HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher
Nil DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
NO. 10.
VOL. HI.
HIDG WAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSDAY,. JUNE 19, 1873.
THE FACTORY GIRL.
. It was just Ruch a villnge as you seo
in pictures. A background of superb
bold mountain, nil clothed in blue
green cedars, with a torrent thundering
down a deep.gorge, and falling in bil
lows of foam ; a river reflecting the
nznre of the sky ; and a knot of houses,
with a church spire at one end, and a
thicket of factory chimneys at the other,
whose black smoke wrote" ever-changing
hieroglyphics against the brilliancy of
the sky. This was Dapplevale. And
in the rosy sunset of this blossomy June
clay, the girls were all pouring out of
the broad- door-way, while Gerard
Blake, the foreman, sat behind his desk,
ft pen behind his ear, and his small
beady black ,eyes drawn back, as it
were, 4n the shelter of a precipice of
shaggy eyebrow.
Due by one the girls stopped and re
teiveYT 'their pay for the week's work,
for this was Saturday night. One by
one they filed out, with fretful, dis
contented faces, until the last one
passed in front of the high-railed desk.
She was slight and tall, with largo
velvety blue eyes, a complexion as deli
cately grained and transparent as rose
colored wax, and an abundance of glossy
hair of so dark a brown that the casual
observer would have pronounced it
black ; and there was something in the
way" the blue ribbon at her throat was
tied, and the manner in which the sim
ple details of her dress were arranged,
that bespoke her of foreign birth.
W ell, Mademoiselle Annette," said
Mr. Blake, jocosely nodding, "and how
uu you line iactory me r
" It is not disagreeable." she ans-
wered, a slight accent clinging to her
luues, una iragrance to a flower, as sue
extended her hand for the money the
foreman was counting out.
" You have given me but four dol
lars," she said. " It was to bo eight by
the contract."
Mr. Blake shrugged his shoulders
disagreeably.
"Humph!" cruntcd he: " vou ain't
much accustomed to our way of doing
things, are you, Mademoiselle ? Eight
01 course: but we deduct two for
fee"
"A fee! For what?" Mademoiselle
Annette demanded, with flushed cheeks
tind sparkling eyes.
"For getting you the situation,
Mademoiselle, to be sure." said Mr.
Blake, in a superior sort of way. ns if
lie ratner pitied her lack of information.
" Such places don't grow on every bush.
And folks naturally expect to pay some
-thing for the privilege."
"I did not!" flashed out Annette
Puvelle.
"Oh well all rirrlit Tiecnnsn. vrm
know, you ain't obliged to stay unless
you choose. There's plenty of girls
would be glad of the chance of getting
into the .Dapplevale Calico Works.
"Do you mean," hesitated Annette,
"that if 1 do not pay you this money
"lou can t expect to stay in the
works," said Mr. Blake, easily hitching
up his collar. "ies: thats about the
plain English of it, Mademoiselle."
" But the other two dollars ?"
"Oh," said Mr. Blake, "that's a par-
centage the girls all pay.
" But what is it for ?"
Mr. Blake laughed.
"Well, it kind o' helps mt salary
along. Of course, you know, the girls
all expect to pay something every week
for keeping their situations in a place
where there's so many anxious to get
in. lou may consider yourself very
fortunate, Mademoiselle Annette, to se
cure so desirable a post."
All this Mr. Blake uttered, in a slow
deliberate way, through his nose. An
nette Dnville looked scornfully at him,
"And Mr. Elderslie?"
" Oh, Mr. Elderslio," repeated Blake.
" He hu n t nothing to do with it.
run this little machine of the Dapple-
. vale (jalico Works.
"Mr. Elderslio owns it, I believe?"
"Well, yes, he owns it. But I man
age everything. Mr. Eldcrslie reposes
the utmost confidence in my capacity,
ability and and responsibility. Mr.
Elderslio is a good business man. He
understands his own interest. And
now, Mademoiselle, if you've any more
questions to ask " ,
"I have none," said Annette wistful
ly. "But I need this money myself.
1 work hard for it. I earn it righteous
ly. I cannot afford, any more than the
others among these poor laboring girls,
to pay it to your greed "
"Eh!" ejaculated Mr. Blake, jump
ing from his seat as if some noxious in
' sect had stung him.
"And I will not pay it," calmly con
cluded Mademoiselle Annette.
" Very well very well. Just as you
can afford, Mademoiselle, "cried the fore
man, turning red in the face. " Only
if you won't conform to the rules of the
Dapplevale Works "
"Are these the rules t" scornfully
demanded Annette.
" Pray consider your name crossed
off the books," went on Mr. Blake.
" You are no longer in my employ.
(7oort-evening, Mademoiselle Whatever-you-may-call-yourself
. "
And Mr. Blake slammed down the
cover of his desk as if it were a patent
guillotine, and poor Annette Duvelle's
nock were under it.
Two or three of the factory girls, who
had hovered around the open door to
hear the discussion, looked with awe
stricken faces at Annette, as she came
out with the four dollars which she
had received from the cashier in her
hand.
" You've lost your place, Ma'amselle,"
whispered Jenny Purple, a pale, dark
eyed little .thing, who supported a crip-
Eled mother and two little sisters out of
er mulcted earnings.
" And he'll never let you in again,"
added Mary Rice. "He's as vindic
tive as as the old Evil One himself."
"It matters not," said Annettee. "He
is a rogue, and rogues sometimes out
general themselves."
" But you can't starve," said Jenny.
"Look here, ma'amselle, come home
with me. It's a poor place, but we'll
make you welcome till till you can
write to your friends."
Annette turned and impulsively kissed
Jenny on her lips. '
" I thank you," she said ; "but I do
not need your kindness. My friends are
. nearer than you think."
And Annette Du veils went back to
the little red brick cottage, all thatched
with the growth of woodbine and truin-pet-creeper,
where she lodged with the
wife of the man who tended the engines
in the Dapplevale Works.
"Does he cheat you too of your
money ?" she asked, when Simon Pet
tengill came home, smoke-stained and
grimy, to cat his supper.
"One-sixth 1 pays to mm, said
Simon, with an involuntary groan, as
he looked at the five little ones around
his board. " Yes, Miss, he's a villain,
but the world is full o' sich. And I
finds it a pretty middlin' hard world to
get nlong with. Mr. Eldcrslie never
comes here, or may be things would be
bit different. Mr. lildcrslio lives in
Paris, they say." .
" He is in this country now," said
Annette. " I intend to write to him."
Simon Pettengill shrugged his shoul
ders.
" T won't do no good, Miss, said he.
" Yes, it will," said Annette, quietly.
The petals of the June roses had
fallen, a pink enrpet all along the edge
of the woods, and the long July days
had come, epics of sunshine, jewelled
at either end by dew and moonlight.
And the Dapplevale Works wore their
holiday guise, even down to Simon
Pettengill's newly-brightened steam
engine, for Mr. Eldcrslie and his bride
were to visit the works on their wedding
tour.
" It's a pity Ma'amselle Annette went
away so soon," said Simon to his assist
ant ; " 'cause they say the master's kind
hearted in the main, and she might ha'
spoke up for herself.
" Mr. Gerald Blake, in his best broad
cloth suit, and mustache newly dyed,
stood smiling in the broad doorway, as
the carriage drove up to the door, and
Mr. Eldcrslie, a handsome blonde
browed man, sprung out, and assisted a
young lady, in a dove-colored traveling
suit, to alight.
"Blake, how are you ?" he said, with
the careleFsneF of conscious superiori
ty. " Annette, my love, this is Blake,
my foremau."
" Mademoiselle Annette !"
And Mr. Gerald Blake found himself
cringing before theslight French girl he
had turned from the factory door a
mouth before.
" I must beg to look at the books,
Blake," said Eldcrslie, authoritatively.
" My wife tells me some strange stories
about the way things are managed here,
It became so notorious that the rumors
reachedher evenatBlythesdale Springs,
and she chose to come and see for her
self. Annette, my darling, the best
wedding gift we can make to these
poor working girls is a new foreman.
Blake, you may consider yourself dis
missed." " But. sir"
" Not another word," cried Elderslie,
with lowering brow ; and Mr. Gerald
Bioko crept away, with an uncomforta
ble consciousness of Annette's scornful
blue eyes following him.
Elderslie turned to his wife.
" You were right, my love," said he.
" The man's face is sufficient evidence
against him."
And a new reign began for poor Jenny
Purple and the working girls, as well as
for Simon 1'ettengill.
And Annette never regretted her
week's apprenticeship in the Dapplevale
(Jalico Works. .cagcr.
" Catching on Behind."
" Catching on behind " is the crown
iug enjoyment now for boys. Johnny
comes home at night surfeited with
fun ; he has had a good time, but he is
tired. His nose is split open at one
end, and one of his teeth is gone, and
ho has lumps on the back of his head
but he has had a good time, and he has
come home to hear his mother read
about Joseph and his brethren, and rub
him with liniment.
There is huge fun in catching on be
hind, but it requires a great deal of
adroitness and decision. The success
ful lad is he who is never looking for a
ride. He stands with his hands in his
pockets, actively devouring the scenery
with one eye, while the other is prowl
ing around under oover on the lookout
for a good chance. And when it comes
ho pounces down on the cornice of the
sleigh in such a manner as to cover the
most tender parts of himself in case he
has fallen on a Philistine. The solici
tude wit h which a boy shields his tender
parts will bring tears to the eyes of
tax collector. But he always gets on
the sleigh, and gets off, too, when urged
by a long whip-lash j and when he gets
off he rolls liimseif in a lump and mere-
ly lets go, and the fate that always pro
tects boys sees that he bounds into
safety. Wood sleighs, with long, strong
stakes to eaten hold of, are Uodsends.
but a box sleigh, with a place for two to
sit on and make faces at rivals, who are
breaking down their legs and lungs in a
vain attempt to catch up, is not to be
despised.
Laughing Children.
Give me (says a writer) the boy or
girl who smiles as soon as the first rays
of the morning sun glance in through
the window, gay, happy, and kind.
Such a boy will be fit to "make up'!
into a man at least when contrasted
with a sullen, morose, crabbed fellow,
who snaps and snarls like a surly cur
or growls and grunts like an untamed
hyena, from the moment he opens his
angry eyes till he is " confronted " by
his breakfast. Such a girl, other things
being favorable, will be good material
to aid in gladdening some comfortable
home, or to refine, civilize, tame, and
humanize a rude brother, making him
gentle, affectionate, and lovable. It is
a feast to even look at such a joy-inspiring
girl, such a woman girl, and see
the smiles flowing, so to speak, from the
parted lipes, displaying a set of clean
well-brushed teeth, looking almost the
personification of beauty and goodness,
singing, and as merry as the birds the
wide awake birds that commenced their
morning concert long before the lazy
boys dreamed that the sun was ap
proaching, and about to pour a whole
flood of light and warmth upon the
earth. Such a girl is like a gentle
shower to the parched earth, bestowing
kind words, sweet smiles, and acts of
mercy to all around her the joy and
light of the household.
Women in Florida make from $18 to
$23 a week braiding palmetto hats.
A Varied Career.
I man died in Worcester, Mass., a
few days ago, a Springfield paper says,
whose career is a strange illustration of
the power of strong drink to ruin man
hood. Twelve years ago he was a law
yer in Connecticut, then twenty-four
years old, of marked ability anil fine
promise. Entering the army, he served
with distinction, rising to the command
of his regiment. Becoming addicted to
the use of intoxicants, he sank to the
level of a common drunkard, and in
18G5 was allowed to resign to escape
disgrace. While intoxicated in one of
the low dens of New York, one night, he
was "shanghaed" aboard of a China
bark, which sailed the next morning for
Bombay. The vessel was wrecked in
St. Helena Bay, on the west coast of
Africa, and all but nine of the crew lost.
The remainder made their way to Cape
Town, where the ex-soldier commenced
a prolonged debauch. He was finally
arrested, imprisoned, and at last hired
by the authorities to a Dutch farmer,
by whom, in company with several Hot
tentots, he was employed in tending
cattle. After a brief experience of this
kind of life, he escaped and shipped on
small vessel bound through, the
Straits of Madagascar on a tradiug voy
age. Becoming dissatisfied, however,
he again deserted, and penetrating to
the interior of the island, lived some
timo among the natives. He was allowed
to become a settler, had half a dozen
wives, and was for a time considered as
one of the people ; but finally becoming
unpopular, and hearing that he was to
be murdered, he secretly departed at
night. After almost incredible suffer
ings, he reached the coast and put to
sea in an open boat, intending to reach
the main-land. He was picked up by a
vessel bound lor uape xown ana carrieu
back. There he shipped for Singapore,
and, after wandering in China and Japan
for several years, hnally reached ban
Francisco. All this time his habit of
drinking had maintained its ascenden
cy, and had sufficed to counteract the
stimulus which liis adventures might
otherwise have given a bold, daring
spirit. He was physically and mentally
broken down, and incapable of further
effort. He remained in San Francisco
virtually a beggar until about a year
ago, when he appeared in Jiilizabeth, JN
J., as bar-tender at a drinking saloon of
the lowest class. A few months since,
a relative, hearing that he had fallen
sick, and was without friends or means
of support, went to New Jersey and
brought him to Worcester, where he
passed his last days.
Wringing Jokes from a Broken Heart
"Mamma begs you to bo funny,"
was, says the Jjondon Jcio, a sum
ciently uncomfortable message for a
gentleman to receive at an evening par
ty, after having dined luxuriously on
his dozen courses at the mamma s house,
But to be obliged to be " funny" on an
empty stomach, to be " comic for the
entertainment of a public house audi
ence, when in a state of starvation, is
one of the cruelest ironies of Fate of
which we have ever heard. A poor fel
low named David Haslara, aged fifty-
two, has expired at Sal ford under the
trial, and the verdict of the coroner s
jury is " Death from natural causes, ac
celerated by want of medical attendance
and of the proper necessaries of life.
The man's son and three younger mem
bers of the family, all " unfit to work,'
lived together in a poor room, for which
they paid 3s. 2d. a week, and, as usual,
there is a history of an appeal to the
Infirmary, and no notice taken till " the
deceased became worse on Thursday,
and died on Saturday afternoon." For
three weeks he had failed to earn' any
thing by his grim efforts to bo " comic
which usually brought him a magnifi
cent income of from 2s. to 3s. a week
and then he took to his bed for a fort
night, and with a little sage and tea
brought by a charitable neighbor, passed
quietly down the last slope and out at
the door, which leads let. us trust to
a world where there is no need to be
"comic." Of all the ghastly touches
which enter into the picture of our civ
ilization, we know few s blood-chilling
as the presentment of a figure singing
vulgar, hilarious ditties at the door of a
gin palace, iust a few days off from ac
tually dying for want of the necessaries
of lite !
Hindoo Social Law.
A very important case has been de
cided by a full bench of the High Court,
at Calcutta. The question whether a
Hindoo widow, who succeeds to her
husband's estate, forfeits the property
by subsequent unchastity, has long
formed a subject of controversy, it
complicated in India by the prohibition
of widow - remarriago, and it really
amounts to whether a Hindoo widow
shall or shall not be condemned to
life of celibacy, on pain of deprivation
of her estate. The cause came on before
Christmas, and after a protracted in
quiry, with five days' argument before
all the judges, seven of them, including
the Chief Justice, held that unchastily
does not involve forfeiture, while three
of them, including the Hindoo Judge o:
the High Court, held that it did. The
decision is in accord with the views of
the rising generation in Bengal ; but
the point lorms only one of a group
of social questions in native life which
sooner or later must come before the
Legislature. The British Government
has pledged itself to be guided in such
matters by Hindoo law and custom
but the 'ancient law and customs
of
India are ceasing to represent the faots
of native society in Bengal.
Treating, A teetotal orator recently
delivered himseir as follows: ".Now,
boys, if you want to be generous and
treat each other, why not select some
other place beside the liquor shop
Sunnose. as vou cro past the post-office
you Bay, I say, my dear fellow, come
in and take some stamps.' The stamps
will cost you no more than drinks all
round. Or go to the haberdasher's and
say, ' Boys, come in and take a box of
collars. ' Walk up to a grocer's, free and
generous, and say, What kind of coffee
will you have ?' Why not treat to gro
ceries by the pound, as well as liquor
by the glass? Or take your comrades
to a cutler's, and say, ' I'll stand a good
pocket-kail e all round.
Beccher's Notable Sermon.
Henry Ward Beeeher Svrnrlaes hit Con.
ftregatlon "Y a sermon out or the
Church Tenets.
n1!, (fllnTOJurt 4a ft flvnortnia of t.liA
- ' , " I
sermon of Henry Ward Beeeher, in his
Brooklyn church, and which created so
profound a sensation :
"For the former things are passed away."
Rev. xxi. 4.
This was the summation, Mr. Beeeher
said ; the particulars were given before.
He would read from the first verse to
the text. It was as though the voice
had said, " In this world men experi
ence sorrow and trial. Their hopes are
disappointments, their aspirations fail-,
ures. But there comes a world in the
future in which all this the former
things shall have passed away forever. "
This beautiful day was a good day to
talk about heaven. There was no stir
the air, no storm on the water. All
things were beautiful and Btill. The
air was full of odors, distilled from the
white alembics of the flowers. It re
minded one of the rest that remained
for the people of God.
liet them consider tue transition oy
which they should rise into that other
state of existence. Did souls pass im
mediately into blessedness after they
quitted this state ? Or did they lie, as
the Jews believed, in a vast receptacle
awaiting the last day ? The New Testa
ment was not clear on the subject, but
by implication its teaching was that
they rose at once into the divine pres
ence. No allusion was made by Paul
to an interval or dormant state, and yet
he made constant reference to the con
dition of men after death. He never
intimated that the soul took a sort of
unconscious vacation, awaiting a general
nieatherinfir to the spiritual sphere,
Nor did such an idea address itself to
any human instinct which desired it to
bo true. Paul's doctrine was, "Absent
from the body, present with the Lord.
Out of this, into that, mere was a
spriner of immediateism in his doctrine.
If there was a great slumberous interval
after death, why was there no hint of it
in the Word of God ? Mr. Beeeher did
not affirm with arrogant positiveness
that this doctrine was true and none
other, but he thought that scripture
warranted the presumption that they
had a rieht to believe so.
This doctrine, Mr. needier said, did
not exclude the idea of progress. They
had the testimony of Christ in Matthew's
gospel. Among the Jews, in order that
a woman's right of property might not
go out of the tribe, it was possible for
her to marry all the men of a household
(jurist was asKeu wnose who sucn an
one should be in the next world. Christ
said. " Ye do err. not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God. For
in the resurrection they neither marry
nor are given in marriage, but are as
the angels of God." Men in the next
world were to bo as the angels. There
was progress. They were not to propa
gate, not to frame themselves into little
companies as on earth. The family re
lation there was to be different. The
passions which continue the race, hun
ger and thirst which prompt to bodily
nourishment, the combative powers
requisite for protection here, Vero not
required in the future state ; why, then,
need men possess these powers or pas
sions or longings when they had left
behind them the conditions which re
quired them ? When we left the body,
we should leave behind us many burnt
out passions.
In the other life, too, our minds
would be disabused of many functions
which it was needful for them to have
here. We should not carry our earthly
bodies into the other life, yet we should
have spiritual bodies which would iden
tify us one from the other. The souls
that emerged from death into heaven
would range along an extended scale
There would be a system of progress,
Those souls that were low in spiritual
culture in this life would be low down
the ssale in the next. Each soul would
begin with the capital acquired in this
life. Those who had one talent would
be far below those who had five. Each
one would possess, as it were, a specific
gravity in the other, and would rest ac
cordingly. But scripture justified the
belief that all would be as happy as
they could bear. -I hey would develop,
however, with a rapidity of which we
could form no conception. Children
who entered the next life as children
would rise and develop more swiftly
than on earth. Men of low culture here
would there grow with wondrous rapid
ity, so that the lowest and least would
speedily outgrow all this world s stand
ards. Take away from man all that be
longed to his lower nature, and giv
him in force all that pertained to his
higher nature, and then you might con
ceive of the aptitude with which he
would receive the lessons of the other,
He would be in a society, too, where all
would move with one intent the evil
gone, the temptation diopped out;
moved together, like the Gulf Stream,
mightily, irresistibly. There would be
also the direct influence of God how
mighty the influence, how noble the
jy I
We might thus see, said Mr. Beeeher,
how men who, when they died, were not
very fit for heaven, and heaven might
develop what earth never would have
developed. Sometimes when opening
up a long disused well men found a few
old seeds at the bottom. They had lain
there for years. There was no sign of
life about them. They were brought to
the light, however, and the sun shone
upon them. They began to grow and
sprout, and soon became healthy, vigor
ous plants. One might conceive people
here unfitted by force of animal pas
sions for a spiritual life, who, neverthe
less, when death took away what was
their bane on earth, might bepin a new
life in a future state. Some represented
a man as taking into the next world the
nature, the disposition he had in this.
How could we conceive a man's taking
all his sensual, rude, inchoate nature
into the other life ? He did not take it
with him. Men grew as straw. We
could conceive a germ which when
freed from the chaff and bettered, nur
tured, and educated, and glowed on by'
the sun of God's love would open up
and grow and flourish. On earth, all
through much sin and darkness it lived
and grew some at times. But, with a
thousand hindrances shredded off, we
could understand how men whom soci
ety rejects now, may get standing room
in heaven, not high up, but a starting
pint? e. If heaven was so rigidly pure,
then death must be a great sifter. Look
at the saint of years. How imperfect,
how deficient, how very far down he is.
What man ever walked to the gate of
heaven, and had the angel lay on him
that scale, and say, " Enter, because
thou art pure ?" Not one, though he
may have been washed by floods of
tears,-and sifted by years oi trial, ana
ennobled by acts of heroism. No J
heaven was opened by grace by grace
only, by Love. God lets in whom he
would, and we didn't know his gauge.
Some might say. " Is it safe to hold
such views as these ?" What right had
they to challenge God ? He said, " I
will have mercy on whom I will. God
refused to be questioned on his gener
osity. If the best went not into heaven
because he earned it, but because oi tne
act of great love, why might not the
bottomest go in too ? So long as a man
possessed a atate of mind that was im
provable there was a chance for him,
and the preacher did not believe God
would cast him away. Mr. Beeeher did
not believe there was a person on the
face of the earth who had heard the
Gospel and in whose soul there was any
thing improvable who would not find
an entrance into heaven low down, it
might be, but the lowest place there
was infinitely better than the highest
here.
We sow a ragged lad in the street,
unkempt, untaught, rude, grovelling.
Our Christian sympathy was touched,
Imitating Christ, we set to work to
transform him, and in course of time we
had the satisfaction to see him grow up
and develop into a man of intelligence,
worth, and piety. All this was done by
our only imitating the spirit of Christ,
And should we be able to perform more
than the infinite love and tenderness of
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ? If any perished, it was the
perishing of the beast destruction,
Down iu the South one could see slaves
seventy years of age sitting over their
books learning A, B, C. And in the
other life we should see slaves of sin
sitting in heaven learning the alphabet.
Better to start at the bottom of heaven
than not at all.
How many persons were there, Mr,
Beeeher said, who lived in perpetual
sorrow, and went mourning day and
night because their son a young man
had died without giving evideuce of a
savinsr change. "I ye lost him for
ever." they sav. " I don't know how it
is with you," said Mr. Beeeher, with the.
tears choking his voice, " but my sun
would go out and leave all dark if
thought such a thing. The dropping
away of a child to join that procession
to enter that life of infinite misery !
Every loving parent would be willing to
sav. ' Would God I were accursed from
Christ to save thee, my son !' Where
there is a germ of good in it, I don't be
lieve a soul is going to be thrust away
by that hand that was pierced. 1 don i
believe that that love which was shown
in Christ is going to throw away one
soul with a germ of good in it. And so
I hope I hope."
This subiect ought to comfort those
unable in this world to resist tempta
tion. vet desiring to do so. There was
hope for them in the future, though
there seemed none now.
His passions died out. Many a man
calling himself a sinner had that in him
worth saving, which might have given
him a place not high up but still
place to grow in heaven.
Let us, then, go to our daily busi
ness, believing that there was a germ
God would not let die out unless w
ruthlessly trod it under foot and put it
out. Let us remember that if we bore
up to the throne of God notthatwhich
was perfect, but what was worth plant
ing not one germ would liod throw
away. Let us not think that by any
mystic sorcery or secretchange we could
become" heirs of heaven. There was
warning for the over confident, as well
as comfort for the imperfect and
simple
A short prayer and a hymn closed the
service. Mr. Beeeher spoke with great
power, and the audience were affected
to tears repeatedly. At the close, a lady
who had listened with deep emotion to
the discourse, stood up and said aloud
to the preacher with streaming eyes,
" God bless you, sir, for that noble ser
mon." Carried Her Point.
San Francisco has witnessed a scene
which has created much fun, but more
profanity in every post-office in the
United States. " A female argonaut of
fearful vitality," we read in the San
Francisco Bulletin, " a tall and ex
tremely ugly female, called at the post
officef, tendered ninety-nine coppers to
the urbane clerk, and asked in lieu
thereof three-cent stamps. The official
remarked that he could only receive
four coppers as a legal tender, and at
the expense of a deal of precious time
endeavored to convince the female that
he was guided by certain rules, and had
no latitude in the matter. ne waxed
wroth, and remarked that when, in the
course of human events, it became ap
parent that United States coin was to be
refused by a United States official, she
tlwuight her forefathers had died in
vain, and considered it her duty to bring
the Government to account. Then she
paced tho corridor of the post-ofiice
until she had made thirty-three separate
tenders of the coppers and obtained
thirty-three three cent stamps. During
her transactions with the clerk she gave
him much unsolicited advice, and other
wise contributed to the enjoyment of a
little kuot of spectators. The clerk
acted the gentleman throughout."
Double Eogs. Tltere is a hen in
Utica of a modest and lowly turn of
mind. Conscious of her inability to
competo with some of her sisters in
different parts of the country that have
been laying eggs as large of these of
the ostrich, the Utica fowl has 6ought
celebrity for delicate elegance by pro
ducing eggs of about the size of hot
house grapes. She has indeed gone a
little further than this in the pursuit of
novelty. Into the little eggs she puts
no yolks, so that her productions are
more curious than valuable.
Asiatio cholera has appeared in two
Tillages of West Prussia,
Capturing a Bank.
A darinor and remarkable robbery was
perpetrated at the bank at St. Gene
vieve, Mo., recently. In the morning
the cashier of the bank was standing on
tho steps of the building conversing,
when two strangers walked briskly up
the steps, passing between them, and
entered the office. The cashier, sup
posing that thev wished to transact
some business, followed them into the
room, and passinsr them near the mid
dle of the counter, which he mtenoeu
to step behind, was suddenly arrested
by a sharp " Halt!'.' and turning, found
revolver almost touching ins iieaa.
The ruffian who presented the weapon
quickly informed him that a movement
would cost him his life, and the cashier,
being convinced that such was the case,
prudently stood still.
In the meantime tne accomplice rus li
ed toward a young man present, at the
same time drawing a pistol and threat
ening him with instant death if he
moved. The young man, seeing the
intention of the scoundrels, bounded
down the steps and toward the more
densely populated portion of the town,
with the intention of giving the alarm.
He had scarcely reached the ground,
however, when robber No. 2 fired at
him. The bullet passed under the
shoulder of young Eozier s coat, plough
ing a furrow through the skin and
flesh, but not injuring tho bones. The
yonng man felt that he was hit, but re
doubled his speed and was soon beyond
pistol shot range. Robber No. 2, find
ing that his intended victim had es
caped, immediately rejoined his com
panion, and placed his pistol at the
head of tho colored porter, who at that
moment appeared. The cashier was
ordered at once to unlock the safe, and
knowing that a refusal would result ill
his immediate death, complied with the
order.
The robbers then hastily seized all
the monev thev could find, toeether
with a tin box belonging to the sheriff
of the county, and containing ?1UU in
gold, a number of notes and some
valuable papers. The greater portion
of the money in the safe was in bills of
a comparatively, small denomination,
and although the ruffians evidently
thought they had secured a very large
amount, they in reality got only about
83.500.
After pocketing tho money they
placed the cashier between them, and
locking the porter in the bank, walked
toward the outskirts of the town. When
they had proceeded about two hundred
and fiftv vards thev met two confed
erates on liorseback who led two other
horses. As they neared the two horse
men, one of the led animals took fright
and broke away. One of the horsemen
went in pursuit, and seeing another
man on horseback approaching, drew
his pistol and threatened to shoot him
if he did not stop the runaway. The
horseman, a German living in the vi
cinity, managed to head oft' and secure
the runaway, and the four robbers
quickly got together on the road.
The cashier, who had iu the mean
time been a close prisoner, was then
ordered to leave as scon as his two
captors were mounted, and finding him
self at liberty, turned toward the town,
An ominous click, click, caused him to
jump quickly to one side in time to
avoid a pistol ball, and, by lively
dodging, he succeeded in escaping
three more shots fired at him. One of
the ruffians seemed inclined to pursue
him on horseback, and kill him, but
was dissauded by his comrades, and all
four started oil at a hard gallop.
In the meantime young Rozier had
alarmed the town, and fifteen minutes
after the gang took their departure ten
or a dozen mounted men, armed with
double guns, loaded with buck-shot,
were in Lot pursuit.
The cashier, who, while in the road
had also been stripped of his gold
watch, chain, and a small amount
money, immediately started for St,
Louis to consult with Chief McDonough
He met the Chief and told him the
story substantially as eriven above.
The robbers were superbly mounted
but their horses were somewhat jaded
It is believed that they intended
reach Perryville and the Arkansas line,
and from there get into the mountains
but if such was their intention it is al
most certain that the pursuing party
will overtake them.
The particulars of the daring bonk
robbery in Missouri will recall the
striking similar burglary of the JianK
of Columbia, Ky., which occurred about
twelve months ago. Four or five armed
desperadoes entered the bank in broad
daylight, forced the cashier to open the
safe, and deterred interference from
citizens by shooting at every person
who appeared upon the streets, and
finally made their escape unmolested
after murdering the cashier in cold
blood. These men were never cap
tured ; and the circumstance's of the at
tack upon the bank at St. Genevieve,
are so extraordinarily alike in every de
tail except the murder to the tragedy
at Columbia, as to suggest its being the
work of the same desperate scoundrels.
Fashionablo Dress.
Says the Loudon Echo : "A corres
pondent notices, among the arcaua of
fashionable dress, a fact which, if duly
pondered by those of its wearers whose
means do not justify a large outlay to
secure extreme originality of attire, may
produce considerable revolution iu the
mode of obtaining those exquisite
toilcttca which at this moment rival the
flowers of May in variety and freshness.
The ready-made costumes sold in large
shops frequently cost about the same
sum as those made by a reasonable
dressmaker, whose materials are sup
plied by her customer. This circum
stance recalls the anecdote of a provin
cial, who, having given a famous Pari
sian tailor some home-spun cloth to
make up into a coat, was surprised to
find that his bill came to the same
amount as that of a customer whose suit
had been made of the tailor's own stuff.
You will observe, sir,' said the artiste
in broadcloth, in reply to his remon
strance, 'that nothing is charged- in this
establishment for materials. Customers
pay only for my name.'"
An Iowa justice, with rightful claim
to the title, has fined a man $5 for
snatching a paper from a newsboy,
Items of Interest.
A boy eleven years old, in Detroit,
feigns death so perfectly that only ex
perts can discover signs of life,
Writers of indecent matter on postal
cards are subject to a fine of not less
than $100, nor more than $5, 000 for each
offence. ; .
v.cinn Mffltnon sense now go
hand-in-hand as regards feminine foot
the broader the sole, the more stylish
the boot. -.':
A tipw fabric, made of woven glass,
has been invented for ladies' dress ma
terial. It can't be stained, and is in
combustible, i
Mayor Stokley, of Philadelphia, has
given orders that the law prohibiting
the sale of oysters in that city in the
months of June; July, and August be
strictly enforced.
It is asserted that tho body of a wo-
man, wno was ourneu iu ngim..
days ago, was entirely consumed, even
to the bones, but that the heart re
mained intact, and was scarcely charred
at all.
Three hundred thousand dollars
worth of the bonds stolen from the
Waterford, N. Y., Bank, some.time ago,
have been returned by the thieves, who
have received thirty-five per cent, and
immunity from punishment for their
trouble.
A man and his wife are reported to
have died recently, near the ltoane
Mountain, in Carter county, Tenn., from
using milk, said to have been rendered
poisonous by the cows eating grass on
which vapors impregnated with arsenic
had settled.
An old ladv. three hundred and
ninety-one years old, lately walked two
hundred Iowa miles in one day, chopped
ten cords of wood, dug fifty bushels of
potatoes, and then danced all night.
This is told in an euon to quiet mo
Cleveland Herald.
Several Irishmen were disputing one
day about the'invincibility of their re
spective persons, when one of them re
marked, " Faith, I'm a brick." " And
indade I'm a bricklayer," said another,
giving the first speaker a blow that
brought him to tho ground.
Senator Scott was talking to a Penn
sylvania Sunday-school, and asked tho
scholars why imon was Kept in prison.
One of the teachers quietly prompted a
boy to say that it was for a hostage, and
the youth, not quite catching the words,
piped out: "lie was detameu ior post
age." They have a business-like method of
procedure in Kansas. In the midst of
the excitement caused by the discovery
of the terrible Bender murders, a smmi
board was put up near one of the graves,
announcing that the deserted iseiuier
claim had been preempted by another
Bettler.
There is a young ladv on Fifth avenue,
Now York, who is puzzling all her ac
quaintances as to how she colors her
hair. She changes its color every
other day ; one day it will be auburn,
another brown, another golden, another
jet black. How on earth she does it we
dan't know, but she does.
While Zachary Kehoo was appeasing
his appetite at a St. Louis restaurant, a
day or two ago, the tail stooi upon
which he was perched suddenly gave
way, and in the fall he broke his arm.
He asserts that the tiling was nxeu up
to break, as a practical joke, and de
mands $1,500 damages for his injuries,
and his interrupted collation.
The Milford (Del.) News has discov
ered a new enemy to the peaches, it
being a sort of weei', which, under
tho glass, bears strong resemblance in
color, shape, and motion to the black
heart-worm of corn, though, unlike
that, it can suspend itself by a web. It
is thought it is hatched outside of tho
bud, eats its way in, and then speedily
departs.
A Boston writer says that men do not
kill themselves so much by overwork as
by inattention to the common laws of
health. They eat at improper hours,
they do not exercise, they neglect tho
prime essential sleep, they break down,
and overwork gets tho blame. A man
is like an engine ; ho will stand a certain
amount of high pressure, and no more.
Half the quarrels and litigations in the
R-orld are caused by bad digestion ; and
we think he is pretty nearly correct.
How It Is Done.
They tell the story of a captain of a
North Biver bout, who was something
of a wag in his way. A committee of
the New York Legislature was on the
captain's boat making a tour of inspec
tion, and one of the members, who knew
the captain of old, attempted to extract
amusement for himseu ana ins luiiow
memhers bv rallvincr the captain on his
preach ing, as it was reported that he
sometimes indulged in tnai exercise.
" O ! said the captain, "l ve taken
to the law lately."
H.m,ln ' Tint, born admitted ?"
Captain " Yes. regular : passed my
examination in open court."
. Senator" And answered all tne
questions fair and square, captain ?"
Captain " All out one.
Senator " And what was that?"
Captain " I don't like to tell ; it may
hurt your feelings, and some of the gen
tlemen here may be offended."
All " U no ; out wua u ; wnat was
it? Let's hear."
Captain "Well, the judge asked me
and I couldn't tell ' How can a man
go to the Legislature, get three dollars
a day, pay five dollars a day for his
board, and lay up money ?' "
The committee gave the captain a
round of applause, and invited him to
supper that night, which he positively
declined.
Nicotine ra Tobacco-Smoke. Exper
iments, by Dr. Heubel, do not confirm
the alleged absence of nicotine from
tobacco smoke ; on the contrary, by
condensing snioke from cigars, and
washing it in water and alcohol, he ob
tained a solution which was capable of
Eroducing the effects of nicotine ; and
e also detected its presence, chemical
ly, in the form of the salts more perma
nent at high temperatures. The effect
of smoking, he concludes, must there
fore be ascribed, in part at least, to the
absorption of nicotine, though other
substances may act vitb this poison.