n e
" 9
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Tubusuer,
ELK COUNTYtT1IU REPUBLICAN PA It T Y.
Two Dollars ter Annum.
VOL. IT.
RIDGWAY, PA,. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1872.
NO. 20.
1'OETli Y.
THE UNIVEIlSAti MOTHER.
BY 1. B. M'CONMKLL.
Under yon clond, In cool and quiet .hcltor,
Th. h.M 1. . . .. . .
. - u.j iiu hoi arowsmir throuirli tun noon i
w nuo i the dnsty way mnM. troiljrn, nna mrulli
Boncnlh the forth! ran ofTnlct-rtfiy Jmio.
Mkn rntno (front bird, tho cloud. abnro tlicm lienor :
1 1 Miture hromls them fondly wilh nor wlnRp i
While I, who nil my life have been her lover.
Mint toll afnr from rhi&t mid coollne spring.
0 mighty Nataro I klndllont of mother !
lironth. cooling atra aa toft ai tephyri mild ;
Spread wldo your wlinrs, that I nmonu tho olhern
may iliaro tho fhcllora with your lmnihlost child.
She hears the suppliant, travel-worn and wearied,
nor sort Ugh ruMlo In tho brcntua bland i
Yonder it looming In tho distance arid,
Tho groai Rock't shadow In tho woary land I
July Old and Kcto.
THE STOKY-TELLER.
THE POT OF GOLD.
BY REBECCA II. DAVIS.
lAcxit. Calderwood was fit his sister's
iiouso on a visit, during his two weeks'
furlough. Ho was sitting with her ono
evening in tho parlor, wliilo tor two
children were studying their lessons at
niu utuin in ine back room.
no x aul is ft lazy scholar, ch Y" said
mo lieutenant, lowering his Yoico."
"Jmo, not at all. He is diligent
enough, provided his studies suit his
lancy. uut wliat are they V If you
looK over his shoulder now, you'll find
puimg over some uook of Dreams,
or the History of Capt. Kidd and his
treasures, inrtcad of liia ,-linnl l,!
The boy is deranged on tho subject of
B""""g ricn suuaeniy, at some bold
master-stroke. 1 wish you would talk
to him. You are supreme with him
lust now. It may bo you could ridicule
mm out ot ins absurdity ; I cannot.'
" But ought ho to bo ridiculed Y"
"James 1
" Well, call Clara in, and I'll go talk
to him awhile."
Mrs. Forbes beckoned her little eirl to
Til n
uur, ana mo lieutenant sauntered into
tue back room, and, I am sorry to
lighted a cigar."
say,
" oil, Jfaul, my boy, hard at it Y
nat s the book Y Latin or algebra Y"
1 aul colored a little. " Oh, I can run
over my lessons in tho morning. They
are so horridly dull 1 I'm reading
"Head of
you?"
your classes, I hope, aren't
"U1 luuguou. "io, indeed, nearer
1 I I 1 1 T
tno other end. Well, tho truth is,
throwing down his book, and leaning
over connaentially, " I've got it into my
head to make mouoy. Mother has hard
work to get along with Clara and me."
" 1 know, Paul," said tho lieutenant,
gravely
Now, what erood doos this seaiinino.
of dead languages and poring over cube
loom uo r now much meat will that
put in tho pot Y
"How do you proposo to help your
jiiumer r
" Well, sir," whispered Paul, eaporlv.
for this was his first patient listener, "if
i nad a largo sum ot monoy that I could
get all at once, without any delay a
jurge sum, taon, aiterwara, 1 could make
a scholar or what 1 ploasod of myself."
Ihe lieutenant drew tho book Paul
had boon reading toward him. " Revo
lutions by Clairvoyanco and Spiritual
ism, regarding hidden Treasures."
Paul watched hiui keenly, as ho read
tno nno, out not tho vestige of a smile
llittod over tho lieutenant's faco.
" I'll toll you candidly, uncle, about
it," hitching his chair nearer. Fred
Parker camo from Jersey, near whero
jvidd ouricd ins treasure. You know tho
place f
" Not precisely ; do you Y "
ii TA1 i. . , . ...
-xui, mo exact spot, but it is near
Jlurlmgton. ICidd buried tho chostand
then called on his men to know who
would stand guard over it for a hundred
years. So ono fellow stopped out and
stood firm till Kidd shot him through the
heart, ho they bunod him standing
Kivcc tuu uiiesi., wan nis drawn sword in
lus hand. You've hoard tho incident Y
"Yes; but
" llow will I find the place Y Well"
Paul began to fidget a little, turning
uvui iiiu mutes oi tno dook.
" Perhaps you will laugh at mo, uncle,
but I don't see why you should. Tho
ancients called in the aid of oraclos and
dreams. They knew how to read com-
ing cvonts in tho flight of birds, or hrr
tho entrails of boasts. If wo cannot do
bo, too, it seems to mo it is because wo
nave lost the power, not bocause the
signs aro not thero to read. Tho wisest
men have not been ashamed to bo super
stitious. It is only fools who think there
is nothing in tho world but what they
can sofa and handle."
" I quite agree with you in regard to
tho fools, Paul."
" Paul, who had boon defiant hitherto,
blushed with pleasure. " I don't know,"
ho continued, " what credit to give to
spiritual mediums. Fact is, I've run
after them till I'm about tirod.' They've
got all my last two quarters allowance,
and so l'vo had to go without now
clothes this winter. But if I could suc
ceed! If I could only find the pot or
chest I J ust think 1 It would make
mother easy for life I"
" Very true," said his unclo.
They were both silent for awhile, the
lieutenant smoking, and Paul turning
over tho leaves of his book with feverish
haste, glancing up now and thon, fur
tively, at his uncle,
" Wrhat first put this matter in your
hoad, Paul t
- x uou v jlhow. h u roaiiy nueu money I
T J A 1 XlT 11 3 I
so often. And thon Fred Parker told
his stories of Kidd's treasures, and I Bee
these clairvoyant advertisements in the
paper every day"
" As to thoso mediums," said lieuten
ant Calderwood, thoughtfully, "my
opinion is that ihey will take your
money, and you will got no information
in return. I never had any intercourse
with them, for I have no belief in their
ability to tell you any thing you do not
already know yourself. A friend of
mine, Capt. Johns, told me of a woman, 1
a fortune-teller, whom he consulted hero
as to his futuro life, who mado somo re
markable predictions, very remarkable,
mooed, ruie sketched out his whole ca
reer for him."
" " V ho was she Y Wliero is she to be
unmet e cried Paul, forgetting to ask
whether the prophecies roved true or
nor, and tney wero most ridiculously
ansitrd aim untrue.
" At No. SI Poplar-st" said his micli
alter several moments of hesitation.
" Sho was to bo consulted only at night.
But that was several years ago."
" I'll go and see her to-morrow night,"
said Paul. IIo was moro nervous than
usual that evening, and sat looking in
tho hro for a long time.
xhc boy is ruined, sighed his moth
er. " iNothing will ever restoro him to
common sense or usefulness."
" ' It is a long dav until sunset.' " said
nor brother, quoting his favorite nrov.
!ib.
Tho next night Paul imt on his over
coat just alter supper, with his last dol
lar in Ins pocket. His uncle had not
been at homo during tho afternoon.
1 aul kissed his mother good-by once or
Lwiee.
" Whero are you going, my son?"
" lo make OUriurtuile." In; i!.-Lifl. rrji.il v.
.. 1 ...i. ' oj'
iw ill) i mi UL.
No. 81 Foplar-st. was soon found.
isesido it was a narrow, dark entry,
lighted by a red lamp, which gave a
;uostiy and murderous light Paul
wont up tho winding stairs, and found
at the top a door with a placard, on
wnicn was written with a pen,
iiiADAME d Aubrey, seeiiess.
Jt'aui tapped. Ao answer. He tun.
peu again.
i r
Jinter I said a hoarse voice.
no pushed tho doo open, and went
in. I ho room was bare of furniture,
except another red lamp, which shed its
blood glare over the gray walls, and a
uiacK antique cliair, in which sat a tall,
guuut woman. one was robed in a
loose, tailing habit of black from head
to foot. Her face, of which Taul could
s? littlc 1)111 tno cnin waa deathly pale,
Now and then ho caught a glimse of a
pair of keen evt,s wuich he thought wero
I knit, iAVAj. a1 1 '
both fierce and threatening,
She did not bow nor rise. He remain.
ed standing before her. The very as
sumption of authority which this impli-
eu impressed anu awed l'anl.
" 1 came to consult vou." he stammer
ed.
The black-covered head nodded. " It
is unnecessary tor you to explain your
self further. Your name is Paul Forbes.
Yeu desire to know by what means you
iimy uuuiii a certain treasure.
Paul was terrifipd. Ti:
other medi-
uinaiunmo uaa consulted nad never
... . .....
uuu mm actual iacts.
" When do you hold a seance Y"
" Now," in a hoarse eratine voice. " I
need no trumpery tables, or cards, or
machinery. Do you ask whether I can I
8ee lnto lutunty lou havo a scar on
vour shoulder beneath your clothes, I
"" ""ciuu wounu neiow your
ueu. i x can toil you about these
can tell you
minirs i uat otner eves cannot see. vou
can afford to trust mo for tho truth of
whatever elso I may say. Ask what you
wm, anu J. win answer.
" How am I to c&tain the treasure 7'
said Paul, trying to speak boldly.
now should l know what treasure
you meant' But pauso. Tho figure
moved ner hand slowly to her forehead,
muttered for a few moments, then took
it slowly down, and looked piorcine-lv at
liiv teinueu x aul.
4. I-i;-J TV.-.1
" The pot of gold waits for you, enoueh
to give you fortune and power. Here
aro the directions by which you aro to
obtain it. She placed a small slip of
paper m ins nana.
, , -i-
..ii.. ai -I.. , i .
jn tiicso conditions, she said, m a
hollow whisper, "that you solvo the
mystery f this paper alone. You are
to receive no assistance in reading it : if
3 ll , 1 . . '
you uo, an is lost. xJegono I you are
answered.
Paul placed his money in her out
stretched hand, and went stuniblinj
down tho stairs under the rtxl lamp.
Ihe next morning by daybreak ho
was knockinc at tho door of his uncle's
Cham ber.
" What is this Y" showing him a paper
full of figures, lines, and diagrams.
"Don't read it to mo. Only tell nio
what sort of a puzzle it is."
Tho lioutenaut raised himself on his
his
elbow, smothering a yawn. " It seems
to be a mathematical puzzlo, Paul ; the
Qe8CPtlo of ome locality, I think. I
wo"t lterlret it to you. It would
noe4 a 0?a topographical engineer to
ao;ha" uc id you pick it up ?'
L. mumbled out something, and
uitsn.jjjiuurt'U.
A week after the lieutenant returned
to his regiment. II noticed Paul busy
every night with his mathematics, and
his slate and pencil. Tho dream-book
was laid on tho shelf.
Several months after. Mrs. Forboa
writing to her brother said :
" I have something to tell vou of Paul
which I know will please you. Much to
my surprise, no took tho nrst prize m
mathematics at school last term. Find
ing pnzo-taking agreeable, I presumo,
be lias devoted hnuselt to all his studios
with renewed assiduity. But mathe
matics appeared to bo a passion with tho
boy. He told me that ho designed
studying topographical engineering, the
very profession I would have chosen for
him. I cannot tell you how thankful I
am for his sudden change."
The lieutenant laughed, but mado no
other sign.
Ue heard from lug sister but at long
intervals, as ho was stationed on the
frontier, but every letter brought ae.
counts of Paul s incessant steady labor
in tno ono direction,
-.1 1 , "
Whether tho hope of the treasure still
urged him on, or whether he found that
mathematics were his proper work, and
that for which his talents and real
tastes best fitted him. we cannot sav.
But it is certain that, at the end of three
years, he was ready to enter the highest
vuuw iu x-racticai surveying ot tho
Polytechnic College.
A year later, Lieut Calderwood wm
seated in the door of his tent, when two
A. l A 1 - .
ur vureo Birangers aasnea ud. ana ft
stout, bearded, bright-eyed young fel
low jumped off his horse, caught him
by the shoulders, shook him, laughed,
anu ended by Kissing linn like a girl
" Paul I' orbes I Bless j on, boy I How
did you como hero 'r
Paul jumped to his feet, turned red,
and then burst into a Bhout of laughter.
"You were tho seeress'r1 1 know you
Tho lieutenant nodded. Ho you be-
grudge the dollar for his prophecy Y'' he
said. "As 1 look back now, 1 don't
a into tiDorovu of inv manner of ti-anli
ing you your lesson, but you havo shown
yourself a better scholar than I feared."
"Keen appointed assistant survey.
ot tins lerritory, sir ( Attached to th
Exploration Party under (Jen. Hay. I
can't tell you all now, only that I havo
tno position lor ten years, at a nno saht
ry : and mother and Clara are snuu and
happy as they never wero before What
do you think of that, Unclo Jem ?"
Uncle Jem wrung his hand. "Think?
Why, that you must havo worked hard
to achieve so much, Paul.
" Yes, yes, it took hard work 1" noil
ding. " It's queer, too, what trillos will
drive o lollow on a road, eh r
Several mouths after, the lieutenant
came upon Paul one day, who was look
ing at a bit of yellow paper, covered
with figures and lines.
"L)oyou know," said ho, looking up,
"there's a puzzlo that took mo years to
work out? I did it just before I left
home, and I found tho answer to it
nothing."
I he lieutenant paused, smiled. " Hard.
healthful study, a good profession, and
a good income will not serve for a pot of
gold, tuen, I'aul f Ho said, with a shrewd
twinkling in his eye. The Companion,
Reduced to the Ranks.
From 18M to 18GG the name of Bennett
1 leters was very well known in this city,
It was connected with tho Red Jacket
Bitters, which were then a popular bev
erage, advertised largely in tho papers,
ana posted on lences and black walls,
Pieters himself was a popular man
among his set ; ho kept.good saddle and
carriage horses ; had rooms at the Sher-
I T T .
m.m uuusi! ; gavo excellent Buppers,
where the guests were not called on to
drink his bitters, but were regaled, with
champagne, which was perhaps no bet
tor, but certainly much more expensive,
and did not openly offend any of the
proprieties, liis income was a largo one,
but he spent it easily, and did not, like
a good Umcagoan, put it in real estate.
Ho failed to lay up treasures in this
orthodox quarter, and hence when
lamity came upon him he had nothing
to tail back upon. In 1867 some indi-
i . . .
viuuai, tuiuking that lie also might mako
a nine oy going into the bitter business.
becan the manufacture of tho Red Cloud
Bitters. Pieters represented this as an I
infringement of his rights, and brought
suit to havo his rival enioinod. The J
matter was tried in tho United States
Court. An expert chemist analyzed
J- iciers productions and tuoy consisted
of poor whisky, flavored with tansv.
dogfennel, jimsou weed, or somo other
substanco which possessed no special
medicinal virtues. Ultimately, tho court
decided that his rights had not been in
vaded, and that lied Cloud and Rod
Jacket might havo separately and inde
pendently originated bitters. This hurt
Pieters, but not half as much as the
analysis. People had supposed that his
outers owed their rare virtues to samples
unknown to the whito man. gathered at
miunignt in primeval forests, by grim
Indian chiefs, or dusky Indian girls,
uam, out comeiy, like the touts of Ivedar,
or the curtains of King Solomon, the
secret having been specially communi.
catod to Pieters under circumstances of
so private a nature, that they never be
came public. When tho illusion was
dispelled, tho sale of the Red Jacket
stopped, and Pieters income diminished.
Tho less money he had the more he drank.
lie got involved in troublo with his
partner, and finally, in 180'J, after the
defeat of Gen. Salomon, and his depart
turefrom Washington Territory, he ac
companied him along with O'Brien.
Hayden, Church, &c. He returned from
there a few months ago, and, after loit-
around the city doing nothing, last
LuriicLi iniin I
Monday he enlisted as a oavalrv rn,'.r,,it.
in the regular army, and embraced this
desperate resort of a reduced gentleman,
Chicago Trilnine, June 13.
Why We Should Wear Beards.
There are moro solid inducements for
wearing tho beard than tho mere im-
provementof a man's personal appear-
anoe and the cultivation of such an aid
... ... . . . .
to the evory-day diplomacy of life. Tho
hair of tho moustache not only absorbs
tho moisturo and miasma of the fogs.
but it strains tho air from dust and the
soot of our groat smoky cities. It acts
also in the most scientific manner, by
taking heat from the warm breath as it
leaves the chost, and supplying it to the
cold air taken in. It is not only a res
pirator, but with a beard entire wo are
supplied with a comforter as well, and
theso are never left at homo like tho
1 11 J .11 1. ! . I
uiuuii-uuB auu uu such appliances when
tiiey are wanted.
Moffat and Livingstone, the explorers,
and many other travellers sav that at
night no wrapper can equal the board,
A remarkable fact is, too, that the board,
like the hair of the head, protects
against the heat of the sun : it acts as I
the thatch docs to the ice-house ; but,
more than this, it becomes moist with
the perspiration, and then, bv evaoora-
tion, cools the skin.
A man who accepts this protection of
Nature, may face the rudest storm and
the hardest winter. He may go from I
the. hottest room into the coldest air
without dread; and. we verily believe
that he might sloep in a morass with
impunity ; at least bis chanoo of escap
ing the terrible fever would be better
than his beardless companions.
A New England advertiser wants " a
woman who fears the Lord and weighs
200 pounds," and the editor of the sheet
in which the advertisement appears re
marks that M the woman who weighs 200
pounds rarely fears tho ord or any
body else."
Legend of tlio Weeping Willow.
Logicians sav that reason is the great
est gift of (lod to man, but no one knows
better than a newspaper editor how
little tho gift is appreciated by the ma
jority of mankind. He sees immense
Domes ot men swayea to ana iro by the
"i me iiMMiKUKuu, wiioio com-
''"""f.t'ted by tho mere motion of
tno political trickster as tlio spider man-
"S" i.iniiermosi, miu w nis nimy
1 1 . I l i: . ! 1 ,.,
. . lln:1 even in tno realm ot science it
is ins daily expenonco mat tno implicitly
rocoived docmas of yesterday are buried
in tno great upneavais oi to-day.
. . w - .
1 ho child wonders how tho delicate
spider s web can bind securely thepower-
ful insect, just as wo wonder how the
weakest illusions will command tho ro
spee.t of tho strongest minds. Hero is
an illustration of this in tho history of
our common weeping willow. The story
goes that Popo tho poet, sitting in his
garden overhanging tho Thames, saw a
pieco of wicker-basket along the river
bank, and obsorvinnr that a tueen mm
sprouting sinco it had been in tho water,
ho took tho erowiinr piece and planted
it. This is tho origin of Pope's weeping
willow, which is also said to bo tho
parent ot all tho weeping willows of
lhrifitendom. If tho "greatest gift,"
tho ono by which man is distinsruistied
from tho beast, had been applied to this
story, the improbability of a hamper
uusKet remaining green long enough for
any part of it to grow, after beiner worn
out and cast away, would have been at
onco seen. In addition to this is tho
lact that basket work is never made of
the weeping willow. The branches are
as brittle as pieces of glass, and he would
be a rare genius in the basket-maker's
art who could construct a basket out of
t hem. btill, there was a certain mystery
about the weeping willow, and until it
was cleared up it was much easier tn
believe tho Pope story than to use a lit
tle reason in the matter.
But at loiiffth facts have broken down
tho poet's legend. Plant collectors havo
;oun,yn Japan the parent of our droop-
l? "n Already in Amenoan gar-
dens tho Japan willow is growing, and,
save in the pendulous hab?t. proves in
be identical with tho weeping willow of
-trope 8 l wickenham garden, and there is
no longer any doubt but to this ancient
nowery land, and not to the waters of
the modern Babylon, are we indebted
tor tins popular tree. How it got to Eu
rope is not yet clear. Possibly we have
it through some of the early Dutch nav
igators, or, may be, through some of tho
attaohes to Staunton's Ancrlo-Chinesfi
embassy, who are already credited with
"""""cuons; out, at any rate,
, , i i . , , , - . i
, , l7 uaaKvuMy una completely
"""-'"
llow many moro of theso pleasant lit-
tle stories are to vanish Y Was tho seed
? . "eters chestnut furnished by
V asbington Y Did Washington chop
the cherry tree Y Did tho Indians get
ineir red rags undor tho .Kensington elm
I tree Y Are tho thousands of troes which
on so many American homesteads have
sprung from the " switches which were
used as riding whips by our grand.
mothers, as apocryphal as this littlo
piece ot willow history t It would, in
deed, seom as if tho innocent men of
trees and flowers aro no moro to bo trust
ed than any of the rest of us. We nrn
all ready to believe anvthins-. and dmv
Know it aa wen as other folk.
The Peanut Crop.
There aro somo fears of a peanut fam
ine. JNorth Carolina sends but 2,000
oags this year against 20.000 for tho
same timo last year, and the supply
iiutu urguua is Bhort ono-nalf. Iho
new crop only coming in by October, wo
havo thus four months over vhich tho
stock in hand must spread, and from the
tneagro proportions ot that stock it can
readily be seen to what extiemities th
public may bo roducod. Anything like
a " corner" would produco an absolute
famine, and even without unfair prac
tices nothing but tho most rigid econ
omy can avert a distressing pinch. All
tilings considered, the time from now till
. , . ,
"e w cP oomog in in October is per-
ft-fif 1
m hah P?nhUts are most in demand.
u , , th?' ??y should develop
il r1 this peculiar juncture is
particularly paintui. The
AUVOV UUTIUC9 lUUlUBLlllg IJ16 AlllCan
market quite easy, hopes wero at nno
time entertained of receiving a supply
i - mAner! botweoR the length of
, womu consume,
"i1? BlDpular reluctance of sailors to
visit the richest peanut coast, bv
of the extreme proferenco of the natives
for white meat, that expectation is not
now referred to on 'Chango. Nothing
soems loft for us but tho inculcation of
economy.
An Old Debt and Interest Paid.
In tho year 1832. in Morcan Hmmrv
Kentucky, at a muster of volunteers for
tuo mack liawk war, Judgo Samuel
woods, then a poor boy, borrowed of
CoL Samuol Matthow a silver picavuno
ftl A t t . . I
"4 vuw wiiu wuicu to uUy some I
appios. a short time sinco, in the office
' the county clerk of Morgan county,
mose two old pioneers met. both still
residents of the county. In tho course
a conversation which followed, the
incidents connected with tho recruiting
for the Black Hawk war were referred I
when suddenly tho remembrance of
tu - borrowed fourpence was revived in
ue Judge's mind, and upon sneaking of
the incident CoL Matthews, too, re-
membered the loan j whereupon Jud"e
Woods doclared his purpose to there and
fnon liquidate the debt, principal and I
interest Col. Matthews declined the
proposition, but the judge insisted on
making the payment. The interest was
then computed, and added to the prin-
cipal, the whole amounting to one dol-
lar, which Judge .Woods paid. When tio nerve receives the sonorous lmpres
J udge Woods borrowed that picayune sions. Muscles of the leg below the
he was a penniless vouth : atthatimana knee are said to vibrate in the same
paid the debt he was' the owner of 3,000
acres ot Morgan County, and worth a
quarter of million of dollars.
A travelling menagerie consisting of
one man and a bear is delighting rural I
audiences in Indiana. I
Inconvenient Etiquette.
The New York Evcnina Mail tells the
ioi lowing good story :
A professor in ono of our Wester
colleges, whoso bodily presence was weak.
but who, having a tall spirit, was de
termined to bate no inch of tho respect
ono to ins olhce or himself, disannrovin
also fit the lax pmi vmifinnn-lil-.v rf 4Vn
" lrontier." remiest! tr.osfiid..tiU who,.
I - - . . I ........
ever tliey should meet him, Dr. 11., the
friend and their professor, to tako
off
their huts I This enactment did not
suit , tlm Westnm (.nmnr anA naA
i . " j-- i
slightly tho Western pulso. No ronton.
stranco, however, was otlered, and tho
Doctor, who had been visited by mis
givings as to the result, breathed freelv
felt that tho rough point was rounded,
and felicitated himself upon his firmness
Returning ono evening from a Bupper
party, in unusually genial mood, Dr.
II. ascended tho long flight of stone
steps leading to his rooms. When about
halt way up ho descried Mr. O. from St
Paul coining down, both arms clasped
around a bundle of kindling wood. As
ho drew near tho Doctor uttered his
bland " Oood evening 1" (tho rising
I'ngnsn intiection manasred to a nicetv)
toiieniiig ins natas no spoke, llio film
ucsonan returned tno salute ite riacur.
unloosing, as ho did so, tho fatal faggots
with a fall like thunder. Hon. skin.
and jump could not savo tho unfortu
nate Doctor, when, sent surely by his
evil genius, at this moment who should
appear.upon the Bcene but Captain K.
the one-armed hero from Wisconsin
striding rapidly down with his Satur.
dav nifirht's pail of hot water I
Because his friend was in eriof should
no pass nim by T Ucholdiner his chief.
for the moment stripped of office, caner-
ing upon he stairs, should he refuse to
salute him Y He, to whom " regulation "
was ootn law and instinct i Never I
and his faithful " left " sought his hat,
away went tno pail, bump, thump,
spiasu, aasu i
" Confound you both," roared tho un
fortunate recipient of college honors
rubbing and wringing by turns !
Hot water is known to bo emollient I
it may have expedited the Doctor's re
covcry. Certain it is that after a few
days' seclusion, during which there came
irequcnt putts ot camphor and opodol
doo from his quiet room, and, "like
horns from Elf-land faintly blowing,"
the echo of much din and ghostly laugh
ter from distant halls and corridors, the
Professor again stood before his class.
There was something in his whole air
and deportment as new to him as to
them something suggesting not exact-
nv defeat, but rather lnnretinono
resistance, or as then and there do-
j ,
scribed, " Unstarched, by Jove 1 limp as
any rag r
A Place for Long Livers.
Attakapas is noted for tho largo num
ber of old pooplo to be found within
her borders, many of whom reach tho
ago of 90 or 100 years. It is seldom,
however, that ono meets so many old
peopio as are to oo touud upon the plan
tation of Messrs. Charpontier & Como.
just ueiow jrattersonvillo. While we
; i. -,- ... .... ..
visited there, recently, Mr. Charpentier
pointed to an old gentleman, who camo
tottering along with a largo stick of
wood upon his shouldor, and wo wore
surprised to learn he was 92 years of age,
and astonished to hear that it was onlv
recently that ho performed tho feat of
walking from there to Vermillionvillo
and back, a distance of ono hundred and
fifty miles. His namo is Joseph Collin,
a Frenchman by birth, and ho has resid
ed upon a tract of land in that vicinitv
for about thirty years so long, in fact.
that in his dotago he concluded that it
belonged to him, although a planter had
kindly suffered him to remain there for
charity's sake. For a timo he was shelt
ered only by a wagon, which he had
converted into a kind ot a houso. The
wind finally blowing this down, ho re
moved to a cabin near Mr. Charpentior's
.--j . t..: i , ,
icsiueuuu. ojBiug vry luuustnous, no
still manages to mako his own livelihood.
'I hn n, I .,,... . V.
Xfr-u noire who is about
andTve ySSgT ffi?,
The second curiosity there is an old
ono hundred
years of age. His wifo is about
eighty-fivo years of ago, and Mr. Char
pentier bought both of them provious to
tho war for 300, as they beggod him to
ao so, that they might have a home.
liesides this old negro couplo, he show
ed us an old negro preacher, who must
be 70 er 80 years old, whoso mother still
lived on that place, being over one hun
dred years of ago, and several others
who would be considered old pooplo in
any othor country than this.
Mr. Oharpentier is both kind to and
proud of the affection of those old pooplo
for him ; and they, liko most of his form
er servants, will probably dio on his
place. Neu lberiaLa.) Sugar Hotel
Sounds of the Sea.
Whon a shell is held up to the oar
thero is a peculiar vibratory noise which
children assure each -other is tho roar of
ft0 8ea liowover distant they may bo
r !L
lro"
Philosophically investigated tho pe-
culiar sound thus recognized is a phe-
nomenon that vory much perplexed
learned gentlemen for a long while. The
experiment is easily made by simply
pressing a spiral sholl, common in col-
lections, over the corebra of either ear.
a kirg shell the sound is very much
liko that of a far off cataract Now
what causes it Y
Evory muscle in the body is always in
0 state of tension. Some are more on
the stretch than others, and particularly
those of the fingers. It is conceded that
the vibration of tho fibres of those in the
nngers boing communicated to the shell
it propagates and intensifies them, as
the hollow body of a violin doos the vi
oration of its strings, and thus the acous
wav an if conducted to the ear produce
'ae same result.
A Hudson lady, by mistake. aid
dishonest peddler a 100 hill, instnad nf
a ftl bilL for A TunoRnnlfl itiA rkfhn lav
She thinks Bineantilea are dear luxuries
The Spartan Brevity of the Telegraph.
Telegraphy threatens to revolutionize
nianyot the established rules of syntax,
...1 d. - A 1 .A
uu to introuuco novel tonus ot expres
sion into the language. The tedious-
ness of transmitting intelligence by
teiegrapn suggests every practicable ab
ircviation, and thereforo aro not onlv
an minor words omitted, but all circum
locutory forms ot expression aro dis
pensed with, as far as possible, and tho
utmost conciseness consistent with in
telhgibihty practiced. The general
reader sees littlo of this, as despatches
are xor ine most part tilled out and cor
rected before tkey go into print : but
there is a growing disposition to publish
messages m tho sententious shape in
which they pass over tho wires. There
is no good reason, that wo can see, why
this should not bo dono to a greater ex
ten t than has as yet becomo common.
For instance, when a despatch is received
stating that " John Smith suicided this
morning," why is it necessary for tho
editor to carefully elaborate it into
"John Smith committed suicido this
morning"? The meaning is as appar
ent in ono form as in tho other, and the
same sense is all that is intended to bo
conveyed. Telegraphic columns arc not
designed to teach cither grammar or
rhetoric. Yet even iu this viow, such
examples would bo as sorvicoablo as or
dinary lesson? in false syntax. But we
aro simply contending for tho adoption
of the briefest intelligible forms of ex
pression ; and thereforo assume that for
more news mentions such sentences as
" Convention recessed till P. nr., or " First
National Bank burglared last night."
are as good as any other way of com
municating these important facts.
Whether they bo or not xuch modes of
expression will gradually creep into
general use, and custom will forco their
adoption among the accepted idioms of
our language. Wo expect ere long to
say, with the authority of common
usage, " Yellow Jacket has assessinented
$ 10 per share," or " Crown Point has
dividended $3 per share." Is it not bet
tor than tho roundabout wav of " ban
levied an assessment of," or " has do
clared a dividend of Y" It is not our
purposo to bo a zealous pioneer in this
reform, but with a sincere belief in the
doctrine that "brevity is the soul of
wit and tediousncss the limbs and out
ward flourishes," we shall hail its growth
with satisfaction. Territorial Net.) En-
Art Mummies.
A horribly grotesque proposal appears
to have been made about tho remains of
Mazzini. Some of his admirers, it seems,
consider that it would bo a fitting trib
ute to his memory to convert his body
into a mummy, preserved by somo now
scientific process. The corpse of the
great patriot would be handed down to
posterity, in ghastly rcsemblanco to his
former self, as a monument of tho devo
tion with which ho was regarded : or
rather, it may bo ot tho physiological
skill of some of his disciples. There is
something, it need hardly be said, which
grates upon ono's feelings in this uniquo
suggestion; and yet wo can imagine.
without much troublo, that something
might bo said in favor of it by ingenious
advocates. Wo cherish the lock of hair
of a departed friend ; wo valuo every
insignificant object which has been sano
i ., .;; i
him. Why not preserve tho body, which,
utuuvA w uui uiiuus uv association witn
vo say tuo least, uas oecn much more
closely connected with lnni than any ex
ternal piece of property Y Would there
not be something incomparably inter
esting, when onco wo hod Burmountcd
our present prejudices, in a national
Valhalla, where, instead of moro statues,
tho actual bodies of our heroes should
receive our tribute of gratitude Y Sun-
pose mat in v estminster Abbey, Ohat-
11. , - IT . . ,u ... 1
nam uiiiiacii, iiiHteau oi nis graven im
ago, still gazed down upon us in the at-
titudo in which ho thundered his great
orations ; or suppose that tho approach
to tho houses oi Parliament was guard
ed by the actual bodily cases of Fox and
Burke and Falkland and Hampden:
would not the impression upon an un
sophisticated intellect be far keener than
at present? What is the philosophy of
tuo disgust wnicn relics excite in us, at
least in this wholesalo form, whilst the
fragmentary relics of anciont saints have
1 : . i,i , .- ,.
ioiik uxuiteu ine anoctionato ruvrnnna
of vast multitudes of believers YSatur
day ICeviere.
A Mllllonairo In Sackcloth and Ashes.
A Saratoga correspondent of the Al
bany Timet says :
Among tho recent arrivals at Saratoga
is a young gentleman of great fortuno,
who is a regular summer visitor hero,
and who has invariably mado a groat
display. This season he proposes f do
tho placo on a quieter scale, on account
of his mother's reoent death. This is
how he goes about it : He has a suite of
rooms at the Congross that under his
iuporvision, have been so arranged as to
present a rather sombre appearance, for,
out of respect for his mother's memory,
they have been put in mourning. A
deep black border runs around the ceil
ings, while the wall paper is of a very
gloomy color ; the furniture which ar
rived to-day, is from Egypt, and Is ex
ceedingly grotesque in appearance and
mysterious in style ; nothing liko it has
ever before appeared in Saratoga. The
gontleman announces that he will not
enter the ball-room this summer, but
will entertain his friends in his rooms
in an elegant and costly manner, of
course no levity. Ho is to drive a four-in-hand,
his groom and coachman are to
be attired in mourning ; and mourning
lap robes, like funeral calls, are tn
spread over the seats of his carriages,
which will be painted in keeping with
the habiliments of woe. For these em
blems of sackcloth and ashes he navs
$500 per week. Shoddy society calk
this "filial devotion," and speaks of him
as " such a good son," " but so odd and
eccentric;" while the common-sense
people are unkind enough to call him a
snob, and one of the most outre kind.
St Paul and Minnoanolis am talkino
of a broad avenue or boulevard to con
nect tho two cities,
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A newsboy having been garoted and
robbed in Jacksonville, ill., the Chicago
Timet says that highwaymen will be at
tacking reporters soon, as thof e gentle
men stand next below newsboys in tho
scalo of journalistic opulence.
Tho simplo expedient of driving down
an iron pipe Baved tho life of Levi
Blanchard, who was recently buried in
a well in Melrose, Mass. It was three
hours before he was rescued, but the
pipe gave him air to breathe, and he re
covered. An industrious lady of Carner, Minn.,
was seen day after day of last week
standing upon tho topmost round of a
tall ladder, with paint brush in hand,
slapping tho white paint upon the walls
of a two-story building just as naturally
and effectually as could ono of the lords
of creation in breeches.
An old writer has quaintly said :
" God looks not at tho oratory of our
prayers, how eloquent they aro ; nor at
their geometry, how long they aro ; nor
at their arithmetic, how many they aro;
nor at their logic, how methodical they
aro; but Ho looks at their sincerity,
how spiritual they are.'.'
Tho rats of a certain locality in Hope
well, N. J., recently migrated in two
consocutivo nights to another neighbor
hood. Hundreds of tracks wero visible
where they crossed the road. How thoy
prearranged the time of starting, the
going in two distinct crowds, and some
other questions, are more easily asked
than answered.
An exchange says : Ole BulL whtn
young, attempted suicide, and now he is
tho best violinist in the world. There
is a young man in our neighborhood
wno piays tho accordeon, and he is not
a success. Probably if he were to at
tempt suicide he would learn muoh fas
ter, bhould he succeed in his attempt
at suicide, wo would be just as well sat
isfied." Virginia has amended her constitution
so as to mako it lawful to receive any
rate of interest, not exceeding twelve
per cent per annum, which may bo
agreed upon by tho original parties and
specifiod in the note, bond, or other
writing evidencing the debt The mo
tive of the amendment is doubtless i
attract capital to that State for invest
ment Thore is a new invention in fishing.
Out in West Virginia they sink a Uii
cartridge containing a pound of nitro
glycerine to tho bottom of the river, ex
plode it by an electrical battery, and
then pick up tho fish, stunned but not
killed, on tho surface. At the falls of
Kanawha, the other day, one follow, with
three pounds of nitro-glycerino, took
iiaU pounds ot lish.
Denmark has a school furnished for a
thousand children. One session is hold
in tho morning and another in tho after
noon, and each session is attended by a
different body of children, both being
under tho same general hoad. The
pupils, therefore, attend school only a
half a day. Tho system is said to work
well, and might perhaps bo adopted
with advantage in some of our crowded
cities.
The lay delegates in the lato Episcopal
Convention of Ohio started a league to
provide for tho families of deceased
ministers. Every subscriber to pay two
dollars on tho death of any clergyman
resident within tho diocese. On tlio
basis of nine thousand communicants,
it was thought thero could be obtained
throo thousand subscribers, securing to
the family of deceased clergymen tlio
sum of $0,000.
It should bo generally known that
water standing over night in tho lead
or copper pipes in houses accumulates
enough poison to becomo dangerous for
drinking or cooking purposes. Cam of
poisoning have boon traced also to
water that had remained for a con
siderable time in an ordinary ico pitcher
a most alarming discovery when one
considers how general tho use of me
tallic ice-pitchers has becomo.
Tho statistics of pauperism in Eng
land are frightful. On tho 1st of Janu
ary last tho number of persons in ro
oeipt of relief from the poor rates in
England and Wales was 981,012, or ono
in twenty-three of the population; of"
the number, 16 per cent wero receiving
in-door relief and 31 per oont out-door
relief. Tho most significant part of tho
figures is that of the pauper population
311,512 aro able-bodied adult males and
111,217 ablo-bodicd adult fomalos.
The Lebanon (Ky.) Standard says :
" In cutting into his counter tho other
day, in making an elevator, Mr. Ooorgo
W. Graves discovered a rat's nest which
contained about a quart of fragments of
bills and $13.50 of unmutilated cur
rency. The fragments comprise por
tions of $ 5, $2, and f 1 bills, and differ
ent denominations of fractional cur
rency. Thus aro accounted for a num
ber of lossos incurred years ago, which
tho loser was at tho timo wholly unable
to explain."
A miniature Dead Soa has boon die
covered in Nevada. It lies In an oval
basin, 150 foot below the surface of tho
plain, the banks shelving down with as
mueh symmetry as if fiwhionod by art.
The water of this lake is impregnated
with solublo substanoos, mostly borax,
soda and salt, to a degree that renders
it almost ropy with slime, and ao donso
that a person can float on it without
effort This lake has no visible outlet
or inlet, but boing of great depth is
probably fed by springs far down in tho
earth.
The early-closing movement In Loo
don has proved beneficial, not only to
the clerks, but to their employers. Tha
clerks are of course benefited by the ad
ditional time allowed them for mental
and physical exercise, and the merchant
finds himself recompensed for shortened
hours in the increased energy with
which his assistants apply themselves to
their duties. The compensation of
clerks is still so insignificant as to make
the acquirement of some manual trnta
very desirable for young men who in
tend to struggle for a living in her Maj
esty's dominions,
i