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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPEItANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. IIT.
RIDGWAY. ELK COUNTY. PA., THUKSPAY;IECEMBEK 4, 1873.
NO. 40.
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The Woodman mid Hie Sandal-Tree.
eside a SRiulal-trco tho woodman stood
And swung the axe, and, as the strokes were
laid
Upon the fragrant trunk, the goneroua wood,
With its own sweets, perfumed the cruel
blade.
Go, then, and do the like ; a soul endued
With light from heaven, a nature rure and
great,
Will place its highest bliss in doing good,
And good for evil give, and love for hate.
Wm. C. Dryant.
MY FRIEND JACK TEMPLE.
My friend Jnck Temple was bo poor
and proud thnt I wonder Low he ever
eame to fall in love with Mies Annie
Heath, who wns much the greatest
heiress in the neighborhood. It was a
mountain neighborhood, and the house
inhabited by Miss Annie crowned a
lofty hill just opposite the small cottage
of my friend. The worldly fortunes of
the two personages were indeed shown
by their mansions. Annie's was what is
called "palatini," and made an imposing
Bhow with its broad front and extensive
brings rising grandly from the clumps
of century oaks in the midst of its
large park. Jack's was a little hunting
lodge, half concealed by flowering
Vines, with a small grass plat ; indeed
the farm attached to it was not much
larger than the grass-plat. Both were
orphans, and had become acquainted
wjiu cuu utuer a year beiore by acci
dent, this accident resulting in love on
Jack's part and indifference on the part
of the young lady.
Having firmly resolved in his mind
that he would never, under any circum
stances, subject himself to the charge
of paying his addresses with mercenary
views to an heiress, Jack Temple one
morning proceeded to do what young
men in love are in the habit of doing
he went to see his fair neighbor. This
was a matter of small difficulty. lie
went down the hill on which his cottage
Btood, struck into a winding path, got
into a small boat tied to a willow for
there ran a mountain stream between
the two domains paddled over, and
walked up the hill on which stood the
mansion.
On the porch two young ladies were
seated. Young lady No. 1 was Annie
Heath, tall, with brown hair, bine ryes,
and what is called "queenly," not a
very cordial-looking young person.
Young lady No. 2 was Miss Augusta
Wesley, cousin resident, small, plump,
smiling. The latter received Jack Tem
ple with such winning sweetness, that
at only made the cool and distant man
ner of the heiiess more marked, and
the visitor suddenly found himself com
pletely ignored by her. She had turned
her head and was looking at a tine
equipage ascending the hill, in which
equipagp, bnhinrl Viio tnn fast hoi-es
JBat Mr. Tom Ashton, the beau t Jjjis..
county. When Mr. Ashton, dHvtftrg '
the reins to his servant, passed his kid
gloved hand through his locks, and
came up smiling, Jack Temple found
himself extinguished, and half an hour
afterwards went howe, muttering with
great ire: . 'AfeJjVv.- .
" I wonder if Miss Amno "Heath
thinks I am beneath her notice because
I am poor, and came to see her because
she is sick t I'll stay away in future
what do I care for her !"
Having made which indignant pro
test Jacob Temple looked miserable,
being in love.
There is a nail in every shoe and a
thc.rn in many households the thorn
nt Oakhill being a maiden aunt of An
nie's, of vinegarish temper, Miss Jemi
ma. " It is really disgusting to see these
fortune hunters flocking.-hwe !" said
Miss Jemima one morning about a week
after Jack Templo's visit.
" What fortune hunters?" said An-uiid-vHiajn
the indignant exclamation
was addressed.
" That shabby young Temple for
one," said Miss Jemima.
The voting lady bestowed upon her
aunt a look of extreme indifference.
Was he shabby ? I did Lot observe
his clothes," she said.
" You know what I mean; I hate such
affectation ! He is mercenary nud a
pauper."
" Is he poor ?"
Miss Jemima looked more than ever
outraged at such affected ignorance.
" Toor ! yes he is poor, and as grand
as if ho was somebody. "
The explanation of which attack was,
that not having received much ottention
from the vineguriah lady, Jack Temple
had committed the blunder of paying
her no attention in return.
" Well," said Miss Annie, with ex
treme coolness and indifference to her
aunt's indignation, "I have no objection
to Mr. Temple's being grand, if he
chooses. He is only an acquaintance. "
" Ho is in love with you 1"
Miss Annio turned her head quickly.
"In love. Pshaw! What folly. But
f lease let us change the subject, aunt,
am tired to death of it. I intend to
marry nobody."
"You must,"
" Why should I ?"
"A young lady iu your situation must
many sooner or later, and you could
not do better than take Mr. Ashton."
Which was the result of the most as
siduous attention to the maiden aunt
on the part of the astute Tom Ashton.
Annie Heath looked at her maiden
relative for some moments in astonish
ment, and then said with a little point
and some show of irritation :
"I wish you would not annoy me to
death with your match-making, aunt. I
don't intend to marry Mr. Temple if
he asks me or Mr. Ashton, or anybody;
and I'm sick of being worried 1"
She put on a little chip bonnet with a
flirt angry and went out of the room
and down the hill toward the stream to
avoid persecution. She was full of en
nui. Her little pleasure-boat was at
the bank, bhe stepped into it, and be
gan to play in the water like a child.
Thereupon an event occurred whioh
dispelled her ennui. The boat had been
negligently fastened in stepping upon
it she had pushed it from shore and
lo I Miss Annie found herself drifting
down toward some ugly looking rocks
below, where ten to one the boat would
be capsized, for the water ran swiftly,
luad the rocks were sharp and edged
w ith foam. Annie was a sensible girl.
She looked around for a paddle there
was none. She looked around for help
none. Then she looked forward, and
the jagged rocks seemed to grin at her
and say, " You are our prey 1" Then all
traces of ennui completely 'disappeared,
and the girl became quite pale she ut
tered a little stilled cry, and thought
she was going to be drowned. The boat
swept on the waves dragged it swift
er nud Bwif ter it began to race and
There is always a good genius which
watches over maidens in distress. A
boot had, unseen by Annie, darted from
the opposite shore, where Jack Temple
had been rambling. He had seen her
peril, came as fast as his paddle would
drive him, and now reached her just os
her boat neared the dangerous reef.
The two crafts struck, and the shock
threw the girl into the water. Five min
utes afterwards the youth was carrying
up the bank, in his arms, the drenched
and limp looking damsel one slipper
less foot in a white stocking protruding
from her streaming skirt.
Some cries, exclamations, explana
tions, nnd tears followed, then Miss
Annie Heath walked up the hi!', escort
ed by her friend, both in on extremely
wet condition,
A tragic event succeeded. What in
duced him to perform so absurd an
action Jack Temple never could explain
afterwards ; but he proceeded then and
there carried away by the excitement
of the moment to propose ! He pro
posed, makiug a passionate avowal of
his love, and the blushing, pointing,
confused, somewhat irritated Annie flat
ly discarded him !
Just an hour after this scene Jack
Temple was walking up and down at his
own house, and reflecting with moody
eyes and blushing cheeks.
" Well, I have made a fool of myself
at last !" ho muttered, " and she has
the right to despise me uow. The best
thing for me to do is to leave this coun
try and her and I will I"
It is a singular fact that Annie was
also blushing at the same moment and
muttering to herself. She had changed
her clothes and was sitting in hercham
ber. "Just to think 1" she whimpc-red,
" he saw me looking like (hat and I
had lost one of my slippers 1"
Jack Temple went to a party iu the
neighborhood on this same evening
being au impulsive youth, with an ob
jection to moping and met Miss
.Augusta Wesley, the poor cousin of the
i-icn aiimc, ni iiome witn a head
ache." He spent two or three hours tete-a-tete
witUMisRi August a. who beamed on
him with sweetest Witles, obscurely al
luded to the misadventure of the morn
ing, which she suspected, and not ob
scurely intimated that Mr. Temple
would nave better luck in another
-iiJJLiS1"- After which she cast down her
When Jack Temple came liome he
said to himself :
" She is certainly very handsome.
What if I were to1'
He broke off, and muttered with a
satirical laugh,
'" No I suppose I am a fortune hun
ter after all. If I can't get the heiress,
I won't try the other !"
On the very next morning an evenf
occurred which nobody could have
foreseen, unless it was Miss Jemima,
who stated subsequently that she had
l'oreseeu it. It was a thunderbolt, and
was preceded by a visit from Mr. Tom
A-htou, touching which gentleman a
word or two is here necessary. Tom
Ashton was not such a bad fellow he
was only " hurd-np," very hard-up in
deed, lie had been wealthy, but cards
gradually absorbed him. No one wins
iu the long run at this bnsiness. Mr.
Ashton east his eyes upon the broad
acres of Annie Heath, paid assiduous
court to the heiress, and on this morn
ing, after on elaborate toilet which set
off his handsome person to great ad
vantage, had visited Oakhill, lirmly re
solved to propose.
Annie was laboring under ennui, as
usual, and welcomed him and his gay
talk. This cheered the aspiring bach
elor; he deployed his brightest smiles
nud most sentimental graces; ho made
a touching speech; ho extended his jew
eled hand with impulsive ardor to take
that of the lad j, when suddenly there
appeared at the door of the parlor Miss
Jemima.
"What is the matter, aunt?" said
Annie, calmly.
" Tii in is the matter ! '
" What V"
" This J" screamed Miss Jemima, rat
tling a paper in her hand.
. "But what is it?"
" Another will of your uncle's, leav
ing his property to Augusta !"
Solomon Heath, Esq., a rusty.crusty,
and growling old bachelor, with the ex
pression "no women about me 1" habit
ually upon his lips, found one morning
to Ins immense surprise that he had
adopted Auuie Heath and Augusta
eblev. orphan nieces.
He then proceeded to quarrel with
them for the rest of his life especially
with Auuie, who was what is called
"high spirited;" and as uncle andniece
hud had an altercation a little while be
fore his death, Miss Jemima, maiden
aunt, who had also come to live at
"Oukhill," said:
" I would not be surprised if the
property goes to Augusta, though he
likes Annie the best.
The will gave the great Oakhill estate,
however, to Annie, with a pittance to
Augusta. What Miss Jemima had now
found was a second will, made on the
day of Solomon Heath's death, revers
ing this disposition, leaving Annie near
ly penniless, and giving Oakhill to
Aeusta.
The rich had become poor and the
poor hud become rich.
Mr. Ashton put his hand in his pocket
not offering further to take Annie s-
and soon afterwards retired. The news
spread. On that evening seven differ
ent acquaintances told Jack Temple
about it.
In consequence of this intelligence
Jack Temple a face glowed, a light-
hearted laugh came from his lips, and
on the very next morning he went over
to uaknui.
He talked with Annie iu the drawing-
room for tin hour, Anybody who might
have been listening would have heard
these words spoken at the end of the
interview :
"Hove you I more than words can
tell you try to care a little for me
wily a little if only after awhile, and
do not send me away forever 1"
Having said this, Jack Temple broke
down. He paw through a sort of husce
a face full of blushes, and heard a voice
with a tremor in it murmur:
" I can not I do not euro for you as
I ought to to be your wife. Aiid no
I will not soy that. I know thut rich
or poor I am the same to you "
Then the maiden broke down also,
shedding a fow tears. When he went
away Jack Temple was in a more hope
less condition thou before the second
discardal was worse than the first.
Annie Henth was going slowly to her
room when Miss Jemima, who, for some
unknown reason cordially disliked her,
met her on the steps and stopped her.
" So your flue admirer has proposed !"
she said snarling.
"Flense let me go, aunt."
" Madam is grand !"
"I am annoyed, aunt."
" Annoyed 1 You will please learn,
miss, that yon are no longer mistress
here."
"I know it very well."
" You are nobody ! nobody I "
" I know it," Annie said coldly, her
anger rising a little.
"Then please behave yourself as
such."
The girl turned and looked at her.
Alas ! and alas 1 It was true, too
true ! the report, namely, a few weeks
after this that Mr. Ashton was engaged
to be married to Miss Augusta Wesley.'
It was currently reported that, when
pressed to name the happy day, the fair
Augusta, blushing deeply, named a day
so very near that Mr. Ashton ungallant
ly expressed a doubt whether even he
could be ready in so short a time. But
he reflected that women were uncertain;
raised some money at sixty per cent, to
purchase gloves Rndjfor other expenses ;
and one mouth afterwards had the satis
faction of standing in a graceful attitude
with Miss Augusta on his arm in front
of a clergyman who declared that they
were man and wife.
Kisses, congratulations, change of
costume for brown traveling dress ; the
happy pair borne away in a chariot to
the station where the snorting train re
ceived them. Three weeks afterwards
they were in dear, delightful Paris,
walking arm iu arm iu the Tuileries
garden the manly, elegantly gloved
Tom Ashton and his blushing, happy
bride !
Jack Temple made a last attempt. He
eame one evening and. fiiidiucr Annie
Heath strolling over the grounds where
the great trees were now touched bv the
fl"S';r.jjllt.lmnt, joined hertand they
The youth then poured forth his love.
tie was not worthy oi her sue was an
angel he was nobody what was he to
look so far above him but ho loved her
loved her dearly ! he was poor, but
he would work for her, give his life to
her if only only
lou will probably laugh at all tins,
worthy reader, if you have the misfor
tune to be over forty-five but that is
the way a young mail talks when ho is
very much in love.
Unluckily for Jack Temple, he hud
uttered just one sentence too much,
and used an unfortunate word the
woid "poor." Miss Jemima had more
than once denounced him to Annie as a
"fortune hunter," and Annio was con
scious ot having suspected him as
heiresses will. Now a great flush of
hame came to her face ; she had treat
ed him coldly when she was rich, now
when she was poor he crime to offer his
heart and his life, and shame paralyzed
her. She said, " No, no; I can not !"
and hurried back to the house just at
Llusk.
A week afterwards she left Oakhill
and went to begin her duties as young
ladies' teacher in the house of on old
gentleman, a tenderly attached friend,
an hundred miles distant. Six months
afterwards, Jack Temple, who had vis
ited Annie ihree times and each time
had been discarded with perfect dis
tinctness, sold his little estate, packed
his trunks, and was making his last ar
rangements for taking the train on the
next morning for Arizona, where he in
tended to "rough it and try, if he
could, to forget Annie Heath.
He 6tood at the window looking across
the valley toward Oakhill.
" I can t go without telling the old
place good-by," he said with a groan ;
" 1 must look at the window ot her
room the seat she sat on the path her
little feet pressed ! "
There he choked.
Jack Temple walked down the hill,
crossed in his little bout, cast a glance
toward the spot where Annie had fallen
into the water, and went up the wind
ing path in the Oakhill grounds.
He had seen as he left his own door,
a traveling carriage ascend the winding
road to the large mausion, doubtless
containing some friends or visitors of
Miss Jemima, who was " in command "
ot the hall ; but these strangers, he re
flected, would not be apt to disturb him
in the remote rustic, seat in the dell
under the old oak.
He went to the seat now and sat
down, thinking of the girl and trying to
fancy her beside him. The sun was
just setting, and the ruddy light rested
like a crown of cold upon the summit
of the immense oak, whose leaves were
whispering in a light breeze. A little
spring near was bubbling and laughing
the whisper and the laughter mingled
and were charming,
Jack Temple was so much absorbed
in his sorrowful thoughts that his chin
fell upon his breast and his eyes were
half closed. Ha went over his whole
acquaintance with Annie, his repeated
discomfitures, the scenes here, all ; and
the result was that he muttered to him
self :
" There is no hope for me whatever.
I have done my best. She will never
care for me "
A light hand was placed upon his
ahulder a finger, rather and the
touch of the finger was as fitting as the
breeze whioh funned his face. He start
ed, for he had thought himself entirely
alone. Iu this he was entirely mistaken.
Annie Heath was standing behind him.
He lookpd up at her with a sort of
wonder. She was blushing and smiled
a little ; but the smile was a sad one,
" I did not know "
He stopped.
" Oh, Annie I "
He had her hand in his own, clasped
tight, and was looking at her with all
his soul in his eyes.
She did not withdraw the haud in the
least.
" You hove not asked mo how I came
without your knowing it," she said
with the sad, wistful smile. "I came
down the other path, and the grass, I
suppose, kept you from hearing me."
" Yes, yes but "
The girl's head sank.
"I have something very, very sad to
tell you," she said, not appearing to
observe that he held her hand and was
gnziug upward with the deepest tender
ness, into the sweet, proud face under
the chip hat.
"Sad ? sad?" he stammered. " Oh
no ! do not toll me again but I am in
a maze what brings you here ? You
must have come in that carriage this
evening. I saw it, and thought it might
be those people eoming to take posses
sion of what wasyours once how I hate
them 1"
A small white hand covered his
mouth.
" Hush 1" said Annie, in a low, awe
struck voice, " you must not say you
hate the dead 1"
" The dead I"
" Poor, poor Augusta ! and Mr. Ash
ton ! They were lost at sea on their re
turn from Europe the news came a
week ago. As soon as we heard it, Mr.
Brown and I came to Oakhill, aud
reached it this evening, and I walked
down and have met you by chance."
" I am going to-morrow I came to
see you here again to touch this wood
which your hand rested on I"
Annie Heath did not speak she was
blushing, and looking at him as she
never had done before.
" Where are you going ?"
" To Arizona and I shall never see
you again."
" Why do you go ?"
These words were whispered nearly
not spoken aloud.
" Because I love you, and can not
live here without you."
The girl's face became the color of a
peony ; she tried to smile.
" You want me very much, then ?"
" I want you more than I want life."
"Then why not that is why do
you go awny."
She leaned over him with all the long
pent-np tenderness of her heart in her
eyes, with her fragrant breath upon his
cheek, with her bosom heaving.
" You might stay and take care of me
at Oakhill," she whispered.
It was so low as hardly to be called a
whisper resembling rather the mur
mur of the wind in '.k' Temple was
holding' Atmio ileath close to his
heart.
Solomon Heath, Esq., had directed
iu his will that iu the event of the death
of his niece Augusta Wesley, unmar
ried, or if married without issue, the
Oakhill property should revert to his
niece, Annie Heath.
She had come to take possession
again ; ond not only found- her old
home uenhouged but Jack Temple.
Being rich again her whole heart went
to him, and three mouths afterwards
her haud went with it.
Miss Jemima was at the wedding,
and said she had always predicted
Annie would marry that fine young
Temple.
What succeeds like success ?
A New aud Important Decision.
In Iowa, a child, two years of age,
was run over and killed by a train upou
one of the railroads of the State. The
father brought action in the Circuit
Court against the corporation for dama
ges, laid at 810,000, proving on the trial
that the accident resulted from the
negligence of employes of the company.
To support his claim the counsel for the
plaintiff introduced into tho case the
Carlisle tables, well known to all in
surance men, in order to show that the
probable duration of the life of a
child of the age of two years would be
long enough to be equivalent, m the
services it might render, to the amount
claimed. After careful consideration,
the court excluded the testimony, ruling
that the child, being an infant at the
time of its death, was, under the law,
incapable of acquiring au estate, and
could not for nineteen years thereafter
begin to acquire one. The jury were in
structed to return a verdict for actual
damages, which were the value of the
child's service during minority, and ac
cordingly a judgment of SiOU was
awarded. The pluiutiff appealed to the
Supreme Court, where an array of pre
cedents was cited as having been estab
lished iu the English courts. The Su
preme Court then decided that the low
er court had erred in prohibiting as evi
deuce the Carlisle tables ; that plaintiff
hod a right to show, by every legitimate
evidence, the actual damage sustained
m the loss of his child. The case was
remanded, a new trial ordered, and the
excluded evidence being submitted.
At its close the jury awarded the plain
tiff Si, 000 damages, estimating upon the
basis of the probable loss the estato of
the child might have suffered, begin
ning at the age of 21, and continuing
during the probable duration of life,
according to the same tables. This is
the first case adjusted in this country
upon like grounds, and the result is
important. If such a decision should
be followed iu the courts of other
States, it will materially change the as
pect of suits for damages.
Chinese Preparation of Soy.
Equal quantities of beans and wheat
are boiled together, and then triturated
between stones, and water occasionally
added. The mass is cooked in a pan,
and cut into thin ulices, which are kept
covered with straw for about twenty
days. When completely fermented,
the separate slices having beoome
mouldy, they are washed with water,
placed iu a vessel, and their weight of
wuter and of salt added. In this con
dition they are kept for a number of
days, and are finally again triturated
between stoats,
A Strange Story.
A strange story is told by John W.
Young, a young man of about thirty
five years of age, of a rare experience
with the world which few of his years
have ever attained. Young was former
ly a Cuban insurgent, but left that
business, aud was on his way to New
Orleans, when he received a note from
the Captain-General of Havana, assur
ing him of protection ond inviting a
visit. Young was token from the vessel
and disguised and privately conveyed
to the Captain-General's palace in Ha
vana. Here he was kept iu seclusion
for three days, during which time he
heard, nothing from his wife, and only
came in contact with those who were
guarding him. Mrs. Young during this
time was being hospitably entertained
at the Captain-General's country resi
dence. At the end of the third d'ay Mr.
Young was brought before the General,
and, after a preliminary conversation,
the real business was entered upon.
After some preliminary conversation
the Captain General said: You know
I have been in commund here a long
time, and we have had comparatively
no success and no victories. The moth
er government is becoming dissatisfied
with my administration of affairs on the
island, and is tiring of it. If we don't
have any victories soon I shall lose my
position, end the insurgents will soon
get the mastery of us. Understanding
that you are a great organizer ond a
man that can be trusted, I now confide
to you my plan of action. I wish you
to return to the United States imme
diately and set about organizing an ex
pedition for the relief ond assistance of
the insurgents, lou must raise money,
enlist good men to assist in organizing,
get ams, ammunition, and all sorts of
supplies iu as large quantities as you
can raise, and enlist all the Cubans and
Cuban sympathizers possible ; also ob
tain a slow sailing steamer for trans
porting your men and supplies, aud see
to it that she is well equipped and man
ned by an experienced and loyal crew.
You can organize at any American port
you think proper, but it appears to me
that New Orleans is best adapted for
the purpose. Keep me informed from
day to kay by cypher telegrams of your
progress. Let me know the fastest
speed the steamer con make, also the
doy on which you will sail from the
port you select and the course you will
take and the point where you will prob
ably land, also give me such other in
formation as will enable me to select a
faster sailing steamer and have her
cruising ou the course which you select,
so that we can overhaul you after a
spirited chase, you havinar done appa
rently all iu your power to escape.
When takeu, make every appearance of
resistance you can, and talk loudlv
about the cause which you are seeming
mtiV) cupturfl I lie ffleullifci nUiuu jou
command, and I will give you twenty
thousand dollars in gold and half of
the proceeds from the sale of the steam
er, arms, ammunition and supplies.
louug asked if the men captured
would be shot, and was told they would
be. Young said it would be necessary
to enlist and engage some thirty Amer
ican men who havo seen service in the
rebellion to work with him. That will
give choracter to the expedition and
inspire confidence ond enthusiasm
among the men. I cannot consent, he
added, to any arrangement whereby
one of my own countrymen would lose
his hie.
What will you do with them, aud
how can I prevent their being shot os
well os myself ?
The Captain General answered Be
fore you sail, manage to send me a list
ol the names of those whom yon desire
to save, and 1 will manage to have you
and them apparently escape, in a man
ner which will blind the others, ond
when executed they will not know but
but you ore to share the same fate.
Refusing to engage in the work, tho
Captain General said : You know you
are in my power, ond your life is noth
ing here. ere it known that von ore
now iu the castle, I could not protect
you from violence, or scarcely protect
myself, inter into this agreement and
sign this paper, and you can leave the
island safely with your wife. If you
refuse, the very worst consequences
will follow.
Young, as he says, to escape, accept
ed the terms offered. The details were
arranged in a very few days. and. with
a bountiful supply of funds, Young left
Havana with his wife for Aew Orleans,
His departure was as secret as his or
rival. Ouce in the United States, he
abandoned the expedition which he had
so faithfully promised to command, but
not uutil he had made one or two drafts
on the Captain General. The latter,
however, through his agents iu this
country, soon learned that lie had been
duped, and lunds were, of course, no
longer forthceming. Now tho nautral
conclusion or the natural question will
arise, Was the lrginius fitted out in
this way, and were the 100 or more
men murdered the innocent victims of
the conspiracy of one who, in order to
save his own reputation and prolong a
weak and dying cause, did not hesitate
t oconceive and execute one of the most
diabolical and inhuman outrages known
to civilization f
A French Story.
A touching case of suicide is reported
from Paris. A poor little deformed
boy had been left by his dying parents
to the care of an aunt, who abused him,
and finally drove him from the house
to get his living as he could, lie tried
various means to obtain bread and
clothes ; but what troubled him most
was that other boys constantly mocked
him. and often inflicted a blow on his
deformed back. One Sunday morning
the poor Little hunchback was found
hanging to a tree in a forest near Pan-
tin. Iu his pocket was a little note,
written in bad French :
" Gen ai asse. Porte moi che
ma
J'y
teute. 31 Ru Sainte Margente,
pardone.
JEREMIE IjEVY.
How pitiful the brief life-story of the
poor boy an orphan, abused, ana
turned into the street ; and how touch
ing his simple 'words : "I have had
enough, Tell my aunt that I forgive
her."
Modes of Spreading Disease.
In these days of wonderful migration,
said Dr. Hunt, of New Jersey, in the
Convention of the American Health As
sociation, the facilities for spreading
disease are greatly multiplied, and it is
difficult to say what village or railroad
cluster may beoome a new centre for
Eropagation. It has not nnfrequently
appened that variola, diptheria, cere
brospinal meningitis, or cholera have,
iu some comparatively sparce locality,
shown such virulence as not only to
cause destruction pro rata to "cities, but
have formed a centre for departure all
the more severe because of the terror of
the inhabitants, and their recognition
of the fact that no efficient methods are
at hand to check the ravages. When a
fire breaks out in a city there is less
panic as well as real protection in
the feeling that the first bell-stroke
starts engines for relief, but when a lit
tle country street gets on fire, or a frame
house, it burns as if consjions of un
checked independence. To some de
gree this is true of disease in all coun
try districts, for although the physician
is at hand to treat, he, of all others,
most feelingly knows how utterly help
less he often is in securing the needed
sanitary conditions. Iu tho year I860,
as a member of the New Jersey Sani
tary Commission, I was ordered by tele
graph to proceed to a village near Rari
tan River ond report as to the existence
of cholera there. I was soon afterward
waited upon by ene of its physiciaus,
informing me of tho outbreak. I found
on immediate visit that when the dis
ease had broken out, ond a patient or
two had died of it, a physician resident
iu the town had sought for authority to
obtain disinfectants and to destroy the
bed and clothing, which hod been sold
at auction (he day after the deaths, ond
before the facts were known. It was iu
vain that the Township Committee were
addressed, as they said the law gave
them no authority. Tho physician,
therefore, amid tho maledictions or par
ties concerned, set fire to the lounge
and bed material, which had been soiled,
and a railrood company gave him an
order for disinfectants. He visited all
persons exposed, and treated each case
of diarrhea occurring, aud we believe
this prompt action on his part prevent
ed the spread of the contagion, and yet
he did it in despite of authority, ond
while officers were waiting for power to
act ond criticising his conduct. This
is but a specimen of what is constantly
occurring, or is liable to occur, in oil
villages and country districts. A neigh
bor may havo afoul closet, or neelected
drain, or slaughter-house nuisance, a
half-buried dead animal may be lying
rotting in the neighborhood, small-pox,
or other disease, iu a virulent form may
have broken out iu some locality, or
some other source of physical evil may
CTlBt. .Wpll
what shouk
, ffnoimizeu by sanitary
1 be dono to abide oi umti
it, and yet in our own country oud vil
lage districts only those who have had
the experience know how difficult it is
to act in the premises. There is both
lack of authority and greater lack of
information as to the necessities of the
case, ond very often a nucleus of disease
is fostered oud large cities have it fur
nished them pure aud fresh from the
country.
Colorado Scenery.
To get a good view of the Arkansas
Canyon iii Colorado, one must take the
carriage-road ou tho north side of the
river, ond drive ur a distance of ten
miles, near the head. The ascent is
easy and gradual, and after passing the
first low range of foot-hills, the glories
of the Snowy Range burst ou the vision
sixty miles away, but seemingly so near
that every gorge, precipice, aud peak
ore revealed in all their grandeur. Up
one hill and down another, through
pinion groves aud over loose masses of
limestone rock that are hurled aud
tumbled iu oil sorts of fantastic shapes,
the adventurous traveler makes his way,
and is soon standing on the very brink
of tho canyon. The giandeur of the
sight is not easily forgotten. One in
voluntarily holds his biaath as he ap
proaches the awful brink. Straight
dowu as the plummet go tho limestone
walls hundreds of feet, while the river
below looks like a mere thread of silver,
and its angry voice cannot be heard. It
is a spectacle for the poet ond paiuter ;
and, in looking upou it, even Shoddy
will forget his greenbacks and paste
diamonds, and rhapsodize by the hour.
Debts and Taxes.
The following are tho debts of some
of the leading cities of the country :
New York. 136,000.000 : Philadelphia,
So6.000.000: Chicago. $'21,000,000; Bos-
ton, 89,000,000 ; Brooklyn, $30,000,000;
Jersey City, S13.000.C00 ; St. Louis,
S20.000.000 : Elizabeth. N. J.. 81.000,
000 : Washington, bonded and floating,
$14,000,000. The following is the prop
erty valuation of the same cities : isew
York, 81,129,000,000 ; Philadelphia,
: Chicago, 8284,000, UUU ; isoston,
694,000,000 ; Brooklyn, 8208,000,000 ;
Jersey Ciiy. SOl.OOO.UUO ; St. Ijouis,
8180,000,000 ; Elizabeth, N. J., 815,500,-
0U0 ; Washington, 8'J7,OU0,UUU real plus
8100,000,000 Government and personal.
The following is the rate oi taxation
New York. 83.22: Chicago, : Bos-
ton, 81.28; Brooklyn, 83.50; Jersey
City, 82.70; St. lioms, i. iii ; juza
beth, 82.58; Washington City, 82.
What it Does. A good advertisement
in a widely-circuluted newspaper is the
best of all possible salesmen. It is a
salesman who never sleeps, and is never
weary ; who goes after business early
and lute: who accosts the merchant in
his shoo, the scholar in his study, the
lawyer iu his ollice, the lady at uer
breakfast table: who can be in a thou
sand places at once, and speak to a mil
lion people every morning, saying to
each one the best thing in the best
manner.
Good in Everything. The Danbury
News says : " We have received a re-
nuest from an anxious mother in Brook
field to write some verses about her
little daughter, who is very ill. We
should like to do it. but we can t write
poetry. Besides, we don't see what
benefit our ooetrv would be to her sick
girl, unless she thinks the reading of it
would induce the patient to look more
hopefully upon death.".
Items of Interest.
A Dubuque cow hooked a $1,000 horse
to death.
Over 100 ladies are studying law in
the United States.
The most unpopular fellow about is
General Shrinkage.
A platlorm philosopher soys that a
man falls iu love as he falls down stairs
by accident.
A Texas farmer turus his cattle out to
pasture in an enclosure one hundred
and fifty miles long and fifty miles wide.
A woman who once refused to morry
President Buchanan now lives in a
story-and-a-half houso at Monlton,
Iowa, with ier husband and lots of
children.
Admiral Porter says that the United
States torpedo fleet iu the event of war
with Spain will aloue be able to demol
ish all the iron-clads that that nation
cau send across the Atlantic.
A goose flew against a telegraph wire
at Hecksverville, Schuylkill county,
with such momentum as to sever the
fowl's head from its body as neatly as
it could have been done with an axe.
No woman, however nervous she may
be, has a right to wake her husband
from a sound sleep only to tell him on
his inquiring what is the matter,
' Nothing, only I wanted to know if
you were awake."
A Kansas postor has wisely declined
on addition of $100 to his salary, on the
ground that the hardest part of his
labor heretofore has been the collection
of his salary, ond it would kill him to
undertake to collect $100 more 1
Four counties in Iowa have eleoted
women for county school superintend
ents. The man who ran ogainst Abby
Gifford for that office, and received
eight votes to her two thousand, con
cludes that this is an off year iu politics
and that there is apathy.
A professor, in explaining to a class
of young ladies the theory according to
which the body is entirely renewed
every seven years, said : " Thus Miss
B., in seven years you will in reality be
no longer Miss B." " I really hope I
shan't," demurely responded the girl,
casting down her eyes.
American corn is now largely used in
the manufacture of alcohol iu Germany
and Italy, the export to ports connect
ing with Germany during the last five
months having reached 300,000 bushels,
and within a fow weeks about 100,000
bushels have been sent direct to Naples
and 40,000 bushels to Leghorn.
Is it not about time that a good many
gentlemen began to think seriously of
going to work and doing something ?
For we can't all be merchants and bank
ers and brokers and dealers in real es
tate. There's a good deal of square
work to be done about a country, and
A substitute' lot quinine" nas Oceu
discovered in the echises plant, which
grows abundantly in the Philippine
Islands. It is said to be a remedy for
all kinds of fever, that the use of it in
volves none of the unpleasant after ef
fects of quinine, and that it can be pre
pared at one-half the cost of the latter
drug.
Most American travelers throw away
much of their reading matter at their
journey's end. But iu England at each
station can be found a box fastened up,
very similar to our letter boxes, but
sometimes larger, into which the trav
eler puts his papers, books, &c. Those
are in turn collected by men who carry
them to the hospitals, homes for old
men and women, and similar institu
tions, where they ore gladly received.
A certain lawyer had his portrait
taken in his favorite attitude standing
with one hand in his pocket. His
friends and clients all went to see it,
and everybady. exclaimed, " On, how
like it 1 it's the very picture of him 1"
An old farmer only dissented" 'Tain't
like!" Exclaimed everybody, "Just
show us where it am t like." " lam t
no, 'tain't 1" responded the farmer.
" Don t you see ho has got his hand in
his own pocket ; 'twould be as like
again if ho had it in somebody else's."
A celebrated doctor celebrated
almost as much for his love of good
living as for his professional skill
called upon an eecentrio nobleman,
whom he found sitting alona at a very
nice dinner. After some time, the doc
tor, receiving no invitation to partake
of it, said, " My dear lord, if I were in
your lordship's place, I should say,
rray, doctor, ao as x am uoing i -a
thousand pardons for the omission,"
replied his lordship. " Pray, then, my
dear dactor, do as I am doing go home
and eat your own dinner I"
The rumor that Captain Hall was
poisoned has not yet been finally put
at rest. Mrs. Hall is understood to
fully believe that her husband was
murdered, and sne nas macie an appli
cation to the Government to send an
expedition to recover his body, with a I
view to having a post mortem examina-f
tion made. It is unfortunate that tb
Tigress or the Juniata did not compley
their work bv recovering the boav I
tho unfortunate explorer, since tl
mystery of his death can only be sat
factorily solved by the course now pi
posed by Mrs. mil.
Tlctims of the Plague.
The Memphis A voeal savs : ' Ne
two thousand of the citizens of W
phis have passed awav from earth si1
the yellow fever began its death-wcl
in September last. Think of this arrS
of nearly two thousand men and womei j
varied here and there with little cb(
dren, sent to their long account. TH
were strong in health and full of h
and hope seven weeks ago. They mic
have been saved. The homes that Lev
been darkened by their deaths, and
hearts that still ache tor the nevei
turning light of their smiles and
sweetness oi their love, might still
bricht and hflrmv with 4Lc, liv
presence. The widows and orpbf
can mourn tnat nave been cast upon
charity of strangers and the short-h
benevolence oi a world too busy to
member them to-morrow, might
uau ineir natural protectors ur
winning for them their bread. A
ful responsibility rests, uomewheie