bpauish with all
tho vivacity ot a a reuenman.
. Would the English senor like to see
the great De la Casa diamond 't he asked,
I had never heard of it, I replied. Ah,
that was excusable in one coming from
England, as it had but very lately
been brought out, having been pur
chased by a certain lady of great
rank from the distinguished Captain
Fernandez for the sum of live thousand
English sovereigns. It was now on
view at the lady of great ranks' rest
dence ; three pesetas was the charge for
a look, which would generously be given
to the poor of Cadiz. It was a Brazilian
diamond of the first water, and as yet
was almoBt unknown in liiurope. 1 Adios,
senor, and ' Muchas gracias.
On the evening of the same day, I had
been strolling round the walls of tho
town, and it was nearly midnight before
I reached my hotel. As I entered, a
carriage and a pair ot horses drew up.
and a lady and gentleman descended,
and came out into the lighted ball. The
eternal Don Fernando with the girl
again ! They were in full evening cos
tume The Jew, who recognized me in
stantly, looked to my mind a more con
fessed villain in his gorgeous array than
he had ever before done behind his coun
ter at San Isidro. He resembled a tiger
draped in white ; peaceful and innocent
as the covering might bo, the fierce head
and expression would peep out. His
hanusomo companion, dressed, or rather
undressed, in the very latest Parisian
fashion, made me a mocking rcverenco.
" Don Fernando, said 1, weakly, al
lowing my curiosity to overcome mo.
" The Captain I' crnandez, mister, he
replied.
" Well, Captain, General, or whatever
you like, then, how was it nianagod
You can toll me, now, you know."
lie cave bis answer in a pitying,
compassionate tone, as though I wero a
baby, or I rather felt the character a
fool.
" Ah, why you take so much the trou
ble for notinr1 Why mako that vigi
lants espoil my new box V" alluding, I
presume, to his confounded portman
teau. "You know the sen or a. No?
Ah, well, she has fine hair, you seo, t6
cover diamond more big than ten times
the De la Cas. Bah ! Dam English
booby 1"
hetuer any relationship existed be
tween the pair before Don Fernando's
little finesse with the Irishman, I cannot
say. Probably, aware that a confeder
ate was necessary to take the spoil out
of the country, he had chosen an agree
able- one, over whom he was sure ot his
own iniluence. So the precious stone,
once kept religiously by a tribe of wan
dering Indians, transferred to the crazy
pockets of Pat Molloy, whoss heart a
hundred knives would havo been ready
to pierce had the treasure he carried
been suspected, brought across the sea
in one woman's hair, now sparkles on
the bosom of anothor to enrich but a
worthless robber.
Poor Pat Molloy has most likely by
this time drunk himself to death from
his enemy's store. Who would have be
lioved me if I had attempted to set Span
ish justice on tho Jew 'i What credit
should I have obtained for my story ?
which though unsupported and perhaps
uusupportable by other testimony, hus
nevertheless tho uncommon merit of
truth.
Summer Eiiliuir.
We eat to keep warm and to sustain
strength, and articles of food have those
two elements m varying proportion,
Oils, tallow, and whale blubber are al
most wholly of tho warming element ;
hence in Greenland, where the ther
mometer is many degrees below zero,
and a great deal of heat is required, a
native will drink half a dozon gallons
of oil every day, or eat ten pounds of
tallow. Iu tho hottest climates of the
world tho inhabitants live to a great
extent on fruits and vegetables, which
have but very little of the heating
qualities. In our climate, which is be
tween tho two, moots, vegetable?,' nnd
fruits are eaten all tbe year round ; but
if eaten judiciously, if eaten according
to tho season moio of fruits and vege
tables in summer and less of meats and
fats an incalculable amount of sick
ness would bo prevented every year.
Wre would think a man deranged who
should koep as largo tires burning in his
house in summer as in winter, and yet
we all persif t in eating meats and tats
and butter all through the summer.
Meats and butter are on our tables three
times a day, when in reality they ought
to be sparingly used during the summer
mouths, at least by the young, tho old,
the feeble, und by all who ore most of
the time in doors, or who have no activo
employment. For the classes just named
a very appropriate diet for the summer
would be as follows :
Breakfast Cold bread and butter, a
slice of cold meat, or in its place a
couple of eggs, or a saucer of berries or
stewed fruit without milk, cream, or
sugar. The same for dinner, with one
vegetable ; no other dessert. For sup
per somo cold bread and butter and a
cup of hot drink, and nothing elso;
nothing whatever botweon meals. So
far from starving on such a diet the
class of persons above named would
thrive on it, would grow stronger, would
have more bodily vigor, more mental
elasticity, and a greater now of animal
spirits, and for tbe reason that few would
eat too much ; there would be nothing
to over-tempt tho appetite, hence the
stomach woulJ not be over-worked;
what work it did perform would be well
done ; the blood made pure, lifo-giving,
and energizing. Any man of ordinary
intelligence and observation, who will
give a fair trial to the above system of
feeding, will scarcely fail to be convinc
ed of its value within a week if tor he
begins it. Journal of Health.
Brussels Lacs.
A story is told in connection with the
introduction of the manufacture of fine
lace into Brussels, which is pleasant of
itself and carries with it a lesson worth
learning. A poor girl named Gertrude
was deeply attached to a young man
whose wealth precluded all hope of mar
riage. One night, as she sat weeping, a
lady entered her cottage, and without
saying a word placed in her lap a cush
ion with bodkins filled with thread.
The lady then, with perfect silence,
showed her how to work the bodkins,
and how to make all sorts of delicate
patterns and complicated stitches. As
daylight' approached the maiden had
learned the art, and the mysterious visi
tor disappeared. The maiden grew rich
by her work, and married the object of
her love. Years afterward, while living
in luxury, she was startled by the mys
terious lady entering the house this
time not silent, but stern. She said :
"Here you enjoy peace and comfort,
while without are famine and trouble.
I helped you you have not helped your
neighbors. The angels weep for you
and turn away their faces." Bo the
next day Gertrude went forth, with her
cushion and her bodkin in her hand, and
going from cottage to cottage she taught
tho art she had so mysteriously learned,
and comfort and plenty came to all.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEM',
Soldiers' widows are to be appointed
to vacancies in the publio libraries in
Germany.
Fifteen suits for twenty thousand dol
lars' damages in each case, have been
commencod against a Jersey City news
paper. The proprietor is delighted at
tho exalted estimate put upon the lntlu
onco of his journal.
A French paper publishes a curious
report that although the Mont Cenis
tunnel has been piorced, and locomotives
passed through it, there is still some
doubt as to its being open to travel for
some time to come. The trouble is in
tho ventilation of the tunnel. The
smoke evolved from the locomotives is
not driven out. Out of three engine
drivers who were employed on tho
trip through the tunnel, two died of
suffocation, and the third was restored
to life with great difficulty.
Tho Chicago T'tmen likens Chicago to
tho man who earned a dollar, or just as
much as and no more than it cost him
to livo. He might live the six working
days, but the seventh, the Sabbath, he
must work or cease to live. The Time
says : " Now, every man who has capital
invested in Chicago, is in exactly this
situation. The average profit which his
capital will earn at the present time.does
not exceed five and a half per cent, per
annum ; and five end a half per cent,
per annum is exactly what government,
of one kind or another, takes away, in
the shape of taxes, from all capital in
vested in Chicago."
Gold-bearing quartz and silver ore of
great richness have been discov red near
the Buckskin Mountains in Utah, about
four hundred miles southeast of Salt
Lake City. The district was- visited
many years ago by Mormon mission
aries, who carried, home glowing ac
counts of its richness in gold. The
country cannot be explored, however,
except by large parties, as hostile In
dians are numerous and active there
abouts. A Salt Lake paper is of tho
opinion that this is undoubtedly tho
region whence the gold is to be brought
to pave the stroets of that city in pur
suance of prophocy.
Western papers seom to vie with each
other iu telling tho biggest snake stories.
An Arkansas paper notes the killing
of snake 18 feet long and 23 inches iu
circumference. Then a Missouri paper
comes along with a snake 20 feet long
and 36 inches in circumference. But
not to be outdone, the Kansas Statesman
puts in its claim for the snake champion
ship by giving an account of a snake
33 feet long and 48 incheB around tho
body, coverod with scales like fish, and
having a yellowish, sulphureous tint and
tmell. But now comes along a Chicago
paper, and says they havo a snake 1,40(1
feet long and 200 feet round the tip of
the tail, and asks, as a mathematical
problem, how much it will measure
round the waist.
The United Statos army comprises at
the present time about 30,000 men, di
vided into forty regiments, of which ten
are cavalry and five artillery. It occu
pies more than 300 military posts, and
includes 2,277 commissioned officers.
Tho highest salary paid to an officer,
that of Gen. Sherman, is $13,500; the
lowest, paid to second lieutenants, is
$1,400 a year. The Quartermaster's De
partment buys annually about 2,000,000
bushels of corn and oats, 120,000 cords
of wood, 30,000 tons of coal, and moves'
100,000 tons of army Btores. There are
2.i,000 horses, mules, and oxen in tbe ar
my ; some of the army wagon routes re
quire 800 miles of hauling in a straight
line. The Military Academy at West
Point costs $220,000 a year ; besides this
institution, there is a school of artillery
at Fort Monroe, and a torpedo school at
Willott's Point, N. Y. On the 12th of
Juno 113,260 soldiers' widows wore on
the rolls of the United States Pension
Office.
Complaints have been made that de
faced and mutilated currency remitted
to the United States Treasury for re
demption has been subjected to unjust
deductions for " short" packages ; but an
investigation into the matter has shown
that the " overs" discovered in money
redeemed and counted iu the Treasury
havo been greater than the "shorts."
That is, more packages have been found
to contain a greater sum than was re
presented than a less sum, and more
money has been returned to the senders
in addition to the amounts claimed than
has been deducted from the returns to
those whose packages proved Bbort. It
has also been found that some persons
who are in the habit ot sending currency
for redemption are habitually incorrect
in t heir count ; and that those who have
repeatedly made mistakes against them
selves, which have been corrected by the
counters, are the ones who make the
loudett complaints when " short" are
fastened upon them.
A curious story is told of tho discovery
of the Amador mine, now the richest in
the world. The mine was first com
menced by a Vermonter named Hay
ward, who was soon after joined by
another Vermonter named Chamber
laine. Chamberlaine at last became
discouraged, and Haywurd stuck to it,
but his men all left him, and he was ou
the point of starvation. IIo then went
to Chamberlaine for some money, but
was refused, but before he closed the in
terview Chamberlaine gave him 13,000,
all he had in the world. " Take it, old
fellow," he said, with California hearti
ness ; " do your best." With this money
Hayward recommenced, and be had
worked until it was all spent, and hie
men were reduced to a bag of beans for
nourishment, when to the gloom of hope
tho precious ore blazed suddenly up.
When the mine was paying $10,000 a
month, Hay ward made over to his friend
one perfect third of it. Chamberlaine
retired upon $1,500,000, and moved East
to educate his children, Hay ward buy
ing back the whole. Finally, even Hay
ward grew tired and sold out the mine
to a stock company, of which General
Col ton is president The mine will
make $450,000 net this year, and Colton
aid last week: "The Amador mine?
will hold out longer than we will,"